From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Xref oddness Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 22:20:59 +0300 Message-ID: <83blnaxfms.fsf@gnu.org> References: Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="15458"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 29 21:21:45 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jTsHB-0003v2-84 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 29 Apr 2020 21:21:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54640 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jTsHA-0000aF-AK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 29 Apr 2020 15:21:44 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:44716) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jTsGl-0000YV-7R for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Apr 2020 15:21:19 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:33573) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jTsGk-0004Yc-VK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Apr 2020 15:21:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1956 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jTsGj-0005dM-4r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Apr 2020 15:21:17 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Patrick Mahan on Wed, 29 Apr 2020 12:00:27 -0700) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:122976 Archived-At: > From: Patrick Mahan > Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 12:00:27 -0700 > > Our sysadmins have setup where our home directories and development > directories are on multiple drives but are all symlinked through the same > top-level directory. For example, my actual home directory is on > /home2/patrick but it is access via /home/patrick (patrick under /home is > sym-linked to /home2/patrick). The same occurs for our development > directories (/development/patrick is sym-linked to /development5/patrick). > Now since our development directories are setup as multiple directories, I > was using the following method for finding TAGS files - > > (setq tags-table-list (list "./" "../" > (concat (getenv "WORK") "/src/lib") > (concat (getenv "WORK") "/src/bin") > (concat (getenv "WORK") "/src/include") > (concat (getenv "WORK") "/src"))) > > WORK is defined as the top of my current development sandbox and changes as > I jump between sandboxes. I don't think I understand how the symlinks come into play here. Could you please tell more? How do you get from $WORK to /home/patrick and /home2/patrick? or maybe its /development/patrick and /development5/patrick? I'm confused. > Or should I just go back to redefining those keys to the old > 'find-tag' et.al.? Not recommended: you'll be fighting an uphill battle. Perhaps there's a bug, or there's a way to configure your Emacs a bit differently.