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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 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
50 + fix memory leak in safe_sprintf.c
51 + add check for return-value in tty_update.c
52 + correct initialization for -s option in test/view.c
53 + add check for numeric overflow in lib_instr.c
54 + improve error-checking in copywin
55 + add advice in infocmp manpage for termcap users (Debian #698469).
56 + add "-y" option to test/demo_termcap and test/demo_terminfo to
57 demonstrate behavior with/without extended capabilities.
58 + updated termcap manpage to document legacy termcap behavior for
59 matching capability names.
60 + modify name-comparison for tgetstr, etc., to accommodate legacy
61 applications as well as to improve compatbility with BSD 4.2
62 termcap implementations (Debian #698299) (cf: 980725).
65 + correct prototype in manpage for vid_puts.
66 + drop ncurses/tty/tty_display.h, ncurses/tty/tty_input.h, since they
67 are unused in the current driver model.
68 + modify mvcur to use stdout except when called within the ncurses
70 + modify vidattr and vid_attr to use stdout as documented in manpage.
71 + amend changes made to buffering in 20120825 so that the low-level
72 putp() call uses stdout rather than ncurses' internal buffering.
73 The putp_sp() call does the same, for consistency (Redhat #892674).
76 + add "-s" option to test/view.c to allow it to start in single-step
77 mode, reducing size of trace files when it is used for debugging
79 + revert part of 20121222 change to tinfo_driver.c
80 + add experimental logic in win_driver.c to improve optimization of
81 screen updates. This does not yet work with double-width characters,
82 so it is ifdef'd out for the moment (prompted by report by Erwin
83 Waterlander regarding screen flicker).
86 + fix coverity warnings regarding copying into fixed-size buffers.
87 + add throw-declarations in the c++ binding per Coverity warning.
88 + minor changes to new-items for consistent reference to bug-report
92 + add *.dSYM directories to clean-rule in ncurses directory makefile,
94 + add a configure check for gcc option -no-cpp-precomp, which is not
95 available in all Mac OS X configurations (report by Andras Salamon,
97 + improve 20021221 workaround for broken acs, handling a case where
98 that ACS_xxx character is not in the acsc string but there is a known
99 wide-character which can be used.
102 + fix several warnings from clang 3.1 --analyze, includes correcting
103 a null-pointer check in _nc_mvcur_resume.
104 + correct display of double-width characters with MinGW port (report
105 by Erwin Waterlander).
106 + replace MinGW's wcrtomb(), fixing a problem with _nc_viscbuf
107 > fixes based on Coverity report:
108 + correct coloring in test/bs.c
109 + correct check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch().
110 + remove dead code in progs/tset.c, test/linedata.h
111 + add null-pointer checks in lib_tracemse.c, panel.priv.h, and some
115 + modify test/knight.c to show the number of choices possible for
116 each position in automove option, e.g., to allow user to follow
117 Warnsdorff's rule to solve the puzzle.
118 + modify test/hanoi.c to show the minimum number of moves possible for
119 the given number of tiles (prompted by patch by Lucas Gioia).
120 > fixes based on Coverity report:
121 + remove a few redundant checks.
122 + correct logic in test/bs.c, when randomly placing a specific type of
124 + check return value from remove/unlink in tic.
125 + check return value from sscanf in test/ncurses.c
126 + fix a null dereference in c++/cursesw.cc
127 + fix two instances of uninitialized variables when configuring for the
129 + correct scope of variable used in SetSafeOutcWrapper macro.
130 + set umask when calling mkstemp in tic.
131 + initialize wbkgrndset() temporary variable when extended-colors are
135 + also replace MinGW's wctomb(), fixing a problem with setcchar().
136 + modify test/view.c to load UTF-8 when built with MinGW by using
137 regular win32 API because the MinGW functions mblen() and mbtowc()
141 + correct order of color initialization versus display in some of the
142 test-programs, e.g., test_addstr.c
143 > fixes based on Coverity report:
144 + delete windows on exit from some of the test-programs.
147 > fixes based on Coverity report:
148 + add missing braces around FreeAndNull in two places.
149 + various fixes in test/ncurses.c
150 + improve limit-checks in tinfo/make_hash.c, tinfo/read_entry.c
151 + correct malloc size in progs/infocmp.c
152 + guard against negative array indices in test/knight.c
153 + fix off-by-one limit check in test/color_name.h
154 + add null-pointer check in progs/tabs.c, test/bs.c, test/demo_forms.c,
156 + fix memory-leak in tinfo/lib_setup.c, progs/toe.c,
157 test/clip_printw.c, test/demo_menus.c
158 + delete unused windows in test/chgat.c, test/clip_printw.c,
159 test/insdelln.c, test/newdemo.c on error-return.
162 + modify configure macro CF_INCLUDE_DIRS to put $CPPFLAGS after the
163 local -I include options in case someone has set conflicting -I
164 options in $CPPFLAGS (prompted by patch for ncurses/Makefile.in by
166 + modify the ncurses*-config scripts to eliminate relative paths from
167 the RPATH_LIST variable, e.g., "../lib" as used in installing shared
168 libraries or executables.
171 + realign these related pages:
176 and fix a long-ago error in curs_addstr.3x which said that a -1
177 length parameter would only write as much as fit onto one line
178 (report by Reuben Thomas).
179 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_memmove() for memmove()/bcopy().
180 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_strdup() for strdup().
181 + cancel any debug-rpm in package/ncurses.spec
182 + reviewed vte-2012, reverted most of the change since it was incorrect
183 based on testing with tack -TD
184 + un-cancel the initc in vte-256color, since this was implemented
185 starting with version 0.20 in 2009 -TD
188 + improve malloc/realloc checking (prompted by discussion in Redhat
190 + add ncurses test-program as "ncurses6" to the rpm- and dpkg-scripts.
191 + updated configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_WITH_PATHLIST. The
192 first corrects pattern used for Mac OS X's customization of gcc.
195 + fix change to _nc_scroll_optimize(), which incorrectly freed memory
199 + add vte-2012, gnome-2012, making these the defaults for vte/gnome
200 (patch by Christian Persch).
203 + improve CF_GCC_VERSION to work around Debian's customization of gcc
205 + improve configure macros as done in byacc:
206 + drop 2.13 compatibility; use 2.52.xxxx version only since EMX port
207 has used that for a while.
208 + add 3rd parameter to AC_DEFINE's to allow autoheader to run, i.e.,
209 for experimental use.
210 + remove unused configure macros.
211 + modify configure script and makefiles to quiet new autoconf warning
212 for LIBS_TO_MAKE variable.
213 + modify configure script to show $PATH_SEPARATOR variable.
214 + update config.guess, config.sub
217 + modify setupterm to set its copy of TERM to "unknown" if configured
218 for the terminal driver and TERM was null or empty.
219 + modify treatment of TERM variable for MinGW port to allow explicit
220 use of the windows console driver by checking if $TERM is set to
221 "#win32con" or an abbreviation of that.
222 + undo recent change to fallback definition of vsscanf() to build with
223 older Solaris compilers (cf: 20120728).
226 + add test-screens to test/ncurses to show 256-characters at a time,
227 to help with MinGW port.
230 + simplify varargs logic in lib_printw.c; va_copy is no longer needed
232 + modifications for MinGW port to make wide-character display usable.
235 + regenerate configure script (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20120901).
238 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_flush (cf: 20120825).
239 + fix a case in _nc_scroll_optimize() where the _oldnums_list array
240 might not be allocated.
241 + improve comparisons in configure.in for unset shell variables.
244 + increase size of ncurses' output-buffer, in case of very small
245 initial screen-sizes.
246 + fix evaluation of TERMINFO and TERMINFO_DIRS default values as needed
247 after changes to use --datarootdir (reports by Gabriele Balducci,
251 + change output buffering scheme, using buffer maintained by ncurses
252 rather than stdio, to avoid problems with SIGTSTP handling (report
256 + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20120811, adding --datarootdir
257 (prompted by discussion with Erwin Waterlander).
258 + improve description of --enable-reentrant option in README and the
260 + add nsterm-256color, make this the default nsterm -TD
261 + remove bw from nsterm-bce, per testing with tack -TD
264 + update test/configure, adding check for tinfo library.
265 + improve limit-checks for the getch fifo (report by Werner Fink).
266 + fix a remaining mismatch between $with_echo and the symbols updated
267 for CF_DISABLE_ECHO affecting parameters for mk-2nd.awk (report by
268 Sven Joachim, cf: 20120317).
269 + modify followup check for pkg-config's library directory in the
270 --enable-pc-files option to validate syntax (report by Sven Joachim,
274 + correct path for ncurses_mingw.h in include/headers, in case build
275 is done outside source-tree (patch by Roumen Petrov).
276 + modify some older xterm entries to align with xterm source -TD
277 + separate "xterm-old" alias from "xterm-r6" -TD
278 + add E3 extended capability to xterm-basic and putty -TD
279 + parenthesize parameters of other macros in curses.h -TD
280 + parenthesize parameter of COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER in curses.h
281 in case it happens to be a comma-expression, etc. (patch by Nick
285 + improved form_request_by_name() and menu_request_by_name().
286 + eliminate two fixed-size buffers in toe.c
287 + extend use_tioctl() to have expected behavior when use_env(FALSE) and
288 use_tioctl(TRUE) are called.
289 + modify ncurses test-program, adding -E and -T options to demonstrate
290 use_env() versus use_tioctl().
293 + add use_tioctl() function (adapted from patch by Werner Fink,
297 + add ncurses_mingw.h to installed headers (prompted by patch by
299 + clarify return-codes from wgetch() in response to SIGWINCH (prompted
301 + modify resizeterm() to always push a KEY_RESIZE onto the fifo, even
302 if screensize is unchanged. Modify _nc_update_screensize() to push a
303 KEY_RESIZE if there was a SIGWINCH, even if it does not call
304 resizeterm(). These changes eliminate the case where a SIGWINCH is
305 received, but ERR returned from wgetch or wgetnstr because the screen
306 dimensions did not change (Novell #769788).
309 + add --enable-interop to sample package scripts (suggested by Juergen
311 + update CF_PATH_SYNTAX macro, from mawk changes.
312 + modify mk-0th.awk to allow for generating llib-ltic, etc., though
313 some work is needed on cproto to work with lib_gen.c to update
315 + remove redundant getenv() cal in database-iterator leftover from
316 cleanup in 20120622 changes (report by Sven Joachim).
319 + add -d, -e and -q options to test/demo_terminfo and test/demo_termcap
320 + fix caching of environment variables in database-iterator (patch by
321 Philippe Troin, Redhat #831366).
324 + add configure check to distinguish clang from gcc to eliminate
325 warnings about unused command-line parameters when compiler warnings
327 + improve behavior when updating terminfo entries which are hardlinked
328 by allowing for the possibility that an alias has been repurposed to
330 + fix some strict compiler warnings based on package scripts.
331 + further fixes for configure check for working poll (Debian #676461).
334 + fix an uninitialized variable in -c/-n logic for infocmp changes
336 + corrected fix for building c++ binding with clang 3.0 (report/patch
337 by Richard Yao, Gentoo #417613, cf: 20110409)
338 + correct configure check for working poll, fixing the case where stdin
339 is redirected, e.g., in rpm/dpkg builds (Debian #676461).
340 + add rpm- and dpkg-scripts, to test those build-environments.
341 The resulting packages are used only for testing.
344 + add kdch1 aka "Remove" to vt220 and vt220-8 entries -TD
345 + add kdch1, etc., to qvt108 -TD
346 + add dl1/il1 to some entries based on dl/il values -TD
347 + add dl to simpleterm -TD
348 + add consistency-checks in tic for insert-line vs delete-line
349 controls, and insert/delete-char keys
350 + correct no-leaks logic in infocmp when doing comparisons, fixing
351 duplicate free of entries given via the command-line, and freeing
352 entries loaded from the last-but-one of files specified on the
354 + add kdch1 to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (reported by David Lord,
355 analysis by Martin Husemann).
356 + add cnorm/civis to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (report/analysis by
357 Onno van der Linden).
360 + extend -c and -n options of infocmp to allow comparing more than two
362 + correct check in infocmp for number of terminal names when more than
364 + correct typo in curs_threads.3x (report by Yanhui Shen on
365 freebsd-hackers mailing list).
368 + corrected 'op' for bterm (report by Samuel Thibault) -TD
369 + modify test/background.c to demonstrate a background character
370 holding a colored ACS_HLINE. The behavior differs from SVr4 due to
371 the thick- and double-line extension (cf: 20091003).
372 + modify handling of acs characters in PutAttrChar to avoid mapping an
373 unmapped character to a space with A_ALTCHARSET set.
374 + rewrite vt520 entry based on vt420 -TD
377 + remove p6 (bold) from opus3n1+ for consistency -TD
378 + remove acs stuff from env230 per clues in Ingres termcap -TD
379 + modify env230 sgr/sgr0 to match other capabilities -TD
380 + modify smacs/rmacs in bq300-8 to match sgr/sgr0 -TD
381 + make sgr for dku7202 agree with other caps -TD
382 + make sgr for ibmpc agree with other caps -TD
383 + make sgr for tek4107 agree with other caps -TD
384 + make sgr for ndr9500 agree with other caps -TD
385 + make sgr for sco-ansi agree with other caps -TD
386 + make sgr for d410 agree with other caps -TD
387 + make sgr for d210 agree with other caps -TD
388 + make sgr for d470c, d470c-7b agree with other caps -TD
389 + remove redundant AC_DEFINE for NDEBUG versus Makefile definition.
390 + fix a back-link in _nc_delink_entry(), which is needed if ncurses is
391 configured with --enable-termcap and --disable-getcap.
394 + fix some inconsistencies between vt320/vt420, e.g., cnorm/civis -TD
395 + add eslok flag to dec+sl -TD
396 + dec+sl applies to vt320 and up -TD
397 + drop wsl width from xterm+sl -TD
398 + reuse xterm+sl in putty and nsca-m -TD
399 + add ansi+tabs to vt520 -TD
400 + add ansi+enq to vt220-vt520 -TD
401 + fix a compiler warning in example in ncurses-intro.doc (Paul Waring).
402 + added paragraph in keyname manpage telling how extended capabilities
403 are interpreted as key definitions.
404 + modify tic's check of conflicting key definitions to include extended
405 capability strings in addition to the existing check on predefined
409 + improve cleanup of temporary files in tic using atexit().
410 + add msgr to vt420, similar DEC vtXXX entries -TD
411 + add several missing vt420 capabilities from vt220 -TD
412 + factor out ansi+pp from several entries -TD
413 + change xterm+sl and xterm+sl-twm to include only the status-line
414 capabilities and not "use=xterm", making them more generally useful
415 as building-blocks -TD
416 + add dec+sl building block, as example -TD
419 + add XT to some terminfo entries to improve usefulness for other
420 applications than screen, which would like to pretend that xterm's
421 title is a status-line. -TD
422 + change use-clauses in ansi-mtabs, hp2626, and hp2622 based on review
423 of ordering and overrides -TD
424 + add consistency check in tic for screen's "XT" capability.
425 + add section in terminfo.src summarizing the user-defined capabilities
426 used in that file -TD
429 + fix an inconsistency between tic/infocmp "-x" option; tic omits all
430 non-standard capabilities, while infocmp was ignoring only the user
431 definable capabilities.
432 + improve special case in tic parsing of description to allow it to be
433 followed by terminfo capabilities. Previously the description had to
434 be the last field on an input line to allow tic to distinguish
435 between termcap and terminfo format while still allowing commas to be
436 embedded in the description.
437 + correct variable name in gen_edit.sh which broke configurability of
438 the --with-xterm-kbs option.
439 + revert 2011-07-16 change to "linux" alias, return to "linux2.2" -TD
440 + further amend 20110910 change, providing for configure-script
441 override of the "linux" terminfo entry to install and changing the
442 default for that to "linux2.2" (Debian #665959).
445 + update Ada95/configure to use CF_DISABLE_ECHO (cf: 20120317).
446 + correct order of use-clauses in st-256color -TD
447 + modify configure script to look for gnatgcc if the Ada95 binding
448 is built, in preference to the default gcc/cc (suggested by
450 + modify configure script to ensure that the same -On option used for
451 the C compiler in CFLAGS is used for ADAFLAGS rather than simply
452 using "-O3" (suggested by Nicolas Boulenguez)
455 + amend an old fix so that next_char() exits properly for empty files,
456 e.g., from reading /dev/null (cf: 20080804).
457 + modify tic so that it can read from the standard input, or from
458 a character device. Because tic uses seek's, this requires writing
459 the data to a temporary file first (prompted by remark by Sven
460 Joachim) (cf: 20000923).
463 + correct a check made in lib_napms.c, so that terminfo applications
464 can again use napms() (cf: 20110604).
465 + add a note in tic.h regarding required casts for ABSENT_BOOLEAN
467 + correct scripting for --disable-echo option in test/configure.
468 + amend check for missing c++ compiler to work when no error is
469 reported, and no variables set (cf: 20021206).
470 + add/use configure macro CF_DISABLE_ECHO.
473 + fix some strict compiler warnings for abi6 and 64-bits.
474 + use begin_va_copy/end_va_copy macros in lib_printw.c (cf: 20120303).
475 + improve a limit-check in infocmp.c (Werner Fink):
478 + minor tidying of terminfo.tail, clarify reason for limitation
479 regarding mapping of \0 to \200
480 + minor improvement to _nc_copy_termtype(), using memcpy to replace
482 + fix no-leaks checking in test/demo_termcap.c to account for multiple
483 calls to setupterm().
484 + modified the libgpm change to show previous load as a problem in the
486 > merge some patches from OpenSUSE rpm (Werner Fink):
487 + ncurses-5.7-printw.dif, fixes for varargs handling in lib_printw.c
488 + ncurses-5.7-gpm.dif, do not dlopen libgpm if already loaded by
490 + ncurses-5.6-fallback.dif, do not free arrays and strings from static
494 + fix breakage in tic/infocmp from 20120225 (report by Werner Fink).
497 + modify configure script to allow creating dll's for MinGW when
499 + add --enable-string-hacks option to control whether strlcat and
500 strlcpy may be used. The same issue applies to OpenBSD's warnings
501 about snprintf, noting that this function is weakly standardized.
502 + add configure checks for strlcat, strlcpy and snprintf, to help
503 reduce bogus warnings with OpenBSD builds.
504 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 to supply consistent intptr_t declaration
506 + update config.guess, config.sub
509 + correct CF_ETIP_DEFINES configure macro, making it exit properly on
510 the first success (patch by Pierre Labastie).
511 + improve configure macro CF_MKSTEMP by moving existence-check for
512 mkstemp out of the AC_TRY_RUN, to help with cross-compiles.
513 + improve configure macro CF_FUNC_POLL from luit changes to detect
514 broken implementations, e.g., with Mac OS X.
515 + add configure option --with-tparm-arg
516 + build-fix for MinGW cross-compiling, so that make_hash does not
517 depend on TTY definition (cf: 20111008).
520 + make sgr for xterm-pcolor agree with other caps -TD
521 + make sgr for att5425 agree with other caps -TD
522 + make sgr for att630 agree with other caps -TD
523 + make sgr for linux entries agree with other caps -TD
524 + make sgr for tvi9065 agree with other caps -TD
525 + make sgr for ncr260vt200an agree with other caps -TD
526 + make sgr for ncr160vt100pp agree with other caps -TD
527 + make sgr for ncr260vt300an agree with other caps -TD
528 + make sgr for aaa-60-dec-rv, aaa+dec agree with other caps -TD
529 + make sgr for cygwin, cygwinDBG agree with other caps -TD
530 + add configure option --with-xterm-kbs to simplify configuration for
531 Linux versus most other systems.
534 + improved tic -D option, avoid making target directory and provide
538 + add mach-gnu (Debian #614316, patch by Samuel Thibault)
539 + add mach-gnu-color, tweaks to mach-gnu terminfo -TD
540 + make sgr for sun-color agree with smso -TD
541 + make sgr for prism9 agree with other caps -TD
542 + make sgr for icl6404 agree with other caps -TD
543 + make sgr for ofcons agree with other caps -TD
544 + make sgr for att5410v1, att4415, att620 agree with other caps -TD
545 + make sgr for aaa-unk, aaa-rv agree with other caps -TD
546 + make sgr for avt-ns agree with other caps -TD
547 + amend fix intended to separate fixups for acsc to allow "tic -cv" to
548 give verbose warnings (cf: 20110730).
549 + modify misc/gen-edit.sh to make the location of the tabset directory
550 consistent with misc/Makefile.in, i.e., using ${datadir}/tabset
551 (Debian #653435, patch by Sven Joachim).
554 + add --with-lib-prefix option to allow configuring for old/new flavors
556 + modify check for gnat version to allow for year, as used in FreeBSD
558 + modify check_existence() in db_iterator.c to simply check if the
559 path is a directory or file, according to the need. Checking for
560 directory size also gives no usable result with OS/2 (cf: 20120107).
561 + support OS/2 kLIBC (patch by KO Myung-Han).
564 + several improvements to test/movewindow.c (prompted by discussion on
566 + modify movement commands to make them continuous
567 + rewrote the test for mvderwin
568 + rewrote the test for recursive mvwin
569 + split-out reusable CF_WITH_NCURSES_ETC macro in test/configure.in
570 + updated configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, build-fixes for Mac OS X
572 + regenerated html manpages.
575 + various improvments for MinGW (Juergen Pfeifer):
576 + modify stat() calls to ignore the st_size member
577 + drop mk-dlls.sh script.
578 + change recommended regular expression library.
579 + modify rain.c to allow for threaded configuraton.
580 + modify tset.c to allow for case when size-change logic is not used.
583 + modify toe's report when -a and -s options are combined, to add
584 a column showing which entries belong to a given database.
585 + add -s option to toe, to sort its output.
586 + modify progs/toe.c, simplifying use of db-iterator results to use
587 caching improvements from 20111001 and 20111126.
588 + correct generation of pc-files when ticlib or termlib options are
589 given to rename the corresponding tic- or tinfo-libraries (report
593 + document a portability issue with tput, i.e., that scripts which work
594 with ncurses may fail in other implementations that do no parameter
596 + add putty-sco entry -TD
599 + review/fix places in manpages where --program-prefix configure option
601 + add -D option to infocmp, to show the database locations that it
603 + fix build for the special case where term-driver, ticlib and termlib
604 are all enabled. The terminal driver depends on a few features in
605 the base ncurses library, so tic's dependencies include both ncurses
607 + fix build work for term-driver when --enable-wgetch-events option is
609 + use <stdint.h> types to fix some questionable casts to void*.
612 + modify configure script to check if thread library provides
613 pthread_mutexattr_settype(), e.g., not provided by Solaris 2.6
614 + modify configure script to suppress check to define _XOPEN_SOURCE
615 for IRIX64, since its header files have a conflict versus
617 + modify configure script to add ".pc" files for tic- and
618 tinfo-libraries, which were omitted in recent change (cf: 20111126).
619 + fix inconsistent checks on $PKG_CONFIG variable in configure script.
622 + modify configure-check for etip.h dependencies, supplying a temporary
623 copy of ncurses_dll.h since it is a generated file (prompted by
625 + modify CF_CPP_PARAM_INIT "main" function to work with current C++.
628 + correct database iterator's check for duplicate entries
630 + modify database iterator to ignore $TERMCAP when it is not an
632 + add -D option to tic, to show the database locations that it could
634 + improve description of database locations in tic manpage.
635 + modify the configure script to generate a list of the ".pc" files to
636 generate, rather than deriving the list from the libraries which have
637 been built (patch by Mike Frysinger).
638 + use AC_CHECK_TOOLS in preference to AC_PATH_PROGS when searching for
639 ncurses*-config, e.g., in Ada95/configure and test/configure (adapted
640 from patch by Mike Frysinger).
643 + remove obsolete/conflicting fallback definition for _POSIX_SOURCE
644 from curses.priv.h, fixing a regression with IRIX64 and Tru64
646 + modify _nc_tic_dir() to ensure that its return-value is nonnull,
647 i.e., the database iterator was not initialized. This case is needed
648 to when tic is translating to termcap, rather than loading the
649 database (cf: 20111001).
652 + add pccon entries for OpenBSD console (Alexei Malinin).
653 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 with gcc 4.2.1, setting _XOPEN_SOURCE to
654 600 to work around inconsistent ifdef'ing of wcstof between C and
656 + modify capconvert script to accept more than exact match on "xterm",
657 e.g., the "xterm-*" variants, to exclude from the conversion (patch
659 + add -lc_r as alternative for -lpthread, allows build of threaded code
660 in older FreeBSD machines.
661 + build-fix for MirBSD, which fails when either _XOPEN_SOURCE or
662 _POSIX_SOURCE are defined.
663 + fix a typo misc/Makefile.in, used in uninstalling pc-files.
666 + modify make_db_path() to allow creating "terminfo.db" in the same
667 directory as an existing "terminfo" directory. This fixes a case
668 where switching between hashed/filesystem databases would cause the
669 new hashed database to be installed in the next best location -
670 root's home directory.
671 + add variable cf_cv_prog_gnat_correct to those passed to
672 config.status, fixing a problem with Ada95 builds (cf: 20111022).
673 + change feature test from _XPG5 to _XOPEN_SOURCE in two places, to
674 accommodate broken implementations for _XPG6.
675 + eliminate usage of NULL symbol from etip.h, to reduce header
677 + add configure check to decide when to add _XOPEN_SOURCE define to
678 compiler options, i.e., for Solaris 10 and later (cf: 20100403).
679 This is a workaround for gcc 4.6, which fails to build the c++
680 binding if that symbol is defined by the application, due to
681 incorrectly combining the corresponding feature test macros
682 (report by Peter Kruse).
685 + correct logic for discarding mouse events, retaining the partial
686 events used to build up click, double-click, etc, until needed
688 + fix configure script to avoid creating unused Ada95 makefile when
690 + cleanup width-related gcc 3.4.3 warnings for 64-bit platform, for the
691 internal functions of libncurses. The external interface of courses
692 uses bool, which still produces these warnings.
695 + improve description of --disable-tic-depends option to make it
696 clear that it may be useful whether or not the --with-termlib
697 option is also given (report by Sven Joachim).
698 + amend termcap equivalent for set_pglen_inch to use the X/Open
699 "YI" rather than the obsolete Solaris 2.5 "sL" (cf: 990109).
700 + improve manpage for tgetent differences from termcap library.
703 + moved static data from db_iterator.c to lib_data.c
704 + modify db_iterator.c for memory-leak checking, fix one leak.
705 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to use Requires.private for the parts
706 of ncurses rather than Requires, as well as Libs.private for the
707 other library dependencies (prompted by Debian #644728).
710 + modify tic "-K" option to only set the strict-flag rather than force
711 source-output. That allows the same flag to control the parser for
712 input and output of termcap source.
713 + modify _nc_getent() to ignore backslash at the end of a comment line,
714 making it consistent with ncurses' parser.
715 + restore a special-case check for directory needed to make termcap
716 text files load as if they were databases (cf: 20110924).
717 + modify tic's resolution/collision checking to attempt to remove the
718 conflicting alias from the second entry in the pair, which is
719 normally following in the source file. Also improved the warning
720 message to make it simpler to see which alias is the problem.
721 + improve performance of the database iterator by caching search-list.
724 + add a missing "else" in changes to _nc_read_tic_entry().
727 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() so that hashed-database is checked before
729 + updated CF_CURSES_LIBS check in test/configure script.
730 + modify configure script and makefiles to split TIC_ARGS and
731 TINFO_ARGS into pieces corresponding to LDFLAGS and LIBS variables,
732 to help separate searches for tic- and tinfo-libraries (patch by Nick
734 + build-fix for lib_mouse.c changes (cf: 20110917).
737 + fix compiler warning for clang 2.9
738 + improve merging of mouse events (integrated patch by Damien
740 + correct mask-check used in lib_mouse for wheel mouse buttons 4/5
741 (patch by Damien Guibouret).
744 + modify misc/gen_edit.sh to select a "linux" entry which works with
745 the current kernel rather than assuming it is always "linux3.0"
747 + revert a change to getmouse() which had the undesirable side-effect
748 of suppressing button-release events (report by Damien Guibouret,
750 + add xterm+kbs fragment from xterm #272 -TD
751 + add configure option --with-pkg-config-libdir to provide control over
752 the actual directory into which pc-files are installed, do not use
753 the pkg-config environment variables (discussion with Frederic L W
755 + add link to mailing-list archive in announce.html.in, as done in
756 FAQ (prompted by question by Andrius Bentkus).
757 + improve manpage install by adjusting the "#include" examples to
758 show the ncurses-subdirectory used when --disable-overwrite option
760 + install an alias for "curses" to the ncurses manpage, tied to the
761 --with-curses-h configure option (suggested by Reuben Thomas).
764 + propagate error-returns from wresize, i.e., the internal
765 increase_size and decrease_size functions through resize_term (report
766 by Tim van der Molen, cf: 20020713).
767 + fix typo in tset manpage (patch by Sven Joachim).
770 + add a check to ensure that termcap files which might have "^?" do
771 not use the terminfo interpretation as "\177".
772 + minor cleanup of X-terminal emulator section of terminfo.src -TD
773 + add terminator entry -TD
774 + add simpleterm entry -TD
775 + improve wattr_get macros by ensuring that if the window pointer is
776 null, then the attribute and color values returned will be zero
780 + add substitution for $RPATH_LIST to misc/ncurses-config.in
781 + improve performance of tic with hashed-database by caching the
782 database connection, using atexit() to cleanup.
783 + modify treatment of 2-character aliases at the beginning of termcap
784 entries so they are not counted in use-resolution, since these are
785 guaranteed to be unique. Also ignore these aliases when reporting
786 the primary name of the entry (cf: 20040501)
787 + double-check gn (generic) flag in terminal descriptions to
788 accommodate old/buggy termcap databases which misused that feature.
789 + minor fixes to _nc_tgetent(), ensure buffer is initialized even on
793 + improve rpath fix from 20110730 by ensuring that the new $RPATH_LIST
794 variable is defined in the makefiles which use it.
795 + build-fix for DragonFlyBSD's pkgsrc in test/configure script.
796 + build-fixes for NetBSD 5.1 with termcap support enabled.
797 + corrected k9 in dg460-ansi, add other features based on manuals -TD
798 + improve trimming of whitespace at the end of terminfo/termcap output
800 + when writing termcap source, ensure that colons in the description
801 field are translated to a non-delimiter, i.e., "=".
802 + add "-0" option to tic/infocmp, to make the termcap/terminfo source
804 + add a null-pointer check when handling the $CC variable.
807 + modify configure script and makefiles in c++ and progs to allow the
808 directory used for rpath option to be overridden, e.g., to work
809 around updates to the variables used by tic during an install.
810 + add -K option to tic/infocmp, to provide stricter BSD-compatibility
812 + add _nc_strict_bsd variable in tic library which controls the
813 "strict" BSD termcap compatibility from 20110723, plus these
815 + allow escapes such as "\8" and "\9" when reading termcap
816 + disallow "\a", "\e", "\l", "\s" and "\:" escapes when reading
817 termcap files, passing through "a", "e", etc.
818 + expand "\:" as "\072" on output.
819 + modify _nc_get_token() to reset the token's string value in case
820 there is a string-typed token lacking the "=" marker.
821 + fix a few memory leaks in _nc_tgetent.
822 + fix a few places where reading from a termcap file could refer to
824 + add an overflow check when converting terminfo/termcap numeric
825 values, since terminfo stores those in a short, and they must be
827 + correct internal variables used for translating to termcap "%>"
828 feature, and translating from termcap %B to terminfo, needed by
829 tctest (cf: 19991211).
830 + amend a minor fix to acsc when loading a termcap file to separate it
831 from warnings needed for tic (cf: 20040710)
832 + modify logic in _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_tic_entry() to allow
833 a termcap file to be handled via TERMINFO_DIRS.
834 + modify _nc_infotocap() to include non-mandatory padding when
835 translating to termcap.
836 + modify _nc_read_termcap_entry(), passing a flag in the case where
837 getcap is used, to reduce interactive warning messages.
840 + add a check in start_color() to limit color-pairs to 256 when
841 extended colors are not supported (patch by David Benjamin).
842 + modify setcchar to omit no-longer-needed OR'ing of color pair in
843 the SetAttr() macro (patch by David Benjamin).
844 + add kich1 to sun terminfo entry (Yuri Pankov)
845 + use bold rather than reverse for smso in sun-color terminfo entry
847 + improve generation of termcap using tic/infocmp -C option, e.g.,
848 to correspond with 4.2BSD (prompted by discussion with Yuri Pankov
849 regarding Schilling's test program):
850 + translate %02 and %03 to %2 and %3 respectively.
851 + suppress string capabilities which use %s, not supported by tgoto
852 + use \040 rather than \s
853 + expand null characters as \200 rather than \0
854 + modify configure script to support shared libraries for DragonFlyBSD.
857 + replace an assert() in _nc_Free_Argument() with a regular null
858 pointer check (report/analysis by Franjo Ivancic).
859 + modify configure --enable-pc-files option to take into account the
860 PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
861 + add/use xterm+tmux chunk from xterm #271 -TD
862 + resync xterm-new entry from xterm #271 -TD
863 + add E3 extended capability to linux-basic (Miroslav Lichvar)
864 + add linux2.2, linux2.6, linux3.0 entries to give context for E3 -TD
865 + add SI/SO change to linux2.6 entry (Debian #515609) -TD
866 + fix inconsistent tabset path in pcmw (Todd C. Miller).
867 + remove a backslash which continued comment, obscuring altos3
868 definition with OpenBSD toolset (Nicholas Marriott).
871 + add workaround from xterm #271 changes to ensure that compiler flags
872 are not used in the $CC variable.
873 + improve support for shared libraries, tested with AIX 5.3, 6.1 and
874 7.1 with both gcc 4.2.4 and cc.
875 + modify configure checks for AIX to include release 7.x
876 + add loader flags/libraries to libtool options so that dynamic loading
877 works properly, adapted from ncurses-5.7-ldflags-with-libtool.patch
878 at gentoo prefix repository (patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
881 + move include of nc_termios.h out of term_entry.h, since the latter
882 is installed, e.g., for tack while the former is not (report by
886 + improve cleanup() function in lib_tstp.c, using _exit() rather than
887 exit() and checking for SIGTERM rather than SIGQUIT (prompted by
888 comments forwarded by Nicholas Marriott).
889 + reduce name pollution from term.h, moving fallback #define's for
890 tcgetattr(), etc., to new private header nc_termios.h (report by
892 + two minor fixes for tracing (patch by Vassili Courzakis).
893 + improve trace initialization by starting it in use_env() and
895 + review old email, add details for some changelog entries.
898 + update minix entry to minix 3.2 (Thomas Cort).
899 + fix a strict compiler warning in change to wattr_get (cf: 20110528).
902 + fixes for MirBSD port:
903 + set default prefix to /usr.
904 + add support for shared libraries in configure script.
905 + use S_ISREG and S_ISDIR consistently, with fallback definitions.
906 + add a few more checks based on ncurses/link_test.
907 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle sp-funcs renaming of NCURSES_OUTC type.
910 + add case to CF_SHARED_OPTS for Interix (patch by Markus Duft).
911 + used ncurses/link_test to check for behavior when the terminal has
912 not been initialized and when an application passes null pointers
913 to the library. Added checks to cover this (prompted by Redhat
915 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to make its main() function call each function
916 with zero parameters, to help find inconsistent checking for null
920 + fix warnings from clang 2.7 "--analyze"
923 + compiler-warning fixes in panel and progs.
924 + modify CF_PKG_CONFIG macro, from changes to tin -TD
925 + modify CF_CURSES_FUNCS configure macro, used in test directory
927 + work around (non-optimizer) bug in gcc 4.2.1 which caused
928 test-expression to be omitted from executable.
929 + force the linker to see a link-time expression of a symbol, to
930 help work around weak-symbol issues.
933 + update discussion of MKfallback.sh script in INSTALL; normally the
934 script is used automatically via the configured makefiles. However
935 there are still occasions when it might be used directly by packagers
936 (report by Gunter Schaffler).
937 + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to omit the "-L" option from the
938 "--libs" output if the library directory is /usr/lib.
939 + change order of tests for curses.h versus ncurses.h headers in the
940 configure scripts for Ada95 and test-directories, to look for
941 ncurses.h, from fixes to tin -TD
942 + modify ncurses/tinfo/access.c to account for Tandem's root uid
943 (report by Joachim Schmitz).
946 + modify rules in Ada95/src/Makefile.in to ensure that the PIC option
947 is not used when building a static library (report by Nicolas
949 + Ada95 build-fix for big-endian architectures such as sparc. This
950 undoes one of the fixes from 20110319, which added an "Unused" member
951 to representation clauses, replacing that with pragmas to suppress
952 warnings about unused bits (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez):
955 + add check in test/configure for use_window, use_screen.
956 + add configure-checks for getopt's variables, which may be declared
957 as different types on some Unix systems.
958 + add check in test/configure for some legacy curses types of the
959 function pointer passed to tputs().
960 + modify init_pair() to accept -1's for color value after
961 assume_default_colors() has been called (Debian #337095).
962 + modify test/background.c, adding commmand-line options to demonstrate
963 assume_default_colors() and use_default_colors().
966 + modify configure script/source-code to only define _POSIX_SOURCE if
967 the checks for sigaction and/or termios fail, and if _POSIX_C_SOURCE
968 and _XOPEN_SOURCE are undefined (report by Valentin Ochs).
969 + update config.guess, config.sub
972 + fixes to build c++ binding with clang 3.0 (patch by Alexander
974 + add check for unctrl.h in test/configure, to work around breakage in
975 some ncurses packages.
976 + add "--disable-widec" option to test/configure script.
977 + add "--with-curses-colr" and "--with-curses-5lib" options to the
978 test/configure script to address testing with very old machines.
980 20110404 5.9 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
983 + various build-fixes for the rpm/dpkg scripts.
984 + add "--enable-rpath-link" option to Ada95/configure, to allow
985 packages to suppress the rpath feature which is normally used for
986 the in-tree build of sample programs.
987 + corrected definition of libdir variable in Ada95/src/Makefile.in,
988 needed for rpm script.
989 + add "--with-shared" option to Ada95/configure script, to allow
990 making the C-language parts of the binding use appropriate compiler
991 options if building a shared library with gnat.
994 > portability fixes for Ada95 binding:
995 + add configure check to ensure that SIGINT works with gnat. This is
996 needed for the "rain" sample program. If SIGINT does not work, omit
998 + correct typo in check of $PKG_CONFIG variable in Ada95/configure
999 + add ncurses_compat.c, to supply functions used in the Ada95 binding
1000 which were added in 5.7 and later.
1001 + modify sed expression in CF_NCURSES_ADDON to eliminate a dependency
1005 + add special check in Ada95/configure script for ncurses6 reentrant
1007 + regen Ada html documentation.
1008 + build-fix for Ada shared libraries versus the varargs workaround.
1009 + add rpm and dpkg scripts for Ada95 and test directories, for test
1011 + update test/configure macros CF_CURSES_LIBS, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and
1013 + add configure check to determine if gnat's project feature supports
1014 libraries, i.e., collections of .ali files.
1015 + make all dereferences in Ada95 samples explicit.
1016 + fix typo in comment in lib_add_wch.c (patch by Petr Pavlu).
1017 + add configure check for, ifdef's for math.h which is in a separate
1018 package on Solaris and potentially not installed (report by Petr
1020 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
1021 + improve type-checking in Ada95 by eliminating a few warning-suppress
1023 + suppress unreferenced warnings.
1024 + make all dereferences in binding explicit.
1027 + regen Ada html documentation.
1028 + change order of -I options from ncurses*-config script when the
1029 --disable-overwrite option was used, so that the subdirectory include
1031 + modify the make-tar.sh scripts to add a MANIFEST and NEWS file.
1032 + modify configure script to provide value for HTML_DIR in
1033 Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, which depends on whether the Ada95 binding is
1034 distributed separately (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
1035 + modify configure script to add "-g" and/or "-O3" to ADAFLAGS if the
1036 CFLAGS for the build has these options.
1037 + amend change from 20070324, to not add 1 to the result of getmaxx
1038 and getmaxy in the Ada binding (report by Nicolas Boulenguez for
1039 thread in comp.lang.ada).
1040 + build-fix Ada95/samples for gnat 4.5
1041 + spelling fixes for Ada95/samples/explain.txt
1042 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
1043 + add item in Trace_Attribute_Set corresponding to TRACE_ATTRS.
1044 + add workaround for binding to set_field_type(), which uses varargs.
1045 The original binding from 990220 relied on the prevalent
1046 implementation of varargs which did not support or need va_copy().
1047 + add dependency on gen/Makefile.in needed for *-panels.ads
1048 + add Library_Options to library.gpr
1049 + add Languages to library.gpr, for gprbuild
1052 + revert changes to limit-checks from 20110122 (Debian #616711).
1053 > minor type-cleanup of Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
1054 + corrected a minor sign error in a field of Low_Level_Field_Type, to
1056 + replaced C_Int by Curses_Bool as return type for some callbacks, see
1058 + modify samples/sample-explain.adb to provide explicit message when
1059 explain.txt is not found.
1062 + improve makefiles for Ada95 tree (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
1063 + fix an off-by-one error in _nc_slk_initialize() from 20100605 fixes
1064 for compiler warnings (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
1065 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to declare unused bits in generated layouts,
1066 needed to compile when chtype is 64-bits using gnat 4.4.5
1068 20110226 5.8 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1071 + update release notes, for 5.8.
1072 + regenerated html manpages.
1073 + change open() in _nc_read_file_entry() to fopen() for consistency
1075 + modify misc/run_tic.in to create parent directory, in case this is
1076 a new install of hashed database.
1077 + fix typo in Ada95/mk-1st.awk which causes error with original awk.
1080 + configure script rpath fixes from xterm #269.
1081 + workaround for cygwin's non-functional features.h, to force ncurses'
1082 configure script to define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED when building
1083 wide-character configuration.
1084 + build-fix in run_tic.sh for OS/2 EMX install
1085 + add cons25-debian entry (patch by Brian M Carlson, Debian #607662).
1088 + regenerated html manpages.
1089 + use _tracef() in show_where() function of tic, to work correctly with
1090 special case of trace configuration.
1093 + add xterm-utf8 entry as a demo of the U8 feature -TD
1094 + add U8 feature to denote entries for terminal emulators which do not
1095 support VT100 SI/SO when processing UTF-8 encoding -TD
1096 + improve the NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS feature by adding a check for an
1097 extended terminfo capability U8 (prompted by mailing list
1101 + start documenting interface changes for upcoming 5.8 release.
1102 + correct limit-checks in derwin().
1103 + correct limit-checks in newwin(), to ensure that windows have nonzero
1104 size (report by Garrett Cooper).
1105 + fix a missing "weak" declaration for pthread_kill (patch by Nicholas
1107 + improve documentation of KEY_ENTER in curs_getch.3x manpage (prompted
1108 by discussion with Kevin Martin).
1111 + modify Ada95/configure script to make the --with-curses-dir option
1112 work without requiring the --with-ncurses option.
1113 + modify test programs to allow them to be built with NetBSD curses.
1114 + document thick- and double-line symbols in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
1115 + document WACS_xxx constants in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
1116 + fix some warnings for clang 2.6 "--analyze"
1117 + modify Ada95 makefiles to make html-documentation with the project
1118 file configuration if that is used.
1119 + update config.guess, config.sub
1122 + regenerated html manpages.
1123 + minor fixes to enable lint when trace is not enabled, e.g., with
1125 + fix typo in man/default_colors.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
1126 + update ncurses/llib-lncurses*
1129 + fix remaining strict compiler warnings in ncurses library ABI=5,
1130 except those dealing with function pointers, etc.
1133 + modify nc_tparm.h, adding guards against repeated inclusion, and
1134 allowing TPARM_ARG to be overridden.
1135 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
1138 + suppress ncv in screen entry, allowing underline (patch by Alejandro
1140 + also suppress ncv in konsole-base -TD
1141 + fixes in wins_nwstr() and related functions to ensure that special
1142 characters, i.e., control characters are handled properly with the
1143 wide-character configuration.
1144 + correct a comparison in wins_nwstr() (Redhat #661506).
1145 + correct help-messages in some of the test-programs, which still
1146 referred to quitting with 'q'.
1149 + add special case to _nc_infotocap() to recognize the setaf/setab
1150 strings from xterm+256color and xterm+88color, and provide a reduced
1151 version which works with termcap.
1152 + remove obsolete emacs "Local Variables" section from documentation
1153 (request by Sven Joachim).
1154 + update doc/html/index.html to include NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html
1155 (report by Sven Joachim).
1158 + modify test/configure and test/Makefile.in to handle this special
1159 case of building within a build-tree (Debian #34182):
1160 mkdir -p build && cd build && ../test/configure && make
1163 + miscellaneous build-fixes for Ada95 and test-directories when built
1165 + use VPATH in makefiles to simplify out-of-tree builds (Debian #34182).
1166 + fix typo in rmso for tek4106 entry -Goran Weinholt
1169 + improve checks in test/configure for X libraries, from xterm #267
1171 + modify test/configure to allow it to use the build-tree's libraries
1172 e.g., when using that to configure the test-programs without the
1173 rpath feature (request by Sven Joachim).
1174 + repurpose "gnome" terminfo entries as "vte", retaining "gnome" items
1175 for compatibility, but generally deprecating those since the VTE
1176 library is what actually defines the behavior of "gnome", etc.,
1180 + compiler warning fixes for test programs.
1181 + various build-fixes for test-programs with pdcurses.
1182 + updated configure checks for X packages in test/configure from xterm
1184 + add configure check to gnatmake, to accommodate cygwin.
1187 + correct list of sub-directories needed in Ada95 tree for building as
1189 + modify scripts in test-directory to improve builds as a separate
1193 + correct parsing of relative tab-stops in tabs program (report by
1195 + adjust configure script so that "t" is not added to library suffix
1196 when weak-symbols are used, allowing the pthread configuration to
1197 more closely match the non-thread naming (report by Werner Fink).
1198 + modify configure check for tic program, used for fallbacks, to a
1199 warning if not found. This makes it simpler to use additonal
1200 scripts to bootstrap the fallbacks code using tic from the build
1201 tree (report by Werner Fink).
1202 + fix several places in configure script using ${variable-value} form.
1203 + modify configure macro CF_LDFLAGS_STATIC to accommodate some loaders
1204 which do not support selectively linking against static libraries
1205 (report by John P. Hartmann)
1206 + fix an unescaped dash in man/tset.1 (report by Sven Joachim).
1209 + correct comparison used for setting 16-colors in linux-16color
1210 entry (Novell #644831) -TD
1211 + improve linux-16color entry, using "dim" for color-8 which makes it
1212 gray rather than black like color-0 -TD
1213 + drop misc/ncu-indent and misc/jpf-indent; they are provided by an
1214 external package "cindent".
1217 + improve linkages in html manpages, adding references to the newer
1218 pages, e.g., *_variables, curs_sp_funcs, curs_threads.
1219 + add checks in tic for inconsistent cursor-movement controls, and for
1220 inconsistent printer-controls.
1221 + fill in no-parameter forms of cursor-movement where a parameterized
1222 form is available -TD
1223 + fill in missing cursor controls where the form of the controls is
1225 + fix inconsistent punctuation in form_variables manpage (patch by
1227 + add parameterized cursor-controls to linux-basic (report by Dae) -TD
1228 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
1229 + document how to build 32-bit libraries in README.MinGW
1230 + fixes to filename computation in mk-dlls.sh.in
1231 + use POSIX locale in mk-dlls.sh.in rather than en_US (report by Sven
1233 + add a check in mk-dlls.sh.in to obtain the size of a pointer to
1234 distinguish between 32-bit and 64-bit hosts. The result is stored
1238 + add "XT" capability to entries for terminals that support both
1239 xterm-style mouse- and title-controls, for "screen" which
1240 special-cases TERM beginning with "xterm" or "rxvt" -TD
1241 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
1242 + use 64-Bit MinGW toolchain (recommended package from TDM, see
1244 + support pthreads when using the TDM MinGW toolchain
1247 + regenerated html manpages.
1248 + minor fixes for symlinks to curs_legacy.3x and curs_slk.3x manpages.
1249 + add manpage for sp-funcs.
1250 + add sp-funcs to test/listused.sh, for documentation aids.
1253 + add manpages for summarizing public variables of curses-, terminfo-
1255 + minor fixes to manpages for consistency (patch by Jason McIntyre).
1256 + modify tic's -I/-C dump to reformat acsc strings into canonical form
1257 (sorted, unique mapping) (cf: 971004).
1258 + add configure check for pthread_kill(), needed for some old
1262 + add configure option --without-tests, to suppress building test
1263 programs (request by Frederic L W Meunier).
1266 + modify nsterm, xnuppc and tek4115 to make sgr/sgr0 consistent -TD
1267 + add check in terminfo source-reader to provide more informative
1268 message when someone attempts to run tic on a compiled terminal
1269 description (prompted by Debian #593920).
1270 + note in infotocap and captoinfo manpages that they read terminal
1271 descriptions from text-files (Debian #593920).
1272 + improve acsc string for vt52, show arrow keys (patch by Benjamin
1276 + document in manpages that "mv" functions first use wmove() to check
1277 the window pointer and whether the position lies within the window
1278 (suggested by Poul-Henning Kamp).
1279 + fixes to curs_color.3x, curs_kernel.3x and wresize.3x manpages (patch
1280 by Tim van der Molen).
1281 + modify configure script to transform library names for tic- and
1282 tinfo-libraries so that those build properly with Mac OS X shared
1283 library configuration.
1284 + modify configure script to ensure that it removes conftest.dSYM
1285 directory leftover on checks with Mac OS X.
1286 + modify configure script to cleanup after check for symbolic links.
1289 + correct a typo in mk-1st.awk (patch by Gabriele Balducci)
1291 + improve configure checks for location of tic and infocmp programs
1292 used for installing database and for generating fallback data,
1293 e.g., for cross-compiling.
1294 + add Markus Kuhn's wcwidth function for compiling MinGW
1295 + add special case to CF_REGEX for cross-compiling to MinGW target.
1298 + modify initialization check for win32con driver to eliminate need for
1299 special case for TERM "unknown", using terminal database if available
1300 (prompted by discussion with Roumen Petrov).
1301 + for MinGW port, ensure that terminal driver is setup if tgetent()
1302 is called (patch by Roumen Petrov).
1303 + document tabs "-0" and "-8" options in manpage.
1304 + fix Debian "lintian" issues with manpages reported in
1305 http://lintian.debian.org/full/csmall@debian.org.html#ncurses
1308 + add a check in tic for missing set_tab if clear_all_tabs given.
1309 + improve use of symbolic links in makefiles by using "-f" option if
1310 it is supported, to eliminate temporary removal of the target
1311 (prompted by http://www.t2-project.org/packages/ncurses.html)
1312 + minor improvement to test/ncurses.c, reset color pairs in 'd' test
1313 after exit from 'm' main-menu command.
1314 + improved ncu-indent, from mawk changes, allows more than one of
1315 GCC_NORETURN, GCC_PRINTFLIKE and GCC_SCANFLIKE on a single line.
1318 + add hard-reset for rs2 to wsvt25 to help ensure that reset ends
1319 the alternate character set (patch by Nicholas Marriott)
1320 + remove tar-copy.sh and related configure/Makefile chunks, since the
1321 Ada95 binding is now installed using rules in Ada95/src.
1324 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
1325 + add/use configure check to turn on project rules for Ada95/src.
1326 + revert the vfork change from 20100130, since it does not work.
1329 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
1330 + old gnatmake (3.15) does not produce libraries using project-file;
1331 work around by adding script to generate alternate makefile.
1334 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
1335 + add configure --with-ada-sharedlib option, for the test_make rule.
1336 + move Ada95-related logic into aclocal.m4, since additional checks
1337 will be needed to distinguish old/new implementations of gnat.
1340 + start integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95 tree
1341 + add test_make / test_clean / test_install rules in Ada95/src
1342 + change install-path for adainclude directory to /usr/share/ada (was
1344 + update Ada95/configure.
1345 + add mlterm+256color entry, for mlterm 3.0.0 -TD
1346 + modify test/configure to use macros to ensure consistent order
1347 of updating LIBS variable.
1350 + change search order of options for Solaris in CF_SHARED_OPTS, to
1351 work with 64-bit compiles.
1352 + correct quoting of assignment in CF_SHARED_OPTS case for aix
1356 + regenerated html documentation.
1357 + modify test/configure to support pkg-config for checking X libraries
1359 + add/use configure macro CF_ADD_LIB to force consistency of
1360 assignments to $LIBS, etc.
1361 + fix configure script for combining --with-pthread
1362 and --enable-weak-symbols options.
1365 + correct cross-compiling configure check for CF_MKSTEMP macro, by
1366 adding a check cache variable set by AC_CHECK_FUNC (report by
1368 + simplify include-dependencies of make_hash and make_keys, to reduce
1369 the need for setting BUILD_CPPFLAGS in cross-compiling when the
1370 build- and target-machines differ.
1371 + repair broken-linker configuration by restoring a definition of SP
1372 variable to curses.priv.h, and adjusting for cases where sp-funcs
1374 + improve configure macro CF_AR_FLAGS, allowing ARFLAGS environment
1375 variable to override (prompted by report by Pablo Cazallas).
1378 + add configure option --enable-pthreads-eintr to control whether the
1379 new EINTR feature is enabled.
1380 + modify logic in pthread configuration to allow EINTR to interrupt
1381 a read operation in wgetch() (Novell #540571, patch by Werner Fink).
1382 + drop mkdirs.sh, use "mkdir -p".
1383 + add configure option --disable-libtool-version, to use the
1384 "-version-number" feature which was added in libtool 1.5 (report by
1385 Peter Haering). The default value for the option uses the newer
1386 feature, which makes libraries generated using libtool compatible
1387 with the standard builds of ncurses.
1388 + updated test/configure to match configure script macros.
1389 + fixes for configure script from lynx changes:
1390 + improve CF_FIND_LINKAGE logic for the case where a function is
1391 found in predefined libraries.
1392 + revert part of change to CF_HEADER (cf: 20100424)
1395 + correct limit-check in wredrawln, accounting for begy/begx values
1396 (patch by David Benjamin).
1397 + fix most compiler warnings from clang.
1398 + amend build-fix for OpenSolaris, to ensure that a system header is
1399 included in curses.h before testing feature symbols, since they
1400 may be defined by that route.
1403 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
1404 + modify configure macro CF_HEADER_PATH to not look for variations in
1405 the predefined include directories.
1406 + improve configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GCC_WARNINGS to work
1407 with gcc 4.x's c89 alias, which gives warning messages for cases
1408 where older versions would produce an error.
1411 + modify _nc_capcmp() to work with cancelled strings.
1412 + correct translation of "^" in _nc_infotocap(), used to transform
1413 terminfo to termcap strings
1414 + add configure --disable-rpath-hack, to allow disabling the feature
1415 which adds rpath options for libraries in unusual places.
1416 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by checking if the rpath option for a given
1417 directory was already added.
1418 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by using ldd to provide a standard list of
1419 directories (which will be ignored).
1422 + improve win_driver.c handling of mouse:
1423 + discard motion events
1424 + avoid calling _nc_timed_wait when there is a mouse event
1425 + handle 4th and "rightmost" buttons.
1426 + quote substitutions in CF_RPATH_HACK_2 configure macro, needed for
1427 cases where there are embedded blanks in the rpath option.
1430 + add configure check for exctags vs ctags, to work around pkgsrc.
1431 + simplify logic in _nc_get_screensize() to make it easier to see how
1432 environment variables may override system- and terminfo-values
1433 (prompted by discussion with Igor Bujna).
1434 + make debug-traces for COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER less verbose.
1435 + improve handling of color-pairs embedded in attributes for the
1436 extended-colors configuration.
1437 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to build link_test with sp-funcs.
1438 + build-fixes for OpenSolaris aka Solaris 11, for wide-character
1439 configuration as well as for rpath feature in *-config scripts.
1442 + refactor CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro, making CF_RPATH_HACK more
1444 + improve configure CF_REGEX, similar fixes.
1445 + improve configure CF_FIND_LINKAGE, adding add check between system
1446 (default) and explicit paths, where we can find the entrypoint in the
1448 + add check if Gpm_Open() returns a -2, e.g., for "xterm". This is
1449 normally suppressed but can be overridden using $NCURSES_GPM_TERMS.
1450 Ensure that Gpm_Close() is called in this case.
1453 + rename atari and st52 terminfo entries to atari-old, st52-old, use
1454 newer entries from FreeMiNT by Guido Flohr (from patch/report by Alan
1458 + modify install-rule for manpages so that *-config manpages will
1459 install when building with --srcdir (report by Sven Joachim).
1460 + modify CF_DISABLE_LEAKS configure macro so that the --enable-leaks
1461 option is not the same as --disable-leaks (GenToo #305889).
1462 + modify #define's for build-compiler to suppress cchar_t symbol from
1463 compile of make_hash and make_keys, improving cross-compilation of
1464 ncursesw (report by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
1465 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to replace all occurrences of
1466 TPUT in tput.1's manpage (Debian #573597, report/analysis by Anders
1470 + generate manpages for the *-config scripts, adapted from help2man
1471 (suggested by Sven Joachim).
1472 + use va_copy() in _nc_printf_string() to avoid conflicting use of
1473 va_list value in _nc_printf_length() (report by Wim Lewis).
1476 + add Ada95/configure script, to use in tar-file created by
1478 + fix typo in wresize.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
1479 + modify screen-bce.XXX entries to exclude ech, since screen's color
1480 model does not clear with color for that feature -TD
1483 + add make-tar.sh scripts to Ada95 and test subdirectories to help with
1484 making those separately distributable.
1485 + build-fix for static libraries without dlsym (Debian #556378).
1486 + fix a syntax error in man/form_field_opts.3x (patch by Ingo
1490 + add several screen-bce.XXX entries -TD
1493 + update mrxvt terminfo entry -TD
1494 + modify win_driver.c to support mouse single-clicks.
1495 + correct name for termlib in ncurses*-config, e.g., if it is renamed
1496 to provide a single file for ncurses/ncursesw libraries (patch by
1500 + use vfork in test/ditto.c if available (request by Mike Frysinger).
1501 + miscellaneous cleanup of manpages.
1502 + fix typo in curs_bkgd.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
1503 + build-fix for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
1506 + for term-driver configuration, ensure that the driver pointer is
1507 initialized in setupterm so that terminfo/termcap programs work.
1508 + amend fix for Debian #542031 to ensure that wattrset() returns only
1509 OK or ERR, rather than the attribute value (report by Miroslav
1511 + reorder WINDOWLIST to put WINDOW data after SCREEN pointer, making
1512 _nc_screen_of() compatible between normal/wide libraries again (patch
1513 by Miroslav Lichvar)
1514 + review/fix include-dependencies in modules files (report by Miroslav
1518 + modify win_driver.c to initialize acs_map for win32 console, so
1519 that line-drawing works.
1520 + modify win_driver.c to initialize TERMINAL struct so that programs
1521 such as test/lrtest.c and test/ncurses.c which test string
1522 capabilities can run.
1523 + modify term-driver modules to eliminate forward-reference
1527 + modify configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., to use CF_ADD_CFLAGS
1528 consistently to add new -D's while removing duplicates.
1529 + modify a few configure macros to consistently put new options
1530 before older in the list.
1531 + add tiparm(), based on review of X/Open Curses Issue 7.
1532 + minor documentation cleanup.
1533 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1534 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
1535 (caveat - its maintainer put 2010 copyright date on files dated 2009)
1538 + minor improvement to tic's checking of similar SGR's to allow for the
1539 most common case of SGR 0.
