1 This document details the changes between this version, readline-2.2,
2 and the previous version, readline-2.1.
6 a. Added a missing `extern' to a declaration in readline.h that kept
7 readline from compiling cleanly on some systems.
9 b. The history file is now opened with mode 0600 when it is written for
12 c. Changes were made to the SIGWINCH handling code so that prompt redisplay
15 d. ^G now interrupts incremental searches correctly.
17 e. A bug that caused a core dump when the set of characters to be quoted
18 when completing words was empty was fixed.
20 f. Fixed a problem in the readline test program rltest.c that caused a core
23 g. The code that handles parser directives in inputrc files now displays
26 h. The history expansion code was fixed so that the appearance of the
27 history comment character at the beginning of a word inhibits history
28 expansion for that word and the rest of the input line.
30 i. The code that prints completion listings now behaves better if one or
31 more of the filenames contains non-printable characters.
33 j. The time delay when showing matching parentheses is now 0.5 seconds.
36 2. New Features in Readline
38 a. There is now an option for `iterative' yank-last-arg handline, so a user
39 can keep entering `M-.', yanking the last argument of successive history
42 b. New variable, `print-completions-horizontally', which causes completion
43 matches to be displayed across the screen (like `ls -x') rather than up
44 and down the screen (like `ls').
46 c. New variable, `completion-ignore-case', which causes filename completion
47 and matching to be performed case-insensitively.
49 d. There is a new bindable command, `magic-space', which causes history
50 expansion to be performed on the current readline buffer and a space to
51 be inserted into the result.
53 e. There is a new bindable command, `menu-complete', which enables tcsh-like
54 menu completion (successive executions of menu-complete insert a single
55 completion match, cycling through the list of possible completions).
57 f. There is a new bindable command, `paste-from-clipboard', for use on Win32
58 systems, to insert the text from the Win32 clipboard into the editing
61 g. The key sequence translation code now understands printf-style backslash
62 escape sequences, including \NNN octal escapes. These escape sequences
63 may be used in key sequence definitions or macro values.
65 h. An `$include' inputrc file parser directive has been added.