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author | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 2004-07-30 18:58:54 (GMT) |
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committer | Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org> | 2004-07-30 18:58:54 (GMT) |
commit | 69013d070ead4e936f0acb3919a8dcc28c380b63 (patch) | |
tree | 2fbd9d10b08bae8f9d7d1206df43ed248afa2450 /Doc/lib | |
parent | 479b7a7cdbcba88227b79cf10d207db5b5b7e58a (diff) | |
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- document the termination condition for cmd.Cmd.cmdloop()
- document the use of the return value for cmd.Cmd.do_*() methods
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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libcmd.tex b/Doc/lib/libcmd.tex index 7260b85..ce01d24 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libcmd.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libcmd.tex @@ -60,6 +60,10 @@ the method \method{do_help()}. As another special case, a line beginning with the character \character{!} is dispatched to the method \method{do_shell()} (if such a method is defined). +This method will return when the \method{postcmd()} method returns a +true value. The \var{stop} argument to \method{postcmd()} is the +return value from the command's corresponding \method{do_*()} method. + If completion is enabled, completing commands will be done automatically, and completing of commands args is done by calling \method{complete_foo()} with arguments \var{text}, \var{line}, @@ -83,7 +87,10 @@ Interpret the argument as though it had been typed in response to the prompt. This may be overridden, but should not normally need to be; see the \method{precmd()} and \method{postcmd()} methods for useful execution hooks. The return value is a flag indicating whether -interpretation of commands by the interpreter should stop. +interpretation of commands by the interpreter should stop. If there +is a \method{do_*()} method for the command \var{str}, the return +value of that method is returned, otherwise the return value from the +\method{default()} method is returned. \end{methoddesc} \begin{methoddesc}{emptyline}{} |