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+10 December 2008
+
+* glibc's getopt(3) is useless: it is not POSIX compliant without jumping through
+ non-portable hoops, and the method of resetting it is unclear (the man page
+ on my system says set optind to 1, but other sources say 0). So, import
+ OpenBSD's getopt_long.c into compat/ for use on Linux and use the clearly
+ documented optreset = optind = 1 method. This fixes some strange issues
+ with command parsing (getting the syntax would prevent any further commands
+ being parsed).
+
06 December 2008
* Bring set/setw/show/showw into line with other commands. This means that by
@@ -762,7 +772,7 @@
(including mutt, emacs). No status bar yet and no key remapping or other
customisation.
-$Id: CHANGES,v 1.170 2008-12-08 16:19:51 nicm Exp $
+$Id: CHANGES,v 1.171 2008-12-10 20:25:41 nicm Exp $
LocalWords: showw utf UTF fulvio ciriaco joshe OSC APC gettime abc DEF OA clr
LocalWords: rivo nurges lscm Erdely eol smysession mysession ek dstname RB