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author | Stan Shebs <shebs@codesourcery.com> | 1999-04-16 01:34:55 +0000 |
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committer | Stan Shebs <shebs@codesourcery.com> | 1999-04-16 01:34:55 +0000 |
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diff --git a/readline/CHANGES b/readline/CHANGES new file mode 100644 index 0000000..382406e --- /dev/null +++ b/readline/CHANGES @@ -0,0 +1,84 @@ +This document details the changes between this version, readline-2.2.1, +and the previous version, readline-2.2. + +1. Changes to Readline + +a. The `make install' target was corrected so that it did not move the + newly-installed libreadline.a to libhistory.old + +b. The `make install' target for the documentation will now install the + info files from the source directory if they do not appear in the + build directory, since they are shipped in the readline tar file. + +c. Fixed a problem with redisplay that showed up when the prompt string was + longer than the screen width and the prompt contained invisible characters. + +d. Fixed a problem with the paren matching code -- the blink was far too + short (it's specified in microseconds, not milliseconds, Chet!). + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------ +This document details the changes between this version, readline-2.2, +and the previous version, readline-2.1. + +1. Changes to Readline + +a. Added a missing `extern' to a declaration in readline.h that kept + readline from compiling cleanly on some systems. + +b. The history file is now opened with mode 0600 when it is written for + better security. + +c. Changes were made to the SIGWINCH handling code so that prompt redisplay + is done better. + +d. ^G now interrupts incremental searches correctly. + +e. A bug that caused a core dump when the set of characters to be quoted + when completing words was empty was fixed. + +f. Fixed a problem in the readline test program rltest.c that caused a core + dump. + +g. The code that handles parser directives in inputrc files now displays + more error messages. + +h. The history expansion code was fixed so that the appearance of the + history comment character at the beginning of a word inhibits history + expansion for that word and the rest of the input line. + +i. The code that prints completion listings now behaves better if one or + more of the filenames contains non-printable characters. + +j. The time delay when showing matching parentheses is now 0.5 seconds. + + +2. New Features in Readline + +a. There is now an option for `iterative' yank-last-arg handline, so a user + can keep entering `M-.', yanking the last argument of successive history + lines. + +b. New variable, `print-completions-horizontally', which causes completion + matches to be displayed across the screen (like `ls -x') rather than up + and down the screen (like `ls'). + +c. New variable, `completion-ignore-case', which causes filename completion + and matching to be performed case-insensitively. + +d. There is a new bindable command, `magic-space', which causes history + expansion to be performed on the current readline buffer and a space to + be inserted into the result. + +e. There is a new bindable command, `menu-complete', which enables tcsh-like + menu completion (successive executions of menu-complete insert a single + completion match, cycling through the list of possible completions). + +f. There is a new bindable command, `paste-from-clipboard', for use on Win32 + systems, to insert the text from the Win32 clipboard into the editing + buffer. + +g. The key sequence translation code now understands printf-style backslash + escape sequences, including \NNN octal escapes. These escape sequences + may be used in key sequence definitions or macro values. + +h. An `$include' inputrc file parser directive has been added. |