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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 + change several terminfo entries to make consistent use of ANSI
51 + add "tabs" program (prompted by Debian #502260).
52 + add configure --without-manpages option (request by Mike Frysinger).
54 20081102 5.7 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
57 + add a manpage to discuss memory leaks.
58 + add support for shared libraries for QNX (other than libtool, which
59 does not work well on that platform).
60 + build-fix for QNX C++ binding.
63 + build-fixes for OS/2 EMX.
64 + modify form library to accept control characters such as newline
65 in set_field_buffer(), which is compatible with Solaris (report by
67 + modify configure script to assume --without-hashed-db when
68 --disable-database is used.
69 + add "-e" option in ncurses/Makefile.in when generating source-files
70 to force earlier exit if the build environment fails unexpectedly
71 (prompted by patch by Adrian Bunk).
72 + change configure script to use CF_UTF8_LIB, improved variant of
76 + add teraterm4.59 terminfo entry, use that as primary teraterm entry, rename
77 original to teraterm2.3 -TD
78 + update "gnome" terminfo to 2.22.3 -TD
79 + update "konsole" terminfo to 1.6.6, needs today's fix for tic -TD
80 + add "aterm" terminfo -TD
81 + add "linux2.6.26" terminfo -TD
82 + add logic to tic for cancelling strings in user-defined capabilities,
86 + update html documentation.
87 + add -m and -s options to test/keynames.c and test/key_names.c to test
88 the meta() function with keyname() or key_name(), respectively.
89 + correct return value of key_name() on error; it is null.
90 + document some unresolved issues for rpath and pthreads in TO-DO.
91 + fix a missing prototype for ioctl() on OpenBSD in tset.c
92 + add configure option --disable-tic-depends to make explicit whether
93 tic library depends on ncurses/ncursesw library, amends change from
94 20080823 (prompted by Debian #501421).
97 + some build-fixes for configure --disable-ext-funcs (incomplete, but
98 works for C/C++ parts).
99 + improve configure-check for awks unable to handle large strings, e.g.
100 AIX 5.1 whose awk silently gives up on large printf's.
103 + fix build for --with-dmalloc by workaround for redefinition of
104 strndup between string.h and dmalloc.h
105 + fix build for --disable-sigwinch
106 + add environment variable NCURSES_GPM_TERMS to allow override to use
107 GPM on terminals other than "linux", etc.
108 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM does not happen to contain
109 "linux", since Gpm_Open() no longer limits its assertion to terminals
110 that it might handle, e.g., within "screen" in xterm.
111 + reset mouse file-descriptor when unloading GPM library (report by
113 + fix build for --disable-leaks --enable-widec --with-termlib
114 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
115 + use improved initialization for soft-label keys in Ada95 sample code.
116 + discard internal symbol _nc_slk_format (unused since 20080112).
117 + move call of slk_paint_info() from _nc_slk_initialize() to
118 slk_intern_refresh(), improving initialization.
121 + fix bug in mouse code for GPM from 20080920 changes (reported in
122 Debian #500103, also Miroslav Lichvar).
125 + fix shared-library rules for cygwin with tic- and tinfo-libraries.
126 + fix a memory leak when failure to connect to GPM.
127 + correct check for notimeout() in wgetch() (report on linux.redhat
128 newsgroup by FurtiveBertie).
129 + add an example warning-suppression file for valgrind,
130 misc/ncurses.supp (based on example from Reuben Thomas)
133 + change shared-library configuration for OpenBSD, make rpath work.
134 + build-fixes for using libutf8, e.g., on OpenBSD 3.7
137 + corrected fix for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
141 + corrected gcc options for building shared libraries on IRIX64.
142 + add configure check for awk programs unable to handle big-strings,
143 use that to improve the default for --enable-big-strings option.
144 + makefile-fixes for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
146 + update test/configure script.
147 + adapt ifdef's from library to make test/view.c build when mbrtowc()
148 is unavailable, e.g., with HPUX 10.20.
149 + add configure check for wcsrtombs, mbsrtowcs, which are used in
150 test/ncurses.c, and use wcstombs, mbstowcs instead if available,
151 fixing build of ncursew for HPUX 11.00
154 + fixes to make Ada95 demo_panels() example work.
155 + modify Ada95 'rain' test program to accept keyboard commands like the
157 + modify BeOS-specific ifdef's to build on Haiku (patch by Scott
159 + add configure-check to see if the std namespace is legal for cerr
160 and endl, to fix a build issue with Tru64.
161 + consistently use NCURSES_BOOL in lib_gen.c
162 + filter #line's from lib_gen.c
163 + change delimiter in MKlib_gen.sh from '%' to '@', to avoid
164 substitution by IBM xlc to '#' as part of its extensions to digraphs.
165 + update config.guess, config.sub from
166 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
167 (caveat - its maintainer removed support for older Linux systems).
170 + modify configure check for pthread library to work with OSF/1 5.1,
171 which uses #define's to associate its header and library.
172 + use pthread_mutexattr_init() for initializing pthread_mutexattr_t,
173 makes threaded code work on HPUX 11.23
174 + fix a bug in demo_menus in freeing menus (cf: 20080804).
175 + modify configure script for the case where tic library is used (and
176 possibly renamed) to remove its dependency upon ncurses/ncursew
177 library (patch by Dr Werner Fink).
178 + correct manpage for menu_fore() which gave wrong default for
179 the attribute used to display a selected entry (report by Mike Gran).
180 + add Eterm-256color, Eterm-88color and rxvt-88color (prompted by
184 + add configure option --enable-weak-symbols to turn on new feature.
185 + add configure-check for availability of weak symbols.
186 + modify linkage with pthread library to use weak symbols so that
187 applications not linked to that library will not use the mutexes,
188 etc. This relies on gcc, and may be platform-specific (patch by Dr
190 + add note to INSTALL to document limitation of renaming of tic library
191 using the --with-ticlib configure option (report by Dr Werner Fink).
192 + document (in manpage) why tputs does not detect I/O errors (prompted
193 by comments by Samuel Thibault).
194 + fix remaining warnings from Klocwork report.
197 + modify _nc_panelhook() data to account for a permanent memory leak.
198 + fix memory leaks in test/demo_menus
199 + fix most warnings from Klocwork tool (report by Larry Zhou).
200 + modify configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to add case for
201 "dragonfly" from xterm #236 changes.
202 + modify configure script --with-hashed-db to let $LIBS override the
203 search for the db library (prompted by report by Samson Pierre).
206 + build-fixes for gcc 4.3.1 (changes to gnat "warnings", and C inlining
210 + build-fix (reports by Christian Ebert, Funda Wang).
213 + compiler-warning fixes for Solaris.
216 + use NCURSES_MOUSE_MASK() in definition of BUTTON_RELEASE(), etc., to
217 make those work properly with the "--enable-ext-mouse" configuration
219 + improve documentation of build-cc options in INSTALL.
220 + work-around a bug in gcc 4.2.4 on AIX, which does not pass the
221 -static/-dynamic flags properly to linker, causing test/bs to
225 + correct some ifdef's needed for the broken-linker configuration.
226 + make debugging library's $BAUDRATE feature work for termcap
228 + make $NCURSES_NO_PADDING feature work for termcap interface (prompted
229 by comment on FreeBSD mailing list).
230 + add screen.mlterm terminfo entry -TD
231 + improve mlterm and mlterm+pcfkeys terminfo entries -TD
234 + regenerated html documentation.
235 + expand manpage description of parameters for form_driver() and
236 menu_driver() (prompted by discussion with Adam Spragg).
237 + add null-pointer checks for cur_term in baudrate() and
238 def_shell_mode(), def_prog_mode()
239 + fix some memory leaks in delscreen() and wide acs.
242 + modify test/ditto.c to illustrate multi-threaded use_screen().
243 + change CC_SHARED_OPTS from -KPIC to -xcode=pic32 for Solaris.
244 + add "-shared" option to MK_SHARED_LIB for gcc on Solaris (report
248 + finish changes to wgetch(), making it switch as needed to the
249 window's actual screen when calling wrefresh() and wgetnstr(). That
250 allows wgetch() to get used concurrently in different threads with
251 some minor restrictions, e.g., the application should not delete a
252 window which is being used in a wgetch().
253 + simplify mutex's, combining the window- and screen-mutex's.
256 + modify wgetch() to use the screen which corresponds to its window
257 parameter rather than relying on SP; some dependent functions still
259 + factor out most use of SP in lib_mouse.c, using parameter.
260 + add internal _nc_keyname(), replacing keyname() to associate with a
261 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
262 + add internal _nc_unctrl(), replacing unctrl() to associate with a
263 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
264 + add internal _nc_tracemouse(), replacing _tracemouse() to eliminate
265 its associated global buffer _nc_globals.tracemse_buf now in SCREEN.
266 + add internal _nc_tracechar(), replacing _tracechar() to use SCREEN in
267 preference to the global _nc_globals.tracechr_buf buffer.
270 + modify _nc_keypad() to make it switch temporarily as needed to the
271 screen which must be updated.
272 + wrap cur_term variable to help make _nc_keymap() thread-safe, and
273 always set the screen's copy of this variable in set_curterm().
274 + restore curs_set() state after endwin()/refresh() (report/patch
278 + modify configure script to note that --enable-ext-colors and
279 --enable-ext-mouse are not experimental, but extensions from
281 + corrected manpage description of setcchar() (discussion with
283 + fix for adding a non-spacing character at the beginning of a line
284 (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
287 + modify screen.* terminfo entries using new screen+fkeys to fix
288 overridden keys in screen.rxvt (Debian #478094) -TD
289 + modify internal interfaces to reduce wgetch()'s dependency on the
291 + simplify some loops with macros each_screen(), each_window() and
295 + continue modifying test/ditto.c toward making it demonstrate
296 multithreaded use_screen(), using fifos to pass data between screens.
297 + fix typo in form.3x (report by Mike Gran).
300 + add screen.rxvt terminfo entry -TD
301 + modify tic -f option to format spaces as \s to prevent them from
302 being lost when that is read back in unformatted strings.
303 + improve test/ditto.c, using a "talk"-style layout.
306 + change test/ditto.c to use openpty() and xterm.
307 + add locks for copywin(), dupwin(), overlap(), overlay() on their
309 + add locks for initscr() and newterm() on updates to the SCREEN
311 + finish table in curs_thread.3x manpage.
314 + begin table in curs_thread.3x manpage describing the scope of data
315 used by each function (or symbol) for threading analysis.
316 + add null-pointer checks to setsyx() and getsyx() (prompted by
317 discussion by Martin v. Lowis and Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven on
318 python-dev2 mailing list).
321 + add null-pointer checks in set_term() and delscreen().
322 + move _nc_windows into _nc_globals, since windows can be pads, which
323 are not associated with a particular screen.
324 + change use_screen() to pass the SCREEN* parameter rather than
325 stdscr to the callback function.
326 + force libtool to use tag for 'CC' in case it does not detect this,
327 e.g., on aix when using CC=powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0-gcc
328 (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
329 + override OBJEXT to "lo" when building with libtool, to work on
330 platforms such as AIX where libtool may use a different suffix for
331 the object files than ".o" (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
332 + add configure --with-pthread option, for building with the POSIX
336 + fill in extended-color pair two more places in wbkgrndset() and
337 waddch_nosync() (prompted by Sedeno's patch).
338 + fill in extended-color pair in _nc_build_wch() to make colors work
339 for wide-characters using extended-colors (patch by Alejandro R
341 + add x/X toggles to ncurses.c C color test to test/demo
342 wide-characters with extended-colors.
343 + add a/A toggles to ncurses.c c/C color tests.
344 + modify test/ditto.c to use use_screen().
345 + finish modifying test/rain.c to demonstrate threads.
348 + start modifying test/rain.c for threading demo.
349 + modify test/ncurses.c to make 'f' test accept the f/F/b/F/</> toggles
350 that the 'F' accepts.
351 + modify test/worm.c to show trail in reverse-video when other threads
352 are working concurrently.
353 + fix a deadlock from improper nesting of mutexes for windowlist and
357 + fixes from 20080223 resolved issue with mutexes; change to use
358 recursive mutexes to fix memory leak in delwin() as called from
362 + fix a size-difference in _nc_globals which caused hanging of mutex
363 lock/unlock when termlib was built separately.
366 + avoid using nanosleep() in threaded configuration since that often
367 is implemented to suspend the entire process.
370 + update test programs to build/work with various UNIX curses for
371 comparisons. This was to reinvestigate statement in X/Open curses
372 that insnstr and winsnstr perform wrapping. None of the Unix-branded
373 implementations do this, as noted in manpage (cf: 20040228).
376 + modify _nc_setupscreen() to set the legacy-coding value the same
377 for both narrow/wide models. It had been set only for wide model,
378 but is needed to make unctrl() work with locale in the narrow model.
379 + improve waddch() and winsch() handling of EILSEQ from mbrtowc() by
380 using unctrl() to display illegal bytes rather than trying to append
381 further bytes to make up a valid sequence (reported by Andrey A
383 + modify unctrl() to check codes in 128-255 range versus isprint().
384 If they are not printable, and locale was set, use a "M-" or "~"
388 + improve threading in test/worm.c (wrap refresh calls, and KEY_RESIZE
389 handling). Now it hangs in napms(), no matter whether nanosleep()
390 or poll() or select() are used on Linux.
393 + fixes to build with --disable-ext-funcs
394 + add manpage for use_window and use_screen.
395 + add set_tabsize() and set_escdelay() functions.
398 + remove recursive-mutex definitions, finish threading demo for worm.c
399 + remove a redundant adjustment of lines in resizeterm.c's
400 adjust_window() which caused occasional misadjustment of stdscr when
404 + several improvements to terminfo entries based on xterm #230 -TD
405 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle keyname/key_name prototypes, so the
406 "link_test" builds properly.
407 + fix for toe command-line options -u/-U to ensure filename is given.
408 + fix allocation-size for command-line parsing in infocmp from 20070728
409 (report by Miroslav Lichvar)
410 + improve resizeterm() by moving ripped-off lines, and repainting the
411 soft-keys (report by Katarina Machalkova)
412 + add clarification in wclear's manpage noting that the screen will be
413 cleared even if a subwindow is cleared (prompted by Christer Enfors
415 + change test/ncurses.c soft-key tests to work with KEY_RESIZE.
418 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
422 + add several functions to C++ binding which wrap C functions that
423 pass a WINDOW* parameter (request by Chris Lee).
426 + add note about configure options needed for Berkeley database to the
428 + improve checks for version of Berkeley database libraries.
429 + amend fix for rpath to not modify LDFLAGS if the platform has no
430 applicable transformation (report by Christian Ebert, cf: 20071124).
433 + modify configure option --with-hashed-db to accept a parameter which
434 is the install-prefix of a given Berkeley Database (prompted by
436 + rewrite wrapper for wcrtomb(), making it work on Solaris. This is
437 used in the form library to determine the length of the buffer needed
438 by field_buffer (report by Alfred Fung).
439 + remove unneeded window-parameter from C++ binding for wresize (report
443 + modify the support for filesystems which do not support mixed-case to
444 generate 2-character (hexadecimal) codes for the lower-level of the
445 filesystem terminfo database (request by Michail Vidiassov).
446 + add configure option --enable-mixed-case, to allow overriding the
447 configure script's check if the filesystem supports mixed-case
449 + add wresize() to C++ binding (request by Chris Lee).
450 + define NCURSES_EXT_FUNCS and NCURSES_EXT_COLORS in curses.h to make
451 it simpler to tell if the extended functions and/or colors are
455 + update memory-leak checks for changes to names.c and codes.c
456 + correct acsc strings in h19, z100 (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler).
459 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
461 + add mrxvt terminfo entry, add/fix xterm building blocks for modified
463 + compile with FreeBSD "contemporary" TTY interface (patch by
467 + modify makefile rules to allow clear, tput and tset to be built
468 without libtic. The other programs (infocmp, tic and toe) rely on
470 + add/modify null-pointer checks in several functions for SP and/or
471 the WINDOW* parameter (report by Thorben Krueger).
472 + fixes for field_buffer() in formw library (see Redhat Bugzilla
473 #310071, patches by Miroslav Lichvar).
474 + improve performance of NCURSES_CHAR_EQ code (patch by Miroslav
476 + update/improve mlterm and rxvt terminfo entries, e.g., for
477 the modified cursor- and keypad-keys -TD
480 + add code to curses.priv.h ifdef'd with NCURSES_CHAR_EQ, which
481 changes the CharEq() macro to an inline function to allow comparing
482 cchar_t struct's without comparing gaps in a possibly unpacked
483 memory layout (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
486 + add new functions to lib_trace.c to setup mutex's for the _tracef()
487 calls within the ncurses library.
488 + for the reentrant model, move _nc_tputs_trace and _nc_outchars into
490 + start modifying test/worm.c to provide threading demo (incomplete).
491 + separated ifdef's for some BSD-related symbols in tset.c, to make
492 it compile on LynxOS (report by Greg Gemmer).
494 + modify Ada95/gen/Makefile to use shlib script, to simplify building
495 shared-library configuration on platforms lacking rpath support.
496 + build-fix for Ada95/src/Makefile to reflect changed dependency for
497 the terminal-interface-curses-aux.adb file which is now generated.
498 + restructuring test/worm.c, for use_window() example.
501 + add use_window() and use_screen() functions, to develop into support
502 for threaded library (incomplete).
503 + fix typos in man/curs_opaque.3x which kept the install script from
504 creating symbolic links to two aliases created in 20070818 (report by
508 + remove a spurious newline from output of html.m4, which caused links
509 for Ada95 html to be incorrect for the files generated using m4.
510 + start investigating mutex's for SCREEN manipulation (incomplete).
511 + minor cleanup of codes.c/names.c for --enable-const
512 + expand/revise "Routine and Argument Names" section of ncurses manpage
513 to address report by David Givens in newsgroup discussion.
514 + fix interaction between --without-progs/--with-termcap configure
515 options (report by Michail Vidiassov).
516 + fix typo in "--disable-relink" option (report by Michail Vidiassov).
519 + fix a sign-extension bug in infocmp's repair_acsc() function
521 + fix old configure script bug which prevented "--disable-warnings"
522 option from working (patch by Mike Frysinger).
525 + add 9term terminal description (request by Juhapekka Tolvanen) -TD
526 + modify comp_hash.c's string output to avoid misinterpreting a null
527 "\0" followed by a digit.
528 + modify MKnames.awk and MKcodes.awk to support big-strings.
529 This only applies to the cases (broken linker, reentrant) where
530 the corresponding arrays are accessed via wrapper functions.
531 + split MKnames.awk into two scripts, eliminating the shell redirection
532 which complicated the make process and also the bogus timestamp file
533 which was introduced to fix "make -j".
534 + add test/test_opaque.c, test/test_arrays.c
535 + add wgetscrreg() and wgetparent() for applications that may need it
536 when NCURSES_OPAQUE is defined (prompted by Bryan Christ).
539 + amend treatment of infocmp "-r" option to retain the 1023-byte limit
540 unless "-T" is given (cf: 981017).
541 + modify comp_captab.c generation to use big-strings.
542 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private accessed via
543 _nc_get_alias_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
545 + modify configure script to skip Intel compiler in CF_C_INLINE.
546 + make _nc_info_hash_table and _nc_cap_hash_table private accessed via
547 _nc_get_hash_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
551 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private, accessed via
552 _nc_get_alias_table() since they are used only by parse_entry.c
553 + make _nc_key_names private since it is used only by lib_keyname.c
554 + add --disable-big-strings configure option to control whether
555 unctrl.c is generated using the big-string optimization - which may
556 use strings longer than supported by a given compiler.
557 + reduce relocation tables for tic, infocmp by changing type of
558 internal hash tables to short, and make those private symbols.
559 + eliminate large fixed arrays from progs/infocmp.c
562 + change winnstr() to stop at the end of the line (cf: 970315).
563 + add test/test_get_wstr.c
564 + add test/test_getstr.c
565 + add test/test_inwstr.c
566 + add test/test_instr.c
569 + restore a call to obtain screen-size in _nc_setupterm(), which
570 is used in tput and other non-screen applications via setupterm()
571 (Debian #433357, reported by Florent Bayle, Christian Ohm,
575 + add test/savescreen.c test-program
576 + add check to trace-file open, if the given name is a directory, add
577 ".log" to the name and try again.
578 + add konsole-256color entry -TD
579 + add extra gcc warning options from xterm.
580 + minor fixes for ncurses/hashmap test-program.
581 + modify configure script to quiet c++ build with libtool when the
582 --disable-echo option is used.
583 + modify configure script to disable ada95 if libtool is selected,
584 writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD ports/114493).
585 + update config.guess, config.sub
588 + add continuous-move "M" to demo_panels to help test refresh changes.
589 + improve fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters,
590 taking into account some split characters on left/right window
594 + add "widec" row to _tracedump() output to help diagnose remaining
595 problems with multi-column characters.
596 + partial fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters
597 which are partly overwritten (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
598 + ignore A_CHARTEXT bits in vidattr() and vid_attr(), in case
599 multi-column extension bits are passed there.
600 + add setlocale() call to demo_panels.c, needed for wide-characters.
601 + add some output flags to _nc_trace_ttymode to help diagnose a bug
602 report by Larry Virden, i.e., ONLCR, OCRNL, ONOCR and ONLRET,
605 + add test/demo_panels.c
606 + implement opaque version of setsyx() and getsyx().
609 + corrected xterm+pcf2 terminfo modifiers for F1-F4, to match xterm
611 + split-out key_name() from MKkeyname.awk since it now depends upon
612 wunctrl() which is not in libtinfo (report by Rong-En Fan).
615 + add test/key_name.c
616 + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test/inch_wide.c
617 + update test/configure
618 + correct formatting of DEL (0x7f) in _nc_vischar().
619 + null-terminate result of wunctrl().
620 + add null-pointer check in key_name() (report by Andreas Krennmair,
624 + adapt mouse-handling code from menu library in form-library
625 (discussion with Clive Nicolson).
626 + add a modification of test/dots.c, i.e., test/dots_mvcur.c to
627 illustrate how to use mvcur().
628 + modify wide-character flavor of SetAttr() to preserve the
629 WidecExt() value stored in the .attr field, e.g., in case it
630 is overwritten by chgat (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
631 + correct buffer-size for _nc_viswbuf2n() (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
632 + build-fixes for Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 (patch by Peter O'Gorman).
635 + modify keyname() to use "^X" form only if meta() has been called, or
636 if keyname() is called without initializing curses, e.g., via
637 initscr() or newterm() (prompted by LinuxBase #1604).
638 + document some portability issues in man/curs_util.3x
639 + add a shadow copy of TTY buffer to _nc_prescreen to fix applications
640 broken by moving that data into SCREEN (cf: 20061230).
643 + add 'O' (wide-character panel test) in ncurses.c to demonstrate a
644 problem reported by Sadrul H Chowdhury with repainting parts of
646 + modify slk_init() so that if there are preceding calls to
647 ripoffline(), those affect the available lines for soft-keys (adapted
648 from patch by Clive Nicolson).
649 + document some portability issues in man/curs_getyx.3x
652 + fix a bug in Ada95/samples/ncurses which caused a variable to
653 become uninitialized in the "b" test.
654 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in adahtml rule to account for recent
655 movement of files, fix a few incorrect manpage references in the
657 + add Ada95 binding to _nc_freeall() as Curses_Free_All to help with
659 + correct some functions in Ada95 binding which were using return value
660 from C where none was returned: idcok(), immedok() and wtimeout().
661 + amend recent changes for Ada95 binding to make it build with
662 Cygwin's linker, e.g., with configure options
663 --enable-broken-linker --with-ticlib
666 + add a configure check for gcc's options for inlining, use that to
667 quiet a warning message where gcc's default behavior changed from
669 + improve warning message when checking if GPM is linked to curses
670 library by not warning if its use of "wgetch" is via a weak symbol.
671 + add loader options when building with static libraries to ensure that
672 an installed shared library for ncurses does not conflict. This is
673 reported as problem with Tru64, but could affect other platforms
674 (report Martin Mokrejs, analysis by Tim Mooney).
675 + fix build on cygwin after recent ticlib/termlib changes, i.e.,
676 + adjust TINFO_SUFFIX value to work with cygwin's dll naming
677 + revert a change from 20070303 which commented out dependency of
678 SHLIB_LIST in form/menu/panel/c++ libraries.
679 + fix initialization of ripoff stack pointer (cf: 20070421).
682 + move most static variables into structures _nc_globals and
683 _nc_prescreen, to simplify storage.
684 + add/use configure script macro CF_SIG_ATOMIC_T, use the corresponding
685 type for data manipulated by signal handlers (prompted by comments
686 in mailing.openbsd.bugs newsgroup).
687 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to allow one to pass options such as -static
688 to the libtool create- and link-operations.
691 + fix whitespace in curs_opaque.3x which caused a spurious ';' in
692 the installed aliases (report by Peter Santoro).
693 + fix configure script to not try to generate adacurses-config when
694 Ada95 tree is not built.
697 + add man/curs_legacy.3x, man/curs_opaque.3x
698 + fix acs_map binding for Ada95 when --enable-reentrant is used.
699 + add adacurses-config to the Ada95 install, based on version from
700 FreeBSD port, in turn by Juergen Pfeifer in 2000 (prompted by
701 comment on comp.lang.ada newsgroup).
702 + fix includes in c++ binding to build with Intel compiler
704 + update install rule in Ada95 to use mkdirs.sh
705 > other fixes prompted by inspection for Coverity report:
706 + modify ifdef's for c++ binding to use try/catch/throw statements
707 + add a null-pointer check in tack/ansi.c request_cfss()
708 + fix a memory leak in ncurses/base/wresize.c
709 + corrected check for valid memu/meml capabilities in
710 progs/dump_entry.c when handling V_HPUX case.
711 > fixes based on Coverity report:
712 + remove dead code in test/bs.c
713 + remove dead code in test/demo_defkey.c
714 + remove an unused assignment in progs/infocmp.c
715 + fix a limit check in tack/ansi.c tools_charset()
716 + fix tack/ansi.c tools_status() to perform the VT320/VT420
717 tests in request_cfss(). The function had exited too soon.
718 + fix a memory leak in tic.c's make_namelist()
719 + fix a couple of places in tack/output.c which did not check for EOF.
720 + fix a loop-condition in test/bs.c
721 + add index checks in lib_color.c for color palettes
722 + add index checks in progs/dump_entry.c for version_filter() handling
724 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in copywin()
725 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in waddchnstr()
726 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
727 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c's make_namelist()
728 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
729 + add null-pointer checks in test/cardfile.c
730 + fix a double-free in ncurses/tinfo/trim_sgr0.c
731 + fix a double-free in ncurses/base/wresize.c
732 + add try/catch block to c++/cursesmain.cc
735 + modify Ada95 binding to build with --enable-reentrant by wrapping
736 global variables (bug: acs_map does not yet work).
737 + modify Ada95 binding to use the new access-functions, allowing it
738 to build/run when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
739 + add access-functions and macros to return properties of the WINDOW
740 structure, e.g., when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
741 + improved install-sh's quoting.
742 + use mkdirs.sh rather than mkinstalldirs, e.g., to use fixes from
746 + eliminate part of the direct use of WINDOW data from Ada95 interface.
747 + fix substitutions for termlib filename to make configure option
748 --enable-reentrant work with --with-termlib.
749 + change a constructor for NCursesWindow to allow compiling with
750 NCURSES_OPAQUE set, since we cannot pass a reference to
754 + ignore --with-chtype=unsigned since unsigned is always added to
755 the type in curses.h; do the same for --with-mmask-t.
756 + change warning regarding --enable-ext-colors and wide-character
757 in the configure script to an error.
758 + tweak error message in CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to distinguish other programs
759 such as Darwin's libtool program (report by Michail Vidiassov)
760 + modify edit_man.sh to allow for multiple substitutions per line.
761 + set locale in misc/ncurses-config.in since it uses a range
762 + change permissions libncurses++.a install (report by Michail
764 + corrected length of temporary buffer in wide-character version
765 of set_field_buffer() (related to report by Bryan Christ).
768 + fix mk-1st.awk script install_shlib() function, broken in 20070224
769 changes for cygwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
772 + increase size of array in _nc_visbuf2n() to make "tic -v" work
773 properly in its similar_sgr() function (report/analysis by Peter
775 + add --enable-reentrant configure option for ongoing changes to
776 implement a reentrant version of ncurses:
777 + libraries are suffixed with "t"
778 + wrap several global variables (curscr, newscr, stdscr, ttytype,
779 COLORS, COLOR_PAIRS, COLS, ESCDELAY, LINES and TABSIZE) as
780 functions returning values stored in SCREEN or cur_term.
781 + move some initialization (LINES, COLS) from lib_setup.c,
782 i.e., setupterm() to _nc_setupscreen(), i.e., newterm().
785 + regenerated html documentation.
786 + add NCURSES_OPAQUE symbol to curses.h, will use to make structs
787 opaque in selected configurations.
788 + move the chunk in lib_acs.c which resets acs capabilities when
789 running on a terminal whose locale interferes with those into
790 _nc_setupscreen(), so the libtinfo/libtinfow files can be made
791 identical (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
792 + do not use configure variable SHLIB_LIBS for building libraries
793 outside the ncurses directory, since that symbol is customized
794 only for that directory, and using it introduces an unneeded
795 dependency on libdl (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
796 + modify mk-1st.awk so the generated makefile rules for linking or
797 installing shared libraries do not first remove the library, in
798 case it is in use, e.g., libncurses.so by /bin/sh (report by Jeff
800 + revised section "Using NCURSES under XTERM" in ncurses-intro.html
801 (prompted by newsgroup comment by Nick Guenther).
804 + change internal return codes of _nc_wgetch() to check for cases
805 where KEY_CODE_YES should be returned, e.g., if a KEY_RESIZE was
806 ungetch'd, and read by wget_wch().
807 + fix static-library build broken in 20070217 changes to remove "-ldl"
808 (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
809 + change makefile/scripts for cygwin to allow building termlib.
810 + use Form_Hook in manpages to match form.h
811 + use Menu_Hook in manpages, as well as a few places in menu.h
812 + correct form- and menu-manpages to use specific Field_Options,
813 Menu_Options and Item_Options types.
814 + correct prototype for _tracechar() in manpage (cf: 20011229).
815 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
818 + fixes for $(TICS_LIST) in ncurses/Makefile (report by Miroslav
820 + modify relinking of shared libraries to apply only when rpath is
821 enabled, and add --disable-relink option which can be used to
822 disable the feature altogether (reports by Michail Vidiassov,
824 + fix --with-termlib option for wide-character configuration, stripping
825 the "w" suffix in one place (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
826 + remove "-ldl" from some library lists to reduce dependencies in
827 programs (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
828 + correct description of --enable-signed-char in configure --help
829 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
830 + add pattern for GNU/kFreeBSD configuration to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE,
831 which matches an earlier change to CF_SHARED_OPTS, from xterm #224
833 + remove "${DESTDIR}" from -install_name option used for linking
834 shared libraries on Darwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
837 + add test/inchs.c, test/inch_wide.c, to test win_wchnstr().
838 + remove libdl from library list for termlib (report by Miroslav
840 + fix configure.in to allow --without-progs --with-termlib (patch by
842 + modify win_wchnstr() to ensure that only a base cell is returned
843 for each multi-column character (prompted by report by Wei Kong
844 regarding change in mvwin_wch() cf: 20041023).
847 + modify fix_wchnstr() in form library to strip attributes (and color)
848 from the cchar_t array (field cells) read from a field's window.
849 Otherwise, when copying the field cells back to the window, the
850 associated color overrides the field's background color (report by
852 + improve tracing for form library, showing created forms, fields, etc.
853 + ignore --enable-rpath configure option if --with-shared was omitted.
854 + add _nc_leaks_tinfo(), _nc_free_tic(), _nc_free_tinfo() entrypoints
855 to allow leak-checking when both tic- and tinfo-libraries are built.
856 + drop CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC macro from configure script, since C++ binding
857 no longer relies on it.
858 + disallow combining configure script options --with-ticlib and
859 --enable-termcap (report by Rong-En Fan).
860 + remove tack from ncurses tree.
863 + fix typo in configure script that broke --with-termlib option
864 (report by Rong-En Fan).
867 + improve fix for FreeBSD gnu/98975, to allow for null pointer passed
868 to tgetent() (report by Rong-en Fan).
869 + update tack/HISTORY and tack/README to tell how to build it after
870 it is removed from the ncurses tree.
871 + fix configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
872 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
873 + review/eliminate other original-file artifacts in cursesw.cc, making
874 its license consistent with ncurses.
875 + use ncurses vw_scanw() rather than reading into a fixed buffer in
876 the c++ binding for scanw() methods (prompted by report by Nuno Dias).
877 + eliminate fixed-buffer vsprintf() calls in c++ binding.
880 + add _nc_leaks_tic() to separate leak-checking of tic library from
881 term/ncurses libraries, and thereby eliminate a library dependency.
882 + fix test/mk-test.awk to ignore blank lines.
883 + correct paths in include/headers, for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav
887 + add a break-statement in misc/shlib to ensure that it exits on the
888 _first_ matched directory (report by Paul Novak).
889 + add tack/configure, which can be used to build tack outside the
891 + add --with-ticlib option, to build/install the tic-support functions
892 in a separate library (suggested by Miroslav Lichvar).
895 + change MKunctrl.awk to reduce relocation table for unctrl.o
896 + change MKkeyname.awk to reduce relocation table for keyname.o
897 (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
900 + modify configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
901 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
902 + modify some modules to allow them to be reentrant if _REENTRANT is
903 defined: lib_baudrate.c, resizeterm.c (local data only)
904 + eliminate static data from some modules: add_tries.c, hardscroll.c,
905 lib_ttyflags.c, lib_twait.c
906 + improve manpage install to add aliases for the transformed program
907 names, e.g., from --program-prefix.
908 + used linklint to verify links in the HTML documentation, made fixes
909 to manpages as needed.
910 + fix a typo in curs_mouse.3x (report by William McBrine).
911 + fix install-rule for ncurses5-config to make the bin-directory.
914 + modify configure script to omit the tic (terminfo compiler) support
915 from ncurses library if --without-progs option is given.
916 + modify install rule for ncurses5-config to do this via "install.libs"
917 + modify shared-library rules to allow FreeBSD 3.x to use rpath.
918 + update config.guess, config.sub
920 20061217 5.6 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
923 + add ifdef's for <wctype.h> for HPUX, which has the corresponding
924 definitions in <wchar.h>.
925 + revert the va_copy() change from 20061202, since it was neither
926 correct nor portable.
927 + add $(LOCAL_LIBS) definition to progs/Makefile.in, needed for
929 + ignore wide-acs line-drawing characters that wcwidth() claims are
930 not one-column. This is a workaround for Solaris' broken locale
934 + modify configure --with-gpm option to allow it to accept a parameter,
935 i.e., the name of the dynamic GPM library to load via dlopen()
936 (requested by Bryan Henderson).
937 + add configure option --with-valgrind, changes from vile.
938 + modify configure script AC_TRY_RUN and AC_TRY_LINK checks to use
939 'return' in preference to 'exit()'.
942 + change default for --with-develop back to "no".
943 + add XTABS to tracing of TTY bits.
944 + updated autoconf patch to ifdef-out the misfeature which declares
945 exit() for configure tests. This fixes a redefinition warning on
947 + use ${CC} rather than ${LD} in shared library rules for IRIX64,
948 Solaris to help ensure that initialization sections are provided for
949 extra linkage requirements, e.g., of C++ applications (prompted by
950 comment by Casper Dik in newsgroup).
951 + rename "$target" in CF_MAN_PAGES to make it easier to distinguish
952 from the autoconf predefined symbol. There was no conflict,
953 since "$target" was used only in the generated edit_man.sh file,
954 but SuSE's rpm package contains a patch.
957 + update man/term.5 to reflect extended terminfo support and hashed
958 database configuration.
959 + updates for test/configure script.
960 + adapted from SuSE rpm package:
961 + remove long-obsolete workaround for broken-linker which declared
963 + improve error recovery in PUTC() macro when wcrtomb() does not
964 return usable results for an 8-bit character.
965 + patches from rpm package (SuSE):
966 + use va_copy() in extra varargs manipulation for tracing version
968 + use a va_list rather than a null in _nc_freeall()'s call to
970 + add some see-also references in manpages to show related
971 wide-character functions (suggested by Claus Fischer).
974 + add a check in lib_color.c to ensure caller does not increase COLORS
975 above max_colors, which is used as an array index (discussion with
977 + add ifdef's allowing ncurses to be built with tparm() using either
978 varargs (the existing status), or using a fixed-parameter list (to
982 + fix redrawing of windows other than stdscr using wredrawln() by
983 touching the corresponding rows in curscr (discussion with Dan
986 + add test/echochar.c
987 + review/cleanup manpage descriptions of error-returns for form- and
988 menu-libraries (prompted by FreeBSD docs/46196).
991 + add AUTHORS file -TD
992 + omit the -D options from output of the new config script --cflags
993 option (suggested by Ralf S Engelschall).
994 + make NCURSES_INLINE unconditionally defined in curses.h
997 + revert change to accommodate bash 3.2, since that breaks other
998 platforms, e.g., Solaris.
999 + minor fixes to NEWS file to simplify scripting to obtain list of
1001 + improve some shared-library configure scripting for Linux, FreeBSD
1002 and NetBSD to make "--with-shlib-version" work.
1003 + change configure-script rules for FreeBSD shared libraries to allow
1004 for rpath support in versions past 3.
1005 + use $(DESTDIR) in makefile rules for installing/uninstalling the
1006 package config script (reports/patches by Christian Wiese,
1007 Ralf S Engelschall).
1008 + fix a warning in the configure script for NetBSD 2.0, working around
1009 spurious blanks embedded in its ${MAKEFLAGS} symbol.
1010 + change test/Makefile to simplify installing test programs in a
1011 different directory when --enable-rpath is used.
1014 + work around bug in bash 3.2 by adding extra quotes (Jim Gifford).
1015 + add/install a package config script, e.g., "ncurses5-config" or
1016 "ncursesw5-config", according to configuration options.
1019 + add several GNU Screen terminfo variations with 16- and 256-colors,
1020 and status line (Alain Bench).
1021 + change the way shared libraries (other than libtool) are installed.
1022 Rather than copying the build-tree's libraries, link the shared
1023 objects into the install directory. This makes the --with-rpath
1024 option work except with $(DESTDIR) (cf: 20000930).
1027 + fix ifdef in c++/internal.h for QNX 6.1
1028 + test-compiled with (old) egcs-1.1.2, modified configure script to
1029 not unset the $CXX and related variables which would prevent this.
1030 + fix a few terminfo.src typos exposed by improvments to "-f" option.
1031 + improve infocmp/tic "-f" option formatting.
1034 + make --disable-largefile option work (report by Thomas M Ott).
1035 + updated html documentation.
1036 + add ka2, kb1, kb3, kc2 to vt220-keypad as an extension -TD
1037 + minor improvements to rxvt+pcfkeys -TD
1040 + move static data from lib_mouse.c into SCREEN struct.
1041 + improve ifdef's for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset to work with Mac OS X
1042 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
1043 + modify CF_PATH_SYNTAX to ensure it uses the result from --prefix
1044 option (from lynx changes) -TD
1045 + adapt AC_PROG_EGREP check, noting that this is likely to be another
1046 place aggravated by POSIXLY_CORRECT.
1047 + modify configure check for awk to ensure that it is found (prompted
1048 by report by Christopher Parker).
1052 + add kon, kon2 and jfbterm terminfo entry (request by Till Maas) -TD
1053 + remove invis capability from klone+sgr, mainly used by linux entry,
1054 since it does not really do this -TD
1057 + correct logic in wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not guard
1058 against passing the multi-column attribute into a call on waddch(),
1059 e.g., using data returned by win_wch() (cf: 20041023)
1060 (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
1063 + fix kterm's acsc string -TD
1064 + fix for change to tic/infocmp in 20060819 to ensure no blank is
1065 embedded into a termcap description.
1066 + workaround for 20050806 ifdef's change to allow visbuf.c to compile
1067 when using --with-termlib --with-trace options.
1068 + improve tgetstr() by making the return value point into the user's
1069 buffer, if provided (patch by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat Bugzilla
1071 + correct libraries needed for foldkeys (report by Stanislav Ievlev)
1074 + add terminfo entries for xfce terminal (xfce) and multi gnome
1076 + add test/foldkeys.c
1079 + modify tic and infocmp to avoid writing trailing blanks on terminfo
1080 source output (Debian #378783).
1081 + modify configure script to ensure that if the C compiler is used
1082 rather than the loader in making shared libraries, the $(CFLAGS)
1083 variable is also used (Redhat Bugzilla #199369).
1084 + port hashed-db code to db2 and db3.
1085 + fix a bug in tgetent() from 20060625 and 20060715 changes
1086 (patch/analysis by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat Bugzilla #202480)).
1089 + updated xterm function-keys terminfo to match xterm #216 -TD
1090 + add configure --with-hashed-db option (tested only with FreeBSD 6.0,
1091 e.g., the db 1.8.5 interface).
1094 + modify toe to access termcap data, e.g., via cgetent() functions,
1095 or as a text file if those are not available.
1096 + use _nc_basename() in tset to improve $SHELL check for csh/sh.
1097 + modify _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_termcap_entry() so infocmp,
1098 can access termcap data when the terminfo database is disabled.
1101 + widen the test for xterm kmous a little to allow for other strings
1102 than \E[M, e.g., for xterm-sco functionality in xterm.
1103 + update xterm-related terminfo entries to match xterm patch #216 -TD
1104 + update config.guess, config.sub
1107 + fix for install-rule in Ada95 to add terminal_interface.ads
1108 and terminal_interface.ali (anonymous posting in comp.lang.ada).
1109 + correction to manpage for getcchar() (report by William McBrine).
1111 + modify wchgat() to mark updated cells as changed so a refresh will
1112 repaint those cells (comments by Sadrul H Chowdhury and William
1114 + split up dependency of names.c and codes.c in ncurses/Makefile to
1115 work with parallel make (report/analysis by Joseph S Myers).
1116 + suppress a warning message (which is ignored) for systems without
1117 an ldconfig program (patch by Justin Hibbits).
1118 + modify configure script --disable-symlinks option to allow one to
1119 disable symlink() in tic even when link() does not work (report by
1121 + modify MKfallback.sh to use tic -x when constructing fallback tables
1122 to allow extended capabilities to be retrieved from a fallback entry.
1123 + improve leak-checking logic in tgetent() from 20060625 to ensure that
1124 it does not free the current screen (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
1127 + add a check for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset (NetBSD #33916).
1128 + correct _nc_free_entries() and related functions used for memory leak
1132 + revert a minor change for magic-cookie support from 20060513, which
1133 caused unexpected reset of attributes, e.g., when resizing test/view
1135 + note in clear manpage that the program ignores command-line
1136 parameters (prompted by Debian #371855).
1137 + fixes to make lib_gen.c build properly with changes to the configure
1138 --disable-macros option and NCURSES_NOMACROS (cf: 20060527)
1139 + update/correct several terminfo entries -TD
1140 + add some notes regarding copyright to terminfo.src -TD
1143 + fixes to build Ada95 binding with gnat-4.1.0
1144 + modify read_termtype() so the term_names data is always allocated as
1145 part of the str_table, a better fix for a memory leak (cf: 20030809).
1146 + reduce memory leaks in repeated calls to tgetent() by remembering the
1147 last TERMINAL* value allocated to hold the corresponding data and
1148 freeing that if the tgetent() result buffer is the same as the
1149 previous call (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
1150 + modify tack to test extended capability function-key strings.
1151 + improved gnome terminfo entry (GenToo #122566).
1152 + improved xterm-256color terminfo entry (patch by Alain Bench).
1155 + fix two small memory leaks related to repeated tgetent() calls
1156 with TERM=screen (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
1157 + add --enable-signed-char to simplify Debian package.
1158 + reduce name-pollution in term.h by removing #define's for HAVE_xxx
1160 + correct typo in curs_terminfo.3x (Debian #369168).
1163 + enable the mouse in test/movewindow.c
1164 + improve a limit-check in frm_def.c (John Heasley).
1165 + minor copyright fixes.
1166 + change configure script to produce test/Makefile from data file.
1169 + add a configure option --enable-wgetch-events to enable
1170 NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS, and correct the associated loop-logic in
1171 lib_twait.c (report by Bernd Jendrissek).
1172 + remove include/nomacros.h from build, since the ifdef for
1173 NCURSES_NOMACROS makes that obsolete.
1174 + add entrypoints for some functions which were only provided as macros
1175 to make NCURSES_NOMACROS ifdef work properly: getcurx(), getcury(),
1176 getbegx(), getbegy(), getmaxx(), getmaxy(), getparx() and getpary(),
1178 + provide ifdef for NCURSES_NOMACROS which suppresses most macro
1179 definitions from curses.h, i.e., where a macro is defined to override
1180 a function to improve performance. Allowing a developer to suppress
1181 these definitions can simplify some application (discussion with
1183 + improve description of memu/meml in terminfo manpage.
1186 + if msgr is false, reset video attributes when doing an automargin
1187 wrap to the next line. This makes the ncurses 'k' test work properly
1189 + correct caching of keyname(), which was using only half of its table.
1190 + minor fixes to memory-leak checking.
1191 + make SCREEN._acs_map and SCREEN._screen_acs_map pointers rather than
1192 arrays, making ACS_LEN less visible to applications (suggested by
1194 + move chunk in SCREEN ifdef'd for USE_WIDEC_SUPPORT to the end, so
1195 _screen_acs_map will have the same offset in both ncurses/ncursesw,
1196 making the corresponding tinfo/tinfow libraries binary-compatible
1197 (cf: 20041016, report by Stanislav Ievlev).
1200 + improve debug-tracing for EmitRange().
1201 + change default for --with-develop to "yes". Add NCURSES_NO_HARD_TABS
1202 and NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE environment variables to allow runtime
1203 suppression of the related hard-tabs and xmc-glitch features.
1204 + add ncurses version number to top-level manpages, e.g., ncurses, tic,
1205 infocmp, terminfo as well as form, menu, panel.
1206 + update config.guess, config.sub
1207 + modify ncurses.c to work around a bug in NetBSD 3.0 curses
1208 (field_buffer returning null for a valid field). The 'r' test
1209 appears to not work with that configuration since the new_fieldtype()
1210 function is broken in that implementation.
1213 + add hpterm-color terminfo entry -TD
1214 + fixes to compile test-programs with HPUX 11.23
1217 + add copyright notices to files other than those that are generated,
1218 data or adapted from pdcurses (reports by William McBrine, David
1220 + improve rendering on hpterm by not resetting attributes at the end
1221 of doupdate() if the terminal has the magic-cookie feature (report
1223 + add 256color variants of terminfo entries for programs which are
1224 reported to implement this feature -TD
1227 + fix typo in change to NewChar() macro from 20060311 changes, which
1228 broke tab-expansion (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
1231 + document -U option of tic and infocmp.
1232 + modify tic/infocmp to suppress smacs/rmacs when acsc is suppressed
1233 due to size limit, e.g., converting to termcap format. Also
1234 suppress them if the output format does not contain acsc and it
1235 was not VT100-like, i.e., a one-one mapping (Novell #163715).
1236 + add configure check to ensure that SIGWINCH is defined on platforms
1237 such as OS X which exclude that when _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., are
1238 defined (report by Nicholas Cole)
1241 + modify write_object() to not write coincidental extensions of an
1242 entry made due to it being referenced in a use= clause (report by
1244 + another fix for infocmp -i option, which did not ensure that some
1245 escape sequences had comparable prefixes (report by Alain Bench).
1248 + improve discussion of init/reset in terminfo and tput manpages
1249 (report by Alain Bench).
1250 + use is3 string for a fallback of rs3 in the reset program; it was
1251 using is2 (report by Alain Bench).
1252 + correct logic for infocmp -i option, which did not account for
1253 multiple digits in a parameter (cf: 20040828) (report by Alain
1255 + move _nc_handle_sigwinch() to lib_setup.c to make --with-termlib
1256 option work after 20060114 changes (report by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz).
1257 + add copyright notices to test-programs as needed (report by William
1261 + modify ncurses.c 'F' test to combine the wide-characters with color
1262 and/or video attributes.
1263 + modify test/ncurses to use CTL/Q or ESC consistently for exiting
1264 a test-screen (some commands used 'x' or 'q').
1267 + fix an off-by-one in the scrolling-region change (cf_ 20060311).
1270 + add checks in waddchnstr() and wadd_wchnstr() to stop copying when
1271 a null character is found (report by Igor Bogomazov).
1272 + modify progs/Makefile.in to make "tput init" work properly with
1273 cygwin, i.e., do not pass a ".exe" in the reference string used
1274 in check_aliases (report by Samuel Thibault).
1275 + add some checks to ensure current position is within scrolling
1276 region before scrolling on a new line (report by Dan Gookin).
1277 + change some NewChar() usage to static variables to work around
1278 stack garbage introduced when cchar_t is not packed (Redhat #182024).
1281 + workarounds to build test/movewindow with PDcurses 2.7.
1282 + fix for nsterm-16color entry (patch by Alain Bench).
1283 + correct a typo in infocmp manpage (Debian #354281).
1286 + add nsterm-16color entry -TD
1287 + updated mlterm terminfo entry -TD
1288 + remove 970913 feature for copying subwindows as they are moved in
1289 mvwin() (discussion with Bryan Christ).
