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31 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
32 working with Pavel Curtis' original work, pcurses, in 1992.
34 Changes through 1.9.9e are recorded by Zeyd M Ben-Halim.
35 Changes since 1.9.9e are recorded by Thomas E Dickey.
37 Contributors include those who have provided patches (even small ones), as well
38 as those who provide useful information (bug reports, analyses). Changes with
39 no cited author are the work of Thomas E Dickey (TD).
41 A few contributors are given in this file by their initials.
42 They each account for one percent or more of the changes since 1.9.9e.
43 See the AUTHORS file for the corresponding full names.
45 Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
46 it is not possible to add this information.
49 + amend change to ".pc" files to only use the extra loader flags which
50 may have rpath options (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20150502).
51 + change versioning for dpkg's in test-packages for Ada95 and
52 ncurses-examples for consistency with Debian, to work with package
54 + regenerate html manpages.
55 + clarify handling of carriage return in waddch manual page; it was
56 discussed only in the portability section (prompted by comment on
57 Stack Overflow forum):
60 + add test-packages for cross-compiling ncurses-examples using the
61 MinGW test-packages. These are only the Debian packages; RPM later.
62 + cleanup format of debian/copyright files
63 + add pc-files to the MinGW cross-compiling test-packages.
64 + correct a couple of places in gen-pkgconfig.in to handle renaming of
68 + modify the configure script to allow different default values
69 for ABI 5 versus ABI 6.
70 + add wgetch-events to test-packages.
71 + add a note on how to build ncurses-examples to test/README.
72 + fix a memory leak in delscreen (report by Daniel Kahn Gillmor,
74 + remove unnecessary ';' from E3 capabilities -TD
75 + add tmux entry, derived from screen (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
76 + split-out recent change to nsterm-bce as nsterm-build326, and add
77 nsterm-build342 to reflect changes with successive releases of OSX
78 (discussion with Leonardo B Schenkel)
79 + add xon, ich1, il1 to ibm3161 (patch by Stephen Powell, Debian
81 + add sample "magic" file, to document ext-putwin.
82 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to add explicit -ltinfo, etc., to the
83 generated ".pc" file when ld option "--as-needed" is used, or when
84 ncurses and tinfo are installed without using rpath (prompted by
85 discussion with Sylvain Bertrand).
86 + modify test-package for ncurses6 to omit rpath feature when installed
88 + add OSX's "*.dSYM" to clean-rules in makefiles.
89 + make extra-suffix work for OSX configuration, e.g., for shared
91 + modify Ada95/configure script to work with pkg-config
92 + move test-package for ncurses6 to /usr, since filename-conflicts have
94 + corrected build rules for Ada95/gen/generate; it does not depend on
95 the ncurses library aside from headers.
96 + reviewed man pages, fixed a few other spelling errors.
97 + fix a typo in curs_util.3x (Sven Joachim).
98 + use extra-suffix in some overlooked shared library dependencies
99 found by 20150425 changes for test-packages.
100 + update config.guess, config.sub from
101 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
104 + expanded description of tgetstr's area pointer in manual page
105 (report by Todd M Lewis).
106 + in-progress changes to modify test-packages to use ncursesw6 rather
107 than ncursesw, with updated configure scripts.
108 + modify CF_NCURSES_CONFIG in Ada95- and test-configure scripts to
109 check for ".pc" files via pkg-config, but add a linkage check since
110 frequently pkg-config configurations are broken.
111 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to include EXTRA_LDFLAGS, e.g., for the
113 + add 'dim' capability to screen entry (report by Leonardo B Schenkel)
114 + add several key definitions to nsterm-bce to match preconfigured
115 keys, e.g., with OSX 10.9 and 10.10 (report by Leonardo B Schenkel)
116 + fix repeated "extra-suffix" in ncurses-config.in (cf: 20150418).
117 + improve term_variables manual page, adding section on the terminfo
118 long-name symbols which are defined in the term.h header.
119 + fix bug in lib_tracebits.c introduced in const-fixes (cf: 20150404).
122 + avoid a blank line in output from tabs program by ending it with
123 a carriage return as done in FreeBSD (patch by James Clarke).
124 + build-fix for the "--enable-ext-putwin" feature when not using
125 wide characters (report by Werner Fink).
126 + modify autoconf macros to use scripting improvement from xterm.
127 + add -brtl option to compiler options on AIX 5-7, needed to link
128 with the shared libraries.
129 + add --with-extra-suffix option to help with installing nonconflicting
130 ncurses6 packages, e.g., avoiding header- and library-conflicts.
131 NOTE: as a side-effect, this renames
132 adacurses-config to adacurses5-config and
133 adacursesw-config to adacursesw5-config
134 + modify debian/rules test package to suffix programs with "6".
135 + clarify in curs_inopts.3x that window-specific settings do not
136 inherit into new windows.
139 + improve description of start_color() in the manual.
140 + modify several files in ncurses- and progs-directories to allow
141 const data used in internal tables to be put by the linker into the
142 readonly text segment.
145 + correct cut/paste error for "--enable-ext-putwin" that made it the
146 same as "--enable-ext-colors" (report by Roumen Petrov)
149 + add "-f" option to test/savescreen.c to help with testing/debugging
150 the extended putwin/getwin.
151 + add logic for writing/reading combining characters in the extended
153 + add "--enable-ext-putwin" configure option to turn on the extended
157 + in-progress changes to provide an extended version of putwin and
158 getwin which will be capable of reading screen-dumps between the
159 wide/normal ncurses configurations. These are text files, except
160 for a magic code at the beginning:
161 0 string \210\210 Screen-dump (ncurses)
164 + document limitations of getwin in manual page (prompted by discussion
166 + extend test/savescreen.c to demonstrate that color pair values
167 and graphic characters can be restored using getwin.
170 + modify win_driver.c to eliminate the constructor, to make it more
171 usable in an application which may/may not need the console window
172 (report by Grady Martin).
175 + capture define's related to -D_XOPEN_SOURCE from the configure check
176 and add those to the *-config and *.pc files, to simplify use for
177 the wide-character libraries.
178 + modify ncurses.spec to accommodate Fedora21's location of pkg-config
180 + correct sense of "--disable-lib-suffixes" configure option (report
181 by Nicolas Boos, cf: 20140426).
184 + regenerate html manpages using improved man2html from work on xterm.
185 + regenerated ".map" and ".sym" files using improved script, accounting
186 for the "--enable-weak-symbols" configure option (report by Werner
190 + regenerated ".map" and ".sym" files using improved script, showing
191 the combinations of configure options used at each stage.
194 + add configure check to determine if "local: _*;" can be used in the
195 ".map" files to selectively omit symbols beginning with "_". On at
196 least recent FreeBSD, the wildcard applies to all "_" symbols.
197 + remove obsolete/conflicting rule for ncurses.map from
198 ncurses/Makefile.in (cf: 20130706).
201 + improve description in INSTALL of the --with-versioned-syms option.
202 + add combination of --with-hashed-db and --with-ticlib to
203 configurations for ".map" files (report by Werner Fink).
206 + add a step to generating ".map" files, to declare any remaining
207 symbols beginning with "_" as local, at the last version node.
208 + improve configure checks for pkg-config, addressing a variant found
210 + modify win_driver.c to provide characters for special keys, like
211 ansi.sys, when keypad mode is off, rather than returning nothing at
212 all (discussion with Eli Zaretskii).
213 + add "broken_linker" and "hashed-db" configure options to combinations
214 use for generating the ".map" and ".sym" files.
215 + avoid using "ld" directly when creating shared library, to simplify
216 cross-compiles. Also drop "-Bsharable" option from shared-library
217 rules for FreeBSD and DragonFly (FreeBSD #196592).
218 + fix a memory leak in form library Free_RegularExpression_Type()
219 (report by Pavel Balaev).
222 + modify_nc_flush() to retry if interrupted (patch by Stian Skjelstad).
223 + change map files to make _nc_freeall a global, since it may be used
224 via the Ada95 binding when checking for memory leaks.
225 + improve sed script used in 20141220 to account for wide-, threaded-
229 + regenerate ".map" files, using step overlooked in 20141213 to use
230 the same patch-dates across each file to match ncurses.map (report by
234 + fix an incorrect variable assignment in 20141220 changes (report by
238 + updated Ada95/configure with macro changes from 20141213
239 + tie configure options --with-abi-version and --with-versioned-syms
240 together, so that ABI 6 libraries have distinct symbol versions from
242 + replace obsolete/nonworking link to man2html with current one,
243 regenerate html-manpages.
246 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to add -I option for include-directory
247 when using both --prefix and --disable-overwrite (report by Misty
249 + add configure option --with-pc-suffix to allow minor renaming of
250 ".pc" files and the corresponding library. Use this in the test
251 package for ncurses6.
252 + modify configure script so that if pkg-config is not installed, it
253 is still possible to install ".pc" files (report by Misty De Meo).
254 + updated ".sym" files, removing symbols which are marked as "local"
255 in the corresponding ".map" files.
256 + updated ".map" files to reflect move of comp_captab and comp_hash
257 from tic-library to tinfo-library in 20090711 (report by Sven
261 + updated ".map" files so that each symbol that may be shared across
262 the different library configurations has the same label. Some
263 review is needed to ensure these are really compatible.
264 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to work around change in development version of
266 https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-06/msg02185.html
267 https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-07/msg00236.html
268 (reports by Marcus Shawcroft, Maohui Lei).
269 + improved configure macro CF_SUBDIR_PATH, from lynx changes.
272 + improved ".map" files by generating them with a script that builds
273 ncurses with several related configurations and merges the results.
274 A further refinement is planned, to make the tic- and tinfo-library
275 symbols use the same versions across each of the four configurations
276 which are represented (reports by Sven Joachim, Werner Fink).
279 + improve description of limits for color values and color pairs in
280 curs_color.3x (prompted by patch by Tim van der Molen).
281 + add VERSION file, using first field in that to record the ABI version
282 used for configure --with-libtool --disable-libtool-version
283 + add configure options for applying the ".map" and ".sym" files to
284 the ncurses, form, menu and panel libraries.
285 + add ".map" and ".sym" files to show exported symbols, e.g., for
289 + improve strict compiler-warnings by adding a cast in TRACE_RETURN
290 and making a new TRACE_RETURN1 macro for cases where the cast does
294 + in-progress changes to integrate the win32 console driver with the
298 + reviewed terminology 0.6.1, add function key definitions. None of
299 the vt100-compatibility issues were improved -TD
300 + improve infocmp conversion of extended capabilities to termcap by
301 correcting the limit check against parametrized[], as well as filling
302 in a check if the string happens to have parameters, e.g., "xm"
304 + add check for zero/negative dimensions for resizeterm and resize_term
305 (report by Mike Gran).
308 + add experimental support for xterm's 1005 mouse mode, to use in a
309 demonstration of its limitations.
310 + add experimental support for "%u" format to terminfo.
311 + modify test/ncurses.c to also show position reports in 'a' test.
312 + minor formatting fixes to _nc_trace_mmask_t, make this function
313 exported to help with debugging mouse changes.
314 + improve behavior of wheel-mice for xterm protocol, noting that there
315 are only button-presses for buttons "4" and "5", so there is no need
316 to wait to combine events into double-clicks (report/analysis by
318 + provide examples xterm-1005 and xterm-1006 terminfo entries -TD
319 + implement decoder for xterm SGR 1006 mouse mode.
322 + implement curs_set in win_driver.c
323 + implement flash in win_driver.c
324 + fix an infinite loop in win_driver.c if the command-window loses
326 + improve the non-buffered mode, i.e., NCURSES_CONSOLE2, of
327 win_driver.c by temporarily changing the buffer-size to match the
328 window-size to eliminate the scrollback. Also enforce a minimum
329 screen-size of 24x80 in the non-buffered mode.
330 + modify generated misc/Makefile to suppress install.data from the
331 dependencies if the --disable-db-install option is used, compensating
332 for the top-level makefile changes used to add ncurses*-config in the
333 20140920 changes (report by Steven Honeyman).
336 + add ncurses*-config to bin-directory of sample package-scripts.
337 + add check to ensure that getopt is available; this is a problem in
338 some older cross-compiler environments.
339 + expanded on the description of --disable-overwrite in INSTALL
340 (prompted by reports by Joakim Tjernlund, Thomas Klausner).
341 See Gentoo #522586 and NetBSD #49200 for examples.
342 which relates to the clarified guidelines.
343 + remove special logic from CF_INCLUDE_DIRS which adds the directory
344 for the --includedir from the build (report by Joakim Tjernlund).
345 + add case for Unixware to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, from lynx changes.
346 + update config.sub from
347 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
350 + add a configure check to ignore some of the plethora of non-working
352 + build-fixes for Ada95 with gnat 4.9
355 + build-fix and other improvements for port of ncurses-examples to
357 + minor compiler-warning fixes.
360 + modify test/demo_termcap.c and test/demo_terminfo.c to make their
361 options more directly comparable, and add "-i" option to specify
362 a terminal description filename to parse for names to lookup.
365 + fix special case where double-width character overwrites a single-
366 width character in the first column (report by Egmont Koblinger,
370 + fix colors in ncurses 'b' test which did not work after changing
371 it to put the test-strings in subwindows (cf: 20140705).
372 + merge redundant SEE-ALSO sections in form and menu manpages.
375 + modify declarations for user-data pointers in C++ binding to use
376 reinterpret_cast to facilitate converting typed pointers to void*
377 in user's application (patch by Adam Jiang).
378 + regenerated html manpages.
379 + add note regarding cause and effect for TERM in ncurses manpage,
380 having noted clueless verbiage in Terminal.app's "help" file
381 which reverses cause/effect.
382 + remove special fallback definition for NCURSES_ATTR_T, since macros
383 have resolved type-mismatches using casts (cf: 970412).
384 + fixes for win_driver.c:
385 + handle repainting on endwin/refresh combination.
390 + minor portability fixes for MinGW:
391 + ensure WINVER is defined in makefiles rather than using headers
392 + add check for gnatprep "-T" option
393 + work around bug introduced by gcc 4.8.1 in MinGW which breaks
395 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20877689/gcc-4-8-1-minggw-d-option-does-not-work-as-usual
396 + fix most compiler warnings for Cygwin ncurses-examples.
397 + restore "redundant" -I options in test/Makefile.in, since they are
398 typically needed when building the derived ncurses-examples package
402 + eliminate some redundant -I options used for building libraries, and
403 ensure that ${srcdir} is added to the include-options (prompted by
404 discussion with Paul Gilmartin).
405 + modify configure script to work with Minix3.2
406 + add form library extension O_DYNAMIC_JUSTIFY option which can be
407 used to override the different treatment of justification for static
408 versus dynamic fields (adapted from patch by Leon Winter).
409 + add a null pointer check in test/edit_field.c (report/analysis by
410 Leon Winter, cf: 20130608).
413 + make workarounds for compiling test-programs with NetBSD curses.
414 + improve configure macro CF_ADD_LIBS, to eliminate repeated -l/-L
415 options, from xterm changes.
418 + correct Charable() macro check for A_ALTCHARSET in wide-characters.
419 + build-fix for position-debug code in tty_update.c, to work with or
423 + add w/W toggle to ncurses.c 'B' test, to demonstrate permutation of
424 video-attributes and colors with double-width character strings.
427 + correct check in win_driver.c for saving screen contents, e.g., when
428 NCURSES_CONSOLE2 is set (cf: 20140503).
429 + reorganize b/B menu items in ncurses.c, putting the test-strings into
430 subwindows. This is needed for a planned change to use Unicode
431 fullwidth characters in the test-screens.
432 + correct update to form status for _NEWTOP, broken by fixes for
433 compiler warnings (patch by Leon Winter, cf: 20120616).
436 + change shared-library suffix for AIX 5 and 6 to ".so", avoiding
437 conflict with the static library (report by Ben Lentz).
438 + document RPATH_LIST in INSTALLATION file, as part of workarounds for
439 upgrading an ncurses library using the "--with-shared" option.
440 + modify test/ncurses.c c/C tests to cycle through subsets of the
441 total number of colors, to better illustrate 8/16/88/256-colors by
442 providing directly comparable screens.
443 + add test/dots_curses.c, for comparison with the low-level examples.
446 + fix dereference before null check found by Coverity in tic.c
448 + fix sign-extension bug in read_entry.c which prevented "toe" from
449 reading empty "screen+italics" entry.
450 + modify sgr for screen.xterm-new to support dim capability -TD
451 + add dim capability to nsterm+7 -TD
452 + cancel dim capability for iterm -TD
453 + add dim, invis capabilities to vte-2012 -TD
454 + add sitm/ritm to konsole-base and mlterm3 -TD
457 > fix regression in screen terminfo entries (reports by Christian
458 Ebert, Gabriele Balducci) -TD
459 + revert the change to screen; see notes for why this did not work -TD
460 + cancel sitm/ritm for entries which extend "screen", to work around
461 screen's hardcoded behavior for SGR 3 -TD
464 + separate masking for sgr in vidputs from sitm/ritm, which do not
465 overlap with sgr functionality.
466 + remove unneeded -i option from adacurses-config; put -a in the -I
467 option for consistency (patch by Pascal Pignard).
468 + update xterm-new terminfo entry to xterm patch #305 -TD
469 + change format of test-scripts for Debian Ada95 and ncurses-examples
470 packages to quilted to work around Debian #700177 (cf: 20130907).
471 + build fix for form_driver_w.c as part of ncurses-examples package for
472 older ncurses than 20131207.
473 + add Hello World example to adacurses-config manpage.
474 + remove unused --enable-pc-files option from Ada95/configure.
475 + add --disable-gnat-projects option for testing.
476 + revert changes to Ada95 project-files configuration (cf: 20140524).
477 + corrected usage message in adacurses-config.
480 + fix typo in ncurses manpage for the NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE
481 environment variable.
482 + improve discussion of input-echoing in curs_getch.3x
483 + clarify discussion in curs_addch.3x of wrapping.
484 + modify parametrized.h to make fln non-padded.
485 + correct several entries which had termcap-style padding used in
486 terminfo: adm21, aj510, alto-h19, att605-pc, x820 -TD
487 + correct syntax for padding in some entries: dg211, h19 -TD
488 + correct ti924-8 which had confused padding versus octal escapes -TD
489 + correct padding in sbi entry -TD
490 + fix an old bug in the termcap emulation; "%i" was ignored in tparm()
491 because the parameters to be incremented were already on the internal
492 stack (report by Corinna Vinschen).
493 + modify tic's "-c" option to take into account the "-C" option to
494 activate additional checks which compare the results from running
495 tparm() on the terminfo expressions versus the translated termcap
497 + modify tic to allow it to read from FIFOs (report by Matthieu Fronton,
499 > patches by Nicolas Boulenguez:
500 + explicit dereferences to suppress some style warnings.
501 + when c_varargs_to_ada.c includes its header, use double quotes
503 + samples/ncurses2-util.adb: removed unused with clause. The warning
504 was removed by an obsolete pragma.
505 + replaced Unreferenced pragmas with Warnings (Off). The latter,
506 available with older GNATs, needs no configure test. This also
507 replaces 3 untested Unreferenced pragmas.
508 + simplified To_C usage in trace handling. Using two parameters allows
509 some basic formatting, and avoids a warning about security with some
511 + for generated Ada sources, replace many snippets with one pure
513 + removed C_Chtype and its conversions.
514 + removed C_AttrType and its conversions.
515 + removed conversions between int, Item_Option_Set, Menu_Option_Set.
516 + removed int, Field_Option_Set, Item_Option_Set conversions.
517 + removed C_TraceType, Attribute_Option_Set conversions.
518 + replaced C.int with direct use of Eti_Error, now enumerated. As it
519 was used in a case statement, values were tested by the Ada compiler
520 to be consecutive anyway.
521 + src/Makefile.in: remove duplicate stanza
522 + only consider using a project for shared libraries.
523 + style. Silent gnat-4.9 warning about misplaced "then".
524 + generate shared library project to honor ADAFLAGS, LDFLAGS.
527 + cleanup recently introduced compiler warnings for MingW port.
528 + workaround for ${MAKEFLAGS} configure check versus GNU make 4.0,
529 which introduces more than one gratuitous incompatibility.
532 + add vt520ansi terminfo entry (patch by Mike Gran)
533 + further improve MinGW support for the scenario where there is an
534 ANSI-escapes handler such as ansicon running in the console window
535 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
538 + add --disable-lib-suffixes option (adapted from patch by Juergen
540 + merge some changes from Juergen Pfeifer's work with MSYS2, to
541 simplify later merging:
542 + use NC_ISATTY() macro for isatty() in library
543 + add _nc_mingw_isatty() and related functions to windows-driver
544 + rename terminal driver entrypoints to simplify grep's
545 + remove a check in the sp-funcs flavor of newterm() which allowed only
546 the first call to newterm() to succeed (report by Thomas Beierlein,
550 + update config.guess, config.sub from
551 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
554 + modify configure script:
555 + drop the -no-gcc option from Intel compiler, from lynx changes.
556 + extend the --with-hashed-db configure option to simplify building
557 with different versions of Berkeley database using FreeBSD ports.
558 + improve initialization for MinGW port (Juergen Pfeifer):
559 + enforce Windows-style path-separator if cross-compiling,
560 + add a driver-name method to each of the drivers,
561 + allow the Windows driver name to match "unknown", ignoring case,
562 + lengthen the built-in name for the Windows console driver to
564 + move the comparison of driver-names allowing abbreviation, e.g.,
565 to "#win32con" into the Windows console driver.
568 + add check in tic for mismatch between ccc and initp/initc
569 + cancel ccc in putty-256color and konsole-256color for consistency
570 with the cancelled initc capability (patch by Sven Zuhlsdorf).
571 + add xterm+256setaf building block for various terminals which only
572 get the 256-color feature half-implemented -TD
573 + updated "st" entry (leaving the 0.1.1 version as "simpleterm") to
577 + fix typo in "mlterm" entry (report by Gabriele Balducci) -TD
580 + use types from <stdint.h> in sample build-scripts for chtype, etc.
581 + modify configure script and curses.h.in to allow the types specified
582 using --with-chtype and related options to be defined in <stdint.h>
583 + add terminology entry -TD
584 + add mlterm3 entry, use that as "mlterm" -TD
585 + inherit mlterm-256color from mlterm -TD
588 + modify _nc_New_TopRow_and_CurrentItem() to ensure that the menu's
589 top-row is adjusted as needed to ensure that the current item is
590 on the screen (patch by Johann Klammer).
591 + add wgetdelay() to retrieve _delay member of WINDOW if it happens to
592 be opaque, e.g., in the pthread configuration (prompted by patch by
596 + modify ifdef in read_entry.c to handle the case where
597 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE is not defined (patch by Xin Li).
598 + add cast in form_driver_w() to fix ARM build (patch by Xin Li).
599 + add logic to win_driver.c to save/restore screen contents when not
600 allocating a console-buffer (cf: 20140215).
603 + clarify error-returns from newwin (report by Ruslan Nabioullin).
606 + fix some compiler warnings in win_driver.c
607 + updated notes for wsvt25 based on tack and vttest -TD
608 + add teken entry to show actual properties of FreeBSD's "xterm"
612 + in-progress changes to win_driver.c to implement output without
613 allocating a console-buffer. This uses a pre-existing environment
614 variable NCGDB used by Juergen Pfeifer for debugging (prompted by
615 discussion with Erwin Waterlander regarding Console2, which hangs
616 when reading in an allocated console-buffer).
617 + add -t option to gdc.c, and modify to accept "S" to step through the
619 + regenerate NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html to fix some of the broken
620 html emitted by docbook.
623 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to omit followup check to determine if
624 _XOPEN_SOURCE can/should be defined. g++ 4.7.2 built on Solaris 10
625 has some header breakage due to its own predefinition of this symbol
626 (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15796).
629 + add/use symbol NCURSES_PAIRS_T like NCURSES_COLOR_T, to illustrate
630 which "short" types are for color pairs and which are color values.
631 + fix build for s390x, by correcting field bit offsets in generated
632 representation clauses when int=32 long=64 and endian=big, or at
633 least on s390x (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
634 + minor cleanup change to test/form_driver_w.c (patch by Gaute Hope).
637 + remove unnecessary ifdef's in Ada95/gen/gen.c, which reportedly do
638 not work as is with gcc 4.8 due to fixes using chtype cast made for
639 new compiler warnings by gcc 4.8 in 20130824 (Debian #735753, patch
640 by Nicolas Boulenguez).
643 + apply includesubdir variable which was introduced in 20130805 to
644 gen-pkgconfig.in (Debian #735782).
647 + further improved man2html, used this to fix broken links in html
649 ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/man2html
652 + modify configure-script/ifdef's to allow OLD_TTY feature to be
653 suppressed if the type of ospeed is configured using the option
654 --with-ospeed to not be a short. By default, it is a short for
655 termcap-compatibility (adapted from suggestion by Christian
657 + correct a typo in _nc_baudrate() (patch by Christian Weisgerber,
659 + fix a few -Wlogical-op warnings.
660 + updated llib-l* files.
663 + add form_driver_w() entrypoint to wide-character forms library, as
664 well as test program form_driver_w (adapted from patch by Gaute
668 + minor fix for CF_GCC_WARNINGS to special-case options which are not
672 + add special case to configure script to move _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
673 definition from CPPFLAGS to CFLAGS if it happens to be needed for
674 Solaris, because g++ errors with that definition (report by
675 Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15268).
676 + correct logic in infocmp's -i option which was intended to ignore
677 strings which correspond to function-keys as candidates for piecing
678 together initialization- or reset-strings. The problem dates to
679 1.9.7a, but was overlooked until changes in -Wlogical-op warnings for
680 gcc 4.8 (report by David Binderman).
681 + updated CF_GCC_WARNINGS to documented options for gcc 4.9.0, adding
682 checks for -Wextra, -Wignored-qualifiers and -Wlogical-op
683 + updated CF_GCC_WARNINGS to documented options for gcc 4.9.0, moving
684 checks for -Wextra and -Wdeclaration-after-statement into the macro,
685 and adding checks for -Wignored-qualifiers, -Wlogical-op and
687 + updated CF_CURSES_UNCTRL_H and CF_SHARED_OPTS macros from ongoing
689 + update config.sub from
690 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
693 + minor cleanup of terminfo.tail
696 + use TS extension to describe xterm's title-escapes -TD
697 + modify terminator and nsterm-s to use xterm+sl-twm building block -TD
698 + update hurd.ti, add xenl to reflect 2011-03-06 change in
699 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/hurd.git/log/console/display.c
701 + simplify pfkey expression in ansi.sys -TD
704 + correct/simplify ifdef's for cur_term versus broken-linker and
705 reentrant options (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, cf: 20090530).
706 + modify release/version combinations in test build-scripts to make
707 them more consistent with other packages.
710 + add nc_mingw.h to installed headers for MinGW port; needed for
711 compiling ncurses-examples.
712 + add rpm-script for testing cross-compile of ncurses-examples.
715 + fix new typo in CF_ADA_INCLUDE_DIRS macro (report by Roumen Petrov).
718 + fix a few compiler warnings in progs and test.
719 + minor fix to package/debian-mingw/rules, do not strip dll's.
720 + minor fixes to configure script for empty $prefix, e.g., when doing
721 cross-compiles to MinGW.
722 + add script for building test-packages of binaries cross-compiled to
726 + minor fixes for ncurses-example package and makefile.
727 + add scripts for test-builds of cross-compiler packages for ncurses6
731 + some build-fixes for ncurses-examples with NetBSD-6.0 curses, though
732 it lacks some common functions such as use_env() which is not yet
734 + build-fix and some compiler warning fixes for ncurses-examples with
736 + fix a possible null-pointer reference in a trace message from newterm.
737 + quiet a few warnings from NetBSD 6.0 namespace pollution by
738 nonstandard popcount() function in standard strings.h header.
739 + ignore g++ 4.2.1 warnings for "-Weffc++" in c++/cursesmain.cc
740 + fix a few overlooked places for --enable-string-hacks option.
743 + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130831).
744 + build-fix for --with-shared option for DragonFly and FreeBSD (report
745 by Rong-En Fan, cf: 20130727).
748 + build-fixes for MSYS for two test-programs (patches by Ray Donnelly,
750 + revert change to two of the dpkg format files, to work with dpkg
751 before/after Debian #700177.
752 + fix gcc -Wconversion warning in wattr_get() macro.
753 + add msys and msysdll to known host/configuration types (patch by
755 + modify CF_RPATH_HACK configure macro to not rely upon "-u" option
756 of sort, improving portability.
757 + minor improvements for test-programs from reviewing Solaris port.
758 + update config.guess, config.sub from
759 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
762 + modify test/ncurses.c b/B tests to display lines only for the
763 attributes which a given terminal supports, to make room for an
765 + completed ncv table in terminfo.tail; it did not list the wide
766 character codes listed in X/Open Curses issue 7.
767 + add A_ITALIC extension (prompted by discussion with Egmont Koblinger).
770 + fix some gcc 4.8 -Wconversion warnings.
771 + change format of dpkg test-scripts to quilted to work around bug
772 introduced by Debian #700177.
773 + discard cached keyname() values if meta() is changed after a value
774 was cached using (report by Kurban Mallachiev).
777 + add checks in tic to warn about terminals which lack cursor
778 addressing, capabilities or having those, are marked as hard_copy or
780 + use --without-progs in mingw-ncurses rpm.
781 + split out _nc_init_termtype() from alloc_entry.c to use in MinGW
782 port when tic and other programs are not needed.
785 + minor fixes to the --disable-overwrite logic, to ensure that the
786 configured $(includedir) is not cancelled by the mingwxx-filesystem
788 + add --disable-db-install configure option, to simplify building
789 cross-compile support packages.
790 + add mingw-ncurses.spec file, for testing cross-compiles.
793 + improve configure macros from ongoing work on cdk, dialog, xterm:
794 + CF_ADD_LIB_AFTER - fix a problem with -Wl options
795 + CF_RPATH_HACK - add missing result-message
796 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify to use $rel_builddir in cygwin and mingw
797 dll symbols (which can be overridden) rather than explicit "../".
798 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify NetBSD and DragonFly symbols to use ${CC}
799 rather than ${LD} to improve rpath support.
800 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - add a symbol to denote the temporary files that
801 are created by the macro, to simplify clean-rules.
802 + CF_X_ATHENA - trim extra libraries to work with -Wl,--as-needed
803 + fix a regression in hashed-database support for NetBSD, which uses
804 the key-size differently from other implementations (cf: 20121229).
807 + further improvements for setupterm manpage, clarifying the
808 initialization of cur_term.
811 + improve manpages for initscr and setupterm.
812 + minor compiler-warning fixes
815 + add fallback defs for <inttypes.h> and <stdint.h> (cf: 20120225).
816 + add check for size of wchar_t, use that to suppress a chunk of
817 wcwidth.h in MinGW port.
818 + quiet linker warnings for MinGW cross-compile with dll's using the
819 --enable-auto-import flag.
820 + add ncurses.map rule to ncurses/Makefile to help diagnose symbol
824 + modify the clear program to take into account the E3 extended
825 capability to clear the terminal's scrollback buffer (patch by
826 Miroslav Lichvar, Redhat #815790).
827 + clarify in resizeterm manpage that LINES and COLS are updated.
828 + updated ansi example in terminfo.tail, correct misordered example
830 + fix other doclifter warnings for manpages
831 + remove unnecessary ".ta" in terminfo.tail, add missing ".fi"
832 (patch by Eric Raymond).
835 + minor changes to some configure macros to make them more reusable.
836 + fixes for tabs program (prompted by report by Nick Andrik).
837 + corrected logic in command-line parsing of -a and -c predefined
839 + allow "-0" and "-8" options to be combined with others, e.g.,"-0d".
840 + make warning messages more consistent with the other utilities by
841 not printing the full pathname of the program.
842 + add -V option for consistency with other utilities.
843 + fix off-by-one in columns for tabs program when processing an option
844 such as "-5" (patch by Nick Andrik).
847 + add to test/demo_forms.c examples of using the menu-hooks as well
848 as showing how the menu item user-data can be used to pass a callback
850 + add test/dots_termcap.c
851 + remove setupterm call from test/demo_termcap.c
852 + build-fix if --disable-ext-funcs configure option is used.
853 + modified test/edit_field.c and test/demo_forms.c to move the lengths
854 into a user-data structure, keeping the original string for later
855 expansion to free-format input/out demo.
856 + modified test/demo_forms.c to load data from file.
857 + added note to clarify Terminal.app's non-emulation of the various
858 terminal types listed in the preferences dialog -TD
859 + fix regression in error-reporting in lib_setup.c (Debian #711134,
861 + build-fix for a case where --enable-broken_linker and
862 --enable-reentrant options are combined (report by George R Goffe).
865 + modify mvcur() to distinguish between internal use by the ncurses
866 library, and external callers, preventing it from reading the content
867 of the screen which is only nonblank when curses calls have updated
868 it. This makes test/dots_mvcur.c avoid painting colored cells in
869 the left margin of the display.
870 + minor fix to test/dots_mvcur.c
871 + move configured symbols USE_DATABASE and USE_TERMCAP to term.h as
872 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE and NCURSES_USE_TERMCAP to allow consistent
873 use of these symbols in term_entry.h
876 + corrected ifdefs in test/testcurs.c to allow comparison of mouse
877 interface versus pdcurses (cf: 20130316).
878 + add pow() to configure-check for math library, needed since
879 20121208 for test/hanoi (Debian #708056).
880 + regenerated html manpages.
881 + update doctype used for html documentation.
884 + move nsterm-related entries out of "obsolete" section to more
885 plausible "ansi consoles" -TD
886 + additional cleanup of table-of-contents by reordering -TD
887 + revise fix for check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch(); prior fix
888 prevented inserts when video attributes were attached to the data
889 (cf: 20121215) (Redhat #959534).
892 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
893 + correct FNKEY() macro in progs/dump_entry.c, allowing kf11-kf63 to
894 display when infocmp's -R option is used for HP or AIX subsets.
895 + fix dead-code issue with test/movewindow.c
896 + improve limited-checking in _nc_read_termtype().
899 + fix clang 3.2 warning in progs/dump_entry.c
900 + drop AC_TYPE_SIGNAL check; ncurses relies on c89 and later.
903 + add MinGW to cases where ncurses installs by default into /usr
904 (prompted by discussion with Daniel Silva Ferreira).
905 + add -D option to infocmp's usage-message (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
906 + add a missing 'int' type for main function in configure check for
907 type of bool variable, to work with clang 3.2 (report by Dmitri
909 + improve configure check for static_cast, to work with clang 3.2
910 (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
911 + re-order rule for demo.o and macros defining header dependencies in
912 c++/Makefile.in to accommodate gmake (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
915 + improve parameter checking in copywin().
916 + modify configure script to work around OS X's "libtool" program, to
917 choose glibtool instead. At the same time, chance the autoconf macro
918 to look for a "tool" rather than a "prog", to help with potential use
920 + separate the rpath usage for c++ library from demo program
922 + update/correct header-dependencies in c++ makefile (report by Werner
924 + add --with-cxx-shared to dpkg-script, as done for rpm-script.
927 + build-fix for libtool configuration (reports by Daniel Silva Ferreira
931 + build-fix for OS X, to handle changes for --with-cxx-shared feature
932 (report by Christian Ebert).
933 + change initialization for vt220, similar entries for consistency
934 with cursor-key strings (NetBSD #47674) -TD
935 + further improvements to linux-16color (Benjamin Sittler)
938 + additional fix for tic.c, to allocate missing buffer space.
939 + eliminate configure-script warnings for gen-pkgconfig.in
940 + correct typo in sgr string for sun-color,
941 add bold for consistency with sgr,
942 change smso for consistency with sgr -TD
943 + correct typo in sgr string for terminator -TD
944 + add blink to the attributes masked by ncv in linux-16color (report
946 + improve warning message from post-load checking for missing "%?"
947 operator by tic/infocmp by showing the entry name and capability.
948 + minor formatting improvement to tic/infocmp -f option to ensure
949 line split after "%;".
950 + amend scripting for --with-cxx-shared option to handle the debug
951 library "libncurses++_g.a" (report by Sven Joachim).
954 + amend change to toe.c for reading from /dev/zero, to ensure that
955 there is a buffer for the temporary filename (cf: 20120324).
956 + regenerated html manpages.
957 + fix typo in terminfo.head (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130302).
958 + updated some autoconf macros:
959 + CF_ACVERSION_CHECK, from byacc 1.9 20130304
960 + CF_INTEL_COMPILER, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE from luit 2.0-20130217
961 + add configure option --with-cxx-shared to permit building
962 libncurses++ as a shared library when using g++, e.g., the same
963 limitations as libtool but better integrated with the usual build
964 configuration (Redhat #911540).
965 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to filter out build-path which was unnecessarily
966 shown in curses.h (Debian #689131).
969 + add section to terminfo manpage discussing user-defined capabilities.
970 + update manpage description of NCURSES_NO_SETBUF, explaining why it
972 + add a check in waddch_nosync() to ensure that tab characters are
973 treated as control characters; some broken locales claim they are
975 + add some traces to the Windows console driver.
976 + initialize a temporary array in _nc_mbtowc, needed for some cases
977 of raw input in MinGW port.
980 + correct ifdef on change to lib_twait.c (report by Werner Fink).
981 + update config.guess, config.sub
984 + modify test/testcurs.c to work with mouse for ncurses as it does for
986 + modify test/knight.c to work with mouse for pdcurses as it does for
988 + modify internal recursion in wgetch() which handles cooked mode to
989 check if the call to wgetnstr() returned an error. This can happen
990 when both nocbreak() and nodelay() are set, for instance (report by
991 Nils Christopher Brause) (cf: 960418).
992 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
993 + add a check for valid position in ClearToEOS()
994 + fix in lib_twait.c when --enable-wgetch-events is used, pointer
996 + improve a limit-check in make_hash.c
997 + fix a memory leak in hashed_db.c
1000 + modify test/configure script to make it simpler to override names
1001 of curses-related libraries, to help with linking with pdcurses in
1003 + if the --with-terminfo-dirs configure option is not used, there is
1004 no corresponding compiled-in value for that. Fill in "no default
1005 value" for that part of the manpage substitution.
1008 + correct initialization in knight.c which let it occasionally make
1009 an incorrect move (cf: 20001028).
1010 + improve documentation of the terminfo/termcap search path.
1013 + further fixes to mvcur to pass callback function (cf: 20130112),
1014 needed to make test/dots_mvcur work.
1015 + reduce calls to SetConsoleActiveScreenBuffer in win_driver.c, to
1016 help reduce flicker.
1017 + modify configure script to omit "+b" from linker options for very
1018 old HP-UX systems (report by Dennis Grevenstein)
1019 + add HP-UX workaround for missing EILSEQ on old HP-UX systems (patch
1020 by Dennis Grevenstein).
1021 + restore memmove/strdup support for antique systems (request by
1022 Dennis Grevenstein).
1023 + change %l behavior in tparm to push the string length onto the stack
1024 rather than saving the formatted length into the output buffer
1025 (report by Roy Marples, cf: 980620).
1028 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
1029 + fix memory leak in safe_sprintf.c
1030 + add check for return-value in tty_update.c
1031 + correct initialization for -s option in test/view.c
1032 + add check for numeric overflow in lib_instr.c
1033 + improve error-checking in copywin
1034 + add advice in infocmp manpage for termcap users (Debian #698469).
