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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 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
50 + add vwmterm terminfo entry (patch by Bryan Christ).
53 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
56 + build fix for _nc_free_and_exit() change in 20090418 (report by
60 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
63 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
64 This change finishes merging for menu and panel libraries, does
65 part of the form library.
68 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
69 Darwin (report by Nelson Beebe).
72 + extend ansi.sys pfkey capability from kf1-kf10 to kf1-kf48, moving
73 function key definitions from emx-base for consistency -TD
74 + correct missing final 'p' in pfkey capability of ansi.sys-old (report
75 by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo).
76 + improve test/ncurses.c 'F' test, show combining characters in color.
77 + quiet a false report by cppcheck in c++/cursesw.cc by eliminating
79 + use _nc_doalloc() rather than realloc() in a few places in ncurses
80 library to avoid leak in out-of-memory condition (reports by William
81 Egert and Martin Ettl based on cppcheck tool).
82 + add --with-ncurses-wrap-prefix option to test/configure (discussion
84 + use ncurses*-config scripts if available for test/configure.
85 + update test/aclocal.m4 and test/configure
86 > patches by Charles Wilson:
87 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL configure check to allow unreleased libtool
88 version numbers (e.g. which include alphabetic chars, as well as
89 digits, after the final '.').
90 + improve use of -no-undefined option for libtool by setting an
91 intermediate variable LT_UNDEF in the configure script, and then
92 using that in the libtool link-commands.
93 + fix an missing use of NCURSES_PUBLIC_VAR() in tinfo/MKcodes.awk
95 + improve mk-1st.awk script by writing separate cases for the
96 LIBTOOL_LINK command, depending on which library (ncurses, ticlib,
97 termlib) is to be linked.
98 + modify configure.in to allow broken-linker configurations, not just
99 enable-reentrant, to set public wrap prefix.
102 + add TICS_LIST and SHLIB_LIST to allow libtool 2.2.6 on Cygwin to
103 build with tic and term libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
104 + add -no-undefined option to libtool for Cygwin, MinGW, U/Win and AIX
105 (report by Charles Wilson).
106 + fix definition for c++/Makefile.in's SHLIB_LIST, which did not list
107 the form, menu or panel libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
108 + add configure option --with-wrap-prefix to allow setting the prefix
109 for functions used to wrap global variables to something other than
110 "_nc_" (discussion with Charles Wilson).
113 + modify scripts to generate ncurses*-config and pc-files to add
114 dependency for tinfo library (patch by Charles Wilson).
115 + improve comparison of program-names when checking for linked flavors
116 such as "reset" by ignoring the executable suffix (reports by Charles
117 Wilson, Samuel Thibault and Cedric Bretaudeau on Cygwin mailing
119 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
120 Solaris 10, since gcc is confused by absence of static libc, and
121 does not switch back to dynamic mode before finishing the libraries
122 (reports by Joel Bertrand, Alan Pae).
123 + minor fixes to Intel compiler warning checks in configure script.
124 + modify _nc_leaks_tinfo() so leak-checking in test/railroad.c works.
125 + modify set_curterm() to make broken-linker configuration work with
126 changes from 20090228 (report by Charles Wilson).
129 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
130 + modify declaration of cur_term when broken-linker is used, but
131 enable-reentrant is not, to match pre-5.7 (report by Charles Wilson).
134 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
137 + add configure script --enable-sp-funcs to enable the new set of
139 + start integrating patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
140 + add extended functions which specify the SCREEN pointer for several
141 curses functions which use the global SP (these are incomplete;
142 some internals work is needed to complete these).
143 + add special cases to configure script for MinGW port.
146 + update several configure macros from lynx changes
147 + append (not prepend) to CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS
148 + change variable from PATHSEP to PATH_SEPARATOR
149 + improve install-rules for pc-files (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
150 + make it work with $DESTDIR
151 + create the pkg-config library directory if needed.
154 + modify init_pair() to allow caller to create extra color pairs beyond
155 the color_pairs limit, which use default colors (request by Emanuele
157 + add misc/terminfo.tmp and misc/*.pc to "sources" rule.
158 + fix typo "==" where "=" is needed in ncurses-config.in and
159 gen-pkgconfig.in files (Debian #512161).
162 + add -shared option to MK_SHARED_LIB when -Bsharable is used, for
163 *BSD's, without which "main" might be one of the shared library's
164 dependencies (report/analysis by Ken Dickey).
165 + modify waddch_literal(), updating line-pointer after a multicolumn
166 character is found to not fit on the current row, and wrapping is
167 done. Since the line-pointer was not updated, the wrapped
168 multicolumn character was written to the beginning of the current row
169 (cf: 20041023, reported by "Nick" regarding problem with ncmpc
170 http://musicpd.org/mantis/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1930).
173 + add screen.Eterm terminfo entry (GenToo #124887) -TD
174 + modify adacurses-config to look for ".ali" files in the adalib
176 + correct install for Ada95, which omitted libAdaCurses.a used in
178 + change install for adacurses-config to provide additional flavors
179 such as adacursesw-config, for ncursesw (GenToo #167849).
182 + remove undeveloped feature in ncurses-config.in for setting
184 + recent change to ncurses-config.in did not take into account the
185 --disable-overwrite option, which sets $includedir to the
186 subdirectory and using just that for a -I option does not work - fix
187 (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
190 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to eliminate a dependency on rpath when
191 deciding whether to add $LIBS to --libs output; that should be shown
192 for the ncurses and tinfo libraries without taking rpath into
194 + fix an overlooked change from $AR_OPTS to $ARFLAGS in mk-1st.awk,
195 used in static libraries (report by Marty Jack).
198 + add a configure-time check to pick a suitable value for
199 CC_SHARED_OPTS for Solaris (report by Dagobert Michelsen).
200 + add configure --with-pkg-config and --enable-pc-files options, along
201 with misc/gen-pkgconfig.in which can be used to generate ".pc" files
202 for pkg-config (request by Jan Engelhardt).
203 + use $includedir symbol in misc/ncurses-config.in, add --includedir
205 + change makefiles to use $ARFLAGS rather than $AR_OPTS, provide a
206 configure check to detect whether a "-" is needed before "ar"
208 + update config.guess, config.sub from
209 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
212 + modify mk-1st.awk to work with extra categories for tinfo library.
213 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries with gcc
214 on AIX 5 or 6 (adapted from patch by Lital Natan).
217 + modify to omit the opaque-functions from lib_gen.o when
218 --disable-ext-funcs is used.
219 + add test/clip_printw.c to illustrate how to use printw without
221 + modify ncurses 'F' test to demo wborder_set() with colored lines.
222 + modify ncurses 'f' test to demo wborder() with colored lines.
225 + add check for failure to open hashed-database needed for db4.6
227 + corrected --without-manpages option; previous change only suppressed
228 the auxiliary rules install.man and uninstall.man
229 + add case for FreeMINT to configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE (patch from
231 + fixes from NetBSD port at
232 http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/devel/ncurses/patches
233 patch-ac (build-fix for DragonFly)
234 patch-ae (use INSTALL_SCRIPT for installing misc/ncurses*-config).
235 + improve configure script macros CF_HEADER_PATH and CF_LIBRARY_PATH
236 by adding CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS, LIBS values to the
238 + correct title string for keybound manpage (patch by Frederic Culot,
239 OpenBSD documentation/6019),
242 + move del_curterm() call from _nc_freeall() to _nc_leaks_tinfo() to
243 work for progs/clear, progs/tabs, etc.
244 + correct buffer-size after internal resizing of wide-character
245 set_field_buffer(), broken in 20081018 changes (report by Mike Gran).
246 + add "-i" option to test/filter.c to tell it to use initscr() rather
247 than newterm(), to investigate report on comp.unix.programmer that
248 ncurses would clear the screen in that case (it does not - the issue
249 was xterm's alternate screen feature).
250 + add check in mouse-driver to disable connection if GPM returns a
251 zero, indicating that the connection is closed (Debian #506717,
252 adapted from patch by Samuel Thibault).
255 + improve a workaround in adding wide-characters, when a control
256 character is found. The library (cf: 20040207) uses unctrl() to
257 obtain a printable version of the control character, but was not
258 passing color or video attributes.
259 + improve test/ncurses.c 'a' test, using unctrl() more consistently to
260 display meta-characters.
261 + turn on _XOPEN_CURSES definition in curses.h
262 + add eterm-color entry (report by Vincent Lefevre) -TD
263 + correct use of key_name() in test/ncurses.c 'A' test, which only
264 displays wide-characters, not key-codes since 20070612 (report by
268 + change _nc_has_mouse() to has_mouse(), reflect its use in C++ and
269 Ada95 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
270 + document in TO-DO an issue with Cygwin's package for GNAT (report
272 + improve error-checking of command-line options in "tabs" program.
275 + change several terminfo entries to make consistent use of ANSI
277 + add "tabs" program (prompted by Debian #502260).
278 + add configure --without-manpages option (request by Mike Frysinger).
280 20081102 5.7 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
283 + add a manpage to discuss memory leaks.
284 + add support for shared libraries for QNX (other than libtool, which
285 does not work well on that platform).
286 + build-fix for QNX C++ binding.
289 + build-fixes for OS/2 EMX.
290 + modify form library to accept control characters such as newline
291 in set_field_buffer(), which is compatible with Solaris (report by
293 + modify configure script to assume --without-hashed-db when
294 --disable-database is used.
295 + add "-e" option in ncurses/Makefile.in when generating source-files
296 to force earlier exit if the build environment fails unexpectedly
297 (prompted by patch by Adrian Bunk).
298 + change configure script to use CF_UTF8_LIB, improved variant of
302 + add teraterm4.59 terminfo entry, use that as primary teraterm entry, rename
303 original to teraterm2.3 -TD
304 + update "gnome" terminfo to 2.22.3 -TD
305 + update "konsole" terminfo to 1.6.6, needs today's fix for tic -TD
306 + add "aterm" terminfo -TD
307 + add "linux2.6.26" terminfo -TD
308 + add logic to tic for cancelling strings in user-defined capabilities,
312 + update html documentation.
313 + add -m and -s options to test/keynames.c and test/key_names.c to test
314 the meta() function with keyname() or key_name(), respectively.
315 + correct return value of key_name() on error; it is null.
316 + document some unresolved issues for rpath and pthreads in TO-DO.
317 + fix a missing prototype for ioctl() on OpenBSD in tset.c
318 + add configure option --disable-tic-depends to make explicit whether
319 tic library depends on ncurses/ncursesw library, amends change from
320 20080823 (prompted by Debian #501421).
323 + some build-fixes for configure --disable-ext-funcs (incomplete, but
324 works for C/C++ parts).
325 + improve configure-check for awks unable to handle large strings, e.g.
326 AIX 5.1 whose awk silently gives up on large printf's.
329 + fix build for --with-dmalloc by workaround for redefinition of
330 strndup between string.h and dmalloc.h
331 + fix build for --disable-sigwinch
332 + add environment variable NCURSES_GPM_TERMS to allow override to use
333 GPM on terminals other than "linux", etc.
334 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM does not happen to contain
335 "linux", since Gpm_Open() no longer limits its assertion to terminals
336 that it might handle, e.g., within "screen" in xterm.
337 + reset mouse file-descriptor when unloading GPM library (report by
339 + fix build for --disable-leaks --enable-widec --with-termlib
340 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
341 + use improved initialization for soft-label keys in Ada95 sample code.
342 + discard internal symbol _nc_slk_format (unused since 20080112).
343 + move call of slk_paint_info() from _nc_slk_initialize() to
344 slk_intern_refresh(), improving initialization.
347 + fix bug in mouse code for GPM from 20080920 changes (reported in
348 Debian #500103, also Miroslav Lichvar).
351 + fix shared-library rules for cygwin with tic- and tinfo-libraries.
352 + fix a memory leak when failure to connect to GPM.
353 + correct check for notimeout() in wgetch() (report on linux.redhat
354 newsgroup by FurtiveBertie).
355 + add an example warning-suppression file for valgrind,
356 misc/ncurses.supp (based on example from Reuben Thomas)
359 + change shared-library configuration for OpenBSD, make rpath work.
360 + build-fixes for using libutf8, e.g., on OpenBSD 3.7
363 + corrected fix for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
367 + corrected gcc options for building shared libraries on IRIX64.
368 + add configure check for awk programs unable to handle big-strings,
369 use that to improve the default for --enable-big-strings option.
370 + makefile-fixes for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
372 + update test/configure script.
373 + adapt ifdef's from library to make test/view.c build when mbrtowc()
374 is unavailable, e.g., with HPUX 10.20.
375 + add configure check for wcsrtombs, mbsrtowcs, which are used in
376 test/ncurses.c, and use wcstombs, mbstowcs instead if available,
377 fixing build of ncursew for HPUX 11.00
380 + fixes to make Ada95 demo_panels() example work.
381 + modify Ada95 'rain' test program to accept keyboard commands like the
383 + modify BeOS-specific ifdef's to build on Haiku (patch by Scott
385 + add configure-check to see if the std namespace is legal for cerr
386 and endl, to fix a build issue with Tru64.
387 + consistently use NCURSES_BOOL in lib_gen.c
388 + filter #line's from lib_gen.c
389 + change delimiter in MKlib_gen.sh from '%' to '@', to avoid
390 substitution by IBM xlc to '#' as part of its extensions to digraphs.
391 + update config.guess, config.sub from
392 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
393 (caveat - its maintainer removed support for older Linux systems).
396 + modify configure check for pthread library to work with OSF/1 5.1,
397 which uses #define's to associate its header and library.
398 + use pthread_mutexattr_init() for initializing pthread_mutexattr_t,
399 makes threaded code work on HPUX 11.23
400 + fix a bug in demo_menus in freeing menus (cf: 20080804).
401 + modify configure script for the case where tic library is used (and
402 possibly renamed) to remove its dependency upon ncurses/ncursew
403 library (patch by Dr Werner Fink).
404 + correct manpage for menu_fore() which gave wrong default for
405 the attribute used to display a selected entry (report by Mike Gran).
406 + add Eterm-256color, Eterm-88color and rxvt-88color (prompted by
410 + add configure option --enable-weak-symbols to turn on new feature.
411 + add configure-check for availability of weak symbols.
412 + modify linkage with pthread library to use weak symbols so that
413 applications not linked to that library will not use the mutexes,
414 etc. This relies on gcc, and may be platform-specific (patch by Dr
416 + add note to INSTALL to document limitation of renaming of tic library
417 using the --with-ticlib configure option (report by Dr Werner Fink).
418 + document (in manpage) why tputs does not detect I/O errors (prompted
419 by comments by Samuel Thibault).
420 + fix remaining warnings from Klocwork report.
423 + modify _nc_panelhook() data to account for a permanent memory leak.
424 + fix memory leaks in test/demo_menus
425 + fix most warnings from Klocwork tool (report by Larry Zhou).
426 + modify configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to add case for
427 "dragonfly" from xterm #236 changes.
428 + modify configure script --with-hashed-db to let $LIBS override the
429 search for the db library (prompted by report by Samson Pierre).
432 + build-fixes for gcc 4.3.1 (changes to gnat "warnings", and C inlining
436 + build-fix (reports by Christian Ebert, Funda Wang).
439 + compiler-warning fixes for Solaris.
442 + use NCURSES_MOUSE_MASK() in definition of BUTTON_RELEASE(), etc., to
443 make those work properly with the "--enable-ext-mouse" configuration
445 + improve documentation of build-cc options in INSTALL.
446 + work-around a bug in gcc 4.2.4 on AIX, which does not pass the
447 -static/-dynamic flags properly to linker, causing test/bs to
451 + correct some ifdef's needed for the broken-linker configuration.
452 + make debugging library's $BAUDRATE feature work for termcap
454 + make $NCURSES_NO_PADDING feature work for termcap interface (prompted
455 by comment on FreeBSD mailing list).
456 + add screen.mlterm terminfo entry -TD
457 + improve mlterm and mlterm+pcfkeys terminfo entries -TD
460 + regenerated html documentation.
461 + expand manpage description of parameters for form_driver() and
462 menu_driver() (prompted by discussion with Adam Spragg).
463 + add null-pointer checks for cur_term in baudrate() and
464 def_shell_mode(), def_prog_mode()
465 + fix some memory leaks in delscreen() and wide acs.
468 + modify test/ditto.c to illustrate multi-threaded use_screen().
469 + change CC_SHARED_OPTS from -KPIC to -xcode=pic32 for Solaris.
470 + add "-shared" option to MK_SHARED_LIB for gcc on Solaris (report
474 + finish changes to wgetch(), making it switch as needed to the
475 window's actual screen when calling wrefresh() and wgetnstr(). That
476 allows wgetch() to get used concurrently in different threads with
477 some minor restrictions, e.g., the application should not delete a
478 window which is being used in a wgetch().
479 + simplify mutex's, combining the window- and screen-mutex's.
482 + modify wgetch() to use the screen which corresponds to its window
483 parameter rather than relying on SP; some dependent functions still
485 + factor out most use of SP in lib_mouse.c, using parameter.
486 + add internal _nc_keyname(), replacing keyname() to associate with a
487 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
488 + add internal _nc_unctrl(), replacing unctrl() to associate with a
489 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
490 + add internal _nc_tracemouse(), replacing _tracemouse() to eliminate
491 its associated global buffer _nc_globals.tracemse_buf now in SCREEN.
492 + add internal _nc_tracechar(), replacing _tracechar() to use SCREEN in
493 preference to the global _nc_globals.tracechr_buf buffer.
496 + modify _nc_keypad() to make it switch temporarily as needed to the
497 screen which must be updated.
498 + wrap cur_term variable to help make _nc_keymap() thread-safe, and
499 always set the screen's copy of this variable in set_curterm().
