From: Richard M. Stallman Date: Sun, 6 May 2007 17:49:19 +0000 (+0000) Subject: (Create Tags Table): Add text about the dangers of X-Git-Tag: emacs-pretest-22.0.990~73 X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=500c43ed9fdcd056d5e01c946a536cf949b58850;p=emacs.git (Create Tags Table): Add text about the dangers of making symbolic links to tags files. (Clarified by RMS.) --- diff --git a/man/maintaining.texi b/man/maintaining.texi index 52d404f8a08..c9e77ede2a1 100644 --- a/man/maintaining.texi +++ b/man/maintaining.texi @@ -409,6 +409,10 @@ source files, and the tags file will still refer correctly to the source files. If the tags file is in @file{/dev}, however, the file names are made relative to the current working directory. This is useful, for example, when writing the tags to @file{/dev/stdout}. + + When using a a relative file name, it should not be a symbolic link +pointing to a tags file in a different directory, because this would +generally render the file names invalid. If you specify absolute file names as arguments to @code{etags}, then the tags file will contain absolute file names. This way, the tags file