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Re: [h-e-w] etags with ntemacs 21.1
From: |
Dr Francis J. Wright |
Subject: |
Re: [h-e-w] etags with ntemacs 21.1 |
Date: |
Tue, 13 Nov 2001 16:52:06 +0000 |
Jim Davidson wrote:
>
> I'm having problems running etags out of the new release.
> I'm using the command:
>
> etags --append d:/emacs/lisp/*.el
>
> to append to an existing tags file.
>
> I get the error:
>
> d:/emacs/lisp/*.el: No such file or directory
>
> I've tried various permutations, like \ and \\ as separators,
> but get the same error.
>
> This worked in 20.7, and it still works if I explicitly invoke the
> etags that came with 20.7.
>
> -Jim
Maybe the 20.7 version was compiled so as to support wildcards
internally, whereas the 21.1 version is not and assumes that a shell
will expand them. Have you tried running it under a UNIX-style shell,
such as Cygwin bash? (Actually, sh should suffice for just expanding
wildcards.)
Francis