1 /* history.h -- the names of functions that you can call in history. */
3 /* Copyright (C) 1989-2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
5 This file contains the GNU History Library (History), a set of
6 routines for managing the text of previously typed lines.
8 History is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
9 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
10 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
11 (at your option) any later version.
13 History is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
14 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
15 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
16 GNU General Public License for more details.
18 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
19 along with History. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
29 #include <time.h> /* XXX - for history timestamp code */
31 #if defined READLINE_LIBRARY
33 # include "rltypedefs.h"
35 # include <readline/rlstdc.h>
36 # include <readline/rltypedefs.h>
40 typedef void *histdata_t;
42 typedef char *histdata_t;
45 /* The structure used to store a history entry. */
46 typedef struct _hist_entry {
48 char *timestamp; /* char * rather than time_t for read/write */
52 /* Size of the history-library-managed space in history entry HS. */
53 #define HISTENT_BYTES(hs) (strlen ((hs)->line) + strlen ((hs)->timestamp))
55 /* A structure used to pass the current state of the history stuff around. */
56 typedef struct _hist_state {
57 HIST_ENTRY **entries; /* Pointer to the entries themselves. */
58 int offset; /* The location pointer within this array. */
59 int length; /* Number of elements within this array. */
60 int size; /* Number of slots allocated to this array. */
64 /* Flag values for the `flags' member of HISTORY_STATE. */
65 #define HS_STIFLED 0x01
67 /* Initialization and state management. */
69 /* Begin a session in which the history functions might be used. This
70 just initializes the interactive variables. */
71 extern void using_history PARAMS((void));
73 /* Return the current HISTORY_STATE of the history. */
74 extern HISTORY_STATE *history_get_history_state PARAMS((void));
76 /* Set the state of the current history array to STATE. */
77 extern void history_set_history_state PARAMS((HISTORY_STATE *));
79 /* Manage the history list. */
81 /* Place STRING at the end of the history list.
82 The associated data field (if any) is set to NULL. */
83 extern void add_history PARAMS((const char *));
85 /* Change the timestamp associated with the most recent history entry to
87 extern void add_history_time PARAMS((const char *));
89 /* A reasonably useless function, only here for completeness. WHICH
90 is the magic number that tells us which element to delete. The
91 elements are numbered from 0. */
92 extern HIST_ENTRY *remove_history PARAMS((int));
94 /* Free the history entry H and return any application-specific data
95 associated with it. */
96 extern histdata_t free_history_entry PARAMS((HIST_ENTRY *));
98 /* Make the history entry at WHICH have LINE and DATA. This returns
99 the old entry so you can dispose of the data. In the case of an
100 invalid WHICH, a NULL pointer is returned. */
101 extern HIST_ENTRY *replace_history_entry PARAMS((int, const char *, histdata_t));
103 /* Clear the history list and start over. */
104 extern void clear_history PARAMS((void));
106 /* Stifle the history list, remembering only MAX number of entries. */
107 extern void stifle_history PARAMS((int));
109 /* Stop stifling the history. This returns the previous amount the
110 history was stifled by. The value is positive if the history was
111 stifled, negative if it wasn't. */
112 extern int unstifle_history PARAMS((void));
114 /* Return 1 if the history is stifled, 0 if it is not. */
115 extern int history_is_stifled PARAMS((void));
117 /* Information about the history list. */
119 /* Return a NULL terminated array of HIST_ENTRY which is the current input
120 history. Element 0 of this list is the beginning of time. If there
121 is no history, return NULL. */
122 extern HIST_ENTRY **history_list PARAMS((void));
124 /* Returns the number which says what history element we are now
126 extern int where_history PARAMS((void));
128 /* Return the history entry at the current position, as determined by
129 history_offset. If there is no entry there, return a NULL pointer. */
130 extern HIST_ENTRY *current_history PARAMS((void));
132 /* Return the history entry which is logically at OFFSET in the history
133 array. OFFSET is relative to history_base. */
134 extern HIST_ENTRY *history_get PARAMS((int));
136 /* Return the timestamp associated with the HIST_ENTRY * passed as an
138 extern time_t history_get_time PARAMS((HIST_ENTRY *));
140 /* Return the number of bytes that the primary history entries are using.
