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diff --git a/readline/CHANGES b/readline/CHANGES deleted file mode 100644 index d2929ab6fd2..00000000000 --- a/readline/CHANGES +++ /dev/null @@ -1,301 +0,0 @@ -This document details the changes between this version, readline-4.1, -and the previous version, readline-4.0. - -1. Changes to Readline - -a. Changed the HTML documents so that the table-of-contents is no longer - a separate file. - -b. Changes to the shared object configuration for: Irix 5.x, Irix 6.x, - OSF/1. - -c. The shared library major and minor versions are now constructed - automatically by configure and substituted into the makefiles. - -d. It's now possible to install the shared libraries separately from the - static libraries. - -e. The history library tries to truncate the history file only if it is a - regular file. - -f. A bug that caused _rl_dispatch to address negative array indices on - systems with signed chars was fixed. - -g. rl-yank-nth-arg now leaves the history position the same as when it was - called. - -h. Changes to the completion code to handle MS-DOS drive-letter:pathname - filenames. - -i. Completion is now case-insensitive by default on MS-DOS. - -j. Fixes to the history file manipulation code for MS-DOS. - -k. Readline attempts to bind the arrow keys to appropriate defaults on MS-DOS. - -l. Some fixes were made to the redisplay code for better operation on MS-DOS. - -m. The quoted-insert code will now insert tty special chars like ^C. - -n. A bug was fixed that caused the display code to reference memory before - the start of the prompt string. - -o. More support for __EMX__ (OS/2). - -p. A bug was fixed in readline's signal handling that could cause infinite - recursion in signal handlers. - -q. A bug was fixed that caused the point to be less than zero when rl_forward - was given a very large numeric argument. - -r. The vi-mode code now gets characters via the application-settable value - of rl_getc_function rather than calling rl_getc directly. - -s. The history file code now uses O_BINARY mode when reading and writing - the history file on cygwin32. - -t. Fixed a bug in the redisplay code for lines with more than 256 line - breaks. - -u. A bug was fixed which caused invisible character markers to not be - stripped from the prompt string if the terminal was in no-echo mode. - -v. Readline no longer tries to get the variables it needs for redisplay - from the termcap entry if the calling application has specified its - own redisplay function. Readline treats the terminal as `dumb' in - this case. - -w. Fixes to the SIGWINCH code so that a multiple-line prompt with escape - sequences is redrawn correctly. - -x. Changes to the install and install-shared targets so that the libraries - and header files are installed separately. - -2. New Features in Readline - -a. A new Readline `user manual' is in doc/rluserman.texinfo. - -b. Parentheses matching is now always compiled into readline, and enabled - or disabled when the value of the `blink-matching-paren' variable is - changed. - -c. MS-DOS systems now use ~/_inputrc as the last-ditch inputrc filename. - -d. MS-DOS systems now use ~/_history as the default history file. - -e. history-search-{forward,backward} now leave the point at the end of the - line when the string to search for is empty, like - {reverse,forward}-search-history. - -f. history-search-{forward,backward} now leave the last history line found - in the readline buffer if the second or subsequent search fails. - -g. New function for use by applications: rl_on_new_line_with_prompt, used - when an application displays the prompt itself before calling readline(). - -h. New variable for use by applications: rl_already_prompted. An application - that displays the prompt itself before calling readline() must set this to - a non-zero value. - -i. A new variable, rl_gnu_readline_p, always 1. The intent is that an - application can verify whether or not it is linked with the `real' - readline library or some substitute. - -j. Per Bothner's `rlfe' (pronounced `Ralphie') readline front-end program - is included in the examples subdirectory, though it is not built - by default. - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -This document details the changes between this version, readline-4.0, -and the previous version, readline-2.2. - -1. Changes to Readline - -a. The version number is now 4.0, to match the major and minor version - numbers on the shared readline and history libraries. Future - releases will maintain the identical numbering. - -b. Fixed a typo in the `make install' recipe that copied libreadline.a - to libhistory.old right after installing it. - -c. The readline and history info files are now installed out of the source - directory if they are not found in the build directory. - -d. The library no longer exports a function named `savestring' -- backwards - compatibility be damned. - -e. There is no longer