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authorPeter Stephenson <pws@users.sourceforge.net>2003-04-04 13:22:55 +0000
committerPeter Stephenson <pws@users.sourceforge.net>2003-04-04 13:22:55 +0000
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18433: package documentation for 4.1.1
-rw-r--r--ChangeLog5
-rw-r--r--Etc/CONTRIBUTORS46
-rw-r--r--Etc/NEWS70
-rw-r--r--INSTALL2
-rw-r--r--README44
5 files changed, 132 insertions, 35 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 6bcf12232..55639888b 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2003-04-04 Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>
+
+ * 18433: INSTALL, README, Etc/CONTRIBUTORS, Etc/NEWS: information
+ for 4.1.1.
+
2003-04-03 Peter Stephenson <pws@csr.com>
* 18432: Completion/Unix/Command/_mh,
diff --git a/Etc/CONTRIBUTORS b/Etc/CONTRIBUTORS
index 11e1385b4..7b4f789bb 100644
--- a/Etc/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/Etc/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -15,6 +15,52 @@ to be currently accurate. If you feel that you or someone else have
been unfairly omitted from this list please mail the current maintainer
at <coordinator@zsh.org>.
+Version 4.1.1
+-------------
+
+Clint Adams <clint@zsh.org>: termcap/terminfo, completion, configuration,
+various modules, networking, prompts
+
+Andrej Borsenkow <bor@zsh.org>: configuration, completion functions, cygwin
+support
+
+Chmouel Bodjnah <chmouel@mandrakesoft.com>: Linux completion support
+
+Wayne Davison <wayned@users.sourceforge.net>: shell history mechanism,
+arithmetic
+
+Zvi Har'El <rl@math.technion.ac.il>: completion functions
+
+Doug Kearns <djkea2@mugca.its.monash.edu.au>: completion functions
+
+Oliver Kiddle <opk@zsh.org>: builtins, completion, parameters, prompts,
+standards support, tests
+
+Andrew Main <zefram@zsh.org>: zle keymaps, games
+
+Akinori Musha: BSD completion support
+
+Felix Rosencrantz <f_rosenkrantz@yahoo.com>: completion, zle
+
+Bart Schaefer <schaefer@zsh.org>: configuration, parameters, prompts,
+signals, syntax, tests, functions, sanity checking
+
+Adam Spiers <adam@spiers.net>: completion and other functions
+
+Peter Stephenson <pws@zsh.org>: configuration, zle, networking, syntax,
+completion
+
+Tanaka Akira <akr@zsh.org>: completion functions
+
+Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>: signals, process groups.
+
+Geoff Wing <gcw@zsh.org>: archiving and distribution network, line editor
+display, configuration
+
+Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@zsh.org>: internal completion mechanism and
+low-level functions, line editor internals, syntax, wordcode mechanism,
+
+
Version 4.0.1
-------------
diff --git a/Etc/NEWS b/Etc/NEWS
index 1e6a3308b..d6a9c747b 100644
--- a/Etc/NEWS
+++ b/Etc/NEWS
@@ -1,7 +1,75 @@
-------------------------------------
CHANGES FROM PREVIOUS VERSIONS OF ZSH
-------------------------------------
-
+
+New features between zsh versions 4.0 and 4.1
+---------------------------------------------
+
+Configuration:
+- upgraded to use autoconf post-2.50
+- improved compatibility with other shells through shell options,
+ builtin arguments and improved builtin option parsing
+
+Syntax and builtins:
+- new printf builtin
+- `+=' to append to parameters which works for scalars, arrays and (with
+ pairs) associative arrays.
+- enhanced multiple parameter `for' loops:
+ for key value in key1 value1 key2 value2 ...
+ maintaining full compatibility with POSIX syntax
+
+Add-on modules and functions:
+- zsh/net/tcp module provides builtin interface to TCP through ztcp
+ builtin. Function suite for interactive and script use with expect-style
+ pattern matching.
+- zsh/net/socket module provides zsocket builtin.
+- zcalc calculator function with full line editing.
+- builtin interface to pcre library
+- zsh/zselect module provides zselect builtin as interface to select
+ system call
+
+Completion system:
+- general improvements to command and context support, low-level functions,
+ display code.
