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gh-143804: highlight default empty-line command repetition in cmd.Cmd documentation #143808

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docs(cmd): highlight default empty-line command repetition
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Mention `emptyline` behavior under `default()` documentation.
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fix reference target not found: emptyline
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Expand Up @@ -99,9 +99,9 @@ When the user enters an empty line in response to the prompt, ``Cmd`` does
**not** ignore the input by default. Instead, it repeats the last non-empty
command entered.

This behavior is implemented by :meth:`emptyline`. Subclasses that do not
This behavior is implemented by :meth:`Cmd.emptyline`. Subclasses that do not
want empty input to repeat the previous command should override
:meth:`emptyline` to do nothing::
:meth:`Cmd.emptyline` to do nothing::

def emptyline(self):
pass
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