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authorGravatar Fabian Homborg <FHomborg@gmail.com>2015-09-11 11:31:04 +0200
committerGravatar Fabian Homborg <FHomborg@gmail.com>2015-09-11 11:33:04 +0200
commit2c648c80c83de50620e4c216a59024398f4e152e (patch)
tree6491c193decbbff0586b49c1b730e2dcdc0380bd /doc_src/index.hdr.in
parentb8d9ba993dbb3bccabfcdd10e754b6a5832546d7 (diff)
docs: Improve autoloading/event documentation
The thing that says "event handlers can't be autoloaded, put it in config.fish". I make good words.
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@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ The default value for `$fish_function_path` is `~/.config/fish/functions` `/etc/
It is very important that function definition files only contain the definition for the specified function and nothing else. Otherwise, it is possible that autoloading a function files requires that the function already be loaded, which creates a circular dependency.
-Autoloading also won't work for <a href=#event>event handlers</a>, since fish cannot know that a function is supposed to be executed when an event occurs when it hasn't yet loaded the function.
+Autoloading also won't work for <a href=#event>event handlers</a>, since fish cannot know that a function is supposed to be executed when an event occurs when it hasn't yet loaded the function. See there for details.
\subsubsection syntax-conditional Conditional execution of code and flow control
@@ -1115,7 +1115,7 @@ function --on-signal WINCH my_signal_handler
end
\endfish
-Please note that event handlers only become active when a function is loaded which means you might need to manually <a href='commands.html#source'>source</a> a function's file instead of relying on <a href=#syntax-function-autoloading>autoloading</a>.
+Please note that event handlers only become active when a function is loaded, which means you might need to otherwise <a href='commands.html#source'>source</a> or execute a function instead of relying on <a href=#syntax-function-autoloading>autoloading</a>. One approach is to put it into your <a href="index.html#initialization">initialization file</a>.
For more information on how to define new event handlers, see the documentation for the <a href='commands.html#function'>function</a> command.