readline/CHANGES

   1 This document details the changes between this version, readline-2.2.1,
   2 and the previous version, readline-2.2.
   3
   4 1.  Changes to Readline
   5
   6 a.  The `make install' target was corrected so that it did not move the
   7     newly-installed libreadline.a to libhistory.old
   8
   9 b.  The `make install' target for the documentation will now install the
  10     info files from the source directory if they do not appear in the
  11     build directory, since they are shipped in the readline tar file.
  12
  13 c.  Fixed a problem with redisplay that showed up when the prompt string was
  14     longer than the screen width and the prompt contained invisible characters.
  15
  16 d.  Fixed a problem with the paren matching code -- the blink was far too
  17     short (it's specified in microseconds, not milliseconds, Chet!).
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  20 This document details the changes between this version, readline-2.2,
  21 and the previous version, readline-2.1.
  22
  23 1.  Changes to Readline
  24
  25 a.  Added a missing `extern' to a declaration in readline.h that kept
  26     readline from compiling cleanly on some systems.
  27
  28 b.  The history file is now opened with mode 0600 when it is written for
  29     better security.
  30
  31 c.  Changes were made to the SIGWINCH handling code so that prompt redisplay
  32     is done better.
  33
  34 d.  ^G now interrupts incremental searches correctly.
  35
  36 e.  A bug that caused a core dump when the set of characters to be quoted
  37     when completing words was empty was fixed.
  38
  39 f.  Fixed a problem in the readline test program rltest.c that caused a core
  40     dump.
  41
  42 g.  The code that handles parser directives in inputrc files now displays
  43     more error messages.
  44
  45 h.  The history expansion code was fixed so that the appearance of the
  46     history comment character at the beginning of a word inhibits history
  47     expansion for that word and the rest of the input line.
  48
  49 i.  The code that prints completion listings now behaves better if one or
  50     more of the filenames contains non-printable characters.
  51
  52 j.  The time delay when showing matching parentheses is now 0.5 seconds.
  53
  54
  55 2.  New Features in Readline
  56
  57 a.  There is now an option for `iterative' yank-last-arg handline, so a user
  58     can keep entering `M-.', yanking the last argument of successive history
  59     lines.
  60
  61 b.  New variable, `print-completions-horizontally', which causes completion
  62     matches to be displayed across the screen (like `ls -x') rather than up
  63     and down the screen (like `ls').
  64
  65 c.  New variable, `completion-ignore-case', which causes filename completion
  66     and matching to be performed case-insensitively.
  67
  68 d.  There is a new bindable command, `magic-space', which causes history
  69     expansion to be performed on the current readline buffer and a space to
  70     be inserted into the result.
  71
  72 e.  There is a new bindable command, `menu-complete', which enables tcsh-like
  73     menu completion (successive executions of menu-complete insert a single
  74     completion match, cycling through the list of possible completions).
  75
  76 f.  There is a new bindable command, `paste-from-clipboard', for use on Win32
  77     systems, to insert the text from the Win32 clipboard into the editing
  78     buffer.
  79
  80 g.  The key sequence translation code now understands printf-style backslash
  81     escape sequences, including \NNN octal escapes.  These escape sequences
  82     may be used in key sequence definitions or macro values.
  83
  84 h.  An `$include' inputrc file parser directive has been added.