1290 + modify test/demo_menus.c to demonstrate moving a menu (both the
1291 window and subwindow) using shifted cursor-keys.
1292 + start implementing recursive mvwin() in movewindow.c (incomplete).
1293 + add a fallback definition for GCC_PRINTFLIKE() in test.priv.h,
1294 for movewindow.c (report by William McBrine).
1295 + add help-message to test/movewindow.c
1298 + add test/movewindow.c, to test mvderwin().
1299 + fix ncurses soft-key test so color changes are shown immediately
1300 rather than delayed.
1301 + modify ncurses soft-key test to hide the keys when exiting the test
1303 + fixes to build test programs with PDCurses 2.7, e.g., its headers
1304 rely on autoconf symbols, and it declares stubs for nonfunctional
1305 terminfo and termcap entrypoints.
1308 + improved test/configure to build test/ncurses on HPUX 11 using the
1310 + documented ALTERNATE CONFIGURATIONS in the ncurses manpage, for the
1311 benefit of developers who do not read INSTALL.
1314 + correct form library Window_To_Buffer() change (cf: 20040516), which
1315 should ignore the video attributes (report by Ricardo Cantu).
1318 + minor fixes to xmc-glitch experimental code:
1319 + suppress line-drawing
1320 + implement max_attributes
1322 + minor fixes for the database iterator.
1323 + fix some buffer limits in c++ demo (comment by Falk Hueffner in
1327 + add toe -a option, to show all databases. This uses new private
1328 interfaces in the ncurses library for iterating through the list of
1330 + fix toe from 20000909 changes which made it not look at
1332 + make toe's -v option parameter optional as per manpage.
1333 + improve SIGWINCH handling by postponing its effect during newterm(),
1334 etc., when allocating screens.
1337 + modify wgetnstr() to return KEY_RESIZE if a sigwinch occurs. Use
1338 this in test/filter.c
1339 + fix an error in filter() modification which caused some applications
1343 + check if filter() was called when getting the screensize. Keep it
1344 at 1 if so (based on Redhat #174498).
1345 + add extension nofilter().
1346 + refined the workaround for ACS mapping.
1347 + make ifdef's consistent in curses.h for the extended colors so the
1348 header file can be used for the normal curses library. The header
1349 file installed for extended colors is a variation of the
1350 wide-character configuration (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
1353 + add a workaround to ACS mapping to allow applications such as
1354 test/blue.c to use the "PC ROM" characters by masking them with
1355 A_ALTCHARSET. This worked up til 5.5, but was lost in the revision
1356 of legacy coding (report by Michael Deutschmann).
1357 + add a null-pointer check in the wide-character version of
1358 calculate_actual_width() (report by Victor Julien).
1359 + improve test/ncurses 'd' (color-edit) test by allowing the RGB
1360 values to be set independently (patch by William McBrine).
1361 + modify test/configure script to allow building test programs with
1363 + modified test programs to allow some to work with NetBSD curses.
1364 Several do not because NetBSD curses implements a subset of X/Open
1365 curses, and also lacks much of SVr4 additions. But it's enough for
1367 + update config.guess and config.sub
1370 + use BSD-specific fix for return-value from cgetent() from CVS where
1371 an unknown terminal type would be reportd as "database not found".
1372 + make tgetent() return code more readable using new symbols
1374 + remove references to non-existent "tctest" program.
1375 + remove TESTPROGS from progs/Makefile.in (it was referring to code
1376 that was never built in that directory).
1377 + typos in curs_addchstr.3x, some doc files (noticed in OpenBSD CVS).
1380 + add use_legacy_coding() function to support lynx's font-switching
1382 + fix formatting in curs_termcap.3x (report by Mike Frysinger).
1383 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to change preprocessor-expanded _Bool back to
1387 + extend test/ncurses.c 's' (overlay window) test to exercise overlay(),
1388 overwrite() and copywin() with different combinations of colors and
1389 attributes (including background color) to make it easy to see the
1390 effect of the different functions.
1391 + corrections to menu/m_global.c for wide-characters (report by
1395 + add configure option --without-dlsym, allowing developers to
1396 configure GPM support without using dlsym() (discussion with Michael
1398 + fix wins_nwstr(), which did not handle single-column non-8bit codes
1402 + move prototypes for wide-character trace functions from curses.tail
1403 to curses.wide to avoid accidental reference to those if
1404 _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined without ensuring that <wchar.h> is
1406 + add/use NCURSES_INLINE definition.
1407 + change some internal functions to use int/unsigned rather than the
1411 + remove a redundant check in lib_color.c (Debian #335655).
1412 + use ld's -search_paths_first option on Darwin to work around odd
1413 search rules on that platform (report by Christian Gennerat, analysis
1415 + remove special case for Darwin in CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro.
1416 + ignore EINTR in tcgetattr/tcsetattr calls (Debian #339518).
1417 + fix several bugs in test/bs.c (patch by Stephen Lindholm).
1420 + other minor fixes to cygwin based on tack -TD
1421 + correct smacs in cygwin (Debian #338234, report by Baurzhan
1422 Ismagulov, who noted that it was fixed in Cygwin).
1425 + add shifted up/down arrow codes to xterm-new as kind/kri strings -TD
1426 + modify wbkgrnd() to avoid clearing the A_CHARTEXT attribute bits
1427 since those record the state of multicolumn characters (Debian
1429 + modify werase to clear multicolumn characters that extend into
1430 a derived window (Debian #316663).
1433 + move assignment from environment variable ESCDELAY from initscr()
1434 down to newterm() so the environment variable affects timeouts for
1435 terminals opened with newterm() as well.
1436 + fix a memory leak in keyname().
1437 + add test/demo_altkeys.c
1438 + modify test/demo_defkey.c to exit from loop via 'q' to allow
1439 leak-checking, as well as fix a buffer size in winnstr() call.
1442 + correct order of use-clauses in rxvt-basic entry which made codes for
1443 f1-f4 vt100-style rather than vt220-style (report by Gabor Z Papp).
1444 + suppress configure check for gnatmake if Ada95/Makefile.in is not
1446 + correct a typo in configure --with-bool option for the case where
1447 --without-cxx is used (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1448 + add a note to INSTALL's discussion of --with-normal, pointing out
1449 that one may wish to use --without-gpm to ensure a completely
1450 static link (prompted by report by Felix von Leitner).
1452 20051010 5.5 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1455 + document in demo_forms.c some portability issues.
1458 + document side-effect of werase() which sets the cursor position.
1459 + save/restore the current position in form field editing to make
1463 + correct header dependencies in progs, allowing parallel make (report
1464 by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1465 + modify CF_BUILD_CC to ensure that pre-setting $BUILD_CC overrides
1466 the configure check for --with-build-cc (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1467 + modify CF_CFG_DEFAULTS to not use /usr as the default prefix for
1469 + update config.guess and config.sub from
1470 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
1473 + modify sed expression which computes path for /usr/lib/terminfo
1474 symbolic link in install to ensure that it does not change unexpected
1475 levels of the path (Gentoo #42336).
1476 + modify default for --disable-lp64 configure option to reduce impact
1477 on existing 64-bit builds. Enabling the _LP64 option may change the
1478 size of chtype and mmask_t. However, for ABI 6, it is enabled by
1479 default (report by Mike Frysinger).
1480 + add configure script check for --enable-ext-mouse, bump ABI to 6 by
1481 default if it is used.
1482 + improve configure script logic for bumping ABI to omit this if the
1483 --with-abi-version option was used.
1484 + update address for Free Software Foundation in tack's source.
1485 + correct wins_wch(), which was not marking the filler-cells of
1486 multi-column characters (cf: 20041023).
1489 + modify mouse initialization to ensure that Gpm_Open() is called only
1490 once. Otherwise GPM gets confused in its initialization of signal
1491 handlers (Debian #326709).
1494 + modify logic for backspacing in a multiline form field to ensure that
1495 it works even when the preceding line is full (report by Frank van
1497 + remove comment about BUGS section of ncurses manpage (Debian #325481)
1500 + document some workarounds for shared and libtool library
1501 configurations in INSTALL (see --with-shared and --with-libtool).
1502 + modify CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GXX_VERSION macros to accommodate
1503 cross-compilers which emit the platform name in their version
1505 arm-sa1100-linux-gnu-g++ (GCC) 4.0.1
1506 (report by Frank van Vugt).
1509 + start updating documentation for upcoming 5.5 release.
1510 + fix to make libtool and libtinfo work together again (cf: 20050122).
1511 + fixes to allow building traces into libtinfo
1512 + add debug trace to tic that shows if/how ncurses will write to the
1513 lower corner of a terminal's screen.
1514 + update llib-l* files.
1517 + modify initializers in c++ binding to build with old versions of g++.
1518 + improve special case for 20050115 repainting fix, ensuring that if
1519 the first changed cell is not a character that the range to be
1520 repainted is adjusted to start at a character's beginning (Debian
1524 + fixes to build on QNX 6.1
1525 + improve configure script checks for Intel 9.0 compiler.
1526 + remove #include's for libc.h (obsolete).
1527 + adjust ifdef's in curses.priv.h so that when cross-compiling to
1528 produce comp_hash and make_keys, no dependency on wchar.h is needed.
1529 That simplifies the build-cppflags (report by Frank van Vugt).
1530 + move modules related to key-binding into libtinfo to fix linkage
1531 problem caused by 20050430 changes to MKkeyname.sh (report by
1532 Konstantin Andreev).
1535 + updates/fixes for configure script macros from vile -TD
1536 + make prism9's sgr string agree with the rest of the terminfo -TD
1537 + make vt220's sgr0 string consistent with sgr string, do this for
1538 several related cases -TD
1539 + improve translation to termcap by filtering the 'me' (sgr0) strings
1540 as in the runtime call to tgetent() (prompted by a discussion with
1542 + improve tic check for sgr0 versus sgr(0), to help ensure that sgr0
1543 resets line-drawing.
1546 + fix special cases for trimming sgr0 for hurd and vt220 (Debian
1548 + split-out _nc_trim_sgr0() from modifications made to tgetent(), to
1549 allow it to be used by tic to provide information about the runtime
1550 changes that would be made to sgr0 for termcap applications.
1551 + modify make_sed.sh to make the group-name in the NAME section of
1552 form/menu library manpage agree with the TITLE string when renaming
1553 is done for Debian (Debian #78866).
1556 + modify parameter type in c++ binding for insch() and mvwinsch() to
1557 be consistent with underlying ncurses library (was char, is chtype).
1558 + modify treatment of Intel compiler to allow _GNU_SOURCE to be defined
1560 + improve configure check for nanosleep(), checking that it works since
1561 some older systems such as AIX 4.3 have a nonworking version.
1564 + update config.guess and config.sub from
1565 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
1566 + modify misc/shlib to work in test-directory.
1567 + suppress $suffix in misc/run_tic.sh when cross-compiling. This
1568 allows cross-compiles to use the host's tic program to handle the
1569 "make install.data" step.
1570 + improve description of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables in manpages
1571 (prompted by report by Dave Ulrick).
1572 + improve description of cross-compiling in INSTALL
1573 + add NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html by Pradeep Padala
1574 (see http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/).
1575 + modify configure script to obtain soname for GPM library (discussion
1576 with Daniel Jacobowitz).
1577 + modify configure script so that --with-chtype option will still
1578 compute the unsigned literals suffix for constants in curses.h
1579 (report by Daniel Jacobowitz:
1580 + patches from Daniel Jacobowitz:
1581 + the man_db.renames entry for tack.1 was backwards.
1582 + tack.1 had some 1m's that should have been 1M's.
1583 + the section for curs_inwstr.3 was wrong.
1586 + correction to --with-chtype option (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1589 + move build-time edit_man.sh and edit_man.sed scripts to top directory
1590 to simplify reusing them for renaming tack's manpage (prompted by a
1591 review of Debian package).
1592 + revert minor optimization from 20041030 (Debian #313609).
1593 + libtool-specific fixes, tested with libtool 1.4.3, 1.5.0, 1.5.6,
1594 1.5.10 and 1.5.18 (all work except as noted previously for the c++
1595 install using libtool 1.5.0):
1596 + modify the clean-rule in c++/Makefile.in to work with IRIX64 make
1598 + use $(LIBTOOL_UNINSTALL) symbol, overlooked in 20030830
1599 + add configure options --with-chtype and --with-mmask-t, to allow
1600 overriding of the non-LP64 model's use of the corresponding types.
1601 + revise test for size of chtype (and mmask_t), which always returned
1602 "long" due to an uninitialized variable (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1605 + change _tracef's that used "%p" format for va_list values to ignore
1606 that, since on some platforms those are not pointers.
1607 + fixes for long-formats in printf's due to largefile support.
1610 + fixes for termcap support:
1611 + reset pointer to _nc_curr_token.tk_name when the input stream is
1612 closed, which could point to free memory (cf: 20030215).
1613 + delink TERMTYPE data which is used by the termcap reader, so that
1614 extended names data will be freed consistently.
1615 + free pointer to TERMTYPE data in _nc_free_termtype() rather than
1617 + add some entrypoints for freeing permanently allocated data via
1618 _nc_freeall() when NO_LEAKS is defined.
1619 + amend 20041030 change to _nc_do_color to ensure that optimization is
1620 applied only when the terminal supports back_color_erase (bce).
1623 + add sun-color terminfo entry -TD
1624 + correct a missing assignment in c++ binding's method
1625 NCursesPanel::UserPointer() from 20050409 changes.
1626 + improve configure check for large-files, adding check for dirent64
1628 + minor change to configure script to improve linker options for the
1632 + document error conditions for ncurses library functions (report by
1634 + regenerated html documentation for ada binding.
1635 see ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/gnathtml
1638 + regenerated html documentation for manpages.
1639 + add $(BUILD_EXEEXT) suffix to invocation of make_keys in
1640 ncurses/Makefile (Gentoo #89772).
1641 + modify c++/demo.cc to build with g++ -fno-implicit-templates option
1642 (patch by Mike Frysinger).
1643 + modify tic to filter out long extended names when translating to
1644 termcap format. Only two characters are permissible for termcap
1648 + modify terminfo entries xterm-new and rxvt to add strings for
1649 shift-, control-cursor keys.
1650 + workaround to allow c++ binding to compile with g++ 2.95.3, which
1651 has a broken implementation of static_cast<> (patch by Jeff Chua).
1652 + modify initialization of key lookup table so that if an extended
1653 capability (tic -x) string is defined, and its name begins with 'k',
1654 it will automatically be treated as a key.
1655 + modify test/keynames.c to allow for the possibility of extended
1656 key names, e.g., via define_key(), or via "tic -x".
1657 + add test/demo_termcap.c to show the contents of given entry via the
1661 + minor fixes for vt100/vt52 entries -TD
1662 + add configure option --enable-largefile
1663 + corrected libraries used to build Ada95/gen/gen, found in testing
1667 + update config.guess, config.sub
1668 + modify configure script check for _XOPEN_SOURCE, disable that on
1669 Darwin whose header files have problems (patch by Chris Zubrzycki).
1670 + modify form library Is_Printable_String() to use iswprint() rather
1671 than wcwidth() for determining if a character is printable. The
1672 latter caused it to reject menu items containing non-spacing
1674 + modify ncurses test program's F-test to handle non-spacing characters
1675 by combining them with a reverse-video blank.
1676 + review/fix several gcc -Wconversion warnings.
1679 + correct an off-by-one error in m_driver() for mouse-clicks used to
1680 position the mouse to a particular item.
1681 + implement test/demo_menus.c
1682 + add some checks in lib_mouse to ensure SP is set.
1683 + modify C++ binding to make 20050403 changes work with the configure
1684 --enable-const option.
1687 + modify start_color() to return ERR if it cannot allocate memory.
1688 + address g++ compiler warnings in C++ binding by adding explicit
1689 member initialization, assignment operators and copy constructors.
1690 Most of the changes simply preserve the existing semantics of the
1691 binding, which can leak memory, etc., but by making these features
1692 visible, it provides a framework for improving the binding.
1693 + improve C++ binding using static_cast, etc.
1694 + modify configure script --enable-warnings to add options to g++ to
1695 correspond to the gcc --enable-warnings.
1696 + modify C++ binding to use some C internal functions to make it
1697 compile properly on Solaris (and other platforms).
1700 + amend change from 20050320 to limit it to configurations with a
1702 + fix a bug introduced in 20050320 which broke the translation of
1703 nonprinting characters to uparrow form (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
1706 + add ifdef's for _LP64 in curses.h to avoid using wasteful 64-bits for
1707 chtype and mmask_t, but add configure option --disable-lp64 in case
1708 anyone used that configuration.
1709 + update misc/shlib script to account for Mac OS X (report by Michail
1711 + correct comparison for wrapping multibyte characters in
1712 waddch_literal() (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
1715 + add -c and -w options to tset to allow user to suppress ncurses'
1716 resizing of the terminal emulator window in the special case where it
1717 is not able to detect the true size (report by Win Delvaux, Debian
1719 + modify waddch_nosync() to account for locale zn_CH.GBK, which uses
1720 codes 128-159 as part of multibyte characters (report by Wang
1721 WenRui, Debian #300512).
1724 + modify ncurses.c 'd' test to make it work with 88-color
1725 configuration, i.e., by implementing scrolling.
1726 + improve scrolling in ncurses.c 'c' and 'C' tests, e.g., for 88-color
1730 + change tracemunch to use strict checking.
1731 + modify ncurses.c 'p' test to test line-drawing within a pad.
1732 + implement environment variable NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS to support
1733 miscellaneous terminal emulators which ignore alternate character
1734 set escape sequences when in UTF-8 mode.
1737 + change NCursesWindow::err_handler() to a virtual function (request by
1739 + modify fty_int.c and fty_num.c to handle wide characters (report by
1741 + adapt fix for fty_alpha.c to fty_alnum.c, which also handled normal
1742 and wide characters inconsistently (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
1743 + update llib-* files to reflect internal interface additions/changes.
1746 + improve test/configure script, adding tests for _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc.,
1748 + add aixterm-16color terminfo entry -TD
1749 + modified xterm-new terminfo entry to work with tgetent() changes -TD
1750 + extended changes in tgetent() from 20040710 to allow the substring of
1751 sgr0 which matches rmacs to be at the beginning of the sgr0 string
1752 (request by Thomas Wolff). Wolff says the visual effect in
1753 combination with pre-20040710 ncurses is improved.
1754 + fix off-by-one in winnstr() call which caused form field validation
1755 of multibyte characters to ignore the last character in a field.
1756 + correct logic in winsch() for inserting multibyte strings; the code
1757 would clear cells after the insertion rather than push them to the
1758 right (cf: 20040228).
1759 + fix an inconsistency in Check_Alpha_Field() between normal and wide
1760 character logic (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
1763 + fix a bug in editing wide-characters in form library: deleting a
1764 nonwide character modified the previous wide-character.
1765 + update manpage to describe NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2.
1766 + correct manpage description of mouseinterval() (Debian #280687).
1767 + add a note to default_colors.3x explaining why this extension was
1768 added (Debian #295083).
1769 + add traces to panel library.
1772 + improve editing of wide-characters in form library: left/right
1773 cursor movement, and single-character deletions work properly.
1774 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM happens to be prefixed with
1775 "xterm". Gpm_Open() would otherwise assert that it can deal with
1776 mouse events in this case.
1777 + modify GPM mouse support so it closes the server connection when
1778 the caller disables the mouse (report by Stanislav Ievlev).
1781 + add traces for callback functions in form library.
1782 + add experimental configure option --enable-ext-mouse, which defines
1783 NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2, and modifies the encoding of mouse events to
1784 support wheel mice, which may transmit buttons 4 and 5. This works
1785 with xterm and similar X terminal emulators (prompted by question by
1786 Andreas Henningsson, this is also related to Debian #230990).
1787 + improve configure macros CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE to
1788 avoid redefinition warnings on cygwin.
1791 + merge remaining development changes for extended colors (mostly
1792 complete, does not appear to break other configurations).
1793 + add xterm-88color.dat (part of extended colors testing).
1794 + improve _tracedump() handling of color pairs past 96.
1795 + modify return-value from start_color() to return OK if colors have
1796 already been started.
1797 + modify curs_color.3x list error conditions for init_pair(),
1798 pair_content() and color_content().
1799 + modify pair_content() to return -1 for consistency with init_pair()
1800 if it corresponds to the default-color.
1801 + change internal representation of default-color to allow application
1802 to use color number 255. This does not affect the total number of
1803 color pairs which are allowed.
1804 + add a top-level tags rule.
1807 + add a null-pointer check in wgetch() in case it is called without
1808 first calling initscr().
1809 + add some null-pointer checks for SP, which is not set by libtinfo.
1810 + modify misc/shlib to ensure that absolute pathnames are used.
1811 + modify test/Makefile.in, etc., to link test programs only against the
1812 libraries needed, e.g., omit form/menu/panel library for the ones
1813 that are curses-specific.
1814 + change SP->_current_attr to a pointer, adjust ifdef's to ensure that
1815 libtinfo.so and libtinfow.so have the same ABI. The reason for this
1816 is that the corresponding data which belongs to the upper-level
1817 ncurses library has a different size in each model (report by
1821 + minor fixes to allow test-compiles with g++.
1822 + correct column value shown in tic's warnings, which did not account
1823 for leading whitespace.
1824 + add a check in _nc_trans_string() for improperly ended strings, i.e.,
1825 where a following line begins in column 1.
1826 + modify _nc_save_str() to return a null pointer on buffer overflow.
1827 + improve repainting while scrolling wide-character data (Eungkyu Song).
1830 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
1833 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
1834 + fix manpage typo (FreeBSD report docs/75544).
1835 + update config.guess, config.sub
1836 > patches for configure script (Albert Chin-A-Young):
1837 + improved fix to make mbstate_t recognized on HPUX 11i (cf:
1838 20030705), making vsscanf() prototype visible on IRIX64. Tested for
1839 on HP-UX 11i, Solaris 7, 8, 9, AIX 4.3.3, 5.2, Tru64 UNIX 4.0D, 5.1,
1840 IRIX64 6.5, Redhat Linux 7.1, 9, and RHEL 2.1, 3.0.
1841 + print the result of the --disable-home-terminfo option.
1842 + use -rpath when compiling with SGI C compiler.
1845 + add trace calls to remaining public functions in form and menu
1847 + fix check for numeric digits in test/ncurses.c 'b' and 'B' tests.
1848 + fix typo in test/ncurses.c 'c' test from 20041218.
1851 + revise test/ncurses.c 'c' color test to improve use for xterm-88color
1852 and xterm-256color, added 'C' test using the wide-character color_set
1853 and attr_set functions.
1856 + modify configure script to work with Intel compiler.
1857 + fix an limit-check in wadd_wchnstr() which caused labels in the
1858 forms-demo to be one character short.
1859 + fix typo in curs_addchstr.3x (Jared Yanovich).
1860 + add trace calls to most functions in form and menu libraries.
1861 + update working-position for adding wide-characters when window is
1862 scrolled (prompted by related report by Eungkyu Song).
1865 + replace some references on Linux to wcrtomb() which use it to obtain
1866 the length of a multibyte string with _nc_wcrtomb, since wcrtomb() is
1867 broken in glibc (see Debian #284260).
1868 + corrected length-computation in wide-character support for
1870 + some fixes to frm_driver.c to allow it to accept multibyte input.
1871 + modify configure script to work with Intel 8.0 compiler.
1874 + amend change to setupterm() in 20030405 which would reuse the value
1875 of cur_term if the same output was selected. This now reuses it only
1876 when setupterm() is called from tgetent(), which has no notion of
1877 separate SCREENs. Note that tgetent() must be called after initscr()
1878 or newterm() to use this feature (Redhat Bugzilla #140326).
1879 + add a check in CF_BUILD_CC macro to ensure that developer has given
1880 the --with-build-cc option when cross-compiling (report by Alexandre
1882 + improved configure script checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE and
1883 _POSIX_C_SOURCE (fix for IRIX 5.3 from Georg Schwarz, _POSIX_C_SOURCE
1885 + cosmetic fix to test/gdc.c to recolor the bottom edge of the box
1886 for consistency (comment by Dan Nelson).
1889 + update wsvt25 terminfo entry -TD
1890 + modify test/ins_wide.c to test all flavors of ins_wstr().
1891 + ignore filler-cells in wadd_wchnstr() when adding a cchar_t array
1892 which consists of multi-column characters, since this function
1893 constructs them (cf: 20041023).
1894 + modify winnstr() to return multibyte character strings for the
1895 wide-character configuration.
1898 + fixes to make slk_set() and slk_wset() accept and store multibyte
1899 or multicolumn characters.
1902 + improve color optimization a little by making _nc_do_color() check
1903 if the old/new pairs are equivalent to the default pair 0.
1904 + modify assume_default_colors() to not require that
1905 use_default_colors() be called first.
1908 + modify term_attrs() to use termattrs(), add the extended attributes
1909 such as enter_horizontal_hl_mode for WA_HORIZONTAL to term_attrs().
1910 + add logic in waddch_literal() to clear orphaned cells when one
1911 multi-column character partly overwrites another.
1912 + improved logic for clearing cells when a multi-column character
1913 must be wrapped to a new line.
1914 + revise storage of cells for multi-column characters to correct a
1915 problem with repainting. In the old scheme, it was possible for
1916 doupdate() to decide that only part of a multi-column character
1917 should be repainted since the filler cells stored only an attribute
1918 to denote them as fillers, rather than the character value and the
1922 + minor fixes for traces.
1923 + add SP->_screen_acs_map[], used to ensure that mapping of missing
1924 line-drawing characters is handled properly. For example, ACS_DARROW
1925 is absent from xterm-new, and it was coincidentally displayed the
1929 + amend 20021221 workaround for broken acs to reset the sgr, rmacs
1930 and smacs strings as well. Also modify the check for screen's
1931 limitations in that area to allow the multi-character shift-in
1932 and shift-out which seem to work.
1933 + change GPM initialization, using dl library to load it dynamically
1934 at runtime (Debian #110586).
1937 + correct logic for color pair in setcchar() and getcchar() (patch by
1938 Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
1939 + add t/T commands to ncurses b/B tests to allow a different color to
1940 be tested for the attrset part of the test than is used in the
1944 + fix to make setcchar() to work when its wchar_t* parameter is
1945 pointing to a string which contains more data than can be converted.
1946 + modify wget_wstr() and example in ncurses.c to work if wchar_t and
1947 wint_t are different sizes (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
1950 + remove check in wget_wch() added to fix an infinite loop, appears to
1951 have been working around a transitory glibc bug, and interferes
1952 with normal operation (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
1953 + correct wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not pass the rendition
1954 information (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
1955 + fix aclocal.m4 so that the wide-character version of ncurses gets
1956 compiled as libncursesw.5.dylib, instead of libncurses.5w.dylib
1957 (adapted from patch by James J Ramsey).
1958 + change configure script for --with-caps option to indicate that it
1959 is no longer experimental.
1960 + change configure script to reflect the fact that --enable-widec has
1961 not been "experimental" since 5.3 (report by Bruno Lustosa).
1964 + add 'B' test to ncurses.c, to exercise some wide-character functions.
1967 + modify infocmp -i option to match 8-bit controls against its table
1968 entries, e.g., so it can analyze the xterm-8bit entry.
1969 + add morphos terminfo entry, improve amiga-8bit entry (Pavel Fedin).
1970 + correct translation of "%%" in terminfo format to termcap, e.g.,
1971 using "tic -C" (Redhat Bugzilla #130921).
1972 + modified configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to ensure that if
1973 it defines _POSIX_C_SOURCE, that it defines it to a specific value
1974 (comp.os.stratus newsgroup comment).
1977 + fixes to build with Ada95 binding with gnat 3.4 (all warnings are
1978 fatal, and gnat does not follow the guidelines for pragmas).
1979 However that did find a coding error in Assume_Default_Colors().
1980 + modify several terminfo entries to ensure xterm mouse and cursor
1981 visibility are reset in rs2 string: hurd, putty, gnome,
1982 konsole-base, mlterm, Eterm, screen (Debian #265784, #55637). The
1983 xterm entries are left alone - old ones for compatibility, and the
1984 new ones do not require this change. -TD
1987 + fake a SIGWINCH in newterm() to accommodate buggy terminal emulators
1988 and window managers (Debian #265631).
1989 > terminfo updates -TD
1990 + remove dch/dch1 from rxvt because they are implemented inconsistently
1991 with the common usage of bce/ech
1992 + remove khome from vt220 (vt220's have no home key)
1996 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test, adding v/V toggles to cycle through
1997 combinations of video attributes so that for instance bold and
1998 underline can be tested. This made the legend too crowded, added
1999 a help window as well.
2000 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test to cycle through default colors if
2001 the -d option is set.
2002 + update putty terminfo entry (Robert de Bath).
2005 + modify test/cardfile.c to allow it to read more data than can be
2007 + correct logic in resizeterm.c which kept it from processing all
2008 levels of window hierarchy (reports by Folkert van Heusden,
2012 + modify "tic -cv" to ignore delays when comparing strings. Also
2013 modify it to ignore a canceled sgr string, e.g., for terminals which
2014 cannot properly combine attributes in one control sequence.
2015 + corrections for gnome and konsole entries (Redhat Bugzilla #122815,
2016 patch by Hans de Goede)
2017 > terminfo updates -TD
2018 + make ncsa-m rmacs/smacs consistent with sgr
2019 + add sgr, rc/sc and ech to syscons entries
2020 + add function-keys to decansi
2021 + add sgr to mterm-ansi
2022 + add sgr, civis, cnorm to emu
2023 + correct/simplify cup in addrinfo
2026 > terminfo updates -TD
2027 + add xterm-pc-fkeys
2028 + review/update gnome and gnome-rh90 entries (prompted by Redhat
2030 + review/update konsole entries
2031 + add sgr, correct sgr0 for kterm and mlterm
2032 + correct tsl string in kterm
2035 + add configure option --without-xterm-new
2038 + add check in wget_wch() for printable bytes that are not part of a
2039 multibyte character.
2040 + modify wadd_wchnstr() to render text using window's background
2042 + improve tic's check to compare sgr and sgr0.
2043 + fix c++ directory's .cc.i rule.
2044 + modify logic in tgetent() which adjusts the termcap "me" string
2045 to work with ISO-2022 string used in xterm-new (cf: 20010908).
2046 + modify tic's check for conflicting function keys to omit that if
2047 converting termcap to termcap format.
2048 + add -U option to tic and infocmp.
2049 + add rmam/smam to linux terminfo entry (Trevor Van Bremen)
2050 > terminfo updates -TD
2051 + minor fixes for emu
2053 + change wyse acsc strings to use 'i' map rather than 'I'
2058 + use tic -x to install terminfo database -TD
2059 + add -x to infocmp's usage message.
2060 + correct field used for comparing O_ROWMAJOR in set_menu_format()
2061 (report/patch by Tony Li).
2062 + fix a missing nul check in set_field_buffer() from 20040508 changes.
2063 > terminfo updates -TD
2064 + make xterm-xf86-v43 derived from xterm-xf86-v40 rather than
2066 + align with xterm patch #192's use of xterm-new -TD
2067 + update xterm-new and xterm-8bit for cvvis/cnorm strings -TD
2068 + make xterm-new the default "xterm" entry -TD
2071 + correct BUILD_CPPFLAGS substitution in ncurses/Makefile.in, to allow
2072 cross-compiling from a separate directory tree (report/patch by
2074 + modify is_term_resized() to ensure that window sizes are nonzero,
2075 as documented in the manpage (report by Ian Collier).
2076 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro to make Hurd port build
2077 (Debian #249214, report/patch by Jeff Bailey).
2078 + configure-script mods from xterm, e.g., updates to CF_ADD_CFLAGS
2079 + update config.guess, config.sub
2080 > terminfo updates -TD
2082 + add xterm-xf86-v44
2083 + modify xterm-new aka xterm-xfree86 to accommodate luit, which
2084 relies on G1 being used via an ISO-2022 escape sequence (report by
2089 + reconsidered winsnstr(), decided after comparing other
2090 implementations that wrapping is an X/Open documentation error.
2091 + modify test/inserts.c to test all flavors of insstr().
2094 + add setlocale() calls to a few test programs which may require it:
2095 demo_forms.c, filter.c, ins_wide.c, inserts.c
2096 + correct a few misspelled function names in ncurses-intro.html (report
2098 + correct internal name of key_defined() manpage, which conflicted with
2102 + correct size of internal pad used for holding wide-character
2103 field_buffer() results.
2104 + modify data_ahead() to work with wide-characters.
2107 + improve description of terminfo if-then-else expressions (suggested
2109 + improve test/ncurses.c 'd' test, allow it to use external file for
2110 initial palette (added xterm-16color.dat and linux-color.dat), and
2111 reset colors to the initial palette when starting/ending the test.
2112 + change limit-check in init_color() to allow r/g/b component to
2113 reach 1000 (cf: 20020928).
2116 + modify form library to use cchar_t's rather than char's in the
2117 wide-character configuration for storing data for field buffers.
2118 + correct logic of win_wchnstr(), which did not work for more than
2122 + replace memset/memcpy usage in form library with for-loops to
2123 simplify changing the datatype of FIELD.buf, part of wide-character
2125 + fix some inconsistent use of #if/#ifdef (report by Alain Guibert).
2128 + modify menu library to account for actual number of columns used by
2129 multibyte character strings, in the wide-character configuration
2130 (adapted from patch by Philipp Tomsich).
2131 + add "-x" option to infocmp like tic's "-x", for use in "-F"
2132 comparisons. This modifies infocmp to only report extended
2133 capabilities if the -x option is given, making this more consistent
2134 with tic. Some scripts may break, since infocmp previous gave this
2135 information without an option.
2136 + modify termcap-parsing to retain 2-character aliases at the beginning
2137 of an entry if the "-x" option is used in tic.
2140 + minor compiler-warning and test-program fixes.
2143 + modify tic's missing-sgr warning to apply to terminfo only.
2144 + free some memory leaks in tic.
2145 + remove check in post_menu() that prevented menus from extending
2146 beyond the screen (request by Max J. Werner).
2147 + remove check in newwin() that prevents allocating windows
2148 that extend beyond the screen. Solaris curses does this.
2149 + add ifdef in test/color_set.c to allow it to compile with older
2151 + add napms() calls to test/dots.c to make it not be a CPU hog.
2154 + modify unctrl() to return null if its parameter does not correspond
2155 to an unsigned char.
2156 + add some limit-checks to guard isprint(), etc., from being used on
2157 values that do not fit into an unsigned char (report by Sami Farin).
2160 + fix a typo in the _nc_get_locale() change.
2163 + modify _nc_get_locale() to use setlocale() to query the program's
2164 current locale rather than using getenv(). This fixes a case in tin
2165 which relies on legacy treatment of 8-bit characters when the locale
2166 is not initialized (reported by Urs Jansen).
2167 + add sgr string to screen's and rxvt's terminfo entries -TD.
2168 + add a check in tic for terminfo entries having an sgr0 but no sgr
2169 string. This confuses Tru64 and HPUX curses when combined with
2170 color, e.g., making them leave line-drawing characters in odd places.
2171 + correct casts used in ABSENT_BOOLEAN, CANCELLED_BOOLEAN, matches the
2172 original definitions used in Debian package to fix PowerPC bug before
2173 20030802 (Debian #237629).
2176 + modify PutAttrChar() and PUTC() macro to improve use of
2177 A_ALTCHARSET attribute to prevent line-drawing characters from
2178 being lost in situations where the locale would otherwise treat the
2179 raw data as nonprintable (Debian #227879).
2182 + fix a redefinition of CTRL() macro in test/view.c for AIX 5.2 (report
2184 + remove ".PP" after ".SH NAME" in a few manpages; this confuses
2185 some apropos script (Debian #237831).
2188 + modify ncurses.c 'r' test so editing commands, like inserted text,
2189 set the field background, and the state of insert/overlay editing
2190 mode is shown in that test.
2191 + change syntax of dummy targets in Ada95 makefiles to work with pmake.
2192 + correct logic in test/ncurses.c 'b' for noncolor terminals which
2193 did not recognize a quit-command (cf: 20030419).
2196 + modify _nc_insert_ch() to allow for its input to be part of a
2198 + split out lib_insnstr.c, to prepare to rewrite it. X/Open states
2199 that this function performs wrapping, unlike all of the other
2200 insert-functions. Currently it does not wrap.
2201 + check for nl_langinfo(CODESET), use it if available (report by
2203 + split-out CF_BUILD_CC macro, actually did this for lynx first.
2204 + fixes for configure script CF_WITH_DBMALLOC and CF_WITH_DMALLOC,
2205 which happened to work with bash, but not with Bourne shell (report
2206 by Marco d'Itri via tin-dev).
2209 + some changes to adapt the form library to wide characters, incomplete
2210 (request by Mike Aubury).
2211 + add symbol to curses.h which can be used to suppress include of
2213 #define NCURSES_ENABLE_STDBOOL_H 0
2215 (discussion on XFree86 mailing list).
2218 + modify configure --with-termlib option to accept a value which sets
2219 the name of the terminfo library. This would allow a packager to
2220 build libtinfow.so renamed to coincide with libtinfo.so (discussion
2221 with Stanislav Ievlev).
2222 + improve documentation of --with-install-prefix, --prefix and
2223 $(DESTDIR) in INSTALL (prompted by discussion with Paul Lew).
2224 + add configure check if the compiler can use -c -o options to rename
2225 its output file, use that to omit the 'cd' command which was used to
2226 ensure object files are created in a separate staging directory
2227 (prompted by comments by Johnny Wezel, Martin Mokrejs).
2229 20040208 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2232 20040207 pre-release
2233 + minor fixes to _nc_tparm_analyze(), i.e., do not count %i as a param,
2234 and do not count %d if it follows a %p.
2235 + correct an inconsistency between handling of codes in the 128-255
2236 range, e.g., as illustrated by test/ncurses.c f/F tests. In POSIX
2237 locale, the latter did not show printable results, while the former
2239 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to compensate for broken C preprocessor on Mac
2240 OS X, which alters "%%" to "% % " (report by Robert Simms, fix
2241 verified by Scott Corscadden).
2243 20040131 pre-release
2244 + modify SCREEN struct to align it between normal/wide curses flavors
2245 to simplify future changes to build a single version of libtinfo
2246 (patch by Stanislav Ievlev).
2247 + document handling of carriage return by addch() in manpage.
2248 + document special features of unctrl() in manpage.
2249 + documented interface changes in INSTALL.
2250 + corrected control-char test in lib_addch.c to account for locale
2251 (Debian #230335, cf: 971206).
2252 + updated test/configure.in to use AC_EXEEXT and AC_OBJEXT.
2253 + fixes to compile Ada95 binding with Debian gnat 3.15p-4 package.
2254 + minor configure-script fixes for older ports, e.g., BeOS R4.5.
2256 20040125 pre-release
2257 + amend change to PutAttrChar() from 20030614 which computed the number
2258 of cells for a possibly multi-cell character. The 20030614 change
2259 forced the cell to a blank if the result from wcwidth() was not
2260 greater than zero. However, wcwidth() called for parameters in the
2261 range 128-255 can give this return value. The logic now simply
2262 ensures that the number of cells is greater than zero without
2263 modifying the displayed value.
2265 20040124 pre-release
2266 + looked good for 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org (but see above)
2267 + modify configure script check for ranlib to use AC_CHECK_TOOL, since
2268 that works better for cross-compiling.
2270 20040117 pre-release
2271 + modify lib_get_wch.c to prefer mblen/mbtowc over mbrlen/mbrtowc to
2272 work around core dump in Solaris 8's locale support, e.g., for
2273 zh_CN.GB18030 (report by Saravanan Bellan).
2274 + add includes for <stdarg.h> and <stdio.h> in configure script macro
2275 to make <wchar.h> check work with Tru64 4.0d.
2276 + add terminfo entry for U/Win -TD
2277 + add terminfo entries for SFU aka Interix aka OpenNT (Federico
2279 + modify tput's error messages to prefix them with the program name
2280 (report by Vincent Lefevre, patch by Daniel Jacobowitz (see Debian
2282 + correct a place in tack where exit_standout_mode was used instead of
2283 exit_attribute_mode (patch by Jochen Voss (see Debian #224443)).
2284 + modify c++/cursesf.h to use const in the Enumeration_Field method.
2285 + remove an ambiguous (actually redundant) method from c++/cursesf.h
2286 + make $HOME/.terminfo update optional (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
2287 + improve sed script which extracts libtool's version in the
2288 CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro.
2289 + add ifdef'd call to AC_PROG_LIBTOOL to CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro (to
2290 simplify local patch for Albert Chin-A-Young)..
2291 + add $(CXXFLAGS) to link command in c++/Makefile.in (adapted from
2292 patch by Albert Chin-A-Young)..
2293 + fix a missing substitution in configure.in for "$target" needed for
2295 + resync CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro with lynx; fixes IRIX64 and
2296 NetBSD 1.6 conflicts with _XOPEN_SOURCE.
2297 + make check for stdbool.h more specific, to ensure that including it
2298 will actually define/declare bool for the configured compiler.
2299 + rewrite ifdef's in curses.h relating NCURSES_BOOL and bool. The
2300 intention of that is to #define NCURSES_BOOL as bool when the
2301 compiler declares bool, and to #define bool as NCURSES_BOOL when it
2302 does not (reported by Jim Gifford, Sam Varshavchik, cf: 20031213).
2304 20040110 pre-release
2305 + change minor version to 4, i.e., ncurses 5.4
2306 + revised/improved terminfo entries for tvi912b, tvi920b (Benjamin C W
2308 + simplified ncurses/base/version.c by defining the result from the
2309 configure script rather than using sprintf (suggested by Stanislav
2311 + remove obsolete casts from c++/cursesw.h (reported by Stanislav
2313 + modify configure script so that when configuring for termlib, programs
2314 such as tic are not linked with the upper-level ncurses library
2315 (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
2316 + move version.c from ncurses/base to ncurses/tinfo to allow linking
2317 of tic, etc., using libtinfo (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
2320 + adjust -D's to build ncursesw on OpenBSD.
2321 + modify CF_PROG_EXT to make OS/2 build with EXEEXT.
2322 + add pecho_wchar().
2323 + remove <wctype.h> include from lib_slk_wset.c which is not needed (or
2324 available) on older platforms.
2327 + add -D's to build ncursew on FreeBSD 5.1.
2328 + modify shared library configuration for FreeBSD 4.x/5.x to add the
2329 soname information (request by Marc Glisse).
2330 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() to not use MAX_ALIAS, but PATH_MAX only
2331 for limiting the length of a filename in the terminfo database.
2332 + modify termname() to return the terminal name used by setupterm()
2333 rather than $TERM, without truncating to 14 characters as documented
2334 by X/Open (report by Stanislav Ievlev, cf: 970719).
2335 + re-add definition for _BSD_TYPES, lost in merge (cf: 20031206).
2338 + add configure option --with-manpage-format=catonly to address
2339 behavior of BSDI, allow install of man+cat files on NetBSD, whose
2340 behavior has diverged by requiring both to be present.
2341 + remove leading blanks from comment-lines in manlinks.sed script to
2342 work with Tru64 4.0d.
2343 + add screen.linux terminfo entry (discussion on mutt-users mailing
2347 + add a check for tic to flag missing backslashes for termcap
2348 continuation lines. ncurses reads the whole entry, but termcap
2349 applications do not.
2350 + add configure option "--with-manpage-aliases" extending
2351 "--with-manpage-aliases" to provide the option of generating ".so"
2352 files rather than symbolic links for manpage aliases.
2353 + add bool definition in include/curses.h.in for configurations with no
2354 usable C++ compiler (cf: 20030607).
2355 + fix pathname of SigAction.h for building with --srcdir (reported by
2359 + folded ncurses/base/sigaction.c into includes of ncurses/SigAction.h,
2360 since that header is used only within ncurses/tty/lib_tstp.c, for
2361 non-POSIX systems (discussion with Stanislav Ievlev).
2362 + remove obsolete _nc_outstr() function (report by Stanislav Ievlev
2363 <inger@altlinux.org>).
2364 + add test/background.c and test/color_set.c
2365 + modify color_set() function to work with color pair 0 (report by
2366 George Andreou <gbandreo@tem.uoc.gr>).
2367 + add configure option --with-trace, since defining TRACE seems too
2368 awkward for some cases.
2369 + remove a call to _nc_free_termtype() from read_termtype(), since the
2370 corresponding buffer contents were already zeroed by a memset (cf:
2372 + improve configure check for _XOPEN_SOURCE and related definitions,
2373 adding special cases for Solaris' __EXTENSIONS__ and FreeBSD's
2374 __BSD_TYPES (reports by Marc Glisse <marc.glisse@normalesup.org>).
2375 + small fixes to compile on Solaris and IRIX64 using cc.
2376 + correct typo in check for pre-POSIX sort options in MKkey_defs.sh
2380 + modify _nc_gettime() to avoid a problem with arithmetic on unsigned
2381 values (Philippe Blain).
2382 + improve the nanosleep() logic in napms() by checking for EINTR and
2383 restarting (Philippe Blain).
2384 + correct expression for "%D" in lib_tgoto.c (Juha Jarvi
2388 + add linux-vt terminfo entry (Andrey V Lukyanov <land@long.yar.ru>).
2389 + allow "\|" escape in terminfo; tic should not warn about this.
2390 + save the full pathname of the trace-file the first time it is opened,
2391 to avoid creating it in different directories if the application
2392 opens and closes it while changing its working directory.
2393 + modify configure script to provide a non-empty default for
2397 + add DJGPP to special case of DOS-style drive letters potentially
2398 appearing in TERMCAP environment variable.
2399 + fix some spelling in comments (reports by Jason McIntyre, Jonathon
2401 + update config.guess, config.sub
2404 + fix a memory leak in error-return from setupterm() (report by
2405 Stanislav Ievlev <inger@altlinux.org>).
2406 + use EXEEXT and OBJEXT consistently in makefiles.
2407 + amend fixes for cross-compiling to use separate executable-suffix
2408 BUILD_EXEEXT (cf: 20031018).
2409 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for sort utility that does not
2410 recognize key options, e.g., busybox (report by Peter S Mazinger
2412 + fix potential out-of-bounds indexing in _nc_infotocap() (found by
2413 David Krause using some of the new malloc debugging features
2414 under OpenBSD, patch by Ted Unangst).
2415 + modify CF_LIB_SUFFIX for Itanium releases of HP-UX, which use a
2416 ".so" suffix (patch by Jonathan Ward <Jonathan.Ward@hp.com>).
2419 + update terminfo for xterm-xfree86 -TD
2420 + add check for multiple "tc=" clauses in a termcap to tic.
2421 + check for missing op/oc in tic.
2422 + correct _nc_resolve_uses() and _nc_merge_entry() to allow infocmp and
2423 tic to show cancelled capabilities. These functions were ignoring
2424 the state of the target entry, which should be untouched if cancelled.
2425 + correct comment in tack/output.c (Debian #215806).
2426 + add some null-pointer checks to lib_options.c (report by Michael
2428 + regenerated html documentation.
2429 + correction to tar-copy.sh, remove a trap command that resulted in
2430 leaving temporary files (cf: 20030510).
2431 + remove contact/maintainer addresses for Juergen Pfeifer (his request).
2434 + updated test/configure to reflect changes for libtool (cf: 20030830).
2435 + fix several places in tack/pad.c which tested and used the parameter-
2436 and parameterless strings inconsistently, i.e., in pad_rin(),
2437 pad_il(), pad_indn() and pad_dl() (Debian #215805).
2438 + minor fixes for configure script and makefiles to cleanup executables
2439 generated when cross-compiling for DJGPP.
2440 + modify infocmp to omit check for $TERM for operations that do not
2441 require it, e.g., "infocmp -e" used to build fallback list (report by
2445 + add terminfo entries for DJGPP.
2446 + updated note about maintainer in ncurses-intro.html
2449 + update terminfo entries for gnome terminal.
2450 + modify tack to reset colors after each color test, correct a place
2451 where exit_standout_mode was used instead of exit_attribute_mode.
2452 + improve tack's bce test by making it set colors other than black
2454 + plug a potential recursion between napms() and _nc_timed_wait()
2455 (report by Philippe Blain).
2458 + add --with-rel-version option to allow workaround to allow making
2459 libtool on Darwin generate the "same" library names as with the
2460 --with-shared option. The Darwin ld program does not work well
2461 with a zero as the minor-version value (request by Chris Zubrzycki).
2462 + modify CF_MIXEDCASE_FILENAMES macro to work with cross-compiling.
2463 + modify tack to allow it to run from fallback terminfo data.
2464 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2465 + improve PutRange() by adjusting call to EmitRange() and corresponding
2466 return-value to not emit unchanged characters on the end of the
2468 + improve a check for changed-attribute by exiting a loop when the
2470 + improve logic in TransformLine(), eliminating a duplicated comparison
2471 in the clr_bol logic.
2474 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2475 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
2476 move the label 'nonlocal' just before the second gettimeofday() to
2477 be able to compute the diff time when 'goto nonlocal' used.
2478 Rename 'msec' to 'microsec' in the debug-message.
2479 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
2480 Use _nc_outch() in carriage return/newline movement instead of
2481 putchar() which goes to stdout. Move test for xold>0 out of loop.
