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1 files changed, 13 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 8fd465780..67c5f546d 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -16,11 +16,19 @@ The glob qualifier P can be used to add a separate word before each match. For example, *(P:-f:) produces the command line `-f file1 -f file2 ...'. -The module zsh/system has a new "zsystem" builtin whose subcommands -perform system level tasks. Currently "zsystem flock" performs -advisory file locking. This is a particularly convenient way -of locking files for the length of a subshell. "zsystem supports flock" -provides a test for this feature. +The module zsh/system has a new "zsystem" builtin whose subcommands perform +system level tasks. Currently "zsystem flock" performs advisory file +locking (for aficionados, this uses the fcntl() system call so works over +the network on Linux). This is a particularly convenient way of locking +files for the length of a subshell. "zsystem supports flock" provides a +test for this feature. + +The completion system now has a style path-completion. Setting this to +false inhibits completion of paths before the current path component, +e.g. /u/b/z no longer completes to /usr/bin/zsh. This is useful on systems +where this form of completion is pathologically slow due to network +performance. + Changes between versions 4.3.9 and 4.3.10 ----------------------------------------- |