Re: emacs + etags

[Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com>]

Alan <wehmann@fnal.gov> writes:

> On Apr 7, 2:41 am, rkv <ramakanth.var...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> hi all,
>>
>> I having large project , divided in to number of opensources and libraries
>> each having a TAG file.
>>
>> If i change from one directory to another one , and search for any specific
>> tag in the file related to the current directory
>>
>> i get message as No Tags Containing <the speficic tag>
>>
>> I would like to know how to make the change of the current using TAG file.
>>
>> regards
>> rama kanth
>>
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>
> It may be of little use to you, but XEmacs provides a tags mechanism
> which achieves what you describe.

Changing to XEmacs for a feature seems a little extreme. Especially with
the somewhat ropey spec above.

The EMacs Wiki lists ways of changing the tags files  used based on the
project directory of the opened file.

etags-table I think.