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authordkf <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk>2012-05-25 14:49:30 (GMT)
committerdkf <donal.k.fellows@manchester.ac.uk>2012-05-25 14:49:30 (GMT)
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[Bug 3528418]: Document what is going on with respect to qualification of
command prefixes in ensemble subcommand maps.
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-rw-r--r--doc/Ensemble.32
-rw-r--r--doc/namespace.n5
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/Ensemble.3 b/doc/Ensemble.3
index 5a5842d..bc743c2 100644
--- a/doc/Ensemble.3
+++ b/doc/Ensemble.3
@@ -148,6 +148,8 @@ code (TCL_OK, or TCL_ERROR if the token does not refer to an
ensemble) and the dictionary obtained from
\fBTcl_GetEnsembleMappingDict\fR should always be treated as immutable
even if it is unshared.
+All command names in prefixes set via \fBTcl_SetEnsembleMappingDict\fR
+must be fully qualified.
.TP
\fBsubcommand list\fR (read-write)
A list of all the subcommand names for the ensemble, or NULL if this
diff --git a/doc/namespace.n b/doc/namespace.n
index ddf7b51..8b26786 100644
--- a/doc/namespace.n
+++ b/doc/namespace.n
@@ -714,7 +714,10 @@ When non-empty, this option supplies a dictionary that provides a
mapping from subcommand names to a list of prefix words to substitute
in place of the ensemble command and subcommand words (in a manner
similar to an alias created with \fBinterp alias\fR; the words are not
-reparsed after substitution). When this option is empty, the mapping
+reparsed after substitution); if the first word of any target is not
+fully qualified when set, it is assumed to be relative to the
+\fIcurrent\fR namespace and changed to be exactly that (that is, it is
+always fully qualified when read). When this option is empty, the mapping
will be from the local name of the subcommand to its fully-qualified
name. Note that when this option is non-empty and the
\fB\-subcommands\fR option is empty, the ensemble subcommand names