CVS commit: pkgsrc/devel/readline

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Module Name:    pkgsrc
Committed By:   wiz
Date:           Mon Feb 23 12:35:46 UTC 2009

Modified Files:
        pkgsrc/devel/readline: Makefile distinfo
        pkgsrc/devel/readline/patches: patch-ae
Removed Files:
        pkgsrc/devel/readline/patches: patch-af

Log Message:
Update to 6.0:

This is a terse description of the new features added to readline-6.0 since
the release of readline-5.2.

1.  New Features in Readline

a.  A new variable, rl_sort_completion_matches; allows applications to inhibit
    match list sorting (but beware: some things don't work right if
    applications do this).

b.  A new variable, rl_completion_invoking_key; allows applications to discover
    the key that invoked rl_complete or rl_menu_complete.

c.  The functions rl_block_sigint and rl_release_sigint are now public and
    available to calling applications who want to protect critical sections
    (like redisplay).

d.  The functions rl_save_state and rl_restore_state are now public and
    available to calling applications; documented rest of readline's state
    flag values.

e.  A new user-settable variable, `history-size', allows setting the maximum
    number of entries in the history list.

f.  There is a new implementation of menu completion, with several improvements
    over the old; the most notable improvement is a better `completions
    browsing' mode.

g.  The menu completion code now uses the rl_menu_completion_entry_function
    variable, allowing applications to provide their own menu completion
    generators.

h.  There is support for replacing a prefix  of a pathname with a `...' when
    displaying possible completions.  This is controllable by setting the
    `completion-prefix-display-length' variable.  Matches with a common prefix
    longer than this value have the common prefix replaced with `...'.

i.  There is a new `revert-all-at-newline' variable.  If enabled, readline will
    undo all outstanding changes to all history lines when `accept-line' is
    executed.


To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -r1.46 -r1.47 pkgsrc/devel/readline/Makefile
cvs rdiff -r1.15 -r1.16 pkgsrc/devel/readline/distinfo
cvs rdiff -r1.13 -r1.14 pkgsrc/devel/readline/patches/patch-ae
cvs rdiff -r1.4 -r0 pkgsrc/devel/readline/patches/patch-af

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