From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14543 invoked by alias); 3 May 2015 18:10:00 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@zsh.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes List-Id: Zsh Workers List List-Post: List-Help: X-Seq: 35018 Received: (qmail 9751 invoked from network); 3 May 2015 18:09:56 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-Originating-IP: [80.3.228.158] X-Spam: 0 X-Authority: v=2.1 cv=VLdTnr/X c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=P+FLVI8RzFchTbbqTxIDRw==:117 a=P+FLVI8RzFchTbbqTxIDRw==:17 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=NLZqzBF-AAAA:8 a=7LDs3HxATMiil0aY2gEA:9 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 Date: Sun, 3 May 2015 19:09:50 +0100 From: Peter Stephenson To: Zsh hackers list Subject: Re: PATCH: 5.0.8 notes Message-ID: <20150503190950.7048cfa0@ntlworld.com> In-Reply-To: <20150501213248.029f2dc5@ntlworld.com> References: <20150430210312.5c62314e@ntlworld.com> <20150501213248.029f2dc5@ntlworld.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit [Sorry if this gets to you twice but I think I misdirected the first.] Here's some NEWS, not quite as it happens. pws diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 3f60321..4163efc 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -4,8 +4,35 @@ CHANGES FROM PREVIOUS VERSIONS OF ZSH Note also the list of incompatibilities in the README file. -Changes since 5.0.0 -------------------- +Changes from 5.0.7 to 5.0.8 +--------------------------- + +- Global aliases can be created for syntactic tokens such as command + separators (";", "&", "|", "&&", "||"), redirection operators, etc. + Use at your own risk! The POSIX_ALIASES option is interpreted more + strictly to prevent expansion of these and other alias names containing + quotes, glob metacharacters, parameter references, etc. + +- There have been various further improvements to builtin handling + with the POSIXBUILTIN option (off by default) for compatibility with + the POSIX standard. + +- 'whence -v' is now more informative, and 'whence -S' shows you + how a full chain of symbolic links resolves to a command. + +- The 'p' parameter flag now allows an argument to be specified + as a referene to a variable, e.g. ${(ps.$sep.)foo} to split $foo + on a string given by $sep. + +- Elements of the watch variable may now be patterns. + +- The logic for retrying history locking has been improved. + +- Some rationalisations have been made to the zsh/gdbm module that + should make it more useful and predictable in operation. + +Changes from 5.0.0 to 5.0.7 +--------------------------- - Numeric constants encountered in mathematical expressions (but not other contexts) can contain underscores as separators that will be ignored on @@ -117,12 +144,6 @@ Changes since 5.0.0 Running fn writes "hello" to logfile. In older versions of the shell it would create an empty file at the point of definition. -- Global aliases can be created for syntactic tokens such as command - separators (";", "&", "|", "&&", "||"), redirection operators, etc. - Use at your own risk! The POSIX_ALIASES option is interpreted more - strictly to prevent expansion of these and other alias names containing - quotes, glob metacharacters, parameter references, etc. - Changes between 4.2 and 5.0.0 -----------------------------