From a2efa4d1c809a098b8fbf3a0cd9cc2e77300bf5a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Stephenson Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 09:46:15 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] 36250: add notes on bracketed paste mode to README Next version will be 5.1 rather than 5.0.9. --- ChangeLog | 4 ++++ NEWS | 4 ++-- README | 13 +++++++++++-- 3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index eb558ce3d..08d973e8e 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2015-08-21 Peter Stephenson + + * 36250, tweaked: README: highlight bracketed paste mode. + 2015-08-20 Jun-ichi Takimoto * 36243: Completion/Unix/Type/_pids: fix a few problems of diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index e6bd73245..7c7466c5d 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ CHANGES FROM PREVIOUS VERSIONS OF ZSH Note also the list of incompatibilities in the README file. -Changes from 5.0.8 to 5.0.9 ---------------------------- +Changes from 5.0.8 to 5.1 +------------------------- The builtins declare, export, local, readonly and typeset now have corresponding reserved words. When used in diff --git a/README b/README index 745ee6fce..552f4731f 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -30,8 +30,17 @@ Zsh is a shell with lots of features. For a list of some of these, see the file FEATURES, and for the latest changes see NEWS. For more details, see the documentation. -Incompatibilites between 5.0.8 and 5.0.9 ----------------------------------------- +Incompatibilites between 5.0.8 and 5.1 +-------------------------------------- + +The default behaviour when text is pasted into an X Windows terminal has +changed significantly (unless you are using a very old terminal emulator +that doesn't support this mode). Now, the new "bracketed paste mode" +treats all the pasted text as literal characters. This means, in +particular, that a newline is simply inserted as a visible newline; you +need to hit Return on the keyboard to execute the pasted text in one go. +See the description of zle_bracketed_paste in the zshparams manual for +more. "unset zle_bracketed_paste" restores the previous behaviour. As noted in NEWS, the builtins declare, export, float, integer, local, readonly and typeset now have corresponding reserved words that provide