Mercurial > emacs
changeset 68927:1ccf0b1b5b01
(Create Tags Table): Explain why the exception when etags writes to
files under the /dev tree.
| author | Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org> |
|---|---|
| date | Wed, 15 Feb 2006 13:30:19 +0000 |
| parents | 749818038c46 |
| children | 133ba2ee7e43 |
| files | man/maintaining.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- 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