[Commit] nickle/doc/tutorial/basics invoke.sgml,1.1,1.2

Bart Massey commit at keithp.com
Tue Aug 2 21:42:57 PDT 2005


Committed by: bart

Update of /local/src/CVS/nickle/doc/tutorial/basics
In directory home.keithp.com:/tmp/cvs-serv2341/doc/tutorial/basics

Modified Files:
	invoke.sgml 
Log Message:
2005-08-02  Bart Massey  <bart at cs.pdx.edu>
	
	* doc/tutorial/basics/invoke.sgml, nickle.1.in:
	Fix documentation to reflect new argument parsing.
	


Index: invoke.sgml
===================================================================
RCS file: /local/src/CVS/nickle/doc/tutorial/basics/invoke.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.1
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -d -r1.1 -r1.2
--- invoke.sgml	23 May 2003 23:48:59 -0000	1.1
+++ invoke.sgml	3 Aug 2005 04:42:53 -0000	1.2
@@ -6,14 +6,15 @@
 <arg>-l <replaceable>file</replaceable></arg>
 <arg>-e <replaceable>expr</replaceable></arg>
 <arg><replaceable>script</replaceable></arg>
+<arg>--</arg>
+<arg><replaceable>arg ...</replaceable></arg>
 </cmdsynopsis>
 
 <variablelist>
 
 <varlistentry><term><literal>-f</literal></term>
 <listitem><para>
-Evaluate <replaceable>file</replaceable> first.
-In addition, Nickle usually loads a <literal>.nicklerc</literal> file.
+Evaluate <replaceable>file</replaceable>.
 </para></listitem>
 </varlistentry>
 
@@ -26,7 +27,7 @@
 <varlistentry><term><literal>-e</literal></term>
 <listitem>
 <para>
-Stop processing arguments and evaluate the rest of the line as a Nickle expression, print its value, and quit, e.g.
+Evaluate a Nickle expression, e.g.
 </para>
 <informalexample><screen>
 $ nickle -e 3**4
@@ -39,6 +40,8 @@
 <varlistentry><term><literal>script</literal></term>
 <listitem><para>
 If Nickle encounters an unflagged argument, it assumes it to be the name of a script, which it runs.
+If a <literal>.nicklerc</literal> file is available, it will
+be evaluated first.
 No more arguments are processed; the rest of the line is given to the script as its arguments.
 </para></listitem>
 </varlistentry>
@@ -46,7 +49,7 @@
 </variablelist>
 
 <para>
-Without <literal>-e</literal> or a script as arguments, Nickle runs interactively, accepting standard input and writing to standard output.
+Without <literal>-e</literal> or a script as an argument, Nickle runs interactively, accepting standard input and writing to standard output.
 </para>
 
 </sect1>




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