# HG changeset patch # User Francesco Potort # Date 1008839667 0 # Node ID 46e2167161737265cf9e500e3d9cb429f0d44e2c # Parent c0106627502fc94b86f75505602cfb8ad3aa636e In the Etags manual, when comparing the regular expression syntax to that of Emacs, remove the references to the interval operator, which is now part of Emacs as well as Etags, and add references to greedy operators and shy groups, which are now part of Emacs, but not of Etags. diff -r c0106627502f -r 46e216716173 man/maintaining.texi --- a/man/maintaining.texi Thu Dec 20 06:51:24 2001 +0000 +++ b/man/maintaining.texi Thu Dec 20 09:14:27 2001 +0000 @@ -474,12 +474,9 @@ for the tab character. Note that @code{etags} does not handle the other C escape sequences for special characters. -@cindex interval operator (in regexps) The syntax of regular expressions in @code{etags} is the same as in -Emacs, augmented with the @dfn{interval operator}, which works as in -@code{grep} and @code{ed}. The syntax of an interval operator is -@samp{\@{@var{m},@var{n}\@}}, and its meaning is to match the preceding -expression at least @var{m} times and up to @var{n} times. +Emacs. However, non-greedy operators and shy groups are not +available. You should not match more characters with @var{tagregexp} than that needed to recognize what you want to tag. If the match is such that