Re: [LFS Trac] #5755: readline-8.3

#5755: readline-8.3
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 Reporter:  Bruce Dubbs  |       Owner:  lfs-book
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  12.4
Component:  Book         |     Version:  git
 Severity:  normal       |  Resolution:
 Keywords:               |
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Comment (by Bruce Dubbs):

 2. New Features in Readline
 {{{
 a. Output a newline if there is no prompt and readline reads an empty
 line.

 b. The history library falls back to stdio when writing the history list
 if
    mmap fails.

 c. New bindable variable `search-ignore-case', causes readline to perform
    case-insensitive incremental and non-incremental history searches.

 d. rl_full_quoting_desired: new application-settable variable, causes all
    completions to be quoted as if they were filenames.

 e. rl_macro_display_hook: new application-settable function pointer, used
 if
    the application wants to print macro values itself instead of letting
    readline do it

 f. rl_reparse_colors: new application-callable function, reparses
 $LS_COLORS
    (presumably after the user changes it)

 g. rl_completion_rewrite_hook: new application-settable function pointer,
    called to modify the word being completed before comparing it against
    pathnames from the file system.

 h. execute-named-command: a new bindable command that reads the name of a
    readline command from the standard input and executes it. Bound to M-x
    in emacs mode by default.

 i. Incremental and non-incremental searches now allow ^V/^Q (or, in the
 former
    case, anything bound to quoted-insert) to quote characters in the
 search
    string.

 j. There is a new rl_print_keybinding function that prints the key
 bindings
    for a single bindable function specified by name.

 k. Documentation has been significantly updated.

 l. New `force-meta-prefix' bindable variable, which forces the use of ESC
 as
    the meta prefix when using "\M-" in key bindings instead of overloading
    convert-meta.

 m. The default value for `readline-colored-completion-prefix' no longer
 has a
    leading `.'; the original report was based on a misunderstanding.

 n. There is a new bindable command, `export-completions', which writes the
    possible completions for a word to the standard output in a defined
 format.

 o. Readline can reset its idea of the screen dimensions when executing
 after
    a SIGCONT.
 }}}
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