From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: find-tag and partial completion mode -- Francisco, urgent! Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 17:17:52 -0400 Message-ID: References: <15435305.691161178137607047.JavaMail.www@wwinf4106> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1178313664 2127 80.91.229.12 (4 May 2007 21:21:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 21:21:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: alinsoar@voila.fr, karl@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Francesco Potorti` Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 04 23:21:02 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Hk5D3-00012T-Cf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 23:21:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hk5Ji-0003BW-S0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 17:27:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hk5JV-0002rw-9X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 17:27:41 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hk5JU-0002qi-QD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 17:27:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hk5JU-0002py-9T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 17:27:40 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hk5Co-00077X-2Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 17:20:46 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Hk5A0-00027i-DW; Fri, 04 May 2007 17:17:52 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Francesco Potorti` on Fri, 04 May 2007 15:14:40 +0200) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:70550 Archived-At: However, in principle one could change etags.el so that, when the TAGS file is in fact a symbolic link, it resolves relative file names with respect to the base directory of the file, rather than the link. I am not sure that this is in fact a good idea but, if it is, it should be eay to implement. So: either we implement the change to etags.el that I suggest above, or else I can add a couple of lines in the manual such as: Notice that, in the usual case of using relative file names, you should not use a symbolic link to a tags file in a different directory. Please update the manual. I am not sure which behavior is better, and if it isn't clear, we may as well leave it unchanged.