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32 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
33 working with Pavel Curtis' original work, pcurses, in 1992.
35 Changes through 1.9.9e are recorded by Zeyd M Ben-Halim.
36 Changes since 1.9.9e are recorded by Thomas E Dickey.
38 Contributors include those who have provided patches (even small ones), as well
39 as those who provide useful information (bug reports, analyses). Changes with
40 no cited author are the work of Thomas E Dickey (TD).
42 A few contributors may be cited in this file by their initials.
43 Each accounts for half of one percent or more of the changes since 1.9.9e.
44 See the AUTHORS file for the corresponding full names.
46 Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
47 it is not possible to add this information.
50 + change RV to XR/xr, to avoid conflict with pre-existing usage in vim,
51 to use RV/rv to denote DA2 and its response (discussion with Bram
53 + add XF flag to xterm+focus so that termcap applications can be aware
54 of terminals which may support focus in/out -TD
55 + use xterm+focus in xterm-p370 and tmux -TD
56 + improve configure-script macros vs compiler warnings.
59 + add --with-abi-altered configure option (prompted by discussion with
61 + add BSD erase2 to characters handled by tset/reset.
62 + improve configure-script macros vs compiler warnings.
63 + regenerate configure scripts with autoconf 2.52.20221202
64 + add RV report+version (suggested by Bram Moolenaar).
65 + add comment to bracketed+paste explaining that vim patch 9.0.1117 is
66 needed for use with the updated xterm descriptions (suggested by Bram
69 20221231 6.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
70 + update release notes
71 + regenerate llib-* files.
72 + correct PS vs PE names in bracketed+paste (report by Bram Moolenaar)
76 + add mutex lock/unlock in a few places reported by thread-sanitizer
77 + add/use bracketed+paste to help identify terminals supporting this
78 xterm feature (prompted by discussion with Bram Moolenaar) -TD
81 + install Ada95 sample programs in libexecdir, adding a wrapper
82 script to invoke those.
85 + add minimal -h/-V getopt logic to the remaining test-programs.
86 + free new_pair() data in delscreen (report by "magiblot").
87 + add clarification of the scope of dynamic variables in terminfo(5).
88 + remove a stray '/' from description of %g in terminfo(5).
91 + add -h usage and -V version options to the test-programs which use
93 + use "command -v" rather than "type" in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in to fix
94 a portability issue (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
95 + update ncurses-howto, more documentation fixes along with corrections
99 + fix an error in pathname of explain.txt (cf: 20200201).
100 + fix an error in "@" command in test/ncurses.c F-menu (cf: 20190121).
101 + improve formatting of ncurses-intro.html and hackguide.html
102 + improve man/curs_clear.3x links to other pages
105 + use static libraries for AdaCurses test-package for Mageia, since no
106 gprbuild package is available.
107 + updated test packages for Debian.
110 + build-fixes for AdaCurses RPM test-package.
113 + regenerate configure scripts with autoconf 2.52.20221009
114 + modify "--with-manpage-format" to support bzip2 and xz compression
115 (prompted by discussion with Sam James).
116 + modify make-tar.sh scripts to make timestamps more predictable.
119 + improve curs_slk.3x discussion of extensions and portability (report
123 + change man_db.renames to template, to handle ncurses*-config script
124 with the extra-suffix configure option.
127 + fix another memory-leak in tic.
128 + update install-sh script from autoconf, to fix install problem for
129 Ada95 with Arch; as noted in
130 https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2018-09/msg00005.html
131 there are unaddressed issues.
132 + update CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, adding GNU libc suffixes for abi64, abin32,
133 x32 (report by Sven Joachim):
134 + correct ifdef's for _nc_set_read_thread() (patch by Mikhail Korolev,
138 + correct a switch-statement case in configure script to allow for test
140 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to allow for the case where the library
141 directory does not yet exist, since this is processed before doing an
142 install (report by Michal Liszcz).
145 + modify configure/scripts to work around interference by GNU grep 3.8
146 (report by Sam James).
147 + update CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, adding variants "gnueabi" and "gnueabihf" to
148 get _DEFAULT_SOURCE special case (report by Adam Sampson)
151 + modify configure macro CF_BUILD_CC to check if the build-compiler
152 works, rather than that it is different from the cross-compiler, e.g.,
153 to accommodate a compiler which can be used for either purpose with
154 different flags (report by Mikhail Korolev).
155 + fix another memory-leak in tic.
156 + correct change for cppcheck in menu library (report/analysis by
157 "tuxway", cf: 20220903).
158 + update config.guess, config.sub
161 + reduce memory-leak in tic by separating allocations for struct entry
162 from TERMTYPE2 (cf: 20220430).
163 + improve interaction between tic -v option and NCURSES_TRACE, by
164 processing the latter only when -v option does not set _nc_tracing.
165 + modify curses_trace() to show the trace-mask as symbols, e.g.,
166 TRACE_ORDINARY, DEBUG_LEVEL(3).
169 + amend verbose-option change to make this affect level 3, e.g., using
171 + work around musl's nonstandard use of feature test macros by adding
172 a definition for NCURSES_WIDECHAR to the generated ".pc" and *-config
173 files (report by Sam James).
176 + modify verbose-option of infocmp, tic, toe to enable debug-tracing
177 if that is configured.
180 + modify configure scripts to use overlooked cases for LD and
181 PKG_CONFIG variables (report by Alan Webb, Gentoo #866398).
182 + modify nsterm to use xterm+alt1049 (report by Paul Handly) -TD
183 + modify putty to use xterm+alt1049 -TD
186 + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses and c++
187 libraries and progs directory.
188 + add curses_trace to ifdef's for START_TRACE in test/test.priv.h
189 + update config.guess
192 + modify delscreen to more effectively delete all windows on the given
194 + amend portability note for delwin in manual page.
195 + adapt test/test_delwin.c from example by Bill Gray.
196 + account for prescreen data if freeing leaks in pthread-configuration
197 + split-out _nc_set_read_thread(), to reduce compiler warnings about
198 pthread_self(), which may/may not be a weak symbol.
199 + improve pthread-configuration for test/worm.c
202 + amend end_of_stream() to allow for input files without a final
204 + check for non-textfiles to tic.
207 + fixes to build with dietlibc:
208 + add configure check for fpathconf (report by Georg Lehner).
209 + add configure check for math sine/cosine, needed in test/tclock,
210 and eliminate pow() from test/hanoi (report by Georg Lehner).
211 + use wcsnlen as an alternative to wmemchr if it is not found
212 (adapted from patch by Georg Lehner).
213 + trim out some unwanted linker options from ncurses*config and .pc
214 files seen in Fedora 36+.
217 + add portability notes for delscreen and delwin in manual.
218 + improve pthread-configuration for test/worm.c, test/rain.c
219 + improve pointer/limit checks associated with deleting a screen
223 + build-fix for test_mouse.c, for non-standard cfmakeraw.
224 + improve shell-scripts with shellcheck
225 + fix typo in run_tic.in (report/patch by Jan Starke).
228 + lock the prescreen data consistently in newterm, etc., for the
229 pthreads configuration (report by Tom de Vries).
232 + add consistency check in tic for u6/u7/u8/u9 and NQ capabilities.
233 + use NQ to flag entries where the terminal does not support query and
235 + use ansi+enq and decid+cpr in cases where the terminal probably
236 supported the u6-u9 extension -TD
237 + add/use apollo+vt132, xterm+alt47 -TD
240 + improve man/curs_bkgd.3x, explaining that bkgdset can affect results
241 for bkgd (report by Anton Vidovic).
242 + correct dsl in dec+sl (report by Rajeev Pillai) -TD
243 + add/use ansi+cpr, decid+cpr -TD
246 + add a null-pointer check for term_names field in copy_termtype(),
247 needed for MinGW port (report by Peiyuan Song, cf: 20220521).
248 + revise kon/kon2/jfbterm to undo "linux2.6" change to
249 smacs/rmacs/enacs (Debian #1012800) -TD
250 + amended note for att610+cvis0, as per documentation for att610,
254 + modify waddch_literal() to allow for double-width base character when
255 merging a combining character (report by Gavin Troy).
256 + improve _tracecchar_t2() formatting of base+combining character.
259 + add note on portable memory-leak checking in man/curs_memleaks.3x
260 + remove u6-u9 from teken-2018 -TD
261 + set "xterm-new" to "xterm-p370", add "xterm-p371" -TD
264 + expanded notes for teken/syscons -TD
265 + fix overlooked copying of extended string-heap in copy_termtype
267 + update config.guess
270 + improve memory-leak checking in several test-programs.
271 + set trailing null on string passed from winsnstr() to wins_nwstr().
272 + modify del_curterm() to fix memory-leak introduced by change to
276 + further improvements to test/test_mouse.c; compare with ncurses test
280 + add test/test_mouse.c (patch by Leonid S Usov).
281 + add a few debug-traces for tic, fix a couple of memory-leaks.
284 + build-fix for debug-traces (report/patch by Chris Clayton).
287 + modify samples for xterm mouse 1002/1003 modes to use 1006 mode, and
288 also provide for focus in/out responses -TD
289 + modify default case in handle_wheel() to always report button-release
290 events, e.g., for xterm mouse mode 1003 (patch by Leonid S Usov).
291 + improve valid_entryname() to disallow characters used in terminfo
292 syntax: '#', '=', '|', '\'.
293 + alter copy_termtype() to allocate new str_table and ext_str_table
294 data rather than relying upon its callers.
295 + use calloc in _nc_init_entry() when allocating stringbuf, to ensure
297 + add library-level TYPE_CALLOC for consistency with TYPE_MALLOC.
298 + add some debug-traces for tic/infocmp.
301 + in-progress work on invalid_merge(), disable it (cf: 20220402).
302 + fix memory leak in _nc_tic_dir() when called from _nc_set_writedir().
303 + fix memory leak in tic when "-c" option is used.
306 + add a limit-check to guard against corrupt terminfo data
307 (report/testcase by NCNIPC of China).
308 + add check/warning in configure script if option --with-xterm-kbs is
309 missing or inconsistent (Arch #74379).
310 + add setlocale call to several test-programs.
311 + allow extended-color number in opts parameter of wattr_on.
314 + add test/test_unget_wch.c
317 + amend extended_captype(), returning CANCEL if a string is explicitly
319 + make description-fields distinct -TD
323 + add teken-16color, teken-vt and teken-sc -TD
324 + add a few missing details for vte-2018 (report by Robert Lange) -TD
328 + correct setal in mintty/tmux entries, add to vte-2018 (report by
330 + add blink to vte-2018 (report by Robert Lange)
331 + improve tic warning about XT versus redundant tsl, etc.
334 + add xterm+acs building-block -TD
335 + add xterm-p370, for use in older terminals -TD
336 + add dec+sl to xterm-new, per xterm patch #371 -TD
337 + add mosh and mosh-256color -TD
340 + replace obsolescent "-gnatg" option with "-gnatwa" and "-gnatyg", to
341 work around build problems with gnat 12.
342 + update external links in Ada95.html
343 + trim unused return-value from canonical_name().
346 + fix issues found with coverity:
347 + rewrite canonical_name() function of infocmp to ensure buffer size
348 + corrected use of original tty-modes in tput init/reset subcommands
349 + modify tabs program to limit tab-stop values to max-columns
350 + add limit-checks for palette rgb values in test/ncurses.c
351 + add a few null-pointer checks to help with static-analysis.
352 + enforce limit on number of soft-keys used in c++ binding.
353 + adjust a buffer-limit in write_entry.c to quiet a bogus warning from
357 + expanded description in man/resizeterm.3x
358 + additional workaround for ImageMagick in test/picsmap.c
361 + improve font-formatting in other manpages, for consistency.
362 + correct/improve font-formatting in curs_wgetch.3x (patch by Benno
366 + workaround in test/picsmap.c for use of floating point for rgb values
367 by ImageMagick 6.9.11, which appears to use the wrong upper limit.
368 + improve use of "trap" in shell scripts, using "fixup-trap".
371 + minor updates for test-packages
372 + improve handling of --with-pkg-config-libdir option, allowing for the
373 case where either $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR or the option value has a
374 colon-separated list of directories (report by Rudi Heitbaum,
379 + add ABI 7 defaults to configure script.
380 + add warning in configure script if file specified for "--with-caps"
382 + use fix for CF_FIX_WARNINGS from cdk-perl, ignoring error-exit on
384 + improve readability of long parameterized expressions with the
385 infocmp "-f" option by allowing split before a "%p" marker.
388 + improve checks for valid mouse events when an intermediate mouse
389 state is not part of the mousemask specified by the caller (report by
390 Anton Vidovic, cf: 20111022).
391 + use newer version 1.36 of gnathtml for generating Ada html files.
394 + add section on releasing memory to curs_termcap.3x and
395 curs_terminfo.3x manpages.
398 + improve markup, e.g., for external manpage links in the manpages
399 (prompted by report by Helge Kreutzmann).
402 + install ncurses-examples programs in libexecdir, adding a wrapper
403 script to invoke those.
404 + add help-screen and screen-dump to test/combine.c
407 + add test/combine.c, to demo/test combining characters.
410 + improve configure check for getttynam (report by Werner Fink).
413 + fix errata in description fields (report by Eric Lindblad) -TD
414 + add x10term+sl, aixterm+sl, ncr260vp+sl, ncr260vp+vt, wyse+sl -TD
417 + add dim, ecma+strikeout to st-0.6 -TD
418 + deallocate the tparm cache when del_curterm is called for the last
419 allocated TERMINAL structure (report/testcase by Bram Moolenaar,
421 + modify test-package to more closely conform to Debian multi-arch.
422 + if the --with-pkg-config-libdir option is not given, use
423 ${libdir}/pkgconfig as a default (prompted by discussion with Ross
427 + fix memory-leak in delwin for pads (report by Werner Fink, OpenSUSE
428 #1192668, cf: 20211106),
431 + minor clarification to clear.1 (Debian #999437).
432 + add xterm+sl-alt, use that in foot+base (report by Jonas Grosse
434 + improve search-path check for pkg-config, for Debian testing which
435 installs pkg-config with architecture-prefixes.
438 + improve check in misc/Makefile.in for empty $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR
439 + modify wnoutrefresh to call pnoutrefresh if its parameter is a pad,
440 rather than treating it as an error, and modify new_panel to permit
441 its window-parameter to be a pad (report by Giorgos Xou).
442 + fix a memory-leak in del_curterm (prompted by discussion with Bram
443 Moolenaar, cf: 20210821).
446 + simplify some references to WINDOWS._flags using macros.
447 + add a "check" rule in Ada95 makefile, to help with test-packages.
448 + build-fix for cross-compiling to MingW, conditionally add -lssp
451 + corrected regex needed for older pkg-config used in Solaris 10.
452 + amend configure option's auto-search to account for systems where
453 none of the directories known to pkg-config exist, adapted from
454 mailing-list comment (report by Milan P. Stanic).
456 20211021 6.3 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
457 + update release notes
458 + add "ncu2openbsd" script, to illustrate how to update an OpenBSD
459 system to use a current ncurses release.
462 + check for screen size-change in scr_init() and scr_restore(), in case
463 a screen dump does not match the current screen dimensions (report by
467 + amend change for pkg-config to account for "none" being returned in
468 the libdir-path result rather than "no" (report by Gabriele Balducci).
471 + build-fix for pmake with libtool.
472 + improve make-tar.sh scripts, adding COPYING to tar file, and clean up
474 + add link for "reset6" manpage in test-package ncurses6-doc
475 + revise configure option --with-pkg-config-libdir, using the actual
476 search path from pkg-config or pkgconf using the output from --debug
477 (report by Pascal Pignard).
478 + freeze ABI in ".map" files.
481 + implement "+m" option in tabs program.
482 + fill in some details for infoton -TD
483 + fix spelling/consistency in several descriptions -TD
484 + use vt420+lrmm in vt420 -TD
485 + modify save_tty_settings() to avoid opening /dev/tty for cases other
486 than reset/init, e.g., for clear.
487 + modify output of "toe -as" to show first description found rather
489 + improve tic checks for number of parameters of smglp, smgrp, smgtp,
490 and smgbp (cf: 20020525).
491 + correct off-by-one comparison in last_char(), which did not allow
492 special case of ":" in a terminfo description field (cf: 20120407).
493 + remove check in tic that assumes that none or both parameterized and
494 non-parameterized margin-setting capabilities are present
498 + use return-value from vsnprintf to reallocate as needed to allow for
499 buffers larger than the screen size (report by "_RuRo_").
500 + modify tset "-q" option to refrain from modifying terminal modes, to
501 match the documentation.
502 + add section on margins to terminfo.5, adapted from X/Open Curses.
503 + make tput/tset warning messages consistently using alias names when
504 those are used, rather than the underlying program's name.
505 + improve tput usage message for aliases such as clear, by eliminating
506 tput-specific portions.
507 + add a check in toe to ensure that a "termcap file" is text rather
509 + further build-fixes for OpenBSD 6.9, whose header files differ from
513 + add kbeg to xterm+keypad to accommodate termcap applications -TD
514 + add smglp and smgrp to vt420+lrmm, to provide useful data for the
516 + build-fix for gcc 3.4.3 with Solaris10, which does not allow forward
517 reference of anonymous struct typedef.
518 + modify tput to allow multiple commands per line.
519 + minor fixes for tset manpage.
522 + adjust ifdef in test_opaque.c to fix build with ncurses 5.7
523 + add testing note for xterm-{hp|sco|sun} -TD
524 + corrected description for ansi.sys-old -TD
525 + add xterm+nopcfkeys, to fill in keys for xterm-hp, xterm-sun -TD
526 + use hp+arrows in a few places -TD
527 + use hp+pfk-cr in a few places -TD
530 + correct logic in filtering of redefinitions (report by Sven Joachim,
534 + modify linux3.0 entry to reflect default mapping of shift-tab by
535 kbd 1.14 (report by Jan Engelhardt) -TD
536 + add historical note to tput, curses-terminfo and curses-color
537 manpages based on source-code for SVr2, SVr3 and SVr4.
538 + minor grammatical fixes for "it's" vs "its" (report by Nick Black).
539 + amend fix for --disable-root-environ (report by Arnav Singh).
540 + build-fix for compiling link_test
541 + drop symbols GCC_PRINTF and GCC_SCANF from curses.h.in, to simplify
542 use (Debian #993179).
545 + correct reversed check for --disable-root-environ (report/analysis
546 by Arnav Singh, cf: 20210626).
547 + apply gcc format attribute to prototypes which use a va_list
548 parameter rather than a "..." variable-length parameter list
549 (prompted by discussion in a tmux pull-request).
550 + modify configure scripts to filter out redefinitions of _XOPEN_SOURCE,
551 e.g., for NetBSD which generally supports 500, but 600 is needed for
553 + improve documentation for tparm and static/dynamic variables.
554 + improve typography in terminfo.5 (patch by Branden Robinson).
557 + improve tparm implementation of %P and %g, more closely matching
559 + move internals of TERMINAL structure to new header term.priv.h
560 + add "check" rule for ncurses/Makefile
561 + corrected tsl capability for terminator -TD
562 + add check in tic to report instances where tparm would detect an
563 error in an expression (cf: 20201010).
564 + correct a few places where SP->_pair_limit was used rather than
565 SP->_pair_alloc (cf: 20170812).
566 + fix missing "%d" for setaf/setab code 8-15 in xterm+direct16 (report
567 by Florian Weimer) -TD
568 + fix some documentation errata from OpenBSD changes.
572 + add workaround for broken pcre2 package in Debian 10, from xterm #369.
575 + ignore "--dynamic-linker" option in generated pkg/config files,
576 adapted from "distr1" patch.
577 + add CF_SHARED_OPTS case for Haiku, from patch in haikuports.
580 + add extensions in xterm+tmux and ecma+strikeout to ms-terminal,
581 but cancel the non-working Cr and Ms capabilities -TD
582 + add foot and foot-direct -TD
585 + add workaround for Windows Terminal's problems with CR/LF mapping to
586 ms-terminal (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
587 + review/update current Windows Terminal vs ms-terminal -TD
590 + correct typo in "vip" comments (report by Nick Black), reviewed this
591 against Glink manual -TD
592 + fill in some missing pieces for pccons, to make it comparable to the
594 + modify mk-1st.awk to account for extra-suffix configure option
595 (report by Juergen Pfeifer).
596 + change default for --disable-wattr-macros option to help packagers
597 who reuse wide ncursesw header file with non-wide ncurses library.
598 + build-fix for test/test_opaque.c, for configurations without opaque
602 + improve history section for tset manpage based on the 1BSD tarball,
603 which preceded BSD's SCCS checkins by more than three years.
604 + improve CF_XOPEN_CURSES macro used in test/configure (report by Urs
606 + further improvement of libtool configuration, adding a dependency of
607 the install.tic rule, etc., on the library in the build-tree.
611 + amend libtool configuration to add dependency for install.tic, etc.,
612 in ncurses/Makefile on the lower-level libraries.
613 + modify configure script to support ".PHONY" make program feature.
616 + add configure option --disable-root-access, which tells ncurses to
617 disallow most file-opens by setuid processes.
618 + use default colors in pccon "op" -TD
619 + correct rmacs/smacs in aaa+dec, aaa+rv -TD
620 + add hpterm-color2 and hp98550-color (Martin Trusler)
621 + regenerate man-html documentation.
624 + improve configure-macro used for dependencies of --disable-leaks such
626 + trim trailing blanks from files
629 + fixes for scan-build, valgrind build/testing.
630 + update config.guess
633 + add a summary of ncurses-specific preprocessor symbols to curses.h
634 (prompted by discussion with Peter Farley, Bill Gray).
637 + regenerate configure scripts with autoconf 2.52.20210509 to eliminate
638 an unnecessary warning in config.log (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
639 + add a note in manual page to explain ungetch vs unget_wch (prompted
640 by discussion with Peter Farley).
641 + add sp-funcs for erasewchar, killwchar.
642 + modify wgetnstr, wgetn_wstr to improve compatibility with SVr4 curses
643 in its treatment of interrupt and quit characters (prompted by
644 report/testcase by Bill Gray)
645 + update config.guess, config.sub
648 + improve manual pages for wgetnstr, newwin (prompted by
649 report/testcase by Bill Gray).
652 + modify tputs' error check to allow it to be used without first
653 calling tgetent or setupterm, noting that terminfo initialization
654 is required for supporting the terminfo delay feature (report by
656 + fix several warnings from clang --analyze
657 + add null-pointer check in comp_parse.c, when a "use=" clause refers
658 to a nonexisting terminal description (report/patch by Miroslav
659 Lichvar, cf: 20210227).
662 + add a special case in the configure script to work around one of the
663 build-time breakages reported for OpenBSD 6 here:
664 https://www.mail-archive.com/bugs@openbsd.org/msg13200.html
665 There is no workaround for the other issue, a broken linker spec.
666 + modify configure check for libtool to prevent accidental use of an
667 OpenBSD program which uses the same name.
668 + update config.guess, config.sub
671 + avoid using broken system macros for snprintf which interfere with
672 _nc_SLIMIT's conditionally adding a parameter when the string-hacks
673 configure option is enabled.
674 + add a "all::" rule before the new "check" rule in test/Makefile.in
677 + improve CF_LINK_FUNCS by ensuring that the source-file is closed
678 before linking to the target.
679 + add "check" rules for headers in c++, progs and test-directories.
680 + build-fix for termsort module when configured with termcap (reports
681 by Rajeev V Pillai, Rudi Heitbaum).
684 + extend --disable-pkg-ldflags option to also control whether $LDFLAGS
685 from the build is provided in -config and .pc files (Debian #986764).
686 + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses and c++
687 libraries and progs directory.
688 + fix off-by-one limit for tput's processing command-line arguments
689 (patch by Hadrien Lacour).
692 + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses library and
694 + improve description of BSD-style padding in curs_termcap.3x
695 + improved CF_C11_NORETURN macro, from byacc changes.
696 + fix "--enable-leak" in CF_DISABLE_LEAKS to allow turning
697 leak-checking off later in a set of options.
698 + relax modification-time comparison in CF_LINK_FUNCS to allow it to
699 accept link() function with NFS filesystems which change the mtime
700 on the link target, e.g., several BSD systems.
701 + call delay_output_sp to handle BSD-style padding when tputs_sp is
702 called, whether directly or internally, to ensure that the SCREEN
703 pointer is passed correctly (reports by Henric Jungheim, Juraj
707 + build-fixes for Solaris10 /bin/sh
708 + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses test-programs,
709 form and menu libraries.
712 + add configure option --enable-stdnoreturn, making the _Noreturn
713 keyword optional to ease transition (prompted by report by
717 + improve parameter-checking in tput by forcing it to analyze any
718 extended string capability, e.g., as used in the Cs and Ms
719 capabilities of the tmux description (report by Brad Town,
721 + remove an incorrect free in the fallback (non-checking) version of
722 _nc_free_and_exit (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
723 + correct use-ordering in some xterm-direct flavors -TD
724 + add hterm, hterm-256color (Mike Frysinger)
725 + if the build-time compiler accepts c11's _Noreturn keyword, use that
726 rather than gcc's attribute.
727 + change configure-check for gcc's noreturn attribute to assume it is
728 a prefix rather than suffix, matching c11's _Noreturn convention.
729 + add "lint" rule to c++/Makefile, e.g., with cppcheck.
732 + improve configure CF_LD_SEARCHPATH macro used for ncurses*-config and
733 ".pc" files, from dialog changes.
734 + reduce dependency of math-library in test programs.
735 + minor fixes for test_tparm.c (cf: 20210306)
736 + mention "ncurses" prefix in curses_version() manpage (report by
740 + improved test/test_tparm.c, by limiting the tests to capabilities
741 that might have parameters or padding, and combined with tputs test.
742 + improve discussion of padding versus tparm and tputs in
744 + update portability note for FreeBSD in man/tput.1
747 + modify tic/infocmp to eliminate unnecessary "\" to escape ":" in
749 + add check in tic for duplicate "use=" clauses.
752 + improve tic warning when oc/op do not mention SGR 39/49 for xterm
754 + revert change to lib_addch.c in waddch_literal() from 20210130, since
755 the followup fix in PutCharLR() actually corrects the problem while
756 this change causes too-early filling/wrapping (report by Johannes
758 + add/use vt220+pcedit and vt220+vtedit -TD
759 + add scrt/securecrt and absolute -TD
760 + add nel to xterm-new, though supported since X11R5 -TD
761 + add/use xterm+nofkeys -TD
762 + move use of ecma+italics from xterm-basic to xterm+nofkeys -TD
765 + add test/back_ground.c, to exercise the wide-character background
767 + add a check in _nc_build_wch() in case the background character is a
768 wide-character, rather than a new part of a multibyte character.
769 + improve tracemunch's coverage of form/menu/panel libraries.
770 + improve tracemunch's checking/reporting the type for the first
771 parameter, e.g., "WINDOW*" rather than "#1".
774 + provide for wide-characters as background character in wbkgrnd
775 (report/testcase by Anton Vidovic)
776 + add name for Fedora's pcre2 to configure check for "--with-pcre2"
777 option, from xterm #363 -TD
778 + modify adjustment in PutCharLR to restore the cursor position before
779 writing to the lower-right corner, rather than decrementing the
780 cursor column, in case it was a double-width character (cf: 20210130).
783 + correct an off-by-one in comparison in waddch_literal() which caused
784 scrolling when a double-cell character would not fit at the lower
785 right corner of the screen (report by Benno Schulenberg).
786 + split-out att610+cvis, vt220+cvis, vt220+cvis8 -TD
787 + add vt220-base, for terminal emulators which generally have not
788 supported att610's blinking cursor control -TD
789 + use vt220+cvis in vt220, etc -TD
790 + use att610+cvis, xterm+tmux and ansi+enq in kitty -TD
791 + use vt220+cvis in st, terminology, termite since they ignore
792 blinking-cursor detail in att610+cvis -TD
795 + modify package/config scripts to provide an explicit -L option for
796 cases when the loader search path has other directories preceding
797 the one in which ncurses is installed (report by Yuri Victorovich).
798 + minor build-fixes in configure script and makefiles to work around
802 + add comment for linux2.6 regarding CONFIG_CONSOLE_TRANSLATIONS
803 (report by Patrick McDermott) -TD
804 + make opts extension for getcchar work as documented for ncurses 6.1,
805 adding "-g" flag to test/demo_new_pair to illustrate.
808 + fix errata in man/ncurses.3x from recent updates.
809 + improve quoting/escaping in configure script, uses some features of
810 autoconf 2.52.20210105
813 + update man/curs_memleaks.3x, to include <term.h> which declares
815 + clarify man/curs_terminfo.3x, to mention why the macro setterm is
816 defined in <curses.h>, and remove it from the list of prototypes
817 (prompted by patch by Graeme McCutcheon).
818 + amend man/curs_terminfo.3x, to note that <curses.h> is required
819 for certain functions, e.g., those using chtype or attr_t for
820 types, as well as mvcur (cf: 20201031).
821 + use parameter-names in prototypes in curs_sp_funcs.3x, for
822 consistency with other manpages.
825 + update terminology entry to 1.8.1 -TD
826 + fix some compiler-warnings which gcc8 reports incorrectly.
829 + suppress hyphenation in generated html for manpages, to address
830 regression in upgrade of groff 1.22.2 to 1.22.3.
831 + fix inconsistent sort-order in see-also sections of manpages (report
835 + improve manual pages for form field-types.
838 + amend build-fixes for gnat 10 to work with certain systems lacking
839 gprbuild (cf: 20200627).
840 + eliminate an additional strlen and wsclen.
841 + eliminate an unnecessary strlen in waddnstr() (suggested by Benjamin
843 + modify inopts manpage, separating the items for nodelay and notimeout
844 (patch by Benno Schulenberg).
845 + correct mlterm3 kf1-kf4 (Debian #975322) -TD
846 + add flash to mlterm3 -TD
849 + add Smulx to alacritty (Christian Duerr).
850 + add rep to PuTTY -TD
851 + add putty+keypad -TD
852 + add another fflush(stdout) in _nc_flush() to handle time-delays in
853 the middle of strings such as flash when the application uses
854 low-level calls rather than curses (cf: 20161217).
855 + modify configure check for c89/c99 aliases of clang to use its
856 -std option instead, because some platforms, in particular macOS,
857 do not provide workable c89/c99 aliases.
860 + fix some compiler-warnings in experimental Windows-10 driver.
861 + add the definitions needed in recent configure-check for clang
862 (report by Steven Pitman).
865 + fix some compiler-warnings in experimental Windows-10 driver.
866 + modify a check for parameters in terminfo capabilities to handle the
867 special case where short extended capability strings were not
868 converted from terminfo to termcap format.
869 + modify CF_MIXEDCASE_FILENAMES macro, adding darwin as special case
870 when cross-compiling (report by Eli Rykoff).
873 + update kitty+common -TD
874 + add putty+screen and putty-screen (suggested by Alexandre Montaron).
875 + explain in ncurses.3x that functions in the tinfo library do not rely
876 upon wide-characters (prompted by discussion with Reuben Thomas).
879 + modify MKterm.h.in so that it is not necessary to include <curses.h>
880 before <term.h> (prompted by discussion with Reuben Thomas).
881 + review/improve synopsis for curs_sp_funcs.3x (prompted by discussion
883 + improve format of output in tic's check_infotocap() function, to
884 ensure that the messages contain only printable text.
885 + modify configure-check for clang to verify that -Qunused-arguments
886 is supported. IBM's xlclang does not support it (report by Steven
890 + provide workaround configure-check for bool when cross-compiling.
891 + fix a potential indexing error in _nc_parse_entry(), seen with
892 Herlim's test data using address-sanitizer.
893 + change a null-pointer check in set_curterm to a valid-string check,
894 needed in to tic's use-resolution when pad_char is cancelled
895 (report/testcase by Robert Sebastian Herlim)
896 + improve tic's -c option to validate the number and type of parameters
897 and compare against expected number/type before deciding which set of
898 parameter-lists to use in tparm calls (report/testcase by Robert
900 + fix a link for tabs.1 manpage in announce.html.in (report by Nick
901 Black), as well as some fixes via linklint.
904 + improve manpage typography.
905 + improve discussion in curs_addch.3x of the use of unctrl to display
906 nonprintable characters.
907 + add a note in terminfo.5 explaining that no-parameter strings such
908 as sgr0 or cnorm should not be used with tparm.
911 + correct sgr in aaa+rv (report by Florian Weimer) -TD
912 + fix some sgr inconsistencies in d230c, ibm6153, ibm6154,
914 + improve tic's check for errors detected in tparm (prompted by
915 discussion with Florian Weimer).
916 + set output-mode to binary in experimental Windows-10 driver (Juergen
920 + remove output-related checks for nl/nonl (report by Leon Winter).
921 + change tmux's kbs to ^? (report by Premysl Eric Janouch)
922 + simplify mlterm initialization with DECSTR -TD
923 + fix a typo in man/curs_terminfo.3 (Reuben Thomas).
924 + add tmux-direct (tmux #2370, Debian #895754)
925 + add user-defined capabilities from mintty to Caps-ncurses, for
926 checking consistency with tic.
929 + correct configure-check for gnurx library.
930 + regenerate llib-* files.
931 + modify tracemunch and the panel library to show readable traces for
932 panel- and user-pointers.
935 + update mlterm3 for 3.9.0 (report by Premysl Eric Janouch) -TD
938 + corrected condition for appending curses.events to the generated
939 curses.h (report by Sven Joachim, Debian #970545).
942 + add configure-check for systre/tre with mingw configuration, to get
943 the library-dependencies as seen in msys2 configuration for mingw64.
944 + build-fixes for the win32-driver configuration.
945 + use more defensive binary mode setting for Win32 (Juergen Pfeifer).
948 + fix regression in setupterm validating non-empty $TERM (report by
952 + merge/adapt in-progress work by Juergen Pfeifer for new version of
954 + correct description of vt330/vt340 (Ross Combs).
957 + build-fix for awk-scripts modified for win32-driver (report by Werner
961 + remove a redundant NCURSES_EXPORT as a build-fix for "Maarten
963 + merge/adapt in-progress work by Juergen Pfeifer for new version of
965 + modify configure script, moving gcc -Werror options to EXTRA_CFLAGS
966 to avoid breaking configure-checks (adapted from ongoing work on
968 > errata for terminfo.src (report by Florian Weimer):
969 + correct icl6404 csr
974 + improve version-number extraction in MKlib_gen.sh
975 + make the test-package for manpages installable by adjusting the
977 + correct an off-by-one loop-limit in convert_strings function
979 + add CF_SHARED_OPTS cases for HPE NonStop systems (Randall S Becker).
980 + modify CF_SHARED_OPTS case for NetBSD to use the same "-shared"
981 option for the non-rpath case as for the rpath case, to allow gcc to
982 provide suitable runtime initialization (report by Rajeev V Pillai).
985 + reduce build-warnings by excluding ncurses-internals from deprecation
987 + mark wgetch-events feature as deprecated.
988 + add definition for $(LIBS) to ncurses/Makefile.in, to simplify builds
989 using the string-hacks option.
990 + prevent KEY_EVENT from appearing in curses.h unless the configure
991 option --enable-wgetch-events is used (report by Werner Fink).
994 + amend tic/infocmp check to allow for the respective tool's absence
995 (report by Steve Wills, cf: 20200808).
996 + improved some of the build-scripts with shellcheck
997 + filter out -MT/-MD/-MTd/-MDd options in script for Visual Studio C++
998 (discussion with "Maarten Anonymous").
1001 + improve discussion of the system's tic utility when used as part
1002 of cross-compiling (discussion with Keith Marshall).
1003 + modify configuration checks for build-time tic/infocmp to use
1004 AC_CHECK_TOOL. That can still be overridden by --with-tic-path and
1005 --with-infocmp-path when fallbacks are used, but even if not using
1006 fallbacks, the improved check may help with cross-compiling
1007 (discussion with Keith Marshall).
1008 + other build-fixes for Ada95 with MinGW.
1009 + modify Ada95 source-generation utility to write to a file given as
1010 parameter rather than to the standard output, allowing builds with
1014 + remove remaining parts of checks for ISC Unix (cf: 20121006).
1015 + add user32.lib to LDFLAGS for Visual Studio C++ configuration
1016 (discussion with "Maarten Anonymous").
1017 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to hide ncurses' definition of KEY_EVENTS to
1018 reduce Visual Studio C++ redefinition warnings.
1019 + improve/update checks for external functions in test/configure
1022 + set LINK_TESTS in CF_SHARED_OPTS for msvc (patch by
1023 "Maarten Anonymous")
1024 + improved workaround for redefinition-warnings for KEY_EVENT.
1025 + improve man/term.5 section on legacy storage format (report by
1029 + reduce redefinition-warnings for KEY_EVENT when building with Visual
1031 + define NCURSES_STATIC when compiling programs to link with static
1032 libraries, to work with MinGW vs Visual Studio C++.
1033 > additional changes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2
1034 (reports/patches by "Maarten Anonymous")
1035 + modify c++/Makefile.in to set the current directory while compiling
1036 the main program, so the linker can find related objects.
1037 + several changes to allow the c++/demo program to compile/link.
1038 + change an ifdef in test-directory, to use VC++ wide-character funcs.
1041 + fix pound-sign mapping in acsc of linux2.6 entry (report by Ingo
1043 + additional changes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2
1044 (reports/patches by "Maarten Anonymous")
1045 + build-improvements for Windows 10 and MinGW (patch by Juergen
1047 + fix a typo in curs_printw.3x (patch by William Pursell).
1048 + fix two errors in infotocap which allowed indexing outside the
1049 buffer (report/testcases by Zhang Gan).
1050 + update length of strings in infocmp's usage function to restore a
1051 trailing null on the longest string (report/testcase by Zhang Gen).
1054 + modify version-check with Ada generics to use the same pattern as in
1055 the check for supported gnat versions (report by Pascal Pignard).
1056 > additional changes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2
1057 (patches by "Maarten Anonymous"):
1058 + adjust headers/declarations to provide for "dllimport" vs "dllexport"
1059 declarations when constructing DLLs, to worko with Visual Studio C++.
1062 + build-fixes for gnat 10.1.1, whose gnatmake drops integration with
1064 + correct buffer-length in test/color_name.h
1067 + update list of functions in ncurses.3x
1068 + move dlclose() call from lib_mouse.c to delscreen() to avoid a case
1069 in the former which could be called from SIGTSTP handler (Debian
1073 + add xterm+256color2, xterm+88color2, to deprecate nonstandard usage
1074 in xterm+256color, xterm+88color -TD
1075 + add shifted Linux console keys in linux+sfkeys entry for
1076 screen.linux (report by Alexandre Montaron).
1077 + use vt100+enq in screen (report by Alexandre Montaron).
1078 + add screen.linux-s alias (suggested by Alexandre Montaron).
1081 + correct configure version-check/warnng for g++ to allow for 10.x
1082 + re-enable "bel" in konsole-base (report by Nia Huang)
1083 + add linux-s entry (patch by Alexandre Montaron).
1084 + drop long-obsolete convert_configure.pl
1085 + add test/test_tparm.c, for checking tparm changes.
1086 + improve parameter-checking for tparm, adding function _nc_tiparm() to
1087 handle the most-used case, which accepts only numeric parameters
1088 (report/testcase by "puppet-meteor").
1089 + use a more conservative estimate of the buffer-size in lib_tparm.c's
1090 save_text() and save_number(), in case the sprintf() function
1091 passes-through unexpected characters from a format specifier
1092 (report/testcase by "puppet-meteor").
1093 + add a check for end-of-string in cvtchar to handle a malformed
1094 string in infotocap (report/testcase by "puppet-meteor").
1097 + update version-check for gnat to allow for gnat 10.x to 99.x
1098 + fix an uninitialized variable in lib_mouse.c changes (cf: 20200502)
1099 + add a check in EmitRange to guard against repeat_char emitting digits
1100 which could be interpreted as BSD-style padding when --enable-bsdpad
1101 is configured (report/patch by Hiltjo Posthuma).
1102 + add --disable-pkg-ldflags to suppress EXTRA_LDFLAGS from the
1103 generated pkg-config and ncurses*-config files, to simplify
1104 configuring in the case where rpath is used but the packager wants
1105 to hide the feature (report by Michael Stapelberg).
1106 > fixes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 (patches by
1107 "Maarten Anonymous"):
1108 + modify CF_SHARED_OPTS to generate a script which translates linker
1109 options into Visual Studio's dialect.
1110 + omit parentheses around function-names in generated lib_gen.c to
1111 work around a Visual Studio C++ limitation.
1114 + add notes on termcap.h header in curs_termcap.3x
1115 + update notes on vscode / xterm.js -TD
1118 + add "-r" option to the dots test-programs, to help with scripting
1119 a performance comparison.
1120 + build-fix test/move_field.c for NetBSD curses, whose form headers
1121 use different names than SVr4 or ncurses.
1124 + add details on the change to Linux SGR 21 in 2018 -TD
1125 + add xterm-direct16 and xterm-direct256 -TD
1126 + modify lib_mouse.c to check for out-of-range button numbers, convert
1127 those to position reports.
1130 + use vt100+fnkeys in putty -TD
1131 + fix a typo in tput.1; "columns" should be "cols".
1134 + improve tracemunch logic for "RUN" compaction.
1135 + fix a special case in wresize() where copying the old text did not
1136 check if the last cell on a row was the beginning of a fullwidth
1137 character (adapted from patch by Benno Schulenberg).
1138 + use vt52+keypad in xterm-vt52, from xterm #354 -TD
1139 + improve see-also section of user_caps.5
1142 + fix find_pair(), overlooked when refactoring for _nc_reserve_pairs()
1143 (report/testcase by Brad Town, cf: 20170812).
1144 + add a trailing null for magic-string in putwin, flagged by gcc 10
1145 + update check for gcc version versus gnat to work with gcc 10.x
1148 + modify -fvisibility check to work with g++
1149 > fixes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 (patches by
1150 "Maarten Anonymous"):
1151 + add configure option and check for gcc -fvisibility=hidden feature
1152 + define NCURSES_NOMACROS in lib_gen.c to work around Visual Studio
1153 C++ preprocessor limitations.
1154 + modify some of the configure-macros, as well as mk-1st.awk to work
1155 with Visual Studio C++ default filenaming.
1158 + correct length of buffer copied in dup_field().
1159 + remove "$(srcdir)/" from path of library.gpr, needed for out-of-tree
1160 builds of Ada95 (patch by Adam Van Ymeren).
1163 + improve configure-checks to reduce warnings about unused variables.
1164 + improve description of error-returns in waddch and waddnstr manual
1165 pages (prompted by patch by Benno Schulenberg).
1166 + add test/move_field.c to demonstrate move_field(), and a stub for
1167 a corresponding demo of dup_field().
1170 + add history note to curs_scanw.3x for <stdarg.h> and <varargs.h>
1171 + add history note to curs_printw.3x for <stdarg.h> and <varargs.h>
1172 + add portability note to ncurses.3x regarding <stdarg.h>
1175 + update copyright notices in test-packages.
1176 + modify tracemunch to guard against errors in its known_p1 table.
1177 + add several --with-xxx-libname options, to help with pkgsrc (prompted
1178 by discussion with Thomas Klausner).
1181 + modify wbkgd() and wbkgrnd() to avoid storing a null in the
1182 background character, because it may be used in cases where the
1183 corresponding 0x80 is not treated as a null (report by Marc Rechte,
1187 + modify CF_NCURSES_CONFIG to work around xcode's c99 "-W" option,
1188 which conflicts with conventional use for passing linker options.
1189 > fixes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 (patches by
1190 "Maarten Anonymous"):
1191 + check for pcre2posix.h instead of pcre2-posix.h
1192 + add case in CF_SHARED_OPTS for msys2 + msvc
1193 + add fallback definition for STDIN_FILENO in progs.priv.h
1194 + modify win_driver.c to use _alloca() rather than gcc's variable
1195 length array feature.
1196 + add NCURSES_IMPEXP to ncurses wrapped-variable declarations
1197 + remove NCURSES_IMPEXP from class variables in c++/cursslk.h
1198 + remove fallback prototype for exit() from c++/etip.h.in
1199 + use configured check for <sys/time.h> in a couple of places
1200 + conditionally include winsock.h in ncurses/win32con/gettimeofday.c,
1201 because Visual Studio needs this for the timestruct declaration.
1202 + adjust syntax in a couple of files using the NCURSES_API symbol.
1205 + expanded note in ncurses.3x regarding automatically-included headers
1206 + improve vt50h and vt52 based on DECScope manual -TD
1207 + add/use vt52+keypad and vt52-basic -TD
1208 + check/workaround for line-too-long in Ada95 generate utility when
1209 building out-of-tree.
1210 + improve/update HEADER_DEPS in */Makefile.in
1211 + add "check" rule to include/Makefile, to demonstrate that the headers
1212 include all of the required headers for the types used.
1215 + improve manual page for panel library, extending the portability
1216 section as well as documenting error-returns.
1217 + show tic's version when installing terminal database in run_tic.sh
1218 + correct check for gcc vs other compilers used in ncurses 6.0, from
1219 FreeBSD patch by Kyle Evans (cf: 20150725).
1220 + add notes for 6.2 to INSTALL.
1222 20200212 6.2 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1223 + update release notes
1224 + minor build-fixes, mostly to test-package scripts
1227 + modify check for sizeof(wchar_t) to ensure it gives useful result
1228 when cross-compiling.
1229 + drop assumption in configure script that Cygwin's linker is broken.
1230 + define NCURSES_BROKEN_LINKER if the broken-linker feature is used,
1231 to simplify configure-checks for ncurses-examples.
1234 + reassert copyright on ncurses, per discussion in ncurses FAQ:
1235 https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html#relicensed
1238 + modify comparison in make_hash.c to correct a special case in
1239 collision handling for Caps-hpux11
1240 + add testing utility report_hashing to check hash-tables used for
1241 terminfo and termcap names.
1242 + fix a missing prototype for _nc_free_and_exit().
1243 + update a few comments about tack 1.07
1244 + use an awk script to split too-long pathnames used in Ada95 sample
1245 programs for explain.txt
1248 + expanded description of XM in user_caps.5
1249 + improve xm example for xterm+x11mouse, xterm+sm+1006 -TD
1250 + add history section to curs_slk.3x and curs_terminfo.3x manpages.
1251 + update alacritty entries for 0.4.0 (prompted by patch by
1253 + correct spelling errors found with codespell.
1254 + fix for test/configure, from xterm #352.
1257 + improve configure macros which check for the X11/Intrinsic.h header,
1258 to accommodate recent MacOS changes.
1259 + suppress gcc's -Winline warning; it has not been useful for some time
1260 + update config.guess, config.sub
1263 + modify a couple of macros in aclocal.m4 to allow autoconf 2.69 to
1264 "work", to help illustrate discussion in
1265 https://invisible-island.net/autoconf/my-autoconf.html
1266 + fix some warnings from autoheader-252
1269 + in gen-pkgconfig.in, move the RPATH_LIST and PRIVATE_LIBS assignments
1270 past the various prefix/libdir assignments, to allow for using those
1271 symbols, e.g., as done via CF_SHARED_OPTS.
1272 + improve ncurses*-config and pc-files by filtering out linker-specs.
1273 + modify test-package to more closely match Fedora's configuration
1274 for PIE/PIC feature and debug-packages.
1277 + correct pathname used in Ada95 sample programs for explain.txt, to
1278 work with test-packages.
1279 + improve tracemunch:
1280 + keep track of TERMINAL* values
1281 + if tracing was first turned on after initialization, attempt to
1282 show distinct screen, window and terminal names anyway.
1283 + ensure that GCC_NORETURN is defined in term.h, because the prototype
1284 for exit_terminfo() uses it (report by Werner Fink).
1287 + add exit_curses() and exit_terminfo() to replace internal symbols for
1291 + fix a few warnings for test-package builds
1292 + add curses_trace(), to replace trace().
1295 + add portability section to curs_getcchar manpage (prompted by
1296 discussion with Nick Black).
1297 + improve portability discussion of ACS characters in curs_addch
1299 + improve typography for double-quotes in manpages.
1302 + fix typo for MinGW rpm test-package.
1303 + workaround in rpm specs for NFS problems in Fedora 31.
1306 + modify ncurses/Makefile.in to fix a case where Debian/testing changes
1307 to the ld --as-needed configuration broke ncurses-examples test
1309 + drop library-dependency on psapi for MinGW port, since win_driver.c
1310 defines PSAPI_VERSION to 2, making it use GetProcessImageFileName
1311 from kernel32.dll (prompted by patch by Simon Sobish, cf: 20140503).
1314 + add warning-check in tic for terminals with parm_dch vs parm_ich.
1315 + drop ich1 from rxvt-basic, Eterm and mlterm to improve compatibility
1316 with old non-curses programs -TD
1317 + reviewed st 0.8.2, updated some details -TD
1318 + use ansi+rep several places -TD
1319 + corrected tic's check for ich1 (report by Sebastian J. Bronner,
1323 + check parameter of set_escdelay, return ERR if negative.
1324 + check parameter of set_tabsize, return ERR if not greater than zero
1325 (report/patch by Anthony Sottile).
1326 + revise CF_ADD_LIBS macro to prepend rather than append libraries.
1327 + add "xterm-mono" to help packagers (report by Sven Joachim) -TD
1330 + add a note in man/curs_add_wch.3x about Unicode terminology for the
1331 line-drawing characters (report by Nick Black).
1332 + improve comment in lib_tgoto.c regarding the use of \200 where a
1333 \0 would be intended by the caller (report by "64 bit", cf: 20000923).
1334 + modify linux-16color to accommodate Linux console driver change in
1335 early 2018 (report by Dino Petrucci).
1338 + modify make_hash to not require --disable-leaks, to simplify building
1339 with address-sanitizer.
1340 + modify tic to exit if it cannot remove a conflicting name, because
1341 treating that as a partial success can cause an infinite loop in
1342 use-resolution (report/testcase by Hongxu Chen, cf: 20111001).
1345 + improve buffer-checks in captoinfo.c, for some cases when the
1346 input string is shorter than expected.
1347 > fix two errata in tic (report/testcases by Hongxu Chen):
1348 + check for missing character after backslash in write_it
1349 + check for missing characters after "%>" when converting from termcap
1350 syntax (cf: 980530).
1353 + amend recent changes to ncurses*-config and pc-files to filter out
1354 Debian linker-flags (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20150516).
1355 + clarify relationship between tic, infocmp and captoinfo in manpage.
1356 + check for invalid hashcode in _nc_find_type_entry and
1357 _nc_find_name_entry.
1358 > fix several errata in tic (reports/testcases by "zjuchenyuan"):
1359 + check for invalid hashcode in _nc_find_entry.
1360 + check for missing character after backslash in fmt_entry
1361 + check for acsc with odd length in dump_entry in check for one-one
1362 mapping (cf: 20060415);
1363 + check length when converting from old AIX box_chars_1 capability,
1364 overlooked in changes to eliminate strcpy (cf: 20001007).
1367 + modify the ncurse*-config and pc-files to more closely match for the
1371 + amend the ncurses*-config and pc-files to take into account the rpath
1372 hack which differed between those files.
1373 + improve -L option filtering in ncurses*-config
1374 + improve recovery from error when reading command-character in
1375 test/ncurses.c, showing the relevant error message and not exiting on
1376 EINTR (cf: 20180922)
1379 + add a note in resizeterm manpage about top-level windows which touch
1380 the screen's borders.
1381 + modify configure-checks for gnat to identify each of the tools path
1385 + build-fixes for Ada95 configure-script and corresponding test package
1388 + add --with-ada-libname option and modify Ada95 configuration to
1389 allow renaming the "AdaCurses" library (prompted by proposed changes
1391 + modify configure script to distinguish gcc from icc and clang when
1392 the --enable-warnings option is not used, to avoid unnecessary
1393 warnings about unrecognized inline options (report by Sven Joachim).
1396 + build-fixes for configuration using --program-suffix with Ada95,
1397 noticed with MacOS but applicable to other platforms without
1401 + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses test-programs.
1404 + amend 20181208 changes for wbkgd() and wbkgrnd(), fixing a few
1405 details where it still differed from SVr4.
1406 + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses test-programs.
1409 + fix a few more coverity warnings.
1412 + improve loop limits in _nc_scroll_window() to handle a case where
1413 the scrolled data is a pad which is taller than the window (patch
1415 + amend the change to screen, because tmux relies upon that entry
1416 and does not support that feature (Debian #933572) -TD
1417 + updated ms-terminal entry & notes -TD
1418 + updated kitty entry & notes -TD
1419 + updated alacritty+common entry & notes -TD
1420 + use xterm+sl-twm for consistency -TD
1423 + fix a few more coverity warnings.
1424 + more documentation updates based on tctest.
1427 + fix a few coverity warnings.
1428 + documentation updates based on tctest.
1431 + fix a few warnings for gcc 4.x
1432 + add some portability/historical details to the tic, toe and infocmp
1434 + correct fix for broken link from terminfo(5) to tabs(1) manpage
1435 (report by Sven Joachim).
1438 + change reset's behavior for margins to simply clear soft-margins if
1439 possible, rather than clearing and then setting them according to the
1440 terminal's width (suggested by Thomas Wolff).
1441 + correct order of one wbkgd versus start_color call in test/padview.c
1445 + improve comments for recent changes, add alias xterm.js -TD
1448 + add --with-tic-path and --with-infocmp-path to work around problems
1449 building fallback source using pre-6.0 tic/infocmp.
1450 + add a check in tic for paired indn/rin
1451 + correct a buffer-limit in write_entry.c for systems that use caseless
1453 + add ms-terminal -TD
1454 + add vscode, vscode-direct -TD
1457 + improve the tabs.1 manual page to distinguish the PWB/Unix and 7th
1458 Edition versions of the tabs utility.
1459 + add configure check for getenv() to work around implementation shown
1460 in Emscripten #6766, use that to optionally suppress START_TRACE
1461 macro, whose call to getenv() may not work properly (report by Ilya
1463 + modify initialization functions to avoid relying upon persistent
1464 data for the result from getenv().
1465 + update config.guess, config.sub
1468 + expand the portability section of the man/tabs.1 manual page.
1469 + regenerate HTML manpages.
1472 + add mintty, mintty-direct (adapted from patch by Thomas Wolff).
1473 Some of the suggested user-defined capabilities are commented-out,
1474 to allow builds with ncurses 5.9 and 6.0
1475 + add Smol/Rmol for tmux, vte-2018 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
1476 + add rs1 to konsole, mlterm -TD
1477 + modify _nc_merge_entry() to make a copy of the data which it merges,
1478 to avoid modifying the source-data when aligning extended names.
1481 + modify an internal call to vid_puts to pass extended color pairs
1482 e.g., from tty_update.c and lib_mvcur.c (report by Niegodziwy Beru).
1483 + improve manual page description of init_tabs capability and TABSIZE
1487 + modify reset_cmd.c to allow for tabstops at intervals other than 8
1488 (report by Vincent Huisman).
1491 + update xterm-new to xterm patch #345 -TD
1492 + add/use xterm+keypad in xterm-new (report by Alain D D Williams) -TD
1493 + update terminator entry -TD
1494 + remove hard-tabs from ti703 (report by Robert Clausecker)
1495 + mention meml/memu/box1 in user_caps manual page.
1496 + mention user_caps.5 in tic and infocmp manual pages.
1499 + fix a spurious blank line seen with "infocmp -1fx xterm+x11mouse"
1500 + add checks in repair_subwindows() to keep the current position and
1501 scroll-margins inside the resized subwindow.
1502 + add a limit check in newline_forces_scroll() for the case where the
1503 row is inside scroll-margins, but not at the end (report by Toshio
1504 Kuratomi, cf: 20170729).
1505 + corrected a warning message in tic for extended capabilities versus
1506 number of parameters.
1509 + improve workaround for Solaris wcwidth versus line-drawing characters
1510 (report by Pavel Stehule).
1511 + add special case in tic to validate RGB string-capability extension.
1512 + corrected string/parameter-field for RGB in Caps-ncurses.
1515 + corrected problem in terminfo load/realignment which prevented
1516 infocmp from comparing extended capabilities with the same name
1517 but different types.
1520 + improve ifdef's for TABSIZE variable, to help with AIX/HPUX ports.
1523 + check for TABSIZE variable in test/configure script.
1524 + used test/test_arrays.c to improve Caps.aix1 and Caps.hpux11
1525 + corrected filtering of comments in MKparametrized.sh
1526 + reduce duplication across Caps* files by moving some parts which do
1527 not depend on order into Caps-ncurses.
1530 + modify MKcaptab.sh, MKkey_defs.sh, and MKhashsize.sh to handle
1531 split-up Caps-files.
1532 + build-fixes if extended-functions are disabled.
1535 + add "screen5", to mention italics (report by Stefan Assmann)
1536 + modify description of xterm+x11hilite to eliminate unused p5 -TD
1537 + add configure script checks to help with a port to Ultrix 3.1
1538 (report by Dennis Grevenstein).
1539 + check if "b" binary feature of fopen works
1540 + check for missing feature of locale.h
1541 + add fallback for strstr() in test-programs
1542 + add fallback for STDOUT_FILENO in test-programs
1543 + update config.guess, config.sub
1546 + move macro for is_linetouched() inside NCURSES_NOMACROS ifndef.
1547 + corrected prototypes in several manpages using script to extract
1548 those in compilable form.
1549 + use _nc_copy_termtype2() rather than direct assignment in setupterm,
1550 in case it is called repeatedly using fallback terminfo descriptions
1551 (report/patch by Werner Fink).
1554 + regenerate llib-* files.
1555 + modify tic to also use new function for user-defined capability info.
1556 + modify _nc_parse_entry() to check if a user-defined capability has
1557 an unexpected type; ignore it in that case.
1558 + fix a special case of link-anchors in generated Ada html files.
1559 + use newer rel=author tag in generated html rather than rev=made,
1560 which did not become accepted.
1563 + in-progress changes to add parameter-checking for common user-defined
1564 capabilities in tic.
1565 + update MKcodes.awk and MKnames.awk to ignore the new "userdef"
1566 data in Caps-ncurses (cf: 20190302).
1569 + corrected some of the undocumented terminfo names in Caps.hpux11
1570 + add "Caps-ncurses" file to help with checking inconsistencies in some
1571 user-defined capabilities.
1572 + amend check for repeat_char to handle a case where setlocale() was
1573 called after initscr() (report by "Ampera").
1576 + fix typo in adds200 -TD
1577 + add tic check for consistent alternate character set capabilities.
1578 + improve check in mvcur() to decide whether to use hard-tabs, using
1579 xt, tbc and hts as clues.
1580 + replace check in reset command for obsolete "pt" capability using
1581 tbc and hts capabilities as clues (report by Nicolas Marriott).
1584 + improve manual page description of TABSIZE.
1585 + add test/demo_tabs program.
1588 + add check in tic to provide warnings for mismatched number of
1589 parameters in the documented user-capability extensions.
1592 + modify rpm test-package ".spec" file to work around naming conflict
1593 with Redhat's package for ncurses6.
1594 + modify no-leaks code in test/picsmap to avoid non-standard tdestroy.
1595 + amend change to configure script which altered the top-level makefile
1596 to avoid attempting to install the terminfo database when it was not
1597 configured, to allow for installing the ".pc" files which are also
1598 in the misc directory (report by Steve Wills).
1601 + change some "%define" statements in test-packages for RPMs to
1602 "%global" to work around changes in rpm 4.14 from recent Redhat.
1603 + fixes for O_INPUT_FIELD extension (patch by Leon Winter).
1604 + eliminate fixed buffer-size when reading $TERMCAP variable.
1605 + correct logic in read_entry.c which prevented $TERMCAP variable from
1606 being interpreted as a fallback to terminfo entry (prompted by
1607 Savannah #54556, cf: 20110924).
1610 + add a check in test/configure to work around non-ncurses termcap.h
1612 + corrected flag for "seq" method of db 1.8.5 interface, needed by toe
1613 on some of the BSDs.
1614 + updated "string-hacks" feature.
1615 + minor improvements to manpage typography.
1616 + corrected conditionally-compiled limit on color pairs (report by
1618 + add -x option to test/pair_content, test/color_content for testing
1619 init_extended_pair, extended_pair_content, init_extended_color,
1620 extended_color_content
1621 + add -p option to test/pair_content, test/color_content to show the
1622 return values from the tested functions.
1623 + improve manual page curs_color.3x discussion of error returns and
1625 + add O_INPUT_FIELD extension to form library (patch by Leon Winter).
1626 + override/suppress --enable-db-install if --disable-database configure
1628 + change a too-large terminal entry in tic from a fatal error to a
1629 warning (prompted by discussion with Gabriele Balducci).
1632 + fix typo in term(5), improve explanation of format (report by Otto
1634 + add nsterm-direct -TD
1635 + use SGR 1006 mouse for konsole-base -TD
1636 + use SGR 1006 mouse for putty -TD
1637 + add ti703/ti707, ti703-w/ti707-w (Robert Clausecker)
1640 + add dummy "check" rule in top-level and test-Makefile to simply
1641 building test-packages for Arch.
1642 + modify configure script to avoid conflict with a non-POSIX feature
1643 that enables all parts of the system headers by default. Some
1644 packagers have come to rely upon this behavior (FreeBSD #234049).
1645 + update config.guess, config.sub
1648 + improve man/curs_mouse.3x with regard to xterm
1649 + modify tracemunch to accept filename parameters in addition to use
1651 + minor optimization to reduce calls to _nc_reserve_pairs (prompted by
1652 discussion with Bryan Christ).
1653 + add test/pair_content.c and test/color_content.c
1654 + modify infocmp to omit filtering of "OTxx" names which are used for
1655 obsolete capabilities, when the output is sorted by long-names.
1656 Doing this helps when making a table of the short/long capability
1660 + several fixes for gcc8 strict compiler warnings.
1661 + fix a typo in comments (Aaron Gyes).
1662 + add nsterm-build309 to replace nsterm-256color, assigning the latter
1663 as an alias of nsterm, to make mouse work with nsterm-256color -TD
1664 + base gnome-256color entry on "gnome", not "vte", for consistency -TD
1665 + updates for configure macros from work on tin and xterm:
1666 + CF_GNU_SOURCE, allow for Cygwin's newlib when checking for the
1667 _DEFAULT_SOURCE symbol.
1668 + CF_VA_COPY, add fallback check if neither va_copy/__va_copy is
1669 supported, to try copying the pointers for va_list, or as an array.
1670 Also add another fallback check, for __builtin_va_copy(), which
1671 could be used with AIX xlc in c89 mode.
1674 + modify wbkgd() and wbkgrnd() to improve compatibility with SVr4
1675 curses, changing the way the window rendition is updated when the
1676 background character is modified (report by Valery Ushakov).
1679 + add midnightbsd to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro (patch by Urs Jansen).
1680 + add "@" command to test/ncurses F-test, to allow rapid jump to
1681 different character pages.
1682 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1683 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1686 + build-fix (reports by Chih-Hsuan Yen, Sven Joachim).
1689 + check --with-fallbacks option to ensure there is a value, and add
1690 the fallback information to top-level Makefile summary.
1691 + add some traces in initialization to show whether a fallback entry is
1693 + build-fix for test/movewindow with ncurses-examples on Solaris.
1694 + add "-l" option to test/background, to dump screen contents in a form
1695 that lets different curses implementations be compared.
1696 + modify the initialization checks for mouse so that the xterm+sm+1006
1697 block will work with terminal descriptions not mentioning xterm
1698 (report by Tomas Janousek).
1701 + ignore the hex/b64 $TERMINFO in toe's listing.
1702 + correct a status-check in _nc_read_tic_entry() so that if reading
1703 a hex/b64 $TERMINFO, and the $TERM does not match, fall-through to
1704 the compiled-in search list.
1707 + several workarounds to ensure proper C compiler used in parts of
1709 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1710 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1713 + add OpenGL clients alacritty and kitty -TD
1714 + add Smulx for tmux, vte-2018 -Nicholas Marriott
1717 + ignore $TERMINFO as a default value in configure script if it came
1718 from the infocmp -Q option.
1719 + allow value for --with-versioned-syms to be a relative pathname
1720 + add a couple of broken-linker symbols to the list of versioned
1721 symbols to help with link-time optimization versus weak symbols.
1722 + apply shift/control/alt logic when decoding xterm's 1006 mode to
1723 wheel-mouse events (Redhat #1610681).
1726 + amend change from 20180818, which undid a fix for the $INSTALL value
1727 to make it an absolute path.
1730 + improve a configure check to work with newer optimizers (report by
1731 Denis Pronin, Gentoo #606142).
1732 + fix typo in tput.c (Sven Joachim, cf: 20180825).
1735 + fix typo in tvi955 -TD
1736 + corrected acsc for regent60 -TD
1737 + add alias n7900 -TD
1738 + corrected acsc for tvi950 -TD
1739 + remove bogus kf0 from tvi950 -TD
1740 + added function-key definitions to agree with Televideo 950 manual -TD
1741 + add bel to tvi950 -TD
1742 + add shifted function-keys to regent60 -TD
1743 + renumber regent40 function-keys to match manual -TD
1744 + add cd (clr_eos) to adds200 -TD
1747 + build-fix: remove a _tracef call which was used for debugging (report
1751 + ignore interrupted system-call in test/ncurses's command-line, e.g.,
1752 if the terminal were resized.
1753 + add shift/control/alt logic for decoding xterm's 1006 mode (Redhat
1754 #1610681, cf: 20141011).
1755 + modify rpm test-packages to not use --disable-relink with Redhat,
1756 since Fedora 28's tools do not work with that feature.
1759 + document --with-pcre2 configure option in INSTALL.
1760 + improve workaround for special case in PutAttrChar() where a cell is
1761 marked as alternate-character set, to handle a case where the
1762 character in the cell does not correspond to any of the ASCII
1763 fallbacks (report by Leon Winter, cf: 20180505).
1764 + amend change to form library which attempted to avoid unnecessary
1765 update of cursor position in non-public fields, to simply disable
1766 output in this case (patch by Leon Winter, cf: 20180414).
1767 + improve check for LINE_MAX runtime limit, to accommodate broken
1768 implementations of sysconf().
1771 + improve manual page for wgetnstr, giving background for the length
1773 + define a limit for wgetnstr, wgetn_wstr when length is negative or
1775 + update configure script to autoconf 2.52.20180819 (Debian #887390).
1778 + add a section to tput manual page clarifying how it determines the
1779 terminal size (prompted by discussion with Grant Jenks).
1780 + add "--disable-relink" to rpm test-packages, for consistency with the
1782 + split spec-file into ncurses6.spec and ncursest6.spec to work around
1783 toolset breakage in Fedora 28.
1784 + drop mention of "--disable-touching", which was not in the final
1788 + build-fix for PDCurses with ncurses-examples.
1789 + improved CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS.
1790 + modify configure scripts to reduce relinking/ranlib during library
1791 install (Debian #903790):
1792 + use "install -p" when available, to avoid need for ranlib of
1794 + modify scripts which use "--disable-relink" to add a 1-second
1795 sleep to work around tools which use whole-second timestamps, e.g.,
1796 in utime() rather than the actual file system resolution.
1799 + improve logic for clear with E3 extension, in case the terminal
1800 scrolls content onto its saved-lines before actually clearing
1801 the display, by clearing the saved-lines after clearing the
1802 display (report/patch by Nicholas Marriott).
1805 + improve documentation regarding feature-test macros in curses.h
1806 + improve documentation regarding the virtual and physical screens.
1807 + formatting fixes for manpages, regenerate man-html documentation.
1810 + build-fixes for gcc8.
1811 + corrected acsc for wy50 -TD
1812 + add wy50 and wy60 shifted function-keys as kF1 to kF16 -TD
1813 + remove ansi+rep mis-added to interix in 2018-02-23 -TD
1816 + add enum, regex examples to test/demo_forms
1817 + add configure check for pcre-posix library to help with MinGW port.
1820 + build-fixes for gcc8.
1821 + correct order of WINDOW._ttytype versus WINDOW._windowlist in
1823 + fix a case where tiparm could return null if the format-string was
1824 empty (Debian #902630).
1827 + add acsc string to vi200 (Nibby Nebbulous)
1828 add right/down-arrow to vi200's acsc -TD
1829 + add "x" to tput's getopt string so that "tput -x clear" works
1830 (Nicholas Marriott).
1831 + minor fixes prompted by anonymous report on stack overflow:
1832 + correct order of checks in _nc_get_locale(), for systems lacking
1834 + add "#error" in a few places to flag unsupported configurations
1837 + use _WIN32/_WIN64 in preference to __MINGW32__/__MINGW64__ symbols
1838 to simplify building with MSVC, since the former are defined in both
1839 compiler configurations (report by Ali Abdulkadir).
1840 + further improvements to configure-checks from work on dialog, i.e.,
1841 updated CF_ADD_INCDIR, CF_FIND_LINKAGE, CF_GCC_WARNINGS,
1842 CF_GNU_SOURCE, CF_LARGEFILE, CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE, CF_SIZECHANGE, and
1843 CF_TRY_XOPEN_SOURCE.
1844 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1845 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1848 + build-fix for ncurses-examples related to gcc8-fixes (cf: 20180526).
1849 + reduce use of _GNU_SOURCE for current glibc where _DEFAULT_SOURCE
1850 combines with _XOPEN_SOURCE (Debian #900987).
1851 + change target configure level for _XOPEN_SOURCE to 600 to address
1852 use of vsscanf and setenv.
1853 + improved configure-checks CF_SIZECHANGE and CF_STRUCT_TERMIOS from
1857 + modify generated ncurses*config and ncurses.pc, ncursesw.pc, etc.,
1858 to list helper libraries such as gpm for static linking (Debian
1860 + marked vwprintw and vwscanw as deprecated; recommend using vw_printw
1861 and vw_scanw, respectively.
1864 + add RPM test-package "ncursest-examples".
1865 + modified RPM test-package to work with Mageia6.
1868 + add note in curs_util.3x about unctrl.h
1869 + review/improve header files to ensure that those include necessary
1870 files except for the previously-documented cases (report by Isaac
1872 + improved test-package scripts, adapted from byacc 1.9 20180525.
1873 + fix some gcc8 warnings seen in Redhat package build, but
1874 work around bug in gcc8 compiler warnings in comp_parse.c
1877 + formatting fixes for manpages, regenerate man-html documentation.
1878 + trim spurious whitespace from tmux in 2018-02-24 changes;
1879 fix some inconsistencies in/between tmux- and iterm2-entries for SGR
1880 (report by C Anthony Risinger)
1881 + improve iterm2 using some xterm features which it has adapted -TD
1882 + add check in pair_content() to handle the case where caller asks
1883 for an uninitialized pair (Debian #898658).
1886 + remove trailing ';' from GCC_DEPRECATED definition.
1887 + repair a change from 20110730 which left an error-check/warning dead.
1888 + fix several minor Coverity warnings.
1891 + add deprecation warnings for internal functions called by older
1893 + fix a special case in PutAttrChar() where a cell is marked as
1894 alternate-character set, but the terminal does not actually support
1895 the given graphic character. This would happen in an older terminal
1896 such as vt52, which lacks most line-drawing capability.
1897 + use configure --with-config-suffix option to work around filename
1898 conflict with Debian packages versus test-packages.
1899 + update tracemunch to work with perl 5.26.2, which changed the rules
1900 for escaping regular expressions.
1903 + document new form-extension O_EDGE_INSERT_STAY (report by Leon
1905 + correct error-returns listed in manual pages for a few form functions
1906 (report by Leon Winter).
1907 + add a check in form-library for null-pointer dereference:
1908 unfocus_current_field (form);
1909 form_driver (form, REQ_VALIDATION);
1910 (patch by Leon Winter).
1913 + modify form library to optionally delay cursor movement on a field
1914 edge/boundary (patch by Leon Winter).
1915 + modify form library to avoid unnecessary update of cursor position in
1916 non-public fields (patch by Leon Winter).
1917 + remove unused _nc_import_termtype2() function.
1918 + also add/improve null-pointer checks in other places
1919 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_parse_entry to handle an error when
1920 a use-name is invalid syntax (report by Chung-Yi Lin).
1923 + clarify in manual pages that vwprintw and vwscanw are obsolete,
1924 not part of X/Open Curses since 2007.
1925 + use "const" in some prototypes rather than NCURSES_CONST where X/Open
1926 Curses was updated to do this, e.g., wscanw, newterm, the terminfo
1927 interface. Also use "const" for consistency in the termcap
1928 interface, which was withdrawn by X/Open Curses in Issue 5 (2007).
1929 As of Issue 7, X/Open Curses still lacks "const" for certain return
1930 values, e.g., keyname().
1933 + improve terminfo write/read by modifying the fourth item of the
1934 extended header to denote the number of valid strings in the extended
1935 string table (prompted by a comment in unibilium's sources).
1938 + amend Scaled256() macro in test/picsmap.c to cover the full range
1939 0..1000 (report by Roger Pau Monne).
1940 + add some checks in tracemunch for undefined variables.
1941 + trim some redundant capabilities from st-0.7 -TD
1942 + trim unnecessary setf/setb from interix -TD
1945 + fix a check in infotocap which may not have detected a problem when
1947 + add a check in tic for the case where setf/setb are given using
1948 different strings, but provide identical results to setaf/setab.
1949 + further improve fix for terminfo.5 (patch by Kir Kolyshkin).
1950 + reorder loop-limit checks in winsnstr() in case the string has no
1951 terminating null and only the number of characters is used (patch
1955 + modify TurnOn/TurnOff macros in lib_vidattr.c and lib_vid_attr.c to
1956 avoid expansion of "CUR" in trace.
1957 + improve a few lintian warnings in test-packages.
1958 + modify lib_setup to avoid calling pthread_self() without first
1959 verifying that the address is valid, i.e., for weak symbols
1960 (report/patch by Werner Fink).
1961 + modify generated terminfo.5 to not use "expand" and related width
1962 on the last column of tables, making layout on wide terminals look
1963 better (adapted from patch by Kir Kolyshkin).
1964 + add a category to report_offsets, e.g., "w" for wide-character, "t"
1965 for threads to make the report more readable. Reorganized the
1966 structures reported to make the categories more apparent.
1967 + simplify some ifdef's for extended-colors.
1968 + add NCURSES_GLOBALS and NCURSES_PRESCREEN to report_offsets, to show
1969 how similar the different tinfo configurations are.
1972 + modify _nc_resolve_uses2() to detect incompatible types when merging
1973 a "use=" clause of extended capabilities. The problem was seen in a
1974 defective terminfo integrated from simpleterm sources in 20171111,
1975 compounded by repair in 20180121.
1976 + correct Ss/Ms interchange in st-0.7 entry (tmux #1264) -TD
1977 + fix remaining flash capabilities with trailing mandatory delays -TD
1978 + correct cut/paste in NEWS (report by Sven Joachim).
1981 + remove incorrect free() from 20170617 changes (report by David Macek).
1982 + correct type for "U8" in user_caps.5; it is a number not boolean.
1983 + add a null-pointer check in safe_sprintf.c (report by Steven Noonan).
1984 + improve fix for Debian #882620 by reusing limit2 variable (report by
1985 Julien Cristau, Sven Joachim).
1988 + modify misc/Makefile.in to install/uninstall explicit list in case
1989 the build-directory happens to have no ".pc" files when an uninstall
1990 is performed (report by Jeffrey Walton).
1991 + deprecate safe-sprintf, since the vsnprintf function, which does what
1992 was needed, was standardized long ago.
1993 + add several development/experimental options to development packages.
1994 + minor reordering of options in configure script to make the threaded
1995 and reentrant options distinct from the other extensions which are
1999 + minor fixes to test/*.h to make them idempotent.
2000 + add/use test/parse_rgb.h to show how the "RGB" capability works.
2001 + add a clarification in user_caps.5 regarding "RGB" capability.
2002 + add extended_slk_color{,_sp} symbols to the appropriate
2003 package/*.{map,sym} files (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20170401).
2006 + update "VERSION" file, used in shared-library naming.
2008 20180127 6.1 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2011 + updated release notes
2012 + amend a warning message from tic which should have flagged misuse
2013 of "XT" capability in "screen" terminal description.
2015 + trim "XT" from screen entry, add comments to explain why it was
2017 + modify iterm to use xterm+sl-twm building block -TD
2018 + mark konsole-420pc, konsole-vt100, konsole-xf3x obsolete reflecting
2019 konsole's removal in 2008 -TD
2020 + expanded the history section of konsole to explain its flawed
2021 imitation of xterm's keyboard -TD
2022 + use xterm+x11mouse in screen.* entries because screen does not yet
2023 support xterm's 1006 mode -TD
2024 + add nsterm-build400 for macOS 10.13 -TD
2025 + add ansi+idc1, use that in ansi+idc adding dch for consistency -TD
2026 + update vte to vte-2017 -TD
2027 + add ecma+strikeout to vte-2017 -TD
2028 + add iterm2-direct -TD
2029 + updated teraterm, added teraterm-256color -TD
2030 + add mlterm-direct -TD
2031 + add descriptions for ANSI building-blocks -TD
2033 20180121 pre-release
2035 + add xterm+noalt, xterm+titlestack, xterm+alt1049, xterm+alt+title
2036 blocks from xterm #331 -TD
2037 + add xterm+direct, xterm+indirect, xterm-direct entries from xterm
2039 + modify xterm+256color and xterm+256setaf to use correct number of
2040 color pairs, for ncurses 6.1 -TD
2041 + add rs1 capability to xterm-256color -TD
2042 + modify xterm-r5, xterm-r6 and xterm-xf86-v32 to use xterm+kbs to
2043 match xterm #272, reflecting packager's changes -TD
2044 + remove "boolean" Se, Ss from st-0.7 -TD
2045 + add konsole-direct and st-direct -TD
2046 + remove unsupported "Tc" capability from st-0.7; use st-direct if
2047 direct-colors are wanted -TD
2048 + add vte-direct -TD
2049 + add XT, hpa, indn, and vpa to screen, and invis, E3 to tmux (patch by
2051 + use xterm+sm+1006 in xterm-new, vte-2014 -TD
2052 + use xterm+x11mouse in iterm, iterm2, mlterm3 because xterm's 1006
2053 mode does not work with those programs. konsole is debatable -TD
2054 + add "termite" entry (report by Markus Pfeiffer) -TD
2055 > merge branch begun April 2, 2017 which provides these features:
2056 + support read/write new binary-format for terminfo which stores
2057 numeric capabilities as a signed 32-bit integer. The test programs
2058 such as picsmap, ncurses were created or updated during 2017 to use
2060 + the new format is written by the wide-character configuration of
2061 tic when it finds a numeric capability larger than 32767.
2062 + other applications such as infocmp built with the wide-character
2063 ncurses library work as expected.
2064 + applications built with the "narrow" (8-bit) configuration will
2065 read the new format, but will limit those extended values to 32767.
2066 + in either wide/narrow configuration, the structure defined in
2067 term.h still uses signed 16-bit values.
2068 + because it is incompatible with the legacy (mid-1980s) binary format,
2069 a new magic value is provided for the "file" program.
2070 + the term.5 manual page is updated to describe this new format.
2071 + the limit on file-size for compiled terminfo is increased in the
2072 wide-character configuration to 32768.
2075 + build-fix in picsmap.c for stdint.h existence.
2076 + add --disable-stripping option to configure scripts.
2077 + modify ncurses-examples to install test-scripts in the data directory.
2078 + work around tool-breakage in Debian 9 and later by invoking
2079 gprconfig to specify the C compiler to be used by gnatmake,
2080 and conditionally suppressing Library_Options line for static
2082 + bump the compat level for test-packages to 7, i.e., Debian 5.
2085 + fixes for writing extended color pairs in putwin.
2086 + modify test/savescreen.c to add test patterns that exercise 88-,
2088 + modify configure option --with-build-cc, adding clang, c89 and c99
2089 as possible default values.
2090 + modify ncurses-examples configure script to use pkg-config for the
2091 extra form/menu/panel libraries, to be more consistent with the
2092 handling of the curses/ncurses library.
2093 + modify test-packages for mingw to supply "pc" files.
2094 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to list -lpthread as a private library when
2095 configured to access it via weak symbols.
2096 + simplify gen-pkgconfig.in, adding -ltinfo without the special linker
2097 checks because some versions of the linker simply hard-code the
2099 + update URLs for ncurses website to use https.
2100 + modify CF_CURSES_LIBS to fill in $cf_nculib_root in case the
2101 ncurses-examples are built with a system ncurses that lacks the
2102 standard "curses" symbolic link, as done by SuSE. The symbol is
2103 needed to make a followup check for the pthread library work, and
2104 would be set properly using the options "--with-screen", etc.
2105 + generate misc/*.pc with "all" rule, as done for "sources" rule
2106 (report by Jeffrey Walton).
2109 + build-fix for ncurses-examples with Fedora27, adding check for
2110 reset_color_pairs() -- not yet in Fedora's package.
2111 + consistently add $CFLAGS to $MK_SHARED_LIB symbol in configure
2112 script when the latter happens to use the C compiler rather than
2113 directly using the loader (report by Jeffrey Walton).
2114 + set ABI for upcoming 6.1 release in "*.map" files. While there are
2115 some remaining internals to apply, no ABI-related changes are
2117 + add configure --with-config-suffix option to work around filename
2118 conflict with Redhat packages versus test-packages.
2121 + modify ncurses-examples to quiet const-warnings when building with
2123 + modify toe to not exit if unable to read a terminal description,
2124 e.g., if there is a permission problem.
2125 + minor fix for progs/toe.c, using _nc_free_termtype2.
2126 + assign 0 to pointer in _nc_tgetent_leak() after freeing it. Also
2127 avoid reusing pointer from previous successful call to tgetent
2128 if the latest call is unsuccessful (patch by Michael Schroeder,
2130 + minor fix for test/tracemunch, initialize $awaiting variable.
2133 + repair template in test/package/ncurses-examples.spec (cf: 20171111).
2134 + improve tic's warning about the number of parameters tparm might use
2135 for u1-u9 by making a special case for u6.
2136 + improve curs_attr.3x discussion of color pairs.
