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authorRichard M. Stallman <[email protected]>2007-05-06 17:50:22 +0000
committerRichard M. Stallman <[email protected]>2007-05-06 17:50:22 +0000
commit53441303eaac575329e7bf4d62a5ec845452f6de (patch)
treec9dc4ceeaa97250afbb78ace936294ad7a4e3b7d /man
parent41cf03b018e8adb42bc039f1db04f183bb02a284 (diff)
(Create Tags Table): Clean up previous change.
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-rw-r--r--man/maintaining.texi8
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/man/ChangeLog b/man/ChangeLog
index ee19a3254b..8a5eb24361 100644
--- a/man/ChangeLog
+++ b/man/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2007-05-06 Richard Stallman <[email protected]>
+
+ * maintaining.texi (Create Tags Table): Clean up previous change.
+
2007-05-05 Francesco Potort,Al(B <[email protected]>
* maintaining.texi (Create Tags Table): Add text about the dangers of
diff --git a/man/maintaining.texi b/man/maintaining.texi
index ab98dccd35..c9e77ede2a 100644
--- a/man/maintaining.texi
+++ b/man/maintaining.texi
@@ -409,10 +409,10 @@ source files, and the tags file will still refer correctly to the source
files. If the tags file is in @file{/dev}, however, the file names are
made relative to the current working directory. This is useful, for
example, when writing the tags to @file{/dev/stdout}.
-
- Notice that, in the usual case of using relative file names, you
-should not use a symbolic link pointing to a tags file in a different
-directory, because this would generally render the file names invalid.
+
+ When using a a relative file name, it should not be a symbolic link
+pointing to a tags file in a different directory, because this would
+generally render the file names invalid.
If you specify absolute file names as arguments to @code{etags}, then
the tags file will contain absolute file names. This way, the tags file