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| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 44 |
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diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 6bcf12232..55639888b 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2003-04-04 Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com> + + * 18433: INSTALL, README, Etc/CONTRIBUTORS, Etc/NEWS: information + for 4.1.1. + 2003-04-03 Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com> * 18432: Completion/Unix/Command/_mh, diff --git a/Etc/CONTRIBUTORS b/Etc/CONTRIBUTORS index 11e1385b4..7b4f789bb 100644 --- a/Etc/CONTRIBUTORS +++ b/Etc/CONTRIBUTORS @@ -15,6 +15,52 @@ to be currently accurate. If you feel that you or someone else have been unfairly omitted from this list please mail the current maintainer at <coordinator@zsh.org>. +Version 4.1.1 +------------- + +Clint Adams <clint@zsh.org>: termcap/terminfo, completion, configuration, +various modules, networking, prompts + +Andrej Borsenkow <bor@zsh.org>: configuration, completion functions, cygwin +support + +Chmouel Bodjnah <chmouel@mandrakesoft.com>: Linux completion support + +Wayne Davison <wayned@users.sourceforge.net>: shell history mechanism, +arithmetic + +Zvi Har'El <rl@math.technion.ac.il>: completion functions + +Doug Kearns <djkea2@mugca.its.monash.edu.au>: completion functions + +Oliver Kiddle <opk@zsh.org>: builtins, completion, parameters, prompts, +standards support, tests + +Andrew Main <zefram@zsh.org>: zle keymaps, games + +Akinori Musha: BSD completion support + +Felix Rosencrantz <f_rosenkrantz@yahoo.com>: completion, zle + +Bart Schaefer <schaefer@zsh.org>: configuration, parameters, prompts, +signals, syntax, tests, functions, sanity checking + +Adam Spiers <adam@spiers.net>: completion and other functions + +Peter Stephenson <pws@zsh.org>: configuration, zle, networking, syntax, +completion + +Tanaka Akira <akr@zsh.org>: completion functions + +Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>: signals, process groups. + +Geoff Wing <gcw@zsh.org>: archiving and distribution network, line editor +display, configuration + +Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@zsh.org>: internal completion mechanism and +low-level functions, line editor internals, syntax, wordcode mechanism, + + Version 4.0.1 ------------- diff --git a/Etc/NEWS b/Etc/NEWS index 1e6a3308b..d6a9c747b 100644 --- a/Etc/NEWS +++ b/Etc/NEWS @@ -1,7 +1,75 @@ ------------------------------------- CHANGES FROM PREVIOUS VERSIONS OF ZSH ------------------------------------- - + +New features between zsh versions 4.0 and 4.1 +--------------------------------------------- + +Configuration: +- upgraded to use autoconf post-2.50 +- improved compatibility with other shells through shell options, + builtin arguments and improved builtin option parsing + +Syntax and builtins: +- new printf builtin +- `+=' to append to parameters which works for scalars, arrays and (with + pairs) associative arrays. +- enhanced multiple parameter `for' loops: + for key value in key1 value1 key2 value2 ... + maintaining full compatibility with POSIX syntax + +Add-on modules and functions: +- zsh/net/tcp module provides builtin interface to TCP through ztcp + builtin. Function suite for interactive and script use with expect-style + pattern matching. +- zsh/net/socket module provides zsocket builtin. +- zcalc calculator function with full line editing. +- builtin interface to pcre library +- zsh/zselect module provides zselect builtin as interface to select + system call + +Completion system: +- general improvements to command and context support, low-level functions, + display code. +- in verbose mode, matches with the same description are grouped +- highly configurable completions for values of specific parameters, + specific redirections for specific commands +- support for bash completion functions (typically zsh native functions are + more powerful where available) +- New completions provided for (some of these may be in later 4.0 + releases): valgrind, tidy, texinfo, infocmp, Java classes, larch, limit, + locale parameters, netcat, mysqldiff, mt, lsof, elinks, ant, debchange + (dch), email addresses, file system types, Perforce, xsltproc. + +Line editor: +- special parameters $PREDISPLAY, $POSTDISPLAY available in function + widgets to configure uneditable text (for narrowing) +- recursive editing +- supplied widgets