summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2016-03-10 18:31:11 +0200
committerEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>2016-03-10 18:31:11 +0200
commit985dacfa0f0186531fdae13718d720cf7e27425f (patch)
tree0e5baeb54127fc45519993c85f2babc9da2397a9
parent741a6f8ed4286e36f0c64256d7eda79e9c394f62 (diff)
downloademacs-985dacfa0f0186531fdae13718d720cf7e27425f.tar.gz
; NEWS update for the last change in etags
-rw-r--r--etc/NEWS6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 9addc1acf45..ffeeaa8aa7e 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -1925,7 +1925,7 @@ Those features have been deprecated in Gtk+ for a long time.
+++
*** etags no longer qualifies class members by default.
-By default, `etags' will not qualify class members for C-like
+By default, `etags' will not qualify class members for Perl and C-like
object-oriented languages with their class names and namespaces, and
will remove qualifications used explicitly in the code from the tag
names it puts in TAGS files. This is so the etags.el back-end for
@@ -1933,8 +1933,8 @@ names it puts in TAGS files. This is so the etags.el back-end for
positives.
Use --class-qualify (-Q) if you want the old default behavior of
-qualifying class members in C++, Java, and Objective C. Note that
-using -Q might make some class members become "unknown" to `M-.'
+qualifying class members in C++, Java, Objective C, and Perl. Note
+that using -Q might make some class members become "unknown" to `M-.'
(`xref-find-definitions'); if so, you can use `C-u M-.' to specify the
qualified names by hand.