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authorBarton E. Schaefer <schaefer@zsh.org>2014-02-17 09:57:05 -0800
committerBarton E. Schaefer <schaefer@zsh.org>2014-02-17 09:57:05 -0800
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unposted: document interactions of "fc -R" etc. with "fc -l" and $HISTCMD
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-rw-r--r--Doc/Zsh/builtins.yo3
-rw-r--r--Doc/Zsh/params.yo7
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/Zsh/builtins.yo b/Doc/Zsh/builtins.yo
index 3c2d5e504..9905ab5ca 100644
--- a/Doc/Zsh/builtins.yo
+++ b/Doc/Zsh/builtins.yo
@@ -683,6 +683,9 @@ If var(first) is not specified, it will be set to -1 (the most recent
 event), or to -16 if the tt(-l) flag is given.
 If var(last) is not specified, it will be set to var(first),
 or to -1 if the tt(-l) flag is given.
+However, if the current event has added entries to the history with
+`tt(print -s)' or `tt(fc -R)', then the default var(last) for tt(-l)
+includes all new history entries since the current event began.
 
 The flag tt(-r) reverses the order of the commands and the
 flag tt(-n) suppresses command numbers when listing.
diff --git a/Doc/Zsh/params.yo b/Doc/Zsh/params.yo
index 935fd5d86..cf2ad34d4 100644
--- a/Doc/Zsh/params.yo
+++ b/Doc/Zsh/params.yo
@@ -599,9 +599,10 @@ group ID by `tt(LPAR()GID=)var(gid)tt(; command+RPAR())'
 )
 vindex(HISTCMD)
 item(tt(HISTCMD))(
-The current history line number in an interactive shell, in other
-words the line number for the command that caused tt($HISTCMD)
-to be read.
+The current history event number in an interactive shell, in other
+words the event number for the command that caused tt($HISTCMD)
+to be read.  If the current history event modifies the history,
+tt(HISTCMD) changes to the new maximum history event number.
 )
 vindex(HOST)
 item(tt(HOST))(