+This document details the changes between this version, readline-8.0, and the
+previous version, readline-7.0.
+
+1. Changes to Readline
+
+a. Added a guard to prevent nested macros from causing an infinite expansion
+ loop.
+
+b. Instead of allocating enough history list entries to hold the maximum list
+ size, cap the number allocated initially.
+
+c. Added a strategy to avoid allocating huge amounts of memory if a block of
+ history entries without timestamps occurs after a block with timestamps.
+
+d. Added support for keyboard timeouts when an ESC character is the last
+ character in a macro.
+
+e. There are several performance improvements when in a UTF-8 locale.
+
+f. Readline does a better job of preserving the original set of blocked
+ signals when using pselect() to wait for input.
+
+g. Fixed a bug that caused multibyte characters in macros to be mishandled.
+
+h. Fixed several bugs in the code that calculates line breaks when expanding
+ prompts that span several lines, contain multibyte characters, and contain
+ invisible character seqeuences.
+
+i. Fixed several bugs in cursor positioning when displaying lines with prompts
+ containing invisible characters and multibyte characters.
+
+j. When performing case-insensitive completion, Readline no longer sorts the
+ list of matches unless directed to do so.
+
+k. Fixed a problem with key sequences ending with a backslash.
+
+l. Fixed out-of-bounds and free memory read errors found via fuzzing.
+
+m. Fixed several cases where the mark was set to an invalid value.
+
+n. Fixed a problem with the case-changing operators in the case where the
+ lower and upper case versions of a character do not have the same number
+ of bytes.
+
+o. Handle incremental and non-incremental search character reads returning EOF.
+
+p. Handle the case where a failing readline command at the end of a multi-key
+ sequence could be misinterpreted.
+
+q. The history library now prints a meaningful error message if the history
+ file isn't a regular file.
+
+r. Fixed a problem with vi-mode redo (`.') on a command when trying to replace
+ a multibyte character.
+
+s. The key binding code now attempts to remove a keymap if a key unbinding
+ leaves it empty.
+
+t. Fixed a line-wrapping issue that caused problems for some terminal
+ emulators.
+
+u. If there is a key bound to the tty's VDISCARD special character, readline
+ disables VDISCARD while it is active.
+
+v. Fixed a problem with exiting bracketed paste mode on terminals that assume
+ the bracketed paste mode character sequence contains visible characters.
+
+w. Fixed a bug that could cause a key binding command to refer to an
+ uninitialized variable.
+
+x. Added more UTF-8-specific versions of multibyte functions, and optimized
+ existing functions if the current locale uses UTF-8 encoding.
+
+y. Fixed a problem with bracketed-paste inserting more than one character and
+ interacting with other readline functions.
+
+z. Fixed a bug that caused the history library to attempt to append a history
+ line to a non-existent history entry.
+
+aa. If using bracketed paste mode, output a newline after the \r that is the
+ last character of the mode disable string to avoid overwriting output.
+
+bb. Fixes to the vi-mode `b', `B', `w', `W', `e', and `E' commands to better
+ handle multibyte characters.
+
+cc. Fixed a redisplay problem that caused an extra newline to be generated on
+ accept-line when the line length is exactly the screenwidth.
+
+dd. Fixed a bug with adding multibyte characters to an incremental search
+ string.
+
+ee. Fixed a bug with redoing text insertions in vi mode.
+
+ff. Fixed a bug with pasting text into an incremental search string if bracketed
+ paste mode is enabled. ESC cannot be one of the incremental search
+ terminator characters for this to work.
+
+gg. Fixed a bug with anchored search patterns when performing searches in vi
+ mode.
+
+2. New Features in Readline
+
+a. Non-incremental vi-mode search (`N', `n') can search for a shell pattern, as
+ Posix specifies (uses fnmatch(3) if available).
+
+b. There are new `next-screen-line' and `previous-screen-line' bindable
+ commands, which move the cursor to the same column in the next, or previous,
+ physical line, respectively.
+
+c. There are default key bindings for control-arrow-key key combinations.
+
+d. A negative argument (-N) to `quoted-insert' means to insert the next N
+ characters using quoted-insert.
+
+e. New public function: rl_check_signals(), which allows applications to
+ respond to signals that readline catches while waiting for input using
+ a custom read function.
+
+f. There is new support for conditionally testing the readline version in an
+ inputrc file, with a full set of arithmetic comparison operators available.
+
+g. There is a simple variable comparison facility available for use within an
+ inputrc file. Allowable operators are equality and inequality; string
+ variables may be compared to a value; boolean variables must be compared to
+ either `on' or `off'; variable names are separated from the operator by
+ whitespace.
+
+h. The history expansion library now understands command and process
+ substitution and extended globbing and allows them to appear anywhere in a
+ word.
+
+i. The history library has a new variable that allows applications to set the
+ initial quoting state, so quoting state can be inherited from a previous
+ line.
+
+j. Readline now allows application-defined keymap names; there is a new public
+ function, rl_set_keymap_name(), to do that.
