Added support in etags for the Lua script language.

2 files changed, 16 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 536cb36afb1..632d5b4116b 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -1496,29 +1496,31 @@ per line.  Lines beginning with space or tab are ignored.
 **** The `::' qualifier triggers C++ parsing in C file.
 Previously, only the `template' and `class' keywords had this effect.
 
+**** New language HTML.
+Title and h1, h2, h3 are tagged.  Also, tags are generated when name= is
+used inside an anchor and whenever id= is used.
+
+**** In Makefiles, constants are tagged.
+If you want the old behavior instead, thus avoiding to increase the
+size of the tags file, use the --no-globals option.
+
+**** In Lua, all functions are tagged.
+
 **** In Perl, packages are tags.
 Subroutine tags are named from their package.  You can jump to sub tags
 as you did before, by the sub name, or additionally by looking for
 package::sub.
 
+**** In Prolog, etags creates tags for rules in addition to predicates.
+
 **** New language PHP.
 Tags are functions, classes and defines.
 If the --members option is specified to etags, tags are vars also.
 
-**** New language HTML.
-Title and h1, h2, h3 are tagged.  Also, tags are generated when name= is
-used inside an anchor and whenever id= is used.
-
 **** New default keywords for TeX.
 The new keywords are def, newcommand, renewcommand, newenvironment and
 renewenvironment.
 
-**** In Makefiles, constants are tagged.
-If you want the old behavior instead, thus avoiding to increase the
-size of the tags file, use the --no-globals option.
-
-**** In Prolog, etags creates tags for rules in addition to predicates.
-
 *** Honour #line directives.
 When Etags parses an input file that contains C preprocessor's #line
 directives, it creates tags using the file name and line number
@@ -1529,7 +1531,7 @@ writes tags pointing to the source file.
 *** New option --parse-stdin=FILE.
 This option is mostly useful when calling etags from programs.  It can
 be used (only once) in place of a file name on the command line.  Etags
-reads from standard input and mark the produced tags as belonging to
+reads from standard input and marks the produced tags as belonging to
 the file FILE.
 
 +++
diff --git a/man/maintaining.texi b/man/maintaining.texi
index b5f13d5fb9f..1a8edf13188 100644
--- a/man/maintaining.texi
+++ b/man/maintaining.texi
@@ -343,6 +343,9 @@ In HTML input files, the tags are the @code{title} and the @code{h1},
 and all occurrences of @code{id=}.
 
 @item
+In Lua input files, all functions are tags.
+
+@item
 In makefiles, targets are tags; additionally, variables are tags
 unless you specify @samp{--no-globals}.