Another dumb elisp query ??

Another dumb elisp query ??

[William Case]

Hi;

In the tutorial I am using I have come to the TAGS file compilation
part.  Following the instructions in the Tutorial and the Info Manual as
well as digesting the process has not been difficult.

What I want to check is where to create the TAGS file.  I know I would
want to put a TAGS file in a directory were I am building a project in
the future but.. where should I put the TAGS file for emacs itself.  The
Tutorial and Manual only ambiguously say: "in the appropriate directory"
then give me suggestions for directories I and emacs don't use.  Plus
they make reference to source files which don't seem to exist
separately.  (I can download them if need be.)

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?


-- 
Regards Bill

Re: Another dumb elisp query ?? -- SOLVED

[William Case]

On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 14:15 -0400, William Case wrote:
> Hi;
> 
> In the tutorial I am using I have come to the TAGS file compilation
> part.  Following the instructions in the Tutorial and the Info Manual as
> well as digesting the process has not been difficult.
> 
> What I want to check is where to create the TAGS file.  I know I would
> want to put a TAGS file in a directory were I am building a project in
> the future but.. where should I put the TAGS file for emacs itself.  The
> Tutorial and Manual only ambiguously say: "in the appropriate directory"
> then give me suggestions for directories I and emacs don't use.  Plus
> they make reference to source files which don't seem to exist
> separately.  (I can download them if need be.)
> 
> 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.

If someone has a better idea let me know please.


-- 
Regards Bill

Re: Another dumb elisp query ?? -- SOLVED

[Eli Zaretskii]

> 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.