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@@ -1,3 +1,34 @@ +This is a terse description of the new features added to readline-8.0 since +the release of readline-7.0. + +New Features in Readline + +a. Non-incremental vi-mode search (`N', `n') can search for a shell pattern, as + Posix specifies (uses fnmatch(3) if available). + +b. There are new `next-screen-line' and `previous-screen-line' bindable + commands, which move the cursor to the same column in the next, or previous, + physical line, respectively. + +c. There are default key bindings for control-arrow-key key combinations. + +d. A negative argument (-N) to `quoted-insert' means to insert the next N + characters using quoted-insert. + +e. New public function: rl_check_signals(), which allows applications to + respond to signals that readline catches while waiting for input using + a custom read function. + +f. There is new support for conditionally testing the readline version in an + inputrc file, with a full set of arithmetic comparison operators available. + +g. There is a simple variable comparison facility available for use within an + inputrc file. Allowable operators are equality and inequality; string + variables may be compared to a value; boolean variables must be compared to + either `on' or `off'; variable names are separated from the operator by + whitespace. + +------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a terse description of the new features added to readline-7.0 since the release of readline-6.3. @@ -46,6 +77,34 @@ k. If readline reads a history file that begins with `#' (or the value of l. Readline now throws an error if it parses a key binding without a terminating `:' or whitespace. +m. The default binding for ^W in vi mode now uses word boundaries specified + by Posix (vi-unix-word-rubout is bindable command name). + +n. rl_clear_visible_line: new application-callable function; clears all + screen lines occupied by the current visible readline line. + +o. rl_tty_set_echoing: application-callable function that controls whether + or not readline thinks it is echoing terminal output. + +p. Handle >| and strings of digits preceding and following redirection + specifications as single tokens when tokenizing the line for history + expansion. + +q. Fixed a bug with displaying completions when the prefix display length + is greater than the length of the completions to be displayed. + +r. The :p history modifier now applies to the entire line, so any expansion + specifying :p causes the line to be printed instead of expanded. + +s. New application-callable function: rl_pending_signal(): returns the signal + number of any signal readline has caught but not yet handled. + +t. New application-settable variable: rl_persistent_signal_handlers: if set + to a non-zero value, readline will enable the readline-6.2 signal handler + behavior in callback mode: handlers are installed when + rl_callback_handler_install is called and removed removed when a complete + line has been read. + ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a terse description of the new features added to readline-6.3 since the release of readline-6.2. |