From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: changing tags-file-name
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2017 12:35:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83r2s5wlra.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171205113156.06ec0d0e12f0c20750c49187@speakeasy.net> (jklowden@speakeasy.net)
> From: "James K. Lowden" <jklowden@speakeasy.net>
> Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 11:31:56 -0500
>
> The name of the file AIUI is tags-file-name, which C-h v describes as:
>
> tags-file-name is a variable defined in ?etags.el?.
> Its value is
> "/home/jklowden/projects/3rd/libdwarf/code/dwarfgen/TAGS"
>
> This variable is safe as a file local variable if its value
> satisfies the predicate ?stringp?.
>
> Documentation:
> File name of tags table.
> To switch to a new tags table, setting this variable is sufficient.
> [...]
>
> When I use M-x set-variable, it rejects tags-file-name. For
> "tags-" completion it says,
>
> Possible completions are:
> tags-add-tables tags-apropos-additional-actions
> tags-apropos-verbose tags-case-fold-search
> tags-compression-info-list tags-loop-revert-buffers
> tags-revert-without-query tags-table-list
> tags-tag-face
>
> Why would emacs display a variable name, document that setting is
> fine, and not be able to set it?
set-variable only supports user options (a.k.a. "defcustoms"). For
other variables, use
M-: (setq VAR VALUE) RET
> Is there an easier way to change the tags file name (or add one and
> drop one) that I'm overlooking?
You are overlooking "M-x visit-tags-table RET", I think.
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2017-12-05 16:31 changing tags-file-name James K. Lowden
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