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1.1     ! misho       1: This is a terse description of the new features added to readline-6.3 since
        !             2: the release of readline-6.2.
        !             3: 
        !             4: New Features in Readline
        !             5: 
        !             6: a.  Readline is now more responsive to SIGHUP and other fatal signals when
        !             7:     reading input from the terminal or performing word completion but no
        !             8:     longer attempts to run any not-allowable functions from a signal handler
        !             9:     context.
        !            10: 
        !            11: b.  There are new bindable commands to search the history for the string of
        !            12:     characters between the beginning of the line and the point
        !            13:     (history-substring-search-forward, history-substring-search-backward)
        !            14: 
        !            15: c.  Readline allows quoted strings as the values of variables when setting
        !            16:     them with `set'.  As a side effect, trailing spaces and tabs are ignored
        !            17:     when setting a string variable's value.
        !            18: 
        !            19: d.  The history library creates a backup of the history file when writing it
        !            20:     and restores the backup on a write error.
        !            21: 
        !            22: e.  New application-settable variable: rl_filename_stat_hook: a function called
        !            23:     with a filename before using it in a call to stat(2).  Bash uses it to
        !            24:     expand shell variables so things like $HOME/Downloads have a slash
        !            25:     appended.
        !            26: 
        !            27: f.  New bindable function `print-last-kbd-macro', prints the most-recently-
        !            28:     defined keyboard macro in a reusable format.
        !            29: 
        !            30: g.  New user-settable variable `colored-stats', enables use of colored text
        !            31:     to denote file types when displaying possible completions (colored analog
        !            32:     of visible-stats).
        !            33: 
        !            34: h.  New user-settable variable `keyseq-timout', acts as an inter-character
        !            35:     timeout when reading input or incremental search strings.
        !            36: 
        !            37: i.  New application-callable function: rl_clear_history. Clears the history list
        !            38:     and frees all readline-associated private data.
        !            39: 
        !            40: j.  New user-settable variable, show-mode-in-prompt, adds a characters to the
        !            41:     beginning of the prompt indicating the current editing mode.
        !            42: 
        !            43: k.  New application-settable variable: rl_input_available_hook; function to be
        !            44:     called when readline detects there is data available on its input file
        !            45:     descriptor.
        !            46: 
        !            47: l.  Readline calls an application-set event hook (rl_event_hook) after it gets
        !            48:     a signal while reading input (read returns -1/EINTR but readline does not
        !            49:     handle the signal immediately) to allow the application to handle or
        !            50:     otherwise note it.
        !            51: 
        !            52: m.  If the user-settable variable `history-size' is set to a value less than
        !            53:     0, the history list size is unlimited.
        !            54: 
        !            55: n.  New application-settable variable: rl_signal_event_hook; function that is
        !            56:     called when readline is reading terminal input and read(2) is interrupted
        !            57:     by a signal.  Currently not called for SIGHUP or SIGTERM.