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authorEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2022-06-10 10:06:06 +0300
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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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@@ -122,7 +122,9 @@ current file. Only \fBetags\fP accepts this option.
.B \-I, \-\-ignore\-indentation
Don't rely on indentation as much as we normally do. Currently, this
means not to assume that a closing brace in the first column is the
-final brace of a function or structure definition in C and C++.
+final brace of a function or structure definition in C and C++. This
+is important for code that doesn't observe the GNU Coding conventions
+of placing only top-level braces in column zero.
.TP
\fB\-l\fP \fIlanguage\fP, \fB\-\-language=\fIlanguage\fP
Parse the following files according to the given language. More than