2482 + in ncurses/tinfo/setbuf.c,
2483 Set the flag SP->_buffered at the end of operations when all has been
2484 successful (typeMalloc can fail).
2485 + simplify NC_BUFFERED macro by moving check inside _nc_setbuf().
2488 + modify configure script to avoid using "head -1", which does not
2489 work if POSIXLY_CORRECT (sic) is set.
2490 + modify run_tic.in to avoid using wrong shared libraries when
2491 cross-compiling (Dan Kegel).
2494 + alter configure script help message to make it clearer that
2495 --with-build-cc does not specify a cross-compiler (suggested by Dan
2496 Kegel <dank@kegel.com>).
2497 + modify configure script to accommodate libtool 1.5, as well as add an
2498 parameter to the "--with-libtool" option which can specify the
2499 pathname of libtool (report by Chris Zubrzycki). We note that
2500 libtool 1.5 has more than one bug in its C++ support, so it is not
2501 able to install libncurses++, for instance, if $DESTDIR or the option
2502 --with-install-prefix is used.
2505 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2506 + move assignments to SP->_cursrow, SP->_curscol into online_mvcur().
2507 + make baudrate computation in delay_output() consistent with the
2508 assumption in _nc_mvcur_init(), i.e., a byte is 9 bits.
2511 + modify logic in waddch_literal() to take into account zh_TW.Big5
2512 whose multibyte sequences may contain "printable" characters, e.g.,
2513 a "g" in the sequence "\247g" (Debian #204889, cf: 20030621).
2514 + improve storage used by _nc_safe_strcpy() by ensuring that the size
2515 is reset based on the initialization call, in case it were called
2516 after other strcpy/strcat calls (report by Philippe Blain).
2517 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2518 + remove an unused ifdef for REAL_ATTR & WANT_CHAR
2519 + correct a place where _cup_cost was used rather than _cuu_cost
2522 + fix a small memory leak in _nc_free_termtype().
2523 + close trace-file if trace() is called with a zero parameter.
2524 + free memory allocated for soft-key strings, in delscreen().
2525 + fix an allocation size in safe_sprintf.c for the "*" format code.
2526 + correct safe_sprintf.c to not return a null pointer if the format
2527 happens to be an empty string. This applies to the "configure
2528 --enable-safe-sprintf" option (Redhat #101486).
2531 + modify casts used for ABSENT_BOOLEAN and CANCELLED_BOOLEAN (report by
2533 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2534 + change padding for change_scroll_region to not be proportional to
2535 the size of the scroll-region.
2536 + correct error-return in _nc_safe_strcat().
2539 + correct limit-checks in _nc_scroll_window() (report and test-case by
2540 Thomas Graf <graf@dms.at> cf: 20011020).
2541 + re-order configure checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE to avoid conflict with
2545 + use clr_eol in preference to blanks for bce terminals, so select and
2546 paste will have fewer trailing blanks, e.g., when using xterm
2547 (request by Vincent Lefevre).
2548 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
2549 + add configure --with-abi-version option (discussion with Charles
2551 > cygwin changes from Charles Wilson:
2552 + aclocal.m4: on cygwin, use autodetected prefix for import
2553 and static lib, but use "cyg" for DLL.
2554 + include/ncurses_dll.h: correct the comments to reflect current
2555 status of cygwin/mingw port. Fix compiler warning.
2556 + misc/run_tic.in: ensure that tic.exe can find the uninstalled
2557 DLL, by adding the lib-directory to the PATH variable.
2558 + misc/terminfo.src (nxterm|xterm-color): make xterm-color
2559 primary instead of nxterm, to match XFree86's xterm.terminfo
2560 usage and to prevent circular links.
2561 (rxvt): add additional codes from rxvt.org.
2562 (rxvt-color): new alias
2563 (rxvt-xpm): new alias
2564 (rxvt-cygwin): like rxvt, but with special acsc codes.
2565 (rxvt-cygwin-native): ditto. rxvt may be run under XWindows, or
2566 with a "native" MSWin GUI. Each takes different acsc codes,
2567 which are both different from the "normal" rxvt's acsc.
2568 (cygwin): cygwin-in-cmd.exe window. Lots of fixes.
2570 + mk-1st.awk: use "cyg" for the DLL prefix, but "lib" for import
2574 + update config.guess, config.sub
2575 + add triples for configuring shared libraries with the Debian
2576 GNU/FreeBSD packages (patch by Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es>).
2579 + modify CF_GCC_WARNINGS so it only applies to gcc, not g++. Some
2580 platforms have installed g++ along with the native C compiler, which
2581 would not accept gcc warning options.
2582 + add -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 when configuring with --enable-widec, to
2583 get mbstate_t declaration on HPUX 11.11 (report by David Ellement).
2584 + add _nc_pathlast() to get rid of casts in _nc_basename() calls.
2585 + correct a sign-extension in wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() from
2586 20030628 (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
2587 + work around omission of btowc() and wctob() from wide-character
2588 support (sic) in NetBSD 1.6 using mbtowc() and wctomb() (report by
2590 + add portability note to curs_get_wstr.3x (Debian #199957).
2593 + rewrite wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to call waddch() and wechochar()
2594 respectively, to avoid calling waddch_noecho() with wide-character
2595 data, since that function assumes its input is 8-bit data.
2596 Similarly, modify waddnwstr() to call wadd_wch().
2597 + remove logic from waddnstr() which transformed multibyte character
2598 strings into wide-characters. Rewrite of waddch_literal() from
2599 20030621 assumes its input is raw multibyte data rather than wide
2600 characters (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
2603 + write getyx() and related 2-return macros in terms of getcury(),
2605 + modify waddch_literal() in case an application passes bytes of a
2606 multibyte character directly to waddch(). In this case, waddch()
2607 must reassemble the bytes into a wide-character (report by Tomohiro
2608 Kubota <kubota@debian.org>).
2611 + modify waddch_literal() in case a multibyte value occupies more than
2613 + modify PutAttrChar() to compute the number of character cells that
2614 are used in multibyte values. This fixes a problem displaying
2615 double-width characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen
2616 <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
2617 + add a null-pointer check for result of keyname() in _tracechar()
2618 + modify _tracechar() to work around glibc sprintf bug.
2621 + add a call to setlocale() in cursesmain.cc, making demo display
2622 properly in a UTF-8 locale.
2623 + add a fallback definition in curses.priv.h for MB_LEN_MAX (prompted
2624 by discussion with Gabor Z Papp).
2625 + use macros NCURSES_ACS() and NCURSES_WACS() to hide cast needed to
2626 appease -Wchar-subscript with g++ 3.3 (Debian #195732).
2627 + fix a redefinition of $RANLIB in the configure script when libtool
2628 is used, which broke configure on Mac OS X (report by Chris Zubrzycki
2630 + simplify ifdef for bool declaration in curses.h.in (suggested by
2631 Albert Chin-A-Young).
2632 + remove configure script check to allow -Wconversion for older
2633 versions of gcc (suggested by Albert Chin-A-Young).
2636 + regenerated html manpages.
2637 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in that disabled use of __attribute__()
2638 for g++, since recent versions implement the cases which ncurses uses
2640 + modify _nc_get_token() to handle a case where an entry has no
2641 description, and capabilities begin on the same line as the entry
2643 + fix a typo in ncurses_dll.h reported by gcc 3.3.
2644 + add an entry for key_defined.3x to man_db.renames.
2647 + modify setcchar() to allow converting control characters to complex
2648 characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
2649 + add tkterm entry -TD
2650 + modify parse_entry.c to allow a terminfo entry with a leading
2651 2-character name (report by Don Libes).
2652 + corrected acsc in screen.teraterm, which requires a PC-style mapping.
2653 + fix trace statements in read_entry.c to use lseek() rather than
2655 + fix signed/unsigned warnings from Sun's compiler (gcc should give
2656 these warnings, but it is unpredictable).
2657 + modify configure script to omit -Winline for gcc 3.3, since that
2659 + modify manlinks.sed to add a few functions that were overlooked since
2660 they return function pointers: field_init, field_term, form_init,
2661 form_term, item_init, item_term, menu_init and menu_term.
2664 + prevent recursion in wgetch() via wgetnstr() if the connection cannot
2665 be switched between cooked/raw modes because it is not a TTY (report
2666 by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.com>).
2667 + change parameter of define_key() and key_defined() to const (prompted
2669 + add a check in test/configure for ncurses extensions, since there
2670 are some older versions, etc., which would not compile with the
2671 current test programs.
2672 + corrected demo in test/ncurses.c of wgetn_wstr(), which did not
2673 convert wchar_t string to multibyte form before printing it.
2674 + corrections to lib_get_wstr.c:
2675 + null-terminate buffer passed to setcchar(), which occasionally
2677 + map special characters such as erase- and kill-characters into
2678 key-codes so those will work as expected even if they are not
2679 mentioned in the terminfo.
2680 + modify PUTC() and Charable() macros to make wide-character line
2681 drawing work for POSIX locale on Linux console (cf: 20021221).
2684 + make typography for program options in manpages consistent (report
2685 by Miloslav Trmac <mitr@volny.cz>).
2686 + correct dependencies in Ada95/src/Makefile.in, so the builds with
2687 "--srcdir" work (report by Warren L Dodge).
2688 + correct missing definition of $(CC) in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in
2689 (reported by Warren L Dodge <warrend@mdhost.cse.tek.com>).
2690 + fix typos and whitespace in manpages (patch by Jason McIntyre
2691 <jmc@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl>).
2694 + fix form_driver() cases for REQ_CLR_EOF, REQ_CLR_EOL, REQ_DEL_CHAR,
2695 REQ_DEL_PREV and REQ_NEW_LINE, which did not ensure the cursor was at
2696 the editing position before making modifications.
2697 + add test/demo_forms and associated test/edit_field.c demos.
2698 + modify test/configure.in to use test/modules for the list of objects
2699 to compile rather than using the list of programs.
2702 + modify logic of acsc to use the original character if no mapping is
2703 defined, noting that Solaris does this.
2704 + modify ncurses 'b' test to avoid using the acs_map[] array since
2705 20021231 changes it to no longer contain information from the acsc
2707 + modify makefile rules in c++, progs, tack and test to ensure that
2708 the compiler flags (e.g., $CFLAGS or $CCFLAGS) are used in the link
2709 command (report by Jose Luis Rico Botella <informatica@serpis.com>).
2710 + modify soft-key initialization to use A_REVERSE if A_STANDOUT would
2711 not be shown when colors are used, i.e., if ncv#1 is set in the
2712 terminfo as is done in "screen".
2715 + add a test for slk_color(), in ncurses.c
2716 + fix some issues reported by valgrind in the slk_set() and slk_wset()
2717 code, from recent rewrite.
2718 + modify ncurses 'E' test to use show previous label via slk_label(),
2720 + modify wide-character versions of NewChar(), NewChar2() macros to
2721 ensure that the whole struct is initialized.
2724 + modify setupterm() to check if the terminfo and terminal-modes have
2725 already been read. This ensures that it does not reinvoke
2726 def_prog_mode() when an application calls more than one function,
2727 such as tgetent() and initscr() (report by Olaf Buddenhagen).
2730 + add 'E' test to ncurses.c, to exercise slk_wset().
2731 + correct handling of carriage-return in wgetn_wstr(), used in demo of
2733 + first draft of slk_wset() function.
2736 + improved warnings in tic when suppressing items to fit in termcap's
2738 + built a list in test/README showing which externals are being used
2739 by either programs in the test-directory or via internal library
2741 + adjust include-options in CF_ETIP_DEFINES to avoid missing
2742 ncurses_dll.h, fixing special definitions that may be needed for
2743 etip.h (reported by Greg Schafer <gschafer@zip.com.au>).
2746 + minor fixes for cardfile.c, to make it write the updated fields to
2747 a file when ^W is given.
2748 + add/use _nc_trace_bufcat() to eliminate some fixed buffer limits in
2752 + correct a case in _nc_remove_string(), used by define_key(), to avoid
2753 infinite loop if the given string happens to be a substring of other
2754 strings which are assigned to keys (report by John McCutchan).
2755 + add key_defined() function, to tell which keycode a string is bound
2756 to (discussion with John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>).
2757 + correct keybound(), which reported definitions in the wrong table,
2758 i.e., the list of definitions which are disabled by keyok().
2759 + modify demo_keydef.c to show the details it changes, and to check
2763 + restructured test/configure script, make it work for libncursesw.
2764 + add description of link_fieldtype() to manpage (report by
2765 L Dee Holtsclaw <dee@sunbeltsoft.com>).
2768 + corrected ifdef's relating to configure check for wchar_t, etc.
2769 + if the output is a socket or other non-tty device, use 1 millisecond
2770 for the cost in mvcur; previously it was 9 milliseconds because the
2771 baudrate was not known.
2772 + in _nc_get_tty_mode(), initialize the TTY buffer on error, since
2773 glibc copies uninitialized data in that case, as noted by valgrind.
2774 + modify tput to use the same parameter analysis as tparm() does, to
2775 provide for user-defined strings, e.g., for xterm title, a
2776 corresponding capability might be
2778 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to avoid passing "#" tokens through the C
2779 preprocessor. This works around Mac OS X's preprocessor, which
2780 insists on adding a blank on each side of the token (report/analysis
2781 by Kevin Murphy <murphy@genome.chop.edu>).
2784 + add configure check for wchar_t and wint_t types, rather than rely
2785 on preprocessor definitions. Also work around for gcc fixinclude
2786 bug which creates a shadow copy of curses.h if it sees these symbols
2787 apparently typedef'd.
2788 + if database is disabled, do not generate run_tic.sh
2789 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking when termcap is read.
2792 + add checking in tic for incomplete line-drawing character mapping.
2793 + update configure script to reflect fix for AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL,
2794 which is broken in autoconf 2.5x for Mac OS X 10.2.3 (report by
2795 Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl>).
2796 + make return value from _nc_printf_string() consistent. Before,
2797 depending on whether --enable-safe-sprintf was used, it might not be
2798 cached for reallocating.
2801 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking in lib_tparm.c, hardscroll.c
2802 + correct a potentially-uninitialized value if _read_termtype() does
2803 not read as much data as expected (report by Wolfgang Rohdewald
2805 + correct several places where the aclocal.m4 macros relied on cache
2806 variable names which were incompatible (as usual) between autoconf
2807 2.13 and 2.5x, causing the test for broken-linker to give incorrect
2808 results (reports by Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl> and Thomas Esser
2809 <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de>).
2810 + do not try to open gpm mouse driver if standard output is not a tty;
2811 the gpm library does not make this check (bug report for dialog
2812 by David Oliveira <davidoliveira@develop.prozone.ws>).
2815 + modified emx.src to correspond more closely to terminfo.src, added
2816 emx-base to the latter -TD
2817 + add configure option for FreeBSD sysmouse, --with-sysmouse, and
2818 implement support for that in lib_mouse.c, lib_getch.c
2821 + revert 20030105 change to can_clear_with(), does not work for the
2822 case where the update is made on cells which are blanks with
2823 attributes, e.g., reverse.
2824 + improve ifdef's to guard against redefinition of wchar_t and wint_t
2825 in curses.h (report by Urs Jansen).
2828 + improve mvcur() by checking if it is safe to move when video
2829 attributes are set (msgr), and if not, reset/restore attributes
2830 within that function rather than doing it separately in the GoTo()
2831 function in tty_update.c (suggested by Philippe Blain).
2832 + add a message in run_tic.in to explain more clearly what does not
2833 work when attempting to create a symbolic link for /usr/lib/terminfo
2834 on OS/2 and other platforms with no symbolic links (report by John
2836 + change several sed scripts to avoid using "\+" since it is not a BRE
2837 (basic regular expression). One instance caused terminfo.5 to be
2838 misformatted on FreeBSD (report by Kazuo Horikawa
2839 <horikawa@FreeBSD.org> (see FreeBSD docs/46709)).
2840 + correct misspelled 'wint_t' in curs_get_wch.3x (Michael Elkins).
2843 + improve description of terminfo operators, especially static/dynamic
2844 variables (comments by Mark I Manning IV <mark4th@earthlink.net>).
2845 + demonstrate use of FIELDTYPE by modifying test/ncurses 'r' test to
2846 use the predefined TYPE_ALPHA field-type, and by defining a
2847 specialized type for the middle initial/name.
2848 + fix MKterminfo.sh, another workaround for POSIXLY_CORRECT misfeature
2850 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2851 + optimize can_clear_with() a little by testing first if the parameter
2852 is indeed a "blank".
2853 + simplify ClrBottom() a little by allowing it to use clr_eos to clear
2854 sections as small as one line.
2855 + improve ClrToEOL() by checking if clr_eos is available before trying
2857 + use tputs() rather than putp() in a few cases in tty_update.c since
2858 the corresponding delays are proportional to the number of lines
2859 affected: repeat_char, clr_eos, change_scroll_region.
2862 + rewrite of lib_acs.c conflicts with copying of SCREEN acs_map to/from
2863 global acs_map[] array; removed the lines that did the copying.
2866 + change some overlooked tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp()
2867 (report by Philippe Blain).
2868 + modify lib_getch.c to avoid recursion via wgetnstr() when the input
2869 is not a tty and consequently mode-changes do not work (report by
2870 <R.Chamberlin@querix.com>).
2871 + rewrote lib_acs.c to allow PutAttrChar() to decide how to render
2872 alternate-characters, i.e., to work with Linux console and UTF-8
2874 + correct line/column reference in adjust_window(), needed to make
2875 special windows such as curscr track properly when resizing (report
2876 by Lucas Gonze <lgonze@panix.com>).
2877 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2878 + correct the value used for blank in ClrBottom() (broken in 20000708).
2879 + correct an off-by-one in GoTo() parameter in _nc_scrolln().
2882 + change several tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp(), to
2883 enable padding which may be needed for some terminals (patch by
2885 + use '%' as sed substitute delimiter in run_tic script to avoid
2886 problems with pathname delimiters such as ':' and '@' (report by John
2888 + implement a workaround so that line-drawing works with screen's
2889 crippled UTF-8 support (tested with 3.9.13). This only works with
2890 the wide-character support (--enable-widec); the normal library will
2891 simply suppress line-drawing when running in a UTF-8 locale in screen.
2894 + allow BUILD_CC and related configure script variables to be
2895 overridden from the environment.
2896 + make build-tools variables in ncurses/Makefile.in consistent with
2897 the configure script variables (report by Maciej W Rozycki).
2898 + modify ncurses/modules to allow
2899 configure --disable-leaks --disable-ext-funcs
2900 to build (report by Gary Samuelson).
2901 + fix a few places in configure.in which lacked quotes (report by
2902 Gary Samuelson <gary.samuelson@verizon.com>).
2903 + correct handling of multibyte characters in waddch_literal() which
2904 force wrapping because they are started too late on the line (report
2905 by Sam Varshavchik).
2906 + small fix for CF_GNAT_VERSION to ignore the help-message which
2907 gnatmake adds to its version-message.
2908 > Maciej W Rozycki <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>:
2909 + use AC_CHECK_TOOL to get proper values for AR and LD for cross
2911 + use $cross_compiling variable in configure script rather than
2912 comparing $host_alias and $target alias, since "host" is
2913 traditionally misused in autoconf to refer to the target platform.
2914 + change configure --help message to use "build" rather than "host"
2915 when referring to the --with-build-XXX options.
2918 + modify CF_GNAT_VERSION to print gnatmake's version, and to allow for
2919 possible gnat versions such as 3.2 (report by Chris Lingard
2920 <chris@stockwith.co.uk>).
2921 + modify #define's for CKILL and other default control characters in
2922 tset to use the system's default values if they are defined.
2923 + correct interchanged defaults for kill and interrupt characters
2924 in tset, which caused it to report unnecessarily (Debian #171583).
2925 + repair check for missing C++ compiler, which is broken in autoconf
2926 2.5x by hardcoding it to g++ (report by Martin Mokrejs).
2927 + update config.guess, config.sub (2002-11-30)
2928 + modify configure script to skip --with-shared, etc., when the
2929 --with-libtool option is given, since they would be ignored anyway.
2930 + fix to allow "configure --with-libtool --with-termlib" to build.
2931 + modify configure script to show version number of libtool, to help
2932 with bug reports. libtool still gets confused if the installed
2933 ncurses libraries are old, since it ignores the -L options at some
2934 point (tested with libtool 1.3.3 and 1.4.3).
2935 + reorder configure script's updating of $CPPFLAGS and $CFLAGS to
2936 prevent -I options in the user's environment from introducing
2937 conflicts with the build -I options (may be related to reports by
2938 Patrick Ash and George Goffe).
2939 + rename test/define_key.c to test/demo_defkey.c, test/keyok.c to
2940 test/demo_keyok.c to allow building these with libtool.
2943 + add example program test/define_key.c for define_key().
2944 + add example program test/keyok.c for keyok().
2945 + add example program test/ins_wide.c for wins_wch() and wins_wstr().
2946 + modify wins_wch() and wins_wstr() to interpret tabs by using the
2947 winsch() internal function.
2948 + modify setcchar() to allow for wchar_t input strings that have
2949 more than one spacing character.
2952 + fix a boundary check in lib_insch.c (patch by Philippe Blain).
2953 + change type for *printw functions from NCURSES_CONST to const
2954 (prompted by comment by Pedro Palhoto Matos <plpm@mega.ist.utl.pt>,
2955 but really from a note on X/Open's website stating that either is
2956 acceptable, and the latter will be used in a future revision).
2957 + add xterm-1002, xterm-1003 terminfo entries to demonstrate changes in
2958 lib_mouse.c (20021026) -TD
2959 + add screen-bce, screen-s entries from screen 3.9.13 (report by
2960 Adam Lazur <zal@debian.org>) -TD
2961 + add mterm terminfo entries -TD
2964 + split-out useful fragments in terminfo for vt100 and vt220 numeric
2965 keypad, i.e., vt100+keypad, vt100+pfkeys, vt100+fnkeys and
2966 vt220+keypad. The last as embedded in various entries had ka3 and
2967 kb2 interchanged (report/discussion with Leonard den Ottolander
2968 <leonardjo@hetnet.nl>).
2969 + add check in tic for keypads consistent with vt100 layout.
2970 + improve checks in tic for color capabilities
2973 + check for missing/empty/illegal terminfo name in _nc_read_entry()
2974 (report by Martin Mokrejs, where $TERM was set to an empty string).
2975 + rewrote lib_insch.c, combining it with lib_insstr.c so both handle
2976 tab and other control characters consistently (report by Philippe
2978 + remove an #undef for KEY_EVENT from curses.tail used in the
2979 experimental NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS feature. The #undef confuses
2980 dpkg's build script (Debian #165897).
2981 + fix MKlib_gen.sh, working around the ironically named POSIXLY_CORRECT
2982 feature of GNU sed 4.0 (reported by Ervin Nemeth <airwin@inf.bme.hu>).
2985 + implement logic in lib_mouse.c to handle position reports which are
2986 generated when XFree86 xterm is initialized with private modes 1002
2987 or 1003. These are returned to the application as the
2988 REPORT_MOUSE_POSITION mask, which was not implemented. Tested both
2989 with ncurses 'a' menu (prompted by discussion with Larry Riedel
2990 <Larry@Riedel.org>).
2991 + modify lib_mouse.c to look for "XM" terminfo string, which allows
2992 one to override the escape sequence used to enable/disable mouse
2993 mode. In particular this works for XFree86 xterm private modes
2994 1002 and 1003. If "XM" is missing (note that this is an extended
2995 name), lib_mouse uses the conventional private mode 1000.
2996 + correct NOT_LOCAL() macro in lib_mvcur.c to refer to screen_columns
2997 where it used screen_lines (report by Philippe Blain).
2998 + correct makefile rules for the case when both --with-libtool and
2999 --with-gpm are given (report by Mr E_T <troll@logi.net.au>).
3000 + add note to terminfo manpage regarding the differences between
3001 setaf/setab and setf/setb capabilities (report by Pavel Roskin).
3004 + remove redundant initialization of TABSIZE in newterm(), since it is
3005 already done in setupterm() (report by Philippe Blain).
3006 + add test/inserts.c, to test winnstr() and winsch().
3007 + replace 'sort' in dist.mk with script that sets locale to POSIX.
3008 + update URLs in announce.html.in (patch by Frederic L W Meunier).
3009 + remove glibc add-on files, which are no longer needed (report by
3010 Frederic L W Meunier).
3012 20021012 5.3 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3013 + modify ifdef's in etip.h.in to allow the etip.h header to compile
3014 with gcc 3.2 (patch by Dimitar Zhekov <jimmy@is-vn.bg>).
3015 + add logic to setupterm() to make it like initscr() and newterm(),
3016 by checking for $NCURSES_TRACE environment variable and enabling
3017 the debug trace in that case.
3018 + modify setupterm() to ensure that it initializes the baudrate, for
3019 applications such as tput (report by Frank Henigman).
3020 + modify definition of bits used for command-line and library debug
3021 traces to avoid overlap, using new definition TRACE_SHIFT to relate
3023 + document tput's interpretation of parameterized strings according to
3024 whether parameters are given, etc. (discussion with Robert De Bath).
3026 20021005 pre-release
3027 + correct winnwstr() to account for non-character cells generated when
3028 a double-width character is added (report by Michael Bienia
3029 <michael@vorlon.ping.de>).
3030 + modify _nc_viswbuf2n() to provide better results using wctomb().
3031 + correct logic in _nc_varargs() which broke tracing of parameters for
3032 formats such as "%.*s".
3033 + correct scale factor in linux-c and linux-c-nc terminfo entries
3034 (report Floyd Davidson).
3035 + change tic -A option to -t, add the same option to infocmp for
3037 + correct "%c" implementation in lib_tparm.c, which did not map a null
3038 character to a 128 (cf: 980620) (patch by Frank Henigman
3039 <fjhenigman@mud.cgl.uwaterloo.ca>).
3041 20020928 pre-release
3042 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for POSIX sort -k option, use that if
3043 it is found, to accommodate newer utility which dropped the
3044 compatibility support for +number options (reported by Andrey A
3046 + modify linux terminfo entry to use color palette feature from
3047 linux-c-nc entry (comments by Tomasz Wasiak and Floyd Davidson).
3048 + restore original color definitions in endwin() if init_color() was
3049 used, and resume those colors on the next doupdate() or refresh()
3050 (report by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@komputom.com.pl>).
3051 + improve debug-traces by modifying MKlib_gen.sh to generate calls
3052 to returnBool() and returnAttr().
3053 + add/use _nc_visbufn() and _nc_viswbufn() to limit the debug trace
3054 of waddnstr() and similar functions to match the parameters as used.
3055 + add/use _nc_retrace_bool() and _nc_retrace_unsigned().
3056 + correct type used by _nc_retrace_chtype().
3057 + add debug traces to some functions in lib_mouse.c
3058 + modify lib_addch.c to handle non-spacing characters.
3059 + correct parameter of RemAttr() in lib_bkgd.c, which caused the c++
3060 demo's boxes to lose the A_ALTCHARSET flag (broken in 20020629).
3061 + correct width computed in _tracedump(), which did not account for
3062 the attributes (broken in 20010602).
3063 + modify test/tracemunch to replace addresses for windows other than
3064 curscr, newscr and stdscr with window0, window1, etc.
3066 20020921 pre-release
3067 + redid fix for edit_man.sed path.
3068 + workaround for Cygwin bug which makes subprocess writes to stdout
3069 result in core dump.
3070 + documented getbegx(), etc.
3071 + minor fixes to configure script to use '%' consistently as a sed
3072 delimiter rather than '@'.
3073 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3074 + add check in lib_overlay.c to ensure that the windows to be merged
3075 actually overlap, and in copywin(), limit the area to be touched
3076 to the lines given for the destination window.
3078 20020914 pre-release
3079 + modified curses.h so that if the wide-character version is installed
3080 overwriting /usr/include/curses.h, and if it relied on libutf8.h,
3081 then applications that use that header for wide-character support
3082 must define HAVE_LIBUTF8_H.
3083 + modify putwin(), getwin() and dupwin() to allow them to operate on
3084 pads (request by Philippe Blain).
3085 + correct attribute-merging in wborder(), broken in 20020216 (report
3086 by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@grubasek.komputom.com.pl>).
3087 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3088 + corrected pop-counts in tparam_internal() to '!' and '~' cases.
3089 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in one place that used sizeof(chtype).
3090 + remove some unused variables from mvcur test-driver.
3092 20020907 pre-release
3093 + change configure script to allow install of widec-character
3094 (ncursesw) headers to overwrite normal (ncurses) headers, since the
3095 latter is a compatible subset of the former.
3096 + fix path of edit_man.sed in configure script, needed to regenerate
3097 html manpages on Debian.
3098 + fix mismatched enums in vsscanf.c, which caused warning on Solaris.
3099 + update README.emx to reflect current patch used for autoconf.
3100 + change web- and ftp-site to invisible-island.net
3101 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3102 + change case for 'P' in tparam_internal() to indicate that it pops
3103 a variable from the stack.
3104 + correct sense of precision and width in parse_format(), to avoid
3106 + modify lib_tparm.c, absorb really_get_space() into get_space().
3107 + modify getwin() and dupwin() to copy the _notimeout, _idlok and
3108 _idcok window fields.
3109 + better fix for _nc_set_type(), using typeMalloc().
3111 20020901 pre-release
3112 + change minor version to 3, i.e., ncurses 5.3
3113 + update config.guess, config.sub
3114 + retest build with each configure option; minor ifdef fixes.
3115 + make keyname() return a null pointer rather than "UNKNOWN STRING" to
3117 + modify handling of wide line-drawing character functions to use the
3118 normal line-drawing characters when not in UTF-8 locale.
3119 + add check/fix to comp_parse.c to suppress warning about missing acsc
3120 string. This happens in configurations where raw termcap information
3121 is processed; tic already does this and other checks.
3122 + modify tic's check for ich/ich1 versus rmir/smir to only warn about
3123 ich1, to match xterm patch #70 notes.
3124 + moved information for ripped-off lines into SCREEN struct to allow
3125 use in resizeterm().
3126 + add experimental wgetch_events(), ifdef'd with NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS
3127 (adapted from patch by Ilya Zakharevich - see ncurses/README.IZ).
3128 + amend check in kgetch() from 20020824 to look only for function-keys,
3129 otherwise escape sequences are not resolved properly.
3130 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3131 + removed redundant assignment to SP->_checkfd from newterm().
3132 + check return-value of setupterm() in restartterm().
3133 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in a few places that used sizeof(chtype).
3134 + prevent dupwin() from duplicating a pad.
3135 + prevent putwin() from writing a pad.
3136 + use typeRealloc() or typeMalloc() in preference to direct calls on
3140 + add a check in kgetch() for cooked characters in the fifo to avoid
3141 calling fifo_push() when a KEY_RESIZE is available (report/analysis
3142 by Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>).
3143 + fix an overlooked case for bugzilla #68199 (Philippe Blain).
3144 + ensure clearerr() is called before using ferror() e.g., in
3145 lib_screen.c (report by Philippe Blain).
3148 + modify lib_screen.c and lib_newwin.c to maintain the SCREEN-specific
3149 pointers for curscr/stdscr/newscr when scr_save() and scr_restore()
3150 modify the global curscr/stdscr/newscr variables. Fixes Redhat
3151 bugzilla #68199 dated 2002-07-07.
3152 + add checks for null pointer in calls to tparm() and tgoto() based on
3153 FreeBSD bug report. If ncurses were built with termcap support, and
3154 the first call to tgoto() were a zero-length string, the result would
3155 be a null pointer, which was not handled properly.
3156 + correct a typo in terminfo.head, which gave the octal code for colon
3158 + remove the "tic -u" option from 20020810, since it did not account
3159 for nested "tc=" clauses, and when that was addressed, was still
3163 + add tic -A option to suppress capabilities which are commented out
3164 when translating to termcap.
3165 + add tic -u option to provide older behavior of "tc=" clauses.
3166 + modified tic to expand all but the final "tc=" clause in a termcap
3167 entry, to accommodate termcap libraries which do not handle multiple
3169 + correct typo in curs_inopts.3x regarding CS8/CS7 usage (report by
3171 + remove a couple of redundant uses of A_ATTRIBUTES in expressions
3172 using AttrOf(), which already incorporates that mask (report by
3174 + document TABSIZE variable.
3175 + add NCURSES_ASSUMED_COLORS environment variable, to allow users to
3176 override compiled-in default black-on-white assumption used in
3177 assume_default_colors().
3178 + correct an off-by-one comparison against max_colors in COLORFGBG
3180 + correct a use of uninitialized memory found by valgrind (reported by
3181 Olaf Buddenhagen <olafBuddenhagen@web.de>).
3182 + modified wresize() to ensure that a failed realloc will not corrupt
3183 the window structure, and to make subwindows fit within the resized
3184 window (completes Debian #87678, #101699)
3187 + fix an off-by-one in lib_pad.c check for limits of pad (patch by
3189 + revise logic for BeOS in lib_twait.c altered in 20011013 to restore
3190 logic used by lib_getch.c's support for GPM or EMX mouse (report by
3192 + remove NCURSES_CONST from several prototypes in curses.wide, to make
3193 the --enable-const --enable-widec configure options to work together
3194 (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@yahoo.com>).
3197 + finish no-leak checking in cardfile.c, using this for testing changes
3199 + simplify _nc_freeall() using delscreen().
3202 + check error-return from _nc_set_tty_mode() in _nc_initscr() and
3203 reset_prog_mode() (report/patch by Philippe Blain).
3204 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52, to address
3205 problem with identifying C++ bool type.
3206 + correct/improve logic to produce an exit status for errors in tput,
3207 which did not exit with an error when told to put a string not in the
3208 current terminfo entry (report by David Gomez <david@pleyades.net>).
3209 + modify configure script AC_OUTPUT() call to work around defect in
3210 autoconf 2.52 which adds an ifdef'd include to the generated
3211 configure definitions.
3212 + remove fstat() check from scr_init(), which also fixes a missing
3213 include for <sys/stat.h> from 20020713 (reported by David Ellement,
3214 fix suggested by Philippe Blain).
3215 + update curs_scanw.3x manpage to note that XSI curses differs from
3216 SVr4 curses: return-values are incompatible.
3217 + correct several prototypes in manpages which used const
3218 inconsistently with the curses.h file, and removed spurious const's
3219 in a few places from curses.h, e.g., for wbkgd() (report by Glenn
3220 Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>).
3221 + change internal type used by tparm() to long, to work with LP64 model.
3222 + modify nc_alloc.h to allow building with g++, for testing.
3225 + add resize-handling to cardfile.c test program.
3226 + altered resizeterm() to avoid having it fail when a child window
3227 cannot be resized because it would be larger than its parent. (More
3228 work must be done on this, but it works well enough to integrate).
3229 + improve a limit-check in lib_refresh.c
3230 + remove check in lib_screen.c relating dumptime to file's modification
3231 times, since that would not necessarily work for remotely mounted
3233 + modify lrtest to simplify debugging changes to resizeterm, e.g.,
3234 t/T commands to enable/disable tracing.
3235 + updated status of multibyte support in TO-DO.
3236 + update contact info in source-files (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3239 + add Caps.hpux11, as an example.
3240 + modify version_filter(), used to implement -R option for tic and
3241 infocmp, to use computed array offsets based on the Caps.* file which
3242 is actually configured, rather than constants which correspond to
3244 + reorganized lib_raw.c to avoid updating SP and cur_term state if the
3245 functions fail (reported by Philippe Blain).
3246 + add -Wundef to gcc warnings, adjust a few ifdef's to accommodate gcc.
3249 + correct parameters to setcchar() in ncurses.c (cf: 20020406).
3250 + set locale in most test programs (view.c and ncurses.c were the
3252 + add configure option --with-build-cppflags (report by Maksim A
3253 Nikulin <M.A.Nikulin@inp.nsk.su>).
3254 + correct a typo in wide-character logic for lib_bkgnd.c (Philippe
3256 + modify lib_wacs.c to not cancel the acsc, smacs, rmacs strings when
3257 in UTF-8 locale. Wide-character functions use Unicode values, while
3258 narrow-character functions use the terminfo data.
3259 + fix a couple of places in Ada95/samples which did not compile with
3261 + modify mkinstalldirs so the DOS-pathname case is locale-independent.
3262 + fix locale problem in MKlib_gen.sh by forcing related variables to
3263 POSIX (C), using same approach as autoconf (set variables only if
3264 they were set before). Update MKterminfo.sh and MKtermsort.sh to
3268 + add charset to generated html.
3269 + add mvterm entry, adapted from a FreeBSD bug-report by Daniel Rudy
3270 <dcrudy@pacbell.net> -TD
3271 + add rxvt-16color, ibm+16color entries -TD
3272 + modify check in --disable-overwrite option so that it is used by
3273 default unless the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr, in attempt to
3274 work around packagers, e.g., for Sun's freeware, who do not read the
3278 + modify wgetch() to allow returning ungetch'd KEY_RESIZE as a function
3279 key code in get_wch().
3280 + extended resize-handling in test/ncurses 'a' menu to the entire
3281 stack of windows created with 'w' commands.
3282 + improve $COLORFGBG feature by interpreting an out-of-range color
3283 value as an SGR 39 or 49, for foreground/background respectively.
3284 + correct a typo in configure --enable-colorfgbg option, and move it
3285 to the experimental section (cf: 20011208).
3288 + add logic to dump_entry.c to remove function-key definitions that do
3289 not fit into the 1023-byte limit for generated termcaps. This makes
3291 + more improvements to tic's warnings, including logic to ignore
3292 differences between delay values in sgr strings.
3293 + move definition of KEY_RESIZE into MKkeydefs.sh script, to
3294 accommodate Caps.osf1r5 which introduced a conflicting definition.
3297 + add simple resize-handling in test/ncurses.c 'a' menu.
3298 + fixes in keyname() and _tracechar() to handle negative values.
3299 + make tic's warnings about mismatches in sgr strings easier to follow.
3300 + correct tic checks for number of parameters in smgbp and smglp.
3301 + improve scoansi terminfo entry, and add scoansi-new entry -TD
3302 + add pcvt25-color terminfo entry -TD
3303 + add kf13-kf48 strings to cons25w terminfo entry (reported by Stephen
3304 Hurd <deuce@lordlegacy.org> in newsgroup lucky.freebsd.bugs) -TD
3305 + add entrypoint _nc_trace_ttymode(), use this to distinguish the
3306 Ottyb and Nttyb members of terminal (aka cur_term), for tracing.
3309 + correct and simplify logic for lib_pad.c change in 20020518 (reported
3313 + fix lib_pad.c for case of drawing a double-width character which
3314 falls off the left margin of the pad (patch by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij
3315 <lerdsuwa@users.sourceforge.net>)
3316 + modify configure script to work around broken gcc 3.1 "--version"
3317 option, which adds unnecessary trash to the requested information.
3318 + adjust ifdef's in case SIGWINCH is not defined, e.g., with DJGPP
3319 (reported by Ben Decker <deckerben@freenet.de>).
3322 + implement vid_puts(), vid_attr(), term_attrs() based on the narrow-
3323 character versions as well.
3324 + implement erasewchar(), killwchar() based on erasechar() and
3326 + modify erasechar() and killchar() to return ERR if the value was
3328 + correct a bug in wresize() in handling subwindows (based on patch by
3329 Roger Gammans <rgammans@computer-surgery.co.uk>, report by Scott Beck
3330 <scott@gossamer-threads.com>).
3331 + improve test/tclock.c by making the second-hand update more often
3332 if gettimeofday() is available.
3335 + workaround for Solaris sed with MKlib_gen.sh (reported by Andy
3336 Tsouladze <andyt@mypoints.com>).
3339 + correct return-value from getcchar(), making it consistent with
3341 + reorder loops that generate makefile rules for different models vs
3342 subsets so configure --with-termlib works again. This was broken by
3343 logic added to avoid duplicate rules in changes to accommodate cygwin
3344 dll's (reported by George.R.Goffe@seagate.com).
3345 + update config.guess, config.sub
3348 + modify ifdef's in write_entry.c to allow use of symbolic links on
3349 platforms with no hard links, e.g., BeOS.
3350 + modify a few includes to allow compile with BeOS, which has stdbool.h
3351 with a conflicting definition for 'bool' versus its OS.h definition.
3352 + amend MKlib_gen.sh to work with gawk, which defines 'func' as an
3353 alias for 'function'.
3356 + correct form of prototype for ripoffline().
3357 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to test that all functions marked as implemented
3361 + add manpages: curs_get_wstr.3x, curs_in_wchstr.3x
3362 + implement wgetn_wstr().
3363 + implement win_wchnstr().
3364 + remove redefinition of unget_wch() in lib_gen.c (reported by
3365 Jungshik Shin <jshin@jtan.com>).
3368 + modified several of the test programs to allow them to compile with
3369 vendor curses implementations, e.g., Solaris, AIX -TD
3372 + modified test/configure to allow configuring against ncursesw.
3373 + change WACS_xxx definition to use address, to work like Tru64 curses.
3376 + add 'e' and 'm' toggles to 'a', 'A' tests in ncurses.c to demonstrate
3377 effect of echo/noecho and meta modes.
3378 + add 'A' test to ncurses.c to demonstrate wget_wch() and related
3380 + add manpage: curs_get_wch.3x
3381 + implement unget_wch().
3382 + implement wget_wch().
3385 + regenerated html manpages.
3386 + add manpages: curs_in_wch.3x, curs_ins_wch.3x, curs_ins_wstr.3x
3387 + implement wins_wch().
3388 + implement win_wch().
3389 + implement wins_nwstr(), wins_wstr().
3392 + add manpages: curs_addwstr.3x, curs_winwstr.3x
3393 + implement winnwstr(), winwstr().
3396 + add manpages: curs_add_wchstr.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x
3397 + document wunctrl, key_name.
3398 + implement key_name().
3399 + remove const's in lib_box.c incorrectly leftover after splitting off
3401 + update llib-lncurses, llib-ncursesw, fix configure script related to
3405 + remove quotes on "SYNOPSIS" in man/curs_box_set.3x, which resulted
3406 in spurious symlinks on install.
3409 + implement whline_set(), wvline_set(), add manpage curs_border_set.
3410 + add subtest 'b' to 'F' and 'f' in ncurses.c to demonstrate use of
3411 box() and box_set() functions.
3412 + add subtest 'u' to 'F' in ncurses.c, to demonstrate use of addstr()
3413 given UTF-8 string equivalents of WACS_xxx symbols.
3414 + minor fixes to several manpages based on groff -ww output.
3415 + add descriptions of external variables of termcap interface to
3416 the manpage (report by Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>).
3417 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
3418 + correct configure option --with-bool, which was executed as
3420 + add quotes for parameters of --with-bool and --with-ospeed configure
3422 > patch by Sven Verdoolaege (report by Gerhard Haering
3423 <haering_linux@gmx.de>):
3424 + correct typos in definitions of several wide-character macros:
3425 waddwstr, wgetbkgrnd, mvaddwstr, mvwadd_wchnstr, mvwadd_wchnstr,
3427 + pass $(CPPFLAGS) to MKlib_gen.sh, thereby fixing a missing definition
3428 of _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, e.g., on Solaris
3431 + implement wide-acs characters for UTF-8 locales. When in UTF-8
3432 locale, ignore narrow version of acs. Add 'F' test to test/ncurses.c
3434 + correct prototype in keybound manpage (noted from a Debian mailing
3438 + add several cases to the wscanw() example in testcurs.c, showing the
3440 + implement a simple vsscanf() fallback function which uses the %n
3441 conversion to help parse the input data (prompted by discussion with
3442 Albert Chin-A-Young).
3443 + modify mk-1st.awk and test/Makefile.in to add $(LDFLAGS) when making
3444 shared libraries, and to use $(CFLAGS) when linking test programs
3445 (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3446 + add a call to _nc_keypad() in keypad() to accommodate applications
3447 such as nvi, which use curses for output but not for input (fixes
3448 Debian #131263, cf: 20011215).
3449 + add entrypoints to resizeterm.c which provide better control over the
3450 process: is_term_resized() and resize_term(). The latter restores
3451 the original design of resizeterm() before KEY_RESIZE was added in
3452 970906. Do this to accommodate 20010922 changes to view.c, but allow
3453 for programs with their own sigwinch handler, such as lynx (reported
3454 by Russell Ruby <russ@math.orst.edu>).
3457 + fix a typo in change to mk-1st.awk, which broke the shared-library
3458 makefile rules (reported by Martin Mokrejs).
3461 + update config.guess, config.sub
3462 + finish changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
3463 + fix a typo in mvwchat() macro (reported by Cy <yam@homerow.net).
3466 + add case in lib_baudrate.c for B921600 (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
3467 + correct missing sed-editing stage in manpage installs which is used
3468 to rename manpages, broken in 20010324 fix for Debian #89939 (Debian
3470 + remove -L$(libdir) from linker flags, probably not needed any more
3471 since HPUX is handled properly (reported by Niibe Yutaka
3473 + add configure check for mbstate_t, needed for wide-character
3474 configuration. On some platforms we must include <wchar.h> to
3475 define this (reported by Daniel Jacobowitz).
3476 + incorporate some of the changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
3479 + workaround for awk did not work with mawk, adjusted shell script.
3482 + add Caps.osf1r5, as an example.
3483 + modify behavior of can_clear_with() so that if an application is
3484 running in a non-bce terminals with default colors enabled, it
3485 returns true, allowing the user to select/paste text without picking
3486 up extraneous trailing blanks (adapted from patch by Daniel
3487 Jacobowitz <dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu>).
3488 + modify generated curses.h to ifdef-out prototypes for extensions if
3489 they are disabled, and to define curses_version() as a string in that
3490 case. This is needed to make the programs such as tic build in that
3492 + modified generated headers.sh to remove a gzip'd version of the
3493 target file if it exists, in case non-gzip'd manpages are installed
3494 into a directory where gzip'd ones exist. In that case, the latter
3496 + corrected a redundant initialization of signal handlers from 20010922
3498 + clarified bug-reporting address in terminfo.src (report by John H
3499 DuBois III <spcecdt@armory.com>).
3500 > several fixes from Robert Joop:
3501 + do not use "-v" option of awk in MKkey_defs.sh because it does not
3502 work with SunOS nawk.
3503 + modify definitions for libutf8 in curses.h to avoid redefinition
3505 + quoted references to compiler in shell command in misc/Makefile, in
3506 case it uses multiple tokens.
3509 + restore special case from 20010922 changes to omit SA_RESTART when
3510 setting up SIGWINCH handler, which is needed to allow wgetch() to be
3511 interrupted by that signal.
3512 + update configure macro CF_WITH_PATHLIST, to omit some double quotes
3513 not needed with autoconf 2.52
3514 + revert configure script to autoconf 2.13 patched with
3515 autoconf-2.13-19990117.patch.gz (or later)
3517 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
3518 because autoconf 2.52 macro AC_PROG_AWK does not work on HPUX 11.0
3519 (report by David Ellement <ellement@sdd.hp.com>). This also fixes a
3520 different problem configuring with Mac OS X (reported by Marc Smith
3521 <marc.a.smith@home.com>).
3524 + modify include/edit_cfg.h to eliminate BROKEN_LINKER symbol from
3526 + move prototype for _nc_vsscanf() into curses.h.in to omit
3527 HAVE_VSSCANF symbol from curses.h, which was dependent upon the
3528 ncurses_cfg.h file which is not installed.
3529 + use ACS_LEN rather than SIZEOF(acs_map) in trace code of lib_acs.c,
3530 to work with broken linker configuration, e.g., cygwin (report by
3531 Robert Joop <rj@rainbow.in-berlin.de>).
3532 + make napms() call _nc_timed_wait() rather than poll() or select(),
3533 to work around broken implementations of these on cygwin.
3536 + drop configure macro CF_WIDEC_SHIFT, since that was rendered obsolete
3537 by Sven Verdoolaege's rewrite of wide-character support. This makes
3538 libncursesw incompatible again, but makes the header files almost the
3539 same as in the narrow-character configuration.
3540 + simplify definitions that combine wide/narrow versions of bkgd, etc.,
3541 to eliminate differences between the wide/narrow versions of curses.h
3542 + correct typo in configure macro CF_FUNC_VSSCANF
3543 + correct location of call to _nc_keypad() from 20011215 changes which
3544 prevented keypad() from being disabled (reported by Lars Hecking).
3547 + rewrote ncurses 'a' test to exercise wgetch() and keypad() functions
3548 better, e.g., by adding a 'w' command to create new windows which
3549 may have different keypad() settings.
3550 + corrected logic of keypad() by adding internal screen state to track
3551 whether the terminal's keypad-mode has been set. Use this in
3552 wgetch() to update the keypad-mode according to whether the
3553 associated window's keypad-mode has been set with keypad(). This
3554 corrects a related problem restoring terminal state after handling
3555 SIGTSTP (reported by Mike Castle).
3556 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52
3557 autoconf-2.52-patch.gz
3559 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
3560 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3561 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
3562 + minor changes to quoting in configure script to allow it to work
3566 + modify final checks in lib_setup.c for line and col values, making
3568 + modify acs_map[] if configure --broken-linker is specified, to make
3569 it use a function rather than an array (prompted by an incorrect
3570 implementation in cygwin package).
3571 + correct spelling of configure option --enable-colorfgbg, which
3572 happened to work if --with-develop was set (noted in cygwin package
3574 + modify ifdef for genericerror() to compile with SUNWspro Sun WorkShop
3575 6 update 1 C++ 5.2 (patch by Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu>).
