From: Andrew Shepard <ashepard2001@yahoo.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Problem finding multiple tags with same tagname
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 17:57:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40C50EE4.10003@yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40C5099C.8010509@yahoo.com>
Solution found:
After reading the online Emacs manual it became apparent that the
"Learning GNU Emacs" book is in error. The "correct" way to find
successive tags is to use the following:
C-u M-.
Andy ...
Andrew Shepard wrote:
> I'm searching for tags in a TAGS file created by etags. However, I'm
> unable to look for more than one tag with the same name when I follow
> instructions given in the book "Learning GNU Emacs"
>
> Here's an example where I'm looking for multiple instances of the
> function Play():
>
> ESC-.
> Play RETURN
> (I am correctly taken to the first instance of the Play() function)
>
> ESC-,
>
> Message returned by Emacs is: 'No M-x tags-search or M-x
> tags-query-replace in progress'
>
>
> Note that if I do a ESC-x tags-search on a tagname and follow with
> ESC-, emacs takes me to all the instances of the tagname. It looks
> like the book I have might have an error in it. However, if this is
> the case how do I find multiple instances of tags after using the
> ESC-. command?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Andy ...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-08 0:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-08 0:34 Problem finding multiple tags with same tagname Andrew Shepard
2004-06-08 0:57 ` Andrew Shepard [this message]
2004-06-08 6:35 ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-06-08 7:43 ` gebser
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