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authorGravatar David Adam (zanchey) <zanchey@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>2013-05-12 15:56:01 +0800
committerGravatar ridiculousfish <corydoras@ridiculousfish.com>2013-05-13 01:48:20 -0700
commit1287b9d82382bf22e16edda67eae755f07397f2e (patch)
tree811814b029d65ac11a193e616ca4a71d216dbe0c /doc_src/prevd.txt
parent91aab03b90a6b583a3c0ecff5b015c6066d34f28 (diff)
Help cleanup
Large list of changes, including formatting and typos for most commands. More substantive changes have been made to alias, bind, block, break, builtin, case, cd, commandline, count, else, emit, fish_config, funced, function, functions, history, math, mimedb, nextd, not, popd, prevd, pushd, pwd, random, read, set, set_color, switch, test, trap, type, ulimit, umask, and while.
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\section prevd prevd - move backward through directory history
\subsection prevd-synopsis Synopsis
-<tt>prevd [-l | --list] [pos]</tt>
+<tt>prevd [-l | --list] [POS]</tt>
\subsection prevd-description Description
-<tt>prevd</tt> moves backwards <tt>pos</tt> positions in the history
+<tt>prevd</tt> moves backwards <tt>POS</tt> positions in the history
of visited directories; if the beginning of the history has been hit,
-a warning is printed. If the <code>-l</code> or <code>--list</code>
-flag is specified, the current history is also displayed.
+a warning is printed.
+
+If the <code>-l</code> or <code>--list</code> flag is specified, the current
+history is also displayed.
+
+\subsection prevd-example Example
+
+<pre>cd /usr/src
+# Working directory is now /usr/src
+cd /usr/src/fish-shell
+# Working directory is now /usr/src/fish-shell
+prevd
+# Working directory is now /usr/src
+nextd
+# Working directory is now /usr/src/fish-shell</pre>