+
+k. The "Insert" keypad key, if available, now puts readline into overwrite
+ mode.
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+This document details the changes between this version, readline-7.0, and the
+previous version, readline-6.3.
+
+1. Changes to Readline
+
+a. A bug that caused vi-mode `.' to be unable to redo `c', `d', and `y'
+ commands with modifiers was fixed.
+
+b. Fixed a bug that caused callback mode to dump core when reading a
+ multiple-key sequence (e.g., arrow keys).
+
+c. Fixed a bug that caused the redisplay code to erase some of the line when
+ using horizontal scrolling with incremental search.
+
+d. Readline's input handler now performs signal processing if read(2) is
+ interrupted by SIGALRM or SIGVTALRM.
+
+e. Fixed a problem with revert-all-at-newline freeing freed memory.
+
+f. Clarified the documentation for the history_quotes_inhibit_expansion
+ variable to note that it inhibits scanning for the history comment
+ character and that it only affects double-quoted strings.
+
+g. Fixed an off-by-one error in the prompt printed when performing searches.
+
+h. Use pselect(2), if available, to wait for input before calling read(2), so
+ a SIGWINCH can interrupt it, since it doesn't interrupt read(2).
+
+i. Some memory leaks caused by signals interrupting filename completion have
+ been fixed.
+
+j. Reading EOF twice on a non-empty line causes EOF to be returned, rather
+ than the partial line. This can cause partial lines to be executed on
+ SIGHUP, for example.
+
+k. Fixed a bug concerning deleting multibyte characters from the search
+ string while performing an incremental search.
+
+l. Fixed a bug with tilde expanding directory names in filename completion.
+
+m. Fixed a bug that did not allow binding sequences beginning with a `\'.
+
+n. Fixed a redisplay bug involving incorrect line wrapping when the prompt
+ contains a multibyte character in the last screen column.
+
+o. Fixed a bug that caused history expansion to disregard characters that are
+ documented to delimit a history event specifier without requiring `:'.
+
+p. Fixed a bug that could cause reading past the end of a string when reading
+ the value when binding the set of isearch terminators.
+
+q. Fixed a bug that caused readline commands that depend on knowing which
+ key invoked them to misbehave when dispatching key sequences that are
+ prefixes of other key bindings.
+
+r. Paren matching now works in vi insert mode.
+
+s. Colored completion prefixes are now displayed using a different color, less
+ likely to collide with files.
+
+t. Fixed a bug that caused vi-mode character search to misbehave when
+ running in callback mode.
+
+u. Fixed a bug that caused output to be delayed when input is coming from a
+ macro in vi-mode.
+
+v. Fixed a bug that caused the vi-mode `.' command to misbehave when redoing
+ a multi-key key sequence via a macro.
+
+w. Fixed a bug that caused problems with applications that supply their own
+ input function when performing completion.
+
+x. When read returns -1/EIO when attempting to read a key, return an error
+ instead of line termination back to the caller.
+
+y. Updated tty auditing feature based on patch from Red Hat.
+
+z. Fixed a bug that could cause the history library to crash on overflows
+ introduced by malicious editing of timestamps in the history file.
+
+aa. The history file writing functions only attempt to create and use a backup
+ history file if the history file exists and is a regular file.
+
+bb. Fixed an out-of-bounds read in readline's internal tilde expansion interface.
+
+cc. Fixed several redisplay bugs with prompt strings containing multibyte
+ and non-visible characters whose physical length is longer than the screen
+ width.
+
+dd. Fixed a redisplay bug with prompt strings containing invisible characters
+ whose physical length exceeds the screen width and using incremental search.
+
+ee. Readline prints more descriptive error messages when it encounters errors
+ while reading an inputrc file.
+
+ff. Fixed a bug in the character insertion code that attempts to optimize
+ typeahead when it reads a character that is not bound to self-insert and
+ resets the key sequence state.
+
+gg. When refreshing the line as the result of a key sequence, Readline attempts
+ to redraw only the last line of a multiline prompt.
+
+hh. Fixed an issue that caused completion of git commands to display
+ incorrectly when using colored-completion-prefix.
+
+ii. Fixed several redisplay bugs having to do with multibyte characters and
+ invisible characters in prompt strings.
+
+jj. Fixed a bug that caused mode strings to be displayed incorrectly if the
+ prompt was shorter than the mode string.
+
+2. New Features in Readline
+
+a. The history truncation code now uses the same error recovery mechansim as
+ the history writing code, and restores the old version of the history file
+ on error. The error recovery mechanism handles symlinked history files.
+
+b. There is a new bindable variable, `enable-bracketed-paste', which enables
+ support for a terminal's bracketed paste mode.
+
+c. The editing mode indicators can now be strings and are user-settable
+ (new `emacs-mode-string', `vi-cmd-mode-string' and `vi-ins-mode-string'
+ variables). Mode strings can contain invisible character sequences.
+ Setting mode strings to null strings restores the defaults.
+
+d. Prompt expansion adds the mode string to the last line of a multi-line
+ prompt (one with embedded newlines).
