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Fix documentation on variable scopes for read

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The `read` docs incorrectly asserted that -g was the default for
variables. In actuality it behaves the same way that `set` does.
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Kevin Ballard 2014-07-13 17:47:44 -07:00 committed by David Adam
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@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ input and stores the result in one or more shell variables.
The following options are available:
- <tt>-c CMD</tt> or <tt>--command=CMD</tt> sets the initial string in the interactive mode command buffer to <tt>CMD</tt>.
- <tt>-g</tt> or <tt>--global</tt> makes the variables global (default behaviour).
- <tt>-g</tt> or <tt>--global</tt> makes the variables global.
- <tt>-l</tt> or <tt>--local</tt> makes the variables local.
- <tt>-m NAME</tt> or <tt>--mode-name=NAME</tt> specifies that the name NAME should be used to save/load the history file. If NAME is fish, the regular fish history will be available.
- <tt>-p PROMPT_CMD</tt> or <tt>--prompt=PROMPT_CMD</tt> uses the output of the shell command \c PROMPT_CMD as the prompt for the interactive mode. The default prompt command is <tt>set_color green; echo read; set_color normal; echo "> "</tt>.
@ -25,6 +25,9 @@ based on the <tt>IFS</tt> shell variable, and then assigns one
token to each variable specified in <tt>VARIABLES</tt>. If there are more
tokens than variables, the complete remainder is assigned to the last variable.
See the documentation for \c set for more details on the scoping rules for
variables.
\subsection read-example Example
The following code stores the value 'hello' in the shell variable