1540 + modify getmouse() to act as its documentation implied, returning on
1541 each call the preceding event until none are left. When no more
1542 events remain, it will return ERR.
1545 + change order of lookup in progs/tput.c, looking for terminfo data
1546 first. This fixes a confusion between termcap "sg" and terminfo
1547 "sgr" or "sgr0", originally from 990123 changes, but exposed by
1548 20091114 fixes for hashing. With this change, only "dl" and "ed" are
1549 ambiguous (Mandriva #56272).
1552 + add bterm terminfo entry, based on bogl 0.1.18 -TD
1553 + minor fix to rxvt+pcfkeys terminfo entry -TD
1554 + build-fixes for Ada95 tree for gnat 4.4 "style".
1557 + remove old check in mvderwin() which prevented moving a derived
1558 window whose origin happened to coincide with its parent's origin
1559 (report by Katarina Machalkova).
1560 + improve test/ncurses.c to put mouse droppings in the proper window.
1561 + update minix terminfo entry -TD
1562 + add bw (auto-left-margin) to nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler)
1565 + correct transfer of multicolumn characters in multirow
1566 field_buffer(), which stopped at the end of the first row due to
1567 filling of unused entries in a cchar_t array with nulls.
1568 + updated nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler, Emanuele Giaquinta)
1569 + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to show wide-character
1571 + use strdup() in set_menu_mark(), restore .marklen struct member on
1573 + eliminate clause 3 from the UCB copyrights in read_termcap.c and
1575 ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change
1576 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
1577 + replace a malloc in tic.c with strdup, checking for failure (patch by
1579 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1580 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
1583 + correct layout of working window used to extract data in
1584 wide-character configured by set_field_buffer (patch by Rafael
1586 + improve some limit-checks related to filename length in reading and
1587 writing terminfo entries.
1588 + ensure that filename is always filled in when attempting to read
1589 a terminfo entry, so that infocmp can report the filename (patch
1590 by Nicholas Marriott).
1593 + modify mk-1st.awk to allow tinfo library to be built when term-driver
1595 + add error-check to configure script to ensure that sp-funcs is
1596 enabled if term-driver is, since some internal interfaces rely upon
1600 + fix case where progs/tput is used while sp-funcs is configure; this
1601 requires save/restore of out-character function from _nc_prescreen
1602 rather than the SCREEN structure (report by Charles Wilson).
1603 + fix typo in man/curs_trace.3x which caused incorrect symbolic links
1604 + improved configure macros CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES, CF_PROG_LINT.
1608 + updated man/curs_trace.3x
1609 + limit hashing for termcap-names to 2-characters (Ubuntu #481740).
1610 + change a variable name in lib_newwin.c to make it clearer which
1611 value is being freed on error (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
1614 + improve test/ncurses.c color-cycling test by reusing attribute-
1615 and color-cycling logic from the video-attributes screen.
1616 + add ifdef'd with NCURSES_INTEROP_FUNCS experimental bindings in form
1617 library which help make it compatible with interop applications
1618 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
1619 + add configure option --enable-interop, for integrating changes
1620 for generic/interop support to form-library by Juergen Pfeifer
1623 + modify use of $CC environment variable which is defined by X/Open
1624 as a curses feature, to ignore it if it is not a single character
1625 (prompted by discussion with Benjamin C W Sittler).
1626 + add START_TRACE in slk_init
1627 + fix a regression in _nc_ripoffline which made test/ncurses.c not show
1628 soft-keys, broken in 20090927 merging.
1629 + change initialization of "hidden" flag for soft-keys from true to
1630 false, broken in 20090704 merging (Ubuntu #464274).
1631 + update nsterm entries (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler, prompted by
1632 discussion with Fabian Groffen in GenToo #206201).
1633 + add test/xterm-256color.dat
1636 + quiet some pedantic gcc warnings.
1637 + modify _nc_wgetch() to check for a -1 in the fifo, e.g., after a
1638 SIGWINCH, and discard that value, to avoid confusing application
1639 (patch by Eygene Ryabinkin, FreeBSD bin/136223).
1642 + modify handling of $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR to use only the first item in
1643 a possibly colon-separated list (Debian #550716).
1646 + supply a null-terminator to buffer in _nc_viswibuf().
1647 + fix a sign-extension bug in unget_wch() (report by Mike Gran).
1648 + minor fixes to error-returns in default function for tputs, as well
1652 + add WACS_xxx definitions to wide-character configuration for thick-
1653 and double-lines (discussion with Slava Zanko).
1654 + remove unnecessary kcan assignment to ^C from putty (Sven Joachim)
1655 + add ccc and initc capabilities to xterm-16color -TD
1656 > patch by Benjamin C W Sittler:
1658 + correct initc capability of linux-c-nc end-of-range
1659 + similar change for dg+ccc and dgunix+ccc
1662 + move leak-checking for comp_captab.c into _nc_leaks_tinfo() since
1663 that module since 20090711 is in libtinfo.
1664 + add configure option --enable-term-driver, to allow compiling with
1665 terminal-driver. That is used in MinGW port, and (being somewhat
1666 more complicated) is an experimental alternative to the conventional
1667 termlib internals. Currently, it requires the sp-funcs feature to
1669 + completed integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer in ncurses
1670 library (some work remains for forms library).
1673 + document return code from define_key (report by Mike Gran).
1674 + make some symbolic links in the terminfo directory-tree shorter
1675 (patch by Daniel Jacobowitz, forwarded by Sven Joachim).).
1676 + fix some groff warnings in terminfo.5, etc., from recent Debian
1678 + change ncv and op capabilities in sun-color terminfo entry to match
1679 Sun's entry for this (report by Laszlo Peter).
1680 + improve interix smso terminfo capability by using reverse rather than
1681 bold (report by Kristof Zelechovski).
1684 + add some test programs (and make these use the same special keys
1685 by sharing linedata.h functions):
1688 test/test_addchstr.c
1689 test/test_add_wchstr.c
1690 + correct internal _nc_insert_ch() to use _nc_insert_wch() when
1691 inserting wide characters, since the wins_wch() function that it used
1692 did not update the cursor position (report by Ciprian Craciun).
1695 + fix typo s/is_timeout/is_notimeout/ which made "man is_notimeout" not
1697 + add null-pointer checks to other opaque-functions.
1698 + add is_pad() and is_subwin() functions for opaque access to WINDOW
1699 (discussion with Mark Dickinson).
1700 + correct merge to lib_newterm.c, which broke when sp-funcs was
1704 + build-fix for building outside source-tree (report by Sven Joachim).
1705 + fix Debian lintian warning for man/tabs.1 by making section number
1706 agree with file-suffix (report by Sven Joachim).
1707 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1710 + workaround for bug in g++ 4.1-4.4 warnings for wattrset() macro on
1711 amd64 (Debian #542031).
1712 + fix typo in curs_mouse.3x (Debian #429198).
1715 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1718 + correct use of terminfo capabilities for initializing soft-keys,
1719 broken in 20090509 merging.
1720 + modify wgetch() to ensure it checks SIGWINCH when it gets an error
1721 in non-blocking mode (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
1722 + use PATH_SEPARATOR symbol when substituting into run_tic.sh, to
1723 help with builds on non-Unix platforms such as OS/2 EMX.
1724 + modify scripting for misc/run_tic.sh to test configure script's
1725 $cross_compiling variable directly rather than comparing host/build
1726 compiler names (prompted by comment in GenToo #249363).
1727 + fix configure script option --with-database, which was coded as an
1729 + build-fixes for --srcdir (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
1732 + separate _nc_find_entry() and _nc_find_type_entry() from
1733 implementation details of hash function.
1736 + add tabs.1 to man/man_db.renames
1737 + modify lib_addch.c to compensate for removal of wide-character test
1738 from unctrl() in 20090704 (Debian #539735).
1741 + improve discussion in INSTALL for use of system's tic/infocmp for
1742 cross-compiling and building fallbacks.
1743 + modify test/demo_termcap.c to correspond better to options in
1744 test/demo_terminfo.c
1745 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1746 + fix logic for 'V' in test/ncurses.c tests f/F.
1749 + correct logic in tigetnum(), which caused tput program to treat all
1750 string capabilities as numeric (report by Rajeev V Pillai,
1754 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1757 + fix a null-pointer check in _nc_format_slks() in lib_slk.c, from
1759 + modify _nc_find_type_entry() to use hashing.
1760 + make CCHARW_MAX value configurable, noting that changing this would
1761 change the size of cchar_t, and would be ABI-incompatible.
1762 + modify test-programs, e.g,. test/view.c, to address subtle
1763 differences between Tru64/Solaris and HPUX/AIX getcchar() return
1765 + modify length returned by getcchar() to count the trailing null
1766 which is documented in X/Open (cf: 20020427).
1767 + fixes for test programs to build/work on HPUX and AIX, etc.
1770 + improve performance of tigetstr, etc., by using hashing code from tic.
1771 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking.
1772 + add test/demo_terminfo, for comparison with demo_termcap
1775 + remove wide-character checks from unctrl() (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
1776 + revise wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to eliminate dependency on
1778 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1781 + update llib-lncurses[wt] to use sp-funcs.
1782 + various code-fixes to build/work with --disable-macros configure
1784 + add several new files from Juergen Pfeifer which will be used when
1785 integration of "sp-funcs" is complete. This includes a port to
1789 + move definition for NCURSES_WRAPPED_VAR back to ncurses_dll.h, to
1790 make includes of term.h without curses.h work (report by "Nix").
1791 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1794 + fix a regression in lib_tputs.c, from ongoing merges.
1797 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1800 + fix an infinite recursion when adding a legacy-coding 8-bit value
1801 using insch() (report by Clemens Ladisch).
1802 + free home-terminfo string in del_curterm() (patch by Dan Weber).
1803 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1806 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1809 + work around antique BSD game's manipulation of stdscr, etc., versus
1810 SCREEN's copy of the pointer (Debian #528411).
1811 + add a cast to wattrset macro to avoid compiler warning when comparing
1812 its result against ERR (adapted from patch by Matt Kraii, Debian
1816 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1819 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1820 + add vwmterm terminfo entry (patch by Bryan Christ).
1823 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1826 + build fix for _nc_free_and_exit() change in 20090418 (report by
1830 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1833 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1834 This change finishes merging for menu and panel libraries, does
1835 part of the form library.
1838 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
1839 Darwin (report by Nelson Beebe).
1842 + extend ansi.sys pfkey capability from kf1-kf10 to kf1-kf48, moving
1843 function key definitions from emx-base for consistency -TD
1844 + correct missing final 'p' in pfkey capability of ansi.sys-old (report
1845 by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo).
1846 + improve test/ncurses.c 'F' test, show combining characters in color.
1847 + quiet a false report by cppcheck in c++/cursesw.cc by eliminating
1848 a temporary variable.
1849 + use _nc_doalloc() rather than realloc() in a few places in ncurses
1850 library to avoid leak in out-of-memory condition (reports by William
1851 Egert and Martin Ettl based on cppcheck tool).
1852 + add --with-ncurses-wrap-prefix option to test/configure (discussion
1853 with Charles Wilson).
1854 + use ncurses*-config scripts if available for test/configure.
1855 + update test/aclocal.m4 and test/configure
1856 > patches by Charles Wilson:
1857 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL configure check to allow unreleased libtool
1858 version numbers (e.g. which include alphabetic chars, as well as
1859 digits, after the final '.').
1860 + improve use of -no-undefined option for libtool by setting an
1861 intermediate variable LT_UNDEF in the configure script, and then
1862 using that in the libtool link-commands.
1863 + fix an missing use of NCURSES_PUBLIC_VAR() in tinfo/MKcodes.awk
1864 from 2009031 changes.
1865 + improve mk-1st.awk script by writing separate cases for the
1866 LIBTOOL_LINK command, depending on which library (ncurses, ticlib,
1867 termlib) is to be linked.
1868 + modify configure.in to allow broken-linker configurations, not just
1869 enable-reentrant, to set public wrap prefix.
1872 + add TICS_LIST and SHLIB_LIST to allow libtool 2.2.6 on Cygwin to
1873 build with tic and term libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
1874 + add -no-undefined option to libtool for Cygwin, MinGW, U/Win and AIX
1875 (report by Charles Wilson).
1876 + fix definition for c++/Makefile.in's SHLIB_LIST, which did not list
1877 the form, menu or panel libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
1878 + add configure option --with-wrap-prefix to allow setting the prefix
1879 for functions used to wrap global variables to something other than
1880 "_nc_" (discussion with Charles Wilson).
1883 + modify scripts to generate ncurses*-config and pc-files to add
1884 dependency for tinfo library (patch by Charles Wilson).
1885 + improve comparison of program-names when checking for linked flavors
1886 such as "reset" by ignoring the executable suffix (reports by Charles
1887 Wilson, Samuel Thibault and Cedric Bretaudeau on Cygwin mailing
1889 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
1890 Solaris 10, since gcc is confused by absence of static libc, and
1891 does not switch back to dynamic mode before finishing the libraries
1892 (reports by Joel Bertrand, Alan Pae).
1893 + minor fixes to Intel compiler warning checks in configure script.
1894 + modify _nc_leaks_tinfo() so leak-checking in test/railroad.c works.
1895 + modify set_curterm() to make broken-linker configuration work with
1896 changes from 20090228 (report by Charles Wilson).
1899 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1900 + modify declaration of cur_term when broken-linker is used, but
1901 enable-reentrant is not, to match pre-5.7 (report by Charles Wilson).
1904 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1907 + add configure script --enable-sp-funcs to enable the new set of
1909 + start integrating patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
1910 + add extended functions which specify the SCREEN pointer for several
1911 curses functions which use the global SP (these are incomplete;
1912 some internals work is needed to complete these).
1913 + add special cases to configure script for MinGW port.
1916 + update several configure macros from lynx changes
1917 + append (not prepend) to CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS
1918 + change variable from PATHSEP to PATH_SEPARATOR
1919 + improve install-rules for pc-files (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
1920 + make it work with $DESTDIR
1921 + create the pkg-config library directory if needed.
1924 + modify init_pair() to allow caller to create extra color pairs beyond
1925 the color_pairs limit, which use default colors (request by Emanuele
1927 + add misc/terminfo.tmp and misc/*.pc to "sources" rule.
1928 + fix typo "==" where "=" is needed in ncurses-config.in and
1929 gen-pkgconfig.in files (Debian #512161).
1932 + add -shared option to MK_SHARED_LIB when -Bsharable is used, for
1933 *BSD's, without which "main" might be one of the shared library's
1934 dependencies (report/analysis by Ken Dickey).
1935 + modify waddch_literal(), updating line-pointer after a multicolumn
1936 character is found to not fit on the current row, and wrapping is
1937 done. Since the line-pointer was not updated, the wrapped
1938 multicolumn character was written to the beginning of the current row
1939 (cf: 20041023, reported by "Nick" regarding problem with ncmpc
1940 http://musicpd.org/mantis/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1930).
1943 + add screen.Eterm terminfo entry (GenToo #124887) -TD
1944 + modify adacurses-config to look for ".ali" files in the adalib
1946 + correct install for Ada95, which omitted libAdaCurses.a used in
1948 + change install for adacurses-config to provide additional flavors
1949 such as adacursesw-config, for ncursesw (GenToo #167849).
1952 + remove undeveloped feature in ncurses-config.in for setting
1954 + recent change to ncurses-config.in did not take into account the
1955 --disable-overwrite option, which sets $includedir to the
1956 subdirectory and using just that for a -I option does not work - fix
1957 (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
1960 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to eliminate a dependency on rpath when
1961 deciding whether to add $LIBS to --libs output; that should be shown
1962 for the ncurses and tinfo libraries without taking rpath into
1964 + fix an overlooked change from $AR_OPTS to $ARFLAGS in mk-1st.awk,
1965 used in static libraries (report by Marty Jack).
1968 + add a configure-time check to pick a suitable value for
1969 CC_SHARED_OPTS for Solaris (report by Dagobert Michelsen).
1970 + add configure --with-pkg-config and --enable-pc-files options, along
1971 with misc/gen-pkgconfig.in which can be used to generate ".pc" files
1972 for pkg-config (request by Jan Engelhardt).
1973 + use $includedir symbol in misc/ncurses-config.in, add --includedir
1975 + change makefiles to use $ARFLAGS rather than $AR_OPTS, provide a
1976 configure check to detect whether a "-" is needed before "ar"
1978 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1979 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
1982 + modify mk-1st.awk to work with extra categories for tinfo library.
1983 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries with gcc
1984 on AIX 5 or 6 (adapted from patch by Lital Natan).
1987 + modify to omit the opaque-functions from lib_gen.o when
1988 --disable-ext-funcs is used.
1989 + add test/clip_printw.c to illustrate how to use printw without
1991 + modify ncurses 'F' test to demo wborder_set() with colored lines.
1992 + modify ncurses 'f' test to demo wborder() with colored lines.
1995 + add check for failure to open hashed-database needed for db4.6
1997 + corrected --without-manpages option; previous change only suppressed
1998 the auxiliary rules install.man and uninstall.man
1999 + add case for FreeMINT to configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE (patch from
2001 + fixes from NetBSD port at
2002 http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/devel/ncurses/patches
2003 patch-ac (build-fix for DragonFly)
2004 patch-ae (use INSTALL_SCRIPT for installing misc/ncurses*-config).
2005 + improve configure script macros CF_HEADER_PATH and CF_LIBRARY_PATH
2006 by adding CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS, LIBS values to the
2008 + correct title string for keybound manpage (patch by Frederic Culot,
2009 OpenBSD documentation/6019),
2012 + move del_curterm() call from _nc_freeall() to _nc_leaks_tinfo() to
2013 work for progs/clear, progs/tabs, etc.
2014 + correct buffer-size after internal resizing of wide-character
2015 set_field_buffer(), broken in 20081018 changes (report by Mike Gran).
2016 + add "-i" option to test/filter.c to tell it to use initscr() rather
2017 than newterm(), to investigate report on comp.unix.programmer that
2018 ncurses would clear the screen in that case (it does not - the issue
2019 was xterm's alternate screen feature).
2020 + add check in mouse-driver to disable connection if GPM returns a
2021 zero, indicating that the connection is closed (Debian #506717,
2022 adapted from patch by Samuel Thibault).
2025 + improve a workaround in adding wide-characters, when a control
2026 character is found. The library (cf: 20040207) uses unctrl() to
2027 obtain a printable version of the control character, but was not
2028 passing color or video attributes.
2029 + improve test/ncurses.c 'a' test, using unctrl() more consistently to
2030 display meta-characters.
2031 + turn on _XOPEN_CURSES definition in curses.h
2032 + add eterm-color entry (report by Vincent Lefevre) -TD
2033 + correct use of key_name() in test/ncurses.c 'A' test, which only
2034 displays wide-characters, not key-codes since 20070612 (report by
2038 + change _nc_has_mouse() to has_mouse(), reflect its use in C++ and
2039 Ada95 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
2040 + document in TO-DO an issue with Cygwin's package for GNAT (report
2042 + improve error-checking of command-line options in "tabs" program.
2045 + change several terminfo entries to make consistent use of ANSI
2047 + add "tabs" program (prompted by Debian #502260).
2048 + add configure --without-manpages option (request by Mike Frysinger).
2050 20081102 5.7 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2053 + add a manpage to discuss memory leaks.
2054 + add support for shared libraries for QNX (other than libtool, which
2055 does not work well on that platform).
2056 + build-fix for QNX C++ binding.
2059 + build-fixes for OS/2 EMX.
2060 + modify form library to accept control characters such as newline
2061 in set_field_buffer(), which is compatible with Solaris (report by
2063 + modify configure script to assume --without-hashed-db when
2064 --disable-database is used.
2065 + add "-e" option in ncurses/Makefile.in when generating source-files
2066 to force earlier exit if the build environment fails unexpectedly
2067 (prompted by patch by Adrian Bunk).
2068 + change configure script to use CF_UTF8_LIB, improved variant of
2072 + add teraterm4.59 terminfo entry, use that as primary teraterm entry, rename
2073 original to teraterm2.3 -TD
2074 + update "gnome" terminfo to 2.22.3 -TD
2075 + update "konsole" terminfo to 1.6.6, needs today's fix for tic -TD
2076 + add "aterm" terminfo -TD
2077 + add "linux2.6.26" terminfo -TD
2078 + add logic to tic for cancelling strings in user-defined capabilities,
2082 + regenerated html documentation.
2083 + add -m and -s options to test/keynames.c and test/key_names.c to test
2084 the meta() function with keyname() or key_name(), respectively.
2085 + correct return value of key_name() on error; it is null.
2086 + document some unresolved issues for rpath and pthreads in TO-DO.
2087 + fix a missing prototype for ioctl() on OpenBSD in tset.c
2088 + add configure option --disable-tic-depends to make explicit whether
2089 tic library depends on ncurses/ncursesw library, amends change from
2090 20080823 (prompted by Debian #501421).
2093 + some build-fixes for configure --disable-ext-funcs (incomplete, but
2094 works for C/C++ parts).
2095 + improve configure-check for awks unable to handle large strings, e.g.
2096 AIX 5.1 whose awk silently gives up on large printf's.
2099 + fix build for --with-dmalloc by workaround for redefinition of
2100 strndup between string.h and dmalloc.h
2101 + fix build for --disable-sigwinch
2102 + add environment variable NCURSES_GPM_TERMS to allow override to use
2103 GPM on terminals other than "linux", etc.
2104 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM does not happen to contain
2105 "linux", since Gpm_Open() no longer limits its assertion to terminals
2106 that it might handle, e.g., within "screen" in xterm.
2107 + reset mouse file-descriptor when unloading GPM library (report by
2109 + fix build for --disable-leaks --enable-widec --with-termlib
2110 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
2111 + use improved initialization for soft-label keys in Ada95 sample code.
2112 + discard internal symbol _nc_slk_format (unused since 20080112).
2113 + move call of slk_paint_info() from _nc_slk_initialize() to
2114 slk_intern_refresh(), improving initialization.
2117 + fix bug in mouse code for GPM from 20080920 changes (reported in
2118 Debian #500103, also Miroslav Lichvar).
2121 + fix shared-library rules for cygwin with tic- and tinfo-libraries.
2122 + fix a memory leak when failure to connect to GPM.
2123 + correct check for notimeout() in wgetch() (report on linux.redhat
2124 newsgroup by FurtiveBertie).
2125 + add an example warning-suppression file for valgrind,
2126 misc/ncurses.supp (based on example from Reuben Thomas)
2129 + change shared-library configuration for OpenBSD, make rpath work.
2130 + build-fixes for using libutf8, e.g., on OpenBSD 3.7
2133 + corrected fix for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
2137 + corrected gcc options for building shared libraries on IRIX64.
2138 + add configure check for awk programs unable to handle big-strings,
2139 use that to improve the default for --enable-big-strings option.
2140 + makefile-fixes for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
2142 + update test/configure script.
2143 + adapt ifdef's from library to make test/view.c build when mbrtowc()
2144 is unavailable, e.g., with HPUX 10.20.
2145 + add configure check for wcsrtombs, mbsrtowcs, which are used in
2146 test/ncurses.c, and use wcstombs, mbstowcs instead if available,
2147 fixing build of ncursew for HPUX 11.00
2150 + fixes to make Ada95 demo_panels() example work.
2151 + modify Ada95 'rain' test program to accept keyboard commands like the
2153 + modify BeOS-specific ifdef's to build on Haiku (patch by Scott
2155 + add configure-check to see if the std namespace is legal for cerr
2156 and endl, to fix a build issue with Tru64.
2157 + consistently use NCURSES_BOOL in lib_gen.c
2158 + filter #line's from lib_gen.c
2159 + change delimiter in MKlib_gen.sh from '%' to '@', to avoid
2160 substitution by IBM xlc to '#' as part of its extensions to digraphs.
2161 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2162 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
2163 (caveat - its maintainer removed support for older Linux systems).
2166 + modify configure check for pthread library to work with OSF/1 5.1,
2167 which uses #define's to associate its header and library.
2168 + use pthread_mutexattr_init() for initializing pthread_mutexattr_t,
2169 makes threaded code work on HPUX 11.23
2170 + fix a bug in demo_menus in freeing menus (cf: 20080804).
2171 + modify configure script for the case where tic library is used (and
2172 possibly renamed) to remove its dependency upon ncurses/ncursew
2173 library (patch by Dr Werner Fink).
2174 + correct manpage for menu_fore() which gave wrong default for
2175 the attribute used to display a selected entry (report by Mike Gran).
2176 + add Eterm-256color, Eterm-88color and rxvt-88color (prompted by
2180 + add configure option --enable-weak-symbols to turn on new feature.
2181 + add configure-check for availability of weak symbols.
2182 + modify linkage with pthread library to use weak symbols so that
2183 applications not linked to that library will not use the mutexes,
2184 etc. This relies on gcc, and may be platform-specific (patch by Dr
2186 + add note to INSTALL to document limitation of renaming of tic library
2187 using the --with-ticlib configure option (report by Dr Werner Fink).
2188 + document (in manpage) why tputs does not detect I/O errors (prompted
2189 by comments by Samuel Thibault).
2190 + fix remaining warnings from Klocwork report.
2193 + modify _nc_panelhook() data to account for a permanent memory leak.
2194 + fix memory leaks in test/demo_menus
2195 + fix most warnings from Klocwork tool (report by Larry Zhou).
2196 + modify configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to add case for
2197 "dragonfly" from xterm #236 changes.
2198 + modify configure script --with-hashed-db to let $LIBS override the
2199 search for the db library (prompted by report by Samson Pierre).
2202 + build-fixes for gcc 4.3.1 (changes to gnat "warnings", and C inlining
2206 + build-fix (reports by Christian Ebert, Funda Wang).
2209 + compiler-warning fixes for Solaris.
2212 + use NCURSES_MOUSE_MASK() in definition of BUTTON_RELEASE(), etc., to
2213 make those work properly with the "--enable-ext-mouse" configuration
2215 + improve documentation of build-cc options in INSTALL.
2216 + work-around a bug in gcc 4.2.4 on AIX, which does not pass the
2217 -static/-dynamic flags properly to linker, causing test/bs to
2221 + correct some ifdef's needed for the broken-linker configuration.
2222 + make debugging library's $BAUDRATE feature work for termcap
2224 + make $NCURSES_NO_PADDING feature work for termcap interface (prompted
2225 by comment on FreeBSD mailing list).
2226 + add screen.mlterm terminfo entry -TD
2227 + improve mlterm and mlterm+pcfkeys terminfo entries -TD
2230 + regenerated html documentation.
2231 + expand manpage description of parameters for form_driver() and
2232 menu_driver() (prompted by discussion with Adam Spragg).
2233 + add null-pointer checks for cur_term in baudrate() and
2234 def_shell_mode(), def_prog_mode()
2235 + fix some memory leaks in delscreen() and wide acs.
2238 + modify test/ditto.c to illustrate multi-threaded use_screen().
2239 + change CC_SHARED_OPTS from -KPIC to -xcode=pic32 for Solaris.
2240 + add "-shared" option to MK_SHARED_LIB for gcc on Solaris (report
2244 + finish changes to wgetch(), making it switch as needed to the
2245 window's actual screen when calling wrefresh() and wgetnstr(). That
2246 allows wgetch() to get used concurrently in different threads with
2247 some minor restrictions, e.g., the application should not delete a
2248 window which is being used in a wgetch().
2249 + simplify mutex's, combining the window- and screen-mutex's.
2252 + modify wgetch() to use the screen which corresponds to its window
2253 parameter rather than relying on SP; some dependent functions still
2255 + factor out most use of SP in lib_mouse.c, using parameter.
2256 + add internal _nc_keyname(), replacing keyname() to associate with a
2257 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
2258 + add internal _nc_unctrl(), replacing unctrl() to associate with a
2259 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
2260 + add internal _nc_tracemouse(), replacing _tracemouse() to eliminate
2261 its associated global buffer _nc_globals.tracemse_buf now in SCREEN.
2262 + add internal _nc_tracechar(), replacing _tracechar() to use SCREEN in
2263 preference to the global _nc_globals.tracechr_buf buffer.
2266 + modify _nc_keypad() to make it switch temporarily as needed to the
2267 screen which must be updated.
2268 + wrap cur_term variable to help make _nc_keymap() thread-safe, and
2269 always set the screen's copy of this variable in set_curterm().
2270 + restore curs_set() state after endwin()/refresh() (report/patch
2274 + modify configure script to note that --enable-ext-colors and
2275 --enable-ext-mouse are not experimental, but extensions from
2277 + corrected manpage description of setcchar() (discussion with
2278 Emanuele Giaquinta).
2279 + fix for adding a non-spacing character at the beginning of a line
2280 (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
2283 + modify screen.* terminfo entries using new screen+fkeys to fix
2284 overridden keys in screen.rxvt (Debian #478094) -TD
2285 + modify internal interfaces to reduce wgetch()'s dependency on the
2287 + simplify some loops with macros each_screen(), each_window() and
2291 + continue modifying test/ditto.c toward making it demonstrate
2292 multithreaded use_screen(), using fifos to pass data between screens.
2293 + fix typo in form.3x (report by Mike Gran).
2296 + add screen.rxvt terminfo entry -TD
2297 + modify tic -f option to format spaces as \s to prevent them from
2298 being lost when that is read back in unformatted strings.
2299 + improve test/ditto.c, using a "talk"-style layout.
2302 + change test/ditto.c to use openpty() and xterm.
2303 + add locks for copywin(), dupwin(), overlap(), overlay() on their
2305 + add locks for initscr() and newterm() on updates to the SCREEN
2307 + finish table in curs_thread.3x manpage.
2310 + begin table in curs_thread.3x manpage describing the scope of data
2311 used by each function (or symbol) for threading analysis.
2312 + add null-pointer checks to setsyx() and getsyx() (prompted by
2313 discussion by Martin v. Lowis and Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven on
2314 python-dev2 mailing list).
2317 + add null-pointer checks in set_term() and delscreen().
2318 + move _nc_windows into _nc_globals, since windows can be pads, which
2319 are not associated with a particular screen.
2320 + change use_screen() to pass the SCREEN* parameter rather than
2321 stdscr to the callback function.
2322 + force libtool to use tag for 'CC' in case it does not detect this,
2323 e.g., on aix when using CC=powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0-gcc
2324 (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
2325 + override OBJEXT to "lo" when building with libtool, to work on
2326 platforms such as AIX where libtool may use a different suffix for
2327 the object files than ".o" (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
2328 + add configure --with-pthread option, for building with the POSIX
2332 + fill in extended-color pair two more places in wbkgrndset() and
2333 waddch_nosync() (prompted by Sedeno's patch).
2334 + fill in extended-color pair in _nc_build_wch() to make colors work
2335 for wide-characters using extended-colors (patch by Alejandro R
2337 + add x/X toggles to ncurses.c C color test to test/demo
2338 wide-characters with extended-colors.
2339 + add a/A toggles to ncurses.c c/C color tests.
2340 + modify test/ditto.c to use use_screen().
2341 + finish modifying test/rain.c to demonstrate threads.
2344 + start modifying test/rain.c for threading demo.
2345 + modify test/ncurses.c to make 'f' test accept the f/F/b/F/</> toggles
2346 that the 'F' accepts.
2347 + modify test/worm.c to show trail in reverse-video when other threads
2348 are working concurrently.
2349 + fix a deadlock from improper nesting of mutexes for windowlist and
2353 + fixes from 20080223 resolved issue with mutexes; change to use
2354 recursive mutexes to fix memory leak in delwin() as called from
2355 _nc_free_and_exit().
2358 + fix a size-difference in _nc_globals which caused hanging of mutex
2359 lock/unlock when termlib was built separately.
2362 + avoid using nanosleep() in threaded configuration since that often
2363 is implemented to suspend the entire process.
2366 + update test programs to build/work with various UNIX curses for
2367 comparisons. This was to reinvestigate statement in X/Open curses
2368 that insnstr and winsnstr perform wrapping. None of the Unix-branded
2369 implementations do this, as noted in manpage (cf: 20040228).
2372 + modify _nc_setupscreen() to set the legacy-coding value the same
2373 for both narrow/wide models. It had been set only for wide model,
2374 but is needed to make unctrl() work with locale in the narrow model.
2375 + improve waddch() and winsch() handling of EILSEQ from mbrtowc() by
2376 using unctrl() to display illegal bytes rather than trying to append
2377 further bytes to make up a valid sequence (reported by Andrey A
2379 + modify unctrl() to check codes in 128-255 range versus isprint().
2380 If they are not printable, and locale was set, use a "M-" or "~"
2384 + improve threading in test/worm.c (wrap refresh calls, and KEY_RESIZE
2385 handling). Now it hangs in napms(), no matter whether nanosleep()
2386 or poll() or select() are used on Linux.
2389 + fixes to build with --disable-ext-funcs
2390 + add manpage for use_window and use_screen.
2391 + add set_tabsize() and set_escdelay() functions.
2394 + remove recursive-mutex definitions, finish threading demo for worm.c
2395 + remove a redundant adjustment of lines in resizeterm.c's
2396 adjust_window() which caused occasional misadjustment of stdscr when
2400 + several improvements to terminfo entries based on xterm #230 -TD
2401 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle keyname/key_name prototypes, so the
2402 "link_test" builds properly.
2403 + fix for toe command-line options -u/-U to ensure filename is given.
2404 + fix allocation-size for command-line parsing in infocmp from 20070728
2405 (report by Miroslav Lichvar)
2406 + improve resizeterm() by moving ripped-off lines, and repainting the
2407 soft-keys (report by Katarina Machalkova)
2408 + add clarification in wclear's manpage noting that the screen will be
2409 cleared even if a subwindow is cleared (prompted by Christer Enfors
2411 + change test/ncurses.c soft-key tests to work with KEY_RESIZE.
2414 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
2418 + add several functions to C++ binding which wrap C functions that
2419 pass a WINDOW* parameter (request by Chris Lee).
2422 + add note about configure options needed for Berkeley database to the
2424 + improve checks for version of Berkeley database libraries.
2425 + amend fix for rpath to not modify LDFLAGS if the platform has no
2426 applicable transformation (report by Christian Ebert, cf: 20071124).
2429 + modify configure option --with-hashed-db to accept a parameter which
2430 is the install-prefix of a given Berkeley Database (prompted by
2431 pierre4d2 comments).
2432 + rewrite wrapper for wcrtomb(), making it work on Solaris. This is
2433 used in the form library to determine the length of the buffer needed
2434 by field_buffer (report by Alfred Fung).
2435 + remove unneeded window-parameter from C++ binding for wresize (report
2439 + modify the support for filesystems which do not support mixed-case to
2440 generate 2-character (hexadecimal) codes for the lower-level of the
2441 filesystem terminfo database (request by Michail Vidiassov).
2442 + add configure option --enable-mixed-case, to allow overriding the
2443 configure script's check if the filesystem supports mixed-case
2445 + add wresize() to C++ binding (request by Chris Lee).
2446 + define NCURSES_EXT_FUNCS and NCURSES_EXT_COLORS in curses.h to make
2447 it simpler to tell if the extended functions and/or colors are
2451 + update memory-leak checks for changes to names.c and codes.c
2452 + correct acsc strings in h19, z100 (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler).
2455 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
2457 + add mrxvt terminfo entry, add/fix xterm building blocks for modified
2459 + compile with FreeBSD "contemporary" TTY interface (patch by
2463 + modify makefile rules to allow clear, tput and tset to be built
2464 without libtic. The other programs (infocmp, tic and toe) rely on
2466 + add/modify null-pointer checks in several functions for SP and/or
2467 the WINDOW* parameter (report by Thorben Krueger).
2468 + fixes for field_buffer() in formw library (see Redhat #310071,
2469 patches by Miroslav Lichvar).
2470 + improve performance of NCURSES_CHAR_EQ code (patch by Miroslav
2472 + update/improve mlterm and rxvt terminfo entries, e.g., for
2473 the modified cursor- and keypad-keys -TD
2476 + add code to curses.priv.h ifdef'd with NCURSES_CHAR_EQ, which
2477 changes the CharEq() macro to an inline function to allow comparing
2478 cchar_t struct's without comparing gaps in a possibly unpacked
2479 memory layout (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
2482 + add new functions to lib_trace.c to setup mutex's for the _tracef()
2483 calls within the ncurses library.
2484 + for the reentrant model, move _nc_tputs_trace and _nc_outchars into
2486 + start modifying test/worm.c to provide threading demo (incomplete).
2487 + separated ifdef's for some BSD-related symbols in tset.c, to make
2488 it compile on LynxOS (report by Greg Gemmer).
2490 + modify Ada95/gen/Makefile to use shlib script, to simplify building
2491 shared-library configuration on platforms lacking rpath support.
2492 + build-fix for Ada95/src/Makefile to reflect changed dependency for
2493 the terminal-interface-curses-aux.adb file which is now generated.
2494 + restructuring test/worm.c, for use_window() example.
2497 + add use_window() and use_screen() functions, to develop into support
2498 for threaded library (incomplete).
2499 + fix typos in man/curs_opaque.3x which kept the install script from
2500 creating symbolic links to two aliases created in 20070818 (report by
2504 + remove a spurious newline from output of html.m4, which caused links
2505 for Ada95 html to be incorrect for the files generated using m4.
2506 + start investigating mutex's for SCREEN manipulation (incomplete).
2507 + minor cleanup of codes.c/names.c for --enable-const
2508 + expand/revise "Routine and Argument Names" section of ncurses manpage
2509 to address report by David Givens in newsgroup discussion.
2510 + fix interaction between --without-progs/--with-termcap configure
2511 options (report by Michail Vidiassov).
2512 + fix typo in "--disable-relink" option (report by Michail Vidiassov).
2515 + fix a sign-extension bug in infocmp's repair_acsc() function
2517 + fix old configure script bug which prevented "--disable-warnings"
2518 option from working (patch by Mike Frysinger).
2521 + add 9term terminal description (request by Juhapekka Tolvanen) -TD
2522 + modify comp_hash.c's string output to avoid misinterpreting a null
2523 "\0" followed by a digit.
2524 + modify MKnames.awk and MKcodes.awk to support big-strings.
2525 This only applies to the cases (broken linker, reentrant) where
2526 the corresponding arrays are accessed via wrapper functions.
2527 + split MKnames.awk into two scripts, eliminating the shell redirection
2528 which complicated the make process and also the bogus timestamp file
2529 which was introduced to fix "make -j".
2530 + add test/test_opaque.c, test/test_arrays.c
2531 + add wgetscrreg() and wgetparent() for applications that may need it
2532 when NCURSES_OPAQUE is defined (prompted by Bryan Christ).
2535 + amend treatment of infocmp "-r" option to retain the 1023-byte limit
2536 unless "-T" is given (cf: 981017).
2537 + modify comp_captab.c generation to use big-strings.
2538 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private accessed via
2539 _nc_get_alias_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
2541 + modify configure script to skip Intel compiler in CF_C_INLINE.
2542 + make _nc_info_hash_table and _nc_cap_hash_table private accessed via
2543 _nc_get_hash_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
2547 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private, accessed via
2548 _nc_get_alias_table() since they are used only by parse_entry.c
2549 + make _nc_key_names private since it is used only by lib_keyname.c
2550 + add --disable-big-strings configure option to control whether
2551 unctrl.c is generated using the big-string optimization - which may
2552 use strings longer than supported by a given compiler.
2553 + reduce relocation tables for tic, infocmp by changing type of
2554 internal hash tables to short, and make those private symbols.
2555 + eliminate large fixed arrays from progs/infocmp.c
2558 + change winnstr() to stop at the end of the line (cf: 970315).
2559 + add test/test_get_wstr.c
2560 + add test/test_getstr.c
2561 + add test/test_inwstr.c
2562 + add test/test_instr.c
2565 + restore a call to obtain screen-size in _nc_setupterm(), which
2566 is used in tput and other non-screen applications via setupterm()
2567 (Debian #433357, reported by Florent Bayle, Christian Ohm,
2571 + add test/savescreen.c test-program
2572 + add check to trace-file open, if the given name is a directory, add
2573 ".log" to the name and try again.
2574 + add konsole-256color entry -TD
2575 + add extra gcc warning options from xterm.
2576 + minor fixes for ncurses/hashmap test-program.
2577 + modify configure script to quiet c++ build with libtool when the
2578 --disable-echo option is used.
2579 + modify configure script to disable ada95 if libtool is selected,
2580 writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD ports/114493).
2581 + update config.guess, config.sub
2584 + add continuous-move "M" to demo_panels to help test refresh changes.
2585 + improve fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters,
2586 taking into account some split characters on left/right window
2590 + add "widec" row to _tracedump() output to help diagnose remaining
2591 problems with multi-column characters.
2592 + partial fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters
2593 which are partly overwritten (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
2594 + ignore A_CHARTEXT bits in vidattr() and vid_attr(), in case
2595 multi-column extension bits are passed there.
2596 + add setlocale() call to demo_panels.c, needed for wide-characters.
2597 + add some output flags to _nc_trace_ttymode to help diagnose a bug
2598 report by Larry Virden, i.e., ONLCR, OCRNL, ONOCR and ONLRET,
2601 + add test/demo_panels.c
2602 + implement opaque version of setsyx() and getsyx().
2605 + corrected xterm+pcf2 terminfo modifiers for F1-F4, to match xterm
2607 + split-out key_name() from MKkeyname.awk since it now depends upon
2608 wunctrl() which is not in libtinfo (report by Rong-En Fan).
2611 + add test/key_name.c
2612 + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test/inch_wide.c
2613 + update test/configure
2614 + correct formatting of DEL (0x7f) in _nc_vischar().
2615 + null-terminate result of wunctrl().
2616 + add null-pointer check in key_name() (report by Andreas Krennmair,
2620 + adapt mouse-handling code from menu library in form-library
2621 (discussion with Clive Nicolson).
2622 + add a modification of test/dots.c, i.e., test/dots_mvcur.c to
2623 illustrate how to use mvcur().
2624 + modify wide-character flavor of SetAttr() to preserve the
2625 WidecExt() value stored in the .attr field, e.g., in case it
2626 is overwritten by chgat (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
2627 + correct buffer-size for _nc_viswbuf2n() (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
2628 + build-fixes for Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 (patch by Peter O'Gorman).
2631 + modify keyname() to use "^X" form only if meta() has been called, or
2632 if keyname() is called without initializing curses, e.g., via
2633 initscr() or newterm() (prompted by LinuxBase #1604).
2634 + document some portability issues in man/curs_util.3x
2635 + add a shadow copy of TTY buffer to _nc_prescreen to fix applications
2636 broken by moving that data into SCREEN (cf: 20061230).
2639 + add 'O' (wide-character panel test) in ncurses.c to demonstrate a
2640 problem reported by Sadrul H Chowdhury with repainting parts of
2642 + modify slk_init() so that if there are preceding calls to
2643 ripoffline(), those affect the available lines for soft-keys (adapted
2644 from patch by Clive Nicolson).
2645 + document some portability issues in man/curs_getyx.3x
2648 + fix a bug in Ada95/samples/ncurses which caused a variable to
2649 become uninitialized in the "b" test.
2650 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in adahtml rule to account for recent
2651 movement of files, fix a few incorrect manpage references in the
2653 + add Ada95 binding to _nc_freeall() as Curses_Free_All to help with
2655 + correct some functions in Ada95 binding which were using return value
2656 from C where none was returned: idcok(), immedok() and wtimeout().
2657 + amend recent changes for Ada95 binding to make it build with
2658 Cygwin's linker, e.g., with configure options
2659 --enable-broken-linker --with-ticlib
2662 + add a configure check for gcc's options for inlining, use that to
2663 quiet a warning message where gcc's default behavior changed from
2665 + improve warning message when checking if GPM is linked to curses
2666 library by not warning if its use of "wgetch" is via a weak symbol.
2667 + add loader options when building with static libraries to ensure that
2668 an installed shared library for ncurses does not conflict. This is
2669 reported as problem with Tru64, but could affect other platforms
2670 (report Martin Mokrejs, analysis by Tim Mooney).
2671 + fix build on cygwin after recent ticlib/termlib changes, i.e.,
2672 + adjust TINFO_SUFFIX value to work with cygwin's dll naming
2673 + revert a change from 20070303 which commented out dependency of
2674 SHLIB_LIST in form/menu/panel/c++ libraries.
2675 + fix initialization of ripoff stack pointer (cf: 20070421).
2678 + move most static variables into structures _nc_globals and
2679 _nc_prescreen, to simplify storage.
2680 + add/use configure script macro CF_SIG_ATOMIC_T, use the corresponding
2681 type for data manipulated by signal handlers (prompted by comments
2682 in mailing.openbsd.bugs newsgroup).
2683 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to allow one to pass options such as -static
2684 to the libtool create- and link-operations.
2687 + fix whitespace in curs_opaque.3x which caused a spurious ';' in
2688 the installed aliases (report by Peter Santoro).
2689 + fix configure script to not try to generate adacurses-config when
2690 Ada95 tree is not built.
2693 + add man/curs_legacy.3x, man/curs_opaque.3x
2694 + fix acs_map binding for Ada95 when --enable-reentrant is used.
2695 + add adacurses-config to the Ada95 install, based on version from
2696 FreeBSD port, in turn by Juergen Pfeifer in 2000 (prompted by
2697 comment on comp.lang.ada newsgroup).
2698 + fix includes in c++ binding to build with Intel compiler
2700 + update install rule in Ada95 to use mkdirs.sh
2701 > other fixes prompted by inspection for Coverity report:
2702 + modify ifdef's for c++ binding to use try/catch/throw statements
2703 + add a null-pointer check in tack/ansi.c request_cfss()
2704 + fix a memory leak in ncurses/base/wresize.c
2705 + corrected check for valid memu/meml capabilities in
2706 progs/dump_entry.c when handling V_HPUX case.
2707 > fixes based on Coverity report:
2708 + remove dead code in test/bs.c
2709 + remove dead code in test/demo_defkey.c
2710 + remove an unused assignment in progs/infocmp.c
2711 + fix a limit check in tack/ansi.c tools_charset()
2712 + fix tack/ansi.c tools_status() to perform the VT320/VT420
2713 tests in request_cfss(). The function had exited too soon.
2714 + fix a memory leak in tic.c's make_namelist()
2715 + fix a couple of places in tack/output.c which did not check for EOF.
2716 + fix a loop-condition in test/bs.c
2717 + add index checks in lib_color.c for color palettes
2718 + add index checks in progs/dump_entry.c for version_filter() handling
2720 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in copywin()
2721 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in waddchnstr()
2722 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
2723 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c's make_namelist()
2724 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
2725 + add null-pointer checks in test/cardfile.c
2726 + fix a double-free in ncurses/tinfo/trim_sgr0.c
2727 + fix a double-free in ncurses/base/wresize.c
2728 + add try/catch block to c++/cursesmain.cc
2731 + modify Ada95 binding to build with --enable-reentrant by wrapping
2732 global variables (bug: acs_map does not yet work).
2733 + modify Ada95 binding to use the new access-functions, allowing it
2734 to build/run when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
2735 + add access-functions and macros to return properties of the WINDOW
2736 structure, e.g., when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
2737 + improved install-sh's quoting.
2738 + use mkdirs.sh rather than mkinstalldirs, e.g., to use fixes from
2742 + eliminate part of the direct use of WINDOW data from Ada95 interface.
2743 + fix substitutions for termlib filename to make configure option
2744 --enable-reentrant work with --with-termlib.
2745 + change a constructor for NCursesWindow to allow compiling with
2746 NCURSES_OPAQUE set, since we cannot pass a reference to
2750 + ignore --with-chtype=unsigned since unsigned is always added to
2751 the type in curses.h; do the same for --with-mmask-t.
2752 + change warning regarding --enable-ext-colors and wide-character
2753 in the configure script to an error.
2754 + tweak error message in CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to distinguish other programs
2755 such as Darwin's libtool program (report by Michail Vidiassov)
2756 + modify edit_man.sh to allow for multiple substitutions per line.
2757 + set locale in misc/ncurses-config.in since it uses a range
2758 + change permissions libncurses++.a install (report by Michail
2760 + corrected length of temporary buffer in wide-character version
2761 of set_field_buffer() (related to report by Bryan Christ).
2764 + fix mk-1st.awk script install_shlib() function, broken in 20070224
2765 changes for cygwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
2768 + increase size of array in _nc_visbuf2n() to make "tic -v" work
2769 properly in its similar_sgr() function (report/analysis by Peter
2771 + add --enable-reentrant configure option for ongoing changes to
2772 implement a reentrant version of ncurses:
2773 + libraries are suffixed with "t"
2774 + wrap several global variables (curscr, newscr, stdscr, ttytype,
2775 COLORS, COLOR_PAIRS, COLS, ESCDELAY, LINES and TABSIZE) as
2776 functions returning values stored in SCREEN or cur_term.
2777 + move some initialization (LINES, COLS) from lib_setup.c,
2778 i.e., setupterm() to _nc_setupscreen(), i.e., newterm().
2781 + regenerated html documentation.
2782 + add NCURSES_OPAQUE symbol to curses.h, will use to make structs
2783 opaque in selected configurations.
2784 + move the chunk in lib_acs.c which resets acs capabilities when
2785 running on a terminal whose locale interferes with those into
2786 _nc_setupscreen(), so the libtinfo/libtinfow files can be made
2787 identical (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
2788 + do not use configure variable SHLIB_LIBS for building libraries
2789 outside the ncurses directory, since that symbol is customized
2790 only for that directory, and using it introduces an unneeded
2791 dependency on libdl (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
2792 + modify mk-1st.awk so the generated makefile rules for linking or
2793 installing shared libraries do not first remove the library, in
2794 case it is in use, e.g., libncurses.so by /bin/sh (report by Jeff
2796 + revised section "Using NCURSES under XTERM" in ncurses-intro.html
2797 (prompted by newsgroup comment by Nick Guenther).
2800 + change internal return codes of _nc_wgetch() to check for cases
2801 where KEY_CODE_YES should be returned, e.g., if a KEY_RESIZE was
2802 ungetch'd, and read by wget_wch().
2803 + fix static-library build broken in 20070217 changes to remove "-ldl"
2804 (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
2805 + change makefile/scripts for cygwin to allow building termlib.
2806 + use Form_Hook in manpages to match form.h
2807 + use Menu_Hook in manpages, as well as a few places in menu.h
2808 + correct form- and menu-manpages to use specific Field_Options,
2809 Menu_Options and Item_Options types.
2810 + correct prototype for _tracechar() in manpage (cf: 20011229).
2811 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
2814 + fixes for $(TICS_LIST) in ncurses/Makefile (report by Miroslav
2816 + modify relinking of shared libraries to apply only when rpath is
2817 enabled, and add --disable-relink option which can be used to
2818 disable the feature altogether (reports by Michail Vidiassov,
2820 + fix --with-termlib option for wide-character configuration, stripping
2821 the "w" suffix in one place (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
2822 + remove "-ldl" from some library lists to reduce dependencies in
2823 programs (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
2824 + correct description of --enable-signed-char in configure --help
2825 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
2826 + add pattern for GNU/kFreeBSD configuration to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE,
2827 which matches an earlier change to CF_SHARED_OPTS, from xterm #224
2829 + remove "${DESTDIR}" from -install_name option used for linking
2830 shared libraries on Darwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
2833 + add test/inchs.c, test/inch_wide.c, to test win_wchnstr().
2834 + remove libdl from library list for termlib (report by Miroslav
2836 + fix configure.in to allow --without-progs --with-termlib (patch by
2838 + modify win_wchnstr() to ensure that only a base cell is returned
2839 for each multi-column character (prompted by report by Wei Kong
2840 regarding change in mvwin_wch() cf: 20041023).
2843 + modify fix_wchnstr() in form library to strip attributes (and color)
2844 from the cchar_t array (field cells) read from a field's window.
2845 Otherwise, when copying the field cells back to the window, the
2846 associated color overrides the field's background color (report by
2848 + improve tracing for form library, showing created forms, fields, etc.
2849 + ignore --enable-rpath configure option if --with-shared was omitted.
2850 + add _nc_leaks_tinfo(), _nc_free_tic(), _nc_free_tinfo() entrypoints
2851 to allow leak-checking when both tic- and tinfo-libraries are built.
2852 + drop CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC macro from configure script, since C++ binding
2853 no longer relies on it.
2854 + disallow combining configure script options --with-ticlib and
2855 --enable-termcap (report by Rong-En Fan).
2856 + remove tack from ncurses tree.
2859 + fix typo in configure script that broke --with-termlib option
2860 (report by Rong-En Fan).
2863 + improve fix for FreeBSD gnu/98975, to allow for null pointer passed
2864 to tgetent() (report by Rong-en Fan).
2865 + update tack/HISTORY and tack/README to tell how to build it after
2866 it is removed from the ncurses tree.
2867 + fix configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
2868 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
2869 + review/eliminate other original-file artifacts in cursesw.cc, making
2870 its license consistent with ncurses.
2871 + use ncurses vw_scanw() rather than reading into a fixed buffer in
2872 the c++ binding for scanw() methods (prompted by report by Nuno Dias).
2873 + eliminate fixed-buffer vsprintf() calls in c++ binding.
2876 + add _nc_leaks_tic() to separate leak-checking of tic library from
2877 term/ncurses libraries, and thereby eliminate a library dependency.
2878 + fix test/mk-test.awk to ignore blank lines.
2879 + correct paths in include/headers, for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav
2883 + add a break-statement in misc/shlib to ensure that it exits on the
2884 _first_ matched directory (report by Paul Novak).
2885 + add tack/configure, which can be used to build tack outside the
2887 + add --with-ticlib option, to build/install the tic-support functions
2888 in a separate library (suggested by Miroslav Lichvar).
2891 + change MKunctrl.awk to reduce relocation table for unctrl.o
2892 + change MKkeyname.awk to reduce relocation table for keyname.o
2893 (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
2896 + modify configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
2897 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
2898 + modify some modules to allow them to be reentrant if _REENTRANT is
2899 defined: lib_baudrate.c, resizeterm.c (local data only)
2900 + eliminate static data from some modules: add_tries.c, hardscroll.c,
2901 lib_ttyflags.c, lib_twait.c
2902 + improve manpage install to add aliases for the transformed program
2903 names, e.g., from --program-prefix.
2904 + used linklint to verify links in the HTML documentation, made fixes
2905 to manpages as needed.
2906 + fix a typo in curs_mouse.3x (report by William McBrine).
2907 + fix install-rule for ncurses5-config to make the bin-directory.
2910 + modify configure script to omit the tic (terminfo compiler) support
2911 from ncurses library if --without-progs option is given.
2912 + modify install rule for ncurses5-config to do this via "install.libs"
2913 + modify shared-library rules to allow FreeBSD 3.x to use rpath.
2914 + update config.guess, config.sub
2916 20061217 5.6 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2919 + add ifdef's for <wctype.h> for HPUX, which has the corresponding
2920 definitions in <wchar.h>.
2921 + revert the va_copy() change from 20061202, since it was neither
2922 correct nor portable.
2923 + add $(LOCAL_LIBS) definition to progs/Makefile.in, needed for
2925 + ignore wide-acs line-drawing characters that wcwidth() claims are
2926 not one-column. This is a workaround for Solaris' broken locale
2930 + modify configure --with-gpm option to allow it to accept a parameter,
2931 i.e., the name of the dynamic GPM library to load via dlopen()
2932 (requested by Bryan Henderson).
2933 + add configure option --with-valgrind, changes from vile.
2934 + modify configure script AC_TRY_RUN and AC_TRY_LINK checks to use
2935 'return' in preference to 'exit()'.
2938 + change default for --with-develop back to "no".
2939 + add XTABS to tracing of TTY bits.
2940 + updated autoconf patch to ifdef-out the misfeature which declares
2941 exit() for configure tests. This fixes a redefinition warning on
2943 + use ${CC} rather than ${LD} in shared library rules for IRIX64,
2944 Solaris to help ensure that initialization sections are provided for
2945 extra linkage requirements, e.g., of C++ applications (prompted by
2946 comment by Casper Dik in newsgroup).
2947 + rename "$target" in CF_MAN_PAGES to make it easier to distinguish
2948 from the autoconf predefined symbol. There was no conflict,
2949 since "$target" was used only in the generated edit_man.sh file,
2950 but SuSE's rpm package contains a patch.
2953 + update man/term.5 to reflect extended terminfo support and hashed
2954 database configuration.
2955 + updates for test/configure script.
2956 + adapted from SuSE rpm package:
2957 + remove long-obsolete workaround for broken-linker which declared
2959 + improve error recovery in PUTC() macro when wcrtomb() does not
2960 return usable results for an 8-bit character.
2961 + patches from rpm package (SuSE):
2962 + use va_copy() in extra varargs manipulation for tracing version
2964 + use a va_list rather than a null in _nc_freeall()'s call to
2965 _nc_printf_string().
2966 + add some see-also references in manpages to show related
2967 wide-character functions (suggested by Claus Fischer).
2970 + add a check in lib_color.c to ensure caller does not increase COLORS
2971 above max_colors, which is used as an array index (discussion with
2973 + add ifdef's allowing ncurses to be built with tparm() using either
2974 varargs (the existing status), or using a fixed-parameter list (to
2978 + fix redrawing of windows other than stdscr using wredrawln() by
2979 touching the corresponding rows in curscr (discussion with Dan
2982 + add test/echochar.c
2983 + review/cleanup manpage descriptions of error-returns for form- and
2984 menu-libraries (prompted by FreeBSD docs/46196).
2987 + add AUTHORS file -TD
2988 + omit the -D options from output of the new config script --cflags
2989 option (suggested by Ralf S Engelschall).
2990 + make NCURSES_INLINE unconditionally defined in curses.h
2993 + revert change to accommodate bash 3.2, since that breaks other
2994 platforms, e.g., Solaris.
2995 + minor fixes to NEWS file to simplify scripting to obtain list of
2997 + improve some shared-library configure scripting for Linux, FreeBSD
2998 and NetBSD to make "--with-shlib-version" work.
2999 + change configure-script rules for FreeBSD shared libraries to allow
3000 for rpath support in versions past 3.
3001 + use $(DESTDIR) in makefile rules for installing/uninstalling the
3002 package config script (reports/patches by Christian Wiese,
3003 Ralf S Engelschall).
3004 + fix a warning in the configure script for NetBSD 2.0, working around
3005 spurious blanks embedded in its ${MAKEFLAGS} symbol.
3006 + change test/Makefile to simplify installing test programs in a
3007 different directory when --enable-rpath is used.
3010 + work around bug in bash 3.2 by adding extra quotes (Jim Gifford).
3011 + add/install a package config script, e.g., "ncurses5-config" or
3012 "ncursesw5-config", according to configuration options.
3015 + add several GNU Screen terminfo variations with 16- and 256-colors,
3016 and status line (Alain Bench).
3017 + change the way shared libraries (other than libtool) are installed.
3018 Rather than copying the build-tree's libraries, link the shared
3019 objects into the install directory. This makes the --with-rpath
3020 option work except with $(DESTDIR) (cf: 20000930).
3023 + fix ifdef in c++/internal.h for QNX 6.1
3024 + test-compiled with (old) egcs-1.1.2, modified configure script to
3025 not unset the $CXX and related variables which would prevent this.
3026 + fix a few terminfo.src typos exposed by improvments to "-f" option.
3027 + improve infocmp/tic "-f" option formatting.
3030 + make --disable-largefile option work (report by Thomas M Ott).
3031 + updated html documentation.
3032 + add ka2, kb1, kb3, kc2 to vt220-keypad as an extension -TD
3033 + minor improvements to rxvt+pcfkeys -TD
3036 + move static data from lib_mouse.c into SCREEN struct.
3037 + improve ifdef's for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset to work with Mac OS X
3038 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
3039 + modify CF_PATH_SYNTAX to ensure it uses the result from --prefix
3040 option (from lynx changes) -TD
3041 + adapt AC_PROG_EGREP check, noting that this is likely to be another
3042 place aggravated by POSIXLY_CORRECT.
