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From: kupfer@orc.olivetti.com (Mike Kupfer)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: finding right tag out of many
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Date: 25 Apr 89 23:49:27 GMT
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I just had the unhappy experience of looking for "get" in some kernel
sources.  There were 155 tags matching "get", and the one I wanted was
around the 130th.  Slogging through the other entries with C-u M-. was
not a great deal of fun.  Is there some clever use of the (GNU Emacs)
tags package that would avoid this, or is it time to make the find-tag
smarter (e.g., by first looking for an "exact" match)?


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