1035 + add "-y" option to test/demo_termcap and test/demo_terminfo to
1036 demonstrate behavior with/without extended capabilities.
1037 + updated termcap manpage to document legacy termcap behavior for
1038 matching capability names.
1039 + modify name-comparison for tgetstr, etc., to accommodate legacy
1040 applications as well as to improve compatbility with BSD 4.2
1041 termcap implementations (Debian #698299) (cf: 980725).
1044 + correct prototype in manpage for vid_puts.
1045 + drop ncurses/tty/tty_display.h, ncurses/tty/tty_input.h, since they
1046 are unused in the current driver model.
1047 + modify mvcur to use stdout except when called within the ncurses
1049 + modify vidattr and vid_attr to use stdout as documented in manpage.
1050 + amend changes made to buffering in 20120825 so that the low-level
1051 putp() call uses stdout rather than ncurses' internal buffering.
1052 The putp_sp() call does the same, for consistency (Redhat #892674).
1055 + add "-s" option to test/view.c to allow it to start in single-step
1056 mode, reducing size of trace files when it is used for debugging
1058 + revert part of 20121222 change to tinfo_driver.c
1059 + add experimental logic in win_driver.c to improve optimization of
1060 screen updates. This does not yet work with double-width characters,
1061 so it is ifdef'd out for the moment (prompted by report by Erwin
1062 Waterlander regarding screen flicker).
1065 + fix coverity warnings regarding copying into fixed-size buffers.
1066 + add throw-declarations in the c++ binding per Coverity warning.
1067 + minor changes to new-items for consistent reference to bug-report
1071 + add *.dSYM directories to clean-rule in ncurses directory makefile,
1073 + add a configure check for gcc option -no-cpp-precomp, which is not
1074 available in all Mac OS X configurations (report by Andras Salamon,
1076 + improve 20021221 workaround for broken acs, handling a case where
1077 that ACS_xxx character is not in the acsc string but there is a known
1078 wide-character which can be used.
1081 + fix several warnings from clang 3.1 --analyze, includes correcting
1082 a null-pointer check in _nc_mvcur_resume.
1083 + correct display of double-width characters with MinGW port (report
1084 by Erwin Waterlander).
1085 + replace MinGW's wcrtomb(), fixing a problem with _nc_viscbuf
1086 > fixes based on Coverity report:
1087 + correct coloring in test/bs.c
1088 + correct check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch().
1089 + remove dead code in progs/tset.c, test/linedata.h
1090 + add null-pointer checks in lib_tracemse.c, panel.priv.h, and some
1094 + modify test/knight.c to show the number of choices possible for
1095 each position in automove option, e.g., to allow user to follow
1096 Warnsdorff's rule to solve the puzzle.
1097 + modify test/hanoi.c to show the minimum number of moves possible for
1098 the given number of tiles (prompted by patch by Lucas Gioia).
1099 > fixes based on Coverity report:
1100 + remove a few redundant checks.
1101 + correct logic in test/bs.c, when randomly placing a specific type of
1103 + check return value from remove/unlink in tic.
1104 + check return value from sscanf in test/ncurses.c
1105 + fix a null dereference in c++/cursesw.cc
1106 + fix two instances of uninitialized variables when configuring for the
1108 + correct scope of variable used in SetSafeOutcWrapper macro.
1109 + set umask when calling mkstemp in tic.
1110 + initialize wbkgrndset() temporary variable when extended-colors are
1114 + also replace MinGW's wctomb(), fixing a problem with setcchar().
1115 + modify test/view.c to load UTF-8 when built with MinGW by using
1116 regular win32 API because the MinGW functions mblen() and mbtowc()
1120 + correct order of color initialization versus display in some of the
1121 test-programs, e.g., test_addstr.c
1122 > fixes based on Coverity report:
1123 + delete windows on exit from some of the test-programs.
1126 > fixes based on Coverity report:
1127 + add missing braces around FreeAndNull in two places.
1128 + various fixes in test/ncurses.c
1129 + improve limit-checks in tinfo/make_hash.c, tinfo/read_entry.c
1130 + correct malloc size in progs/infocmp.c
1131 + guard against negative array indices in test/knight.c
1132 + fix off-by-one limit check in test/color_name.h
1133 + add null-pointer check in progs/tabs.c, test/bs.c, test/demo_forms.c,
1135 + fix memory-leak in tinfo/lib_setup.c, progs/toe.c,
1136 test/clip_printw.c, test/demo_menus.c
1137 + delete unused windows in test/chgat.c, test/clip_printw.c,
1138 test/insdelln.c, test/newdemo.c on error-return.
1141 + modify configure macro CF_INCLUDE_DIRS to put $CPPFLAGS after the
1142 local -I include options in case someone has set conflicting -I
1143 options in $CPPFLAGS (prompted by patch for ncurses/Makefile.in by
1145 + modify the ncurses*-config scripts to eliminate relative paths from
1146 the RPATH_LIST variable, e.g., "../lib" as used in installing shared
1147 libraries or executables.
1150 + realign these related pages:
1155 and fix a long-ago error in curs_addstr.3x which said that a -1
1156 length parameter would only write as much as fit onto one line
1157 (report by Reuben Thomas).
1158 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_memmove() for memmove()/bcopy().
1159 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_strdup() for strdup().
1160 + cancel any debug-rpm in package/ncurses.spec
1161 + reviewed vte-2012, reverted most of the change since it was incorrect
1162 based on testing with tack -TD
1163 + un-cancel the initc in vte-256color, since this was implemented
1164 starting with version 0.20 in 2009 -TD
1167 + improve malloc/realloc checking (prompted by discussion in Redhat
1169 + add ncurses test-program as "ncurses6" to the rpm- and dpkg-scripts.
1170 + updated configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_WITH_PATHLIST. The
1171 first corrects pattern used for Mac OS X's customization of gcc.
1174 + fix change to _nc_scroll_optimize(), which incorrectly freed memory
1178 + add vte-2012, gnome-2012, making these the defaults for vte/gnome
1179 (patch by Christian Persch).
1182 + improve CF_GCC_VERSION to work around Debian's customization of gcc
1184 + improve configure macros as done in byacc:
1185 + drop 2.13 compatibility; use 2.52.xxxx version only since EMX port
1186 has used that for a while.
1187 + add 3rd parameter to AC_DEFINE's to allow autoheader to run, i.e.,
1188 for experimental use.
1189 + remove unused configure macros.
1190 + modify configure script and makefiles to quiet new autoconf warning
1191 for LIBS_TO_MAKE variable.
1192 + modify configure script to show $PATH_SEPARATOR variable.
1193 + update config.guess, config.sub
1196 + modify setupterm to set its copy of TERM to "unknown" if configured
1197 for the terminal driver and TERM was null or empty.
1198 + modify treatment of TERM variable for MinGW port to allow explicit
1199 use of the windows console driver by checking if $TERM is set to
1200 "#win32con" or an abbreviation of that.
1201 + undo recent change to fallback definition of vsscanf() to build with
1202 older Solaris compilers (cf: 20120728).
1205 + add test-screens to test/ncurses to show 256-characters at a time,
1206 to help with MinGW port.
1209 + simplify varargs logic in lib_printw.c; va_copy is no longer needed
1211 + modifications for MinGW port to make wide-character display usable.
1214 + regenerate configure script (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20120901).
1217 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_flush (cf: 20120825).
1218 + fix a case in _nc_scroll_optimize() where the _oldnums_list array
1219 might not be allocated.
1220 + improve comparisons in configure.in for unset shell variables.
1223 + increase size of ncurses' output-buffer, in case of very small
1224 initial screen-sizes.
1225 + fix evaluation of TERMINFO and TERMINFO_DIRS default values as needed
1226 after changes to use --datarootdir (reports by Gabriele Balducci,
1230 + change output buffering scheme, using buffer maintained by ncurses
1231 rather than stdio, to avoid problems with SIGTSTP handling (report
1235 + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20120811, adding --datarootdir
1236 (prompted by discussion with Erwin Waterlander).
1237 + improve description of --enable-reentrant option in README and the
1239 + add nsterm-256color, make this the default nsterm -TD
1240 + remove bw from nsterm-bce, per testing with tack -TD
1243 + update test/configure, adding check for tinfo library.
1244 + improve limit-checks for the getch fifo (report by Werner Fink).
1245 + fix a remaining mismatch between $with_echo and the symbols updated
1246 for CF_DISABLE_ECHO affecting parameters for mk-2nd.awk (report by
1247 Sven Joachim, cf: 20120317).
1248 + modify followup check for pkg-config's library directory in the
1249 --enable-pc-files option to validate syntax (report by Sven Joachim,
1253 + correct path for ncurses_mingw.h in include/headers, in case build
1254 is done outside source-tree (patch by Roumen Petrov).
1255 + modify some older xterm entries to align with xterm source -TD
1256 + separate "xterm-old" alias from "xterm-r6" -TD
1257 + add E3 extended capability to xterm-basic and putty -TD
1258 + parenthesize parameters of other macros in curses.h -TD
1259 + parenthesize parameter of COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER in curses.h
1260 in case it happens to be a comma-expression, etc. (patch by Nick
1264 + improved form_request_by_name() and menu_request_by_name().
1265 + eliminate two fixed-size buffers in toe.c
1266 + extend use_tioctl() to have expected behavior when use_env(FALSE) and
1267 use_tioctl(TRUE) are called.
1268 + modify ncurses test-program, adding -E and -T options to demonstrate
1269 use_env() versus use_tioctl().
1272 + add use_tioctl() function (adapted from patch by Werner Fink,
1276 + add ncurses_mingw.h to installed headers (prompted by patch by
1278 + clarify return-codes from wgetch() in response to SIGWINCH (prompted
1280 + modify resizeterm() to always push a KEY_RESIZE onto the fifo, even
1281 if screensize is unchanged. Modify _nc_update_screensize() to push a
1282 KEY_RESIZE if there was a SIGWINCH, even if it does not call
1283 resizeterm(). These changes eliminate the case where a SIGWINCH is
1284 received, but ERR returned from wgetch or wgetnstr because the screen
1285 dimensions did not change (Novell #769788).
1288 + add --enable-interop to sample package scripts (suggested by Juergen
1290 + update CF_PATH_SYNTAX macro, from mawk changes.
1291 + modify mk-0th.awk to allow for generating llib-ltic, etc., though
1292 some work is needed on cproto to work with lib_gen.c to update
1294 + remove redundant getenv() cal in database-iterator leftover from
1295 cleanup in 20120622 changes (report by Sven Joachim).
1298 + add -d, -e and -q options to test/demo_terminfo and test/demo_termcap
1299 + fix caching of environment variables in database-iterator (patch by
1300 Philippe Troin, Redhat #831366).
1303 + add configure check to distinguish clang from gcc to eliminate
1304 warnings about unused command-line parameters when compiler warnings
1306 + improve behavior when updating terminfo entries which are hardlinked
1307 by allowing for the possibility that an alias has been repurposed to
1309 + fix some strict compiler warnings based on package scripts.
1310 + further fixes for configure check for working poll (Debian #676461).
1313 + fix an uninitialized variable in -c/-n logic for infocmp changes
1315 + corrected fix for building c++ binding with clang 3.0 (report/patch
1316 by Richard Yao, Gentoo #417613, cf: 20110409)
1317 + correct configure check for working poll, fixing the case where stdin
1318 is redirected, e.g., in rpm/dpkg builds (Debian #676461).
1319 + add rpm- and dpkg-scripts, to test those build-environments.
1320 The resulting packages are used only for testing.
1323 + add kdch1 aka "Remove" to vt220 and vt220-8 entries -TD
1324 + add kdch1, etc., to qvt108 -TD
1325 + add dl1/il1 to some entries based on dl/il values -TD
1326 + add dl to simpleterm -TD
1327 + add consistency-checks in tic for insert-line vs delete-line
1328 controls, and insert/delete-char keys
1329 + correct no-leaks logic in infocmp when doing comparisons, fixing
1330 duplicate free of entries given via the command-line, and freeing
1331 entries loaded from the last-but-one of files specified on the
1333 + add kdch1 to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (reported by David Lord,
1334 analysis by Martin Husemann).
1335 + add cnorm/civis to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (report/analysis by
1336 Onno van der Linden).
1339 + extend -c and -n options of infocmp to allow comparing more than two
1341 + correct check in infocmp for number of terminal names when more than
1343 + correct typo in curs_threads.3x (report by Yanhui Shen on
1344 freebsd-hackers mailing list).
1347 + corrected 'op' for bterm (report by Samuel Thibault) -TD
1348 + modify test/background.c to demonstrate a background character
1349 holding a colored ACS_HLINE. The behavior differs from SVr4 due to
1350 the thick- and double-line extension (cf: 20091003).
1351 + modify handling of acs characters in PutAttrChar to avoid mapping an
1352 unmapped character to a space with A_ALTCHARSET set.
1353 + rewrite vt520 entry based on vt420 -TD
1356 + remove p6 (bold) from opus3n1+ for consistency -TD
1357 + remove acs stuff from env230 per clues in Ingres termcap -TD
1358 + modify env230 sgr/sgr0 to match other capabilities -TD
1359 + modify smacs/rmacs in bq300-8 to match sgr/sgr0 -TD
1360 + make sgr for dku7202 agree with other caps -TD
1361 + make sgr for ibmpc agree with other caps -TD
1362 + make sgr for tek4107 agree with other caps -TD
1363 + make sgr for ndr9500 agree with other caps -TD
1364 + make sgr for sco-ansi agree with other caps -TD
1365 + make sgr for d410 agree with other caps -TD
1366 + make sgr for d210 agree with other caps -TD
1367 + make sgr for d470c, d470c-7b agree with other caps -TD
1368 + remove redundant AC_DEFINE for NDEBUG versus Makefile definition.
1369 + fix a back-link in _nc_delink_entry(), which is needed if ncurses is
1370 configured with --enable-termcap and --disable-getcap.
1373 + fix some inconsistencies between vt320/vt420, e.g., cnorm/civis -TD
1374 + add eslok flag to dec+sl -TD
1375 + dec+sl applies to vt320 and up -TD
1376 + drop wsl width from xterm+sl -TD
1377 + reuse xterm+sl in putty and nsca-m -TD
1378 + add ansi+tabs to vt520 -TD
1379 + add ansi+enq to vt220-vt520 -TD
1380 + fix a compiler warning in example in ncurses-intro.doc (Paul Waring).
1381 + added paragraph in keyname manpage telling how extended capabilities
1382 are interpreted as key definitions.
1383 + modify tic's check of conflicting key definitions to include extended
1384 capability strings in addition to the existing check on predefined
1388 + improve cleanup of temporary files in tic using atexit().
1389 + add msgr to vt420, similar DEC vtXXX entries -TD
1390 + add several missing vt420 capabilities from vt220 -TD
1391 + factor out ansi+pp from several entries -TD
1392 + change xterm+sl and xterm+sl-twm to include only the status-line
1393 capabilities and not "use=xterm", making them more generally useful
1394 as building-blocks -TD
1395 + add dec+sl building block, as example -TD
1398 + add XT to some terminfo entries to improve usefulness for other
1399 applications than screen, which would like to pretend that xterm's
1400 title is a status-line. -TD
1401 + change use-clauses in ansi-mtabs, hp2626, and hp2622 based on review
1402 of ordering and overrides -TD
1403 + add consistency check in tic for screen's "XT" capability.
1404 + add section in terminfo.src summarizing the user-defined capabilities
1405 used in that file -TD
1408 + fix an inconsistency between tic/infocmp "-x" option; tic omits all
1409 non-standard capabilities, while infocmp was ignoring only the user
1410 definable capabilities.
1411 + improve special case in tic parsing of description to allow it to be
1412 followed by terminfo capabilities. Previously the description had to
1413 be the last field on an input line to allow tic to distinguish
1414 between termcap and terminfo format while still allowing commas to be
1415 embedded in the description.
1416 + correct variable name in gen_edit.sh which broke configurability of
1417 the --with-xterm-kbs option.
1418 + revert 2011-07-16 change to "linux" alias, return to "linux2.2" -TD
1419 + further amend 20110910 change, providing for configure-script
1420 override of the "linux" terminfo entry to install and changing the
1421 default for that to "linux2.2" (Debian #665959).
1424 + update Ada95/configure to use CF_DISABLE_ECHO (cf: 20120317).
1425 + correct order of use-clauses in st-256color -TD
1426 + modify configure script to look for gnatgcc if the Ada95 binding
1427 is built, in preference to the default gcc/cc (suggested by
1428 Nicolas Boulenguez).
1429 + modify configure script to ensure that the same -On option used for
1430 the C compiler in CFLAGS is used for ADAFLAGS rather than simply
1431 using "-O3" (suggested by Nicolas Boulenguez)
1434 + amend an old fix so that next_char() exits properly for empty files,
1435 e.g., from reading /dev/null (cf: 20080804).
1436 + modify tic so that it can read from the standard input, or from
1437 a character device. Because tic uses seek's, this requires writing
1438 the data to a temporary file first (prompted by remark by Sven
1439 Joachim) (cf: 20000923).
1442 + correct a check made in lib_napms.c, so that terminfo applications
1443 can again use napms() (cf: 20110604).
1444 + add a note in tic.h regarding required casts for ABSENT_BOOLEAN
1446 + correct scripting for --disable-echo option in test/configure.
1447 + amend check for missing c++ compiler to work when no error is
1448 reported, and no variables set (cf: 20021206).
1449 + add/use configure macro CF_DISABLE_ECHO.
1452 + fix some strict compiler warnings for abi6 and 64-bits.
1453 + use begin_va_copy/end_va_copy macros in lib_printw.c (cf: 20120303).
1454 + improve a limit-check in infocmp.c (Werner Fink):
1457 + minor tidying of terminfo.tail, clarify reason for limitation
1458 regarding mapping of \0 to \200
1459 + minor improvement to _nc_copy_termtype(), using memcpy to replace
1461 + fix no-leaks checking in test/demo_termcap.c to account for multiple
1462 calls to setupterm().
1463 + modified the libgpm change to show previous load as a problem in the
1465 > merge some patches from OpenSUSE rpm (Werner Fink):
1466 + ncurses-5.7-printw.dif, fixes for varargs handling in lib_printw.c
1467 + ncurses-5.7-gpm.dif, do not dlopen libgpm if already loaded by
1469 + ncurses-5.6-fallback.dif, do not free arrays and strings from static
1473 + fix breakage in tic/infocmp from 20120225 (report by Werner Fink).
1476 + modify configure script to allow creating dll's for MinGW when
1478 + add --enable-string-hacks option to control whether strlcat and
1479 strlcpy may be used. The same issue applies to OpenBSD's warnings
1480 about snprintf, noting that this function is weakly standardized.
1481 + add configure checks for strlcat, strlcpy and snprintf, to help
1482 reduce bogus warnings with OpenBSD builds.
1483 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 to supply consistent intptr_t declaration
1485 + update config.guess, config.sub
1488 + correct CF_ETIP_DEFINES configure macro, making it exit properly on
1489 the first success (patch by Pierre Labastie).
1490 + improve configure macro CF_MKSTEMP by moving existence-check for
1491 mkstemp out of the AC_TRY_RUN, to help with cross-compiles.
1492 + improve configure macro CF_FUNC_POLL from luit changes to detect
1493 broken implementations, e.g., with Mac OS X.
1494 + add configure option --with-tparm-arg
1495 + build-fix for MinGW cross-compiling, so that make_hash does not
1496 depend on TTY definition (cf: 20111008).
1499 + make sgr for xterm-pcolor agree with other caps -TD
1500 + make sgr for att5425 agree with other caps -TD
1501 + make sgr for att630 agree with other caps -TD
1502 + make sgr for linux entries agree with other caps -TD
1503 + make sgr for tvi9065 agree with other caps -TD
1504 + make sgr for ncr260vt200an agree with other caps -TD
1505 + make sgr for ncr160vt100pp agree with other caps -TD
1506 + make sgr for ncr260vt300an agree with other caps -TD
1507 + make sgr for aaa-60-dec-rv, aaa+dec agree with other caps -TD
1508 + make sgr for cygwin, cygwinDBG agree with other caps -TD
1509 + add configure option --with-xterm-kbs to simplify configuration for
1510 Linux versus most other systems.
1513 + improved tic -D option, avoid making target directory and provide
1517 + add mach-gnu (Debian #614316, patch by Samuel Thibault)
1518 + add mach-gnu-color, tweaks to mach-gnu terminfo -TD
1519 + make sgr for sun-color agree with smso -TD
1520 + make sgr for prism9 agree with other caps -TD
1521 + make sgr for icl6404 agree with other caps -TD
1522 + make sgr for ofcons agree with other caps -TD
1523 + make sgr for att5410v1, att4415, att620 agree with other caps -TD
1524 + make sgr for aaa-unk, aaa-rv agree with other caps -TD
1525 + make sgr for avt-ns agree with other caps -TD
1526 + amend fix intended to separate fixups for acsc to allow "tic -cv" to
1527 give verbose warnings (cf: 20110730).
1528 + modify misc/gen-edit.sh to make the location of the tabset directory
1529 consistent with misc/Makefile.in, i.e., using ${datadir}/tabset
1530 (Debian #653435, patch by Sven Joachim).
1533 + add --with-lib-prefix option to allow configuring for old/new flavors
1535 + modify check for gnat version to allow for year, as used in FreeBSD
1537 + modify check_existence() in db_iterator.c to simply check if the
1538 path is a directory or file, according to the need. Checking for
1539 directory size also gives no usable result with OS/2 (cf: 20120107).
1540 + support OS/2 kLIBC (patch by KO Myung-Han).
1543 + several improvements to test/movewindow.c (prompted by discussion on
1545 + modify movement commands to make them continuous
1546 + rewrote the test for mvderwin
1547 + rewrote the test for recursive mvwin
1548 + split-out reusable CF_WITH_NCURSES_ETC macro in test/configure.in
1549 + updated configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, build-fixes for Mac OS X
1551 + regenerated html manpages.
1554 + various improvments for MinGW (Juergen Pfeifer):
1555 + modify stat() calls to ignore the st_size member
1556 + drop mk-dlls.sh script.
1557 + change recommended regular expression library.
1558 + modify rain.c to allow for threaded configuraton.
1559 + modify tset.c to allow for case when size-change logic is not used.
1562 + modify toe's report when -a and -s options are combined, to add
1563 a column showing which entries belong to a given database.
1564 + add -s option to toe, to sort its output.
1565 + modify progs/toe.c, simplifying use of db-iterator results to use
1566 caching improvements from 20111001 and 20111126.
1567 + correct generation of pc-files when ticlib or termlib options are
1568 given to rename the corresponding tic- or tinfo-libraries (report
1572 + document a portability issue with tput, i.e., that scripts which work
1573 with ncurses may fail in other implementations that do no parameter
1575 + add putty-sco entry -TD
1578 + review/fix places in manpages where --program-prefix configure option
1580 + add -D option to infocmp, to show the database locations that it
1582 + fix build for the special case where term-driver, ticlib and termlib
1583 are all enabled. The terminal driver depends on a few features in
1584 the base ncurses library, so tic's dependencies include both ncurses
1586 + fix build work for term-driver when --enable-wgetch-events option is
1588 + use <stdint.h> types to fix some questionable casts to void*.
1591 + modify configure script to check if thread library provides
1592 pthread_mutexattr_settype(), e.g., not provided by Solaris 2.6
1593 + modify configure script to suppress check to define _XOPEN_SOURCE
1594 for IRIX64, since its header files have a conflict versus
1596 + modify configure script to add ".pc" files for tic- and
1597 tinfo-libraries, which were omitted in recent change (cf: 20111126).
1598 + fix inconsistent checks on $PKG_CONFIG variable in configure script.
1601 + modify configure-check for etip.h dependencies, supplying a temporary
1602 copy of ncurses_dll.h since it is a generated file (prompted by
1604 + modify CF_CPP_PARAM_INIT "main" function to work with current C++.
1607 + correct database iterator's check for duplicate entries
1609 + modify database iterator to ignore $TERMCAP when it is not an
1611 + add -D option to tic, to show the database locations that it could
1613 + improve description of database locations in tic manpage.
1614 + modify the configure script to generate a list of the ".pc" files to
1615 generate, rather than deriving the list from the libraries which have
1616 been built (patch by Mike Frysinger).
1617 + use AC_CHECK_TOOLS in preference to AC_PATH_PROGS when searching for
1618 ncurses*-config, e.g., in Ada95/configure and test/configure (adapted
1619 from patch by Mike Frysinger).
1622 + remove obsolete/conflicting fallback definition for _POSIX_SOURCE
1623 from curses.priv.h, fixing a regression with IRIX64 and Tru64
1625 + modify _nc_tic_dir() to ensure that its return-value is nonnull,
1626 i.e., the database iterator was not initialized. This case is needed
1627 to when tic is translating to termcap, rather than loading the
1628 database (cf: 20111001).
1631 + add pccon entries for OpenBSD console (Alexei Malinin).
1632 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 with gcc 4.2.1, setting _XOPEN_SOURCE to
1633 600 to work around inconsistent ifdef'ing of wcstof between C and
1635 + modify capconvert script to accept more than exact match on "xterm",
1636 e.g., the "xterm-*" variants, to exclude from the conversion (patch
1638 + add -lc_r as alternative for -lpthread, allows build of threaded code
1639 in older FreeBSD machines.
1640 + build-fix for MirBSD, which fails when either _XOPEN_SOURCE or
1641 _POSIX_SOURCE are defined.
1642 + fix a typo misc/Makefile.in, used in uninstalling pc-files.
1645 + modify make_db_path() to allow creating "terminfo.db" in the same
1646 directory as an existing "terminfo" directory. This fixes a case
1647 where switching between hashed/filesystem databases would cause the
1648 new hashed database to be installed in the next best location -
1649 root's home directory.
1650 + add variable cf_cv_prog_gnat_correct to those passed to
1651 config.status, fixing a problem with Ada95 builds (cf: 20111022).
1652 + change feature test from _XPG5 to _XOPEN_SOURCE in two places, to
1653 accommodate broken implementations for _XPG6.
1654 + eliminate usage of NULL symbol from etip.h, to reduce header
1656 + add configure check to decide when to add _XOPEN_SOURCE define to
1657 compiler options, i.e., for Solaris 10 and later (cf: 20100403).
1658 This is a workaround for gcc 4.6, which fails to build the c++
1659 binding if that symbol is defined by the application, due to
1660 incorrectly combining the corresponding feature test macros
1661 (report by Peter Kruse).
1664 + correct logic for discarding mouse events, retaining the partial
1665 events used to build up click, double-click, etc, until needed
1667 + fix configure script to avoid creating unused Ada95 makefile when
1669 + cleanup width-related gcc 3.4.3 warnings for 64-bit platform, for the
1670 internal functions of libncurses. The external interface of courses
1671 uses bool, which still produces these warnings.
1674 + improve description of --disable-tic-depends option to make it
1675 clear that it may be useful whether or not the --with-termlib
1676 option is also given (report by Sven Joachim).
1677 + amend termcap equivalent for set_pglen_inch to use the X/Open
1678 "YI" rather than the obsolete Solaris 2.5 "sL" (cf: 990109).
1679 + improve manpage for tgetent differences from termcap library.
1682 + moved static data from db_iterator.c to lib_data.c
1683 + modify db_iterator.c for memory-leak checking, fix one leak.
1684 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to use Requires.private for the parts
1685 of ncurses rather than Requires, as well as Libs.private for the
1686 other library dependencies (prompted by Debian #644728).
1689 + modify tic "-K" option to only set the strict-flag rather than force
1690 source-output. That allows the same flag to control the parser for
1691 input and output of termcap source.
1692 + modify _nc_getent() to ignore backslash at the end of a comment line,
1693 making it consistent with ncurses' parser.
1694 + restore a special-case check for directory needed to make termcap
1695 text files load as if they were databases (cf: 20110924).
1696 + modify tic's resolution/collision checking to attempt to remove the
1697 conflicting alias from the second entry in the pair, which is
1698 normally following in the source file. Also improved the warning
1699 message to make it simpler to see which alias is the problem.
1700 + improve performance of the database iterator by caching search-list.
1703 + add a missing "else" in changes to _nc_read_tic_entry().
1706 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() so that hashed-database is checked before
1708 + updated CF_CURSES_LIBS check in test/configure script.
1709 + modify configure script and makefiles to split TIC_ARGS and
1710 TINFO_ARGS into pieces corresponding to LDFLAGS and LIBS variables,
1711 to help separate searches for tic- and tinfo-libraries (patch by Nick
1713 + build-fix for lib_mouse.c changes (cf: 20110917).
1716 + fix compiler warning for clang 2.9
1717 + improve merging of mouse events (integrated patch by Damien
1719 + correct mask-check used in lib_mouse for wheel mouse buttons 4/5
1720 (patch by Damien Guibouret).
1723 + modify misc/gen_edit.sh to select a "linux" entry which works with
1724 the current kernel rather than assuming it is always "linux3.0"
1726 + revert a change to getmouse() which had the undesirable side-effect
1727 of suppressing button-release events (report by Damien Guibouret,
1729 + add xterm+kbs fragment from xterm #272 -TD
1730 + add configure option --with-pkg-config-libdir to provide control over
1731 the actual directory into which pc-files are installed, do not use
1732 the pkg-config environment variables (discussion with Frederic L W
1734 + add link to mailing-list archive in announce.html.in, as done in
1735 FAQ (prompted by question by Andrius Bentkus).
1736 + improve manpage install by adjusting the "#include" examples to
1737 show the ncurses-subdirectory used when --disable-overwrite option
1739 + install an alias for "curses" to the ncurses manpage, tied to the
1740 --with-curses-h configure option (suggested by Reuben Thomas).
1743 + propagate error-returns from wresize, i.e., the internal
1744 increase_size and decrease_size functions through resize_term (report
1745 by Tim van der Molen, cf: 20020713).
1746 + fix typo in tset manpage (patch by Sven Joachim).
1749 + add a check to ensure that termcap files which might have "^?" do
1750 not use the terminfo interpretation as "\177".
1751 + minor cleanup of X-terminal emulator section of terminfo.src -TD
1752 + add terminator entry -TD
1753 + add simpleterm entry -TD
1754 + improve wattr_get macros by ensuring that if the window pointer is
1755 null, then the attribute and color values returned will be zero
1759 + add substitution for $RPATH_LIST to misc/ncurses-config.in
1760 + improve performance of tic with hashed-database by caching the
1761 database connection, using atexit() to cleanup.
1762 + modify treatment of 2-character aliases at the beginning of termcap
1763 entries so they are not counted in use-resolution, since these are
1764 guaranteed to be unique. Also ignore these aliases when reporting
1765 the primary name of the entry (cf: 20040501)
1766 + double-check gn (generic) flag in terminal descriptions to
1767 accommodate old/buggy termcap databases which misused that feature.
1768 + minor fixes to _nc_tgetent(), ensure buffer is initialized even on
1772 + improve rpath fix from 20110730 by ensuring that the new $RPATH_LIST
1773 variable is defined in the makefiles which use it.
1774 + build-fix for DragonFlyBSD's pkgsrc in test/configure script.
1775 + build-fixes for NetBSD 5.1 with termcap support enabled.
1776 + corrected k9 in dg460-ansi, add other features based on manuals -TD
1777 + improve trimming of whitespace at the end of terminfo/termcap output
1779 + when writing termcap source, ensure that colons in the description
1780 field are translated to a non-delimiter, i.e., "=".
1781 + add "-0" option to tic/infocmp, to make the termcap/terminfo source
1783 + add a null-pointer check when handling the $CC variable.
1786 + modify configure script and makefiles in c++ and progs to allow the
1787 directory used for rpath option to be overridden, e.g., to work
1788 around updates to the variables used by tic during an install.
1789 + add -K option to tic/infocmp, to provide stricter BSD-compatibility
1791 + add _nc_strict_bsd variable in tic library which controls the
1792 "strict" BSD termcap compatibility from 20110723, plus these
1794 + allow escapes such as "\8" and "\9" when reading termcap
1795 + disallow "\a", "\e", "\l", "\s" and "\:" escapes when reading
1796 termcap files, passing through "a", "e", etc.
1797 + expand "\:" as "\072" on output.
1798 + modify _nc_get_token() to reset the token's string value in case
1799 there is a string-typed token lacking the "=" marker.
1800 + fix a few memory leaks in _nc_tgetent.
1801 + fix a few places where reading from a termcap file could refer to
1803 + add an overflow check when converting terminfo/termcap numeric
1804 values, since terminfo stores those in a short, and they must be
1806 + correct internal variables used for translating to termcap "%>"
1807 feature, and translating from termcap %B to terminfo, needed by
1808 tctest (cf: 19991211).
1809 + amend a minor fix to acsc when loading a termcap file to separate it
1810 from warnings needed for tic (cf: 20040710)
1811 + modify logic in _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_tic_entry() to allow
1812 a termcap file to be handled via TERMINFO_DIRS.
1813 + modify _nc_infotocap() to include non-mandatory padding when
1814 translating to termcap.
1815 + modify _nc_read_termcap_entry(), passing a flag in the case where
1816 getcap is used, to reduce interactive warning messages.
1819 + add a check in start_color() to limit color-pairs to 256 when
1820 extended colors are not supported (patch by David Benjamin).
1821 + modify setcchar to omit no-longer-needed OR'ing of color pair in
1822 the SetAttr() macro (patch by David Benjamin).
1823 + add kich1 to sun terminfo entry (Yuri Pankov)
1824 + use bold rather than reverse for smso in sun-color terminfo entry
1826 + improve generation of termcap using tic/infocmp -C option, e.g.,
1827 to correspond with 4.2BSD (prompted by discussion with Yuri Pankov
1828 regarding Schilling's test program):
1829 + translate %02 and %03 to %2 and %3 respectively.
1830 + suppress string capabilities which use %s, not supported by tgoto
1831 + use \040 rather than \s
1832 + expand null characters as \200 rather than \0
1833 + modify configure script to support shared libraries for DragonFlyBSD.
1836 + replace an assert() in _nc_Free_Argument() with a regular null
1837 pointer check (report/analysis by Franjo Ivancic).
1838 + modify configure --enable-pc-files option to take into account the
1839 PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
1840 + add/use xterm+tmux chunk from xterm #271 -TD
1841 + resync xterm-new entry from xterm #271 -TD
1842 + add E3 extended capability to linux-basic (Miroslav Lichvar)
1843 + add linux2.2, linux2.6, linux3.0 entries to give context for E3 -TD
1844 + add SI/SO change to linux2.6 entry (Debian #515609) -TD
1845 + fix inconsistent tabset path in pcmw (Todd C. Miller).
1846 + remove a backslash which continued comment, obscuring altos3
1847 definition with OpenBSD toolset (Nicholas Marriott).
1850 + add workaround from xterm #271 changes to ensure that compiler flags
1851 are not used in the $CC variable.
1852 + improve support for shared libraries, tested with AIX 5.3, 6.1 and
1853 7.1 with both gcc 4.2.4 and cc.
1854 + modify configure checks for AIX to include release 7.x
1855 + add loader flags/libraries to libtool options so that dynamic loading
1856 works properly, adapted from ncurses-5.7-ldflags-with-libtool.patch
1857 at gentoo prefix repository (patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
1860 + move include of nc_termios.h out of term_entry.h, since the latter
1861 is installed, e.g., for tack while the former is not (report by
1865 + improve cleanup() function in lib_tstp.c, using _exit() rather than
1866 exit() and checking for SIGTERM rather than SIGQUIT (prompted by
1867 comments forwarded by Nicholas Marriott).
1868 + reduce name pollution from term.h, moving fallback #define's for
1869 tcgetattr(), etc., to new private header nc_termios.h (report by
1871 + two minor fixes for tracing (patch by Vassili Courzakis).
1872 + improve trace initialization by starting it in use_env() and
1874 + review old email, add details for some changelog entries.
1877 + update minix entry to minix 3.2 (Thomas Cort).
1878 + fix a strict compiler warning in change to wattr_get (cf: 20110528).
1881 + fixes for MirBSD port:
1882 + set default prefix to /usr.
1883 + add support for shared libraries in configure script.
1884 + use S_ISREG and S_ISDIR consistently, with fallback definitions.
1885 + add a few more checks based on ncurses/link_test.
1886 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle sp-funcs renaming of NCURSES_OUTC type.
1889 + add case to CF_SHARED_OPTS for Interix (patch by Markus Duft).
1890 + used ncurses/link_test to check for behavior when the terminal has
1891 not been initialized and when an application passes null pointers
1892 to the library. Added checks to cover this (prompted by Redhat
1894 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to make its main() function call each function
1895 with zero parameters, to help find inconsistent checking for null
1899 + fix warnings from clang 2.7 "--analyze"
1902 + compiler-warning fixes in panel and progs.
1903 + modify CF_PKG_CONFIG macro, from changes to tin -TD
1904 + modify CF_CURSES_FUNCS configure macro, used in test directory
1906 + work around (non-optimizer) bug in gcc 4.2.1 which caused
1907 test-expression to be omitted from executable.
1908 + force the linker to see a link-time expression of a symbol, to
1909 help work around weak-symbol issues.
1912 + update discussion of MKfallback.sh script in INSTALL; normally the
1913 script is used automatically via the configured makefiles. However
1914 there are still occasions when it might be used directly by packagers
1915 (report by Gunter Schaffler).
1916 + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to omit the "-L" option from the
1917 "--libs" output if the library directory is /usr/lib.
1918 + change order of tests for curses.h versus ncurses.h headers in the
1919 configure scripts for Ada95 and test-directories, to look for
1920 ncurses.h, from fixes to tin -TD
1921 + modify ncurses/tinfo/access.c to account for Tandem's root uid
1922 (report by Joachim Schmitz).
1925 + modify rules in Ada95/src/Makefile.in to ensure that the PIC option
1926 is not used when building a static library (report by Nicolas
1928 + Ada95 build-fix for big-endian architectures such as sparc. This
1929 undoes one of the fixes from 20110319, which added an "Unused" member
1930 to representation clauses, replacing that with pragmas to suppress
1931 warnings about unused bits (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
1934 + add check in test/configure for use_window, use_screen.
1935 + add configure-checks for getopt's variables, which may be declared
1936 as different types on some Unix systems.
1937 + add check in test/configure for some legacy curses types of the
1938 function pointer passed to tputs().
1939 + modify init_pair() to accept -1's for color value after
1940 assume_default_colors() has been called (Debian #337095).
1941 + modify test/background.c, adding commmand-line options to demonstrate
1942 assume_default_colors() and use_default_colors().
1945 + modify configure script/source-code to only define _POSIX_SOURCE if
1946 the checks for sigaction and/or termios fail, and if _POSIX_C_SOURCE
1947 and _XOPEN_SOURCE are undefined (report by Valentin Ochs).
1948 + update config.guess, config.sub
1951 + fixes to build c++ binding with clang 3.0 (patch by Alexander
1953 + add check for unctrl.h in test/configure, to work around breakage in
1954 some ncurses packages.
1955 + add "--disable-widec" option to test/configure script.
1956 + add "--with-curses-colr" and "--with-curses-5lib" options to the
1957 test/configure script to address testing with very old machines.
1959 20110404 5.9 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1962 + various build-fixes for the rpm/dpkg scripts.
1963 + add "--enable-rpath-link" option to Ada95/configure, to allow
1964 packages to suppress the rpath feature which is normally used for
1965 the in-tree build of sample programs.
