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diff --git a/doc/library.n b/doc/library.n index d4ba1d8..83fe0fd 100644 --- a/doc/library.n +++ b/doc/library.n @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ '\" See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution '\" of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES. '\" -'\" RCS: @(#) $Id: library.n,v 1.18 2006/11/15 09:23:01 dkf Exp $ +'\" RCS: @(#) $Id: library.n,v 1.19 2007/10/24 14:29:38 dkf Exp $ .so man.macros .TH library n "8.0" Tcl "Tcl Built-In Commands" .BS @@ -54,7 +54,6 @@ If the library procedure \fBTcl_Init\fR is invoked from an application's The code in \fBinit.tcl\fR will define the \fBunknown\fR procedure and arrange for the other procedures to be loaded on-demand using the auto-load mechanism defined below. - .SH "COMMAND PROCEDURES" .PP The following procedures are provided in the Tcl library: @@ -137,7 +136,9 @@ definition and the next word of the line is taken as the procedure's name. Procedure definitions that don't appear in this way (e.g. they have spaces before the \fBproc\fR) will not be indexed. If your -script contains "dangerous" code, such as global initialization +script contains +.QW dangerous +code, such as global initialization code or procedure names with special characters like \fB$\fR, \fB*\fR, \fB[\fR or \fB]\fR, you are safer using auto_mkindex_old. .RE @@ -174,7 +175,9 @@ their initialization. They call this procedure to look for their script library in several standard directories. The last component of the name of the library directory is normally \fIbasenameversion\fR -(e.g., tk8.0), but it might be "library" when in the build hierarchies. +(e.g., tk8.0), but it might be +.QW library +when in the build hierarchies. The \fIinitScript\fR file will be sourced into the interpreter once it is found. The directory in which this file is found is stored into the global variable \fIvarName\fR. @@ -230,7 +233,6 @@ Returns the index of the first word boundary before the starting index boundaries before the starting point in the given string. The index returned refers to the second character of the pair that comprises a boundary. - .SH "VARIABLES" .PP The following global variables are defined or used by the procedures in @@ -271,7 +273,9 @@ a default value is used. \fBenv(TCLLIBPATH)\fR If set, then it must contain a valid Tcl list giving directories to search during auto-load operations. Directories must be specified in -Tcl format, using "/" as the path separator, regardless of platform. +Tcl format, using +.QW / +as the path separator, regardless of platform. This variable is only used when initializing the \fBauto_path\fR variable. .TP \fBtcl_nonwordchars\fR @@ -290,9 +294,7 @@ word or not. If the pattern matches a character, the character is considered to be a word character. On Windows platforms, words are comprised of any character that is not a space, tab, or newline. Under Unix, words are comprised of numbers, letters or underscores. - .SH "SEE ALSO" info(n), re_syntax(n) - .SH KEYWORDS auto-exec, auto-load, library, unknown, word, whitespace |