1 /* History.h -- the names of functions that you can call in history. */
2 /* Copyright (C) 1989, 1992 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 This file contains the GNU History Library (the Library), a set of
5 routines for managing the text of previously typed lines.
7 The Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
8 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
9 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
12 The Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
13 WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
14 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
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20 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111 USA. */
29 #if defined READLINE_LIBRARY
31 # include "rltypedefs.h"
33 # include <readline/rlstdc.h>
34 # include <readline/rltypedefs.h>
38 typedef void *histdata_t
;
40 typedef char *histdata_t
;
43 /* The structure used to store a history entry. */
44 typedef struct _hist_entry
{
49 /* A structure used to pass the current state of the history stuff around. */
50 typedef struct _hist_state
{
51 HIST_ENTRY
**entries
; /* Pointer to the entries themselves. */
52 int offset
; /* The location pointer within this array. */
53 int length
; /* Number of elements within this array. */
54 int size
; /* Number of slots allocated to this array. */
58 /* Flag values for the `flags' member of HISTORY_STATE. */
59 #define HS_STIFLED 0x01
61 /* Initialization and state management. */
63 /* Begin a session in which the history functions might be used. This
64 just initializes the interactive variables. */
65 extern void using_history
__P((void));
67 /* Return the current HISTORY_STATE of the history. */
68 extern HISTORY_STATE
*history_get_history_state
__P((void));
70 /* Set the state of the current history array to STATE. */
71 extern void history_set_history_state
__P((HISTORY_STATE
*));
73 /* Manage the history list. */
75 /* Place STRING at the end of the history list.
76 The associated data field (if any) is set to NULL. */
77 extern void add_history
__P((const char *));
79 /* A reasonably useless function, only here for completeness. WHICH
80 is the magic number that tells us which element to delete. The
81 elements are numbered from 0. */
82 extern HIST_ENTRY
*remove_history
__P((int));
84 /* Make the history entry at WHICH have LINE and DATA. This returns
85 the old entry so you can dispose of the data. In the case of an
86 invalid WHICH, a NULL pointer is returned. */
87 extern HIST_ENTRY
*replace_history_entry
__P((int, const char *, histdata_t
));
89 /* Clear the history list and start over. */
90 extern void clear_history
__P((void));
92 /* Stifle the history list, remembering only MAX number of entries. */
93 extern void stifle_history
__P((int));
95 /* Stop stifling the history. This returns the previous amount the
96 history was stifled by. The value is positive if the history was
97 stifled, negative if it wasn't. */
98 extern int unstifle_history
__P((void));
100 /* Return 1 if the history is stifled, 0 if it is not. */
101 extern int history_is_stifled
__P((void));
103 /* Information about the history list. */
105 /* Return a NULL terminated array of HIST_ENTRY which is the current input
106 history. Element 0 of this list is the beginning of time. If there
107 is no history, return NULL. */
108 extern HIST_ENTRY
**history_list
__P((void));
110 /* Returns the number which says what history element we are now
112 extern int where_history
__P((void));
114 /* Return the history entry at the current position, as determined by
115 history_offset. If there is no entry there, return a NULL pointer. */
116 extern HIST_ENTRY
*current_history
__P((void));
118 /* Return the history entry which is logically at OFFSET in the history
119 array. OFFSET is relative to history_base. */
120 extern HIST_ENTRY
*history_get
__P((int));
122 /* Return the number of bytes that the primary history entries are using.
123 This just adds up the lengths of the_history->lines. */
124 extern int history_total_bytes
__P((void));
126 /* Moving around the history list. */
128 /* Set the position in the history list to POS. */
129 extern int history_set_pos
__P((int));
131 /* Back up history_offset to the previous history entry, and return
132 a pointer to that entry. If there is no previous entry, return
134 extern HIST_ENTRY
*previous_history
__P((void));
136 /* Move history_offset forward to the next item in the input_history,
137 and return the a pointer to that entry. If there is no next entry,
138 return a NULL pointer. */
139 extern HIST_ENTRY
*next_history
__P((void));
141 /* Searching the history list. */
143 /* Search the history for STRING, starting at history_offset.
