commit bash-20040108 snapshot

NEWS

@@ -115,6 +115,13 @@ gg. New `set -o pipefail' option that causes a pipeline to return a failure
     status if any of the processes in the pipeline fail, not just the last
     one.
 
+hh.  printf builtin understands two new escape sequences:  \" and \?.
+
+ii.  `echo -e' understands two new escape sequences:  \" and \?.
+
+jj.  The GNU `gettext' package and libintl have been integrated; the shell's
+     messages can be translated into different languages.
+
 2.  New Features in Readline
 
 a.  History expansion has a new `a' modifier equivalent to the `g' modifier
@@ -146,6 +153,18 @@ h.  Four new key binding functions have been added:
 	rl_bind_keyseq_if_unbound()
 	rl_bind_keyseq_if_unbound_in_map()
 
+i.  New application variable, rl_completion_quote_character, set to any
+    quote character readline finds before it calls the application completion
+    function.
+
+j.  New application variable, rl_completion_suppress_quote, settable by an
+    application completion function.  If set to non-zero, readline does not
+    attempt to append a closing quote to a completed word.
+
+k.  New application variable, rl_completion_found_quote, set to a non-zero
+    value if readline determines that the word to be completed is quoted.
+    Set before readline calls any application completion function.
+
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 This is a terse description of the new features added to bash-2.05b since
 the release of bash-2.05a.  As always, the manual page (doc/bash.1) is