-.\" Copyright (c) 1992, 2001 Free Software Foundation
+.\" Copyright (C) 1992, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004,
+.\" 2005, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
.\" See section COPYING for conditions for redistribution
.TH etags 1 "23nov2001" "GNU Tools" "GNU Tools"
.de BP
.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
\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
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-1999, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
.PP
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