From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Invalid tags table Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 11:50:33 -0500 Message-ID: References: <871ufoovbf.fsf@googlemail.com> <670E6F0965D747489D695D304459BEB0@us.oracle.com> <87obisncy8.fsf@googlemail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1353603311 12880 80.91.229.3 (22 Nov 2012 16:55:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 16:55:11 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 22 17:55:19 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Tba3a-0002NP-LX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Nov 2012 17:55:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52933 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tba3Q-00065K-5e for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Nov 2012 11:55:08 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:42629) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tba3J-00063o-WE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Nov 2012 11:55:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tba3E-0005bT-Aw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Nov 2012 11:55:01 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:55047) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tba3E-0005bJ-4a for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Nov 2012 11:54:56 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Tba3M-0002DJ-1R for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Nov 2012 17:55:04 +0100 Original-Received: from 69-165-164-58.dsl.teksavvy.com ([69.165.164.58]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2012 17:55:04 +0100 Original-Received: from monnier by 69-165-164-58.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2012 17:55:04 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 69-165-164-58.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:tSOlkiDogzlZyORk4Q+Rcprhwdw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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 Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:87844 Archived-At: >>> 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". Stefan