On 6/17/20 12:19 PM, Alexandre François Garreau wrote: > Le mercredi 17 juin 2020, 16:50:28 CEST Chet Ramey a écrit : >> This distribution is essentially a standalone version of the >> readline library that appears in bash-5.1-alpha together with >> an `autoconf' framework. The documentation has been updated and >> is current. > > Only the bash one or the readline one too? I didn’t find any mention of > “faces” in 9.1 version of readline doc (I found nothing searching for > “faces”, “\<face\>”, “highlight”, and nothing new with “paste” and > “bracketed”).
It's the same distribution from the same code base. The paragraph you quoted says exactly that. >> The most visible new feature is the addition of `faces', > > FaceS, with an S? does that involve either bold or color or background (or > other terminal capabilities)? could that be used, or ease, the adding of > program-specific syntax coloring and highlighting? It involves highlighting the region, using the terminal's `standout' capability. There are functions to denote the region as `active' and `inactive', and an active region gets displayed using standout mode. There's only one point and one mark, so you could use this to highlight a single unit of text, like the text of a compound command. > Is there anything about such other shells’ and libraries’ features that > makes them uninteresting for readline? Define `uninteresting'. At some point, people have to request features and someone needs to write the code to implement them. >> Bracketed paste mode is >> supported in more places (e.g., in vi `overstrike' mode) and is >> currently enabled by default. > > The manual in the 8.1-alpha tarballs says the opposite about the default. I didn't change it yet. I want to see how it's received. If it goes well during testing, I'll remove the `currently' and change the manual's default. >> The first alpha release of the GNU Readline library, version 8.1, >> is now available for FTP with the URL >> >> ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/readline-8.1-alpha.tar.gz > > Isn’t it a privacy problem that this point to amazon hosting? No. > > It didn’t worked for me (maybe because of my bad internet connection), but > I noted it was on GNU ftp, why not mentioning it too? It's not in the template that I use for release announcements. I suppose I could add it. > >> and from the readline-8.1-testing branch in the readline git repository >> (http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/readline.git/log/?h=readline-8.1-testi >> ng). > > Following that, it seems to me that the direct link from savannah is > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/readline.git/snapshot/readline-8.1-alpha.tar.gz, > why pointing to /log/? That URL takes you stright to the commits. If you just want to download the tar file, your URL works. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU [email protected] http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
