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From: tobeye@NORTHSTAR.DARTMOUTH.EDU (Anthony Edwards)
Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew
Subject: tags inset
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Date: 29 Oct 90 17:11:07 GMT
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[ excuse me if I posted this before (15-Mar-1990).  I just discovered it
in my old mail folder and it looked as though the message was never
delivered. ]

I am using EZ with ctext and tags.  I'm really glad EZ has the tags
feature - it is a very useful feature in an editor.  However, the tags
stuff is not implemented completely right:  when I do a Find Tag, it
finds the wrong tag.

A tags file generated by ctags(1) is composed of three fields per line: 
the routine name, the file name, and the search string.  Most search
strings start with /^ to match the search string flush left.  (They also
typically have $/ at the end to force a match flush right as well, but
I'm not worried about that right now.)  EZ ignores this!  EZ is matching
on the first string that is identical.  Imagine this fictitious C file:

/*  myfile.c - a fictitious C file */

/* routines in this file:
	main (int argc, char ** argv)
	foo (int x)
*/

main (int argc, char ** argv)
{
   foo (argc);
}

foo (int x)