Document regexp changes in etags.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 3624df93af2..0c30b07658a 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -386,11 +386,17 @@ sh-script can attempt to "learn" the current buffer's style.
 
 *** In DOS, etags looks for file.cgz if it cannot find file.c.
 
+*** New option --ignore-case-regex is an alternative to --regex.  It is now
+    possible to bind a regexp to a language, by prepending the regexp with
+    {lang}, where lang is one of the languages that `etags --help' prints
+    out.  This feature is useful especially for regex files, where each
+    line contains a regular expression.  The manual contains details.
+
 *** In C and derived languages, etags creates tags for function
 declarations when given the --declarations option.
 
 *** In C++, tags are created for "operator".  The tags have the form
-"operator+", without spaces between the keyword and the operator. 
+"operator+", without spaces between the keyword and the operator.
 
 *** New language Ada: tags are functions, procedures, packages, tasks, and
 types.
@@ -409,8 +415,6 @@ variables are tagged.
 
 *** .ss files are Scheme files.
 
-*** New option --ignore-case-regex is an alternative to --regex.
-
 ** Emacs now attempts to determine the initial language environment
 and preferred and locale coding systems systematically from the
 LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, and LANG environment variables during startup.