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| -rw-r--r-- | ChangeLog | 4 | ||||
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diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 2c49528ce..cd85135ce 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,5 +1,7 @@ 2010-12-16 Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com> + * unposted: NEWS: add notes on (Z) parameter flag. + * unposted: README, Config/version.mk, Etc/FAQ.yo, Completion/Debian/Command/.distfiles: update for 4.3.10-test-3. @@ -13968,5 +13970,5 @@ ***************************************************** * This is used by the shell to define $ZSH_PATCHLEVEL -* $Revision: 1.5153 $ +* $Revision: 1.5154 $ ***************************************************** diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index a20cc5263..073a8f2b1 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -26,6 +26,13 @@ The (D) flag in parameter expansion abbreviates directories in the substituted value. The (q-) flag does minimal shell quotation of arguments for maximum human readability of the result. +The (Z) flag in parameter expansion is an enhanced version of the (z) +flag that takes an argument indicating how the string to be split +is treated. (Z:c:) parses comments as strings; (Z:C:) parses comments +and strips them; (Z:n:) treats newlines as ordinary whitespace: (z) +has always treated unquoted newlines as shell delimiters and turned them +into semicolons, though this was not previously documented. + Numeric expansion with braces has been extended so that a step may be given, as in {3..9..2}. The step may be negative as may the start and end of the range (this is also new). @@ -91,8 +98,8 @@ The POSIX_JOBS option already referred to has various other compatibility enchancements. The new shell option POSIX_STRINGS makes a null character in $'...' -expansion terminate the string. This is not particularly useful -behaviour but may become a POSIX requirement. +expansion terminate the string, as is already the case in bash. This is +not particularly useful behaviour but may become a POSIX requirement. The new shell option POSIX_TRAPS causes the EXIT trap to behave in the same way as in other shells, i.e. it is only run when the shell exits. |