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| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2022-06-10 10:06:06 +0300 |
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| committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2022-06-10 10:06:06 +0300 |
| commit | 0705705ebf7d19e30b97b0fab508ffc7ec1bec69 (patch) | |
| tree | fe02ac7dea64ac0c544c0206baf0e3f45246b717 /doc/emacs/maintaining.texi | |
| parent | 0ad8cd40ce74c354d6a81ba08e4c694c01baa00e (diff) | |
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Improve documentation of "etags -I"
* doc/man/etags.1:
* doc/emacs/maintaining.texi (Create Tags Table): Elaborate on the
importance of the '-I' option to 'etags'. (Bug#45246)
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diff --git a/doc/emacs/maintaining.texi b/doc/emacs/maintaining.texi index 0a813a85d4f..c23907ddfbd 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/maintaining.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/maintaining.texi @@ -2802,6 +2802,13 @@ place of a file name on the command line. @command{etags} will read from standard input and mark the produced tags as belonging to the file @var{file}. + For C and C++, if the source files don't observe the GNU Coding +Standards' convention if having braces (@samp{@{} and @samp{@}}) in +column zero only for top-level definitions, like functions and +@code{struct} definitions, we advise that you use the +@samp{--ignore-indentation} option, to prevent @command{etags} from +incorrectly interpreting closing braces in column zero. + @samp{etags --help} outputs the list of the languages @command{etags} knows, and the file name rules for guessing the language. It also prints a list of all the available @command{etags} options, together with a short |