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| author | Bart Schaefer <barts@users.sourceforge.net> | 2001-09-24 16:22:30 +0000 |
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| committer | Bart Schaefer <barts@users.sourceforge.net> | 2001-09-24 16:22:30 +0000 |
| commit | f81cb06361d945f10cc5f239874bd72e8f52922a (patch) | |
| tree | 465750c59df21fe5aea1c4e6b29aff36db40633a | |
| parent | 63ecd0332bd295d4c8bdb9e6ba064df5547942fa (diff) | |
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Document side-effects of TERM assignment.
| -rw-r--r-- | ChangeLog | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/Zsh/params.yo | 7 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@ 2001-09-24 Bart Schaefer <schaefer@zsh.org> + * 15864: Doc/Zsh/params.yo: Document that assignment to TERM + is necessary to re-initialize the terminal. + * users/4269: Src/hist.c: Detect and reject corrupted history files ('\0' bytes) rather than consuming all available memory. diff --git a/Doc/Zsh/params.yo b/Doc/Zsh/params.yo index 9e5dd9193..0c5d87d35 100644 --- a/Doc/Zsh/params.yo +++ b/Doc/Zsh/params.yo @@ -993,7 +993,12 @@ window size specifications; these will not be local to the command. ) vindex(TERM) item(tt(TERM) <S>)( -The type of terminal in use. This is used when looking up termcap sequences. +The type of terminal in use. This is used when looking up termcap +sequences. An assignment to tt(TERM) causes zsh to re-initialize the +terminal, even if the value does not change (e.g., `tt(TERM=$TERM)'). It +is necessary to make such an assignment upon any change to the terminal +definition database or terminal type in order for the new settings to +take effect. ) vindex(TIMEFMT) item(tt(TIMEFMT))( |