Re: [PATCH v2] scripts: Have make TAGS not include structure members

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@kernel.org>]

On Wed, 27 May 2026 18:29:14 +0200
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:

> Yeah, I often use member tags.
> 
> The tags file have a 'kind' field, what you want is for emacs to order
> on kind and prefer 'f' over 'm'.
> 
> The alternative is switching to use emacs-lsp, that way the editor knows
> the kind of symbol you want. If you're on a function call, it should
> only consider 'f' tags. Whereas if the cursor is on a member deref, it
> should only consider 'm'.

OK, so in addition to my procrastination of sending out this patch, I
finally changed my .emacs file to have "Meta-." call
xref-find-definitions instead of find-tags.

The xref-find-definitions gives a list of all the tags it finds and you
can search for the function. In the example of "dev_name", I simply
searched for "dev_name(" and it found the function immediately.

As "find-tags" has been deprecated back in 2016 (10 years ago!), and
xref-find-definitions doesn't suffer as much as 'find-tags' does with
respect to member tags. I'll simply drop this patch.

I can also finally archive the conversation I have in my INBOX! ;-)

-- Steve