2139 + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to make output with --includedir
2140 consistent with --cflags, i.e., when --disable-overwrite option was
2141 configured the output should show the subdirectory where headers
2143 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to suppress macros when calling an "implemented"
2144 function in link_test.c
2145 + updated ftp-url used in test-packages, etc.
2146 + modify order of -pie/-shared options in configure script in case
2147 LDFLAGS uses "-pie", working around a defect or limitation in the GNU
2148 linker (prompted by patch by Yogesh Prasad, forwarded by Jay Shah).
2149 + add entry in man_db.renames for user_caps.5
2152 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to avoid tracing result from getstr/getnstr
2154 + add "-a" aspect-ratio option to picsmap.
2155 + add configure check for default path of rgb.txt, used in picsmap.
2156 + modify _nc_write_entry() to truncate too-long filename (report by
2157 Hosein Askari, Debian #882620).
2158 + build-fix for ncurses-examples with NetBSD curses:
2159 + it lacks the use_env() function.
2160 + it lacks libpanel; a recent change used the wrong ifdef symbol.
2161 + add a macro for is_linetouched() and adjust the function's return
2162 value to make it possible for most applications to check for an
2163 error-return (report by Midolikawa H).
2164 + additional manpage cleanup.
2165 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2166 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
2169 + add a note to curs_addch.3x on portability.
2170 + add a note to curs_pad.3x on the origin and portability of pads.
2171 + improve manpage description of getattrs (report by Midolikawa H).
2172 + improve manpage macros (prompted by discussion in Debian #880551.
2173 + reviewed test-programs using KEY_RESIZE, made fixes to test/worm.c
2174 + add a "-d" option to picsmap for default-colors.
2175 + modify old terminology entry and a few other terminal emulators to
2177 + correct sgr string for tmux, which used screen's "standout" code
2178 rather than the standard code (patch by Roman Kagan)
2179 + correct sgr/sgr0 strings in a few other cases reported by tic, making
2180 those correspond to the non-sgr settings where they differ, but
2181 otherwise use ECMA-48 consistently:
2182 jaixterm, aixterm, att5420_2, att4424, att500, decansi, d410-7b,
2183 dm80, hpterm, emu-220, hp2, iTerm2.app, mterm-ansi, ncrvt100an,
2184 st-0.7, vi603, vwmterm -TD
2185 + build-fix for diagnostics warning in lib_mouse.c for pre-5.0 versions
2186 of gcc which did not recognize the diagnostic "push" pragma (patch by
2190 + add "op" to xterm+256setaf -TD
2191 + reviewed terminology 1.0.0 -TD
2192 + reviewed st 0.7 -TD
2193 + suppress debug-package for ncurses-examples rpm build.
2196 + check for interrupt in color-pair initialization of dots_curses.c,
2198 + add z/Z zoom feature to test/ncurses.c C/c screens.
2199 + add '<' and '>' commands to test/ncurses.c S/s screens, to better
2200 test off-by-ones in the overlap/copywin functions.
2203 + improve man/curs_inwstr.3x, correct end-logic for lib_inwstr.c
2204 (report by Midolikawa H).
2205 + fix typo in a few places for "improvements" (patch by Sven Joachim).
2206 + clear the other half of a double-width character on which a line
2207 drawing character is drawn.
2208 + make test/ncurses.c "s" test easier to understand which subtests are
2209 available; add a "S" wide-character overlap test-screen.
2210 + modify test/ncurses.c C/c tests to allow for extended color pairs.
2211 + add endwin() call in error-returns from test/ncurses.c omitted in
2212 recent redesign of its menu (cf: 20170923).
2213 + improve install of hashed-db by removing the ".db" file as done for
2214 directory-tree terminal databases.
2215 + repair a few overlooked items in include/ncurses_defs from recent
2216 port/refactoring of test-programs (cf: 20170909).
2217 + add test/padview.c, to compare pads with direct updates in view.c
2220 + modify test/view.c to expand tabs using the ncurses library rather
2221 than in the test-program.
2222 + remove very old SIGWINCH example in test/view.c, just use KEY_RESIZE.
2223 + add -T, -e, -f -m options to "dots" test-programs.
2224 + fix a few typos in usage-messages for test-programs.
2227 + minor cleanup to test/view.c:
2228 + eliminate "-n" option by simply reading the whole file.
2229 + implement page up/down commands.
2230 + add check in tput for init/reset operands to ensure those use a
2232 + improve manual pages which discuss chtype, cchar_t types and the
2233 attribute values which can be stored in those types.
2234 + correct array-index when parsing "-T" command-line option in tabs
2236 + modify demo_new_pair.c to pass extended pairs to setcchar().
2237 + add test/dots_xcurses.c to illustrate a different approach used for
2238 extended colors which can be contrasted with dots_curses.c.
2239 + add a check in tic to note when a description uses non-mandatory
2240 delays without xon_xoff. This is not an error, but some descriptions
2241 for a terminal emulator may use the combination incorrectly.
2244 + modify "-T" option of clear and tput to call use_tioctl() to obtain
2245 the operating system's notion of the screensize if possible.
2246 + review/repair some exit-codes for tput, making usage-message exit
2247 with 2 rather than 1, and a failure to open terminal 4+errno.
2248 + amend check in tput, tabs and clear to allow those to use the
2249 database-only features in cron if a -T option gives a suitable
2250 terminal name (report by Lauri Tirkkonen).
2251 + correct an ifdef in test/ncurses.c for systems with soft-keys but
2253 + regenerate man-html documentation.
2256 + fix a symbol conflict that made ncurses.c C/c menu not work with
2257 Solaris xpg4 curses.
2258 + add refresh() call to dots_mvcur.c, needed to use mvcur() with
2259 Solaris xpg4 curses after calling newterm().
2260 + minor fixes for configure script from work on ncurses-examples and
2262 + improve animation in test/xmas.c by adding a time-delay in blinkit().
2263 + modify several test programs to reflect that ncurses honors existing
2264 signal handlers in initscr(), while other implementations do not.
2265 + modify bs.c to make it easier to quit.
2266 + change ncurses-examples to use attr_t vs chtype to follow X/Open
2267 documentation more closely since Solaris xpg4-curses uses different
2268 values for WA_xxx vs A_xxx that rely on attr_t being an unsigned
2269 short. Tru64 aka OSF1, HPUX, AIX did as ncurses does, equating the
2273 + modify menu for test/ncurses.c to fit on 24-line screen.
2274 + build-fix for configure --with-caps=uwin
2275 + add options to test_arrays.c, for selecting termcap vs terminfo, etc.
2278 + minor fix to test/filter.c to avoid clearing the command in one case.
2279 + modify filter() to discard clr_eos if back_color_erase is set.
2282 + improve wide-character implementation of myADDNSTR() in frm_driver.c,
2283 which was inconsistent with the normal implementation.
2284 + save/restore cursor position in Undo_Justification(), matching
2285 behavior of Buffer_To_Window() (report by Leon Winter).
2286 + modify test/knight to provide the "slow" solution for small screens
2287 using "R", noting that Warnsdorf's method is easily done with "a".
2288 + modify several test-programs which call use_default_colors() to
2289 consistently do this only if "-d" option is given.
2290 + additional changes to test with non-standard variants of curses:
2291 + modify a loop limit in firework.c to work around absence of limit
2292 checks in some libraries.
2293 + fill the last row of a window with "?" in firstlast if waddch does
2294 not return ERR on the lower-right corner.
2295 + add checks in test/configure for some functions not in 4.3BSD curses.
2296 + fix a regression in test/configure (cf: 20170826).
2299 + amend change for endwin-state for better consistency with the older
2300 logic (report/patch by Jeb Rosen, cf: 20170722).
2301 + modify check in fmt_entry() to handle a cancelled reset string
2302 (Debian #873746). Make similar fixes in other parts of dump_entry.c
2306 + fix a bug in repeat_char logic (cf: 20170729, report by Chris Clayton).
2309 + fixes for "iterm2" (report by Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD
2310 + corrected a warning from tic about keys which are the same, to skip
2311 over missing/cancelled values.
2312 + add check in tic for unnecessary use of "2" to denote a shifted
2314 + improve checks in trim_sgr0, comp_parse.c and parse_entry.c, for
2315 cancelled string capabilities.
2316 + add check in _nc_parse_entry() for invalid entry name, setting the
2317 name to "invalid" to avoid problems storing entries.
2318 + add/improve checks in tic's parser to address invalid input
2319 + add a check in comp_scan.c to handle the special case where a
2320 nontext file ending with a NUL rather than newline is given to tic
2321 as input (Redhat #1484274).
2322 + allow for cancelled capabilities in _nc_save_str (Redhat #1484276).
2323 + add validity checks for "use=" target in _nc_parse_entry (Redhat
2325 + check for invalid strings in postprocess_termcap (Redhat #1484285)
2326 + reset secondary pointers on EOF in next_char() (Redhat #1484287).
2327 + guard _nc_safe_strcpy() and _nc_safe_strcat() against calls using
2328 cancelled strings (Redhat #1484291).
2329 + correct typo in curs_memleaks.3x (Sven Joachim).
2330 + improve test/configure checks for some curses variants not based on
2332 + add options for test/configure to disable checks for form, menu and
2336 + update "iterm" entry -TD
2337 + add "iterm2" entry (report by Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD
2338 + regenerate llib-* files.
2339 + regenerate HTML manpages.
2340 + improve picsmap test-program:
2341 + reduce memory used for tsearch
2342 + add report in log file showing cumulative color coverage.
2343 + add -x option to clear/tput to make the E3 extension optional
2345 + add options -T and -V to clear command for compatibility with tput.
2346 + add usage message to clear command (Debian #371855).
2347 + improve usage messages for tset and tput.
2348 + minor fixes to "RGB" extension and reset_color_pairs().
2351 + improve description of -R option in infocmp manual page (report by
2353 + add reset_color_pairs() function.
2354 + add user_caps.5 manual page to document the terminfo extensions used
2356 + improve build scripts, using SIGQUIT vs SIGTRAP; add other configure
2357 script fixes from work on xterm, lynx and tack.
2358 + modify install-rule for ncurses-examples to put the data files in
2359 /usr/share/ncurses-examples
2360 + improve tracemunch, by changing address-parameters of add_wch(),
2361 color_content() and pair_content() to dummy parameters.
2362 + minor optimization to _nc_change_pair, to return quickly when the
2363 current screen is marked for clearing.
2364 + in-progress changes to improve performance of test/picsmap.c for
2365 loading image files.
2366 + modify allocation for SCREEN's color-pair table to start small, grow
2367 on demand up to the existing limit.
2368 + add "RGB" extension capability for direct-color support, use this to
2369 improve color_content().
2370 + improve picsmap test-program:
2371 + if no palette file is needed, attempt to load one based on $TERM,
2372 checking first in the current directory, then by adding ".dat"
2373 suffix, and finally in the data-directory, e.g.,
2374 /usr/share/ncurses-examples
2375 + add "-l" option for logging
2376 + add "-d" option for debugging
2377 + add "-s" option for stepping automatically through list of images,
2379 + use tsearch to improve time for loading color table for images.
2380 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2381 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
2384 + update interix entry using tack and SFU on Windows 7 Ultimate -TD
2385 + use ^? for kdch1 in interix (reported by Jonathan de Boyne Pollard)
2386 + add "rep" to xterm-new, available since 1997/01/26 -TD
2387 + move SGR 24 and 27 from vte-2014 to vte-2012 (request by Alain
2389 + add a check in newline_forces_scroll() in case a program moves the
2390 cursor outside scrolling margins (report by Robert King).
2391 + improve _nc_tparm_analyze, using that to extend the checks made by
2392 tic for reporting inconsistencies between the expected number of
2393 parameters for a capability and the actual.
2394 + amend handling of repeat_char capability in EmitRange (adapted from
2395 report/patch by Dick Wesseling):
2396 + translate the character to the alternate character set when the
2397 alternate character set is enabled.
2398 + do not use repeat_char for characters past 255.
2399 + document "_nc_free_tinfo" in manual page, because it could be used in
2400 tack for memory-leak checking.
2401 + add "--without-tack" configure option to refine "--with-progs"
2402 configure option. Normally tack is no longer built in-tree, but
2403 a few packagers combine it during the build. If term_entry.h is
2404 installed, there is no advantage to in-tree builds.
2405 + adjust configure-script to define HAVE_CURSES_DATA_BOOLNAMES symbol
2406 needed for tack 1.08 when built in-tree. Rather than relying upon
2407 internal "_nc_" functions, tack now uses the boolean, number and
2408 string capability name-arrays provided by ncurses and SVr4 Unix
2409 curses. It still uses term_entry.h for the definitions of the
2410 extended capability arrays.
2411 + add an overlooked null-pointer check in mvcur changes from 20170722
2414 + improve test-packages for ncurses-examples and AdaCurses for lintian
2415 + modify logic for endwin-state to be able to detect the case where
2416 the screen was never initialized, using that to trigger a flush of
2417 ncurses' buffer for mvcur, e.g., in test/dots_mvcur.c for the
2418 term-driver configuration.
2419 + add dependency upon ncurses_cfg.h to a few other internal header
2420 files to allow each to be compiled separately.
2421 + add dependency upon ncurses_cfg.h to tic's header-files; any program
2422 using tic-library will have to supply this file. Legacy tack
2423 versions supply this file; ongoing tack development has dropped the
2424 dependency upon tic-library and new releases will not be affected.
2427 + modify command-line parameters for "convert" used in picsmap to work
2428 with ImageMagick 6.8 and newer.
2429 + fix build-problem with tack and ABI-5 (Debian #868328).
2430 + repair termcap-format from tic/infocmp broken in 20170701 fixes
2432 + reformat terminfo.src with 20170513 updates.
2433 + improve test-packages to address lintian warnings.
2436 + add a note to tic manual page about -W versus -f options.
2437 + correct a limit-check in fixes from 20170701 (report by Sven Joachim).
2440 + modify update_getenv() in db_iterator.c to ensure that environment
2441 variables which are not initially set will be checked later if an
2442 application happens to set them (patch by Guillaume Maudoux).
2443 + remove initialization-check for calling napms() in the term-driver
2444 configuration; none is needed.
2445 + add help-screen to test/test_getstr.c and test/test_get_wstr.c
2446 + improve compatibility between different configurations of new_prescr,
2447 fixing a case with threaded code and term-driver where c++/demo did
2448 not work (cf: 20160213).
2449 + the fixes for Redhat #1464685 obscured a problem subsequently
2450 reported in Redhat #1464687; the given test-case was no longer
2451 reproducible. Testing without the fixes for the earlier reports
2452 showed a problem with buffer overflow in dump_entry.c, which is
2453 addressed by reducing the use of a fixed-size buffer.
2454 + add/improve checks in tic's parser to address invalid input
2455 (Redhat #1464684, #1464685, #1464686, #1464691).
2456 + alloc_entry.c, add a check for a null-pointer.
2457 + parse_entry.c, add several checks for valid pointers as well as
2458 one check to ensure that a single character on a line is not
2459 treated as the 2-character termcap short-name.
2460 + fix a memory leak in delscreen() (report by Bai Junq).
2461 + improve tracemunch, showing thread identifiers as names.
2462 + fix a use-after-free in NCursesMenu::~NCursesMenu()
2463 + further amend incorrect calls for memory-leaks from 20170617 changes
2464 (report by Allen Hewes).
2467 + modify c++/etip.h.in to accommodate deprecation of throw() and
2468 throws() in c++17 (prompted by patch by Romain Geissler).
2469 + remove some incorrect calls for memory-leaks from 20170617 changes
2470 (report by Allen Hewes).
2471 + add test-programs for termattrs and term_attrs.
2472 + modify _nc_outc_wrapper to use the standard output if the screen was
2473 not initialized, rather than returning an error.
2474 + improve checks for low-level terminfo functions when the terminal
2475 has not been initialized (Redhat #1345963).
2476 + modify make_hash to allow building with address-sanitizer,
2477 assuming that --disable-leaks is configured.
2478 + amend changes for number_format() in 20170506 to avoid undefined
2479 behavior when shifting (patch by Emanuele Giaquinta).
2482 + fill in some places where TERMTYPE2 vs TERMTYPE was not used
2483 (report by Allen Hewes).
2484 + use ExitTerminfo() internally in error-exits for ncurses' setupterm
2485 to help with leak checking.
2486 + use ExitProgram() in error-exit from initscr() to help with leak
2488 + review test-programs, adding checks for cases where the terminal
2489 cannot be initialized.
2492 + add option "-xp" to picsmap.c, to use init_extended_pair().
2493 + make simple performance fixes for picsmap.c
2494 + improve aspect ratio of images read from "convert" in picsmap.c
2497 + add option to picsmap to use color-palette files, e.g., for mapping
2499 + move the data in SCREEN used for the alloc_pair() function to the
2500 end, to restore compatibility between ncurses/ncursesw libtinfo
2501 (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
2502 + add build-time utility "report_offsets" to help show when the various
2503 configurations of tinfo library are compatible or not.
2506 + improved test/picsmap.c:
2507 + lookup named colors for xpm files in rgb.txt
2508 + accept blanks in color-keys for xpm files.
2509 + if neither xbm/xpm work, try "convert", which may be available.
2512 + modify test/picsmap.c to read xpm files.
2513 + modify package/debian/* to create documentation packages, so the
2514 related files can be checked with lintian.
2515 + fix some typos in manpages (report/patch by Sven Joachim).
2518 + add test/picsmap.c to fill in some testing issues not met by dots.
2519 The initial version reads X bitmap (".xbm") files.
2520 + repair logic which forces a repaint where a color-pair's content is
2521 changed (cf: 20170311).
2522 + improve tracemunch, showing screenXX pointers as names.
2525 + modify tic/infocmp display of numeric values to use hexadecimal when
2526 they are "close" to a power of two, making the result more readable.
2527 + improve discussion of portability in curs_mouse.3x
2528 + change line-length for generated html/manpages to 78 columns from 65.
2529 + improve discussion of line-drawing characters in curs_add_wch.3x
2530 (prompted by discussion with Lorinczy Zsigmond).
2531 + cleanup formatting of hackguide.html and ncurses-intro.html
2532 + add examples for WACS_D_PLUS and WACS_T_PLUS to test/ncurses.c
2535 + corrected a case where $with_gpm was set to "maybe" after CF_WITH_GPM,
2536 overlooked in 20160528 fixes (report by Alexandre Bury).
2537 + improve a couple of test-program's help-messages.
2538 + corrected loop in rain.c from 20170415 changes.
2539 + modify winnstr and winchnstr to return error if the output pointer is
2540 null, as well as adding a null pointer check of the window pointer
2541 for better compatibility with other implementations.
2542 + improve discussion of NetBSD curses in scr_dump.5
2543 + modify LIMIT_TYPED macro in new_pair.h to avoid changing sign of the
2544 value to be limited (reports by Darby Payne, Rob Boudreau).
2545 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2546 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
2549 + build-fix for termcap-configuration (report by Chi-Hsuan Yen).
2550 + improve terminfo manual page discussion of control- and graphics-
2552 + remove tic warning about "^?" in string capabilities, which was
2553 marked as an extension (cf: 20000610, 20110820); however all Unix
2554 implementations support this and X/Open Curses does not address it.
2555 On the other hand, termcap never did support this feature.
2556 + correct missing comma-separator between string capabilities in
2557 icl6402 and m2-nam -TD
2558 + restore rmir/smir in ansi+idc to better match original ansiterm+idc,
2559 add alias ansiterm (report by Robert King).
2560 + amend an old check for ambiguous use of "ma" in terminfo versus
2561 a termcap use, if the capability is cancelled to treat it as number.
2562 + correct a case in _nc_captoinfo() which read "%%" and emitted "%".
2563 + modify sscanf calls in _nc_infotocap() for patterns "%{number}%+%c"
2564 and "%'char'%+%c" to check that the final character is really 'c',
2565 avoiding a case in icl6404 which cannot be converted to termcap.
2566 + in _nc_infotocap(), add a check to ensure that terminfo "^?" is not
2567 written to termcap, because the BSDs did not implement that.
2568 + in _nc_tic_expand() and _nc_infotocap(), improve string-length check
2569 when deciding whether to use "^X" or "\xxx" format for control
2570 characters, to make the output of tic/infocmp more predictable.
2571 + limit termcap "%d" width to 2 digits on input, and use "%2" in
2572 preference to "%02" on output.
2573 + correct terminfo/termcap conversion of "%02" and "%03" into "%2" and
2574 "%3"; the result repeated the last character.
2575 + add man/scr_dump.5 to document screen-dump format.
2578 + modify several test programs to use new popup_msgs, adapted from
2579 help-screen used in test/edit_field.c
2580 + drop two symbols obsoleted in 2004: _nc_check_termtype, and
2582 + fix some old copyright dates (cf: 20031025).
2583 + build-fixes for test/savescreen.c to work with AIX and HPUX.
2584 + minor fix to configure script, adding a backslash/continuation.
2585 + extend TERMINAL structure for ABI 6 to store numbers internally as
2586 integers rather than short, by adding new data for this purpose.
2587 + more fixes for minor memory-leaks in test-programs.
2590 + change logic in wins_nwstr() to avoid addressing data past the output
2592 + correct a call to setcchar() in Data_Entry_w() from 20131207 changes.
2593 + fix minor memory-leaks in test-programs.
2594 + further improve ifdef in term_entry.h for internal definitions not
2598 + minor fixes for vt100+4bsd, e.g., delay in sgr for consistency -TD
2599 + add smso for env230, to match sgr -TD
2600 + remove p7/protect from sgr in fbterm -TD
2601 + drop setf/setb from fbterm; setaf/setab are enough -TD
2602 + make xterm-pcolor sgr consistent with other capabilities -TD
2603 + add rmxx/smxx ECMA-48 strikeout extension to tmux and xterm-basic
2604 (discussion with Nicholas Marriott)
2605 + add test-programs sp_tinfo and extended_color
2606 + modify no-leaks code for lib_cur_term.c to account for the tgetent()
2608 + modify setupterm() to save original tty-modes so that erasechar()
2609 works as expected. Also modify _nc_setupscreen() to avoid redundant
2610 calls to get original tty-modes.
2611 + modify set_curterm() to update ttytype[] data used by longname().
2612 + modify wattr_set() and wattr_get() to return ERR if win-parameter is
2613 null, as documented.
2614 + improve cast used for null-pointer checks in header macros, to
2615 reduce compiler warnings.
2616 + modify several functions, using the reserved "opts" parameter to pass
2617 color- and pair-values larger than 16-bits:
2618 + getcchar(), setcchar(), slk_attr_set(), vid_puts(), wattr_get(),
2619 wattr_set(), wchgat(), wcolor_set().
2620 + Other functions call these with the corresponding altered behavior,
2621 including chgat(), mvchgat(), mvwchgat(), slk_color_on(),
2622 slk_color_off(), vid_attr().
2623 + add new functions for manipulating color- and pair-values larger
2624 than 16-bits. These are extended_color_content(),
2625 extended_pair_content(), extended_slk_color(), init_extended_color(),
2626 init_extended_pair(), and the corresponding sp-funcs.
2629 + fix a memory leak in the window-list when creating multiple screens
2630 (reports by Andres Martinelli, Debian #783486).
2631 + reviewed calls from link_test.c, added a few more null-pointer
2633 + add a null-pointer check in ungetmouse, in case mousemask was not
2634 called (report by "Kau").
2635 + updated curs_sp_funcs.3x for new functions.
2638 + change TERMINAL structure in term.h to make it opaque. Some
2639 applications misuse its members, e.g., directly modifying it
2640 rather than using def_prog_mode().
2641 + modify utility headers such as tic.h to make it clearer which are
2642 externals that are used by tack.
2643 + improve curs_slk.3x in particular its discussion of portability.
2644 + fix cut/paste in legacy_encoding.3x
2645 + add prototype for find_pair() to new_pair.3x (report by Branden
2647 + fix a couple of broken links in generated man-html documentation.
2648 + regenerate man-html documentation.
2651 + modify vt100 rs2 string to reset vt52 mode and scrolling regions
2652 (report/analysis by Robert King) -TD
2653 + add vt100+4bsd building block, use that for older terminals rather
2654 than "vt100" which is now mostly used as a building block for
2655 terminal emulators -TD
2656 + correct a few spelling errors in terminfo.src comments -TD
2658 + fix a typo in ncurses.c test_attr legend (patch by Petr Vanek).
2659 + changed internal colorpair_t to a struct, eliminating an internal
2660 8-bit limit on colors
2661 + add ncurses/new_pair.h
2662 + add ncurses/base/new_pair.c with alloc_pair(), find_pair() and
2663 free_pair() functions
2664 + add test/demo_new_pair.c
2667 + improve terminfo manual description of terminfo syntax.
2668 + clarify the use of wint_t vs wchar_t in curs_get_wstr.3x
2669 + improve description of endwin() in manual.
2670 + modify setcchar() and getcchar() to treat negative color-pair as an
2672 + fix a typo in include/hashed_db.h (Andre Sa).
2675 + fixes for CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS (report by Ross Burton).
2678 + fix several formatting issues with manual pages.
2679 + correct read of terminfo entry in which all strings are absent or
2680 explicitly cancelled. Before this fix, the result was that all were
2681 treated as only absent.
2682 + modify infocmp to suppress mixture of absent/cancelled capabilities
2683 that would only show as "NULL, NULL", unless the -q option is used,
2684 e.g., to show "-, @" or "@, -".
2687 + build-fixes for PGI compilers (report by Adam J. Stewart)
2688 + accept whitespace in sed expression for generating expanded.c
2689 + modify configure check that g++ compiler warnings are not used.
2690 + add configure check for -fPIC option needed for shared libraries.
2691 + let configure --disable-ext-funcs override the default for the
2692 --enable-sp-funcs option.
2693 + mark some structs in form/menu/panel libraries as potentially opaque
2694 without modifying API/ABI.
2695 + add configure option --enable-opaque-curses for ncurses library and
2696 similar options for the other libraries.
2699 + trim newlines, tabs and escaped newlines from terminfo "paths" passed
2701 + ignore zero-length files in db-iterator; these are useful for
2702 instance to suppress "$HOME/.terminfo" when not wanted.
2703 + amended "b64:" encoder to work with the terminfo reader.
2704 + modify terminfo reader to accept "b64:" format using RFC-3548 in
2705 as well as RFC-4648 url/filename-safe format.
2706 + modify terminfo reader to accept "hex:" format as generated by
2707 "infocmp -0qQ1" (cf: 20150905).
2708 + adjust authors comment to reflect drop below 1% for SV.
2711 + minor comment-fixes to help automate links to bug-urls -TD
2712 + add dvtm, dvtm-256color -TD
2713 + add settings corresponding to xterm-keys option to tmux entry to
2714 reflect upcoming change to make that option "on" by default
2715 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
2716 + uncancel Ms in tmux entry (Harry Gindi, Nicholas Marriott).
2717 + add dumb-emacs-ansi -TD
2720 + improve discussion of early history of tput program.
2721 + incorporate A_COLOR mask into COLOR_PAIR(), in case user application
2722 provides an out-of-range pair number (report by Elijah Stone).
2723 + clarify description in tput manual page regarding support for
2724 termcap names (prompted by FreeBSD #214709).
2725 + remove a restriction in tput's support for termcap names which
2726 omitted capabilities normally not shown in termcap translations
2728 + modify configure script for clang as used on FreeBSD, to work around
2729 clang's differences in exit codes vs gcc.
2732 + improve discussion of early history of tset/reset programs.
2733 + clarify in manual pages that the optional verbose option level is
2734 available only when ncurses is configured for tracing.
2735 + amend change from 20161231 to avoid writing traces to the standard
2736 error after initializing the trace feature using the environment
2740 + amend changes for tput to reset tty modes to "sane" if the program
2741 is run as "reset", like tset. Likewise, ensure that tset sends
2742 either reset- or init-strings.
2743 + improve manual page descriptions of tput init/reset and tset/reset,
2744 to make it easier to see how they are similar and different.
2745 + move a static result from key_name() to _nc_globals
2746 + modify _nc_get_screensize to allow for use_env() and use_tioctl()
2747 state to be per-screen when sp-funcs are configured, better matching
2748 the behavior when using the term-driver configuration.
2749 + improve cross-references in manual pages for often used functions
2750 + move SCREEN field for use_tioctl() data before the ncursesw fields,
2751 and limit that to the sp-funcs configuration to improve termlib
2752 compatibility (cf: 20120714).
2753 + correct order of initialization for traces in use_env() and
2754 use_tioctl() versus first trace calls.
2757 + fix errata for ncurses-howto (report by Damien Ruscoe).
2758 + fix a few places in configure/build scripts where DESTDIR and rpath
2759 were combined (report by Thomas Klausner).
2760 + merge current st description (report by Harry Gindi) -TD
2761 + modify flash capability for linux and wyse entries to put the delay
2762 between the reverse/normal escapes rather than after -TD
2763 + modify program tabs to pass the actual tty file descriptor to
2764 setupterm rather than the standard output, making padding work
2766 + explain in clear's manual page that it writes to stdout.
2767 + add special case for verbose debugging traces of command-line
2768 utilities which write to stderr (cf: 20161126).
2769 + remove a trace with literal escapes from skip_DECSCNM(), added in
2771 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2772 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
2775 + correct parameters for copywin call in _nc_Synchronize_Attributes()
2776 (patch by Leon Winter).
2777 + improve color-handling section in terminfo manual page (prompted by
2778 patch by Mihail Konev).
2779 + modify programs clear, tput and tset to pass the actual tty file
2780 descriptor to setupterm rather than the standard output, making
2784 + add tput-colorcube demo script.
2785 + add -r and -s options to tput-initc demo, to match usage in xterm.
2786 + flush the standard output in _nc_flush for the case where SP is zero,
2787 e.g., when called via putp. This fixes a scenario where "tput flash"
2788 did not work after changes in 20130112.
2791 + add configure script option --disable-wattr-macros for use in cases
2792 where one wants to use the same headers for ncurses5/ncurses6
2793 development, by suppressing the wattr* macros which differ due to
2794 the introduction of extended colors (prompted by comments in
2795 Debian #230990, Redhat #1270534).
2796 + add test/tput-initc to demonstrate tput used to initialize palette
2798 + modify test/xterm*.dat to use the newer color4/color12 values.
2801 + improve discussion of field validation in form_driver.3x manual page.
2802 + update curs_trace.3x manual page.
2805 + modify linux-16color to not mask dim, standout or reverse with the
2807 + add 0.1sec mandatory delay to flash capabilities using the VT100
2808 reverse-video control -TD
2809 + omit selection of ISO-8859-1 for G0 in enacs capability from linux2.6
2810 entry, to avoid conflict with the user-defined mapping. The reset
2811 feature will use ISO-8859-1 in any case (Mikulas Patocka).
2812 + improve check in tic for delays by also warning about beep/flash
2813 when a delay is not embedded, or if those use the VT100 reverse
2814 video escape without using a delay.
2815 + minor fix for syntax-check of delays from 20161119 changes.
2816 + modify trace() to avoid overwriting existing file (report by Maor
2820 + add check in tic for some syntax errors of delays, as well as use of
2821 proportional delays for non-line capabilities.
2822 + document history of the clear program and the E3 extension, prompted
2823 by various discussions including
2824 http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/87469/clearing-the-old-scrollback-buffer
2827 + improve -W option in tic/infocmp:
2828 + correct order of size-adjustments in wrapped lines
2829 + if -f option splits line, do not further split it with -W
2830 + begin a new line when adding "use=" after a wrapped line
2833 + fix typo in man/terminfo.tail (Alain Williams).
2834 + correct program-name in adacurses6-config.1 manual page.
2837 + add new function "unfocus_current_field" (Leon Winter)
2840 + modify tset -w (and tput reset) to update the program's copy of the
2841 screensize if it was already set in the system, to improve tabstop
2842 setting which relies upon knowing the actual screensize.
2843 + add functionality of tset -w to tput, like the "-c" feature this is
2844 not optional in tput.
2845 + add "clear" as a possible link/alias to tput.
2846 + improve tput's check for being called as "init" or "reset" to allow
2847 for transformed names.
2848 + split-out the "clear" function from progs/clear.c, share with
2849 tput to get the same behavior, e.g., the E3 extension.
2852 + amend internal use of tputs to consistently use the number of lines
2853 affected, e.g., for insert/delete character operations. While
2854 merging terminfo source early in 1995, several descriptions used the
2855 "*" proportional delay for these operations, prompting a change in
2857 + regenerate llib-* files.
2858 + regenerate HTML manpages.
2859 + fix several formatting issues with manual pages.
2862 + adjust size in infocmp/tic to work with strlcpy.
2863 + fix configure script to record when strlcat is found on OpenBSD.
2864 + build-fix for "recent" OpenBSD vs baudrate.
2867 + add -W option to tic/infocmp to force long strings to wrap. This is
2868 in addition to the -w option which attempts to fit capabilities into
2869 a given line-length.
2870 + add linux-m1 minitel entries (patch by Alexandre Montaron).
2871 + correct rs2 string for vt100-nam -TD
2874 + modify _nc_tic_expand to escape comma if it immediately follows a
2875 percent sign, to work with minitel change.
2876 + updated minitel and viewdata descriptions (Alexandre Montaron).
2879 + build-fix for gnat6, which unhelpfully attempts to compile C files.
2880 + fix typo in 20160910 changes (Debian #837892, patch by Sven Joachim).
2883 + trim dead code ifdef'd with HIDE_EINTR since 970830 (discussion with
2885 + trim some obsolete/incorrect wording about EINTR from wgetch manual
2886 page (patch by Leon Winter).
2887 + really correct 20100515 change (patch by Rich Coe).
2888 + add "--enable-string-hacks" option to test/configure
2889 + completed string-hacks for "sprintf", etc., including test-programs.
2890 + make "--enable-string-hacks" work with Debian by checking for the
2891 "bsd" library and its associated "<bsd/string.h>" header.
2894 + correct 20100515 change for weak signals versus sigprocmask (report
2896 + modify misc/Makefile.in to work around OpenBSD "make" which unlike
2897 all other versions of "make" does not recognize continuation lines
2899 + amend the last change to CF_C_ENV_FLAGS to move only the
2900 preprocessor, optimization and warning flags to CPPFLAGS and CFLAGS,
2901 leaving the residue in CC. That happens to work for gcc's various
2902 "model" options, but may require tuning for other compilers (report
2906 + add "v" menu entry to test/ncurses.c to show baudrate and other
2908 + add "newer" baudrate symbols from Linux and FreeBSD to progs/tset.c,
2910 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro:
2911 + add "uclinux" to case for "linux" (patch by Yann E. Morin)
2912 + modify _GNU_SOURCE for cygwin headers, tested with cygwin 2.3, 2.5
2913 (patch by Corinna Vinschen, from changes to tin).
2914 + improve CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS macro to allow for compiler wrappers such
2915 as "ccache" (report by Enrico Scholz).
2916 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2917 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
2920 + update tput manual page to reflect changes to manipulate terminal
2921 modes by sharing functions with tset.
2922 + add the terminal-mode parts of "reset" (aka tset) to the "tput reset"
2923 command, making the two almost the same except for window-size.
2924 + adapt logic used in dialog "--keep-tite" option for test/filter.c as
2925 "-a" option. When set, test/filter attempts to suppress the
2927 + correct a typo in interix entry -TD
2930 + add a dependency upon generated-sources in Ada95/src/Makefile.in to
2931 handle a case of "configure && make install".
2932 + trim trailing blanks from include/Caps*, to work around a problem
2933 in sed (Debian #818067).
2936 + improve CF_GNU_SOURCE configure macro to optionally define
2937 _DEFAULT_SOURCE work around a nuisance in recent glibc releases.
2938 + move the terminfo-specific parts of tput's "reset" function into
2939 the shared reset_cmd.c, making the two forms of reset use the same
2941 + split-out the terminal initialization functions from tset as
2942 progs/reset_cmd.c, as part of changes to merge the reset-feature
2946 + change tset's initialization to allow it to get settings from the
2947 standard input as well as /dev/tty, to be more effective when
2948 output or error are redirected.
2949 + improve discussion of history and portability for tset/reset/tput
2953 + improve error message from tset/reset when both stderr/stdout are
2954 redirected to a file or pipe.
2955 + improve organization of curs_attr.3x, curs_color.3x
2958 + work around Debian's antique/unmaintained version of mawk when
2960 + improve test/list_keys.c, showing ncurses's convention of modifiers
2961 for special keys, based on xterm.
2964 + improve test/list_keys.c, using $TERM if no parameters are given.
2967 + build-fixes for ncurses "test_progs" rule.
2968 + amend change to CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS in 20160521 to make multilib build
2969 work (report by Sven Joachim).
2972 + build-fixes for ncurses-examples with NetBSD curses.
2973 + improve test/list_keys.c, fixing column-widths and sorting the list
2974 to make it more readable.
2977 + revise fix for Debian #805618 (report by Vlado Potisk, cf: 20151128).
2978 + modify test/ncurses.c a/A screens to make exiting on an escape
2979 character depend on the start of keypad and timeout modes, to allow
2980 better testing of function-keys.
2981 + modify rs1 for xterm-16color, xterm-88color and xterm-256color to
2982 reset palette using "oc" string as in linux -TD
2983 + use ANSI reply for u8 in xterm-new, to reflect vt220-style responses
2984 that could be returned -TD
2985 + added a few capabilities fixed in recent vte -TD
2988 + correct logic for -f option in test/demo_terminfo.c
2989 + add test/list_keys.c
2992 + further workaround for PIE/PIC breakage which causes gpm to not link.
2993 + fix most cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses library.
2996 + improved manual page description of tset/reset versus window-size.
2997 + fixes to work with a slightly broken compiler configuration which
2998 cannot compile "Hello World!" without adding compiler options
2999 (report by Ola x Nilsson):
3000 + pass appropriate compiler options to the CF_PROG_CC_C_O macro.
3001 + when separating compiler and options in CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS, ensure
3002 that all options are split-off into CFLAGS or CPPFLAGS
3003 + restore some -I options removed in 20140726 because they appeared
3004 to be redundant. In fact, they are needed for a compiler that
3005 cannot combine -c and -o options.
3008 + regenerate HTML manpages.
3009 + improve manual pages for wgetch and wget_wch to point out that they
3010 might return values without names in curses.h (Debian #822426).
3011 + make linux3.0 entry the default linux entry (Debian #823658) -TD
3012 + modify linux2.6 entry to improve line-drawing so that the linux3.0
3013 entry can be used in non-UTF-8 mode -TD
3014 + document return value of use_extended_names (report by Mike Gran).
3017 + amend change to _nc_do_color to restore the early return for the
3018 special case used in _nc_screen_wrap (report by Dick Streefland,
3020 + modify test/ncurses.c:
3021 + check return-value of putwin
3022 + correct ifdef which made the 'g' test's legend not reflect changes
3023 to keypad- and scroll-modes.
3024 + correct return-value of extended putwin (report by Mike Gran).
3027 + modify test/ncurses.c 'd' edit-color menu to optionally read xterm
3028 color palette directly from terminal, as well as handling KEY_RESIZE
3029 and screen-repainting with control/L and control/R.
3030 + add 'oc' capability to xterm+256color, allowing palette reset for
3034 + add workaround in configure script for inept transition to PIE vs
3035 PIC builds documented in
3036 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Harden_All_Packages
3037 + add "reset" to list of programs whose names might change in manpages
3038 due to program-transformation configure options.
3039 + drop long-obsolete "-n" option from tset.
3042 + modify test/blue.c to use Unicode values for card-glyphs when
3043 available, as well as improving the check for CP437 and CP850.
3046 + regenerate HTML manpages.
3047 + improve manual pages for utilities with respect to POSIX versus
3051 + regenerate HTML manpages.
3052 + improve test/demo_menus.c, allowing mouse-click on the menu-headers
3053 to switch the active menu. This requires a new extension option
3054 O_MOUSE_MENU to tell the menu driver to put mouse events which do not
3055 apply to the active menu back into the queue so that the application
3056 can handle the event.
3059 + improve description of tgoto parameters (report by Steffen Nurpmeso).
3060 + amend workaround for Solaris line-drawing to restore a special case
3061 that maps Unicode line-drawing characters into the acsc string for
3062 non-Unicode locales (Debian #816888).
3065 + modified test/filter.c to illustrate an alternative to getnstr, that
3066 polls for input while updating a clock on the right margin as well
3067 as responding to window size-changes.
3070 + omit a redefinition of "inline" when traces are enabled, since this
3071 does not work with gcc 5.3.x MinGW cross-compiling (cf: 20150912).
3074 + modify test/configure script to check for pthread dependency of
3075 ncursest or ncursestw library when building ncurses examples, e.g.,
3076 in case weak symbols are used.
3077 + modify configure macro for shared-library rules to use -Wl,-rpath
3078 rather than -rpath to work around a bug in scons (FreeBSD #178732,
3080 + double-width multibyte characters were not counted properly in
3081 winsnstr and wins_nwstr (report/example by Eric Pruitt).
3082 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3083 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
3086 + amend fix for _nc_ripoffline from 20091031 to make test/ditto.c work
3087 in threaded configuration.
3088 + move _nc_tracebits, _tracedump and _tracemouse to curses.priv.h,
3089 since they are not part of the suggested ABI6.
3092 + define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN for MinGW port, making builds faster.
3093 + modify test/ditto.c to allow $XTERM_PROG environment variable to
3094 override "xterm" as the name of the program to run in the threaded
3098 + improve formatting of man/curs_refresh.3x and man/tset.1 manpages
3099 + regenerate HTML manpages using newer man2html to eliminate some
3100 unwanted blank lines.
3103 + ifdef'd header-file definition of mouse_trafo() with NCURSES_NOMACROS
3104 (report by Corey Minyard).
3105 + fix some strict compiler-warnings in traces.
3108 + tidy up comments about hardcoded 256color palette (report by
3109 Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD
3110 + add putty-noapp entry, and amend putty entry to use application mode
3111 for better consistency with xterm (report by Leonardo Brondani
3113 + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to trace wide-characters
3114 as a whole rather than their multibyte equivalents.
3115 + minor fix in wadd_wchnstr() to ensure that each cell has nonzero
3117 + move PUTC_INIT calls next to wcrtomb calls, to avoid carry-over of
3118 error status when processing Unicode values which are not mapped.
3121 + modify ncurses c/C color test-screens to take advantage of wide
3122 screens, reducing the number of lines used for 88- and 256-colors.
3123 + minor refinement to check versus ncv to ignore two parameters of
3124 SGR 38 and 48 when those come from color-capabilities.
3127 + add check in tic for use of bold, etc., video attributes in the
3128 color capabilities, accounting whether the feature is listed in ncv.
3129 + add check in tic for conflict between ritm, rmso, rmul versus sgr0.
3132 + add a paragraph to curs_getch.3x discussing key naming (discussion
3133 with James Crippen).
3134 + amend workaround for Solaris vs line-drawing to take the configure
3136 + add a configure check for wcwidth() versus the ncurses line-drawing
3137 characters, to use in special-casing systems such as Solaris.
3140 + improve CF_XOPEN_CURSES macro used in test/configure, to define as
3141 needed NCURSES_WIDECHAR for platforms where _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
3142 does not work. Also modified the test program to ensure that if
3143 building with ncurses, that the cchar_t type is checked, since that
3144 normally is since 20111030 ifdef'd depending on this test.
3145 + improve 20121222 workaround for broken acs, letting Solaris "work"
3146 in spite of its misconfigured wcwidth which marks all of the line
3147 drawing characters as double-width.
3150 + update form_cursor.3x, form_post.3x, menu_attributes.3x to list
3151 function names in NAME section (patch by Jason McIntyre).
3152 + minor fixes to manpage NAME/SYNOPSIS sections to consistently use
3153 rule that either all functions which are prototyped in SYNOPSIS are
3154 listed in the NAME section, or the manual-page name is the sole item
3155 listed in the NAME section. The latter is used to reduce clutter,
3156 e.g., for the top-level library manual pages as well as for certain
3157 feature-pages such as SP-funcs and threading (prompted by patches by
3161 + add option to preserve leading whitespace in form fields (patch by
3163 + add missing assignment in lib_getch.c to make notimeout() work
3165 + add 't' toggle for notimeout() function in test/ncurses.c a/A screens
3166 + add viewdata terminal description (Alexandre Montaron).
3167 + fix a case in tic/infocmp for formatting capabilities where a
3168 backslash at the end of a string was mishandled.
3169 + fix some typos in curs_inopts.3x (Benno Schulenberg).
3172 + fix some inconsistencies in the pccon* entries -TD
3173 + add bold to pccon+sgr+acs and pccon-base (Tati Chevron).
3174 + add keys f12-f124 to pccon+keys (Tati Chevron).
3175 + add test/test_sgr.c program to exercise all combinations of sgr.
3178 + modify tset's assignment to TERM in its output to reflect the name by
3179 which the terminal description is found, rather than the primary
3180 name. That was an unnecessary part from the initial conversion of
3181 tset from termcap to terminfo. The termcap program in 4.3BSD did
3182 this to avoid using the short 2-character name (report by Rich
3184 + minor fix to configure script to ensure that rules for resulting.map
3185 are only generated when needed (cf: 20151101).
3186 + modify configure script to handle the case where tic-library is
3187 renamed, but the --with-debug option is used by itself without
3188 normal or shared libraries (prompted by comment in Debian #803482).
3191 + amend change for pkg-config which allows build of pc-files when no
3192 valid pkg-config library directory was configured to suppress the
3193 actual install if it is not overridden to a valid directory at
3194 install time (cf: 20150822).
3195 + modify editing script which generates resulting.map to work with the
3196 clang configuration on recent FreeBSD, which gives an error on an
3197 empty "local" section.
3198 + fix a spurious "(Part)" message in test/ncurses.c b/B tests due
3199 to incorrect attribute-masking.
3202 + modify MKexpanded.sh to update the expansion of a temporary filename
3203 to "expanded.c", for use in trace statements.
3204 + modify layout of b/B tests in test/ncurses.c to allow for additional
3205 annotation on the right margin; some terminals with partial support
3206 did not display well.
3207 + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim).
3208 + fix typo in INSTALL (patch by Tomas Cech).
3209 + improve configure check for setting WILDCARD_SYMS variable; on ppc64
3210 the variable is in the Data section rather than Text (patch by Michel
3211 Normand, Novell #946048).
3212 + using configure option "--without-fallbacks" incorrectly caused
3213 FALLBACK_LIST to be set to "no" (patch by Tomas Cech).
3214 + updated minitel entries to fix kel problem with emacs, and add
3215 minitel1b-nb (Alexandre Montaron).
3216 + reviewed/updated nsterm entry Terminal.app in OSX -TD
3217 + replace some dead URLs in comments with equivalents from the
3218 Internet Archive -TD
3219 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3220 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
3223 + modify ncurses/Makefile.in to sort keys.list in POSIX locale
3224 (Debian #801864, patch by Esa Peuha).
3225 + remove an early-return from _nc_do_color, which can interfere with
3226 data needed by bkgd when ncurses is configured with extended colors
3227 (patch by Denis Tikhomirov).
3228 > fixes for OS/2 (patches by KO Myung-Hun)
3229 + use button instead of kbuf[0] in EMX-specific part of lib_mouse.c
3230 + support building with libtool on OS/2
3231 + use stdc++ on OS/2 kLIBC
3232 + clear cf_XOPEN_SOURCE on OS/2
3235 + add configure check for openpty to test/configure script, for ditto.
3236 + minor fixes to test/view.c in investigating Debian #790847.
3237 + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20150926, incorporates a fix for Cdk.
3238 + add workaround for breakage of POSIX makefiles by recent binutils
3240 + improve check for working poll() by using posix_openpt() as a
3241 fallback in case there is no valid terminal on the standard input
3242 (prompted by discussion on bug-ncurses mailing list, Debian #676461).
3245 + change makefile rule for removing resulting.map to distclean rather
3247 + add /lib/terminfo to terminfo-dirs in ".deb" test-package.
3248 + add note on portability of resizeterm and wresize to manual pages.
3251 + clarify in resizeterm.3x how KEY_RESIZE is pushed onto the input
3253 + clarify in curs_getch.3x that the keypad mode affects ability to
3254 read KEY_MOUSE codes, but does not affect KEY_RESIZE.
3255 + add overlooked build-fix needed with Cygwin for separate Ada95
3256 configure script, cf: 20150606 (report by Nicolas Boulenguez)
3259 + fixes for configure/build using clang on OSX (prompted by report by
3261 + do not redefine "inline" in ncurses_cfg.h; this was originally to
3262 solve a problem with gcc/g++, but is aggravated by clang's misuse
3263 of symbols to pretend it is gcc.
3264 + add braces to configure script to prevent unwanted add of
3265 "-lstdc++" to the CXXLIBS symbol.
3266 + improve/update test-program used for checking existence of stdc++
3268 + if $CXXLIBS is set, the linkage test uses that in addition to $LIBS
3271 + add note in curs_addch.3x about line-drawing when it depends upon
3273 + add tic -q option for consistency with infocmp, use it to suppress
3274 all comments from the "tic -I" output.
3275 + modify infocmp -q option to suppress the "Reconstructed from"
3277 + add infocmp/tic -Q option, which allows one to dump the compiled
3278 form of the terminal entry, in hexadecimal or base64.
3281 + sort options in usage message for infocmp, to make it simpler to
3283 + update usage message for tic, adding "-0" option.
3284 + documented differences in ESCDELAY versus AIX's implementation.
3285 + fix some compiler warnings from ports.
3286 + modify --with-pkg-config-libdir option to make it possible to install
3287 ".pc" files even if pkg-config is not found (adapted from patch by
3291 + disallow "no" as a possible value for "--with-shlib-version" option,
3292 overlooked in cleanup-changes for 20000708 (report by Tommy Alex).
3293 + update release notes in INSTALL.
3294 + regenerate llib-* files to help with review for release notes.
3297 + workaround for Debian #65617, which was fixed in mawk's upstream
3298 releases in 2009 (report by Sven Joachim). See
3299 https://invisible-island.net/mawk/CHANGES.html#t20090727
3301 20150808 6.0 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3304 + build-fix for Ada95 on older platforms without stdint.h
3305 + build-fix for Solaris, whose /bin/sh and /usr/bin/sed are non-POSIX.
3306 + update release announcement, summarizing more than 800 changes across
3307 more than 200 snapshots.
3308 + minor fixes to manpages, etc., to simplify linking from announcement
3312 + updated llib-* files.
3313 + build-fixes for ncurses library "test_progs" rule.
3314 + use alternate workaround for gcc 5.x feature (adapted from patch by
3316 + add status line to tmux via xterm+sl (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
3317 + fixes for st 0.5 from testing with tack -TD
3318 + review/improve several manual pages to break up wall-of-text:
3319 curs_add_wch.3x, curs_attr.3x, curs_bkgd.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x,
3320 curs_getcchar.3x, curs_getch.3x, curs_kernel.3x, curs_mouse.3x,
3321 curs_outopts.3x, curs_overlay.3x, curs_pad.3x, curs_termattrs.3x
3322 curs_trace.3x, and curs_window.3x
3325 + correct an old logic error for %A and %O in tparm (report by "zreed").
3326 + improve documentation for signal handlers by adding section in the
3327 curs_initscr.3x page.
3328 + modify logic in make_keys.c to not assume anything about the size
3329 of strnames and strfnames variables, since those may be functions
3330 in the thread- or broken-linker configurations (problem found by
3332 + modify test/configure script to check for pthreads configuration,
3333 e.g., ncursestw library.
3336 + modify scripts to build/use test-packages for the pthreads
3337 configuration of ncurses6.
3338 + add references to ttytype and termcap symbols in demo_terminfo.c and
3339 demo_termcap.c to ensure that when building ncursest.map, etc., that
3340 the corresponding names such as _nc_ttytype are added to the list of
3341 versioned symbols (report by Werner Fink)
3342 + fix regression from 20150704 (report/patch by Werner Fink).
3345 + fix a few problems reported by Coverity.
3346 + fix comparison against "/usr/include" in misc/gen-pkgconfig.in
3347 (report by Daiki Ueno, Debian #790548, cf: 20141213).
3350 + modify configure script to remove deprecated ABI 5 symbols when
3352 + add symbols _nc_Default_Field, _nc_Default_Form, _nc_has_mouse to
3353 map-files, but marked as deprecated so that they can easily be
3354 suppressed from ABI 6 builds (Debian #788610).
3355 + comment-out "screen.xterm" entry, and inherit screen.xterm-256color
3356 from xterm-new (report by Richard Birkett) -TD
3357 + modify read_entry.c to set the error-return to -1 if no terminal
3358 databases were found, as documented for setupterm.
3359 + add test_setupterm.c to demonstrate normal/error returns from the
3360 setupterm and restartterm functions.
3361 + amend cleanup change from 20110813 which removed redundant definition
3362 of ret_error, etc., from tinfo_driver.c, to account for the fact that
3363 it should return a bool rather than int (report/analysis by Johannes
3367 + fix overflow warning for OSX with lib_baudrate.c (cf: 20010630).
3368 + modify script used to generate map/sym files to mark 5.9.20150530 as
3369 the last "5.9" version, and regenerated the files. That makes the
3370 files not use ".current" for the post-5.9 symbols. This also
3371 corrects the label for _nc_sigprocmask used in when weak symbols are
3372 configured for the ncursest/ncursestw libraries (prompted by
3373 discussion with Sven Joachim).
3374 + fix typo in NEWS (report by Sven Joachim).
3376 20150606 pre-release
3377 + make ABI 6 the default by updates to dist.mk and VERSION, with the
3378 intention that the existing ABI 5 should build as before using the
3379 "--with-abi-version=5" option.
3380 + regenerate ada- and man-html documentation.
3381 + minor fixes to color- and util-manpages.
3382 + fix a regression in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, to handle special case of
3383 Cygwin, which uses the broken-linker feature.
3384 + amend fix for CF_NCURSES_CONFIG used in test/configure to assume that
3385 ncurses package scripts work when present for cross-compiling, as the
3386 lessor of two evils (cf: 20150530).
3387 + add check in configure script to disallow conflicting options
3388 "--with-termlib" and "--enable-term-driver".
3389 + move defaults for "--disable-lp64" and "--with-versioned-syms" into
3390 CF_ABI_DEFAULTS macro.
3393 + change private type for Event_Mask in Ada95 binding to work when
3394 mmask_t is set to 32-bits.
3395 + remove spurious "%;" from st entry (report by Daniel Pitts) -TD
3396 + add vte-2014, update vte to use that -TD
3397 + modify tic and infocmp to "move" a diagnostic for tparm strings that
3398 have a syntax error to tic's "-c" option (report by Daniel Pitts).
3399 + fix two problems with configure script macros (Debian #786436,
3400 cf: 20150425, cf: 20100529).
3403 + add 'P' menu item to test/ncurses.c, to show pad in color.
3404 + improve discussion in curs_color.3x about color rendering (prompted
3405 by comment on Stack Overflow forum):
3406 + remove screen-bce.mlterm, since mlterm does not do "bce" -TD
3407 + add several screen.XXX entries to support the respective variations
3409 + add putty+fnkeys* building-block entries -TD
3410 + add smkx/rmkx to capabilities analyzed with infocmp "-i" option.
3413 + amend change to ".pc" files to only use the extra loader flags which
3414 may have rpath options (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20150502).
3415 + change versioning for dpkg's in test-packages for Ada95 and
3416 ncurses-examples for consistency with Debian, to work with package
3418 + regenerate html manpages.
3419 + clarify handling of carriage return in waddch manual page; it was
3420 discussed only in the portability section (prompted by comment on
3421 Stack Overflow forum):
3424 + add test-packages for cross-compiling ncurses-examples using the
3425 MinGW test-packages. These are only the Debian packages; RPM later.
3426 + cleanup format of debian/copyright files
3427 + add pc-files to the MinGW cross-compiling test-packages.
3428 + correct a couple of places in gen-pkgconfig.in to handle renaming of
3432 + modify the configure script to allow different default values
3433 for ABI 5 versus ABI 6.
3434 + add wgetch-events to test-packages.
3435 + add a note on how to build ncurses-examples to test/README.
3436 + fix a memory leak in delscreen (report by Daniel Kahn Gillmor,
3438 + remove unnecessary ';' from E3 capabilities -TD
3439 + add tmux entry, derived from screen (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
3440 + split-out recent change to nsterm-bce as nsterm-build326, and add
3441 nsterm-build342 to reflect changes with successive releases of OSX
3442 (discussion with Leonardo B Schenkel)
3443 + add xon, ich1, il1 to ibm3161 (patch by Stephen Powell, Debian
3445 + add sample "magic" file, to document ext-putwin.
3446 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to add explicit -ltinfo, etc., to the
3447 generated ".pc" file when ld option "--as-needed" is used, or when
3448 ncurses and tinfo are installed without using rpath (prompted by
3449 discussion with Sylvain Bertrand).
3450 + modify test-package for ncurses6 to omit rpath feature when installed
3452 + add OSX's "*.dSYM" to clean-rules in makefiles.
3453 + make extra-suffix work for OSX configuration, e.g., for shared
3455 + modify Ada95/configure script to work with pkg-config
3456 + move test-package for ncurses6 to /usr, since filename-conflicts have
3458 + corrected build rules for Ada95/gen/generate; it does not depend on
3459 the ncurses library aside from headers.
3460 + reviewed man pages, fixed a few other spelling errors.
3461 + fix a typo in curs_util.3x (Sven Joachim).
3462 + use extra-suffix in some overlooked shared library dependencies
3463 found by 20150425 changes for test-packages.
3464 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3465 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
3468 + expanded description of tgetstr's area pointer in manual page
3469 (report by Todd M Lewis).
3470 + in-progress changes to modify test-packages to use ncursesw6 rather
3471 than ncursesw, with updated configure scripts.
3472 + modify CF_NCURSES_CONFIG in Ada95- and test-configure scripts to
3473 check for ".pc" files via pkg-config, but add a linkage check since
3474 frequently pkg-config configurations are broken.
3475 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to include EXTRA_LDFLAGS, e.g., for the
3477 + add 'dim' capability to screen entry (report by Leonardo B Schenkel)
3478 + add several key definitions to nsterm-bce to match preconfigured
3479 keys, e.g., with OSX 10.9 and 10.10 (report by Leonardo B Schenkel)
3480 + fix repeated "extra-suffix" in ncurses-config.in (cf: 20150418).
3481 + improve term_variables manual page, adding section on the terminfo
3482 long-name symbols which are defined in the term.h header.
3483 + fix bug in lib_tracebits.c introduced in const-fixes (cf: 20150404).
3486 + avoid a blank line in output from tabs program by ending it with
3487 a carriage return as done in FreeBSD (patch by James Clarke).
3488 + build-fix for the "--enable-ext-putwin" feature when not using
3489 wide characters (report by Werner Fink).
3490 + modify autoconf macros to use scripting improvement from xterm.
3491 + add -brtl option to compiler options on AIX 5-7, needed to link
3492 with the shared libraries.
3493 + add --with-extra-suffix option to help with installing nonconflicting
3494 ncurses6 packages, e.g., avoiding header- and library-conflicts.
3495 NOTE: as a side-effect, this renames
3496 adacurses-config to adacurses5-config and
3497 adacursesw-config to adacursesw5-config
3498 + modify debian/rules test package to suffix programs with "6".
3499 + clarify in curs_inopts.3x that window-specific settings do not
3500 inherit into new windows.
3503 + improve description of start_color() in the manual.
3504 + modify several files in ncurses- and progs-directories to allow
3505 const data used in internal tables to be put by the linker into the
3506 readonly text segment.
3509 + correct cut/paste error for "--enable-ext-putwin" that made it the
3510 same as "--enable-ext-colors" (report by Roumen Petrov)
3513 + add "-f" option to test/savescreen.c to help with testing/debugging
3514 the extended putwin/getwin.
3515 + add logic for writing/reading combining characters in the extended
3517 + add "--enable-ext-putwin" configure option to turn on the extended
3521 + in-progress changes to provide an extended version of putwin and
3522 getwin which will be capable of reading screen-dumps between the
3523 wide/normal ncurses configurations. These are text files, except
3524 for a magic code at the beginning:
3525 0 string \210\210 Screen-dump (ncurses)
3528 + document limitations of getwin in manual page (prompted by discussion
3530 + extend test/savescreen.c to demonstrate that color pair values
3531 and graphic characters can be restored using getwin.
3534 + modify win_driver.c to eliminate the constructor, to make it more
3535 usable in an application which may/may not need the console window
3536 (report by Grady Martin).
3539 + capture define's related to -D_XOPEN_SOURCE from the configure check
3540 and add those to the *-config and *.pc files, to simplify use for
3541 the wide-character libraries.
3542 + modify ncurses.spec to accommodate Fedora21's location of pkg-config
3544 + correct sense of "--disable-lib-suffixes" configure option (report
3545 by Nicolas Boos, cf: 20140426).
3548 + regenerate html manpages using improved man2html from work on xterm.
3549 + regenerated ".map" and ".sym" files using improved script, accounting
3550 for the "--enable-weak-symbols" configure option (report by Werner
3554 + regenerated ".map" and ".sym" files using improved script, showing
3555 the combinations of configure options used at each stage.
3558 + add configure check to determine if "local: _*;" can be used in the
3559 ".map" files to selectively omit symbols beginning with "_". On at
3560 least recent FreeBSD, the wildcard applies to all "_" symbols.
3561 + remove obsolete/conflicting rule for ncurses.map from
3562 ncurses/Makefile.in (cf: 20130706).
3565 + improve description in INSTALL of the --with-versioned-syms option.
3566 + add combination of --with-hashed-db and --with-ticlib to
3567 configurations for ".map" files (report by Werner Fink).
3570 + add a step to generating ".map" files, to declare any remaining
3571 symbols beginning with "_" as local, at the last version node.
3572 + improve configure checks for pkg-config, addressing a variant found
3574 + modify win_driver.c to provide characters for special keys, like
3575 ansi.sys, when keypad mode is off, rather than returning nothing at
3576 all (discussion with Eli Zaretskii).
3577 + add "broken_linker" and "hashed-db" configure options to combinations
3578 use for generating the ".map" and ".sym" files.
3579 + avoid using "ld" directly when creating shared library, to simplify
3580 cross-compiles. Also drop "-Bsharable" option from shared-library
3581 rules for FreeBSD and DragonFly (FreeBSD #196592).
3582 + fix a memory leak in form library Free_RegularExpression_Type()
3583 (report by Pavel Balaev).
3586 + modify_nc_flush() to retry if interrupted (patch by Stian Skjelstad).
3587 + change map files to make _nc_freeall a global, since it may be used
3588 via the Ada95 binding when checking for memory leaks.
3589 + improve sed script used in 20141220 to account for wide-, threaded-
3590 variations in ABI 6.
3593 + regenerate ".map" files, using step overlooked in 20141213 to use
3594 the same patch-dates across each file to match ncurses.map (report by
3598 + fix an incorrect variable assignment in 20141220 changes (report by
3602 + updated Ada95/configure with macro changes from 20141213
3603 + tie configure options --with-abi-version and --with-versioned-syms
3604 together, so that ABI 6 libraries have distinct symbol versions from
3605 the ABI 5 libraries.
3606 + replace obsolete/nonworking link to man2html with current one,
3607 regenerate html-manpages.
3610 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to add -I option for include-directory
3611 when using both --prefix and --disable-overwrite (report by Misty
3613 + add configure option --with-pc-suffix to allow minor renaming of
3614 ".pc" files and the corresponding library. Use this in the test
3615 package for ncurses6.
3616 + modify configure script so that if pkg-config is not installed, it
3617 is still possible to install ".pc" files (report by Misty De Meo).
3618 + updated ".sym" files, removing symbols which are marked as "local"
3619 in the corresponding ".map" files.
3620 + updated ".map" files to reflect move of comp_captab and comp_hash
3621 from tic-library to tinfo-library in 20090711 (report by Sven
3625 + updated ".map" files so that each symbol that may be shared across
3626 the different library configurations has the same label. Some
3627 review is needed to ensure these are really compatible.
3628 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to work around change in development version of
3629 gcc introduced here:
3630 https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-06/msg02185.html
3631 https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-07/msg00236.html
3632 (reports by Marcus Shawcroft, Maohui Lei).
3633 + improved configure macro CF_SUBDIR_PATH, from lynx changes.
3636 + improved ".map" files by generating them with a script that builds
3637 ncurses with several related configurations and merges the results.
3638 A further refinement is planned, to make the tic- and tinfo-library
3639 symbols use the same versions across each of the four configurations
3640 which are represented (reports by Sven Joachim, Werner Fink).
3643 + improve description of limits for color values and color pairs in
3644 curs_color.3x (prompted by patch by Tim van der Molen).
3645 + add VERSION file, using first field in that to record the ABI version
3646 used for configure --with-libtool --disable-libtool-version
3647 + add configure options for applying the ".map" and ".sym" files to
3648 the ncurses, form, menu and panel libraries.
3649 + add ".map" and ".sym" files to show exported symbols, e.g., for
3653 + improve strict compiler-warnings by adding a cast in TRACE_RETURN
3654 and making a new TRACE_RETURN1 macro for cases where the cast does
3658 + in-progress changes to integrate the win32 console driver with the
3659 msys2 configuration.
3662 + reviewed terminology 0.6.1, add function key definitions. None of
3663 the vt100-compatibility issues were improved -TD
3664 + improve infocmp conversion of extended capabilities to termcap by
3665 correcting the limit check against parametrized[], as well as filling
3666 in a check if the string happens to have parameters, e.g., "xm"
3668 + add check for zero/negative dimensions for resizeterm and resize_term
3669 (report by Mike Gran).
3672 + add experimental support for xterm's 1005 mouse mode, to use in a
3673 demonstration of its limitations.
3674 + add experimental support for "%u" format to terminfo.
3675 + modify test/ncurses.c to also show position reports in 'a' test.
3676 + minor formatting fixes to _nc_trace_mmask_t, make this function
3677 exported to help with debugging mouse changes.
3678 + improve behavior of wheel-mice for xterm protocol, noting that there
3679 are only button-presses for buttons "4" and "5", so there is no need
3680 to wait to combine events into double-clicks (report/analysis by
3682 + provide examples xterm-1005 and xterm-1006 terminfo entries -TD
3683 + implement decoder for xterm SGR 1006 mouse mode.
3686 + implement curs_set in win_driver.c
3687 + implement flash in win_driver.c
3688 + fix an infinite loop in win_driver.c if the command-window loses
3690 + improve the non-buffered mode, i.e., NCURSES_CONSOLE2, of
3691 win_driver.c by temporarily changing the buffer-size to match the
3692 window-size to eliminate the scrollback. Also enforce a minimum
3693 screen-size of 24x80 in the non-buffered mode.
3694 + modify generated misc/Makefile to suppress install.data from the
3695 dependencies if the --disable-db-install option is used, compensating
3696 for the top-level makefile changes used to add ncurses*-config in the
3697 20140920 changes (report by Steven Honeyman).
3700 + add ncurses*-config to bin-directory of sample package-scripts.
3701 + add check to ensure that getopt is available; this is a problem in
3702 some older cross-compiler environments.
3703 + expanded on the description of --disable-overwrite in INSTALL
3704 (prompted by reports by Joakim Tjernlund, Thomas Klausner).
3705 See Gentoo #522586 and NetBSD #49200 for examples.
3706 which relates to the clarified guidelines.
3707 + remove special logic from CF_INCLUDE_DIRS which adds the directory
3708 for the --includedir from the build (report by Joakim Tjernlund).
3709 + add case for Unixware to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, from lynx changes.
3710 + update config.sub from
3711 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
3714 + add a configure check to ignore some of the plethora of non-working
3715 C++ cross-compilers.
3716 + build-fixes for Ada95 with gnat 4.9
3719 + build-fix and other improvements for port of ncurses-examples to
3721 + minor compiler-warning fixes.
3724 + modify test/demo_termcap.c and test/demo_terminfo.c to make their
3725 options more directly comparable, and add "-i" option to specify
3726 a terminal description filename to parse for names to lookup.
3729 + fix special case where double-width character overwrites a single-
3730 width character in the first column (report by Egmont Koblinger,
3734 + fix colors in ncurses 'b' test which did not work after changing
3735 it to put the test-strings in subwindows (cf: 20140705).
3736 + merge redundant SEE-ALSO sections in form and menu manpages.
3739 + modify declarations for user-data pointers in C++ binding to use
3740 reinterpret_cast to facilitate converting typed pointers to void*
3741 in user's application (patch by Adam Jiang).
3742 + regenerated html manpages.
3743 + add note regarding cause and effect for TERM in ncurses manpage,
3744 having noted clueless verbiage in Terminal.app's "help" file
3745 which reverses cause/effect.
3746 + remove special fallback definition for NCURSES_ATTR_T, since macros
3747 have resolved type-mismatches using casts (cf: 970412).
3748 + fixes for win_driver.c:
3749 + handle repainting on endwin/refresh combination.
3754 + minor portability fixes for MinGW:
3755 + ensure WINVER is defined in makefiles rather than using headers
3756 + add check for gnatprep "-T" option
3757 + work around bug introduced by gcc 4.8.1 in MinGW which breaks
3759 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20877689/gcc-4-8-1-minggw-d-option-does-not-work-as-usual
3760 + fix most compiler warnings for Cygwin ncurses-examples.
3761 + restore "redundant" -I options in test/Makefile.in, since they are
3762 typically needed when building the derived ncurses-examples package
3766 + eliminate some redundant -I options used for building libraries, and
3767 ensure that ${srcdir} is added to the include-options (prompted by
3768 discussion with Paul Gilmartin).
3769 + modify configure script to work with Minix3.2
3770 + add form library extension O_DYNAMIC_JUSTIFY option which can be
3771 used to override the different treatment of justification for static
3772 versus dynamic fields (adapted from patch by Leon Winter).
3773 + add a null pointer check in test/edit_field.c (report/analysis by
3774 Leon Winter, cf: 20130608).
3777 + make workarounds for compiling test-programs with NetBSD curses.
3778 + improve configure macro CF_ADD_LIBS, to eliminate repeated -l/-L
3779 options, from xterm changes.
3782 + correct Charable() macro check for A_ALTCHARSET in wide-characters.
3783 + build-fix for position-debug code in tty_update.c, to work with or
3787 + add w/W toggle to ncurses.c 'B' test, to demonstrate permutation of
3788 video-attributes and colors with double-width character strings.
3791 + correct check in win_driver.c for saving screen contents, e.g., when
3792 NCURSES_CONSOLE2 is set (cf: 20140503).
3793 + reorganize b/B menu items in ncurses.c, putting the test-strings into
3794 subwindows. This is needed for a planned change to use Unicode
3795 fullwidth characters in the test-screens.
3796 + correct update to form status for _NEWTOP, broken by fixes for
3797 compiler warnings (patch by Leon Winter, cf: 20120616).
3800 + change shared-library suffix for AIX 5 and 6 to ".so", avoiding
3801 conflict with the static library (report by Ben Lentz).
3802 + document RPATH_LIST in INSTALLATION file, as part of workarounds for
3803 upgrading an ncurses library using the "--with-shared" option.
3804 + modify test/ncurses.c c/C tests to cycle through subsets of the
3805 total number of colors, to better illustrate 8/16/88/256-colors by
3806 providing directly comparable screens.
3807 + add test/dots_curses.c, for comparison with the low-level examples.
3810 + fix dereference before null check found by Coverity in tic.c
3812 + fix sign-extension bug in read_entry.c which prevented "toe" from
3813 reading empty "screen+italics" entry.
3814 + modify sgr for screen.xterm-new to support dim capability -TD
3815 + add dim capability to nsterm+7 -TD
3816 + cancel dim capability for iterm -TD
3817 + add dim, invis capabilities to vte-2012 -TD
3818 + add sitm/ritm to konsole-base and mlterm3 -TD
3821 > fix regression in screen terminfo entries (reports by Christian
3822 Ebert, Gabriele Balducci) -TD
3823 + revert the change to screen; see notes for why this did not work -TD
3824 + cancel sitm/ritm for entries which extend "screen", to work around
3825 screen's hardcoded behavior for SGR 3 -TD
3828 + separate masking for sgr in vidputs from sitm/ritm, which do not
3829 overlap with sgr functionality.
3830 + remove unneeded -i option from adacurses-config; put -a in the -I
3831 option for consistency (patch by Pascal Pignard).
3832 + update xterm-new terminfo entry to xterm patch #305 -TD
3833 + change format of test-scripts for Debian Ada95 and ncurses-examples
3834 packages to quilted to work around Debian #700177 (cf: 20130907).
3835 + build fix for form_driver_w.c as part of ncurses-examples package for
3836 older ncurses than 20131207.
3837 + add Hello World example to adacurses-config manpage.
3838 + remove unused --enable-pc-files option from Ada95/configure.
3839 + add --disable-gnat-projects option for testing.
3840 + revert changes to Ada95 project-files configuration (cf: 20140524).
3841 + corrected usage message in adacurses-config.
3844 + fix typo in ncurses manpage for the NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE
3845 environment variable.
3846 + improve discussion of input-echoing in curs_getch.3x
3847 + clarify discussion in curs_addch.3x of wrapping.
3848 + modify parametrized.h to make fln non-padded.
3849 + correct several entries which had termcap-style padding used in
3850 terminfo: adm21, aj510, alto-h19, att605-pc, x820 -TD
3851 + correct syntax for padding in some entries: dg211, h19 -TD
3852 + correct ti924-8 which had confused padding versus octal escapes -TD
3853 + correct padding in sbi entry -TD
3854 + fix an old bug in the termcap emulation; "%i" was ignored in tparm()
3855 because the parameters to be incremented were already on the internal
3856 stack (report by Corinna Vinschen).
3857 + modify tic's "-c" option to take into account the "-C" option to
3858 activate additional checks which compare the results from running
3859 tparm() on the terminfo expressions versus the translated termcap
3861 + modify tic to allow it to read from FIFOs (report by Matthieu Fronton,
3863 > patches by Nicolas Boulenguez:
3864 + explicit dereferences to suppress some style warnings.
3865 + when c_varargs_to_ada.c includes its header, use double quotes
3867 + samples/ncurses2-util.adb: removed unused with clause. The warning
3868 was removed by an obsolete pragma.
3869 + replaced Unreferenced pragmas with Warnings (Off). The latter,
3870 available with older GNATs, needs no configure test. This also
3871 replaces 3 untested Unreferenced pragmas.
3872 + simplified To_C usage in trace handling. Using two parameters allows
3873 some basic formatting, and avoids a warning about security with some
3875 + for generated Ada sources, replace many snippets with one pure
3877 + removed C_Chtype and its conversions.
3878 + removed C_AttrType and its conversions.
3879 + removed conversions between int, Item_Option_Set, Menu_Option_Set.
3880 + removed int, Field_Option_Set, Item_Option_Set conversions.
3881 + removed C_TraceType, Attribute_Option_Set conversions.
3882 + replaced C.int with direct use of Eti_Error, now enumerated. As it
3883 was used in a case statement, values were tested by the Ada compiler
3884 to be consecutive anyway.
3885 + src/Makefile.in: remove duplicate stanza
3886 + only consider using a project for shared libraries.
3887 + style. Silent gnat-4.9 warning about misplaced "then".
3888 + generate shared library project to honor ADAFLAGS, LDFLAGS.
3891 + cleanup recently introduced compiler warnings for MingW port.
3892 + workaround for ${MAKEFLAGS} configure check versus GNU make 4.0,
3893 which introduces more than one gratuitous incompatibility.
3896 + add vt520ansi terminfo entry (patch by Mike Gran)
3897 + further improve MinGW support for the scenario where there is an
3898 ANSI-escapes handler such as ansicon running in the console window
3899 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3902 + add --disable-lib-suffixes option (adapted from patch by Juergen
3904 + merge some changes from Juergen Pfeifer's work with MSYS2, to
3905 simplify later merging:
3906 + use NC_ISATTY() macro for isatty() in library
3907 + add _nc_mingw_isatty() and related functions to windows-driver
3908 + rename terminal driver entrypoints to simplify grep's
3909 + remove a check in the sp-funcs flavor of newterm() which allowed only
3910 the first call to newterm() to succeed (report by Thomas Beierlein,
3914 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3915 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
3918 + modify configure script:
3919 + drop the -no-gcc option from Intel compiler, from lynx changes.
3920 + extend the --with-hashed-db configure option to simplify building
3921 with different versions of Berkeley database using FreeBSD ports.
3922 + improve initialization for MinGW port (Juergen Pfeifer):
3923 + enforce Windows-style path-separator if cross-compiling,
3924 + add a driver-name method to each of the drivers,
3925 + allow the Windows driver name to match "unknown", ignoring case,
3926 + lengthen the built-in name for the Windows console driver to
3927 "#win32console", and
3928 + move the comparison of driver-names allowing abbreviation, e.g.,
3929 to "#win32con" into the Windows console driver.
3932 + add check in tic for mismatch between ccc and initp/initc
3933 + cancel ccc in putty-256color and konsole-256color for consistency
3934 with the cancelled initc capability (patch by Sven Zuhlsdorf).
3935 + add xterm+256setaf building block for various terminals which only
3936 get the 256-color feature half-implemented -TD
3937 + updated "st" entry (leaving the 0.1.1 version as "simpleterm") to
3941 + fix typo in "mlterm" entry (report by Gabriele Balducci) -TD
3944 + use types from <stdint.h> in sample build-scripts for chtype, etc.
3945 + modify configure script and curses.h.in to allow the types specified
3946 using --with-chtype and related options to be defined in <stdint.h>
3947 + add terminology entry -TD
3948 + add mlterm3 entry, use that as "mlterm" -TD
3949 + inherit mlterm-256color from mlterm -TD
3952 + modify _nc_New_TopRow_and_CurrentItem() to ensure that the menu's
3953 top-row is adjusted as needed to ensure that the current item is
3954 on the screen (patch by Johann Klammer).
3955 + add wgetdelay() to retrieve _delay member of WINDOW if it happens to
3956 be opaque, e.g., in the pthread configuration (prompted by patch by
3960 + modify ifdef in read_entry.c to handle the case where
3961 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE is not defined (patch by Xin Li).
3962 + add cast in form_driver_w() to fix ARM build (patch by Xin Li).
3963 + add logic to win_driver.c to save/restore screen contents when not
3964 allocating a console-buffer (cf: 20140215).
3967 + clarify error-returns from newwin (report by Ruslan Nabioullin).
3970 + fix some compiler warnings in win_driver.c
3971 + updated notes for wsvt25 based on tack and vttest -TD
3972 + add teken entry to show actual properties of FreeBSD's "xterm"
3976 + in-progress changes to win_driver.c to implement output without
3977 allocating a console-buffer. This uses a pre-existing environment
3978 variable NCGDB used by Juergen Pfeifer for debugging (prompted by
3979 discussion with Erwin Waterlander regarding Console2, which hangs
3980 when reading in an allocated console-buffer).
3981 + add -t option to gdc.c, and modify to accept "S" to step through the
3983 + regenerate NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html to fix some of the broken
3984 html emitted by docbook.
3987 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to omit followup check to determine if
3988 _XOPEN_SOURCE can/should be defined. g++ 4.7.2 built on Solaris 10
3989 has some header breakage due to its own predefinition of this symbol
3990 (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15796).
3993 + add/use symbol NCURSES_PAIRS_T like NCURSES_COLOR_T, to illustrate
3994 which "short" types are for color pairs and which are color values.
3995 + fix build for s390x, by correcting field bit offsets in generated
3996 representation clauses when int=32 long=64 and endian=big, or at
3997 least on s390x (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
3998 + minor cleanup change to test/form_driver_w.c (patch by Gaute Hope).
4001 + remove unnecessary ifdef's in Ada95/gen/gen.c, which reportedly do
4002 not work as is with gcc 4.8 due to fixes using chtype cast made for
4003 new compiler warnings by gcc 4.8 in 20130824 (Debian #735753, patch
4004 by Nicolas Boulenguez).
4007 + apply includesubdir variable which was introduced in 20130805 to
4008 gen-pkgconfig.in (Debian #735782).
4011 + further improved man2html, used this to fix broken links in html
4013 ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/man2html
4016 + modify configure-script/ifdef's to allow OLD_TTY feature to be
4017 suppressed if the type of ospeed is configured using the option
4018 --with-ospeed to not be a short. By default, it is a short for
4019 termcap-compatibility (adapted from suggestion by Christian
4021 + correct a typo in _nc_baudrate() (patch by Christian Weisgerber,
4023 + fix a few -Wlogical-op warnings.
4024 + updated llib-l* files.
4027 + add form_driver_w() entrypoint to wide-character forms library, as
4028 well as test program form_driver_w (adapted from patch by Gaute
4032 + minor fix for CF_GCC_WARNINGS to special-case options which are not
4033 recognized by clang.
4036 + add special case to configure script to move _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
4037 definition from CPPFLAGS to CFLAGS if it happens to be needed for
4038 Solaris, because g++ errors with that definition (report by
4039 Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15268).
4040 + correct logic in infocmp's -i option which was intended to ignore
4041 strings which correspond to function-keys as candidates for piecing
4042 together initialization- or reset-strings. The problem dates to
4043 1.9.7a, but was overlooked until changes in -Wlogical-op warnings for
4044 gcc 4.8 (report by David Binderman).
4045 + updated CF_GCC_WARNINGS to documented options for gcc 4.9.0, moving
4046 checks for -Wextra and -Wdeclaration-after-statement into the macro,
4047 and adding checks for -Wignored-qualifiers, -Wlogical-op and
4049 + updated CF_CURSES_UNCTRL_H and CF_SHARED_OPTS macros from ongoing
4051 + update config.sub from
4052 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
4055 + minor cleanup of terminfo.tail
4058 + use TS extension to describe xterm's title-escapes -TD
4059 + modify terminator and nsterm-s to use xterm+sl-twm building block -TD
4060 + update hurd.ti, add xenl to reflect 2011-03-06 change in
4061 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/hurd.git/log/console/display.c
4063 + simplify pfkey expression in ansi.sys -TD
4066 + correct/simplify ifdef's for cur_term versus broken-linker and
4067 reentrant options (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, cf: 20090530).
4068 + modify release/version combinations in test build-scripts to make
4069 them more consistent with other packages.
4072 + add nc_mingw.h to installed headers for MinGW port; needed for
4073 compiling ncurses-examples.
