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@@ -17,6 +17,21 @@ similar to "functions -t" except that tracing is turned off for any
functions called from the specified one(s) that don't also have the -t
or -T flag.
+The option FORCE_FLOAT has been added to force all arithmetic constants
+to be treated as floating point. This is most useful locally within
+functions or scripts performing floating point calculations.
+
+Individual pattern characters can be disabled. For example, to allow '^'
+to be an ordinary character even if the option EXTENDED_GLOB is set, use
+"disable -p '^'".
+
+The variable editing builtin vared can be given custom editing widgets
+for initialisation and finishing.
+
+Hooks for adding history (the function zshaddhistory and the
+array zshaddhistory_functions) can return status 2 to indicate that
+history is to be saved internally within the shell but not written.
+
In file completion, the recursive-files style can be set to an array of
patterns to match against "$PWD/". In any matched location, it is
possibly to complete files in arbitrarily deep subdirectories without
@@ -27,6 +42,11 @@ The _user_expand completer now allows expansion functions in the
user-expand files to return a string in REPLY that will be used to name
the set of expansions returned.
+The parameter HISTORY_IGNORE may be set to a pattern which matches
+lines in the internal history that are to be omitted from the history
+file at file write time. This differs from history changes made in
+the zshaddhistory hook or by the HIST_IGNORE_* options, all of which
+take effect immediately on the internal history list itself.
Changes between 4.2 and 5.0.0
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