# HG changeset patch # User Francesco Potort # Date 1140010219 0 # Node ID 1ccf0b1b5b016492d8060fbf6a481a36cfd4942d # Parent 749818038c464401c30e35e7d62c399948d647b9 (Create Tags Table): Explain why the exception when etags writes to files under the /dev tree. diff -r 749818038c46 -r 1ccf0b1b5b01 man/maintaining.texi --- a/man/maintaining.texi Wed Feb 15 13:29:34 2006 +0000 +++ b/man/maintaining.texi Wed Feb 15 13:30:19 2006 +0000 @@ -404,7 +404,8 @@ move an entire directory tree containing both the tags file and the source files, and the tags file will still refer correctly to the source files. If the tags file is in @file{/dev}, however, the file names are -made relative to the current working directory. +made relative to the current working directory. This is useful, for +example, when writing the tags to @file{/dev/stdout}. 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