+
+e. There is a new bindable variable, `colored-completion-prefix', which, if
+ set, causes the common prefix of a set of possible completions to be
+ displayed in color.
+
+f. There is a new bindable command `vi-yank-pop', a vi-mode version of emacs-
+ mode yank-pop.
+
+g. The redisplay code underwent several efficiency improvements for multibyte
+ locales.
+
+h. The insert-char function attempts to batch-insert all pending typeahead
+ that maps to self-insert, as long as it is coming from the terminal.
+
+i. rl_callback_sigcleanup: a new application function that can clean up and
+ unset any state set by readline's callback mode. Intended to be used
+ after a signal.
+
+j. If an incremental search string has its last character removed with DEL, the
+ resulting empty search string no longer matches the previous line.
+
+k. If readline reads a history file that begins with `#' (or the value of
+ the history comment character) and has enabled history timestamps, the history
+ entries are assumed to be delimited by timestamps. This allows multi-line
+ history entries.
+
+l. Readline now throws an error if it parses a key binding without a terminating
+ `:' or whitespace.
+
+m. The default binding for ^W in vi mode now uses word boundaries specified
+ by Posix (vi-unix-word-rubout is bindable command name).
+
+n. rl_clear_visible_line: new application-callable function; clears all
+ screen lines occupied by the current visible readline line.
+
+o. rl_tty_set_echoing: application-callable function that controls whether
+ or not readline thinks it is echoing terminal output.
+
+p. Handle >| and strings of digits preceding and following redirection
+ specifications as single tokens when tokenizing the line for history
+ expansion.
+
+q. Fixed a bug with displaying completions when the prefix display length
+ is greater than the length of the completions to be displayed.
+
+r. The :p history modifier now applies to the entire line, so any expansion
+ specifying :p causes the line to be printed instead of expanded.
+
+s. New application-callable function: rl_pending_signal(): returns the signal
+ number of any signal readline has caught but not yet handled.
+
+t. New application-settable variable: rl_persistent_signal_handlers: if set
+ to a non-zero value, readline will enable the readline-6.2 signal handler
+ behavior in callback mode: handlers are installed when
+ rl_callback_handler_install is called and removed removed when a complete
+ line has been read.
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+This document details the changes between this version, readline-6.3, and the
+previous version, readline-6.2.
+
+1. Changes to Readline
+
+a. Fixed a bug that did not allow the `dd', `cc', or `yy' vi editing mode
+ commands to work on the entire line.
+
+b. Fixed a bug that caused redisplay problems with prompts longer than 128
+ characters and history searches.
+
+c. Fixed a bug that caused readline to try and run code to modify its idea
+ of the screen size in a signal handler context upon receiving a SIGWINCH.
+
+d. Fixed a bug that caused the `meta' key to be enabled beyond the duration
+ of an individual call top readline().
+
+e. Added a workaround for a wcwidth bug in Mac OS X that caused readline's
+ redisplay to mishandle zero-width combining characters.
+
+f. Fixed a bug that caused readline to `forget' part of a key sequence when
+ a multiple-key sequence caused it to break out of an incremental search.
+
+g. Fixed bugs that caused readline to execute code in a signal handler
+ context if interrupted while reading from the file system during completion.
+
+h. Fixed a bug that caused readline to `forget' part of a key sequence when
+ reading an unbound multi-character key sequence.
+
+i. Fixed a bug that caused Readline's signal handlers to be installed beyond
+ the bounds of a single call to readline().
+
+j. Fixed a bug that caused the `.' command to not redo the most recent `R'
+ command in vi mode.
+
+k. Fixed a bug that caused ignoring case in completion matches to result in
+ readline using the wrong match.
+
+l. Paren matching now works in vi insert mode.
+
+m. Fix menu-completion to make show-all-if-ambiguous and menu-complete-display-prefix
+ work together.
+
+n. Fixed a bug that didn't allow the `cc', `dd', or `yy' commands to be redone
+ in vi editing mode.
+
+o. Fixed a bug that caused the filename comparison code to not compare
+ multibyte characters correctly when using case-sensitive or case-mapping
+ comparisons.
+
+p. Fixed the input reading loop to call the input hook function only when there
+ is no terminal input available.
+
+q. Fixed a bug that caused binding a macro to a multi-character key sequence
+ where the sequence and macro value share a common prefix to not perform
+ the macro replacement.
+
+r. Fixed several redisplay errors with multibyte characters and prompts
+ containing invisible characters when using horizontal scrolling.
+
+s. Fixed a bug that caused redisplay errors when trying to overwrite
+ existing characters using multibyte characters.
+
+t. Fixed a bug in vi mode that caused the arrow keys to set the saved last
+ vi-mode command to the wrong value.
+
+u. Fixed a bug that caused double-quoted strings to be scanned incorrectly
+ when being used as the value of a readline variable assignment.
+
+v. Fixed a bug with vi mode that prevented `.' from repeating a command
+ entered on a previous line (command).
+
+w. Fixed a bug that could cause completion to core dump if it was interrupted
+ by a signal.