4074 + add rpm-script for testing cross-compile of ncurses-examples.
4077 + fix new typo in CF_ADA_INCLUDE_DIRS macro (report by Roumen Petrov).
4080 + fix a few compiler warnings in progs and test.
4081 + minor fix to package/debian-mingw/rules, do not strip dll's.
4082 + minor fixes to configure script for empty $prefix, e.g., when doing
4083 cross-compiles to MinGW.
4084 + add script for building test-packages of binaries cross-compiled to
4088 + minor fixes for ncurses-example package and makefile.
4089 + add scripts for test-builds of cross-compiler packages for ncurses6
4093 + some build-fixes for ncurses-examples with NetBSD-6.0 curses, though
4094 it lacks some common functions such as use_env() which is not yet
4096 + build-fix and some compiler warning fixes for ncurses-examples with
4098 + fix a possible null-pointer reference in a trace message from newterm.
4099 + quiet a few warnings from NetBSD 6.0 namespace pollution by
4100 nonstandard popcount() function in standard strings.h header.
4101 + ignore g++ 4.2.1 warnings for "-Weffc++" in c++/cursesmain.cc
4102 + fix a few overlooked places for --enable-string-hacks option.
4105 + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130831).
4106 + build-fix for --with-shared option for DragonFly and FreeBSD (report
4107 by Rong-En Fan, cf: 20130727).
4110 + build-fixes for MSYS for two test-programs (patches by Ray Donnelly,
4112 + revert change to two of the dpkg format files, to work with dpkg
4113 before/after Debian #700177.
4114 + fix gcc -Wconversion warning in wattr_get() macro.
4115 + add msys and msysdll to known host/configuration types (patch by
4117 + modify CF_RPATH_HACK configure macro to not rely upon "-u" option
4118 of sort, improving portability.
4119 + minor improvements for test-programs from reviewing Solaris port.
4120 + update config.guess, config.sub from
4121 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
4124 + modify test/ncurses.c b/B tests to display lines only for the
4125 attributes which a given terminal supports, to make room for an
4127 + completed ncv table in terminfo.tail; it did not list the wide
4128 character codes listed in X/Open Curses issue 7.
4129 + add A_ITALIC extension (prompted by discussion with Egmont Koblinger).
4132 + fix some gcc 4.8 -Wconversion warnings.
4133 + change format of dpkg test-scripts to quilted to work around bug
4134 introduced by Debian #700177.
4135 + discard cached keyname() values if meta() is changed after a value
4136 was cached using (report by Kurban Mallachiev).
4139 + add checks in tic to warn about terminals which lack cursor
4140 addressing, capabilities or having those, are marked as hard_copy or
4142 + use --without-progs in mingw-ncurses rpm.
4143 + split out _nc_init_termtype() from alloc_entry.c to use in MinGW
4144 port when tic and other programs are not needed.
4147 + minor fixes to the --disable-overwrite logic, to ensure that the
4148 configured $(includedir) is not cancelled by the mingwxx-filesystem
4150 + add --disable-db-install configure option, to simplify building
4151 cross-compile support packages.
4152 + add mingw-ncurses.spec file, for testing cross-compiles.
4155 + improve configure macros from ongoing work on cdk, dialog, xterm:
4156 + CF_ADD_LIB_AFTER - fix a problem with -Wl options
4157 + CF_RPATH_HACK - add missing result-message
4158 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify to use $rel_builddir in cygwin and mingw
4159 dll symbols (which can be overridden) rather than explicit "../".
4160 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify NetBSD and DragonFly symbols to use ${CC}
4161 rather than ${LD} to improve rpath support.
4162 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - add a symbol to denote the temporary files that
4163 are created by the macro, to simplify clean-rules.
4164 + CF_X_ATHENA - trim extra libraries to work with -Wl,--as-needed
4165 + fix a regression in hashed-database support for NetBSD, which uses
4166 the key-size differently from other implementations (cf: 20121229).
4169 + further improvements for setupterm manpage, clarifying the
4170 initialization of cur_term.
4173 + improve manpages for initscr and setupterm.
4174 + minor compiler-warning fixes
4177 + add fallback defs for <inttypes.h> and <stdint.h> (cf: 20120225).
4178 + add check for size of wchar_t, use that to suppress a chunk of
4179 wcwidth.h in MinGW port.
4180 + quiet linker warnings for MinGW cross-compile with dll's using the
4181 --enable-auto-import flag.
4182 + add ncurses.map rule to ncurses/Makefile to help diagnose symbol
4186 + modify the clear program to take into account the E3 extended
4187 capability to clear the terminal's scrollback buffer (patch by
4188 Miroslav Lichvar, Redhat #815790).
4189 + clarify in resizeterm manpage that LINES and COLS are updated.
4190 + updated ansi example in terminfo.tail, correct misordered example
4192 + fix other doclifter warnings for manpages
4193 + remove unnecessary ".ta" in terminfo.tail, add missing ".fi"
4194 (patch by Eric Raymond).
4197 + minor changes to some configure macros to make them more reusable.
4198 + fixes for tabs program (prompted by report by Nick Andrik).
4199 + corrected logic in command-line parsing of -a and -c predefined
4201 + allow "-0" and "-8" options to be combined with others, e.g.,"-0d".
4202 + make warning messages more consistent with the other utilities by
4203 not printing the full pathname of the program.
4204 + add -V option for consistency with other utilities.
4205 + fix off-by-one in columns for tabs program when processing an option
4206 such as "-5" (patch by Nick Andrik).
4209 + add to test/demo_forms.c examples of using the menu-hooks as well
4210 as showing how the menu item user-data can be used to pass a callback
4212 + add test/dots_termcap.c
4213 + remove setupterm call from test/demo_termcap.c
4214 + build-fix if --disable-ext-funcs configure option is used.
4215 + modified test/edit_field.c and test/demo_forms.c to move the lengths
4216 into a user-data structure, keeping the original string for later
4217 expansion to free-format input/out demo.
4218 + modified test/demo_forms.c to load data from file.
4219 + added note to clarify Terminal.app's non-emulation of the various
4220 terminal types listed in the preferences dialog -TD
4221 + fix regression in error-reporting in lib_setup.c (Debian #711134,
4223 + build-fix for a case where --enable-broken_linker and
4224 --enable-reentrant options are combined (report by George R Goffe).
4227 + modify mvcur() to distinguish between internal use by the ncurses
4228 library, and external callers, preventing it from reading the content
4229 of the screen which is only nonblank when curses calls have updated
4230 it. This makes test/dots_mvcur.c avoid painting colored cells in
4231 the left margin of the display.
4232 + minor fix to test/dots_mvcur.c
4233 + move configured symbols USE_DATABASE and USE_TERMCAP to term.h as
4234 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE and NCURSES_USE_TERMCAP to allow consistent
4235 use of these symbols in term_entry.h
4238 + corrected ifdefs in test/testcurs.c to allow comparison of mouse
4239 interface versus pdcurses (cf: 20130316).
4240 + add pow() to configure-check for math library, needed since
4241 20121208 for test/hanoi (Debian #708056).
4242 + regenerated html manpages.
4243 + update doctype used for html documentation.
4246 + move nsterm-related entries out of "obsolete" section to more
4247 plausible "ansi consoles" -TD
4248 + additional cleanup of table-of-contents by reordering -TD
4249 + revise fix for check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch(); prior fix
4250 prevented inserts when video attributes were attached to the data
4251 (cf: 20121215) (Redhat #959534).
4254 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
4255 + correct FNKEY() macro in progs/dump_entry.c, allowing kf11-kf63 to
4256 display when infocmp's -R option is used for HP or AIX subsets.
4257 + fix dead-code issue with test/movewindow.c
4258 + improve limited-checking in _nc_read_termtype().
4261 + fix clang 3.2 warning in progs/dump_entry.c
4262 + drop AC_TYPE_SIGNAL check; ncurses relies on c89 and later.
4265 + add MinGW to cases where ncurses installs by default into /usr
4266 (prompted by discussion with Daniel Silva Ferreira).
4267 + add -D option to infocmp's usage-message (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
4268 + add a missing 'int' type for main function in configure check for
4269 type of bool variable, to work with clang 3.2 (report by Dmitri
4271 + improve configure check for static_cast, to work with clang 3.2
4272 (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
4273 + re-order rule for demo.o and macros defining header dependencies in
4274 c++/Makefile.in to accommodate gmake (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
4277 + improve parameter checking in copywin().
4278 + modify configure script to work around OS X's "libtool" program, to
4279 choose glibtool instead. At the same time, chance the autoconf macro
4280 to look for a "tool" rather than a "prog", to help with potential use
4282 + separate the rpath usage for c++ library from demo program
4284 + update/correct header-dependencies in c++ makefile (report by Werner
4286 + add --with-cxx-shared to dpkg-script, as done for rpm-script.
4289 + build-fix for libtool configuration (reports by Daniel Silva Ferreira
4293 + build-fix for OS X, to handle changes for --with-cxx-shared feature
4294 (report by Christian Ebert).
4295 + change initialization for vt220, similar entries for consistency
4296 with cursor-key strings (NetBSD #47674) -TD
4297 + further improvements to linux-16color (Benjamin Sittler)
4300 + additional fix for tic.c, to allocate missing buffer space.
4301 + eliminate configure-script warnings for gen-pkgconfig.in
4302 + correct typo in sgr string for sun-color,
4303 add bold for consistency with sgr,
4304 change smso for consistency with sgr -TD
4305 + correct typo in sgr string for terminator -TD
4306 + add blink to the attributes masked by ncv in linux-16color (report
4307 by Benjamin Sittler)
4308 + improve warning message from post-load checking for missing "%?"
4309 operator by tic/infocmp by showing the entry name and capability.
4310 + minor formatting improvement to tic/infocmp -f option to ensure
4311 line split after "%;".
4312 + amend scripting for --with-cxx-shared option to handle the debug
4313 library "libncurses++_g.a" (report by Sven Joachim).
4316 + amend change to toe.c for reading from /dev/zero, to ensure that
4317 there is a buffer for the temporary filename (cf: 20120324).
4318 + regenerated html manpages.
4319 + fix typo in terminfo.head (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130302).
4320 + updated some autoconf macros:
4321 + CF_ACVERSION_CHECK, from byacc 1.9 20130304
4322 + CF_INTEL_COMPILER, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE from luit 2.0-20130217
4323 + add configure option --with-cxx-shared to permit building
4324 libncurses++ as a shared library when using g++, e.g., the same
4325 limitations as libtool but better integrated with the usual build
4326 configuration (Redhat #911540).
4327 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to filter out build-path which was unnecessarily
4328 shown in curses.h (Debian #689131).
4331 + add section to terminfo manpage discussing user-defined capabilities.
4332 + update manpage description of NCURSES_NO_SETBUF, explaining why it
4334 + add a check in waddch_nosync() to ensure that tab characters are
4335 treated as control characters; some broken locales claim they are
4337 + add some traces to the Windows console driver.
4338 + initialize a temporary array in _nc_mbtowc, needed for some cases
4339 of raw input in MinGW port.
4342 + correct ifdef on change to lib_twait.c (report by Werner Fink).
4343 + update config.guess, config.sub
4346 + modify test/testcurs.c to work with mouse for ncurses as it does for
4348 + modify test/knight.c to work with mouse for pdcurses as it does for
4350 + modify internal recursion in wgetch() which handles cooked mode to
4351 check if the call to wgetnstr() returned an error. This can happen
4352 when both nocbreak() and nodelay() are set, for instance (report by
4353 Nils Christopher Brause) (cf: 960418).
4354 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
4355 + add a check for valid position in ClearToEOS()
4356 + fix in lib_twait.c when --enable-wgetch-events is used, pointer
4358 + improve a limit-check in make_hash.c
4359 + fix a memory leak in hashed_db.c
4362 + modify test/configure script to make it simpler to override names
4363 of curses-related libraries, to help with linking with pdcurses in
4365 + if the --with-terminfo-dirs configure option is not used, there is
4366 no corresponding compiled-in value for that. Fill in "no default
4367 value" for that part of the manpage substitution.
4370 + correct initialization in knight.c which let it occasionally make
4371 an incorrect move (cf: 20001028).
4372 + improve documentation of the terminfo/termcap search path.
4375 + further fixes to mvcur to pass callback function (cf: 20130112),
4376 needed to make test/dots_mvcur work.
4377 + reduce calls to SetConsoleActiveScreenBuffer in win_driver.c, to
4378 help reduce flicker.
4379 + modify configure script to omit "+b" from linker options for very
4380 old HP-UX systems (report by Dennis Grevenstein)
4381 + add HP-UX workaround for missing EILSEQ on old HP-UX systems (patch
4382 by Dennis Grevenstein).
4383 + restore memmove/strdup support for antique systems (request by
4384 Dennis Grevenstein).
4385 + change %l behavior in tparm to push the string length onto the stack
4386 rather than saving the formatted length into the output buffer
4387 (report by Roy Marples, cf: 980620).
4390 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
4391 + fix memory leak in safe_sprintf.c
4392 + add check for return-value in tty_update.c
4393 + correct initialization for -s option in test/view.c
4394 + add check for numeric overflow in lib_instr.c
4395 + improve error-checking in copywin
4396 + add advice in infocmp manpage for termcap users (Debian #698469).
4397 + add "-y" option to test/demo_termcap and test/demo_terminfo to
4398 demonstrate behavior with/without extended capabilities.
4399 + updated termcap manpage to document legacy termcap behavior for
4400 matching capability names.
4401 + modify name-comparison for tgetstr, etc., to accommodate legacy
4402 applications as well as to improve compatibility with BSD 4.2
4403 termcap implementations (Debian #698299) (cf: 980725).
4406 + correct prototype in manpage for vid_puts.
4407 + drop ncurses/tty/tty_display.h, ncurses/tty/tty_input.h, since they
4408 are unused in the current driver model.
4409 + modify mvcur to use stdout except when called within the ncurses
4411 + modify vidattr and vid_attr to use stdout as documented in manpage.
4412 + amend changes made to buffering in 20120825 so that the low-level
4413 putp() call uses stdout rather than ncurses' internal buffering.
4414 The putp_sp() call does the same, for consistency (Redhat #892674).
4417 + add "-s" option to test/view.c to allow it to start in single-step
4418 mode, reducing size of trace files when it is used for debugging
4420 + revert part of 20121222 change to tinfo_driver.c
4421 + add experimental logic in win_driver.c to improve optimization of
4422 screen updates. This does not yet work with double-width characters,
4423 so it is ifdef'd out for the moment (prompted by report by Erwin
4424 Waterlander regarding screen flicker).
4427 + fix Coverity warnings regarding copying into fixed-size buffers.
4428 + add throw-declarations in the c++ binding per Coverity warning.
4429 + minor changes to new-items for consistent reference to bug-report
4433 + add *.dSYM directories to clean-rule in ncurses directory makefile,
4435 + add a configure check for gcc option -no-cpp-precomp, which is not
4436 available in all Mac OS X configurations (report by Andras Salamon,
4438 + improve 20021221 workaround for broken acs, handling a case where
4439 that ACS_xxx character is not in the acsc string but there is a known
4440 wide-character which can be used.
4443 + fix several warnings from clang 3.1 --analyze, includes correcting
4444 a null-pointer check in _nc_mvcur_resume.
4445 + correct display of double-width characters with MinGW port (report
4446 by Erwin Waterlander).
4447 + replace MinGW's wcrtomb(), fixing a problem with _nc_viscbuf
4448 > fixes based on Coverity report:
4449 + correct coloring in test/bs.c
4450 + correct check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch().
4451 + remove dead code in progs/tset.c, test/linedata.h
4452 + add null-pointer checks in lib_tracemse.c, panel.priv.h, and some
4456 + modify test/knight.c to show the number of choices possible for
4457 each position in automove option, e.g., to allow user to follow
4458 Warnsdorff's rule to solve the puzzle.
4459 + modify test/hanoi.c to show the minimum number of moves possible for
4460 the given number of tiles (prompted by patch by Lucas Gioia).
4461 > fixes based on Coverity report:
4462 + remove a few redundant checks.
4463 + correct logic in test/bs.c, when randomly placing a specific type of
4465 + check return value from remove/unlink in tic.
4466 + check return value from sscanf in test/ncurses.c
4467 + fix a null dereference in c++/cursesw.cc
4468 + fix two instances of uninitialized variables when configuring for the
4470 + correct scope of variable used in SetSafeOutcWrapper macro.
4471 + set umask when calling mkstemp in tic.
4472 + initialize wbkgrndset() temporary variable when extended-colors are
4476 + also replace MinGW's wctomb(), fixing a problem with setcchar().
4477 + modify test/view.c to load UTF-8 when built with MinGW by using
4478 regular win32 API because the MinGW functions mblen() and mbtowc()
4482 + correct order of color initialization versus display in some of the
4483 test-programs, e.g., test_addstr.c
4484 > fixes based on Coverity report:
4485 + delete windows on exit from some of the test-programs.
4488 > fixes based on Coverity report:
4489 + add missing braces around FreeAndNull in two places.
4490 + various fixes in test/ncurses.c
4491 + improve limit-checks in tinfo/make_hash.c, tinfo/read_entry.c
4492 + correct malloc size in progs/infocmp.c
4493 + guard against negative array indices in test/knight.c
4494 + fix off-by-one limit check in test/color_name.h
4495 + add null-pointer check in progs/tabs.c, test/bs.c, test/demo_forms.c,
4497 + fix memory-leak in tinfo/lib_setup.c, progs/toe.c,
4498 test/clip_printw.c, test/demo_menus.c
4499 + delete unused windows in test/chgat.c, test/clip_printw.c,
4500 test/insdelln.c, test/newdemo.c on error-return.
4503 + modify configure macro CF_INCLUDE_DIRS to put $CPPFLAGS after the
4504 local -I include options in case someone has set conflicting -I
4505 options in $CPPFLAGS (prompted by patch for ncurses/Makefile.in by
4507 + modify the ncurses*-config scripts to eliminate relative paths from
4508 the RPATH_LIST variable, e.g., "../lib" as used in installing shared
4509 libraries or executables.
4512 + realign these related pages:
4517 and fix a long-ago error in curs_addstr.3x which said that a -1
4518 length parameter would only write as much as fit onto one line
4519 (report by Reuben Thomas).
4520 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_memmove() for memmove()/bcopy().
4521 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_strdup() for strdup().
4522 + cancel any debug-rpm in package/ncurses.spec
4523 + reviewed vte-2012, reverted most of the change since it was incorrect
4524 based on testing with tack -TD
4525 + un-cancel the initc in vte-256color, since this was implemented
4526 starting with version 0.20 in 2009 -TD
4529 + improve malloc/realloc checking (prompted by discussion in Redhat
4531 + add ncurses test-program as "ncurses6" to the rpm- and dpkg-scripts.
4532 + updated configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_WITH_PATHLIST. The
4533 first corrects pattern used for Mac OS X's customization of gcc.
4536 + fix change to _nc_scroll_optimize(), which incorrectly freed memory
4540 + add vte-2012, gnome-2012, making these the defaults for vte/gnome
4541 (patch by Christian Persch).
4544 + improve CF_GCC_VERSION to work around Debian's customization of gcc
4546 + improve configure macros as done in byacc:
4547 + drop 2.13 compatibility; use 2.52.xxxx version only since EMX port
4548 has used that for a while.
4549 + add 3rd parameter to AC_DEFINE's to allow autoheader to run, i.e.,
4550 for experimental use.
4551 + remove unused configure macros.
4552 + modify configure script and makefiles to quiet new autoconf warning
4553 for LIBS_TO_MAKE variable.
4554 + modify configure script to show $PATH_SEPARATOR variable.
4555 + update config.guess, config.sub
4558 + modify setupterm to set its copy of TERM to "unknown" if configured
4559 for the terminal driver and TERM was null or empty.
4560 + modify treatment of TERM variable for MinGW port to allow explicit
4561 use of the windows console driver by checking if $TERM is set to
4562 "#win32con" or an abbreviation of that.
4563 + undo recent change to fallback definition of vsscanf() to build with
4564 older Solaris compilers (cf: 20120728).
4567 + add test-screens to test/ncurses to show 256-characters at a time,
4568 to help with MinGW port.
4571 + simplify varargs logic in lib_printw.c; va_copy is no longer needed
4573 + modifications for MinGW port to make wide-character display usable.
4576 + regenerate configure script (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20120901).
4579 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_flush (cf: 20120825).
4580 + fix a case in _nc_scroll_optimize() where the _oldnums_list array
4581 might not be allocated.
4582 + improve comparisons in configure.in for unset shell variables.
4585 + increase size of ncurses' output-buffer, in case of very small
4586 initial screen-sizes.
4587 + fix evaluation of TERMINFO and TERMINFO_DIRS default values as needed
4588 after changes to use --datarootdir (reports by Gabriele Balducci,
4592 + change output buffering scheme, using buffer maintained by ncurses
4593 rather than stdio, to avoid problems with SIGTSTP handling (report
4597 + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20120811, adding --datarootdir
4598 (prompted by discussion with Erwin Waterlander).
4599 + improve description of --enable-reentrant option in README and the
4601 + add nsterm-256color, make this the default nsterm -TD
4602 + remove bw from nsterm-bce, per testing with tack -TD
4605 + update test/configure, adding check for tinfo library.
4606 + improve limit-checks for the getch fifo (report by Werner Fink).
4607 + fix a remaining mismatch between $with_echo and the symbols updated
4608 for CF_DISABLE_ECHO affecting parameters for mk-2nd.awk (report by
4609 Sven Joachim, cf: 20120317).
4610 + modify followup check for pkg-config's library directory in the
4611 --enable-pc-files option to validate syntax (report by Sven Joachim,
4615 + correct path for ncurses_mingw.h in include/headers, in case build
4616 is done outside source-tree (patch by Roumen Petrov).
4617 + modify some older xterm entries to align with xterm source -TD
4618 + separate "xterm-old" alias from "xterm-r6" -TD
4619 + add E3 extended capability to xterm-basic and putty -TD
4620 + parenthesize parameters of other macros in curses.h -TD
4621 + parenthesize parameter of COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER in curses.h
4622 in case it happens to be a comma-expression, etc. (patch by Nick
4626 + improved form_request_by_name() and menu_request_by_name().
4627 + eliminate two fixed-size buffers in toe.c
4628 + extend use_tioctl() to have expected behavior when use_env(FALSE) and
4629 use_tioctl(TRUE) are called.
4630 + modify ncurses test-program, adding -E and -T options to demonstrate
4631 use_env() versus use_tioctl().
4634 + add use_tioctl() function (adapted from patch by Werner Fink,
4638 + add ncurses_mingw.h to installed headers (prompted by patch by
4640 + clarify return-codes from wgetch() in response to SIGWINCH (prompted
4642 + modify resizeterm() to always push a KEY_RESIZE onto the fifo, even
4643 if screensize is unchanged. Modify _nc_update_screensize() to push a
4644 KEY_RESIZE if there was a SIGWINCH, even if it does not call
4645 resizeterm(). These changes eliminate the case where a SIGWINCH is
4646 received, but ERR returned from wgetch or wgetnstr because the screen
4647 dimensions did not change (Novell #769788).
4650 + add --enable-interop to sample package scripts (suggested by Juergen
4652 + update CF_PATH_SYNTAX macro, from mawk changes.
4653 + modify mk-0th.awk to allow for generating llib-ltic, etc., though
4654 some work is needed on cproto to work with lib_gen.c to update
4656 + remove redundant getenv() cal in database-iterator leftover from
4657 cleanup in 20120622 changes (report by Sven Joachim).
4660 + add -d, -e and -q options to test/demo_terminfo and test/demo_termcap
4661 + fix caching of environment variables in database-iterator (patch by
4662 Philippe Troin, Redhat #831366).
4665 + add configure check to distinguish clang from gcc to eliminate
4666 warnings about unused command-line parameters when compiler warnings
4668 + improve behavior when updating terminfo entries which are hardlinked
4669 by allowing for the possibility that an alias has been repurposed to
4671 + fix some strict compiler warnings based on package scripts.
4672 + further fixes for configure check for working poll (Debian #676461).
4675 + fix an uninitialized variable in -c/-n logic for infocmp changes
4677 + corrected fix for building c++ binding with clang 3.0 (report/patch
4678 by Richard Yao, Gentoo #417613, cf: 20110409)
4679 + correct configure check for working poll, fixing the case where stdin
4680 is redirected, e.g., in rpm/dpkg builds (Debian #676461).
4681 + add rpm- and dpkg-scripts, to test those build-environments.
4682 The resulting packages are used only for testing.
4685 + add kdch1 aka "Remove" to vt220 and vt220-8 entries -TD
4686 + add kdch1, etc., to qvt108 -TD
4687 + add dl1/il1 to some entries based on dl/il values -TD
4688 + add dl to simpleterm -TD
4689 + add consistency-checks in tic for insert-line vs delete-line
4690 controls, and insert/delete-char keys
4691 + correct no-leaks logic in infocmp when doing comparisons, fixing
4692 duplicate free of entries given via the command-line, and freeing
4693 entries loaded from the last-but-one of files specified on the
4695 + add kdch1 to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (reported by David Lord,
4696 analysis by Martin Husemann).
4697 + add cnorm/civis to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (report/analysis by
4698 Onno van der Linden).
4701 + extend -c and -n options of infocmp to allow comparing more than two
4703 + correct check in infocmp for number of terminal names when more than
4705 + correct typo in curs_threads.3x (report by Yanhui Shen on
4706 freebsd-hackers mailing list).
4709 + corrected 'op' for bterm (report by Samuel Thibault) -TD
4710 + modify test/background.c to demonstrate a background character
4711 holding a colored ACS_HLINE. The behavior differs from SVr4 due to
4712 the thick- and double-line extension (cf: 20091003).
4713 + modify handling of acs characters in PutAttrChar to avoid mapping an
4714 unmapped character to a space with A_ALTCHARSET set.
4715 + rewrite vt520 entry based on vt420 -TD
4718 + remove p6 (bold) from opus3n1+ for consistency -TD
4719 + remove acs stuff from env230 per clues in Ingres termcap -TD
4720 + modify env230 sgr/sgr0 to match other capabilities -TD
4721 + modify smacs/rmacs in bq300-8 to match sgr/sgr0 -TD
4722 + make sgr for dku7202 agree with other caps -TD
4723 + make sgr for ibmpc agree with other caps -TD
4724 + make sgr for tek4107 agree with other caps -TD
4725 + make sgr for ndr9500 agree with other caps -TD
4726 + make sgr for sco-ansi agree with other caps -TD
4727 + make sgr for d410 agree with other caps -TD
4728 + make sgr for d210 agree with other caps -TD
4729 + make sgr for d470c, d470c-7b agree with other caps -TD
4730 + remove redundant AC_DEFINE for NDEBUG versus Makefile definition.
4731 + fix a back-link in _nc_delink_entry(), which is needed if ncurses is
4732 configured with --enable-termcap and --disable-getcap.
4735 + fix some inconsistencies between vt320/vt420, e.g., cnorm/civis -TD
4736 + add eslok flag to dec+sl -TD
4737 + dec+sl applies to vt320 and up -TD
4738 + drop wsl width from xterm+sl -TD
4739 + reuse xterm+sl in putty and nsca-m -TD
4740 + add ansi+tabs to vt520 -TD
4741 + add ansi+enq to vt220-vt520 -TD
4742 + fix a compiler warning in example in ncurses-intro.doc (Paul Waring).
4743 + added paragraph in keyname manpage telling how extended capabilities
4744 are interpreted as key definitions.
4745 + modify tic's check of conflicting key definitions to include extended
4746 capability strings in addition to the existing check on predefined
4750 + improve cleanup of temporary files in tic using atexit().
4751 + add msgr to vt420, similar DEC vtXXX entries -TD
4752 + add several missing vt420 capabilities from vt220 -TD
4753 + factor out ansi+pp from several entries -TD
4754 + change xterm+sl and xterm+sl-twm to include only the status-line
4755 capabilities and not "use=xterm", making them more generally useful
4756 as building-blocks -TD
4757 + add dec+sl building block, as example -TD
4760 + add XT to some terminfo entries to improve usefulness for other
4761 applications than screen, which would like to pretend that xterm's
4762 title is a status-line. -TD
4763 + change use-clauses in ansi-mtabs, hp2626, and hp2622 based on review
4764 of ordering and overrides -TD
4765 + add consistency check in tic for screen's "XT" capability.
4766 + add section in terminfo.src summarizing the user-defined capabilities
4767 used in that file -TD
4770 + fix an inconsistency between tic/infocmp "-x" option; tic omits all
4771 non-standard capabilities, while infocmp was ignoring only the user
4772 definable capabilities.
4773 + improve special case in tic parsing of description to allow it to be
4774 followed by terminfo capabilities. Previously the description had to
4775 be the last field on an input line to allow tic to distinguish
4776 between termcap and terminfo format while still allowing commas to be
4777 embedded in the description.
4778 + correct variable name in gen_edit.sh which broke configurability of
4779 the --with-xterm-kbs option.
4780 + revert 2011-07-16 change to "linux" alias, return to "linux2.2" -TD
4781 + further amend 20110910 change, providing for configure-script
4782 override of the "linux" terminfo entry to install and changing the
4783 default for that to "linux2.2" (Debian #665959).
4786 + update Ada95/configure to use CF_DISABLE_ECHO (cf: 20120317).
4787 + correct order of use-clauses in st-256color -TD
4788 + modify configure script to look for gnatgcc if the Ada95 binding
4789 is built, in preference to the default gcc/cc (suggested by
4790 Nicolas Boulenguez).
4791 + modify configure script to ensure that the same -On option used for
4792 the C compiler in CFLAGS is used for ADAFLAGS rather than simply
4793 using "-O3" (suggested by Nicolas Boulenguez)
4796 + amend an old fix so that next_char() exits properly for empty files,
4797 e.g., from reading /dev/null (cf: 20080804).
4798 + modify tic so that it can read from the standard input, or from
4799 a character device. Because tic uses seek's, this requires writing
4800 the data to a temporary file first (prompted by remark by Sven
4801 Joachim) (cf: 20000923).
4804 + correct a check made in lib_napms.c, so that terminfo applications
4805 can again use napms() (cf: 20110604).
4806 + add a note in tic.h regarding required casts for ABSENT_BOOLEAN
4808 + correct scripting for --disable-echo option in test/configure.
4809 + amend check for missing c++ compiler to work when no error is
4810 reported, and no variables set (cf: 20021206).
4811 + add/use configure macro CF_DISABLE_ECHO.
4814 + fix some strict compiler warnings for abi6 and 64-bits.
4815 + use begin_va_copy/end_va_copy macros in lib_printw.c (cf: 20120303).
4816 + improve a limit-check in infocmp.c (Werner Fink):
4819 + minor tidying of terminfo.tail, clarify reason for limitation
4820 regarding mapping of \0 to \200
4821 + minor improvement to _nc_copy_termtype(), using memcpy to replace
4823 + fix no-leaks checking in test/demo_termcap.c to account for multiple
4824 calls to setupterm().
4825 + modified the libgpm change to show previous load as a problem in the
4827 > merge some patches from OpenSUSE rpm (Werner Fink):
4828 + ncurses-5.7-printw.dif, fixes for varargs handling in lib_printw.c
4829 + ncurses-5.7-gpm.dif, do not dlopen libgpm if already loaded by
4831 + ncurses-5.6-fallback.dif, do not free arrays and strings from static
4835 + fix breakage in tic/infocmp from 20120225 (report by Werner Fink).
4838 + modify configure script to allow creating dll's for MinGW when
4840 + add --enable-string-hacks option to control whether strlcat and
4841 strlcpy may be used. The same issue applies to OpenBSD's warnings
4842 about snprintf, noting that this function is weakly standardized.
4843 + add configure checks for strlcat, strlcpy and snprintf, to help
4844 reduce bogus warnings with OpenBSD builds.
4845 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 to supply consistent intptr_t declaration
4847 + update config.guess, config.sub
4850 + correct CF_ETIP_DEFINES configure macro, making it exit properly on
4851 the first success (patch by Pierre Labastie).
4852 + improve configure macro CF_MKSTEMP by moving existence-check for
4853 mkstemp out of the AC_TRY_RUN, to help with cross-compiles.
4854 + improve configure macro CF_FUNC_POLL from luit changes to detect
4855 broken implementations, e.g., with Mac OS X.
4856 + add configure option --with-tparm-arg
4857 + build-fix for MinGW cross-compiling, so that make_hash does not
4858 depend on TTY definition (cf: 20111008).
4861 + make sgr for xterm-pcolor agree with other caps -TD
4862 + make sgr for att5425 agree with other caps -TD
4863 + make sgr for att630 agree with other caps -TD
4864 + make sgr for linux entries agree with other caps -TD
4865 + make sgr for tvi9065 agree with other caps -TD
4866 + make sgr for ncr260vt200an agree with other caps -TD
4867 + make sgr for ncr160vt100pp agree with other caps -TD
4868 + make sgr for ncr260vt300an agree with other caps -TD
4869 + make sgr for aaa-60-dec-rv, aaa+dec agree with other caps -TD
4870 + make sgr for cygwin, cygwinDBG agree with other caps -TD
4871 + add configure option --with-xterm-kbs to simplify configuration for
4872 Linux versus most other systems.
4875 + improved tic -D option, avoid making target directory and provide
4879 + add mach-gnu (Debian #614316, patch by Samuel Thibault)
4880 + add mach-gnu-color, tweaks to mach-gnu terminfo -TD
4881 + make sgr for sun-color agree with smso -TD
4882 + make sgr for prism9 agree with other caps -TD
4883 + make sgr for icl6404 agree with other caps -TD
4884 + make sgr for ofcons agree with other caps -TD
4885 + make sgr for att5410v1, att4415, att620 agree with other caps -TD
4886 + make sgr for aaa-unk, aaa-rv agree with other caps -TD
4887 + make sgr for avt-ns agree with other caps -TD
4888 + amend fix intended to separate fixups for acsc to allow "tic -cv" to
4889 give verbose warnings (cf: 20110730).
4890 + modify misc/gen-edit.sh to make the location of the tabset directory
4891 consistent with misc/Makefile.in, i.e., using ${datadir}/tabset
4892 (Debian #653435, patch by Sven Joachim).
4895 + add --with-lib-prefix option to allow configuring for old/new flavors
4897 + modify check for gnat version to allow for year, as used in FreeBSD
4899 + modify check_existence() in db_iterator.c to simply check if the
4900 path is a directory or file, according to the need. Checking for
4901 directory size also gives no usable result with OS/2 (cf: 20120107).
4902 + support OS/2 kLIBC (patch by KO Myung-Hun).
4905 + several improvements to test/movewindow.c (prompted by discussion on
4907 + modify movement commands to make them continuous
4908 + rewrote the test for mvderwin
4909 + rewrote the test for recursive mvwin
4910 + split-out reusable CF_WITH_NCURSES_ETC macro in test/configure.in
4911 + updated configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, build-fixes for Mac OS X
4913 + regenerated html manpages.
4916 + various improvements for MinGW (Juergen Pfeifer):
4917 + modify stat() calls to ignore the st_size member
4918 + drop mk-dlls.sh script.
4919 + change recommended regular expression library.
4920 + modify rain.c to allow for threaded configuration.
4921 + modify tset.c to allow for case when size-change logic is not used.
4924 + modify toe's report when -a and -s options are combined, to add
4925 a column showing which entries belong to a given database.
4926 + add -s option to toe, to sort its output.
4927 + modify progs/toe.c, simplifying use of db-iterator results to use
4928 caching improvements from 20111001 and 20111126.
4929 + correct generation of pc-files when ticlib or termlib options are
4930 given to rename the corresponding tic- or tinfo-libraries (report
4934 + document a portability issue with tput, i.e., that scripts which work
4935 with ncurses may fail in other implementations that do no parameter
4937 + add putty-sco entry -TD
4940 + review/fix places in manpages where --program-prefix configure option
4942 + add -D option to infocmp, to show the database locations that it
4944 + fix build for the special case where term-driver, ticlib and termlib
4945 are all enabled. The terminal driver depends on a few features in
4946 the base ncurses library, so tic's dependencies include both ncurses
4948 + fix build work for term-driver when --enable-wgetch-events option is
4950 + use <stdint.h> types to fix some questionable casts to void*.
4953 + modify configure script to check if thread library provides
4954 pthread_mutexattr_settype(), e.g., not provided by Solaris 2.6
4955 + modify configure script to suppress check to define _XOPEN_SOURCE
4956 for IRIX64, since its header files have a conflict versus
4958 + modify configure script to add ".pc" files for tic- and
4959 tinfo-libraries, which were omitted in recent change (cf: 20111126).
4960 + fix inconsistent checks on $PKG_CONFIG variable in configure script.
4963 + modify configure-check for etip.h dependencies, supplying a temporary
4964 copy of ncurses_dll.h since it is a generated file (prompted by
4966 + modify CF_CPP_PARAM_INIT "main" function to work with current C++.
4969 + correct database iterator's check for duplicate entries
4971 + modify database iterator to ignore $TERMCAP when it is not an
4973 + add -D option to tic, to show the database locations that it could
4975 + improve description of database locations in tic manpage.
4976 + modify the configure script to generate a list of the ".pc" files to
4977 generate, rather than deriving the list from the libraries which have
4978 been built (patch by Mike Frysinger).
4979 + use AC_CHECK_TOOLS in preference to AC_PATH_PROGS when searching for
4980 ncurses*-config, e.g., in Ada95/configure and test/configure (adapted
4981 from patch by Mike Frysinger).
4984 + remove obsolete/conflicting fallback definition for _POSIX_SOURCE
4985 from curses.priv.h, fixing a regression with IRIX64 and Tru64
4987 + modify _nc_tic_dir() to ensure that its return-value is nonnull,
4988 i.e., the database iterator was not initialized. This case is needed
4989 to when tic is translating to termcap, rather than loading the
4990 database (cf: 20111001).
4993 + add pccon entries for OpenBSD console (Alexei Malinin).
4994 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 with gcc 4.2.1, setting _XOPEN_SOURCE to
4995 600 to work around inconsistent ifdef'ing of wcstof between C and
4997 + modify capconvert script to accept more than exact match on "xterm",
4998 e.g., the "xterm-*" variants, to exclude from the conversion (patch
5000 + add -lc_r as alternative for -lpthread, allows build of threaded code
5001 in older FreeBSD machines.
5002 + build-fix for MirBSD, which fails when either _XOPEN_SOURCE or
5003 _POSIX_SOURCE are defined.
5004 + fix a typo misc/Makefile.in, used in uninstalling pc-files.
5007 + modify make_db_path() to allow creating "terminfo.db" in the same
5008 directory as an existing "terminfo" directory. This fixes a case
5009 where switching between hashed/filesystem databases would cause the
5010 new hashed database to be installed in the next best location -
5011 root's home directory.
5012 + add variable cf_cv_prog_gnat_correct to those passed to
5013 config.status, fixing a problem with Ada95 builds (cf: 20111022).
5014 + change feature test from _XPG5 to _XOPEN_SOURCE in two places, to
5015 accommodate broken implementations for _XPG6.
5016 + eliminate usage of NULL symbol from etip.h, to reduce header
5018 + add configure check to decide when to add _XOPEN_SOURCE define to
5019 compiler options, i.e., for Solaris 10 and later (cf: 20100403).
5020 This is a workaround for gcc 4.6, which fails to build the c++
5021 binding if that symbol is defined by the application, due to
5022 incorrectly combining the corresponding feature test macros
5023 (report by Peter Kruse).
5026 + correct logic for discarding mouse events, retaining the partial
5027 events used to build up click, double-click, etc, until needed
5029 + fix configure script to avoid creating unused Ada95 makefile when
5031 + cleanup width-related gcc 3.4.3 warnings for 64-bit platform, for the
5032 internal functions of libncurses. The external interface of courses
5033 uses bool, which still produces these warnings.
5036 + improve description of --disable-tic-depends option to make it
5037 clear that it may be useful whether or not the --with-termlib
5038 option is also given (report by Sven Joachim).
5039 + amend termcap equivalent for set_pglen_inch to use the X/Open
5040 "YI" rather than the obsolete Solaris 2.5 "sL" (cf: 990109).
5041 + improve manpage for tgetent differences from termcap library.
5044 + moved static data from db_iterator.c to lib_data.c
5045 + modify db_iterator.c for memory-leak checking, fix one leak.
5046 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to use Requires.private for the parts
5047 of ncurses rather than Requires, as well as Libs.private for the
5048 other library dependencies (prompted by Debian #644728).
5051 + modify tic "-K" option to only set the strict-flag rather than force
5052 source-output. That allows the same flag to control the parser for
5053 input and output of termcap source.
5054 + modify _nc_getent() to ignore backslash at the end of a comment line,
5055 making it consistent with ncurses' parser.
5056 + restore a special-case check for directory needed to make termcap
5057 text files load as if they were databases (cf: 20110924).
5058 + modify tic's resolution/collision checking to attempt to remove the
5059 conflicting alias from the second entry in the pair, which is
5060 normally following in the source file. Also improved the warning
5061 message to make it simpler to see which alias is the problem.
5062 + improve performance of the database iterator by caching search-list.
5065 + add a missing "else" in changes to _nc_read_tic_entry().
5068 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() so that hashed-database is checked before
5070 + updated CF_CURSES_LIBS check in test/configure script.
5071 + modify configure script and makefiles to split TIC_ARGS and
5072 TINFO_ARGS into pieces corresponding to LDFLAGS and LIBS variables,
5073 to help separate searches for tic- and tinfo-libraries (patch by Nick
5075 + build-fix for lib_mouse.c changes (cf: 20110917).
5078 + fix compiler warning for clang 2.9
5079 + improve merging of mouse events (integrated patch by Damien
5081 + correct mask-check used in lib_mouse for wheel mouse buttons 4/5
5082 (patch by Damien Guibouret).
5085 + modify misc/gen_edit.sh to select a "linux" entry which works with
5086 the current kernel rather than assuming it is always "linux3.0"
5088 + revert a change to getmouse() which had the undesirable side-effect
5089 of suppressing button-release events (report by Damien Guibouret,
5091 + add xterm+kbs fragment from xterm #272 -TD
5092 + add configure option --with-pkg-config-libdir to provide control over
5093 the actual directory into which pc-files are installed, do not use
5094 the pkg-config environment variables (discussion with Frederic L W
5096 + add link to mailing-list archive in announce.html.in, as done in
5097 FAQ (prompted by question by Andrius Bentkus).
5098 + improve manpage install by adjusting the "#include" examples to
5099 show the ncurses-subdirectory used when --disable-overwrite option
5101 + install an alias for "curses" to the ncurses manpage, tied to the
5102 --with-curses-h configure option (suggested by Reuben Thomas).
5105 + propagate error-returns from wresize, i.e., the internal
5106 increase_size and decrease_size functions through resize_term (report
5107 by Tim van der Molen, cf: 20020713).
5108 + fix typo in tset manpage (patch by Sven Joachim).
5111 + add a check to ensure that termcap files which might have "^?" do
5112 not use the terminfo interpretation as "\177".
5113 + minor cleanup of X-terminal emulator section of terminfo.src -TD
5114 + add terminator entry -TD
5115 + add simpleterm entry -TD
5116 + improve wattr_get macros by ensuring that if the window pointer is
5117 null, then the attribute and color values returned will be zero
5121 + add substitution for $RPATH_LIST to misc/ncurses-config.in
5122 + improve performance of tic with hashed-database by caching the
5123 database connection, using atexit() to cleanup.
5124 + modify treatment of 2-character aliases at the beginning of termcap
5125 entries so they are not counted in use-resolution, since these are
5126 guaranteed to be unique. Also ignore these aliases when reporting
5127 the primary name of the entry (cf: 20040501)
5128 + double-check gn (generic) flag in terminal descriptions to
5129 accommodate old/buggy termcap databases which misused that feature.
5130 + minor fixes to _nc_tgetent(), ensure buffer is initialized even on
5134 + improve rpath fix from 20110730 by ensuring that the new $RPATH_LIST
5135 variable is defined in the makefiles which use it.
5136 + build-fix for DragonFlyBSD's pkgsrc in test/configure script.
5137 + build-fixes for NetBSD 5.1 with termcap support enabled.
5138 + corrected k9 in dg460-ansi, add other features based on manuals -TD
5139 + improve trimming of whitespace at the end of terminfo/termcap output
5141 + when writing termcap source, ensure that colons in the description
5142 field are translated to a non-delimiter, i.e., "=".
5143 + add "-0" option to tic/infocmp, to make the termcap/terminfo source
5145 + add a null-pointer check when handling the $CC variable.
5148 + modify configure script and makefiles in c++ and progs to allow the
5149 directory used for rpath option to be overridden, e.g., to work
5150 around updates to the variables used by tic during an install.
5151 + add -K option to tic/infocmp, to provide stricter BSD-compatibility
5153 + add _nc_strict_bsd variable in tic library which controls the
5154 "strict" BSD termcap compatibility from 20110723, plus these
5156 + allow escapes such as "\8" and "\9" when reading termcap
5157 + disallow "\a", "\e", "\l", "\s" and "\:" escapes when reading
5158 termcap files, passing through "a", "e", etc.
5159 + expand "\:" as "\072" on output.
5160 + modify _nc_get_token() to reset the token's string value in case
5161 there is a string-typed token lacking the "=" marker.
5162 + fix a few memory leaks in _nc_tgetent.
5163 + fix a few places where reading from a termcap file could refer to
5165 + add an overflow check when converting terminfo/termcap numeric
5166 values, since terminfo stores those in a short, and they must be
5168 + correct internal variables used for translating to termcap "%>"
5169 feature, and translating from termcap %B to terminfo, needed by
5170 tctest (cf: 19991211).
5171 + amend a minor fix to acsc when loading a termcap file to separate it
5172 from warnings needed for tic (cf: 20040710)
5173 + modify logic in _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_tic_entry() to allow
5174 a termcap file to be handled via TERMINFO_DIRS.
5175 + modify _nc_infotocap() to include non-mandatory padding when
5176 translating to termcap.
5177 + modify _nc_read_termcap_entry(), passing a flag in the case where
5178 getcap is used, to reduce interactive warning messages.
5181 + add a check in start_color() to limit color-pairs to 256 when
5182 extended colors are not supported (patch by David Benjamin).
5183 + modify setcchar to omit no-longer-needed OR'ing of color pair in
5184 the SetAttr() macro (patch by David Benjamin).
5185 + add kich1 to sun terminfo entry (Yuri Pankov)
5186 + use bold rather than reverse for smso in sun-color terminfo entry
5188 + improve generation of termcap using tic/infocmp -C option, e.g.,
5189 to correspond with 4.2BSD (prompted by discussion with Yuri Pankov
5190 regarding Schilling's test program):
5191 + translate %02 and %03 to %2 and %3 respectively.
5192 + suppress string capabilities which use %s, not supported by tgoto
5193 + use \040 rather than \s
5194 + expand null characters as \200 rather than \0
5195 + modify configure script to support shared libraries for DragonFlyBSD.
5198 + replace an assert() in _nc_Free_Argument() with a regular null
5199 pointer check (report/analysis by Franjo Ivancic).
5200 + modify configure --enable-pc-files option to take into account the
5201 PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
5202 + add/use xterm+tmux chunk from xterm #271 -TD
5203 + resync xterm-new entry from xterm #271 -TD
5204 + add E3 extended capability to linux-basic (Miroslav Lichvar)
5205 + add linux2.2, linux2.6, linux3.0 entries to give context for E3 -TD
5206 + add SI/SO change to linux2.6 entry (Debian #515609) -TD
5207 + fix inconsistent tabset path in pcmw (Todd C. Miller).
5208 + remove a backslash which continued comment, obscuring altos3
5209 definition with OpenBSD toolset (Nicholas Marriott).
5212 + add workaround from xterm #271 changes to ensure that compiler flags
5213 are not used in the $CC variable.
5214 + improve support for shared libraries, tested with AIX 5.3, 6.1 and
5215 7.1 with both gcc 4.2.4 and cc.
5216 + modify configure checks for AIX to include release 7.x
5217 + add loader flags/libraries to libtool options so that dynamic loading
5218 works properly, adapted from ncurses-5.7-ldflags-with-libtool.patch
5219 at gentoo prefix repository (patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
5222 + move include of nc_termios.h out of term_entry.h, since the latter
5223 is installed, e.g., for tack while the former is not (report by
5227 + improve cleanup() function in lib_tstp.c, using _exit() rather than
5228 exit() and checking for SIGTERM rather than SIGQUIT (prompted by
5229 comments forwarded by Nicholas Marriott).
5230 + reduce name pollution from term.h, moving fallback #define's for
5231 tcgetattr(), etc., to new private header nc_termios.h (report by
5233 + two minor fixes for tracing (patch by Vassili Courzakis).
5234 + improve trace initialization by starting it in use_env() and
5236 + review old email, add details for some changelog entries.
5239 + update minix entry to minix 3.2 (Thomas Cort).
5240 + fix a strict compiler warning in change to wattr_get (cf: 20110528).
5243 + fixes for MirBSD port:
5244 + set default prefix to /usr.
5245 + add support for shared libraries in configure script.
5246 + use S_ISREG and S_ISDIR consistently, with fallback definitions.
5247 + add a few more checks based on ncurses/link_test.
5248 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle sp-funcs renaming of NCURSES_OUTC type.
5251 + add case to CF_SHARED_OPTS for Interix (patch by Markus Duft).
5252 + used ncurses/link_test to check for behavior when the terminal has
5253 not been initialized and when an application passes null pointers
5254 to the library. Added checks to cover this (prompted by Redhat
5256 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to make its main() function call each function
5257 with zero parameters, to help find inconsistent checking for null
5261 + fix warnings from clang 2.7 "--analyze"
5264 + compiler-warning fixes in panel and progs.
5265 + modify CF_PKG_CONFIG macro, from changes to tin -TD
5266 + modify CF_CURSES_FUNCS configure macro, used in test directory
5268 + work around (non-optimizer) bug in gcc 4.2.1 which caused
5269 test-expression to be omitted from executable.
5270 + force the linker to see a link-time expression of a symbol, to
5271 help work around weak-symbol issues.
5274 + update discussion of MKfallback.sh script in INSTALL; normally the
5275 script is used automatically via the configured makefiles. However
5276 there are still occasions when it might be used directly by packagers
5277 (report by Gunter Schaffler).
5278 + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to omit the "-L" option from the
5279 "--libs" output if the library directory is /usr/lib.
5280 + change order of tests for curses.h versus ncurses.h headers in the
5281 configure scripts for Ada95 and test-directories, to look for
5282 ncurses.h, from fixes to tin -TD
5283 + modify ncurses/tinfo/access.c to account for Tandem's root uid
5284 (report by Joachim Schmitz).
5287 + modify rules in Ada95/src/Makefile.in to ensure that the PIC option
5288 is not used when building a static library (report by Nicolas
5290 + Ada95 build-fix for big-endian architectures such as sparc. This
5291 undoes one of the fixes from 20110319, which added an "Unused" member
5292 to representation clauses, replacing that with pragmas to suppress
5293 warnings about unused bits (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
5296 + add check in test/configure for use_window, use_screen.
5297 + add configure-checks for getopt's variables, which may be declared
5298 as different types on some Unix systems.
5299 + add check in test/configure for some legacy curses types of the
5300 function pointer passed to tputs().
5301 + modify init_pair() to accept -1's for color value after
5302 assume_default_colors() has been called (Debian #337095).
5303 + modify test/background.c, adding commmand-line options to demonstrate
5304 assume_default_colors() and use_default_colors().
5307 + modify configure script/source-code to only define _POSIX_SOURCE if
5308 the checks for sigaction and/or termios fail, and if _POSIX_C_SOURCE
5309 and _XOPEN_SOURCE are undefined (report by Valentin Ochs).
5310 + update config.guess, config.sub
5313 + fixes to build c++ binding with clang 3.0 (patch by Alexander
5315 + add check for unctrl.h in test/configure, to work around breakage in
5316 some ncurses packages.
5317 + add "--disable-widec" option to test/configure script.
5318 + add "--with-curses-colr" and "--with-curses-5lib" options to the
5319 test/configure script to address testing with very old machines.
5321 20110404 5.9 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
5324 + various build-fixes for the rpm/dpkg scripts.
5325 + add "--enable-rpath-link" option to Ada95/configure, to allow
5326 packages to suppress the rpath feature which is normally used for
5327 the in-tree build of sample programs.
5328 + corrected definition of libdir variable in Ada95/src/Makefile.in,
5329 needed for rpm script.
5330 + add "--with-shared" option to Ada95/configure script, to allow
5331 making the C-language parts of the binding use appropriate compiler
5332 options if building a shared library with gnat.
5335 > portability fixes for Ada95 binding:
5336 + add configure check to ensure that SIGINT works with gnat. This is
5337 needed for the "rain" sample program. If SIGINT does not work, omit
5338 that sample program.
5339 + correct typo in check of $PKG_CONFIG variable in Ada95/configure
5340 + add ncurses_compat.c, to supply functions used in the Ada95 binding
5341 which were added in 5.7 and later.
5342 + modify sed expression in CF_NCURSES_ADDON to eliminate a dependency
5346 + add special check in Ada95/configure script for ncurses6 reentrant
5348 + regen Ada html documentation.
5349 + build-fix for Ada shared libraries versus the varargs workaround.
5350 + add rpm and dpkg scripts for Ada95 and test directories, for test
5352 + update test/configure macros CF_CURSES_LIBS, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and
5354 + add configure check to determine if gnat's project feature supports
5355 libraries, i.e., collections of .ali files.
5356 + make all dereferences in Ada95 samples explicit.
5357 + fix typo in comment in lib_add_wch.c (patch by Petr Pavlu).
5358 + add configure check for, ifdef's for math.h which is in a separate
5359 package on Solaris and potentially not installed (report by Petr
5361 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
5362 + improve type-checking in Ada95 by eliminating a few warning-suppress
5364 + suppress unreferenced warnings.
5365 + make all dereferences in binding explicit.
5368 + regen Ada html documentation.
5369 + change order of -I options from ncurses*-config script when the
5370 --disable-overwrite option was used, so that the subdirectory include
5372 + modify the make-tar.sh scripts to add a MANIFEST and NEWS file.
5373 + modify configure script to provide value for HTML_DIR in
5374 Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, which depends on whether the Ada95 binding is
5375 distributed separately (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
5376 + modify configure script to add "-g" and/or "-O3" to ADAFLAGS if the
5377 CFLAGS for the build has these options.
5378 + amend change from 20070324, to not add 1 to the result of getmaxx
5379 and getmaxy in the Ada binding (report by Nicolas Boulenguez for
5380 thread in comp.lang.ada).
5381 + build-fix Ada95/samples for gnat 4.5
5382 + spelling fixes for Ada95/samples/explain.txt
5383 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
5384 + add item in Trace_Attribute_Set corresponding to TRACE_ATTRS.
5385 + add workaround for binding to set_field_type(), which uses varargs.
5386 The original binding from 990220 relied on the prevalent
5387 implementation of varargs which did not support or need va_copy().
5388 + add dependency on gen/Makefile.in needed for *-panels.ads
5389 + add Library_Options to library.gpr
5390 + add Languages to library.gpr, for gprbuild
5393 + revert changes to limit-checks from 20110122 (Debian #616711).
5394 > minor type-cleanup of Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
5395 + corrected a minor sign error in a field of Low_Level_Field_Type, to
5397 + replaced C_Int by Curses_Bool as return type for some callbacks, see
5399 + modify samples/sample-explain.adb to provide explicit message when
5400 explain.txt is not found.
5403 + improve makefiles for Ada95 tree (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
5404 + fix an off-by-one error in _nc_slk_initialize() from 20100605 fixes
5405 for compiler warnings (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
5406 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to declare unused bits in generated layouts,
5407 needed to compile when chtype is 64-bits using gnat 4.4.5
5409 20110226 5.8 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
5412 + update release notes, for 5.8.
5413 + regenerated html manpages.
5414 + change open() in _nc_read_file_entry() to fopen() for consistency
5416 + modify misc/run_tic.in to create parent directory, in case this is
5417 a new install of hashed database.
5418 + fix typo in Ada95/mk-1st.awk which causes error with original awk.
5421 + configure script rpath fixes from xterm #269.
5422 + workaround for cygwin's non-functional features.h, to force ncurses'
5423 configure script to define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED when building
5424 wide-character configuration.
5425 + build-fix in run_tic.sh for OS/2 EMX install
5426 + add cons25-debian entry (patch by Brian M Carlson, Debian #607662).
5429 + regenerated html manpages.
5430 + use _tracef() in show_where() function of tic, to work correctly with
5431 special case of trace configuration.
5434 + add xterm-utf8 entry as a demo of the U8 feature -TD
5435 + add U8 feature to denote entries for terminal emulators which do not
5436 support VT100 SI/SO when processing UTF-8 encoding -TD
5437 + improve the NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS feature by adding a check for an
5438 extended terminfo capability U8 (prompted by mailing list
5442 + start documenting interface changes for upcoming 5.8 release.
5443 + correct limit-checks in derwin().
5444 + correct limit-checks in newwin(), to ensure that windows have nonzero
5445 size (report by Garrett Cooper).
5446 + fix a missing "weak" declaration for pthread_kill (patch by Nicholas
5448 + improve documentation of KEY_ENTER in curs_getch.3x manpage (prompted
5449 by discussion with Kevin Martin).
5452 + modify Ada95/configure script to make the --with-curses-dir option
5453 work without requiring the --with-ncurses option.
5454 + modify test programs to allow them to be built with NetBSD curses.
5455 + document thick- and double-line symbols in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
5456 + document WACS_xxx constants in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
5457 + fix some warnings for clang 2.6 "--analyze"
5458 + modify Ada95 makefiles to make html-documentation with the project
5459 file configuration if that is used.
5460 + update config.guess, config.sub
5463 + regenerated html manpages.
5464 + minor fixes to enable lint when trace is not enabled, e.g., with
5466 + fix typo in man/default_colors.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
5467 + update ncurses/llib-lncurses*
5470 + fix remaining strict compiler warnings in ncurses library ABI=5,
5471 except those dealing with function pointers, etc.
5474 + modify nc_tparm.h, adding guards against repeated inclusion, and
5475 allowing TPARM_ARG to be overridden.
5476 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
5479 + suppress ncv in screen entry, allowing underline (patch by Alejandro
5481 + also suppress ncv in konsole-base -TD
5482 + fixes in wins_nwstr() and related functions to ensure that special
5483 characters, i.e., control characters are handled properly with the
5484 wide-character configuration.
5485 + correct a comparison in wins_nwstr() (Redhat #661506).
5486 + correct help-messages in some of the test-programs, which still
5487 referred to quitting with 'q'.
5490 + add special case to _nc_infotocap() to recognize the setaf/setab
5491 strings from xterm+256color and xterm+88color, and provide a reduced
5492 version which works with termcap.
5493 + remove obsolete emacs "Local Variables" section from documentation
5494 (request by Sven Joachim).
5495 + update doc/html/index.html to include NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html
5496 (report by Sven Joachim).
5499 + modify test/configure and test/Makefile.in to handle this special
5500 case of building within a build-tree (Debian #34182):
5501 mkdir -p build && cd build && ../test/configure && make
5504 + miscellaneous build-fixes for Ada95 and test-directories when built
5506 + use VPATH in makefiles to simplify out-of-tree builds (Debian #34182).
5507 + fix typo in rmso for tek4106 entry -Goran Weinholt
5510 + improve checks in test/configure for X libraries, from xterm #267
5512 + modify test/configure to allow it to use the build-tree's libraries
5513 e.g., when using that to configure the test-programs without the
5514 rpath feature (request by Sven Joachim).
5515 + repurpose "gnome" terminfo entries as "vte", retaining "gnome" items
5516 for compatibility, but generally deprecating those since the VTE
5517 library is what actually defines the behavior of "gnome", etc.,
5521 + compiler warning fixes for test programs.
5522 + various build-fixes for test-programs with pdcurses.
5523 + updated configure checks for X packages in test/configure from xterm
5525 + add configure check to gnatmake, to accommodate cygwin.
5528 + correct list of sub-directories needed in Ada95 tree for building as
5530 + modify scripts in test-directory to improve builds as a separate
5534 + correct parsing of relative tab-stops in tabs program (report by
5536 + adjust configure script so that "t" is not added to library suffix
5537 when weak-symbols are used, allowing the pthread configuration to
5538 more closely match the non-thread naming (report by Werner Fink).
5539 + modify configure check for tic program, used for fallbacks, to a
5540 warning if not found. This makes it simpler to use additional
5541 scripts to bootstrap the fallbacks code using tic from the build
5542 tree (report by Werner Fink).
5543 + fix several places in configure script using ${variable-value} form.
5544 + modify configure macro CF_LDFLAGS_STATIC to accommodate some loaders
5545 which do not support selectively linking against static libraries
5546 (report by John P. Hartmann)
5547 + fix an unescaped dash in man/tset.1 (report by Sven Joachim).
5550 + correct comparison used for setting 16-colors in linux-16color
5551 entry (Novell #644831) -TD
5552 + improve linux-16color entry, using "dim" for color-8 which makes it
5553 gray rather than black like color-0 -TD
5554 + drop misc/ncu-indent and misc/jpf-indent; they are provided by an
5555 external package "cindent".
5558 + improve linkages in html manpages, adding references to the newer
5559 pages, e.g., *_variables, curs_sp_funcs, curs_threads.
5560 + add checks in tic for inconsistent cursor-movement controls, and for
5561 inconsistent printer-controls.
5562 + fill in no-parameter forms of cursor-movement where a parameterized
5563 form is available -TD
5564 + fill in missing cursor controls where the form of the controls is
5566 + fix inconsistent punctuation in form_variables manpage (patch by
5568 + add parameterized cursor-controls to linux-basic (report by Dae) -TD
5569 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
5570 + document how to build 32-bit libraries in README.MinGW
5571 + fixes to filename computation in mk-dlls.sh.in
5572 + use POSIX locale in mk-dlls.sh.in rather than en_US (report by Sven
5574 + add a check in mk-dlls.sh.in to obtain the size of a pointer to
5575 distinguish between 32-bit and 64-bit hosts. The result is stored
5579 + add "XT" capability to entries for terminals that support both
5580 xterm-style mouse- and title-controls, for "screen" which
5581 special-cases TERM beginning with "xterm" or "rxvt" -TD
5582 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
5583 + use 64-Bit MinGW toolchain (recommended package from TDM, see
5585 + support pthreads when using the TDM MinGW toolchain
5588 + regenerated html manpages.
5589 + minor fixes for symlinks to curs_legacy.3x and curs_slk.3x manpages.
5590 + add manpage for sp-funcs.
5591 + add sp-funcs to test/listused.sh, for documentation aids.
5594 + add manpages for summarizing public variables of curses-, terminfo-
5596 + minor fixes to manpages for consistency (patch by Jason McIntyre).
5597 + modify tic's -I/-C dump to reformat acsc strings into canonical form
5598 (sorted, unique mapping) (cf: 971004).
5599 + add configure check for pthread_kill(), needed for some old
5603 + add configure option --without-tests, to suppress building test
5604 programs (request by Frederic L W Meunier).
5607 + modify nsterm, xnuppc and tek4115 to make sgr/sgr0 consistent -TD
5608 + add check in terminfo source-reader to provide more informative
5609 message when someone attempts to run tic on a compiled terminal
5610 description (prompted by Debian #593920).
5611 + note in infotocap and captoinfo manpages that they read terminal
5612 descriptions from text-files (Debian #593920).
5613 + improve acsc string for vt52, show arrow keys (patch by Benjamin
5617 + document in manpages that "mv" functions first use wmove() to check
5618 the window pointer and whether the position lies within the window
5619 (suggested by Poul-Henning Kamp).
5620 + fixes to curs_color.3x, curs_kernel.3x and wresize.3x manpages (patch
5621 by Tim van der Molen).
5622 + modify configure script to transform library names for tic- and
5623 tinfo-libraries so that those build properly with Mac OS X shared
5624 library configuration.
5625 + modify configure script to ensure that it removes conftest.dSYM
5626 directory leftover on checks with Mac OS X.
5627 + modify configure script to cleanup after check for symbolic links.
5630 + correct a typo in mk-1st.awk (patch by Gabriele Balducci)
5632 + improve configure checks for location of tic and infocmp programs
5633 used for installing database and for generating fallback data,
5634 e.g., for cross-compiling.
5635 + add Markus Kuhn's wcwidth function for compiling MinGW
5636 + add special case to CF_REGEX for cross-compiling to MinGW target.
5639 + modify initialization check for win32con driver to eliminate need for
5640 special case for TERM "unknown", using terminal database if available
5641 (prompted by discussion with Roumen Petrov).
5642 + for MinGW port, ensure that terminal driver is setup if tgetent()
5643 is called (patch by Roumen Petrov).
5644 + document tabs "-0" and "-8" options in manpage.
5645 + fix Debian "lintian" issues with manpages reported in
5646 http://lintian.debian.org/full/csmall@debian.org.html#ncurses
5649 + add a check in tic for missing set_tab if clear_all_tabs given.
5650 + improve use of symbolic links in makefiles by using "-f" option if
5651 it is supported, to eliminate temporary removal of the target
5652 (prompted by http://www.t2-project.org/packages/ncurses.html)
5653 + minor improvement to test/ncurses.c, reset color pairs in 'd' test
5654 after exit from 'm' main-menu command.
5655 + improved ncu-indent, from mawk changes, allows more than one of
5656 GCC_NORETURN, GCC_PRINTFLIKE and GCC_SCANFLIKE on a single line.
5659 + add hard-reset for rs2 to wsvt25 to help ensure that reset ends
5660 the alternate character set (patch by Nicholas Marriott)
5661 + remove tar-copy.sh and related configure/Makefile chunks, since the
5662 Ada95 binding is now installed using rules in Ada95/src.
5665 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
5666 + add/use configure check to turn on project rules for Ada95/src.
5667 + revert the vfork change from 20100130, since it does not work.
5670 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
5671 + old gnatmake (3.15) does not produce libraries using project-file;
5672 work around by adding script to generate alternate makefile.
5675 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
5676 + add configure --with-ada-sharedlib option, for the test_make rule.
5677 + move Ada95-related logic into aclocal.m4, since additional checks
5678 will be needed to distinguish old/new implementations of gnat.
5681 + start integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95 tree
5682 + add test_make / test_clean / test_install rules in Ada95/src
5683 + change install-path for adainclude directory to /usr/share/ada (was
5685 + update Ada95/configure.
5686 + add mlterm+256color entry, for mlterm 3.0.0 -TD
5687 + modify test/configure to use macros to ensure consistent order
5688 of updating LIBS variable.
5691 + change search order of options for Solaris in CF_SHARED_OPTS, to
5692 work with 64-bit compiles.
5693 + correct quoting of assignment in CF_SHARED_OPTS case for aix
5697 + regenerated html documentation.
5698 + modify test/configure to support pkg-config for checking X libraries
5700 + add/use configure macro CF_ADD_LIB to force consistency of
5701 assignments to $LIBS, etc.
5702 + fix configure script for combining --with-pthread
5703 and --enable-weak-symbols options.
5706 + correct cross-compiling configure check for CF_MKSTEMP macro, by
5707 adding a check cache variable set by AC_CHECK_FUNC (report by
5709 + simplify include-dependencies of make_hash and make_keys, to reduce
5710 the need for setting BUILD_CPPFLAGS in cross-compiling when the
5711 build- and target-machines differ.
5712 + repair broken-linker configuration by restoring a definition of SP
5713 variable to curses.priv.h, and adjusting for cases where sp-funcs
5715 + improve configure macro CF_AR_FLAGS, allowing ARFLAGS environment
5716 variable to override (prompted by report by Pablo Cazallas).
5719 + add configure option --enable-pthreads-eintr to control whether the
5720 new EINTR feature is enabled.
5721 + modify logic in pthread configuration to allow EINTR to interrupt
5722 a read operation in wgetch() (Novell #540571, patch by Werner Fink).
5723 + drop mkdirs.sh, use "mkdir -p".
5724 + add configure option --disable-libtool-version, to use the
5725 "-version-number" feature which was added in libtool 1.5 (report by
5726 Peter Haering). The default value for the option uses the newer
5727 feature, which makes libraries generated using libtool compatible
5728 with the standard builds of ncurses.
5729 + updated test/configure to match configure script macros.
5730 + fixes for configure script from lynx changes:
5731 + improve CF_FIND_LINKAGE logic for the case where a function is
5732 found in predefined libraries.
5733 + revert part of change to CF_HEADER (cf: 20100424)
5736 + correct limit-check in wredrawln, accounting for begy/begx values
5737 (patch by David Benjamin).
5738 + fix most compiler warnings from clang.
5739 + amend build-fix for OpenSolaris, to ensure that a system header is
5740 included in curses.h before testing feature symbols, since they
5741 may be defined by that route.
5744 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
5745 + modify configure macro CF_HEADER_PATH to not look for variations in
5746 the predefined include directories.
5747 + improve configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GCC_WARNINGS to work
5748 with gcc 4.x's c89 alias, which gives warning messages for cases
5749 where older versions would produce an error.
5752 + modify _nc_capcmp() to work with cancelled strings.
5753 + correct translation of "^" in _nc_infotocap(), used to transform
5754 terminfo to termcap strings
5755 + add configure --disable-rpath-hack, to allow disabling the feature
5756 which adds rpath options for libraries in unusual places.
5757 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by checking if the rpath option for a given
5758 directory was already added.
5759 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by using ldd to provide a standard list of
5760 directories (which will be ignored).
5763 + improve win_driver.c handling of mouse:
5764 + discard motion events
5765 + avoid calling _nc_timed_wait when there is a mouse event
5766 + handle 4th and "rightmost" buttons.
5767 + quote substitutions in CF_RPATH_HACK_2 configure macro, needed for
5768 cases where there are embedded blanks in the rpath option.
5771 + add configure check for exctags vs ctags, to work around pkgsrc.
5772 + simplify logic in _nc_get_screensize() to make it easier to see how
5773 environment variables may override system- and terminfo-values
5774 (prompted by discussion with Igor Bujna).
5775 + make debug-traces for COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER less verbose.
5776 + improve handling of color-pairs embedded in attributes for the
5777 extended-colors configuration.
5778 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to build link_test with sp-funcs.
5779 + build-fixes for OpenSolaris aka Solaris 11, for wide-character
5780 configuration as well as for rpath feature in *-config scripts.
5783 + refactor CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro, making CF_RPATH_HACK more
5785 + improve configure CF_REGEX, similar fixes.
5786 + improve configure CF_FIND_LINKAGE, adding add check between system
5787 (default) and explicit paths, where we can find the entrypoint in the
5789 + add check if Gpm_Open() returns a -2, e.g., for "xterm". This is
5790 normally suppressed but can be overridden using $NCURSES_GPM_TERMS.
5791 Ensure that Gpm_Close() is called in this case.
5794 + rename atari and st52 terminfo entries to atari-old, st52-old, use
5795 newer entries from FreeMiNT by Guido Flohr (from patch/report by Alan
5799 + modify install-rule for manpages so that *-config manpages will
5800 install when building with --srcdir (report by Sven Joachim).
5801 + modify CF_DISABLE_LEAKS configure macro so that the --enable-leaks
5802 option is not the same as --disable-leaks (GenToo #305889).
5803 + modify #define's for build-compiler to suppress cchar_t symbol from
5804 compile of make_hash and make_keys, improving cross-compilation of
5805 ncursesw (report by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
5806 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to replace all occurrences of
5807 TPUT in tput.1's manpage (Debian #573597, report/analysis by Anders
5811 + generate manpages for the *-config scripts, adapted from help2man
5812 (suggested by Sven Joachim).
5813 + use va_copy() in _nc_printf_string() to avoid conflicting use of
5814 va_list value in _nc_printf_length() (report by Wim Lewis).
5817 + add Ada95/configure script, to use in tar-file created by
5819 + fix typo in wresize.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
5820 + modify screen-bce.XXX entries to exclude ech, since screen's color
5821 model does not clear with color for that feature -TD
5824 + add make-tar.sh scripts to Ada95 and test subdirectories to help with
5825 making those separately distributable.
5826 + build-fix for static libraries without dlsym (Debian #556378).
5827 + fix a syntax error in man/form_field_opts.3x (patch by Ingo
5831 + add several screen-bce.XXX entries -TD
5834 + update mrxvt terminfo entry -TD
5835 + modify win_driver.c to support mouse single-clicks.
5836 + correct name for termlib in ncurses*-config, e.g., if it is renamed
5837 to provide a single file for ncurses/ncursesw libraries (patch by
5841 + use vfork in test/ditto.c if available (request by Mike Frysinger).
5842 + miscellaneous cleanup of manpages.
5843 + fix typo in curs_bkgd.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
5844 + build-fix for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
5847 + for term-driver configuration, ensure that the driver pointer is
5848 initialized in setupterm so that terminfo/termcap programs work.
5849 + amend fix for Debian #542031 to ensure that wattrset() returns only
5850 OK or ERR, rather than the attribute value (report by Miroslav
5852 + reorder WINDOWLIST to put WINDOW data after SCREEN pointer, making
5853 _nc_screen_of() compatible between normal/wide libraries again (patch
5854 by Miroslav Lichvar)
5855 + review/fix include-dependencies in modules files (report by Miroslav
5859 + modify win_driver.c to initialize acs_map for win32 console, so
5860 that line-drawing works.
5861 + modify win_driver.c to initialize TERMINAL struct so that programs
5862 such as test/lrtest.c and test/ncurses.c which test string
5863 capabilities can run.
5864 + modify term-driver modules to eliminate forward-reference
5868 + modify configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., to use CF_ADD_CFLAGS
5869 consistently to add new -D's while removing duplicates.
5870 + modify a few configure macros to consistently put new options
5871 before older in the list.
5872 + add tiparm(), based on review of X/Open Curses Issue 7.
5873 + minor documentation cleanup.
5874 + update config.guess, config.sub from
5875 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
5876 (caveat - its maintainer put 2010 copyright date on files dated 2009)
5879 + minor improvement to tic's checking of similar SGR's to allow for the
5880 most common case of SGR 0.
5881 + modify getmouse() to act as its documentation implied, returning on
5882 each call the preceding event until none are left. When no more
5883 events remain, it will return ERR.
5886 + change order of lookup in progs/tput.c, looking for terminfo data
5887 first. This fixes a confusion between termcap "sg" and terminfo
5888 "sgr" or "sgr0", originally from 990123 changes, but exposed by
5889 20091114 fixes for hashing. With this change, only "dl" and "ed" are
5890 ambiguous (Mandriva #56272).
5893 + add bterm terminfo entry, based on bogl 0.1.18 -TD
5894 + minor fix to rxvt+pcfkeys terminfo entry -TD
5895 + build-fixes for Ada95 tree for gnat 4.4 "style".
5898 + remove old check in mvderwin() which prevented moving a derived
5899 window whose origin happened to coincide with its parent's origin
5900 (report by Katarina Machalkova).
5901 + improve test/ncurses.c to put mouse droppings in the proper window.
5902 + update minix terminfo entry -TD
5903 + add bw (auto-left-margin) to nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler)
5906 + correct transfer of multicolumn characters in multirow
5907 field_buffer(), which stopped at the end of the first row due to
5908 filling of unused entries in a cchar_t array with nulls.
5909 + updated nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler, Emanuele Giaquinta)
5910 + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to show wide-character
5912 + use strdup() in set_menu_mark(), restore .marklen struct member on
5914 + eliminate clause 3 from the UCB copyrights in read_termcap.c and
5916 ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change
5917 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
5918 + replace a malloc in tic.c with strdup, checking for failure (patch by
5920 + update config.guess, config.sub from
5921 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
5924 + correct layout of working window used to extract data in
5925 wide-character configured by set_field_buffer (patch by Rafael
5927 + improve some limit-checks related to filename length in reading and
5928 writing terminfo entries.
5929 + ensure that filename is always filled in when attempting to read
5930 a terminfo entry, so that infocmp can report the filename (patch
5931 by Nicholas Marriott).
5934 + modify mk-1st.awk to allow tinfo library to be built when term-driver
5936 + add error-check to configure script to ensure that sp-funcs is
5937 enabled if term-driver is, since some internal interfaces rely upon
5941 + fix case where progs/tput is used while sp-funcs is configure; this
5942 requires save/restore of out-character function from _nc_prescreen
5943 rather than the SCREEN structure (report by Charles Wilson).
5944 + fix typo in man/curs_trace.3x which caused incorrect symbolic links
5945 + improved configure macros CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES, CF_PROG_LINT.
5948 + updated man/curs_trace.3x
5949 + limit hashing for termcap-names to 2-characters (Ubuntu #481740).
5950 + change a variable name in lib_newwin.c to make it clearer which
5951 value is being freed on error (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
5954 + improve test/ncurses.c color-cycling test by reusing attribute-
5955 and color-cycling logic from the video-attributes screen.
5956 + add ifdef'd with NCURSES_INTEROP_FUNCS experimental bindings in form
5957 library which help make it compatible with interop applications
5958 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
5959 + add configure option --enable-interop, for integrating changes
5960 for generic/interop support to form-library by Juergen Pfeifer
5963 + modify use of $CC environment variable which is defined by X/Open
5964 as a curses feature, to ignore it if it is not a single character
5965 (prompted by discussion with Benjamin C W Sittler).
5966 + add START_TRACE in slk_init
5967 + fix a regression in _nc_ripoffline which made test/ncurses.c not show
5968 soft-keys, broken in 20090927 merging.
5969 + change initialization of "hidden" flag for soft-keys from true to
5970 false, broken in 20090704 merging (Ubuntu #464274).
5971 + update nsterm entries (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler, prompted by
5972 discussion with Fabian Groffen in GenToo #206201).
5973 + add test/xterm-256color.dat
5976 + quiet some pedantic gcc warnings.
5977 + modify _nc_wgetch() to check for a -1 in the fifo, e.g., after a
5978 SIGWINCH, and discard that value, to avoid confusing application
5979 (patch by Eygene Ryabinkin, FreeBSD #136223).
5982 + modify handling of $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR to use only the first item in
5983 a possibly colon-separated list (Debian #550716).
5986 + supply a null-terminator to buffer in _nc_viswibuf().
5987 + fix a sign-extension bug in unget_wch() (report by Mike Gran).
5988 + minor fixes to error-returns in default function for tputs, as well
5992 + add WACS_xxx definitions to wide-character configuration for thick-
5993 and double-lines (discussion with Slava Zanko).
5994 + remove unnecessary kcan assignment to ^C from putty (Sven Joachim)
5995 + add ccc and initc capabilities to xterm-16color -TD
5996 > patch by Benjamin C W Sittler:
5998 + correct initc capability of linux-c-nc end-of-range
5999 + similar change for dg+ccc and dgunix+ccc
6002 + move leak-checking for comp_captab.c into _nc_leaks_tinfo() since
6003 that module since 20090711 is in libtinfo.
6004 + add configure option --enable-term-driver, to allow compiling with
6005 terminal-driver. That is used in MinGW port, and (being somewhat
6006 more complicated) is an experimental alternative to the conventional
6007 termlib internals. Currently, it requires the sp-funcs feature to
6009 + completed integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer in ncurses
6010 library (some work remains for forms library).
6013 + document return code from define_key (report by Mike Gran).
6014 + make some symbolic links in the terminfo directory-tree shorter
6015 (patch by Daniel Jacobowitz, forwarded by Sven Joachim).).
6016 + fix some groff warnings in terminfo.5, etc., from recent Debian
6018 + change ncv and op capabilities in sun-color terminfo entry to match
6019 Sun's entry for this (report by Laszlo Peter).
6020 + improve interix smso terminfo capability by using reverse rather than
6021 bold (report by Kristof Zelechovski).
6024 + add some test programs (and make these use the same special keys
6025 by sharing linedata.h functions):
6028 test/test_addchstr.c
6029 test/test_add_wchstr.c
6030 + correct internal _nc_insert_ch() to use _nc_insert_wch() when
6031 inserting wide characters, since the wins_wch() function that it used
6032 did not update the cursor position (report by Ciprian Craciun).
6035 + fix typo s/is_timeout/is_notimeout/ which made "man is_notimeout" not
6037 + add null-pointer checks to other opaque-functions.
6038 + add is_pad() and is_subwin() functions for opaque access to WINDOW
6039 (discussion with Mark Dickinson).
6040 + correct merge to lib_newterm.c, which broke when sp-funcs was
6044 + build-fix for building outside source-tree (report by Sven Joachim).
6045 + fix Debian lintian warning for man/tabs.1 by making section number
6046 agree with file-suffix (report by Sven Joachim).
6047 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6050 + workaround for bug in g++ 4.1-4.4 warnings for wattrset() macro on
6051 amd64 (Debian #542031).
6052 + fix typo in curs_mouse.3x (Debian #429198).
6055 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6058 + correct use of terminfo capabilities for initializing soft-keys,
6059 broken in 20090510 merging.
6060 + modify wgetch() to ensure it checks SIGWINCH when it gets an error
6061 in non-blocking mode (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
6062 + use PATH_SEPARATOR symbol when substituting into run_tic.sh, to
6063 help with builds on non-Unix platforms such as OS/2 EMX.
6064 + modify scripting for misc/run_tic.sh to test configure script's
6065 $cross_compiling variable directly rather than comparing host/build
6066 compiler names (prompted by comment in GenToo #249363).
6067 + fix configure script option --with-database, which was coded as an
6069 + build-fixes for --srcdir (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
6072 + separate _nc_find_entry() and _nc_find_type_entry() from
6073 implementation details of hash function.
6076 + add tabs.1 to man/man_db.renames
6077 + modify lib_addch.c to compensate for removal of wide-character test
6078 from unctrl() in 20090704 (Debian #539735).
6081 + improve discussion in INSTALL for use of system's tic/infocmp for
6082 cross-compiling and building fallbacks.
6083 + modify test/demo_termcap.c to correspond better to options in
6084 test/demo_terminfo.c
6085 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6086 + fix logic for 'V' in test/ncurses.c tests f/F.
