Re: Another dumb elisp query ?? -- SOLVED

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: William Case <billlinux@rogers.com>
> Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 12:45:31 -0400
> 
> > I do have '/usr/share/emacs/21.4/lisp/emacs-lisp/' and
> > '/usr/share/emacs/21.4/lisp/' that contain my *.el (text) files.  Would
> > it be normal practice to compile TAGS files in those two directories?
> > 
> Once I was shown by a friend that etags is a system command, or at least
> a command executed by the system, the question of TAGS placement became
> clear.  I didn't matter; probably everyone has their emacs and lisp TAGS
> in a different place.  I ended up putting it in a personal general emacs
> folder I use for practice and/or testing.

It indeed doesn't matter, since the command visit-tags-table asks you
for the directory in which to look for TAGS.  If the file names in
TAGS are absolute, Emacs will find them no matter where you keep TAGS.