editline/NEWS.md

ChangeLog

Notable Changes

• v1.14.2 - Bug fixes only

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

• v1.14.1 - Minor fixes and additions

  • 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 ...
  • Bug fixes ...

• v1.14.0 - Major cleanups and further merges with Debian editline package

  • Merge in changes to debian/ from editline_1.12-6.debian.tar.gz
  • Migrate to use libtool
  • Cleanups and fixes thanks to the Sparse static code analysis tool
  • 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
  • Merge el_no_echo patch from Festival speech-tools
  • 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 <awb()cstr!ed!ac!uk>
  • 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
  • Fallback backspace handling, in case tgetstr("le") fails
  • 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

• v1.13.0 - Adaptations to Debian editline package

  • Major version number bump, adapt to Jum 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

• v0.3.0

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

• v0.2.x

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