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32 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
33 working with Pavel Curtis' original work, pcurses, in 1992.
35 Changes through 1.9.9e are recorded by Zeyd M Ben-Halim.
36 Changes since 1.9.9e are recorded by Thomas E Dickey.
38 Contributors include those who have provided patches (even small ones), as well
39 as those who provide useful information (bug reports, analyses). Changes with
40 no cited author are the work of Thomas E Dickey (TD).
42 A few contributors may be cited in this file by their initials.
43 Each accounts for half of one percent or more of the changes since 1.9.9e.
44 See the AUTHORS file for the corresponding full names.
46 Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
47 it is not possible to add this information.
50 + update mlterm3 for 3.9.0 (report by Premysl Eric Janouch) -TD
53 + corrected condition for appending curses.events to the generated
54 curses.h (report by Sven Joachim, Debian #970545).
57 + add configure-check for systre/tre with mingw configuration, to get
58 the library-dependencies as seen in msys2 configuration for mingw64.
59 + build-fixes for the win32-driver configuration.
60 + use more defensive binary mode setting for Win32 (Juergen Pfeifer).
63 + fix regression in setupterm validating non-empty $TERM (report by
67 + merge/adapt in-progress work by Juergen Pfeifer for new version of
69 + correct description of vt330/vt340 (Ross Combs).
72 + build-fix for awk-scripts modified for win32-driver (report by Werner
76 + remove a redundant NCURSES_EXPORT as a build-fix for "Maarten
78 + merge/adapt in-progress work by Juergen Pfeifer for new version of
80 + modify configure script, moving gcc -Werror options to EXTRA_CFLAGS
81 to avoid breaking configure-checks (adapted from ongoing work on
83 > errata for terminfo.src (report by Florian Weimer):
89 + improve version-number extraction in MKlib_gen.sh
90 + make the test-package for manpages installable by adjusting the
92 + correct an off-by-one loop-limit in convert_strings function
94 + add CF_SHARED_OPTS cases for HPE NonStop systems (Randall S Becker).
95 + modify CF_SHARED_OPTS case for NetBSD to use the same "-shared"
96 option for the non-rpath case as for the rpath case, to allow gcc to
97 provide suitable runtime initialization (report by Rajeev V Pillai).
100 + reduce build-warnings by excluding ncurses-internals from deprecation
102 + mark wgetch-events feature as deprecated.
103 + add definition for $(LIBS) to ncurses/Makefile.in, to simplify builds
104 using the string-hacks option.
105 + prevent KEY_EVENT from appearing in curses.h unless the configure
106 option --enable-wgetch-events is used (report by Werner Fink).
109 + amend tic/infocmp check to allow for the respective tool's absence
110 (report by Steve Wills, cf: 20200808).
111 + improved some of the build-scripts with shellcheck
112 + filter out -MT/-MD/-MTd/-MDd options in script for Visual Studio C++
113 (discussion with "Maarten Anonymous").
116 + improve discussion of the system's tic utility when used as part
117 of cross-compiling (discussion with Keith Marshall).
118 + modify configuration checks for build-time tic/infocmp to use
119 AC_CHECK_TOOL. That can still be overridden by --with-tic-path and
120 --with-infocmp-path when fallbacks are used, but even if not using
121 fallbacks, the improved check may help with cross-compiling
122 (discussion with Keith Marshall).
123 + other build-fixes for Ada95 with MinGW.
124 + modify Ada95 source-generation utility to write to a file given as
125 parameter rather than to the standard output, allowing builds with
129 + remove remaining parts of checks for ISC Unix (cf: 20121006).
130 + add user32.lib to LDFLAGS for Visual Studio C++ configuration
131 (discussion with "Maarten Anonymous").
132 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to hide ncurses' definition of KEY_EVENTS to
133 reduce Visual Studio C++ redefinition warnings.
134 + improve/update checks for external functions in test/configure
137 + set LINK_TESTS in CF_SHARED_OPTS for msvc (patch by
139 + improved workaround for redefinition-warnings for KEY_EVENT.
140 + improve man/term.5 section on legacy storage format (report by
144 + reduce redefinition-warnings for KEY_EVENT when building with Visual
146 + define NCURSES_STATIC when compiling programs to link with static
147 libraries, to work with MinGW vs Visual Studio C++.
148 > additional changes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2
149 (reports/patches by "Maarten Anonymous")
150 + modify c++/Makefile.in to set the current directory while compiling
151 the main program, so the linker can find related objects.
152 + several changes to allow the c++/demo program to compile/link.
153 + change an ifdef in test-directory, to use VC++ wide-character funcs.
156 + fix pound-sign mapping in acsc of linux2.6 entry (report by Ingo
158 + additional changes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2
159 (reports/patches by "Maarten Anonymous")
160 + build-improvements for Windows 10 and MinGW (patch by Juergen
162 + fix a typo in curs_printw.3x (patch by William Pursell).
163 + fix two errors in infotocap which allowed indexing outside the
164 buffer (report/testcases by Zhang Gan).
165 + update length of strings in infocmp's usage function to restore a
166 trailing null on the longest string (report/testcase by Zhang Gen).
169 + modify version-check with Ada generics to use the same pattern as in
170 the check for supported gnat versions (report by Pascal Pignard).
171 > additional changes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2
172 (patches by "Maarten Anonymous"):
173 + adjust headers/declarations to provide for "dllimport" vs "dllexport"
174 declarations when constructing DLLs, to worko with Visual Studio C++.
177 + build-fixes for gnat 10.1.1, whose gnatmake drops integration with
179 + correct buffer-length in test/color_name.h
182 + update list of functions in ncurses.3x
183 + move dlclose() call from lib_mouse.c to delscreen() to avoid a case
184 in the former which could be called from SIGTSTP handler (Debian
188 + add xterm+256color2, xterm+88color2, to deprecate nonstandard usage
189 in xterm+256color, xterm+88color -TD
190 + add shifted Linux console keys in linux+sfkeys entry for
191 screen.linux (report by Alexandre Montaron).
192 + use vt100+enq in screen (report by Alexandre Montaron).
193 + add screen.linux-s alias (suggested by Alexandre Montaron).
196 + correct configure version-check/warnng for g++ to allow for 10.x
197 + re-enable "bel" in konsole-base (report by Nia Huang)
198 + add linux-s entry (patch by Alexandre Montaron).
199 + drop long-obsolete convert_configure.pl
200 + add test/test_parm.c, for checking tparm changes.
201 + improve parameter-checking for tparm, adding function _nc_tiparm() to
202 handle the most-used case, which accepts only numeric parameters
203 (report/testcase by "puppet-meteor").
204 + use a more conservative estimate of the buffer-size in lib_tparm.c's
205 save_text() and save_number(), in case the sprintf() function
206 passes-through unexpected characters from a format specifier
207 (report/testcase by "puppet-meteor").
208 + add a check for end-of-string in cvtchar to handle a malformed
209 string in infotocap (report/testcase by "puppet-meteor").
212 + update version-check for gnat to allow for gnat 10.x to 99.x
213 + fix an uninitialized variable in lib_mouse.c changes (cf: 20200502)
214 + add a check in EmitRange to guard against repeat_char emitting digits
215 which could be interpreted as BSD-style padding when --enable-bsdpad
216 is configured (report/patch by Hiltjo Posthuma).
217 + add --disable-pkg-ldflags to suppress EXTRA_LDFLAGS from the
218 generated pkg-config and ncurses*-config files, to simplify
219 configuring in the case where rpath is used but the packager wants
220 to hide the feature (report by Michael Stapelberg).
221 > fixes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 (patches by
222 "Maarten Anonymous"):
223 + modify CF_SHARED_OPTS to generate a script which translates linker
224 options into Visual Studio's dialect.
225 + omit parentheses around function-names in generated lib_gen.c to
226 work around a Visual Studio C++ limitation.
229 + add notes on termcap.h header in curs_termcap.3x
230 + update notes on vscode / xterm.js -TD
233 + add "-r" option to the dots test-programs, to help with scripting
234 a performance comparison.
235 + build-fix test/move_field.c for NetBSD curses, whose form headers
236 use different names than SVr4 or ncurses.
239 + add details on the change to Linux SGR 21 in 2018 -TD
240 + add xterm-direct16 and xterm-direct256 -TD
241 + modify lib_mouse.c to check for out-of-range button numbers, convert
242 those to position reports.
245 + use vt100+fnkeys in putty -TD
246 + fix a typo in tput.1; "columns" should be "cols".
249 + improve tracemunch logic for "RUN" compaction.
250 + fix a special case in wresize() where copying the old text did not
251 check if the last cell on a row was the beginning of a fullwidth
252 character (adapted from patch by Benno Schulenberg).
253 + use vt52+keypad in xterm-vt52, from xterm #354 -TD
254 + improve see-also section of user_caps.5
257 + fix find_pair(), overlooked when refactoring for _nc_reserve_pairs()
258 (report/testcase by Brad Town, cf: 20170812).
259 + add a trailing null for magic-string in putwin, flagged by gcc 10
260 + update check for gcc version versus gnat to work with gcc 10.x
263 + modify -fvisibility check to work with g++
264 > fixes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 (patches by
265 "Maarten Anonymous"):
266 + add configure option and check for gcc -fvisibility=hidden feature
267 + define NCURSES_NOMACROS in lib_gen.c to work around Visual Studio
268 C++ preprocessor limitations.
269 + modify some of the configure-macros, as well as mk-1st.awk to work
270 with Visual Studio C++ default filenaming.
273 + correct length of buffer copied in dup_field().
274 + remove "$(srcdir)/" from path of library.gpr, needed for out-of-tree
275 builds of Ada95 (patch by Adam Van Ymeren).
278 + improve configure-checks to reduce warnings about unused variables.
279 + improve description of error-returns in waddch and waddnstr manual
280 pages (prompted by patch by Benno Schulenberg).
281 + add test/move_field.c to demonstrate move_field(), and a stub for
282 a corresponding demo of dup_field().
285 + add history note to curs_scanw.3x for <stdarg.h> and <varargs.h>
286 + add history note to curs_printw.3x for <stdarg.h> and <varargs.h>
287 + add portability note to ncurses.3x regarding <stdarg.h>
290 + update copyright notices in test-packages.
291 + modify tracemunch to guard against errors in its known_p1 table.
292 + add several --with-xxx-libname options, to help with pkgsrc (prompted
293 by discussion with Thomas Klausner).
296 + modify wbkgd() and wbkgrnd() to avoid storing a null in the
297 background character, because it may be used in cases where the
298 corresponding 0x80 is not treated as a null (report by Marc Rechte,
302 + modify CF_NCURSES_CONFIG to work around xcode's c99 "-W" option,
303 which conflicts with conventional use for passing linker options.
304 > fixes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 (patches by
305 "Maarten Anonymous"):
306 + check for pcre2posix.h instead of pcre2-posix.h
307 + add case in CF_SHARED_OPTS for msys2 + msvc
308 + add fallback definition for STDIN_FILENO in progs.priv.h
309 + modify win_driver.c to use _alloca() rather than gcc's variable
310 length array feature.
311 + add NCURSES_IMPEXP to ncurses wrapped-variable declarations
312 + remove NCURSES_IMPEXP from class variables in c++/cursslk.h
313 + remove fallback prototype for exit() from c++/etip.h.in
314 + use configured check for <sys/time.h> in a couple of places
315 + conditionally include winsock.h in ncurses/win32con/gettimeofday.c,
316 because Visual Studio needs this for the timestruct declaration.
317 + adjust syntax in a couple of files using the NCURSES_API symbol.
320 + expanded note in ncurses.3x regarding automatically-included headers
321 + improve vt50h and vt52 based on DECScope manual -TD
322 + add/use vt52+keypad and vt52-basic -TD
323 + check/workaround for line-too-long in Ada95 generate utility when
324 building out-of-tree.
325 + improve/update HEADER_DEPS in */Makefile.in
326 + add "check" rule to include/Makefile, to demonstrate that the headers
327 include all of the required headers for the types used.
330 + improve manual page for panel library, extending the portability
331 section as well as documenting error-returns.
332 + show tic's version when installing terminal database in run_tic.sh
333 + correct check for gcc vs other compilers used in ncurses 6.0, from
334 FreeBSD patch by Kyle Evans (cf: 20150725).
335 + add notes for 6.2 to INSTALL.
337 20200212 6.2 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
338 + update release notes
339 + minor build-fixes, mostly to test-package scripts
342 + modify check for sizeof(wchar_t) to ensure it gives useful result
343 when cross-compiling.
344 + drop assumption in configure script that Cygwin's linker is broken.
345 + define NCURSES_BROKEN_LINKER if the broken-linker feature is used,
346 to simplify configure-checks for ncurses-examples.
349 + reassert copyright on ncurses, per discussion in ncurses FAQ:
350 https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html#relicensed
353 + modify comparison in make_hash.c to correct a special case in
354 collision handling for Caps-hpux11
355 + add testing utility report_hashing to check hash-tables used for
356 terminfo and termcap names.
357 + fix a missing prototype for _nc_free_and_exit().
358 + update a few comments about tack 1.07
359 + use an awk script to split too-long pathnames used in Ada95 sample
360 programs for explain.txt
363 + expanded description of XM in user_caps.5
364 + improve xm example for xterm+x11mouse, xterm+sm+1006 -TD
365 + add history section to curs_slk.3x and curs_terminfo.3x manpages.
366 + update alacritty entries for 0.4.0 (prompted by patch by
368 + correct spelling errors found with codespell.
369 + fix for test/configure, from xterm #352.
372 + improve configure macros which check for the X11/Intrinsic.h header,
373 to accommodate recent MacOS changes.
374 + suppress gcc's -Winline warning; it has not been useful for some time
375 + update config.guess, config.sub
378 + modify a couple of macros in aclocal.m4 to allow autoconf 2.69 to
379 "work", to help illustrate discussion in
380 https://invisible-island.net/autoconf/my-autoconf.html
381 + fix some warnings from autoheader-252
384 + in gen-pkgconfig.in, move the RPATH_LIST and PRIVATE_LIBS assignments
385 past the various prefix/libdir assignments, to allow for using those
386 symbols, e.g., as done via CF_SHARED_OPTS.
387 + improve ncurses*-config and pc-files by filtering out linker-specs.
388 + modify test-package to more closely match Fedora's configuration
389 for PIE/PIC feature and debug-packages.
392 + correct pathname used in Ada95 sample programs for explain.txt, to
393 work with test-packages.
394 + improve tracemunch:
395 + keep track of TERMINAL* values
396 + if tracing was first turned on after initialization, attempt to
397 show distinct screen, window and terminal names anyway.
398 + ensure that GCC_NORETURN is defined in term.h, because the prototype
399 for exit_terminfo() uses it (report by Werner Fink).
402 + add exit_curses() and exit_terminfo() to replace internal symbols for
406 + fix a few warnings for test-package builds
407 + add curses_trace(), to replace trace().
410 + add portability section to curs_getcchar manpage (prompted by
411 discussion with Nick Black).
412 + improve portability discussion of ACS characters in curs_addch
414 + improve typography for double-quotes in manpages.
417 + fix typo for MinGW rpm test-package.
418 + workaround in rpm specs for NFS problems in Fedora 31.
421 + modify ncurses/Makefile.in to fix a case where Debian/testing changes
422 to the ld --as-needed configuration broke ncurses-examples test
424 + drop library-dependency on psapi for MinGW port, since win_driver.c
425 defines PSAPI_VERSION to 2, making it use GetProcessImageFileName
426 from kernel32.dll (prompted by patch by Simon Sobish, cf: 20140503).
429 + add warning-check in tic for terminals with parm_dch vs parm_ich.
430 + drop ich1 from rxvt-basic, Eterm and mlterm to improve compatibility
431 with old non-curses programs -TD
432 + reviewed st 0.8.2, updated some details -TD
433 + use ansi+rep several places -TD
434 + corrected tic's check for ich1 (report by Sebastian J. Bronner,
438 + check parameter of set_escdelay, return ERR if negative.
439 + check parameter of set_tabsize, return ERR if not greater than zero
440 (report/patch by Anthony Sottile).
441 + revise CF_ADD_LIBS macro to prepend rather than append libraries.
442 + add "xterm-mono" to help packagers (report by Sven Joachim) -TD
445 + add a note in man/curs_add_wch.3x about Unicode terminology for the
446 line-drawing characters (report by Nick Black).
447 + improve comment in lib_tgoto.c regarding the use of \200 where a
448 \0 would be intended by the caller (report by "64 bit", cf: 20000923).
449 + modify linux-16color to accommodate Linux console driver change in
450 early 2018 (report by Dino Petrucci).
453 + modify make_hash to not require --disable-leaks, to simplify building
454 with address-sanitizer.
455 + modify tic to exit if it cannot remove a conflicting name, because
456 treating that as a partial success can cause an infinite loop in
457 use-resolution (report/testcase by Hongxu Chen, cf: 20111001).
460 + improve buffer-checks in captoinfo.c, for some cases when the
461 input string is shorter than expected.
462 > fix two errata in tic (report/testcases by Hongxu Chen):
463 + check for missing character after backslash in write_it
464 + check for missing characters after "%>" when converting from termcap
468 + amend recent changes to ncurses*-config and pc-files to filter out
469 Debian linker-flags (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20150516).
470 + clarify relationship between tic, infocmp and captoinfo in manpage.
471 + check for invalid hashcode in _nc_find_type_entry and
473 > fix several errata in tic (reports/testcases by "zjuchenyuan"):
474 + check for invalid hashcode in _nc_find_entry.
475 + check for missing character after backslash in fmt_entry
476 + check for acsc with odd length in dump_entry in check for one-one
477 mapping (cf: 20060415);
478 + check length when converting from old AIX box_chars_1 capability,
479 overlooked in changes to eliminate strcpy (cf: 20001007).
