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31 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
32 working with Pavel Curtis' original work, pcurses, in 1992.
34 Changes through 1.9.9e are recorded by Zeyd M Ben-Halim.
35 Changes since 1.9.9e are recorded by Thomas E Dickey.
37 Contributors include those who have provided patches (even small ones), as well
38 as those who provide useful information (bug reports, analyses). Changes with
39 no cited author are the work of Thomas E Dickey (TD).
41 A few contributors are given in this file by their initials.
42 They each account for one percent or more of the changes since 1.9.9e.
43 See the AUTHORS file for the corresponding full names.
45 Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
46 it is not possible to add this information.
49 + modify nc_tparm.h, adding guards against repeated inclusion, and
50 allowing TPARM_ARG to be overridden.
51 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
54 + suppress ncv in screen entry, allowing underline (patch by Alejandro
56 + also suppress ncv in konsole-base -TD
57 + fixes in wins_nwstr() and related functions to ensure that special
58 characters, i.e., control characters are handled properly with the
59 wide-character configuration.
60 + correct a comparison in wins_nwstr() (Redhat #661506).
61 + correct help-messages in some of the test-programs, which still
62 referred to quitting with 'q'.
65 + add special case to _nc_infotocap() to recognize the setaf/setab
66 strings from xterm+256color and xterm+88color, and provide a reduced
67 version which works with termcap.
68 + remove obsolete emacs "Local Variables" section from documentation
69 (request by Sven Joachim).
70 + update doc/html/index.html to include NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html
71 (report by Sven Joachim).
74 + modify test/configure and test/Makefile.in to handle this special
75 case of building within a build-tree (Debian #34182):
76 mkdir -p build && cd build && ../test/configure && make
79 + miscellaneous build-fixes for Ada95 and test-directories when built
81 + use VPATH in makefiles to simplify out-of-tree builds (Debian #34182).
82 + fix typo in rmso for tek4106 entry -Goran Weinholt
85 + improve checks in test/configure for X libraries, from xterm #267
87 + modify test/configure to allow it to use the build-tree's libraries
88 e.g., when using that to configure the test-programs without the
89 rpath feature (request by Sven Joachim).
90 + repurpose "gnome" terminfo entries as "vte", retaining "gnome" items
91 for compatibility, but generally deprecating those since the VTE
92 library is what actually defines the behavior of "gnome", etc.,
96 + compiler warning fixes for test programs.
97 + various build-fixes for test-programs with pdcurses.
98 + updated configure checks for X packages in test/configure from xterm
100 + add configure check to gnatmake, to accommodate cygwin.
103 + correct list of sub-directories needed in Ada95 tree for building as
105 + modify scripts in test-directory to improve builds as a separate
109 + correct parsing of relative tab-stops in tabs program (report by
111 + adjust configure script so that "t" is not added to library suffix
112 when weak-symbols are used, allowing the pthread configuration to
113 more closely match the non-thread naming (report by Werner Fink).
114 + modify configure check for tic program, used for fallbacks, to a
115 warning if not found. This makes it simpler to use additonal
116 scripts to bootstrap the fallbacks code using tic from the build
117 tree (report by Werner Fink).
118 + fix several places in configure script using ${variable-value} form.
119 + modify configure macro CF_LDFLAGS_STATIC to accommodate some loaders
120 which do not support selectively linking against static libraries
121 (report by John P. Hartmann)
122 + fix an unescaped dash in man/tset.1 (report by Sven Joachim).
125 + correct comparison used for setting 16-colors in linux-16color
126 entry (Novell #644831) -TD
127 + improve linux-16color entry, using "dim" for color-8 which makes it
128 gray rather than black like color-0 -TD
129 + drop misc/ncu-indent and misc/jpf-indent; they are provided by an
130 external package "cindent".
133 + improve linkages in html manpages, adding references to the newer
134 pages, e.g., *_variables, curs_sp_funcs, curs_threads.
135 + add checks in tic for inconsistent cursor-movement controls, and for
136 inconsistent printer-controls.
137 + fill in no-parameter forms of cursor-movement where a parameterized
138 form is available -TD
139 + fill in missing cursor controls where the form of the controls is
141 + fix inconsistent punctuation in form_variables manpage (patch by
143 + add parameterized cursor-controls to linux-basic (report by Dae) -TD
144 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
145 + document how to build 32-bit libraries in README.MinGW
146 + fixes to filename computation in mk-dlls.sh.in
147 + use POSIX locale in mk-dlls.sh.in rather than en_US (report by Sven
149 + add a check in mk-dlls.sh.in to obtain the size of a pointer to
150 distinguish between 32-bit and 64-bit hosts. The result is stored
154 + add "XT" capability to entries for terminals that support both
155 xterm-style mouse- and title-controls, for "screen" which
156 special-cases TERM beginning with "xterm" or "rxvt" -TD
157 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
158 + use 64-Bit MinGW toolchain (recommended package from TDM, see
160 + support pthreads when using the TDM MinGW toolchain
163 + regenerated html manpages.
164 + minor fixes for symlinks to curs_legacy.3x and curs_slk.3x manpages.
165 + add manpage for sp-funcs.
166 + add sp-funcs to test/listused.sh, for documentation aids.
169 + add manpages for summarizing public variables of curses-, terminfo-
171 + minor fixes to manpages for consistency (patch by Jason McIntyre).
172 + modify tic's -I/-C dump to reformat acsc strings into canonical form
173 (sorted, unique mapping) (cf: 971004).
174 + add configure check for pthread_kill(), needed for some old
178 + add configure option --without-tests, to suppress building test
179 programs (request by Frederic L W Meunier).
182 + modify nsterm, xnuppc and tek4115 to make sgr/sgr0 consistent -TD
183 + add check in terminfo source-reader to provide more informative
184 message when someone attempts to run tic on a compiled terminal
185 description (prompted by Debian #593920).
186 + note in infotocap and captoinfo manpages that they read terminal
187 descriptions from text-files (Debian #593920).
188 + improve acsc string for vt52, show arrow keys (patch by Benjamin
192 + document in manpages that "mv" functions first use wmove() to check
193 the window pointer and whether the position lies within the window
194 (suggested by Poul-Henning Kamp).
195 + fixes to curs_color.3x, curs_kernel.3x and wresize.3x manpages (patch
196 by Tim van der Molen).
197 + modify configure script to transform library names for tic- and
198 tinfo-libraries so that those build properly with Mac OS X shared
199 library configuration.
200 + modify configure script to ensure that it removes conftest.dSYM
201 directory leftover on checks with Mac OS X.
202 + modify configure script to cleanup after check for symbolic links.
205 + correct a typo in mk-1st.awk (patch by Gabriele Balducci)
207 + improve configure checks for location of tic and infocmp programs
208 used for installing database and for generating fallback data,
209 e.g., for cross-compiling.
210 + add Markus Kuhn's wcwidth function for compiling MinGW
211 + add special case to CF_REGEX for cross-compiling to MinGW target.
214 + modify initialization check for win32con driver to eliminate need for
215 special case for TERM "unknown", using terminal database if available
216 (prompted by discussion with Roumen Petrov).
217 + for MinGW port, ensure that terminal driver is setup if tgetent()
218 is called (patch by Roumen Petrov).
219 + document tabs "-0" and "-8" options in manpage.
220 + fix Debian "lintian" issues with manpages reported in
221 http://lintian.debian.org/full/csmall@debian.org.html#ncurses
224 + add a check in tic for missing set_tab if clear_all_tabs given.
225 + improve use of symbolic links in makefiles by using "-f" option if
226 it is supported, to eliminate temporary removal of the target
227 (prompted by http://www.t2-project.org/packages/ncurses.html)
228 + minor improvement to test/ncurses.c, reset color pairs in 'd' test
229 after exit from 'm' main-menu command.
230 + improved ncu-indent, from mawk changes, allows more than one of
231 GCC_NORETURN, GCC_PRINTFLIKE and GCC_SCANFLIKE on a single line.
234 + add hard-reset for rs2 to wsvt25 to help ensure that reset ends
235 the alternate character set (patch by Nicholas Marriott)
236 + remove tar-copy.sh and related configure/Makefile chunks, since the
237 Ada95 binding is now installed using rules in Ada95/src.
240 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
241 + add/use configure check to turn on project rules for Ada95/src.
242 + revert the vfork change from 20100130, since it does not work.
245 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
246 + old gnatmake (3.15) does not produce libraries using project-file;
247 work around by adding script to generate alternate makefile.
250 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
251 + add configure --with-ada-sharedlib option, for the test_make rule.
252 + move Ada95-related logic into aclocal.m4, since additional checks
253 will be needed to distinguish old/new implementations of gnat.
256 + start integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95 tree
257 + add test_make / test_clean / test_install rules in Ada95/src
258 + change install-path for adainclude directory to /usr/share/ada (was
260 + update Ada95/configure.
261 + add mlterm+256color entry, for mlterm 3.0.0 -TD
262 + modify test/configure to use macros to ensure consistent order
263 of updating LIBS variable.
266 + change search order of options for Solaris in CF_SHARED_OPTS, to
267 work with 64-bit compiles.
268 + correct quoting of assignment in CF_SHARED_OPTS case for aix
272 + regenerated html documentation.
273 + modify test/configure to support pkg-config for checking X libraries
275 + add/use configure macro CF_ADD_LIB to force consistency of
276 assignments to $LIBS, etc.
277 + fix configure script for combining --with-pthread
278 and --enable-weak-symbols options.
281 + correct cross-compiling configure check for CF_MKSTEMP macro, by
282 adding a check cache variable set by AC_CHECK_FUNC (report by
284 + simplify include-dependencies of make_hash and make_keys, to reduce
285 the need for setting BUILD_CPPFLAGS in cross-compiling when the
286 build- and target-machines differ.
287 + repair broken-linker configuration by restoring a definition of SP
288 variable to curses.priv.h, and adjusting for cases where sp-funcs
290 + improve configure macro CF_AR_FLAGS, allowing ARFLAGS environment
291 variable to override (prompted by report by Pablo Cazallas).
294 + add configure option --enable-pthreads-eintr to control whether the
295 new EINTR feature is enabled.
296 + modify logic in pthread configuration to allow EINTR to interrupt
297 a read operation in wgetch() (Novell #540571, patch by Werner Fink).
298 + drop mkdirs.sh, use "mkdir -p".
299 + add configure option --disable-libtool-version, to use the
300 "-version-number" feature which was added in libtool 1.5 (report by
301 Peter Haering). The default value for the option uses the newer
302 feature, which makes libraries generated using libtool compatible
303 with the standard builds of ncurses.
304 + updated test/configure to match configure script macros.
305 + fixes for configure script from lynx changes:
306 + improve CF_FIND_LINKAGE logic for the case where a function is
307 found in predefined libraries.
308 + revert part of change to CF_HEADER (cf: 20100424)
311 + correct limit-check in wredrawln, accounting for begy/begx values
312 (patch by David Benjamin).
313 + fix most compiler warnings from clang.
314 + amend build-fix for OpenSolaris, to ensure that a system header is
315 included in curses.h before testing feature symbols, since they
316 may be defined by that route.
319 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
320 + modify configure macro CF_HEADER_PATH to not look for variations in
321 the predefined include directories.
322 + improve configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GCC_WARNINGS to work
323 with gcc 4.x's c89 alias, which gives warning messages for cases
324 where older versions would produce an error.
327 + modify _nc_capcmp() to work with cancelled strings.
328 + correct translation of "^" in _nc_infotocap(), used to transform
329 terminfo to termcap strings
330 + add configure --disable-rpath-hack, to allow disabling the feature
331 which adds rpath options for libraries in unusual places.
332 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by checking if the rpath option for a given
333 directory was already added.
334 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by using ldd to provide a standard list of
335 directories (which will be ignored).
338 + improve win_driver.c handling of mouse:
339 + discard motion events
340 + avoid calling _nc_timed_wait when there is a mouse event
341 + handle 4th and "rightmost" buttons.
342 + quote substitutions in CF_RPATH_HACK_2 configure macro, needed for
343 cases where there are embedded blanks in the rpath option.
346 + add configure check for exctags vs ctags, to work around pkgsrc.
347 + simplify logic in _nc_get_screensize() to make it easier to see how
348 environment variables may override system- and terminfo-values
349 (prompted by discussion with Igor Bujna).
350 + make debug-traces for COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER less verbose.
351 + improve handling of color-pairs embedded in attributes for the
352 extended-colors configuration.
353 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to build link_test with sp-funcs.
354 + build-fixes for OpenSolaris aka Solaris 11, for wide-character
355 configuration as well as for rpath feature in *-config scripts.
358 + refactor CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro, making CF_RPATH_HACK more
360 + improve configure CF_REGEX, similar fixes.
361 + improve configure CF_FIND_LINKAGE, adding add check between system
362 (default) and explicit paths, where we can find the entrypoint in the
364 + add check if Gpm_Open() returns a -2, e.g., for "xterm". This is
365 normally suppressed but can be overridden using $NCURSES_GPM_TERMS.
366 Ensure that Gpm_Close() is called in this case.
369 + rename atari and st52 terminfo entries to atari-old, st52-old, use
370 newer entries from FreeMiNT by Guido Flohr (from patch/report by Alan
374 + modify install-rule for manpages so that *-config manpages will
375 install when building with --srcdir (report by Sven Joachim).
376 + modify CF_DISABLE_LEAKS configure macro so that the --enable-leaks
377 option is not the same as --disable-leaks (GenToo #305889).
378 + modify #define's for build-compiler to suppress cchar_t symbol from
379 compile of make_hash and make_keys, improving cross-compilation of
380 ncursesw (report by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
381 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to replace all occurrences of
382 TPUT in tput.1's manpage (Debian #573597, report/analysis by Anders
386 + generate manpages for the *-config scripts, adapted from help2man
387 (suggested by Sven Joachim).
388 + use va_copy() in _nc_printf_string() to avoid conflicting use of
389 va_list value in _nc_printf_length() (report by Wim Lewis).
392 + add Ada95/configure script, to use in tar-file created by
394 + fix typo in wresize.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
395 + modify screen-bce.XXX entries to exclude ech, since screen's color
396 model does not clear with color for that feature -TD
399 + add make-tar.sh scripts to Ada95 and test subdirectories to help with
400 making those separately distributable.
401 + build-fix for static libraries without dlsym (Debian #556378).
402 + fix a syntax error in man/form_field_opts.3x (patch by Ingo
406 + add several screen-bce.XXX entries -TD
409 + update mrxvt terminfo entry -TD
410 + modify win_driver.c to support mouse single-clicks.
411 + correct name for termlib in ncurses*-config, e.g., if it is renamed
412 to provide a single file for ncurses/ncursesw libraries (patch by
416 + use vfork in test/ditto.c if available (request by Mike Frysinger).
417 + miscellaneous cleanup of manpages.
418 + fix typo in curs_bkgd.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
419 + build-fix for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
422 + for term-driver configuration, ensure that the driver pointer is
423 initialized in setupterm so that terminfo/termcap programs work.
424 + amend fix for Debian #542031 to ensure that wattrset() returns only
425 OK or ERR, rather than the attribute value (report by Miroslav
427 + reorder WINDOWLIST to put WINDOW data after SCREEN pointer, making
428 _nc_screen_of() compatible between normal/wide libraries again (patch
430 + review/fix include-dependencies in modules files (report by Miroslav
434 + modify win_driver.c to initialize acs_map for win32 console, so
435 that line-drawing works.
436 + modify win_driver.c to initialize TERMINAL struct so that programs
437 such as test/lrtest.c and test/ncurses.c which test string
438 capabilities can run.
439 + modify term-driver modules to eliminate forward-reference
443 + modify configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., to use CF_ADD_CFLAGS
444 consistently to add new -D's while removing duplicates.
445 + modify a few configure macros to consistently put new options
446 before older in the list.
447 + add tiparm(), based on review of X/Open Curses Issue 7.
448 + minor documentation cleanup.
449 + update config.guess, config.sub from
450 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
451 (caveat - its maintainer put 2010 copyright date on files dated 2009)
454 + minor improvement to tic's checking of similar SGR's to allow for the
455 most common case of SGR 0.
456 + modify getmouse() to act as its documentation implied, returning on
457 each call the preceding event until none are left. When no more
458 events remain, it will return ERR.
461 + change order of lookup in progs/tput.c, looking for terminfo data
462 first. This fixes a confusion between termcap "sg" and terminfo
463 "sgr" or "sgr0", originally from 990123 changes, but exposed by
464 20091114 fixes for hashing. With this change, only "dl" and "ed" are
465 ambiguous (Mandriva #56272).
468 + add bterm terminfo entry, based on bogl 0.1.18 -TD
469 + minor fix to rxvt+pcfkeys terminfo entry -TD
470 + build-fixes for Ada95 tree for gnat 4.4 "style".
473 + remove old check in mvderwin() which prevented moving a derived
474 window whose origin happened to coincide with its parent's origin
475 (report by Katarina Machalkova).
476 + improve test/ncurses.c to put mouse droppings in the proper window.
477 + update minix terminfo entry -TD
478 + add bw (auto-left-margin) to nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler)
481 + correct transfer of multicolumn characters in multirow
482 field_buffer(), which stopped at the end of the first row due to
483 filling of unused entries in a cchar_t array with nulls.
