readline/NEWS

   1 This is a terse description of the new features added to readline-5.1 since
   2 the release of readline-5.0.
   3
   4 1.  New Features in Readline
   5
   6 a.  The key sequence sent by the keypad `delete' key is now automatically
   7     bound to delete-char.
   8
   9 b.  A negative argument to menu-complete now cycles backward through the
  10     completion list.
  11
  12 c.  A new bindable readline variable:  bind-tty-special-chars.  If non-zero,
  13     readline will bind the terminal special characters to their readline
  14     equivalents when it's called (on by default).
  15
  16 d.  New bindable command: vi-rubout.  Saves deleted text for possible
  17     reinsertion, as with any vi-mode `text modification' command; `X' is bound
  18     to this in vi command mode.
  19
  20 e.  If the rl_completion_query_items is set to a value < 0, readline never
  21     asks the user whether or not to view the possible completions.
  22
  23 f.  New application-callable auxiliary function, rl_variable_value, returns
  24     a string corresponding to a readline variable's value.
  25
  26 g.  When parsing inputrc files and variable binding commands, the parser
  27     strips trailing whitespace from values assigned to boolean variables
  28     before checking them.
  29
  30 h.  A new external application-controllable variable that allows the LINES
  31     and COLUMNS environment variables to set the window size regardless of
  32     what the kernel returns.