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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/emacs/maintaining.texi | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man/etags.1 | 4 |
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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 diff --git a/doc/man/etags.1 b/doc/man/etags.1 index d345b8bd73f..96781569fc2 100644 --- a/doc/man/etags.1 +++ b/doc/man/etags.1 @@ -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 |