+
+x. Fixed a bug that could cause readline to crash and seg fault attempting to
+ expand an empty history entry.
+
+y. Fixed a bug that caused display problems with multi-line prompts containing
+ invisible characters on multiple lines.
+
+z. Fixed a bug that caused effects made by undoing changes to a history line to
+ be discarded.
+
+2. New Features in Readline
+
+a. Readline is now more responsive to SIGHUP and other fatal signals when
+ reading input from the terminal or performing word completion but no
+ longer attempts to run any not-allowable functions from a signal handler
+ context.
+
+b. There are new bindable commands to search the history for the string of
+ characters between the beginning of the line and the point
+ (history-substring-search-forward, history-substring-search-backward)
+
+c. Readline allows quoted strings as the values of variables when setting
+ them with `set'. As a side effect, trailing spaces and tabs are ignored
+ when setting a string variable's value.
+
+d. The history library creates a backup of the history file when writing it
+ and restores the backup on a write error.
+
+e. New application-settable variable: rl_filename_stat_hook: a function called
+ with a filename before using it in a call to stat(2). Bash uses it to
+ expand shell variables so things like $HOME/Downloads have a slash
+ appended.
+
+f. New bindable function `print-last-kbd-macro', prints the most-recently-
+ defined keyboard macro in a reusable format.
+
+g. New user-settable variable `colored-stats', enables use of colored text
+ to denote file types when displaying possible completions (colored analog
+ of visible-stats).
+
+h. New user-settable variable `keyseq-timout', acts as an inter-character
+ timeout when reading input or incremental search strings.
+
+i. New application-callable function: rl_clear_history. Clears the history list
+ and frees all readline-associated private data.
+
+j. New user-settable variable, show-mode-in-prompt, adds a characters to the
+ beginning of the prompt indicating the current editing mode.
+
+k. New application-settable variable: rl_input_available_hook; function to be
+ called when readline needs to check whether there is data available on its
+ input source. The default hook checks rl_instream.
+
+l. Readline calls an application-set event hook (rl_signal_event_hook) after
+ it gets a signal while reading input (read returns -1/EINTR but readline
+ does not handle the signal immediately) to allow the application to handle
+ or otherwise note it. Not currently called for SIGHUP or SIGTERM.
+
+m. If the user-settable variable `history-size' is set to a value less than
+ 0, the history list size is unlimited.
+
+n. When creating shared libraries on Mac OS X, the pathname written into the
+ library (install_name) no longer includes the minor version number.
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+This document details the changes between this version, readline-6.2,
+and the previous version, readline-6.1.
+
+1. Changes to Readline
+
+a. Fixed a bug that caused the unconverted filename to be added to the list of
+ completions when the application specified filename conversion functions.
+
+b. Fixed a bug that caused the wrong filename to be passed to opendir when the
+ application has specified a filename dequoting function.
+
+c. Fixed a bug when repeating a character search in vi mode in the case where
+ there was no search to repeat.
+
+d. When show-all-if-ambiguous is set, the completion routines no longer insert
+ a common match prefix that is shorter than the text being completed.
+
+e. The full set of vi editing commands may now be used in callback mode.
+
+f. Fixed a bug that caused readline to not update its idea of the terminal
+ dimensions while running in `no-echo' mode.
+
+h. Fixed a bug that caused readline to dump core if an application called
+ rl_prep_terminal without setting rl_instream.
+
+i. Fixed a bug that caused meta-prefixed characters bound to incremental
+ search forward or backward to not be recognized if they were typed
+ subsequently.
+
+j. The incremental search code treats key sequences that map to the same
+ functions as (default) ^G, ^W, and ^Y as equivalent to those characters.
+
+k. Fixed a bug in menu-complete that caused it to misbehave with large
+ negative argument.
+
+l. Fixed a bug that caused vi-mode yank-last-arg to ring the bell when invoked
+ at the end of the line.
+
+m. Fixed a bug that made an explicit argument of 0 to yank-last-arg behave
+ as if it were a negative argument.
+
+n. Fixed a bug that caused directory names in words to be completed to not
+ be dequoted correctly.
+
+2. New Features in Readline
+
+a. The history library does not try to write the history filename in the
+ current directory if $HOME is unset. This closes a potential security
+ problem if the application does not specify a history filename.
+
+b. New bindable variable `completion-display-width' to set the number of
+ columns used when displaying completions.
+
+c. New bindable variable `completion-case-map' to cause case-insensitive
+ completion to treat `-' and `_' as identical.
+
+d. There are new bindable vi-mode command names to avoid readline's case-
+ insensitive matching not allowing them to be bound separately.
+
+e. New bindable variable `menu-complete-display-prefix' causes the menu
+ completion code to display the common prefix of the possible completions
+ before cycling through the list, instead of after.
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+This document details the changes between this version, readline-6.1,
+and the previous version, readline-6.0.
+
+1. Changes to Readline
+
+a. The SIGWINCH signal handler now avoids calling the redisplay code if
+ one arrives while in the middle of redisplay.
