The first public release of the GNU Readline library, version 6.1, is now available for FTP with the URLs
ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/readline-6.1.tar.gz ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/readline/readline-6.1.tar.gz and from the usual GNU mirror sites. This distribution is essentially a standalone version of the readline library that appears in Bash-4.1 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-4.1. The last few bugs (fingers crossed) in the multibyte character redisplay code have been corrected. There are improvements in the programming interface and new user-visible variables and bindable commands. 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-6.1, and the previous version, readline-6.0. 1. Changes to Readline a. The SIGWINCH signal handler now avoids calling the redisplay code if one arrives while in the middle of redisplay. b. Changes to the timeout code to make sure that timeout values greater than one second are handled better. c. Fixed a bug in the redisplay code that was triggered by a prompt containing invisible characters exactly the width of the screen. d. Fixed a bug in the redisplay code encountered when running in horizontal scroll mode. e. Fixed a bug that prevented menu completion from properly completing filenames. f. Fixed a redisplay bug caused by a multibyte character causing a line to wrap. g. Fixed a bug that caused key sequences of two characters to not be recognized when a longer sequence identical in the first two characters was bound. h. Fixed a bug that caused history expansion to be attempted on $'...' single-quoted strings. i. Fixed a bug that caused incorrect redisplay when the prompt contained multibyte characters in an `invisible' sequence bracketed by \[ and \]. j. Fixed a bug that caused history expansion to short-circuit after encountering a multibyte character. k. Fixed a bug that caused applications using the callback interface to not react to SIGINT (or other signals) until another character arrived. 2. New Features in Readline a. New bindable function: menu-complete-backward. b. In the vi insertion keymap, C-n is now bound to menu-complete by default, and C-p to menu-complete-backward. c. When in vi command mode, repeatedly hitting ESC now does nothing, even when ESC introduces a bound key sequence. This is closer to how historical vi behaves. d. New bindable function: skip-csi-sequence. Can be used as a default to consume key sequences generated by keys like Home and End without having to bind all keys. e. New application-settable function: rl_filename_rewrite_hook. Can be used to rewite or modify filenames read from the file system before they are compared to the word to be completed. f. New bindable variable: skip-completed-text, active when completing in the middle of a word. If enabled, it means that characters in the completion that match characters in the remainder of the word are "skipped" rather than inserted into the line. g. The pre-readline-6.0 version of menu completion is available as "old-menu-complete" for users who do not like the readline-6.0 version. h. New bindable variable: echo-control-characters. If enabled, and the tty ECHOCTL bit is set, controls the echoing of characters corresponding to keyboard-generated signals. i. New bindable variable: enable-meta-key. Controls whether or not readline sends the smm/rmm sequences if the terminal indicates it has a meta key that enables eight-bit characters. -- ``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/