500 + restore curs_set() state after endwin()/refresh() (report/patch
504 + modify configure script to note that --enable-ext-colors and
505 --enable-ext-mouse are not experimental, but extensions from
507 + corrected manpage description of setcchar() (discussion with
509 + fix for adding a non-spacing character at the beginning of a line
510 (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
513 + modify screen.* terminfo entries using new screen+fkeys to fix
514 overridden keys in screen.rxvt (Debian #478094) -TD
515 + modify internal interfaces to reduce wgetch()'s dependency on the
517 + simplify some loops with macros each_screen(), each_window() and
521 + continue modifying test/ditto.c toward making it demonstrate
522 multithreaded use_screen(), using fifos to pass data between screens.
523 + fix typo in form.3x (report by Mike Gran).
526 + add screen.rxvt terminfo entry -TD
527 + modify tic -f option to format spaces as \s to prevent them from
528 being lost when that is read back in unformatted strings.
529 + improve test/ditto.c, using a "talk"-style layout.
532 + change test/ditto.c to use openpty() and xterm.
533 + add locks for copywin(), dupwin(), overlap(), overlay() on their
535 + add locks for initscr() and newterm() on updates to the SCREEN
537 + finish table in curs_thread.3x manpage.
540 + begin table in curs_thread.3x manpage describing the scope of data
541 used by each function (or symbol) for threading analysis.
542 + add null-pointer checks to setsyx() and getsyx() (prompted by
543 discussion by Martin v. Lowis and Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven on
544 python-dev2 mailing list).
547 + add null-pointer checks in set_term() and delscreen().
548 + move _nc_windows into _nc_globals, since windows can be pads, which
549 are not associated with a particular screen.
550 + change use_screen() to pass the SCREEN* parameter rather than
551 stdscr to the callback function.
552 + force libtool to use tag for 'CC' in case it does not detect this,
553 e.g., on aix when using CC=powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0-gcc
554 (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
555 + override OBJEXT to "lo" when building with libtool, to work on
556 platforms such as AIX where libtool may use a different suffix for
557 the object files than ".o" (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
558 + add configure --with-pthread option, for building with the POSIX
562 + fill in extended-color pair two more places in wbkgrndset() and
563 waddch_nosync() (prompted by Sedeno's patch).
564 + fill in extended-color pair in _nc_build_wch() to make colors work
565 for wide-characters using extended-colors (patch by Alejandro R
567 + add x/X toggles to ncurses.c C color test to test/demo
568 wide-characters with extended-colors.
569 + add a/A toggles to ncurses.c c/C color tests.
570 + modify test/ditto.c to use use_screen().
571 + finish modifying test/rain.c to demonstrate threads.
574 + start modifying test/rain.c for threading demo.
575 + modify test/ncurses.c to make 'f' test accept the f/F/b/F/</> toggles
576 that the 'F' accepts.
577 + modify test/worm.c to show trail in reverse-video when other threads
578 are working concurrently.
579 + fix a deadlock from improper nesting of mutexes for windowlist and
583 + fixes from 20080223 resolved issue with mutexes; change to use
584 recursive mutexes to fix memory leak in delwin() as called from
588 + fix a size-difference in _nc_globals which caused hanging of mutex
589 lock/unlock when termlib was built separately.
592 + avoid using nanosleep() in threaded configuration since that often
593 is implemented to suspend the entire process.
596 + update test programs to build/work with various UNIX curses for
597 comparisons. This was to reinvestigate statement in X/Open curses
598 that insnstr and winsnstr perform wrapping. None of the Unix-branded
599 implementations do this, as noted in manpage (cf: 20040228).
602 + modify _nc_setupscreen() to set the legacy-coding value the same
603 for both narrow/wide models. It had been set only for wide model,
604 but is needed to make unctrl() work with locale in the narrow model.
605 + improve waddch() and winsch() handling of EILSEQ from mbrtowc() by
606 using unctrl() to display illegal bytes rather than trying to append
607 further bytes to make up a valid sequence (reported by Andrey A
609 + modify unctrl() to check codes in 128-255 range versus isprint().
610 If they are not printable, and locale was set, use a "M-" or "~"
614 + improve threading in test/worm.c (wrap refresh calls, and KEY_RESIZE
615 handling). Now it hangs in napms(), no matter whether nanosleep()
616 or poll() or select() are used on Linux.
619 + fixes to build with --disable-ext-funcs
620 + add manpage for use_window and use_screen.
621 + add set_tabsize() and set_escdelay() functions.
624 + remove recursive-mutex definitions, finish threading demo for worm.c
625 + remove a redundant adjustment of lines in resizeterm.c's
626 adjust_window() which caused occasional misadjustment of stdscr when
630 + several improvements to terminfo entries based on xterm #230 -TD
631 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle keyname/key_name prototypes, so the
632 "link_test" builds properly.
633 + fix for toe command-line options -u/-U to ensure filename is given.
634 + fix allocation-size for command-line parsing in infocmp from 20070728
635 (report by Miroslav Lichvar)
636 + improve resizeterm() by moving ripped-off lines, and repainting the
637 soft-keys (report by Katarina Machalkova)
638 + add clarification in wclear's manpage noting that the screen will be
639 cleared even if a subwindow is cleared (prompted by Christer Enfors
641 + change test/ncurses.c soft-key tests to work with KEY_RESIZE.
644 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
648 + add several functions to C++ binding which wrap C functions that
649 pass a WINDOW* parameter (request by Chris Lee).
652 + add note about configure options needed for Berkeley database to the
654 + improve checks for version of Berkeley database libraries.
655 + amend fix for rpath to not modify LDFLAGS if the platform has no
656 applicable transformation (report by Christian Ebert, cf: 20071124).
659 + modify configure option --with-hashed-db to accept a parameter which
660 is the install-prefix of a given Berkeley Database (prompted by
662 + rewrite wrapper for wcrtomb(), making it work on Solaris. This is
663 used in the form library to determine the length of the buffer needed
664 by field_buffer (report by Alfred Fung).
665 + remove unneeded window-parameter from C++ binding for wresize (report
669 + modify the support for filesystems which do not support mixed-case to
670 generate 2-character (hexadecimal) codes for the lower-level of the
671 filesystem terminfo database (request by Michail Vidiassov).
672 + add configure option --enable-mixed-case, to allow overriding the
673 configure script's check if the filesystem supports mixed-case
675 + add wresize() to C++ binding (request by Chris Lee).
676 + define NCURSES_EXT_FUNCS and NCURSES_EXT_COLORS in curses.h to make
677 it simpler to tell if the extended functions and/or colors are
681 + update memory-leak checks for changes to names.c and codes.c
682 + correct acsc strings in h19, z100 (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler).
685 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
687 + add mrxvt terminfo entry, add/fix xterm building blocks for modified
689 + compile with FreeBSD "contemporary" TTY interface (patch by
693 + modify makefile rules to allow clear, tput and tset to be built
694 without libtic. The other programs (infocmp, tic and toe) rely on
696 + add/modify null-pointer checks in several functions for SP and/or
697 the WINDOW* parameter (report by Thorben Krueger).
698 + fixes for field_buffer() in formw library (see Redhat Bugzilla
699 #310071, patches by Miroslav Lichvar).
700 + improve performance of NCURSES_CHAR_EQ code (patch by Miroslav
702 + update/improve mlterm and rxvt terminfo entries, e.g., for
703 the modified cursor- and keypad-keys -TD
706 + add code to curses.priv.h ifdef'd with NCURSES_CHAR_EQ, which
707 changes the CharEq() macro to an inline function to allow comparing
708 cchar_t struct's without comparing gaps in a possibly unpacked
709 memory layout (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
712 + add new functions to lib_trace.c to setup mutex's for the _tracef()
713 calls within the ncurses library.
714 + for the reentrant model, move _nc_tputs_trace and _nc_outchars into
716 + start modifying test/worm.c to provide threading demo (incomplete).
717 + separated ifdef's for some BSD-related symbols in tset.c, to make
718 it compile on LynxOS (report by Greg Gemmer).
720 + modify Ada95/gen/Makefile to use shlib script, to simplify building
721 shared-library configuration on platforms lacking rpath support.
722 + build-fix for Ada95/src/Makefile to reflect changed dependency for
723 the terminal-interface-curses-aux.adb file which is now generated.
724 + restructuring test/worm.c, for use_window() example.
727 + add use_window() and use_screen() functions, to develop into support
728 for threaded library (incomplete).
729 + fix typos in man/curs_opaque.3x which kept the install script from
730 creating symbolic links to two aliases created in 20070818 (report by
734 + remove a spurious newline from output of html.m4, which caused links
735 for Ada95 html to be incorrect for the files generated using m4.
736 + start investigating mutex's for SCREEN manipulation (incomplete).
737 + minor cleanup of codes.c/names.c for --enable-const
738 + expand/revise "Routine and Argument Names" section of ncurses manpage
739 to address report by David Givens in newsgroup discussion.
740 + fix interaction between --without-progs/--with-termcap configure
741 options (report by Michail Vidiassov).
742 + fix typo in "--disable-relink" option (report by Michail Vidiassov).
745 + fix a sign-extension bug in infocmp's repair_acsc() function
747 + fix old configure script bug which prevented "--disable-warnings"
748 option from working (patch by Mike Frysinger).
751 + add 9term terminal description (request by Juhapekka Tolvanen) -TD
752 + modify comp_hash.c's string output to avoid misinterpreting a null
753 "\0" followed by a digit.
754 + modify MKnames.awk and MKcodes.awk to support big-strings.
755 This only applies to the cases (broken linker, reentrant) where
756 the corresponding arrays are accessed via wrapper functions.
757 + split MKnames.awk into two scripts, eliminating the shell redirection
758 which complicated the make process and also the bogus timestamp file
759 which was introduced to fix "make -j".
760 + add test/test_opaque.c, test/test_arrays.c
761 + add wgetscrreg() and wgetparent() for applications that may need it
762 when NCURSES_OPAQUE is defined (prompted by Bryan Christ).
765 + amend treatment of infocmp "-r" option to retain the 1023-byte limit
766 unless "-T" is given (cf: 981017).
767 + modify comp_captab.c generation to use big-strings.
768 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private accessed via
769 _nc_get_alias_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
771 + modify configure script to skip Intel compiler in CF_C_INLINE.
772 + make _nc_info_hash_table and _nc_cap_hash_table private accessed via
773 _nc_get_hash_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
777 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private, accessed via
778 _nc_get_alias_table() since they are used only by parse_entry.c
779 + make _nc_key_names private since it is used only by lib_keyname.c
780 + add --disable-big-strings configure option to control whether
781 unctrl.c is generated using the big-string optimization - which may
782 use strings longer than supported by a given compiler.
783 + reduce relocation tables for tic, infocmp by changing type of
784 internal hash tables to short, and make those private symbols.
785 + eliminate large fixed arrays from progs/infocmp.c
788 + change winnstr() to stop at the end of the line (cf: 970315).
789 + add test/test_get_wstr.c
790 + add test/test_getstr.c
791 + add test/test_inwstr.c
792 + add test/test_instr.c
795 + restore a call to obtain screen-size in _nc_setupterm(), which
796 is used in tput and other non-screen applications via setupterm()
797 (Debian #433357, reported by Florent Bayle, Christian Ohm,
801 + add test/savescreen.c test-program
802 + add check to trace-file open, if the given name is a directory, add
803 ".log" to the name and try again.
804 + add konsole-256color entry -TD
805 + add extra gcc warning options from xterm.
806 + minor fixes for ncurses/hashmap test-program.
807 + modify configure script to quiet c++ build with libtool when the
808 --disable-echo option is used.
809 + modify configure script to disable ada95 if libtool is selected,
810 writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD ports/114493).
811 + update config.guess, config.sub
814 + add continuous-move "M" to demo_panels to help test refresh changes.
815 + improve fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters,
816 taking into account some split characters on left/right window
820 + add "widec" row to _tracedump() output to help diagnose remaining
821 problems with multi-column characters.
822 + partial fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters
823 which are partly overwritten (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
824 + ignore A_CHARTEXT bits in vidattr() and vid_attr(), in case
825 multi-column extension bits are passed there.
826 + add setlocale() call to demo_panels.c, needed for wide-characters.
827 + add some output flags to _nc_trace_ttymode to help diagnose a bug
828 report by Larry Virden, i.e., ONLCR, OCRNL, ONOCR and ONLRET,
831 + add test/demo_panels.c
832 + implement opaque version of setsyx() and getsyx().
835 + corrected xterm+pcf2 terminfo modifiers for F1-F4, to match xterm
837 + split-out key_name() from MKkeyname.awk since it now depends upon
838 wunctrl() which is not in libtinfo (report by Rong-En Fan).
841 + add test/key_name.c
842 + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test/inch_wide.c
843 + update test/configure
844 + correct formatting of DEL (0x7f) in _nc_vischar().
845 + null-terminate result of wunctrl().
846 + add null-pointer check in key_name() (report by Andreas Krennmair,
850 + adapt mouse-handling code from menu library in form-library
851 (discussion with Clive Nicolson).
852 + add a modification of test/dots.c, i.e., test/dots_mvcur.c to
853 illustrate how to use mvcur().
854 + modify wide-character flavor of SetAttr() to preserve the
855 WidecExt() value stored in the .attr field, e.g., in case it
856 is overwritten by chgat (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
857 + correct buffer-size for _nc_viswbuf2n() (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
858 + build-fixes for Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 (patch by Peter O'Gorman).
861 + modify keyname() to use "^X" form only if meta() has been called, or
862 if keyname() is called without initializing curses, e.g., via
863 initscr() or newterm() (prompted by LinuxBase #1604).
864 + document some portability issues in man/curs_util.3x
865 + add a shadow copy of TTY buffer to _nc_prescreen to fix applications
866 broken by moving that data into SCREEN (cf: 20061230).
869 + add 'O' (wide-character panel test) in ncurses.c to demonstrate a
870 problem reported by Sadrul H Chowdhury with repainting parts of
872 + modify slk_init() so that if there are preceding calls to
873 ripoffline(), those affect the available lines for soft-keys (adapted
874 from patch by Clive Nicolson).
875 + document some portability issues in man/curs_getyx.3x
878 + fix a bug in Ada95/samples/ncurses which caused a variable to
879 become uninitialized in the "b" test.
880 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in adahtml rule to account for recent
881 movement of files, fix a few incorrect manpage references in the
883 + add Ada95 binding to _nc_freeall() as Curses_Free_All to help with
885 + correct some functions in Ada95 binding which were using return value
886 from C where none was returned: idcok(), immedok() and wtimeout().
887 + amend recent changes for Ada95 binding to make it build with
888 Cygwin's linker, e.g., with configure options
889 --enable-broken-linker --with-ticlib
892 + add a configure check for gcc's options for inlining, use that to
893 quiet a warning message where gcc's default behavior changed from
895 + improve warning message when checking if GPM is linked to curses
896 library by not warning if its use of "wgetch" is via a weak symbol.
897 + add loader options when building with static libraries to ensure that
898 an installed shared library for ncurses does not conflict. This is
899 reported as problem with Tru64, but could affect other platforms
900 (report Martin Mokrejs, analysis by Tim Mooney).
901 + fix build on cygwin after recent ticlib/termlib changes, i.e.,
902 + adjust TINFO_SUFFIX value to work with cygwin's dll naming
903 + revert a change from 20070303 which commented out dependency of
904 SHLIB_LIST in form/menu/panel/c++ libraries.
905 + fix initialization of ripoff stack pointer (cf: 20070421).
908 + move most static variables into structures _nc_globals and
909 _nc_prescreen, to simplify storage.
910 + add/use configure script macro CF_SIG_ATOMIC_T, use the corresponding
911 type for data manipulated by signal handlers (prompted by comments
912 in mailing.openbsd.bugs newsgroup).
913 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to allow one to pass options such as -static
914 to the libtool create- and link-operations.
917 + fix whitespace in curs_opaque.3x which caused a spurious ';' in
918 the installed aliases (report by Peter Santoro).
919 + fix configure script to not try to generate adacurses-config when
920 Ada95 tree is not built.
923 + add man/curs_legacy.3x, man/curs_opaque.3x
924 + fix acs_map binding for Ada95 when --enable-reentrant is used.
925 + add adacurses-config to the Ada95 install, based on version from
926 FreeBSD port, in turn by Juergen Pfeifer in 2000 (prompted by
927 comment on comp.lang.ada newsgroup).
928 + fix includes in c++ binding to build with Intel compiler
930 + update install rule in Ada95 to use mkdirs.sh
931 > other fixes prompted by inspection for Coverity report:
932 + modify ifdef's for c++ binding to use try/catch/throw statements
933 + add a null-pointer check in tack/ansi.c request_cfss()
934 + fix a memory leak in ncurses/base/wresize.c
935 + corrected check for valid memu/meml capabilities in
936 progs/dump_entry.c when handling V_HPUX case.
937 > fixes based on Coverity report:
938 + remove dead code in test/bs.c
939 + remove dead code in test/demo_defkey.c
940 + remove an unused assignment in progs/infocmp.c
941 + fix a limit check in tack/ansi.c tools_charset()
942 + fix tack/ansi.c tools_status() to perform the VT320/VT420
943 tests in request_cfss(). The function had exited too soon.
944 + fix a memory leak in tic.c's make_namelist()
945 + fix a couple of places in tack/output.c which did not check for EOF.
946 + fix a loop-condition in test/bs.c
947 + add index checks in lib_color.c for color palettes
948 + add index checks in progs/dump_entry.c for version_filter() handling
950 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in copywin()
951 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in waddchnstr()
952 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
953 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c's make_namelist()
954 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
955 + add null-pointer checks in test/cardfile.c
956 + fix a double-free in ncurses/tinfo/trim_sgr0.c
957 + fix a double-free in ncurses/base/wresize.c
958 + add try/catch block to c++/cursesmain.cc
961 + modify Ada95 binding to build with --enable-reentrant by wrapping
962 global variables (bug: acs_map does not yet work).
