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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 + add "widec" row to _tracedump() output to help diagnose remaining
50 problems with multi-column characters.
51 + partial fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters
52 which are partly overwritten (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
53 + ignore A_CHARTEXT bits in vidattr() and vid_attr(), in case
54 multi-column extension bits are passed there.
55 + add setlocale() call to demo_panels.c, needed for wide-characters.
56 + add some output flags to _nc_trace_ttymode to help diagnose a bug
57 report by Larry Virden, i.e., ONLCR, OCRNL, ONOCR and ONLRET,
60 + add test/demo_panels.c
61 + implement opaque version of setsyx() and getsyx().
64 + corrected xterm+pcf2 terminfo modifiers for F1-F4, to match xterm
66 + split-out key_name() from MKkeyname.awk since it now depends upon
67 wunctrl() which is not in libtinfo (report by Rong-En Fan).
71 + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test_inch_wide.c
72 + update test/configure
73 + correct formatting of DEL (0x7f) in _nc_vischar().
74 + null-terminate result of wunctrl().
75 + add null-pointer check in key_name() (report by Andreas Krennmair,
79 + adapt mouse-handling code from menu library in form-library
80 (discussion with Clive Nicolson).
81 + add a modification of test/dots.c, i.e., test/dots_mvcur.c to
82 illustrate how to use mvcur().
83 + modify wide-character flavor of SetAttr() to preserve the
84 WidecExt() value stored in the .attr field, e.g., in case it
85 is overwritten by chgat (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
86 + correct buffer-size for _nc_viswbuf2n() (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
87 + build-fixes for Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 (patch by Peter O'Gorman).
90 + modify keyname() to use "^X" form only if meta() has been called, or
91 if keyname() is called without initializing curses, e.g., via
92 initscr() or newterm() (prompted by LinuxBase #1604).
93 + document some portability issues in man/curs_util.3x
94 + add a shadow copy of TTY buffer to _nc_prescreen to fix applications
95 broken by moving that data into SCREEN (cf: 20061230).
98 + add 'O' (wide-character panel test) in ncurses.c to demonstrate a
99 problem reported by Sadrul H Chowdhury with repainting parts of
101 + modify slk_init() so that if there are preceding calls to
102 ripoffline(), those affect the available lines for soft-keys (adapted
103 from patch by Clive Nicolson).
104 + document some portability issues in man/curs_getyx.3x
107 + fix a bug in Ada95/samples/ncurses which caused a variable to
108 become uninitialized in the "b" test.
109 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in adahtml rule to account for recent
110 movement of files, fix a few incorrect manpage references in the
112 + add Ada95 binding to _nc_freeall() as Curses_Free_All to help with
114 + correct some functions in Ada95 binding which were using return value
115 from C where none was returned: idcok(), immedok() and wtimeout().
116 + amend recent changes for Ada95 binding to make it build with
117 Cygwin's linker, e.g., with configure options
118 --enable-broken-linker --with-ticlib
121 + add a configure check for gcc's options for inlining, use that to
122 quiet a warning message where gcc's default behavior changed from
124 + improve warning message when checking if GPM is linked to curses
125 library by not warning if its use of "wgetch" is via a weak symbol.
126 + add loader options when building with static libraries to ensure that
127 an installed shared library for ncurses does not conflict. This is
128 reported as problem with Tru64, but could affect other platforms
129 (report Martin Mokrejs, analysis by Tim Mooney).
130 + fix build on cygwin after recent ticlib/termlib changes, i.e.,
131 + adjust TINFO_SUFFIX value to work with cygwin's dll naming
132 + revert a change from 20070303 which commented out dependency of
133 SHLIB_LIST in form/menu/panel/c++ libraries.
134 + fix initialization of ripoff stack pointer (cf: 20070421).
137 + move most static variables into structures _nc_globals and
138 _nc_prescreen, to simplify storage.
139 + add/use configure script macro CF_SIG_ATOMIC_T, use the corresponding
140 type for data manipulated by signal handlers (prompted by comments
141 in mailing.openbsd.bugs newsgroup).
142 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to allow one to pass options such as -static
143 to the libtool create- and link-operations.
146 + fix whitespace in curs_opaque.3x which caused a spurious ';' in
147 the installed aliases (report by Peter Santoro).
148 + fix configure script to not try to generate adacurses-config when
149 Ada95 tree is not built.
152 + add man/curs_legacy.3x, man/curs_opaque.3x
153 + fix acs_map binding for Ada95 when --enable-reentrant is used.
154 + add adacurses-config to the Ada95 install, based on version from
155 FreeBSD port, in turn by Juergen Pfeifer in 2000 (prompted by
156 comment on comp.lang.ada newsgroup).
157 + fix includes in c++ binding to build with Intel compiler
159 + update install rule in Ada95 to use mkdirs.sh
160 > other fixes prompted by inspection for Coverity report:
161 + modify ifdef's for c++ binding to use try/catch/throw statements
162 + add a null-pointer check in tack/ansi.c request_cfss()
163 + fix a memory leak in ncurses/base/wresize.c
164 + corrected check for valid memu/meml capabilities in
165 progs/dump_entry.c when handling V_HPUX case.
166 > fixes based on Coverity report:
167 + remove dead code in test/bs.c
168 + remove dead code in test/demo_defkey.c
169 + remove an unused assignment in progs/infocmp.c
170 + fix a limit check in tack/ansi.c tools_charset()
171 + fix tack/ansi.c tools_status() to perform the VT320/VT420
172 tests in request_cfss(). The function had exited too soon.
173 + fix a memory leak in tic.c's make_namelist()
174 + fix a couple of places in tack/output.c which did not check for EOF.
175 + fix a loop-condition in test/bs.c
176 + add index checks in lib_color.c for color palettes
177 + add index checks in progs/dump_entry.c for version_filter() handling
179 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in copywin()
180 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in waddchnstr()
181 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
182 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c's make_namelist()
183 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
184 + add null-pointer checks in test/cardfile.c
185 + fix a double-free in ncurses/tinfo/trim_sgr0.c
186 + fix a double-free in ncurses/base/wresize.c
187 + add try/catch block to c++/cursesmain.cc
190 + modify Ada95 binding to build with --enable-reentrant by wrapping
191 global variables (bug: acs_map does not yet work).
192 + modify Ada95 binding to use the new access-functions, allowing it
193 to build/run when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
194 + add access-functions and macros to return properties of the WINDOW
195 structure, e.g., when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
196 + improved install-sh's quoting.
197 + use mkdirs.sh rather than mkinstalldirs, e.g., to use fixes from
201 + eliminate part of the direct use of WINDOW data from Ada95 interface.
202 + fix substitutions for termlib filename to make configure option
203 --enable-reentrant work with --with-termlib.
204 + change a constructor for NCursesWindow to allow compiling with
205 NCURSES_OPAQUE set, since we cannot pass a reference to
209 + ignore --with-chtype=unsigned since unsigned is always added to
210 the type in curses.h; do the same for --with-mmask-t.
211 + change warning regarding --enable-ext-colors and wide-character
212 in the configure script to an error.
213 + tweak error message in CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to distinguish other programs
214 such as Darwin's libtool program (report by Michail Vidiassov)
215 + modify edit_man.sh to allow for multiple substitutions per line.
216 + set locale in misc/ncurses-config.in since it uses a range
217 + change permissions libncurses++.a install (report by Michail
219 + corrected length of temporary buffer in wide-character version
220 of set_field_buffer() (related to report by Bryan Christ).
223 + fix mk-1st.awk script install_shlib() function, broken in 20070224
224 changes for cygwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
227 + increase size of array in _nc_visbuf2n() to make "tic -v" work
228 properly in its similar_sgr() function (report/analysis by Peter
230 + add --enable-reentrant configure option for ongoing changes to
231 implement a reentrant version of ncurses:
232 + libraries are suffixed with "t"
233 + wrap several global variables (curscr, newscr, stdscr, ttytype,
234 COLORS, COLOR_PAIRS, COLS, ESCDELAY, LINES and TABSIZE) as
235 functions returning values stored in SCREEN or cur_term.
236 + move some initialization (LINES, COLS) from lib_setup.c,
237 i.e., setupterm() to _nc_setupscreen(), i.e., newterm().
240 + regenerated html documentation.
241 + add NCURSES_OPAQUE symbol to curses.h, will use to make structs
242 opaque in selected configurations.
243 + move the chunk in lib_acs.c which resets acs capabilities when
244 running on a terminal whose locale interferes with those into
245 _nc_setupscreen(), so the libtinfo/libtinfow files can be made
246 identical (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
247 + do not use configure variable SHLIB_LIBS for building libraries
248 outside the ncurses directory, since that symbol is customized
249 only for that directory, and using it introduces an unneeded
250 dependency on libdl (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
251 + modify mk-1st.awk so the generated makefile rules for linking or
252 installing shared libraries do not first remove the library, in
253 case it is in use, e.g., libncurses.so by /bin/sh (report by Jeff
255 + revised section "Using NCURSES under XTERM" in ncurses-intro.html
256 (prompted by newsgroup comment by Nick Guenther).
259 + change internal return codes of _nc_wgetch() to check for cases
260 where KEY_CODE_YES should be returned, e.g., if a KEY_RESIZE was
261 ungetch'd, and read by wget_wch().
262 + fix static-library build broken in 20070217 changes to remove "-ldl"
263 (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
264 + change makefile/scripts for cygwin to allow building termlib.
265 + use Form_Hook in manpages to match form.h
266 + use Menu_Hook in manpages, as well as a few places in menu.h
267 + correct form- and menu-manpages to use specific Field_Options,
268 Menu_Options and Item_Options types.
269 + correct prototype for _tracechar() in manpage (cf: 20011229).
270 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
273 + fixes for $(TICS_LIST) in ncurses/Makefile (report by Miroslav
275 + modify relinking of shared libraries to apply only when rpath is
276 enabled, and add --disable-relink option which can be used to
277 disable the feature altogether (reports by Michail Vidiassov,
279 + fix --with-termlib option for wide-character configuration, stripping
280 the "w" suffix in one place (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
281 + remove "-ldl" from some library lists to reduce dependencies in
282 programs (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
283 + correct description of --enable-signed-char in configure --help
284 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
285 + add pattern for GNU/kFreeBSD configuration to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE,
286 which matches an earlier change to CF_SHARED_OPTS, from xterm #224
288 + remove "${DESTDIR}" from -install_name option used for linking
289 shared libraries on Darwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
292 + add test/inchs.c, test_inch_wide.c, to test win_wchnstr().
293 + remove libdl from library list for termlib (report by Miroslav
295 + fix configure.in to allow --without-progs --with-termlib (patch by
297 + modify win_wchnstr() to ensure that only a base cell is returned
298 for each multi-column character (prompted by report by Wei Kong
299 regarding change in mvwin_wch() cf: 20041023).
302 + modify fix_wchnstr() in form library to strip attributes (and color)
303 from the cchar_t array (field cells) read from a field's window.
304 Otherwise, when copying the field cells back to the window, the
305 associated color overrides the field's background color (report by
307 + improve tracing for form library, showing created forms, fields, etc.
308 + ignore --enable-rpath configure option if --with-shared was omitted.
309 + add _nc_leaks_tinfo(), _nc_free_tic(), _nc_free_tinfo() entrypoints
310 to allow leak-checking when both tic- and tinfo-libraries are built.
311 + drop CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC macro from configure script, since C++ binding
312 no longer relies on it.
313 + disallow combining configure script options --with-ticlib and
314 --enable-termcap (report by Rong-En Fan).
315 + remove tack from ncurses tree.
318 + fix typo in configure script that broke --with-termlib option
319 (report by Rong-En Fan).
322 + improve fix for FreeBSD gnu/98975, to allow for null pointer passed
323 to tgetent() (report by Rong-en Fan).
324 + update tack/HISTORY and tack/README to tell how to build it after
325 it is removed from the ncurses tree.
326 + fix configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
327 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
328 + review/eliminate other original-file artifacts in cursesw.cc, making
329 its license consistent with ncurses.
330 + use ncurses vw_scanw() rather than reading into a fixed buffer in
331 the c++ binding for scanw() methods (prompted by report by Nuno Dias).
332 + eliminate fixed-buffer vsprintf() calls in c++ binding.
335 + add _nc_leaks_tic() to separate leak-checking of tic library from
336 term/ncurses libraries, and thereby eliminate a library dependency.
337 + fix test/mk-test.awk to ignore blank lines.
338 + correct paths in include/headers, for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav
342 + add a break-statement in misc/shlib to ensure that it exits on the
343 _first_ matched directory (report by Paul Novak).
344 + add tack/configure, which can be used to build tack outside the
346 + add --with-ticlib option, to build/install the tic-support functions
347 in a separate library (suggested by Miroslav Lichvar).
350 + change MKunctrl.awk to reduce relocation table for unctrl.o
351 + change MKkeyname.awk to reduce relocation table for keyname.o
352 (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
355 + modify configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
356 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
357 + modify some modules to allow them to be reentrant if _REENTRANT is
358 defined: lib_baudrate.c, resizeterm.c (local data only)
359 + eliminate static data from some modules: add_tries.c, hardscroll.c,
360 lib_ttyflags.c, lib_twait.c
361 + improve manpage install to add aliases for the transformed program
362 names, e.g., from --program-prefix.
363 + used linklint to verify links in the HTML documentation, made fixes
364 to manpages as needed.
365 + fix a typo in curs_mouse.3x (report by William McBrine).
366 + fix install-rule for ncurses5-config to make the bin-directory.
369 + modify configure script to omit the tic (terminfo compiler) support
370 from ncurses library if --without-progs option is given.
371 + modify install rule for ncurses5-config to do this via "install.libs"
372 + modify shared-library rules to allow FreeBSD 3.x to use rpath.
373 + update config.guess, config.sub
375 20061217 5.6 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
378 + add ifdef's for <wctype.h> for HPUX, which has the corresponding
379 definitions in <wchar.h>.
380 + revert the va_copy() change from 20061202, since it was neither
381 correct nor portable.
382 + add $(LOCAL_LIBS) definition to progs/Makefile.in, needed for
384 + ignore wide-acs line-drawing characters that wcwidth() claims are
385 not one-column. This is a workaround for Solaris' broken locale
389 + modify configure --with-gpm option to allow it to accept a parameter,
390 i.e., the name of the dynamic GPM library to load via dlopen()
391 (requested by Bryan Henderson).
392 + add configure option --with-valgrind, changes from vile.
393 + modify configure script AC_TRY_RUN and AC_TRY_LINK checks to use
394 'return' in preference to 'exit()'.
397 + change default for --with-develop back to "no".
398 + add XTABS to tracing of TTY bits.
399 + updated autoconf patch to ifdef-out the misfeature which declares
400 exit() for configure tests. This fixes a redefinition warning on
402 + use ${CC} rather than ${LD} in shared library rules for IRIX64,
403 Solaris to help ensure that initialization sections are provided for
404 extra linkage requirements, e.g., of C++ applications (prompted by
405 comment by Casper Dik in newsgroup).
406 + rename "$target" in CF_MAN_PAGES to make it easier to distinguish
407 from the autoconf predefined symbol. There was no conflict,
408 since "$target" was used only in the generated edit_man.sh file,
409 but SuSE's rpm package contains a patch.
412 + update man/term.5 to reflect extended terminfo support and hashed
413 database configuration.
414 + updates for test/configure script.
415 + adapted from SuSE rpm package:
416 + remove long-obsolete workaround for broken-linker which declared
418 + improve error recovery in PUTC() macro when wcrtomb() does not
419 return usable results for an 8-bit character.
420 + patches from rpm package (SuSE):
421 + use va_copy() in extra varargs manipulation for tracing version
423 + use a va_list rather than a null in _nc_freeall()'s call to
425 + add some see-also references in manpages to show related
426 wide-character functions (suggested by Claus Fischer).
429 + add a check in lib_color.c to ensure caller does not increase COLORS
430 above max_colors, which is used as an array index (discussion with
432 + add ifdef's allowing ncurses to be built with tparm() using either
433 varargs (the existing status), or using a fixed-parameter list (to
437 + fix redrawing of windows other than stdscr using wredrawln() by
438 touching the corresponding rows in curscr (discussion with Dan
441 + add test/echochar.c
442 + review/cleanup manpage descriptions of error-returns for form- and
443 menu-libraries (prompted by FreeBSD docs/46196).
446 + add AUTHORS file -TD
447 + omit the -D options from output of the new config script --cflags
448 option (suggested by Ralf S Engelschall).
449 + make NCURSES_INLINE unconditionally defined in curses.h
452 + revert change to accommodate bash 3.2, since that breaks other
453 platforms, e.g., Solaris.
454 + minor fixes to NEWS file to simplify scripting to obtain list of
456 + improve some shared-library configure scripting for Linux, FreeBSD
457 and NetBSD to make "--with-shlib-version" work.
458 + change configure-script rules for FreeBSD shared libraries to allow
459 for rpath support in versions past 3.
460 + use $(DESTDIR) in makefile rules for installing/uninstalling the
461 package config script (reports/patches by Christian Wiese,
463 + fix a warning in the configure script for NetBSD 2.0, working around
464 spurious blanks embedded in its ${MAKEFLAGS} symbol.
465 + change test/Makefile to simplify installing test programs in a
466 different directory when --enable-rpath is used.
469 + work around bug in bash 3.2 by adding extra quotes (Jim Gifford).
470 + add/install a package config script, e.g., "ncurses5-config" or
471 "ncursesw5-config", according to configuration options.
474 + add several GNU Screen terminfo variations with 16- and 256-colors,
475 and status line (Alain Bench).
476 + change the way shared libraries (other than libtool) are installed.
477 Rather than copying the build-tree's libraries, link the shared
478 objects into the install directory. This makes the --with-rpath
479 option work except with $(DESTDIR) (cf: 20000930).
482 + fix ifdef in c++/internal.h for QNX 6.1
483 + test-compiled with (old) egcs-1.1.2, modified configure script to
484 not unset the $CXX and related variables which would prevent this.
485 + fix a few terminfo.src typos exposed by improvments to "-f" option.
486 + improve infocmp/tic "-f" option formatting.
489 + make --disable-largefile option work (report by Thomas M Ott).
490 + updated html documentation.
491 + add ka2, kb1, kb3, kc2 to vt220-keypad as an extension -TD
492 + minor improvements to rxvt+pcfkeys -TD
495 + move static data from lib_mouse.c into SCREEN struct.
496 + improve ifdef's for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset to work with Mac OS X
497 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
498 + modify CF_PATH_SYNTAX to ensure it uses the result from --prefix
499 option (from lynx changes) -TD
500 + adapt AC_PROG_EGREP check, noting that this is likely to be another
501 place aggravated by POSIXLY_CORRECT.
502 + modify configure check for awk to ensure that it is found (prompted
503 by report by Christopher Parker).
507 + add kon, kon2 and jfbterm terminfo entry (request by Till Maas) -TD
508 + remove invis capability from klone+sgr, mainly used by linux entry,
509 since it does not really do this -TD
512 + correct logic in wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not guard
513 against passing the multi-column attribute into a call on waddch(),
514 e.g., using data returned by win_wch() (cf: 20041023)
515 (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
518 + fix kterm's acsc string -TD
519 + fix for change to tic/infocmp in 20060819 to ensure no blank is
520 embedded into a termcap description.
521 + workaround for 20050806 ifdef's change to allow visbuf.c to compile
522 when using --with-termlib --with-trace options.
523 + improve tgetstr() by making the return value point into the user's
524 buffer, if provided (patch by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat Bugzilla
526 + correct libraries needed for foldkeys (report by Stanislav Ievlev)
529 + add terminfo entries for xfce terminal (xfce) and multi gnome
531 + add test/foldkeys.c
534 + modify tic and infocmp to avoid writing trailing blanks on terminfo
535 source output (Debian #378783).
536 + modify configure script to ensure that if the C compiler is used
537 rather than the loader in making shared libraries, the $(CFLAGS)
538 variable is also used (Redhat Bugzilla #199369).
539 + port hashed-db code to db2 and db3.
540 + fix a bug in tgetent() from 20060625 and 20060715 changes
541 (patch/analysis by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat Bugzilla #202480)).
544 + updated xterm function-keys terminfo to match xterm #216 -TD
545 + add configure --with-hashed-db option (tested only with FreeBSD 6.0,
546 e.g., the db 1.8.5 interface).
549 + modify toe to access termcap data, e.g., via cgetent() functions,
550 or as a text file if those are not available.
551 + use _nc_basename() in tset to improve $SHELL check for csh/sh.
552 + modify _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_termcap_entry() so infocmp,
553 can access termcap data when the terminfo database is disabled.
556 + widen the test for xterm kmous a little to allow for other strings
557 than \E[M, e.g., for xterm-sco functionality in xterm.
558 + update xterm-related terminfo entries to match xterm patch #216 -TD
559 + update config.guess, config.sub
562 + fix for install-rule in Ada95 to add terminal_interface.ads
563 and terminal_interface.ali (anonymous posting in comp.lang.ada).
564 + correction to manpage for getcchar() (report by William McBrine).
566 + modify wchgat() to mark updated cells as changed so a refresh will
567 repaint those cells (comments by Sadrul H Chowdhury and William
569 + split up dependency of names.c and codes.c in ncurses/Makefile to
570 work with parallel make (report/analysis by Joseph S Myers).
