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[Bug-readline] Readline-7.0-beta available for FTP


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: [Bug-readline] Readline-7.0-beta available for FTP
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 10:24:54 -0400

The first beta release of the GNU Readline library, version 7.0,
is now available for FTP with the URL

ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/readline-7.0-beta.tar.gz

This distribution is essentially a standalone version of the
readline library that appears in bash-4.4-beta 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-4.4-beta.
There are more improvements in the programming interface and new
user-visible variables and bindable commands.  There is an additional
public function, which required a change to the major version number.

The signal handling has been reworked so that it will not run code in a
signal handler context, and there are additional signal and event handling
hooks to improve application responsiveness.  The history file
manipulation functions now do a better job of restoring the old history
file on write errors.  There is a new bindable variable to enable a
`bracketed paste' mode, which is available in new terminal emulators and
indicates to programs when input is coming from a paste instead of the
keyboard, so the input can be handled as one big chunk of text to insert.
Similarly, the text insert functions attempt to batch-insert all pending
typeahead characters that map to `self-insert' as long as the input is
coming from a terminal.  The editing mode indicators are now user-settable
strings that can contain non-printing characters.  It is now possible to have
the common prefix of a set of completions displayed in a different color when
listing possible completions.

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.

Since this is a beta release, please send readline bug reports to
address@hidden

As always, thanks for your help.

Chet

+========== CHANGES ==========+
This document details the changes between this version, readline-7.0, and the
previous version, readline-6.3.

1.  Changes to Readline

a.  A bug that caused vi-mode `.' to be unable to redo `c', `d', and `y'
    commands with modifiers was fixed.

b.  Fixed a bug that caused callback mode to dump core when reading a
    multiple-key sequence (e.g., arrow keys).

c.  Fixed a bug that caused the redisplay code to erase some of the line when
    using horizontal scrolling with incremental search.

d.  Readline's input handler now performs signal processing if read(2) is
    interrupted by SIGALRM or SIGVTALRM.

e.  Fixed a problem with revert-all-at-newline freeing freed memory.

f.  Clarified the documentation for the history_quotes_inhibit_expansion
    variable to note that it inhibits scanning for the history comment
    character and that it only affects double-quoted strings.

g.  Fixed an off-by-one error in the prompt printed when performing searches.

h.  Use pselect(2), if available, to wait for input before calling read(2), so
    a SIGWINCH can interrupt it, since it doesn't interrupt read(2).

i.  Some memory leaks caused by signals interrupting filename completion have
    been fixed.

j.  Reading EOF twice on a non-empty line causes EOF to be returned, rather
    than the partial line.  This can cause partial lines to be executed on
    SIGHUP, for example.

k.  Fixed a bug concerning deleting multibyte characters from the search
    string while performing an incremental search.

l.  Fixed a bug with tilde expanding directory names in filename completion.

m.  Fixed a bug that did not allow binding sequences beginning with a `\'.

n.  Fixed a redisplay bug involving incorrect line wrapping when the prompt
    contains a multibyte character in the last screen column.

o.  Fixed a bug that caused history expansion to disregard characters that are
    documented to delimit a history event specifier without requiring `:'.

p.  Fixed a bug that could cause reading past the end of a string when reading
    the value when binding the set of isearch terminators.

q.  Fixed a bug that caused readline commands that depend on knowing which  
    key invoked them to misbehave when dispatching key sequences that are
    prefixes of other key bindings. 

r.  Paren matching now works in vi insert mode.

s.  Colored completion prefixes are now displayed using a different color, less
    likely to collide with files.

t.  Fixed a bug that caused vi-mode character search to misbehave when
    running in callback mode.

u.  Fixed a bug that caused output to be delayed when input is coming from a
    macro in vi-mode.

v.  Fixed a bug that caused the vi-mode `.' command to misbehave when redoing
    a multi-key key sequence via a macro.

w.  Fixed a bug that caused problems with applications that supply their own
    input function when performing completion.

x.  When read returns -1/EIO when attempting to read a key, return an error
    instead of line termination back to the caller.

y.  Updated tty auditing feature based on patch from Red Hat.

z.  Fixed a bug that could cause the history library to crash on overflows
    introduced by malicious editing of timestamps in the history file.

2.  New Features in Readline

a.  The history truncation code now uses the same error recovery mechansim as
    the history writing code, and restores the old version of the history file
    on error.  The error recovery mechanism handles symlinked history files.

b.  There is a new bindable variable, `enable-bracketed-paste', which enables
    support for a terminal's bracketed paste mode.

c.  The editing mode indicators can now be strings and are user-settable
    (new `emacs-mode-string', `vi-cmd-mode-string' and `vi-ins-mode-string'
    variables).  Mode strings can contain invisible character sequences.
    Setting mode strings to null strings restores the defaults.

d.  Prompt expansion adds the mode string to the last line of a multi-line
    prompt (one with embedded newlines).

e.  There is a new bindable variable, `colored-completion-prefix', which, if
    set, causes the common prefix of a set of possible completions to be
    displayed in color.

f.  There is a new bindable command `vi-yank-pop', a vi-mode version of emacs-
    mode yank-pop.

g.  The redisplay code underwent several efficiency improvements for multibyte
    locales.

h.  The insert-char function attempts to batch-insert all pending typeahead
    that maps to self-insert, as long as it is coming from the terminal.

i.  rl_callback_sigcleanup: a new application function that can clean up and
    unset any state set by readline's callback mode.  Intended to be used
    after a signal.

-- 
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
                 ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU    address@hidden    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/



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