6089 + correct logic in tigetnum(), which caused tput program to treat all
6090 string capabilities as numeric (report by Rajeev V Pillai,
6094 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6097 + fix a null-pointer check in _nc_format_slks() in lib_slk.c, from
6099 + modify _nc_find_type_entry() to use hashing.
6100 + make CCHARW_MAX value configurable, noting that changing this would
6101 change the size of cchar_t, and would be ABI-incompatible.
6102 + modify test-programs, e.g,. test/view.c, to address subtle
6103 differences between Tru64/Solaris and HPUX/AIX getcchar() return
6105 + modify length returned by getcchar() to count the trailing null
6106 which is documented in X/Open (cf: 20020427).
6107 + fixes for test programs to build/work on HPUX and AIX, etc.
6110 + improve performance of tigetstr, etc., by using hashing code from tic.
6111 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking.
6112 + add test/demo_terminfo, for comparison with demo_termcap
6115 + remove wide-character checks from unctrl() (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
6116 + revise wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to eliminate dependency on
6118 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6121 + update llib-lncurses[wt] to use sp-funcs.
6122 + various code-fixes to build/work with --disable-macros configure
6124 + add several new files from Juergen Pfeifer which will be used when
6125 integration of "sp-funcs" is complete. This includes a port to
6129 + move definition for NCURSES_WRAPPED_VAR back to ncurses_dll.h, to
6130 make includes of term.h without curses.h work (report by "Nix").
6131 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6134 + fix a regression in lib_tputs.c, from ongoing merges.
6137 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6140 + fix an infinite recursion when adding a legacy-coding 8-bit value
6141 using insch() (report by Clemens Ladisch).
6142 + free home-terminfo string in del_curterm() (patch by Dan Weber).
6143 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6146 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6149 + work around antique BSD game's manipulation of stdscr, etc., versus
6150 SCREEN's copy of the pointer (Debian #528411).
6151 + add a cast to wattrset macro to avoid compiler warning when comparing
6152 its result against ERR (adapted from patch by Matt Kraii, Debian
6156 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6159 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6160 + add vwmterm terminfo entry (patch by Bryan Christ).
6163 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6166 + build fix for _nc_free_and_exit() change in 20090418 (report by
6170 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6173 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6174 This change finishes merging for menu and panel libraries, does
6175 part of the form library.
6178 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
6179 Darwin (report by Nelson Beebe).
6182 + extend ansi.sys pfkey capability from kf1-kf10 to kf1-kf48, moving
6183 function key definitions from emx-base for consistency -TD
6184 + correct missing final 'p' in pfkey capability of ansi.sys-old (report
6185 by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo).
6186 + improve test/ncurses.c 'F' test, show combining characters in color.
6187 + quiet a false report by cppcheck in c++/cursesw.cc by eliminating
6188 a temporary variable.
6189 + use _nc_doalloc() rather than realloc() in a few places in ncurses
6190 library to avoid leak in out-of-memory condition (reports by William
6191 Egert and Martin Ettl based on cppcheck tool).
6192 + add --with-ncurses-wrap-prefix option to test/configure (discussion
6193 with Charles Wilson).
6194 + use ncurses*-config scripts if available for test/configure.
6195 + update test/aclocal.m4 and test/configure
6196 > patches by Charles Wilson:
6197 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL configure check to allow unreleased libtool
6198 version numbers (e.g. which include alphabetic chars, as well as
6199 digits, after the final '.').
6200 + improve use of -no-undefined option for libtool by setting an
6201 intermediate variable LT_UNDEF in the configure script, and then
6202 using that in the libtool link-commands.
6203 + fix an missing use of NCURSES_PUBLIC_VAR() in tinfo/MKcodes.awk
6204 from 20090321 changes.
6205 + improve mk-1st.awk script by writing separate cases for the
6206 LIBTOOL_LINK command, depending on which library (ncurses, ticlib,
6207 termlib) is to be linked.
6208 + modify configure.in to allow broken-linker configurations, not just
6209 enable-reentrant, to set public wrap prefix.
6212 + add TICS_LIST and SHLIB_LIST to allow libtool 2.2.6 on Cygwin to
6213 build with tic and term libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
6214 + add -no-undefined option to libtool for Cygwin, MinGW, U/Win and AIX
6215 (report by Charles Wilson).
6216 + fix definition for c++/Makefile.in's SHLIB_LIST, which did not list
6217 the form, menu or panel libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
6218 + add configure option --with-wrap-prefix to allow setting the prefix
6219 for functions used to wrap global variables to something other than
6220 "_nc_" (discussion with Charles Wilson).
6223 + modify scripts to generate ncurses*-config and pc-files to add
6224 dependency for tinfo library (patch by Charles Wilson).
6225 + improve comparison of program-names when checking for linked flavors
6226 such as "reset" by ignoring the executable suffix (reports by Charles
6227 Wilson, Samuel Thibault and Cedric Bretaudeau on Cygwin mailing
6229 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
6230 Solaris 10, since gcc is confused by absence of static libc, and
6231 does not switch back to dynamic mode before finishing the libraries
6232 (reports by Joel Bertrand, Alan Pae).
6233 + minor fixes to Intel compiler warning checks in configure script.
6234 + modify _nc_leaks_tinfo() so leak-checking in test/railroad.c works.
6235 + modify set_curterm() to make broken-linker configuration work with
6236 changes from 20090228 (report by Charles Wilson).
6239 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6240 + modify declaration of cur_term when broken-linker is used, but
6241 enable-reentrant is not, to match pre-5.7 (report by Charles Wilson).
6244 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
6247 + add configure script --enable-sp-funcs to enable the new set of
6249 + start integrating patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
6250 + add extended functions which specify the SCREEN pointer for several
6251 curses functions which use the global SP (these are incomplete;
6252 some internals work is needed to complete these).
6253 + add special cases to configure script for MinGW port.
6256 + update several configure macros from lynx changes
6257 + append (not prepend) to CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS
6258 + change variable from PATHSEP to PATH_SEPARATOR
6259 + improve install-rules for pc-files (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
6260 + make it work with $DESTDIR
6261 + create the pkg-config library directory if needed.
6264 + modify init_pair() to allow caller to create extra color pairs beyond
6265 the color_pairs limit, which use default colors (request by Emanuele
6267 + add misc/terminfo.tmp and misc/*.pc to "sources" rule.
6268 + fix typo "==" where "=" is needed in ncurses-config.in and
6269 gen-pkgconfig.in files (Debian #512161).
6272 + add -shared option to MK_SHARED_LIB when -Bsharable is used, for
6273 *BSD's, without which "main" might be one of the shared library's
6274 dependencies (report/analysis by Ken Dickey).
6275 + modify waddch_literal(), updating line-pointer after a multicolumn
6276 character is found to not fit on the current row, and wrapping is
6277 done. Since the line-pointer was not updated, the wrapped
6278 multicolumn character was written to the beginning of the current row
6279 (cf: 20041023, reported by "Nick" regarding problem with ncmpc
6280 http://musicpd.org/mantis/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1930).
6283 + add screen.Eterm terminfo entry (GenToo #124887) -TD
6284 + modify adacurses-config to look for ".ali" files in the adalib
6286 + correct install for Ada95, which omitted libAdaCurses.a used in
6288 + change install for adacurses-config to provide additional flavors
6289 such as adacursesw-config, for ncursesw (GenToo #167849).
6292 + remove undeveloped feature in ncurses-config.in for setting
6294 + recent change to ncurses-config.in did not take into account the
6295 --disable-overwrite option, which sets $includedir to the
6296 subdirectory and using just that for a -I option does not work - fix
6297 (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
6300 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to eliminate a dependency on rpath when
6301 deciding whether to add $LIBS to --libs output; that should be shown
6302 for the ncurses and tinfo libraries without taking rpath into
6304 + fix an overlooked change from $AR_OPTS to $ARFLAGS in mk-1st.awk,
6305 used in static libraries (report by Marty Jack).
6308 + add a configure-time check to pick a suitable value for
6309 CC_SHARED_OPTS for Solaris (report by Dagobert Michelsen).
6310 + add configure --with-pkg-config and --enable-pc-files options, along
6311 with misc/gen-pkgconfig.in which can be used to generate ".pc" files
6312 for pkg-config (request by Jan Engelhardt).
6313 + use $includedir symbol in misc/ncurses-config.in, add --includedir
6315 + change makefiles to use $ARFLAGS rather than $AR_OPTS, provide a
6316 configure check to detect whether a "-" is needed before "ar"
6318 + update config.guess, config.sub from
6319 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
6322 + modify mk-1st.awk to work with extra categories for tinfo library.
6323 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries with gcc
6324 on AIX 5 or 6 (adapted from patch by Lital Natan).
6327 + modify to omit the opaque-functions from lib_gen.o when
6328 --disable-ext-funcs is used.
6329 + add test/clip_printw.c to illustrate how to use printw without
6331 + modify ncurses 'F' test to demo wborder_set() with colored lines.
6332 + modify ncurses 'f' test to demo wborder() with colored lines.
6335 + add check for failure to open hashed-database needed for db4.6
6337 + corrected --without-manpages option; previous change only suppressed
6338 the auxiliary rules install.man and uninstall.man
6339 + add case for FreeMINT to configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE (patch from
6341 + fixes from NetBSD port at
6342 http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/devel/ncurses/patches
6343 patch-ac (build-fix for DragonFly)
6344 patch-ae (use INSTALL_SCRIPT for installing misc/ncurses*-config).
6345 + improve configure script macros CF_HEADER_PATH and CF_LIBRARY_PATH
6346 by adding CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS, LIBS values to the
6348 + correct title string for keybound manpage (patch by Frederic Culot,
6349 OpenBSD documentation/6019),
6352 + move del_curterm() call from _nc_freeall() to _nc_leaks_tinfo() to
6353 work for progs/clear, progs/tabs, etc.
6354 + correct buffer-size after internal resizing of wide-character
6355 set_field_buffer(), broken in 20081018 changes (report by Mike Gran).
6356 + add "-i" option to test/filter.c to tell it to use initscr() rather
6357 than newterm(), to investigate report on comp.unix.programmer that
6358 ncurses would clear the screen in that case (it does not - the issue
6359 was xterm's alternate screen feature).
6360 + add check in mouse-driver to disable connection if GPM returns a
6361 zero, indicating that the connection is closed (Debian #506717,
6362 adapted from patch by Samuel Thibault).
6365 + improve a workaround in adding wide-characters, when a control
6366 character is found. The library (cf: 20040207) uses unctrl() to
6367 obtain a printable version of the control character, but was not
6368 passing color or video attributes.
6369 + improve test/ncurses.c 'a' test, using unctrl() more consistently to
6370 display meta-characters.
6371 + turn on _XOPEN_CURSES definition in curses.h
6372 + add eterm-color entry (report by Vincent Lefevre) -TD
6373 + correct use of key_name() in test/ncurses.c 'A' test, which only
6374 displays wide-characters, not key-codes since 20070612 (report by
6378 + change _nc_has_mouse() to has_mouse(), reflect its use in C++ and
6379 Ada95 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
6380 + document in TO-DO an issue with Cygwin's package for GNAT (report
6382 + improve error-checking of command-line options in "tabs" program.
6385 + change several terminfo entries to make consistent use of ANSI
6387 + add "tabs" program (prompted by Debian #502260).
6388 + add configure --without-manpages option (request by Mike Frysinger).
6390 20081102 5.7 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
6393 + add a manpage to discuss memory leaks.
6394 + add support for shared libraries for QNX (other than libtool, which
6395 does not work well on that platform).
6396 + build-fix for QNX C++ binding.
6399 + build-fixes for OS/2 EMX.
6400 + modify form library to accept control characters such as newline
6401 in set_field_buffer(), which is compatible with Solaris (report by
6403 + modify configure script to assume --without-hashed-db when
6404 --disable-database is used.
6405 + add "-e" option in ncurses/Makefile.in when generating source-files
6406 to force earlier exit if the build environment fails unexpectedly
6407 (prompted by patch by Adrian Bunk).
6408 + change configure script to use CF_UTF8_LIB, improved variant of
6412 + add teraterm4.59 terminfo entry, use that as primary teraterm entry, rename
6413 original to teraterm2.3 -TD
6414 + update "gnome" terminfo to 2.22.3 -TD
6415 + update "konsole" terminfo to 1.6.6, needs today's fix for tic -TD
6416 + add "aterm" terminfo -TD
6417 + add "linux2.6.26" terminfo -TD
6418 + add logic to tic for cancelling strings in user-defined capabilities,
6422 + regenerated html documentation.
6423 + add -m and -s options to test/keynames.c and test/key_names.c to test
6424 the meta() function with keyname() or key_name(), respectively.
6425 + correct return value of key_name() on error; it is null.
6426 + document some unresolved issues for rpath and pthreads in TO-DO.
6427 + fix a missing prototype for ioctl() on OpenBSD in tset.c
6428 + add configure option --disable-tic-depends to make explicit whether
6429 tic library depends on ncurses/ncursesw library, amends change from
6430 20080823 (prompted by Debian #501421).
6433 + some build-fixes for configure --disable-ext-funcs (incomplete, but
6434 works for C/C++ parts).
6435 + improve configure-check for awks unable to handle large strings, e.g.
6436 AIX 5.1 whose awk silently gives up on large printf's.
6439 + fix build for --with-dmalloc by workaround for redefinition of
6440 strndup between string.h and dmalloc.h
6441 + fix build for --disable-sigwinch
6442 + add environment variable NCURSES_GPM_TERMS to allow override to use
6443 GPM on terminals other than "linux", etc.
6444 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM does not happen to contain
6445 "linux", since Gpm_Open() no longer limits its assertion to terminals
6446 that it might handle, e.g., within "screen" in xterm.
6447 + reset mouse file-descriptor when unloading GPM library (report by
6449 + fix build for --disable-leaks --enable-widec --with-termlib
6450 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
6451 + use improved initialization for soft-label keys in Ada95 sample code.
6452 + discard internal symbol _nc_slk_format (unused since 20080112).
6453 + move call of slk_paint_info() from _nc_slk_initialize() to
6454 slk_intern_refresh(), improving initialization.
6457 + fix bug in mouse code for GPM from 20080920 changes (reported in
6458 Debian #500103, also Miroslav Lichvar).
6461 + fix shared-library rules for cygwin with tic- and tinfo-libraries.
6462 + fix a memory leak when failure to connect to GPM.
6463 + correct check for notimeout() in wgetch() (report on linux.redhat
6464 newsgroup by FurtiveBertie).
6465 + add an example warning-suppression file for valgrind,
6466 misc/ncurses.supp (based on example from Reuben Thomas)
6469 + change shared-library configuration for OpenBSD, make rpath work.
6470 + build-fixes for using libutf8, e.g., on OpenBSD 3.7
6473 + corrected fix for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
6477 + corrected gcc options for building shared libraries on IRIX64.
6478 + add configure check for awk programs unable to handle big-strings,
6479 use that to improve the default for --enable-big-strings option.
6480 + makefile-fixes for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
6482 + update test/configure script.
6483 + adapt ifdef's from library to make test/view.c build when mbrtowc()
6484 is unavailable, e.g., with HPUX 10.20.
6485 + add configure check for wcsrtombs, mbsrtowcs, which are used in
6486 test/ncurses.c, and use wcstombs, mbstowcs instead if available,
6487 fixing build of ncursew for HPUX 11.00
6490 + fixes to make Ada95 demo_panels() example work.
6491 + modify Ada95 'rain' test program to accept keyboard commands like the
6493 + modify BeOS-specific ifdef's to build on Haiku (patch by Scott
6495 + add configure-check to see if the std namespace is legal for cerr
6496 and endl, to fix a build issue with Tru64.
6497 + consistently use NCURSES_BOOL in lib_gen.c
6498 + filter #line's from lib_gen.c
6499 + change delimiter in MKlib_gen.sh from '%' to '@', to avoid
6500 substitution by IBM xlc to '#' as part of its extensions to digraphs.
6501 + update config.guess, config.sub from
6502 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
6503 (caveat - its maintainer removed support for older Linux systems).
6506 + modify configure check for pthread library to work with OSF/1 5.1,
6507 which uses #define's to associate its header and library.
6508 + use pthread_mutexattr_init() for initializing pthread_mutexattr_t,
6509 makes threaded code work on HPUX 11.23
6510 + fix a bug in demo_menus in freeing menus (cf: 20080804).
6511 + modify configure script for the case where tic library is used (and
6512 possibly renamed) to remove its dependency upon ncurses/ncursew
6513 library (patch by Dr Werner Fink).
6514 + correct manpage for menu_fore() which gave wrong default for
6515 the attribute used to display a selected entry (report by Mike Gran).
6516 + add Eterm-256color, Eterm-88color and rxvt-88color (prompted by
6520 + add configure option --enable-weak-symbols to turn on new feature.
6521 + add configure-check for availability of weak symbols.
6522 + modify linkage with pthread library to use weak symbols so that
6523 applications not linked to that library will not use the mutexes,
6524 etc. This relies on gcc, and may be platform-specific (patch by Dr
6526 + add note to INSTALL to document limitation of renaming of tic library
6527 using the --with-ticlib configure option (report by Dr Werner Fink).
6528 + document (in manpage) why tputs does not detect I/O errors (prompted
6529 by comments by Samuel Thibault).
6530 + fix remaining warnings from Klocwork report.
6533 + modify _nc_panelhook() data to account for a permanent memory leak.
6534 + fix memory leaks in test/demo_menus
6535 + fix most warnings from Klocwork tool (report by Larry Zhou).
6536 + modify configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to add case for
6537 "dragonfly" from xterm #236 changes.
6538 + modify configure script --with-hashed-db to let $LIBS override the
6539 search for the db library (prompted by report by Samson Pierre).
6542 + build-fixes for gcc 4.3.1 (changes to gnat "warnings", and C inlining
6546 + build-fix (reports by Christian Ebert, Funda Wang).
6549 + compiler-warning fixes for Solaris.
6552 + use NCURSES_MOUSE_MASK() in definition of BUTTON_RELEASE(), etc., to
6553 make those work properly with the "--enable-ext-mouse" configuration
6555 + improve documentation of build-cc options in INSTALL.
6556 + work-around a bug in gcc 4.2.4 on AIX, which does not pass the
6557 -static/-dynamic flags properly to linker, causing test/bs to
6561 + correct some ifdef's needed for the broken-linker configuration.
6562 + make debugging library's $BAUDRATE feature work for termcap
6564 + make $NCURSES_NO_PADDING feature work for termcap interface (prompted
6565 by comment on FreeBSD mailing list).
6566 + add screen.mlterm terminfo entry -TD
6567 + improve mlterm and mlterm+pcfkeys terminfo entries -TD
6570 + regenerated html documentation.
6571 + expand manpage description of parameters for form_driver() and
6572 menu_driver() (prompted by discussion with Adam Spragg).
6573 + add null-pointer checks for cur_term in baudrate() and
6574 def_shell_mode(), def_prog_mode()
6575 + fix some memory leaks in delscreen() and wide acs.
6578 + modify test/ditto.c to illustrate multi-threaded use_screen().
6579 + change CC_SHARED_OPTS from -KPIC to -xcode=pic32 for Solaris.
6580 + add "-shared" option to MK_SHARED_LIB for gcc on Solaris (report
6584 + finish changes to wgetch(), making it switch as needed to the
6585 window's actual screen when calling wrefresh() and wgetnstr(). That
6586 allows wgetch() to get used concurrently in different threads with
6587 some minor restrictions, e.g., the application should not delete a
6588 window which is being used in a wgetch().
6589 + simplify mutex's, combining the window- and screen-mutex's.
6592 + modify wgetch() to use the screen which corresponds to its window
6593 parameter rather than relying on SP; some dependent functions still
6595 + factor out most use of SP in lib_mouse.c, using parameter.
6596 + add internal _nc_keyname(), replacing keyname() to associate with a
6597 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
6598 + add internal _nc_unctrl(), replacing unctrl() to associate with a
6599 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
6600 + add internal _nc_tracemouse(), replacing _tracemouse() to eliminate
6601 its associated global buffer _nc_globals.tracemse_buf now in SCREEN.
6602 + add internal _nc_tracechar(), replacing _tracechar() to use SCREEN in
6603 preference to the global _nc_globals.tracechr_buf buffer.
6606 + modify _nc_keypad() to make it switch temporarily as needed to the
6607 screen which must be updated.
6608 + wrap cur_term variable to help make _nc_keymap() thread-safe, and
6609 always set the screen's copy of this variable in set_curterm().
6610 + restore curs_set() state after endwin()/refresh() (report/patch
6614 + modify configure script to note that --enable-ext-colors and
6615 --enable-ext-mouse are not experimental, but extensions from
6617 + corrected manpage description of setcchar() (discussion with
6618 Emanuele Giaquinta).
6619 + fix for adding a non-spacing character at the beginning of a line
6620 (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
6623 + modify screen.* terminfo entries using new screen+fkeys to fix
6624 overridden keys in screen.rxvt (Debian #478094) -TD
6625 + modify internal interfaces to reduce wgetch()'s dependency on the
6627 + simplify some loops with macros each_screen(), each_window() and
6631 + continue modifying test/ditto.c toward making it demonstrate
6632 multithreaded use_screen(), using fifos to pass data between screens.
6633 + fix typo in form.3x (report by Mike Gran).
6636 + add screen.rxvt terminfo entry -TD
6637 + modify tic -f option to format spaces as \s to prevent them from
6638 being lost when that is read back in unformatted strings.
6639 + improve test/ditto.c, using a "talk"-style layout.
6642 + change test/ditto.c to use openpty() and xterm.
6643 + add locks for copywin(), dupwin(), overlap(), overlay() on their
6645 + add locks for initscr() and newterm() on updates to the SCREEN
6647 + finish table in curs_thread.3x manpage.
6650 + begin table in curs_thread.3x manpage describing the scope of data
6651 used by each function (or symbol) for threading analysis.
6652 + add null-pointer checks to setsyx() and getsyx() (prompted by
6653 discussion by Martin v. Lowis and Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven on
6654 python-dev2 mailing list).
6657 + add null-pointer checks in set_term() and delscreen().
6658 + move _nc_windows into _nc_globals, since windows can be pads, which
6659 are not associated with a particular screen.
6660 + change use_screen() to pass the SCREEN* parameter rather than
6661 stdscr to the callback function.
6662 + force libtool to use tag for 'CC' in case it does not detect this,
6663 e.g., on aix when using CC=powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0-gcc
6664 (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
6665 + override OBJEXT to "lo" when building with libtool, to work on
6666 platforms such as AIX where libtool may use a different suffix for
6667 the object files than ".o" (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
6668 + add configure --with-pthread option, for building with the POSIX
6672 + fill in extended-color pair two more places in wbkgrndset() and
6673 waddch_nosync() (prompted by Sedeno's patch).
6674 + fill in extended-color pair in _nc_build_wch() to make colors work
6675 for wide-characters using extended-colors (patch by Alejandro R
6677 + add x/X toggles to ncurses.c C color test to test/demo
6678 wide-characters with extended-colors.
6679 + add a/A toggles to ncurses.c c/C color tests.
6680 + modify test/ditto.c to use use_screen().
6681 + finish modifying test/rain.c to demonstrate threads.
6684 + start modifying test/rain.c for threading demo.
6685 + modify test/ncurses.c to make 'f' test accept the f/F/b/F/</> toggles
6686 that the 'F' accepts.
6687 + modify test/worm.c to show trail in reverse-video when other threads
6688 are working concurrently.
6689 + fix a deadlock from improper nesting of mutexes for windowlist and
6693 + fixes from 20080223 resolved issue with mutexes; change to use
6694 recursive mutexes to fix memory leak in delwin() as called from
6695 _nc_free_and_exit().
6698 + fix a size-difference in _nc_globals which caused hanging of mutex
6699 lock/unlock when termlib was built separately.
6702 + avoid using nanosleep() in threaded configuration since that often
6703 is implemented to suspend the entire process.
6706 + update test programs to build/work with various UNIX curses for
6707 comparisons. This was to reinvestigate statement in X/Open Curses
6708 that insnstr and winsnstr perform wrapping. None of the Unix-branded
6709 implementations do this, as noted in manpage (cf: 20040228).
6712 + modify _nc_setupscreen() to set the legacy-coding value the same
6713 for both narrow/wide models. It had been set only for wide model,
6714 but is needed to make unctrl() work with locale in the narrow model.
6715 + improve waddch() and winsch() handling of EILSEQ from mbrtowc() by
6716 using unctrl() to display illegal bytes rather than trying to append
6717 further bytes to make up a valid sequence (reported by Andrey A
6719 + modify unctrl() to check codes in 128-255 range versus isprint().
6720 If they are not printable, and locale was set, use a "M-" or "~"
6724 + improve threading in test/worm.c (wrap refresh calls, and KEY_RESIZE
6725 handling). Now it hangs in napms(), no matter whether nanosleep()
6726 or poll() or select() are used on Linux.
6729 + fixes to build with --disable-ext-funcs
6730 + add manpage for use_window and use_screen.
6731 + add set_tabsize() and set_escdelay() functions.
6734 + remove recursive-mutex definitions, finish threading demo for worm.c
6735 + remove a redundant adjustment of lines in resizeterm.c's
6736 adjust_window() which caused occasional misadjustment of stdscr when
6740 + several improvements to terminfo entries based on xterm #230 -TD
6741 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle keyname/key_name prototypes, so the
6742 "link_test" builds properly.
6743 + fix for toe command-line options -u/-U to ensure filename is given.
6744 + fix allocation-size for command-line parsing in infocmp from 20070728
6745 (report by Miroslav Lichvar)
6746 + improve resizeterm() by moving ripped-off lines, and repainting the
6747 soft-keys (report by Katarina Machalkova)
6748 + add clarification in wclear's manpage noting that the screen will be
6749 cleared even if a subwindow is cleared (prompted by Christer Enfors
6751 + change test/ncurses.c soft-key tests to work with KEY_RESIZE.
6754 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
6758 + add several functions to C++ binding which wrap C functions that
6759 pass a WINDOW* parameter (request by Chris Lee).
6762 + add note about configure options needed for Berkeley database to the
6764 + improve checks for version of Berkeley database libraries.
6765 + amend fix for rpath to not modify LDFLAGS if the platform has no
6766 applicable transformation (report by Christian Ebert, cf: 20071124).
6769 + modify configure option --with-hashed-db to accept a parameter which
6770 is the install-prefix of a given Berkeley Database (prompted by
6771 pierre4d2 comments).
6772 + rewrite wrapper for wcrtomb(), making it work on Solaris. This is
6773 used in the form library to determine the length of the buffer needed
6774 by field_buffer (report by Alfred Fung).
6775 + remove unneeded window-parameter from C++ binding for wresize (report
6779 + modify the support for filesystems which do not support mixed-case to
6780 generate 2-character (hexadecimal) codes for the lower-level of the
6781 filesystem terminfo database (request by Michail Vidiassov).
6782 + add configure option --enable-mixed-case, to allow overriding the
6783 configure script's check if the filesystem supports mixed-case
6785 + add wresize() to C++ binding (request by Chris Lee).
6786 + define NCURSES_EXT_FUNCS and NCURSES_EXT_COLORS in curses.h to make
6787 it simpler to tell if the extended functions and/or colors are
6791 + update memory-leak checks for changes to names.c and codes.c
6792 + correct acsc strings in h19, z100 (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler).
6795 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
6797 + add mrxvt terminfo entry, add/fix xterm building blocks for modified
6799 + compile with FreeBSD "contemporary" TTY interface (patch by
6803 + modify makefile rules to allow clear, tput and tset to be built
6804 without libtic. The other programs (infocmp, tic and toe) rely on
6806 + add/modify null-pointer checks in several functions for SP and/or
6807 the WINDOW* parameter (report by Thorben Krueger).
6808 + fixes for field_buffer() in formw library (see Redhat #310071,
6809 patches by Miroslav Lichvar).
6810 + improve performance of NCURSES_CHAR_EQ code (patch by Miroslav
6812 + update/improve mlterm and rxvt terminfo entries, e.g., for
6813 the modified cursor- and keypad-keys -TD
6816 + add code to curses.priv.h ifdef'd with NCURSES_CHAR_EQ, which
6817 changes the CharEq() macro to an inline function to allow comparing
6818 cchar_t struct's without comparing gaps in a possibly unpacked
6819 memory layout (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
6822 + add new functions to lib_trace.c to setup mutex's for the _tracef()
6823 calls within the ncurses library.
6824 + for the reentrant model, move _nc_tputs_trace and _nc_outchars into
6826 + start modifying test/worm.c to provide threading demo (incomplete).
6827 + separated ifdef's for some BSD-related symbols in tset.c, to make
6828 it compile on LynxOS (report by Greg Gemmer).
6830 + modify Ada95/gen/Makefile to use shlib script, to simplify building
6831 shared-library configuration on platforms lacking rpath support.
6832 + build-fix for Ada95/src/Makefile to reflect changed dependency for
6833 the terminal-interface-curses-aux.adb file which is now generated.
6834 + restructuring test/worm.c, for use_window() example.
6837 + add use_window() and use_screen() functions, to develop into support
6838 for threaded library (incomplete).
6839 + fix typos in man/curs_opaque.3x which kept the install script from
6840 creating symbolic links to two aliases created in 20070818 (report by
6844 + remove a spurious newline from output of html.m4, which caused links
6845 for Ada95 html to be incorrect for the files generated using m4.
6846 + start investigating mutex's for SCREEN manipulation (incomplete).
6847 + minor cleanup of codes.c/names.c for --enable-const
6848 + expand/revise "Routine and Argument Names" section of ncurses manpage
6849 to address report by David Givens in newsgroup discussion.
6850 + fix interaction between --without-progs/--with-termcap configure
6851 options (report by Michail Vidiassov).
6852 + fix typo in "--disable-relink" option (report by Michail Vidiassov).
6855 + fix a sign-extension bug in infocmp's repair_acsc() function
6857 + fix old configure script bug which prevented "--disable-warnings"
6858 option from working (patch by Mike Frysinger).
6861 + add 9term terminal description (request by Juhapekka Tolvanen) -TD
6862 + modify comp_hash.c's string output to avoid misinterpreting a null
6863 "\0" followed by a digit.
6864 + modify MKnames.awk and MKcodes.awk to support big-strings.
6865 This only applies to the cases (broken linker, reentrant) where
6866 the corresponding arrays are accessed via wrapper functions.
6867 + split MKnames.awk into two scripts, eliminating the shell redirection
6868 which complicated the make process and also the bogus timestamp file
6869 which was introduced to fix "make -j".
6870 + add test/test_opaque.c, test/test_arrays.c
6871 + add wgetscrreg() and wgetparent() for applications that may need it
6872 when NCURSES_OPAQUE is defined (prompted by Bryan Christ).
6875 + amend treatment of infocmp "-r" option to retain the 1023-byte limit
6876 unless "-T" is given (cf: 981017).
6877 + modify comp_captab.c generation to use big-strings.
6878 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private accessed via
6879 _nc_get_alias_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
6881 + modify configure script to skip Intel compiler in CF_C_INLINE.
6882 + make _nc_info_hash_table and _nc_cap_hash_table private accessed via
6883 _nc_get_hash_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
6887 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private, accessed via
6888 _nc_get_alias_table() since they are used only by parse_entry.c
6889 + make _nc_key_names private since it is used only by lib_keyname.c
6890 + add --disable-big-strings configure option to control whether
6891 unctrl.c is generated using the big-string optimization - which may
6892 use strings longer than supported by a given compiler.
6893 + reduce relocation tables for tic, infocmp by changing type of
6894 internal hash tables to short, and make those private symbols.
6895 + eliminate large fixed arrays from progs/infocmp.c
6898 + change winnstr() to stop at the end of the line (cf: 970315).
6899 + add test/test_get_wstr.c
6900 + add test/test_getstr.c
6901 + add test/test_inwstr.c
6902 + add test/test_instr.c
6905 + restore a call to obtain screen-size in _nc_setupterm(), which
6906 is used in tput and other non-screen applications via setupterm()
6907 (Debian #433357, reported by Florent Bayle, Christian Ohm,
6911 + add test/savescreen.c test-program
6912 + add check to trace-file open, if the given name is a directory, add
6913 ".log" to the name and try again.
6914 + add konsole-256color entry -TD
6915 + add extra gcc warning options from xterm.
6916 + minor fixes for ncurses/hashmap test-program.
6917 + modify configure script to quiet c++ build with libtool when the
6918 --disable-echo option is used.
6919 + modify configure script to disable ada95 if libtool is selected,
6920 writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD #114493).
6921 + update config.guess, config.sub
6924 + add continuous-move "M" to demo_panels to help test refresh changes.
6925 + improve fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters,
6926 taking into account some split characters on left/right window
6930 + add "widec" row to _tracedump() output to help diagnose remaining
6931 problems with multi-column characters.
6932 + partial fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters
6933 which are partly overwritten (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
6934 + ignore A_CHARTEXT bits in vidattr() and vid_attr(), in case
6935 multi-column extension bits are passed there.
6936 + add setlocale() call to demo_panels.c, needed for wide-characters.
6937 + add some output flags to _nc_trace_ttymode to help diagnose a bug
6938 report by Larry Virden, i.e., ONLCR, OCRNL, ONOCR and ONLRET,
6941 + add test/demo_panels.c
6942 + implement opaque version of setsyx() and getsyx().
6945 + corrected xterm+pcf2 terminfo modifiers for F1-F4, to match xterm
6947 + split-out key_name() from MKkeyname.awk since it now depends upon
6948 wunctrl() which is not in libtinfo (report by Rong-En Fan).
6951 + add test/key_name.c
6952 + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test/inch_wide.c
6953 + update test/configure
6954 + correct formatting of DEL (0x7f) in _nc_vischar().
6955 + null-terminate result of wunctrl().
6956 + add null-pointer check in key_name() (report by Andreas Krennmair,
6960 + adapt mouse-handling code from menu library in form-library
6961 (discussion with Clive Nicolson).
6962 + add a modification of test/dots.c, i.e., test/dots_mvcur.c to
6963 illustrate how to use mvcur().
6964 + modify wide-character flavor of SetAttr() to preserve the
6965 WidecExt() value stored in the .attr field, e.g., in case it
6966 is overwritten by chgat (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
6967 + correct buffer-size for _nc_viswbuf2n() (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
6968 + build-fixes for Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 (patch by Peter O'Gorman).
6971 + modify keyname() to use "^X" form only if meta() has been called, or
6972 if keyname() is called without initializing curses, e.g., via
6973 initscr() or newterm() (prompted by LinuxBase #1604).
6974 + document some portability issues in man/curs_util.3x
6975 + add a shadow copy of TTY buffer to _nc_prescreen to fix applications
6976 broken by moving that data into SCREEN (cf: 20061230).
6979 + add 'O' (wide-character panel test) in ncurses.c to demonstrate a
6980 problem reported by Sadrul H Chowdhury with repainting parts of
6982 + modify slk_init() so that if there are preceding calls to
6983 ripoffline(), those affect the available lines for soft-keys (adapted
6984 from patch by Clive Nicolson).
6985 + document some portability issues in man/curs_getyx.3x
6988 + fix a bug in Ada95/samples/ncurses which caused a variable to
6989 become uninitialized in the "b" test.
6990 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in adahtml rule to account for recent
6991 movement of files, fix a few incorrect manpage references in the
6993 + add Ada95 binding to _nc_freeall() as Curses_Free_All to help with
6995 + correct some functions in Ada95 binding which were using return value
6996 from C where none was returned: idcok(), immedok() and wtimeout().
6997 + amend recent changes for Ada95 binding to make it build with
6998 Cygwin's linker, e.g., with configure options
6999 --enable-broken-linker --with-ticlib
7002 + add a configure check for gcc's options for inlining, use that to
7003 quiet a warning message where gcc's default behavior changed from
7005 + improve warning message when checking if GPM is linked to curses
7006 library by not warning if its use of "wgetch" is via a weak symbol.
7007 + add loader options when building with static libraries to ensure that
7008 an installed shared library for ncurses does not conflict. This is
7009 reported as problem with Tru64, but could affect other platforms
7010 (report Martin Mokrejs, analysis by Tim Mooney).
7011 + fix build on cygwin after recent ticlib/termlib changes, i.e.,
7012 + adjust TINFO_SUFFIX value to work with cygwin's dll naming
7013 + revert a change from 20070303 which commented out dependency of
7014 SHLIB_LIST in form/menu/panel/c++ libraries.
7015 + fix initialization of ripoff stack pointer (cf: 20070421).
7018 + move most static variables into structures _nc_globals and
7019 _nc_prescreen, to simplify storage.
7020 + add/use configure script macro CF_SIG_ATOMIC_T, use the corresponding
7021 type for data manipulated by signal handlers (prompted by comments
7022 in mailing.openbsd.bugs newsgroup).
7023 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to allow one to pass options such as -static
7024 to the libtool create- and link-operations.
7027 + fix whitespace in curs_opaque.3x which caused a spurious ';' in
7028 the installed aliases (report by Peter Santoro).
7029 + fix configure script to not try to generate adacurses-config when
7030 Ada95 tree is not built.
7033 + add man/curs_legacy.3x, man/curs_opaque.3x
7034 + fix acs_map binding for Ada95 when --enable-reentrant is used.
7035 + add adacurses-config to the Ada95 install, based on version from
7036 FreeBSD port, in turn by Juergen Pfeifer in 2000 (prompted by
7037 comment on comp.lang.ada newsgroup).
7038 + fix includes in c++ binding to build with Intel compiler
7040 + update install rule in Ada95 to use mkdirs.sh
7041 > other fixes prompted by inspection for Coverity report:
7042 + modify ifdef's for c++ binding to use try/catch/throw statements
7043 + add a null-pointer check in tack/ansi.c request_cfss()
7044 + fix a memory leak in ncurses/base/wresize.c
7045 + corrected check for valid memu/meml capabilities in
7046 progs/dump_entry.c when handling V_HPUX case.
7047 > fixes based on Coverity report:
7048 + remove dead code in test/bs.c
7049 + remove dead code in test/demo_defkey.c
7050 + remove an unused assignment in progs/infocmp.c
7051 + fix a limit check in tack/ansi.c tools_charset()
7052 + fix tack/ansi.c tools_status() to perform the VT320/VT420
7053 tests in request_cfss(). The function had exited too soon.
7054 + fix a memory leak in tic.c's make_namelist()
7055 + fix a couple of places in tack/output.c which did not check for EOF.
7056 + fix a loop-condition in test/bs.c
7057 + add index checks in lib_color.c for color palettes
7058 + add index checks in progs/dump_entry.c for version_filter() handling
7060 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in copywin()
7061 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in waddchnstr()
7062 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
7063 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c's make_namelist()
7064 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
7065 + add null-pointer checks in test/cardfile.c
7066 + fix a double-free in ncurses/tinfo/trim_sgr0.c
7067 + fix a double-free in ncurses/base/wresize.c
7068 + add try/catch block to c++/cursesmain.cc
7071 + modify Ada95 binding to build with --enable-reentrant by wrapping
7072 global variables (bug: acs_map does not yet work).
7073 + modify Ada95 binding to use the new access-functions, allowing it
7074 to build/run when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
7075 + add access-functions and macros to return properties of the WINDOW
7076 structure, e.g., when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
7077 + improved install-sh's quoting.
7078 + use mkdirs.sh rather than mkinstalldirs, e.g., to use fixes from
7082 + eliminate part of the direct use of WINDOW data from Ada95 interface.
7083 + fix substitutions for termlib filename to make configure option
7084 --enable-reentrant work with --with-termlib.
7085 + change a constructor for NCursesWindow to allow compiling with
7086 NCURSES_OPAQUE set, since we cannot pass a reference to
7090 + ignore --with-chtype=unsigned since unsigned is always added to
7091 the type in curses.h; do the same for --with-mmask-t.
7092 + change warning regarding --enable-ext-colors and wide-character
7093 in the configure script to an error.
7094 + tweak error message in CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to distinguish other programs
7095 such as Darwin's libtool program (report by Michail Vidiassov)
7096 + modify edit_man.sh to allow for multiple substitutions per line.
7097 + set locale in misc/ncurses-config.in since it uses a range
7098 + change permissions libncurses++.a install (report by Michail
7100 + corrected length of temporary buffer in wide-character version
7101 of set_field_buffer() (related to report by Bryan Christ).
7104 + fix mk-1st.awk script install_shlib() function, broken in 20070224
7105 changes for cygwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
7108 + increase size of array in _nc_visbuf2n() to make "tic -v" work
7109 properly in its similar_sgr() function (report/analysis by Peter
7111 + add --enable-reentrant configure option for ongoing changes to
7112 implement a reentrant version of ncurses:
7113 + libraries are suffixed with "t"
7114 + wrap several global variables (curscr, newscr, stdscr, ttytype,
7115 COLORS, COLOR_PAIRS, COLS, ESCDELAY, LINES and TABSIZE) as
7116 functions returning values stored in SCREEN or cur_term.
7117 + move some initialization (LINES, COLS) from lib_setup.c,
7118 i.e., setupterm() to _nc_setupscreen(), i.e., newterm().
7121 + regenerated html documentation.
7122 + add NCURSES_OPAQUE symbol to curses.h, will use to make structs
7123 opaque in selected configurations.
7124 + move the chunk in lib_acs.c which resets acs capabilities when
7125 running on a terminal whose locale interferes with those into
7126 _nc_setupscreen(), so the libtinfo/libtinfow files can be made
7127 identical (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
7128 + do not use configure variable SHLIB_LIBS for building libraries
7129 outside the ncurses directory, since that symbol is customized
7130 only for that directory, and using it introduces an unneeded
7131 dependency on libdl (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
7132 + modify mk-1st.awk so the generated makefile rules for linking or
7133 installing shared libraries do not first remove the library, in
7134 case it is in use, e.g., libncurses.so by /bin/sh (report by Jeff
7136 + revised section "Using NCURSES under XTERM" in ncurses-intro.html
7137 (prompted by newsgroup comment by Nick Guenther).
7140 + change internal return codes of _nc_wgetch() to check for cases
7141 where KEY_CODE_YES should be returned, e.g., if a KEY_RESIZE was
7142 ungetch'd, and read by wget_wch().
7143 + fix static-library build broken in 20070217 changes to remove "-ldl"
7144 (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
7145 + change makefile/scripts for cygwin to allow building termlib.
7146 + use Form_Hook in manpages to match form.h
7147 + use Menu_Hook in manpages, as well as a few places in menu.h
7148 + correct form- and menu-manpages to use specific Field_Options,
7149 Menu_Options and Item_Options types.
7150 + correct prototype for _tracechar() in manpage (cf: 20011229).
7151 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
7154 + fixes for $(TICS_LIST) in ncurses/Makefile (report by Miroslav
7156 + modify relinking of shared libraries to apply only when rpath is
7157 enabled, and add --disable-relink option which can be used to
7158 disable the feature altogether (reports by Michail Vidiassov,
7160 + fix --with-termlib option for wide-character configuration, stripping
7161 the "w" suffix in one place (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
7162 + remove "-ldl" from some library lists to reduce dependencies in
7163 programs (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
7164 + correct description of --enable-signed-char in configure --help
7165 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
7166 + add pattern for GNU/kFreeBSD configuration to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE,
7167 which matches an earlier change to CF_SHARED_OPTS, from xterm #224
7169 + remove "${DESTDIR}" from -install_name option used for linking
7170 shared libraries on Darwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
7173 + add test/inchs.c, test/inch_wide.c, to test win_wchnstr().
7174 + remove libdl from library list for termlib (report by Miroslav
7176 + fix configure.in to allow --without-progs --with-termlib (patch by
7178 + modify win_wchnstr() to ensure that only a base cell is returned
7179 for each multi-column character (prompted by report by Wei Kong
7180 regarding change in mvwin_wch() cf: 20041023).
7183 + modify fix_wchnstr() in form library to strip attributes (and color)
7184 from the cchar_t array (field cells) read from a field's window.
7185 Otherwise, when copying the field cells back to the window, the
7186 associated color overrides the field's background color (report by
7188 + improve tracing for form library, showing created forms, fields, etc.
7189 + ignore --enable-rpath configure option if --with-shared was omitted.
7190 + add _nc_leaks_tinfo(), _nc_free_tic(), _nc_free_tinfo() entrypoints
7191 to allow leak-checking when both tic- and tinfo-libraries are built.
7192 + drop CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC macro from configure script, since C++ binding
7193 no longer relies on it.
7194 + disallow combining configure script options --with-ticlib and
7195 --enable-termcap (report by Rong-En Fan).
7196 + remove tack from ncurses tree.
7199 + fix typo in configure script that broke --with-termlib option
7200 (report by Rong-En Fan).
7203 + improve fix for FreeBSD gnu/98975, to allow for null pointer passed
7204 to tgetent() (report by Rong-en Fan).
7205 + update tack/HISTORY and tack/README to tell how to build it after
7206 it is removed from the ncurses tree.
7207 + fix configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
7208 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
7209 + review/eliminate other original-file artifacts in cursesw.cc, making
7210 its license consistent with ncurses.
7211 + use ncurses vw_scanw() rather than reading into a fixed buffer in
7212 the c++ binding for scanw() methods (prompted by report by Nuno Dias).
7213 + eliminate fixed-buffer vsprintf() calls in c++ binding.
7216 + add _nc_leaks_tic() to separate leak-checking of tic library from
7217 term/ncurses libraries, and thereby eliminate a library dependency.
7218 + fix test/mk-test.awk to ignore blank lines.
7219 + correct paths in include/headers, for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav
7223 + add a break-statement in misc/shlib to ensure that it exits on the
7224 _first_ matched directory (report by Paul Novak).
7225 + add tack/configure, which can be used to build tack outside the
7227 + add --with-ticlib option, to build/install the tic-support functions
7228 in a separate library (suggested by Miroslav Lichvar).
7231 + change MKunctrl.awk to reduce relocation table for unctrl.o
7232 + change MKkeyname.awk to reduce relocation table for keyname.o
7233 (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
7236 + modify configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
7237 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
7238 + modify some modules to allow them to be reentrant if _REENTRANT is
7239 defined: lib_baudrate.c, resizeterm.c (local data only)
7240 + eliminate static data from some modules: add_tries.c, hardscroll.c,
7241 lib_ttyflags.c, lib_twait.c
7242 + improve manpage install to add aliases for the transformed program
7243 names, e.g., from --program-prefix.
7244 + used linklint to verify links in the HTML documentation, made fixes
7245 to manpages as needed.
7246 + fix a typo in curs_mouse.3x (report by William McBrine).
7247 + fix install-rule for ncurses5-config to make the bin-directory.
7250 + modify configure script to omit the tic (terminfo compiler) support
7251 from ncurses library if --without-progs option is given.
7252 + modify install rule for ncurses5-config to do this via "install.libs"
7253 + modify shared-library rules to allow FreeBSD 3.x to use rpath.
7254 + update config.guess, config.sub
7256 20061217 5.6 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
7259 + add ifdef's for <wctype.h> for HPUX, which has the corresponding
7260 definitions in <wchar.h>.
7261 + revert the va_copy() change from 20061202, since it was neither
7262 correct nor portable.
7263 + add $(LOCAL_LIBS) definition to progs/Makefile.in, needed for
7265 + ignore wide-acs line-drawing characters that wcwidth() claims are
7266 not one-column. This is a workaround for Solaris' broken locale
7270 + modify configure --with-gpm option to allow it to accept a parameter,
7271 i.e., the name of the dynamic GPM library to load via dlopen()
7272 (requested by Bryan Henderson).
7273 + add configure option --with-valgrind, changes from vile.
7274 + modify configure script AC_TRY_RUN and AC_TRY_LINK checks to use
7275 'return' in preference to 'exit()'.
7278 + change default for --with-develop back to "no".
7279 + add XTABS to tracing of TTY bits.
7280 + updated autoconf patch to ifdef-out the misfeature which declares
7281 exit() for configure tests. This fixes a redefinition warning on
7283 + use ${CC} rather than ${LD} in shared library rules for IRIX64,
7284 Solaris to help ensure that initialization sections are provided for
7285 extra linkage requirements, e.g., of C++ applications (prompted by
7286 comment by Casper Dik in newsgroup).
7287 + rename "$target" in CF_MAN_PAGES to make it easier to distinguish
7288 from the autoconf predefined symbol. There was no conflict,
7289 since "$target" was used only in the generated edit_man.sh file,
7290 but SuSE's rpm package contains a patch.
7293 + update man/term.5 to reflect extended terminfo support and hashed
7294 database configuration.
7295 + updates for test/configure script.
7296 + adapted from SuSE rpm package:
7297 + remove long-obsolete workaround for broken-linker which declared
7299 + improve error recovery in PUTC() macro when wcrtomb() does not
7300 return usable results for an 8-bit character.
7301 + patches from rpm package (SuSE):
7302 + use va_copy() in extra varargs manipulation for tracing version
7304 + use a va_list rather than a null in _nc_freeall()'s call to
7305 _nc_printf_string().
7306 + add some see-also references in manpages to show related
7307 wide-character functions (suggested by Claus Fischer).
7310 + add a check in lib_color.c to ensure caller does not increase COLORS
7311 above max_colors, which is used as an array index (discussion with
7313 + add ifdef's allowing ncurses to be built with tparm() using either
7314 varargs (the existing status), or using a fixed-parameter list (to
7318 + fix redrawing of windows other than stdscr using wredrawln() by
7319 touching the corresponding rows in curscr (discussion with Dan
7322 + add test/echochar.c
7323 + review/cleanup manpage descriptions of error-returns for form- and
7324 menu-libraries (prompted by FreeBSD docs/46196).
7327 + add AUTHORS file -TD
7328 + omit the -D options from output of the new config script --cflags
7329 option (suggested by Ralf S Engelschall).
7330 + make NCURSES_INLINE unconditionally defined in curses.h
7333 + revert change to accommodate bash 3.2, since that breaks other
7334 platforms, e.g., Solaris.
7335 + minor fixes to NEWS file to simplify scripting to obtain list of
7337 + improve some shared-library configure scripting for Linux, FreeBSD
7338 and NetBSD to make "--with-shlib-version" work.
7339 + change configure-script rules for FreeBSD shared libraries to allow
7340 for rpath support in versions past 3.
7341 + use $(DESTDIR) in makefile rules for installing/uninstalling the
7342 package config script (reports/patches by Christian Wiese,
7343 Ralf S Engelschall).
7344 + fix a warning in the configure script for NetBSD 2.0, working around
7345 spurious blanks embedded in its ${MAKEFLAGS} symbol.
7346 + change test/Makefile to simplify installing test programs in a
7347 different directory when --enable-rpath is used.
7350 + work around bug in bash 3.2 by adding extra quotes (Jim Gifford).
7351 + add/install a package config script, e.g., "ncurses5-config" or
7352 "ncursesw5-config", according to configuration options.
7355 + add several GNU Screen terminfo variations with 16- and 256-colors,
7356 and status line (Alain Bench).
7357 + change the way shared libraries (other than libtool) are installed.
7358 Rather than copying the build-tree's libraries, link the shared
7359 objects into the install directory. This makes the --with-rpath
7360 option work except with $(DESTDIR) (cf: 20000930).
7363 + fix ifdef in c++/internal.h for QNX 6.1
7364 + test-compiled with (old) egcs-1.1.2, modified configure script to
7365 not unset the $CXX and related variables which would prevent this.
7366 + fix a few terminfo.src typos exposed by improvements to "-f" option.
7367 + improve infocmp/tic "-f" option formatting.
7370 + make --disable-largefile option work (report by Thomas M Ott).
7371 + updated html documentation.
7372 + add ka2, kb1, kb3, kc2 to vt220-keypad as an extension -TD
7373 + minor improvements to rxvt+pcfkeys -TD
7376 + move static data from lib_mouse.c into SCREEN struct.
7377 + improve ifdef's for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset to work with Mac OS X
7378 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
7379 + modify CF_PATH_SYNTAX to ensure it uses the result from --prefix
7380 option (from lynx changes) -TD
7381 + adapt AC_PROG_EGREP check, noting that this is likely to be another
7382 place aggravated by POSIXLY_CORRECT.
7383 + modify configure check for awk to ensure that it is found (prompted
7384 by report by Christopher Parker).
7388 + add kon, kon2 and jfbterm terminfo entry (request by Till Maas) -TD
7389 + remove invis capability from klone+sgr, mainly used by linux entry,
7390 since it does not really do this -TD
7393 + correct logic in wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not guard
7394 against passing the multi-column attribute into a call on waddch(),
7395 e.g., using data returned by win_wch() (cf: 20041023)
7396 (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
7399 + fix kterm's acsc string -TD
7400 + fix for change to tic/infocmp in 20060819 to ensure no blank is
7401 embedded into a termcap description.
7402 + workaround for 20050806 ifdef's change to allow visbuf.c to compile
7403 when using --with-termlib --with-trace options.
7404 + improve tgetstr() by making the return value point into the user's
7405 buffer, if provided (patch by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat #202480)).
7406 + correct libraries needed for foldkeys (report by Stanislav Ievlev)
7409 + add terminfo entries for xfce terminal (xfce) and multi gnome
7411 + add test/foldkeys.c
7414 + modify tic and infocmp to avoid writing trailing blanks on terminfo
7415 source output (Debian #378783).
7416 + modify configure script to ensure that if the C compiler is used
7417 rather than the loader in making shared libraries, the $(CFLAGS)
7418 variable is also used (Redhat #199369).
7419 + port hashed-db code to db2 and db3.
7420 + fix a bug in tgetent() from 20060625 and 20060715 changes
7421 (patch/analysis by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat #202480)).
7424 + updated xterm function-keys terminfo to match xterm #216 -TD
7425 + add configure --with-hashed-db option (tested only with FreeBSD 6.0,
7426 e.g., the db 1.8.5 interface).
7429 + modify toe to access termcap data, e.g., via cgetent() functions,
7430 or as a text file if those are not available.
7431 + use _nc_basename() in tset to improve $SHELL check for csh/sh.
7432 + modify _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_termcap_entry() so infocmp,
7433 can access termcap data when the terminfo database is disabled.
7436 + widen the test for xterm kmous a little to allow for other strings
7437 than \E[M, e.g., for xterm-sco functionality in xterm.
7438 + update xterm-related terminfo entries to match xterm patch #216 -TD
7439 + update config.guess, config.sub
7442 + fix for install-rule in Ada95 to add terminal_interface.ads
7443 and terminal_interface.ali (anonymous posting in comp.lang.ada).
7444 + correction to manpage for getcchar() (report by William McBrine).
7446 + modify wchgat() to mark updated cells as changed so a refresh will
7447 repaint those cells (comments by Sadrul H Chowdhury and William
7449 + split up dependency of names.c and codes.c in ncurses/Makefile to
7450 work with parallel make (report/analysis by Joseph S Myers).
7451 + suppress a warning message (which is ignored) for systems without
7452 an ldconfig program (patch by Justin Hibbits).
7453 + modify configure script --disable-symlinks option to allow one to
7454 disable symlink() in tic even when link() does not work (report by
7456 + modify MKfallback.sh to use tic -x when constructing fallback tables
7457 to allow extended capabilities to be retrieved from a fallback entry.
7458 + improve leak-checking logic in tgetent() from 20060625 to ensure that
7459 it does not free the current screen (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
7462 + add a check for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset (NetBSD #33916).
7463 + correct _nc_free_entries() and related functions used for memory leak
7467 + revert a minor change for magic-cookie support from 20060513, which
7468 caused unexpected reset of attributes, e.g., when resizing test/view
7470 + note in clear manpage that the program ignores command-line
7471 parameters (prompted by Debian #371855).
7472 + fixes to make lib_gen.c build properly with changes to the configure
7473 --disable-macros option and NCURSES_NOMACROS (cf: 20060527)
7474 + update/correct several terminfo entries -TD
7475 + add some notes regarding copyright to terminfo.src -TD
7478 + fixes to build Ada95 binding with gnat-4.1.0
7479 + modify read_termtype() so the term_names data is always allocated as
7480 part of the str_table, a better fix for a memory leak (cf: 20030809).
7481 + reduce memory leaks in repeated calls to tgetent() by remembering the
7482 last TERMINAL* value allocated to hold the corresponding data and
7483 freeing that if the tgetent() result buffer is the same as the
7484 previous call (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
7485 + modify tack to test extended capability function-key strings.
7486 + improved gnome terminfo entry (GenToo #122566).
7487 + improved xterm-256color terminfo entry (patch by Alain Bench).
7490 + fix two small memory leaks related to repeated tgetent() calls
7491 with TERM=screen (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
7492 + add --enable-signed-char to simplify Debian package.
7493 + reduce name-pollution in term.h by removing #define's for HAVE_xxx
7495 + correct typo in curs_terminfo.3x (Debian #369168).
7498 + enable the mouse in test/movewindow.c
7499 + improve a limit-check in frm_def.c (John Heasley).
7500 + minor copyright fixes.
7501 + change configure script to produce test/Makefile from data file.
7504 + add a configure option --enable-wgetch-events to enable
7505 NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS, and correct the associated loop-logic in
7506 lib_twait.c (report by Bernd Jendrissek).
7507 + remove include/nomacros.h from build, since the ifdef for
7508 NCURSES_NOMACROS makes that obsolete.
7509 + add entrypoints for some functions which were only provided as macros
7510 to make NCURSES_NOMACROS ifdef work properly: getcurx(), getcury(),
7511 getbegx(), getbegy(), getmaxx(), getmaxy(), getparx() and getpary(),
7513 + provide ifdef for NCURSES_NOMACROS which suppresses most macro
7514 definitions from curses.h, i.e., where a macro is defined to override
7515 a function to improve performance. Allowing a developer to suppress
7516 these definitions can simplify some application (discussion with
7518 + improve description of memu/meml in terminfo manpage.
7521 + if msgr is false, reset video attributes when doing an automargin
7522 wrap to the next line. This makes the ncurses 'k' test work properly
7524 + correct caching of keyname(), which was using only half of its table.
7525 + minor fixes to memory-leak checking.
7526 + make SCREEN._acs_map and SCREEN._screen_acs_map pointers rather than
7527 arrays, making ACS_LEN less visible to applications (suggested by
7529 + move chunk in SCREEN ifdef'd for USE_WIDEC_SUPPORT to the end, so
7530 _screen_acs_map will have the same offset in both ncurses/ncursesw,
7531 making the corresponding tinfo/tinfow libraries binary-compatible
7532 (cf: 20041016, report by Stanislav Ievlev).
7535 + improve debug-tracing for EmitRange().
7536 + change default for --with-develop to "yes". Add NCURSES_NO_HARD_TABS
7537 and NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE environment variables to allow runtime
7538 suppression of the related hard-tabs and xmc-glitch features.
7539 + add ncurses version number to top-level manpages, e.g., ncurses, tic,
7540 infocmp, terminfo as well as form, menu, panel.
7541 + update config.guess, config.sub
7542 + modify ncurses.c to work around a bug in NetBSD 3.0 curses
7543 (field_buffer returning null for a valid field). The 'r' test
7544 appears to not work with that configuration since the new_fieldtype()
7545 function is broken in that implementation.
7548 + add hpterm-color terminfo entry -TD
7549 + fixes to compile test-programs with HPUX 11.23
7552 + add copyright notices to files other than those that are generated,
7553 data or adapted from pdcurses (reports by William McBrine, David
7555 + improve rendering on hpterm by not resetting attributes at the end
7556 of doupdate() if the terminal has the magic-cookie feature (report
7558 + add 256color variants of terminfo entries for programs which are
7559 reported to implement this feature -TD
7562 + fix typo in change to NewChar() macro from 20060311 changes, which
7563 broke tab-expansion (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
7566 + document -U option of tic and infocmp.
7567 + modify tic/infocmp to suppress smacs/rmacs when acsc is suppressed
7568 due to size limit, e.g., converting to termcap format. Also
7569 suppress them if the output format does not contain acsc and it
7570 was not VT100-like, i.e., a one-one mapping (Novell #163715).
7571 + add configure check to ensure that SIGWINCH is defined on platforms
7572 such as OS X which exclude that when _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., are
7573 defined (report by Nicholas Cole)
7576 + modify write_object() to not write coincidental extensions of an
7577 entry made due to it being referenced in a use= clause (report by
7579 + another fix for infocmp -i option, which did not ensure that some
7580 escape sequences had comparable prefixes (report by Alain Bench).
7583 + improve discussion of init/reset in terminfo and tput manpages
7584 (report by Alain Bench).
7585 + use is3 string for a fallback of rs3 in the reset program; it was
7586 using is2 (report by Alain Bench).
7587 + correct logic for infocmp -i option, which did not account for
7588 multiple digits in a parameter (cf: 20040828) (report by Alain
7590 + move _nc_handle_sigwinch() to lib_setup.c to make --with-termlib
7591 option work after 20060114 changes (report by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz).
7592 + add copyright notices to test-programs as needed (report by William
7596 + modify ncurses.c 'F' test to combine the wide-characters with color
7597 and/or video attributes.
7598 + modify test/ncurses to use CTL/Q or ESC consistently for exiting
7599 a test-screen (some commands used 'x' or 'q').
7602 + fix an off-by-one in the scrolling-region change (cf_ 20060311).
7605 + add checks in waddchnstr() and wadd_wchnstr() to stop copying when
7606 a null character is found (report by Igor Bogomazov).
7607 + modify progs/Makefile.in to make "tput init" work properly with
7608 cygwin, i.e., do not pass a ".exe" in the reference string used
7609 in check_aliases (report by Samuel Thibault).
7610 + add some checks to ensure current position is within scrolling
7611 region before scrolling on a new line (report by Dan Gookin).
7612 + change some NewChar() usage to static variables to work around
7613 stack garbage introduced when cchar_t is not packed (Redhat #182024).
7616 + workarounds to build test/movewindow with PDcurses 2.7.
7617 + fix for nsterm-16color entry (patch by Alain Bench).
7618 + correct a typo in infocmp manpage (Debian #354281).
7621 + add nsterm-16color entry -TD
7622 + updated mlterm terminfo entry -TD
7623 + remove 970913 feature for copying subwindows as they are moved in
7624 mvwin() (discussion with Bryan Christ).
7625 + modify test/demo_menus.c to demonstrate moving a menu (both the
7626 window and subwindow) using shifted cursor-keys.
7627 + start implementing recursive mvwin() in movewindow.c (incomplete).
7628 + add a fallback definition for GCC_PRINTFLIKE() in test.priv.h,
7629 for movewindow.c (report by William McBrine).
7630 + add help-message to test/movewindow.c
7633 + add test/movewindow.c, to test mvderwin().
7634 + fix ncurses soft-key test so color changes are shown immediately
7635 rather than delayed.
7636 + modify ncurses soft-key test to hide the keys when exiting the test
7638 + fixes to build test programs with PDCurses 2.7, e.g., its headers
7639 rely on autoconf symbols, and it declares stubs for nonfunctional
7640 terminfo and termcap entrypoints.
7643 + improved test/configure to build test/ncurses on HPUX 11 using the
7645 + documented ALTERNATE CONFIGURATIONS in the ncurses manpage, for the
7646 benefit of developers who do not read INSTALL.
7649 + correct form library Window_To_Buffer() change (cf: 20040516), which
7650 should ignore the video attributes (report by Ricardo Cantu).
7653 + minor fixes to xmc-glitch experimental code:
7654 + suppress line-drawing
7655 + implement max_attributes
7657 + minor fixes for the database iterator.
7658 + fix some buffer limits in c++ demo (comment by Falk Hueffner in
7662 + add toe -a option, to show all databases. This uses new private
7663 interfaces in the ncurses library for iterating through the list of
7665 + fix toe from 20000909 changes which made it not look at
7667 + make toe's -v option parameter optional as per manpage.
7668 + improve SIGWINCH handling by postponing its effect during newterm(),
7669 etc., when allocating screens.
7672 + modify wgetnstr() to return KEY_RESIZE if a sigwinch occurs. Use
7673 this in test/filter.c
7674 + fix an error in filter() modification which caused some applications
7678 + check if filter() was called when getting the screensize. Keep it
7679 at 1 if so (based on Redhat #174498).
7680 + add extension nofilter().
7681 + refined the workaround for ACS mapping.
7682 + make ifdef's consistent in curses.h for the extended colors so the
7683 header file can be used for the normal curses library. The header
7684 file installed for extended colors is a variation of the
7685 wide-character configuration (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
7688 + add a workaround to ACS mapping to allow applications such as
7689 test/blue.c to use the "PC ROM" characters by masking them with
7690 A_ALTCHARSET. This worked up til 5.5, but was lost in the revision
7691 of legacy coding (report by Michael Deutschmann).
7692 + add a null-pointer check in the wide-character version of
7693 calculate_actual_width() (report by Victor Julien).
7694 + improve test/ncurses 'd' (color-edit) test by allowing the RGB
7695 values to be set independently (patch by William McBrine).
7696 + modify test/configure script to allow building test programs with
7698 + modified test programs to allow some to work with NetBSD curses.
7699 Several do not because NetBSD curses implements a subset of X/Open
7700 curses, and also lacks much of SVr4 additions. But it's enough for
7702 + update config.guess and config.sub
7705 + use BSD-specific fix for return-value from cgetent() from CVS where
7706 an unknown terminal type would be reportd as "database not found".
7707 + make tgetent() return code more readable using new symbols
7709 + remove references to non-existent "tctest" program.
7710 + remove TESTPROGS from progs/Makefile.in (it was referring to code
7711 that was never built in that directory).
7712 + typos in curs_addchstr.3x, some doc files (noticed in OpenBSD CVS).
7715 + add use_legacy_coding() function to support lynx's font-switching
7717 + fix formatting in curs_termcap.3x (report by Mike Frysinger).
7718 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to change preprocessor-expanded _Bool back to
7722 + extend test/ncurses.c 's' (overlay window) test to exercise overlay(),
7723 overwrite() and copywin() with different combinations of colors and
7724 attributes (including background color) to make it easy to see the
7725 effect of the different functions.
7726 + corrections to menu/m_global.c for wide-characters (report by
7730 + add configure option --without-dlsym, allowing developers to
7731 configure GPM support without using dlsym() (discussion with Michael
7733 + fix wins_nwstr(), which did not handle single-column non-8bit codes
7737 + move prototypes for wide-character trace functions from curses.tail
7738 to curses.wide to avoid accidental reference to those if
7739 _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined without ensuring that <wchar.h> is
7741 + add/use NCURSES_INLINE definition.
7742 + change some internal functions to use int/unsigned rather than the
7746 + remove a redundant check in lib_color.c (Debian #335655).
7747 + use ld's -search_paths_first option on Darwin to work around odd
7748 search rules on that platform (report by Christian Gennerat, analysis
7750 + remove special case for Darwin in CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro.
7751 + ignore EINTR in tcgetattr/tcsetattr calls (Debian #339518).
7752 + fix several bugs in test/bs.c (patch by Stephen Lindholm).
7755 + other minor fixes to cygwin based on tack -TD
7756 + correct smacs in cygwin (Debian #338234, report by Baurzhan
7757 Ismagulov, who noted that it was fixed in Cygwin).
7760 + add shifted up/down arrow codes to xterm-new as kind/kri strings -TD
7761 + modify wbkgrnd() to avoid clearing the A_CHARTEXT attribute bits
7762 since those record the state of multicolumn characters (Debian
7764 + modify werase to clear multicolumn characters that extend into
7765 a derived window (Debian #316663).
7768 + move assignment from environment variable ESCDELAY from initscr()
7769 down to newterm() so the environment variable affects timeouts for
7770 terminals opened with newterm() as well.
7771 + fix a memory leak in keyname().
7772 + add test/demo_altkeys.c
7773 + modify test/demo_defkey.c to exit from loop via 'q' to allow
7774 leak-checking, as well as fix a buffer size in winnstr() call.
7777 + correct order of use-clauses in rxvt-basic entry which made codes for
7778 f1-f4 vt100-style rather than vt220-style (report by Gabor Z Papp).
7779 + suppress configure check for gnatmake if Ada95/Makefile.in is not
7781 + correct a typo in configure --with-bool option for the case where
7782 --without-cxx is used (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
7783 + add a note to INSTALL's discussion of --with-normal, pointing out
7784 that one may wish to use --without-gpm to ensure a completely
7785 static link (prompted by report by Felix von Leitner).
7787 20051010 5.5 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
7790 + document in demo_forms.c some portability issues.
7793 + document side-effect of werase() which sets the cursor position.
7794 + save/restore the current position in form field editing to make
7798 + correct header dependencies in progs, allowing parallel make (report
7799 by Daniel Jacobowitz).
7800 + modify CF_BUILD_CC to ensure that pre-setting $BUILD_CC overrides
7801 the configure check for --with-build-cc (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
7802 + modify CF_CFG_DEFAULTS to not use /usr as the default prefix for
7804 + update config.guess and config.sub from
7805 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
7808 + modify sed expression which computes path for /usr/lib/terminfo
7809 symbolic link in install to ensure that it does not change unexpected
7810 levels of the path (Gentoo #42336).
7811 + modify default for --disable-lp64 configure option to reduce impact
7812 on existing 64-bit builds. Enabling the _LP64 option may change the
7813 size of chtype and mmask_t. However, for ABI 6, it is enabled by
7814 default (report by Mike Frysinger).
7815 + add configure script check for --enable-ext-mouse, bump ABI to 6 by
7816 default if it is used.
7817 + improve configure script logic for bumping ABI to omit this if the
7818 --with-abi-version option was used.
7819 + update address for Free Software Foundation in tack's source.
7820 + correct wins_wch(), which was not marking the filler-cells of
7821 multi-column characters (cf: 20041023).
7824 + modify mouse initialization to ensure that Gpm_Open() is called only
7825 once. Otherwise GPM gets confused in its initialization of signal
7826 handlers (Debian #326709).
7829 + modify logic for backspacing in a multiline form field to ensure that
7830 it works even when the preceding line is full (report by Frank van
7832 + remove comment about BUGS section of ncurses manpage (Debian #325481)
7835 + document some workarounds for shared and libtool library
7836 configurations in INSTALL (see --with-shared and --with-libtool).
7837 + modify CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GXX_VERSION macros to accommodate
7838 cross-compilers which emit the platform name in their version
7840 arm-sa1100-linux-gnu-g++ (GCC) 4.0.1
7841 (report by Frank van Vugt).
7844 + start updating documentation for upcoming 5.5 release.
7845 + fix to make libtool and libtinfo work together again (cf: 20050122).
7846 + fixes to allow building traces into libtinfo
7847 + add debug trace to tic that shows if/how ncurses will write to the
7848 lower corner of a terminal's screen.
7849 + update llib-l* files.
7852 + modify initializers in c++ binding to build with old versions of g++.
7853 + improve special case for 20050115 repainting fix, ensuring that if
7854 the first changed cell is not a character that the range to be
7855 repainted is adjusted to start at a character's beginning (Debian
7859 + fixes to build on QNX 6.1
7860 + improve configure script checks for Intel 9.0 compiler.
7861 + remove #include's for libc.h (obsolete).
7862 + adjust ifdef's in curses.priv.h so that when cross-compiling to
7863 produce comp_hash and make_keys, no dependency on wchar.h is needed.
7864 That simplifies the build-cppflags (report by Frank van Vugt).
7865 + move modules related to key-binding into libtinfo to fix linkage
7866 problem caused by 20050430 changes to MKkeyname.sh (report by
7867 Konstantin Andreev).
7870 + updates/fixes for configure script macros from vile -TD
7871 + make prism9's sgr string agree with the rest of the terminfo -TD
7872 + make vt220's sgr0 string consistent with sgr string, do this for
7873 several related cases -TD
7874 + improve translation to termcap by filtering the 'me' (sgr0) strings
7875 as in the runtime call to tgetent() (prompted by a discussion with
7877 + improve tic check for sgr0 versus sgr(0), to help ensure that sgr0
7878 resets line-drawing.
7881 + fix special cases for trimming sgr0 for hurd and vt220 (Debian
7883 + split-out _nc_trim_sgr0() from modifications made to tgetent(), to
7884 allow it to be used by tic to provide information about the runtime
7885 changes that would be made to sgr0 for termcap applications.
7886 + modify make_sed.sh to make the group-name in the NAME section of
7887 form/menu library manpage agree with the TITLE string when renaming
7888 is done for Debian (Debian #78866).
7891 + modify parameter type in c++ binding for insch() and mvwinsch() to
7892 be consistent with underlying ncurses library (was char, is chtype).
7893 + modify treatment of Intel compiler to allow _GNU_SOURCE to be defined
7895 + improve configure check for nanosleep(), checking that it works since
7896 some older systems such as AIX 4.3 have a nonworking version.
7899 + update config.guess and config.sub from
7900 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
7901 + modify misc/shlib to work in test-directory.
7902 + suppress $suffix in misc/run_tic.sh when cross-compiling. This
7903 allows cross-compiles to use the host's tic program to handle the
7904 "make install.data" step.
7905 + improve description of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables in manpages
7906 (prompted by report by Dave Ulrick).
7907 + improve description of cross-compiling in INSTALL
7908 + add NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html by Pradeep Padala
7909 (see http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/).
7910 + modify configure script to obtain soname for GPM library (discussion
7911 with Daniel Jacobowitz).
7912 + modify configure script so that --with-chtype option will still
7913 compute the unsigned literals suffix for constants in curses.h
7914 (report by Daniel Jacobowitz:
7915 + patches from Daniel Jacobowitz:
7916 + the man_db.renames entry for tack.1 was backwards.
7917 + tack.1 had some 1m's that should have been 1M's.
7918 + the section for curs_inwstr.3 was wrong.
7921 + correction to --with-chtype option (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
7924 + move build-time edit_man.sh and edit_man.sed scripts to top directory
7925 to simplify reusing them for renaming tack's manpage (prompted by a
7926 review of Debian package).
7927 + revert minor optimization from 20041030 (Debian #313609).
7928 + libtool-specific fixes, tested with libtool 1.4.3, 1.5.0, 1.5.6,
7929 1.5.10 and 1.5.18 (all work except as noted previously for the c++
7930 install using libtool 1.5.0):
7931 + modify the clean-rule in c++/Makefile.in to work with IRIX64 make
7933 + use $(LIBTOOL_UNINSTALL) symbol, overlooked in 20030830
7934 + add configure options --with-chtype and --with-mmask-t, to allow
7935 overriding of the non-LP64 model's use of the corresponding types.
7936 + revise test for size of chtype (and mmask_t), which always returned
7937 "long" due to an uninitialized variable (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
7940 + change _tracef's that used "%p" format for va_list values to ignore
7941 that, since on some platforms those are not pointers.
7942 + fixes for long-formats in printf's due to largefile support.
7945 + fixes for termcap support:
7946 + reset pointer to _nc_curr_token.tk_name when the input stream is
7947 closed, which could point to free memory (cf: 20030215).
7948 + delink TERMTYPE data which is used by the termcap reader, so that
7949 extended names data will be freed consistently.
7950 + free pointer to TERMTYPE data in _nc_free_termtype() rather than
7952 + add some entrypoints for freeing permanently allocated data via
7953 _nc_freeall() when NO_LEAKS is defined.
7954 + amend 20041030 change to _nc_do_color to ensure that optimization is
7955 applied only when the terminal supports back_color_erase (bce).
7958 + add sun-color terminfo entry -TD
7959 + correct a missing assignment in c++ binding's method
7960 NCursesPanel::UserPointer() from 20050409 changes.
7961 + improve configure check for large-files, adding check for dirent64
7963 + minor change to configure script to improve linker options for the
7967 + document error conditions for ncurses library functions (report by
7969 + regenerated html documentation for ada binding.
7970 see ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/gnathtml
7973 + regenerated html documentation for manpages.
7974 + add $(BUILD_EXEEXT) suffix to invocation of make_keys in
7975 ncurses/Makefile (Gentoo #89772).
7976 + modify c++/demo.cc to build with g++ -fno-implicit-templates option
7977 (patch by Mike Frysinger).
7978 + modify tic to filter out long extended names when translating to
7979 termcap format. Only two characters are permissible for termcap
7983 + modify terminfo entries xterm-new and rxvt to add strings for
7984 shift-, control-cursor keys.
7985 + workaround to allow c++ binding to compile with g++ 2.95.3, which
7986 has a broken implementation of static_cast<> (patch by Jeff Chua).
7987 + modify initialization of key lookup table so that if an extended
7988 capability (tic -x) string is defined, and its name begins with 'k',
7989 it will automatically be treated as a key.
7990 + modify test/keynames.c to allow for the possibility of extended
7991 key names, e.g., via define_key(), or via "tic -x".
7992 + add test/demo_termcap.c to show the contents of given entry via the
7996 + minor fixes for vt100/vt52 entries -TD
7997 + add configure option --enable-largefile
7998 + corrected libraries used to build Ada95/gen/gen, found in testing
8002 + update config.guess, config.sub
8003 + modify configure script check for _XOPEN_SOURCE, disable that on
8004 Darwin whose header files have problems (patch by Chris Zubrzycki).
8005 + modify form library Is_Printable_String() to use iswprint() rather
8006 than wcwidth() for determining if a character is printable. The
8007 latter caused it to reject menu items containing non-spacing
8009 + modify ncurses test program's F-test to handle non-spacing characters
8010 by combining them with a reverse-video blank.
8011 + review/fix several gcc -Wconversion warnings.
8014 + correct an off-by-one error in m_driver() for mouse-clicks used to
8015 position the mouse to a particular item.
8016 + implement test/demo_menus.c
8017 + add some checks in lib_mouse to ensure SP is set.
8018 + modify C++ binding to make 20050403 changes work with the configure
8019 --enable-const option.
8022 + modify start_color() to return ERR if it cannot allocate memory.
8023 + address g++ compiler warnings in C++ binding by adding explicit
8024 member initialization, assignment operators and copy constructors.
8025 Most of the changes simply preserve the existing semantics of the
8026 binding, which can leak memory, etc., but by making these features
8027 visible, it provides a framework for improving the binding.
8028 + improve C++ binding using static_cast, etc.
8029 + modify configure script --enable-warnings to add options to g++ to
8030 correspond to the gcc --enable-warnings.
8031 + modify C++ binding to use some C internal functions to make it
8032 compile properly on Solaris (and other platforms).
8035 + amend change from 20050320 to limit it to configurations with a
8037 + fix a bug introduced in 20050320 which broke the translation of
8038 nonprinting characters to uparrow form (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
8041 + add ifdef's for _LP64 in curses.h to avoid using wasteful 64-bits for
8042 chtype and mmask_t, but add configure option --disable-lp64 in case
8043 anyone used that configuration.
8044 + update misc/shlib script to account for Mac OS X (report by Michail
8046 + correct comparison for wrapping multibyte characters in
8047 waddch_literal() (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
8050 + add -c and -w options to tset to allow user to suppress ncurses'
8051 resizing of the terminal emulator window in the special case where it
8052 is not able to detect the true size (report by Win Delvaux, Debian
8054 + modify waddch_nosync() to account for locale zn_CH.GBK, which uses
8055 codes 128-159 as part of multibyte characters (report by Wang
8056 WenRui, Debian #300512).
8059 + modify ncurses.c 'd' test to make it work with 88-color
8060 configuration, i.e., by implementing scrolling.
8061 + improve scrolling in ncurses.c 'c' and 'C' tests, e.g., for 88-color
8065 + change tracemunch to use strict checking.
8066 + modify ncurses.c 'p' test to test line-drawing within a pad.
8067 + implement environment variable NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS to support
8068 miscellaneous terminal emulators which ignore alternate character
8069 set escape sequences when in UTF-8 mode.
8072 + change NCursesWindow::err_handler() to a virtual function (request by
8074 + modify fty_int.c and fty_num.c to handle wide characters (report by
8076 + adapt fix for fty_alpha.c to fty_alnum.c, which also handled normal
8077 and wide characters inconsistently (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
8078 + update llib-* files to reflect internal interface additions/changes.
8081 + improve test/configure script, adding tests for _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc.,
8083 + add aixterm-16color terminfo entry -TD
8084 + modified xterm-new terminfo entry to work with tgetent() changes -TD
8085 + extended changes in tgetent() from 20040710 to allow the substring of
8086 sgr0 which matches rmacs to be at the beginning of the sgr0 string
8087 (request by Thomas Wolff). Wolff says the visual effect in
8088 combination with pre-20040710 ncurses is improved.
8089 + fix off-by-one in winnstr() call which caused form field validation
8090 of multibyte characters to ignore the last character in a field.
8091 + correct logic in winsch() for inserting multibyte strings; the code
8092 would clear cells after the insertion rather than push them to the
8093 right (cf: 20040228).
8094 + fix an inconsistency in Check_Alpha_Field() between normal and wide
8095 character logic (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
8098 + fix a bug in editing wide-characters in form library: deleting a
8099 nonwide character modified the previous wide-character.
8100 + update manpage to describe NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2.
8101 + correct manpage description of mouseinterval() (Debian #280687).
8102 + add a note to default_colors.3x explaining why this extension was
8103 added (Debian #295083).
8104 + add traces to panel library.
8107 + improve editing of wide-characters in form library: left/right
8108 cursor movement, and single-character deletions work properly.
8109 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM happens to be prefixed with
8110 "xterm". Gpm_Open() would otherwise assert that it can deal with
8111 mouse events in this case.
8112 + modify GPM mouse support so it closes the server connection when
8113 the caller disables the mouse (report by Stanislav Ievlev).
8116 + add traces for callback functions in form library.
8117 + add experimental configure option --enable-ext-mouse, which defines
8118 NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2, and modifies the encoding of mouse events to
8119 support wheel mice, which may transmit buttons 4 and 5. This works
8120 with xterm and similar X terminal emulators (prompted by question by
8121 Andreas Henningsson, this is also related to Debian #230990).
8122 + improve configure macros CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE to
8123 avoid redefinition warnings on cygwin.
8126 + merge remaining development changes for extended colors (mostly
8127 complete, does not appear to break other configurations).
8128 + add xterm-88color.dat (part of extended colors testing).
8129 + improve _tracedump() handling of color pairs past 96.
8130 + modify return-value from start_color() to return OK if colors have
8131 already been started.
8132 + modify curs_color.3x list error conditions for init_pair(),
8133 pair_content() and color_content().
