Many changes to the parsing capabilities of etags.

The -C or -c++ options are now mostly obsolete.
Can delve at arbitrary deeps into structures of C-like languages.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 0c3f5619c89..79f516b5e71 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -1460,6 +1460,12 @@ declarations when given the --declarations option.
 *** In C++, tags are created for "operator".  The tags have the form
 "operator+", without spaces between the keyword and the operator.
 
+*** You shouldn't generally need any more the -C or -c++ option: etags
+automatically detects a C++ file when it meets the `class' keyword.
+
+*** Etags now is able to delve at arbitrary deeps into nested structures in
+C-like languages.  Previously, it was limited to one or two brace levels.
+
 *** New language Ada: tags are functions, procedures, packages, tasks, and
 types.