963 + modify Ada95 binding to use the new access-functions, allowing it
964 to build/run when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
965 + add access-functions and macros to return properties of the WINDOW
966 structure, e.g., when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
967 + improved install-sh's quoting.
968 + use mkdirs.sh rather than mkinstalldirs, e.g., to use fixes from
972 + eliminate part of the direct use of WINDOW data from Ada95 interface.
973 + fix substitutions for termlib filename to make configure option
974 --enable-reentrant work with --with-termlib.
975 + change a constructor for NCursesWindow to allow compiling with
976 NCURSES_OPAQUE set, since we cannot pass a reference to
980 + ignore --with-chtype=unsigned since unsigned is always added to
981 the type in curses.h; do the same for --with-mmask-t.
982 + change warning regarding --enable-ext-colors and wide-character
983 in the configure script to an error.
984 + tweak error message in CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to distinguish other programs
985 such as Darwin's libtool program (report by Michail Vidiassov)
986 + modify edit_man.sh to allow for multiple substitutions per line.
987 + set locale in misc/ncurses-config.in since it uses a range
988 + change permissions libncurses++.a install (report by Michail
990 + corrected length of temporary buffer in wide-character version
991 of set_field_buffer() (related to report by Bryan Christ).
994 + fix mk-1st.awk script install_shlib() function, broken in 20070224
995 changes for cygwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
998 + increase size of array in _nc_visbuf2n() to make "tic -v" work
999 properly in its similar_sgr() function (report/analysis by Peter
1001 + add --enable-reentrant configure option for ongoing changes to
1002 implement a reentrant version of ncurses:
1003 + libraries are suffixed with "t"
1004 + wrap several global variables (curscr, newscr, stdscr, ttytype,
1005 COLORS, COLOR_PAIRS, COLS, ESCDELAY, LINES and TABSIZE) as
1006 functions returning values stored in SCREEN or cur_term.
1007 + move some initialization (LINES, COLS) from lib_setup.c,
1008 i.e., setupterm() to _nc_setupscreen(), i.e., newterm().
1011 + regenerated html documentation.
1012 + add NCURSES_OPAQUE symbol to curses.h, will use to make structs
1013 opaque in selected configurations.
1014 + move the chunk in lib_acs.c which resets acs capabilities when
1015 running on a terminal whose locale interferes with those into
1016 _nc_setupscreen(), so the libtinfo/libtinfow files can be made
1017 identical (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
1018 + do not use configure variable SHLIB_LIBS for building libraries
1019 outside the ncurses directory, since that symbol is customized
1020 only for that directory, and using it introduces an unneeded
1021 dependency on libdl (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
1022 + modify mk-1st.awk so the generated makefile rules for linking or
1023 installing shared libraries do not first remove the library, in
1024 case it is in use, e.g., libncurses.so by /bin/sh (report by Jeff
1026 + revised section "Using NCURSES under XTERM" in ncurses-intro.html
1027 (prompted by newsgroup comment by Nick Guenther).
1030 + change internal return codes of _nc_wgetch() to check for cases
1031 where KEY_CODE_YES should be returned, e.g., if a KEY_RESIZE was
1032 ungetch'd, and read by wget_wch().
1033 + fix static-library build broken in 20070217 changes to remove "-ldl"
1034 (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
1035 + change makefile/scripts for cygwin to allow building termlib.
1036 + use Form_Hook in manpages to match form.h
1037 + use Menu_Hook in manpages, as well as a few places in menu.h
1038 + correct form- and menu-manpages to use specific Field_Options,
1039 Menu_Options and Item_Options types.
1040 + correct prototype for _tracechar() in manpage (cf: 20011229).
1041 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
1044 + fixes for $(TICS_LIST) in ncurses/Makefile (report by Miroslav
1046 + modify relinking of shared libraries to apply only when rpath is
1047 enabled, and add --disable-relink option which can be used to
1048 disable the feature altogether (reports by Michail Vidiassov,
1050 + fix --with-termlib option for wide-character configuration, stripping
1051 the "w" suffix in one place (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
1052 + remove "-ldl" from some library lists to reduce dependencies in
1053 programs (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
1054 + correct description of --enable-signed-char in configure --help
1055 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
1056 + add pattern for GNU/kFreeBSD configuration to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE,
1057 which matches an earlier change to CF_SHARED_OPTS, from xterm #224
1059 + remove "${DESTDIR}" from -install_name option used for linking
1060 shared libraries on Darwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
1063 + add test/inchs.c, test/inch_wide.c, to test win_wchnstr().
1064 + remove libdl from library list for termlib (report by Miroslav
1066 + fix configure.in to allow --without-progs --with-termlib (patch by
1068 + modify win_wchnstr() to ensure that only a base cell is returned
1069 for each multi-column character (prompted by report by Wei Kong
1070 regarding change in mvwin_wch() cf: 20041023).
1073 + modify fix_wchnstr() in form library to strip attributes (and color)
1074 from the cchar_t array (field cells) read from a field's window.
1075 Otherwise, when copying the field cells back to the window, the
1076 associated color overrides the field's background color (report by
1078 + improve tracing for form library, showing created forms, fields, etc.
1079 + ignore --enable-rpath configure option if --with-shared was omitted.
1080 + add _nc_leaks_tinfo(), _nc_free_tic(), _nc_free_tinfo() entrypoints
1081 to allow leak-checking when both tic- and tinfo-libraries are built.
1082 + drop CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC macro from configure script, since C++ binding
1083 no longer relies on it.
1084 + disallow combining configure script options --with-ticlib and
1085 --enable-termcap (report by Rong-En Fan).
1086 + remove tack from ncurses tree.
1089 + fix typo in configure script that broke --with-termlib option
1090 (report by Rong-En Fan).
1093 + improve fix for FreeBSD gnu/98975, to allow for null pointer passed
1094 to tgetent() (report by Rong-en Fan).
1095 + update tack/HISTORY and tack/README to tell how to build it after
1096 it is removed from the ncurses tree.
1097 + fix configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
1098 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
1099 + review/eliminate other original-file artifacts in cursesw.cc, making
1100 its license consistent with ncurses.
1101 + use ncurses vw_scanw() rather than reading into a fixed buffer in
1102 the c++ binding for scanw() methods (prompted by report by Nuno Dias).
1103 + eliminate fixed-buffer vsprintf() calls in c++ binding.
1106 + add _nc_leaks_tic() to separate leak-checking of tic library from
1107 term/ncurses libraries, and thereby eliminate a library dependency.
1108 + fix test/mk-test.awk to ignore blank lines.
1109 + correct paths in include/headers, for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav
1113 + add a break-statement in misc/shlib to ensure that it exits on the
1114 _first_ matched directory (report by Paul Novak).
1115 + add tack/configure, which can be used to build tack outside the
1117 + add --with-ticlib option, to build/install the tic-support functions
1118 in a separate library (suggested by Miroslav Lichvar).
1121 + change MKunctrl.awk to reduce relocation table for unctrl.o
1122 + change MKkeyname.awk to reduce relocation table for keyname.o
1123 (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
1126 + modify configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
1127 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
1128 + modify some modules to allow them to be reentrant if _REENTRANT is
1129 defined: lib_baudrate.c, resizeterm.c (local data only)
1130 + eliminate static data from some modules: add_tries.c, hardscroll.c,
1131 lib_ttyflags.c, lib_twait.c
1132 + improve manpage install to add aliases for the transformed program
1133 names, e.g., from --program-prefix.
1134 + used linklint to verify links in the HTML documentation, made fixes
1135 to manpages as needed.
1136 + fix a typo in curs_mouse.3x (report by William McBrine).
1137 + fix install-rule for ncurses5-config to make the bin-directory.
1140 + modify configure script to omit the tic (terminfo compiler) support
1141 from ncurses library if --without-progs option is given.
1142 + modify install rule for ncurses5-config to do this via "install.libs"
1143 + modify shared-library rules to allow FreeBSD 3.x to use rpath.
1144 + update config.guess, config.sub
1146 20061217 5.6 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1149 + add ifdef's for <wctype.h> for HPUX, which has the corresponding
1150 definitions in <wchar.h>.
1151 + revert the va_copy() change from 20061202, since it was neither
1152 correct nor portable.
1153 + add $(LOCAL_LIBS) definition to progs/Makefile.in, needed for
1155 + ignore wide-acs line-drawing characters that wcwidth() claims are
1156 not one-column. This is a workaround for Solaris' broken locale
1160 + modify configure --with-gpm option to allow it to accept a parameter,
1161 i.e., the name of the dynamic GPM library to load via dlopen()
1162 (requested by Bryan Henderson).
1163 + add configure option --with-valgrind, changes from vile.
1164 + modify configure script AC_TRY_RUN and AC_TRY_LINK checks to use
1165 'return' in preference to 'exit()'.
1168 + change default for --with-develop back to "no".
1169 + add XTABS to tracing of TTY bits.
1170 + updated autoconf patch to ifdef-out the misfeature which declares
1171 exit() for configure tests. This fixes a redefinition warning on
1173 + use ${CC} rather than ${LD} in shared library rules for IRIX64,
1174 Solaris to help ensure that initialization sections are provided for
1175 extra linkage requirements, e.g., of C++ applications (prompted by
1176 comment by Casper Dik in newsgroup).
1177 + rename "$target" in CF_MAN_PAGES to make it easier to distinguish
1178 from the autoconf predefined symbol. There was no conflict,
1179 since "$target" was used only in the generated edit_man.sh file,
1180 but SuSE's rpm package contains a patch.
1183 + update man/term.5 to reflect extended terminfo support and hashed
1184 database configuration.
1185 + updates for test/configure script.
1186 + adapted from SuSE rpm package:
1187 + remove long-obsolete workaround for broken-linker which declared
1189 + improve error recovery in PUTC() macro when wcrtomb() does not
1190 return usable results for an 8-bit character.
1191 + patches from rpm package (SuSE):
1192 + use va_copy() in extra varargs manipulation for tracing version
1194 + use a va_list rather than a null in _nc_freeall()'s call to
1195 _nc_printf_string().
1196 + add some see-also references in manpages to show related
1197 wide-character functions (suggested by Claus Fischer).
1200 + add a check in lib_color.c to ensure caller does not increase COLORS
1201 above max_colors, which is used as an array index (discussion with
1203 + add ifdef's allowing ncurses to be built with tparm() using either
1204 varargs (the existing status), or using a fixed-parameter list (to
1208 + fix redrawing of windows other than stdscr using wredrawln() by
1209 touching the corresponding rows in curscr (discussion with Dan
1212 + add test/echochar.c
1213 + review/cleanup manpage descriptions of error-returns for form- and
1214 menu-libraries (prompted by FreeBSD docs/46196).
1217 + add AUTHORS file -TD
1218 + omit the -D options from output of the new config script --cflags
1219 option (suggested by Ralf S Engelschall).
1220 + make NCURSES_INLINE unconditionally defined in curses.h
1223 + revert change to accommodate bash 3.2, since that breaks other
1224 platforms, e.g., Solaris.
1225 + minor fixes to NEWS file to simplify scripting to obtain list of
1227 + improve some shared-library configure scripting for Linux, FreeBSD
1228 and NetBSD to make "--with-shlib-version" work.
1229 + change configure-script rules for FreeBSD shared libraries to allow
1230 for rpath support in versions past 3.
1231 + use $(DESTDIR) in makefile rules for installing/uninstalling the
1232 package config script (reports/patches by Christian Wiese,
1233 Ralf S Engelschall).
1234 + fix a warning in the configure script for NetBSD 2.0, working around
1235 spurious blanks embedded in its ${MAKEFLAGS} symbol.
1236 + change test/Makefile to simplify installing test programs in a
1237 different directory when --enable-rpath is used.
1240 + work around bug in bash 3.2 by adding extra quotes (Jim Gifford).
1241 + add/install a package config script, e.g., "ncurses5-config" or
1242 "ncursesw5-config", according to configuration options.
1245 + add several GNU Screen terminfo variations with 16- and 256-colors,
1246 and status line (Alain Bench).
1247 + change the way shared libraries (other than libtool) are installed.
1248 Rather than copying the build-tree's libraries, link the shared
1249 objects into the install directory. This makes the --with-rpath
1250 option work except with $(DESTDIR) (cf: 20000930).
1253 + fix ifdef in c++/internal.h for QNX 6.1
1254 + test-compiled with (old) egcs-1.1.2, modified configure script to
1255 not unset the $CXX and related variables which would prevent this.
1256 + fix a few terminfo.src typos exposed by improvments to "-f" option.
1257 + improve infocmp/tic "-f" option formatting.
1260 + make --disable-largefile option work (report by Thomas M Ott).
1261 + updated html documentation.
1262 + add ka2, kb1, kb3, kc2 to vt220-keypad as an extension -TD
1263 + minor improvements to rxvt+pcfkeys -TD
1266 + move static data from lib_mouse.c into SCREEN struct.
1267 + improve ifdef's for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset to work with Mac OS X
1268 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
1269 + modify CF_PATH_SYNTAX to ensure it uses the result from --prefix
1270 option (from lynx changes) -TD
1271 + adapt AC_PROG_EGREP check, noting that this is likely to be another
1272 place aggravated by POSIXLY_CORRECT.
1273 + modify configure check for awk to ensure that it is found (prompted
1274 by report by Christopher Parker).
1278 + add kon, kon2 and jfbterm terminfo entry (request by Till Maas) -TD
1279 + remove invis capability from klone+sgr, mainly used by linux entry,
1280 since it does not really do this -TD
1283 + correct logic in wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not guard
1284 against passing the multi-column attribute into a call on waddch(),
1285 e.g., using data returned by win_wch() (cf: 20041023)
1286 (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
1289 + fix kterm's acsc string -TD
1290 + fix for change to tic/infocmp in 20060819 to ensure no blank is
1291 embedded into a termcap description.
1292 + workaround for 20050806 ifdef's change to allow visbuf.c to compile
1293 when using --with-termlib --with-trace options.
1294 + improve tgetstr() by making the return value point into the user's
1295 buffer, if provided (patch by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat Bugzilla
1297 + correct libraries needed for foldkeys (report by Stanislav Ievlev)
1300 + add terminfo entries for xfce terminal (xfce) and multi gnome
1302 + add test/foldkeys.c
1305 + modify tic and infocmp to avoid writing trailing blanks on terminfo
1306 source output (Debian #378783).
1307 + modify configure script to ensure that if the C compiler is used
1308 rather than the loader in making shared libraries, the $(CFLAGS)
1309 variable is also used (Redhat Bugzilla #199369).
1310 + port hashed-db code to db2 and db3.
1311 + fix a bug in tgetent() from 20060625 and 20060715 changes
1312 (patch/analysis by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat Bugzilla #202480)).
1315 + updated xterm function-keys terminfo to match xterm #216 -TD
1316 + add configure --with-hashed-db option (tested only with FreeBSD 6.0,
1317 e.g., the db 1.8.5 interface).
1320 + modify toe to access termcap data, e.g., via cgetent() functions,
1321 or as a text file if those are not available.
1322 + use _nc_basename() in tset to improve $SHELL check for csh/sh.
1323 + modify _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_termcap_entry() so infocmp,
1324 can access termcap data when the terminfo database is disabled.
1327 + widen the test for xterm kmous a little to allow for other strings
1328 than \E[M, e.g., for xterm-sco functionality in xterm.
1329 + update xterm-related terminfo entries to match xterm patch #216 -TD
1330 + update config.guess, config.sub
1333 + fix for install-rule in Ada95 to add terminal_interface.ads
1334 and terminal_interface.ali (anonymous posting in comp.lang.ada).
1335 + correction to manpage for getcchar() (report by William McBrine).
1337 + modify wchgat() to mark updated cells as changed so a refresh will
1338 repaint those cells (comments by Sadrul H Chowdhury and William
1340 + split up dependency of names.c and codes.c in ncurses/Makefile to
1341 work with parallel make (report/analysis by Joseph S Myers).
1342 + suppress a warning message (which is ignored) for systems without
1343 an ldconfig program (patch by Justin Hibbits).
1344 + modify configure script --disable-symlinks option to allow one to
1345 disable symlink() in tic even when link() does not work (report by
1347 + modify MKfallback.sh to use tic -x when constructing fallback tables
1348 to allow extended capabilities to be retrieved from a fallback entry.
1349 + improve leak-checking logic in tgetent() from 20060625 to ensure that
1350 it does not free the current screen (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
1353 + add a check for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset (NetBSD #33916).
1354 + correct _nc_free_entries() and related functions used for memory leak
1358 + revert a minor change for magic-cookie support from 20060513, which
1359 caused unexpected reset of attributes, e.g., when resizing test/view
1361 + note in clear manpage that the program ignores command-line
1362 parameters (prompted by Debian #371855).
1363 + fixes to make lib_gen.c build properly with changes to the configure
1364 --disable-macros option and NCURSES_NOMACROS (cf: 20060527)
1365 + update/correct several terminfo entries -TD
1366 + add some notes regarding copyright to terminfo.src -TD
1369 + fixes to build Ada95 binding with gnat-4.1.0
1370 + modify read_termtype() so the term_names data is always allocated as
1371 part of the str_table, a better fix for a memory leak (cf: 20030809).
1372 + reduce memory leaks in repeated calls to tgetent() by remembering the
1373 last TERMINAL* value allocated to hold the corresponding data and
1374 freeing that if the tgetent() result buffer is the same as the
1375 previous call (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
1376 + modify tack to test extended capability function-key strings.
