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From: pedz@pedz.austin.ibm.com (Perry Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Force exact matching of tag name
Message-ID: <PEDZ.90Feb9104108@pedz.austin.ibm.com>
Date: 9 Feb 90 15:41:08 GMT
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In-reply-to: kim@spock's message of 5 Feb 90 14:00:02 GMT

My solution to the problem was to change the search to a re-search so
that \< and \> could be used along with any other regular expression
construct.  The one pitfall is that '_' is not a word character in the
TAGS file normally and that screws things up as well (but can be fixed
fairly easily).

pedz