From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14028 invoked from network); 6 Feb 2003 12:22:46 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 6 Feb 2003 12:22:46 -0000 Received: (qmail 27848 invoked by alias); 6 Feb 2003 12:22:37 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 18203 Received: (qmail 27841 invoked from network); 6 Feb 2003 12:22:37 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO sunsite.dk) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 6 Feb 2003 12:22:37 -0000 X-MessageWall-Score: 0 (sunsite.dk) Received: from [62.189.183.235] by sunsite.dk (MessageWall 1.0.8) with SMTP; 6 Feb 2003 12:22:37 -0000 Received: from exchange01.csr.com (unverified) by (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.2.1) with ESMTP id for ; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 12:29:01 +0000 Received: from csr.com (tinky-winky.csr.com [192.168.144.127]) by exchange01.csr.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2650.21) id DQ47L2PS; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 12:23:26 -0000 To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk (Zsh hackers list) Subject: 4.1.1 feature list Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2003 12:22:38 +0000 Message-ID: <5662.1044534158@csr.com> From: Peter Stephenson Here's a highly provisional and randomly ordered list of additional features in 4.1.1 compared with 4.0.x, derived from one brief trawl through the ChangeList. Please suggest more. autoconf use upgraded to support post-2.50. New zsh/net/tcp module (ztcp builtin) to provide low-level interface to TCP. Function suite to provide better interactive use and pattern-matching on input. Continued enhancement to completion function system: new and improved command and context support, improved low-level functions, improved display code. Much better configurability of parameter values and redirections. Support for using bash completion functions (though zsh native functions are typically better when available). New completions include: 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. Continued enhancement to the line editor. Recursive editing and selection of editing area allow widgets such as replace-string (supplied) with much more intuitive feel than before; enhanced insert-last-word and related widgets (e.g. copy-earlier-word); better handling of keymaps in zle and zle widgets; better support for output from user-defined widgets while zle is active; tetris game written using zle. printf builtin. += syntax for both scalars and arrays: scalar+=addtext, array+=(addelt) Automatically restart jobs that are disowned. Various improvements to command line history. Enhanced `for' syntax: for key value in key1 value1 key2 values ... Calculator shell function (zcalc) with line editing support. Builtin interface to pcre library. Neaten display of line numbers in error messages and PS4 output to make more consistent. Removed long-standing oddity that `=prog' expanded aliases so now it always expands paths. zselect module provides builtin interface to select system call; read builtin has timeouts (which may be floating point). Better support for jobs in prompt and running `jobs' command in subshell of shell with job control. Improved randomness in math function library via rand48() interface to system math library. Existing $SECONDS parameter can now be floating point (typeset -F SECONDS) for extra accuracy. Many bugfixes. -- Peter Stephenson Software Engineer CSR Ltd., Science Park, Milton Road, Cambridge, CB4 0WH, UK Tel: +44 (0)1223 692070 ********************************************************************** The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. **********************************************************************