1377 + improved gnome terminfo entry (GenToo #122566).
1378 + improved xterm-256color terminfo entry (patch by Alain Bench).
1381 + fix two small memory leaks related to repeated tgetent() calls
1382 with TERM=screen (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
1383 + add --enable-signed-char to simplify Debian package.
1384 + reduce name-pollution in term.h by removing #define's for HAVE_xxx
1386 + correct typo in curs_terminfo.3x (Debian #369168).
1389 + enable the mouse in test/movewindow.c
1390 + improve a limit-check in frm_def.c (John Heasley).
1391 + minor copyright fixes.
1392 + change configure script to produce test/Makefile from data file.
1395 + add a configure option --enable-wgetch-events to enable
1396 NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS, and correct the associated loop-logic in
1397 lib_twait.c (report by Bernd Jendrissek).
1398 + remove include/nomacros.h from build, since the ifdef for
1399 NCURSES_NOMACROS makes that obsolete.
1400 + add entrypoints for some functions which were only provided as macros
1401 to make NCURSES_NOMACROS ifdef work properly: getcurx(), getcury(),
1402 getbegx(), getbegy(), getmaxx(), getmaxy(), getparx() and getpary(),
1404 + provide ifdef for NCURSES_NOMACROS which suppresses most macro
1405 definitions from curses.h, i.e., where a macro is defined to override
1406 a function to improve performance. Allowing a developer to suppress
1407 these definitions can simplify some application (discussion with
1409 + improve description of memu/meml in terminfo manpage.
1412 + if msgr is false, reset video attributes when doing an automargin
1413 wrap to the next line. This makes the ncurses 'k' test work properly
1415 + correct caching of keyname(), which was using only half of its table.
1416 + minor fixes to memory-leak checking.
1417 + make SCREEN._acs_map and SCREEN._screen_acs_map pointers rather than
1418 arrays, making ACS_LEN less visible to applications (suggested by
1420 + move chunk in SCREEN ifdef'd for USE_WIDEC_SUPPORT to the end, so
1421 _screen_acs_map will have the same offset in both ncurses/ncursesw,
1422 making the corresponding tinfo/tinfow libraries binary-compatible
1423 (cf: 20041016, report by Stanislav Ievlev).
1426 + improve debug-tracing for EmitRange().
1427 + change default for --with-develop to "yes". Add NCURSES_NO_HARD_TABS
1428 and NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE environment variables to allow runtime
1429 suppression of the related hard-tabs and xmc-glitch features.
1430 + add ncurses version number to top-level manpages, e.g., ncurses, tic,
1431 infocmp, terminfo as well as form, menu, panel.
1432 + update config.guess, config.sub
1433 + modify ncurses.c to work around a bug in NetBSD 3.0 curses
1434 (field_buffer returning null for a valid field). The 'r' test
1435 appears to not work with that configuration since the new_fieldtype()
1436 function is broken in that implementation.
1439 + add hpterm-color terminfo entry -TD
1440 + fixes to compile test-programs with HPUX 11.23
1443 + add copyright notices to files other than those that are generated,
1444 data or adapted from pdcurses (reports by William McBrine, David
1446 + improve rendering on hpterm by not resetting attributes at the end
1447 of doupdate() if the terminal has the magic-cookie feature (report
1449 + add 256color variants of terminfo entries for programs which are
1450 reported to implement this feature -TD
1453 + fix typo in change to NewChar() macro from 20060311 changes, which
1454 broke tab-expansion (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
1457 + document -U option of tic and infocmp.
1458 + modify tic/infocmp to suppress smacs/rmacs when acsc is suppressed
1459 due to size limit, e.g., converting to termcap format. Also
1460 suppress them if the output format does not contain acsc and it
1461 was not VT100-like, i.e., a one-one mapping (Novell #163715).
1462 + add configure check to ensure that SIGWINCH is defined on platforms
1463 such as OS X which exclude that when _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., are
1464 defined (report by Nicholas Cole)
1467 + modify write_object() to not write coincidental extensions of an
1468 entry made due to it being referenced in a use= clause (report by
1470 + another fix for infocmp -i option, which did not ensure that some
1471 escape sequences had comparable prefixes (report by Alain Bench).
1474 + improve discussion of init/reset in terminfo and tput manpages
1475 (report by Alain Bench).
1476 + use is3 string for a fallback of rs3 in the reset program; it was
1477 using is2 (report by Alain Bench).
1478 + correct logic for infocmp -i option, which did not account for
1479 multiple digits in a parameter (cf: 20040828) (report by Alain
1481 + move _nc_handle_sigwinch() to lib_setup.c to make --with-termlib
1482 option work after 20060114 changes (report by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz).
1483 + add copyright notices to test-programs as needed (report by William
1487 + modify ncurses.c 'F' test to combine the wide-characters with color
1488 and/or video attributes.
1489 + modify test/ncurses to use CTL/Q or ESC consistently for exiting
1490 a test-screen (some commands used 'x' or 'q').
1493 + fix an off-by-one in the scrolling-region change (cf_ 20060311).
1496 + add checks in waddchnstr() and wadd_wchnstr() to stop copying when
1497 a null character is found (report by Igor Bogomazov).
1498 + modify progs/Makefile.in to make "tput init" work properly with
1499 cygwin, i.e., do not pass a ".exe" in the reference string used
1500 in check_aliases (report by Samuel Thibault).
1501 + add some checks to ensure current position is within scrolling
1502 region before scrolling on a new line (report by Dan Gookin).
1503 + change some NewChar() usage to static variables to work around
1504 stack garbage introduced when cchar_t is not packed (Redhat #182024).
1507 + workarounds to build test/movewindow with PDcurses 2.7.
1508 + fix for nsterm-16color entry (patch by Alain Bench).
1509 + correct a typo in infocmp manpage (Debian #354281).
1512 + add nsterm-16color entry -TD
1513 + updated mlterm terminfo entry -TD
1514 + remove 970913 feature for copying subwindows as they are moved in
1515 mvwin() (discussion with Bryan Christ).
1516 + modify test/demo_menus.c to demonstrate moving a menu (both the
1517 window and subwindow) using shifted cursor-keys.
1518 + start implementing recursive mvwin() in movewindow.c (incomplete).
1519 + add a fallback definition for GCC_PRINTFLIKE() in test.priv.h,
1520 for movewindow.c (report by William McBrine).
1521 + add help-message to test/movewindow.c
1524 + add test/movewindow.c, to test mvderwin().
1525 + fix ncurses soft-key test so color changes are shown immediately
1526 rather than delayed.
1527 + modify ncurses soft-key test to hide the keys when exiting the test
1529 + fixes to build test programs with PDCurses 2.7, e.g., its headers
1530 rely on autoconf symbols, and it declares stubs for nonfunctional
1531 terminfo and termcap entrypoints.
1534 + improved test/configure to build test/ncurses on HPUX 11 using the
1536 + documented ALTERNATE CONFIGURATIONS in the ncurses manpage, for the
1537 benefit of developers who do not read INSTALL.
1540 + correct form library Window_To_Buffer() change (cf: 20040516), which
1541 should ignore the video attributes (report by Ricardo Cantu).
1544 + minor fixes to xmc-glitch experimental code:
1545 + suppress line-drawing
1546 + implement max_attributes
1548 + minor fixes for the database iterator.
1549 + fix some buffer limits in c++ demo (comment by Falk Hueffner in
1553 + add toe -a option, to show all databases. This uses new private
1554 interfaces in the ncurses library for iterating through the list of
1556 + fix toe from 20000909 changes which made it not look at
1558 + make toe's -v option parameter optional as per manpage.
1559 + improve SIGWINCH handling by postponing its effect during newterm(),
1560 etc., when allocating screens.
1563 + modify wgetnstr() to return KEY_RESIZE if a sigwinch occurs. Use
1564 this in test/filter.c
1565 + fix an error in filter() modification which caused some applications
1569 + check if filter() was called when getting the screensize. Keep it
1570 at 1 if so (based on Redhat #174498).
1571 + add extension nofilter().
1572 + refined the workaround for ACS mapping.
1573 + make ifdef's consistent in curses.h for the extended colors so the
1574 header file can be used for the normal curses library. The header
1575 file installed for extended colors is a variation of the
1576 wide-character configuration (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
1579 + add a workaround to ACS mapping to allow applications such as
1580 test/blue.c to use the "PC ROM" characters by masking them with
1581 A_ALTCHARSET. This worked up til 5.5, but was lost in the revision
1582 of legacy coding (report by Michael Deutschmann).
1583 + add a null-pointer check in the wide-character version of
1584 calculate_actual_width() (report by Victor Julien).
1585 + improve test/ncurses 'd' (color-edit) test by allowing the RGB
1586 values to be set independently (patch by William McBrine).
1587 + modify test/configure script to allow building test programs with
1589 + modified test programs to allow some to work with NetBSD curses.
1590 Several do not because NetBSD curses implements a subset of X/Open
1591 curses, and also lacks much of SVr4 additions. But it's enough for
1593 + update config.guess and config.sub
1596 + use BSD-specific fix for return-value from cgetent() from CVS where
1597 an unknown terminal type would be reportd as "database not found".
1598 + make tgetent() return code more readable using new symbols
1600 + remove references to non-existent "tctest" program.
1601 + remove TESTPROGS from progs/Makefile.in (it was referring to code
1602 that was never built in that directory).
1603 + typos in curs_addchstr.3x, some doc files (noticed in OpenBSD CVS).
1606 + add use_legacy_coding() function to support lynx's font-switching
1608 + fix formatting in curs_termcap.3x (report by Mike Frysinger).
1609 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to change preprocessor-expanded _Bool back to
1613 + extend test/ncurses.c 's' (overlay window) test to exercise overlay(),
1614 overwrite() and copywin() with different combinations of colors and
1615 attributes (including background color) to make it easy to see the
1616 effect of the different functions.
1617 + corrections to menu/m_global.c for wide-characters (report by
1621 + add configure option --without-dlsym, allowing developers to
1622 configure GPM support without using dlsym() (discussion with Michael
1624 + fix wins_nwstr(), which did not handle single-column non-8bit codes
1628 + move prototypes for wide-character trace functions from curses.tail
1629 to curses.wide to avoid accidental reference to those if
1630 _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined without ensuring that <wchar.h> is
1632 + add/use NCURSES_INLINE definition.
1633 + change some internal functions to use int/unsigned rather than the
1637 + remove a redundant check in lib_color.c (Debian #335655).
1638 + use ld's -search_paths_first option on Darwin to work around odd
1639 search rules on that platform (report by Christian Gennerat, analysis
1641 + remove special case for Darwin in CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro.
1642 + ignore EINTR in tcgetattr/tcsetattr calls (Debian #339518).
1643 + fix several bugs in test/bs.c (patch by Stephen Lindholm).
1646 + other minor fixes to cygwin based on tack -TD
1647 + correct smacs in cygwin (Debian #338234, report by Baurzhan
1648 Ismagulov, who noted that it was fixed in Cygwin).
1651 + add shifted up/down arrow codes to xterm-new as kind/kri strings -TD
1652 + modify wbkgrnd() to avoid clearing the A_CHARTEXT attribute bits
1653 since those record the state of multicolumn characters (Debian
1655 + modify werase to clear multicolumn characters that extend into
1656 a derived window (Debian #316663).
1659 + move assignment from environment variable ESCDELAY from initscr()
1660 down to newterm() so the environment variable affects timeouts for
1661 terminals opened with newterm() as well.
1662 + fix a memory leak in keyname().
1663 + add test/demo_altkeys.c
1664 + modify test/demo_defkey.c to exit from loop via 'q' to allow
1665 leak-checking, as well as fix a buffer size in winnstr() call.
1668 + correct order of use-clauses in rxvt-basic entry which made codes for
1669 f1-f4 vt100-style rather than vt220-style (report by Gabor Z Papp).
1670 + suppress configure check for gnatmake if Ada95/Makefile.in is not
1672 + correct a typo in configure --with-bool option for the case where
1673 --without-cxx is used (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1674 + add a note to INSTALL's discussion of --with-normal, pointing out
1675 that one may wish to use --without-gpm to ensure a completely
1676 static link (prompted by report by Felix von Leitner).
1678 20051010 5.5 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1681 + document in demo_forms.c some portability issues.
1684 + document side-effect of werase() which sets the cursor position.
1685 + save/restore the current position in form field editing to make
1689 + correct header dependencies in progs, allowing parallel make (report
1690 by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1691 + modify CF_BUILD_CC to ensure that pre-setting $BUILD_CC overrides
1692 the configure check for --with-build-cc (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1693 + modify CF_CFG_DEFAULTS to not use /usr as the default prefix for
1695 + update config.guess and config.sub from
1696 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
1699 + modify sed expression which computes path for /usr/lib/terminfo
1700 symbolic link in install to ensure that it does not change unexpected
1701 levels of the path (Gentoo #42336).
1702 + modify default for --disable-lp64 configure option to reduce impact
1703 on existing 64-bit builds. Enabling the _LP64 option may change the
1704 size of chtype and mmask_t. However, for ABI 6, it is enabled by
1705 default (report by Mike Frysinger).
1706 + add configure script check for --enable-ext-mouse, bump ABI to 6 by
1707 default if it is used.
1708 + improve configure script logic for bumping ABI to omit this if the
1709 --with-abi-version option was used.
1710 + update address for Free Software Foundation in tack's source.
1711 + correct wins_wch(), which was not marking the filler-cells of
1712 multi-column characters (cf: 20041023).
1715 + modify mouse initialization to ensure that Gpm_Open() is called only
1716 once. Otherwise GPM gets confused in its initialization of signal
1717 handlers (Debian #326709).
1720 + modify logic for backspacing in a multiline form field to ensure that
1721 it works even when the preceding line is full (report by Frank van
1723 + remove comment about BUGS section of ncurses manpage (Debian #325481)
1726 + document some workarounds for shared and libtool library
1727 configurations in INSTALL (see --with-shared and --with-libtool).
1728 + modify CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GXX_VERSION macros to accommodate
1729 cross-compilers which emit the platform name in their version
1731 arm-sa1100-linux-gnu-g++ (GCC) 4.0.1
1732 (report by Frank van Vugt).
1735 + start updating documentation for upcoming 5.5 release.
1736 + fix to make libtool and libtinfo work together again (cf: 20050122).
1737 + fixes to allow building traces into libtinfo
1738 + add debug trace to tic that shows if/how ncurses will write to the
1739 lower corner of a terminal's screen.
1740 + update llib-l* files.
1743 + modify initializers in c++ binding to build with old versions of g++.
1744 + improve special case for 20050115 repainting fix, ensuring that if
1745 the first changed cell is not a character that the range to be
1746 repainted is adjusted to start at a character's beginning (Debian
1750 + fixes to build on QNX 6.1
1751 + improve configure script checks for Intel 9.0 compiler.
1752 + remove #include's for libc.h (obsolete).
1753 + adjust ifdef's in curses.priv.h so that when cross-compiling to
1754 produce comp_hash and make_keys, no dependency on wchar.h is needed.
1755 That simplifies the build-cppflags (report by Frank van Vugt).
1756 + move modules related to key-binding into libtinfo to fix linkage
1757 problem caused by 20050430 changes to MKkeyname.sh (report by
1758 Konstantin Andreev).
1761 + updates/fixes for configure script macros from vile -TD
1762 + make prism9's sgr string agree with the rest of the terminfo -TD
1763 + make vt220's sgr0 string consistent with sgr string, do this for
1764 several related cases -TD
1765 + improve translation to termcap by filtering the 'me' (sgr0) strings
1766 as in the runtime call to tgetent() (prompted by a discussion with
1768 + improve tic check for sgr0 versus sgr(0), to help ensure that sgr0
1769 resets line-drawing.
1772 + fix special cases for trimming sgr0 for hurd and vt220 (Debian
1774 + split-out _nc_trim_sgr0() from modifications made to tgetent(), to
1775 allow it to be used by tic to provide information about the runtime
1776 changes that would be made to sgr0 for termcap applications.
1777 + modify make_sed.sh to make the group-name in the NAME section of
1778 form/menu library manpage agree with the TITLE string when renaming
1779 is done for Debian (Debian #78866).
1782 + modify parameter type in c++ binding for insch() and mvwinsch() to
1783 be consistent with underlying ncurses library (was char, is chtype).
1784 + modify treatment of Intel compiler to allow _GNU_SOURCE to be defined
1786 + improve configure check for nanosleep(), checking that it works since
1787 some older systems such as AIX 4.3 have a nonworking version.
1790 + update config.guess and config.sub from
1791 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
1792 + modify misc/shlib to work in test-directory.
1793 + suppress $suffix in misc/run_tic.sh when cross-compiling. This
1794 allows cross-compiles to use the host's tic program to handle the
1795 "make install.data" step.
1796 + improve description of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables in manpages
1797 (prompted by report by Dave Ulrick).
1798 + improve description of cross-compiling in INSTALL
1799 + add NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html by Pradeep Padala
1800 (see http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/).
1801 + modify configure script to obtain soname for GPM library (discussion
1802 with Daniel Jacobowitz).
1803 + modify configure script so that --with-chtype option will still
1804 compute the unsigned literals suffix for constants in curses.h
1805 (report by Daniel Jacobowitz:
1806 + patches from Daniel Jacobowitz:
1807 + the man_db.renames entry for tack.1 was backwards.
1808 + tack.1 had some 1m's that should have been 1M's.
1809 + the section for curs_inwstr.3 was wrong.
1812 + correction to --with-chtype option (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1815 + move build-time edit_man.sh and edit_man.sed scripts to top directory
1816 to simplify reusing them for renaming tack's manpage (prompted by a
1817 review of Debian package).
