From 612cec047f7726f5b5f974b365894de4a58aef78 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Stephenson Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 11:37:34 +0000 Subject: Nikolai Weibull: 25828: new rm completion unposted: note some new features in NEWS --- NEWS | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 01b44bc12..cdea0a127 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -11,12 +11,20 @@ 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. Note it is not set -by default owing to vagaries of terminals. +by default owing to vagaries of terminals. The system is reported +to work on MacOS, where this is particularly important as accented +characters in file names are stored in their decomposed form (i.e. +with base and combining characters). The option HIST_FCNTL_LOCK has been added to provide locking of history files using the system call fcntl(). On recent NFS implementations this may provide better reliability. +The syntax ~[...] provides a dynamic form of directory naming, +supplementing the existing static ~name syntax. A user-defined shell +function, zsh_directory_name, is used to handle both expansion of names to +directories and contraction of directories to names. + Patterns can now be used in incremental searches with the new widgets history-incremental-pattern-search-backward and history-incremental-pattern-search-forward. These are not bound to -- cgit 1.4.1