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changeset 80862:01eb41927de9
(Create Tags Table): Clean up previous change.
| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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| date | Sun, 06 May 2007 17:50:18 +0000 |
| parents | 3ce2beab4f08 |
| children | 81dc2c50abab |
| files | man/maintaining.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- 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