1818 + revert minor optimization from 20041030 (Debian #313609).
1819 + libtool-specific fixes, tested with libtool 1.4.3, 1.5.0, 1.5.6,
1820 1.5.10 and 1.5.18 (all work except as noted previously for the c++
1821 install using libtool 1.5.0):
1822 + modify the clean-rule in c++/Makefile.in to work with IRIX64 make
1824 + use $(LIBTOOL_UNINSTALL) symbol, overlooked in 20030830
1825 + add configure options --with-chtype and --with-mmask-t, to allow
1826 overriding of the non-LP64 model's use of the corresponding types.
1827 + revise test for size of chtype (and mmask_t), which always returned
1828 "long" due to an uninitialized variable (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1831 + change _tracef's that used "%p" format for va_list values to ignore
1832 that, since on some platforms those are not pointers.
1833 + fixes for long-formats in printf's due to largefile support.
1836 + fixes for termcap support:
1837 + reset pointer to _nc_curr_token.tk_name when the input stream is
1838 closed, which could point to free memory (cf: 20030215).
1839 + delink TERMTYPE data which is used by the termcap reader, so that
1840 extended names data will be freed consistently.
1841 + free pointer to TERMTYPE data in _nc_free_termtype() rather than
1843 + add some entrypoints for freeing permanently allocated data via
1844 _nc_freeall() when NO_LEAKS is defined.
1845 + amend 20041030 change to _nc_do_color to ensure that optimization is
1846 applied only when the terminal supports back_color_erase (bce).
1849 + add sun-color terminfo entry -TD
1850 + correct a missing assignment in c++ binding's method
1851 NCursesPanel::UserPointer() from 20050409 changes.
1852 + improve configure check for large-files, adding check for dirent64
1854 + minor change to configure script to improve linker options for the
1858 + document error conditions for ncurses library functions (report by
1860 + regenerated html documentation for ada binding.
1861 see ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/gnathtml
1864 + regenerated html documentation for manpages.
1865 + add $(BUILD_EXEEXT) suffix to invocation of make_keys in
1866 ncurses/Makefile (Gentoo #89772).
1867 + modify c++/demo.cc to build with g++ -fno-implicit-templates option
1868 (patch by Mike Frysinger).
1869 + modify tic to filter out long extended names when translating to
1870 termcap format. Only two characters are permissible for termcap
1874 + modify terminfo entries xterm-new and rxvt to add strings for
1875 shift-, control-cursor keys.
1876 + workaround to allow c++ binding to compile with g++ 2.95.3, which
1877 has a broken implementation of static_cast<> (patch by Jeff Chua).
1878 + modify initialization of key lookup table so that if an extended
1879 capability (tic -x) string is defined, and its name begins with 'k',
1880 it will automatically be treated as a key.
1881 + modify test/keynames.c to allow for the possibility of extended
1882 key names, e.g., via define_key(), or via "tic -x".
1883 + add test/demo_termcap.c to show the contents of given entry via the
1887 + minor fixes for vt100/vt52 entries -TD
1888 + add configure option --enable-largefile
1889 + corrected libraries used to build Ada95/gen/gen, found in testing
1893 + update config.guess, config.sub
1894 + modify configure script check for _XOPEN_SOURCE, disable that on
1895 Darwin whose header files have problems (patch by Chris Zubrzycki).
1896 + modify form library Is_Printable_String() to use iswprint() rather
1897 than wcwidth() for determining if a character is printable. The
1898 latter caused it to reject menu items containing non-spacing
1900 + modify ncurses test program's F-test to handle non-spacing characters
1901 by combining them with a reverse-video blank.
1902 + review/fix several gcc -Wconversion warnings.
1905 + correct an off-by-one error in m_driver() for mouse-clicks used to
1906 position the mouse to a particular item.
1907 + implement test/demo_menus.c
1908 + add some checks in lib_mouse to ensure SP is set.
1909 + modify C++ binding to make 20050403 changes work with the configure
1910 --enable-const option.
1913 + modify start_color() to return ERR if it cannot allocate memory.
1914 + address g++ compiler warnings in C++ binding by adding explicit
1915 member initialization, assignment operators and copy constructors.
1916 Most of the changes simply preserve the existing semantics of the
1917 binding, which can leak memory, etc., but by making these features
1918 visible, it provides a framework for improving the binding.
1919 + improve C++ binding using static_cast, etc.
1920 + modify configure script --enable-warnings to add options to g++ to
1921 correspond to the gcc --enable-warnings.
1922 + modify C++ binding to use some C internal functions to make it
1923 compile properly on Solaris (and other platforms).
1926 + amend change from 20050320 to limit it to configurations with a
1928 + fix a bug introduced in 20050320 which broke the translation of
1929 nonprinting characters to uparrow form (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
1932 + add ifdef's for _LP64 in curses.h to avoid using wasteful 64-bits for
1933 chtype and mmask_t, but add configure option --disable-lp64 in case
1934 anyone used that configuration.
1935 + update misc/shlib script to account for Mac OS X (report by Michail
1937 + correct comparison for wrapping multibyte characters in
1938 waddch_literal() (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
1941 + add -c and -w options to tset to allow user to suppress ncurses'
1942 resizing of the terminal emulator window in the special case where it
1943 is not able to detect the true size (report by Win Delvaux, Debian
1945 + modify waddch_nosync() to account for locale zn_CH.GBK, which uses
1946 codes 128-159 as part of multibyte characters (report by Wang
1947 WenRui, Debian #300512).
1950 + modify ncurses.c 'd' test to make it work with 88-color
1951 configuration, i.e., by implementing scrolling.
1952 + improve scrolling in ncurses.c 'c' and 'C' tests, e.g., for 88-color
1956 + change tracemunch to use strict checking.
1957 + modify ncurses.c 'p' test to test line-drawing within a pad.
1958 + implement environment variable NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS to support
1959 miscellaneous terminal emulators which ignore alternate character
1960 set escape sequences when in UTF-8 mode.
1963 + change NCursesWindow::err_handler() to a virtual function (request by
1965 + modify fty_int.c and fty_num.c to handle wide characters (report by
1967 + adapt fix for fty_alpha.c to fty_alnum.c, which also handled normal
1968 and wide characters inconsistently (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
1969 + update llib-* files to reflect internal interface additions/changes.
1972 + improve test/configure script, adding tests for _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc.,
1974 + add aixterm-16color terminfo entry -TD
1975 + modified xterm-new terminfo entry to work with tgetent() changes -TD
1976 + extended changes in tgetent() from 20040710 to allow the substring of
1977 sgr0 which matches rmacs to be at the beginning of the sgr0 string
1978 (request by Thomas Wolff). Wolff says the visual effect in
1979 combination with pre-20040710 ncurses is improved.
1980 + fix off-by-one in winnstr() call which caused form field validation
1981 of multibyte characters to ignore the last character in a field.
1982 + correct logic in winsch() for inserting multibyte strings; the code
1983 would clear cells after the insertion rather than push them to the
1984 right (cf: 20040228).
1985 + fix an inconsistency in Check_Alpha_Field() between normal and wide
1986 character logic (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
1989 + fix a bug in editing wide-characters in form library: deleting a
1990 nonwide character modified the previous wide-character.
1991 + update manpage to describe NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2.
1992 + correct manpage description of mouseinterval() (Debian #280687).
1993 + add a note to default_colors.3x explaining why this extension was
1994 added (Debian #295083).
1995 + add traces to panel library.
1998 + improve editing of wide-characters in form library: left/right
1999 cursor movement, and single-character deletions work properly.
2000 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM happens to be prefixed with
2001 "xterm". Gpm_Open() would otherwise assert that it can deal with
2002 mouse events in this case.
2003 + modify GPM mouse support so it closes the server connection when
2004 the caller disables the mouse (report by Stanislav Ievlev).
2007 + add traces for callback functions in form library.
2008 + add experimental configure option --enable-ext-mouse, which defines
2009 NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2, and modifies the encoding of mouse events to
2010 support wheel mice, which may transmit buttons 4 and 5. This works
2011 with xterm and similar X terminal emulators (prompted by question by
2012 Andreas Henningsson, this is also related to Debian #230990).
2013 + improve configure macros CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE to
2014 avoid redefinition warnings on cygwin.
2017 + merge remaining development changes for extended colors (mostly
2018 complete, does not appear to break other configurations).
2019 + add xterm-88color.dat (part of extended colors testing).
2020 + improve _tracedump() handling of color pairs past 96.
2021 + modify return-value from start_color() to return OK if colors have
2022 already been started.
2023 + modify curs_color.3x list error conditions for init_pair(),
2024 pair_content() and color_content().
2025 + modify pair_content() to return -1 for consistency with init_pair()
2026 if it corresponds to the default-color.
2027 + change internal representation of default-color to allow application
2028 to use color number 255. This does not affect the total number of
2029 color pairs which are allowed.
2030 + add a top-level tags rule.
2033 + add a null-pointer check in wgetch() in case it is called without
2034 first calling initscr().
2035 + add some null-pointer checks for SP, which is not set by libtinfo.
2036 + modify misc/shlib to ensure that absolute pathnames are used.
2037 + modify test/Makefile.in, etc., to link test programs only against the
2038 libraries needed, e.g., omit form/menu/panel library for the ones
2039 that are curses-specific.
2040 + change SP->_current_attr to a pointer, adjust ifdef's to ensure that
2041 libtinfo.so and libtinfow.so have the same ABI. The reason for this
2042 is that the corresponding data which belongs to the upper-level
2043 ncurses library has a different size in each model (report by
2047 + minor fixes to allow test-compiles with g++.
2048 + correct column value shown in tic's warnings, which did not account
2049 for leading whitespace.
2050 + add a check in _nc_trans_string() for improperly ended strings, i.e.,
2051 where a following line begins in column 1.
2052 + modify _nc_save_str() to return a null pointer on buffer overflow.
2053 + improve repainting while scrolling wide-character data (Eungkyu Song).
2056 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
2059 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
2060 + fix manpage typo (FreeBSD report docs/75544).
2061 + update config.guess, config.sub
2062 > patches for configure script (Albert Chin-A-Young):
2063 + improved fix to make mbstate_t recognized on HPUX 11i (cf:
2064 20030705), making vsscanf() prototype visible on IRIX64. Tested for
2065 on HP-UX 11i, Solaris 7, 8, 9, AIX 4.3.3, 5.2, Tru64 UNIX 4.0D, 5.1,
2066 IRIX64 6.5, Redhat Linux 7.1, 9, and RHEL 2.1, 3.0.
2067 + print the result of the --disable-home-terminfo option.
2068 + use -rpath when compiling with SGI C compiler.
2071 + add trace calls to remaining public functions in form and menu
2073 + fix check for numeric digits in test/ncurses.c 'b' and 'B' tests.
2074 + fix typo in test/ncurses.c 'c' test from 20041218.
2077 + revise test/ncurses.c 'c' color test to improve use for xterm-88color
2078 and xterm-256color, added 'C' test using the wide-character color_set
2079 and attr_set functions.
2082 + modify configure script to work with Intel compiler.
2083 + fix an limit-check in wadd_wchnstr() which caused labels in the
2084 forms-demo to be one character short.
2085 + fix typo in curs_addchstr.3x (Jared Yanovich).
2086 + add trace calls to most functions in form and menu libraries.
2087 + update working-position for adding wide-characters when window is
2088 scrolled (prompted by related report by Eungkyu Song).
2091 + replace some references on Linux to wcrtomb() which use it to obtain
2092 the length of a multibyte string with _nc_wcrtomb, since wcrtomb() is
2093 broken in glibc (see Debian #284260).
2094 + corrected length-computation in wide-character support for
2096 + some fixes to frm_driver.c to allow it to accept multibyte input.
2097 + modify configure script to work with Intel 8.0 compiler.
2100 + amend change to setupterm() in 20030405 which would reuse the value
2101 of cur_term if the same output was selected. This now reuses it only
2102 when setupterm() is called from tgetent(), which has no notion of
2103 separate SCREENs. Note that tgetent() must be called after initscr()
2104 or newterm() to use this feature (Redhat Bugzilla #140326).
2105 + add a check in CF_BUILD_CC macro to ensure that developer has given
2106 the --with-build-cc option when cross-compiling (report by Alexandre
2108 + improved configure script checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE and
2109 _POSIX_C_SOURCE (fix for IRIX 5.3 from Georg Schwarz, _POSIX_C_SOURCE
2111 + cosmetic fix to test/gdc.c to recolor the bottom edge of the box
2112 for consistency (comment by Dan Nelson).
2115 + update wsvt25 terminfo entry -TD
2116 + modify test/ins_wide.c to test all flavors of ins_wstr().
2117 + ignore filler-cells in wadd_wchnstr() when adding a cchar_t array
2118 which consists of multi-column characters, since this function
2119 constructs them (cf: 20041023).
2120 + modify winnstr() to return multibyte character strings for the
2121 wide-character configuration.
2124 + fixes to make slk_set() and slk_wset() accept and store multibyte
2125 or multicolumn characters.
2128 + improve color optimization a little by making _nc_do_color() check
2129 if the old/new pairs are equivalent to the default pair 0.
2130 + modify assume_default_colors() to not require that
2131 use_default_colors() be called first.
2134 + modify term_attrs() to use termattrs(), add the extended attributes
2135 such as enter_horizontal_hl_mode for WA_HORIZONTAL to term_attrs().
2136 + add logic in waddch_literal() to clear orphaned cells when one
2137 multi-column character partly overwrites another.
2138 + improved logic for clearing cells when a multi-column character
2139 must be wrapped to a new line.
2140 + revise storage of cells for multi-column characters to correct a
2141 problem with repainting. In the old scheme, it was possible for
2142 doupdate() to decide that only part of a multi-column character
2143 should be repainted since the filler cells stored only an attribute
2144 to denote them as fillers, rather than the character value and the
2148 + minor fixes for traces.
2149 + add SP->_screen_acs_map[], used to ensure that mapping of missing
2150 line-drawing characters is handled properly. For example, ACS_DARROW
2151 is absent from xterm-new, and it was coincidentally displayed the
2155 + amend 20021221 workaround for broken acs to reset the sgr, rmacs
2156 and smacs strings as well. Also modify the check for screen's
2157 limitations in that area to allow the multi-character shift-in
2158 and shift-out which seem to work.
2159 + change GPM initialization, using dl library to load it dynamically
2160 at runtime (Debian #110586).
2163 + correct logic for color pair in setcchar() and getcchar() (patch by
2164 Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
2165 + add t/T commands to ncurses b/B tests to allow a different color to
2166 be tested for the attrset part of the test than is used in the
2170 + fix to make setcchar() to work when its wchar_t* parameter is
2171 pointing to a string which contains more data than can be converted.
2172 + modify wget_wstr() and example in ncurses.c to work if wchar_t and
2173 wint_t are different sizes (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
2176 + remove check in wget_wch() added to fix an infinite loop, appears to
2177 have been working around a transitory glibc bug, and interferes
2178 with normal operation (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
2179 + correct wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not pass the rendition
2180 information (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
2181 + fix aclocal.m4 so that the wide-character version of ncurses gets
2182 compiled as libncursesw.5.dylib, instead of libncurses.5w.dylib
2183 (adapted from patch by James J Ramsey).
2184 + change configure script for --with-caps option to indicate that it
2185 is no longer experimental.
2186 + change configure script to reflect the fact that --enable-widec has
2187 not been "experimental" since 5.3 (report by Bruno Lustosa).
2190 + add 'B' test to ncurses.c, to exercise some wide-character functions.
2193 + modify infocmp -i option to match 8-bit controls against its table
2194 entries, e.g., so it can analyze the xterm-8bit entry.
2195 + add morphos terminfo entry, improve amiga-8bit entry (Pavel Fedin).
2196 + correct translation of "%%" in terminfo format to termcap, e.g.,
2197 using "tic -C" (Redhat Bugzilla #130921).
2198 + modified configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to ensure that if
2199 it defines _POSIX_C_SOURCE, that it defines it to a specific value
2200 (comp.os.stratus newsgroup comment).
2203 + fixes to build with Ada95 binding with gnat 3.4 (all warnings are
2204 fatal, and gnat does not follow the guidelines for pragmas).
2205 However that did find a coding error in Assume_Default_Colors().
2206 + modify several terminfo entries to ensure xterm mouse and cursor
2207 visibility are reset in rs2 string: hurd, putty, gnome,
2208 konsole-base, mlterm, Eterm, screen (Debian #265784, #55637). The
2209 xterm entries are left alone - old ones for compatibility, and the
2210 new ones do not require this change. -TD
2213 + fake a SIGWINCH in newterm() to accommodate buggy terminal emulators
2214 and window managers (Debian #265631).
2215 > terminfo updates -TD
2216 + remove dch/dch1 from rxvt because they are implemented inconsistently
2217 with the common usage of bce/ech
2218 + remove khome from vt220 (vt220's have no home key)
2222 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test, adding v/V toggles to cycle through
2223 combinations of video attributes so that for instance bold and
2224 underline can be tested. This made the legend too crowded, added
2225 a help window as well.
2226 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test to cycle through default colors if
2227 the -d option is set.
2228 + update putty terminfo entry (Robert de Bath).
2231 + modify test/cardfile.c to allow it to read more data than can be
2233 + correct logic in resizeterm.c which kept it from processing all
2234 levels of window hierarchy (reports by Folkert van Heusden,
2238 + modify "tic -cv" to ignore delays when comparing strings. Also
2239 modify it to ignore a canceled sgr string, e.g., for terminals which
2240 cannot properly combine attributes in one control sequence.
