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| @@ -179,8 +179,11 @@ definition of a function by looking up which of the files it is in. | |||
| 179 | conventional name for a tags table file is @file{TAGS}. | 179 | conventional name for a tags table file is @file{TAGS}. |
| 180 | 180 | ||
| 181 | Each entry in the tags table records the name of one tag, the name of the | 181 | Each entry in the tags table records the name of one tag, the name of the |
| 182 | file that the tag is defined in (implicitly), and the position in that file | 182 | file that the tag is defined in (implicitly), and the position in that |
| 183 | of the tag's definition. | 183 | file of the tag's definition. When a file parsed by @code{etags} is |
| 184 | created from a different source file, like a C file created by | ||
| 185 | @code{bison} from a source Yacc file, the tags of the parsed file | ||
| 186 | reference the source file. | ||
| 184 | 187 | ||
| 185 | Just what names from the described files are recorded in the tags table | 188 | Just what names from the described files are recorded in the tags table |
| 186 | depends on the programming language of the described file. They | 189 | depends on the programming language of the described file. They |