484 + updated nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler, Emanuele Giaquinta)
485 + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to show wide-character
487 + use strdup() in set_menu_mark(), restore .marklen struct member on
489 + eliminate clause 3 from the UCB copyrights in read_termcap.c and
491 ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change
492 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
493 + replace a malloc in tic.c with strdup, checking for failure (patch by
495 + update config.guess, config.sub from
496 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
499 + correct layout of working window used to extract data in
500 wide-character configured by set_field_buffer (patch by Rafael
502 + improve some limit-checks related to filename length in reading and
503 writing terminfo entries.
504 + ensure that filename is always filled in when attempting to read
505 a terminfo entry, so that infocmp can report the filename (patch
506 by Nicholas Marriott).
509 + modify mk-1st.awk to allow tinfo library to be built when term-driver
511 + add error-check to configure script to ensure that sp-funcs is
512 enabled if term-driver is, since some internal interfaces rely upon
516 + fix case where progs/tput is used while sp-funcs is configure; this
517 requires save/restore of out-character function from _nc_prescreen
518 rather than the SCREEN structure (report by Charles Wilson).
519 + fix typo in man/curs_trace.3x which caused incorrect symbolic links
520 + improved configure macros CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES, CF_PROG_LINT.
524 + updated man/curs_trace.3x
525 + limit hashing for termcap-names to 2-characters (Ubuntu #481740).
526 + change a variable name in lib_newwin.c to make it clearer which
527 value is being freed on error (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
530 + improve test/ncurses.c color-cycling test by reusing attribute-
531 and color-cycling logic from the video-attributes screen.
532 + add ifdef'd with NCURSES_INTEROP_FUNCS experimental bindings in form
533 library which help make it compatible with interop applications
534 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
535 + add configure option --enable-interop, for integrating changes
536 for generic/interop support to form-library by Juergen Pfeifer
539 + modify use of $CC environment variable which is defined by X/Open
540 as a curses feature, to ignore it if it is not a single character
541 (prompted by discussion with Benjamin C W Sittler).
542 + add START_TRACE in slk_init
543 + fix a regression in _nc_ripoffline which made test/ncurses.c not show
544 soft-keys, broken in 20090927 merging.
545 + change initialization of "hidden" flag for soft-keys from true to
546 false, broken in 20090704 merging (Ubuntu #464274).
547 + update nsterm entries (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler, prompted by
548 discussion with Fabian Groffen in GenToo #206201).
549 + add test/xterm-256color.dat
552 + quiet some pedantic gcc warnings.
553 + modify _nc_wgetch() to check for a -1 in the fifo, e.g., after a
554 SIGWINCH, and discard that value, to avoid confusing application
555 (patch by Eygene Ryabinkin, FreeBSD bin/136223).
558 + modify handling of $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR to use only the first item in
559 a possibly colon-separated list (Debian #550716).
562 + supply a null-terminator to buffer in _nc_viswibuf().
563 + fix a sign-extension bug in unget_wch() (report by Mike Gran).
564 + minor fixes to error-returns in default function for tputs, as well
568 + add WACS_xxx definitions to wide-character configuration for thick-
569 and double-lines (discussion with Slava Zanko).
570 + remove unnecessary kcan assignment to ^C from putty (Sven Joachim)
571 + add ccc and initc capabilities to xterm-16color -TD
572 > patch by Benjamin C W Sittler:
574 + correct initc capability of linux-c-nc end-of-range
575 + similar change for dg+ccc and dgunix+ccc
578 + move leak-checking for comp_captab.c into _nc_leaks_tinfo() since
579 that module since 20090711 is in libtinfo.
580 + add configure option --enable-term-driver, to allow compiling with
581 terminal-driver. That is used in MinGW port, and (being somewhat
582 more complicated) is an experimental alternative to the conventional
583 termlib internals. Currently, it requires the sp-funcs feature to
585 + completed integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer in ncurses
586 library (some work remains for forms library).
589 + document return code from define_key (report by Mike Gran).
590 + make some symbolic links in the terminfo directory-tree shorter
591 (patch by Daniel Jacobowitz, forwarded by Sven Joachim).).
592 + fix some groff warnings in terminfo.5, etc., from recent Debian
594 + change ncv and op capabilities in sun-color terminfo entry to match
595 Sun's entry for this (report by Laszlo Peter).
596 + improve interix smso terminfo capability by using reverse rather than
597 bold (report by Kristof Zelechovski).
600 + add some test programs (and make these use the same special keys
601 by sharing linedata.h functions):
605 test/test_add_wchstr.c
606 + correct internal _nc_insert_ch() to use _nc_insert_wch() when
607 inserting wide characters, since the wins_wch() function that it used
608 did not update the cursor position (report by Ciprian Craciun).
611 + fix typo s/is_timeout/is_notimeout/ which made "man is_notimeout" not
613 + add null-pointer checks to other opaque-functions.
614 + add is_pad() and is_subwin() functions for opaque access to WINDOW
615 (discussion with Mark Dickinson).
616 + correct merge to lib_newterm.c, which broke when sp-funcs was
620 + build-fix for building outside source-tree (report by Sven Joachim).
621 + fix Debian lintian warning for man/tabs.1 by making section number
622 agree with file-suffix (report by Sven Joachim).
623 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
626 + workaround for bug in g++ 4.1-4.4 warnings for wattrset() macro on
627 amd64 (Debian #542031).
628 + fix typo in curs_mouse.3x (Debian #429198).
631 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
634 + correct use of terminfo capabilities for initializing soft-keys,
635 broken in 20090509 merging.
636 + modify wgetch() to ensure it checks SIGWINCH when it gets an error
637 in non-blocking mode (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
638 + use PATH_SEPARATOR symbol when substituting into run_tic.sh, to
639 help with builds on non-Unix platforms such as OS/2 EMX.
640 + modify scripting for misc/run_tic.sh to test configure script's
641 $cross_compiling variable directly rather than comparing host/build
642 compiler names (prompted by comment in GenToo #249363).
643 + fix configure script option --with-database, which was coded as an
645 + build-fixes for --srcdir (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
648 + separate _nc_find_entry() and _nc_find_type_entry() from
649 implementation details of hash function.
652 + add tabs.1 to man/man_db.renames
653 + modify lib_addch.c to compensate for removal of wide-character test
654 from unctrl() in 20090704 (Debian #539735).
657 + improve discussion in INSTALL for use of system's tic/infocmp for
658 cross-compiling and building fallbacks.
659 + modify test/demo_termcap.c to correspond better to options in
661 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
662 + fix logic for 'V' in test/ncurses.c tests f/F.
665 + correct logic in tigetnum(), which caused tput program to treat all
666 string capabilities as numeric (report by Rajeev V Pillai,
670 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
673 + fix a null-pointer check in _nc_format_slks() in lib_slk.c, from
675 + modify _nc_find_type_entry() to use hashing.
676 + make CCHARW_MAX value configurable, noting that changing this would
677 change the size of cchar_t, and would be ABI-incompatible.
678 + modify test-programs, e.g,. test/view.c, to address subtle
679 differences between Tru64/Solaris and HPUX/AIX getcchar() return
681 + modify length returned by getcchar() to count the trailing null
682 which is documented in X/Open (cf: 20020427).
683 + fixes for test programs to build/work on HPUX and AIX, etc.
686 + improve performance of tigetstr, etc., by using hashing code from tic.
687 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking.
688 + add test/demo_terminfo, for comparison with demo_termcap
691 + remove wide-character checks from unctrl() (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
692 + revise wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to eliminate dependency on
694 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
697 + update llib-lncurses[wt] to use sp-funcs.
698 + various code-fixes to build/work with --disable-macros configure
700 + add several new files from Juergen Pfeifer which will be used when
701 integration of "sp-funcs" is complete. This includes a port to
705 + move definition for NCURSES_WRAPPED_VAR back to ncurses_dll.h, to
706 make includes of term.h without curses.h work (report by "Nix").
707 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
710 + fix a regression in lib_tputs.c, from ongoing merges.
713 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
716 + fix an infinite recursion when adding a legacy-coding 8-bit value
717 using insch() (report by Clemens Ladisch).
718 + free home-terminfo string in del_curterm() (patch by Dan Weber).
719 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
722 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
725 + work around antique BSD game's manipulation of stdscr, etc., versus
726 SCREEN's copy of the pointer (Debian #528411).
727 + add a cast to wattrset macro to avoid compiler warning when comparing
728 its result against ERR (adapted from patch by Matt Kraii, Debian
732 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
735 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
736 + add vwmterm terminfo entry (patch by Bryan Christ).
739 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
742 + build fix for _nc_free_and_exit() change in 20090418 (report by
746 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
749 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
750 This change finishes merging for menu and panel libraries, does
751 part of the form library.
754 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
755 Darwin (report by Nelson Beebe).
758 + extend ansi.sys pfkey capability from kf1-kf10 to kf1-kf48, moving
759 function key definitions from emx-base for consistency -TD
760 + correct missing final 'p' in pfkey capability of ansi.sys-old (report
761 by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo).
762 + improve test/ncurses.c 'F' test, show combining characters in color.
763 + quiet a false report by cppcheck in c++/cursesw.cc by eliminating
764 a temporary variable.
765 + use _nc_doalloc() rather than realloc() in a few places in ncurses
766 library to avoid leak in out-of-memory condition (reports by William
767 Egert and Martin Ettl based on cppcheck tool).
768 + add --with-ncurses-wrap-prefix option to test/configure (discussion
769 with Charles Wilson).
770 + use ncurses*-config scripts if available for test/configure.
771 + update test/aclocal.m4 and test/configure
772 > patches by Charles Wilson:
773 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL configure check to allow unreleased libtool
774 version numbers (e.g. which include alphabetic chars, as well as
775 digits, after the final '.').
776 + improve use of -no-undefined option for libtool by setting an
777 intermediate variable LT_UNDEF in the configure script, and then
778 using that in the libtool link-commands.
779 + fix an missing use of NCURSES_PUBLIC_VAR() in tinfo/MKcodes.awk
780 from 2009031 changes.
781 + improve mk-1st.awk script by writing separate cases for the
782 LIBTOOL_LINK command, depending on which library (ncurses, ticlib,
783 termlib) is to be linked.
784 + modify configure.in to allow broken-linker configurations, not just
785 enable-reentrant, to set public wrap prefix.
788 + add TICS_LIST and SHLIB_LIST to allow libtool 2.2.6 on Cygwin to
789 build with tic and term libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
790 + add -no-undefined option to libtool for Cygwin, MinGW, U/Win and AIX
791 (report by Charles Wilson).
792 + fix definition for c++/Makefile.in's SHLIB_LIST, which did not list
793 the form, menu or panel libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
794 + add configure option --with-wrap-prefix to allow setting the prefix
795 for functions used to wrap global variables to something other than
796 "_nc_" (discussion with Charles Wilson).
799 + modify scripts to generate ncurses*-config and pc-files to add
800 dependency for tinfo library (patch by Charles Wilson).
801 + improve comparison of program-names when checking for linked flavors
802 such as "reset" by ignoring the executable suffix (reports by Charles
803 Wilson, Samuel Thibault and Cedric Bretaudeau on Cygwin mailing
805 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
806 Solaris 10, since gcc is confused by absence of static libc, and
807 does not switch back to dynamic mode before finishing the libraries
808 (reports by Joel Bertrand, Alan Pae).
809 + minor fixes to Intel compiler warning checks in configure script.
810 + modify _nc_leaks_tinfo() so leak-checking in test/railroad.c works.
811 + modify set_curterm() to make broken-linker configuration work with
812 changes from 20090228 (report by Charles Wilson).
815 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
816 + modify declaration of cur_term when broken-linker is used, but
817 enable-reentrant is not, to match pre-5.7 (report by Charles Wilson).
820 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
823 + add configure script --enable-sp-funcs to enable the new set of
825 + start integrating patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
826 + add extended functions which specify the SCREEN pointer for several
827 curses functions which use the global SP (these are incomplete;
828 some internals work is needed to complete these).
829 + add special cases to configure script for MinGW port.
832 + update several configure macros from lynx changes
833 + append (not prepend) to CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS
834 + change variable from PATHSEP to PATH_SEPARATOR
835 + improve install-rules for pc-files (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
836 + make it work with $DESTDIR
837 + create the pkg-config library directory if needed.
840 + modify init_pair() to allow caller to create extra color pairs beyond
841 the color_pairs limit, which use default colors (request by Emanuele
843 + add misc/terminfo.tmp and misc/*.pc to "sources" rule.
844 + fix typo "==" where "=" is needed in ncurses-config.in and
845 gen-pkgconfig.in files (Debian #512161).
848 + add -shared option to MK_SHARED_LIB when -Bsharable is used, for
849 *BSD's, without which "main" might be one of the shared library's
850 dependencies (report/analysis by Ken Dickey).
851 + modify waddch_literal(), updating line-pointer after a multicolumn
852 character is found to not fit on the current row, and wrapping is
853 done. Since the line-pointer was not updated, the wrapped
854 multicolumn character was written to the beginning of the current row
855 (cf: 20041023, reported by "Nick" regarding problem with ncmpc
856 http://musicpd.org/mantis/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1930).
859 + add screen.Eterm terminfo entry (GenToo #124887) -TD
860 + modify adacurses-config to look for ".ali" files in the adalib
862 + correct install for Ada95, which omitted libAdaCurses.a used in
864 + change install for adacurses-config to provide additional flavors
865 such as adacursesw-config, for ncursesw (GenToo #167849).
868 + remove undeveloped feature in ncurses-config.in for setting
870 + recent change to ncurses-config.in did not take into account the
871 --disable-overwrite option, which sets $includedir to the
872 subdirectory and using just that for a -I option does not work - fix
873 (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
876 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to eliminate a dependency on rpath when
877 deciding whether to add $LIBS to --libs output; that should be shown
878 for the ncurses and tinfo libraries without taking rpath into
880 + fix an overlooked change from $AR_OPTS to $ARFLAGS in mk-1st.awk,
881 used in static libraries (report by Marty Jack).
884 + add a configure-time check to pick a suitable value for
885 CC_SHARED_OPTS for Solaris (report by Dagobert Michelsen).
886 + add configure --with-pkg-config and --enable-pc-files options, along
887 with misc/gen-pkgconfig.in which can be used to generate ".pc" files
888 for pkg-config (request by Jan Engelhardt).
889 + use $includedir symbol in misc/ncurses-config.in, add --includedir
891 + change makefiles to use $ARFLAGS rather than $AR_OPTS, provide a
892 configure check to detect whether a "-" is needed before "ar"
894 + update config.guess, config.sub from
895 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
898 + modify mk-1st.awk to work with extra categories for tinfo library.
899 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries with gcc
900 on AIX 5 or 6 (adapted from patch by Lital Natan).
903 + modify to omit the opaque-functions from lib_gen.o when
904 --disable-ext-funcs is used.
905 + add test/clip_printw.c to illustrate how to use printw without
907 + modify ncurses 'F' test to demo wborder_set() with colored lines.
908 + modify ncurses 'f' test to demo wborder() with colored lines.
911 + add check for failure to open hashed-database needed for db4.6
913 + corrected --without-manpages option; previous change only suppressed
914 the auxiliary rules install.man and uninstall.man
915 + add case for FreeMINT to configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE (patch from
917 + fixes from NetBSD port at
918 http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/devel/ncurses/patches
919 patch-ac (build-fix for DragonFly)
920 patch-ae (use INSTALL_SCRIPT for installing misc/ncurses*-config).
921 + improve configure script macros CF_HEADER_PATH and CF_LIBRARY_PATH
922 by adding CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS, LIBS values to the
924 + correct title string for keybound manpage (patch by Frederic Culot,
925 OpenBSD documentation/6019),
928 + move del_curterm() call from _nc_freeall() to _nc_leaks_tinfo() to
929 work for progs/clear, progs/tabs, etc.
930 + correct buffer-size after internal resizing of wide-character
931 set_field_buffer(), broken in 20081018 changes (report by Mike Gran).
932 + add "-i" option to test/filter.c to tell it to use initscr() rather
933 than newterm(), to investigate report on comp.unix.programmer that
934 ncurses would clear the screen in that case (it does not - the issue
935 was xterm's alternate screen feature).
936 + add check in mouse-driver to disable connection if GPM returns a
937 zero, indicating that the connection is closed (Debian #506717,
938 adapted from patch by Samuel Thibault).
941 + improve a workaround in adding wide-characters, when a control
942 character is found. The library (cf: 20040207) uses unctrl() to
943 obtain a printable version of the control character, but was not
944 passing color or video attributes.
945 + improve test/ncurses.c 'a' test, using unctrl() more consistently to
946 display meta-characters.
947 + turn on _XOPEN_CURSES definition in curses.h
948 + add eterm-color entry (report by Vincent Lefevre) -TD
949 + correct use of key_name() in test/ncurses.c 'A' test, which only
950 displays wide-characters, not key-codes since 20070612 (report by
954 + change _nc_has_mouse() to has_mouse(), reflect its use in C++ and
955 Ada95 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
956 + document in TO-DO an issue with Cygwin's package for GNAT (report
958 + improve error-checking of command-line options in "tabs" program.
961 + change several terminfo entries to make consistent use of ANSI
963 + add "tabs" program (prompted by Debian #502260).