3043 + modify configure check for awk to ensure that it is found (prompted
3044 by report by Christopher Parker).
3048 + add kon, kon2 and jfbterm terminfo entry (request by Till Maas) -TD
3049 + remove invis capability from klone+sgr, mainly used by linux entry,
3050 since it does not really do this -TD
3053 + correct logic in wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not guard
3054 against passing the multi-column attribute into a call on waddch(),
3055 e.g., using data returned by win_wch() (cf: 20041023)
3056 (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
3059 + fix kterm's acsc string -TD
3060 + fix for change to tic/infocmp in 20060819 to ensure no blank is
3061 embedded into a termcap description.
3062 + workaround for 20050806 ifdef's change to allow visbuf.c to compile
3063 when using --with-termlib --with-trace options.
3064 + improve tgetstr() by making the return value point into the user's
3065 buffer, if provided (patch by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat #202480)).
3066 + correct libraries needed for foldkeys (report by Stanislav Ievlev)
3069 + add terminfo entries for xfce terminal (xfce) and multi gnome
3071 + add test/foldkeys.c
3074 + modify tic and infocmp to avoid writing trailing blanks on terminfo
3075 source output (Debian #378783).
3076 + modify configure script to ensure that if the C compiler is used
3077 rather than the loader in making shared libraries, the $(CFLAGS)
3078 variable is also used (Redhat #199369).
3079 + port hashed-db code to db2 and db3.
3080 + fix a bug in tgetent() from 20060625 and 20060715 changes
3081 (patch/analysis by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat #202480)).
3084 + updated xterm function-keys terminfo to match xterm #216 -TD
3085 + add configure --with-hashed-db option (tested only with FreeBSD 6.0,
3086 e.g., the db 1.8.5 interface).
3089 + modify toe to access termcap data, e.g., via cgetent() functions,
3090 or as a text file if those are not available.
3091 + use _nc_basename() in tset to improve $SHELL check for csh/sh.
3092 + modify _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_termcap_entry() so infocmp,
3093 can access termcap data when the terminfo database is disabled.
3096 + widen the test for xterm kmous a little to allow for other strings
3097 than \E[M, e.g., for xterm-sco functionality in xterm.
3098 + update xterm-related terminfo entries to match xterm patch #216 -TD
3099 + update config.guess, config.sub
3102 + fix for install-rule in Ada95 to add terminal_interface.ads
3103 and terminal_interface.ali (anonymous posting in comp.lang.ada).
3104 + correction to manpage for getcchar() (report by William McBrine).
3106 + modify wchgat() to mark updated cells as changed so a refresh will
3107 repaint those cells (comments by Sadrul H Chowdhury and William
3109 + split up dependency of names.c and codes.c in ncurses/Makefile to
3110 work with parallel make (report/analysis by Joseph S Myers).
3111 + suppress a warning message (which is ignored) for systems without
3112 an ldconfig program (patch by Justin Hibbits).
3113 + modify configure script --disable-symlinks option to allow one to
3114 disable symlink() in tic even when link() does not work (report by
3116 + modify MKfallback.sh to use tic -x when constructing fallback tables
3117 to allow extended capabilities to be retrieved from a fallback entry.
3118 + improve leak-checking logic in tgetent() from 20060625 to ensure that
3119 it does not free the current screen (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
3122 + add a check for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset (NetBSD #33916).
3123 + correct _nc_free_entries() and related functions used for memory leak
3127 + revert a minor change for magic-cookie support from 20060513, which
3128 caused unexpected reset of attributes, e.g., when resizing test/view
3130 + note in clear manpage that the program ignores command-line
3131 parameters (prompted by Debian #371855).
3132 + fixes to make lib_gen.c build properly with changes to the configure
3133 --disable-macros option and NCURSES_NOMACROS (cf: 20060527)
3134 + update/correct several terminfo entries -TD
3135 + add some notes regarding copyright to terminfo.src -TD
3138 + fixes to build Ada95 binding with gnat-4.1.0
3139 + modify read_termtype() so the term_names data is always allocated as
3140 part of the str_table, a better fix for a memory leak (cf: 20030809).
3141 + reduce memory leaks in repeated calls to tgetent() by remembering the
3142 last TERMINAL* value allocated to hold the corresponding data and
3143 freeing that if the tgetent() result buffer is the same as the
3144 previous call (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
3145 + modify tack to test extended capability function-key strings.
3146 + improved gnome terminfo entry (GenToo #122566).
3147 + improved xterm-256color terminfo entry (patch by Alain Bench).
3150 + fix two small memory leaks related to repeated tgetent() calls
3151 with TERM=screen (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
3152 + add --enable-signed-char to simplify Debian package.
3153 + reduce name-pollution in term.h by removing #define's for HAVE_xxx
3155 + correct typo in curs_terminfo.3x (Debian #369168).
3158 + enable the mouse in test/movewindow.c
3159 + improve a limit-check in frm_def.c (John Heasley).
3160 + minor copyright fixes.
3161 + change configure script to produce test/Makefile from data file.
3164 + add a configure option --enable-wgetch-events to enable
3165 NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS, and correct the associated loop-logic in
3166 lib_twait.c (report by Bernd Jendrissek).
3167 + remove include/nomacros.h from build, since the ifdef for
3168 NCURSES_NOMACROS makes that obsolete.
3169 + add entrypoints for some functions which were only provided as macros
3170 to make NCURSES_NOMACROS ifdef work properly: getcurx(), getcury(),
3171 getbegx(), getbegy(), getmaxx(), getmaxy(), getparx() and getpary(),
3173 + provide ifdef for NCURSES_NOMACROS which suppresses most macro
3174 definitions from curses.h, i.e., where a macro is defined to override
3175 a function to improve performance. Allowing a developer to suppress
3176 these definitions can simplify some application (discussion with
3178 + improve description of memu/meml in terminfo manpage.
3181 + if msgr is false, reset video attributes when doing an automargin
3182 wrap to the next line. This makes the ncurses 'k' test work properly
3184 + correct caching of keyname(), which was using only half of its table.
3185 + minor fixes to memory-leak checking.
3186 + make SCREEN._acs_map and SCREEN._screen_acs_map pointers rather than
3187 arrays, making ACS_LEN less visible to applications (suggested by
3189 + move chunk in SCREEN ifdef'd for USE_WIDEC_SUPPORT to the end, so
3190 _screen_acs_map will have the same offset in both ncurses/ncursesw,
3191 making the corresponding tinfo/tinfow libraries binary-compatible
3192 (cf: 20041016, report by Stanislav Ievlev).
3195 + improve debug-tracing for EmitRange().
3196 + change default for --with-develop to "yes". Add NCURSES_NO_HARD_TABS
3197 and NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE environment variables to allow runtime
3198 suppression of the related hard-tabs and xmc-glitch features.
3199 + add ncurses version number to top-level manpages, e.g., ncurses, tic,
3200 infocmp, terminfo as well as form, menu, panel.
3201 + update config.guess, config.sub
3202 + modify ncurses.c to work around a bug in NetBSD 3.0 curses
3203 (field_buffer returning null for a valid field). The 'r' test
3204 appears to not work with that configuration since the new_fieldtype()
3205 function is broken in that implementation.
3208 + add hpterm-color terminfo entry -TD
3209 + fixes to compile test-programs with HPUX 11.23
3212 + add copyright notices to files other than those that are generated,
3213 data or adapted from pdcurses (reports by William McBrine, David
3215 + improve rendering on hpterm by not resetting attributes at the end
3216 of doupdate() if the terminal has the magic-cookie feature (report
3218 + add 256color variants of terminfo entries for programs which are
3219 reported to implement this feature -TD
3222 + fix typo in change to NewChar() macro from 20060311 changes, which
3223 broke tab-expansion (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
3226 + document -U option of tic and infocmp.
3227 + modify tic/infocmp to suppress smacs/rmacs when acsc is suppressed
3228 due to size limit, e.g., converting to termcap format. Also
3229 suppress them if the output format does not contain acsc and it
3230 was not VT100-like, i.e., a one-one mapping (Novell #163715).
3231 + add configure check to ensure that SIGWINCH is defined on platforms
3232 such as OS X which exclude that when _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., are
3233 defined (report by Nicholas Cole)
3236 + modify write_object() to not write coincidental extensions of an
3237 entry made due to it being referenced in a use= clause (report by
3239 + another fix for infocmp -i option, which did not ensure that some
3240 escape sequences had comparable prefixes (report by Alain Bench).
3243 + improve discussion of init/reset in terminfo and tput manpages
3244 (report by Alain Bench).
3245 + use is3 string for a fallback of rs3 in the reset program; it was
3246 using is2 (report by Alain Bench).
3247 + correct logic for infocmp -i option, which did not account for
3248 multiple digits in a parameter (cf: 20040828) (report by Alain
3250 + move _nc_handle_sigwinch() to lib_setup.c to make --with-termlib
3251 option work after 20060114 changes (report by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz).
3252 + add copyright notices to test-programs as needed (report by William
3256 + modify ncurses.c 'F' test to combine the wide-characters with color
3257 and/or video attributes.
3258 + modify test/ncurses to use CTL/Q or ESC consistently for exiting
3259 a test-screen (some commands used 'x' or 'q').
3262 + fix an off-by-one in the scrolling-region change (cf_ 20060311).
3265 + add checks in waddchnstr() and wadd_wchnstr() to stop copying when
3266 a null character is found (report by Igor Bogomazov).
3267 + modify progs/Makefile.in to make "tput init" work properly with
3268 cygwin, i.e., do not pass a ".exe" in the reference string used
3269 in check_aliases (report by Samuel Thibault).
3270 + add some checks to ensure current position is within scrolling
3271 region before scrolling on a new line (report by Dan Gookin).
3272 + change some NewChar() usage to static variables to work around
3273 stack garbage introduced when cchar_t is not packed (Redhat #182024).
3276 + workarounds to build test/movewindow with PDcurses 2.7.
3277 + fix for nsterm-16color entry (patch by Alain Bench).
3278 + correct a typo in infocmp manpage (Debian #354281).
3281 + add nsterm-16color entry -TD
3282 + updated mlterm terminfo entry -TD
3283 + remove 970913 feature for copying subwindows as they are moved in
3284 mvwin() (discussion with Bryan Christ).
3285 + modify test/demo_menus.c to demonstrate moving a menu (both the
3286 window and subwindow) using shifted cursor-keys.
3287 + start implementing recursive mvwin() in movewindow.c (incomplete).
3288 + add a fallback definition for GCC_PRINTFLIKE() in test.priv.h,
3289 for movewindow.c (report by William McBrine).
3290 + add help-message to test/movewindow.c
3293 + add test/movewindow.c, to test mvderwin().
3294 + fix ncurses soft-key test so color changes are shown immediately
3295 rather than delayed.
3296 + modify ncurses soft-key test to hide the keys when exiting the test
3298 + fixes to build test programs with PDCurses 2.7, e.g., its headers
3299 rely on autoconf symbols, and it declares stubs for nonfunctional
3300 terminfo and termcap entrypoints.
3303 + improved test/configure to build test/ncurses on HPUX 11 using the
3305 + documented ALTERNATE CONFIGURATIONS in the ncurses manpage, for the
3306 benefit of developers who do not read INSTALL.
3309 + correct form library Window_To_Buffer() change (cf: 20040516), which
3310 should ignore the video attributes (report by Ricardo Cantu).
3313 + minor fixes to xmc-glitch experimental code:
3314 + suppress line-drawing
3315 + implement max_attributes
3317 + minor fixes for the database iterator.
3318 + fix some buffer limits in c++ demo (comment by Falk Hueffner in
3322 + add toe -a option, to show all databases. This uses new private
3323 interfaces in the ncurses library for iterating through the list of
3325 + fix toe from 20000909 changes which made it not look at
3327 + make toe's -v option parameter optional as per manpage.
3328 + improve SIGWINCH handling by postponing its effect during newterm(),
3329 etc., when allocating screens.
3332 + modify wgetnstr() to return KEY_RESIZE if a sigwinch occurs. Use
3333 this in test/filter.c
3334 + fix an error in filter() modification which caused some applications
3338 + check if filter() was called when getting the screensize. Keep it
3339 at 1 if so (based on Redhat #174498).
3340 + add extension nofilter().
3341 + refined the workaround for ACS mapping.
3342 + make ifdef's consistent in curses.h for the extended colors so the
3343 header file can be used for the normal curses library. The header
3344 file installed for extended colors is a variation of the
3345 wide-character configuration (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
3348 + add a workaround to ACS mapping to allow applications such as
3349 test/blue.c to use the "PC ROM" characters by masking them with
3350 A_ALTCHARSET. This worked up til 5.5, but was lost in the revision
3351 of legacy coding (report by Michael Deutschmann).
3352 + add a null-pointer check in the wide-character version of
3353 calculate_actual_width() (report by Victor Julien).
3354 + improve test/ncurses 'd' (color-edit) test by allowing the RGB
3355 values to be set independently (patch by William McBrine).
3356 + modify test/configure script to allow building test programs with
3358 + modified test programs to allow some to work with NetBSD curses.
3359 Several do not because NetBSD curses implements a subset of X/Open
3360 curses, and also lacks much of SVr4 additions. But it's enough for
3362 + update config.guess and config.sub
3365 + use BSD-specific fix for return-value from cgetent() from CVS where
3366 an unknown terminal type would be reportd as "database not found".
3367 + make tgetent() return code more readable using new symbols
3369 + remove references to non-existent "tctest" program.
3370 + remove TESTPROGS from progs/Makefile.in (it was referring to code
3371 that was never built in that directory).
3372 + typos in curs_addchstr.3x, some doc files (noticed in OpenBSD CVS).
3375 + add use_legacy_coding() function to support lynx's font-switching
3377 + fix formatting in curs_termcap.3x (report by Mike Frysinger).
3378 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to change preprocessor-expanded _Bool back to
3382 + extend test/ncurses.c 's' (overlay window) test to exercise overlay(),
3383 overwrite() and copywin() with different combinations of colors and
3384 attributes (including background color) to make it easy to see the
3385 effect of the different functions.
3386 + corrections to menu/m_global.c for wide-characters (report by
3390 + add configure option --without-dlsym, allowing developers to
3391 configure GPM support without using dlsym() (discussion with Michael
3393 + fix wins_nwstr(), which did not handle single-column non-8bit codes
3397 + move prototypes for wide-character trace functions from curses.tail
3398 to curses.wide to avoid accidental reference to those if
3399 _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined without ensuring that <wchar.h> is
3401 + add/use NCURSES_INLINE definition.
3402 + change some internal functions to use int/unsigned rather than the
3406 + remove a redundant check in lib_color.c (Debian #335655).
3407 + use ld's -search_paths_first option on Darwin to work around odd
3408 search rules on that platform (report by Christian Gennerat, analysis
3410 + remove special case for Darwin in CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro.
3411 + ignore EINTR in tcgetattr/tcsetattr calls (Debian #339518).
3412 + fix several bugs in test/bs.c (patch by Stephen Lindholm).
3415 + other minor fixes to cygwin based on tack -TD
3416 + correct smacs in cygwin (Debian #338234, report by Baurzhan
3417 Ismagulov, who noted that it was fixed in Cygwin).
3420 + add shifted up/down arrow codes to xterm-new as kind/kri strings -TD
3421 + modify wbkgrnd() to avoid clearing the A_CHARTEXT attribute bits
3422 since those record the state of multicolumn characters (Debian
3424 + modify werase to clear multicolumn characters that extend into
3425 a derived window (Debian #316663).
3428 + move assignment from environment variable ESCDELAY from initscr()
3429 down to newterm() so the environment variable affects timeouts for
3430 terminals opened with newterm() as well.
3431 + fix a memory leak in keyname().
3432 + add test/demo_altkeys.c
3433 + modify test/demo_defkey.c to exit from loop via 'q' to allow
3434 leak-checking, as well as fix a buffer size in winnstr() call.
3437 + correct order of use-clauses in rxvt-basic entry which made codes for
3438 f1-f4 vt100-style rather than vt220-style (report by Gabor Z Papp).
3439 + suppress configure check for gnatmake if Ada95/Makefile.in is not
3441 + correct a typo in configure --with-bool option for the case where
3442 --without-cxx is used (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
3443 + add a note to INSTALL's discussion of --with-normal, pointing out
3444 that one may wish to use --without-gpm to ensure a completely
3445 static link (prompted by report by Felix von Leitner).
3447 20051010 5.5 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3450 + document in demo_forms.c some portability issues.
3453 + document side-effect of werase() which sets the cursor position.
3454 + save/restore the current position in form field editing to make
3458 + correct header dependencies in progs, allowing parallel make (report
3459 by Daniel Jacobowitz).
3460 + modify CF_BUILD_CC to ensure that pre-setting $BUILD_CC overrides
3461 the configure check for --with-build-cc (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
3462 + modify CF_CFG_DEFAULTS to not use /usr as the default prefix for
3464 + update config.guess and config.sub from
3465 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
3468 + modify sed expression which computes path for /usr/lib/terminfo
3469 symbolic link in install to ensure that it does not change unexpected
3470 levels of the path (Gentoo #42336).
3471 + modify default for --disable-lp64 configure option to reduce impact
3472 on existing 64-bit builds. Enabling the _LP64 option may change the
3473 size of chtype and mmask_t. However, for ABI 6, it is enabled by
3474 default (report by Mike Frysinger).
3475 + add configure script check for --enable-ext-mouse, bump ABI to 6 by
3476 default if it is used.
3477 + improve configure script logic for bumping ABI to omit this if the
3478 --with-abi-version option was used.
3479 + update address for Free Software Foundation in tack's source.
3480 + correct wins_wch(), which was not marking the filler-cells of
3481 multi-column characters (cf: 20041023).
3484 + modify mouse initialization to ensure that Gpm_Open() is called only
3485 once. Otherwise GPM gets confused in its initialization of signal
3486 handlers (Debian #326709).
3489 + modify logic for backspacing in a multiline form field to ensure that
3490 it works even when the preceding line is full (report by Frank van
3492 + remove comment about BUGS section of ncurses manpage (Debian #325481)
3495 + document some workarounds for shared and libtool library
3496 configurations in INSTALL (see --with-shared and --with-libtool).
3497 + modify CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GXX_VERSION macros to accommodate
3498 cross-compilers which emit the platform name in their version
3500 arm-sa1100-linux-gnu-g++ (GCC) 4.0.1
3501 (report by Frank van Vugt).
3504 + start updating documentation for upcoming 5.5 release.
3505 + fix to make libtool and libtinfo work together again (cf: 20050122).
3506 + fixes to allow building traces into libtinfo
3507 + add debug trace to tic that shows if/how ncurses will write to the
3508 lower corner of a terminal's screen.
3509 + update llib-l* files.
3512 + modify initializers in c++ binding to build with old versions of g++.
3513 + improve special case for 20050115 repainting fix, ensuring that if
3514 the first changed cell is not a character that the range to be
3515 repainted is adjusted to start at a character's beginning (Debian
3519 + fixes to build on QNX 6.1
3520 + improve configure script checks for Intel 9.0 compiler.
3521 + remove #include's for libc.h (obsolete).
3522 + adjust ifdef's in curses.priv.h so that when cross-compiling to
3523 produce comp_hash and make_keys, no dependency on wchar.h is needed.
3524 That simplifies the build-cppflags (report by Frank van Vugt).
3525 + move modules related to key-binding into libtinfo to fix linkage
3526 problem caused by 20050430 changes to MKkeyname.sh (report by
3527 Konstantin Andreev).
3530 + updates/fixes for configure script macros from vile -TD
3531 + make prism9's sgr string agree with the rest of the terminfo -TD
3532 + make vt220's sgr0 string consistent with sgr string, do this for
3533 several related cases -TD
3534 + improve translation to termcap by filtering the 'me' (sgr0) strings
3535 as in the runtime call to tgetent() (prompted by a discussion with
3537 + improve tic check for sgr0 versus sgr(0), to help ensure that sgr0
3538 resets line-drawing.
3541 + fix special cases for trimming sgr0 for hurd and vt220 (Debian
3543 + split-out _nc_trim_sgr0() from modifications made to tgetent(), to
3544 allow it to be used by tic to provide information about the runtime
3545 changes that would be made to sgr0 for termcap applications.
3546 + modify make_sed.sh to make the group-name in the NAME section of
3547 form/menu library manpage agree with the TITLE string when renaming
3548 is done for Debian (Debian #78866).
3551 + modify parameter type in c++ binding for insch() and mvwinsch() to
3552 be consistent with underlying ncurses library (was char, is chtype).
3553 + modify treatment of Intel compiler to allow _GNU_SOURCE to be defined
3555 + improve configure check for nanosleep(), checking that it works since
3556 some older systems such as AIX 4.3 have a nonworking version.
3559 + update config.guess and config.sub from
3560 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
3561 + modify misc/shlib to work in test-directory.
3562 + suppress $suffix in misc/run_tic.sh when cross-compiling. This
3563 allows cross-compiles to use the host's tic program to handle the
3564 "make install.data" step.
3565 + improve description of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables in manpages
3566 (prompted by report by Dave Ulrick).
3567 + improve description of cross-compiling in INSTALL
3568 + add NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html by Pradeep Padala
3569 (see http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/).
3570 + modify configure script to obtain soname for GPM library (discussion
3571 with Daniel Jacobowitz).
3572 + modify configure script so that --with-chtype option will still
3573 compute the unsigned literals suffix for constants in curses.h
3574 (report by Daniel Jacobowitz:
3575 + patches from Daniel Jacobowitz:
3576 + the man_db.renames entry for tack.1 was backwards.
3577 + tack.1 had some 1m's that should have been 1M's.
3578 + the section for curs_inwstr.3 was wrong.
3581 + correction to --with-chtype option (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
3584 + move build-time edit_man.sh and edit_man.sed scripts to top directory
3585 to simplify reusing them for renaming tack's manpage (prompted by a
3586 review of Debian package).
3587 + revert minor optimization from 20041030 (Debian #313609).
3588 + libtool-specific fixes, tested with libtool 1.4.3, 1.5.0, 1.5.6,
3589 1.5.10 and 1.5.18 (all work except as noted previously for the c++
3590 install using libtool 1.5.0):
3591 + modify the clean-rule in c++/Makefile.in to work with IRIX64 make
3593 + use $(LIBTOOL_UNINSTALL) symbol, overlooked in 20030830
3594 + add configure options --with-chtype and --with-mmask-t, to allow
3595 overriding of the non-LP64 model's use of the corresponding types.
3596 + revise test for size of chtype (and mmask_t), which always returned
3597 "long" due to an uninitialized variable (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
3600 + change _tracef's that used "%p" format for va_list values to ignore
3601 that, since on some platforms those are not pointers.
3602 + fixes for long-formats in printf's due to largefile support.
3605 + fixes for termcap support:
3606 + reset pointer to _nc_curr_token.tk_name when the input stream is
3607 closed, which could point to free memory (cf: 20030215).
3608 + delink TERMTYPE data which is used by the termcap reader, so that
3609 extended names data will be freed consistently.
3610 + free pointer to TERMTYPE data in _nc_free_termtype() rather than
3612 + add some entrypoints for freeing permanently allocated data via
3613 _nc_freeall() when NO_LEAKS is defined.
3614 + amend 20041030 change to _nc_do_color to ensure that optimization is
3615 applied only when the terminal supports back_color_erase (bce).
3618 + add sun-color terminfo entry -TD
3619 + correct a missing assignment in c++ binding's method
3620 NCursesPanel::UserPointer() from 20050409 changes.
3621 + improve configure check for large-files, adding check for dirent64
3623 + minor change to configure script to improve linker options for the
3627 + document error conditions for ncurses library functions (report by
3629 + regenerated html documentation for ada binding.
3630 see ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/gnathtml
3633 + regenerated html documentation for manpages.
3634 + add $(BUILD_EXEEXT) suffix to invocation of make_keys in
3635 ncurses/Makefile (Gentoo #89772).
3636 + modify c++/demo.cc to build with g++ -fno-implicit-templates option
3637 (patch by Mike Frysinger).
3638 + modify tic to filter out long extended names when translating to
3639 termcap format. Only two characters are permissible for termcap
3643 + modify terminfo entries xterm-new and rxvt to add strings for
3644 shift-, control-cursor keys.
3645 + workaround to allow c++ binding to compile with g++ 2.95.3, which
3646 has a broken implementation of static_cast<> (patch by Jeff Chua).
3647 + modify initialization of key lookup table so that if an extended
3648 capability (tic -x) string is defined, and its name begins with 'k',
3649 it will automatically be treated as a key.
3650 + modify test/keynames.c to allow for the possibility of extended
3651 key names, e.g., via define_key(), or via "tic -x".
3652 + add test/demo_termcap.c to show the contents of given entry via the
3656 + minor fixes for vt100/vt52 entries -TD
3657 + add configure option --enable-largefile
3658 + corrected libraries used to build Ada95/gen/gen, found in testing
3662 + update config.guess, config.sub
3663 + modify configure script check for _XOPEN_SOURCE, disable that on
3664 Darwin whose header files have problems (patch by Chris Zubrzycki).
3665 + modify form library Is_Printable_String() to use iswprint() rather
3666 than wcwidth() for determining if a character is printable. The
3667 latter caused it to reject menu items containing non-spacing
3669 + modify ncurses test program's F-test to handle non-spacing characters
3670 by combining them with a reverse-video blank.
3671 + review/fix several gcc -Wconversion warnings.
3674 + correct an off-by-one error in m_driver() for mouse-clicks used to
3675 position the mouse to a particular item.
3676 + implement test/demo_menus.c
3677 + add some checks in lib_mouse to ensure SP is set.
3678 + modify C++ binding to make 20050403 changes work with the configure
3679 --enable-const option.
3682 + modify start_color() to return ERR if it cannot allocate memory.
3683 + address g++ compiler warnings in C++ binding by adding explicit
3684 member initialization, assignment operators and copy constructors.
3685 Most of the changes simply preserve the existing semantics of the
3686 binding, which can leak memory, etc., but by making these features
3687 visible, it provides a framework for improving the binding.
3688 + improve C++ binding using static_cast, etc.
3689 + modify configure script --enable-warnings to add options to g++ to
3690 correspond to the gcc --enable-warnings.
3691 + modify C++ binding to use some C internal functions to make it
3692 compile properly on Solaris (and other platforms).
3695 + amend change from 20050320 to limit it to configurations with a
3697 + fix a bug introduced in 20050320 which broke the translation of
3698 nonprinting characters to uparrow form (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
3701 + add ifdef's for _LP64 in curses.h to avoid using wasteful 64-bits for
3702 chtype and mmask_t, but add configure option --disable-lp64 in case
3703 anyone used that configuration.
3704 + update misc/shlib script to account for Mac OS X (report by Michail
3706 + correct comparison for wrapping multibyte characters in
3707 waddch_literal() (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
3710 + add -c and -w options to tset to allow user to suppress ncurses'
3711 resizing of the terminal emulator window in the special case where it
3712 is not able to detect the true size (report by Win Delvaux, Debian
3714 + modify waddch_nosync() to account for locale zn_CH.GBK, which uses
3715 codes 128-159 as part of multibyte characters (report by Wang
3716 WenRui, Debian #300512).
3719 + modify ncurses.c 'd' test to make it work with 88-color
3720 configuration, i.e., by implementing scrolling.
3721 + improve scrolling in ncurses.c 'c' and 'C' tests, e.g., for 88-color
3725 + change tracemunch to use strict checking.
3726 + modify ncurses.c 'p' test to test line-drawing within a pad.
3727 + implement environment variable NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS to support
3728 miscellaneous terminal emulators which ignore alternate character
3729 set escape sequences when in UTF-8 mode.
3732 + change NCursesWindow::err_handler() to a virtual function (request by
3734 + modify fty_int.c and fty_num.c to handle wide characters (report by
3736 + adapt fix for fty_alpha.c to fty_alnum.c, which also handled normal
3737 and wide characters inconsistently (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
3738 + update llib-* files to reflect internal interface additions/changes.
3741 + improve test/configure script, adding tests for _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc.,
3743 + add aixterm-16color terminfo entry -TD
3744 + modified xterm-new terminfo entry to work with tgetent() changes -TD
3745 + extended changes in tgetent() from 20040710 to allow the substring of
3746 sgr0 which matches rmacs to be at the beginning of the sgr0 string
3747 (request by Thomas Wolff). Wolff says the visual effect in
3748 combination with pre-20040710 ncurses is improved.
3749 + fix off-by-one in winnstr() call which caused form field validation
3750 of multibyte characters to ignore the last character in a field.
3751 + correct logic in winsch() for inserting multibyte strings; the code
3752 would clear cells after the insertion rather than push them to the
3753 right (cf: 20040228).
3754 + fix an inconsistency in Check_Alpha_Field() between normal and wide
3755 character logic (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
3758 + fix a bug in editing wide-characters in form library: deleting a
3759 nonwide character modified the previous wide-character.
3760 + update manpage to describe NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2.
3761 + correct manpage description of mouseinterval() (Debian #280687).
3762 + add a note to default_colors.3x explaining why this extension was
3763 added (Debian #295083).
3764 + add traces to panel library.
3767 + improve editing of wide-characters in form library: left/right
3768 cursor movement, and single-character deletions work properly.
3769 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM happens to be prefixed with
3770 "xterm". Gpm_Open() would otherwise assert that it can deal with
3771 mouse events in this case.
3772 + modify GPM mouse support so it closes the server connection when
3773 the caller disables the mouse (report by Stanislav Ievlev).
3776 + add traces for callback functions in form library.
3777 + add experimental configure option --enable-ext-mouse, which defines
3778 NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2, and modifies the encoding of mouse events to
3779 support wheel mice, which may transmit buttons 4 and 5. This works
3780 with xterm and similar X terminal emulators (prompted by question by
3781 Andreas Henningsson, this is also related to Debian #230990).
3782 + improve configure macros CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE to
3783 avoid redefinition warnings on cygwin.
3786 + merge remaining development changes for extended colors (mostly
3787 complete, does not appear to break other configurations).
3788 + add xterm-88color.dat (part of extended colors testing).
3789 + improve _tracedump() handling of color pairs past 96.
3790 + modify return-value from start_color() to return OK if colors have
3791 already been started.
3792 + modify curs_color.3x list error conditions for init_pair(),
3793 pair_content() and color_content().
3794 + modify pair_content() to return -1 for consistency with init_pair()
3795 if it corresponds to the default-color.
3796 + change internal representation of default-color to allow application
3797 to use color number 255. This does not affect the total number of
3798 color pairs which are allowed.
3799 + add a top-level tags rule.
3802 + add a null-pointer check in wgetch() in case it is called without
3803 first calling initscr().
3804 + add some null-pointer checks for SP, which is not set by libtinfo.
3805 + modify misc/shlib to ensure that absolute pathnames are used.
3806 + modify test/Makefile.in, etc., to link test programs only against the
3807 libraries needed, e.g., omit form/menu/panel library for the ones
3808 that are curses-specific.
3809 + change SP->_current_attr to a pointer, adjust ifdef's to ensure that
3810 libtinfo.so and libtinfow.so have the same ABI. The reason for this
3811 is that the corresponding data which belongs to the upper-level
3812 ncurses library has a different size in each model (report by
3816 + minor fixes to allow test-compiles with g++.
3817 + correct column value shown in tic's warnings, which did not account
3818 for leading whitespace.
3819 + add a check in _nc_trans_string() for improperly ended strings, i.e.,
3820 where a following line begins in column 1.
3821 + modify _nc_save_str() to return a null pointer on buffer overflow.
3822 + improve repainting while scrolling wide-character data (Eungkyu Song).
3825 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
3828 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
3829 + fix manpage typo (FreeBSD report docs/75544).
3830 + update config.guess, config.sub
3831 > patches for configure script (Albert Chin-A-Young):
3832 + improved fix to make mbstate_t recognized on HPUX 11i (cf:
3833 20030705), making vsscanf() prototype visible on IRIX64. Tested for
3834 on HP-UX 11i, Solaris 7, 8, 9, AIX 4.3.3, 5.2, Tru64 UNIX 4.0D, 5.1,
3835 IRIX64 6.5, Redhat Linux 7.1, 9, and RHEL 2.1, 3.0.
3836 + print the result of the --disable-home-terminfo option.
3837 + use -rpath when compiling with SGI C compiler.
3840 + add trace calls to remaining public functions in form and menu
3842 + fix check for numeric digits in test/ncurses.c 'b' and 'B' tests.
3843 + fix typo in test/ncurses.c 'c' test from 20041218.
3846 + revise test/ncurses.c 'c' color test to improve use for xterm-88color
3847 and xterm-256color, added 'C' test using the wide-character color_set
3848 and attr_set functions.
3851 + modify configure script to work with Intel compiler.
3852 + fix an limit-check in wadd_wchnstr() which caused labels in the
3853 forms-demo to be one character short.
3854 + fix typo in curs_addchstr.3x (Jared Yanovich).
3855 + add trace calls to most functions in form and menu libraries.
3856 + update working-position for adding wide-characters when window is
3857 scrolled (prompted by related report by Eungkyu Song).
3860 + replace some references on Linux to wcrtomb() which use it to obtain
3861 the length of a multibyte string with _nc_wcrtomb, since wcrtomb() is
3862 broken in glibc (see Debian #284260).
3863 + corrected length-computation in wide-character support for
3865 + some fixes to frm_driver.c to allow it to accept multibyte input.
3866 + modify configure script to work with Intel 8.0 compiler.
3869 + amend change to setupterm() in 20030405 which would reuse the value
3870 of cur_term if the same output was selected. This now reuses it only
3871 when setupterm() is called from tgetent(), which has no notion of
3872 separate SCREENs. Note that tgetent() must be called after initscr()
3873 or newterm() to use this feature (Redhat #140326).
3874 + add a check in CF_BUILD_CC macro to ensure that developer has given
3875 the --with-build-cc option when cross-compiling (report by Alexandre
3877 + improved configure script checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE and
3878 _POSIX_C_SOURCE (fix for IRIX 5.3 from Georg Schwarz, _POSIX_C_SOURCE
3880 + cosmetic fix to test/gdc.c to recolor the bottom edge of the box
3881 for consistency (comment by Dan Nelson).
3884 + update wsvt25 terminfo entry -TD
3885 + modify test/ins_wide.c to test all flavors of ins_wstr().
3886 + ignore filler-cells in wadd_wchnstr() when adding a cchar_t array
3887 which consists of multi-column characters, since this function
3888 constructs them (cf: 20041023).
3889 + modify winnstr() to return multibyte character strings for the
3890 wide-character configuration.
3893 + fixes to make slk_set() and slk_wset() accept and store multibyte
3894 or multicolumn characters.
3897 + improve color optimization a little by making _nc_do_color() check
3898 if the old/new pairs are equivalent to the default pair 0.
3899 + modify assume_default_colors() to not require that
3900 use_default_colors() be called first.
3903 + modify term_attrs() to use termattrs(), add the extended attributes
3904 such as enter_horizontal_hl_mode for WA_HORIZONTAL to term_attrs().
3905 + add logic in waddch_literal() to clear orphaned cells when one
3906 multi-column character partly overwrites another.
3907 + improved logic for clearing cells when a multi-column character
3908 must be wrapped to a new line.
3909 + revise storage of cells for multi-column characters to correct a
3910 problem with repainting. In the old scheme, it was possible for
3911 doupdate() to decide that only part of a multi-column character
3912 should be repainted since the filler cells stored only an attribute
3913 to denote them as fillers, rather than the character value and the
3917 + minor fixes for traces.
3918 + add SP->_screen_acs_map[], used to ensure that mapping of missing
3919 line-drawing characters is handled properly. For example, ACS_DARROW
3920 is absent from xterm-new, and it was coincidentally displayed the
3924 + amend 20021221 workaround for broken acs to reset the sgr, rmacs
3925 and smacs strings as well. Also modify the check for screen's
3926 limitations in that area to allow the multi-character shift-in
3927 and shift-out which seem to work.
3928 + change GPM initialization, using dl library to load it dynamically
3929 at runtime (Debian #110586).
3932 + correct logic for color pair in setcchar() and getcchar() (patch by
3933 Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
3934 + add t/T commands to ncurses b/B tests to allow a different color to
3935 be tested for the attrset part of the test than is used in the
3939 + fix to make setcchar() to work when its wchar_t* parameter is
3940 pointing to a string which contains more data than can be converted.
3941 + modify wget_wstr() and example in ncurses.c to work if wchar_t and
3942 wint_t are different sizes (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
3945 + remove check in wget_wch() added to fix an infinite loop, appears to
3946 have been working around a transitory glibc bug, and interferes
3947 with normal operation (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
3948 + correct wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not pass the rendition
3949 information (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
3950 + fix aclocal.m4 so that the wide-character version of ncurses gets
3951 compiled as libncursesw.5.dylib, instead of libncurses.5w.dylib
3952 (adapted from patch by James J Ramsey).
3953 + change configure script for --with-caps option to indicate that it
3954 is no longer experimental.
3955 + change configure script to reflect the fact that --enable-widec has
3956 not been "experimental" since 5.3 (report by Bruno Lustosa).
3959 + add 'B' test to ncurses.c, to exercise some wide-character functions.
3962 + modify infocmp -i option to match 8-bit controls against its table
3963 entries, e.g., so it can analyze the xterm-8bit entry.
3964 + add morphos terminfo entry, improve amiga-8bit entry (Pavel Fedin).
3965 + correct translation of "%%" in terminfo format to termcap, e.g.,
3966 using "tic -C" (Redhat #130921).
3967 + modified configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to ensure that if
3968 it defines _POSIX_C_SOURCE, that it defines it to a specific value
3969 (comp.os.stratus newsgroup comment).
3972 + fixes to build with Ada95 binding with gnat 3.4 (all warnings are
3973 fatal, and gnat does not follow the guidelines for pragmas).
3974 However that did find a coding error in Assume_Default_Colors().
3975 + modify several terminfo entries to ensure xterm mouse and cursor
3976 visibility are reset in rs2 string: hurd, putty, gnome,
3977 konsole-base, mlterm, Eterm, screen (Debian #265784, Debian #55637).
3978 The xterm entries are left alone - old ones for compatibility, and
3979 the new ones do not require this change. -TD
3982 + fake a SIGWINCH in newterm() to accommodate buggy terminal emulators
3983 and window managers (Debian #265631).
3984 > terminfo updates -TD
3985 + remove dch/dch1 from rxvt because they are implemented inconsistently
3986 with the common usage of bce/ech
3987 + remove khome from vt220 (vt220's have no home key)
3991 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test, adding v/V toggles to cycle through
3992 combinations of video attributes so that for instance bold and
3993 underline can be tested. This made the legend too crowded, added
3994 a help window as well.
3995 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test to cycle through default colors if
3996 the -d option is set.
3997 + update putty terminfo entry (Robert de Bath).
4000 + modify test/cardfile.c to allow it to read more data than can be
4002 + correct logic in resizeterm.c which kept it from processing all
4003 levels of window hierarchy (reports by Folkert van Heusden,
4007 + modify "tic -cv" to ignore delays when comparing strings. Also
4008 modify it to ignore a canceled sgr string, e.g., for terminals which
4009 cannot properly combine attributes in one control sequence.
4010 + corrections for gnome and konsole entries (Redhat #122815, patch by
4012 > terminfo updates -TD
4013 + make ncsa-m rmacs/smacs consistent with sgr
4014 + add sgr, rc/sc and ech to syscons entries
4015 + add function-keys to decansi
4016 + add sgr to mterm-ansi
4017 + add sgr, civis, cnorm to emu
4018 + correct/simplify cup in addrinfo
4021 > terminfo updates -TD
4022 + add xterm-pc-fkeys
4023 + review/update gnome and gnome-rh90 entries (prompted by Redhat
4025 + review/update konsole entries
4026 + add sgr, correct sgr0 for kterm and mlterm
4027 + correct tsl string in kterm
4030 + add configure option --without-xterm-new
4033 + add check in wget_wch() for printable bytes that are not part of a
4034 multibyte character.
4035 + modify wadd_wchnstr() to render text using window's background
4037 + improve tic's check to compare sgr and sgr0.
4038 + fix c++ directory's .cc.i rule.
4039 + modify logic in tgetent() which adjusts the termcap "me" string
4040 to work with ISO-2022 string used in xterm-new (cf: 20010908).
4041 + modify tic's check for conflicting function keys to omit that if
4042 converting termcap to termcap format.
4043 + add -U option to tic and infocmp.
4044 + add rmam/smam to linux terminfo entry (Trevor Van Bremen)
4045 > terminfo updates -TD
4046 + minor fixes for emu
4048 + change wyse acsc strings to use 'i' map rather than 'I'
4053 + use tic -x to install terminfo database -TD
4054 + add -x to infocmp's usage message.
4055 + correct field used for comparing O_ROWMAJOR in set_menu_format()
4056 (report/patch by Tony Li).
4057 + fix a missing nul check in set_field_buffer() from 20040508 changes.
4058 > terminfo updates -TD
4059 + make xterm-xf86-v43 derived from xterm-xf86-v40 rather than
4061 + align with xterm patch #192's use of xterm-new -TD
4062 + update xterm-new and xterm-8bit for cvvis/cnorm strings -TD
4063 + make xterm-new the default "xterm" entry -TD
4066 + correct BUILD_CPPFLAGS substitution in ncurses/Makefile.in, to allow
4067 cross-compiling from a separate directory tree (report/patch by
4069 + modify is_term_resized() to ensure that window sizes are nonzero,
4070 as documented in the manpage (report by Ian Collier).
4071 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro to make Hurd port build
4072 (Debian #249214, report/patch by Jeff Bailey).
4073 + configure-script mods from xterm, e.g., updates to CF_ADD_CFLAGS
4074 + update config.guess, config.sub
4075 > terminfo updates -TD
4077 + add xterm-xf86-v44
4078 + modify xterm-new aka xterm-xfree86 to accommodate luit, which
4079 relies on G1 being used via an ISO-2022 escape sequence (report by
4084 + reconsidered winsnstr(), decided after comparing other
4085 implementations that wrapping is an X/Open documentation error.
4086 + modify test/inserts.c to test all flavors of insstr().
4089 + add setlocale() calls to a few test programs which may require it:
4090 demo_forms.c, filter.c, ins_wide.c, inserts.c
4091 + correct a few misspelled function names in ncurses-intro.html (report
4093 + correct internal name of key_defined() manpage, which conflicted with
4097 + correct size of internal pad used for holding wide-character
4098 field_buffer() results.
4099 + modify data_ahead() to work with wide-characters.
4102 + improve description of terminfo if-then-else expressions (suggested
4104 + improve test/ncurses.c 'd' test, allow it to use external file for
4105 initial palette (added xterm-16color.dat and linux-color.dat), and
4106 reset colors to the initial palette when starting/ending the test.
4107 + change limit-check in init_color() to allow r/g/b component to
4108 reach 1000 (cf: 20020928).
4111 + modify form library to use cchar_t's rather than char's in the
4112 wide-character configuration for storing data for field buffers.
4113 + correct logic of win_wchnstr(), which did not work for more than
4117 + replace memset/memcpy usage in form library with for-loops to
4118 simplify changing the datatype of FIELD.buf, part of wide-character
4120 + fix some inconsistent use of #if/#ifdef (report by Alain Guibert).
4123 + modify menu library to account for actual number of columns used by
4124 multibyte character strings, in the wide-character configuration
4125 (adapted from patch by Philipp Tomsich).
4126 + add "-x" option to infocmp like tic's "-x", for use in "-F"
4127 comparisons. This modifies infocmp to only report extended
4128 capabilities if the -x option is given, making this more consistent
4129 with tic. Some scripts may break, since infocmp previous gave this
4130 information without an option.
4131 + modify termcap-parsing to retain 2-character aliases at the beginning
4132 of an entry if the "-x" option is used in tic.
4135 + minor compiler-warning and test-program fixes.
4138 + modify tic's missing-sgr warning to apply to terminfo only.
4139 + free some memory leaks in tic.
4140 + remove check in post_menu() that prevented menus from extending
4141 beyond the screen (request by Max J. Werner).
4142 + remove check in newwin() that prevents allocating windows
4143 that extend beyond the screen. Solaris curses does this.
4144 + add ifdef in test/color_set.c to allow it to compile with older
4146 + add napms() calls to test/dots.c to make it not be a CPU hog.
4149 + modify unctrl() to return null if its parameter does not correspond
4150 to an unsigned char.
4151 + add some limit-checks to guard isprint(), etc., from being used on
4152 values that do not fit into an unsigned char (report by Sami Farin).
4155 + fix a typo in the _nc_get_locale() change.
4158 + modify _nc_get_locale() to use setlocale() to query the program's
4159 current locale rather than using getenv(). This fixes a case in tin
4160 which relies on legacy treatment of 8-bit characters when the locale
4161 is not initialized (reported by Urs Jansen).
4162 + add sgr string to screen's and rxvt's terminfo entries -TD.
4163 + add a check in tic for terminfo entries having an sgr0 but no sgr
4164 string. This confuses Tru64 and HPUX curses when combined with
4165 color, e.g., making them leave line-drawing characters in odd places.
4166 + correct casts used in ABSENT_BOOLEAN, CANCELLED_BOOLEAN, matches the
4167 original definitions used in Debian package to fix PowerPC bug before
4168 20030802 (Debian #237629).
4171 + modify PutAttrChar() and PUTC() macro to improve use of
4172 A_ALTCHARSET attribute to prevent line-drawing characters from
4173 being lost in situations where the locale would otherwise treat the
4174 raw data as nonprintable (Debian #227879).
4177 + fix a redefinition of CTRL() macro in test/view.c for AIX 5.2 (report
4179 + remove ".PP" after ".SH NAME" in a few manpages; this confuses
4180 some apropos script (Debian #237831).
4183 + modify ncurses.c 'r' test so editing commands, like inserted text,
4184 set the field background, and the state of insert/overlay editing
4185 mode is shown in that test.
4186 + change syntax of dummy targets in Ada95 makefiles to work with pmake.
4187 + correct logic in test/ncurses.c 'b' for noncolor terminals which
4188 did not recognize a quit-command (cf: 20030419).
4191 + modify _nc_insert_ch() to allow for its input to be part of a
4193 + split out lib_insnstr.c, to prepare to rewrite it. X/Open states
4194 that this function performs wrapping, unlike all of the other
4195 insert-functions. Currently it does not wrap.
4196 + check for nl_langinfo(CODESET), use it if available (report by
4198 + split-out CF_BUILD_CC macro, actually did this for lynx first.
4199 + fixes for configure script CF_WITH_DBMALLOC and CF_WITH_DMALLOC,
4200 which happened to work with bash, but not with Bourne shell (report
4201 by Marco d'Itri via tin-dev).
4204 + some changes to adapt the form library to wide characters, incomplete
4205 (request by Mike Aubury).
4206 + add symbol to curses.h which can be used to suppress include of
4208 #define NCURSES_ENABLE_STDBOOL_H 0
4210 (discussion on XFree86 mailing list).
4213 + modify configure --with-termlib option to accept a value which sets
4214 the name of the terminfo library. This would allow a packager to
4215 build libtinfow.so renamed to coincide with libtinfo.so (discussion
4216 with Stanislav Ievlev).
4217 + improve documentation of --with-install-prefix, --prefix and
4218 $(DESTDIR) in INSTALL (prompted by discussion with Paul Lew).
4219 + add configure check if the compiler can use -c -o options to rename
4220 its output file, use that to omit the 'cd' command which was used to
4221 ensure object files are created in a separate staging directory
4222 (prompted by comments by Johnny Wezel, Martin Mokrejs).
4224 20040208 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
4227 20040207 pre-release
4228 + minor fixes to _nc_tparm_analyze(), i.e., do not count %i as a param,
4229 and do not count %d if it follows a %p.
4230 + correct an inconsistency between handling of codes in the 128-255
4231 range, e.g., as illustrated by test/ncurses.c f/F tests. In POSIX
4232 locale, the latter did not show printable results, while the former
4234 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to compensate for broken C preprocessor on Mac
4235 OS X, which alters "%%" to "% % " (report by Robert Simms, fix
4236 verified by Scott Corscadden).
4238 20040131 pre-release
4239 + modify SCREEN struct to align it between normal/wide curses flavors
4240 to simplify future changes to build a single version of libtinfo
4241 (patch by Stanislav Ievlev).
4242 + document handling of carriage return by addch() in manpage.
4243 + document special features of unctrl() in manpage.
4244 + documented interface changes in INSTALL.
4245 + corrected control-char test in lib_addch.c to account for locale
4246 (Debian #230335, cf: 971206).
4247 + updated test/configure.in to use AC_EXEEXT and AC_OBJEXT.
4248 + fixes to compile Ada95 binding with Debian gnat 3.15p-4 package.
4249 + minor configure-script fixes for older ports, e.g., BeOS R4.5.
4251 20040125 pre-release
4252 + amend change to PutAttrChar() from 20030614 which computed the number
4253 of cells for a possibly multi-cell character. The 20030614 change
4254 forced the cell to a blank if the result from wcwidth() was not
4255 greater than zero. However, wcwidth() called for parameters in the
4256 range 128-255 can give this return value. The logic now simply
4257 ensures that the number of cells is greater than zero without
4258 modifying the displayed value.
4260 20040124 pre-release
4261 + looked good for 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org (but see above)
4262 + modify configure script check for ranlib to use AC_CHECK_TOOL, since
4263 that works better for cross-compiling.
4265 20040117 pre-release
4266 + modify lib_get_wch.c to prefer mblen/mbtowc over mbrlen/mbrtowc to
4267 work around core dump in Solaris 8's locale support, e.g., for
4268 zh_CN.GB18030 (report by Saravanan Bellan).
4269 + add includes for <stdarg.h> and <stdio.h> in configure script macro
4270 to make <wchar.h> check work with Tru64 4.0d.
4271 + add terminfo entry for U/Win -TD
4272 + add terminfo entries for SFU aka Interix aka OpenNT (Federico
4274 + modify tput's error messages to prefix them with the program name
4275 (report by Vincent Lefevre, patch by Daniel Jacobowitz (see Debian
4277 + correct a place in tack where exit_standout_mode was used instead of
4278 exit_attribute_mode (patch by Jochen Voss (see Debian #224443)).
4279 + modify c++/cursesf.h to use const in the Enumeration_Field method.
4280 + remove an ambiguous (actually redundant) method from c++/cursesf.h
4281 + make $HOME/.terminfo update optional (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
4282 + improve sed script which extracts libtool's version in the
4283 CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro.
4284 + add ifdef'd call to AC_PROG_LIBTOOL to CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro (to
4285 simplify local patch for Albert Chin-A-Young)..
4286 + add $(CXXFLAGS) to link command in c++/Makefile.in (adapted from
4287 patch by Albert Chin-A-Young)..
4288 + fix a missing substitution in configure.in for "$target" needed for
4290 + resync CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro with lynx; fixes IRIX64 and
4291 NetBSD 1.6 conflicts with _XOPEN_SOURCE.
4292 + make check for stdbool.h more specific, to ensure that including it
4293 will actually define/declare bool for the configured compiler.
4294 + rewrite ifdef's in curses.h relating NCURSES_BOOL and bool. The
4295 intention of that is to #define NCURSES_BOOL as bool when the
4296 compiler declares bool, and to #define bool as NCURSES_BOOL when it
4297 does not (reported by Jim Gifford, Sam Varshavchik, cf: 20031213).
4299 20040110 pre-release
4300 + change minor version to 4, i.e., ncurses 5.4
4301 + revised/improved terminfo entries for tvi912b, tvi920b (Benjamin C W
4303 + simplified ncurses/base/version.c by defining the result from the
4304 configure script rather than using sprintf (suggested by Stanislav
4306 + remove obsolete casts from c++/cursesw.h (reported by Stanislav
4308 + modify configure script so that when configuring for termlib, programs
4309 such as tic are not linked with the upper-level ncurses library
4310 (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
4311 + move version.c from ncurses/base to ncurses/tinfo to allow linking
4312 of tic, etc., using libtinfo (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
4315 + adjust -D's to build ncursesw on OpenBSD.
4316 + modify CF_PROG_EXT to make OS/2 build with EXEEXT.
4317 + add pecho_wchar().
4318 + remove <wctype.h> include from lib_slk_wset.c which is not needed (or
4319 available) on older platforms.
4322 + add -D's to build ncursew on FreeBSD 5.1.
4323 + modify shared library configuration for FreeBSD 4.x/5.x to add the
4324 soname information (request by Marc Glisse).
4325 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() to not use MAX_ALIAS, but PATH_MAX only
4326 for limiting the length of a filename in the terminfo database.
4327 + modify termname() to return the terminal name used by setupterm()
4328 rather than $TERM, without truncating to 14 characters as documented
4329 by X/Open (report by Stanislav Ievlev, cf: 970719).
4330 + re-add definition for _BSD_TYPES, lost in merge (cf: 20031206).
4333 + add configure option --with-manpage-format=catonly to address
4334 behavior of BSDI, allow install of man+cat files on NetBSD, whose
4335 behavior has diverged by requiring both to be present.
4336 + remove leading blanks from comment-lines in manlinks.sed script to
4337 work with Tru64 4.0d.
4338 + add screen.linux terminfo entry (discussion on mutt-users mailing
4342 + add a check for tic to flag missing backslashes for termcap
4343 continuation lines. ncurses reads the whole entry, but termcap
4344 applications do not.
4345 + add configure option "--with-manpage-aliases" extending
4346 "--with-manpage-aliases" to provide the option of generating ".so"
4347 files rather than symbolic links for manpage aliases.
4348 + add bool definition in include/curses.h.in for configurations with no
4349 usable C++ compiler (cf: 20030607).
4350 + fix pathname of SigAction.h for building with --srcdir (reported by
4354 + folded ncurses/base/sigaction.c into includes of ncurses/SigAction.h,
4355 since that header is used only within ncurses/tty/lib_tstp.c, for
4356 non-POSIX systems (discussion with Stanislav Ievlev).
4357 + remove obsolete _nc_outstr() function (report by Stanislav Ievlev
4358 <inger@altlinux.org>).
4359 + add test/background.c and test/color_set.c
4360 + modify color_set() function to work with color pair 0 (report by
4361 George Andreou <gbandreo@tem.uoc.gr>).
4362 + add configure option --with-trace, since defining TRACE seems too
4363 awkward for some cases.
4364 + remove a call to _nc_free_termtype() from read_termtype(), since the
4365 corresponding buffer contents were already zeroed by a memset (cf:
4367 + improve configure check for _XOPEN_SOURCE and related definitions,
4368 adding special cases for Solaris' __EXTENSIONS__ and FreeBSD's
4369 __BSD_TYPES (reports by Marc Glisse <marc.glisse@normalesup.org>).
4370 + small fixes to compile on Solaris and IRIX64 using cc.
4371 + correct typo in check for pre-POSIX sort options in MKkey_defs.sh
4375 + modify _nc_gettime() to avoid a problem with arithmetic on unsigned
4376 values (Philippe Blain).
4377 + improve the nanosleep() logic in napms() by checking for EINTR and
4378 restarting (Philippe Blain).
4379 + correct expression for "%D" in lib_tgoto.c (Juha Jarvi
4383 + add linux-vt terminfo entry (Andrey V Lukyanov <land@long.yar.ru>).
4384 + allow "\|" escape in terminfo; tic should not warn about this.
4385 + save the full pathname of the trace-file the first time it is opened,
4386 to avoid creating it in different directories if the application
4387 opens and closes it while changing its working directory.
4388 + modify configure script to provide a non-empty default for
4392 + add DJGPP to special case of DOS-style drive letters potentially
4393 appearing in TERMCAP environment variable.
4394 + fix some spelling in comments (reports by Jason McIntyre, Jonathon
4396 + update config.guess, config.sub
4399 + fix a memory leak in error-return from setupterm() (report by
4400 Stanislav Ievlev <inger@altlinux.org>).
4401 + use EXEEXT and OBJEXT consistently in makefiles.
4402 + amend fixes for cross-compiling to use separate executable-suffix
4403 BUILD_EXEEXT (cf: 20031018).
4404 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for sort utility that does not
4405 recognize key options, e.g., busybox (report by Peter S Mazinger
4407 + fix potential out-of-bounds indexing in _nc_infotocap() (found by
4408 David Krause using some of the new malloc debugging features
4409 under OpenBSD, patch by Ted Unangst).
4410 + modify CF_LIB_SUFFIX for Itanium releases of HP-UX, which use a
4411 ".so" suffix (patch by Jonathan Ward <Jonathan.Ward@hp.com>).
4414 + update terminfo for xterm-xfree86 -TD
4415 + add check for multiple "tc=" clauses in a termcap to tic.
4416 + check for missing op/oc in tic.
4417 + correct _nc_resolve_uses() and _nc_merge_entry() to allow infocmp and
4418 tic to show cancelled capabilities. These functions were ignoring
4419 the state of the target entry, which should be untouched if cancelled.
4420 + correct comment in tack/output.c (Debian #215806).
4421 + add some null-pointer checks to lib_options.c (report by Michael
4423 + regenerated html documentation.
4424 + correction to tar-copy.sh, remove a trap command that resulted in
4425 leaving temporary files (cf: 20030510).
4426 + remove contact/maintainer addresses for Juergen Pfeifer (his request).
4429 + updated test/configure to reflect changes for libtool (cf: 20030830).
4430 + fix several places in tack/pad.c which tested and used the parameter-
4431 and parameterless strings inconsistently, i.e., in pad_rin(),
4432 pad_il(), pad_indn() and pad_dl() (Debian #215805).
4433 + minor fixes for configure script and makefiles to cleanup executables
4434 generated when cross-compiling for DJGPP.
4435 + modify infocmp to omit check for $TERM for operations that do not
4436 require it, e.g., "infocmp -e" used to build fallback list (report by
4440 + add terminfo entries for DJGPP.
4441 + updated note about maintainer in ncurses-intro.html
4444 + update terminfo entries for gnome terminal.
4445 + modify tack to reset colors after each color test, correct a place
4446 where exit_standout_mode was used instead of exit_attribute_mode.
4447 + improve tack's bce test by making it set colors other than black
4449 + plug a potential recursion between napms() and _nc_timed_wait()
4450 (report by Philippe Blain).
4453 + add --with-rel-version option to allow workaround to allow making
4454 libtool on Darwin generate the "same" library names as with the
4455 --with-shared option. The Darwin ld program does not work well
4456 with a zero as the minor-version value (request by Chris Zubrzycki).
4457 + modify CF_MIXEDCASE_FILENAMES macro to work with cross-compiling.
4458 + modify tack to allow it to run from fallback terminfo data.
4459 > patch by Philippe Blain:
4460 + improve PutRange() by adjusting call to EmitRange() and corresponding
4461 return-value to not emit unchanged characters on the end of the
4463 + improve a check for changed-attribute by exiting a loop when the
4465 + improve logic in TransformLine(), eliminating a duplicated comparison
4466 in the clr_bol logic.
4469 > patch by Philippe Blain:
4470 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
4471 move the label 'nonlocal' just before the second gettimeofday() to
4472 be able to compute the diff time when 'goto nonlocal' used.
4473 Rename 'msec' to 'microsec' in the debug-message.
4474 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
4475 Use _nc_outch() in carriage return/newline movement instead of
4476 putchar() which goes to stdout. Move test for xold>0 out of loop.
4477 + in ncurses/tinfo/setbuf.c,
4478 Set the flag SP->_buffered at the end of operations when all has been
4479 successful (typeMalloc can fail).
4480 + simplify NC_BUFFERED macro by moving check inside _nc_setbuf().
4483 + modify configure script to avoid using "head -1", which does not
4484 work if POSIXLY_CORRECT (sic) is set.