571 + suppress a warning message (which is ignored) for systems without
572 an ldconfig program (patch by Justin Hibbits).
573 + modify configure script --disable-symlinks option to allow one to
574 disable symlink() in tic even when link() does not work (report by
576 + modify MKfallback.sh to use tic -x when constructing fallback tables
577 to allow extended capabilities to be retrieved from a fallback entry.
578 + improve leak-checking logic in tgetent() from 20060625 to ensure that
579 it does not free the current screen (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
582 + add a check for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset (NetBSD #33916).
583 + correct _nc_free_entries() and related functions used for memory leak
587 + revert a minor change for magic-cookie support from 20060513, which
588 caused unexpected reset of attributes, e.g., when resizing test/view
590 + note in clear manpage that the program ignores command-line
591 parameters (prompted by Debian #371855).
592 + fixes to make lib_gen.c build properly with changes to the configure
593 --disable-macros option and NCURSES_NOMACROS (cf: 20060527)
594 + update/correct several terminfo entries -TD
595 + add some notes regarding copyright to terminfo.src -TD
598 + fixes to build Ada95 binding with gnat-4.1.0
599 + modify read_termtype() so the term_names data is always allocated as
600 part of the str_table, a better fix for a memory leak (cf: 20030809).
601 + reduce memory leaks in repeated calls to tgetent() by remembering the
602 last TERMINAL* value allocated to hold the corresponding data and
603 freeing that if the tgetent() result buffer is the same as the
604 previous call (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
605 + modify tack to test extended capability function-key strings.
606 + improved gnome terminfo entry (GenToo #122566).
607 + improved xterm-256color terminfo entry (patch by Alain Bench).
610 + fix two small memory leaks related to repeated tgetent() calls
611 with TERM=screen (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
612 + add --enable-signed-char to simplify Debian package.
613 + reduce name-pollution in term.h by removing #define's for HAVE_xxx
615 + correct typo in curs_terminfo.3x (Debian #369168).
618 + enable the mouse in test/movewindow.c
619 + improve a limit-check in frm_def.c (John Heasley).
620 + minor copyright fixes.
621 + change configure script to produce test/Makefile from data file.
624 + add a configure option --enable-wgetch-events to enable
625 NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS, and correct the associated loop-logic in
626 lib_twait.c (report by Bernd Jendrissek).
627 + remove include/nomacros.h from build, since the ifdef for
628 NCURSES_NOMACROS makes that obsolete.
629 + add entrypoints for some functions which were only provided as macros
630 to make NCURSES_NOMACROS ifdef work properly: getcurx(), getcury(),
631 getbegx(), getbegy(), getmaxx(), getmaxy(), getparx() and getpary(),
633 + provide ifdef for NCURSES_NOMACROS which suppresses most macro
634 definitions from curses.h, i.e., where a macro is defined to override
635 a function to improve performance. Allowing a developer to suppress
636 these definitions can simplify some application (discussion with
638 + improve description of memu/meml in terminfo manpage.
641 + if msgr is false, reset video attributes when doing an automargin
642 wrap to the next line. This makes the ncurses 'k' test work properly
644 + correct caching of keyname(), which was using only half of its table.
645 + minor fixes to memory-leak checking.
646 + make SCREEN._acs_map and SCREEN._screen_acs_map pointers rather than
647 arrays, making ACS_LEN less visible to applications (suggested by
649 + move chunk in SCREEN ifdef'd for USE_WIDEC_SUPPORT to the end, so
650 _screen_acs_map will have the same offset in both ncurses/ncursesw,
651 making the corresponding tinfo/tinfow libraries binary-compatible
652 (cf: 20041016, report by Stanislav Ievlev).
655 + improve debug-tracing for EmitRange().
656 + change default for --with-develop to "yes". Add NCURSES_NO_HARD_TABS
657 and NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE environment variables to allow runtime
658 suppression of the related hard-tabs and xmc-glitch features.
659 + add ncurses version number to top-level manpages, e.g., ncurses, tic,
660 infocmp, terminfo as well as form, menu, panel.
661 + update config.guess, config.sub
662 + modify ncurses.c to work around a bug in NetBSD 3.0 curses
663 (field_buffer returning null for a valid field). The 'r' test
664 appears to not work with that configuration since the new_fieldtype()
665 function is broken in that implementation.
668 + add hpterm-color terminfo entry -TD
669 + fixes to compile test-programs with HPUX 11.23
672 + add copyright notices to files other than those that are generated,
673 data or adapted from pdcurses (reports by William McBrine, David
675 + improve rendering on hpterm by not resetting attributes at the end
676 of doupdate() if the terminal has the magic-cookie feature (report
678 + add 256color variants of terminfo entries for programs which are
679 reported to implement this feature -TD
682 + fix typo in change to NewChar() macro from 20060311 changes, which
683 broke tab-expansion (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
686 + document -U option of tic and infocmp.
687 + modify tic/infocmp to suppress smacs/rmacs when acsc is suppressed
688 due to size limit, e.g., converting to termcap format. Also
689 suppress them if the output format does not contain acsc and it
690 was not VT100-like, i.e., a one-one mapping (Novell #163715).
691 + add configure check to ensure that SIGWINCH is defined on platforms
692 such as OS X which exclude that when _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., are
693 defined (report by Nicholas Cole)
696 + modify write_object() to not write coincidental extensions of an
697 entry made due to it being referenced in a use= clause (report by
699 + another fix for infocmp -i option, which did not ensure that some
700 escape sequences had comparable prefixes (report by Alain Bench).
703 + improve discussion of init/reset in terminfo and tput manpages
704 (report by Alain Bench).
705 + use is3 string for a fallback of rs3 in the reset program; it was
706 using is2 (report by Alain Bench).
707 + correct logic for infocmp -i option, which did not account for
708 multiple digits in a parameter (cf: 20040828) (report by Alain
710 + move _nc_handle_sigwinch() to lib_setup.c to make --with-termlib
711 option work after 20060114 changes (report by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz).
712 + add copyright notices to test-programs as needed (report by William
716 + modify ncurses.c 'F' test to combine the wide-characters with color
717 and/or video attributes.
718 + modify test/ncurses to use CTL/Q or ESC consistently for exiting
719 a test-screen (some commands used 'x' or 'q').
722 + fix an off-by-one in the scrolling-region change (cf_ 20060311).
725 + add checks in waddchnstr() and wadd_wchnstr() to stop copying when
726 a null character is found (report by Igor Bogomazov).
727 + modify progs/Makefile.in to make "tput init" work properly with
728 cygwin, i.e., do not pass a ".exe" in the reference string used
729 in check_aliases (report by Samuel Thibault).
730 + add some checks to ensure current position is within scrolling
731 region before scrolling on a new line (report by Dan Gookin).
732 + change some NewChar() usage to static variables to work around
733 stack garbage introduced when cchar_t is not packed (Redhat #182024).
736 + workarounds to build test/movewindow with PDcurses 2.7.
737 + fix for nsterm-16color entry (patch by Alain Bench).
738 + correct a typo in infocmp manpage (Debian #354281).
741 + add nsterm-16color entry -TD
742 + updated mlterm terminfo entry -TD
743 + remove 970913 feature for copying subwindows as they are moved in
744 mvwin() (discussion with Bryan Christ).
745 + modify test/demo_menus.c to demonstrate moving a menu (both the
746 window and subwindow) using shifted cursor-keys.
747 + start implementing recursive mvwin() in movewindow.c (incomplete).
748 + add a fallback definition for GCC_PRINTFLIKE() in test.priv.h,
749 for movewindow.c (report by William McBrine).
750 + add help-message to test/movewindow.c
753 + add test/movewindow.c, to test mvderwin().
754 + fix ncurses soft-key test so color changes are shown immediately
756 + modify ncurses soft-key test to hide the keys when exiting the test
758 + fixes to build test programs with PDCurses 2.7, e.g., its headers
759 rely on autoconf symbols, and it declares stubs for nonfunctional
760 terminfo and termcap entrypoints.
763 + improved test/configure to build test/ncurses on HPUX 11 using the
765 + documented ALTERNATE CONFIGURATIONS in the ncurses manpage, for the
766 benefit of developers who do not read INSTALL.
769 + correct form library Window_To_Buffer() change (cf: 20040516), which
770 should ignore the video attributes (report by Ricardo Cantu).
773 + minor fixes to xmc-glitch experimental code:
774 + suppress line-drawing
775 + implement max_attributes
777 + minor fixes for the database iterator.
778 + fix some buffer limits in c++ demo (comment by Falk Hueffner in
782 + add toe -a option, to show all databases. This uses new private
783 interfaces in the ncurses library for iterating through the list of
785 + fix toe from 20000909 changes which made it not look at
787 + make toe's -v option parameter optional as per manpage.
788 + improve SIGWINCH handling by postponing its effect during newterm(),
789 etc., when allocating screens.
792 + modify wgetnstr() to return KEY_RESIZE if a sigwinch occurs. Use
793 this in test/filter.c
794 + fix an error in filter() modification which caused some applications
798 + check if filter() was called when getting the screensize. Keep it
799 at 1 if so (based on Redhat #174498).
800 + add extension nofilter().
801 + refined the workaround for ACS mapping.
802 + make ifdef's consistent in curses.h for the extended colors so the
803 header file can be used for the normal curses library. The header
804 file installed for extended colors is a variation of the
805 wide-character configuration (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
808 + add a workaround to ACS mapping to allow applications such as
809 test/blue.c to use the "PC ROM" characters by masking them with
810 A_ALTCHARSET. This worked up til 5.5, but was lost in the revision
811 of legacy coding (report by Michael Deutschmann).
812 + add a null-pointer check in the wide-character version of
813 calculate_actual_width() (report by Victor Julien).
814 + improve test/ncurses 'd' (color-edit) test by allowing the RGB
815 values to be set independently (patch by William McBrine).
816 + modify test/configure script to allow building test programs with
818 + modified test programs to allow some to work with NetBSD curses.
819 Several do not because NetBSD curses implements a subset of X/Open
820 curses, and also lacks much of SVr4 additions. But it's enough for
822 + update config.guess and config.sub
825 + use BSD-specific fix for return-value from cgetent() from CVS where
826 an unknown terminal type would be reportd as "database not found".
827 + make tgetent() return code more readable using new symbols
829 + remove references to non-existent "tctest" program.
830 + remove TESTPROGS from progs/Makefile.in (it was referring to code
831 that was never built in that directory).
832 + typos in curs_addchstr.3x, some doc files (noticed in OpenBSD CVS).
835 + add use_legacy_coding() function to support lynx's font-switching
837 + fix formatting in curs_termcap.3x (report by Mike Frysinger).
838 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to change preprocessor-expanded _Bool back to
842 + extend test/ncurses.c 's' (overlay window) test to exercise overlay(),
843 overwrite() and copywin() with different combinations of colors and
844 attributes (including background color) to make it easy to see the
845 effect of the different functions.
846 + corrections to menu/m_global.c for wide-characters (report by
850 + add configure option --without-dlsym, allowing developers to
851 configure GPM support without using dlsym() (discussion with Michael
853 + fix wins_nwstr(), which did not handle single-column non-8bit codes
857 + move prototypes for wide-character trace functions from curses.tail
858 to curses.wide to avoid accidental reference to those if
859 _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined without ensuring that <wchar.h> is
861 + add/use NCURSES_INLINE definition.
862 + change some internal functions to use int/unsigned rather than the
866 + remove a redundant check in lib_color.c (Debian #335655).
867 + use ld's -search_paths_first option on Darwin to work around odd
868 search rules on that platform (report by Christian Gennerat, analysis
870 + remove special case for Darwin in CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro.
871 + ignore EINTR in tcgetattr/tcsetattr calls (Debian #339518).
872 + fix several bugs in test/bs.c (patch by Stephen Lindholm).
875 + other minor fixes to cygwin based on tack -TD
876 + correct smacs in cygwin (Debian #338234, report by Baurzhan
877 Ismagulov, who noted that it was fixed in Cygwin).
880 + add shifted up/down arrow codes to xterm-new as kind/kri strings -TD
881 + modify wbkgrnd() to avoid clearing the A_CHARTEXT attribute bits
882 since those record the state of multicolumn characters (Debian
884 + modify werase to clear multicolumn characters that extend into
885 a derived window (Debian #316663).
888 + move assignment from environment variable ESCDELAY from initscr()
889 down to newterm() so the environment variable affects timeouts for
890 terminals opened with newterm() as well.
891 + fix a memory leak in keyname().
892 + add test/demo_altkeys.c
893 + modify test/demo_defkey.c to exit from loop via 'q' to allow
894 leak-checking, as well as fix a buffer size in winnstr() call.
897 + correct order of use-clauses in rxvt-basic entry which made codes for
898 f1-f4 vt100-style rather than vt220-style (report by Gabor Z Papp).
899 + suppress configure check for gnatmake if Ada95/Makefile.in is not
901 + correct a typo in configure --with-bool option for the case where
902 --without-cxx is used (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
903 + add a note to INSTALL's discussion of --with-normal, pointing out
904 that one may wish to use --without-gpm to ensure a completely
905 static link (prompted by report by Felix von Leitner).
907 20051010 5.5 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
910 + document in demo_forms.c some portability issues.
913 + document side-effect of werase() which sets the cursor position.
914 + save/restore the current position in form field editing to make
918 + correct header dependencies in progs, allowing parallel make (report
919 by Daniel Jacobowitz).
920 + modify CF_BUILD_CC to ensure that pre-setting $BUILD_CC overrides
921 the configure check for --with-build-cc (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
922 + modify CF_CFG_DEFAULTS to not use /usr as the default prefix for
924 + update config.guess and config.sub from
925 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
928 + modify sed expression which computes path for /usr/lib/terminfo
929 symbolic link in install to ensure that it does not change unexpected
930 levels of the path (Gentoo #42336).
931 + modify default for --disable-lp64 configure option to reduce impact
932 on existing 64-bit builds. Enabling the _LP64 option may change the
933 size of chtype and mmask_t. However, for ABI 6, it is enabled by
934 default (report by Mike Frysinger).
935 + add configure script check for --enable-ext-mouse, bump ABI to 6 by
936 default if it is used.
937 + improve configure script logic for bumping ABI to omit this if the
938 --with-abi-version option was used.
939 + update address for Free Software Foundation in tack's source.
940 + correct wins_wch(), which was not marking the filler-cells of
941 multi-column characters (cf: 20041023).
944 + modify mouse initialization to ensure that Gpm_Open() is called only
945 once. Otherwise GPM gets confused in its initialization of signal
946 handlers (Debian #326709).
949 + modify logic for backspacing in a multiline form field to ensure that
950 it works even when the preceding line is full (report by Frank van
952 + remove comment about BUGS section of ncurses manpage (Debian #325481)
955 + document some workarounds for shared and libtool library
956 configurations in INSTALL (see --with-shared and --with-libtool).
957 + modify CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GXX_VERSION macros to accommodate
958 cross-compilers which emit the platform name in their version
960 arm-sa1100-linux-gnu-g++ (GCC) 4.0.1
961 (report by Frank van Vugt).
964 + start updating documentation for upcoming 5.5 release.
965 + fix to make libtool and libtinfo work together again (cf: 20050122).
966 + fixes to allow building traces into libtinfo
967 + add debug trace to tic that shows if/how ncurses will write to the
968 lower corner of a terminal's screen.
969 + update llib-l* files.
972 + modify initializers in c++ binding to build with old versions of g++.
973 + improve special case for 20050115 repainting fix, ensuring that if
974 the first changed cell is not a character that the range to be
975 repainted is adjusted to start at a character's beginning (Debian
979 + fixes to build on QNX 6.1
980 + improve configure script checks for Intel 9.0 compiler.
981 + remove #include's for libc.h (obsolete).
982 + adjust ifdef's in curses.priv.h so that when cross-compiling to
983 produce comp_hash and make_keys, no dependency on wchar.h is needed.
984 That simplifies the build-cppflags (report by Frank van Vugt).
985 + move modules related to key-binding into libtinfo to fix linkage
986 problem caused by 20050430 changes to MKkeyname.sh (report by
990 + updates/fixes for configure script macros from vile -TD
991 + make prism9's sgr string agree with the rest of the terminfo -TD
992 + make vt220's sgr0 string consistent with sgr string, do this for
993 several related cases -TD
994 + improve translation to termcap by filtering the 'me' (sgr0) strings
995 as in the runtime call to tgetent() (prompted by a discussion with
997 + improve tic check for sgr0 versus sgr(0), to help ensure that sgr0
1001 + fix special cases for trimming sgr0 for hurd and vt220 (Debian
1003 + split-out _nc_trim_sgr0() from modifications made to tgetent(), to
1004 allow it to be used by tic to provide information about the runtime
1005 changes that would be made to sgr0 for termcap applications.
1006 + modify make_sed.sh to make the group-name in the NAME section of
1007 form/menu library manpage agree with the TITLE string when renaming
1008 is done for Debian (Debian #78866).
1011 + modify parameter type in c++ binding for insch() and mvwinsch() to
1012 be consistent with underlying ncurses library (was char, is chtype).
1013 + modify treatment of Intel compiler to allow _GNU_SOURCE to be defined
1015 + improve configure check for nanosleep(), checking that it works since
1016 some older systems such as AIX 4.3 have a nonworking version.
1019 + update config.guess and config.sub from
1020 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
1021 + modify misc/shlib to work in test-directory.
1022 + suppress $suffix in misc/run_tic.sh when cross-compiling. This
1023 allows cross-compiles to use the host's tic program to handle the
1024 "make install.data" step.
1025 + improve description of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables in manpages
1026 (prompted by report by Dave Ulrick).
1027 + improve description of cross-compiling in INSTALL
1028 + add NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html by Pradeep Padala
1029 (see http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/).
1030 + modify configure script to obtain soname for GPM library (discussion
1031 with Daniel Jacobowitz).
1032 + modify configure script so that --with-chtype option will still
1033 compute the unsigned literals suffix for constants in curses.h
1034 (report by Daniel Jacobowitz:
1035 + patches from Daniel Jacobowitz:
1036 + the man_db.renames entry for tack.1 was backwards.
1037 + tack.1 had some 1m's that should have been 1M's.
1038 + the section for curs_inwstr.3 was wrong.
1041 + correction to --with-chtype option (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1044 + move build-time edit_man.sh and edit_man.sed scripts to top directory
1045 to simplify reusing them for renaming tack's manpage (prompted by a
1046 review of Debian package).
1047 + revert minor optimization from 20041030 (Debian #313609).
1048 + libtool-specific fixes, tested with libtool 1.4.3, 1.5.0, 1.5.6,
1049 1.5.10 and 1.5.18 (all work except as noted previously for the c++
1050 install using libtool 1.5.0):
1051 + modify the clean-rule in c++/Makefile.in to work with IRIX64 make
1053 + use $(LIBTOOL_UNINSTALL) symbol, overlooked in 20030830
1054 + add configure options --with-chtype and --with-mmask-t, to allow
1055 overriding of the non-LP64 model's use of the corresponding types.
1056 + revise test for size of chtype (and mmask_t), which always returned
1057 "long" due to an uninitialized variable (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1060 + change _tracef's that used "%p" format for va_list values to ignore
1061 that, since on some platforms those are not pointers.
1062 + fixes for long-formats in printf's due to largefile support.
1065 + fixes for termcap support:
1066 + reset pointer to _nc_curr_token.tk_name when the input stream is
1067 closed, which could point to free memory (cf: 20030215).
1068 + delink TERMTYPE data which is used by the termcap reader, so that
1069 extended names data will be freed consistently.
1070 + free pointer to TERMTYPE data in _nc_free_termtype() rather than
1072 + add some entrypoints for freeing permanently allocated data via
1073 _nc_freeall() when NO_LEAKS is defined.
1074 + amend 20041030 change to _nc_do_color to ensure that optimization is
1075 applied only when the terminal supports back_color_erase (bce).
1078 + add sun-color terminfo entry -TD
1079 + correct a missing assignment in c++ binding's method
1080 NCursesPanel::UserPointer() from 20050409 changes.
1081 + improve configure check for large-files, adding check for dirent64
1083 + minor change to configure script to improve linker options for the
1087 + document error conditions for ncurses library functions (report by
1089 + regenerated html documentation for ada binding.
1090 see ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/gnathtml
1093 + regenerated html documentation for manpages.
1094 + add $(BUILD_EXEEXT) suffix to invocation of make_keys in
1095 ncurses/Makefile (Gentoo #89772).
1096 + modify c++/demo.cc to build with g++ -fno-implicit-templates option
1097 (patch by Mike Frysinger).
1098 + modify tic to filter out long extended names when translating to
1099 termcap format. Only two characters are permissible for termcap
1103 + modify terminfo entries xterm-new and rxvt to add strings for
1104 shift-, control-cursor keys.
1105 + workaround to allow c++ binding to compile with g++ 2.95.3, which
1106 has a broken implementation of static_cast<> (patch by Jeff Chua).
1107 + modify initialization of key lookup table so that if an extended
1108 capability (tic -x) string is defined, and its name begins with 'k',
1109 it will automatically be treated as a key.
1110 + modify test/keynames.c to allow for the possibility of extended
1111 key names, e.g., via define_key(), or via "tic -x".
