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* Symbol Completion::   Completion on symbol names of your program or language.
* Which Function::      Which Function mode shows which function you are in.
* Hideshow::            Displaying blocks selectively.
* Documentation::       Getting documentation of functions you plan to call.
* Change Log::	        Maintaining a change history for your program.
* Tags::	        Go direct to any function in your program in one
			  command.  Tags remembers which file it is in.
* Imenu::               Making buffer indexes as menus.
* Emerge::	        A convenient way of merging two versions of a program.
* C Modes::             Special commands of C, C++, Objective-C,

of entries with either the current or old-style date formats.

  Version control systems are another way to keep track of changes in your
program and keep a change log.  @xref{Log Buffer}.

@node Tags
@section Tags Tables
@cindex tags table

  A @dfn{tags table} is a description of how a multi-file program is

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* Symbol Completion::   Completion on symbol names of your program or language.
* Which Function::      Which Function mode shows which function you are in.
* Hideshow::            Displaying blocks selectively.
* Documentation::       Getting documentation of functions you plan to call.
* Change Log::	        Maintaining a change history for your program.
* Authors::             Maintaining an @file{AUTHORS} file.
* Tags::	        Go direct to any function in your program in one
			  command.  Tags remembers which file it is in.
* Imenu::               Making buffer indexes as menus.
* Emerge::	        A convenient way of merging two versions of a program.
* C Modes::             Special commands of C, C++, Objective-C,

of entries with either the current or old-style date formats.

  Version control systems are another way to keep track of changes in your
program and keep a change log.  @xref{Log Buffer}.

@node Authors
@section @file{AUTHORS} files
@cindex @file{AUTHORS} file

  Programs which have many contributors usually include a file named
@file{AUTHORS} in their distribution, which lists the individual
contributions.  Emacs has a special command for maintaining the
@file{AUTHORS} file that is part of the Emacs distribution.

@findex authors
  The @kbd{M-x authors} command prompts for the name of the root of the
Emacs source directory.  It then scans @file{ChageLog} files and Lisp
source files under that directory for information about authors of
individual packages and people who made changes in source files, and
puts the information it gleans into a buffer named @samp{*Authors*}.
You can then edit the contents of that buffer and merge it with the
exisiting @file{AUTHORS} file.

@node Tags
@section Tags Tables
@cindex tags table

  A @dfn{tags table} is a description of how a multi-file program is