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authorJan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>2011-05-11 23:38:37 +0000
committerJan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>2011-05-11 23:38:37 +0000
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Imported readline 6.2, and upstream patch 001.
[patch 0/3] readline-6.2 rebase http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2011-05/msg00003.html [patch 1/3] readline-6.2: Merge of already posted patches http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2011-05/msg00004.html = [Bug-readline] [RFC/readline] bind.c, rl_function_dumper, Free allocated http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-readline/2011-03/msg00000.html [Bug-readline] [patch] Fix underquotation in readline/examples/rlfe/conf http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-readline/2011-04/msg00001.html [Bug-readline] [patch] Makefile.in htm<->html http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-readline/2011-04/msg00002.html Re: [Bug-readline] [patch] Makefile.in dependency: callback.o: xmalloc.h http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-readline/2011-04/msg00004.html [Bug-readline] [patch] Remove . from the VPATH directive http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-readline/2011-04/msg00005.html Eli Zaretskii's __MSDOS__ / __GO32__ / __MINGW32__ / __DJGPP__ stuff: http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2011-04/msg00002.html Jan Kratochvil's patch for FSF GDB tree local-specific changes: http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2011-04/msg00006.html Preservation of existing ChangeLog.gdb files, their updates. [patch 2/3] readline-6.2: Workaround "ask" regression http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2011-05/msg00005.html [patch 3/3] readline-6.2: Revert 5.x compat., apply 6.x compat. http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2011-05/msg00006.html [patch 4/3] readline-6.2: Substitute inc-hist.texinfo http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2011-05/msg00010.html readline/ Workaround gdb.base/completion.exp regression on readline-6.2. * complete.c (get_y_or_n): Disable the return on RL_STATE_CALLBACK. Imported readline 6.2, and upstream patch 001. * configure: Regenerate. readline/doc/ * hsuser.texi (Using History Interactively): Disable !BashFeatures @defcodeindex. Make the `Programming with GNU History' reference external. * inc-hist.texinfo: Remove. Imported readline 6.2, and upstream patch 001. readline/examples/ Imported readline 6.2, and upstream patch 001. readline/examples/rlfe/ Imported readline 6.2, and upstream patch 001. gdb/ * config.in: Regenerate. * configure: Regenerate. * configure.ac <--with-system-readline> (for readline_echoing_p): Remove the test. * tui/tui-io.c (tui_old_readline_echoing_p): Rename to ... (tui_old_rl_echoing_p): ... here. (tui_setup_io): Rename extern declaration readline_echoing_p to _rl_echoing_p. Adjust assignments for the both renames. gdb/doc/ * Makefile.in (GDB_DOC_SOURCE_INCLUDES): Rename inc-hist.texinfo to hsuser.texi. * gdb.texinfo <!SYSTEM_READLINE>: Rename inc-hist.texinfo inclusion and comment to hsuser.texi. Change rluser.texi name in the comment.
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-This is a terse description of the new features added to readline-5.1 since
-the release of readline-5.0.
+This is a terse description of the new features added to readline-6.2 since
+the release of readline-6.1.
-1. 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.
-a. The key sequence sent by the keypad `delete' key is now automatically
- bound to delete-char.
+b. New bindable variable `completion-display-width' to set the number of
+ columns used when displaying completions.
-b. A negative argument to menu-complete now cycles backward through the
- completion list.
+c. New bindable variable `completion-case-map' to cause case-insensitive
+ completion to treat `-' and `_' as identical.
-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. There are new bindable vi-mode command names to avoid readline's case-
+ insensitive matching not allowing them to be bound separately.
-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. New application-callable auxiliary function, rl_variable_value, returns
- a string corresponding to a readline variable's value.
-
-g. When parsing inputrc files and variable binding commands, the parser
- strips trailing whitespace from values assigned to boolean variables
- before checking them.
-
-h. 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.
+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.