changeset 86089:127279e2403a

Note that you can use "-" with -o in Etags.
author Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
date Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:54:03 +0000
parents 2ce16658101a
children 4023cc57741b
files doc/man/etags.1
diffstat 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/doc/man/etags.1	Thu Nov 15 13:33:13 2007 +0000
+++ b/doc/man/etags.1	Thu Nov 15 14:54:03 2007 +0000
@@ -59,9 +59,9 @@
 \fBctags\fP) in the current working directory.
 Files specified with relative file names will be recorded in the tag
 table with file names relative to the directory where the tag table
-resides.  If the tag table is in /dev, however, the file names are made
-relative to the working directory.  Files specified with absolute file
-names will be recorded
+resides.  If the tag table is in /dev or is the standard output,
+however, the file names are made relative to the working directory.
+Files specified with absolute file names will be recorded
 with absolute file names.  Files generated from a source file\-\-like
 a C file generated from a source Cweb file\-\-will be recorded with
 the name of the source file.
@@ -149,8 +149,9 @@
 as belonging to the file \fBFILE\fP.
 .TP
 \fB\-o\fP \fItagfile\fP, \fB\-\-output=\fItagfile\fP
-Explicit name of file for tag table; overrides default \fBTAGS\fP or
-\fBtags\fP.   (But ignored with \fB\-v\fP or \fB\-x\fP.)
+Explicit name of file for tag table; for \fBetags\fP only, a file name
+of \- means standard output; overrides default \fBTAGS\fP or \fBtags\fP.
+(But ignored with \fB\-v\fP or \fB\-x\fP.)
 .TP
 \fB\-r\fP \fIregexp\fP, \fB\-\-regex=\fIregexp\fP