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@@ -1,3 +1,142 @@ +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. |