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author | Jason Molenda <jmolenda@apple.com> | 1999-08-09 19:26:28 +0000 |
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1999-08-09 Jason Molenda (jsm@bugshack.cygnus.com)
* README-gdb, gdb/testsuite/gdb.c++/ref-types2.cc,
gdb/testsuite/gdb.c++/ref-types2.exp, readline/MANIFEST.doc,
readline/doc/inc-hist.texi: Removed in the 1999-08-02 snapshot.
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diff --git a/readline/MANIFEST.doc b/readline/MANIFEST.doc deleted file mode 100644 index ed27cb3..0000000 --- a/readline/MANIFEST.doc +++ /dev/null @@ -1,16 +0,0 @@ -# -# Master Manifest file for documentation-only distribution -# -doc d -MANIFEST.doc f -doc/readline.ps f -doc/history.ps f -doc/readline.dvi f -doc/history.dvi f -doc/readline.info f -doc/history.info f -doc/readline.html f -doc/readline_toc.html f -doc/history.html f -doc/history_toc.html f -doc/readline.0 f diff --git a/readline/doc/inc-hist.texi b/readline/doc/inc-hist.texi deleted file mode 100644 index 9cdde40..0000000 --- a/readline/doc/inc-hist.texi +++ /dev/null @@ -1,159 +0,0 @@ -@ignore -This file is completely identical to hsuser.texinfo, except that it has the -reference to the programming manual removed. There are definately better ways -to do this! - -This file documents the user interface to the GNU History library. - -Copyright (C) 1988, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -Authored by Brian Fox. - -Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual -provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on -all copies. - -Permission is granted to process this file through Tex and print the -results, provided the printed document carries copying permission notice -identical to this one except for the removal of this paragraph (this -paragraph not being relevant to the printed manual). - -Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this -manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided also that the -GNU Copyright statement is available to the distributee, and provided that -the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a -permission notice identical to this one. - -Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this manual -into another language, under the above conditions for modified versions. -@end ignore - -@node Using History Interactively -@appendix Using History Interactively - -This chapter describes how to use the GNU History Library interactively, -from a user's standpoint. - -@menu -* History Interaction:: What it feels like using History as a user. -@end menu - -@node History Interaction -@section History Interaction -@cindex expansion - -The History library provides a history expansion feature similar -to the history expansion in @code{csh}. The following text describes the -syntax you use to manipulate history information. - -History expansion takes two parts. In the first part, determine -which line from the previous history will be used for substitution. -This line is called the @dfn{event}. -In the second part, select portions of that line for inclusion into the -current line. These portions are called @dfn{words}. -@value{GDBN} breaks the line into words in the same -way that the Bash shell does, so that several English (or Unix) words -surrounded by quotes are considered one word. - -@menu -* Event Designators:: How to specify which history line to use. -* Word Designators:: Specifying which words are of interest. -* Modifiers:: Modifying the results of susbstitution. -@end menu - -@node Event Designators -@subsection Event Designators -@cindex event designators - -An @dfn{event designator} is a reference to a command line entry in the -history list. - -@table @asis - -@item @code{!} -Start a history subsititution, except when followed by a space, tab, or -the end of the line... @key{=} or @key{(}. - -@item @code{!!} -Refer to the previous command. This is a synonym for @code{!-1}. - -@item @code{!n} -Refer to command line @var{n}. - -@item @code{!-n} -Refer to the command line @var{n} lines back. - -@item @code{!string} -Refer to the most recent command starting with @var{string}. - -@item @code{!?string}[@code{?}] -Refer to the most recent command containing @var{string}. - -@end table - -@node Word Designators -@subsection Word Designators - -A @key{:} separates the event designator from the @dfn{word designator}. -It can be omitted if the word designator begins with a @key{^}, @key{$}, -@key{*} or @key{%}. Words are numbered from the beginning of the line, -with the first word being denoted by a 0 (zero). - -@table @code - -@item 0 (zero) -The zero'th word. For many applications, this is the command word. - -@item n -The @var{n}'th word. - -@item ^ -The first argument. that is, word 1. - -@item $ -The last argument. - -@item % -The word matched by the most recent @code{?string?} search. - -@item x-y -A range of words; @code{-@var{y}} Abbreviates @code{0-@var{y}}. - -@item * -All of the words, excepting the zero'th. This is a synonym for @code{1-$}. -It is not an error to use @key{*} if there is just one word in the event. -The empty string is returned in that case. - -@end table - -@node Modifiers -@subsection Modifiers - -After the optional word designator, you can add a sequence of one or more -of the following @dfn{modifiers}, each preceded by a @key{:}. - -@table @code - -@item # -The entire command line typed so far. This means the current command, -not the previous command. -@c -@c FIXME: If it doesn't belong here, let's put it where it does. -@c -@c so it technically isn't a word designator and doesn't belong in -@c this section. - -@item h -Remove a trailing pathname component, leaving only the head. - -@item r -Remove a trailing suffix of the form @samp{.}@var{suffix}, leaving the basename. - -@item e -Remove all but the suffix. - -@item t -Remove all leading pathname components, leaving the tail. - -@item p -Print the new command but do not execute it. -@end table |