From: Richard M. Stallman Date: Sun, 6 May 2007 17:50:18 +0000 (+0000) Subject: (Create Tags Table): Clean up previous change. X-Git-Tag: archive/raspbian/1%29.2+1-2+rpi1~1^2~421^2~18932 X-Git-Url: https://dgit.raspbian.org/%22http:/www.example.com/cgi/%22https:/www.github.com/%22bookmarks:///%22http:/www.example.com/cgi/%22https:/www.github.com/%22bookmarks:/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=971b9f79a6720a58f2cbb8dcbccb7c5e53f23028;p=emacs.git (Create Tags Table): Clean up previous change. --- diff --git a/man/maintaining.texi b/man/maintaining.texi index ab98dccd350..c9e77ede2a1 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