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From: Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com>
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Subject: Need help decyphering lisp stacktrace
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Karl M. Hegbloom writes:
 > 
 >  I'm not sure how to read this.  Which function was called with the
 > wrong number of arguments here?  (this happened when I pressed the
 > Perl->Tools->Tags->Creat tags for files in directory menu from Cperl
 > mode.)  I want to know what would I do to start tracking down this
 > sort of bug.  Anybody got a minute?
 > 
 > 8<----------------------------------------------------------------->8
 > Signaling: (wrong-number-of-arguments #<compiled-function (from "etags.elc") nil "...(49)" [tags-file-name call-interactively visit-tags-table get-file-buffer nil tag-table-files find-file-noselect verify-visited-file-modtime yes-or-no-p "Tags file has changed, read new contents? " revert-buffer t 1 ?\^L error "File %s not a valid tag table"] 3 ("/usr/local/lib/xemacs-20.2-b2/lisp/packages/etags.elc" . 22595)> 1)
 >   visit-tags-table-buffer("TAGS")
 >   cperl-write-tags(nil t nil t)
 >   eval((cperl-write-tags nil t nil t))
 > 8<----------------------------------------------------------------->8

There is more than one way to handle this sort of thing, but given
the above mass I would go to etags.el and find the function that
contains the string "Tags file has changed, read new contents? "

