Re: draft release announcement

[CdeMills]

John W. Eaton wrote:
> 
> On  9-Feb-2011, CdeMills wrote:
> 
> | In the News file, there should be items about 
> | 1) the enhanced history mechanism. In the past, I lost quite a few times
> the
> | history while debugging scripts and filling the history with 'return'
> 
> OK, how about a patch with suggested text for that?
> 
> 
What about:

* The behaviour of the history saving mechanism has been enhanced in a way
similar to 'bash'. The variable 'history_control' permits to fine tune the
way command lines are saved, like f.i. 'ignoredups' to avoid duplicates.
This way, repeatedly typing the same command, like 'return' in a debugging
session, doesn't saturate the history and make useful entries get lost.

* Some glue functions with system routines, imported from other projects a
long time ago, have been superseded by replacements using the 'gnulib'
system utilities.

Regards

Pascal
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