1966 + corrected definition of libdir variable in Ada95/src/Makefile.in,
1967 needed for rpm script.
1968 + add "--with-shared" option to Ada95/configure script, to allow
1969 making the C-language parts of the binding use appropriate compiler
1970 options if building a shared library with gnat.
1973 > portability fixes for Ada95 binding:
1974 + add configure check to ensure that SIGINT works with gnat. This is
1975 needed for the "rain" sample program. If SIGINT does not work, omit
1976 that sample program.
1977 + correct typo in check of $PKG_CONFIG variable in Ada95/configure
1978 + add ncurses_compat.c, to supply functions used in the Ada95 binding
1979 which were added in 5.7 and later.
1980 + modify sed expression in CF_NCURSES_ADDON to eliminate a dependency
1984 + add special check in Ada95/configure script for ncurses6 reentrant
1986 + regen Ada html documentation.
1987 + build-fix for Ada shared libraries versus the varargs workaround.
1988 + add rpm and dpkg scripts for Ada95 and test directories, for test
1990 + update test/configure macros CF_CURSES_LIBS, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and
1992 + add configure check to determine if gnat's project feature supports
1993 libraries, i.e., collections of .ali files.
1994 + make all dereferences in Ada95 samples explicit.
1995 + fix typo in comment in lib_add_wch.c (patch by Petr Pavlu).
1996 + add configure check for, ifdef's for math.h which is in a separate
1997 package on Solaris and potentially not installed (report by Petr
1999 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
2000 + improve type-checking in Ada95 by eliminating a few warning-suppress
2002 + suppress unreferenced warnings.
2003 + make all dereferences in binding explicit.
2006 + regen Ada html documentation.
2007 + change order of -I options from ncurses*-config script when the
2008 --disable-overwrite option was used, so that the subdirectory include
2010 + modify the make-tar.sh scripts to add a MANIFEST and NEWS file.
2011 + modify configure script to provide value for HTML_DIR in
2012 Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, which depends on whether the Ada95 binding is
2013 distributed separately (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
2014 + modify configure script to add "-g" and/or "-O3" to ADAFLAGS if the
2015 CFLAGS for the build has these options.
2016 + amend change from 20070324, to not add 1 to the result of getmaxx
2017 and getmaxy in the Ada binding (report by Nicolas Boulenguez for
2018 thread in comp.lang.ada).
2019 + build-fix Ada95/samples for gnat 4.5
2020 + spelling fixes for Ada95/samples/explain.txt
2021 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
2022 + add item in Trace_Attribute_Set corresponding to TRACE_ATTRS.
2023 + add workaround for binding to set_field_type(), which uses varargs.
2024 The original binding from 990220 relied on the prevalent
2025 implementation of varargs which did not support or need va_copy().
2026 + add dependency on gen/Makefile.in needed for *-panels.ads
2027 + add Library_Options to library.gpr
2028 + add Languages to library.gpr, for gprbuild
2031 + revert changes to limit-checks from 20110122 (Debian #616711).
2032 > minor type-cleanup of Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
2033 + corrected a minor sign error in a field of Low_Level_Field_Type, to
2035 + replaced C_Int by Curses_Bool as return type for some callbacks, see
2037 + modify samples/sample-explain.adb to provide explicit message when
2038 explain.txt is not found.
2041 + improve makefiles for Ada95 tree (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
2042 + fix an off-by-one error in _nc_slk_initialize() from 20100605 fixes
2043 for compiler warnings (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
2044 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to declare unused bits in generated layouts,
2045 needed to compile when chtype is 64-bits using gnat 4.4.5
2047 20110226 5.8 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2050 + update release notes, for 5.8.
2051 + regenerated html manpages.
2052 + change open() in _nc_read_file_entry() to fopen() for consistency
2054 + modify misc/run_tic.in to create parent directory, in case this is
2055 a new install of hashed database.
2056 + fix typo in Ada95/mk-1st.awk which causes error with original awk.
2059 + configure script rpath fixes from xterm #269.
2060 + workaround for cygwin's non-functional features.h, to force ncurses'
2061 configure script to define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED when building
2062 wide-character configuration.
2063 + build-fix in run_tic.sh for OS/2 EMX install
2064 + add cons25-debian entry (patch by Brian M Carlson, Debian #607662).
2067 + regenerated html manpages.
2068 + use _tracef() in show_where() function of tic, to work correctly with
2069 special case of trace configuration.
2072 + add xterm-utf8 entry as a demo of the U8 feature -TD
2073 + add U8 feature to denote entries for terminal emulators which do not
2074 support VT100 SI/SO when processing UTF-8 encoding -TD
2075 + improve the NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS feature by adding a check for an
2076 extended terminfo capability U8 (prompted by mailing list
2080 + start documenting interface changes for upcoming 5.8 release.
2081 + correct limit-checks in derwin().
2082 + correct limit-checks in newwin(), to ensure that windows have nonzero
2083 size (report by Garrett Cooper).
2084 + fix a missing "weak" declaration for pthread_kill (patch by Nicholas
2086 + improve documentation of KEY_ENTER in curs_getch.3x manpage (prompted
2087 by discussion with Kevin Martin).
2090 + modify Ada95/configure script to make the --with-curses-dir option
2091 work without requiring the --with-ncurses option.
2092 + modify test programs to allow them to be built with NetBSD curses.
2093 + document thick- and double-line symbols in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
2094 + document WACS_xxx constants in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
2095 + fix some warnings for clang 2.6 "--analyze"
2096 + modify Ada95 makefiles to make html-documentation with the project
2097 file configuration if that is used.
2098 + update config.guess, config.sub
2101 + regenerated html manpages.
2102 + minor fixes to enable lint when trace is not enabled, e.g., with
2104 + fix typo in man/default_colors.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
2105 + update ncurses/llib-lncurses*
2108 + fix remaining strict compiler warnings in ncurses library ABI=5,
2109 except those dealing with function pointers, etc.
2112 + modify nc_tparm.h, adding guards against repeated inclusion, and
2113 allowing TPARM_ARG to be overridden.
2114 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
2117 + suppress ncv in screen entry, allowing underline (patch by Alejandro
2119 + also suppress ncv in konsole-base -TD
2120 + fixes in wins_nwstr() and related functions to ensure that special
2121 characters, i.e., control characters are handled properly with the
2122 wide-character configuration.
2123 + correct a comparison in wins_nwstr() (Redhat #661506).
2124 + correct help-messages in some of the test-programs, which still
2125 referred to quitting with 'q'.
2128 + add special case to _nc_infotocap() to recognize the setaf/setab
2129 strings from xterm+256color and xterm+88color, and provide a reduced
2130 version which works with termcap.
2131 + remove obsolete emacs "Local Variables" section from documentation
2132 (request by Sven Joachim).
2133 + update doc/html/index.html to include NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html
2134 (report by Sven Joachim).
2137 + modify test/configure and test/Makefile.in to handle this special
2138 case of building within a build-tree (Debian #34182):
2139 mkdir -p build && cd build && ../test/configure && make
2142 + miscellaneous build-fixes for Ada95 and test-directories when built
2144 + use VPATH in makefiles to simplify out-of-tree builds (Debian #34182).
2145 + fix typo in rmso for tek4106 entry -Goran Weinholt
2148 + improve checks in test/configure for X libraries, from xterm #267
2150 + modify test/configure to allow it to use the build-tree's libraries
2151 e.g., when using that to configure the test-programs without the
2152 rpath feature (request by Sven Joachim).
2153 + repurpose "gnome" terminfo entries as "vte", retaining "gnome" items
2154 for compatibility, but generally deprecating those since the VTE
2155 library is what actually defines the behavior of "gnome", etc.,
2159 + compiler warning fixes for test programs.
2160 + various build-fixes for test-programs with pdcurses.
2161 + updated configure checks for X packages in test/configure from xterm
2163 + add configure check to gnatmake, to accommodate cygwin.
2166 + correct list of sub-directories needed in Ada95 tree for building as
2168 + modify scripts in test-directory to improve builds as a separate
2172 + correct parsing of relative tab-stops in tabs program (report by
2174 + adjust configure script so that "t" is not added to library suffix
2175 when weak-symbols are used, allowing the pthread configuration to
2176 more closely match the non-thread naming (report by Werner Fink).
2177 + modify configure check for tic program, used for fallbacks, to a
2178 warning if not found. This makes it simpler to use additonal
2179 scripts to bootstrap the fallbacks code using tic from the build
2180 tree (report by Werner Fink).
2181 + fix several places in configure script using ${variable-value} form.
2182 + modify configure macro CF_LDFLAGS_STATIC to accommodate some loaders
2183 which do not support selectively linking against static libraries
2184 (report by John P. Hartmann)
2185 + fix an unescaped dash in man/tset.1 (report by Sven Joachim).
2188 + correct comparison used for setting 16-colors in linux-16color
2189 entry (Novell #644831) -TD
2190 + improve linux-16color entry, using "dim" for color-8 which makes it
2191 gray rather than black like color-0 -TD
2192 + drop misc/ncu-indent and misc/jpf-indent; they are provided by an
2193 external package "cindent".
2196 + improve linkages in html manpages, adding references to the newer
2197 pages, e.g., *_variables, curs_sp_funcs, curs_threads.
2198 + add checks in tic for inconsistent cursor-movement controls, and for
2199 inconsistent printer-controls.
2200 + fill in no-parameter forms of cursor-movement where a parameterized
2201 form is available -TD
2202 + fill in missing cursor controls where the form of the controls is
2204 + fix inconsistent punctuation in form_variables manpage (patch by
2206 + add parameterized cursor-controls to linux-basic (report by Dae) -TD
2207 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
2208 + document how to build 32-bit libraries in README.MinGW
2209 + fixes to filename computation in mk-dlls.sh.in
2210 + use POSIX locale in mk-dlls.sh.in rather than en_US (report by Sven
2212 + add a check in mk-dlls.sh.in to obtain the size of a pointer to
2213 distinguish between 32-bit and 64-bit hosts. The result is stored
2217 + add "XT" capability to entries for terminals that support both
2218 xterm-style mouse- and title-controls, for "screen" which
2219 special-cases TERM beginning with "xterm" or "rxvt" -TD
2220 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
2221 + use 64-Bit MinGW toolchain (recommended package from TDM, see
2223 + support pthreads when using the TDM MinGW toolchain
2226 + regenerated html manpages.
2227 + minor fixes for symlinks to curs_legacy.3x and curs_slk.3x manpages.
2228 + add manpage for sp-funcs.
2229 + add sp-funcs to test/listused.sh, for documentation aids.
2232 + add manpages for summarizing public variables of curses-, terminfo-
2234 + minor fixes to manpages for consistency (patch by Jason McIntyre).
2235 + modify tic's -I/-C dump to reformat acsc strings into canonical form
2236 (sorted, unique mapping) (cf: 971004).
2237 + add configure check for pthread_kill(), needed for some old
2241 + add configure option --without-tests, to suppress building test
2242 programs (request by Frederic L W Meunier).
2245 + modify nsterm, xnuppc and tek4115 to make sgr/sgr0 consistent -TD
2246 + add check in terminfo source-reader to provide more informative
2247 message when someone attempts to run tic on a compiled terminal
2248 description (prompted by Debian #593920).
2249 + note in infotocap and captoinfo manpages that they read terminal
2250 descriptions from text-files (Debian #593920).
2251 + improve acsc string for vt52, show arrow keys (patch by Benjamin
2255 + document in manpages that "mv" functions first use wmove() to check
2256 the window pointer and whether the position lies within the window
2257 (suggested by Poul-Henning Kamp).
2258 + fixes to curs_color.3x, curs_kernel.3x and wresize.3x manpages (patch
2259 by Tim van der Molen).
2260 + modify configure script to transform library names for tic- and
2261 tinfo-libraries so that those build properly with Mac OS X shared
2262 library configuration.
2263 + modify configure script to ensure that it removes conftest.dSYM
2264 directory leftover on checks with Mac OS X.
2265 + modify configure script to cleanup after check for symbolic links.
2268 + correct a typo in mk-1st.awk (patch by Gabriele Balducci)
2270 + improve configure checks for location of tic and infocmp programs
2271 used for installing database and for generating fallback data,
2272 e.g., for cross-compiling.
2273 + add Markus Kuhn's wcwidth function for compiling MinGW
2274 + add special case to CF_REGEX for cross-compiling to MinGW target.
2277 + modify initialization check for win32con driver to eliminate need for
2278 special case for TERM "unknown", using terminal database if available
2279 (prompted by discussion with Roumen Petrov).
2280 + for MinGW port, ensure that terminal driver is setup if tgetent()
2281 is called (patch by Roumen Petrov).
2282 + document tabs "-0" and "-8" options in manpage.
2283 + fix Debian "lintian" issues with manpages reported in
2284 http://lintian.debian.org/full/csmall@debian.org.html#ncurses
2287 + add a check in tic for missing set_tab if clear_all_tabs given.
2288 + improve use of symbolic links in makefiles by using "-f" option if
2289 it is supported, to eliminate temporary removal of the target
2290 (prompted by http://www.t2-project.org/packages/ncurses.html)
2291 + minor improvement to test/ncurses.c, reset color pairs in 'd' test
2292 after exit from 'm' main-menu command.
2293 + improved ncu-indent, from mawk changes, allows more than one of
2294 GCC_NORETURN, GCC_PRINTFLIKE and GCC_SCANFLIKE on a single line.
2297 + add hard-reset for rs2 to wsvt25 to help ensure that reset ends
2298 the alternate character set (patch by Nicholas Marriott)
2299 + remove tar-copy.sh and related configure/Makefile chunks, since the
2300 Ada95 binding is now installed using rules in Ada95/src.
2303 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
2304 + add/use configure check to turn on project rules for Ada95/src.
2305 + revert the vfork change from 20100130, since it does not work.
2308 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
2309 + old gnatmake (3.15) does not produce libraries using project-file;
2310 work around by adding script to generate alternate makefile.
2313 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
2314 + add configure --with-ada-sharedlib option, for the test_make rule.
2315 + move Ada95-related logic into aclocal.m4, since additional checks
2316 will be needed to distinguish old/new implementations of gnat.
2319 + start integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95 tree
2320 + add test_make / test_clean / test_install rules in Ada95/src
2321 + change install-path for adainclude directory to /usr/share/ada (was
2323 + update Ada95/configure.
2324 + add mlterm+256color entry, for mlterm 3.0.0 -TD
2325 + modify test/configure to use macros to ensure consistent order
2326 of updating LIBS variable.
2329 + change search order of options for Solaris in CF_SHARED_OPTS, to
2330 work with 64-bit compiles.
2331 + correct quoting of assignment in CF_SHARED_OPTS case for aix
2335 + regenerated html documentation.
2336 + modify test/configure to support pkg-config for checking X libraries
2338 + add/use configure macro CF_ADD_LIB to force consistency of
2339 assignments to $LIBS, etc.
2340 + fix configure script for combining --with-pthread
2341 and --enable-weak-symbols options.
2344 + correct cross-compiling configure check for CF_MKSTEMP macro, by
2345 adding a check cache variable set by AC_CHECK_FUNC (report by
2347 + simplify include-dependencies of make_hash and make_keys, to reduce
2348 the need for setting BUILD_CPPFLAGS in cross-compiling when the
2349 build- and target-machines differ.
2350 + repair broken-linker configuration by restoring a definition of SP
2351 variable to curses.priv.h, and adjusting for cases where sp-funcs
2353 + improve configure macro CF_AR_FLAGS, allowing ARFLAGS environment
2354 variable to override (prompted by report by Pablo Cazallas).
2357 + add configure option --enable-pthreads-eintr to control whether the
2358 new EINTR feature is enabled.
2359 + modify logic in pthread configuration to allow EINTR to interrupt
2360 a read operation in wgetch() (Novell #540571, patch by Werner Fink).
2361 + drop mkdirs.sh, use "mkdir -p".
2362 + add configure option --disable-libtool-version, to use the
2363 "-version-number" feature which was added in libtool 1.5 (report by
2364 Peter Haering). The default value for the option uses the newer
2365 feature, which makes libraries generated using libtool compatible
2366 with the standard builds of ncurses.
2367 + updated test/configure to match configure script macros.
2368 + fixes for configure script from lynx changes:
2369 + improve CF_FIND_LINKAGE logic for the case where a function is
2370 found in predefined libraries.
2371 + revert part of change to CF_HEADER (cf: 20100424)
2374 + correct limit-check in wredrawln, accounting for begy/begx values
2375 (patch by David Benjamin).
2376 + fix most compiler warnings from clang.
2377 + amend build-fix for OpenSolaris, to ensure that a system header is
2378 included in curses.h before testing feature symbols, since they
2379 may be defined by that route.
2382 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
2383 + modify configure macro CF_HEADER_PATH to not look for variations in
2384 the predefined include directories.
2385 + improve configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GCC_WARNINGS to work
2386 with gcc 4.x's c89 alias, which gives warning messages for cases
2387 where older versions would produce an error.
2390 + modify _nc_capcmp() to work with cancelled strings.
2391 + correct translation of "^" in _nc_infotocap(), used to transform
2392 terminfo to termcap strings
2393 + add configure --disable-rpath-hack, to allow disabling the feature
2394 which adds rpath options for libraries in unusual places.
2395 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by checking if the rpath option for a given
2396 directory was already added.
2397 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by using ldd to provide a standard list of
2398 directories (which will be ignored).
2401 + improve win_driver.c handling of mouse:
2402 + discard motion events
2403 + avoid calling _nc_timed_wait when there is a mouse event
2404 + handle 4th and "rightmost" buttons.
2405 + quote substitutions in CF_RPATH_HACK_2 configure macro, needed for
2406 cases where there are embedded blanks in the rpath option.
2409 + add configure check for exctags vs ctags, to work around pkgsrc.
2410 + simplify logic in _nc_get_screensize() to make it easier to see how
2411 environment variables may override system- and terminfo-values
2412 (prompted by discussion with Igor Bujna).
2413 + make debug-traces for COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER less verbose.
2414 + improve handling of color-pairs embedded in attributes for the
2415 extended-colors configuration.
2416 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to build link_test with sp-funcs.
2417 + build-fixes for OpenSolaris aka Solaris 11, for wide-character
2418 configuration as well as for rpath feature in *-config scripts.
2421 + refactor CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro, making CF_RPATH_HACK more
2423 + improve configure CF_REGEX, similar fixes.
2424 + improve configure CF_FIND_LINKAGE, adding add check between system
2425 (default) and explicit paths, where we can find the entrypoint in the
2427 + add check if Gpm_Open() returns a -2, e.g., for "xterm". This is
2428 normally suppressed but can be overridden using $NCURSES_GPM_TERMS.
2429 Ensure that Gpm_Close() is called in this case.
2432 + rename atari and st52 terminfo entries to atari-old, st52-old, use
2433 newer entries from FreeMiNT by Guido Flohr (from patch/report by Alan
2437 + modify install-rule for manpages so that *-config manpages will
2438 install when building with --srcdir (report by Sven Joachim).
2439 + modify CF_DISABLE_LEAKS configure macro so that the --enable-leaks
2440 option is not the same as --disable-leaks (GenToo #305889).
2441 + modify #define's for build-compiler to suppress cchar_t symbol from
2442 compile of make_hash and make_keys, improving cross-compilation of
2443 ncursesw (report by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
2444 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to replace all occurrences of
2445 TPUT in tput.1's manpage (Debian #573597, report/analysis by Anders
2449 + generate manpages for the *-config scripts, adapted from help2man
2450 (suggested by Sven Joachim).
2451 + use va_copy() in _nc_printf_string() to avoid conflicting use of
2452 va_list value in _nc_printf_length() (report by Wim Lewis).
2455 + add Ada95/configure script, to use in tar-file created by
2457 + fix typo in wresize.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
2458 + modify screen-bce.XXX entries to exclude ech, since screen's color
2459 model does not clear with color for that feature -TD
2462 + add make-tar.sh scripts to Ada95 and test subdirectories to help with
2463 making those separately distributable.
2464 + build-fix for static libraries without dlsym (Debian #556378).
2465 + fix a syntax error in man/form_field_opts.3x (patch by Ingo
2469 + add several screen-bce.XXX entries -TD
2472 + update mrxvt terminfo entry -TD
2473 + modify win_driver.c to support mouse single-clicks.
2474 + correct name for termlib in ncurses*-config, e.g., if it is renamed
2475 to provide a single file for ncurses/ncursesw libraries (patch by
2479 + use vfork in test/ditto.c if available (request by Mike Frysinger).
2480 + miscellaneous cleanup of manpages.
2481 + fix typo in curs_bkgd.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
2482 + build-fix for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
2485 + for term-driver configuration, ensure that the driver pointer is
2486 initialized in setupterm so that terminfo/termcap programs work.
2487 + amend fix for Debian #542031 to ensure that wattrset() returns only
2488 OK or ERR, rather than the attribute value (report by Miroslav
2490 + reorder WINDOWLIST to put WINDOW data after SCREEN pointer, making
2491 _nc_screen_of() compatible between normal/wide libraries again (patch
2492 by Miroslav Lichvar)
2493 + review/fix include-dependencies in modules files (report by Miroslav
2497 + modify win_driver.c to initialize acs_map for win32 console, so
2498 that line-drawing works.
2499 + modify win_driver.c to initialize TERMINAL struct so that programs
2500 such as test/lrtest.c and test/ncurses.c which test string
2501 capabilities can run.
2502 + modify term-driver modules to eliminate forward-reference
2506 + modify configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., to use CF_ADD_CFLAGS
2507 consistently to add new -D's while removing duplicates.
2508 + modify a few configure macros to consistently put new options
2509 before older in the list.
2510 + add tiparm(), based on review of X/Open Curses Issue 7.
2511 + minor documentation cleanup.
2512 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2513 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
2514 (caveat - its maintainer put 2010 copyright date on files dated 2009)
2517 + minor improvement to tic's checking of similar SGR's to allow for the
2518 most common case of SGR 0.
2519 + modify getmouse() to act as its documentation implied, returning on
2520 each call the preceding event until none are left. When no more
2521 events remain, it will return ERR.
2524 + change order of lookup in progs/tput.c, looking for terminfo data
2525 first. This fixes a confusion between termcap "sg" and terminfo
2526 "sgr" or "sgr0", originally from 990123 changes, but exposed by
2527 20091114 fixes for hashing. With this change, only "dl" and "ed" are
2528 ambiguous (Mandriva #56272).
2531 + add bterm terminfo entry, based on bogl 0.1.18 -TD
2532 + minor fix to rxvt+pcfkeys terminfo entry -TD
2533 + build-fixes for Ada95 tree for gnat 4.4 "style".
2536 + remove old check in mvderwin() which prevented moving a derived
2537 window whose origin happened to coincide with its parent's origin
2538 (report by Katarina Machalkova).
2539 + improve test/ncurses.c to put mouse droppings in the proper window.
2540 + update minix terminfo entry -TD
2541 + add bw (auto-left-margin) to nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler)
2544 + correct transfer of multicolumn characters in multirow
2545 field_buffer(), which stopped at the end of the first row due to
2546 filling of unused entries in a cchar_t array with nulls.
2547 + updated nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler, Emanuele Giaquinta)
2548 + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to show wide-character
2550 + use strdup() in set_menu_mark(), restore .marklen struct member on
2552 + eliminate clause 3 from the UCB copyrights in read_termcap.c and
2554 ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change
2555 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
2556 + replace a malloc in tic.c with strdup, checking for failure (patch by
2558 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2559 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
2562 + correct layout of working window used to extract data in
2563 wide-character configured by set_field_buffer (patch by Rafael
2565 + improve some limit-checks related to filename length in reading and
2566 writing terminfo entries.
2567 + ensure that filename is always filled in when attempting to read
2568 a terminfo entry, so that infocmp can report the filename (patch
2569 by Nicholas Marriott).
2572 + modify mk-1st.awk to allow tinfo library to be built when term-driver
2574 + add error-check to configure script to ensure that sp-funcs is
2575 enabled if term-driver is, since some internal interfaces rely upon
2579 + fix case where progs/tput is used while sp-funcs is configure; this
2580 requires save/restore of out-character function from _nc_prescreen
2581 rather than the SCREEN structure (report by Charles Wilson).
2582 + fix typo in man/curs_trace.3x which caused incorrect symbolic links
2583 + improved configure macros CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES, CF_PROG_LINT.
2587 + updated man/curs_trace.3x
2588 + limit hashing for termcap-names to 2-characters (Ubuntu #481740).
2589 + change a variable name in lib_newwin.c to make it clearer which
2590 value is being freed on error (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
2593 + improve test/ncurses.c color-cycling test by reusing attribute-
2594 and color-cycling logic from the video-attributes screen.
2595 + add ifdef'd with NCURSES_INTEROP_FUNCS experimental bindings in form
2596 library which help make it compatible with interop applications
2597 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
2598 + add configure option --enable-interop, for integrating changes
2599 for generic/interop support to form-library by Juergen Pfeifer
2602 + modify use of $CC environment variable which is defined by X/Open
2603 as a curses feature, to ignore it if it is not a single character
2604 (prompted by discussion with Benjamin C W Sittler).
2605 + add START_TRACE in slk_init
2606 + fix a regression in _nc_ripoffline which made test/ncurses.c not show
2607 soft-keys, broken in 20090927 merging.
2608 + change initialization of "hidden" flag for soft-keys from true to
2609 false, broken in 20090704 merging (Ubuntu #464274).
2610 + update nsterm entries (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler, prompted by
2611 discussion with Fabian Groffen in GenToo #206201).
2612 + add test/xterm-256color.dat
2615 + quiet some pedantic gcc warnings.
2616 + modify _nc_wgetch() to check for a -1 in the fifo, e.g., after a
2617 SIGWINCH, and discard that value, to avoid confusing application
2618 (patch by Eygene Ryabinkin, FreeBSD #136223).
2621 + modify handling of $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR to use only the first item in
2622 a possibly colon-separated list (Debian #550716).
2625 + supply a null-terminator to buffer in _nc_viswibuf().
2626 + fix a sign-extension bug in unget_wch() (report by Mike Gran).
2627 + minor fixes to error-returns in default function for tputs, as well
2631 + add WACS_xxx definitions to wide-character configuration for thick-
2632 and double-lines (discussion with Slava Zanko).
2633 + remove unnecessary kcan assignment to ^C from putty (Sven Joachim)
2634 + add ccc and initc capabilities to xterm-16color -TD
2635 > patch by Benjamin C W Sittler:
2637 + correct initc capability of linux-c-nc end-of-range
2638 + similar change for dg+ccc and dgunix+ccc
2641 + move leak-checking for comp_captab.c into _nc_leaks_tinfo() since
2642 that module since 20090711 is in libtinfo.
2643 + add configure option --enable-term-driver, to allow compiling with
2644 terminal-driver. That is used in MinGW port, and (being somewhat
2645 more complicated) is an experimental alternative to the conventional
2646 termlib internals. Currently, it requires the sp-funcs feature to
2648 + completed integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer in ncurses
2649 library (some work remains for forms library).
2652 + document return code from define_key (report by Mike Gran).
2653 + make some symbolic links in the terminfo directory-tree shorter
2654 (patch by Daniel Jacobowitz, forwarded by Sven Joachim).).
2655 + fix some groff warnings in terminfo.5, etc., from recent Debian
2657 + change ncv and op capabilities in sun-color terminfo entry to match
2658 Sun's entry for this (report by Laszlo Peter).
2659 + improve interix smso terminfo capability by using reverse rather than
2660 bold (report by Kristof Zelechovski).
2663 + add some test programs (and make these use the same special keys
2664 by sharing linedata.h functions):
2667 test/test_addchstr.c
2668 test/test_add_wchstr.c
2669 + correct internal _nc_insert_ch() to use _nc_insert_wch() when
2670 inserting wide characters, since the wins_wch() function that it used
2671 did not update the cursor position (report by Ciprian Craciun).
2674 + fix typo s/is_timeout/is_notimeout/ which made "man is_notimeout" not
2676 + add null-pointer checks to other opaque-functions.
2677 + add is_pad() and is_subwin() functions for opaque access to WINDOW
2678 (discussion with Mark Dickinson).
2679 + correct merge to lib_newterm.c, which broke when sp-funcs was
2683 + build-fix for building outside source-tree (report by Sven Joachim).
2684 + fix Debian lintian warning for man/tabs.1 by making section number
2685 agree with file-suffix (report by Sven Joachim).
2686 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2689 + workaround for bug in g++ 4.1-4.4 warnings for wattrset() macro on
2690 amd64 (Debian #542031).
2691 + fix typo in curs_mouse.3x (Debian #429198).
2694 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2697 + correct use of terminfo capabilities for initializing soft-keys,
2698 broken in 20090510 merging.
2699 + modify wgetch() to ensure it checks SIGWINCH when it gets an error
2700 in non-blocking mode (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
2701 + use PATH_SEPARATOR symbol when substituting into run_tic.sh, to
2702 help with builds on non-Unix platforms such as OS/2 EMX.
2703 + modify scripting for misc/run_tic.sh to test configure script's
2704 $cross_compiling variable directly rather than comparing host/build
2705 compiler names (prompted by comment in GenToo #249363).
2706 + fix configure script option --with-database, which was coded as an
2708 + build-fixes for --srcdir (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
2711 + separate _nc_find_entry() and _nc_find_type_entry() from
2712 implementation details of hash function.
2715 + add tabs.1 to man/man_db.renames
2716 + modify lib_addch.c to compensate for removal of wide-character test
2717 from unctrl() in 20090704 (Debian #539735).
2720 + improve discussion in INSTALL for use of system's tic/infocmp for
2721 cross-compiling and building fallbacks.
2722 + modify test/demo_termcap.c to correspond better to options in
2723 test/demo_terminfo.c
2724 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2725 + fix logic for 'V' in test/ncurses.c tests f/F.
2728 + correct logic in tigetnum(), which caused tput program to treat all
2729 string capabilities as numeric (report by Rajeev V Pillai,
2733 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2736 + fix a null-pointer check in _nc_format_slks() in lib_slk.c, from
2738 + modify _nc_find_type_entry() to use hashing.
2739 + make CCHARW_MAX value configurable, noting that changing this would
2740 change the size of cchar_t, and would be ABI-incompatible.
2741 + modify test-programs, e.g,. test/view.c, to address subtle
2742 differences between Tru64/Solaris and HPUX/AIX getcchar() return
2744 + modify length returned by getcchar() to count the trailing null
2745 which is documented in X/Open (cf: 20020427).
2746 + fixes for test programs to build/work on HPUX and AIX, etc.
2749 + improve performance of tigetstr, etc., by using hashing code from tic.
2750 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking.
2751 + add test/demo_terminfo, for comparison with demo_termcap
2754 + remove wide-character checks from unctrl() (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
2755 + revise wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to eliminate dependency on
2757 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2760 + update llib-lncurses[wt] to use sp-funcs.
2761 + various code-fixes to build/work with --disable-macros configure
2763 + add several new files from Juergen Pfeifer which will be used when
2764 integration of "sp-funcs" is complete. This includes a port to
2768 + move definition for NCURSES_WRAPPED_VAR back to ncurses_dll.h, to
2769 make includes of term.h without curses.h work (report by "Nix").
2770 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2773 + fix a regression in lib_tputs.c, from ongoing merges.
2776 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2779 + fix an infinite recursion when adding a legacy-coding 8-bit value
2780 using insch() (report by Clemens Ladisch).
2781 + free home-terminfo string in del_curterm() (patch by Dan Weber).
2782 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2785 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2788 + work around antique BSD game's manipulation of stdscr, etc., versus
2789 SCREEN's copy of the pointer (Debian #528411).
2790 + add a cast to wattrset macro to avoid compiler warning when comparing
2791 its result against ERR (adapted from patch by Matt Kraii, Debian
2795 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2798 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2799 + add vwmterm terminfo entry (patch by Bryan Christ).
2802 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2805 + build fix for _nc_free_and_exit() change in 20090418 (report by
2809 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2812 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2813 This change finishes merging for menu and panel libraries, does
2814 part of the form library.
2817 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
2818 Darwin (report by Nelson Beebe).
2821 + extend ansi.sys pfkey capability from kf1-kf10 to kf1-kf48, moving
2822 function key definitions from emx-base for consistency -TD
2823 + correct missing final 'p' in pfkey capability of ansi.sys-old (report
2824 by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo).
2825 + improve test/ncurses.c 'F' test, show combining characters in color.
2826 + quiet a false report by cppcheck in c++/cursesw.cc by eliminating
2827 a temporary variable.
2828 + use _nc_doalloc() rather than realloc() in a few places in ncurses
2829 library to avoid leak in out-of-memory condition (reports by William
2830 Egert and Martin Ettl based on cppcheck tool).
2831 + add --with-ncurses-wrap-prefix option to test/configure (discussion
2832 with Charles Wilson).
2833 + use ncurses*-config scripts if available for test/configure.
2834 + update test/aclocal.m4 and test/configure
2835 > patches by Charles Wilson:
2836 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL configure check to allow unreleased libtool
2837 version numbers (e.g. which include alphabetic chars, as well as
2838 digits, after the final '.').
2839 + improve use of -no-undefined option for libtool by setting an
2840 intermediate variable LT_UNDEF in the configure script, and then
2841 using that in the libtool link-commands.
2842 + fix an missing use of NCURSES_PUBLIC_VAR() in tinfo/MKcodes.awk
2843 from 20090321 changes.
2844 + improve mk-1st.awk script by writing separate cases for the
2845 LIBTOOL_LINK command, depending on which library (ncurses, ticlib,
2846 termlib) is to be linked.
2847 + modify configure.in to allow broken-linker configurations, not just
2848 enable-reentrant, to set public wrap prefix.
2851 + add TICS_LIST and SHLIB_LIST to allow libtool 2.2.6 on Cygwin to
2852 build with tic and term libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
2853 + add -no-undefined option to libtool for Cygwin, MinGW, U/Win and AIX
2854 (report by Charles Wilson).
2855 + fix definition for c++/Makefile.in's SHLIB_LIST, which did not list
2856 the form, menu or panel libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
2857 + add configure option --with-wrap-prefix to allow setting the prefix
2858 for functions used to wrap global variables to something other than
2859 "_nc_" (discussion with Charles Wilson).
2862 + modify scripts to generate ncurses*-config and pc-files to add
2863 dependency for tinfo library (patch by Charles Wilson).
2864 + improve comparison of program-names when checking for linked flavors
2865 such as "reset" by ignoring the executable suffix (reports by Charles
2866 Wilson, Samuel Thibault and Cedric Bretaudeau on Cygwin mailing
2868 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
2869 Solaris 10, since gcc is confused by absence of static libc, and
2870 does not switch back to dynamic mode before finishing the libraries
2871 (reports by Joel Bertrand, Alan Pae).
2872 + minor fixes to Intel compiler warning checks in configure script.
2873 + modify _nc_leaks_tinfo() so leak-checking in test/railroad.c works.
2874 + modify set_curterm() to make broken-linker configuration work with
2875 changes from 20090228 (report by Charles Wilson).
2878 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2879 + modify declaration of cur_term when broken-linker is used, but
2880 enable-reentrant is not, to match pre-5.7 (report by Charles Wilson).
2883 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2886 + add configure script --enable-sp-funcs to enable the new set of
2888 + start integrating patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
2889 + add extended functions which specify the SCREEN pointer for several
2890 curses functions which use the global SP (these are incomplete;
2891 some internals work is needed to complete these).
2892 + add special cases to configure script for MinGW port.
2895 + update several configure macros from lynx changes
2896 + append (not prepend) to CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS
2897 + change variable from PATHSEP to PATH_SEPARATOR
2898 + improve install-rules for pc-files (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
2899 + make it work with $DESTDIR
2900 + create the pkg-config library directory if needed.
2903 + modify init_pair() to allow caller to create extra color pairs beyond
2904 the color_pairs limit, which use default colors (request by Emanuele
2906 + add misc/terminfo.tmp and misc/*.pc to "sources" rule.
2907 + fix typo "==" where "=" is needed in ncurses-config.in and
2908 gen-pkgconfig.in files (Debian #512161).
2911 + add -shared option to MK_SHARED_LIB when -Bsharable is used, for
2912 *BSD's, without which "main" might be one of the shared library's
2913 dependencies (report/analysis by Ken Dickey).
2914 + modify waddch_literal(), updating line-pointer after a multicolumn
2915 character is found to not fit on the current row, and wrapping is
2916 done. Since the line-pointer was not updated, the wrapped
2917 multicolumn character was written to the beginning of the current row
2918 (cf: 20041023, reported by "Nick" regarding problem with ncmpc
2919 http://musicpd.org/mantis/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1930).
2922 + add screen.Eterm terminfo entry (GenToo #124887) -TD
2923 + modify adacurses-config to look for ".ali" files in the adalib
2925 + correct install for Ada95, which omitted libAdaCurses.a used in
2927 + change install for adacurses-config to provide additional flavors
2928 such as adacursesw-config, for ncursesw (GenToo #167849).
2931 + remove undeveloped feature in ncurses-config.in for setting
2933 + recent change to ncurses-config.in did not take into account the
2934 --disable-overwrite option, which sets $includedir to the
2935 subdirectory and using just that for a -I option does not work - fix
2936 (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
2939 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to eliminate a dependency on rpath when
2940 deciding whether to add $LIBS to --libs output; that should be shown
2941 for the ncurses and tinfo libraries without taking rpath into
2943 + fix an overlooked change from $AR_OPTS to $ARFLAGS in mk-1st.awk,
2944 used in static libraries (report by Marty Jack).
2947 + add a configure-time check to pick a suitable value for
2948 CC_SHARED_OPTS for Solaris (report by Dagobert Michelsen).
2949 + add configure --with-pkg-config and --enable-pc-files options, along
2950 with misc/gen-pkgconfig.in which can be used to generate ".pc" files
2951 for pkg-config (request by Jan Engelhardt).
2952 + use $includedir symbol in misc/ncurses-config.in, add --includedir
2954 + change makefiles to use $ARFLAGS rather than $AR_OPTS, provide a
2955 configure check to detect whether a "-" is needed before "ar"
2957 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2958 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
2961 + modify mk-1st.awk to work with extra categories for tinfo library.
2962 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries with gcc
2963 on AIX 5 or 6 (adapted from patch by Lital Natan).
2966 + modify to omit the opaque-functions from lib_gen.o when
2967 --disable-ext-funcs is used.
2968 + add test/clip_printw.c to illustrate how to use printw without
2970 + modify ncurses 'F' test to demo wborder_set() with colored lines.
2971 + modify ncurses 'f' test to demo wborder() with colored lines.
2974 + add check for failure to open hashed-database needed for db4.6
2976 + corrected --without-manpages option; previous change only suppressed
2977 the auxiliary rules install.man and uninstall.man
2978 + add case for FreeMINT to configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE (patch from
2980 + fixes from NetBSD port at
2981 http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/devel/ncurses/patches
2982 patch-ac (build-fix for DragonFly)
2983 patch-ae (use INSTALL_SCRIPT for installing misc/ncurses*-config).
2984 + improve configure script macros CF_HEADER_PATH and CF_LIBRARY_PATH
2985 by adding CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS, LIBS values to the
2987 + correct title string for keybound manpage (patch by Frederic Culot,
2988 OpenBSD documentation/6019),
2991 + move del_curterm() call from _nc_freeall() to _nc_leaks_tinfo() to
2992 work for progs/clear, progs/tabs, etc.
