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| author | Todd Leonhardt <todd.leonhardt@gmail.com> | 2020-01-27 22:36:49 -0500 |
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| committer | Todd Leonhardt <todd.leonhardt@gmail.com> | 2020-01-27 22:36:49 -0500 |
| commit | 0f8f90cc2ade4135193f5399e5e6a12271668867 (patch) | |
| tree | a3f8fd2c274fbac5293e218a70f55101f7b64633 /docs/features/multiline_commands.rst | |
| parent | 95f8d883496044bcb95ce803752a8851de6ad0e5 (diff) | |
| download | cmd2-git-0f8f90cc2ade4135193f5399e5e6a12271668867.tar.gz | |
Made three public attributes of cmd2.Cmd no longer settable at runtime by end users
The 3 attributes are:
- continuation_prompt
- locals_in_py
- prompt
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/features/multiline_commands.rst')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/features/multiline_commands.rst | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/features/multiline_commands.rst b/docs/features/multiline_commands.rst index d6502058..769e0a64 100644 --- a/docs/features/multiline_commands.rst +++ b/docs/features/multiline_commands.rst @@ -10,3 +10,13 @@ blank line is *always* considered a command terminator (cannot be overridden). In multiline commands, output redirection characters like ``>`` and ``|`` are part of the command arguments unless they appear after the terminator. + +Continuation prompt +------------------- + +When a user types a :ref:`Multiline Command +<features/multiline_commands:Multiline Commands>` it may span more than one +line of input. The prompt for the first line of input is specified by the +``cmd2.Cmd.prompt`` instance attribute - see +:ref:`features/prompt:Customizing the Prompt`. The prompt for subsequent lines +of input is defined by the ``cmd2.Cmd.continuation_prompt`` attribute. |