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Major changes between versions 4.3.6 and 4.3.9
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The option COMBINING_CHARS has been added. When it is set, the
line editor assumes the terminal is capable of displaying zero-width
combining characters (typically accents) correctly as modifications
to the base character, and will act accordingly. Note it is not set
by default owing to vagaries of terminals. The system is reported
to work on MacOS, where this is particularly important as accented
characters in file names are stored in their decomposed form (i.e.
with base and combining characters).
The option HIST_FCNTL_LOCK has been added to provide locking of history
files using the system call fcntl(). On recent NFS implementations this
may provide better reliability.
The syntax ~[...] provides a dynamic form of directory naming,
supplementing the existing static ~name syntax. A user-defined shell
function, zsh_directory_name, is used to handle both expansion of names to
directories and contraction of directories to names.
Patterns can now be used in incremental searches with the new widgets
history-incremental-pattern-search-backward and
history-incremental-pattern-search-forward. These are not bound to
keys by default.
Highlighting and colouring of sections of the command line is now
supported, controlled by the array parameter zle_highlight and the ZLE
special parameter region_highlight.
Colouring of prompts is now supported within the shell by prompt
escapes. The prompt theme system has been updated.
Various changes have been added to make debugging of shell code easier:
- As noted in README, the option DEBUG_BEFORE_CMD is now set by default.
- In DEBUG traps, $ZSH_DEBUG_CMD gives the code for which the trap is
called as a string.
- "setopt ERR_EXIT" in a DEBUG trap causes the code not to be executed.
- $ZSH_SUBSHELL indicates the subshell level at which code is being
executed.
- The zsh/parameter module has various additional arrays similar to
the existing $funcstack and $functrace, namely $funcsourcetrace
and $funcfiletrace. The consistency and informativeness of
the output of all these arrays has been improved.
- Prompt escapes %x and %I show the source file and line number in
debug prompts (compare %N and %i which show names and line numbers
in the execution environment).
- The option NO_MULTI_FUNCDEF can turn off multiple definition of
functions at once, a rarely used feature that can cause problems
with misplaced "()".
- The "fc" builtin has been enhanced to make non-interactive use possible
and output consistent when the history is manipulated with "print -s".
The completion style accept-exact-dirs has been added. When true, this
suppresses attempts to complete non-final directory segments of a filename
path when the directory exists. (For example, /home/pws/src/zsh/<TAB>
discovers that /home/pws/src/zsh exists and leaves the directory component
alone, while /h/p/s/z/<TAB> completes to /home/pws/src/zsh/... as before.)
This should improve completion behaviour noticeably in special cases, such
as remote paths under Cygwin.
Major changes between versions 4.3.5 and 4.3.6
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cd, chdir, pushd and popd now take a -q option to suppress side effects
including printing the directory stack (for pushd and popd) and executing
the chpwd hook functions (for all four).
The parameter subscript (e) flag now forces the argument to be treated
as a string where it would previously have been treated as a pattern,
for example ${array[(ie)*]} substitutes the index of the element whose
value is "*".
Major changes between versions 4.3.4 and 4.3.5
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- The new extended globbing flag (#cN,M) behaves similarly to the extended
regular expression syntax {N,M}.
- The zsh/datetime module has been enhanced and a calendar function
system has been added along the lines of (but much enhanced from)
the traditional Unix "calendar" utility. This is still under
development. See the zshcalsys manual. (The calendar functions
were in 4.3.4 but were not listed in this file. There have been
significant enhancements since 4.3.4.)
- A new module zsh/curses provides a builtin zcurses for access to
to the curses screen manipulation package. See the entry for zsh/curses
in the zshmodules manual.
- The module system has been enhanced to support the notion of "features"
that give more control over which builtins, parameters, conditions
and math functions are loaded from a module. In particular,
"zmodload -F zsh/stat b:zstat" makes the builtin previously called
"stat" available as "zstat" (only) to avoid clashes with a system
command named "stat".
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Upstream changes between osh-20081122 and osh-20081213 follow.
osh.c:
This release changes the effect of the `-v' command-line option so that,
in addition to printing non-blank command lines to the standard error,
it also prints each blank/empty command line as an empty line.
fd2.c, util.c:
This release changes the fd2 `-e' command-line option so that it
reflects the documented behavior. For example, this change causes
invocation of `fd2 -ef file command' to redirect both conventional
output and diagnostic output from "command" to "file".
Add new maintainer. Thank you J.A.
The following is from PR #40006:
I would like to maintain this package if that is acceptable.
Thus, I added myself as MAINTAINER.
Changed files: DESCR, Makefile, PLIST, distinfo
Changes between osh-20080629 and osh-20081122 which affect the osh
package on the various pkgsrc platforms are described below.
