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[gnu-emacs] / etc / etags.1

diff --git a/etc/etags.1 b/etc/etags.1
index 5b95b6c10ce3d8c59c891eb2311f5d72f739c68f..0c0e12bb6cf37953bcff197d366d9bb133be79df 100644 (file)
--- a/etc/etags.1
+++ b/etc/etags.1
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-.\" Copyright (c) 1992, 2001 Free Software Foundation
+.\" Copyright (C) 1992, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004,
+.\"   2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 .\" See section COPYING for conditions for redistribution
 .TH etags 1 "23nov2001" "GNU Tools" "GNU Tools"
 .de BP
@@ -50,7 +51,7 @@ 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, HTML,
-LaTeX, Emacs Lisp/Common Lisp, makefiles, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Postscript,
+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
@@ -58,7 +59,9 @@ table (defaults: \fBTAGS\fP for \fBetags\fP, \fBtags\fP for
 \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.
@@ -266,7 +269,8 @@ 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
@@ -285,7 +289,7 @@ Stallman.
 Copyright
 .if t \(co
 .if n (c)
-1999, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 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