964 + add configure --without-manpages option (request by Mike Frysinger).
966 20081102 5.7 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
969 + add a manpage to discuss memory leaks.
970 + add support for shared libraries for QNX (other than libtool, which
971 does not work well on that platform).
972 + build-fix for QNX C++ binding.
975 + build-fixes for OS/2 EMX.
976 + modify form library to accept control characters such as newline
977 in set_field_buffer(), which is compatible with Solaris (report by
979 + modify configure script to assume --without-hashed-db when
980 --disable-database is used.
981 + add "-e" option in ncurses/Makefile.in when generating source-files
982 to force earlier exit if the build environment fails unexpectedly
983 (prompted by patch by Adrian Bunk).
984 + change configure script to use CF_UTF8_LIB, improved variant of
988 + add teraterm4.59 terminfo entry, use that as primary teraterm entry, rename
989 original to teraterm2.3 -TD
990 + update "gnome" terminfo to 2.22.3 -TD
991 + update "konsole" terminfo to 1.6.6, needs today's fix for tic -TD
992 + add "aterm" terminfo -TD
993 + add "linux2.6.26" terminfo -TD
994 + add logic to tic for cancelling strings in user-defined capabilities,
998 + regenerated html documentation.
999 + add -m and -s options to test/keynames.c and test/key_names.c to test
1000 the meta() function with keyname() or key_name(), respectively.
1001 + correct return value of key_name() on error; it is null.
1002 + document some unresolved issues for rpath and pthreads in TO-DO.
1003 + fix a missing prototype for ioctl() on OpenBSD in tset.c
1004 + add configure option --disable-tic-depends to make explicit whether
1005 tic library depends on ncurses/ncursesw library, amends change from
1006 20080823 (prompted by Debian #501421).
1009 + some build-fixes for configure --disable-ext-funcs (incomplete, but
1010 works for C/C++ parts).
1011 + improve configure-check for awks unable to handle large strings, e.g.
1012 AIX 5.1 whose awk silently gives up on large printf's.
1015 + fix build for --with-dmalloc by workaround for redefinition of
1016 strndup between string.h and dmalloc.h
1017 + fix build for --disable-sigwinch
1018 + add environment variable NCURSES_GPM_TERMS to allow override to use
1019 GPM on terminals other than "linux", etc.
1020 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM does not happen to contain
1021 "linux", since Gpm_Open() no longer limits its assertion to terminals
1022 that it might handle, e.g., within "screen" in xterm.
1023 + reset mouse file-descriptor when unloading GPM library (report by
1025 + fix build for --disable-leaks --enable-widec --with-termlib
1026 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
1027 + use improved initialization for soft-label keys in Ada95 sample code.
1028 + discard internal symbol _nc_slk_format (unused since 20080112).
1029 + move call of slk_paint_info() from _nc_slk_initialize() to
1030 slk_intern_refresh(), improving initialization.
1033 + fix bug in mouse code for GPM from 20080920 changes (reported in
1034 Debian #500103, also Miroslav Lichvar).
1037 + fix shared-library rules for cygwin with tic- and tinfo-libraries.
1038 + fix a memory leak when failure to connect to GPM.
1039 + correct check for notimeout() in wgetch() (report on linux.redhat
1040 newsgroup by FurtiveBertie).
1041 + add an example warning-suppression file for valgrind,
1042 misc/ncurses.supp (based on example from Reuben Thomas)
1045 + change shared-library configuration for OpenBSD, make rpath work.
1046 + build-fixes for using libutf8, e.g., on OpenBSD 3.7
1049 + corrected fix for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
1053 + corrected gcc options for building shared libraries on IRIX64.
1054 + add configure check for awk programs unable to handle big-strings,
1055 use that to improve the default for --enable-big-strings option.
1056 + makefile-fixes for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
1058 + update test/configure script.
1059 + adapt ifdef's from library to make test/view.c build when mbrtowc()
1060 is unavailable, e.g., with HPUX 10.20.
1061 + add configure check for wcsrtombs, mbsrtowcs, which are used in
1062 test/ncurses.c, and use wcstombs, mbstowcs instead if available,
1063 fixing build of ncursew for HPUX 11.00
1066 + fixes to make Ada95 demo_panels() example work.
1067 + modify Ada95 'rain' test program to accept keyboard commands like the
1069 + modify BeOS-specific ifdef's to build on Haiku (patch by Scott
1071 + add configure-check to see if the std namespace is legal for cerr
1072 and endl, to fix a build issue with Tru64.
1073 + consistently use NCURSES_BOOL in lib_gen.c
1074 + filter #line's from lib_gen.c
1075 + change delimiter in MKlib_gen.sh from '%' to '@', to avoid
1076 substitution by IBM xlc to '#' as part of its extensions to digraphs.
1077 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1078 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
1079 (caveat - its maintainer removed support for older Linux systems).
1082 + modify configure check for pthread library to work with OSF/1 5.1,
1083 which uses #define's to associate its header and library.
1084 + use pthread_mutexattr_init() for initializing pthread_mutexattr_t,
1085 makes threaded code work on HPUX 11.23
1086 + fix a bug in demo_menus in freeing menus (cf: 20080804).
1087 + modify configure script for the case where tic library is used (and
1088 possibly renamed) to remove its dependency upon ncurses/ncursew
1089 library (patch by Dr Werner Fink).
1090 + correct manpage for menu_fore() which gave wrong default for
1091 the attribute used to display a selected entry (report by Mike Gran).
1092 + add Eterm-256color, Eterm-88color and rxvt-88color (prompted by
1096 + add configure option --enable-weak-symbols to turn on new feature.
1097 + add configure-check for availability of weak symbols.
1098 + modify linkage with pthread library to use weak symbols so that
1099 applications not linked to that library will not use the mutexes,
1100 etc. This relies on gcc, and may be platform-specific (patch by Dr
1102 + add note to INSTALL to document limitation of renaming of tic library
1103 using the --with-ticlib configure option (report by Dr Werner Fink).
1104 + document (in manpage) why tputs does not detect I/O errors (prompted
1105 by comments by Samuel Thibault).
1106 + fix remaining warnings from Klocwork report.
1109 + modify _nc_panelhook() data to account for a permanent memory leak.
1110 + fix memory leaks in test/demo_menus
1111 + fix most warnings from Klocwork tool (report by Larry Zhou).
1112 + modify configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to add case for
1113 "dragonfly" from xterm #236 changes.
1114 + modify configure script --with-hashed-db to let $LIBS override the
1115 search for the db library (prompted by report by Samson Pierre).
1118 + build-fixes for gcc 4.3.1 (changes to gnat "warnings", and C inlining
1122 + build-fix (reports by Christian Ebert, Funda Wang).
1125 + compiler-warning fixes for Solaris.
1128 + use NCURSES_MOUSE_MASK() in definition of BUTTON_RELEASE(), etc., to
1129 make those work properly with the "--enable-ext-mouse" configuration
1131 + improve documentation of build-cc options in INSTALL.
1132 + work-around a bug in gcc 4.2.4 on AIX, which does not pass the
1133 -static/-dynamic flags properly to linker, causing test/bs to
1137 + correct some ifdef's needed for the broken-linker configuration.
1138 + make debugging library's $BAUDRATE feature work for termcap
1140 + make $NCURSES_NO_PADDING feature work for termcap interface (prompted
1141 by comment on FreeBSD mailing list).
1142 + add screen.mlterm terminfo entry -TD
1143 + improve mlterm and mlterm+pcfkeys terminfo entries -TD
1146 + regenerated html documentation.
1147 + expand manpage description of parameters for form_driver() and
1148 menu_driver() (prompted by discussion with Adam Spragg).
1149 + add null-pointer checks for cur_term in baudrate() and
1150 def_shell_mode(), def_prog_mode()
1151 + fix some memory leaks in delscreen() and wide acs.
1154 + modify test/ditto.c to illustrate multi-threaded use_screen().
1155 + change CC_SHARED_OPTS from -KPIC to -xcode=pic32 for Solaris.
1156 + add "-shared" option to MK_SHARED_LIB for gcc on Solaris (report
1160 + finish changes to wgetch(), making it switch as needed to the
1161 window's actual screen when calling wrefresh() and wgetnstr(). That
1162 allows wgetch() to get used concurrently in different threads with
1163 some minor restrictions, e.g., the application should not delete a
1164 window which is being used in a wgetch().
1165 + simplify mutex's, combining the window- and screen-mutex's.
1168 + modify wgetch() to use the screen which corresponds to its window
1169 parameter rather than relying on SP; some dependent functions still
1171 + factor out most use of SP in lib_mouse.c, using parameter.
1172 + add internal _nc_keyname(), replacing keyname() to associate with a
1173 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
1174 + add internal _nc_unctrl(), replacing unctrl() to associate with a
1175 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
1176 + add internal _nc_tracemouse(), replacing _tracemouse() to eliminate
1177 its associated global buffer _nc_globals.tracemse_buf now in SCREEN.
1178 + add internal _nc_tracechar(), replacing _tracechar() to use SCREEN in
1179 preference to the global _nc_globals.tracechr_buf buffer.
1182 + modify _nc_keypad() to make it switch temporarily as needed to the
1183 screen which must be updated.
1184 + wrap cur_term variable to help make _nc_keymap() thread-safe, and
1185 always set the screen's copy of this variable in set_curterm().
1186 + restore curs_set() state after endwin()/refresh() (report/patch
1190 + modify configure script to note that --enable-ext-colors and
1191 --enable-ext-mouse are not experimental, but extensions from
1193 + corrected manpage description of setcchar() (discussion with
1194 Emanuele Giaquinta).
1195 + fix for adding a non-spacing character at the beginning of a line
1196 (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
1199 + modify screen.* terminfo entries using new screen+fkeys to fix
1200 overridden keys in screen.rxvt (Debian #478094) -TD
1201 + modify internal interfaces to reduce wgetch()'s dependency on the
1203 + simplify some loops with macros each_screen(), each_window() and
1207 + continue modifying test/ditto.c toward making it demonstrate
1208 multithreaded use_screen(), using fifos to pass data between screens.
1209 + fix typo in form.3x (report by Mike Gran).
1212 + add screen.rxvt terminfo entry -TD
1213 + modify tic -f option to format spaces as \s to prevent them from
1214 being lost when that is read back in unformatted strings.
1215 + improve test/ditto.c, using a "talk"-style layout.
1218 + change test/ditto.c to use openpty() and xterm.
1219 + add locks for copywin(), dupwin(), overlap(), overlay() on their
1221 + add locks for initscr() and newterm() on updates to the SCREEN
1223 + finish table in curs_thread.3x manpage.
1226 + begin table in curs_thread.3x manpage describing the scope of data
1227 used by each function (or symbol) for threading analysis.
1228 + add null-pointer checks to setsyx() and getsyx() (prompted by
1229 discussion by Martin v. Lowis and Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven on
1230 python-dev2 mailing list).
1233 + add null-pointer checks in set_term() and delscreen().
1234 + move _nc_windows into _nc_globals, since windows can be pads, which
1235 are not associated with a particular screen.
1236 + change use_screen() to pass the SCREEN* parameter rather than
1237 stdscr to the callback function.
1238 + force libtool to use tag for 'CC' in case it does not detect this,
1239 e.g., on aix when using CC=powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0-gcc
1240 (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
1241 + override OBJEXT to "lo" when building with libtool, to work on
1242 platforms such as AIX where libtool may use a different suffix for
1243 the object files than ".o" (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
1244 + add configure --with-pthread option, for building with the POSIX
1248 + fill in extended-color pair two more places in wbkgrndset() and
1249 waddch_nosync() (prompted by Sedeno's patch).
1250 + fill in extended-color pair in _nc_build_wch() to make colors work
1251 for wide-characters using extended-colors (patch by Alejandro R
1253 + add x/X toggles to ncurses.c C color test to test/demo
1254 wide-characters with extended-colors.
1255 + add a/A toggles to ncurses.c c/C color tests.
1256 + modify test/ditto.c to use use_screen().
1257 + finish modifying test/rain.c to demonstrate threads.
1260 + start modifying test/rain.c for threading demo.
1261 + modify test/ncurses.c to make 'f' test accept the f/F/b/F/</> toggles
1262 that the 'F' accepts.
1263 + modify test/worm.c to show trail in reverse-video when other threads
1264 are working concurrently.
1265 + fix a deadlock from improper nesting of mutexes for windowlist and
1269 + fixes from 20080223 resolved issue with mutexes; change to use
1270 recursive mutexes to fix memory leak in delwin() as called from
1271 _nc_free_and_exit().
1274 + fix a size-difference in _nc_globals which caused hanging of mutex
1275 lock/unlock when termlib was built separately.
1278 + avoid using nanosleep() in threaded configuration since that often
1279 is implemented to suspend the entire process.
1282 + update test programs to build/work with various UNIX curses for
1283 comparisons. This was to reinvestigate statement in X/Open curses
1284 that insnstr and winsnstr perform wrapping. None of the Unix-branded
1285 implementations do this, as noted in manpage (cf: 20040228).
1288 + modify _nc_setupscreen() to set the legacy-coding value the same
1289 for both narrow/wide models. It had been set only for wide model,
1290 but is needed to make unctrl() work with locale in the narrow model.
1291 + improve waddch() and winsch() handling of EILSEQ from mbrtowc() by
1292 using unctrl() to display illegal bytes rather than trying to append
1293 further bytes to make up a valid sequence (reported by Andrey A
1295 + modify unctrl() to check codes in 128-255 range versus isprint().
1296 If they are not printable, and locale was set, use a "M-" or "~"
1300 + improve threading in test/worm.c (wrap refresh calls, and KEY_RESIZE
1301 handling). Now it hangs in napms(), no matter whether nanosleep()
1302 or poll() or select() are used on Linux.
1305 + fixes to build with --disable-ext-funcs
1306 + add manpage for use_window and use_screen.
1307 + add set_tabsize() and set_escdelay() functions.
1310 + remove recursive-mutex definitions, finish threading demo for worm.c
1311 + remove a redundant adjustment of lines in resizeterm.c's
1312 adjust_window() which caused occasional misadjustment of stdscr when
1316 + several improvements to terminfo entries based on xterm #230 -TD
1317 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle keyname/key_name prototypes, so the
1318 "link_test" builds properly.
1319 + fix for toe command-line options -u/-U to ensure filename is given.
1320 + fix allocation-size for command-line parsing in infocmp from 20070728
1321 (report by Miroslav Lichvar)
1322 + improve resizeterm() by moving ripped-off lines, and repainting the
1323 soft-keys (report by Katarina Machalkova)
1324 + add clarification in wclear's manpage noting that the screen will be
1325 cleared even if a subwindow is cleared (prompted by Christer Enfors
1327 + change test/ncurses.c soft-key tests to work with KEY_RESIZE.
1330 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
1334 + add several functions to C++ binding which wrap C functions that
1335 pass a WINDOW* parameter (request by Chris Lee).
1338 + add note about configure options needed for Berkeley database to the
1340 + improve checks for version of Berkeley database libraries.
1341 + amend fix for rpath to not modify LDFLAGS if the platform has no
1342 applicable transformation (report by Christian Ebert, cf: 20071124).
1345 + modify configure option --with-hashed-db to accept a parameter which
1346 is the install-prefix of a given Berkeley Database (prompted by
1347 pierre4d2 comments).
1348 + rewrite wrapper for wcrtomb(), making it work on Solaris. This is
1349 used in the form library to determine the length of the buffer needed
1350 by field_buffer (report by Alfred Fung).
1351 + remove unneeded window-parameter from C++ binding for wresize (report
1355 + modify the support for filesystems which do not support mixed-case to
1356 generate 2-character (hexadecimal) codes for the lower-level of the
1357 filesystem terminfo database (request by Michail Vidiassov).
1358 + add configure option --enable-mixed-case, to allow overriding the
1359 configure script's check if the filesystem supports mixed-case
1361 + add wresize() to C++ binding (request by Chris Lee).
1362 + define NCURSES_EXT_FUNCS and NCURSES_EXT_COLORS in curses.h to make
1363 it simpler to tell if the extended functions and/or colors are
1367 + update memory-leak checks for changes to names.c and codes.c
1368 + correct acsc strings in h19, z100 (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler).
1371 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
1373 + add mrxvt terminfo entry, add/fix xterm building blocks for modified
1375 + compile with FreeBSD "contemporary" TTY interface (patch by
1379 + modify makefile rules to allow clear, tput and tset to be built
1380 without libtic. The other programs (infocmp, tic and toe) rely on
1382 + add/modify null-pointer checks in several functions for SP and/or
1383 the WINDOW* parameter (report by Thorben Krueger).
1384 + fixes for field_buffer() in formw library (see Redhat Bugzilla
1385 #310071, patches by Miroslav Lichvar).
1386 + improve performance of NCURSES_CHAR_EQ code (patch by Miroslav
1388 + update/improve mlterm and rxvt terminfo entries, e.g., for
1389 the modified cursor- and keypad-keys -TD
1392 + add code to curses.priv.h ifdef'd with NCURSES_CHAR_EQ, which
1393 changes the CharEq() macro to an inline function to allow comparing
1394 cchar_t struct's without comparing gaps in a possibly unpacked
1395 memory layout (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
1398 + add new functions to lib_trace.c to setup mutex's for the _tracef()
1399 calls within the ncurses library.