+
+b. Changes to the timeout code to make sure that timeout values greater
+ than one second are handled better.
+
+c. Fixed a bug in the redisplay code that was triggered by a prompt
+ containing invisible characters exactly the width of the screen.
+
+d. Fixed a bug in the redisplay code encountered when running in horizontal
+ scroll mode.
+
+e. Fixed a bug that prevented menu completion from properly completing
+ filenames.
+
+f. Fixed a redisplay bug caused by a multibyte character causing a line to
+ wrap.
+
+g. Fixed a bug that caused key sequences of two characters to not be
+ recognized when a longer sequence identical in the first two characters
+ was bound.
+
+h. Fixed a bug that caused history expansion to be attempted on $'...'
+ single-quoted strings.
+
+i. Fixed a bug that caused incorrect redisplay when the prompt contained
+ multibyte characters in an `invisible' sequence bracketed by \[ and
+ \].
+
+j. Fixed a bug that caused history expansion to short-circuit after
+ encountering a multibyte character.
+
+k. Fixed a bug that caused applications using the callback interface to not
+ react to SIGINT (or other signals) until another character arrived.
+
+2. New Features in Readline
+
+a. New bindable function: menu-complete-backward.
+
+b. In the vi insertion keymap, C-n is now bound to menu-complete by default,
+ and C-p to menu-complete-backward.
+
+c. When in vi command mode, repeatedly hitting ESC now does nothing, even
+ when ESC introduces a bound key sequence. This is closer to how
+ historical vi behaves.
+
+d. New bindable function: skip-csi-sequence. Can be used as a default to
+ consume key sequences generated by keys like Home and End without having
+ to bind all keys.
+
+e. New application-settable function: rl_filename_rewrite_hook. Can be used
+ to rewite or modify filenames read from the file system before they are
+ compared to the word to be completed.
+
+f. New bindable variable: skip-completed-text, active when completing in the
+ middle of a word. If enabled, it means that characters in the completion
+ that match characters in the remainder of the word are "skipped" rather
+ than inserted into the line.
+
+g. The pre-readline-6.0 version of menu completion is available as
+ "old-menu-complete" for users who do not like the readline-6.0 version.
+
+h. New bindable variable: echo-control-characters. If enabled, and the
+ tty ECHOCTL bit is set, controls the echoing of characters corresponding
+ to keyboard-generated signals.
+
+i. New bindable variable: enable-meta-key. Controls whether or not readline
+ sends the smm/rmm sequences if the terminal indicates it has a meta key
+ that enables eight-bit characters.
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+This document details the changes between this version, readline-6.0,
+and the previous version, readline-5.2.
+
+1. Changes to Readline
+
+a. Fixed a number of redisplay errors in environments supporting multibyte
+ characters.
+
+b. Fixed bugs in vi command mode that caused motion commands to inappropriately
+ set the mark.
+
+c. When using the arrow keys in vi insertion mode, readline allows movement
+ beyond the current end of the line (unlike command mode).
+
+d. Fixed bugs that caused readline to loop when the terminal has been taken
+ away and reads return -1/EIO.
+
+e. Fixed bugs in redisplay occurring when displaying prompts containing
+ invisible characters.
+
+f. Fixed a bug that caused the completion append character to not be reset to
+ the default after an application-specified completion function changed it.
+
+g. Fixed a problem that caused incorrect positioning of the cursor while in
+ emacs editing mode when moving forward at the end of a line while using
+ a locale supporting multibyte characters.
+
+h. Fixed an off-by-one error that caused readline to drop every 511th
+ character of buffered input.
+
+i. Fixed a bug that resulted in SIGTERM not being caught or cleaned up.
+
+j. Fixed redisplay bugs caused by multiline prompts with invisible characters
+ or no characters following the final newline.
+
+k. Fixed redisplay bug caused by prompts consisting solely of invisible
+ characters.
+
+l. Fixed a bug in the code that buffers characters received very quickly in
+ succession which caused characters to be dropped.
+
+m. Fixed a bug that caused readline to reference uninitialized data structures
+ if it received a SIGWINCH before completing initialzation.
+
+n. Fixed a bug that caused the vi-mode `last command' to be set incorrectly
+ and therefore unrepeatable.
+
+o. Fixed a bug that caused readline to disable echoing when it was being used
+ with an output file descriptor that was not a terminal.
+
+p. Readline now blocks SIGINT while manipulating internal data structures
+ during redisplay.
+
+q. Fixed a bug in redisplay that caused readline to segfault when pasting a
+ very long line (over 130,000 characters).
+
+r. Fixed bugs in redisplay when using prompts with no visible printing
+ characters.
+
+s. Fixed a bug that caused redisplay errors when using prompts with invisible
+ characters and numeric arguments to a command in a multibyte locale.
+
+t. Fixed a bug that caused redisplay errors when using prompts with invisible
+ characters spanning more than two physical screen lines.
+
+2. New Features in Readline
+
+a. A new variable, rl_sort_completion_matches; allows applications to inhibit
+ match list sorting (but beware: some things don't work right if
+ applications do this).
