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diff --git a/readline/doc/history.3 b/readline/doc/history.3 index 4eb159c..7ddc26a 100644 --- a/readline/doc/history.3 +++ b/readline/doc/history.3 @@ -4,11 +4,11 @@ .\" Chet Ramey .\" Information Network Services .\" Case Western Reserve University -.\" chet@ins.CWRU.Edu +.\" chet.ramey@case.edu .\" -.\" Last Change: Thu Aug 12 22:24:41 EDT 2010 +.\" Last Change: Sun May 24 18:01:17 EDT 2015 .\" -.TH HISTORY 3 "2010 August 12" "GNU History 6.2" +.TH HISTORY 3 "2015 May 24" "GNU History 6.3" .\" .\" File Name macro. This used to be `.PN', for Path Name, .\" but Sun doesn't seem to like that very much. @@ -40,8 +40,8 @@ .SH NAME history \- GNU History Library .SH COPYRIGHT -.if t The GNU History Library is Copyright \(co 1989-2011 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc. -.if n The GNU History Library is Copyright (C) 1989-2011 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc. +.if t The GNU History Library is Copyright \(co 1989-2014 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc. +.if n The GNU History Library is Copyright (C) 1989-2014 by the Free Software Foundation, Inc. .SH DESCRIPTION Many programs read input from the user a line at a time. The GNU History library is able to keep track of those lines, associate arbitrary @@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ starting with .TP .B !?\fIstring\fR\fB[?]\fR Refer to the most recent command -preceding the current postition in the history list +preceding the current position in the history list containing .IR string . The trailing \fB?\fP may be omitted if @@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ The entire command line typed so far. .SS Word Designators .PP Word designators are used to select desired words from the event. -A +A .B : separates the event specification from the word designator. It may be omitted if the word designator begins with a @@ -161,7 +161,8 @@ The \fIn\fRth word. The first argument. That is, word 1. .TP .B $ -The last argument. +The last word. This is usually the last argument, but will expand to the +zeroth word if there is only one word in the line. .TP .B % The word matched by the most recent `?\fIstring\fR?' search. @@ -440,9 +441,11 @@ return a pointer to that entry. If there is no previous entry, return a \fBNULL\fP pointer. .Fn1 "HIST_ENTRY *" next_history "void" -Move the current history offset forward to the next history entry, and -return the a pointer to that entry. If there is no next entry, return -a \fBNULL\fP pointer. +If the current history offset refers to a valid history entry, +increment the current history offset. +If the possibly-incremented history offset refers to a valid history +entry, return a pointer to that entry; +otherwise, return a \fBNULL\fP pointer. .SS Searching the History List @@ -612,8 +615,8 @@ string, in addition to space, tab, \fI:\fP and \fI?\fP in the case of a substring search. The default is empty. .Vb int history_quotes_inhibit_expansion -If non-zero, single-quoted words are not scanned for the history expansion -character. The default value is 0. +If non-zero, double-quoted words are not scanned for the history expansion +character or the history comment character. The default value is 0. .Vb "rl_linebuf_func_t *" history_inhibit_expansion_function This should be set to the address of a function that takes two arguments: @@ -649,7 +652,7 @@ bfox@gnu.org .PP Chet Ramey, Case Western Reserve University .br -chet@ins.CWRU.Edu +chet.ramey@case.edu .SH BUG REPORTS If you find a bug in the .B history @@ -669,4 +672,4 @@ newsgroup .PP Comments and bug reports concerning this manual page should be directed to -.IR chet@ins.CWRU.Edu . +.IR chet.ramey@case.edu . |