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Diffstat (limited to 'Etc')
| -rw-r--r-- | Etc/CONTRIBUTORS | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Etc/MACHINES | 15 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Etc/NEWS | 21 |
3 files changed, 33 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Etc/CONTRIBUTORS b/Etc/CONTRIBUTORS index d0096781a..ed20efd6e 100644 --- a/Etc/CONTRIBUTORS +++ b/Etc/CONTRIBUTORS @@ -15,6 +15,11 @@ 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 4.2 +----------- + +The contributor list is similar to that for 4.1.1. + Version 4.1.1 ------------- diff --git a/Etc/MACHINES b/Etc/MACHINES index 7c64ff559..9bf3e3aba 100644 --- a/Etc/MACHINES +++ b/Etc/MACHINES @@ -3,7 +3,11 @@ ZSH ON SPECIFIC ARCHITECTURES ----------------------------- These are the OSes that zsh has been tried on. If you succeed in getting -zsh to work on an OS not listed, let us know. +zsh to work on an OS not listed, let us know. The information in this +list may be out of date, as the developers do not have access to all +machines. In general, GNU/Linux distributions, Solaris and Cygwin are +reasonably well covered. Please let us have any recent information +on other systems. On all machines if you use gcc and upgrade your OS you must rebuild gcc after the OS upgrade. A gcc left from a previous OS may seem to work @@ -97,9 +101,9 @@ IBM: AIX 3.2, 4.x On 3.2, for 64-bit integer support you need to compile with gcc, as the native compiler does not support ANSI simultaneously with - `long long'. On 4.1, there appear to be problems using - --enable-dynamic (the default) with gcc (version was 2.7.2.3) in - 4.1, though native cc works. More information about this problem + `long long'. On 4.1, there appeared to be problems using + --enable-dynamic (the default) with gcc (version was 2.7.2.3), + though native cc works. More information about this problem would be appreciated. It was reported, that at least some 4.x versions have problem @@ -168,6 +172,9 @@ SGI: IRIX 6.2, 6.3, 6.5 The zpty module is not currently supported. Sun: SunOS 4.1.* + [This information is probably out of date. If you know otherwise, + please tell zsh-workers@sunsite.dk.] + Under 4.1.3 if yellow pages is used, username completion may cause segmentation violation. This is a bug in the shared library not in zsh. Some libc.so.1.9.* has this bug (it fails in yp_all). diff --git a/Etc/NEWS b/Etc/NEWS index f7b08f562..cfad73276 100644 --- a/Etc/NEWS +++ b/Etc/NEWS @@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ CHANGES FROM PREVIOUS VERSIONS OF ZSH ------------------------------------- -New features between zsh versions 4.0 and 4.1.1 ------------------------------------------------ +New features between zsh versions 4.0 and 4.2 +--------------------------------------------- Configuration: - upgraded to use autoconf post-2.50 @@ -16,9 +16,16 @@ Syntax and builtins: pairs) associative arrays. - enhanced multiple parameter `for' loops: for key value in key1 value1 key2 value2 ... - maintaining full compatibility with POSIX syntax + maintaining full compatibility with POSIX syntax. +- Suffix aliases allow the shell to run a command on a file by suffix, + e.g `alias -s ps=gv' makes `foo.ps' execute `gv foo.ps'. Supplied + function zsh-mime-setup uses existing mailcap and mime.types files + to set up suitable aliases. Supplied function pick-web-browser is + suitable for finding a browser to show .html etc. files by suffix alias. Add-on modules and functions: +- zsh/datetime modules makes date formatting and seconds since EPOCH + available inside the shell. - zsh/net/tcp module provides builtin interface to TCP through ztcp builtin. Function suite for interactive and script use with expect-style pattern matching. @@ -40,6 +47,7 @@ Completion system: 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. + Plus many others. Line editor: - special parameters $PREDISPLAY, $POSTDISPLAY available in function @@ -55,19 +63,24 @@ Line editor: - 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 +- several other contributed widgets Local internal improvements: - disowned jobs are automatically restarted - \u and \U print escapes for Unicode +- read -d <delimiter> allows a custom line ending. +- read -t <timeout>. - 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, %^, %j, %y, enhanced %{, %}, %_. -- rand48() function for better randomness in arithmetic +- rand48() function in zsh/mathfunc 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 timing accuracy - improvements to command line history mechanism +- job table is dynamically sized, preventing overflow (typically seen + previously in complex completions). - many bugfixes |