3576 + add configure checks to see if ncurses' fallback vsscanf() will
3577 compile either of the special cases for FILE structs, and if not,
3578 force it to the case which simply returns an error (report by
3579 Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu> indicates that Solaris 8 with
3580 64-bits does not allow access to FILE's fields).
3581 + modify ifdef's for c++/cursesw.cc to use the fallback vsscanf() in
3582 the ncurses library if no better substitute for this can be found
3584 + modify the build to name dynamic libraries according to the
3585 convention used on OS X and Darwin. Rather than something like
3586 libncurses.dylib.5.2, Darwin would name it libncurses. 5.dylib.
3587 There are a few additional minor fixes, such as setting the library
3588 version and compatibility version numbers (patch by Jason Evans
3589 <jevans@apple.com>).
3590 + use 'sh' to run mkinstalldirs, to work around problems with buggy
3591 versions of 'make' on OS/2 (report by John Polterak <jp@eyup.org>).
3592 + correct typo in manpage description of curs_set() (Debian #121548).
3593 + replace the configure script existence-check for mkstemp() by one
3594 that checks if the function works, needed for older glibc and
3598 + modify script that generates fallbacks.c to compile a temporary
3599 copy of the terminfo source in case the host does not contain all of
3600 the entries requested for fallbacks (request by Greg Roelofs).
3601 + modify configure script to accommodate systems such as Mac OS X whose
3602 <stdbool.h> header defines a 'bool' type inconsistent with ncurses,
3603 which normally makes 'bool' consistent with C++. Include <stdbool.h>
3604 from curses.h to force consistent usage, define a new type
3605 NCURSES_BOOL and related that to the exported 'bool' as either a
3606 typedef or definition, according to whether <stdbool.h> is present
3607 (based on a bug report for tin 1.5.9 by Aaron Adams <adamsa@mac.com>).
3610 + added/updated terminfo entries for M$ telnet and KDE konsole -TD
3613 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
3614 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
3615 + add putty terminfo entry -TD
3616 + if configuring for wide-curses, define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, since
3617 this may not otherwise be defined to make test/view.c compile.
3620 + review/correct several missing/generated items in curses.wide, sorted
3621 the lists to make subsequent diff's easier to track.
3624 + add manual pages for add_wch(), echo_wchar(), getcchar(),
3625 mvadd_wch(), mvwadd_wch(), setcchar(), wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar().
3626 + implement wecho_wchar()
3627 + modify _tracedump() to handle wide-characters by mapping them to '?'
3628 and control-characters to '.', to make the trace file readable. Also
3629 dynamically allocate the buffer used by _tracedump() for formatting
3631 + modify T_CALLED/T_RETURN macros to ease balancing call/return lines
3632 in a trace by using curly braces.
3633 + implement _nc_viscbuf(), for tracing cchar_t arrays.
3634 + correct trace-calls in setcchar() and getcchar() functions, which
3635 traced the return values but not the entry to each function.
3636 + correct usage message in test/view.c, which still mentioned -u flag.
3639 + modify configure script to allow building with termcap only, or with
3640 fallbacks only. In this case, we do not build tic and toe.
3641 + add configure --with-termpath option, to override default TERMPATH
3642 value of /etc/termcap:/usr/share/misc/termcap.
3643 + cosmetic change to tack: make menu descriptions agree with menu
3647 + rewrote limit-checks in wscrl() and associated _nc_scroll_window(),
3648 to ensure that if the parameter of wscrl() is larger than the size of
3649 the scrolling region, then the scrolling region will be cleared
3650 (report by Ben Kohlen <bckohlen@yahoo.com>).
3651 + add trace/varargs.c, using this to trace parameters in lib_printw.c
3652 + implement _tracecchar_t2() and _tracecchar_t().
3653 + split-out trace/visbuf.c
3654 + correct typo in lib_printw.c changes from 20010922 (report by Mike
3658 + modify run_tic.sh to check if the build is a cross-compile. In that
3659 case, do not use the build's tic to install the terminfo database
3660 (report by Rafael Rodriguez Velilla <rrv@tid.es>).
3661 + modify mouse click resolution so that mouseinterval(-1) will disable
3662 it, e.g., to handle touchscreens via a slow connection (request by
3663 Byron Stanoszek <gandalf@winds.org>).
3664 + correct mouseinterval() default value shown in curs_mouse.3x
3665 + remove conflicting definition of mouse_trafo() (reported by Lars
3666 Hecking, using gcc 2.95.3).
3669 + simpler fix for signal_name(), to replace the one overlooked in
3670 20010929 (reported by Larry Virden).
3673 + add -i option to view.c, to test ncurses' check for non-default
3674 signal handler for SIGINT, etc.
3675 + add cases for shared-libraries on Darwin/OS X (patch by Rob Braun
3676 <bbraun@synack.net>).
3677 + modify tset to restore original I/O modes if an error is encountered.
3678 Also modify to use buffered stderr consistently rather than mixing
3680 + change signal_name() function to use if-then-else rather than case
3681 statement, since signal-values aren't really integers (reported by
3683 + add limit checks in wredrawln(), fixing a problem where lynx was
3684 repainting a pad which was much larger than the screen.
3687 + fix: PutRange() was counting the second part of a wide character as
3688 part of a run, resulting in a cursor position that was one too far
3689 (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
3690 + modify resizeterm() to not queue a KEY_RESIZE if there was no
3691 SIGWINCH, thereby separating the two styles of SIGWINCH handling
3693 + simplified lib_tstp.c, modify it to use SA_RESTART flag for SIGWINCH.
3694 + eliminate several static buffers in the terminfo compiler, using
3696 + modify MKkeyname.awk so that keyname() does not store its result into
3697 a static buffer that is overwritten by the next call.
3698 + reorganize the output of infocmp -E and -e options to compile cleanly
3699 with gcc -Wwrite-strings warnings.
3700 + remove redefinition of chgat/wchgat/mvwchgat from curses.wide
3703 + add label to test/view.c, showing the name of the last key or signal
3704 that made the screen repaint, to make it clearer when a sigwinch
3706 + use ExitProgram() consistently in the test-programs to make it
3707 simpler to test leaks with dmalloc, etc.
3708 + move hashtab static data out of hashmap.c into SCREEN struct.
3709 + make NO_LEAK code compile with revised WINDOWLIST structs.
3712 + modify tgetent() to check if exit_attribute_mode resets the alternate
3713 character set, and if so, attempt to adjust the copy of the termcap
3714 "me" string which it will return to eliminate that part. In
3715 particular, 'screen' would lose track of line-drawing characters
3716 (report by Frederic L W Meunier <0@pervalidus.net>, analysis by
3720 + specify DOCTYPE in html manpages.
3721 + add missing macros for several "generated" functions: attr_get(),
3722 attr_off(), attr_on(), attr_set(), chgat(), mvchgat(), mvwchgat() and
3724 + modify view.c to agree with non-experimental status of ncurses'
3726 + change the sense of the -r option, making it default to ncurses'
3728 + add a note explaining what functions are unsafe in a signal
3730 + add a -c option, to set color display, for testing.
3731 + unset $data variable in MKterminfo.sh script, to address potential
3732 infinite loop if shell malfunction (report by Samuel Mikes
3733 <smikes@cubane.com>, for bash 2.05.0 on a Linux 2.0.36 system).
3734 + change kbs in mach terminfo entries to ^? (Marcus Brinkmann
3735 <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>).
3736 + correct logic for COLORFGBG environment variable: if rxvt is compiled
3737 with xpm support, the variable has three fields, making it slightly
3738 incompatible with itself. In either case, the background color is
3742 + move calls to def_shell_mode() and def_prog_mode() before loop with
3743 callbacks in lib_set_term.c, since the c++ demo otherwise initialized
3744 the tty modes before saving them (patch by John David Anglin
3745 <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>).
3746 + duplicate logic used to initialize trace in newterm(), in initscr()
3747 to avoid confusing trace of initscr().
3748 + simplify allocation of WINDOW and WINDOWLIST structs by making the
3749 first a part of the second rather than storing a pointer. This saves
3750 a call to malloc for each window (discussion with Philippe Blain).
3751 + remove unused variable 'used_ncv' from lib_vidattr.c (Philippe
3753 + modify c++/Makefile.in to accommodate archive programs that are
3754 different for C++ than for C, and add cases for vendor's C++
3755 compilers on Solaris and IRIX (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3756 + correct manpage description of criteria for deciding if the terminal
3757 supports xterm mouse controls.
3758 + add several configure script options to aid with cross-compiling:
3759 --with-build-cc, --with-build-cflags, --with-build-ldflags, and
3760 --with-build-libs (request by Greg Roelofs).
3761 + change criteria for deciding if configure is cross-compiling from
3762 host/build mismatch to host/target mismatch (request by Greg Roelofs
3763 <greg.roelofs@philips.com>).
3764 + correct logic for infocmp -e and -E options which writes the data for
3765 the ext_Names[] array. This is needed if one constructs a fallback
3766 table for a terminfo entry which uses extended termcap names, e.g.,
3767 AX in a color xterm.
3768 + fix undefined NCURSES_PATHSEP when configure --disable-database
3772 + fix for VALID_BOOLEAN() macro when char is not signed.
3773 + modify 'clean' rule for C++ binding to work with Sun compiler, which
3774 caches additional information in a subdirectory of the objects.
3775 + added llib-ncursesw.
3778 + add Caps.keys example for experimental extended function keys
3779 (adapted from a patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
3780 + correct parameter types of vidputs() and vidattr() to agree with
3781 header files (report by William P Setzer).
3782 + fix typos in several man-pages (patch by William P Setzer).
3783 + remove unneeded ifdef for __GNUG__ in CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC configure
3784 macro, which made ncurses C++ binding fail to build with other
3785 C++ compilers such as HPUX 11.x (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3786 + workaround for bug in HPUX 11.x C compiler: add a blank after
3787 NCURSES_EXPORT macro in form.h (report by Albert Chin-A-Young)
3788 + ignore blank lines in Caps* files in MKkey_defs.sh script (report by
3789 Albert Chin-A-Young).
3790 + correct definition of key_end in Caps.aix4, which left KEY_END
3791 undefined (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3792 + remove a QNX-specific fallback prototype for vsscanf(), which is
3793 obsolete with QNX RTP.
3794 + review/fix some of the T() and TR() macro calls, having noticed that
3795 there was no data for delwin() in a trace of dialog because there was
3796 no returnVoid call for wtimeout(). Also, traces in lib_twait.c are
3797 now selected under TRACE_IEVENT rather than TRACE_CALLS.
3800 + add a _nc_access() check before opening files listed via $TERMPATH.
3801 + using modified man2html, regenerate some of the html manpages to fix
3802 broken HREF's where the link was hyphenated.
3805 + add some limit/pointer checks to -S option of tputs.
3806 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
3807 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
3808 + add a note in curs_termcap.3x regarding a defect in the XSI
3809 description of tgetent (based on a discussion with Urs Jansen
3810 regarding the HPUX 11.x implementation, whose termcap interface is
3811 not compatible with existing termcap programs).
3812 + modify manhtml rule in dist.mk to preserve copyright notice on the
3813 generated files, as well as to address HTML style issues reported by
3814 tidy and weblint. Regenerated/updated corresponding html files.
3815 + comment out use of Protected_Character and related rarely used
3816 attributes in ncurses Ada95 test/demo to compile with wide-character
3820 + implement a simple example in C++ demo to test scanw().
3821 + corrected stdio function used to implement scanw() in cursesw.cc
3822 + correct definition of RemAttr() macro from 20010602 changes, which
3823 caused C++ SillyDemo to not show line-drawing characters.
3824 + modify C++ binding, adding getKey() which can be overridden by user
3825 to substitute functions other than getch() for keyboard processing
3826 of forms and menus (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3829 + fix some of the trace calls which needed modification to work with
3830 new wide-character structures.
3831 + modify magic-cookie code in tty_update.c to compile with new
3832 wide-character structures (report by <George.R.Goffe@seagate.com>).
3833 + ensure that _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined in curses.priv.h if
3834 compiling for wide-character configuration.
3835 + make addwnstr() handle non-spacing characters (patch by Sven
3839 + add configure check to define _GNU_SOURCE, needed to prop up glibc
3841 + split-out include/curses.wide to solve spurious redefinitions caused
3842 by defining _GNU_SOURCE, and move includes for <signal.h> before
3843 <curses.h> to work around misdefinition of ERR in glibc 2.1.3 header
3845 + extended ospeed change to NetBSD and OpenBSD -TD
3846 + modify logic in lib_baudrate.c for ospeed, for FreeBSD to make it
3847 work properly for termcap applications (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
3850 + correct an overlooked CharOf/UChar instance (reports by Eugene Lee
3851 <eugene@anime.net>, Sven Verdoolaege).
3852 + correct unneeded ifdef for wunctrl() (reported by Sven Verdoolaege)
3855 + change overlooked several CharOf/UChar instances.
3856 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
3857 + correct a typo in wunctrl(), which made it appear that botwc() was
3858 needed (no such function: use btowc()).
3859 + reimplement wide-character demo in test/view.c, using new functions.
3860 + implement getcchar(), setcchar(), wadd_wchnstr() and related macros.
3861 + fix a syntax problem with do/if/while in PUTC macro (curses.priv.h).
3864 + add parentheses in macros for malloc in test.priv.h, fixes an
3865 expression in view.c (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.co.at>).
3866 + add Caps.uwin, as an example.
3867 + change the way curses.h is generated, making the list of function
3868 key definitions extracted from the Caps file.
3869 + add #undef's before possible redefinition of ERR and OK in curses.h
3870 + modify logic in tic, toe, tput and tset which checks for basename of
3871 argv[0] to work properly on systems such as OS/2 which have
3872 case-independent filenames and/or program suffixes, e.g., ".ext".
3875 + add a configure check, if --enable-widec is specified, for putwc(),
3876 which may be in libutf8.
3877 + remove some unnecessary text from curs_extend.3x and
3878 default_colors.3x which caused man-db to make incorrect symbolic
3879 links (Debian bug report #99550).
3880 + add configure check if cast for _IO_va_list is needed to compile
3881 C++ vscan code (Debian bug report #97945).
3882 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
3883 + correct code that used non-standard auto-initialization of a struct,
3884 which gcc allows (report by Larry Virden).
3885 + use putwc() in PUTC() macro.
3886 + make addstr() work for the special case where the codeset is
3887 non-stateful (eg. UTF-8), as well as stateful codesets.
3890 + correct loop expression in NEXT_CHAR macro for lib_addstr.c changes
3891 from 20010602 (report by Mike Castle).
3894 + modify mvcur() to avoid emitting newline characters when nonl() mode
3895 is set. Normally this is not a problem since the actual terminal
3896 mode is set to suppress nl/crlf translations, however it is useful to
3897 allow the caller to manipulate the terminal mode to avoid staircasing
3898 effects after spawning a process which writes messages (for lynx
3900 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>:
3901 + remove redundant type-conversion in fifo_push()
3902 + correct definition of addwstr() macro in curses.h.in
3903 + remove _nc_utf8_outch()
3904 + rename most existing uses of CharOf() to UChar(), e.g., where it is
3905 used to prevent sign-extension in ctype macros.
3906 + change some chtype's to attr_t's where the corresponding variables
3907 are used to manipulate attributes.
3908 + UpdateAttr() was applied to both attributes (attr_t) and characters
3909 (chtype). Modify macro and calls to it to make these distinct.
3910 + add CharEq() macro, use in places where wide-character configuration
3911 implementation uses a struct for cchar_t.
3912 + moved struct ldat into curses.priv.h, to hide implementation details.
3913 + change CharOf() macro to use it for masking A_CHARTEXT data from
3915 + add L() macro to curses.priv.h, for long-character literals.
3916 + replace several assignments from struct ldat entries to chtype or
3917 char values with combinations of CharOf() and AttrOf() macros.
3918 + add/use intermediate ChAttrOf() and ChCharOf() macros where we know
3919 we are using chtype data.
3920 + add/use lowlevel attribute manipulation macros AddAttr(), RemAttr()
3922 + add/use SetChar() macro, to change a cchar_t based on a character and
3924 + convert most internal use of chtype to NCURSES_CH_T, to simplify use
3925 of cchar_t for wide-character configuration. Similarly, use ARG_CH_T
3926 where a pointer would be more useful.
3927 + add stubs for tracing cchar_t values.
3928 + add/use macro ISBLANK()
3929 + add/use constructors for cchar_t's: NewChar(), NewChar2().
3930 + add/use macros CHREF(), CHDEREF(), AttrOfD(), CharOfD() to facilitate
3931 passing cchar_t's by address.
3932 + add/use PUTC_DATA, PUTC() macros.
3933 + for wide-character configuration, move the window background data to
3934 the end of the WINDOW struct so that whether _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
3935 is defined or not, the offsets in the struct will not change.
3936 + modify addch() to work with wide-characters.
3937 + mark several wide-character functions as generated in curses.h.in
3938 + implement wunctrl(), wadd_wch(), wbkgrndset(), wbkgrnd(),
3939 wborder_set() and waddnwstr().
3942 + add experimental --with-caps=XXX option to customize to similar
3943 terminfo database formats such as AIX 4.x
3944 + add Caps.aix4 as an example.
3945 + modify Caps to add columns for the the KEY_xxx symbols.
3946 + modify configure --with-widec to suppress overwrite of libcurses.so
3948 + add checks to toe.c to avoid being confused by files and directories
3949 where we would expect the reverse, e.g., source-files in the
3950 top-level terminfo levels as is the case for AIX.
3953 + add top-level 'depend' rule for the C sources, assuming that the
3954 makedepend program is available. As a side-effect, this makes
3955 the generated sources, as in "make sources" (prompted by a report
3956 by Mike Castle that "make -j" fails because the resulting parallel
3957 processes race to generate ncurses/names.c).
3958 + modify configure script so that --disable-overwrite option's action
3959 to add a symbolic link for libcurses applies to the static library as
3960 well as the shared library when both are configured (report by Felix
3961 Natter <f.natter@ndh.net>).
3962 + add ELKS terminfo entries (Federico Bianchi
3963 <bianchi@www.arte.unipi.it>)
3964 + add u6 (CSR) to Eterm (Michael Jennings).
3967 + modify test/ncurses.c to work with xterm-256color, which has fewer
3968 color pairs than colors*colors (report by David Ellement
3969 <ellement@sdd.hp.com>).
3972 + corrected screen.xterm-xfree86 entry.
3973 + update comment in Caps regarding IBM (AIX) function-key definitions.
3976 + modify c++/Makefile.in to link with libncurses++w.a when configured
3977 for wide-characters (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
3978 + add check in _nc_trace_buf() to refrain from freeing a null pointer.
3979 + improve CF_PROG_INSTALL macro using CF_DIRNAME.
3980 + update config.guess, config.sub from autoconf 2.49e (alpha).
3983 + add secondary check in tic.c, similar_sgr() to see if the reason
3984 for mismatch was that the individual capabilities used a time-delay
3985 while sgr did not. Used this to cleanup mismatches, e.g., in vt100,
3986 and remove time-delay from Apple_Terminal entries.
3987 + add Apple_Terminal terminfo entries (Benjamin C W Sittler
3988 <bsittler@iname.com>).
3989 + correct definitions of shifted editing keys for xterm-xfree86 -TD
3990 + fix a bug in test/bs.c from 20010407 (patch by Erik Sigra).
3991 + prevent relative_move() from doing an overwrite if it detects 8-bit
3992 characters when configured for UTF-8 (reported by Sven Verdoolaege
3993 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
3996 + add configure checks for strstream.h vscan function, and similar
3997 stdio-based function which may be used in C++ binding for gcc 3.0
3998 (reports by George Goffe, Lars Hecking, Mike Castle).
3999 + rewrite parts of configure.in which used changequote(). That feature
4000 is broken in the latest autoconf alphas (e.g., 2.49d).
4001 + add a missing pathname for ncurses_dll.h, needed when building in
4002 a directory outside the source tree (patch by Sven Verdoolaege
4003 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
4004 > fix 2 bugs in test/bs.c Erik Sigra <sigra@home.se>:
4005 + no ships were ever placed in the last row or in the last column.
4006 This made the game very easy to win, because you never had to waste
4007 any shots there, but the computer did.
4008 + the squares around a sunken ship that belonged to the player were not
4009 displayed as already hit by the computer, like it does for the
4013 + add some examples of customizing screen's terminfo:
4014 screen.xterm-xfree86, screen.xterm-r6, screen.teraterm -TD
4015 + modify screen's terminfo entry to match the khome/kend in screen
4016 3.09.08 (Debian bug report #92215).
4017 + correct a memory leak in forms library (report by Stefan Vogtner
4018 <stefan@vogtner.de>) (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
4021 + change symbols used to guard against repeated includes to begin
4022 consistently with "NCURSES_" rather than a leading underscore. There
4023 are other symbols defined in the header files which begin with a
4024 leading underscore, but they are part of the legacy interface.
4025 + reorder includes in c++ binding so that rcs identifiers can be
4027 + add .cc.ii rule to c++ makefile, to get preprocessor output for
4029 + correct configure script handling of @keyword@ substitutions when the
4030 --with-manpage-renames option is given (cf: 20000715, fixes Debian
4032 + report stack underflow/overflow in tparm() when tic -cv option is
4034 + remove spurious "%|" operator from xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry,
4035 (reported by Adam Costello <amc@cs.berkeley.edu>, Debian bug #89222).
4038 + cleanup of newdemo.c, fixing some ambiguous expressions noted by gcc
4039 2.95.2, and correcting some conflicting color pair initializations.
4040 + add missing copyright notice for cursesw.h
4041 + review, make minor fixes for use of '::' for referring to C-language
4042 interface from C++ binding.
4043 + modify configure check for g++ library slightly to accommodate
4044 nonstandard version number, e.g., <vendor>-2.7 (report by Ronald Ho
4045 <rho@mipos2.intel.com>).
4046 + add configure check for c++ <sstream> header, replace hardcoded
4048 + workaround for pre-release of gcc 3.0 libstdc++, which has dropped
4049 vscan from strstreambuf to follow standard, use wrapper for C vscanf
4050 instead (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@excite.com> and Matt Taggart
4051 <taggart@carmen.fc.hp.com>, fixes Debian .
4054 + modify interface of _nc_get_token() to pass 'silent' parameter to it,
4055 to make quieter loading of /etc/termcap (patch by Todd C Miller).
4056 + correct a few typos in curs_slk.3x and curs_outopts.3x manpages
4057 (patch by Todd C Miller).
4060 + compiler-warning fixes (reported by Nelson Beebe).
4063 + modify screen terminfo entry to use new 3.9.8 feature allowing xterm
4067 + broaden patterns used to match OS/2 EMX in configure script to cover
4068 variant used in newer config.guess/config.sub
4069 + remove changequote() calls from configure script, since this feature
4070 is broken in the autoconf 2.49c alpha, maintainers decline to fix.
4071 + remove macro callPutChar() from tty_update.c, since this is no longer
4072 needed (reported by Philippe Blain).
4073 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c to handle the case when the input
4074 file is really empty. Modify the next_char() function in comp_scan.c
4075 to allow arbitrarily long lines, and incidentally supply a newline to
4076 files that do not end in a newline. These changes improve tic's
4077 recovery from attempts to read binary files, e.g., its output from
4078 the terminfo database (reported by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
4081 + revert change to c++/demo.cc from 20001209, which changed definition
4082 of main() apparently to accommodate cygwin linker, but broke the demo
4084 + workaround for broken egcs 2.91.66 which calls member functions
4085 (i.e., lines() and colors() of NCursesWindow before calling its
4086 constructor. Add calls to initialize() in a few constructors which
4087 did not do this already.
4088 + use the GNAT preprocessor to make the necessary switch between TRACE
4089 and NO_TRACE configurations (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
4090 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
4091 + modify kterm terminfo entry to use SCS sequence to support alternate
4092 character set (it does not work with SI/SO).
4093 + --with-ospeed=something didn't work. configure.in checked for a
4094 $enableval where it should check for $withval. Also,
4095 ncurses/llib-lncurses still had a hardcoded short.
4098 + correction to my merge of Tom Riddle's patch that broke tic in some
4099 conditions (reported by Enoch Wexler <enoch@wexler.co.il>) -TD
4102 + modify view.c to test halfdelay(). Like other tests, this recognizes
4103 the 's' and space commands for stopping/starting polled input, shows
4104 a freerunning clock in the header. If given a parameter to 's', that
4105 makes view.c use halfdelay() with that parameter rather than
4107 + fix to allow compile with the experimental configure option
4109 + modify postprocess_termcap() to avoid overwriting key_backspace,
4110 key_left, key_down when processing a non-base entry (report/patch by
4112 + modify _nc_wrap_entry(), adding option to reallocate the string
4113 table, needed in _nc_merge_entry() when merging termcap entries.
4114 (adapted from report/patch by Tom Riddle <ftr@oracom.com>).
4115 + modify a few configure script macros to keep $CFLAGS used only for
4116 compiler options, preprocessor options in $CPPFLAGS.
4119 + correct marker positions in lrtest.c after receiving a sigwinch.
4120 + fix ifdef's in ncurses.c to build against pre-5.2 for testing.
4121 + fixes to tclock for resizing behavior, redundant computation (report
4122 and patch by A M Kuchling <akuchlin@mems-exchange.org>).
4125 + improved scoansi terminfo entry -TD
4126 + modify configure script and makefile in Ada95/src to compile a stub
4127 for the trace functions when ncurses does not provide those.
4130 + add ncurses_dll.h and related definitions to support generating DLL's
4131 with cygwin (adapted from a patch by Charles Wilson
4132 <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>, changed NCURSES_EXPORT macro to make it
4133 work with 'indent') -TD
4136 + correct prototypes for some functions in curs_termcap.3x, matching
4137 termcap.h, which matches X/Open.
4138 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
4139 + a revised version of the Ada enhancements sent in by "H.
4140 Nanosecond", aka Eugene V Melaragno <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>. This
4142 - small fixes to the existing ncurses binding
4143 - addition of some more low-level functions to the binding, including
4144 termcap and terminfo functions
4145 - An Ada implementation of the "ncurses" test application originally
4149 + modify logic in lib_setup.c to allow either lines or columns value
4150 from terminfo to be used if the screen size cannot be determined
4151 dynamically rather than requiring both (patch by Ehud Karni
4152 <ehud@unix.simonwiesel.co.il>).
4153 + add check in lib_tgoto.c's is_termcap() function to reject null or
4154 empty strings (reported by Valentin Nechayev <netch@netch.kiev.ua> to
4156 + add definition from configure script that denotes the path-separator,
4157 which is normally a colon. The path-separator is a semicolon on
4158 OS/2 EMX and similar systems which may use a colon within pathnames.
4159 + alter logic to set default for --disable-overwrite option to set it
4160 to 'yes' if the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr/local, thereby
4161 accommodating the most common cause of problems: gcc's nonstandard
4162 search rules. Other locations such as /usr/local/ncurses will
4163 default to overwriting (report by Lars Hecking <lhecking@nmrc.ie>).
4166 + modify default for --disable-overwrite configure option to disable
4167 if the --prefix or $prefix value is not /usr.
4168 + add cygwin to systems for which ncurses is installed by default into
4169 /usr rather than /usr/local.
4172 + minor optimization in comp_error.c and lib_termname.c, using
4173 strncat() to replace strncpy() (patch by Solar Designer).
4174 + add a use_terminfo_vars() check for $HOME/.termcap, and check for
4175 geteuid() to use_terminfo_vars() (patch by Solar Designer
4177 + improved cygwin terminfo entry, based on patch by
4178 <ernie_boyd@yahoo.com>.
4179 + modify _nc_write_entry() to allow for the possibility that linking
4180 aliases on a filesystem that ignores case would not succeed because
4181 the source and destination differ only by case, e.g., NCR260VT300WPP0
4182 on cygwin (report by Neil Zanella).
4183 + fix a typo in the curs_deleteln.3x man page (patch by Bernhard
4184 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
4187 + add configure option --with-ospeed to assist packagers in transition
4188 to 5.3 change to ospeed type.
4189 + add/use CharOf() macro to suppress sign-extension of char type on
4190 platforms where this is a problem in ctype macros, e.g., Solaris.
4191 + change trace output to binary format.
4192 + correct a missing quote adjustment in CF_PATH_SYNTAX autoconf
4193 macro, for OS/2 EMX configuration.
4194 + rearrange a few configure macros, moving preprocessor options to
4195 $CPPFLAGS (a now-obsolete version of autoconf did not consistently
4196 use $CPPFLAGS in both the compile and preprocessor checks).
4197 + add a check in relative_move() to guard against buffer overflow in
4198 the overwrite logic.
4201 + add message to configure script showing g++ version.
4202 + resync config.guess, config.sub
4203 + modify lib_delwin.c, making it return ERR if the window did not exist
4204 (suggested by Neil Zanella).
4205 + add cases for FreeBSD 3.1 to tdlint and makellib scripts, used this
4206 to test/review ncurses library. (Would use lclint, but it doesn't
4208 + reorganized knight.c to avoid forward references. Correct screen
4209 updates when backtracking, especially to the first cell. Add F/B/a
4212 20001021 5.2 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
4213 + update generated html files from manpages.
4214 + modify dist.mk to use edit_man.sh to substitute autoconf'd variables
4216 + fix an uninitialized pointer in read_termcap.c (report by Todd C
4217 Miller, from report/patch by Philip Guenther <guenther@gac.edu>).
4218 + correct help-message and array limit in knight.c (patch by Brian
4219 Raiter <breadbox@muppetlabs.com>).
4220 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
4221 + fix to avoid warning by GNAT-3.13p about use of inconsistent casing
4222 for some identifiers defined in the standard package.
4223 + cosmetic change to forms/fty_enum.c
4226 + correct an off-by-one position in test/railroad.c which could cause
4227 wrapping at the right margin.
4228 + test/repair some issues with libtool configuration. Make
4229 --disable-echo force libtool --silent. (Libtool does not work for
4230 OS/2 EMX, works partly for SCO - libtool is still very specific to
4232 + change default of --with-manpage-tbl to "no", since for most of the
4233 platforms which do have tbl installed, the system "man" program
4234 understands how to run tbl automatically.
4235 + minor improvement to force_bar() in comp_parse.c (Bernhard
4236 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
4237 + modify lib_tparm.c to use get_space() before writing terminating
4238 null character, both for consistency as well as to ensure that if
4239 save_char() was called immediately before, that the allocated memory
4240 is enough (patch by Sergei Ivanov).
4241 + add note about termcap ML capability which is duplicated between two
4242 different capabilities: smgl and smglr (reported by Sergei Ivanov
4243 <svivanov@pdmi.ras.ru>).
4244 + correct parameter counts in include/Caps for dclk as well as some
4245 printer-specific capabilities: csnm, defc, scs, scsd, smgtp, smglp.
4246 > patch by Johnny C Lam <lamj@stat.cmu.edu>:
4247 + add support for building with libtool (apparently version 1.3.5,
4248 since old versions do not handle -L../lib), using new configure
4249 option --with-libtool.
4250 + add configure option --with-manpage-tbl, which causes the manpages to
4251 be preprocessed by tbl(1) prior to installation,
4252 + add configure option --without-curses-h, which causes the
4253 installation process to install curses.h as ncurses.h and make
4254 appropriate changes to headers and manpages.
4257 + correct order of options/parameters in run_tic.in invocation of tic,
4258 which did not work with standard getopt() (reported by Ethan
4259 Butterfield <primus@veris.org>).
4260 + correct logic for 'reverse' variable in lib_vidattr.c, which was
4261 setting it true without checking if newmode had A_REVERSE set, e.g.,
4262 using $TERM=ansi on OS/2 EMX (see 20000917).
4263 > patch by Todd C Miller:
4264 + add a few missing use_terminfo_vars() and fixes up _nc_tgetent().
4265 Previously, _nc_cgetset() would still get called on cp so the
4266 simplest thing is to set cp to NULL if !use_terminfo_vars().
4267 + added checks for an empty $HOME environment variable.
4268 > patches for OS/2 EMX (Ilya Zakharevich):
4269 + modify convert_configure.pl to support INSTALL. Change compiler
4270 options in that script to use multithreading, needed for the mouse.
4271 + modify OS/2 mouse support, retrying as a 2-button mouse if code fails
4272 to set up a 3-button mouse.
4273 + improve code for OS/2 mouse support, using _nc_timed_wait() to
4274 replace select() call.
4277 + change type of ospeed variable back to short to match its use in
4278 legacy applications (reported by Andrey A Chernov).
4279 + add case to configure script for --enable-rpath on IRIX (patch by
4280 Albert Chin-A-Young).
4281 + minor fix to position_check() function, to ensure it gets the whole
4282 cursor report before decoding.
4283 + add configure option --disable-assumed-color, to allow pre-5.1
4284 convention of default colors used for color-pair 0 to be configured
4285 (see assume_default_colors()).
4286 + rename configure option --enable-hashmap --disable-hashmap, and
4287 reorder the configure options, splitting the experimental and
4289 + add configure option --disable-root-environ, which tells ncurses to
4290 disregard $TERMINFO and similar environment variables if the current
4291 user is root, or running setuid/setgid (based on discussion with
4293 + modified misc/run_tic.in to use tic -o, to eliminate dependency on
4294 $TERMINFO variable for installs.
4295 + add table entry for plab_norm to tput, so it passes in strings
4296 for that capability.
4297 + modify parse_format() in lib_tparm.c to ignore precision if it is
4298 longer than 10000 (report by Jouko Pynnonen).
4299 + rewrote limit checks in lib_mvcur.c using new functions
4300 _nc_safe_strcat(), etc. Made other related changes to check lengths
4301 used for strcat/strcpy (report by Jouko Pynnonen
4302 <jouko@solutions.fi>).
4305 + modify several descriptions, including those for setaf, setab, in
4306 include/Caps to indicate that the entries are parameterized. This
4307 information is used to tell which strings are translated when
4308 converting to termcap. Fixes a problem where the generated termcap
4309 would contain a spurious "%p1" for the terminfo "%p1%d".
4310 + modify ld -rpath options (e.g., Linux, and Solaris) to use an
4311 absolute pathname for the build tree's lib directory (prompted by
4312 discussion with Albert Chin-A-Young).
4313 + modify "make install.man" and "make uninstall.man" to include tack's
4315 + various fixes for install scripts used to support configure --srcdir
4316 and --with-install-prefix (reported by Matthew Clarke
4317 <Matthew_Clarke@mindlink.bc.ca>).
4318 + make configure script checks on variables $GCC and $GXX consistently
4319 compare against 'yes' rather than test if they are nonnull, since
4320 either may be set to the corresponding name of the C or C++ compiler
4321 (report/patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
4324 + modify rs2 capability in xterm-r6 and similar where cursor
4325 save/restore bracketed the sequence for resetting video attributes.
4326 The cursor restore would undo that (report by John Hawkinson
4327 <jhawk@MIT.EDU> (see NetBSD misc/11052)).
4328 + using parameter check added to tic, corrected 27 typos in
4330 + modify tic to verify that its inputs are really files, in case
4331 someone tries to read a directory (or /dev/zero).
4332 + add a check for empty buffers returned by fgets() in comp_scan.c
4333 next_char() function, in case tic is run on a non-text file (fixes
4334 a core dump reported by Aaron Campbell <aaron@cs.dal.ca>).
4335 + add to railroad.c some code exercising tgoto(), providing an
4336 alternate form of display if the terminal supports cursor addressing.
4337 + split-out tgoto() again, this time into new file lib_tgoto.c, and
4338 implement a conventional BSD-style tgoto() which is used if the
4339 capability string does not contain terminfo-style padding or
4340 parameters (requested by Andrey A Chernov).
4341 + add check to tic which reports capabilities that do not reference
4342 the expected number of parameters.
4343 + add error checking to infocmp's -v and -m options to ensure that
4344 the option value is indeed a number.
4345 + some cleanup of logic in _nc_signal_handler() to verify if SIGWINCH
4346 handler is setup. Separated the old/new sigaction data for SIGTSTP
4347 from the other signals.
4350 + add S0, E0 extensions to screen's terminfo entry, which is another
4351 way to solve the misconfiguration issue -TD
4352 + completed special case for tgoto from 20000916
4355 + update xterm terminfo entries to match XFree86 xterm patch #146 -TD
4356 + add Matrix Orbital terminfo entries (from Eric Z Ayers
4358 + add special case to lib_tparm.c to allow 'screen' program to use a
4359 termcap-style parameter "%." to tgoto() for switching character sets.
4360 + use LN_S substitution in run_tic.in, to work on OS/2 EMX which has
4362 + updated notes in README.emx regarding autoconf patches.
4363 + replace a lookup table in lib_vidattr.c used to decode no_color_video
4364 with a logic expression (suggested by Philippe Blain).
4365 + add a/A toggle to ncurses.c 'b' test, which clears/sets alternate
4366 character set attribute from the displayed text.
4367 + correct inequality in parameter analysis of rewritten lib_tparm.c
4368 which had the effect of ignoring p9 in set_attributes (sgr), breaking
4369 alternate character set (reported by Piotr Majka <charvel@link.pl>).
4370 + correct ifdef'ing for GCC_PRINTF, GCC_SCANF which would not compile
4371 with Sun WorkShop compilers since these tokens were empty (cf:
4372 20000902, reported by Albert Chin-A-Young).
4375 + correct an uninitialized parameter to open_tempfile() in tic.c which
4376 made "tic -I" give an ambiguous error message about tmpnam.
4377 + add special case in lib_vidattr.c to reset underline and standout for
4378 devices that have no sgr0 defined (patch by Don Lewis
4379 <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>). Note that this will not work for bold
4380 mode, since there is no exit-bold-mode capability.
4381 + improved patch for Make_Enum_Type (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
4382 + modify tparm to disallow arithmetic on strings, analyze the varargs
4383 list to read strings as strings and numbers as numbers.
4384 + modify tparm's internal function spop() to treat a null pointer as
4386 + modify tput program so it can be renamed or invoked via a link as
4387 'reset' or 'init', producing the same effect as 'tput reset' or 'tput
4389 + add private entrypoint _nc_basename(), use to consolidate related
4390 code in progs, as well as accommodating OS/2 EMX pathnames.
4391 + remove NCURSES_CONST line from edit_cfg.sh to compensate for its
4392 removal (except via AC_SUBST) from configure.in, making
4393 --enable-const work again (reported by Juergen Pfeifer).
4394 + regen'd configure to pick up "hpux*" change from 20000902.
4397 + modify tset.c to check for transformed "reset" program name, if any.
4398 + add a check for null pointer in Make_Enum_Type() (reported by Steven
4399 W Orr <steveo@world.std.com>).
4400 + change functions _nc_parse_entry() and postprocess_termcap() to avoid
4401 using strtok(), because it is non-reentrant (reported by Andrey A
4402 Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>).
4403 + remove "hpux10.*" case from CF_SHARED_OPTS configure script macro.
4404 This differed from the "hpux*" case by using reversed symbolic
4405 links, which made the 5.1 version not match the configuration of
4406 5.0 shared libraries (reported by Albert Chin-A-Young).
4407 + correct a dependency in Ada95/src/Makefile.in which prevented
4408 building with configure --srcdir (patch by H Nanosecond
4409 <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>).
4410 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in to avoid warning if GCC_PRINTF or
4411 GCC_SCANF was not previously defined (reported by Pavel Roskin
4413 + add MKncurses_def.sh to generate fallback definitions for
4414 ncurses_cfg.h, to quiet gcc -Wundef warnings, modified ifdef's in
4415 code to consistently use "#if" rather than "#ifdef".
4418 + add QNX qansi entries to terminfo -TD
4419 + add os2 entry to misc/emx.src (<jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>).
4420 + add configure option --with-database to allow specifying a different
4421 terminfo source-file to install. On OS/2 EMX, this defaults to
4423 + change misc/run_tic.sh to derive it from misc/run_tic.in, to simplify
4424 setting .exe extension on OS/2 EMX.
4425 + add .exe extension in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in,
4426 Ada95/samples/Makefile.in, for OS/2 EMX (reported by
4427 <jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>).
4428 + add configure check for filesystems (such as OS/2 EMX) which do not
4429 distinguish between upper/lowercase filenames, use this to fix tags
4431 + initialize fds[] array to 0's in _nc_timed_wait(); apparently poll()
4432 only sets the revents members of that array when there is activity
4433 corresponding to the related file (report by Glenn Cooper
4434 <gcooper@qantas.com.au>, using Purify on Solaris 5.6).
4435 + change configure script to use AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM rather than
4436 AC_CANONICAL_HOST, which means that configure --target will set
4437 a default program-prefix.
4438 + add note on cross-compiling to INSTALL (which does not rely on the
4439 AC_CANONICAL_* macros).
4442 + add cases for EMX OS/2 to config.guess, config.sub
4443 + new version of config.guess, config.sub from lynx 2.8.4dev.7
4444 + add definitions via transform.h to allow tic and tput to check for
4445 the transformed aliases rather than the original infotocap, etc.
4446 + simplify transform-expressions in progs/Makefile.in, make the
4447 uninstall rule work for transformed program names.
4448 + change symbol used by --install-prefix configure option from
4449 INSTALL_PREFIX to DESTDIR (the latter has become common usage
4450 although the name is misleading).
4451 + modify programs to use curses_version() string to report the version
4452 of ncurses with which they are compiled rather than the
4453 NCURSES_VERSION string. The function returns the patch level in
4454 addition to the major and minor version numbers.
4457 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to make transformed program names
4458 a parameter to that macro rather than embedding them in the macro.
4459 + newer config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in lynx
4461 + add configure option --with-default-terminfo-dir=DIR to allow
4462 specifying the default terminfo database directory (request by Albert
4464 + minor updates for terminfo.src from FreeBSD termcap change-history.
4465 + correct notes in README and INSTALL regarding documentation files
4466 that were moved from misc directory to doc (report by Rich Kulawiec
4468 + change most remaining unquoted parameters of 'test' in configure
4469 script to use quotes, for instance fixing a problem in the
4470 --disable-database option (reported by Christian Mondrup
4471 <scancm@biobase.dk>).
4472 + minor adjustments to work around some of the incompatibilities/bugs
4473 in autoconf 2.29a alpha.
4474 + add -I/usr/local/include when --with-ncurses option is used in
4475 test/configure script.
4476 + correct logic in adjust_cancels(), which did not check both
4477 alternatives when reclassifying an extended name between boolean,
4478 number and string, causing an infinite loop in tic.
4481 + correct a missing backslash in curses.priv.h
4484 + change handling of non_dest_scroll_region in tty_update.c to clear
4485 text after it is shifted in rather than before shifting out. Also
4486 correct row computation (reported by Ruediger Kuhlmann
4487 <uck4@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>).
4488 + add/use new trace function to display chtype values from winch() and
4490 + add trace mask TRACE_ATTRS, alter several existing _tracef calls that
4491 trace attribute changes under TRACE_CALLS to use this.
4492 + modify MKlib_gen.sh so that functions returning chtype will call
4494 + add returnChar() trace, for functions returning chtype.
4495 + change indent.pro to line up parenthesis.
4498 + fix a heap problem with the c++ binding (report by
4499 <alexander_liberson@ninewest.com>, patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
4500 + minor adjustment to ClrToEOL() to handle an out-of-bounds parameter.
4501 + modify the check for big-core to force a couple of memory accesses,
4502 which may work as needed for older/less-capable machines (if not,
4503 there's still the explicit configure option).
4504 > fixes based on diff's for Amiga and BeOS found at
4505 http://www.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de/~kuhlmann/cross/ncurses/
4506 + alter definition of NCURSES_CONST to make it non-empty.
4507 + add amiga-vnc terminfo entry.
4508 + redefine 'TEXT' in menu.h for AMIGA, since it is reported to have
4509 an (unspecified) symbol conflict.
4510 + replaced case-statement in _nc_tracebits() for CSIZE with a table to
4511 simplify working around implementations that define random
4512 combinations of the related macros to zero.
4513 + modify configure test for tcgetattr() to allow for old
4514 implementations, e.g., on BeOS, which only defined it as a macro.
4515 > patches by Bruno Haible:
4516 + when checking LC_ALL/LC_CTYPE/LANG environment variables for UTF-8
4517 locale, ignore those which are set to an empty value, as per SUSV2.
4518 + encode 0xFFFD in UTF-8 with 3 bytes, not 2.
4519 + modify _nc_utf8_outch() to avoid sign-extension when checking for
4523 + correct manlinks.sed script to avoid using ERE "\+", which is not
4524 understood by older versions of sed (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
4525 + implement configure script options that transform installed program
4526 names, e.g., --program-prefix, including the manpage names and cross
4527 references (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com>).
4528 + correct several mismatches between manpage filename and ".TH"
4529 directives, renaming dft_fgbg.3x to default_colors.3x and
4530 menu_attribs.3x to menu_attributes.3x (report by Todd C Miller).
4531 + correct missing includes for <string.h> in several places, including
4532 the C++ binding. This is not noted by gcc unless we use the
4533 -fno-builtin option (reported by Igor Schein <igor@txc.com>).
4534 + modified progs/tset.c and tack/sysdep.c to build with sgttyb
4535 interface if neither termio or termios is available. Tested this
4536 with FreeBSD 2.1.5 (which does have termios - but the sgttyb does
4539 20000708 5.1 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
4540 + document configure options in INSTALL.
4541 + add man-page for ncurses trace functions.
4542 + correct return value shown in curs_touch.3x for is_linetouched() and
4543 is_wintouched(), in curs_initscr.3x for isendwin(), and in
4544 curs_termattr.3x for has_ic() and has_il().
4545 + add prototypes for touchline() and touchwin(), adding them to the
4546 list of generated functions.
4547 + modify fifo_push() to put ERR into the fifo just like other values to
4548 return from wgetch(). It was returning without doing that, making
4549 end-of-file condition incorrectly return a 0 (reported by Todd C
4551 + uncomment CC_SHARED_OPTS for progs and tack (see 971115), since they
4552 are needed for SCO OpenServer.
4553 + move _nc_disable_period from free_ttype.c to comp_scan.c to appease
4554 dynamic loaders on SCO and IRIX64.
4555 + add "-a" option to test/ncurses.c to invoke assume_default_colors()
4557 + correct assignment in assume_default_colors() which tells ncurses
4558 whether to use default colors, or the assumed ones (reported by Gary
4559 Funck <gary@Intrepid.Com>).
4560 + review/correct logic in mk-1st.awk for making symbolic links for
4561 shared libraries, in particular for FreeBSD, etc.
4562 + regenerate misc/*.def files for OS/2 EMX dll's.
4563 + correct quoting of values for CC_SHARED_OPTS in aclocal.m4 for
4564 cases openbsd2*, openbsd*, freebsd* and netbsd* (patch by Peter
4565 Wemm) (err in 20000610).
4566 + minor updates to release notes, as well as adding/updating URLs for
4567 examples cited in announce.html
4568 > several fixes from Philippe Blain <philippe.blain2@freesbee.fr>:
4569 + correct placement of ifdef for NCURSES_XNAMES in function
4570 _nc_free_termtype(), fixes a memory leak.
4571 + add a call to _nc_synchook() to the end of function whline() like
4572 that in wvline() (difference was in 1.9.4).
4573 + make ClearScreen() a little faster by moving two instances of
4574 UpdateAttr() out of for-loops.
4575 + simplify ClrBottom() by eliminating the tstLine data, using for-loops
4578 20000701 pre-release
4579 + change minor version to 1, i.e., ncurses 5.1
4580 + add experimental configure option --enable-colorfgbg to check for
4581 $COLORTERM variable as set by rxvt/aterm/Eterm.
4582 + add Eterm terminfo entry (Michael Jennings <mej@valinux.com>).
4583 + modify manlinks.sed to pick aliases from the SYNOPSIS section, and
4584 several manpages so manlinks.sed can find aliases for creating
4586 + add explanation to run_tic.sh regarding extended terminal
4588 + change message format for edit_cfg.sh, since some people interpret
4590 + correct unescaped '$' in sysv5uw7*|unix_sv* rule for CF_SHARED_OPTS
4591 configure macro (report by Thanh Ma <Thanh.Ma@casi-rusco.com>).
4592 + correct logic in lib_twait.c as used by lib_mouse.c for GPM mouse
4593 support when poll() is used rather than select() (prompted by
4594 discussion with David Allen <DAllen24@aol.com>).
4596 20000624 pre-release
4597 + modify TransformLine() to check for cells with different color pairs
4598 that happen to render the same display colors.
4599 + apply $NCURSES_NO_PADDING to cost-computation in mvcur().
4600 + improve cost computation in PutRange() by accounting for the use
4601 of parm_right_cursor in mvcur().
4602 + correct cost computation in EmitRange(), which was not using the
4603 normalized value for cursor_address.
4604 + newer config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in TIN 1.5.6).
4607 + update config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in PCRE 3.2).
4608 + resync changes to gnathtml against version 1.22, regenerated html
4609 files under doc/html/ada using this (1.22.1.1).
4610 + regenerated html files under doc/html/man after correcting top and
4611 bottom margin options for man2html in dist.mk
4612 + minor fixes to test programs ncurses 'i' and testcurs program to make
4613 the subwindow's background color cover the subwindow.
4614 + modify configure script so AC_MSG_ERROR is temporarily defined to a
4615 warning in AC_PROG_CXX to make it recover from a missing C++ compiler
4616 without requiring user to add --without-cxx option (adapted from
4617 comment by Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr> to autoconf mailing list).