2241 + corrections for gnome and konsole entries (Redhat Bugzilla #122815,
2242 patch by Hans de Goede)
2243 > terminfo updates -TD
2244 + make ncsa-m rmacs/smacs consistent with sgr
2245 + add sgr, rc/sc and ech to syscons entries
2246 + add function-keys to decansi
2247 + add sgr to mterm-ansi
2248 + add sgr, civis, cnorm to emu
2249 + correct/simplify cup in addrinfo
2252 > terminfo updates -TD
2253 + add xterm-pc-fkeys
2254 + review/update gnome and gnome-rh90 entries (prompted by Redhat
2256 + review/update konsole entries
2257 + add sgr, correct sgr0 for kterm and mlterm
2258 + correct tsl string in kterm
2261 + add configure option --without-xterm-new
2264 + add check in wget_wch() for printable bytes that are not part of a
2265 multibyte character.
2266 + modify wadd_wchnstr() to render text using window's background
2268 + improve tic's check to compare sgr and sgr0.
2269 + fix c++ directory's .cc.i rule.
2270 + modify logic in tgetent() which adjusts the termcap "me" string
2271 to work with ISO-2022 string used in xterm-new (cf: 20010908).
2272 + modify tic's check for conflicting function keys to omit that if
2273 converting termcap to termcap format.
2274 + add -U option to tic and infocmp.
2275 + add rmam/smam to linux terminfo entry (Trevor Van Bremen)
2276 > terminfo updates -TD
2277 + minor fixes for emu
2279 + change wyse acsc strings to use 'i' map rather than 'I'
2284 + use tic -x to install terminfo database -TD
2285 + add -x to infocmp's usage message.
2286 + correct field used for comparing O_ROWMAJOR in set_menu_format()
2287 (report/patch by Tony Li).
2288 + fix a missing nul check in set_field_buffer() from 20040508 changes.
2289 > terminfo updates -TD
2290 + make xterm-xf86-v43 derived from xterm-xf86-v40 rather than
2292 + align with xterm patch #192's use of xterm-new -TD
2293 + update xterm-new and xterm-8bit for cvvis/cnorm strings -TD
2294 + make xterm-new the default "xterm" entry -TD
2297 + correct BUILD_CPPFLAGS substitution in ncurses/Makefile.in, to allow
2298 cross-compiling from a separate directory tree (report/patch by
2300 + modify is_term_resized() to ensure that window sizes are nonzero,
2301 as documented in the manpage (report by Ian Collier).
2302 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro to make Hurd port build
2303 (Debian #249214, report/patch by Jeff Bailey).
2304 + configure-script mods from xterm, e.g., updates to CF_ADD_CFLAGS
2305 + update config.guess, config.sub
2306 > terminfo updates -TD
2308 + add xterm-xf86-v44
2309 + modify xterm-new aka xterm-xfree86 to accommodate luit, which
2310 relies on G1 being used via an ISO-2022 escape sequence (report by
2315 + reconsidered winsnstr(), decided after comparing other
2316 implementations that wrapping is an X/Open documentation error.
2317 + modify test/inserts.c to test all flavors of insstr().
2320 + add setlocale() calls to a few test programs which may require it:
2321 demo_forms.c, filter.c, ins_wide.c, inserts.c
2322 + correct a few misspelled function names in ncurses-intro.html (report
2324 + correct internal name of key_defined() manpage, which conflicted with
2328 + correct size of internal pad used for holding wide-character
2329 field_buffer() results.
2330 + modify data_ahead() to work with wide-characters.
2333 + improve description of terminfo if-then-else expressions (suggested
2335 + improve test/ncurses.c 'd' test, allow it to use external file for
2336 initial palette (added xterm-16color.dat and linux-color.dat), and
2337 reset colors to the initial palette when starting/ending the test.
2338 + change limit-check in init_color() to allow r/g/b component to
2339 reach 1000 (cf: 20020928).
2342 + modify form library to use cchar_t's rather than char's in the
2343 wide-character configuration for storing data for field buffers.
2344 + correct logic of win_wchnstr(), which did not work for more than
2348 + replace memset/memcpy usage in form library with for-loops to
2349 simplify changing the datatype of FIELD.buf, part of wide-character
2351 + fix some inconsistent use of #if/#ifdef (report by Alain Guibert).
2354 + modify menu library to account for actual number of columns used by
2355 multibyte character strings, in the wide-character configuration
2356 (adapted from patch by Philipp Tomsich).
2357 + add "-x" option to infocmp like tic's "-x", for use in "-F"
2358 comparisons. This modifies infocmp to only report extended
2359 capabilities if the -x option is given, making this more consistent
2360 with tic. Some scripts may break, since infocmp previous gave this
2361 information without an option.
2362 + modify termcap-parsing to retain 2-character aliases at the beginning
2363 of an entry if the "-x" option is used in tic.
2366 + minor compiler-warning and test-program fixes.
2369 + modify tic's missing-sgr warning to apply to terminfo only.
2370 + free some memory leaks in tic.
2371 + remove check in post_menu() that prevented menus from extending
2372 beyond the screen (request by Max J. Werner).
2373 + remove check in newwin() that prevents allocating windows
2374 that extend beyond the screen. Solaris curses does this.
2375 + add ifdef in test/color_set.c to allow it to compile with older
2377 + add napms() calls to test/dots.c to make it not be a CPU hog.
2380 + modify unctrl() to return null if its parameter does not correspond
2381 to an unsigned char.
2382 + add some limit-checks to guard isprint(), etc., from being used on
2383 values that do not fit into an unsigned char (report by Sami Farin).
2386 + fix a typo in the _nc_get_locale() change.
2389 + modify _nc_get_locale() to use setlocale() to query the program's
2390 current locale rather than using getenv(). This fixes a case in tin
2391 which relies on legacy treatment of 8-bit characters when the locale
2392 is not initialized (reported by Urs Jansen).
2393 + add sgr string to screen's and rxvt's terminfo entries -TD.
2394 + add a check in tic for terminfo entries having an sgr0 but no sgr
2395 string. This confuses Tru64 and HPUX curses when combined with
2396 color, e.g., making them leave line-drawing characters in odd places.
2397 + correct casts used in ABSENT_BOOLEAN, CANCELLED_BOOLEAN, matches the
2398 original definitions used in Debian package to fix PowerPC bug before
2399 20030802 (Debian #237629).
2402 + modify PutAttrChar() and PUTC() macro to improve use of
2403 A_ALTCHARSET attribute to prevent line-drawing characters from
2404 being lost in situations where the locale would otherwise treat the
2405 raw data as nonprintable (Debian #227879).
2408 + fix a redefinition of CTRL() macro in test/view.c for AIX 5.2 (report
2410 + remove ".PP" after ".SH NAME" in a few manpages; this confuses
2411 some apropos script (Debian #237831).
2414 + modify ncurses.c 'r' test so editing commands, like inserted text,
2415 set the field background, and the state of insert/overlay editing
2416 mode is shown in that test.
2417 + change syntax of dummy targets in Ada95 makefiles to work with pmake.
2418 + correct logic in test/ncurses.c 'b' for noncolor terminals which
2419 did not recognize a quit-command (cf: 20030419).
2422 + modify _nc_insert_ch() to allow for its input to be part of a
2424 + split out lib_insnstr.c, to prepare to rewrite it. X/Open states
2425 that this function performs wrapping, unlike all of the other
2426 insert-functions. Currently it does not wrap.
2427 + check for nl_langinfo(CODESET), use it if available (report by
2429 + split-out CF_BUILD_CC macro, actually did this for lynx first.
2430 + fixes for configure script CF_WITH_DBMALLOC and CF_WITH_DMALLOC,
2431 which happened to work with bash, but not with Bourne shell (report
2432 by Marco d'Itri via tin-dev).
2435 + some changes to adapt the form library to wide characters, incomplete
2436 (request by Mike Aubury).
2437 + add symbol to curses.h which can be used to suppress include of
2439 #define NCURSES_ENABLE_STDBOOL_H 0
2441 (discussion on XFree86 mailing list).
2444 + modify configure --with-termlib option to accept a value which sets
2445 the name of the terminfo library. This would allow a packager to
2446 build libtinfow.so renamed to coincide with libtinfo.so (discussion
2447 with Stanislav Ievlev).
2448 + improve documentation of --with-install-prefix, --prefix and
2449 $(DESTDIR) in INSTALL (prompted by discussion with Paul Lew).
2450 + add configure check if the compiler can use -c -o options to rename
2451 its output file, use that to omit the 'cd' command which was used to
2452 ensure object files are created in a separate staging directory
2453 (prompted by comments by Johnny Wezel, Martin Mokrejs).
2455 20040208 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2458 20040207 pre-release
2459 + minor fixes to _nc_tparm_analyze(), i.e., do not count %i as a param,
2460 and do not count %d if it follows a %p.
2461 + correct an inconsistency between handling of codes in the 128-255
2462 range, e.g., as illustrated by test/ncurses.c f/F tests. In POSIX
2463 locale, the latter did not show printable results, while the former
2465 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to compensate for broken C preprocessor on Mac
2466 OS X, which alters "%%" to "% % " (report by Robert Simms, fix
2467 verified by Scott Corscadden).
2469 20040131 pre-release
2470 + modify SCREEN struct to align it between normal/wide curses flavors
2471 to simplify future changes to build a single version of libtinfo
2472 (patch by Stanislav Ievlev).
2473 + document handling of carriage return by addch() in manpage.
2474 + document special features of unctrl() in manpage.
2475 + documented interface changes in INSTALL.
2476 + corrected control-char test in lib_addch.c to account for locale
2477 (Debian #230335, cf: 971206).
2478 + updated test/configure.in to use AC_EXEEXT and AC_OBJEXT.
2479 + fixes to compile Ada95 binding with Debian gnat 3.15p-4 package.
2480 + minor configure-script fixes for older ports, e.g., BeOS R4.5.
2482 20040125 pre-release
2483 + amend change to PutAttrChar() from 20030614 which computed the number
2484 of cells for a possibly multi-cell character. The 20030614 change
2485 forced the cell to a blank if the result from wcwidth() was not
2486 greater than zero. However, wcwidth() called for parameters in the
2487 range 128-255 can give this return value. The logic now simply
2488 ensures that the number of cells is greater than zero without
2489 modifying the displayed value.
2491 20040124 pre-release
2492 + looked good for 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org (but see above)
2493 + modify configure script check for ranlib to use AC_CHECK_TOOL, since
2494 that works better for cross-compiling.
2496 20040117 pre-release
2497 + modify lib_get_wch.c to prefer mblen/mbtowc over mbrlen/mbrtowc to
2498 work around core dump in Solaris 8's locale support, e.g., for
2499 zh_CN.GB18030 (report by Saravanan Bellan).
2500 + add includes for <stdarg.h> and <stdio.h> in configure script macro
2501 to make <wchar.h> check work with Tru64 4.0d.
2502 + add terminfo entry for U/Win -TD
2503 + add terminfo entries for SFU aka Interix aka OpenNT (Federico
2505 + modify tput's error messages to prefix them with the program name
2506 (report by Vincent Lefevre, patch by Daniel Jacobowitz (see Debian
2508 + correct a place in tack where exit_standout_mode was used instead of
2509 exit_attribute_mode (patch by Jochen Voss (see Debian #224443)).
2510 + modify c++/cursesf.h to use const in the Enumeration_Field method.
2511 + remove an ambiguous (actually redundant) method from c++/cursesf.h
2512 + make $HOME/.terminfo update optional (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
2513 + improve sed script which extracts libtool's version in the
2514 CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro.
2515 + add ifdef'd call to AC_PROG_LIBTOOL to CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro (to
2516 simplify local patch for Albert Chin-A-Young)..
2517 + add $(CXXFLAGS) to link command in c++/Makefile.in (adapted from
2518 patch by Albert Chin-A-Young)..
2519 + fix a missing substitution in configure.in for "$target" needed for
2521 + resync CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro with lynx; fixes IRIX64 and
2522 NetBSD 1.6 conflicts with _XOPEN_SOURCE.
2523 + make check for stdbool.h more specific, to ensure that including it
2524 will actually define/declare bool for the configured compiler.
2525 + rewrite ifdef's in curses.h relating NCURSES_BOOL and bool. The
2526 intention of that is to #define NCURSES_BOOL as bool when the
2527 compiler declares bool, and to #define bool as NCURSES_BOOL when it
2528 does not (reported by Jim Gifford, Sam Varshavchik, cf: 20031213).
2530 20040110 pre-release
2531 + change minor version to 4, i.e., ncurses 5.4
2532 + revised/improved terminfo entries for tvi912b, tvi920b (Benjamin C W
2534 + simplified ncurses/base/version.c by defining the result from the
2535 configure script rather than using sprintf (suggested by Stanislav
2537 + remove obsolete casts from c++/cursesw.h (reported by Stanislav
2539 + modify configure script so that when configuring for termlib, programs
2540 such as tic are not linked with the upper-level ncurses library
2541 (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
2542 + move version.c from ncurses/base to ncurses/tinfo to allow linking
2543 of tic, etc., using libtinfo (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
2546 + adjust -D's to build ncursesw on OpenBSD.
2547 + modify CF_PROG_EXT to make OS/2 build with EXEEXT.
2548 + add pecho_wchar().
2549 + remove <wctype.h> include from lib_slk_wset.c which is not needed (or
2550 available) on older platforms.
2553 + add -D's to build ncursew on FreeBSD 5.1.
2554 + modify shared library configuration for FreeBSD 4.x/5.x to add the
2555 soname information (request by Marc Glisse).
2556 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() to not use MAX_ALIAS, but PATH_MAX only
2557 for limiting the length of a filename in the terminfo database.
2558 + modify termname() to return the terminal name used by setupterm()
2559 rather than $TERM, without truncating to 14 characters as documented
2560 by X/Open (report by Stanislav Ievlev, cf: 970719).
2561 + re-add definition for _BSD_TYPES, lost in merge (cf: 20031206).
2564 + add configure option --with-manpage-format=catonly to address
2565 behavior of BSDI, allow install of man+cat files on NetBSD, whose
2566 behavior has diverged by requiring both to be present.
2567 + remove leading blanks from comment-lines in manlinks.sed script to
2568 work with Tru64 4.0d.
2569 + add screen.linux terminfo entry (discussion on mutt-users mailing
2573 + add a check for tic to flag missing backslashes for termcap
2574 continuation lines. ncurses reads the whole entry, but termcap
2575 applications do not.
2576 + add configure option "--with-manpage-aliases" extending
2577 "--with-manpage-aliases" to provide the option of generating ".so"
2578 files rather than symbolic links for manpage aliases.
2579 + add bool definition in include/curses.h.in for configurations with no
2580 usable C++ compiler (cf: 20030607).
2581 + fix pathname of SigAction.h for building with --srcdir (reported by
2585 + folded ncurses/base/sigaction.c into includes of ncurses/SigAction.h,
2586 since that header is used only within ncurses/tty/lib_tstp.c, for
2587 non-POSIX systems (discussion with Stanislav Ievlev).
2588 + remove obsolete _nc_outstr() function (report by Stanislav Ievlev
2589 <inger@altlinux.org>).
2590 + add test/background.c and test/color_set.c
2591 + modify color_set() function to work with color pair 0 (report by
2592 George Andreou <gbandreo@tem.uoc.gr>).
2593 + add configure option --with-trace, since defining TRACE seems too
2594 awkward for some cases.
2595 + remove a call to _nc_free_termtype() from read_termtype(), since the
2596 corresponding buffer contents were already zeroed by a memset (cf:
2598 + improve configure check for _XOPEN_SOURCE and related definitions,
2599 adding special cases for Solaris' __EXTENSIONS__ and FreeBSD's
2600 __BSD_TYPES (reports by Marc Glisse <marc.glisse@normalesup.org>).
2601 + small fixes to compile on Solaris and IRIX64 using cc.
2602 + correct typo in check for pre-POSIX sort options in MKkey_defs.sh
2606 + modify _nc_gettime() to avoid a problem with arithmetic on unsigned
2607 values (Philippe Blain).
2608 + improve the nanosleep() logic in napms() by checking for EINTR and
2609 restarting (Philippe Blain).
2610 + correct expression for "%D" in lib_tgoto.c (Juha Jarvi
2614 + add linux-vt terminfo entry (Andrey V Lukyanov <land@long.yar.ru>).
2615 + allow "\|" escape in terminfo; tic should not warn about this.
2616 + save the full pathname of the trace-file the first time it is opened,
2617 to avoid creating it in different directories if the application
2618 opens and closes it while changing its working directory.
2619 + modify configure script to provide a non-empty default for
2623 + add DJGPP to special case of DOS-style drive letters potentially
2624 appearing in TERMCAP environment variable.
2625 + fix some spelling in comments (reports by Jason McIntyre, Jonathon
2627 + update config.guess, config.sub
2630 + fix a memory leak in error-return from setupterm() (report by
2631 Stanislav Ievlev <inger@altlinux.org>).
2632 + use EXEEXT and OBJEXT consistently in makefiles.
2633 + amend fixes for cross-compiling to use separate executable-suffix
2634 BUILD_EXEEXT (cf: 20031018).
2635 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for sort utility that does not
2636 recognize key options, e.g., busybox (report by Peter S Mazinger
2638 + fix potential out-of-bounds indexing in _nc_infotocap() (found by
2639 David Krause using some of the new malloc debugging features
2640 under OpenBSD, patch by Ted Unangst).
2641 + modify CF_LIB_SUFFIX for Itanium releases of HP-UX, which use a
2642 ".so" suffix (patch by Jonathan Ward <Jonathan.Ward@hp.com>).
2645 + update terminfo for xterm-xfree86 -TD
2646 + add check for multiple "tc=" clauses in a termcap to tic.
2647 + check for missing op/oc in tic.