4485 + modify run_tic.in to avoid using wrong shared libraries when
4486 cross-compiling (Dan Kegel).
4489 + alter configure script help message to make it clearer that
4490 --with-build-cc does not specify a cross-compiler (suggested by Dan
4491 Kegel <dank@kegel.com>).
4492 + modify configure script to accommodate libtool 1.5, as well as add an
4493 parameter to the "--with-libtool" option which can specify the
4494 pathname of libtool (report by Chris Zubrzycki). We note that
4495 libtool 1.5 has more than one bug in its C++ support, so it is not
4496 able to install libncurses++, for instance, if $DESTDIR or the option
4497 --with-install-prefix is used.
4500 > patch by Philippe Blain:
4501 + move assignments to SP->_cursrow, SP->_curscol into online_mvcur().
4502 + make baudrate computation in delay_output() consistent with the
4503 assumption in _nc_mvcur_init(), i.e., a byte is 9 bits.
4506 + modify logic in waddch_literal() to take into account zh_TW.Big5
4507 whose multibyte sequences may contain "printable" characters, e.g.,
4508 a "g" in the sequence "\247g" (Debian #204889, cf: 20030621).
4509 + improve storage used by _nc_safe_strcpy() by ensuring that the size
4510 is reset based on the initialization call, in case it were called
4511 after other strcpy/strcat calls (report by Philippe Blain).
4512 > patch by Philippe Blain:
4513 + remove an unused ifdef for REAL_ATTR & WANT_CHAR
4514 + correct a place where _cup_cost was used rather than _cuu_cost
4517 + fix a small memory leak in _nc_free_termtype().
4518 + close trace-file if trace() is called with a zero parameter.
4519 + free memory allocated for soft-key strings, in delscreen().
4520 + fix an allocation size in safe_sprintf.c for the "*" format code.
4521 + correct safe_sprintf.c to not return a null pointer if the format
4522 happens to be an empty string. This applies to the "configure
4523 --enable-safe-sprintf" option (Redhat #101486).
4526 + modify casts used for ABSENT_BOOLEAN and CANCELLED_BOOLEAN (report by
4528 > patch by Philippe Blain:
4529 + change padding for change_scroll_region to not be proportional to
4530 the size of the scroll-region.
4531 + correct error-return in _nc_safe_strcat().
4534 + correct limit-checks in _nc_scroll_window() (report and test-case by
4535 Thomas Graf <graf@dms.at> cf: 20011020).
4536 + re-order configure checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE to avoid conflict with
4540 + use clr_eol in preference to blanks for bce terminals, so select and
4541 paste will have fewer trailing blanks, e.g., when using xterm
4542 (request by Vincent Lefevre).
4543 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
4544 + add configure --with-abi-version option (discussion with Charles
4546 > cygwin changes from Charles Wilson:
4547 + aclocal.m4: on cygwin, use autodetected prefix for import
4548 and static lib, but use "cyg" for DLL.
4549 + include/ncurses_dll.h: correct the comments to reflect current
4550 status of cygwin/mingw port. Fix compiler warning.
4551 + misc/run_tic.in: ensure that tic.exe can find the uninstalled
4552 DLL, by adding the lib-directory to the PATH variable.
4553 + misc/terminfo.src (nxterm|xterm-color): make xterm-color
4554 primary instead of nxterm, to match XFree86's xterm.terminfo
4555 usage and to prevent circular links.
4556 (rxvt): add additional codes from rxvt.org.
4557 (rxvt-color): new alias
4558 (rxvt-xpm): new alias
4559 (rxvt-cygwin): like rxvt, but with special acsc codes.
4560 (rxvt-cygwin-native): ditto. rxvt may be run under XWindows, or
4561 with a "native" MSWin GUI. Each takes different acsc codes,
4562 which are both different from the "normal" rxvt's acsc.
4563 (cygwin): cygwin-in-cmd.exe window. Lots of fixes.
4565 + mk-1st.awk: use "cyg" for the DLL prefix, but "lib" for import
4569 + update config.guess, config.sub
4570 + add triples for configuring shared libraries with the Debian
4571 GNU/FreeBSD packages (patch by Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es>).
4574 + modify CF_GCC_WARNINGS so it only applies to gcc, not g++. Some
4575 platforms have installed g++ along with the native C compiler, which
4576 would not accept gcc warning options.
4577 + add -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 when configuring with --enable-widec, to
4578 get mbstate_t declaration on HPUX 11.11 (report by David Ellement).
4579 + add _nc_pathlast() to get rid of casts in _nc_basename() calls.
4580 + correct a sign-extension in wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() from
4581 20030628 (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
4582 + work around omission of btowc() and wctob() from wide-character
4583 support (sic) in NetBSD 1.6 using mbtowc() and wctomb() (report by
4585 + add portability note to curs_get_wstr.3x (Debian #199957).
4588 + rewrite wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to call waddch() and wechochar()
4589 respectively, to avoid calling waddch_noecho() with wide-character
4590 data, since that function assumes its input is 8-bit data.
4591 Similarly, modify waddnwstr() to call wadd_wch().
4592 + remove logic from waddnstr() which transformed multibyte character
4593 strings into wide-characters. Rewrite of waddch_literal() from
4594 20030621 assumes its input is raw multibyte data rather than wide
4595 characters (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
4598 + write getyx() and related 2-return macros in terms of getcury(),
4600 + modify waddch_literal() in case an application passes bytes of a
4601 multibyte character directly to waddch(). In this case, waddch()
4602 must reassemble the bytes into a wide-character (report by Tomohiro
4603 Kubota <kubota@debian.org>).
4606 + modify waddch_literal() in case a multibyte value occupies more than
4608 + modify PutAttrChar() to compute the number of character cells that
4609 are used in multibyte values. This fixes a problem displaying
4610 double-width characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen
4611 <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
4612 + add a null-pointer check for result of keyname() in _tracechar()
4613 + modify _tracechar() to work around glibc sprintf bug.
4616 + add a call to setlocale() in cursesmain.cc, making demo display
4617 properly in a UTF-8 locale.
4618 + add a fallback definition in curses.priv.h for MB_LEN_MAX (prompted
4619 by discussion with Gabor Z Papp).
4620 + use macros NCURSES_ACS() and NCURSES_WACS() to hide cast needed to
4621 appease -Wchar-subscript with g++ 3.3 (Debian #195732).
4622 + fix a redefinition of $RANLIB in the configure script when libtool
4623 is used, which broke configure on Mac OS X (report by Chris Zubrzycki
4625 + simplify ifdef for bool declaration in curses.h.in (suggested by
4626 Albert Chin-A-Young).
4627 + remove configure script check to allow -Wconversion for older
4628 versions of gcc (suggested by Albert Chin-A-Young).
4631 + regenerated html manpages.
4632 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in that disabled use of __attribute__()
4633 for g++, since recent versions implement the cases which ncurses uses
4635 + modify _nc_get_token() to handle a case where an entry has no
4636 description, and capabilities begin on the same line as the entry
4638 + fix a typo in ncurses_dll.h reported by gcc 3.3.
4639 + add an entry for key_defined.3x to man_db.renames.
4642 + modify setcchar() to allow converting control characters to complex
4643 characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
4644 + add tkterm entry -TD
4645 + modify parse_entry.c to allow a terminfo entry with a leading
4646 2-character name (report by Don Libes).
4647 + corrected acsc in screen.teraterm, which requires a PC-style mapping.
4648 + fix trace statements in read_entry.c to use lseek() rather than
4650 + fix signed/unsigned warnings from Sun's compiler (gcc should give
4651 these warnings, but it is unpredictable).
4652 + modify configure script to omit -Winline for gcc 3.3, since that
4654 + modify manlinks.sed to add a few functions that were overlooked since
4655 they return function pointers: field_init, field_term, form_init,
4656 form_term, item_init, item_term, menu_init and menu_term.
4659 + prevent recursion in wgetch() via wgetnstr() if the connection cannot
4660 be switched between cooked/raw modes because it is not a TTY (report
4661 by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.com>).
4662 + change parameter of define_key() and key_defined() to const (prompted
4664 + add a check in test/configure for ncurses extensions, since there
4665 are some older versions, etc., which would not compile with the
4666 current test programs.
4667 + corrected demo in test/ncurses.c of wgetn_wstr(), which did not
4668 convert wchar_t string to multibyte form before printing it.
4669 + corrections to lib_get_wstr.c:
4670 + null-terminate buffer passed to setcchar(), which occasionally
4672 + map special characters such as erase- and kill-characters into
4673 key-codes so those will work as expected even if they are not
4674 mentioned in the terminfo.
4675 + modify PUTC() and Charable() macros to make wide-character line
4676 drawing work for POSIX locale on Linux console (cf: 20021221).
4679 + make typography for program options in manpages consistent (report
4680 by Miloslav Trmac <mitr@volny.cz>).
4681 + correct dependencies in Ada95/src/Makefile.in, so the builds with
4682 "--srcdir" work (report by Warren L Dodge).
4683 + correct missing definition of $(CC) in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in
4684 (reported by Warren L Dodge <warrend@mdhost.cse.tek.com>).
4685 + fix typos and whitespace in manpages (patch by Jason McIntyre
4686 <jmc@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl>).
4689 + fix form_driver() cases for REQ_CLR_EOF, REQ_CLR_EOL, REQ_DEL_CHAR,
4690 REQ_DEL_PREV and REQ_NEW_LINE, which did not ensure the cursor was at
4691 the editing position before making modifications.
4692 + add test/demo_forms and associated test/edit_field.c demos.
4693 + modify test/configure.in to use test/modules for the list of objects
4694 to compile rather than using the list of programs.
4697 + modify logic of acsc to use the original character if no mapping is
4698 defined, noting that Solaris does this.
4699 + modify ncurses 'b' test to avoid using the acs_map[] array since
4700 20021231 changes it to no longer contain information from the acsc
4702 + modify makefile rules in c++, progs, tack and test to ensure that
4703 the compiler flags (e.g., $CFLAGS or $CCFLAGS) are used in the link
4704 command (report by Jose Luis Rico Botella <informatica@serpis.com>).
4705 + modify soft-key initialization to use A_REVERSE if A_STANDOUT would
4706 not be shown when colors are used, i.e., if ncv#1 is set in the
4707 terminfo as is done in "screen".
4710 + add a test for slk_color(), in ncurses.c
4711 + fix some issues reported by valgrind in the slk_set() and slk_wset()
4712 code, from recent rewrite.
4713 + modify ncurses 'E' test to use show previous label via slk_label(),
4715 + modify wide-character versions of NewChar(), NewChar2() macros to
4716 ensure that the whole struct is initialized.
4719 + modify setupterm() to check if the terminfo and terminal-modes have
4720 already been read. This ensures that it does not reinvoke
4721 def_prog_mode() when an application calls more than one function,
4722 such as tgetent() and initscr() (report by Olaf Buddenhagen).
4725 + add 'E' test to ncurses.c, to exercise slk_wset().
4726 + correct handling of carriage-return in wgetn_wstr(), used in demo of
4728 + first draft of slk_wset() function.
4731 + improved warnings in tic when suppressing items to fit in termcap's
4733 + built a list in test/README showing which externals are being used
4734 by either programs in the test-directory or via internal library
4736 + adjust include-options in CF_ETIP_DEFINES to avoid missing
4737 ncurses_dll.h, fixing special definitions that may be needed for
4738 etip.h (reported by Greg Schafer <gschafer@zip.com.au>).
4741 + minor fixes for cardfile.c, to make it write the updated fields to
4742 a file when ^W is given.
4743 + add/use _nc_trace_bufcat() to eliminate some fixed buffer limits in
4747 + correct a case in _nc_remove_string(), used by define_key(), to avoid
4748 infinite loop if the given string happens to be a substring of other
4749 strings which are assigned to keys (report by John McCutchan).
4750 + add key_defined() function, to tell which keycode a string is bound
4751 to (discussion with John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>).
4752 + correct keybound(), which reported definitions in the wrong table,
4753 i.e., the list of definitions which are disabled by keyok().
4754 + modify demo_keydef.c to show the details it changes, and to check
4758 + restructured test/configure script, make it work for libncursesw.
4759 + add description of link_fieldtype() to manpage (report by
4760 L Dee Holtsclaw <dee@sunbeltsoft.com>).
4763 + corrected ifdef's relating to configure check for wchar_t, etc.
4764 + if the output is a socket or other non-tty device, use 1 millisecond
4765 for the cost in mvcur; previously it was 9 milliseconds because the
4766 baudrate was not known.
4767 + in _nc_get_tty_mode(), initialize the TTY buffer on error, since
4768 glibc copies uninitialized data in that case, as noted by valgrind.
4769 + modify tput to use the same parameter analysis as tparm() does, to
4770 provide for user-defined strings, e.g., for xterm title, a
4771 corresponding capability might be
4773 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to avoid passing "#" tokens through the C
4774 preprocessor. This works around Mac OS X's preprocessor, which
4775 insists on adding a blank on each side of the token (report/analysis
4776 by Kevin Murphy <murphy@genome.chop.edu>).
4779 + add configure check for wchar_t and wint_t types, rather than rely
4780 on preprocessor definitions. Also work around for gcc fixinclude
4781 bug which creates a shadow copy of curses.h if it sees these symbols
4782 apparently typedef'd.
4783 + if database is disabled, do not generate run_tic.sh
4784 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking when termcap is read.
4787 + add checking in tic for incomplete line-drawing character mapping.
4788 + updated configure script to reflect fix for AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL,
4789 which is broken in autoconf 2.5x for Mac OS X 10.2.3 (report by
4790 Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl>).
4791 + make return value from _nc_printf_string() consistent. Before,
4792 depending on whether --enable-safe-sprintf was used, it might not be
4793 cached for reallocating.
4796 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking in lib_tparm.c, hardscroll.c
4797 + correct a potentially-uninitialized value if _read_termtype() does
4798 not read as much data as expected (report by Wolfgang Rohdewald
4800 + correct several places where the aclocal.m4 macros relied on cache
4801 variable names which were incompatible (as usual) between autoconf
4802 2.13 and 2.5x, causing the test for broken-linker to give incorrect
4803 results (reports by Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl> and Thomas Esser
4804 <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de>).
4805 + do not try to open gpm mouse driver if standard output is not a tty;
4806 the gpm library does not make this check (bug report for dialog
4807 by David Oliveira <davidoliveira@develop.prozone.ws>).
4810 + modified emx.src to correspond more closely to terminfo.src, added
4811 emx-base to the latter -TD
4812 + add configure option for FreeBSD sysmouse, --with-sysmouse, and
4813 implement support for that in lib_mouse.c, lib_getch.c
4816 + revert 20030105 change to can_clear_with(), does not work for the
4817 case where the update is made on cells which are blanks with
4818 attributes, e.g., reverse.
4819 + improve ifdef's to guard against redefinition of wchar_t and wint_t
4820 in curses.h (report by Urs Jansen).
4823 + improve mvcur() by checking if it is safe to move when video
4824 attributes are set (msgr), and if not, reset/restore attributes
4825 within that function rather than doing it separately in the GoTo()
4826 function in tty_update.c (suggested by Philippe Blain).
4827 + add a message in run_tic.in to explain more clearly what does not
4828 work when attempting to create a symbolic link for /usr/lib/terminfo
4829 on OS/2 and other platforms with no symbolic links (report by John
4831 + change several sed scripts to avoid using "\+" since it is not a BRE
4832 (basic regular expression). One instance caused terminfo.5 to be
4833 misformatted on FreeBSD (report by Kazuo Horikawa
4834 <horikawa@FreeBSD.org> (see FreeBSD docs/46709)).
4835 + correct misspelled 'wint_t' in curs_get_wch.3x (Michael Elkins).
4838 + improve description of terminfo operators, especially static/dynamic
4839 variables (comments by Mark I Manning IV <mark4th@earthlink.net>).
4840 + demonstrate use of FIELDTYPE by modifying test/ncurses 'r' test to
4841 use the predefined TYPE_ALPHA field-type, and by defining a
4842 specialized type for the middle initial/name.
4843 + fix MKterminfo.sh, another workaround for POSIXLY_CORRECT misfeature
4845 > patch by Philippe Blain:
4846 + optimize can_clear_with() a little by testing first if the parameter
4847 is indeed a "blank".
4848 + simplify ClrBottom() a little by allowing it to use clr_eos to clear
4849 sections as small as one line.
4850 + improve ClrToEOL() by checking if clr_eos is available before trying
4852 + use tputs() rather than putp() in a few cases in tty_update.c since
4853 the corresponding delays are proportional to the number of lines
4854 affected: repeat_char, clr_eos, change_scroll_region.
4857 + rewrite of lib_acs.c conflicts with copying of SCREEN acs_map to/from
4858 global acs_map[] array; removed the lines that did the copying.
4861 + change some overlooked tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp()
4862 (report by Philippe Blain).
4863 + modify lib_getch.c to avoid recursion via wgetnstr() when the input
4864 is not a tty and consequently mode-changes do not work (report by
4865 <R.Chamberlin@querix.com>).
4866 + rewrote lib_acs.c to allow PutAttrChar() to decide how to render
4867 alternate-characters, i.e., to work with Linux console and UTF-8
4869 + correct line/column reference in adjust_window(), needed to make
4870 special windows such as curscr track properly when resizing (report
4871 by Lucas Gonze <lgonze@panix.com>).
4872 > patch by Philippe Blain:
4873 + correct the value used for blank in ClrBottom() (broken in 20000708).
4874 + correct an off-by-one in GoTo() parameter in _nc_scrolln().
4877 + change several tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp(), to
4878 enable padding which may be needed for some terminals (patch by
4880 + use '%' as sed substitute delimiter in run_tic script to avoid
4881 problems with pathname delimiters such as ':' and '@' (report by John
4883 + implement a workaround so that line-drawing works with screen's
4884 crippled UTF-8 support (tested with 3.9.13). This only works with
4885 the wide-character support (--enable-widec); the normal library will
4886 simply suppress line-drawing when running in a UTF-8 locale in screen.
4889 + allow BUILD_CC and related configure script variables to be
4890 overridden from the environment.
4891 + make build-tools variables in ncurses/Makefile.in consistent with
4892 the configure script variables (report by Maciej W Rozycki).
4893 + modify ncurses/modules to allow
4894 configure --disable-leaks --disable-ext-funcs
4895 to build (report by Gary Samuelson).
4896 + fix a few places in configure.in which lacked quotes (report by
4897 Gary Samuelson <gary.samuelson@verizon.com>).
4898 + correct handling of multibyte characters in waddch_literal() which
4899 force wrapping because they are started too late on the line (report
4900 by Sam Varshavchik).
4901 + small fix for CF_GNAT_VERSION to ignore the help-message which
4902 gnatmake adds to its version-message.
4903 > Maciej W Rozycki <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>:
4904 + use AC_CHECK_TOOL to get proper values for AR and LD for cross
4906 + use $cross_compiling variable in configure script rather than
4907 comparing $host_alias and $target alias, since "host" is
4908 traditionally misused in autoconf to refer to the target platform.
4909 + change configure --help message to use "build" rather than "host"
4910 when referring to the --with-build-XXX options.
4913 + modify CF_GNAT_VERSION to print gnatmake's version, and to allow for
4914 possible gnat versions such as 3.2 (report by Chris Lingard
4915 <chris@stockwith.co.uk>).
4916 + modify #define's for CKILL and other default control characters in
4917 tset to use the system's default values if they are defined.
4918 + correct interchanged defaults for kill and interrupt characters
4919 in tset, which caused it to report unnecessarily (Debian #171583).
4920 + repair check for missing C++ compiler, which is broken in autoconf
4921 2.5x by hardcoding it to g++ (report by Martin Mokrejs).
4922 + update config.guess, config.sub (2002-11-30)
4923 + modify configure script to skip --with-shared, etc., when the
4924 --with-libtool option is given, since they would be ignored anyway.
4925 + fix to allow "configure --with-libtool --with-termlib" to build.
4926 + modify configure script to show version number of libtool, to help
4927 with bug reports. libtool still gets confused if the installed
4928 ncurses libraries are old, since it ignores the -L options at some
4929 point (tested with libtool 1.3.3 and 1.4.3).
4930 + reorder configure script's updating of $CPPFLAGS and $CFLAGS to
4931 prevent -I options in the user's environment from introducing
4932 conflicts with the build -I options (may be related to reports by
4933 Patrick Ash and George Goffe).
4934 + rename test/define_key.c to test/demo_defkey.c, test/keyok.c to
4935 test/demo_keyok.c to allow building these with libtool.
4938 + add example program test/define_key.c for define_key().
4939 + add example program test/keyok.c for keyok().
4940 + add example program test/ins_wide.c for wins_wch() and wins_wstr().
4941 + modify wins_wch() and wins_wstr() to interpret tabs by using the
4942 winsch() internal function.
4943 + modify setcchar() to allow for wchar_t input strings that have
4944 more than one spacing character.
4947 + fix a boundary check in lib_insch.c (patch by Philippe Blain).
4948 + change type for *printw functions from NCURSES_CONST to const
4949 (prompted by comment by Pedro Palhoto Matos <plpm@mega.ist.utl.pt>,
4950 but really from a note on X/Open's website stating that either is
4951 acceptable, and the latter will be used in a future revision).
4952 + add xterm-1002, xterm-1003 terminfo entries to demonstrate changes in
4953 lib_mouse.c (20021026) -TD
4954 + add screen-bce, screen-s entries from screen 3.9.13 (report by
4955 Adam Lazur <zal@debian.org>) -TD
4956 + add mterm terminfo entries -TD
4959 + split-out useful fragments in terminfo for vt100 and vt220 numeric
4960 keypad, i.e., vt100+keypad, vt100+pfkeys, vt100+fnkeys and
4961 vt220+keypad. The last as embedded in various entries had ka3 and
4962 kb2 interchanged (report/discussion with Leonard den Ottolander
4963 <leonardjo@hetnet.nl>).
4964 + add check in tic for keypads consistent with vt100 layout.
4965 + improve checks in tic for color capabilities
4968 + check for missing/empty/illegal terminfo name in _nc_read_entry()
4969 (report by Martin Mokrejs, where $TERM was set to an empty string).
4970 + rewrote lib_insch.c, combining it with lib_insstr.c so both handle
4971 tab and other control characters consistently (report by Philippe
4973 + remove an #undef for KEY_EVENT from curses.tail used in the
4974 experimental NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS feature. The #undef confuses
4975 dpkg's build script (Debian #165897).
4976 + fix MKlib_gen.sh, working around the ironically named POSIXLY_CORRECT
4977 feature of GNU sed 4.0 (reported by Ervin Nemeth <airwin@inf.bme.hu>).
4980 + implement logic in lib_mouse.c to handle position reports which are
4981 generated when XFree86 xterm is initialized with private modes 1002
4982 or 1003. These are returned to the application as the
4983 REPORT_MOUSE_POSITION mask, which was not implemented. Tested both
4984 with ncurses 'a' menu (prompted by discussion with Larry Riedel
4985 <Larry@Riedel.org>).
4986 + modify lib_mouse.c to look for "XM" terminfo string, which allows
4987 one to override the escape sequence used to enable/disable mouse
4988 mode. In particular this works for XFree86 xterm private modes
4989 1002 and 1003. If "XM" is missing (note that this is an extended
4990 name), lib_mouse uses the conventional private mode 1000.
4991 + correct NOT_LOCAL() macro in lib_mvcur.c to refer to screen_columns
4992 where it used screen_lines (report by Philippe Blain).
4993 + correct makefile rules for the case when both --with-libtool and
4994 --with-gpm are given (report by Mr E_T <troll@logi.net.au>).
4995 + add note to terminfo manpage regarding the differences between
4996 setaf/setab and setf/setb capabilities (report by Pavel Roskin).
4999 + remove redundant initialization of TABSIZE in newterm(), since it is
5000 already done in setupterm() (report by Philippe Blain).
5001 + add test/inserts.c, to test winnstr() and winsch().
5002 + replace 'sort' in dist.mk with script that sets locale to POSIX.
5003 + update URLs in announce.html.in (patch by Frederic L W Meunier).
5004 + remove glibc add-on files, which are no longer needed (report by
5005 Frederic L W Meunier).
5007 20021012 5.3 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
5008 + modify ifdef's in etip.h.in to allow the etip.h header to compile
5009 with gcc 3.2 (patch by Dimitar Zhekov <jimmy@is-vn.bg>).
5010 + add logic to setupterm() to make it like initscr() and newterm(),
5011 by checking for $NCURSES_TRACE environment variable and enabling
5012 the debug trace in that case.
5013 + modify setupterm() to ensure that it initializes the baudrate, for
5014 applications such as tput (report by Frank Henigman).
5015 + modify definition of bits used for command-line and library debug
5016 traces to avoid overlap, using new definition TRACE_SHIFT to relate
5018 + document tput's interpretation of parameterized strings according to
5019 whether parameters are given, etc. (discussion with Robert De Bath).
5021 20021005 pre-release
5022 + correct winnwstr() to account for non-character cells generated when
5023 a double-width character is added (report by Michael Bienia
5024 <michael@vorlon.ping.de>).
5025 + modify _nc_viswbuf2n() to provide better results using wctomb().
5026 + correct logic in _nc_varargs() which broke tracing of parameters for
5027 formats such as "%.*s".
5028 + correct scale factor in linux-c and linux-c-nc terminfo entries
5029 (report Floyd Davidson).
5030 + change tic -A option to -t, add the same option to infocmp for
5032 + correct "%c" implementation in lib_tparm.c, which did not map a null
5033 character to a 128 (cf: 980620) (patch by Frank Henigman
5034 <fjhenigman@mud.cgl.uwaterloo.ca>).
5036 20020928 pre-release
5037 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for POSIX sort -k option, use that if
5038 it is found, to accommodate newer utility which dropped the
5039 compatibility support for +number options (reported by Andrey A
5041 + modify linux terminfo entry to use color palette feature from
5042 linux-c-nc entry (comments by Tomasz Wasiak and Floyd Davidson).
5043 + restore original color definitions in endwin() if init_color() was
5044 used, and resume those colors on the next doupdate() or refresh()
5045 (report by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@komputom.com.pl>).
5046 + improve debug-traces by modifying MKlib_gen.sh to generate calls
5047 to returnBool() and returnAttr().
5048 + add/use _nc_visbufn() and _nc_viswbufn() to limit the debug trace
5049 of waddnstr() and similar functions to match the parameters as used.
5050 + add/use _nc_retrace_bool() and _nc_retrace_unsigned().
5051 + correct type used by _nc_retrace_chtype().
5052 + add debug traces to some functions in lib_mouse.c
5053 + modify lib_addch.c to handle non-spacing characters.
5054 + correct parameter of RemAttr() in lib_bkgd.c, which caused the c++
5055 demo's boxes to lose the A_ALTCHARSET flag (broken in 20020629).
5056 + correct width computed in _tracedump(), which did not account for
5057 the attributes (broken in 20010602).
5058 + modify test/tracemunch to replace addresses for windows other than
5059 curscr, newscr and stdscr with window0, window1, etc.
5061 20020921 pre-release
5062 + redid fix for edit_man.sed path.
5063 + workaround for Cygwin bug which makes subprocess writes to stdout
5064 result in core dump.
5065 + documented getbegx(), etc.
5066 + minor fixes to configure script to use '%' consistently as a sed
5067 delimiter rather than '@'.
5068 > patch by Philippe Blain:
5069 + add check in lib_overlay.c to ensure that the windows to be merged
5070 actually overlap, and in copywin(), limit the area to be touched
5071 to the lines given for the destination window.
5073 20020914 pre-release
5074 + modified curses.h so that if the wide-character version is installed
5075 overwriting /usr/include/curses.h, and if it relied on libutf8.h,
5076 then applications that use that header for wide-character support
5077 must define HAVE_LIBUTF8_H.
5078 + modify putwin(), getwin() and dupwin() to allow them to operate on
5079 pads (request by Philippe Blain).
5080 + correct attribute-merging in wborder(), broken in 20020216 (report
5081 by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@grubasek.komputom.com.pl>).
5082 > patch by Philippe Blain:
5083 + corrected pop-counts in tparam_internal() to '!' and '~' cases.
5084 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in one place that used sizeof(chtype).
5085 + remove some unused variables from mvcur test-driver.
5087 20020907 pre-release
5088 + change configure script to allow install of widec-character
5089 (ncursesw) headers to overwrite normal (ncurses) headers, since the
5090 latter is a compatible subset of the former.
5091 + fix path of edit_man.sed in configure script, needed to regenerate
5092 html manpages on Debian.
5093 + fix mismatched enums in vsscanf.c, which caused warning on Solaris.
5094 + update README.emx to reflect current patch used for autoconf.
5095 + change web- and ftp-site to invisible-island.net
5096 > patch by Philippe Blain:
5097 + change case for 'P' in tparam_internal() to indicate that it pops
5098 a variable from the stack.
5099 + correct sense of precision and width in parse_format(), to avoid
5101 + modify lib_tparm.c, absorb really_get_space() into get_space().
5102 + modify getwin() and dupwin() to copy the _notimeout, _idlok and
5103 _idcok window fields.
5104 + better fix for _nc_set_type(), using typeMalloc().
5106 20020901 pre-release
5107 + change minor version to 3, i.e., ncurses 5.3
5108 + update config.guess, config.sub
5109 + retest build with each configure option; minor ifdef fixes.
5110 + make keyname() return a null pointer rather than "UNKNOWN STRING" to
5112 + modify handling of wide line-drawing character functions to use the
5113 normal line-drawing characters when not in UTF-8 locale.
5114 + add check/fix to comp_parse.c to suppress warning about missing acsc
5115 string. This happens in configurations where raw termcap information
5116 is processed; tic already does this and other checks.
5117 + modify tic's check for ich/ich1 versus rmir/smir to only warn about
5118 ich1, to match xterm patch #70 notes.
5119 + moved information for ripped-off lines into SCREEN struct to allow
5120 use in resizeterm().
5121 + add experimental wgetch_events(), ifdef'd with NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS
5122 (adapted from patch by Ilya Zakharevich - see ncurses/README.IZ).
5123 + amend check in kgetch() from 20020824 to look only for function-keys,
5124 otherwise escape sequences are not resolved properly.
5125 > patch by Philippe Blain:
5126 + removed redundant assignment to SP->_checkfd from newterm().
5127 + check return-value of setupterm() in restartterm().
5128 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in a few places that used sizeof(chtype).
5129 + prevent dupwin() from duplicating a pad.
5130 + prevent putwin() from writing a pad.
5131 + use typeRealloc() or typeMalloc() in preference to direct calls on
5135 + add a check in kgetch() for cooked characters in the fifo to avoid
5136 calling fifo_push() when a KEY_RESIZE is available (report/analysis
5137 by Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>).
5138 + fix an overlooked case for Redhat #68199 (Philippe Blain).
5139 + ensure clearerr() is called before using ferror() e.g., in
5140 lib_screen.c (report by Philippe Blain).
5143 + modify lib_screen.c and lib_newwin.c to maintain the SCREEN-specific
5144 pointers for curscr/stdscr/newscr when scr_save() and scr_restore()
5145 modify the global curscr/stdscr/newscr variables. Fixes Redhat
5146 #68199 dated 2002-07-07.
5147 + add checks for null pointer in calls to tparm() and tgoto() based on
5148 FreeBSD bug report. If ncurses were built with termcap support, and
5149 the first call to tgoto() were a zero-length string, the result would
5150 be a null pointer, which was not handled properly.
5151 + correct a typo in terminfo.head, which gave the octal code for colon
5153 + remove the "tic -u" option from 20020810, since it did not account
5154 for nested "tc=" clauses, and when that was addressed, was still
5158 + add tic -A option to suppress capabilities which are commented out
5159 when translating to termcap.
5160 + add tic -u option to provide older behavior of "tc=" clauses.
5161 + modified tic to expand all but the final "tc=" clause in a termcap
5162 entry, to accommodate termcap libraries which do not handle multiple
5164 + correct typo in curs_inopts.3x regarding CS8/CS7 usage (report by
5166 + remove a couple of redundant uses of A_ATTRIBUTES in expressions
5167 using AttrOf(), which already incorporates that mask (report by
5169 + document TABSIZE variable.
5170 + add NCURSES_ASSUMED_COLORS environment variable, to allow users to
5171 override compiled-in default black-on-white assumption used in
5172 assume_default_colors().
5173 + correct an off-by-one comparison against max_colors in COLORFGBG
5175 + correct a use of uninitialized memory found by valgrind (reported by
5176 Olaf Buddenhagen <olafBuddenhagen@web.de>).
5177 + modified wresize() to ensure that a failed realloc will not corrupt
5178 the window structure, and to make subwindows fit within the resized
5179 window (completes Debian #87678, Debian #101699)
5182 + fix an off-by-one in lib_pad.c check for limits of pad (patch by
5184 + revise logic for BeOS in lib_twait.c altered in 20011013 to restore
5185 logic used by lib_getch.c's support for GPM or EMX mouse (report by
5187 + remove NCURSES_CONST from several prototypes in curses.wide, to make
5188 the --enable-const --enable-widec configure options to work together
5189 (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@yahoo.com>).
5192 + finish no-leak checking in cardfile.c, using this for testing changes
5194 + simplify _nc_freeall() using delscreen().
5197 + check error-return from _nc_set_tty_mode() in _nc_initscr() and
5198 reset_prog_mode() (report/patch by Philippe Blain).
5199 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52, to address
5200 problem with identifying C++ bool type.
5201 + correct/improve logic to produce an exit status for errors in tput,
5202 which did not exit with an error when told to put a string not in the
5203 current terminfo entry (report by David Gomez <david@pleyades.net>).
5204 + modify configure script AC_OUTPUT() call to work around defect in
5205 autoconf 2.52 which adds an ifdef'd include to the generated
5206 configure definitions.
5207 + remove fstat() check from scr_init(), which also fixes a missing
5208 include for <sys/stat.h> from 20020713 (reported by David Ellement,
5209 fix suggested by Philippe Blain).
5210 + update curs_scanw.3x manpage to note that XSI curses differs from
5211 SVr4 curses: return-values are incompatible.
5212 + correct several prototypes in manpages which used const
5213 inconsistently with the curses.h file, and removed spurious const's
5214 in a few places from curses.h, e.g., for wbkgd() (report by Glenn
5215 Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>).
5216 + change internal type used by tparm() to long, to work with LP64 model.
5217 + modify nc_alloc.h to allow building with g++, for testing.
5220 + add resize-handling to cardfile.c test program.
5221 + altered resizeterm() to avoid having it fail when a child window
5222 cannot be resized because it would be larger than its parent. (More
5223 work must be done on this, but it works well enough to integrate).
5224 + improve a limit-check in lib_refresh.c
5225 + remove check in lib_screen.c relating dumptime to file's modification
5226 times, since that would not necessarily work for remotely mounted
5228 + modify lrtest to simplify debugging changes to resizeterm, e.g.,
5229 t/T commands to enable/disable tracing.
5230 + updated status of multibyte support in TO-DO.
5231 + update contact info in source-files (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
5234 + add Caps.hpux11, as an example.
5235 + modify version_filter(), used to implement -R option for tic and
5236 infocmp, to use computed array offsets based on the Caps.* file which
5237 is actually configured, rather than constants which correspond to
5239 + reorganized lib_raw.c to avoid updating SP and cur_term state if the
5240 functions fail (reported by Philippe Blain).
5241 + add -Wundef to gcc warnings, adjust a few ifdef's to accommodate gcc.
5244 + correct parameters to setcchar() in ncurses.c (cf: 20020406).
5245 + set locale in most test programs (view.c and ncurses.c were the
5247 + add configure option --with-build-cppflags (report by Maksim A
5248 Nikulin <M.A.Nikulin@inp.nsk.su>).
5249 + correct a typo in wide-character logic for lib_bkgnd.c (Philippe
5251 + modify lib_wacs.c to not cancel the acsc, smacs, rmacs strings when
5252 in UTF-8 locale. Wide-character functions use Unicode values, while
5253 narrow-character functions use the terminfo data.
5254 + fix a couple of places in Ada95/samples which did not compile with
5256 + modify mkinstalldirs so the DOS-pathname case is locale-independent.
5257 + fix locale problem in MKlib_gen.sh by forcing related variables to
5258 POSIX (C), using same approach as autoconf (set variables only if
5259 they were set before). Update MKterminfo.sh and MKtermsort.sh to
5263 + add charset to generated html.
5264 + add mvterm entry, adapted from a FreeBSD bug-report by Daniel Rudy
5265 <dcrudy@pacbell.net> -TD
5266 + add rxvt-16color, ibm+16color entries -TD
5267 + modify check in --disable-overwrite option so that it is used by
5268 default unless the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr, in attempt to
5269 work around packagers, e.g., for Sun's freeware, who do not read the
5273 + modify wgetch() to allow returning ungetch'd KEY_RESIZE as a function
5274 key code in get_wch().
5275 + extended resize-handling in test/ncurses 'a' menu to the entire
5276 stack of windows created with 'w' commands.
5277 + improve $COLORFGBG feature by interpreting an out-of-range color
5278 value as an SGR 39 or 49, for foreground/background respectively.
5279 + correct a typo in configure --enable-colorfgbg option, and move it
5280 to the experimental section (cf: 20011208).
5283 + add logic to dump_entry.c to remove function-key definitions that do
5284 not fit into the 1023-byte limit for generated termcaps. This makes
5286 + more improvements to tic's warnings, including logic to ignore
5287 differences between delay values in sgr strings.
5288 + move definition of KEY_RESIZE into MKkeydefs.sh script, to
5289 accommodate Caps.osf1r5 which introduced a conflicting definition.
5292 + add simple resize-handling in test/ncurses.c 'a' menu.
5293 + fixes in keyname() and _tracechar() to handle negative values.
5294 + make tic's warnings about mismatches in sgr strings easier to follow.
5295 + correct tic checks for number of parameters in smgbp and smglp.
5296 + improve scoansi terminfo entry, and add scoansi-new entry -TD
5297 + add pcvt25-color terminfo entry -TD
5298 + add kf13-kf48 strings to cons25w terminfo entry (reported by Stephen
5299 Hurd <deuce@lordlegacy.org> in newsgroup lucky.freebsd.bugs) -TD
5300 + add entrypoint _nc_trace_ttymode(), use this to distinguish the
5301 Ottyb and Nttyb members of terminal (aka cur_term), for tracing.
5304 + correct and simplify logic for lib_pad.c change in 20020518 (reported
5308 + fix lib_pad.c for case of drawing a double-width character which
5309 falls off the left margin of the pad (patch by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij
5310 <lerdsuwa@users.sourceforge.net>)
5311 + modify configure script to work around broken gcc 3.1 "--version"
5312 option, which adds unnecessary trash to the requested information.
5313 + adjust ifdef's in case SIGWINCH is not defined, e.g., with DJGPP
5314 (reported by Ben Decker <deckerben@freenet.de>).
5317 + implement vid_puts(), vid_attr(), term_attrs() based on the narrow-
5318 character versions as well.
5319 + implement erasewchar(), killwchar() based on erasechar() and
5321 + modify erasechar() and killchar() to return ERR if the value was
5323 + correct a bug in wresize() in handling subwindows (based on patch by
5324 Roger Gammans <rgammans@computer-surgery.co.uk>, report by Scott Beck
5325 <scott@gossamer-threads.com>).
5326 + improve test/tclock.c by making the second-hand update more often
5327 if gettimeofday() is available.
5330 + workaround for Solaris sed with MKlib_gen.sh (reported by Andy
5331 Tsouladze <andyt@mypoints.com>).
5334 + correct return-value from getcchar(), making it consistent with
5336 + reorder loops that generate makefile rules for different models vs
5337 subsets so configure --with-termlib works again. This was broken by
5338 logic added to avoid duplicate rules in changes to accommodate cygwin
5339 dll's (reported by George.R.Goffe@seagate.com).
5340 + update config.guess, config.sub
5343 + modify ifdef's in write_entry.c to allow use of symbolic links on
5344 platforms with no hard links, e.g., BeOS.
5345 + modify a few includes to allow compile with BeOS, which has stdbool.h
5346 with a conflicting definition for 'bool' versus its OS.h definition.
5347 + amend MKlib_gen.sh to work with gawk, which defines 'func' as an
5348 alias for 'function'.
5351 + correct form of prototype for ripoffline().
5352 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to test that all functions marked as implemented
5356 + add manpages: curs_get_wstr.3x, curs_in_wchstr.3x
5357 + implement wgetn_wstr().
5358 + implement win_wchnstr().
5359 + remove redefinition of unget_wch() in lib_gen.c (reported by
5360 Jungshik Shin <jshin@jtan.com>).
5363 + modified several of the test programs to allow them to compile with
5364 vendor curses implementations, e.g., Solaris, AIX -TD
5367 + modified test/configure to allow configuring against ncursesw.
5368 + change WACS_xxx definition to use address, to work like Tru64 curses.
5371 + add 'e' and 'm' toggles to 'a', 'A' tests in ncurses.c to demonstrate
5372 effect of echo/noecho and meta modes.
5373 + add 'A' test to ncurses.c to demonstrate wget_wch() and related
5375 + add manpage: curs_get_wch.3x
5376 + implement unget_wch().
5377 + implement wget_wch().
5380 + regenerated html manpages.
5381 + add manpages: curs_in_wch.3x, curs_ins_wch.3x, curs_ins_wstr.3x
5382 + implement wins_wch().
5383 + implement win_wch().
5384 + implement wins_nwstr(), wins_wstr().
5387 + add manpages: curs_addwstr.3x, curs_winwstr.3x
5388 + implement winnwstr(), winwstr().
5391 + add manpages: curs_add_wchstr.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x
5392 + document wunctrl, key_name.
5393 + implement key_name().
5394 + remove const's in lib_box.c incorrectly leftover after splitting off
5396 + update llib-lncurses, llib-ncursesw, fix configure script related to
5400 + remove quotes on "SYNOPSIS" in man/curs_box_set.3x, which resulted
5401 in spurious symlinks on install.
5404 + implement whline_set(), wvline_set(), add manpage curs_border_set.
5405 + add subtest 'b' to 'F' and 'f' in ncurses.c to demonstrate use of
5406 box() and box_set() functions.
5407 + add subtest 'u' to 'F' in ncurses.c, to demonstrate use of addstr()
5408 given UTF-8 string equivalents of WACS_xxx symbols.
5409 + minor fixes to several manpages based on groff -ww output.
5410 + add descriptions of external variables of termcap interface to
5411 the manpage (report by Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>).
5412 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
5413 + correct configure option --with-bool, which was executed as
5415 + add quotes for parameters of --with-bool and --with-ospeed configure
5417 > patch by Sven Verdoolaege (report by Gerhard Haering
5418 <haering_linux@gmx.de>):
5419 + correct typos in definitions of several wide-character macros:
5420 waddwstr, wgetbkgrnd, mvaddwstr, mvwadd_wchnstr, mvwadd_wchnstr,
5422 + pass $(CPPFLAGS) to MKlib_gen.sh, thereby fixing a missing definition
5423 of _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, e.g., on Solaris
5426 + implement wide-acs characters for UTF-8 locales. When in UTF-8
5427 locale, ignore narrow version of acs. Add 'F' test to test/ncurses.c
5429 + correct prototype in keybound manpage (noted from a Debian mailing
5433 + add several cases to the wscanw() example in testcurs.c, showing the
5435 + implement a simple vsscanf() fallback function which uses the %n
5436 conversion to help parse the input data (prompted by discussion with
5437 Albert Chin-A-Young).
5438 + modify mk-1st.awk and test/Makefile.in to add $(LDFLAGS) when making
5439 shared libraries, and to use $(CFLAGS) when linking test programs
5440 (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
5441 + add a call to _nc_keypad() in keypad() to accommodate applications
5442 such as nvi, which use curses for output but not for input (fixes
5443 Debian #131263, cf: 20011215).
5444 + add entrypoints to resizeterm.c which provide better control over the
5445 process: is_term_resized() and resize_term(). The latter restores
5446 the original design of resizeterm() before KEY_RESIZE was added in
5447 970906. Do this to accommodate 20010922 changes to view.c, but allow
5448 for programs with their own sigwinch handler, such as lynx (reported
5449 by Russell Ruby <russ@math.orst.edu>).
5452 + fix a typo in change to mk-1st.awk, which broke the shared-library
5453 makefile rules (reported by Martin Mokrejs).
5456 + update config.guess, config.sub
5457 + finish changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
5458 + fix a typo in mvwchat() macro (reported by Cy <yam@homerow.net).
5461 + add case in lib_baudrate.c for B921600 (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
5462 + correct missing sed-editing stage in manpage installs which is used
5463 to rename manpages, broken in 20010324 fix for Debian #89939 (Debian
5465 + remove -L$(libdir) from linker flags, probably not needed any more
5466 since HPUX is handled properly (reported by Niibe Yutaka
5468 + add configure check for mbstate_t, needed for wide-character
5469 configuration. On some platforms we must include <wchar.h> to
5470 define this (reported by Daniel Jacobowitz).
5471 + incorporate some of the changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
5474 + workaround for awk did not work with mawk, adjusted shell script.
5477 + add Caps.osf1r5, as an example.
5478 + modify behavior of can_clear_with() so that if an application is
5479 running in a non-bce terminals with default colors enabled, it
5480 returns true, allowing the user to select/paste text without picking
5481 up extraneous trailing blanks (adapted from patch by Daniel
5482 Jacobowitz <dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu>).
5483 + modify generated curses.h to ifdef-out prototypes for extensions if
5484 they are disabled, and to define curses_version() as a string in that
5485 case. This is needed to make the programs such as tic build in that
5487 + modified generated headers.sh to remove a gzip'd version of the
5488 target file if it exists, in case non-gzip'd manpages are installed
5489 into a directory where gzip'd ones exist. In that case, the latter
5491 + corrected a redundant initialization of signal handlers from 20010922
5493 + clarified bug-reporting address in terminfo.src (report by John H
5494 DuBois III <spcecdt@armory.com>).
5495 > several fixes from Robert Joop:
5496 + do not use "-v" option of awk in MKkey_defs.sh because it does not
5497 work with SunOS nawk.
5498 + modify definitions for libutf8 in curses.h to avoid redefinition
5500 + quoted references to compiler in shell command in misc/Makefile, in
5501 case it uses multiple tokens.
5504 + restore special case from 20010922 changes to omit SA_RESTART when
5505 setting up SIGWINCH handler, which is needed to allow wgetch() to be
5506 interrupted by that signal.
5507 + updated configure macro CF_WITH_PATHLIST, to omit some double quotes
5508 not needed with autoconf 2.52
5509 + revert configure script to autoconf 2.13 patched with
5510 autoconf-2.13-19990117.patch.gz (or later)
5512 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
5513 because autoconf 2.52 macro AC_PROG_AWK does not work on HPUX 11.0
5514 (report by David Ellement <ellement@sdd.hp.com>). This also fixes a
5515 different problem configuring with Mac OS X (reported by Marc Smith
5516 <marc.a.smith@home.com>).
5519 + modify include/edit_cfg.h to eliminate BROKEN_LINKER symbol from
5521 + move prototype for _nc_vsscanf() into curses.h.in to omit
5522 HAVE_VSSCANF symbol from curses.h, which was dependent upon the
5523 ncurses_cfg.h file which is not installed.
5524 + use ACS_LEN rather than SIZEOF(acs_map) in trace code of lib_acs.c,
5525 to work with broken linker configuration, e.g., cygwin (report by
5526 Robert Joop <rj@rainbow.in-berlin.de>).
5527 + make napms() call _nc_timed_wait() rather than poll() or select(),
5528 to work around broken implementations of these on cygwin.
5531 + drop configure macro CF_WIDEC_SHIFT, since that was rendered obsolete
5532 by Sven Verdoolaege's rewrite of wide-character support. This makes
5533 libncursesw incompatible again, but makes the header files almost the
5534 same as in the narrow-character configuration.
5535 + simplify definitions that combine wide/narrow versions of bkgd, etc.,
5536 to eliminate differences between the wide/narrow versions of curses.h
5537 + correct typo in configure macro CF_FUNC_VSSCANF
5538 + correct location of call to _nc_keypad() from 20011215 changes which
5539 prevented keypad() from being disabled (reported by Lars Hecking).
5542 + rewrote ncurses 'a' test to exercise wgetch() and keypad() functions
5543 better, e.g., by adding a 'w' command to create new windows which
5544 may have different keypad() settings.
5545 + corrected logic of keypad() by adding internal screen state to track
5546 whether the terminal's keypad-mode has been set. Use this in
5547 wgetch() to update the keypad-mode according to whether the
5548 associated window's keypad-mode has been set with keypad(). This
5549 corrects a related problem restoring terminal state after handling
5550 SIGTSTP (reported by Mike Castle).
5551 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52
5552 autoconf-2.52-patch.gz
5554 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
5555 + update config.guess, config.sub from
5556 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
5557 + minor changes to quoting in configure script to allow it to work
5561 + modify final checks in lib_setup.c for line and col values, making
5563 + modify acs_map[] if configure --broken-linker is specified, to make
5564 it use a function rather than an array (prompted by an incorrect
5565 implementation in cygwin package).
5566 + correct spelling of configure option --enable-colorfgbg, which
5567 happened to work if --with-develop was set (noted in cygwin package
5569 + modify ifdef for genericerror() to compile with SUNWspro Sun WorkShop
5570 6 update 1 C++ 5.2 (patch by Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu>).
5571 + add configure checks to see if ncurses' fallback vsscanf() will
5572 compile either of the special cases for FILE structs, and if not,
5573 force it to the case which simply returns an error (report by
5574 Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu> indicates that Solaris 8 with
5575 64-bits does not allow access to FILE's fields).
5576 + modify ifdef's for c++/cursesw.cc to use the fallback vsscanf() in
5577 the ncurses library if no better substitute for this can be found
5579 + modify the build to name dynamic libraries according to the
5580 convention used on OS X and Darwin. Rather than something like
5581 libncurses.dylib.5.2, Darwin would name it libncurses. 5.dylib.
5582 There are a few additional minor fixes, such as setting the library
5583 version and compatibility version numbers (patch by Jason Evans
5584 <jevans@apple.com>).
5585 + use 'sh' to run mkinstalldirs, to work around problems with buggy
5586 versions of 'make' on OS/2 (report by John Polterak <jp@eyup.org>).
5587 + correct typo in manpage description of curs_set() (Debian #121548).
5588 + replace the configure script existence-check for mkstemp() by one
5589 that checks if the function works, needed for older glibc and
5593 + modify script that generates fallbacks.c to compile a temporary
5594 copy of the terminfo source in case the host does not contain all of
5595 the entries requested for fallbacks (request by Greg Roelofs).
5596 + modify configure script to accommodate systems such as Mac OS X whose
5597 <stdbool.h> header defines a 'bool' type inconsistent with ncurses,
5598 which normally makes 'bool' consistent with C++. Include <stdbool.h>
5599 from curses.h to force consistent usage, define a new type
5600 NCURSES_BOOL and related that to the exported 'bool' as either a
5601 typedef or definition, according to whether <stdbool.h> is present
5602 (based on a bug report for tin 1.5.9 by Aaron Adams <adamsa@mac.com>).
5605 + added/updated terminfo entries for M$ telnet and KDE konsole -TD
5608 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
5609 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
5610 + add putty terminfo entry -TD
5611 + if configuring for wide-curses, define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, since
5612 this may not otherwise be defined to make test/view.c compile.
5615 + review/correct several missing/generated items in curses.wide, sorted
5616 the lists to make subsequent diff's easier to track.
5619 + add manual pages for add_wch(), echo_wchar(), getcchar(),
5620 mvadd_wch(), mvwadd_wch(), setcchar(), wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar().
5621 + implement wecho_wchar()
5622 + modify _tracedump() to handle wide-characters by mapping them to '?'
5623 and control-characters to '.', to make the trace file readable. Also
5624 dynamically allocate the buffer used by _tracedump() for formatting
5626 + modify T_CALLED/T_RETURN macros to ease balancing call/return lines
5627 in a trace by using curly braces.
5628 + implement _nc_viscbuf(), for tracing cchar_t arrays.
5629 + correct trace-calls in setcchar() and getcchar() functions, which
5630 traced the return values but not the entry to each function.
5631 + correct usage message in test/view.c, which still mentioned -u flag.
5634 + modify configure script to allow building with termcap only, or with
5635 fallbacks only. In this case, we do not build tic and toe.
5636 + add configure --with-termpath option, to override default TERMPATH
5637 value of /etc/termcap:/usr/share/misc/termcap.
5638 + cosmetic change to tack: make menu descriptions agree with menu
5642 + rewrote limit-checks in wscrl() and associated _nc_scroll_window(),
5643 to ensure that if the parameter of wscrl() is larger than the size of
5644 the scrolling region, then the scrolling region will be cleared
5645 (report by Ben Kohlen <bckohlen@yahoo.com>).
5646 + add trace/varargs.c, using this to trace parameters in lib_printw.c
5647 + implement _tracecchar_t2() and _tracecchar_t().
5648 + split-out trace/visbuf.c
5649 + correct typo in lib_printw.c changes from 20010922 (report by Mike
5653 + modify run_tic.sh to check if the build is a cross-compile. In that
5654 case, do not use the build's tic to install the terminfo database
5655 (report by Rafael Rodriguez Velilla <rrv@tid.es>).
5656 + modify mouse click resolution so that mouseinterval(-1) will disable
5657 it, e.g., to handle touchscreens via a slow connection (request by
5658 Byron Stanoszek <gandalf@winds.org>).
5659 + correct mouseinterval() default value shown in curs_mouse.3x
5660 + remove conflicting definition of mouse_trafo() (reported by Lars
5661 Hecking, using gcc 2.95.3).
5664 + simpler fix for signal_name(), to replace the one overlooked in
5665 20010929 (reported by Larry Virden).
5668 + add -i option to view.c, to test ncurses' check for non-default
5669 signal handler for SIGINT, etc.
5670 + add cases for shared-libraries on Darwin/OS X (patch by Rob Braun
5671 <bbraun@synack.net>).
5672 + modify tset to restore original I/O modes if an error is encountered.
5673 Also modify to use buffered stderr consistently rather than mixing
5675 + change signal_name() function to use if-then-else rather than case
5676 statement, since signal-values aren't really integers (reported by
5678 + add limit checks in wredrawln(), fixing a problem where lynx was
5679 repainting a pad which was much larger than the screen.
5682 + fix: PutRange() was counting the second part of a wide character as
5683 part of a run, resulting in a cursor position that was one too far
5684 (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
5685 + modify resizeterm() to not queue a KEY_RESIZE if there was no
5686 SIGWINCH, thereby separating the two styles of SIGWINCH handling
5688 + simplified lib_tstp.c, modify it to use SA_RESTART flag for SIGWINCH.
5689 + eliminate several static buffers in the terminfo compiler, using
5691 + modify MKkeyname.awk so that keyname() does not store its result into
5692 a static buffer that is overwritten by the next call.
5693 + reorganize the output of infocmp -E and -e options to compile cleanly
5694 with gcc -Wwrite-strings warnings.
5695 + remove redefinition of chgat/wchgat/mvwchgat from curses.wide
5698 + add label to test/view.c, showing the name of the last key or signal
5699 that made the screen repaint, to make it clearer when a sigwinch
5701 + use ExitProgram() consistently in the test-programs to make it
5702 simpler to test leaks with dmalloc, etc.
5703 + move hashtab static data out of hashmap.c into SCREEN struct.
5704 + make NO_LEAK code compile with revised WINDOWLIST structs.
5707 + modify tgetent() to check if exit_attribute_mode resets the alternate
5708 character set, and if so, attempt to adjust the copy of the termcap
5709 "me" string which it will return to eliminate that part. In
5710 particular, 'screen' would lose track of line-drawing characters
5711 (report by Frederic L W Meunier <0@pervalidus.net>, analysis by
5715 + specify DOCTYPE in html manpages.
5716 + add missing macros for several "generated" functions: attr_get(),
5717 attr_off(), attr_on(), attr_set(), chgat(), mvchgat(), mvwchgat() and
5719 + modify view.c to agree with non-experimental status of ncurses'
5721 + change the sense of the -r option, making it default to ncurses'
5723 + add a note explaining what functions are unsafe in a signal
5725 + add a -c option, to set color display, for testing.
5726 + unset $data variable in MKterminfo.sh script, to address potential
5727 infinite loop if shell malfunction (report by Samuel Mikes
5728 <smikes@cubane.com>, for bash 2.05.0 on a Linux 2.0.36 system).
5729 + change kbs in mach terminfo entries to ^? (Marcus Brinkmann
5730 <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>).
5731 + correct logic for COLORFGBG environment variable: if rxvt is compiled
5732 with xpm support, the variable has three fields, making it slightly
5733 incompatible with itself. In either case, the background color is
5737 + move calls to def_shell_mode() and def_prog_mode() before loop with
5738 callbacks in lib_set_term.c, since the c++ demo otherwise initialized
5739 the tty modes before saving them (patch by John David Anglin
5740 <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>).
5741 + duplicate logic used to initialize trace in newterm(), in initscr()
5742 to avoid confusing trace of initscr().
5743 + simplify allocation of WINDOW and WINDOWLIST structs by making the
5744 first a part of the second rather than storing a pointer. This saves
5745 a call to malloc for each window (discussion with Philippe Blain).
5746 + remove unused variable 'used_ncv' from lib_vidattr.c (Philippe
5748 + modify c++/Makefile.in to accommodate archive programs that are
5749 different for C++ than for C, and add cases for vendor's C++
5750 compilers on Solaris and IRIX (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
5751 + correct manpage description of criteria for deciding if the terminal
5752 supports xterm mouse controls.
5753 + add several configure script options to aid with cross-compiling:
5754 --with-build-cc, --with-build-cflags, --with-build-ldflags, and
5755 --with-build-libs (request by Greg Roelofs).
5756 + change criteria for deciding if configure is cross-compiling from
5757 host/build mismatch to host/target mismatch (request by Greg Roelofs
5758 <greg.roelofs@philips.com>).
5759 + correct logic for infocmp -e and -E options which writes the data for
5760 the ext_Names[] array. This is needed if one constructs a fallback
5761 table for a terminfo entry which uses extended termcap names, e.g.,
5762 AX in a color xterm.
5763 + fix undefined NCURSES_PATHSEP when configure --disable-database
5767 + fix for VALID_BOOLEAN() macro when char is not signed.
5768 + modify 'clean' rule for C++ binding to work with Sun compiler, which
5769 caches additional information in a subdirectory of the objects.
5770 + added llib-ncursesw.
5773 + add Caps.keys example for experimental extended function keys
5774 (adapted from a patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
5775 + correct parameter types of vidputs() and vidattr() to agree with
5776 header files (report by William P Setzer).
5777 + fix typos in several man-pages (patch by William P Setzer).
5778 + remove unneeded ifdef for __GNUG__ in CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC configure
5779 macro, which made ncurses C++ binding fail to build with other
5780 C++ compilers such as HPUX 11.x (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
5781 + workaround for bug in HPUX 11.x C compiler: add a blank after
5782 NCURSES_EXPORT macro in form.h (report by Albert Chin-A-Young)
5783 + ignore blank lines in Caps* files in MKkey_defs.sh script (report by
5784 Albert Chin-A-Young).
5785 + correct definition of key_end in Caps.aix4, which left KEY_END
5786 undefined (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
5787 + remove a QNX-specific fallback prototype for vsscanf(), which is
5788 obsolete with QNX RTP.
5789 + review/fix some of the T() and TR() macro calls, having noticed that
5790 there was no data for delwin() in a trace of dialog because there was
5791 no returnVoid call for wtimeout(). Also, traces in lib_twait.c are
5792 now selected under TRACE_IEVENT rather than TRACE_CALLS.
