From af7d4869e6a04ad48550d5dcd8a7bdd6193f5d9b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Stephenson Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2010 20:00:47 +0000 Subject: unposted: note HIST_LEX_WORDS in NEWS --- NEWS | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 2e5365067..b5dd7bd70 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -53,6 +53,11 @@ The (D) flag in parameter expansion abbreviates directories in the substituted value. The (q-) flag does minimal shell quotation of arguments for maximum human readability of the result. +The new shell option HIST_LEX_WORDS causes history lines read in from +a file to be split in the same way as normal shell lines, instead of +simply on whitespace. It's an option as although the result is more +accurate it can take a long time when the history size is large. + The new shell option SOURCE_TRACE causes the shell to report files containing shell code that the shell executes directly, i.e. startup files or files run with the `source' or `.' builtins. -- cgit 1.4.1