# HG changeset patch # User Richard M. Stallman # Date 1178473818 0 # Node ID 01eb41927de9a4976c26f03d708393a427e71534 # Parent 3ce2beab4f08e99c5d6d0f5d926285bb3fb5361a (Create Tags Table): Clean up previous change. diff -r 3ce2beab4f08 -r 01eb41927de9 man/maintaining.texi --- a/man/maintaining.texi Sat May 05 22:50:55 2007 +0000 +++ b/man/maintaining.texi Sun May 06 17:50:18 2007 +0000 @@ -409,10 +409,10 @@ files. If the tags file is in @file{/dev}, however, the file names are made relative to the current working directory. This is useful, for example, when writing the tags to @file{/dev/stdout}. - - Notice that, in the usual case of using relative file names, you -should not use a symbolic link pointing to a tags file in a different -directory, because this would generally render the file names invalid. + + When using a a relative file name, it should not be a symbolic link +pointing to a tags file in a different directory, because this would +generally render the file names invalid. If you specify absolute file names as arguments to @code{etags}, then the tags file will contain absolute file names. This way, the tags file