1400 + for the reentrant model, move _nc_tputs_trace and _nc_outchars into
1402 + start modifying test/worm.c to provide threading demo (incomplete).
1403 + separated ifdef's for some BSD-related symbols in tset.c, to make
1404 it compile on LynxOS (report by Greg Gemmer).
1406 + modify Ada95/gen/Makefile to use shlib script, to simplify building
1407 shared-library configuration on platforms lacking rpath support.
1408 + build-fix for Ada95/src/Makefile to reflect changed dependency for
1409 the terminal-interface-curses-aux.adb file which is now generated.
1410 + restructuring test/worm.c, for use_window() example.
1413 + add use_window() and use_screen() functions, to develop into support
1414 for threaded library (incomplete).
1415 + fix typos in man/curs_opaque.3x which kept the install script from
1416 creating symbolic links to two aliases created in 20070818 (report by
1420 + remove a spurious newline from output of html.m4, which caused links
1421 for Ada95 html to be incorrect for the files generated using m4.
1422 + start investigating mutex's for SCREEN manipulation (incomplete).
1423 + minor cleanup of codes.c/names.c for --enable-const
1424 + expand/revise "Routine and Argument Names" section of ncurses manpage
1425 to address report by David Givens in newsgroup discussion.
1426 + fix interaction between --without-progs/--with-termcap configure
1427 options (report by Michail Vidiassov).
1428 + fix typo in "--disable-relink" option (report by Michail Vidiassov).
1431 + fix a sign-extension bug in infocmp's repair_acsc() function
1433 + fix old configure script bug which prevented "--disable-warnings"
1434 option from working (patch by Mike Frysinger).
1437 + add 9term terminal description (request by Juhapekka Tolvanen) -TD
1438 + modify comp_hash.c's string output to avoid misinterpreting a null
1439 "\0" followed by a digit.
1440 + modify MKnames.awk and MKcodes.awk to support big-strings.
1441 This only applies to the cases (broken linker, reentrant) where
1442 the corresponding arrays are accessed via wrapper functions.
1443 + split MKnames.awk into two scripts, eliminating the shell redirection
1444 which complicated the make process and also the bogus timestamp file
1445 which was introduced to fix "make -j".
1446 + add test/test_opaque.c, test/test_arrays.c
1447 + add wgetscrreg() and wgetparent() for applications that may need it
1448 when NCURSES_OPAQUE is defined (prompted by Bryan Christ).
1451 + amend treatment of infocmp "-r" option to retain the 1023-byte limit
1452 unless "-T" is given (cf: 981017).
1453 + modify comp_captab.c generation to use big-strings.
1454 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private accessed via
1455 _nc_get_alias_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
1457 + modify configure script to skip Intel compiler in CF_C_INLINE.
1458 + make _nc_info_hash_table and _nc_cap_hash_table private accessed via
1459 _nc_get_hash_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
1463 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private, accessed via
1464 _nc_get_alias_table() since they are used only by parse_entry.c
1465 + make _nc_key_names private since it is used only by lib_keyname.c
1466 + add --disable-big-strings configure option to control whether
1467 unctrl.c is generated using the big-string optimization - which may
1468 use strings longer than supported by a given compiler.
1469 + reduce relocation tables for tic, infocmp by changing type of
1470 internal hash tables to short, and make those private symbols.
1471 + eliminate large fixed arrays from progs/infocmp.c
1474 + change winnstr() to stop at the end of the line (cf: 970315).
1475 + add test/test_get_wstr.c
1476 + add test/test_getstr.c
1477 + add test/test_inwstr.c
1478 + add test/test_instr.c
1481 + restore a call to obtain screen-size in _nc_setupterm(), which
1482 is used in tput and other non-screen applications via setupterm()
1483 (Debian #433357, reported by Florent Bayle, Christian Ohm,
1487 + add test/savescreen.c test-program
1488 + add check to trace-file open, if the given name is a directory, add
1489 ".log" to the name and try again.
1490 + add konsole-256color entry -TD
1491 + add extra gcc warning options from xterm.
1492 + minor fixes for ncurses/hashmap test-program.
1493 + modify configure script to quiet c++ build with libtool when the
1494 --disable-echo option is used.
1495 + modify configure script to disable ada95 if libtool is selected,
1496 writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD ports/114493).
1497 + update config.guess, config.sub
1500 + add continuous-move "M" to demo_panels to help test refresh changes.
1501 + improve fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters,
1502 taking into account some split characters on left/right window
1506 + add "widec" row to _tracedump() output to help diagnose remaining
1507 problems with multi-column characters.
1508 + partial fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters
1509 which are partly overwritten (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
1510 + ignore A_CHARTEXT bits in vidattr() and vid_attr(), in case
1511 multi-column extension bits are passed there.
1512 + add setlocale() call to demo_panels.c, needed for wide-characters.
1513 + add some output flags to _nc_trace_ttymode to help diagnose a bug
1514 report by Larry Virden, i.e., ONLCR, OCRNL, ONOCR and ONLRET,
1517 + add test/demo_panels.c
1518 + implement opaque version of setsyx() and getsyx().
1521 + corrected xterm+pcf2 terminfo modifiers for F1-F4, to match xterm
1523 + split-out key_name() from MKkeyname.awk since it now depends upon
1524 wunctrl() which is not in libtinfo (report by Rong-En Fan).
1527 + add test/key_name.c
1528 + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test/inch_wide.c
1529 + update test/configure
1530 + correct formatting of DEL (0x7f) in _nc_vischar().
1531 + null-terminate result of wunctrl().
1532 + add null-pointer check in key_name() (report by Andreas Krennmair,
1536 + adapt mouse-handling code from menu library in form-library
1537 (discussion with Clive Nicolson).
1538 + add a modification of test/dots.c, i.e., test/dots_mvcur.c to
1539 illustrate how to use mvcur().
1540 + modify wide-character flavor of SetAttr() to preserve the
1541 WidecExt() value stored in the .attr field, e.g., in case it
1542 is overwritten by chgat (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
1543 + correct buffer-size for _nc_viswbuf2n() (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
1544 + build-fixes for Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 (patch by Peter O'Gorman).
1547 + modify keyname() to use "^X" form only if meta() has been called, or
1548 if keyname() is called without initializing curses, e.g., via
1549 initscr() or newterm() (prompted by LinuxBase #1604).
1550 + document some portability issues in man/curs_util.3x
1551 + add a shadow copy of TTY buffer to _nc_prescreen to fix applications
1552 broken by moving that data into SCREEN (cf: 20061230).
1555 + add 'O' (wide-character panel test) in ncurses.c to demonstrate a
1556 problem reported by Sadrul H Chowdhury with repainting parts of
1558 + modify slk_init() so that if there are preceding calls to
1559 ripoffline(), those affect the available lines for soft-keys (adapted
1560 from patch by Clive Nicolson).
1561 + document some portability issues in man/curs_getyx.3x
1564 + fix a bug in Ada95/samples/ncurses which caused a variable to
1565 become uninitialized in the "b" test.
1566 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in adahtml rule to account for recent
1567 movement of files, fix a few incorrect manpage references in the
1569 + add Ada95 binding to _nc_freeall() as Curses_Free_All to help with
1571 + correct some functions in Ada95 binding which were using return value
1572 from C where none was returned: idcok(), immedok() and wtimeout().
1573 + amend recent changes for Ada95 binding to make it build with
1574 Cygwin's linker, e.g., with configure options
1575 --enable-broken-linker --with-ticlib
1578 + add a configure check for gcc's options for inlining, use that to
1579 quiet a warning message where gcc's default behavior changed from
1581 + improve warning message when checking if GPM is linked to curses
1582 library by not warning if its use of "wgetch" is via a weak symbol.
1583 + add loader options when building with static libraries to ensure that
1584 an installed shared library for ncurses does not conflict. This is
1585 reported as problem with Tru64, but could affect other platforms
1586 (report Martin Mokrejs, analysis by Tim Mooney).
1587 + fix build on cygwin after recent ticlib/termlib changes, i.e.,
1588 + adjust TINFO_SUFFIX value to work with cygwin's dll naming
1589 + revert a change from 20070303 which commented out dependency of
1590 SHLIB_LIST in form/menu/panel/c++ libraries.
1591 + fix initialization of ripoff stack pointer (cf: 20070421).
1594 + move most static variables into structures _nc_globals and
1595 _nc_prescreen, to simplify storage.
1596 + add/use configure script macro CF_SIG_ATOMIC_T, use the corresponding
1597 type for data manipulated by signal handlers (prompted by comments
1598 in mailing.openbsd.bugs newsgroup).
1599 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to allow one to pass options such as -static
1600 to the libtool create- and link-operations.
1603 + fix whitespace in curs_opaque.3x which caused a spurious ';' in
1604 the installed aliases (report by Peter Santoro).
1605 + fix configure script to not try to generate adacurses-config when
1606 Ada95 tree is not built.
1609 + add man/curs_legacy.3x, man/curs_opaque.3x
1610 + fix acs_map binding for Ada95 when --enable-reentrant is used.
1611 + add adacurses-config to the Ada95 install, based on version from
1612 FreeBSD port, in turn by Juergen Pfeifer in 2000 (prompted by
1613 comment on comp.lang.ada newsgroup).
1614 + fix includes in c++ binding to build with Intel compiler
1616 + update install rule in Ada95 to use mkdirs.sh
1617 > other fixes prompted by inspection for Coverity report:
1618 + modify ifdef's for c++ binding to use try/catch/throw statements
1619 + add a null-pointer check in tack/ansi.c request_cfss()
1620 + fix a memory leak in ncurses/base/wresize.c
1621 + corrected check for valid memu/meml capabilities in
1622 progs/dump_entry.c when handling V_HPUX case.
1623 > fixes based on Coverity report:
1624 + remove dead code in test/bs.c
1625 + remove dead code in test/demo_defkey.c
1626 + remove an unused assignment in progs/infocmp.c
1627 + fix a limit check in tack/ansi.c tools_charset()
1628 + fix tack/ansi.c tools_status() to perform the VT320/VT420
1629 tests in request_cfss(). The function had exited too soon.
1630 + fix a memory leak in tic.c's make_namelist()
1631 + fix a couple of places in tack/output.c which did not check for EOF.
1632 + fix a loop-condition in test/bs.c
1633 + add index checks in lib_color.c for color palettes
1634 + add index checks in progs/dump_entry.c for version_filter() handling
1636 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in copywin()
1637 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in waddchnstr()
1638 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
1639 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c's make_namelist()
1640 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
1641 + add null-pointer checks in test/cardfile.c
1642 + fix a double-free in ncurses/tinfo/trim_sgr0.c
1643 + fix a double-free in ncurses/base/wresize.c
1644 + add try/catch block to c++/cursesmain.cc
1647 + modify Ada95 binding to build with --enable-reentrant by wrapping
1648 global variables (bug: acs_map does not yet work).
1649 + modify Ada95 binding to use the new access-functions, allowing it
1650 to build/run when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
1651 + add access-functions and macros to return properties of the WINDOW
1652 structure, e.g., when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
1653 + improved install-sh's quoting.
1654 + use mkdirs.sh rather than mkinstalldirs, e.g., to use fixes from
1658 + eliminate part of the direct use of WINDOW data from Ada95 interface.
1659 + fix substitutions for termlib filename to make configure option
1660 --enable-reentrant work with --with-termlib.
1661 + change a constructor for NCursesWindow to allow compiling with
1662 NCURSES_OPAQUE set, since we cannot pass a reference to
1666 + ignore --with-chtype=unsigned since unsigned is always added to
1667 the type in curses.h; do the same for --with-mmask-t.
1668 + change warning regarding --enable-ext-colors and wide-character
1669 in the configure script to an error.
1670 + tweak error message in CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to distinguish other programs
1671 such as Darwin's libtool program (report by Michail Vidiassov)
1672 + modify edit_man.sh to allow for multiple substitutions per line.
1673 + set locale in misc/ncurses-config.in since it uses a range
1674 + change permissions libncurses++.a install (report by Michail
1676 + corrected length of temporary buffer in wide-character version
1677 of set_field_buffer() (related to report by Bryan Christ).
1680 + fix mk-1st.awk script install_shlib() function, broken in 20070224
1681 changes for cygwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
1684 + increase size of array in _nc_visbuf2n() to make "tic -v" work
1685 properly in its similar_sgr() function (report/analysis by Peter
1687 + add --enable-reentrant configure option for ongoing changes to
1688 implement a reentrant version of ncurses:
1689 + libraries are suffixed with "t"
1690 + wrap several global variables (curscr, newscr, stdscr, ttytype,
1691 COLORS, COLOR_PAIRS, COLS, ESCDELAY, LINES and TABSIZE) as
1692 functions returning values stored in SCREEN or cur_term.
1693 + move some initialization (LINES, COLS) from lib_setup.c,
1694 i.e., setupterm() to _nc_setupscreen(), i.e., newterm().
1697 + regenerated html documentation.
1698 + add NCURSES_OPAQUE symbol to curses.h, will use to make structs
1699 opaque in selected configurations.
1700 + move the chunk in lib_acs.c which resets acs capabilities when
1701 running on a terminal whose locale interferes with those into
1702 _nc_setupscreen(), so the libtinfo/libtinfow files can be made
1703 identical (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
1704 + do not use configure variable SHLIB_LIBS for building libraries
1705 outside the ncurses directory, since that symbol is customized
1706 only for that directory, and using it introduces an unneeded
1707 dependency on libdl (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
1708 + modify mk-1st.awk so the generated makefile rules for linking or
1709 installing shared libraries do not first remove the library, in
1710 case it is in use, e.g., libncurses.so by /bin/sh (report by Jeff
1712 + revised section "Using NCURSES under XTERM" in ncurses-intro.html
1713 (prompted by newsgroup comment by Nick Guenther).
1716 + change internal return codes of _nc_wgetch() to check for cases
1717 where KEY_CODE_YES should be returned, e.g., if a KEY_RESIZE was
1718 ungetch'd, and read by wget_wch().
1719 + fix static-library build broken in 20070217 changes to remove "-ldl"
1720 (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
1721 + change makefile/scripts for cygwin to allow building termlib.
1722 + use Form_Hook in manpages to match form.h
1723 + use Menu_Hook in manpages, as well as a few places in menu.h
1724 + correct form- and menu-manpages to use specific Field_Options,
1725 Menu_Options and Item_Options types.
1726 + correct prototype for _tracechar() in manpage (cf: 20011229).
1727 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
1730 + fixes for $(TICS_LIST) in ncurses/Makefile (report by Miroslav
1732 + modify relinking of shared libraries to apply only when rpath is
1733 enabled, and add --disable-relink option which can be used to
1734 disable the feature altogether (reports by Michail Vidiassov,
1736 + fix --with-termlib option for wide-character configuration, stripping
1737 the "w" suffix in one place (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
1738 + remove "-ldl" from some library lists to reduce dependencies in
1739 programs (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
1740 + correct description of --enable-signed-char in configure --help
1741 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
1742 + add pattern for GNU/kFreeBSD configuration to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE,
1743 which matches an earlier change to CF_SHARED_OPTS, from xterm #224
1745 + remove "${DESTDIR}" from -install_name option used for linking
1746 shared libraries on Darwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
1749 + add test/inchs.c, test/inch_wide.c, to test win_wchnstr().
1750 + remove libdl from library list for termlib (report by Miroslav
1752 + fix configure.in to allow --without-progs --with-termlib (patch by
1754 + modify win_wchnstr() to ensure that only a base cell is returned
1755 for each multi-column character (prompted by report by Wei Kong
1756 regarding change in mvwin_wch() cf: 20041023).
1759 + modify fix_wchnstr() in form library to strip attributes (and color)
1760 from the cchar_t array (field cells) read from a field's window.
1761 Otherwise, when copying the field cells back to the window, the
1762 associated color overrides the field's background color (report by
1764 + improve tracing for form library, showing created forms, fields, etc.
1765 + ignore --enable-rpath configure option if --with-shared was omitted.
1766 + add _nc_leaks_tinfo(), _nc_free_tic(), _nc_free_tinfo() entrypoints
1767 to allow leak-checking when both tic- and tinfo-libraries are built.
1768 + drop CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC macro from configure script, since C++ binding
1769 no longer relies on it.
1770 + disallow combining configure script options --with-ticlib and
1771 --enable-termcap (report by Rong-En Fan).
1772 + remove tack from ncurses tree.
1775 + fix typo in configure script that broke --with-termlib option
1776 (report by Rong-En Fan).
1779 + improve fix for FreeBSD gnu/98975, to allow for null pointer passed
1780 to tgetent() (report by Rong-en Fan).
1781 + update tack/HISTORY and tack/README to tell how to build it after
1782 it is removed from the ncurses tree.
1783 + fix configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
1784 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
1785 + review/eliminate other original-file artifacts in cursesw.cc, making
1786 its license consistent with ncurses.
1787 + use ncurses vw_scanw() rather than reading into a fixed buffer in
1788 the c++ binding for scanw() methods (prompted by report by Nuno Dias).
1789 + eliminate fixed-buffer vsprintf() calls in c++ binding.
1792 + add _nc_leaks_tic() to separate leak-checking of tic library from
1793 term/ncurses libraries, and thereby eliminate a library dependency.
