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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: etags in tex files
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2021 09:34:09 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83v9582kri.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y2a4r91f.fsf@yandex.com> (message from Colin Baxter on Sat, 17 Jul 2021 21:15:56 +0100)

> From: Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Cc: 
> Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2021 21:15:56 +0100
> 
>     > Is the problem in the TAGS file, or is the problem in etags.el
>     > functions that search for the tags?  I think it's the latter, but
>     > if so, then...
> 
>     >> Is there any way in which I can configure etags to recognise
>     >> everything with the curly brackets of a \label?
> 
>     > ...which "etags" do you want to configure and how?
> 
> I don't really know at this stage

Look at the produced TAGS file: does it include the problematic
labels?  If it does, then etags the program is not your problem.

> but I think part of the problem lies with
> 
> defun find-tag-tag (string)
> 
> which seems to reserve a significant use for the colon.

How do you see its "reserving a significant use for the colon"?

> as that file's commentary puts it, "The namespacing of this package
> is a mess:". I agree.

That comment is about the naming conventions, not about the code
itself.



  reply	other threads:[~2021-07-18  6:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-17 18:05 etags in tex files Colin Baxter
2021-07-17 18:33 ` Óscar Fuentes
2021-07-17 20:18   ` Colin Baxter
2021-07-18  6:35     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-17 18:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-07-17 20:15   ` Colin Baxter
2021-07-18  6:34     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-07-21 14:20       ` Colin Baxter

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