144 If DIRECTION < 0, then the search is through previous entries,
145 else through subsequent. If the string is found, then
146 current_history () is the history entry, and the value of this function
147 is the offset in the line of that history entry that the string was
148 found in. Otherwise, nothing is changed, and a -1 is returned. */
149 extern int history_search
__P((const char *, int));
151 /* Search the history for STRING, starting at history_offset.
152 The search is anchored: matching lines must begin with string.
153 DIRECTION is as in history_search(). */
154 extern int history_search_prefix
__P((const char *, int));
156 /* Search for STRING in the history list, starting at POS, an
157 absolute index into the list. DIR, if negative, says to search
158 backwards from POS, else forwards.
159 Returns the absolute index of the history element where STRING
160 was found, or -1 otherwise. */
161 extern int history_search_pos
__P((const char *, int, int));
163 /* Managing the history file. */
165 /* Add the contents of FILENAME to the history list, a line at a time.
166 If FILENAME is NULL, then read from ~/.history. Returns 0 if
167 successful, or errno if not. */
168 extern int read_history
__P((const char *));
170 /* Read a range of lines from FILENAME, adding them to the history list.
171 Start reading at the FROM'th line and end at the TO'th. If FROM
172 is zero, start at the beginning. If TO is less than FROM, read
173 until the end of the file. If FILENAME is NULL, then read from
174 ~/.history. Returns 0 if successful, or errno if not. */
175 extern int read_history_range
__P((const char *, int, int));
177 /* Write the current history to FILENAME. If FILENAME is NULL,
178 then write the history list to ~/.history. Values returned
179 are as in read_history (). */
180 extern int write_history
__P((const char *));
182 /* Append NELEMENT entries to FILENAME. The entries appended are from
183 the end of the list minus NELEMENTs up to the end of the list. */
184 extern int append_history
__P((int, const char *));
186 /* Truncate the history file, leaving only the last NLINES lines. */
187 extern int history_truncate_file
__P((const char *, int));
189 /* History expansion. */
191 /* Expand the string STRING, placing the result into OUTPUT, a pointer
192 to a string. Returns:
194 0) If no expansions took place (or, if the only change in
195 the text was the de-slashifying of the history expansion
197 1) If expansions did take place
198 -1) If there was an error in expansion.
199 2) If the returned line should just be printed.
201 If an error ocurred in expansion, then OUTPUT contains a descriptive
203 extern int history_expand
__P((char *, char **));
205 /* Extract a string segment consisting of the FIRST through LAST
206 arguments present in STRING. Arguments are broken up as in
208 extern char *history_arg_extract
__P((int, int, const char *));
210 /* Return the text of the history event beginning at the current
211 offset into STRING. Pass STRING with *INDEX equal to the
212 history_expansion_char that begins this specification.
213 DELIMITING_QUOTE is a character that is allowed to end the string
214 specification for what to search for in addition to the normal
215 characters `:', ` ', `\t', `\n', and sometimes `?'. */
216 extern char *get_history_event
__P((const char *, int *, int));
218 /* Return an array of tokens, much as the shell might. The tokens are
219 parsed out of STRING. */
220 extern char **history_tokenize
__P((const char *));
222 /* Exported history variables. */
223 extern int history_base
;
224 extern int history_length
;
225 extern int history_max_entries
;
226 extern char history_expansion_char
;
227 extern char history_subst_char
;
228 extern char *history_word_delimiters
;
229 extern char history_comment_char
;
230 extern char *history_no_expand_chars
;
231 extern char *history_search_delimiter_chars
;
232 extern int history_quotes_inhibit_expansion
;
234 /* Backwards compatibility */
235 extern int max_input_history
;
237 /* If set, this function is called to decide whether or not a particular
238 history expansion should be treated as a special case for the calling
239 application and not expanded. */
240 extern rl_linebuf_func_t
*history_inhibit_expansion_function
;
246 #endif /* !_HISTORY_H_ */