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-rw-r--r--doc/refman/CanonicalStructures.tex2
-rw-r--r--doc/refman/RefMan-ltac.tex2
-rw-r--r--doc/refman/RefMan-syn.tex2
-rw-r--r--doc/refman/RefMan-tac.tex53
4 files changed, 38 insertions, 21 deletions
diff --git a/doc/refman/CanonicalStructures.tex b/doc/refman/CanonicalStructures.tex
index a3372c2965..275e1c2d55 100644
--- a/doc/refman/CanonicalStructures.tex
+++ b/doc/refman/CanonicalStructures.tex
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
\label{CS-full}
\index{Canonical Structures!presentation}
-This chapter explains the basics of Canonical Structure and how thy can be used
+\noindent This chapter explains the basics of Canonical Structure and how they can be used
to overload notations and build a hierarchy of algebraic structures.
The examples are taken from~\cite{CSwcu}. We invite the interested reader
to refer to this paper for all the details that are omitted here for brevity.
diff --git a/doc/refman/RefMan-ltac.tex b/doc/refman/RefMan-ltac.tex
index cc7e6b53bf..12dea9a306 100644
--- a/doc/refman/RefMan-ltac.tex
+++ b/doc/refman/RefMan-ltac.tex
@@ -1116,6 +1116,8 @@ Defined {\ltac} functions can be displayed using the command
{\tt Print Ltac {\qualid}.}
\end{quote}
+The command {\tt Print Ltac Signatures\comindex{Print Ltac Signatures}} displays a list of all user-defined tactics, with their arguments.
+
\section{Debugging {\ltac} tactics}
\subsection[Info trace]{Info trace\comindex{Info}\optindex{Info Level}}
diff --git a/doc/refman/RefMan-syn.tex b/doc/refman/RefMan-syn.tex
index 3af72db78e..1f08b6a2f1 100644
--- a/doc/refman/RefMan-syn.tex
+++ b/doc/refman/RefMan-syn.tex
@@ -358,7 +358,7 @@ state of {\Coq}.
Reserved Notation "x = y" (at level 70, no associativity).
\end{coq_example}
-Reserving a notation is also useful for simultaneously defined an
+Reserving a notation is also useful for simultaneously defining an
inductive type or a recursive constant and a notation for it.
\Rem The notations mentioned on Figure~\ref{init-notations} are
diff --git a/doc/refman/RefMan-tac.tex b/doc/refman/RefMan-tac.tex
index f5a1bf3b22..54450fe7dc 100644
--- a/doc/refman/RefMan-tac.tex
+++ b/doc/refman/RefMan-tac.tex
@@ -2833,42 +2833,57 @@ This tactic is deprecated. It can be replaced by {\tt enough}
\tacindex{subst}
\optindex{Regular Subst Tactic}
-This tactic applies to a goal that has \ident\ in its context and
-(at least) one hypothesis, say {\tt H}, of type {\tt
- \ident=t} or {\tt t=\ident}. Then it replaces
-\ident\ by {\tt t} everywhere in the goal (in the hypotheses
-and in the conclusion) and clears \ident\ and {\tt H} from the context.
+This tactic applies to a goal that has \ident\ in its context and (at
+least) one hypothesis, say $H$, of type {\tt \ident} = $t$ or $t$
+{\tt = \ident} with {\ident} not occurring in $t$. Then it replaces
+{\ident} by $t$ everywhere in the goal (in the hypotheses and in the
+conclusion) and clears {\ident} and $H$ from the context.
+
+If {\ident} is a local definition of the form {\ident} := $t$, it is
+also unfolded and cleared.
+
+\Rem
+When several hypotheses have the form {\tt \ident} = $t$ or {\tt
+ $t$ = \ident}, the first one is used.
\Rem
-When several hypotheses have the form {\tt \ident=t} or {\tt
- t=\ident}, the first one is used.
+If $H$ is itself dependent in the goal, it is replaced by the
+proof of reflexivity of equality.
\begin{Variants}
- \item {\tt subst \ident$_1$ \dots \ident$_n$}
+ \item {\tt subst \ident$_1$ {\dots} \ident$_n$}
- Is equivalent to {\tt subst \ident$_1$; \dots; subst \ident$_n$}.
+ This is equivalent to {\tt subst \ident$_1$; \dots; subst \ident$_n$}.
\item {\tt subst}
- Applies {\tt subst} repeatedly to all identifiers from the context
- for which an equality exists.
+ This applies {\tt subst} repeatedly from top to bottom to all
+ identifiers of the context for which an equality of the form {\tt
+ \ident} = $t$ or $t$ {\tt = \ident} or {\tt \ident} := $t$ exists, with
+ {\ident} not occurring in $t$.
-\noindent {\bf Remark: } The behavior of {\tt subst} can be controlled using option {\tt Set
- Regular Subst Tactic}. When this option is activated, {\tt subst}
- manages the following corner cases which otherwise it
- does not:
+\noindent {\bf Remark: } The behavior of {\tt subst} can be controlled
+using option {\tt Set Regular Subst Tactic}. When this option is
+activated, {\tt subst} also deals with the following corner cases:
\begin{itemize}
\item A context with ordered hypotheses {\tt \ident$_1$ = \ident$_2$}
and {\tt \ident$_1$ = $t$}, or {$t'$ = \ident$_1$} with $t'$ not a
variable, and no other hypotheses of the form {\tt \ident$_2$ = $u$}
- or {\tt $u$ = \ident$_2$}
+ or {\tt $u$ = \ident$_2$}; without the option, a second call to {\tt
+ subst} would be necessary to replace {\ident$_2$} by $t$ or $t'$
+ respectively.
+
\item A context with cyclic dependencies as with hypotheses {\tt
- \ident$_1$ = f~\ident$_2$} and {\tt \ident$_2$ = g~\ident$_1$}
+ \ident$_1$ = f~\ident$_2$} and {\tt \ident$_2$ = g~\ident$_1$} which
+ without the option would be a cause of failure of {\tt subst}.
\end{itemize}
-Additionally, it prevents a local definition such as {\tt \ident :=
- $t$} to be unfolded which otherwise it would exceptionally unfold in
+Additionally, it prevents a local definition such as {\tt \ident} :=
+ $t$ to be unfolded which otherwise it would exceptionally unfold in
configurations containing hypotheses of the form {\tt {\ident} = $u$},
or {\tt $u'$ = \ident} with $u'$ not a variable.
+Finally, it preserves the initial order of hypotheses, which without
+the option it may break.
+
The option is on by default.
\end{Variants}