2648 + correct _nc_resolve_uses() and _nc_merge_entry() to allow infocmp and
2649 tic to show cancelled capabilities. These functions were ignoring
2650 the state of the target entry, which should be untouched if cancelled.
2651 + correct comment in tack/output.c (Debian #215806).
2652 + add some null-pointer checks to lib_options.c (report by Michael
2654 + regenerated html documentation.
2655 + correction to tar-copy.sh, remove a trap command that resulted in
2656 leaving temporary files (cf: 20030510).
2657 + remove contact/maintainer addresses for Juergen Pfeifer (his request).
2660 + updated test/configure to reflect changes for libtool (cf: 20030830).
2661 + fix several places in tack/pad.c which tested and used the parameter-
2662 and parameterless strings inconsistently, i.e., in pad_rin(),
2663 pad_il(), pad_indn() and pad_dl() (Debian #215805).
2664 + minor fixes for configure script and makefiles to cleanup executables
2665 generated when cross-compiling for DJGPP.
2666 + modify infocmp to omit check for $TERM for operations that do not
2667 require it, e.g., "infocmp -e" used to build fallback list (report by
2671 + add terminfo entries for DJGPP.
2672 + updated note about maintainer in ncurses-intro.html
2675 + update terminfo entries for gnome terminal.
2676 + modify tack to reset colors after each color test, correct a place
2677 where exit_standout_mode was used instead of exit_attribute_mode.
2678 + improve tack's bce test by making it set colors other than black
2680 + plug a potential recursion between napms() and _nc_timed_wait()
2681 (report by Philippe Blain).
2684 + add --with-rel-version option to allow workaround to allow making
2685 libtool on Darwin generate the "same" library names as with the
2686 --with-shared option. The Darwin ld program does not work well
2687 with a zero as the minor-version value (request by Chris Zubrzycki).
2688 + modify CF_MIXEDCASE_FILENAMES macro to work with cross-compiling.
2689 + modify tack to allow it to run from fallback terminfo data.
2690 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2691 + improve PutRange() by adjusting call to EmitRange() and corresponding
2692 return-value to not emit unchanged characters on the end of the
2694 + improve a check for changed-attribute by exiting a loop when the
2696 + improve logic in TransformLine(), eliminating a duplicated comparison
2697 in the clr_bol logic.
2700 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2701 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
2702 move the label 'nonlocal' just before the second gettimeofday() to
2703 be able to compute the diff time when 'goto nonlocal' used.
2704 Rename 'msec' to 'microsec' in the debug-message.
2705 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
2706 Use _nc_outch() in carriage return/newline movement instead of
2707 putchar() which goes to stdout. Move test for xold>0 out of loop.
2708 + in ncurses/tinfo/setbuf.c,
2709 Set the flag SP->_buffered at the end of operations when all has been
2710 successful (typeMalloc can fail).
2711 + simplify NC_BUFFERED macro by moving check inside _nc_setbuf().
2714 + modify configure script to avoid using "head -1", which does not
2715 work if POSIXLY_CORRECT (sic) is set.
2716 + modify run_tic.in to avoid using wrong shared libraries when
2717 cross-compiling (Dan Kegel).
2720 + alter configure script help message to make it clearer that
2721 --with-build-cc does not specify a cross-compiler (suggested by Dan
2722 Kegel <dank@kegel.com>).
2723 + modify configure script to accommodate libtool 1.5, as well as add an
2724 parameter to the "--with-libtool" option which can specify the
2725 pathname of libtool (report by Chris Zubrzycki). We note that
2726 libtool 1.5 has more than one bug in its C++ support, so it is not
2727 able to install libncurses++, for instance, if $DESTDIR or the option
2728 --with-install-prefix is used.
2731 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2732 + move assignments to SP->_cursrow, SP->_curscol into online_mvcur().
2733 + make baudrate computation in delay_output() consistent with the
2734 assumption in _nc_mvcur_init(), i.e., a byte is 9 bits.
2737 + modify logic in waddch_literal() to take into account zh_TW.Big5
2738 whose multibyte sequences may contain "printable" characters, e.g.,
2739 a "g" in the sequence "\247g" (Debian #204889, cf: 20030621).
2740 + improve storage used by _nc_safe_strcpy() by ensuring that the size
2741 is reset based on the initialization call, in case it were called
2742 after other strcpy/strcat calls (report by Philippe Blain).
2743 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2744 + remove an unused ifdef for REAL_ATTR & WANT_CHAR
2745 + correct a place where _cup_cost was used rather than _cuu_cost
2748 + fix a small memory leak in _nc_free_termtype().
2749 + close trace-file if trace() is called with a zero parameter.
2750 + free memory allocated for soft-key strings, in delscreen().
2751 + fix an allocation size in safe_sprintf.c for the "*" format code.
2752 + correct safe_sprintf.c to not return a null pointer if the format
2753 happens to be an empty string. This applies to the "configure
2754 --enable-safe-sprintf" option (Redhat #101486).
2757 + modify casts used for ABSENT_BOOLEAN and CANCELLED_BOOLEAN (report by
2759 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2760 + change padding for change_scroll_region to not be proportional to
2761 the size of the scroll-region.
2762 + correct error-return in _nc_safe_strcat().
2765 + correct limit-checks in _nc_scroll_window() (report and test-case by
2766 Thomas Graf <graf@dms.at> cf: 20011020).
2767 + re-order configure checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE to avoid conflict with
2771 + use clr_eol in preference to blanks for bce terminals, so select and
2772 paste will have fewer trailing blanks, e.g., when using xterm
2773 (request by Vincent Lefevre).
2774 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
2775 + add configure --with-abi-version option (discussion with Charles
2777 > cygwin changes from Charles Wilson:
2778 + aclocal.m4: on cygwin, use autodetected prefix for import
2779 and static lib, but use "cyg" for DLL.
2780 + include/ncurses_dll.h: correct the comments to reflect current
2781 status of cygwin/mingw port. Fix compiler warning.
2782 + misc/run_tic.in: ensure that tic.exe can find the uninstalled
2783 DLL, by adding the lib-directory to the PATH variable.
2784 + misc/terminfo.src (nxterm|xterm-color): make xterm-color
2785 primary instead of nxterm, to match XFree86's xterm.terminfo
2786 usage and to prevent circular links.
2787 (rxvt): add additional codes from rxvt.org.
2788 (rxvt-color): new alias
2789 (rxvt-xpm): new alias
2790 (rxvt-cygwin): like rxvt, but with special acsc codes.
2791 (rxvt-cygwin-native): ditto. rxvt may be run under XWindows, or
2792 with a "native" MSWin GUI. Each takes different acsc codes,
2793 which are both different from the "normal" rxvt's acsc.
2794 (cygwin): cygwin-in-cmd.exe window. Lots of fixes.
2796 + mk-1st.awk: use "cyg" for the DLL prefix, but "lib" for import
2800 + update config.guess, config.sub
2801 + add triples for configuring shared libraries with the Debian
2802 GNU/FreeBSD packages (patch by Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es>).
2805 + modify CF_GCC_WARNINGS so it only applies to gcc, not g++. Some
2806 platforms have installed g++ along with the native C compiler, which
2807 would not accept gcc warning options.
2808 + add -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 when configuring with --enable-widec, to
2809 get mbstate_t declaration on HPUX 11.11 (report by David Ellement).
2810 + add _nc_pathlast() to get rid of casts in _nc_basename() calls.
2811 + correct a sign-extension in wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() from
2812 20030628 (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
2813 + work around omission of btowc() and wctob() from wide-character
2814 support (sic) in NetBSD 1.6 using mbtowc() and wctomb() (report by
2816 + add portability note to curs_get_wstr.3x (Debian #199957).
2819 + rewrite wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to call waddch() and wechochar()
2820 respectively, to avoid calling waddch_noecho() with wide-character
2821 data, since that function assumes its input is 8-bit data.
2822 Similarly, modify waddnwstr() to call wadd_wch().
2823 + remove logic from waddnstr() which transformed multibyte character
2824 strings into wide-characters. Rewrite of waddch_literal() from
2825 20030621 assumes its input is raw multibyte data rather than wide
2826 characters (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
2829 + write getyx() and related 2-return macros in terms of getcury(),
2831 + modify waddch_literal() in case an application passes bytes of a
2832 multibyte character directly to waddch(). In this case, waddch()
2833 must reassemble the bytes into a wide-character (report by Tomohiro
2834 Kubota <kubota@debian.org>).
2837 + modify waddch_literal() in case a multibyte value occupies more than
2839 + modify PutAttrChar() to compute the number of character cells that
2840 are used in multibyte values. This fixes a problem displaying
2841 double-width characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen
2842 <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
2843 + add a null-pointer check for result of keyname() in _tracechar()
2844 + modify _tracechar() to work around glibc sprintf bug.
2847 + add a call to setlocale() in cursesmain.cc, making demo display
2848 properly in a UTF-8 locale.
2849 + add a fallback definition in curses.priv.h for MB_LEN_MAX (prompted
2850 by discussion with Gabor Z Papp).
2851 + use macros NCURSES_ACS() and NCURSES_WACS() to hide cast needed to
2852 appease -Wchar-subscript with g++ 3.3 (Debian #195732).
2853 + fix a redefinition of $RANLIB in the configure script when libtool
2854 is used, which broke configure on Mac OS X (report by Chris Zubrzycki
2856 + simplify ifdef for bool declaration in curses.h.in (suggested by
2857 Albert Chin-A-Young).
2858 + remove configure script check to allow -Wconversion for older
2859 versions of gcc (suggested by Albert Chin-A-Young).
2862 + regenerated html manpages.
2863 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in that disabled use of __attribute__()
2864 for g++, since recent versions implement the cases which ncurses uses
2866 + modify _nc_get_token() to handle a case where an entry has no
2867 description, and capabilities begin on the same line as the entry
2869 + fix a typo in ncurses_dll.h reported by gcc 3.3.
2870 + add an entry for key_defined.3x to man_db.renames.
2873 + modify setcchar() to allow converting control characters to complex
2874 characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
2875 + add tkterm entry -TD
2876 + modify parse_entry.c to allow a terminfo entry with a leading
2877 2-character name (report by Don Libes).
2878 + corrected acsc in screen.teraterm, which requires a PC-style mapping.
2879 + fix trace statements in read_entry.c to use lseek() rather than
2881 + fix signed/unsigned warnings from Sun's compiler (gcc should give
2882 these warnings, but it is unpredictable).
2883 + modify configure script to omit -Winline for gcc 3.3, since that
2885 + modify manlinks.sed to add a few functions that were overlooked since
2886 they return function pointers: field_init, field_term, form_init,
2887 form_term, item_init, item_term, menu_init and menu_term.
2890 + prevent recursion in wgetch() via wgetnstr() if the connection cannot
2891 be switched between cooked/raw modes because it is not a TTY (report
2892 by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.com>).
2893 + change parameter of define_key() and key_defined() to const (prompted
2895 + add a check in test/configure for ncurses extensions, since there
2896 are some older versions, etc., which would not compile with the
2897 current test programs.
2898 + corrected demo in test/ncurses.c of wgetn_wstr(), which did not
2899 convert wchar_t string to multibyte form before printing it.
2900 + corrections to lib_get_wstr.c:
2901 + null-terminate buffer passed to setcchar(), which occasionally
2903 + map special characters such as erase- and kill-characters into
2904 key-codes so those will work as expected even if they are not
2905 mentioned in the terminfo.
2906 + modify PUTC() and Charable() macros to make wide-character line
2907 drawing work for POSIX locale on Linux console (cf: 20021221).
2910 + make typography for program options in manpages consistent (report
2911 by Miloslav Trmac <mitr@volny.cz>).
2912 + correct dependencies in Ada95/src/Makefile.in, so the builds with
2913 "--srcdir" work (report by Warren L Dodge).
2914 + correct missing definition of $(CC) in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in
2915 (reported by Warren L Dodge <warrend@mdhost.cse.tek.com>).
2916 + fix typos and whitespace in manpages (patch by Jason McIntyre
2917 <jmc@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl>).
2920 + fix form_driver() cases for REQ_CLR_EOF, REQ_CLR_EOL, REQ_DEL_CHAR,
2921 REQ_DEL_PREV and REQ_NEW_LINE, which did not ensure the cursor was at
2922 the editing position before making modifications.
2923 + add test/demo_forms and associated test/edit_field.c demos.
2924 + modify test/configure.in to use test/modules for the list of objects
2925 to compile rather than using the list of programs.
2928 + modify logic of acsc to use the original character if no mapping is
2929 defined, noting that Solaris does this.
2930 + modify ncurses 'b' test to avoid using the acs_map[] array since
2931 20021231 changes it to no longer contain information from the acsc
2933 + modify makefile rules in c++, progs, tack and test to ensure that
2934 the compiler flags (e.g., $CFLAGS or $CCFLAGS) are used in the link
2935 command (report by Jose Luis Rico Botella <informatica@serpis.com>).
2936 + modify soft-key initialization to use A_REVERSE if A_STANDOUT would
2937 not be shown when colors are used, i.e., if ncv#1 is set in the
2938 terminfo as is done in "screen".
2941 + add a test for slk_color(), in ncurses.c
2942 + fix some issues reported by valgrind in the slk_set() and slk_wset()
2943 code, from recent rewrite.
2944 + modify ncurses 'E' test to use show previous label via slk_label(),
2946 + modify wide-character versions of NewChar(), NewChar2() macros to
2947 ensure that the whole struct is initialized.
2950 + modify setupterm() to check if the terminfo and terminal-modes have
2951 already been read. This ensures that it does not reinvoke
2952 def_prog_mode() when an application calls more than one function,
2953 such as tgetent() and initscr() (report by Olaf Buddenhagen).
2956 + add 'E' test to ncurses.c, to exercise slk_wset().
2957 + correct handling of carriage-return in wgetn_wstr(), used in demo of
2959 + first draft of slk_wset() function.
2962 + improved warnings in tic when suppressing items to fit in termcap's
2964 + built a list in test/README showing which externals are being used
2965 by either programs in the test-directory or via internal library
2967 + adjust include-options in CF_ETIP_DEFINES to avoid missing
2968 ncurses_dll.h, fixing special definitions that may be needed for
2969 etip.h (reported by Greg Schafer <gschafer@zip.com.au>).
2972 + minor fixes for cardfile.c, to make it write the updated fields to
2973 a file when ^W is given.
2974 + add/use _nc_trace_bufcat() to eliminate some fixed buffer limits in
2978 + correct a case in _nc_remove_string(), used by define_key(), to avoid
2979 infinite loop if the given string happens to be a substring of other
2980 strings which are assigned to keys (report by John McCutchan).
2981 + add key_defined() function, to tell which keycode a string is bound
2982 to (discussion with John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>).
2983 + correct keybound(), which reported definitions in the wrong table,
2984 i.e., the list of definitions which are disabled by keyok().
2985 + modify demo_keydef.c to show the details it changes, and to check
2989 + restructured test/configure script, make it work for libncursesw.
2990 + add description of link_fieldtype() to manpage (report by
2991 L Dee Holtsclaw <dee@sunbeltsoft.com>).
2994 + corrected ifdef's relating to configure check for wchar_t, etc.
2995 + if the output is a socket or other non-tty device, use 1 millisecond
2996 for the cost in mvcur; previously it was 9 milliseconds because the
2997 baudrate was not known.
2998 + in _nc_get_tty_mode(), initialize the TTY buffer on error, since
2999 glibc copies uninitialized data in that case, as noted by valgrind.
3000 + modify tput to use the same parameter analysis as tparm() does, to
3001 provide for user-defined strings, e.g., for xterm title, a
3002 corresponding capability might be
3004 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to avoid passing "#" tokens through the C
3005 preprocessor. This works around Mac OS X's preprocessor, which
3006 insists on adding a blank on each side of the token (report/analysis
3007 by Kevin Murphy <murphy@genome.chop.edu>).
3010 + add configure check for wchar_t and wint_t types, rather than rely
3011 on preprocessor definitions. Also work around for gcc fixinclude
3012 bug which creates a shadow copy of curses.h if it sees these symbols
3013 apparently typedef'd.
3014 + if database is disabled, do not generate run_tic.sh
3015 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking when termcap is read.
3018 + add checking in tic for incomplete line-drawing character mapping.
3019 + update configure script to reflect fix for AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL,
3020 which is broken in autoconf 2.5x for Mac OS X 10.2.3 (report by
3021 Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl>).
3022 + make return value from _nc_printf_string() consistent. Before,
3023 depending on whether --enable-safe-sprintf was used, it might not be
3024 cached for reallocating.
3027 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking in lib_tparm.c, hardscroll.c
3028 + correct a potentially-uninitialized value if _read_termtype() does
3029 not read as much data as expected (report by Wolfgang Rohdewald
3031 + correct several places where the aclocal.m4 macros relied on cache
3032 variable names which were incompatible (as usual) between autoconf
3033 2.13 and 2.5x, causing the test for broken-linker to give incorrect
3034 results (reports by Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl> and Thomas Esser
3035 <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de>).
3036 + do not try to open gpm mouse driver if standard output is not a tty;
3037 the gpm library does not make this check (bug report for dialog
3038 by David Oliveira <davidoliveira@develop.prozone.ws>).
3041 + modified emx.src to correspond more closely to terminfo.src, added
3042 emx-base to the latter -TD
3043 + add configure option for FreeBSD sysmouse, --with-sysmouse, and
3044 implement support for that in lib_mouse.c, lib_getch.c
3047 + revert 20030105 change to can_clear_with(), does not work for the
3048 case where the update is made on cells which are blanks with
3049 attributes, e.g., reverse.
3050 + improve ifdef's to guard against redefinition of wchar_t and wint_t
3051 in curses.h (report by Urs Jansen).
