holtz@csmil.umich.edu (Brian Holtz) (02/03/90)
What is the format of the tags files that gnu emacs expects? In particular, what do the number after the file name and the second number after the tag mean?
mosurm@mentor.com (Mosur Mohan) (02/06/90)
Here's a piece out of a TAGS file of mine (running gnu emacs 18.52):
void dump(^?425,15454
void full_dump(^?451,16363
void brief_dump ^?496,18099
The first number is the line number where the function is to be found,
and the second is the position in the file (as a (point) value).
These values may be out of date; find-tag uses them as a starting point
for its search of the string extracted from the tags file.
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