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Update documentation of 'etags' regexps

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* doc/emacs/maintaining.texi (Etags Regexps):
* doc/man/etags.1: Say that shy groups are not supported (bug#74861).
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Eli Zaretskii 2024-12-15 07:52:40 +02:00
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@ -3094,7 +3094,8 @@ and all the C character escape sequences are supported: @samp{\a} for
bell, @samp{\b} for back space, @samp{\e} for escape, @samp{\f} for
formfeed, @samp{\n} for newline, @samp{\r} for carriage return,
@samp{\t} for tab, and @samp{\v} for vertical tab. In addition,
@samp{\d} stands for the @code{DEL} character.
@samp{\d} stands for the @code{DEL} character. Shy groups are not
supported by @command{etags}.
Ideally, @var{tagregexp} should not match more characters than are
needed to recognize what you want to tag. If the syntax requires you

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@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
.\" See section COPYING for copyright and redistribution information.
.TH ETAGS 1 "2022-06-10" "GNU Tools" "GNU"
.TH ETAGS 1 "2024-12-15" "GNU Tools" "GNU"
.de BP
.sp
.ti -.2i
@ -185,10 +185,10 @@ useless characters. If the match is such that more characters than
needed are unavoidably matched by \fItagregexp\fP, it may be useful to
add a \fInameregexp\fP, to narrow down the tag scope. \fBctags\fP
ignores regexps without a \fInameregexp\fP. The syntax of regexps is
the same as in emacs. The following character escape sequences are
supported: \\a, \\b, \\d, \\e, \\f, \\n, \\r, \\t, \\v, which
respectively stand for the ASCII characters BEL, BS, DEL, ESC, FF, NL,
CR, TAB, VT.
the same as in emacs, except that shy groups are not supported.
The following character escape sequences are supported:
\\a, \\b, \\d, \\e, \\f, \\n, \\r, \\t, \\v, which respectively
stand for the ASCII characters BEL, BS, DEL, ESC, FF, NL, CR, TAB, VT.
.br
The \fImodifiers\fP are a sequence of 0 or more characters among
\fIi\fP, which means to ignore case when matching; \fIm\fP, which means