1794 + fix test/mk-test.awk to ignore blank lines.
1795 + correct paths in include/headers, for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav
1799 + add a break-statement in misc/shlib to ensure that it exits on the
1800 _first_ matched directory (report by Paul Novak).
1801 + add tack/configure, which can be used to build tack outside the
1803 + add --with-ticlib option, to build/install the tic-support functions
1804 in a separate library (suggested by Miroslav Lichvar).
1807 + change MKunctrl.awk to reduce relocation table for unctrl.o
1808 + change MKkeyname.awk to reduce relocation table for keyname.o
1809 (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
1812 + modify configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
1813 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
1814 + modify some modules to allow them to be reentrant if _REENTRANT is
1815 defined: lib_baudrate.c, resizeterm.c (local data only)
1816 + eliminate static data from some modules: add_tries.c, hardscroll.c,
1817 lib_ttyflags.c, lib_twait.c
1818 + improve manpage install to add aliases for the transformed program
1819 names, e.g., from --program-prefix.
1820 + used linklint to verify links in the HTML documentation, made fixes
1821 to manpages as needed.
1822 + fix a typo in curs_mouse.3x (report by William McBrine).
1823 + fix install-rule for ncurses5-config to make the bin-directory.
1826 + modify configure script to omit the tic (terminfo compiler) support
1827 from ncurses library if --without-progs option is given.
1828 + modify install rule for ncurses5-config to do this via "install.libs"
1829 + modify shared-library rules to allow FreeBSD 3.x to use rpath.
1830 + update config.guess, config.sub
1832 20061217 5.6 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1835 + add ifdef's for <wctype.h> for HPUX, which has the corresponding
1836 definitions in <wchar.h>.
1837 + revert the va_copy() change from 20061202, since it was neither
1838 correct nor portable.
1839 + add $(LOCAL_LIBS) definition to progs/Makefile.in, needed for
1841 + ignore wide-acs line-drawing characters that wcwidth() claims are
1842 not one-column. This is a workaround for Solaris' broken locale
1846 + modify configure --with-gpm option to allow it to accept a parameter,
1847 i.e., the name of the dynamic GPM library to load via dlopen()
1848 (requested by Bryan Henderson).
1849 + add configure option --with-valgrind, changes from vile.
1850 + modify configure script AC_TRY_RUN and AC_TRY_LINK checks to use
1851 'return' in preference to 'exit()'.
1854 + change default for --with-develop back to "no".
1855 + add XTABS to tracing of TTY bits.
1856 + updated autoconf patch to ifdef-out the misfeature which declares
1857 exit() for configure tests. This fixes a redefinition warning on
1859 + use ${CC} rather than ${LD} in shared library rules for IRIX64,
1860 Solaris to help ensure that initialization sections are provided for
1861 extra linkage requirements, e.g., of C++ applications (prompted by
1862 comment by Casper Dik in newsgroup).
1863 + rename "$target" in CF_MAN_PAGES to make it easier to distinguish
1864 from the autoconf predefined symbol. There was no conflict,
1865 since "$target" was used only in the generated edit_man.sh file,
1866 but SuSE's rpm package contains a patch.
1869 + update man/term.5 to reflect extended terminfo support and hashed
1870 database configuration.
1871 + updates for test/configure script.
1872 + adapted from SuSE rpm package:
1873 + remove long-obsolete workaround for broken-linker which declared
1875 + improve error recovery in PUTC() macro when wcrtomb() does not
1876 return usable results for an 8-bit character.
1877 + patches from rpm package (SuSE):
1878 + use va_copy() in extra varargs manipulation for tracing version
1880 + use a va_list rather than a null in _nc_freeall()'s call to
1881 _nc_printf_string().
1882 + add some see-also references in manpages to show related
1883 wide-character functions (suggested by Claus Fischer).
1886 + add a check in lib_color.c to ensure caller does not increase COLORS
1887 above max_colors, which is used as an array index (discussion with
1889 + add ifdef's allowing ncurses to be built with tparm() using either
1890 varargs (the existing status), or using a fixed-parameter list (to
1894 + fix redrawing of windows other than stdscr using wredrawln() by
1895 touching the corresponding rows in curscr (discussion with Dan
1898 + add test/echochar.c
1899 + review/cleanup manpage descriptions of error-returns for form- and
1900 menu-libraries (prompted by FreeBSD docs/46196).
1903 + add AUTHORS file -TD
1904 + omit the -D options from output of the new config script --cflags
1905 option (suggested by Ralf S Engelschall).
1906 + make NCURSES_INLINE unconditionally defined in curses.h
1909 + revert change to accommodate bash 3.2, since that breaks other
1910 platforms, e.g., Solaris.
1911 + minor fixes to NEWS file to simplify scripting to obtain list of
1913 + improve some shared-library configure scripting for Linux, FreeBSD
1914 and NetBSD to make "--with-shlib-version" work.
1915 + change configure-script rules for FreeBSD shared libraries to allow
1916 for rpath support in versions past 3.
1917 + use $(DESTDIR) in makefile rules for installing/uninstalling the
1918 package config script (reports/patches by Christian Wiese,
1919 Ralf S Engelschall).
1920 + fix a warning in the configure script for NetBSD 2.0, working around
1921 spurious blanks embedded in its ${MAKEFLAGS} symbol.
1922 + change test/Makefile to simplify installing test programs in a
1923 different directory when --enable-rpath is used.
1926 + work around bug in bash 3.2 by adding extra quotes (Jim Gifford).
1927 + add/install a package config script, e.g., "ncurses5-config" or
1928 "ncursesw5-config", according to configuration options.
1931 + add several GNU Screen terminfo variations with 16- and 256-colors,
1932 and status line (Alain Bench).
1933 + change the way shared libraries (other than libtool) are installed.
1934 Rather than copying the build-tree's libraries, link the shared
1935 objects into the install directory. This makes the --with-rpath
1936 option work except with $(DESTDIR) (cf: 20000930).
1939 + fix ifdef in c++/internal.h for QNX 6.1
1940 + test-compiled with (old) egcs-1.1.2, modified configure script to
1941 not unset the $CXX and related variables which would prevent this.
1942 + fix a few terminfo.src typos exposed by improvments to "-f" option.
1943 + improve infocmp/tic "-f" option formatting.
1946 + make --disable-largefile option work (report by Thomas M Ott).
1947 + updated html documentation.
1948 + add ka2, kb1, kb3, kc2 to vt220-keypad as an extension -TD
1949 + minor improvements to rxvt+pcfkeys -TD
1952 + move static data from lib_mouse.c into SCREEN struct.
1953 + improve ifdef's for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset to work with Mac OS X
1954 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
1955 + modify CF_PATH_SYNTAX to ensure it uses the result from --prefix
1956 option (from lynx changes) -TD
1957 + adapt AC_PROG_EGREP check, noting that this is likely to be another
1958 place aggravated by POSIXLY_CORRECT.
1959 + modify configure check for awk to ensure that it is found (prompted
1960 by report by Christopher Parker).
1964 + add kon, kon2 and jfbterm terminfo entry (request by Till Maas) -TD
1965 + remove invis capability from klone+sgr, mainly used by linux entry,
1966 since it does not really do this -TD
1969 + correct logic in wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not guard
1970 against passing the multi-column attribute into a call on waddch(),
1971 e.g., using data returned by win_wch() (cf: 20041023)
1972 (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
1975 + fix kterm's acsc string -TD
1976 + fix for change to tic/infocmp in 20060819 to ensure no blank is
1977 embedded into a termcap description.
1978 + workaround for 20050806 ifdef's change to allow visbuf.c to compile
1979 when using --with-termlib --with-trace options.
1980 + improve tgetstr() by making the return value point into the user's
1981 buffer, if provided (patch by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat Bugzilla
1983 + correct libraries needed for foldkeys (report by Stanislav Ievlev)
1986 + add terminfo entries for xfce terminal (xfce) and multi gnome
1988 + add test/foldkeys.c
1991 + modify tic and infocmp to avoid writing trailing blanks on terminfo
1992 source output (Debian #378783).
1993 + modify configure script to ensure that if the C compiler is used
1994 rather than the loader in making shared libraries, the $(CFLAGS)
1995 variable is also used (Redhat Bugzilla #199369).
1996 + port hashed-db code to db2 and db3.
1997 + fix a bug in tgetent() from 20060625 and 20060715 changes
1998 (patch/analysis by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat Bugzilla #202480)).
2001 + updated xterm function-keys terminfo to match xterm #216 -TD
2002 + add configure --with-hashed-db option (tested only with FreeBSD 6.0,
2003 e.g., the db 1.8.5 interface).
2006 + modify toe to access termcap data, e.g., via cgetent() functions,
2007 or as a text file if those are not available.
2008 + use _nc_basename() in tset to improve $SHELL check for csh/sh.
2009 + modify _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_termcap_entry() so infocmp,
2010 can access termcap data when the terminfo database is disabled.
2013 + widen the test for xterm kmous a little to allow for other strings
2014 than \E[M, e.g., for xterm-sco functionality in xterm.
2015 + update xterm-related terminfo entries to match xterm patch #216 -TD
2016 + update config.guess, config.sub
2019 + fix for install-rule in Ada95 to add terminal_interface.ads
2020 and terminal_interface.ali (anonymous posting in comp.lang.ada).
2021 + correction to manpage for getcchar() (report by William McBrine).
2023 + modify wchgat() to mark updated cells as changed so a refresh will
2024 repaint those cells (comments by Sadrul H Chowdhury and William
2026 + split up dependency of names.c and codes.c in ncurses/Makefile to
2027 work with parallel make (report/analysis by Joseph S Myers).
2028 + suppress a warning message (which is ignored) for systems without
2029 an ldconfig program (patch by Justin Hibbits).
2030 + modify configure script --disable-symlinks option to allow one to
2031 disable symlink() in tic even when link() does not work (report by
2033 + modify MKfallback.sh to use tic -x when constructing fallback tables
2034 to allow extended capabilities to be retrieved from a fallback entry.
2035 + improve leak-checking logic in tgetent() from 20060625 to ensure that
2036 it does not free the current screen (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
2039 + add a check for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset (NetBSD #33916).
2040 + correct _nc_free_entries() and related functions used for memory leak
2044 + revert a minor change for magic-cookie support from 20060513, which
2045 caused unexpected reset of attributes, e.g., when resizing test/view
2047 + note in clear manpage that the program ignores command-line
2048 parameters (prompted by Debian #371855).
2049 + fixes to make lib_gen.c build properly with changes to the configure
2050 --disable-macros option and NCURSES_NOMACROS (cf: 20060527)
2051 + update/correct several terminfo entries -TD
2052 + add some notes regarding copyright to terminfo.src -TD
2055 + fixes to build Ada95 binding with gnat-4.1.0
2056 + modify read_termtype() so the term_names data is always allocated as
2057 part of the str_table, a better fix for a memory leak (cf: 20030809).
2058 + reduce memory leaks in repeated calls to tgetent() by remembering the
2059 last TERMINAL* value allocated to hold the corresponding data and
2060 freeing that if the tgetent() result buffer is the same as the
2061 previous call (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
2062 + modify tack to test extended capability function-key strings.
2063 + improved gnome terminfo entry (GenToo #122566).
2064 + improved xterm-256color terminfo entry (patch by Alain Bench).
2067 + fix two small memory leaks related to repeated tgetent() calls
2068 with TERM=screen (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
2069 + add --enable-signed-char to simplify Debian package.
2070 + reduce name-pollution in term.h by removing #define's for HAVE_xxx
2072 + correct typo in curs_terminfo.3x (Debian #369168).
2075 + enable the mouse in test/movewindow.c
2076 + improve a limit-check in frm_def.c (John Heasley).
2077 + minor copyright fixes.
2078 + change configure script to produce test/Makefile from data file.
2081 + add a configure option --enable-wgetch-events to enable
2082 NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS, and correct the associated loop-logic in
2083 lib_twait.c (report by Bernd Jendrissek).
2084 + remove include/nomacros.h from build, since the ifdef for
2085 NCURSES_NOMACROS makes that obsolete.
2086 + add entrypoints for some functions which were only provided as macros
2087 to make NCURSES_NOMACROS ifdef work properly: getcurx(), getcury(),
2088 getbegx(), getbegy(), getmaxx(), getmaxy(), getparx() and getpary(),
2090 + provide ifdef for NCURSES_NOMACROS which suppresses most macro
2091 definitions from curses.h, i.e., where a macro is defined to override
2092 a function to improve performance. Allowing a developer to suppress
2093 these definitions can simplify some application (discussion with
2095 + improve description of memu/meml in terminfo manpage.
2098 + if msgr is false, reset video attributes when doing an automargin
2099 wrap to the next line. This makes the ncurses 'k' test work properly
2101 + correct caching of keyname(), which was using only half of its table.
2102 + minor fixes to memory-leak checking.
2103 + make SCREEN._acs_map and SCREEN._screen_acs_map pointers rather than
2104 arrays, making ACS_LEN less visible to applications (suggested by
2106 + move chunk in SCREEN ifdef'd for USE_WIDEC_SUPPORT to the end, so
2107 _screen_acs_map will have the same offset in both ncurses/ncursesw,
2108 making the corresponding tinfo/tinfow libraries binary-compatible
2109 (cf: 20041016, report by Stanislav Ievlev).
2112 + improve debug-tracing for EmitRange().
2113 + change default for --with-develop to "yes". Add NCURSES_NO_HARD_TABS
2114 and NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE environment variables to allow runtime
2115 suppression of the related hard-tabs and xmc-glitch features.
2116 + add ncurses version number to top-level manpages, e.g., ncurses, tic,
2117 infocmp, terminfo as well as form, menu, panel.
2118 + update config.guess, config.sub
2119 + modify ncurses.c to work around a bug in NetBSD 3.0 curses
2120 (field_buffer returning null for a valid field). The 'r' test
2121 appears to not work with that configuration since the new_fieldtype()
2122 function is broken in that implementation.
2125 + add hpterm-color terminfo entry -TD
2126 + fixes to compile test-programs with HPUX 11.23
2129 + add copyright notices to files other than those that are generated,
2130 data or adapted from pdcurses (reports by William McBrine, David
2132 + improve rendering on hpterm by not resetting attributes at the end
2133 of doupdate() if the terminal has the magic-cookie feature (report
2135 + add 256color variants of terminfo entries for programs which are
2136 reported to implement this feature -TD
2139 + fix typo in change to NewChar() macro from 20060311 changes, which
2140 broke tab-expansion (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
2143 + document -U option of tic and infocmp.
2144 + modify tic/infocmp to suppress smacs/rmacs when acsc is suppressed
2145 due to size limit, e.g., converting to termcap format. Also
2146 suppress them if the output format does not contain acsc and it
2147 was not VT100-like, i.e., a one-one mapping (Novell #163715).
2148 + add configure check to ensure that SIGWINCH is defined on platforms
2149 such as OS X which exclude that when _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., are
2150 defined (report by Nicholas Cole)
2153 + modify write_object() to not write coincidental extensions of an
2154 entry made due to it being referenced in a use= clause (report by
2156 + another fix for infocmp -i option, which did not ensure that some
2157 escape sequences had comparable prefixes (report by Alain Bench).
2160 + improve discussion of init/reset in terminfo and tput manpages
2161 (report by Alain Bench).
2162 + use is3 string for a fallback of rs3 in the reset program; it was
2163 using is2 (report by Alain Bench).
2164 + correct logic for infocmp -i option, which did not account for
2165 multiple digits in a parameter (cf: 20040828) (report by Alain
2167 + move _nc_handle_sigwinch() to lib_setup.c to make --with-termlib
2168 option work after 20060114 changes (report by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz).
2169 + add copyright notices to test-programs as needed (report by William
2173 + modify ncurses.c 'F' test to combine the wide-characters with color
2174 and/or video attributes.
2175 + modify test/ncurses to use CTL/Q or ESC consistently for exiting
2176 a test-screen (some commands used 'x' or 'q').
2179 + fix an off-by-one in the scrolling-region change (cf_ 20060311).
2182 + add checks in waddchnstr() and wadd_wchnstr() to stop copying when
2183 a null character is found (report by Igor Bogomazov).
2184 + modify progs/Makefile.in to make "tput init" work properly with
2185 cygwin, i.e., do not pass a ".exe" in the reference string used
2186 in check_aliases (report by Samuel Thibault).
2187 + add some checks to ensure current position is within scrolling
2188 region before scrolling on a new line (report by Dan Gookin).
2189 + change some NewChar() usage to static variables to work around
2190 stack garbage introduced when cchar_t is not packed (Redhat #182024).
2193 + workarounds to build test/movewindow with PDcurses 2.7.
2194 + fix for nsterm-16color entry (patch by Alain Bench).
2195 + correct a typo in infocmp manpage (Debian #354281).
2198 + add nsterm-16color entry -TD
2199 + updated mlterm terminfo entry -TD
2200 + remove 970913 feature for copying subwindows as they are moved in
2201 mvwin() (discussion with Bryan Christ).
2202 + modify test/demo_menus.c to demonstrate moving a menu (both the
2203 window and subwindow) using shifted cursor-keys.
2204 + start implementing recursive mvwin() in movewindow.c (incomplete).
2205 + add a fallback definition for GCC_PRINTFLIKE() in test.priv.h,
2206 for movewindow.c (report by William McBrine).
