bug#21934: 24.5; find-tag: reading TAGS file incorrectly

[Andreas Matthias]

Dmitry Gutov wrote:

> On 11/22/2015 07:38 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>> If that's the conclusion, I think I can make etags do that for Lua.
>>
>> Should that be done for tokens that include '.' and ':'?
>
> I think so.

Yes, both.

>> Can there be
>> more than one of these in a token, and if so, what should etags do?
>> IOW, if we have foo.bar.baz or foo:bar.baz etc., what should be the
>> result?
>
> Just two, I think. foo.bar is not a function, and bar.baz probably won't be a
> "symbol at point".
>
> So just the fully qualified tag name, and the local tag name ("baz").

Yes, that's reasonable.