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[osh-20081122]:
mkconfig:
* Added a case for DragonFly BSD (uname -s == DragonFly).
osh.c:
* Fixed a bug introduced in osh-20061230 where the shell
incorrectly handles an unescaped terminating backslash (\)
character at the end of string when the shell is invoked as
`osh -c string'. In this case, the terminating backslash
causes the shell to incorrectly read from the standard input
at the end of string.
For example:
% osh -c 'echo Hello\'
to\
you!
Hello to you!
This example should instead do nothing and exit w/ a zero
status. For `osh -c string', an unescaped terminating
backslash should effectively turn string into a no-op.
Now, it behaves as expected.
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[osh-20081026]:
Makefile:
* Changed the "oshall" target to only build osh since the fd2,
goto, and if utilities are now built into the shell.
* Changed the "install-oshall" target to only install osh and
its manual pages. This includes the fd2.1, goto.1, and if.1
manual pages since they are not fully documented elsewhere.
osh.c:
* Renamed cmd_index() to cmd_lookup(), and changed the algorithm
from a linear search to a binary search.
* Added a base reallocation multiplier to glob() to reduce the
number of realloc()s required for very large argument vectors
while allowing the first malloc() to be a relatively small
allocation for up to 126 matching file-name arguments.
util.c:
* This is a new file for the integrated shell utilities.
* Added a new `-e' command-line option to fd2 to simplify
redirecting all conventional output to the standard error
as diagnostic output.
* Integrated the external `fd2', `goto', and `if' shell
utilities as special built-in commands to improve shell
performance. Also, added `echo' as a special built-in
command. Osh executes each of these built-ins in a subshell.
Consequently, the I/O for each can be redirected as before,
and the argument list for each can be the result of a call to
glob() as before.
Major changes:
* Digital UNIX (DEC OSF/1) V2.0 (MIPS) is now supported using the DEC C and ucode toolchain. (We could not run the testsuite, though.)
* The ‘-Q’ option to Build.sh is gone without replacement.
* A new option can be enabled by adding -DMKSH_BINSHREDUCED to $CPPFLAGS, intended mostly for Debian. This option adds extra code to determine whether mksh(1) is called as sh or -sh and switch to “set -o posix” mode if so, disabling brace expansion and some security features, because legacy scripts, such as debconf, depend on such reduced functionality /bin/shs.
* Input lines beginning with an IFS character of IFS white space are no longer pushed into the history. Some other, less surprising, changes were also made to both Emacs and Vi command line editing modes.
* The arc4random.c contributed file is now stored with the RCS version number appended, and has been updated.
to trigger/signal a rebuild for the transition 5.8.8 -> 5.10.0.
The list of packages is computed by finding all packages which end
up having either of PERL5_USE_PACKLIST, BUILDLINK_API_DEPENDS.perl,
or PERL5_PACKLIST defined in their make setup (tested via
"make show-vars VARNAMES=...").
mksh R35b comes with the following bug fixes:
IRIX also has no UTF-8 locale at all, confirmed by Elias Pipping
Fix regression test suite for MKSH_SMALL
Bring in latest changes from oksh (OpenBSD ksh, not DeliLinux crap)
Fix abuse and unsafe use of str_save() and str_nsave()
Optimise the implementations of str_save() and str_nsave()
If MKSH_AFREE_DEBUG is defined, guard against afree()ing a pointer which has not been allocated from the given pool, from Todd C. Miller
Fix attempt to free a pointer to stack (function-local) storage when redefining a function containing a call to the “time” built-in, discovered by Elias Pipping, patch by Jared Yanovich, help from Todd C. Miller
Protect a little against people not running “./test.sh -v” but calling it with, for instance, GNU bash (as homsn did…)
Honour $PERL environment variable in test.sh, improve scanning for Perl, do not use potentially undefined $^O, print Perl version
Add <sys/types.h> as <ulimit.h> requirement (dietlibc)
Work around bug in BSD/OS 3.1 /bin/ksh (PD KSH v5.2.8 96/08/19)
Add regression tests from OpenBSD’s <bsd.regress.mk> suite
Use better CPPFLAGS for AIX, Minix 3 (from pdksh)
Expose the “s ≠ NULL” str_[n]save_() API and use it where the string can never be NULL (local stack storage), from gcc-4.2 warnings
Clean up pointer-to-integer-cast warnings in the mirtoconf process
mksh R35 comes with helluva changes:
Simplify and refactor the ulimit builtin, partially from oksh
Some style cleanup; use appropriate integer types
Fix a bug in table (e.g. kill -l, tab completion) display: the width of non-ASCII characters is now honoured in the utf8-hack mode
Improve handling of invalid UTF-8 in certain areas, and multibyte (UTF-8 / CESU-8) in general
When using “typeset -Z«n»” on an integer variable with a base other than ten, zero-pad the value instead of the base – pdksh, oksh, zsh, and AT&T ksh93 are wrong here; GNU bash doesn’t even have typeset