2993 + correct buffer-size after internal resizing of wide-character
2994 set_field_buffer(), broken in 20081018 changes (report by Mike Gran).
2995 + add "-i" option to test/filter.c to tell it to use initscr() rather
2996 than newterm(), to investigate report on comp.unix.programmer that
2997 ncurses would clear the screen in that case (it does not - the issue
2998 was xterm's alternate screen feature).
2999 + add check in mouse-driver to disable connection if GPM returns a
3000 zero, indicating that the connection is closed (Debian #506717,
3001 adapted from patch by Samuel Thibault).
3004 + improve a workaround in adding wide-characters, when a control
3005 character is found. The library (cf: 20040207) uses unctrl() to
3006 obtain a printable version of the control character, but was not
3007 passing color or video attributes.
3008 + improve test/ncurses.c 'a' test, using unctrl() more consistently to
3009 display meta-characters.
3010 + turn on _XOPEN_CURSES definition in curses.h
3011 + add eterm-color entry (report by Vincent Lefevre) -TD
3012 + correct use of key_name() in test/ncurses.c 'A' test, which only
3013 displays wide-characters, not key-codes since 20070612 (report by
3017 + change _nc_has_mouse() to has_mouse(), reflect its use in C++ and
3018 Ada95 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3019 + document in TO-DO an issue with Cygwin's package for GNAT (report
3021 + improve error-checking of command-line options in "tabs" program.
3024 + change several terminfo entries to make consistent use of ANSI
3026 + add "tabs" program (prompted by Debian #502260).
3027 + add configure --without-manpages option (request by Mike Frysinger).
3029 20081102 5.7 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3032 + add a manpage to discuss memory leaks.
3033 + add support for shared libraries for QNX (other than libtool, which
3034 does not work well on that platform).
3035 + build-fix for QNX C++ binding.
3038 + build-fixes for OS/2 EMX.
3039 + modify form library to accept control characters such as newline
3040 in set_field_buffer(), which is compatible with Solaris (report by
3042 + modify configure script to assume --without-hashed-db when
3043 --disable-database is used.
3044 + add "-e" option in ncurses/Makefile.in when generating source-files
3045 to force earlier exit if the build environment fails unexpectedly
3046 (prompted by patch by Adrian Bunk).
3047 + change configure script to use CF_UTF8_LIB, improved variant of
3051 + add teraterm4.59 terminfo entry, use that as primary teraterm entry, rename
3052 original to teraterm2.3 -TD
3053 + update "gnome" terminfo to 2.22.3 -TD
3054 + update "konsole" terminfo to 1.6.6, needs today's fix for tic -TD
3055 + add "aterm" terminfo -TD
3056 + add "linux2.6.26" terminfo -TD
3057 + add logic to tic for cancelling strings in user-defined capabilities,
3061 + regenerated html documentation.
3062 + add -m and -s options to test/keynames.c and test/key_names.c to test
3063 the meta() function with keyname() or key_name(), respectively.
3064 + correct return value of key_name() on error; it is null.
3065 + document some unresolved issues for rpath and pthreads in TO-DO.
3066 + fix a missing prototype for ioctl() on OpenBSD in tset.c
3067 + add configure option --disable-tic-depends to make explicit whether
3068 tic library depends on ncurses/ncursesw library, amends change from
3069 20080823 (prompted by Debian #501421).
3072 + some build-fixes for configure --disable-ext-funcs (incomplete, but
3073 works for C/C++ parts).
3074 + improve configure-check for awks unable to handle large strings, e.g.
3075 AIX 5.1 whose awk silently gives up on large printf's.
3078 + fix build for --with-dmalloc by workaround for redefinition of
3079 strndup between string.h and dmalloc.h
3080 + fix build for --disable-sigwinch
3081 + add environment variable NCURSES_GPM_TERMS to allow override to use
3082 GPM on terminals other than "linux", etc.
3083 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM does not happen to contain
3084 "linux", since Gpm_Open() no longer limits its assertion to terminals
3085 that it might handle, e.g., within "screen" in xterm.
3086 + reset mouse file-descriptor when unloading GPM library (report by
3088 + fix build for --disable-leaks --enable-widec --with-termlib
3089 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
3090 + use improved initialization for soft-label keys in Ada95 sample code.
3091 + discard internal symbol _nc_slk_format (unused since 20080112).
3092 + move call of slk_paint_info() from _nc_slk_initialize() to
3093 slk_intern_refresh(), improving initialization.
3096 + fix bug in mouse code for GPM from 20080920 changes (reported in
3097 Debian #500103, also Miroslav Lichvar).
3100 + fix shared-library rules for cygwin with tic- and tinfo-libraries.
3101 + fix a memory leak when failure to connect to GPM.
3102 + correct check for notimeout() in wgetch() (report on linux.redhat
3103 newsgroup by FurtiveBertie).
3104 + add an example warning-suppression file for valgrind,
3105 misc/ncurses.supp (based on example from Reuben Thomas)
3108 + change shared-library configuration for OpenBSD, make rpath work.
3109 + build-fixes for using libutf8, e.g., on OpenBSD 3.7
3112 + corrected fix for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
3116 + corrected gcc options for building shared libraries on IRIX64.
3117 + add configure check for awk programs unable to handle big-strings,
3118 use that to improve the default for --enable-big-strings option.
3119 + makefile-fixes for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
3121 + update test/configure script.
3122 + adapt ifdef's from library to make test/view.c build when mbrtowc()
3123 is unavailable, e.g., with HPUX 10.20.
3124 + add configure check for wcsrtombs, mbsrtowcs, which are used in
3125 test/ncurses.c, and use wcstombs, mbstowcs instead if available,
3126 fixing build of ncursew for HPUX 11.00
3129 + fixes to make Ada95 demo_panels() example work.
3130 + modify Ada95 'rain' test program to accept keyboard commands like the
3132 + modify BeOS-specific ifdef's to build on Haiku (patch by Scott
3134 + add configure-check to see if the std namespace is legal for cerr
3135 and endl, to fix a build issue with Tru64.
3136 + consistently use NCURSES_BOOL in lib_gen.c
3137 + filter #line's from lib_gen.c
3138 + change delimiter in MKlib_gen.sh from '%' to '@', to avoid
3139 substitution by IBM xlc to '#' as part of its extensions to digraphs.
3140 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3141 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
3142 (caveat - its maintainer removed support for older Linux systems).
3145 + modify configure check for pthread library to work with OSF/1 5.1,
3146 which uses #define's to associate its header and library.
3147 + use pthread_mutexattr_init() for initializing pthread_mutexattr_t,
3148 makes threaded code work on HPUX 11.23
3149 + fix a bug in demo_menus in freeing menus (cf: 20080804).
3150 + modify configure script for the case where tic library is used (and
3151 possibly renamed) to remove its dependency upon ncurses/ncursew
3152 library (patch by Dr Werner Fink).
3153 + correct manpage for menu_fore() which gave wrong default for
3154 the attribute used to display a selected entry (report by Mike Gran).
3155 + add Eterm-256color, Eterm-88color and rxvt-88color (prompted by
3159 + add configure option --enable-weak-symbols to turn on new feature.
3160 + add configure-check for availability of weak symbols.
3161 + modify linkage with pthread library to use weak symbols so that
3162 applications not linked to that library will not use the mutexes,
3163 etc. This relies on gcc, and may be platform-specific (patch by Dr
3165 + add note to INSTALL to document limitation of renaming of tic library
3166 using the --with-ticlib configure option (report by Dr Werner Fink).
3167 + document (in manpage) why tputs does not detect I/O errors (prompted
3168 by comments by Samuel Thibault).
3169 + fix remaining warnings from Klocwork report.
3172 + modify _nc_panelhook() data to account for a permanent memory leak.
3173 + fix memory leaks in test/demo_menus
3174 + fix most warnings from Klocwork tool (report by Larry Zhou).
3175 + modify configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to add case for
3176 "dragonfly" from xterm #236 changes.
3177 + modify configure script --with-hashed-db to let $LIBS override the
3178 search for the db library (prompted by report by Samson Pierre).
3181 + build-fixes for gcc 4.3.1 (changes to gnat "warnings", and C inlining
3185 + build-fix (reports by Christian Ebert, Funda Wang).
3188 + compiler-warning fixes for Solaris.
3191 + use NCURSES_MOUSE_MASK() in definition of BUTTON_RELEASE(), etc., to
3192 make those work properly with the "--enable-ext-mouse" configuration
3194 + improve documentation of build-cc options in INSTALL.
3195 + work-around a bug in gcc 4.2.4 on AIX, which does not pass the
3196 -static/-dynamic flags properly to linker, causing test/bs to
3200 + correct some ifdef's needed for the broken-linker configuration.
3201 + make debugging library's $BAUDRATE feature work for termcap
3203 + make $NCURSES_NO_PADDING feature work for termcap interface (prompted
3204 by comment on FreeBSD mailing list).
3205 + add screen.mlterm terminfo entry -TD
3206 + improve mlterm and mlterm+pcfkeys terminfo entries -TD
3209 + regenerated html documentation.
3210 + expand manpage description of parameters for form_driver() and
3211 menu_driver() (prompted by discussion with Adam Spragg).
3212 + add null-pointer checks for cur_term in baudrate() and
3213 def_shell_mode(), def_prog_mode()
3214 + fix some memory leaks in delscreen() and wide acs.
3217 + modify test/ditto.c to illustrate multi-threaded use_screen().
3218 + change CC_SHARED_OPTS from -KPIC to -xcode=pic32 for Solaris.
3219 + add "-shared" option to MK_SHARED_LIB for gcc on Solaris (report
3223 + finish changes to wgetch(), making it switch as needed to the
3224 window's actual screen when calling wrefresh() and wgetnstr(). That
3225 allows wgetch() to get used concurrently in different threads with
3226 some minor restrictions, e.g., the application should not delete a
3227 window which is being used in a wgetch().
3228 + simplify mutex's, combining the window- and screen-mutex's.
3231 + modify wgetch() to use the screen which corresponds to its window
3232 parameter rather than relying on SP; some dependent functions still
3234 + factor out most use of SP in lib_mouse.c, using parameter.
3235 + add internal _nc_keyname(), replacing keyname() to associate with a
3236 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
3237 + add internal _nc_unctrl(), replacing unctrl() to associate with a
3238 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
3239 + add internal _nc_tracemouse(), replacing _tracemouse() to eliminate
3240 its associated global buffer _nc_globals.tracemse_buf now in SCREEN.
3241 + add internal _nc_tracechar(), replacing _tracechar() to use SCREEN in
3242 preference to the global _nc_globals.tracechr_buf buffer.
3245 + modify _nc_keypad() to make it switch temporarily as needed to the
3246 screen which must be updated.
3247 + wrap cur_term variable to help make _nc_keymap() thread-safe, and
3248 always set the screen's copy of this variable in set_curterm().
3249 + restore curs_set() state after endwin()/refresh() (report/patch
3253 + modify configure script to note that --enable-ext-colors and
3254 --enable-ext-mouse are not experimental, but extensions from
3256 + corrected manpage description of setcchar() (discussion with
3257 Emanuele Giaquinta).
3258 + fix for adding a non-spacing character at the beginning of a line
3259 (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
3262 + modify screen.* terminfo entries using new screen+fkeys to fix
3263 overridden keys in screen.rxvt (Debian #478094) -TD
3264 + modify internal interfaces to reduce wgetch()'s dependency on the
3266 + simplify some loops with macros each_screen(), each_window() and
3270 + continue modifying test/ditto.c toward making it demonstrate
3271 multithreaded use_screen(), using fifos to pass data between screens.
3272 + fix typo in form.3x (report by Mike Gran).
3275 + add screen.rxvt terminfo entry -TD
3276 + modify tic -f option to format spaces as \s to prevent them from
3277 being lost when that is read back in unformatted strings.
3278 + improve test/ditto.c, using a "talk"-style layout.
3281 + change test/ditto.c to use openpty() and xterm.
3282 + add locks for copywin(), dupwin(), overlap(), overlay() on their
3284 + add locks for initscr() and newterm() on updates to the SCREEN
3286 + finish table in curs_thread.3x manpage.
3289 + begin table in curs_thread.3x manpage describing the scope of data
3290 used by each function (or symbol) for threading analysis.
3291 + add null-pointer checks to setsyx() and getsyx() (prompted by
3292 discussion by Martin v. Lowis and Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven on
3293 python-dev2 mailing list).
3296 + add null-pointer checks in set_term() and delscreen().
3297 + move _nc_windows into _nc_globals, since windows can be pads, which
3298 are not associated with a particular screen.
3299 + change use_screen() to pass the SCREEN* parameter rather than
3300 stdscr to the callback function.
3301 + force libtool to use tag for 'CC' in case it does not detect this,
3302 e.g., on aix when using CC=powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0-gcc
3303 (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
3304 + override OBJEXT to "lo" when building with libtool, to work on
3305 platforms such as AIX where libtool may use a different suffix for
3306 the object files than ".o" (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
3307 + add configure --with-pthread option, for building with the POSIX
3311 + fill in extended-color pair two more places in wbkgrndset() and
3312 waddch_nosync() (prompted by Sedeno's patch).
3313 + fill in extended-color pair in _nc_build_wch() to make colors work
3314 for wide-characters using extended-colors (patch by Alejandro R
3316 + add x/X toggles to ncurses.c C color test to test/demo
3317 wide-characters with extended-colors.
3318 + add a/A toggles to ncurses.c c/C color tests.
3319 + modify test/ditto.c to use use_screen().
3320 + finish modifying test/rain.c to demonstrate threads.
3323 + start modifying test/rain.c for threading demo.
3324 + modify test/ncurses.c to make 'f' test accept the f/F/b/F/</> toggles
3325 that the 'F' accepts.
3326 + modify test/worm.c to show trail in reverse-video when other threads
3327 are working concurrently.
3328 + fix a deadlock from improper nesting of mutexes for windowlist and
3332 + fixes from 20080223 resolved issue with mutexes; change to use
3333 recursive mutexes to fix memory leak in delwin() as called from
3334 _nc_free_and_exit().
3337 + fix a size-difference in _nc_globals which caused hanging of mutex
3338 lock/unlock when termlib was built separately.
3341 + avoid using nanosleep() in threaded configuration since that often
3342 is implemented to suspend the entire process.
3345 + update test programs to build/work with various UNIX curses for
3346 comparisons. This was to reinvestigate statement in X/Open curses
3347 that insnstr and winsnstr perform wrapping. None of the Unix-branded
3348 implementations do this, as noted in manpage (cf: 20040228).
3351 + modify _nc_setupscreen() to set the legacy-coding value the same
3352 for both narrow/wide models. It had been set only for wide model,
3353 but is needed to make unctrl() work with locale in the narrow model.
3354 + improve waddch() and winsch() handling of EILSEQ from mbrtowc() by
3355 using unctrl() to display illegal bytes rather than trying to append
3356 further bytes to make up a valid sequence (reported by Andrey A
3358 + modify unctrl() to check codes in 128-255 range versus isprint().
3359 If they are not printable, and locale was set, use a "M-" or "~"
3363 + improve threading in test/worm.c (wrap refresh calls, and KEY_RESIZE
3364 handling). Now it hangs in napms(), no matter whether nanosleep()
3365 or poll() or select() are used on Linux.
3368 + fixes to build with --disable-ext-funcs
3369 + add manpage for use_window and use_screen.
3370 + add set_tabsize() and set_escdelay() functions.
3373 + remove recursive-mutex definitions, finish threading demo for worm.c
3374 + remove a redundant adjustment of lines in resizeterm.c's
3375 adjust_window() which caused occasional misadjustment of stdscr when
3379 + several improvements to terminfo entries based on xterm #230 -TD
3380 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle keyname/key_name prototypes, so the
3381 "link_test" builds properly.
3382 + fix for toe command-line options -u/-U to ensure filename is given.
3383 + fix allocation-size for command-line parsing in infocmp from 20070728
3384 (report by Miroslav Lichvar)
3385 + improve resizeterm() by moving ripped-off lines, and repainting the
3386 soft-keys (report by Katarina Machalkova)
3387 + add clarification in wclear's manpage noting that the screen will be
3388 cleared even if a subwindow is cleared (prompted by Christer Enfors
3390 + change test/ncurses.c soft-key tests to work with KEY_RESIZE.
3393 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
3397 + add several functions to C++ binding which wrap C functions that
3398 pass a WINDOW* parameter (request by Chris Lee).
3401 + add note about configure options needed for Berkeley database to the
3403 + improve checks for version of Berkeley database libraries.
3404 + amend fix for rpath to not modify LDFLAGS if the platform has no
3405 applicable transformation (report by Christian Ebert, cf: 20071124).
3408 + modify configure option --with-hashed-db to accept a parameter which
3409 is the install-prefix of a given Berkeley Database (prompted by
3410 pierre4d2 comments).
3411 + rewrite wrapper for wcrtomb(), making it work on Solaris. This is
3412 used in the form library to determine the length of the buffer needed
3413 by field_buffer (report by Alfred Fung).
3414 + remove unneeded window-parameter from C++ binding for wresize (report
3418 + modify the support for filesystems which do not support mixed-case to
3419 generate 2-character (hexadecimal) codes for the lower-level of the
3420 filesystem terminfo database (request by Michail Vidiassov).
3421 + add configure option --enable-mixed-case, to allow overriding the
3422 configure script's check if the filesystem supports mixed-case
3424 + add wresize() to C++ binding (request by Chris Lee).
3425 + define NCURSES_EXT_FUNCS and NCURSES_EXT_COLORS in curses.h to make
3426 it simpler to tell if the extended functions and/or colors are
3430 + update memory-leak checks for changes to names.c and codes.c
3431 + correct acsc strings in h19, z100 (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler).
3434 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
3436 + add mrxvt terminfo entry, add/fix xterm building blocks for modified
3438 + compile with FreeBSD "contemporary" TTY interface (patch by
3442 + modify makefile rules to allow clear, tput and tset to be built
3443 without libtic. The other programs (infocmp, tic and toe) rely on
3445 + add/modify null-pointer checks in several functions for SP and/or
3446 the WINDOW* parameter (report by Thorben Krueger).
3447 + fixes for field_buffer() in formw library (see Redhat #310071,
3448 patches by Miroslav Lichvar).
3449 + improve performance of NCURSES_CHAR_EQ code (patch by Miroslav
3451 + update/improve mlterm and rxvt terminfo entries, e.g., for
3452 the modified cursor- and keypad-keys -TD
3455 + add code to curses.priv.h ifdef'd with NCURSES_CHAR_EQ, which
3456 changes the CharEq() macro to an inline function to allow comparing
3457 cchar_t struct's without comparing gaps in a possibly unpacked
3458 memory layout (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
3461 + add new functions to lib_trace.c to setup mutex's for the _tracef()
3462 calls within the ncurses library.
3463 + for the reentrant model, move _nc_tputs_trace and _nc_outchars into
3465 + start modifying test/worm.c to provide threading demo (incomplete).
3466 + separated ifdef's for some BSD-related symbols in tset.c, to make
3467 it compile on LynxOS (report by Greg Gemmer).
3469 + modify Ada95/gen/Makefile to use shlib script, to simplify building
3470 shared-library configuration on platforms lacking rpath support.
3471 + build-fix for Ada95/src/Makefile to reflect changed dependency for
3472 the terminal-interface-curses-aux.adb file which is now generated.
3473 + restructuring test/worm.c, for use_window() example.
3476 + add use_window() and use_screen() functions, to develop into support
3477 for threaded library (incomplete).
3478 + fix typos in man/curs_opaque.3x which kept the install script from
3479 creating symbolic links to two aliases created in 20070818 (report by
3483 + remove a spurious newline from output of html.m4, which caused links
3484 for Ada95 html to be incorrect for the files generated using m4.
3485 + start investigating mutex's for SCREEN manipulation (incomplete).
3486 + minor cleanup of codes.c/names.c for --enable-const
3487 + expand/revise "Routine and Argument Names" section of ncurses manpage
3488 to address report by David Givens in newsgroup discussion.
3489 + fix interaction between --without-progs/--with-termcap configure
3490 options (report by Michail Vidiassov).
3491 + fix typo in "--disable-relink" option (report by Michail Vidiassov).
3494 + fix a sign-extension bug in infocmp's repair_acsc() function
3496 + fix old configure script bug which prevented "--disable-warnings"
3497 option from working (patch by Mike Frysinger).
3500 + add 9term terminal description (request by Juhapekka Tolvanen) -TD
3501 + modify comp_hash.c's string output to avoid misinterpreting a null
3502 "\0" followed by a digit.
3503 + modify MKnames.awk and MKcodes.awk to support big-strings.
3504 This only applies to the cases (broken linker, reentrant) where
3505 the corresponding arrays are accessed via wrapper functions.
3506 + split MKnames.awk into two scripts, eliminating the shell redirection
3507 which complicated the make process and also the bogus timestamp file
3508 which was introduced to fix "make -j".
3509 + add test/test_opaque.c, test/test_arrays.c
3510 + add wgetscrreg() and wgetparent() for applications that may need it
3511 when NCURSES_OPAQUE is defined (prompted by Bryan Christ).
3514 + amend treatment of infocmp "-r" option to retain the 1023-byte limit
3515 unless "-T" is given (cf: 981017).
3516 + modify comp_captab.c generation to use big-strings.
3517 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private accessed via
3518 _nc_get_alias_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
3520 + modify configure script to skip Intel compiler in CF_C_INLINE.
3521 + make _nc_info_hash_table and _nc_cap_hash_table private accessed via
3522 _nc_get_hash_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
3526 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private, accessed via
3527 _nc_get_alias_table() since they are used only by parse_entry.c
3528 + make _nc_key_names private since it is used only by lib_keyname.c
3529 + add --disable-big-strings configure option to control whether
3530 unctrl.c is generated using the big-string optimization - which may
3531 use strings longer than supported by a given compiler.
3532 + reduce relocation tables for tic, infocmp by changing type of
3533 internal hash tables to short, and make those private symbols.
3534 + eliminate large fixed arrays from progs/infocmp.c
3537 + change winnstr() to stop at the end of the line (cf: 970315).
3538 + add test/test_get_wstr.c
3539 + add test/test_getstr.c
3540 + add test/test_inwstr.c
3541 + add test/test_instr.c
3544 + restore a call to obtain screen-size in _nc_setupterm(), which
3545 is used in tput and other non-screen applications via setupterm()
3546 (Debian #433357, reported by Florent Bayle, Christian Ohm,
3550 + add test/savescreen.c test-program
3551 + add check to trace-file open, if the given name is a directory, add
3552 ".log" to the name and try again.
3553 + add konsole-256color entry -TD
3554 + add extra gcc warning options from xterm.
3555 + minor fixes for ncurses/hashmap test-program.
3556 + modify configure script to quiet c++ build with libtool when the
3557 --disable-echo option is used.
3558 + modify configure script to disable ada95 if libtool is selected,
3559 writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD #114493).
3560 + update config.guess, config.sub
3563 + add continuous-move "M" to demo_panels to help test refresh changes.
3564 + improve fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters,
3565 taking into account some split characters on left/right window
3569 + add "widec" row to _tracedump() output to help diagnose remaining
3570 problems with multi-column characters.
3571 + partial fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters
3572 which are partly overwritten (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
3573 + ignore A_CHARTEXT bits in vidattr() and vid_attr(), in case
3574 multi-column extension bits are passed there.
3575 + add setlocale() call to demo_panels.c, needed for wide-characters.
3576 + add some output flags to _nc_trace_ttymode to help diagnose a bug
3577 report by Larry Virden, i.e., ONLCR, OCRNL, ONOCR and ONLRET,
3580 + add test/demo_panels.c
3581 + implement opaque version of setsyx() and getsyx().
3584 + corrected xterm+pcf2 terminfo modifiers for F1-F4, to match xterm
3586 + split-out key_name() from MKkeyname.awk since it now depends upon
3587 wunctrl() which is not in libtinfo (report by Rong-En Fan).
3590 + add test/key_name.c
3591 + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test/inch_wide.c
3592 + update test/configure
3593 + correct formatting of DEL (0x7f) in _nc_vischar().
3594 + null-terminate result of wunctrl().
3595 + add null-pointer check in key_name() (report by Andreas Krennmair,
3599 + adapt mouse-handling code from menu library in form-library
3600 (discussion with Clive Nicolson).
3601 + add a modification of test/dots.c, i.e., test/dots_mvcur.c to
3602 illustrate how to use mvcur().
3603 + modify wide-character flavor of SetAttr() to preserve the
3604 WidecExt() value stored in the .attr field, e.g., in case it
3605 is overwritten by chgat (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
3606 + correct buffer-size for _nc_viswbuf2n() (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
3607 + build-fixes for Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 (patch by Peter O'Gorman).
3610 + modify keyname() to use "^X" form only if meta() has been called, or
3611 if keyname() is called without initializing curses, e.g., via
3612 initscr() or newterm() (prompted by LinuxBase #1604).
3613 + document some portability issues in man/curs_util.3x
3614 + add a shadow copy of TTY buffer to _nc_prescreen to fix applications
3615 broken by moving that data into SCREEN (cf: 20061230).
3618 + add 'O' (wide-character panel test) in ncurses.c to demonstrate a
3619 problem reported by Sadrul H Chowdhury with repainting parts of
3621 + modify slk_init() so that if there are preceding calls to
3622 ripoffline(), those affect the available lines for soft-keys (adapted
3623 from patch by Clive Nicolson).
3624 + document some portability issues in man/curs_getyx.3x
3627 + fix a bug in Ada95/samples/ncurses which caused a variable to
3628 become uninitialized in the "b" test.
3629 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in adahtml rule to account for recent
3630 movement of files, fix a few incorrect manpage references in the
3632 + add Ada95 binding to _nc_freeall() as Curses_Free_All to help with
3634 + correct some functions in Ada95 binding which were using return value
3635 from C where none was returned: idcok(), immedok() and wtimeout().
3636 + amend recent changes for Ada95 binding to make it build with
3637 Cygwin's linker, e.g., with configure options
3638 --enable-broken-linker --with-ticlib
3641 + add a configure check for gcc's options for inlining, use that to
3642 quiet a warning message where gcc's default behavior changed from
3644 + improve warning message when checking if GPM is linked to curses
3645 library by not warning if its use of "wgetch" is via a weak symbol.
3646 + add loader options when building with static libraries to ensure that
3647 an installed shared library for ncurses does not conflict. This is
3648 reported as problem with Tru64, but could affect other platforms
3649 (report Martin Mokrejs, analysis by Tim Mooney).
3650 + fix build on cygwin after recent ticlib/termlib changes, i.e.,
3651 + adjust TINFO_SUFFIX value to work with cygwin's dll naming
3652 + revert a change from 20070303 which commented out dependency of
3653 SHLIB_LIST in form/menu/panel/c++ libraries.
3654 + fix initialization of ripoff stack pointer (cf: 20070421).
3657 + move most static variables into structures _nc_globals and
3658 _nc_prescreen, to simplify storage.
3659 + add/use configure script macro CF_SIG_ATOMIC_T, use the corresponding
3660 type for data manipulated by signal handlers (prompted by comments
3661 in mailing.openbsd.bugs newsgroup).
3662 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to allow one to pass options such as -static
3663 to the libtool create- and link-operations.
3666 + fix whitespace in curs_opaque.3x which caused a spurious ';' in
3667 the installed aliases (report by Peter Santoro).
3668 + fix configure script to not try to generate adacurses-config when
3669 Ada95 tree is not built.
3672 + add man/curs_legacy.3x, man/curs_opaque.3x
3673 + fix acs_map binding for Ada95 when --enable-reentrant is used.
3674 + add adacurses-config to the Ada95 install, based on version from
3675 FreeBSD port, in turn by Juergen Pfeifer in 2000 (prompted by
3676 comment on comp.lang.ada newsgroup).
3677 + fix includes in c++ binding to build with Intel compiler
3679 + update install rule in Ada95 to use mkdirs.sh
3680 > other fixes prompted by inspection for Coverity report:
3681 + modify ifdef's for c++ binding to use try/catch/throw statements
3682 + add a null-pointer check in tack/ansi.c request_cfss()
3683 + fix a memory leak in ncurses/base/wresize.c
3684 + corrected check for valid memu/meml capabilities in
3685 progs/dump_entry.c when handling V_HPUX case.
3686 > fixes based on Coverity report:
3687 + remove dead code in test/bs.c
3688 + remove dead code in test/demo_defkey.c
3689 + remove an unused assignment in progs/infocmp.c
3690 + fix a limit check in tack/ansi.c tools_charset()
3691 + fix tack/ansi.c tools_status() to perform the VT320/VT420
3692 tests in request_cfss(). The function had exited too soon.
3693 + fix a memory leak in tic.c's make_namelist()
3694 + fix a couple of places in tack/output.c which did not check for EOF.
3695 + fix a loop-condition in test/bs.c
3696 + add index checks in lib_color.c for color palettes
3697 + add index checks in progs/dump_entry.c for version_filter() handling
3699 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in copywin()
3700 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in waddchnstr()
3701 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
3702 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c's make_namelist()
3703 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
3704 + add null-pointer checks in test/cardfile.c
3705 + fix a double-free in ncurses/tinfo/trim_sgr0.c
3706 + fix a double-free in ncurses/base/wresize.c
3707 + add try/catch block to c++/cursesmain.cc
3710 + modify Ada95 binding to build with --enable-reentrant by wrapping
3711 global variables (bug: acs_map does not yet work).
3712 + modify Ada95 binding to use the new access-functions, allowing it
3713 to build/run when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
3714 + add access-functions and macros to return properties of the WINDOW
3715 structure, e.g., when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
3716 + improved install-sh's quoting.
3717 + use mkdirs.sh rather than mkinstalldirs, e.g., to use fixes from
3721 + eliminate part of the direct use of WINDOW data from Ada95 interface.
3722 + fix substitutions for termlib filename to make configure option
3723 --enable-reentrant work with --with-termlib.
3724 + change a constructor for NCursesWindow to allow compiling with
3725 NCURSES_OPAQUE set, since we cannot pass a reference to
3729 + ignore --with-chtype=unsigned since unsigned is always added to
3730 the type in curses.h; do the same for --with-mmask-t.
3731 + change warning regarding --enable-ext-colors and wide-character
3732 in the configure script to an error.
3733 + tweak error message in CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to distinguish other programs
3734 such as Darwin's libtool program (report by Michail Vidiassov)
3735 + modify edit_man.sh to allow for multiple substitutions per line.
3736 + set locale in misc/ncurses-config.in since it uses a range
3737 + change permissions libncurses++.a install (report by Michail
3739 + corrected length of temporary buffer in wide-character version
3740 of set_field_buffer() (related to report by Bryan Christ).
3743 + fix mk-1st.awk script install_shlib() function, broken in 20070224
3744 changes for cygwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
3747 + increase size of array in _nc_visbuf2n() to make "tic -v" work
3748 properly in its similar_sgr() function (report/analysis by Peter
3750 + add --enable-reentrant configure option for ongoing changes to
3751 implement a reentrant version of ncurses:
3752 + libraries are suffixed with "t"
3753 + wrap several global variables (curscr, newscr, stdscr, ttytype,
3754 COLORS, COLOR_PAIRS, COLS, ESCDELAY, LINES and TABSIZE) as
3755 functions returning values stored in SCREEN or cur_term.
3756 + move some initialization (LINES, COLS) from lib_setup.c,
3757 i.e., setupterm() to _nc_setupscreen(), i.e., newterm().
3760 + regenerated html documentation.
3761 + add NCURSES_OPAQUE symbol to curses.h, will use to make structs
3762 opaque in selected configurations.
3763 + move the chunk in lib_acs.c which resets acs capabilities when
3764 running on a terminal whose locale interferes with those into
3765 _nc_setupscreen(), so the libtinfo/libtinfow files can be made
3766 identical (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
3767 + do not use configure variable SHLIB_LIBS for building libraries
3768 outside the ncurses directory, since that symbol is customized
3769 only for that directory, and using it introduces an unneeded
3770 dependency on libdl (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
3771 + modify mk-1st.awk so the generated makefile rules for linking or
3772 installing shared libraries do not first remove the library, in
3773 case it is in use, e.g., libncurses.so by /bin/sh (report by Jeff
3775 + revised section "Using NCURSES under XTERM" in ncurses-intro.html
3776 (prompted by newsgroup comment by Nick Guenther).
3779 + change internal return codes of _nc_wgetch() to check for cases
3780 where KEY_CODE_YES should be returned, e.g., if a KEY_RESIZE was
3781 ungetch'd, and read by wget_wch().
3782 + fix static-library build broken in 20070217 changes to remove "-ldl"
3783 (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
3784 + change makefile/scripts for cygwin to allow building termlib.
3785 + use Form_Hook in manpages to match form.h
3786 + use Menu_Hook in manpages, as well as a few places in menu.h
3787 + correct form- and menu-manpages to use specific Field_Options,
3788 Menu_Options and Item_Options types.
3789 + correct prototype for _tracechar() in manpage (cf: 20011229).
3790 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
3793 + fixes for $(TICS_LIST) in ncurses/Makefile (report by Miroslav
3795 + modify relinking of shared libraries to apply only when rpath is
3796 enabled, and add --disable-relink option which can be used to
3797 disable the feature altogether (reports by Michail Vidiassov,
3799 + fix --with-termlib option for wide-character configuration, stripping
3800 the "w" suffix in one place (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
3801 + remove "-ldl" from some library lists to reduce dependencies in
3802 programs (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
3803 + correct description of --enable-signed-char in configure --help
3804 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
3805 + add pattern for GNU/kFreeBSD configuration to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE,
3806 which matches an earlier change to CF_SHARED_OPTS, from xterm #224
3808 + remove "${DESTDIR}" from -install_name option used for linking
3809 shared libraries on Darwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
3812 + add test/inchs.c, test/inch_wide.c, to test win_wchnstr().
3813 + remove libdl from library list for termlib (report by Miroslav
3815 + fix configure.in to allow --without-progs --with-termlib (patch by
3817 + modify win_wchnstr() to ensure that only a base cell is returned
3818 for each multi-column character (prompted by report by Wei Kong
3819 regarding change in mvwin_wch() cf: 20041023).
3822 + modify fix_wchnstr() in form library to strip attributes (and color)
3823 from the cchar_t array (field cells) read from a field's window.
3824 Otherwise, when copying the field cells back to the window, the
3825 associated color overrides the field's background color (report by
3827 + improve tracing for form library, showing created forms, fields, etc.
3828 + ignore --enable-rpath configure option if --with-shared was omitted.
3829 + add _nc_leaks_tinfo(), _nc_free_tic(), _nc_free_tinfo() entrypoints
3830 to allow leak-checking when both tic- and tinfo-libraries are built.
3831 + drop CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC macro from configure script, since C++ binding
3832 no longer relies on it.
3833 + disallow combining configure script options --with-ticlib and
3834 --enable-termcap (report by Rong-En Fan).
3835 + remove tack from ncurses tree.
3838 + fix typo in configure script that broke --with-termlib option
3839 (report by Rong-En Fan).
3842 + improve fix for FreeBSD gnu/98975, to allow for null pointer passed
3843 to tgetent() (report by Rong-en Fan).
3844 + update tack/HISTORY and tack/README to tell how to build it after
3845 it is removed from the ncurses tree.
3846 + fix configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
3847 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
3848 + review/eliminate other original-file artifacts in cursesw.cc, making
3849 its license consistent with ncurses.
3850 + use ncurses vw_scanw() rather than reading into a fixed buffer in
3851 the c++ binding for scanw() methods (prompted by report by Nuno Dias).
3852 + eliminate fixed-buffer vsprintf() calls in c++ binding.
3855 + add _nc_leaks_tic() to separate leak-checking of tic library from
3856 term/ncurses libraries, and thereby eliminate a library dependency.
3857 + fix test/mk-test.awk to ignore blank lines.
3858 + correct paths in include/headers, for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav
3862 + add a break-statement in misc/shlib to ensure that it exits on the
3863 _first_ matched directory (report by Paul Novak).
3864 + add tack/configure, which can be used to build tack outside the
3866 + add --with-ticlib option, to build/install the tic-support functions
3867 in a separate library (suggested by Miroslav Lichvar).
3870 + change MKunctrl.awk to reduce relocation table for unctrl.o
3871 + change MKkeyname.awk to reduce relocation table for keyname.o
3872 (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
3875 + modify configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
3876 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
3877 + modify some modules to allow them to be reentrant if _REENTRANT is
3878 defined: lib_baudrate.c, resizeterm.c (local data only)
3879 + eliminate static data from some modules: add_tries.c, hardscroll.c,
3880 lib_ttyflags.c, lib_twait.c
3881 + improve manpage install to add aliases for the transformed program
3882 names, e.g., from --program-prefix.
3883 + used linklint to verify links in the HTML documentation, made fixes
3884 to manpages as needed.
3885 + fix a typo in curs_mouse.3x (report by William McBrine).
3886 + fix install-rule for ncurses5-config to make the bin-directory.
3889 + modify configure script to omit the tic (terminfo compiler) support
3890 from ncurses library if --without-progs option is given.
3891 + modify install rule for ncurses5-config to do this via "install.libs"
3892 + modify shared-library rules to allow FreeBSD 3.x to use rpath.
3893 + update config.guess, config.sub
3895 20061217 5.6 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3898 + add ifdef's for <wctype.h> for HPUX, which has the corresponding
3899 definitions in <wchar.h>.
3900 + revert the va_copy() change from 20061202, since it was neither
3901 correct nor portable.
3902 + add $(LOCAL_LIBS) definition to progs/Makefile.in, needed for
3904 + ignore wide-acs line-drawing characters that wcwidth() claims are
3905 not one-column. This is a workaround for Solaris' broken locale
3909 + modify configure --with-gpm option to allow it to accept a parameter,
3910 i.e., the name of the dynamic GPM library to load via dlopen()
3911 (requested by Bryan Henderson).
3912 + add configure option --with-valgrind, changes from vile.
3913 + modify configure script AC_TRY_RUN and AC_TRY_LINK checks to use
3914 'return' in preference to 'exit()'.
3917 + change default for --with-develop back to "no".
3918 + add XTABS to tracing of TTY bits.
3919 + updated autoconf patch to ifdef-out the misfeature which declares
3920 exit() for configure tests. This fixes a redefinition warning on
3922 + use ${CC} rather than ${LD} in shared library rules for IRIX64,
3923 Solaris to help ensure that initialization sections are provided for
3924 extra linkage requirements, e.g., of C++ applications (prompted by
3925 comment by Casper Dik in newsgroup).
3926 + rename "$target" in CF_MAN_PAGES to make it easier to distinguish
3927 from the autoconf predefined symbol. There was no conflict,
3928 since "$target" was used only in the generated edit_man.sh file,
3929 but SuSE's rpm package contains a patch.
3932 + update man/term.5 to reflect extended terminfo support and hashed
3933 database configuration.
3934 + updates for test/configure script.
3935 + adapted from SuSE rpm package:
3936 + remove long-obsolete workaround for broken-linker which declared
3938 + improve error recovery in PUTC() macro when wcrtomb() does not
3939 return usable results for an 8-bit character.
3940 + patches from rpm package (SuSE):
3941 + use va_copy() in extra varargs manipulation for tracing version
3943 + use a va_list rather than a null in _nc_freeall()'s call to
3944 _nc_printf_string().
