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New multi-line regexp and new regexp syntax.

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then it reverts to the old behavior and asks the user to select regions for
comparison.

** Etags changes.

*** In Prolog, etags creates tags for rules in addition to predicates.

*** In Perl, packages are tags.
Subroutine tags are named from their package.  You can jump to sub tags
as you did before, by the sub name, or additionally by looking for

*** New option --parse-stdin=FILE
This option is mostly useful when calling etags from programs.  It can
be used (only once) in place of a file name on the command line.  Etags
will read from standard input and mark the produced tags as belonging to
the file FILE.

*** Regular expressions can use char escape sequences as in Gcc
These are the escapes \a, \b, \d, \e, \f, \n, \r, \t, \v.

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** The command line option --no-windows has been changed to
--no-window-system.  The old one still works, but is deprecated.

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then it reverts to the old behavior and asks the user to select regions for
comparison.

** Etags changes.

*** New syntax for regular expressions, multi-line regular expressions.
The syntax --ignore-case-regexp=/REGEX/NAME/ is now undocumented and
retained only for backward compatibility.  The new equivalent syntax is
--regex=/REGEX/NAME/i.  More generally, it is --regex=/REGEX/NAME/MODS,
where `/NAME' is optional, as usual, and MODS is a string of 0 or more
characters among `i' (ignore case), `m' (multi-line) and `s'
(single-line).  The `m' and `s' modifiers behave as in Perl regular
expressions: `m' allows regexps to match more than one line, while `s'
(which implies `m') means that `.' matches newlines.  The ability to
span newlines allows writing of much more powerful regular expressions
and rapid prototyping for tagging new languages.

*** Regular expressions can use char escape sequences as in Gcc
The escaped character sequence \a, \b, \d, \e, \f, \n, \r, \t, \v,
respectively, stand for the ASCII characters BEL, BS, DEL, ESC, FF, NL,
CR, TAB, VT,

*** In Prolog, etags creates tags for rules in addition to predicates.

*** In Perl, packages are tags.
Subroutine tags are named from their package.  You can jump to sub tags
as you did before, by the sub name, or additionally by looking for

*** New option --parse-stdin=FILE
This option is mostly useful when calling etags from programs.  It can
be used (only once) in place of a file name on the command line.  Etags
will read from standard input and mark the produced tags as belonging to
the file FILE.

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** The command line option --no-windows has been changed to
--no-window-system.  The old one still works, but is deprecated.