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From: neitzel@tubsibr.uucp (Martin Neitzel)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
Subject: It may be wise to rename "tags.el"
Message-ID: <1989Dec14.230712.4327@tubsibr.uucp>
Date: 14 Dec 89 23:07:12 GMT
Sender: neitzel@tubsibr.uucp (Martin Neitzel)
Distribution: gnu
Organization: TU Braunschweig, Informatik (Bueltenweg), Germany
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This one is not exactly a bug, but certainly a problem for non-expert
emacs users.

I'm currently working in a project involving both emacs and vi users,
so we keep both "tags" and "TAGS" files in the directory (created by
ctags and etags, respectively).

The emacs users were somewhat surprised: find-tag wouldn't work
sometimes and indicate lisp errors instead.  Reason: They had "." (or
nil) early in their load-path, so the auto-load for the tags package
used ctags' tags file instead of the lisp code in the lisp file
"tags.el" (or "tags.elc").

Once you've recognized what's going on, work-arounds are easy if you
happen to be a somewhat experienced user.  But I guess most novices
wouldn't realize the problem here.

So, wouldn't it be nice to avoid this situation at all and to rename
tags.el?  (How about etags.el?)

							Martin