7 The DSPEC Package

active-finders

Variable

Summary

Controls how the source finding commands Find Source and Find Tag operate.

Package

dspec

Syntax

*active-finders*

Description

The*active-finders* variable controls how the source finding commands, Find Source and Find Tag, operate. The legal values for the elements of this list are:

:internal: The internal database of definitions performed in this image.
:tags: Prompt for a tags file, when first used.
pathname: Either a tags file or a tags database.

A tags database is a file generated by save-tags-database.

The order of this list determines the order that the results from the finders are combined in -- you would usually want:internal to be the first item on this list, as it contains the up-to-date information about the state of the image. More than one pathname is allowed.