482 + modify the ncurse*-config and pc-files to more closely match for the
486 + amend the ncurses*-config and pc-files to take into account the rpath
487 hack which differed between those files.
488 + improve -L option filtering in ncurses*-config
489 + improve recovery from error when reading command-character in
490 test/ncurses.c, showing the relevant error message and not exiting on
494 + add a note in resizeterm manpage about top-level windows which touch
495 the screen's borders.
496 + modify configure-checks for gnat to identify each of the tools path
500 + build-fixes for Ada95 configure-script and corresponding test package
503 + add --with-ada-libname option and modify Ada95 configuration to
504 allow renaming the "AdaCurses" library (prompted by proposed changes
506 + modify configure script to distinguish gcc from icc and clang when
507 the --enable-warnings option is not used, to avoid unnecessary
508 warnings about unrecognized inline options (report by Sven Joachim).
511 + build-fixes for configuration using --program-suffix with Ada95,
512 noticed with MacOS but applicable to other platforms without
516 + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses test-programs.
519 + amend 20181208 changes for wbkgd() and wbkgrnd(), fixing a few
520 details where it still differed from SVr4.
521 + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses test-programs.
524 + fix a few more coverity warnings.
527 + improve loop limits in _nc_scroll_window() to handle a case where
528 the scrolled data is a pad which is taller than the window (patch
530 + amend the change to screen, because tmux relies upon that entry
531 and does not support that feature (Debian #933572) -TD
532 + updated ms-terminal entry & notes -TD
533 + updated kitty entry & notes -TD
534 + updated alacritty+common entry & notes -TD
535 + use xterm+sl-twm for consistency -TD
538 + fix a few more coverity warnings.
539 + more documentation updates based on tctest.
542 + fix a few coverity warnings.
543 + documentation updates based on tctest.
546 + fix a few warnings for gcc 4.x
547 + add some portability/historical details to the tic, toe and infocmp
549 + correct fix for broken link from terminfo(5) to tabs(1) manpage
550 (report by Sven Joachim).
553 + change reset's behavior for margins to simply clear soft-margins if
554 possible, rather than clearing and then setting them according to the
555 terminal's width (suggested by Thomas Wolff).
556 + correct order of one wbkgd versus start_color call in test/padview.c
560 + improve comments for recent changes, add alias xterm.js -TD
563 + add --with-tic-path and --with-infocmp-path to work around problems
564 building fallback source using pre-6.0 tic/infocmp.
565 + add a check in tic for paired indn/rin
566 + correct a buffer-limit in write_entry.c for systems that use caseless
568 + add ms-terminal -TD
569 + add vscode, vscode-direct -TD
572 + improve the tabs.1 manual page to distinguish the PWB/Unix and 7th
573 Edition versions of the tabs utility.
574 + add configure check for getenv() to work around implementation shown
575 in Emscripten #6766, use that to optionally suppress START_TRACE
576 macro, whose call to getenv() may not work properly (report by Ilya
578 + modify initialization functions to avoid relying upon persistent
579 data for the result from getenv().
580 + update config.guess, config.sub
583 + expand the portability section of the man/tabs.1 manual page.
584 + regenerate HTML manpages.
587 + add mintty, mintty-direct (adapted from patch by Thomas Wolff).
588 Some of the suggested user-defined capabilities are commented-out,
589 to allow builds with ncurses 5.9 and 6.0
590 + add Smol/Rmol for tmux, vte-2018 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
591 + add rs1 to konsole, mlterm -TD
592 + modify _nc_merge_entry() to make a copy of the data which it merges,
593 to avoid modifying the source-data when aligning extended names.
596 + modify an internal call to vid_puts to pass extended color pairs
597 e.g., from tty_update.c and lib_mvcur.c (report by Niegodziwy Beru).
598 + improve manual page description of init_tabs capability and TABSIZE
602 + modify reset_cmd.c to allow for tabstops at intervals other than 8
603 (report by Vincent Huisman).
606 + update xterm-new to xterm patch #345 -TD
607 + add/use xterm+keypad in xterm-new (report by Alain D D Williams) -TD
608 + update terminator entry -TD
609 + remove hard-tabs from ti703 (report by Robert Clausecker)
610 + mention meml/memu/box1 in user_caps manual page.
611 + mention user_caps.5 in tic and infocmp manual pages.
614 + fix a spurious blank line seen with "infocmp -1fx xterm+x11mouse"
615 + add checks in repair_subwindows() to keep the current position and
616 scroll-margins inside the resized subwindow.
617 + add a limit check in newline_forces_scroll() for the case where the
618 row is inside scroll-margins, but not at the end (report by Toshio
619 Kuratomi, cf: 20170729).
620 + corrected a warning message in tic for extended capabilities versus
621 number of parameters.
624 + improve workaround for Solaris wcwidth versus line-drawing characters
625 (report by Pavel Stehule).
626 + add special case in tic to validate RGB string-capability extension.
627 + corrected string/parameter-field for RGB in Caps-ncurses.
630 + corrected problem in terminfo load/realignment which prevented
631 infocmp from comparing extended capabilities with the same name
635 + improve ifdef's for TABSIZE variable, to help with AIX/HPUX ports.
638 + check for TABSIZE variable in test/configure script.
639 + used test/test_arrays.c to improve Caps.aix1 and Caps.hpux11
640 + corrected filtering of comments in MKparametrized.sh
641 + reduce duplication across Caps* files by moving some parts which do
642 not depend on order into Caps-ncurses.
645 + modify MKcaptab.sh, MKkey_defs.sh, and MKhashsize.sh to handle
647 + build-fixes if extended-functions are disabled.
650 + add "screen5", to mention italics (report by Stefan Assmann)
651 + modify description of xterm+x11hilite to eliminate unused p5 -TD
652 + add configure script checks to help with a port to Ultrix 3.1
653 (report by Dennis Grevenstein).
654 + check if "b" binary feature of fopen works
655 + check for missing feature of locale.h
656 + add fallback for strstr() in test-programs
657 + add fallback for STDOUT_FILENO in test-programs
658 + update config.guess, config.sub
661 + move macro for is_linetouched() inside NCURSES_NOMACROS ifndef.
662 + corrected prototypes in several manpages using script to extract
663 those in compilable form.
664 + use _nc_copy_termtype2() rather than direct assignment in setupterm,
665 in case it is called repeatedly using fallback terminfo descriptions
666 (report/patch by Werner Fink).
669 + regenerate llib-* files.
670 + modify tic to also use new function for user-defined capability info.
671 + modify _nc_parse_entry() to check if a user-defined capability has
672 an unexpected type; ignore it in that case.
673 + fix a special case of link-anchors in generated Ada html files.
674 + use newer rel=author tag in generated html rather than rev=made,
675 which did not become accepted.
678 + in-progress changes to add parameter-checking for common user-defined
680 + update MKcodes.awk and MKnames.awk to ignore the new "userdef"
681 data in Caps-ncurses (cf: 20190302).
684 + corrected some of the undocumented terminfo names in Caps.hpux11
685 + add "Caps-ncurses" file to help with checking inconsistencies in some
686 user-defined capabilities.
687 + amend check for repeat_char to handle a case where setlocale() was
688 called after initscr() (report by "Ampera").
691 + fix typo in adds200 -TD
692 + add tic check for consistent alternate character set capabilities.
693 + improve check in mvcur() to decide whether to use hard-tabs, using
694 xt, tbc and hts as clues.
695 + replace check in reset command for obsolete "pt" capability using
696 tbc and hts capabilities as clues (report by Nicolas Marriott).
699 + improve manual page description of TABSIZE.
700 + add test/demo_tabs program.
703 + add check in tic to provide warnings for mismatched number of
704 parameters in the documented user-capability extensions.
707 + modify rpm test-package ".spec" file to work around naming conflict
708 with Redhat's package for ncurses6.
709 + modify no-leaks code in test/picsmap to avoid non-standard tdestroy.
710 + amend change to configure script which altered the top-level makefile
711 to avoid attempting to install the terminfo database when it was not
712 configured, to allow for installing the ".pc" files which are also
713 in the misc directory (report by Steve Wills).
716 + change some "%define" statements in test-packages for RPMs to
717 "%global" to work around changes in rpm 4.14 from recent Redhat.
718 + fixes for O_INPUT_FIELD extension (patch by Leon Winter).
719 + eliminate fixed buffer-size when reading $TERMCAP variable.
720 + correct logic in read_entry.c which prevented $TERMCAP variable from
721 being interpreted as a fallback to terminfo entry (prompted by
722 Savannah #54556, cf: 20110924).
725 + add a check in test/configure to work around non-ncurses termcap.h
727 + corrected flag for "seq" method of db 1.8.5 interface, needed by toe
729 + updated "string-hacks" feature.
730 + minor improvements to manpage typography.
731 + corrected conditionally-compiled limit on color pairs (report by
733 + add -x option to test/pair_content, test/color_content for testing
734 init_extended_pair, extended_pair_content, init_extended_color,
735 extended_color_content
736 + add -p option to test/pair_content, test/color_content to show the
737 return values from the tested functions.
738 + improve manual page curs_color.3x discussion of error returns and
740 + add O_INPUT_FIELD extension to form library (patch by Leon Winter).
741 + override/suppress --enable-db-install if --disable-database configure
743 + change a too-large terminal entry in tic from a fatal error to a
744 warning (prompted by discussion with Gabriele Balducci).
747 + fix typo in term(5), improve explanation of format (report by Otto
749 + add nsterm-direct -TD
750 + use SGR 1006 mouse for konsole-base -TD
751 + use SGR 1006 mouse for putty -TD
752 + add ti703/ti707, ti703-w/ti707-w (Robert Clausecker)
755 + add dummy "check" rule in top-level and test-Makefile to simply
756 building test-packages for Arch.
757 + modify configure script to avoid conflict with a non-POSIX feature
758 that enables all parts of the system headers by default. Some
759 packagers have come to rely upon this behavior (FreeBSD #234049).
760 + update config.guess, config.sub
763 + improve man/curs_mouse.3x with regard to xterm
764 + modify tracemunch to accept filename parameters in addition to use
766 + minor optimization to reduce calls to _nc_reserve_pairs (prompted by
767 discussion with Bryan Christ).
768 + add test/pair_content.c and test/color_content.c
769 + modify infocmp to omit filtering of "OTxx" names which are used for
770 obsolete capabilities, when the output is sorted by long-names.
771 Doing this helps when making a table of the short/long capability
775 + several fixes for gcc8 strict compiler warnings.
776 + fix a typo in comments (Aaron Gyes).
777 + add nsterm-build309 to replace nsterm-256color, assigning the latter
778 as an alias of nsterm, to make mouse work with nsterm-256color -TD
779 + base gnome-256color entry on "gnome", not "vte", for consistency -TD
780 + updates for configure macros from work on tin and xterm:
781 + CF_GNU_SOURCE, allow for Cygwin's newlib when checking for the
782 _DEFAULT_SOURCE symbol.
783 + CF_VA_COPY, add fallback check if neither va_copy/__va_copy is
784 supported, to try copying the pointers for va_list, or as an array.
785 Also add another fallback check, for __builtin_va_copy(), which
786 could be used with AIX xlc in c89 mode.
789 + modify wbkgd() and wbkgrnd() to improve compatibility with SVr4
790 curses, changing the way the window rendition is updated when the
791 background character is modified (report by Valery Ushakov).
794 + add midnightbsd to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro (patch by Urs Jansen).
795 + add "@" command to test/ncurses F-test, to allow rapid jump to
796 different character pages.
797 + update config.guess, config.sub from
798 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
801 + build-fix (reports by Chih-Hsuan Yen, Sven Joachim).
804 + check --with-fallbacks option to ensure there is a value, and add
805 the fallback information to top-level Makefile summary.
806 + add some traces in initialization to show whether a fallback entry is
808 + build-fix for test/movewindow with ncurses-examples on Solaris.
809 + add "-l" option to test/background, to dump screen contents in a form
810 that lets different curses implementations be compared.
811 + modify the initialization checks for mouse so that the xterm+sm+1006
812 block will work with terminal descriptions not mentioning xterm
813 (report by Tomas Janousek).
816 + ignore the hex/b64 $TERMINFO in toe's listing.
817 + correct a status-check in _nc_read_tic_entry() so that if reading
818 a hex/b64 $TERMINFO, and the $TERM does not match, fall-through to
819 the compiled-in search list.
822 + several workarounds to ensure proper C compiler used in parts of
824 + update config.guess, config.sub from
825 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
828 + add OpenGL clients alacritty and kitty -TD
829 + add Smulx for tmux, vte-2018 -Nicholas Marriott
832 + ignore $TERMINFO as a default value in configure script if it came
833 from the infocmp -Q option.
834 + allow value for --with-versioned-syms to be a relative pathname
835 + add a couple of broken-linker symbols to the list of versioned
836 symbols to help with link-time optimization versus weak symbols.
837 + apply shift/control/alt logic when decoding xterm's 1006 mode to
838 wheel-mouse events (Redhat #1610681).
841 + amend change from 20180818, which undid a fix for the $INSTALL value
842 to make it an absolute path.
845 + improve a configure check to work with newer optimizers (report by
846 Denis Pronin, Gentoo #606142).
847 + fix typo in tput.c (Sven Joachim, cf: 20180825).
850 + fix typo in tvi955 -TD
851 + corrected acsc for regent60 -TD
852 + add alias n7900 -TD
853 + corrected acsc for tvi950 -TD
854 + remove bogus kf0 from tvi950 -TD
855 + added function-key definitions to agree with Televideo 950 manual -TD
856 + add bel to tvi950 -TD
857 + add shifted function-keys to regent60 -TD
858 + renumber regent40 function-keys to match manual -TD
859 + add cd (clr_eos) to adds200 -TD
862 + build-fix: remove a _tracef call which was used for debugging (report
866 + ignore interrupted system-call in test/ncurses's command-line, e.g.,
867 if the terminal were resized.
868 + add shift/control/alt logic for decoding xterm's 1006 mode (Redhat
869 #1610681, cf: 20141011).
870 + modify rpm test-packages to not use --disable-relink with Redhat,
871 since Fedora 28's tools do not work with that feature.
874 + document --with-pcre2 configure option in INSTALL.
875 + improve workaround for special case in PutAttrChar() where a cell is
876 marked as alternate-character set, to handle a case where the
877 character in the cell does not correspond to any of the ASCII
878 fallbacks (report by Leon Winter, cf: 20180505).
879 + amend change to form library which attempted to avoid unnecessary
880 update of cursor position in non-public fields, to simply disable
881 output in this case (patch by Leon Winter, cf: 20180414).
882 + improve check for LINE_MAX runtime limit, to accommodate broken
883 implementations of sysconf().
886 + improve manual page for wgetnstr, giving background for the length
888 + define a limit for wgetnstr, wgetn_wstr when length is negative or
890 + update configure script to autoconf 2.52.20180819 (Debian #887390).
893 + add a section to tput manual page clarifying how it determines the
894 terminal size (prompted by discussion with Grant Jenks).
895 + add "--disable-relink" to rpm test-packages, for consistency with the
897 + split spec-file into ncurses6.spec and ncursest6.spec to work around
898 toolset breakage in Fedora 28.
899 + drop mention of "--disable-touching", which was not in the final
903 + build-fix for PDCurses with ncurses-examples.
904 + improved CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS.
905 + modify configure scripts to reduce relinking/ranlib during library
906 install (Debian #903790):
907 + use "install -p" when available, to avoid need for ranlib of
909 + modify scripts which use "--disable-relink" to add a 1-second
910 sleep to work around tools which use whole-second timestamps, e.g.,
911 in utime() rather than the actual file system resolution.
914 + improve logic for clear with E3 extension, in case the terminal
915 scrolls content onto its saved-lines before actually clearing
916 the display, by clearing the saved-lines after clearing the
917 display (report/patch by Nicholas Marriott).
920 + improve documentation regarding feature-test macros in curses.h
921 + improve documentation regarding the virtual and physical screens.
922 + formatting fixes for manpages, regenerate man-html documentation.
925 + build-fixes for gcc8.
926 + corrected acsc for wy50 -TD
927 + add wy50 and wy60 shifted function-keys as kF1 to kF16 -TD
928 + remove ansi+rep mis-added to interix in 2018-02-23 -TD
931 + add enum, regex examples to test/demo_forms
932 + add configure check for pcre-posix library to help with MinGW port.
935 + build-fixes for gcc8.
936 + correct order of WINDOW._ttytype versus WINDOW._windowlist in
938 + fix a case where tiparm could return null if the format-string was
939 empty (Debian #902630).
942 + add acsc string to vi200 (Nibby Nebbulous)
943 add right/down-arrow to vi200's acsc -TD
944 + add "x" to tput's getopt string so that "tput -x clear" works
946 + minor fixes prompted by anonymous report on stack overflow:
947 + correct order of checks in _nc_get_locale(), for systems lacking
949 + add "#error" in a few places to flag unsupported configurations
952 + use _WIN32/_WIN64 in preference to __MINGW32__/__MINGW64__ symbols
953 to simplify building with MSVC, since the former are defined in both
954 compiler configurations (report by Ali Abdulkadir).
955 + further improvements to configure-checks from work on dialog, i.e.,
956 updated CF_ADD_INCDIR, CF_FIND_LINKAGE, CF_GCC_WARNINGS,
957 CF_GNU_SOURCE, CF_LARGEFILE, CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE, CF_SIZECHANGE, and
959 + update config.guess, config.sub from
960 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
963 + build-fix for ncurses-examples related to gcc8-fixes (cf: 20180526).
964 + reduce use of _GNU_SOURCE for current glibc where _DEFAULT_SOURCE
965 combines with _XOPEN_SOURCE (Debian #900987).