5795 + add a _nc_access() check before opening files listed via $TERMPATH.
5796 + using modified man2html, regenerate some of the html manpages to fix
5797 broken HREF's where the link was hyphenated.
5800 + add some limit/pointer checks to -S option of tputs.
5801 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
5802 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
5803 + add a note in curs_termcap.3x regarding a defect in the XSI
5804 description of tgetent (based on a discussion with Urs Jansen
5805 regarding the HPUX 11.x implementation, whose termcap interface is
5806 not compatible with existing termcap programs).
5807 + modify manhtml rule in dist.mk to preserve copyright notice on the
5808 generated files, as well as to address HTML style issues reported by
5809 tidy and weblint. Regenerated/updated corresponding html files.
5810 + comment out use of Protected_Character and related rarely used
5811 attributes in ncurses Ada95 test/demo to compile with wide-character
5815 + implement a simple example in C++ demo to test scanw().
5816 + corrected stdio function used to implement scanw() in cursesw.cc
5817 + correct definition of RemAttr() macro from 20010602 changes, which
5818 caused C++ SillyDemo to not show line-drawing characters.
5819 + modify C++ binding, adding getKey() which can be overridden by user
5820 to substitute functions other than getch() for keyboard processing
5821 of forms and menus (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
5824 + fix some of the trace calls which needed modification to work with
5825 new wide-character structures.
5826 + modify magic-cookie code in tty_update.c to compile with new
5827 wide-character structures (report by <George.R.Goffe@seagate.com>).
5828 + ensure that _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined in curses.priv.h if
5829 compiling for wide-character configuration.
5830 + make addwnstr() handle non-spacing characters (patch by Sven
5834 + add configure check to define _GNU_SOURCE, needed to prop up glibc
5836 + split-out include/curses.wide to solve spurious redefinitions caused
5837 by defining _GNU_SOURCE, and move includes for <signal.h> before
5838 <curses.h> to work around misdefinition of ERR in glibc 2.1.3 header
5840 + extended ospeed change to NetBSD and OpenBSD -TD
5841 + modify logic in lib_baudrate.c for ospeed, for FreeBSD to make it
5842 work properly for termcap applications (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
5845 + correct an overlooked CharOf/UChar instance (reports by Eugene Lee
5846 <eugene@anime.net>, Sven Verdoolaege).
5847 + correct unneeded ifdef for wunctrl() (reported by Sven Verdoolaege)
5850 + change overlooked several CharOf/UChar instances.
5851 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
5852 + correct a typo in wunctrl(), which made it appear that botwc() was
5853 needed (no such function: use btowc()).
5854 + reimplement wide-character demo in test/view.c, using new functions.
5855 + implement getcchar(), setcchar(), wadd_wchnstr() and related macros.
5856 + fix a syntax problem with do/if/while in PUTC macro (curses.priv.h).
5859 + add parentheses in macros for malloc in test.priv.h, fixes an
5860 expression in view.c (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.co.at>).
5861 + add Caps.uwin, as an example.
5862 + change the way curses.h is generated, making the list of function
5863 key definitions extracted from the Caps file.
5864 + add #undef's before possible redefinition of ERR and OK in curses.h
5865 + modify logic in tic, toe, tput and tset which checks for basename of
5866 argv[0] to work properly on systems such as OS/2 which have
5867 case-independent filenames and/or program suffixes, e.g., ".ext".
5870 + add a configure check, if --enable-widec is specified, for putwc(),
5871 which may be in libutf8.
5872 + remove some unnecessary text from curs_extend.3x and
5873 default_colors.3x which caused man-db to make incorrect symbolic
5874 links (Debian #99550).
5875 + add configure check if cast for _IO_va_list is needed to compile
5876 C++ vscan code (Debian #97945).
5877 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
5878 + correct code that used non-standard auto-initialization of a struct,
5879 which gcc allows (report by Larry Virden).
5880 + use putwc() in PUTC() macro.
5881 + make addstr() work for the special case where the codeset is
5882 non-stateful (eg. UTF-8), as well as stateful codesets.
5885 + correct loop expression in NEXT_CHAR macro for lib_addstr.c changes
5886 from 20010602 (report by Mike Castle).
5889 + modify mvcur() to avoid emitting newline characters when nonl() mode
5890 is set. Normally this is not a problem since the actual terminal
5891 mode is set to suppress nl/crlf translations, however it is useful to
5892 allow the caller to manipulate the terminal mode to avoid staircasing
5893 effects after spawning a process which writes messages (for lynx
5895 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>:
5896 + remove redundant type-conversion in fifo_push()
5897 + correct definition of addwstr() macro in curses.h.in
5898 + remove _nc_utf8_outch()
5899 + rename most existing uses of CharOf() to UChar(), e.g., where it is
5900 used to prevent sign-extension in ctype macros.
5901 + change some chtype's to attr_t's where the corresponding variables
5902 are used to manipulate attributes.
5903 + UpdateAttr() was applied to both attributes (attr_t) and characters
5904 (chtype). Modify macro and calls to it to make these distinct.
5905 + add CharEq() macro, use in places where wide-character configuration
5906 implementation uses a struct for cchar_t.
5907 + moved struct ldat into curses.priv.h, to hide implementation details.
5908 + change CharOf() macro to use it for masking A_CHARTEXT data from
5910 + add L() macro to curses.priv.h, for long-character literals.
5911 + replace several assignments from struct ldat entries to chtype or
5912 char values with combinations of CharOf() and AttrOf() macros.
5913 + add/use intermediate ChAttrOf() and ChCharOf() macros where we know
5914 we are using chtype data.
5915 + add/use lowlevel attribute manipulation macros AddAttr(), RemAttr()
5917 + add/use SetChar() macro, to change a cchar_t based on a character and
5919 + convert most internal use of chtype to NCURSES_CH_T, to simplify use
5920 of cchar_t for wide-character configuration. Similarly, use ARG_CH_T
5921 where a pointer would be more useful.
5922 + add stubs for tracing cchar_t values.
5923 + add/use macro ISBLANK()
5924 + add/use constructors for cchar_t's: NewChar(), NewChar2().
5925 + add/use macros CHREF(), CHDEREF(), AttrOfD(), CharOfD() to facilitate
5926 passing cchar_t's by address.
5927 + add/use PUTC_DATA, PUTC() macros.
5928 + for wide-character configuration, move the window background data to
5929 the end of the WINDOW struct so that whether _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
5930 is defined or not, the offsets in the struct will not change.
5931 + modify addch() to work with wide-characters.
5932 + mark several wide-character functions as generated in curses.h.in
5933 + implement wunctrl(), wadd_wch(), wbkgrndset(), wbkgrnd(),
5934 wborder_set() and waddnwstr().
5937 + add experimental --with-caps=XXX option to customize to similar
5938 terminfo database formats such as AIX 4.x
5939 + add Caps.aix4 as an example.
5940 + modify Caps to add columns for the the KEY_xxx symbols.
5941 + modify configure --with-widec to suppress overwrite of libcurses.so
5943 + add checks to toe.c to avoid being confused by files and directories
5944 where we would expect the reverse, e.g., source-files in the
5945 top-level terminfo levels as is the case for AIX.
5948 + add top-level 'depend' rule for the C sources, assuming that the
5949 makedepend program is available. As a side-effect, this makes
5950 the generated sources, as in "make sources" (prompted by a report
5951 by Mike Castle that "make -j" fails because the resulting parallel
5952 processes race to generate ncurses/names.c).
5953 + modify configure script so that --disable-overwrite option's action
5954 to add a symbolic link for libcurses applies to the static library as
5955 well as the shared library when both are configured (report by Felix
5956 Natter <f.natter@ndh.net>).
5957 + add ELKS terminfo entries (Federico Bianchi
5958 <bianchi@www.arte.unipi.it>)
5959 + add u6 (CSR) to Eterm (Michael Jennings).
5962 + modify test/ncurses.c to work with xterm-256color, which has fewer
5963 color pairs than colors*colors (report by David Ellement
5964 <ellement@sdd.hp.com>).
5967 + corrected screen.xterm-xfree86 entry.
5968 + update comment in Caps regarding IBM (AIX) function-key definitions.
5971 + modify c++/Makefile.in to link with libncurses++w.a when configured
5972 for wide-characters (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
5973 + add check in _nc_trace_buf() to refrain from freeing a null pointer.
5974 + improve CF_PROG_INSTALL macro using CF_DIRNAME.
5975 + update config.guess, config.sub from autoconf 2.49e (alpha).
5978 + add secondary check in tic.c, similar_sgr() to see if the reason
5979 for mismatch was that the individual capabilities used a time-delay
5980 while sgr did not. Used this to cleanup mismatches, e.g., in vt100,
5981 and remove time-delay from Apple_Terminal entries.
5982 + add Apple_Terminal terminfo entries (Benjamin C W Sittler
5983 <bsittler@iname.com>).
5984 + correct definitions of shifted editing keys for xterm-xfree86 -TD
5985 + fix a bug in test/bs.c from 20010407 (patch by Erik Sigra).
5986 + prevent relative_move() from doing an overwrite if it detects 8-bit
5987 characters when configured for UTF-8 (reported by Sven Verdoolaege
5988 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
5991 + add configure checks for strstream.h vscan function, and similar
5992 stdio-based function which may be used in C++ binding for gcc 3.0
5993 (reports by George Goffe, Lars Hecking, Mike Castle).
5994 + rewrite parts of configure.in which used changequote(). That feature
5995 is broken in the latest autoconf alphas (e.g., 2.49d).
5996 + add a missing pathname for ncurses_dll.h, needed when building in
5997 a directory outside the source tree (patch by Sven Verdoolaege
5998 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
5999 > fix 2 bugs in test/bs.c Erik Sigra <sigra@home.se>:
6000 + no ships were ever placed in the last row or in the last column.
6001 This made the game very easy to win, because you never had to waste
6002 any shots there, but the computer did.
6003 + the squares around a sunken ship that belonged to the player were not
6004 displayed as already hit by the computer, like it does for the
6008 + add some examples of customizing screen's terminfo:
6009 screen.xterm-xfree86, screen.xterm-r6, screen.teraterm -TD
6010 + modify screen's terminfo entry to match the khome/kend in screen
6011 3.09.08 (Debian #92215).
6012 + correct a memory leak in forms library (report by Stefan Vogtner
6013 <stefan@vogtner.de>) (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
6016 + change symbols used to guard against repeated includes to begin
6017 consistently with "NCURSES_" rather than a leading underscore. There
6018 are other symbols defined in the header files which begin with a
6019 leading underscore, but they are part of the legacy interface.
6020 + reorder includes in c++ binding so that rcs identifiers can be
6022 + add .cc.ii rule to c++ makefile, to get preprocessor output for
6024 + correct configure script handling of @keyword@ substitutions when the
6025 --with-manpage-renames option is given (cf: 20000715, fixes Debian
6027 + report stack underflow/overflow in tparm() when tic -cv option is
6029 + remove spurious "%|" operator from xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry,
6030 (reported by Adam Costello <amc@cs.berkeley.edu>, Debian #89222).
6033 + cleanup of newdemo.c, fixing some ambiguous expressions noted by gcc
6034 2.95.2, and correcting some conflicting color pair initializations.
6035 + add missing copyright notice for cursesw.h
6036 + review, make minor fixes for use of '::' for referring to C-language
6037 interface from C++ binding.
6038 + modify configure check for g++ library slightly to accommodate
6039 nonstandard version number, e.g., <vendor>-2.7 (report by Ronald Ho
6040 <rho@mipos2.intel.com>).
6041 + add configure check for c++ <sstream> header, replace hardcoded
6043 + workaround for pre-release of gcc 3.0 libstdc++, which has dropped
6044 vscan from strstreambuf to follow standard, use wrapper for C vscanf
6045 instead (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@excite.com> and Matt Taggart
6046 <taggart@carmen.fc.hp.com>, fixes Debian .
6049 + modify interface of _nc_get_token() to pass 'silent' parameter to it,
6050 to make quieter loading of /etc/termcap (patch by Todd C Miller).
6051 + correct a few typos in curs_slk.3x and curs_outopts.3x manpages
6052 (patch by Todd C Miller).
6055 + compiler-warning fixes (reported by Nelson Beebe).
6058 + modify screen terminfo entry to use new 3.9.8 feature allowing xterm
6062 + broaden patterns used to match OS/2 EMX in configure script to cover
6063 variant used in newer config.guess/config.sub
6064 + remove changequote() calls from configure script, since this feature
6065 is broken in the autoconf 2.49c alpha, maintainers decline to fix.
6066 + remove macro callPutChar() from tty_update.c, since this is no longer
6067 needed (reported by Philippe Blain).
6068 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c to handle the case when the input
6069 file is really empty. Modify the next_char() function in comp_scan.c
6070 to allow arbitrarily long lines, and incidentally supply a newline to
6071 files that do not end in a newline. These changes improve tic's
6072 recovery from attempts to read binary files, e.g., its output from
6073 the terminfo database (reported by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
6076 + revert change to c++/demo.cc from 20001209, which changed definition
6077 of main() apparently to accommodate cygwin linker, but broke the demo
6079 + workaround for broken egcs 2.91.66 which calls member functions
6080 (i.e., lines() and colors() of NCursesWindow before calling its
6081 constructor. Add calls to initialize() in a few constructors which
6082 did not do this already.
6083 + use the GNAT preprocessor to make the necessary switch between TRACE
6084 and NO_TRACE configurations (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
6085 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
6086 + modify kterm terminfo entry to use SCS sequence to support alternate
6087 character set (it does not work with SI/SO).
6088 + --with-ospeed=something didn't work. configure.in checked for a
6089 $enableval where it should check for $withval. Also,
6090 ncurses/llib-lncurses still had a hardcoded short.
6093 + correction to my merge of Tom Riddle's patch that broke tic in some
6094 conditions (reported by Enoch Wexler <enoch@wexler.co.il>) -TD
6097 + modify view.c to test halfdelay(). Like other tests, this recognizes
6098 the 's' and space commands for stopping/starting polled input, shows
6099 a freerunning clock in the header. If given a parameter to 's', that
6100 makes view.c use halfdelay() with that parameter rather than
6102 + fix to allow compile with the experimental configure option
6104 + modify postprocess_termcap() to avoid overwriting key_backspace,
6105 key_left, key_down when processing a non-base entry (report/patch by
6107 + modify _nc_wrap_entry(), adding option to reallocate the string
6108 table, needed in _nc_merge_entry() when merging termcap entries.
6109 (adapted from report/patch by Tom Riddle <ftr@oracom.com>).
6110 + modify a few configure script macros to keep $CFLAGS used only for
6111 compiler options, preprocessor options in $CPPFLAGS.
6114 + correct marker positions in lrtest.c after receiving a sigwinch.
6115 + fix ifdef's in ncurses.c to build against pre-5.2 for testing.
6116 + fixes to tclock for resizing behavior, redundant computation (report
6117 and patch by A M Kuchling <akuchlin@mems-exchange.org>).
6120 + improved scoansi terminfo entry -TD
6121 + modify configure script and makefile in Ada95/src to compile a stub
6122 for the trace functions when ncurses does not provide those.
6125 + add ncurses_dll.h and related definitions to support generating DLL's
6126 with cygwin (adapted from a patch by Charles Wilson
6127 <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>, changed NCURSES_EXPORT macro to make it
6128 work with 'indent') -TD
6131 + correct prototypes for some functions in curs_termcap.3x, matching
6132 termcap.h, which matches X/Open.
6133 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
6134 + a revised version of the Ada enhancements sent in by "H.
6135 Nanosecond", aka Eugene V Melaragno <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>. This
6137 - small fixes to the existing ncurses binding
6138 - addition of some more low-level functions to the binding, including
6139 termcap and terminfo functions
6140 - An Ada implementation of the "ncurses" test application originally
6144 + modify logic in lib_setup.c to allow either lines or columns value
6145 from terminfo to be used if the screen size cannot be determined
6146 dynamically rather than requiring both (patch by Ehud Karni
6147 <ehud@unix.simonwiesel.co.il>).
6148 + add check in lib_tgoto.c's is_termcap() function to reject null or
6149 empty strings (reported by Valentin Nechayev <netch@netch.kiev.ua> to
6151 + add definition from configure script that denotes the path-separator,
6152 which is normally a colon. The path-separator is a semicolon on
6153 OS/2 EMX and similar systems which may use a colon within pathnames.
6154 + alter logic to set default for --disable-overwrite option to set it
6155 to 'yes' if the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr/local, thereby
6156 accommodating the most common cause of problems: gcc's nonstandard
6157 search rules. Other locations such as /usr/local/ncurses will
6158 default to overwriting (report by Lars Hecking <lhecking@nmrc.ie>).
6161 + modify default for --disable-overwrite configure option to disable
6162 if the --prefix or $prefix value is not /usr.
6163 + add cygwin to systems for which ncurses is installed by default into
6164 /usr rather than /usr/local.
6167 + minor optimization in comp_error.c and lib_termname.c, using
6168 strncat() to replace strncpy() (patch by Solar Designer).
6169 + add a use_terminfo_vars() check for $HOME/.termcap, and check for
6170 geteuid() to use_terminfo_vars() (patch by Solar Designer
6172 + improved cygwin terminfo entry, based on patch by
6173 <ernie_boyd@yahoo.com>.
6174 + modify _nc_write_entry() to allow for the possibility that linking
6175 aliases on a filesystem that ignores case would not succeed because
6176 the source and destination differ only by case, e.g., NCR260VT300WPP0
6177 on cygwin (report by Neil Zanella).
6178 + fix a typo in the curs_deleteln.3x man page (patch by Bernhard
6179 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
6182 + add configure option --with-ospeed to assist packagers in transition
6183 to 5.3 change to ospeed type.
6184 + add/use CharOf() macro to suppress sign-extension of char type on
6185 platforms where this is a problem in ctype macros, e.g., Solaris.
6186 + change trace output to binary format.
6187 + correct a missing quote adjustment in CF_PATH_SYNTAX autoconf
6188 macro, for OS/2 EMX configuration.
6189 + rearrange a few configure macros, moving preprocessor options to
6190 $CPPFLAGS (a now-obsolete version of autoconf did not consistently
6191 use $CPPFLAGS in both the compile and preprocessor checks).
6192 + add a check in relative_move() to guard against buffer overflow in
6193 the overwrite logic.
6196 + add message to configure script showing g++ version.
6197 + resync config.guess, config.sub
6198 + modify lib_delwin.c, making it return ERR if the window did not exist
6199 (suggested by Neil Zanella).
6200 + add cases for FreeBSD 3.1 to tdlint and makellib scripts, used this
6201 to test/review ncurses library. (Would use lclint, but it doesn't
6203 + reorganized knight.c to avoid forward references. Correct screen
6204 updates when backtracking, especially to the first cell. Add F/B/a
6207 20001021 5.2 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
6208 + update generated html files from manpages.
6209 + modify dist.mk to use edit_man.sh to substitute autoconf'd variables
6211 + fix an uninitialized pointer in read_termcap.c (report by Todd C
6212 Miller, from report/patch by Philip Guenther <guenther@gac.edu>).
6213 + correct help-message and array limit in knight.c (patch by Brian
6214 Raiter <breadbox@muppetlabs.com>).
6215 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
6216 + fix to avoid warning by GNAT-3.13p about use of inconsistent casing
6217 for some identifiers defined in the standard package.
6218 + cosmetic change to forms/fty_enum.c
6221 + correct an off-by-one position in test/railroad.c which could cause
6222 wrapping at the right margin.
6223 + test/repair some issues with libtool configuration. Make
6224 --disable-echo force libtool --silent. (Libtool does not work for
6225 OS/2 EMX, works partly for SCO - libtool is still very specific to
6227 + change default of --with-manpage-tbl to "no", since for most of the
6228 platforms which do have tbl installed, the system "man" program
6229 understands how to run tbl automatically.
6230 + minor improvement to force_bar() in comp_parse.c (Bernhard
6231 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
6232 + modify lib_tparm.c to use get_space() before writing terminating
6233 null character, both for consistency as well as to ensure that if
6234 save_char() was called immediately before, that the allocated memory
6235 is enough (patch by Sergei Ivanov).
6236 + add note about termcap ML capability which is duplicated between two
6237 different capabilities: smgl and smglr (reported by Sergei Ivanov
6238 <svivanov@pdmi.ras.ru>).
6239 + correct parameter counts in include/Caps for dclk as well as some
6240 printer-specific capabilities: csnm, defc, scs, scsd, smgtp, smglp.
6241 > patch by Johnny C Lam <lamj@stat.cmu.edu>:
6242 + add support for building with libtool (apparently version 1.3.5,
6243 since old versions do not handle -L../lib), using new configure
6244 option --with-libtool.
6245 + add configure option --with-manpage-tbl, which causes the manpages to
6246 be preprocessed by tbl(1) prior to installation,
6247 + add configure option --without-curses-h, which causes the
6248 installation process to install curses.h as ncurses.h and make
6249 appropriate changes to headers and manpages.
6252 + correct order of options/parameters in run_tic.in invocation of tic,
6253 which did not work with standard getopt() (reported by Ethan
6254 Butterfield <primus@veris.org>).
6255 + correct logic for 'reverse' variable in lib_vidattr.c, which was
6256 setting it true without checking if newmode had A_REVERSE set, e.g.,
6257 using $TERM=ansi on OS/2 EMX (see 20000917).
6258 > patch by Todd C Miller:
6259 + add a few missing use_terminfo_vars() and fixes up _nc_tgetent().
6260 Previously, _nc_cgetset() would still get called on cp so the
6261 simplest thing is to set cp to NULL if !use_terminfo_vars().
6262 + added checks for an empty $HOME environment variable.
6263 > patches for OS/2 EMX (Ilya Zakharevich):
6264 + modify convert_configure.pl to support INSTALL. Change compiler
6265 options in that script to use multithreading, needed for the mouse.
6266 + modify OS/2 mouse support, retrying as a 2-button mouse if code fails
6267 to set up a 3-button mouse.
6268 + improve code for OS/2 mouse support, using _nc_timed_wait() to
6269 replace select() call.
6272 + change type of ospeed variable back to short to match its use in
6273 legacy applications (reported by Andrey A Chernov).
6274 + add case to configure script for --enable-rpath on IRIX (patch by
6275 Albert Chin-A-Young).
6276 + minor fix to position_check() function, to ensure it gets the whole
6277 cursor report before decoding.
6278 + add configure option --disable-assumed-color, to allow pre-5.1
6279 convention of default colors used for color-pair 0 to be configured
6280 (see assume_default_colors()).
6281 + rename configure option --enable-hashmap --disable-hashmap, and
6282 reorder the configure options, splitting the experimental and
6284 + add configure option --disable-root-environ, which tells ncurses to
6285 disregard $TERMINFO and similar environment variables if the current
6286 user is root, or running setuid/setgid (based on discussion with
6288 + modified misc/run_tic.in to use tic -o, to eliminate dependency on
6289 $TERMINFO variable for installs.
6290 + add table entry for plab_norm to tput, so it passes in strings
6291 for that capability.
6292 + modify parse_format() in lib_tparm.c to ignore precision if it is
6293 longer than 10000 (report by Jouko Pynnonen).
6294 + rewrote limit checks in lib_mvcur.c using new functions
6295 _nc_safe_strcat(), etc. Made other related changes to check lengths
6296 used for strcat/strcpy (report by Jouko Pynnonen
6297 <jouko@solutions.fi>).
6300 + modify several descriptions, including those for setaf, setab, in
6301 include/Caps to indicate that the entries are parameterized. This
6302 information is used to tell which strings are translated when
6303 converting to termcap. Fixes a problem where the generated termcap
6304 would contain a spurious "%p1" for the terminfo "%p1%d".
6305 + modify ld -rpath options (e.g., Linux, and Solaris) to use an
6306 absolute pathname for the build tree's lib directory (prompted by
6307 discussion with Albert Chin-A-Young).
6308 + modify "make install.man" and "make uninstall.man" to include tack's
6310 + various fixes for install scripts used to support configure --srcdir
6311 and --with-install-prefix (reported by Matthew Clarke
6312 <Matthew_Clarke@mindlink.bc.ca>).
6313 + make configure script checks on variables $GCC and $GXX consistently
6314 compare against 'yes' rather than test if they are nonnull, since
6315 either may be set to the corresponding name of the C or C++ compiler
6316 (report/patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
6319 + modify rs2 capability in xterm-r6 and similar where cursor
6320 save/restore bracketed the sequence for resetting video attributes.
6321 The cursor restore would undo that (report by John Hawkinson
6322 <jhawk@MIT.EDU> (see NetBSD misc/11052)).
6323 + using parameter check added to tic, corrected 27 typos in
6325 + modify tic to verify that its inputs are really files, in case
6326 someone tries to read a directory (or /dev/zero).
6327 + add a check for empty buffers returned by fgets() in comp_scan.c
6328 next_char() function, in case tic is run on a non-text file (fixes
6329 a core dump reported by Aaron Campbell <aaron@cs.dal.ca>).
6330 + add to railroad.c some code exercising tgoto(), providing an
6331 alternate form of display if the terminal supports cursor addressing.
6332 + split-out tgoto() again, this time into new file lib_tgoto.c, and
6333 implement a conventional BSD-style tgoto() which is used if the
6334 capability string does not contain terminfo-style padding or
6335 parameters (requested by Andrey A Chernov).
6336 + add check to tic which reports capabilities that do not reference
6337 the expected number of parameters.
6338 + add error checking to infocmp's -v and -m options to ensure that
6339 the option value is indeed a number.
6340 + some cleanup of logic in _nc_signal_handler() to verify if SIGWINCH
6341 handler is setup. Separated the old/new sigaction data for SIGTSTP
6342 from the other signals.
6345 + add S0, E0 extensions to screen's terminfo entry, which is another
6346 way to solve the misconfiguration issue -TD
6347 + completed special case for tgoto from 20000916
6350 + update xterm terminfo entries to match XFree86 xterm patch #146 -TD
6351 + add Matrix Orbital terminfo entries (from Eric Z Ayers
6353 + add special case to lib_tparm.c to allow 'screen' program to use a
6354 termcap-style parameter "%." to tgoto() for switching character sets.
6355 + use LN_S substitution in run_tic.in, to work on OS/2 EMX which has
6357 + updated notes in README.emx regarding autoconf patches.
6358 + replace a lookup table in lib_vidattr.c used to decode no_color_video
6359 with a logic expression (suggested by Philippe Blain).
6360 + add a/A toggle to ncurses.c 'b' test, which clears/sets alternate
6361 character set attribute from the displayed text.
6362 + correct inequality in parameter analysis of rewritten lib_tparm.c
6363 which had the effect of ignoring p9 in set_attributes (sgr), breaking
6364 alternate character set (reported by Piotr Majka <charvel@link.pl>).
6365 + correct ifdef'ing for GCC_PRINTF, GCC_SCANF which would not compile
6366 with Sun WorkShop compilers since these tokens were empty (cf:
6367 20000902, reported by Albert Chin-A-Young).
6370 + correct an uninitialized parameter to open_tempfile() in tic.c which
6371 made "tic -I" give an ambiguous error message about tmpnam.
6372 + add special case in lib_vidattr.c to reset underline and standout for
6373 devices that have no sgr0 defined (patch by Don Lewis
6374 <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>). Note that this will not work for bold
6375 mode, since there is no exit-bold-mode capability.
6376 + improved patch for Make_Enum_Type (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
6377 + modify tparm to disallow arithmetic on strings, analyze the varargs
6378 list to read strings as strings and numbers as numbers.
6379 + modify tparm's internal function spop() to treat a null pointer as
6381 + modify tput program so it can be renamed or invoked via a link as
6382 'reset' or 'init', producing the same effect as 'tput reset' or 'tput
6384 + add private entrypoint _nc_basename(), use to consolidate related
6385 code in progs, as well as accommodating OS/2 EMX pathnames.
6386 + remove NCURSES_CONST line from edit_cfg.sh to compensate for its
6387 removal (except via AC_SUBST) from configure.in, making
6388 --enable-const work again (reported by Juergen Pfeifer).
6389 + regen'd configure to pick up "hpux*" change from 20000902.
6392 + modify tset.c to check for transformed "reset" program name, if any.
6393 + add a check for null pointer in Make_Enum_Type() (reported by Steven
6394 W Orr <steveo@world.std.com>).
6395 + change functions _nc_parse_entry() and postprocess_termcap() to avoid
6396 using strtok(), because it is non-reentrant (reported by Andrey A
6397 Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>).
6398 + remove "hpux10.*" case from CF_SHARED_OPTS configure script macro.
6399 This differed from the "hpux*" case by using reversed symbolic
6400 links, which made the 5.1 version not match the configuration of
6401 5.0 shared libraries (reported by Albert Chin-A-Young).
6402 + correct a dependency in Ada95/src/Makefile.in which prevented
6403 building with configure --srcdir (patch by H Nanosecond
6404 <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>).
6405 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in to avoid warning if GCC_PRINTF or
6406 GCC_SCANF was not previously defined (reported by Pavel Roskin
6408 + add MKncurses_def.sh to generate fallback definitions for
6409 ncurses_cfg.h, to quiet gcc -Wundef warnings, modified ifdef's in
6410 code to consistently use "#if" rather than "#ifdef".
6413 + add QNX qansi entries to terminfo -TD
6414 + add os2 entry to misc/emx.src (<jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>).
6415 + add configure option --with-database to allow specifying a different
6416 terminfo source-file to install. On OS/2 EMX, this defaults to
6418 + change misc/run_tic.sh to derive it from misc/run_tic.in, to simplify
6419 setting .exe extension on OS/2 EMX.
6420 + add .exe extension in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in,
6421 Ada95/samples/Makefile.in, for OS/2 EMX (reported by
6422 <jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>).
6423 + add configure check for filesystems (such as OS/2 EMX) which do not
6424 distinguish between upper/lowercase filenames, use this to fix tags
6426 + initialize fds[] array to 0's in _nc_timed_wait(); apparently poll()
6427 only sets the revents members of that array when there is activity
6428 corresponding to the related file (report by Glenn Cooper
6429 <gcooper@qantas.com.au>, using Purify on Solaris 5.6).
6430 + change configure script to use AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM rather than
6431 AC_CANONICAL_HOST, which means that configure --target will set
6432 a default program-prefix.
6433 + add note on cross-compiling to INSTALL (which does not rely on the
6434 AC_CANONICAL_* macros).
6437 + add cases for EMX OS/2 to config.guess, config.sub
6438 + new version of config.guess, config.sub from lynx 2.8.4dev.7
6439 + add definitions via transform.h to allow tic and tput to check for
6440 the transformed aliases rather than the original infotocap, etc.
6441 + simplify transform-expressions in progs/Makefile.in, make the
6442 uninstall rule work for transformed program names.
6443 + change symbol used by --install-prefix configure option from
6444 INSTALL_PREFIX to DESTDIR (the latter has become common usage
6445 although the name is misleading).
6446 + modify programs to use curses_version() string to report the version
6447 of ncurses with which they are compiled rather than the
6448 NCURSES_VERSION string. The function returns the patch level in
6449 addition to the major and minor version numbers.
6452 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to make transformed program names
6453 a parameter to that macro rather than embedding them in the macro.
6454 + newer config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in lynx
6456 + add configure option --with-default-terminfo-dir=DIR to allow
6457 specifying the default terminfo database directory (request by Albert
6459 + minor updates for terminfo.src from FreeBSD termcap change-history.
6460 + correct notes in README and INSTALL regarding documentation files
6461 that were moved from misc directory to doc (report by Rich Kulawiec
6463 + change most remaining unquoted parameters of 'test' in configure
6464 script to use quotes, for instance fixing a problem in the
6465 --disable-database option (reported by Christian Mondrup
6466 <scancm@biobase.dk>).
6467 + minor adjustments to work around some of the incompatibilities/bugs
6468 in autoconf 2.29a alpha.
6469 + add -I/usr/local/include when --with-ncurses option is used in
6470 test/configure script.
6471 + correct logic in adjust_cancels(), which did not check both
6472 alternatives when reclassifying an extended name between boolean,
6473 number and string, causing an infinite loop in tic.
6476 + correct a missing backslash in curses.priv.h
6479 + change handling of non_dest_scroll_region in tty_update.c to clear
6480 text after it is shifted in rather than before shifting out. Also
6481 correct row computation (reported by Ruediger Kuhlmann
6482 <uck4@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>).
6483 + add/use new trace function to display chtype values from winch() and
6485 + add trace mask TRACE_ATTRS, alter several existing _tracef calls that
6486 trace attribute changes under TRACE_CALLS to use this.
6487 + modify MKlib_gen.sh so that functions returning chtype will call
6489 + add returnChar() trace, for functions returning chtype.
6490 + change indent.pro to line up parenthesis.
6493 + fix a heap problem with the c++ binding (report by
6494 <alexander_liberson@ninewest.com>, patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
6495 + minor adjustment to ClrToEOL() to handle an out-of-bounds parameter.
6496 + modify the check for big-core to force a couple of memory accesses,
6497 which may work as needed for older/less-capable machines (if not,
6498 there's still the explicit configure option).
6499 > fixes based on diff's for Amiga and BeOS found at
6500 http://www.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de/~kuhlmann/cross/ncurses/
6501 + alter definition of NCURSES_CONST to make it non-empty.
6502 + add amiga-vnc terminfo entry.
6503 + redefine 'TEXT' in menu.h for AMIGA, since it is reported to have
6504 an (unspecified) symbol conflict.
6505 + replaced case-statement in _nc_tracebits() for CSIZE with a table to
6506 simplify working around implementations that define random
6507 combinations of the related macros to zero.
6508 + modify configure test for tcgetattr() to allow for old
6509 implementations, e.g., on BeOS, which only defined it as a macro.
6510 > patches by Bruno Haible:
6511 + when checking LC_ALL/LC_CTYPE/LANG environment variables for UTF-8
6512 locale, ignore those which are set to an empty value, as per SUSV2.
6513 + encode 0xFFFD in UTF-8 with 3 bytes, not 2.
6514 + modify _nc_utf8_outch() to avoid sign-extension when checking for
6518 + correct manlinks.sed script to avoid using ERE "\+", which is not
6519 understood by older versions of sed (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
6520 + implement configure script options that transform installed program
6521 names, e.g., --program-prefix, including the manpage names and cross
6522 references (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com>).
6523 + correct several mismatches between manpage filename and ".TH"
6524 directives, renaming dft_fgbg.3x to default_colors.3x and
6525 menu_attribs.3x to menu_attributes.3x (report by Todd C Miller).
6526 + correct missing includes for <string.h> in several places, including
6527 the C++ binding. This is not noted by gcc unless we use the
6528 -fno-builtin option (reported by Igor Schein <igor@txc.com>).
6529 + modified progs/tset.c and tack/sysdep.c to build with sgttyb
6530 interface if neither termio or termios is available. Tested this
6531 with FreeBSD 2.1.5 (which does have termios - but the sgttyb does
6534 20000708 5.1 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
6535 + document configure options in INSTALL.
6536 + add man-page for ncurses trace functions.
6537 + correct return value shown in curs_touch.3x for is_linetouched() and
6538 is_wintouched(), in curs_initscr.3x for isendwin(), and in
6539 curs_termattr.3x for has_ic() and has_il().
6540 + add prototypes for touchline() and touchwin(), adding them to the
6541 list of generated functions.
6542 + modify fifo_push() to put ERR into the fifo just like other values to
6543 return from wgetch(). It was returning without doing that, making
6544 end-of-file condition incorrectly return a 0 (reported by Todd C
6546 + uncomment CC_SHARED_OPTS for progs and tack (see 971115), since they
6547 are needed for SCO OpenServer.
6548 + move _nc_disable_period from free_ttype.c to comp_scan.c to appease
6549 dynamic loaders on SCO and IRIX64.
6550 + add "-a" option to test/ncurses.c to invoke assume_default_colors()
6552 + correct assignment in assume_default_colors() which tells ncurses
6553 whether to use default colors, or the assumed ones (reported by Gary
6554 Funck <gary@Intrepid.Com>).
6555 + review/correct logic in mk-1st.awk for making symbolic links for
6556 shared libraries, in particular for FreeBSD, etc.
6557 + regenerate misc/*.def files for OS/2 EMX dll's.
6558 + correct quoting of values for CC_SHARED_OPTS in aclocal.m4 for
6559 cases openbsd2*, openbsd*, freebsd* and netbsd* (patch by Peter
6560 Wemm) (err in 20000610).
6561 + minor updates to release notes, as well as adding/updating URLs for
6562 examples cited in announce.html
6563 > several fixes from Philippe Blain <philippe.blain2@freesbee.fr>:
6564 + correct placement of ifdef for NCURSES_XNAMES in function
6565 _nc_free_termtype(), fixes a memory leak.
6566 + add a call to _nc_synchook() to the end of function whline() like
6567 that in wvline() (difference was in 1.9.4).
6568 + make ClearScreen() a little faster by moving two instances of
6569 UpdateAttr() out of for-loops.
6570 + simplify ClrBottom() by eliminating the tstLine data, using for-loops
6573 20000701 pre-release
6574 + change minor version to 1, i.e., ncurses 5.1
6575 + add experimental configure option --enable-colorfgbg to check for
6576 $COLORTERM variable as set by rxvt/aterm/Eterm.
6577 + add Eterm terminfo entry (Michael Jennings <mej@valinux.com>).
6578 + modify manlinks.sed to pick aliases from the SYNOPSIS section, and
6579 several manpages so manlinks.sed can find aliases for creating
6581 + add explanation to run_tic.sh regarding extended terminal
6583 + change message format for edit_cfg.sh, since some people interpret
6585 + correct unescaped '$' in sysv5uw7*|unix_sv* rule for CF_SHARED_OPTS
6586 configure macro (report by Thanh Ma <Thanh.Ma@casi-rusco.com>).
6587 + correct logic in lib_twait.c as used by lib_mouse.c for GPM mouse
6588 support when poll() is used rather than select() (prompted by
6589 discussion with David Allen <DAllen24@aol.com>).
6591 20000624 pre-release
6592 + modify TransformLine() to check for cells with different color pairs
6593 that happen to render the same display colors.
6594 + apply $NCURSES_NO_PADDING to cost-computation in mvcur().
6595 + improve cost computation in PutRange() by accounting for the use
6596 of parm_right_cursor in mvcur().
6597 + correct cost computation in EmitRange(), which was not using the
6598 normalized value for cursor_address.
6599 + newer config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in TIN 1.5.6).
6602 + update config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in PCRE 3.2).
6603 + resync changes to gnathtml against version 1.22, regenerated html
6604 files under doc/html/ada using this (1.22.1.1).
6605 + regenerated html files under doc/html/man after correcting top and
6606 bottom margin options for man2html in dist.mk
6607 + minor fixes to test programs ncurses 'i' and testcurs program to make
6608 the subwindow's background color cover the subwindow.
6609 + modify configure script so AC_MSG_ERROR is temporarily defined to a
6610 warning in AC_PROG_CXX to make it recover from a missing C++ compiler
6611 without requiring user to add --without-cxx option (adapted from
6612 comment by Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr> to autoconf mailing list).
6613 + modify headers.sh to avoid creating temporary files in the build
6614 directory when installing headers (reported by Sergei Pokrovsky
6618 + regenerated the html files under doc/html/ada/files and
6619 doc/html/ada/funcs with a slightly-improved gnathtml.
6620 + add kmous capability to linux terminfo entry to allow it to use
6621 xterm-style events provided by gpm patch by Joerg Schoen.
6622 + make the configure macro CF_SHARED_OPTS a little smarter by testing
6623 if -fPIC is supported by gcc rather than -fpic. The former option
6624 allows larger symbol tables.
6625 + update config.guess and config.sub (patches by
6626 Kevin Buettner <kev@primenet.com> (for elf64_ia64),
6627 Bernd Kuemmerlen <bkuemmer@mevis.de> (for MacOS X)).
6628 + add warning for 'tic -cv' about use of '^?' in terminfo source, which
6632 + modify echo() behavior of getch() to match Solaris curses for
6633 carriage return and backspace (reported by Neil Zanella).
6634 + change _nc_flush() to a function.
6635 + modify delscreen() to check if the output stream has been closed, and
6636 if so, free the buffer allocated for setbuf (this provides an
6637 ncurses-specific way to avoid a memory leak when repeatedly calling
6638 newterm reported by Chipp C <at_1@zdnetonebox.com>).
6639 + correct typo in curs_getch.3x manpage regarding noecho (reported by
6640 David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>).
6641 + add a "make libs" rule.
6642 + make the Ada95 interface build with configure --enable-widec.
6643 + if the configure --enable-widec option is given, append 'w' to names
6644 of the generated libraries (e.g., libncursesw.so) to avoid conflict
6645 with existing ncurses libraries.
6648 + modify view.c to make a rudimentary viewer of UTF-8 text if ncurses
6649 is configured with the experimental wide-character support.
6650 + add a simple UTF-8 output driver to the experimental wide-character
6651 support. If any of the environment variables LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE or
6652 LANG contain the string "UTF-8", this driver will be used to
6653 translate the output to UTF-8. This works with XFree86 xterm.
6654 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries on BeOS
6655 (from a patch by Valeriy E Ushakov).
6656 + modify lib_addch.c to allow repeated update to the lower-right
6657 corner, rather than displaying only the first character written until
6658 the cursor is moved. Recent versions of SVr4 curses can update the
6659 lower-right corner, and behave this way (reported by Neil Zanella).
6660 + add a limit-check in _nc_do_color(), to avoid using invalid color
6661 pair value (report by Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>).
6664 + the tack program knows how to use smcup and rmcup but the "show caps
6665 that can be tested" feature did not reflect this knowledge. Correct
6666 the display in the menu tack/test/edit/c (patch by Daniel Weaver).
6667 + xterm-16color does allow bold+colors, removed ncv#32 from that
6671 + correct assignment to SP->_has_sgr_39_49 in lib_dft_fgbg.c, which
6672 broke check for screen's AX capability (reported by Valeriy E Ushakov
6674 + change man2html rule in dist.mk to workaround bug in some
6675 man-programs that ignores locale when rendering hyphenation.
6676 + change web- and ftp-site to dickey.his.com
6679 + move _nc_curr_token from parse_entry.c to comp_scan.c, to work around
6680 problem linking tack on MacOS X DP3.
6681 + include <sys/time.h> in lib_napms.c to compile on MacOS X DP3
6682 (reported by Gerben Wierda <wierda@holmes.nl>).
6683 + modify lib_vidattr.c to check for ncv fixes when pair-0 is not
6685 + add -d option to ncurses.c, to turn on default-colors for testing.
6686 + add a check to _nc_makenew() to ensure that newwin() and newpad()
6687 calls do not silently fail by passing too-large limits.
6688 + add symbol NCURSES_SIZE_T to use rather than explicit 'short' for
6689 internal window and pad sizes. Note that since this is visible in
6690 the WINDOW struct, it would be an ABI change to make this an 'int'
6691 (prompted by a question by Bastian Trompetter
6692 <btrompetter@firemail.de>, who attempted to create a 96000-line pad).
6695 + add mgterm terminfo entry from NetBSD, minor adjustments to sun-ss5,
6697 + modify tack/ansi.c to make it more tolerant of bad ANSI replies. An
6698 example of an illegal ANSI resonse can be found using Microsoft's
6699 Telnet client. A correct display can be found using a VT-4xx
6700 terminal or XFree86 xterm with:
6701 XTerm*VT100*decTerminalID: 450
6702 (patch by Daniel Weaver).
6703 + modify gdc.c to recognize 'q' for quit, 's' for single-step and ' '
6704 for resume. Add '-n' option to force gdc's standard input to
6705 /dev/null, to both illustrate the use of newterm() for specifying
6706 alternate inputs as well as for testing signal handling.
6707 + minor fix for configure option --with-manpage-symlinks, for target
6708 directories that contain a period ('.') (reported by Larry Virden).
6711 + minor additions to beterm entry (feedback from Rico Tudor) -TD
6712 + corrections/updates for some IBM terminfo entries -TD
6713 + modify _nc_screen_wrap() so that when exiting curses mode with
6714 non-default colors, the last line on the screen will be cleared to
6715 the screen's default colors (request by Alexander V Lukyanov).
6716 + modify ncurses.c 'r' example to set nonl(), allowing control/M to be
6717 read for demonstrating the REQ_NEW_LINE operation (prompted by a
6718 question by Tony L Keith <tlkeith@keithconsulting.com>).
6719 + modify ncurses.c 'r' example of field_info() to work on Solaris 2.7,
6720 documented extension of ncurses which allows a zero pointer.
6721 + modify fmt_complex() to avoid buffer overflow in case of excess
6722 recursion, and to recognize "%e%?" as a synonym for else-if, which
6723 means that it will not recur for that special case.
6724 + add logic to support $TERMCAP variable in case the USE_GETCAP symbol
6725 is defined (patch by Todd C Miller).
6726 + modify one of the m4 files used to generate the Ada95 sources,
6727 to avoid using the token "symbols" (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
6730 + add terminfo entries bsdos-pc-m, bsdos-pc-mono (Jeffrey C Honig)
6731 + correct spelling error in terminfo entry name: bq300-rv was given as
6732 bg300-rv in esr's version.
6733 + modify redrawwin() macro so its parameter is fully parenthesized
6734 (fixes Debian #61088).
6735 + correct formatting error in dump_entry() which set incorrect column
6736 value when no newline trimming was needed at the end of an entry,
6737 before appending "use=" clauses (cf: 960406).
6740 + add configure option --with-manpage-symlinks
6741 + change unctrl() to render C1 characters (128-159) as ~@, ~A, etc.
6742 + change makefiles so trace() function is provided only if TRACE is
6743 defined, e.g., in the debug library. Modify related calls to
6744 _tracechar() to use unctrl() instead.
6747 + add screen's AX capability (for ECMA SGR 39 and 49) to applicable
6748 terminfo entries, use presence of this as a check for a small
6749 improvement in setting default colors.
6750 + improve logic in _nc_do_color() implementing assume_default_colors()
6751 by passing in previous color pair info to eliminate redundant call to
6752 set_original_colors(). (Part of this is from a patch by Alexander
6754 + modify warning in _nc_trans_string() about a possibly too-long string
6755 to do this once only rather than for each character past the
6756 threshold (600). Change interface of _nc_trans_string() to allow
6757 check for buffer overflow.
6758 + correct use of memset in _nc_read_entry_source() to initialize ENTRY
6759 struct each time before reading new data into it, rather than once
6760 per loop (cf: 990301). This affects multi-entry in-core operations
6761 such as "infocmp -Fa".
6764 + remove a spurious pointer increment in _nc_infotocap() changes from
6765 20000311. Add check for '.' in format of number, since that also
6766 is not permitted in termcap.
6767 + correct typo in rxvt-basic terminfo from temporary change made while
6768 integrating 20000318.
6771 + revert part of the vt220 change (request by Todd C Miller).
6772 + add ansi-* terminfo entries from ESR's version.
6773 + add -a option to tic and infocmp, which retains commented-out
6774 capabilities during source translation/comparison, e.g., captoinfo
6776 + modify cardfile.c to display an empty card if no input data file is
6777 found, fixes a core dump in that case (reported by Bruno Haible).
6778 + correct bracketing in CF_MATH_LIB configure macro, which gave wrong
6779 result for OS/2 EMX.
6780 + supply required parameter for _nc_resolve_uses() call in
6781 read_termcap.c, overlooked in 20000311 (reported by Todd C Miller).
6782 > patches by Bruno Haible <haible@ilog.fr>:
6783 + fix a compiler warning in fty_enum.c
6784 + correct LIB_PREFIX expression for DEPS_CURSES in progs, tack
6785 makefiles, which resulted in redundant linking (cf: 20000122).
6788 + make ifdef's for BROKEN_LINKER consistent (patch by Todd C Miller).
6789 + improved tack/README (patch by Daniel Weaver).
6790 + modify tput.c to ensure that unspecified parameters are passed to
6792 + add a few checks in infocmp to guard against buffer overflow when
6793 displaying string capabilities.
6794 + add check for zero-uses in infocmp's file_comparison() function
6795 before calling _nc_align_termtype(). Otherwise one parameter is
6796 indexed past the end of the uses-array.
6797 + add an option -q to infocmp to specify the less verbose output,
6798 keeping the existing format as the default, though not retaining the
6799 previous behavior that made the -F option compare each entry to
6801 + adapted patch by ESR to make infocmp -F less verbose -TD
6802 (the submitted patch was unusable because it did not compile
6804 + modify write_entry.c to ensure that absent or cancelled booleans
6805 are written as FALSE, for consistency with infocmp which now
6806 assumes this. Note that for the small-core configuration, tic
6807 may not produce the same result as before.
6808 + change some private library interfaces used by infocmp, e.g.,
6810 + add a check in _nc_infotocap() to ensure that cm-style capabilities
6811 accept only %d codes when converting the format from terminfo to
6813 + modify ENTRY struct to separate the data in 'parent' into the name
6814 and link values (the original idea to merge both into 'parent' was
6816 + discard repair_acsc(tterm);
6817 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
6818 + drop support for gnat 3.10
6819 + move generated documentation and html files under ./doc directory,
6820 adding makefile rules for this to dist.mk
6823 + correct conflicting use of tparm() in 20000226 change to tic, which
6824 made it check only one entry at a time.
6825 + fix errors in ncurses-intro.html and hackguide.html shown by Dave
6827 + make the example in ncurses-intro.html do something plausible, and
6828 corrected misleading comment (reported by Neil Zanella).
6829 + modify pnoutrefresh() to set newscr->_leaveok as wnoutrefresh() does,
6830 to fix a case where the cursor position was not updated as in
6831 Solaris (patch by David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>).
6832 + add a limit-check for wresize() to ensure that a subwindow does not
6833 address out of bounds.
6834 + correct offsets used for subwindows in wresize() (patch by Michael
6835 Andres <ma@suse.de>).
6836 + regenerate html'ized manual pages with man2html 3.0.1 (patch by
6837 Juergen Pfeifer). This generated a file with a space in its name,
6839 + fix a few spelling errors in tack.
6840 + modify tack/Makefile.in to match linker options of progs/Makefile.in;
6841 otherwise it does not build properly for older HPUX shared library
6843 + add several terminfo entries from esr's "11.0".
6846 + make 'tput flash' work properly for xterm by flushing output in
6847 delay_output() when using napms(), and modifying xterm's terminfo to
6848 specify no padding character. Otherwise, xterm's reported baud rate
6849 can mislead ncurses into producing too few padding characters
6851 + add a check to tic for consistency between sgr and the separate
6852 capabilities such as smso, use this to check/correct several
6853 terminfo entries (Debian #58530).
6854 + add a check to tic if cvvis is the same as cnorm, adjusted several
6855 terminfo entries to remove the conflict (Debian #58530).
6856 + correct prototype shown in attr_set()/wattr_set() manpages (fixes
6858 + minor clarification for curs_set() and leaveok() manpages.
6859 + use mkstemp() for creating temporary file for tic's processing of
6860 $TERMCAP contents (fixes Debian #56465).
6861 + correct two errors from integrating Alexander's changes: did not
6862 handle the non-bce case properly in can_erase_with() (noted by
6863 Alexander), and left fg/bg uninitialized in the pair-zero case of
6864 _nc_do_color() (reported by Dr Werner Fink <werner@suse.de> and
6865 Ismael Cordeiro <ismael@cordeiro.com>).
6868 + store default-color code consistently as C_MASK, even if given as
6869 -1 for convenience (adapted from patches by Alexander V Lukyanov).
6870 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
6871 + change can_clear_with() macro to accommodate logic for
6872 assume_default_colors(), making most of the FILL_BCE logic
6873 unnecessary. Made can_clear_with() an inline function to make it
6877 + corrected form of recent copyright dates.
6878 + minor corrections to xterm-xf86-v333 terminfo entry -TD
6879 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
6880 + reworded dft_fgbg.3x to avoid assuming that the terminal's default
6881 colors are white on black.
6882 + fix initialization of tstLine so that it is filled with current blank
6883 character in any case. Previously it was possible to have it filled
6884 with old blank. The wrong over-optimization was introduced in 991002
6885 patch. (it is not very critical as the only bad effect is not using
6886 clr_eos for clearing if blank has changed).
6889 + minor corrections/updates to several terminfo entries: rxvt-basic,
6890 vt520, vt525, ibm5151, xterm-xf86-v40 -TD
6891 + modify ifdef's for poll() to allow it to use <sys/poll.h>, thereby
6892 allowing poll() to be used on Linux.
6893 + add CF_FUNC_POLL macro to check if poll() is able to select from
6894 standard input. If not we will not use it, preferring select()
6895 (adapted from patch by Michael Pakovic <mpakovic@fdn.com>).
6896 + update CF_SHARED_OPTS macro for SCO Unixware 7.1 to allow building
6897 shared libraries (reported/tested by Thanh <thanhma@mediaone.net>).
6898 + override $LANGUAGE in build to avoid incorrect ordering of keynames.
6899 + correct CF_MATH_LIB parameter, must be sin(x), not sqrt(x).
6902 + resync CF_CHECK_ERRNO and CF_LIB_PREFIX macros from tin and xterm -TD
6903 + modify CF_MATH_LIB configure macro to parameterize the test function
6904 used, for reuse in dialog and similar packages.
6905 + correct tests for file-descriptors in OS/2 EMX mouse support. A
6906 negative value could be used by FD_SET, causing the select() call
6907 to wait indefinitely.
6910 + additional fixes for non-bce terminals (handling of delete_character)
6911 to work when assume_default_colors() is not specified.
6912 + modify warning message from _nc_parse_entry() regarding extended
6913 capability names to print only if tic/infocmp/toe have the -v flag
6914 set, and not at all in ordinary user applications. Otherwise, this
6915 warning would be shown for screen's extended capabilities in programs
6916 that use the termcap interface (reported by Todd C Miller).
6917 + modify use of _nc_tracing from programs such as tic so their debug
6918 level is not in the same range as values set by trace() function.
6919 + small panel header cleanup (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
6920 + add 'railroad' demo for termcap interface.
6921 + modify 'tic' to write its usage message to stderr (patch by Todd C
6925 + add prototype for erase() to curses.h.in, needed to make test
6926 programs build with c++/g++.
6927 + add .c.i and .c.h suffix rules to generated makefiles, for debugging.
6928 + correct install rule for tack.1; it assumed that file was in the
6929 current directory (reported by Mike Castle <dalgoda@ix.netcom.com>).
6930 + modify terminfo/termcap translation to suppress acsc before trying
6931 sgr if the entry would be too large (patch by Todd C Miller).
6932 + document a special case of incompatiblity between ncurses 4.2 and
6933 5.0, add a section for this in INSTALL.
6934 + add TRACE_DATABASE flag for trace().
6937 + update mach, add mach-color terminfo entries based on Debian diffs
6939 + add entries for xterm-hp, xterm-vt220, xterm-vt52 and xterm-noapp
6940 terminfo entries -TD
6941 + change OTrs capabilities to rs2 in terminfo.src -TD
6942 + add obsolete and extended capabilities to 'screen' terminfo -TD
6943 + corrected conversion from terminfo rs2 to termcap rs (cf: 980704)
6944 + make conversion to termcap ug (underline glitch) more consistently
6946 + fix out-of-scope use of 'personal[]' buffer in 'toe' (this error
6947 was in the original pre-1.9.7 version, when $HOME/.terminfo was
6949 + modify 'toe' to ignore terminfo directories to which it has no
6951 + modify read_termtype(), fixing 'toe', which could dump core when it
6952 found an incomplete entry such as "dumb" because it did not
6953 initialize its buffer for _nc_read_file_entry().
6954 + use -fPIC rather than -fpic for shared libraries on Linux, not
6955 needed for i386 but some ports (from Debian diffs for 5.0) -TD
6956 + use explicit VALID_NUMERIC() checks in a few places that had been
6957 overlooked, and add a check to ensure that init_tabs is nonzero,
6958 to avoid divide-by-zero (reported by Todd C Miller).
6959 + minor fix for CF_ANSI_CC_CHECK configure macro, for HPUX 10.x (from
6963 + reorder tests during mouse initialization to allow for gpm to run in
6964 xterm, or for xterm to be used under OS/2 EMX. Also drop test for
6965 $DISPLAY in favor of kmous=\E[M or $TERM containing "xterm" (report
6966 by Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de>).
6967 + modify raw() and noraw() to clear/restore IEXTEN flag which affects
6968 stty lnext on systems such as FreeBSD (report by Bruce Evans
6969 <bde@zeta.org.au>, via Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>).
6970 + fix a potential (but unlikely) buffer overflow in failed() function
6971 of tset.c (reported by Todd C Miller).
6972 + add manual-page for ncurses extensions, documented curses_version(),
6973 use_extended_names().
6976 + treat as untranslatable to termcap those terminfo strings which
6977 contain non-decimal formatting, e.g., hexadecimal or octal.
6978 + correct commented-out capabilities that cannot be translated to
6979 termcap, which did not check if a colon must be escaped.
6980 + correct termcap translation for "%>" and "%+", which did not check
6981 if a colon must be escaped, for instance.
6982 + use save_string/save_char for _nc_captoinfo() to eliminate fixed
6983 buffer (originally for _nc_infotocap() in 960301 -TD).
6984 + correct expression used for terminfo equivalent of termcap %B,
6985 adjust regent100 entry which uses this.
6986 + some cleanup and commenting of ad hoc cases in _nc_infotocap().
6987 + eliminate a fixed-buffer in tic, used for translating comments.
6988 + add manpage for infotocap
6991 + add kvt and gnome terminfo entries -TD
6992 + correct translation of "%%" by infotocap, which was emitted as "%".
6993 + add "obsolete" termcap strings to terminfo.src
6994 + modify infocmp to default to showing obsolete capabilities rather
6996 + modify write_entry.c so that if extended names (i.e., configure
6997 --enable-tcap-names) are active, then tic will also write "obsolete"
6998 capabilities that are present in the terminfo source.
6999 + modify tic so that when running as captoinfo or infotocap, it
7000 initializes the output format as in -C and -I options, respectively.
7001 + improve infocmp and tic -f option by splitting long strings that do
7002 not have if-then-else construct, but do have parameters, e.g., the
7003 initc for xterm-88color.
7004 + refine MKtermsort.sh slightly by using bool for the *_from_termcap
7008 + additional fixes for non-bce terminals (handling of clear_screen,
7009 clr_eol, clr_eos, scrolling) to work when assume_default_colors() is
7011 + several small changes to xterm terminfo entries -TD.
7012 + move logic for _nc_windows in lib_freeall.c inside check for nonnull
7013 SP, since it is part of that struct.
7014 + remove obsolete shlib-versions, which was unintentionally re-added
7016 + modify infocmp -e, -E options to ensure that generated fallback.c
7017 type for Booleans agrees with term.h (reported by Eric Norum
7018 <eric@cls.usask.ca>).
7019 + correct configure script's use of $LIB_PREFIX, which did not work
7020 for installing the c++ directory if $libdir did not end with "/lib"
7021 (reported by Huy Le <huyle@ugcs.caltech.edu>).
7022 + modify infocmp so -L and -f options work together.
7023 + modify the initialization of SP->_color_table[] in start_color() so
7024 that color_content() will return usable values for COLORS greater
7026 + modify ncurses 'd' test in case COLORS is greater than 16, e.g., for
7027 xterm-88color, to limit the displayed/computed colors to 16.
7028 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7029 + simplify coding of the panel library according to suggestions by
7031 + improve macro coding for a few macros in curses.priv.h
7034 + modify treatment of color pair 0 so that if ncurses is configured
7035 to support default colors, and they are not active, then ncurses
7036 will set that explicitly, not relying on orig_colors or orig_pair.
7037 + add new extension, assume_default_colors() to provide better control
7038 over the use of default colors.
7039 + modify test programs to use more-specific ifdef's for existence of
7040 wresize(), resizeterm() and use_default_colors().
