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(font-lock-category-alist): Delete. (turn-on-font-lock-if-enabled): Don't use it. (font-lock-symbol-category-alist): Delete. (font-lock-default-function): Use new `char-property-alias-alist' to make `font-lock-face' an alias for `face' when font-lock mode is enabled.
author Colin Walters <walters@gnu.org>
date Sat, 08 Jun 2002 20:39:29 +0000
parents 8d0430162d52
children 147a637372eb
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EBNF (Extended Backus Normal Form) description of the format of the tags
file created by etags.c and interpreted by etags.el
Francesco Potorti` <pot@gnu.org> 2002
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FF ::= #x0c				   /* form feed */

LF ::= #x0a				   /* line feed */

DEL ::= #x7f				   /* pattern terminator */

SOH ::= #x01				   /* name terminator */

regchar ::= [^#x0a#x0c#x7f]		   /* regular character */

regstring ::= { regchar }		   /* regular string */

unsint ::= [0-9] { [0-9] }		   /* non-negative integer */



tagfile ::= { tagsection }		   /* a tags file */

tagsection ::= FF LF ( includesec | regularsec ) LF

includesec ::= filename ",include" [ LF fileprop ]

regularsec ::= filename "," [ unsint ] [ LF fileprop ] { LF tag }

filename ::= regchar regstring		   /* a file name */

fileprop ::= DEL "(" regstring ")"

tag ::= directtag | patterntag

directtag ::= DEL realposition

patterntag ::= pattern DEL [ tagname SOH ] position

pattern ::= regstring			   /* a tag pattern */

tagname ::= regchar regstring		   /* a tag name */

position ::= realposition | ","

realposition ::= "," unsint | unsint "," | unsint "," unsint