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(allout-regexp, allout-line-boundary-regexp) (allout-bob-regexp): Correct grouping and boundaries to fix backwards traversal. (allout-depth-specific-regexp, allout-depth-one-regexp): New versions that exploit \\{M\\} regexp syntax, to avoid geometric or worse time in allout-ascend. (allout-doublecheck-at-and-shallower): Identify depth threshold below which topics are checked for and disqualified by containment discontinuities. (allout-hotspot-key-handler): Correctly handle multiple-key strokes. Remove some unused variables. (allout-mode-leaders): Clarify that mode-specific comment-start will be used (set-allout-regexp): Correctly regexp-quote allout regexps to properly accept alternative header-leads and primary bullets with regexp-specific characters (eg, C "/*", mathematica "(*"). Include new regular expressions among those configured. (allout-infer-header-lead-and-primary-bullet): Rename allout-infer-header-lead. (allout-recent-depth): Manifest as a variable as well as a function. (allout-prefix-data): Simplify into an inline instead of a macro, assuming current match data rather than being explicitly passed it. Establish allout-recent-depth value as well as allout-recent-prefix-beginning and allout-recent-prefix-end. (allout-aberrant-container-p): True when an item's immediate offspring discontinuously contained. Useful for disqualifying unintended topic prefixes, likely at low depths. (allout-goto-prefix-doublechecked): Elaborated version of allout-goto-prefix which disqualifies aberrant pseudo-items. (allout-pre-next-prefix): Layer on top of lower-level routines, to get disqualification of aberrant containers. (allout-end-of-prefix, allout-end-of-subtree): Disqualify aberrant containers. (allout-beginning-of-current-entry): Position at start of buffer when in container (depth 0) entry. (nullify-allout-prefix-data): Invalidate allout-recent-* prefix data. (allout-current-bullet): Strip text properties. (allout-get-prefix-bullet): Use right match groups. (allout-beginning-of-line, allout-next-heading): Disqualify aberrant containers. (allout-previous-heading): Disqualify aberrant containers, and change to regular (rather than inline) function, to allow self-recursion. (allout-get-invisibility-overlay): Increment so progress is made when the first overlay is not the sought one. (allout-end-of-prefix): Disqualify aberrant containers. (allout-end-of-line): Cycle something like allout-beginning-of-line. (allout-mode): Make allout-old-style-prefixes (ie, enabling use with outline.el outlines) functional again. Change the primary bullet along with the header-lead - level 1 new-style bullets now work. Engage allout-before-change-handler in mainline emacs, not just xemacs, to do undo handling. (allout-before-change-handler): Expose undo changes occurring in hidden regions. Use allout-get-invisibility-overlay instead of reimplementing it inline. (allout-chart-subtree): Use start rather than end of prefix in charts. Use allout-recent-depth variable. (allout-chart-siblings): Disqualify aberrant topics. (allout-beginning-of-current-entry): Position correctly. (allout-ascend): Use new allout-depth-specific-regexp and allout-depth-one-regexp for linear instead of O(N^2) or worse behavior. (allout-ascend-to-depth): Depend on allout-ascend, rather than reimplementing an algorithm. (allout-up-current-level): Depend on allout-ascend, rather than reimplementing an algorithm. Return to start-point if we fail. (allout-descend-to-depth): Use allout-recent-depth variable instead of function. (allout-next-sibling): On traversal of numerous intervening topics, resort to economical allout-next-sibling-leap. (allout-next-sibling-leap): Specialized version of allout-next-sibling that uses allout-ascend cleverly, to depend on a regexp search to leap large numbers of contained topics, rather than arbitrarily many one-by-one traversals. (allout-next-visible-heading): Disqualify aberrant topics. (allout-previous-visible-heading): Position consistently when interactive. (allout-forward-current-level): Base on allout-previous-sibling rather than (differently) reimplmenting the algorithm. Remove some unused variables. (allout-solicit-alternate-bullet): Present default choice stripped of text properties. (allout-rebullet-heading): Use bullet stripped of text properties. Register changes using allout-exposure-change-hook. Disregard aberrant topics. (allout-shift-in): With universal-argument, make topic a peer of it's former offspring. Simplify the code by separating out allout-shift-out functionality. (allout-shift-out): With universal-argument, make offspring peers of their former container, and its siblings. Implement the functionality here, rather than inappropriately muddling the implementation of allout-shift-in. (allout-rebullet-topic): Respect additional argument for new parent-child separation function. (allout-yank-processing): Use allout-ascend directly. (allout-show-entry): Disqualify aberrant topics. (allout-show-children): Handle discontinuous children gracefully, extending the depth being revealed to expose them and posting a message indicating the situation. (allout-show-to-offshoot): Remove obsolete and incorrect comment. Leave cursor in correct position. (allout-hide-current-subtree): Use allout-ascend directly. Disqualify aberrant topics. (allout-kill-line, allout-kill-topic): Preserve exposure layout in a way that the yanks can restore it, as used to happen. (allout-yank-processing): Restore exposure layout as recorded by allout-kill-*, as used to happen. (allout-annotate-hidden, allout-hide-by-annotation): New routines for preseving and restoring exposure layout across kills. (allout-toggle-subtree-encryption): Run allout-exposure-change-hook. (allout-encrypt-string): Strip text properties. Rearranged order and outline-headings for some of the miscellaneous functions. (allout-resolve-xref): No need to quote the error name in the condition-case handler section. (allout-flatten): Classic recursive (and recursively intensive, without tail-recursion) list-flattener, needed by allout-shift-out when confronted with discontinuous children.

.\" Copyright (C) 1992, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004,
.\"   2005, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
.\" See section COPYING for conditions for redistribution
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.SH NAME
etags, ctags \- generate tag file for Emacs, vi
.SH SYNOPSIS
.hy 0
.na
\fBetags\fP [\|\-aCDGIRVh\|] [\|\-i \fIfile\fP\|] [\|\-l \fIlanguage\fP\|]
.if n .br
[\|\-o \fItagfile\fP\|] [\|\-r \fIregexp\fP\|]
[\|\-\-parse\-stdin=\fIfile\fP\|]
.br
[\|\-\-append\|] [\|\-\-no\-defines\|]
[\|\-\-no\-globals\|] [\|\-\-include=\fIfile\fP\|]
[\|\-\-ignore\-indentation\|] [\|\-\-language=\fIlanguage\fP\|]
[\|\-\-members\|] [\|\-\-output=\fItagfile\fP\|]
[\|\-\-regex=\fIregexp\fP\|] [\|\-\-no\-regex\|]
[\|\-\-help\|] [\|\-\-version\|]
\fIfile\fP .\|.\|.

\fBctags\fP [\|\-aCdgIRVh\|] [\|\-BtTuvwx\|] [\|\-l \fIlanguage\fP\|]
.if n .br
[\|\-o \fItagfile\fP\|] [\|\-r \fIregexp\fP\|]
[\|\-\-parse\-stdin=\fIfile\fP\|]
.br
[\|\-\-append\|] [\|\-\-backward\-search\|]
[\|\-\-cxref\|] [\|\-\-defines\|] [\|\-\-forward\-search\|]
[\|\-\-globals\|] [\|\-\-ignore\-indentation\|]
[\|\-\-language=\fIlanguage\fP\|] [\|\-\-members\|]
[\|\-\-output=\fItagfile\fP\|] [\|\-\-regex=\fIregexp\fP\|]
[\|\-\-typedefs\|] [\|\-\-typedefs\-and\-c++\|]
[\|\-\-update\|] [\|\-\-no\-warn\|]
[\|\-\-help\|] [\|\-\-version\|]
\fIfile\fP .\|.\|.
.ad b
.hy 1
.SH DESCRIPTION
The \|\fBetags\fP\| program is used to create a tag table file, in a format
understood by
.BR emacs ( 1 )\c
\&; the \|\fBctags\fP\| program is used to create a similar table in a
format understood by
.BR vi ( 1 )\c
\&.  Both forms of the program understand
the syntax of C, Objective C, C++, Java, Fortran, Ada, Cobol, Erlang, HTML,
LaTeX, Emacs Lisp/Common Lisp, Lua, makefile, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Postscript,
Python, Prolog, Scheme and
most assembler\-like syntaxes.
Both forms read the files specified on the command line, and write a tag
table (defaults: \fBTAGS\fP for \fBetags\fP, \fBtags\fP for
\fBctags\fP) in the current working directory.
Files specified with relative file names will be recorded in the tag
table with file names relative to the directory where the tag table
resides.  If the tag table is in /dev, however, the file names are made
relative to the working directory.  Files specified with absolute file
names will be recorded
with absolute file names.  Files generated from a source file\-\-like
a C file generated from a source Cweb file\-\-will be recorded with
the name of the source file.
The programs recognize the language used in an input file based on its
file name and contents.  The \fB\-\-language\fP switch can be used to force
parsing of the file names following the switch according to the given
language, overriding guesses based on filename extensions.
.SH OPTIONS
Some options make sense only for the \fBvi\fP style tag files produced
by ctags;
\fBetags\fP does not recognize them.
The programs accept unambiguous abbreviations for long option names.
.TP
.B \-a, \-\-append
Append to existing tag file.  (For \fBvi\fP-format tag files, see also
\fB\-\-update\fP.)
.TP
.B \-B, \-\-backward\-search
Tag files written in the format expected by \fBvi\fP contain regular
expression search instructions; the \fB\-B\fP option writes them using
the delimiter `\|\fB?\fP\|', to search \fIbackwards\fP through files.
The default is to use the delimiter `\|\fB/\fP\|', to search \fIforwards\fP
through files.
Only \fBctags\fP accepts this option.
.TP
.B \-\-declarations
In C and derived languages, create tags for function declarations,
and create tags for extern variables unless \-\-no\-globals is used.
.TP
.B \-d, \-\-defines
Create tag entries for C preprocessor constant definitions
and enum constants, too.  Since this is the default behavior of
\fBetags\fP, only \fBctags\fP accepts this option.
.TP
.B \-D, \-\-no\-defines
Do not create tag entries for C preprocessor constant definitions
and enum constants.
This may make the tags file much smaller if many header files are tagged.
Since this is the default behavior of \fBctags\fP, only \fBetags\fP
accepts this option.
.TP
.B \-\-globals
