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diff --git a/readline/CHANGES b/readline/CHANGES index 1ba0c1256df..9d589886286 100644 --- a/readline/CHANGES +++ b/readline/CHANGES @@ -1,3 +1,320 @@ +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. |