The first public release of the GNU Readline library, version 6.2, is now available for FTP with the URLs
ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/readline-6.2.tar.gz ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/readline/readline-6.2.tar.gz and from the usual GNU mirror sites. This distribution is essentially a standalone version of the readline library that appears in Bash-4.2 together with an `autoconf' framework. The documentation has been updated and is current. Postscript, DVI, and Info versions of the Readline and History manuals are included. A list of changes in this release is appended to this announcement. This release accompanies the simultaneous release of bash-4.2. There are more improvements in the programming interface and new user-visible variables and bindable commands. In particular, the full set of vi editing commands can now be used in callback mode. GNU Readline is a library which provides programs with an input facility including command-line editing and history. Editing commands similar to both emacs and vi are included. The GNU History library, which provides facilities for managing a list of previously-typed command lines and an interactive command line recall facility similar to that provided by csh, is also present. The history library is built as part of the readline as well as separately. Please send readline bug reports to bug-readl...@gnu.org. As always, thanks for your help. Chet +========== CHANGES ==========+ 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. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/ _______________________________________________ GNU Announcement mailing list <info-gnu@gnu.org> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu
