allow quoted-insert while reading readline search strings; force filename argument...

[thirdparty/bash.git] / NEWS-5.1

diff --git a/NEWS-5.1 b/NEWS-5.1
index e6aa1d12aa75bd10fbf2f0802bd4b15c3f4679db..90b0193b8f3d025e5c41353d4d88ae119c938499 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS-5.1
+++ b/NEWS-5.1
@@ -94,8 +94,8 @@ dd. New `U', `u', and `L' parameter transformations to convert to uppercase,
     convert first character to uppercase, and convert to lowercase,
     respectively.
 
-ee. PROMPT_COMMANDS: a new array variable, each element of which can contain a
-    command to be executed like PROMPT_COMMAND.
+ee. PROMPT_COMMAND: can now be an  array variable, each element of which can
+    contain a command to be executed like a string PROMPT_COMMAND variable.
 
 ff. `ulimit' has a -R option to report and set the RLIMIT_RTTIME resource.
 
@@ -145,6 +145,8 @@ tt. The `fg' and `bg' builtins now return an error in a command substitution
 uu. The shell now attempts to unlink all FIFOs on exit, whether a consuming
     process has finished with them or not.
 
+vv. There is a new contributed loadable builtin: asort.
+
 2. New Features in Readline
 
 a. If a second consecutive completion attempt produces matches where the first
@@ -165,11 +167,12 @@ e. rl-clear-display: new bindable command that clears the screen and, if
 
 f. New active mark and face feature: when enabled, it will highlight the text
    inserted by a bracketed paste (the `active region') and the text found by
-   incremental and non-incremental history searches.
+   incremental and non-incremental history searches. This is tied to bracketed
+   paste and can be disabled by turning off bracketed paste.
 
 g. Readline sets the mark in several additional commands.
 
-h. Bracketed paste mode is enabled by default (for now).
+h. Bracketed paste mode is enabled by default.
 
 i. Readline tries to take advantage of the more regular structure of UTF-8
    characters to identify the beginning and end of characters when moving