4618 + modify headers.sh to avoid creating temporary files in the build
4619 directory when installing headers (reported by Sergei Pokrovsky
4623 + regenerated the html files under doc/html/ada/files and
4624 doc/html/ada/funcs with a slightly-improved gnathtml.
4625 + add kmous capability to linux terminfo entry to allow it to use
4626 xterm-style events provided by gpm patch by Joerg Schoen.
4627 + make the configure macro CF_SHARED_OPTS a little smarter by testing
4628 if -fPIC is supported by gcc rather than -fpic. The former option
4629 allows larger symbol tables.
4630 + update config.guess and config.sub (patches by
4631 Kevin Buettner <kev@primenet.com> (for elf64_ia64),
4632 Bernd Kuemmerlen <bkuemmer@mevis.de> (for MacOS X)).
4633 + add warning for 'tic -cv' about use of '^?' in terminfo source, which
4637 + modify echo() behavior of getch() to match Solaris curses for
4638 carriage return and backspace (reported by Neil Zanella).
4639 + change _nc_flush() to a function.
4640 + modify delscreen() to check if the output stream has been closed, and
4641 if so, free the buffer allocated for setbuf (this provides an
4642 ncurses-specific way to avoid a memory leak when repeatedly calling
4643 newterm reported by Chipp C <at_1@zdnetonebox.com>).
4644 + correct typo in curs_getch.3x manpage regarding noecho (reported by
4645 David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>).
4646 + add a "make libs" rule.
4647 + make the Ada95 interface build with configure --enable-widec.
4648 + if the configure --enable-widec option is given, append 'w' to names
4649 of the generated libraries (e.g., libncursesw.so) to avoid conflict
4650 with existing ncurses libraries.
4653 + modify view.c to make a rudimentary viewer of UTF-8 text if ncurses
4654 is configured with the experimental wide-character support.
4655 + add a simple UTF-8 output driver to the experimental wide-character
4656 support. If any of the environment variables LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE or
4657 LANG contain the string "UTF-8", this driver will be used to
4658 translate the output to UTF-8. This works with XFree86 xterm.
4659 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries on BeOS
4660 (from a patch by Valeriy E Ushakov).
4661 + modify lib_addch.c to allow repeated update to the lower-right
4662 corner, rather than displaying only the first character written until
4663 the cursor is moved. Recent versions of SVr4 curses can update the
4664 lower-right corner, and behave this way (reported by Neil Zanella).
4665 + add a limit-check in _nc_do_color(), to avoid using invalid color
4666 pair value (report by Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>).
4669 + the tack program knows how to use smcup and rmcup but the "show caps
4670 that can be tested" feature did not reflect this knowledge. Correct
4671 the display in the menu tack/test/edit/c (patch by Daniel Weaver).
4672 + xterm-16color does allow bold+colors, removed ncv#32 from that
4676 + correct assignment to SP->_has_sgr_39_49 in lib_dft_fgbg.c, which
4677 broke check for screen's AX capability (reported by Valeriy E Ushakov
4679 + change man2html rule in dist.mk to workaround bug in some
4680 man-programs that ignores locale when rendering hyphenation.
4681 + change web- and ftp-site to dickey.his.com
4684 + move _nc_curr_token from parse_entry.c to comp_scan.c, to work around
4685 problem linking tack on MacOS X DP3.
4686 + include <sys/time.h> in lib_napms.c to compile on MacOS X DP3
4687 (reported by Gerben Wierda <wierda@holmes.nl>).
4688 + modify lib_vidattr.c to check for ncv fixes when pair-0 is not
4690 + add -d option to ncurses.c, to turn on default-colors for testing.
4691 + add a check to _nc_makenew() to ensure that newwin() and newpad()
4692 calls do not silently fail by passing too-large limits.
4693 + add symbol NCURSES_SIZE_T to use rather than explicit 'short' for
4694 internal window and pad sizes. Note that since this is visible in
4695 the WINDOW struct, it would be an ABI change to make this an 'int'
4696 (prompted by a question by Bastian Trompetter
4697 <btrompetter@firemail.de>, who attempted to create a 96000-line pad).
4700 + add mgterm terminfo entry from NetBSD, minor adjustments to sun-ss5,
4702 + modify tack/ansi.c to make it more tolerant of bad ANSI replies. An
4703 example of an illegal ANSI resonse can be found using Microsoft's
4704 Telnet client. A correct display can be found using a VT-4xx
4705 terminal or XFree86 xterm with:
4706 XTerm*VT100*decTerminalID: 450
4707 (patch by Daniel Weaver).
4708 + modify gdc.c to recognize 'q' for quit, 's' for single-step and ' '
4709 for resume. Add '-n' option to force gdc's standard input to
4710 /dev/null, to both illustrate the use of newterm() for specifying
4711 alternate inputs as well as for testing signal handling.
4712 + minor fix for configure option --with-manpage-symlinks, for target
4713 directories that contain a period ('.') (reported by Larry Virden).
4716 + minor additions to beterm entry (feedback from Rico Tudor) -TD
4717 + corrections/updates for some IBM terminfo entries -TD
4718 + modify _nc_screen_wrap() so that when exiting curses mode with
4719 non-default colors, the last line on the screen will be cleared to
4720 the screen's default colors (request by Alexander V Lukyanov).
4721 + modify ncurses.c 'r' example to set nonl(), allowing control/M to be
4722 read for demonstrating the REQ_NEW_LINE operation (prompted by a
4723 question by Tony L Keith <tlkeith@keithconsulting.com>).
4724 + modify ncurses.c 'r' example of field_info() to work on Solaris 2.7,
4725 documented extension of ncurses which allows a zero pointer.
4726 + modify fmt_complex() to avoid buffer overflow in case of excess
4727 recursion, and to recognize "%e%?" as a synonym for else-if, which
4728 means that it will not recur for that special case.
4729 + add logic to support $TERMCAP variable in case the USE_GETCAP symbol
4730 is defined (patch by Todd C Miller).
4731 + modify one of the m4 files used to generate the Ada95 sources,
4732 to avoid using the token "symbols" (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
4735 + add terminfo entries bsdos-pc-m, bsdos-pc-mono (Jeffrey C Honig)
4736 + correct spelling error in terminfo entry name: bq300-rv was given as
4737 bg300-rv in esr's version.
4738 + modify redrawwin() macro so its parameter is fully parenthesized
4739 (fixes Debian bug report #61088).
4740 + correct formatting error in dump_entry() which set incorrect column
4741 value when no newline trimming was needed at the end of an entry,
4742 before appending "use=" clauses (cf: 960406).
4745 + add configure option --with-manpage-symlinks
4746 + change unctrl() to render C1 characters (128-159) as ~@, ~A, etc.
4747 + change makefiles so trace() function is provided only if TRACE is
4748 defined, e.g., in the debug library. Modify related calls to
4749 _tracechar() to use unctrl() instead.
4752 + add screen's AX capability (for ECMA SGR 39 and 49) to applicable
4753 terminfo entries, use presence of this as a check for a small
4754 improvement in setting default colors.
4755 + improve logic in _nc_do_color() implementing assume_default_colors()
4756 by passing in previous color pair info to eliminate redundant call to
4757 set_original_colors(). (Part of this is from a patch by Alexander
4759 + modify warning in _nc_trans_string() about a possibly too-long string
4760 to do this once only rather than for each character past the
4761 threshold (600). Change interface of _nc_trans_string() to allow
4762 check for buffer overflow.
4763 + correct use of memset in _nc_read_entry_source() to initialize ENTRY
4764 struct each time before reading new data into it, rather than once
4765 per loop (cf: 990301). This affects multi-entry in-core operations
4766 such as "infocmp -Fa".
4769 + remove a spurious pointer increment in _nc_infotocap() changes from
4770 20000311. Add check for '.' in format of number, since that also
4771 is not permitted in termcap.
4772 + correct typo in rxvt-basic terminfo from temporary change made while
4773 integrating 20000318.
4776 + revert part of the vt220 change (request by Todd C Miller).
4777 + add ansi-* terminfo entries from ESR's version.
4778 + add -a option to tic and infocmp, which retains commented-out
4779 capabilities during source translation/comparison, e.g., captoinfo
4781 + modify cardfile.c to display an empty card if no input data file is
4782 found, fixes a core dump in that case (reported by Bruno Haible).
4783 + correct bracketing in CF_MATH_LIB configure macro, which gave wrong
4784 result for OS/2 EMX.
4785 + supply required parameter for _nc_resolve_uses() call in
4786 read_termcap.c, overlooked in 20000311 (reported by Todd C Miller).
4787 > patches by Bruno Haible <haible@ilog.fr>:
4788 + fix a compiler warning in fty_enum.c
4789 + correct LIB_PREFIX expression for DEPS_CURSES in progs, tack
4790 makefiles, which resulted in redundant linking (cf: 20000122).
4793 + make ifdef's for BROKEN_LINKER consistent (patch by Todd C Miller).
4794 + improved tack/README (patch by Daniel Weaver).
4795 + modify tput.c to ensure that unspecified parameters are passed to
4797 + add a few checks in infocmp to guard against buffer overflow when
4798 displaying string capabilities.
4799 + add check for zero-uses in infocmp's file_comparison() function
4800 before calling _nc_align_termtype(). Otherwise one parameter is
4801 indexed past the end of the uses-array.
4802 + add an option -q to infocmp to specify the less verbose output,
4803 keeping the existing format as the default, though not retaining the
4804 previous behavior that made the -F option compare each entry to
4806 + adapted patch by ESR to make infocmp -F less verbose -TD
4807 (the submitted patch was unusable because it did not compile
4809 + modify write_entry.c to ensure that absent or cancelled booleans
4810 are written as FALSE, for consistency with infocmp which now
4811 assumes this. Note that for the small-core configuration, tic
4812 may not produce the same result as before.
4813 + change some private library interfaces used by infocmp, e.g.,
4815 + add a check in _nc_infotocap() to ensure that cm-style capabilities
4816 accept only %d codes when converting the format from terminfo to
4818 + modify ENTRY struct to separate the data in 'parent' into the name
4819 and link values (the original idea to merge both into 'parent' was
4821 + discard repair_acsc(tterm);
4822 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
4823 + drop support for gnat 3.10
4824 + move generated documentation and html files under ./doc directory,
4825 adding makefile rules for this to dist.mk
4828 + correct conflicting use of tparm() in 20000226 change to tic, which
4829 made it check only one entry at a time.
4830 + fix errors in ncurses-intro.html and hackguide.html shown by Dave
4832 + make the example in ncurses-intro.html do something plausible, and
4833 corrected misleading comment (reported by Neil Zanella).
4834 + modify pnoutrefresh() to set newscr->_leaveok as wnoutrefresh() does,
4835 to fix a case where the cursor position was not updated as in
4836 Solaris (patch by David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>).
4837 + add a limit-check for wresize() to ensure that a subwindow does not
4838 address out of bounds.
4839 + correct offsets used for subwindows in wresize() (patch by Michael
4840 Andres <ma@suse.de>).
4841 + regenerate html'ized manual pages with man2html 3.0.1 (patch by
4842 Juergen Pfeifer). This generated a file with a space in its name,
4844 + fix a few spelling errors in tack.
4845 + modify tack/Makefile.in to match linker options of progs/Makefile.in;
4846 otherwise it does not build properly for older HPUX shared library
4848 + add several terminfo entries from esr's "11.0".
4851 + make 'tput flash' work properly for xterm by flushing output in
4852 delay_output() when using napms(), and modifying xterm's terminfo to
4853 specify no padding character. Otherwise, xterm's reported baud rate
4854 can mislead ncurses into producing too few padding characters
4856 + add a check to tic for consistency between sgr and the separate
4857 capabilities such as smso, use this to check/correct several
4858 terminfo entries (Debian #58530).
4859 + add a check to tic if cvvis is the same as cnorm, adjusted several
4860 terminfo entries to remove the conflict (Debian #58530).
4861 + correct prototype shown in attr_set()/wattr_set() manpages (fixes
4863 + minor clarification for curs_set() and leaveok() manpages.
4864 + use mkstemp() for creating temporary file for tic's processing of
4865 $TERMCAP contents (fixes Debian #56465).
4866 + correct two errors from integrating Alexander's changes: did not
4867 handle the non-bce case properly in can_erase_with() (noted by
4868 Alexander), and left fg/bg uninitialized in the pair-zero case of
4869 _nc_do_color() (reported by Dr Werner Fink <werner@suse.de> and
4870 Ismael Cordeiro <ismael@cordeiro.com>).
4873 + store default-color code consistently as C_MASK, even if given as
4874 -1 for convenience (adapted from patches by Alexander V Lukyanov).
4875 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
4876 + change can_clear_with() macro to accommodate logic for
4877 assume_default_colors(), making most of the FILL_BCE logic
4878 unnecessary. Made can_clear_with() an inline function to make it
4882 + corrected form of recent copyright dates.
4883 + minor corrections to xterm-xf86-v333 terminfo entry -TD
4884 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
4885 + reworded dft_fgbg.3x to avoid assuming that the terminal's default
4886 colors are white on black.
4887 + fix initialization of tstLine so that it is filled with current blank
4888 character in any case. Previously it was possible to have it filled
4889 with old blank. The wrong over-optimization was introduced in 991002
4890 patch. (it is not very critical as the only bad effect is not using
4891 clr_eos for clearing if blank has changed).
4894 + minor corrections/updates to several terminfo entries: rxvt-basic,
4895 vt520, vt525, ibm5151, xterm-xf86-v40 -TD
4896 + modify ifdef's for poll() to allow it to use <sys/poll.h>, thereby
4897 allowing poll() to be used on Linux.
4898 + add CF_FUNC_POLL macro to check if poll() is able to select from
4899 standard input. If not we will not use it, preferring select()
4900 (adapted from patch by Michael Pakovic <mpakovic@fdn.com>).
4901 + update CF_SHARED_OPTS macro for SCO Unixware 7.1 to allow building
4902 shared libraries (reported/tested by Thanh <thanhma@mediaone.net>).
4903 + override $LANGUAGE in build to avoid incorrect ordering of keynames.
4904 + correct CF_MATH_LIB parameter, must be sin(x), not sqrt(x).
4907 + resync CF_CHECK_ERRNO and CF_LIB_PREFIX macros from tin and xterm -TD
4908 + modify CF_MATH_LIB configure macro to parameterize the test function
4909 used, for reuse in dialog and similar packages.
4910 + correct tests for file-descriptors in OS/2 EMX mouse support. A
4911 negative value could be used by FD_SET, causing the select() call
4912 to wait indefinitely.
4915 + additional fixes for non-bce terminals (handling of delete_character)
4916 to work when assume_default_colors() is not specified.
4917 + modify warning message from _nc_parse_entry() regarding extended
4918 capability names to print only if tic/infocmp/toe have the -v flag
4919 set, and not at all in ordinary user applications. Otherwise, this
4920 warning would be shown for screen's extended capabilities in programs
4921 that use the termcap interface (reported by Todd C Miller).
4922 + modify use of _nc_tracing from programs such as tic so their debug
4923 level is not in the same range as values set by trace() function.
4924 + small panel header cleanup (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
4925 + add 'railroad' demo for termcap interface.
4926 + modify 'tic' to write its usage message to stderr (patch by Todd C
4930 + add prototype for erase() to curses.h.in, needed to make test
4931 programs build with c++/g++.
4932 + add .c.i and .c.h suffix rules to generated makefiles, for debugging.
4933 + correct install rule for tack.1; it assumed that file was in the
4934 current directory (reported by Mike Castle <dalgoda@ix.netcom.com>).
4935 + modify terminfo/termcap translation to suppress acsc before trying
4936 sgr if the entry would be too large (patch by Todd C Miller).
4937 + document a special case of incompatiblity between ncurses 4.2 and
4938 5.0, add a section for this in INSTALL.
4939 + add TRACE_DATABASE flag for trace().
4942 + update mach, add mach-color terminfo entries based on Debian diffs
4944 + add entries for xterm-hp, xterm-vt220, xterm-vt52 and xterm-noapp
4945 terminfo entries -TD
4946 + change OTrs capabilities to rs2 in terminfo.src -TD
4947 + add obsolete and extended capabilities to 'screen' terminfo -TD
4948 + corrected conversion from terminfo rs2 to termcap rs (cf: 980704)
4949 + make conversion to termcap ug (underline glitch) more consistently
4951 + fix out-of-scope use of 'personal[]' buffer in 'toe' (this error
4952 was in the original pre-1.9.7 version, when $HOME/.terminfo was
4954 + modify 'toe' to ignore terminfo directories to which it has no
4956 + modify read_termtype(), fixing 'toe', which could dump core when it
4957 found an incomplete entry such as "dumb" because it did not
4958 initialize its buffer for _nc_read_file_entry().
4959 + use -fPIC rather than -fpic for shared libraries on Linux, not
4960 needed for i386 but some ports (from Debian diffs for 5.0) -TD
4961 + use explicit VALID_NUMERIC() checks in a few places that had been
4962 overlooked, and add a check to ensure that init_tabs is nonzero,
4963 to avoid divide-by-zero (reported by Todd C Miller).
4964 + minor fix for CF_ANSI_CC_CHECK configure macro, for HPUX 10.x (from
4968 + reorder tests during mouse initialization to allow for gpm to run in
4969 xterm, or for xterm to be used under OS/2 EMX. Also drop test for
4970 $DISPLAY in favor of kmous=\E[M or $TERM containing "xterm" (report
4971 by Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de>).
4972 + modify raw() and noraw() to clear/restore IEXTEN flag which affects
4973 stty lnext on systems such as FreeBSD (report by Bruce Evans
4974 <bde@zeta.org.au>, via Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>).
4975 + fix a potential (but unlikely) buffer overflow in failed() function
4976 of tset.c (reported by Todd C Miller).
4977 + add manual-page for ncurses extensions, documented curses_version(),
4978 use_extended_names().
4981 + treat as untranslatable to termcap those terminfo strings which
4982 contain non-decimal formatting, e.g., hexadecimal or octal.
4983 + correct commented-out capabilities that cannot be translated to
4984 termcap, which did not check if a colon must be escaped.
4985 + correct termcap translation for "%>" and "%+", which did not check
4986 if a colon must be escaped, for instance.
4987 + use save_string/save_char for _nc_captoinfo() to eliminate fixed
4988 buffer (originally for _nc_infotocap() in 960301 -TD).
4989 + correct expression used for terminfo equivalent of termcap %B,
4990 adjust regent100 entry which uses this.
4991 + some cleanup and commenting of ad hoc cases in _nc_infotocap().
4992 + eliminate a fixed-buffer in tic, used for translating comments.
4993 + add manpage for infotocap
4996 + add kvt and gnome terminfo entries -TD
4997 + correct translation of "%%" by infotocap, which was emitted as "%".
4998 + add "obsolete" termcap strings to terminfo.src
4999 + modify infocmp to default to showing obsolete capabilities rather
5001 + modify write_entry.c so that if extended names (i.e., configure
5002 --enable-tcap-names) are active, then tic will also write "obsolete"
5003 capabilities that are present in the terminfo source.
5004 + modify tic so that when running as captoinfo or infotocap, it
5005 initializes the output format as in -C and -I options, respectively.
5006 + improve infocmp and tic -f option by splitting long strings that do
5007 not have if-then-else construct, but do have parameters, e.g., the
5008 initc for xterm-88color.
5009 + refine MKtermsort.sh slightly by using bool for the *_from_termcap
5013 + additional fixes for non-bce terminals (handling of clear_screen,
5014 clr_eol, clr_eos, scrolling) to work when assume_default_colors() is
5016 + several small changes to xterm terminfo entries -TD.
5017 + move logic for _nc_windows in lib_freeall.c inside check for nonnull
5018 SP, since it is part of that struct.
5019 + remove obsolete shlib-versions, which was unintentionally re-added
5021 + modify infocmp -e, -E options to ensure that generated fallback.c
5022 type for Booleans agrees with term.h (reported by Eric Norum
5023 <eric@cls.usask.ca>).
5024 + correct configure script's use of $LIB_PREFIX, which did not work
5025 for installing the c++ directory if $libdir did not end with "/lib"
5026 (reported by Huy Le <huyle@ugcs.caltech.edu>).
5027 + modify infocmp so -L and -f options work together.
5028 + modify the initialization of SP->_color_table[] in start_color() so
5029 that color_content() will return usable values for COLORS greater
5031 + modify ncurses 'd' test in case COLORS is greater than 16, e.g., for
5032 xterm-88color, to limit the displayed/computed colors to 16.
5033 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
5034 + simplify coding of the panel library according to suggestions by
5036 + improve macro coding for a few macros in curses.priv.h
5039 + modify treatment of color pair 0 so that if ncurses is configured
5040 to support default colors, and they are not active, then ncurses
5041 will set that explicitly, not relying on orig_colors or orig_pair.
5042 + add new extension, assume_default_colors() to provide better control
5043 over the use of default colors.
5044 + modify test programs to use more-specific ifdef's for existence of
5045 wresize(), resizeterm() and use_default_colors().
5046 + modify configure script to add specific ifdef's for some functions
5047 that are included when --enable-ext-funcs is in effect, so their
5048 existence can be ifdef'd in the test programs.
5049 + reorder some configure options, moving those extensions that have
5050 evolved from experimental status into a new section.
5051 + change configure --enable-tcap-names to enable this by default.
5054 + install tack's manpage (reported by Robert Weiner
5055 <robert@progplus.com>)
5056 + correct worm.c's handling of KEY_RESIZE (patch by Frank Heckenbach).
5057 + modify curses.h.in, undef'ing some symbols to avoid conflict with C++
5058 STL (reported by Matt Gerassimoff <mgeras@ticon.net>)
5061 + modify linux terminfo entry to indicate that dim does not mix with
5062 color (reported by Klaus Weide <kweide@enteract.com>).
5063 + correct several typos in terminfo entries related to missing '['
5065 + fix several compiler warnings in c++ binding (reported by Tim
5066 Mooney for alphaev56-dec-osf4.0f
5067 + rename parameter of _nc_free_entries() to accommodate lint.
5068 + correct lint rule for tack, used incorrect list of source files.
5069 + add case to config.guess, config.sub for Rhapsody.
5070 + improve configure tests for libg++ and libstdc++ by omitting the
5071 math library (which is missing on Rhapsody), and improved test for
5072 the math library itself (adapted from path by Nelson H. F. Beebe).
5073 + explicitly initialize to zero several data items which were
5074 implicitly initialized, e.g., cur_term. If not explicitly
5075 initialized, their storage type is C (common), and causes problems
5076 linking on Rhapsody 5.5 using gcc 2.7.2.1 (reported by Nelson H. F.
5078 + modify Ada95 binding to not include the linker option for Ada
5079 bindings in the Ada headers, but in the Makefiles instead (patch by
5082 19991023 5.0 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
5083 + effective with release of 5.0, change NCURSES_VERSION_PATCH to
5085 + add function curses_version(), to return ncurses library version
5086 (request by Bob van der Poel).
5087 + remove rmam, smam from cygwin terminfo entry.
5088 + modify FreeBSD cons25 terminfo entry to add cnorm and cvvis, as well
5089 as update ncv to indicate that 'dim' conflicts with colors.
5090 + modify configure script to use symbolic links for FreeBSD shared
5091 libraries by default.
5092 + correct ranf() function in rain and worm programs to ensure it does
5094 + hide the cursor in hanoi.c if it is running automatically.
5095 + amend lrtest.c to account for optimizations that exploit margin
5097 + add a simple terminfo demo, dots.c
5098 + modify SIGINT/SIGQUIT handler to set a flag used in _nc_outch() to
5099 tell it to use write() rather than putc(), since the latter is not
5100 safe in a signal handler according to POSIX.
5101 + add/use internal macros _nc_flush() and NC_OUTPUT to hide details
5102 of output-file pointer in ncurses library.
5103 + uncomment CC_SHARED_OPTS (see 971115), since they are needed for SCO
5105 + correct CC_SHARED_OPTS for building shared libraries for SCO
5107 + remove usleep() from alternatives in napms(), since it may interact
5108 with alarm(), causing a process to be interrupted by SIGALRM (with
5109 advice from Bela Lubkin).
5110 + modify terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4 to build/work with
5111 GNAT 3.10 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
5112 + remove part of CF_GPP_LIBRARY configure-script macro, which did not
5113 work with gcc 2.7.2.3
5114 + minor fix to test/tclock.c to avoid beeping more than once per second
5115 + add 's' and ' ' decoding to test/rain.c
5118 + corrected BeOS code for lib_twait.c, making nodelay() function work.
5121 + correct ncurses' value for cursor-column in PutCharLR(), which was
5122 off-by-one in one case (patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
5123 + fix some minor errors in position_check() debugging code, found while
5124 using this to validate the PutCharLR() patch.
5125 + modify firework, lrtest, worm examples to be resizable, and to
5126 recognize 'q' for quit, 's' for single-step and ' ' for resume.
5127 + restore reverted change to terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4,
5128 add a note on building with gnat 3.10p to Ada95/TODO.
5129 + add a copy of the standalone configure script for the test-directory
5130 to simplify testing on SCO and Solaris.
5133 + minor fixes for _nc_msec_cost(), color_content(), pair_content(),
5134 _nc_freewin(), ClrBottom() and onscreen_mvcur() (analysis by Philippe
5135 Blain, comments by Alexander V Lukyanov).
5136 + simplify definition of PANEL and eliminate internal functions
5137 _nc_calculate_obscure(), _nc_free_obscure() and _nc_override(),
5138 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer, analysis by Philippe Blain
5140 + change renaming of dft_fgbg.3x to use_default_colors.3ncurses in
5141 man_db.renames, since Debian is not concerned with 14-character
5142 filename limitation (Debian bug report by Josip Rodin
5143 <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr>).
5144 + corrected scoansi terminfo entry by testing with scoterm and console.
5145 + revert change from 990614 to terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4,
5146 since this does not work for gnat 3.10p
5147 + modify tclock example to be resizable (if ncurses' sigwinch handler
5148 is used), and in color.
5149 + use $(CC) rather than 'gcc' in MK_SHARED_LIB symbols, used for Linux
5150 shared library rules.
5153 + add newer NetBSD console terminfo entries
5154 + add amiga-8bit terminfo entry (from Henning 'Faroul' Peters
5155 <Faroul@beyond.kn-bremen.de>)
5156 + remove -lcurses -ltermcap from configure script's check for the gpm
5157 library, since they are not really necessary (a properly configured
5158 gpm library has no dependency on any curses library), and if the
5159 curses library is not installed, this would cause the test to fail.
5160 + modify tic's -C option so that terminfo "use=" clauses are translated
5161 to "tc=" clauses even when running it as captoinfo.
5162 + modify CF_STDCPP_LIBRARY configure macro to perform its check only
5163 for GNU C++, since that library conflicts with SGI's libC on IRIX-6.2
5164 + modify CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro to support build on NetBSD with
5165 ELF libraries (patch by Bernd Ernesti <bernd@arresum.inka.de>).
5166 + correct a problem in libpanel, where the _nc_top_panel variable was
5167 not set properly when bottom_panel() is called to hide a panel which
5168 is the only one on the stack (report/analysis by Michael Andres
5169 <ma@suse.de>, patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
5172 + add acsc string to HP 70092 terminfo entry (patch by Joerg Wunsch
5173 <j@interface-business.de>).
5174 + add top-level uninstall.data and uninstall.man makefile rules.
5175 + correct logic of CF_LINK_FUNCS configure script, from BeOS changes so
5176 that hard-links work on Unix again.
5177 + change default value of cf_cv_builtin_bool to 1 (suggested by
5178 Jeremy Buhler), making it less likely that a conflicting declaration
5179 of bool will be seen when compiling with C++.
5182 + improved configure checks for builtin.h
5183 + minor changes to C++ binding (remove static initializations, and make
5184 configure-test for parameter initializations) for features not
5185 allowed by vendor's C++ compilers (reported by Martin Mokrejs, this
5186 applies to SGI, though I found SCO has the same characteristics).
5187 + corrected quoting of ETIP_xxx definitions which support old versions
5188 of g++, e.g., those using -lg++
5189 + remove 'L' code from safe_sprintf.c, since 'long double' is not
5190 widely portable. safe_sprintf.c is experimental, however, and
5191 exists mainly as a fallback for systems without snprintf (reported
5192 by Martin Mokrejs <mmokrejs@natur.cuni.cz>, for IRIX 6.2)
5193 + modify definition of _nc_tinfo_fkeys in broken-linker configuration
5194 so that it is not unnecessarily made extern (Jeffrey C Honig).
5197 + move definition for builtin.h in configure tests to specific check
5198 for libg++, since qt uses the same filename incompatibly.
5199 + correct logic of lib_termcap.c tgetstr function, which did not copy
5200 the result to the buffer parameter. Testing shows Solaris does
5201 update this, though of course tgetent's buffer is untouched (reported
5202 in Peter Edwards <peter.edwards@ireland.com> in
5203 mpc.lists.freebsd.current newsgroup.
5204 + corrected beterm terminfo entry, which lists some capabilities which
5205 are not actually provided by the BeOS Terminal.
5206 + add special logic to replace select() calls on BeOS, whose select()
5207 function works only for sockets.
5208 + correct missing escape in mkterm.h.awk.in, which caused part
5209 of the copyright noticed to be omitted (reported by Peter
5210 Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>).
5211 > several small changes to make the c++ binding and demo work on OS/2
5212 EMX (related to a clean reinstall of EMX):
5213 + correct library-prefix for c++ binding; none is needed.
5214 + add $x suffix to make_hash and make_keys so 'make distclean' works.
5215 + correct missing $x suffix for tack, c++ demo executables.
5216 + split CF_CXX_LIBRARY into CF_GPP_LIBRARY (for -lg++) and
5217 CF_STDCPP_LIBRARY (for -lstdc++)
5220 + add cygwin terminfo entry -TD
5221 + modify CF_PROG_EXT configure macro to set .exe extension for cygwin.
5222 + add configure option --without-cxx-binding, modifying the existing
5223 --without-cxx option to check only for the C++ compiler
5224 characteristics. Whether or not the C++ binding is needed, the
5225 configure script checks for the size/type of bool, to make ncurses
5226 match. Otherwise C++ applications cannot use ncurses.
5229 + updated configure macros CF_MAKEFLAGS, CF_CHECK_ERRNO
5230 + minor corrections to beterm terminfo entry.
5231 + modify lib_setup.c to reject values of $TERM which have a '/' in
5233 + add ifdef's to guard against CS5, CS6, CS7, CS8 being zero, as more
5234 than one is on BeOS. That would break a switch statement.
5235 + add configure macro CF_LINK_FUNCS to detect and work around BeOS's
5236 nonfunctional link().
5237 + improved configure macros CF_BOOL_DECL and CF_BOOL_SIZE to detect
5238 BeOS's bool, which is declared as an unsigned char.
5241 + add ms-vt100 terminfo entry -TD
5242 + minor fixes for misc/emx.src, based on testing with tack.
5243 + minor fix for test/ncurses.c, test 'a', in case ncv is not set.
5246 + minor correction for 'screen' terminfo entry.
5247 + clarify description of errret values for setupterm in manpage.
5248 + modify tput to allow it to emit capabilities for hardcopy terminals
5249 (patch by Goran Uddeborg <goeran@uddeborg.pp.se>).
5250 + modify the 'o' (panel) test in ncurses.c to show the panels in color
5251 or at least in bold, to test Juergen's change to wrefresh().
5252 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
5253 + Fixes a problem using wbkgdset() with panels. It has actually
5254 nothing to with panels but is a problem in the implementation of
5255 wrefresh(). Whenever a window changes its background attribute to
5256 something different than newscr's background attribute, the whole
5257 window is touched to force a copy to newscr. This is an unwanted
5258 side-effect of wrefresh() and it is actually not necessary. A
5259 changed background attribute affects only further outputs of
5260 background it doesn't mean anything to the current content of the
5261 window. So there is no need to force a copy. (reported by Frank
5262 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>).
5263 + an upward compatible enhancement of the NCursesPad class in the C++
5264 binding. It allows one to add a "viewport" window to a pad and then
5265 to use panning to view the pad through the viewport window.
5268 + suppress a call to def_prog_mode() in the SIGTSTP handler if the
5269 signal was received while not in curses mode, e.g., endwin() was
5270 called in preparation for spawning a shell command (reported by Frank
5271 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>)
5272 + corrected/enhanced xterm-r5, xterm+sl, xterm+sl-twm terminfo entries.
5273 + change test for xterm mouse capability: it now checks only if the
5274 user's $DISPLAY variable is set in conjunction with the kmous
5275 capability being present in the terminfo. Before, it checked if any
5276 of "xterm", "rxvt" or "kterm" were substrings of the terminal name.
5277 However, some emulators which are incompatible with xterm in other
5278 ways do support the xterm mouse capability.
5279 + reviewed and made minor changes in ncurses to quiet g++ warnings
5280 about shadowed or uninitialized variables. g++ incorrectly warns
5281 about uninitialized variables because it does not take into account
5282 short-circuit expression evaluation.
5283 + change ncurses 'b' test to start in color pair 0 and to show in the
5284 right margin those attributes which are suppressed by no_color_video,
5286 + modify ifdef's in curses.h so that __attribute__ is not redefined
5287 when compiling with g++, but instead disabled the macros derived for
5288 __attribute__ since g++ does not consistently recognize the same
5289 keywords as gcc (reported by Stephan K Zitz <zitz@erf.net>).
5290 + update dependencies for term.h in ncurses/modules (reported by
5294 + modify the form demo in ncurses.c to illustrate how to manipulate the
5295 field appearance, e.g, for highlighting or translating the field
5297 + correct logic in write_entry from split-out of home_terminfo in
5298 980919, which prevented update of $HOME/.terminfo (reported by Philip
5299 Spencer <pspencer@fields.utoronto.ca>).
5302 + modify linux terminfo description to make use of kernel 2.2.x mods
5303 that support cursor style, e.g., to implement cvvis (patch by Frank
5304 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>)
5305 + add special-case in setupterm to retain previously-saved terminal
5306 settings in cur_term, which happens when curses and termcap calls are
5307 mixed (from report by Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@dhc.net>).
5308 + suppress initialization of key-tries in _nc_keypad() if we are only
5309 disabling keypad mode, e.g., in endwin() called when keypad() was
5311 + modify the Ada95 makefile to ensure that always the Ada files from
5312 the development tree are used for building and not the eventually
5313 installed ones (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
5316 + use TTY definition in tack/sysdep.c rather than struct termios
5317 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
5318 + add a fallback for strstr, used in lib_mvcur.c and tack/edit.c,
5319 not present on sysV68 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
5320 + correct definition in comp_hash.c to build with configure
5321 --with-rcs-ids option.
5324 + modified ifdef's for sigaction and sigvec to ensure we do not try to
5325 handle SIGTSTP if neither is available (from report by Philippe De
5327 > patch by Philippe De Muyter:
5328 + in tic.c, use `unlink' if `remove' is not available.
5329 + use only `unsigned' as fallback value for `speed_t'. Some files used
5333 + fix some compiler warnings in tack.
5334 + add a check for predefined bool type in CC, based on report that
5335 BeOS predefines a bool type.
5336 + correct logic for infocmp -e option, i.e., the configure
5337 --with-fallbacks option, which I'd not updated when implementing
5338 extended names (cf: 990301). The new implementation adds a "-E"
5339 option to infocmp -TD
5340 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
5341 + introduce the private type Curses_Bool in the Ada95 binding
5342 implementation. This is to clearly represent the use of "bool" also
5343 in the binding. It should have no effect on the generated code.
5344 + improve the man page for field_buffer() to tell the people, that the
5345 whole buffer including leading/trailing spaces is returned. This is
5346 a common source of confusion, so it's better to document it clearly.
5349 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
5350 + use pragma PreElaborate in several places.
5351 + change a few System.Address uses to more specific types.
5352 + change interface version-number to 1.0
5353 + regenerate Ada95 HTML files.
5356 + modify lib_endwin.c to avoid calling reset_shell_mode(), return ERR
5357 if it appears that curses was never initialized, e.g., by initscr().
5358 For instance, this guards against setting the terminal modes to
5359 strange values if endwin() is called after setupterm(). In the same
5360 context, Solaris curses will dump core.
5361 + modify logic that avoids a conflict in lib_vidattr.c between sgr0 and
5362 equivalent values in rmso or rmul by ensuring we do not modify the
5363 data which would be returned by the terminfo or termcap interfaces
5364 (reported by Brad Pepers <brad@linuxcanada.com>, cf: 960706).
5365 + add a null-pointer check for SP in lib_vidattr.c to logic that checks
5367 + improve fallback declaration of 'bool' when the --without-cxx option
5368 is given, by using a 'char' on i386 and related hosts (prompted by
5369 discussion with Alexander V Lukyanov).
5372 + include time.h in lib_napms.c if nanosleep is used (patch by
5373 R Lindsay Todd <toddr@rpi.edu>).
5374 + add an "#undef bool" to curses.h, in case someone tries to define it,
5376 + add check to tparm to guard against divide by zero (reported by Aaron
5377 Campbell <aaron@ug.cs.dal.ca>).
5380 + minor fix to build tack on CLIX (mismatched const).
5381 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
5382 + change Juergen's old email address with new one in the files where it
5383 is referenced. The Ada95 HTML pages are regenerated.
5384 + update MANIFEST to list the tack files.
5387 + minor fixes to make 'tack' build/link on NeXT (reported by Francisco
5391 + add 'tack' program (which is GPL'd), updating it to work with the
5392 modified TERMTYPE struct and making a fix to support setaf/setab
5393 capabilities. Note that the tack program is not part of the
5394 ncurses libraries, but an application which can be distributed with
5395 ncurses. The configure script will ignore the directory if it is
5397 + modify gpm mouse support so that buttons 2 and 3 are used for
5398 select/paste only when shift key is pressed, making them available
5399 for use by an application (patch by Klaus Weide).
5400 + add complete list of function keys to scoansi terminfo entry - TD
5403 + add a simple test program cardfile.c to illustrate how to read form
5404 fields, and showing forms within panels.
5405 + change shared-library versioning for the Hurd to be like Linux rather
5406 than *BSD (patch by Mark Kettenis <kettenis@wins.uva.nl>).
5407 + add linux-lat terminfo entry.
5408 + back-out _nc_access check in read_termcap.c (both incorrect and
5409 unnecessary, except to guard against a small window where the file's
5410 ownership may change).
5413 + remove conflicting _nc_free_termtype() function from test module
5415 + use _nc_access check in read_termcap.c for termpaths[] array (noted
5416 by Jeremy Buhler, indicating that Alan Cox made a similar patch).
5417 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
5418 + modify menu creation to not inherit status flag from the default menu
5419 which says that the associated marker string has been allocated and
5420 should be freed (bug reported by Marek Paliwoda"
5421 <paliwoda@kki.net.pl>)
5423 990327 pre-release (alpha.gnu.org:/gnu/ncurses-5.0-beta1.tar.gz)
5424 + minor fixes to xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry - TD.
5425 + split up an expression in configure script check for ldconfig to
5426 workaround limitation of BSD/OS sh (reported by Jeff Haas
5427 <jmh@mail.msen.com>).
5428 + correct a typo in man/form_hook.3x (Todd C Miller).
5431 + parenthesize and undef 'index' symbol in c++ binding and demo, to
5432 accommodate its definition on NeXT (reported by Francisco A. Tomei
5434 + add sigismember() to base/sigaction.c compatibility to link on NeXT
5435 (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
5436 + further refinements to inequality in hashmap.c to cover a case with
5437 ^U in nvi (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
5440 + add fallback definition for getcwd, to link on NeXT.
5441 + add a copy of cur_term to tic.c to make it link properly on NeXT
5442 (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
5443 + change inequality in hashmap.c which checks the distance traveled by
5444 a chunk so that ^D command in nvi (scrolls 1/2 screen) will use
5445 scrolling logic (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov, reported by Jeffrey
5449 + modify lib_color.c to handle a special case where the curscr
5450 attributes have been made obsolete (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
5451 + update BSD/OS console terminfo entries to use klone+sgr and
5452 klone+color (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
5453 + update glibc addon configure script for extended capabilities.
5454 + correct a couple of warnings in the --enable-const configuration.
5455 + make comp_hash build properly with _nc_strdup(), on NeXT (reported by
5456 Francisco A. Tomei Torres <francisco.tomei@cwix.com>).
5459 + correct typos in linux-c initc string - TD
5460 + add 'crt' terminfo entry, update xterm-xfree86 entry - TD
5461 + remove a spurious argument to tparm() in lib_sklrefr.c (patch by
5462 Alexander V Lukyanov).
5465 + back-out change to wgetch because it causes a problem with ^Z
5466 handling in lynx (reported by Kim DeVaughn).
5469 + add -G option to tic and infocmp, to reverse the -g option.
5470 + recode functions in name_match.c to avoid use of strncpy, which
5471 caused a 4-fold slowdown in tic (cf: 980530).
5472 + correct a few warnings about sign-extension in recent changes.
5473 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
5474 + fixes suggested by Jeff Bradbury <jibradbury@lucent.com>:
5475 + improved parameter checking in new_fieldtype().
5476 + fixed a typo in wgetch() timeout handling.
5477 + allow slk_init() to be called per newterm call. The internal SLK
5478 state is stored in the SCREEN struct after every newterm() and then
5479 reset for the next newterm.
5480 + fix the problem that a slk_refresh() refreshes stdscr if the
5481 terminal has true SLKs.
5482 + update HTML documentation for Ada binding.
5485 + remove 'bool' casts from definitions of TRUE/FALSE so that statements
5486 such as "#if TRUE" work. This was originally done to allow for a C++
5487 compiler which would warn of implicit conversions between enum and
5488 int, but is not needed for g++ (reported by Kim DeVaughn).
5489 + add use_extended_names() function to allow applications to suppress
5490 read of the extended capabilities.
5491 + add configure option --enable-tcap-names to support logic which
5492 allows ncurses' tic to define new (i.e., extended) terminal
5493 capabilities. This is activated by the tic -x switch. The infocmp
5494 program automatically shows or compares extended capabilities.
5495 Note: This changes the Strings and similar arrays in the TERMTYPE
5496 struct so that applications which manipulate it must be recompiled.
5497 + use macros typeMalloc, typeCalloc and typeRealloc consistently
5498 throughout ncurses library.
5499 + add _nc_strdup() to doalloc.c.
5500 + modify define_key() to allow multiple strings to be bound to the
5502 + correct logic error in _nc_remove_string, from 990220.
5503 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
5504 + regenerate some of the html documentation
5505 + minor cleanup in terminal_interface-curses.adb
5508 + resolve ambiguity of kend/kll/kslt and khome/kfnd/kich1 strings in
5509 xterm and ncsa terminfo entries by removing the unneeded ones. Note
5510 that some entries will return kend & khome versus kslt and kfnd, for
5511 PC-style keyboards versus strict vt220 compatiblity - TD
5512 + add function keybound(), which returns the definition associated with
5514 + modify define_key() to undefine the given string when no keycode is
5516 + modify keyok() so it works properly if there is more than one string
5517 defined for a keycode.
5518 + add check to tic to warn about terminfo descriptions that contain
5519 more than one key assigned to the same string. This is shown only if
5520 the verbose (-v) option is given. Moved related logic (tic -v) from
5521 comp_parse.c into the tic program.
5522 + add/use _nc_trace_tries() to show the function keys that will be
5524 + rename init_acs to _nc_init_acs (request by Alexander V Lukyanov).
5525 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
5526 + remove all the *_adabind.c from ncurses, menu and form projects.
5527 Those little helper routines have all been implemented in Ada and are
5529 + The option handling routines in menu and form have been made more
5530 save. They now make sure that the unused bits in options are always
5532 + modify configuration scripts to
5533 + use gnatmake as default compiler name. This is a safer choice than
5534 gcc, because some GNAT implementations use other names for the
5535 compilerdriver to avoid conflicts.
5536 + use new default installation locations for the Ada files according
5537 to the proposed GNU Ada filesystem standard (for Linux).
5538 + simplify the Makefiles for the Ada binding
5539 + rename ada_include directory to src.
5542 + enable sigwinch handler by default.
5543 + disable logic that allows setbuf to be turned off/on, because some
5544 implementations will overrun the buffer after it has been disabled
5548 + suppress sc/rc capabilities from terminal description if they appear
5549 in smcup/rmcup. This affects only scrolling optimization, to fix a
5550 problem reported by several people with xterm's alternate screen,
5551 though the problem is more general.
5552 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
5553 + removed all pragma Preelaborate() stuff, because the just released
5554 gnat-3.11p complains on some constructs.
5555 + fixed some upper/lower case notations because gnat-3.11p found
5557 + used a new method to generate the HTML documentation of the Ada95
5558 binding. This invalidates nearly the whole ./Ada95/html subtree.
5559 Nearly all current files in this subtree are removed
5562 + cache last result from _nc_baudrate, for performance (suggested by
5563 Alexander V Lukyanov).
5564 + modify ClrUpdate() function to workaround a problem in nvi, which
5565 uses redrawwin in SIGTSTP handling. Jeffrey C Honig reported that
5566 ncurses repainted the screen with nulls before resuming normal
5567 operation (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
5568 + generalize is_xterm() function a little by letting xterm/rxvt/kterm
5569 be any substring rather than the prefix.
5570 + modify lib_data.c to initialize SP. Some linkers, e.g., IBM's, will
5571 not link a module if the only symbols exported from the module are
5572 uninitialized ones (patch by Ilya Zakharevich). Ilya says that he
5573 has seen messages claiming this behavior conforms to the standard.)
5574 + move call on _nc_signal_handler past _nc_initscr, to avoid a small
5575 window where Nttyb hasn't yet been filled (reported by Klaus Weide).
5576 + modify lib_tstp.c to block SIGTTOU when handling SIGTSTP, fixes a
5577 problem where ncurses applications which were run via a shell script
5578 would hang when given a ^Z. Also, check if the terminal's process
5579 group is consistent, i.e., a shell has not taken ownership of it,
5580 before deciding to save the current terminal settings in the SIGTSTP
5581 handler (patch by Klaus Weide).
5582 + correct spelling of ACS_ names in curs_border.3x (reported by Bob van
5583 der Poel <bvdpoel@kootenay.com>).
5584 + correct a couple of typos in the macros supporting the configure
5585 --with-shlib-version option.
5588 + modify fty_regex.c to compile on HAVE_REGEXPR_H_FUNCS machine (patch
5589 by Kimio Ishii <ishii@csl.sony.co.jp>).
5590 + rename BSDI console terminfo entries: bsdos to bsdos-pc-nobold, and
5591 bsdos-bold to bsdos-pc (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
5592 + modify tput to accept termcap names as an alternative to terminfo
5593 names (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
5594 + correct a typo in term.7 (Todd C Miller).
5595 + add configure --with-shlib-version option to allow installing shared
5596 libraries named according to release or ABI versions. This
5597 parameterizes some existing logic in the configure script, and is
5598 intended for compatiblity upgrades on Digital Unix, which used
5599 versioned libraries in ncurses 4.2, but no longer does (cf: 980425).
5600 + resync configure script against autoconf 2.13 + patches
5601 + minor improvements for teraterm terminfo entry based on the program's
5602 source distribution.
5605 + change default for configure --enable-big-core to assume machines do
5606 have enough memory to resolve terminfo.src in-memory.
5607 + correct name of ncurses library in TEST_ARGS when configuring with
5609 + minor fixes to compile ncurses library with broken-linker with g++.
5610 + add --enable-broken-linker configure option, default to environment
5611 variable $BROKEN_LINKER (request by Jeffrey C Honig).
5612 + change key_names[] array to static since it is not part of the curses
5613 interface (reported by Jeffrey C Honig <jch@bsdi.com>).
5616 + add Tera Term terminfo entry - TD
5619 + reviewed/corrected macros in curses.h as per XSI document.
5620 + provide support for termcap PC variable by copying it from terminfo
5621 data and using it as the padding character in tputs (reported by
5622 Alexander V Lukyanov).
5623 + corrected iris-ansi and iris-ansi-ap terminfo entries for kent and
5624 kf9-kf12 capabilities, as well as adding kcbt.
5625 + document the mouse handling mechanism in menu_driver and make a small
5626 change in menu_driver's return codes to provide more consistency
5627 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
5628 + add fallback definition for NCURSES_CONST to termcap.h.in (reported
5629 by Uchiyama Yasushi <uch@nop.or.jp>).
5630 + move lib_restart.c to ncurses/base, since it uses curses functions
5631 directly, and therefore cannot be used in libtinfo.so
5632 + rename micro_char_size to micro_col_size, adding #define to retain
5634 + add set_a_attributes and set_pglen_inch to terminfo structure, as per
5635 XSI and Solaris 2.5.
5636 + minor makefile files to build ncurses test_progs
5637 + update html files in misc directory to reflect changes since 4.2
5640 + disable scroll hints when hashmap is enabled (patch by Alexander
5642 + move logic for tic's verify of -e option versus -I and -C so that the
5643 terminfo data is not processed if we cannot handle -e (reported by
5644 Steven Schwartz <steves@unitrends.com>.
5645 + add test-driver traces to terminfo and termcap functions.
