bug#22947: 25.0.92; xref-find-definitions fails for Perl & etags

[Dmitry Gutov]

Hi Bob,

On 03/08/2016 08:27 PM, Bob Rogers wrote:

> The bug is that, no matter how many perl_method_name definitions exist
> in the TAGS file, xref-find-definitions won't find any of them, because
> it's only looking for an exact match to what Perl considers the
> package-qualified name, namely the "Perl::Package::perl_method_name" as
> it appears in this TAGS line:
>
>         sub perl_method_name ^?Perl::Package::perl_method_name^A23,321

This seems to indicate a problem in etags. Were you using the "real" 
etags, one that's developed and distributed together with Emacs? Did it 
come with the development snapshot your bug report was sent from?

If so, please send a small sample of Perl code we can reproduce the 
problem in.

> FWIW, the patch I have included below "================" papers over the
> problem (though it's clearly much too kludgy to apply).

Thanks, but yes, that patch is a kludge.