+
+b. A new variable, rl_completion_invoking_key; allows applications to discover
+ the key that invoked rl_complete or rl_menu_complete.
+
+c. The functions rl_block_sigint and rl_release_sigint are now public and
+ available to calling applications who want to protect critical sections
+ (like redisplay).
+
+d. The functions rl_save_state and rl_restore_state are now public and
+ available to calling applications; documented rest of readline's state
+ flag values.
+
+e. A new user-settable variable, `history-size', allows setting the maximum
+ number of entries in the history list.
+
+f. There is a new implementation of menu completion, with several improvements
+ over the old; the most notable improvement is a better `completions
+ browsing' mode.
+
+g. The menu completion code now uses the rl_menu_completion_entry_function
+ variable, allowing applications to provide their own menu completion
+ generators.
+
+h. There is support for replacing a prefix of a pathname with a `...' when
+ displaying possible completions. This is controllable by setting the
+ `completion-prefix-display-length' variable. Matches with a common prefix
+ longer than this value have the common prefix replaced with `...'.
+
+i. There is a new `revert-all-at-newline' variable. If enabled, readline will
+ undo all outstanding changes to all history lines when `accept-line' is
+ executed.
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+This document details the changes between this version, readline-5.2,
+and the previous version, readline-5.1.
+
+1. Changes to Readline
+
+a. Fixed a problem that caused segmentation faults when using readline in
+ callback mode and typing consecutive DEL characters on an empty line.
+
+b. Fixed several redisplay problems with multibyte characters, all having to
+ do with the different code paths and variable meanings between single-byte
+ and multibyte character redisplay.
+
+c. Fixed a problem with key sequence translation when presented with the
+ sequence \M-\C-x.
+
+d. Fixed a problem that prevented the `a' command in vi mode from being
+ undone and redone properly.
+
+e. Fixed a problem that prevented empty inserts in vi mode from being undone
+ properly.
+
+f. Fixed a problem that caused readline to initialize with an incorrect idea
+ of whether or not the terminal can autowrap.
+
+g. Fixed output of key bindings (like bash `bind -p') to honor the setting of
+ convert-meta and use \e where appropriate.
+
+h. Changed the default filename completion function to call the filename
+ dequoting function if the directory completion hook isn't set. This means
+ that any directory completion hooks need to dequote the directory name,
+ since application-specific hooks need to know how the word was quoted,
+ even if no other changes are made.
+
+i. Fixed a bug with creating the prompt for a non-interactive search string
+ when there are non-printing characters in the primary prompt.
+
+j. Fixed a bug that caused prompts with invisible characters to be redrawn
+ multiple times in a multibyte locale.
+
+k. Fixed a bug that could cause the key sequence scanning code to return the
+ wrong function.
+
+l. Fixed a problem with the callback interface that caused it to fail when
+ using multi-character keyboard macros.
+
+m. Fixed a bug that could cause a core dump when an edited history entry was
+ re-executed under certain conditions.
+
+n. Fixed a bug that caused readline to reference freed memory when attmpting
+ to display a portion of the prompt.
+
+o. Fixed a bug with prompt redisplay in a multi-byte locale to avoid redrawing
+ the prompt and input line multiple times.
+
+p. Fixed history expansion to not be confused by here-string redirection.
+
+q. Readline no longer treats read errors by converting them to newlines, as
+ it does with EOF. This caused partial lines to be returned from readline().
+
+r. Fixed a redisplay bug that occurred in multibyte-capable locales when the
+ prompt was one character longer than the screen width.
+
+2. New Features in Readline
+
+a. Calling applications can now set the keyboard timeout to 0, allowing
+ poll-like behavior.
+
+b. The value of SYS_INPUTRC (configurable at compilation time) is now used as
+ the default last-ditch startup file.
+
+c. The history file reading functions now allow windows-like \r\n line
+ terminators.
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+This document details the changes between this version, readline-5.1,
+and the previous version, readline-5.0.
+
+1. Changes to Readline
+
+a. Fixed a bug that caused multiliine prompts to be wrapped and displayed
+ incorrectly.
+
+b. Fixed a bug that caused ^P/^N in emacs mode to fail to display the current
+ line correctly.
+
+c. Fixed a problem in computing the number of invisible characters on the first
+ line of a prompt whose length exceeds the screen width.
+
+d. Fixed vi-mode searching so that failure preserves the current line rather
+ than the last line in the history list.
+
+e. Fixed the vi-mode `~' command (change-case) to have the correct behavior at
+ end-of-line when manipulating multibyte characters.
+
+f. Fixed the vi-mode `r' command (change-char) to have the correct behavior at
+ end-of-line when manipulating multibyte characters.
+
+g. Fixed multiple bugs in the redisplay of multibyte characters: displaying
+ prompts longer than the screen width containing multibyte characters,
+
+h. Fix the calculation of the number of physical characters in the prompt
+ string when it contains multibyte characters.
+
+i. A non-zero value for the `rl_complete_suppress_append' variable now causes
+ no `/' to be appended to a directory name.
