GNU Readline Library Free Library that allows you to edit command lines as they are typed in
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Free Library that allows you to edit command lines as they are typed in GNU Readline library is a free and open source library that 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. What's New in This Release: Changes: · Fixed a problem that caused segmentation faults when using readline in callback mode and typing consecutive DEL characters on an empty line. · Fixed several redisplay problems with multibyte characters, all having to do with the different code paths and variable meanings between single-byte and multibyte character redisplay. · Fixed a problem with key sequence translation when presented with the sequence M-C-x. · Fixed a problem that prevented the `a' command in vi mode from being undone and redone properly. · Fixed a problem that prevented empty inserts in vi mode from being undone properly. · Fixed a problem that caused readline to initialize with an incorrect idea of whether or not the terminal can autowrap. · Fixed output of key bindings (like bash `bind -p') to honor the setting of convert-meta and use e where appropriate. · Changed the default filename completion function to call the filename dequoting function if the directory completion hook isn't set. This means that any directory completion hooks need to dequote the directory name, since application-specific hooks need to know how the word was quoted, even if no other changes are made. · Fixed a bug with creating the prompt for a non-interactive search string when there are non-printing characters in the primary prompt. · Fixed a bug that caused prompts with invisible characters to be redrawn multiple times in a multibyte locale. · Fixed a bug that could cause the key sequence scanning code to return the wrong function. · Fixed a problem with the callback interface that caused it to fail when using multi-character keyboard macros. · Fixed a bug that could cause a core dump when an edited history entry was re-executed under certain conditions. · Fixed a bug that caused readline to reference freed memory when attmpting to display a portion of the prompt. · Fixed a bug with prompt redisplay in a multi-byte locale to avoid redrawing the prompt and input line multiple times. · Fixed history expansion to not be confused by here-string redirection. · Readline no longer treats read errors by converting them to newlines, as it does with EOF. This caused partial lines to be returned from readline(). · Fixed a redisplay bug that occurred in multibyte-capable locales when the prompt was one character longer than the screen width. New Features: · Calling applications can now set the keyboard timeout to 0, allowing poll-like behavior. · The value of SYS_INPUTRC (configurable at compilation time) is now used as the default last-ditch startup file. · The history file reading functions now allow windows-like · line terminators.

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