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Re: find-tag and partial completion mode -- Francisco, urgent!


From: A Soare
Subject: Re: find-tag and partial completion mode -- Francisco, urgent!
Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 22:26:24 +0200 (CEST)

> >>>>> "GM" == Glenn Morris <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> >> in TAGS there is a line 
> >> ../lwlib//TAGS,include
> >> and from here the error was born.
> 
> GM> The "issue" is just that if you have a file which contains a line
> GM> like:
> GM>   include ../foo
> GM> and you access the file through a symlink from a different directory,
> GM> then ../foo (probably) does not exist.

That is. True.

> 
> GM> The solution is just to not access the TAGS file through a symlink
> GM> (something which there is no need to do).

Or to write in TAGS file the complete path, not a relative path.

> 
> The original poster's problem can be solved by using the etags -i
> feature instead of making a symlink.  I.e., rather than:
> 
>     ln -s src/TAGS TAGS
> 
> use
> 
>     etags -i src/TAGS
> 

ok.





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