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| -rw-r--r-- | etc/NEWS | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man/maintaining.texi | 13 |
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@@ -135,6 +135,10 @@ now uses normal-erase-is-backspace-mode. *** In Prolog, etags creates tags for rules in addition to predicates. +*** 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. + *** New language PHP: tags are functions, classes and defines. If the --members option is specified to etags, tags are vars also. diff --git a/man/maintaining.texi b/man/maintaining.texi index 59c2d7cf9db..36a030901eb 100644 --- a/man/maintaining.texi +++ b/man/maintaining.texi @@ -332,16 +332,21 @@ In makefiles, targets are tags. @item In Objective C code, tags include Objective C definitions for classes, -class categories, methods, and protocols. +class categories, methods, and protocols. Tags for variables and +functions in classes are named @samp{@var{class}::@var{variable}} and +@samp{@var{class}::@var{function}}. @item In Pascal code, the tags are the functions and procedures defined in the file. @item -In Perl code, the tags are the procedures defined by the @code{sub}, -@code{my} and @code{local} keywords. Use @samp{--globals} if you want -to tag global variables. +In Perl code, the tags are the packages, subroutines and variables +defined by the @code{package}, @code{sub}, @code{my} and @code{local} +keywords. Use @samp{--globals} if you want to tag global variables. +Tags for subroutines are named @samp{@var{package}::@var{sub}}. The +name for subroutines defined in the default package is +@samp{main::@var{sub}}. @item In PHP code, tags are functions, classes and defines. When using the |