diff --git a/doc/geany.html b/doc/geany.html
index 5f7f7a23..00c5aa07 100644
--- a/doc/geany.html
+++ b/doc/geany.html
@@ -2106,6 +2106,10 @@ If two identifiers are separated with the '=' character, the first
 identifiers is replaced by the second identifiers for parsing purposes.</blockquote>
 <p>For even more detailed information please read the manual page of
 Exuberant Ctags.</p>
+<p>Geany extends Ctags with a '*' character suffix - this means use
+prefix matching, e.g. G_GNUC_* will match G_GNUC_NULL_TERMINATED, etc.
+Note that prefix match items should be put after other items to ensure
+that items like G_GNUC_PRINTF+ get parsed correctly.</p>
 </div>
 </div>
 <div class="section" id="preferences">
@@ -6772,7 +6776,7 @@ USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.</p>
 <div class="footer">
 <hr class="footer" />
 <a class="reference external" href="geany.txt">View document source</a>.
-Generated on: 2012-04-24 15:38 UTC.
+Generated on: 2012-04-25 14:39 UTC.
 Generated by <a class="reference external" href="http://docutils.sourceforge.net/">Docutils</a> from <a class="reference external" href="http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html">reStructuredText</a> source.
 
 </div>
diff --git a/doc/geany.txt b/doc/geany.txt
index 2c3a2fa0..cb0df729 100644
--- a/doc/geany.txt
+++ b/doc/geany.txt
@@ -1704,6 +1704,11 @@ manual page:
 For even more detailed information please read the manual page of
 Exuberant Ctags.
 
+Geany extends Ctags with a '*' character suffix - this means use
+prefix matching, e.g. G_GNUC_* will match G_GNUC_NULL_TERMINATED, etc.
+Note that prefix match items should be put after other items to ensure
+that items like G_GNUC_PRINTF+ get parsed correctly.
+
 
 Preferences
 -----------
diff --git a/tagmanager/options.c b/tagmanager/options.c
index 04b4cb06..4b4e97d9 100644
--- a/tagmanager/options.c
+++ b/tagmanager/options.c
@@ -175,11 +175,16 @@ extern boolean isIgnoreToken (const char *const name,
 		for (i = 0  ;  i < len ;  ++i)
 		{
 			vString *token = vStringNewInit (c_tags_ignore[i]);
+			const size_t tokenLen = vStringLength (token);
 
+			if (tokenLen >= 2 && vStringChar (token, tokenLen - 1) == '*' &&
+				strncmp (vStringValue (token), name, tokenLen - 1) == 0)
+			{
+				result = TRUE;
+				break;
+			}
 			if (strncmp (vStringValue (token), name, nameLen) == 0)
 			{
-				const size_t tokenLen = vStringLength (token);
-
 				if (nameLen == tokenLen)
 				{
 					result = TRUE;