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Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index e118ec3af..df8b52884 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ Major changes between versions 4.3.6 and 4.3.7 The option COMBINING_CHARS has been added. When it is set, the line editor assumes the terminal is capable of displaying zero-width combining characters (typically accents) correctly as modifications -to the base character, and will act accordingly. +to the base character, and will act accordingly. Note it is not set +by default owing to vagaries of terminals. The option HIST_FCNTL_LOCK has been added to provide locking of history files using the system call fcntl(). On recent NFS implementations this |