Mercurial > emacs
changeset 45828:ad50e4ff5888
Structure the changes for etags using outline headers.
| author | Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org> |
|---|---|
| date | Fri, 14 Jun 2002 13:14:23 +0000 |
| parents | 6afcf684fc24 |
| children | 052a3fd9ef93 |
| files | etc/NEWS |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/etc/NEWS Fri Jun 14 09:41:35 2002 +0000 +++ b/etc/NEWS Fri Jun 14 13:14:23 2002 +0000 @@ -569,7 +569,9 @@ ** Etags changes. -*** New syntax for regular expressions, multi-line regular expressions. +*** New regular expressions features + +**** New syntax for regular expressions, multi-line regular expressions. The syntax --ignore-case-regexp=/regex/ is now undocumented and retained only for backward compatibility. The new equivalent syntax is --regex=/regex/i. More generally, it is --regex=/TAGREGEX/TAGNAME/MODS, @@ -581,32 +583,34 @@ span newlines allows writing of much more powerful regular expressions and rapid prototyping for tagging new languages. -*** Regular expressions can use char escape sequences as in Gcc +**** Regular expressions can use char escape sequences as in Gcc The escaped character sequence \a, \b, \d, \e, \f, \n, \r, \t, \v, respectively, stand for the ASCII characters BEL, BS, DEL, ESC, FF, NL, CR, TAB, VT, -*** Regular expressions can be bound to a given language +**** Regular expressions can be bound to a given language The syntax --regex={LANGUAGE}REGEX means that REGEX is used to make tags only for files of language LANGUAGE, and ignored otherwise. This is particularly useful when storing regexps in a file. -*** Regular expressions can be read from a file +**** Regular expressions can be read from a file The --regex=@regexfile option means read the regexps from a file, one per line. Lines beginning with space or tab are ignored. -*** In Prolog, etags creates tags for rules in addition to predicates. - -*** In Perl, packages are tags. +*** New language parsing features + +**** In Prolog, etags creates tags for rules in addition to predicates. + +**** In Perl, packages are tags. Subroutine tags are named from their package. You can jump to sub tags as you did before, by the sub name, or additionally by looking for package::sub. -*** New default keywords for TeX. +**** New default keywords for TeX. The new keywords are def, newcommand, renewcommand, newenvironment and renewenvironment. -*** New language PHP: tags are functions, classes and defines. +**** New language PHP: tags are functions, classes and defines. If the --members option is specified to etags, tags are vars also. *** Honour #line directives.