From 0eacb2983d96fd7f12a1400a66450c1a89578f00 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Patrick Palka Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2015 14:44:38 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Make NEWS entry and manual regarding GDBHISTSIZE more consistent ... by mentioning in the manual that setting GDBHISTSIZE to the empty string disables truncation, like the NEWS entry does. gdb/doc/ChangeLog: * gdb.texinfo (Command History): Mention that setting GDBHISTSIZE to the empty string disables history truncation. --- gdb/doc/ChangeLog | 5 +++++ gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo | 6 +++--- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog index d38550a..7d8002e 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/gdb/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,5 +1,10 @@ 2015-06-17 Patrick Palka + * gdb.texinfo (Command History): Mention that setting + GDBHISTSIZE to the empty string disables history truncation. + +2015-06-17 Patrick Palka + PR gdb/16999 * gdb.texinfo (Command History): Mention new GDBHISTSIZE behavior. diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo index 9889b69..c9a532a 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo +++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo @@ -22641,9 +22641,9 @@ Stop recording command history in a file. Set the number of commands which @value{GDBN} keeps in its history list. This defaults to the value of the environment variable @env{GDBHISTSIZE}, or to 256 if this variable is not set. Non-numeric values of @env{GDBHISTSIZE} -are ignored. If @var{size} is @code{unlimited} or if @env{GDBHISTSIZE} is a -negative number, the number of commands @value{GDBN} keeps in the history list -is unlimited. +are ignored. If @var{size} is @code{unlimited} or if @env{GDBHISTSIZE} is +either a negative number or the empty string, then the number of commands +@value{GDBN} keeps in the history list is unlimited. @end table History expansion assigns special meaning to the character @kbd{!}. -- 2.7.4