neitzel@tubsibr.uucp (Martin Neitzel) (12/15/89)
This one is not exactly a bug, but certainly a problem for non-expert emacs users. I'm currently working in a project involving both emacs and vi users, so we keep both "tags" and "TAGS" files in the directory (created by ctags and etags, respectively). The emacs users were somewhat surprised: find-tag wouldn't work sometimes and indicate lisp errors instead. Reason: They had "." (or nil) early in their load-path, so the auto-load for the tags package used ctags' tags file instead of the lisp code in the lisp file "tags.el" (or "tags.elc"). Once you've recognized what's going on, work-arounds are easy if you happen to be a somewhat experienced user. But I guess most novices wouldn't realize the problem here. So, wouldn't it be nice to avoid this situation at all and to rename tags.el? (How about etags.el?) Martin