7041 + modify configure script to add specific ifdef's for some functions
7042 that are included when --enable-ext-funcs is in effect, so their
7043 existence can be ifdef'd in the test programs.
7044 + reorder some configure options, moving those extensions that have
7045 evolved from experimental status into a new section.
7046 + change configure --enable-tcap-names to enable this by default.
7049 + install tack's manpage (reported by Robert Weiner
7050 <robert@progplus.com>)
7051 + correct worm.c's handling of KEY_RESIZE (patch by Frank Heckenbach).
7052 + modify curses.h.in, undef'ing some symbols to avoid conflict with C++
7053 STL (reported by Matt Gerassimoff <mgeras@ticon.net>)
7056 + modify linux terminfo entry to indicate that dim does not mix with
7057 color (reported by Klaus Weide <kweide@enteract.com>).
7058 + correct several typos in terminfo entries related to missing '['
7060 + fix several compiler warnings in c++ binding (reported by Tim
7061 Mooney for alphaev56-dec-osf4.0f
7062 + rename parameter of _nc_free_entries() to accommodate lint.
7063 + correct lint rule for tack, used incorrect list of source files.
7064 + add case to config.guess, config.sub for Rhapsody.
7065 + improve configure tests for libg++ and libstdc++ by omitting the
7066 math library (which is missing on Rhapsody), and improved test for
7067 the math library itself (adapted from path by Nelson H. F. Beebe).
7068 + explicitly initialize to zero several data items which were
7069 implicitly initialized, e.g., cur_term. If not explicitly
7070 initialized, their storage type is C (common), and causes problems
7071 linking on Rhapsody 5.5 using gcc 2.7.2.1 (reported by Nelson H. F.
7073 + modify Ada95 binding to not include the linker option for Ada
7074 bindings in the Ada headers, but in the Makefiles instead (patch by
7077 19991023 5.0 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
7078 + effective with release of 5.0, change NCURSES_VERSION_PATCH to
7080 + add function curses_version(), to return ncurses library version
7081 (request by Bob van der Poel).
7082 + remove rmam, smam from cygwin terminfo entry.
7083 + modify FreeBSD cons25 terminfo entry to add cnorm and cvvis, as well
7084 as update ncv to indicate that 'dim' conflicts with colors.
7085 + modify configure script to use symbolic links for FreeBSD shared
7086 libraries by default.
7087 + correct ranf() function in rain and worm programs to ensure it does
7089 + hide the cursor in hanoi.c if it is running automatically.
7090 + amend lrtest.c to account for optimizations that exploit margin
7092 + add a simple terminfo demo, dots.c
7093 + modify SIGINT/SIGQUIT handler to set a flag used in _nc_outch() to
7094 tell it to use write() rather than putc(), since the latter is not
7095 safe in a signal handler according to POSIX.
7096 + add/use internal macros _nc_flush() and NC_OUTPUT to hide details
7097 of output-file pointer in ncurses library.
7098 + uncomment CC_SHARED_OPTS (see 971115), since they are needed for SCO
7100 + correct CC_SHARED_OPTS for building shared libraries for SCO
7102 + remove usleep() from alternatives in napms(), since it may interact
7103 with alarm(), causing a process to be interrupted by SIGALRM (with
7104 advice from Bela Lubkin).
7105 + modify terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4 to build/work with
7106 GNAT 3.10 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7107 + remove part of CF_GPP_LIBRARY configure-script macro, which did not
7108 work with gcc 2.7.2.3
7109 + minor fix to test/tclock.c to avoid beeping more than once per second
7110 + add 's' and ' ' decoding to test/rain.c
7113 + corrected BeOS code for lib_twait.c, making nodelay() function work.
7116 + correct ncurses' value for cursor-column in PutCharLR(), which was
7117 off-by-one in one case (patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
7118 + fix some minor errors in position_check() debugging code, found while
7119 using this to validate the PutCharLR() patch.
7120 + modify firework, lrtest, worm examples to be resizable, and to
7121 recognize 'q' for quit, 's' for single-step and ' ' for resume.
7122 + restore reverted change to terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4,
7123 add a note on building with gnat 3.10p to Ada95/TODO.
7124 + add a copy of the standalone configure script for the test-directory
7125 to simplify testing on SCO and Solaris.
7128 + minor fixes for _nc_msec_cost(), color_content(), pair_content(),
7129 _nc_freewin(), ClrBottom() and onscreen_mvcur() (analysis by Philippe
7130 Blain, comments by Alexander V Lukyanov).
7131 + simplify definition of PANEL and eliminate internal functions
7132 _nc_calculate_obscure(), _nc_free_obscure() and _nc_override(),
7133 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer, analysis by Philippe Blain
7135 + change renaming of dft_fgbg.3x to use_default_colors.3ncurses in
7136 man_db.renames, since Debian is not concerned with 14-character
7137 filename limitation (Debian bug report by Josip Rodin
7138 <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr>).
7139 + corrected scoansi terminfo entry by testing with scoterm and console.
7140 + revert change from 990614 to terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4,
7141 since this does not work for gnat 3.10p
7142 + modify tclock example to be resizable (if ncurses' sigwinch handler
7143 is used), and in color.
7144 + use $(CC) rather than 'gcc' in MK_SHARED_LIB symbols, used for Linux
7145 shared library rules.
7148 + add newer NetBSD console terminfo entries
7149 + add amiga-8bit terminfo entry (from Henning 'Faroul' Peters
7150 <Faroul@beyond.kn-bremen.de>)
7151 + remove -lcurses -ltermcap from configure script's check for the gpm
7152 library, since they are not really necessary (a properly configured
7153 gpm library has no dependency on any curses library), and if the
7154 curses library is not installed, this would cause the test to fail.
7155 + modify tic's -C option so that terminfo "use=" clauses are translated
7156 to "tc=" clauses even when running it as captoinfo.
7157 + modify CF_STDCPP_LIBRARY configure macro to perform its check only
7158 for GNU C++, since that library conflicts with SGI's libC on IRIX-6.2
7159 + modify CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro to support build on NetBSD with
7160 ELF libraries (patch by Bernd Ernesti <bernd@arresum.inka.de>).
7161 + correct a problem in libpanel, where the _nc_top_panel variable was
7162 not set properly when bottom_panel() is called to hide a panel which
7163 is the only one on the stack (report/analysis by Michael Andres
7164 <ma@suse.de>, patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7167 + add acsc string to HP 70092 terminfo entry (patch by Joerg Wunsch
7168 <j@interface-business.de>).
7169 + add top-level uninstall.data and uninstall.man makefile rules.
7170 + correct logic of CF_LINK_FUNCS configure script, from BeOS changes so
7171 that hard-links work on Unix again.
7172 + change default value of cf_cv_builtin_bool to 1 (suggested by
7173 Jeremy Buhler), making it less likely that a conflicting declaration
7174 of bool will be seen when compiling with C++.
7177 + improved configure checks for builtin.h
7178 + minor changes to C++ binding (remove static initializations, and make
7179 configure-test for parameter initializations) for features not
7180 allowed by vendor's C++ compilers (reported by Martin Mokrejs, this
7181 applies to SGI, though I found SCO has the same characteristics).
7182 + corrected quoting of ETIP_xxx definitions which support old versions
7183 of g++, e.g., those using -lg++
7184 + remove 'L' code from safe_sprintf.c, since 'long double' is not
7185 widely portable. safe_sprintf.c is experimental, however, and
7186 exists mainly as a fallback for systems without snprintf (reported
7187 by Martin Mokrejs <mmokrejs@natur.cuni.cz>, for IRIX 6.2)
7188 + modify definition of _nc_tinfo_fkeys in broken-linker configuration
7189 so that it is not unnecessarily made extern (Jeffrey C Honig).
7192 + move definition for builtin.h in configure tests to specific check
7193 for libg++, since qt uses the same filename incompatibly.
7194 + correct logic of lib_termcap.c tgetstr function, which did not copy
7195 the result to the buffer parameter. Testing shows Solaris does
7196 update this, though of course tgetent's buffer is untouched (reported
7197 in Peter Edwards <peter.edwards@ireland.com> in
7198 mpc.lists.freebsd.current newsgroup.
7199 + corrected beterm terminfo entry, which lists some capabilities which
7200 are not actually provided by the BeOS Terminal.
7201 + add special logic to replace select() calls on BeOS, whose select()
7202 function works only for sockets.
7203 + correct missing escape in mkterm.h.awk.in, which caused part
7204 of the copyright noticed to be omitted (reported by Peter
7205 Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>).
7206 > several small changes to make the c++ binding and demo work on OS/2
7207 EMX (related to a clean reinstall of EMX):
7208 + correct library-prefix for c++ binding; none is needed.
7209 + add $x suffix to make_hash and make_keys so 'make distclean' works.
7210 + correct missing $x suffix for tack, c++ demo executables.
7211 + split CF_CXX_LIBRARY into CF_GPP_LIBRARY (for -lg++) and
7212 CF_STDCPP_LIBRARY (for -lstdc++)
7215 + add cygwin terminfo entry -TD
7216 + modify CF_PROG_EXT configure macro to set .exe extension for cygwin.
7217 + add configure option --without-cxx-binding, modifying the existing
7218 --without-cxx option to check only for the C++ compiler
7219 characteristics. Whether or not the C++ binding is needed, the
7220 configure script checks for the size/type of bool, to make ncurses
7221 match. Otherwise C++ applications cannot use ncurses.
7224 + updated configure macros CF_MAKEFLAGS, CF_CHECK_ERRNO
7225 + minor corrections to beterm terminfo entry.
7226 + modify lib_setup.c to reject values of $TERM which have a '/' in
7228 + add ifdef's to guard against CS5, CS6, CS7, CS8 being zero, as more
7229 than one is on BeOS. That would break a switch statement.
7230 + add configure macro CF_LINK_FUNCS to detect and work around BeOS's
7231 nonfunctional link().
7232 + improved configure macros CF_BOOL_DECL and CF_BOOL_SIZE to detect
7233 BeOS's bool, which is declared as an unsigned char.
7236 + add ms-vt100 terminfo entry -TD
7237 + minor fixes for misc/emx.src, based on testing with tack.
7238 + minor fix for test/ncurses.c, test 'a', in case ncv is not set.
7241 + minor correction for 'screen' terminfo entry.
7242 + clarify description of errret values for setupterm in manpage.
7243 + modify tput to allow it to emit capabilities for hardcopy terminals
7244 (patch by Goran Uddeborg <goeran@uddeborg.pp.se>).
7245 + modify the 'o' (panel) test in ncurses.c to show the panels in color
7246 or at least in bold, to test Juergen's change to wrefresh().
7247 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
7248 + Fixes a problem using wbkgdset() with panels. It has actually
7249 nothing to with panels but is a problem in the implementation of
7250 wrefresh(). Whenever a window changes its background attribute to
7251 something different than newscr's background attribute, the whole
7252 window is touched to force a copy to newscr. This is an unwanted
7253 side-effect of wrefresh() and it is actually not necessary. A
7254 changed background attribute affects only further outputs of
7255 background it doesn't mean anything to the current content of the
7256 window. So there is no need to force a copy. (reported by Frank
7257 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>).
7258 + an upward compatible enhancement of the NCursesPad class in the C++
7259 binding. It allows one to add a "viewport" window to a pad and then
7260 to use panning to view the pad through the viewport window.
7263 + suppress a call to def_prog_mode() in the SIGTSTP handler if the
7264 signal was received while not in curses mode, e.g., endwin() was
7265 called in preparation for spawning a shell command (reported by Frank
7266 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>)
7267 + corrected/enhanced xterm-r5, xterm+sl, xterm+sl-twm terminfo entries.
7268 + change test for xterm mouse capability: it now checks only if the
7269 user's $DISPLAY variable is set in conjunction with the kmous
7270 capability being present in the terminfo. Before, it checked if any
7271 of "xterm", "rxvt" or "kterm" were substrings of the terminal name.
7272 However, some emulators which are incompatible with xterm in other
7273 ways do support the xterm mouse capability.
7274 + reviewed and made minor changes in ncurses to quiet g++ warnings
7275 about shadowed or uninitialized variables. g++ incorrectly warns
7276 about uninitialized variables because it does not take into account
7277 short-circuit expression evaluation.
7278 + change ncurses 'b' test to start in color pair 0 and to show in the
7279 right margin those attributes which are suppressed by no_color_video,
7281 + modify ifdef's in curses.h so that __attribute__ is not redefined
7282 when compiling with g++, but instead disabled the macros derived for
7283 __attribute__ since g++ does not consistently recognize the same
7284 keywords as gcc (reported by Stephan K Zitz <zitz@erf.net>).
7285 + update dependencies for term.h in ncurses/modules (reported by
7289 + modify the form demo in ncurses.c to illustrate how to manipulate the
7290 field appearance, e.g, for highlighting or translating the field
7292 + correct logic in write_entry from split-out of home_terminfo in
7293 980919, which prevented update of $HOME/.terminfo (reported by Philip
7294 Spencer <pspencer@fields.utoronto.ca>).
7297 + modify linux terminfo description to make use of kernel 2.2.x mods
7298 that support cursor style, e.g., to implement cvvis (patch by Frank
7299 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>)
7300 + add special-case in setupterm to retain previously-saved terminal
7301 settings in cur_term, which happens when curses and termcap calls are
7302 mixed (from report by Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@dhc.net>).
7303 + suppress initialization of key-tries in _nc_keypad() if we are only
7304 disabling keypad mode, e.g., in endwin() called when keypad() was
7306 + modify the Ada95 makefile to ensure that always the Ada files from
7307 the development tree are used for building and not the eventually
7308 installed ones (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7311 + use TTY definition in tack/sysdep.c rather than struct termios
7312 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
7313 + add a fallback for strstr, used in lib_mvcur.c and tack/edit.c,
7314 not present on sysV68 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
7315 + correct definition in comp_hash.c to build with configure
7316 --with-rcs-ids option.
7319 + modified ifdef's for sigaction and sigvec to ensure we do not try to
7320 handle SIGTSTP if neither is available (from report by Philippe De
7322 > patch by Philippe De Muyter:
7323 + in tic.c, use `unlink' if `remove' is not available.
7324 + use only `unsigned' as fallback value for `speed_t'. Some files used
7328 + fix some compiler warnings in tack.
7329 + add a check for predefined bool type in CC, based on report that
7330 BeOS predefines a bool type.
7331 + correct logic for infocmp -e option, i.e., the configure
7332 --with-fallbacks option, which I'd not updated when implementing
7333 extended names (cf: 990301). The new implementation adds a "-E"
7334 option to infocmp -TD
7335 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7336 + introduce the private type Curses_Bool in the Ada95 binding
7337 implementation. This is to clearly represent the use of "bool" also
7338 in the binding. It should have no effect on the generated code.
7339 + improve the man page for field_buffer() to tell the people, that the
7340 whole buffer including leading/trailing spaces is returned. This is
7341 a common source of confusion, so it's better to document it clearly.
7344 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7345 + use pragma PreElaborate in several places.
7346 + change a few System.Address uses to more specific types.
7347 + change interface version-number to 1.0
7348 + regenerate Ada95 HTML files.
7351 + modify lib_endwin.c to avoid calling reset_shell_mode(), return ERR
7352 if it appears that curses was never initialized, e.g., by initscr().
7353 For instance, this guards against setting the terminal modes to
7354 strange values if endwin() is called after setupterm(). In the same
7355 context, Solaris curses will dump core.
7356 + modify logic that avoids a conflict in lib_vidattr.c between sgr0 and
7357 equivalent values in rmso or rmul by ensuring we do not modify the
7358 data which would be returned by the terminfo or termcap interfaces
7359 (reported by Brad Pepers <brad@linuxcanada.com>, cf: 960706).
7360 + add a null-pointer check for SP in lib_vidattr.c to logic that checks
7362 + improve fallback declaration of 'bool' when the --without-cxx option
7363 is given, by using a 'char' on i386 and related hosts (prompted by
7364 discussion with Alexander V Lukyanov).
7367 + include time.h in lib_napms.c if nanosleep is used (patch by
7368 R Lindsay Todd <toddr@rpi.edu>).
7369 + add an "#undef bool" to curses.h, in case someone tries to define it,
7371 + add check to tparm to guard against divide by zero (reported by Aaron
7372 Campbell <aaron@ug.cs.dal.ca>).
7375 + minor fix to build tack on CLIX (mismatched const).
7376 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7377 + change Juergen's old email address with new one in the files where it
7378 is referenced. The Ada95 HTML pages are regenerated.
7379 + update MANIFEST to list the tack files.
7382 + minor fixes to make 'tack' build/link on NeXT (reported by Francisco
7386 + add 'tack' program (which is GPL'd), updating it to work with the
7387 modified TERMTYPE struct and making a fix to support setaf/setab
7388 capabilities. Note that the tack program is not part of the
7389 ncurses libraries, but an application which can be distributed with
7390 ncurses. The configure script will ignore the directory if it is
7392 + modify gpm mouse support so that buttons 2 and 3 are used for
7393 select/paste only when shift key is pressed, making them available
7394 for use by an application (patch by Klaus Weide).
7395 + add complete list of function keys to scoansi terminfo entry - TD
7398 + add a simple test program cardfile.c to illustrate how to read form
7399 fields, and showing forms within panels.
7400 + change shared-library versioning for the Hurd to be like Linux rather
7401 than *BSD (patch by Mark Kettenis <kettenis@wins.uva.nl>).
7402 + add linux-lat terminfo entry.
7403 + back-out _nc_access check in read_termcap.c (both incorrect and
7404 unnecessary, except to guard against a small window where the file's
7405 ownership may change).
7408 + remove conflicting _nc_free_termtype() function from test module
7410 + use _nc_access check in read_termcap.c for termpaths[] array (noted
7411 by Jeremy Buhler, indicating that Alan Cox made a similar patch).
7412 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7413 + modify menu creation to not inherit status flag from the default menu
7414 which says that the associated marker string has been allocated and
7415 should be freed (bug reported by Marek Paliwoda"
7416 <paliwoda@kki.net.pl>)
7418 990327 pre-release (alpha.gnu.org:/gnu/ncurses-5.0-beta1.tar.gz)
7419 + minor fixes to xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry - TD.
7420 + split up an expression in configure script check for ldconfig to
7421 workaround limitation of BSD/OS sh (reported by Jeff Haas
7422 <jmh@mail.msen.com>).
7423 + correct a typo in man/form_hook.3x (Todd C Miller).
7426 + parenthesize and undef 'index' symbol in c++ binding and demo, to
7427 accommodate its definition on NeXT (reported by Francisco A. Tomei
7429 + add sigismember() to base/sigaction.c compatibility to link on NeXT
7430 (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
7431 + further refinements to inequality in hashmap.c to cover a case with
7432 ^U in nvi (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
7435 + add fallback definition for getcwd, to link on NeXT.
7436 + add a copy of cur_term to tic.c to make it link properly on NeXT
7437 (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
7438 + change inequality in hashmap.c which checks the distance traveled by
7439 a chunk so that ^D command in nvi (scrolls 1/2 screen) will use
7440 scrolling logic (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov, reported by Jeffrey
7444 + modify lib_color.c to handle a special case where the curscr
7445 attributes have been made obsolete (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
7446 + update BSD/OS console terminfo entries to use klone+sgr and
7447 klone+color (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
7448 + update glibc addon configure script for extended capabilities.
7449 + correct a couple of warnings in the --enable-const configuration.
7450 + make comp_hash build properly with _nc_strdup(), on NeXT (reported by
7451 Francisco A. Tomei Torres <francisco.tomei@cwix.com>).
7454 + correct typos in linux-c initc string - TD
7455 + add 'crt' terminfo entry, update xterm-xfree86 entry - TD
7456 + remove a spurious argument to tparm() in lib_sklrefr.c (patch by
7457 Alexander V Lukyanov).
7460 + back-out change to wgetch because it causes a problem with ^Z
7461 handling in lynx (reported by Kim DeVaughn).
7464 + add -G option to tic and infocmp, to reverse the "-g" option.
7465 + recode functions in name_match.c to avoid use of strncpy, which
7466 caused a 4-fold slowdown in tic (cf: 980530).
7467 + correct a few warnings about sign-extension in recent changes.
7468 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7469 + fixes suggested by Jeff Bradbury <jibradbury@lucent.com>:
7470 + improved parameter checking in new_fieldtype().
7471 + fixed a typo in wgetch() timeout handling.
7472 + allow slk_init() to be called per newterm call. The internal SLK
7473 state is stored in the SCREEN struct after every newterm() and then
7474 reset for the next newterm.
7475 + fix the problem that a slk_refresh() refreshes stdscr if the
7476 terminal has true SLKs.
7477 + update HTML documentation for Ada binding.
7480 + remove 'bool' casts from definitions of TRUE/FALSE so that statements
7481 such as "#if TRUE" work. This was originally done to allow for a C++
7482 compiler which would warn of implicit conversions between enum and
7483 int, but is not needed for g++ (reported by Kim DeVaughn).
7484 + add use_extended_names() function to allow applications to suppress
7485 read of the extended capabilities.
7486 + add configure option --enable-tcap-names to support logic which
7487 allows ncurses' tic to define new (i.e., extended) terminal
7488 capabilities. This is activated by the tic -x switch. The infocmp
7489 program automatically shows or compares extended capabilities.
7490 Note: This changes the Strings and similar arrays in the TERMTYPE
7491 struct so that applications which manipulate it must be recompiled.
7492 + use macros typeMalloc, typeCalloc and typeRealloc consistently
7493 throughout ncurses library.
7494 + add _nc_strdup() to doalloc.c.
7495 + modify define_key() to allow multiple strings to be bound to the
7497 + correct logic error in _nc_remove_string, from 990220.
7498 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
7499 + regenerate some of the html documentation
7500 + minor cleanup in terminal_interface-curses.adb
7503 + resolve ambiguity of kend/kll/kslt and khome/kfnd/kich1 strings in
7504 xterm and ncsa terminfo entries by removing the unneeded ones. Note
7505 that some entries will return kend & khome versus kslt and kfnd, for
7506 PC-style keyboards versus strict vt220 compatiblity - TD
7507 + add function keybound(), which returns the definition associated with
7509 + modify define_key() to undefine the given string when no keycode is
7511 + modify keyok() so it works properly if there is more than one string
7512 defined for a keycode.
7513 + add check to tic to warn about terminfo descriptions that contain
7514 more than one key assigned to the same string. This is shown only if
7515 the verbose (-v) option is given. Moved related logic (tic -v) from
7516 comp_parse.c into the tic program.
7517 + add/use _nc_trace_tries() to show the function keys that will be
7519 + rename init_acs to _nc_init_acs (request by Alexander V Lukyanov).
7520 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
7521 + remove all the *_adabind.c from ncurses, menu and form projects.
7522 Those little helper routines have all been implemented in Ada and are
7524 + The option handling routines in menu and form have been made more
7525 save. They now make sure that the unused bits in options are always
7527 + modify configuration scripts to
7528 + use gnatmake as default compiler name. This is a safer choice than
7529 gcc, because some GNAT implementations use other names for the
7530 compilerdriver to avoid conflicts.
7531 + use new default installation locations for the Ada files according
7532 to the proposed GNU Ada filesystem standard (for Linux).
7533 + simplify the Makefiles for the Ada binding
7534 + rename ada_include directory to src.
7537 + enable sigwinch handler by default.
7538 + disable logic that allows setbuf to be turned off/on, because some
7539 implementations will overrun the buffer after it has been disabled
7543 + suppress sc/rc capabilities from terminal description if they appear
7544 in smcup/rmcup. This affects only scrolling optimization, to fix a
7545 problem reported by several people with xterm's alternate screen,
7546 though the problem is more general.
7547 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
7548 + removed all pragma Preelaborate() stuff, because the just released
7549 gnat-3.11p complains on some constructs.
7550 + fixed some upper/lower case notations because gnat-3.11p found
7552 + used a new method to generate the HTML documentation of the Ada95
7553 binding. This invalidates nearly the whole ./Ada95/html subtree.
7554 Nearly all current files in this subtree are removed
7557 + cache last result from _nc_baudrate, for performance (suggested by
7558 Alexander V Lukyanov).
7559 + modify ClrUpdate() function to workaround a problem in nvi, which
7560 uses redrawwin in SIGTSTP handling. Jeffrey C Honig reported that
7561 ncurses repainted the screen with nulls before resuming normal
7562 operation (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
7563 + generalize is_xterm() function a little by letting xterm/rxvt/kterm
7564 be any substring rather than the prefix.
7565 + modify lib_data.c to initialize SP. Some linkers, e.g., IBM's, will
7566 not link a module if the only symbols exported from the module are
7567 uninitialized ones (patch by Ilya Zakharevich). Ilya says that he
7568 has seen messages claiming this behavior conforms to the standard.)
7569 + move call on _nc_signal_handler past _nc_initscr, to avoid a small
7570 window where Nttyb hasn't yet been filled (reported by Klaus Weide).
7571 + modify lib_tstp.c to block SIGTTOU when handling SIGTSTP, fixes a
7572 problem where ncurses applications which were run via a shell script
7573 would hang when given a ^Z. Also, check if the terminal's process
7574 group is consistent, i.e., a shell has not taken ownership of it,
7575 before deciding to save the current terminal settings in the SIGTSTP
7576 handler (patch by Klaus Weide).
7577 + correct spelling of ACS_ names in curs_border.3x (reported by Bob van
7578 der Poel <bvdpoel@kootenay.com>).
7579 + correct a couple of typos in the macros supporting the configure
7580 --with-shlib-version option.
7583 + modify fty_regex.c to compile on HAVE_REGEXPR_H_FUNCS machine (patch
7584 by Kimio Ishii <ishii@csl.sony.co.jp>).
7585 + rename BSDI console terminfo entries: bsdos to bsdos-pc-nobold, and
7586 bsdos-bold to bsdos-pc (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
7587 + modify tput to accept termcap names as an alternative to terminfo
7588 names (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
7589 + correct a typo in term.7 (Todd C Miller).
7590 + add configure --with-shlib-version option to allow installing shared
7591 libraries named according to release or ABI versions. This
7592 parameterizes some existing logic in the configure script, and is
7593 intended for compatiblity upgrades on Digital Unix, which used
7594 versioned libraries in ncurses 4.2, but no longer does (cf: 980425).
7595 + resync configure script against autoconf 2.13 + patches
7596 + minor improvements for teraterm terminfo entry based on the program's
7597 source distribution.
7600 + change default for configure --enable-big-core to assume machines do
7601 have enough memory to resolve terminfo.src in-memory.
7602 + correct name of ncurses library in TEST_ARGS when configuring with
7604 + minor fixes to compile ncurses library with broken-linker with g++.
7605 + add --enable-broken-linker configure option, default to environment
7606 variable $BROKEN_LINKER (request by Jeffrey C Honig).
7607 + change key_names[] array to static since it is not part of the curses
7608 interface (reported by Jeffrey C Honig <jch@bsdi.com>).
7611 + add Tera Term terminfo entry - TD
7614 + reviewed/corrected macros in curses.h as per XSI document.
7615 + provide support for termcap PC variable by copying it from terminfo
7616 data and using it as the padding character in tputs (reported by
7617 Alexander V Lukyanov).
7618 + corrected iris-ansi and iris-ansi-ap terminfo entries for kent and
7619 kf9-kf12 capabilities, as well as adding kcbt.
7620 + document the mouse handling mechanism in menu_driver and make a small
7621 change in menu_driver's return codes to provide more consistency
7622 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7623 + add fallback definition for NCURSES_CONST to termcap.h.in (reported
7624 by Uchiyama Yasushi <uch@nop.or.jp>).
7625 + move lib_restart.c to ncurses/base, since it uses curses functions
7626 directly, and therefore cannot be used in libtinfo.so
7627 + rename micro_char_size to micro_col_size, adding #define to retain
7629 + add set_a_attributes and set_pglen_inch to terminfo structure, as per
7630 XSI and Solaris 2.5.
7631 + minor makefile files to build ncurses test_progs
7632 + update html files in misc directory to reflect changes since 4.2
7635 + disable scroll hints when hashmap is enabled (patch by Alexander
7637 + move logic for tic's verify of -e option versus -I and -C so that the
7638 terminfo data is not processed if we cannot handle -e (reported by
7639 Steven Schwartz <steves@unitrends.com>.
7640 + add test-driver traces to terminfo and termcap functions.
7641 + provide support for termcap ospeed variable by copying it from the
7642 internal cur_term member, and using ospeed as the baudrate reference
7643 for the delay_output and tputs functions. If an application does not
7644 set ospeed, the library behaves as before, except that _nc_timed_wait
7645 is no longer used, or needed, since ospeed always has a value. But
7646 the application can modify ospeed to adjust the output of padding
7647 characters (prompted by a bug report for screen 3.7.6 and email from
7648 Michael Schroeder <Michael.Schroeder@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>).
7649 + removed some unused ifdef's as part of Alexander's restructuring.
7650 + reviewed/updated curses.h, term.h against X/Open Curses Issue 4
7651 Version 2. This includes making some parameters NCURSES_CONST
7652 rather than const, e.g., in termcap.h.
7653 + change linux terminfo entry to use ncv#2, since underline does not
7657 + miscellaneous corrections for curses.h to match XSI.
7658 + change --enable-no-padding configure option to be normally enabled.
7659 + add section to ncurses manpage for environment variables.
7660 + investigated Debian bug report that pertains to screen 3.7.4/3.7.6
7661 changes, found no sign of problems on Linux (or on SunOS, Solaris)
7662 running screen built with ncurses.
7663 + check if tmp_fp is opened in tic.c before closing it (patch by Pavel
7664 Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>).
7665 + correct several font specification typos in man-pages.
7668 + correct default value for BUILD_CC (reported by Larry Virden).
7671 + modify _nc_set_writedir() to set a flag in _nc_tic_dir() to prevent
7672 it from changing the terminfo directory after chdir'ing to it.
7673 Otherwise, a relative path in $TERMINFO would confuse tic (prompted
7674 by a Debian bug report).
7675 + correct/update ncsa terminfo entry (report by Larry Virden).
7676 + update xterm-xfree86 terminfo to current (patch 90), smcur/rmcur
7678 + add Mathew Vernon's mach console entries to terminfo.src
7679 + more changes, moving functions, as part of Alexander's restructuring.
7680 + modify configure script for GNU/Hurd share-library support, introduce
7681 BUILD_CC variable for cross compiling (patch by Uchiyama Yasushi
7685 + add environment variable NCURSES_NO_SETBUF to allow disabling the
7686 setbuf feature, for testing purposes.
7687 + correct ifdef's for termcap.h versus term.h that suppress redundant
7688 declarations of prototypes (reported by H.J.Lu).
7689 + modify Makefile.os2 to add linker flags which allow multiple copies
7690 of an application to coexist (reported by Ilya Zakharevich).
7691 + update Makefile.glibc and associated configure script so that ncurses
7692 builds as a glibc add-on with the new directory configuration
7693 (reported by H.J.Lu).
7696 + modify gen_reps() function in gen.c to work properly on SunOS
7697 (sparc), which is a left-to-right architecture.
7698 + modify relative_move and tputs to avoid an interaction with the
7699 BSD-style padding. The relative_move function could produce a string
7700 to replace on the screen which began with a numeric character, which
7701 was then interpreted by tputs as padding. Now relative_move will not
7702 generate a string with a leading digit in that case (overwrite).
7703 Also, tputs will only interpret padding if the string begins with a
7704 digit; as coded it permitted a string to begin with a decimal point
7705 or asterisk (reported by Larry Virden).
7706 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
7707 + fix a typo in m_driver.c mouse handling and improves the error
7709 + fix broken mouse handling in the Ada95 binding
7710 + make the Ada95 sample application menus work with the new menu mouse
7712 + improve the mouse handling introduced by Ilya; it now handles menus
7714 + repair a minor bug in the menu_driver code discovered during this
7716 + add new function wmouse_trafo() to hide implementation details of
7717 _yoffset member of WINDOW struct needed for mouse coordinate
7721 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to avoid using return-value of sprintf, since
7722 some older implementations (e.g., SunOS 4.x) return the buffer
7723 address rather than its length.
7724 > patch by Rick Ohnemus:
7725 + modify demo.cc to get it to compile with newer versions of egcs.
7726 + trim a space that appears at the end of the table preprocessor lines
7727 ('\" t). This space prevents some versions of man from displaying
7728 the pages - changed to remove all trailing whitespace (TD)
7729 + finally, 'make clean' does not remove panel objects.
7730 > patches by Ilya Zakharevich:
7731 + allow remapping of OS/2 mouse buttons using environment variable
7732 MOUSE_BUTTONS_123 with the default value 132.
7733 + add mouse support to ncurses menus.
7736 + modify misc/makedef.cmd to report old-style .def file symbols, and to
7737 generate the .def files sorted by increasing names rather than the
7739 + add misc/*.ref which are J.J.G.Ripoll's dll definition files (renamed
7740 from misc/*.old), and updated based on the entrypoint coding he used
7741 for an older version of ncurses.
7742 + add README.emx, to document how to build on OS/2 EMX.
7743 + updates for config.guess, config.sub from Lynx
7744 > patches by Ilya Zakharevich:
7745 + minor fixes for mouse handling mode:
7746 a) Do not initialize mouse if the request is to have no mouse;
7747 b) Allow switching of OS/2 VIO mouse on and off.
7748 + modify Makefile.os2 to support alternative means of generating
7749 configure script, by translating Unix script with Perl.
7750 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
7751 + Updates MANIFEST to reflect changes in source structure
7752 + Eliminates a problem introduced with my last patch for the C++
7753 binding in the panels code. It removes the update() call done in the
7755 + Changes in the Ada95 binding to better support systems where
7756 sizeof(chtype)!=sizeof(int) (e.g. DEC Alpha).
7759 + modify install-script for manpages to skip over .orig and .rej files
7760 (request by Larry Virden).
7761 > patches/discussion by Alexander V Lukyanov:
7762 + move base-library sources into ncurses/base and tty (serial terminal)
7763 sources into ncurses/tty, as part of Alexander V Lukyanov's proposed
7764 changes to ncurses library.
7765 + copy _tracemouse() into ncurses.c so that lib_tracemse.c need not
7766 be linked into the normal ncurses library.
7767 + move macro winch to a function, to hide details of struct ldat
7768 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
7769 + fix a potential compile problem in cursesw.cc
7770 + some Ada95 cosmetics
7771 + fix a gen.c problem when compiling on 64-Bit machines
7772 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in "-L" linker switch
7773 + modify Ada95 makefiles to use the INSTALL_PREFIX setting.
7776 + ifdef'd out lib_freeall.c when not configured.
7777 + rename _tracebits() to _nc_tracebits().
7778 + move terminfo-library sources into ncurses/tinfo, and trace-support
7779 functions into ncurses/trace as part of Alexander V Lukyanov's
7780 proposed changes to ncurses library.
7781 + modify generated term.h to always specify its own definitions for
7782 HAVE_TERMIOS_H, etc., to guard against inclusion by programs with
7783 broken configure scripts.
7786 + modify terminfo parsing to accept octal and hexadecimal constants,
7788 + remove an autoconf 2.10 artifact from the configure script's check
7789 for "-g" compiler options. (Though harmless, this confused someone
7790 at Debian, who recently issued a patch that results in the opposite
7792 + add configure option --with-ada-compiler to accommodate installations
7793 that do not use gcc as the driver for GNAT (patch by Juergen
7797 + ensure ./man exists in configure script, needed when configuring
7798 with --srcdir option.
7799 + modify infocmp "-r" option to remove limit on formatted termcap
7800 output, which makes it more like Solaris' version.
7801 + modify captoinfo to treat no-argument case more like Solaris'
7802 version, which uses the contents of $TERMCAP as the entry to format.
7803 + modify mk-2nd.awk to handle subdirectories, e.g., ncurses/tty
7804 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
7807 + modify --with-terminfo-dirs option so that the default value is the
7808 ${datadir} value, unless $TERMINFO_DIRS is already set. This gets
7809 rid of a hardcoded list of candidate directories in the configure
7811 + add some error-checking to _nc_read_file_entry() to ensure that
7812 strings are properly terminated (Todd C Miller).
7813 + rename manpage file curs_scr_dmp.3x to curs_scr_dump.3x, to
7814 correspond with contents (reported by Neil Zanella
7815 <nzanella@cs.mun.ca>).
7816 + remove redundant configure check for C++ which did not work when $CXX
7817 was specified with a full pathname (reported by Andreas Jaeger).
7818 + corrected bcopy/memmove check; the macro was not standalone.
7821 + remove unnecessary portion of OS/2 EMX mouse change from
7822 check_pending() (reported by Alexander V Lukyanov).
7825 + implement mouse support for OS/2 EMX (adapted from patch against
7826 4.2(?) by Ilya Zakharevich).
7827 + add configure-check for bcopy/memmove, for 980919 changes to hashmap.
7828 + merge Data General terminfo from Hasufin <hasufin@vidnet.net> - TD
7829 + merge AIX 3.2.5 terminfo descriptions for IBM terminals, replaces
7830 some older entries - TD
7831 + modify tic to compile into %'char' form in preference to %{number},
7832 since that is a little more efficient.
7833 + minor correction to infocmp to avoid displaying "difference" between
7834 two capabilities that are rendered in equivalent forms.
7835 + add "-g" option to tic/infocmp to force character constants to be
7836 displayed in quoted form. Otherwise their decimal values are shown.
7837 + modify setupterm so that cancelled strings are treated the same as
7838 absent strings, cancelled and absent booleans false (does not affect
7840 + modify tic, infocmp to discard redundant i3, r3 strings when output
7842 > patch by Alexander V Lukyanov:
7843 + improve performance of tparm, now it takes 19% instead of 25% when
7845 + rename maxlen/minlen to prec/width for better readability.
7846 + use format string for printing strings.
7847 + use len argument correctly in save_text, and pass it to save_number.
7850 + make test_progs compile (but hashmap does not function).
7851 + correct NC_BUFFERED macro, used in lib_mvcur test-driver, modify
7852 associated logic to avoid freeing the SP->_setbuf data.
7853 + add modules home_terminfo and getenv_num to libtinfo.
7854 + move write_entry to libtinfo, to work with termcap caching.
7855 + minor fixes to blue.c to build with atac.
7856 + remove softscroll.c module; no longer needed for testing.
7857 > patches by Todd C Miller:
7858 + use strtol(3) instead of atoi(3) when parsing env variables so we can
7859 detect a bogus (non-numeric) value.
7860 + check for terminal names > MAX_NAME_SIZE in a few more places when
7861 dealing with env variables again.
7862 + fix a MAX_NAME_SIZE that should be MAX_NAME_SIZE+1
7863 + use sizeof instead of strlen(3) on PRIVATE_INFO since it is a fixed
7864 string #define (compile time vs runtime).
7865 + when setting errno to ENOMEM, set it right before the return, not
7866 before code that could, possibly, set errno to a different value.
7867 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
7868 + use default background in update_cost_from_blank()
7869 + disable scroll-hints when hashmap is configured.
7870 + improve integration of hashmap scrolling code, by adding oldhash and
7871 newhash data to SP struct.
7872 + invoke del_curterm from delscreen.
7873 + modify del_curterm to set cur_term to null if it matches the
7874 function's parameter which is deleted.
7875 + modify lib_doupdate to prefer parm_ich to the enter_insert_mode and
7876 exit_insert_mode combination, adjusting InsCharCost to check
7877 enter_insert_mode, exit_insert_mode and insert_padding. Add
7878 insert_padding in insert mode after each char. This adds new costs
7882 + modify test-driver in lib_mvcur.s to use _nc_setbuffer, for
7883 consistent treatment.
7884 + modify ncurses to restore output to unbuffered on endwin, and resume
7885 buffering in refresh (see lib_set_term.c and NC_BUFFERED macro).
7886 + corrected HTML version numbers (according to the W3C validator, they
7887 never were HTML 2.0-compliant, but are acceptable 3.0).
7890 + modify MKterminfo.sh to generate terminfo.5 with tables sorted by
7891 capability name, as in SVr4.
7892 + modified term.h, termcap.h headers to avoid redundant declarations.
7893 + change 'u_int' type in tset.c to unsigned, making this compile on
7894 Sequent PRX 4.1 (reported by Michael Sterrett <msterret@coat.com>).
7897 + corrections to mailing addresses, and moving the magic line that
7898 causes the man program to invoke tbl to the first line of each
7899 manpage (patch by Rick Ohnemus <rick@ecompcon.com>).
7900 + add Makefile.os2 and supporting scripts to generate dll's on OS/2 EMX
7901 (from J.J.G.Ripoll, with further integration by TD).
7902 + correct a typo in icl6404 terminfo entry.
7903 + add xtermm and xtermc terminfo entries.
7904 > from esr's terminfo version:
7905 + Added Francesco Potorti's tuned Wyse 99 entries.
7906 + dtterm enacs (from Alexander V Lukyanov).
7907 + Add ncsa-ns, ncsa-m-ns and ncsa-m entries from esr version.
7910 + document AT&T acs characters in terminfo.5 manpage.
7911 + use EMX _scrsize() function if terminfo and environment do not
7912 declare the screen size (reported by Ilya Zakharevich
7913 <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>).
7914 + remove spurious '\' characters from eterm and osborne terminfo
7915 entries (prompted by an old Debian bug report).
7916 + correct reversed malloc/realloc calls in _nc_doalloc (reported by
7917 Hans-Joachim Widmaier <hjwidmai@foxboro.com>).
7918 + correct misplaced parenthesis which caused file-descriptor from
7919 opening termcap to be lost, from 980725 changes (reported by Andreas
7923 + modify lib_setup.c to eliminate unneeded include of <sys/ioctl.h>
7924 when termios is not used (patch by Todd C Miller).
7925 + add function _nc_doalloc, to ensure that failed realloc calls do not
7926 leak memory (reported by Todd C Miller).
7927 + improved ncsa-telnet terminfo entry.
7930 + correct missing braces around a trace statement in read_entry.c,
7931 from 980808 (reported by Kim DeVaughn <kimdv@best.com> and Liviu
7935 + fix missing include <errno.h> in ditto.c (reported by Bernhard
7936 Rosenkraenzer <bero@k5.sucks.eu.org>)
7937 + add NCSA telnet terminfo entries from Francesco Potorti
7938 <F.Potorti@cnuce.cnr.it>, from Debian bug reports.
7939 + make handling of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables more compatible with
7940 Solaris by allowing them to individually override the window size
7941 as obtained via ioctl.
7944 + modify lib_vidattr.c to allow for terminal types (e.g., xterm-color)
7945 which may reset all attributes in the 'op' capability, so that colors
7946 are set before turning on bold and other attributes, but still after
7947 turning attributes off.
7948 + add 'ditto.c' to test directory to illustrate use of newterm for
7949 initializing multiple screens.
7950 + modify _nc_write_entry() to recover from failed attempt to link alias
7951 for a terminfo on a filesystem which does not preserve character case
7952 (reported by Peter L Jordan <PJordan@chla.usc.edu>).
7955 + updated versions of config.guess and config.sub based on automake 1.3
7956 + change name-comparisons in lib_termcap to compare no more than 2
7957 characters (gleaned from Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-8.8, verified
7958 with Solaris curses).
7959 + fix typo in curs_insstr.3x (patch by Todd C Miller)
7960 + use 'access()' to check if ncurses library should be permitted to
7961 open or modify files with fopen/open/link/unlink/remove calls, in
7962 case the calling application is running in setuid mode (request by
7963 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>, responding to Duncan Simpson
7964 <dps@io.stargate.co.uk>).
7965 + arm100 terminfo entries from Dave Millen <dmill@globalnet.co.uk>).
7966 + qnxt2 and minitel terminfo entries from esr's version.
7969 + use -R option with ldconfig on FreeBSD because otherwise it resets
7970 the search path to /usr/lib (reported by Dan Nelson).
7971 + add -soname option when building shared libraries on OpenBSD 2.x
7972 (request by QingLong).
7973 + add configure options --with-manpage-format and
7974 --with-manpage-renames (request by QingLong).
7975 + correct conversion of CANCELLED_NUMERIC in write_object(), which was
7976 omitting the high-order byte, producing a 254 in the compiled
7978 + modify return-values of tgetflag, tgetnum, tgetstr, tigetflag,
7979 tigetnum and tigetstr to be compatible with Solaris (gleaned from
7980 Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-8.8).
7981 + modify _nc_syserr_abort to abort only when compiled for debugging,
7982 otherwise simply exit with an error.
7985 + modify Ada95 'gen' program to use appropriate library suffix (e.g.,
7986 "_g" for a debug build).
7987 + update Ada95 'make clean' rule to include generics .ali files
7988 + add a configure test to ensure that if GNAT is found, that it can
7989 compile/link working Ada95 program.
7990 + flush output in beep and flash functions, fixing a problem with
7991 getstr (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov)
7992 + fix egcs 1.0.2 warning for etip.h (patch by Chris Johns).
7993 + correct ifdef/brace nesting in lib_sprintf.c (patch by Bernhard
7994 Rosenkraenzer <bero@Pool.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>).
7995 + correct typo in wattr_get macro from 980509 fixes (patch by Dan
7999 + merge changes from current XFree86 xterm terminfo descriptions.
8000 + add configure option '--without-ada'.
8001 + add a smart-default for termcap 'ac' to terminfo 'acs_chars' which
8002 corresponds to vt100.
8003 + change translation for termcap 'rs' to terminfo 'rs2', which is
8004 the documented equivalent, rather than 'rs1'.
8007 + slow 'worm' down a little, for very fast machines.
8008 + corrected firstchar/lastchar computation in lib_hline.c
8009 + simplify some expressions with CHANGED_CELL, CHANGED_RANGE and
8010 CHANGED_TO_EOL macros.
8011 + modify init_pair so that if a color-pair is reinitialized, we will
8012 repaint the areas of the screen whose color changes, like SVr4 curses
8013 (reported by Christian Maurer <maurer@inf.fu-berlin.de>).
8014 + modify getsyx/setsyx macros to comply with SVr4 man-page which
8015 says that leaveok() affects their behavior (report by Darryl Miles,
8016 patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
8019 + review terminfo.5 against Solaris 2.6 curses version, corrected
8020 several minor errors/omissions.
8021 + implement tparm %l format.
8022 + implement tparm printf-style width and precision for %s, %d, %x, %o
8024 + implement tparm dynamic variables (reported by Xiaodan Tang).
8027 + update man-page for for wattr_set, wattr_get (cf: 980509)
8028 + correct limits in hashtest, which would cause nonprinting characters
8029 to be written to large screens.
8030 + correct configure script, when --without-cxx was specified: the
8031 wrong variable was used for cf_cv_type_of_bool. Compilers up to gcc
8032 2.8 tolerated the missing 'int'.
8033 + remove the hardcoded name "gcc" for the GNU Ada compiler. The
8034 compiler's name might be something like "egcs" (patch by Juergen
8036 + correct curs_addch.3x, which implied that echochar could directly
8037 display control characters (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
8038 + fix typos in ncurses-intro.html (patch by Sidik Isani
8039 <isani@cfht.hawaii.edu>)
8042 + add configure test for conflicting use of exception in math.h and
8044 + minor optimization to 'hash()' function in hashmap.c, reduces its
8046 + correct form of LD_SHARED_OPTS for HP-UX 10.x (patch by Tim Mooney).
8047 + fix missing quotes for 'print' in MKunctrl.awk script (reported by
8048 Mihai Budiu <mihaib@gs41.sp.cs.cmu.edu>).
8049 > patch by Alexander V Lukyanov:
8050 + correct problem on Solaris (with poll() function) where getch could
8051 hang indefinitely even if timeout(x) was called. This turned out to
8052 be because milliseconds was not updated before 'goto retry' in
8054 + simplified the function _nc_timed_wait and fixed another bug, which
8055 was the assumption of !GOOD_SELECT && HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY in *timeleft
8057 + removed the cycle on EINTR, as it seems to be useless.
8060 + add makefile-rule for test/keynames
8061 + modify run_tic.sh and shlib to ensure that user's .profile does not
8062 override the $PATH used to run tic (patch by Tim Mooney).
8063 + restore LD_SHARED_OPTS to $(LD_SHARED_FLAGS) when linking programs,
8064 needed for HP-UX shared-library path (recommended by Tim Mooney).
8065 + remove special case of HP-UX -L options, use +b options to embed
8066 $(libdir) in the shared libraries (recommended by Tim Mooney).
8067 + add checks for some possible buffer overflows and unchecked
8068 malloc/realloc/calloc/strdup return values (patch by Todd C Miller
8069 <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>)
8072 + correct maxx/maxy expression for num_columns/num_lines in derwin
8073 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
8074 + add /usr/share/lib/terminfo and /usr/lib/terminfo as compatibilty
8075 fallbacks to _nc_read_entry(), along with --with-terminfo-dirs
8076 configure option (suggested by Mike Hopkirk).
8077 + modify config.guess to recognize Unixware 2.1 and 7 (patch by Mike
8078 Hopkirk <hops@sco.com>).
8079 + suppress definition of CC_SHARED_OPTS in LDFLAGS_SHARED in c++
8080 Makefile.in, since this conflicts when g++ is used with HP-UX
8081 compiler (reported by Tim Mooney).
8082 + parenthesize 'strcpy' calls in c++ binding to workaround redefinition
8083 in some C++ implementations (reported by several people running
8084 egcs with glibc 2.0.93, analysis by Andreas Jaeger.
8087 + modify write_entry.c so that it will not attempt to link aliases
8088 with embedded '/', but give only a warning.
8089 + put -L$(libdir) first when linking programs, except for HP-UX.
8090 + modify comp_scan.c to handle SVr4 terminfo description for att477,
8091 which contains a colon in the description field.
8092 + modify configure script to support SCO osr5.0.5 shared libraries,
8093 from comp.unix.sco.programmer newsgroup item (Mike Hopkirk).
8094 + eliminate extra GoTo call in lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V.
8096 + minor adjustments of const/NCURSES_CONST from IRIX compile.
8097 + add updates based on esr's 980509 version of terminfo.src.
8100 + correct macros for wattr_set, wattr_get, separate wattrset macro from
8101 these to preserve behavior that allows attributes to be combined with
8103 + add configure option --enable-no-padding, to allow environment
8104 variable $NCURSES_NO_PADDING to eliminate non-mandatory padding,
8105 thereby making terminal emulators (e.g., for vt100) a little more
8106 efficient (request by Daniel Eisenbud <eisenbud@cs.swarthmore.edu>).
8107 + modify configure script to embed ABI in shared libraries for HP-UX
8108 10.x (detailed request by Tim Mooney).
8109 + add test/example of the 'filter()' function.
8110 + add nxterm and xterm-color terminfo description (request by Cristian
8111 Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>).
8112 + modify rxvt terminfo description to clear alternate screen before
8113 switching back to normal screen, for compatibility with applications
8114 which use xterm (reported by Manoj Kasichainula <manojk@io.com>).
8115 + modify linux terminfo description to reset color palette (reported
8116 by Telford Tendys <telford@eng.uts.edu.au>).
8117 + correction to doupdate, for case where terminal does not support
8118 insert/delete character. The logic did not check that there was a
8119 difference in alignment of changes to old/new screens before
8120 repainting the whole non-blank portion of the line. Modified to fall
8121 through into logic that reduces by the portion which does not differ
8122 (reported by Daniel Eisenbud <eisenbud@cs.swarthmore.edu>).
8123 + minor performance improvement to wnoutrefresh by moving some
8124 comparisons out of inner loop.
8127 + modify configure script to substitute NCURSES_CONST in curses.h
8128 + updated terminfo entries for xterm-xf86-v40, xterm-16color,
8129 xterm-8bit to correspond to XFree86 3.9Ag.
8130 + remove restriction that forces ncurses to use setaf/setab if the
8131 number of colors is greater than 8. (see 970524 for xterm-16color).
8132 + change order of -L options (so that $(libdir) is searched first) when
8133 linking tic and other programs, to workaround HP's linker.
8134 Otherwise, the -L../lib is embedded when linking against shared
8135 libraries and the installed program does not run (reported by Ralf
8137 + modify configuration of shared libraries on Digital Unix so that
8138 versioning is embedded in the library, rather than implied by
8139 links (patch by Tim Mooney).
8142 + modify etip.h to avoid conflict with math.h on HP-UX 9.03 with gcc
8143 2.8.1 which redefines 'exception' (reported by Ralf Hildebrandt
8144 <R.Hildebrandt@tu-bs.de>).
8145 + correct configure tests in CF_SHARED_OPTS which used $CC value to
8146 check for gcc, rather than autoconf's $GCC value. This did not
8147 work properly if the full pathname of the compiler were given
8148 (reported by Michael Yount <yount@csf.Colorado.edu>).
8149 + revise check for compiler options to force ANSI mode since repeating
8150 an option such as -Aa causes HP's compiler to fail on its own headers
8151 (reported by Clint Olsen <olsenc@ichips.intel.com>).
8154 + ifdef'd has_key() and mcprint() as extended functions.
8155 + modified several prototypes to correspond with 1997 version of
8156 X/Open Curses (affects ABI since developers have used attr_get).
8157 + remove spurious trailing blanks in glibc addon-scripts (patch by
8159 + insert a few braces at locations where gcc-2.8.x asks to use them to
8160 avoid ambigous else's, use -fpic rather than -fPIC for Linux (patch
8161 by Juergen Pfeifer).
8164 + split SHLIB_LIST into SHLIB_DIRS/SHLIB_LIST to keep -L options
8165 before -l to accommodate Solaris' linker (reported by Larry Virden).
8168 + modify lib_color.c to eliminate dependency on orig_colors and
8169 orig_pair, since SVr4 curses does not require these either, but
8170 uses them when they are available.
8171 + add detailed usage-message to infocmp.
8172 + correct a typo in att6386 entry (a "%?" which was "?").
8173 + add -f option to infocmp and tic, which formats the terminfo
8174 if/then/else/endif so that they are readable (with newlines and
8176 + fixes for glibc addon scripts (patch by H.J.Lu).
8179 + revise configure macro CF_SPEED_TYPE so that termcap.h has speed_t
8180 declared (from Adam J Richter <adam@yggdrasil.com>)
8181 + remove spurious curs_set() call from leaveok() (J T Conklin).
8182 + corrected handling leaveok() in doupdate() (patch by Alexander V.
8184 + improved version of wredrawln (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
8185 + correct c++/Makefile.in so install target do not have embedded ../lib
8186 to confuse it (patch by Thomas Graf <graf@essi.fr>).
8187 + add warning to preinstall rule which checks if the installer would
8188 overwrite a curses.h or termcap.h that is not derived from ncurses.
8189 (The recommended configuration for developers who need both is to
8190 use --disable-overwrite).
8191 + modify preinstall rule in top-level Makefile to avoid implicit
8192 use of 'sh', to accommodate Ultrix 4.4 (reported by Joao Palhoto
8193 Matos <jmatos@math.ist.utl.pt>, patch by Thomas Esser
8194 <te@informatik.uni-hannover.de>)
8195 + refine ifdef's for TRACE so that libncurses has fewer dependencies
8196 on libtinfo when TRACE is disabled.
8197 + modify configure script so that if the --with-termlib option is used
8198 to generate a separate terminfo library, we chain it to the ncurses
8199 library with a "-l" option (reported by Darryl Miles and Ian T.
8203 + correct limits and window in wredrawln function (reported/analysis by
8204 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
8205 + correct sed expression in configure script for --with-fallback
8206 option (patch by Jesse Thilo).
8207 + correct some places in configure script where $enableval was used
8208 rather than $withval (patch by Darryl Miles <dlm@g7led.demon.co.uk>).
8209 + modify some man-pages so no '.' or '..' falls between TH and SH
8210 macros, to accommodate man_db program (reported by Ian T. Zimmerman
8212 + terminfo.src 10.2.1 downloaded from ESR's webpage (ESR).
8213 > several changes by Juergen Pfeifer:
8214 + add copyright notices (and rcs id's) on remaining man-pages.
8215 + corrected prototypes for slk_* functions, using chtype rather than
8217 + implemented the wcolor_set() and slk_color() functions
8218 + the slk_attr_{set,off,on} functions need an additional void*
8219 parameter according to XSI.
8220 + fix the C++ and Ada95 binding as well as the man pages to
8221 reflect above enhancements.
8224 + use 'stat()' rather than 'access()' in toe.c to check for the
8225 existence of $HOME/.terminfo, since it may be a file.
8226 + suppress configure CF_CXX_LIBRARY check if we are not using g++
8227 2.7.x, since this is not needed with g++ 2.8 or egcs (patch by
8229 + turn on hashmap scrolling code by default, intend to remedy defects
8231 + minor corrections to terminfo.src changelog.
8233 980302 4.2 release for upload to prep.ai.mit.edu
8234 + correct Florian's email address in ncurses-intro.html
8235 + terminfo.src 10.2.0 (ESR).
8238 + add linux-koi8r replace linux-koi8, which is not KOI8 (patch by
8239 QingLong <qinglong@Bolizm.ihep.su>).
8240 + minor documentation fixes (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
8241 + add setlocale() call to ncurses.c (reported by Claes G. Lindblad
8242 <claesg@algonet.se>).
8243 + correct sign-extension in lib_insstr.c (reported by Sotiris
8244 Vassilopoulos <svas@leon.nrcps.ariadne-t.gr>)
8247 + regenerated some documentation overlooked in 980214 patch
8248 (ncurses-intro.doc, curs_outopts.3x.html)
8249 + minor ifdef change to C++ binding to work with gcc 2.8.0 (patch by
8251 + change maintainer's mailing address to florian@gnu.org, change
8252 tentative mailing list address to bug-ncurses-request@gnu.org (patch
8253 by Florian La Roche).
8254 + add definition of $(REL_VERSION) to c++/Makefile.in (reported by Gran
8255 Hasse <gh@raditex.se>).
8256 + restore version numbers to Ada95 binding, accidentally deleted by
8257 copyright patch (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
8260 + remove ncurses.lsm from MANIFEST so that it won't be used in FSF
8261 distributions, though it is retained in development.
8262 + correct scaling of milliseconds to nanoseconds in lib_napms.c (patch
8264 + update mailing-list information (bug-ncurses@gnu.org).
8265 + update announcement for upcoming 4.2 release.
8266 + modify -lm test to check for 'sin()' rather than 'floor()'
8267 + remove spurious commas from terminfo.src descriptions.
8268 + change copyright notices to Free Software Foundation
8271 + minor fixes for autoconf macros CF_ERRNO, CF_HELP_MESSAGE and
8273 + modify Makefile.glibc so that $(objpfx) is defined (H.J.Lu).
8274 + ifdef-out true-return from _nc_mouse_inline() which depends on
8275 merge of QNX patch (pending 4.2 release).
8276 > patch to split off seldom-used modules in ncurses (J T Conklin):
8277 This reduces size by up to 2.6kb.
8278 + move functionality of _nc_usleep into napms, add configuration case
8280 + moved wchgat() from lib_addch.c to lib_chgat.c
8281 + moved clearok(), immedok(), leaveok(), and scrollok() from
8282 lib_options.c to lib_clearok.c, lib_immedok.c, lib_leaveok.c and
8284 + moved napms() from lib_kernel.c to lib_napms.c
8285 + moved echo() and noecho() from lib_raw.c to lib_echo.c
8286 + moved nl() and nonl() from lib_raw.c to lib_nl.c
8289 + corrected conversion in tclock.c (cf: 971018).
8290 + updates to Makefile.glibc and associated Linux configure script
8292 + workaround a quoting problem on SunOS with tar-copy.sh
8293 + correct init_pair() calls in worm.c to work when use_default_colors()
8295 + include <sys/types.h> in CF_SYS_TIME_SELECT to work with FreeBSD
8297 + add ncv capability to FreeBSD console (cons25w), making reverse
8299 + correct sense of configure-test for sys/time.h inclusion with
8301 + fixes for Ada95/ada_include/Makefile.in to work with --srcdir option.