141 This just adds up the lengths of the_history->lines. */
142 extern int history_total_bytes PARAMS((void));
144 /* Moving around the history list. */
146 /* Set the position in the history list to POS. */
147 extern int history_set_pos PARAMS((int));
149 /* Back up history_offset to the previous history entry, and return
150 a pointer to that entry. If there is no previous entry, return
152 extern HIST_ENTRY *previous_history PARAMS((void));
154 /* Move history_offset forward to the next item in the input_history,
155 and return the a pointer to that entry. If there is no next entry,
156 return a NULL pointer. */
157 extern HIST_ENTRY *next_history PARAMS((void));
159 /* Searching the history list. */
161 /* Search the history for STRING, starting at history_offset.
162 If DIRECTION < 0, then the search is through previous entries,
163 else through subsequent. If the string is found, then
164 current_history () is the history entry, and the value of this function
165 is the offset in the line of that history entry that the string was
166 found in. Otherwise, nothing is changed, and a -1 is returned. */
167 extern int history_search PARAMS((const char *, int));
169 /* Search the history for STRING, starting at history_offset.
170 The search is anchored: matching lines must begin with string.
171 DIRECTION is as in history_search(). */
172 extern int history_search_prefix PARAMS((const char *, int));
174 /* Search for STRING in the history list, starting at POS, an
175 absolute index into the list. DIR, if negative, says to search
176 backwards from POS, else forwards.
177 Returns the absolute index of the history element where STRING
178 was found, or -1 otherwise. */
179 extern int history_search_pos PARAMS((const char *, int, int));
181 /* Managing the history file. */
183 /* Add the contents of FILENAME to the history list, a line at a time.
184 If FILENAME is NULL, then read from ~/.history. Returns 0 if
185 successful, or errno if not. */
186 extern int read_history PARAMS((const char *));
188 /* Read a range of lines from FILENAME, adding them to the history list.
189 Start reading at the FROM'th line and end at the TO'th. If FROM
190 is zero, start at the beginning. If TO is less than FROM, read
191 until the end of the file. If FILENAME is NULL, then read from
192 ~/.history. Returns 0 if successful, or errno if not. */
193 extern int read_history_range PARAMS((const char *, int, int));
195 /* Write the current history to FILENAME. If FILENAME is NULL,
196 then write the history list to ~/.history. Values returned
197 are as in read_history (). */
198 extern int write_history PARAMS((const char *));
200 /* Append NELEMENT entries to FILENAME. The entries appended are from
201 the end of the list minus NELEMENTs up to the end of the list. */
202 extern int append_history PARAMS((int, const char *));
204 /* Truncate the history file, leaving only the last NLINES lines. */
205 extern int history_truncate_file PARAMS((const char *, int));
207 /* History expansion. */
209 /* Expand the string STRING, placing the result into OUTPUT, a pointer
210 to a string. Returns:
212 0) If no expansions took place (or, if the only change in
213 the text was the de-slashifying of the history expansion
215 1) If expansions did take place
216 -1) If there was an error in expansion.
217 2) If the returned line should just be printed.
219 If an error ocurred in expansion, then OUTPUT contains a descriptive
221 extern int history_expand PARAMS((char *, char **));
223 /* Extract a string segment consisting of the FIRST through LAST
224 arguments present in STRING. Arguments are broken up as in
226 extern char *history_arg_extract PARAMS((int, int, const char *));
228 /* Return the text of the history event beginning at the current
229 offset into STRING. Pass STRING with *INDEX equal to the
230 history_expansion_char that begins this specification.
231 DELIMITING_QUOTE is a character that is allowed to end the string
232 specification for what to search for in addition to the normal
233 characters `:', ` ', `\t', `\n', and sometimes `?'. */
234 extern char *get_history_event PARAMS((const char *, int *, int));
236 /* Return an array of tokens, much as the shell might. The tokens are
237 parsed out of STRING. */
238 extern char **history_tokenize PARAMS((const char *));
240 /* Exported history variables. */
241 extern int history_base;
242 extern int history_length;
243 extern int history_max_entries;
244 extern char history_expansion_char;
245 extern char history_subst_char;
246 extern char *history_word_delimiters;
247 extern char history_comment_char;
248 extern char *history_no_expand_chars;
249 extern char *history_search_delimiter_chars;
250 extern int history_quotes_inhibit_expansion;
252 extern int history_write_timestamps;
254 /* Backwards compatibility */
255 extern int max_input_history;
257 /* If set, this function is called to decide whether or not a particular
258 history expansion should be treated as a special case for the calling
259 application and not expanded. */
260 extern rl_linebuf_func_t *history_inhibit_expansion_function;
266 #endif /* !_HISTORY_H_ */