2207 + add help-message to test/movewindow.c
2210 + add test/movewindow.c, to test mvderwin().
2211 + fix ncurses soft-key test so color changes are shown immediately
2212 rather than delayed.
2213 + modify ncurses soft-key test to hide the keys when exiting the test
2215 + fixes to build test programs with PDCurses 2.7, e.g., its headers
2216 rely on autoconf symbols, and it declares stubs for nonfunctional
2217 terminfo and termcap entrypoints.
2220 + improved test/configure to build test/ncurses on HPUX 11 using the
2222 + documented ALTERNATE CONFIGURATIONS in the ncurses manpage, for the
2223 benefit of developers who do not read INSTALL.
2226 + correct form library Window_To_Buffer() change (cf: 20040516), which
2227 should ignore the video attributes (report by Ricardo Cantu).
2230 + minor fixes to xmc-glitch experimental code:
2231 + suppress line-drawing
2232 + implement max_attributes
2234 + minor fixes for the database iterator.
2235 + fix some buffer limits in c++ demo (comment by Falk Hueffner in
2239 + add toe -a option, to show all databases. This uses new private
2240 interfaces in the ncurses library for iterating through the list of
2242 + fix toe from 20000909 changes which made it not look at
2244 + make toe's -v option parameter optional as per manpage.
2245 + improve SIGWINCH handling by postponing its effect during newterm(),
2246 etc., when allocating screens.
2249 + modify wgetnstr() to return KEY_RESIZE if a sigwinch occurs. Use
2250 this in test/filter.c
2251 + fix an error in filter() modification which caused some applications
2255 + check if filter() was called when getting the screensize. Keep it
2256 at 1 if so (based on Redhat #174498).
2257 + add extension nofilter().
2258 + refined the workaround for ACS mapping.
2259 + make ifdef's consistent in curses.h for the extended colors so the
2260 header file can be used for the normal curses library. The header
2261 file installed for extended colors is a variation of the
2262 wide-character configuration (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
2265 + add a workaround to ACS mapping to allow applications such as
2266 test/blue.c to use the "PC ROM" characters by masking them with
2267 A_ALTCHARSET. This worked up til 5.5, but was lost in the revision
2268 of legacy coding (report by Michael Deutschmann).
2269 + add a null-pointer check in the wide-character version of
2270 calculate_actual_width() (report by Victor Julien).
2271 + improve test/ncurses 'd' (color-edit) test by allowing the RGB
2272 values to be set independently (patch by William McBrine).
2273 + modify test/configure script to allow building test programs with
2275 + modified test programs to allow some to work with NetBSD curses.
2276 Several do not because NetBSD curses implements a subset of X/Open
2277 curses, and also lacks much of SVr4 additions. But it's enough for
2279 + update config.guess and config.sub
2282 + use BSD-specific fix for return-value from cgetent() from CVS where
2283 an unknown terminal type would be reportd as "database not found".
2284 + make tgetent() return code more readable using new symbols
2286 + remove references to non-existent "tctest" program.
2287 + remove TESTPROGS from progs/Makefile.in (it was referring to code
2288 that was never built in that directory).
2289 + typos in curs_addchstr.3x, some doc files (noticed in OpenBSD CVS).
2292 + add use_legacy_coding() function to support lynx's font-switching
2294 + fix formatting in curs_termcap.3x (report by Mike Frysinger).
2295 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to change preprocessor-expanded _Bool back to
2299 + extend test/ncurses.c 's' (overlay window) test to exercise overlay(),
2300 overwrite() and copywin() with different combinations of colors and
2301 attributes (including background color) to make it easy to see the
2302 effect of the different functions.
2303 + corrections to menu/m_global.c for wide-characters (report by
2307 + add configure option --without-dlsym, allowing developers to
2308 configure GPM support without using dlsym() (discussion with Michael
2310 + fix wins_nwstr(), which did not handle single-column non-8bit codes
2314 + move prototypes for wide-character trace functions from curses.tail
2315 to curses.wide to avoid accidental reference to those if
2316 _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined without ensuring that <wchar.h> is
2318 + add/use NCURSES_INLINE definition.
2319 + change some internal functions to use int/unsigned rather than the
2323 + remove a redundant check in lib_color.c (Debian #335655).
2324 + use ld's -search_paths_first option on Darwin to work around odd
2325 search rules on that platform (report by Christian Gennerat, analysis
2327 + remove special case for Darwin in CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro.
2328 + ignore EINTR in tcgetattr/tcsetattr calls (Debian #339518).
2329 + fix several bugs in test/bs.c (patch by Stephen Lindholm).
2332 + other minor fixes to cygwin based on tack -TD
2333 + correct smacs in cygwin (Debian #338234, report by Baurzhan
2334 Ismagulov, who noted that it was fixed in Cygwin).
2337 + add shifted up/down arrow codes to xterm-new as kind/kri strings -TD
2338 + modify wbkgrnd() to avoid clearing the A_CHARTEXT attribute bits
2339 since those record the state of multicolumn characters (Debian
2341 + modify werase to clear multicolumn characters that extend into
2342 a derived window (Debian #316663).
2345 + move assignment from environment variable ESCDELAY from initscr()
2346 down to newterm() so the environment variable affects timeouts for
2347 terminals opened with newterm() as well.
2348 + fix a memory leak in keyname().
2349 + add test/demo_altkeys.c
2350 + modify test/demo_defkey.c to exit from loop via 'q' to allow
2351 leak-checking, as well as fix a buffer size in winnstr() call.
2354 + correct order of use-clauses in rxvt-basic entry which made codes for
2355 f1-f4 vt100-style rather than vt220-style (report by Gabor Z Papp).
2356 + suppress configure check for gnatmake if Ada95/Makefile.in is not
2358 + correct a typo in configure --with-bool option for the case where
2359 --without-cxx is used (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
2360 + add a note to INSTALL's discussion of --with-normal, pointing out
2361 that one may wish to use --without-gpm to ensure a completely
2362 static link (prompted by report by Felix von Leitner).
2364 20051010 5.5 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2367 + document in demo_forms.c some portability issues.
2370 + document side-effect of werase() which sets the cursor position.
2371 + save/restore the current position in form field editing to make
2375 + correct header dependencies in progs, allowing parallel make (report
2376 by Daniel Jacobowitz).
2377 + modify CF_BUILD_CC to ensure that pre-setting $BUILD_CC overrides
2378 the configure check for --with-build-cc (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
2379 + modify CF_CFG_DEFAULTS to not use /usr as the default prefix for
2381 + update config.guess and config.sub from
2382 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
2385 + modify sed expression which computes path for /usr/lib/terminfo
2386 symbolic link in install to ensure that it does not change unexpected
2387 levels of the path (Gentoo #42336).
2388 + modify default for --disable-lp64 configure option to reduce impact
2389 on existing 64-bit builds. Enabling the _LP64 option may change the
2390 size of chtype and mmask_t. However, for ABI 6, it is enabled by
2391 default (report by Mike Frysinger).
2392 + add configure script check for --enable-ext-mouse, bump ABI to 6 by
2393 default if it is used.
2394 + improve configure script logic for bumping ABI to omit this if the
2395 --with-abi-version option was used.
2396 + update address for Free Software Foundation in tack's source.
2397 + correct wins_wch(), which was not marking the filler-cells of
2398 multi-column characters (cf: 20041023).
2401 + modify mouse initialization to ensure that Gpm_Open() is called only
2402 once. Otherwise GPM gets confused in its initialization of signal
2403 handlers (Debian #326709).
2406 + modify logic for backspacing in a multiline form field to ensure that
2407 it works even when the preceding line is full (report by Frank van
2409 + remove comment about BUGS section of ncurses manpage (Debian #325481)
2412 + document some workarounds for shared and libtool library
2413 configurations in INSTALL (see --with-shared and --with-libtool).
2414 + modify CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GXX_VERSION macros to accommodate
2415 cross-compilers which emit the platform name in their version
2417 arm-sa1100-linux-gnu-g++ (GCC) 4.0.1
2418 (report by Frank van Vugt).
2421 + start updating documentation for upcoming 5.5 release.
2422 + fix to make libtool and libtinfo work together again (cf: 20050122).
2423 + fixes to allow building traces into libtinfo
2424 + add debug trace to tic that shows if/how ncurses will write to the
2425 lower corner of a terminal's screen.
2426 + update llib-l* files.
2429 + modify initializers in c++ binding to build with old versions of g++.
2430 + improve special case for 20050115 repainting fix, ensuring that if
2431 the first changed cell is not a character that the range to be
2432 repainted is adjusted to start at a character's beginning (Debian
2436 + fixes to build on QNX 6.1
2437 + improve configure script checks for Intel 9.0 compiler.
2438 + remove #include's for libc.h (obsolete).
2439 + adjust ifdef's in curses.priv.h so that when cross-compiling to
2440 produce comp_hash and make_keys, no dependency on wchar.h is needed.
2441 That simplifies the build-cppflags (report by Frank van Vugt).
2442 + move modules related to key-binding into libtinfo to fix linkage
2443 problem caused by 20050430 changes to MKkeyname.sh (report by
2444 Konstantin Andreev).
2447 + updates/fixes for configure script macros from vile -TD
2448 + make prism9's sgr string agree with the rest of the terminfo -TD
2449 + make vt220's sgr0 string consistent with sgr string, do this for
2450 several related cases -TD
2451 + improve translation to termcap by filtering the 'me' (sgr0) strings
2452 as in the runtime call to tgetent() (prompted by a discussion with
2454 + improve tic check for sgr0 versus sgr(0), to help ensure that sgr0
2455 resets line-drawing.
2458 + fix special cases for trimming sgr0 for hurd and vt220 (Debian
2460 + split-out _nc_trim_sgr0() from modifications made to tgetent(), to
2461 allow it to be used by tic to provide information about the runtime
2462 changes that would be made to sgr0 for termcap applications.
2463 + modify make_sed.sh to make the group-name in the NAME section of
2464 form/menu library manpage agree with the TITLE string when renaming
2465 is done for Debian (Debian #78866).
2468 + modify parameter type in c++ binding for insch() and mvwinsch() to
2469 be consistent with underlying ncurses library (was char, is chtype).
2470 + modify treatment of Intel compiler to allow _GNU_SOURCE to be defined
2472 + improve configure check for nanosleep(), checking that it works since
2473 some older systems such as AIX 4.3 have a nonworking version.
2476 + update config.guess and config.sub from
2477 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
2478 + modify misc/shlib to work in test-directory.
2479 + suppress $suffix in misc/run_tic.sh when cross-compiling. This
2480 allows cross-compiles to use the host's tic program to handle the
2481 "make install.data" step.
2482 + improve description of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables in manpages
2483 (prompted by report by Dave Ulrick).
2484 + improve description of cross-compiling in INSTALL
2485 + add NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html by Pradeep Padala
2486 (see http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/).
2487 + modify configure script to obtain soname for GPM library (discussion
2488 with Daniel Jacobowitz).
2489 + modify configure script so that --with-chtype option will still
2490 compute the unsigned literals suffix for constants in curses.h
2491 (report by Daniel Jacobowitz:
2492 + patches from Daniel Jacobowitz:
2493 + the man_db.renames entry for tack.1 was backwards.
2494 + tack.1 had some 1m's that should have been 1M's.
2495 + the section for curs_inwstr.3 was wrong.
2498 + correction to --with-chtype option (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
2501 + move build-time edit_man.sh and edit_man.sed scripts to top directory
2502 to simplify reusing them for renaming tack's manpage (prompted by a
2503 review of Debian package).
2504 + revert minor optimization from 20041030 (Debian #313609).
2505 + libtool-specific fixes, tested with libtool 1.4.3, 1.5.0, 1.5.6,
2506 1.5.10 and 1.5.18 (all work except as noted previously for the c++
2507 install using libtool 1.5.0):
2508 + modify the clean-rule in c++/Makefile.in to work with IRIX64 make
2510 + use $(LIBTOOL_UNINSTALL) symbol, overlooked in 20030830
2511 + add configure options --with-chtype and --with-mmask-t, to allow
2512 overriding of the non-LP64 model's use of the corresponding types.
2513 + revise test for size of chtype (and mmask_t), which always returned
2514 "long" due to an uninitialized variable (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
2517 + change _tracef's that used "%p" format for va_list values to ignore
2518 that, since on some platforms those are not pointers.
2519 + fixes for long-formats in printf's due to largefile support.
2522 + fixes for termcap support:
2523 + reset pointer to _nc_curr_token.tk_name when the input stream is
2524 closed, which could point to free memory (cf: 20030215).
2525 + delink TERMTYPE data which is used by the termcap reader, so that
2526 extended names data will be freed consistently.
2527 + free pointer to TERMTYPE data in _nc_free_termtype() rather than
2529 + add some entrypoints for freeing permanently allocated data via
2530 _nc_freeall() when NO_LEAKS is defined.
2531 + amend 20041030 change to _nc_do_color to ensure that optimization is
2532 applied only when the terminal supports back_color_erase (bce).
2535 + add sun-color terminfo entry -TD
2536 + correct a missing assignment in c++ binding's method
2537 NCursesPanel::UserPointer() from 20050409 changes.
2538 + improve configure check for large-files, adding check for dirent64
2540 + minor change to configure script to improve linker options for the
2544 + document error conditions for ncurses library functions (report by
2546 + regenerated html documentation for ada binding.
2547 see ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/gnathtml
2550 + regenerated html documentation for manpages.
2551 + add $(BUILD_EXEEXT) suffix to invocation of make_keys in
2552 ncurses/Makefile (Gentoo #89772).
2553 + modify c++/demo.cc to build with g++ -fno-implicit-templates option
2554 (patch by Mike Frysinger).
2555 + modify tic to filter out long extended names when translating to
2556 termcap format. Only two characters are permissible for termcap
2560 + modify terminfo entries xterm-new and rxvt to add strings for
2561 shift-, control-cursor keys.
2562 + workaround to allow c++ binding to compile with g++ 2.95.3, which
2563 has a broken implementation of static_cast<> (patch by Jeff Chua).
2564 + modify initialization of key lookup table so that if an extended
2565 capability (tic -x) string is defined, and its name begins with 'k',
2566 it will automatically be treated as a key.
2567 + modify test/keynames.c to allow for the possibility of extended
2568 key names, e.g., via define_key(), or via "tic -x".
2569 + add test/demo_termcap.c to show the contents of given entry via the
2573 + minor fixes for vt100/vt52 entries -TD
2574 + add configure option --enable-largefile
2575 + corrected libraries used to build Ada95/gen/gen, found in testing
2579 + update config.guess, config.sub
2580 + modify configure script check for _XOPEN_SOURCE, disable that on
2581 Darwin whose header files have problems (patch by Chris Zubrzycki).
2582 + modify form library Is_Printable_String() to use iswprint() rather
2583 than wcwidth() for determining if a character is printable. The
2584 latter caused it to reject menu items containing non-spacing
2586 + modify ncurses test program's F-test to handle non-spacing characters
2587 by combining them with a reverse-video blank.
2588 + review/fix several gcc -Wconversion warnings.
2591 + correct an off-by-one error in m_driver() for mouse-clicks used to
2592 position the mouse to a particular item.
2593 + implement test/demo_menus.c
2594 + add some checks in lib_mouse to ensure SP is set.
2595 + modify C++ binding to make 20050403 changes work with the configure
2596 --enable-const option.
2599 + modify start_color() to return ERR if it cannot allocate memory.
2600 + address g++ compiler warnings in C++ binding by adding explicit
2601 member initialization, assignment operators and copy constructors.
2602 Most of the changes simply preserve the existing semantics of the
2603 binding, which can leak memory, etc., but by making these features
2604 visible, it provides a framework for improving the binding.
2605 + improve C++ binding using static_cast, etc.
2606 + modify configure script --enable-warnings to add options to g++ to
2607 correspond to the gcc --enable-warnings.
2608 + modify C++ binding to use some C internal functions to make it
2609 compile properly on Solaris (and other platforms).
2612 + amend change from 20050320 to limit it to configurations with a
2614 + fix a bug introduced in 20050320 which broke the translation of
2615 nonprinting characters to uparrow form (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
2618 + add ifdef's for _LP64 in curses.h to avoid using wasteful 64-bits for
2619 chtype and mmask_t, but add configure option --disable-lp64 in case
2620 anyone used that configuration.
2621 + update misc/shlib script to account for Mac OS X (report by Michail
2623 + correct comparison for wrapping multibyte characters in
2624 waddch_literal() (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
2627 + add -c and -w options to tset to allow user to suppress ncurses'
2628 resizing of the terminal emulator window in the special case where it
2629 is not able to detect the true size (report by Win Delvaux, Debian
2631 + modify waddch_nosync() to account for locale zn_CH.GBK, which uses
2632 codes 128-159 as part of multibyte characters (report by Wang
2633 WenRui, Debian #300512).
2636 + modify ncurses.c 'd' test to make it work with 88-color
2637 configuration, i.e., by implementing scrolling.
2638 + improve scrolling in ncurses.c 'c' and 'C' tests, e.g., for 88-color
2642 + change tracemunch to use strict checking.
2643 + modify ncurses.c 'p' test to test line-drawing within a pad.
