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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Another dumb elisp query ?? -- SOLVED
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 22:40:15 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uejm3vujk.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1177865132.3152.123.camel@CASE> (message from William Case on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 12:45:31 -0400)

> From: William Case <billlinux@rogers.com>
> Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 12:45:31 -0400
> 
> > I do have '/usr/share/emacs/21.4/lisp/emacs-lisp/' and
> > '/usr/share/emacs/21.4/lisp/' that contain my *.el (text) files.  Would
> > it be normal practice to compile TAGS files in those two directories?
> > 
> Once I was shown by a friend that etags is a system command, or at least
> a command executed by the system, the question of TAGS placement became
> clear.  I didn't matter; probably everyone has their emacs and lisp TAGS
> in a different place.  I ended up putting it in a personal general emacs
> folder I use for practice and/or testing.

It indeed doesn't matter, since the command visit-tags-table asks you
for the directory in which to look for TAGS.  If the file names in
TAGS are absolute, Emacs will find them no matter where you keep TAGS.

      reply	other threads:[~2007-04-29 19:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-27 18:15 Another dumb elisp query ?? William Case
2007-04-29 16:45 ` Another dumb elisp query ?? -- SOLVED William Case
2007-04-29 19:40   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]

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