New Features in Readline
a. There is now an HS_HISTORY_VERSION containing the version number of the
history library for applications to use.
b. History expansion better understands multiple history expansions that may
contain strings that would ordinarily inhibit history expansion (e.g.,
`abc!$!$').
c. There is a new framework for readline timeouts, including new public
functions to set timeouts and query how much time is remaining before a
timeout hits, and a hook function that can trigger when readline times
out. There is a new state value to indicate a timeout.
d. Automatically bind termcap key sequences for page-up and page-down to
history-search-backward and history-search-forward, respectively.
e. There is a new `fetch-history' bindable command that retrieves the history
entry corresponding to its numeric argument. Negative arguments count back
from the end of the history.
f. `vi-undo' is now a bindable command.
g. There is a new option: `enable-active-region'. This separates control of
the active region and bracketed-paste. It has the same default value as
bracketed-paste, and enabling bracketed paste enables the active region.
Users can now turn off the active region while leaving bracketed paste
enabled.
h. rl_completer_word_break_characters is now `const char *' like
rl_basic_word_break_characters.
i. Readline looks in $LS_COLORS for a custom filename extension
(*.readline-colored-completion-prefix) and uses that as the default color
for the common prefix displayed when `colored-completion-prefix' is set.
j. Two new bindable string variables: active-region-start-color and
active-region-end-color. The first sets the color used to display the
active region; the second turns it off. If set, these are used in place
of terminal standout mode.
k. New readline state (RL_STATE_EOF) and application-visible variable
(rl_eof_found) to allow applications to detect when readline reads EOF
before calling the deprep-terminal hook.
l. There is a new configuration option: --with-shared-termcap-library, which
forces linking the shared readline library with the shared termcap (or
curses/ncurses/termlib) library so applications don't have to do it.
m. Readline now checks for changes to locale settings (LC_ALL/LC_CTYPE/LANG)
each time it is called, and modifies the appropriate locale-specific display
and key binding variables when the locale changes.
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