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diff --git a/lib/libedit/editrc.5 b/lib/libedit/editrc.5 new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..55b455ac1d3 --- /dev/null +++ b/lib/libedit/editrc.5 @@ -0,0 +1,292 @@ +.\" $OpenBSD: editrc.5,v 1.1 1997/01/16 05:20:29 millert Exp $ +.\" +.\" Copyright (c) 1997 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. +.\" All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" This file was contributed to The NetBSD Foundation by Luke Mewburn. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions +.\" are met: +.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. +.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright +.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the +.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. +.\" 3. 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defaulting to +.Fl x . +.Pp +Without other arguments, +.Ic setty +lists the modes in the chosen set which are fixed on +.Po +.Sq +mode +.Pc +or off +.Po +.Sq -mode +.Pc . +.Fl a +lists all tty modes in the chosen set regardless of the setting. +With +.Ar +mode , +.Ar -mode +or +.Ar mode , +fixes +.Ar mode +on or off or removes control of +.Ar mode +in the chosen set. +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr editline 3 , +.Xr regex 3 , +.Xr termcap 5 +.Sh AUTHORS +The +.Nm +library was written by Christos Zoulas, +and this manual was written by Luke Mewburn, +with some sections inspired by +.Xr tcsh 1 . |