+
+j. Fixed forward-word and backward-word to work when words contained
+ multibyte characters.
+
+k. Fixed a bug in finding the delimiter of a `?' substring when performing
+ history expansion in a locale that supports multibyte characters.
+
+l. Fixed a memory leak caused by not freeing the timestamp in a history entry.
+
+m. Fixed a bug that caused "\M-x" style key bindings to not obey the setting
+ of the `convert-meta' variable.
+
+n. Fixed saving and restoring primary prompt when prompting for incremental
+ and non-incremental searches; search prompts now display multibyte
+ characters correctly.
+
+o. Fixed a bug that caused keys originally bound to self-insert but shadowed
+ by a multi-character key sequence to not be inserted.
+
+p. Fixed code so rl_prep_term_function and rl_deprep_term_function aren't
+ dereferenced if NULL (matching the documentation).
+
+q. Extensive changes to readline to add enough state so that commands
+ requiring additional characters (searches, multi-key sequences, numeric
+ arguments, commands requiring an additional specifier character like
+ vi-mode change-char, etc.) work without synchronously waiting for
+ additional input.
+
+r. Lots of changes so readline builds and runs on MinGW.
+
+s. Readline no longer tries to modify the terminal settings when running in
+ callback mode.
+
+t. The Readline display code no longer sets the location of the last invisible
+ character in the prompt if the \[\] sequence is empty.
+
+u. The `change-case' command now correctly changes the case of multibyte
+ characters.
+
+v. Changes to the shared library construction scripts to deal with Windows
+ DLL naming conventions for Cygwin.
+
+w. Fixed the redisplay code to avoid core dumps resulting from a poorly-timed
+ SIGWINCH.
+
+x. Fixed the non-incremental search code in vi mode to dispose of any current
+ undo list when copying a line from the history into the current editing
+ buffer.
+
+y. Fixed a bug that caused reversing the incremental search direction to
+ not work correctly.
+
+z. Fixed the vi-mode `U' command to only undo up to the first time insert mode
+ was entered, as Posix specifies.
+
+aa. Fixed a bug in the vi-mode `r' command that left the cursor in the wrong
+ place.
+
+bb. Fixed a redisplay bug caused by moving the cursor vertically to a line
+ with invisible characters in the prompt in a multibyte locale.
+
+cc. Fixed a bug that could cause the terminal special chars to be bound in the
+ wrong keymap in vi mode.
+
+2. New Features in Readline
+
+a. The key sequence sent by the keypad `delete' key is now automatically
+ bound to delete-char.
+
+b. A negative argument to menu-complete now cycles backward through the
+ completion list.
+
+c. A new bindable readline variable: bind-tty-special-chars. If non-zero,
+ readline will bind the terminal special characters to their readline
+ equivalents when it's called (on by default).
+
+d. New bindable command: vi-rubout. Saves deleted text for possible
+ reinsertion, as with any vi-mode `text modification' command; `X' is bound
+ to this in vi command mode.
+
+e. If the rl_completion_query_items is set to a value < 0, readline never
+ asks the user whether or not to view the possible completions.
+
+f. The `C-w' binding in incremental search now understands multibyte
+ characters.
+
+g. New application-callable auxiliary function, rl_variable_value, returns
+ a string corresponding to a readline variable's value.
+
+h. When parsing inputrc files and variable binding commands, the parser
+ strips trailing whitespace from values assigned to boolean variables
+ before checking them.
+
+i. A new external application-controllable variable that allows the LINES
+ and COLUMNS environment variables to set the window size regardless of
+ what the kernel returns.
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+This document details the changes between this version, readline-5.0,
+and the previous version, readline-4.3.
+
+1. Changes to Readline
+
+a. Fixes to avoid core dumps because of null pointer references in the
+ multibyte character code.
+
+b. Fix to avoid infinite recursion caused by certain key combinations.
+
+c. Fixed a bug that caused the vi-mode `last command' to be set incorrectly.
+
+d. Readline no longer tries to read ahead more than one line of input, even
+ when more is available.
+
+e. Fixed the code that adjusts the point to not mishandle null wide
+ characters.
+
+f. Fixed a bug in the history expansion `g' modifier that caused it to skip
+ every other match.
+
+g. Fixed a bug that caused the prompt to overwrite previous output when the
+ output doesn't contain a newline and the locale supports multibyte
+ characters. This same change fixes the problem of readline redisplay
+ slowing down dramatically as the line gets longer in multibyte locales.
+
+h. History traversal with arrow keys in vi insertion mode causes the cursor
+ to be placed at the end of the new line, like in emacs mode.
+
+i. The locale initialization code does a better job of using the right
+ precedence and defaulting when checking the appropriate environment
+ variables.
+
+j. Fixed the history word tokenizer to handle <( and >( better when used as
+ part of bash.
+
+k. The overwrite mode code received several bug fixes to improve undo.
+
+l. Many speedups to the multibyte character redisplay code.
+
+m. The callback character reading interface should not hang waiting to read
+ keyboard input.
