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authorK. Richard Pixley <rich@cygnus>1991-03-28 16:26:26 +0000
committerK. Richard Pixley <rich@cygnus>1991-03-28 16:26:26 +0000
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+/* History.h -- the names of functions that you can call in history. */
+
+typedef struct _hist_entry {
+ char *line;
+ char *data;
+} HIST_ENTRY;
+
+/* For convenience only. You set this when interpreting history commands.
+ It is the logical offset of the first history element. */
+extern int history_base;
+
+/* Begin a session in which the history functions might be used. This
+ just initializes the interactive variables. */
+extern void using_history ();
+
+/* Place STRING at the end of the history list.
+ The associated data field (if any) is set to NULL. */
+extern void add_history ();
+
+/* Returns the number which says what history element we are now
+ looking at. */
+extern int where_history ();
+
+/* Set the position in the history list to POS. */
+int history_set_pos ();
+
+/* Search for STRING in the history list, starting at POS, an
+ absolute index into the list. DIR, if negative, says to search
+ backwards from POS, else forwards.
+ Returns the absolute index of the history element where STRING
+ was found, or -1 otherwise. */
+extern int history_search_pos ();
+
+/* A reasonably useless function, only here for completeness. WHICH
+ is the magic number that tells us which element to delete. The
+ elements are numbered from 0. */
+extern HIST_ENTRY *remove_history ();
+
+/* Stifle the history list, remembering only MAX number of entries. */
+extern void stifle_history ();
+
+/* Stop stifling the history. This returns the previous amount the
+ history was stifled by. The value is positive if the history was
+ stifled, negative if it wasn't. */
+extern int unstifle_history ();
+
+/* Add the contents of FILENAME to the history list, a line at a time.
+ If FILENAME is NULL, then read from ~/.history. Returns 0 if
+ successful, or errno if not. */
+extern int read_history ();
+
+/* Append the current history to FILENAME. If FILENAME is NULL,
+ then append the history list to ~/.history. Values returned
+ are as in read_history (). */
+extern int write_history ();
+
+
+/* Make the history entry at WHICH have LINE and DATA. This returns
+ the old entry so you can dispose of the data. In the case of an
+ invalid WHICH, a NULL pointer is returned. */
+extern HIST_ENTRY *replace_history_entry ();
+
+/* Return the history entry at the current position, as determined by
+ history_offset. If there is no entry there, return a NULL pointer. */
+HIST_ENTRY *current_history ();
+
+/* Back up history_offset to the previous history entry, and return
+ a pointer to that entry. If there is no previous entry, return
+ a NULL pointer. */
+extern HIST_ENTRY *previous_history ();
+
+/* Move history_offset forward to the next item in the input_history,
+ and return the a pointer to that entry. If there is no next entry,
+ return a NULL pointer. */
+extern HIST_ENTRY *next_history ();
+
+/* Return a NULL terminated array of HIST_ENTRY which is the current input
+ history. Element 0 of this list is the beginning of time. If there
+ is no history, return NULL. */
+extern HIST_ENTRY **history_list ();
+
+/* Search the history for STRING, starting at history_offset.
+ If DIRECTION < 0, then the search is through previous entries,
+ else through subsequent. If the string is found, then
+ current_history () is the history entry, and the value of this function
+ is the offset in the line of that history entry that the string was
+ found in. Otherwise, nothing is changed, and a -1 is returned. */
+extern int history_search ();
+
+/* Expand the string STRING, placing the result into OUTPUT, a pointer
+ to a string. Returns:
+
+ 0) If no expansions took place (or, if the only change in
+ the text was the de-slashifying of the history expansion
+ character)
+ 1) If expansions did take place
+ -1) If there was an error in expansion.
+
+ If an error ocurred in expansion, then OUTPUT contains a descriptive
+ error message. */
+extern int history_expand ();
+
+/* Extract a string segment consisting of the FIRST through LAST
+ arguments present in STRING. Arguments are broken up as in
+ the shell. */
+extern char *history_arg_extract ();
+
+