From 63b76948e1d211ad4a95c3a9c7a0087fe6a1e371 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stephen Boyd Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:05:28 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] api-strbuf.txt: fix typos and document launch_editor() Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt index 7438149249..a0e0f850f8 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-strbuf.txt @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ strbuf API actually relies on the string being free of NULs. strbufs has some invariants that are very important to keep in mind: -. The `buf` member is never NULL, so you it can be used in any usual C +. The `buf` member is never NULL, so it can be used in any usual C string operations safely. strbuf's _have_ to be initialized either by `strbuf_init()` or by `= STRBUF_INIT` before the invariants, though. + @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ Data structures * `struct strbuf` -This is string buffer structure. The `len` member can be used to +This is the string buffer structure. The `len` member can be used to determine the current length of the string, and `buf` member provides access to the string itself. @@ -253,3 +253,9 @@ same behaviour as well. comments are considered contents to be removed or not. `launch_editor`:: + + Launch the user preferred editor to edit a file and fill the buffer + with the file's contents upon the user completing their editing. The + third argument can be used to set the environment which the editor is + run in. If the buffer is NULL the editor is launched as usual but the + file's contents are not read into the buffer upon completion. -- 2.11.4.GIT