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This document details the changes between this version, readline-2.2.1,
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and the previous version, readline-2.2.
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1. Changes to Readline
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a. The `make install' target was corrected so that it did not move the
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newly-installed libreadline.a to libhistory.old
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b. The `make install' target for the documentation will now install the
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info files from the source directory if they do not appear in the
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build directory, since they are shipped in the readline tar file.
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c. Fixed a problem with redisplay that showed up when the prompt string was
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longer than the screen width and the prompt contained invisible characters.
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d. Fixed a problem with the paren matching code -- the blink was far too
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short (it's specified in microseconds, not milliseconds, Chet!).
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This document details the changes between this version, readline-2.2,
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and the previous version, readline-2.1.
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1. Changes to Readline
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a. Added a missing `extern' to a declaration in readline.h that kept
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readline from compiling cleanly on some systems.
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b. The history file is now opened with mode 0600 when it is written for
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better security.
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c. Changes were made to the SIGWINCH handling code so that prompt redisplay
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is done better.
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d. ^G now interrupts incremental searches correctly.
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e. A bug that caused a core dump when the set of characters to be quoted
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when completing words was empty was fixed.
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f. Fixed a problem in the readline test program rltest.c that caused a core
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dump.
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g. The code that handles parser directives in inputrc files now displays
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more error messages.
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h. The history expansion code was fixed so that the appearance of the
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history comment character at the beginning of a word inhibits history
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expansion for that word and the rest of the input line.
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i. The code that prints completion listings now behaves better if one or
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more of the filenames contains non-printable characters.
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j. The time delay when showing matching parentheses is now 0.5 seconds.
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2. New Features in Readline
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a. There is now an option for `iterative' yank-last-arg handline, so a user
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can keep entering `M-.', yanking the last argument of successive history
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lines.
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b. New variable, `print-completions-horizontally', which causes completion
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matches to be displayed across the screen (like `ls -x') rather than up
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and down the screen (like `ls').
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c. New variable, `completion-ignore-case', which causes filename completion
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and matching to be performed case-insensitively.
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d. There is a new bindable command, `magic-space', which causes history
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expansion to be performed on the current readline buffer and a space to
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be inserted into the result.
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e. There is a new bindable command, `menu-complete', which enables tcsh-like
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menu completion (successive executions of menu-complete insert a single
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completion match, cycling through the list of possible completions).
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f. There is a new bindable command, `paste-from-clipboard', for use on Win32
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systems, to insert the text from the Win32 clipboard into the editing
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buffer.
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g. The key sequence translation code now understands printf-style backslash
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escape sequences, including \NNN octal escapes. These escape sequences
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may be used in key sequence definitions or macro values.
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h. An `$include' inputrc file parser directive has been added.
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