Updated docs to reflect that shortcuts are now passed into the super class initializer

2 files changed, 6 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 65a24b8b..1cc045f2 100755
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -240,12 +240,11 @@ class CmdLineApp(cmd2.Cmd):
 
     def __init__(self):
         self.maxrepeats = 3
-
-        # Add stuff to shortcuts before calling base class initializer
-        self.shortcuts.update({'&': 'speak'})
+        shortcuts = dict(self.DEFAULT_SHORTCUTS)
+        shortcuts.update({'&': 'speak'})
 
         # Set use_ipython to True to enable the "ipy" command which embeds and interactive IPython shell
-        super().__init__(use_ipython=False, multiline_commands=['orate'])
+        super().__init__(use_ipython=False, multiline_commands=['orate'], shortcuts=shortcuts)
         
         # Make maxrepeats settable at runtime
         self.settable['maxrepeats'] = 'max repetitions for speak command'
diff --git a/docs/settingchanges.rst b/docs/settingchanges.rst
index c9345bc6..b9ad4a22 100644
--- a/docs/settingchanges.rst
+++ b/docs/settingchanges.rst
@@ -33,11 +33,9 @@ To define more shortcuts, update the dict ``App.shortcuts`` with the
 
   class App(Cmd2):
       def __init__(self):
-        # Make sure you update the shortcuts attribute before calling the super class __init__
-        self.shortcuts.update({'*': 'sneeze', '~': 'squirm'})
-
-        # Make sure to call this super class __init__ after updating shortcuts
-        cmd2.Cmd.__init__(self)
+        shortcuts = dict(self.DEFAULT_SHORTCUTS)
+        shortcuts.update({'*': 'sneeze', '~': 'squirm'})
+        cmd2.Cmd.__init__(self, shortcuts=shortcuts)
 
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