Improve parsing of “set +o” output where done (dot.mkshrc, check.t)
Improve regression tests
Support for base-1 numbers: in non-utf8-hack mode, ‘1#x’ means the same as the ASCII code for ‘x’ (e.g. 78hex), where ‘x’ is any single octet (byte); in utf8-hack mode, ‘x’ is either a valid and minimalistically encoded UTF-8 multibyte character in the range 0000‥FFFD, or a single octet with no trailing octets (bytes), which will then be converted as if it were an ASCII value, or, if bit7 is set, be mapped into the PUA range of EF80‥EFFF assigned by CSUR for this purpose; this mapping is, in both cases, bidirectional; the planned base-0 number support is not possible with the code, so use base-1 (with utf8-hack disabled, or & 0xFF) instead (while it is recommended to parse only single octets, there is a regression test showing correct and safe multibyte parsing, which however is error-prone to implement and thusly not recommended) – “genial” replaced@TNG, “this sounds fun” ggergely, agreed bsiegert@ and others
Pull in more current versions of supplied files; use Unicode 5.0
Clean up unused definitions in build system; document MKSH_CLS_STRING
Remove advertising clause from copyright file; while we’d be pleased to be mentioned if something contains our code, tg@ will no longer enforce the requirement to advertise with that specific formula, and we’d prefer if people remember the OpenHAL vs ath5k incident and that they cannot simply change licencing of existing code; patches sent to the MirOS Project for inclusion shall be accepted if they’re agreed to match this licence
Simplify dot.mkshrc sample file: licence is merged into the main copyright file; AT&T ksh93 compatibility was improved
Fix a display problem regarding fullwidth characters (e.g. CJK)
Set the “C” locale in Build.sh for tool execution; otherwise, certain OEs behave strange; thanks to Adam “replaced” Hoka for spotting
Use en_US.utf8 as UTF-8 locale for the testsuite for now
If setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "") is not available, look at the environment variables ourselves – brings UTF-8 support to poor OSes
Remove some now-dead code; speed up configuration process; shrink
Default to no setlocale(3) due to stubbed or missing locale support on GNU/Cygwin, OpenBSD, OSF/1 in Build.sh; a few more that are quite unlikely to have a UTF-8 locale: BSD/OS, Interix, Minix, PW32, Ultrix, AT&T UWIN; default to always UTF-8 on Plan 9
Fix for testsuite unexpected failure if running as root in one case
Initialise all shell integer variables (OPTIND, PPID, RANDOM, SECONDS, TMOUT) to base 10
Reintroduce from mksh pre-R24 shell integer variable PGRP set to the PID of the process group leader via getpgrp(2)
New shell integer variable USER_ID set to the geteuid(2) and used by dot.mkshrc to speed up logins, saves a spawn of id(1), mentioned by and realisation planned with Andreas "gecko2" Gockel
Fix dot.mkshrc tilde replacement in both $PS1 and the pushd/popd/dirs implementation when the home directory is empty, the root directory, or ends with a slash (disable replacement in that case)
Support dietlibc, force it into providing a BSDish caddr_t
Do not use LDFLAGS and LIBS while compiling with -c
Add realpath(3) builtin, to further speed up logins and chdirs
Optimise the code somewhat by making use of possible assumptions
Set the “C” locale in test.sh as well to quell warnings
Split the regression tests that use locale between en_US.utf8 and en_US.UTF-8, since not all OSes support either one, and make only HP-UX and GNU use the latter
Fix kill, mknod(8) builtin usage msg, from Igor Sobrado via oksh
Use proper ptrdiff_t casts for pointer arithmetics, inspired by an oksh commit from Federico Schwindt
Remove check category “pdksh” from check.t and test script
Improve Darwin, OSF/1, HP aCC, SUNpro version reporting
Support GNU bash “&>” extension, even better than they do, suggested by Lukas “smultron” Upton from MidnightBSD
Basic support for LLVM+clang in the build system with experimental “ccc” compiler driver; llvm-gcc worked as-is before already
Better support for contributed arc4random.c file
Do not spin if unlink(2) fails on $HISTFILE, from Decklin Foster
Dump the perl(1) $^O variable in test.sh to logs
Pull in latest changes from oksh
Allow white space between a here string indicator and the string, accidentally discovered by twkm (#ksh, freenode)
Allow fd specifications outside the 0‥9 range for I/O redirections, and bounds check them to be lower than the FDBASE definition, currently still 10 if MKSH_SMALL, 24 otherwise (unportable)
Improve the regression test suite: for one test, we had a bizarre constraint telling it won’t work on UWIN, which was based upon false assumptions, but Tru64 would fail it since its cat(1) unexpectedly outputs some error messages (fix by closing stderr for cat); another test would unexpectedly print no error message on Solaris (fix by making the error message optional in the perlre(1) used)
Switch back to en_US.UTF-8 for glibc, Debian can do both, Mandriva fails on en_US.utf8 (XXX no libc5 auto-detection to disable it)
Based on PR 37283 (update to 1.8).
