From df9cf1bf31ac810695505c517b9c9878cdfcc87c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Stephenson Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 09:26:37 +0000 Subject: unposted: update NEWS with path-completion style --- NEWS | 18 +++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'NEWS') 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 ----------------------------------------- -- cgit 1.4.1