mirrors/zsh
1
0
Fork 0
mirror of git://git.code.sf.net/p/zsh/code synced 2025-09-04 10:41:11 +02:00
Code Releases Activity

zsh-users/19551: history documentation.

Browse source 
Note in a couple of places that history file reading and writing
is only done in interactive shells.
This commit is contained in:
Peter Stephenson 2014-12-17 10:53:13 +00:00
parent e12b515082
commit 4042640eee
3 changed files with 15 additions and 1 deletions
Show stats Download patch file Download diff file Expand all files Collapse all files

6
ChangeLog
View file

@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
2014-12-17 Peter Stephenson <p.stephenson@samsung.com>
* users/19551: Doc/builtins.yo, Doc/Zsh/roadmap.yo: better
documentation that history file reading and writing is only
done in interactive shells.
2014-12-16 Barton E. Schaefer <schaefer@zsh.org>
* Jun Kuriyama: 33984: Src/builtin.c: bin_dirs() should use

6
Doc/Zsh/builtins.yo
View file

@ -657,6 +657,12 @@ xitem(tt( )[ var(old)tt(=)var(new) ... ] [ var(first) [ var(last) ] ])
xitem(tt(fc) tt(-p) [ tt(-a) ] [ var(filename) [ var(histsize) [ var(savehistsize) ] ] ])
xitem(tt(fc) tt(-P))
item(tt(fc) tt(-ARWI) [ var(filename) ])(
The tt(fc) command controls the interactive history mechanism. Note
that reading and writing of history options is only performed if the
shell is interactive. Usually this is detected automatically, but
it can be forced by setting the tt(interactive) option when starting the
shell.
Select a range of commands from var(first) to var(last) from the
history list.
The arguments var(first) and var(last) may be specified as a

4
Doc/Zsh/roadmap.yo
View file

@ -41,7 +41,9 @@ set appropriate variables, and the number of history lines retained by
default is quite small (30 lines). See the description of the shell
variables (referred to in the documentation as parameters) tt(HISTFILE),
tt(HISTSIZE) and tt(SAVEHIST) in ifzman(zmanref(zshparam))\
ifnzman(noderef(Parameters Used By The Shell)).
ifnzman(noderef(Parameters Used By The Shell)). Note that it's
currently only possible to read and write files saving history
when the shell is interactive, i.e. it does not work from scripts.
The shell now supports the UTF-8 character set (and also others if
supported by the operating system). This is (mostly) handled transparently