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diff --git a/docs/freefeatures.rst b/docs/freefeatures.rst index ea40c87c..a439db56 100644 --- a/docs/freefeatures.rst +++ b/docs/freefeatures.rst @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Script files ============ Text files can serve as scripts for your ``cmd2``-based -application, with the ``load``, ``_relative_load``, ``edit`` and ``history`` commands. +application, with the ``load``, ``_relative_load``, and ``edit`` commands. Both ASCII and UTF-8 encoded unicode text files are supported. @@ -25,8 +25,6 @@ Simply include one command per line, typed exactly as you would inside a ``cmd2` .. automethod:: cmd2.Cmd.do_edit -.. automethod:: cmd2.Cmd.do_history - Comments ======== @@ -250,17 +248,22 @@ Searchable command history ========================== All cmd_-based applications have access to previous commands with -the up- and down- cursor keys. +the up- and down- arrow keys. All cmd_-based applications on systems with the ``readline`` module -also provide `bash-like history list editing`_. +also provide `Readline Emacs editing mode`_. With this you can, for example, use **Ctrl-r** to search backward through +the readline history. -.. _`bash-like history list editing`: http://www.talug.org/events/20030709/cmdline_history.html +``cmd2`` adds the option of making this readline history persistent via optional arguments to ``cmd2.Cmd.__init__()``: + +.. automethod:: cmd2.Cmd.__init__ ``cmd2`` makes a third type of history access available with the **history** command: .. automethod:: cmd2.Cmd.do_history +.. _`Readline Emacs editing mode`: http://readline.kablamo.org/emacs.html + Quitting the application ======================== |