From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Invalid tags table
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2012 11:50:33 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvobipfuqb.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87obisncy8.fsf@googlemail.com
>>> visit-tags-table-buffer: File /my/dir/TAGS is not a valid
>>> tags table.
[...]
> That was a great tip, I wasn't even aware of this option, and it helped
> me to figure out quickly that (file-exists-p) returned 'nil' on my tags
Please M-x report-emacs-bug, requesting that the error message
be improved to distinguish "found file, invalid format" from "file not
found".
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-22 16:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-20 20:47 Invalid tags table Thorsten Jolitz
2012-11-20 21:39 ` Drew Adams
2012-11-20 22:09 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2012-11-20 22:25 ` Drew Adams
2012-11-20 23:01 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2012-11-22 16:50 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2012-11-23 12:46 ` Thorsten Jolitz
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