8302 + remove unused/obsolete test-program rules from progs/Makefile.in
8303 (the rules in ncurses/Makefile.in work).
8304 + remove shared-library loader flags from test/Makefile.in, etc.
8305 + simplify test/configure.in using new version of autoconf to create
8307 + suppress suffix rules in test/Makefile.in, provide explicit
8308 dependency to work with --srcdir option and less capable 'make'
8310 > adapted from patch for QNX by Xiaodan Tang:
8311 + initialize %P and %g variables set/used in tparm, and also ensure
8312 that empty strings don't return a null result from tparam_internal
8313 + add QNX-specific prototype for vsscanf()
8314 + move initialization of SP->_keytry from init_keytry() to newterm() to
8315 avoid resetting it via a keyok() call by mouse_activate().
8316 + reorganized some functions in lib_mouse() to use case-statements.
8317 + remove sgr string from qnx terminfo entry since it is reported to
8318 turn off attributes inconsistently.
8321 + add f/F/b/B commands to ncurses 'b' test to toggle colors, providing
8322 test for no_color_video.
8323 + adjusted emx.src to use no_color_video, now works with ncurses 'b'
8325 + implement no_color_video attribute, and as a special case, reverse
8326 colors when the reverse attribute cannot be combined with color.
8327 + check for empty string in $TERM variable (reported by Brett Michaels
8329 > from reports by Fred Fish:
8330 + add configure-test for isascii
8331 + add configure-test for -lm library.
8332 + modify CF_BOOL_SIZE to check if C++ bool types are unsigned.
8333 > patches by J.J.G.Ripoll
8334 + add configure/makefile variables to support .exe extension on
8335 OS/2 EMX (requires additional autoconf patches).
8336 + explicitly initialize variables in lib_data.c to appease OS/2 linker
8337 > patches by Fred Fish <fnf@ninemoons.com>
8338 + misc/Makefile.in (install.data): Avoid trying to install the CVS
8340 + aclocal.m4 (install.includes): Remove files in the include directory
8341 where we are going to install new ones, not the original source
8343 + misc/terminfo.src: Add entry for "beterm", derived from termcap
8344 distributed with BeOS PR2 using captoinfo.
8345 + aclocal.m4: Wrap $cf_cv_type_of_bool with quotes (contains space)
8346 + aclocal.m4: Assume bool types are unsigned.
8347 + progs/infocmp.c: workaround mwcc 32k function data limit
8350 + correct initialization of color-pair (cf: 970524) in xmas.c, which
8351 was using only one color-pair for all colors (reported by
8353 + add multithread options for objects build on EMX, for compatibility
8355 + split up an expression in MKlib_gen.sh to work around a problem on
8356 OS/2 EMX, with 'ash' (patch by J.J.G.Ripoll).
8357 + change terminfo entries xterm (xterm-xf86-v40), xterm-8bit rs1 to use
8359 + rename terminfo entry xterm-xf86-v39t to xterm-xf86-v40
8360 + remove bold/underline from sun console entries since they're not
8362 + correct _tracef calls in _tracedump(), which did not separate format
8364 + correct getopt string for tic "-o" option, and add it to man-page
8365 synopsis (reported by Darren Hiebert <darren@hmi.com>).
8366 + correct typo in panel/Makefile.in, reversed if-statement in scrolling
8367 optimization (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
8368 + test for 'remove()', use 'unlink() if not found (patch by Philippe De
8369 Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>).
8370 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
8371 + Improve a feature of the forms driver. For invisible fields
8372 (O_VISIBLE off) only the contents but not the attributes are cleared.
8373 We now clear both. (Reported by Javier Kohan
8374 <jkohan@adan.fceia.unr.edu.ar>)
8375 + The man page form_field_opts.3x makes now clear, that invisible
8376 fields are also always inactive.
8377 + adjust ifdef's to compile the C++ binding with the just released
8378 gcc-2.8.0 c++ and the corresponding new C++ libraries.
8381 + correct "?" command in ncurses.c; it was performing non-screen writes
8382 while the program was in screen mode. (It "worked" in 1.9.9e because
8383 that version sets OPOST and OCRNL incorrectly).
8384 + return error from functions in lib_kernel, lib_raw and lib_ti if
8385 cur_term is null, or if underlying I/O fails.
8386 + amend change to tputs() so that it does not return an error if
8387 cur_term is null, since some applications depend on being able to use
8388 tputs without initializing the terminal (reported by Christian J.
8389 Robinson <infynity@cyberhighway.net>).
8392 + add a copy of emx.src from J.J.G.Ripoll's OS/2 EMX version of ncurses
8393 1.9.9e, together with fixes/additions for the "ansi" terminal type.
8394 + add tic check for save/restore cursor if change_scroll_region is
8395 defined (reference: O'Reilly book).
8396 + modify read_termcap.c to handle EMX-style pathnames (reported by
8398 + modify lib_raw.c to use EMX's setmode (patch from J.J.G.Ripoll).
8399 Ripoll says EMX's curses does this.
8400 + modify _nc_tic_expand() to generate \0 rather than \200.
8401 + move/revise 'expand()' from dump_entry.c to ncurses library as
8402 _nc_tic_expand(), for use by tack.
8403 + decode \a as \007 for terminfo, as per XSI.
8404 + correct translation of terminfo "^@", to \200, like \0.
8405 + modify next_char() to treat <cr><lf> the same as <newline>, for
8406 cross-platform compatibility.
8407 + use new version of autoconf (971230) to work around limited
8408 environment on CLIX, due to the way autoconf builds --help message.
8409 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
8410 + check that the Ada95 binding runs against the correct version of
8412 + insert constants about the library version into the main spec-file of
8416 + modify open/fopen calls to use binary mode, needed for EMX.
8417 + modify configure script to work with autoconf 2.10 mods for OS/2
8418 EMX (from J.J.G.Ripoll).
8419 + generated ncurses_cfg.h with patch (971222) to autoconf 2.12 which
8420 bypasses limited sed buffer length.
8421 > several changes from Juan Jose Garcia Ripoll <worm@arrakis.es>
8422 (J.J.G.Ripoll) to support OS/2 EMX:
8423 + add a _scrolling flag to SP, to set when we encounter a terminal
8424 that simply cannot scroll.
8425 + corrected logic in _nc_add_to_try(), by ensuring that strings with
8426 embedded \200 characters are matched.
8427 + don't assume the host has 'link()' function, for linking terminfo
8431 + if there's no ioctl's to support sigwinch handler, disable it.
8432 + add configure option --disable-ext-funcs to remove the extended
8433 functions from the build.
8434 + add configure option --with-termlib to generate the terminfo
8435 functions as a separate library.
8436 + add 'sources' rule to facilitate cross-compiling.
8437 + review/fix order of mostlyclean/clean/distclean rules.
8438 + modify install-rule for headers to first remove old header, in
8439 case there was a symbolic link that confuses the install script.
8440 + corrected substitution for NCURSES_CONST in term.h (cf: 971108)
8441 + add null pointer checks in wnoutrefresh(), overlap() (patch by
8442 Xiaodan Tang <xtang@qnx.com>)
8443 + correct tputs(), which could dereference a null cur_term if invoked
8444 before terminal is initialized (patch by Christopher Seawood
8446 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
8447 + makes better use of "pragma Inline" in the Ada95 binding
8448 + resynchronizes the generated html manpages
8451 + additional fixes for man-pages section-references
8452 + add (for debugging) a check for ich/ich1 conflict with smir/rmir
8454 + remove hpa/vpa from rxvt terminal description because they are not
8455 implemented correctly, added sgr0.
8456 + change ncurses 's' to use raw mode, so ^Q works (reported by Rudolf
8457 Leitgeb <leitgeb@leland.stanford.edu>)
8460 + modify protection when installing libraries to (normally) not
8461 executable. HP-UX shared libraries are an exception.
8462 + add configure check for 'tack'.
8463 + implement script for renaming section-references in man-page install,
8464 for Debian configuration.
8465 + add validity-check for SP in trace code in baudrate() (reported by
8467 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov (fixes to match sol25 curses)
8468 + modify 'overlay()' so that copy applies target window background to
8470 + correct 'mvwin()' so that it does not clear the previous locations.
8471 + correct lib_acs.c so that 8-bit character is not sign expanded in
8472 case of wide characters in chtype.
8473 + correct control-char test in lib_addch.c for use with wide chars
8474 + use attribute in the chtype when adding a control character in
8475 lib_addch.c control char was added with current attribute
8478 + save/restore errno in _tracef() function
8479 + change treatment of initialize_color to use a range of 0..1000
8480 (recommended by Daniel Weaver).
8481 + set umask in mkinstalldirs, fixing problems reported by users who
8482 have set root's umask to 077.
8483 + correct bug in tic that caused capabilities to be reprinted at the
8484 end of output when they had embedded comments.
8485 + rewrote wredrawln to correspond to XSI, and split-out since it is
8486 not often used (from report by Alexander V. Lukyanov, 970825)
8487 + rewrote Dan Nelson's change to make it portable, as well as to
8488 correct logic for handling backslashes.
8489 + add code to _nc_tgetent() to make it work more like a real tgetent().
8490 It removes all empty fields, and removes all but the first in a group
8491 of duplicate caps. The code was pulled from the BSD libtermcap code
8492 in termcap.c (patch by Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
8493 + don't include --enable-widec in the --with-develop configure option,
8494 since it is not binary-compatible with 4.1 (noted by Alexander V.
8496 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
8497 + further improvements of the usage of elaboration pragmas in the Ada95
8499 + enhanced Ada95 sample to use the user_data mechanism for panels.
8500 + a fix for the configuration script to make gnat-3.10 the required
8502 + resync of the html version of the manpages
8505 > fixes/updates for terminfo.src:
8506 + add vt220-js, pilot, rbcomm, datapoint entries from esr's 27-jun-97
8508 + add hds200 description (Walter Skorski)
8509 + add EMX 0.9b descriptions
8510 + correct rmso/smso capabilities in wy30-mc and wy50-mc (Daniel Weaver)
8511 + rename xhpterm back to hpterm.
8512 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
8513 + Improves the usage of elaboration pragmas for the Ada95 binding.
8514 + Adds a translation of the test/rain.c into Ada95 to the samples.
8515 This has been contributed to the project by Laurent Pautet
8519 + increase MAX_NAME_SIZE to 512 to handle extremely long alias list
8521 + correction & simplification of delay computation in tputs, based on
8522 comments from Daniel Weaver.
8523 + replace test for SCO with more precise header tests.
8524 + add configure test for unsigned literals, use in NCURSES_BITS macro.
8525 + comment-out the -PIC, etc., flags from c++, progs and test makefiles
8526 since they probably are not needed, and are less efficient (noted by
8528 + add -L$(libdir) to loader options, after -L../lib so that loaders
8529 that record this information will tend to do the right thing if
8530 the programs are moved around after installing them (suggested by
8532 + add -R option to loader options for programs for Solaris if the
8533 --enable-rpath option is specified for the libraries.
8536 + correct installed filename for shared libraries on *BSD (reported by
8540 + cleanup logic for deciding when tputs() should call delay_output(),
8541 based on comments from Daniel Weaver.
8542 + modified tputs() to avoid use of float.
8543 + correct use of trailpad in tputs(), which used the wrong variable
8544 in call to delay_output().
8545 + correct inverted expression for null-count in delay_output()
8546 (analysis by Daniel Weaver).
8547 + apply --enable-rpath option to Solaris (requested by Larry Virden).
8548 + correct substitution of EXTRA_CFLAGS for gcc 2.6.3
8549 + correct check for error-return by _nc_tgetent(), which returns 0
8551 + add configure test for BSD 4.4 cgetent() function, modify
8552 read_termcap.c to use the host's version of that if found, using the
8553 terminal database on FreeBSD (reported by Peter Wemm).
8554 + add u8, u9 strings to sun-il description for Daniel Weaver.
8555 + use NCURSES_CONST in panel's user-pointer.
8556 + modify edit_cfg.sh and MKterm.h.awk.in to substitute NCURSES_CONST
8557 so that will work on NeXT.
8558 + use _nc_set_screen() rather than assignments to SP to fix port to
8559 NeXT (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
8562 + force mandatory padding in bell and flash_screen, as specified in
8564 + don't allow padding_baud_rate to override mandatory delays (reported
8566 + modify delay_output() to use _nc_timed_wait() if no baudrate has been
8567 defined, or if the cur_term pointer is not initialized. XSI treats
8568 this as unspecified. (requested by Daniel Weaver).
8569 + change getcap-cache ifdef's to eliminate unnecessary chdir/mkdir
8570 when that feature is not configured.
8571 + remove _nc_err_abort() calls when write_entry.c finds a directory but
8572 cannot write to it, e.g., when translating part/all of /etc/termcap
8573 (reported by Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>).
8574 (this dates back to 951102, in 1.9.7a).
8575 + minor ifdef fixes to compile with atac and glibc 2.0.5c
8576 + add check for -lgen when configuring regexpr.h
8577 + modify Solaris shared-library option "-d y" to "-dy" to workaround
8578 incompatibility of gcc 2.7.2 vs vendor's tools.
8581 + correct ifdef's for struct winsize vs struct ttysize in lib_setup.c
8583 + remove dangling backslash in panel/Makefile.in
8584 + modify MKkeyname.awk to work with SCO's nawk, which dumps core in the
8586 + correct length of allocation in _nc_add_to_try(), to allow for
8588 + correct logic in _nc_remove_key(), which was discarding too many
8589 nodes (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov)
8592 + add definition for $(REL_VERSION) to test/Makefile.in, so *BSD
8593 shared libraries link properly (see 970524).
8594 + modify Linux shared-library generation to include library
8595 dependencies (e.g., -lncurses and -lgpm) in the forms, menu and
8596 panel libraries (suggested by Juergen Pfeifer).
8597 + modify configure script to use config.guess and config.sub rather
8598 than uname, which is unreliable on some systems.
8599 + updated Makefile.glibc, test-built with glibc 2.0.5c
8600 + modify keyname() to return values consistent with SVr4 curses (patch
8602 > changes requested by Daniel Weaver:
8603 + modify delay_output() so that it uses the same output function as
8604 tputs() if called from that function.
8605 + move _baudrate from SCREEN to TERMINAL so that low-level use of
8606 tputs works when SP is not set.
8607 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
8608 + factor lib_menu and lib_form into smaller modules
8609 + clean up the interface between panel and SCREEN
8610 + minor changes to the Ada95 mouse support implemenation
8611 + minor bugfix in C++ binding to ripoff windows
8612 + fix a few Ada95 html documentation pages
8615 + split-out lib_ungetch.c, make runtime link to resizeterm() to
8616 decouple those modules from lib_restart.c
8617 + add xterm-xf86-v39t description to terminfo.src
8618 + reset SP->_endwin in lib_tstp.c cleanup() function after calling
8619 endwin() to avoid unnecessary repainting if the application has
8620 established an atexit function, etc. Encountered this problem in
8621 the c++ demo, whose destructors repaint the screen.
8622 + combine _nc_get_screensize() and resizeterm() calls as new function
8623 _nc_update_screensize().
8624 + minor fixes to allow compile with g++ (suggested by Nelson H. F.
8626 + implement install-rules for Ada95 makefiles.
8627 + use screen_lines or MAXLINES as needed where LINES was coded,
8628 as well as screen_columns for COLS, in the ncurses library.
8629 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
8630 + modify logic for ripped-off lines to handle several SCREENs.
8631 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
8632 + factors lib_slk.c into some smaller modules
8633 + factors panel.c into some smaller modules
8634 + puts the static information about the current panel stack into the
8635 SCREEN structure to allow different panel stacks on different
8637 + preliminary fix for an error adjusting LINES to account for
8641 + move _nc_max_click_interval and other mouse interface items to SCREEN
8642 struct so that they are associated with a single terminal, and also
8643 save memory when the application does not need a mouse (roughly 3k vs
8645 + modify mouseinterval() so that a negative parameter queries the
8646 click-interval without modifying it.
8647 + modify ncurses 'i' test to work with ncurses' apparent extension from
8648 SVr4, i.e., allows nocbreak+noecho (analysis by Alexander V.
8650 + add configure options --with-ada-includes and --with-ada-objects,
8651 to drive Ada95 binding install (not yet implemented).
8652 + install C++ binding as -lncurses++ and associated headers with the
8653 other ncurses headers.
8654 + fix header uninstall if configure --srcdir is used.
8655 > minor interface changes to support 'tack' program -TD
8656 (request by Daniel Weaver <danw@znyx.com>).
8657 + export functions _nc_trans_string() and _nc_msec_cost().
8658 + add variable _nc_nulls_sent, to record the number of padding
8659 characters output in delay_output().
8660 + move tests for generic_type and hard_copy terminals in setupterm()
8661 to the end of that function so that the library will still be
8662 initialized, though not generally useful for curses programs.
8663 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
8664 + modify ClrBottom() to avoid using clr_eos if there is only one line
8666 + typo in configure --help.
8667 > patch by J T Conklin (with minor resync against Juergen's changes)
8668 + split-out lib_flash.c from lib_beep.c
8669 + split-out lib_hline.c and lib_vline.c from lib_box.c
8670 + split-out lib_wattron.c, lib_wattroff.c from lib_addch.c
8673 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
8674 + correct source/target of c++/edit_cfg.sh
8677 + add color, mouse support to kterm terminfo entry.
8678 + modify lib_mouse.c to recognize rxvt, kterm, color_xterm also as
8679 providing "xterm"-style mouse.
8680 + updated rxvt's terminfo description to correspond to 2.21b, with
8681 fixes for the acsc (the box1 capability is incorrect, ech1 does not
8683 + fix logic in parse_entry.c that discarded acsc when 'synthesizing'
8684 an entry from equivalents in XENIX or AIX. This lets ncurses handle
8685 the distribution copy of rxvt's terminfo.
8686 + modify acsc capability for linux and linux-koi8 terminfo descriptions
8687 (from Pavel Roskin <pavel@absolute.spb.su>).
8688 + corrected definition in curses.h for ACS_LANTERN, which was 'I'
8689 rather than 'i' (see 970802).
8690 + updated terminfo.src with reformatted acsc entries, and repaired the
8691 trashed entries with spurious '\' characters that this exposed.
8692 + add logic to dump_entry.c to reformat acsc entries into canonical
8693 form (sorted, unique mapping).
8694 + add configure script to generate c++/etip.h
8695 + add configure --with-develop option, to enable by default most of the
8696 experimental options (requested by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
8697 + rename 'deinstall' to 'uninstall', following GNU convention
8698 (suggested by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
8699 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
8700 + modify tactics 2 and 5 in onscreen_mvcur(), to allow them on the last
8701 line of the screen, since carriage return will not cause a newline.
8702 + remove clause from PutCharLR() that would try to use
8703 eat_newline_glitch since that apparently does not work on some
8704 terminals (e.g., M$ telnet).
8705 + correct a limit check in scroll_csr_backward()
8706 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
8707 + adds dummy implementations of methods above() and below() to the
8709 + fixes missing returncode in NCursesWindow::ripoffline()
8710 + fixes missing returncode in TestApplication::run() in demo.cc
8711 + We should at least give a comment in etip.h why it is currently a
8712 problem to install the C++ binding somewhere
8713 + makes the WINDOW* argument of wenclose() a const.
8714 + modifies several of the routines in lib_adabind.c to use a const
8718 + add 'deinstall' rules.
8719 + use explicit assignments in configure --without-progs option to
8720 work around autoconf bug which doesn't always set $withval.
8721 + check for ldconfig, don't try to run it if not found.
8722 + implement simple/unoptimized case in lib_doupdate.c to handle
8723 display with magic cookie glitch, tested with ncurses.c program.
8724 + correct missing _tracef in getmouse(), to balance the returnCode
8726 + simplify show_attr() in ncurses.c using termattrs().
8727 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
8728 + provides missing inlines for mvw[hv]line in cursesw.h of the C++
8730 + fixes a typo in a comment of frm_driver.c
8731 + Enhances Ada95 Makefiles to fulfill the requirement of GNAT-3.10 that
8732 generics should be compiled. Proper fixes to the configuration
8733 scripts are also provided.
8736 + several modifications to the configure script (requested by Ward
8738 + add configure options --without-progs, to suppress the build of the
8739 utility programs, e.g., for cross-compiling.
8740 + add $(HOSTCCFLAGS) and $(HOSTLDFLAGS) symbols to ncurses
8741 Makefile.in, to simplify setup for cross compiling.
8742 + add logic in configure script to recognize "--target=vxworks", and
8743 generate load/install actions for VxWorks objects.
8744 + move typedef for sigaction_t into SigAction.h to work around problem
8745 generating lint library.
8746 + modify fty_regex.c to reflect renaming of ifdef's for regular
8748 + simplify ifdef in lib_setup.c for TIOCGWINSZ since that symbol may
8749 reside in <sys/ioctl.h>.
8750 + merge testcurs.c with version from PDCurses 2.3, clarifying some of
8751 the more obscure tests, which rely upon color.
8752 + use macros getbegyx() and getmaxyx() in newdemo.c and testcurs.c
8753 + modify ncurses.c to use getbegyx() and getmaxyx() macros to cover up
8754 implementation difference wrt SVr4 curses, allow 's' test to work.
8755 + add missing endwin() to testscanw.c program (reported by Fausto
8756 Saporito <fausap@itb.it>).
8757 + fixes/updates for Makefile.glibc and related files under sysdeps
8759 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
8760 + add checks for null pointers, especially WINDOW's throughout the
8762 + solve a problem with wrong calculation of panel overlapping (reported
8764 + make sure that a panel's window isn't a pad.
8765 + do more error checking in module lib_touch.c
8766 + missing files for Ada95 binding from the last patch
8767 + synch. of generated html pages (RCS-Id's were wrong in html files)
8768 + support for Key_Resize in Ada binding
8769 + changed documentation style in ./c++/cursesm.h
8770 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
8771 + undo attempt to do recursive inlining for PutChar(), noting that it
8772 did not improve timing measurably, but inflated the size of
8776 + modify rain.c to use color.
8777 + correct scroll_csr_backward() to match scroll_csr_forward().
8778 + minor adjustment to llib-lncurses, to work with Solaris 2.5.1
8779 + minor fixes to sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/configure to reflect renaming
8780 of configure cache variables in 970906.
8781 + correct logic involving changes to O_VISIBLE option in
8782 Synchronize_Options function in frm_driver.c (Tony Hoffmann
8783 <Tony.Hoffmann@hia.nrc.ca>)
8784 + add $(HOSTCC) symbol to ncurses Makefile.in, to simplify setup for
8785 cross compiling (suggested by Chris Johns).
8786 + modify ifdef in lib_setup.c to only include <sys/ioctl.h> if we can
8787 use it to support screen-size calculation (reported by Chris Johns).
8788 + #undef unctrl to avoid symbol conflict in port to RTEMS (reported by
8789 Chris Johns <cjohns@plessey.com.au>)
8790 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
8791 + simplified, made minor corrections to Ada95 binding to form
8793 + The C++ binding has been enhanced:
8794 + Improve NCursesWindow class: added additional methods to cover
8795 more ncurses functionality. Make refresh() and noutrefresh()
8796 virtual members to allow different implementation in the
8798 + CAUTION: changed order of parameters in vline() and hline() of
8799 NCursesWindow class.
8800 + Make refresh() in NCursesPanel non-static, it is now a
8801 reimplementation of refresh() in the base class. Added
8802 noutrefresh() to NCursesPanel.
8803 + Added NCursesForm and related classes to support libform
8805 + Moved most of configuration related stuff from cursesw.h to etip.h
8806 + Added NCursesApplication class to support easy configuration of
8807 menu and forms related attributes as well as ripped of title lines
8808 and Soft-Label-Keys for an application.
8809 + Support of Auto-Cleanup for a menu's fieldlist.
8810 + Change of return type for current_item() and operator[] for menus.
8812 + Fixed a bug in form/fld_def.c: take into account that copyarg and
8813 freearg for a fieldtype may be NULL, makearg must not be NULL
8814 + Fixed a bug in form/fld_type.c: in set_fieldtype_arg() makearg must
8815 not be NULL, copyarg and freearg may be NULL.
8816 + Fixed a bug in form/frm_def.c: Allow Disconnect_Fields() if it is
8817 already disconnected.
8818 + Enhance form/frm_driver.c: Allow growth of dynamic fields also on
8819 navigation requests.
8820 + Fixed a bug in form/fty_enum.c: wrong position of postincrement in
8821 case-insensitiva comparision routine.
8822 + Enhanced form/lib_adabind.c with function _nc_get_field() to get a
8823 forms field by index.
8824 + Enhanced menu/m_adabind.c with function _nc_get_item() to get a menus
8826 + Fixed in curses.h.in: make chtype argument for pechochar() constant.
8827 Mark wbkgdset() as implemented, remove wbkgdset macro, because it was
8828 broken (didn't handle colors correctly).
8829 + Enhanced lib_mouse.c: added _nc_has_mouse() function
8830 + Added _nc_has_mouse() prototype to curses.priv.h
8831 + Modified lib_bkgd.c: hopefully correct implementation of wbkgdset();
8832 streamlined implementation of wbkgd()
8833 + Modified lib_mvwin.c: Disable move of a pad. Implement (costly)
8834 move of subwindows. Fixed update behavior of movements of regular
8836 + Fixed lib_pad.c: make chtype argument of pechochar() const.
8837 + Fixed lib_window.c: dupwin() is not(!) in every bit a really clone
8838 of the original. Subwindows become regular windows by doing a
8840 + Improved manpage form_fieldtype.3x
8841 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
8842 + simplify the PutChar() handling of exit_am_mode, because we already
8843 know that auto_right_margin is true.
8844 + add a check in PutChar() for ability to insert to the case of
8845 shifting character to LR corner.
8846 + in terminal initialization by _nc_screen_resume(), make sure that
8847 terminal right margin mode is known.
8848 + move logic that invokes touchline(), or does the equivalent, into
8849 _nc_scroll_window().
8850 + modify scrolling logic use of insert/delete line capability, assuming
8851 that they affect the screen contents only within the current
8853 + modify rain.c to demonstrate SIGWINCH handler.
8854 + remove logic from getch() that would return an ERR if the application
8855 called getch() when the cursor was at the lower-right corner of the
8856 physical screen, and the terminal does not have insert-character
8858 + change view.c so that it breaks out of getch() loop if a KEY_RESIZE
8859 is read, and modify logic in getch() so this fix will yield the
8860 desired behavior, i.e., the screen is repainted automatically when
8861 the terminal window is resized.
8864 + add configure option --enable-sigwinch
8865 + modify view.c to test KEY_RESIZE logic, with "-r" option.
8866 + modify testcurs.c to eliminate misleading display wrt cursor type
8867 by testing if the terminal supports cnorm, civis, cvvis.
8868 + several fixes for m68k/NeXT 4.0, to bring cur_term, _nc_curr_line and
8869 _nc_curr_col variables into linked programs: move these variables,
8870 making new modules lib_cur_term and trace_buf (reported by Francisco
8871 Alberto Tomei Torres <fatomei@sandburg.unm.edu>).
8872 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
8873 + add pseudo-functionkey KEY_RESIZE which is returned by getch() when
8874 the SIGWINCH handler has been called since the last call to
8876 + modify lib_twait.c to hide EINTR only if HIDE_EINTR is defined.
8877 + add SIGWINCH handler to ncurses library which is used if there is no
8878 application SIGWINCH handler in effect when the screen is
8880 + make linked list of all SCREEN structures.
8881 + move curses.h include before definition of SCREEN to use types in
8883 + correction to ensure that wgetstr uses only a newline to force a
8887 + add experimental configure option --enable-safe-sprintf; the normal
8888 mode now allocates a buffer as large as the screen for the
8889 lib_printw.c functions.
8890 + modify wgetch to refresh screen when reading ungetch'd characters,
8891 since the application may require this - SVr4 does this.
8892 + refine treatment of newline in wgetstr to echo only when this would
8893 force the screen to scroll.
8896 + remove override in wgetstr() that forces keypad(), since SVr4 does
8898 + correct y-reference for erasure in wgetstr() when a wrap forces a
8900 + correct x-position in waddch() after a wrap forces a scroll.
8901 + echo newline in wgetstr(), making testscanw.c scroll properly when
8903 + modify vwscanw() to avoid potential buffer overflow.
8904 + rewrote lib_printw.c to eliminate fixed-buffer limits.
8905 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
8906 + correct an error in handling cooked mode in wgetch(); processing
8907 was in the wrong order.
8908 + simplified logic in wgetch() that handles backspace, etc., by using
8910 + correct wechochar() so that it interprets the output character as
8912 + modify pechochar() to use prefresh() rather than doupdate(), since
8913 the latter does not guarantee immediate refresh of the pad.
8914 + modify pechochar() so that if called with a non-pad WINDOW, will
8915 invoke wechochar() instead.
8916 + modify fifo indices to allow fifo to be longer than 127 bytes.
8919 + add xterm-8bit to terminfo.src
8920 + moved logic for SP->_fifohold inside check_pending() to make it
8921 work properly when we add calls to that function.
8922 + ensure that bool functions return only TRUE or FALSE, and TRUE/FALSE
8923 are assigned to bool values (patch by H.J.Lu).
8924 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
8925 + several fixes to getch:
8926 1. Separate cooked and raw keys in fifo
8927 2. Fix the case of ungetch'ed KEY_MOUSE
8928 3. wrap the code for hiding EINTR with ifdef HIDE_EINTR
8929 4. correctly handle input errors (i.e., EINTR) without loss of raw
8931 5. recognize ESC KEY_LEFT and similar
8932 6. correctly handle the case of receiption of KEY_MOUSE from gpm
8933 + correct off-by-one indexing error in _nc_mouse_parse(), that caused
8934 single mouse events (press/release) to be ignored in favor of
8935 composed events (click). Improves on a fix from integrating gpm
8937 + add another call to check_pending, before scrolling, for
8938 line-breakout optimization
8939 + improve hashmap.c by
8940 1. fixed loop condition in grow_hunks()
8941 2. not marking lines with offset 0
8942 3. fixed condition of 'too far' criteria, thus one-line hunks are
8943 ignored and two lines interchanged won't pass.
8944 + rewrote/simplified _nc_scroll_optimize() by separating into two
8945 passes, forward/backward, looking for chunks moving only in the given
8947 + move logic that emits sgr0 when initializing the screen to
8948 _nc_screen_init(), now invoked from newterm.
8949 + move cursor-movement cleanup from endwin() into _nc_mvcur_wrap()
8950 function and screen cleanup (i.e., color) into _nc_screen_wrap()
8952 + add new functions _nc_screen_init(), _nc_screen_resume() and
8954 + rename _nc_mvcur_scrolln() to _nc_scrolln().
8955 + add a copy of acs_map[] to the SCREEN structure, where it can be
8956 stored/retrieved via set_term().
8957 + move variables _nc_idcok, _nc_idlok, _nc_windows into the SCREEN
8961 + implement experimental _nc_perform_scroll().
8962 + modify newterm (actually _nc_setupscreen()) to emit an sgr0 when
8963 initializing the screen, as does SVr4 (reported by Alexander V.
8965 + added test_progs rule to ncurses/Makefile.
8966 + modify test/configure.in to check if initscr is already in $LIBS
8967 before looking for (n)curses library.
8968 + correct version-number in configure script for OSF1 shared-library
8969 options (patch by Tim Mooney).
8970 + add -DNDEBUG to CPPFLAGS for --enable-assertions (as Juergen
8971 originally patched) since the c++ demo files do not necessarily
8972 include ncurses_cfg.h
8973 + supply default value for --enable-assertions option in configure
8974 script (reported by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf-fs.usc.edu>).
8975 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
8976 + correct/simplify logic of werase(), wclrtoeol() and wclrbot(). See
8978 + optimize waddch_literal() and waddch_nosync() by factoring out
8979 common subexpressions.
8980 + correct sense of NDEBUG ifdef for CHECK_POSITION macro.
8981 + corrections to render_char(), to make handling of colored blanks
8982 match SVr4 curses, as well as to correct a bug that xor'd space
8983 against the background character.
8984 + replaced hash function with a faster one (timed it)
8985 + rewrote the hashmap algorithm to be one-pass, this avoids multiple
8986 cost_effective() calls on the same lines.
8987 + modified cost_effective() so it is now slightly more precise.
8988 > patches for glibc integration (H.J.Lu):
8989 + add modules define_key, keyok, name_match, tries
8990 + add makefile rules for some of the unit tests in ncurses (mvcur,
8991 captoinfo, hardscroll, hashmap).
8992 + update Linux configure-script for wide-character definitions.
8995 + modify _tracebits() to show the character size (e.g., CS8).
8996 + modify tparm() to emit '\200' where the generated string would have a
8997 null (reported by From: Ian Dall <Ian.Dall@dsto.defence.gov.au> for
8998 terminal type ncr7900).
8999 + modify install process so that ldconfig is not invoked if the
9000 package is built with an install-prefix.
9001 + correct test program for chtype size (reported by Tim Mooney).
9002 + add configure option --disable-scroll-hints, using this to ifdef the
9003 logic that computes indices for _nc_scroll_optimize().
9004 + add module ncurses/softscroll.c, to perform single-stage computation
9005 of scroll indices used in _nc_scroll_optimize(). This is faster than
9006 the existing scrolling algorithm, but tends to make too-small hunks.
9007 + eliminate fixed buffer size in _nc_linedump().
9008 + minor fixes to lib_doupdate.c to add tradeoff between clr_eol (el)
9009 and clr_bol (el1), refine logic in ClrUpdate() and ClrBottom() (patch
9010 by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9011 + add test/testaddch.c, from a pending patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov.
9012 + correct processing of "configure --enable-assertions" option (patch
9013 by Juergen Pfeifer).
9016 + add '-s' (single-step) option too test/hashtest.c, correct an error
9017 in loop limit for '-f' (footer option), toggle scrollok() when
9018 writing footer to avoid wrap at lower-right corner.
9019 + correct behavior of clrtoeol() immediately after wrapping cursor,
9020 which was not clearing the line at the cursor position (reported by
9021 Liviu Daia <daia@stoilow.imar.ro>).
9022 + corrected mapping for ACS_LANTERN, which was 'I' rather than 'i'
9023 (reported by Klaus Weide <kweide@tezcat.com>).
9024 + many corrections to make progs/capconvert work, as well as make it
9025 reasonably portable and integrated with ncurses 4.1 (reported by Dave
9026 Furstenau <df@ravine.binary.net>).
9029 + add flag SP->_fifohold, corresponding logic to modify the behavior of
9030 the line breakout logic so that if the application does not read
9031 input, refreshes will not be stopped, but only slowed.
9032 + generate slk_attr_off(), slk_attr_on(), slk_attr_set(), vid_attr(),
9033 ifdef'd for wide-character support, since ncurses' WA_xxx attribute
9034 masks are identical with the A_xxx masks.
9035 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to generate ifdef'd functions to support optional
9036 configuration of wide-characters.
9037 + modify tset to behave more like SVr4's tset, which does not modify
9038 the settings of intr, quit or erase unless they are given as command
9039 options (reported by Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe@math.utah.edu>).
9040 + modify tset to look in /etc/ttys or /etc/ttytype if the configuration
9041 does not have getttynam().
9042 + extend baudrate table in tset.c to match baudrate() function.
9043 + add table entries for 230400 and 460800 bd to baudrate() function.
9044 + improve breakout logic by allowing it before the first line updated,
9045 which is what SVr4 curses does (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9046 + correct initialization of vcost in relative_move(), for cursor-down
9047 case (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9048 > nits gleaned from Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-3:
9049 + install symbolic link for intotocap.
9050 + reference libc directly when making shared libraries.
9051 + correct renaming of curs_scr_dmp.3x in man_db.renames.
9052 + guard tgetflag() and other termcap functions against null cur_term
9056 + corrected initial state of software echo (error in 970405, reported
9057 by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9058 + reviewed/added messages to configure script, so that all non-test
9059 options should be accompanied by a message.
9060 + add configure check for long filenames, using this to determine if
9061 it is safe to allow long aliases for terminal descriptions as does
9063 + add configure options for widec (wide character), hashmap (both
9065 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
9066 + hashmap.c - improved by heuristic, so that scroll test works much
9067 better when csr is not available.
9068 + hardscroll.c - patched so that it continues to scroll other chunks
9069 after failure to scroll one.
9070 + lib_doupdate.c - _nc_mvcur_scrolln extended to handle more cases; csr
9071 is avoided as it is relative costly. Fixed wrong coordinates in one
9072 case and wrong string in TRACE.
9073 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9074 + modify C++ binding to compile on AIX 4.x with the IBM C-SET++
9078 + remove alternate character set from kterm terminfo entry; it uses the
9079 shift-out control for a purpose incompatible with curses, i.e., font
9081 + disentangle 'xterm' terminfo entry from some derived entries that
9082 should be based on xterm-r6 instead.
9083 + add cbt to xterm-xf86-xv32 terminfo entry; I added the emulation for
9084 XFree86 3.1.2F, but overlooked its use in terminfo then - T.Dickey.
9085 + correct logic in lib_mvcur.c that uses back_tab.
9088 + correct change from 970628 to ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c so that
9089 contents of curscr are saved in newscr before clearing the screen.
9090 This is needed to make repainting work with the present logic of
9092 + use napms() rather than sleep() in tset.c to avoid interrupting I/O.
9095 + add limit checks to _nc_read_file_entry() to guard against overflow
9096 of buffer when reading incompatible terminfo format, e.g, from OSF/1.
9097 + correct some loop-variable errors in xmc support in lib_doupdate.c
9098 + modify ncurses 'b' test to add gaps, specified by user, to allow
9099 investigation of interaction with xmc (magic cookie) code.
9100 + correct typo in 970524 mods to xmas.c, had omitted empty parameter
9101 list from has_colors(), which gcc ignores, but SVr4 does not
9102 (reported by Larry Virden).
9103 + correct rmso capability in wy50-mc description.
9104 + add configure option "--enable-hard-tabs", renamed TABS_OK ifdef to
9106 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9107 + Add bindings for keyok() and define_key() to the Ada95 packages.
9108 + Improve man pages menu_post.3x and menu_format.3x
9109 + Fix the HTML pages in the Ada95/html directory to reflect the above
9113 + modify change from 970101 to ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c so that
9114 pending changes to both curscr and newscr are flushed properly.
9115 This fixes a case where the first scrolling operation in nvi would
9116 cause the screen to be cleared unnecessarily and repainted before
9117 doing the indexing, i.e., by repeatedly pressing 'j' (reported by
9119 + correct error in trans_string() which added embedded newlines in a
9120 terminfo description to the stored strings.
9121 + remove spurious newlines from sgr in wyse50 (and several other)
9122 terminfo descriptions.
9123 + add configure option for experimental xmc (magic cookie) code,
9124 "--enable-xmc-glitch". When disabled (the default), attributes that
9125 would store a magic cookie are suppressed in vidputs(). The magic
9126 cookie code is far from workable at this stage; the configuration
9127 option is a stopgap.
9128 + move _nc_initscr() from lib_initscr.c to lib_newterm.c
9129 + correct path for invoking make_keys (a missing "./").
9132 + correct sign-extension problem with "infocmp -e", which corrupted
9133 acsc values computed for linux fallback data.
9134 + correct dependency on ncurses/names.c (a missing "./").
9135 + modify configure script to use '&&' even for cd'ing to existing
9136 directories to work around broken shell interpreters.
9137 + correct a loop-limit in _nc_hash_map() (patch by Alexander V.
9141 + restore logic in _nc_scroll_optimize() which marks as touched the
9142 lines in curscr that are shifted.
9143 + add new utility 'make_keys' to compute keys.tries as a table rather
9144 than a series of function calls.
9145 + correct include-dependency for tic.h used by name_match
9146 + removed buffer-allocation for name and description from m_item_new.c,
9147 since this might result in incompatibilities with SVr4. Also fixed
9148 the corresponding Ada95 binding module (patch by Juergen Pfeifer,
9149 report by Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@foxnet.net>)
9150 + removed the mechanism to timestamp the generated Ada95 sources. This
9151 resulted always in generating patches for the HTML doc, even when
9152 nothing really changed (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
9153 + improve man page mitem_new.3x (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
9156 + remove ech capability from rxvt description because it does not work.
9157 + add missing case logic for infocmp -I option (reported by Lorenzo M.
9158 Catucci <lorenzo@argon.roma2.infn.it>)
9159 + correct old bug in pnoutrefresh() unmasked by fix in 970531; this
9160 caused glitches in the ncurses 'p' test since the area outside the
9161 pad was not compared when setting up indices for _nc_scroll_optimize.
9162 + rewrote tracebits() to workaround misdefinition of TOSTOP on Ultrix
9163 4.4, as well as to eliminate fixed-size buffer (reported by Chris
9164 Tanner <tannerc@aecl.ca>)
9165 + correct prototype for termattrs() as per XPG4 version 2.
9166 + add placeholder prototypes for color_set(), erasewchar(),
9167 term_attrs(), wcolor_set() as per XPG4 version 2.
9168 + correct attribution for progs/progs.priv.h and lib_twait.c
9169 + improve line-breakout logic by checking based on changed lines rather
9170 than total lines (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9171 + correct loop limits for table-lookup of enumerated value in form
9172 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
9173 + improve threshhold computation for determining when to call ClrToEOL
9174 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9177 + add configure option --disable-database to force the library to
9178 use only the fallback data.
9179 + add configure option --with-fallbacks, to specify list of fallback
9180 terminal descriptions.
9181 + add a symbolic link for ncurses.h during install; too many programs
9182 still assume there's an ncurses.h
9183 + add new terminfo.src entry for xterm-xf86-v33.
9184 + restore terminfo.src entry for emu to using setf/setb, since it is
9185 not, after all, generating ANSI sequences. Corrected missing comma
9186 that caused setf/setb entries to merge.
9187 + modify mousemask() to use keyok() to enable/disable KEY_MOUSE, so
9188 that applications can disable ncurses' mouse and supply their own
9190 + add extensions keyok() and define_key(). These are designed to allow
9191 the user's application better control over the use of function keys,
9192 e.g., disabling the ncurses KEY_MOUSE. (The define_key idea was from
9193 a mailing-list thread started by Kenneth Albanowski
9194 <kjahds@kjahds.com> Nov'1995).
9195 + restore original behavior in ncurses 'g' test, i.e., explicitly
9196 set the keypad mode rather than use the default, since it confuses
9198 + rewrote the newdemo banner so it's readable (reported by Hugh
9200 + tidy up exit from hashtest (reported by Hugh Daniel).
9201 + restore check for ^Q in ncurses 'g' test broken in 970510 (reported
9203 + correct tput program, checking return-value of setupterm (patch by
9205 + correct logic in pnoutrefresh() and pechochar() functions (reported
9206 by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf.usc.edu>). The computation
9207 of 'wide' date to eric's #283 (1.9.9), and the pechochar bug to the
9208 original implementation (1.9.6).
9209 + correct typo in vt102-w terminfo.src entry (patch by Robert Wuest
9210 <rwuest@sire.vt.com>)
9211 + move calls of _nc_background() out of various loops, as its return
9212 value will be the same for the whole window being operated on (patch
9214 + add macros getcur[xy] getbeg[xy] getpar[xy], which are defined in
9215 SVr4 headers (patch by J T Conklin <jtc@NetBSD.ORG>)
9216 + modify glibc addon-configure scripts (patch by H.J.Lu).
9217 + correct a bug in hashmap.c: the size used for clearing the hashmap
9218 table was incorrect, causing stack corruption for large values of
9219 LINES, e.g., >MAXLINES/2 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9220 + eric's terminfo 9.13.23 & 9.13.24 changes: replaced minitel-2 entry,
9221 added MGR, ansi-nt (note: the changes described for 9.13.24 have not
9223 > several changes by Juergen Pfeifer:
9224 + correct a missing error-return in form_driver.c when wrapping of a
9225 field is not possible.
9226 + correct logic in form_driver.c for configurations that do not have
9227 memccpy() (reported by Sidik Isani <isani@cfht.hawaii.edu>)
9228 + change several c++ binding functions to inline.
9229 + modify c++ menu binding to inherit from panels, for proper
9231 + correct freeing of menu items in c++ binding.
9232 + modify c++ binding to reflect removal of const from user data pointer
9233 in forms/menus libraries.
9236 + add description of xterm-16color.
9237 + modify name of shared-library on *BSD to end with $(REL_VERSION)
9238 rather than $(ABI_VERSION) to match actual convention on FreeBSD
9240 + add OpenBSD to shared-library case, same as NetBSD and FreeBSD
9241 (reported by Hugh Daniel <hugh@rat.toad.com>).
9242 + corrected include-dependency in menu/Makefile so that "make install"
9243 works properly w/o first doing "make".
9244 + add fallback definition for isascii, used in infocmp.
9245 + modify xmas to use color, and to exit right away when a key is
9247 + modify gdc so that the scrolled digits function as described (there
9248 was no time delay between the stages, and the digits overwrote the
9249 bounding box without tidying up).
9250 + modify lib_color.c to use setaf/setab only for the ANSI color codes
9251 0 through 7. Using 16 colors requires setf/setb.
9252 + modify ncurses 'c' test to work with 16 colors, as well as the normal
9254 + remove const qualifier from user data pointer in forms and menus
9255 libraries (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
9256 + rewrote 'waddchnstr()' to avoid using the _nc_waddch_nosync()
9257 function, thereby not interpreting tabs, etc., as per spec (patch by
9258 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9261 + suppress check for pre-existing ncurses header if the --prefix
9262 option is specified.
9263 + add configure options "--with-system-type" and
9264 "--with-system-release" to assist in checking the generated
9266 + add configure option "--enable-rpath" to allow installers to specify
9267 that programs linked against shared libraries will have their library
9268 path embedded, allowing installs into nonstandard locations.
9269 + add flags to OSF1 shared-library options to specify version and
9270 symbol file (patch by Tim Mooney <mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu>)
9271 + add missing definition for ABI_VERSION to c++/Makefile.in (reported
9272 by Satoshi Adachi <adachi@wisdom.aa.ap.titech.ac.jp>).
9273 + modify link flags to accommodate HP-UX linker which embeds absolute
9274 pathnames in executables linked against shared libraries (reported by
9275 Jason Evans <jasone@mrc.uidaho.edu>, solved by Alan Shutko
9276 <ats@hubert.wustl.edu>).
9277 + drop unnecessary check for attribute-change in onscreen_mvcur() since
9278 mvcur() is the only caller within the library, and that check in turn
9279 is exercised only from lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V.
9281 + add 'blank' parameter to _nc_scroll_window() so _nc_mvcur_scrolln()
9282 can use the background of stdscr as a parameter to that function
9283 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9284 + moved _nc_mvcur_scrolln() from lib_mvcur.c to lib_doupdate.c, to use
9285 the latter's internal functions, as well as to eliminate unnecessary
9286 cursor save/restore operations (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9287 + omit parameter of ClrUpdate(), since it is called only for newscr,
9288 further optimized/reduced by using ClearScreen() and TransformLine()
9289 to get rid of duplicate code (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9290 + modify scrolling algorithm in _nc_scroll_optimize() to reject hunks
9291 that are smaller than the distance to be moved (patch by Alexander V.
9293 + correct a place where the panel library was not ifdef'd in ncurses.c
9295 + documentation fixes (Juergen Pfeifer)
9297 970515 4.1 release for upload to prep.ai.mit.edu
9298 + re-tag changes since 970505 as 4.1 release.
9301 + modify ncurses 'g' test to allow mouse input
9302 + modify default xterm description to include mouse.
9303 + modify configure script to add -Wwrite-strings if gcc warnings are
9304 enabled while configuring --enable-const (and fixed related
9306 + add toggle, status display for keypad mode to ncurses 'g' test to
9307 verify that keypad and scrollok are not inherited from parent window
9308 during a call to newwin.
9309 + correction to MKexpanded.sh to make it work when configure --srcdir
9310 is used (reported by H.J.Lu).
9311 + revise test for bool-type, ensuring that it checks if builtin.h is
9312 available before including it, adding test for sizeof(bool) equal
9313 to sizeof(short), and warning user if the size cannot be determined
9314 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9315 + add files to support configuration of ncurses as an add-on library
9316 for GNU libc (patch by H.J.Lu <hjl@lucon.org>)
9319 + correct buffer overrun in lib_traceatr.c
9320 + modify change to lib_vidattr.c to avoid redundant orig_pair.
9321 + turn on 'echo()' in hanoi.c, since it is initially off.
9322 + rename local 'errno' variable in etip.h to avoid conflict with global
9324 + modify configure script to cache LD, AR, AR_OPTS (patch by H.J.Lu
9327 970505 4.1 pre-release
9328 + regenerate the misc directory html dumps without the link list, which
9330 + correct dependency in form directory makefile which caused
9331 unnecessary recompiles.
9332 + correct substitution for ABI_VERSION in test-makefile
9333 + modify install rules for shared-library targets to remove the target
9334 before installing, since some install programs do not properly handle
9335 overwrite of symbolic links.
9336 + change order of top-level targets so that 'include' immediate
9337 precedes the 'ncurses' directory, reducing the time between new
9338 headers and new libraries (requested by Larry Virden).
9339 + modify lib_vidattr.c so that colors are turned off only before
9340 modifying other attributes, turned on after others. This makes the
9341 hanoi.c program display correctly on FreeBSD console.
9342 + modify debug code in panel library to print user-data addresses
9343 rather than the strings which they (may) point to.
9344 + add check to ensure that C++ binding and demo are not built with g++
9345 versions below 2.7, since the binding uses templates.
9346 + modify c++ binding and demo to build and run with SGI's c++ compiler.
9347 (It also compiles with the Sun SparcWorks compiler, but the demo does
9348 not link, due to a vtbl problem).
9349 + corrections to demo.cc, to fix out-of-scope variables (Juergen
9353 + correct memory leak in _nc_trace_buf().
9354 + add configure test for regexpr.h, for Unixware 1.x.
9355 + correct missing "./" prefixing names of generated files in ncurses
9357 + use single-quotes in configure scripts assignments for MK_SHARED_LIB
9358 to workaround shell bug on FreeBSD 2.1.5
9359 + remove tabs from intermediate #define's for GCC_PRINTF, GCC_SCANF
9360 that caused incorrect result in ncurses_cfg.h
9361 + correct initialization in lib_trace.c, which omitted version info.
9362 + remove ech, el1 attributes from cons25w description; they appear to
9363 malfunction in FreeBSD 2.1.5
9364 + correct color attributes in terminfo.src and lib_color.c to match
9365 SVr4 behavior by interchanging codes 1,4, 3,6 in the setf/setb
9367 + use curs_set() rather than checks via tigetstr() for test programs
9368 that hide the cursor: firework, rain, worm.
9369 + ensure that if the terminal lacks change_scroll_region, parm_index
9370 and parm_rindex are used only to scroll the whole screen (patch by
9372 + correct curs_set() logic, which did not return ERR if the requested
9373 attributes did not exist, nor did it assume an unknown initial state
9374 for the cursor (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9375 + combine IDcTransformLine and NoIDcTransformLine to new TransformLine
9376 function in lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9377 + correct hashmap.c, which did not update index information (patch by
9378 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9379 + fixes for C++ binding and demo (see c++/NEWS) (Juergen Pfeifer).
9380 + correct index in lib_instr.c (Juergen Pfeifer).
9381 + correct typo in 970426 patch from Tom's cleanup of lib_overlay.c
9382 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
9385 + corrected cost computation in PutRange(), which was using
9386 milliseconds compared to characters by adding two new members to the
9387 SCREEN struct, _hpa_ch_cost and _cup_ch_cost.
9388 + drop ncurses/lib_unctrl.c, add ncurses/MKunctrl.awk to generate a
9389 const array of strings (suggested by Alexander V. Lukyanov). The
9390 original suggestion in 970118 used a perl script.
9391 + rewrote ncurses 'b' test to better exercise magic-cookie (xmc), as
9392 well as noting the attributes that are not supported by a terminal.
9393 + trace the computation of cost values in lib_mvcur.c
9394 + modify _nc_visbuf() to use octal rather than hex, corrected sign
9395 extension bug in that function that caused buffer overflow.
9396 + modify trace in lib_acs.c to use _nc_visbuf().
9397 + suppress trace within _traceattr2().
9398 + correct logic of _tracechtype2(), which did not account for repeats
9399 or redefinition within an acsc string.
9400 + modify debug-library version baudrate() to use environment variable
9401 $BAUDRATE to override speed computation. This is needed for
9403 + correct problems shown by "weblint -pedantic".
9404 + update mailing-list information (now ncurses@bsdi.com).
9407 + Improve form_field_validation.3x manpage to better describe the
9408 precision parameter for TYPE_NUMERIC and TYPE_INTEGER. Provide more
9409 precise information how the range checking can be avoided. (patch by
9410 Juergen Pfeifer, reported by Bryan Henderson)
9411 + change type of min/max value of form types TYPE_INTEGER to long to
9412 match SVr4 documentation.
9413 + set the form window to stdscr in set_form_win() so that form_win()
9414 won't return null (patch by Juergen Pfeifer, reported by Bryan
9415 Henderson <bryanh@giraffe.netgate.net>).
9418 + corrected ifdef'ing of inline (cf: 970321) for TRACE vs C++.
9419 + corrected toggle_attr_off() macro (patch by Andries Brouwer).
9420 + modify treatment of empty token in $MANPATH to /usr/man (reported by
9421 <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>)
9422 + modify traces that record functions-called so that chtype and attr_t
9423 values are expressed symbolically, to simplify reuse of generated
9424 test-scripts on SVr4 regression testing.
9425 + add new trace functions _traceattr2() and _tracechtype2()
9428 + add configure option --enable-const, to support the use of 'const'
9429 where XSI should have, but did not, specify. This defines
9430 NCURSES_CONST, which is an empty token otherwise, for strict
9432 + make processing of configure options more verbose by echoing the
9433 --enable/--with values.
9434 + add configure option --enable-big-core
9435 + set initial state of software echo off as per XSI.
9436 + check for C++ builtin.h header
9437 + correct computation of absolute-path for $INSTALL that dropped "-c"
9438 parameter from the expression.
9439 + rename config.h to ncurses_cfg.h to avoid naming-conflict when
9440 ncurses is integrated into larger systems (adapted from diffs by
9442 + correct inequality in lib_doupdate.c that caused a single-char to not
9443 be updated when the char on the right-margin was not blank, idcok()
9444 was true (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov (in 970124), reported
9445 by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf-fs.usc.edu> in 970329).
9446 + modify 'clean' rule in include/Makefile so that files created by
9447 configure script are removed in 'distclean' rule instead.
9450 + correct array limit in tparam_internal(), add case to interpret "%x"
9451 (patch by Andreas Schwab)
9452 + rewrote number-parsing in ncurses.c 'd' test; it did not reset the
9453 value properly when non-numeric characters were given (reported by
9454 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>)
9457 + move definition of __INTERNAL_CAPS_VISIBLE before include for
9458 progs.priv.h (patch by David MacKenzie).
9459 + add configuration summary, reordered check for default include
9460 directory to better accommodate a case where installer is configuring
9461 a second copy of ncurses (reported by Klaus Weide
9462 <kweide@tezcat.com>)
9463 + moved the #define for 'inline' as an empty token from the
9464 $(CFLAGS_DEBUG) symbol into config.h, to avoid redefinition warning
9465 (reported by Ward Horner).
9466 + modify test for bool builtin type to use 'unsigned' rather than
9467 'unknown' when cross-compiling (reported by Ward Horner).
9470 + add header dependencies so that "make install.libs" will succeed
9471 even if "make all" is not done first.
9472 + moved some macros from lib_doupdate.c to curses.priv.h to use in
9473 expanded functions with ATAC.
9474 + correct implementation of lib_instr.c; both XSI and SVr4 agree that
9475 the winnstr functions can return more characters than will fit on one
9479 + modify script that generates lib_gen.c to support traces of called &
9481 + add new configure option "--disable-macros", for testing calls within
9483 + corrected logic that screens level-checking of called/return traces.
9486 + use new configure macro NC_SUBST to replace AC_PATH_PROG, better
9487 addressing request by Ward Horner.
9488 + check for cross-compiling before trying to invoke the autoconf
9489 AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED macro (reported by Ward Horner)
9490 + correct/simplify loop in _nc_visbuf(), 970201 changes omitted
9491 a pointer-increment.
9492 + eliminate obsolete symbol SHARED_ABI from dist.mk (noted by
9496 + add configure option --enable-expanded, together with code that
9497 implements an expanded form of certain complex macros, for testing
9499 + disable CHECK_POSITION unless --with-assertions is configured
9500 (Alexander V Lukyanov pointed out that this is redundant).
9501 + use keyname() to show traced chtype values where applicable rather
9502 than _tracechar(), which truncates the value to 8-bits.
9503 + minor fixes to TRACE_ICALLS, added T_CREATE, TRACE_CCALLS macros.
9504 + modify makefiles in progs and test directories to avoid using C
9505 preprocessor options on link commands (reported by Ward Horner)
9506 + correct ifdef/include-order for nc_alloc.h vs lib_freeall.c (reported
9508 + modify ifdef's to use configure-defined symbols consistently
9509 (reported by Ward Horner)
9510 + add/use new makefile symbols AR, AR_OPTS and LD to assist in non-UNIX
9511 ports (reported by Ward Horner <whorner@tsi-telsys.com>)
9512 + rename struct try to struct tries, to avoid name conflict with C++
9513 (reported by Gary Johnson).
9514 + modify worm.c to hide cursor while running.
9515 + add -Wcast-qual to gcc warnings, fix accordingly.
9516 + use PutChar rather than PutAttrChar in ClrToEOL to properly handle
9517 wrapping (Alexander V Lukyanov).
9518 + correct spurious echoing of input in hanoi.c from eric's #291 & #292
9519 patches (reported by Vernon C. Hoxie <vern@zebra.alphacdc.com>).
9520 + extend IRIX configuration to IRIX64
9521 + supply missing install.libs rule needed after restructuring
9525 + modify "make mostlyclean" to leave automatically-generated source
9526 in the ncurses directory, for use in cross-compiles.
9527 + autogenerated object-dependencies for test directory
9528 + add configure option --with-rcs-ids
9529 + modify configuration scripts to generate major/minor/patch versions
9530 (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
9531 + supply missing va_end's in lib_scanw.c
9532 + use stream I/O for trace-output, to eliminate fixed-size buffer
9533 + add TRACE_ICALLS definition/support to lib_trace.c
9534 + modify Ada95 binding to work with GNAT 3.09 (Juergen Pfeifer).
9537 + add/modify traces for called/return values to simplify extraction
9539 + changed _nc_visbuf to quote its result, and to dynamically allocate
9540 the returned buffer.
9541 + invoke ldconfig after installing shared library
9542 + modify install so that overwrite applies to shared library -lcurses
9543 in preference to static library (reported by Zeyd M Ben-Halim 960928).
9544 + correct missing ';' in 961221 mod to overwrite optional use of $(LN_S)
9546 + fixes to allow "make install" to work without first doing a "make
9547 all" (suggested by Larry Virden).
9550 + correct order of #ifdef for TABS_OK.
9551 + instrumented toe.c to test memory-leaks.
9552 + correct memory-deallocation in toe.c (patch by Jesse Thilo).
9553 + include <sys/types.h> in configuration test for regex.h (patch by
9555 + make infocmp recognize -I option, for SVr4 compatibility (reported by
9556 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>)
9559 + add extension 'use_default_colors()', modified test applications that
9560 use default background (firework, gdc, hanoi, knight, worm) to
9562 + correct some limit checks in lib_doupdate.c exposed while running
9564 + use typeCalloc macro for readability.
