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diff --git a/doc/man/etags.1 b/doc/man/etags.1 index c5c15fb1826..cbd3c1a646e 100644 --- a/doc/man/etags.1 +++ b/doc/man/etags.1 @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ .\" See section COPYING for copyright and redistribution information. -.TH ETAGS 1 "2019-06-24" "GNU Tools" "GNU" +.TH ETAGS 1 "2021-03-30" "GNU Tools" "GNU" .de BP .sp .ti -.2i @@ -50,9 +50,9 @@ 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, -Forth, Go, HTML, LaTeX, Emacs Lisp/Common Lisp, Lua, Makefile, Pascal, Perl, -Ruby, PHP, PostScript, Python, Prolog, Scheme and -most assembler\-like syntaxes. +Forth, Go, HTML, LaTeX, Emacs Lisp/Common Lisp, Lua, Makefile, Mercury, Pascal, +Perl, Ruby, Rust, PHP, PostScript, Python, Prolog, Scheme and most +assembler\-like syntaxes. Both forms read the files specified on the command line, and write a tag table (defaults: \fBTAGS\fP for \fBetags\fP, \fBtags\fP for \fBctags\fP) in the current working directory. @@ -91,6 +91,9 @@ Only \fBctags\fP accepts this option. In C and derived languages, create tags for function declarations, and create tags for extern variables unless \-\-no\-globals is used. In Lisp, create tags for (defvar foo) declarations. +In Mercury, declarations start a line with "\|\fB:-\fP\|" and are always +tagged. In addition, this option tags predicates or functions in first +rules of clauses, as in Prolog. .TP .B \-D, \-\-no\-defines Do not create tag entries for C preprocessor constant definitions @@ -125,10 +128,14 @@ final brace of a function or structure definition in C and C++. Parse the following files according to the given language. More than one such options may be intermixed with filenames. Use \fB\-\-help\fP to get a list of the available languages and their default filename -extensions. The "auto" language can be used to restore automatic -detection of language based on the file name. The "none" -language may be used to disable language parsing altogether; only -regexp matching is done in this case (see the \fB\-\-regex\fP option). +extensions. For example, as Mercury and Objective-C have same +filename extension \fI.m\fP, a test based on contents tries to detect +the language. If this test fails, \fB\-\-language=\fP\fImercury\fP or +\fB\-\-language=\fP\fIobjc\fP should be used. +The "auto" language can be used to restore automatic detection of language +based on the file name. The "none" language may be used to disable language +parsing altogether; only regexp matching is done in this case (see the +\fB\-\-regex\fP option). .TP .B \-\-members Create tag entries for variables that are members of structure-like |