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Re: etags in tex files
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Colin Baxter |
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Re: etags in tex files |
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Wed, 21 Jul 2021 15:20:18 +0100 |
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>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>> Cc: Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2021 21:15:56 +0100
>>
>> > Is the problem in the TAGS file, or is the problem in etags.el
>> > functions that search for the tags? I think it's the latter,
>> but > if so, then...
>>
>> >> Is there any way in which I can configure etags to recognise
>> >> everything with the curly brackets of a \label?
>>
>> > ...which "etags" do you want to configure and how?
>>
>> I don't really know at this stage
> Look at the produced TAGS file: does it include the problematic
> labels? If it does, then etags the program is not your problem.
>> but I think part of the problem lies with
>>
>> defun find-tag-tag (string)
>>
>> which seems to reserve a significant use for the colon.
> How do you see its "reserving a significant use for the colon"?
>> as that file's commentary puts it, "The namespacing of this
>> package is a mess:". I agree.
> That comment is about the naming conventions, not about the code
> itself.
Ok, thanks for the explanations. I think I understand a little more. I
have discovered however that if I use xref-find-apropos and not
xref-find-definitions then strings with colons are found. Perhaps I
should have realised this at the beginning.
Colin Baxter.