-.\" Copyright (c) 1992, 2001 Free Software Foundation
+.\" Copyright (C) 1992, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004,
+.\" 2005, 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
.\" See section COPYING for conditions for redistribution
.TH etags 1 "23nov2001" "GNU Tools" "GNU Tools"
.de BP
.SH SYNOPSIS
.hy 0
.na
-\fBetags\fP [\|\-aCDGImRVh\|] [\|\-i \fIfile\fP\|] [\|\-l \fIlanguage\fP\|]
+\fBetags\fP [\|\-aCDGIRVh\|] [\|\-i \fIfile\fP\|] [\|\-l \fIlanguage\fP\|]
.if n .br
[\|\-o \fItagfile\fP\|] [\|\-r \fIregexp\fP\|]
[\|\-\-parse\-stdin=\fIfile\fP\|]
[\|\-\-append\|] [\|\-\-no\-defines\|]
[\|\-\-no\-globals\|] [\|\-\-include=\fIfile\fP\|]
[\|\-\-ignore\-indentation\|] [\|\-\-language=\fIlanguage\fP\|]
-[\|\-\-members\|] [\|\-\-output=\fItagfile\fP\|]
+[\|\-\-no\-members\|] [\|\-\-output=\fItagfile\fP\|]
[\|\-\-regex=\fIregexp\fP\|] [\|\-\-no\-regex\|]
[\|\-\-help\|] [\|\-\-version\|]
\fIfile\fP .\|.\|.
-\fBctags\fP [\|\-aCdgImRVh\|] [\|\-BtTuvwx\|] [\|\-l \fIlanguage\fP\|]
+\fBctags\fP [\|\-aCdgIRVh\|] [\|\-BtTuvwx\|] [\|\-l \fIlanguage\fP\|]
.if n .br
[\|\-o \fItagfile\fP\|] [\|\-r \fIregexp\fP\|]
[\|\-\-parse\-stdin=\fIfile\fP\|]
[\|\-\-language=\fIlanguage\fP\|] [\|\-\-members\|]
[\|\-\-output=\fItagfile\fP\|] [\|\-\-regex=\fIregexp\fP\|]
[\|\-\-typedefs\|] [\|\-\-typedefs\-and\-c++\|]
-[\|\-\-update\|] [\|\-\-no\-warn\|]
+[\|\-\-update\|]
[\|\-\-help\|] [\|\-\-version\|]
\fIfile\fP .\|.\|.
.ad b
format understood by
.BR vi ( 1 )\c
\&. Both forms of the program understand
-the syntax of C, Objective C, C++, Java, Fortran, Ada, Cobol, Erlang,
-LaTeX, Emacs Lisp/Common Lisp, makefiles, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Postscript,
+the syntax of C, Objective C, C++, Java, Fortran, Ada, Cobol, Erlang, HTML,
+LaTeX, Emacs Lisp/Common Lisp, Lua, makefile, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Postscript,
Python, Prolog, Scheme and
most assembler\-like syntaxes.
Both forms read the files specified on the command line, and write a tag
\fBctags\fP) in the current working directory.
Files specified with relative file names will be recorded in the tag
table with file names relative to the directory where the tag table
-resides. Files specified with absolute file names will be recorded
+resides. If the tag table is in /dev, however, the file names are made
+relative to the working directory. Files specified with absolute file
+names will be recorded
with absolute file names. Files generated from a source file\-\-like
a C file generated from a source Cweb file\-\-will be recorded with
the name of the source file.
.TP
.B \-d, \-\-defines
Create tag entries for C preprocessor constant definitions
-and enum constants, too. This is the
-default behavior for \fBetags\fP.
+and enum constants, too. Since this is the default behavior of
+\fBetags\fP, only \fBctags\fP accepts this option.
.TP
.B \-D, \-\-no\-defines
Do not create tag entries for C preprocessor constant definitions
and enum constants.
This may make the tags file much smaller if many header files are tagged.
-This is the default behavior for \fBctags\fP.
+Since this is the default behavior of \fBctags\fP, only \fBetags\fP
+accepts this option.