+
+n. Fixed a bug with redoing vi-mode `s' command.
+
+o. The code that initializes the terminal tracks changes made to the terminal
+ special characters with stty(1) (or equivalent), so that these changes
+ are reflected in the readline bindings. New application-callable function
+ to make it work: rl_tty_unset_default_bindings().
+
+p. Fixed a bug that could cause garbage to be inserted in the buffer when
+ changing character case in vi mode when using a multibyte locale.
+
+q. Fixed a bug in the redisplay code that caused problems on systems
+ supporting multibyte characters when moving between history lines when the
+ new line has more glyphs but fewer bytes.
+
+r. Undo and redo now work better after exiting vi insertion mode.
+
+s. Make sure system calls are restarted after a SIGWINCH is received using
+ SA_RESTART.
+
+t. Improvements to the code that displays possible completions when using
+ multibyte characters.
+
+u. Fixed a problem when parsing nested if statements in inputrc files.
+
+v. The completer now takes multibyte characters into account when looking for
+ quoted substrings on which to perform completion.
+
+w. The history search functions now perform better bounds checking on the
+ history list.
+
+x. Change to history expansion functions to treat `^' as equivalent to word
+ one, as the documention states.
+
+y. Some changes to the display code to improve display and redisplay of
+ multibyte characters.
+
+z. Changes to speed up the multibyte character redisplay code.
+
+aa. Fixed a bug in the vi-mode `E' command that caused it to skip over the
+ last character of a word if invoked while point was on the word's
+ next-to-last character.
+
+bb. Fixed a bug that could cause incorrect filename quoting when
+ case-insensitive completion was enabled and the word being completed
+ contained backslashes quoting word break characters.
+
+cc. Fixed a bug in redisplay triggered when the prompt string contains
+ invisible characters.
+
+dd. Fixed some display (and other) bugs encountered in multibyte locales
+ when a non-ascii character was the last character on a line.
+
+ee. Fixed some display bugs caused by multibyte characters in prompt strings.
+
+ff. Fixed a problem with history expansion caused by non-whitespace characters
+ used as history word delimiters.
+
+gg. Fixed a problem that could cause readline to refer to freed memory when
+ moving between history lines while doing searches.
+
+hh. Improvements to the code that expands and displays prompt strings
+ containing multibyte characters.
+
+ii. Fixed a problem with vi-mode not correctly remembering the numeric argument
+ to the last `c'hange command for later use with `.'.
+
+jj. Fixed a bug in vi-mode that caused multi-digit count arguments to work
+ incorrectly.
+
+kk. Fixed a problem in vi-mode that caused the last text modification command
+ to not be remembered across different command lines.
+
+ll. Fixed problems with changing characters and changing case at the end of
+ the line.
+
+mm. Fixed a problem with readline saving the contents of the current line
+ before beginning a non-interactive search.
+
+nn. Fixed a problem with EOF detection when using rl_event_hook.
+
+oo. Fixed a problem with the vi mode `p' and `P' commands ignoring numeric
+ arguments.
+
+2. New Features in Readline
+
+a. History expansion has a new `a' modifier equivalent to the `g' modifier
+ for compatibility with the BSD csh.
+
+b. History expansion has a new `G' modifier equivalent to the BSD csh `g'
+ modifier, which performs a substitution once per word.
+
+c. All non-incremental search operations may now undo the operation of
+ replacing the current line with the history line.
+
+d. The text inserted by an `a' command in vi mode can be reinserted with
+ `.'.
+
+e. New bindable variable, `show-all-if-unmodified'. If set, the readline
+ completer will list possible completions immediately if there is more
+ than one completion and partial completion cannot be performed.
+
+f. There is a new application-callable `free_history_entry()' function.
+
+g. History list entries now contain timestamp information; the history file
+ functions know how to read and write timestamp information associated
+ with each entry.
+
+h. Four new key binding functions have been added:
+
+ rl_bind_key_if_unbound()
+ rl_bind_key_if_unbound_in_map()
+ rl_bind_keyseq_if_unbound()
+ rl_bind_keyseq_if_unbound_in_map()
+
+i. New application variable, rl_completion_quote_character, set to any
+ quote character readline finds before it calls the application completion
+ function.
+
+j. New application variable, rl_completion_suppress_quote, settable by an
+ application completion function. If set to non-zero, readline does not
+ attempt to append a closing quote to a completed word.
+
+k. New application variable, rl_completion_found_quote, set to a non-zero
+ value if readline determines that the word to be completed is quoted.
+ Set before readline calls any application completion function.
+
+l. New function hook, rl_completion_word_break_hook, called when readline
+ needs to break a line into words when completion is attempted. Allows
+ the word break characters to vary based on position in the line.
+
+m. New bindable command: unix-filename-rubout. Does the same thing as
+ unix-word-rubout, but adds `/' to the set of word delimiters.
+
+n. When listing completions, directories have a `/' appended if the
+ `mark-directories' option has been enabled.
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This document details the changes between this version, readline-4.3,
and the previous version, readline-4.2a.