Re: PATCH: NEWS for 5.0.3

[Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 24 October 2013 21:25, Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
> index 1f131a2..f767a4b 100644
> --- a/NEWS
> +++ b/NEWS
> @@ -17,6 +17,21 @@ similar to "functions -t" except that tracing is turned off for any
>  functions called from the specified one(s) that don't also have the -t
>  or -T flag.
>
> +The option FORCE_FLOAT has been added to force all arithmetic constants
> +to be treated as floating point.  This most usefull locally within

is most useful

> +functions or scripts performing floating point calculations.
> +
> +Individual pattern characters can be disabled.  For example, to allow '^'
> +to be an ordinary character even if the option EXTENDED_GLOB is set, ues

use

> +"disable -p '^'".
> +
> +The variable editing builtin vared can be given custom editing widgets
> +for initialisation and finishing.
> +
> +Hooks for adding history (the function zshaddhistory and the
> +array zshaddhistory_functions) can return status 2 to indicate that
> +history is to be saved internally within the shell but not written.
> +
>  In file completion, the recursive-files style can be set to an array of
>  patterns to match against "$PWD/".  In any matched location, it is
>  possibly to complete files in arbitrarily deep subdirectories without



-- 
Mikael Magnusson