CHANGES revision 35486 
1This document details the changes between this version, readline-2.2,
2and the previous version, readline-2.1.
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41.  Changes to Readline
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6a.  Added a missing `extern' to a declaration in readline.h that kept
7    readline from compiling cleanly on some systems.
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9b.  The history file is now opened with mode 0600 when it is written for
10    better security.
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12c.  Changes were made to the SIGWINCH handling code so that prompt redisplay
13    is done better.
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15d.  ^G now interrupts incremental searches correctly.
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17e.  A bug that caused a core dump when the set of characters to be quoted
18    when completing words was empty was fixed.
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20f.  Fixed a problem in the readline test program rltest.c that caused a core
21    dump.
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23g.  The code that handles parser directives in inputrc files now displays
24    more error messages.
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26h.  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.
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30i.  The code that prints completion listings now behaves better if one or
31    more of the filenames contains non-printable characters.
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33j.  The time delay when showing matching parentheses is now 0.5 seconds.
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362.  New Features in Readline
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38a.  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
40    lines.
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42b.  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').
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46c.  New variable, `completion-ignore-case', which causes filename completion
47    and matching to be performed case-insensitively.
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49d.  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.
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53e.  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).
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57f.  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
59    buffer.
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61g.  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.
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65h.  An `$include' inputrc file parser directive has been added.
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