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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index cacc08bf5..c2f77165b 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -2,8 +2,35 @@ CHANGES FROM PREVIOUS VERSIONS OF ZSH ------------------------------------- -Changes since zsh version 4.2.0 -------------------------------- +Major changes between versions 4.2 and 4.3 +------------------------------------------ + +- There is support for multibyte character sets in the line editor, + though not the main shell. See Multibyte Character Support in INSTALL. + +- New option PROMPT_SP, on by default, to work around the problem that the + line editor can overwrite output with no newline at the end. + +- New option HIST_SAVE_BY_COPY (on by default): history is saved by + copying and renaming instead of directly overwriting. + +- New redirection syntax e.g. {myfd}>file opens a new file descriptor + and stores the number in $myfd, so that >&$myfd will work. Chosen + not to break existing code. + +- New Posix-style zsh-specific tests [[:IDENT:]], [[:IFS:]], + [[:IFSSPACE:]], [[:WORD:]] test if character can appear in identifier, + is an IFS character, is an IFS whitespace character, or is considered + as part of a word (is alphanumeric or appears in $WORDCHARS). Note + the pattern code doesn't yet handle multibyte characters. + +- The idiom =(<<<...) is optimised so that the shell internally turns + the ... into the contents of a file whose name is then substituted. + +- As always, many enhancements to completion functions. + +Changes in 4.2 since version 4.2.0 +---------------------------------- - The autoload and related builtins take options -k and -z to indicate ksh or zsh autoloading style for given functions, making it possible |