2644 + implement environment variable NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS to support
2645 miscellaneous terminal emulators which ignore alternate character
2646 set escape sequences when in UTF-8 mode.
2649 + change NCursesWindow::err_handler() to a virtual function (request by
2651 + modify fty_int.c and fty_num.c to handle wide characters (report by
2653 + adapt fix for fty_alpha.c to fty_alnum.c, which also handled normal
2654 and wide characters inconsistently (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
2655 + update llib-* files to reflect internal interface additions/changes.
2658 + improve test/configure script, adding tests for _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc.,
2660 + add aixterm-16color terminfo entry -TD
2661 + modified xterm-new terminfo entry to work with tgetent() changes -TD
2662 + extended changes in tgetent() from 20040710 to allow the substring of
2663 sgr0 which matches rmacs to be at the beginning of the sgr0 string
2664 (request by Thomas Wolff). Wolff says the visual effect in
2665 combination with pre-20040710 ncurses is improved.
2666 + fix off-by-one in winnstr() call which caused form field validation
2667 of multibyte characters to ignore the last character in a field.
2668 + correct logic in winsch() for inserting multibyte strings; the code
2669 would clear cells after the insertion rather than push them to the
2670 right (cf: 20040228).
2671 + fix an inconsistency in Check_Alpha_Field() between normal and wide
2672 character logic (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
2675 + fix a bug in editing wide-characters in form library: deleting a
2676 nonwide character modified the previous wide-character.
2677 + update manpage to describe NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2.
2678 + correct manpage description of mouseinterval() (Debian #280687).
2679 + add a note to default_colors.3x explaining why this extension was
2680 added (Debian #295083).
2681 + add traces to panel library.
2684 + improve editing of wide-characters in form library: left/right
2685 cursor movement, and single-character deletions work properly.
2686 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM happens to be prefixed with
2687 "xterm". Gpm_Open() would otherwise assert that it can deal with
2688 mouse events in this case.
2689 + modify GPM mouse support so it closes the server connection when
2690 the caller disables the mouse (report by Stanislav Ievlev).
2693 + add traces for callback functions in form library.
2694 + add experimental configure option --enable-ext-mouse, which defines
2695 NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2, and modifies the encoding of mouse events to
2696 support wheel mice, which may transmit buttons 4 and 5. This works
2697 with xterm and similar X terminal emulators (prompted by question by
2698 Andreas Henningsson, this is also related to Debian #230990).
2699 + improve configure macros CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE to
2700 avoid redefinition warnings on cygwin.
2703 + merge remaining development changes for extended colors (mostly
2704 complete, does not appear to break other configurations).
2705 + add xterm-88color.dat (part of extended colors testing).
2706 + improve _tracedump() handling of color pairs past 96.
2707 + modify return-value from start_color() to return OK if colors have
2708 already been started.
2709 + modify curs_color.3x list error conditions for init_pair(),
2710 pair_content() and color_content().
2711 + modify pair_content() to return -1 for consistency with init_pair()
2712 if it corresponds to the default-color.
2713 + change internal representation of default-color to allow application
2714 to use color number 255. This does not affect the total number of
2715 color pairs which are allowed.
2716 + add a top-level tags rule.
2719 + add a null-pointer check in wgetch() in case it is called without
2720 first calling initscr().
2721 + add some null-pointer checks for SP, which is not set by libtinfo.
2722 + modify misc/shlib to ensure that absolute pathnames are used.
2723 + modify test/Makefile.in, etc., to link test programs only against the
2724 libraries needed, e.g., omit form/menu/panel library for the ones
2725 that are curses-specific.
2726 + change SP->_current_attr to a pointer, adjust ifdef's to ensure that
2727 libtinfo.so and libtinfow.so have the same ABI. The reason for this
2728 is that the corresponding data which belongs to the upper-level
2729 ncurses library has a different size in each model (report by
2733 + minor fixes to allow test-compiles with g++.
2734 + correct column value shown in tic's warnings, which did not account
2735 for leading whitespace.
2736 + add a check in _nc_trans_string() for improperly ended strings, i.e.,
2737 where a following line begins in column 1.
2738 + modify _nc_save_str() to return a null pointer on buffer overflow.
2739 + improve repainting while scrolling wide-character data (Eungkyu Song).
2742 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
2745 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
2746 + fix manpage typo (FreeBSD report docs/75544).
2747 + update config.guess, config.sub
2748 > patches for configure script (Albert Chin-A-Young):
2749 + improved fix to make mbstate_t recognized on HPUX 11i (cf:
2750 20030705), making vsscanf() prototype visible on IRIX64. Tested for
2751 on HP-UX 11i, Solaris 7, 8, 9, AIX 4.3.3, 5.2, Tru64 UNIX 4.0D, 5.1,
2752 IRIX64 6.5, Redhat Linux 7.1, 9, and RHEL 2.1, 3.0.
2753 + print the result of the --disable-home-terminfo option.
2754 + use -rpath when compiling with SGI C compiler.
2757 + add trace calls to remaining public functions in form and menu
2759 + fix check for numeric digits in test/ncurses.c 'b' and 'B' tests.
2760 + fix typo in test/ncurses.c 'c' test from 20041218.
2763 + revise test/ncurses.c 'c' color test to improve use for xterm-88color
2764 and xterm-256color, added 'C' test using the wide-character color_set
2765 and attr_set functions.
2768 + modify configure script to work with Intel compiler.
2769 + fix an limit-check in wadd_wchnstr() which caused labels in the
2770 forms-demo to be one character short.
2771 + fix typo in curs_addchstr.3x (Jared Yanovich).
2772 + add trace calls to most functions in form and menu libraries.
2773 + update working-position for adding wide-characters when window is
2774 scrolled (prompted by related report by Eungkyu Song).
2777 + replace some references on Linux to wcrtomb() which use it to obtain
2778 the length of a multibyte string with _nc_wcrtomb, since wcrtomb() is
2779 broken in glibc (see Debian #284260).
2780 + corrected length-computation in wide-character support for
2782 + some fixes to frm_driver.c to allow it to accept multibyte input.
2783 + modify configure script to work with Intel 8.0 compiler.
2786 + amend change to setupterm() in 20030405 which would reuse the value
2787 of cur_term if the same output was selected. This now reuses it only
2788 when setupterm() is called from tgetent(), which has no notion of
2789 separate SCREENs. Note that tgetent() must be called after initscr()
2790 or newterm() to use this feature (Redhat Bugzilla #140326).
2791 + add a check in CF_BUILD_CC macro to ensure that developer has given
2792 the --with-build-cc option when cross-compiling (report by Alexandre
2794 + improved configure script checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE and
2795 _POSIX_C_SOURCE (fix for IRIX 5.3 from Georg Schwarz, _POSIX_C_SOURCE
2797 + cosmetic fix to test/gdc.c to recolor the bottom edge of the box
2798 for consistency (comment by Dan Nelson).
2801 + update wsvt25 terminfo entry -TD
2802 + modify test/ins_wide.c to test all flavors of ins_wstr().
2803 + ignore filler-cells in wadd_wchnstr() when adding a cchar_t array
2804 which consists of multi-column characters, since this function
2805 constructs them (cf: 20041023).
2806 + modify winnstr() to return multibyte character strings for the
2807 wide-character configuration.
2810 + fixes to make slk_set() and slk_wset() accept and store multibyte
2811 or multicolumn characters.
2814 + improve color optimization a little by making _nc_do_color() check
2815 if the old/new pairs are equivalent to the default pair 0.
2816 + modify assume_default_colors() to not require that
2817 use_default_colors() be called first.
2820 + modify term_attrs() to use termattrs(), add the extended attributes
2821 such as enter_horizontal_hl_mode for WA_HORIZONTAL to term_attrs().
2822 + add logic in waddch_literal() to clear orphaned cells when one
2823 multi-column character partly overwrites another.
2824 + improved logic for clearing cells when a multi-column character
2825 must be wrapped to a new line.
2826 + revise storage of cells for multi-column characters to correct a
2827 problem with repainting. In the old scheme, it was possible for
2828 doupdate() to decide that only part of a multi-column character
2829 should be repainted since the filler cells stored only an attribute
2830 to denote them as fillers, rather than the character value and the
2834 + minor fixes for traces.
2835 + add SP->_screen_acs_map[], used to ensure that mapping of missing
2836 line-drawing characters is handled properly. For example, ACS_DARROW
2837 is absent from xterm-new, and it was coincidentally displayed the
2841 + amend 20021221 workaround for broken acs to reset the sgr, rmacs
2842 and smacs strings as well. Also modify the check for screen's
2843 limitations in that area to allow the multi-character shift-in
2844 and shift-out which seem to work.
2845 + change GPM initialization, using dl library to load it dynamically
2846 at runtime (Debian #110586).
2849 + correct logic for color pair in setcchar() and getcchar() (patch by
2850 Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
2851 + add t/T commands to ncurses b/B tests to allow a different color to
2852 be tested for the attrset part of the test than is used in the
2856 + fix to make setcchar() to work when its wchar_t* parameter is
2857 pointing to a string which contains more data than can be converted.
2858 + modify wget_wstr() and example in ncurses.c to work if wchar_t and
2859 wint_t are different sizes (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
2862 + remove check in wget_wch() added to fix an infinite loop, appears to
2863 have been working around a transitory glibc bug, and interferes
2864 with normal operation (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
2865 + correct wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not pass the rendition
2866 information (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
2867 + fix aclocal.m4 so that the wide-character version of ncurses gets
2868 compiled as libncursesw.5.dylib, instead of libncurses.5w.dylib
2869 (adapted from patch by James J Ramsey).
2870 + change configure script for --with-caps option to indicate that it
2871 is no longer experimental.
2872 + change configure script to reflect the fact that --enable-widec has
2873 not been "experimental" since 5.3 (report by Bruno Lustosa).
2876 + add 'B' test to ncurses.c, to exercise some wide-character functions.
2879 + modify infocmp -i option to match 8-bit controls against its table
2880 entries, e.g., so it can analyze the xterm-8bit entry.
2881 + add morphos terminfo entry, improve amiga-8bit entry (Pavel Fedin).
2882 + correct translation of "%%" in terminfo format to termcap, e.g.,
2883 using "tic -C" (Redhat Bugzilla #130921).
2884 + modified configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to ensure that if
2885 it defines _POSIX_C_SOURCE, that it defines it to a specific value
2886 (comp.os.stratus newsgroup comment).
2889 + fixes to build with Ada95 binding with gnat 3.4 (all warnings are
2890 fatal, and gnat does not follow the guidelines for pragmas).
2891 However that did find a coding error in Assume_Default_Colors().
2892 + modify several terminfo entries to ensure xterm mouse and cursor
2893 visibility are reset in rs2 string: hurd, putty, gnome,
2894 konsole-base, mlterm, Eterm, screen (Debian #265784, #55637). The
2895 xterm entries are left alone - old ones for compatibility, and the
2896 new ones do not require this change. -TD
2899 + fake a SIGWINCH in newterm() to accommodate buggy terminal emulators
2900 and window managers (Debian #265631).
2901 > terminfo updates -TD
2902 + remove dch/dch1 from rxvt because they are implemented inconsistently
2903 with the common usage of bce/ech
2904 + remove khome from vt220 (vt220's have no home key)
2908 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test, adding v/V toggles to cycle through
2909 combinations of video attributes so that for instance bold and
2910 underline can be tested. This made the legend too crowded, added
2911 a help window as well.
2912 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test to cycle through default colors if
2913 the -d option is set.
2914 + update putty terminfo entry (Robert de Bath).
2917 + modify test/cardfile.c to allow it to read more data than can be
2919 + correct logic in resizeterm.c which kept it from processing all
2920 levels of window hierarchy (reports by Folkert van Heusden,
2924 + modify "tic -cv" to ignore delays when comparing strings. Also
2925 modify it to ignore a canceled sgr string, e.g., for terminals which
2926 cannot properly combine attributes in one control sequence.
2927 + corrections for gnome and konsole entries (Redhat Bugzilla #122815,
2928 patch by Hans de Goede)
2929 > terminfo updates -TD
2930 + make ncsa-m rmacs/smacs consistent with sgr
2931 + add sgr, rc/sc and ech to syscons entries
2932 + add function-keys to decansi
2933 + add sgr to mterm-ansi
2934 + add sgr, civis, cnorm to emu
2935 + correct/simplify cup in addrinfo
2938 > terminfo updates -TD
2939 + add xterm-pc-fkeys
2940 + review/update gnome and gnome-rh90 entries (prompted by Redhat
2942 + review/update konsole entries
2943 + add sgr, correct sgr0 for kterm and mlterm
2944 + correct tsl string in kterm
2947 + add configure option --without-xterm-new
2950 + add check in wget_wch() for printable bytes that are not part of a
2951 multibyte character.
2952 + modify wadd_wchnstr() to render text using window's background
2954 + improve tic's check to compare sgr and sgr0.
2955 + fix c++ directory's .cc.i rule.
2956 + modify logic in tgetent() which adjusts the termcap "me" string
2957 to work with ISO-2022 string used in xterm-new (cf: 20010908).
2958 + modify tic's check for conflicting function keys to omit that if
2959 converting termcap to termcap format.
2960 + add -U option to tic and infocmp.
2961 + add rmam/smam to linux terminfo entry (Trevor Van Bremen)
2962 > terminfo updates -TD
2963 + minor fixes for emu
2965 + change wyse acsc strings to use 'i' map rather than 'I'
2970 + use tic -x to install terminfo database -TD
2971 + add -x to infocmp's usage message.
2972 + correct field used for comparing O_ROWMAJOR in set_menu_format()
2973 (report/patch by Tony Li).
2974 + fix a missing nul check in set_field_buffer() from 20040508 changes.
2975 > terminfo updates -TD
2976 + make xterm-xf86-v43 derived from xterm-xf86-v40 rather than
2978 + align with xterm patch #192's use of xterm-new -TD
2979 + update xterm-new and xterm-8bit for cvvis/cnorm strings -TD
2980 + make xterm-new the default "xterm" entry -TD
2983 + correct BUILD_CPPFLAGS substitution in ncurses/Makefile.in, to allow
2984 cross-compiling from a separate directory tree (report/patch by
2986 + modify is_term_resized() to ensure that window sizes are nonzero,
2987 as documented in the manpage (report by Ian Collier).
2988 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro to make Hurd port build
2989 (Debian #249214, report/patch by Jeff Bailey).
2990 + configure-script mods from xterm, e.g., updates to CF_ADD_CFLAGS
2991 + update config.guess, config.sub
2992 > terminfo updates -TD
2994 + add xterm-xf86-v44
2995 + modify xterm-new aka xterm-xfree86 to accommodate luit, which
2996 relies on G1 being used via an ISO-2022 escape sequence (report by
3001 + reconsidered winsnstr(), decided after comparing other
3002 implementations that wrapping is an X/Open documentation error.
3003 + modify test/inserts.c to test all flavors of insstr().
3006 + add setlocale() calls to a few test programs which may require it:
3007 demo_forms.c, filter.c, ins_wide.c, inserts.c
3008 + correct a few misspelled function names in ncurses-intro.html (report
3010 + correct internal name of key_defined() manpage, which conflicted with
3014 + correct size of internal pad used for holding wide-character
3015 field_buffer() results.
3016 + modify data_ahead() to work with wide-characters.
3019 + improve description of terminfo if-then-else expressions (suggested
3021 + improve test/ncurses.c 'd' test, allow it to use external file for
3022 initial palette (added xterm-16color.dat and linux-color.dat), and
3023 reset colors to the initial palette when starting/ending the test.
3024 + change limit-check in init_color() to allow r/g/b component to
3025 reach 1000 (cf: 20020928).
3028 + modify form library to use cchar_t's rather than char's in the
3029 wide-character configuration for storing data for field buffers.
3030 + correct logic of win_wchnstr(), which did not work for more than
3034 + replace memset/memcpy usage in form library with for-loops to
3035 simplify changing the datatype of FIELD.buf, part of wide-character
3037 + fix some inconsistent use of #if/#ifdef (report by Alain Guibert).
3040 + modify menu library to account for actual number of columns used by
3041 multibyte character strings, in the wide-character configuration
3042 (adapted from patch by Philipp Tomsich).
3043 + add "-x" option to infocmp like tic's "-x", for use in "-F"
3044 comparisons. This modifies infocmp to only report extended
3045 capabilities if the -x option is given, making this more consistent
3046 with tic. Some scripts may break, since infocmp previous gave this
3047 information without an option.
3048 + modify termcap-parsing to retain 2-character aliases at the beginning
3049 of an entry if the "-x" option is used in tic.
3052 + minor compiler-warning and test-program fixes.
3055 + modify tic's missing-sgr warning to apply to terminfo only.
3056 + free some memory leaks in tic.
3057 + remove check in post_menu() that prevented menus from extending
3058 beyond the screen (request by Max J. Werner).
3059 + remove check in newwin() that prevents allocating windows
3060 that extend beyond the screen. Solaris curses does this.
3061 + add ifdef in test/color_set.c to allow it to compile with older
3063 + add napms() calls to test/dots.c to make it not be a CPU hog.
3066 + modify unctrl() to return null if its parameter does not correspond
3067 to an unsigned char.
3068 + add some limit-checks to guard isprint(), etc., from being used on
3069 values that do not fit into an unsigned char (report by Sami Farin).
