bug#158: Etags completion problem for local tags table

[Josiah Schwab]

Hello,

> It doesn't sound hard to test for someone who does have emacs 25
> built.

I have been able to reproduce this bug under emacs 25.1 and git master
(at c542fab).  Here are the steps to reproduce.

For simplicity, I am using two very minimal tags files (fruits/TAGS and
vegetables/TAGS) available from

  https://github.com/jschwab/emacs-tags-issues

but any tags files ought to do.

Open emacs with emacs -Q

Do
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| C-x C-f file1
| M-: (visit-tags-table "fruits/TAGS")
| M-. [TAB]
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The possible completions offered will be fruits, as expected.

Continue by doing
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| C-x C-f file2
| M-: (visit-tags-table "vegetables/TAGS" t)
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The user is prompted, "Keep current list of tags tables also? (y or
n)".  Reply n.

Now do
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| M-. [TAB]
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The possible completions offered will be fruits and not vegetables as
expected.

After this, the *Messages* buffer looks like
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| (New file)
| Starting a new list of tags tables
| "/home/jschwab/Software/emacs-tags-issues/fruits/TAGS"
| Making tags completion table for 
/home/jschwab/Software/emacs-tags-issues/fruits/TAGS...done
| Making completion list...
| Quit
| (New file)
| Keep current list of tags tables also? (y or n) n
| Starting a new list of tags tables
| "/home/jschwab/Software/emacs-tags-issues/vegetables/TAGS"
| Making tags completion table for 
/home/jschwab/Software/emacs-tags-issues/vegetables/TAGS...
| Making tags completion table for 
/home/jschwab/Software/emacs-tags-issues/fruits/TAGS...
| Making tags completion table for 
/home/jschwab/Software/emacs-tags-issues/vegetables/TAGS...done
| Making completion list...
| Quit
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It seems like this issue could be related to

  https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=19741

Josiah