Create tag entries for global variables in C, C++, Objective C, Java,
and Perl.
Since this is the default behavior of \fBetags\fP, only \fBctags\fP
accepts this option.
.TP
.B \-\-no\-globals
Do not tag global variables.  Typically this reduces the file size by
one fourth.  Since this is the default behavior of \fBctags\fP, only
\fBetags\fP accepts this option.
.TP
\fB\-i\fP \fIfile\fP, \fB\-\-include=\fIfile\fP
Include a note in the tag file indicating that, when searching for a
tag, one should also consult the tags file \fIfile\fP after checking the
current file.  Only \fBetags\fP accepts this option.
.TP
.B \-I, \-\-ignore\-indentation
Don't rely on indentation as much as we normally do.  Currently, this
means not to assume that a closing brace in the first column is the
final brace of a function or structure definition in C and C++.
.TP
\fB\-l\fP \fIlanguage\fP, \fB\-\-language=\fIlanguage\fP
Parse the following files according to the given language.  More than
one such options may be intermixed with filenames.  Use \fB\-\-help\fP
to get a list of the available languages and their default filename
extensions.  The `auto' language can be used to restore automatic
detection of language based on the file name.  The `none'
language may be used to disable language parsing altogether; only
regexp matching is done in this case (see the \fB\-\-regex\fP option).
.TP
.B \-\-members
Create tag entries for variables that are members of structure-like
constructs in C++, Objective C, Java.
.TP
.B \-\-no\-members
Do not tag member variables.  This is the default behavior.
.TP
.B \-\-packages\-only
Only tag packages in Ada files.
.TP
\fB\-\-parse\-stdin=\fIfile\fP
May be used (only once) in place of a file name on the command line.
\fBetags\fP will read from standard input and mark the produced tags
as belonging to the file \fBFILE\fP.
.TP
\fB\-o\fP \fItagfile\fP, \fB\-\-output=\fItagfile\fP
Explicit name of file for tag table; overrides default \fBTAGS\fP or
\fBtags\fP.   (But ignored with \fB\-v\fP or \fB\-x\fP.)
.TP
\fB\-r\fP \fIregexp\fP, \fB\-\-regex=\fIregexp\fP

Make tags based on regexp matching for the files following this option,
in addition to the tags made with the standard parsing based on
language. May be freely intermixed with filenames and the \fB\-R\fP
option.  The regexps are cumulative, i.e. each such option will add to
the previous ones.  The regexps are of one of the forms:
.br
	[\fB{\fP\fIlanguage\fP\fB}\fP]\fB/\fP\fItagregexp/\fP[\fInameregexp\fP\fB/\fP]\fImodifiers\fP
.br
	\fB@\fP\fIregexfile\fP
.br

where \fItagregexp\fP is used to match the tag.  It should not match
useless characters.  If the match is such that more characters than
needed are unavoidably matched by \fItagregexp\fP, it may be useful to
add a \fInameregexp\fP, to narrow down the tag scope.  \fBctags\fP
ignores regexps without a \fInameregexp\fP.  The syntax of regexps is
the same as in emacs.  The following character escape sequences are
supported: \\a, \\b, \\d, \\e, \\f, \\n, \\r, \\t, \\v, which
respectively stand for the ASCII characters BEL, BS, DEL, ESC, FF, NL,
CR, TAB, VT.
.br
The \fImodifiers\fP are a sequence of 0 or more characters among
\fIi\fP, which means to ignore case when matching; \fIm\fP, which means
that the \fItagregexp\fP will be matched against the whole file contents
at once, rather than line by line, and the matching sequence can match
multiple lines; and \fIs\fP, which implies \fIm\fP and means that the
dot character in \fItagregexp\fP matches the newline char as well.
.br
The separator, which is \fB/\fP in the examples, can be any character
different from space, tab, braces and \fB@\fP.  If the separator
character is needed inside the regular expression, it must be quoted
by preceding it with \fB\\\fP.
.br
The optional \fB{\fP\fIlanguage\fP\fB}\fP prefix means that the tag
should be
created only for files of language \fIlanguage\fP, and ignored
otherwise.  This is particularly useful when storing many predefined
regexps in a file.
.br
In its second form, \fIregexfile\fP is the name of a file that contains
a number of arguments to the \fI\-\-regex\=\fP option,
one per line.  Lines beginning with a space or tab are assumed
to be comments, and ignored.