.TP
-.B \-g, \-\-globals
+.B \-\-globals
Create tag entries for global variables in C, C++, Objective C, Java,
and Perl.
-This is the default behavior for \fBetags\fP.
+Since this is the default behavior of \fBetags\fP, only \fBctags\fP
+accepts this option.
.TP
-.B \-G, \-\-no\-globals
+.B \-\-no\-globals
Do not tag global variables. Typically this reduces the file size by
-one fourth. This is the default behavior for \fBctags\fP.
+one fourth. Since this is the default behavior of \fBctags\fP, only
+\fBetags\fP accepts this option.
.TP
\fB\-i\fP \fIfile\fP, \fB\-\-include=\fIfile\fP
Include a note in the tag file indicating that, when searching for a
tag, one should also consult the tags file \fIfile\fP after checking the
-current file. This options is only accepted by \fBetags\fP.
+current file. Only \fBetags\fP accepts this option.
.TP
.B \-I, \-\-ignore\-indentation
Don't rely on indentation as much as we normally do. Currently, this
language may be used to disable language parsing altogether; only
regexp matching is done in this case (see the \fB\-\-regex\fP option).
.TP
-.B \-m, \-\-members
+.B \-\-members
Create tag entries for variables that are members of structure-like
-constructs in C++, Objective C, Java.
+constructs in C++, Objective C, Java. This is the default for etags.
.TP
-.B \-M, \-\-no\-members
-Do not tag member variables. This is the default behavior.
+.B \-\-no\-members
+Do not tag member variables. This is the default for ctags.
.TP
.B \-\-packages\-only
Only tag packages in Ada files.
Tag the DEFVAR macros in the emacs source files:
.br
-\fI\-\-regex\='/[ \\t]*DEFVAR_[A-Z_ \\t(]+"\\([^"]+\\)"\/'\fP
+\fI\-\-regex\='/[ \\t]*DEFVAR_[A-Z_ \\t(]+"\\([^"]+\\)"/'\fP
.\"" This comment is to avoid confusion to Emacs syntax highlighting
.br
.br
A regexp can be preceded by {\fIlang\fP}, thus restricting it to match
-lines of files of the specified language. Use \fBetags --help\fP to obtain
+lines of files of the specified language. Use \fBetags \-\-help\fP to obtain
a list of the recognised languages. This feature is particularly useful inside
\fBregex files\fP. A regex file contains one regex per line. Empty lines,
and those lines beginning with space or tab are ignored. Lines beginning
freely intermixed with filenames and the \fB\-\-regex\fP option.
.TP
.B \-t, \-\-typedefs
-Record typedefs in C code as tags. Since this is the default behaviour
+Record typedefs in C code as tags. Since this is the default behavior
of \fBetags\fP, only \fBctags\fP accepts this option.
.TP
.B \-T, \-\-typedefs\-and\-c++
Generate tag entries for typedefs, struct, enum, and union tags, and
-C++ member functions. Since this is the default behaviour
+C++ member functions. Since this is the default behavior
of \fBetags\fP, only \fBctags\fP accepts this option.
.TP
.B \-u, \-\-update
Instead of generating a tag file, write index (in \fBvgrind\fP format)
to standard output. Only \fBctags\fP accepts this option.
.TP
-.B \-w, \-\-no\-warn
-Suppress warning messages about duplicate entries. The \fBetags\fP
-program does not check for duplicate entries, so this option is not
-allowed with it.
-.TP
.B \-x, \-\-cxref
Instead of generating a tag file, write a cross reference (in
\fBcxref\fP format) to standard output. Only \fBctags\fP accepts this option.
.TP
.B \-h, \-H, \-\-help
-Print usage information.
+Print usage information. Followed by one or more \-\-language=LANG
+prints detailed information about how tags are created for LANG.
.TP
.B \-V, \-\-version
Print the current version of the program (same as the version of the
Copyright
.if t \(co
.if n (c)
-1999, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
.PP
Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this
document provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are
document into another language, under the above conditions for
modified versions, except that this permission notice may be stated
in a translation approved by the Free Software Foundation.
+
+.\" arch-tag: 9534977f-af78-42f0-991d-1df6b6c05573