From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: find-tag and partial completion mode -- Francisco, urgent! Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 10:10:14 -0400 Message-ID: References: <15435305.691161178137607047.JavaMail.www@wwinf4106> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1178287862 1295 80.91.229.12 (4 May 2007 14:11:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 14:11:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: alinsoar@voila.fr, "Emacs Dev \[emacs-devel\]" To: Francesco Potorti` Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 04 16:10:59 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 1HjyUq-0006Jf-Nc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 16:10:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HjybU-0007SH-4t for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 10:17:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hjyay-00078L-92 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 10:17:16 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hjyax-00077h-Mo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 10:17:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hjyax-00077c-DD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 May 2007 10:17:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mercure.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.24.67]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HjyUG-0004d4-Bi; Fri, 04 May 2007 10:10:20 -0400 Original-Received: from hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.50]) by mercure.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id E15F42CF2D6; Fri, 4 May 2007 10:10:18 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from faina.iro.umontreal.ca (faina.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.26.177]) by hidalgo.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 051423FE0; Fri, 4 May 2007 10:10:15 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by faina.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id E30106C25F; Fri, 4 May 2007 10:10:14 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Francesco Potorti`'s message of "Fri\, 04 May 2007 15\:14\:40 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.94 (gnu/linux) X-DIRO-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-DIRO-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DIRO-MailScanner-SpamCheck: n'est pas un polluriel, SpamAssassin (score=-2.82, requis 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -2.82) X-DIRO-MailScanner-From: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:70546 Archived-At: > 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. That seems like the better option. After all, it's very unusual to make such symlinks to TAGS files, and it's not clear exactly what is the motivation for such a thing: depending on the motivation the current behavior can be wrong or right, and if we change it as you suggest, it will still be sometimes right and sometimes wrong. Better keep things dumber, so it's easier for the user to predict. Stefan