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| author | Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> | 2016-09-17 15:33:14 -0700 |
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| committer | Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> | 2016-09-17 15:33:14 -0700 |
| commit | c90ed00b05694300d39fd79c2d8ed9f6e57872e4 (patch) | |
| tree | 5c07d8b7adc493370d79cf157d722064d3075095 /txr.1 | |
| parent | c4bd0b39b115ca384f4f2704ae233171f5d62566 (diff) | |
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doc: mention USERPROFILE.
* txr.1: Document that on Windows, the home directory is
determined from USERPROFILE for finding the ~/.txr_history
file as well placing the temporary file for the
edit-in-editor interactive feature.
Diffstat (limited to 'txr.1')
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1 files changed, 14 insertions, 7 deletions
@@ -44264,11 +44264,14 @@ The editor is determined from the environment variable. If this variable doesn't exist, the command does nothing. -If the -.code HOME -environment variable exists, then the temporary file is created in the home -directory. Otherwise it is created in the current working directory. If the +The temporary file is created in the home directory, if that can +be determined. Otherwise it is created in the current working directory. If the creation of the file fails, then the command silently returns to edit mode. +The home directory is determined from the +.code HOME +environment variable in POSIX environments. On MS Windows, the +.code USERPROFILE +variable is probed for the user's directory. If the command line contains embedded carriage returns (which denote line breaks in multi-line mode) these are replaced with newline characters @@ -44519,8 +44522,10 @@ When the listener starts up, it looks for file called .code .txr_profile in the user's home directory, as determined by the .code HOME -environment variable. If that variable doesn't exist, no further attempt is -made to locate this file. +environment variable in POSIX environments or the +.code USERPROFILE +environment variable on MS Windows. If that variable doesn't exist, no further +attempt is made to locate this file. If the file exists, it is subject to a security check. The function @@ -44557,7 +44562,9 @@ this file, making the commands of a previous session available for recall. The home directory is determined from the contents of the .code HOME -environment variable. If this variable doesn't exist, or the user doesn't +environment variable in POSIX environments or +.code USERPROFILE +on MS Windows. If this variable doesn't exist, or the user doesn't have permissions to write to this directory or to an existing history file in that directory, then the history isn't saved. |