any #ifdef SHELL code in the source files. - -f. Some changes were made to the key binding code to fix memory leaks and - better support Win32 systems. - -g. Fixed a silly typo in the paren matching code -- it's microseconds, not - milliseconds. - -h. The readline library should be compilable by C++ compilers. - -i. The readline.h public header file now includes function prototypes for - all readline functions, and some changes were made to fix errors in the - source files uncovered by the use of prototypes. - -j. The maximum numeric argument is now clamped at 1000000. - -k. Fixes to rl_yank_last_arg to make it behave better. - -l. Fixed a bug in the display code that caused core dumps if the prompt - string length exceeded 1024 characters. - -m. The menu completion code was fixed to properly insert a single completion - if there is only one match. - -n. A bug was fixed that caused the display code to improperly display tabs - after newlines. - -o. A fix was made to the completion code in which a typo caused the wrong - value to be passed to the function that computed the longest common - prefix of the list of matches. - -p. The completion code now checks the value of rl_filename_completion_desired, - which is set by application-supplied completion functions to indicate - that filename completion is being performed, to decide whether or not to - call an application-supplied `ignore completions' function. - -q. Code was added to the history library to catch history substitutions - using `&' without a previous history substitution or search having been - performed. - - -2. New Features in Readline - -a. There is a new script, support/shobj-conf, to do system-specific shared - object and library configuration. It generates variables for configure - to substitute into makefiles. The README file provides a detailed - explanation of the shared library creation process. - -b. Shared libraries and objects are now built in the `shlib' subdirectory. - There is a shlib/Makefile.in to control the build process. `make shared' - from the top-level directory is still the right way to build shared - versions of the libraries. - -c. rlconf.h is now installed, so applications can find out which features - have been compiled into the installed readline and history libraries. - -d. rlstdc.h is now an installed header file. - -e. Many changes to the signal handling: - o Readline now catches SIGQUIT and cleans up the tty before returning; - o A new variable, rl_catch_signals, is available to application writers - to indicate to readline whether or not it should install its own - signal handlers for SIGINT, SIGTERM, SIGQUIT, SIGALRM, SIGTSTP, - SIGTTIN, and SIGTTOU; - o A new variable, rl_catch_sigwinch, is available to application - writers to indicate to readline whether or not it should install its - own signal handler for SIGWINCH, which will chain to the calling - applications's SIGWINCH handler, if one is installed; - o There is a new function, rl_free_line_state, for application signal - handlers to call to free up the state associated with the current - line after receiving a signal; - o There is a new function, rl_cleanup_after_signal, to clean up the - display and terminal state after receiving a signal; - o There is a new function, rl_reset_after_signal, to reinitialize the - terminal and display state after an application signal handler - returns and readline continues - -f. There is a new function, rl_resize_terminal, to reset readline's idea of - the screen size after a SIGWINCH. - -g. New public functions: rl_save_prompt and rl_restore_prompt. These were - previously private functions with a `_' prefix. These functions are - used when an application wants to write a message to the `message area' - with rl_message and have the prompt restored correctly when the message - is erased. - -h. New function hook: rl_pre_input_hook, called just before readline starts - reading input, after initialization. - -i. New function hook: rl_display_matches_hook, called when readline would - display the list of completion matches. The new function - rl_display_match_list is what readline uses internally, and is available - for use by application functions called via this hook. - -j. New bindable function, delete-char-or-list, like tcsh. - -k. A new variable, rl_erase_empty_line, which, if set by an application using - readline, will cause readline to erase, prompt and all, lines on which the - only thing typed was a newline. - -l. There is a new script, support/shlib-install, to install and uninstall - the shared readline and history libraries. - -m. A new bindable variable, `isearch-terminators', which is a string - containing the set of characters that should terminate an incremental - search without being executed as a command. - -n. A new bindable function, forward-backward-delete-char. - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -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. |