From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andrew Shepard Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Problem finding multiple tags with same tagname Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 17:57:08 -0700 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <40C50EE4.10003@yahoo.com> References: <40C5099C.8010509@yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1086656258 3203 80.91.224.253 (8 Jun 2004 00:57:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 00:57:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 08 02:57:30 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BXUvi-00072x-00 for ; Tue, 08 Jun 2004 02:57:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BXUwG-0004KX-Va for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Jun 2004 20:58:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BXUw9-0004KI-4F for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jun 2004 20:57:57 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BXUw7-0004Jg-6g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jun 2004 20:57:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BXUw6-0004JV-Vr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jun 2004 20:57:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [216.136.174.139] (helo=smtp101.mail.sc5.yahoo.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BXUvN-0007BF-MO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jun 2004 20:57:10 -0400 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO yahoo.com) (ashepard2001@64.113.127.237 with plain) by smtp101.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 8 Jun 2004 00:57:08 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: Andrew Shepard In-Reply-To: <40C5099C.8010509@yahoo.com> X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:18912 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:18912 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 ... > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Help-gnu-emacs mailing list > Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs >