Re: PATCH: 5.0.8 notes

[Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>]

On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 8:09 PM, Peter Stephenson
<p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> [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.

This should be POSIX_BUILTINS (the s being more important than the _,
but that would consistent with POSIX_ALIASES above).

> +- '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.

referene -> reference

-- 
Mikael Magnusson