Mercurial > emacs
changeset 45885:b2b7c9519909
Specify that the separator character can be different from a slash.
Clarify that the @regexfile contains the arguments to a --regex= option.
| author | Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org> |
|---|---|
| date | Mon, 17 Jun 2002 22:08:20 +0000 |
| parents | 90445f6e269f |
| children | 22138a27a5f3 |
| files | etc/etags.1 |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/etc/etags.1 Mon Jun 17 19:47:43 2002 +0000 +++ b/etc/etags.1 Mon Jun 17 22:08:20 2002 +0000 @@ -176,13 +176,20 @@ multiple lines; and \fIs\fP, which implies \fIm\fP and means that the dot character in \fItagregexp\fP matches the newline char as well. .br -cthe optional \fB{\fP\fIlanguage\fP\fB}\fP means that the tag should be +The separator, which is \fB/\fP in the examples, can be any character +different from space, tab, braces and \fB@\fP. If the separator +character is needed inside the regular expression, it must be quoted +by preceding it with \fB\\\fP. +.br +The optional \fB{\fP\fIlanguage\fP\fB}\fP prefix means that the tag +should be created only for files of language \fIlanguage\fP, and ignored otherwise. This is particularly useful when storing many predefined regexps in a file. .br -In its second form, \fIregexfile\fP is the name of a file containing -regexps, one per line. Lines beginning with a space or tab are assumed +In its second form, \fIregexfile\fP is the name of a file that contains +a number of arguments to the \fI\-\-regex\=\fP option, +one per line. Lines beginning with a space or tab are assumed to be comments, and ignored. .br