etags.el doesn't find nested functions in perl

[Bruce Robertson]

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In GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (sparc-sun-solaris2.8, X toolkit)
 of 2004-08-31 on iceage
configured using `configure  --prefix=/users/brucer/share 
--exec-prefix=/users/brucer/sparc-sun-solaris2.8'
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: nil
  locale-coding-system: nil
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

reading *BAD* perl w/ sub's in BEGIN blocks. They are indented by cperl 
indent-region.
etags (the executable) finds them, puts them in TAGS file. find-tag does not 
find them.

etags.el prepends a '^' to the regex for the 'pat'. defeated this. then it 
works.

BTW, even after modifying etags.el, it doesn't take precedence over etags.elc. I
thought this used to be the case. renamed etags.elc to etags.elc.OFF to fix.

thanks,
Bruce


Recent input:
<help-echo> C-x d s r c / c i <tab> f i <tab> t r <tab> 
<return> C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n f C-s SPC 
s b u SPC <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> u b SPC 
C-s C-s C-f C-f M-. <return> <return> C-n C-p C-s m 
a C-w C-w C-w C-w C-s C-s C-f C-f C-b C-b C-b C-b M-. 
<return> C-h a b u g <return> M-x r e p <tab> o r <tab> 
<return>

Recent messages:
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