8134 + modify pair_content() to return -1 for consistency with init_pair()
8135 if it corresponds to the default-color.
8136 + change internal representation of default-color to allow application
8137 to use color number 255. This does not affect the total number of
8138 color pairs which are allowed.
8139 + add a top-level tags rule.
8142 + add a null-pointer check in wgetch() in case it is called without
8143 first calling initscr().
8144 + add some null-pointer checks for SP, which is not set by libtinfo.
8145 + modify misc/shlib to ensure that absolute pathnames are used.
8146 + modify test/Makefile.in, etc., to link test programs only against the
8147 libraries needed, e.g., omit form/menu/panel library for the ones
8148 that are curses-specific.
8149 + change SP->_current_attr to a pointer, adjust ifdef's to ensure that
8150 libtinfo.so and libtinfow.so have the same ABI. The reason for this
8151 is that the corresponding data which belongs to the upper-level
8152 ncurses library has a different size in each model (report by
8156 + minor fixes to allow test-compiles with g++.
8157 + correct column value shown in tic's warnings, which did not account
8158 for leading whitespace.
8159 + add a check in _nc_trans_string() for improperly ended strings, i.e.,
8160 where a following line begins in column 1.
8161 + modify _nc_save_str() to return a null pointer on buffer overflow.
8162 + improve repainting while scrolling wide-character data (Eungkyu Song).
8165 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
8168 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
8169 + fix manpage typo (FreeBSD report docs/75544).
8170 + update config.guess, config.sub
8171 > patches for configure script (Albert Chin-A-Young):
8172 + improved fix to make mbstate_t recognized on HPUX 11i (cf:
8173 20030705), making vsscanf() prototype visible on IRIX64. Tested for
8174 on HP-UX 11i, Solaris 7, 8, 9, AIX 4.3.3, 5.2, Tru64 UNIX 4.0D, 5.1,
8175 IRIX64 6.5, Redhat Linux 7.1, 9, and RHEL 2.1, 3.0.
8176 + print the result of the --disable-home-terminfo option.
8177 + use -rpath when compiling with SGI C compiler.
8180 + add trace calls to remaining public functions in form and menu
8182 + fix check for numeric digits in test/ncurses.c 'b' and 'B' tests.
8183 + fix typo in test/ncurses.c 'c' test from 20041218.
8186 + revise test/ncurses.c 'c' color test to improve use for xterm-88color
8187 and xterm-256color, added 'C' test using the wide-character color_set
8188 and attr_set functions.
8191 + modify configure script to work with Intel compiler.
8192 + fix an limit-check in wadd_wchnstr() which caused labels in the
8193 forms-demo to be one character short.
8194 + fix typo in curs_addchstr.3x (Jared Yanovich).
8195 + add trace calls to most functions in form and menu libraries.
8196 + update working-position for adding wide-characters when window is
8197 scrolled (prompted by related report by Eungkyu Song).
8200 + replace some references on Linux to wcrtomb() which use it to obtain
8201 the length of a multibyte string with _nc_wcrtomb, since wcrtomb() is
8202 broken in glibc (see Debian #284260).
8203 + corrected length-computation in wide-character support for
8205 + some fixes to frm_driver.c to allow it to accept multibyte input.
8206 + modify configure script to work with Intel 8.0 compiler.
8209 + amend change to setupterm() in 20030405 which would reuse the value
8210 of cur_term if the same output was selected. This now reuses it only
8211 when setupterm() is called from tgetent(), which has no notion of
8212 separate SCREENs. Note that tgetent() must be called after initscr()
8213 or newterm() to use this feature (Redhat #140326).
8214 + add a check in CF_BUILD_CC macro to ensure that developer has given
8215 the --with-build-cc option when cross-compiling (report by Alexandre
8217 + improved configure script checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE and
8218 _POSIX_C_SOURCE (fix for IRIX 5.3 from Georg Schwarz, _POSIX_C_SOURCE
8220 + cosmetic fix to test/gdc.c to recolor the bottom edge of the box
8221 for consistency (comment by Dan Nelson).
8224 + update wsvt25 terminfo entry -TD
8225 + modify test/ins_wide.c to test all flavors of ins_wstr().
8226 + ignore filler-cells in wadd_wchnstr() when adding a cchar_t array
8227 which consists of multi-column characters, since this function
8228 constructs them (cf: 20041023).
8229 + modify winnstr() to return multibyte character strings for the
8230 wide-character configuration.
8233 + fixes to make slk_set() and slk_wset() accept and store multibyte
8234 or multicolumn characters.
8237 + improve color optimization a little by making _nc_do_color() check
8238 if the old/new pairs are equivalent to the default pair 0.
8239 + modify assume_default_colors() to not require that
8240 use_default_colors() be called first.
8243 + modify term_attrs() to use termattrs(), add the extended attributes
8244 such as enter_horizontal_hl_mode for WA_HORIZONTAL to term_attrs().
8245 + add logic in waddch_literal() to clear orphaned cells when one
8246 multi-column character partly overwrites another.
8247 + improved logic for clearing cells when a multi-column character
8248 must be wrapped to a new line.
8249 + revise storage of cells for multi-column characters to correct a
8250 problem with repainting. In the old scheme, it was possible for
8251 doupdate() to decide that only part of a multi-column character
8252 should be repainted since the filler cells stored only an attribute
8253 to denote them as fillers, rather than the character value and the
8257 + minor fixes for traces.
8258 + add SP->_screen_acs_map[], used to ensure that mapping of missing
8259 line-drawing characters is handled properly. For example, ACS_DARROW
8260 is absent from xterm-new, and it was coincidentally displayed the
8264 + amend 20021221 workaround for broken acs to reset the sgr, rmacs
8265 and smacs strings as well. Also modify the check for screen's
8266 limitations in that area to allow the multi-character shift-in
8267 and shift-out which seem to work.
8268 + change GPM initialization, using dl library to load it dynamically
8269 at runtime (Debian #110586).
8272 + correct logic for color pair in setcchar() and getcchar() (patch by
8273 Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
8274 + add t/T commands to ncurses b/B tests to allow a different color to
8275 be tested for the attrset part of the test than is used in the
8279 + fix to make setcchar() to work when its wchar_t* parameter is
8280 pointing to a string which contains more data than can be converted.
8281 + modify wget_wstr() and example in ncurses.c to work if wchar_t and
8282 wint_t are different sizes (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
8285 + remove check in wget_wch() added to fix an infinite loop, appears to
8286 have been working around a transitory glibc bug, and interferes
8287 with normal operation (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
8288 + correct wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not pass the rendition
8289 information (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
8290 + fix aclocal.m4 so that the wide-character version of ncurses gets
8291 compiled as libncursesw.5.dylib, instead of libncurses.5w.dylib
8292 (adapted from patch by James J Ramsey).
8293 + change configure script for --with-caps option to indicate that it
8294 is no longer experimental.
8295 + change configure script to reflect the fact that --enable-widec has
8296 not been "experimental" since 5.3 (report by Bruno Lustosa).
8299 + add 'B' test to ncurses.c, to exercise some wide-character functions.
8302 + modify infocmp -i option to match 8-bit controls against its table
8303 entries, e.g., so it can analyze the xterm-8bit entry.
8304 + add morphos terminfo entry, improve amiga-8bit entry (Pavel Fedin).
8305 + correct translation of "%%" in terminfo format to termcap, e.g.,
8306 using "tic -C" (Redhat #130921).
8307 + modified configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to ensure that if
8308 it defines _POSIX_C_SOURCE, that it defines it to a specific value
8309 (comp.os.stratus newsgroup comment).
8312 + fixes to build with Ada95 binding with gnat 3.4 (all warnings are
8313 fatal, and gnat does not follow the guidelines for pragmas).
8314 However that did find a coding error in Assume_Default_Colors().
8315 + modify several terminfo entries to ensure xterm mouse and cursor
8316 visibility are reset in rs2 string: hurd, putty, gnome,
8317 konsole-base, mlterm, Eterm, screen (Debian #265784, Debian #55637).
8318 The xterm entries are left alone - old ones for compatibility, and
8319 the new ones do not require this change. -TD
8322 + fake a SIGWINCH in newterm() to accommodate buggy terminal emulators
8323 and window managers (Debian #265631).
8324 > terminfo updates -TD
8325 + remove dch/dch1 from rxvt because they are implemented inconsistently
8326 with the common usage of bce/ech
8327 + remove khome from vt220 (vt220's have no home key)
8331 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test, adding v/V toggles to cycle through
8332 combinations of video attributes so that for instance bold and
8333 underline can be tested. This made the legend too crowded, added
8334 a help window as well.
8335 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test to cycle through default colors if
8336 the -d option is set.
8337 + update putty terminfo entry (Robert de Bath).
8340 + modify test/cardfile.c to allow it to read more data than can be
8342 + correct logic in resizeterm.c which kept it from processing all
8343 levels of window hierarchy (reports by Folkert van Heusden,
8347 + modify "tic -cv" to ignore delays when comparing strings. Also
8348 modify it to ignore a canceled sgr string, e.g., for terminals which
8349 cannot properly combine attributes in one control sequence.
8350 + corrections for gnome and konsole entries (Redhat #122815, patch by
8352 > terminfo updates -TD
8353 + make ncsa-m rmacs/smacs consistent with sgr
8354 + add sgr, rc/sc and ech to syscons entries
8355 + add function-keys to decansi
8356 + add sgr to mterm-ansi
8357 + add sgr, civis, cnorm to emu
8358 + correct/simplify cup in addrinfo
8361 > terminfo updates -TD
8362 + add xterm-pc-fkeys
8363 + review/update gnome and gnome-rh90 entries (prompted by Redhat
8365 + review/update konsole entries
8366 + add sgr, correct sgr0 for kterm and mlterm
8367 + correct tsl string in kterm
8370 + add configure option --without-xterm-new
8373 + add check in wget_wch() for printable bytes that are not part of a
8374 multibyte character.
8375 + modify wadd_wchnstr() to render text using window's background
8377 + improve tic's check to compare sgr and sgr0.
8378 + fix c++ directory's .cc.i rule.
8379 + modify logic in tgetent() which adjusts the termcap "me" string
8380 to work with ISO-2022 string used in xterm-new (cf: 20010908).
8381 + modify tic's check for conflicting function keys to omit that if
8382 converting termcap to termcap format.
8383 + add -U option to tic and infocmp.
8384 + add rmam/smam to linux terminfo entry (Trevor Van Bremen)
8385 > terminfo updates -TD
8386 + minor fixes for emu
8388 + change wyse acsc strings to use 'i' map rather than 'I'
8393 + use tic -x to install terminfo database -TD
8394 + add -x to infocmp's usage message.
8395 + correct field used for comparing O_ROWMAJOR in set_menu_format()
8396 (report/patch by Tony Li).
8397 + fix a missing nul check in set_field_buffer() from 20040508 changes.
8398 > terminfo updates -TD
8399 + make xterm-xf86-v43 derived from xterm-xf86-v40 rather than
8401 + align with xterm patch #192's use of xterm-new -TD
8402 + update xterm-new and xterm-8bit for cvvis/cnorm strings -TD
8403 + make xterm-new the default "xterm" entry -TD
8406 + correct BUILD_CPPFLAGS substitution in ncurses/Makefile.in, to allow
8407 cross-compiling from a separate directory tree (report/patch by
8409 + modify is_term_resized() to ensure that window sizes are nonzero,
8410 as documented in the manpage (report by Ian Collier).
8411 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro to make Hurd port build
8412 (Debian #249214, report/patch by Jeff Bailey).
8413 + configure-script mods from xterm, e.g., updates to CF_ADD_CFLAGS
8414 + update config.guess, config.sub
8415 > terminfo updates -TD
8417 + add xterm-xf86-v44
8418 + modify xterm-new aka xterm-xfree86 to accommodate luit, which
8419 relies on G1 being used via an ISO-2022 escape sequence (report by
8424 + reconsidered winsnstr(), decided after comparing other
8425 implementations that wrapping is an X/Open documentation error.
8426 + modify test/inserts.c to test all flavors of insstr().
8429 + add setlocale() calls to a few test programs which may require it:
8430 demo_forms.c, filter.c, ins_wide.c, inserts.c
8431 + correct a few misspelled function names in ncurses-intro.html (report
8433 + correct internal name of key_defined() manpage, which conflicted with
8437 + correct size of internal pad used for holding wide-character
8438 field_buffer() results.
8439 + modify data_ahead() to work with wide-characters.
8442 + improve description of terminfo if-then-else expressions (suggested
8444 + improve test/ncurses.c 'd' test, allow it to use external file for
8445 initial palette (added xterm-16color.dat and linux-color.dat), and
8446 reset colors to the initial palette when starting/ending the test.
8447 + change limit-check in init_color() to allow r/g/b component to
8448 reach 1000 (cf: 20020928).
8451 + modify form library to use cchar_t's rather than char's in the
8452 wide-character configuration for storing data for field buffers.
8453 + correct logic of win_wchnstr(), which did not work for more than
8457 + replace memset/memcpy usage in form library with for-loops to
8458 simplify changing the datatype of FIELD.buf, part of wide-character
8460 + fix some inconsistent use of #if/#ifdef (report by Alain Guibert).
8463 + modify menu library to account for actual number of columns used by
8464 multibyte character strings, in the wide-character configuration
8465 (adapted from patch by Philipp Tomsich).
8466 + add "-x" option to infocmp like tic's "-x", for use in "-F"
8467 comparisons. This modifies infocmp to only report extended
8468 capabilities if the -x option is given, making this more consistent
8469 with tic. Some scripts may break, since infocmp previous gave this
8470 information without an option.
8471 + modify termcap-parsing to retain 2-character aliases at the beginning
8472 of an entry if the "-x" option is used in tic.
8475 + minor compiler-warning and test-program fixes.
8478 + modify tic's missing-sgr warning to apply to terminfo only.
8479 + free some memory leaks in tic.
8480 + remove check in post_menu() that prevented menus from extending
8481 beyond the screen (request by Max J. Werner).
8482 + remove check in newwin() that prevents allocating windows
8483 that extend beyond the screen. Solaris curses does this.
8484 + add ifdef in test/color_set.c to allow it to compile with older
8486 + add napms() calls to test/dots.c to make it not be a CPU hog.
8489 + modify unctrl() to return null if its parameter does not correspond
8490 to an unsigned char.
8491 + add some limit-checks to guard isprint(), etc., from being used on
8492 values that do not fit into an unsigned char (report by Sami Farin).
8495 + fix a typo in the _nc_get_locale() change.
8498 + modify _nc_get_locale() to use setlocale() to query the program's
8499 current locale rather than using getenv(). This fixes a case in tin
8500 which relies on legacy treatment of 8-bit characters when the locale
8501 is not initialized (reported by Urs Jansen).
8502 + add sgr string to screen's and rxvt's terminfo entries -TD.
8503 + add a check in tic for terminfo entries having an sgr0 but no sgr
8504 string. This confuses Tru64 and HPUX curses when combined with
8505 color, e.g., making them leave line-drawing characters in odd places.
8506 + correct casts used in ABSENT_BOOLEAN, CANCELLED_BOOLEAN, matches the
8507 original definitions used in Debian package to fix PowerPC bug before
8508 20030802 (Debian #237629).
8511 + modify PutAttrChar() and PUTC() macro to improve use of
8512 A_ALTCHARSET attribute to prevent line-drawing characters from
8513 being lost in situations where the locale would otherwise treat the
8514 raw data as nonprintable (Debian #227879).
8517 + fix a redefinition of CTRL() macro in test/view.c for AIX 5.2 (report
8519 + remove ".PP" after ".SH NAME" in a few manpages; this confuses
8520 some apropos script (Debian #237831).
8523 + modify ncurses.c 'r' test so editing commands, like inserted text,
8524 set the field background, and the state of insert/overlay editing
8525 mode is shown in that test.
8526 + change syntax of dummy targets in Ada95 makefiles to work with pmake.
8527 + correct logic in test/ncurses.c 'b' for noncolor terminals which
8528 did not recognize a quit-command (cf: 20030419).
8531 + modify _nc_insert_ch() to allow for its input to be part of a
8533 + split out lib_insnstr.c, to prepare to rewrite it. X/Open states
8534 that this function performs wrapping, unlike all of the other
8535 insert-functions. Currently it does not wrap.
8536 + check for nl_langinfo(CODESET), use it if available (report by
8538 + split-out CF_BUILD_CC macro, actually did this for lynx first.
8539 + fixes for configure script CF_WITH_DBMALLOC and CF_WITH_DMALLOC,
8540 which happened to work with bash, but not with Bourne shell (report
8541 by Marco d'Itri via tin-dev).
8544 + some changes to adapt the form library to wide characters, incomplete
8545 (request by Mike Aubury).
8546 + add symbol to curses.h which can be used to suppress include of
8548 #define NCURSES_ENABLE_STDBOOL_H 0
8550 (discussion on XFree86 mailing list).
8553 + modify configure --with-termlib option to accept a value which sets
8554 the name of the terminfo library. This would allow a packager to
8555 build libtinfow.so renamed to coincide with libtinfo.so (discussion
8556 with Stanislav Ievlev).
8557 + improve documentation of --with-install-prefix, --prefix and
8558 $(DESTDIR) in INSTALL (prompted by discussion with Paul Lew).
8559 + add configure check if the compiler can use -c -o options to rename
8560 its output file, use that to omit the 'cd' command which was used to
8561 ensure object files are created in a separate staging directory
8562 (prompted by comments by Johnny Wezel, Martin Mokrejs).
8564 20040208 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
8567 20040207 pre-release
8568 + minor fixes to _nc_tparm_analyze(), i.e., do not count %i as a param,
8569 and do not count %d if it follows a %p.
8570 + correct an inconsistency between handling of codes in the 128-255
8571 range, e.g., as illustrated by test/ncurses.c f/F tests. In POSIX
8572 locale, the latter did not show printable results, while the former
8574 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to compensate for broken C preprocessor on Mac
8575 OS X, which alters "%%" to "% % " (report by Robert Simms, fix
8576 verified by Scott Corscadden).
8578 20040131 pre-release
8579 + modify SCREEN struct to align it between normal/wide curses flavors
8580 to simplify future changes to build a single version of libtinfo
8581 (patch by Stanislav Ievlev).
8582 + document handling of carriage return by addch() in manpage.
8583 + document special features of unctrl() in manpage.
8584 + documented interface changes in INSTALL.
8585 + corrected control-char test in lib_addch.c to account for locale
8586 (Debian #230335, cf: 971206).
8587 + updated test/configure.in to use AC_EXEEXT and AC_OBJEXT.
8588 + fixes to compile Ada95 binding with Debian gnat 3.15p-4 package.
8589 + minor configure-script fixes for older ports, e.g., BeOS R4.5.
8591 20040125 pre-release
8592 + amend change to PutAttrChar() from 20030614 which computed the number
8593 of cells for a possibly multi-cell character. The 20030614 change
8594 forced the cell to a blank if the result from wcwidth() was not
8595 greater than zero. However, wcwidth() called for parameters in the
8596 range 128-255 can give this return value. The logic now simply
8597 ensures that the number of cells is greater than zero without
8598 modifying the displayed value.
8600 20040124 pre-release
8601 + looked good for 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org (but see above)
8602 + modify configure script check for ranlib to use AC_CHECK_TOOL, since
8603 that works better for cross-compiling.
8605 20040117 pre-release
8606 + modify lib_get_wch.c to prefer mblen/mbtowc over mbrlen/mbrtowc to
8607 work around core dump in Solaris 8's locale support, e.g., for
8608 zh_CN.GB18030 (report by Saravanan Bellan).
8609 + add includes for <stdarg.h> and <stdio.h> in configure script macro
8610 to make <wchar.h> check work with Tru64 4.0d.
8611 + add terminfo entry for U/Win -TD
8612 + add terminfo entries for SFU aka Interix aka OpenNT (Federico
8614 + modify tput's error messages to prefix them with the program name
8615 (report by Vincent Lefevre, patch by Daniel Jacobowitz (see Debian
8617 + correct a place in tack where exit_standout_mode was used instead of
8618 exit_attribute_mode (patch by Jochen Voss (see Debian #224443)).
8619 + modify c++/cursesf.h to use const in the Enumeration_Field method.
8620 + remove an ambiguous (actually redundant) method from c++/cursesf.h
8621 + make $HOME/.terminfo update optional (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
8622 + improve sed script which extracts libtool's version in the
8623 CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro.
8624 + add ifdef'd call to AC_PROG_LIBTOOL to CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro (to
8625 simplify local patch for Albert Chin-A-Young)..
8626 + add $(CXXFLAGS) to link command in c++/Makefile.in (adapted from
8627 patch by Albert Chin-A-Young)..
8628 + fix a missing substitution in configure.in for "$target" needed for
8630 + resync CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro with lynx; fixes IRIX64 and
8631 NetBSD 1.6 conflicts with _XOPEN_SOURCE.
8632 + make check for stdbool.h more specific, to ensure that including it
8633 will actually define/declare bool for the configured compiler.
8634 + rewrite ifdef's in curses.h relating NCURSES_BOOL and bool. The
8635 intention of that is to #define NCURSES_BOOL as bool when the
8636 compiler declares bool, and to #define bool as NCURSES_BOOL when it
8637 does not (reported by Jim Gifford, Sam Varshavchik, cf: 20031213).
8639 20040110 pre-release
8640 + change minor version to 4, i.e., ncurses 5.4
8641 + revised/improved terminfo entries for tvi912b, tvi920b (Benjamin C W
8643 + simplified ncurses/base/version.c by defining the result from the
8644 configure script rather than using sprintf (suggested by Stanislav
8646 + remove obsolete casts from c++/cursesw.h (reported by Stanislav
8648 + modify configure script so that when configuring for termlib, programs
8649 such as tic are not linked with the upper-level ncurses library
8650 (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
8651 + move version.c from ncurses/base to ncurses/tinfo to allow linking
8652 of tic, etc., using libtinfo (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
8655 + adjust -D's to build ncursesw on OpenBSD.
8656 + modify CF_PROG_EXT to make OS/2 build with EXEEXT.
8657 + add pecho_wchar().
8658 + remove <wctype.h> include from lib_slk_wset.c which is not needed (or
8659 available) on older platforms.
8662 + add -D's to build ncursew on FreeBSD 5.1.
8663 + modify shared library configuration for FreeBSD 4.x/5.x to add the
8664 soname information (request by Marc Glisse).
8665 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() to not use MAX_ALIAS, but PATH_MAX only
8666 for limiting the length of a filename in the terminfo database.
8667 + modify termname() to return the terminal name used by setupterm()
8668 rather than $TERM, without truncating to 14 characters as documented
8669 by X/Open (report by Stanislav Ievlev, cf: 970719).
8670 + re-add definition for _BSD_TYPES, lost in merge (cf: 20031206).
8673 + add configure option --with-manpage-format=catonly to address
8674 behavior of BSDI, allow install of man+cat files on NetBSD, whose
8675 behavior has diverged by requiring both to be present.
8676 + remove leading blanks from comment-lines in manlinks.sed script to
8677 work with Tru64 4.0d.
8678 + add screen.linux terminfo entry (discussion on mutt-users mailing
8682 + add a check for tic to flag missing backslashes for termcap
8683 continuation lines. ncurses reads the whole entry, but termcap
8684 applications do not.
8685 + add configure option "--with-manpage-aliases" extending
8686 "--with-manpage-aliases" to provide the option of generating ".so"
8687 files rather than symbolic links for manpage aliases.
8688 + add bool definition in include/curses.h.in for configurations with no
8689 usable C++ compiler (cf: 20030607).
8690 + fix pathname of SigAction.h for building with --srcdir (reported by
8694 + folded ncurses/base/sigaction.c into includes of ncurses/SigAction.h,
8695 since that header is used only within ncurses/tty/lib_tstp.c, for
8696 non-POSIX systems (discussion with Stanislav Ievlev).
8697 + remove obsolete _nc_outstr() function (report by Stanislav Ievlev
8698 <inger@altlinux.org>).
8699 + add test/background.c and test/color_set.c
8700 + modify color_set() function to work with color pair 0 (report by
8701 George Andreou <gbandreo@tem.uoc.gr>).
8702 + add configure option --with-trace, since defining TRACE seems too
8703 awkward for some cases.
8704 + remove a call to _nc_free_termtype() from read_termtype(), since the
8705 corresponding buffer contents were already zeroed by a memset (cf:
8707 + improve configure check for _XOPEN_SOURCE and related definitions,
8708 adding special cases for Solaris' __EXTENSIONS__ and FreeBSD's
8709 __BSD_TYPES (reports by Marc Glisse <marc.glisse@normalesup.org>).
8710 + small fixes to compile on Solaris and IRIX64 using cc.
8711 + correct typo in check for pre-POSIX sort options in MKkey_defs.sh
8715 + modify _nc_gettime() to avoid a problem with arithmetic on unsigned
8716 values (Philippe Blain).
8717 + improve the nanosleep() logic in napms() by checking for EINTR and
8718 restarting (Philippe Blain).
8719 + correct expression for "%D" in lib_tgoto.c (Juha Jarvi
8723 + add linux-vt terminfo entry (Andrey V Lukyanov <land@long.yar.ru>).
8724 + allow "\|" escape in terminfo; tic should not warn about this.
8725 + save the full pathname of the trace-file the first time it is opened,
8726 to avoid creating it in different directories if the application
8727 opens and closes it while changing its working directory.
8728 + modify configure script to provide a non-empty default for
8732 + add DJGPP to special case of DOS-style drive letters potentially
8733 appearing in TERMCAP environment variable.
8734 + fix some spelling in comments (reports by Jason McIntyre, Jonathon
8736 + update config.guess, config.sub
8739 + fix a memory leak in error-return from setupterm() (report by
8740 Stanislav Ievlev <inger@altlinux.org>).
8741 + use EXEEXT and OBJEXT consistently in makefiles.
8742 + amend fixes for cross-compiling to use separate executable-suffix
8743 BUILD_EXEEXT (cf: 20031018).
8744 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for sort utility that does not
8745 recognize key options, e.g., busybox (report by Peter S Mazinger
8747 + fix potential out-of-bounds indexing in _nc_infotocap() (found by
8748 David Krause using some of the new malloc debugging features
8749 under OpenBSD, patch by Ted Unangst).
8750 + modify CF_LIB_SUFFIX for Itanium releases of HP-UX, which use a
8751 ".so" suffix (patch by Jonathan Ward <Jonathan.Ward@hp.com>).
8754 + update terminfo for xterm-xfree86 -TD
8755 + add check for multiple "tc=" clauses in a termcap to tic.
8756 + check for missing op/oc in tic.
8757 + correct _nc_resolve_uses() and _nc_merge_entry() to allow infocmp and
8758 tic to show cancelled capabilities. These functions were ignoring
8759 the state of the target entry, which should be untouched if cancelled.
8760 + correct comment in tack/output.c (Debian #215806).
8761 + add some null-pointer checks to lib_options.c (report by Michael
8763 + regenerated html documentation.
8764 + correction to tar-copy.sh, remove a trap command that resulted in
8765 leaving temporary files (cf: 20030510).
8766 + remove contact/maintainer addresses for Juergen Pfeifer (his request).
8769 + updated test/configure to reflect changes for libtool (cf: 20030830).
8770 + fix several places in tack/pad.c which tested and used the parameter-
8771 and parameterless strings inconsistently, i.e., in pad_rin(),
8772 pad_il(), pad_indn() and pad_dl() (Debian #215805).
8773 + minor fixes for configure script and makefiles to cleanup executables
8774 generated when cross-compiling for DJGPP.
8775 + modify infocmp to omit check for $TERM for operations that do not
8776 require it, e.g., "infocmp -e" used to build fallback list (report by
8780 + add terminfo entries for DJGPP.
8781 + updated note about maintainer in ncurses-intro.html
8784 + update terminfo entries for gnome terminal.
8785 + modify tack to reset colors after each color test, correct a place
8786 where exit_standout_mode was used instead of exit_attribute_mode.
8787 + improve tack's bce test by making it set colors other than black
8789 + plug a potential recursion between napms() and _nc_timed_wait()
8790 (report by Philippe Blain).
8793 + add --with-rel-version option to allow workaround to allow making
8794 libtool on Darwin generate the "same" library names as with the
8795 --with-shared option. The Darwin ld program does not work well
8796 with a zero as the minor-version value (request by Chris Zubrzycki).
8797 + modify CF_MIXEDCASE_FILENAMES macro to work with cross-compiling.
8798 + modify tack to allow it to run from fallback terminfo data.
8799 > patch by Philippe Blain:
8800 + improve PutRange() by adjusting call to EmitRange() and corresponding
8801 return-value to not emit unchanged characters on the end of the
8803 + improve a check for changed-attribute by exiting a loop when the
8805 + improve logic in TransformLine(), eliminating a duplicated comparison
8806 in the clr_bol logic.
8809 > patch by Philippe Blain:
8810 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
8811 move the label 'nonlocal' just before the second gettimeofday() to
8812 be able to compute the diff time when 'goto nonlocal' used.
8813 Rename 'msec' to 'microsec' in the debug-message.
8814 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
8815 Use _nc_outch() in carriage return/newline movement instead of
8816 putchar() which goes to stdout. Move test for xold>0 out of loop.
8817 + in ncurses/tinfo/setbuf.c,
8818 Set the flag SP->_buffered at the end of operations when all has been
8819 successful (typeMalloc can fail).
8820 + simplify NC_BUFFERED macro by moving check inside _nc_setbuf().
8823 + modify configure script to avoid using "head -1", which does not
8824 work if POSIXLY_CORRECT (sic) is set.
8825 + modify run_tic.in to avoid using wrong shared libraries when
8826 cross-compiling (Dan Kegel).
8829 + alter configure script help message to make it clearer that
8830 --with-build-cc does not specify a cross-compiler (suggested by Dan
8831 Kegel <dank@kegel.com>).
8832 + modify configure script to accommodate libtool 1.5, as well as add an
8833 parameter to the "--with-libtool" option which can specify the
8834 pathname of libtool (report by Chris Zubrzycki). We note that
8835 libtool 1.5 has more than one bug in its C++ support, so it is not
8836 able to install libncurses++, for instance, if $DESTDIR or the option
8837 --with-install-prefix is used.
8840 > patch by Philippe Blain:
8841 + move assignments to SP->_cursrow, SP->_curscol into online_mvcur().
8842 + make baudrate computation in delay_output() consistent with the
8843 assumption in _nc_mvcur_init(), i.e., a byte is 9 bits.
8846 + modify logic in waddch_literal() to take into account zh_TW.Big5
8847 whose multibyte sequences may contain "printable" characters, e.g.,
8848 a "g" in the sequence "\247g" (Debian #204889, cf: 20030621).
8849 + improve storage used by _nc_safe_strcpy() by ensuring that the size
8850 is reset based on the initialization call, in case it were called
8851 after other strcpy/strcat calls (report by Philippe Blain).
8852 > patch by Philippe Blain:
8853 + remove an unused ifdef for REAL_ATTR & WANT_CHAR
8854 + correct a place where _cup_cost was used rather than _cuu_cost
8857 + fix a small memory leak in _nc_free_termtype().
8858 + close trace-file if trace() is called with a zero parameter.
8859 + free memory allocated for soft-key strings, in delscreen().
8860 + fix an allocation size in safe_sprintf.c for the "*" format code.
8861 + correct safe_sprintf.c to not return a null pointer if the format
8862 happens to be an empty string. This applies to the "configure
8863 --enable-safe-sprintf" option (Redhat #101486).
8866 + modify casts used for ABSENT_BOOLEAN and CANCELLED_BOOLEAN (report by
8868 > patch by Philippe Blain:
8869 + change padding for change_scroll_region to not be proportional to
8870 the size of the scroll-region.
8871 + correct error-return in _nc_safe_strcat().
8874 + correct limit-checks in _nc_scroll_window() (report and test-case by
8875 Thomas Graf <graf@dms.at> cf: 20011020).
8876 + re-order configure checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE to avoid conflict with
8880 + use clr_eol in preference to blanks for bce terminals, so select and
8881 paste will have fewer trailing blanks, e.g., when using xterm
8882 (request by Vincent Lefevre).
8883 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
8884 + add configure --with-abi-version option (discussion with Charles
8886 > cygwin changes from Charles Wilson:
8887 + aclocal.m4: on cygwin, use autodetected prefix for import
8888 and static lib, but use "cyg" for DLL.
8889 + include/ncurses_dll.h: correct the comments to reflect current
8890 status of cygwin/mingw port. Fix compiler warning.
8891 + misc/run_tic.in: ensure that tic.exe can find the uninstalled
8892 DLL, by adding the lib-directory to the PATH variable.
8893 + misc/terminfo.src (nxterm|xterm-color): make xterm-color
8894 primary instead of nxterm, to match XFree86's xterm.terminfo
8895 usage and to prevent circular links.
8896 (rxvt): add additional codes from rxvt.org.
8897 (rxvt-color): new alias
8898 (rxvt-xpm): new alias
8899 (rxvt-cygwin): like rxvt, but with special acsc codes.
8900 (rxvt-cygwin-native): ditto. rxvt may be run under XWindows, or
8901 with a "native" MSWin GUI. Each takes different acsc codes,
8902 which are both different from the "normal" rxvt's acsc.
8903 (cygwin): cygwin-in-cmd.exe window. Lots of fixes.
8905 + mk-1st.awk: use "cyg" for the DLL prefix, but "lib" for import
8909 + update config.guess, config.sub
8910 + add triples for configuring shared libraries with the Debian
8911 GNU/FreeBSD packages (patch by Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es>).
8914 + modify CF_GCC_WARNINGS so it only applies to gcc, not g++. Some
8915 platforms have installed g++ along with the native C compiler, which
8916 would not accept gcc warning options.
8917 + add -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 when configuring with --enable-widec, to
8918 get mbstate_t declaration on HPUX 11.11 (report by David Ellement).
8919 + add _nc_pathlast() to get rid of casts in _nc_basename() calls.
8920 + correct a sign-extension in wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() from
8921 20030628 (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
8922 + work around omission of btowc() and wctob() from wide-character
8923 support (sic) in NetBSD 1.6 using mbtowc() and wctomb() (report by
8925 + add portability note to curs_get_wstr.3x (Debian #199957).
8928 + rewrite wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to call waddch() and wechochar()
8929 respectively, to avoid calling waddch_noecho() with wide-character
8930 data, since that function assumes its input is 8-bit data.
8931 Similarly, modify waddnwstr() to call wadd_wch().
8932 + remove logic from waddnstr() which transformed multibyte character
8933 strings into wide-characters. Rewrite of waddch_literal() from
8934 20030621 assumes its input is raw multibyte data rather than wide
8935 characters (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
8938 + write getyx() and related 2-return macros in terms of getcury(),
8940 + modify waddch_literal() in case an application passes bytes of a
8941 multibyte character directly to waddch(). In this case, waddch()
8942 must reassemble the bytes into a wide-character (report by Tomohiro
8943 Kubota <kubota@debian.org>).
8946 + modify waddch_literal() in case a multibyte value occupies more than
8948 + modify PutAttrChar() to compute the number of character cells that
8949 are used in multibyte values. This fixes a problem displaying
8950 double-width characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen
8951 <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
8952 + add a null-pointer check for result of keyname() in _tracechar()
8953 + modify _tracechar() to work around glibc sprintf bug.
8956 + add a call to setlocale() in cursesmain.cc, making demo display
8957 properly in a UTF-8 locale.
8958 + add a fallback definition in curses.priv.h for MB_LEN_MAX (prompted
8959 by discussion with Gabor Z Papp).
8960 + use macros NCURSES_ACS() and NCURSES_WACS() to hide cast needed to
8961 appease -Wchar-subscript with g++ 3.3 (Debian #195732).
8962 + fix a redefinition of $RANLIB in the configure script when libtool
8963 is used, which broke configure on Mac OS X (report by Chris Zubrzycki
8965 + simplify ifdef for bool declaration in curses.h.in (suggested by
8966 Albert Chin-A-Young).
8967 + remove configure script check to allow -Wconversion for older
8968 versions of gcc (suggested by Albert Chin-A-Young).
8971 + regenerated html manpages.
8972 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in that disabled use of __attribute__()
8973 for g++, since recent versions implement the cases which ncurses uses
8975 + modify _nc_get_token() to handle a case where an entry has no
8976 description, and capabilities begin on the same line as the entry
8978 + fix a typo in ncurses_dll.h reported by gcc 3.3.
8979 + add an entry for key_defined.3x to man_db.renames.
8982 + modify setcchar() to allow converting control characters to complex
8983 characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
8984 + add tkterm entry -TD
8985 + modify parse_entry.c to allow a terminfo entry with a leading
8986 2-character name (report by Don Libes).
8987 + corrected acsc in screen.teraterm, which requires a PC-style mapping.
8988 + fix trace statements in read_entry.c to use lseek() rather than
8990 + fix signed/unsigned warnings from Sun's compiler (gcc should give
8991 these warnings, but it is unpredictable).
8992 + modify configure script to omit -Winline for gcc 3.3, since that
8994 + modify manlinks.sed to add a few functions that were overlooked since
8995 they return function pointers: field_init, field_term, form_init,
8996 form_term, item_init, item_term, menu_init and menu_term.
8999 + prevent recursion in wgetch() via wgetnstr() if the connection cannot
9000 be switched between cooked/raw modes because it is not a TTY (report
9001 by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.com>).
9002 + change parameter of define_key() and key_defined() to const (prompted
9004 + add a check in test/configure for ncurses extensions, since there
9005 are some older versions, etc., which would not compile with the
9006 current test programs.
9007 + corrected demo in test/ncurses.c of wgetn_wstr(), which did not
9008 convert wchar_t string to multibyte form before printing it.
9009 + corrections to lib_get_wstr.c:
9010 + null-terminate buffer passed to setcchar(), which occasionally
9012 + map special characters such as erase- and kill-characters into
9013 key-codes so those will work as expected even if they are not
9014 mentioned in the terminfo.
9015 + modify PUTC() and Charable() macros to make wide-character line
9016 drawing work for POSIX locale on Linux console (cf: 20021221).
9019 + make typography for program options in manpages consistent (report
9020 by Miloslav Trmac <mitr@volny.cz>).
9021 + correct dependencies in Ada95/src/Makefile.in, so the builds with
9022 "--srcdir" work (report by Warren L Dodge).
9023 + correct missing definition of $(CC) in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in
9024 (reported by Warren L Dodge <warrend@mdhost.cse.tek.com>).
9025 + fix typos and whitespace in manpages (patch by Jason McIntyre
9026 <jmc@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl>).
9029 + fix form_driver() cases for REQ_CLR_EOF, REQ_CLR_EOL, REQ_DEL_CHAR,
9030 REQ_DEL_PREV and REQ_NEW_LINE, which did not ensure the cursor was at
9031 the editing position before making modifications.
9032 + add test/demo_forms and associated test/edit_field.c demos.
9033 + modify test/configure.in to use test/modules for the list of objects
9034 to compile rather than using the list of programs.
9037 + modify logic of acsc to use the original character if no mapping is
9038 defined, noting that Solaris does this.
9039 + modify ncurses 'b' test to avoid using the acs_map[] array since
9040 20021231 changes it to no longer contain information from the acsc
9042 + modify makefile rules in c++, progs, tack and test to ensure that
9043 the compiler flags (e.g., $CFLAGS or $CCFLAGS) are used in the link
9044 command (report by Jose Luis Rico Botella <informatica@serpis.com>).
9045 + modify soft-key initialization to use A_REVERSE if A_STANDOUT would
9046 not be shown when colors are used, i.e., if ncv#1 is set in the
9047 terminfo as is done in "screen".
9050 + add a test for slk_color(), in ncurses.c
9051 + fix some issues reported by valgrind in the slk_set() and slk_wset()
9052 code, from recent rewrite.
9053 + modify ncurses 'E' test to use show previous label via slk_label(),
9055 + modify wide-character versions of NewChar(), NewChar2() macros to
9056 ensure that the whole struct is initialized.
9059 + modify setupterm() to check if the terminfo and terminal-modes have
9060 already been read. This ensures that it does not reinvoke
9061 def_prog_mode() when an application calls more than one function,
9062 such as tgetent() and initscr() (report by Olaf Buddenhagen).
9065 + add 'E' test to ncurses.c, to exercise slk_wset().
9066 + correct handling of carriage-return in wgetn_wstr(), used in demo of
9068 + first draft of slk_wset() function.
9071 + improved warnings in tic when suppressing items to fit in termcap's
9073 + built a list in test/README showing which externals are being used
9074 by either programs in the test-directory or via internal library
9076 + adjust include-options in CF_ETIP_DEFINES to avoid missing
9077 ncurses_dll.h, fixing special definitions that may be needed for
9078 etip.h (reported by Greg Schafer <gschafer@zip.com.au>).
9081 + minor fixes for cardfile.c, to make it write the updated fields to
9082 a file when ^W is given.
9083 + add/use _nc_trace_bufcat() to eliminate some fixed buffer limits in
9087 + correct a case in _nc_remove_string(), used by define_key(), to avoid
9088 infinite loop if the given string happens to be a substring of other
9089 strings which are assigned to keys (report by John McCutchan).
9090 + add key_defined() function, to tell which keycode a string is bound
9091 to (discussion with John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>).
9092 + correct keybound(), which reported definitions in the wrong table,
9093 i.e., the list of definitions which are disabled by keyok().
9094 + modify demo_keydef.c to show the details it changes, and to check
9098 + restructured test/configure script, make it work for libncursesw.
9099 + add description of link_fieldtype() to manpage (report by
9100 L Dee Holtsclaw <dee@sunbeltsoft.com>).
9103 + corrected ifdef's relating to configure check for wchar_t, etc.
9104 + if the output is a socket or other non-tty device, use 1 millisecond
9105 for the cost in mvcur; previously it was 9 milliseconds because the
9106 baudrate was not known.
9107 + in _nc_get_tty_mode(), initialize the TTY buffer on error, since
9108 glibc copies uninitialized data in that case, as noted by valgrind.
9109 + modify tput to use the same parameter analysis as tparm() does, to
9110 provide for user-defined strings, e.g., for xterm title, a
9111 corresponding capability might be
9113 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to avoid passing "#" tokens through the C
9114 preprocessor. This works around Mac OS X's preprocessor, which
9115 insists on adding a blank on each side of the token (report/analysis
9116 by Kevin Murphy <murphy@genome.chop.edu>).
9119 + add configure check for wchar_t and wint_t types, rather than rely
9120 on preprocessor definitions. Also work around for gcc fixinclude
9121 bug which creates a shadow copy of curses.h if it sees these symbols
9122 apparently typedef'd.
9123 + if database is disabled, do not generate run_tic.sh
9124 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking when termcap is read.
9127 + add checking in tic for incomplete line-drawing character mapping.
9128 + updated configure script to reflect fix for AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL,
9129 which is broken in autoconf 2.5x for Mac OS X 10.2.3 (report by
9130 Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl>).
9131 + make return value from _nc_printf_string() consistent. Before,
9132 depending on whether --enable-safe-sprintf was used, it might not be
9133 cached for reallocating.
9136 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking in lib_tparm.c, hardscroll.c
9137 + correct a potentially-uninitialized value if _read_termtype() does
9138 not read as much data as expected (report by Wolfgang Rohdewald
9140 + correct several places where the aclocal.m4 macros relied on cache
9141 variable names which were incompatible (as usual) between autoconf
9142 2.13 and 2.5x, causing the test for broken-linker to give incorrect
9143 results (reports by Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl> and Thomas Esser
9144 <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de>).
9145 + do not try to open gpm mouse driver if standard output is not a tty;
9146 the gpm library does not make this check (bug report for dialog
9147 by David Oliveira <davidoliveira@develop.prozone.ws>).
9150 + modified emx.src to correspond more closely to terminfo.src, added
9151 emx-base to the latter -TD
9152 + add configure option for FreeBSD sysmouse, --with-sysmouse, and
9153 implement support for that in lib_mouse.c, lib_getch.c
9156 + revert 20030105 change to can_clear_with(), does not work for the
9157 case where the update is made on cells which are blanks with
9158 attributes, e.g., reverse.
9159 + improve ifdef's to guard against redefinition of wchar_t and wint_t
9160 in curses.h (report by Urs Jansen).
9163 + improve mvcur() by checking if it is safe to move when video
9164 attributes are set (msgr), and if not, reset/restore attributes
9165 within that function rather than doing it separately in the GoTo()
9166 function in tty_update.c (suggested by Philippe Blain).
9167 + add a message in run_tic.in to explain more clearly what does not
9168 work when attempting to create a symbolic link for /usr/lib/terminfo
9169 on OS/2 and other platforms with no symbolic links (report by John
9171 + change several sed scripts to avoid using "\+" since it is not a BRE
9172 (basic regular expression). One instance caused terminfo.5 to be
9173 misformatted on FreeBSD (report by Kazuo Horikawa
9174 <horikawa@FreeBSD.org> (see FreeBSD docs/46709)).
9175 + correct misspelled 'wint_t' in curs_get_wch.3x (Michael Elkins).
9178 + improve description of terminfo operators, especially static/dynamic
9179 variables (comments by Mark I Manning IV <mark4th@earthlink.net>).
9180 + demonstrate use of FIELDTYPE by modifying test/ncurses 'r' test to
9181 use the predefined TYPE_ALPHA field-type, and by defining a
9182 specialized type for the middle initial/name.
9183 + fix MKterminfo.sh, another workaround for POSIXLY_CORRECT misfeature
9185 > patch by Philippe Blain:
9186 + optimize can_clear_with() a little by testing first if the parameter
9187 is indeed a "blank".
9188 + simplify ClrBottom() a little by allowing it to use clr_eos to clear
9189 sections as small as one line.
9190 + improve ClrToEOL() by checking if clr_eos is available before trying
9192 + use tputs() rather than putp() in a few cases in tty_update.c since
9193 the corresponding delays are proportional to the number of lines
9194 affected: repeat_char, clr_eos, change_scroll_region.
9197 + rewrite of lib_acs.c conflicts with copying of SCREEN acs_map to/from
9198 global acs_map[] array; removed the lines that did the copying.
9201 + change some overlooked tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp()
9202 (report by Philippe Blain).
9203 + modify lib_getch.c to avoid recursion via wgetnstr() when the input
9204 is not a tty and consequently mode-changes do not work (report by
9205 <R.Chamberlin@querix.com>).
9206 + rewrote lib_acs.c to allow PutAttrChar() to decide how to render
9207 alternate-characters, i.e., to work with Linux console and UTF-8
9209 + correct line/column reference in adjust_window(), needed to make
9210 special windows such as curscr track properly when resizing (report
9211 by Lucas Gonze <lgonze@panix.com>).
9212 > patch by Philippe Blain:
9213 + correct the value used for blank in ClrBottom() (broken in 20000708).
9214 + correct an off-by-one in GoTo() parameter in _nc_scrolln().
9217 + change several tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp(), to
9218 enable padding which may be needed for some terminals (patch by
9220 + use '%' as sed substitute delimiter in run_tic script to avoid
9221 problems with pathname delimiters such as ':' and '@' (report by John
9223 + implement a workaround so that line-drawing works with screen's
9224 crippled UTF-8 support (tested with 3.9.13). This only works with
9225 the wide-character support (--enable-widec); the normal library will
9226 simply suppress line-drawing when running in a UTF-8 locale in screen.
9229 + allow BUILD_CC and related configure script variables to be
9230 overridden from the environment.
9231 + make build-tools variables in ncurses/Makefile.in consistent with
9232 the configure script variables (report by Maciej W Rozycki).
9233 + modify ncurses/modules to allow
9234 configure --disable-leaks --disable-ext-funcs
9235 to build (report by Gary Samuelson).
9236 + fix a few places in configure.in which lacked quotes (report by
9237 Gary Samuelson <gary.samuelson@verizon.com>).
9238 + correct handling of multibyte characters in waddch_literal() which
9239 force wrapping because they are started too late on the line (report
9240 by Sam Varshavchik).
9241 + small fix for CF_GNAT_VERSION to ignore the help-message which
9242 gnatmake adds to its version-message.
9243 > Maciej W Rozycki <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>:
9244 + use AC_CHECK_TOOL to get proper values for AR and LD for cross
9246 + use $cross_compiling variable in configure script rather than
9247 comparing $host_alias and $target alias, since "host" is
9248 traditionally misused in autoconf to refer to the target platform.
9249 + change configure --help message to use "build" rather than "host"
9250 when referring to the --with-build-XXX options.
9253 + modify CF_GNAT_VERSION to print gnatmake's version, and to allow for
9254 possible gnat versions such as 3.2 (report by Chris Lingard
9255 <chris@stockwith.co.uk>).
9256 + modify #define's for CKILL and other default control characters in
9257 tset to use the system's default values if they are defined.
9258 + correct interchanged defaults for kill and interrupt characters
9259 in tset, which caused it to report unnecessarily (Debian #171583).
9260 + repair check for missing C++ compiler, which is broken in autoconf
9261 2.5x by hardcoding it to g++ (report by Martin Mokrejs).
9262 + update config.guess, config.sub (2002-11-30)
9263 + modify configure script to skip --with-shared, etc., when the
9264 --with-libtool option is given, since they would be ignored anyway.
9265 + fix to allow "configure --with-libtool --with-termlib" to build.
9266 + modify configure script to show version number of libtool, to help
9267 with bug reports. libtool still gets confused if the installed
9268 ncurses libraries are old, since it ignores the -L options at some
9269 point (tested with libtool 1.3.3 and 1.4.3).
9270 + reorder configure script's updating of $CPPFLAGS and $CFLAGS to
9271 prevent -I options in the user's environment from introducing
9272 conflicts with the build -I options (may be related to reports by
9273 Patrick Ash and George Goffe).
9274 + rename test/define_key.c to test/demo_defkey.c, test/keyok.c to
9275 test/demo_keyok.c to allow building these with libtool.
9278 + add example program test/define_key.c for define_key().
9279 + add example program test/keyok.c for keyok().
9280 + add example program test/ins_wide.c for wins_wch() and wins_wstr().
9281 + modify wins_wch() and wins_wstr() to interpret tabs by using the
9282 winsch() internal function.
9283 + modify setcchar() to allow for wchar_t input strings that have
9284 more than one spacing character.
9287 + fix a boundary check in lib_insch.c (patch by Philippe Blain).
9288 + change type for *printw functions from NCURSES_CONST to const
9289 (prompted by comment by Pedro Palhoto Matos <plpm@mega.ist.utl.pt>,
9290 but really from a note on X/Open's website stating that either is
9291 acceptable, and the latter will be used in a future revision).
9292 + add xterm-1002, xterm-1003 terminfo entries to demonstrate changes in
9293 lib_mouse.c (20021026) -TD
9294 + add screen-bce, screen-s entries from screen 3.9.13 (report by
9295 Adam Lazur <zal@debian.org>) -TD
9296 + add mterm terminfo entries -TD
9299 + split-out useful fragments in terminfo for vt100 and vt220 numeric
9300 keypad, i.e., vt100+keypad, vt100+pfkeys, vt100+fnkeys and
9301 vt220+keypad. The last as embedded in various entries had ka3 and
9302 kb2 interchanged (report/discussion with Leonard den Ottolander
9303 <leonardjo@hetnet.nl>).
9304 + add check in tic for keypads consistent with vt100 layout.
9305 + improve checks in tic for color capabilities
9308 + check for missing/empty/illegal terminfo name in _nc_read_entry()
9309 (report by Martin Mokrejs, where $TERM was set to an empty string).
9310 + rewrote lib_insch.c, combining it with lib_insstr.c so both handle
9311 tab and other control characters consistently (report by Philippe
9313 + remove an #undef for KEY_EVENT from curses.tail used in the
9314 experimental NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS feature. The #undef confuses
9315 dpkg's build script (Debian #165897).
9316 + fix MKlib_gen.sh, working around the ironically named POSIXLY_CORRECT
9317 feature of GNU sed 4.0 (reported by Ervin Nemeth <airwin@inf.bme.hu>).
9320 + implement logic in lib_mouse.c to handle position reports which are
9321 generated when XFree86 xterm is initialized with private modes 1002
9322 or 1003. These are returned to the application as the
9323 REPORT_MOUSE_POSITION mask, which was not implemented. Tested both
9324 with ncurses 'a' menu (prompted by discussion with Larry Riedel
9325 <Larry@Riedel.org>).
9326 + modify lib_mouse.c to look for "XM" terminfo string, which allows
9327 one to override the escape sequence used to enable/disable mouse
9328 mode. In particular this works for XFree86 xterm private modes
9329 1002 and 1003. If "XM" is missing (note that this is an extended
9330 name), lib_mouse uses the conventional private mode 1000.
9331 + correct NOT_LOCAL() macro in lib_mvcur.c to refer to screen_columns
9332 where it used screen_lines (report by Philippe Blain).
9333 + correct makefile rules for the case when both --with-libtool and
9334 --with-gpm are given (report by Mr E_T <troll@logi.net.au>).
9335 + add note to terminfo manpage regarding the differences between
9336 setaf/setab and setf/setb capabilities (report by Pavel Roskin).
9339 + remove redundant initialization of TABSIZE in newterm(), since it is
9340 already done in setupterm() (report by Philippe Blain).
9341 + add test/inserts.c, to test winnstr() and winsch().
9342 + replace 'sort' in dist.mk with script that sets locale to POSIX.
9343 + update URLs in announce.html.in (patch by Frederic L W Meunier).
9344 + remove glibc add-on files, which are no longer needed (report by
9345 Frederic L W Meunier).
9347 20021012 5.3 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
9348 + modify ifdef's in etip.h.in to allow the etip.h header to compile
9349 with gcc 3.2 (patch by Dimitar Zhekov <jimmy@is-vn.bg>).
9350 + add logic to setupterm() to make it like initscr() and newterm(),
9351 by checking for $NCURSES_TRACE environment variable and enabling
9352 the debug trace in that case.
9353 + modify setupterm() to ensure that it initializes the baudrate, for
9354 applications such as tput (report by Frank Henigman).
9355 + modify definition of bits used for command-line and library debug
9356 traces to avoid overlap, using new definition TRACE_SHIFT to relate
9358 + document tput's interpretation of parameterized strings according to
9359 whether parameters are given, etc. (discussion with Robert De Bath).
9361 20021005 pre-release
9362 + correct winnwstr() to account for non-character cells generated when
9363 a double-width character is added (report by Michael Bienia
9364 <michael@vorlon.ping.de>).
9365 + modify _nc_viswbuf2n() to provide better results using wctomb().
9366 + correct logic in _nc_varargs() which broke tracing of parameters for
9367 formats such as "%.*s".
9368 + correct scale factor in linux-c and linux-c-nc terminfo entries
9369 (report Floyd Davidson).
9370 + change tic -A option to -t, add the same option to infocmp for
9372 + correct "%c" implementation in lib_tparm.c, which did not map a null
9373 character to a 128 (cf: 980620) (patch by Frank Henigman
9374 <fjhenigman@mud.cgl.uwaterloo.ca>).
9376 20020928 pre-release
9377 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for POSIX sort -k option, use that if
9378 it is found, to accommodate newer utility which dropped the
9379 compatibility support for +number options (reported by Andrey A
9381 + modify linux terminfo entry to use color palette feature from
9382 linux-c-nc entry (comments by Tomasz Wasiak and Floyd Davidson).
9383 + restore original color definitions in endwin() if init_color() was
9384 used, and resume those colors on the next doupdate() or refresh()
9385 (report by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@komputom.com.pl>).
9386 + improve debug-traces by modifying MKlib_gen.sh to generate calls
9387 to returnBool() and returnAttr().
9388 + add/use _nc_visbufn() and _nc_viswbufn() to limit the debug trace
9389 of waddnstr() and similar functions to match the parameters as used.
9390 + add/use _nc_retrace_bool() and _nc_retrace_unsigned().
9391 + correct type used by _nc_retrace_chtype().
9392 + add debug traces to some functions in lib_mouse.c
9393 + modify lib_addch.c to handle non-spacing characters.
9394 + correct parameter of RemAttr() in lib_bkgd.c, which caused the c++
9395 demo's boxes to lose the A_ALTCHARSET flag (broken in 20020629).
9396 + correct width computed in _tracedump(), which did not account for
9397 the attributes (broken in 20010602).
9398 + modify test/tracemunch to replace addresses for windows other than
9399 curscr, newscr and stdscr with window0, window1, etc.
9401 20020921 pre-release
9402 + redid fix for edit_man.sed path.
9403 + workaround for Cygwin bug which makes subprocess writes to stdout
9404 result in core dump.
9405 + documented getbegx(), etc.
9406 + minor fixes to configure script to use '%' consistently as a sed
9407 delimiter rather than '@'.
9408 > patch by Philippe Blain:
9409 + add check in lib_overlay.c to ensure that the windows to be merged
9410 actually overlap, and in copywin(), limit the area to be touched
9411 to the lines given for the destination window.
9413 20020914 pre-release
9414 + modified curses.h so that if the wide-character version is installed
9415 overwriting /usr/include/curses.h, and if it relied on libutf8.h,
9416 then applications that use that header for wide-character support
9417 must define HAVE_LIBUTF8_H.
9418 + modify putwin(), getwin() and dupwin() to allow them to operate on
9419 pads (request by Philippe Blain).
9420 + correct attribute-merging in wborder(), broken in 20020216 (report
9421 by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@grubasek.komputom.com.pl>).
9422 > patch by Philippe Blain:
9423 + corrected pop-counts in tparam_internal() to '!' and '~' cases.
9424 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in one place that used sizeof(chtype).
9425 + remove some unused variables from mvcur test-driver.
9427 20020907 pre-release
9428 + change configure script to allow install of widec-character
9429 (ncursesw) headers to overwrite normal (ncurses) headers, since the
9430 latter is a compatible subset of the former.
9431 + fix path of edit_man.sed in configure script, needed to regenerate
9432 html manpages on Debian.
9433 + fix mismatched enums in vsscanf.c, which caused warning on Solaris.
9434 + update README.emx to reflect current patch used for autoconf.
9435 + change web- and ftp-site to invisible-island.net
9436 > patch by Philippe Blain:
9437 + change case for 'P' in tparam_internal() to indicate that it pops
9438 a variable from the stack.
9439 + correct sense of precision and width in parse_format(), to avoid
9441 + modify lib_tparm.c, absorb really_get_space() into get_space().
9442 + modify getwin() and dupwin() to copy the _notimeout, _idlok and
9443 _idcok window fields.
9444 + better fix for _nc_set_type(), using typeMalloc().
9446 20020901 pre-release
9447 + change minor version to 3, i.e., ncurses 5.3
9448 + update config.guess, config.sub
9449 + retest build with each configure option; minor ifdef fixes.
9450 + make keyname() return a null pointer rather than "UNKNOWN STRING" to
9452 + modify handling of wide line-drawing character functions to use the
9453 normal line-drawing characters when not in UTF-8 locale.
9454 + add check/fix to comp_parse.c to suppress warning about missing acsc
9455 string. This happens in configurations where raw termcap information
9456 is processed; tic already does this and other checks.
9457 + modify tic's check for ich/ich1 versus rmir/smir to only warn about
9458 ich1, to match xterm patch #70 notes.
9459 + moved information for ripped-off lines into SCREEN struct to allow
9460 use in resizeterm().
9461 + add experimental wgetch_events(), ifdef'd with NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS
9462 (adapted from patch by Ilya Zakharevich - see ncurses/README.IZ).
9463 + amend check in kgetch() from 20020824 to look only for function-keys,
9464 otherwise escape sequences are not resolved properly.
9465 > patch by Philippe Blain:
9466 + removed redundant assignment to SP->_checkfd from newterm().
9467 + check return-value of setupterm() in restartterm().
9468 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in a few places that used sizeof(chtype).
9469 + prevent dupwin() from duplicating a pad.
9470 + prevent putwin() from writing a pad.
9471 + use typeRealloc() or typeMalloc() in preference to direct calls on
9475 + add a check in kgetch() for cooked characters in the fifo to avoid
9476 calling fifo_push() when a KEY_RESIZE is available (report/analysis
9477 by Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>).
9478 + fix an overlooked case for Redhat #68199 (Philippe Blain).
9479 + ensure clearerr() is called before using ferror() e.g., in
9480 lib_screen.c (report by Philippe Blain).
9483 + modify lib_screen.c and lib_newwin.c to maintain the SCREEN-specific
9484 pointers for curscr/stdscr/newscr when scr_save() and scr_restore()
9485 modify the global curscr/stdscr/newscr variables. Fixes Redhat
9487 + add checks for null pointer in calls to tparm() and tgoto() based on
9488 FreeBSD bug report. If ncurses were built with termcap support, and
9489 the first call to tgoto() were a zero-length string, the result would
9490 be a null pointer, which was not handled properly.
9491 + correct a typo in terminfo.head, which gave the octal code for colon
9493 + remove the "tic -u" option from 20020810, since it did not account
9494 for nested "tc=" clauses, and when that was addressed, was still
9498 + add tic -A option to suppress capabilities which are commented out
9499 when translating to termcap.
9500 + add tic -u option to provide older behavior of "tc=" clauses.
9501 + modified tic to expand all but the final "tc=" clause in a termcap
9502 entry, to accommodate termcap libraries which do not handle multiple
9504 + correct typo in curs_inopts.3x regarding CS8/CS7 usage (report by
9506 + remove a couple of redundant uses of A_ATTRIBUTES in expressions
9507 using AttrOf(), which already incorporates that mask (report by
9509 + document TABSIZE variable.
9510 + add NCURSES_ASSUMED_COLORS environment variable, to allow users to
9511 override compiled-in default black-on-white assumption used in
9512 assume_default_colors().
9513 + correct an off-by-one comparison against max_colors in COLORFGBG
9515 + correct a use of uninitialized memory found by valgrind (reported by
9516 Olaf Buddenhagen <olafBuddenhagen@web.de>).
9517 + modified wresize() to ensure that a failed realloc will not corrupt
9518 the window structure, and to make subwindows fit within the resized
9519 window (completes Debian #87678, Debian #101699)
9522 + fix an off-by-one in lib_pad.c check for limits of pad (patch by
9524 + revise logic for BeOS in lib_twait.c altered in 20011013 to restore
9525 logic used by lib_getch.c's support for GPM or EMX mouse (report by
9527 + remove NCURSES_CONST from several prototypes in curses.wide, to make
9528 the --enable-const --enable-widec configure options to work together
9529 (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@yahoo.com>).
9532 + finish no-leak checking in cardfile.c, using this for testing changes
9534 + simplify _nc_freeall() using delscreen().
9537 + check error-return from _nc_set_tty_mode() in _nc_initscr() and
9538 reset_prog_mode() (report/patch by Philippe Blain).
9539 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52, to address
9540 problem with identifying C++ bool type.
9541 + correct/improve logic to produce an exit status for errors in tput,
9542 which did not exit with an error when told to put a string not in the
9543 current terminfo entry (report by David Gomez <david@pleyades.net>).
9544 + modify configure script AC_OUTPUT() call to work around defect in
9545 autoconf 2.52 which adds an ifdef'd include to the generated
9546 configure definitions.
9547 + remove fstat() check from scr_init(), which also fixes a missing
9548 include for <sys/stat.h> from 20020713 (reported by David Ellement,
9549 fix suggested by Philippe Blain).
9550 + update curs_scanw.3x manpage to note that XSI curses differs from
9551 SVr4 curses: return-values are incompatible.
9552 + correct several prototypes in manpages which used const
9553 inconsistently with the curses.h file, and removed spurious const's
9554 in a few places from curses.h, e.g., for wbkgd() (report by Glenn
9555 Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>).
9556 + change internal type used by tparm() to long, to work with LP64 model.
9557 + modify nc_alloc.h to allow building with g++, for testing.
9560 + add resize-handling to cardfile.c test program.
9561 + altered resizeterm() to avoid having it fail when a child window
9562 cannot be resized because it would be larger than its parent. (More
9563 work must be done on this, but it works well enough to integrate).
9564 + improve a limit-check in lib_refresh.c
9565 + remove check in lib_screen.c relating dumptime to file's modification
9566 times, since that would not necessarily work for remotely mounted
9568 + modify lrtest to simplify debugging changes to resizeterm, e.g.,
9569 t/T commands to enable/disable tracing.
9570 + updated status of multibyte support in TO-DO.
9571 + update contact info in source-files (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
9574 + add Caps.hpux11, as an example.
9575 + modify version_filter(), used to implement -R option for tic and
9576 infocmp, to use computed array offsets based on the Caps.* file which
9577 is actually configured, rather than constants which correspond to
9579 + reorganized lib_raw.c to avoid updating SP and cur_term state if the
9580 functions fail (reported by Philippe Blain).
9581 + add -Wundef to gcc warnings, adjust a few ifdef's to accommodate gcc.
9584 + correct parameters to setcchar() in ncurses.c (cf: 20020406).
9585 + set locale in most test programs (view.c and ncurses.c were the
9587 + add configure option --with-build-cppflags (report by Maksim A
9588 Nikulin <M.A.Nikulin@inp.nsk.su>).
9589 + correct a typo in wide-character logic for lib_bkgnd.c (Philippe
9591 + modify lib_wacs.c to not cancel the acsc, smacs, rmacs strings when
9592 in UTF-8 locale. Wide-character functions use Unicode values, while
9593 narrow-character functions use the terminfo data.
9594 + fix a couple of places in Ada95/samples which did not compile with
9596 + modify mkinstalldirs so the DOS-pathname case is locale-independent.
9597 + fix locale problem in MKlib_gen.sh by forcing related variables to
9598 POSIX (C), using same approach as autoconf (set variables only if
9599 they were set before). Update MKterminfo.sh and MKtermsort.sh to
9603 + add charset to generated html.
9604 + add mvterm entry, adapted from a FreeBSD bug-report by Daniel Rudy
9605 <dcrudy@pacbell.net> -TD
9606 + add rxvt-16color, ibm+16color entries -TD
9607 + modify check in --disable-overwrite option so that it is used by
9608 default unless the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr, in attempt to
9609 work around packagers, e.g., for Sun's freeware, who do not read the
9613 + modify wgetch() to allow returning ungetch'd KEY_RESIZE as a function
9614 key code in get_wch().
9615 + extended resize-handling in test/ncurses 'a' menu to the entire
9616 stack of windows created with 'w' commands.
9617 + improve $COLORFGBG feature by interpreting an out-of-range color
9618 value as an SGR 39 or 49, for foreground/background respectively.
9619 + correct a typo in configure --enable-colorfgbg option, and move it
9620 to the experimental section (cf: 20011208).
9623 + add logic to dump_entry.c to remove function-key definitions that do
9624 not fit into the 1023-byte limit for generated termcaps. This makes
9626 + more improvements to tic's warnings, including logic to ignore
9627 differences between delay values in sgr strings.
9628 + move definition of KEY_RESIZE into MKkeydefs.sh script, to
9629 accommodate Caps.osf1r5 which introduced a conflicting definition.
9632 + add simple resize-handling in test/ncurses.c 'a' menu.
9633 + fixes in keyname() and _tracechar() to handle negative values.
9634 + make tic's warnings about mismatches in sgr strings easier to follow.
9635 + correct tic checks for number of parameters in smgbp and smglp.
9636 + improve scoansi terminfo entry, and add scoansi-new entry -TD
9637 + add pcvt25-color terminfo entry -TD
9638 + add kf13-kf48 strings to cons25w terminfo entry (reported by Stephen
9639 Hurd <deuce@lordlegacy.org> in newsgroup lucky.freebsd.bugs) -TD
9640 + add entrypoint _nc_trace_ttymode(), use this to distinguish the
9641 Ottyb and Nttyb members of terminal (aka cur_term), for tracing.
9644 + correct and simplify logic for lib_pad.c change in 20020518 (reported
9648 + fix lib_pad.c for case of drawing a double-width character which
9649 falls off the left margin of the pad (patch by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij
9650 <lerdsuwa@users.sourceforge.net>)
9651 + modify configure script to work around broken gcc 3.1 "--version"
9652 option, which adds unnecessary trash to the requested information.
9653 + adjust ifdef's in case SIGWINCH is not defined, e.g., with DJGPP
9654 (reported by Ben Decker <deckerben@freenet.de>).
9657 + implement vid_puts(), vid_attr(), term_attrs() based on the narrow-
9658 character versions as well.
9659 + implement erasewchar(), killwchar() based on erasechar() and
9661 + modify erasechar() and killchar() to return ERR if the value was
9663 + correct a bug in wresize() in handling subwindows (based on patch by
9664 Roger Gammans <rgammans@computer-surgery.co.uk>, report by Scott Beck
9665 <scott@gossamer-threads.com>).
9666 + improve test/tclock.c by making the second-hand update more often
9667 if gettimeofday() is available.
9670 + workaround for Solaris sed with MKlib_gen.sh (reported by Andy
9671 Tsouladze <andyt@mypoints.com>).
9674 + correct return-value from getcchar(), making it consistent with
9676 + reorder loops that generate makefile rules for different models vs
9677 subsets so configure --with-termlib works again. This was broken by
9678 logic added to avoid duplicate rules in changes to accommodate cygwin
9679 dll's (reported by George.R.Goffe@seagate.com).
9680 + update config.guess, config.sub
9683 + modify ifdef's in write_entry.c to allow use of symbolic links on
9684 platforms with no hard links, e.g., BeOS.
9685 + modify a few includes to allow compile with BeOS, which has stdbool.h
9686 with a conflicting definition for 'bool' versus its OS.h definition.
9687 + amend MKlib_gen.sh to work with gawk, which defines 'func' as an
9688 alias for 'function'.
9691 + correct form of prototype for ripoffline().
9692 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to test that all functions marked as implemented
9696 + add manpages: curs_get_wstr.3x, curs_in_wchstr.3x
9697 + implement wgetn_wstr().
9698 + implement win_wchnstr().
9699 + remove redefinition of unget_wch() in lib_gen.c (reported by
9700 Jungshik Shin <jshin@jtan.com>).
9703 + modified several of the test programs to allow them to compile with
9704 vendor curses implementations, e.g., Solaris, AIX -TD
9707 + modified test/configure to allow configuring against ncursesw.
9708 + change WACS_xxx definition to use address, to work like Tru64 curses.
9711 + add 'e' and 'm' toggles to 'a', 'A' tests in ncurses.c to demonstrate
9712 effect of echo/noecho and meta modes.
9713 + add 'A' test to ncurses.c to demonstrate wget_wch() and related
9715 + add manpage: curs_get_wch.3x
9716 + implement unget_wch().
9717 + implement wget_wch().
9720 + regenerated html manpages.
9721 + add manpages: curs_in_wch.3x, curs_ins_wch.3x, curs_ins_wstr.3x
9722 + implement wins_wch().
9723 + implement win_wch().
9724 + implement wins_nwstr(), wins_wstr().
9727 + add manpages: curs_addwstr.3x, curs_winwstr.3x
9728 + implement winnwstr(), winwstr().
9731 + add manpages: curs_add_wchstr.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x
9732 + document wunctrl, key_name.
9733 + implement key_name().
9734 + remove const's in lib_box.c incorrectly leftover after splitting off
9736 + update llib-lncurses, llib-ncursesw, fix configure script related to
9740 + remove quotes on "SYNOPSIS" in man/curs_box_set.3x, which resulted
9741 in spurious symlinks on install.
9744 + implement whline_set(), wvline_set(), add manpage curs_border_set.
9745 + add subtest 'b' to 'F' and 'f' in ncurses.c to demonstrate use of
9746 box() and box_set() functions.
9747 + add subtest 'u' to 'F' in ncurses.c, to demonstrate use of addstr()
9748 given UTF-8 string equivalents of WACS_xxx symbols.
9749 + minor fixes to several manpages based on groff -ww output.
9750 + add descriptions of external variables of termcap interface to
9751 the manpage (report by Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>).
9752 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
9753 + correct configure option --with-bool, which was executed as
9755 + add quotes for parameters of --with-bool and --with-ospeed configure
9757 > patch by Sven Verdoolaege (report by Gerhard Haering
9758 <haering_linux@gmx.de>):
9759 + correct typos in definitions of several wide-character macros:
9760 waddwstr, wgetbkgrnd, mvaddwstr, mvwadd_wchnstr, mvwadd_wchnstr,
9762 + pass $(CPPFLAGS) to MKlib_gen.sh, thereby fixing a missing definition
9763 of _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, e.g., on Solaris
9766 + implement wide-acs characters for UTF-8 locales. When in UTF-8
9767 locale, ignore narrow version of acs. Add 'F' test to test/ncurses.c
9769 + correct prototype in keybound manpage (noted from a Debian mailing
9773 + add several cases to the wscanw() example in testcurs.c, showing the
9775 + implement a simple vsscanf() fallback function which uses the %n
9776 conversion to help parse the input data (prompted by discussion with
9777 Albert Chin-A-Young).
9778 + modify mk-1st.awk and test/Makefile.in to add $(LDFLAGS) when making
9779 shared libraries, and to use $(CFLAGS) when linking test programs
9780 (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
9781 + add a call to _nc_keypad() in keypad() to accommodate applications
9782 such as nvi, which use curses for output but not for input (fixes
9783 Debian #131263, cf: 20011215).
9784 + add entrypoints to resizeterm.c which provide better control over the
9785 process: is_term_resized() and resize_term(). The latter restores
9786 the original design of resizeterm() before KEY_RESIZE was added in
9787 970906. Do this to accommodate 20010922 changes to view.c, but allow
9788 for programs with their own sigwinch handler, such as lynx (reported
9789 by Russell Ruby <russ@math.orst.edu>).
9792 + fix a typo in change to mk-1st.awk, which broke the shared-library
9793 makefile rules (reported by Martin Mokrejs).
9796 + update config.guess, config.sub
9797 + finish changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
9798 + fix a typo in mvwchat() macro (reported by Cy <yam@homerow.net).
9801 + add case in lib_baudrate.c for B921600 (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
9802 + correct missing sed-editing stage in manpage installs which is used
9803 to rename manpages, broken in 20010324 fix for Debian #89939 (Debian
9805 + remove -L$(libdir) from linker flags, probably not needed any more
9806 since HPUX is handled properly (reported by Niibe Yutaka
9808 + add configure check for mbstate_t, needed for wide-character
9809 configuration. On some platforms we must include <wchar.h> to
9810 define this (reported by Daniel Jacobowitz).
9811 + incorporate some of the changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
9814 + workaround for awk did not work with mawk, adjusted shell script.
9817 + add Caps.osf1r5, as an example.
9818 + modify behavior of can_clear_with() so that if an application is
9819 running in a non-bce terminals with default colors enabled, it
9820 returns true, allowing the user to select/paste text without picking
9821 up extraneous trailing blanks (adapted from patch by Daniel
9822 Jacobowitz <dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu>).
9823 + modify generated curses.h to ifdef-out prototypes for extensions if
9824 they are disabled, and to define curses_version() as a string in that
9825 case. This is needed to make the programs such as tic build in that
9827 + modified generated headers.sh to remove a gzip'd version of the
9828 target file if it exists, in case non-gzip'd manpages are installed
9829 into a directory where gzip'd ones exist. In that case, the latter
9831 + corrected a redundant initialization of signal handlers from 20010922
9833 + clarified bug-reporting address in terminfo.src (report by John H
9834 DuBois III <spcecdt@armory.com>).
9835 > several fixes from Robert Joop:
9836 + do not use "-v" option of awk in MKkey_defs.sh because it does not
9837 work with SunOS nawk.
9838 + modify definitions for libutf8 in curses.h to avoid redefinition
9840 + quoted references to compiler in shell command in misc/Makefile, in
9841 case it uses multiple tokens.
9844 + restore special case from 20010922 changes to omit SA_RESTART when
9845 setting up SIGWINCH handler, which is needed to allow wgetch() to be
9846 interrupted by that signal.
9847 + updated configure macro CF_WITH_PATHLIST, to omit some double quotes
9848 not needed with autoconf 2.52
9849 + revert configure script to autoconf 2.13 patched with
9850 autoconf-2.13-19990117.patch.gz (or later)
9852 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
9853 because autoconf 2.52 macro AC_PROG_AWK does not work on HPUX 11.0
9854 (report by David Ellement <ellement@sdd.hp.com>). This also fixes a
9855 different problem configuring with Mac OS X (reported by Marc Smith
9856 <marc.a.smith@home.com>).
9859 + modify include/edit_cfg.h to eliminate BROKEN_LINKER symbol from
9861 + move prototype for _nc_vsscanf() into curses.h.in to omit
9862 HAVE_VSSCANF symbol from curses.h, which was dependent upon the
9863 ncurses_cfg.h file which is not installed.
9864 + use ACS_LEN rather than SIZEOF(acs_map) in trace code of lib_acs.c,
9865 to work with broken linker configuration, e.g., cygwin (report by
9866 Robert Joop <rj@rainbow.in-berlin.de>).
9867 + make napms() call _nc_timed_wait() rather than poll() or select(),
9868 to work around broken implementations of these on cygwin.
9871 + drop configure macro CF_WIDEC_SHIFT, since that was rendered obsolete
9872 by Sven Verdoolaege's rewrite of wide-character support. This makes
9873 libncursesw incompatible again, but makes the header files almost the
9874 same as in the narrow-character configuration.
9875 + simplify definitions that combine wide/narrow versions of bkgd, etc.,
9876 to eliminate differences between the wide/narrow versions of curses.h
9877 + correct typo in configure macro CF_FUNC_VSSCANF
9878 + correct location of call to _nc_keypad() from 20011215 changes which
9879 prevented keypad() from being disabled (reported by Lars Hecking).
9882 + rewrote ncurses 'a' test to exercise wgetch() and keypad() functions
9883 better, e.g., by adding a 'w' command to create new windows which
9884 may have different keypad() settings.
9885 + corrected logic of keypad() by adding internal screen state to track
9886 whether the terminal's keypad-mode has been set. Use this in
9887 wgetch() to update the keypad-mode according to whether the
9888 associated window's keypad-mode has been set with keypad(). This
9889 corrects a related problem restoring terminal state after handling
9890 SIGTSTP (reported by Mike Castle).
9891 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52
9892 autoconf-2.52-patch.gz
9894 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
9895 + update config.guess, config.sub from
9896 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
9897 + minor changes to quoting in configure script to allow it to work
9901 + modify final checks in lib_setup.c for line and col values, making
9903 + modify acs_map[] if configure --broken-linker is specified, to make
9904 it use a function rather than an array (prompted by an incorrect
9905 implementation in cygwin package).
9906 + correct spelling of configure option --enable-colorfgbg, which
9907 happened to work if --with-develop was set (noted in cygwin package
9909 + modify ifdef for genericerror() to compile with SUNWspro Sun WorkShop
9910 6 update 1 C++ 5.2 (patch by Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu>).
9911 + add configure checks to see if ncurses' fallback vsscanf() will
9912 compile either of the special cases for FILE structs, and if not,
9913 force it to the case which simply returns an error (report by
9914 Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu> indicates that Solaris 8 with
9915 64-bits does not allow access to FILE's fields).
9916 + modify ifdef's for c++/cursesw.cc to use the fallback vsscanf() in
9917 the ncurses library if no better substitute for this can be found
9919 + modify the build to name dynamic libraries according to the
9920 convention used on OS X and Darwin. Rather than something like
9921 libncurses.dylib.5.2, Darwin would name it libncurses. 5.dylib.
9922 There are a few additional minor fixes, such as setting the library
9923 version and compatibility version numbers (patch by Jason Evans
9924 <jevans@apple.com>).
9925 + use 'sh' to run mkinstalldirs, to work around problems with buggy
9926 versions of 'make' on OS/2 (report by John Polterak <jp@eyup.org>).
9927 + correct typo in manpage description of curs_set() (Debian #121548).
9928 + replace the configure script existence-check for mkstemp() by one
9929 that checks if the function works, needed for older glibc and
9933 + modify script that generates fallbacks.c to compile a temporary
9934 copy of the terminfo source in case the host does not contain all of
9935 the entries requested for fallbacks (request by Greg Roelofs).
9936 + modify configure script to accommodate systems such as Mac OS X whose
9937 <stdbool.h> header defines a 'bool' type inconsistent with ncurses,
9938 which normally makes 'bool' consistent with C++. Include <stdbool.h>
9939 from curses.h to force consistent usage, define a new type
9940 NCURSES_BOOL and related that to the exported 'bool' as either a
9941 typedef or definition, according to whether <stdbool.h> is present
9942 (based on a bug report for tin 1.5.9 by Aaron Adams <adamsa@mac.com>).
9945 + added/updated terminfo entries for M$ telnet and KDE konsole -TD
9948 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
9949 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
9950 + add putty terminfo entry -TD
9951 + if configuring for wide-curses, define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, since
9952 this may not otherwise be defined to make test/view.c compile.
9955 + review/correct several missing/generated items in curses.wide, sorted
9956 the lists to make subsequent diff's easier to track.
9959 + add manual pages for add_wch(), echo_wchar(), getcchar(),
9960 mvadd_wch(), mvwadd_wch(), setcchar(), wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar().
9961 + implement wecho_wchar()
9962 + modify _tracedump() to handle wide-characters by mapping them to '?'
9963 and control-characters to '.', to make the trace file readable. Also
9964 dynamically allocate the buffer used by _tracedump() for formatting
9966 + modify T_CALLED/T_RETURN macros to ease balancing call/return lines
9967 in a trace by using curly braces.
9968 + implement _nc_viscbuf(), for tracing cchar_t arrays.
9969 + correct trace-calls in setcchar() and getcchar() functions, which
9970 traced the return values but not the entry to each function.
9971 + correct usage message in test/view.c, which still mentioned -u flag.
9974 + modify configure script to allow building with termcap only, or with
9975 fallbacks only. In this case, we do not build tic and toe.
9976 + add configure --with-termpath option, to override default TERMPATH
9977 value of /etc/termcap:/usr/share/misc/termcap.
9978 + cosmetic change to tack: make menu descriptions agree with menu
9982 + rewrote limit-checks in wscrl() and associated _nc_scroll_window(),
9983 to ensure that if the parameter of wscrl() is larger than the size of
9984 the scrolling region, then the scrolling region will be cleared
9985 (report by Ben Kohlen <bckohlen@yahoo.com>).
