From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Another dumb elisp query ?? -- SOLVED Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 22:40:15 +0300 Message-ID: References: <1177697749.3152.84.camel@CASE> <1177865132.3152.123.camel@CASE> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1177875802 1623 80.91.229.12 (29 Apr 2007 19:43:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 19:43:22 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 29 21:43:21 2007 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 4.50) id 1HiFIi-0002YL-RY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Apr 2007 21:43:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HiFOo-0001WK-Vn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Apr 2007 15:49:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HiFOT-0001Pn-99 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Apr 2007 15:49:13 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HiFOR-0001P3-J4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Apr 2007 15:49:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HiFOR-0001Oy-DK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Apr 2007 15:49:11 -0400 Original-Received: from heller.inter.net.il ([213.8.233.23]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HiFIK-0001r7-8J for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Apr 2007 15:42:52 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-84-228-241-159.inter.net.il [84.228.241.159]) by heller.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3a-GA) with ESMTP id CLU41221 (AUTH halo1); Sun, 29 Apr 2007 22:40:14 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <1177865132.3152.123.camel@CASE> (message from William Case on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 12:45:31 -0400) X-detected-kernel: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (2) 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:43356 Archived-At: > From: William Case > Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 12:45:31 -0400 > > > I do have '/usr/share/emacs/21.4/lisp/emacs-lisp/' and > > '/usr/share/emacs/21.4/lisp/' that contain my *.el (text) files. Would > > it be normal practice to compile TAGS files in those two directories? > > > Once I was shown by a friend that etags is a system command, or at least > a command executed by the system, the question of TAGS placement became > clear. I didn't matter; probably everyone has their emacs and lisp TAGS > in a different place. I ended up putting it in a personal general emacs > folder I use for practice and/or testing. It indeed doesn't matter, since the command visit-tags-table asks you for the directory in which to look for TAGS. If the file names in TAGS are absolute, Emacs will find them no matter where you keep TAGS.