966 + change target configure level for _XOPEN_SOURCE to 600 to address
967 use of vsscanf and setenv.
968 + improved configure-checks CF_SIZECHANGE and CF_STRUCT_TERMIOS from
972 + modify generated ncurses*config and ncurses.pc, ncursesw.pc, etc.,
973 to list helper libraries such as gpm for static linking (Debian
975 + marked vwprintw and vwscanw as deprecated; recommend using vw_printw
976 and vw_scanw, respectively.
979 + add RPM test-package "ncursest-examples".
980 + modified RPM test-package to work with Mageia6.
983 + add note in curs_util.3x about unctrl.h
984 + review/improve header files to ensure that those include necessary
985 files except for the previously-documented cases (report by Isaac
987 + improved test-package scripts, adapted from byacc 1.9 20180525.
988 + fix some gcc8 warnings seen in Redhat package build, but
989 work around bug in gcc8 compiler warnings in comp_parse.c
992 + formatting fixes for manpages, regenerate man-html documentation.
993 + trim spurious whitespace from tmux in 2018-02-24 changes;
994 fix some inconsistencies in/between tmux- and iterm2-entries for SGR
995 (report by C Anthony Risinger)
996 + improve iterm2 using some xterm features which it has adapted -TD
997 + add check in pair_content() to handle the case where caller asks
998 for an uninitialized pair (Debian #898658).
1001 + remove trailing ';' from GCC_DEPRECATED definition.
1002 + repair a change from 20110730 which left an error-check/warning dead.
1003 + fix several minor Coverity warnings.
1006 + add deprecation warnings for internal functions called by older
1008 + fix a special case in PutAttrChar() where a cell is marked as
1009 alternate-character set, but the terminal does not actually support
1010 the given graphic character. This would happen in an older terminal
1011 such as vt52, which lacks most line-drawing capability.
1012 + use configure --with-config-suffix option to work around filename
1013 conflict with Debian packages versus test-packages.
1014 + update tracemunch to work with perl 5.26.2, which changed the rules
1015 for escaping regular expressions.
1018 + document new form-extension O_EDGE_INSERT_STAY (report by Leon
1020 + correct error-returns listed in manual pages for a few form functions
1021 (report by Leon Winter).
1022 + add a check in form-library for null-pointer dereference:
1023 unfocus_current_field (form);
1024 form_driver (form, REQ_VALIDATION);
1025 (patch by Leon Winter).
1028 + modify form library to optionally delay cursor movement on a field
1029 edge/boundary (patch by Leon Winter).
1030 + modify form library to avoid unnecessary update of cursor position in
1031 non-public fields (patch by Leon Winter).
1032 + remove unused _nc_import_termtype2() function.
1033 + also add/improve null-pointer checks in other places
1034 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_parse_entry to handle an error when
1035 a use-name is invalid syntax (report by Chung-Yi Lin).
1038 + clarify in manual pages that vwprintw and vwscanw are obsolete,
1039 not part of X/Open Curses since 2007.
1040 + use "const" in some prototypes rather than NCURSES_CONST where X/Open
1041 Curses was updated to do this, e.g., wscanw, newterm, the terminfo
1042 interface. Also use "const" for consistency in the termcap
1043 interface, which was withdrawn by X/Open Curses in Issue 5 (2007).
1044 As of Issue 7, X/Open Curses still lacks "const" for certain return
1045 values, e.g., keyname().
1048 + improve terminfo write/read by modifying the fourth item of the
1049 extended header to denote the number of valid strings in the extended
1050 string table (prompted by a comment in unibilium's sources).
1053 + amend Scaled256() macro in test/picsmap.c to cover the full range
1054 0..1000 (report by Roger Pau Monne).
1055 + add some checks in tracemunch for undefined variables.
1056 + trim some redundant capabilities from st-0.7 -TD
1057 + trim unnecessary setf/setb from interix -TD
1060 + fix a check in infotocap which may not have detected a problem when
1062 + add a check in tic for the case where setf/setb are given using
1063 different strings, but provide identical results to setaf/setab.
1064 + further improve fix for terminfo.5 (patch by Kir Kolyshkin).
1065 + reorder loop-limit checks in winsnstr() in case the string has no
1066 terminating null and only the number of characters is used (patch
1070 + modify TurnOn/TurnOff macros in lib_vidattr.c and lib_vid_attr.c to
1071 avoid expansion of "CUR" in trace.
1072 + improve a few lintian warnings in test-packages.
1073 + modify lib_setup to avoid calling pthread_self() without first
1074 verifying that the address is valid, i.e., for weak symbols
1075 (report/patch by Werner Fink).
1076 + modify generated terminfo.5 to not use "expand" and related width
1077 on the last column of tables, making layout on wide terminals look
1078 better (adapted from patch by Kir Kolyshkin).
1079 + add a category to report_offsets, e.g., "w" for wide-character, "t"
1080 for threads to make the report more readable. Reorganized the
1081 structures reported to make the categories more apparent.
1082 + simplify some ifdef's for extended-colors.
1083 + add NCURSES_GLOBALS and NCURSES_PRESCREEN to report_offsets, to show
1084 how similar the different tinfo configurations are.
1087 + modify _nc_resolve_uses2() to detect incompatible types when merging
1088 a "use=" clause of extended capabilities. The problem was seen in a
1089 defective terminfo integrated from simpleterm sources in 20171111,
1090 compounded by repair in 20180121.
1091 + correct Ss/Ms interchange in st-0.7 entry (tmux #1264) -TD
1092 + fix remaining flash capabilities with trailing mandatory delays -TD
1093 + correct cut/paste in NEWS (report by Sven Joachim).
1096 + remove incorrect free() from 20170617 changes (report by David Macek).
1097 + correct type for "U8" in user_caps.5; it is a number not boolean.
1098 + add a null-pointer check in safe_sprintf.c (report by Steven Noonan).
1099 + improve fix for Debian #882620 by reusing limit2 variable (report by
1100 Julien Cristau, Sven Joachim).
1103 + modify misc/Makefile.in to install/uninstall explicit list in case
1104 the build-directory happens to have no ".pc" files when an uninstall
1105 is performed (report by Jeffrey Walton).
1106 + deprecate safe-sprintf, since the vsnprintf function, which does what
1107 was needed, was standardized long ago.
1108 + add several development/experimental options to development packages.
1109 + minor reordering of options in configure script to make the threaded
1110 and reentrant options distinct from the other extensions which are
1114 + minor fixes to test/*.h to make them idempotent.
1115 + add/use test/parse_rgb.h to show how the "RGB" capability works.
1116 + add a clarification in user_caps.5 regarding "RGB" capability.
1117 + add extended_slk_color{,_sp} symbols to the appropriate
1118 package/*.{map,sym} files (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20170401).
1121 + update "VERSION" file, used in shared-library naming.
1123 20180127 6.1 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1126 + updated release notes
1127 + amend a warning message from tic which should have flagged misuse
1128 of "XT" capability in "screen" terminal description.
1130 + trim "XT" from screen entry, add comments to explain why it was
1132 + modify iterm to use xterm+sl-twm building block -TD
1133 + mark konsole-420pc, konsole-vt100, konsole-xf3x obsolete reflecting
1134 konsole's removal in 2008 -TD
1135 + expanded the history section of konsole to explain its flawed
1136 imitation of xterm's keyboard -TD
1137 + use xterm+x11mouse in screen.* entries because screen does not yet
1138 support xterm's 1006 mode -TD
1139 + add nsterm-build400 for macOS 10.13 -TD
1140 + add ansi+idc1, use that in ansi+idc adding dch for consistency -TD
1141 + update vte to vte-2017 -TD
1142 + add ecma+strikeout to vte-2017 -TD
1143 + add iterm2-direct -TD
1144 + updated teraterm, added teraterm-256color -TD
1145 + add mlterm-direct -TD
1146 + add descriptions for ANSI building-blocks -TD
1148 20180121 pre-release
1150 + add xterm+noalt, xterm+titlestack, xterm+alt1049, xterm+alt+title
1151 blocks from xterm #331 -TD
1152 + add xterm+direct, xterm+indirect, xterm-direct entries from xterm
1154 + modify xterm+256color and xterm+256setaf to use correct number of
1155 color pairs, for ncurses 6.1 -TD
1156 + add rs1 capability to xterm-256color -TD
1157 + modify xterm-r5, xterm-r6 and xterm-xf86-v32 to use xterm+kbs to
1158 match xterm #272, reflecting packager's changes -TD
1159 + remove "boolean" Se, Ss from st-0.7 -TD
1160 + add konsole-direct and st-direct -TD
1161 + remove unsupported "Tc" capability from st-0.7; use st-direct if
1162 direct-colors are wanted -TD
1163 + add vte-direct -TD
1164 + add XT, hpa, indn, and vpa to screen, and invis, E3 to tmux (patch by
1166 + use xterm+sm+1006 in xterm-new, vte-2014 -TD
1167 + use xterm+x11mouse in iterm, iterm2, mlterm3 because xterm's 1006
1168 mode does not work with those programs. konsole is debatable -TD
1169 + add "termite" entry (report by Markus Pfeiffer) -TD
1170 > merge branch begun April 2, 2017 which provides these features:
1171 + support read/write new binary-format for terminfo which stores
1172 numeric capabilities as a signed 32-bit integer. The test programs
1173 such as picsmap, ncurses were created or updated during 2017 to use
1175 + the new format is written by the wide-character configuration of
1176 tic when it finds a numeric capability larger than 32767.
1177 + other applications such as infocmp built with the wide-character
1178 ncurses library work as expected.
1179 + applications built with the "narrow" (8-bit) configuration will
1180 read the new format, but will limit those extended values to 32767.
1181 + in either wide/narrow configuration, the structure defined in
1182 term.h still uses signed 16-bit values.
1183 + because it is incompatible with the legacy (mid-1980s) binary format,
1184 a new magic value is provided for the "file" program.
1185 + the term.5 manual page is updated to describe this new format.
1186 + the limit on file-size for compiled terminfo is increased in the
1187 wide-character configuration to 32768.
1190 + build-fix in picsmap.c for stdint.h existence.
1191 + add --disable-stripping option to configure scripts.
1192 + modify ncurses-examples to install test-scripts in the data directory.
1193 + work around tool-breakage in Debian 9 and later by invoking
1194 gprconfig to specify the C compiler to be used by gnatmake,
1195 and conditionally suppressing Library_Options line for static
1197 + bump the compat level for test-packages to 7, i.e., Debian 5.
1200 + fixes for writing extended color pairs in putwin.
1201 + modify test/savescreen.c to add test patterns that exercise 88-,
1203 + modify configure option --with-build-cc, adding clang, c89 and c99
1204 as possible default values.
1205 + modify ncurses-examples configure script to use pkg-config for the
1206 extra form/menu/panel libraries, to be more consistent with the
1207 handling of the curses/ncurses library.
1208 + modify test-packages for mingw to supply "pc" files.
1209 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to list -lpthread as a private library when
1210 configured to access it via weak symbols.
1211 + simplify gen-pkgconfig.in, adding -ltinfo without the special linker
1212 checks because some versions of the linker simply hard-code the
1214 + update URLs for ncurses website to use https.
1215 + modify CF_CURSES_LIBS to fill in $cf_nculib_root in case the
1216 ncurses-examples are built with a system ncurses that lacks the
1217 standard "curses" symbolic link, as done by SuSE. The symbol is
1218 needed to make a followup check for the pthread library work, and
1219 would be set properly using the options "--with-screen", etc.
1220 + generate misc/*.pc with "all" rule, as done for "sources" rule
1221 (report by Jeffrey Walton).
1224 + build-fix for ncurses-examples with Fedora27, adding check for
1225 reset_color_pairs() -- not yet in Fedora's package.
1226 + consistently add $CFLAGS to $MK_SHARED_LIB symbol in configure
1227 script when the latter happens to use the C compiler rather than
1228 directly using the loader (report by Jeffrey Walton).
1229 + set ABI for upcoming 6.1 release in "*.map" files. While there are
1230 some remaining internals to apply, no ABI-related changes are
1232 + add configure --with-config-suffix option to work around filename
1233 conflict with Redhat packages versus test-packages.
1236 + modify ncurses-examples to quiet const-warnings when building with
1238 + modify toe to not exit if unable to read a terminal description,
1239 e.g., if there is a permission problem.
1240 + minor fix for progs/toe.c, using _nc_free_termtype2.
1241 + assign 0 to pointer in _nc_tgetent_leak() after freeing it. Also
1242 avoid reusing pointer from previous successful call to tgetent
1243 if the latest call is unsuccessful (patch by Michael Schroeder,
1245 + minor fix for test/tracemunch, initialize $awaiting variable.
1248 + repair template in test/package/ncurses-examples.spec (cf: 20171111).
1249 + improve tic's warning about the number of parameters tparm might use
1250 for u1-u9 by making a special case for u6.
1251 + improve curs_attr.3x discussion of color pairs.
1254 + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to make output with --includedir
1255 consistent with --cflags, i.e., when --disable-overwrite option was
1256 configured the output should show the subdirectory where headers
1258 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to suppress macros when calling an "implemented"
1259 function in link_test.c
1260 + updated ftp-url used in test-packages, etc.
1261 + modify order of -pie/-shared options in configure script in case
1262 LDFLAGS uses "-pie", working around a defect or limitation in the GNU
1263 linker (prompted by patch by Yogesh Prasad, forwarded by Jay Shah).
1264 + add entry in man_db.renames for user_caps.5
1267 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to avoid tracing result from getstr/getnstr
1269 + add "-a" aspect-ratio option to picsmap.
1270 + add configure check for default path of rgb.txt, used in picsmap.
1271 + modify _nc_write_entry() to truncate too-long filename (report by
1272 Hosein Askari, Debian #882620).
1273 + build-fix for ncurses-examples with NetBSD curses:
1274 + it lacks the use_env() function.
1275 + it lacks libpanel; a recent change used the wrong ifdef symbol.
1276 + add a macro for is_linetouched() and adjust the function's return
1277 value to make it possible for most applications to check for an
1278 error-return (report by Midolikawa H).
1279 + additional manpage cleanup.
1280 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1281 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1284 + add a note to curs_addch.3x on portability.
1285 + add a note to curs_pad.3x on the origin and portability of pads.
1286 + improve manpage description of getattrs (report by Midolikawa H).
1287 + improve manpage macros (prompted by discussion in Debian #880551.
1288 + reviewed test-programs using KEY_RESIZE, made fixes to test/worm.c
1289 + add a "-d" option to picsmap for default-colors.
1290 + modify old terminology entry and a few other terminal emulators to
1292 + correct sgr string for tmux, which used screen's "standout" code
1293 rather than the standard code (patch by Roman Kagan)
1294 + correct sgr/sgr0 strings in a few other cases reported by tic, making
1295 those correspond to the non-sgr settings where they differ, but
1296 otherwise use ECMA-48 consistently:
1297 jaixterm, aixterm, att5420_2, att4424, att500, decansi, d410-7b,
1298 dm80, hpterm, emu-220, hp2, iTerm2.app, mterm-ansi, ncrvt100an,
1299 st-0.7, vi603, vwmterm -TD
1300 + build-fix for diagnostics warning in lib_mouse.c for pre-5.0 versions
1301 of gcc which did not recognize the diagnostic "push" pragma (patch by
1305 + add "op" to xterm+256setaf -TD
1306 + reviewed terminology 1.0.0 -TD
1307 + reviewed st 0.7 -TD
1308 + suppress debug-package for ncurses-examples rpm build.
1311 + check for interrupt in color-pair initialization of dots_curses.c,
1313 + add z/Z zoom feature to test/ncurses.c C/c screens.
1314 + add '<' and '>' commands to test/ncurses.c S/s screens, to better
1315 test off-by-ones in the overlap/copywin functions.
1318 + improve man/curs_inwstr.3x, correct end-logic for lib_inwstr.c
1319 (report by Midolikawa H).
1320 + fix typo in a few places for "improvements" (patch by Sven Joachim).
1321 + clear the other half of a double-width character on which a line
1322 drawing character is drawn.
1323 + make test/ncurses.c "s" test easier to understand which subtests are
1324 available; add a "S" wide-character overlap test-screen.
1325 + modify test/ncurses.c C/c tests to allow for extended color pairs.
1326 + add endwin() call in error-returns from test/ncurses.c omitted in
1327 recent redesign of its menu (cf: 20170923).
1328 + improve install of hashed-db by removing the ".db" file as done for
1329 directory-tree terminal databases.
1330 + repair a few overlooked items in include/ncurses_defs from recent
1331 port/refactoring of test-programs (cf: 20170909).
1332 + add test/padview.c, to compare pads with direct updates in view.c
1335 + modify test/view.c to expand tabs using the ncurses library rather
1336 than in the test-program.
1337 + remove very old SIGWINCH example in test/view.c, just use KEY_RESIZE.
1338 + add -T, -e, -f -m options to "dots" test-programs.
1339 + fix a few typos in usage-messages for test-programs.
1342 + minor cleanup to test/view.c:
1343 + eliminate "-n" option by simply reading the whole file.
1344 + implement page up/down commands.
1345 + add check in tput for init/reset operands to ensure those use a
1347 + improve manual pages which discuss chtype, cchar_t types and the
1348 attribute values which can be stored in those types.
1349 + correct array-index when parsing "-T" command-line option in tabs
1351 + modify demo_new_pair.c to pass extended pairs to setcchar().
1352 + add test/dots_xcurses.c to illustrate a different approach used for
1353 extended colors which can be contrasted with dots_curses.c.
1354 + add a check in tic to note when a description uses non-mandatory
1355 delays without xon_xoff. This is not an error, but some descriptions
1356 for a terminal emulator may use the combination incorrectly.
