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1This is a terse description of the new features added to readline-6.2 since
2the release of readline-6.1.
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4a. The history library does not try to write the history filename in the
5 current directory if $HOME is unset. This closes a potential security
6 problem if the application does not specify a history filename.
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8b. New bindable variable `completion-display-width' to set the number of
9 columns used when displaying completions.
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11c. New bindable variable `completion-case-map' to cause case-insensitive
12 completion to treat `-' and `_' as identical.
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14d. There are new bindable vi-mode command names to avoid readline's case-
15 insensitive matching not allowing them to be bound separately.
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17e. New bindable variable `menu-complete-display-prefix' causes the menu
18 completion code to display the common prefix of the possible completions
19 before cycling through the list, instead of after.