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From: weiner@novavax.UUCP (Bob Weiner)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: finding right tag out of many
Message-ID: <1236@novavax.UUCP>
Date: 28 Apr 89 02:52:23 GMT
References: <41011@oliveb.olivetti.com>
Organization: Nova University, Fort Lauderdale, FL
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In-reply-to: kupfer@orc.olivetti.com's message of 25 Apr 89 23:49:27 GMT
Posting-Front-End: GNU Emacs 18.47.5 of Tue Sep 15 1987 on novavax (berkeley-unix)

In article <41011@oliveb.olivetti.com> kupfer@orc.olivetti.com (Mike Kupfer) writes:

   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)?

Look at your TAGS file, then you can do matches that match closely what
is in there, e.g. (defun get, you could also try adding a space before
and after get, even though none of this does exactly what you want.

Try M-, for repeating tags searches.  It works perfectly for me at GNU
Emacs 18.52, though it is not documented as working in this way in the
manual.  Possibly an ommission.
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