I believe you need to make sure emacs's etags get called, not the
cygwin etags.  Delete or rename the cygwin etags and try it again.

"Jayakrishnan Nair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> After reading this thread, I thought I would try jtags. This is what
> happens. I think I am using a version of etags which does not support
> --regex option. The JDEE users guide does not mention anything about
> this. Any pointers ?
>
> I am using Cygwin on Win2K and etags came with that.
>
>
> [/tmp]jtags
> Tagging classes and constructors
> etags: Unknown option: --regex
> Tagging methods
> etags: Unknown option: --regex
> Tagging variables
> etags: Unknown option: --regex
> [/tmp]type -all jtags
> jtags is /cygdrive/c/Applications/Editor/emacs-lib/jde-2.3.2/lisp/jtags
> [/tmp]type -all etags
> etags is /usr/bin/etags
> [/tmp]etags --version
> Exuberant Ctags 5.2, Copyright (C) 1996-2001 Darren Hiebert
>   Compiled: Dec 25 2001, 23:40:03
>   Addresses: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> http://ctags.sourceforge.net
> [/tmp]
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Hyatt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 9:09 AM
> To: Le Wang
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: tags?
>
>
> Yes, using tags gives you access to functionality that JDE doesn't
> have.  Like a quick take-me-to-class functionality.  JDE has several
> take-me-to-class-at-point functionality, but that's not quite the
> same.  Plus, JDE often makes you choose between classes of the same
> name in different packages, while tags lets you cycle through.  I
> prefer to cycle through.
>
> Also, you can do nifty things like tags-query-replace, to replace one
> regexp with some text everywhere in your source.  Very nice.
>
> Le Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Does anyone use tags with jdee? I fail to see the point of them.  And
> it
>> seems to add an extra layer of complexity, i.e. constantly updating
> the tags
>> table.  Or is it that I just don't get the tags concept?
>>
>> --
>> Le
>>
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