9986 + add trace/varargs.c, using this to trace parameters in lib_printw.c
9987 + implement _tracecchar_t2() and _tracecchar_t().
9988 + split-out trace/visbuf.c
9989 + correct typo in lib_printw.c changes from 20010922 (report by Mike
9993 + modify run_tic.sh to check if the build is a cross-compile. In that
9994 case, do not use the build's tic to install the terminfo database
9995 (report by Rafael Rodriguez Velilla <rrv@tid.es>).
9996 + modify mouse click resolution so that mouseinterval(-1) will disable
9997 it, e.g., to handle touchscreens via a slow connection (request by
9998 Byron Stanoszek <gandalf@winds.org>).
9999 + correct mouseinterval() default value shown in curs_mouse.3x
10000 + remove conflicting definition of mouse_trafo() (reported by Lars
10001 Hecking, using gcc 2.95.3).
10004 + simpler fix for signal_name(), to replace the one overlooked in
10005 20010929 (reported by Larry Virden).
10008 + add -i option to view.c, to test ncurses' check for non-default
10009 signal handler for SIGINT, etc.
10010 + add cases for shared-libraries on Darwin/OS X (patch by Rob Braun
10011 <bbraun@synack.net>).
10012 + modify tset to restore original I/O modes if an error is encountered.
10013 Also modify to use buffered stderr consistently rather than mixing
10015 + change signal_name() function to use if-then-else rather than case
10016 statement, since signal-values aren't really integers (reported by
10018 + add limit checks in wredrawln(), fixing a problem where lynx was
10019 repainting a pad which was much larger than the screen.
10022 + fix: PutRange() was counting the second part of a wide character as
10023 part of a run, resulting in a cursor position that was one too far
10024 (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
10025 + modify resizeterm() to not queue a KEY_RESIZE if there was no
10026 SIGWINCH, thereby separating the two styles of SIGWINCH handling
10028 + simplified lib_tstp.c, modify it to use SA_RESTART flag for SIGWINCH.
10029 + eliminate several static buffers in the terminfo compiler, using
10031 + modify MKkeyname.awk so that keyname() does not store its result into
10032 a static buffer that is overwritten by the next call.
10033 + reorganize the output of infocmp -E and -e options to compile cleanly
10034 with gcc -Wwrite-strings warnings.
10035 + remove redefinition of chgat/wchgat/mvwchgat from curses.wide
10038 + add label to test/view.c, showing the name of the last key or signal
10039 that made the screen repaint, to make it clearer when a sigwinch
10041 + use ExitProgram() consistently in the test-programs to make it
10042 simpler to test leaks with dmalloc, etc.
10043 + move hashtab static data out of hashmap.c into SCREEN struct.
10044 + make NO_LEAK code compile with revised WINDOWLIST structs.
10047 + modify tgetent() to check if exit_attribute_mode resets the alternate
10048 character set, and if so, attempt to adjust the copy of the termcap
10049 "me" string which it will return to eliminate that part. In
10050 particular, 'screen' would lose track of line-drawing characters
10051 (report by Frederic L W Meunier <0@pervalidus.net>, analysis by
10052 Michael Schroeder).
10055 + specify DOCTYPE in html manpages.
10056 + add missing macros for several "generated" functions: attr_get(),
10057 attr_off(), attr_on(), attr_set(), chgat(), mvchgat(), mvwchgat() and
10059 + modify view.c to agree with non-experimental status of ncurses'
10061 + change the sense of the -r option, making it default to ncurses'
10063 + add a note explaining what functions are unsafe in a signal
10065 + add a -c option, to set color display, for testing.
10066 + unset $data variable in MKterminfo.sh script, to address potential
10067 infinite loop if shell malfunction (report by Samuel Mikes
10068 <smikes@cubane.com>, for bash 2.05.0 on a Linux 2.0.36 system).
10069 + change kbs in mach terminfo entries to ^? (Marcus Brinkmann
10070 <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>).
10071 + correct logic for COLORFGBG environment variable: if rxvt is compiled
10072 with xpm support, the variable has three fields, making it slightly
10073 incompatible with itself. In either case, the background color is
10077 + move calls to def_shell_mode() and def_prog_mode() before loop with
10078 callbacks in lib_set_term.c, since the c++ demo otherwise initialized
10079 the tty modes before saving them (patch by John David Anglin
10080 <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>).
10081 + duplicate logic used to initialize trace in newterm(), in initscr()
10082 to avoid confusing trace of initscr().
10083 + simplify allocation of WINDOW and WINDOWLIST structs by making the
10084 first a part of the second rather than storing a pointer. This saves
10085 a call to malloc for each window (discussion with Philippe Blain).
10086 + remove unused variable 'used_ncv' from lib_vidattr.c (Philippe
10088 + modify c++/Makefile.in to accommodate archive programs that are
10089 different for C++ than for C, and add cases for vendor's C++
10090 compilers on Solaris and IRIX (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
10091 + correct manpage description of criteria for deciding if the terminal
10092 supports xterm mouse controls.
10093 + add several configure script options to aid with cross-compiling:
10094 --with-build-cc, --with-build-cflags, --with-build-ldflags, and
10095 --with-build-libs (request by Greg Roelofs).
10096 + change criteria for deciding if configure is cross-compiling from
10097 host/build mismatch to host/target mismatch (request by Greg Roelofs
10098 <greg.roelofs@philips.com>).
10099 + correct logic for infocmp -e and -E options which writes the data for
10100 the ext_Names[] array. This is needed if one constructs a fallback
10101 table for a terminfo entry which uses extended termcap names, e.g.,
10102 AX in a color xterm.
10103 + fix undefined NCURSES_PATHSEP when configure --disable-database
10107 + fix for VALID_BOOLEAN() macro when char is not signed.
10108 + modify 'clean' rule for C++ binding to work with Sun compiler, which
10109 caches additional information in a subdirectory of the objects.
10110 + added llib-ncursesw.
10113 + add Caps.keys example for experimental extended function keys
10114 (adapted from a patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
10115 + correct parameter types of vidputs() and vidattr() to agree with
10116 header files (report by William P Setzer).
10117 + fix typos in several man-pages (patch by William P Setzer).
10118 + remove unneeded ifdef for __GNUG__ in CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC configure
10119 macro, which made ncurses C++ binding fail to build with other
10120 C++ compilers such as HPUX 11.x (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
10121 + workaround for bug in HPUX 11.x C compiler: add a blank after
10122 NCURSES_EXPORT macro in form.h (report by Albert Chin-A-Young)
10123 + ignore blank lines in Caps* files in MKkey_defs.sh script (report by
10124 Albert Chin-A-Young).
10125 + correct definition of key_end in Caps.aix4, which left KEY_END
10126 undefined (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
10127 + remove a QNX-specific fallback prototype for vsscanf(), which is
10128 obsolete with QNX RTP.
10129 + review/fix some of the T() and TR() macro calls, having noticed that
10130 there was no data for delwin() in a trace of dialog because there was
10131 no returnVoid call for wtimeout(). Also, traces in lib_twait.c are
10132 now selected under TRACE_IEVENT rather than TRACE_CALLS.
10135 + add a _nc_access() check before opening files listed via $TERMPATH.
10136 + using modified man2html, regenerate some of the html manpages to fix
10137 broken HREF's where the link was hyphenated.
10140 + add some limit/pointer checks to -S option of tputs.
10141 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
10142 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
10143 + add a note in curs_termcap.3x regarding a defect in the XSI
10144 description of tgetent (based on a discussion with Urs Jansen
10145 regarding the HPUX 11.x implementation, whose termcap interface is
10146 not compatible with existing termcap programs).
10147 + modify manhtml rule in dist.mk to preserve copyright notice on the
10148 generated files, as well as to address HTML style issues reported by
10149 tidy and weblint. Regenerated/updated corresponding html files.
10150 + comment out use of Protected_Character and related rarely used
10151 attributes in ncurses Ada95 test/demo to compile with wide-character
10155 + implement a simple example in C++ demo to test scanw().
10156 + corrected stdio function used to implement scanw() in cursesw.cc
10157 + correct definition of RemAttr() macro from 20010602 changes, which
10158 caused C++ SillyDemo to not show line-drawing characters.
10159 + modify C++ binding, adding getKey() which can be overridden by user
10160 to substitute functions other than getch() for keyboard processing
10161 of forms and menus (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
10164 + fix some of the trace calls which needed modification to work with
10165 new wide-character structures.
10166 + modify magic-cookie code in tty_update.c to compile with new
10167 wide-character structures (report by <George.R.Goffe@seagate.com>).
10168 + ensure that _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined in curses.priv.h if
10169 compiling for wide-character configuration.
10170 + make addwnstr() handle non-spacing characters (patch by Sven
10174 + add configure check to define _GNU_SOURCE, needed to prop up glibc
10176 + split-out include/curses.wide to solve spurious redefinitions caused
10177 by defining _GNU_SOURCE, and move includes for <signal.h> before
10178 <curses.h> to work around misdefinition of ERR in glibc 2.1.3 header
10180 + extended ospeed change to NetBSD and OpenBSD -TD
10181 + modify logic in lib_baudrate.c for ospeed, for FreeBSD to make it
10182 work properly for termcap applications (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
10185 + correct an overlooked CharOf/UChar instance (reports by Eugene Lee
10186 <eugene@anime.net>, Sven Verdoolaege).
10187 + correct unneeded ifdef for wunctrl() (reported by Sven Verdoolaege)
10190 + change overlooked several CharOf/UChar instances.
10191 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
10192 + correct a typo in wunctrl(), which made it appear that botwc() was
10193 needed (no such function: use btowc()).
10194 + reimplement wide-character demo in test/view.c, using new functions.
10195 + implement getcchar(), setcchar(), wadd_wchnstr() and related macros.
10196 + fix a syntax problem with do/if/while in PUTC macro (curses.priv.h).
10199 + add parentheses in macros for malloc in test.priv.h, fixes an
10200 expression in view.c (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.co.at>).
10201 + add Caps.uwin, as an example.
10202 + change the way curses.h is generated, making the list of function
10203 key definitions extracted from the Caps file.
10204 + add #undef's before possible redefinition of ERR and OK in curses.h
10205 + modify logic in tic, toe, tput and tset which checks for basename of
10206 argv[0] to work properly on systems such as OS/2 which have
10207 case-independent filenames and/or program suffixes, e.g., ".ext".
10210 + add a configure check, if --enable-widec is specified, for putwc(),
10211 which may be in libutf8.
10212 + remove some unnecessary text from curs_extend.3x and
10213 default_colors.3x which caused man-db to make incorrect symbolic
10214 links (Debian #99550).
10215 + add configure check if cast for _IO_va_list is needed to compile
10216 C++ vscan code (Debian #97945).
10217 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
10218 + correct code that used non-standard auto-initialization of a struct,
10219 which gcc allows (report by Larry Virden).
10220 + use putwc() in PUTC() macro.
10221 + make addstr() work for the special case where the codeset is
10222 non-stateful (eg. UTF-8), as well as stateful codesets.
10225 + correct loop expression in NEXT_CHAR macro for lib_addstr.c changes
10226 from 20010602 (report by Mike Castle).
10229 + modify mvcur() to avoid emitting newline characters when nonl() mode
10230 is set. Normally this is not a problem since the actual terminal
10231 mode is set to suppress nl/crlf translations, however it is useful to
10232 allow the caller to manipulate the terminal mode to avoid staircasing
10233 effects after spawning a process which writes messages (for lynx
10235 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>:
10236 + remove redundant type-conversion in fifo_push()
10237 + correct definition of addwstr() macro in curses.h.in
10238 + remove _nc_utf8_outch()
10239 + rename most existing uses of CharOf() to UChar(), e.g., where it is
10240 used to prevent sign-extension in ctype macros.
10241 + change some chtype's to attr_t's where the corresponding variables
10242 are used to manipulate attributes.
10243 + UpdateAttr() was applied to both attributes (attr_t) and characters
10244 (chtype). Modify macro and calls to it to make these distinct.
10245 + add CharEq() macro, use in places where wide-character configuration
10246 implementation uses a struct for cchar_t.
10247 + moved struct ldat into curses.priv.h, to hide implementation details.
10248 + change CharOf() macro to use it for masking A_CHARTEXT data from
10250 + add L() macro to curses.priv.h, for long-character literals.
10251 + replace several assignments from struct ldat entries to chtype or
10252 char values with combinations of CharOf() and AttrOf() macros.
10253 + add/use intermediate ChAttrOf() and ChCharOf() macros where we know
10254 we are using chtype data.
10255 + add/use lowlevel attribute manipulation macros AddAttr(), RemAttr()
10257 + add/use SetChar() macro, to change a cchar_t based on a character and
10259 + convert most internal use of chtype to NCURSES_CH_T, to simplify use
10260 of cchar_t for wide-character configuration. Similarly, use ARG_CH_T
10261 where a pointer would be more useful.
10262 + add stubs for tracing cchar_t values.
10263 + add/use macro ISBLANK()
10264 + add/use constructors for cchar_t's: NewChar(), NewChar2().
10265 + add/use macros CHREF(), CHDEREF(), AttrOfD(), CharOfD() to facilitate
10266 passing cchar_t's by address.
10267 + add/use PUTC_DATA, PUTC() macros.
10268 + for wide-character configuration, move the window background data to
10269 the end of the WINDOW struct so that whether _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
10270 is defined or not, the offsets in the struct will not change.
10271 + modify addch() to work with wide-characters.
10272 + mark several wide-character functions as generated in curses.h.in
10273 + implement wunctrl(), wadd_wch(), wbkgrndset(), wbkgrnd(),
10274 wborder_set() and waddnwstr().
10277 + add experimental --with-caps=XXX option to customize to similar
10278 terminfo database formats such as AIX 4.x
10279 + add Caps.aix4 as an example.
10280 + modify Caps to add columns for the the KEY_xxx symbols.
10281 + modify configure --with-widec to suppress overwrite of libcurses.so
10283 + add checks to toe.c to avoid being confused by files and directories
10284 where we would expect the reverse, e.g., source-files in the
10285 top-level terminfo levels as is the case for AIX.
10288 + add top-level 'depend' rule for the C sources, assuming that the
10289 makedepend program is available. As a side-effect, this makes
10290 the generated sources, as in "make sources" (prompted by a report
10291 by Mike Castle that "make -j" fails because the resulting parallel
10292 processes race to generate ncurses/names.c).
10293 + modify configure script so that --disable-overwrite option's action
10294 to add a symbolic link for libcurses applies to the static library as
10295 well as the shared library when both are configured (report by Felix
10296 Natter <f.natter@ndh.net>).
10297 + add ELKS terminfo entries (Federico Bianchi
10298 <bianchi@www.arte.unipi.it>)
10299 + add u6 (CSR) to Eterm (Michael Jennings).
10302 + modify test/ncurses.c to work with xterm-256color, which has fewer
10303 color pairs than colors*colors (report by David Ellement
10304 <ellement@sdd.hp.com>).
10307 + corrected screen.xterm-xfree86 entry.
10308 + update comment in Caps regarding IBM (AIX) function-key definitions.
10311 + modify c++/Makefile.in to link with libncurses++w.a when configured
10312 for wide-characters (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
10313 + add check in _nc_trace_buf() to refrain from freeing a null pointer.
10314 + improve CF_PROG_INSTALL macro using CF_DIRNAME.
10315 + update config.guess, config.sub from autoconf 2.49e (alpha).
10318 + add secondary check in tic.c, similar_sgr() to see if the reason
10319 for mismatch was that the individual capabilities used a time-delay
10320 while sgr did not. Used this to cleanup mismatches, e.g., in vt100,
10321 and remove time-delay from Apple_Terminal entries.
10322 + add Apple_Terminal terminfo entries (Benjamin C W Sittler
10323 <bsittler@iname.com>).
10324 + correct definitions of shifted editing keys for xterm-xfree86 -TD
10325 + fix a bug in test/bs.c from 20010407 (patch by Erik Sigra).
10326 + prevent relative_move() from doing an overwrite if it detects 8-bit
10327 characters when configured for UTF-8 (reported by Sven Verdoolaege
10328 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
10331 + add configure checks for strstream.h vscan function, and similar
10332 stdio-based function which may be used in C++ binding for gcc 3.0
10333 (reports by George Goffe, Lars Hecking, Mike Castle).
10334 + rewrite parts of configure.in which used changequote(). That feature
10335 is broken in the latest autoconf alphas (e.g., 2.49d).
10336 + add a missing pathname for ncurses_dll.h, needed when building in
10337 a directory outside the source tree (patch by Sven Verdoolaege
10338 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
10339 > fix 2 bugs in test/bs.c Erik Sigra <sigra@home.se>:
10340 + no ships were ever placed in the last row or in the last column.
10341 This made the game very easy to win, because you never had to waste
10342 any shots there, but the computer did.
10343 + the squares around a sunken ship that belonged to the player were not
10344 displayed as already hit by the computer, like it does for the
10348 + add some examples of customizing screen's terminfo:
10349 screen.xterm-xfree86, screen.xterm-r6, screen.teraterm -TD
10350 + modify screen's terminfo entry to match the khome/kend in screen
10351 3.09.08 (Debian #92215).
10352 + correct a memory leak in forms library (report by Stefan Vogtner
10353 <stefan@vogtner.de>) (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
10356 + change symbols used to guard against repeated includes to begin
10357 consistently with "NCURSES_" rather than a leading underscore. There
10358 are other symbols defined in the header files which begin with a
10359 leading underscore, but they are part of the legacy interface.
10360 + reorder includes in c++ binding so that rcs identifiers can be
10362 + add .cc.ii rule to c++ makefile, to get preprocessor output for
10364 + correct configure script handling of @keyword@ substitutions when the
10365 --with-manpage-renames option is given (cf: 20000715, fixes Debian
10367 + report stack underflow/overflow in tparm() when tic -cv option is
10369 + remove spurious "%|" operator from xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry,
10370 (reported by Adam Costello <amc@cs.berkeley.edu>, Debian #89222).
10373 + cleanup of newdemo.c, fixing some ambiguous expressions noted by gcc
10374 2.95.2, and correcting some conflicting color pair initializations.
10375 + add missing copyright notice for cursesw.h
10376 + review, make minor fixes for use of '::' for referring to C-language
10377 interface from C++ binding.
10378 + modify configure check for g++ library slightly to accommodate
10379 nonstandard version number, e.g., <vendor>-2.7 (report by Ronald Ho
10380 <rho@mipos2.intel.com>).
10381 + add configure check for c++ <sstream> header, replace hardcoded
10383 + workaround for pre-release of gcc 3.0 libstdc++, which has dropped
10384 vscan from strstreambuf to follow standard, use wrapper for C vscanf
10385 instead (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@excite.com> and Matt Taggart
10386 <taggart@carmen.fc.hp.com>, fixes Debian .
10389 + modify interface of _nc_get_token() to pass 'silent' parameter to it,
10390 to make quieter loading of /etc/termcap (patch by Todd C Miller).
10391 + correct a few typos in curs_slk.3x and curs_outopts.3x manpages
10392 (patch by Todd C Miller).
10395 + compiler-warning fixes (reported by Nelson Beebe).
10398 + modify screen terminfo entry to use new 3.9.8 feature allowing xterm
10402 + broaden patterns used to match OS/2 EMX in configure script to cover
10403 variant used in newer config.guess/config.sub
10404 + remove changequote() calls from configure script, since this feature
10405 is broken in the autoconf 2.49c alpha, maintainers decline to fix.
10406 + remove macro callPutChar() from tty_update.c, since this is no longer
10407 needed (reported by Philippe Blain).
10408 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c to handle the case when the input
10409 file is really empty. Modify the next_char() function in comp_scan.c
10410 to allow arbitrarily long lines, and incidentally supply a newline to
10411 files that do not end in a newline. These changes improve tic's
10412 recovery from attempts to read binary files, e.g., its output from
10413 the terminfo database (reported by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
10416 + revert change to c++/demo.cc from 20001209, which changed definition
10417 of main() apparently to accommodate cygwin linker, but broke the demo
10419 + workaround for broken egcs 2.91.66 which calls member functions
10420 (i.e., lines() and colors() of NCursesWindow before calling its
10421 constructor. Add calls to initialize() in a few constructors which
10422 did not do this already.
10423 + use the GNAT preprocessor to make the necessary switch between TRACE
10424 and NO_TRACE configurations (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
10425 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
10426 + modify kterm terminfo entry to use SCS sequence to support alternate
10427 character set (it does not work with SI/SO).
10428 + --with-ospeed=something didn't work. configure.in checked for a
10429 $enableval where it should check for $withval. Also,
10430 ncurses/llib-lncurses still had a hardcoded short.
10433 + correction to my merge of Tom Riddle's patch that broke tic in some
10434 conditions (reported by Enoch Wexler <enoch@wexler.co.il>) -TD
10437 + modify view.c to test halfdelay(). Like other tests, this recognizes
10438 the 's' and space commands for stopping/starting polled input, shows
10439 a freerunning clock in the header. If given a parameter to 's', that
10440 makes view.c use halfdelay() with that parameter rather than
10442 + fix to allow compile with the experimental configure option
10444 + modify postprocess_termcap() to avoid overwriting key_backspace,
10445 key_left, key_down when processing a non-base entry (report/patch by
10447 + modify _nc_wrap_entry(), adding option to reallocate the string
10448 table, needed in _nc_merge_entry() when merging termcap entries.
10449 (adapted from report/patch by Tom Riddle <ftr@oracom.com>).
10450 + modify a few configure script macros to keep $CFLAGS used only for
10451 compiler options, preprocessor options in $CPPFLAGS.
10454 + correct marker positions in lrtest.c after receiving a sigwinch.
10455 + fix ifdef's in ncurses.c to build against pre-5.2 for testing.
10456 + fixes to tclock for resizing behavior, redundant computation (report
10457 and patch by A M Kuchling <akuchlin@mems-exchange.org>).
10460 + improved scoansi terminfo entry -TD
10461 + modify configure script and makefile in Ada95/src to compile a stub
10462 for the trace functions when ncurses does not provide those.
10465 + add ncurses_dll.h and related definitions to support generating DLL's
10466 with cygwin (adapted from a patch by Charles Wilson
10467 <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>, changed NCURSES_EXPORT macro to make it
10468 work with 'indent') -TD
10471 + correct prototypes for some functions in curs_termcap.3x, matching
10472 termcap.h, which matches X/Open.
10473 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
10474 + a revised version of the Ada enhancements sent in by "H.
10475 Nanosecond", aka Eugene V Melaragno <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>. This
10477 - small fixes to the existing ncurses binding
10478 - addition of some more low-level functions to the binding, including
10479 termcap and terminfo functions
10480 - An Ada implementation of the "ncurses" test application originally
10484 + modify logic in lib_setup.c to allow either lines or columns value
10485 from terminfo to be used if the screen size cannot be determined
10486 dynamically rather than requiring both (patch by Ehud Karni
10487 <ehud@unix.simonwiesel.co.il>).
10488 + add check in lib_tgoto.c's is_termcap() function to reject null or
10489 empty strings (reported by Valentin Nechayev <netch@netch.kiev.ua> to
10491 + add definition from configure script that denotes the path-separator,
10492 which is normally a colon. The path-separator is a semicolon on
10493 OS/2 EMX and similar systems which may use a colon within pathnames.
10494 + alter logic to set default for --disable-overwrite option to set it
10495 to 'yes' if the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr/local, thereby
10496 accommodating the most common cause of problems: gcc's nonstandard
10497 search rules. Other locations such as /usr/local/ncurses will
10498 default to overwriting (report by Lars Hecking <lhecking@nmrc.ie>).
10501 + modify default for --disable-overwrite configure option to disable
10502 if the --prefix or $prefix value is not /usr.
10503 + add cygwin to systems for which ncurses is installed by default into
10504 /usr rather than /usr/local.
10507 + minor optimization in comp_error.c and lib_termname.c, using
10508 strncat() to replace strncpy() (patch by Solar Designer).
10509 + add a use_terminfo_vars() check for $HOME/.termcap, and check for
10510 geteuid() to use_terminfo_vars() (patch by Solar Designer
10511 <solar@false.com>).
10512 + improved cygwin terminfo entry, based on patch by
10513 <ernie_boyd@yahoo.com>.
10514 + modify _nc_write_entry() to allow for the possibility that linking
10515 aliases on a filesystem that ignores case would not succeed because
10516 the source and destination differ only by case, e.g., NCR260VT300WPP0
10517 on cygwin (report by Neil Zanella).
10518 + fix a typo in the curs_deleteln.3x man page (patch by Bernhard
10519 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
10522 + add configure option --with-ospeed to assist packagers in transition
10523 to 5.3 change to ospeed type.
10524 + add/use CharOf() macro to suppress sign-extension of char type on
10525 platforms where this is a problem in ctype macros, e.g., Solaris.
10526 + change trace output to binary format.
10527 + correct a missing quote adjustment in CF_PATH_SYNTAX autoconf
10528 macro, for OS/2 EMX configuration.
10529 + rearrange a few configure macros, moving preprocessor options to
10530 $CPPFLAGS (a now-obsolete version of autoconf did not consistently
10531 use $CPPFLAGS in both the compile and preprocessor checks).
10532 + add a check in relative_move() to guard against buffer overflow in
10533 the overwrite logic.
10536 + add message to configure script showing g++ version.
10537 + resync config.guess, config.sub
10538 + modify lib_delwin.c, making it return ERR if the window did not exist
10539 (suggested by Neil Zanella).
10540 + add cases for FreeBSD 3.1 to tdlint and makellib scripts, used this
10541 to test/review ncurses library. (Would use lclint, but it doesn't
10543 + reorganized knight.c to avoid forward references. Correct screen
10544 updates when backtracking, especially to the first cell. Add F/B/a
10547 20001021 5.2 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
10548 + update generated html files from manpages.
10549 + modify dist.mk to use edit_man.sh to substitute autoconf'd variables
10551 + fix an uninitialized pointer in read_termcap.c (report by Todd C
10552 Miller, from report/patch by Philip Guenther <guenther@gac.edu>).
10553 + correct help-message and array limit in knight.c (patch by Brian
10554 Raiter <breadbox@muppetlabs.com>).
10555 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
10556 + fix to avoid warning by GNAT-3.13p about use of inconsistent casing
10557 for some identifiers defined in the standard package.
10558 + cosmetic change to forms/fty_enum.c
10561 + correct an off-by-one position in test/railroad.c which could cause
10562 wrapping at the right margin.
10563 + test/repair some issues with libtool configuration. Make
10564 --disable-echo force libtool --silent. (Libtool does not work for
10565 OS/2 EMX, works partly for SCO - libtool is still very specific to
10567 + change default of --with-manpage-tbl to "no", since for most of the
10568 platforms which do have tbl installed, the system "man" program
10569 understands how to run tbl automatically.
10570 + minor improvement to force_bar() in comp_parse.c (Bernhard
10571 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
10572 + modify lib_tparm.c to use get_space() before writing terminating
10573 null character, both for consistency as well as to ensure that if
10574 save_char() was called immediately before, that the allocated memory
10575 is enough (patch by Sergei Ivanov).
10576 + add note about termcap ML capability which is duplicated between two
10577 different capabilities: smgl and smglr (reported by Sergei Ivanov
10578 <svivanov@pdmi.ras.ru>).
10579 + correct parameter counts in include/Caps for dclk as well as some
10580 printer-specific capabilities: csnm, defc, scs, scsd, smgtp, smglp.
10581 > patch by Johnny C Lam <lamj@stat.cmu.edu>:
10582 + add support for building with libtool (apparently version 1.3.5,
10583 since old versions do not handle -L../lib), using new configure
10584 option --with-libtool.
10585 + add configure option --with-manpage-tbl, which causes the manpages to
10586 be preprocessed by tbl(1) prior to installation,
10587 + add configure option --without-curses-h, which causes the
10588 installation process to install curses.h as ncurses.h and make
10589 appropriate changes to headers and manpages.
10592 + correct order of options/parameters in run_tic.in invocation of tic,
10593 which did not work with standard getopt() (reported by Ethan
10594 Butterfield <primus@veris.org>).
10595 + correct logic for 'reverse' variable in lib_vidattr.c, which was
10596 setting it true without checking if newmode had A_REVERSE set, e.g.,
10597 using $TERM=ansi on OS/2 EMX (see 20000917).
10598 > patch by Todd C Miller:
10599 + add a few missing use_terminfo_vars() and fixes up _nc_tgetent().
10600 Previously, _nc_cgetset() would still get called on cp so the
10601 simplest thing is to set cp to NULL if !use_terminfo_vars().
10602 + added checks for an empty $HOME environment variable.
10603 > patches for OS/2 EMX (Ilya Zakharevich):
10604 + modify convert_configure.pl to support INSTALL. Change compiler
10605 options in that script to use multithreading, needed for the mouse.
10606 + modify OS/2 mouse support, retrying as a 2-button mouse if code fails
10607 to set up a 3-button mouse.
10608 + improve code for OS/2 mouse support, using _nc_timed_wait() to
10609 replace select() call.
10612 + change type of ospeed variable back to short to match its use in
10613 legacy applications (reported by Andrey A Chernov).
10614 + add case to configure script for --enable-rpath on IRIX (patch by
10615 Albert Chin-A-Young).
10616 + minor fix to position_check() function, to ensure it gets the whole
10617 cursor report before decoding.
10618 + add configure option --disable-assumed-color, to allow pre-5.1
10619 convention of default colors used for color-pair 0 to be configured
10620 (see assume_default_colors()).
10621 + rename configure option --enable-hashmap --disable-hashmap, and
10622 reorder the configure options, splitting the experimental and
10624 + add configure option --disable-root-environ, which tells ncurses to
10625 disregard $TERMINFO and similar environment variables if the current
10626 user is root, or running setuid/setgid (based on discussion with
10628 + modified misc/run_tic.in to use tic -o, to eliminate dependency on
10629 $TERMINFO variable for installs.
10630 + add table entry for plab_norm to tput, so it passes in strings
10631 for that capability.
10632 + modify parse_format() in lib_tparm.c to ignore precision if it is
10633 longer than 10000 (report by Jouko Pynnonen).
10634 + rewrote limit checks in lib_mvcur.c using new functions
10635 _nc_safe_strcat(), etc. Made other related changes to check lengths
10636 used for strcat/strcpy (report by Jouko Pynnonen
10637 <jouko@solutions.fi>).
10640 + modify several descriptions, including those for setaf, setab, in
10641 include/Caps to indicate that the entries are parameterized. This
10642 information is used to tell which strings are translated when
10643 converting to termcap. Fixes a problem where the generated termcap
10644 would contain a spurious "%p1" for the terminfo "%p1%d".
10645 + modify ld -rpath options (e.g., Linux, and Solaris) to use an
10646 absolute pathname for the build tree's lib directory (prompted by
10647 discussion with Albert Chin-A-Young).
10648 + modify "make install.man" and "make uninstall.man" to include tack's
10650 + various fixes for install scripts used to support configure --srcdir
10651 and --with-install-prefix (reported by Matthew Clarke
10652 <Matthew_Clarke@mindlink.bc.ca>).
10653 + make configure script checks on variables $GCC and $GXX consistently
10654 compare against 'yes' rather than test if they are nonnull, since
10655 either may be set to the corresponding name of the C or C++ compiler
10656 (report/patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
10659 + modify rs2 capability in xterm-r6 and similar where cursor
10660 save/restore bracketed the sequence for resetting video attributes.
10661 The cursor restore would undo that (report by John Hawkinson
10662 <jhawk@MIT.EDU> (see NetBSD misc/11052)).
10663 + using parameter check added to tic, corrected 27 typos in
10665 + modify tic to verify that its inputs are really files, in case
10666 someone tries to read a directory (or /dev/zero).
10667 + add a check for empty buffers returned by fgets() in comp_scan.c
10668 next_char() function, in case tic is run on a non-text file (fixes
10669 a core dump reported by Aaron Campbell <aaron@cs.dal.ca>).
10670 + add to railroad.c some code exercising tgoto(), providing an
10671 alternate form of display if the terminal supports cursor addressing.
10672 + split-out tgoto() again, this time into new file lib_tgoto.c, and
10673 implement a conventional BSD-style tgoto() which is used if the
10674 capability string does not contain terminfo-style padding or
10675 parameters (requested by Andrey A Chernov).
10676 + add check to tic which reports capabilities that do not reference
10677 the expected number of parameters.
10678 + add error checking to infocmp's -v and -m options to ensure that
10679 the option value is indeed a number.
10680 + some cleanup of logic in _nc_signal_handler() to verify if SIGWINCH
10681 handler is setup. Separated the old/new sigaction data for SIGTSTP
10682 from the other signals.
10685 + add S0, E0 extensions to screen's terminfo entry, which is another
10686 way to solve the misconfiguration issue -TD
10687 + completed special case for tgoto from 20000916
10690 + update xterm terminfo entries to match XFree86 xterm patch #146 -TD
10691 + add Matrix Orbital terminfo entries (from Eric Z Ayers
10693 + add special case to lib_tparm.c to allow 'screen' program to use a
10694 termcap-style parameter "%." to tgoto() for switching character sets.
10695 + use LN_S substitution in run_tic.in, to work on OS/2 EMX which has
10697 + updated notes in README.emx regarding autoconf patches.
10698 + replace a lookup table in lib_vidattr.c used to decode no_color_video
10699 with a logic expression (suggested by Philippe Blain).
10700 + add a/A toggle to ncurses.c 'b' test, which clears/sets alternate
10701 character set attribute from the displayed text.
10702 + correct inequality in parameter analysis of rewritten lib_tparm.c
10703 which had the effect of ignoring p9 in set_attributes (sgr), breaking
10704 alternate character set (reported by Piotr Majka <charvel@link.pl>).
10705 + correct ifdef'ing for GCC_PRINTF, GCC_SCANF which would not compile
10706 with Sun WorkShop compilers since these tokens were empty (cf:
10707 20000902, reported by Albert Chin-A-Young).
10710 + correct an uninitialized parameter to open_tempfile() in tic.c which
10711 made "tic -I" give an ambiguous error message about tmpnam.
10712 + add special case in lib_vidattr.c to reset underline and standout for
10713 devices that have no sgr0 defined (patch by Don Lewis
10714 <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>). Note that this will not work for bold
10715 mode, since there is no exit-bold-mode capability.
10716 + improved patch for Make_Enum_Type (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
10717 + modify tparm to disallow arithmetic on strings, analyze the varargs
10718 list to read strings as strings and numbers as numbers.
10719 + modify tparm's internal function spop() to treat a null pointer as
10721 + modify tput program so it can be renamed or invoked via a link as
10722 'reset' or 'init', producing the same effect as 'tput reset' or 'tput
10724 + add private entrypoint _nc_basename(), use to consolidate related
10725 code in progs, as well as accommodating OS/2 EMX pathnames.
10726 + remove NCURSES_CONST line from edit_cfg.sh to compensate for its
10727 removal (except via AC_SUBST) from configure.in, making
10728 --enable-const work again (reported by Juergen Pfeifer).
10729 + regen'd configure to pick up "hpux*" change from 20000902.
10732 + modify tset.c to check for transformed "reset" program name, if any.
10733 + add a check for null pointer in Make_Enum_Type() (reported by Steven
10734 W Orr <steveo@world.std.com>).
10735 + change functions _nc_parse_entry() and postprocess_termcap() to avoid
10736 using strtok(), because it is non-reentrant (reported by Andrey A
10737 Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>).
10738 + remove "hpux10.*" case from CF_SHARED_OPTS configure script macro.
10739 This differed from the "hpux*" case by using reversed symbolic
10740 links, which made the 5.1 version not match the configuration of
10741 5.0 shared libraries (reported by Albert Chin-A-Young).
10742 + correct a dependency in Ada95/src/Makefile.in which prevented
10743 building with configure --srcdir (patch by H Nanosecond
10744 <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>).
10745 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in to avoid warning if GCC_PRINTF or
10746 GCC_SCANF was not previously defined (reported by Pavel Roskin
10748 + add MKncurses_def.sh to generate fallback definitions for
10749 ncurses_cfg.h, to quiet gcc -Wundef warnings, modified ifdef's in
10750 code to consistently use "#if" rather than "#ifdef".
10753 + add QNX qansi entries to terminfo -TD
10754 + add os2 entry to misc/emx.src (<jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>).
10755 + add configure option --with-database to allow specifying a different
10756 terminfo source-file to install. On OS/2 EMX, this defaults to
10758 + change misc/run_tic.sh to derive it from misc/run_tic.in, to simplify
10759 setting .exe extension on OS/2 EMX.
10760 + add .exe extension in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in,
10761 Ada95/samples/Makefile.in, for OS/2 EMX (reported by
10762 <jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>).
10763 + add configure check for filesystems (such as OS/2 EMX) which do not
10764 distinguish between upper/lowercase filenames, use this to fix tags
10765 rules in makefiles.
10766 + initialize fds[] array to 0's in _nc_timed_wait(); apparently poll()
10767 only sets the revents members of that array when there is activity
10768 corresponding to the related file (report by Glenn Cooper
10769 <gcooper@qantas.com.au>, using Purify on Solaris 5.6).
10770 + change configure script to use AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM rather than
10771 AC_CANONICAL_HOST, which means that configure --target will set
10772 a default program-prefix.
10773 + add note on cross-compiling to INSTALL (which does not rely on the
10774 AC_CANONICAL_* macros).
10777 + add cases for EMX OS/2 to config.guess, config.sub
10778 + new version of config.guess, config.sub from lynx 2.8.4dev.7
10779 + add definitions via transform.h to allow tic and tput to check for
10780 the transformed aliases rather than the original infotocap, etc.
10781 + simplify transform-expressions in progs/Makefile.in, make the
10782 uninstall rule work for transformed program names.
10783 + change symbol used by --install-prefix configure option from
10784 INSTALL_PREFIX to DESTDIR (the latter has become common usage
10785 although the name is misleading).
10786 + modify programs to use curses_version() string to report the version
10787 of ncurses with which they are compiled rather than the
10788 NCURSES_VERSION string. The function returns the patch level in
10789 addition to the major and minor version numbers.
10792 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to make transformed program names
10793 a parameter to that macro rather than embedding them in the macro.
10794 + newer config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in lynx
10796 + add configure option --with-default-terminfo-dir=DIR to allow
10797 specifying the default terminfo database directory (request by Albert
10799 + minor updates for terminfo.src from FreeBSD termcap change-history.
10800 + correct notes in README and INSTALL regarding documentation files
10801 that were moved from misc directory to doc (report by Rich Kulawiec
10803 + change most remaining unquoted parameters of 'test' in configure
10804 script to use quotes, for instance fixing a problem in the
10805 --disable-database option (reported by Christian Mondrup
10806 <scancm@biobase.dk>).
10807 + minor adjustments to work around some of the incompatibilities/bugs
10808 in autoconf 2.29a alpha.
10809 + add -I/usr/local/include when --with-ncurses option is used in
10810 test/configure script.
10811 + correct logic in adjust_cancels(), which did not check both
10812 alternatives when reclassifying an extended name between boolean,
10813 number and string, causing an infinite loop in tic.
10816 + correct a missing backslash in curses.priv.h
10819 + change handling of non_dest_scroll_region in tty_update.c to clear
10820 text after it is shifted in rather than before shifting out. Also
10821 correct row computation (reported by Ruediger Kuhlmann
10822 <uck4@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>).
10823 + add/use new trace function to display chtype values from winch() and
10825 + add trace mask TRACE_ATTRS, alter several existing _tracef calls that
10826 trace attribute changes under TRACE_CALLS to use this.
10827 + modify MKlib_gen.sh so that functions returning chtype will call
10829 + add returnChar() trace, for functions returning chtype.
10830 + change indent.pro to line up parenthesis.
10833 + fix a heap problem with the c++ binding (report by
10834 <alexander_liberson@ninewest.com>, patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
10835 + minor adjustment to ClrToEOL() to handle an out-of-bounds parameter.
10836 + modify the check for big-core to force a couple of memory accesses,
10837 which may work as needed for older/less-capable machines (if not,
10838 there's still the explicit configure option).
10839 > fixes based on diff's for Amiga and BeOS found at
10840 http://www.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de/~kuhlmann/cross/ncurses/
10841 + alter definition of NCURSES_CONST to make it non-empty.
10842 + add amiga-vnc terminfo entry.
10843 + redefine 'TEXT' in menu.h for AMIGA, since it is reported to have
10844 an (unspecified) symbol conflict.
10845 + replaced case-statement in _nc_tracebits() for CSIZE with a table to
10846 simplify working around implementations that define random
10847 combinations of the related macros to zero.
10848 + modify configure test for tcgetattr() to allow for old
10849 implementations, e.g., on BeOS, which only defined it as a macro.
10850 > patches by Bruno Haible:
10851 + when checking LC_ALL/LC_CTYPE/LANG environment variables for UTF-8
10852 locale, ignore those which are set to an empty value, as per SUSV2.
10853 + encode 0xFFFD in UTF-8 with 3 bytes, not 2.
10854 + modify _nc_utf8_outch() to avoid sign-extension when checking for
10855 out-of-range value.
10858 + correct manlinks.sed script to avoid using ERE "\+", which is not
10859 understood by older versions of sed (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
10860 + implement configure script options that transform installed program
10861 names, e.g., --program-prefix, including the manpage names and cross
10862 references (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com>).
10863 + correct several mismatches between manpage filename and ".TH"
10864 directives, renaming dft_fgbg.3x to default_colors.3x and
10865 menu_attribs.3x to menu_attributes.3x (report by Todd C Miller).
10866 + correct missing includes for <string.h> in several places, including
10867 the C++ binding. This is not noted by gcc unless we use the
10868 -fno-builtin option (reported by Igor Schein <igor@txc.com>).
10869 + modified progs/tset.c and tack/sysdep.c to build with sgttyb
10870 interface if neither termio or termios is available. Tested this
10871 with FreeBSD 2.1.5 (which does have termios - but the sgttyb does
10874 20000708 5.1 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
10875 + document configure options in INSTALL.
10876 + add man-page for ncurses trace functions.
10877 + correct return value shown in curs_touch.3x for is_linetouched() and
10878 is_wintouched(), in curs_initscr.3x for isendwin(), and in
10879 curs_termattr.3x for has_ic() and has_il().
10880 + add prototypes for touchline() and touchwin(), adding them to the
10881 list of generated functions.
10882 + modify fifo_push() to put ERR into the fifo just like other values to
10883 return from wgetch(). It was returning without doing that, making
10884 end-of-file condition incorrectly return a 0 (reported by Todd C
10886 + uncomment CC_SHARED_OPTS for progs and tack (see 971115), since they
10887 are needed for SCO OpenServer.
10888 + move _nc_disable_period from free_ttype.c to comp_scan.c to appease
10889 dynamic loaders on SCO and IRIX64.
10890 + add "-a" option to test/ncurses.c to invoke assume_default_colors()
10892 + correct assignment in assume_default_colors() which tells ncurses
10893 whether to use default colors, or the assumed ones (reported by Gary
10894 Funck <gary@Intrepid.Com>).
10895 + review/correct logic in mk-1st.awk for making symbolic links for
10896 shared libraries, in particular for FreeBSD, etc.
10897 + regenerate misc/*.def files for OS/2 EMX dll's.
10898 + correct quoting of values for CC_SHARED_OPTS in aclocal.m4 for
10899 cases openbsd2*, openbsd*, freebsd* and netbsd* (patch by Peter
10900 Wemm) (err in 20000610).
10901 + minor updates to release notes, as well as adding/updating URLs for
10902 examples cited in announce.html
10903 > several fixes from Philippe Blain <philippe.blain2@freesbee.fr>:
10904 + correct placement of ifdef for NCURSES_XNAMES in function
10905 _nc_free_termtype(), fixes a memory leak.
10906 + add a call to _nc_synchook() to the end of function whline() like
10907 that in wvline() (difference was in 1.9.4).
10908 + make ClearScreen() a little faster by moving two instances of
10909 UpdateAttr() out of for-loops.
10910 + simplify ClrBottom() by eliminating the tstLine data, using for-loops
10913 20000701 pre-release
10914 + change minor version to 1, i.e., ncurses 5.1
10915 + add experimental configure option --enable-colorfgbg to check for
10916 $COLORFGBG variable as set by rxvt/aterm/Eterm.
10917 + add Eterm terminfo entry (Michael Jennings <mej@valinux.com>).
10918 + modify manlinks.sed to pick aliases from the SYNOPSIS section, and
10919 several manpages so manlinks.sed can find aliases for creating
10921 + add explanation to run_tic.sh regarding extended terminal
10923 + change message format for edit_cfg.sh, since some people interpret
10925 + correct unescaped '$' in sysv5uw7*|unix_sv* rule for CF_SHARED_OPTS
10926 configure macro (report by Thanh Ma <Thanh.Ma@casi-rusco.com>).
10927 + correct logic in lib_twait.c as used by lib_mouse.c for GPM mouse
10928 support when poll() is used rather than select() (prompted by
10929 discussion with David Allen <DAllen24@aol.com>).
10931 20000624 pre-release
10932 + modify TransformLine() to check for cells with different color pairs
10933 that happen to render the same display colors.
10934 + apply $NCURSES_NO_PADDING to cost-computation in mvcur().
10935 + improve cost computation in PutRange() by accounting for the use
10936 of parm_right_cursor in mvcur().
10937 + correct cost computation in EmitRange(), which was not using the
10938 normalized value for cursor_address.
10939 + newer config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in TIN 1.5.6).
10942 + update config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in PCRE 3.2).
10943 + resync changes to gnathtml against version 1.22, regenerated html
10944 files under doc/html/ada using this (1.22.1.1).
10945 + regenerated html files under doc/html/man after correcting top and
10946 bottom margin options for man2html in dist.mk
10947 + minor fixes to test programs ncurses 'i' and testcurs program to make
10948 the subwindow's background color cover the subwindow.
10949 + modify configure script so AC_MSG_ERROR is temporarily defined to a
10950 warning in AC_PROG_CXX to make it recover from a missing C++ compiler
10951 without requiring user to add --without-cxx option (adapted from
10952 comment by Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr> to autoconf mailing list).
10953 + modify headers.sh to avoid creating temporary files in the build
10954 directory when installing headers (reported by Sergei Pokrovsky
10958 + regenerated the html files under doc/html/ada/files and
10959 doc/html/ada/funcs with a slightly-improved gnathtml.
10960 + add kmous capability to linux terminfo entry to allow it to use
10961 xterm-style events provided by gpm patch by Joerg Schoen.
10962 + make the configure macro CF_SHARED_OPTS a little smarter by testing
10963 if -fPIC is supported by gcc rather than -fpic. The former option
10964 allows larger symbol tables.
10965 + update config.guess and config.sub (patches by
10966 Kevin Buettner <kev@primenet.com> (for elf64_ia64),
10967 Bernd Kuemmerlen <bkuemmer@mevis.de> (for MacOS X)).
10968 + add warning for 'tic -cv' about use of '^?' in terminfo source, which
10972 + modify echo() behavior of getch() to match Solaris curses for
10973 carriage return and backspace (reported by Neil Zanella).
10974 + change _nc_flush() to a function.
10975 + modify delscreen() to check if the output stream has been closed, and
10976 if so, free the buffer allocated for setbuf (this provides an
10977 ncurses-specific way to avoid a memory leak when repeatedly calling
10978 newterm reported by Chipp C <at_1@zdnetonebox.com>).
10979 + correct typo in curs_getch.3x manpage regarding noecho (reported by
10980 David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>).
10981 + add a "make libs" rule.
10982 + make the Ada95 interface build with configure --enable-widec.
10983 + if the configure --enable-widec option is given, append 'w' to names
10984 of the generated libraries (e.g., libncursesw.so) to avoid conflict
10985 with existing ncurses libraries.
10988 + modify view.c to make a rudimentary viewer of UTF-8 text if ncurses
10989 is configured with the experimental wide-character support.
10990 + add a simple UTF-8 output driver to the experimental wide-character
10991 support. If any of the environment variables LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE or
10992 LANG contain the string "UTF-8", this driver will be used to
10993 translate the output to UTF-8. This works with XFree86 xterm.
10994 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries on BeOS
10995 (from a patch by Valeriy E Ushakov).
10996 + modify lib_addch.c to allow repeated update to the lower-right
10997 corner, rather than displaying only the first character written until
10998 the cursor is moved. Recent versions of SVr4 curses can update the
10999 lower-right corner, and behave this way (reported by Neil Zanella).
11000 + add a limit-check in _nc_do_color(), to avoid using invalid color
11001 pair value (report by Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>).
11004 + the tack program knows how to use smcup and rmcup but the "show caps
11005 that can be tested" feature did not reflect this knowledge. Correct
11006 the display in the menu tack/test/edit/c (patch by Daniel Weaver).
11007 + xterm-16color does allow bold+colors, removed ncv#32 from that
11011 + correct assignment to SP->_has_sgr_39_49 in lib_dft_fgbg.c, which
11012 broke check for screen's AX capability (reported by Valeriy E Ushakov
11013 <uwe@ptc.spbu.ru>).
11014 + change man2html rule in dist.mk to workaround bug in some
11015 man-programs that ignores locale when rendering hyphenation.
11016 + change web- and ftp-site to dickey.his.com
11019 + move _nc_curr_token from parse_entry.c to comp_scan.c, to work around
11020 problem linking tack on MacOS X DP3.
11021 + include <sys/time.h> in lib_napms.c to compile on MacOS X DP3
11022 (reported by Gerben Wierda <wierda@holmes.nl>).
11023 + modify lib_vidattr.c to check for ncv fixes when pair-0 is not
11025 + add -d option to ncurses.c, to turn on default-colors for testing.
11026 + add a check to _nc_makenew() to ensure that newwin() and newpad()
11027 calls do not silently fail by passing too-large limits.
11028 + add symbol NCURSES_SIZE_T to use rather than explicit 'short' for
11029 internal window and pad sizes. Note that since this is visible in
11030 the WINDOW struct, it would be an ABI change to make this an 'int'
11031 (prompted by a question by Bastian Trompetter
11032 <btrompetter@firemail.de>, who attempted to create a 96000-line pad).
11035 + add mgterm terminfo entry from NetBSD, minor adjustments to sun-ss5,
11036 aixterm entries -TD
11037 + modify tack/ansi.c to make it more tolerant of bad ANSI replies. An
11038 example of an illegal ANSI resonse can be found using Microsoft's
11039 Telnet client. A correct display can be found using a VT-4xx
11040 terminal or XFree86 xterm with:
11041 XTerm*VT100*decTerminalID: 450
11042 (patch by Daniel Weaver).
11043 + modify gdc.c to recognize 'q' for quit, 's' for single-step and ' '
11044 for resume. Add '-n' option to force gdc's standard input to
11045 /dev/null, to both illustrate the use of newterm() for specifying
11046 alternate inputs as well as for testing signal handling.
11047 + minor fix for configure option --with-manpage-symlinks, for target
11048 directories that contain a period ('.') (reported by Larry Virden).
11051 + minor additions to beterm entry (feedback from Rico Tudor) -TD
11052 + corrections/updates for some IBM terminfo entries -TD
11053 + modify _nc_screen_wrap() so that when exiting curses mode with
11054 non-default colors, the last line on the screen will be cleared to
11055 the screen's default colors (request by Alexander V Lukyanov).
11056 + modify ncurses.c 'r' example to set nonl(), allowing control/M to be
11057 read for demonstrating the REQ_NEW_LINE operation (prompted by a
11058 question by Tony L Keith <tlkeith@keithconsulting.com>).
11059 + modify ncurses.c 'r' example of field_info() to work on Solaris 2.7,
11060 documented extension of ncurses which allows a zero pointer.
11061 + modify fmt_complex() to avoid buffer overflow in case of excess
11062 recursion, and to recognize "%e%?" as a synonym for else-if, which
11063 means that it will not recur for that special case.
11064 + add logic to support $TERMCAP variable in case the USE_GETCAP symbol
11065 is defined (patch by Todd C Miller).
11066 + modify one of the m4 files used to generate the Ada95 sources,
11067 to avoid using the token "symbols" (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
11070 + add terminfo entries bsdos-pc-m, bsdos-pc-mono (Jeffrey C Honig)
11071 + correct spelling error in terminfo entry name: bq300-rv was given as
11072 bg300-rv in esr's version.
11073 + modify redrawwin() macro so its parameter is fully parenthesized
11074 (fixes Debian #61088).
11075 + correct formatting error in dump_entry() which set incorrect column
11076 value when no newline trimming was needed at the end of an entry,
11077 before appending "use=" clauses (cf: 960406).
11080 + add configure option --with-manpage-symlinks
11081 + change unctrl() to render C1 characters (128-159) as ~@, ~A, etc.
11082 + change makefiles so trace() function is provided only if TRACE is
11083 defined, e.g., in the debug library. Modify related calls to
11084 _tracechar() to use unctrl() instead.
11087 + add screen's AX capability (for ECMA SGR 39 and 49) to applicable
11088 terminfo entries, use presence of this as a check for a small
11089 improvement in setting default colors.
11090 + improve logic in _nc_do_color() implementing assume_default_colors()
11091 by passing in previous color pair info to eliminate redundant call to
11092 set_original_colors(). (Part of this is from a patch by Alexander
11094 + modify warning in _nc_trans_string() about a possibly too-long string
11095 to do this once only rather than for each character past the
11096 threshold (600). Change interface of _nc_trans_string() to allow
11097 check for buffer overflow.
11098 + correct use of memset in _nc_read_entry_source() to initialize ENTRY
11099 struct each time before reading new data into it, rather than once
11100 per loop (cf: 990301). This affects multi-entry in-core operations
11101 such as "infocmp -Fa".
11104 + remove a spurious pointer increment in _nc_infotocap() changes from
11105 20000311. Add check for '.' in format of number, since that also
11106 is not permitted in termcap.
11107 + correct typo in rxvt-basic terminfo from temporary change made while
11108 integrating 20000318.
11111 + revert part of the vt220 change (request by Todd C Miller).
11112 + add ansi-* terminfo entries from ESR's version.
11113 + add -a option to tic and infocmp, which retains commented-out
11114 capabilities during source translation/comparison, e.g., captoinfo
11116 + modify cardfile.c to display an empty card if no input data file is
11117 found, fixes a core dump in that case (reported by Bruno Haible).
11118 + correct bracketing in CF_MATH_LIB configure macro, which gave wrong
11119 result for OS/2 EMX.
11120 + supply required parameter for _nc_resolve_uses() call in
11121 read_termcap.c, overlooked in 20000311 (reported by Todd C Miller).
11122 > patches by Bruno Haible <haible@ilog.fr>:
11123 + fix a compiler warning in fty_enum.c
11124 + correct LIB_PREFIX expression for DEPS_CURSES in progs, tack
11125 makefiles, which resulted in redundant linking (cf: 20000122).
11128 + make ifdef's for BROKEN_LINKER consistent (patch by Todd C Miller).
11129 + improved tack/README (patch by Daniel Weaver).
11130 + modify tput.c to ensure that unspecified parameters are passed to
11132 + add a few checks in infocmp to guard against buffer overflow when
11133 displaying string capabilities.
11134 + add check for zero-uses in infocmp's file_comparison() function
11135 before calling _nc_align_termtype(). Otherwise one parameter is
11136 indexed past the end of the uses-array.
11137 + add an option -q to infocmp to specify the less verbose output,
11138 keeping the existing format as the default, though not retaining the
11139 previous behavior that made the -F option compare each entry to
11141 + adapted patch by ESR to make infocmp -F less verbose -TD
11142 (the submitted patch was unusable because it did not compile
11144 + modify write_entry.c to ensure that absent or cancelled booleans
11145 are written as FALSE, for consistency with infocmp which now
11146 assumes this. Note that for the small-core configuration, tic
11147 may not produce the same result as before.
11148 + change some private library interfaces used by infocmp, e.g.,
11149 _nc_resolve_uses().
11150 + add a check in _nc_infotocap() to ensure that cm-style capabilities
11151 accept only %d codes when converting the format from terminfo to
11153 + modify ENTRY struct to separate the data in 'parent' into the name
11154 and link values (the original idea to merge both into 'parent' was
11156 + discard repair_acsc(tterm);
11157 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
11158 + drop support for gnat 3.10
11159 + move generated documentation and html files under ./doc directory,
11160 adding makefile rules for this to dist.mk
11163 + correct conflicting use of tparm() in 20000226 change to tic, which
11164 made it check only one entry at a time.
11165 + fix errors in ncurses-intro.html and hackguide.html shown by Dave
11167 + make the example in ncurses-intro.html do something plausible, and
11168 corrected misleading comment (reported by Neil Zanella).
11169 + modify pnoutrefresh() to set newscr->_leaveok as wnoutrefresh() does,
11170 to fix a case where the cursor position was not updated as in
11171 Solaris (patch by David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>).
11172 + add a limit-check for wresize() to ensure that a subwindow does not
11173 address out of bounds.
11174 + correct offsets used for subwindows in wresize() (patch by Michael
11175 Andres <ma@suse.de>).
11176 + regenerate html'ized manual pages with man2html 3.0.1 (patch by
11177 Juergen Pfeifer). This generated a file with a space in its name,
11179 + fix a few spelling errors in tack.
11180 + modify tack/Makefile.in to match linker options of progs/Makefile.in;
11181 otherwise it does not build properly for older HPUX shared library
11183 + add several terminfo entries from esr's "11.0".
11186 + make 'tput flash' work properly for xterm by flushing output in
11187 delay_output() when using napms(), and modifying xterm's terminfo to
11188 specify no padding character. Otherwise, xterm's reported baud rate
11189 can mislead ncurses into producing too few padding characters
11191 + add a check to tic for consistency between sgr and the separate
11192 capabilities such as smso, use this to check/correct several
11193 terminfo entries (Debian #58530).
11194 + add a check to tic if cvvis is the same as cnorm, adjusted several
11195 terminfo entries to remove the conflict (Debian #58530).
11196 + correct prototype shown in attr_set()/wattr_set() manpages (fixes
11198 + minor clarification for curs_set() and leaveok() manpages.
11199 + use mkstemp() for creating temporary file for tic's processing of
11200 $TERMCAP contents (fixes Debian #56465).
11201 + correct two errors from integrating Alexander's changes: did not
11202 handle the non-bce case properly in can_erase_with() (noted by
11203 Alexander), and left fg/bg uninitialized in the pair-zero case of
11204 _nc_do_color() (reported by Dr Werner Fink <werner@suse.de> and
11205 Ismael Cordeiro <ismael@cordeiro.com>).
11208 + store default-color code consistently as C_MASK, even if given as
11209 -1 for convenience (adapted from patches by Alexander V Lukyanov).
11210 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
11211 + change can_clear_with() macro to accommodate logic for
11212 assume_default_colors(), making most of the FILL_BCE logic
11213 unnecessary. Made can_clear_with() an inline function to make it
11217 + corrected form of recent copyright dates.
11218 + minor corrections to xterm-xf86-v333 terminfo entry -TD
11219 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
11220 + reworded dft_fgbg.3x to avoid assuming that the terminal's default
11221 colors are white on black.
11222 + fix initialization of tstLine so that it is filled with current blank
11223 character in any case. Previously it was possible to have it filled
11224 with old blank. The wrong over-optimization was introduced in 991002
11225 patch. (it is not very critical as the only bad effect is not using
11226 clr_eos for clearing if blank has changed).
11229 + minor corrections/updates to several terminfo entries: rxvt-basic,
11230 vt520, vt525, ibm5151, xterm-xf86-v40 -TD
11231 + modify ifdef's for poll() to allow it to use <sys/poll.h>, thereby
11232 allowing poll() to be used on Linux.
11233 + add CF_FUNC_POLL macro to check if poll() is able to select from
11234 standard input. If not we will not use it, preferring select()
11235 (adapted from patch by Michael Pakovic <mpakovic@fdn.com>).
11236 + update CF_SHARED_OPTS macro for SCO Unixware 7.1 to allow building
11237 shared libraries (reported/tested by Thanh <thanhma@mediaone.net>).
11238 + override $LANGUAGE in build to avoid incorrect ordering of keynames.
11239 + correct CF_MATH_LIB parameter, must be sin(x), not sqrt(x).
11242 + resync CF_CHECK_ERRNO and CF_LIB_PREFIX macros from tin and xterm -TD
11243 + modify CF_MATH_LIB configure macro to parameterize the test function
11244 used, for reuse in dialog and similar packages.
11245 + correct tests for file-descriptors in OS/2 EMX mouse support. A
11246 negative value could be used by FD_SET, causing the select() call
11247 to wait indefinitely.
11250 + additional fixes for non-bce terminals (handling of delete_character)
11251 to work when assume_default_colors() is not specified.
11252 + modify warning message from _nc_parse_entry() regarding extended
11253 capability names to print only if tic/infocmp/toe have the -v flag
11254 set, and not at all in ordinary user applications. Otherwise, this
11255 warning would be shown for screen's extended capabilities in programs
11256 that use the termcap interface (reported by Todd C Miller).
11257 + modify use of _nc_tracing from programs such as tic so their debug
11258 level is not in the same range as values set by trace() function.
11259 + small panel header cleanup (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
11260 + add 'railroad' demo for termcap interface.
11261 + modify 'tic' to write its usage message to stderr (patch by Todd C
11265 + add prototype for erase() to curses.h.in, needed to make test
11266 programs build with c++/g++.
11267 + add .c.i and .c.h suffix rules to generated makefiles, for debugging.
11268 + correct install rule for tack.1; it assumed that file was in the
11269 current directory (reported by Mike Castle <dalgoda@ix.netcom.com>).
11270 + modify terminfo/termcap translation to suppress acsc before trying
11271 sgr if the entry would be too large (patch by Todd C Miller).
11272 + document a special case of incompatibility between ncurses 4.2 and
11273 5.0, add a section for this in INSTALL.
11274 + add TRACE_DATABASE flag for trace().
11277 + update mach, add mach-color terminfo entries based on Debian diffs
11278 for ncurses 5.0 -TD
11279 + add entries for xterm-hp, xterm-vt220, xterm-vt52 and xterm-noapp
11280 terminfo entries -TD
11281 + change OTrs capabilities to rs2 in terminfo.src -TD
11282 + add obsolete and extended capabilities to 'screen' terminfo -TD
11283 + corrected conversion from terminfo rs2 to termcap rs (cf: 980704)
11284 + make conversion to termcap ug (underline glitch) more consistently
11286 + fix out-of-scope use of 'personal[]' buffer in 'toe' (this error
11287 was in the original pre-1.9.7 version, when $HOME/.terminfo was
11289 + modify 'toe' to ignore terminfo directories to which it has no
11291 + modify read_termtype(), fixing 'toe', which could dump core when it
11292 found an incomplete entry such as "dumb" because it did not
11293 initialize its buffer for _nc_read_file_entry().
11294 + use -fPIC rather than -fpic for shared libraries on Linux, not
11295 needed for i386 but some ports (from Debian diffs for 5.0) -TD
11296 + use explicit VALID_NUMERIC() checks in a few places that had been
11297 overlooked, and add a check to ensure that init_tabs is nonzero,
11298 to avoid divide-by-zero (reported by Todd C Miller).
11299 + minor fix for CF_ANSI_CC_CHECK configure macro, for HPUX 10.x (from
11303 + reorder tests during mouse initialization to allow for gpm to run in
11304 xterm, or for xterm to be used under OS/2 EMX. Also drop test for
11305 $DISPLAY in favor of kmous=\E[M or $TERM containing "xterm" (report
11306 by Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de>).
11307 + modify raw() and noraw() to clear/restore IEXTEN flag which affects
11308 stty lnext on systems such as FreeBSD (report by Bruce Evans
11309 <bde@zeta.org.au>, via Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>).
11310 + fix a potential (but unlikely) buffer overflow in failed() function
11311 of tset.c (reported by Todd C Miller).
11312 + add manual-page for ncurses extensions, documented curses_version(),
11313 use_extended_names().
11316 + treat as untranslatable to termcap those terminfo strings which
11317 contain non-decimal formatting, e.g., hexadecimal or octal.
11318 + correct commented-out capabilities that cannot be translated to
11319 termcap, which did not check if a colon must be escaped.
11320 + correct termcap translation for "%>" and "%+", which did not check
11321 if a colon must be escaped, for instance.
11322 + use save_string/save_char for _nc_captoinfo() to eliminate fixed
11323 buffer (originally for _nc_infotocap() in 960301 -TD).
11324 + correct expression used for terminfo equivalent of termcap %B,
11325 adjust regent100 entry which uses this.
11326 + some cleanup and commenting of ad hoc cases in _nc_infotocap().
11327 + eliminate a fixed-buffer in tic, used for translating comments.
11328 + add manpage for infotocap
11331 + add kvt and gnome terminfo entries -TD
11332 + correct translation of "%%" by infotocap, which was emitted as "%".
11333 + add "obsolete" termcap strings to terminfo.src
11334 + modify infocmp to default to showing obsolete capabilities rather
11335 than terminfo only.
11336 + modify write_entry.c so that if extended names (i.e., configure
11337 --enable-tcap-names) are active, then tic will also write "obsolete"
11338 capabilities that are present in the terminfo source.
11339 + modify tic so that when running as captoinfo or infotocap, it
11340 initializes the output format as in -C and -I options, respectively.
11341 + improve infocmp and tic -f option by splitting long strings that do
11342 not have if-then-else construct, but do have parameters, e.g., the
11343 initc for xterm-88color.
11344 + refine MKtermsort.sh slightly by using bool for the *_from_termcap
11348 + additional fixes for non-bce terminals (handling of clear_screen,
11349 clr_eol, clr_eos, scrolling) to work when assume_default_colors() is
11351 + several small changes to xterm terminfo entries -TD.
11352 + move logic for _nc_windows in lib_freeall.c inside check for nonnull
11353 SP, since it is part of that struct.
11354 + remove obsolete shlib-versions, which was unintentionally re-added
11356 + modify infocmp -e, -E options to ensure that generated fallback.c
11357 type for Booleans agrees with term.h (reported by Eric Norum
11358 <eric@cls.usask.ca>).
11359 + correct configure script's use of $LIB_PREFIX, which did not work
11360 for installing the c++ directory if $libdir did not end with "/lib"
11361 (reported by Huy Le <huyle@ugcs.caltech.edu>).
11362 + modify infocmp so -L and -f options work together.
11363 + modify the initialization of SP->_color_table[] in start_color() so
11364 that color_content() will return usable values for COLORS greater
11366 + modify ncurses 'd' test in case COLORS is greater than 16, e.g., for
11367 xterm-88color, to limit the displayed/computed colors to 16.
11368 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
11369 + simplify coding of the panel library according to suggestions by
11371 + improve macro coding for a few macros in curses.priv.h
11374 + modify treatment of color pair 0 so that if ncurses is configured
11375 to support default colors, and they are not active, then ncurses
11376 will set that explicitly, not relying on orig_colors or orig_pair.
11377 + add new extension, assume_default_colors() to provide better control
11378 over the use of default colors.
11379 + modify test programs to use more-specific ifdef's for existence of
11380 wresize(), resizeterm() and use_default_colors().
11381 + modify configure script to add specific ifdef's for some functions
11382 that are included when --enable-ext-funcs is in effect, so their
11383 existence can be ifdef'd in the test programs.
11384 + reorder some configure options, moving those extensions that have
11385 evolved from experimental status into a new section.
11386 + change configure --enable-tcap-names to enable this by default.
11389 + install tack's manpage (reported by Robert Weiner
11390 <robert@progplus.com>)
11391 + correct worm.c's handling of KEY_RESIZE (patch by Frank Heckenbach).
11392 + modify curses.h.in, undef'ing some symbols to avoid conflict with C++
11393 STL (reported by Matt Gerassimoff <mgeras@ticon.net>)
11396 + modify linux terminfo entry to indicate that dim does not mix with
11397 color (reported by Klaus Weide <kweide@enteract.com>).
11398 + correct several typos in terminfo entries related to missing '['
11400 + fix several compiler warnings in c++ binding (reported by Tim
11401 Mooney for alphaev56-dec-osf4.0f
11402 + rename parameter of _nc_free_entries() to accommodate lint.
11403 + correct lint rule for tack, used incorrect list of source files.
11404 + add case to config.guess, config.sub for Rhapsody.
11405 + improve configure tests for libg++ and libstdc++ by omitting the
11406 math library (which is missing on Rhapsody), and improved test for
11407 the math library itself (adapted from path by Nelson H. F. Beebe).
11408 + explicitly initialize to zero several data items which were
11409 implicitly initialized, e.g., cur_term. If not explicitly
11410 initialized, their storage type is C (common), and causes problems
11411 linking on Rhapsody 5.5 using gcc 2.7.2.1 (reported by Nelson H. F.
11413 + modify Ada95 binding to not include the linker option for Ada
11414 bindings in the Ada headers, but in the Makefiles instead (patch by
11417 19991023 5.0 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
11418 + effective with release of 5.0, change NCURSES_VERSION_PATCH to
11420 + add function curses_version(), to return ncurses library version
11421 (request by Bob van der Poel).
11422 + remove rmam, smam from cygwin terminfo entry.
11423 + modify FreeBSD cons25 terminfo entry to add cnorm and cvvis, as well
11424 as update ncv to indicate that 'dim' conflicts with colors.
11425 + modify configure script to use symbolic links for FreeBSD shared
11426 libraries by default.
11427 + correct ranf() function in rain and worm programs to ensure it does
11429 + hide the cursor in hanoi.c if it is running automatically.
11430 + amend lrtest.c to account for optimizations that exploit margin
11432 + add a simple terminfo demo, dots.c
11433 + modify SIGINT/SIGQUIT handler to set a flag used in _nc_outch() to
11434 tell it to use write() rather than putc(), since the latter is not
11435 safe in a signal handler according to POSIX.
11436 + add/use internal macros _nc_flush() and NC_OUTPUT to hide details
11437 of output-file pointer in ncurses library.
11438 + uncomment CC_SHARED_OPTS (see 971115), since they are needed for SCO
11440 + correct CC_SHARED_OPTS for building shared libraries for SCO
11442 + remove usleep() from alternatives in napms(), since it may interact
11443 with alarm(), causing a process to be interrupted by SIGALRM (with
11444 advice from Bela Lubkin).
11445 + modify terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4 to build/work with
11446 GNAT 3.10 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
11447 + remove part of CF_GPP_LIBRARY configure-script macro, which did not
11448 work with gcc 2.7.2.3
11449 + minor fix to test/tclock.c to avoid beeping more than once per second
11450 + add 's' and ' ' decoding to test/rain.c
11453 + corrected BeOS code for lib_twait.c, making nodelay() function work.
11456 + correct ncurses' value for cursor-column in PutCharLR(), which was
11457 off-by-one in one case (patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
11458 + fix some minor errors in position_check() debugging code, found while
11459 using this to validate the PutCharLR() patch.
11460 + modify firework, lrtest, worm examples to be resizable, and to
11461 recognize 'q' for quit, 's' for single-step and ' ' for resume.
11462 + restore reverted change to terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4,
11463 add a note on building with gnat 3.10p to Ada95/TODO.
11464 + add a copy of the standalone configure script for the test-directory
11465 to simplify testing on SCO and Solaris.
11468 + minor fixes for _nc_msec_cost(), color_content(), pair_content(),
11469 _nc_freewin(), ClrBottom() and onscreen_mvcur() (analysis by Philippe
11470 Blain, comments by Alexander V Lukyanov).
11471 + simplify definition of PANEL and eliminate internal functions
11472 _nc_calculate_obscure(), _nc_free_obscure() and _nc_override(),
11473 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer, analysis by Philippe Blain
11474 <bledp@voila.fr>)).
11475 + change renaming of dft_fgbg.3x to use_default_colors.3ncurses in
11476 man_db.renames, since Debian is not concerned with 14-character
11477 filename limitation (Debian bug report by Josip Rodin
11478 <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr>).
11479 + corrected scoansi terminfo entry by testing with scoterm and console.
11480 + revert change from 990614 to terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4,
11481 since this does not work for gnat 3.10p
11482 + modify tclock example to be resizable (if ncurses' sigwinch handler
11483 is used), and in color.
11484 + use $(CC) rather than 'gcc' in MK_SHARED_LIB symbols, used for Linux
11485 shared library rules.
11488 + add newer NetBSD console terminfo entries
11489 + add amiga-8bit terminfo entry (from Henning 'Faroul' Peters
11490 <Faroul@beyond.kn-bremen.de>)
11491 + remove -lcurses -ltermcap from configure script's check for the gpm
11492 library, since they are not really necessary (a properly configured
11493 gpm library has no dependency on any curses library), and if the
11494 curses library is not installed, this would cause the test to fail.
11495 + modify tic's -C option so that terminfo "use=" clauses are translated
11496 to "tc=" clauses even when running it as captoinfo.
11497 + modify CF_STDCPP_LIBRARY configure macro to perform its check only
11498 for GNU C++, since that library conflicts with SGI's libC on IRIX-6.2
11499 + modify CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro to support build on NetBSD with
11500 ELF libraries (patch by Bernd Ernesti <bernd@arresum.inka.de>).
11501 + correct a problem in libpanel, where the _nc_top_panel variable was
11502 not set properly when bottom_panel() is called to hide a panel which
11503 is the only one on the stack (report/analysis by Michael Andres
11504 <ma@suse.de>, patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
11507 + add acsc string to HP 70092 terminfo entry (patch by Joerg Wunsch
11508 <j@interface-business.de>).
11509 + add top-level uninstall.data and uninstall.man makefile rules.
11510 + correct logic of CF_LINK_FUNCS configure script, from BeOS changes so
11511 that hard-links work on Unix again.
11512 + change default value of cf_cv_builtin_bool to 1 (suggested by
11513 Jeremy Buhler), making it less likely that a conflicting declaration
11514 of bool will be seen when compiling with C++.
11517 + improved configure checks for builtin.h
11518 + minor changes to C++ binding (remove static initializations, and make
11519 configure-test for parameter initializations) for features not
11520 allowed by vendor's C++ compilers (reported by Martin Mokrejs, this
11521 applies to SGI, though I found SCO has the same characteristics).
11522 + corrected quoting of ETIP_xxx definitions which support old versions
11523 of g++, e.g., those using -lg++
11524 + remove 'L' code from safe_sprintf.c, since 'long double' is not
11525 widely portable. safe_sprintf.c is experimental, however, and
11526 exists mainly as a fallback for systems without snprintf (reported
11527 by Martin Mokrejs <mmokrejs@natur.cuni.cz>, for IRIX 6.2)
11528 + modify definition of _nc_tinfo_fkeys in broken-linker configuration
11529 so that it is not unnecessarily made extern (Jeffrey C Honig).
11532 + move definition for builtin.h in configure tests to specific check
11533 for libg++, since qt uses the same filename incompatibly.
11534 + correct logic of lib_termcap.c tgetstr function, which did not copy
11535 the result to the buffer parameter. Testing shows Solaris does
11536 update this, though of course tgetent's buffer is untouched (reported
11537 in Peter Edwards <peter.edwards@ireland.com> in
11538 mpc.lists.freebsd.current newsgroup.
11539 + corrected beterm terminfo entry, which lists some capabilities which
11540 are not actually provided by the BeOS Terminal.
11541 + add special logic to replace select() calls on BeOS, whose select()
11542 function works only for sockets.
11543 + correct missing escape in mkterm.h.awk.in, which caused part
11544 of the copyright noticed to be omitted (reported by Peter
11545 Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>).
11546 > several small changes to make the c++ binding and demo work on OS/2
11547 EMX (related to a clean reinstall of EMX):
11548 + correct library-prefix for c++ binding; none is needed.
11549 + add $x suffix to make_hash and make_keys so 'make distclean' works.
11550 + correct missing $x suffix for tack, c++ demo executables.
11551 + split CF_CXX_LIBRARY into CF_GPP_LIBRARY (for -lg++) and
11552 CF_STDCPP_LIBRARY (for -lstdc++)
11555 + add cygwin terminfo entry -TD
11556 + modify CF_PROG_EXT configure macro to set .exe extension for cygwin.
11557 + add configure option --without-cxx-binding, modifying the existing
11558 --without-cxx option to check only for the C++ compiler
11559 characteristics. Whether or not the C++ binding is needed, the
11560 configure script checks for the size/type of bool, to make ncurses
11561 match. Otherwise C++ applications cannot use ncurses.
11564 + updated configure macros CF_MAKEFLAGS, CF_CHECK_ERRNO
11565 + minor corrections to beterm terminfo entry.
11566 + modify lib_setup.c to reject values of $TERM which have a '/' in
11568 + add ifdef's to guard against CS5, CS6, CS7, CS8 being zero, as more
11569 than one is on BeOS. That would break a switch statement.
11570 + add configure macro CF_LINK_FUNCS to detect and work around BeOS's
11571 nonfunctional link().
11572 + improved configure macros CF_BOOL_DECL and CF_BOOL_SIZE to detect
11573 BeOS's bool, which is declared as an unsigned char.
11576 + add ms-vt100 terminfo entry -TD
11577 + minor fixes for misc/emx.src, based on testing with tack.
11578 + minor fix for test/ncurses.c, test 'a', in case ncv is not set.
11581 + minor correction for 'screen' terminfo entry.
11582 + clarify description of errret values for setupterm in manpage.
11583 + modify tput to allow it to emit capabilities for hardcopy terminals
11584 (patch by Goran Uddeborg <goeran@uddeborg.pp.se>).
11585 + modify the 'o' (panel) test in ncurses.c to show the panels in color
11586 or at least in bold, to test Juergen's change to wrefresh().
11587 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
11588 + Fixes a problem using wbkgdset() with panels. It has actually
11589 nothing to with panels but is a problem in the implementation of
11590 wrefresh(). Whenever a window changes its background attribute to
11591 something different than newscr's background attribute, the whole
11592 window is touched to force a copy to newscr. This is an unwanted
11593 side-effect of wrefresh() and it is actually not necessary. A
11594 changed background attribute affects only further outputs of
11595 background it doesn't mean anything to the current content of the
11596 window. So there is no need to force a copy. (reported by Frank
11597 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>).
11598 + an upward compatible enhancement of the NCursesPad class in the C++
11599 binding. It allows one to add a "viewport" window to a pad and then
11600 to use panning to view the pad through the viewport window.
11603 + suppress a call to def_prog_mode() in the SIGTSTP handler if the
11604 signal was received while not in curses mode, e.g., endwin() was
11605 called in preparation for spawning a shell command (reported by Frank
11606 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>)
11607 + corrected/enhanced xterm-r5, xterm+sl, xterm+sl-twm terminfo entries.
11608 + change test for xterm mouse capability: it now checks only if the
11609 user's $DISPLAY variable is set in conjunction with the kmous
11610 capability being present in the terminfo. Before, it checked if any
11611 of "xterm", "rxvt" or "kterm" were substrings of the terminal name.
11612 However, some emulators which are incompatible with xterm in other
11613 ways do support the xterm mouse capability.
11614 + reviewed and made minor changes in ncurses to quiet g++ warnings
11615 about shadowed or uninitialized variables. g++ incorrectly warns
11616 about uninitialized variables because it does not take into account
11617 short-circuit expression evaluation.
11618 + change ncurses 'b' test to start in color pair 0 and to show in the
11619 right margin those attributes which are suppressed by no_color_video,
11621 + modify ifdef's in curses.h so that __attribute__ is not redefined
11622 when compiling with g++, but instead disabled the macros derived for
11623 __attribute__ since g++ does not consistently recognize the same
11624 keywords as gcc (reported by Stephan K Zitz <zitz@erf.net>).
11625 + update dependencies for term.h in ncurses/modules (reported by
11629 + modify the form demo in ncurses.c to illustrate how to manipulate the
11630 field appearance, e.g, for highlighting or translating the field
11632 + correct logic in write_entry from split-out of home_terminfo in
11633 980919, which prevented update of $HOME/.terminfo (reported by Philip
11634 Spencer <pspencer@fields.utoronto.ca>).
11637 + modify linux terminfo description to make use of kernel 2.2.x mods
11638 that support cursor style, e.g., to implement cvvis (patch by Frank
11639 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>)
11640 + add special-case in setupterm to retain previously-saved terminal
11641 settings in cur_term, which happens when curses and termcap calls are
11642 mixed (from report by Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@dhc.net>).
11643 + suppress initialization of key-tries in _nc_keypad() if we are only
11644 disabling keypad mode, e.g., in endwin() called when keypad() was
11646 + modify the Ada95 makefile to ensure that always the Ada files from
11647 the development tree are used for building and not the eventually
11648 installed ones (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
11651 + use TTY definition in tack/sysdep.c rather than struct termios
11652 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
11653 + add a fallback for strstr, used in lib_mvcur.c and tack/edit.c,
11654 not present on sysV68 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
11655 + correct definition in comp_hash.c to build with configure
11656 --with-rcs-ids option.
11659 + modified ifdef's for sigaction and sigvec to ensure we do not try to
11660 handle SIGTSTP if neither is available (from report by Philippe De
11662 > patch by Philippe De Muyter:
11663 + in tic.c, use `unlink' if `remove' is not available.
11664 + use only `unsigned' as fallback value for `speed_t'. Some files used
11668 + fix some compiler warnings in tack.
11669 + add a check for predefined bool type in CC, based on report that
11670 BeOS predefines a bool type.
11671 + correct logic for infocmp -e option, i.e., the configure
11672 --with-fallbacks option, which I'd not updated when implementing
11673 extended names (cf: 990301). The new implementation adds a "-E"
11674 option to infocmp -TD
11675 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
11676 + introduce the private type Curses_Bool in the Ada95 binding
11677 implementation. This is to clearly represent the use of "bool" also
11678 in the binding. It should have no effect on the generated code.
11679 + improve the man page for field_buffer() to tell the people, that the
11680 whole buffer including leading/trailing spaces is returned. This is
11681 a common source of confusion, so it's better to document it clearly.
11684 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
11685 + use pragma PreElaborate in several places.
11686 + change a few System.Address uses to more specific types.
11687 + change interface version-number to 1.0
11688 + regenerate Ada95 HTML files.
11691 + modify lib_endwin.c to avoid calling reset_shell_mode(), return ERR
11692 if it appears that curses was never initialized, e.g., by initscr().
11693 For instance, this guards against setting the terminal modes to
11694 strange values if endwin() is called after setupterm(). In the same
11695 context, Solaris curses will dump core.