3054 + improve mvcur() by checking if it is safe to move when video
3055 attributes are set (msgr), and if not, reset/restore attributes
3056 within that function rather than doing it separately in the GoTo()
3057 function in tty_update.c (suggested by Philippe Blain).
3058 + add a message in run_tic.in to explain more clearly what does not
3059 work when attempting to create a symbolic link for /usr/lib/terminfo
3060 on OS/2 and other platforms with no symbolic links (report by John
3062 + change several sed scripts to avoid using "\+" since it is not a BRE
3063 (basic regular expression). One instance caused terminfo.5 to be
3064 misformatted on FreeBSD (report by Kazuo Horikawa
3065 <horikawa@FreeBSD.org> (see FreeBSD docs/46709)).
3066 + correct misspelled 'wint_t' in curs_get_wch.3x (Michael Elkins).
3069 + improve description of terminfo operators, especially static/dynamic
3070 variables (comments by Mark I Manning IV <mark4th@earthlink.net>).
3071 + demonstrate use of FIELDTYPE by modifying test/ncurses 'r' test to
3072 use the predefined TYPE_ALPHA field-type, and by defining a
3073 specialized type for the middle initial/name.
3074 + fix MKterminfo.sh, another workaround for POSIXLY_CORRECT misfeature
3076 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3077 + optimize can_clear_with() a little by testing first if the parameter
3078 is indeed a "blank".
3079 + simplify ClrBottom() a little by allowing it to use clr_eos to clear
3080 sections as small as one line.
3081 + improve ClrToEOL() by checking if clr_eos is available before trying
3083 + use tputs() rather than putp() in a few cases in tty_update.c since
3084 the corresponding delays are proportional to the number of lines
3085 affected: repeat_char, clr_eos, change_scroll_region.
3088 + rewrite of lib_acs.c conflicts with copying of SCREEN acs_map to/from
3089 global acs_map[] array; removed the lines that did the copying.
3092 + change some overlooked tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp()
3093 (report by Philippe Blain).
3094 + modify lib_getch.c to avoid recursion via wgetnstr() when the input
3095 is not a tty and consequently mode-changes do not work (report by
3096 <R.Chamberlin@querix.com>).
3097 + rewrote lib_acs.c to allow PutAttrChar() to decide how to render
3098 alternate-characters, i.e., to work with Linux console and UTF-8
3100 + correct line/column reference in adjust_window(), needed to make
3101 special windows such as curscr track properly when resizing (report
3102 by Lucas Gonze <lgonze@panix.com>).
3103 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3104 + correct the value used for blank in ClrBottom() (broken in 20000708).
3105 + correct an off-by-one in GoTo() parameter in _nc_scrolln().
3108 + change several tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp(), to
3109 enable padding which may be needed for some terminals (patch by
3111 + use '%' as sed substitute delimiter in run_tic script to avoid
3112 problems with pathname delimiters such as ':' and '@' (report by John
3114 + implement a workaround so that line-drawing works with screen's
3115 crippled UTF-8 support (tested with 3.9.13). This only works with
3116 the wide-character support (--enable-widec); the normal library will
3117 simply suppress line-drawing when running in a UTF-8 locale in screen.
3120 + allow BUILD_CC and related configure script variables to be
3121 overridden from the environment.
3122 + make build-tools variables in ncurses/Makefile.in consistent with
3123 the configure script variables (report by Maciej W Rozycki).
3124 + modify ncurses/modules to allow
3125 configure --disable-leaks --disable-ext-funcs
3126 to build (report by Gary Samuelson).
3127 + fix a few places in configure.in which lacked quotes (report by
3128 Gary Samuelson <gary.samuelson@verizon.com>).
3129 + correct handling of multibyte characters in waddch_literal() which
3130 force wrapping because they are started too late on the line (report
3131 by Sam Varshavchik).
3132 + small fix for CF_GNAT_VERSION to ignore the help-message which
3133 gnatmake adds to its version-message.
3134 > Maciej W Rozycki <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>:
3135 + use AC_CHECK_TOOL to get proper values for AR and LD for cross
3137 + use $cross_compiling variable in configure script rather than
3138 comparing $host_alias and $target alias, since "host" is
3139 traditionally misused in autoconf to refer to the target platform.
3140 + change configure --help message to use "build" rather than "host"
3141 when referring to the --with-build-XXX options.
3144 + modify CF_GNAT_VERSION to print gnatmake's version, and to allow for
3145 possible gnat versions such as 3.2 (report by Chris Lingard
3146 <chris@stockwith.co.uk>).
3147 + modify #define's for CKILL and other default control characters in
3148 tset to use the system's default values if they are defined.
3149 + correct interchanged defaults for kill and interrupt characters
3150 in tset, which caused it to report unnecessarily (Debian #171583).
3151 + repair check for missing C++ compiler, which is broken in autoconf
3152 2.5x by hardcoding it to g++ (report by Martin Mokrejs).
3153 + update config.guess, config.sub (2002-11-30)
3154 + modify configure script to skip --with-shared, etc., when the
3155 --with-libtool option is given, since they would be ignored anyway.
3156 + fix to allow "configure --with-libtool --with-termlib" to build.
3157 + modify configure script to show version number of libtool, to help
3158 with bug reports. libtool still gets confused if the installed
3159 ncurses libraries are old, since it ignores the -L options at some
3160 point (tested with libtool 1.3.3 and 1.4.3).
3161 + reorder configure script's updating of $CPPFLAGS and $CFLAGS to
3162 prevent -I options in the user's environment from introducing
3163 conflicts with the build -I options (may be related to reports by
3164 Patrick Ash and George Goffe).
3165 + rename test/define_key.c to test/demo_defkey.c, test/keyok.c to
3166 test/demo_keyok.c to allow building these with libtool.
3169 + add example program test/define_key.c for define_key().
3170 + add example program test/keyok.c for keyok().
3171 + add example program test/ins_wide.c for wins_wch() and wins_wstr().
3172 + modify wins_wch() and wins_wstr() to interpret tabs by using the
3173 winsch() internal function.
3174 + modify setcchar() to allow for wchar_t input strings that have
3175 more than one spacing character.
3178 + fix a boundary check in lib_insch.c (patch by Philippe Blain).
3179 + change type for *printw functions from NCURSES_CONST to const
3180 (prompted by comment by Pedro Palhoto Matos <plpm@mega.ist.utl.pt>,
3181 but really from a note on X/Open's website stating that either is
3182 acceptable, and the latter will be used in a future revision).
3183 + add xterm-1002, xterm-1003 terminfo entries to demonstrate changes in
3184 lib_mouse.c (20021026) -TD
3185 + add screen-bce, screen-s entries from screen 3.9.13 (report by
3186 Adam Lazur <zal@debian.org>) -TD
3187 + add mterm terminfo entries -TD
3190 + split-out useful fragments in terminfo for vt100 and vt220 numeric
3191 keypad, i.e., vt100+keypad, vt100+pfkeys, vt100+fnkeys and
3192 vt220+keypad. The last as embedded in various entries had ka3 and
3193 kb2 interchanged (report/discussion with Leonard den Ottolander
3194 <leonardjo@hetnet.nl>).
3195 + add check in tic for keypads consistent with vt100 layout.
3196 + improve checks in tic for color capabilities
3199 + check for missing/empty/illegal terminfo name in _nc_read_entry()
3200 (report by Martin Mokrejs, where $TERM was set to an empty string).
3201 + rewrote lib_insch.c, combining it with lib_insstr.c so both handle
3202 tab and other control characters consistently (report by Philippe
3204 + remove an #undef for KEY_EVENT from curses.tail used in the
3205 experimental NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS feature. The #undef confuses
3206 dpkg's build script (Debian #165897).
3207 + fix MKlib_gen.sh, working around the ironically named POSIXLY_CORRECT
3208 feature of GNU sed 4.0 (reported by Ervin Nemeth <airwin@inf.bme.hu>).
3211 + implement logic in lib_mouse.c to handle position reports which are
3212 generated when XFree86 xterm is initialized with private modes 1002
3213 or 1003. These are returned to the application as the
3214 REPORT_MOUSE_POSITION mask, which was not implemented. Tested both
3215 with ncurses 'a' menu (prompted by discussion with Larry Riedel
3216 <Larry@Riedel.org>).
3217 + modify lib_mouse.c to look for "XM" terminfo string, which allows
3218 one to override the escape sequence used to enable/disable mouse
3219 mode. In particular this works for XFree86 xterm private modes
3220 1002 and 1003. If "XM" is missing (note that this is an extended
3221 name), lib_mouse uses the conventional private mode 1000.
3222 + correct NOT_LOCAL() macro in lib_mvcur.c to refer to screen_columns
3223 where it used screen_lines (report by Philippe Blain).
3224 + correct makefile rules for the case when both --with-libtool and
3225 --with-gpm are given (report by Mr E_T <troll@logi.net.au>).
3226 + add note to terminfo manpage regarding the differences between
3227 setaf/setab and setf/setb capabilities (report by Pavel Roskin).
3230 + remove redundant initialization of TABSIZE in newterm(), since it is
3231 already done in setupterm() (report by Philippe Blain).
3232 + add test/inserts.c, to test winnstr() and winsch().
3233 + replace 'sort' in dist.mk with script that sets locale to POSIX.
3234 + update URLs in announce.html.in (patch by Frederic L W Meunier).
3235 + remove glibc add-on files, which are no longer needed (report by
3236 Frederic L W Meunier).
3238 20021012 5.3 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3239 + modify ifdef's in etip.h.in to allow the etip.h header to compile
3240 with gcc 3.2 (patch by Dimitar Zhekov <jimmy@is-vn.bg>).
3241 + add logic to setupterm() to make it like initscr() and newterm(),
3242 by checking for $NCURSES_TRACE environment variable and enabling
3243 the debug trace in that case.
3244 + modify setupterm() to ensure that it initializes the baudrate, for
3245 applications such as tput (report by Frank Henigman).
3246 + modify definition of bits used for command-line and library debug
3247 traces to avoid overlap, using new definition TRACE_SHIFT to relate
3249 + document tput's interpretation of parameterized strings according to
3250 whether parameters are given, etc. (discussion with Robert De Bath).
3252 20021005 pre-release
3253 + correct winnwstr() to account for non-character cells generated when
3254 a double-width character is added (report by Michael Bienia
3255 <michael@vorlon.ping.de>).
3256 + modify _nc_viswbuf2n() to provide better results using wctomb().
3257 + correct logic in _nc_varargs() which broke tracing of parameters for
3258 formats such as "%.*s".
3259 + correct scale factor in linux-c and linux-c-nc terminfo entries
3260 (report Floyd Davidson).
3261 + change tic -A option to -t, add the same option to infocmp for
3263 + correct "%c" implementation in lib_tparm.c, which did not map a null
3264 character to a 128 (cf: 980620) (patch by Frank Henigman
3265 <fjhenigman@mud.cgl.uwaterloo.ca>).
3267 20020928 pre-release
3268 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for POSIX sort -k option, use that if
3269 it is found, to accommodate newer utility which dropped the
3270 compatibility support for +number options (reported by Andrey A
3272 + modify linux terminfo entry to use color palette feature from
3273 linux-c-nc entry (comments by Tomasz Wasiak and Floyd Davidson).
3274 + restore original color definitions in endwin() if init_color() was
3275 used, and resume those colors on the next doupdate() or refresh()
3276 (report by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@komputom.com.pl>).
3277 + improve debug-traces by modifying MKlib_gen.sh to generate calls
3278 to returnBool() and returnAttr().
3279 + add/use _nc_visbufn() and _nc_viswbufn() to limit the debug trace
3280 of waddnstr() and similar functions to match the parameters as used.
3281 + add/use _nc_retrace_bool() and _nc_retrace_unsigned().
3282 + correct type used by _nc_retrace_chtype().
3283 + add debug traces to some functions in lib_mouse.c
3284 + modify lib_addch.c to handle non-spacing characters.
3285 + correct parameter of RemAttr() in lib_bkgd.c, which caused the c++
3286 demo's boxes to lose the A_ALTCHARSET flag (broken in 20020629).
3287 + correct width computed in _tracedump(), which did not account for
3288 the attributes (broken in 20010602).
3289 + modify test/tracemunch to replace addresses for windows other than
3290 curscr, newscr and stdscr with window0, window1, etc.
3292 20020921 pre-release
3293 + redid fix for edit_man.sed path.
3294 + workaround for Cygwin bug which makes subprocess writes to stdout
3295 result in core dump.
3296 + documented getbegx(), etc.
3297 + minor fixes to configure script to use '%' consistently as a sed
3298 delimiter rather than '@'.
3299 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3300 + add check in lib_overlay.c to ensure that the windows to be merged
3301 actually overlap, and in copywin(), limit the area to be touched
3302 to the lines given for the destination window.
3304 20020914 pre-release
3305 + modified curses.h so that if the wide-character version is installed
3306 overwriting /usr/include/curses.h, and if it relied on libutf8.h,
3307 then applications that use that header for wide-character support
3308 must define HAVE_LIBUTF8_H.
3309 + modify putwin(), getwin() and dupwin() to allow them to operate on
3310 pads (request by Philippe Blain).
3311 + correct attribute-merging in wborder(), broken in 20020216 (report
3312 by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@grubasek.komputom.com.pl>).
3313 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3314 + corrected pop-counts in tparam_internal() to '!' and '~' cases.
3315 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in one place that used sizeof(chtype).
3316 + remove some unused variables from mvcur test-driver.
3318 20020907 pre-release
3319 + change configure script to allow install of widec-character
3320 (ncursesw) headers to overwrite normal (ncurses) headers, since the
3321 latter is a compatible subset of the former.
3322 + fix path of edit_man.sed in configure script, needed to regenerate
3323 html manpages on Debian.
3324 + fix mismatched enums in vsscanf.c, which caused warning on Solaris.
3325 + update README.emx to reflect current patch used for autoconf.
3326 + change web- and ftp-site to invisible-island.net
3327 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3328 + change case for 'P' in tparam_internal() to indicate that it pops
3329 a variable from the stack.
3330 + correct sense of precision and width in parse_format(), to avoid
3332 + modify lib_tparm.c, absorb really_get_space() into get_space().
3333 + modify getwin() and dupwin() to copy the _notimeout, _idlok and
3334 _idcok window fields.
3335 + better fix for _nc_set_type(), using typeMalloc().
3337 20020901 pre-release
3338 + change minor version to 3, i.e., ncurses 5.3
3339 + update config.guess, config.sub
3340 + retest build with each configure option; minor ifdef fixes.
3341 + make keyname() return a null pointer rather than "UNKNOWN STRING" to
3343 + modify handling of wide line-drawing character functions to use the
3344 normal line-drawing characters when not in UTF-8 locale.
3345 + add check/fix to comp_parse.c to suppress warning about missing acsc
3346 string. This happens in configurations where raw termcap information
3347 is processed; tic already does this and other checks.
3348 + modify tic's check for ich/ich1 versus rmir/smir to only warn about
3349 ich1, to match xterm patch #70 notes.
3350 + moved information for ripped-off lines into SCREEN struct to allow
3351 use in resizeterm().
3352 + add experimental wgetch_events(), ifdef'd with NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS
3353 (adapted from patch by Ilya Zakharevich - see ncurses/README.IZ).
3354 + amend check in kgetch() from 20020824 to look only for function-keys,
3355 otherwise escape sequences are not resolved properly.
3356 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3357 + removed redundant assignment to SP->_checkfd from newterm().
3358 + check return-value of setupterm() in restartterm().
3359 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in a few places that used sizeof(chtype).
3360 + prevent dupwin() from duplicating a pad.
3361 + prevent putwin() from writing a pad.
3362 + use typeRealloc() or typeMalloc() in preference to direct calls on
3366 + add a check in kgetch() for cooked characters in the fifo to avoid
3367 calling fifo_push() when a KEY_RESIZE is available (report/analysis
3368 by Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>).
3369 + fix an overlooked case for bugzilla #68199 (Philippe Blain).
3370 + ensure clearerr() is called before using ferror() e.g., in
3371 lib_screen.c (report by Philippe Blain).
3374 + modify lib_screen.c and lib_newwin.c to maintain the SCREEN-specific
3375 pointers for curscr/stdscr/newscr when scr_save() and scr_restore()
3376 modify the global curscr/stdscr/newscr variables. Fixes Redhat
3377 bugzilla #68199 dated 2002-07-07.
3378 + add checks for null pointer in calls to tparm() and tgoto() based on
3379 FreeBSD bug report. If ncurses were built with termcap support, and
3380 the first call to tgoto() were a zero-length string, the result would
3381 be a null pointer, which was not handled properly.
3382 + correct a typo in terminfo.head, which gave the octal code for colon
3384 + remove the "tic -u" option from 20020810, since it did not account
3385 for nested "tc=" clauses, and when that was addressed, was still
3389 + add tic -A option to suppress capabilities which are commented out
3390 when translating to termcap.
3391 + add tic -u option to provide older behavior of "tc=" clauses.
3392 + modified tic to expand all but the final "tc=" clause in a termcap
3393 entry, to accommodate termcap libraries which do not handle multiple
3395 + correct typo in curs_inopts.3x regarding CS8/CS7 usage (report by
3397 + remove a couple of redundant uses of A_ATTRIBUTES in expressions
3398 using AttrOf(), which already incorporates that mask (report by
3400 + document TABSIZE variable.
3401 + add NCURSES_ASSUMED_COLORS environment variable, to allow users to
3402 override compiled-in default black-on-white assumption used in
3403 assume_default_colors().
3404 + correct an off-by-one comparison against max_colors in COLORFGBG
3406 + correct a use of uninitialized memory found by valgrind (reported by
3407 Olaf Buddenhagen <olafBuddenhagen@web.de>).
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