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Re: find-tag
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Andreas Matthias |
Subject: |
Re: find-tag |
Date: |
Sat, 14 Nov 2015 16:25:44 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) |
Andreas Matthias wrote:
> I'm trying to `find-tag' a function named `foo.bar' but it seems
> to be impossible to find function names containing a period.
> The name is definitely listed in the TAGS file but is not found
> by `find-tag'. Am I missing something?
Digging through the code of etags.el I found etags-tags-completion-table which
contains a large regex used for parsing the TAGS file. In this regex there
are three character groups like
[-a-zA-Z0-9_+*$:]
This seems to be the reason why function names containing periods are not
found. If I add the period in these character groups
[-.a-zA-Z0-9_+*$:]
then `find-tag' finds function names like `foo.bar' (quite common names in Lua).
Are there reasons why the period was omitted in this regex?
Andreas
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