Imported from ../bash-2.01.tar.gz.

[platform/upstream/bash.git] / doc / readline.3

diff --git a/doc/readline.3 b/doc/readline.3
index e122cb7..3d16168 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/readline.3
+++ b/doc/readline.3
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@
 .\"    Case Western Reserve University
 .\"    chet@ins.CWRU.Edu
 .\"
-.\"    Last Change: Mon Jul  8 13:07:48 EDT 1996
+.\"    Last Change: Wed Feb  5 14:13:22 EST 1997
 .\"
-.TH READLINE 3 "1996 July 8" GNU
+.TH READLINE 3 "1997 Feb 5" GNU
 .\"
 .\" File Name macro.  This used to be `.PN', for Path Name,
 .\" but Sun doesn't seem to like that very much.
@@ -682,9 +682,18 @@ Add this digit to the argument already accumulating, or start a new
 argument.  M\-\- starts a negative argument.
 .TP
 .B universal\-argument
-Each time this is executed, the argument count is multiplied by four.
+This is another way to specify an argument.
+If this command is followed by one or more digits, optionally with a
+leading minus sign, those digits define the argument.
+If the command is followed by digits, executing
+.B universal\-argument
+again ends the numeric argument, but is otherwise ignored.
+As a special case, if this command is immediately followed by a
+character that is neither a digit or minus sign, the argument count
+for the next command is multiplied by four.
 The argument count is initially one, so executing this function the
-first time makes the argument count four.
+first time makes the argument count four, a second time makes the
+argument count sixteen, and so on.
 .PD
 .SS Completing
 .PP