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| author |  axel <axel@liljencrantz.se> | 2005-09-24 11:31:57 +1000 |
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| committer | axel <axel@liljencrantz.se> | 2005-09-24 11:31:57 +1000 |
| commit | 79b8ff535e449e02f2927c52070c99512aaedd24 (patch) | |
| tree | 94f9b59dab62eccf9150a080657592ff2791bbb5 /doc_src | |
| parent | 5a7a14003f7d66d36815e7ae60470db288433175 (diff) | |
Minor documentation update
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc_src/doc.hdr | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc_src/fishd.txt | 12 |
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/doc_src/doc.hdr b/doc_src/doc.hdr index 1b5bc556..9e995631 100644 --- a/doc_src/doc.hdr +++ b/doc_src/doc.hdr @@ -1252,15 +1252,16 @@ that even if a variable contains spaces, it will never be separated into multiple arguments. If you want to tokenize a string, you can use the <a href="commands.html#tokenize">tokenize</a> command. -Command substitution is specified using parenthesis. +Command substitution is specified using parenthesis, as in <tt>set name (whoami)</tt>. There is no math mode, use bc. The POSIX way of setting variables is <i>lame</i>. Whitespace sensitive languages are awful. "foo=bar" and "foo = bar" should not -mean different things? \c fish uses a builtin, <tt>set</tt> to set and -remove environment variables. This keeps things consistent. In fish, -everything, including the switch/case statement is a command. +mean different things. \c fish uses a builtin, <tt>set</tt> to set and +remove environment variables. While this may seem a bit obscure, this +makes for a very consistent language. In fish, everything, including +the loops, assignments and switch/case statements is a command. In \c fish, all block types end with the \c end command. diff --git a/doc_src/fishd.txt b/doc_src/fishd.txt index ebdabd3f..2c890150 100644 --- a/doc_src/fishd.txt +++ b/doc_src/fishd.txt @@ -39,9 +39,13 @@ barrier_reply </pre> A \c barrier command will result in a barrier_reply beeing added to -the end of the senders queue. These commands are used to synchronize -clients. +the end of the senders queue of unsent messages. These commands are +used to synchronize clients, since once the reply for a barrier +message returns, the sender can know that any updates available at the +time the original barrier request was sent have been recieved. -\subecion fishd-files Files +\subsection fishd-files Files -~/.fishd.HOSTNAME permenent storage location for universal variale data +~/.fishd.HOSTNAME permenent storage location for universal variale +data. The data is stored as a set of \c set and \c set_export commands +such as would be parsed by fishd. |