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| author | Robin Haberkorn <robin.haberkorn@googlemail.com> | 2011-10-14 04:55:05 +0200 |
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| committer | Robin Haberkorn <robin.haberkorn@googlemail.com> | 2011-10-14 04:55:05 +0200 |
| commit | 6aa0e0017d7d0cddc006da885946934b06949a91 (patch) | |
| tree | 66b688ec32e2f91266db760b1762f2a50cc52036 /libslang/slsh/README | |
| parent | a966db5b71328f6adf9dd767e64b322a3bd7ed9c (diff) | |
| download | erlang-slang-fork-6aa0e0017d7d0cddc006da885946934b06949a91.tar.gz | |
include libslang-1.4.9 and automatically build it and link erlang-slang against it
few (erlang) people will still have libslang-1.4.9 installed or spend time
to get it to link against the driver
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1 files changed, 43 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/libslang/slsh/README b/libslang/slsh/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9fd402e --- /dev/null +++ b/libslang/slsh/README @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +slsh (slang-shell) is a work in progress. See the scripts/ +subdirectory for some trivial examples of its use. + +Usage: slsh [OPTIONS] [[-|file] [args ...]] + --help Print this help + --version Show slsh version information + -g Compile with debugging code, tracebacks, etc + -n Don't load personal init file + -i init-file Use this file instead of default + -v Show verbose loading messages + +Along with the slsh executable, the files lib/slsh.rc and lib/*.sl +will also get installed. + +Upon startup, the program will try to load slsh.rc as follows: + + If either SLSH_CONF_DIR or SLSH_LIB_DIR environment variables + exist, then look in the corresponding directories for slsh.rc. + Otherwise look in: + + $(prefix)/etc (specified in Makefile) + /usr/local/etc/ + /usr/local/etc/slsh/ + /etc/ + /etc/slsh/ + +The slsh.rc file may load other files from slsh's library directory in +the manner described below. + +Once slsh.rc is loaded, slsh will load $HOME/.slshrc if present. +Finally, it will load the script specified on the command line. If +the name of the script is "-", then it will be read from stdin. + +When a script loads a file via the built-in "evalfile" function or the +"require" function (autoloaded by slsh.rc), the file is searched for +along the SLSH_PATH as specified in the Makefile. An alternate path +may be specified by the SLSH_PATH environment variable. + +The search path may be queried and set during run time via set the +get_lib_path and set_lib_path functions, e.g., + + set_lib_path ("/home/bill/lib/slsh:/usr/share/slsh"); + |