From a2efa4d1c809a098b8fbf3a0cd9cc2e77300bf5a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Stephenson Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 09:46:15 +0100 Subject: 36250: add notes on bracketed paste mode to README Next version will be 5.1 rather than 5.0.9. --- README | 13 +++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README index 745ee6fce..552f4731f 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -30,8 +30,17 @@ Zsh is a shell with lots of features. For a list of some of these, see the file FEATURES, and for the latest changes see NEWS. For more details, see the documentation. -Incompatibilites between 5.0.8 and 5.0.9 ----------------------------------------- +Incompatibilites between 5.0.8 and 5.1 +-------------------------------------- + +The default behaviour when text is pasted into an X Windows terminal has +changed significantly (unless you are using a very old terminal emulator +that doesn't support this mode). Now, the new "bracketed paste mode" +treats all the pasted text as literal characters. This means, in +particular, that a newline is simply inserted as a visible newline; you +need to hit Return on the keyboard to execute the pasted text in one go. +See the description of zle_bracketed_paste in the zshparams manual for +more. "unset zle_bracketed_paste" restores the previous behaviour. As noted in NEWS, the builtins declare, export, float, integer, local, readonly and typeset now have corresponding reserved words that provide -- cgit 1.4.1