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diff --git a/man/maintaining.texi b/man/maintaining.texi index e32c3294251..59c2d7cf9db 100644 --- a/man/maintaining.texi +++ b/man/maintaining.texi @@ -474,12 +474,9 @@ expressions, @samp{\} quotes the next character, and @samp{\t} stands for the tab character. Note that @code{etags} does not handle the other C escape sequences for special characters. -@cindex interval operator (in regexps) The syntax of regular expressions in @code{etags} is the same as in -Emacs, augmented with the @dfn{interval operator}, which works as in -@code{grep} and @code{ed}. The syntax of an interval operator is -@samp{\@{@var{m},@var{n}\@}}, and its meaning is to match the preceding -expression at least @var{m} times and up to @var{n} times. +Emacs. However, non-greedy operators and shy groups are not +available. You should not match more characters with @var{tagregexp} than that needed to recognize what you want to tag. If the match is such that |