.br
Here are some examples.  All the regexps are quoted to protect them
from shell interpretation.
.br

Tag the DEFVAR macros in the emacs source files:
.br
\fI\-\-regex\='/[ \\t]*DEFVAR_[A-Z_ \\t(]+"\\([^"]+\\)"\/'\fP
.\"" This comment is to avoid confusion to Emacs syntax highlighting
.br

Tag VHDL files (this example is a single long line, broken here for
formatting reasons):
.br
\fI\-\-language\=none\ \-\-regex='/[\ \\t]*\\(ARCHITECTURE\\|\\
CONFIGURATION\\)\ +[^\ ]*\ +OF/'\ \-\-regex\='/[\ \\t]*\\
\\(ATTRIBUTE\\|ENTITY\\|FUNCTION\\|PACKAGE\\(\ BODY\\)?\\
\\|PROCEDURE\\|PROCESS\\|TYPE\\)[\ \\t]+\\([^\ \\t(]+\\)/\\3/'\fP
.br

Tag TCL files (this last example shows the usage of a \fItagregexp\fP):
.br
\fI\-\-lang\=none \-\-regex\='/proc[\ \\t]+\\([^\ \\t]+\\)/\\1/'\fP

.br
A regexp can be preceded by {\fIlang\fP}, thus restricting it to match
lines of files of the specified language.  Use \fBetags --help\fP to obtain
a list of the recognised languages.  This feature is particularly useful inside
\fBregex files\fP.  A regex file contains one regex per line.  Empty lines,
and those lines beginning with space or tab are ignored.  Lines beginning
with @ are references to regex files whose name follows the @ sign.  Other
lines are considered regular expressions like those following \fB\-\-regex\fP.
.br
For example, the command
.br
\fIetags \-\-regex=@regex.file *.c\fP
.br
reads the regexes contained in the file regex.file.
.TP
.B \-R, \-\-no\-regex
Don't do any more regexp matching on the following files.  May be
freely intermixed with filenames and the \fB\-\-regex\fP option.
.TP
.B \-t, \-\-typedefs
Record typedefs in C code as tags.  Since this is the default behavior
of \fBetags\fP, only \fBctags\fP accepts this option.
.TP
.B \-T, \-\-typedefs\-and\-c++
Generate tag entries for typedefs, struct, enum, and union tags, and
C++ member functions.  Since this is the default behavior
of \fBetags\fP, only \fBctags\fP accepts this option.
.TP
.B \-u, \-\-update
Update tag entries for \fIfiles\fP specified on command line, leaving
tag entries for other files in place.  Currently, this is implemented
by deleting the existing entries for the given files and then
rewriting the new entries at the end of the tags file.  It is often
faster to simply rebuild the entire tag file than to use this.
Only \fBctags\fP accepts this option.
.TP
.B \-v, \-\-vgrind
Instead of generating a tag file, write index (in \fBvgrind\fP format)
to standard output.  Only \fBctags\fP accepts this option.
.TP
.B \-w, \-\-no\-warn
Suppress warning messages about duplicate entries.  The \fBetags\fP
program does not check for duplicate entries, so this option is not
allowed with it.
.TP
.B \-x, \-\-cxref
Instead of generating a tag file, write a cross reference (in
\fBcxref\fP format) to standard output.  Only \fBctags\fP accepts this option.
.TP
.B \-h, \-H, \-\-help
Print usage information.  Followed by one or more \-\-language=LANG
prints detailed information about how tags are created for LANG.
.TP
.B \-V, \-\-version
Print the current version of the program (same as the version of the
emacs \fBetags\fP is shipped with).

.SH "SEE ALSO"
`\|\fBemacs\fP\|' entry in \fBinfo\fP; \fIGNU Emacs Manual\fP, Richard
Stallman.
.br
.BR cxref ( 1 ),
.BR emacs ( 1 ),
.BR vgrind ( 1 ),
.BR vi ( 1 ).

.SH COPYING
Copyright
.if t \(co
.if n (c)
1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
.PP
Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this
document provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are
preserved on all copies.
.PP
Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of
this document under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that
the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of
a permission notice identical to this one.
.PP
Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this
document into another language, under the above conditions for
modified versions, except that this permission notice may be stated
in a translation approved by the Free Software Foundation.

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