+- in verbose mode, matches with the same description are grouped
+- highly configurable completions for values of specific parameters,
+ specific redirections for specific commands
+- support for bash completion functions (typically zsh native functions are
+ more powerful where available)
+- New completions provided for (some of these may be in later 4.0
+ releases): valgrind, tidy, texinfo, infocmp, Java classes, larch, limit,
+ locale parameters, netcat, mysqldiff, mt, lsof, elinks, ant, debchange
+ (dch), email addresses, file system types, Perforce, xsltproc.
+
+Line editor:
+- special parameters $PREDISPLAY, $POSTDISPLAY available in function
+ widgets to configure uneditable text (for narrowing)
+- recursive editing
+- supplied widgets read-from-minibuffer, replace-string use these features
+ (more intuitive prompting and argument reading than 4.0)
+- access to killed text vai $CUTBUFFER and $killring
+- supplied highly configurable word widgets forward-word-match etc., can
+ set what constitutes a word interactively or in startup script
+ (implement bash-style behaviour, replacing previous bash-* word widgets)
+- interface to increment search via $LASTSEARCH
+- better handling of keymaps in zle and widgets
+- better support for output from user-defined widgets while zle is active
+- tetris game which runs entirely in zle
+
+Local internal improvements:
+- disowned jobs are automatically restarted
+- line numbers in error messages and $PS4 output are more consistent
+- `=prog' expands only paths, no longer aliases for consistency
+- job display in prompts; `jobs' command output can be piped
+- prompts: new $RPROMPT2, %^, %y, enhanced %{, %}, %_.
+- rand48() function for better randomness in arithmetic
+ (if the corresponding math library function is present)
+- $SECONDS parameter can be made floating point via `typeset -F SECONDS'
+ for better accuracy
+- improvements to command line history mechanism
+- many bugfixes
+
+
New features in zsh version 4.0.1
---------------------------------
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 7eafd3094..e1513bfa4 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ Alternatively, you can install the various parts in separate stages. To
install the zsh binary, execute the command:
make install.bin
Any previous copy of zsh will be renamed "zsh.old"
-
+
To install the dynamically-loadable modules, execute the command:
make install.modules
Note that this is required for the shell to operate properly if dynamic
diff --git a/README b/README
index dfe1a2b00..3a897fdc4 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -5,7 +5,9 @@ THE Z SHELL (ZSH)
Version
-------
-This is zsh version 4.0. This is a stable release.
+This is zsh version 4.1. This is a development release. However, it has
+been in use over a long period by many people and it is believed to be
+fairly stable.
Installing Zsh
--------------
@@ -24,38 +26,14 @@ details, see the documentation.
Possible incompatibilities
---------------------------
-Some particular differences you may notice between version 3.0 and 4.0
-(mostly based on 3.0.8; there are other differences from earlier versions):
-
- o The options ALWAYS_LAST_PROMPT (return to the line you were
- editing after displaying completion lists) and LIST_AMBIGUOUS
- (don't do AUTO_LIST if there was an unambiguous prefix that could be
- inserted, i.e. only list if it is ambiguous what to insert next) are
- now set by default. This is in response to complaints that too many
- zsh features are never noticed by many users. To turn them off,
- just put `unsetopt alwayslastprompt listambiguous' in your
- .zshrc file.
- o The editor commands history-search-{forward,backward} are implemented
- slightly differently, as are {up,down}-line-or-search. You may
- well not notice this, however.
- o Cursor keys are now usually bound in both vi command and insert
- mode. In the latter case, this may result in a slight delay after
- hitting ESCAPE to exit insert mode. Purists who object to this can
- unbind the appropriate key sequences (see zshzle(1)). Most beginning
- users of zsh apparently find the current behaviour preferable.
- o History file format is incompatible with versions older than 3.0.6,
- but this should only affect people who try to share history files
- between the two versions -- 4.0 can read the old format, 3.0.6 and
- later can read the new format. Just beware of INC_APPEND_HISTORY,
- which could conceivably mix the two.
- o Default compctl completions have been removed for some builtin
- commands. Either use the new compinit-derived system, use the
- improved compctls from Misc/compctl-examples, or restore these
- equivalents yourself:
- compctl -b bindkey
- compctl -v export typeset vared
- compctl -o setopt unsetopt
- compctl -c which
+Some particular differences you may notice since version 4.0:
+
+The bash-compatibility zle functions described in the zshcontrib manual
+page have been removed as a more configurable set of editing widgets for
+dealing with words have been added. The following code in .zshrc will set
+up for bash-style word handling:
+ autoload -U select-word-style
+ select-word-style bash
Documentation
-------------