1112 + add test/demo_termcap.c to show the contents of given entry via the
1116 + minor fixes for vt100/vt52 entries -TD
1117 + add configure option --enable-largefile
1118 + corrected libraries used to build Ada95/gen/gen, found in testing
1122 + update config.guess, config.sub
1123 + modify configure script check for _XOPEN_SOURCE, disable that on
1124 Darwin whose header files have problems (patch by Chris Zubrzycki).
1125 + modify form library Is_Printable_String() to use iswprint() rather
1126 than wcwidth() for determining if a character is printable. The
1127 latter caused it to reject menu items containing non-spacing
1129 + modify ncurses test program's F-test to handle non-spacing characters
1130 by combining them with a reverse-video blank.
1131 + review/fix several gcc -Wconversion warnings.
1134 + correct an off-by-one error in m_driver() for mouse-clicks used to
1135 position the mouse to a particular item.
1136 + implement test/demo_menus.c
1137 + add some checks in lib_mouse to ensure SP is set.
1138 + modify C++ binding to make 20050403 changes work with the configure
1139 --enable-const option.
1142 + modify start_color() to return ERR if it cannot allocate memory.
1143 + address g++ compiler warnings in C++ binding by adding explicit
1144 member initialization, assignment operators and copy constructors.
1145 Most of the changes simply preserve the existing semantics of the
1146 binding, which can leak memory, etc., but by making these features
1147 visible, it provides a framework for improving the binding.
1148 + improve C++ binding using static_cast, etc.
1149 + modify configure script --enable-warnings to add options to g++ to
1150 correspond to the gcc --enable-warnings.
1151 + modify C++ binding to use some C internal functions to make it
1152 compile properly on Solaris (and other platforms).
1155 + amend change from 20050320 to limit it to configurations with a
1157 + fix a bug introduced in 20050320 which broke the translation of
1158 nonprinting characters to uparrow form (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
1161 + add ifdef's for _LP64 in curses.h to avoid using wasteful 64-bits for
1162 chtype and mmask_t, but add configure option --disable-lp64 in case
1163 anyone used that configuration.
1164 + update misc/shlib script to account for Mac OS X (report by Michail
1166 + correct comparison for wrapping multibyte characters in
1167 waddch_literal() (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
1170 + add -c and -w options to tset to allow user to suppress ncurses'
1171 resizing of the terminal emulator window in the special case where it
1172 is not able to detect the true size (report by Win Delvaux, Debian
1174 + modify waddch_nosync() to account for locale zn_CH.GBK, which uses
1175 codes 128-159 as part of multibyte characters (report by Wang
1176 WenRui, Debian #300512).
1179 + modify ncurses.c 'd' test to make it work with 88-color
1180 configuration, i.e., by implementing scrolling.
1181 + improve scrolling in ncurses.c 'c' and 'C' tests, e.g., for 88-color
1185 + change tracemunch to use strict checking.
1186 + modify ncurses.c 'p' test to test line-drawing within a pad.
1187 + implement environment variable NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS to support
1188 miscellaneous terminal emulators which ignore alternate character
1189 set escape sequences when in UTF-8 mode.
1192 + change NCursesWindow::err_handler() to a virtual function (request by
1194 + modify fty_int.c and fty_num.c to handle wide characters (report by
1196 + adapt fix for fty_alpha.c to fty_alnum.c, which also handled normal
1197 and wide characters inconsistently (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
1198 + update llib-* files to reflect internal interface additions/changes.
1201 + improve test/configure script, adding tests for _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc.,
1203 + add aixterm-16color terminfo entry -TD
1204 + modified xterm-new terminfo entry to work with tgetent() changes -TD
1205 + extended changes in tgetent() from 20040710 to allow the substring of
1206 sgr0 which matches rmacs to be at the beginning of the sgr0 string
1207 (request by Thomas Wolff). Wolff says the visual effect in
1208 combination with pre-20040710 ncurses is improved.
1209 + fix off-by-one in winnstr() call which caused form field validation
1210 of multibyte characters to ignore the last character in a field.
1211 + correct logic in winsch() for inserting multibyte strings; the code
1212 would clear cells after the insertion rather than push them to the
1213 right (cf: 20040228).
1214 + fix an inconsistency in Check_Alpha_Field() between normal and wide
1215 character logic (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
1218 + fix a bug in editing wide-characters in form library: deleting a
1219 nonwide character modified the previous wide-character.
1220 + update manpage to describe NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2.
1221 + correct manpage description of mouseinterval() (Debian #280687).
1222 + add a note to default_colors.3x explaining why this extension was
1223 added (Debian #295083).
1224 + add traces to panel library.
1227 + improve editing of wide-characters in form library: left/right
1228 cursor movement, and single-character deletions work properly.
1229 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM happens to be prefixed with
1230 "xterm". Gpm_Open() would otherwise assert that it can deal with
1231 mouse events in this case.
1232 + modify GPM mouse support so it closes the server connection when
1233 the caller disables the mouse (report by Stanislav Ievlev).
1236 + add traces for callback functions in form library.
1237 + add experimental configure option --enable-ext-mouse, which defines
1238 NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2, and modifies the encoding of mouse events to
1239 support wheel mice, which may transmit buttons 4 and 5. This works
1240 with xterm and similar X terminal emulators (prompted by question by
1241 Andreas Henningsson, this is also related to Debian #230990).
1242 + improve configure macros CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE to
1243 avoid redefinition warnings on cygwin.
1246 + merge remaining development changes for extended colors (mostly
1247 complete, does not appear to break other configurations).
1248 + add xterm-88color.dat (part of extended colors testing).
1249 + improve _tracedump() handling of color pairs past 96.
1250 + modify return-value from start_color() to return OK if colors have
1251 already been started.
1252 + modify curs_color.3x list error conditions for init_pair(),
1253 pair_content() and color_content().
1254 + modify pair_content() to return -1 for consistency with init_pair()
1255 if it corresponds to the default-color.
1256 + change internal representation of default-color to allow application
1257 to use color number 255. This does not affect the total number of
1258 color pairs which are allowed.
1259 + add a top-level tags rule.
1262 + add a null-pointer check in wgetch() in case it is called without
1263 first calling initscr().
1264 + add some null-pointer checks for SP, which is not set by libtinfo.
1265 + modify misc/shlib to ensure that absolute pathnames are used.
1266 + modify test/Makefile.in, etc., to link test programs only against the
1267 libraries needed, e.g., omit form/menu/panel library for the ones
1268 that are curses-specific.
1269 + change SP->_current_attr to a pointer, adjust ifdef's to ensure that
1270 libtinfo.so and libtinfow.so have the same ABI. The reason for this
1271 is that the corresponding data which belongs to the upper-level
1272 ncurses library has a different size in each model (report by
1276 + minor fixes to allow test-compiles with g++.
1277 + correct column value shown in tic's warnings, which did not account
1278 for leading whitespace.
1279 + add a check in _nc_trans_string() for improperly ended strings, i.e.,
1280 where a following line begins in column 1.
1281 + modify _nc_save_str() to return a null pointer on buffer overflow.
1282 + improve repainting while scrolling wide-character data (Eungkyu Song).
1285 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
1288 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
1289 + fix manpage typo (FreeBSD report docs/75544).
1290 + update config.guess, config.sub
1291 > patches for configure script (Albert Chin-A-Young):
1292 + improved fix to make mbstate_t recognized on HPUX 11i (cf:
1293 20030705), making vsscanf() prototype visible on IRIX64. Tested for
1294 on HP-UX 11i, Solaris 7, 8, 9, AIX 4.3.3, 5.2, Tru64 UNIX 4.0D, 5.1,
1295 IRIX64 6.5, Redhat Linux 7.1, 9, and RHEL 2.1, 3.0.
1296 + print the result of the --disable-home-terminfo option.
1297 + use -rpath when compiling with SGI C compiler.
1300 + add trace calls to remaining public functions in form and menu
1302 + fix check for numeric digits in test/ncurses.c 'b' and 'B' tests.
1303 + fix typo in test/ncurses.c 'c' test from 20041218.
1306 + revise test/ncurses.c 'c' color test to improve use for xterm-88color
1307 and xterm-256color, added 'C' test using the wide-character color_set
1308 and attr_set functions.
1311 + modify configure script to work with Intel compiler.
1312 + fix an limit-check in wadd_wchnstr() which caused labels in the
1313 forms-demo to be one character short.
1314 + fix typo in curs_addchstr.3x (Jared Yanovich).
1315 + add trace calls to most functions in form and menu libraries.
1316 + update working-position for adding wide-characters when window is
1317 scrolled (prompted by related report by Eungkyu Song).
1320 + replace some references on Linux to wcrtomb() which use it to obtain
1321 the length of a multibyte string with _nc_wcrtomb, since wcrtomb() is
1322 broken in glibc (see Debian #284260).
1323 + corrected length-computation in wide-character support for
1325 + some fixes to frm_driver.c to allow it to accept multibyte input.
1326 + modify configure script to work with Intel 8.0 compiler.
1329 + amend change to setupterm() in 20030405 which would reuse the value
1330 of cur_term if the same output was selected. This now reuses it only
1331 when setupterm() is called from tgetent(), which has no notion of
1332 separate SCREENs. Note that tgetent() must be called after initscr()
1333 or newterm() to use this feature (Redhat Bugzilla #140326).
1334 + add a check in CF_BUILD_CC macro to ensure that developer has given
1335 the --with-build-cc option when cross-compiling (report by Alexandre
1337 + improved configure script checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE and
1338 _POSIX_C_SOURCE (fix for IRIX 5.3 from Georg Schwarz, _POSIX_C_SOURCE
1340 + cosmetic fix to test/gdc.c to recolor the bottom edge of the box
1341 for consistency (comment by Dan Nelson).
1344 + update wsvt25 terminfo entry -TD
1345 + modify test/ins_wide.c to test all flavors of ins_wstr().
1346 + ignore filler-cells in wadd_wchnstr() when adding a cchar_t array
1347 which consists of multi-column characters, since this function
1348 constructs them (cf: 20041023).
1349 + modify winnstr() to return multibyte character strings for the
1350 wide-character configuration.
1353 + fixes to make slk_set() and slk_wset() accept and store multibyte
1354 or multicolumn characters.
1357 + improve color optimization a little by making _nc_do_color() check
1358 if the old/new pairs are equivalent to the default pair 0.
1359 + modify assume_default_colors() to not require that
1360 use_default_colors() be called first.
1363 + modify term_attrs() to use termattrs(), add the extended attributes
1364 such as enter_horizontal_hl_mode for WA_HORIZONTAL to term_attrs().
1365 + add logic in waddch_literal() to clear orphaned cells when one
1366 multi-column character partly overwrites another.
1367 + improved logic for clearing cells when a multi-column character
1368 must be wrapped to a new line.
1369 + revise storage of cells for multi-column characters to correct a
1370 problem with repainting. In the old scheme, it was possible for
1371 doupdate() to decide that only part of a multi-column character
1372 should be repainted since the filler cells stored only an attribute
1373 to denote them as fillers, rather than the character value and the
1377 + minor fixes for traces.
1378 + add SP->_screen_acs_map[], used to ensure that mapping of missing
1379 line-drawing characters is handled properly. For example, ACS_DARROW
1380 is absent from xterm-new, and it was coincidentally displayed the
1384 + amend 20021221 workaround for broken acs to reset the sgr, rmacs
1385 and smacs strings as well. Also modify the check for screen's
1386 limitations in that area to allow the multi-character shift-in
1387 and shift-out which seem to work.
1388 + change GPM initialization, using dl library to load it dynamically
1389 at runtime (Debian #110586).
1392 + correct logic for color pair in setcchar() and getcchar() (patch by
1393 Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
1394 + add t/T commands to ncurses b/B tests to allow a different color to
1395 be tested for the attrset part of the test than is used in the
1399 + fix to make setcchar() to work when its wchar_t* parameter is
1400 pointing to a string which contains more data than can be converted.
1401 + modify wget_wstr() and example in ncurses.c to work if wchar_t and
1402 wint_t are different sizes (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
1405 + remove check in wget_wch() added to fix an infinite loop, appears to
1406 have been working around a transitory glibc bug, and interferes
1407 with normal operation (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
1408 + correct wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not pass the rendition
1409 information (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
1410 + fix aclocal.m4 so that the wide-character version of ncurses gets
1411 compiled as libncursesw.5.dylib, instead of libncurses.5w.dylib
1412 (adapted from patch by James J Ramsey).
1413 + change configure script for --with-caps option to indicate that it
1414 is no longer experimental.
1415 + change configure script to reflect the fact that --enable-widec has
1416 not been "experimental" since 5.3 (report by Bruno Lustosa).
1419 + add 'B' test to ncurses.c, to exercise some wide-character functions.
1422 + modify infocmp -i option to match 8-bit controls against its table
1423 entries, e.g., so it can analyze the xterm-8bit entry.
1424 + add morphos terminfo entry, improve amiga-8bit entry (Pavel Fedin).
1425 + correct translation of "%%" in terminfo format to termcap, e.g.,
1426 using "tic -C" (Redhat Bugzilla #130921).
1427 + modified configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to ensure that if
1428 it defines _POSIX_C_SOURCE, that it defines it to a specific value
1429 (comp.os.stratus newsgroup comment).
1432 + fixes to build with Ada95 binding with gnat 3.4 (all warnings are
1433 fatal, and gnat does not follow the guidelines for pragmas).
1434 However that did find a coding error in Assume_Default_Colors().
1435 + modify several terminfo entries to ensure xterm mouse and cursor
1436 visibility are reset in rs2 string: hurd, putty, gnome,
1437 konsole-base, mlterm, Eterm, screen (Debian #265784, #55637). The
1438 xterm entries are left alone - old ones for compatibility, and the
1439 new ones do not require this change. -TD
1442 + fake a SIGWINCH in newterm() to accommodate buggy terminal emulators
1443 and window managers (Debian #265631).
1444 > terminfo updates -TD
1445 + remove dch/dch1 from rxvt because they are implemented inconsistently
1446 with the common usage of bce/ech
1447 + remove khome from vt220 (vt220's have no home key)
1451 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test, adding v/V toggles to cycle through
1452 combinations of video attributes so that for instance bold and
1453 underline can be tested. This made the legend too crowded, added
1454 a help window as well.
1455 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test to cycle through default colors if
1456 the -d option is set.
1457 + update putty terminfo entry (Robert de Bath).
1460 + modify test/cardfile.c to allow it to read more data than can be
1462 + correct logic in resizeterm.c which kept it from processing all
1463 levels of window hierarchy (reports by Folkert van Heusden,
1467 + modify "tic -cv" to ignore delays when comparing strings. Also
1468 modify it to ignore a canceled sgr string, e.g., for terminals which
1469 cannot properly combine attributes in one control sequence.
1470 + corrections for gnome and konsole entries (Redhat Bugzilla #122815,
1471 patch by Hans de Goede)
1472 > terminfo updates -TD
1473 + make ncsa-m rmacs/smacs consistent with sgr
1474 + add sgr, rc/sc and ech to syscons entries
1475 + add function-keys to decansi
1476 + add sgr to mterm-ansi
1477 + add sgr, civis, cnorm to emu
1478 + correct/simplify cup in addrinfo
1481 > terminfo updates -TD
1482 + add xterm-pc-fkeys
1483 + review/update gnome and gnome-rh90 entries (prompted by Redhat
1485 + review/update konsole entries
1486 + add sgr, correct sgr0 for kterm and mlterm
1487 + correct tsl string in kterm
1490 + add configure option --without-xterm-new
1493 + add check in wget_wch() for printable bytes that are not part of a
1494 multibyte character.
1495 + modify wadd_wchnstr() to render text using window's background
1497 + improve tic's check to compare sgr and sgr0.
1498 + fix c++ directory's .cc.i rule.
1499 + modify logic in tgetent() which adjusts the termcap "me" string
1500 to work with ISO-2022 string used in xterm-new (cf: 20010908).
1501 + modify tic's check for conflicting function keys to omit that if
1502 converting termcap to termcap format.
1503 + add -U option to tic and infocmp.
1504 + add rmam/smam to linux terminfo entry (Trevor Van Bremen)
1505 > terminfo updates -TD
1506 + minor fixes for emu
1508 + change wyse acsc strings to use 'i' map rather than 'I'
1513 + use tic -x to install terminfo database -TD
1514 + add -x to infocmp's usage message.
1515 + correct field used for comparing O_ROWMAJOR in set_menu_format()
1516 (report/patch by Tony Li).
1517 + fix a missing nul check in set_field_buffer() from 20040508 changes.
1518 > terminfo updates -TD
1519 + make xterm-xf86-v43 derived from xterm-xf86-v40 rather than
1521 + align with xterm patch #192's use of xterm-new -TD
1522 + update xterm-new and xterm-8bit for cvvis/cnorm strings -TD
1523 + make xterm-new the default "xterm" entry -TD
1526 + correct BUILD_CPPFLAGS substitution in ncurses/Makefile.in, to allow
1527 cross-compiling from a separate directory tree (report/patch by
1529 + modify is_term_resized() to ensure that window sizes are nonzero,
1530 as documented in the manpage (report by Ian Collier).
1531 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro to make Hurd port build
1532 (Debian #249214, report/patch by Jeff Bailey).
1533 + configure-script mods from xterm, e.g., updates to CF_ADD_CFLAGS
1534 + update config.guess, config.sub
1535 > terminfo updates -TD
1537 + add xterm-xf86-v44
1538 + modify xterm-new aka xterm-xfree86 to accommodate luit, which
1539 relies on G1 being used via an ISO-2022 escape sequence (report by
1544 + reconsidered winsnstr(), decided after comparing other
1545 implementations that wrapping is an X/Open documentation error.
1546 + modify test/inserts.c to test all flavors of insstr().
1549 + add setlocale() calls to a few test programs which may require it:
1550 demo_forms.c, filter.c, ins_wide.c, inserts.c
1551 + correct a few misspelled function names in ncurses-intro.html (report
1553 + correct internal name of key_defined() manpage, which conflicted with
1557 + correct size of internal pad used for holding wide-character
1558 field_buffer() results.
1559 + modify data_ahead() to work with wide-characters.
1562 + improve description of terminfo if-then-else expressions (suggested
1564 + improve test/ncurses.c 'd' test, allow it to use external file for
1565 initial palette (added xterm-16color.dat and linux-color.dat), and
1566 reset colors to the initial palette when starting/ending the test.
1567 + change limit-check in init_color() to allow r/g/b component to
1568 reach 1000 (cf: 20020928).
1571 + modify form library to use cchar_t's rather than char's in the
1572 wide-character configuration for storing data for field buffers.
1573 + correct logic of win_wchnstr(), which did not work for more than
1577 + replace memset/memcpy usage in form library with for-loops to
1578 simplify changing the datatype of FIELD.buf, part of wide-character
1580 + fix some inconsistent use of #if/#ifdef (report by Alain Guibert).
1583 + modify menu library to account for actual number of columns used by
1584 multibyte character strings, in the wide-character configuration
1585 (adapted from patch by Philipp Tomsich).
1586 + add "-x" option to infocmp like tic's "-x", for use in "-F"
1587 comparisons. This modifies infocmp to only report extended
1588 capabilities if the -x option is given, making this more consistent
1589 with tic. Some scripts may break, since infocmp previous gave this
1590 information without an option.
1591 + modify termcap-parsing to retain 2-character aliases at the beginning
1592 of an entry if the "-x" option is used in tic.
1595 + minor compiler-warning and test-program fixes.
1598 + modify tic's missing-sgr warning to apply to terminfo only.
1599 + free some memory leaks in tic.
1600 + remove check in post_menu() that prevented menus from extending
1601 beyond the screen (request by Max J. Werner).
1602 + remove check in newwin() that prevents allocating windows
1603 that extend beyond the screen. Solaris curses does this.
1604 + add ifdef in test/color_set.c to allow it to compile with older
1606 + add napms() calls to test/dots.c to make it not be a CPU hog.
1609 + modify unctrl() to return null if its parameter does not correspond
1610 to an unsigned char.
1611 + add some limit-checks to guard isprint(), etc., from being used on
1612 values that do not fit into an unsigned char (report by Sami Farin).
1615 + fix a typo in the _nc_get_locale() change.
1618 + modify _nc_get_locale() to use setlocale() to query the program's
1619 current locale rather than using getenv(). This fixes a case in tin
1620 which relies on legacy treatment of 8-bit characters when the locale
1621 is not initialized (reported by Urs Jansen).
1622 + add sgr string to screen's and rxvt's terminfo entries -TD.
1623 + add a check in tic for terminfo entries having an sgr0 but no sgr
1624 string. This confuses Tru64 and HPUX curses when combined with
1625 color, e.g., making them leave line-drawing characters in odd places.
1626 + correct casts used in ABSENT_BOOLEAN, CANCELLED_BOOLEAN, matches the
1627 original definitions used in Debian package to fix PowerPC bug before
1628 20030802 (Debian #237629).
1631 + modify PutAttrChar() and PUTC() macro to improve use of
1632 A_ALTCHARSET attribute to prevent line-drawing characters from
1633 being lost in situations where the locale would otherwise treat the
1634 raw data as nonprintable (Debian #227879).
