editline/ChangeLog.md

Change Log

All notable changes to the project are documented in this file.

1.16.0 - 2018-03-xx

Event loop callback support.

Changes

• rl_unintialize(), new function to free all memory, by Claus Fischer
• rl_insert_text(), new GNU Readline compat function
• rl_refresh_line(), new GNU Readline compat function
• rl_callback_*(), alternate interface to plain readline() for event loops. Modeled after the GNU Readline API
• rl_completion_entry_function, new GNU Readline compat user hook
• Add support for Ctrl-Right and Ctrl-Left, forward/backward word

Fixes

• Fixed header guards, avoid using leading __
• Spell check fixes
• Remove duplicate code in history check
• Use NULL instead of 0, and -1 instead of NULL, where applicable
• Misc. minor Coverity Scan fixes
• Misc. minor fixes to testit.c example code
• Add -Wextra to std CFLAGS
• Check fclose() return value in in write_history() and read_history()
• Initialize global variables and reset to NULL on free()

1.15.3 - 2017-09-07

Bug fix release.

Changes

• Refactor all enable/disable configure options, same problem as in #7

Fixes

• Fix #7: --enable-termcap configure option does not work. The script enabled termcap by default rather than the other way around.

  Also, check for terminfo as well, when --enable-termcap is selected.

1.15.2 - 2016-06-06

Bug fixes and minor feature creep in pkg-config support.

Changes

• Prevent mangling of symbols when linking with C++. Patch courtesy of Jakub Pawlowski
• Add libeditline.pc for pkg-config

Fixes

• Do not assume a termcap library exists, check for tgetent() in curses, ncurses, tinfo and termcap libraries
• Call tty_flush() when user calls rl_forced_update_display() to prevent screen becoming garbled. Patch by Jakub Pawlowski

1.15.1 - 2015-11-16

Bug fixes only.

Changes

• Update README with origin of this version of editline

Fixes

• Fix build system, don't force automake v1.11, require at least v1.11
• Fix build problem with examples using --enable-termcap

1.15.0 - 2015-09-10

Changes

• Add support for --disable-eof and --disable-sigint to disable default Ctrl-D and Ctrl-C behavior
• Add support for el_no_hist to disable access to and auto-save of history
• GNU readline compat functions for prompt handling and redisplay
• Refactor: replace variables named 'new' with non-reserved word
• Add support for Travis-CI, continuous integration with GitHub
• Add support for Coverity Scan, the best static code analyzer, integrated with Travis-CI -- scan runs for each push to master
• Rename NEWS.md --> ChangeLog.md, with symlinks for make install
• Attempt to align with http://keepachangelog.com/ for this file
• Cleanup and improve Markdown syntax in README.md
• Add API and example to README.md, inspired by libuEv
• Removed generated files from version control. Use ./autogen.sh to generate the configure script when working from GIT. This does not affect distributed tarballs

Fixes

• Fix issue #2, regression in Ctrl-D (EOF) behavior. Regression introduced in 1.14.1. Fixed by @TobyGoodwin
• Fix memory leak in completion handler. Found by Coverity Scan.
• Fix suspicious use of sizeof(char **), same as sizeof(char *) but non-portable. Found by Coverity Scan
• Fix out-of-bounds access in user key binding routines Found by Coverity Scan.
• Fix invisible example code in man page

1.14.2 - 2014-09-14

Bug fixes only.

Fixes

• Fix el_no_echo bug causing secrets to leak when disabling no-echo
• Handle EINTR in syscalls better

1.14.1 - 2014-09-14

Minor fixes and additions.

Changes

• Don't print status message on stderr in key binding funcions
• Export el_del_char()
• Check for and return pending signals when detected
• Allow custom key bindings ...

Fixes

• Bug fixes ...

1.14.0 - 2010-08-10

Major cleanups and further merges with Debian editline package.

Changes

• Merge in changes to debian/ from editline_1.12-6.debian.tar.gz
• Migrate to use libtool
• Make UNIQUE_HISTORY configurable
• Make scrollback history (HIST_SIZE) configurable
• Configure options for toggling terminal bell and SIGSTOP (Ctrl-Z)
• Configure option for using termcap to read/control terminal size
• Rename Signal to el_intr_pending, from Festival speech-tools
• Merge support for capitalizing words (M-c) from Festival speech-tools by Alan W Black mailto:awb()cstr!ed!ac!uk
• Fallback backspace handling, in case tgetstr("le") fails

Fixes

• Cleanups and fixes thanks to the Sparse static code analysis tool
• Merge el_no_echo patch from Festival speech-tools
• Merge fixes from Heimdal project
• Completely refactor rl_complete() and rl_list_possib() with fixes from the Heimdal project. Use rl_set_complete_func() and rl_set_list_possib_func(). Default completion callbacks are now available as a configure option --enable-default-complete
• Memory leak fixes
• Actually fix 8-bit handling by reverting old Debian patch
• Merge patch to improve compatibility with GNU readline, thanks to Steve Tell from way back in 1997 and 1998

1.13.0 - 2010-03-09

Adaptations to Debian editline package.

Changes

• Major version number bump, adapt to Jim Studt's v1.12
• Import debian/ directory and adapt it to configure et al.
• Change library name to libeditline to distinguish it from BSD libedit

0.3.0 - 2009-02-08

Changes

• Support for ANSI arrow keys using configure --enable-arrow-keys

0.2.3 - 2008-12-02

Changes

• Patches from Debian package merged
• Support for custom command completion

0.1.0 - 2008-06-07

Changes

• First version, forked from Minix current 2008-06-06