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| author | Patrick Palka <patrick@parcs.ath.cx> | 2015-06-17 14:44:38 -0400 |
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| committer | Patrick Palka <patrick@parcs.ath.cx> | 2015-06-17 14:52:09 -0400 |
| commit | 0eacb2983d96fd7f12a1400a66450c1a89578f00 (patch) | |
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Make NEWS entry and manual regarding GDBHISTSIZE more consistent
... by mentioning in the manual that setting GDBHISTSIZE to the empty
string disables truncation, like the NEWS entry does.
gdb/doc/ChangeLog:
* gdb.texinfo (Command History): Mention that setting
GDBHISTSIZE to the empty string disables history truncation.
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| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/doc/ChangeLog | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo | 6 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog index d38550a..7d8002e 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,5 +1,10 @@ 2015-06-17 Patrick Palka <patrick@parcs.ath.cx> + * gdb.texinfo (Command History): Mention that setting + GDBHISTSIZE to the empty string disables history truncation. + +2015-06-17 Patrick Palka <patrick@parcs.ath.cx> + PR gdb/16999 * gdb.texinfo (Command History): Mention new GDBHISTSIZE behavior. diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo index 9889b69..c9a532a 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo +++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo @@ -22641,9 +22641,9 @@ Stop recording command history in a file. Set the number of commands which @value{GDBN} keeps in its history list. This defaults to the value of the environment variable @env{GDBHISTSIZE}, or to 256 if this variable is not set. Non-numeric values of @env{GDBHISTSIZE} -are ignored. If @var{size} is @code{unlimited} or if @env{GDBHISTSIZE} is a -negative number, the number of commands @value{GDBN} keeps in the history list -is unlimited. +are ignored. If @var{size} is @code{unlimited} or if @env{GDBHISTSIZE} is +either a negative number or the empty string, then the number of commands +@value{GDBN} keeps in the history list is unlimited. @end table History expansion assigns special meaning to the character @kbd{!}. |