1637 + fix a redefinition of CTRL() macro in test/view.c for AIX 5.2 (report
1639 + remove ".PP" after ".SH NAME" in a few manpages; this confuses
1640 some apropos script (Debian #237831).
1643 + modify ncurses.c 'r' test so editing commands, like inserted text,
1644 set the field background, and the state of insert/overlay editing
1645 mode is shown in that test.
1646 + change syntax of dummy targets in Ada95 makefiles to work with pmake.
1647 + correct logic in test/ncurses.c 'b' for noncolor terminals which
1648 did not recognize a quit-command (cf: 20030419).
1651 + modify _nc_insert_ch() to allow for its input to be part of a
1653 + split out lib_insnstr.c, to prepare to rewrite it. X/Open states
1654 that this function performs wrapping, unlike all of the other
1655 insert-functions. Currently it does not wrap.
1656 + check for nl_langinfo(CODESET), use it if available (report by
1658 + split-out CF_BUILD_CC macro, actually did this for lynx first.
1659 + fixes for configure script CF_WITH_DBMALLOC and CF_WITH_DMALLOC,
1660 which happened to work with bash, but not with Bourne shell (report
1661 by Marco d'Itri via tin-dev).
1664 + some changes to adapt the form library to wide characters, incomplete
1665 (request by Mike Aubury).
1666 + add symbol to curses.h which can be used to suppress include of
1668 #define NCURSES_ENABLE_STDBOOL_H 0
1670 (discussion on XFree86 mailing list).
1673 + modify configure --with-termlib option to accept a value which sets
1674 the name of the terminfo library. This would allow a packager to
1675 build libtinfow.so renamed to coincide with libtinfo.so (discussion
1676 with Stanislav Ievlev).
1677 + improve documentation of --with-install-prefix, --prefix and
1678 $(DESTDIR) in INSTALL (prompted by discussion with Paul Lew).
1679 + add configure check if the compiler can use -c -o options to rename
1680 its output file, use that to omit the 'cd' command which was used to
1681 ensure object files are created in a separate staging directory
1682 (prompted by comments by Johnny Wezel, Martin Mokrejs).
1684 20040208 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1687 20040207 pre-release
1688 + minor fixes to _nc_tparm_analyze(), i.e., do not count %i as a param,
1689 and do not count %d if it follows a %p.
1690 + correct an inconsistency between handling of codes in the 128-255
1691 range, e.g., as illustrated by test/ncurses.c f/F tests. In POSIX
1692 locale, the latter did not show printable results, while the former
1694 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to compensate for broken C preprocessor on Mac
1695 OS X, which alters "%%" to "% % " (report by Robert Simms, fix
1696 verified by Scott Corscadden).
1698 20040131 pre-release
1699 + modify SCREEN struct to align it between normal/wide curses flavors
1700 to simplify future changes to build a single version of libtinfo
1701 (patch by Stanislav Ievlev).
1702 + document handling of carriage return by addch() in manpage.
1703 + document special features of unctrl() in manpage.
1704 + documented interface changes in INSTALL.
1705 + corrected control-char test in lib_addch.c to account for locale
1706 (Debian #230335, cf: 971206).
1707 + updated test/configure.in to use AC_EXEEXT and AC_OBJEXT.
1708 + fixes to compile Ada95 binding with Debian gnat 3.15p-4 package.
1709 + minor configure-script fixes for older ports, e.g., BeOS R4.5.
1711 20040125 pre-release
1712 + amend change to PutAttrChar() from 20030614 which computed the number
1713 of cells for a possibly multi-cell character. The 20030614 change
1714 forced the cell to a blank if the result from wcwidth() was not
1715 greater than zero. However, wcwidth() called for parameters in the
1716 range 128-255 can give this return value. The logic now simply
1717 ensures that the number of cells is greater than zero without
1718 modifying the displayed value.
1720 20040124 pre-release
1721 + looked good for 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org (but see above)
1722 + modify configure script check for ranlib to use AC_CHECK_TOOL, since
1723 that works better for cross-compiling.
1725 20040117 pre-release
1726 + modify lib_get_wch.c to prefer mblen/mbtowc over mbrlen/mbrtowc to
1727 work around core dump in Solaris 8's locale support, e.g., for
1728 zh_CN.GB18030 (report by Saravanan Bellan).
1729 + add includes for <stdarg.h> and <stdio.h> in configure script macro
1730 to make <wchar.h> check work with Tru64 4.0d.
1731 + add terminfo entry for U/Win -TD
1732 + add terminfo entries for SFU aka Interix aka OpenNT (Federico
1734 + modify tput's error messages to prefix them with the program name
1735 (report by Vincent Lefevre, patch by Daniel Jacobowitz (see Debian
1737 + correct a place in tack where exit_standout_mode was used instead of
1738 exit_attribute_mode (patch by Jochen Voss (see Debian #224443)).
1739 + modify c++/cursesf.h to use const in the Enumeration_Field method.
1740 + remove an ambiguous (actually redundant) method from c++/cursesf.h
1741 + make $HOME/.terminfo update optional (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
1742 + improve sed script which extracts libtool's version in the
1743 CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro.
1744 + add ifdef'd call to AC_PROG_LIBTOOL to CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro (to
1745 simplify local patch for Albert Chin-A-Young)..
1746 + add $(CXXFLAGS) to link command in c++/Makefile.in (adapted from
1747 patch by Albert Chin-A-Young)..
1748 + fix a missing substitution in configure.in for "$target" needed for
1750 + resync CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro with lynx; fixes IRIX64 and
1751 NetBSD 1.6 conflicts with _XOPEN_SOURCE.
1752 + make check for stdbool.h more specific, to ensure that including it
1753 will actually define/declare bool for the configured compiler.
1754 + rewrite ifdef's in curses.h relating NCURSES_BOOL and bool. The
1755 intention of that is to #define NCURSES_BOOL as bool when the
1756 compiler declares bool, and to #define bool as NCURSES_BOOL when it
1757 does not (reported by Jim Gifford, Sam Varshavchik, cf: 20031213).
1759 20040110 pre-release
1760 + change minor version to 4, i.e., ncurses 5.4
1761 + revised/improved terminfo entries for tvi912b, tvi920b (Benjamin C W
1763 + simplified ncurses/base/version.c by defining the result from the
1764 configure script rather than using sprintf (suggested by Stanislav
1766 + remove obsolete casts from c++/cursesw.h (reported by Stanislav
1768 + modify configure script so that when configuring for termlib, programs
1769 such as tic are not linked with the upper-level ncurses library
1770 (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
1771 + move version.c from ncurses/base to ncurses/tinfo to allow linking
1772 of tic, etc., using libtinfo (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
1775 + adjust -D's to build ncursesw on OpenBSD.
1776 + modify CF_PROG_EXT to make OS/2 build with EXEEXT.
1777 + add pecho_wchar().
1778 + remove <wctype.h> include from lib_slk_wset.c which is not needed (or
1779 available) on older platforms.
1782 + add -D's to build ncursew on FreeBSD 5.1.
1783 + modify shared library configuration for FreeBSD 4.x/5.x to add the
1784 soname information (request by Marc Glisse).
1785 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() to not use MAX_ALIAS, but PATH_MAX only
1786 for limiting the length of a filename in the terminfo database.
1787 + modify termname() to return the terminal name used by setupterm()
1788 rather than $TERM, without truncating to 14 characters as documented
1789 by X/Open (report by Stanislav Ievlev, cf: 970719).
1790 + re-add definition for _BSD_TYPES, lost in merge (cf: 20031206).
1793 + add configure option --with-manpage-format=catonly to address
1794 behavior of BSDI, allow install of man+cat files on NetBSD, whose
1795 behavior has diverged by requiring both to be present.
1796 + remove leading blanks from comment-lines in manlinks.sed script to
1797 work with Tru64 4.0d.
1798 + add screen.linux terminfo entry (discussion on mutt-users mailing
1802 + add a check for tic to flag missing backslashes for termcap
1803 continuation lines. ncurses reads the whole entry, but termcap
1804 applications do not.
1805 + add configure option "--with-manpage-aliases" extending
1806 "--with-manpage-aliases" to provide the option of generating ".so"
1807 files rather than symbolic links for manpage aliases.
1808 + add bool definition in include/curses.h.in for configurations with no
1809 usable C++ compiler (cf: 20030607).
1810 + fix pathname of SigAction.h for building with --srcdir (reported by
1814 + folded ncurses/base/sigaction.c into includes of ncurses/SigAction.h,
1815 since that header is used only within ncurses/tty/lib_tstp.c, for
1816 non-POSIX systems (discussion with Stanislav Ievlev).
1817 + remove obsolete _nc_outstr() function (report by Stanislav Ievlev
1818 <inger@altlinux.org>).
1819 + add test/background.c and test/color_set.c
1820 + modify color_set() function to work with color pair 0 (report by
1821 George Andreou <gbandreo@tem.uoc.gr>).
1822 + add configure option --with-trace, since defining TRACE seems too
1823 awkward for some cases.
1824 + remove a call to _nc_free_termtype() from read_termtype(), since the
1825 corresponding buffer contents were already zeroed by a memset (cf:
1827 + improve configure check for _XOPEN_SOURCE and related definitions,
1828 adding special cases for Solaris' __EXTENSIONS__ and FreeBSD's
1829 __BSD_TYPES (reports by Marc Glisse <marc.glisse@normalesup.org>).
1830 + small fixes to compile on Solaris and IRIX64 using cc.
1831 + correct typo in check for pre-POSIX sort options in MKkey_defs.sh
1835 + modify _nc_gettime() to avoid a problem with arithmetic on unsigned
1836 values (Philippe Blain).
1837 + improve the nanosleep() logic in napms() by checking for EINTR and
1838 restarting (Philippe Blain).
1839 + correct expression for "%D" in lib_tgoto.c (Juha Jarvi
1843 + add linux-vt terminfo entry (Andrey V Lukyanov <land@long.yar.ru>).
1844 + allow "\|" escape in terminfo; tic should not warn about this.
1845 + save the full pathname of the trace-file the first time it is opened,
1846 to avoid creating it in different directories if the application
1847 opens and closes it while changing its working directory.
1848 + modify configure script to provide a non-empty default for
1852 + add DJGPP to special case of DOS-style drive letters potentially
1853 appearing in TERMCAP environment variable.
1854 + fix some spelling in comments (reports by Jason McIntyre, Jonathon
1856 + update config.guess, config.sub
1859 + fix a memory leak in error-return from setupterm() (report by
1860 Stanislav Ievlev <inger@altlinux.org>).
1861 + use EXEEXT and OBJEXT consistently in makefiles.
1862 + amend fixes for cross-compiling to use separate executable-suffix
1863 BUILD_EXEEXT (cf: 20031018).
1864 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for sort utility that does not
1865 recognize key options, e.g., busybox (report by Peter S Mazinger
1867 + fix potential out-of-bounds indexing in _nc_infotocap() (found by
1868 David Krause using some of the new malloc debugging features
1869 under OpenBSD, patch by Ted Unangst).
1870 + modify CF_LIB_SUFFIX for Itanium releases of HP-UX, which use a
1871 ".so" suffix (patch by Jonathan Ward <Jonathan.Ward@hp.com>).
1874 + update terminfo for xterm-xfree86 -TD
1875 + add check for multiple "tc=" clauses in a termcap to tic.
1876 + check for missing op/oc in tic.
1877 + correct _nc_resolve_uses() and _nc_merge_entry() to allow infocmp and
1878 tic to show cancelled capabilities. These functions were ignoring
1879 the state of the target entry, which should be untouched if cancelled.
1880 + correct comment in tack/output.c (Debian #215806).
1881 + add some null-pointer checks to lib_options.c (report by Michael
1883 + regenerated html documentation.
1884 + correction to tar-copy.sh, remove a trap command that resulted in
1885 leaving temporary files (cf: 20030510).
1886 + remove contact/maintainer addresses for Juergen Pfeifer (his request).
1889 + updated test/configure to reflect changes for libtool (cf: 20030830).
1890 + fix several places in tack/pad.c which tested and used the parameter-
1891 and parameterless strings inconsistently, i.e., in pad_rin(),
1892 pad_il(), pad_indn() and pad_dl() (Debian #215805).
1893 + minor fixes for configure script and makefiles to cleanup executables
1894 generated when cross-compiling for DJGPP.
1895 + modify infocmp to omit check for $TERM for operations that do not
1896 require it, e.g., "infocmp -e" used to build fallback list (report by
1900 + add terminfo entries for DJGPP.
1901 + updated note about maintainer in ncurses-intro.html
1904 + update terminfo entries for gnome terminal.
1905 + modify tack to reset colors after each color test, correct a place
1906 where exit_standout_mode was used instead of exit_attribute_mode.
1907 + improve tack's bce test by making it set colors other than black
1909 + plug a potential recursion between napms() and _nc_timed_wait()
1910 (report by Philippe Blain).
1913 + add --with-rel-version option to allow workaround to allow making
1914 libtool on Darwin generate the "same" library names as with the
1915 --with-shared option. The Darwin ld program does not work well
1916 with a zero as the minor-version value (request by Chris Zubrzycki).
1917 + modify CF_MIXEDCASE_FILENAMES macro to work with cross-compiling.
1918 + modify tack to allow it to run from fallback terminfo data.
1919 > patch by Philippe Blain:
1920 + improve PutRange() by adjusting call to EmitRange() and corresponding
1921 return-value to not emit unchanged characters on the end of the
1923 + improve a check for changed-attribute by exiting a loop when the
1925 + improve logic in TransformLine(), eliminating a duplicated comparison
1926 in the clr_bol logic.
1929 > patch by Philippe Blain:
1930 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
1931 move the label 'nonlocal' just before the second gettimeofday() to
1932 be able to compute the diff time when 'goto nonlocal' used.
1933 Rename 'msec' to 'microsec' in the debug-message.
1934 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
1935 Use _nc_outch() in carriage return/newline movement instead of
1936 putchar() which goes to stdout. Move test for xold>0 out of loop.
1937 + in ncurses/tinfo/setbuf.c,
1938 Set the flag SP->_buffered at the end of operations when all has been
1939 successful (typeMalloc can fail).
1940 + simplify NC_BUFFERED macro by moving check inside _nc_setbuf().
1943 + modify configure script to avoid using "head -1", which does not
1944 work if POSIXLY_CORRECT (sic) is set.
1945 + modify run_tic.in to avoid using wrong shared libraries when
1946 cross-compiling (Dan Kegel).
1949 + alter configure script help message to make it clearer that
1950 --with-build-cc does not specify a cross-compiler (suggested by Dan
1951 Kegel <dank@kegel.com>).
1952 + modify configure script to accommodate libtool 1.5, as well as add an
1953 parameter to the "--with-libtool" option which can specify the
1954 pathname of libtool (report by Chris Zubrzycki). We note that
1955 libtool 1.5 has more than one bug in its C++ support, so it is not
1956 able to install libncurses++, for instance, if $DESTDIR or the option
1957 --with-install-prefix is used.
1960 > patch by Philippe Blain:
1961 + move assignments to SP->_cursrow, SP->_curscol into online_mvcur().
1962 + make baudrate computation in delay_output() consistent with the
1963 assumption in _nc_mvcur_init(), i.e., a byte is 9 bits.
1966 + modify logic in waddch_literal() to take into account zh_TW.Big5
1967 whose multibyte sequences may contain "printable" characters, e.g.,
1968 a "g" in the sequence "\247g" (Debian #204889, cf: 20030621).
1969 + improve storage used by _nc_safe_strcpy() by ensuring that the size
1970 is reset based on the initialization call, in case it were called
1971 after other strcpy/strcat calls (report by Philippe Blain).
1972 > patch by Philippe Blain:
1973 + remove an unused ifdef for REAL_ATTR & WANT_CHAR
1974 + correct a place where _cup_cost was used rather than _cuu_cost
1977 + fix a small memory leak in _nc_free_termtype().
1978 + close trace-file if trace() is called with a zero parameter.
1979 + free memory allocated for soft-key strings, in delscreen().
1980 + fix an allocation size in safe_sprintf.c for the "*" format code.
1981 + correct safe_sprintf.c to not return a null pointer if the format
1982 happens to be an empty string. This applies to the "configure
1983 --enable-safe-sprintf" option (Redhat #101486).
1986 + modify casts used for ABSENT_BOOLEAN and CANCELLED_BOOLEAN (report by
1988 > patch by Philippe Blain:
1989 + change padding for change_scroll_region to not be proportional to
1990 the size of the scroll-region.
1991 + correct error-return in _nc_safe_strcat().
1994 + correct limit-checks in _nc_scroll_window() (report and test-case by
1995 Thomas Graf <graf@dms.at> cf: 20011020).
1996 + re-order configure checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE to avoid conflict with
2000 + use clr_eol in preference to blanks for bce terminals, so select and
2001 paste will have fewer trailing blanks, e.g., when using xterm
2002 (request by Vincent Lefevre).
2003 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
2004 + add configure --with-abi-version option (discussion with Charles
2006 > cygwin changes from Charles Wilson:
2007 + aclocal.m4: on cygwin, use autodetected prefix for import
2008 and static lib, but use "cyg" for DLL.
2009 + include/ncurses_dll.h: correct the comments to reflect current
2010 status of cygwin/mingw port. Fix compiler warning.
2011 + misc/run_tic.in: ensure that tic.exe can find the uninstalled
2012 DLL, by adding the lib-directory to the PATH variable.
2013 + misc/terminfo.src (nxterm|xterm-color): make xterm-color
2014 primary instead of nxterm, to match XFree86's xterm.terminfo
2015 usage and to prevent circular links.
2016 (rxvt): add additional codes from rxvt.org.
2017 (rxvt-color): new alias
2018 (rxvt-xpm): new alias
2019 (rxvt-cygwin): like rxvt, but with special acsc codes.
2020 (rxvt-cygwin-native): ditto. rxvt may be run under XWindows, or
2021 with a "native" MSWin GUI. Each takes different acsc codes,
2022 which are both different from the "normal" rxvt's acsc.
2023 (cygwin): cygwin-in-cmd.exe window. Lots of fixes.
2025 + mk-1st.awk: use "cyg" for the DLL prefix, but "lib" for import
2029 + update config.guess, config.sub
2030 + add triples for configuring shared libraries with the Debian
2031 GNU/FreeBSD packages (patch by Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es>).
2034 + modify CF_GCC_WARNINGS so it only applies to gcc, not g++. Some
2035 platforms have installed g++ along with the native C compiler, which
2036 would not accept gcc warning options.
2037 + add -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 when configuring with --enable-widec, to
2038 get mbstate_t declaration on HPUX 11.11 (report by David Ellement).
2039 + add _nc_pathlast() to get rid of casts in _nc_basename() calls.
2040 + correct a sign-extension in wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() from
2041 20030628 (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
2042 + work around omission of btowc() and wctob() from wide-character
2043 support (sic) in NetBSD 1.6 using mbtowc() and wctomb() (report by
2045 + add portability note to curs_get_wstr.3x (Debian #199957).
2048 + rewrite wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to call waddch() and wechochar()
2049 respectively, to avoid calling waddch_noecho() with wide-character
2050 data, since that function assumes its input is 8-bit data.
2051 Similarly, modify waddnwstr() to call wadd_wch().
2052 + remove logic from waddnstr() which transformed multibyte character
2053 strings into wide-characters. Rewrite of waddch_literal() from
2054 20030621 assumes its input is raw multibyte data rather than wide
2055 characters (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
2058 + write getyx() and related 2-return macros in terms of getcury(),
2060 + modify waddch_literal() in case an application passes bytes of a
2061 multibyte character directly to waddch(). In this case, waddch()
2062 must reassemble the bytes into a wide-character (report by Tomohiro
2063 Kubota <kubota@debian.org>).
2066 + modify waddch_literal() in case a multibyte value occupies more than
2068 + modify PutAttrChar() to compute the number of character cells that
2069 are used in multibyte values. This fixes a problem displaying
2070 double-width characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen
2071 <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
2072 + add a null-pointer check for result of keyname() in _tracechar()
2073 + modify _tracechar() to work around glibc sprintf bug.
2076 + add a call to setlocale() in cursesmain.cc, making demo display
2077 properly in a UTF-8 locale.
2078 + add a fallback definition in curses.priv.h for MB_LEN_MAX (prompted
2079 by discussion with Gabor Z Papp).
2080 + use macros NCURSES_ACS() and NCURSES_WACS() to hide cast needed to
2081 appease -Wchar-subscript with g++ 3.3 (Debian #195732).
2082 + fix a redefinition of $RANLIB in the configure script when libtool
2083 is used, which broke configure on Mac OS X (report by Chris Zubrzycki
2085 + simplify ifdef for bool declaration in curses.h.in (suggested by
2086 Albert Chin-A-Young).
2087 + remove configure script check to allow -Wconversion for older
2088 versions of gcc (suggested by Albert Chin-A-Young).
2091 + regenerated html manpages.
2092 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in that disabled use of __attribute__()
2093 for g++, since recent versions implement the cases which ncurses uses
2095 + modify _nc_get_token() to handle a case where an entry has no
2096 description, and capabilities begin on the same line as the entry
2098 + fix a typo in ncurses_dll.h reported by gcc 3.3.
2099 + add an entry for key_defined.3x to man_db.renames.
