Re: Problem finding multiple tags with same tagname

[Andrew Shepard]

Solution found:

After reading the online Emacs manual it became apparent that the 
"Learning GNU Emacs" book is in error. The "correct" way to find 
successive tags is to use the following:

C-u M-.


Andy ...

Andrew Shepard wrote:

> I'm searching for tags in a TAGS file created by etags. However, I'm 
> unable to look for more than one tag with the same name when I follow
> instructions given in the book "Learning GNU Emacs"
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> Here's an example where I'm looking for multiple instances of the 
> function Play():
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> ESC-.
> Play RETURN
> (I am correctly taken to the first instance of the Play() function)
>
> ESC-,
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> Message returned by Emacs is: 'No M-x tags-search or M-x 
> tags-query-replace in progress'
>
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> Note that if I do a ESC-x tags-search on a tagname and follow with 
> ESC-, emacs takes me to all the instances of the tagname. It looks 
> like the book I have might have an error in it. However, if this is 
> the case how do I find multiple instances of tags after using the 
> ESC-. command?
>
> Thanks in advance.
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> Andy ...
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