1359 + modify "-T" option of clear and tput to call use_tioctl() to obtain
1360 the operating system's notion of the screensize if possible.
1361 + review/repair some exit-codes for tput, making usage-message exit
1362 with 2 rather than 1, and a failure to open terminal 4+errno.
1363 + amend check in tput, tabs and clear to allow those to use the
1364 database-only features in cron if a -T option gives a suitable
1365 terminal name (report by Lauri Tirkkonen).
1366 + correct an ifdef in test/ncurses.c for systems with soft-keys but
1368 + regenerate man-html documentation.
1371 + fix a symbol conflict that made ncurses.c C/c menu not work with
1372 Solaris xpg4 curses.
1373 + add refresh() call to dots_mvcur.c, needed to use mvcur() with
1374 Solaris xpg4 curses after calling newterm().
1375 + minor fixes for configure script from work on ncurses-examples and
1377 + improve animation in test/xmas.c by adding a time-delay in blinkit().
1378 + modify several test programs to reflect that ncurses honors existing
1379 signal handlers in initscr(), while other implementations do not.
1380 + modify bs.c to make it easier to quit.
1381 + change ncurses-examples to use attr_t vs chtype to follow X/Open
1382 documentation more closely since Solaris xpg4-curses uses different
1383 values for WA_xxx vs A_xxx that rely on attr_t being an unsigned
1384 short. Tru64 aka OSF1, HPUX, AIX did as ncurses does, equating the
1388 + modify menu for test/ncurses.c to fit on 24-line screen.
1389 + build-fix for configure --with-caps=uwin
1390 + add options to test_arrays.c, for selecting termcap vs terminfo, etc.
1393 + minor fix to test/filter.c to avoid clearing the command in one case.
1394 + modify filter() to discard clr_eos if back_color_erase is set.
1397 + improve wide-character implementation of myADDNSTR() in frm_driver.c,
1398 which was inconsistent with the normal implementation.
1399 + save/restore cursor position in Undo_Justification(), matching
1400 behavior of Buffer_To_Window() (report by Leon Winter).
1401 + modify test/knight to provide the "slow" solution for small screens
1402 using "R", noting that Warnsdorf's method is easily done with "a".
1403 + modify several test-programs which call use_default_colors() to
1404 consistently do this only if "-d" option is given.
1405 + additional changes to test with non-standard variants of curses:
1406 + modify a loop limit in firework.c to work around absence of limit
1407 checks in some libraries.
1408 + fill the last row of a window with "?" in firstlast if waddch does
1409 not return ERR on the lower-right corner.
1410 + add checks in test/configure for some functions not in 4.3BSD curses.
1411 + fix a regression in test/configure (cf: 20170826).
1414 + amend change for endwin-state for better consistency with the older
1415 logic (report/patch by Jeb Rosen, cf: 20170722).
1416 + modify check in fmt_entry() to handle a cancelled reset string
1417 (Debian #873746). Make similar fixes in other parts of dump_entry.c
1421 + fix a bug in repeat_char logic (cf: 20170729, report by Chris Clayton).
1424 + fixes for "iterm2" (report by Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD
1425 + corrected a warning from tic about keys which are the same, to skip
1426 over missing/cancelled values.
1427 + add check in tic for unnecessary use of "2" to denote a shifted
1429 + improve checks in trim_sgr0, comp_parse.c and parse_entry.c, for
1430 cancelled string capabilities.
1431 + add check in _nc_parse_entry() for invalid entry name, setting the
1432 name to "invalid" to avoid problems storing entries.
1433 + add/improve checks in tic's parser to address invalid input
1434 + add a check in comp_scan.c to handle the special case where a
1435 nontext file ending with a NUL rather than newline is given to tic
1436 as input (Redhat #1484274).
1437 + allow for cancelled capabilities in _nc_save_str (Redhat #1484276).
1438 + add validity checks for "use=" target in _nc_parse_entry (Redhat
1440 + check for invalid strings in postprocess_termcap (Redhat #1484285)
1441 + reset secondary pointers on EOF in next_char() (Redhat #1484287).
1442 + guard _nc_safe_strcpy() and _nc_safe_strcat() against calls using
1443 cancelled strings (Redhat #1484291).
1444 + correct typo in curs_memleaks.3x (Sven Joachim).
1445 + improve test/configure checks for some curses variants not based on
1447 + add options for test/configure to disable checks for form, menu and
1451 + update "iterm" entry -TD
1452 + add "iterm2" entry (report by Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD
1453 + regenerate llib-* files.
1454 + regenerate HTML manpages.
1455 + improve picsmap test-program:
1456 + reduce memory used for tsearch
1457 + add report in log file showing cumulative color coverage.
1458 + add -x option to clear/tput to make the E3 extension optional
1460 + add options -T and -V to clear command for compatibility with tput.
1461 + add usage message to clear command (Debian #371855).
1462 + improve usage messages for tset and tput.
1463 + minor fixes to "RGB" extension and reset_color_pairs().
1466 + improve description of -R option in infocmp manual page (report by
1468 + add reset_color_pairs() function.
1469 + add user_caps.5 manual page to document the terminfo extensions used
1471 + improve build scripts, using SIGQUIT vs SIGTRAP; add other configure
1472 script fixes from work on xterm, lynx and tack.
1473 + modify install-rule for ncurses-examples to put the data files in
1474 /usr/share/ncurses-examples
1475 + improve tracemunch, by changing address-parameters of add_wch(),
1476 color_content() and pair_content() to dummy parameters.
1477 + minor optimization to _nc_change_pair, to return quickly when the
1478 current screen is marked for clearing.
1479 + in-progress changes to improve performance of test/picsmap.c for
1480 loading image files.
1481 + modify allocation for SCREEN's color-pair table to start small, grow
1482 on demand up to the existing limit.
1483 + add "RGB" extension capability for direct-color support, use this to
1484 improve color_content().
1485 + improve picsmap test-program:
1486 + if no palette file is needed, attempt to load one based on $TERM,
1487 checking first in the current directory, then by adding ".dat"
1488 suffix, and finally in the data-directory, e.g.,
1489 /usr/share/ncurses-examples
1490 + add "-l" option for logging
1491 + add "-d" option for debugging
1492 + add "-s" option for stepping automatically through list of images,
1494 + use tsearch to improve time for loading color table for images.
1495 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1496 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1499 + update interix entry using tack and SFU on Windows 7 Ultimate -TD
1500 + use ^? for kdch1 in interix (reported by Jonathan de Boyne Pollard)
1501 + add "rep" to xterm-new, available since 1997/01/26 -TD
1502 + move SGR 24 and 27 from vte-2014 to vte-2012 (request by Alain
1504 + add a check in newline_forces_scroll() in case a program moves the
1505 cursor outside scrolling margins (report by Robert King).
1506 + improve _nc_tparm_analyze, using that to extend the checks made by
1507 tic for reporting inconsistencies between the expected number of
1508 parameters for a capability and the actual.
1509 + amend handling of repeat_char capability in EmitRange (adapted from
1510 report/patch by Dick Wesseling):
1511 + translate the character to the alternate character set when the
1512 alternate character set is enabled.
1513 + do not use repeat_char for characters past 255.
1514 + document "_nc_free_tinfo" in manual page, because it could be used in
1515 tack for memory-leak checking.
1516 + add "--without-tack" configure option to refine "--with-progs"
1517 configure option. Normally tack is no longer built in-tree, but
1518 a few packagers combine it during the build. If term_entry.h is
1519 installed, there is no advantage to in-tree builds.
1520 + adjust configure-script to define HAVE_CURSES_DATA_BOOLNAMES symbol
1521 needed for tack 1.08 when built in-tree. Rather than relying upon
1522 internal "_nc_" functions, tack now uses the boolean, number and
1523 string capability name-arrays provided by ncurses and SVr4 Unix
1524 curses. It still uses term_entry.h for the definitions of the
1525 extended capability arrays.
1526 + add an overlooked null-pointer check in mvcur changes from 20170722
1529 + improve test-packages for ncurses-examples and AdaCurses for lintian
1530 + modify logic for endwin-state to be able to detect the case where
1531 the screen was never initialized, using that to trigger a flush of
1532 ncurses' buffer for mvcur, e.g., in test/dots_mvcur.c for the
1533 term-driver configuration.
1534 + add dependency upon ncurses_cfg.h to a few other internal header
1535 files to allow each to be compiled separately.
1536 + add dependency upon ncurses_cfg.h to tic's header-files; any program
1537 using tic-library will have to supply this file. Legacy tack
1538 versions supply this file; ongoing tack development has dropped the
1539 dependency upon tic-library and new releases will not be affected.
1542 + modify command-line parameters for "convert" used in picsmap to work
1543 with ImageMagick 6.8 and newer.
1544 + fix build-problem with tack and ABI-5 (Debian #868328).
1545 + repair termcap-format from tic/infocmp broken in 20170701 fixes
1547 + reformat terminfo.src with 20170513 updates.
1548 + improve test-packages to address lintian warnings.
1551 + add a note to tic manual page about -W versus -f options.
1552 + correct a limit-check in fixes from 20170701 (report by Sven Joachim).
1555 + modify update_getenv() in db_iterator.c to ensure that environment
1556 variables which are not initially set will be checked later if an
1557 application happens to set them (patch by Guillaume Maudoux).
1558 + remove initialization-check for calling napms() in the term-driver
1559 configuration; none is needed.
1560 + add help-screen to test/test_getstr.c and test/test_get_wstr.c
1561 + improve compatibility between different configurations of new_prescr,
1562 fixing a case with threaded code and term-driver where c++/demo did
1563 not work (cf: 20160213).
1564 + the fixes for Redhat #1464685 obscured a problem subsequently
1565 reported in Redhat #1464687; the given test-case was no longer
1566 reproducible. Testing without the fixes for the earlier reports
1567 showed a problem with buffer overflow in dump_entry.c, which is
1568 addressed by reducing the use of a fixed-size buffer.
1569 + add/improve checks in tic's parser to address invalid input
1570 (Redhat #1464684, #1464685, #1464686, #1464691).
1571 + alloc_entry.c, add a check for a null-pointer.
1572 + parse_entry.c, add several checks for valid pointers as well as
1573 one check to ensure that a single character on a line is not
1574 treated as the 2-character termcap short-name.
1575 + fix a memory leak in delscreen() (report by Bai Junq).
1576 + improve tracemunch, showing thread identifiers as names.
1577 + fix a use-after-free in NCursesMenu::~NCursesMenu()
1578 + further amend incorrect calls for memory-leaks from 20170617 changes
1579 (report by Allen Hewes).
1582 + modify c++/etip.h.in to accommodate deprecation of throw() and
1583 throws() in c++17 (prompted by patch by Romain Geissler).
1584 + remove some incorrect calls for memory-leaks from 20170617 changes
1585 (report by Allen Hewes).
1586 + add test-programs for termattrs and term_attrs.
1587 + modify _nc_outc_wrapper to use the standard output if the screen was
1588 not initialized, rather than returning an error.
1589 + improve checks for low-level terminfo functions when the terminal
1590 has not been initialized (Redhat #1345963).
1591 + modify make_hash to allow building with address-sanitizer,
1592 assuming that --disable-leaks is configured.
1593 + amend changes for number_format() in 20170506 to avoid undefined
1594 behavior when shifting (patch by Emanuele Giaquinta).
1597 + fill in some places where TERMTYPE2 vs TERMTYPE was not used
1598 (report by Allen Hewes).
1599 + use ExitTerminfo() internally in error-exits for ncurses' setupterm
1600 to help with leak checking.
1601 + use ExitProgram() in error-exit from initscr() to help with leak
1603 + review test-programs, adding checks for cases where the terminal
1604 cannot be initialized.
1607 + add option "-xp" to picsmap.c, to use init_extended_pair().
1608 + make simple performance fixes for picsmap.c
1609 + improve aspect ratio of images read from "convert" in picsmap.c
1612 + add option to picsmap to use color-palette files, e.g., for mapping
1614 + move the data in SCREEN used for the alloc_pair() function to the
1615 end, to restore compatibility between ncurses/ncursesw libtinfo
1616 (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
1617 + add build-time utility "report_offsets" to help show when the various
1618 configurations of tinfo library are compatible or not.
1621 + improved test/picsmap.c:
1622 + lookup named colors for xpm files in rgb.txt
1623 + accept blanks in color-keys for xpm files.
1624 + if neither xbm/xpm work, try "convert", which may be available.
1627 + modify test/picsmap.c to read xpm files.
1628 + modify package/debian/* to create documentation packages, so the
1629 related files can be checked with lintian.
1630 + fix some typos in manpages (report/patch by Sven Joachim).
1633 + add test/picsmap.c to fill in some testing issues not met by dots.
1634 The initial version reads X bitmap (".xbm") files.
1635 + repair logic which forces a repaint where a color-pair's content is
1636 changed (cf: 20170311).
1637 + improve tracemunch, showing screenXX pointers as names.
1640 + modify tic/infocmp display of numeric values to use hexadecimal when
1641 they are "close" to a power of two, making the result more readable.
1642 + improve discussion of portability in curs_mouse.3x
1643 + change line-length for generated html/manpages to 78 columns from 65.
1644 + improve discussion of line-drawing characters in curs_add_wch.3x
1645 (prompted by discussion with Lorinczy Zsigmond).
1646 + cleanup formatting of hackguide.html and ncurses-intro.html
1647 + add examples for WACS_D_PLUS and WACS_T_PLUS to test/ncurses.c
1650 + corrected a case where $with_gpm was set to "maybe" after CF_WITH_GPM,
1651 overlooked in 20160528 fixes (report by Alexandre Bury).
1652 + improve a couple of test-program's help-messages.
1653 + corrected loop in rain.c from 20170415 changes.
1654 + modify winnstr and winchnstr to return error if the output pointer is
1655 null, as well as adding a null pointer check of the window pointer
1656 for better compatibility with other implementations.
1657 + improve discussion of NetBSD curses in scr_dump.5
1658 + modify LIMIT_TYPED macro in new_pair.h to avoid changing sign of the
1659 value to be limited (reports by Darby Payne, Rob Boudreau).
1660 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1661 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1664 + build-fix for termcap-configuration (report by Chi-Hsuan Yen).
1665 + improve terminfo manual page discussion of control- and graphics-
1667 + remove tic warning about "^?" in string capabilities, which was
1668 marked as an extension (cf: 20000610, 20110820); however all Unix
1669 implementations support this and X/Open Curses does not address it.
1670 On the other hand, termcap never did support this feature.
1671 + correct missing comma-separator between string capabilities in
1672 icl6402 and m2-nam -TD
1673 + restore rmir/smir in ansi+idc to better match original ansiterm+idc,
1674 add alias ansiterm (report by Robert King).
1675 + amend an old check for ambiguous use of "ma" in terminfo versus
1676 a termcap use, if the capability is cancelled to treat it as number.
1677 + correct a case in _nc_captoinfo() which read "%%" and emitted "%".
1678 + modify sscanf calls in _nc_infotocap() for patterns "%{number}%+%c"
1679 and "%'char'%+%c" to check that the final character is really 'c',
1680 avoiding a case in icl6404 which cannot be converted to termcap.
1681 + in _nc_infotocap(), add a check to ensure that terminfo "^?" is not
1682 written to termcap, because the BSDs did not implement that.
1683 + in _nc_tic_expand() and _nc_infotocap(), improve string-length check
1684 when deciding whether to use "^X" or "\xxx" format for control
1685 characters, to make the output of tic/infocmp more predictable.
1686 + limit termcap "%d" width to 2 digits on input, and use "%2" in
1687 preference to "%02" on output.
1688 + correct terminfo/termcap conversion of "%02" and "%03" into "%2" and
1689 "%3"; the result repeated the last character.
1690 + add man/scr_dump.5 to document screen-dump format.
1693 + modify several test programs to use new popup_msgs, adapted from
1694 help-screen used in test/edit_field.c
1695 + drop two symbols obsoleted in 2004: _nc_check_termtype, and
1697 + fix some old copyright dates (cf: 20031025).
1698 + build-fixes for test/savescreen.c to work with AIX and HPUX.
1699 + minor fix to configure script, adding a backslash/continuation.
1700 + extend TERMINAL structure for ABI 6 to store numbers internally as
1701 integers rather than short, by adding new data for this purpose.
1702 + more fixes for minor memory-leaks in test-programs.
1705 + change logic in wins_nwstr() to avoid addressing data past the output
1707 + correct a call to setcchar() in Data_Entry_w() from 20131207 changes.
1708 + fix minor memory-leaks in test-programs.
1709 + further improve ifdef in term_entry.h for internal definitions not
1713 + minor fixes for vt100+4bsd, e.g., delay in sgr for consistency -TD
1714 + add smso for env230, to match sgr -TD
1715 + remove p7/protect from sgr in fbterm -TD
1716 + drop setf/setb from fbterm; setaf/setab are enough -TD
1717 + make xterm-pcolor sgr consistent with other capabilities -TD
1718 + add rmxx/smxx ECMA-48 strikeout extension to tmux and xterm-basic
1719 (discussion with Nicholas Marriott)
1720 + add test-programs sp_tinfo and extended_color
1721 + modify no-leaks code for lib_cur_term.c to account for the tgetent()
1723 + modify setupterm() to save original tty-modes so that erasechar()
1724 works as expected. Also modify _nc_setupscreen() to avoid redundant
1725 calls to get original tty-modes.
1726 + modify set_curterm() to update ttytype[] data used by longname().
1727 + modify wattr_set() and wattr_get() to return ERR if win-parameter is
1728 null, as documented.
1729 + improve cast used for null-pointer checks in header macros, to
1730 reduce compiler warnings.
