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| author | Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org> | 2002-03-05 11:42:46 +0000 |
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| committer | Francesco Potortì <pot@gnu.org> | 2002-03-05 11:42:46 +0000 |
| commit | bf8dd4e319ec1751e8626bc9831b68366f9ef58e (patch) | |
| tree | 175542d54ebf6135f1876ad73bbb3f7ad7f8e49c /man/maintaining.texi | |
| parent | db59058201446a651dd28697590ad5fbc25383ea (diff) | |
| download | emacs-bf8dd4e319ec1751e8626bc9831b68366f9ef58e.tar.gz | |
etags honours #line directives.
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diff --git a/man/maintaining.texi b/man/maintaining.texi index 36a030901eb..d0e726cbcbf 100644 --- a/man/maintaining.texi +++ b/man/maintaining.texi @@ -179,8 +179,11 @@ definition of a function by looking up which of the files it is in. conventional name for a tags table file is @file{TAGS}. Each entry in the tags table records the name of one tag, the name of the -file that the tag is defined in (implicitly), and the position in that file -of the tag's definition. +file that the tag is defined in (implicitly), and the position in that +file of the tag's definition. When a file parsed by @code{etags} is +created from a different source file, like a C file created by +@code{bison} from a source Yacc file, the tags of the parsed file +reference the source file. Just what names from the described files are recorded in the tags table depends on the programming language of the described file. They |