# HG changeset patch # User Francesco Potort # Date 1024351700 0 # Node ID b2b7c9519909cc20d7d1d3fbadab98f1a9af677a # Parent 90445f6e269fb4210147376ff6a0ea4a67a3fcae Specify that the separator character can be different from a slash. Clarify that the @regexfile contains the arguments to a --regex= option. diff -r 90445f6e269f -r b2b7c9519909 etc/etags.1 --- a/etc/etags.1 Mon Jun 17 19:47:43 2002 +0000 +++ b/etc/etags.1 Mon Jun 17 22:08:20 2002 +0000 @@ -176,13 +176,20 @@ 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 -cthe optional \fB{\fP\fIlanguage\fP\fB}\fP means that the tag should be +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 containing -regexps, one per line. Lines beginning with a space or tab are assumed +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