1731 + modify several functions, using the reserved "opts" parameter to pass
1732 color- and pair-values larger than 16-bits:
1733 + getcchar(), setcchar(), slk_attr_set(), vid_puts(), wattr_get(),
1734 wattr_set(), wchgat(), wcolor_set().
1735 + Other functions call these with the corresponding altered behavior,
1736 including chgat(), mvchgat(), mvwchgat(), slk_color_on(),
1737 slk_color_off(), vid_attr().
1738 + add new functions for manipulating color- and pair-values larger
1739 than 16-bits. These are extended_color_content(),
1740 extended_pair_content(), extended_slk_color(), init_extended_color(),
1741 init_extended_pair(), and the corresponding sp-funcs.
1744 + fix a memory leak in the window-list when creating multiple screens
1745 (reports by Andres Martinelli, Debian #783486).
1746 + reviewed calls from link_test.c, added a few more null-pointer
1748 + add a null-pointer check in ungetmouse, in case mousemask was not
1749 called (report by "Kau").
1750 + updated curs_sp_funcs.3x for new functions.
1753 + change TERMINAL structure in term.h to make it opaque. Some
1754 applications misuse its members, e.g., directly modifying it
1755 rather than using def_prog_mode().
1756 + modify utility headers such as tic.h to make it clearer which are
1757 externals that are used by tack.
1758 + improve curs_slk.3x in particular its discussion of portability.
1759 + fix cut/paste in legacy_encoding.3x
1760 + add prototype for find_pair() to new_pair.3x (report by Branden
1762 + fix a couple of broken links in generated man-html documentation.
1763 + regenerate man-html documentation.
1766 + modify vt100 rs2 string to reset vt52 mode and scrolling regions
1767 (report/analysis by Robert King) -TD
1768 + add vt100+4bsd building block, use that for older terminals rather
1769 than "vt100" which is now mostly used as a building block for
1770 terminal emulators -TD
1771 + correct a few spelling errors in terminfo.src comments -TD
1773 + fix a typo in ncurses.c test_attr legend (patch by Petr Vanek).
1774 + changed internal colorpair_t to a struct, eliminating an internal
1775 8-bit limit on colors
1776 + add ncurses/new_pair.h
1777 + add ncurses/base/new_pair.c with alloc_pair(), find_pair() and
1778 free_pair() functions
1779 + add test/demo_new_pair.c
1782 + improve terminfo manual description of terminfo syntax.
1783 + clarify the use of wint_t vs wchar_t in curs_get_wstr.3x
1784 + improve description of endwin() in manual.
1785 + modify setcchar() and getcchar() to treat negative color-pair as an
1787 + fix a typo in include/hashed_db.h (Andre Sa).
1790 + fixes for CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS (report by Ross Burton).
1793 + fix several formatting issues with manual pages.
1794 + correct read of terminfo entry in which all strings are absent or
1795 explicitly cancelled. Before this fix, the result was that all were
1796 treated as only absent.
1797 + modify infocmp to suppress mixture of absent/cancelled capabilities
1798 that would only show as "NULL, NULL", unless the -q option is used,
1799 e.g., to show "-, @" or "@, -".
1802 + build-fixes for PGI compilers (report by Adam J. Stewart)
1803 + accept whitespace in sed expression for generating expanded.c
1804 + modify configure check that g++ compiler warnings are not used.
1805 + add configure check for -fPIC option needed for shared libraries.
1806 + let configure --disable-ext-funcs override the default for the
1807 --enable-sp-funcs option.
1808 + mark some structs in form/menu/panel libraries as potentially opaque
1809 without modifying API/ABI.
1810 + add configure option --enable-opaque-curses for ncurses library and
1811 similar options for the other libraries.
1814 + trim newlines, tabs and escaped newlines from terminfo "paths" passed
1816 + ignore zero-length files in db-iterator; these are useful for
1817 instance to suppress "$HOME/.terminfo" when not wanted.
1818 + amended "b64:" encoder to work with the terminfo reader.
1819 + modify terminfo reader to accept "b64:" format using RFC-3548 in
1820 as well as RFC-4648 url/filename-safe format.
1821 + modify terminfo reader to accept "hex:" format as generated by
1822 "infocmp -0qQ1" (cf: 20150905).
1823 + adjust authors comment to reflect drop below 1% for SV.
1826 + minor comment-fixes to help automate links to bug-urls -TD
1827 + add dvtm, dvtm-256color -TD
1828 + add settings corresponding to xterm-keys option to tmux entry to
1829 reflect upcoming change to make that option "on" by default
1830 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
1831 + uncancel Ms in tmux entry (Harry Gindi, Nicholas Marriott).
1832 + add dumb-emacs-ansi -TD
1835 + improve discussion of early history of tput program.
1836 + incorporate A_COLOR mask into COLOR_PAIR(), in case user application
1837 provides an out-of-range pair number (report by Elijah Stone).
1838 + clarify description in tput manual page regarding support for
1839 termcap names (prompted by FreeBSD #214709).
1840 + remove a restriction in tput's support for termcap names which
1841 omitted capabilities normally not shown in termcap translations
1843 + modify configure script for clang as used on FreeBSD, to work around
1844 clang's differences in exit codes vs gcc.
1847 + improve discussion of early history of tset/reset programs.
1848 + clarify in manual pages that the optional verbose option level is
1849 available only when ncurses is configured for tracing.
1850 + amend change from 20161231 to avoid writing traces to the standard
1851 error after initializing the trace feature using the environment
1855 + amend changes for tput to reset tty modes to "sane" if the program
1856 is run as "reset", like tset. Likewise, ensure that tset sends
1857 either reset- or init-strings.
1858 + improve manual page descriptions of tput init/reset and tset/reset,
1859 to make it easier to see how they are similar and different.
1860 + move a static result from key_name() to _nc_globals
1861 + modify _nc_get_screensize to allow for use_env() and use_tioctl()
1862 state to be per-screen when sp-funcs are configured, better matching
1863 the behavior when using the term-driver configuration.
1864 + improve cross-references in manual pages for often used functions
1865 + move SCREEN field for use_tioctl() data before the ncursesw fields,
1866 and limit that to the sp-funcs configuration to improve termlib
1867 compatibility (cf: 20120714).
1868 + correct order of initialization for traces in use_env() and
1869 use_tioctl() versus first trace calls.
1872 + fix errata for ncurses-howto (report by Damien Ruscoe).
1873 + fix a few places in configure/build scripts where DESTDIR and rpath
1874 were combined (report by Thomas Klausner).
1875 + merge current st description (report by Harry Gindi) -TD
1876 + modify flash capability for linux and wyse entries to put the delay
1877 between the reverse/normal escapes rather than after -TD
1878 + modify program tabs to pass the actual tty file descriptor to
1879 setupterm rather than the standard output, making padding work
1881 + explain in clear's manual page that it writes to stdout.
1882 + add special case for verbose debugging traces of command-line
1883 utilities which write to stderr (cf: 20161126).
1884 + remove a trace with literal escapes from skip_DECSCNM(), added in
1886 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1887 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1890 + correct parameters for copywin call in _nc_Synchronize_Attributes()
1891 (patch by Leon Winter).
1892 + improve color-handling section in terminfo manual page (prompted by
1893 patch by Mihail Konev).
1894 + modify programs clear, tput and tset to pass the actual tty file
1895 descriptor to setupterm rather than the standard output, making
1899 + add tput-colorcube demo script.
1900 + add -r and -s options to tput-initc demo, to match usage in xterm.
1901 + flush the standard output in _nc_flush for the case where SP is zero,
1902 e.g., when called via putp. This fixes a scenario where "tput flash"
1903 did not work after changes in 20130112.
1906 + add configure script option --disable-wattr-macros for use in cases
1907 where one wants to use the same headers for ncurses5/ncurses6
1908 development, by suppressing the wattr* macros which differ due to
1909 the introduction of extended colors (prompted by comments in
1910 Debian #230990, Redhat #1270534).
1911 + add test/tput-initc to demonstrate tput used to initialize palette
1913 + modify test/xterm*.dat to use the newer color4/color12 values.
1916 + improve discussion of field validation in form_driver.3x manual page.
1917 + update curs_trace.3x manual page.
1920 + modify linux-16color to not mask dim, standout or reverse with the
1922 + add 0.1sec mandatory delay to flash capabilities using the VT100
1923 reverse-video control -TD
1924 + omit selection of ISO-8859-1 for G0 in enacs capability from linux2.6
1925 entry, to avoid conflict with the user-defined mapping. The reset
1926 feature will use ISO-8859-1 in any case (Mikulas Patocka).
1927 + improve check in tic for delays by also warning about beep/flash
1928 when a delay is not embedded, or if those use the VT100 reverse
1929 video escape without using a delay.
1930 + minor fix for syntax-check of delays from 20161119 changes.
1931 + modify trace() to avoid overwriting existing file (report by Maor
1935 + add check in tic for some syntax errors of delays, as well as use of
1936 proportional delays for non-line capabilities.
1937 + document history of the clear program and the E3 extension, prompted
1938 by various discussions including
1939 http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/87469/clearing-the-old-scrollback-buffer
1942 + improve -W option in tic/infocmp:
1943 + correct order of size-adjustments in wrapped lines
1944 + if -f option splits line, do not further split it with -W
1945 + begin a new line when adding "use=" after a wrapped line
1948 + fix typo in man/terminfo.tail (Alain Williams).
1949 + correct program-name in adacurses6-config.1 manual page.
1952 + add new function "unfocus_current_field" (Leon Winter)
1955 + modify tset -w (and tput reset) to update the program's copy of the
1956 screensize if it was already set in the system, to improve tabstop
1957 setting which relies upon knowing the actual screensize.
1958 + add functionality of tset -w to tput, like the "-c" feature this is
1959 not optional in tput.
1960 + add "clear" as a possible link/alias to tput.
1961 + improve tput's check for being called as "init" or "reset" to allow
1962 for transformed names.
1963 + split-out the "clear" function from progs/clear.c, share with
1964 tput to get the same behavior, e.g., the E3 extension.
1967 + amend internal use of tputs to consistently use the number of lines
1968 affected, e.g., for insert/delete character operations. While
1969 merging terminfo source early in 1995, several descriptions used the
1970 "*" proportional delay for these operations, prompting a change in
1972 + regenerate llib-* files.
1973 + regenerate HTML manpages.
1974 + fix several formatting issues with manual pages.
1977 + adjust size in infocmp/tic to work with strlcpy.
1978 + fix configure script to record when strlcat is found on OpenBSD.
1979 + build-fix for "recent" OpenBSD vs baudrate.
1982 + add -W option to tic/infocmp to force long strings to wrap. This is
1983 in addition to the -w option which attempts to fit capabilities into
1984 a given line-length.
1985 + add linux-m1 minitel entries (patch by Alexandre Montaron).
1986 + correct rs2 string for vt100-nam -TD
1989 + modify _nc_tic_expand to escape comma if it immediately follows a
1990 percent sign, to work with minitel change.
1991 + updated minitel and viewdata descriptions (Alexandre Montaron).
1994 + build-fix for gnat6, which unhelpfully attempts to compile C files.
1995 + fix typo in 20160910 changes (Debian #837892, patch by Sven Joachim).
1998 + trim dead code ifdef'd with HIDE_EINTR since 970830 (discussion with
2000 + trim some obsolete/incorrect wording about EINTR from wgetch manual
2001 page (patch by Leon Winter).
2002 + really correct 20100515 change (patch by Rich Coe).
2003 + add "--enable-string-hacks" option to test/configure
2004 + completed string-hacks for "sprintf", etc., including test-programs.
2005 + make "--enable-string-hacks" work with Debian by checking for the
2006 "bsd" library and its associated "<bsd/string.h>" header.
2009 + correct 20100515 change for weak signals versus sigprocmask (report
2011 + modify misc/Makefile.in to work around OpenBSD "make" which unlike
2012 all other versions of "make" does not recognize continuation lines
2014 + amend the last change to CF_C_ENV_FLAGS to move only the
2015 preprocessor, optimization and warning flags to CPPFLAGS and CFLAGS,
2016 leaving the residue in CC. That happens to work for gcc's various
2017 "model" options, but may require tuning for other compilers (report
2021 + add "v" menu entry to test/ncurses.c to show baudrate and other
2023 + add "newer" baudrate symbols from Linux and FreeBSD to progs/tset.c,
2025 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro:
2026 + add "uclinux" to case for "linux" (patch by Yann E. Morin)
2027 + modify _GNU_SOURCE for cygwin headers, tested with cygwin 2.3, 2.5
2028 (patch by Corinna Vinschen, from changes to tin).
2029 + improve CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS macro to allow for compiler wrappers such
2030 as "ccache" (report by Enrico Scholz).
2031 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2032 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
2035 + update tput manual page to reflect changes to manipulate terminal
2036 modes by sharing functions with tset.
2037 + add the terminal-mode parts of "reset" (aka tset) to the "tput reset"
2038 command, making the two almost the same except for window-size.
2039 + adapt logic used in dialog "--keep-tite" option for test/filter.c as
2040 "-a" option. When set, test/filter attempts to suppress the
2042 + correct a typo in interix entry -TD
2045 + add a dependency upon generated-sources in Ada95/src/Makefile.in to
2046 handle a case of "configure && make install".
2047 + trim trailing blanks from include/Caps*, to work around a problem
2048 in sed (Debian #818067).
2051 + improve CF_GNU_SOURCE configure macro to optionally define
2052 _DEFAULT_SOURCE work around a nuisance in recent glibc releases.
2053 + move the terminfo-specific parts of tput's "reset" function into
2054 the shared reset_cmd.c, making the two forms of reset use the same
2056 + split-out the terminal initialization functions from tset as
2057 progs/reset_cmd.c, as part of changes to merge the reset-feature
2061 + change tset's initialization to allow it to get settings from the
2062 standard input as well as /dev/tty, to be more effective when
2063 output or error are redirected.
2064 + improve discussion of history and portability for tset/reset/tput
2068 + improve error message from tset/reset when both stderr/stdout are
2069 redirected to a file or pipe.
2070 + improve organization of curs_attr.3x, curs_color.3x
2073 + work around Debian's antique/unmaintained version of mawk when
2075 + improve test/list_keys.c, showing ncurses's convention of modifiers
2076 for special keys, based on xterm.
2079 + improve test/list_keys.c, using $TERM if no parameters are given.
2082 + build-fixes for ncurses "test_progs" rule.
2083 + amend change to CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS in 20160521 to make multilib build
2084 work (report by Sven Joachim).
2087 + build-fixes for ncurses-examples with NetBSD curses.
2088 + improve test/list_keys.c, fixing column-widths and sorting the list
2089 to make it more readable.
2092 + revise fix for Debian #805618 (report by Vlado Potisk, cf: 20151128).
2093 + modify test/ncurses.c a/A screens to make exiting on an escape
2094 character depend on the start of keypad and timeout modes, to allow
2095 better testing of function-keys.
2096 + modify rs1 for xterm-16color, xterm-88color and xterm-256color to
2097 reset palette using "oc" string as in linux -TD
2098 + use ANSI reply for u8 in xterm-new, to reflect vt220-style responses
2099 that could be returned -TD
2100 + added a few capabilities fixed in recent vte -TD
2103 + correct logic for -f option in test/demo_terminfo.c
2104 + add test/list_keys.c
2107 + further workaround for PIE/PIC breakage which causes gpm to not link.
2108 + fix most cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses library.
2111 + improved manual page description of tset/reset versus window-size.
2112 + fixes to work with a slightly broken compiler configuration which
2113 cannot compile "Hello World!" without adding compiler options
2114 (report by Ola x Nilsson):
2115 + pass appropriate compiler options to the CF_PROG_CC_C_O macro.
2116 + when separating compiler and options in CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS, ensure
2117 that all options are split-off into CFLAGS or CPPFLAGS
2118 + restore some -I options removed in 20140726 because they appeared
2119 to be redundant. In fact, they are needed for a compiler that
2120 cannot combine -c and -o options.
2123 + regenerate HTML manpages.
2124 + improve manual pages for wgetch and wget_wch to point out that they
2125 might return values without names in curses.h (Debian #822426).
2126 + make linux3.0 entry the default linux entry (Debian #823658) -TD
2127 + modify linux2.6 entry to improve line-drawing so that the linux3.0
2128 entry can be used in non-UTF-8 mode -TD
2129 + document return value of use_extended_names (report by Mike Gran).
2132 + amend change to _nc_do_color to restore the early return for the
2133 special case used in _nc_screen_wrap (report by Dick Streefland,
2135 + modify test/ncurses.c:
2136 + check return-value of putwin
2137 + correct ifdef which made the 'g' test's legend not reflect changes
2138 to keypad- and scroll-modes.
2139 + correct return-value of extended putwin (report by Mike Gran).
2142 + modify test/ncurses.c 'd' edit-color menu to optionally read xterm
2143 color palette directly from terminal, as well as handling KEY_RESIZE
2144 and screen-repainting with control/L and control/R.
2145 + add 'oc' capability to xterm+256color, allowing palette reset for
2149 + add workaround in configure script for inept transition to PIE vs
2150 PIC builds documented in
2151 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Harden_All_Packages
2152 + add "reset" to list of programs whose names might change in manpages
2153 due to program-transformation configure options.
2154 + drop long-obsolete "-n" option from tset.
2157 + modify test/blue.c to use Unicode values for card-glyphs when
2158 available, as well as improving the check for CP437 and CP850.
2161 + regenerate HTML manpages.
2162 + improve manual pages for utilities with respect to POSIX versus
2166 + regenerate HTML manpages.
2167 + improve test/demo_menus.c, allowing mouse-click on the menu-headers
2168 to switch the active menu. This requires a new extension option
2169 O_MOUSE_MENU to tell the menu driver to put mouse events which do not
2170 apply to the active menu back into the queue so that the application
2171 can handle the event.