read-from-minibuffer, replace-string use these features + (more intuitive prompting and argument reading than 4.0) +- access to killed text vai $CUTBUFFER and $killring +- supplied highly configurable word widgets forward-word-match etc., can + set what constitutes a word interactively or in startup script + (implement bash-style behaviour, replacing previous bash-* word widgets) +- interface to increment search via $LASTSEARCH +- better handling of keymaps in zle and widgets +- better support for output from user-defined widgets while zle is active +- tetris game which runs entirely in zle + +Local internal improvements: +- disowned jobs are automatically restarted +- line numbers in error messages and $PS4 output are more consistent +- `=prog' expands only paths, no longer aliases for consistency +- job display in prompts; `jobs' command output can be piped +- prompts: new $RPROMPT2, %^, %y, enhanced %{, %}, %_. +- rand48() function for better randomness in arithmetic + (if the corresponding math library function is present) +- $SECONDS parameter can be made floating point via `typeset -F SECONDS' + for better accuracy +- improvements to command line history mechanism +- many bugfixes + + New features in zsh version 4.0.1 --------------------------------- diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 7eafd3094..e1513bfa4 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ Alternatively, you can install the various parts in separate stages. To install the zsh binary, execute the command: make install.bin Any previous copy of zsh will be renamed "zsh.old" - + To install the dynamically-loadable modules, execute the command: make install.modules Note that this is required for the shell to operate properly if dynamic diff --git a/README b/README index dfe1a2b00..3a897fdc4 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -5,7 +5,9 @@ THE Z SHELL (ZSH) Version ------- -This is zsh version 4.0. This is a stable release. +This is zsh version 4.1. This is a development release. However, it has +been in use over a long period by many people and it is believed to be +fairly stable. Installing Zsh -------------- @@ -24,38 +26,14 @@ details, see the documentation. Possible incompatibilities --------------------------- -Some particular differences you may notice between version 3.0 and 4.0 -(mostly based on 3.0.8; there are other differences from earlier versions): - - o The options ALWAYS_LAST_PROMPT (return to the line you were - editing after displaying completion lists) and LIST_AMBIGUOUS - (don't do AUTO_LIST if there was an unambiguous prefix that could be - inserted, i.e. only list if it is ambiguous what to insert next) are - now set by default. This is in response to complaints that too many - zsh features are never noticed by many users. To turn them off, - just put `unsetopt alwayslastprompt listambiguous' in your - .zshrc file. - o The editor commands history-search-{forward,backward} are implemented - slightly differently, as are {up,down}-line-or-search. You may - well not notice this, however. - o Cursor keys are now usually bound in both vi command and insert - mode. In the latter case, this may result in a slight delay after - hitting ESCAPE to exit insert mode. Purists who object to this can - unbind the appropriate key sequences (see zshzle(1)). Most beginning - users of zsh apparently find the current behaviour preferable. - o History file format is incompatible with versions older than 3.0.6, - but this should only affect people who try to share history files - between the two versions -- 4.0 can read the old format, 3.0.6 and - later can read the new format. Just beware of INC_APPEND_HISTORY, - which could conceivably mix the two. - o Default compctl completions have been removed for some builtin - commands. Either use the new compinit-derived system, use the - improved compctls from Misc/compctl-examples, or restore these - equivalents yourself: - compctl -b bindkey - compctl -v export typeset vared - compctl -o setopt unsetopt - compctl -c which +Some particular differences you may notice since version 4.0: + +The bash-compatibility zle functions described in the zshcontrib manual +page have been removed as a more configurable set of editing widgets for +dealing with words have been added. The following code in .zshrc will set +up for bash-style word handling: + autoload -U select-word-style + select-word-style bash Documentation ------------- |