11696 + modify logic that avoids a conflict in lib_vidattr.c between sgr0 and
11697 equivalent values in rmso or rmul by ensuring we do not modify the
11698 data which would be returned by the terminfo or termcap interfaces
11699 (reported by Brad Pepers <brad@linuxcanada.com>, cf: 960706).
11700 + add a null-pointer check for SP in lib_vidattr.c to logic that checks
11702 + improve fallback declaration of 'bool' when the --without-cxx option
11703 is given, by using a 'char' on i386 and related hosts (prompted by
11704 discussion with Alexander V Lukyanov).
11707 + include time.h in lib_napms.c if nanosleep is used (patch by
11708 R Lindsay Todd <toddr@rpi.edu>).
11709 + add an "#undef bool" to curses.h, in case someone tries to define it,
11711 + add check to tparm to guard against divide by zero (reported by Aaron
11712 Campbell <aaron@ug.cs.dal.ca>).
11715 + minor fix to build tack on CLIX (mismatched const).
11716 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
11717 + change Juergen's old email address with new one in the files where it
11718 is referenced. The Ada95 HTML pages are regenerated.
11719 + update MANIFEST to list the tack files.
11722 + minor fixes to make 'tack' build/link on NeXT (reported by Francisco
11726 + add 'tack' program (which is GPL'd), updating it to work with the
11727 modified TERMTYPE struct and making a fix to support setaf/setab
11728 capabilities. Note that the tack program is not part of the
11729 ncurses libraries, but an application which can be distributed with
11730 ncurses. The configure script will ignore the directory if it is
11732 + modify gpm mouse support so that buttons 2 and 3 are used for
11733 select/paste only when shift key is pressed, making them available
11734 for use by an application (patch by Klaus Weide).
11735 + add complete list of function keys to scoansi terminfo entry - TD
11738 + add a simple test program cardfile.c to illustrate how to read form
11739 fields, and showing forms within panels.
11740 + change shared-library versioning for the Hurd to be like Linux rather
11741 than *BSD (patch by Mark Kettenis <kettenis@wins.uva.nl>).
11742 + add linux-lat terminfo entry.
11743 + back-out _nc_access check in read_termcap.c (both incorrect and
11744 unnecessary, except to guard against a small window where the file's
11745 ownership may change).
11748 + remove conflicting _nc_free_termtype() function from test module
11750 + use _nc_access check in read_termcap.c for termpaths[] array (noted
11751 by Jeremy Buhler, indicating that Alan Cox made a similar patch).
11752 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
11753 + modify menu creation to not inherit status flag from the default menu
11754 which says that the associated marker string has been allocated and
11755 should be freed (bug reported by Marek Paliwoda"
11756 <paliwoda@kki.net.pl>)
11758 990327 pre-release (alpha.gnu.org:/gnu/ncurses-5.0-beta1.tar.gz)
11759 + minor fixes to xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry - TD.
11760 + split up an expression in configure script check for ldconfig to
11761 workaround limitation of BSD/OS sh (reported by Jeff Haas
11762 <jmh@mail.msen.com>).
11763 + correct a typo in man/form_hook.3x (Todd C Miller).
11766 + parenthesize and undef 'index' symbol in c++ binding and demo, to
11767 accommodate its definition on NeXT (reported by Francisco A. Tomei
11769 + add sigismember() to base/sigaction.c compatibility to link on NeXT
11770 (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
11771 + further refinements to inequality in hashmap.c to cover a case with
11772 ^U in nvi (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
11775 + add fallback definition for getcwd, to link on NeXT.
11776 + add a copy of cur_term to tic.c to make it link properly on NeXT
11777 (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
11778 + change inequality in hashmap.c which checks the distance traveled by
11779 a chunk so that ^D command in nvi (scrolls 1/2 screen) will use
11780 scrolling logic (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov, reported by Jeffrey
11784 + modify lib_color.c to handle a special case where the curscr
11785 attributes have been made obsolete (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
11786 + update BSD/OS console terminfo entries to use klone+sgr and
11787 klone+color (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
11788 + update glibc addon configure script for extended capabilities.
11789 + correct a couple of warnings in the --enable-const configuration.
11790 + make comp_hash build properly with _nc_strdup(), on NeXT (reported by
11791 Francisco A. Tomei Torres <francisco.tomei@cwix.com>).
11794 + correct typos in linux-c initc string - TD
11795 + add 'crt' terminfo entry, update xterm-xfree86 entry - TD
11796 + remove a spurious argument to tparm() in lib_sklrefr.c (patch by
11797 Alexander V Lukyanov).
11800 + back-out change to wgetch because it causes a problem with ^Z
11801 handling in lynx (reported by Kim DeVaughn).
11804 + add -G option to tic and infocmp, to reverse the "-g" option.
11805 + recode functions in name_match.c to avoid use of strncpy, which
11806 caused a 4-fold slowdown in tic (cf: 980530).
11807 + correct a few warnings about sign-extension in recent changes.
11808 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
11809 + fixes suggested by Jeff Bradbury <jibradbury@lucent.com>:
11810 + improved parameter checking in new_fieldtype().
11811 + fixed a typo in wgetch() timeout handling.
11812 + allow slk_init() to be called per newterm call. The internal SLK
11813 state is stored in the SCREEN struct after every newterm() and then
11814 reset for the next newterm.
11815 + fix the problem that a slk_refresh() refreshes stdscr if the
11816 terminal has true SLKs.
11817 + update HTML documentation for Ada binding.
11820 + remove 'bool' casts from definitions of TRUE/FALSE so that statements
11821 such as "#if TRUE" work. This was originally done to allow for a C++
11822 compiler which would warn of implicit conversions between enum and
11823 int, but is not needed for g++ (reported by Kim DeVaughn).
11824 + add use_extended_names() function to allow applications to suppress
11825 read of the extended capabilities.
11826 + add configure option --enable-tcap-names to support logic which
11827 allows ncurses' tic to define new (i.e., extended) terminal
11828 capabilities. This is activated by the tic -x switch. The infocmp
11829 program automatically shows or compares extended capabilities.
11830 Note: This changes the Strings and similar arrays in the TERMTYPE
11831 struct so that applications which manipulate it must be recompiled.
11832 + use macros typeMalloc, typeCalloc and typeRealloc consistently
11833 throughout ncurses library.
11834 + add _nc_strdup() to doalloc.c.
11835 + modify define_key() to allow multiple strings to be bound to the
11837 + correct logic error in _nc_remove_string, from 990220.
11838 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
11839 + regenerate some of the html documentation
11840 + minor cleanup in terminal_interface-curses.adb
11843 + resolve ambiguity of kend/kll/kslt and khome/kfnd/kich1 strings in
11844 xterm and ncsa terminfo entries by removing the unneeded ones. Note
11845 that some entries will return kend & khome versus kslt and kfnd, for
11846 PC-style keyboards versus strict vt220 compatibility - TD
11847 + add function keybound(), which returns the definition associated with
11849 + modify define_key() to undefine the given string when no keycode is
11851 + modify keyok() so it works properly if there is more than one string
11852 defined for a keycode.
11853 + add check to tic to warn about terminfo descriptions that contain
11854 more than one key assigned to the same string. This is shown only if
11855 the verbose (-v) option is given. Moved related logic (tic -v) from
11856 comp_parse.c into the tic program.
11857 + add/use _nc_trace_tries() to show the function keys that will be
11859 + rename init_acs to _nc_init_acs (request by Alexander V Lukyanov).
11860 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
11861 + remove all the *_adabind.c from ncurses, menu and form projects.
11862 Those little helper routines have all been implemented in Ada and are
11863 no longer required.
11864 + The option handling routines in menu and form have been made more
11865 save. They now make sure that the unused bits in options are always
11867 + modify configuration scripts to
11868 + use gnatmake as default compiler name. This is a safer choice than
11869 gcc, because some GNAT implementations use other names for the
11870 compilerdriver to avoid conflicts.
11871 + use new default installation locations for the Ada files according
11872 to the proposed GNU Ada filesystem standard (for Linux).
11873 + simplify the Makefiles for the Ada binding
11874 + rename ada_include directory to src.
11877 + enable sigwinch handler by default.
11878 + disable logic that allows setbuf to be turned off/on, because some
11879 implementations will overrun the buffer after it has been disabled
11883 + suppress sc/rc capabilities from terminal description if they appear
11884 in smcup/rmcup. This affects only scrolling optimization, to fix a
11885 problem reported by several people with xterm's alternate screen,
11886 though the problem is more general.
11887 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
11888 + removed all pragma Preelaborate() stuff, because the just released
11889 gnat-3.11p complains on some constructs.
11890 + fixed some upper/lower case notations because gnat-3.11p found
11892 + used a new method to generate the HTML documentation of the Ada95
11893 binding. This invalidates nearly the whole ./Ada95/html subtree.
11894 Nearly all current files in this subtree are removed
11897 + cache last result from _nc_baudrate, for performance (suggested by
11898 Alexander V Lukyanov).
11899 + modify ClrUpdate() function to workaround a problem in nvi, which
11900 uses redrawwin in SIGTSTP handling. Jeffrey C Honig reported that
11901 ncurses repainted the screen with nulls before resuming normal
11902 operation (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
11903 + generalize is_xterm() function a little by letting xterm/rxvt/kterm
11904 be any substring rather than the prefix.
11905 + modify lib_data.c to initialize SP. Some linkers, e.g., IBM's, will
11906 not link a module if the only symbols exported from the module are
11907 uninitialized ones (patch by Ilya Zakharevich). Ilya says that he
11908 has seen messages claiming this behavior conforms to the standard.)
11909 + move call on _nc_signal_handler past _nc_initscr, to avoid a small
11910 window where Nttyb hasn't yet been filled (reported by Klaus Weide).
11911 + modify lib_tstp.c to block SIGTTOU when handling SIGTSTP, fixes a
11912 problem where ncurses applications which were run via a shell script
11913 would hang when given a ^Z. Also, check if the terminal's process
11914 group is consistent, i.e., a shell has not taken ownership of it,
11915 before deciding to save the current terminal settings in the SIGTSTP
11916 handler (patch by Klaus Weide).
11917 + correct spelling of ACS_ names in curs_border.3x (reported by Bob van
11918 der Poel <bvdpoel@kootenay.com>).
11919 + correct a couple of typos in the macros supporting the configure
11920 --with-shlib-version option.
11923 + modify fty_regex.c to compile on HAVE_REGEXPR_H_FUNCS machine (patch
11924 by Kimio Ishii <ishii@csl.sony.co.jp>).
11925 + rename BSDI console terminfo entries: bsdos to bsdos-pc-nobold, and
11926 bsdos-bold to bsdos-pc (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
11927 + modify tput to accept termcap names as an alternative to terminfo
11928 names (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
11929 + correct a typo in term.7 (Todd C Miller).
11930 + add configure --with-shlib-version option to allow installing shared
11931 libraries named according to release or ABI versions. This
11932 parameterizes some existing logic in the configure script, and is
11933 intended for compatibility upgrades on Digital Unix, which used
11934 versioned libraries in ncurses 4.2, but no longer does (cf: 980425).
11935 + resync configure script against autoconf 2.13 + patches
11936 + minor improvements for teraterm terminfo entry based on the program's
11937 source distribution.
11940 + change default for configure --enable-big-core to assume machines do
11941 have enough memory to resolve terminfo.src in-memory.
11942 + correct name of ncurses library in TEST_ARGS when configuring with
11944 + minor fixes to compile ncurses library with broken-linker with g++.
11945 + add --enable-broken-linker configure option, default to environment
11946 variable $BROKEN_LINKER (request by Jeffrey C Honig).
11947 + change key_names[] array to static since it is not part of the curses
11948 interface (reported by Jeffrey C Honig <jch@bsdi.com>).
11951 + add Tera Term terminfo entry - TD
11954 + reviewed/corrected macros in curses.h as per XSI document.
11955 + provide support for termcap PC variable by copying it from terminfo
11956 data and using it as the padding character in tputs (reported by
11957 Alexander V Lukyanov).
11958 + corrected iris-ansi and iris-ansi-ap terminfo entries for kent and
11959 kf9-kf12 capabilities, as well as adding kcbt.
11960 + document the mouse handling mechanism in menu_driver and make a small
11961 change in menu_driver's return codes to provide more consistency
11962 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
11963 + add fallback definition for NCURSES_CONST to termcap.h.in (reported
11964 by Uchiyama Yasushi <uch@nop.or.jp>).
11965 + move lib_restart.c to ncurses/base, since it uses curses functions
11966 directly, and therefore cannot be used in libtinfo.so
11967 + rename micro_char_size to micro_col_size, adding #define to retain
11969 + add set_a_attributes and set_pglen_inch to terminfo structure, as per
11970 XSI and Solaris 2.5.
11971 + minor makefile files to build ncurses test_progs
11972 + update html files in misc directory to reflect changes since 4.2
11975 + disable scroll hints when hashmap is enabled (patch by Alexander
11977 + move logic for tic's verify of -e option versus -I and -C so that the
11978 terminfo data is not processed if we cannot handle -e (reported by
11979 Steven Schwartz <steves@unitrends.com>.
11980 + add test-driver traces to terminfo and termcap functions.
11981 + provide support for termcap ospeed variable by copying it from the
11982 internal cur_term member, and using ospeed as the baudrate reference
11983 for the delay_output and tputs functions. If an application does not
11984 set ospeed, the library behaves as before, except that _nc_timed_wait
11985 is no longer used, or needed, since ospeed always has a value. But
11986 the application can modify ospeed to adjust the output of padding
11987 characters (prompted by a bug report for screen 3.7.6 and email from
11988 Michael Schroeder <Michael.Schroeder@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>).
11989 + removed some unused ifdef's as part of Alexander's restructuring.
11990 + reviewed/updated curses.h, term.h against X/Open Curses Issue 4
11991 Version 2. This includes making some parameters NCURSES_CONST
11992 rather than const, e.g., in termcap.h.
11993 + change linux terminfo entry to use ncv#2, since underline does not
11997 + miscellaneous corrections for curses.h to match XSI.
11998 + change --enable-no-padding configure option to be normally enabled.
11999 + add section to ncurses manpage for environment variables.
12000 + investigated Debian bug report that pertains to screen 3.7.4/3.7.6
12001 changes, found no sign of problems on Linux (or on SunOS, Solaris)
12002 running screen built with ncurses.
12003 + check if tmp_fp is opened in tic.c before closing it (patch by Pavel
12004 Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>).
12005 + correct several font specification typos in man-pages.
12008 + correct default value for BUILD_CC (reported by Larry Virden).
12011 + modify _nc_set_writedir() to set a flag in _nc_tic_dir() to prevent
12012 it from changing the terminfo directory after chdir'ing to it.
12013 Otherwise, a relative path in $TERMINFO would confuse tic (prompted
12014 by a Debian bug report).
12015 + correct/update ncsa terminfo entry (report by Larry Virden).
12016 + update xterm-xfree86 terminfo to current (patch 90), smcur/rmcur
12018 + add Mathew Vernon's mach console entries to terminfo.src
12019 + more changes, moving functions, as part of Alexander's restructuring.
12020 + modify configure script for GNU/Hurd share-library support, introduce
12021 BUILD_CC variable for cross compiling (patch by Uchiyama Yasushi
12025 + add environment variable NCURSES_NO_SETBUF to allow disabling the
12026 setbuf feature, for testing purposes.
12027 + correct ifdef's for termcap.h versus term.h that suppress redundant
12028 declarations of prototypes (reported by H.J.Lu).
12029 + modify Makefile.os2 to add linker flags which allow multiple copies
12030 of an application to coexist (reported by Ilya Zakharevich).
12031 + update Makefile.glibc and associated configure script so that ncurses
12032 builds as a glibc add-on with the new directory configuration
12033 (reported by H.J.Lu).
12036 + modify gen_reps() function in gen.c to work properly on SunOS
12037 (sparc), which is a left-to-right architecture.
12038 + modify relative_move and tputs to avoid an interaction with the
12039 BSD-style padding. The relative_move function could produce a string
12040 to replace on the screen which began with a numeric character, which
12041 was then interpreted by tputs as padding. Now relative_move will not
12042 generate a string with a leading digit in that case (overwrite).
12043 Also, tputs will only interpret padding if the string begins with a
12044 digit; as coded it permitted a string to begin with a decimal point
12045 or asterisk (reported by Larry Virden).
12046 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
12047 + fix a typo in m_driver.c mouse handling and improves the error
12049 + fix broken mouse handling in the Ada95 binding
12050 + make the Ada95 sample application menus work with the new menu mouse
12052 + improve the mouse handling introduced by Ilya; it now handles menus
12054 + repair a minor bug in the menu_driver code discovered during this
12056 + add new function wmouse_trafo() to hide implementation details of
12057 _yoffset member of WINDOW struct needed for mouse coordinate
12061 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to avoid using return-value of sprintf, since
12062 some older implementations (e.g., SunOS 4.x) return the buffer
12063 address rather than its length.
12064 > patch by Rick Ohnemus:
12065 + modify demo.cc to get it to compile with newer versions of egcs.
12066 + trim a space that appears at the end of the table preprocessor lines
12067 ('\" t). This space prevents some versions of man from displaying
12068 the pages - changed to remove all trailing whitespace (TD)
12069 + finally, 'make clean' does not remove panel objects.
12070 > patches by Ilya Zakharevich:
12071 + allow remapping of OS/2 mouse buttons using environment variable
12072 MOUSE_BUTTONS_123 with the default value 132.
12073 + add mouse support to ncurses menus.
12076 + modify misc/makedef.cmd to report old-style .def file symbols, and to
12077 generate the .def files sorted by increasing names rather than the
12079 + add misc/*.ref which are J.J.G.Ripoll's dll definition files (renamed
12080 from misc/*.old), and updated based on the entrypoint coding he used
12081 for an older version of ncurses.
12082 + add README.emx, to document how to build on OS/2 EMX.
12083 + updates for config.guess, config.sub from Lynx
12084 > patches by Ilya Zakharevich:
12085 + minor fixes for mouse handling mode:
12086 a) Do not initialize mouse if the request is to have no mouse;
12087 b) Allow switching of OS/2 VIO mouse on and off.
12088 + modify Makefile.os2 to support alternative means of generating
12089 configure script, by translating Unix script with Perl.
12090 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
12091 + Updates MANIFEST to reflect changes in source structure
12092 + Eliminates a problem introduced with my last patch for the C++
12093 binding in the panels code. It removes the update() call done in the
12095 + Changes in the Ada95 binding to better support systems where
12096 sizeof(chtype)!=sizeof(int) (e.g. DEC Alpha).
12099 + modify install-script for manpages to skip over .orig and .rej files
12100 (request by Larry Virden).
12101 > patches/discussion by Alexander V Lukyanov:
12102 + move base-library sources into ncurses/base and tty (serial terminal)
12103 sources into ncurses/tty, as part of Alexander V Lukyanov's proposed
12104 changes to ncurses library.
12105 + copy _tracemouse() into ncurses.c so that lib_tracemse.c need not
12106 be linked into the normal ncurses library.
12107 + move macro winch to a function, to hide details of struct ldat
12108 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
12109 + fix a potential compile problem in cursesw.cc
12110 + some Ada95 cosmetics
12111 + fix a gen.c problem when compiling on 64-Bit machines
12112 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in "-L" linker switch
12113 + modify Ada95 makefiles to use the INSTALL_PREFIX setting.
12116 + ifdef'd out lib_freeall.c when not configured.
12117 + rename _tracebits() to _nc_tracebits().
12118 + move terminfo-library sources into ncurses/tinfo, and trace-support
12119 functions into ncurses/trace as part of Alexander V Lukyanov's
12120 proposed changes to ncurses library.
12121 + modify generated term.h to always specify its own definitions for
12122 HAVE_TERMIOS_H, etc., to guard against inclusion by programs with
12123 broken configure scripts.
12126 + modify terminfo parsing to accept octal and hexadecimal constants,
12128 + remove an autoconf 2.10 artifact from the configure script's check
12129 for "-g" compiler options. (Though harmless, this confused someone
12130 at Debian, who recently issued a patch that results in the opposite
12132 + add configure option --with-ada-compiler to accommodate installations
12133 that do not use gcc as the driver for GNAT (patch by Juergen
12137 + ensure ./man exists in configure script, needed when configuring
12138 with --srcdir option.
12139 + modify infocmp "-r" option to remove limit on formatted termcap
12140 output, which makes it more like Solaris' version.
12141 + modify captoinfo to treat no-argument case more like Solaris'
12142 version, which uses the contents of $TERMCAP as the entry to format.
12143 + modify mk-2nd.awk to handle subdirectories, e.g., ncurses/tty
12144 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
12147 + modify --with-terminfo-dirs option so that the default value is the
12148 ${datadir} value, unless $TERMINFO_DIRS is already set. This gets
12149 rid of a hardcoded list of candidate directories in the configure
12151 + add some error-checking to _nc_read_file_entry() to ensure that
12152 strings are properly terminated (Todd C Miller).
12153 + rename manpage file curs_scr_dmp.3x to curs_scr_dump.3x, to
12154 correspond with contents (reported by Neil Zanella
12155 <nzanella@cs.mun.ca>).
12156 + remove redundant configure check for C++ which did not work when $CXX
12157 was specified with a full pathname (reported by Andreas Jaeger).
12158 + corrected bcopy/memmove check; the macro was not standalone.
12161 + remove unnecessary portion of OS/2 EMX mouse change from
12162 check_pending() (reported by Alexander V Lukyanov).
12165 + implement mouse support for OS/2 EMX (adapted from patch against
12166 4.2(?) by Ilya Zakharevich).
12167 + add configure-check for bcopy/memmove, for 980919 changes to hashmap.
12168 + merge Data General terminfo from Hasufin <hasufin@vidnet.net> - TD
12169 + merge AIX 3.2.5 terminfo descriptions for IBM terminals, replaces
12170 some older entries - TD
12171 + modify tic to compile into %'char' form in preference to %{number},
12172 since that is a little more efficient.
12173 + minor correction to infocmp to avoid displaying "difference" between
12174 two capabilities that are rendered in equivalent forms.
12175 + add "-g" option to tic/infocmp to force character constants to be
12176 displayed in quoted form. Otherwise their decimal values are shown.
12177 + modify setupterm so that cancelled strings are treated the same as
12178 absent strings, cancelled and absent booleans false (does not affect
12180 + modify tic, infocmp to discard redundant i3, r3 strings when output
12182 > patch by Alexander V Lukyanov:
12183 + improve performance of tparm, now it takes 19% instead of 25% when
12185 + rename maxlen/minlen to prec/width for better readability.
12186 + use format string for printing strings.
12187 + use len argument correctly in save_text, and pass it to save_number.
12190 + make test_progs compile (but hashmap does not function).
12191 + correct NC_BUFFERED macro, used in lib_mvcur test-driver, modify
12192 associated logic to avoid freeing the SP->_setbuf data.
12193 + add modules home_terminfo and getenv_num to libtinfo.
12194 + move write_entry to libtinfo, to work with termcap caching.
12195 + minor fixes to blue.c to build with atac.
12196 + remove softscroll.c module; no longer needed for testing.
12197 > patches by Todd C Miller:
12198 + use strtol(3) instead of atoi(3) when parsing env variables so we can
12199 detect a bogus (non-numeric) value.
12200 + check for terminal names > MAX_NAME_SIZE in a few more places when
12201 dealing with env variables again.
12202 + fix a MAX_NAME_SIZE that should be MAX_NAME_SIZE+1
12203 + use sizeof instead of strlen(3) on PRIVATE_INFO since it is a fixed
12204 string #define (compile time vs runtime).
12205 + when setting errno to ENOMEM, set it right before the return, not
12206 before code that could, possibly, set errno to a different value.
12207 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
12208 + use default background in update_cost_from_blank()
12209 + disable scroll-hints when hashmap is configured.
12210 + improve integration of hashmap scrolling code, by adding oldhash and
12211 newhash data to SP struct.
12212 + invoke del_curterm from delscreen.
12213 + modify del_curterm to set cur_term to null if it matches the
12214 function's parameter which is deleted.
12215 + modify lib_doupdate to prefer parm_ich to the enter_insert_mode and
12216 exit_insert_mode combination, adjusting InsCharCost to check
12217 enter_insert_mode, exit_insert_mode and insert_padding. Add
12218 insert_padding in insert mode after each char. This adds new costs
12222 + modify test-driver in lib_mvcur.s to use _nc_setbuffer, for
12223 consistent treatment.
12224 + modify ncurses to restore output to unbuffered on endwin, and resume
12225 buffering in refresh (see lib_set_term.c and NC_BUFFERED macro).
12226 + corrected HTML version numbers (according to the W3C validator, they
12227 never were HTML 2.0-compliant, but are acceptable 3.0).
12230 + modify MKterminfo.sh to generate terminfo.5 with tables sorted by
12231 capability name, as in SVr4.
12232 + modified term.h, termcap.h headers to avoid redundant declarations.
12233 + change 'u_int' type in tset.c to unsigned, making this compile on
12234 Sequent PRX 4.1 (reported by Michael Sterrett <msterret@coat.com>).
12237 + corrections to mailing addresses, and moving the magic line that
12238 causes the man program to invoke tbl to the first line of each
12239 manpage (patch by Rick Ohnemus <rick@ecompcon.com>).
12240 + add Makefile.os2 and supporting scripts to generate dll's on OS/2 EMX
12241 (from J.J.G.Ripoll, with further integration by TD).
12242 + correct a typo in icl6404 terminfo entry.
12243 + add xtermm and xtermc terminfo entries.
12244 > from esr's terminfo version:
12245 + Added Francesco Potorti's tuned Wyse 99 entries.
12246 + dtterm enacs (from Alexander V Lukyanov).
12247 + Add ncsa-ns, ncsa-m-ns and ncsa-m entries from esr version.
12250 + document AT&T acs characters in terminfo.5 manpage.
12251 + use EMX _scrsize() function if terminfo and environment do not
12252 declare the screen size (reported by Ilya Zakharevich
12253 <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>).
12254 + remove spurious '\' characters from eterm and osborne terminfo
12255 entries (prompted by an old Debian bug report).
12256 + correct reversed malloc/realloc calls in _nc_doalloc (reported by
12257 Hans-Joachim Widmaier <hjwidmai@foxboro.com>).
12258 + correct misplaced parenthesis which caused file-descriptor from
12259 opening termcap to be lost, from 980725 changes (reported by Andreas
12263 + modify lib_setup.c to eliminate unneeded include of <sys/ioctl.h>
12264 when termios is not used (patch by Todd C Miller).
12265 + add function _nc_doalloc, to ensure that failed realloc calls do not
12266 leak memory (reported by Todd C Miller).
12267 + improved ncsa-telnet terminfo entry.
12270 + correct missing braces around a trace statement in read_entry.c,
12271 from 980808 (reported by Kim DeVaughn <kimdv@best.com> and Liviu
12275 + fix missing include <errno.h> in ditto.c (reported by Bernhard
12276 Rosenkraenzer <bero@k5.sucks.eu.org>)
12277 + add NCSA telnet terminfo entries from Francesco Potorti
12278 <F.Potorti@cnuce.cnr.it>, from Debian bug reports.
12279 + make handling of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables more compatible with
12280 Solaris by allowing them to individually override the window size
12281 as obtained via ioctl.
12284 + modify lib_vidattr.c to allow for terminal types (e.g., xterm-color)
12285 which may reset all attributes in the 'op' capability, so that colors
12286 are set before turning on bold and other attributes, but still after
12287 turning attributes off.
12288 + add 'ditto.c' to test directory to illustrate use of newterm for
12289 initializing multiple screens.
12290 + modify _nc_write_entry() to recover from failed attempt to link alias
12291 for a terminfo on a filesystem which does not preserve character case
12292 (reported by Peter L Jordan <PJordan@chla.usc.edu>).
12295 + updated versions of config.guess and config.sub based on automake 1.3
12296 + change name-comparisons in lib_termcap to compare no more than 2
12297 characters (gleaned from Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-8.8, verified
12298 with Solaris curses).
12299 + fix typo in curs_insstr.3x (patch by Todd C Miller)
12300 + use 'access()' to check if ncurses library should be permitted to
12301 open or modify files with fopen/open/link/unlink/remove calls, in
12302 case the calling application is running in setuid mode (request by
12303 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>, responding to Duncan Simpson
12304 <dps@io.stargate.co.uk>).
12305 + arm100 terminfo entries from Dave Millen <dmill@globalnet.co.uk>).
12306 + qnxt2 and minitel terminfo entries from esr's version.
12309 + use -R option with ldconfig on FreeBSD because otherwise it resets
12310 the search path to /usr/lib (reported by Dan Nelson).
12311 + add -soname option when building shared libraries on OpenBSD 2.x
12312 (request by QingLong).
12313 + add configure options --with-manpage-format and
12314 --with-manpage-renames (request by QingLong).
12315 + correct conversion of CANCELLED_NUMERIC in write_object(), which was
12316 omitting the high-order byte, producing a 254 in the compiled
12318 + modify return-values of tgetflag, tgetnum, tgetstr, tigetflag,
12319 tigetnum and tigetstr to be compatible with Solaris (gleaned from
12320 Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-8.8).
12321 + modify _nc_syserr_abort to abort only when compiled for debugging,
12322 otherwise simply exit with an error.
12325 + modify Ada95 'gen' program to use appropriate library suffix (e.g.,
12326 "_g" for a debug build).
12327 + update Ada95 'make clean' rule to include generics .ali files
12328 + add a configure test to ensure that if GNAT is found, that it can
12329 compile/link working Ada95 program.
12330 + flush output in beep and flash functions, fixing a problem with
12331 getstr (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov)
12332 + fix egcs 1.0.2 warning for etip.h (patch by Chris Johns).
12333 + correct ifdef/brace nesting in lib_sprintf.c (patch by Bernhard
12334 Rosenkraenzer <bero@Pool.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>).
12335 + correct typo in wattr_get macro from 980509 fixes (patch by Dan
12339 + merge changes from current XFree86 xterm terminfo descriptions.
12340 + add configure option '--without-ada'.
12341 + add a smart-default for termcap 'ac' to terminfo 'acs_chars' which
12342 corresponds to vt100.
12343 + change translation for termcap 'rs' to terminfo 'rs2', which is
12344 the documented equivalent, rather than 'rs1'.
12347 + slow 'worm' down a little, for very fast machines.
12348 + corrected firstchar/lastchar computation in lib_hline.c
12349 + simplify some expressions with CHANGED_CELL, CHANGED_RANGE and
12350 CHANGED_TO_EOL macros.
12351 + modify init_pair so that if a color-pair is reinitialized, we will
12352 repaint the areas of the screen whose color changes, like SVr4 curses
12353 (reported by Christian Maurer <maurer@inf.fu-berlin.de>).
12354 + modify getsyx/setsyx macros to comply with SVr4 man-page which
12355 says that leaveok() affects their behavior (report by Darryl Miles,
12356 patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
12359 + review terminfo.5 against Solaris 2.6 curses version, corrected
12360 several minor errors/omissions.
12361 + implement tparm %l format.
12362 + implement tparm printf-style width and precision for %s, %d, %x, %o
12364 + implement tparm dynamic variables (reported by Xiaodan Tang).
12367 + update man-page for for wattr_set, wattr_get (cf: 980509)
12368 + correct limits in hashtest, which would cause nonprinting characters
12369 to be written to large screens.
12370 + correct configure script, when --without-cxx was specified: the
12371 wrong variable was used for cf_cv_type_of_bool. Compilers up to gcc
12372 2.8 tolerated the missing 'int'.
12373 + remove the hardcoded name "gcc" for the GNU Ada compiler. The
12374 compiler's name might be something like "egcs" (patch by Juergen
12376 + correct curs_addch.3x, which implied that echochar could directly
12377 display control characters (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
12378 + fix typos in ncurses-intro.html (patch by Sidik Isani
12379 <isani@cfht.hawaii.edu>)
12382 + add configure test for conflicting use of exception in math.h and
12384 + minor optimization to 'hash()' function in hashmap.c, reduces its
12386 + correct form of LD_SHARED_OPTS for HP-UX 10.x (patch by Tim Mooney).
12387 + fix missing quotes for 'print' in MKunctrl.awk script (reported by
12388 Mihai Budiu <mihaib@gs41.sp.cs.cmu.edu>).
12389 > patch by Alexander V Lukyanov:
12390 + correct problem on Solaris (with poll() function) where getch could
12391 hang indefinitely even if timeout(x) was called. This turned out to
12392 be because milliseconds was not updated before 'goto retry' in
12394 + simplified the function _nc_timed_wait and fixed another bug, which
12395 was the assumption of !GOOD_SELECT && HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY in *timeleft
12397 + removed the cycle on EINTR, as it seems to be useless.
12400 + add makefile-rule for test/keynames
12401 + modify run_tic.sh and shlib to ensure that user's .profile does not
12402 override the $PATH used to run tic (patch by Tim Mooney).
12403 + restore LD_SHARED_OPTS to $(LD_SHARED_FLAGS) when linking programs,
12404 needed for HP-UX shared-library path (recommended by Tim Mooney).
12405 + remove special case of HP-UX -L options, use +b options to embed
12406 $(libdir) in the shared libraries (recommended by Tim Mooney).
12407 + add checks for some possible buffer overflows and unchecked
12408 malloc/realloc/calloc/strdup return values (patch by Todd C Miller
12409 <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>)
12412 + correct maxx/maxy expression for num_columns/num_lines in derwin
12413 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
12414 + add /usr/share/lib/terminfo and /usr/lib/terminfo as compatibility
12415 fallbacks to _nc_read_entry(), along with --with-terminfo-dirs
12416 configure option (suggested by Mike Hopkirk).
12417 + modify config.guess to recognize Unixware 2.1 and 7 (patch by Mike
12418 Hopkirk <hops@sco.com>).
12419 + suppress definition of CC_SHARED_OPTS in LDFLAGS_SHARED in c++
12420 Makefile.in, since this conflicts when g++ is used with HP-UX
12421 compiler (reported by Tim Mooney).
12422 + parenthesize 'strcpy' calls in c++ binding to workaround redefinition
12423 in some C++ implementations (reported by several people running
12424 egcs with glibc 2.0.93, analysis by Andreas Jaeger.
12427 + modify write_entry.c so that it will not attempt to link aliases
12428 with embedded '/', but give only a warning.
12429 + put -L$(libdir) first when linking programs, except for HP-UX.
12430 + modify comp_scan.c to handle SVr4 terminfo description for att477,
12431 which contains a colon in the description field.
12432 + modify configure script to support SCO osr5.0.5 shared libraries,
12433 from comp.unix.sco.programmer newsgroup item (Mike Hopkirk).
12434 + eliminate extra GoTo call in lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V.
12436 + minor adjustments of const/NCURSES_CONST from IRIX compile.
12437 + add updates based on esr's 980509 version of terminfo.src.
12440 + correct macros for wattr_set, wattr_get, separate wattrset macro from
12441 these to preserve behavior that allows attributes to be combined with
12442 color pair numbers.
12443 + add configure option --enable-no-padding, to allow environment
12444 variable $NCURSES_NO_PADDING to eliminate non-mandatory padding,
12445 thereby making terminal emulators (e.g., for vt100) a little more
12446 efficient (request by Daniel Eisenbud <eisenbud@cs.swarthmore.edu>).
12447 + modify configure script to embed ABI in shared libraries for HP-UX
12448 10.x (detailed request by Tim Mooney).
12449 + add test/example of the 'filter()' function.
12450 + add nxterm and xterm-color terminfo description (request by Cristian
12451 Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>).
12452 + modify rxvt terminfo description to clear alternate screen before
12453 switching back to normal screen, for compatibility with applications
12454 which use xterm (reported by Manoj Kasichainula <manojk@io.com>).
12455 + modify linux terminfo description to reset color palette (reported
12456 by Telford Tendys <telford@eng.uts.edu.au>).
12457 + correction to doupdate, for case where terminal does not support
12458 insert/delete character. The logic did not check that there was a
12459 difference in alignment of changes to old/new screens before
12460 repainting the whole non-blank portion of the line. Modified to fall
12461 through into logic that reduces by the portion which does not differ
12462 (reported by Daniel Eisenbud <eisenbud@cs.swarthmore.edu>).
12463 + minor performance improvement to wnoutrefresh by moving some
12464 comparisons out of inner loop.
12467 + modify configure script to substitute NCURSES_CONST in curses.h
12468 + updated terminfo entries for xterm-xf86-v40, xterm-16color,
12469 xterm-8bit to correspond to XFree86 3.9Ag.
12470 + remove restriction that forces ncurses to use setaf/setab if the
12471 number of colors is greater than 8. (see 970524 for xterm-16color).
12472 + change order of -L options (so that $(libdir) is searched first) when
12473 linking tic and other programs, to workaround HP's linker.
12474 Otherwise, the -L../lib is embedded when linking against shared
12475 libraries and the installed program does not run (reported by Ralf
12477 + modify configuration of shared libraries on Digital Unix so that
12478 versioning is embedded in the library, rather than implied by
12479 links (patch by Tim Mooney).
12482 + modify etip.h to avoid conflict with math.h on HP-UX 9.03 with gcc
12483 2.8.1 which redefines 'exception' (reported by Ralf Hildebrandt
12484 <R.Hildebrandt@tu-bs.de>).
12485 + correct configure tests in CF_SHARED_OPTS which used $CC value to
12486 check for gcc, rather than autoconf's $GCC value. This did not
12487 work properly if the full pathname of the compiler were given
12488 (reported by Michael Yount <yount@csf.Colorado.edu>).
12489 + revise check for compiler options to force ANSI mode since repeating
12490 an option such as -Aa causes HP's compiler to fail on its own headers
12491 (reported by Clint Olsen <olsenc@ichips.intel.com>).
12494 + ifdef'd has_key() and mcprint() as extended functions.
12495 + modified several prototypes to correspond with 1997 version of
12496 X/Open Curses (affects ABI since developers have used attr_get).
12497 + remove spurious trailing blanks in glibc addon-scripts (patch by
12499 + insert a few braces at locations where gcc-2.8.x asks to use them to
12500 avoid ambiguous else's, use -fpic rather than -fPIC for Linux (patch
12501 by Juergen Pfeifer).
12504 + split SHLIB_LIST into SHLIB_DIRS/SHLIB_LIST to keep -L options
12505 before -l to accommodate Solaris' linker (reported by Larry Virden).
12508 + modify lib_color.c to eliminate dependency on orig_colors and
12509 orig_pair, since SVr4 curses does not require these either, but
12510 uses them when they are available.
12511 + add detailed usage-message to infocmp.
12512 + correct a typo in att6386 entry (a "%?" which was "?").
12513 + add -f option to infocmp and tic, which formats the terminfo
12514 if/then/else/endif so that they are readable (with newlines and
12516 + fixes for glibc addon scripts (patch by H.J.Lu).
12519 + revise configure macro CF_SPEED_TYPE so that termcap.h has speed_t
12520 declared (from Adam J Richter <adam@yggdrasil.com>)
12521 + remove spurious curs_set() call from leaveok() (J T Conklin).
12522 + corrected handling leaveok() in doupdate() (patch by Alexander V.
12524 + improved version of wredrawln (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
12525 + correct c++/Makefile.in so install target do not have embedded ../lib
12526 to confuse it (patch by Thomas Graf <graf@essi.fr>).
12527 + add warning to preinstall rule which checks if the installer would
12528 overwrite a curses.h or termcap.h that is not derived from ncurses.
12529 (The recommended configuration for developers who need both is to
12530 use --disable-overwrite).
12531 + modify preinstall rule in top-level Makefile to avoid implicit
12532 use of 'sh', to accommodate Ultrix 4.4 (reported by Joao Palhoto
12533 Matos <jmatos@math.ist.utl.pt>, patch by Thomas Esser
12534 <te@informatik.uni-hannover.de>)
12535 + refine ifdef's for TRACE so that libncurses has fewer dependencies
12536 on libtinfo when TRACE is disabled.
12537 + modify configure script so that if the --with-termlib option is used
12538 to generate a separate terminfo library, we chain it to the ncurses
12539 library with a "-l" option (reported by Darryl Miles and Ian T.
12543 + correct limits and window in wredrawln function (reported/analysis by
12544 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
12545 + correct sed expression in configure script for --with-fallback
12546 option (patch by Jesse Thilo).
12547 + correct some places in configure script where $enableval was used
12548 rather than $withval (patch by Darryl Miles <dlm@g7led.demon.co.uk>).
12549 + modify some man-pages so no '.' or '..' falls between TH and SH
12550 macros, to accommodate man_db program (reported by Ian T. Zimmerman
12552 + terminfo.src 10.2.1 downloaded from ESR's webpage (ESR).
12553 > several changes by Juergen Pfeifer:
12554 + add copyright notices (and rcs id's) on remaining man-pages.
12555 + corrected prototypes for slk_* functions, using chtype rather than
12557 + implemented the wcolor_set() and slk_color() functions
12558 + the slk_attr_{set,off,on} functions need an additional void*
12559 parameter according to XSI.
12560 + fix the C++ and Ada95 binding as well as the man pages to
12561 reflect above enhancements.
12564 + use 'stat()' rather than 'access()' in toe.c to check for the
12565 existence of $HOME/.terminfo, since it may be a file.
12566 + suppress configure CF_CXX_LIBRARY check if we are not using g++
12567 2.7.x, since this is not needed with g++ 2.8 or egcs (patch by
12569 + turn on hashmap scrolling code by default, intend to remedy defects
12571 + minor corrections to terminfo.src changelog.
12573 980302 4.2 release for upload to prep.ai.mit.edu
12574 + correct Florian's email address in ncurses-intro.html
12575 + terminfo.src 10.2.0 (ESR).
12578 + add linux-koi8r replace linux-koi8, which is not KOI8 (patch by
12579 QingLong <qinglong@Bolizm.ihep.su>).
12580 + minor documentation fixes (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
12581 + add setlocale() call to ncurses.c (reported by Claes G. Lindblad
12582 <claesg@algonet.se>).
12583 + correct sign-extension in lib_insstr.c (reported by Sotiris
12584 Vassilopoulos <svas@leon.nrcps.ariadne-t.gr>)
12587 + regenerated some documentation overlooked in 980214 patch
12588 (ncurses-intro.doc, curs_outopts.3x.html)
12589 + minor ifdef change to C++ binding to work with gcc 2.8.0 (patch by
12591 + change maintainer's mailing address to florian@gnu.org, change
12592 tentative mailing list address to bug-ncurses-request@gnu.org (patch
12593 by Florian La Roche).
12594 + add definition of $(REL_VERSION) to c++/Makefile.in (reported by Gran
12595 Hasse <gh@raditex.se>).
12596 + restore version numbers to Ada95 binding, accidentally deleted by
12597 copyright patch (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
12600 + remove ncurses.lsm from MANIFEST so that it won't be used in FSF
12601 distributions, though it is retained in development.
12602 + correct scaling of milliseconds to nanoseconds in lib_napms.c (patch
12604 + update mailing-list information (bug-ncurses@gnu.org).
12605 + update announcement for upcoming 4.2 release.
12606 + modify -lm test to check for 'sin()' rather than 'floor()'
12607 + remove spurious commas from terminfo.src descriptions.
12608 + change copyright notices to Free Software Foundation
12611 + minor fixes for autoconf macros CF_ERRNO, CF_HELP_MESSAGE and
12613 + modify Makefile.glibc so that $(objpfx) is defined (H.J.Lu).
12614 + ifdef-out true-return from _nc_mouse_inline() which depends on
12615 merge of QNX patch (pending 4.2 release).
12616 > patch to split off seldom-used modules in ncurses (J T Conklin):
12617 This reduces size by up to 2.6kb.
12618 + move functionality of _nc_usleep into napms, add configuration case
12620 + moved wchgat() from lib_addch.c to lib_chgat.c
12621 + moved clearok(), immedok(), leaveok(), and scrollok() from
12622 lib_options.c to lib_clearok.c, lib_immedok.c, lib_leaveok.c and
12624 + moved napms() from lib_kernel.c to lib_napms.c
12625 + moved echo() and noecho() from lib_raw.c to lib_echo.c
12626 + moved nl() and nonl() from lib_raw.c to lib_nl.c
12629 + corrected conversion in tclock.c (cf: 971018).
12630 + updates to Makefile.glibc and associated Linux configure script
12632 + workaround a quoting problem on SunOS with tar-copy.sh
12633 + correct init_pair() calls in worm.c to work when use_default_colors()
12635 + include <sys/types.h> in CF_SYS_TIME_SELECT to work with FreeBSD
12637 + add ncv capability to FreeBSD console (cons25w), making reverse
12639 + correct sense of configure-test for sys/time.h inclusion with
12641 + fixes for Ada95/ada_include/Makefile.in to work with --srcdir option.
12642 + remove unused/obsolete test-program rules from progs/Makefile.in
12643 (the rules in ncurses/Makefile.in work).
12644 + remove shared-library loader flags from test/Makefile.in, etc.
12645 + simplify test/configure.in using new version of autoconf to create
12647 + suppress suffix rules in test/Makefile.in, provide explicit
12648 dependency to work with --srcdir option and less capable 'make'
12650 > adapted from patch for QNX by Xiaodan Tang:
12651 + initialize %P and %g variables set/used in tparm, and also ensure
12652 that empty strings don't return a null result from tparam_internal
12653 + add QNX-specific prototype for vsscanf()
12654 + move initialization of SP->_keytry from init_keytry() to newterm() to
12655 avoid resetting it via a keyok() call by mouse_activate().
12656 + reorganized some functions in lib_mouse() to use case-statements.
12657 + remove sgr string from qnx terminfo entry since it is reported to
12658 turn off attributes inconsistently.
12661 + add f/F/b/B commands to ncurses 'b' test to toggle colors, providing
12662 test for no_color_video.
12663 + adjusted emx.src to use no_color_video, now works with ncurses 'b'
12665 + implement no_color_video attribute, and as a special case, reverse
12666 colors when the reverse attribute cannot be combined with color.
12667 + check for empty string in $TERM variable (reported by Brett Michaels
12668 <brett@xylan.com>).
12669 > from reports by Fred Fish:
12670 + add configure-test for isascii
12671 + add configure-test for -lm library.
12672 + modify CF_BOOL_SIZE to check if C++ bool types are unsigned.
12673 > patches by J.J.G.Ripoll
12674 + add configure/makefile variables to support .exe extension on
12675 OS/2 EMX (requires additional autoconf patches).
12676 + explicitly initialize variables in lib_data.c to appease OS/2 linker
12677 > patches by Fred Fish <fnf@ninemoons.com>
12678 + misc/Makefile.in (install.data): Avoid trying to install the CVS
12680 + aclocal.m4 (install.includes): Remove files in the include directory
12681 where we are going to install new ones, not the original source
12683 + misc/terminfo.src: Add entry for "beterm", derived from termcap
12684 distributed with BeOS PR2 using captoinfo.
12685 + aclocal.m4: Wrap $cf_cv_type_of_bool with quotes (contains space)
12686 + aclocal.m4: Assume bool types are unsigned.
12687 + progs/infocmp.c: workaround mwcc 32k function data limit
12690 + correct initialization of color-pair (cf: 970524) in xmas.c, which
12691 was using only one color-pair for all colors (reported by
12693 + add multithread options for objects build on EMX, for compatibility
12695 + split up an expression in MKlib_gen.sh to work around a problem on
12696 OS/2 EMX, with 'ash' (patch by J.J.G.Ripoll).
12697 + change terminfo entries xterm (xterm-xf86-v40), xterm-8bit rs1 to use
12699 + rename terminfo entry xterm-xf86-v39t to xterm-xf86-v40
12700 + remove bold/underline from sun console entries since they're not
12702 + correct _tracef calls in _tracedump(), which did not separate format
12704 + correct getopt string for tic "-o" option, and add it to man-page
12705 synopsis (reported by Darren Hiebert <darren@hmi.com>).
12706 + correct typo in panel/Makefile.in, reversed if-statement in scrolling
12707 optimization (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
12708 + test for 'remove()', use 'unlink() if not found (patch by Philippe De
12709 Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>).
12710 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
12711 + Improve a feature of the forms driver. For invisible fields
12712 (O_VISIBLE off) only the contents but not the attributes are cleared.
12713 We now clear both. (Reported by Javier Kohan
12714 <jkohan@adan.fceia.unr.edu.ar>)
12715 + The man page form_field_opts.3x makes now clear, that invisible
12716 fields are also always inactive.
12717 + adjust ifdef's to compile the C++ binding with the just released
12718 gcc-2.8.0 c++ and the corresponding new C++ libraries.
12721 + correct "?" command in ncurses.c; it was performing non-screen writes
12722 while the program was in screen mode. (It "worked" in 1.9.9e because
12723 that version sets OPOST and OCRNL incorrectly).
12724 + return error from functions in lib_kernel, lib_raw and lib_ti if
12725 cur_term is null, or if underlying I/O fails.
12726 + amend change to tputs() so that it does not return an error if
12727 cur_term is null, since some applications depend on being able to use
12728 tputs without initializing the terminal (reported by Christian J.
12729 Robinson <infynity@cyberhighway.net>).
12732 + add a copy of emx.src from J.J.G.Ripoll's OS/2 EMX version of ncurses
12733 1.9.9e, together with fixes/additions for the "ansi" terminal type.
12734 + add tic check for save/restore cursor if change_scroll_region is
12735 defined (reference: O'Reilly book).
12736 + modify read_termcap.c to handle EMX-style pathnames (reported by
12738 + modify lib_raw.c to use EMX's setmode (patch from J.J.G.Ripoll).
12739 Ripoll says EMX's curses does this.
12740 + modify _nc_tic_expand() to generate \0 rather than \200.
12741 + move/revise 'expand()' from dump_entry.c to ncurses library as
12742 _nc_tic_expand(), for use by tack.
12743 + decode \a as \007 for terminfo, as per XSI.
12744 + correct translation of terminfo "^@", to \200, like \0.
12745 + modify next_char() to treat <cr><lf> the same as <newline>, for
12746 cross-platform compatibility.
12747 + use new version of autoconf (971230) to work around limited
12748 environment on CLIX, due to the way autoconf builds --help message.
12749 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
12750 + check that the Ada95 binding runs against the correct version of
12752 + insert constants about the library version into the main spec-file of
12756 + modify open/fopen calls to use binary mode, needed for EMX.
12757 + modify configure script to work with autoconf 2.10 mods for OS/2
12758 EMX (from J.J.G.Ripoll).
12759 + generated ncurses_cfg.h with patch (971222) to autoconf 2.12 which
12760 bypasses limited sed buffer length.
12761 > several changes from Juan Jose Garcia Ripoll <worm@arrakis.es>
12762 (J.J.G.Ripoll) to support OS/2 EMX:
12763 + add a _scrolling flag to SP, to set when we encounter a terminal
12764 that simply cannot scroll.
12765 + corrected logic in _nc_add_to_try(), by ensuring that strings with
12766 embedded \200 characters are matched.
12767 + don't assume the host has 'link()' function, for linking terminfo
12771 + if there's no ioctl's to support sigwinch handler, disable it.
12772 + add configure option --disable-ext-funcs to remove the extended
12773 functions from the build.
12774 + add configure option --with-termlib to generate the terminfo
12775 functions as a separate library.
12776 + add 'sources' rule to facilitate cross-compiling.
12777 + review/fix order of mostlyclean/clean/distclean rules.
12778 + modify install-rule for headers to first remove old header, in
12779 case there was a symbolic link that confuses the install script.
12780 + corrected substitution for NCURSES_CONST in term.h (cf: 971108)
12781 + add null pointer checks in wnoutrefresh(), overlap() (patch by
12782 Xiaodan Tang <xtang@qnx.com>)
12783 + correct tputs(), which could dereference a null cur_term if invoked
12784 before terminal is initialized (patch by Christopher Seawood
12786 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
12787 + makes better use of "pragma Inline" in the Ada95 binding
12788 + resynchronizes the generated html manpages
12791 + additional fixes for man-pages section-references
12792 + add (for debugging) a check for ich/ich1 conflict with smir/rmir
12794 + remove hpa/vpa from rxvt terminal description because they are not
12795 implemented correctly, added sgr0.
12796 + change ncurses 's' to use raw mode, so ^Q works (reported by Rudolf
12797 Leitgeb <leitgeb@leland.stanford.edu>)
12800 + modify protection when installing libraries to (normally) not
12801 executable. HP-UX shared libraries are an exception.
12802 + add configure check for 'tack'.
12803 + implement script for renaming section-references in man-page install,
12804 for Debian configuration.
12805 + add validity-check for SP in trace code in baudrate() (reported by
12807 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov (fixes to match sol25 curses)
12808 + modify 'overlay()' so that copy applies target window background to
12810 + correct 'mvwin()' so that it does not clear the previous locations.
12811 + correct lib_acs.c so that 8-bit character is not sign expanded in
12812 case of wide characters in chtype.
12813 + correct control-char test in lib_addch.c for use with wide chars
12814 + use attribute in the chtype when adding a control character in
12815 lib_addch.c control char was added with current attribute
12818 + save/restore errno in _tracef() function
12819 + change treatment of initialize_color to use a range of 0..1000
12820 (recommended by Daniel Weaver).
12821 + set umask in mkinstalldirs, fixing problems reported by users who
12822 have set root's umask to 077.
12823 + correct bug in tic that caused capabilities to be reprinted at the
12824 end of output when they had embedded comments.
12825 + rewrote wredrawln to correspond to XSI, and split-out since it is
12826 not often used (from report by Alexander V. Lukyanov, 970825)
12827 + rewrote Dan Nelson's change to make it portable, as well as to
12828 correct logic for handling backslashes.
12829 + add code to _nc_tgetent() to make it work more like a real tgetent().
12830 It removes all empty fields, and removes all but the first in a group
12831 of duplicate caps. The code was pulled from the BSD libtermcap code
12832 in termcap.c (patch by Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
12833 + don't include --enable-widec in the --with-develop configure option,
12834 since it is not binary-compatible with 4.1 (noted by Alexander V.
12836 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
12837 + further improvements of the usage of elaboration pragmas in the Ada95
12839 + enhanced Ada95 sample to use the user_data mechanism for panels.
12840 + a fix for the configuration script to make gnat-3.10 the required
12842 + resync of the html version of the manpages
12845 > fixes/updates for terminfo.src:
12846 + add vt220-js, pilot, rbcomm, datapoint entries from esr's 27-jun-97
12848 + add hds200 description (Walter Skorski)
12849 + add EMX 0.9b descriptions
12850 + correct rmso/smso capabilities in wy30-mc and wy50-mc (Daniel Weaver)
12851 + rename xhpterm back to hpterm.
12852 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
12853 + Improves the usage of elaboration pragmas for the Ada95 binding.
12854 + Adds a translation of the test/rain.c into Ada95 to the samples.
12855 This has been contributed to the project by Laurent Pautet
12859 + increase MAX_NAME_SIZE to 512 to handle extremely long alias list
12861 + correction & simplification of delay computation in tputs, based on
12862 comments from Daniel Weaver.
12863 + replace test for SCO with more precise header tests.
12864 + add configure test for unsigned literals, use in NCURSES_BITS macro.
12865 + comment-out the -PIC, etc., flags from c++, progs and test makefiles
12866 since they probably are not needed, and are less efficient (noted by
12868 + add -L$(libdir) to loader options, after -L../lib so that loaders
12869 that record this information will tend to do the right thing if
12870 the programs are moved around after installing them (suggested by
12872 + add -R option to loader options for programs for Solaris if the
12873 --enable-rpath option is specified for the libraries.
12876 + correct installed filename for shared libraries on *BSD (reported by
12880 + cleanup logic for deciding when tputs() should call delay_output(),
12881 based on comments from Daniel Weaver.
12882 + modified tputs() to avoid use of float.
12883 + correct use of trailpad in tputs(), which used the wrong variable
12884 in call to delay_output().
12885 + correct inverted expression for null-count in delay_output()
12886 (analysis by Daniel Weaver).
12887 + apply --enable-rpath option to Solaris (requested by Larry Virden).
12888 + correct substitution of EXTRA_CFLAGS for gcc 2.6.3
12889 + correct check for error-return by _nc_tgetent(), which returns 0
12891 + add configure test for BSD 4.4 cgetent() function, modify
12892 read_termcap.c to use the host's version of that if found, using the
12893 terminal database on FreeBSD (reported by Peter Wemm).
12894 + add u8, u9 strings to sun-il description for Daniel Weaver.
12895 + use NCURSES_CONST in panel's user-pointer.
12896 + modify edit_cfg.sh and MKterm.h.awk.in to substitute NCURSES_CONST
12897 so that will work on NeXT.
12898 + use _nc_set_screen() rather than assignments to SP to fix port to
12899 NeXT (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
12902 + force mandatory padding in bell and flash_screen, as specified in
12904 + don't allow padding_baud_rate to override mandatory delays (reported
12906 + modify delay_output() to use _nc_timed_wait() if no baudrate has been
12907 defined, or if the cur_term pointer is not initialized. XSI treats
12908 this as unspecified. (requested by Daniel Weaver).
12909 + change getcap-cache ifdef's to eliminate unnecessary chdir/mkdir
12910 when that feature is not configured.
12911 + remove _nc_err_abort() calls when write_entry.c finds a directory but
12912 cannot write to it, e.g., when translating part/all of /etc/termcap
12913 (reported by Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>).
12914 (this dates back to 951102 in 1.9.7a).
12915 + minor ifdef fixes to compile with atac and glibc 2.0.5c
12916 + add check for -lgen when configuring regexpr.h
12917 + modify Solaris shared-library option "-d y" to "-dy" to workaround
12918 incompatibility of gcc 2.7.2 vs vendor's tools.
12921 + correct ifdef's for struct winsize vs struct ttysize in lib_setup.c
12923 + remove dangling backslash in panel/Makefile.in
12924 + modify MKkeyname.awk to work with SCO's nawk, which dumps core in the
12926 + correct length of allocation in _nc_add_to_try(), to allow for
12928 + correct logic in _nc_remove_key(), which was discarding too many
12929 nodes (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov)
12932 + add definition for $(REL_VERSION) to test/Makefile.in, so *BSD
12933 shared libraries link properly (see 970524).
12934 + modify Linux shared-library generation to include library
12935 dependencies (e.g., -lncurses and -lgpm) in the forms, menu and
12936 panel libraries (suggested by Juergen Pfeifer).
12937 + modify configure script to use config.guess and config.sub rather
12938 than uname, which is unreliable on some systems.
12939 + updated Makefile.glibc, test-built with glibc 2.0.5c
12940 + modify keyname() to return values consistent with SVr4 curses (patch
12942 > changes requested by Daniel Weaver:
12943 + modify delay_output() so that it uses the same output function as
12944 tputs() if called from that function.
12945 + move _baudrate from SCREEN to TERMINAL so that low-level use of
12946 tputs works when SP is not set.
12947 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
12948 + factor lib_menu and lib_form into smaller modules
12949 + clean up the interface between panel and SCREEN
12950 + minor changes to the Ada95 mouse support implementation
12951 + minor bugfix in C++ binding to ripoff windows
12952 + fix a few Ada95 html documentation pages
12955 + split-out lib_ungetch.c, make runtime link to resizeterm() to
12956 decouple those modules from lib_restart.c
12957 + add xterm-xf86-v39t description to terminfo.src
12958 + reset SP->_endwin in lib_tstp.c cleanup() function after calling
12959 endwin() to avoid unnecessary repainting if the application has
12960 established an atexit function, etc. Encountered this problem in
12961 the c++ demo, whose destructors repaint the screen.
12962 + combine _nc_get_screensize() and resizeterm() calls as new function
12963 _nc_update_screensize().
12964 + minor fixes to allow compile with g++ (suggested by Nelson H. F.
12966 + implement install-rules for Ada95 makefiles.
12967 + use screen_lines or MAXLINES as needed where LINES was coded,
12968 as well as screen_columns for COLS, in the ncurses library.
12969 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
12970 + modify logic for ripped-off lines to handle several SCREENs.
12971 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
12972 + factors lib_slk.c into some smaller modules
12973 + factors panel.c into some smaller modules
12974 + puts the static information about the current panel stack into the
12975 SCREEN structure to allow different panel stacks on different
12977 + preliminary fix for an error adjusting LINES to account for
12981 + move _nc_max_click_interval and other mouse interface items to SCREEN
12982 struct so that they are associated with a single terminal, and also
12983 save memory when the application does not need a mouse (roughly 3k vs
12985 + modify mouseinterval() so that a negative parameter queries the
12986 click-interval without modifying it.
12987 + modify ncurses 'i' test to work with ncurses' apparent extension from
12988 SVr4, i.e., allows nocbreak+noecho (analysis by Alexander V.
12990 + add configure options --with-ada-includes and --with-ada-objects,
12991 to drive Ada95 binding install (not yet implemented).
12992 + install C++ binding as -lncurses++ and associated headers with the
12993 other ncurses headers.
12994 + fix header uninstall if configure --srcdir is used.
12995 > minor interface changes to support 'tack' program -TD
12996 (request by Daniel Weaver <danw@znyx.com>).
12997 + export functions _nc_trans_string() and _nc_msec_cost().
12998 + add variable _nc_nulls_sent, to record the number of padding
12999 characters output in delay_output().
13000 + move tests for generic_type and hard_copy terminals in setupterm()
13001 to the end of that function so that the library will still be
13002 initialized, though not generally useful for curses programs.
13003 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
13004 + modify ClrBottom() to avoid using clr_eos if there is only one line
13006 + typo in configure --help.
13007 > patch by J T Conklin (with minor resync against Juergen's changes)
13008 + split-out lib_flash.c from lib_beep.c
13009 + split-out lib_hline.c and lib_vline.c from lib_box.c
13010 + split-out lib_wattron.c, lib_wattroff.c from lib_addch.c
13013 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
13014 + correct source/target of c++/edit_cfg.sh
13017 + add color, mouse support to kterm terminfo entry.
13018 + modify lib_mouse.c to recognize rxvt, kterm, color_xterm also as
13019 providing "xterm"-style mouse.
13020 + updated rxvt's terminfo description to correspond to 2.21b, with
13021 fixes for the acsc (the box1 capability is incorrect, ech1 does not
13023 + fix logic in parse_entry.c that discarded acsc when 'synthesizing'
13024 an entry from equivalents in XENIX or AIX. This lets ncurses handle
13025 the distribution copy of rxvt's terminfo.
13026 + modify acsc capability for linux and linux-koi8 terminfo descriptions
13027 (from Pavel Roskin <pavel@absolute.spb.su>).
13028 + corrected definition in curses.h for ACS_LANTERN, which was 'I'
13029 rather than 'i' (see 970802).
13030 + updated terminfo.src with reformatted acsc entries, and repaired the
13031 trashed entries with spurious '\' characters that this exposed.
13032 + add logic to dump_entry.c to reformat acsc entries into canonical
13033 form (sorted, unique mapping).
13034 + add configure script to generate c++/etip.h
13035 + add configure --with-develop option, to enable by default most of the
13036 experimental options (requested by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13037 + rename 'deinstall' to 'uninstall', following GNU convention
13038 (suggested by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13039 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
13040 + modify tactics 2 and 5 in onscreen_mvcur(), to allow them on the last
13041 line of the screen, since carriage return will not cause a newline.
13042 + remove clause from PutCharLR() that would try to use
13043 eat_newline_glitch since that apparently does not work on some
13044 terminals (e.g., M$ telnet).
13045 + correct a limit check in scroll_csr_backward()
13046 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
13047 + adds dummy implementations of methods above() and below() to the
13048 NCursesPanel class.
13049 + fixes missing returncode in NCursesWindow::ripoffline()
13050 + fixes missing returncode in TestApplication::run() in demo.cc
13051 + We should at least give a comment in etip.h why it is currently a
13052 problem to install the C++ binding somewhere
13053 + makes the WINDOW* argument of wenclose() a const.
13054 + modifies several of the routines in lib_adabind.c to use a const
13058 + add 'deinstall' rules.
13059 + use explicit assignments in configure --without-progs option to
13060 work around autoconf bug which doesn't always set $withval.
13061 + check for ldconfig, don't try to run it if not found.
13062 + implement simple/unoptimized case in lib_doupdate.c to handle
13063 display with magic cookie glitch, tested with ncurses.c program.
13064 + correct missing _tracef in getmouse(), to balance the returnCode
13066 + simplify show_attr() in ncurses.c using termattrs().
13067 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
13068 + provides missing inlines for mvw[hv]line in cursesw.h of the C++
13070 + fixes a typo in a comment of frm_driver.c
13071 + Enhances Ada95 Makefiles to fulfill the requirement of GNAT-3.10 that
13072 generics should be compiled. Proper fixes to the configuration
13073 scripts are also provided.
13076 + several modifications to the configure script (requested by Ward
13078 + add configure options --without-progs, to suppress the build of the
13079 utility programs, e.g., for cross-compiling.
13080 + add $(HOSTCCFLAGS) and $(HOSTLDFLAGS) symbols to ncurses
13081 Makefile.in, to simplify setup for cross compiling.
13082 + add logic in configure script to recognize "--target=vxworks", and
13083 generate load/install actions for VxWorks objects.
13084 + move typedef for sigaction_t into SigAction.h to work around problem
13085 generating lint library.
13086 + modify fty_regex.c to reflect renaming of ifdef's for regular
13088 + simplify ifdef in lib_setup.c for TIOCGWINSZ since that symbol may
13089 reside in <sys/ioctl.h>.
13090 + merge testcurs.c with version from PDCurses 2.3, clarifying some of
13091 the more obscure tests, which rely upon color.
13092 + use macros getbegyx() and getmaxyx() in newdemo.c and testcurs.c
13093 + modify ncurses.c to use getbegyx() and getmaxyx() macros to cover up
13094 implementation difference wrt SVr4 curses, allow 's' test to work.
13095 + add missing endwin() to testscanw.c program (reported by Fausto
13096 Saporito <fausap@itb.it>).
13097 + fixes/updates for Makefile.glibc and related files under sysdeps
13099 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
13100 + add checks for null pointers, especially WINDOW's throughout the
13102 + solve a problem with wrong calculation of panel overlapping (reported
13104 + make sure that a panel's window isn't a pad.
13105 + do more error checking in module lib_touch.c
13106 + missing files for Ada95 binding from the last patch
13107 + synch. of generated html pages (RCS-Id's were wrong in html files)
13108 + support for Key_Resize in Ada binding
13109 + changed documentation style in ./c++/cursesm.h
13110 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
13111 + undo attempt to do recursive inlining for PutChar(), noting that it
13112 did not improve timing measurably, but inflated the size of
13116 + modify rain.c to use color.
13117 + correct scroll_csr_backward() to match scroll_csr_forward().
13118 + minor adjustment to llib-lncurses, to work with Solaris 2.5.1
13119 + minor fixes to sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/configure to reflect renaming
13120 of configure cache variables in 970906.
13121 + correct logic involving changes to O_VISIBLE option in
13122 Synchronize_Options function in frm_driver.c (Tony Hoffmann
13123 <Tony.Hoffmann@hia.nrc.ca>)
13124 + add $(HOSTCC) symbol to ncurses Makefile.in, to simplify setup for
13125 cross compiling (suggested by Chris Johns).
13126 + modify ifdef in lib_setup.c to only include <sys/ioctl.h> if we can
13127 use it to support screen-size calculation (reported by Chris Johns).
13128 + #undef unctrl to avoid symbol conflict in port to RTEMS (reported by
13129 Chris Johns <cjohns@plessey.com.au>)
13130 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
13131 + simplified, made minor corrections to Ada95 binding to form
13133 + The C++ binding has been enhanced:
13134 + Improve NCursesWindow class: added additional methods to cover
13135 more ncurses functionality. Make refresh() and noutrefresh()
13136 virtual members to allow different implementation in the
13137 NCursesPanel class.
13138 + CAUTION: changed order of parameters in vline() and hline() of
13139 NCursesWindow class.
13140 + Make refresh() in NCursesPanel non-static, it is now a
13141 reimplementation of refresh() in the base class. Added
13142 noutrefresh() to NCursesPanel.
13143 + Added NCursesForm and related classes to support libform
13145 + Moved most of configuration related stuff from cursesw.h to etip.h
13146 + Added NCursesApplication class to support easy configuration of
13147 menu and forms related attributes as well as ripped of title lines
13148 and Soft-Label-Keys for an application.
13149 + Support of Auto-Cleanup for a menu's fieldlist.
13150 + Change of return type for current_item() and operator[] for menus.
13152 + Fixed a bug in form/fld_def.c: take into account that copyarg and
13153 freearg for a fieldtype may be NULL, makearg must not be NULL
13154 + Fixed a bug in form/fld_type.c: in set_fieldtype_arg() makearg must
13155 not be NULL, copyarg and freearg may be NULL.
13156 + Fixed a bug in form/frm_def.c: Allow Disconnect_Fields() if it is
13157 already disconnected.
13158 + Enhance form/frm_driver.c: Allow growth of dynamic fields also on
13159 navigation requests.
13160 + Fixed a bug in form/fty_enum.c: wrong position of postincrement in
13161 case-insensitiva comparison routine.
13162 + Enhanced form/lib_adabind.c with function _nc_get_field() to get a
13163 forms field by index.
13164 + Enhanced menu/m_adabind.c with function _nc_get_item() to get a menus
13166 + Fixed in curses.h.in: make chtype argument for pechochar() constant.
13167 Mark wbkgdset() as implemented, remove wbkgdset macro, because it was
13168 broken (didn't handle colors correctly).
13169 + Enhanced lib_mouse.c: added _nc_has_mouse() function
13170 + Added _nc_has_mouse() prototype to curses.priv.h
13171 + Modified lib_bkgd.c: hopefully correct implementation of wbkgdset();
13172 streamlined implementation of wbkgd()
13173 + Modified lib_mvwin.c: Disable move of a pad. Implement (costly)
13174 move of subwindows. Fixed update behavior of movements of regular
13176 + Fixed lib_pad.c: make chtype argument of pechochar() const.
13177 + Fixed lib_window.c: dupwin() is not(!) in every bit a really clone
13178 of the original. Subwindows become regular windows by doing a
13180 + Improved manpage form_fieldtype.3x
13181 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
13182 + simplify the PutChar() handling of exit_am_mode, because we already
13183 know that auto_right_margin is true.
13184 + add a check in PutChar() for ability to insert to the case of
13185 shifting character to LR corner.
13186 + in terminal initialization by _nc_screen_resume(), make sure that
13187 terminal right margin mode is known.
13188 + move logic that invokes touchline(), or does the equivalent, into
13189 _nc_scroll_window().
13190 + modify scrolling logic use of insert/delete line capability, assuming
13191 that they affect the screen contents only within the current
13193 + modify rain.c to demonstrate SIGWINCH handler.
13194 + remove logic from getch() that would return an ERR if the application
13195 called getch() when the cursor was at the lower-right corner of the
13196 physical screen, and the terminal does not have insert-character
13198 + change view.c so that it breaks out of getch() loop if a KEY_RESIZE
13199 is read, and modify logic in getch() so this fix will yield the
13200 desired behavior, i.e., the screen is repainted automatically when
13201 the terminal window is resized.
13204 + add configure option --enable-sigwinch
13205 + modify view.c to test KEY_RESIZE logic, with "-r" option.
13206 + modify testcurs.c to eliminate misleading display wrt cursor type
13207 by testing if the terminal supports cnorm, civis, cvvis.
13208 + several fixes for m68k/NeXT 4.0, to bring cur_term, _nc_curr_line and
13209 _nc_curr_col variables into linked programs: move these variables,
13210 making new modules lib_cur_term and trace_buf (reported by Francisco
13211 Alberto Tomei Torres <fatomei@sandburg.unm.edu>).
13212 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
13213 + add pseudo-functionkey KEY_RESIZE which is returned by getch() when
13214 the SIGWINCH handler has been called since the last call to
13216 + modify lib_twait.c to hide EINTR only if HIDE_EINTR is defined.
13217 + add SIGWINCH handler to ncurses library which is used if there is no
13218 application SIGWINCH handler in effect when the screen is
13220 + make linked list of all SCREEN structures.
13221 + move curses.h include before definition of SCREEN to use types in
13223 + correction to ensure that wgetstr uses only a newline to force a
13227 + add experimental configure option --enable-safe-sprintf; the normal
13228 mode now allocates a buffer as large as the screen for the
13229 lib_printw.c functions.
13230 + modify wgetch to refresh screen when reading ungetch'd characters,
13231 since the application may require this - SVr4 does this.
13232 + refine treatment of newline in wgetstr to echo only when this would
13233 force the screen to scroll.
13236 + remove override in wgetstr() that forces keypad(), since SVr4 does
13238 + correct y-reference for erasure in wgetstr() when a wrap forces a
13240 + correct x-position in waddch() after a wrap forces a scroll.
13241 + echo newline in wgetstr(), making testscanw.c scroll properly when
13243 + modify vwscanw() to avoid potential buffer overflow.
13244 + rewrote lib_printw.c to eliminate fixed-buffer limits.
13245 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
13246 + correct an error in handling cooked mode in wgetch(); processing
13247 was in the wrong order.
13248 + simplified logic in wgetch() that handles backspace, etc., by using
13250 + correct wechochar() so that it interprets the output character as
13252 + modify pechochar() to use prefresh() rather than doupdate(), since
13253 the latter does not guarantee immediate refresh of the pad.
13254 + modify pechochar() so that if called with a non-pad WINDOW, will
13255 invoke wechochar() instead.
13256 + modify fifo indices to allow fifo to be longer than 127 bytes.
13259 + add xterm-8bit to terminfo.src
13260 + moved logic for SP->_fifohold inside check_pending() to make it
13261 work properly when we add calls to that function.
13262 + ensure that bool functions return only TRUE or FALSE, and TRUE/FALSE
13263 are assigned to bool values (patch by H.J.Lu).
13264 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
13265 + several fixes to getch:
13266 1. Separate cooked and raw keys in fifo
13267 2. Fix the case of ungetch'ed KEY_MOUSE
13268 3. wrap the code for hiding EINTR with ifdef HIDE_EINTR
13269 4. correctly handle input errors (i.e., EINTR) without loss of raw
13271 5. recognize ESC KEY_LEFT and similar
13272 6. correctly handle the case of reception of KEY_MOUSE from gpm
13273 + correct off-by-one indexing error in _nc_mouse_parse(), that caused
13274 single mouse events (press/release) to be ignored in favor of
13275 composed events (click). Improves on a fix from integrating gpm
13277 + add another call to check_pending, before scrolling, for
13278 line-breakout optimization
13279 + improve hashmap.c by
13280 1. fixed loop condition in grow_hunks()
13281 2. not marking lines with offset 0
13282 3. fixed condition of 'too far' criteria, thus one-line hunks are
13283 ignored and two lines interchanged won't pass.
13284 + rewrote/simplified _nc_scroll_optimize() by separating into two
13285 passes, forward/backward, looking for chunks moving only in the given
13287 + move logic that emits sgr0 when initializing the screen to
13288 _nc_screen_init(), now invoked from newterm.
13289 + move cursor-movement cleanup from endwin() into _nc_mvcur_wrap()
13290 function and screen cleanup (i.e., color) into _nc_screen_wrap()
13292 + add new functions _nc_screen_init(), _nc_screen_resume() and
13294 + rename _nc_mvcur_scrolln() to _nc_scrolln().
13295 + add a copy of acs_map[] to the SCREEN structure, where it can be
13296 stored/retrieved via set_term().
13297 + move variables _nc_idcok, _nc_idlok, _nc_windows into the SCREEN
13301 + implement experimental _nc_perform_scroll().
13302 + modify newterm (actually _nc_setupscreen()) to emit an sgr0 when
13303 initializing the screen, as does SVr4 (reported by Alexander V.
13305 + added test_progs rule to ncurses/Makefile.
13306 + modify test/configure.in to check if initscr is already in $LIBS
13307 before looking for (n)curses library.
13308 + correct version-number in configure script for OSF1 shared-library
13309 options (patch by Tim Mooney).
13310 + add -DNDEBUG to CPPFLAGS for --enable-assertions (as Juergen
13311 originally patched) since the c++ demo files do not necessarily
13312 include ncurses_cfg.h
13313 + supply default value for --enable-assertions option in configure
13314 script (reported by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf-fs.usc.edu>).
13315 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
13316 + correct/simplify logic of werase(), wclrtoeol() and wclrbot(). See
13317 example firstlast.c
13318 + optimize waddch_literal() and waddch_nosync() by factoring out
13319 common subexpressions.
13320 + correct sense of NDEBUG ifdef for CHECK_POSITION macro.
13321 + corrections to render_char(), to make handling of colored blanks
13322 match SVr4 curses, as well as to correct a bug that xor'd space
13323 against the background character.
13324 + replaced hash function with a faster one (timed it)
13325 + rewrote the hashmap algorithm to be one-pass, this avoids multiple
13326 cost_effective() calls on the same lines.
13327 + modified cost_effective() so it is now slightly more precise.
13328 > patches for glibc integration (H.J.Lu):
13329 + add modules define_key, keyok, name_match, tries
13330 + add makefile rules for some of the unit tests in ncurses (mvcur,
13331 captoinfo, hardscroll, hashmap).
13332 + update Linux configure-script for wide-character definitions.
13335 + modify _tracebits() to show the character size (e.g., CS8).
13336 + modify tparm() to emit '\200' where the generated string would have a
13337 null (reported by From: Ian Dall <Ian.Dall@dsto.defence.gov.au> for
13338 terminal type ncr7900).
13339 + modify install process so that ldconfig is not invoked if the
13340 package is built with an install-prefix.
13341 + correct test program for chtype size (reported by Tim Mooney).
13342 + add configure option --disable-scroll-hints, using this to ifdef the
13343 logic that computes indices for _nc_scroll_optimize().
13344 + add module ncurses/softscroll.c, to perform single-stage computation
13345 of scroll indices used in _nc_scroll_optimize(). This is faster than
13346 the existing scrolling algorithm, but tends to make too-small hunks.
13347 + eliminate fixed buffer size in _nc_linedump().
13348 + minor fixes to lib_doupdate.c to add tradeoff between clr_eol (el)
13349 and clr_bol (el1), refine logic in ClrUpdate() and ClrBottom() (patch
13350 by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13351 + add test/testaddch.c, from a pending patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov.
13352 + correct processing of "configure --enable-assertions" option (patch
13353 by Juergen Pfeifer).
13356 + add '-s' (single-step) option too test/hashtest.c, correct an error
13357 in loop limit for '-f' (footer option), toggle scrollok() when
13358 writing footer to avoid wrap at lower-right corner.
13359 + correct behavior of clrtoeol() immediately after wrapping cursor,
13360 which was not clearing the line at the cursor position (reported by
13361 Liviu Daia <daia@stoilow.imar.ro>).
13362 + corrected mapping for ACS_LANTERN, which was 'I' rather than 'i'
13363 (reported by Klaus Weide <kweide@tezcat.com>).
13364 + many corrections to make progs/capconvert work, as well as make it
13365 reasonably portable and integrated with ncurses 4.1 (reported by Dave
13366 Furstenau <df@ravine.binary.net>).
13369 + add flag SP->_fifohold, corresponding logic to modify the behavior of
13370 the line breakout logic so that if the application does not read
13371 input, refreshes will not be stopped, but only slowed.
13372 + generate slk_attr_off(), slk_attr_on(), slk_attr_set(), vid_attr(),
13373 ifdef'd for wide-character support, since ncurses' WA_xxx attribute
13374 masks are identical with the A_xxx masks.
13375 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to generate ifdef'd functions to support optional
13376 configuration of wide-characters.
13377 + modify tset to behave more like SVr4's tset, which does not modify
13378 the settings of intr, quit or erase unless they are given as command
13379 options (reported by Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe@math.utah.edu>).
13380 + modify tset to look in /etc/ttys or /etc/ttytype if the configuration
13381 does not have getttynam().
13382 + extend baudrate table in tset.c to match baudrate() function.
13383 + add table entries for B230400 and B460800 to baudrate() function.
13384 + improve breakout logic by allowing it before the first line updated,
13385 which is what SVr4 curses does (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13386 + correct initialization of vcost in relative_move(), for cursor-down
13387 case (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13388 > nits gleaned from Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-3:
13389 + install symbolic link for intotocap.
13390 + reference libc directly when making shared libraries.
13391 + correct renaming of curs_scr_dmp.3x in man_db.renames.
13392 + guard tgetflag() and other termcap functions against null cur_term
13396 + corrected initial state of software echo (error in 970405, reported
13397 by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13398 + reviewed/added messages to configure script, so that all non-test
13399 options should be accompanied by a message.
13400 + add configure check for long filenames, using this to determine if
13401 it is safe to allow long aliases for terminal descriptions as does
13403 + add configure options for widec (wide character), hashmap (both
13405 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
13406 + hashmap.c - improved by heuristic, so that scroll test works much
13407 better when csr is not available.
13408 + hardscroll.c - patched so that it continues to scroll other chunks
13409 after failure to scroll one.
13410 + lib_doupdate.c - _nc_mvcur_scrolln extended to handle more cases; csr
13411 is avoided as it is relative costly. Fixed wrong coordinates in one
13412 case and wrong string in TRACE.
13413 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
13414 + modify C++ binding to compile on AIX 4.x with the IBM C-SET++
13418 + remove alternate character set from kterm terminfo entry; it uses the
13419 shift-out control for a purpose incompatible with curses, i.e., font
13421 + disentangle 'xterm' terminfo entry from some derived entries that
13422 should be based on xterm-r6 instead.
13423 + add cbt to xterm-xf86-xv32 terminfo entry; I added the emulation for
13424 XFree86 3.1.2F, but overlooked its use in terminfo then - T.Dickey.
13425 + correct logic in lib_mvcur.c that uses back_tab.
13428 + correct change from 970628 to ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c so that
13429 contents of curscr are saved in newscr before clearing the screen.
13430 This is needed to make repainting work with the present logic of
13432 + use napms() rather than sleep() in tset.c to avoid interrupting I/O.
13435 + add limit checks to _nc_read_file_entry() to guard against overflow
13436 of buffer when reading incompatible terminfo format, e.g, from OSF/1.
