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New multi-line regexp and new regexp syntax.

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New {language} and @regexp features.
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Francesco Potortì 2002-06-13 12:10:00 +00:00
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@ -477,11 +477,17 @@ Each @samp{--regex} option adds to the preceding ones, and applies only
to the following files. The syntax is:
@smallexample
--regex=/@var{tagregexp}[/@var{nameregexp}]/
--regex=[@var{@{language@}}]/@var{tagregexp}/[@var{nameregexp}/]@var{modifiers}
@end smallexample
or else:
@smallexample
--regex=@@@var{regexfile}
@end smallexample
@noindent
where @var{tagregexp} is used to match the lines to tag. It is always
where @var{tagregexp} is used to find the tags. It is always
anchored, that is, it behaves as if preceded by @samp{^}. If you want
to account for indentation, just match any initial number of blanks by
beginning your regular expression with @samp{[ \t]*}. In the regular
@ -516,14 +522,35 @@ Emacs.
You should not match more characters with @var{tagregexp} than that
needed to recognize what you want to tag. If the match is such that
more characters than needed are unavoidably matched by @var{tagregexp}
(as will usually be the case), you should add a @var{nameregexp}, to
(as will sometimes be the case), you should add a @var{nameregexp}, to
pick out just the tag. This will enable Emacs to find tags more
accurately and to do completion on tag names more reliably. You can
find some examples below.
The option @samp{--ignore-case-regex} (or @samp{-c}) works like
@samp{--regex}, except that matching ignores case. This is
appropriate for certain programming languages.
A @samp{--regex} option can be restricted to match only files of a
given language using the optional prefix @var{@{language@}}. This is
particularly useful when storing many predefined regular expressions
for @code{etags} in a file.
The @var{modifiers} are a sequence of 0 or more characters that
modify the way @code{etags} does the matching. Without modifiers,
each regexp is applied sequentially to each line of the input file, in
a case-sensitive way. The modifiers and their meanings are:
@table @samp
@item i
ignore case when matching.
@item m
do not match line by line; rather, match the whole file, so that
multi-line matches are possible.
@item s
implies @samp{m}, and causes dots in @var{tagregexp} to match newlines
as well.
@end table
A @var{regexfile} is the name of a file where regular expressions
are stored, one per line. Lines beginning with space or tab are
ignored, and can be used for adding comments.
The @samp{-R} option deletes all the regexps defined with
@samp{--regex} options. It applies to the file names following it, as