2102 + modify setcchar() to allow converting control characters to complex
2103 characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
2104 + add tkterm entry -TD
2105 + modify parse_entry.c to allow a terminfo entry with a leading
2106 2-character name (report by Don Libes).
2107 + corrected acsc in screen.teraterm, which requires a PC-style mapping.
2108 + fix trace statements in read_entry.c to use lseek() rather than
2110 + fix signed/unsigned warnings from Sun's compiler (gcc should give
2111 these warnings, but it is unpredictable).
2112 + modify configure script to omit -Winline for gcc 3.3, since that
2114 + modify manlinks.sed to add a few functions that were overlooked since
2115 they return function pointers: field_init, field_term, form_init,
2116 form_term, item_init, item_term, menu_init and menu_term.
2119 + prevent recursion in wgetch() via wgetnstr() if the connection cannot
2120 be switched between cooked/raw modes because it is not a TTY (report
2121 by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.com>).
2122 + change parameter of define_key() and key_defined() to const (prompted
2124 + add a check in test/configure for ncurses extensions, since there
2125 are some older versions, etc., which would not compile with the
2126 current test programs.
2127 + corrected demo in test/ncurses.c of wgetn_wstr(), which did not
2128 convert wchar_t string to multibyte form before printing it.
2129 + corrections to lib_get_wstr.c:
2130 + null-terminate buffer passed to setcchar(), which occasionally
2132 + map special characters such as erase- and kill-characters into
2133 key-codes so those will work as expected even if they are not
2134 mentioned in the terminfo.
2135 + modify PUTC() and Charable() macros to make wide-character line
2136 drawing work for POSIX locale on Linux console (cf: 20021221).
2139 + make typography for program options in manpages consistent (report
2140 by Miloslav Trmac <mitr@volny.cz>).
2141 + correct dependencies in Ada95/src/Makefile.in, so the builds with
2142 "--srcdir" work (report by Warren L Dodge).
2143 + correct missing definition of $(CC) in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in
2144 (reported by Warren L Dodge <warrend@mdhost.cse.tek.com>).
2145 + fix typos and whitespace in manpages (patch by Jason McIntyre
2146 <jmc@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl>).
2149 + fix form_driver() cases for REQ_CLR_EOF, REQ_CLR_EOL, REQ_DEL_CHAR,
2150 REQ_DEL_PREV and REQ_NEW_LINE, which did not ensure the cursor was at
2151 the editing position before making modifications.
2152 + add test/demo_forms and associated test/edit_field.c demos.
2153 + modify test/configure.in to use test/modules for the list of objects
2154 to compile rather than using the list of programs.
2157 + modify logic of acsc to use the original character if no mapping is
2158 defined, noting that Solaris does this.
2159 + modify ncurses 'b' test to avoid using the acs_map[] array since
2160 20021231 changes it to no longer contain information from the acsc
2162 + modify makefile rules in c++, progs, tack and test to ensure that
2163 the compiler flags (e.g., $CFLAGS or $CCFLAGS) are used in the link
2164 command (report by Jose Luis Rico Botella <informatica@serpis.com>).
2165 + modify soft-key initialization to use A_REVERSE if A_STANDOUT would
2166 not be shown when colors are used, i.e., if ncv#1 is set in the
2167 terminfo as is done in "screen".
2170 + add a test for slk_color(), in ncurses.c
2171 + fix some issues reported by valgrind in the slk_set() and slk_wset()
2172 code, from recent rewrite.
2173 + modify ncurses 'E' test to use show previous label via slk_label(),
2175 + modify wide-character versions of NewChar(), NewChar2() macros to
2176 ensure that the whole struct is initialized.
2179 + modify setupterm() to check if the terminfo and terminal-modes have
2180 already been read. This ensures that it does not reinvoke
2181 def_prog_mode() when an application calls more than one function,
2182 such as tgetent() and initscr() (report by Olaf Buddenhagen).
2185 + add 'E' test to ncurses.c, to exercise slk_wset().
2186 + correct handling of carriage-return in wgetn_wstr(), used in demo of
2188 + first draft of slk_wset() function.
2191 + improved warnings in tic when suppressing items to fit in termcap's
2193 + built a list in test/README showing which externals are being used
2194 by either programs in the test-directory or via internal library
2196 + adjust include-options in CF_ETIP_DEFINES to avoid missing
2197 ncurses_dll.h, fixing special definitions that may be needed for
2198 etip.h (reported by Greg Schafer <gschafer@zip.com.au>).
2201 + minor fixes for cardfile.c, to make it write the updated fields to
2202 a file when ^W is given.
2203 + add/use _nc_trace_bufcat() to eliminate some fixed buffer limits in
2207 + correct a case in _nc_remove_string(), used by define_key(), to avoid
2208 infinite loop if the given string happens to be a substring of other
2209 strings which are assigned to keys (report by John McCutchan).
2210 + add key_defined() function, to tell which keycode a string is bound
2211 to (discussion with John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>).
2212 + correct keybound(), which reported definitions in the wrong table,
2213 i.e., the list of definitions which are disabled by keyok().
2214 + modify demo_keydef.c to show the details it changes, and to check
2218 + restructured test/configure script, make it work for libncursesw.
2219 + add description of link_fieldtype() to manpage (report by
2220 L Dee Holtsclaw <dee@sunbeltsoft.com>).
2223 + corrected ifdef's relating to configure check for wchar_t, etc.
2224 + if the output is a socket or other non-tty device, use 1 millisecond
2225 for the cost in mvcur; previously it was 9 milliseconds because the
2226 baudrate was not known.
2227 + in _nc_get_tty_mode(), initialize the TTY buffer on error, since
2228 glibc copies uninitialized data in that case, as noted by valgrind.
2229 + modify tput to use the same parameter analysis as tparm() does, to
2230 provide for user-defined strings, e.g., for xterm title, a
2231 corresponding capability might be
2233 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to avoid passing "#" tokens through the C
2234 preprocessor. This works around Mac OS X's preprocessor, which
2235 insists on adding a blank on each side of the token (report/analysis
2236 by Kevin Murphy <murphy@genome.chop.edu>).
2239 + add configure check for wchar_t and wint_t types, rather than rely
2240 on preprocessor definitions. Also work around for gcc fixinclude
2241 bug which creates a shadow copy of curses.h if it sees these symbols
2242 apparently typedef'd.
2243 + if database is disabled, do not generate run_tic.sh
2244 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking when termcap is read.
2247 + add checking in tic for incomplete line-drawing character mapping.
2248 + update configure script to reflect fix for AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL,
2249 which is broken in autoconf 2.5x for Mac OS X 10.2.3 (report by
2250 Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl>).
2251 + make return value from _nc_printf_string() consistent. Before,
2252 depending on whether --enable-safe-sprintf was used, it might not be
2253 cached for reallocating.
2256 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking in lib_tparm.c, hardscroll.c
2257 + correct a potentially-uninitialized value if _read_termtype() does
2258 not read as much data as expected (report by Wolfgang Rohdewald
2260 + correct several places where the aclocal.m4 macros relied on cache
2261 variable names which were incompatible (as usual) between autoconf
2262 2.13 and 2.5x, causing the test for broken-linker to give incorrect
2263 results (reports by Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl> and Thomas Esser
2264 <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de>).
2265 + do not try to open gpm mouse driver if standard output is not a tty;
2266 the gpm library does not make this check (bug report for dialog
2267 by David Oliveira <davidoliveira@develop.prozone.ws>).
2270 + modified emx.src to correspond more closely to terminfo.src, added
2271 emx-base to the latter -TD
2272 + add configure option for FreeBSD sysmouse, --with-sysmouse, and
2273 implement support for that in lib_mouse.c, lib_getch.c
2276 + revert 20030105 change to can_clear_with(), does not work for the
2277 case where the update is made on cells which are blanks with
2278 attributes, e.g., reverse.
2279 + improve ifdef's to guard against redefinition of wchar_t and wint_t
2280 in curses.h (report by Urs Jansen).
2283 + improve mvcur() by checking if it is safe to move when video
2284 attributes are set (msgr), and if not, reset/restore attributes
2285 within that function rather than doing it separately in the GoTo()
2286 function in tty_update.c (suggested by Philippe Blain).
2287 + add a message in run_tic.in to explain more clearly what does not
2288 work when attempting to create a symbolic link for /usr/lib/terminfo
2289 on OS/2 and other platforms with no symbolic links (report by John
2291 + change several sed scripts to avoid using "\+" since it is not a BRE
2292 (basic regular expression). One instance caused terminfo.5 to be
2293 misformatted on FreeBSD (report by Kazuo Horikawa
2294 <horikawa@FreeBSD.org> (see FreeBSD docs/46709)).
2295 + correct misspelled 'wint_t' in curs_get_wch.3x (Michael Elkins).
2298 + improve description of terminfo operators, especially static/dynamic
2299 variables (comments by Mark I Manning IV <mark4th@earthlink.net>).
2300 + demonstrate use of FIELDTYPE by modifying test/ncurses 'r' test to
2301 use the predefined TYPE_ALPHA field-type, and by defining a
2302 specialized type for the middle initial/name.
2303 + fix MKterminfo.sh, another workaround for POSIXLY_CORRECT misfeature
2305 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2306 + optimize can_clear_with() a little by testing first if the parameter
2307 is indeed a "blank".
2308 + simplify ClrBottom() a little by allowing it to use clr_eos to clear
2309 sections as small as one line.
2310 + improve ClrToEOL() by checking if clr_eos is available before trying
2312 + use tputs() rather than putp() in a few cases in tty_update.c since
2313 the corresponding delays are proportional to the number of lines
2314 affected: repeat_char, clr_eos, change_scroll_region.
2317 + rewrite of lib_acs.c conflicts with copying of SCREEN acs_map to/from
2318 global acs_map[] array; removed the lines that did the copying.
2321 + change some overlooked tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp()
2322 (report by Philippe Blain).
2323 + modify lib_getch.c to avoid recursion via wgetnstr() when the input
2324 is not a tty and consequently mode-changes do not work (report by
2325 <R.Chamberlin@querix.com>).
2326 + rewrote lib_acs.c to allow PutAttrChar() to decide how to render
2327 alternate-characters, i.e., to work with Linux console and UTF-8
2329 + correct line/column reference in adjust_window(), needed to make
2330 special windows such as curscr track properly when resizing (report
2331 by Lucas Gonze <lgonze@panix.com>).
2332 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2333 + correct the value used for blank in ClrBottom() (broken in 20000708).
2334 + correct an off-by-one in GoTo() parameter in _nc_scrolln().
2337 + change several tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp(), to
2338 enable padding which may be needed for some terminals (patch by
2340 + use '%' as sed substitute delimiter in run_tic script to avoid
2341 problems with pathname delimiters such as ':' and '@' (report by John
2343 + implement a workaround so that line-drawing works with screen's
2344 crippled UTF-8 support (tested with 3.9.13). This only works with
2345 the wide-character support (--enable-widec); the normal library will
2346 simply suppress line-drawing when running in a UTF-8 locale in screen.
2349 + allow BUILD_CC and related configure script variables to be
2350 overridden from the environment.
2351 + make build-tools variables in ncurses/Makefile.in consistent with
2352 the configure script variables (report by Maciej W Rozycki).
2353 + modify ncurses/modules to allow
2354 configure --disable-leaks --disable-ext-funcs
2355 to build (report by Gary Samuelson).
2356 + fix a few places in configure.in which lacked quotes (report by
2357 Gary Samuelson <gary.samuelson@verizon.com>).
2358 + correct handling of multibyte characters in waddch_literal() which
2359 force wrapping because they are started too late on the line (report
2360 by Sam Varshavchik).
2361 + small fix for CF_GNAT_VERSION to ignore the help-message which
2362 gnatmake adds to its version-message.
2363 > Maciej W Rozycki <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>:
2364 + use AC_CHECK_TOOL to get proper values for AR and LD for cross
2366 + use $cross_compiling variable in configure script rather than
2367 comparing $host_alias and $target alias, since "host" is
2368 traditionally misused in autoconf to refer to the target platform.
2369 + change configure --help message to use "build" rather than "host"
2370 when referring to the --with-build-XXX options.
2373 + modify CF_GNAT_VERSION to print gnatmake's version, and to allow for
2374 possible gnat versions such as 3.2 (report by Chris Lingard
2375 <chris@stockwith.co.uk>).
2376 + modify #define's for CKILL and other default control characters in
2377 tset to use the system's default values if they are defined.
2378 + correct interchanged defaults for kill and interrupt characters
2379 in tset, which caused it to report unnecessarily (Debian #171583).
2380 + repair check for missing C++ compiler, which is broken in autoconf
2381 2.5x by hardcoding it to g++ (report by Martin Mokrejs).
2382 + update config.guess, config.sub (2002-11-30)
2383 + modify configure script to skip --with-shared, etc., when the
2384 --with-libtool option is given, since they would be ignored anyway.
2385 + fix to allow "configure --with-libtool --with-termlib" to build.
2386 + modify configure script to show version number of libtool, to help
2387 with bug reports. libtool still gets confused if the installed
2388 ncurses libraries are old, since it ignores the -L options at some
2389 point (tested with libtool 1.3.3 and 1.4.3).
2390 + reorder configure script's updating of $CPPFLAGS and $CFLAGS to
2391 prevent -I options in the user's environment from introducing
2392 conflicts with the build -I options (may be related to reports by
2393 Patrick Ash and George Goffe).
2394 + rename test/define_key.c to test/demo_defkey.c, test/keyok.c to
2395 test/demo_keyok.c to allow building these with libtool.
2398 + add example program test/define_key.c for define_key().
2399 + add example program test/keyok.c for keyok().
2400 + add example program test/ins_wide.c for wins_wch() and wins_wstr().
2401 + modify wins_wch() and wins_wstr() to interpret tabs by using the
2402 winsch() internal function.
2403 + modify setcchar() to allow for wchar_t input strings that have
2404 more than one spacing character.
2407 + fix a boundary check in lib_insch.c (patch by Philippe Blain).
2408 + change type for *printw functions from NCURSES_CONST to const
2409 (prompted by comment by Pedro Palhoto Matos <plpm@mega.ist.utl.pt>,
2410 but really from a note on X/Open's website stating that either is
2411 acceptable, and the latter will be used in a future revision).
2412 + add xterm-1002, xterm-1003 terminfo entries to demonstrate changes in
2413 lib_mouse.c (20021026) -TD
2414 + add screen-bce, screen-s entries from screen 3.9.13 (report by
2415 Adam Lazur <zal@debian.org>) -TD
2416 + add mterm terminfo entries -TD
2419 + split-out useful fragments in terminfo for vt100 and vt220 numeric
2420 keypad, i.e., vt100+keypad, vt100+pfkeys, vt100+fnkeys and
2421 vt220+keypad. The last as embedded in various entries had ka3 and
2422 kb2 interchanged (report/discussion with Leonard den Ottolander
2423 <leonardjo@hetnet.nl>).
2424 + add check in tic for keypads consistent with vt100 layout.
2425 + improve checks in tic for color capabilities
2428 + check for missing/empty/illegal terminfo name in _nc_read_entry()
2429 (report by Martin Mokrejs, where $TERM was set to an empty string).
2430 + rewrote lib_insch.c, combining it with lib_insstr.c so both handle
2431 tab and other control characters consistently (report by Philippe
2433 + remove an #undef for KEY_EVENT from curses.tail used in the
2434 experimental NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS feature. The #undef confuses
2435 dpkg's build script (Debian #165897).
2436 + fix MKlib_gen.sh, working around the ironically named POSIXLY_CORRECT
2437 feature of GNU sed 4.0 (reported by Ervin Nemeth <airwin@inf.bme.hu>).
2440 + implement logic in lib_mouse.c to handle position reports which are
2441 generated when XFree86 xterm is initialized with private modes 1002
2442 or 1003. These are returned to the application as the
2443 REPORT_MOUSE_POSITION mask, which was not implemented. Tested both
2444 with ncurses 'a' menu (prompted by discussion with Larry Riedel
2445 <Larry@Riedel.org>).
2446 + modify lib_mouse.c to look for "XM" terminfo string, which allows
2447 one to override the escape sequence used to enable/disable mouse
2448 mode. In particular this works for XFree86 xterm private modes
2449 1002 and 1003. If "XM" is missing (note that this is an extended
2450 name), lib_mouse uses the conventional private mode 1000.
2451 + correct NOT_LOCAL() macro in lib_mvcur.c to refer to screen_columns
2452 where it used screen_lines (report by Philippe Blain).
2453 + correct makefile rules for the case when both --with-libtool and
2454 --with-gpm are given (report by Mr E_T <troll@logi.net.au>).
2455 + add note to terminfo manpage regarding the differences between
2456 setaf/setab and setf/setb capabilities (report by Pavel Roskin).
2459 + remove redundant initialization of TABSIZE in newterm(), since it is
2460 already done in setupterm() (report by Philippe Blain).
2461 + add test/inserts.c, to test winnstr() and winsch().
2462 + replace 'sort' in dist.mk with script that sets locale to POSIX.
2463 + update URLs in announce.html.in (patch by Frederic L W Meunier).
2464 + remove glibc add-on files, which are no longer needed (report by
2465 Frederic L W Meunier).
2467 20021012 5.3 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2468 + modify ifdef's in etip.h.in to allow the etip.h header to compile
2469 with gcc 3.2 (patch by Dimitar Zhekov <jimmy@is-vn.bg>).
2470 + add logic to setupterm() to make it like initscr() and newterm(),
2471 by checking for $NCURSES_TRACE environment variable and enabling
2472 the debug trace in that case.
2473 + modify setupterm() to ensure that it initializes the baudrate, for
2474 applications such as tput (report by Frank Henigman).
2475 + modify definition of bits used for command-line and library debug
2476 traces to avoid overlap, using new definition TRACE_SHIFT to relate
2478 + document tput's interpretation of parameterized strings according to
2479 whether parameters are given, etc. (discussion with Robert De Bath).
2481 20021005 pre-release
2482 + correct winnwstr() to account for non-character cells generated when
2483 a double-width character is added (report by Michael Bienia
2484 <michael@vorlon.ping.de>).
2485 + modify _nc_viswbuf2n() to provide better results using wctomb().
2486 + correct logic in _nc_varargs() which broke tracing of parameters for
2487 formats such as "%.*s".
2488 + correct scale factor in linux-c and linux-c-nc terminfo entries
2489 (report Floyd Davidson).
2490 + change tic -A option to -t, add the same option to infocmp for
2492 + correct "%c" implementation in lib_tparm.c, which did not map a null
2493 character to a 128 (cf: 980620) (patch by Frank Henigman
2494 <fjhenigman@mud.cgl.uwaterloo.ca>).
2496 20020928 pre-release
2497 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for POSIX sort -k option, use that if
2498 it is found, to accommodate newer utility which dropped the
2499 compatibility support for +number options (reported by Andrey A
2501 + modify linux terminfo entry to use color palette feature from
2502 linux-c-nc entry (comments by Tomasz Wasiak and Floyd Davidson).
2503 + restore original color definitions in endwin() if init_color() was
2504 used, and resume those colors on the next doupdate() or refresh()
2505 (report by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@komputom.com.pl>).
2506 + improve debug-traces by modifying MKlib_gen.sh to generate calls
2507 to returnBool() and returnAttr().
2508 + add/use _nc_visbufn() and _nc_viswbufn() to limit the debug trace
2509 of waddnstr() and similar functions to match the parameters as used.
2510 + add/use _nc_retrace_bool() and _nc_retrace_unsigned().
2511 + correct type used by _nc_retrace_chtype().
2512 + add debug traces to some functions in lib_mouse.c
2513 + modify lib_addch.c to handle non-spacing characters.
2514 + correct parameter of RemAttr() in lib_bkgd.c, which caused the c++
2515 demo's boxes to lose the A_ALTCHARSET flag (broken in 20020629).
2516 + correct width computed in _tracedump(), which did not account for
2517 the attributes (broken in 20010602).
2518 + modify test/tracemunch to replace addresses for windows other than
2519 curscr, newscr and stdscr with window0, window1, etc.
2521 20020921 pre-release
2522 + redid fix for edit_man.sed path.
2523 + workaround for Cygwin bug which makes subprocess writes to stdout
2524 result in core dump.
2525 + documented getbegx(), etc.
2526 + minor fixes to configure script to use '%' consistently as a sed
2527 delimiter rather than '@'.
2528 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2529 + add check in lib_overlay.c to ensure that the windows to be merged
2530 actually overlap, and in copywin(), limit the area to be touched
2531 to the lines given for the destination window.
2533 20020914 pre-release
2534 + modified curses.h so that if the wide-character version is installed
2535 overwriting /usr/include/curses.h, and if it relied on libutf8.h,
2536 then applications that use that header for wide-character support
2537 must define HAVE_LIBUTF8_H.
2538 + modify putwin(), getwin() and dupwin() to allow them to operate on
2539 pads (request by Philippe Blain).
2540 + correct attribute-merging in wborder(), broken in 20020216 (report
2541 by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@grubasek.komputom.com.pl>).
2542 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2543 + corrected pop-counts in tparam_internal() to '!' and '~' cases.
2544 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in one place that used sizeof(chtype).
2545 + remove some unused variables from mvcur test-driver.