3945 + add some see-also references in manpages to show related
3946 wide-character functions (suggested by Claus Fischer).
3949 + add a check in lib_color.c to ensure caller does not increase COLORS
3950 above max_colors, which is used as an array index (discussion with
3952 + add ifdef's allowing ncurses to be built with tparm() using either
3953 varargs (the existing status), or using a fixed-parameter list (to
3957 + fix redrawing of windows other than stdscr using wredrawln() by
3958 touching the corresponding rows in curscr (discussion with Dan
3961 + add test/echochar.c
3962 + review/cleanup manpage descriptions of error-returns for form- and
3963 menu-libraries (prompted by FreeBSD docs/46196).
3966 + add AUTHORS file -TD
3967 + omit the -D options from output of the new config script --cflags
3968 option (suggested by Ralf S Engelschall).
3969 + make NCURSES_INLINE unconditionally defined in curses.h
3972 + revert change to accommodate bash 3.2, since that breaks other
3973 platforms, e.g., Solaris.
3974 + minor fixes to NEWS file to simplify scripting to obtain list of
3976 + improve some shared-library configure scripting for Linux, FreeBSD
3977 and NetBSD to make "--with-shlib-version" work.
3978 + change configure-script rules for FreeBSD shared libraries to allow
3979 for rpath support in versions past 3.
3980 + use $(DESTDIR) in makefile rules for installing/uninstalling the
3981 package config script (reports/patches by Christian Wiese,
3982 Ralf S Engelschall).
3983 + fix a warning in the configure script for NetBSD 2.0, working around
3984 spurious blanks embedded in its ${MAKEFLAGS} symbol.
3985 + change test/Makefile to simplify installing test programs in a
3986 different directory when --enable-rpath is used.
3989 + work around bug in bash 3.2 by adding extra quotes (Jim Gifford).
3990 + add/install a package config script, e.g., "ncurses5-config" or
3991 "ncursesw5-config", according to configuration options.
3994 + add several GNU Screen terminfo variations with 16- and 256-colors,
3995 and status line (Alain Bench).
3996 + change the way shared libraries (other than libtool) are installed.
3997 Rather than copying the build-tree's libraries, link the shared
3998 objects into the install directory. This makes the --with-rpath
3999 option work except with $(DESTDIR) (cf: 20000930).
4002 + fix ifdef in c++/internal.h for QNX 6.1
4003 + test-compiled with (old) egcs-1.1.2, modified configure script to
4004 not unset the $CXX and related variables which would prevent this.
4005 + fix a few terminfo.src typos exposed by improvments to "-f" option.
4006 + improve infocmp/tic "-f" option formatting.
4009 + make --disable-largefile option work (report by Thomas M Ott).
4010 + updated html documentation.
4011 + add ka2, kb1, kb3, kc2 to vt220-keypad as an extension -TD
4012 + minor improvements to rxvt+pcfkeys -TD
4015 + move static data from lib_mouse.c into SCREEN struct.
4016 + improve ifdef's for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset to work with Mac OS X
4017 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
4018 + modify CF_PATH_SYNTAX to ensure it uses the result from --prefix
4019 option (from lynx changes) -TD
4020 + adapt AC_PROG_EGREP check, noting that this is likely to be another
4021 place aggravated by POSIXLY_CORRECT.
4022 + modify configure check for awk to ensure that it is found (prompted
4023 by report by Christopher Parker).
4027 + add kon, kon2 and jfbterm terminfo entry (request by Till Maas) -TD
4028 + remove invis capability from klone+sgr, mainly used by linux entry,
4029 since it does not really do this -TD
4032 + correct logic in wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not guard
4033 against passing the multi-column attribute into a call on waddch(),
4034 e.g., using data returned by win_wch() (cf: 20041023)
4035 (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
4038 + fix kterm's acsc string -TD
4039 + fix for change to tic/infocmp in 20060819 to ensure no blank is
4040 embedded into a termcap description.
4041 + workaround for 20050806 ifdef's change to allow visbuf.c to compile
4042 when using --with-termlib --with-trace options.
4043 + improve tgetstr() by making the return value point into the user's
4044 buffer, if provided (patch by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat #202480)).
4045 + correct libraries needed for foldkeys (report by Stanislav Ievlev)
4048 + add terminfo entries for xfce terminal (xfce) and multi gnome
4050 + add test/foldkeys.c
4053 + modify tic and infocmp to avoid writing trailing blanks on terminfo
4054 source output (Debian #378783).
4055 + modify configure script to ensure that if the C compiler is used
4056 rather than the loader in making shared libraries, the $(CFLAGS)
4057 variable is also used (Redhat #199369).
4058 + port hashed-db code to db2 and db3.
4059 + fix a bug in tgetent() from 20060625 and 20060715 changes
4060 (patch/analysis by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat #202480)).
4063 + updated xterm function-keys terminfo to match xterm #216 -TD
4064 + add configure --with-hashed-db option (tested only with FreeBSD 6.0,
4065 e.g., the db 1.8.5 interface).
4068 + modify toe to access termcap data, e.g., via cgetent() functions,
4069 or as a text file if those are not available.
4070 + use _nc_basename() in tset to improve $SHELL check for csh/sh.
4071 + modify _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_termcap_entry() so infocmp,
4072 can access termcap data when the terminfo database is disabled.
4075 + widen the test for xterm kmous a little to allow for other strings
4076 than \E[M, e.g., for xterm-sco functionality in xterm.
4077 + update xterm-related terminfo entries to match xterm patch #216 -TD
4078 + update config.guess, config.sub
4081 + fix for install-rule in Ada95 to add terminal_interface.ads
4082 and terminal_interface.ali (anonymous posting in comp.lang.ada).
4083 + correction to manpage for getcchar() (report by William McBrine).
4085 + modify wchgat() to mark updated cells as changed so a refresh will
4086 repaint those cells (comments by Sadrul H Chowdhury and William
4088 + split up dependency of names.c and codes.c in ncurses/Makefile to
4089 work with parallel make (report/analysis by Joseph S Myers).
4090 + suppress a warning message (which is ignored) for systems without
4091 an ldconfig program (patch by Justin Hibbits).
4092 + modify configure script --disable-symlinks option to allow one to
4093 disable symlink() in tic even when link() does not work (report by
4095 + modify MKfallback.sh to use tic -x when constructing fallback tables
4096 to allow extended capabilities to be retrieved from a fallback entry.
4097 + improve leak-checking logic in tgetent() from 20060625 to ensure that
4098 it does not free the current screen (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
4101 + add a check for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset (NetBSD #33916).
4102 + correct _nc_free_entries() and related functions used for memory leak
4106 + revert a minor change for magic-cookie support from 20060513, which
4107 caused unexpected reset of attributes, e.g., when resizing test/view
4109 + note in clear manpage that the program ignores command-line
4110 parameters (prompted by Debian #371855).
4111 + fixes to make lib_gen.c build properly with changes to the configure
4112 --disable-macros option and NCURSES_NOMACROS (cf: 20060527)
4113 + update/correct several terminfo entries -TD
4114 + add some notes regarding copyright to terminfo.src -TD
4117 + fixes to build Ada95 binding with gnat-4.1.0
4118 + modify read_termtype() so the term_names data is always allocated as
4119 part of the str_table, a better fix for a memory leak (cf: 20030809).
4120 + reduce memory leaks in repeated calls to tgetent() by remembering the
4121 last TERMINAL* value allocated to hold the corresponding data and
4122 freeing that if the tgetent() result buffer is the same as the
4123 previous call (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
4124 + modify tack to test extended capability function-key strings.
4125 + improved gnome terminfo entry (GenToo #122566).
4126 + improved xterm-256color terminfo entry (patch by Alain Bench).
4129 + fix two small memory leaks related to repeated tgetent() calls
4130 with TERM=screen (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
4131 + add --enable-signed-char to simplify Debian package.
4132 + reduce name-pollution in term.h by removing #define's for HAVE_xxx
4134 + correct typo in curs_terminfo.3x (Debian #369168).
4137 + enable the mouse in test/movewindow.c
4138 + improve a limit-check in frm_def.c (John Heasley).
4139 + minor copyright fixes.
4140 + change configure script to produce test/Makefile from data file.
4143 + add a configure option --enable-wgetch-events to enable
4144 NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS, and correct the associated loop-logic in
4145 lib_twait.c (report by Bernd Jendrissek).
4146 + remove include/nomacros.h from build, since the ifdef for
4147 NCURSES_NOMACROS makes that obsolete.
4148 + add entrypoints for some functions which were only provided as macros
4149 to make NCURSES_NOMACROS ifdef work properly: getcurx(), getcury(),
4150 getbegx(), getbegy(), getmaxx(), getmaxy(), getparx() and getpary(),
4152 + provide ifdef for NCURSES_NOMACROS which suppresses most macro
4153 definitions from curses.h, i.e., where a macro is defined to override
4154 a function to improve performance. Allowing a developer to suppress
4155 these definitions can simplify some application (discussion with
4157 + improve description of memu/meml in terminfo manpage.
4160 + if msgr is false, reset video attributes when doing an automargin
4161 wrap to the next line. This makes the ncurses 'k' test work properly
4163 + correct caching of keyname(), which was using only half of its table.
4164 + minor fixes to memory-leak checking.
4165 + make SCREEN._acs_map and SCREEN._screen_acs_map pointers rather than
4166 arrays, making ACS_LEN less visible to applications (suggested by
4168 + move chunk in SCREEN ifdef'd for USE_WIDEC_SUPPORT to the end, so
4169 _screen_acs_map will have the same offset in both ncurses/ncursesw,
4170 making the corresponding tinfo/tinfow libraries binary-compatible
4171 (cf: 20041016, report by Stanislav Ievlev).
4174 + improve debug-tracing for EmitRange().
4175 + change default for --with-develop to "yes". Add NCURSES_NO_HARD_TABS
4176 and NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE environment variables to allow runtime
4177 suppression of the related hard-tabs and xmc-glitch features.
4178 + add ncurses version number to top-level manpages, e.g., ncurses, tic,
4179 infocmp, terminfo as well as form, menu, panel.
4180 + update config.guess, config.sub
4181 + modify ncurses.c to work around a bug in NetBSD 3.0 curses
4182 (field_buffer returning null for a valid field). The 'r' test
4183 appears to not work with that configuration since the new_fieldtype()
4184 function is broken in that implementation.
4187 + add hpterm-color terminfo entry -TD
4188 + fixes to compile test-programs with HPUX 11.23
4191 + add copyright notices to files other than those that are generated,
4192 data or adapted from pdcurses (reports by William McBrine, David
4194 + improve rendering on hpterm by not resetting attributes at the end
4195 of doupdate() if the terminal has the magic-cookie feature (report
4197 + add 256color variants of terminfo entries for programs which are
4198 reported to implement this feature -TD
4201 + fix typo in change to NewChar() macro from 20060311 changes, which
4202 broke tab-expansion (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
4205 + document -U option of tic and infocmp.
4206 + modify tic/infocmp to suppress smacs/rmacs when acsc is suppressed
4207 due to size limit, e.g., converting to termcap format. Also
4208 suppress them if the output format does not contain acsc and it
4209 was not VT100-like, i.e., a one-one mapping (Novell #163715).
4210 + add configure check to ensure that SIGWINCH is defined on platforms
4211 such as OS X which exclude that when _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., are
4212 defined (report by Nicholas Cole)
4215 + modify write_object() to not write coincidental extensions of an
4216 entry made due to it being referenced in a use= clause (report by
4218 + another fix for infocmp -i option, which did not ensure that some
4219 escape sequences had comparable prefixes (report by Alain Bench).
4222 + improve discussion of init/reset in terminfo and tput manpages
4223 (report by Alain Bench).
4224 + use is3 string for a fallback of rs3 in the reset program; it was
4225 using is2 (report by Alain Bench).
4226 + correct logic for infocmp -i option, which did not account for
4227 multiple digits in a parameter (cf: 20040828) (report by Alain
4229 + move _nc_handle_sigwinch() to lib_setup.c to make --with-termlib
4230 option work after 20060114 changes (report by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz).
4231 + add copyright notices to test-programs as needed (report by William
4235 + modify ncurses.c 'F' test to combine the wide-characters with color
4236 and/or video attributes.
4237 + modify test/ncurses to use CTL/Q or ESC consistently for exiting
4238 a test-screen (some commands used 'x' or 'q').
4241 + fix an off-by-one in the scrolling-region change (cf_ 20060311).
4244 + add checks in waddchnstr() and wadd_wchnstr() to stop copying when
4245 a null character is found (report by Igor Bogomazov).
4246 + modify progs/Makefile.in to make "tput init" work properly with
4247 cygwin, i.e., do not pass a ".exe" in the reference string used
4248 in check_aliases (report by Samuel Thibault).
4249 + add some checks to ensure current position is within scrolling
4250 region before scrolling on a new line (report by Dan Gookin).
4251 + change some NewChar() usage to static variables to work around
4252 stack garbage introduced when cchar_t is not packed (Redhat #182024).
4255 + workarounds to build test/movewindow with PDcurses 2.7.
4256 + fix for nsterm-16color entry (patch by Alain Bench).
4257 + correct a typo in infocmp manpage (Debian #354281).
4260 + add nsterm-16color entry -TD
4261 + updated mlterm terminfo entry -TD
4262 + remove 970913 feature for copying subwindows as they are moved in
4263 mvwin() (discussion with Bryan Christ).
4264 + modify test/demo_menus.c to demonstrate moving a menu (both the
4265 window and subwindow) using shifted cursor-keys.
4266 + start implementing recursive mvwin() in movewindow.c (incomplete).
4267 + add a fallback definition for GCC_PRINTFLIKE() in test.priv.h,
4268 for movewindow.c (report by William McBrine).
4269 + add help-message to test/movewindow.c
4272 + add test/movewindow.c, to test mvderwin().
4273 + fix ncurses soft-key test so color changes are shown immediately
4274 rather than delayed.
4275 + modify ncurses soft-key test to hide the keys when exiting the test
4277 + fixes to build test programs with PDCurses 2.7, e.g., its headers
4278 rely on autoconf symbols, and it declares stubs for nonfunctional
4279 terminfo and termcap entrypoints.
4282 + improved test/configure to build test/ncurses on HPUX 11 using the
4284 + documented ALTERNATE CONFIGURATIONS in the ncurses manpage, for the
4285 benefit of developers who do not read INSTALL.
4288 + correct form library Window_To_Buffer() change (cf: 20040516), which
4289 should ignore the video attributes (report by Ricardo Cantu).
4292 + minor fixes to xmc-glitch experimental code:
4293 + suppress line-drawing
4294 + implement max_attributes
4296 + minor fixes for the database iterator.
4297 + fix some buffer limits in c++ demo (comment by Falk Hueffner in
4301 + add toe -a option, to show all databases. This uses new private
4302 interfaces in the ncurses library for iterating through the list of
4304 + fix toe from 20000909 changes which made it not look at
4306 + make toe's -v option parameter optional as per manpage.
4307 + improve SIGWINCH handling by postponing its effect during newterm(),
4308 etc., when allocating screens.
4311 + modify wgetnstr() to return KEY_RESIZE if a sigwinch occurs. Use
4312 this in test/filter.c
4313 + fix an error in filter() modification which caused some applications
4317 + check if filter() was called when getting the screensize. Keep it
4318 at 1 if so (based on Redhat #174498).
4319 + add extension nofilter().
4320 + refined the workaround for ACS mapping.
4321 + make ifdef's consistent in curses.h for the extended colors so the
4322 header file can be used for the normal curses library. The header
4323 file installed for extended colors is a variation of the
4324 wide-character configuration (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
4327 + add a workaround to ACS mapping to allow applications such as
4328 test/blue.c to use the "PC ROM" characters by masking them with
4329 A_ALTCHARSET. This worked up til 5.5, but was lost in the revision
4330 of legacy coding (report by Michael Deutschmann).
4331 + add a null-pointer check in the wide-character version of
4332 calculate_actual_width() (report by Victor Julien).
4333 + improve test/ncurses 'd' (color-edit) test by allowing the RGB
4334 values to be set independently (patch by William McBrine).
4335 + modify test/configure script to allow building test programs with
4337 + modified test programs to allow some to work with NetBSD curses.
4338 Several do not because NetBSD curses implements a subset of X/Open
4339 curses, and also lacks much of SVr4 additions. But it's enough for
4341 + update config.guess and config.sub
4344 + use BSD-specific fix for return-value from cgetent() from CVS where
4345 an unknown terminal type would be reportd as "database not found".
4346 + make tgetent() return code more readable using new symbols
4348 + remove references to non-existent "tctest" program.
4349 + remove TESTPROGS from progs/Makefile.in (it was referring to code
4350 that was never built in that directory).
4351 + typos in curs_addchstr.3x, some doc files (noticed in OpenBSD CVS).
4354 + add use_legacy_coding() function to support lynx's font-switching
4356 + fix formatting in curs_termcap.3x (report by Mike Frysinger).
4357 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to change preprocessor-expanded _Bool back to
4361 + extend test/ncurses.c 's' (overlay window) test to exercise overlay(),
4362 overwrite() and copywin() with different combinations of colors and
4363 attributes (including background color) to make it easy to see the
4364 effect of the different functions.
4365 + corrections to menu/m_global.c for wide-characters (report by
4369 + add configure option --without-dlsym, allowing developers to
4370 configure GPM support without using dlsym() (discussion with Michael
4372 + fix wins_nwstr(), which did not handle single-column non-8bit codes
4376 + move prototypes for wide-character trace functions from curses.tail
4377 to curses.wide to avoid accidental reference to those if
4378 _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined without ensuring that <wchar.h> is
4380 + add/use NCURSES_INLINE definition.
4381 + change some internal functions to use int/unsigned rather than the
4385 + remove a redundant check in lib_color.c (Debian #335655).
4386 + use ld's -search_paths_first option on Darwin to work around odd
4387 search rules on that platform (report by Christian Gennerat, analysis
4389 + remove special case for Darwin in CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro.
4390 + ignore EINTR in tcgetattr/tcsetattr calls (Debian #339518).
4391 + fix several bugs in test/bs.c (patch by Stephen Lindholm).
4394 + other minor fixes to cygwin based on tack -TD
4395 + correct smacs in cygwin (Debian #338234, report by Baurzhan
4396 Ismagulov, who noted that it was fixed in Cygwin).
4399 + add shifted up/down arrow codes to xterm-new as kind/kri strings -TD
4400 + modify wbkgrnd() to avoid clearing the A_CHARTEXT attribute bits
4401 since those record the state of multicolumn characters (Debian
4403 + modify werase to clear multicolumn characters that extend into
4404 a derived window (Debian #316663).
4407 + move assignment from environment variable ESCDELAY from initscr()
4408 down to newterm() so the environment variable affects timeouts for
4409 terminals opened with newterm() as well.
4410 + fix a memory leak in keyname().
4411 + add test/demo_altkeys.c
4412 + modify test/demo_defkey.c to exit from loop via 'q' to allow
4413 leak-checking, as well as fix a buffer size in winnstr() call.
4416 + correct order of use-clauses in rxvt-basic entry which made codes for
4417 f1-f4 vt100-style rather than vt220-style (report by Gabor Z Papp).
4418 + suppress configure check for gnatmake if Ada95/Makefile.in is not
4420 + correct a typo in configure --with-bool option for the case where
4421 --without-cxx is used (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
4422 + add a note to INSTALL's discussion of --with-normal, pointing out
4423 that one may wish to use --without-gpm to ensure a completely
4424 static link (prompted by report by Felix von Leitner).
4426 20051010 5.5 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
4429 + document in demo_forms.c some portability issues.
4432 + document side-effect of werase() which sets the cursor position.
4433 + save/restore the current position in form field editing to make
4437 + correct header dependencies in progs, allowing parallel make (report
4438 by Daniel Jacobowitz).
4439 + modify CF_BUILD_CC to ensure that pre-setting $BUILD_CC overrides
4440 the configure check for --with-build-cc (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
4441 + modify CF_CFG_DEFAULTS to not use /usr as the default prefix for
4443 + update config.guess and config.sub from
4444 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
4447 + modify sed expression which computes path for /usr/lib/terminfo
4448 symbolic link in install to ensure that it does not change unexpected
4449 levels of the path (Gentoo #42336).
4450 + modify default for --disable-lp64 configure option to reduce impact
4451 on existing 64-bit builds. Enabling the _LP64 option may change the
4452 size of chtype and mmask_t. However, for ABI 6, it is enabled by
4453 default (report by Mike Frysinger).
4454 + add configure script check for --enable-ext-mouse, bump ABI to 6 by
4455 default if it is used.
4456 + improve configure script logic for bumping ABI to omit this if the
4457 --with-abi-version option was used.
4458 + update address for Free Software Foundation in tack's source.
4459 + correct wins_wch(), which was not marking the filler-cells of
4460 multi-column characters (cf: 20041023).
4463 + modify mouse initialization to ensure that Gpm_Open() is called only
4464 once. Otherwise GPM gets confused in its initialization of signal
4465 handlers (Debian #326709).
4468 + modify logic for backspacing in a multiline form field to ensure that
4469 it works even when the preceding line is full (report by Frank van
4471 + remove comment about BUGS section of ncurses manpage (Debian #325481)
4474 + document some workarounds for shared and libtool library
4475 configurations in INSTALL (see --with-shared and --with-libtool).
4476 + modify CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GXX_VERSION macros to accommodate
4477 cross-compilers which emit the platform name in their version
4479 arm-sa1100-linux-gnu-g++ (GCC) 4.0.1
4480 (report by Frank van Vugt).
4483 + start updating documentation for upcoming 5.5 release.
4484 + fix to make libtool and libtinfo work together again (cf: 20050122).
4485 + fixes to allow building traces into libtinfo
4486 + add debug trace to tic that shows if/how ncurses will write to the
4487 lower corner of a terminal's screen.
4488 + update llib-l* files.
4491 + modify initializers in c++ binding to build with old versions of g++.
4492 + improve special case for 20050115 repainting fix, ensuring that if
4493 the first changed cell is not a character that the range to be
4494 repainted is adjusted to start at a character's beginning (Debian
4498 + fixes to build on QNX 6.1
4499 + improve configure script checks for Intel 9.0 compiler.
4500 + remove #include's for libc.h (obsolete).
4501 + adjust ifdef's in curses.priv.h so that when cross-compiling to
4502 produce comp_hash and make_keys, no dependency on wchar.h is needed.
4503 That simplifies the build-cppflags (report by Frank van Vugt).
4504 + move modules related to key-binding into libtinfo to fix linkage
4505 problem caused by 20050430 changes to MKkeyname.sh (report by
4506 Konstantin Andreev).
4509 + updates/fixes for configure script macros from vile -TD
4510 + make prism9's sgr string agree with the rest of the terminfo -TD
4511 + make vt220's sgr0 string consistent with sgr string, do this for
4512 several related cases -TD
4513 + improve translation to termcap by filtering the 'me' (sgr0) strings
4514 as in the runtime call to tgetent() (prompted by a discussion with
4516 + improve tic check for sgr0 versus sgr(0), to help ensure that sgr0
4517 resets line-drawing.
4520 + fix special cases for trimming sgr0 for hurd and vt220 (Debian
4522 + split-out _nc_trim_sgr0() from modifications made to tgetent(), to
4523 allow it to be used by tic to provide information about the runtime
4524 changes that would be made to sgr0 for termcap applications.
4525 + modify make_sed.sh to make the group-name in the NAME section of
4526 form/menu library manpage agree with the TITLE string when renaming
4527 is done for Debian (Debian #78866).
4530 + modify parameter type in c++ binding for insch() and mvwinsch() to
4531 be consistent with underlying ncurses library (was char, is chtype).
4532 + modify treatment of Intel compiler to allow _GNU_SOURCE to be defined
4534 + improve configure check for nanosleep(), checking that it works since
4535 some older systems such as AIX 4.3 have a nonworking version.
4538 + update config.guess and config.sub from
4539 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
4540 + modify misc/shlib to work in test-directory.
4541 + suppress $suffix in misc/run_tic.sh when cross-compiling. This
4542 allows cross-compiles to use the host's tic program to handle the
4543 "make install.data" step.
4544 + improve description of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables in manpages
4545 (prompted by report by Dave Ulrick).
4546 + improve description of cross-compiling in INSTALL
4547 + add NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html by Pradeep Padala
4548 (see http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/).
4549 + modify configure script to obtain soname for GPM library (discussion
4550 with Daniel Jacobowitz).
4551 + modify configure script so that --with-chtype option will still
4552 compute the unsigned literals suffix for constants in curses.h
4553 (report by Daniel Jacobowitz:
4554 + patches from Daniel Jacobowitz:
4555 + the man_db.renames entry for tack.1 was backwards.
4556 + tack.1 had some 1m's that should have been 1M's.
4557 + the section for curs_inwstr.3 was wrong.
4560 + correction to --with-chtype option (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
4563 + move build-time edit_man.sh and edit_man.sed scripts to top directory
4564 to simplify reusing them for renaming tack's manpage (prompted by a
4565 review of Debian package).
4566 + revert minor optimization from 20041030 (Debian #313609).
4567 + libtool-specific fixes, tested with libtool 1.4.3, 1.5.0, 1.5.6,
4568 1.5.10 and 1.5.18 (all work except as noted previously for the c++
4569 install using libtool 1.5.0):
4570 + modify the clean-rule in c++/Makefile.in to work with IRIX64 make
4572 + use $(LIBTOOL_UNINSTALL) symbol, overlooked in 20030830
4573 + add configure options --with-chtype and --with-mmask-t, to allow
4574 overriding of the non-LP64 model's use of the corresponding types.
4575 + revise test for size of chtype (and mmask_t), which always returned
4576 "long" due to an uninitialized variable (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
4579 + change _tracef's that used "%p" format for va_list values to ignore
4580 that, since on some platforms those are not pointers.
4581 + fixes for long-formats in printf's due to largefile support.
4584 + fixes for termcap support:
4585 + reset pointer to _nc_curr_token.tk_name when the input stream is
4586 closed, which could point to free memory (cf: 20030215).
4587 + delink TERMTYPE data which is used by the termcap reader, so that
4588 extended names data will be freed consistently.
4589 + free pointer to TERMTYPE data in _nc_free_termtype() rather than
4591 + add some entrypoints for freeing permanently allocated data via
4592 _nc_freeall() when NO_LEAKS is defined.
4593 + amend 20041030 change to _nc_do_color to ensure that optimization is
4594 applied only when the terminal supports back_color_erase (bce).
4597 + add sun-color terminfo entry -TD
4598 + correct a missing assignment in c++ binding's method
4599 NCursesPanel::UserPointer() from 20050409 changes.
4600 + improve configure check for large-files, adding check for dirent64
4602 + minor change to configure script to improve linker options for the
4606 + document error conditions for ncurses library functions (report by
4608 + regenerated html documentation for ada binding.
4609 see ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/gnathtml
4612 + regenerated html documentation for manpages.
4613 + add $(BUILD_EXEEXT) suffix to invocation of make_keys in
4614 ncurses/Makefile (Gentoo #89772).
4615 + modify c++/demo.cc to build with g++ -fno-implicit-templates option
4616 (patch by Mike Frysinger).
4617 + modify tic to filter out long extended names when translating to
4618 termcap format. Only two characters are permissible for termcap
4622 + modify terminfo entries xterm-new and rxvt to add strings for
4623 shift-, control-cursor keys.
4624 + workaround to allow c++ binding to compile with g++ 2.95.3, which
4625 has a broken implementation of static_cast<> (patch by Jeff Chua).
4626 + modify initialization of key lookup table so that if an extended
4627 capability (tic -x) string is defined, and its name begins with 'k',
4628 it will automatically be treated as a key.
4629 + modify test/keynames.c to allow for the possibility of extended
4630 key names, e.g., via define_key(), or via "tic -x".
4631 + add test/demo_termcap.c to show the contents of given entry via the
4635 + minor fixes for vt100/vt52 entries -TD
4636 + add configure option --enable-largefile
4637 + corrected libraries used to build Ada95/gen/gen, found in testing
4641 + update config.guess, config.sub
4642 + modify configure script check for _XOPEN_SOURCE, disable that on
4643 Darwin whose header files have problems (patch by Chris Zubrzycki).
4644 + modify form library Is_Printable_String() to use iswprint() rather
4645 than wcwidth() for determining if a character is printable. The
4646 latter caused it to reject menu items containing non-spacing
4648 + modify ncurses test program's F-test to handle non-spacing characters
4649 by combining them with a reverse-video blank.
4650 + review/fix several gcc -Wconversion warnings.
4653 + correct an off-by-one error in m_driver() for mouse-clicks used to
4654 position the mouse to a particular item.
4655 + implement test/demo_menus.c
4656 + add some checks in lib_mouse to ensure SP is set.
4657 + modify C++ binding to make 20050403 changes work with the configure
4658 --enable-const option.
4661 + modify start_color() to return ERR if it cannot allocate memory.
4662 + address g++ compiler warnings in C++ binding by adding explicit
4663 member initialization, assignment operators and copy constructors.
4664 Most of the changes simply preserve the existing semantics of the
4665 binding, which can leak memory, etc., but by making these features
4666 visible, it provides a framework for improving the binding.
4667 + improve C++ binding using static_cast, etc.
4668 + modify configure script --enable-warnings to add options to g++ to
4669 correspond to the gcc --enable-warnings.
4670 + modify C++ binding to use some C internal functions to make it
4671 compile properly on Solaris (and other platforms).
4674 + amend change from 20050320 to limit it to configurations with a
4676 + fix a bug introduced in 20050320 which broke the translation of
4677 nonprinting characters to uparrow form (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
4680 + add ifdef's for _LP64 in curses.h to avoid using wasteful 64-bits for
4681 chtype and mmask_t, but add configure option --disable-lp64 in case
4682 anyone used that configuration.
4683 + update misc/shlib script to account for Mac OS X (report by Michail
4685 + correct comparison for wrapping multibyte characters in
4686 waddch_literal() (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
4689 + add -c and -w options to tset to allow user to suppress ncurses'
4690 resizing of the terminal emulator window in the special case where it
4691 is not able to detect the true size (report by Win Delvaux, Debian
4693 + modify waddch_nosync() to account for locale zn_CH.GBK, which uses
4694 codes 128-159 as part of multibyte characters (report by Wang
4695 WenRui, Debian #300512).
4698 + modify ncurses.c 'd' test to make it work with 88-color
4699 configuration, i.e., by implementing scrolling.
4700 + improve scrolling in ncurses.c 'c' and 'C' tests, e.g., for 88-color
4704 + change tracemunch to use strict checking.
4705 + modify ncurses.c 'p' test to test line-drawing within a pad.
4706 + implement environment variable NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS to support
4707 miscellaneous terminal emulators which ignore alternate character
4708 set escape sequences when in UTF-8 mode.
4711 + change NCursesWindow::err_handler() to a virtual function (request by
4713 + modify fty_int.c and fty_num.c to handle wide characters (report by
4715 + adapt fix for fty_alpha.c to fty_alnum.c, which also handled normal
4716 and wide characters inconsistently (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
4717 + update llib-* files to reflect internal interface additions/changes.
4720 + improve test/configure script, adding tests for _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc.,
4722 + add aixterm-16color terminfo entry -TD
4723 + modified xterm-new terminfo entry to work with tgetent() changes -TD
4724 + extended changes in tgetent() from 20040710 to allow the substring of
4725 sgr0 which matches rmacs to be at the beginning of the sgr0 string
4726 (request by Thomas Wolff). Wolff says the visual effect in
4727 combination with pre-20040710 ncurses is improved.
4728 + fix off-by-one in winnstr() call which caused form field validation
4729 of multibyte characters to ignore the last character in a field.
4730 + correct logic in winsch() for inserting multibyte strings; the code
4731 would clear cells after the insertion rather than push them to the
4732 right (cf: 20040228).
4733 + fix an inconsistency in Check_Alpha_Field() between normal and wide
4734 character logic (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
4737 + fix a bug in editing wide-characters in form library: deleting a
4738 nonwide character modified the previous wide-character.
4739 + update manpage to describe NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2.
4740 + correct manpage description of mouseinterval() (Debian #280687).
4741 + add a note to default_colors.3x explaining why this extension was
4742 added (Debian #295083).
4743 + add traces to panel library.
4746 + improve editing of wide-characters in form library: left/right
4747 cursor movement, and single-character deletions work properly.
4748 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM happens to be prefixed with
4749 "xterm". Gpm_Open() would otherwise assert that it can deal with
4750 mouse events in this case.
4751 + modify GPM mouse support so it closes the server connection when
4752 the caller disables the mouse (report by Stanislav Ievlev).
4755 + add traces for callback functions in form library.
4756 + add experimental configure option --enable-ext-mouse, which defines
4757 NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2, and modifies the encoding of mouse events to
4758 support wheel mice, which may transmit buttons 4 and 5. This works
4759 with xterm and similar X terminal emulators (prompted by question by
4760 Andreas Henningsson, this is also related to Debian #230990).
4761 + improve configure macros CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE to
4762 avoid redefinition warnings on cygwin.
4765 + merge remaining development changes for extended colors (mostly
4766 complete, does not appear to break other configurations).
4767 + add xterm-88color.dat (part of extended colors testing).
4768 + improve _tracedump() handling of color pairs past 96.
4769 + modify return-value from start_color() to return OK if colors have
4770 already been started.
4771 + modify curs_color.3x list error conditions for init_pair(),
4772 pair_content() and color_content().
4773 + modify pair_content() to return -1 for consistency with init_pair()
4774 if it corresponds to the default-color.
4775 + change internal representation of default-color to allow application
4776 to use color number 255. This does not affect the total number of
4777 color pairs which are allowed.
4778 + add a top-level tags rule.
4781 + add a null-pointer check in wgetch() in case it is called without
4782 first calling initscr().
4783 + add some null-pointer checks for SP, which is not set by libtinfo.
4784 + modify misc/shlib to ensure that absolute pathnames are used.
4785 + modify test/Makefile.in, etc., to link test programs only against the
4786 libraries needed, e.g., omit form/menu/panel library for the ones
4787 that are curses-specific.
4788 + change SP->_current_attr to a pointer, adjust ifdef's to ensure that
4789 libtinfo.so and libtinfow.so have the same ABI. The reason for this
4790 is that the corresponding data which belongs to the upper-level
4791 ncurses library has a different size in each model (report by
4795 + minor fixes to allow test-compiles with g++.
4796 + correct column value shown in tic's warnings, which did not account
4797 for leading whitespace.
4798 + add a check in _nc_trans_string() for improperly ended strings, i.e.,
4799 where a following line begins in column 1.
4800 + modify _nc_save_str() to return a null pointer on buffer overflow.
4801 + improve repainting while scrolling wide-character data (Eungkyu Song).
4804 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
4807 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
4808 + fix manpage typo (FreeBSD report docs/75544).
4809 + update config.guess, config.sub
4810 > patches for configure script (Albert Chin-A-Young):
4811 + improved fix to make mbstate_t recognized on HPUX 11i (cf:
4812 20030705), making vsscanf() prototype visible on IRIX64. Tested for
4813 on HP-UX 11i, Solaris 7, 8, 9, AIX 4.3.3, 5.2, Tru64 UNIX 4.0D, 5.1,
4814 IRIX64 6.5, Redhat Linux 7.1, 9, and RHEL 2.1, 3.0.
4815 + print the result of the --disable-home-terminfo option.
4816 + use -rpath when compiling with SGI C compiler.
4819 + add trace calls to remaining public functions in form and menu
4821 + fix check for numeric digits in test/ncurses.c 'b' and 'B' tests.
4822 + fix typo in test/ncurses.c 'c' test from 20041218.
4825 + revise test/ncurses.c 'c' color test to improve use for xterm-88color
4826 and xterm-256color, added 'C' test using the wide-character color_set
4827 and attr_set functions.
4830 + modify configure script to work with Intel compiler.
4831 + fix an limit-check in wadd_wchnstr() which caused labels in the
4832 forms-demo to be one character short.
4833 + fix typo in curs_addchstr.3x (Jared Yanovich).
4834 + add trace calls to most functions in form and menu libraries.
4835 + update working-position for adding wide-characters when window is
4836 scrolled (prompted by related report by Eungkyu Song).
4839 + replace some references on Linux to wcrtomb() which use it to obtain
4840 the length of a multibyte string with _nc_wcrtomb, since wcrtomb() is
4841 broken in glibc (see Debian #284260).
4842 + corrected length-computation in wide-character support for
4844 + some fixes to frm_driver.c to allow it to accept multibyte input.
4845 + modify configure script to work with Intel 8.0 compiler.
4848 + amend change to setupterm() in 20030405 which would reuse the value
4849 of cur_term if the same output was selected. This now reuses it only
4850 when setupterm() is called from tgetent(), which has no notion of
4851 separate SCREENs. Note that tgetent() must be called after initscr()
4852 or newterm() to use this feature (Redhat #140326).
4853 + add a check in CF_BUILD_CC macro to ensure that developer has given
4854 the --with-build-cc option when cross-compiling (report by Alexandre
4856 + improved configure script checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE and
4857 _POSIX_C_SOURCE (fix for IRIX 5.3 from Georg Schwarz, _POSIX_C_SOURCE
4859 + cosmetic fix to test/gdc.c to recolor the bottom edge of the box
4860 for consistency (comment by Dan Nelson).
4863 + update wsvt25 terminfo entry -TD
4864 + modify test/ins_wide.c to test all flavors of ins_wstr().
4865 + ignore filler-cells in wadd_wchnstr() when adding a cchar_t array
4866 which consists of multi-column characters, since this function
4867 constructs them (cf: 20041023).
4868 + modify winnstr() to return multibyte character strings for the
4869 wide-character configuration.
4872 + fixes to make slk_set() and slk_wset() accept and store multibyte
4873 or multicolumn characters.
4876 + improve color optimization a little by making _nc_do_color() check
4877 if the old/new pairs are equivalent to the default pair 0.
4878 + modify assume_default_colors() to not require that
4879 use_default_colors() be called first.
4882 + modify term_attrs() to use termattrs(), add the extended attributes
4883 such as enter_horizontal_hl_mode for WA_HORIZONTAL to term_attrs().
4884 + add logic in waddch_literal() to clear orphaned cells when one
4885 multi-column character partly overwrites another.
4886 + improved logic for clearing cells when a multi-column character
4887 must be wrapped to a new line.
4888 + revise storage of cells for multi-column characters to correct a
4889 problem with repainting. In the old scheme, it was possible for
4890 doupdate() to decide that only part of a multi-column character
4891 should be repainted since the filler cells stored only an attribute
4892 to denote them as fillers, rather than the character value and the
4896 + minor fixes for traces.
4897 + add SP->_screen_acs_map[], used to ensure that mapping of missing
4898 line-drawing characters is handled properly. For example, ACS_DARROW
4899 is absent from xterm-new, and it was coincidentally displayed the
4903 + amend 20021221 workaround for broken acs to reset the sgr, rmacs
4904 and smacs strings as well. Also modify the check for screen's
4905 limitations in that area to allow the multi-character shift-in
4906 and shift-out which seem to work.
4907 + change GPM initialization, using dl library to load it dynamically
4908 at runtime (Debian #110586).
4911 + correct logic for color pair in setcchar() and getcchar() (patch by
4912 Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
4913 + add t/T commands to ncurses b/B tests to allow a different color to
4914 be tested for the attrset part of the test than is used in the
4918 + fix to make setcchar() to work when its wchar_t* parameter is
4919 pointing to a string which contains more data than can be converted.
