Re: etags in tex files

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com>
> Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2021 19:05:47 +0100
> 
> I like to use etags in tex files in order to search for occurrences of
> equation labels. This works well if the label is a string of only
> digits and/or letters, say \label{123abc}. However, if there's a colon
> in the label, say \label{123:abc} then etags will only search for the
> portion of the string before the colon, i.e. 123.

Is the problem in the TAGS file, or is the problem in etags.el
functions that search for the tags?  I think it's the latter, but if
so, then...

> Is there any way in which I can configure etags to recognise everything
> with the curly brackets of a \label?

...which "etags" do you want to configure and how?