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diff --git a/doc/hsuser.texi b/doc/hsuser.texi index f98983b..87b3541 100644 --- a/doc/hsuser.texi +++ b/doc/hsuser.texi @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ @ignore This file documents the user interface to the GNU History library. -Copyright (C) 1988-2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright (C) 1988-2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Authored by Brian Fox and Chet Ramey. Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual @@ -97,7 +97,11 @@ to contain no more than @env{$HISTFILESIZE} lines. If @env{HISTFILESIZE} is not set, no truncation is performed. If the @env{HISTTIMEFORMAT} is set, the time stamp information -associated with each history entry is written to the history file. +associated with each history entry is written to the history file, +marked with the history comment character. +When the history file is read, lines beginning with the history +comment character followed immediately by a digit are interpreted +as timestamps for the previous history line. The builtin command @code{fc} may be used to list or edit and re-execute a portion of the history list. @@ -133,7 +137,7 @@ history list and history file. @item fc @btindex fc @example -@code{fc [-e @var{ename}] [-nlr] [@var{first}] [@var{last}]} +@code{fc [-e @var{ename}] [-lnr] [@var{first}] [@var{last}]} @code{fc -s [@var{pat}=@var{rep}] [@var{command}]} @end example @@ -277,7 +281,10 @@ them, so that they are available for subsequent recall. This is most useful in conjunction with Readline. The shell allows control of the various characters used by the -history expansion mechanism with the @code{histchars} variable. +history expansion mechanism with the @code{histchars} variable, +as explained above (@pxref{Bash Variables}). The shell uses +the history comment character to mark history timestamps when +writing the history file. @end ifset @menu @@ -412,7 +419,7 @@ of the following modifiers, each preceded by a @samp{:}. Remove a trailing pathname component, leaving only the head. @item t -Remove all leading pathname components, leaving the tail. +Remove all leading pathname components, leaving the tail. @item r Remove a trailing suffix of the form @samp{.@var{suffix}}, leaving |