4920 + modify wget_wstr() and example in ncurses.c to work if wchar_t and
4921 wint_t are different sizes (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
4924 + remove check in wget_wch() added to fix an infinite loop, appears to
4925 have been working around a transitory glibc bug, and interferes
4926 with normal operation (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
4927 + correct wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not pass the rendition
4928 information (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
4929 + fix aclocal.m4 so that the wide-character version of ncurses gets
4930 compiled as libncursesw.5.dylib, instead of libncurses.5w.dylib
4931 (adapted from patch by James J Ramsey).
4932 + change configure script for --with-caps option to indicate that it
4933 is no longer experimental.
4934 + change configure script to reflect the fact that --enable-widec has
4935 not been "experimental" since 5.3 (report by Bruno Lustosa).
4938 + add 'B' test to ncurses.c, to exercise some wide-character functions.
4941 + modify infocmp -i option to match 8-bit controls against its table
4942 entries, e.g., so it can analyze the xterm-8bit entry.
4943 + add morphos terminfo entry, improve amiga-8bit entry (Pavel Fedin).
4944 + correct translation of "%%" in terminfo format to termcap, e.g.,
4945 using "tic -C" (Redhat #130921).
4946 + modified configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to ensure that if
4947 it defines _POSIX_C_SOURCE, that it defines it to a specific value
4948 (comp.os.stratus newsgroup comment).
4951 + fixes to build with Ada95 binding with gnat 3.4 (all warnings are
4952 fatal, and gnat does not follow the guidelines for pragmas).
4953 However that did find a coding error in Assume_Default_Colors().
4954 + modify several terminfo entries to ensure xterm mouse and cursor
4955 visibility are reset in rs2 string: hurd, putty, gnome,
4956 konsole-base, mlterm, Eterm, screen (Debian #265784, Debian #55637).
4957 The xterm entries are left alone - old ones for compatibility, and
4958 the new ones do not require this change. -TD
4961 + fake a SIGWINCH in newterm() to accommodate buggy terminal emulators
4962 and window managers (Debian #265631).
4963 > terminfo updates -TD
4964 + remove dch/dch1 from rxvt because they are implemented inconsistently
4965 with the common usage of bce/ech
4966 + remove khome from vt220 (vt220's have no home key)
4970 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test, adding v/V toggles to cycle through
4971 combinations of video attributes so that for instance bold and
4972 underline can be tested. This made the legend too crowded, added
4973 a help window as well.
4974 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test to cycle through default colors if
4975 the -d option is set.
4976 + update putty terminfo entry (Robert de Bath).
4979 + modify test/cardfile.c to allow it to read more data than can be
4981 + correct logic in resizeterm.c which kept it from processing all
4982 levels of window hierarchy (reports by Folkert van Heusden,
4986 + modify "tic -cv" to ignore delays when comparing strings. Also
4987 modify it to ignore a canceled sgr string, e.g., for terminals which
4988 cannot properly combine attributes in one control sequence.
4989 + corrections for gnome and konsole entries (Redhat #122815, patch by
4991 > terminfo updates -TD
4992 + make ncsa-m rmacs/smacs consistent with sgr
4993 + add sgr, rc/sc and ech to syscons entries
4994 + add function-keys to decansi
4995 + add sgr to mterm-ansi
4996 + add sgr, civis, cnorm to emu
4997 + correct/simplify cup in addrinfo
5000 > terminfo updates -TD
5001 + add xterm-pc-fkeys
5002 + review/update gnome and gnome-rh90 entries (prompted by Redhat
5004 + review/update konsole entries
5005 + add sgr, correct sgr0 for kterm and mlterm
5006 + correct tsl string in kterm
5009 + add configure option --without-xterm-new
5012 + add check in wget_wch() for printable bytes that are not part of a
5013 multibyte character.
5014 + modify wadd_wchnstr() to render text using window's background
5016 + improve tic's check to compare sgr and sgr0.
5017 + fix c++ directory's .cc.i rule.
5018 + modify logic in tgetent() which adjusts the termcap "me" string
5019 to work with ISO-2022 string used in xterm-new (cf: 20010908).
5020 + modify tic's check for conflicting function keys to omit that if
5021 converting termcap to termcap format.
5022 + add -U option to tic and infocmp.
5023 + add rmam/smam to linux terminfo entry (Trevor Van Bremen)
5024 > terminfo updates -TD
5025 + minor fixes for emu
5027 + change wyse acsc strings to use 'i' map rather than 'I'
5032 + use tic -x to install terminfo database -TD
5033 + add -x to infocmp's usage message.
5034 + correct field used for comparing O_ROWMAJOR in set_menu_format()
5035 (report/patch by Tony Li).
5036 + fix a missing nul check in set_field_buffer() from 20040508 changes.
5037 > terminfo updates -TD
5038 + make xterm-xf86-v43 derived from xterm-xf86-v40 rather than
5040 + align with xterm patch #192's use of xterm-new -TD
5041 + update xterm-new and xterm-8bit for cvvis/cnorm strings -TD
5042 + make xterm-new the default "xterm" entry -TD
5045 + correct BUILD_CPPFLAGS substitution in ncurses/Makefile.in, to allow
5046 cross-compiling from a separate directory tree (report/patch by
5048 + modify is_term_resized() to ensure that window sizes are nonzero,
5049 as documented in the manpage (report by Ian Collier).
5050 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro to make Hurd port build
5051 (Debian #249214, report/patch by Jeff Bailey).
5052 + configure-script mods from xterm, e.g., updates to CF_ADD_CFLAGS
5053 + update config.guess, config.sub
5054 > terminfo updates -TD
5056 + add xterm-xf86-v44
5057 + modify xterm-new aka xterm-xfree86 to accommodate luit, which
5058 relies on G1 being used via an ISO-2022 escape sequence (report by
5063 + reconsidered winsnstr(), decided after comparing other
5064 implementations that wrapping is an X/Open documentation error.
5065 + modify test/inserts.c to test all flavors of insstr().
5068 + add setlocale() calls to a few test programs which may require it:
5069 demo_forms.c, filter.c, ins_wide.c, inserts.c
5070 + correct a few misspelled function names in ncurses-intro.html (report
5072 + correct internal name of key_defined() manpage, which conflicted with
5076 + correct size of internal pad used for holding wide-character
5077 field_buffer() results.
5078 + modify data_ahead() to work with wide-characters.
5081 + improve description of terminfo if-then-else expressions (suggested
5083 + improve test/ncurses.c 'd' test, allow it to use external file for
5084 initial palette (added xterm-16color.dat and linux-color.dat), and
5085 reset colors to the initial palette when starting/ending the test.
5086 + change limit-check in init_color() to allow r/g/b component to
5087 reach 1000 (cf: 20020928).
5090 + modify form library to use cchar_t's rather than char's in the
5091 wide-character configuration for storing data for field buffers.
5092 + correct logic of win_wchnstr(), which did not work for more than
5096 + replace memset/memcpy usage in form library with for-loops to
5097 simplify changing the datatype of FIELD.buf, part of wide-character
5099 + fix some inconsistent use of #if/#ifdef (report by Alain Guibert).
5102 + modify menu library to account for actual number of columns used by
5103 multibyte character strings, in the wide-character configuration
5104 (adapted from patch by Philipp Tomsich).
5105 + add "-x" option to infocmp like tic's "-x", for use in "-F"
5106 comparisons. This modifies infocmp to only report extended
5107 capabilities if the -x option is given, making this more consistent
5108 with tic. Some scripts may break, since infocmp previous gave this
5109 information without an option.
5110 + modify termcap-parsing to retain 2-character aliases at the beginning
5111 of an entry if the "-x" option is used in tic.
5114 + minor compiler-warning and test-program fixes.
5117 + modify tic's missing-sgr warning to apply to terminfo only.
5118 + free some memory leaks in tic.
5119 + remove check in post_menu() that prevented menus from extending
5120 beyond the screen (request by Max J. Werner).
5121 + remove check in newwin() that prevents allocating windows
5122 that extend beyond the screen. Solaris curses does this.
5123 + add ifdef in test/color_set.c to allow it to compile with older
5125 + add napms() calls to test/dots.c to make it not be a CPU hog.
5128 + modify unctrl() to return null if its parameter does not correspond
5129 to an unsigned char.
5130 + add some limit-checks to guard isprint(), etc., from being used on
5131 values that do not fit into an unsigned char (report by Sami Farin).
5134 + fix a typo in the _nc_get_locale() change.
5137 + modify _nc_get_locale() to use setlocale() to query the program's
5138 current locale rather than using getenv(). This fixes a case in tin
5139 which relies on legacy treatment of 8-bit characters when the locale
5140 is not initialized (reported by Urs Jansen).
5141 + add sgr string to screen's and rxvt's terminfo entries -TD.
5142 + add a check in tic for terminfo entries having an sgr0 but no sgr
5143 string. This confuses Tru64 and HPUX curses when combined with
5144 color, e.g., making them leave line-drawing characters in odd places.
5145 + correct casts used in ABSENT_BOOLEAN, CANCELLED_BOOLEAN, matches the
5146 original definitions used in Debian package to fix PowerPC bug before
5147 20030802 (Debian #237629).
5150 + modify PutAttrChar() and PUTC() macro to improve use of
5151 A_ALTCHARSET attribute to prevent line-drawing characters from
5152 being lost in situations where the locale would otherwise treat the
5153 raw data as nonprintable (Debian #227879).
5156 + fix a redefinition of CTRL() macro in test/view.c for AIX 5.2 (report
5158 + remove ".PP" after ".SH NAME" in a few manpages; this confuses
5159 some apropos script (Debian #237831).
5162 + modify ncurses.c 'r' test so editing commands, like inserted text,
5163 set the field background, and the state of insert/overlay editing
5164 mode is shown in that test.
5165 + change syntax of dummy targets in Ada95 makefiles to work with pmake.
5166 + correct logic in test/ncurses.c 'b' for noncolor terminals which
5167 did not recognize a quit-command (cf: 20030419).
5170 + modify _nc_insert_ch() to allow for its input to be part of a
5172 + split out lib_insnstr.c, to prepare to rewrite it. X/Open states
5173 that this function performs wrapping, unlike all of the other
5174 insert-functions. Currently it does not wrap.
5175 + check for nl_langinfo(CODESET), use it if available (report by
5177 + split-out CF_BUILD_CC macro, actually did this for lynx first.
5178 + fixes for configure script CF_WITH_DBMALLOC and CF_WITH_DMALLOC,
5179 which happened to work with bash, but not with Bourne shell (report
5180 by Marco d'Itri via tin-dev).
5183 + some changes to adapt the form library to wide characters, incomplete
5184 (request by Mike Aubury).
5185 + add symbol to curses.h which can be used to suppress include of
5187 #define NCURSES_ENABLE_STDBOOL_H 0
5189 (discussion on XFree86 mailing list).
5192 + modify configure --with-termlib option to accept a value which sets
5193 the name of the terminfo library. This would allow a packager to
5194 build libtinfow.so renamed to coincide with libtinfo.so (discussion
5195 with Stanislav Ievlev).
5196 + improve documentation of --with-install-prefix, --prefix and
5197 $(DESTDIR) in INSTALL (prompted by discussion with Paul Lew).
5198 + add configure check if the compiler can use -c -o options to rename
5199 its output file, use that to omit the 'cd' command which was used to
5200 ensure object files are created in a separate staging directory
5201 (prompted by comments by Johnny Wezel, Martin Mokrejs).
5203 20040208 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
5206 20040207 pre-release
5207 + minor fixes to _nc_tparm_analyze(), i.e., do not count %i as a param,
5208 and do not count %d if it follows a %p.
5209 + correct an inconsistency between handling of codes in the 128-255
5210 range, e.g., as illustrated by test/ncurses.c f/F tests. In POSIX
5211 locale, the latter did not show printable results, while the former
5213 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to compensate for broken C preprocessor on Mac
5214 OS X, which alters "%%" to "% % " (report by Robert Simms, fix
5215 verified by Scott Corscadden).
5217 20040131 pre-release
5218 + modify SCREEN struct to align it between normal/wide curses flavors
5219 to simplify future changes to build a single version of libtinfo
5220 (patch by Stanislav Ievlev).
5221 + document handling of carriage return by addch() in manpage.
5222 + document special features of unctrl() in manpage.
5223 + documented interface changes in INSTALL.
5224 + corrected control-char test in lib_addch.c to account for locale
5225 (Debian #230335, cf: 971206).
5226 + updated test/configure.in to use AC_EXEEXT and AC_OBJEXT.
5227 + fixes to compile Ada95 binding with Debian gnat 3.15p-4 package.
5228 + minor configure-script fixes for older ports, e.g., BeOS R4.5.
5230 20040125 pre-release
5231 + amend change to PutAttrChar() from 20030614 which computed the number
5232 of cells for a possibly multi-cell character. The 20030614 change
5233 forced the cell to a blank if the result from wcwidth() was not
5234 greater than zero. However, wcwidth() called for parameters in the
5235 range 128-255 can give this return value. The logic now simply
5236 ensures that the number of cells is greater than zero without
5237 modifying the displayed value.
5239 20040124 pre-release
5240 + looked good for 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org (but see above)
5241 + modify configure script check for ranlib to use AC_CHECK_TOOL, since
5242 that works better for cross-compiling.
5244 20040117 pre-release
5245 + modify lib_get_wch.c to prefer mblen/mbtowc over mbrlen/mbrtowc to
5246 work around core dump in Solaris 8's locale support, e.g., for
5247 zh_CN.GB18030 (report by Saravanan Bellan).
5248 + add includes for <stdarg.h> and <stdio.h> in configure script macro
5249 to make <wchar.h> check work with Tru64 4.0d.
5250 + add terminfo entry for U/Win -TD
5251 + add terminfo entries for SFU aka Interix aka OpenNT (Federico
5253 + modify tput's error messages to prefix them with the program name
5254 (report by Vincent Lefevre, patch by Daniel Jacobowitz (see Debian
5256 + correct a place in tack where exit_standout_mode was used instead of
5257 exit_attribute_mode (patch by Jochen Voss (see Debian #224443)).
5258 + modify c++/cursesf.h to use const in the Enumeration_Field method.
5259 + remove an ambiguous (actually redundant) method from c++/cursesf.h
5260 + make $HOME/.terminfo update optional (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
5261 + improve sed script which extracts libtool's version in the
5262 CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro.
5263 + add ifdef'd call to AC_PROG_LIBTOOL to CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro (to
5264 simplify local patch for Albert Chin-A-Young)..
5265 + add $(CXXFLAGS) to link command in c++/Makefile.in (adapted from
5266 patch by Albert Chin-A-Young)..
5267 + fix a missing substitution in configure.in for "$target" needed for
5269 + resync CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro with lynx; fixes IRIX64 and
5270 NetBSD 1.6 conflicts with _XOPEN_SOURCE.
5271 + make check for stdbool.h more specific, to ensure that including it
5272 will actually define/declare bool for the configured compiler.
5273 + rewrite ifdef's in curses.h relating NCURSES_BOOL and bool. The
5274 intention of that is to #define NCURSES_BOOL as bool when the
5275 compiler declares bool, and to #define bool as NCURSES_BOOL when it
5276 does not (reported by Jim Gifford, Sam Varshavchik, cf: 20031213).
5278 20040110 pre-release
5279 + change minor version to 4, i.e., ncurses 5.4
5280 + revised/improved terminfo entries for tvi912b, tvi920b (Benjamin C W
5282 + simplified ncurses/base/version.c by defining the result from the
5283 configure script rather than using sprintf (suggested by Stanislav
5285 + remove obsolete casts from c++/cursesw.h (reported by Stanislav
5287 + modify configure script so that when configuring for termlib, programs
5288 such as tic are not linked with the upper-level ncurses library
5289 (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
5290 + move version.c from ncurses/base to ncurses/tinfo to allow linking
5291 of tic, etc., using libtinfo (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
5294 + adjust -D's to build ncursesw on OpenBSD.
5295 + modify CF_PROG_EXT to make OS/2 build with EXEEXT.
5296 + add pecho_wchar().
5297 + remove <wctype.h> include from lib_slk_wset.c which is not needed (or
5298 available) on older platforms.
5301 + add -D's to build ncursew on FreeBSD 5.1.
5302 + modify shared library configuration for FreeBSD 4.x/5.x to add the
5303 soname information (request by Marc Glisse).
5304 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() to not use MAX_ALIAS, but PATH_MAX only
5305 for limiting the length of a filename in the terminfo database.
5306 + modify termname() to return the terminal name used by setupterm()
5307 rather than $TERM, without truncating to 14 characters as documented
5308 by X/Open (report by Stanislav Ievlev, cf: 970719).
5309 + re-add definition for _BSD_TYPES, lost in merge (cf: 20031206).
5312 + add configure option --with-manpage-format=catonly to address
5313 behavior of BSDI, allow install of man+cat files on NetBSD, whose
5314 behavior has diverged by requiring both to be present.
5315 + remove leading blanks from comment-lines in manlinks.sed script to
5316 work with Tru64 4.0d.
5317 + add screen.linux terminfo entry (discussion on mutt-users mailing
5321 + add a check for tic to flag missing backslashes for termcap
5322 continuation lines. ncurses reads the whole entry, but termcap
5323 applications do not.
5324 + add configure option "--with-manpage-aliases" extending
5325 "--with-manpage-aliases" to provide the option of generating ".so"
5326 files rather than symbolic links for manpage aliases.
5327 + add bool definition in include/curses.h.in for configurations with no
5328 usable C++ compiler (cf: 20030607).
5329 + fix pathname of SigAction.h for building with --srcdir (reported by
5333 + folded ncurses/base/sigaction.c into includes of ncurses/SigAction.h,
5334 since that header is used only within ncurses/tty/lib_tstp.c, for
5335 non-POSIX systems (discussion with Stanislav Ievlev).
5336 + remove obsolete _nc_outstr() function (report by Stanislav Ievlev
5337 <inger@altlinux.org>).
5338 + add test/background.c and test/color_set.c
5339 + modify color_set() function to work with color pair 0 (report by
5340 George Andreou <gbandreo@tem.uoc.gr>).
5341 + add configure option --with-trace, since defining TRACE seems too
5342 awkward for some cases.
5343 + remove a call to _nc_free_termtype() from read_termtype(), since the
5344 corresponding buffer contents were already zeroed by a memset (cf:
5346 + improve configure check for _XOPEN_SOURCE and related definitions,
5347 adding special cases for Solaris' __EXTENSIONS__ and FreeBSD's
5348 __BSD_TYPES (reports by Marc Glisse <marc.glisse@normalesup.org>).
5349 + small fixes to compile on Solaris and IRIX64 using cc.
5350 + correct typo in check for pre-POSIX sort options in MKkey_defs.sh
5354 + modify _nc_gettime() to avoid a problem with arithmetic on unsigned
5355 values (Philippe Blain).
5356 + improve the nanosleep() logic in napms() by checking for EINTR and
5357 restarting (Philippe Blain).
5358 + correct expression for "%D" in lib_tgoto.c (Juha Jarvi
5362 + add linux-vt terminfo entry (Andrey V Lukyanov <land@long.yar.ru>).
5363 + allow "\|" escape in terminfo; tic should not warn about this.
5364 + save the full pathname of the trace-file the first time it is opened,
5365 to avoid creating it in different directories if the application
5366 opens and closes it while changing its working directory.
5367 + modify configure script to provide a non-empty default for
5371 + add DJGPP to special case of DOS-style drive letters potentially
5372 appearing in TERMCAP environment variable.
5373 + fix some spelling in comments (reports by Jason McIntyre, Jonathon
5375 + update config.guess, config.sub
5378 + fix a memory leak in error-return from setupterm() (report by
5379 Stanislav Ievlev <inger@altlinux.org>).
5380 + use EXEEXT and OBJEXT consistently in makefiles.
5381 + amend fixes for cross-compiling to use separate executable-suffix
5382 BUILD_EXEEXT (cf: 20031018).
5383 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for sort utility that does not
5384 recognize key options, e.g., busybox (report by Peter S Mazinger
5386 + fix potential out-of-bounds indexing in _nc_infotocap() (found by
5387 David Krause using some of the new malloc debugging features
5388 under OpenBSD, patch by Ted Unangst).
5389 + modify CF_LIB_SUFFIX for Itanium releases of HP-UX, which use a
5390 ".so" suffix (patch by Jonathan Ward <Jonathan.Ward@hp.com>).
5393 + update terminfo for xterm-xfree86 -TD
5394 + add check for multiple "tc=" clauses in a termcap to tic.
5395 + check for missing op/oc in tic.
5396 + correct _nc_resolve_uses() and _nc_merge_entry() to allow infocmp and
5397 tic to show cancelled capabilities. These functions were ignoring
5398 the state of the target entry, which should be untouched if cancelled.
5399 + correct comment in tack/output.c (Debian #215806).
5400 + add some null-pointer checks to lib_options.c (report by Michael
5402 + regenerated html documentation.
5403 + correction to tar-copy.sh, remove a trap command that resulted in
5404 leaving temporary files (cf: 20030510).
5405 + remove contact/maintainer addresses for Juergen Pfeifer (his request).
5408 + updated test/configure to reflect changes for libtool (cf: 20030830).
5409 + fix several places in tack/pad.c which tested and used the parameter-
5410 and parameterless strings inconsistently, i.e., in pad_rin(),
5411 pad_il(), pad_indn() and pad_dl() (Debian #215805).
5412 + minor fixes for configure script and makefiles to cleanup executables
5413 generated when cross-compiling for DJGPP.
5414 + modify infocmp to omit check for $TERM for operations that do not
5415 require it, e.g., "infocmp -e" used to build fallback list (report by
5419 + add terminfo entries for DJGPP.
5420 + updated note about maintainer in ncurses-intro.html
5423 + update terminfo entries for gnome terminal.
5424 + modify tack to reset colors after each color test, correct a place
5425 where exit_standout_mode was used instead of exit_attribute_mode.
5426 + improve tack's bce test by making it set colors other than black
5428 + plug a potential recursion between napms() and _nc_timed_wait()
5429 (report by Philippe Blain).
5432 + add --with-rel-version option to allow workaround to allow making
5433 libtool on Darwin generate the "same" library names as with the
5434 --with-shared option. The Darwin ld program does not work well
5435 with a zero as the minor-version value (request by Chris Zubrzycki).
5436 + modify CF_MIXEDCASE_FILENAMES macro to work with cross-compiling.
5437 + modify tack to allow it to run from fallback terminfo data.
5438 > patch by Philippe Blain:
5439 + improve PutRange() by adjusting call to EmitRange() and corresponding
5440 return-value to not emit unchanged characters on the end of the
5442 + improve a check for changed-attribute by exiting a loop when the
5444 + improve logic in TransformLine(), eliminating a duplicated comparison
5445 in the clr_bol logic.
5448 > patch by Philippe Blain:
5449 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
5450 move the label 'nonlocal' just before the second gettimeofday() to
5451 be able to compute the diff time when 'goto nonlocal' used.
5452 Rename 'msec' to 'microsec' in the debug-message.
5453 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
5454 Use _nc_outch() in carriage return/newline movement instead of
5455 putchar() which goes to stdout. Move test for xold>0 out of loop.
5456 + in ncurses/tinfo/setbuf.c,
5457 Set the flag SP->_buffered at the end of operations when all has been
5458 successful (typeMalloc can fail).
5459 + simplify NC_BUFFERED macro by moving check inside _nc_setbuf().
5462 + modify configure script to avoid using "head -1", which does not
5463 work if POSIXLY_CORRECT (sic) is set.
5464 + modify run_tic.in to avoid using wrong shared libraries when
5465 cross-compiling (Dan Kegel).
5468 + alter configure script help message to make it clearer that
5469 --with-build-cc does not specify a cross-compiler (suggested by Dan
5470 Kegel <dank@kegel.com>).
5471 + modify configure script to accommodate libtool 1.5, as well as add an
5472 parameter to the "--with-libtool" option which can specify the
5473 pathname of libtool (report by Chris Zubrzycki). We note that
5474 libtool 1.5 has more than one bug in its C++ support, so it is not
5475 able to install libncurses++, for instance, if $DESTDIR or the option
5476 --with-install-prefix is used.
5479 > patch by Philippe Blain:
5480 + move assignments to SP->_cursrow, SP->_curscol into online_mvcur().
5481 + make baudrate computation in delay_output() consistent with the
5482 assumption in _nc_mvcur_init(), i.e., a byte is 9 bits.
5485 + modify logic in waddch_literal() to take into account zh_TW.Big5
5486 whose multibyte sequences may contain "printable" characters, e.g.,
5487 a "g" in the sequence "\247g" (Debian #204889, cf: 20030621).
5488 + improve storage used by _nc_safe_strcpy() by ensuring that the size
5489 is reset based on the initialization call, in case it were called
5490 after other strcpy/strcat calls (report by Philippe Blain).
5491 > patch by Philippe Blain:
5492 + remove an unused ifdef for REAL_ATTR & WANT_CHAR
5493 + correct a place where _cup_cost was used rather than _cuu_cost
5496 + fix a small memory leak in _nc_free_termtype().
5497 + close trace-file if trace() is called with a zero parameter.
5498 + free memory allocated for soft-key strings, in delscreen().
5499 + fix an allocation size in safe_sprintf.c for the "*" format code.
5500 + correct safe_sprintf.c to not return a null pointer if the format
5501 happens to be an empty string. This applies to the "configure
5502 --enable-safe-sprintf" option (Redhat #101486).
5505 + modify casts used for ABSENT_BOOLEAN and CANCELLED_BOOLEAN (report by
5507 > patch by Philippe Blain:
5508 + change padding for change_scroll_region to not be proportional to
5509 the size of the scroll-region.
5510 + correct error-return in _nc_safe_strcat().
5513 + correct limit-checks in _nc_scroll_window() (report and test-case by
5514 Thomas Graf <graf@dms.at> cf: 20011020).
5515 + re-order configure checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE to avoid conflict with
5519 + use clr_eol in preference to blanks for bce terminals, so select and
5520 paste will have fewer trailing blanks, e.g., when using xterm
5521 (request by Vincent Lefevre).
5522 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
5523 + add configure --with-abi-version option (discussion with Charles
5525 > cygwin changes from Charles Wilson:
5526 + aclocal.m4: on cygwin, use autodetected prefix for import
5527 and static lib, but use "cyg" for DLL.
5528 + include/ncurses_dll.h: correct the comments to reflect current
5529 status of cygwin/mingw port. Fix compiler warning.
5530 + misc/run_tic.in: ensure that tic.exe can find the uninstalled
5531 DLL, by adding the lib-directory to the PATH variable.
5532 + misc/terminfo.src (nxterm|xterm-color): make xterm-color
5533 primary instead of nxterm, to match XFree86's xterm.terminfo
5534 usage and to prevent circular links.
5535 (rxvt): add additional codes from rxvt.org.
5536 (rxvt-color): new alias
5537 (rxvt-xpm): new alias
5538 (rxvt-cygwin): like rxvt, but with special acsc codes.
5539 (rxvt-cygwin-native): ditto. rxvt may be run under XWindows, or
5540 with a "native" MSWin GUI. Each takes different acsc codes,
5541 which are both different from the "normal" rxvt's acsc.
5542 (cygwin): cygwin-in-cmd.exe window. Lots of fixes.
5544 + mk-1st.awk: use "cyg" for the DLL prefix, but "lib" for import
5548 + update config.guess, config.sub
5549 + add triples for configuring shared libraries with the Debian
5550 GNU/FreeBSD packages (patch by Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es>).
5553 + modify CF_GCC_WARNINGS so it only applies to gcc, not g++. Some
5554 platforms have installed g++ along with the native C compiler, which
5555 would not accept gcc warning options.
5556 + add -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 when configuring with --enable-widec, to
5557 get mbstate_t declaration on HPUX 11.11 (report by David Ellement).
5558 + add _nc_pathlast() to get rid of casts in _nc_basename() calls.
5559 + correct a sign-extension in wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() from
5560 20030628 (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
5561 + work around omission of btowc() and wctob() from wide-character
5562 support (sic) in NetBSD 1.6 using mbtowc() and wctomb() (report by
5564 + add portability note to curs_get_wstr.3x (Debian #199957).
5567 + rewrite wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to call waddch() and wechochar()
5568 respectively, to avoid calling waddch_noecho() with wide-character
5569 data, since that function assumes its input is 8-bit data.
5570 Similarly, modify waddnwstr() to call wadd_wch().
5571 + remove logic from waddnstr() which transformed multibyte character
5572 strings into wide-characters. Rewrite of waddch_literal() from
5573 20030621 assumes its input is raw multibyte data rather than wide
5574 characters (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
5577 + write getyx() and related 2-return macros in terms of getcury(),
5579 + modify waddch_literal() in case an application passes bytes of a
5580 multibyte character directly to waddch(). In this case, waddch()
5581 must reassemble the bytes into a wide-character (report by Tomohiro
5582 Kubota <kubota@debian.org>).
5585 + modify waddch_literal() in case a multibyte value occupies more than
5587 + modify PutAttrChar() to compute the number of character cells that
5588 are used in multibyte values. This fixes a problem displaying
5589 double-width characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen
5590 <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
5591 + add a null-pointer check for result of keyname() in _tracechar()
5592 + modify _tracechar() to work around glibc sprintf bug.
5595 + add a call to setlocale() in cursesmain.cc, making demo display
5596 properly in a UTF-8 locale.
5597 + add a fallback definition in curses.priv.h for MB_LEN_MAX (prompted
5598 by discussion with Gabor Z Papp).
5599 + use macros NCURSES_ACS() and NCURSES_WACS() to hide cast needed to
5600 appease -Wchar-subscript with g++ 3.3 (Debian #195732).
5601 + fix a redefinition of $RANLIB in the configure script when libtool
5602 is used, which broke configure on Mac OS X (report by Chris Zubrzycki
5604 + simplify ifdef for bool declaration in curses.h.in (suggested by
5605 Albert Chin-A-Young).
5606 + remove configure script check to allow -Wconversion for older
5607 versions of gcc (suggested by Albert Chin-A-Young).
5610 + regenerated html manpages.
5611 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in that disabled use of __attribute__()
5612 for g++, since recent versions implement the cases which ncurses uses
5614 + modify _nc_get_token() to handle a case where an entry has no
5615 description, and capabilities begin on the same line as the entry
5617 + fix a typo in ncurses_dll.h reported by gcc 3.3.
5618 + add an entry for key_defined.3x to man_db.renames.
5621 + modify setcchar() to allow converting control characters to complex
5622 characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
5623 + add tkterm entry -TD
5624 + modify parse_entry.c to allow a terminfo entry with a leading
5625 2-character name (report by Don Libes).
5626 + corrected acsc in screen.teraterm, which requires a PC-style mapping.
5627 + fix trace statements in read_entry.c to use lseek() rather than
5629 + fix signed/unsigned warnings from Sun's compiler (gcc should give
5630 these warnings, but it is unpredictable).
5631 + modify configure script to omit -Winline for gcc 3.3, since that
5633 + modify manlinks.sed to add a few functions that were overlooked since
5634 they return function pointers: field_init, field_term, form_init,
5635 form_term, item_init, item_term, menu_init and menu_term.
5638 + prevent recursion in wgetch() via wgetnstr() if the connection cannot
5639 be switched between cooked/raw modes because it is not a TTY (report
5640 by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.com>).
5641 + change parameter of define_key() and key_defined() to const (prompted
5643 + add a check in test/configure for ncurses extensions, since there
5644 are some older versions, etc., which would not compile with the
5645 current test programs.
5646 + corrected demo in test/ncurses.c of wgetn_wstr(), which did not
5647 convert wchar_t string to multibyte form before printing it.
5648 + corrections to lib_get_wstr.c:
5649 + null-terminate buffer passed to setcchar(), which occasionally
5651 + map special characters such as erase- and kill-characters into
5652 key-codes so those will work as expected even if they are not
5653 mentioned in the terminfo.
5654 + modify PUTC() and Charable() macros to make wide-character line
5655 drawing work for POSIX locale on Linux console (cf: 20021221).
5658 + make typography for program options in manpages consistent (report
5659 by Miloslav Trmac <mitr@volny.cz>).
5660 + correct dependencies in Ada95/src/Makefile.in, so the builds with
5661 "--srcdir" work (report by Warren L Dodge).
5662 + correct missing definition of $(CC) in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in
5663 (reported by Warren L Dodge <warrend@mdhost.cse.tek.com>).
5664 + fix typos and whitespace in manpages (patch by Jason McIntyre
5665 <jmc@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl>).
5668 + fix form_driver() cases for REQ_CLR_EOF, REQ_CLR_EOL, REQ_DEL_CHAR,
5669 REQ_DEL_PREV and REQ_NEW_LINE, which did not ensure the cursor was at
5670 the editing position before making modifications.
5671 + add test/demo_forms and associated test/edit_field.c demos.
5672 + modify test/configure.in to use test/modules for the list of objects
5673 to compile rather than using the list of programs.
5676 + modify logic of acsc to use the original character if no mapping is
5677 defined, noting that Solaris does this.
5678 + modify ncurses 'b' test to avoid using the acs_map[] array since
5679 20021231 changes it to no longer contain information from the acsc
5681 + modify makefile rules in c++, progs, tack and test to ensure that
5682 the compiler flags (e.g., $CFLAGS or $CCFLAGS) are used in the link
5683 command (report by Jose Luis Rico Botella <informatica@serpis.com>).
5684 + modify soft-key initialization to use A_REVERSE if A_STANDOUT would
5685 not be shown when colors are used, i.e., if ncv#1 is set in the
5686 terminfo as is done in "screen".
5689 + add a test for slk_color(), in ncurses.c
5690 + fix some issues reported by valgrind in the slk_set() and slk_wset()
5691 code, from recent rewrite.
5692 + modify ncurses 'E' test to use show previous label via slk_label(),
5694 + modify wide-character versions of NewChar(), NewChar2() macros to
5695 ensure that the whole struct is initialized.
5698 + modify setupterm() to check if the terminfo and terminal-modes have
5699 already been read. This ensures that it does not reinvoke
5700 def_prog_mode() when an application calls more than one function,
5701 such as tgetent() and initscr() (report by Olaf Buddenhagen).
5704 + add 'E' test to ncurses.c, to exercise slk_wset().
5705 + correct handling of carriage-return in wgetn_wstr(), used in demo of
5707 + first draft of slk_wset() function.
5710 + improved warnings in tic when suppressing items to fit in termcap's
5712 + built a list in test/README showing which externals are being used
5713 by either programs in the test-directory or via internal library
5715 + adjust include-options in CF_ETIP_DEFINES to avoid missing
5716 ncurses_dll.h, fixing special definitions that may be needed for
5717 etip.h (reported by Greg Schafer <gschafer@zip.com.au>).
5720 + minor fixes for cardfile.c, to make it write the updated fields to
5721 a file when ^W is given.
5722 + add/use _nc_trace_bufcat() to eliminate some fixed buffer limits in
5726 + correct a case in _nc_remove_string(), used by define_key(), to avoid
5727 infinite loop if the given string happens to be a substring of other
5728 strings which are assigned to keys (report by John McCutchan).
5729 + add key_defined() function, to tell which keycode a string is bound
5730 to (discussion with John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>).
5731 + correct keybound(), which reported definitions in the wrong table,
5732 i.e., the list of definitions which are disabled by keyok().
5733 + modify demo_keydef.c to show the details it changes, and to check
5737 + restructured test/configure script, make it work for libncursesw.
5738 + add description of link_fieldtype() to manpage (report by
5739 L Dee Holtsclaw <dee@sunbeltsoft.com>).
5742 + corrected ifdef's relating to configure check for wchar_t, etc.
5743 + if the output is a socket or other non-tty device, use 1 millisecond
5744 for the cost in mvcur; previously it was 9 milliseconds because the
5745 baudrate was not known.
5746 + in _nc_get_tty_mode(), initialize the TTY buffer on error, since
5747 glibc copies uninitialized data in that case, as noted by valgrind.
5748 + modify tput to use the same parameter analysis as tparm() does, to
5749 provide for user-defined strings, e.g., for xterm title, a
5750 corresponding capability might be
5752 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to avoid passing "#" tokens through the C
5753 preprocessor. This works around Mac OS X's preprocessor, which
5754 insists on adding a blank on each side of the token (report/analysis
5755 by Kevin Murphy <murphy@genome.chop.edu>).
5758 + add configure check for wchar_t and wint_t types, rather than rely
5759 on preprocessor definitions. Also work around for gcc fixinclude
5760 bug which creates a shadow copy of curses.h if it sees these symbols
5761 apparently typedef'd.
5762 + if database is disabled, do not generate run_tic.sh
5763 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking when termcap is read.
5766 + add checking in tic for incomplete line-drawing character mapping.
5767 + updated configure script to reflect fix for AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL,
5768 which is broken in autoconf 2.5x for Mac OS X 10.2.3 (report by
5769 Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl>).
5770 + make return value from _nc_printf_string() consistent. Before,
5771 depending on whether --enable-safe-sprintf was used, it might not be
5772 cached for reallocating.
5775 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking in lib_tparm.c, hardscroll.c
5776 + correct a potentially-uninitialized value if _read_termtype() does
5777 not read as much data as expected (report by Wolfgang Rohdewald
5779 + correct several places where the aclocal.m4 macros relied on cache
5780 variable names which were incompatible (as usual) between autoconf
5781 2.13 and 2.5x, causing the test for broken-linker to give incorrect
5782 results (reports by Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl> and Thomas Esser
5783 <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de>).
5784 + do not try to open gpm mouse driver if standard output is not a tty;
5785 the gpm library does not make this check (bug report for dialog
5786 by David Oliveira <davidoliveira@develop.prozone.ws>).
5789 + modified emx.src to correspond more closely to terminfo.src, added
5790 emx-base to the latter -TD
5791 + add configure option for FreeBSD sysmouse, --with-sysmouse, and
5792 implement support for that in lib_mouse.c, lib_getch.c
5795 + revert 20030105 change to can_clear_with(), does not work for the
5796 case where the update is made on cells which are blanks with
5797 attributes, e.g., reverse.
5798 + improve ifdef's to guard against redefinition of wchar_t and wint_t
5799 in curses.h (report by Urs Jansen).
5802 + improve mvcur() by checking if it is safe to move when video
5803 attributes are set (msgr), and if not, reset/restore attributes
5804 within that function rather than doing it separately in the GoTo()
5805 function in tty_update.c (suggested by Philippe Blain).
5806 + add a message in run_tic.in to explain more clearly what does not
5807 work when attempting to create a symbolic link for /usr/lib/terminfo
5808 on OS/2 and other platforms with no symbolic links (report by John
5810 + change several sed scripts to avoid using "\+" since it is not a BRE
5811 (basic regular expression). One instance caused terminfo.5 to be
5812 misformatted on FreeBSD (report by Kazuo Horikawa
5813 <horikawa@FreeBSD.org> (see FreeBSD docs/46709)).
5814 + correct misspelled 'wint_t' in curs_get_wch.3x (Michael Elkins).
5817 + improve description of terminfo operators, especially static/dynamic
5818 variables (comments by Mark I Manning IV <mark4th@earthlink.net>).
5819 + demonstrate use of FIELDTYPE by modifying test/ncurses 'r' test to
5820 use the predefined TYPE_ALPHA field-type, and by defining a
5821 specialized type for the middle initial/name.
