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authorHerbert Valerio Riedel <hvr@gnu.org>2013-08-27 22:45:45 +0200
committerHerbert Valerio Riedel <hvr@gnu.org>2013-08-27 22:58:36 +0200
commitb982ab40843f360fa12a638758ee91322526625d (patch)
tree46f3545cd03e7c92d3ea79e16cd82c889842983d /docs
parent56e28a3fbb7f911e27feac9499f3204d739eead0 (diff)
downloadhaskell-b982ab40843f360fa12a638758ee91322526625d.tar.gz
User guide entry for `:shows paths` sub-command
This also adds an entry to the release notes section. See #8172 for more details Signed-off-by: Herbert Valerio Riedel <hvr@gnu.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
-rw-r--r--docs/users_guide/7.8.1-notes.xml7
-rw-r--r--docs/users_guide/ghci.xml17
2 files changed, 23 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/users_guide/7.8.1-notes.xml b/docs/users_guide/7.8.1-notes.xml
index f3fa0e1984..6b5830e528 100644
--- a/docs/users_guide/7.8.1-notes.xml
+++ b/docs/users_guide/7.8.1-notes.xml
@@ -211,6 +211,13 @@
TODO FIXME: reference.
</para>
</listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ The new <literal>:shows paths</literal> command
+ shows the current working directory and the
+ current search path for Haskell modules.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect3>
diff --git a/docs/users_guide/ghci.xml b/docs/users_guide/ghci.xml
index df483e81f3..7792da21e9 100644
--- a/docs/users_guide/ghci.xml
+++ b/docs/users_guide/ghci.xml
@@ -2154,7 +2154,9 @@ maybe :: b -> (a -> b) -> Maybe a -> b
&lsquo;<literal>&tilde;</literal>&rsquo; symbol at the
beginning of <replaceable>dir</replaceable> will be replaced
by the contents of the environment variable
- <literal>HOME</literal>.</para>
+ <literal>HOME</literal>.
+ See also the <literal>:show paths</literal> command for
+ showing the current working directory.</para>
<para>NOTE: changing directories causes all currently loaded
modules to be unloaded. This is because the search path is
@@ -2922,6 +2924,19 @@ bar
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
+ <term>
+ <literal>:show paths</literal>
+ <indexterm><primary><literal>:show paths</literal></primary></indexterm>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Show the current working directory (as set via
+ <literal>:cd</literal> command), as well as the list of
+ directories searched for source files (as set by the
+ <option>-i</option> option).</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
<term>
<literal>:show language</literal>
<indexterm><primary><literal>:show language</literal></primary></indexterm>