2174 + improve description of tgoto parameters (report by Steffen Nurpmeso).
2175 + amend workaround for Solaris line-drawing to restore a special case
2176 that maps Unicode line-drawing characters into the acsc string for
2177 non-Unicode locales (Debian #816888).
2180 + modified test/filter.c to illustrate an alternative to getnstr, that
2181 polls for input while updating a clock on the right margin as well
2182 as responding to window size-changes.
2185 + omit a redefinition of "inline" when traces are enabled, since this
2186 does not work with gcc 5.3.x MinGW cross-compiling (cf: 20150912).
2189 + modify test/configure script to check for pthread dependency of
2190 ncursest or ncursestw library when building ncurses examples, e.g.,
2191 in case weak symbols are used.
2192 + modify configure macro for shared-library rules to use -Wl,-rpath
2193 rather than -rpath to work around a bug in scons (FreeBSD #178732,
2195 + double-width multibyte characters were not counted properly in
2196 winsnstr and wins_nwstr (report/example by Eric Pruitt).
2197 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2198 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
2201 + amend fix for _nc_ripoffline from 20091031 to make test/ditto.c work
2202 in threaded configuration.
2203 + move _nc_tracebits, _tracedump and _tracemouse to curses.priv.h,
2204 since they are not part of the suggested ABI6.
2207 + define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN for MinGW port, making builds faster.
2208 + modify test/ditto.c to allow $XTERM_PROG environment variable to
2209 override "xterm" as the name of the program to run in the threaded
2213 + improve formatting of man/curs_refresh.3x and man/tset.1 manpages
2214 + regenerate HTML manpages using newer man2html to eliminate some
2215 unwanted blank lines.
2218 + ifdef'd header-file definition of mouse_trafo() with NCURSES_NOMACROS
2219 (report by Corey Minyard).
2220 + fix some strict compiler-warnings in traces.
2223 + tidy up comments about hardcoded 256color palette (report by
2224 Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD
2225 + add putty-noapp entry, and amend putty entry to use application mode
2226 for better consistency with xterm (report by Leonardo Brondani
2228 + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to trace wide-characters
2229 as a whole rather than their multibyte equivalents.
2230 + minor fix in wadd_wchnstr() to ensure that each cell has nonzero
2232 + move PUTC_INIT calls next to wcrtomb calls, to avoid carry-over of
2233 error status when processing Unicode values which are not mapped.
2236 + modify ncurses c/C color test-screens to take advantage of wide
2237 screens, reducing the number of lines used for 88- and 256-colors.
2238 + minor refinement to check versus ncv to ignore two parameters of
2239 SGR 38 and 48 when those come from color-capabilities.
2242 + add check in tic for use of bold, etc., video attributes in the
2243 color capabilities, accounting whether the feature is listed in ncv.
2244 + add check in tic for conflict between ritm, rmso, rmul versus sgr0.
2247 + add a paragraph to curs_getch.3x discussing key naming (discussion
2248 with James Crippen).
2249 + amend workaround for Solaris vs line-drawing to take the configure
2251 + add a configure check for wcwidth() versus the ncurses line-drawing
2252 characters, to use in special-casing systems such as Solaris.
2255 + improve CF_XOPEN_CURSES macro used in test/configure, to define as
2256 needed NCURSES_WIDECHAR for platforms where _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
2257 does not work. Also modified the test program to ensure that if
2258 building with ncurses, that the cchar_t type is checked, since that
2259 normally is since 20111030 ifdef'd depending on this test.
2260 + improve 20121222 workaround for broken acs, letting Solaris "work"
2261 in spite of its misconfigured wcwidth which marks all of the line
2262 drawing characters as double-width.
2265 + update form_cursor.3x, form_post.3x, menu_attributes.3x to list
2266 function names in NAME section (patch by Jason McIntyre).
2267 + minor fixes to manpage NAME/SYNOPSIS sections to consistently use
2268 rule that either all functions which are prototyped in SYNOPSIS are
2269 listed in the NAME section, or the manual-page name is the sole item
2270 listed in the NAME section. The latter is used to reduce clutter,
2271 e.g., for the top-level library manual pages as well as for certain
2272 feature-pages such as SP-funcs and threading (prompted by patches by
2276 + add option to preserve leading whitespace in form fields (patch by
2278 + add missing assignment in lib_getch.c to make notimeout() work
2280 + add 't' toggle for notimeout() function in test/ncurses.c a/A screens
2281 + add viewdata terminal description (Alexandre Montaron).
2282 + fix a case in tic/infocmp for formatting capabilities where a
2283 backslash at the end of a string was mishandled.
2284 + fix some typos in curs_inopts.3x (Benno Schulenberg).
2287 + fix some inconsistencies in the pccon* entries -TD
2288 + add bold to pccon+sgr+acs and pccon-base (Tati Chevron).
2289 + add keys f12-f124 to pccon+keys (Tati Chevron).
2290 + add test/test_sgr.c program to exercise all combinations of sgr.
2293 + modify tset's assignment to TERM in its output to reflect the name by
2294 which the terminal description is found, rather than the primary
2295 name. That was an unnecessary part from the initial conversion of
2296 tset from termcap to terminfo. The termcap program in 4.3BSD did
2297 this to avoid using the short 2-character name (report by Rich
2299 + minor fix to configure script to ensure that rules for resulting.map
2300 are only generated when needed (cf: 20151101).
2301 + modify configure script to handle the case where tic-library is
2302 renamed, but the --with-debug option is used by itself without
2303 normal or shared libraries (prompted by comment in Debian #803482).
2306 + amend change for pkg-config which allows build of pc-files when no
2307 valid pkg-config library directory was configured to suppress the
2308 actual install if it is not overridden to a valid directory at
2309 install time (cf: 20150822).
2310 + modify editing script which generates resulting.map to work with the
2311 clang configuration on recent FreeBSD, which gives an error on an
2312 empty "local" section.
2313 + fix a spurious "(Part)" message in test/ncurses.c b/B tests due
2314 to incorrect attribute-masking.
2317 + modify MKexpanded.sh to update the expansion of a temporary filename
2318 to "expanded.c", for use in trace statements.
2319 + modify layout of b/B tests in test/ncurses.c to allow for additional
2320 annotation on the right margin; some terminals with partial support
2321 did not display well.
2322 + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim).
2323 + fix typo in INSTALL (patch by Tomas Cech).
2324 + improve configure check for setting WILDCARD_SYMS variable; on ppc64
2325 the variable is in the Data section rather than Text (patch by Michel
2326 Normand, Novell #946048).
2327 + using configure option "--without-fallbacks" incorrectly caused
2328 FALLBACK_LIST to be set to "no" (patch by Tomas Cech).
2329 + updated minitel entries to fix kel problem with emacs, and add
2330 minitel1b-nb (Alexandre Montaron).
2331 + reviewed/updated nsterm entry Terminal.app in OSX -TD
2332 + replace some dead URLs in comments with equivalents from the
2333 Internet Archive -TD
2334 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2335 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
2338 + modify ncurses/Makefile.in to sort keys.list in POSIX locale
2339 (Debian #801864, patch by Esa Peuha).
2340 + remove an early-return from _nc_do_color, which can interfere with
2341 data needed by bkgd when ncurses is configured with extended colors
2342 (patch by Denis Tikhomirov).
2343 > fixes for OS/2 (patches by KO Myung-Hun)
2344 + use button instead of kbuf[0] in EMX-specific part of lib_mouse.c
2345 + support building with libtool on OS/2
2346 + use stdc++ on OS/2 kLIBC
2347 + clear cf_XOPEN_SOURCE on OS/2
2350 + add configure check for openpty to test/configure script, for ditto.
2351 + minor fixes to test/view.c in investigating Debian #790847.
2352 + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20150926, incorporates a fix for Cdk.
2353 + add workaround for breakage of POSIX makefiles by recent binutils
2355 + improve check for working poll() by using posix_openpt() as a
2356 fallback in case there is no valid terminal on the standard input
2357 (prompted by discussion on bug-ncurses mailing list, Debian #676461).
2360 + change makefile rule for removing resulting.map to distclean rather
2362 + add /lib/terminfo to terminfo-dirs in ".deb" test-package.
2363 + add note on portability of resizeterm and wresize to manual pages.
2366 + clarify in resizeterm.3x how KEY_RESIZE is pushed onto the input
2368 + clarify in curs_getch.3x that the keypad mode affects ability to
2369 read KEY_MOUSE codes, but does not affect KEY_RESIZE.
2370 + add overlooked build-fix needed with Cygwin for separate Ada95
2371 configure script, cf: 20150606 (report by Nicolas Boulenguez)
2374 + fixes for configure/build using clang on OSX (prompted by report by
2376 + do not redefine "inline" in ncurses_cfg.h; this was originally to
2377 solve a problem with gcc/g++, but is aggravated by clang's misuse
2378 of symbols to pretend it is gcc.
2379 + add braces to configure script to prevent unwanted add of
2380 "-lstdc++" to the CXXLIBS symbol.
2381 + improve/update test-program used for checking existence of stdc++
2383 + if $CXXLIBS is set, the linkage test uses that in addition to $LIBS
2386 + add note in curs_addch.3x about line-drawing when it depends upon
2388 + add tic -q option for consistency with infocmp, use it to suppress
2389 all comments from the "tic -I" output.
2390 + modify infocmp -q option to suppress the "Reconstructed from"
2392 + add infocmp/tic -Q option, which allows one to dump the compiled
2393 form of the terminal entry, in hexadecimal or base64.
2396 + sort options in usage message for infocmp, to make it simpler to
2398 + update usage message for tic, adding "-0" option.
2399 + documented differences in ESCDELAY versus AIX's implementation.
2400 + fix some compiler warnings from ports.
2401 + modify --with-pkg-config-libdir option to make it possible to install
2402 ".pc" files even if pkg-config is not found (adapted from patch by
2406 + disallow "no" as a possible value for "--with-shlib-version" option,
2407 overlooked in cleanup-changes for 20000708 (report by Tommy Alex).
2408 + update release notes in INSTALL.
2409 + regenerate llib-* files to help with review for release notes.
2412 + workaround for Debian #65617, which was fixed in mawk's upstream
2413 releases in 2009 (report by Sven Joachim). See
2414 https://invisible-island.net/mawk/CHANGES.html#t20090727
2416 20150808 6.0 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2419 + build-fix for Ada95 on older platforms without stdint.h
2420 + build-fix for Solaris, whose /bin/sh and /usr/bin/sed are non-POSIX.
2421 + update release announcement, summarizing more than 800 changes across
2422 more than 200 snapshots.
2423 + minor fixes to manpages, etc., to simplify linking from announcement
2427 + updated llib-* files.
2428 + build-fixes for ncurses library "test_progs" rule.
2429 + use alternate workaround for gcc 5.x feature (adapted from patch by
2431 + add status line to tmux via xterm+sl (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
2432 + fixes for st 0.5 from testing with tack -TD
2433 + review/improve several manual pages to break up wall-of-text:
2434 curs_add_wch.3x, curs_attr.3x, curs_bkgd.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x,
2435 curs_getcchar.3x, curs_getch.3x, curs_kernel.3x, curs_mouse.3x,
2436 curs_outopts.3x, curs_overlay.3x, curs_pad.3x, curs_termattrs.3x
2437 curs_trace.3x, and curs_window.3x
2440 + correct an old logic error for %A and %O in tparm (report by "zreed").
2441 + improve documentation for signal handlers by adding section in the
2442 curs_initscr.3x page.
2443 + modify logic in make_keys.c to not assume anything about the size
2444 of strnames and strfnames variables, since those may be functions
2445 in the thread- or broken-linker configurations (problem found by
2447 + modify test/configure script to check for pthreads configuration,
2448 e.g., ncursestw library.
2451 + modify scripts to build/use test-packages for the pthreads
2452 configuration of ncurses6.
2453 + add references to ttytype and termcap symbols in demo_terminfo.c and
2454 demo_termcap.c to ensure that when building ncursest.map, etc., that
2455 the corresponding names such as _nc_ttytype are added to the list of
2456 versioned symbols (report by Werner Fink)
2457 + fix regression from 20150704 (report/patch by Werner Fink).
2460 + fix a few problems reported by Coverity.
2461 + fix comparison against "/usr/include" in misc/gen-pkgconfig.in
2462 (report by Daiki Ueno, Debian #790548, cf: 20141213).
2465 + modify configure script to remove deprecated ABI 5 symbols when
2467 + add symbols _nc_Default_Field, _nc_Default_Form, _nc_has_mouse to
2468 map-files, but marked as deprecated so that they can easily be
2469 suppressed from ABI 6 builds (Debian #788610).
2470 + comment-out "screen.xterm" entry, and inherit screen.xterm-256color
2471 from xterm-new (report by Richard Birkett) -TD
2472 + modify read_entry.c to set the error-return to -1 if no terminal
2473 databases were found, as documented for setupterm.
2474 + add test_setupterm.c to demonstrate normal/error returns from the
2475 setupterm and restartterm functions.
2476 + amend cleanup change from 20110813 which removed redundant definition
2477 of ret_error, etc., from tinfo_driver.c, to account for the fact that
2478 it should return a bool rather than int (report/analysis by Johannes
2482 + fix overflow warning for OSX with lib_baudrate.c (cf: 20010630).
2483 + modify script used to generate map/sym files to mark 5.9.20150530 as
2484 the last "5.9" version, and regenerated the files. That makes the
2485 files not use ".current" for the post-5.9 symbols. This also
2486 corrects the label for _nc_sigprocmask used in when weak symbols are
2487 configured for the ncursest/ncursestw libraries (prompted by
2488 discussion with Sven Joachim).
2489 + fix typo in NEWS (report by Sven Joachim).
2491 20150606 pre-release
2492 + make ABI 6 the default by updates to dist.mk and VERSION, with the
2493 intention that the existing ABI 5 should build as before using the
2494 "--with-abi-version=5" option.
2495 + regenerate ada- and man-html documentation.
2496 + minor fixes to color- and util-manpages.
2497 + fix a regression in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, to handle special case of
2498 Cygwin, which uses the broken-linker feature.
2499 + amend fix for CF_NCURSES_CONFIG used in test/configure to assume that
2500 ncurses package scripts work when present for cross-compiling, as the
2501 lessor of two evils (cf: 20150530).
2502 + add check in configure script to disallow conflicting options
2503 "--with-termlib" and "--enable-term-driver".
2504 + move defaults for "--disable-lp64" and "--with-versioned-syms" into
2505 CF_ABI_DEFAULTS macro.
2508 + change private type for Event_Mask in Ada95 binding to work when
2509 mmask_t is set to 32-bits.
2510 + remove spurious "%;" from st entry (report by Daniel Pitts) -TD
2511 + add vte-2014, update vte to use that -TD
2512 + modify tic and infocmp to "move" a diagnostic for tparm strings that
2513 have a syntax error to tic's "-c" option (report by Daniel Pitts).
2514 + fix two problems with configure script macros (Debian #786436,
2515 cf: 20150425, cf: 20100529).
2518 + add 'P' menu item to test/ncurses.c, to show pad in color.
2519 + improve discussion in curs_color.3x about color rendering (prompted
2520 by comment on Stack Overflow forum):
2521 + remove screen-bce.mlterm, since mlterm does not do "bce" -TD
2522 + add several screen.XXX entries to support the respective variations
2524 + add putty+fnkeys* building-block entries -TD
2525 + add smkx/rmkx to capabilities analyzed with infocmp "-i" option.
2528 + amend change to ".pc" files to only use the extra loader flags which
2529 may have rpath options (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20150502).
2530 + change versioning for dpkg's in test-packages for Ada95 and
2531 ncurses-examples for consistency with Debian, to work with package
2533 + regenerate html manpages.
2534 + clarify handling of carriage return in waddch manual page; it was
2535 discussed only in the portability section (prompted by comment on
2536 Stack Overflow forum):
2539 + add test-packages for cross-compiling ncurses-examples using the
2540 MinGW test-packages. These are only the Debian packages; RPM later.
2541 + cleanup format of debian/copyright files
2542 + add pc-files to the MinGW cross-compiling test-packages.
2543 + correct a couple of places in gen-pkgconfig.in to handle renaming of
2547 + modify the configure script to allow different default values
2548 for ABI 5 versus ABI 6.
2549 + add wgetch-events to test-packages.
2550 + add a note on how to build ncurses-examples to test/README.
2551 + fix a memory leak in delscreen (report by Daniel Kahn Gillmor,
2553 + remove unnecessary ';' from E3 capabilities -TD
2554 + add tmux entry, derived from screen (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
2555 + split-out recent change to nsterm-bce as nsterm-build326, and add
2556 nsterm-build342 to reflect changes with successive releases of OSX
2557 (discussion with Leonardo B Schenkel)
2558 + add xon, ich1, il1 to ibm3161 (patch by Stephen Powell, Debian
2560 + add sample "magic" file, to document ext-putwin.
2561 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to add explicit -ltinfo, etc., to the
2562 generated ".pc" file when ld option "--as-needed" is used, or when
2563 ncurses and tinfo are installed without using rpath (prompted by
2564 discussion with Sylvain Bertrand).
2565 + modify test-package for ncurses6 to omit rpath feature when installed
2567 + add OSX's "*.dSYM" to clean-rules in makefiles.
2568 + make extra-suffix work for OSX configuration, e.g., for shared
2570 + modify Ada95/configure script to work with pkg-config
2571 + move test-package for ncurses6 to /usr, since filename-conflicts have
2573 + corrected build rules for Ada95/gen/generate; it does not depend on
2574 the ncurses library aside from headers.