2547 20020907 pre-release
2548 + change configure script to allow install of widec-character
2549 (ncursesw) headers to overwrite normal (ncurses) headers, since the
2550 latter is a compatible subset of the former.
2551 + fix path of edit_man.sed in configure script, needed to regenerate
2552 html manpages on Debian.
2553 + fix mismatched enums in vsscanf.c, which caused warning on Solaris.
2554 + update README.emx to reflect current patch used for autoconf.
2555 + change web- and ftp-site to invisible-island.net
2556 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2557 + change case for 'P' in tparam_internal() to indicate that it pops
2558 a variable from the stack.
2559 + correct sense of precision and width in parse_format(), to avoid
2561 + modify lib_tparm.c, absorb really_get_space() into get_space().
2562 + modify getwin() and dupwin() to copy the _notimeout, _idlok and
2563 _idcok window fields.
2564 + better fix for _nc_set_type(), using typeMalloc().
2566 20020901 pre-release
2567 + change minor version to 3, i.e., ncurses 5.3
2568 + update config.guess, config.sub
2569 + retest build with each configure option; minor ifdef fixes.
2570 + make keyname() return a null pointer rather than "UNKNOWN STRING" to
2572 + modify handling of wide line-drawing character functions to use the
2573 normal line-drawing characters when not in UTF-8 locale.
2574 + add check/fix to comp_parse.c to suppress warning about missing acsc
2575 string. This happens in configurations where raw termcap information
2576 is processed; tic already does this and other checks.
2577 + modify tic's check for ich/ich1 versus rmir/smir to only warn about
2578 ich1, to match xterm patch #70 notes.
2579 + moved information for ripped-off lines into SCREEN struct to allow
2580 use in resizeterm().
2581 + add experimental wgetch_events(), ifdef'd with NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS
2582 (adapted from patch by Ilya Zakharevich - see ncurses/README.IZ).
2583 + amend check in kgetch() from 20020824 to look only for function-keys,
2584 otherwise escape sequences are not resolved properly.
2585 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2586 + removed redundant assignment to SP->_checkfd from newterm().
2587 + check return-value of setupterm() in restartterm().
2588 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in a few places that used sizeof(chtype).
2589 + prevent dupwin() from duplicating a pad.
2590 + prevent putwin() from writing a pad.
2591 + use typeRealloc() or typeMalloc() in preference to direct calls on
2595 + add a check in kgetch() for cooked characters in the fifo to avoid
2596 calling fifo_push() when a KEY_RESIZE is available (report/analysis
2597 by Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>).
2598 + fix an overlooked case for bugzilla #68199 (Philippe Blain).
2599 + ensure clearerr() is called before using ferror() e.g., in
2600 lib_screen.c (report by Philippe Blain).
2603 + modify lib_screen.c and lib_newwin.c to maintain the SCREEN-specific
2604 pointers for curscr/stdscr/newscr when scr_save() and scr_restore()
2605 modify the global curscr/stdscr/newscr variables. Fixes Redhat
2606 bugzilla #68199 dated 2002-07-07.
2607 + add checks for null pointer in calls to tparm() and tgoto() based on
2608 FreeBSD bug report. If ncurses were built with termcap support, and
2609 the first call to tgoto() were a zero-length string, the result would
2610 be a null pointer, which was not handled properly.
2611 + correct a typo in terminfo.head, which gave the octal code for colon
2613 + remove the "tic -u" option from 20020810, since it did not account
2614 for nested "tc=" clauses, and when that was addressed, was still
2618 + add tic -A option to suppress capabilities which are commented out
2619 when translating to termcap.
2620 + add tic -u option to provide older behavior of "tc=" clauses.
2621 + modified tic to expand all but the final "tc=" clause in a termcap
2622 entry, to accommodate termcap libraries which do not handle multiple
2624 + correct typo in curs_inopts.3x regarding CS8/CS7 usage (report by
2626 + remove a couple of redundant uses of A_ATTRIBUTES in expressions
2627 using AttrOf(), which already incorporates that mask (report by
2629 + document TABSIZE variable.
2630 + add NCURSES_ASSUMED_COLORS environment variable, to allow users to
2631 override compiled-in default black-on-white assumption used in
2632 assume_default_colors().
2633 + correct an off-by-one comparison against max_colors in COLORFGBG
2635 + correct a use of uninitialized memory found by valgrind (reported by
2636 Olaf Buddenhagen <olafBuddenhagen@web.de>).
2637 + modified wresize() to ensure that a failed realloc will not corrupt
2638 the window structure, and to make subwindows fit within the resized
2639 window (completes Debian #87678, #101699)
2642 + fix an off-by-one in lib_pad.c check for limits of pad (patch by
2644 + revise logic for BeOS in lib_twait.c altered in 20011013 to restore
2645 logic used by lib_getch.c's support for GPM or EMX mouse (report by
2647 + remove NCURSES_CONST from several prototypes in curses.wide, to make
2648 the --enable-const --enable-widec configure options to work together
2649 (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@yahoo.com>).
2652 + finish no-leak checking in cardfile.c, using this for testing changes
2654 + simplify _nc_freeall() using delscreen().
2657 + check error-return from _nc_set_tty_mode() in _nc_initscr() and
2658 reset_prog_mode() (report/patch by Philippe Blain).
2659 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52, to address
2660 problem with identifying C++ bool type.
2661 + correct/improve logic to produce an exit status for errors in tput,
2662 which did not exit with an error when told to put a string not in the
2663 current terminfo entry (report by David Gomez <david@pleyades.net>).
2664 + modify configure script AC_OUTPUT() call to work around defect in
2665 autoconf 2.52 which adds an ifdef'd include to the generated
2666 configure definitions.
2667 + remove fstat() check from scr_init(), which also fixes a missing
2668 include for <sys/stat.h> from 20020713 (reported by David Ellement,
2669 fix suggested by Philippe Blain).
2670 + update curs_scanw.3x manpage to note that XSI curses differs from
2671 SVr4 curses: return-values are incompatible.
2672 + correct several prototypes in manpages which used const
2673 inconsistently with the curses.h file, and removed spurious const's
2674 in a few places from curses.h, e.g., for wbkgd() (report by Glenn
2675 Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>).
2676 + change internal type used by tparm() to long, to work with LP64 model.
2677 + modify nc_alloc.h to allow building with g++, for testing.
2680 + add resize-handling to cardfile.c test program.
2681 + altered resizeterm() to avoid having it fail when a child window
2682 cannot be resized because it would be larger than its parent. (More
2683 work must be done on this, but it works well enough to integrate).
2684 + improve a limit-check in lib_refresh.c
2685 + remove check in lib_screen.c relating dumptime to file's modification
2686 times, since that would not necessarily work for remotely mounted
2688 + modify lrtest to simplify debugging changes to resizeterm, e.g.,
2689 t/T commands to enable/disable tracing.
2690 + updated status of multibyte support in TO-DO.
2691 + update contact info in source-files (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
2694 + add Caps.hpux11, as an example.
2695 + modify version_filter(), used to implement -R option for tic and
2696 infocmp, to use computed array offsets based on the Caps.* file which
2697 is actually configured, rather than constants which correspond to
2699 + reorganized lib_raw.c to avoid updating SP and cur_term state if the
2700 functions fail (reported by Philippe Blain).
2701 + add -Wundef to gcc warnings, adjust a few ifdef's to accommodate gcc.
2704 + correct parameters to setcchar() in ncurses.c (cf: 20020406).
2705 + set locale in most test programs (view.c and ncurses.c were the
2707 + add configure option --with-build-cppflags (report by Maksim A
2708 Nikulin <M.A.Nikulin@inp.nsk.su>).
2709 + correct a typo in wide-character logic for lib_bkgnd.c (Philippe
2711 + modify lib_wacs.c to not cancel the acsc, smacs, rmacs strings when
2712 in UTF-8 locale. Wide-character functions use Unicode values, while
2713 narrow-character functions use the terminfo data.
2714 + fix a couple of places in Ada95/samples which did not compile with
2716 + modify mkinstalldirs so the DOS-pathname case is locale-independent.
2717 + fix locale problem in MKlib_gen.sh by forcing related variables to
2718 POSIX (C), using same approach as autoconf (set variables only if
2719 they were set before). Update MKterminfo.sh and MKtermsort.sh to
2723 + add charset to generated html.
2724 + add mvterm entry, adapted from a FreeBSD bug-report by Daniel Rudy
2725 <dcrudy@pacbell.net> -TD
2726 + add rxvt-16color, ibm+16color entries -TD
2727 + modify check in --disable-overwrite option so that it is used by
2728 default unless the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr, in attempt to
2729 work around packagers, e.g., for Sun's freeware, who do not read the
2733 + modify wgetch() to allow returning ungetch'd KEY_RESIZE as a function
2734 key code in get_wch().
2735 + extended resize-handling in test/ncurses 'a' menu to the entire
2736 stack of windows created with 'w' commands.
2737 + improve $COLORFGBG feature by interpreting an out-of-range color
2738 value as an SGR 39 or 49, for foreground/background respectively.
2739 + correct a typo in configure --enable-colorfgbg option, and move it
2740 to the experimental section (cf: 20011208).
2743 + add logic to dump_entry.c to remove function-key definitions that do
2744 not fit into the 1023-byte limit for generated termcaps. This makes
2746 + more improvements to tic's warnings, including logic to ignore
2747 differences between delay values in sgr strings.
2748 + move definition of KEY_RESIZE into MKkeydefs.sh script, to
2749 accommodate Caps.osf1r5 which introduced a conflicting definition.
2752 + add simple resize-handling in test/ncurses.c 'a' menu.
2753 + fixes in keyname() and _tracechar() to handle negative values.
2754 + make tic's warnings about mismatches in sgr strings easier to follow.
2755 + correct tic checks for number of parameters in smgbp and smglp.
2756 + improve scoansi terminfo entry, and add scoansi-new entry -TD
2757 + add pcvt25-color terminfo entry -TD
2758 + add kf13-kf48 strings to cons25w terminfo entry (reported by Stephen
2759 Hurd <deuce@lordlegacy.org> in newsgroup lucky.freebsd.bugs) -TD
2760 + add entrypoint _nc_trace_ttymode(), use this to distinguish the
2761 Ottyb and Nttyb members of terminal (aka cur_term), for tracing.
2764 + correct and simplify logic for lib_pad.c change in 20020518 (reported
2768 + fix lib_pad.c for case of drawing a double-width character which
2769 falls off the left margin of the pad (patch by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij
2770 <lerdsuwa@users.sourceforge.net>)
2771 + modify configure script to work around broken gcc 3.1 "--version"
2772 option, which adds unnecessary trash to the requested information.
2773 + adjust ifdef's in case SIGWINCH is not defined, e.g., with DJGPP
2774 (reported by Ben Decker <deckerben@freenet.de>).
2777 + implement vid_puts(), vid_attr(), term_attrs() based on the narrow-
2778 character versions as well.
2779 + implement erasewchar(), killwchar() based on erasechar() and
2781 + modify erasechar() and killchar() to return ERR if the value was
2783 + correct a bug in wresize() in handling subwindows (based on patch by
2784 Roger Gammans <rgammans@computer-surgery.co.uk>, report by Scott Beck
2785 <scott@gossamer-threads.com>).
2786 + improve test/tclock.c by making the second-hand update more often
2787 if gettimeofday() is available.
2790 + workaround for Solaris sed with MKlib_gen.sh (reported by Andy
2791 Tsouladze <andyt@mypoints.com>).
2794 + correct return-value from getcchar(), making it consistent with
2796 + reorder loops that generate makefile rules for different models vs
2797 subsets so configure --with-termlib works again. This was broken by
2798 logic added to avoid duplicate rules in changes to accommodate cygwin
2799 dll's (reported by George.R.Goffe@seagate.com).
2800 + update config.guess, config.sub
2803 + modify ifdef's in write_entry.c to allow use of symbolic links on
2804 platforms with no hard links, e.g., BeOS.
2805 + modify a few includes to allow compile with BeOS, which has stdbool.h
2806 with a conflicting definition for 'bool' versus its OS.h definition.
2807 + amend MKlib_gen.sh to work with gawk, which defines 'func' as an
2808 alias for 'function'.
2811 + correct form of prototype for ripoffline().
2812 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to test that all functions marked as implemented
2816 + add manpages: curs_get_wstr.3x, curs_in_wchstr.3x
2817 + implement wgetn_wstr().
2818 + implement win_wchnstr().
2819 + remove redefinition of unget_wch() in lib_gen.c (reported by
2820 Jungshik Shin <jshin@jtan.com>).
2823 + modified several of the test programs to allow them to compile with
2824 vendor curses implementations, e.g., Solaris, AIX -TD
2827 + modified test/configure to allow configuring against ncursesw.
2828 + change WACS_xxx definition to use address, to work like Tru64 curses.
2831 + add 'e' and 'm' toggles to 'a', 'A' tests in ncurses.c to demonstrate
2832 effect of echo/noecho and meta modes.
2833 + add 'A' test to ncurses.c to demonstrate wget_wch() and related
2835 + add manpage: curs_get_wch.3x
2836 + implement unget_wch().
2837 + implement wget_wch().
2840 + regenerated html manpages.
2841 + add manpages: curs_in_wch.3x, curs_ins_wch.3x, curs_ins_wstr.3x
2842 + implement wins_wch().
2843 + implement win_wch().
2844 + implement wins_nwstr(), wins_wstr().
2847 + add manpages: curs_addwstr.3x, curs_winwstr.3x
2848 + implement winnwstr(), winwstr().
2851 + add manpages: curs_add_wchstr.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x
2852 + document wunctrl, key_name.
2853 + implement key_name().
2854 + remove const's in lib_box.c incorrectly leftover after splitting off
2856 + update llib-lncurses, llib-ncursesw, fix configure script related to
2860 + remove quotes on "SYNOPSIS" in man/curs_box_set.3x, which resulted
2861 in spurious symlinks on install.
2864 + implement whline_set(), wvline_set(), add manpage curs_border_set.
2865 + add subtest 'b' to 'F' and 'f' in ncurses.c to demonstrate use of
2866 box() and box_set() functions.
2867 + add subtest 'u' to 'F' in ncurses.c, to demonstrate use of addstr()
2868 given UTF-8 string equivalents of WACS_xxx symbols.
2869 + minor fixes to several manpages based on groff -ww output.
2870 + add descriptions of external variables of termcap interface to
2871 the manpage (report by Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>).
2872 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
2873 + correct configure option --with-bool, which was executed as
2875 + add quotes for parameters of --with-bool and --with-ospeed configure
2877 > patch by Sven Verdoolaege (report by Gerhard Haering
2878 <haering_linux@gmx.de>):
2879 + correct typos in definitions of several wide-character macros:
2880 waddwstr, wgetbkgrnd, mvaddwstr, mvwadd_wchnstr, mvwadd_wchnstr,
2882 + pass $(CPPFLAGS) to MKlib_gen.sh, thereby fixing a missing definition
2883 of _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, e.g., on Solaris
2886 + implement wide-acs characters for UTF-8 locales. When in UTF-8
2887 locale, ignore narrow version of acs. Add 'F' test to test/ncurses.c
2889 + correct prototype in keybound manpage (noted from a Debian mailing
2893 + add several cases to the wscanw() example in testcurs.c, showing the
2895 + implement a simple vsscanf() fallback function which uses the %n
2896 conversion to help parse the input data (prompted by discussion with
2897 Albert Chin-A-Young).
2898 + modify mk-1st.awk and test/Makefile.in to add $(LDFLAGS) when making
2899 shared libraries, and to use $(CFLAGS) when linking test programs
2900 (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
2901 + add a call to _nc_keypad() in keypad() to accommodate applications
2902 such as nvi, which use curses for output but not for input (fixes
2903 Debian #131263, cf: 20011215).
2904 + add entrypoints to resizeterm.c which provide better control over the
2905 process: is_term_resized() and resize_term(). The latter restores
2906 the original design of resizeterm() before KEY_RESIZE was added in
2907 970906. Do this to accommodate 20010922 changes to view.c, but allow
2908 for programs with their own sigwinch handler, such as lynx (reported
2909 by Russell Ruby <russ@math.orst.edu>).
2912 + fix a typo in change to mk-1st.awk, which broke the shared-library
2913 makefile rules (reported by Martin Mokrejs).
2916 + update config.guess, config.sub
2917 + finish changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
2918 + fix a typo in mvwchat() macro (reported by Cy <yam@homerow.net).
2921 + add case in lib_baudrate.c for B921600 (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
2922 + correct missing sed-editing stage in manpage installs which is used
2923 to rename manpages, broken in 20010324 fix for Debian #89939 (Debian
2925 + remove -L$(libdir) from linker flags, probably not needed any more
2926 since HPUX is handled properly (reported by Niibe Yutaka
2928 + add configure check for mbstate_t, needed for wide-character
2929 configuration. On some platforms we must include <wchar.h> to
2930 define this (reported by Daniel Jacobowitz).
2931 + incorporate some of the changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
2934 + workaround for awk did not work with mawk, adjusted shell script.
2937 + add Caps.osf1r5, as an example.
2938 + modify behavior of can_clear_with() so that if an application is
2939 running in a non-bce terminals with default colors enabled, it
2940 returns true, allowing the user to select/paste text without picking
2941 up extraneous trailing blanks (adapted from patch by Daniel
2942 Jacobowitz <dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu>).
2943 + modify generated curses.h to ifdef-out prototypes for extensions if
2944 they are disabled, and to define curses_version() as a string in that
2945 case. This is needed to make the programs such as tic build in that
2947 + modified generated headers.sh to remove a gzip'd version of the
2948 target file if it exists, in case non-gzip'd manpages are installed
2949 into a directory where gzip'd ones exist. In that case, the latter
2951 + corrected a redundant initialization of signal handlers from 20010922
2953 + clarified bug-reporting address in terminfo.src (report by John H
2954 DuBois III <spcecdt@armory.com>).
2955 > several fixes from Robert Joop:
2956 + do not use "-v" option of awk in MKkey_defs.sh because it does not
2957 work with SunOS nawk.
2958 + modify definitions for libutf8 in curses.h to avoid redefinition
2960 + quoted references to compiler in shell command in misc/Makefile, in
2961 case it uses multiple tokens.
2964 + restore special case from 20010922 changes to omit SA_RESTART when
2965 setting up SIGWINCH handler, which is needed to allow wgetch() to be
2966 interrupted by that signal.
2967 + update configure macro CF_WITH_PATHLIST, to omit some double quotes
2968 not needed with autoconf 2.52
2969 + revert configure script to autoconf 2.13 patched with
2970 autoconf-2.13-19990117.patch.gz (or later)
2972 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
2973 because autoconf 2.52 macro AC_PROG_AWK does not work on HPUX 11.0
2974 (report by David Ellement <ellement@sdd.hp.com>). This also fixes a
2975 different problem configuring with Mac OS X (reported by Marc Smith
2976 <marc.a.smith@home.com>).
2979 + modify include/edit_cfg.h to eliminate BROKEN_LINKER symbol from
2981 + move prototype for _nc_vsscanf() into curses.h.in to omit
2982 HAVE_VSSCANF symbol from curses.h, which was dependent upon the
2983 ncurses_cfg.h file which is not installed.
2984 + use ACS_LEN rather than SIZEOF(acs_map) in trace code of lib_acs.c,
2985 to work with broken linker configuration, e.g., cygwin (report by
2986 Robert Joop <rj@rainbow.in-berlin.de>).
2987 + make napms() call _nc_timed_wait() rather than poll() or select(),
2988 to work around broken implementations of these on cygwin.
2991 + drop configure macro CF_WIDEC_SHIFT, since that was rendered obsolete
2992 by Sven Verdoolaege's rewrite of wide-character support. This makes
2993 libncursesw incompatible again, but makes the header files almost the
2994 same as in the narrow-character configuration.
2995 + simplify definitions that combine wide/narrow versions of bkgd, etc.,
2996 to eliminate differences between the wide/narrow versions of curses.h
2997 + correct typo in configure macro CF_FUNC_VSSCANF
2998 + correct location of call to _nc_keypad() from 20011215 changes which
2999 prevented keypad() from being disabled (reported by Lars Hecking).
3002 + rewrote ncurses 'a' test to exercise wgetch() and keypad() functions
3003 better, e.g., by adding a 'w' command to create new windows which
3004 may have different keypad() settings.
3005 + corrected logic of keypad() by adding internal screen state to track
3006 whether the terminal's keypad-mode has been set. Use this in
3007 wgetch() to update the keypad-mode according to whether the
3008 associated window's keypad-mode has been set with keypad(). This
3009 corrects a related problem restoring terminal state after handling
3010 SIGTSTP (reported by Mike Castle).
3011 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52
3012 autoconf-2.52-patch.gz
3014 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
3015 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3016 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
3017 + minor changes to quoting in configure script to allow it to work
3021 + modify final checks in lib_setup.c for line and col values, making
3023 + modify acs_map[] if configure --broken-linker is specified, to make
3024 it use a function rather than an array (prompted by an incorrect
3025 implementation in cygwin package).
3026 + correct spelling of configure option --enable-colorfgbg, which
3027 happened to work if --with-develop was set (noted in cygwin package
3029 + modify ifdef for genericerror() to compile with SUNWspro Sun WorkShop
3030 6 update 1 C++ 5.2 (patch by Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu>).
