[PATCH] synchronize readline w/ official patches

[Elena Zannoni]

Elena Zannoni writes:
 > 
 > There is a set of official patches to readline which are not all in
 > our version. I have merged the patches. The changelog entries are a
 > bit unorthodox but I wanted to leave a clear trail, to facilitate the
 > next full readline import (easier to check whether those are in
 > readline 4.4). One of the patches was merged by Michael, so I added
 > some info to his changelog entry.
 > 
 > tested on i686-linux-gnu. 
 > 
 > I'll wait for a couple of days before checking them in, in case
 > somebody wants to retest.
 > 
 > elena
 > 
 > 

thanks, Michael and Eli for testing this. I've committed it.

elena