changeset 42201:46e216716173

In the Etags manual, when comparing the regular expression syntax to that of Emacs, remove the references to the interval operator, which is now part of Emacs as well as Etags, and add references to greedy operators and shy groups, which are now part of Emacs, but not of Etags.
author Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org>
date Thu, 20 Dec 2001 09:14:27 +0000
parents c0106627502f
children 0d134c4e222a
files man/maintaining.texi
diffstat 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/man/maintaining.texi	Thu Dec 20 06:51:24 2001 +0000
+++ b/man/maintaining.texi	Thu Dec 20 09:14:27 2001 +0000
@@ -474,12 +474,9 @@
 for the tab character.  Note that @code{etags} does not handle the other
 C escape sequences for special characters.
 
-@cindex interval operator (in regexps)
   The syntax of regular expressions in @code{etags} is the same as in
-Emacs, augmented with the @dfn{interval operator}, which works as in
-@code{grep} and @code{ed}.  The syntax of an interval operator is
-@samp{\@{@var{m},@var{n}\@}}, and its meaning is to match the preceding
-expression at least @var{m} times and up to @var{n} times.
+Emacs.  However, non-greedy operators and shy groups are not
+available.
 
   You should not match more characters with @var{tagregexp} than that
 needed to recognize what you want to tag.  If the match is such that