3031 + add configure checks to see if ncurses' fallback vsscanf() will
3032 compile either of the special cases for FILE structs, and if not,
3033 force it to the case which simply returns an error (report by
3034 Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu> indicates that Solaris 8 with
3035 64-bits does not allow access to FILE's fields).
3036 + modify ifdef's for c++/cursesw.cc to use the fallback vsscanf() in
3037 the ncurses library if no better substitute for this can be found
3039 + modify the build to name dynamic libraries according to the
3040 convention used on OS X and Darwin. Rather than something like
3041 libncurses.dylib.5.2, Darwin would name it libncurses. 5.dylib.
3042 There are a few additional minor fixes, such as setting the library
3043 version and compatibility version numbers (patch by Jason Evans
3044 <jevans@apple.com>).
3045 + use 'sh' to run mkinstalldirs, to work around problems with buggy
3046 versions of 'make' on OS/2 (report by John Polterak <jp@eyup.org>).
3047 + correct typo in manpage description of curs_set() (Debian #121548).
3048 + replace the configure script existence-check for mkstemp() by one
3049 that checks if the function works, needed for older glibc and
3053 + modify script that generates fallbacks.c to compile a temporary
3054 copy of the terminfo source in case the host does not contain all of
3055 the entries requested for fallbacks (request by Greg Roelofs).
3056 + modify configure script to accommodate systems such as Mac OS X whose
3057 <stdbool.h> header defines a 'bool' type inconsistent with ncurses,
3058 which normally makes 'bool' consistent with C++. Include <stdbool.h>
3059 from curses.h to force consistent usage, define a new type
3060 NCURSES_BOOL and related that to the exported 'bool' as either a
3061 typedef or definition, according to whether <stdbool.h> is present
3062 (based on a bug report for tin 1.5.9 by Aaron Adams <adamsa@mac.com>).
3065 + added/updated terminfo entries for M$ telnet and KDE konsole -TD
3068 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
3069 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
3070 + add putty terminfo entry -TD
3071 + if configuring for wide-curses, define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, since
3072 this may not otherwise be defined to make test/view.c compile.
3075 + review/correct several missing/generated items in curses.wide, sorted
3076 the lists to make subsequent diff's easier to track.
3079 + add manual pages for add_wch(), echo_wchar(), getcchar(),
3080 mvadd_wch(), mvwadd_wch(), setcchar(), wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar().
3081 + implement wecho_wchar()
3082 + modify _tracedump() to handle wide-characters by mapping them to '?'
3083 and control-characters to '.', to make the trace file readable. Also
3084 dynamically allocate the buffer used by _tracedump() for formatting
3086 + modify T_CALLED/T_RETURN macros to ease balancing call/return lines
3087 in a trace by using curly braces.
3088 + implement _nc_viscbuf(), for tracing cchar_t arrays.
3089 + correct trace-calls in setcchar() and getcchar() functions, which
3090 traced the return values but not the entry to each function.
3091 + correct usage message in test/view.c, which still mentioned -u flag.
3094 + modify configure script to allow building with termcap only, or with
3095 fallbacks only. In this case, we do not build tic and toe.
3096 + add configure --with-termpath option, to override default TERMPATH
3097 value of /etc/termcap:/usr/share/misc/termcap.
3098 + cosmetic change to tack: make menu descriptions agree with menu
3102 + rewrote limit-checks in wscrl() and associated _nc_scroll_window(),
3103 to ensure that if the parameter of wscrl() is larger than the size of
3104 the scrolling region, then the scrolling region will be cleared
3105 (report by Ben Kohlen <bckohlen@yahoo.com>).
3106 + add trace/varargs.c, using this to trace parameters in lib_printw.c
3107 + implement _tracecchar_t2() and _tracecchar_t().
3108 + split-out trace/visbuf.c
3109 + correct typo in lib_printw.c changes from 20010922 (report by Mike
3113 + modify run_tic.sh to check if the build is a cross-compile. In that
3114 case, do not use the build's tic to install the terminfo database
3115 (report by Rafael Rodriguez Velilla <rrv@tid.es>).
3116 + modify mouse click resolution so that mouseinterval(-1) will disable
3117 it, e.g., to handle touchscreens via a slow connection (request by
3118 Byron Stanoszek <gandalf@winds.org>).
3119 + correct mouseinterval() default value shown in curs_mouse.3x
3120 + remove conflicting definition of mouse_trafo() (reported by Lars
3121 Hecking, using gcc 2.95.3).
3124 + simpler fix for signal_name(), to replace the one overlooked in
3125 20010929 (reported by Larry Virden).
3128 + add -i option to view.c, to test ncurses' check for non-default
3129 signal handler for SIGINT, etc.
3130 + add cases for shared-libraries on Darwin/OS X (patch by Rob Braun
3131 <bbraun@synack.net>).
3132 + modify tset to restore original I/O modes if an error is encountered.
3133 Also modify to use buffered stderr consistently rather than mixing
3135 + change signal_name() function to use if-then-else rather than case
3136 statement, since signal-values aren't really integers (reported by
3138 + add limit checks in wredrawln(), fixing a problem where lynx was
3139 repainting a pad which was much larger than the screen.
3142 + fix: PutRange() was counting the second part of a wide character as
3143 part of a run, resulting in a cursor position that was one too far
3144 (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
3145 + modify resizeterm() to not queue a KEY_RESIZE if there was no
3146 SIGWINCH, thereby separating the two styles of SIGWINCH handling
3148 + simplified lib_tstp.c, modify it to use SA_RESTART flag for SIGWINCH.
3149 + eliminate several static buffers in the terminfo compiler, using
3151 + modify MKkeyname.awk so that keyname() does not store its result into
3152 a static buffer that is overwritten by the next call.
3153 + reorganize the output of infocmp -E and -e options to compile cleanly
3154 with gcc -Wwrite-strings warnings.
3155 + remove redefinition of chgat/wchgat/mvwchgat from curses.wide
3158 + add label to test/view.c, showing the name of the last key or signal
3159 that made the screen repaint, to make it clearer when a sigwinch
3161 + use ExitProgram() consistently in the test-programs to make it
3162 simpler to test leaks with dmalloc, etc.
3163 + move hashtab static data out of hashmap.c into SCREEN struct.
3164 + make NO_LEAK code compile with revised WINDOWLIST structs.
3167 + modify tgetent() to check if exit_attribute_mode resets the alternate
3168 character set, and if so, attempt to adjust the copy of the termcap
3169 "me" string which it will return to eliminate that part. In
3170 particular, 'screen' would lose track of line-drawing characters
3171 (report by Frederic L W Meunier <0@pervalidus.net>, analysis by
3175 + specify DOCTYPE in html manpages.
3176 + add missing macros for several "generated" functions: attr_get(),
3177 attr_off(), attr_on(), attr_set(), chgat(), mvchgat(), mvwchgat() and
3179 + modify view.c to agree with non-experimental status of ncurses'
3181 + change the sense of the -r option, making it default to ncurses'
3183 + add a note explaining what functions are unsafe in a signal
3185 + add a -c option, to set color display, for testing.
3186 + unset $data variable in MKterminfo.sh script, to address potential
3187 infinite loop if shell malfunction (report by Samuel Mikes
3188 <smikes@cubane.com>, for bash 2.05.0 on a Linux 2.0.36 system).
3189 + change kbs in mach terminfo entries to ^? (Marcus Brinkmann
3190 <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>).
3191 + correct logic for COLORFGBG environment variable: if rxvt is compiled
3192 with xpm support, the variable has three fields, making it slightly
3193 incompatible with itself. In either case, the background color is
3197 + move calls to def_shell_mode() and def_prog_mode() before loop with
3198 callbacks in lib_set_term.c, since the c++ demo otherwise initialized
3199 the tty modes before saving them (patch by John David Anglin
3200 <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>).
3201 + duplicate logic used to initialize trace in newterm(), in initscr()
3202 to avoid confusing trace of initscr().
3203 + simplify allocation of WINDOW and WINDOWLIST structs by making the
3204 first a part of the second rather than storing a pointer. This saves
3205 a call to malloc for each window (discussion with Philippe Blain).
3206 + remove unused variable 'used_ncv' from lib_vidattr.c (Philippe
3208 + modify c++/Makefile.in to accommodate archive programs that are
3209 different for C++ than for C, and add cases for vendor's C++
3210 compilers on Solaris and IRIX (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3211 + correct manpage description of criteria for deciding if the terminal
3212 supports xterm mouse controls.
3213 + add several configure script options to aid with cross-compiling:
3214 --with-build-cc, --with-build-cflags, --with-build-ldflags, and
3215 --with-build-libs (request by Greg Roelofs).
3216 + change criteria for deciding if configure is cross-compiling from
3217 host/build mismatch to host/target mismatch (request by Greg Roelofs
3218 <greg.roelofs@philips.com>).
3219 + correct logic for infocmp -e and -E options which writes the data for
3220 the ext_Names[] array. This is needed if one constructs a fallback
3221 table for a terminfo entry which uses extended termcap names, e.g.,
3222 AX in a color xterm.
3223 + fix undefined NCURSES_PATHSEP when configure --disable-database
3227 + fix for VALID_BOOLEAN() macro when char is not signed.
3228 + modify 'clean' rule for C++ binding to work with Sun compiler, which
3229 caches additional information in a subdirectory of the objects.
3230 + added llib-ncursesw.
3233 + add Caps.keys example for experimental extended function keys
3234 (adapted from a patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
3235 + correct parameter types of vidputs() and vidattr() to agree with
3236 header files (report by William P Setzer).
3237 + fix typos in several man-pages (patch by William P Setzer).
3238 + remove unneeded ifdef for __GNUG__ in CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC configure
3239 macro, which made ncurses C++ binding fail to build with other
3240 C++ compilers such as HPUX 11.x (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3241 + workaround for bug in HPUX 11.x C compiler: add a blank after
3242 NCURSES_EXPORT macro in form.h (report by Albert Chin-A-Young)
3243 + ignore blank lines in Caps* files in MKkey_defs.sh script (report by
3244 Albert Chin-A-Young).
3245 + correct definition of key_end in Caps.aix4, which left KEY_END
3246 undefined (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3247 + remove a QNX-specific fallback prototype for vsscanf(), which is
3248 obsolete with QNX RTP.
3249 + review/fix some of the T() and TR() macro calls, having noticed that
3250 there was no data for delwin() in a trace of dialog because there was
3251 no returnVoid call for wtimeout(). Also, traces in lib_twait.c are
3252 now selected under TRACE_IEVENT rather than TRACE_CALLS.
3255 + add a _nc_access() check before opening files listed via $TERMPATH.
3256 + using modified man2html, regenerate some of the html manpages to fix
3257 broken HREF's where the link was hyphenated.
3260 + add some limit/pointer checks to -S option of tputs.
3261 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
3262 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
3263 + add a note in curs_termcap.3x regarding a defect in the XSI
3264 description of tgetent (based on a discussion with Urs Jansen
3265 regarding the HPUX 11.x implementation, whose termcap interface is
3266 not compatible with existing termcap programs).
3267 + modify manhtml rule in dist.mk to preserve copyright notice on the
3268 generated files, as well as to address HTML style issues reported by
3269 tidy and weblint. Regenerated/updated corresponding html files.
3270 + comment out use of Protected_Character and related rarely used
3271 attributes in ncurses Ada95 test/demo to compile with wide-character
3275 + implement a simple example in C++ demo to test scanw().
3276 + corrected stdio function used to implement scanw() in cursesw.cc
3277 + correct definition of RemAttr() macro from 20010602 changes, which
3278 caused C++ SillyDemo to not show line-drawing characters.
3279 + modify C++ binding, adding getKey() which can be overridden by user
3280 to substitute functions other than getch() for keyboard processing
3281 of forms and menus (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3284 + fix some of the trace calls which needed modification to work with
3285 new wide-character structures.
3286 + modify magic-cookie code in tty_update.c to compile with new
3287 wide-character structures (report by <George.R.Goffe@seagate.com>).
3288 + ensure that _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined in curses.priv.h if
3289 compiling for wide-character configuration.
3290 + make addwnstr() handle non-spacing characters (patch by Sven
3294 + add configure check to define _GNU_SOURCE, needed to prop up glibc
3296 + split-out include/curses.wide to solve spurious redefinitions caused
3297 by defining _GNU_SOURCE, and move includes for <signal.h> before
3298 <curses.h> to work around misdefinition of ERR in glibc 2.1.3 header
3300 + extended ospeed change to NetBSD and OpenBSD -TD
3301 + modify logic in lib_baudrate.c for ospeed, for FreeBSD to make it
3302 work properly for termcap applications (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
3305 + correct an overlooked CharOf/UChar instance (reports by Eugene Lee
3306 <eugene@anime.net>, Sven Verdoolaege).
3307 + correct unneeded ifdef for wunctrl() (reported by Sven Verdoolaege)
3310 + change overlooked several CharOf/UChar instances.
3311 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
3312 + correct a typo in wunctrl(), which made it appear that botwc() was
3313 needed (no such function: use btowc()).
3314 + reimplement wide-character demo in test/view.c, using new functions.
3315 + implement getcchar(), setcchar(), wadd_wchnstr() and related macros.
3316 + fix a syntax problem with do/if/while in PUTC macro (curses.priv.h).
3319 + add parentheses in macros for malloc in test.priv.h, fixes an
3320 expression in view.c (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.co.at>).
3321 + add Caps.uwin, as an example.
3322 + change the way curses.h is generated, making the list of function
3323 key definitions extracted from the Caps file.
3324 + add #undef's before possible redefinition of ERR and OK in curses.h
3325 + modify logic in tic, toe, tput and tset which checks for basename of
3326 argv[0] to work properly on systems such as OS/2 which have
3327 case-independent filenames and/or program suffixes, e.g., ".ext".
3330 + add a configure check, if --enable-widec is specified, for putwc(),
3331 which may be in libutf8.
3332 + remove some unnecessary text from curs_extend.3x and
3333 default_colors.3x which caused man-db to make incorrect symbolic
3334 links (Debian bug report #99550).
3335 + add configure check if cast for _IO_va_list is needed to compile
3336 C++ vscan code (Debian bug report #97945).
3337 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
3338 + correct code that used non-standard auto-initialization of a struct,
3339 which gcc allows (report by Larry Virden).
3340 + use putwc() in PUTC() macro.
3341 + make addstr() work for the special case where the codeset is
3342 non-stateful (eg. UTF-8), as well as stateful codesets.
3345 + correct loop expression in NEXT_CHAR macro for lib_addstr.c changes
3346 from 20010602 (report by Mike Castle).
3349 + modify mvcur() to avoid emitting newline characters when nonl() mode
3350 is set. Normally this is not a problem since the actual terminal
3351 mode is set to suppress nl/crlf translations, however it is useful to
3352 allow the caller to manipulate the terminal mode to avoid staircasing
3353 effects after spawning a process which writes messages (for lynx
3355 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>:
3356 + remove redundant type-conversion in fifo_push()
3357 + correct definition of addwstr() macro in curses.h.in
3358 + remove _nc_utf8_outch()
3359 + rename most existing uses of CharOf() to UChar(), e.g., where it is
3360 used to prevent sign-extension in ctype macros.
3361 + change some chtype's to attr_t's where the corresponding variables
3362 are used to manipulate attributes.
3363 + UpdateAttr() was applied to both attributes (attr_t) and characters
3364 (chtype). Modify macro and calls to it to make these distinct.
3365 + add CharEq() macro, use in places where wide-character configuration
3366 implementation uses a struct for cchar_t.
3367 + moved struct ldat into curses.priv.h, to hide implementation details.
3368 + change CharOf() macro to use it for masking A_CHARTEXT data from
3370 + add L() macro to curses.priv.h, for long-character literals.
3371 + replace several assignments from struct ldat entries to chtype or
3372 char values with combinations of CharOf() and AttrOf() macros.
3373 + add/use intermediate ChAttrOf() and ChCharOf() macros where we know
3374 we are using chtype data.
3375 + add/use lowlevel attribute manipulation macros AddAttr(), RemAttr()
3377 + add/use SetChar() macro, to change a cchar_t based on a character and
3379 + convert most internal use of chtype to NCURSES_CH_T, to simplify use
3380 of cchar_t for wide-character configuration. Similarly, use ARG_CH_T
3381 where a pointer would be more useful.
3382 + add stubs for tracing cchar_t values.
3383 + add/use macro ISBLANK()
3384 + add/use constructors for cchar_t's: NewChar(), NewChar2().
3385 + add/use macros CHREF(), CHDEREF(), AttrOfD(), CharOfD() to facilitate
3386 passing cchar_t's by address.
3387 + add/use PUTC_DATA, PUTC() macros.
3388 + for wide-character configuration, move the window background data to
3389 the end of the WINDOW struct so that whether _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
3390 is defined or not, the offsets in the struct will not change.
3391 + modify addch() to work with wide-characters.
3392 + mark several wide-character functions as generated in curses.h.in
3393 + implement wunctrl(), wadd_wch(), wbkgrndset(), wbkgrnd(),
3394 wborder_set() and waddnwstr().
3397 + add experimental --with-caps=XXX option to customize to similar
3398 terminfo database formats such as AIX 4.x
3399 + add Caps.aix4 as an example.
3400 + modify Caps to add columns for the the KEY_xxx symbols.
3401 + modify configure --with-widec to suppress overwrite of libcurses.so
3403 + add checks to toe.c to avoid being confused by files and directories
3404 where we would expect the reverse, e.g., source-files in the
3405 top-level terminfo levels as is the case for AIX.
3408 + add top-level 'depend' rule for the C sources, assuming that the
3409 makedepend program is available. As a side-effect, this makes
3410 the generated sources, as in "make sources" (prompted by a report
3411 by Mike Castle that "make -j" fails because the resulting parallel
3412 processes race to generate ncurses/names.c).
3413 + modify configure script so that --disable-overwrite option's action
3414 to add a symbolic link for libcurses applies to the static library as
3415 well as the shared library when both are configured (report by Felix
3416 Natter <f.natter@ndh.net>).
3417 + add ELKS terminfo entries (Federico Bianchi
3418 <bianchi@www.arte.unipi.it>)
3419 + add u6 (CSR) to Eterm (Michael Jennings).
3422 + modify test/ncurses.c to work with xterm-256color, which has fewer
3423 color pairs than colors*colors (report by David Ellement
3424 <ellement@sdd.hp.com>).
3427 + corrected screen.xterm-xfree86 entry.
3428 + update comment in Caps regarding IBM (AIX) function-key definitions.
3431 + modify c++/Makefile.in to link with libncurses++w.a when configured
3432 for wide-characters (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
3433 + add check in _nc_trace_buf() to refrain from freeing a null pointer.
3434 + improve CF_PROG_INSTALL macro using CF_DIRNAME.
3435 + update config.guess, config.sub from autoconf 2.49e (alpha).
3438 + add secondary check in tic.c, similar_sgr() to see if the reason
3439 for mismatch was that the individual capabilities used a time-delay
3440 while sgr did not. Used this to cleanup mismatches, e.g., in vt100,
3441 and remove time-delay from Apple_Terminal entries.
3442 + add Apple_Terminal terminfo entries (Benjamin C W Sittler
3443 <bsittler@iname.com>).
3444 + correct definitions of shifted editing keys for xterm-xfree86 -TD
3445 + fix a bug in test/bs.c from 20010407 (patch by Erik Sigra).
3446 + prevent relative_move() from doing an overwrite if it detects 8-bit
3447 characters when configured for UTF-8 (reported by Sven Verdoolaege
3448 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
3451 + add configure checks for strstream.h vscan function, and similar
3452 stdio-based function which may be used in C++ binding for gcc 3.0
3453 (reports by George Goffe, Lars Hecking, Mike Castle).
3454 + rewrite parts of configure.in which used changequote(). That feature
3455 is broken in the latest autoconf alphas (e.g., 2.49d).
3456 + add a missing pathname for ncurses_dll.h, needed when building in
3457 a directory outside the source tree (patch by Sven Verdoolaege
3458 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
3459 > fix 2 bugs in test/bs.c Erik Sigra <sigra@home.se>:
3460 + no ships were ever placed in the last row or in the last column.
3461 This made the game very easy to win, because you never had to waste
3462 any shots there, but the computer did.
3463 + the squares around a sunken ship that belonged to the player were not
3464 displayed as already hit by the computer, like it does for the
3468 + add some examples of customizing screen's terminfo:
3469 screen.xterm-xfree86, screen.xterm-r6, screen.teraterm -TD
3470 + modify screen's terminfo entry to match the khome/kend in screen
3471 3.09.08 (Debian bug report #92215).
3472 + correct a memory leak in forms library (report by Stefan Vogtner
3473 <stefan@vogtner.de>) (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3476 + change symbols used to guard against repeated includes to begin
3477 consistently with "NCURSES_" rather than a leading underscore. There
3478 are other symbols defined in the header files which begin with a
3479 leading underscore, but they are part of the legacy interface.
3480 + reorder includes in c++ binding so that rcs identifiers can be
3482 + add .cc.ii rule to c++ makefile, to get preprocessor output for
3484 + correct configure script handling of @keyword@ substitutions when the
3485 --with-manpage-renames option is given (cf: 20000715, fixes Debian
3487 + report stack underflow/overflow in tparm() when tic -cv option is
3489 + remove spurious "%|" operator from xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry,
3490 (reported by Adam Costello <amc@cs.berkeley.edu>, Debian bug #89222).
