"Richard Y. Kim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >>>>> "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?
In Gnu Emacs, if you provide a prefix arg to "M-." (find-tag), it will go to
the next match.
So you could use:
M-. Hashtable
C-u M-.
C-u M-.
To cycle through all the matches, as outlined above. (I haven't tested
this in the context of jtags).
--
Jim Davidson
jdavidso @ csi.com