2575 + reviewed man pages, fixed a few other spelling errors.
2576 + fix a typo in curs_util.3x (Sven Joachim).
2577 + use extra-suffix in some overlooked shared library dependencies
2578 found by 20150425 changes for test-packages.
2579 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2580 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
2583 + expanded description of tgetstr's area pointer in manual page
2584 (report by Todd M Lewis).
2585 + in-progress changes to modify test-packages to use ncursesw6 rather
2586 than ncursesw, with updated configure scripts.
2587 + modify CF_NCURSES_CONFIG in Ada95- and test-configure scripts to
2588 check for ".pc" files via pkg-config, but add a linkage check since
2589 frequently pkg-config configurations are broken.
2590 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to include EXTRA_LDFLAGS, e.g., for the
2592 + add 'dim' capability to screen entry (report by Leonardo B Schenkel)
2593 + add several key definitions to nsterm-bce to match preconfigured
2594 keys, e.g., with OSX 10.9 and 10.10 (report by Leonardo B Schenkel)
2595 + fix repeated "extra-suffix" in ncurses-config.in (cf: 20150418).
2596 + improve term_variables manual page, adding section on the terminfo
2597 long-name symbols which are defined in the term.h header.
2598 + fix bug in lib_tracebits.c introduced in const-fixes (cf: 20150404).
2601 + avoid a blank line in output from tabs program by ending it with
2602 a carriage return as done in FreeBSD (patch by James Clarke).
2603 + build-fix for the "--enable-ext-putwin" feature when not using
2604 wide characters (report by Werner Fink).
2605 + modify autoconf macros to use scripting improvement from xterm.
2606 + add -brtl option to compiler options on AIX 5-7, needed to link
2607 with the shared libraries.
2608 + add --with-extra-suffix option to help with installing nonconflicting
2609 ncurses6 packages, e.g., avoiding header- and library-conflicts.
2610 NOTE: as a side-effect, this renames
2611 adacurses-config to adacurses5-config and
2612 adacursesw-config to adacursesw5-config
2613 + modify debian/rules test package to suffix programs with "6".
2614 + clarify in curs_inopts.3x that window-specific settings do not
2615 inherit into new windows.
2618 + improve description of start_color() in the manual.
2619 + modify several files in ncurses- and progs-directories to allow
2620 const data used in internal tables to be put by the linker into the
2621 readonly text segment.
2624 + correct cut/paste error for "--enable-ext-putwin" that made it the
2625 same as "--enable-ext-colors" (report by Roumen Petrov)
2628 + add "-f" option to test/savescreen.c to help with testing/debugging
2629 the extended putwin/getwin.
2630 + add logic for writing/reading combining characters in the extended
2632 + add "--enable-ext-putwin" configure option to turn on the extended
2636 + in-progress changes to provide an extended version of putwin and
2637 getwin which will be capable of reading screen-dumps between the
2638 wide/normal ncurses configurations. These are text files, except
2639 for a magic code at the beginning:
2640 0 string \210\210 Screen-dump (ncurses)
2643 + document limitations of getwin in manual page (prompted by discussion
2645 + extend test/savescreen.c to demonstrate that color pair values
2646 and graphic characters can be restored using getwin.
2649 + modify win_driver.c to eliminate the constructor, to make it more
2650 usable in an application which may/may not need the console window
2651 (report by Grady Martin).
2654 + capture define's related to -D_XOPEN_SOURCE from the configure check
2655 and add those to the *-config and *.pc files, to simplify use for
2656 the wide-character libraries.
2657 + modify ncurses.spec to accommodate Fedora21's location of pkg-config
2659 + correct sense of "--disable-lib-suffixes" configure option (report
2660 by Nicolas Boos, cf: 20140426).
2663 + regenerate html manpages using improved man2html from work on xterm.
2664 + regenerated ".map" and ".sym" files using improved script, accounting
2665 for the "--enable-weak-symbols" configure option (report by Werner
2669 + regenerated ".map" and ".sym" files using improved script, showing
2670 the combinations of configure options used at each stage.
2673 + add configure check to determine if "local: _*;" can be used in the
2674 ".map" files to selectively omit symbols beginning with "_". On at
2675 least recent FreeBSD, the wildcard applies to all "_" symbols.
2676 + remove obsolete/conflicting rule for ncurses.map from
2677 ncurses/Makefile.in (cf: 20130706).
2680 + improve description in INSTALL of the --with-versioned-syms option.
2681 + add combination of --with-hashed-db and --with-ticlib to
2682 configurations for ".map" files (report by Werner Fink).
2685 + add a step to generating ".map" files, to declare any remaining
2686 symbols beginning with "_" as local, at the last version node.
2687 + improve configure checks for pkg-config, addressing a variant found
2689 + modify win_driver.c to provide characters for special keys, like
2690 ansi.sys, when keypad mode is off, rather than returning nothing at
2691 all (discussion with Eli Zaretskii).
2692 + add "broken_linker" and "hashed-db" configure options to combinations
2693 use for generating the ".map" and ".sym" files.
2694 + avoid using "ld" directly when creating shared library, to simplify
2695 cross-compiles. Also drop "-Bsharable" option from shared-library
2696 rules for FreeBSD and DragonFly (FreeBSD #196592).
2697 + fix a memory leak in form library Free_RegularExpression_Type()
2698 (report by Pavel Balaev).
2701 + modify_nc_flush() to retry if interrupted (patch by Stian Skjelstad).
2702 + change map files to make _nc_freeall a global, since it may be used
2703 via the Ada95 binding when checking for memory leaks.
2704 + improve sed script used in 20141220 to account for wide-, threaded-
2705 variations in ABI 6.
2708 + regenerate ".map" files, using step overlooked in 20141213 to use
2709 the same patch-dates across each file to match ncurses.map (report by
2713 + fix an incorrect variable assignment in 20141220 changes (report by
2717 + updated Ada95/configure with macro changes from 20141213
2718 + tie configure options --with-abi-version and --with-versioned-syms
2719 together, so that ABI 6 libraries have distinct symbol versions from
2720 the ABI 5 libraries.
2721 + replace obsolete/nonworking link to man2html with current one,
2722 regenerate html-manpages.
2725 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to add -I option for include-directory
2726 when using both --prefix and --disable-overwrite (report by Misty
2728 + add configure option --with-pc-suffix to allow minor renaming of
2729 ".pc" files and the corresponding library. Use this in the test
2730 package for ncurses6.
2731 + modify configure script so that if pkg-config is not installed, it
2732 is still possible to install ".pc" files (report by Misty De Meo).
2733 + updated ".sym" files, removing symbols which are marked as "local"
2734 in the corresponding ".map" files.
2735 + updated ".map" files to reflect move of comp_captab and comp_hash
2736 from tic-library to tinfo-library in 20090711 (report by Sven
2740 + updated ".map" files so that each symbol that may be shared across
2741 the different library configurations has the same label. Some
2742 review is needed to ensure these are really compatible.
2743 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to work around change in development version of
2744 gcc introduced here:
2745 https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-06/msg02185.html
2746 https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-07/msg00236.html
2747 (reports by Marcus Shawcroft, Maohui Lei).
2748 + improved configure macro CF_SUBDIR_PATH, from lynx changes.
2751 + improved ".map" files by generating them with a script that builds
2752 ncurses with several related configurations and merges the results.
2753 A further refinement is planned, to make the tic- and tinfo-library
2754 symbols use the same versions across each of the four configurations
2755 which are represented (reports by Sven Joachim, Werner Fink).
2758 + improve description of limits for color values and color pairs in
2759 curs_color.3x (prompted by patch by Tim van der Molen).
2760 + add VERSION file, using first field in that to record the ABI version
2761 used for configure --with-libtool --disable-libtool-version
2762 + add configure options for applying the ".map" and ".sym" files to
2763 the ncurses, form, menu and panel libraries.
2764 + add ".map" and ".sym" files to show exported symbols, e.g., for
2768 + improve strict compiler-warnings by adding a cast in TRACE_RETURN
2769 and making a new TRACE_RETURN1 macro for cases where the cast does
2773 + in-progress changes to integrate the win32 console driver with the
2774 msys2 configuration.
2777 + reviewed terminology 0.6.1, add function key definitions. None of
2778 the vt100-compatibility issues were improved -TD
2779 + improve infocmp conversion of extended capabilities to termcap by
2780 correcting the limit check against parametrized[], as well as filling
2781 in a check if the string happens to have parameters, e.g., "xm"
2783 + add check for zero/negative dimensions for resizeterm and resize_term
2784 (report by Mike Gran).
2787 + add experimental support for xterm's 1005 mouse mode, to use in a
2788 demonstration of its limitations.
2789 + add experimental support for "%u" format to terminfo.
2790 + modify test/ncurses.c to also show position reports in 'a' test.
2791 + minor formatting fixes to _nc_trace_mmask_t, make this function
2792 exported to help with debugging mouse changes.
2793 + improve behavior of wheel-mice for xterm protocol, noting that there
2794 are only button-presses for buttons "4" and "5", so there is no need
2795 to wait to combine events into double-clicks (report/analysis by
2797 + provide examples xterm-1005 and xterm-1006 terminfo entries -TD
2798 + implement decoder for xterm SGR 1006 mouse mode.
2801 + implement curs_set in win_driver.c
2802 + implement flash in win_driver.c
2803 + fix an infinite loop in win_driver.c if the command-window loses
2805 + improve the non-buffered mode, i.e., NCURSES_CONSOLE2, of
2806 win_driver.c by temporarily changing the buffer-size to match the
2807 window-size to eliminate the scrollback. Also enforce a minimum
2808 screen-size of 24x80 in the non-buffered mode.
2809 + modify generated misc/Makefile to suppress install.data from the
2810 dependencies if the --disable-db-install option is used, compensating
2811 for the top-level makefile changes used to add ncurses*-config in the
2812 20140920 changes (report by Steven Honeyman).
2815 + add ncurses*-config to bin-directory of sample package-scripts.
2816 + add check to ensure that getopt is available; this is a problem in
2817 some older cross-compiler environments.
2818 + expanded on the description of --disable-overwrite in INSTALL
2819 (prompted by reports by Joakim Tjernlund, Thomas Klausner).
2820 See Gentoo #522586 and NetBSD #49200 for examples.
2821 which relates to the clarified guidelines.
2822 + remove special logic from CF_INCLUDE_DIRS which adds the directory
2823 for the --includedir from the build (report by Joakim Tjernlund).
2824 + add case for Unixware to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, from lynx changes.
2825 + update config.sub from
2826 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
2829 + add a configure check to ignore some of the plethora of non-working
2830 C++ cross-compilers.
2831 + build-fixes for Ada95 with gnat 4.9
2834 + build-fix and other improvements for port of ncurses-examples to
2836 + minor compiler-warning fixes.
2839 + modify test/demo_termcap.c and test/demo_terminfo.c to make their
2840 options more directly comparable, and add "-i" option to specify
2841 a terminal description filename to parse for names to lookup.
2844 + fix special case where double-width character overwrites a single-
2845 width character in the first column (report by Egmont Koblinger,
2849 + fix colors in ncurses 'b' test which did not work after changing
2850 it to put the test-strings in subwindows (cf: 20140705).
2851 + merge redundant SEE-ALSO sections in form and menu manpages.
2854 + modify declarations for user-data pointers in C++ binding to use
2855 reinterpret_cast to facilitate converting typed pointers to void*
2856 in user's application (patch by Adam Jiang).
2857 + regenerated html manpages.
2858 + add note regarding cause and effect for TERM in ncurses manpage,
2859 having noted clueless verbiage in Terminal.app's "help" file
2860 which reverses cause/effect.
2861 + remove special fallback definition for NCURSES_ATTR_T, since macros
2862 have resolved type-mismatches using casts (cf: 970412).
2863 + fixes for win_driver.c:
2864 + handle repainting on endwin/refresh combination.
2869 + minor portability fixes for MinGW:
2870 + ensure WINVER is defined in makefiles rather than using headers
2871 + add check for gnatprep "-T" option
2872 + work around bug introduced by gcc 4.8.1 in MinGW which breaks
2874 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20877689/gcc-4-8-1-minggw-d-option-does-not-work-as-usual
2875 + fix most compiler warnings for Cygwin ncurses-examples.
2876 + restore "redundant" -I options in test/Makefile.in, since they are
2877 typically needed when building the derived ncurses-examples package
2881 + eliminate some redundant -I options used for building libraries, and
2882 ensure that ${srcdir} is added to the include-options (prompted by
2883 discussion with Paul Gilmartin).
2884 + modify configure script to work with Minix3.2
2885 + add form library extension O_DYNAMIC_JUSTIFY option which can be
2886 used to override the different treatment of justification for static
2887 versus dynamic fields (adapted from patch by Leon Winter).
2888 + add a null pointer check in test/edit_field.c (report/analysis by
2889 Leon Winter, cf: 20130608).
2892 + make workarounds for compiling test-programs with NetBSD curses.
2893 + improve configure macro CF_ADD_LIBS, to eliminate repeated -l/-L
2894 options, from xterm changes.
2897 + correct Charable() macro check for A_ALTCHARSET in wide-characters.
2898 + build-fix for position-debug code in tty_update.c, to work with or
2902 + add w/W toggle to ncurses.c 'B' test, to demonstrate permutation of
2903 video-attributes and colors with double-width character strings.
2906 + correct check in win_driver.c for saving screen contents, e.g., when
2907 NCURSES_CONSOLE2 is set (cf: 20140503).
2908 + reorganize b/B menu items in ncurses.c, putting the test-strings into
2909 subwindows. This is needed for a planned change to use Unicode
2910 fullwidth characters in the test-screens.
2911 + correct update to form status for _NEWTOP, broken by fixes for
2912 compiler warnings (patch by Leon Winter, cf: 20120616).
2915 + change shared-library suffix for AIX 5 and 6 to ".so", avoiding
2916 conflict with the static library (report by Ben Lentz).
2917 + document RPATH_LIST in INSTALLATION file, as part of workarounds for
2918 upgrading an ncurses library using the "--with-shared" option.
2919 + modify test/ncurses.c c/C tests to cycle through subsets of the
2920 total number of colors, to better illustrate 8/16/88/256-colors by
2921 providing directly comparable screens.
2922 + add test/dots_curses.c, for comparison with the low-level examples.
2925 + fix dereference before null check found by Coverity in tic.c
2927 + fix sign-extension bug in read_entry.c which prevented "toe" from
2928 reading empty "screen+italics" entry.
2929 + modify sgr for screen.xterm-new to support dim capability -TD
2930 + add dim capability to nsterm+7 -TD
2931 + cancel dim capability for iterm -TD
2932 + add dim, invis capabilities to vte-2012 -TD
2933 + add sitm/ritm to konsole-base and mlterm3 -TD
2936 > fix regression in screen terminfo entries (reports by Christian
2937 Ebert, Gabriele Balducci) -TD
2938 + revert the change to screen; see notes for why this did not work -TD
2939 + cancel sitm/ritm for entries which extend "screen", to work around
2940 screen's hardcoded behavior for SGR 3 -TD
2943 + separate masking for sgr in vidputs from sitm/ritm, which do not
2944 overlap with sgr functionality.
2945 + remove unneeded -i option from adacurses-config; put -a in the -I
2946 option for consistency (patch by Pascal Pignard).
2947 + update xterm-new terminfo entry to xterm patch #305 -TD
2948 + change format of test-scripts for Debian Ada95 and ncurses-examples
2949 packages to quilted to work around Debian #700177 (cf: 20130907).
2950 + build fix for form_driver_w.c as part of ncurses-examples package for
2951 older ncurses than 20131207.
2952 + add Hello World example to adacurses-config manpage.
2953 + remove unused --enable-pc-files option from Ada95/configure.
2954 + add --disable-gnat-projects option for testing.
2955 + revert changes to Ada95 project-files configuration (cf: 20140524).
2956 + corrected usage message in adacurses-config.
2959 + fix typo in ncurses manpage for the NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE
2960 environment variable.
2961 + improve discussion of input-echoing in curs_getch.3x
2962 + clarify discussion in curs_addch.3x of wrapping.
2963 + modify parametrized.h to make fln non-padded.
2964 + correct several entries which had termcap-style padding used in
2965 terminfo: adm21, aj510, alto-h19, att605-pc, x820 -TD
2966 + correct syntax for padding in some entries: dg211, h19 -TD
2967 + correct ti924-8 which had confused padding versus octal escapes -TD
2968 + correct padding in sbi entry -TD
2969 + fix an old bug in the termcap emulation; "%i" was ignored in tparm()
2970 because the parameters to be incremented were already on the internal
2971 stack (report by Corinna Vinschen).
2972 + modify tic's "-c" option to take into account the "-C" option to
2973 activate additional checks which compare the results from running
2974 tparm() on the terminfo expressions versus the translated termcap
2976 + modify tic to allow it to read from FIFOs (report by Matthieu Fronton,
2978 > patches by Nicolas Boulenguez:
2979 + explicit dereferences to suppress some style warnings.
2980 + when c_varargs_to_ada.c includes its header, use double quotes
2982 + samples/ncurses2-util.adb: removed unused with clause. The warning
2983 was removed by an obsolete pragma.
2984 + replaced Unreferenced pragmas with Warnings (Off). The latter,
2985 available with older GNATs, needs no configure test. This also
2986 replaces 3 untested Unreferenced pragmas.
2987 + simplified To_C usage in trace handling. Using two parameters allows
2988 some basic formatting, and avoids a warning about security with some
2990 + for generated Ada sources, replace many snippets with one pure
2992 + removed C_Chtype and its conversions.
2993 + removed C_AttrType and its conversions.
2994 + removed conversions between int, Item_Option_Set, Menu_Option_Set.
2995 + removed int, Field_Option_Set, Item_Option_Set conversions.
