fixup! docs(man): write about the conditions when escaping rules are …

…applied to input fields
universal-ctags · Dec 30, 2022 · 91d65e4 · 91d65e4
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diff --git a/docs/man/readtags.1.rst b/docs/man/readtags.1.rst
@@ -92,12 +92,12 @@ human-readable, but when utilizing readtags output in a script or a client
 tool, ``-E`` option should be used. See :ref:`ctags-client-tools(7) <ctags-client-tools(7)>` for more
 discussion on this.
 
-About printing input fields ({tagfile} in :ref:`tags(5) <tags(5)>`) with ``-E`` option:
-readtags prints the input field literally (as it is in the tags file)
-when ``TAG_OUTPUT_MODE`` pseudo tag has "u-ctags" and
-``TAG_OUTPUT_FILESEP`` has "slash" as values for their input fields.
-If this condition is not satisfied, readtags prints the fields with
-unescaping. About the pseudo tags, see :ref:`ctags-client-tools(7) <ctags-client-tools(7)>`.
+About printing input fields ({tagfile} in :ref:`tags(5) <tags(5)>`) with ``-E`` option: readtags
+always prints the input field literally (as it is in the tags file), and when
+ctags writes the tags file, the escaping rules are applied only when
+``TAG_OUTPUT_MODE`` pseudo tag has "u-ctags" and ``TAG_OUTPUT_FILESEP`` has
+"slash" as values for their input fields, as explained in
+:ref:`ctags-client-tools(7) <ctags-client-tools(7)>`.
 
 Filtering, Sorting, and Formatting
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

diff --git a/man/readtags.1.rst.in b/man/readtags.1.rst.in
@@ -92,12 +92,12 @@ human-readable, but when utilizing readtags output in a script or a client
 tool, ``-E`` option should be used. See ctags-client-tools(7) for more
 discussion on this.
 
-About printing input fields ({tagfile} in tags(5)) with ``-E`` option:
-readtags prints the input field literally (as it is in the tags file)
-when ``TAG_OUTPUT_MODE`` pseudo tag has "u-ctags" and
-``TAG_OUTPUT_FILESEP`` has "slash" as values for their input fields.
-If this condition is not satisfied, readtags prints the fields with
-unescaping. About the pseudo tags, see ctags-client-tools(7).
+About printing input fields ({tagfile} in tags(5)) with ``-E`` option: readtags
+always prints the input field literally (as it is in the tags file), and when
+ctags writes the tags file, the escaping rules are applied only when
+``TAG_OUTPUT_MODE`` pseudo tag has "u-ctags" and ``TAG_OUTPUT_FILESEP`` has
+"slash" as values for their input fields, as explained in
+ctags-client-tools(7).
 
 Filtering, Sorting, and Formatting
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~