3493 + cleanup of newdemo.c, fixing some ambiguous expressions noted by gcc
3494 2.95.2, and correcting some conflicting color pair initializations.
3495 + add missing copyright notice for cursesw.h
3496 + review, make minor fixes for use of '::' for referring to C-language
3497 interface from C++ binding.
3498 + modify configure check for g++ library slightly to accommodate
3499 nonstandard version number, e.g., <vendor>-2.7 (report by Ronald Ho
3500 <rho@mipos2.intel.com>).
3501 + add configure check for c++ <sstream> header, replace hardcoded
3503 + workaround for pre-release of gcc 3.0 libstdc++, which has dropped
3504 vscan from strstreambuf to follow standard, use wrapper for C vscanf
3505 instead (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@excite.com> and Matt Taggart
3506 <taggart@carmen.fc.hp.com>, fixes Debian .
3509 + modify interface of _nc_get_token() to pass 'silent' parameter to it,
3510 to make quieter loading of /etc/termcap (patch by Todd C Miller).
3511 + correct a few typos in curs_slk.3x and curs_outopts.3x manpages
3512 (patch by Todd C Miller).
3515 + compiler-warning fixes (reported by Nelson Beebe).
3518 + modify screen terminfo entry to use new 3.9.8 feature allowing xterm
3522 + broaden patterns used to match OS/2 EMX in configure script to cover
3523 variant used in newer config.guess/config.sub
3524 + remove changequote() calls from configure script, since this feature
3525 is broken in the autoconf 2.49c alpha, maintainers decline to fix.
3526 + remove macro callPutChar() from tty_update.c, since this is no longer
3527 needed (reported by Philippe Blain).
3528 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c to handle the case when the input
3529 file is really empty. Modify the next_char() function in comp_scan.c
3530 to allow arbitrarily long lines, and incidentally supply a newline to
3531 files that do not end in a newline. These changes improve tic's
3532 recovery from attempts to read binary files, e.g., its output from
3533 the terminfo database (reported by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
3536 + revert change to c++/demo.cc from 20001209, which changed definition
3537 of main() apparently to accommodate cygwin linker, but broke the demo
3539 + workaround for broken egcs 2.91.66 which calls member functions
3540 (i.e., lines() and colors() of NCursesWindow before calling its
3541 constructor. Add calls to initialize() in a few constructors which
3542 did not do this already.
3543 + use the GNAT preprocessor to make the necessary switch between TRACE
3544 and NO_TRACE configurations (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3545 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
3546 + modify kterm terminfo entry to use SCS sequence to support alternate
3547 character set (it does not work with SI/SO).
3548 + --with-ospeed=something didn't work. configure.in checked for a
3549 $enableval where it should check for $withval. Also,
3550 ncurses/llib-lncurses still had a hardcoded short.
3553 + correction to my merge of Tom Riddle's patch that broke tic in some
3554 conditions (reported by Enoch Wexler <enoch@wexler.co.il>) -TD
3557 + modify view.c to test halfdelay(). Like other tests, this recognizes
3558 the 's' and space commands for stopping/starting polled input, shows
3559 a freerunning clock in the header. If given a parameter to 's', that
3560 makes view.c use halfdelay() with that parameter rather than
3562 + fix to allow compile with the experimental configure option
3564 + modify postprocess_termcap() to avoid overwriting key_backspace,
3565 key_left, key_down when processing a non-base entry (report/patch by
3567 + modify _nc_wrap_entry(), adding option to reallocate the string
3568 table, needed in _nc_merge_entry() when merging termcap entries.
3569 (adapted from report/patch by Tom Riddle <ftr@oracom.com>).
3570 + modify a few configure script macros to keep $CFLAGS used only for
3571 compiler options, preprocessor options in $CPPFLAGS.
3574 + correct marker positions in lrtest.c after receiving a sigwinch.
3575 + fix ifdef's in ncurses.c to build against pre-5.2 for testing.
3576 + fixes to tclock for resizing behavior, redundant computation (report
3577 and patch by A M Kuchling <akuchlin@mems-exchange.org>).
3580 + improved scoansi terminfo entry -TD
3581 + modify configure script and makefile in Ada95/src to compile a stub
3582 for the trace functions when ncurses does not provide those.
3585 + add ncurses_dll.h and related definitions to support generating DLL's
3586 with cygwin (adapted from a patch by Charles Wilson
3587 <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>, changed NCURSES_EXPORT macro to make it
3588 work with 'indent') -TD
3591 + correct prototypes for some functions in curs_termcap.3x, matching
3592 termcap.h, which matches X/Open.
3593 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
3594 + a revised version of the Ada enhancements sent in by "H.
3595 Nanosecond", aka Eugene V Melaragno <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>. This
3597 - small fixes to the existing ncurses binding
3598 - addition of some more low-level functions to the binding, including
3599 termcap and terminfo functions
3600 - An Ada implementation of the "ncurses" test application originally
3604 + modify logic in lib_setup.c to allow either lines or columns value
3605 from terminfo to be used if the screen size cannot be determined
3606 dynamically rather than requiring both (patch by Ehud Karni
3607 <ehud@unix.simonwiesel.co.il>).
3608 + add check in lib_tgoto.c's is_termcap() function to reject null or
3609 empty strings (reported by Valentin Nechayev <netch@netch.kiev.ua> to
3611 + add definition from configure script that denotes the path-separator,
3612 which is normally a colon. The path-separator is a semicolon on
3613 OS/2 EMX and similar systems which may use a colon within pathnames.
3614 + alter logic to set default for --disable-overwrite option to set it
3615 to 'yes' if the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr/local, thereby
3616 accommodating the most common cause of problems: gcc's nonstandard
3617 search rules. Other locations such as /usr/local/ncurses will
3618 default to overwriting (report by Lars Hecking <lhecking@nmrc.ie>).
3621 + modify default for --disable-overwrite configure option to disable
3622 if the --prefix or $prefix value is not /usr.
3623 + add cygwin to systems for which ncurses is installed by default into
3624 /usr rather than /usr/local.
3627 + minor optimization in comp_error.c and lib_termname.c, using
3628 strncat() to replace strncpy() (patch by Solar Designer).
3629 + add a use_terminfo_vars() check for $HOME/.termcap, and check for
3630 geteuid() to use_terminfo_vars() (patch by Solar Designer
3632 + improved cygwin terminfo entry, based on patch by
3633 <ernie_boyd@yahoo.com>.
3634 + modify _nc_write_entry() to allow for the possibility that linking
3635 aliases on a filesystem that ignores case would not succeed because
3636 the source and destination differ only by case, e.g., NCR260VT300WPP0
3637 on cygwin (report by Neil Zanella).
3638 + fix a typo in the curs_deleteln.3x man page (patch by Bernhard
3639 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
3642 + add configure option --with-ospeed to assist packagers in transition
3643 to 5.3 change to ospeed type.
3644 + add/use CharOf() macro to suppress sign-extension of char type on
3645 platforms where this is a problem in ctype macros, e.g., Solaris.
3646 + change trace output to binary format.
3647 + correct a missing quote adjustment in CF_PATH_SYNTAX autoconf
3648 macro, for OS/2 EMX configuration.
3649 + rearrange a few configure macros, moving preprocessor options to
3650 $CPPFLAGS (a now-obsolete version of autoconf did not consistently
3651 use $CPPFLAGS in both the compile and preprocessor checks).
3652 + add a check in relative_move() to guard against buffer overflow in
3653 the overwrite logic.
3656 + add message to configure script showing g++ version.
3657 + resync config.guess, config.sub
3658 + modify lib_delwin.c, making it return ERR if the window did not exist
3659 (suggested by Neil Zanella).
3660 + add cases for FreeBSD 3.1 to tdlint and makellib scripts, used this
3661 to test/review ncurses library. (Would use lclint, but it doesn't
3663 + reorganized knight.c to avoid forward references. Correct screen
3664 updates when backtracking, especially to the first cell. Add F/B/a
3667 20001021 5.2 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3668 + update generated html files from manpages.
3669 + modify dist.mk to use edit_man.sh to substitute autoconf'd variables
3671 + fix an uninitialized pointer in read_termcap.c (report by Todd C
3672 Miller, from report/patch by Philip Guenther <guenther@gac.edu>).
3673 + correct help-message and array limit in knight.c (patch by Brian
3674 Raiter <breadbox@muppetlabs.com>).
3675 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
3676 + fix to avoid warning by GNAT-3.13p about use of inconsistent casing
3677 for some identifiers defined in the standard package.
3678 + cosmetic change to forms/fty_enum.c
3681 + correct an off-by-one position in test/railroad.c which could cause
3682 wrapping at the right margin.
3683 + test/repair some issues with libtool configuration. Make
3684 --disable-echo force libtool --silent. (Libtool does not work for
3685 OS/2 EMX, works partly for SCO - libtool is still very specific to
3687 + change default of --with-manpage-tbl to "no", since for most of the
3688 platforms which do have tbl installed, the system "man" program
3689 understands how to run tbl automatically.
3690 + minor improvement to force_bar() in comp_parse.c (Bernhard
3691 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
3692 + modify lib_tparm.c to use get_space() before writing terminating
3693 null character, both for consistency as well as to ensure that if
3694 save_char() was called immediately before, that the allocated memory
3695 is enough (patch by Sergei Ivanov).
3696 + add note about termcap ML capability which is duplicated between two
3697 different capabilities: smgl and smglr (reported by Sergei Ivanov
3698 <svivanov@pdmi.ras.ru>).
3699 + correct parameter counts in include/Caps for dclk as well as some
3700 printer-specific capabilities: csnm, defc, scs, scsd, smgtp, smglp.
3701 > patch by Johnny C Lam <lamj@stat.cmu.edu>:
3702 + add support for building with libtool (apparently version 1.3.5,
3703 since old versions do not handle -L../lib), using new configure
3704 option --with-libtool.
3705 + add configure option --with-manpage-tbl, which causes the manpages to
3706 be preprocessed by tbl(1) prior to installation,
3707 + add configure option --without-curses-h, which causes the
3708 installation process to install curses.h as ncurses.h and make
3709 appropriate changes to headers and manpages.
3712 + correct order of options/parameters in run_tic.in invocation of tic,
3713 which did not work with standard getopt() (reported by Ethan
3714 Butterfield <primus@veris.org>).
3715 + correct logic for 'reverse' variable in lib_vidattr.c, which was
3716 setting it true without checking if newmode had A_REVERSE set, e.g.,
3717 using $TERM=ansi on OS/2 EMX (see 20000917).
3718 > patch by Todd C Miller:
3719 + add a few missing use_terminfo_vars() and fixes up _nc_tgetent().
3720 Previously, _nc_cgetset() would still get called on cp so the
3721 simplest thing is to set cp to NULL if !use_terminfo_vars().
3722 + added checks for an empty $HOME environment variable.
3723 > patches for OS/2 EMX (Ilya Zakharevich):
3724 + modify convert_configure.pl to support INSTALL. Change compiler
3725 options in that script to use multithreading, needed for the mouse.
3726 + modify OS/2 mouse support, retrying as a 2-button mouse if code fails
3727 to set up a 3-button mouse.
3728 + improve code for OS/2 mouse support, using _nc_timed_wait() to
3729 replace select() call.
3732 + change type of ospeed variable back to short to match its use in
3733 legacy applications (reported by Andrey A Chernov).
3734 + add case to configure script for --enable-rpath on IRIX (patch by
3735 Albert Chin-A-Young).
3736 + minor fix to position_check() function, to ensure it gets the whole
3737 cursor report before decoding.
3738 + add configure option --disable-assumed-color, to allow pre-5.1
3739 convention of default colors used for color-pair 0 to be configured
3740 (see assume_default_colors()).
3741 + rename configure option --enable-hashmap --disable-hashmap, and
3742 reorder the configure options, splitting the experimental and
3744 + add configure option --disable-root-environ, which tells ncurses to
3745 disregard $TERMINFO and similar environment variables if the current
3746 user is root, or running setuid/setgid (based on discussion with
3748 + modified misc/run_tic.in to use tic -o, to eliminate dependency on
3749 $TERMINFO variable for installs.
3750 + add table entry for plab_norm to tput, so it passes in strings
3751 for that capability.
3752 + modify parse_format() in lib_tparm.c to ignore precision if it is
3753 longer than 10000 (report by Jouko Pynnonen).
3754 + rewrote limit checks in lib_mvcur.c using new functions
3755 _nc_safe_strcat(), etc. Made other related changes to check lengths
3756 used for strcat/strcpy (report by Jouko Pynnonen
3757 <jouko@solutions.fi>).
3760 + modify several descriptions, including those for setaf, setab, in
3761 include/Caps to indicate that the entries are parameterized. This
3762 information is used to tell which strings are translated when
3763 converting to termcap. Fixes a problem where the generated termcap
3764 would contain a spurious "%p1" for the terminfo "%p1%d".
3765 + modify ld -rpath options (e.g., Linux, and Solaris) to use an
3766 absolute pathname for the build tree's lib directory (prompted by
3767 discussion with Albert Chin-A-Young).
3768 + modify "make install.man" and "make uninstall.man" to include tack's
3770 + various fixes for install scripts used to support configure --srcdir
3771 and --with-install-prefix (reported by Matthew Clarke
3772 <Matthew_Clarke@mindlink.bc.ca>).
3773 + make configure script checks on variables $GCC and $GXX consistently
3774 compare against 'yes' rather than test if they are nonnull, since
3775 either may be set to the corresponding name of the C or C++ compiler
3776 (report/patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3779 + modify rs2 capability in xterm-r6 and similar where cursor
3780 save/restore bracketed the sequence for resetting video attributes.
3781 The cursor restore would undo that (report by John Hawkinson
3782 <jhawk@MIT.EDU> (see NetBSD misc/11052)).
3783 + using parameter check added to tic, corrected 27 typos in
3785 + modify tic to verify that its inputs are really files, in case
3786 someone tries to read a directory (or /dev/zero).
3787 + add a check for empty buffers returned by fgets() in comp_scan.c
3788 next_char() function, in case tic is run on a non-text file (fixes
3789 a core dump reported by Aaron Campbell <aaron@cs.dal.ca>).
3790 + add to railroad.c some code exercising tgoto(), providing an
3791 alternate form of display if the terminal supports cursor addressing.
3792 + split-out tgoto() again, this time into new file lib_tgoto.c, and
3793 implement a conventional BSD-style tgoto() which is used if the
3794 capability string does not contain terminfo-style padding or
3795 parameters (requested by Andrey A Chernov).
3796 + add check to tic which reports capabilities that do not reference
3797 the expected number of parameters.
3798 + add error checking to infocmp's -v and -m options to ensure that
3799 the option value is indeed a number.
3800 + some cleanup of logic in _nc_signal_handler() to verify if SIGWINCH
3801 handler is setup. Separated the old/new sigaction data for SIGTSTP
3802 from the other signals.
3805 + add S0, E0 extensions to screen's terminfo entry, which is another
3806 way to solve the misconfiguration issue -TD
3807 + completed special case for tgoto from 20000916
3810 + update xterm terminfo entries to match XFree86 xterm patch #146 -TD
3811 + add Matrix Orbital terminfo entries (from Eric Z Ayers
3813 + add special case to lib_tparm.c to allow 'screen' program to use a
3814 termcap-style parameter "%." to tgoto() for switching character sets.
3815 + use LN_S substitution in run_tic.in, to work on OS/2 EMX which has
3817 + updated notes in README.emx regarding autoconf patches.
3818 + replace a lookup table in lib_vidattr.c used to decode no_color_video
3819 with a logic expression (suggested by Philippe Blain).
3820 + add a/A toggle to ncurses.c 'b' test, which clears/sets alternate
3821 character set attribute from the displayed text.
3822 + correct inequality in parameter analysis of rewritten lib_tparm.c
3823 which had the effect of ignoring p9 in set_attributes (sgr), breaking
3824 alternate character set (reported by Piotr Majka <charvel@link.pl>).
3825 + correct ifdef'ing for GCC_PRINTF, GCC_SCANF which would not compile
3826 with Sun WorkShop compilers since these tokens were empty (cf:
3827 20000902, reported by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3830 + correct an uninitialized parameter to open_tempfile() in tic.c which
3831 made "tic -I" give an ambiguous error message about tmpnam.
3832 + add special case in lib_vidattr.c to reset underline and standout for
3833 devices that have no sgr0 defined (patch by Don Lewis
3834 <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>). Note that this will not work for bold
3835 mode, since there is no exit-bold-mode capability.
3836 + improved patch for Make_Enum_Type (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3837 + modify tparm to disallow arithmetic on strings, analyze the varargs
3838 list to read strings as strings and numbers as numbers.
3839 + modify tparm's internal function spop() to treat a null pointer as
3841 + modify tput program so it can be renamed or invoked via a link as
3842 'reset' or 'init', producing the same effect as 'tput reset' or 'tput
3844 + add private entrypoint _nc_basename(), use to consolidate related
3845 code in progs, as well as accommodating OS/2 EMX pathnames.
3846 + remove NCURSES_CONST line from edit_cfg.sh to compensate for its
3847 removal (except via AC_SUBST) from configure.in, making
3848 --enable-const work again (reported by Juergen Pfeifer).
3849 + regen'd configure to pick up "hpux*" change from 20000902.
3852 + modify tset.c to check for transformed "reset" program name, if any.
3853 + add a check for null pointer in Make_Enum_Type() (reported by Steven
3854 W Orr <steveo@world.std.com>).
3855 + change functions _nc_parse_entry() and postprocess_termcap() to avoid
3856 using strtok(), because it is non-reentrant (reported by Andrey A
3857 Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>).
3858 + remove "hpux10.*" case from CF_SHARED_OPTS configure script macro.
3859 This differed from the "hpux*" case by using reversed symbolic
3860 links, which made the 5.1 version not match the configuration of
3861 5.0 shared libraries (reported by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3862 + correct a dependency in Ada95/src/Makefile.in which prevented
3863 building with configure --srcdir (patch by H Nanosecond
3864 <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>).
3865 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in to avoid warning if GCC_PRINTF or
3866 GCC_SCANF was not previously defined (reported by Pavel Roskin
3868 + add MKncurses_def.sh to generate fallback definitions for
3869 ncurses_cfg.h, to quiet gcc -Wundef warnings, modified ifdef's in
3870 code to consistently use "#if" rather than "#ifdef".
3873 + add QNX qansi entries to terminfo -TD
3874 + add os2 entry to misc/emx.src (<jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>).
3875 + add configure option --with-database to allow specifying a different
3876 terminfo source-file to install. On OS/2 EMX, this defaults to
3878 + change misc/run_tic.sh to derive it from misc/run_tic.in, to simplify
3879 setting .exe extension on OS/2 EMX.
3880 + add .exe extension in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in,
3881 Ada95/samples/Makefile.in, for OS/2 EMX (reported by
3882 <jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>).
3883 + add configure check for filesystems (such as OS/2 EMX) which do not
3884 distinguish between upper/lowercase filenames, use this to fix tags
3886 + initialize fds[] array to 0's in _nc_timed_wait(); apparently poll()
3887 only sets the revents members of that array when there is activity
3888 corresponding to the related file (report by Glenn Cooper
3889 <gcooper@qantas.com.au>, using Purify on Solaris 5.6).
3890 + change configure script to use AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM rather than
3891 AC_CANONICAL_HOST, which means that configure --target will set
3892 a default program-prefix.
3893 + add note on cross-compiling to INSTALL (which does not rely on the
3894 AC_CANONICAL_* macros).
3897 + add cases for EMX OS/2 to config.guess, config.sub
3898 + new version of config.guess, config.sub from lynx 2.8.4dev.7
3899 + add definitions via transform.h to allow tic and tput to check for
3900 the transformed aliases rather than the original infotocap, etc.
3901 + simplify transform-expressions in progs/Makefile.in, make the
3902 uninstall rule work for transformed program names.
3903 + change symbol used by --install-prefix configure option from
3904 INSTALL_PREFIX to DESTDIR (the latter has become common usage
3905 although the name is misleading).
3906 + modify programs to use curses_version() string to report the version
3907 of ncurses with which they are compiled rather than the
3908 NCURSES_VERSION string. The function returns the patch level in
3909 addition to the major and minor version numbers.
3912 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to make transformed program names
3913 a parameter to that macro rather than embedding them in the macro.
3914 + newer config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in lynx
3916 + add configure option --with-default-terminfo-dir=DIR to allow
3917 specifying the default terminfo database directory (request by Albert
3919 + minor updates for terminfo.src from FreeBSD termcap change-history.
3920 + correct notes in README and INSTALL regarding documentation files
3921 that were moved from misc directory to doc (report by Rich Kulawiec
3923 + change most remaining unquoted parameters of 'test' in configure
3924 script to use quotes, for instance fixing a problem in the
3925 --disable-database option (reported by Christian Mondrup
3926 <scancm@biobase.dk>).
3927 + minor adjustments to work around some of the incompatibilities/bugs
3928 in autoconf 2.29a alpha.
3929 + add -I/usr/local/include when --with-ncurses option is used in
3930 test/configure script.
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