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| author | Yuuki Harano <masm+github@masm11.me> | 2021-01-30 23:37:19 +0900 |
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| committer | Yuuki Harano <masm+github@masm11.me> | 2021-01-30 23:37:19 +0900 |
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diff --git a/doc/emacs/maintaining.texi b/doc/emacs/maintaining.texi index 415815473e5..bc276c49046 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/maintaining.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/maintaining.texi @@ -1994,19 +1994,21 @@ Of course, you should substitute the proper years and copyright holder. @section Find Identifier References @cindex xref +@cindex tag An @dfn{identifier} is a name of a syntactical subunit of the program: a function, a subroutine, a method, a class, a data type, a macro, etc. In a programming language, each identifier is a symbol in -the language's syntax. Program development and maintenance requires -capabilities to quickly find where each identifier was defined and -referenced, to rename identifiers across the entire project, etc. - -These capabilities are also useful for finding references in major -modes other than those defined to support programming languages. For -example, chapters, sections, appendices, etc.@: of a text or a @TeX{} -document can be treated as subunits as well, and their names can be -used as identifiers. In this chapter, we use the term ``identifiers'' -to collectively refer to the names of any kind of subunits, in program +the language's syntax. Identifiers are also known as @dfn{tags}. + +Program development and maintenance requires capabilities to quickly +find where each identifier was defined and referenced, to rename +identifiers across the entire project, etc. These capabilities are +also useful for finding references in major modes other than those +defined to support programming languages. For example, chapters, +sections, appendices, etc.@: of a text or a @TeX{} document can be +treated as subunits as well, and their names can be used as +identifiers. In this chapter, we use the term ``identifiers'' to +collectively refer to the names of any kind of subunits, in program source and in other kinds of text alike. Emacs provides a unified interface to these capabilities, called |