Mercurial > emacs
changeset 46127:6225d6b17d2e
Back to the old explanation, which was more concise, with just the first
two lines changed.
| author | Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org> |
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| date | Tue, 02 Jul 2002 11:54:32 +0000 |
| parents | 1d83bbd2ceec |
| children | 9e6cc5e5d948 |
| files | etc/ETAGS.EBNF |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/etc/ETAGS.EBNF Tue Jul 02 11:35:27 2002 +0000 +++ b/etc/ETAGS.EBNF Tue Jul 02 11:54:32 2002 +0000 @@ -1,7 +1,9 @@ +-*- indented-text -*- + This file contains two sections: 1) An EBNF (Extended Backus Normal Form) description of the format of - the tags file created by etags.c and interpreted by etags.el + the tags file created by etags.c and interpreted by etags.el 2) A discussion of tag names and implicit tag names ======================= EBNF tag file description ======================= @@ -56,7 +58,7 @@ -======================== discussion on tag names ========================= +======================== discussion of tag names ========================= - What are tag names Tag lines in a tags file are usually made from the above defined pattern @@ -72,16 +74,14 @@ part of tag lines in the tags file, so we call them "explicit". - Why implicit tag names are even better -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 -of all the following four rules: +When a tag line has no name, but a name can be deduced from the pattern, +we say that the tag line has an implicit tag name. etags.c uses +implicit tag names when possible, in order to reduce the number of +explicit tag names in a tags file, thus reducing 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 of all the following four rules: NONAM=" \f\t\n\r()=,;"; 1. the tag does not contain any of the characters in NONAM;