From: Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@googlemail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Invalid tags table
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 13:46:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871ufklc6t.fsf@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwvobipfuqb.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>>>> visit-tags-table-buffer: File /my/dir/TAGS is not a valid
>>>> tags table.
> [...]
>> That was a great tip, I wasn't even aware of this option, and it helped
>> me to figure out quickly that (file-exists-p) returned 'nil' on my tags
>
> Please M-x report-emacs-bug, requesting that the error message
> be improved to distinguish "found file, invalid format" from "file not
> found".
Done
--
cheers,
Thorsten
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-23 12:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-20 20:47 Invalid tags table Thorsten Jolitz
2012-11-20 21:39 ` Drew Adams
2012-11-20 22:09 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2012-11-20 22:25 ` Drew Adams
2012-11-20 23:01 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2012-11-22 16:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-11-23 12:46 ` Thorsten Jolitz [this message]
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