why am I asked to Visit tags table for ~/.emacs.d/init.el?

why am I asked to Visit tags table for ~/.emacs.d/init.el?

[Sam Halliday]

Hi all,

I have a separate tags table for each project/directory that I'm working with, which is ideal. When I find-tag in any of my projects for the first time since starting emacs, the correct tags table is automatically discovered and selected, which is great.

However, if I do find-tags in my ~/.emacs.d/init.el I still get asked which tags table to use, despite the fact that there is a TAGS file in ~/.emacs.d

Is this expected behaviour? I would have thought that the TAGS file would be trivially discovered.

Best regards,
Sam

Re: why am I asked to Visit tags table for ~/.emacs.d/init.el?

[Sam Halliday]

On Monday, 17 August 2015 11:55:00 UTC+1, Sam Halliday  wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a separate tags table for each project/directory that I'm working with, which is ideal. When I find-tag in any of my projects for the first time since starting emacs, the correct tags table is automatically discovered and selected, which is great.
> 
> However, if I do find-tags in my ~/.emacs.d/init.el I still get asked which tags table to use, despite the fact that there is a TAGS file in ~/.emacs.d
> 
> Is this expected behaviour? I would have thought that the TAGS file would be trivially discovered.


I think I've worked this out ... it is expected behaviour. In my projects (which are all git repositories) I am using projectile and it automatically detects and visits the TAGS for a project that it recognises. Projectile does not, however, recognise my ~/.emacs.d directory as a project and hence does not load the tags file.