From 79b8ff535e449e02f2927c52070c99512aaedd24 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: axel Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 11:31:57 +1000 Subject: Minor documentation update darcs-hash:20050924013157-ac50b-4ad9f6bb8da67a24999796a9a3de90e334645540.gz --- doc_src/doc.hdr | 9 +++++---- doc_src/fishd.txt | 12 ++++++++---- 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc_src') 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 tokenize command. -Command substitution is specified using parenthesis. +Command substitution is specified using parenthesis, as in set name (whoami). There is no math mode, use bc. The POSIX way of setting variables is lame. Whitespace sensitive languages are awful. "foo=bar" and "foo = bar" should not -mean different things? \c fish uses a builtin, set 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, set 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 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. -- cgit v1.2.3