13437 + correct some loop-variable errors in xmc support in lib_doupdate.c
13438 + modify ncurses 'b' test to add gaps, specified by user, to allow
13439 investigation of interaction with xmc (magic cookie) code.
13440 + correct typo in 970524 mods to xmas.c, had omitted empty parameter
13441 list from has_colors(), which gcc ignores, but SVr4 does not
13442 (reported by Larry Virden).
13443 + correct rmso capability in wy50-mc description.
13444 + add configure option "--enable-hard-tabs", renamed TABS_OK ifdef to
13446 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
13447 + Add bindings for keyok() and define_key() to the Ada95 packages.
13448 + Improve man pages menu_post.3x and menu_format.3x
13449 + Fix the HTML pages in the Ada95/html directory to reflect the above
13453 + modify change from 970101 to ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c so that
13454 pending changes to both curscr and newscr are flushed properly.
13455 This fixes a case where the first scrolling operation in nvi would
13456 cause the screen to be cleared unnecessarily and repainted before
13457 doing the indexing, i.e., by repeatedly pressing 'j' (reported by
13459 + correct error in trans_string() which added embedded newlines in a
13460 terminfo description to the stored strings.
13461 + remove spurious newlines from sgr in wyse50 (and several other)
13462 terminfo descriptions.
13463 + add configure option for experimental xmc (magic cookie) code,
13464 "--enable-xmc-glitch". When disabled (the default), attributes that
13465 would store a magic cookie are suppressed in vidputs(). The magic
13466 cookie code is far from workable at this stage; the configuration
13467 option is a stopgap.
13468 + move _nc_initscr() from lib_initscr.c to lib_newterm.c
13469 + correct path for invoking make_keys (a missing "./").
13472 + correct sign-extension problem with "infocmp -e", which corrupted
13473 acsc values computed for linux fallback data.
13474 + correct dependency on ncurses/names.c (a missing "./").
13475 + modify configure script to use '&&' even for cd'ing to existing
13476 directories to work around broken shell interpreters.
13477 + correct a loop-limit in _nc_hash_map() (patch by Alexander V.
13481 + restore logic in _nc_scroll_optimize() which marks as touched the
13482 lines in curscr that are shifted.
13483 + add new utility 'make_keys' to compute keys.tries as a table rather
13484 than a series of function calls.
13485 + correct include-dependency for tic.h used by name_match
13486 + removed buffer-allocation for name and description from m_item_new.c,
13487 since this might result in incompatibilities with SVr4. Also fixed
13488 the corresponding Ada95 binding module (patch by Juergen Pfeifer,
13489 report by Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@foxnet.net>)
13490 + removed the mechanism to timestamp the generated Ada95 sources. This
13491 resulted always in generating patches for the HTML doc, even when
13492 nothing really changed (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
13493 + improve man page mitem_new.3x (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
13496 + remove ech capability from rxvt description because it does not work.
13497 + add missing case logic for infocmp -I option (reported by Lorenzo M.
13498 Catucci <lorenzo@argon.roma2.infn.it>)
13499 + correct old bug in pnoutrefresh() unmasked by fix in 970531; this
13500 caused glitches in the ncurses 'p' test since the area outside the
13501 pad was not compared when setting up indices for _nc_scroll_optimize.
13502 + rewrote tracebits() to workaround misdefinition of TOSTOP on Ultrix
13503 4.4, as well as to eliminate fixed-size buffer (reported by Chris
13504 Tanner <tannerc@aecl.ca>)
13505 + correct prototype for termattrs() as per XPG4 version 2.
13506 + add placeholder prototypes for color_set(), erasewchar(),
13507 term_attrs(), wcolor_set() as per XPG4 version 2.
13508 + correct attribution for progs/progs.priv.h and lib_twait.c
13509 + improve line-breakout logic by checking based on changed lines rather
13510 than total lines (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13511 + correct loop limits for table-lookup of enumerated value in form
13512 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
13513 + improve threshold computation for determining when to call ClrToEOL
13514 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13517 + add configure option --disable-database to force the library to
13518 use only the fallback data.
13519 + add configure option --with-fallbacks, to specify list of fallback
13520 terminal descriptions.
13521 + add a symbolic link for ncurses.h during install; too many programs
13522 still assume there's an ncurses.h
13523 + add new terminfo.src entry for xterm-xf86-v33.
13524 + restore terminfo.src entry for emu to using setf/setb, since it is
13525 not, after all, generating ANSI sequences. Corrected missing comma
13526 that caused setf/setb entries to merge.
13527 + modify mousemask() to use keyok() to enable/disable KEY_MOUSE, so
13528 that applications can disable ncurses' mouse and supply their own
13530 + add extensions keyok() and define_key(). These are designed to allow
13531 the user's application better control over the use of function keys,
13532 e.g., disabling the ncurses KEY_MOUSE. (The define_key idea was from
13533 a mailing-list thread started by Kenneth Albanowski
13534 <kjahds@kjahds.com> Nov'1995).
13535 + restore original behavior in ncurses 'g' test, i.e., explicitly
13536 set the keypad mode rather than use the default, since it confuses
13538 + rewrote the newdemo banner so it's readable (reported by Hugh
13540 + tidy up exit from hashtest (reported by Hugh Daniel).
13541 + restore check for ^Q in ncurses 'g' test broken in 970510 (reported
13543 + correct tput program, checking return-value of setupterm (patch by
13545 + correct logic in pnoutrefresh() and pechochar() functions (reported
13546 by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf.usc.edu>). The computation
13547 of 'wide' date to eric's #283 (1.9.9), and the pechochar bug to the
13548 original implementation (1.9.6).
13549 + correct typo in vt102-w terminfo.src entry (patch by Robert Wuest
13550 <rwuest@sire.vt.com>)
13551 + move calls of _nc_background() out of various loops, as its return
13552 value will be the same for the whole window being operated on (patch
13554 + add macros getcur[xy] getbeg[xy] getpar[xy], which are defined in
13555 SVr4 headers (patch by J T Conklin <jtc@NetBSD.ORG>)
13556 + modify glibc addon-configure scripts (patch by H.J.Lu).
13557 + correct a bug in hashmap.c: the size used for clearing the hashmap
13558 table was incorrect, causing stack corruption for large values of
13559 LINES, e.g., >MAXLINES/2 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13560 + eric's terminfo 9.13.23 & 9.13.24 changes: replaced minitel-2 entry,
13561 added MGR, ansi-nt (note: the changes described for 9.13.24 have not
13563 > several changes by Juergen Pfeifer:
13564 + correct a missing error-return in form_driver.c when wrapping of a
13565 field is not possible.
13566 + correct logic in form_driver.c for configurations that do not have
13567 memccpy() (reported by Sidik Isani <isani@cfht.hawaii.edu>)
13568 + change several c++ binding functions to inline.
13569 + modify c++ menu binding to inherit from panels, for proper
13571 + correct freeing of menu items in c++ binding.
13572 + modify c++ binding to reflect removal of const from user data pointer
13573 in forms/menus libraries.
13576 + add description of xterm-16color.
13577 + modify name of shared-library on *BSD to end with $(REL_VERSION)
13578 rather than $(ABI_VERSION) to match actual convention on FreeBSD
13580 + add OpenBSD to shared-library case, same as NetBSD and FreeBSD
13581 (reported by Hugh Daniel <hugh@rat.toad.com>).
13582 + corrected include-dependency in menu/Makefile so that "make install"
13583 works properly w/o first doing "make".
13584 + add fallback definition for isascii, used in infocmp.
13585 + modify xmas to use color, and to exit right away when a key is
13587 + modify gdc so that the scrolled digits function as described (there
13588 was no time delay between the stages, and the digits overwrote the
13589 bounding box without tidying up).
13590 + modify lib_color.c to use setaf/setab only for the ANSI color codes
13591 0 through 7. Using 16 colors requires setf/setb.
13592 + modify ncurses 'c' test to work with 16 colors, as well as the normal
13594 + remove const qualifier from user data pointer in forms and menus
13595 libraries (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
13596 + rewrote 'waddchnstr()' to avoid using the _nc_waddch_nosync()
13597 function, thereby not interpreting tabs, etc., as per spec (patch by
13598 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13601 + suppress check for pre-existing ncurses header if the --prefix
13602 option is specified.
13603 + add configure options "--with-system-type" and
13604 "--with-system-release" to assist in checking the generated
13606 + add configure option "--enable-rpath" to allow installers to specify
13607 that programs linked against shared libraries will have their library
13608 path embedded, allowing installs into nonstandard locations.
13609 + add flags to OSF1 shared-library options to specify version and
13610 symbol file (patch by Tim Mooney <mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu>)
13611 + add missing definition for ABI_VERSION to c++/Makefile.in (reported
13612 by Satoshi Adachi <adachi@wisdom.aa.ap.titech.ac.jp>).
13613 + modify link flags to accommodate HP-UX linker which embeds absolute
13614 pathnames in executables linked against shared libraries (reported by
13615 Jason Evans <jasone@mrc.uidaho.edu>, solved by Alan Shutko
13616 <ats@hubert.wustl.edu>).
13617 + drop unnecessary check for attribute-change in onscreen_mvcur() since
13618 mvcur() is the only caller within the library, and that check in turn
13619 is exercised only from lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V.
13621 + add 'blank' parameter to _nc_scroll_window() so _nc_mvcur_scrolln()
13622 can use the background of stdscr as a parameter to that function
13623 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13624 + moved _nc_mvcur_scrolln() from lib_mvcur.c to lib_doupdate.c, to use
13625 the latter's internal functions, as well as to eliminate unnecessary
13626 cursor save/restore operations (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13627 + omit parameter of ClrUpdate(), since it is called only for newscr,
13628 further optimized/reduced by using ClearScreen() and TransformLine()
13629 to get rid of duplicate code (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13630 + modify scrolling algorithm in _nc_scroll_optimize() to reject hunks
13631 that are smaller than the distance to be moved (patch by Alexander V.
13633 + correct a place where the panel library was not ifdef'd in ncurses.c
13635 + documentation fixes (Juergen Pfeifer)
13637 970515 4.1 release for upload to prep.ai.mit.edu
13638 + re-tag changes since 970505 as 4.1 release.
13641 + modify ncurses 'g' test to allow mouse input
13642 + modify default xterm description to include mouse.
13643 + modify configure script to add -Wwrite-strings if gcc warnings are
13644 enabled while configuring --enable-const (and fixed related
13646 + add toggle, status display for keypad mode to ncurses 'g' test to
13647 verify that keypad and scrollok are not inherited from parent window
13648 during a call to newwin.
13649 + correction to MKexpanded.sh to make it work when configure --srcdir
13650 is used (reported by H.J.Lu).
13651 + revise test for bool-type, ensuring that it checks if builtin.h is
13652 available before including it, adding test for sizeof(bool) equal
13653 to sizeof(short), and warning user if the size cannot be determined
13654 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13655 + add files to support configuration of ncurses as an add-on library
13656 for GNU libc (patch by H.J.Lu <hjl@lucon.org>)
13659 + correct buffer overrun in lib_traceatr.c
13660 + modify change to lib_vidattr.c to avoid redundant orig_pair.
13661 + turn on 'echo()' in hanoi.c, since it is initially off.
13662 + rename local 'errno' variable in etip.h to avoid conflict with global
13664 + modify configure script to cache LD, AR, AR_OPTS (patch by H.J.Lu
13667 970505 4.1 pre-release
13668 + regenerate the misc directory html dumps without the link list, which
13670 + correct dependency in form directory makefile which caused
13671 unnecessary recompiles.
13672 + correct substitution for ABI_VERSION in test-makefile
13673 + modify install rules for shared-library targets to remove the target
13674 before installing, since some install programs do not properly handle
13675 overwrite of symbolic links.
13676 + change order of top-level targets so that 'include' immediate
13677 precedes the 'ncurses' directory, reducing the time between new
13678 headers and new libraries (requested by Larry Virden).
13679 + modify lib_vidattr.c so that colors are turned off only before
13680 modifying other attributes, turned on after others. This makes the
13681 hanoi.c program display correctly on FreeBSD console.
13682 + modify debug code in panel library to print user-data addresses
13683 rather than the strings which they (may) point to.
13684 + add check to ensure that C++ binding and demo are not built with g++
13685 versions below 2.7, since the binding uses templates.
13686 + modify c++ binding and demo to build and run with SGI's c++ compiler.
13687 (It also compiles with the Sun SparcWorks compiler, but the demo does
13688 not link, due to a vtbl problem).
13689 + corrections to demo.cc, to fix out-of-scope variables (Juergen
13693 + correct memory leak in _nc_trace_buf().
13694 + add configure test for regexpr.h, for Unixware 1.x.
13695 + correct missing "./" prefixing names of generated files in ncurses
13697 + use single-quotes in configure scripts assignments for MK_SHARED_LIB
13698 to workaround shell bug on FreeBSD 2.1.5
13699 + remove tabs from intermediate #define's for GCC_PRINTF, GCC_SCANF
13700 that caused incorrect result in ncurses_cfg.h
13701 + correct initialization in lib_trace.c, which omitted version info.
13702 + remove ech, el1 attributes from cons25w description; they appear to
13703 malfunction in FreeBSD 2.1.5
13704 + correct color attributes in terminfo.src and lib_color.c to match
13705 SVr4 behavior by interchanging codes 1,4, 3,6 in the setf/setb
13707 + use curs_set() rather than checks via tigetstr() for test programs
13708 that hide the cursor: firework, rain, worm.
13709 + ensure that if the terminal lacks change_scroll_region, parm_index
13710 and parm_rindex are used only to scroll the whole screen (patch by
13712 + correct curs_set() logic, which did not return ERR if the requested
13713 attributes did not exist, nor did it assume an unknown initial state
13714 for the cursor (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13715 + combine IDcTransformLine and NoIDcTransformLine to new TransformLine
13716 function in lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13717 + correct hashmap.c, which did not update index information (patch by
13718 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13719 + fixes for C++ binding and demo (see c++/NEWS) (Juergen Pfeifer).
13720 + correct index in lib_instr.c (Juergen Pfeifer).
13721 + correct typo in 970426 patch from Tom's cleanup of lib_overlay.c
13722 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
13725 + corrected cost computation in PutRange(), which was using
13726 milliseconds compared to characters by adding two new members to the
13727 SCREEN struct, _hpa_ch_cost and _cup_ch_cost.
13728 + drop ncurses/lib_unctrl.c, add ncurses/MKunctrl.awk to generate a
13729 const array of strings (suggested by Alexander V. Lukyanov). The
13730 original suggestion in 970118 used a perl script.
13731 + rewrote ncurses 'b' test to better exercise magic-cookie (xmc), as
13732 well as noting the attributes that are not supported by a terminal.
13733 + trace the computation of cost values in lib_mvcur.c
13734 + modify _nc_visbuf() to use octal rather than hex, corrected sign
13735 extension bug in that function that caused buffer overflow.
13736 + modify trace in lib_acs.c to use _nc_visbuf().
13737 + suppress trace within _traceattr2().
13738 + correct logic of _tracechtype2(), which did not account for repeats
13739 or redefinition within an acsc string.
13740 + modify debug-library version baudrate() to use environment variable
13741 $BAUDRATE to override speed computation. This is needed for
13742 regression testing.
13743 + correct problems shown by "weblint -pedantic".
13744 + update mailing-list information (now ncurses@bsdi.com).
13747 + Improve form_field_validation.3x manpage to better describe the
13748 precision parameter for TYPE_NUMERIC and TYPE_INTEGER. Provide more
13749 precise information how the range checking can be avoided. (patch by
13750 Juergen Pfeifer, reported by Bryan Henderson)
13751 + change type of min/max value of form types TYPE_INTEGER to long to
13752 match SVr4 documentation.
13753 + set the form window to stdscr in set_form_win() so that form_win()
13754 won't return null (patch by Juergen Pfeifer, reported by Bryan
13755 Henderson <bryanh@giraffe.netgate.net>).
13758 + corrected ifdef'ing of inline (cf: 970321) for TRACE vs C++.
13759 + corrected toggle_attr_off() macro (patch by Andries Brouwer).
13760 + modify treatment of empty token in $MANPATH to /usr/man (reported by
13761 <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>)
13762 + modify traces that record functions-called so that chtype and attr_t
13763 values are expressed symbolically, to simplify reuse of generated
13764 test-scripts on SVr4 regression testing.
13765 + add new trace functions _traceattr2() and _tracechtype2()
13768 + add configure option --enable-const, to support the use of 'const'
13769 where XSI should have, but did not, specify. This defines
13770 NCURSES_CONST, which is an empty token otherwise, for strict
13772 + make processing of configure options more verbose by echoing the
13773 --enable/--with values.
13774 + add configure option --enable-big-core
13775 + set initial state of software echo off as per XSI.
13776 + check for C++ builtin.h header
13777 + correct computation of absolute-path for $INSTALL that dropped "-c"
13778 parameter from the expression.
13779 + rename config.h to ncurses_cfg.h to avoid naming-conflict when
13780 ncurses is integrated into larger systems (adapted from diffs by
13782 + correct inequality in lib_doupdate.c that caused a single-char to not
13783 be updated when the char on the right-margin was not blank, idcok()
13784 was true (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov (in 970124), reported
13785 by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf-fs.usc.edu> in 970329).
13786 + modify 'clean' rule in include/Makefile so that files created by
13787 configure script are removed in 'distclean' rule instead.
13790 + correct array limit in tparam_internal(), add case to interpret "%x"
13791 (patch by Andreas Schwab)
13792 + rewrote number-parsing in ncurses.c 'd' test; it did not reset the
13793 value properly when non-numeric characters were given (reported by
13794 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>)
13797 + move definition of __INTERNAL_CAPS_VISIBLE before include for
13798 progs.priv.h (patch by David MacKenzie).
13799 + add configuration summary, reordered check for default include
13800 directory to better accommodate a case where installer is configuring
13801 a second copy of ncurses (reported by Klaus Weide
13802 <kweide@tezcat.com>)
13803 + moved the #define for 'inline' as an empty token from the
13804 $(CFLAGS_DEBUG) symbol into config.h, to avoid redefinition warning
13805 (reported by Ward Horner).
13806 + modify test for bool builtin type to use 'unsigned' rather than
13807 'unknown' when cross-compiling (reported by Ward Horner).
13810 + add header dependencies so that "make install.libs" will succeed
13811 even if "make all" is not done first.
13812 + moved some macros from lib_doupdate.c to curses.priv.h to use in
13813 expanded functions with ATAC.
13814 + correct implementation of lib_instr.c; both XSI and SVr4 agree that
13815 the winnstr functions can return more characters than will fit on one
13819 + modify script that generates lib_gen.c to support traces of called &
13821 + add new configure option "--disable-macros", for testing calls within
13823 + corrected logic that screens level-checking of called/return traces.
13826 + use new configure macro NC_SUBST to replace AC_PATH_PROG, better
13827 addressing request by Ward Horner.
13828 + check for cross-compiling before trying to invoke the autoconf
13829 AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED macro (reported by Ward Horner)
13830 + correct/simplify loop in _nc_visbuf(), 970201 changes omitted
13831 a pointer-increment.
13832 + eliminate obsolete symbol SHARED_ABI from dist.mk (noted by
13836 + add configure option --enable-expanded, together with code that
13837 implements an expanded form of certain complex macros, for testing
13839 + disable CHECK_POSITION unless --with-assertions is configured
13840 (Alexander V Lukyanov pointed out that this is redundant).
13841 + use keyname() to show traced chtype values where applicable rather
13842 than _tracechar(), which truncates the value to 8-bits.
13843 + minor fixes to TRACE_ICALLS, added T_CREATE, TRACE_CCALLS macros.
13844 + modify makefiles in progs and test directories to avoid using C
13845 preprocessor options on link commands (reported by Ward Horner)
13846 + correct ifdef/include-order for nc_alloc.h vs lib_freeall.c (reported
13848 + modify ifdef's to use configure-defined symbols consistently
13849 (reported by Ward Horner)
13850 + add/use new makefile symbols AR, AR_OPTS and LD to assist in non-UNIX
13851 ports (reported by Ward Horner <whorner@tsi-telsys.com>)
13852 + rename struct try to struct tries, to avoid name conflict with C++
13853 (reported by Gary Johnson).
13854 + modify worm.c to hide cursor while running.
13855 + add -Wcast-qual to gcc warnings, fix accordingly.
13856 + use PutChar rather than PutAttrChar in ClrToEOL to properly handle
13857 wrapping (Alexander V Lukyanov).
13858 + correct spurious echoing of input in hanoi.c from eric's #291 & #292
13859 patches (reported by Vernon C. Hoxie <vern@zebra.alphacdc.com>).
13860 + extend IRIX configuration to IRIX64
13861 + supply missing install.libs rule needed after restructuring
13865 + modify "make mostlyclean" to leave automatically-generated source
13866 in the ncurses directory, for use in cross-compiles.
13867 + autogenerated object-dependencies for test directory
13868 + add configure option --with-rcs-ids
13869 + modify configuration scripts to generate major/minor/patch versions
13870 (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
13871 + supply missing va_end's in lib_scanw.c
13872 + use stream I/O for trace-output, to eliminate fixed-size buffer
13873 + add TRACE_ICALLS definition/support to lib_trace.c
13874 + modify Ada95 binding to work with GNAT 3.09 (Juergen Pfeifer).
13877 + add/modify traces for called/return values to simplify extraction
13879 + changed _nc_visbuf to quote its result, and to dynamically allocate
13880 the returned buffer.
13881 + invoke ldconfig after installing shared library
13882 + modify install so that overwrite applies to shared library -lcurses
13883 in preference to static library (reported by Zeyd M Ben-Halim 960928).
13884 + correct missing ';' in 961221 mod to overwrite optional use of $(LN_S)
13886 + fixes to allow "make install" to work without first doing a "make
13887 all" (suggested by Larry Virden).
13890 + correct order of #ifdef for TABS_OK.
13891 + instrumented toe.c to test memory-leaks.
13892 + correct memory-deallocation in toe.c (patch by Jesse Thilo).
13893 + include <sys/types.h> in configuration test for regex.h (patch by
13895 + make infocmp recognize -I option, for SVr4 compatibility (reported by
13896 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>)
13899 + add extension 'use_default_colors()', modified test applications that
13900 use default background (firework, gdc, hanoi, knight, worm) to
13902 + correct some limit checks in lib_doupdate.c exposed while running
13904 + use typeCalloc macro for readability.
13905 + add/use definition for CONST to accommodate testing with Solaris
13906 (SVr4) curses, which doesn't use 'const' in its prototypes.
13907 + modify ifdef's in test/hashtest.c and test/view.c to compile with
13909 + modify _tracedump() to pad colors & attrs lines to match change
13910 in 970101 showing first/last changes.
13911 + corrected location of terminating null on dynamically allocated forms
13912 fields (patch by Per Foreby).
13915 + added headers to make view.c compile on SCO with the resizeterm()
13916 code (i.e., struct winsize) - though this compiles, I don't have a
13917 suitable test configuration since SIGWINCH doesn't pass my network to
13918 that machine - T.Dickey.
13919 + update test/configure.in to supply some default substitutions.
13920 + modify configure script to add -lncurses after -lgpm to fix problem
13921 linking against static libraries.
13922 + add a missing noraw() to test/ncurses.c (places noted by Jeremy
13924 + add a missing wclear() to test/testcurs.c (patch by Jeremy Buhler
13925 <jbuhler@cs.washington.edu>)
13926 + modify headers to accommodate compilers that don't allow duplicate
13927 "#define" lines for NCURSES_VERSION (reported by Larry W. Virden
13929 + fix formatting glitch in curs_getch.3x (patch by Jesse Thilo).
13930 + modify lib_doupdate to make el, el1 and ed optimization use the
13931 can_clear_with macro, and change EmitRange to allow leaving cursor at
13932 the middle of interval, rather than always at the end (patch by
13933 Alexander V Lukyanov). This was originally 960929, resync 970106.
13936 + workaround defect in autoconf 2.12 (which terminates configuration
13937 if no C++ compiler is found) by adding an option --without-cxx.
13938 + modify several man-pages to use tbl, where .nf/.fi was used (reported
13940 + correct font-codes in some man-pages (patch by Jesse Thilo
13941 <Jesse.Thilo@pobox.com>)
13942 + use configure script's knowledge of existence of g++ library for the
13943 c++ Makefile (reported by Paul Jackson).
13944 + correct misleading description of --datadir configuration option
13945 (reported by Paul Jackson <pj@sam.engr.sgi.com>)
13948 + several corrections to _nc_mvcur_scrolln(), prompted by a bug report
13950 > the logic for non_dest_scroll_region was interchanged between the
13951 forward & reverse scrolling cases.
13952 > multiple returns from the function allowed certain conditions to do
13953 part of an operation before discovering that it couldn't be
13954 completed, returning an error without restoring the cursor.
13955 > some returns were ERR, where the function had completed the
13956 operation, because the insert/delete line logic was improperly
13957 tested (this was probably the case Peter saw).
13958 > contrary to comments, some scrolling cases were tested after the
13959 insert/delete line method.
13960 + modify _tracedump() to show first/last changes.
13961 + modify param of ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c to 'newscr', fixes
13962 refresh problem (reported by Peter Wemm) that caused nvi to not show
13963 result of ":r !ls" until a ^L was typed.
13965 961229 (internal alpha)
13966 + correct some of the writable-strings warnings (reported by Gary
13967 Johnson <gjohnson@season.com>). Note that most of the remaining ones
13968 are part of the XSI specification, and can't be "fixed".
13969 + improve include-dependencies in form, menu, panel directories.
13970 + correct logic of delay_output(), which would return early if
13971 there is data on stdin.
13972 + modify interface & logic of _nc_timed_wait() to support 2 file
13973 descriptors, needed for GPM.
13974 + integrate patch by Andrew Kuchling <amk@magnet.com> for GPM (mouse)
13975 support, correcting logic in wgetch() and _nc_mouse_parse() which
13976 prevented patch from working properly -TD
13977 + improve performance of panel algorithm (Juergen Pfeifer 961203).
13978 + strip RCS id's from generated .html files in Ada95 subtree.
13979 + resync with generated .html files (Juergen Pfeifer 961223).
13980 + terminfo.src 10.1.0 (ESR).
13983 + release as 4.0 to accommodate Linux ld.so.1.8.5
13984 + correct syntax/spelling, regenerated .doc files from .html using
13986 + refined forms/menus makefiles (Juergen Pfeifer 961223).
13989 + remove logic in read_entry.c that attempts to refine errno by using
13990 'access()' for the directory (from patch by Florian La Roche).
13991 + correct configure test/substitution that inhibits generating
13992 include-path to /usr/include if gcc is used (reported by Florian La
13994 + modify setupterm() to allocate new TERMINAL for each call, just as
13995 solaris' curses does (Alexander V Lukyanov 960829).
13996 + corrected memory leaks in read_entry.c
13997 + add configure options --with-dbmalloc, --with-dmalloc, and
13998 --disable-leaks, tested by instrumenting infocmp, ncurses programs.
13999 + move #include's for stdlib.h and string.h to *.priv.h to accommodate
14001 + modify use of $(LN_S) to follow recommendation in autoconf 2.12,
14002 i.e., set current directory before linking.
14003 + split-out panel.priv.h, improve dependencies for forms, menus
14004 (Juergen Pfeifer 961204).
14005 + modify _nc_freewin() to reset globals curscr/newscr/stdscr when
14006 freeing the corresponding WINDOW (found using Purify).
14007 + modify delwin() to return ERR if the window to be deleted has
14008 subwindows, needed as a side-effect of resizeterm() (found using
14009 Purify). Tested and found that SVr4 curses behaves this way.
14010 + implement logic for _nc_freeall(), bringing stub up to date.
14013 + modify wbkgd() so that it doesn't set nulls in the rendered text,
14014 even if its argument doesn't specify a character (fixes test case by
14015 Juergen Pfeifer for bug-report).
14016 + set window-attributes in wbkgd(), to simplify comparison against
14017 Solaris curses, which does this.
14020 + replace most constants in ncurses 'o' test by expressions, making it
14021 work with wider range of screen sizes.
14022 + add options to ncurses.c to specify 'e' test softkey format, and the
14023 number of header/footer lines to rip-off.
14024 + add ^R (repaint after resize), ^L (refresh) commands to ncurses 'p'
14026 + add shell-out (!) command to ncurses 'p' test to allow test of
14027 resize between endwin/refresh.
14028 + correct line-wrap case in mvcur() by emitting carriage return,
14029 overlooked in 960928, but needed due to SVr4 compatibility changes to
14030 terminal modes in 960907.
14031 + correct logic in wresize that causes new lines to be allocated,
14032 broken for the special case of increasing rows only in 960907's fix
14034 + modify configure script to generate $(LDFLAGS) with -L and -l options
14035 in preference to explicit library filenames. (NOTE: this may
14036 require further amending, since I vaguely recall a dynamic loader
14037 that did not work properly without the full names, but it should be
14038 handled as an exception to the rule, since some linkers do bulk
14039 inclusion of libraries when given the full name - T.Dickey).
14040 + modify configure script to allow user-supplied $CFLAGS to set the
14041 debug-option in all libraries (requested by lots of people) -TD
14042 + use return consistently from main(), rather than exit (reported by
14044 + add --enable-getcap-cache option to configure, normally disabled
14045 (requested by Florian La Roche).
14046 + make configure test for gettimeofday() and possibly -lbsd more
14047 efficient (requested by Florian La Roche <florian@knorke.saar.de>)
14048 + minor adjustments to Ada95 binding (patches by Juergen Pfeifer)
14049 + correct attributes after emitting orig_pair in lib_vidattr.c (patch
14050 by Alexander V Lukyanov).
14053 + corrected README wrt Ada95 (Juergen Pfeifer)
14056 + integrate resizeterm() into doupdate(), so that if screen size
14057 changes between endwin/refresh, ncurses will resize windows to fit
14058 (this needs additional testing with pads and softkeys).
14059 + add, for memory-leak testing, _nc_freeall() entrypoint to free all
14060 data used in ncurses library.
14061 + initialize _nc_idcok, _nc_idlok statically to resolve discrepancy
14062 between initscr() and newwin() initialization (reported by
14063 Alexander V Lukyanov).
14064 + test built VERSION=4.0, SHARED_ABI=4 with Linux ld.so.1.8.5
14065 (set beta versions to those values -- NOTE that subsequent pre-4.0
14066 beta may not be interchangeable).
14067 + modify configure script to work with autoconf 2.12
14069 961130 1.9.9g release
14070 + add copyright notices to configuration scripts (written by Thomas
14074 > patch, mostly for panel (Juergen Pfeifer):
14075 + cosmetic improvement for a few routines in the ncurses core library
14076 to avoid warning messages.
14077 + the panel overlap detection was broken
14078 + the panel_window() function was not fool-proof.
14080 + Cosmetic changes (also to avoid warning messages when compiling with
14084 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
14085 + eliminates warning messages for the compile of libform.
14086 + inserts Per Foreby's new field type TYPE_IPV4 into libform.
14087 + Updates man page and the Ada95 binding to reflect this.
14088 + Improves inlining in libmenu and libform.
14091 + improve the use of the "const" qualifier in the
14092 panel library (Juergen Pfeifer)
14093 + change set_panel_userptr() and panel_userptr() to use void*
14097 + change ABI to 3.4
14098 + package with 961119 version of Ada95 binding (fixes for gnat-3.07).
14100 + correct initialization of the stdscr pseudo panel in panel library
14102 + use MODULE_ID (rcs keywords) in forms and menus libraries (Juergen
14104 > patch #324 (ESR):
14105 + typo in curs_termcap man page (reported by Hendrik Reichel
14106 <106065.2344@compuserve.com>)
14107 + change default xterm entry to xterm-r6.
14108 + add entry for color_xterm
14111 + lint found several functions that had only #define implementations
14112 (e.g., attr_off), modified curses.h.in to generate them as per XSI
14113 Curses requirement that every macro be available as a function.
14114 + add check in infocmp.c to guard against string compare of
14115 CANCELLED_STRING values.
14116 + modify firework.c, rain.c to hide cursor while running.
14117 + correct missing va_end in lib_tparm.c
14118 + modify hanoi.c to work on non-color terminals, and to use timing
14119 delays when in autoplay mode.
14120 + correct 'echochar()' to refresh immediately (reported by Adrian
14121 Garside <94ajg2@eng.cam.ac.uk>)
14122 > patch #322 (ESR):
14123 + reorganize terminfo.src entries for xterm.
14126 + corrected error in line-breakout logic (lib_doupdate.c)
14127 + modified newdemo to use wgetch(win) rather than getch() to eliminate
14128 a spurious clear-screen.
14129 + corrected ifdef's for 'poll()' configuration.
14130 + added modules to ncurses, form, menu for Ada95 binding (Juergen
14132 + modify set_field_buffer() to allow assignment of string longer than
14133 the initial buffer length, and to return the complete string rather
14134 than only the initial size (Juergen Pfeifer and Per Foreby
14135 <perf@efd.lth.se>).
14138 + configure for 'poll()' in preference to 'select()', since older
14139 systems are more likely to have a broken 'select()'.
14140 + modified render_char() to avoid OR'ing colors.
14141 + minor fixes to testcurs.c, newdemo.c test programs: ifdef'd out the
14142 resize test, use wbkgd and corrected box() parameters.
14143 + make flushinp() test work in ncurses.c by using napms() instead of
14145 + undo ESR's changes to xterm-x11r6 (it no longer matched the X11R6.1
14146 distribution, as stated)
14147 + terminfo 9.13.18 resync (ESR)
14148 + check for getenv("HOME") returning null (ESR).
14149 + change buffer used to decode xterm-mouse commands to unsigned to
14150 handle displays wider than 128 chars (Juergen Pfeifer).
14151 + correct typo curs_outopts.3x (Juergen Pfeifer).
14152 + correct limit-checking in wenclose() (Juergen Pfeifer).
14153 + correction to Peter Wemm's newwin change (Thomas Fehr
14155 + corrections to logic that combines colors and attributes; they must
14156 not be OR'd (Juergen Pfeifer, extending from report/patch by Rick
14160 + reset flags in 'getwin()' that might cause refresh to attempt to
14161 manipulate the non-existent parent of a window that is read from a
14162 file (lib_screen.c).
14163 + restructure _nc_timed_wait() to log more information, and to try to
14164 recover from badly-behaved 'select()' calls (still testing this).
14165 + move define for GOOD_SELECT into configure script.
14166 + corrected extra '\' character inserted before ',' in comp_scan.c
14167 + corrected expansion of %-format characters in dump_entry.c; some were
14168 rendered as octal constants.
14169 + modify dump_entry.c to make terminfo output more readable and like
14170 SVr4, by using "\s" for spaces (leading/trailing only), "\," for
14171 comma, "\^" and "\:" as well.
14172 + corrected some memory leaks in ncurses.c, and a minor logic error
14173 in the top-level command-parser.
14174 + correction for label format 4 (PC style with info line), a
14175 slk_clear(), slk_restore() sequence didn't redraw the info line
14177 + modified the slk window (if simulated) to inherit the background and
14178 default character attributes from stdscr (Juergen Pfeifer).
14179 + corrected limit-check in set_top_row (Juergen Pfeifer).
14182 + correct loop-limit in wnoutrefresh(), bug exposed during pipe-testing
14183 had '.lastchar' entry one beyond '._maxx'.
14184 + modify ncurses test-program to work with data piped to it.
14185 + corrected pathname computation in run_tic.sh, removing extra "../"
14186 (reported by Tim Mooney).
14187 + modified configure script to use previous install's location for
14189 + added NetBSD and FreeBSD to platforms that use --prefix=/usr as
14193 + revised xterm terminfo descriptions to reflect the several versions
14194 that are available.
14195 + corrected a pointer reference in dump_entry.c that didn't test if
14196 the pointer was -1.
14199 + correct _nc_mvcur_scrolln for terminals w/o scrolling region.
14200 + add -x option to hashtest to control whether it allows writes to the
14201 lower-right corner.
14202 + ifdef'd (NCURSES_TEST) the logic for _nc_optimize_enable to make it
14203 simpler to construct tests (for double-check of _nc_hash_map tests).
14204 + correct ifdef's for c++ in curses.h
14205 + change default xterm type to xterm-x11r6.
14206 + correct quoting in configure that made man-pages installed with
14207 $datadir instead of actual terminfo path.
14208 + correct whitespace in include/Caps, which caused kf11, clr_eol and
14209 clr_end to be omitted from terminfo.5
14210 + fix memory leaks in delscreen() (adapted from Alexander V Lukyanov).
14211 + improve appearance of marker in multi-selection menu (Juergen
14213 + fix behavior for forms with all fields inactive (Juergen Pfeifer)
14214 + document 'field_index()' (Juergen Pfeifer)
14215 > patch #321 (ESR):
14216 + add some more XENIX keycap translations to include/Caps.
14217 + modify newwin to set initial state of each line to 'touched'
14218 (from patch by Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.dialix.com>)
14219 + in SET_TTY, replace TCSANOW with TCSADRAIN (Alexander V Lukyanov).
14222 + ifdef'd out _nc_hash_map (still slower)
14223 + add graphic characters to vt52 description.
14224 + use PutAttrChar in ClrToEOL to ensure proper background, position.
14225 + simplify/correct logic in 'mvcur()' that does wrapping; it was
14226 updating the position w/o actually moving the cursor, which broke
14228 + ensure that 'doupdate()' sets the .oldindex values back to a sane
14229 state; this was causing a spurious refresh in ncurses 'r'.
14230 + add logic to configure (from vile) to guard against builders who
14231 don't remove config.cache & config.status when doing new builds -TD
14232 + corrected logic for 'repeat_char' in EmitRange (cf: eric #317), which
14233 did not follow the 2-parameter scheme specified in XSI.
14234 + corrected logic of wrefresh, wnoutrefresh broken in #319, making
14235 clearok work properly (report by Michael Elkins).
14236 + corrected problem with endwin introduced by #314 (removing the
14237 scrolling-region reset) that broke ncurses.c tests.
14238 + corrected order of args in AC_CHECK_LIB (from report by Ami Fischman
14239 <fischman@math.ucla.edu>).
14240 + corrected formatting of terminfo.5 tables (Juergen Ehling)
14242 + change ABI to 3.3
14243 + emit a carriage-return in 'endwin()' to workaround a kernel bug in
14244 BSDI. (requested by Mike Karels <karels@redrock.bsdi.com>)
14245 + reverse the default o configure --enable-termcap (consensus).
14247 + modified logic for clearok and related functions (from report by
14248 Michael Elkins) - untested
14250 + correction to #317.
14252 + re-add _nc_hash_map
14253 + modify EmitRange to maintain position as per original design
14254 (patch by A. Lukyanov).
14255 + modify test/ncurses.c and tputs, etc., to allow trace counting
14257 + add hashtest.c program to time the hashmap optimization.
14259 + add logic to deal with magic-cookie (how was this tested?)
14261 + add ncurses.c driver for magic-cookie, some fixes to ncurses.c
14263 + merge changes to lib_doupdate.c to use ech and rep - untested
14264 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
14265 + modified handling of interrupted system calls - untested
14266 (lib_getch.c, lib_twait.c).
14267 + new function _nc_mvcur_resume()
14268 + fix return value for 'overlay()', 'overwrite()'
14271 + implement subwindow-logic in wresize, minor fixes to ncurses 'g'
14273 + corrected bracketing of fallback.c (reported/suggested fix by Juergen
14274 Ehling <eh@eclipse.aball.de>).
14275 + update xterm-color to reflect XFree86 3.1.3G release.
14276 + correct broken dtterm description from #314 patch (e.g., spurious
14277 newline. The 'pairs' change might work, but no one's tested it
14279 + clarify the documentation for the builtin form fieldtypes (Juergen
14282 + reset scroll region on startup rather than at wrapup time
14283 (enhancement suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
14284 + make storage of palette tables and their size counts per-screen for
14285 multi-terminal applications (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
14286 + Improved error reporting for infotocap translation errors.
14287 + Update terminfo.src to 9.13.14.
14290 + rewrote wgetstr to make it erase control chars and also fix bogus use
14291 of _nc_outstr which caused the display to not wrap properly (display
14292 problem reported by John M. Flinchbaugh <glynis@netrax.net>)
14293 + modify ncurses 'f' test to accommodate terminal responses to C1 codes
14294 (and split up this screen to accommodate non-ANSI terminals).
14295 + test enter_insert_mode and exit_insert_mode in has_ic().
14296 + removed bogus logic in mvcur that assumes nl/nonl set output modes
14297 (XSI says they are input modes; SVr4 implements this).
14298 + added macros SET_TTY, GET_TTY to term.h
14299 + correct getstr() logic that altered terminal modes w/o restoring.
14300 + disable ICRNL, etc., during initialization to match SVr4, removing
14301 the corresponding logic from raw, cbreak, etc.
14302 + disable ONLCR during initialization, to match SVr4 (this is needed
14303 for cursor optimization when the cursor-down is a newline).
14304 + replaced ESR's imitation of wresize with my original (his didn't
14308 + memory leaks (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
14309 + modified pnoutrefresh() to be more tolerant of too-large screen
14310 size (reported by Michael Elkins).
14311 + correct handling of terminfo files with no strings (Philippe De
14313 + correct "tic -s" to take into account -I, -C options.
14314 + modify ncurses 'f' test to not print codes 80 through 9F, since they
14315 are considered control codes by ANSI terminals.
14318 + correct speed variable-type in 'tgetent()' (reported by Peter Wemm)
14319 + make "--enable-getcap" configuration-option work (reported by
14320 Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.DIALix.COM>)
14323 + correct err in 960817 that changed return-value of tigetflag()
14324 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
14325 + modify infocmp to use library default search-path for terminfo
14326 directory (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
14329 + corrected an err in mvcur that broke resizing-behavior.
14330 + correct fall-thru behavior of _nc_read_entry(), which was not finding
14331 descriptions that existed in directories past the first one searched
14332 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov)
14333 + corrected typo in dtterm description.
14335 + add dtterm description
14336 + clarify ncurses 'i' test (drop mvwscanw subtest)
14339 + correct nl()/nonl() to work as per SVr4 & XSI.
14340 + minor fixes to ncurses.c (use 'noraw()', mvscanw return-code)
14341 + refine configure-test for "-g" option (Tim Mooney).
14342 + correct interaction between O_BLANK and NEW_LINE request in form
14343 library (Juergen Pfeifer)
14346 + revised fix to tparm; previous fix reversed parameter order.
14348 correct terminfo.src corrupted by #310
14350 + fix idlok() and idcok() and the default of the idlok switch (report
14354 + corrected tparm to handle capability strings without explicit pop
14355 (reported by William P Setzer)
14356 + add fallback def for GCC_NORETURN, GCC_UNUSED for termcap users
14357 (reported by Tim Mooney).
14359 + documentation and prototyping errors for has_color, immedok and idcok
14360 (reported by William P Setzer <wsetzer@pams.ncsu.edu>)
14361 + updated qnx terminfo entry (patch by Michael Hunter)
14364 + eliminate quoted includes in ncurses subdirectory, ensure config.h
14366 + newterm initializes terminal settings the same as initscr (reported
14370 + call cbreak() in initscr(), as per XSI & SVr4.
14371 + turn off hardware echo in initscr() as per XSI & SVr4
14373 + terminfo changes (9.3.9), from BRL
14374 + add more checks to terminfo parser.
14375 + add more symbols to infocmp.
14378 + save previous-attribute in lib_vidattr.c if SP is null (reported by
14379 Juergen Fluk <louis@dachau.marco.de>)
14380 + corrected calls on _nc_render so that background character is set
14382 + corrected wbkgdset macro (XSI allows background character to be
14383 null), and tests that use it.
14384 + more corrections to terminfo (xterm & rxvt)
14385 + undid change to mcprint prototype (cannot use size_t in curses.h
14386 because not all systems declare it in the headers that we can safely
14388 + move the ifdefs for errno into curses.priv.h
14390 + terminfo changes (9.3.8)
14391 + modified logic of error-reporting in terminfo parser
14392 + fix option-processing bug in toe.
14395 + always check for <sys/bsdtypes.h> since ISC needs it to declare
14396 fd_set (Juergen Pfeifer)
14397 + install shared-libraries on NetBSD/FreeBSD with ABI-version (reported
14398 by Juergen Pfeifer, Mike Long)
14399 + add LOCAL_LDFLAGS2 symbol (Juergen Pfeifer)
14400 + corrected prototype for delay_output() -- bump ABI to 3.2
14402 + enable more translations of nonstandard caps, and document them.
14403 + misc/terminfo.src update to 9.13.8
14405 + moved logic that filters out rmul and rmso from setupterm to newterm
14406 where it is less likely to interfere with termcap applications.
14407 + cosmetic fixes to test/ncurses.c
14408 + modify open() call in ncurses/read_entry.c to use O_RDONLY symbol
14409 rather than constant (report by mib).
14410 + misc/terminfo.src sgr0 and acsc changes (report by Philippe De
14412 + modify ncurses/comp_parse.c so that entries containing a "+" can
14413 have missing rmcup vs smcup.
14416 + rollback ESR's #305 change to terminfo.src (it breaks existing
14417 applications, e.g., 'less 290').
14418 + correct path of edit_man.sh, and fix typo that made all man-pages
14420 + restore man/menu_requestname.3x omitted in Zeyd's resync (oops).
14421 + auto-configure the GCC_PRINTFLIKE/GCC_SCANFLIKE macros (reported by
14422 Philippe De Muyter).
14425 + make lib_vidattr.c more readable using macros.
14426 + filter out rmul, rmso that conflict with sgr0 when reading terminal
14428 + work around autoconf bug, force $INSTALL to absolute path
14429 (reported by Zeyd).
14430 + modify man-page install for BSDI to install preformatted .0 files
14431 (reported by David MacKenzie).
14432 + add/use gcc __attribute__ for printf and scanf in curses.h
14433 + added SGR attributes test-case to ncurses
14434 + revised ncurses 't' logic to show trace-disable effect in the menu.
14435 + use getopt in ncurses program to process -s and -t options.
14436 + make ncurses 'p' legend toggle with '?'
14437 + disable scrollok during the ncurses 'p' test; if it is enabled the
14438 stdscr will scroll when putting the box-corners in the lower-right
14441 + added sanity-checking of various paired string attributes.
14442 + misc/terminfo.src update to 9.13.7 (report by A. Lukyanov).
14443 + modify man/Makefile.in to make terminfo.5 during normal build.
14445 + corrected allocation-length for $HOME/.terminfo path.
14448 + check return code of _nc_mvcur_scrolln() in _nc_scroll_optimize() for
14449 terminals with no scrolling-support (reported by Nikolay Shadrin
14450 <queen@qh.mirea.ac.ru>)
14451 + added ^S scrollok-toggle to ncurses 'g' test.
14452 + added ^T trace-toggle to ncurses tests.
14453 + modified ncurses test program to use ^Q or ESC consistently for
14454 terminating tests (rather than ^D), and to use control keys rather
14455 than function keys in 'g' test.
14456 + corrected misplaced wclrtoeol calls in addch to accommodate wrapping
14457 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
14458 + modify lib_doupdate.c to use effective costs to tradeoff between
14459 delete-character/insert-character vs normal updating (reported by
14461 + compute effective costs for screen update operations (e.g., clr_eos,
14463 + corrected error in knight.c exposed by wrap fixes in 960622; the
14464 msgwin needed scrollok set.
14465 + corrected last change to IDcTransformLine logic to avoid conflict
14466 between PutRange and InsStr
14467 + modified run_tic.sh to not use /usr/tmp (reported by David
14468 MacKenzie), and further revised it and aclocal.m4 to use $TMPDIR if
14470 + corrected off-by-one in RoomFor call in read_entry.c
14473 + modified logic that wraps cursor in addch to follow the XSI spec,
14474 (implemented in SVr4) which states that the cursor position is
14475 updated when wrapping. Renamed _NEED_WRAP to _WRAPPED to reflect the
14477 + added -s option to tic, to provide better diagnostics in run_tic.sh
14478 + improved error-recovery for tabset install.
14479 + change ABI to 3.1 (dropped tparam, corrected getbkgd(), added
14480 _yoffset to WINDOW).
14481 + modified initialization of SP->_ofp so that init_acs() is called with
14482 the "right" file pointer (reported by Rick Marshall <rjm@nlc.net.au>
14483 + documentation fixes (Juergen Pfeifer).
14484 + corrected, using new SCREEN and WINDOW members, the behavior of
14485 ncurses if one uses ripoffline() to remove a line from the top of the
14486 screen (Juergen Pfeifer).
14487 + modified autoconf scripts to prepare for Ada95 (GNAT) binding to
14488 ncurses (Juergen Pfeifer).
14489 + incorrect buffer-size in _nc_read_entry, reported by ESR.
14492 + corrected two logic errors in read_entry.c, write_entry.c (called by
14493 tic, the write/read of terminfo entries used inconsistent rules for
14494 locating the entries; the $TERMINFO_DIRS code would find only the
14495 first entry in a list).
14496 + refined pathname computation in run_tic.sh and shlib.
14497 + corrected initialization of $IP in misc/run_tic.sh
14500 + ifdef'd out _nc_hash_map() call because it does not improve speed.
14501 + display version of gcc if configure script identifies it.
14502 + modify configure script to use /usr as Linux's default prefix.
14503 + modify run_tic.sh to use shlib script, fixes some problems installing
14504 with a shared-library configuration.
14505 + adjusted configure script so that it doesn't run tests with the
14506 warnings turned on, which makes config.log hard to read.
14507 + added 'lint' rule to top-level Makefile.
14508 + added configure option '--with-install-prefix' for use by system
14509 builders to install into staging locations (requested by
14510 Charles Levert <charles@comm.polymtl.ca>).
14511 + corrected autoconfigure for Debian man program; it's not installed
14513 + set noecho in 'worm'; it was ifdef'd for debug only
14514 + updated test/configure.in for timing-display in ncurses 'p' test
14515 + corrected misspelled 'getbkgd()'.
14516 + corrected wbkgdset to work like observed syvr4 (sets A_CHARTEXT part
14517 to blank if no character given, copies attributes to window's
14519 + modified lib_doupdate.c to use lower-level SP's current_attr state
14520 instead of curscr's state, since it is redundant.
14521 + correction to IDcTransformLine logic which controls where InsStr is
14522 invoked (refined by Alexander V Lukyanov).
14524 + conditionally include Chris Torek's hash function _nc_hash_map().
14525 + better fix for nvi refresh-bug (Rick Marshall)
14526 + fix for bug in handling of interrupted keystroke waits,
14528 + misc/ncurses-intro.html syntax fix (Kajiyama Tamito).
14531 + auto-configure man-page compression-format and renames for Debian.
14532 + corrected several typos in curses.h.in (i.e., the mvXXXX macros).
14533 + re-order curses.priv.h for lint.
14534 + added rules for lintlib, lint
14535 + corrected ifdef for BROKEN_LINKER in MKnames.awk.in
14536 + corrected missing INSTALL_DATA in misc/Makefile.in
14537 + flush output when changing cursor-visibility (Rick Marshall)
14538 + fix a minor bug in the _nc_ripoff() routine and improve error
14539 checking when creating the label window (Juergen Pfeifer).
14540 + enhancement to the control over the new PC-style soft key format.
14541 allow caller now to select whether or not one wants to have
14542 the index-line; see curs_slk.3x for documentation (Juergen Pfeifer).
14543 + typos, don't use inline with "-g" (Philippe De Muyter)
14544 + fixes for menus & wattr-, slk-functions (Juergen Pfeifer)
14547 + removed --with-ticdir option altogether, maintain compatibility with
14548 existing applications via symbolic link in run_tic.sh
14549 + patch for termio.h, signal (Philippe De Muyter)
14550 + auto-configure gcc warning options rather than infer from version.
14551 + auto-configure __attribute__ for different gcc versions.
14552 + corrected special use of clearok() in hardscroll.c by resetting flag
14554 + include stdlib.h before defs for EXIT_SUCCESS, for OSF/1.
14555 + include sys/types.h in case stdlib.h does not declare size_t.
14556 + fixes for makefile (Tim Mooney)
14557 + fixes for menus & forms (Juergen Pfeifer)
14559 + improve hash function (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
14560 + 9.13.4 update for terminfo.src
14563 + revised ncurses.c panner test, let pad abut all 4 sides of screen.
14564 + refined case in lib_doupdate.c for ClrToEOL().
14565 + corrected prior change for PutRange (Alexander V Lukyanov
14566 <lav@yars.free.net>).
14567 + autoconf mods (Tim Mooney <mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu>).
14568 + locale fix for forms (Philippe De Muyter <phdemuyt@ulb.ac.be>)
14569 + renamed "--with-datadir" option to "--with-ticdir" to avoid
14570 confusion, and made this check for the /usr/lib/terminfo pre-existing
14572 > patches 299-301 (ESR):
14573 + html fixes (Phillippe de Muyter).
14574 + fix typo in ncurses-intro.html (report by Fabrizio Polacco).
14576 + mods to tracing, especially for ACS chars.
14577 + corrected off-by-one in IDCtransform.
14578 + corrected intermittent mouse bug by using return-value from read().
14579 + mods to parse_entry.c, for smarter defaults.
14582 + use getopt in 'tic'; added -L option and modified -e option to allow
14586 + don't use fixed buffer-size in tparm().
14587 + modified tic to create terminfo directory if it doesn't exist.
14588 + added -T options to tic and infocmp (for testing/analysis)
14589 + refined the length criteria for termcap and terminfo
14590 + optimize lib_doupdate with memcpy, PutRange
14591 > patches 297, 298 (ESR):
14592 + implement TERMINFO_DIRS, and -o option of tic
14593 + added TRACE_IEVENT
14594 + fix REQ_TOGGLE_ITEM in menu/menu_driver.c; it could select but not
14596 + added lib_print.c (request by Rick Marshall).
14597 + added has_key() (request by Juergen Pfeifer).
14598 + do not issue clrtoeol or clrtobot if the relevant portion of the line
14599 is already blank (analysis by Keith Bostic).
14600 + add parentheses for parameters of COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER macros
14601 (analysis by Jurgen Eidt).
14602 + update screen's notion of cursor position in endwin() (analysis by
14603 Alexander Lukyanov).
14604 + added 't' to ncurses.c test.
14605 + moved delay_output() to lib_tputs.c
14606 + removed tparam() (was added in 1.9.9, but conflicts with emacs and
14607 is not part of X/Open Curses).
14608 + removed boolean version of 'getm'.
14609 + misc cursor & optimization fixes.
14612 + modified ncurses 'p' test to allow full-screen range for panner size.
14613 + fixes for locale (Philippe De Muyter <phdm@labauto1.ulb.ac.be>)
14614 + don't use fixed buffer-size in fmt_entry().
14615 + added usage-message to 'infocmp'.
14616 + modified install.includes rules to prepend subdirectory-name to
14617 "#include" if needed.
14620 + protect wrefresh, wnoutrefresh from invocation with pad argument.
14621 + corrected default CCFLAGS in test/Makefile.
14624 + implemented logic to support terminals with background color erase
14625 (e.g., rxvt and the newer color xterm).
14626 + improved screen update logic (off-by-one logic error; use clr_eos if
14630 + change ncurses 'a' test to run in raw mode.
14631 + make TIOCGWINSZ configure test less stringent, in case user
14632 configures via terminal that cannot get screen size.
14633 > patches 295, 296 (ESR):
14634 + split lib_kernel.c, lib_setup.c and names.c in order to reduce
14635 overhead for programs that use only termcap features.
14636 + new "-e" and "-h" options of tic (request by Tony Nugent).
14637 + fix bug in mandatory-delay logic in lib_tputs.c (report by Sven
14639 + fix for "infocmp -e" to emit correct initializers (reported by Manual
14641 + restore working-directory in read_termcap.c (report by Kayvan
14643 + use "-h" option on Solaris when generating shared libraries on
14644 Solaris 2.5 to record the library name in the file, for assisting
14645 the loader (patch by Scott Kramer).
14646 + undo patch #294 changes to form and menu libraries (request by
14651 + fix for AIX 3.2.5 (must define _POSIX_SOURCE to get termios struct
14652 definitions via <termios.h>, modified macros in lib_raw.c to avoid
14653 K&R-style substitution)
14654 > patches 293, 294 (ESR):
14655 + rewrite wsyncup(), wsyncdown(), as well as small fixes to form and
14656 menu libraries to fix echo-breakage introduced by 1.8.9, 1.9.9e
14657 changes (patches by Juergen Pfeifer).
14658 + fix compile under QNX 4.2 by defining ONLCR in lib_raw.c when
14659 __QNX__ is defined (patch by Michael Hunter).
14660 + modify setupterm() to match documentation for its return value, fix
14661 newterm to work with this change (report by Emmet Lazich).
14662 + add checks in getch() for error, return ERR as appropriate (report by
14664 + mods to wgetch() in cooked mode (report by Pete Seebach).
14665 + corrected askuser() logic in tset (patch by Remco Treffkorn).
14666 + correct interaction of endwin() with mouse processing (report by
14668 + added trace support for TTY flags
14669 + update terminfo.src to 9.13.1
14670 + FreeBSD console entries (patch by Andrew Chernov).
14673 + fixes for NeXT, ISC and HPUX auto-configure
14674 + autogenerate development header-dependencies (config.h, *.priv.h)
14675 + corrected single-column formatting of "use=" (e.g., in tic)
14676 + modify tic to read full terminfo-names
14677 + corrected divide-by-zero that caused hang (or worse) when redirecting
14679 + modify tic to generate directories only as-needed (and corrected
14680 instance of use of data from function that had already returned).
14682 ### ncurses-1.9.8a -> 1.9.9e
14684 * fixed broken wsyncup()/wysncdown(), as a result wnoutrefresh() now has
14685 copy-changed-lines behavior.
14686 * added and documented wresize() function.
14687 * more fixes to LOWER-RIGHT corner handling.
14688 * changed the line-breakout optimization code to allow some lines to be
14689 emitted before the first check.
14690 * added option for tic to use symbolic instead of hard links (for AFS)
14691 * fix to restore auto-wrap mode.
14692 * trace level can be controlled by environment variable.
14693 * better handling of NULs in terminal descriptions.
14694 * improved compatibility with observed SVR4 behavior.
14695 * the refresh behavior of over-lapping windows is now more efficient and
14697 * use autoconf 2.7, which results in a working setup for SCO 5.0.
14698 * support for ESCDELAY.
14699 * small fixes for menu/form code.
14700 * the test directory has its own configure.
14701 * fixes to pads when optimizing scrolling.
14702 * fixed several off-by-one bugs.
14703 * fixes for termcap->terminfo translation; less restrictions more correct
14706 ### ncurses-1.9.7 -> 1.9.8a
14708 * teach infocmp -i to recognize ECMA highlight sequences
14709 * infocmp now dumps all SVr4 termcaps (not just the SVr4 ones) on -C
14710 * support infocmp -RBSD.
14711 * satisfy XSI Curses requirement that every macro be available as a function.
14712 * This represents the last big change to the public interface of ncurses. The
14713 ABI_VERSION has now been set at 3.0 and should stay there barring any great
14714 catastrophies or acts of God.
14715 * The C++ has been cleaned up in reaction to the changes to satisfy XSI's
14717 * libncurses now gets linked to libcurses to help seamless emulation
14718 (replacement) of a vendor's curses. --disable-overwrite turns this behavior
14721 ### ncurses-1.9.6 -> 1.9.7
14723 * corrected return values of setupterm()
14724 * Fixed some bugs in tput (it does padding now)
14725 * fixed a bug in tic that made it do the wrong thing on entries with more than
14726 one `use' capability.
14727 * corrected the screen-size calculation at startup time to alter the
14728 numeric capabilities as per SVr4, not just LINES and COLS.
14729 * toe(1) introduced; does what infocmp -T used to.
14730 * tic(1) can now translate AIX box1 and font[0123] capabilities.
14731 * tic uses much less core, the dotic.sh kluge can go away now.
14732 * fix read_entry() and write_entry() to pass through cancelled capabilities OK.
14733 * Add $HOME/.terminfo as source/target directory for terminfo entries.
14734 * termcap compilation now automatically dumps an entry to $HOME/.terminfo.
14735 * added -h option to toe(1).
14736 * added -R option to tic(1) and infocmp(1).
14737 * added fallback-entry-list feature.
14738 * added -i option to infocmp(1).
14739 * do a better job at detecting if we're on SCO.
14741 ### ncurses-1.9.5 -> 1.9.6
14743 * handling of TERMCAP environment variables now works correctly.
14744 * various changes to shorten termcap translations to less that 1024 chars.
14746 * mouse support for xterm.
14747 * most data tables are now const and accordingly live in shareable text space.
14748 * Obey the XPG4/SVr4 practice that echo() is initially off.
14749 * tic is much better at translating XENIX and AIX termcap entries now.
14750 * tic can interpret ko capabilities now.
14751 * integrated Juergen Pfeifer's forms library.
14752 * taught write_entry() how not to write more than it needs to; this change
14753 reduces the size of the terminfo tree by a full 26%!
14754 * infocmp -T option added.
14755 * better warnings about historical tic quirks from tic.
14757 ### ncurses 1.9.4 -> 1.9.5
14759 * menus library is now included with documentation.
14760 * lib_mvcur has been carefully profiled and tuned.
14761 * Fixed a ^Z-handling bug that was tanking lynx(1).
14762 * HJ Lu's patches for ELF shared libraries under Linux
14763 * terminfo.src 9.8.2
14764 * tweaks for compiling in separate directories.
14765 * Thomas Dickey's patches to support NeXT's brain-dead linker
14766 * Eric Raymond's patches to fix problems with long termcap entries.
14767 * more support for shared libraries under SunOS and IRIX.
14769 ### ncurses 1.9.3 -> 1.9.4
14771 * fixed an undefined-order-of-evaluation bug in lib_acs.c
14772 * systematically gave non-API public functions and data an _nc_ prefix.
14773 * integrated Juergen Pfeifer's menu code into the distribution.
14774 * totally rewrote the knight test game's interface
14776 ### ncurses 1.9.2c -> 1.9.3
14778 * fixed the TERMCAP_FILE Support.
14779 * fixed off-by-one errors in scrolling code
14780 * added tracemunch to the test tools
14781 * took steps to cut the running time of make install.data
14783 ### ncurses 1.9.2c -> 1.9.2d
14785 * revised 'configure' script to produce libraries for normal, debug,
14786 profile and shared object models.
14788 ### ncurses 1.9.1 -> 1.9.2
14790 * use 'autoconf' to implement 'configure' script.
14791 * panels support added
14792 * tic now checks for excessively long termcap entries when doing translation
14793 * first cut at eliminating namespace pollution.
14795 ### ncurses 1.8.9 -> 1.9
14797 * cleanup gcc warnings for the following: use size_t where 'int' is not
14798 appropriate, fixed some shadowed variables, change attr_t to compatible with
14799 chtype, use attr_t in some places where it was confused with 'int'.
14800 * use chtype/attr_t casts as appropriate to ensure portability of masking
14802 * added-back waddchnstr() to lib_addstr.c (it had been deleted).
14803 * supplied missing prototypes in curses.h
14804 * include <termcap.h> in lib_termcap.c to ensure that the prototypes
14805 are consistent (they weren't).
14806 * corrected prototype of tputs in <termcap.h>
14807 * rewrote varargs parsing in lib_tparm.c (to avoid referencing memory
14808 that may be out of bounds on the stack) -- Purify found this.
14809 * ensure that TRACE is defined in lib_trace.c (to solve prototype
14810 warnings from gcc).
14811 * corrected scrolling-region size in 'mvcur_wrap()'
14812 * more spelling fixes
14813 * use 'calloc()' to allocate WINDOW struct in lib_newwin.c (Purify).
14814 * set default value for SP->_ofp in lib_set_term.c (otherwise SunOS dumps
14815 core in init_acs()).
14816 * include <errno.h> in write_entry.c (most "braindead" includes declare errno
14819 ### ncurses 1.8.8 -> 1.8.9
14821 * compile (mostly) clean with gcc 2.5.8 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
14822 -Wmissing-prototypes -Wconversion and using __attribute__ to flush out
14823 non-portable use of "%x" for pointers, or for chtype data (which is declared
14825 * modified doupdate to ensure that typahead was turned on before attempting
14826 select-call (otherwise, some implementations hang).
14827 * added trace mask TRACE_FIFO, use this in lib_getch.c to allow finer
14828 resolution of traces.
14829 * improved bounds checking on several critical functions.
14830 * the data directory has been replaced by the new master terminfo file.
14831 * -F file-comparison option added to infocmp.
14832 * compatibility with XSI Curses is now documented in the man bages.
14833 * wsyncup/wsyncdown functions are reliable now; subwindow code in general
14834 is much less flaky.
14835 * capabilities ~msgr, tilde_glitch, insert_padding, generic_type, no_pad_char,
14836 memory_above, memory_below, and hard_copy are now used properly.
14837 * cursor-movement optimization has been completely rewritten.
14838 * vertical-movement optimization now uses hardware scrolling, il, dl.
14840 ### ncurses 1.8.7 -> 1.8.8
14841 * untic no longer exists, infocmp replaces it.
14842 * tic can understand termcap now, especially if it is called captoinfo.
14843 * The Linux Standard Console terminfo entry is called linux insead of console.
14844 It also uses the kernel's new method of changing charsets.
14845 * initscr() will EXIT upon error (as the docs say) This will mostly happen if
14846 you try to run on an undefined terminal.
14847 * I can get things running on AIX but tic can't compile terminfo. I have to
14848 compile entries on another machine. Volunteers to hunt this bug are welcome.
14849 * wbkgd() and wbkgdset() can be used to set a windows background to color.
14850 wclear()/werase() DO NOT use the current attribute to clear the screen.
14851 This is the way SVR4 curses works. PDCurses 2.1 is broken in this respect,
14852 though PDCurses 2.2 has been fixed.
14853 * cleaned up the test/ directory.
14854 * test/worm will segfault after quite a while.
14855 * many spelling corrections courtesy of Thomas E. Dickey
14857 ### ncurses 1.8.6 -> 1.8.7
14858 * cleaned up programs in test/ directory.
14859 * fixed wbkgdset() macro.
14860 * modified getstr() to stop it from advancing cursor in noecho mode.
14861 * modified linux terminfo entry to work with the latest kernel to get
14862 the correct alternate character set.
14863 * also added a linux-mono entry for those running on monochrome screens.
14864 * changed initscr() so that it behaves like the man page says it does.
14865 this fixes the problem with programs in test/ crashing with SIGSEV if
14866 a terminal is undefined.
14867 * modified addch() to avoid using any term.h #define's
14868 * removed duplicate tgoto() in lib_tparm.c
14869 * modified dump_entry.c so that infocmp deals correctly with ',' in acsc
14870 * modified delwin() to correctly handle deleting subwindows.
14871 * fixed Makefile.dist to stop installing an empty curses.h
14872 * fixed a couple of out-of-date notes in man pages.
14874 ### ncurses 1.8.5 -> 1.8.6
14875 * Implemented wbkgd(), bkgd(), bkgdset(), and wbkgdset().
14876 * The handling of attributes has been improved and now does not turn off color
14877 if other attributes are turned off.
14878 * scrolling code is improved. Scrolling in subwindows is still broken.
14879 * Fixes to several bugs that manifest them on platforms other than Linux.
14880 * The default to meta now depends on the status of the terminal when ncurses
14882 * The interface to the tracing facility has changed. Instead of the pair of
14883 functions traceon() and traceoff(), there is just one function trace() which
14884 takes a trace mask argument. The trace masks, defined in curses.h, are
14887 #define TRACE_DISABLE 0x00 /* turn off tracing */
14888 #define TRACE_ORDINARY 0x01 /* ordinary trace mode */
14889 #define TRACE_CHARPUT 0x02 /* also trace all character outputs */
14890 #define TRACE_MAXIMUM 0x0f /* maximum trace level */
14892 More trace masks may be added, or these may be changed, in future releases.
14893 * The pad code has been improved and the pad test code in test/ncurses.c has
14895 * The prototype ansi entry has been changed to work with a wider variety
14897 * Fix to the prototype ansi entry that enables it to work with PC emulators
14898 that treat trailing ";m" in a highlight sequence as ";0m"; this doesn't
14899 break operation with any emulators.
14900 * There are now working infocmp, captoinfo, tput, and tclear utilities.
14901 * tic can now compile entries in termcap syntax.
14902 * Core-dump bug in pnoutrefresh fixed.
14903 * We now recognize and compile all the nonstandard capabilities in Ross
14904 Ridge's mytinfo package (rendering it obsolete).
14905 * General cleanup and documentation improvements.
14906 * Fixes and additions to the installation-documentation files.
14907 * Take cursor to normal mode on endwin.
14909 ### ncurses 1.8.4 -> 1.8.5
14910 * serious bugs in updating screen which caused erratic non-display,
14912 * fixed initialization for getch() related variable which cause
14913 unpredictable results.
14914 * fixed another doupdate bug which only appeared if you have
14916 * implemented redrawln() and redrawwin().
14917 * implemented winsnstr() and related functions.
14918 * cleaned up insertln() and deleteln() and implemented (w)insdeln().
14919 * changed Makefile.dist so that installation of man pages will
14920 take note of the terminfo directory.
14921 * fixed Configure (removed the mysterious 'X').
14922 * Eric S. Raymond fixed the script.* files so that they work with
14925 #### ncurses 1.8.3 -> 1.8.4 #### ####
14926 * fixed bug in refreshing the screen after return from shell_mode.
14927 There are still problems but they don't manifest themselves on
14928 my machine (Linux 0.99.14f).
14929 * added wgetnstr() and modified things accordingly.
14930 * fixed the script.src script.test to work with awk not just gawk.
14931 * Configure can now take an argument of the target system.
14932 * added test/ncurses.c which replaces several other programs and
14933 performs more testing.
14934 [Thanks to Eric S Raymond for the last 4]
14935 * more fixes to lib_overlay.c and added test/over.c to illustrate
14937 * fixed ungetch() to take int instead of ch.
14938 * fixes to cure wgetch() if flushinp() is called.
14940 One note I forgot to mention in 1.8.3 is that tracing is off by
14941 default starting in the version. If you want tracing output, put
14942 traceon(); in your code and link with -ldcurses.
14944 #### ncurses 1.8.2 -> ncurses 1.8.3 #### ####
14946 1) The order of capabilities has been changed in order to achieve
14947 binary compatibility with SVR4 terminfo database. This has the
14948 unfortunate effect of breaking application currently linked with
14949 ncurses. To ensure correct behavior, recompile all such programs.
14950 Most programs using color or newer capabilities will break, others
14951 will probably continue to work ok.
14953 2) Pavel Curtis has renounced his copyright to the public domain.
14954 This means that his original sources (posted to comp.sources.unix,
14955 volume 1) are now in the public domain. The current sources are
14956 NOT in the public domain, they are copyrighted by me. I'm
14957 entertaining ideas on what the new terms ncurses is released under.
14959 3) Eric S. Raymond has supplied a complete set of man pages for
14960 ncurses in ?roff format. They will eventually replace most of the
14961 current docs. Both sets are included in this release.
14963 Other changes and notes from 1.8.2 include:
14964 * SIGSEGV during scrolling no longer occurs.
14965 * Other problems with scrolling and use of idl have been corrected.
14966 * lib_getch.c has been re-written and should perform flawlessly.
14967 please use test/getch.c and any other programs to test this.
14968 * ripoffline() is implemented (Thanks to Eric) and slk_ functions
14969 changed accordingly.
14970 * I've added support for terminals that scroll if you write in the
14971 bottom-right corner.
14972 * fixed more bugs in pads code. If anybody has a program that uses
14973 pads I'd love a copy.
14974 * correct handling for terminal with back_color_erase capability
14975 (such as Linux console, and most PC terminals)
14976 * ^Z handling apparently didn't work (I should never trust code
14977 sent me to me without extensive testing). It now seems to be
14978 fixed. Let me know if you have problems.
14979 * I've added support for Apollo and NeXT, but it may still be
14980 incomplete, especially when dealing with the lack of POSIX
14982 * scrolling should be more efficient on terminals with idl
14983 capabilities. Please see src/lib_scroll.c for more notes.
14984 * The line drawing routines were offset by 1 at both ends. This
14986 * added a few missing prototypes and macros (e.g. setterm())
14987 * fixed code in src/lib_overlay.c which used to crash.
14988 * added a few more programs in test/ The ones from the PDCurses
14989 package are useful, especially if you have SVR4 proper. I'm
14990 interested in the results you get on such a systems (Eric? ;-).
14991 They already exposed certain bugs in ncurses.
14992 * See src/README for porting notes.
14993 * The C++ code should really replace ncurses.h instead of working
14994 around it. It should avoid name-space clashes with nterm.h (use
14995 rows instead of lines, etc.)
14996 * The C++ should compile ok. I've added explicit rules to the
14997 Makefile because no C++ defaults are documented on the suns.
14998 * The docs say that echo() and nocbreak() are mutually exclusive.
14999 At the moment ncurses will switch to cbreak() if the case above
15000 occurs. Should it continue to do so? How about echo() and noraw()?
15001 * PDCurses seem to assume that wclear() will use current attribute
15002 when clearing the screen. According to Eric this is not the case
15004 * I have discovered, to my chagrin, SunOS 4.x (and probably other systems)
15005 * doesn't have vsscanf and God knows what else! I've will do a vsscanf().
15006 * I've also found out that the src/script.* rely on gawk and will not
15007 work with stock awk or even with nawk. Any changes are welcome.
15008 * Linux is more tolerant of NULL dereferences than most systems. This
15009 fact was exposed by hanoi.
15010 * ncurses still seems inefficient in drawing the screen on a serial
15011 link between Linux and suns. The padding may be the culprit.
15012 * There seems to be one lingering problem with doupdate() after shelling
15013 out. Despite the fact the it is sending out the correct information
15014 to the terminal, nothing takes effect until you press ^L or another
15015 refresh takes place. And yes, output does get flushed.
15017 #### ncurses 1.8.1 -> ncurses 1.8.2 #### Nov 28, 1993 ####
15019 * added support for SVR4 and BSDI's BSD/386.
15020 * major update and fix to scrolling routine.
15021 * MORE fixes to stuff in lib_getch.c.
15022 * cleaned-up configuration options and can now generate
15023 Config.* files through an awk script.
15024 * changed setupterm() so it can be called more than once,
15025 add added set_curterm(), del_curterm().
15026 * a few minor cleanups.
15027 * added more prototypes in curses.h
15029 #### ncurses 1.8 -> ncurses 1.8.1 #### Nov 4, 1993 ####
15031 * added support for NeXTStep 3.0
15032 * added termcap emulation (not well tested).
15033 * more complete C++ interface to ncurses.
15034 * fixed overlay(), overwrite(), and added copywin().
15035 * a couple of bug fixes.
15036 * a few code cleanups.
15038 #### ncurses 0.7.2/0.7.3 -> ncurses 1.8 #### Aug 31, 1993 ####
15040 * The annoying message "can't open file." was due to missing
15041 terminfo entry for the used terminal. It has now been
15042 replaced by a hopefully more helpful message.
15043 * Problems with running on serial lines are now fixed.
15044 * Added configuration files for SunOS, Linux, HP/UX, Ultrix,
15045 386bsd/BSDI (if you have others send'em to me)
15046 * Cleaner Makefile.
15047 * The documentation in manual.doc is now more uptodate.
15048 * update optimization and support for hp terminals, and 386bsd
15050 * mvcur optimization for terminals without cursor addressing
15051 (doesn't work on Linux)
15052 * if cursor moved since last update, getch() will refresh the
15053 screen before working.
15054 * getch() & alarm() can now live together. in 0.7.3 a signal
15055 interrupted getch() (bug or feature?) now the getch is
15057 * scanw() et all were sick, now fixed.
15058 * support for 8-bit input (use meta()).
15059 * added default screen size to all terminfos.
15060 * added c++ Ncursesw class.
15061 * several minor bug fixes.
15063 #### ncurses 0.7.2 -> ncurses 0.7.3 #### May 27, 1993 ####
15065 * Config file to cope with different platforms (386BSD, BSDI, Ultrix, SunOS)
15066 * more fixes to lib_getch.c
15067 * changes related to Config
15069 #### ncurses 0.7 -> ncurses 0.7.2 #### May 22, 1993 ####
15071 * docs updated slightly (color usage is now documented).
15072 * yet another fix for getch(), this one fixes problems with ESC being swallowed
15073 if another character is typed before the 1 second timeout.
15074 * Hopefully, addstr() and addch() are 8-bit clean.
15075 * fixed lib_tparm.c to use stdarg.h (should run on suns now)
15076 * order of capabilities changed to reflect that specified in SYSV
15077 this will allow for binary-compatibility with existing terminfo dbs.
15078 * added halfdelay()
15079 * fixed problems with asc_init()
15080 * added A_PROTECT and A_INVIS
15081 * cleaned up vidputs()
15082 * general cleanup of the code
15083 * more attention to portability to other systems
15084 * added terminfos for hp70092 (won't work until changes to lib_update.c are
15085 made) and 386BSD pcvt drivers.
15087 Thanks to Hellmuth Michaelis for his help.
15088 optimization code is slated for the next major release, stay tuned!
15090 #### ncurses 0.6/0.61 -> ncurses 0.7 #### April 1, 1993
15091 Please note that the next release will be called 1.8. If you want to know about
15092 the rationale drop me a line.
15094 Included are several test programs in test/.
15095 I've split up the panels library, reversi, tetris, sokoban. They are now
15096 available separately from netcom.com:pub/zmbenhal/
15098 * color and ACS support is now fully compatible with SYSV at the terminfo
15100 * Capabilities now includes as many SYSV caps I could find.
15101 * tigetflag,tigetnum,tigetstr functions added.
15102 * boolnames, boolfnames, boolcodes numnames, numfnames, numcodes,
15103 strnames, strfnames, strcodes arrays are now added.
15104 * keyname() is added.
15105 * All function keys can be defined in terminfo entries.
15106 * fixed lin_tparm.c to behave properly.
15107 * terminfo entries for vt* and xterm are included (improvements are welcome)
15108 * more automation in handling caps and keys.
15109 * included fixes from 0.6.1
15110 * added a few more missing functions.
15111 * fixed a couple of minor bugs.
15112 * updated docs JUST a little (still miles behind in documenting the newer
15115 #### ncurses 0.6 -> ncurses 0.61 ####
15117 1) Included the missing data/console.
15119 2) allow attributes when drawing boxes.
15121 3) corrected usage of win->_delay value.
15123 4) fixed a bug in lib_getch.c. if it didn't recognize a sequence it would
15124 simply return the last character in the sequence. The correct
15125 behavior is to return the entire sequence one character at a time.
15127 #### ncurses0.5 -> ncurses0.6 #### March 1, 1993 ####
15128 * removed _numchngd from struct _win_st and made appropriate changes.
15129 * rewritten kgetch() to remove problems with interaction between alarm and
15130 read(). It caused SIGSEGV every now and then.
15131 * fixed a bug that miscounted the numbers of columns when updating.
15132 (in lib_doupdate.c(ClrUpdate() -- iterate to columns not columns-1)
15133 * fixed a bug that cause the lower-right corner to be incorrect.
15134 (in lib_doupdate.c(putChar() -- check against columns not columns-1)
15135 * made resize() and cleanup() static to lib_newterm.c
15136 * added notimeout().
15137 * added timeout() define in curses.h
15138 * added more function prototypes and fixed napms.
15140 * moved screen size detection to lib_setup.c.
15141 * fixed newterm() to confirm to prototype.
15142 * removed SIGWINCH support as SYSV does not define its semantics.
15143 * cleaned-up lib_touch.c
15144 * added waddnstr() and relatives.
15145 * added slk_* support.
15146 * fixed a bug in wdeleteln().
15147 * added PANEL library.
15148 * modified Makefile for smoother installation.
15149 * terminfo.h is really term.h
15151 #### ncurses 0.4 -> ncurses 0.5 #### Feb 14, 1993 ####
15152 * changed _win_st structure to allow support for missing functionality.
15153 * Addition of terminfo support for all KEY_*.
15154 * Support for nodelay(), timeout(), notimeout().
15155 * fixed a bug with the keypad char reading that did not return ESC until
15156 another key is pressed.
15157 * nl mapping no longer occur on output (as should be)
15158 fixed bug '\n' no causing a LF.
15159 * fixed bug that reset terminal colors regardless of whether we use color
15161 * Better support for ACS (not quite complete).
15162 * fixed bug in wvline().
15163 * added curs_set().
15164 * changed from signal() to sigaction().
15165 * re-included the contents of important.patch into source.
15167 #### ncurses 0.3 -> ncurses 0.4 #### Feb 3, 1993 ####
15168 * Addition of more KEY_* definitions.
15169 * Addition of function prototypes.
15170 * Addition of several missing functions.
15171 * No more crashes if screen size is undefined (use SIGWINCH handler).
15172 * added a handler to cleanup after SIGSEGV (hopefully never needed).
15173 * changed SRCDIR from /etc/term to /usr/lib/terminfo.
15174 * renamed compile/dump to tic/untic.
15175 * New scrolling code.
15176 * fixed bug that reversed the sense of nl() and nonl().
15178 #### ncurses 0.2 -> ncurses 0.3 #### Jan 20, 1993 ####
15179 * more support for color and graphics see test/ for examples.
15180 * fixed various files to allow correct update after shelling out.
15181 * more fixes for updates.
15182 * no more core dumps if you don't have a terminfo entry.
15183 * support for LINES and COLUMNS environment variables.
15184 * support for SIGWINCH signal.
15185 * added a handler for SIGINT for clean exits.
15187 #### ncurses 0.1 -> ncurses 0.2 #### Aug 14, 1992 ####
15188 * support for color.
15189 * support for PC graphic characters.
15190 * lib_trace.c updated to use stdarg.h and vprintf routines.
15191 * added gdc.c (Great Digital Clock) as an example of using color.
15193 #### ncurses -> ncurses 0.1 #### Jul 31, 1992 ####
15194 * replacing sgtty stuff by termios stuff.
15195 * ANSIfication of some functions.
15196 * Disabling cost analysis 'cause it's incorrect.
15197 * A quick hack for a terminfo entry.