From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Stefan Kangas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#6965: 23.2; tags search/replace order no longer sensitive to starting file Date: Sun, 03 May 2020 03:23:40 +0200 Message-ID: <87bln53j6r.fsf@stefankangas.se> References: <4C7E6A71.8080503@smart.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="102534"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: 6965@debbugs.gnu.org To: "Daniel B." 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Original-Received: from h-4-70-69.a785.priv.bahnhof.se ([155.4.70.69]:58760 helo=localhost) by ted.gofardesign.uk with esmtpsa (TLS1.2) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (Exim 4.93) (envelope-from ) id 1jV3M6-001EqV-KI; Sat, 02 May 2020 21:23:42 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4C7E6A71.8080503@smart.net> (Daniel B.'s message of "Wed, 01 Sep 2010 11:00:01 -0400") X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - ted.gofardesign.uk X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - debbugs.gnu.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - marxist.se X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: ted.gofardesign.uk: authenticated_id: stefan@marxist.se X-Authenticated-Sender: ted.gofardesign.uk: stefan@marxist.se X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:179553 Archived-At: "Daniel B." writes: > The order in which tags tables files are searched is broken (relative > to previous versions of Emacs and the current documentation): > > It no longer is sensitive to the starting file, as specified in the > info documentation (32.2.6): > > These commands scan the list of tags tables starting with the first > tags table (if any) that describes the current file, proceed from there > to the end of the list, and then scan from the beginning of the list > until they have covered all the tables in the list." > > That is, if you have a tags file for dir1/... and a tags file for > dir2/... and load both using visit-tags-table and choose to add to the > current list (rather than replacing), then starting a tags-search from > a file dir2/f should start searching per the tags table file for > dir2/..., and starting from a file dir1/f should start searching per the > tags file for dir1/.... > > However, Emacs 23.2 seems to always start with the same tags table file, > regardless of which file is the current file. (This old bug unfortunately never got a reply at the time.) Are you still seeing this on a modern version of Emacs? We have a message to the bug from 2016 saying that one user was unable to reproduce this on Emacs 26.1. Thanks in advance. Best regards, Stefan Kangas