3072 + fix a typo in the _nc_get_locale() change.
3075 + modify _nc_get_locale() to use setlocale() to query the program's
3076 current locale rather than using getenv(). This fixes a case in tin
3077 which relies on legacy treatment of 8-bit characters when the locale
3078 is not initialized (reported by Urs Jansen).
3079 + add sgr string to screen's and rxvt's terminfo entries -TD.
3080 + add a check in tic for terminfo entries having an sgr0 but no sgr
3081 string. This confuses Tru64 and HPUX curses when combined with
3082 color, e.g., making them leave line-drawing characters in odd places.
3083 + correct casts used in ABSENT_BOOLEAN, CANCELLED_BOOLEAN, matches the
3084 original definitions used in Debian package to fix PowerPC bug before
3085 20030802 (Debian #237629).
3088 + modify PutAttrChar() and PUTC() macro to improve use of
3089 A_ALTCHARSET attribute to prevent line-drawing characters from
3090 being lost in situations where the locale would otherwise treat the
3091 raw data as nonprintable (Debian #227879).
3094 + fix a redefinition of CTRL() macro in test/view.c for AIX 5.2 (report
3096 + remove ".PP" after ".SH NAME" in a few manpages; this confuses
3097 some apropos script (Debian #237831).
3100 + modify ncurses.c 'r' test so editing commands, like inserted text,
3101 set the field background, and the state of insert/overlay editing
3102 mode is shown in that test.
3103 + change syntax of dummy targets in Ada95 makefiles to work with pmake.
3104 + correct logic in test/ncurses.c 'b' for noncolor terminals which
3105 did not recognize a quit-command (cf: 20030419).
3108 + modify _nc_insert_ch() to allow for its input to be part of a
3110 + split out lib_insnstr.c, to prepare to rewrite it. X/Open states
3111 that this function performs wrapping, unlike all of the other
3112 insert-functions. Currently it does not wrap.
3113 + check for nl_langinfo(CODESET), use it if available (report by
3115 + split-out CF_BUILD_CC macro, actually did this for lynx first.
3116 + fixes for configure script CF_WITH_DBMALLOC and CF_WITH_DMALLOC,
3117 which happened to work with bash, but not with Bourne shell (report
3118 by Marco d'Itri via tin-dev).
3121 + some changes to adapt the form library to wide characters, incomplete
3122 (request by Mike Aubury).
3123 + add symbol to curses.h which can be used to suppress include of
3125 #define NCURSES_ENABLE_STDBOOL_H 0
3127 (discussion on XFree86 mailing list).
3130 + modify configure --with-termlib option to accept a value which sets
3131 the name of the terminfo library. This would allow a packager to
3132 build libtinfow.so renamed to coincide with libtinfo.so (discussion
3133 with Stanislav Ievlev).
3134 + improve documentation of --with-install-prefix, --prefix and
3135 $(DESTDIR) in INSTALL (prompted by discussion with Paul Lew).
3136 + add configure check if the compiler can use -c -o options to rename
3137 its output file, use that to omit the 'cd' command which was used to
3138 ensure object files are created in a separate staging directory
3139 (prompted by comments by Johnny Wezel, Martin Mokrejs).
3141 20040208 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3144 20040207 pre-release
3145 + minor fixes to _nc_tparm_analyze(), i.e., do not count %i as a param,
3146 and do not count %d if it follows a %p.
3147 + correct an inconsistency between handling of codes in the 128-255
3148 range, e.g., as illustrated by test/ncurses.c f/F tests. In POSIX
3149 locale, the latter did not show printable results, while the former
3151 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to compensate for broken C preprocessor on Mac
3152 OS X, which alters "%%" to "% % " (report by Robert Simms, fix
3153 verified by Scott Corscadden).
3155 20040131 pre-release
3156 + modify SCREEN struct to align it between normal/wide curses flavors
3157 to simplify future changes to build a single version of libtinfo
3158 (patch by Stanislav Ievlev).
3159 + document handling of carriage return by addch() in manpage.
3160 + document special features of unctrl() in manpage.
3161 + documented interface changes in INSTALL.
3162 + corrected control-char test in lib_addch.c to account for locale
3163 (Debian #230335, cf: 971206).
3164 + updated test/configure.in to use AC_EXEEXT and AC_OBJEXT.
3165 + fixes to compile Ada95 binding with Debian gnat 3.15p-4 package.
3166 + minor configure-script fixes for older ports, e.g., BeOS R4.5.
3168 20040125 pre-release
3169 + amend change to PutAttrChar() from 20030614 which computed the number
3170 of cells for a possibly multi-cell character. The 20030614 change
3171 forced the cell to a blank if the result from wcwidth() was not
3172 greater than zero. However, wcwidth() called for parameters in the
3173 range 128-255 can give this return value. The logic now simply
3174 ensures that the number of cells is greater than zero without
3175 modifying the displayed value.
3177 20040124 pre-release
3178 + looked good for 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org (but see above)
3179 + modify configure script check for ranlib to use AC_CHECK_TOOL, since
3180 that works better for cross-compiling.
3182 20040117 pre-release
3183 + modify lib_get_wch.c to prefer mblen/mbtowc over mbrlen/mbrtowc to
3184 work around core dump in Solaris 8's locale support, e.g., for
3185 zh_CN.GB18030 (report by Saravanan Bellan).
3186 + add includes for <stdarg.h> and <stdio.h> in configure script macro
3187 to make <wchar.h> check work with Tru64 4.0d.
3188 + add terminfo entry for U/Win -TD
3189 + add terminfo entries for SFU aka Interix aka OpenNT (Federico
3191 + modify tput's error messages to prefix them with the program name
3192 (report by Vincent Lefevre, patch by Daniel Jacobowitz (see Debian
3194 + correct a place in tack where exit_standout_mode was used instead of
3195 exit_attribute_mode (patch by Jochen Voss (see Debian #224443)).
3196 + modify c++/cursesf.h to use const in the Enumeration_Field method.
3197 + remove an ambiguous (actually redundant) method from c++/cursesf.h
3198 + make $HOME/.terminfo update optional (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
3199 + improve sed script which extracts libtool's version in the
3200 CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro.
3201 + add ifdef'd call to AC_PROG_LIBTOOL to CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro (to
3202 simplify local patch for Albert Chin-A-Young)..
3203 + add $(CXXFLAGS) to link command in c++/Makefile.in (adapted from
3204 patch by Albert Chin-A-Young)..
3205 + fix a missing substitution in configure.in for "$target" needed for
3207 + resync CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro with lynx; fixes IRIX64 and
3208 NetBSD 1.6 conflicts with _XOPEN_SOURCE.
3209 + make check for stdbool.h more specific, to ensure that including it
3210 will actually define/declare bool for the configured compiler.
3211 + rewrite ifdef's in curses.h relating NCURSES_BOOL and bool. The
3212 intention of that is to #define NCURSES_BOOL as bool when the
3213 compiler declares bool, and to #define bool as NCURSES_BOOL when it
3214 does not (reported by Jim Gifford, Sam Varshavchik, cf: 20031213).
3216 20040110 pre-release
3217 + change minor version to 4, i.e., ncurses 5.4
3218 + revised/improved terminfo entries for tvi912b, tvi920b (Benjamin C W
3220 + simplified ncurses/base/version.c by defining the result from the
3221 configure script rather than using sprintf (suggested by Stanislav
3223 + remove obsolete casts from c++/cursesw.h (reported by Stanislav
3225 + modify configure script so that when configuring for termlib, programs
3226 such as tic are not linked with the upper-level ncurses library
3227 (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
3228 + move version.c from ncurses/base to ncurses/tinfo to allow linking
3229 of tic, etc., using libtinfo (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
3232 + adjust -D's to build ncursesw on OpenBSD.
3233 + modify CF_PROG_EXT to make OS/2 build with EXEEXT.
3234 + add pecho_wchar().
3235 + remove <wctype.h> include from lib_slk_wset.c which is not needed (or
3236 available) on older platforms.
3239 + add -D's to build ncursew on FreeBSD 5.1.
3240 + modify shared library configuration for FreeBSD 4.x/5.x to add the
3241 soname information (request by Marc Glisse).
3242 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() to not use MAX_ALIAS, but PATH_MAX only
3243 for limiting the length of a filename in the terminfo database.
3244 + modify termname() to return the terminal name used by setupterm()
3245 rather than $TERM, without truncating to 14 characters as documented
3246 by X/Open (report by Stanislav Ievlev, cf: 970719).
3247 + re-add definition for _BSD_TYPES, lost in merge (cf: 20031206).
3250 + add configure option --with-manpage-format=catonly to address
3251 behavior of BSDI, allow install of man+cat files on NetBSD, whose
3252 behavior has diverged by requiring both to be present.
3253 + remove leading blanks from comment-lines in manlinks.sed script to
3254 work with Tru64 4.0d.
3255 + add screen.linux terminfo entry (discussion on mutt-users mailing
3259 + add a check for tic to flag missing backslashes for termcap
3260 continuation lines. ncurses reads the whole entry, but termcap
3261 applications do not.
3262 + add configure option "--with-manpage-aliases" extending
3263 "--with-manpage-aliases" to provide the option of generating ".so"
3264 files rather than symbolic links for manpage aliases.
3265 + add bool definition in include/curses.h.in for configurations with no
3266 usable C++ compiler (cf: 20030607).
3267 + fix pathname of SigAction.h for building with --srcdir (reported by
3271 + folded ncurses/base/sigaction.c into includes of ncurses/SigAction.h,
3272 since that header is used only within ncurses/tty/lib_tstp.c, for
3273 non-POSIX systems (discussion with Stanislav Ievlev).
3274 + remove obsolete _nc_outstr() function (report by Stanislav Ievlev
3275 <inger@altlinux.org>).
3276 + add test/background.c and test/color_set.c
3277 + modify color_set() function to work with color pair 0 (report by
3278 George Andreou <gbandreo@tem.uoc.gr>).
3279 + add configure option --with-trace, since defining TRACE seems too
3280 awkward for some cases.
3281 + remove a call to _nc_free_termtype() from read_termtype(), since the
3282 corresponding buffer contents were already zeroed by a memset (cf:
3284 + improve configure check for _XOPEN_SOURCE and related definitions,
3285 adding special cases for Solaris' __EXTENSIONS__ and FreeBSD's
3286 __BSD_TYPES (reports by Marc Glisse <marc.glisse@normalesup.org>).
3287 + small fixes to compile on Solaris and IRIX64 using cc.
3288 + correct typo in check for pre-POSIX sort options in MKkey_defs.sh
3292 + modify _nc_gettime() to avoid a problem with arithmetic on unsigned
3293 values (Philippe Blain).
3294 + improve the nanosleep() logic in napms() by checking for EINTR and
3295 restarting (Philippe Blain).
3296 + correct expression for "%D" in lib_tgoto.c (Juha Jarvi
3300 + add linux-vt terminfo entry (Andrey V Lukyanov <land@long.yar.ru>).
3301 + allow "\|" escape in terminfo; tic should not warn about this.
3302 + save the full pathname of the trace-file the first time it is opened,
3303 to avoid creating it in different directories if the application
3304 opens and closes it while changing its working directory.
3305 + modify configure script to provide a non-empty default for
3309 + add DJGPP to special case of DOS-style drive letters potentially
3310 appearing in TERMCAP environment variable.
3311 + fix some spelling in comments (reports by Jason McIntyre, Jonathon
3313 + update config.guess, config.sub
3316 + fix a memory leak in error-return from setupterm() (report by
3317 Stanislav Ievlev <inger@altlinux.org>).
3318 + use EXEEXT and OBJEXT consistently in makefiles.
3319 + amend fixes for cross-compiling to use separate executable-suffix
3320 BUILD_EXEEXT (cf: 20031018).
3321 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for sort utility that does not
3322 recognize key options, e.g., busybox (report by Peter S Mazinger
3324 + fix potential out-of-bounds indexing in _nc_infotocap() (found by
3325 David Krause using some of the new malloc debugging features
3326 under OpenBSD, patch by Ted Unangst).
3327 + modify CF_LIB_SUFFIX for Itanium releases of HP-UX, which use a
3328 ".so" suffix (patch by Jonathan Ward <Jonathan.Ward@hp.com>).
3331 + update terminfo for xterm-xfree86 -TD
3332 + add check for multiple "tc=" clauses in a termcap to tic.
3333 + check for missing op/oc in tic.
3334 + correct _nc_resolve_uses() and _nc_merge_entry() to allow infocmp and
3335 tic to show cancelled capabilities. These functions were ignoring
3336 the state of the target entry, which should be untouched if cancelled.
3337 + correct comment in tack/output.c (Debian #215806).
3338 + add some null-pointer checks to lib_options.c (report by Michael
3340 + regenerated html documentation.
3341 + correction to tar-copy.sh, remove a trap command that resulted in
3342 leaving temporary files (cf: 20030510).
3343 + remove contact/maintainer addresses for Juergen Pfeifer (his request).
3346 + updated test/configure to reflect changes for libtool (cf: 20030830).
3347 + fix several places in tack/pad.c which tested and used the parameter-
3348 and parameterless strings inconsistently, i.e., in pad_rin(),
3349 pad_il(), pad_indn() and pad_dl() (Debian #215805).
3350 + minor fixes for configure script and makefiles to cleanup executables
3351 generated when cross-compiling for DJGPP.
3352 + modify infocmp to omit check for $TERM for operations that do not
3353 require it, e.g., "infocmp -e" used to build fallback list (report by
3357 + add terminfo entries for DJGPP.
3358 + updated note about maintainer in ncurses-intro.html
3361 + update terminfo entries for gnome terminal.
3362 + modify tack to reset colors after each color test, correct a place
3363 where exit_standout_mode was used instead of exit_attribute_mode.
3364 + improve tack's bce test by making it set colors other than black
3366 + plug a potential recursion between napms() and _nc_timed_wait()
3367 (report by Philippe Blain).
3370 + add --with-rel-version option to allow workaround to allow making
3371 libtool on Darwin generate the "same" library names as with the
3372 --with-shared option. The Darwin ld program does not work well
3373 with a zero as the minor-version value (request by Chris Zubrzycki).
3374 + modify CF_MIXEDCASE_FILENAMES macro to work with cross-compiling.
3375 + modify tack to allow it to run from fallback terminfo data.
3376 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3377 + improve PutRange() by adjusting call to EmitRange() and corresponding
3378 return-value to not emit unchanged characters on the end of the
3380 + improve a check for changed-attribute by exiting a loop when the
3382 + improve logic in TransformLine(), eliminating a duplicated comparison
3383 in the clr_bol logic.
3386 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3387 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
3388 move the label 'nonlocal' just before the second gettimeofday() to
3389 be able to compute the diff time when 'goto nonlocal' used.
3390 Rename 'msec' to 'microsec' in the debug-message.
3391 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
3392 Use _nc_outch() in carriage return/newline movement instead of
3393 putchar() which goes to stdout. Move test for xold>0 out of loop.
3394 + in ncurses/tinfo/setbuf.c,
3395 Set the flag SP->_buffered at the end of operations when all has been
3396 successful (typeMalloc can fail).
3397 + simplify NC_BUFFERED macro by moving check inside _nc_setbuf().
3400 + modify configure script to avoid using "head -1", which does not
3401 work if POSIXLY_CORRECT (sic) is set.
3402 + modify run_tic.in to avoid using wrong shared libraries when
3403 cross-compiling (Dan Kegel).
3406 + alter configure script help message to make it clearer that
3407 --with-build-cc does not specify a cross-compiler (suggested by Dan
3408 Kegel <dank@kegel.com>).
3409 + modify configure script to accommodate libtool 1.5, as well as add an
3410 parameter to the "--with-libtool" option which can specify the
3411 pathname of libtool (report by Chris Zubrzycki). We note that
3412 libtool 1.5 has more than one bug in its C++ support, so it is not
3413 able to install libncurses++, for instance, if $DESTDIR or the option
3414 --with-install-prefix is used.
3417 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3418 + move assignments to SP->_cursrow, SP->_curscol into online_mvcur().
3419 + make baudrate computation in delay_output() consistent with the
3420 assumption in _nc_mvcur_init(), i.e., a byte is 9 bits.
3423 + modify logic in waddch_literal() to take into account zh_TW.Big5
3424 whose multibyte sequences may contain "printable" characters, e.g.,
3425 a "g" in the sequence "\247g" (Debian #204889, cf: 20030621).
3426 + improve storage used by _nc_safe_strcpy() by ensuring that the size
3427 is reset based on the initialization call, in case it were called
3428 after other strcpy/strcat calls (report by Philippe Blain).
3429 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3430 + remove an unused ifdef for REAL_ATTR & WANT_CHAR
3431 + correct a place where _cup_cost was used rather than _cuu_cost
3434 + fix a small memory leak in _nc_free_termtype().
3435 + close trace-file if trace() is called with a zero parameter.
3436 + free memory allocated for soft-key strings, in delscreen().
3437 + fix an allocation size in safe_sprintf.c for the "*" format code.
3438 + correct safe_sprintf.c to not return a null pointer if the format
3439 happens to be an empty string. This applies to the "configure
3440 --enable-safe-sprintf" option (Redhat #101486).
3443 + modify casts used for ABSENT_BOOLEAN and CANCELLED_BOOLEAN (report by
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