5646 + provide support for termcap ospeed variable by copying it from the
5647 internal cur_term member, and using ospeed as the baudrate reference
5648 for the delay_output and tputs functions. If an application does not
5649 set ospeed, the library behaves as before, except that _nc_timed_wait
5650 is no longer used, or needed, since ospeed always has a value. But
5651 the application can modify ospeed to adjust the output of padding
5652 characters (prompted by a bug report for screen 3.7.6 and email from
5653 Michael Schroeder <Michael.Schroeder@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>).
5654 + removed some unused ifdef's as part of Alexander's restructuring.
5655 + reviewed/updated curses.h, term.h against X/Open Curses Issue 4
5656 Version 2. This includes making some parameters NCURSES_CONST
5657 rather than const, e.g., in termcap.h.
5658 + change linux terminfo entry to use ncv#2, since underline does not
5662 + miscellaneous corrections for curses.h to match XSI.
5663 + change --enable-no-padding configure option to be normally enabled.
5664 + add section to ncurses manpage for environment variables.
5665 + investigated Debian bug report that pertains to screen 3.7.4/3.7.6
5666 changes, found no sign of problems on Linux (or on SunOS, Solaris)
5667 running screen built with ncurses.
5668 + check if tmp_fp is opened in tic.c before closing it (patch by Pavel
5669 Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>).
5670 + correct several font specification typos in man-pages.
5673 + correct default value for BUILD_CC (reported by Larry Virden).
5676 + modify _nc_set_writedir() to set a flag in _nc_tic_dir() to prevent
5677 it from changing the terminfo directory after chdir'ing to it.
5678 Otherwise, a relative path in $TERMINFO would confuse tic (prompted
5679 by a Debian bug report).
5680 + correct/update ncsa terminfo entry (report by Larry Virden).
5681 + update xterm-xfree86 terminfo to current (patch 90), smcur/rmcur
5683 + add Mathew Vernon's mach console entries to terminfo.src
5684 + more changes, moving functions, as part of Alexander's restructuring.
5685 + modify configure script for GNU/Hurd share-library support, introduce
5686 BUILD_CC variable for cross compiling (patch by Uchiyama Yasushi
5690 + add environment variable NCURSES_NO_SETBUF to allow disabling the
5691 setbuf feature, for testing purposes.
5692 + correct ifdef's for termcap.h versus term.h that suppress redundant
5693 declarations of prototypes (reported by H.J.Lu).
5694 + modify Makefile.os2 to add linker flags which allow multiple copies
5695 of an application to coexist (reported by Ilya Zakharevich).
5696 + update Makefile.glibc and associated configure script so that ncurses
5697 builds as a glibc add-on with the new directory configuration
5698 (reported by H.J.Lu).
5701 + modify gen_reps() function in gen.c to work properly on SunOS
5702 (sparc), which is a left-to-right architecture.
5703 + modify relative_move and tputs to avoid an interaction with the
5704 BSD-style padding. The relative_move function could produce a string
5705 to replace on the screen which began with a numeric character, which
5706 was then interpreted by tputs as padding. Now relative_move will not
5707 generate a string with a leading digit in that case (overwrite).
5708 Also, tputs will only interpret padding if the string begins with a
5709 digit; as coded it permitted a string to begin with a decimal point
5710 or asterisk (reported by Larry Virden).
5711 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
5712 + fix a typo in m_driver.c mouse handling and improves the error
5714 + fix broken mouse handling in the Ada95 binding
5715 + make the Ada95 sample application menus work with the new menu mouse
5717 + improve the mouse handling introduced by Ilya; it now handles menus
5719 + repair a minor bug in the menu_driver code discovered during this
5721 + add new function wmouse_trafo() to hide implementation details of
5722 _yoffset member of WINDOW struct needed for mouse coordinate
5726 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to avoid using return-value of sprintf, since
5727 some older implementations (e.g., SunOS 4.x) return the buffer
5728 address rather than its length.
5729 > patch by Rick Ohnemus:
5730 + modify demo.cc to get it to compile with newer versions of egcs.
5731 + trim a space that appears at the end of the table preprocessor lines
5732 ('\" t). This space prevents some versions of man from displaying
5733 the pages - changed to remove all trailing whitespace (TD)
5734 + finally, 'make clean' does not remove panel objects.
5735 > patches by Ilya Zakharevich:
5736 + allow remapping of OS/2 mouse buttons using environment variable
5737 MOUSE_BUTTONS_123 with the default value 132.
5738 + add mouse support to ncurses menus.
5741 + modify misc/makedef.cmd to report old-style .def file symbols, and to
5742 generate the .def files sorted by increasing names rather than the
5744 + add misc/*.ref which are J.J.G.Ripoll's dll definition files (renamed
5745 from misc/*.old), and updated based on the entrypoint coding he used
5746 for an older version of ncurses.
5747 + add README.emx, to document how to build on OS/2 EMX.
5748 + updates for config.guess, config.sub from Lynx
5749 > patches by Ilya Zakharevich:
5750 + minor fixes for mouse handling mode:
5751 a) Do not initialize mouse if the request is to have no mouse;
5752 b) Allow switching of OS/2 VIO mouse on and off.
5753 + modify Makefile.os2 to support alternative means of generating
5754 configure script, by translating Unix script with Perl.
5755 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
5756 + Updates MANIFEST to reflect changes in source structure
5757 + Eliminates a problem introduced with my last patch for the C++
5758 binding in the panels code. It removes the update() call done in the
5760 + Changes in the Ada95 binding to better support systems where
5761 sizeof(chtype)!=sizeof(int) (e.g. DEC Alpha).
5764 + modify install-script for manpages to skip over .orig and .rej files
5765 (request by Larry Virden).
5766 > patches/discussion by Alexander V Lukyanov:
5767 + move base-library sources into ncurses/base and tty (serial terminal)
5768 sources into ncurses/tty, as part of Alexander V Lukyanov's proposed
5769 changes to ncurses library.
5770 + copy _tracemouse() into ncurses.c so that lib_tracemse.c need not
5771 be linked into the normal ncurses library.
5772 + move macro winch to a function, to hide details of struct ldat
5773 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
5774 + fix a potential compile problem in cursesw.cc
5775 + some Ada95 cosmetics
5776 + fix a gen.c problem when compiling on 64-Bit machines
5777 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in "-L" linker switch
5778 + modify Ada95 makefiles to use the INSTALL_PREFIX setting.
5781 + ifdef'd out lib_freeall.c when not configured.
5782 + rename _tracebits() to _nc_tracebits().
5783 + move terminfo-library sources into ncurses/tinfo, and trace-support
5784 functions into ncurses/trace as part of Alexander V Lukyanov's
5785 proposed changes to ncurses library.
5786 + modify generated term.h to always specify its own definitions for
5787 HAVE_TERMIOS_H, etc., to guard against inclusion by programs with
5788 broken configure scripts.
5791 + modify terminfo parsing to accept octal and hexadecimal constants,
5793 + remove an autoconf 2.10 artifact from the configure script's check
5794 for "-g" compiler options. (Though harmless, this confused someone
5795 at Debian, who recently issued a patch that results in the opposite
5797 + add configure option --with-ada-compiler to accommodate installations
5798 that do not use gcc as the driver for GNAT (patch by Juergen
5802 + ensure ./man exists in configure script, needed when configuring
5803 with --srcdir option.
5804 + modify infocmp "-r" option to remove limit on formatted termcap
5805 output, which makes it more like Solaris' version.
5806 + modify captoinfo to treat no-argument case more like Solaris'
5807 version, which uses the contents of $TERMCAP as the entry to format.
5808 + modify mk-2nd.awk to handle subdirectories, e.g., ncurses/tty
5809 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
5812 + modify --with-terminfo-dirs option so that the default value is the
5813 ${datadir} value, unless $TERMINFO_DIRS is already set. This gets
5814 rid of a hardcoded list of candidate directories in the configure
5816 + add some error-checking to _nc_read_file_entry() to ensure that
5817 strings are properly terminated (Todd C Miller).
5818 + rename manpage file curs_scr_dmp.3x to curs_scr_dump.3x, to
5819 correspond with contents (reported by Neil Zanella
5820 <nzanella@cs.mun.ca>).
5821 + remove redundant configure check for C++ which did not work when $CXX
5822 was specified with a full pathname (reported by Andreas Jaeger).
5823 + corrected bcopy/memmove check; the macro was not standalone.
5826 + remove unnecessary portion of OS/2 EMX mouse change from
5827 check_pending() (reported by Alexander V Lukyanov).
5830 + implement mouse support for OS/2 EMX (adapted from patch against
5831 4.2(?) by Ilya Zakharevich).
5832 + add configure-check for bcopy/memmove, for 980919 changes to hashmap.
5833 + merge Data General terminfo from Hasufin <hasufin@vidnet.net> - TD
5834 + merge AIX 3.2.5 terminfo descriptions for IBM terminals, replaces
5835 some older entries - TD
5836 + modify tic to compile into %'char' form in preference to %{number},
5837 since that is a little more efficient.
5838 + minor correction to infocmp to avoid displaying "difference" between
5839 two capabilities that are rendered in equivalent forms.
5840 + add -g option to tic/infocmp to force character constants to be
5841 displayed in quoted form. Otherwise their decimal values are shown.
5842 + modify setupterm so that cancelled strings are treated the same as
5843 absent strings, cancelled and absent booleans false (does not affect
5845 + modify tic, infocmp to discard redundant i3, r3 strings when output
5847 > patch by Alexander V Lukyanov:
5848 + improve performance of tparm, now it takes 19% instead of 25% when
5850 + rename maxlen/minlen to prec/width for better readability.
5851 + use format string for printing strings.
5852 + use len argument correctly in save_text, and pass it to save_number.
5855 + make test_progs compile (but hashmap does not function).
5856 + correct NC_BUFFERED macro, used in lib_mvcur test-driver, modify
5857 associated logic to avoid freeing the SP->_setbuf data.
5858 + add modules home_terminfo and getenv_num to libtinfo.
5859 + move write_entry to libtinfo, to work with termcap caching.
5860 + minor fixes to blue.c to build with atac.
5861 + remove softscroll.c module; no longer needed for testing.
5862 > patches by Todd C Miller:
5863 + use strtol(3) instead of atoi(3) when parsing env variables so we can
5864 detect a bogus (non-numeric) value.
5865 + check for terminal names > MAX_NAME_SIZE in a few more places when
5866 dealing with env variables again.
5867 + fix a MAX_NAME_SIZE that should be MAX_NAME_SIZE+1
5868 + use sizeof instead of strlen(3) on PRIVATE_INFO since it is a fixed
5869 string #define (compile time vs runtime).
5870 + when setting errno to ENOMEM, set it right before the return, not
5871 before code that could, possibly, set errno to a different value.
5872 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
5873 + use default background in update_cost_from_blank()
5874 + disable scroll-hints when hashmap is configured.
5875 + improve integration of hashmap scrolling code, by adding oldhash and
5876 newhash data to SP struct.
5877 + invoke del_curterm from delscreen.
5878 + modify del_curterm to set cur_term to null if it matches the
5879 function's parameter which is deleted.
5880 + modify lib_doupdate to prefer parm_ich to the enter_insert_mode and
5881 exit_insert_mode combination, adjusting InsCharCost to check
5882 enter_insert_mode, exit_insert_mode and insert_padding. Add
5883 insert_padding in insert mode after each char. This adds new costs
5887 + modify test-driver in lib_mvcur.s to use _nc_setbuffer, for
5888 consistent treatment.
5889 + modify ncurses to restore output to unbuffered on endwin, and resume
5890 buffering in refresh (see lib_set_term.c and NC_BUFFERED macro).
5891 + corrected HTML version numbers (according to the W3C validator, they
5892 never were HTML 2.0-compliant, but are acceptable 3.0).
5895 + modify MKterminfo.sh to generate terminfo.5 with tables sorted by
5896 capability name, as in SVr4.
5897 + modified term.h, termcap.h headers to avoid redundant declarations.
5898 + change 'u_int' type in tset.c to unsigned, making this compile on
5899 Sequent PRX 4.1 (reported by Michael Sterrett <msterret@coat.com>).
5902 + corrections to mailing addresses, and moving the magic line that
5903 causes the man program to invoke tbl to the first line of each
5904 manpage (patch by Rick Ohnemus <rick@ecompcon.com>).
5905 + add Makefile.os2 and supporting scripts to generate dll's on OS/2 EMX
5906 (from J.J.G.Ripoll, with further integration by TD).
5907 + correct a typo in icl6404 terminfo entry.
5908 + add xtermm and xtermc terminfo entries.
5909 > from esr's terminfo version:
5910 + Added Francesco Potorti's tuned Wyse 99 entries.
5911 + dtterm enacs (from Alexander V Lukyanov).
5912 + Add ncsa-ns, ncsa-m-ns and ncsa-m entries from esr version.
5915 + document AT&T acs characters in terminfo.5 manpage.
5916 + use EMX _scrsize() function if terminfo and environment do not
5917 declare the screen size (reported by Ilya Zakharevich
5918 <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>).
5919 + remove spurious '\' characters from eterm and osborne terminfo
5920 entries (prompted by an old Debian bug report).
5921 + correct reversed malloc/realloc calls in _nc_doalloc (reported by
5922 Hans-Joachim Widmaier <hjwidmai@foxboro.com>).
5923 + correct misplaced parenthesis which caused file-descriptor from
5924 opening termcap to be lost, from 980725 changes (reported by Andreas
5928 + modify lib_setup.c to eliminate unneeded include of <sys/ioctl.h>
5929 when termios is not used (patch by Todd C Miller).
5930 + add function _nc_doalloc, to ensure that failed realloc calls do not
5931 leak memory (reported by Todd C Miller).
5932 + improved ncsa-telnet terminfo entry.
5935 + correct missing braces around a trace statement in read_entry.c,
5936 from 980808 (reported by Kim DeVaughn <kimdv@best.com> and Liviu
5940 + fix missing include <errno.h> in ditto.c (reported by Bernhard
5941 Rosenkraenzer <bero@k5.sucks.eu.org>)
5942 + add NCSA telnet terminfo entries from Francesco Potorti
5943 <F.Potorti@cnuce.cnr.it>, from Debian bug reports.
5944 + make handling of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables more compatible with
5945 Solaris by allowing them to individually override the window size
5946 as obtained via ioctl.
5949 + modify lib_vidattr.c to allow for terminal types (e.g., xterm-color)
5950 which may reset all attributes in the 'op' capability, so that colors
5951 are set before turning on bold and other attributes, but still after
5952 turning attributes off.
5953 + add 'ditto.c' to test directory to illustrate use of newterm for
5954 initializing multiple screens.
5955 + modify _nc_write_entry() to recover from failed attempt to link alias
5956 for a terminfo on a filesystem which does not preserve character case
5957 (reported by Peter L Jordan <PJordan@chla.usc.edu>).
5960 + updated versions of config.guess and config.sub based on automake 1.3
5961 + change name-comparisons in lib_termcap to compare no more than 2
5962 characters (gleaned from Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-8.8, verified
5963 with Solaris curses).
5964 + fix typo in curs_insstr.3x (patch by Todd C Miller)
5965 + use 'access()' to check if ncurses library should be permitted to
5966 open or modify files with fopen/open/link/unlink/remove calls, in
5967 case the calling application is running in setuid mode (request by
5968 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>, responding to Duncan Simpson
5969 <dps@io.stargate.co.uk>).
5970 + arm100 terminfo entries from Dave Millen <dmill@globalnet.co.uk>).
5971 + qnxt2 and minitel terminfo entries from esr's version.
5974 + use -R option with ldconfig on FreeBSD because otherwise it resets
5975 the search path to /usr/lib (reported by Dan Nelson).
5976 + add -soname option when building shared libraries on OpenBSD 2.x
5977 (request by QingLong).
5978 + add configure options --with-manpage-format and
5979 --with-manpage-renames (request by QingLong).
5980 + correct conversion of CANCELLED_NUMERIC in write_object(), which was
5981 omitting the high-order byte, producing a 254 in the compiled
5983 + modify return-values of tgetflag, tgetnum, tgetstr, tigetflag,
5984 tigetnum and tigetstr to be compatible with Solaris (gleaned from
5985 Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-8.8).
5986 + modify _nc_syserr_abort to abort only when compiled for debugging,
5987 otherwise simply exit with an error.
5990 + modify Ada95 'gen' program to use appropriate library suffix (e.g.,
5991 "_g" for a debug build).
5992 + update Ada95 'make clean' rule to include generics .ali files
5993 + add a configure test to ensure that if GNAT is found, that it can
5994 compile/link working Ada95 program.
5995 + flush output in beep and flash functions, fixing a problem with
5996 getstr (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov)
5997 + fix egcs 1.0.2 warning for etip.h (patch by Chris Johns).
5998 + correct ifdef/brace nesting in lib_sprintf.c (patch by Bernhard
5999 Rosenkraenzer <bero@Pool.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>).
6000 + correct typo in wattr_get macro from 980509 fixes (patch by Dan
6004 + merge changes from current XFree86 xterm terminfo descriptions.
6005 + add configure option '--without-ada'.
6006 + add a smart-default for termcap 'ac' to terminfo 'acs_chars' which
6007 corresponds to vt100.
6008 + change translation for termcap 'rs' to terminfo 'rs2', which is
6009 the documented equivalent, rather than 'rs1'.
6012 + slow 'worm' down a little, for very fast machines.
6013 + corrected firstchar/lastchar computation in lib_hline.c
6014 + simplify some expressions with CHANGED_CELL, CHANGED_RANGE and
6015 CHANGED_TO_EOL macros.
6016 + modify init_pair so that if a color-pair is reinitialized, we will
6017 repaint the areas of the screen whose color changes, like SVr4 curses
6018 (reported by Christian Maurer <maurer@inf.fu-berlin.de>).
6019 + modify getsyx/setsyx macros to comply with SVr4 man-page which
6020 says that leaveok() affects their behavior (report by Darryl Miles,
6021 patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
6024 + review terminfo.5 against Solaris 2.6 curses version, corrected
6025 several minor errors/omissions.
6026 + implement tparm %l format.
6027 + implement tparm printf-style width and precision for %s, %d, %x, %o
6029 + implement tparm dynamic variables (reported by Xiaodan Tang).
6032 + update man-page for for wattr_set, wattr_get (cf: 980509)
6033 + correct limits in hashtest, which would cause nonprinting characters
6034 to be written to large screens.
6035 + correct configure script, when --without-cxx was specified: the
6036 wrong variable was used for cf_cv_type_of_bool. Compilers up to gcc
6037 2.8 tolerated the missing 'int'.
6038 + remove the hardcoded name "gcc" for the GNU Ada compiler. The
6039 compiler's name might be something like "egcs" (patch by Juergen
6041 + correct curs_addch.3x, which implied that echochar could directly
6042 display control characters (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
6043 + fix typos in ncurses-intro.html (patch by Sidik Isani
6044 <isani@cfht.hawaii.edu>)
6047 + add configure test for conflicting use of exception in math.h and
6049 + minor optimization to 'hash()' function in hashmap.c, reduces its
6051 + correct form of LD_SHARED_OPTS for HP-UX 10.x (patch by Tim Mooney).
6052 + fix missing quotes for 'print' in MKunctrl.awk script (reported by
6053 Mihai Budiu <mihaib@gs41.sp.cs.cmu.edu>).
6054 > patch by Alexander V Lukyanov:
6055 + correct problem on Solaris (with poll() function) where getch could
6056 hang indefinitely even if timeout(x) was called. This turned out to
6057 be because milliseconds was not updated before 'goto retry' in
6059 + simplified the function _nc_timed_wait and fixed another bug, which
6060 was the assumption of !GOOD_SELECT && HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY in *timeleft
6062 + removed the cycle on EINTR, as it seems to be useless.
6065 + add makefile-rule for test/keynames
6066 + modify run_tic.sh and shlib to ensure that user's .profile does not
6067 override the $PATH used to run tic (patch by Tim Mooney).
6068 + restore LD_SHARED_OPTS to $(LD_SHARED_FLAGS) when linking programs,
6069 needed for HP-UX shared-library path (recommended by Tim Mooney).
6070 + remove special case of HP-UX -L options, use +b options to embed
6071 $(libdir) in the shared libraries (recommended by Tim Mooney).
6072 + add checks for some possible buffer overflows and unchecked
6073 malloc/realloc/calloc/strdup return values (patch by Todd C Miller
6074 <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>)
6077 + correct maxx/maxy expression for num_columns/num_lines in derwin
6078 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
6079 + add /usr/share/lib/terminfo and /usr/lib/terminfo as compatibilty
6080 fallbacks to _nc_read_entry(), along with --with-terminfo-dirs
6081 configure option (suggested by Mike Hopkirk).
6082 + modify config.guess to recognize Unixware 2.1 and 7 (patch by Mike
6083 Hopkirk <hops@sco.com>).
6084 + suppress definition of CC_SHARED_OPTS in LDFLAGS_SHARED in c++
6085 Makefile.in, since this conflicts when g++ is used with HP-UX
6086 compiler (reported by Tim Mooney).
6087 + parenthesize 'strcpy' calls in c++ binding to workaround redefinition
6088 in some C++ implementations (reported by several people running
6089 egcs with glibc 2.0.93, analysis by Andreas Jaeger.
6092 + modify write_entry.c so that it will not attempt to link aliases
6093 with embedded '/', but give only a warning.
6094 + put -L$(libdir) first when linking programs, except for HP-UX.
6095 + modify comp_scan.c to handle SVr4 terminfo description for att477,
6096 which contains a colon in the description field.
6097 + modify configure script to support SCO osr5.0.5 shared libraries,
6098 from comp.unix.sco.programmer newsgroup item (Mike Hopkirk).
6099 + eliminate extra GoTo call in lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V.
6101 + minor adjustments of const/NCURSES_CONST from IRIX compile.
6102 + add updates based on esr's 980509 version of terminfo.src.
6105 + correct macros for wattr_set, wattr_get, separate wattrset macro from
6106 these to preserve behavior that allows attributes to be combined with
6108 + add configure option --enable-no-padding, to allow environment
6109 variable $NCURSES_NO_PADDING to eliminate non-mandatory padding,
6110 thereby making terminal emulators (e.g., for vt100) a little more
6111 efficient (request by Daniel Eisenbud <eisenbud@cs.swarthmore.edu>).
6112 + modify configure script to embed ABI in shared libraries for HP-UX
6113 10.x (detailed request by Tim Mooney).
6114 + add test/example of the 'filter()' function.
6115 + add nxterm and xterm-color terminfo description (request by Cristian
6116 Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>).
6117 + modify rxvt terminfo description to clear alternate screen before
6118 switching back to normal screen, for compatibility with applications
6119 which use xterm (reported by Manoj Kasichainula <manojk@io.com>).
6120 + modify linux terminfo description to reset color palette (reported
6121 by Telford Tendys <telford@eng.uts.edu.au>).
6122 + correction to doupdate, for case where terminal does not support
6123 insert/delete character. The logic did not check that there was a
6124 difference in alignment of changes to old/new screens before
6125 repainting the whole non-blank portion of the line. Modified to fall
6126 through into logic that reduces by the portion which does not differ
6127 (reported by Daniel Eisenbud <eisenbud@cs.swarthmore.edu>).
6128 + minor performance improvement to wnoutrefresh by moving some
6129 comparisons out of inner loop.
6132 + modify configure script to substitute NCURSES_CONST in curses.h
6133 + updated terminfo entries for xterm-xf86-v40, xterm-16color,
6134 xterm-8bit to correspond to XFree86 3.9Ag.
6135 + remove restriction that forces ncurses to use setaf/setab if the
6136 number of colors is greater than 8. (see 970524 for xterm-16color).
6137 + change order of -L options (so that $(libdir) is searched first) when
6138 linking tic and other programs, to workaround HP's linker.
6139 Otherwise, the -L../lib is embedded when linking against shared
6140 libraries and the installed program does not run (reported by Ralf
6142 + modify configuration of shared libraries on Digital Unix so that
6143 versioning is embedded in the library, rather than implied by
6144 links (patch by Tim Mooney).
6147 + modify etip.h to avoid conflict with math.h on HP-UX 9.03 with gcc
6148 2.8.1 which redefines 'exception' (reported by Ralf Hildebrandt
6149 <R.Hildebrandt@tu-bs.de>).
6150 + correct configure tests in CF_SHARED_OPTS which used $CC value to
6151 check for gcc, rather than autoconf's $GCC value. This did not
6152 work properly if the full pathname of the compiler were given
6153 (reported by Michael Yount <yount@csf.Colorado.edu>).
6154 + revise check for compiler options to force ANSI mode since repeating
6155 an option such as -Aa causes HP's compiler to fail on its own headers
6156 (reported by Clint Olsen <olsenc@ichips.intel.com>).
6159 + ifdef'd has_key() and mcprint() as extended functions.
6160 + modified several prototypes to correspond with 1997 version of
6161 X/Open Curses (affects ABI since developers have used attr_get).
6162 + remove spurious trailing blanks in glibc addon-scripts (patch by
6164 + insert a few braces at locations where gcc-2.8.x asks to use them to
6165 avoid ambigous else's, use -fpic rather than -fPIC for Linux (patch
6166 by Juergen Pfeifer).
6169 + split SHLIB_LIST into SHLIB_DIRS/SHLIB_LIST to keep -L options
6170 before -l to accommodate Solaris' linker (reported by Larry Virden).
6173 + modify lib_color.c to eliminate dependency on orig_colors and
6174 orig_pair, since SVr4 curses does not require these either, but
6175 uses them when they are available.
6176 + add detailed usage-message to infocmp.
6177 + correct a typo in att6386 entry (a "%?" which was "?").
6178 + add -f option to infocmp and tic, which formats the terminfo
6179 if/then/else/endif so that they are readable (with newlines and
6181 + fixes for glibc addon scripts (patch by H.J.Lu).
6184 + revise configure macro CF_SPEED_TYPE so that termcap.h has speed_t
6185 declared (from Adam J Richter <adam@yggdrasil.com>)
6186 + remove spurious curs_set() call from leaveok() (J T Conklin).
6187 + corrected handling leaveok() in doupdate() (patch by Alexander V.
6189 + improved version of wredrawln (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
6190 + correct c++/Makefile.in so install target do not have embedded ../lib
6191 to confuse it (patch by Thomas Graf <graf@essi.fr>).
6192 + add warning to preinstall rule which checks if the installer would
6193 overwrite a curses.h or termcap.h that is not derived from ncurses.
6194 (The recommended configuration for developers who need both is to
6195 use --disable-overwrite).
6196 + modify preinstall rule in top-level Makefile to avoid implicit
6197 use of 'sh', to accommodate Ultrix 4.4 (reported by Joao Palhoto
6198 Matos <jmatos@math.ist.utl.pt>, patch by Thomas Esser
6199 <te@informatik.uni-hannover.de>)
6200 + refine ifdef's for TRACE so that libncurses has fewer dependencies
6201 on libtinfo when TRACE is disabled.
6202 + modify configure script so that if the --with-termlib option is used
6203 to generate a separate terminfo library, we chain it to the ncurses
6204 library with a "-l" option (reported by Darryl Miles and Ian T.
6208 + correct limits and window in wredrawln function (reported/analysis by
6209 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
6210 + correct sed expression in configure script for --with-fallback
6211 option (patch by Jesse Thilo).
6212 + correct some places in configure script where $enableval was used
6213 rather than $withval (patch by Darryl Miles <dlm@g7led.demon.co.uk>).
6214 + modify some man-pages so no '.' or '..' falls between TH and SH
6215 macros, to accommodate man_db program (reported by Ian T. Zimmerman
6217 + terminfo.src 10.2.1 downloaded from ESR's webpage (ESR).
6218 > several changes by Juergen Pfeifer:
6219 + add copyright notices (and rcs id's) on remaining man-pages.
6220 + corrected prototypes for slk_* functions, using chtype rather than
6222 + implemented the wcolor_set() and slk_color() functions
6223 + the slk_attr_{set,off,on} functions need an additional void*
6224 parameter according to XSI.
6225 + fix the C++ and Ada95 binding as well as the man pages to
6226 reflect above enhancements.
6229 + use 'stat()' rather than 'access()' in toe.c to check for the
6230 existence of $HOME/.terminfo, since it may be a file.
6231 + suppress configure CF_CXX_LIBRARY check if we are not using g++
6232 2.7.x, since this is not needed with g++ 2.8 or egcs (patch by
6234 + turn on hashmap scrolling code by default, intend to remedy defects
6236 + minor corrections to terminfo.src changelog.
6238 980302 4.2 release for upload to prep.ai.mit.edu
6239 + correct Florian's email address in ncurses-intro.html
6240 + terminfo.src 10.2.0 (ESR).
6243 + add linux-koi8r replace linux-koi8, which is not KOI8 (patch by
6244 QingLong <qinglong@Bolizm.ihep.su>).
6245 + minor documentation fixes (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
6246 + add setlocale() call to ncurses.c (reported by Claes G. Lindblad
6247 <claesg@algonet.se>).
6248 + correct sign-extension in lib_insstr.c (reported by Sotiris
6249 Vassilopoulos <svas@leon.nrcps.ariadne-t.gr>)
6252 + regenerated some documentation overlooked in 980214 patch
6253 (ncurses-intro.doc, curs_outopts.3x.html)
6254 + minor ifdef change to C++ binding to work with gcc 2.8.0 (patch by
6256 + change maintainer's mailing address to florian@gnu.org, change
6257 tentative mailing list address to bug-ncurses-request@gnu.org (patch
6258 by Florian La Roche).
6259 + add definition of $(REL_VERSION) to c++/Makefile.in (reported by Gran
6260 Hasse <gh@raditex.se>).
6261 + restore version numbers to Ada95 binding, accidentally deleted by
6262 copyright patch (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
6265 + remove ncurses.lsm from MANIFEST so that it won't be used in FSF
6266 distributions, though it is retained in development.
6267 + correct scaling of milliseconds to nanoseconds in lib_napms.c (patch
6269 + update mailing-list information (bug-ncurses@gnu.org).
6270 + update announcement for upcoming 4.2 release.
6271 + modify -lm test to check for 'sin()' rather than 'floor()'
6272 + remove spurious commas from terminfo.src descriptions.
6273 + change copyright notices to Free Software Foundation
6276 + minor fixes for autoconf macros CF_ERRNO, CF_HELP_MESSAGE and
6278 + modify Makefile.glibc so that $(objpfx) is defined (H.J.Lu).
6279 + ifdef-out true-return from _nc_mouse_inline() which depends on
6280 merge of QNX patch (pending 4.2 release).
6281 > patch to split off seldom-used modules in ncurses (J T Conklin):
6282 This reduces size by up to 2.6kb.
6283 + move functionality of _nc_usleep into napms, add configuration case
6285 + moved wchgat() from lib_addch.c to lib_chgat.c
6286 + moved clearok(), immedok(), leaveok(), and scrollok() from
6287 lib_options.c to lib_clearok.c, lib_immedok.c, lib_leaveok.c and
6289 + moved napms() from lib_kernel.c to lib_napms.c
6290 + moved echo() and noecho() from lib_raw.c to lib_echo.c
6291 + moved nl() and nonl() from lib_raw.c to lib_nl.c
6294 + corrected conversion in tclock.c (cf: 971018).
6295 + updates to Makefile.glibc and associated Linux configure script
6297 + workaround a quoting problem on SunOS with tar-copy.sh
6298 + correct init_pair() calls in worm.c to work when use_default_colors()
6300 + include <sys/types.h> in CF_SYS_TIME_SELECT to work with FreeBSD
6302 + add ncv capability to FreeBSD console (cons25w), making reverse
6304 + correct sense of configure-test for sys/time.h inclusion with
6306 + fixes for Ada95/ada_include/Makefile.in to work with --srcdir option.
6307 + remove unused/obsolete test-program rules from progs/Makefile.in
6308 (the rules in ncurses/Makefile.in work).
6309 + remove shared-library loader flags from test/Makefile.in, etc.
6310 + simplify test/configure.in using new version of autoconf to create
6312 + suppress suffix rules in test/Makefile.in, provide explicit
6313 dependency to work with --srcdir option and less capable 'make'
6315 > adapted from patch for QNX by Xiaodan Tang:
6316 + initialize %P and %g variables set/used in tparm, and also ensure
6317 that empty strings don't return a null result from tparam_internal
6318 + add QNX-specific prototype for vsscanf()
6319 + move initialization of SP->_keytry from init_keytry() to newterm() to
6320 avoid resetting it via a keyok() call by mouse_activate().
6321 + reorganized some functions in lib_mouse() to use case-statements.
6322 + remove sgr string from qnx terminfo entry since it is reported to
6323 turn off attributes inconsistently.
6326 + add f/F/b/B commands to ncurses 'b' test to toggle colors, providing
6327 test for no_color_video.
6328 + adjusted emx.src to use no_color_video, now works with ncurses 'b'
6330 + implement no_color_video attribute, and as a special case, reverse
6331 colors when the reverse attribute cannot be combined with color.
6332 + check for empty string in $TERM variable (reported by Brett Michaels
6334 > from reports by Fred Fish:
6335 + add configure-test for isascii
6336 + add configure-test for -lm library.
6337 + modify CF_BOOL_SIZE to check if C++ bool types are unsigned.
6338 > patches by J.J.G.Ripoll
6339 + add configure/makefile variables to support .exe extension on
6340 OS/2 EMX (requires additional autoconf patches).
6341 + explicitly initialize variables in lib_data.c to appease OS/2 linker
6342 > patches by Fred Fish <fnf@ninemoons.com>
6343 + misc/Makefile.in (install.data): Avoid trying to install the CVS
6345 + aclocal.m4 (install.includes): Remove files in the include directory
6346 where we are going to install new ones, not the original source
6348 + misc/terminfo.src: Add entry for "beterm", derived from termcap
6349 distributed with BeOS PR2 using captoinfo.
6350 + aclocal.m4: Wrap $cf_cv_type_of_bool with quotes (contains space)
6351 + aclocal.m4: Assume bool types are unsigned.
6352 + progs/infocmp.c: workaround mwcc 32k function data limit
6355 + correct initialization of color-pair (cf: 970524) in xmas.c, which
6356 was using only one color-pair for all colors (reported by
6358 + add multithread options for objects build on EMX, for compatibility
6360 + split up an expression in MKlib_gen.sh to work around a problem on
6361 OS/2 EMX, with 'ash' (patch by J.J.G.Ripoll).
6362 + change terminfo entries xterm (xterm-xf86-v40), xterm-8bit rs1 to use
6364 + rename terminfo entry xterm-xf86-v39t to xterm-xf86-v40
6365 + remove bold/underline from sun console entries since they're not
6367 + correct _tracef calls in _tracedump(), which did not separate format
6369 + correct getopt string for tic "-o" option, and add it to man-page
6370 synopsis (reported by Darren Hiebert <darren@hmi.com>).
6371 + correct typo in panel/Makefile.in, reversed if-statement in scrolling
6372 optimization (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
6373 + test for 'remove()', use 'unlink() if not found (patch by Philippe De
6374 Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>).
6375 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
6376 + Improve a feature of the forms driver. For invisible fields
6377 (O_VISIBLE off) only the contents but not the attributes are cleared.
6378 We now clear both. (Reported by Javier Kohan
6379 <jkohan@adan.fceia.unr.edu.ar>)
6380 + The man page form_field_opts.3x makes now clear, that invisible
6381 fields are also always inactive.
6382 + adjust ifdef's to compile the C++ binding with the just released
6383 gcc-2.8.0 c++ and the corresponding new C++ libraries.
6386 + correct "?" command in ncurses.c; it was performing non-screen writes
6387 while the program was in screen mode. (It "worked" in 1.9.9e because
6388 that version sets OPOST and OCRNL incorrectly).
6389 + return error from functions in lib_kernel, lib_raw and lib_ti if
6390 cur_term is null, or if underlying I/O fails.
6391 + amend change to tputs() so that it does not return an error if
6392 cur_term is null, since some applications depend on being able to use
6393 tputs without initializing the terminal (reported by Christian J.
6394 Robinson <infynity@cyberhighway.net>).
6397 + add a copy of emx.src from J.J.G.Ripoll's OS/2 EMX version of ncurses
6398 1.9.9e, together with fixes/additions for the "ansi" terminal type.
6399 + add tic check for save/restore cursor if change_scroll_region is
6400 defined (reference: O'Reilly book).
6401 + modify read_termcap.c to handle EMX-style pathnames (reported by
6403 + modify lib_raw.c to use EMX's setmode (patch from J.J.G.Ripoll).
6404 Ripoll says EMX's curses does this.
6405 + modify _nc_tic_expand() to generate \0 rather than \200.
6406 + move/revise 'expand()' from dump_entry.c to ncurses library as
6407 _nc_tic_expand(), for use by tack.
6408 + decode \a as \007 for terminfo, as per XSI.
6409 + correct translation of terminfo "^@", to \200, like \0.
6410 + modify next_char() to treat <cr><lf> the same as <newline>, for
6411 cross-platform compatibility.
6412 + use new version of autoconf (971230) to work around limited
6413 environment on CLIX, due to the way autoconf builds --help message.
6414 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
6415 + check that the Ada95 binding runs against the correct version of
6417 + insert constants about the library version into the main spec-file of
6421 + modify open/fopen calls to use binary mode, needed for EMX.
6422 + modify configure script to work with autoconf 2.10 mods for OS/2
6423 EMX (from J.J.G.Ripoll).
6424 + generated ncurses_cfg.h with patch (971222) to autoconf 2.12 which
6425 bypasses limited sed buffer length.
6426 > several changes from Juan Jose Garcia Ripoll <worm@arrakis.es>
6427 (J.J.G.Ripoll) to support OS/2 EMX:
6428 + add a _scrolling flag to SP, to set when we encounter a terminal
6429 that simply cannot scroll.
6430 + corrected logic in _nc_add_to_try(), by ensuring that strings with
6431 embedded \200 characters are matched.
6432 + don't assume the host has 'link()' function, for linking terminfo
6436 + if there's no ioctl's to support sigwinch handler, disable it.
6437 + add configure option --disable-ext-funcs to remove the extended
6438 functions from the build.
6439 + add configure option --with-termlib to generate the terminfo
6440 functions as a separate library.
6441 + add 'sources' rule to facilitate cross-compiling.
6442 + review/fix order of mostlyclean/clean/distclean rules.
6443 + modify install-rule for headers to first remove old header, in
6444 case there was a symbolic link that confuses the install script.
6445 + corrected substitution for NCURSES_CONST in term.h (cf: 971108)
6446 + add null pointer checks in wnoutrefresh(), overlap() (patch by
6447 Xiaodan Tang <xtang@qnx.com>)
6448 + correct tputs(), which could dereference a null cur_term if invoked
6449 before terminal is initialized (patch by Christopher Seawood
6451 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
6452 + makes better use of "pragma Inline" in the Ada95 binding
6453 + resynchronizes the generated html manpages
6456 + additional fixes for man-pages section-references
6457 + add (for debugging) a check for ich/ich1 conflict with smir/rmir
6459 + remove hpa/vpa from rxvt terminal description because they are not
6460 implemented correctly, added sgr0.
6461 + change ncurses 's' to use raw mode, so ^Q works (reported by Rudolf
6462 Leitgeb <leitgeb@leland.stanford.edu>)
6465 + modify protection when installing libraries to (normally) not
6466 executable. HP-UX shared libraries are an exception.
6467 + add configure check for 'tack'.
6468 + implement script for renaming section-references in man-page install,
6469 for Debian configuration.
6470 + add validity-check for SP in trace code in baudrate() (reported by
6472 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov (fixes to match sol25 curses)
6473 + modify 'overlay()' so that copy applies target window background to
6475 + correct 'mvwin()' so that it does not clear the previous locations.
6476 + correct lib_acs.c so that 8-bit character is not sign expanded in
6477 case of wide characters in chtype.
6478 + correct control-char test in lib_addch.c for use with wide chars
6479 + use attribute in the chtype when adding a control character in
6480 lib_addch.c control char was added with current attribute
6483 + save/restore errno in _tracef() function
6484 + change treatment of initialize_color to use a range of 0..1000
6485 (recommended by Daniel Weaver).
6486 + set umask in mkinstalldirs, fixing problems reported by users who
6487 have set root's umask to 077.
6488 + correct bug in tic that caused capabilities to be reprinted at the
6489 end of output when they had embedded comments.
6490 + rewrote wredrawln to correspond to XSI, and split-out since it is
6491 not often used (from report by Alexander V. Lukyanov, 970825)
6492 + rewrote Dan Nelson's change to make it portable, as well as to
6493 correct logic for handling backslashes.
6494 + add code to _nc_tgetent() to make it work more like a real tgetent().
6495 It removes all empty fields, and removes all but the first in a group
6496 of duplicate caps. The code was pulled from the BSD libtermcap code
6497 in termcap.c (patch by Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
6498 + don't include --enable-widec in the --with-develop configure option,
6499 since it is not binary-compatible with 4.1 (noted by Alexander V.
6501 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
6502 + further improvements of the usage of elaboration pragmas in the Ada95
6504 + enhanced Ada95 sample to use the user_data mechanism for panels.
6505 + a fix for the configuration script to make gnat-3.10 the required
6507 + resync of the html version of the manpages
6510 > fixes/updates for terminfo.src:
6511 + add vt220-js, pilot, rbcomm, datapoint entries from esr's 27-jun-97
6513 + add hds200 description (Walter Skorski)
6514 + add EMX 0.9b descriptions
6515 + correct rmso/smso capabilities in wy30-mc and wy50-mc (Daniel Weaver)
6516 + rename xhpterm back to hpterm.
6517 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
6518 + Improves the usage of elaboration pragmas for the Ada95 binding.
6519 + Adds a translation of the test/rain.c into Ada95 to the samples.
6520 This has been contributed to the project by Laurent Pautet
6524 + increase MAX_NAME_SIZE to 512 to handle extremely long alias list
6526 + correction & simplification of delay computation in tputs, based on
6527 comments from Daniel Weaver.
6528 + replace test for SCO with more precise header tests.
6529 + add configure test for unsigned literals, use in NCURSES_BITS macro.
6530 + comment-out the -PIC, etc., flags from c++, progs and test makefiles
6531 since they probably are not needed, and are less efficient (noted by
6533 + add -L$(libdir) to loader options, after -L../lib so that loaders
6534 that record this information will tend to do the right thing if
6535 the programs are moved around after installing them (suggested by
6537 + add -R option to loader options for programs for Solaris if the
6538 --enable-rpath option is specified for the libraries.
6541 + correct installed filename for shared libraries on *BSD (reported by
6545 + cleanup logic for deciding when tputs() should call delay_output(),
6546 based on comments from Daniel Weaver.
6547 + modified tputs() to avoid use of float.
6548 + correct use of trailpad in tputs(), which used the wrong variable
6549 in call to delay_output().
6550 + correct inverted expression for null-count in delay_output()
6551 (analysis by Daniel Weaver).
6552 + apply --enable-rpath option to Solaris (requested by Larry Virden).
6553 + correct substitution of EXTRA_CFLAGS for gcc 2.6.3
6554 + correct check for error-return by _nc_tgetent(), which returns 0
6556 + add configure test for BSD 4.4 cgetent() function, modify
6557 read_termcap.c to use the host's version of that if found, using the
6558 terminal database on FreeBSD (reported by Peter Wemm).
6559 + add u8, u9 strings to sun-il description for Daniel Weaver.
6560 + use NCURSES_CONST in panel's user-pointer.
6561 + modify edit_cfg.sh and MKterm.h.awk.in to substitute NCURSES_CONST
6562 so that will work on NeXT.
6563 + use _nc_set_screen() rather than assignments to SP to fix port to
6564 NeXT (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
6567 + force mandatory padding in bell and flash_screen, as specified in
6569 + don't allow padding_baud_rate to override mandatory delays (reported
6571 + modify delay_output() to use _nc_timed_wait() if no baudrate has been
6572 defined, or if the cur_term pointer is not initialized. XSI treats
6573 this as unspecified. (requested by Daniel Weaver).
6574 + change getcap-cache ifdef's to eliminate unnecessary chdir/mkdir
6575 when that feature is not configured.
6576 + remove _nc_err_abort() calls when write_entry.c finds a directory but
6577 cannot write to it, e.g., when translating part/all of /etc/termcap
6578 (reported by Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>).
6579 (this dates back to 951102, in 1.9.7a).
6580 + minor ifdef fixes to compile with atac and glibc 2.0.5c
6581 + add check for -lgen when configuring regexpr.h
6582 + modify Solaris shared-library option "-d y" to "-dy" to workaround
6583 incompatibility of gcc 2.7.2 vs vendor's tools.
6586 + correct ifdef's for struct winsize vs struct ttysize in lib_setup.c
6588 + remove dangling backslash in panel/Makefile.in
6589 + modify MKkeyname.awk to work with SCO's nawk, which dumps core in the
6591 + correct length of allocation in _nc_add_to_try(), to allow for
6593 + correct logic in _nc_remove_key(), which was discarding too many
6594 nodes (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov)
6597 + add definition for $(REL_VERSION) to test/Makefile.in, so *BSD
6598 shared libraries link properly (see 970524).
6599 + modify Linux shared-library generation to include library
6600 dependencies (e.g., -lncurses and -lgpm) in the forms, menu and
6601 panel libraries (suggested by Juergen Pfeifer).
6602 + modify configure script to use config.guess and config.sub rather
6603 than uname, which is unreliable on some systems.
6604 + updated Makefile.glibc, test-built with glibc 2.0.5c
6605 + modify keyname() to return values consistent with SVr4 curses (patch
6607 > changes requested by Daniel Weaver:
6608 + modify delay_output() so that it uses the same output function as
6609 tputs() if called from that function.
6610 + move _baudrate from SCREEN to TERMINAL so that low-level use of
6611 tputs works when SP is not set.
6612 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
6613 + factor lib_menu and lib_form into smaller modules
6614 + clean up the interface between panel and SCREEN
6615 + minor changes to the Ada95 mouse support implemenation
6616 + minor bugfix in C++ binding to ripoff windows
6617 + fix a few Ada95 html documentation pages
6620 + split-out lib_ungetch.c, make runtime link to resizeterm() to
6621 decouple those modules from lib_restart.c
6622 + add xterm-xf86-v39t description to terminfo.src
6623 + reset SP->_endwin in lib_tstp.c cleanup() function after calling
6624 endwin() to avoid unnecessary repainting if the application has
6625 established an atexit function, etc. Encountered this problem in
6626 the c++ demo, whose destructors repaint the screen.
6627 + combine _nc_get_screensize() and resizeterm() calls as new function
6628 _nc_update_screensize().
6629 + minor fixes to allow compile with g++ (suggested by Nelson H. F.
6631 + implement install-rules for Ada95 makefiles.
6632 + use screen_lines or MAXLINES as needed where LINES was coded,
6633 as well as screen_columns for COLS, in the ncurses library.
6634 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
6635 + modify logic for ripped-off lines to handle several SCREENs.
6636 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
6637 + factors lib_slk.c into some smaller modules
6638 + factors panel.c into some smaller modules
6639 + puts the static information about the current panel stack into the
6640 SCREEN structure to allow different panel stacks on different
6642 + preliminary fix for an error adjusting LINES to account for
6646 + move _nc_max_click_interval and other mouse interface items to SCREEN
6647 struct so that they are associated with a single terminal, and also
6648 save memory when the application does not need a mouse (roughly 3k vs
6650 + modify mouseinterval() so that a negative parameter queries the
6651 click-interval without modifying it.
6652 + modify ncurses 'i' test to work with ncurses' apparent extension from
6653 SVr4, i.e., allows nocbreak+noecho (analysis by Alexander V.
6655 + add configure options --with-ada-includes and --with-ada-objects,
6656 to drive Ada95 binding install (not yet implemented).
6657 + install C++ binding as -lncurses++ and associated headers with the
6658 other ncurses headers.
6659 + fix header uninstall if configure --srcdir is used.
6660 > minor interface changes to support 'tack' program -TD
6661 (request by Daniel Weaver <danw@znyx.com>).
6662 + export functions _nc_trans_string() and _nc_msec_cost().
6663 + add variable _nc_nulls_sent, to record the number of padding
6664 characters output in delay_output().
6665 + move tests for generic_type and hard_copy terminals in setupterm()
6666 to the end of that function so that the library will still be
6667 initialized, though not generally useful for curses programs.
6668 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
6669 + modify ClrBottom() to avoid using clr_eos if there is only one line
6671 + typo in configure --help.
6672 > patch by J T Conklin (with minor resync against Juergen's changes)
6673 + split-out lib_flash.c from lib_beep.c
6674 + split-out lib_hline.c and lib_vline.c from lib_box.c
6675 + split-out lib_wattron.c, lib_wattroff.c from lib_addch.c
6678 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
6679 + correct source/target of c++/edit_cfg.sh
6682 + add color, mouse support to kterm terminfo entry.
6683 + modify lib_mouse.c to recognize rxvt, kterm, color_xterm also as
6684 providing "xterm"-style mouse.
6685 + updated rxvt's terminfo description to correspond to 2.21b, with
6686 fixes for the acsc (the box1 capability is incorrect, ech1 does not
6688 + fix logic in parse_entry.c that discarded acsc when 'synthesizing'
6689 an entry from equivalents in XENIX or AIX. This lets ncurses handle
6690 the distribution copy of rxvt's terminfo.
6691 + modify acsc capability for linux and linux-koi8 terminfo descriptions
6692 (from Pavel Roskin <pavel@absolute.spb.su>).
