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2006-06-01simplify the PS1 section somewhat by moving the ! and \! stuff together;Jason McIntyre
ok otto
2006-05-30document some advice when \$ is part of your prompt;Jason McIntyre
from otto and myself
2006-05-29Implement \$ and \# expansion for PS1. Whoever thought it a cleverOtto Moerbeek
idea to assign a special meaning to "\$" -- two chars that are already (very) special -- deserves a spanking.
2006-04-22back out last - it was not a command line prompt;Jason McIntyre
thanks matthias kilian
2006-04-21missing command line prompt;Jason McIntyre
2006-03-07simplify the description of what a restricted shell is:Jason McIntyre
sh.1 does not need to talk about rksh; ksh.1 does not need to talk about rsh; also references to rpdksh are not really helpful; from tamas tevesz; ok jaredy
2005-12-06make the PS1 section a little easier to read;Jason McIntyre
2005-11-30document root PS1 feature:Jason McIntyre
from matthias kilian (pr #4924), but slightly tweaked version of his diff; ok otto
2005-11-16document the procedure for providing a startup file for interactiveJason McIntyre
(but non-login) shells; document /etc/ksh.kshrc and sort FILES; fix + ok otto@
2005-10-12document new max array sizeBernd Ahlers
ok otto@
2005-10-07brief description of mknod built-in;Jason McIntyre
add mknod to list of (regular ksh) built-ins; ok otto@
2005-10-06Introducing mknod as a built-in. It might be against the unixOtto Moerbeek
philosophy, but in this case it's worth it. ok deraadt@
2005-09-07LINES and \\ in PS1 prompt are implemented, so remove informationJason McIntyre
which says they are not; from matthias kilian (pr #4476); ok otto@
2005-08-21Comment out description for 'ulimit -v' since we don't supportTodd C. Miller
RLIMIT_VMEM / RLIMIT_AS at the moment. Support for those may go in post-3.8.
2005-08-01more `version' removal;Jason McIntyre
ok otto@
2005-08-01Document ^V change from version to quote commandOtto Moerbeek
2005-05-25add missing detail from IFS exampleJared Yanovich
From PR4220/TAKAHASHI Tamotsu <ttakah@lapis.plala.or.jp>
2005-05-12.Xr script 7Jason McIntyre
2005-03-04document that $HOME is shown as `~' for PS1 \w substitutions;Jason McIntyre
diff from niall o'higgins, pr 4132 (slightly reworded); ok otto@
2005-02-18sort options to echo builtin;Jason McIntyre
2005-02-16a note about why we have both EDITOR and VISUAL env vars;Jason McIntyre
ok otto@ jaredy@
2005-02-16document that `emacs' is the default editing mode, and that as wellJason McIntyre
as being set explicitly w/ `set', modes can also be set using EDITOR and VISUAL; ok jaredy@ otto@
2005-02-08oops, missed a prompt;Jason McIntyre
2005-02-08use command prompts and literal for commands;Jason McIntyre
2005-02-08big overhaul of these pages, to make them clearer to read;Jason McIntyre
various other issues fixed along the way; lots of stuff from jaredy@ in here too..
2005-02-05note that symlinks in test file are followed, except -h and -LJason McIntyre
(just like test(1) does); from paul de weerd;
2005-02-02Introduce POSIX hex and octal (0x... and 0...) constants in arithmeticOtto Moerbeek
expressions. Work by Matthias Kilian, based on an old diff by myself. Note: MAKEDEV should be updated. Tested by many, thanks. ok millert@ deraadt@
2005-01-19typo;Jason McIntyre
2005-01-19although the description for the `comment' bind was in the page,Jason McIntyre
the bind itself (^[#) was missing;
2005-01-17typo;Jason McIntyre
2005-01-10typo;Jason McIntyre
2004-12-22These man pages are not derived from UCB and are actually public domain.Todd C. Miller
Verified with aaron@ who did the conversion from man -> mdoc.
2004-12-22Our times(3) just calls getrusage(2) and gettimeofday(2), converting secondsTodd C. Miller
to ticks. Since ksh needs things in seconds it then converted them back. Avoid the silliness and use the getrusage(2) and gettimeofday(2) directly. With man page help from jmc@
2004-12-16- document IFS behavior changesJared Yanovich
- grammar, punctuation, xref, mdoc tweaks - sort keywords - indent example displays - minimize against diffing between sh.1tbl - document set -o sh - tweak the displays of some editing and builtin commands - rework some operator descriptions ok jmc
2004-12-12escape punctuation;Jason McIntyre
2004-12-12csh-style ! history completion, which can be activated by usingTheo de Raadt
set -o csh-history (off by default) this is not feature complete, and likely never will be. no ^ and ! has some oddities ... ksh's internal history stuff has got some very odd behaviours that are rather nasty ok various developers
2004-12-04minor tweaks; ok jmcJared Yanovich
2004-11-08add a more complex PS1 example, which does not use the new backslashJason McIntyre
sequences; from naddy@, via deraadt@
2004-11-06correct my description of \[ and \]Jason McIntyre
found by (and ok) deraadt@
2004-11-05document PS1 expansions;Jason McIntyre
2004-11-05incorrect markup was messing the description of IFS. i've rearranged itJason McIntyre
slightly so that no one (me, most likely) falls for it again. also, make sh(1)'s IFS description a little more consistent.
2004-11-03HISTSIZE cranked to 500Jared Yanovich
2004-10-28fix spacing after period at EOL. from ray@cyth.netJared Yanovich
2004-08-07Document ulimit -v; mickey@ OKTodd C. Miller
2004-08-04- mdoc and macro fixes and simplificationJared Yanovich
- punctuation and grammar fixes - show prompts for example shell commands help and ok jmc
2004-05-09Document new behavior of $RANDOM. ok deraadt@Otto Moerbeek
2004-04-30typo;Jason McIntyre
from ray at cyth dot net (PR 3762);
2004-03-15missing commas;Jason McIntyre
2004-03-15reversed word -> reserved word;Jason McIntyre
from Karl O. Pinc
2004-02-19escape full stops where necessary to kill erroneous double spaces;Jason McIntyre
softly, softly, catchy monkey...