Allow 'emit' to accept event arguments

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/doc_src/emit.txt b/doc_src/emit.txt
index f2821748..c0faab82 100644
--- a/doc_src/emit.txt
+++ b/doc_src/emit.txt
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 \section emit emit - Emit a generic event
 
 \subsection block-synopsis Synopsis
- <tt>emit EVENT_NAME</tt>
+ <tt>emit EVENT_NAME [ARGUMENTS...]</tt>
 
 \subsection emit-description Description
 
-The emit builtin fires a generic fish event. Such events can be caught by special functions called event handlers.
+The emit builtin fires a generic fish event. Such events can be caught by special functions called event handlers. The arguments are passed to the event handlers as function arguments. 
 
 \subsection emit-example Example
 
@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ The following code first defines an event handler for the generic
 event named 'test_event', and then emits an event of that type.
 
 <pre>function event_test --on-event test_event
-    echo event test!!!
+    echo event test: $argv
 end
 
-emit test_event</pre>
\ No newline at end of file
+emit test_event something
+</pre>