Merge pull request #648 from python-cmd2/attributes

Converted class attributes to instance attributes

2 files changed, 6 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/docs/settingchanges.rst b/docs/settingchanges.rst
index e1c437e4..b9ad4a22 100644
--- a/docs/settingchanges.rst
+++ b/docs/settingchanges.rst
@@ -33,18 +33,16 @@ 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)
 
 .. warning::
 
   Shortcuts need to be created by updating the ``shortcuts`` dictionary attribute prior to calling the
   ``cmd2.Cmd`` super class ``__init__()`` method.  Moreover, that super class init method needs to be called after
   updating the ``shortcuts`` attribute  This warning applies in general to many other attributes which are not
-  settable at runtime such as ``multiline_commands``, etc.
+  settable at runtime.
 
 
 Aliases
diff --git a/docs/unfreefeatures.rst b/docs/unfreefeatures.rst
index 97953215..071a15b2 100644
--- a/docs/unfreefeatures.rst
+++ b/docs/unfreefeatures.rst
@@ -7,12 +7,11 @@ Multiline commands
 
 Command input may span multiple lines for the
 commands whose names are listed in the
-parameter ``app.multiline_commands``.  These
+``multiline_commands`` argument to ``cmd2.Cmd.__init__()``.  These
 commands will be executed only
 after the user has entered a *terminator*.
 By default, the command terminator is
-``;``; replacing or appending to the list
-``app.terminators`` allows different
+``;``; specifying the ``terminators`` optional argument to ``cmd2.Cmd.__init__()`` allows different
 terminators.  A blank line
 is *always* considered a command terminator
 (cannot be overridden).