eltclsh 1.9 released august 8, 2008
30. Fix libtool usage and install target to allow cross compilation in OpenEmbedded.
29. Honor TCL_DBGX to allow compiling against a tcl library with debugging
symbols enabled.
28. Honor CFLAGS from the environment during the build process
27. Fix history command that was not working.
26. Switch repository to git.
eltclsh 1.8 released august 20, 2007
25. Add wrappedputs procedure that print a string wrapped to a given width.
24. Stop scanning arguments in interactive mode when user press C-d.
eltclsh 1.7 released december 19, 2006
23. Add new function "interactive" which starts the interactive
interpreter (useful inside scripts).
22. Add support for installation in $(DESTDIR)
Based on PR 37283 (updated to 1.8).
eltclsh 1.9 released august 8, 2008
30. Fix libtool usage and install target to allow cross compilation in OpenEmbedded.
29. Honor TCL_DBGX to allow compiling against a tcl library with debugging
symbols enabled.
28. Honor CFLAGS from the environment during the build process
27. Fix history command that was not working.
26. Switch repository to git.
eltclsh 1.8 released august 20, 2007
25. Add wrappedputs procedure that print a string wrapped to a given width.
24. Stop scanning arguments in interactive mode when user press C-d.
eltclsh 1.7 released december 19, 2006
23. Add new function "interactive" which starts the interactive
interpreter (useful inside scripts).
22. Add support for installation in $(DESTDIR)
Significant changes include the following:
1) Support was added for 3 new command-line options: "-i", "-l", and "-v".
2) Support was added for 3 new rc files.
*) This includes a system-wide "osh.oshrc",
a system-wide "osh.logout", and a user ".osh.logout".
See http://v6shell.org/src/CHANGES for full details.
PDKSH-5_2_14 and NetBSD-current HEAD as of 2008-05-31.
- Fixes rare segfault seen on Solaris.
- add strlcpy and strlcat fallback implementations from libnbcompat
- regenerate configure (using autoconf-2.12, ugh)
Changes since 4.3:
- fix support for quota and passwd when running within the
chroot (exec pre-chroot)
- disallow rsync and svnserve from being run as daemons that
listen on a port
- switch to getopt_long for command processing, use getopt for
sftp-server, svnserve, and quota
- abort processing on commands that require getopt when getopt
is not available
- switched to slightly optimized and more compact debug code
- fix unison support within chroots
- fix for unison command execution bug
- allow multiple users with the same uid using USER environment
variable
- added missing semicolon to helper.c
- fixes the configure.in script to not define HAVE_OPTRESET, not
even to a value of 0
- fixes that hopefully improve the optarg compilation situation
- UNISON $HOME environment fix
- fixes to setup_chroot.sh/in
No changes in mksh R33c except for Ultrix support. None in R33d.
In mksh R33b, much more compilers are detected, even if not all of
them are supported. The OE (OS and CC/LD) versions are now dumped
too. Instead of #error, forced link failures are now used as the
mechanism to auto-detect some things in the target environment.
Features are now much better detected, and some annoying warnings
don't show up any longer due to this. Less tools are required to
build.
Please be reminded that you should run ./test.sh -v inside an
environment with /dev/tty available (as device node) and usable
(e.g. use script(1) or GNU screen if you're doing auto-builds
detached from controlling terminal). Use -v to see failures.
No surprises in mksh R33 either, but the build system now gives
more detailed output on the version actually built, to aid tracking
down FTBFSen (build errors) with access to only the build logs.
Regression tests now work with Intel's compiler on SLES too, which
requires a custom LD_LIBRARY_PATH formerly stripped by the script.
A relatively new feature in bash is programmable completion, which
has been available since the beta version of 2.04. Programmable
completion will be familiar to you if you are a zsh user. It also
exists, albeit in a much less usable form, in tcsh.
Standard completion
bash has offered many forms of completion since its inception,
including path, file, user, host and variable completion.
* Path-name completion
* File-name completion
* User-name completion
* Host-name completion
* Variable-name completion
Programmable completion indefinitely extends the type of completion
you can perform.
This package contains a variety of completions for various programs.
