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+This document details the changes between this version, readline-2.2.1,
+and the previous version, readline-2.2.
+
+1. Changes to Readline
+
+a. The `make install' target was corrected so that it did not move the
+ newly-installed libreadline.a to libhistory.old
+
+b. The `make install' target for the documentation will now install the
+ info files from the source directory if they do not appear in the
+ build directory, since they are shipped in the readline tar file.
+
+c. Fixed a problem with redisplay that showed up when the prompt string was
+ longer than the screen width and the prompt contained invisible characters.
+
+d. Fixed a problem with the paren matching code -- the blink was far too
+ short (it's specified in microseconds, not milliseconds, Chet!).
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+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.