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| author | Ben Gamari <ben@smart-cactus.org> | 2015-05-19 01:23:47 -0500 |
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| committer | Austin Seipp <austin@well-typed.com> | 2015-05-19 01:25:23 -0500 |
| commit | b03f074fd51adfb9bc4f5275294712ee62741aed (patch) | |
| tree | 7fb04ed2a1865bf68b4dac9608c5e69ac2135ef2 /docs | |
| parent | 578d2bad19b3e03fac4da1e5be4b22b73cef0a44 (diff) | |
| download | haskell-b03f074fd51adfb9bc4f5275294712ee62741aed.tar.gz | |
ghci: Allow :back and :forward to take counts
These behave like the count arguments of the gdb `up` and `down`
commands, allowing the user to quickly jump around in history.
Reviewed By: austin
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D853
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/users_guide/7.12.1-notes.xml | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/users_guide/ghci.xml | 16 |
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/docs/users_guide/7.12.1-notes.xml b/docs/users_guide/7.12.1-notes.xml index 9a87588858..d0eefabbdb 100644 --- a/docs/users_guide/7.12.1-notes.xml +++ b/docs/users_guide/7.12.1-notes.xml @@ -96,6 +96,11 @@ <literal>Main</literal> with an explicit module header but without <literal>main</literal> is now an error (#7765). </para> + <para> + The <literal>:back</literal> and <literal>:forward</literal> + commands now take an optional count allowing the user to move forward or + backward in history several steps at a time. + </para> </listitem> </itemizedlist> </sect3> diff --git a/docs/users_guide/ghci.xml b/docs/users_guide/ghci.xml index 6e09f3a16e..627aa79cf8 100644 --- a/docs/users_guide/ghci.xml +++ b/docs/users_guide/ghci.xml @@ -2096,12 +2096,14 @@ $ ghci -lm <varlistentry> <term> - <literal>:back</literal> + <literal>:back <optional><replaceable>n</replaceable></optional></literal> <indexterm><primary><literal>:back</literal></primary></indexterm> </term> <listitem> - <para>Travel back one step in the history. See <xref - linkend="tracing" />. See also: + <para>Travel back <replaceable>n</replaceable> steps in the + history. <replaceable>n</replaceable> is one if omitted. + See <xref linkend="tracing" /> for more about GHCi's debugging + facilities. See also: <literal>:trace</literal>, <literal>:history</literal>, <literal>:forward</literal>.</para> </listitem> @@ -2474,12 +2476,14 @@ Prelude> :. cmds.ghci <varlistentry> <term> - <literal>:forward</literal> + <literal>:forward <optional><replaceable>n</replaceable></optional></literal> <indexterm><primary><literal>:forward</literal></primary></indexterm> </term> <listitem> - <para>Move forward in the history. See <xref - linkend="tracing" />. See also: + <para>Move forward <replaceable>n</replaceable> steps in the + history. <replaceable>n</replaceable> is one if omitted. + See <xref linkend="tracing" /> for more about GHCi's debugging + facilities. See also: <literal>:trace</literal>, <literal>:history</literal>, <literal>:back</literal>.</para> </listitem> |