picolisp

commit 7cab6f2d230f2fb3fc655b8440f1c50f70890c4f
parent ae930a410c18cead84cf2fe9b147e027d88ae953
Author: Alexander Burger <abu@software-lab.de>
Date:   Tue,  1 Nov 2011 09:24:59 +0100

Extending the man page
Diffstat:
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man/man1/picolisp.1
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35
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1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/man/man1/picolisp.1 b/man/man1/picolisp.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" 15apr11abu
+.\" 31oct11abu
 .\"
 .TH PICOLISP 1 "" "" "User Commands"
 .SH NAME
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ this context are
 and then immediately exit the interpreter would be:
 .P
 .RS
-pil -version -bye
+$ pil -version -bye
 .RE
 .P
 Any other argument (not starting with a hyphen) should be the name of a file to
@@ -70,10 +70,37 @@ mode is switched on at interpreter startup, before evaluating any of the command
 line arguments. A minimal interactive session is started with:
 .P
 .RS
-pil +
+$ pil +
 .RE
 .P
-The interpreter can be terminated by typing Ctrl-D or (bye).
+Here you can enter Lisp expressions,
+.P
+.RS
+: (quote Hello world)
+.RE
+.RS
+-> (Hello world)
+.RE
+.P
+access online documentation for most functions,
+.P
+.RS
+: (doc 'quote)
+.RE
+.P
+or inspect their sources:
+.P
+.RS
+: (vi 'quote)
+.RE
+.P
+The interpreter can be terminated with
+.P
+.RS
+: (bye)
+.RE
+.P
+or by typing Ctrl-D.
 .SH FILES
 Runtime files are maintained in the ~/.pil directory:
 .IP ~/.pil/tmp/<pid>/