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author | Richard M. Stallman <[email protected]> | 2007-05-06 17:50:22 +0000 |
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committer | Richard M. Stallman <[email protected]> | 2007-05-06 17:50:22 +0000 |
commit | 53441303eaac575329e7bf4d62a5ec845452f6de (patch) | |
tree | c9dc4ceeaa97250afbb78ace936294ad7a4e3b7d /man | |
parent | 41cf03b018e8adb42bc039f1db04f183bb02a284 (diff) |
(Create Tags Table): Clean up previous change.
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-rw-r--r-- | man/ChangeLog | 4 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | man/maintaining.texi | 8 |
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 |