2996 + removed C_TraceType, Attribute_Option_Set conversions.
2997 + replaced C.int with direct use of Eti_Error, now enumerated. As it
2998 was used in a case statement, values were tested by the Ada compiler
2999 to be consecutive anyway.
3000 + src/Makefile.in: remove duplicate stanza
3001 + only consider using a project for shared libraries.
3002 + style. Silent gnat-4.9 warning about misplaced "then".
3003 + generate shared library project to honor ADAFLAGS, LDFLAGS.
3006 + cleanup recently introduced compiler warnings for MingW port.
3007 + workaround for ${MAKEFLAGS} configure check versus GNU make 4.0,
3008 which introduces more than one gratuitous incompatibility.
3011 + add vt520ansi terminfo entry (patch by Mike Gran)
3012 + further improve MinGW support for the scenario where there is an
3013 ANSI-escapes handler such as ansicon running in the console window
3014 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3017 + add --disable-lib-suffixes option (adapted from patch by Juergen
3019 + merge some changes from Juergen Pfeifer's work with MSYS2, to
3020 simplify later merging:
3021 + use NC_ISATTY() macro for isatty() in library
3022 + add _nc_mingw_isatty() and related functions to windows-driver
3023 + rename terminal driver entrypoints to simplify grep's
3024 + remove a check in the sp-funcs flavor of newterm() which allowed only
3025 the first call to newterm() to succeed (report by Thomas Beierlein,
3029 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3030 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
3033 + modify configure script:
3034 + drop the -no-gcc option from Intel compiler, from lynx changes.
3035 + extend the --with-hashed-db configure option to simplify building
3036 with different versions of Berkeley database using FreeBSD ports.
3037 + improve initialization for MinGW port (Juergen Pfeifer):
3038 + enforce Windows-style path-separator if cross-compiling,
3039 + add a driver-name method to each of the drivers,
3040 + allow the Windows driver name to match "unknown", ignoring case,
3041 + lengthen the built-in name for the Windows console driver to
3042 "#win32console", and
3043 + move the comparison of driver-names allowing abbreviation, e.g.,
3044 to "#win32con" into the Windows console driver.
3047 + add check in tic for mismatch between ccc and initp/initc
3048 + cancel ccc in putty-256color and konsole-256color for consistency
3049 with the cancelled initc capability (patch by Sven Zuhlsdorf).
3050 + add xterm+256setaf building block for various terminals which only
3051 get the 256-color feature half-implemented -TD
3052 + updated "st" entry (leaving the 0.1.1 version as "simpleterm") to
3056 + fix typo in "mlterm" entry (report by Gabriele Balducci) -TD
3059 + use types from <stdint.h> in sample build-scripts for chtype, etc.
3060 + modify configure script and curses.h.in to allow the types specified
3061 using --with-chtype and related options to be defined in <stdint.h>
3062 + add terminology entry -TD
3063 + add mlterm3 entry, use that as "mlterm" -TD
3064 + inherit mlterm-256color from mlterm -TD
3067 + modify _nc_New_TopRow_and_CurrentItem() to ensure that the menu's
3068 top-row is adjusted as needed to ensure that the current item is
3069 on the screen (patch by Johann Klammer).
3070 + add wgetdelay() to retrieve _delay member of WINDOW if it happens to
3071 be opaque, e.g., in the pthread configuration (prompted by patch by
3075 + modify ifdef in read_entry.c to handle the case where
3076 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE is not defined (patch by Xin Li).
3077 + add cast in form_driver_w() to fix ARM build (patch by Xin Li).
3078 + add logic to win_driver.c to save/restore screen contents when not
3079 allocating a console-buffer (cf: 20140215).
3082 + clarify error-returns from newwin (report by Ruslan Nabioullin).
3085 + fix some compiler warnings in win_driver.c
3086 + updated notes for wsvt25 based on tack and vttest -TD
3087 + add teken entry to show actual properties of FreeBSD's "xterm"
3091 + in-progress changes to win_driver.c to implement output without
3092 allocating a console-buffer. This uses a pre-existing environment
3093 variable NCGDB used by Juergen Pfeifer for debugging (prompted by
3094 discussion with Erwin Waterlander regarding Console2, which hangs
3095 when reading in an allocated console-buffer).
3096 + add -t option to gdc.c, and modify to accept "S" to step through the
3098 + regenerate NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html to fix some of the broken
3099 html emitted by docbook.
3102 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to omit followup check to determine if
3103 _XOPEN_SOURCE can/should be defined. g++ 4.7.2 built on Solaris 10
3104 has some header breakage due to its own predefinition of this symbol
3105 (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15796).
3108 + add/use symbol NCURSES_PAIRS_T like NCURSES_COLOR_T, to illustrate
3109 which "short" types are for color pairs and which are color values.
3110 + fix build for s390x, by correcting field bit offsets in generated
3111 representation clauses when int=32 long=64 and endian=big, or at
3112 least on s390x (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
3113 + minor cleanup change to test/form_driver_w.c (patch by Gaute Hope).
3116 + remove unnecessary ifdef's in Ada95/gen/gen.c, which reportedly do
3117 not work as is with gcc 4.8 due to fixes using chtype cast made for
3118 new compiler warnings by gcc 4.8 in 20130824 (Debian #735753, patch
3119 by Nicolas Boulenguez).
3122 + apply includesubdir variable which was introduced in 20130805 to
3123 gen-pkgconfig.in (Debian #735782).
3126 + further improved man2html, used this to fix broken links in html
3128 ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/man2html
3131 + modify configure-script/ifdef's to allow OLD_TTY feature to be
3132 suppressed if the type of ospeed is configured using the option
3133 --with-ospeed to not be a short. By default, it is a short for
3134 termcap-compatibility (adapted from suggestion by Christian
3136 + correct a typo in _nc_baudrate() (patch by Christian Weisgerber,
3138 + fix a few -Wlogical-op warnings.
3139 + updated llib-l* files.
3142 + add form_driver_w() entrypoint to wide-character forms library, as
3143 well as test program form_driver_w (adapted from patch by Gaute
3147 + minor fix for CF_GCC_WARNINGS to special-case options which are not
3148 recognized by clang.
3151 + add special case to configure script to move _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
3152 definition from CPPFLAGS to CFLAGS if it happens to be needed for
3153 Solaris, because g++ errors with that definition (report by
3154 Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15268).
3155 + correct logic in infocmp's -i option which was intended to ignore
3156 strings which correspond to function-keys as candidates for piecing
3157 together initialization- or reset-strings. The problem dates to
3158 1.9.7a, but was overlooked until changes in -Wlogical-op warnings for
3159 gcc 4.8 (report by David Binderman).
3160 + updated CF_GCC_WARNINGS to documented options for gcc 4.9.0, moving
3161 checks for -Wextra and -Wdeclaration-after-statement into the macro,
3162 and adding checks for -Wignored-qualifiers, -Wlogical-op and
3164 + updated CF_CURSES_UNCTRL_H and CF_SHARED_OPTS macros from ongoing
3166 + update config.sub from
3167 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
3170 + minor cleanup of terminfo.tail
3173 + use TS extension to describe xterm's title-escapes -TD
3174 + modify terminator and nsterm-s to use xterm+sl-twm building block -TD
3175 + update hurd.ti, add xenl to reflect 2011-03-06 change in
3176 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/hurd.git/log/console/display.c
3178 + simplify pfkey expression in ansi.sys -TD
3181 + correct/simplify ifdef's for cur_term versus broken-linker and
3182 reentrant options (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, cf: 20090530).
3183 + modify release/version combinations in test build-scripts to make
3184 them more consistent with other packages.
3187 + add nc_mingw.h to installed headers for MinGW port; needed for
3188 compiling ncurses-examples.
3189 + add rpm-script for testing cross-compile of ncurses-examples.
3192 + fix new typo in CF_ADA_INCLUDE_DIRS macro (report by Roumen Petrov).
3195 + fix a few compiler warnings in progs and test.
3196 + minor fix to package/debian-mingw/rules, do not strip dll's.
3197 + minor fixes to configure script for empty $prefix, e.g., when doing
3198 cross-compiles to MinGW.
3199 + add script for building test-packages of binaries cross-compiled to
3203 + minor fixes for ncurses-example package and makefile.
3204 + add scripts for test-builds of cross-compiler packages for ncurses6
3208 + some build-fixes for ncurses-examples with NetBSD-6.0 curses, though
3209 it lacks some common functions such as use_env() which is not yet
3211 + build-fix and some compiler warning fixes for ncurses-examples with
3213 + fix a possible null-pointer reference in a trace message from newterm.
3214 + quiet a few warnings from NetBSD 6.0 namespace pollution by
3215 nonstandard popcount() function in standard strings.h header.
3216 + ignore g++ 4.2.1 warnings for "-Weffc++" in c++/cursesmain.cc
3217 + fix a few overlooked places for --enable-string-hacks option.
3220 + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130831).
3221 + build-fix for --with-shared option for DragonFly and FreeBSD (report
3222 by Rong-En Fan, cf: 20130727).
3225 + build-fixes for MSYS for two test-programs (patches by Ray Donnelly,
3227 + revert change to two of the dpkg format files, to work with dpkg
3228 before/after Debian #700177.
3229 + fix gcc -Wconversion warning in wattr_get() macro.
3230 + add msys and msysdll to known host/configuration types (patch by
3232 + modify CF_RPATH_HACK configure macro to not rely upon "-u" option
3233 of sort, improving portability.
3234 + minor improvements for test-programs from reviewing Solaris port.
3235 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3236 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
3239 + modify test/ncurses.c b/B tests to display lines only for the
3240 attributes which a given terminal supports, to make room for an
3242 + completed ncv table in terminfo.tail; it did not list the wide
3243 character codes listed in X/Open Curses issue 7.
3244 + add A_ITALIC extension (prompted by discussion with Egmont Koblinger).
3247 + fix some gcc 4.8 -Wconversion warnings.
3248 + change format of dpkg test-scripts to quilted to work around bug
3249 introduced by Debian #700177.
3250 + discard cached keyname() values if meta() is changed after a value
3251 was cached using (report by Kurban Mallachiev).
3254 + add checks in tic to warn about terminals which lack cursor
3255 addressing, capabilities or having those, are marked as hard_copy or
3257 + use --without-progs in mingw-ncurses rpm.
3258 + split out _nc_init_termtype() from alloc_entry.c to use in MinGW
3259 port when tic and other programs are not needed.
3262 + minor fixes to the --disable-overwrite logic, to ensure that the
3263 configured $(includedir) is not cancelled by the mingwxx-filesystem
3265 + add --disable-db-install configure option, to simplify building
3266 cross-compile support packages.
3267 + add mingw-ncurses.spec file, for testing cross-compiles.
3270 + improve configure macros from ongoing work on cdk, dialog, xterm:
3271 + CF_ADD_LIB_AFTER - fix a problem with -Wl options
3272 + CF_RPATH_HACK - add missing result-message
3273 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify to use $rel_builddir in cygwin and mingw
3274 dll symbols (which can be overridden) rather than explicit "../".
3275 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify NetBSD and DragonFly symbols to use ${CC}
3276 rather than ${LD} to improve rpath support.
3277 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - add a symbol to denote the temporary files that
3278 are created by the macro, to simplify clean-rules.
3279 + CF_X_ATHENA - trim extra libraries to work with -Wl,--as-needed
3280 + fix a regression in hashed-database support for NetBSD, which uses
3281 the key-size differently from other implementations (cf: 20121229).
3284 + further improvements for setupterm manpage, clarifying the
3285 initialization of cur_term.
3288 + improve manpages for initscr and setupterm.
3289 + minor compiler-warning fixes
3292 + add fallback defs for <inttypes.h> and <stdint.h> (cf: 20120225).
3293 + add check for size of wchar_t, use that to suppress a chunk of
3294 wcwidth.h in MinGW port.
3295 + quiet linker warnings for MinGW cross-compile with dll's using the
3296 --enable-auto-import flag.
3297 + add ncurses.map rule to ncurses/Makefile to help diagnose symbol
3301 + modify the clear program to take into account the E3 extended
3302 capability to clear the terminal's scrollback buffer (patch by
3303 Miroslav Lichvar, Redhat #815790).
3304 + clarify in resizeterm manpage that LINES and COLS are updated.
3305 + updated ansi example in terminfo.tail, correct misordered example
3307 + fix other doclifter warnings for manpages
3308 + remove unnecessary ".ta" in terminfo.tail, add missing ".fi"
3309 (patch by Eric Raymond).
3312 + minor changes to some configure macros to make them more reusable.
3313 + fixes for tabs program (prompted by report by Nick Andrik).
3314 + corrected logic in command-line parsing of -a and -c predefined
3316 + allow "-0" and "-8" options to be combined with others, e.g.,"-0d".
3317 + make warning messages more consistent with the other utilities by
3318 not printing the full pathname of the program.
3319 + add -V option for consistency with other utilities.
3320 + fix off-by-one in columns for tabs program when processing an option
3321 such as "-5" (patch by Nick Andrik).
3324 + add to test/demo_forms.c examples of using the menu-hooks as well
3325 as showing how the menu item user-data can be used to pass a callback
3327 + add test/dots_termcap.c
3328 + remove setupterm call from test/demo_termcap.c
3329 + build-fix if --disable-ext-funcs configure option is used.
3330 + modified test/edit_field.c and test/demo_forms.c to move the lengths
3331 into a user-data structure, keeping the original string for later
3332 expansion to free-format input/out demo.
3333 + modified test/demo_forms.c to load data from file.
3334 + added note to clarify Terminal.app's non-emulation of the various
3335 terminal types listed in the preferences dialog -TD
3336 + fix regression in error-reporting in lib_setup.c (Debian #711134,
3338 + build-fix for a case where --enable-broken_linker and
3339 --enable-reentrant options are combined (report by George R Goffe).
3342 + modify mvcur() to distinguish between internal use by the ncurses
3343 library, and external callers, preventing it from reading the content
3344 of the screen which is only nonblank when curses calls have updated
3345 it. This makes test/dots_mvcur.c avoid painting colored cells in
3346 the left margin of the display.
3347 + minor fix to test/dots_mvcur.c
3348 + move configured symbols USE_DATABASE and USE_TERMCAP to term.h as
3349 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE and NCURSES_USE_TERMCAP to allow consistent
3350 use of these symbols in term_entry.h
3353 + corrected ifdefs in test/testcurs.c to allow comparison of mouse
3354 interface versus pdcurses (cf: 20130316).
3355 + add pow() to configure-check for math library, needed since
3356 20121208 for test/hanoi (Debian #708056).
3357 + regenerated html manpages.
3358 + update doctype used for html documentation.
3361 + move nsterm-related entries out of "obsolete" section to more
3362 plausible "ansi consoles" -TD
3363 + additional cleanup of table-of-contents by reordering -TD
3364 + revise fix for check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch(); prior fix
3365 prevented inserts when video attributes were attached to the data
3366 (cf: 20121215) (Redhat #959534).
3369 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
3370 + correct FNKEY() macro in progs/dump_entry.c, allowing kf11-kf63 to
3371 display when infocmp's -R option is used for HP or AIX subsets.
3372 + fix dead-code issue with test/movewindow.c
3373 + improve limited-checking in _nc_read_termtype().
3376 + fix clang 3.2 warning in progs/dump_entry.c
3377 + drop AC_TYPE_SIGNAL check; ncurses relies on c89 and later.
3380 + add MinGW to cases where ncurses installs by default into /usr
3381 (prompted by discussion with Daniel Silva Ferreira).
3382 + add -D option to infocmp's usage-message (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
3383 + add a missing 'int' type for main function in configure check for
3384 type of bool variable, to work with clang 3.2 (report by Dmitri
3386 + improve configure check for static_cast, to work with clang 3.2
3387 (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
3388 + re-order rule for demo.o and macros defining header dependencies in
3389 c++/Makefile.in to accommodate gmake (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
3392 + improve parameter checking in copywin().
3393 + modify configure script to work around OS X's "libtool" program, to
3394 choose glibtool instead. At the same time, chance the autoconf macro
3395 to look for a "tool" rather than a "prog", to help with potential use
3397 + separate the rpath usage for c++ library from demo program
3399 + update/correct header-dependencies in c++ makefile (report by Werner
3401 + add --with-cxx-shared to dpkg-script, as done for rpm-script.
3404 + build-fix for libtool configuration (reports by Daniel Silva Ferreira
3408 + build-fix for OS X, to handle changes for --with-cxx-shared feature
3409 (report by Christian Ebert).
3410 + change initialization for vt220, similar entries for consistency
3411 with cursor-key strings (NetBSD #47674) -TD
3412 + further improvements to linux-16color (Benjamin Sittler)
3415 + additional fix for tic.c, to allocate missing buffer space.
3416 + eliminate configure-script warnings for gen-pkgconfig.in
3417 + correct typo in sgr string for sun-color,
3418 add bold for consistency with sgr,
3419 change smso for consistency with sgr -TD
3420 + correct typo in sgr string for terminator -TD
3421 + add blink to the attributes masked by ncv in linux-16color (report
3422 by Benjamin Sittler)
3423 + improve warning message from post-load checking for missing "%?"
3424 operator by tic/infocmp by showing the entry name and capability.
3425 + minor formatting improvement to tic/infocmp -f option to ensure
3426 line split after "%;".
3427 + amend scripting for --with-cxx-shared option to handle the debug
3428 library "libncurses++_g.a" (report by Sven Joachim).
3431 + amend change to toe.c for reading from /dev/zero, to ensure that
3432 there is a buffer for the temporary filename (cf: 20120324).
3433 + regenerated html manpages.
3434 + fix typo in terminfo.head (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130302).
3435 + updated some autoconf macros:
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