doc, changelog

IPython/history.py

@@ -31,9 +31,12 b" def magic_history(self, parameter_s = ''):"
       instead of the user-entered version: '%cd /' will be seen as
       '_ip.magic("%cd /")' instead of '%cd /'.
       
-      -g: treat the arg as a pattern to grep for in (full) history
+      -g: treat the arg as a pattern to grep for in (full) history.
+      This includes the "shadow history" (almost all commands ever written).
+      Use '%hist -g *' to show full shadow history (may be very long).
+      In shadow history, every index nuwber starts with 0.
+      
       
-      -s: show "shadow" history
     """
 
     ip = self.api

doc/ChangeLog

@@ -5,6 +5,11 b''
         properly (and you get ' - - - '). Use plain uncoloured ---> for
         unicode.
         
+        * shadow history. Usable through "%hist -g <pat>" and "%rep 0123".
+        
+        . pickleshare 'hash' commands (hget, hset, hcompress,
+        hdict) for efficient shadow history storage.
+
 2007-06-13  Ville Vainio  <[e-mail]>
 
 	* ipapi.py: _ip.to_user_ns(vars, interactive = True).