From 9c49b69d3eac7b19c60b3aacd00c687781c6c797 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: drbrain Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 21:27:25 +0000 Subject: * doc/globals.rdoc: Document what setting $VERBOSE does. [Bug #7899] * doc/globals.rdoc: Added pointer to $-w and $-v for full documentation. git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/trunk@39364 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e --- doc/globals.rdoc | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc/globals.rdoc') diff --git a/doc/globals.rdoc b/doc/globals.rdoc index 379acea7cf..f4cfd35ef6 100644 --- a/doc/globals.rdoc +++ b/doc/globals.rdoc @@ -31,7 +31,10 @@ $LOAD_PATH:: The alias to the $:. $stderr:: The current standard error output. $stdin:: The current standard input. $stdout:: The current standard output. -$VERBOSE:: The verbose flag, which is set by the -v switch. +$VERBOSE:: The verbose flag, which is set by the -w or -v switch. Setting + this to a true value enables warnings as if -w or -v were given + on the command line. Setting this to nil disables warnings, + including from Kernel#warn. $-0:: The alias to $/. $-a:: True if option -a is set. Read-only variable. $-d:: The alias to $DEBUG. @@ -40,8 +43,8 @@ $-i:: In in-place-edit mode, this variable holds the extension, otherwise nil. $-I:: The alias to $:. $-l:: True if option -l is set. Read-only variable. $-p:: True if option -p is set. Read-only variable. -$-v:: The alias to $VERBOSE. -$-w:: True if option -w is set. +$-v:: An alias of $VERBOSE. See $VERBOSE above for further discussion. +$-w:: An alias of $VERBOSE. See $VERBOSE above for further discussion. == Pre-defined global constants -- cgit v1.2.3