0.30 rlwrap can now use putenv() on machines that don't have
setenv() (like some Solaris systems)
EOF on stdin (e.g. by pressing CTRL-D) would end prompt colouring.
added -q option
0.29 added -A option to handle (ANSI-)coloured prompts
added -p option to colourise uncoloured prompts
added -t option to set terminal type for client command
rlwrap now copies its terminal settings from the client
even when this has put its terminal in single-keypress
(uncooked) mode. A rlwrapped emacs will now respond to CTRL-C
and CTRL-G as it should.
fixed a long-standing bug where long output lines with the -r option
would put mutilated words into the completion list. Drawback:
prompts are not put into the completion list anymore (bug or feature?).
rlwrap now handles output to the client before input from the
client, and only handles keyboard input when all client I/O has
been handled. This will make rlwrap a little better behaved when
handling large chunks of (pasted) input, especially with colourised
prompts
error messages and warnings now include the rlwrap version number
rlwrap now prints a warning when started in vi mode when the
terminal is too dumb to support upwards cursor movement
added a very simple custom malloc/free debugger for use with the
--debug option. Rather fragile and not well tested, use with care.
Whenever TERM is not set, rlwrap assumes vt100. Set TERM=dumb if
you really have a dumb terminal.
rlwrap now leaves the handling of multi-line prompts and edit
buffers to readline (except when in horizontal-scroll mode or when
configured with --enable-homegrown-redisplay).
whenever --always-readline is set, SIGWINCH not passed to
client command immediately, but only *after* accepting a line.
multi-byte prompts and input no longer confuse rlwrap (provided
your readline lib supports multi-byte characters)
--spy-on-readline now enabled by default
the configure script will now find term.h on cygwin
dropped the assumption that tgetent() and friends are only ever
declared in term.h; rlwrap now has proper terminal handling also
under SunOS.
the rlwrap source should again be fit for consumption by older
(C91 compliant) compilers
0.28 fixed rlwrap bug that caused termcap problems on Fedora Core 6
(thanks Tung Nguyen)
0.27 when stdin is not a terminal, rlwrap will now exec() the
specified command instead of complaining
when stdout or stderr is not a terminal, rlwrap will re-open
it to /dev/tty (the users terminal) after forking off the
specified command (so "rlwrap cat > file" will work as a
quick and dirty line editor)
rlwrap now remembers inputs of length 1
-D option to tell rlwrap how agressively it should weed out
duplicate history entries
-H option added (history format string)
Added temporary fix for termcap weirdness on Fedora Core 6
new -t option for a quick check of terminal capabilities
(requires configuration with --enable-debug)
rlwrap -s 0 <command> will now zap <commands> history
fixed broken reporting of unrecognised options
0.26 configure on FreeBSD 6.0 still didn't find libutil
some files were unnecessarily kept open (thanks Stephan Springl)
on each platform, rlwrap -h now accurately reflects whether
rlwrap can use long options or optional arguments
0.25 rlwrap would print input twice when in vi-mode
rlwrap under FreeBSD 6.0 now uses openpty() from libutil (config
script fixed)
-P option added (one-shot rlwrap with pre-given prompt)
Until now, whem the underlying command was killed by a signal,
rlwrap would just exit with exit code 0. Now rlwrap will
cleanup, reset its signal handlers and then send the same signal
to itself - so that rlwraps parent (usually a shell) doesn't see
the difference with an un-rlwrapped command
0.24 rlwrap -r would mess up commands output (strtok() strikes again!)
-i option added to make completion case-insensitive
-m option added in order to handle multi-line input
rlwrap now writes to underlying command using non-blocking writes
and select(). This prevents deadlocks which could occur with very
large inputs.
corrected some manpage clumsiness
0.23 Completion word lists are now kept in red-black trees
(cf. http://libredblack.sourceforge.net/), dramatically speeding up
startup with large completion lists.
rlwrap copies terminal settings from client, so that wrapping
programs that manipulate their terminal (like emacs and vim)
should be transparent.
rlwrap -C1 <command_without_arguments> is now accepted
0.22 Added key binding to enter a line while keeping it out of the
history list (Control+O by default)
0.21 Added --history-filename option.
Negative history size now means: don't write or truncate history
Updated helper scripts (like config.sub) in ./tools
multiple -f options again work correctly
--enable-homegrown-redisplay configuration option added
(kludge to circumvent display problems like sometimes
reported on Solaris)
All unsafe string handling functions (strcpy, sprintf,..) replaced
by their safe equivalents - using strlcat and consorts when available.
