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Re: regular expression in find-tag-regexp


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: regular expression in find-tag-regexp
Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2011 20:52:18 +0300

> Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2011 11:03:38 -0500
> From: Shiyuan <gshy2014@gmail.com>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> 
> >The line number where the tag is in its file and the character number
> >of the first character of that line.
> The first is line number. But the second number is very large, some are tens
> of thousands, but the source file don't have such a long line.

It's the ordinal number of the first character from the beginning of
the file, not from the beginning of the line.

> Also there are some unprintable characters in TAGS.

That's normal.

If you produced your TAGS file with the `etags' command, then chances
are the file is correct.



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