9565 + add/use definition for CONST to accommodate testing with Solaris
9566 (SVr4) curses, which doesn't use 'const' in its prototypes.
9567 + modify ifdef's in test/hashtest.c and test/view.c to compile with
9569 + modify _tracedump() to pad pad colors & attrs lines to match change
9570 in 970101 showing first/last changes.
9571 + corrected location of terminating null on dynamically allocated forms
9572 fields (patch by Per Foreby).
9575 + added headers to make view.c compile on SCO with the resizeterm()
9576 code (i.e., struct winsize) - though this compiles, I don't have a
9577 suitable test configuration since SIGWINCH doesn't pass my network to
9578 that machine - T.Dickey.
9579 + update test/configure.in to supply some default substitutions.
9580 + modify configure script to add -lncurses after -lgpm to fix problem
9581 linking against static libraries.
9582 + add a missing noraw() to test/ncurses.c (places noted by Jeremy
9584 + add a missing wclear() to test/testcurs.c (patch by Jeremy Buhler
9585 <jbuhler@cs.washington.edu>)
9586 + modify headers to accommodate compilers that don't allow duplicate
9587 "#define" lines for NCURSES_VERSION (reported by Larry W. Virden
9589 + fix formatting glitch in curs_getch.3x (patch by Jesse Thilo).
9590 + modify lib_doupdate to make el, el1 and ed optimization use the
9591 can_clear_with macro, and change EmitRange to allow leaving cursor at
9592 the middle of interval, rather than always at the end (patch by
9593 Alexander V Lukyanov). This was originally 960929, resync 970106.
9596 + workaround defect in autoconf 2.12 (which terminates configuration
9597 if no C++ compiler is found) by adding an option --without-cxx.
9598 + modify several man-pages to use tbl, where .nf/.fi was used (reported
9600 + correct font-codes in some man-pages (patch by Jesse Thilo
9601 <Jesse.Thilo@pobox.com>)
9602 + use configure script's knowledge of existence of g++ library for the
9603 c++ Makefile (reported by Paul Jackson).
9604 + correct misleading description of --datadir configuration option
9605 (reported by Paul Jackson <pj@sam.engr.sgi.com>)
9608 + several corrections to _nc_mvcur_scrolln(), prompted by a bug report
9610 > the logic for non_dest_scroll_region was interchanged between the
9611 forward & reverse scrolling cases.
9612 > multiple returns from the function allowed certain conditions to do
9613 part of an operation before discovering that it couldn't be
9614 completed, returning an error without restoring the cursor.
9615 > some returns were ERR, where the function had completed the
9616 operation, because the insert/delete line logic was improperly
9617 tested (this was probably the case Peter saw).
9618 > contrary to comments, some scrolling cases were tested after the
9619 insert/delete line method.
9620 + modify _tracedump() to show first/last changes.
9621 + modify param of ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c to 'newscr', fixes
9622 refresh problem (reported by Peter Wemm) that caused nvi to not show
9623 result of ":r !ls" until a ^L was typed.
9625 961229 (internal alpha)
9626 + correct some of the writable-strings warnings (reported by Gary
9627 Johnson <gjohnson@season.com>). Note that most of the remaining ones
9628 are part of the XSI specification, and can't be "fixed".
9629 + improve include-dependencies in form, menu, panel directories.
9630 + correct logic of delay_output(), which would return early if
9631 there is data on stdin.
9632 + modify interface & logic of _nc_timed_wait() to support 2 file
9633 descriptors, needed for GPM.
9634 + integrate patch by Andrew Kuchling <amk@magnet.com> for GPM (mouse)
9635 support, correcting logic in wgetch() and _nc_mouse_parse() which
9636 prevented patch from working properly -TD
9637 + improve performance of panel algorithm (Juergen Pfeifer 961203).
9638 + strip RCS id's from generated .html files in Ada95 subtree.
9639 + resync with generated .html files (Juergen Pfeifer 961223).
9640 + terminfo.src 10.1.0 (ESR).
9643 + release as 4.0 to accommodate Linux ld.so.1.8.5
9644 + correct syntax/spelling, regenerated .doc files from .html using
9646 + refined forms/menus makefiles (Juergen Pfeifer 961223).
9649 + remove logic in read_entry.c that attempts to refine errno by using
9650 'access()' for the directory (from patch by Florian La Roche).
9651 + correct configure test/substitution that inhibits generating
9652 include-path to /usr/include if gcc is used (reported by Florian La
9654 + modify setupterm() to allocate new TERMINAL for each call, just as
9655 solaris' curses does (Alexander V Lukyanov 960829).
9656 + corrected memory leaks in read_entry.c
9657 + add configure options --with-dbmalloc, --with-dmalloc, and
9658 --disable-leaks, tested by instrumenting infocmp, ncurses programs.
9659 + move #include's for stdlib.h and string.h to *.priv.h to accommodate
9661 + modify use of $(LN_S) to follow recommendation in autoconf 2.12,
9662 i.e., set current directory before linking.
9663 + split-out panel.priv.h, improve dependencies for forms, menus
9664 (Juergen Pfeifer 961204).
9665 + modify _nc_freewin() to reset globals curscr/newscr/stdscr when
9666 freeing the corresponding WINDOW (found using Purify).
9667 + modify delwin() to return ERR if the window to be deleted has
9668 subwindows, needed as a side-effect of resizeterm() (found using
9669 Purify). Tested and found that SVr4 curses behaves this way.
9670 + implement logic for _nc_freeall(), bringing stub up to date.
9673 + modify wbkgd() so that it doesn't set nulls in the rendered text,
9674 even if its argument doesn't specify a character (fixes test case by
9675 Juergen Pfeifer for bug-report).
9676 + set window-attributes in wbkgd(), to simplify comparison against
9677 Solaris curses, which does this.
9680 + replace most constants in ncurses 'o' test by expressions, making it
9681 work with wider range of screen sizes.
9682 + add options to ncurses.c to specify 'e' test softkey format, and the
9683 number of header/footer lines to rip-off.
9684 + add ^R (repaint after resize), ^L (refresh) commands to ncurses 'p'
9686 + add shell-out (!) command to ncurses 'p' test to allow test of
9687 resize between endwin/refresh.
9688 + correct line-wrap case in mvcur() by emitting carriage return,
9689 overlooked in 960928, but needed due to SVr4 compatibility changes to
9690 terminal modes in 960907.
9691 + correct logic in wresize that causes new lines to be allocated,
9692 broken for the special case of increasing rows only in 960907's fix
9694 + modify configure script to generate $(LDFLAGS) with -L and -l options
9695 in preference to explicit library filenames. (NOTE: this may
9696 require further amending, since I vaguely recall a dynamic loader
9697 that did not work properly without the full names, but it should be
9698 handled as an exception to the rule, since some linkers do bulk
9699 inclusion of libraries when given the full name - T.Dickey).
9700 + modify configure script to allow user-supplied $CFLAGS to set the
9701 debug-option in all libraries (requested by lots of people) -TD
9702 + use return consistently from main(), rather than exit (reported by
9704 + add --enable-getcap-cache option to configure, normally disabled
9705 (requested by Florian La Roche).
9706 + make configure test for gettimeofday() and possibly -lbsd more
9707 efficient (requested by Florian La Roche <florian@knorke.saar.de>)
9708 + minor adjustments to Ada95 binding (patches by Juergen Pfeifer)
9709 + correct attributes after emitting orig_pair in lib_vidattr.c (patch
9710 by Alexander V Lukyanov).
9713 + corrected README wrt Ada95 (Juergen Pfeifer)
9716 + integrate resizeterm() into doupdate(), so that if screen size
9717 changes between endwin/refresh, ncurses will resize windows to fit
9718 (this needs additional testing with pads and softkeys).
9719 + add, for memory-leak testing, _nc_freeall() entrypoint to free all
9720 data used in ncurses library.
9721 + initialize _nc_idcok, _nc_idlok statically to resolve discrepancy
9722 between initscr() and newwin() initialization (reported by
9723 Alexander V Lukyanov).
9724 + test built VERSION=4.0, SHARED_ABI=4 with Linux ld.so.1.8.5
9725 (set beta versions to those values -- NOTE that subsequent pre-4.0
9726 beta may not be interchangeable).
9727 + modify configure script to work with autoconf 2.12
9729 961130 1.9.9g release
9730 + add copyright notices to configuration scripts (written by Thomas
9734 > patch, mostly for panel (Juergen Pfeifer):
9735 + cosmetic improvement for a few routines in the ncurses core library
9736 to avoid warning messages.
9737 + the panel overlap detection was broken
9738 + the panel_window() function was not fool-proof.
9740 + Cosmetic changes (also to avoid warning messages when compiling with
9744 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9745 + eliminates warning messages for the compile of libform.
9746 + inserts Per Foreby's new field type TYPE_IPV4 into libform.
9747 + Updates man page and the Ada95 binding to reflect this.
9748 + Improves inlining in libmenu and libform.
9751 + improve the use of the "const" qualifier in the
9752 panel library (Juergen Pfeifer)
9753 + change set_panel_userptr() and panel_userptr() to use void*
9758 + package with 961119 version of Ada95 binding (fixes for gnat-3.07).
9760 + correct initialization of the stdscr pseudo panel in panel library
9762 + use MODULE_ID (rcs keywords) in forms and menus libraries (Juergen
9765 + typo in curs_termcap man page (reported by Hendrik Reichel
9766 <106065.2344@compuserve.com>)
9767 + change default xterm entry to xterm-r6.
9768 + add entry for color_xterm
9771 + lint found several functions that had only #define implementations
9772 (e.g., attr_off), modified curses.h.in to generate them as per XSI
9773 Curses requirement that every macro be available as a function.
9774 + add check in infocmp.c to guard against string compare of
9775 CANCELLED_STRING values.
9776 + modify firework.c, rain.c to hide cursor while running.
9777 + correct missing va_end in lib_tparm.c
9778 + modify hanoi.c to work on non-color terminals, and to use timing
9779 delays when in autoplay mode.
9780 + correct 'echochar()' to refresh immediately (reported by Adrian
9781 Garside <94ajg2@eng.cam.ac.uk>)
9783 + reorganize terminfo.src entries for xterm.
9786 + corrected error in line-breakout logic (lib_doupdate.c)
9787 + modified newdemo to use wgetch(win) rather than getch() to eliminate
9788 a spurious clear-screen.
9789 + corrected ifdef's for 'poll()' configuration.
9790 + added modules to ncurses, form, menu for Ada95 binding (Juergen
9792 + modify set_field_buffer() to allow assignment of string longer than
9793 the initial buffer length, and to return the complete string rather
9794 than only the initial size (Juergen Pfeifer and Per Foreby
9798 + configure for 'poll()' in preference to 'select()', since older
9799 systems are more likely to have a broken 'select()'.
9800 + modified render_char() to avoid OR'ing colors.
9801 + minor fixes to testcurs.c, newdemo.c test programs: ifdef'd out the
9802 resize test, use wbkgd and corrected box() parameters.
9803 + make flushinp() test work in ncurses.c by using napms() instead of
9805 + undo ESR's changes to xterm-x11r6 (it no longer matched the X11R6.1
9806 distribution, as stated)
9807 + terminfo 9.13.18 resync (ESR)
9808 + check for getenv("HOME") returning null (ESR).
9809 + change buffer used to decode xterm-mouse commands to unsigned to
9810 handle displays wider than 128 chars (Juergen Pfeifer).
9811 + correct typo curs_outopts.3x (Juergen Pfeifer).
9812 + correct limit-checking in wenclose() (Juergen Pfeifer).
9813 + correction to Peter Wemm's newwin change (Thomas Fehr
9815 + corrections to logic that combines colors and attributes; they must
9816 not be OR'd (Juergen Pfeifer, extending from report/patch by Rick
9820 + reset flags in 'getwin()' that might cause refresh to attempt to
9821 manipulate the non-existent parent of a window that is read from a
9822 file (lib_screen.c).
9823 + restructure _nc_timed_wait() to log more information, and to try to
9824 recover from badly-behaved 'select()' calls (still testing this).
9825 + move define for GOOD_SELECT into configure script.
9826 + corrected extra '\' character inserted before ',' in comp_scan.c
9827 + corrected expansion of %-format characters in dump_entry.c; some were
9828 rendered as octal constants.
9829 + modify dump_entry.c to make terminfo output more readable and like
9830 SVr4, by using "\s" for spaces (leading/trailing only), "\," for
9831 comma, "\^" and "\:" as well.
9832 + corrected some memory leaks in ncurses.c, and a minor logic error
9833 in the top-level command-parser.
9834 + correction for label format 4 (PC style with info line), a
9835 slk_clear(), slk_restore() sequence didn't redraw the info line
9837 + modified the slk window (if simulated) to inherit the background and
9838 default character attributes from stdscr (Juergen Pfeifer).
9839 + corrected limit-check in set_top_row (Juergen Pfeifer).
9842 + correct loop-limit in wnoutrefresh(), bug exposed during pipe-testing
9843 had '.lastchar' entry one beyond '._maxx'.
9844 + modify ncurses test-program to work with data piped to it.
9845 + corrected pathname computation in run_tic.sh, removing extra "../"
9846 (reported by Tim Mooney).
9847 + modified configure script to use previous install's location for
9849 + added NetBSD and FreeBSD to platforms that use --prefix=/usr as
9853 + revised xterm terminfo descriptions to reflect the several versions
9855 + corrected a pointer reference in dump_entry.c that didn't test if
9859 + correct _nc_mvcur_scrolln for terminals w/o scrolling region.
9860 + add -x option to hashtest to control whether it allows writes to the
9862 + ifdef'd (NCURSES_TEST) the logic for _nc_optimize_enable to make it
9863 simpler to construct tests (for double-check of _nc_hash_map tests).
9864 + correct ifdef's for c++ in curses.h
9865 + change default xterm type to xterm-x11r6.
9866 + correct quoting in configure that made man-pages installed with
9867 $datadir instead of actual terminfo path.
9868 + correct whitespace in include/Caps, which caused kf11, clr_eol and
9869 clr_end to be omitted from terminfo.5
9870 + fix memory leaks in delscreen() (adapted from Alexander V Lukyanov).
9871 + improve appearance of marker in multi-selection menu (Juergen
9873 + fix behavior for forms with all fields inactive (Juergen Pfeifer)
9874 + document 'field_index()' (Juergen Pfeifer)
9876 + add some more XENIX keycap translations to include/Caps.
9877 + modify newwin to set initial state of each line to 'touched'
9878 (from patch by Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.dialix.com>)
9879 + in SET_TTY, replace TCSANOW with TCSADRAIN (Alexander V Lukyanov).
9882 + ifdef'd out _nc_hash_map (still slower)
9883 + add graphic characters to vt52 description.
9884 + use PutAttrChar in ClrToEOL to ensure proper background, position.
9885 + simplify/correct logic in 'mvcur()' that does wrapping; it was
9886 updating the position w/o actually moving the cursor, which broke
9888 + ensure that 'doupdate()' sets the .oldindex values back to a sane
9889 state; this was causing a spurious refresh in ncurses 'r'.
9890 + add logic to configure (from vile) to guard against builders who
9891 don't remove config.cache & config.status when doing new builds -TD
9892 + corrected logic for 'repeat_char' in EmitRange (cf: eric #317), which
9893 did not follow the 2-parameter scheme specified in XSI.
9894 + corrected logic of wrefresh, wnoutrefresh broken in #319, making
9895 clearok work properly (report by Michael Elkins).
9896 + corrected problem with endwin introduced by #314 (removing the
9897 scrolling-region reset) that broke ncurses.c tests.
9898 + corrected order of args in AC_CHECK_LIB (from report by Ami Fischman
9899 <fischman@math.ucla.edu>).
9900 + corrected formatting of terminfo.5 tables (Juergen Ehling)
9903 + emit a carriage-return in 'endwin()' to workaround a kernel bug in
9904 BSDI. (requested by Mike Karels <karels@redrock.bsdi.com>)
9905 + reverse the default o configure --enable-termcap (consensus).
9907 + modified logic for clearok and related functions (from report by
9908 Michael Elkins) - untested
9910 + correction to #317.
9912 + re-add _nc_hash_map
9913 + modify EmitRange to maintain position as per original design
9914 (patch by A. Lukyanov).
9915 + modify test/ncurses.c and tputs, etc., to allow trace counting
9917 + add hashtest.c program to time the hashmap optimization.
9919 + add logic to deal with magic-cookie (how was this tested?)
9921 + add ncurses.c driver for magic-cookie, some fixes to ncurses.c
9923 + merge changes to lib_doupdate.c to use ech and rep - untested
9924 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
9925 + modified handling of interrupted system calls - untested
9926 (lib_getch.c, lib_twait.c).
9927 + new function _nc_mvcur_resume()
9928 + fix return value for 'overlay()', 'overwrite()'
9931 + implement subwindow-logic in wresize, minor fixes to ncurses 'g'
9933 + corrected bracketing of fallback.c (reported/suggested fix by Juergen
9934 Ehling <eh@eclipse.aball.de>).
9935 + update xterm-color to reflect XFree86 3.1.3G release.
9936 + correct broken dtterm description from #314 patch (e.g., spurious
9937 newline. The 'pairs' change might work, but no one's tested it
9939 + clarify the documentation for the builtin form fieldtypes (Juergen
9942 + reset scroll region on startup rather than at wrapup time
9943 (enhancement suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
9944 + make storage of palette tables and their size counts per-screen for
9945 multi-terminal applications (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
9946 + Improved error reporting for infotocap translation errors.
9947 + Update terminfo.src to 9.13.14.
9950 + rewrote wgetstr to make it erase control chars and also fix bogus use
9951 of _nc_outstr which caused the display to not wrap properly (display
9952 problem reported by John M. Flinchbaugh <glynis@netrax.net>)
9953 + modify ncurses 'f' test to accommodate terminal responses to C1 codes
9954 (and split up this screen to accommodate non-ANSI terminals).
9955 + test enter_insert_mode and exit_insert_mode in has_ic().
9956 + removed bogus logic in mvcur that assumes nl/nonl set output modes
9957 (XSI says they are input modes; SVr4 implements this).
9958 + added macros SET_TTY, GET_TTY to term.h
9959 + correct getstr() logic that altered terminal modes w/o restoring.
9960 + disable ICRNL, etc., during initialization to match SVr4, removing
9961 the corresponding logic from raw, cbreak, etc.
9962 + disable ONLCR during initialization, to match SVr4 (this is needed
9963 for cursor optimization when the cursor-down is a newline).
9964 + replaced ESR's imitation of wresize with my original (his didn't
9968 + memory leaks (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9969 + modified pnoutrefresh() to be more tolerant of too-large screen
9970 size (reported by Michael Elkins).
9971 + correct handling of terminfo files with no strings (Philippe De
9973 + correct "tic -s" to take into account -I, -C options.
9974 + modify ncurses 'f' test to not print codes 80 through 9F, since they
9975 are considered control codes by ANSI terminals.
9978 + correct speed variable-type in 'tgetent()' (reported by Peter Wemm)
9979 + make "--enable-getcap" configuration-option work (reported by
9980 Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.DIALix.COM>)
9983 + correct err in 960817 that changed return-value of tigetflag()
9984 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9985 + modify infocmp to use library default search-path for terminfo
9986 directory (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9989 + corrected an err in mvcur that broke resizing-behavior.
9990 + correct fall-thru behavior of _nc_read_entry(), which was not finding
9991 descriptions that existed in directories past the first one searched
9992 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov)
9993 + corrected typo in dtterm description.
9995 + add dtterm description
9996 + clarify ncurses 'i' test (drop mvwscanw subtest)
9999 + correct nl()/nonl() to work as per SVr4 & XSI.
10000 + minor fixes to ncurses.c (use 'noraw()', mvscanw return-code)
10001 + refine configure-test for "-g" option (Tim Mooney).
10002 + correct interaction between O_BLANK and NEW_LINE request in form
10003 library (Juergen Pfeifer)
10006 + revised fix to tparm; previous fix reversed parameter order.
10008 correct terminfo.src corrupted by #310
10010 + fix idlok() and idcok() and the default of the idlok switch (report
10014 + corrected tparm to handle capability strings without explicit pop
10015 (reported by William P Setzer)
10016 + add fallback def for GCC_NORETURN, GCC_UNUSED for termcap users
10017 (reported by Tim Mooney).
10019 + documentation and prototyping errors for has_color, immedok and idcok
10020 (reported by William P Setzer <wsetzer@pams.ncsu.edu>)
10021 + updated qnx terminfo entry (patch by Michael Hunter)
10024 + eliminate quoted includes in ncurses subdirectory, ensure config.h
10026 + newterm initializes terminal settings the same as initscr (reported
10030 + call cbreak() in initscr(), as per XSI & SVr4.
10031 + turn off hardware echo in initscr() as per XSI & SVr4
10033 + terminfo changes (9.3.9), from BRL
10034 + add more checks to terminfo parser.
10035 + add more symbols to infocmp.
10038 + save previous-attribute in lib_vidattr.c if SP is null (reported by
10039 Juergen Fluk <louis@dachau.marco.de>)
10040 + corrected calls on _nc_render so that background character is set
10042 + corrected wbkgdset macro (XSI allows background character to be
10043 null), and tests that use it.
10044 + more corrections to terminfo (xterm & rxvt)
10045 + undid change to mcprint prototype (cannot use size_t in curses.h
10046 because not all systems declare it in the headers that we can safely
10048 + move the ifdefs for errno into curses.priv.h
10050 + terminfo changes (9.3.8)
10051 + modified logic of error-reporting in terminfo parser
10052 + fix option-processing bug in toe.
10055 + always check for <sys/bsdtypes.h> since ISC needs it to declare
10056 fd_set (Juergen Pfeifer)
10057 + install shared-libraries on NetBSD/FreeBSD with ABI-version (reported
10058 by Juergen Pfeifer, Mike Long)
10059 + add LOCAL_LDFLAGS2 symbol (Juergen Pfeifer)
10060 + corrected prototype for delay_output() -- bump ABI to 3.2
10062 + enable more translations of nonstandard caps, and document them.
10063 + misc/terminfo.src update to 9.13.8
10065 + moved logic that filters out rmul and rmso from setupterm to newterm
10066 where it is less likely to interfere with termcap applications.
10067 + cosmetic fixes to test/ncurses.c
10068 + modify open() call in ncurses/read_entry.c to use O_RDONLY symbol
10069 rather than constant (report by mib).
10070 + misc/terminfo.src sgr0 and acsc changes (report by Philippe De
10072 + modify ncurses/comp_parse.c so that entries containing a "+" can
10073 have missing rmcup vs smcup.
10076 + rollback ESR's #305 change to terminfo.src (it breaks existing
10077 applications, e.g., 'less 290').
10078 + correct path of edit_man.sh, and fix typo that made all man-pages
10080 + restore man/menu_requestname.3x omitted in Zeyd's resync (oops).
10081 + auto-configure the GCC_PRINTFLIKE/GCC_SCANFLIKE macros (reported by
10082 Philippe De Muyter).
10085 + make lib_vidattr.c more readable using macros.
10086 + filter out rmul, rmso that conflict with sgr0 when reading terminal
10088 + work around autoconf bug, force $INSTALL to absolute path
10089 (reported by Zeyd).
10090 + modify man-page install for BSDI to install preformatted .0 files
10091 (reported by David MacKenzie).
10092 + add/use gcc __attribute__ for printf and scanf in curses.h
10093 + added SGR attributes test-case to ncurses
10094 + revised ncurses 't' logic to show trace-disable effect in the menu.
10095 + use getopt in ncurses program to process -s and -t options.
10096 + make ncurses 'p' legend toggle with '?'
10097 + disable scrollok during the ncurses 'p' test; if it is enabled the
10098 stdscr will scroll when putting the box-corners in the lower-right
10101 + added sanity-checking of various paired string attributes.
10102 + misc/terminfo.src update to 9.13.7 (report by A. Lukyanov).
10103 + modify man/Makefile.in to make terminfo.5 during normal build.
10105 + corrected allocation-length for $HOME/.terminfo path.
10108 + check return code of _nc_mvcur_scrolln() in _nc_scroll_optimize() for
10109 terminals with no scrolling-support (reported by Nikolay Shadrin
10110 <queen@qh.mirea.ac.ru>)
10111 + added ^S scrollok-toggle to ncurses 'g' test.
10112 + added ^T trace-toggle to ncurses tests.
10113 + modified ncurses test program to use ^Q or ESC consistently for
10114 terminating tests (rather than ^D), and to use control keys rather
10115 than function keys in 'g' test.
10116 + corrected misplaced wclrtoeol calls in addch to accommodate wrapping
10117 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
10118 + modify lib_doupdate.c to use effective costs to tradeoff between
10119 delete-character/insert-character vs normal updating (reported by
10121 + compute effective costs for screen update operations (e.g., clr_eos,
10123 + corrected error in knight.c exposed by wrap fixes in 960622; the
10124 msgwin needed scrollok set.
10125 + corrected last change to IDcTransformLine logic to avoid conflict
10126 between PutRange and InsStr
10127 + modified run_tic.sh to not use /usr/tmp (reported by David
10128 MacKenzie), and further revised it and aclocal.m4 to use $TMPDIR if
10130 + corrected off-by-one in RoomFor call in read_entry.c
10133 + modified logic that wraps cursor in addch to follow the XSI spec,
10134 (implemented in SVr4) which states that the cursor position is
10135 updated when wrapping. Renamed _NEED_WRAP to _WRAPPED to reflect the
10137 + added -s option to tic, to provide better diagnostics in run_tic.sh
10138 + improved error-recovery for tabset install.
10139 + change ABI to 3.1 (dropped tparam, corrected getbkgd(), added
10140 _yoffset to WINDOW).
10141 + modified initialization of SP->_ofp so that init_acs() is called with
10142 the "right" file pointer (reported by Rick Marshall <rjm@nlc.net.au>
10143 + documentation fixes (Juergen Pfeifer).
10144 + corrected, using new SCREEN and WINDOW members, the behavior of
10145 ncurses if one uses ripoffline() to remove a line from the top of the
10146 screen (Juergen Pfeifer).
10147 + modified autoconf scripts to prepare for Ada95 (GNAT) binding to
10148 ncurses (Juergen Pfeifer).
10149 + incorrect buffer-size in _nc_read_entry, reported by ESR.
10152 + corrected two logic errors in read_entry.c, write_entry.c (called by
10153 tic, the write/read of terminfo entries used inconsistent rules for
10154 locating the entries; the $TERMINFO_DIRS code would find only the
10155 first entry in a list).
10156 + refined pathname computation in run_tic.sh and shlib.
10157 + corrected initialization of $IP in misc/run_tic.sh
10160 + ifdef'd out _nc_hash_map() call because it does not improve speed.
10161 + display version of gcc if configure script identifies it.
10162 + modify configure script to use /usr as Linux's default prefix.
10163 + modify run_tic.sh to use shlib script, fixes some problems installing
10164 with a shared-library configuration.
10165 + adjusted configure script so that it doesn't run tests with the
10166 warnings turned on, which makes config.log hard to read.
10167 + added 'lint' rule to top-level Makefile.
10168 + added configure option '--with-install-prefix' for use by system
10169 builders to install into staging locations (requested by
10170 Charles Levert <charles@comm.polymtl.ca>).
10171 + corrected autoconfigure for Debian man program; it's not installed
10173 + set noecho in 'worm'; it was ifdef'd for debug only
10174 + updated test/configure.in for timing-display in ncurses 'p' test
10175 + corrected misspelled 'getbkgd()'.
10176 + corrected wbkgdset to work like observed syvr4 (sets A_CHARTEXT part
10177 to blank if no character given, copies attributes to window's
10179 + modified lib_doupdate.c to use lower-level SP's current_attr state
10180 instead of curscr's state, since it is redundant.
10181 + correction to IDcTransformLine logic which controls where InsStr is
10182 invoked (refined by Alexander V Lukyanov).
10184 + conditionally include Chris Torek's hash function _nc_hash_map().
10185 + better fix for nvi refresh-bug (Rick Marshall)
10186 + fix for bug in handling of interrupted keystroke waits,
10188 + misc/ncurses-intro.html syntax fix (Kajiyama Tamito).
10191 + auto-configure man-page compression-format and renames for Debian.
10192 + corrected several typos in curses.h.in (i.e., the mvXXXX macros).
10193 + re-order curses.priv.h for lint.
10194 + added rules for lintlib, lint
10195 + corrected ifdef for BROKEN_LINKER in MKnames.awk.in
10196 + corrected missing INSTALL_DATA in misc/Makefile.in
10197 + flush output when changing cursor-visibility (Rick Marshall)
10198 + fix a minor bug in the _nc_ripoff() routine and improve error
10199 checking when creating the label window (Juergen Pfeifer).
10200 + enhancement to the control over the new PC-style soft key format.
10201 allow caller now to select whether or not one wants to have
10202 the index-line; see curs_slk.3x for documentation (Juergen Pfeifer).
10203 + typos, don't use inline with "-g" (Philippe De Muyter)
10204 + fixes for menus & wattr-, slk-functions (Juergen Pfeifer)
10207 + removed --with-ticdir option altogether, maintain compatibility with
10208 existing applications via symbolic link in run_tic.sh
10209 + patch for termio.h, signal (Philippe De Muyter)
10210 + auto-configure gcc warning options rather than infer from version.
10211 + auto-configure __attribute__ for different gcc versions.
10212 + corrected special use of clearok() in hardscroll.c by resetting flag
10214 + include stdlib.h before defs for EXIT_SUCCESS, for OSF/1.
10215 + include sys/types.h in case stdlib.h does not declare size_t.
10216 + fixes for makefile (Tim Mooney)
10217 + fixes for menus & forms (Juergen Pfeifer)
10219 + improve hash function (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
10220 + 9.13.4 update for terminfo.src
10223 + revised ncurses.c panner test, let pad abut all 4 sides of screen.
10224 + refined case in lib_doupdate.c for ClrToEOL().
10225 + corrected prior change for PutRange (Alexander V Lukyanov
10226 <lav@yars.free.net>).
10227 + autoconf mods (Tim Mooney <mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu>).
10228 + locale fix for forms (Philippe De Muyter <phdemuyt@ulb.ac.be>)
10229 + renamed "--with-datadir" option to "--with-ticdir" to avoid
10230 confusion, and made this check for the /usr/lib/terminfo pre-existing
10232 > patches 299-301 (ESR):
10233 + html fixes (Phillippe de Muyter).
10234 + fix typo in ncurses-intro.html (report by Fabrizio Polacco).
10236 + mods to tracing, especially for ACS chars.
10237 + corrected off-by-one in IDCtransform.
10238 + corrected intermittent mouse bug by using return-value from read().
10239 + mods to parse_entry.c, for smarter defaults.
10242 + use getopt in 'tic'; added -L option and modified -e option to allow
10246 + don't use fixed buffer-size in tparm().
10247 + modified tic to create terminfo directory if it doesn't exist.
10248 + added -T options to tic and infocmp (for testing/analysis)
10249 + refined the length criteria for termcap and terminfo
10250 + optimize lib_doupdate with memcpy, PutRange
10251 > patches 297, 298 (ESR):
10252 + implement TERMINFO_DIRS, and -o option of tic
10253 + added TRACE_IEVENT
10254 + fix REQ_TOGGLE_ITEM in menu/menu_driver.c; it could select but not
10256 + added lib_print.c (request by Rick Marshall).
10257 + added has_key() (request by Juergen Pfeifer).
10258 + do not issue clrtoeol or clrtobot if the relevant portion of the line
10259 is already blank (analysis by Keith Bostic).
10260 + add parentheses for parameters of COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER macros
10261 (analysis by Jurgen Eidt).
10262 + update screen's notion of cursor position in endwin() (analysis by
10263 Alexander Lukyanov).
10264 + added 't' to ncurses.c test.
10265 + moved delay_output() to lib_tputs.c
10266 + removed tparam() (was added in 1.9.9, but conflicts with emacs and
10267 is not part of X/Open Curses).
10268 + removed boolean version of 'getm'.
10269 + misc cursor & optimization fixes.
10272 + modified ncurses 'p' test to allow full-screen range for panner size.
10273 + fixes for locale (Philippe De Muyter <phdm@labauto1.ulb.ac.be>)
10274 + don't use fixed buffer-size in fmt_entry().
10275 + added usage-message to 'infocmp'.
10276 + modified install.includes rules to prepend subdirectory-name to
10277 "#include" if needed.
10280 + protect wrefresh, wnoutrefresh from invocation with pad argument.
10281 + corrected default CCFLAGS in test/Makefile.
10284 + implemented logic to support terminals with background color erase
10285 (e.g., rxvt and the newer color xterm).
10286 + improved screen update logic (off-by-one logic error; use clr_eos if
10290 + change ncurses 'a' test to run in raw mode.
10291 + make TIOCGWINSZ configure test less stringent, in case user
10292 configures via terminal that cannot get screen size.
10293 > patches 295, 296 (ESR):
10294 + split lib_kernel.c, lib_setup.c and names.c in order to reduce
10295 overhead for programs that use only termcap features.
10296 + new "-e" and "-h" options of tic (request by Tony Nugent).
10297 + fix bug in mandatory-delay logic in lib_tputs.c (report by Sven
10299 + fix for "infocmp -e" to emit correct initializers (reported by Manual
10301 + restore working-directory in read_termcap.c (report by Kayvan
10303 + use "-h" option on Solaris when generating shared libraries on
10304 Solaris 2.5 to record the library name in the file, for assisting
10305 the loader (patch by Scott Kramer).
10306 + undo patch #294 changes to form and menu libraries (request by
10311 + fix for AIX 3.2.5 (must define _POSIX_SOURCE to get termios struct
10312 definitions via <termios.h>, modified macros in lib_raw.c to avoid
10313 K&R-style substitution)
10314 > patches 293, 294 (ESR):
10315 + rewrite wsyncup(), wsyncdown(), as well as small fixes to form and
10316 menu libraries to fix echo-breakage introduced by 1.8.9, 1.9.9e
10317 changes (patches by Juergen Pfeifer).
10318 + fix compile under QNX 4.2 by defining ONLCR in lib_raw.c when
10319 __QNX__ is defined (patch by Michael Hunter).
10320 + modify setupterm() to match documentation for its return value, fix
10321 newterm to work with this change (report by Emmet Lazich).
10322 + add checks in getch() for error, return ERR as appropriate (report by
10324 + mods to wgetch() in cooked mode (report by Pete Seebach).
10325 + corrected askuser() logic in tset (patch by Remco Treffkorn).
10326 + correct interaction of endwin() with mouse processing (report by
10328 + added trace support for TTY flags
10329 + update terminfo.src to 9.13.1
10330 + FreeBSD console entries (patch by Andrew Chernov).
10333 + fixes for NeXT, ISC and HPUX auto-configure
10334 + autogenerate development header-dependencies (config.h, *.priv.h)
10335 + corrected single-column formatting of "use=" (e.g., in tic)
10336 + modify tic to read full terminfo-names
10337 + corrected divide-by-zero that caused hang (or worse) when redirecting
10339 + modify tic to generate directories only as-needed (and corrected
10340 instance of use of data from function that had already returned).
10342 ### ncurses-1.9.8a -> 1.9.9e
10344 * fixed broken wsyncup()/wysncdown(), as a result wnoutrefresh() now has
10345 copy-changed-lines behavior.
10346 * added and documented wresize() function.
10347 * more fixes to LOWER-RIGHT corner handling.
10348 * changed the line-breakout optimization code to allow some lines to be
10349 emitted before the first check.
10350 * added option for tic to use symbolic instead of hard links (for AFS)
10351 * fix to restore auto-wrap mode.
10352 * trace level can be controlled by environment variable.
10353 * better handling of NULs in terminal descriptions.
10354 * improved compatibility with observed SVR4 behavior.
10355 * the refresh behavior of over-lapping windows is now more efficient and
10357 * use autoconf 2.7, which results in a working setup for SCO 5.0.
10358 * support for ESCDELAY.
10359 * small fixes for menu/form code.
10360 * the test directory has its own configure.
10361 * fixes to pads when optimizing scrolling.
10362 * fixed several off-by-one bugs.
10363 * fixes for termcap->terminfo translation; less restrictions more correct
10366 ### ncurses-1.9.7 -> 1.9.8a
10368 * teach infocmp -i to recognize ECMA highlight sequences
10369 * infocmp now dumps all SVr4 termcaps (not just the SVr4 ones) on -C
10370 * support infocmp -RBSD.
10371 * satisfy XSI Curses requirement that every macro be available as a function.
10372 * This represents the last big change to the public interface of ncurses. The
10373 ABI_VERSION has now been set at 3.0 and should stay there barring any great
10374 catastrophies or acts of God.
10375 * The C++ has been cleaned up in reaction to the changes to satisfy XSI's
10377 * libncurses now gets linked to libcurses to help seamless emulation
10378 (replacement) of a vendor's curses. --disable-overwrite turns this behavior
10381 ### ncurses-1.9.6 -> 1.9.7
10383 * corrected return values of setupterm()
10384 * Fixed some bugs in tput (it does padding now)
10385 * fixed a bug in tic that made it do the wrong thing on entries with more than
10386 one `use' capability.
10387 * corrected the screen-size calculation at startup time to alter the
10388 numeric capabilities as per SVr4, not just LINES and COLS.
10389 * toe(1) introduced; does what infocmp -T used to.
10390 * tic(1) can now translate AIX box1 and font[0123] capabilities.
10391 * tic uses much less core, the dotic.sh kluge can go away now.
10392 * fix read_entry() and write_entry() to pass through cancelled capabilities OK.
10393 * Add $HOME/.terminfo as source/target directory for terminfo entries.
10394 * termcap compilation now automatically dumps an entry to $HOME/.terminfo.
10395 * added -h option to toe(1).
10396 * added -R option to tic(1) and infocmp(1).
10397 * added fallback-entry-list feature.
10398 * added -i option to infocmp(1).
10399 * do a better job at detecting if we're on SCO.
10401 ### ncurses-1.9.5 -> 1.9.6
10403 * handling of TERMCAP environment variables now works correctly.
10404 * various changes to shorten termcap translations to less that 1024 chars.
10406 * mouse support for xterm.
10407 * most data tables are now const and accordingly live in shareable text space.
10408 * Obey the XPG4/SVr4 practice that echo() is initally off.
10409 * tic is much better at translating XENIX and AIX termcap entries now.
10410 * tic can interpret ko capabilities now.
10411 * integrated Juergen Pfeifer's forms library.
10412 * taught write_entry() how not to write more than it needs to; this change
10413 reduces the size of the terminfo tree by a full 26%!
10414 * infocmp -T option added.
10415 * better warnings about historical tic quirks from tic.
10417 ### ncurses 1.9.4 -> 1.9.5
10419 * menus library is now included with documentation.
10420 * lib_mvcur has been carefully profiled and tuned.
10421 * Fixed a ^Z-handling bug that was tanking lynx(1).
10422 * HJ Lu's patches for ELF shared libraries under Linux
10423 * terminfo.src 9.8.2
10424 * tweaks for compiling in seperate directories.
10425 * Thomas Dickey's patches to support NeXT's brain-dead linker
10426 * Eric Raymond's patches to fix problems with long termcap entries.
10427 * more support for shared libraries under SunOS and IRIX.
10429 ### ncurses 1.9.3 -> 1.9.4
10431 * fixed an undefined-order-of-evaluation bug in lib_acs.c
10432 * systematically gave non-API public functions and data an _nc_ prefix.
10433 * integrated Juergen Pfeifer's menu code into the distribution.
10434 * totally rewrote the knight test game's interface
10436 ### ncurses 1.9.2c -> 1.9.3
10438 * fixed the TERMCAP_FILE Support.
10439 * fixed off-by-one errors in scrolling code
10440 * added tracemunch to the test tools
10441 * took steps to cut the running time of make install.data
10443 ### ncurses 1.9.2c -> 1.9.2d
10445 * revised 'configure' script to produce libraries for normal, debug,
10446 profile and shared object models.
10448 ### ncurses 1.9.1 -> 1.9.2
10450 * use 'autoconf' to implement 'configure' script.
10451 * panels support added
10452 * tic now checks for excessively long termcap entries when doing translation
10453 * first cut at eliminating namespace pollution.
10455 ### ncurses 1.8.9 -> 1.9
10457 * cleanup gcc warnings for the following: use size_t where 'int' is not
10458 appropriate, fixed some shadowed variables, change attr_t to compatible with
10459 chtype, use attr_t in some places where it was confused with 'int'.
10460 * use chtype/attr_t casts as appropriate to ensure portability of masking
10462 * added-back waddchnstr() to lib_addstr.c (it had been deleted).
10463 * supplied missing prototypes in curses.h
10464 * include <termcap.h> in lib_termcap.c to ensure that the prototypes
10465 are consistent (they weren't).
10466 * corrected prototype of tputs in <termcap.h>
10467 * rewrote varargs parsing in lib_tparm.c (to avoid referencing memory
10468 that may be out of bounds on the stack) -- Purify found this.
10469 * ensure that TRACE is defined in lib_trace.c (to solve prototype
10470 warnings from gcc).
10471 * corrected scrolling-region size in 'mvcur_wrap()'
10472 * more spelling fixes
10473 * use 'calloc()' to allocate WINDOW struct in lib_newwin.c (Purify).
10474 * set default value for SP->_ofp in lib_set_term.c (otherwise SunOS dumps
10475 core in init_acs()).
10476 * include <errno.h> in write_entry.c (most "braindead" includes declare errno
10479 ### ncurses 1.8.8 -> 1.8.9
10481 * compile (mostly) clean with gcc 2.5.8 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
10482 -Wmissing-prototypes -Wconversion and using __attribute__ to flush out
10483 non-portable use of "%x" for pointers, or for chtype data (which is declared
10485 * modified doupdate to ensure that typahead was turned on before attempting
10486 select-call (otherwise, some implementations hang).
10487 * added trace mask TRACE_FIFO, use this in lib_getch.c to allow finer
10488 resolution of traces.
10489 * improved bounds checking on several critical functions.
10490 * the data directory has been replaced by the new master terminfo file.
10491 * -F file-comparison option added to infocmp.
10492 * compatibility with XSI Curses is now documented in the man bages.
10493 * wsyncup/wsyncdown functions are reliable now; subwindow code in general
10494 is much less flaky.
10495 * capabilities ~msgr, tilde_glitch, insert_padding, generic_type, no_pad_char,
10496 memory_above, memory_below, and hard_copy are now used properly.
10497 * cursor-movement optimization has been completely rewritten.
10498 * vertical-movement optimization now uses hardware scrolling, il, dl.
10500 ### ncurses 1.8.7 -> 1.8.8
10501 * untic no longer exists, infocmp replaces it.
10502 * tic can understand termcap now, especially if it is called captoinfo.
10503 * The Linux Standard Console terminfo entry is called linux insead of console.
10504 It also uses the kernel's new method of changing charsets.
10505 * initscr() will EXIT upon error (as the docs say) This wil mostly happen if
10506 you try to run on an undefined terminal.
10507 * I can get things running on AIX but tic can't compile terminfo. I have to
10508 compile entries on another machine. Volunteers to hunt this bug are welcome.
10509 * wbkgd() and wbkgdset() can be used to set a windows background to color.
10510 wclear()/werase() DO NOT use the current attribute to clear the screen.
10511 This is the way SVR4 curses works. PDCurses 2.1 is broken in this respect,
10512 though PDCurses 2.2 has been fixed.
10513 * cleaned up the test/ directory.
10514 * test/worm will segfault after quite a while.
10515 * many spelling corrections courtesy of Thomas E. Dickey
10517 ### ncurses 1.8.6 -> 1.8.7
10518 * cleaned up programs in test/ directory.
10519 * fixed wbkgdset() macro.
10520 * modified getstr() to stop it from advancing cursor in noecho mode.
10521 * modified linux terminfo entry to work with the latest kernel to get
10522 the correct alternate character set.
10523 * also added a linux-mono entry for those running on monochrome screens.
10524 * changed initscr() so that it behaves like the man page says it does.
10525 this fixes the problem with programs in test/ crashing with SIGSEV if
10526 a terminal is undefined.
10527 * modified addch() to avoid using any term.h #define's
10528 * removed duplicate tgoto() in lib_tparm.c
10529 * modified dump_entry.c so that infocmp deals correctly with ',' in acsc
10530 * modified delwin() to correctly handle deleting subwindows.
10531 * fixed Makefile.dist to stop installing an empty curses.h
10532 * fixed a couple of out-of-date notes in man pages.
10534 ### ncurses 1.8.5 -> 1.8.6
10535 * Implemented wbkgd(), bkgd(), bkgdset(), and wbkgdset().
10536 * The handling of attributes has been improved and now does not turn off color
10537 if other attributes are turned off.
10538 * scrolling code is improved. Scrolling in subwindows is still broken.
10539 * Fixes to several bugs that manifest them on platforms other than Linux.
10540 * The default to meta now depends on the status of the terminal when ncurses
10542 * The interface to the tracing facility has changed. Instead of the pair of
10543 functions traceon() and traceoff(), there is just one function trace() which
10544 takes a trace mask argument. The trace masks, defined in curses.h, are
10547 #define TRACE_DISABLE 0x00 /* turn off tracing */
10548 #define TRACE_ORDINARY 0x01 /* ordinary trace mode */
10549 #define TRACE_CHARPUT 0x02 /* also trace all character outputs */
10550 #define TRACE_MAXIMUM 0x0f /* maximum trace level */
10552 More trace masks may be added, or these may be changed, in future releases.
10553 * The pad code has been improved and the pad test code in test/ncurses.c has
10555 * The prototype ansi entry has been changed to work with a wider variety
10557 * Fix to the prototype ansi entry that enables it to work with PC emulators
10558 that treat trailing ";m" in a highlight sequence as ";0m"; this doesn't
10559 break operation with any emulators.
10560 * There are now working infocmp, captoinfo, tput, and tclear utilities.
10561 * tic can now compile entries in termcap syntax.
10562 * Core-dump bug in pnoutrefresh fixed.
10563 * We now recognize and compile all the nonstandard capabilities in Ross
10564 Ridge's mytinfo package (rendering it obsolete).
10565 * General cleanup and documentation improvements.
10566 * Fixes and additions to the installation-documentation files.
10567 * Take cursor to normal mode on endwin.
10569 ### ncurses 1.8.4 -> 1.8.5
10570 * serious bugs in updating screen which caused erratic non-display,
10572 * fixed initialization for getch() related variable which cause
10573 unpredictable results.
10574 * fixed another doupdate bug which only appeared if you have
10576 * implemented redrawln() and redrawwin().
10577 * implemented winsnstr() and related functions.
10578 * cleaned up insertln() and deleteln() and implemented (w)insdeln().
10579 * changed Makefile.dist so that installation of man pages will
10580 take note of the terminfo directory.
10581 * fixed Configure (removed the mysterious 'X').
10582 * Eric S. Raymond fixed the script.* files so that they work with
10585 #### ncurses 1.8.3 -> 1.8.4 #### ####
10586 * fixed bug in refreshing the screen after return from shell_mode.
10587 There are still problems but they don't manifest themselves on
10588 my machine (Linux 0.99.14f).
10589 * added wgetnstr() and modified things accordingly.
10590 * fixed the script.src script.test to work with awk not just gawk.
10591 * Configure can now take an argument of the target system.
10592 * added test/ncurses.c which replaces several other programs and
10593 performs more testing.
10594 [Thanks to Eric S Raymond for the last 4]
10595 * more fixes to lib_overlay.c and added test/over.c to illustrate
10597 * fixed ungetch() to take int instead of ch.
10598 * fixes to cure wgetch() if flushinp() is called.
10600 One note I forgot to mention in 1.8.3 is that tracing is off by
10601 default starting in the version. If you want tracing output, put
10602 traceon(); in your code and link with -ldcurses.
10604 #### ncurses 1.8.2 -> ncurses 1.8.3 #### ####
10606 1) The order of capabilities has been changed in order to achieve
10607 binary compatibility with SVR4 terminfo database. This has the
10608 unfortunate effect of breaking application currently linked with
10609 ncurses. To ensure correct behavior, recompile all such programs.
10610 Most programs using color or newer capabilities will break, others
10611 will probably continue to work ok.
10613 2) Pavel Curtis has renounced his copyright to the public domain.
10614 This means that his original sources (posted to comp.sources.unix,
10615 volume 1) are now in the public domain. The current sources are
10616 NOT in the public domain, they are copyrighted by me. I'm
10617 entertaining ideas on what the new terms ncurses is released under.
10619 3) Eric S. Raymond has supplied a complete set of man pages for
10620 ncurses in ?roff format. They will eventually replace most of the
10621 current docs. Both sets are included in this release.
10623 Other changes and notes from 1.8.2 include:
10624 * SIGSEGV during scrolling no longer occurs.
10625 * Other problems with scrolling and use of idl have been corrected.
10626 * lib_getch.c has been re-written and should perform flawlessly.
10627 please use test/getch.c and any other programs to test this.
10628 * ripoffline() is implemented (Thanks to Eric) and slk_ functions
10629 changed accordingly.
10630 * I've added support for terminals that scroll if you write in the
10631 bottom-right corner.
10632 * fixed more bugs in pads code. If anybody has a program that uses
10633 pads I'd love a copy.
10634 * correct handling for terminal with back_color_erase capability
10635 (such as Linux console, and most PC terminals)
10636 * ^Z handling apparently didn't work (I should never trust code
10637 sent me to me without extensive testing). It now seems to be
10638 fixed. Let me know if you have problems.
10639 * I've added support for Apollo and NeXT, but it may still be
10640 incomplete, especially when dealing with the lack of POSIX
10642 * scrolling should be more efficient on terminals with idl
10643 capabilities. Please see src/lib_scroll.c for more notes.
10644 * The line drawing routines were offset by 1 at both ends. This
10646 * added a few missing prototypes and macros (e.g. setterm())
10647 * fixed code in src/lib_overlay.c which used to crash.
10648 * added a few more programs in test/ The ones from the PDCurses
10649 package are useful, especially if you have SVR4 proper. I'm
10650 interested in the results you get on such a systems (Eric? ;-).
10651 They already exposed certain bugs in ncurses.
10652 * See src/README for porting notes.
10653 * The C++ code should really replace ncurses.h instead of working
10654 around it. It should avoid name-space clashes with nterm.h (use
10655 rows instead of lines, etc.)
10656 * The C++ should compile ok. I've added explicit rules to the
10657 Makefile because no C++ defaults are documented on the suns.
10658 * The docs say that echo() and nocbreak() are mutually exclusive.
10659 At the moment ncurses will switch to cbreak() if the case above
10660 occurs. Should it continue to do so? How about echo() and noraw()?
10661 * PDCurses seem to assume that wclear() will use current attribute
10662 when clearing the screen. According to Eric this is not the case
10664 * I have discovered, to my chagrin, SunOS 4.x (and probably other systems)
10665 * doesn't have vsscanf and God knows what else! I've will do a vsscanf().
10666 * I've also found out that the src/script.* rely on gawk and will not
10667 work with stock awk or even with nawk. Any changes are welcome.
10668 * Linux is more tolerant of NULL dereferences than most systems. This
10669 fact was exposed by hanoi.
10670 * ncurses still seems inefficient in drawing the screen on a serial
10671 link between Linux and suns. The padding may be the culprit.
10672 * There seems to be one lingering problem with doupdate() after shelling
10673 out. Despite the fact the it is sending out the correct information
10674 to the terminal, nothing takes effect until you press ^L or another
10675 refresh takes place. And yes, output does get flushed.
10677 #### ncurses 1.8.1 -> ncurses 1.8.2 #### Nov 28, 1993 ####
10679 * added support for SVR4 and BSDI's BSD/386.
10680 * major update and fix to scrolling routine.
10681 * MORE fixes to stuff in lib_getch.c.
10682 * cleaned-up configuration options and can now generate
10683 Config.* files through an awk script.
10684 * changed setupterm() so it can be called more than once,
10685 add added set_curterm(), del_curterm().
10686 * a few minor cleanups.
10687 * added more prototypes in curses.h
10689 #### ncurses 1.8 -> ncurses 1.8.1 #### Nov 4, 1993 ####
10691 * added support for NeXTStep 3.0
10692 * added termcap emulation (not well tested).
10693 * more complete C++ interface to ncurses.
10694 * fixed overlay(), overwrite(), and added copywin().
10695 * a couple of bug fixes.
10696 * a few code cleanups.
10698 #### ncurses 0.7.2/0.7.3 -> ncurses 1.8 #### Aug 31, 1993 ####
10700 * The annoying message "can't open file." was due to missing
10701 terminfo entry for the used terminal. It has now been
10702 replaced by a hopefully more helpful message.
10703 * Problems with running on serial lines are now fixed.
10704 * Added configuration files for SunOS, Linux, HP/UX, Ultrix,
10705 386bsd/BSDI (if you have others send'em to me)
10706 * Cleaner Makefile.
10707 * The documentation in manual.doc is now more uptodate.
10708 * update optimization and support for hp terminals, and 386bsd
10710 * mvcur optimization for terminals without cursor addressing
10711 (doesn't work on Linux)
10712 * if cursor moved since last update, getch() will refresh the
10713 screen before working.
10714 * getch() & alarm() can now live together. in 0.7.3 a signal
10715 interrupted getch() (bug or feature?) now the getch is
10717 * scanw() et all were sick, now fixed.
10718 * support for 8-bit input (use meta()).
10719 * added default screen size to all terminfos.
10720 * added c++ Ncursesw class.
10721 * several minor bug fixes.
10723 #### ncurses 0.7.2 -> ncurses 0.7.3 #### May 27, 1993 ####
10725 * Config file to cope with different platforms (386BSD, BSDI, Ultrix, SunOS)
10726 * more fixes to lib_getch.c
10727 * changes related to Config
10729 #### ncurses 0.7 -> ncurses 0.7.2 #### May 22, 1993 ####
10731 * docs updated slightly (color usage is now documented).
10732 * yet another fix for getch(), this one fixes problems with ESC being swallowed
10733 if another character is typed before the 1 second timeout.
10734 * Hopefully, addstr() and addch() are 8-bit clean.
10735 * fixed lib_tparm.c to use stdarg.h (should run on suns now)
10736 * order of capabilities changed to reflect that specified in SYSV
10737 this will allow for binary-compatibility with existing terminfo dbs.
10738 * added halfdelay()
10739 * fixed problems with asc_init()
10740 * added A_PROTECT and A_INVIS
10741 * cleaned up vidputs()
10742 * general cleanup of the code
10743 * more attention to portability to other systems
10744 * added terminfos for hp70092 (wont work until changes to lib_update.c are
10745 made) and 386BSD pcvt drivers.
10747 Thanks to Hellmuth Michaelis for his help.
10748 optimization code is slated for the next major release, stay tuned!
10750 #### ncurses 0.6/0.61 -> ncurses 0.7 #### April 1, 1993
10751 Please note that the next release will be called 1.8. If you want to know about
10752 the rationale drop me a line.
10754 Included are several test programs in test/.
10755 I've split up the panels library, reversi, tetris, sokoban. They are now
10756 available separately from netcom.com:pub/zmbenhal/
10758 * color and ACS support is now fully compatible with SYSV at the terminfo
10760 * Capabilities now includes as many SYSV caps I could find.
10761 * tigetflag,tigetnum,tigetstr functions added.
10762 * boolnames, boolfnames, boolcodes numnames, numfnames, numcodes,
10763 strnames, strfnames, strcodes arrays are now added.
10764 * keyname() is added.
10765 * All function keys can be defined in terminfo entries.
10766 * fixed lin_tparm.c to behave properly.
10767 * terminfo entries for vt* and xterm are included (improvements are welcome)
10768 * more automation in handling caps and keys.
10769 * included fixes from 0.6.1
10770 * added a few more missing functions.
10771 * fixed a couple of minor bugs.
10772 * updated docs JUST a little (still miles behind in documenting the newer
10775 #### ncurses 0.6 -> ncurses 0.61 ####
10777 1) Included the missing data/console.
10779 2) allow attributes when drawing boxes.
10781 3) corrected usage of win->_delay value.
10783 4) fixed a bug in lib_getch.c. if it didn't recognize a sequence it would
10784 simply return the last character in the sequence. The correct
10785 behavior is to return the entire sequence one character at a time.
10787 #### ncurses0.5 -> ncurses0.6 #### March 1, 1993 ####
10788 * removed _numchngd from struct _win_st and made appropriate changes.
10789 * rewritten kgetch() to remove problems with interaction between alarm and
10790 read(). It caused SIGSEGV every now and then.
10791 * fixed a bug that miscounted the numbers of columns when updating.
10792 (in lib_doupdate.c(ClrUpdate() -- iterate to columns not columns-1)
10793 * fixed a bug that cause the lower-right corner to be incorrect.
10794 (in lib_doupdate.c(putChar() -- check against columns not columns-1)
10795 * made resize() and cleanup() static to lib_newterm.c
10796 * added notimeout().
10797 * added timeout() define in curses.h
10798 * added more function prototypes and fixed napms.
10800 * moved screen size detection to lib_setup.c.
10801 * fixed newterm() to confirm to prototype.
10802 * removed SIGWINCH support as SYSV does not define its semantics.
10803 * cleaned-up lib_touch.c
10804 * added waddnstr() and relatives.
10805 * added slk_* support.
10806 * fixed a bug in wdeleteln().
10807 * added PANEL library.
10808 * modified Makefile for smoother installation.
10809 * terminfo.h is really term.h
10811 #### ncurses 0.4 -> ncurses 0.5 #### Feb 14, 1993 ####
10812 * changed _win_st structure to allow support for missing functionality.
10813 * Addition of terminfo support for all KEY_*.
10814 * Support for nodelay(), timeout(), notimeout().
10815 * fixed a bug with the keypad char reading that did not return ESC until
10816 another key is pressed.
10817 * nl mapping no longer occur on output (as should be)
10818 fixed bug '\n' no causing a LF.
10819 * fixed bug that reset terminal colors regardless of whether we use color
10821 * Better support for ACS (not quite complete).
10822 * fixed bug in wvline().
10823 * added curs_set().
10824 * changed from signal() to sigaction().
10825 * re-included the contents of important.patch into source.
10827 #### ncurses 0.3 -> ncurses 0.4 #### Feb 3, 1993 ####
10828 * Addition of more KEY_* definitions.
10829 * Addition of function prototypes.
10830 * Addition of several missing functions.
10831 * No more crashes if screen size is undefined (use SIGWINCH handler).
10832 * added a handler to cleanup after SIGSEGV (hopefully never needed).
10833 * changed SRCDIR from /etc/term to /usr/lib/terminfo.
10834 * renamed compile/dump to tic/untic.
10835 * New scrolling code.
10836 * fixed bug that reversed the sense of nl() and nonl().
10838 #### ncurses 0.2 -> ncurses 0.3 #### Jan 20, 1993 ####
10839 * more support for color and graphics see test/ for examples.
10840 * fixed various files to allow correct update after shelling out.
10841 * more fixes for updates.
10842 * no more core dumps if you don't have a terminfo entry.
10843 * support for LINES and COLUMNS environment variables.
10844 * support for SIGWINCH signal.
10845 * added a handler for SIGINT for clean exits.
10847 #### ncurses 0.1 -> ncurses 0.2 #### Aug 14, 1992 ####
10848 * support for color.
10849 * support for PC graphic characters.
10850 * lib_trace.c updated to use stdarg.h and vprintf routines.
10851 * added gdc.c (Great Digital Clock) as an example of using color.
10853 #### ncurses -> ncurses 0.1 #### Jul 31, 1992 ####
10854 * replacing sgtty stuff by termios stuff.
10855 * ANSIfication of some functions.
10856 * Disabling cost analysis 'cause it's incorrect.
10857 * A quick hack for a terminfo entry.
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