6693 + corrected definition in curses.h for ACS_LANTERN, which was 'I'
6694 rather than 'i' (see 970802).
6695 + updated terminfo.src with reformatted acsc entries, and repaired the
6696 trashed entries with spurious '\' characters that this exposed.
6697 + add logic to dump_entry.c to reformat acsc entries into canonical
6698 form (sorted, unique mapping).
6699 + add configure script to generate c++/etip.h
6700 + add configure --with-develop option, to enable by default most of the
6701 experimental options (requested by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
6702 + rename 'deinstall' to 'uninstall', following GNU convention
6703 (suggested by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
6704 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
6705 + modify tactics 2 and 5 in onscreen_mvcur(), to allow them on the last
6706 line of the screen, since carriage return will not cause a newline.
6707 + remove clause from PutCharLR() that would try to use
6708 eat_newline_glitch since that apparently does not work on some
6709 terminals (e.g., M$ telnet).
6710 + correct a limit check in scroll_csr_backward()
6711 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
6712 + adds dummy implementations of methods above() and below() to the
6714 + fixes missing returncode in NCursesWindow::ripoffline()
6715 + fixes missing returncode in TestApplication::run() in demo.cc
6716 + We should at least give a comment in etip.h why it is currently a
6717 problem to install the C++ binding somewhere
6718 + makes the WINDOW* argument of wenclose() a const.
6719 + modifies several of the routines in lib_adabind.c to use a const
6723 + add 'deinstall' rules.
6724 + use explicit assignments in configure --without-progs option to
6725 work around autoconf bug which doesn't always set $withval.
6726 + check for ldconfig, don't try to run it if not found.
6727 + implement simple/unoptimized case in lib_doupdate.c to handle
6728 display with magic cookie glitch, tested with ncurses.c program.
6729 + correct missing _tracef in getmouse(), to balance the returnCode
6731 + simplify show_attr() in ncurses.c using termattrs().
6732 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
6733 + provides missing inlines for mvw[hv]line in cursesw.h of the C++
6735 + fixes a typo in a comment of frm_driver.c
6736 + Enhances Ada95 Makefiles to fulfill the requirement of GNAT-3.10 that
6737 generics should be compiled. Proper fixes to the configuration
6738 scripts are also provided.
6741 + several modifications to the configure script (requested by Ward
6743 + add configure options --without-progs, to suppress the build of the
6744 utility programs, e.g., for cross-compiling.
6745 + add $(HOSTCCFLAGS) and $(HOSTLDFLAGS) symbols to ncurses
6746 Makefile.in, to simplify setup for cross compiling.
6747 + add logic in configure script to recognize "--target=vxworks", and
6748 generate load/install actions for VxWorks objects.
6749 + move typedef for sigaction_t into SigAction.h to work around problem
6750 generating lint library.
6751 + modify fty_regex.c to reflect renaming of ifdef's for regular
6753 + simplify ifdef in lib_setup.c for TIOCGWINSZ since that symbol may
6754 reside in <sys/ioctl.h>.
6755 + merge testcurs.c with version from PDCurses 2.3, clarifying some of
6756 the more obscure tests, which rely upon color.
6757 + use macros getbegyx() and getmaxyx() in newdemo.c and testcurs.c
6758 + modify ncurses.c to use getbegyx() and getmaxyx() macros to cover up
6759 implementation difference wrt SVr4 curses, allow 's' test to work.
6760 + add missing endwin() to testscanw.c program (reported by Fausto
6761 Saporito <fausap@itb.it>).
6762 + fixes/updates for Makefile.glibc and related files under sysdeps
6764 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
6765 + add checks for null pointers, especially WINDOW's throughout the
6767 + solve a problem with wrong calculation of panel overlapping (reported
6769 + make sure that a panel's window isn't a pad.
6770 + do more error checking in module lib_touch.c
6771 + missing files for Ada95 binding from the last patch
6772 + synch. of generated html pages (RCS-Id's were wrong in html files)
6773 + support for Key_Resize in Ada binding
6774 + changed documentation style in ./c++/cursesm.h
6775 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
6776 + undo attempt to do recursive inlining for PutChar(), noting that it
6777 did not improve timing measurably, but inflated the size of
6781 + modify rain.c to use color.
6782 + correct scroll_csr_backward() to match scroll_csr_forward().
6783 + minor adjustment to llib-lncurses, to work with Solaris 2.5.1
6784 + minor fixes to sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/configure to reflect renaming
6785 of configure cache variables in 970906.
6786 + correct logic involving changes to O_VISIBLE option in
6787 Synchronize_Options function in frm_driver.c (Tony Hoffmann
6788 <Tony.Hoffmann@hia.nrc.ca>)
6789 + add $(HOSTCC) symbol to ncurses Makefile.in, to simplify setup for
6790 cross compiling (suggested by Chris Johns).
6791 + modify ifdef in lib_setup.c to only include <sys/ioctl.h> if we can
6792 use it to support screen-size calculation (reported by Chris Johns).
6793 + #undef unctrl to avoid symbol conflict in port to RTEMS (reported by
6794 Chris Johns <cjohns@plessey.com.au>)
6795 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
6796 + simplified, made minor corrections to Ada95 binding to form
6798 + The C++ binding has been enhanced:
6799 + Improve NCursesWindow class: added additional methods to cover
6800 more ncurses functionality. Make refresh() and noutrefresh()
6801 virtual members to allow different implementation in the
6803 + CAUTION: changed order of parameters in vline() and hline() of
6804 NCursesWindow class.
6805 + Make refresh() in NCursesPanel non-static, it is now a
6806 reimplementation of refresh() in the base class. Added
6807 noutrefresh() to NCursesPanel.
6808 + Added NCursesForm and related classes to support libform
6810 + Moved most of configuration related stuff from cursesw.h to etip.h
6811 + Added NCursesApplication class to support easy configuration of
6812 menu and forms related attributes as well as ripped of title lines
6813 and Soft-Label-Keys for an application.
6814 + Support of Auto-Cleanup for a menu's fieldlist.
6815 + Change of return type for current_item() and operator[] for menus.
6817 + Fixed a bug in form/fld_def.c: take into account that copyarg and
6818 freearg for a fieldtype may be NULL, makearg must not be NULL
6819 + Fixed a bug in form/fld_type.c: in set_fieldtype_arg() makearg must
6820 not be NULL, copyarg and freearg may be NULL.
6821 + Fixed a bug in form/frm_def.c: Allow Disconnect_Fields() if it is
6822 already disconnected.
6823 + Enhance form/frm_driver.c: Allow growth of dynamic fields also on
6824 navigation requests.
6825 + Fixed a bug in form/fty_enum.c: wrong position of postincrement in
6826 case-insensitiva comparision routine.
6827 + Enhanced form/lib_adabind.c with function _nc_get_field() to get a
6828 forms field by index.
6829 + Enhanced menu/m_adabind.c with function _nc_get_item() to get a menus
6831 + Fixed in curses.h.in: make chtype argument for pechochar() constant.
6832 Mark wbkgdset() as implemented, remove wbkgdset macro, because it was
6833 broken (didn't handle colors correctly).
6834 + Enhanced lib_mouse.c: added _nc_has_mouse() function
6835 + Added _nc_has_mouse() prototype to curses.priv.h
6836 + Modified lib_bkgd.c: hopefully correct implementation of wbkgdset();
6837 streamlined implementation of wbkgd()
6838 + Modified lib_mvwin.c: Disable move of a pad. Implement (costly)
6839 move of subwindows. Fixed update behavior of movements of regular
6841 + Fixed lib_pad.c: make chtype argument of pechochar() const.
6842 + Fixed lib_window.c: dupwin() is not(!) in every bit a really clone
6843 of the original. Subwindows become regular windows by doing a
6845 + Improved manpage form_fieldtype.3x
6846 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
6847 + simplify the PutChar() handling of exit_am_mode, because we already
6848 know that auto_right_margin is true.
6849 + add a check in PutChar() for ability to insert to the case of
6850 shifting character to LR corner.
6851 + in terminal initialization by _nc_screen_resume(), make sure that
6852 terminal right margin mode is known.
6853 + move logic that invokes touchline(), or does the equivalent, into
6854 _nc_scroll_window().
6855 + modify scrolling logic use of insert/delete line capability, assuming
6856 that they affect the screen contents only within the current
6858 + modify rain.c to demonstrate SIGWINCH handler.
6859 + remove logic from getch() that would return an ERR if the application
6860 called getch() when the cursor was at the lower-right corner of the
6861 physical screen, and the terminal does not have insert-character
6863 + change view.c so that it breaks out of getch() loop if a KEY_RESIZE
6864 is read, and modify logic in getch() so this fix will yield the
6865 desired behavior, i.e., the screen is repainted automatically when
6866 the terminal window is resized.
6869 + add configure option --enable-sigwinch
6870 + modify view.c to test KEY_RESIZE logic, with "-r" option.
6871 + modify testcurs.c to eliminate misleading display wrt cursor type
6872 by testing if the terminal supports cnorm, civis, cvvis.
6873 + several fixes for m68k/NeXT 4.0, to bring cur_term, _nc_curr_line and
6874 _nc_curr_col variables into linked programs: move these variables,
6875 making new modules lib_cur_term and trace_buf (reported by Francisco
6876 Alberto Tomei Torres <fatomei@sandburg.unm.edu>).
6877 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
6878 + add pseudo-functionkey KEY_RESIZE which is returned by getch() when
6879 the SIGWINCH handler has been called since the last call to
6881 + modify lib_twait.c to hide EINTR only if HIDE_EINTR is defined.
6882 + add SIGWINCH handler to ncurses library which is used if there is no
6883 application SIGWINCH handler in effect when the screen is
6885 + make linked list of all SCREEN structures.
6886 + move curses.h include before definition of SCREEN to use types in
6888 + correction to ensure that wgetstr uses only a newline to force a
6892 + add experimental configure option --enable-safe-sprintf; the normal
6893 mode now allocates a buffer as large as the screen for the
6894 lib_printw.c functions.
6895 + modify wgetch to refresh screen when reading ungetch'd characters,
6896 since the application may require this - SVr4 does this.
6897 + refine treatment of newline in wgetstr to echo only when this would
6898 force the screen to scroll.
6901 + remove override in wgetstr() that forces keypad(), since SVr4 does
6903 + correct y-reference for erasure in wgetstr() when a wrap forces a
6905 + correct x-position in waddch() after a wrap forces a scroll.
6906 + echo newline in wgetstr(), making testscanw.c scroll properly when
6908 + modify vwscanw() to avoid potential buffer overflow.
6909 + rewrote lib_printw.c to eliminate fixed-buffer limits.
6910 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
6911 + correct an error in handling cooked mode in wgetch(); processing
6912 was in the wrong order.
6913 + simplified logic in wgetch() that handles backspace, etc., by using
6915 + correct wechochar() so that it interprets the output character as
6917 + modify pechochar() to use prefresh() rather than doupdate(), since
6918 the latter does not guarantee immediate refresh of the pad.
6919 + modify pechochar() so that if called with a non-pad WINDOW, will
6920 invoke wechochar() instead.
6921 + modify fifo indices to allow fifo to be longer than 127 bytes.
6924 + add xterm-8bit to terminfo.src
6925 + moved logic for SP->_fifohold inside check_pending() to make it
6926 work properly when we add calls to that function.
6927 + ensure that bool functions return only TRUE or FALSE, and TRUE/FALSE
6928 are assigned to bool values (patch by H.J.Lu).
6929 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
6930 + several fixes to getch:
6931 1. Separate cooked and raw keys in fifo
6932 2. Fix the case of ungetch'ed KEY_MOUSE
6933 3. wrap the code for hiding EINTR with ifdef HIDE_EINTR
6934 4. correctly handle input errors (i.e., EINTR) without loss of raw
6936 5. recognize ESC KEY_LEFT and similar
6937 6. correctly handle the case of receiption of KEY_MOUSE from gpm
6938 + correct off-by-one indexing error in _nc_mouse_parse(), that caused
6939 single mouse events (press/release) to be ignored in favor of
6940 composed events (click). Improves on a fix from integrating gpm
6942 + add another call to check_pending, before scrolling, for
6943 line-breakout optimization
6944 + improve hashmap.c by
6945 1. fixed loop condition in grow_hunks()
6946 2. not marking lines with offset 0
6947 3. fixed condition of 'too far' criteria, thus one-line hunks are
6948 ignored and two lines interchanged won't pass.
6949 + rewrote/simplified _nc_scroll_optimize() by separating into two
6950 passes, forward/backward, looking for chunks moving only in the given
6952 + move logic that emits sgr0 when initializing the screen to
6953 _nc_screen_init(), now invoked from newterm.
6954 + move cursor-movement cleanup from endwin() into _nc_mvcur_wrap()
6955 function and screen cleanup (i.e., color) into _nc_screen_wrap()
6957 + add new functions _nc_screen_init(), _nc_screen_resume() and
6959 + rename _nc_mvcur_scrolln() to _nc_scrolln().
6960 + add a copy of acs_map[] to the SCREEN structure, where it can be
6961 stored/retrieved via set_term().
6962 + move variables _nc_idcok, _nc_idlok, _nc_windows into the SCREEN
6966 + implement experimental _nc_perform_scroll().
6967 + modify newterm (actually _nc_setupscreen()) to emit an sgr0 when
6968 initializing the screen, as does SVr4 (reported by Alexander V.
6970 + added test_progs rule to ncurses/Makefile.
6971 + modify test/configure.in to check if initscr is already in $LIBS
6972 before looking for (n)curses library.
6973 + correct version-number in configure script for OSF1 shared-library
6974 options (patch by Tim Mooney).
6975 + add -DNDEBUG to CPPFLAGS for --enable-assertions (as Juergen
6976 originally patched) since the c++ demo files do not necessarily
6977 include ncurses_cfg.h
6978 + supply default value for --enable-assertions option in configure
6979 script (reported by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf-fs.usc.edu>).
6980 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
6981 + correct/simplify logic of werase(), wclrtoeol() and wclrbot(). See
6983 + optimize waddch_literal() and waddch_nosync() by factoring out
6984 common subexpressions.
6985 + correct sense of NDEBUG ifdef for CHECK_POSITION macro.
6986 + corrections to render_char(), to make handling of colored blanks
6987 match SVr4 curses, as well as to correct a bug that xor'd space
6988 against the background character.
6989 + replaced hash function with a faster one (timed it)
6990 + rewrote the hashmap algorithm to be one-pass, this avoids multiple
6991 cost_effective() calls on the same lines.
6992 + modified cost_effective() so it is now slightly more precise.
6993 > patches for glibc integration (H.J.Lu):
6994 + add modules define_key, keyok, name_match, tries
6995 + add makefile rules for some of the unit tests in ncurses (mvcur,
6996 captoinfo, hardscroll, hashmap).
6997 + update Linux configure-script for wide-character definitions.
7000 + modify _tracebits() to show the character size (e.g., CS8).
7001 + modify tparm() to emit '\200' where the generated string would have a
7002 null (reported by From: Ian Dall <Ian.Dall@dsto.defence.gov.au> for
7003 terminal type ncr7900).
7004 + modify install process so that ldconfig is not invoked if the
7005 package is built with an install-prefix.
7006 + correct test program for chtype size (reported by Tim Mooney).
7007 + add configure option --disable-scroll-hints, using this to ifdef the
7008 logic that computes indices for _nc_scroll_optimize().
7009 + add module ncurses/softscroll.c, to perform single-stage computation
7010 of scroll indices used in _nc_scroll_optimize(). This is faster than
7011 the existing scrolling algorithm, but tends to make too-small hunks.
7012 + eliminate fixed buffer size in _nc_linedump().
7013 + minor fixes to lib_doupdate.c to add tradeoff between clr_eol (el)
7014 and clr_bol (el1), refine logic in ClrUpdate() and ClrBottom() (patch
7015 by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7016 + add test/testaddch.c, from a pending patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov.
7017 + correct processing of "configure --enable-assertions" option (patch
7018 by Juergen Pfeifer).
7021 + add '-s' (single-step) option too test/hashtest.c, correct an error
7022 in loop limit for '-f' (footer option), toggle scrollok() when
7023 writing footer to avoid wrap at lower-right corner.
7024 + correct behavior of clrtoeol() immediately after wrapping cursor,
7025 which was not clearing the line at the cursor position (reported by
7026 Liviu Daia <daia@stoilow.imar.ro>).
7027 + corrected mapping for ACS_LANTERN, which was 'I' rather than 'i'
7028 (reported by Klaus Weide <kweide@tezcat.com>).
7029 + many corrections to make progs/capconvert work, as well as make it
7030 reasonably portable and integrated with ncurses 4.1 (reported by Dave
7031 Furstenau <df@ravine.binary.net>).
7034 + add flag SP->_fifohold, corresponding logic to modify the behavior of
7035 the line breakout logic so that if the application does not read
7036 input, refreshes will not be stopped, but only slowed.
7037 + generate slk_attr_off(), slk_attr_on(), slk_attr_set(), vid_attr(),
7038 ifdef'd for wide-character support, since ncurses' WA_xxx attribute
7039 masks are identical with the A_xxx masks.
7040 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to generate ifdef'd functions to support optional
7041 configuration of wide-characters.
7042 + modify tset to behave more like SVr4's tset, which does not modify
7043 the settings of intr, quit or erase unless they are given as command
7044 options (reported by Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe@math.utah.edu>).
7045 + modify tset to look in /etc/ttys or /etc/ttytype if the configuration
7046 does not have getttynam().
7047 + extend baudrate table in tset.c to match baudrate() function.
7048 + add table entries for 230400 and 460800 bd to baudrate() function.
7049 + improve breakout logic by allowing it before the first line updated,
7050 which is what SVr4 curses does (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7051 + correct initialization of vcost in relative_move(), for cursor-down
7052 case (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7053 > nits gleaned from Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-3:
7054 + install symbolic link for intotocap.
7055 + reference libc directly when making shared libraries.
7056 + correct renaming of curs_scr_dmp.3x in man_db.renames.
7057 + guard tgetflag() and other termcap functions against null cur_term
7061 + corrected initial state of software echo (error in 970405, reported
7062 by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7063 + reviewed/added messages to configure script, so that all non-test
7064 options should be accompanied by a message.
7065 + add configure check for long filenames, using this to determine if
7066 it is safe to allow long aliases for terminal descriptions as does
7068 + add configure options for widec (wide character), hashmap (both
7070 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
7071 + hashmap.c - improved by heuristic, so that scroll test works much
7072 better when csr is not available.
7073 + hardscroll.c - patched so that it continues to scroll other chunks
7074 after failure to scroll one.
7075 + lib_doupdate.c - _nc_mvcur_scrolln extended to handle more cases; csr
7076 is avoided as it is relative costly. Fixed wrong coordinates in one
7077 case and wrong string in TRACE.
7078 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7079 + modify C++ binding to compile on AIX 4.x with the IBM C-SET++
7083 + remove alternate character set from kterm terminfo entry; it uses the
7084 shift-out control for a purpose incompatible with curses, i.e., font
7086 + disentangle 'xterm' terminfo entry from some derived entries that
7087 should be based on xterm-r6 instead.
7088 + add cbt to xterm-xf86-xv32 terminfo entry; I added the emulation for
7089 XFree86 3.1.2F, but overlooked its use in terminfo then - T.Dickey.
7090 + correct logic in lib_mvcur.c that uses back_tab.
7093 + correct change from 970628 to ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c so that
7094 contents of curscr are saved in newscr before clearing the screen.
7095 This is needed to make repainting work with the present logic of
7097 + use napms() rather than sleep() in tset.c to avoid interrupting I/O.
7100 + add limit checks to _nc_read_file_entry() to guard against overflow
7101 of buffer when reading incompatible terminfo format, e.g, from OSF/1.
7102 + correct some loop-variable errors in xmc support in lib_doupdate.c
7103 + modify ncurses 'b' test to add gaps, specified by user, to allow
7104 investigation of interaction with xmc (magic cookie) code.
7105 + correct typo in 970524 mods to xmas.c, had omitted empty parameter
7106 list from has_colors(), which gcc ignores, but SVr4 does not
7107 (reported by Larry Virden).
7108 + correct rmso capability in wy50-mc description.
7109 + add configure option "--enable-hard-tabs", renamed TABS_OK ifdef to
7111 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7112 + Add bindings for keyok() and define_key() to the Ada95 packages.
7113 + Improve man pages menu_post.3x and menu_format.3x
7114 + Fix the HTML pages in the Ada95/html directory to reflect the above
7118 + modify change from 970101 to ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c so that
7119 pending changes to both curscr and newscr are flushed properly.
7120 This fixes a case where the first scrolling operation in nvi would
7121 cause the screen to be cleared unnecessarily and repainted before
7122 doing the indexing, i.e., by repeatedly pressing 'j' (reported by
7124 + correct error in trans_string() which added embedded newlines in a
7125 terminfo description to the stored strings.
7126 + remove spurious newlines from sgr in wyse50 (and several other)
7127 terminfo descriptions.
7128 + add configure option for experimental xmc (magic cookie) code,
7129 "--enable-xmc-glitch". When disabled (the default), attributes that
7130 would store a magic cookie are suppressed in vidputs(). The magic
7131 cookie code is far from workable at this stage; the configuration
7132 option is a stopgap.
7133 + move _nc_initscr() from lib_initscr.c to lib_newterm.c
7134 + correct path for invoking make_keys (a missing "./").
7137 + correct sign-extension problem with "infocmp -e", which corrupted
7138 acsc values computed for linux fallback data.
7139 + correct dependency on ncurses/names.c (a missing "./").
7140 + modify configure script to use '&&' even for cd'ing to existing
7141 directories to work around broken shell interpreters.
7142 + correct a loop-limit in _nc_hash_map() (patch by Alexander V.
7146 + restore logic in _nc_scroll_optimize() which marks as touched the
7147 lines in curscr that are shifted.
7148 + add new utility 'make_keys' to compute keys.tries as a table rather
7149 than a series of function calls.
7150 + correct include-dependency for tic.h used by name_match
7151 + removed buffer-allocation for name and description from m_item_new.c,
7152 since this might result in incompatibilities with SVr4. Also fixed
7153 the corresponding Ada95 binding module (patch by Juergen Pfeifer,
7154 report by Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@foxnet.net>)
7155 + removed the mechanism to timestamp the generated Ada95 sources. This
7156 resulted always in generating patches for the HTML doc, even when
7157 nothing really changed (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7158 + improve man page mitem_new.3x (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7161 + remove ech capability from rxvt description because it does not work.
7162 + add missing case logic for infocmp -I option (reported by Lorenzo M.
7163 Catucci <lorenzo@argon.roma2.infn.it>)
7164 + correct old bug in pnoutrefresh() unmasked by fix in 970531; this
7165 caused glitches in the ncurses 'p' test since the area outside the
7166 pad was not compared when setting up indices for _nc_scroll_optimize.
7167 + rewrote tracebits() to workaround misdefinition of TOSTOP on Ultrix
7168 4.4, as well as to eliminate fixed-size buffer (reported by Chris
7169 Tanner <tannerc@aecl.ca>)
7170 + correct prototype for termattrs() as per XPG4 version 2.
7171 + add placeholder prototypes for color_set(), erasewchar(),
7172 term_attrs(), wcolor_set() as per XPG4 version 2.
7173 + correct attribution for progs/progs.priv.h and lib_twait.c
7174 + improve line-breakout logic by checking based on changed lines rather
7175 than total lines (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7176 + correct loop limits for table-lookup of enumerated value in form
7177 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7178 + improve threshhold computation for determining when to call ClrToEOL
7179 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7182 + add configure option --disable-database to force the library to
7183 use only the fallback data.
7184 + add configure option --with-fallbacks, to specify list of fallback
7185 terminal descriptions.
7186 + add a symbolic link for ncurses.h during install; too many programs
7187 still assume there's an ncurses.h
7188 + add new terminfo.src entry for xterm-xf86-v33.
7189 + restore terminfo.src entry for emu to using setf/setb, since it is
7190 not, after all, generating ANSI sequences. Corrected missing comma
7191 that caused setf/setb entries to merge.
7192 + modify mousemask() to use keyok() to enable/disable KEY_MOUSE, so
7193 that applications can disable ncurses' mouse and supply their own
7195 + add extensions keyok() and define_key(). These are designed to allow
7196 the user's application better control over the use of function keys,
7197 e.g., disabling the ncurses KEY_MOUSE. (The define_key idea was from
7198 a mailing-list thread started by Kenneth Albanowski
7199 <kjahds@kjahds.com> Nov'1995).
7200 + restore original behavior in ncurses 'g' test, i.e., explicitly
7201 set the keypad mode rather than use the default, since it confuses
7203 + rewrote the newdemo banner so it's readable (reported by Hugh
7205 + tidy up exit from hashtest (reported by Hugh Daniel).
7206 + restore check for ^Q in ncurses 'g' test broken in 970510 (reported
7208 + correct tput program, checking return-value of setupterm (patch by
7210 + correct logic in pnoutrefresh() and pechochar() functions (reported
7211 by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf.usc.edu>). The computation
7212 of 'wide' date to eric's #283 (1.9.9), and the pechochar bug to the
7213 original implementation (1.9.6).
7214 + correct typo in vt102-w terminfo.src entry (patch by Robert Wuest
7215 <rwuest@sire.vt.com>)
7216 + move calls of _nc_background() out of various loops, as its return
7217 value will be the same for the whole window being operated on (patch
7219 + add macros getcur[xy] getbeg[xy] getpar[xy], which are defined in
7220 SVr4 headers (patch by J T Conklin <jtc@NetBSD.ORG>)
7221 + modify glibc addon-configure scripts (patch by H.J.Lu).
7222 + correct a bug in hashmap.c: the size used for clearing the hashmap
7223 table was incorrect, causing stack corruption for large values of
7224 LINES, e.g., >MAXLINES/2 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7225 + eric's terminfo 9.13.23 & 9.13.24 changes: replaced minitel-2 entry,
7226 added MGR, ansi-nt (note: the changes described for 9.13.24 have not
7228 > several changes by Juergen Pfeifer:
7229 + correct a missing error-return in form_driver.c when wrapping of a
7230 field is not possible.
7231 + correct logic in form_driver.c for configurations that do not have
7232 memccpy() (reported by Sidik Isani <isani@cfht.hawaii.edu>)
7233 + change several c++ binding functions to inline.
7234 + modify c++ menu binding to inherit from panels, for proper
7236 + correct freeing of menu items in c++ binding.
7237 + modify c++ binding to reflect removal of const from user data pointer
7238 in forms/menus libraries.
7241 + add description of xterm-16color.
7242 + modify name of shared-library on *BSD to end with $(REL_VERSION)
7243 rather than $(ABI_VERSION) to match actual convention on FreeBSD
7245 + add OpenBSD to shared-library case, same as NetBSD and FreeBSD
7246 (reported by Hugh Daniel <hugh@rat.toad.com>).
7247 + corrected include-dependency in menu/Makefile so that "make install"
7248 works properly w/o first doing "make".
7249 + add fallback definition for isascii, used in infocmp.
7250 + modify xmas to use color, and to exit right away when a key is
7252 + modify gdc so that the scrolled digits function as described (there
7253 was no time delay between the stages, and the digits overwrote the
7254 bounding box without tidying up).
7255 + modify lib_color.c to use setaf/setab only for the ANSI color codes
7256 0 through 7. Using 16 colors requires setf/setb.
7257 + modify ncurses 'c' test to work with 16 colors, as well as the normal
7259 + remove const qualifier from user data pointer in forms and menus
7260 libraries (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7261 + rewrote 'waddchnstr()' to avoid using the _nc_waddch_nosync()
7262 function, thereby not interpreting tabs, etc., as per spec (patch by
7263 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7266 + suppress check for pre-existing ncurses header if the --prefix
7267 option is specified.
7268 + add configure options "--with-system-type" and
7269 "--with-system-release" to assist in checking the generated
7271 + add configure option "--enable-rpath" to allow installers to specify
7272 that programs linked against shared libraries will have their library
7273 path embedded, allowing installs into nonstandard locations.
7274 + add flags to OSF1 shared-library options to specify version and
7275 symbol file (patch by Tim Mooney <mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu>)
7276 + add missing definition for ABI_VERSION to c++/Makefile.in (reported
7277 by Satoshi Adachi <adachi@wisdom.aa.ap.titech.ac.jp>).
7278 + modify link flags to accommodate HP-UX linker which embeds absolute
7279 pathnames in executables linked against shared libraries (reported by
7280 Jason Evans <jasone@mrc.uidaho.edu>, solved by Alan Shutko
7281 <ats@hubert.wustl.edu>).
7282 + drop unnecessary check for attribute-change in onscreen_mvcur() since
7283 mvcur() is the only caller within the library, and that check in turn
7284 is exercised only from lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V.
7286 + add 'blank' parameter to _nc_scroll_window() so _nc_mvcur_scrolln()
7287 can use the background of stdscr as a parameter to that function
7288 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7289 + moved _nc_mvcur_scrolln() from lib_mvcur.c to lib_doupdate.c, to use
7290 the latter's internal functions, as well as to eliminate unnecessary
7291 cursor save/restore operations (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7292 + omit parameter of ClrUpdate(), since it is called only for newscr,
7293 further optimized/reduced by using ClearScreen() and TransformLine()
7294 to get rid of duplicate code (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7295 + modify scrolling algorithm in _nc_scroll_optimize() to reject hunks
7296 that are smaller than the distance to be moved (patch by Alexander V.
7298 + correct a place where the panel library was not ifdef'd in ncurses.c
7300 + documentation fixes (Juergen Pfeifer)
7302 970515 4.1 release for upload to prep.ai.mit.edu
7303 + re-tag changes since 970505 as 4.1 release.
7306 + modify ncurses 'g' test to allow mouse input
7307 + modify default xterm description to include mouse.
7308 + modify configure script to add -Wwrite-strings if gcc warnings are
7309 enabled while configuring --enable-const (and fixed related
7311 + add toggle, status display for keypad mode to ncurses 'g' test to
7312 verify that keypad and scrollok are not inherited from parent window
7313 during a call to newwin.
7314 + correction to MKexpanded.sh to make it work when configure --srcdir
7315 is used (reported by H.J.Lu).
7316 + revise test for bool-type, ensuring that it checks if builtin.h is
7317 available before including it, adding test for sizeof(bool) equal
7318 to sizeof(short), and warning user if the size cannot be determined
7319 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7320 + add files to support configuration of ncurses as an add-on library
7321 for GNU libc (patch by H.J.Lu <hjl@lucon.org>)
7324 + correct buffer overrun in lib_traceatr.c
7325 + modify change to lib_vidattr.c to avoid redundant orig_pair.
7326 + turn on 'echo()' in hanoi.c, since it is initially off.
7327 + rename local 'errno' variable in etip.h to avoid conflict with global
7329 + modify configure script to cache LD, AR, AR_OPTS (patch by H.J.Lu
7332 970505 4.1 pre-release
7333 + regenerate the misc directory html dumps without the link list, which
7335 + correct dependency in form directory makefile which caused
7336 unnecessary recompiles.
7337 + correct substitution for ABI_VERSION in test-makefile
7338 + modify install rules for shared-library targets to remove the target
7339 before installing, since some install programs do not properly handle
7340 overwrite of symbolic links.
7341 + change order of top-level targets so that 'include' immediate
7342 precedes the 'ncurses' directory, reducing the time between new
7343 headers and new libraries (requested by Larry Virden).
7344 + modify lib_vidattr.c so that colors are turned off only before
7345 modifying other attributes, turned on after others. This makes the
7346 hanoi.c program display correctly on FreeBSD console.
7347 + modify debug code in panel library to print user-data addresses
7348 rather than the strings which they (may) point to.
7349 + add check to ensure that C++ binding and demo are not built with g++
7350 versions below 2.7, since the binding uses templates.
7351 + modify c++ binding and demo to build and run with SGI's c++ compiler.
7352 (It also compiles with the Sun SparcWorks compiler, but the demo does
7353 not link, due to a vtbl problem).
7354 + corrections to demo.cc, to fix out-of-scope variables (Juergen
7358 + correct memory leak in _nc_trace_buf().
7359 + add configure test for regexpr.h, for Unixware 1.x.
7360 + correct missing "./" prefixing names of generated files in ncurses
7362 + use single-quotes in configure scripts assignments for MK_SHARED_LIB
7363 to workaround shell bug on FreeBSD 2.1.5
7364 + remove tabs from intermediate #define's for GCC_PRINTF, GCC_SCANF
7365 that caused incorrect result in ncurses_cfg.h
7366 + correct initialization in lib_trace.c, which omitted version info.
7367 + remove ech, el1 attributes from cons25w description; they appear to
7368 malfunction in FreeBSD 2.1.5
7369 + correct color attributes in terminfo.src and lib_color.c to match
7370 SVr4 behavior by interchanging codes 1,4, 3,6 in the setf/setb
7372 + use curs_set() rather than checks via tigetstr() for test programs
7373 that hide the cursor: firework, rain, worm.
7374 + ensure that if the terminal lacks change_scroll_region, parm_index
7375 and parm_rindex are used only to scroll the whole screen (patch by
7377 + correct curs_set() logic, which did not return ERR if the requested
7378 attributes did not exist, nor did it assume an unknown initial state
7379 for the cursor (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7380 + combine IDcTransformLine and NoIDcTransformLine to new TransformLine
7381 function in lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7382 + correct hashmap.c, which did not update index information (patch by
7383 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7384 + fixes for C++ binding and demo (see c++/NEWS) (Juergen Pfeifer).
7385 + correct index in lib_instr.c (Juergen Pfeifer).
7386 + correct typo in 970426 patch from Tom's cleanup of lib_overlay.c
7387 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7390 + corrected cost computation in PutRange(), which was using
7391 milliseconds compared to characters by adding two new members to the
7392 SCREEN struct, _hpa_ch_cost and _cup_ch_cost.
7393 + drop ncurses/lib_unctrl.c, add ncurses/MKunctrl.awk to generate a
7394 const array of strings (suggested by Alexander V. Lukyanov). The
7395 original suggestion in 970118 used a perl script.
7396 + rewrote ncurses 'b' test to better exercise magic-cookie (xmc), as
7397 well as noting the attributes that are not supported by a terminal.
7398 + trace the computation of cost values in lib_mvcur.c
7399 + modify _nc_visbuf() to use octal rather than hex, corrected sign
7400 extension bug in that function that caused buffer overflow.
7401 + modify trace in lib_acs.c to use _nc_visbuf().
7402 + suppress trace within _traceattr2().
7403 + correct logic of _tracechtype2(), which did not account for repeats
7404 or redefinition within an acsc string.
7405 + modify debug-library version baudrate() to use environment variable
7406 $BAUDRATE to override speed computation. This is needed for
7408 + correct problems shown by "weblint -pedantic".
7409 + update mailing-list information (now ncurses@bsdi.com).
7412 + Improve form_field_validation.3x manpage to better describe the
7413 precision parameter for TYPE_NUMERIC and TYPE_INTEGER. Provide more
7414 precise information how the range checking can be avoided. (patch by
7415 Juergen Pfeifer, reported by Bryan Henderson)
7416 + change type of min/max value of form types TYPE_INTEGER to long to
7417 match SVr4 documentation.
7418 + set the form window to stdscr in set_form_win() so that form_win()
7419 won't return null (patch by Juergen Pfeifer, reported by Bryan
7420 Henderson <bryanh@giraffe.netgate.net>).
7423 + corrected ifdef'ing of inline (cf: 970321) for TRACE vs C++.
7424 + corrected toggle_attr_off() macro (patch by Andries Brouwer).
7425 + modify treatment of empty token in $MANPATH to /usr/man (reported by
7426 <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>)
7427 + modify traces that record functions-called so that chtype and attr_t
7428 values are expressed symbolically, to simplify reuse of generated
7429 test-scripts on SVr4 regression testing.
7430 + add new trace functions _traceattr2() and _tracechtype2()
7433 + add configure option --enable-const, to support the use of 'const'
7434 where XSI should have, but did not, specify. This defines
7435 NCURSES_CONST, which is an empty token otherwise, for strict
7437 + make processing of configure options more verbose by echoing the
7438 --enable/--with values.
7439 + add configure option --enable-big-core
7440 + set initial state of software echo off as per XSI.
7441 + check for C++ builtin.h header
7442 + correct computation of absolute-path for $INSTALL that dropped "-c"
7443 parameter from the expression.
7444 + rename config.h to ncurses_cfg.h to avoid naming-conflict when
7445 ncurses is integrated into larger systems (adapted from diffs by
7447 + correct inequality in lib_doupdate.c that caused a single-char to not
7448 be updated when the char on the right-margin was not blank, idcok()
7449 was true (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov (in 970124), reported
7450 by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf-fs.usc.edu> in 970329).
7451 + modify 'clean' rule in include/Makefile so that files created by
7452 configure script are removed in 'distclean' rule instead.
7455 + correct array limit in tparam_internal(), add case to interpret "%x"
7456 (patch by Andreas Schwab)
7457 + rewrote number-parsing in ncurses.c 'd' test; it did not reset the
7458 value properly when non-numeric characters were given (reported by
7459 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>)
7462 + move definition of __INTERNAL_CAPS_VISIBLE before include for
7463 progs.priv.h (patch by David MacKenzie).
7464 + add configuration summary, reordered check for default include
7465 directory to better accommodate a case where installer is configuring
7466 a second copy of ncurses (reported by Klaus Weide
7467 <kweide@tezcat.com>)
7468 + moved the #define for 'inline' as an empty token from the
7469 $(CFLAGS_DEBUG) symbol into config.h, to avoid redefinition warning
7470 (reported by Ward Horner).
7471 + modify test for bool builtin type to use 'unsigned' rather than
7472 'unknown' when cross-compiling (reported by Ward Horner).
7475 + add header dependencies so that "make install.libs" will succeed
7476 even if "make all" is not done first.
7477 + moved some macros from lib_doupdate.c to curses.priv.h to use in
7478 expanded functions with ATAC.
7479 + correct implementation of lib_instr.c; both XSI and SVr4 agree that
7480 the winnstr functions can return more characters than will fit on one
7484 + modify script that generates lib_gen.c to support traces of called &
7486 + add new configure option "--disable-macros", for testing calls within
7488 + corrected logic that screens level-checking of called/return traces.
7491 + use new configure macro NC_SUBST to replace AC_PATH_PROG, better
7492 addressing request by Ward Horner.
7493 + check for cross-compiling before trying to invoke the autoconf
7494 AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED macro (reported by Ward Horner)
7495 + correct/simplify loop in _nc_visbuf(), 970201 changes omitted
7496 a pointer-increment.
7497 + eliminate obsolete symbol SHARED_ABI from dist.mk (noted by
7501 + add configure option --enable-expanded, together with code that
7502 implements an expanded form of certain complex macros, for testing
7504 + disable CHECK_POSITION unless --with-assertions is configured
7505 (Alexander V Lukyanov pointed out that this is redundant).
7506 + use keyname() to show traced chtype values where applicable rather
7507 than _tracechar(), which truncates the value to 8-bits.
7508 + minor fixes to TRACE_ICALLS, added T_CREATE, TRACE_CCALLS macros.
7509 + modify makefiles in progs and test directories to avoid using C
7510 preprocessor options on link commands (reported by Ward Horner)
7511 + correct ifdef/include-order for nc_alloc.h vs lib_freeall.c (reported
7513 + modify ifdef's to use configure-defined symbols consistently
7514 (reported by Ward Horner)
7515 + add/use new makefile symbols AR, AR_OPTS and LD to assist in non-UNIX
7516 ports (reported by Ward Horner <whorner@tsi-telsys.com>)
7517 + rename struct try to struct tries, to avoid name conflict with C++
7518 (reported by Gary Johnson).
7519 + modify worm.c to hide cursor while running.
7520 + add -Wcast-qual to gcc warnings, fix accordingly.
7521 + use PutChar rather than PutAttrChar in ClrToEOL to properly handle
7522 wrapping (Alexander V Lukyanov).
7523 + correct spurious echoing of input in hanoi.c from eric's #291 & #292
7524 patches (reported by Vernon C. Hoxie <vern@zebra.alphacdc.com>).
7525 + extend IRIX configuration to IRIX64
7526 + supply missing install.libs rule needed after restructuring
7530 + modify "make mostlyclean" to leave automatically-generated source
7531 in the ncurses directory, for use in cross-compiles.
7532 + autogenerated object-dependencies for test directory
7533 + add configure option --with-rcs-ids
7534 + modify configuration scripts to generate major/minor/patch versions
7535 (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
7536 + supply missing va_end's in lib_scanw.c
7537 + use stream I/O for trace-output, to eliminate fixed-size buffer
7538 + add TRACE_ICALLS definition/support to lib_trace.c
7539 + modify Ada95 binding to work with GNAT 3.09 (Juergen Pfeifer).
7542 + add/modify traces for called/return values to simplify extraction
7544 + changed _nc_visbuf to quote its result, and to dynamically allocate
7545 the returned buffer.
7546 + invoke ldconfig after installing shared library
7547 + modify install so that overwrite applies to shared library -lcurses
7548 in preference to static library (reported by Zeyd M Ben-Halim 960928).
7549 + correct missing ';' in 961221 mod to overwrite optional use of $(LN_S)
7551 + fixes to allow "make install" to work without first doing a "make
7552 all" (suggested by Larry Virden).
7555 + correct order of #ifdef for TABS_OK.
7556 + instrumented toe.c to test memory-leaks.
7557 + correct memory-deallocation in toe.c (patch by Jesse Thilo).
7558 + include <sys/types.h> in configuration test for regex.h (patch by
7560 + make infocmp recognize -I option, for SVr4 compatibility (reported by
7561 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>)
7564 + add extension 'use_default_colors()', modified test applications that
7565 use default background (firework, gdc, hanoi, knight, worm) to
7567 + correct some limit checks in lib_doupdate.c exposed while running
7569 + use typeCalloc macro for readability.
7570 + add/use definition for CONST to accommodate testing with Solaris
7571 (SVr4) curses, which doesn't use 'const' in its prototypes.
7572 + modify ifdef's in test/hashtest.c and test/view.c to compile with
7574 + modify _tracedump() to pad pad colors & attrs lines to match change
7575 in 970101 showing first/last changes.
7576 + corrected location of terminating null on dynamically allocated forms
7577 fields (patch by Per Foreby).
7580 + added headers to make view.c compile on SCO with the resizeterm()
7581 code (i.e., struct winsize) - though this compiles, I don't have a
7582 suitable test configuration since SIGWINCH doesn't pass my network to
7583 that machine - T.Dickey.
7584 + update test/configure.in to supply some default substitutions.
7585 + modify configure script to add -lncurses after -lgpm to fix problem
7586 linking against static libraries.
7587 + add a missing noraw() to test/ncurses.c (places noted by Jeremy
7589 + add a missing wclear() to test/testcurs.c (patch by Jeremy Buhler
7590 <jbuhler@cs.washington.edu>)
7591 + modify headers to accommodate compilers that don't allow duplicate
7592 "#define" lines for NCURSES_VERSION (reported by Larry W. Virden
7594 + fix formatting glitch in curs_getch.3x (patch by Jesse Thilo).
7595 + modify lib_doupdate to make el, el1 and ed optimization use the
7596 can_clear_with macro, and change EmitRange to allow leaving cursor at
7597 the middle of interval, rather than always at the end (patch by
7598 Alexander V Lukyanov). This was originally 960929, resync 970106.
7601 + workaround defect in autoconf 2.12 (which terminates configuration
7602 if no C++ compiler is found) by adding an option --without-cxx.
7603 + modify several man-pages to use tbl, where .nf/.fi was used (reported
7605 + correct font-codes in some man-pages (patch by Jesse Thilo
7606 <Jesse.Thilo@pobox.com>)
7607 + use configure script's knowledge of existence of g++ library for the
7608 c++ Makefile (reported by Paul Jackson).
7609 + correct misleading description of --datadir configuration option
7610 (reported by Paul Jackson <pj@sam.engr.sgi.com>)
7613 + several corrections to _nc_mvcur_scrolln(), prompted by a bug report
7615 > the logic for non_dest_scroll_region was interchanged between the
7616 forward & reverse scrolling cases.
7617 > multiple returns from the function allowed certain conditions to do
7618 part of an operation before discovering that it couldn't be
7619 completed, returning an error without restoring the cursor.
7620 > some returns were ERR, where the function had completed the
7621 operation, because the insert/delete line logic was improperly
7622 tested (this was probably the case Peter saw).
7623 > contrary to comments, some scrolling cases were tested after the
7624 insert/delete line method.
7625 + modify _tracedump() to show first/last changes.
7626 + modify param of ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c to 'newscr', fixes
7627 refresh problem (reported by Peter Wemm) that caused nvi to not show
7628 result of ":r !ls" until a ^L was typed.
7630 961229 (internal alpha)
7631 + correct some of the writable-strings warnings (reported by Gary
7632 Johnson <gjohnson@season.com>). Note that most of the remaining ones
7633 are part of the XSI specification, and can't be "fixed".
7634 + improve include-dependencies in form, menu, panel directories.
7635 + correct logic of delay_output(), which would return early if
7636 there is data on stdin.
7637 + modify interface & logic of _nc_timed_wait() to support 2 file
7638 descriptors, needed for GPM.
7639 + integrate patch by Andrew Kuchling <amk@magnet.com> for GPM (mouse)
7640 support, correcting logic in wgetch() and _nc_mouse_parse() which
7641 prevented patch from working properly -TD
7642 + improve performance of panel algorithm (Juergen Pfeifer 961203).
7643 + strip RCS id's from generated .html files in Ada95 subtree.
7644 + resync with generated .html files (Juergen Pfeifer 961223).
7645 + terminfo.src 10.1.0 (ESR).
7648 + release as 4.0 to accommodate Linux ld.so.1.8.5
7649 + correct syntax/spelling, regenerated .doc files from .html using
7651 + refined forms/menus makefiles (Juergen Pfeifer 961223).
7654 + remove logic in read_entry.c that attempts to refine errno by using
7655 'access()' for the directory (from patch by Florian La Roche).
7656 + correct configure test/substitution that inhibits generating
7657 include-path to /usr/include if gcc is used (reported by Florian La
7659 + modify setupterm() to allocate new TERMINAL for each call, just as
7660 solaris' curses does (Alexander V Lukyanov 960829).
7661 + corrected memory leaks in read_entry.c
7662 + add configure options --with-dbmalloc, --with-dmalloc, and
7663 --disable-leaks, tested by instrumenting infocmp, ncurses programs.
7664 + move #include's for stdlib.h and string.h to *.priv.h to accommodate
7666 + modify use of $(LN_S) to follow recommendation in autoconf 2.12,
7667 i.e., set current directory before linking.
7668 + split-out panel.priv.h, improve dependencies for forms, menus
7669 (Juergen Pfeifer 961204).
7670 + modify _nc_freewin() to reset globals curscr/newscr/stdscr when
7671 freeing the corresponding WINDOW (found using Purify).
7672 + modify delwin() to return ERR if the window to be deleted has
7673 subwindows, needed as a side-effect of resizeterm() (found using
7674 Purify). Tested and found that SVr4 curses behaves this way.
7675 + implement logic for _nc_freeall(), bringing stub up to date.
7678 + modify wbkgd() so that it doesn't set nulls in the rendered text,
7679 even if its argument doesn't specify a character (fixes test case by
7680 Juergen Pfeifer for bug-report).
7681 + set window-attributes in wbkgd(), to simplify comparison against
7682 Solaris curses, which does this.
7685 + replace most constants in ncurses 'o' test by expressions, making it
7686 work with wider range of screen sizes.
7687 + add options to ncurses.c to specify 'e' test softkey format, and the
7688 number of header/footer lines to rip-off.
7689 + add ^R (repaint after resize), ^L (refresh) commands to ncurses 'p'
7691 + add shell-out (!) command to ncurses 'p' test to allow test of
7692 resize between endwin/refresh.
7693 + correct line-wrap case in mvcur() by emitting carriage return,
7694 overlooked in 960928, but needed due to SVr4 compatibility changes to
7695 terminal modes in 960907.
7696 + correct logic in wresize that causes new lines to be allocated,
7697 broken for the special case of increasing rows only in 960907's fix
7699 + modify configure script to generate $(LDFLAGS) with -L and -l options
7700 in preference to explicit library filenames. (NOTE: this may
7701 require further amending, since I vaguely recall a dynamic loader
7702 that did not work properly without the full names, but it should be
7703 handled as an exception to the rule, since some linkers do bulk
7704 inclusion of libraries when given the full name - T.Dickey).
7705 + modify configure script to allow user-supplied $CFLAGS to set the
7706 debug-option in all libraries (requested by lots of people) -TD
7707 + use return consistently from main(), rather than exit (reported by
7709 + add --enable-getcap-cache option to configure, normally disabled
7710 (requested by Florian La Roche).
7711 + make configure test for gettimeofday() and possibly -lbsd more
7712 efficient (requested by Florian La Roche <florian@knorke.saar.de>)
7713 + minor adjustments to Ada95 binding (patches by Juergen Pfeifer)
7714 + correct attributes after emitting orig_pair in lib_vidattr.c (patch
7715 by Alexander V Lukyanov).
7718 + corrected README wrt Ada95 (Juergen Pfeifer)
7721 + integrate resizeterm() into doupdate(), so that if screen size
7722 changes between endwin/refresh, ncurses will resize windows to fit
7723 (this needs additional testing with pads and softkeys).