5822 + fix MKterminfo.sh, another workaround for POSIXLY_CORRECT misfeature
5824 > patch by Philippe Blain:
5825 + optimize can_clear_with() a little by testing first if the parameter
5826 is indeed a "blank".
5827 + simplify ClrBottom() a little by allowing it to use clr_eos to clear
5828 sections as small as one line.
5829 + improve ClrToEOL() by checking if clr_eos is available before trying
5831 + use tputs() rather than putp() in a few cases in tty_update.c since
5832 the corresponding delays are proportional to the number of lines
5833 affected: repeat_char, clr_eos, change_scroll_region.
5836 + rewrite of lib_acs.c conflicts with copying of SCREEN acs_map to/from
5837 global acs_map[] array; removed the lines that did the copying.
5840 + change some overlooked tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp()
5841 (report by Philippe Blain).
5842 + modify lib_getch.c to avoid recursion via wgetnstr() when the input
5843 is not a tty and consequently mode-changes do not work (report by
5844 <R.Chamberlin@querix.com>).
5845 + rewrote lib_acs.c to allow PutAttrChar() to decide how to render
5846 alternate-characters, i.e., to work with Linux console and UTF-8
5848 + correct line/column reference in adjust_window(), needed to make
5849 special windows such as curscr track properly when resizing (report
5850 by Lucas Gonze <lgonze@panix.com>).
5851 > patch by Philippe Blain:
5852 + correct the value used for blank in ClrBottom() (broken in 20000708).
5853 + correct an off-by-one in GoTo() parameter in _nc_scrolln().
5856 + change several tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp(), to
5857 enable padding which may be needed for some terminals (patch by
5859 + use '%' as sed substitute delimiter in run_tic script to avoid
5860 problems with pathname delimiters such as ':' and '@' (report by John
5862 + implement a workaround so that line-drawing works with screen's
5863 crippled UTF-8 support (tested with 3.9.13). This only works with
5864 the wide-character support (--enable-widec); the normal library will
5865 simply suppress line-drawing when running in a UTF-8 locale in screen.
5868 + allow BUILD_CC and related configure script variables to be
5869 overridden from the environment.
5870 + make build-tools variables in ncurses/Makefile.in consistent with
5871 the configure script variables (report by Maciej W Rozycki).
5872 + modify ncurses/modules to allow
5873 configure --disable-leaks --disable-ext-funcs
5874 to build (report by Gary Samuelson).
5875 + fix a few places in configure.in which lacked quotes (report by
5876 Gary Samuelson <gary.samuelson@verizon.com>).
5877 + correct handling of multibyte characters in waddch_literal() which
5878 force wrapping because they are started too late on the line (report
5879 by Sam Varshavchik).
5880 + small fix for CF_GNAT_VERSION to ignore the help-message which
5881 gnatmake adds to its version-message.
5882 > Maciej W Rozycki <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>:
5883 + use AC_CHECK_TOOL to get proper values for AR and LD for cross
5885 + use $cross_compiling variable in configure script rather than
5886 comparing $host_alias and $target alias, since "host" is
5887 traditionally misused in autoconf to refer to the target platform.
5888 + change configure --help message to use "build" rather than "host"
5889 when referring to the --with-build-XXX options.
5892 + modify CF_GNAT_VERSION to print gnatmake's version, and to allow for
5893 possible gnat versions such as 3.2 (report by Chris Lingard
5894 <chris@stockwith.co.uk>).
5895 + modify #define's for CKILL and other default control characters in
5896 tset to use the system's default values if they are defined.
5897 + correct interchanged defaults for kill and interrupt characters
5898 in tset, which caused it to report unnecessarily (Debian #171583).
5899 + repair check for missing C++ compiler, which is broken in autoconf
5900 2.5x by hardcoding it to g++ (report by Martin Mokrejs).
5901 + update config.guess, config.sub (2002-11-30)
5902 + modify configure script to skip --with-shared, etc., when the
5903 --with-libtool option is given, since they would be ignored anyway.
5904 + fix to allow "configure --with-libtool --with-termlib" to build.
5905 + modify configure script to show version number of libtool, to help
5906 with bug reports. libtool still gets confused if the installed
5907 ncurses libraries are old, since it ignores the -L options at some
5908 point (tested with libtool 1.3.3 and 1.4.3).
5909 + reorder configure script's updating of $CPPFLAGS and $CFLAGS to
5910 prevent -I options in the user's environment from introducing
5911 conflicts with the build -I options (may be related to reports by
5912 Patrick Ash and George Goffe).
5913 + rename test/define_key.c to test/demo_defkey.c, test/keyok.c to
5914 test/demo_keyok.c to allow building these with libtool.
5917 + add example program test/define_key.c for define_key().
5918 + add example program test/keyok.c for keyok().
5919 + add example program test/ins_wide.c for wins_wch() and wins_wstr().
5920 + modify wins_wch() and wins_wstr() to interpret tabs by using the
5921 winsch() internal function.
5922 + modify setcchar() to allow for wchar_t input strings that have
5923 more than one spacing character.
5926 + fix a boundary check in lib_insch.c (patch by Philippe Blain).
5927 + change type for *printw functions from NCURSES_CONST to const
5928 (prompted by comment by Pedro Palhoto Matos <plpm@mega.ist.utl.pt>,
5929 but really from a note on X/Open's website stating that either is
5930 acceptable, and the latter will be used in a future revision).
5931 + add xterm-1002, xterm-1003 terminfo entries to demonstrate changes in
5932 lib_mouse.c (20021026) -TD
5933 + add screen-bce, screen-s entries from screen 3.9.13 (report by
5934 Adam Lazur <zal@debian.org>) -TD
5935 + add mterm terminfo entries -TD
5938 + split-out useful fragments in terminfo for vt100 and vt220 numeric
5939 keypad, i.e., vt100+keypad, vt100+pfkeys, vt100+fnkeys and
5940 vt220+keypad. The last as embedded in various entries had ka3 and
5941 kb2 interchanged (report/discussion with Leonard den Ottolander
5942 <leonardjo@hetnet.nl>).
5943 + add check in tic for keypads consistent with vt100 layout.
5944 + improve checks in tic for color capabilities
5947 + check for missing/empty/illegal terminfo name in _nc_read_entry()
5948 (report by Martin Mokrejs, where $TERM was set to an empty string).
5949 + rewrote lib_insch.c, combining it with lib_insstr.c so both handle
5950 tab and other control characters consistently (report by Philippe
5952 + remove an #undef for KEY_EVENT from curses.tail used in the
5953 experimental NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS feature. The #undef confuses
5954 dpkg's build script (Debian #165897).
5955 + fix MKlib_gen.sh, working around the ironically named POSIXLY_CORRECT
5956 feature of GNU sed 4.0 (reported by Ervin Nemeth <airwin@inf.bme.hu>).
5959 + implement logic in lib_mouse.c to handle position reports which are
5960 generated when XFree86 xterm is initialized with private modes 1002
5961 or 1003. These are returned to the application as the
5962 REPORT_MOUSE_POSITION mask, which was not implemented. Tested both
5963 with ncurses 'a' menu (prompted by discussion with Larry Riedel
5964 <Larry@Riedel.org>).
5965 + modify lib_mouse.c to look for "XM" terminfo string, which allows
5966 one to override the escape sequence used to enable/disable mouse
5967 mode. In particular this works for XFree86 xterm private modes
5968 1002 and 1003. If "XM" is missing (note that this is an extended
5969 name), lib_mouse uses the conventional private mode 1000.
5970 + correct NOT_LOCAL() macro in lib_mvcur.c to refer to screen_columns
5971 where it used screen_lines (report by Philippe Blain).
5972 + correct makefile rules for the case when both --with-libtool and
5973 --with-gpm are given (report by Mr E_T <troll@logi.net.au>).
5974 + add note to terminfo manpage regarding the differences between
5975 setaf/setab and setf/setb capabilities (report by Pavel Roskin).
5978 + remove redundant initialization of TABSIZE in newterm(), since it is
5979 already done in setupterm() (report by Philippe Blain).
5980 + add test/inserts.c, to test winnstr() and winsch().
5981 + replace 'sort' in dist.mk with script that sets locale to POSIX.
5982 + update URLs in announce.html.in (patch by Frederic L W Meunier).
5983 + remove glibc add-on files, which are no longer needed (report by
5984 Frederic L W Meunier).
5986 20021012 5.3 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
5987 + modify ifdef's in etip.h.in to allow the etip.h header to compile
5988 with gcc 3.2 (patch by Dimitar Zhekov <jimmy@is-vn.bg>).
5989 + add logic to setupterm() to make it like initscr() and newterm(),
5990 by checking for $NCURSES_TRACE environment variable and enabling
5991 the debug trace in that case.
5992 + modify setupterm() to ensure that it initializes the baudrate, for
5993 applications such as tput (report by Frank Henigman).
5994 + modify definition of bits used for command-line and library debug
5995 traces to avoid overlap, using new definition TRACE_SHIFT to relate
5997 + document tput's interpretation of parameterized strings according to
5998 whether parameters are given, etc. (discussion with Robert De Bath).
6000 20021005 pre-release
6001 + correct winnwstr() to account for non-character cells generated when
6002 a double-width character is added (report by Michael Bienia
6003 <michael@vorlon.ping.de>).
6004 + modify _nc_viswbuf2n() to provide better results using wctomb().
6005 + correct logic in _nc_varargs() which broke tracing of parameters for
6006 formats such as "%.*s".
6007 + correct scale factor in linux-c and linux-c-nc terminfo entries
6008 (report Floyd Davidson).
6009 + change tic -A option to -t, add the same option to infocmp for
6011 + correct "%c" implementation in lib_tparm.c, which did not map a null
6012 character to a 128 (cf: 980620) (patch by Frank Henigman
6013 <fjhenigman@mud.cgl.uwaterloo.ca>).
6015 20020928 pre-release
6016 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for POSIX sort -k option, use that if
6017 it is found, to accommodate newer utility which dropped the
6018 compatibility support for +number options (reported by Andrey A
6020 + modify linux terminfo entry to use color palette feature from
6021 linux-c-nc entry (comments by Tomasz Wasiak and Floyd Davidson).
6022 + restore original color definitions in endwin() if init_color() was
6023 used, and resume those colors on the next doupdate() or refresh()
6024 (report by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@komputom.com.pl>).
6025 + improve debug-traces by modifying MKlib_gen.sh to generate calls
6026 to returnBool() and returnAttr().
6027 + add/use _nc_visbufn() and _nc_viswbufn() to limit the debug trace
6028 of waddnstr() and similar functions to match the parameters as used.
6029 + add/use _nc_retrace_bool() and _nc_retrace_unsigned().
6030 + correct type used by _nc_retrace_chtype().
6031 + add debug traces to some functions in lib_mouse.c
6032 + modify lib_addch.c to handle non-spacing characters.
6033 + correct parameter of RemAttr() in lib_bkgd.c, which caused the c++
6034 demo's boxes to lose the A_ALTCHARSET flag (broken in 20020629).
6035 + correct width computed in _tracedump(), which did not account for
6036 the attributes (broken in 20010602).
6037 + modify test/tracemunch to replace addresses for windows other than
6038 curscr, newscr and stdscr with window0, window1, etc.
6040 20020921 pre-release
6041 + redid fix for edit_man.sed path.
6042 + workaround for Cygwin bug which makes subprocess writes to stdout
6043 result in core dump.
6044 + documented getbegx(), etc.
6045 + minor fixes to configure script to use '%' consistently as a sed
6046 delimiter rather than '@'.
6047 > patch by Philippe Blain:
6048 + add check in lib_overlay.c to ensure that the windows to be merged
6049 actually overlap, and in copywin(), limit the area to be touched
6050 to the lines given for the destination window.
6052 20020914 pre-release
6053 + modified curses.h so that if the wide-character version is installed
6054 overwriting /usr/include/curses.h, and if it relied on libutf8.h,
6055 then applications that use that header for wide-character support
6056 must define HAVE_LIBUTF8_H.
6057 + modify putwin(), getwin() and dupwin() to allow them to operate on
6058 pads (request by Philippe Blain).
6059 + correct attribute-merging in wborder(), broken in 20020216 (report
6060 by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@grubasek.komputom.com.pl>).
6061 > patch by Philippe Blain:
6062 + corrected pop-counts in tparam_internal() to '!' and '~' cases.
6063 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in one place that used sizeof(chtype).
6064 + remove some unused variables from mvcur test-driver.
6066 20020907 pre-release
6067 + change configure script to allow install of widec-character
6068 (ncursesw) headers to overwrite normal (ncurses) headers, since the
6069 latter is a compatible subset of the former.
6070 + fix path of edit_man.sed in configure script, needed to regenerate
6071 html manpages on Debian.
6072 + fix mismatched enums in vsscanf.c, which caused warning on Solaris.
6073 + update README.emx to reflect current patch used for autoconf.
6074 + change web- and ftp-site to invisible-island.net
6075 > patch by Philippe Blain:
6076 + change case for 'P' in tparam_internal() to indicate that it pops
6077 a variable from the stack.
6078 + correct sense of precision and width in parse_format(), to avoid
6080 + modify lib_tparm.c, absorb really_get_space() into get_space().
6081 + modify getwin() and dupwin() to copy the _notimeout, _idlok and
6082 _idcok window fields.
6083 + better fix for _nc_set_type(), using typeMalloc().
6085 20020901 pre-release
6086 + change minor version to 3, i.e., ncurses 5.3
6087 + update config.guess, config.sub
6088 + retest build with each configure option; minor ifdef fixes.
6089 + make keyname() return a null pointer rather than "UNKNOWN STRING" to
6091 + modify handling of wide line-drawing character functions to use the
6092 normal line-drawing characters when not in UTF-8 locale.
6093 + add check/fix to comp_parse.c to suppress warning about missing acsc
6094 string. This happens in configurations where raw termcap information
6095 is processed; tic already does this and other checks.
6096 + modify tic's check for ich/ich1 versus rmir/smir to only warn about
6097 ich1, to match xterm patch #70 notes.
6098 + moved information for ripped-off lines into SCREEN struct to allow
6099 use in resizeterm().
6100 + add experimental wgetch_events(), ifdef'd with NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS
6101 (adapted from patch by Ilya Zakharevich - see ncurses/README.IZ).
6102 + amend check in kgetch() from 20020824 to look only for function-keys,
6103 otherwise escape sequences are not resolved properly.
6104 > patch by Philippe Blain:
6105 + removed redundant assignment to SP->_checkfd from newterm().
6106 + check return-value of setupterm() in restartterm().
6107 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in a few places that used sizeof(chtype).
6108 + prevent dupwin() from duplicating a pad.
6109 + prevent putwin() from writing a pad.
6110 + use typeRealloc() or typeMalloc() in preference to direct calls on
6114 + add a check in kgetch() for cooked characters in the fifo to avoid
6115 calling fifo_push() when a KEY_RESIZE is available (report/analysis
6116 by Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>).
6117 + fix an overlooked case for Redhat #68199 (Philippe Blain).
6118 + ensure clearerr() is called before using ferror() e.g., in
6119 lib_screen.c (report by Philippe Blain).
6122 + modify lib_screen.c and lib_newwin.c to maintain the SCREEN-specific
6123 pointers for curscr/stdscr/newscr when scr_save() and scr_restore()
6124 modify the global curscr/stdscr/newscr variables. Fixes Redhat
6126 + add checks for null pointer in calls to tparm() and tgoto() based on
6127 FreeBSD bug report. If ncurses were built with termcap support, and
6128 the first call to tgoto() were a zero-length string, the result would
6129 be a null pointer, which was not handled properly.
6130 + correct a typo in terminfo.head, which gave the octal code for colon
6132 + remove the "tic -u" option from 20020810, since it did not account
6133 for nested "tc=" clauses, and when that was addressed, was still
6137 + add tic -A option to suppress capabilities which are commented out
6138 when translating to termcap.
6139 + add tic -u option to provide older behavior of "tc=" clauses.
6140 + modified tic to expand all but the final "tc=" clause in a termcap
6141 entry, to accommodate termcap libraries which do not handle multiple
6143 + correct typo in curs_inopts.3x regarding CS8/CS7 usage (report by
6145 + remove a couple of redundant uses of A_ATTRIBUTES in expressions
6146 using AttrOf(), which already incorporates that mask (report by
6148 + document TABSIZE variable.
6149 + add NCURSES_ASSUMED_COLORS environment variable, to allow users to
6150 override compiled-in default black-on-white assumption used in
6151 assume_default_colors().
6152 + correct an off-by-one comparison against max_colors in COLORFGBG
6154 + correct a use of uninitialized memory found by valgrind (reported by
6155 Olaf Buddenhagen <olafBuddenhagen@web.de>).
6156 + modified wresize() to ensure that a failed realloc will not corrupt
6157 the window structure, and to make subwindows fit within the resized
6158 window (completes Debian #87678, Debian #101699)
6161 + fix an off-by-one in lib_pad.c check for limits of pad (patch by
6163 + revise logic for BeOS in lib_twait.c altered in 20011013 to restore
6164 logic used by lib_getch.c's support for GPM or EMX mouse (report by
6166 + remove NCURSES_CONST from several prototypes in curses.wide, to make
6167 the --enable-const --enable-widec configure options to work together
6168 (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@yahoo.com>).
6171 + finish no-leak checking in cardfile.c, using this for testing changes
6173 + simplify _nc_freeall() using delscreen().
6176 + check error-return from _nc_set_tty_mode() in _nc_initscr() and
6177 reset_prog_mode() (report/patch by Philippe Blain).
6178 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52, to address
6179 problem with identifying C++ bool type.
6180 + correct/improve logic to produce an exit status for errors in tput,
6181 which did not exit with an error when told to put a string not in the
6182 current terminfo entry (report by David Gomez <david@pleyades.net>).
6183 + modify configure script AC_OUTPUT() call to work around defect in
6184 autoconf 2.52 which adds an ifdef'd include to the generated
6185 configure definitions.
6186 + remove fstat() check from scr_init(), which also fixes a missing
6187 include for <sys/stat.h> from 20020713 (reported by David Ellement,
6188 fix suggested by Philippe Blain).
6189 + update curs_scanw.3x manpage to note that XSI curses differs from
6190 SVr4 curses: return-values are incompatible.
6191 + correct several prototypes in manpages which used const
6192 inconsistently with the curses.h file, and removed spurious const's
6193 in a few places from curses.h, e.g., for wbkgd() (report by Glenn
6194 Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>).
6195 + change internal type used by tparm() to long, to work with LP64 model.
6196 + modify nc_alloc.h to allow building with g++, for testing.
6199 + add resize-handling to cardfile.c test program.
6200 + altered resizeterm() to avoid having it fail when a child window
6201 cannot be resized because it would be larger than its parent. (More
6202 work must be done on this, but it works well enough to integrate).
6203 + improve a limit-check in lib_refresh.c
6204 + remove check in lib_screen.c relating dumptime to file's modification
6205 times, since that would not necessarily work for remotely mounted
6207 + modify lrtest to simplify debugging changes to resizeterm, e.g.,
6208 t/T commands to enable/disable tracing.
6209 + updated status of multibyte support in TO-DO.
6210 + update contact info in source-files (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
6213 + add Caps.hpux11, as an example.
6214 + modify version_filter(), used to implement -R option for tic and
6215 infocmp, to use computed array offsets based on the Caps.* file which
6216 is actually configured, rather than constants which correspond to
6218 + reorganized lib_raw.c to avoid updating SP and cur_term state if the
6219 functions fail (reported by Philippe Blain).
6220 + add -Wundef to gcc warnings, adjust a few ifdef's to accommodate gcc.
6223 + correct parameters to setcchar() in ncurses.c (cf: 20020406).
6224 + set locale in most test programs (view.c and ncurses.c were the
6226 + add configure option --with-build-cppflags (report by Maksim A
6227 Nikulin <M.A.Nikulin@inp.nsk.su>).
6228 + correct a typo in wide-character logic for lib_bkgnd.c (Philippe
6230 + modify lib_wacs.c to not cancel the acsc, smacs, rmacs strings when
6231 in UTF-8 locale. Wide-character functions use Unicode values, while
6232 narrow-character functions use the terminfo data.
6233 + fix a couple of places in Ada95/samples which did not compile with
6235 + modify mkinstalldirs so the DOS-pathname case is locale-independent.
6236 + fix locale problem in MKlib_gen.sh by forcing related variables to
6237 POSIX (C), using same approach as autoconf (set variables only if
6238 they were set before). Update MKterminfo.sh and MKtermsort.sh to
6242 + add charset to generated html.
6243 + add mvterm entry, adapted from a FreeBSD bug-report by Daniel Rudy
6244 <dcrudy@pacbell.net> -TD
6245 + add rxvt-16color, ibm+16color entries -TD
6246 + modify check in --disable-overwrite option so that it is used by
6247 default unless the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr, in attempt to
6248 work around packagers, e.g., for Sun's freeware, who do not read the
6252 + modify wgetch() to allow returning ungetch'd KEY_RESIZE as a function
6253 key code in get_wch().
6254 + extended resize-handling in test/ncurses 'a' menu to the entire
6255 stack of windows created with 'w' commands.
6256 + improve $COLORFGBG feature by interpreting an out-of-range color
6257 value as an SGR 39 or 49, for foreground/background respectively.
6258 + correct a typo in configure --enable-colorfgbg option, and move it
6259 to the experimental section (cf: 20011208).
6262 + add logic to dump_entry.c to remove function-key definitions that do
6263 not fit into the 1023-byte limit for generated termcaps. This makes
6265 + more improvements to tic's warnings, including logic to ignore
6266 differences between delay values in sgr strings.
6267 + move definition of KEY_RESIZE into MKkeydefs.sh script, to
6268 accommodate Caps.osf1r5 which introduced a conflicting definition.
6271 + add simple resize-handling in test/ncurses.c 'a' menu.
6272 + fixes in keyname() and _tracechar() to handle negative values.
6273 + make tic's warnings about mismatches in sgr strings easier to follow.
6274 + correct tic checks for number of parameters in smgbp and smglp.
6275 + improve scoansi terminfo entry, and add scoansi-new entry -TD
6276 + add pcvt25-color terminfo entry -TD
6277 + add kf13-kf48 strings to cons25w terminfo entry (reported by Stephen
6278 Hurd <deuce@lordlegacy.org> in newsgroup lucky.freebsd.bugs) -TD
6279 + add entrypoint _nc_trace_ttymode(), use this to distinguish the
6280 Ottyb and Nttyb members of terminal (aka cur_term), for tracing.
6283 + correct and simplify logic for lib_pad.c change in 20020518 (reported
6287 + fix lib_pad.c for case of drawing a double-width character which
6288 falls off the left margin of the pad (patch by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij
6289 <lerdsuwa@users.sourceforge.net>)
6290 + modify configure script to work around broken gcc 3.1 "--version"
6291 option, which adds unnecessary trash to the requested information.
6292 + adjust ifdef's in case SIGWINCH is not defined, e.g., with DJGPP
6293 (reported by Ben Decker <deckerben@freenet.de>).
6296 + implement vid_puts(), vid_attr(), term_attrs() based on the narrow-
6297 character versions as well.
6298 + implement erasewchar(), killwchar() based on erasechar() and
6300 + modify erasechar() and killchar() to return ERR if the value was
6302 + correct a bug in wresize() in handling subwindows (based on patch by
6303 Roger Gammans <rgammans@computer-surgery.co.uk>, report by Scott Beck
6304 <scott@gossamer-threads.com>).
6305 + improve test/tclock.c by making the second-hand update more often
6306 if gettimeofday() is available.
6309 + workaround for Solaris sed with MKlib_gen.sh (reported by Andy
6310 Tsouladze <andyt@mypoints.com>).
6313 + correct return-value from getcchar(), making it consistent with
6315 + reorder loops that generate makefile rules for different models vs
6316 subsets so configure --with-termlib works again. This was broken by
6317 logic added to avoid duplicate rules in changes to accommodate cygwin
6318 dll's (reported by George.R.Goffe@seagate.com).
6319 + update config.guess, config.sub
6322 + modify ifdef's in write_entry.c to allow use of symbolic links on
6323 platforms with no hard links, e.g., BeOS.
6324 + modify a few includes to allow compile with BeOS, which has stdbool.h
6325 with a conflicting definition for 'bool' versus its OS.h definition.
6326 + amend MKlib_gen.sh to work with gawk, which defines 'func' as an
6327 alias for 'function'.
6330 + correct form of prototype for ripoffline().
6331 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to test that all functions marked as implemented
6335 + add manpages: curs_get_wstr.3x, curs_in_wchstr.3x
6336 + implement wgetn_wstr().
6337 + implement win_wchnstr().
6338 + remove redefinition of unget_wch() in lib_gen.c (reported by
6339 Jungshik Shin <jshin@jtan.com>).
6342 + modified several of the test programs to allow them to compile with
6343 vendor curses implementations, e.g., Solaris, AIX -TD
6346 + modified test/configure to allow configuring against ncursesw.
6347 + change WACS_xxx definition to use address, to work like Tru64 curses.
6350 + add 'e' and 'm' toggles to 'a', 'A' tests in ncurses.c to demonstrate
6351 effect of echo/noecho and meta modes.
6352 + add 'A' test to ncurses.c to demonstrate wget_wch() and related
6354 + add manpage: curs_get_wch.3x
6355 + implement unget_wch().
6356 + implement wget_wch().
6359 + regenerated html manpages.
6360 + add manpages: curs_in_wch.3x, curs_ins_wch.3x, curs_ins_wstr.3x
6361 + implement wins_wch().
6362 + implement win_wch().
6363 + implement wins_nwstr(), wins_wstr().
6366 + add manpages: curs_addwstr.3x, curs_winwstr.3x
6367 + implement winnwstr(), winwstr().
6370 + add manpages: curs_add_wchstr.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x
6371 + document wunctrl, key_name.
6372 + implement key_name().
6373 + remove const's in lib_box.c incorrectly leftover after splitting off
6375 + update llib-lncurses, llib-ncursesw, fix configure script related to
6379 + remove quotes on "SYNOPSIS" in man/curs_box_set.3x, which resulted
6380 in spurious symlinks on install.
6383 + implement whline_set(), wvline_set(), add manpage curs_border_set.
6384 + add subtest 'b' to 'F' and 'f' in ncurses.c to demonstrate use of
6385 box() and box_set() functions.
6386 + add subtest 'u' to 'F' in ncurses.c, to demonstrate use of addstr()
6387 given UTF-8 string equivalents of WACS_xxx symbols.
6388 + minor fixes to several manpages based on groff -ww output.
6389 + add descriptions of external variables of termcap interface to
6390 the manpage (report by Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>).
6391 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
6392 + correct configure option --with-bool, which was executed as
6394 + add quotes for parameters of --with-bool and --with-ospeed configure
6396 > patch by Sven Verdoolaege (report by Gerhard Haering
6397 <haering_linux@gmx.de>):
6398 + correct typos in definitions of several wide-character macros:
6399 waddwstr, wgetbkgrnd, mvaddwstr, mvwadd_wchnstr, mvwadd_wchnstr,
6401 + pass $(CPPFLAGS) to MKlib_gen.sh, thereby fixing a missing definition
6402 of _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, e.g., on Solaris
6405 + implement wide-acs characters for UTF-8 locales. When in UTF-8
6406 locale, ignore narrow version of acs. Add 'F' test to test/ncurses.c
6408 + correct prototype in keybound manpage (noted from a Debian mailing
6412 + add several cases to the wscanw() example in testcurs.c, showing the
6414 + implement a simple vsscanf() fallback function which uses the %n
6415 conversion to help parse the input data (prompted by discussion with
6416 Albert Chin-A-Young).
6417 + modify mk-1st.awk and test/Makefile.in to add $(LDFLAGS) when making
6418 shared libraries, and to use $(CFLAGS) when linking test programs
6419 (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
6420 + add a call to _nc_keypad() in keypad() to accommodate applications
6421 such as nvi, which use curses for output but not for input (fixes
6422 Debian #131263, cf: 20011215).
6423 + add entrypoints to resizeterm.c which provide better control over the
6424 process: is_term_resized() and resize_term(). The latter restores
6425 the original design of resizeterm() before KEY_RESIZE was added in
6426 970906. Do this to accommodate 20010922 changes to view.c, but allow
6427 for programs with their own sigwinch handler, such as lynx (reported
6428 by Russell Ruby <russ@math.orst.edu>).
6431 + fix a typo in change to mk-1st.awk, which broke the shared-library
6432 makefile rules (reported by Martin Mokrejs).
6435 + update config.guess, config.sub
6436 + finish changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
6437 + fix a typo in mvwchat() macro (reported by Cy <yam@homerow.net).
6440 + add case in lib_baudrate.c for B921600 (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
6441 + correct missing sed-editing stage in manpage installs which is used
6442 to rename manpages, broken in 20010324 fix for Debian #89939 (Debian
6444 + remove -L$(libdir) from linker flags, probably not needed any more
6445 since HPUX is handled properly (reported by Niibe Yutaka
6447 + add configure check for mbstate_t, needed for wide-character
6448 configuration. On some platforms we must include <wchar.h> to
6449 define this (reported by Daniel Jacobowitz).
6450 + incorporate some of the changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
6453 + workaround for awk did not work with mawk, adjusted shell script.
6456 + add Caps.osf1r5, as an example.
6457 + modify behavior of can_clear_with() so that if an application is
6458 running in a non-bce terminals with default colors enabled, it
6459 returns true, allowing the user to select/paste text without picking
6460 up extraneous trailing blanks (adapted from patch by Daniel
6461 Jacobowitz <dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu>).
6462 + modify generated curses.h to ifdef-out prototypes for extensions if
6463 they are disabled, and to define curses_version() as a string in that
6464 case. This is needed to make the programs such as tic build in that
6466 + modified generated headers.sh to remove a gzip'd version of the
6467 target file if it exists, in case non-gzip'd manpages are installed
6468 into a directory where gzip'd ones exist. In that case, the latter
6470 + corrected a redundant initialization of signal handlers from 20010922
6472 + clarified bug-reporting address in terminfo.src (report by John H
6473 DuBois III <spcecdt@armory.com>).
6474 > several fixes from Robert Joop:
6475 + do not use "-v" option of awk in MKkey_defs.sh because it does not
6476 work with SunOS nawk.
6477 + modify definitions for libutf8 in curses.h to avoid redefinition
6479 + quoted references to compiler in shell command in misc/Makefile, in
6480 case it uses multiple tokens.
6483 + restore special case from 20010922 changes to omit SA_RESTART when
6484 setting up SIGWINCH handler, which is needed to allow wgetch() to be
6485 interrupted by that signal.
6486 + updated configure macro CF_WITH_PATHLIST, to omit some double quotes
6487 not needed with autoconf 2.52
6488 + revert configure script to autoconf 2.13 patched with
6489 autoconf-2.13-19990117.patch.gz (or later)
6491 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
6492 because autoconf 2.52 macro AC_PROG_AWK does not work on HPUX 11.0
6493 (report by David Ellement <ellement@sdd.hp.com>). This also fixes a
6494 different problem configuring with Mac OS X (reported by Marc Smith
6495 <marc.a.smith@home.com>).
6498 + modify include/edit_cfg.h to eliminate BROKEN_LINKER symbol from
6500 + move prototype for _nc_vsscanf() into curses.h.in to omit
6501 HAVE_VSSCANF symbol from curses.h, which was dependent upon the
6502 ncurses_cfg.h file which is not installed.
6503 + use ACS_LEN rather than SIZEOF(acs_map) in trace code of lib_acs.c,
6504 to work with broken linker configuration, e.g., cygwin (report by
6505 Robert Joop <rj@rainbow.in-berlin.de>).
6506 + make napms() call _nc_timed_wait() rather than poll() or select(),
6507 to work around broken implementations of these on cygwin.
6510 + drop configure macro CF_WIDEC_SHIFT, since that was rendered obsolete
6511 by Sven Verdoolaege's rewrite of wide-character support. This makes
6512 libncursesw incompatible again, but makes the header files almost the
6513 same as in the narrow-character configuration.
6514 + simplify definitions that combine wide/narrow versions of bkgd, etc.,
6515 to eliminate differences between the wide/narrow versions of curses.h
6516 + correct typo in configure macro CF_FUNC_VSSCANF
6517 + correct location of call to _nc_keypad() from 20011215 changes which
6518 prevented keypad() from being disabled (reported by Lars Hecking).
6521 + rewrote ncurses 'a' test to exercise wgetch() and keypad() functions
6522 better, e.g., by adding a 'w' command to create new windows which
6523 may have different keypad() settings.
6524 + corrected logic of keypad() by adding internal screen state to track
6525 whether the terminal's keypad-mode has been set. Use this in
6526 wgetch() to update the keypad-mode according to whether the
6527 associated window's keypad-mode has been set with keypad(). This
6528 corrects a related problem restoring terminal state after handling
6529 SIGTSTP (reported by Mike Castle).
6530 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52
6531 autoconf-2.52-patch.gz
6533 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
6534 + update config.guess, config.sub from
6535 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
6536 + minor changes to quoting in configure script to allow it to work
6540 + modify final checks in lib_setup.c for line and col values, making
6542 + modify acs_map[] if configure --broken-linker is specified, to make
6543 it use a function rather than an array (prompted by an incorrect
6544 implementation in cygwin package).
6545 + correct spelling of configure option --enable-colorfgbg, which
6546 happened to work if --with-develop was set (noted in cygwin package
6548 + modify ifdef for genericerror() to compile with SUNWspro Sun WorkShop
6549 6 update 1 C++ 5.2 (patch by Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu>).
6550 + add configure checks to see if ncurses' fallback vsscanf() will
6551 compile either of the special cases for FILE structs, and if not,
6552 force it to the case which simply returns an error (report by
6553 Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu> indicates that Solaris 8 with
6554 64-bits does not allow access to FILE's fields).
6555 + modify ifdef's for c++/cursesw.cc to use the fallback vsscanf() in
6556 the ncurses library if no better substitute for this can be found
6558 + modify the build to name dynamic libraries according to the
6559 convention used on OS X and Darwin. Rather than something like
6560 libncurses.dylib.5.2, Darwin would name it libncurses. 5.dylib.
6561 There are a few additional minor fixes, such as setting the library
6562 version and compatibility version numbers (patch by Jason Evans
6563 <jevans@apple.com>).
6564 + use 'sh' to run mkinstalldirs, to work around problems with buggy
6565 versions of 'make' on OS/2 (report by John Polterak <jp@eyup.org>).
6566 + correct typo in manpage description of curs_set() (Debian #121548).
6567 + replace the configure script existence-check for mkstemp() by one
6568 that checks if the function works, needed for older glibc and
6572 + modify script that generates fallbacks.c to compile a temporary
6573 copy of the terminfo source in case the host does not contain all of
6574 the entries requested for fallbacks (request by Greg Roelofs).
6575 + modify configure script to accommodate systems such as Mac OS X whose
6576 <stdbool.h> header defines a 'bool' type inconsistent with ncurses,
6577 which normally makes 'bool' consistent with C++. Include <stdbool.h>
6578 from curses.h to force consistent usage, define a new type
6579 NCURSES_BOOL and related that to the exported 'bool' as either a
6580 typedef or definition, according to whether <stdbool.h> is present
6581 (based on a bug report for tin 1.5.9 by Aaron Adams <adamsa@mac.com>).
6584 + added/updated terminfo entries for M$ telnet and KDE konsole -TD
6587 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
6588 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
6589 + add putty terminfo entry -TD
6590 + if configuring for wide-curses, define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, since
6591 this may not otherwise be defined to make test/view.c compile.
6594 + review/correct several missing/generated items in curses.wide, sorted
6595 the lists to make subsequent diff's easier to track.
6598 + add manual pages for add_wch(), echo_wchar(), getcchar(),
6599 mvadd_wch(), mvwadd_wch(), setcchar(), wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar().
6600 + implement wecho_wchar()
6601 + modify _tracedump() to handle wide-characters by mapping them to '?'
6602 and control-characters to '.', to make the trace file readable. Also
6603 dynamically allocate the buffer used by _tracedump() for formatting
6605 + modify T_CALLED/T_RETURN macros to ease balancing call/return lines
6606 in a trace by using curly braces.
6607 + implement _nc_viscbuf(), for tracing cchar_t arrays.
6608 + correct trace-calls in setcchar() and getcchar() functions, which
6609 traced the return values but not the entry to each function.
6610 + correct usage message in test/view.c, which still mentioned -u flag.
6613 + modify configure script to allow building with termcap only, or with
6614 fallbacks only. In this case, we do not build tic and toe.
6615 + add configure --with-termpath option, to override default TERMPATH
6616 value of /etc/termcap:/usr/share/misc/termcap.
6617 + cosmetic change to tack: make menu descriptions agree with menu
6621 + rewrote limit-checks in wscrl() and associated _nc_scroll_window(),
6622 to ensure that if the parameter of wscrl() is larger than the size of
6623 the scrolling region, then the scrolling region will be cleared
6624 (report by Ben Kohlen <bckohlen@yahoo.com>).
6625 + add trace/varargs.c, using this to trace parameters in lib_printw.c
6626 + implement _tracecchar_t2() and _tracecchar_t().
6627 + split-out trace/visbuf.c
6628 + correct typo in lib_printw.c changes from 20010922 (report by Mike
6632 + modify run_tic.sh to check if the build is a cross-compile. In that
6633 case, do not use the build's tic to install the terminfo database
6634 (report by Rafael Rodriguez Velilla <rrv@tid.es>).
6635 + modify mouse click resolution so that mouseinterval(-1) will disable
6636 it, e.g., to handle touchscreens via a slow connection (request by
6637 Byron Stanoszek <gandalf@winds.org>).
6638 + correct mouseinterval() default value shown in curs_mouse.3x
6639 + remove conflicting definition of mouse_trafo() (reported by Lars
6640 Hecking, using gcc 2.95.3).
6643 + simpler fix for signal_name(), to replace the one overlooked in
6644 20010929 (reported by Larry Virden).
6647 + add -i option to view.c, to test ncurses' check for non-default
6648 signal handler for SIGINT, etc.
6649 + add cases for shared-libraries on Darwin/OS X (patch by Rob Braun
6650 <bbraun@synack.net>).
6651 + modify tset to restore original I/O modes if an error is encountered.
6652 Also modify to use buffered stderr consistently rather than mixing
6654 + change signal_name() function to use if-then-else rather than case
6655 statement, since signal-values aren't really integers (reported by
6657 + add limit checks in wredrawln(), fixing a problem where lynx was
6658 repainting a pad which was much larger than the screen.
6661 + fix: PutRange() was counting the second part of a wide character as
6662 part of a run, resulting in a cursor position that was one too far
6663 (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
6664 + modify resizeterm() to not queue a KEY_RESIZE if there was no
6665 SIGWINCH, thereby separating the two styles of SIGWINCH handling
6667 + simplified lib_tstp.c, modify it to use SA_RESTART flag for SIGWINCH.
6668 + eliminate several static buffers in the terminfo compiler, using
6670 + modify MKkeyname.awk so that keyname() does not store its result into
6671 a static buffer that is overwritten by the next call.
6672 + reorganize the output of infocmp -E and -e options to compile cleanly
6673 with gcc -Wwrite-strings warnings.
