At 12:27 PM 1/20/00 -0800, Richard Y. Kim wrote:
>>>>>> "PK" == Paul Kinnucan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> PK> At 01:55 PM 1/20/00 -0500, Paul Kinnucan wrote:
>
> >> I believe in my old job somebody bound the prefixed
> >> find-tag command to M-, keystrokes. So you could do
> >>
> >> M-. Hashtable
> >> M-,
> >> M-,
> >>
> >> to cycle through all the hits for Hashtable in the
> >> TAGS table.
> >>
>
> PK> I've done this for myself by inserting the following
> PK> into my .emacs file:
>
> PK> (defun find-next-tag ()
> PK> (interactive)
> PK> (find-tag last-tag t))
>
> PK> (global-set-key "\M-," 'find-next-tag)
>
>Both GNU Emacs and GNU XEmacs bind "M-," to function called
>tags-loop-continue.
>
>They both document this in info node "(emacs)Tags Search",
>and "(xemacs)Tags Search".
>
>You wouldn't be able to tell by reading the documentation,
>but GNU XEmacs lets you use "M-," after doing "M-." to go
>to the next match. However GNU Emacs does not.
>
>So your find-next-tag would not be needed for XEmacs, but
>may be useful for Emacs.
>
>I thought GNU Emacs let you use "M-," to cycle through tags
>going back to version 18. Could this be a bug in GNU Emacs
>version of etags.el?
That could be why I assumed that someone at my old job had provided this
functionality.
I'll pursue this on comp.emacs.
- Paul
