From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs + etags Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2011 15:52:31 +0200 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: <9tpqowrgtc.fsf@news.eternal-september.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1302273642 27267 80.91.229.12 (8 Apr 2011 14:40:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 14:40:42 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 08 16:40:38 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q8CrU-00082Z-S4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Apr 2011 16:40:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54842 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q8CrJ-0000fF-8n for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Apr 2011 10:40:25 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!uio.no!quimby.gnus.org!richardriley.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 32 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.183.18.158 Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1302271646 2468 85.183.18.158 (8 Apr 2011 14:07:26 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 14:07:26 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.110016 (No Gnus v0.16) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:dd7wcgVE7kCmGu2zRtyqWvnSerA= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:186599 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:80706 Archived-At: Alan writes: > On Apr 7, 2:41 am, rkv 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 >> >> I would like to know how to make the change of the current using TAG file. >> >> regards >> rama kanth >> >> -- >> View this message in context:http://old.nabble.com/emacs-%2B-etags-tp31340226p31340226.html >> Sent from the Emacs - Help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > 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.