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changeset 46126:1d83bbd2ceec
Clarified the definition of implicit tag names.
| author | Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org> |
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| date | Tue, 02 Jul 2002 11:35:27 +0000 |
| parents | 474a28fb856c |
| children | 6225d6b17d2e |
| files | etc/ETAGS.EBNF |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/etc/ETAGS.EBNF Mon Jul 01 23:30:21 2002 +0000 +++ b/etc/ETAGS.EBNF Tue Jul 02 11:35:27 2002 +0000 @@ -72,8 +72,12 @@ part of tag lines in the tags file, so we call them "explicit". - Why implicit tag names are even better -The purpose of implicit tag names is to reduce the number of tag names -in a tags file, thus reducing the size of the tags file. When the user +Often tag names are redundant; this happens when the name of a tag is an +easily guessable substring of the tag pattern. We define a set of rules +to decide whether it is possible to deduce the tag name from the pattern, +and make an unnamed tag in those cases. The name deduced from the +pattern of an unnamed tag is the implicit name of that tag. The use of +implicit tag names reduces the size of the tags file. When the user looks for a tag, and Emacs founds no explicit tag names that match it, Emacs then tries to match the tag with an implicit tag name. Such a match occurs when the tag matches a pattern, subject to the satisfaction