--enable-spy-on-readline configuration option to keep display tidy
when resizing terminal
0.19 Fixed pty type finding code in configure.ac (newer FreeBSD's
were recognised as cygwin)
Helper scripts moved to separate ./tools directory
0.18 rlwrap could hang when trying to run a non-existent command.
0.17 EOF on stdin would send rlwrap into infinite loop.
Small bugfixes in testclient, which now works with perl 5.8 and
cygwin.
0.16 ptys can be found and correctly opend on many more systems
(thanks to code taken from rxvt).
Makefiles now generated by automake.
Much beter debugging, -d option now takes optional bitmask
to report only certain events.
System-wide completion files now in $datadir/rlwrap
(normally /usr/local/share/rlwrap).
-C and -n options added, -a option can take an argument (to
prevent password logging when using this option).
assert() macro used for run-time consistency checks.
CTRL-D on empty line now sends EOF to client even on SunOS.
manpage displays correctly even when using troff instead of groff.
Long options now in --dash-style instead of --underscore_style.
0.15 Fixed a bug where rlwrap would segfault with -f option.
0.14 Fixed a few portability problems.
0.13 Duplicate history entries are avoided at all times, even across
invocations.
Tries to chdir into the slave command's working directory before
attempting filename completion (only on OS'es where this is found
under /proc/<pid>/cwd, like linux and SunOS).
Now honours 'set horizontal-scroll-mode off' in .inputrc.
Slave pty is never closed in parent (even after slave's death),
preventing long timeouts in OSes with streams-based pty IO.
Lots of small fixes to adapt to gcc 3.x's more finicky behaviour
(e.g. avoiding multi-line strings, not automaticaly including system
includes in Makefile.in).
configure rewrites manpage to reflect rlwraps capabilities on each
platform.
history searching with CTRL-R (backwards-search-history) now works,
!-completion is cleaned up (could even segfault in previous versions).
SIGSEGV is now caught in order to reset terminal.
0.12 When slave pty's ECHO flag is unset (e.g. when entering a password)
rlwrap now displays asterisks for every input character like this:
Password: ******
Better handling of very long prompts, or very narrow terminal windows.
If the prompt is wider than the current terminal, rlwrap assumes
that it has wrapped around and uses the last (wrapped) line of
it as the new prompt.
Slave pty is opened (and remains open) in parent, allowing slave side
to be monitored instead of master.
testclient (a perl script) has been added, uncovering quite a few
embarassing bugs.
system-wide completion word lists (in $sysconfdir/rlwrap) can be used.
0.11 If the tcgetattr() call to determine the pty's echo mode fails at
startup, rlwrap now sleeps for 1 second before trying again
once. (on FreeBSD, the first call will normally fail, but (most of
the time) not the second, due to a race condition that
ought to be fixed by some form of synchronisation between parent
and child)
--libdir and --includedir for configure now work, as well as
LDFLAGS=xxxx ./configure.
Filename completion now works again (when -c option is set).
User input is now echoed correctly when the pty's echo mode cannot be
determined (in that case a warning is printed at startup that
passwords will be saved in the history file).
0.10: logging (-l option) implemented.
history_filename and completion_filename now live on the heap
instead of in fixed-length buffers.
0.07: Readline mode is entered (by registering callback) with the
first keypress of a new line, not before. All command output before that
will just be written to stdout unchanged (long lines could become garbled
in 0.06 and earlier).
Signal handling (esp. SIGTSTP and SIGWINCH) is much improved.
The -a option forces rlwrap to use readline, which is useful if you
want to rlwrap a command that already uses readline.
<TAB> is now bound to menu-complete by default: it will cylce through all
possible completions, instead of listing them all, as in 0.06.
0.06: Transparent mode (immediately handing down keypresses) is now
automatic whenever the pty has its ICANON flag unset.
readline version 4.2 is now mandatory.
Cleanup of code, eliminating many bugs, possibly introducing
others (ugh!)
Application name (used by readline) is now set to command name.
Duplicate history entries are not remembered.
Manpage updated: environment variable RLWRAP_HOME is now documented.
0.04: When started in transparent mode, now properly returns to it after
each readline edit.
Senses the pty's ECHO flag. When this is unset, rlwrap doesn't echo
user input. Neither is it put in the history list (which would contain
passwords etc. otherwise).
0.03: Now uses .<command>_history and .<command>_completions
files (by default in $HOME).
0.02: A couple of #ifdefs for portability (tested on BSDI and Digital Unix).
0.01: Initial version.