7724 + add, for memory-leak testing, _nc_freeall() entrypoint to free all
7725 data used in ncurses library.
7726 + initialize _nc_idcok, _nc_idlok statically to resolve discrepancy
7727 between initscr() and newwin() initialization (reported by
7728 Alexander V Lukyanov).
7729 + test built VERSION=4.0, SHARED_ABI=4 with Linux ld.so.1.8.5
7730 (set beta versions to those values -- NOTE that subsequent pre-4.0
7731 beta may not be interchangeable).
7732 + modify configure script to work with autoconf 2.12
7734 961130 1.9.9g release
7735 + add copyright notices to configuration scripts (written by Thomas
7739 > patch, mostly for panel (Juergen Pfeifer):
7740 + cosmetic improvement for a few routines in the ncurses core library
7741 to avoid warning messages.
7742 + the panel overlap detection was broken
7743 + the panel_window() function was not fool-proof.
7745 + Cosmetic changes (also to avoid warning messages when compiling with
7749 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7750 + eliminates warning messages for the compile of libform.
7751 + inserts Per Foreby's new field type TYPE_IPV4 into libform.
7752 + Updates man page and the Ada95 binding to reflect this.
7753 + Improves inlining in libmenu and libform.
7756 + improve the use of the "const" qualifier in the
7757 panel library (Juergen Pfeifer)
7758 + change set_panel_userptr() and panel_userptr() to use void*
7763 + package with 961119 version of Ada95 binding (fixes for gnat-3.07).
7765 + correct initialization of the stdscr pseudo panel in panel library
7767 + use MODULE_ID (rcs keywords) in forms and menus libraries (Juergen
7770 + typo in curs_termcap man page (reported by Hendrik Reichel
7771 <106065.2344@compuserve.com>)
7772 + change default xterm entry to xterm-r6.
7773 + add entry for color_xterm
7776 + lint found several functions that had only #define implementations
7777 (e.g., attr_off), modified curses.h.in to generate them as per XSI
7778 Curses requirement that every macro be available as a function.
7779 + add check in infocmp.c to guard against string compare of
7780 CANCELLED_STRING values.
7781 + modify firework.c, rain.c to hide cursor while running.
7782 + correct missing va_end in lib_tparm.c
7783 + modify hanoi.c to work on non-color terminals, and to use timing
7784 delays when in autoplay mode.
7785 + correct 'echochar()' to refresh immediately (reported by Adrian
7786 Garside <94ajg2@eng.cam.ac.uk>)
7788 + reorganize terminfo.src entries for xterm.
7791 + corrected error in line-breakout logic (lib_doupdate.c)
7792 + modified newdemo to use wgetch(win) rather than getch() to eliminate
7793 a spurious clear-screen.
7794 + corrected ifdef's for 'poll()' configuration.
7795 + added modules to ncurses, form, menu for Ada95 binding (Juergen
7797 + modify set_field_buffer() to allow assignment of string longer than
7798 the initial buffer length, and to return the complete string rather
7799 than only the initial size (Juergen Pfeifer and Per Foreby
7803 + configure for 'poll()' in preference to 'select()', since older
7804 systems are more likely to have a broken 'select()'.
7805 + modified render_char() to avoid OR'ing colors.
7806 + minor fixes to testcurs.c, newdemo.c test programs: ifdef'd out the
7807 resize test, use wbkgd and corrected box() parameters.
7808 + make flushinp() test work in ncurses.c by using napms() instead of
7810 + undo ESR's changes to xterm-x11r6 (it no longer matched the X11R6.1
7811 distribution, as stated)
7812 + terminfo 9.13.18 resync (ESR)
7813 + check for getenv("HOME") returning null (ESR).
7814 + change buffer used to decode xterm-mouse commands to unsigned to
7815 handle displays wider than 128 chars (Juergen Pfeifer).
7816 + correct typo curs_outopts.3x (Juergen Pfeifer).
7817 + correct limit-checking in wenclose() (Juergen Pfeifer).
7818 + correction to Peter Wemm's newwin change (Thomas Fehr
7820 + corrections to logic that combines colors and attributes; they must
7821 not be OR'd (Juergen Pfeifer, extending from report/patch by Rick
7825 + reset flags in 'getwin()' that might cause refresh to attempt to
7826 manipulate the non-existent parent of a window that is read from a
7827 file (lib_screen.c).
7828 + restructure _nc_timed_wait() to log more information, and to try to
7829 recover from badly-behaved 'select()' calls (still testing this).
7830 + move define for GOOD_SELECT into configure script.
7831 + corrected extra '\' character inserted before ',' in comp_scan.c
7832 + corrected expansion of %-format characters in dump_entry.c; some were
7833 rendered as octal constants.
7834 + modify dump_entry.c to make terminfo output more readable and like
7835 SVr4, by using "\s" for spaces (leading/trailing only), "\," for
7836 comma, "\^" and "\:" as well.
7837 + corrected some memory leaks in ncurses.c, and a minor logic error
7838 in the top-level command-parser.
7839 + correction for label format 4 (PC style with info line), a
7840 slk_clear(), slk_restore() sequence didn't redraw the info line
7842 + modified the slk window (if simulated) to inherit the background and
7843 default character attributes from stdscr (Juergen Pfeifer).
7844 + corrected limit-check in set_top_row (Juergen Pfeifer).
7847 + correct loop-limit in wnoutrefresh(), bug exposed during pipe-testing
7848 had '.lastchar' entry one beyond '._maxx'.
7849 + modify ncurses test-program to work with data piped to it.
7850 + corrected pathname computation in run_tic.sh, removing extra "../"
7851 (reported by Tim Mooney).
7852 + modified configure script to use previous install's location for
7854 + added NetBSD and FreeBSD to platforms that use --prefix=/usr as
7858 + revised xterm terminfo descriptions to reflect the several versions
7860 + corrected a pointer reference in dump_entry.c that didn't test if
7864 + correct _nc_mvcur_scrolln for terminals w/o scrolling region.
7865 + add -x option to hashtest to control whether it allows writes to the
7867 + ifdef'd (NCURSES_TEST) the logic for _nc_optimize_enable to make it
7868 simpler to construct tests (for double-check of _nc_hash_map tests).
7869 + correct ifdef's for c++ in curses.h
7870 + change default xterm type to xterm-x11r6.
7871 + correct quoting in configure that made man-pages installed with
7872 $datadir instead of actual terminfo path.
7873 + correct whitespace in include/Caps, which caused kf11, clr_eol and
7874 clr_end to be omitted from terminfo.5
7875 + fix memory leaks in delscreen() (adapted from Alexander V Lukyanov).
7876 + improve appearance of marker in multi-selection menu (Juergen
7878 + fix behavior for forms with all fields inactive (Juergen Pfeifer)
7879 + document 'field_index()' (Juergen Pfeifer)
7881 + add some more XENIX keycap translations to include/Caps.
7882 + modify newwin to set initial state of each line to 'touched'
7883 (from patch by Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.dialix.com>)
7884 + in SET_TTY, replace TCSANOW with TCSADRAIN (Alexander V Lukyanov).
7887 + ifdef'd out _nc_hash_map (still slower)
7888 + add graphic characters to vt52 description.
7889 + use PutAttrChar in ClrToEOL to ensure proper background, position.
7890 + simplify/correct logic in 'mvcur()' that does wrapping; it was
7891 updating the position w/o actually moving the cursor, which broke
7893 + ensure that 'doupdate()' sets the .oldindex values back to a sane
7894 state; this was causing a spurious refresh in ncurses 'r'.
7895 + add logic to configure (from vile) to guard against builders who
7896 don't remove config.cache & config.status when doing new builds -TD
7897 + corrected logic for 'repeat_char' in EmitRange (cf: eric #317), which
7898 did not follow the 2-parameter scheme specified in XSI.
7899 + corrected logic of wrefresh, wnoutrefresh broken in #319, making
7900 clearok work properly (report by Michael Elkins).
7901 + corrected problem with endwin introduced by #314 (removing the
7902 scrolling-region reset) that broke ncurses.c tests.
7903 + corrected order of args in AC_CHECK_LIB (from report by Ami Fischman
7904 <fischman@math.ucla.edu>).
7905 + corrected formatting of terminfo.5 tables (Juergen Ehling)
7908 + emit a carriage-return in 'endwin()' to workaround a kernel bug in
7909 BSDI. (requested by Mike Karels <karels@redrock.bsdi.com>)
7910 + reverse the default o configure --enable-termcap (consensus).
7912 + modified logic for clearok and related functions (from report by
7913 Michael Elkins) - untested
7915 + correction to #317.
7917 + re-add _nc_hash_map
7918 + modify EmitRange to maintain position as per original design.
7919 + add hashtest.c, program to time the hashmap optimization.
7921 + add logic to deal with magic-cookie (how was this tested?)
7923 + add ncurses.c driver for magic-cookie, some fixes to ncurses.c
7925 + merged Alexander V Lukyanov's patch to use ech and rep - untested
7927 + modified handling of interrupted system calls - untested
7928 (lib_getch.c, lib_twait.c).
7929 + new function _nc_mvcur_resume()
7930 + fix return value for 'overlay()', 'overwrite()'
7933 + implement subwindow-logic in wresize, minor fixes to ncurses 'g'
7935 + corrected bracketing of fallback.c (reported/suggested fix by Juergen
7936 Ehling <eh@eclipse.aball.de>).
7937 + update xterm-color to reflect XFree86 3.1.3G release.
7938 + correct broken dtterm description from #314 patch (e.g., spurious
7939 newline. The 'pairs' change might work, but no one's tested it
7941 + clarify the documentation for the builtin form fieldtypes (Juergen
7944 + reset scroll region on startup rather than at wrapup time
7945 (enhancement suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
7946 + make storage of palette tables and their size counts per-screen for
7947 multi-terminal applications (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
7948 + Improved error reporting for infotocap translation errors.
7949 + Update terminfo.src to 9.13.14.
7952 + rewrote wgetstr to make it erase control chars and also fix bogus use
7953 of _nc_outstr which caused the display to not wrap properly (display
7954 problem reported by John M. Flinchbaugh <glynis@netrax.net>)
7955 + modify ncurses 'f' test to accommodate terminal responses to C1 codes
7956 (and split up this screen to accommodate non-ANSI terminals).
7957 + test enter_insert_mode and exit_insert_mode in has_ic().
7958 + removed bogus logic in mvcur that assumes nl/nonl set output modes
7959 (XSI says they are input modes; SVr4 implements this).
7960 + added macros SET_TTY, GET_TTY to term.h
7961 + correct getstr() logic that altered terminal modes w/o restoring.
7962 + disable ICRNL, etc., during initialization to match SVr4, removing
7963 the corresponding logic from raw, cbreak, etc.
7964 + disable ONLCR during initialization, to match SVr4 (this is needed
7965 for cursor optimization when the cursor-down is a newline).
7966 + replaced ESR's imitation of wresize with my original (his didn't
7970 + memory leaks (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7971 + modified pnoutrefresh() to be more tolerant of too-large screen
7972 size (reported by Michael Elkins).
7973 + correct handling of terminfo files with no strings (Philippe De
7975 + correct "tic -s" to take into account -I, -C options.
7976 + modify ncurses 'f' test to not print codes 80 through 9F, since they
7977 are considered control codes by ANSI terminals.
7980 + correct speed variable-type in 'tgetent()' (reported by Peter Wemm)
7981 + make "--enable-getcap" configuration-option work (reported by
7982 Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.DIALix.COM>)
7985 + correct err in 960817 that changed return-value of tigetflag()
7986 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7987 + modify infocmp to use library default search-path for terminfo
7988 directory (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7991 + corrected an err in mvcur that broke resizing-behavior.
7992 + correct fall-thru behavior of _nc_read_entry(), which was not finding
7993 descriptions that existed in directories past the first one searched
7994 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov)
7995 + corrected typo in dtterm description.
7997 + add dtterm description
7998 + clarify ncurses 'i' test (drop vscanf subtest)
8001 + correct nl()/nonl() to work as per SVr4 & XSI.
8002 + minor fixes to ncurses.c (use 'noraw()', mvscanw return-code)
8003 + refine configure-test for -g option (Tim Mooney).
8004 + correct interaction between O_BLANK and NEW_LINE request in form
8005 library (Juergen Pfeifer)
8008 + revised fix to tparm; previous fix reversed parameter order.
8010 correct terminfo.src corrupted by #310
8012 + fix idlok() and idcok() and the default of the idlok switch.
8015 + corrected tparm to handle capability strings without explicit pop
8016 (reported by William P Setzer)
8017 + add fallback def for GCC_NORETURN, GCC_UNUSED for termcap users
8018 (reported by Tim Mooney).
8020 + documentation and prototyping errors for has_color, immedok and idcok
8021 (reported by William P Setzer <wsetzer@pams.ncsu.edu>)
8022 + updated qnx terminfo entry (by Michael Hunter)
8025 + eliminate quoted includes in ncurses subdirectory, ensure config.h
8027 + newterm initializes terminal settings the same as initscr (reported
8031 + call cbreak() in initscr(), as per XSI & SVr4.
8032 + turn off hardware echo in initscr() as per XSI & SVr4
8034 + terminfo changes (9.3.10), from BRL
8035 + add more checks to terminfo parser.
8036 + add more symbols to infocmp.
8039 + save previous-attribute in lib_vidattr.c if SP is null (reported by
8040 Juergen Fluk <louis@dachau.marco.de>)
8041 + corrected calls on _nc_render so that background character is set
8043 + corrected wbkgdset macro (XSI allows background character to be
8044 null), and tests that use it.
8045 + more corrections to terminfo (xterm & rxvt)
8046 + undid change to mcprint prototype (cannot use size_t in curses.h
8047 because not all systems declare it in the headers that we can safely
8049 + move the ifdefs for errno into curses.priv.h
8051 + terminfo changes (9.3.8)
8052 + modified logic of error-reporting in terminfo parser
8055 + always check for <sys/bsdtypes.h> since ISC needs it to declare
8056 fd_set (Juergen Pfeifer)
8057 + install shared-libraries on NetBSD/FreeBSD with ABI-version (reported
8058 by Juergen Pfeifer, Mike Long)
8059 + add LOCAL_LDFLAGS2 symbol (Juergen Pfeifer)
8060 + corrected prototype for delay_output() -- bump ABI to 3.2
8061 + terminfo patches #306/307 (ESR).
8062 + moved logic that filters out rmul and rmso from setupterm to newterm
8063 where it is less likely to interfere with termcap applications.
8066 + rollback ESR's #305 change to terminfo.src (it breaks existing
8067 applications, e.g., 'less 290').
8068 + correct path of edit_man.sh, and fix typo that made all man-pages
8070 + restore man/menu_requestname.3x omitted in Zeyd's resync (oops).
8071 + auto-configure the GCC_PRINTFLIKE/GCC_SCANFLIKE macros (reported by
8072 Philippe De Muyter).
8075 + make lib_vidattr.c more readable using macros.
8076 + filter out rmul, rmso that conflict with sgr0 when reading terminal
8078 + added sanity-checking of various paired string attributes (ESR).
8079 + work around autoconf bug, force $INSTALL to absolute path
8081 + modify man-page install for BSDI to install preformatted .0 files
8082 (reported by David MacKenzie).
8083 + add/use gcc __attribute__ for printf and scanf in curses.h
8084 + added SGR attributes test-case to ncurses
8085 + revised ncurses 't' logic to show trace-disable effect in the menu.
8086 + use getopt in ncurses program to process -s and -t options.
8087 + make ncurses 'p' legend toggle with '?'
8088 + disable scrollok during the ncurses 'p' test; if it is enabled the
8089 stdscr will scroll when putting the box-corners in the lower-right
8093 + check return code of _nc_mvcur_scrolln() in _nc_scroll_optimize() for
8094 terminals with no scrolling-support (reported by Nikolay Shadrin
8095 <queen@qh.mirea.ac.ru>)
8096 + added ^S scrollok-toggle to ncurses 'g' test.
8097 + added ^T trace-toggle to ncurses tests.
8098 + modified ncurses test program to use ^Q or ESC consistently for
8099 terminating tests (rather than ^D), and to use control keys rather
8100 than function keys in 'g' test.
8101 + corrected misplaced wclrtoeol calls in addch to accommodate wrapping
8102 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
8103 + modify lib_doupdate.c to use effective costs to tradeoff between
8104 delete-character/insert-character vs normal updating (reported by
8106 + compute effective costs for screen update operations (e.g., clr_eos,
8108 + corrected error in knight.c exposed by wrap fixes in 960622; the
8109 msgwin needed scrollok set.
8110 + corrected last change to IDcTransformLine logic to avoid conflict
8111 between PutRange and InsStr
8112 + modified run_tic.sh to not use /usr/tmp (reported by David
8113 MacKenzie), and further revised it and aclocal.m4 to use $TMPDIR if
8115 + corrected off-by-one in RoomFor call in read_entry.c
8118 + modified logic that wraps cursor in addch to follow the XSI spec,
8119 (implemented in SVr4) which states that the cursor position is
8120 updated when wrapping. Renamed _NEED_WRAP to _WRAPPED to reflect the
8122 + added -s option to tic, to provide better diagnostics in run_tic.sh
8123 + improved error-recovery for tabset install.
8124 + change ABI to 3.1 (dropped tparam, corrected getbkgd(), added
8125 _yoffset to WINDOW).
8126 + modified initialization of SP->_ofp so that init_acs() is called with
8127 the "right" file pointer (reported by Rick Marshall <rjm@nlc.net.au>
8128 + documentation fixes (Juergen Pfeifer).
8129 + corrected, using new SCREEN and WINDOW members, the behavior of
8130 ncurses if one uses ripoffline() to remove a line from the top of the
8131 screen (Juergen Pfeifer).
8132 + modified autoconf scripts to prepare for Ada95 (GNAT) binding to
8133 ncurses (Juergen Pfeifer).
8134 + incorrect buffer-size in _nc_read_entry, reported by ESR.
8137 + corrected two logic errors in read_entry.c, write_entry.c (called by
8138 tic, the write/read of terminfo entries used inconsistent rules for
8139 locating the entries; the $TERMINFO_DIRS code would find only the
8140 first entry in a list).
8141 + refined pathname computation in run_tic.sh and shlib.
8142 + corrected initialization of $IP in misc/run_tic.sh
8145 + ifdef'd out _nc_hash_map() call because it does not improve speed.
8146 + display version of gcc if configure script identifies it.
8147 + modify configure script to use /usr as Linux's default prefix.
8148 + modify run_tic.sh to use shlib script, fixes some problems installing
8149 with a shared-library configuration.
8150 + adjusted configure script so that it doesn't run tests with the
8151 warnings turned on, which makes config.log hard to read.
8152 + added 'lint' rule to top-level Makefile.
8153 + added configure option '--with-install-prefix' for use by system
8154 builders to install into staging locations (requested by
8155 Charles Levert <charles@comm.polymtl.ca>).
8156 + corrected autoconfigure for Debian man program; it's not installed
8158 + set noecho in 'worm'; it was ifdef'd for debug only
8159 + updated test/configure.in for timing-display in ncurses 'p' test
8160 + corrected misspelled 'getbkgd()'.
8161 + corrected wbkgdset to work like observed syvr4 (sets A_CHARTEXT part
8162 to blank if no character given, copies attributes to window's
8164 + modified lib_doupdate.c to use lower-level SP's current_attr state
8165 instead of curscr's state, since it is redundant.
8166 + correction to IDcTransformLine logic which controls where InsStr is
8167 invoked (refined by Alexander V Lukyanov).
8169 + conditionally include Chris Torek's hash function _nc_hash_map().
8170 + better fix for nvi refresh-bug (Rick Marshall)
8171 + fix for bug in handling of interrupted keystroke waits,
8175 + auto-configure man-page compression-format and renames for Debian.
8176 + corrected several typos in curses.h.in (i.e., the mvXXXX macros).
8177 + re-order curses.priv.h for lint.
8178 + added rules for lintlib, lint
8179 + corrected ifdef for BROKEN_LINKER in MKnames.awk.in
8180 + corrected missing INSTALL_DATA in misc/Makefile.in
8181 + flush output when changing cursor-visibility (Rick Marshall)
8182 + fix a minor bug in the _nc_ripoff() routine and improve error
8183 checking when creating the label window (Juergen Pfeifer).
8184 + enhancement to the control over the new PC-style soft key format.
8185 allow caller now to select whether or not one wants to have
8186 the index-line; see curs_slk.3x for documentation (Juergen Pfeifer).
8187 + typos, don't use inline with -g (Philippe De Muyter)
8188 + fixes for menus & wattr-, slk-functions (Juergen Pfeifer)
8191 + removed --with-ticdir option altogether, maintain compatibility with
8192 existing applications via symbolic link in run_tic.sh
8193 + patch for termio.h, signal (Philippe De Muyter)
8194 + auto-configure gcc warning options rather than infer from version.
8195 + auto-configure __attribute__ for different gcc versions.
8196 + corrected special use of clearok() in hardscroll.c by resetting flag
8198 + include stdlib.h before defs for EXIT_SUCCESS, for OSF/1.
8199 + include sys/types.h in case stdlib.h does not declare size_t.
8200 + fixes for makefile (Tim Mooney)
8201 + fixes for menus & forms (Juergen Pfeifer)
8204 + revised ncurses.c panner test, let pad abut all 4 sides of screen.
8205 + refined case in lib_doupdate.c for ClrToEOL().
8206 + corrected prior change for PutRange (Alexander V Lukyanov
8207 <lav@yars.free.net>).
8208 + autoconf mods (Tim Mooney <mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu>).
8209 + locale fix for forms (Philippe De Muyter <phdemuyt@ulb.ac.be>)
8210 + renamed "--with-datadir" option to "--with-ticdir" to avoid
8211 confusion, and made this check for the /usr/lib/terminfo pre-existing
8213 > patches 299-301 (ESR):
8215 + mods to tracing, especially for ACS chars.
8216 + corrected off-by-one in IDCtransform.
8217 + corrected intermittent mouse bug by using return-value from read().
8218 + mods to parse_entry.c, for smarter defaults.
8221 + use getopt in 'tic'; added -L option and modified -e option to allow
8225 + don't use fixed buffer-size in tparm().
8226 + modified tic to create terminfo directory if it doesn't exist.
8227 + added -T options to tic and infocmp (for testing/analysis)
8228 + refined the length criteria for termcap and terminfo
8229 + optimize lib_doupdate with memcpy, PutRange
8230 > patches 297, 298 (ESR):
8231 + implement TERMINFO_DIRS, and -o option of tic
8232 + added TRACE_IEVENT
8233 + removed boolean version of 'getm'
8234 + added lib_print.c (for Rick Marshall)
8236 + added 't' to ncurses.c test.
8237 + moved delay_output() to lib_tputs.c
8238 + removed tparam() (was added in 1.9.9, but conflicts with emacs and
8239 is not part of X/Open Curses).
8240 + misc cursor & optimization fixes.
8243 + modified ncurses 'p' test to allow full-screen range for panner size.
8244 + fixes for locale (Philippe De Muyter <phdm@labauto1.ulb.ac.be>)
8245 + don't use fixed buffer-size in fmt_entry().
8246 + added usage-message to 'infocmp'.
8247 + modified install.includes rules to prepend subdirectory-name to
8248 "#include" if needed.
8251 + protect wrefresh, wnoutrefresh from invocation with pad argument.
8252 + corrected default CCFLAGS in test/Makefile.
8255 + implemented logic to support terminals with background color erase
8256 (e.g., rxvt and the newer color xterm).
8257 + improved screen update logic (off-by-one logic error; use clr_eos if
8261 + change ncurses 'a' test to run in raw mode.
8262 + make TIOCGWINSZ configure test less stringent, in case user
8263 configures via terminal that cannot get screen size.
8264 > patches 295, 296 (ESR):
8265 + new "-e" option of tic.
8266 + fix for "infocmp -e".
8267 + restore working-directory in read_termcap.c
8268 + split lib_kernel.c, lib_setup.c and names.c in order to reduce
8269 overhead for programs that use only termcap features.
8273 + fix for AIX 3.2.5 (must define _POSIX_SOURCE to get termios struct
8274 definitions via <termios.h>, modified macros in lib_raw.c to avoid
8275 K&R-style substitution)
8276 > patches 293, 294 (ESR):
8277 + mods to wgetch() in cooked mode
8278 + corrected askuser() logic in tset
8279 + correct interaction of endwin() with mouse processing
8280 + added trace support for TTY flags
8283 + fixes for NeXT, ISC and HPUX auto-configure
8284 + autogenerate development header-dependencies (config.h, *.priv.h)
8285 + corrected single-column formatting of "use=" (e.g., in tic)
8286 + modify tic to read full terminfo-names
8287 + corrected divide-by-zero that caused hang (or worse) when redirecting
8289 + modify tic to generate directories only as-needed (and corrected
8290 instance of use of data from function that had already returned).
8292 ### ncurses-1.9.8a -> 1.9.9e
8294 * fixed broken wsyncup()/wysncdown(), as a result wnoutrefresh() now has
8295 copy-changed-lines behavior.
8296 * added and documented wresize() function.
8297 * more fixes to LOWER-RIGHT corner handling.
8298 * changed the line-breakout optimization code to allow some lines to be
8299 emitted before the first check.
8300 * added option for tic to use symbolic instead of hard links (for AFS)
8301 * fix to restore auto-wrap mode.
8302 * trace level can be controlled by environment variable.
8303 * better handling of NULs in terminal descriptions.
8304 * improved compatibility with observed SVR4 behavior.
8305 * the refresh behavior of over-lapping windows is now more efficient and
8307 * use autoconf 2.7, which results in a working setup for SCO 5.0.
8308 * support for ESCDELAY.
8309 * small fixes for menu/form code.
8310 * the test directory has its own configure.
8311 * fixes to pads when optimizing scrolling.
8312 * fixed several off-by-one bugs.
8313 * fixes for termcap->terminfo translation; less restrictions more correct
8316 ### ncurses-1.9.7 -> 1.9.8a
8318 * teach infocmp -i to recognize ECMA highlight sequences
8319 * infocmp now dumps all SVr4 termcaps (not just the SVr4 ones) on -C
8320 * support infocmp -RBSD.
8321 * satisfy XSI Curses requirement that every macro be available as a function.
8322 * This represents the last big change to the public interface of ncurses. The
8323 ABI_VERSION has now been set at 3.0 and should stay there barring any great
8324 catastrophies or acts of God.
8325 * The C++ has been cleaned up in reaction to the changes to satisfy XSI's
8327 * libncurses now gets linked to libcurses to help seamless emulation
8328 (replacement) of a vendor's curses. --disable-overwrite turns this behavior
8331 ### ncurses-1.9.6 -> 1.9.7
8333 * corrected return values of setupterm()
8334 * Fixed some bugs in tput (it does padding now)
8335 * fixed a bug in tic that made it do the wrong thing on entries with more than
8336 one `use' capability.
8337 * corrected the screen-size calculation at startup time to alter the
8338 numeric capabilities as per SVr4, not just LINES and COLS.
8339 * toe(1) introduced; does what infocmp -T used to.
8340 * tic(1) can now translate AIX box1 and font[0123] capabilities.
8341 * tic uses much less core, the dotic.sh kluge can go away now.
8342 * fix read_entry() and write_entry() to pass through cancelled capabilities OK.
8343 * Add $HOME/.terminfo as source/target directory for terminfo entries.
8344 * termcap compilation now automatically dumps an entry to $HOME/.terminfo.
8345 * added -h option to toe(1).
8346 * added -R option to tic(1) and infocmp(1).
8347 * added fallback-entry-list feature.
8348 * added -i option to infocmp(1).
8349 * do a better job at detecting if we're on SCO.
8351 ### ncurses-1.9.5 -> 1.9.6
8353 * handling of TERMCAP environment variables now works correctly.
8354 * various changes to shorten termcap translations to less that 1024 chars.
8356 * mouse support for xterm.
8357 * most data tables are now const and accordingly live in shareable text space.
8358 * Obey the XPG4/SVr4 practice that echo() is initally off.
8359 * tic is much better at translating XENIX and AIX termcap entries now.
8360 * tic can interpret ko capabilities now.
8361 * integrated Juergen Pfeifer's forms library.
8362 * taught write_entry() how not to write more than it needs to; this change
8363 reduces the size of the terminfo tree by a full 26%!
8364 * infocmp -T option added.
8365 * better warnings about historical tic quirks from tic.
8367 ### ncurses 1.9.4 -> 1.9.5
8369 * menus library is now included with documentation.
8370 * lib_mvcur has been carefully profiled and tuned.
8371 * Fixed a ^Z-handling bug that was tanking lynx(1).
8372 * HJ Lu's patches for ELF shared libraries under Linux
8373 * terminfo.src 9.8.2
8374 * tweaks for compiling in seperate directories.
8375 * Thomas Dickey's patches to support NeXT's brain-dead linker
8376 * Eric Raymond's patches to fix problems with long termcap entries.
8377 * more support for shared libraries under SunOS and IRIX.
8379 ### ncurses 1.9.3 -> 1.9.4
8381 * fixed an undefined-order-of-evaluation bug in lib_acs.c
8382 * systematically gave non-API public functions and data an _nc_ prefix.
8383 * integrated Juergen Pfeifer's menu code into the distribution.
8384 * totally rewrote the knight test game's interface
8386 ### ncurses 1.9.2c -> 1.9.3
8388 * fixed the TERMCAP_FILE Support.
8389 * fixed off-by-one errors in scrolling code
8390 * added tracemunch to the test tools
8391 * took steps to cut the running time of make install.data
8393 ### ncurses 1.9.2c -> 1.9.2d
8395 * revised 'configure' script to produce libraries for normal, debug,
8396 profile and shared object models.
8398 ### ncurses 1.9.1 -> 1.9.2
8400 * use 'autoconf' to implement 'configure' script.
8401 * panels support added
8402 * tic now checks for excessively long termcap entries when doing translation
8403 * first cut at eliminating namespace pollution.
8405 ### ncurses 1.8.9 -> 1.9
8407 * cleanup gcc warnings for the following: use size_t where 'int' is not
8408 appropriate, fixed some shadowed variables, change attr_t to compatible with
8409 chtype, use attr_t in some places where it was confused with 'int'.
8410 * use chtype/attr_t casts as appropriate to ensure portability of masking
8412 * added-back waddchnstr() to lib_addstr.c (it had been deleted).
8413 * supplied missing prototypes in curses.h
8414 * include <termcap.h> in lib_termcap.c to ensure that the prototypes
8415 are consistent (they weren't).
8416 * corrected prototype of tputs in <termcap.h>
8417 * rewrote varargs parsing in lib_tparm.c (to avoid referencing memory
8418 that may be out of bounds on the stack) -- Purify found this.
8419 * ensure that TRACE is defined in lib_trace.c (to solve prototype
8421 * corrected scrolling-region size in 'mvcur_wrap()'
8422 * more spelling fixes
8423 * use 'calloc()' to allocate WINDOW struct in lib_newwin.c (Purify).
8424 * set default value for SP->_ofp in lib_set_term.c (otherwise SunOS dumps
8425 core in init_acs()).
8426 * include <errno.h> in write_entry.c (most "braindead" includes declare errno
8429 ### ncurses 1.8.8 -> 1.8.9
8431 * compile (mostly) clean with gcc 2.5.8 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
8432 -Wmissing-prototypes -Wconversion and using __attribute__ to flush out
8433 non-portable use of "%x" for pointers, or for chtype data (which is declared
8435 * modified doupdate to ensure that typahead was turned on before attempting
8436 select-call (otherwise, some implementations hang).
8437 * added trace mask TRACE_FIFO, use this in lib_getch.c to allow finer
8438 resolution of traces.
8439 * improved bounds checking on several critical functions.
8440 * the data directory has been replaced by the new master terminfo file.
8441 * -F file-comparison option added to infocmp.
8442 * compatibility with XSI Curses is now documented in the man bages.
8443 * wsyncup/wsyncdown functions are reliable now; subwindow code in general
8445 * capabilities ~msgr, tilde_glitch, insert_padding, generic_type, no_pad_char,
8446 memory_above, memory_below, and hard_copy are now used properly.
8447 * cursor-movement optimization has been completely rewritten.
8448 * vertical-movement optimization now uses hardware scrolling, il, dl.
8450 ### ncurses 1.8.7 -> 1.8.8
8451 * untic no longer exists, infocmp replaces it.
8452 * tic can understand termcap now, especially if it is called captoinfo.
8453 * The Linux Standard Console terminfo entry is called linux insead of console.
8454 It also uses the kernel's new method of changing charsets.
8455 * initscr() will EXIT upon error (as the docs say) This wil mostly happen if
8456 you try to run on an undefined terminal.
8457 * I can get things running on AIX but tic can't compile terminfo. I have to
8458 compile entries on another machine. Volunteers to hunt this bug are welcome.
8459 * wbkgd() and wbkgdset() can be used to set a windows background to color.
8460 wclear()/werase() DO NOT use the current attribute to clear the screen.
8461 This is the way SVR4 curses works. PDCurses 2.1 is broken in this respect,
8462 though PDCurses 2.2 has been fixed.
8463 * cleaned up the test/ directory.
8464 * test/worm will segfault after quite a while.
8465 * many spelling corrections courtesy of Thomas E. Dickey
8467 ### ncurses 1.8.6 -> 1.8.7
8468 * cleaned up programs in test/ directory.
8469 * fixed wbkgdset() macro.
8470 * modified getstr() to stop it from advancing cursor in noecho mode.
8471 * modified linux terminfo entry to work with the latest kernel to get
8472 the correct alternate character set.
8473 * also added a linux-mono entry for those running on monochrome screens.
8474 * changed initscr() so that it behaves like the man page says it does.
8475 this fixes the problem with programs in test/ crashing with SIGSEV if
8476 a terminal is undefined.
8477 * modified addch() to avoid using any term.h #define's
8478 * removed duplicate tgoto() in lib_tparm.c
8479 * modified dump_entry.c so that infocmp deals correctly with ',' in acsc
8480 * modified delwin() to correctly handle deleting subwindows.
8481 * fixed Makefile.dist to stop installing an empty curses.h
8482 * fixed a couple of out-of-date notes in man pages.
8484 ### ncurses 1.8.5 -> 1.8.6
8485 * Implemented wbkgd(), bkgd(), bkgdset(), and wbkgdset().
8486 * The handling of attributes has been improved and now does not turn off color
8487 if other attributes are turned off.
8488 * scrolling code is improved. Scrolling in subwindows is still broken.
8489 * Fixes to several bugs that manifest them on platforms other than Linux.
8490 * The default to meta now depends on the status of the terminal when ncurses
8492 * The interface to the tracing facility has changed. Instead of the pair of
8493 functions traceon() and traceoff(), there is just one function trace() which
8494 takes a trace mask argument. The trace masks, defined in curses.h, are
8497 #define TRACE_DISABLE 0x00 /* turn off tracing */
8498 #define TRACE_ORDINARY 0x01 /* ordinary trace mode */
8499 #define TRACE_CHARPUT 0x02 /* also trace all character outputs */
8500 #define TRACE_MAXIMUM 0x0f /* maximum trace level */
8502 More trace masks may be added, or these may be changed, in future releases.
8503 * The pad code has been improved and the pad test code in test/ncurses.c has
8505 * The prototype ansi entry has been changed to work with a wider variety
8507 * Fix to the prototype ansi entry that enables it to work with PC emulators
8508 that treat trailing ";m" in a highlight sequence as ";0m"; this doesn't
8509 break operation with any emulators.
8510 * There are now working infocmp, captoinfo, tput, and tclear utilities.
8511 * tic can now compile entries in termcap syntax.
8512 * Core-dump bug in pnoutrefresh fixed.
8513 * We now recognize and compile all the nonstandard capabilities in Ross
8514 Ridge's mytinfo package (rendering it obsolete).
8515 * General cleanup and documentation improvements.
8516 * Fixes and additions to the installation-documentation files.
8517 * Take cursor to normal mode on endwin.
8519 ### ncurses 1.8.4 -> 1.8.5
8520 * serious bugs in updating screen which caused erratic non-display,
8522 * fixed initialization for getch() related variable which cause
8523 unpredictable results.
8524 * fixed another doupdate bug which only appeared if you have
8526 * implemented redrawln() and redrawwin().
8527 * implemented winsnstr() and related functions.
8528 * cleaned up insertln() and deleteln() and implemented (w)insdeln().
8529 * changed Makefile.dist so that installation of man pages will
8530 take note of the terminfo directory.
8531 * fixed Configure (removed the mysterious 'X').
8532 * Eric S. Raymond fixed the script.* files so that they work with
8535 #### ncurses 1.8.3 -> 1.8.4 #### ####
8536 * fixed bug in refreshing the screen after return from shell_mode.
8537 There are still problems but they don't manifest themselves on
8538 my machine (Linux 0.99.14f).
8539 * added wgetnstr() and modified things accordingly.
8540 * fixed the script.src script.test to work with awk not just gawk.
8541 * Configure can now take an argument of the target system.
8542 * added test/ncurses.c which replaces several other programs and
8543 performs more testing.
8544 [Thanks to Eric S Raymond for the last 4]
8545 * more fixes to lib_overlay.c and added test/over.c to illustrate
8547 * fixed ungetch() to take int instead of ch.
8548 * fixes to cure wgetch() if flushinp() is called.
8550 One note I forgot to mention in 1.8.3 is that tracing is off by
8551 default starting in the version. If you want tracing output, put
8552 traceon(); in your code and link with -ldcurses.
8554 #### ncurses 1.8.2 -> ncurses 1.8.3 #### ####
8556 1) The order of capabilities has been changed in order to achieve
8557 binary compatibility with SVR4 terminfo database. This has the
8558 unfortunate effect of breaking application currently linked with
8559 ncurses. To ensure correct behavior, recompile all such programs.
8560 Most programs using color or newer capabilities will break, others
8561 will probably continue to work ok.
8563 2) Pavel Curtis has renounced his copyright to the public domain.
8564 This means that his original sources (posted to comp.sources.unix,
8565 volume 1) are now in the public domain. The current sources are
8566 NOT in the public domain, they are copyrighted by me. I'm
8567 entertaining ideas on what the new terms ncurses is released under.
8569 3) Eric S. Raymond has supplied a complete set of man pages for
8570 ncurses in ?roff format. They will eventually replace most of the
8571 current docs. Both sets are included in this release.
8573 Other changes and notes from 1.8.2 include:
8574 * SIGSEGV during scrolling no longer occurs.
8575 * Other problems with scrolling and use of idl have been corrected.
8576 * lib_getch.c has been re-written and should perform flawlessly.
8577 please use test/getch.c and any other programs to test this.
8578 * ripoffline() is implemented (Thanks to Eric) and slk_ functions
8579 changed accordingly.
8580 * I've added support for terminals that scroll if you write in the
8581 bottom-right corner.
8582 * fixed more bugs in pads code. If anybody has a program that uses
8583 pads I'd love a copy.
8584 * correct handling for terminal with back_color_erase capability
8585 (such as Linux console, and most PC terminals)
8586 * ^Z handling apparently didn't work (I should never trust code
8587 sent me to me without extensive testing). It now seems to be
8588 fixed. Let me know if you have problems.
8589 * I've added support for Apollo and NeXT, but it may still be
8590 incomplete, especially when dealing with the lack of POSIX
8592 * scrolling should be more efficient on terminals with idl
8593 capabilities. Please see src/lib_scroll.c for more notes.
8594 * The line drawing routines were offset by 1 at both ends. This
8596 * added a few missing prototypes and macros (e.g. setterm())
8597 * fixed code in src/lib_overlay.c which used to crash.
8598 * added a few more programs in test/ The ones from the PDCurses
8599 package are useful, especially if you have SVR4 proper. I'm
8600 interested in the results you get on such a systems (Eric? ;-).
8601 They already exposed certain bugs in ncurses.
8602 * See src/README for porting notes.
8603 * The C++ code should really replace ncurses.h instead of working
8604 around it. It should avoid name-space clashes with nterm.h (use
8605 rows instead of lines, etc.)
8606 * The C++ should compile ok. I've added explicit rules to the
8607 Makefile because no C++ defaults are documented on the suns.
8608 * The docs say that echo() and nocbreak() are mutually exclusive.
8609 At the moment ncurses will switch to cbreak() if the case above
8610 occurs. Should it continue to do so? How about echo() and noraw()?
8611 * PDCurses seem to assume that wclear() will use current attribute
8612 when clearing the screen. According to Eric this is not the case
8614 * I have discovered, to my chagrin, SunOS 4.x (and probably other systems)
8615 * doesn't have vsscanf and God knows what else! I've will do a vsscanf().
8616 * I've also found out that the src/script.* rely on gawk and will not
8617 work with stock awk or even with nawk. Any changes are welcome.
8618 * Linux is more tolerant of NULL dereferences than most systems. This
8619 fact was exposed by hanoi.
8620 * ncurses still seems inefficient in drawing the screen on a serial
8621 link between Linux and suns. The padding may be the culprit.
8622 * There seems to be one lingering problem with doupdate() after shelling
8623 out. Despite the fact the it is sending out the correct information
8624 to the terminal, nothing takes effect until you press ^L or another
8625 refresh takes place. And yes, output does get flushed.
8627 #### ncurses 1.8.1 -> ncurses 1.8.2 #### Nov 28, 1993 ####
8629 * added support for SVR4 and BSDI's BSD/386.
8630 * major update and fix to scrolling routine.
8631 * MORE fixes to stuff in lib_getch.c.
8632 * cleaned-up configuration options and can now generate
8633 Config.* files through an awk script.
8634 * changed setupterm() so it can be called more than once,
8635 add added set_curterm(), del_curterm().
8636 * a few minor cleanups.
8637 * added more prototypes in curses.h
8639 #### ncurses 1.8 -> ncurses 1.8.1 #### Nov 4, 1993 ####
8641 * added support for NeXTStep 3.0
8642 * added termcap emulation (not well tested).
8643 * more complete C++ interface to ncurses.
8644 * fixed overlay(), overwrite(), and added copywin().
8645 * a couple of bug fixes.
8646 * a few code cleanups.
8648 #### ncurses 0.7.2/0.7.3 -> ncurses 1.8 #### Aug 31, 1993 ####
8650 * The annoying message "can't open file." was due to missing
8651 terminfo entry for the used terminal. It has now been
8652 replaced by a hopefully more helpful message.
8653 * Problems with running on serial lines are now fixed.
8654 * Added configuration files for SunOS, Linux, HP/UX, Ultrix,
8655 386bsd/BSDI (if you have others send'em to me)
8657 * The documentation in manual.doc is now more uptodate.
8658 * update optimization and support for hp terminals, and 386bsd
8660 * mvcur optimization for terminals without cursor addressing
8661 (doesn't work on Linux)
8662 * if cursor moved since last update, getch() will refresh the
8663 screen before working.
8664 * getch() & alarm() can now live together. in 0.7.3 a signal
8665 interrupted getch() (bug or feature?) now the getch is
8667 * scanw() et all were sick, now fixed.
8668 * support for 8-bit input (use meta()).
8669 * added default screen size to all terminfos.
8670 * added c++ Ncursesw class.
8671 * several minor bug fixes.
8673 #### ncurses 0.7.2 -> ncurses 0.7.3 #### May 27, 1993 ####
8675 * Config file to cope with different platforms (386BSD, BSDI, Ultrix, SunOS)
8676 * more fixes to lib_getch.c
8677 * changes related to Config
8679 #### ncurses 0.7 -> ncurses 0.7.2 #### May 22, 1993 ####
8681 * docs updated slightly (color usage is now documented).
8682 * yet another fix for getch(), this one fixes problems with ESC being swallowed
8683 if another character is typed before the 1 second timeout.
8684 * Hopefully, addstr() and addch() are 8-bit clean.
8685 * fixed lib_tparm.c to use stdarg.h (should run on suns now)
8686 * order of capabilities changed to reflect that specified in SYSV
8687 this will allow for binary-compatibility with existing terminfo dbs.
8689 * fixed problems with asc_init()
8690 * added A_PROTECT and A_INVIS
8691 * cleaned up vidputs()
8692 * general cleanup of the code
8693 * more attention to portability to other systems
8694 * added terminfos for hp70092 (wont work until changes to lib_update.c are
8695 made) and 386BSD pcvt drivers.
8697 Thanks to Hellmuth Michaelis for his help.
8698 optimization code is slated for the next major release, stay tuned!
8700 #### ncurses 0.6/0.61 -> ncurses 0.7 #### April 1, 1993
8701 Please note that the next release will be called 1.8. If you want to know about
8702 the rationale drop me a line.
8704 Included are several test programs in test/.
8705 I've split up the panels library, reversi, tetris, sokoban. They are now
8706 available separately from netcom.com:pub/zmbenhal/
8708 * color and ACS support is now fully compatible with SYSV at the terminfo
8710 * Capabilities now includes as many SYSV caps I could find.
8711 * tigetflag,tigetnum,tigetstr functions added.
8712 * boolnames, boolfnames, boolcodes numnames, numfnames, numcodes,
8713 strnames, strfnames, strcodes arrays are now added.
8714 * keyname() is added.
8715 * All function keys can be defined in terminfo entries.
8716 * fixed lin_tparm.c to behave properly.
8717 * terminfo entries for vt* and xterm are included (improvements are welcome)
8718 * more automation in handling caps and keys.
8719 * included fixes from 0.6.1
8720 * added a few more missing functions.
8721 * fixed a couple of minor bugs.
8722 * updated docs JUST a little (still miles behind in documenting the newer
8725 #### ncurses 0.6 -> ncurses 0.61 ####
8727 1) Included the missing data/console.
8729 2) allow attributes when drawing boxes.
8731 3) corrected usage of win->_delay value.
8733 4) fixed a bug in lib_getch.c. if it didn't recognize a sequence it would
8734 simply return the last character in the sequence. The correct
8735 behavior is to return the entire sequence one character at a time.
8737 #### ncurses0.5 -> ncurses0.6 #### March 1, 1993 ####
8738 * removed _numchngd from struct _win_st and made appropriate changes.
8739 * rewritten kgetch() to remove problems with interaction between alarm and
8740 read(). It caused SIGSEGV every now and then.
8741 * fixed a bug that miscounted the numbers of columns when updating.
8742 (in lib_doupdate.c(ClrUpdate() -- iterate to columns not columns-1)
8743 * fixed a bug that cause the lower-right corner to be incorrect.
8744 (in lib_doupdate.c(putChar() -- check against columns not columns-1)
8745 * made resize() and cleanup() static to lib_newterm.c
8746 * added notimeout().
8747 * added timeout() define in curses.h
8748 * added more function prototypes and fixed napms.
8750 * moved screen size detection to lib_setup.c.
8751 * fixed newterm() to confirm to prototype.
8752 * removed SIGWINCH support as SYSV does not define its semantics.
8753 * cleaned-up lib_touch.c
8754 * added waddnstr() and relatives.
8755 * added slk_* support.
8756 * fixed a bug in wdeleteln().
8757 * added PANEL library.
8758 * modified Makefile for smoother installation.
8759 * terminfo.h is really term.h
8761 #### ncurses 0.4 -> ncurses 0.5 #### Feb 14, 1993 ####
8762 * changed _win_st structure to allow support for missing functionality.
8763 * Addition of terminfo support for all KEY_*.
8764 * Support for nodelay(), timeout(), notimeout().
8765 * fixed a bug with the keypad char reading that did not return ESC until
8766 another key is pressed.
8767 * nl mapping no longer occur on output (as should be)
8768 fixed bug '\n' no causing a LF.
8769 * fixed bug that reset terminal colors regardless of whether we use color
8771 * Better support for ACS (not quite complete).
8772 * fixed bug in wvline().
8774 * changed from signal() to sigaction().
8775 * re-included the contents of important.patch into source.
8777 #### ncurses 0.3 -> ncurses 0.4 #### Feb 3, 1993 ####
8778 * Addition of more KEY_* definitions.
8779 * Addition of function prototypes.
8780 * Addition of several missing functions.
8781 * No more crashes if screen size is undefined (use SIGWINCH handler).
8782 * added a handler to cleanup after SIGSEGV (hopefully never needed).
8783 * changed SRCDIR from /etc/term to /usr/lib/terminfo.
8784 * renamed compile/dump to tic/untic.
8785 * New scrolling code.
8786 * fixed bug that reversed the sense of nl() and nonl().
8788 #### ncurses 0.2 -> ncurses 0.3 #### Jan 20, 1993 ####
8789 * more support for color and graphics see test/ for examples.
8790 * fixed various files to allow correct update after shelling out.
8791 * more fixes for updates.
8792 * no more core dumps if you don't have a terminfo entry.
8793 * support for LINES and COLUMNS environment variables.
8794 * support for SIGWINCH signal.
8795 * added a handler for SIGINT for clean exits.
8797 #### ncurses 0.1 -> ncurses 0.2 #### Aug 14, 1992 ####
8798 * support for color.
8799 * support for PC graphic characters.
8800 * lib_trace.c updated to use stdarg.h and vprintf routines.
8801 * added gdc.c (Great Digital Clock) as an example of using color.
8803 #### ncurses -> ncurses 0.1 #### Jul 31, 1992 ####
8804 * replacing sgtty stuff by termios stuff.
8805 * ANSIfication of some functions.
8806 * Disabling cost analysis 'cause it's incorrect.
8807 * A quick hack for a terminfo entry.
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