X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f Message-Id: <201803041718.w24HI3uN032532@delorie.com> Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2018 14:42:41 +0100 From: "Juan Manuel Guerrero (juan DOT guerrero AT gmx DOT de) [via djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com]" To: djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com Subject: ANNOUNCE: Release 2 of the DJGPP port of GNU Readline 7.0 uploaded. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com This is a port of GNU Readline and History libraries 7.0 to MSDOS/DJGPP. The Readline library provides a set of functions for use by applications that allow users to edit command lines as they are typed in. Both Emacs and vi editing modes are available. The Readline library includes additional functions to maintain a list of previously-entered command lines, to recall and perhaps reedit those lines, and perform csh-like history expansion on previous commands. The history facilites are also placed into a separate library, the History library, as part of the build process. The History library may be used without Readline in applications which desire its capabilities. DJGPP specific changes. ======================= - This is only a DJGPP specific bug fix release. It makes no sense in keeping the old one thus I have replaced it with this new one and not changed it name. There are no changes compared with the replaced one except for the small bug fix. - The port is based on the port of readline 2.2 and uses the termios emulation provided by it. It has been slightly adjusted to work with DJGPP 2.05. It also supports copying from Windows clipboard as the readline port from bash does. Most of the other changes are to handle DOS/DJGPP specific slash and backslash issues and to pacify the compiler. - The port will check at run time if LFN support is available or not. If available, then it will look for ".inputrc" and ".history" as configuration files. If one of them is not available then it will try "_inputrc" and/or "_history" as alternative file names. This means that if LFN support is available, the POSIX file names will always be tried before the DOS file names are tried. Of course, if only SFN support is available only the DOS versions of the file names will be tried. - The port will try to load the system wide configuration file using the file name "/dev/env/DJDIR/etc/inputrc" instead of the hard coded "/etc/inputrc". The system wide INPUTRC file is always tried to be load if the loading of "~/.inputrc" fails and before "~/_inputrc" is tried to be load on LFN systems. - If pdcurses is installed it will be used to provide termios functionality instead of the one provided by the C-library. If you prefer the termios functionality profided by the C-library you will have to uninstall pdcurses before you configure the sources. The sources have been configured without pdcurses support. - The port has been configured and compiled on WinXP SP3. There is no guarantee that this may be possible with any other DOS-like OS. Due to the use of long file names it will not be possible to configure and compile without LFN support. As usual, my changes and the rest of the djgpp specific stuff is stored in the /djgpp directory. To learn how to use the libraries please inspect the files in the /examples directory. For further information about GNU Readline please read the info docs and NEWS file. Here is an extract of the NEWS file showing the user visible changes from the last port (GNU Readline 6.3) to this one: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a terse description of the new features added to readline-7.0 since the release of readline-6.3. New Features in Readline a. The history truncation code now uses the same error recovery mechansim as the history writing code, and restores the old version of the history file on error. The error recovery mechanism handles symlinked history files. b. There is a new bindable variable, `enable-bracketed-paste', which enables support for a terminal's bracketed paste mode. c. The editing mode indicators can now be strings and are user-settable (new `emacs-mode-string', `vi-cmd-mode-string' and `vi-ins-mode-string' variables). Mode strings can contain invisible character sequences. Setting mode strings to null strings restores the defaults. d. Prompt expansion adds the mode string to the last line of a multi-line prompt (one with embedded newlines). e. There is a new bindable variable, `colored-completion-prefix', which, if set, causes the common prefix of a set of possible completions to be displayed in color. f. There is a new bindable command `vi-yank-pop', a vi-mode version of emacs- mode yank-pop. g. The redisplay code underwent several efficiency improvements for multibyte locales. h. The insert-char function attempts to batch-insert all pending typeahead that maps to self-insert, as long as it is coming from the terminal. i. rl_callback_sigcleanup: a new application function that can clean up and unset any state set by readline's callback mode. Intended to be used after a signal. j. If an incremental search string has its last character removed with DEL, the resulting empty search string no longer matches the previous line. k. If readline reads a history file that begins with `#' (or the value of the history comment character) and has enabled history timestamps, the history entries are assumed to be delimited by timestamps. This allows multi-line history entries. l. Readline now throws an error if it parses a key binding without a terminating `:' or whitespace. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The port consists of the usual three packages that have been produced using djdev205 and can be downloaded from ftp.delorie.com and mirrors as (time stamp 2018-02-18): Readline and History 7.0 libraries, headers and info format documentation: ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/rdln70br2.zip GNU Readline 7.0 dvi, html, ps and pdf format documentation: ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/rdln70dr2.zip GNU Readline 7.0 source: ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/rdln70sr2.zip Send GNU Readline specific bug reports to . Send suggestions and bug reports concerning the DJGPP port to comp.os.msdos.djgpp or . Enjoy. Guerrero, Juan Manuel