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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/readline/doc/history.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/readline/doc/history.3 | 14 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/lib/readline/doc/history.3 b/lib/readline/doc/history.3 index 9f65a195..c9052193 100644 --- a/lib/readline/doc/history.3 +++ b/lib/readline/doc/history.3 @@ -442,11 +442,15 @@ a \fBNULL\fP pointer. .Fn1 "HIST_ENTRY *" next_history "void" If the current history offset is not already at the end of the history -list, move the current history offset forward to the next history entry, -and return the a pointer to that entry. -If there is no next entry, return a \fBNULL\fP pointer. -If this function returns \fBNULL\fP, the current history offset is at the -end of the history list. +list, move the current history offset forward to the next history entry. +If the incremented history offset refers to a valid history entry, return +a pointer to that entry. +If there is no next entry, as when the history offset before being +incremented refers to the last valid entry in the history list, return +a \fBNULL\fP pointer. +If this function returns \fBNULL\fP, the current history offset when the +function returns (possibly incremented as described above) +is at the end of the history list. .SS Searching the History List |