6674 + remove redefinition of chgat/wchgat/mvwchgat from curses.wide
6677 + add label to test/view.c, showing the name of the last key or signal
6678 that made the screen repaint, to make it clearer when a sigwinch
6680 + use ExitProgram() consistently in the test-programs to make it
6681 simpler to test leaks with dmalloc, etc.
6682 + move hashtab static data out of hashmap.c into SCREEN struct.
6683 + make NO_LEAK code compile with revised WINDOWLIST structs.
6686 + modify tgetent() to check if exit_attribute_mode resets the alternate
6687 character set, and if so, attempt to adjust the copy of the termcap
6688 "me" string which it will return to eliminate that part. In
6689 particular, 'screen' would lose track of line-drawing characters
6690 (report by Frederic L W Meunier <0@pervalidus.net>, analysis by
6694 + specify DOCTYPE in html manpages.
6695 + add missing macros for several "generated" functions: attr_get(),
6696 attr_off(), attr_on(), attr_set(), chgat(), mvchgat(), mvwchgat() and
6698 + modify view.c to agree with non-experimental status of ncurses'
6700 + change the sense of the -r option, making it default to ncurses'
6702 + add a note explaining what functions are unsafe in a signal
6704 + add a -c option, to set color display, for testing.
6705 + unset $data variable in MKterminfo.sh script, to address potential
6706 infinite loop if shell malfunction (report by Samuel Mikes
6707 <smikes@cubane.com>, for bash 2.05.0 on a Linux 2.0.36 system).
6708 + change kbs in mach terminfo entries to ^? (Marcus Brinkmann
6709 <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>).
6710 + correct logic for COLORFGBG environment variable: if rxvt is compiled
6711 with xpm support, the variable has three fields, making it slightly
6712 incompatible with itself. In either case, the background color is
6716 + move calls to def_shell_mode() and def_prog_mode() before loop with
6717 callbacks in lib_set_term.c, since the c++ demo otherwise initialized
6718 the tty modes before saving them (patch by John David Anglin
6719 <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>).
6720 + duplicate logic used to initialize trace in newterm(), in initscr()
6721 to avoid confusing trace of initscr().
6722 + simplify allocation of WINDOW and WINDOWLIST structs by making the
6723 first a part of the second rather than storing a pointer. This saves
6724 a call to malloc for each window (discussion with Philippe Blain).
6725 + remove unused variable 'used_ncv' from lib_vidattr.c (Philippe
6727 + modify c++/Makefile.in to accommodate archive programs that are
6728 different for C++ than for C, and add cases for vendor's C++
6729 compilers on Solaris and IRIX (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
6730 + correct manpage description of criteria for deciding if the terminal
6731 supports xterm mouse controls.
6732 + add several configure script options to aid with cross-compiling:
6733 --with-build-cc, --with-build-cflags, --with-build-ldflags, and
6734 --with-build-libs (request by Greg Roelofs).
6735 + change criteria for deciding if configure is cross-compiling from
6736 host/build mismatch to host/target mismatch (request by Greg Roelofs
6737 <greg.roelofs@philips.com>).
6738 + correct logic for infocmp -e and -E options which writes the data for
6739 the ext_Names[] array. This is needed if one constructs a fallback
6740 table for a terminfo entry which uses extended termcap names, e.g.,
6741 AX in a color xterm.
6742 + fix undefined NCURSES_PATHSEP when configure --disable-database
6746 + fix for VALID_BOOLEAN() macro when char is not signed.
6747 + modify 'clean' rule for C++ binding to work with Sun compiler, which
6748 caches additional information in a subdirectory of the objects.
6749 + added llib-ncursesw.
6752 + add Caps.keys example for experimental extended function keys
6753 (adapted from a patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
6754 + correct parameter types of vidputs() and vidattr() to agree with
6755 header files (report by William P Setzer).
6756 + fix typos in several man-pages (patch by William P Setzer).
6757 + remove unneeded ifdef for __GNUG__ in CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC configure
6758 macro, which made ncurses C++ binding fail to build with other
6759 C++ compilers such as HPUX 11.x (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
6760 + workaround for bug in HPUX 11.x C compiler: add a blank after
6761 NCURSES_EXPORT macro in form.h (report by Albert Chin-A-Young)
6762 + ignore blank lines in Caps* files in MKkey_defs.sh script (report by
6763 Albert Chin-A-Young).
6764 + correct definition of key_end in Caps.aix4, which left KEY_END
6765 undefined (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
6766 + remove a QNX-specific fallback prototype for vsscanf(), which is
6767 obsolete with QNX RTP.
6768 + review/fix some of the T() and TR() macro calls, having noticed that
6769 there was no data for delwin() in a trace of dialog because there was
6770 no returnVoid call for wtimeout(). Also, traces in lib_twait.c are
6771 now selected under TRACE_IEVENT rather than TRACE_CALLS.
6774 + add a _nc_access() check before opening files listed via $TERMPATH.
6775 + using modified man2html, regenerate some of the html manpages to fix
6776 broken HREF's where the link was hyphenated.
6779 + add some limit/pointer checks to -S option of tputs.
6780 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
6781 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
6782 + add a note in curs_termcap.3x regarding a defect in the XSI
6783 description of tgetent (based on a discussion with Urs Jansen
6784 regarding the HPUX 11.x implementation, whose termcap interface is
6785 not compatible with existing termcap programs).
6786 + modify manhtml rule in dist.mk to preserve copyright notice on the
6787 generated files, as well as to address HTML style issues reported by
6788 tidy and weblint. Regenerated/updated corresponding html files.
6789 + comment out use of Protected_Character and related rarely used
6790 attributes in ncurses Ada95 test/demo to compile with wide-character
6794 + implement a simple example in C++ demo to test scanw().
6795 + corrected stdio function used to implement scanw() in cursesw.cc
6796 + correct definition of RemAttr() macro from 20010602 changes, which
6797 caused C++ SillyDemo to not show line-drawing characters.
6798 + modify C++ binding, adding getKey() which can be overridden by user
6799 to substitute functions other than getch() for keyboard processing
6800 of forms and menus (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
6803 + fix some of the trace calls which needed modification to work with
6804 new wide-character structures.
6805 + modify magic-cookie code in tty_update.c to compile with new
6806 wide-character structures (report by <George.R.Goffe@seagate.com>).
6807 + ensure that _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined in curses.priv.h if
6808 compiling for wide-character configuration.
6809 + make addwnstr() handle non-spacing characters (patch by Sven
6813 + add configure check to define _GNU_SOURCE, needed to prop up glibc
6815 + split-out include/curses.wide to solve spurious redefinitions caused
6816 by defining _GNU_SOURCE, and move includes for <signal.h> before
6817 <curses.h> to work around misdefinition of ERR in glibc 2.1.3 header
6819 + extended ospeed change to NetBSD and OpenBSD -TD
6820 + modify logic in lib_baudrate.c for ospeed, for FreeBSD to make it
6821 work properly for termcap applications (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
6824 + correct an overlooked CharOf/UChar instance (reports by Eugene Lee
6825 <eugene@anime.net>, Sven Verdoolaege).
6826 + correct unneeded ifdef for wunctrl() (reported by Sven Verdoolaege)
6829 + change overlooked several CharOf/UChar instances.
6830 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
6831 + correct a typo in wunctrl(), which made it appear that botwc() was
6832 needed (no such function: use btowc()).
6833 + reimplement wide-character demo in test/view.c, using new functions.
6834 + implement getcchar(), setcchar(), wadd_wchnstr() and related macros.
6835 + fix a syntax problem with do/if/while in PUTC macro (curses.priv.h).
6838 + add parentheses in macros for malloc in test.priv.h, fixes an
6839 expression in view.c (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.co.at>).
6840 + add Caps.uwin, as an example.
6841 + change the way curses.h is generated, making the list of function
6842 key definitions extracted from the Caps file.
6843 + add #undef's before possible redefinition of ERR and OK in curses.h
6844 + modify logic in tic, toe, tput and tset which checks for basename of
6845 argv[0] to work properly on systems such as OS/2 which have
6846 case-independent filenames and/or program suffixes, e.g., ".ext".
6849 + add a configure check, if --enable-widec is specified, for putwc(),
6850 which may be in libutf8.
6851 + remove some unnecessary text from curs_extend.3x and
6852 default_colors.3x which caused man-db to make incorrect symbolic
6853 links (Debian #99550).
6854 + add configure check if cast for _IO_va_list is needed to compile
6855 C++ vscan code (Debian #97945).
6856 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
6857 + correct code that used non-standard auto-initialization of a struct,
6858 which gcc allows (report by Larry Virden).
6859 + use putwc() in PUTC() macro.
6860 + make addstr() work for the special case where the codeset is
6861 non-stateful (eg. UTF-8), as well as stateful codesets.
6864 + correct loop expression in NEXT_CHAR macro for lib_addstr.c changes
6865 from 20010602 (report by Mike Castle).
6868 + modify mvcur() to avoid emitting newline characters when nonl() mode
6869 is set. Normally this is not a problem since the actual terminal
6870 mode is set to suppress nl/crlf translations, however it is useful to
6871 allow the caller to manipulate the terminal mode to avoid staircasing
6872 effects after spawning a process which writes messages (for lynx
6874 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>:
6875 + remove redundant type-conversion in fifo_push()
6876 + correct definition of addwstr() macro in curses.h.in
6877 + remove _nc_utf8_outch()
6878 + rename most existing uses of CharOf() to UChar(), e.g., where it is
6879 used to prevent sign-extension in ctype macros.
6880 + change some chtype's to attr_t's where the corresponding variables
6881 are used to manipulate attributes.
6882 + UpdateAttr() was applied to both attributes (attr_t) and characters
6883 (chtype). Modify macro and calls to it to make these distinct.
6884 + add CharEq() macro, use in places where wide-character configuration
6885 implementation uses a struct for cchar_t.
6886 + moved struct ldat into curses.priv.h, to hide implementation details.
6887 + change CharOf() macro to use it for masking A_CHARTEXT data from
6889 + add L() macro to curses.priv.h, for long-character literals.
6890 + replace several assignments from struct ldat entries to chtype or
6891 char values with combinations of CharOf() and AttrOf() macros.
6892 + add/use intermediate ChAttrOf() and ChCharOf() macros where we know
6893 we are using chtype data.
6894 + add/use lowlevel attribute manipulation macros AddAttr(), RemAttr()
6896 + add/use SetChar() macro, to change a cchar_t based on a character and
6898 + convert most internal use of chtype to NCURSES_CH_T, to simplify use
6899 of cchar_t for wide-character configuration. Similarly, use ARG_CH_T
6900 where a pointer would be more useful.
6901 + add stubs for tracing cchar_t values.
6902 + add/use macro ISBLANK()
6903 + add/use constructors for cchar_t's: NewChar(), NewChar2().
6904 + add/use macros CHREF(), CHDEREF(), AttrOfD(), CharOfD() to facilitate
6905 passing cchar_t's by address.
6906 + add/use PUTC_DATA, PUTC() macros.
6907 + for wide-character configuration, move the window background data to
6908 the end of the WINDOW struct so that whether _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
6909 is defined or not, the offsets in the struct will not change.
6910 + modify addch() to work with wide-characters.
6911 + mark several wide-character functions as generated in curses.h.in
6912 + implement wunctrl(), wadd_wch(), wbkgrndset(), wbkgrnd(),
6913 wborder_set() and waddnwstr().
6916 + add experimental --with-caps=XXX option to customize to similar
6917 terminfo database formats such as AIX 4.x
6918 + add Caps.aix4 as an example.
6919 + modify Caps to add columns for the the KEY_xxx symbols.
6920 + modify configure --with-widec to suppress overwrite of libcurses.so
6922 + add checks to toe.c to avoid being confused by files and directories
6923 where we would expect the reverse, e.g., source-files in the
6924 top-level terminfo levels as is the case for AIX.
6927 + add top-level 'depend' rule for the C sources, assuming that the
6928 makedepend program is available. As a side-effect, this makes
6929 the generated sources, as in "make sources" (prompted by a report
6930 by Mike Castle that "make -j" fails because the resulting parallel
6931 processes race to generate ncurses/names.c).
6932 + modify configure script so that --disable-overwrite option's action
6933 to add a symbolic link for libcurses applies to the static library as
6934 well as the shared library when both are configured (report by Felix
6935 Natter <f.natter@ndh.net>).
6936 + add ELKS terminfo entries (Federico Bianchi
6937 <bianchi@www.arte.unipi.it>)
6938 + add u6 (CSR) to Eterm (Michael Jennings).
6941 + modify test/ncurses.c to work with xterm-256color, which has fewer
6942 color pairs than colors*colors (report by David Ellement
6943 <ellement@sdd.hp.com>).
6946 + corrected screen.xterm-xfree86 entry.
6947 + update comment in Caps regarding IBM (AIX) function-key definitions.
6950 + modify c++/Makefile.in to link with libncurses++w.a when configured
6951 for wide-characters (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
6952 + add check in _nc_trace_buf() to refrain from freeing a null pointer.
6953 + improve CF_PROG_INSTALL macro using CF_DIRNAME.
6954 + update config.guess, config.sub from autoconf 2.49e (alpha).
6957 + add secondary check in tic.c, similar_sgr() to see if the reason
6958 for mismatch was that the individual capabilities used a time-delay
6959 while sgr did not. Used this to cleanup mismatches, e.g., in vt100,
6960 and remove time-delay from Apple_Terminal entries.
6961 + add Apple_Terminal terminfo entries (Benjamin C W Sittler
6962 <bsittler@iname.com>).
6963 + correct definitions of shifted editing keys for xterm-xfree86 -TD
6964 + fix a bug in test/bs.c from 20010407 (patch by Erik Sigra).
6965 + prevent relative_move() from doing an overwrite if it detects 8-bit
6966 characters when configured for UTF-8 (reported by Sven Verdoolaege
6967 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
6970 + add configure checks for strstream.h vscan function, and similar
6971 stdio-based function which may be used in C++ binding for gcc 3.0
6972 (reports by George Goffe, Lars Hecking, Mike Castle).
6973 + rewrite parts of configure.in which used changequote(). That feature
6974 is broken in the latest autoconf alphas (e.g., 2.49d).
6975 + add a missing pathname for ncurses_dll.h, needed when building in
6976 a directory outside the source tree (patch by Sven Verdoolaege
6977 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
6978 > fix 2 bugs in test/bs.c Erik Sigra <sigra@home.se>:
6979 + no ships were ever placed in the last row or in the last column.
6980 This made the game very easy to win, because you never had to waste
6981 any shots there, but the computer did.
6982 + the squares around a sunken ship that belonged to the player were not
6983 displayed as already hit by the computer, like it does for the
6987 + add some examples of customizing screen's terminfo:
6988 screen.xterm-xfree86, screen.xterm-r6, screen.teraterm -TD
6989 + modify screen's terminfo entry to match the khome/kend in screen
6990 3.09.08 (Debian #92215).
6991 + correct a memory leak in forms library (report by Stefan Vogtner
6992 <stefan@vogtner.de>) (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
6995 + change symbols used to guard against repeated includes to begin
6996 consistently with "NCURSES_" rather than a leading underscore. There
6997 are other symbols defined in the header files which begin with a
6998 leading underscore, but they are part of the legacy interface.
6999 + reorder includes in c++ binding so that rcs identifiers can be
7001 + add .cc.ii rule to c++ makefile, to get preprocessor output for
7003 + correct configure script handling of @keyword@ substitutions when the
7004 --with-manpage-renames option is given (cf: 20000715, fixes Debian
7006 + report stack underflow/overflow in tparm() when tic -cv option is
7008 + remove spurious "%|" operator from xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry,
7009 (reported by Adam Costello <amc@cs.berkeley.edu>, Debian #89222).
7012 + cleanup of newdemo.c, fixing some ambiguous expressions noted by gcc
7013 2.95.2, and correcting some conflicting color pair initializations.
7014 + add missing copyright notice for cursesw.h
7015 + review, make minor fixes for use of '::' for referring to C-language
7016 interface from C++ binding.
7017 + modify configure check for g++ library slightly to accommodate
7018 nonstandard version number, e.g., <vendor>-2.7 (report by Ronald Ho
7019 <rho@mipos2.intel.com>).
7020 + add configure check for c++ <sstream> header, replace hardcoded
7022 + workaround for pre-release of gcc 3.0 libstdc++, which has dropped
7023 vscan from strstreambuf to follow standard, use wrapper for C vscanf
7024 instead (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@excite.com> and Matt Taggart
7025 <taggart@carmen.fc.hp.com>, fixes Debian .
7028 + modify interface of _nc_get_token() to pass 'silent' parameter to it,
7029 to make quieter loading of /etc/termcap (patch by Todd C Miller).
7030 + correct a few typos in curs_slk.3x and curs_outopts.3x manpages
7031 (patch by Todd C Miller).
7034 + compiler-warning fixes (reported by Nelson Beebe).
7037 + modify screen terminfo entry to use new 3.9.8 feature allowing xterm
7041 + broaden patterns used to match OS/2 EMX in configure script to cover
7042 variant used in newer config.guess/config.sub
7043 + remove changequote() calls from configure script, since this feature
7044 is broken in the autoconf 2.49c alpha, maintainers decline to fix.
7045 + remove macro callPutChar() from tty_update.c, since this is no longer
7046 needed (reported by Philippe Blain).
7047 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c to handle the case when the input
7048 file is really empty. Modify the next_char() function in comp_scan.c
7049 to allow arbitrarily long lines, and incidentally supply a newline to
7050 files that do not end in a newline. These changes improve tic's
7051 recovery from attempts to read binary files, e.g., its output from
7052 the terminfo database (reported by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
7055 + revert change to c++/demo.cc from 20001209, which changed definition
7056 of main() apparently to accommodate cygwin linker, but broke the demo
7058 + workaround for broken egcs 2.91.66 which calls member functions
7059 (i.e., lines() and colors() of NCursesWindow before calling its
7060 constructor. Add calls to initialize() in a few constructors which
7061 did not do this already.
7062 + use the GNAT preprocessor to make the necessary switch between TRACE
7063 and NO_TRACE configurations (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7064 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
7065 + modify kterm terminfo entry to use SCS sequence to support alternate
7066 character set (it does not work with SI/SO).
7067 + --with-ospeed=something didn't work. configure.in checked for a
7068 $enableval where it should check for $withval. Also,
7069 ncurses/llib-lncurses still had a hardcoded short.
7072 + correction to my merge of Tom Riddle's patch that broke tic in some
7073 conditions (reported by Enoch Wexler <enoch@wexler.co.il>) -TD
7076 + modify view.c to test halfdelay(). Like other tests, this recognizes
7077 the 's' and space commands for stopping/starting polled input, shows
7078 a freerunning clock in the header. If given a parameter to 's', that
7079 makes view.c use halfdelay() with that parameter rather than
7081 + fix to allow compile with the experimental configure option
7083 + modify postprocess_termcap() to avoid overwriting key_backspace,
7084 key_left, key_down when processing a non-base entry (report/patch by
7086 + modify _nc_wrap_entry(), adding option to reallocate the string
7087 table, needed in _nc_merge_entry() when merging termcap entries.
7088 (adapted from report/patch by Tom Riddle <ftr@oracom.com>).
7089 + modify a few configure script macros to keep $CFLAGS used only for
7090 compiler options, preprocessor options in $CPPFLAGS.
7093 + correct marker positions in lrtest.c after receiving a sigwinch.
7094 + fix ifdef's in ncurses.c to build against pre-5.2 for testing.
7095 + fixes to tclock for resizing behavior, redundant computation (report
7096 and patch by A M Kuchling <akuchlin@mems-exchange.org>).
7099 + improved scoansi terminfo entry -TD
7100 + modify configure script and makefile in Ada95/src to compile a stub
7101 for the trace functions when ncurses does not provide those.
7104 + add ncurses_dll.h and related definitions to support generating DLL's
7105 with cygwin (adapted from a patch by Charles Wilson
7106 <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>, changed NCURSES_EXPORT macro to make it
7107 work with 'indent') -TD
7110 + correct prototypes for some functions in curs_termcap.3x, matching
7111 termcap.h, which matches X/Open.
7112 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7113 + a revised version of the Ada enhancements sent in by "H.
7114 Nanosecond", aka Eugene V Melaragno <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>. This
7116 - small fixes to the existing ncurses binding
7117 - addition of some more low-level functions to the binding, including
7118 termcap and terminfo functions
7119 - An Ada implementation of the "ncurses" test application originally
7123 + modify logic in lib_setup.c to allow either lines or columns value
7124 from terminfo to be used if the screen size cannot be determined
7125 dynamically rather than requiring both (patch by Ehud Karni
7126 <ehud@unix.simonwiesel.co.il>).
7127 + add check in lib_tgoto.c's is_termcap() function to reject null or
7128 empty strings (reported by Valentin Nechayev <netch@netch.kiev.ua> to
7130 + add definition from configure script that denotes the path-separator,
7131 which is normally a colon. The path-separator is a semicolon on
7132 OS/2 EMX and similar systems which may use a colon within pathnames.
7133 + alter logic to set default for --disable-overwrite option to set it
7134 to 'yes' if the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr/local, thereby
7135 accommodating the most common cause of problems: gcc's nonstandard
7136 search rules. Other locations such as /usr/local/ncurses will
7137 default to overwriting (report by Lars Hecking <lhecking@nmrc.ie>).
7140 + modify default for --disable-overwrite configure option to disable
7141 if the --prefix or $prefix value is not /usr.
7142 + add cygwin to systems for which ncurses is installed by default into
7143 /usr rather than /usr/local.
7146 + minor optimization in comp_error.c and lib_termname.c, using
7147 strncat() to replace strncpy() (patch by Solar Designer).
7148 + add a use_terminfo_vars() check for $HOME/.termcap, and check for
7149 geteuid() to use_terminfo_vars() (patch by Solar Designer
7151 + improved cygwin terminfo entry, based on patch by
7152 <ernie_boyd@yahoo.com>.
7153 + modify _nc_write_entry() to allow for the possibility that linking
7154 aliases on a filesystem that ignores case would not succeed because
7155 the source and destination differ only by case, e.g., NCR260VT300WPP0
7156 on cygwin (report by Neil Zanella).
7157 + fix a typo in the curs_deleteln.3x man page (patch by Bernhard
7158 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
7161 + add configure option --with-ospeed to assist packagers in transition
7162 to 5.3 change to ospeed type.
7163 + add/use CharOf() macro to suppress sign-extension of char type on
7164 platforms where this is a problem in ctype macros, e.g., Solaris.
7165 + change trace output to binary format.
7166 + correct a missing quote adjustment in CF_PATH_SYNTAX autoconf
7167 macro, for OS/2 EMX configuration.
7168 + rearrange a few configure macros, moving preprocessor options to
7169 $CPPFLAGS (a now-obsolete version of autoconf did not consistently
7170 use $CPPFLAGS in both the compile and preprocessor checks).
7171 + add a check in relative_move() to guard against buffer overflow in
7172 the overwrite logic.
7175 + add message to configure script showing g++ version.
7176 + resync config.guess, config.sub
7177 + modify lib_delwin.c, making it return ERR if the window did not exist
7178 (suggested by Neil Zanella).
7179 + add cases for FreeBSD 3.1 to tdlint and makellib scripts, used this
7180 to test/review ncurses library. (Would use lclint, but it doesn't
7182 + reorganized knight.c to avoid forward references. Correct screen
7183 updates when backtracking, especially to the first cell. Add F/B/a
7186 20001021 5.2 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
7187 + update generated html files from manpages.
7188 + modify dist.mk to use edit_man.sh to substitute autoconf'd variables
7190 + fix an uninitialized pointer in read_termcap.c (report by Todd C
7191 Miller, from report/patch by Philip Guenther <guenther@gac.edu>).
7192 + correct help-message and array limit in knight.c (patch by Brian
7193 Raiter <breadbox@muppetlabs.com>).
7194 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7195 + fix to avoid warning by GNAT-3.13p about use of inconsistent casing
7196 for some identifiers defined in the standard package.
7197 + cosmetic change to forms/fty_enum.c
7200 + correct an off-by-one position in test/railroad.c which could cause
7201 wrapping at the right margin.
7202 + test/repair some issues with libtool configuration. Make
7203 --disable-echo force libtool --silent. (Libtool does not work for
7204 OS/2 EMX, works partly for SCO - libtool is still very specific to
7206 + change default of --with-manpage-tbl to "no", since for most of the
7207 platforms which do have tbl installed, the system "man" program
7208 understands how to run tbl automatically.
7209 + minor improvement to force_bar() in comp_parse.c (Bernhard
7210 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
7211 + modify lib_tparm.c to use get_space() before writing terminating
7212 null character, both for consistency as well as to ensure that if
7213 save_char() was called immediately before, that the allocated memory
7214 is enough (patch by Sergei Ivanov).
7215 + add note about termcap ML capability which is duplicated between two
7216 different capabilities: smgl and smglr (reported by Sergei Ivanov
7217 <svivanov@pdmi.ras.ru>).
7218 + correct parameter counts in include/Caps for dclk as well as some
7219 printer-specific capabilities: csnm, defc, scs, scsd, smgtp, smglp.
7220 > patch by Johnny C Lam <lamj@stat.cmu.edu>:
7221 + add support for building with libtool (apparently version 1.3.5,
7222 since old versions do not handle -L../lib), using new configure
7223 option --with-libtool.
7224 + add configure option --with-manpage-tbl, which causes the manpages to
7225 be preprocessed by tbl(1) prior to installation,
7226 + add configure option --without-curses-h, which causes the
7227 installation process to install curses.h as ncurses.h and make
7228 appropriate changes to headers and manpages.
7231 + correct order of options/parameters in run_tic.in invocation of tic,
7232 which did not work with standard getopt() (reported by Ethan
7233 Butterfield <primus@veris.org>).
7234 + correct logic for 'reverse' variable in lib_vidattr.c, which was
7235 setting it true without checking if newmode had A_REVERSE set, e.g.,
7236 using $TERM=ansi on OS/2 EMX (see 20000917).
7237 > patch by Todd C Miller:
7238 + add a few missing use_terminfo_vars() and fixes up _nc_tgetent().
7239 Previously, _nc_cgetset() would still get called on cp so the
7240 simplest thing is to set cp to NULL if !use_terminfo_vars().
7241 + added checks for an empty $HOME environment variable.
7242 > patches for OS/2 EMX (Ilya Zakharevich):
7243 + modify convert_configure.pl to support INSTALL. Change compiler
7244 options in that script to use multithreading, needed for the mouse.
7245 + modify OS/2 mouse support, retrying as a 2-button mouse if code fails
7246 to set up a 3-button mouse.
7247 + improve code for OS/2 mouse support, using _nc_timed_wait() to
7248 replace select() call.
7251 + change type of ospeed variable back to short to match its use in
7252 legacy applications (reported by Andrey A Chernov).
7253 + add case to configure script for --enable-rpath on IRIX (patch by
7254 Albert Chin-A-Young).
7255 + minor fix to position_check() function, to ensure it gets the whole
7256 cursor report before decoding.
7257 + add configure option --disable-assumed-color, to allow pre-5.1
7258 convention of default colors used for color-pair 0 to be configured
7259 (see assume_default_colors()).
7260 + rename configure option --enable-hashmap --disable-hashmap, and
7261 reorder the configure options, splitting the experimental and
7263 + add configure option --disable-root-environ, which tells ncurses to
7264 disregard $TERMINFO and similar environment variables if the current
7265 user is root, or running setuid/setgid (based on discussion with
7267 + modified misc/run_tic.in to use tic -o, to eliminate dependency on
7268 $TERMINFO variable for installs.
7269 + add table entry for plab_norm to tput, so it passes in strings
7270 for that capability.
7271 + modify parse_format() in lib_tparm.c to ignore precision if it is
7272 longer than 10000 (report by Jouko Pynnonen).
7273 + rewrote limit checks in lib_mvcur.c using new functions
7274 _nc_safe_strcat(), etc. Made other related changes to check lengths
7275 used for strcat/strcpy (report by Jouko Pynnonen
7276 <jouko@solutions.fi>).
7279 + modify several descriptions, including those for setaf, setab, in
7280 include/Caps to indicate that the entries are parameterized. This
7281 information is used to tell which strings are translated when
7282 converting to termcap. Fixes a problem where the generated termcap
7283 would contain a spurious "%p1" for the terminfo "%p1%d".
7284 + modify ld -rpath options (e.g., Linux, and Solaris) to use an
7285 absolute pathname for the build tree's lib directory (prompted by
7286 discussion with Albert Chin-A-Young).
7287 + modify "make install.man" and "make uninstall.man" to include tack's
7289 + various fixes for install scripts used to support configure --srcdir
7290 and --with-install-prefix (reported by Matthew Clarke
7291 <Matthew_Clarke@mindlink.bc.ca>).
7292 + make configure script checks on variables $GCC and $GXX consistently
7293 compare against 'yes' rather than test if they are nonnull, since
7294 either may be set to the corresponding name of the C or C++ compiler
7295 (report/patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
7298 + modify rs2 capability in xterm-r6 and similar where cursor
7299 save/restore bracketed the sequence for resetting video attributes.
7300 The cursor restore would undo that (report by John Hawkinson
7301 <jhawk@MIT.EDU> (see NetBSD misc/11052)).
7302 + using parameter check added to tic, corrected 27 typos in
7304 + modify tic to verify that its inputs are really files, in case
7305 someone tries to read a directory (or /dev/zero).
7306 + add a check for empty buffers returned by fgets() in comp_scan.c
7307 next_char() function, in case tic is run on a non-text file (fixes
7308 a core dump reported by Aaron Campbell <aaron@cs.dal.ca>).
7309 + add to railroad.c some code exercising tgoto(), providing an
7310 alternate form of display if the terminal supports cursor addressing.
7311 + split-out tgoto() again, this time into new file lib_tgoto.c, and
7312 implement a conventional BSD-style tgoto() which is used if the
7313 capability string does not contain terminfo-style padding or
7314 parameters (requested by Andrey A Chernov).
7315 + add check to tic which reports capabilities that do not reference
7316 the expected number of parameters.
7317 + add error checking to infocmp's -v and -m options to ensure that
7318 the option value is indeed a number.
7319 + some cleanup of logic in _nc_signal_handler() to verify if SIGWINCH
7320 handler is setup. Separated the old/new sigaction data for SIGTSTP
7321 from the other signals.
7324 + add S0, E0 extensions to screen's terminfo entry, which is another
7325 way to solve the misconfiguration issue -TD
7326 + completed special case for tgoto from 20000916
7329 + update xterm terminfo entries to match XFree86 xterm patch #146 -TD
7330 + add Matrix Orbital terminfo entries (from Eric Z Ayers
7332 + add special case to lib_tparm.c to allow 'screen' program to use a
7333 termcap-style parameter "%." to tgoto() for switching character sets.
7334 + use LN_S substitution in run_tic.in, to work on OS/2 EMX which has
7336 + updated notes in README.emx regarding autoconf patches.
7337 + replace a lookup table in lib_vidattr.c used to decode no_color_video
7338 with a logic expression (suggested by Philippe Blain).
7339 + add a/A toggle to ncurses.c 'b' test, which clears/sets alternate
7340 character set attribute from the displayed text.
7341 + correct inequality in parameter analysis of rewritten lib_tparm.c
7342 which had the effect of ignoring p9 in set_attributes (sgr), breaking
7343 alternate character set (reported by Piotr Majka <charvel@link.pl>).
7344 + correct ifdef'ing for GCC_PRINTF, GCC_SCANF which would not compile
7345 with Sun WorkShop compilers since these tokens were empty (cf:
7346 20000902, reported by Albert Chin-A-Young).
7349 + correct an uninitialized parameter to open_tempfile() in tic.c which
7350 made "tic -I" give an ambiguous error message about tmpnam.
7351 + add special case in lib_vidattr.c to reset underline and standout for
7352 devices that have no sgr0 defined (patch by Don Lewis
7353 <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>). Note that this will not work for bold
7354 mode, since there is no exit-bold-mode capability.
7355 + improved patch for Make_Enum_Type (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7356 + modify tparm to disallow arithmetic on strings, analyze the varargs
7357 list to read strings as strings and numbers as numbers.
7358 + modify tparm's internal function spop() to treat a null pointer as
7360 + modify tput program so it can be renamed or invoked via a link as
7361 'reset' or 'init', producing the same effect as 'tput reset' or 'tput
7363 + add private entrypoint _nc_basename(), use to consolidate related
7364 code in progs, as well as accommodating OS/2 EMX pathnames.
7365 + remove NCURSES_CONST line from edit_cfg.sh to compensate for its
7366 removal (except via AC_SUBST) from configure.in, making
7367 --enable-const work again (reported by Juergen Pfeifer).
7368 + regen'd configure to pick up "hpux*" change from 20000902.
7371 + modify tset.c to check for transformed "reset" program name, if any.
7372 + add a check for null pointer in Make_Enum_Type() (reported by Steven
7373 W Orr <steveo@world.std.com>).
7374 + change functions _nc_parse_entry() and postprocess_termcap() to avoid
7375 using strtok(), because it is non-reentrant (reported by Andrey A
7376 Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>).
7377 + remove "hpux10.*" case from CF_SHARED_OPTS configure script macro.
7378 This differed from the "hpux*" case by using reversed symbolic
7379 links, which made the 5.1 version not match the configuration of
7380 5.0 shared libraries (reported by Albert Chin-A-Young).
7381 + correct a dependency in Ada95/src/Makefile.in which prevented
7382 building with configure --srcdir (patch by H Nanosecond
7383 <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>).
7384 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in to avoid warning if GCC_PRINTF or
7385 GCC_SCANF was not previously defined (reported by Pavel Roskin
7387 + add MKncurses_def.sh to generate fallback definitions for
7388 ncurses_cfg.h, to quiet gcc -Wundef warnings, modified ifdef's in
7389 code to consistently use "#if" rather than "#ifdef".
7392 + add QNX qansi entries to terminfo -TD
7393 + add os2 entry to misc/emx.src (<jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>).
7394 + add configure option --with-database to allow specifying a different
7395 terminfo source-file to install. On OS/2 EMX, this defaults to
7397 + change misc/run_tic.sh to derive it from misc/run_tic.in, to simplify
7398 setting .exe extension on OS/2 EMX.
7399 + add .exe extension in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in,
7400 Ada95/samples/Makefile.in, for OS/2 EMX (reported by
7401 <jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>).
7402 + add configure check for filesystems (such as OS/2 EMX) which do not
7403 distinguish between upper/lowercase filenames, use this to fix tags
7405 + initialize fds[] array to 0's in _nc_timed_wait(); apparently poll()
7406 only sets the revents members of that array when there is activity
7407 corresponding to the related file (report by Glenn Cooper
7408 <gcooper@qantas.com.au>, using Purify on Solaris 5.6).
7409 + change configure script to use AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM rather than
7410 AC_CANONICAL_HOST, which means that configure --target will set
7411 a default program-prefix.
7412 + add note on cross-compiling to INSTALL (which does not rely on the
7413 AC_CANONICAL_* macros).
7416 + add cases for EMX OS/2 to config.guess, config.sub
7417 + new version of config.guess, config.sub from lynx 2.8.4dev.7
7418 + add definitions via transform.h to allow tic and tput to check for
7419 the transformed aliases rather than the original infotocap, etc.
7420 + simplify transform-expressions in progs/Makefile.in, make the
7421 uninstall rule work for transformed program names.
7422 + change symbol used by --install-prefix configure option from
7423 INSTALL_PREFIX to DESTDIR (the latter has become common usage
7424 although the name is misleading).
7425 + modify programs to use curses_version() string to report the version
7426 of ncurses with which they are compiled rather than the
7427 NCURSES_VERSION string. The function returns the patch level in
7428 addition to the major and minor version numbers.
7431 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to make transformed program names
7432 a parameter to that macro rather than embedding them in the macro.
7433 + newer config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in lynx
7435 + add configure option --with-default-terminfo-dir=DIR to allow
7436 specifying the default terminfo database directory (request by Albert
7438 + minor updates for terminfo.src from FreeBSD termcap change-history.
7439 + correct notes in README and INSTALL regarding documentation files
7440 that were moved from misc directory to doc (report by Rich Kulawiec
7442 + change most remaining unquoted parameters of 'test' in configure
7443 script to use quotes, for instance fixing a problem in the
7444 --disable-database option (reported by Christian Mondrup
7445 <scancm@biobase.dk>).
7446 + minor adjustments to work around some of the incompatibilities/bugs
7447 in autoconf 2.29a alpha.
7448 + add -I/usr/local/include when --with-ncurses option is used in
7449 test/configure script.
7450 + correct logic in adjust_cancels(), which did not check both
7451 alternatives when reclassifying an extended name between boolean,
7452 number and string, causing an infinite loop in tic.
7455 + correct a missing backslash in curses.priv.h
7458 + change handling of non_dest_scroll_region in tty_update.c to clear
7459 text after it is shifted in rather than before shifting out. Also
7460 correct row computation (reported by Ruediger Kuhlmann
7461 <uck4@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>).
7462 + add/use new trace function to display chtype values from winch() and
7464 + add trace mask TRACE_ATTRS, alter several existing _tracef calls that
7465 trace attribute changes under TRACE_CALLS to use this.
7466 + modify MKlib_gen.sh so that functions returning chtype will call
7468 + add returnChar() trace, for functions returning chtype.
7469 + change indent.pro to line up parenthesis.
7472 + fix a heap problem with the c++ binding (report by
7473 <alexander_liberson@ninewest.com>, patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7474 + minor adjustment to ClrToEOL() to handle an out-of-bounds parameter.
7475 + modify the check for big-core to force a couple of memory accesses,
7476 which may work as needed for older/less-capable machines (if not,
7477 there's still the explicit configure option).
7478 > fixes based on diff's for Amiga and BeOS found at
7479 http://www.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de/~kuhlmann/cross/ncurses/
7480 + alter definition of NCURSES_CONST to make it non-empty.
7481 + add amiga-vnc terminfo entry.
7482 + redefine 'TEXT' in menu.h for AMIGA, since it is reported to have
7483 an (unspecified) symbol conflict.
7484 + replaced case-statement in _nc_tracebits() for CSIZE with a table to
7485 simplify working around implementations that define random
7486 combinations of the related macros to zero.
7487 + modify configure test for tcgetattr() to allow for old
7488 implementations, e.g., on BeOS, which only defined it as a macro.
7489 > patches by Bruno Haible:
7490 + when checking LC_ALL/LC_CTYPE/LANG environment variables for UTF-8
7491 locale, ignore those which are set to an empty value, as per SUSV2.
7492 + encode 0xFFFD in UTF-8 with 3 bytes, not 2.
7493 + modify _nc_utf8_outch() to avoid sign-extension when checking for
7497 + correct manlinks.sed script to avoid using ERE "\+", which is not
7498 understood by older versions of sed (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
7499 + implement configure script options that transform installed program
7500 names, e.g., --program-prefix, including the manpage names and cross
7501 references (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com>).
7502 + correct several mismatches between manpage filename and ".TH"
7503 directives, renaming dft_fgbg.3x to default_colors.3x and
7504 menu_attribs.3x to menu_attributes.3x (report by Todd C Miller).
7505 + correct missing includes for <string.h> in several places, including
7506 the C++ binding. This is not noted by gcc unless we use the
7507 -fno-builtin option (reported by Igor Schein <igor@txc.com>).
7508 + modified progs/tset.c and tack/sysdep.c to build with sgttyb
7509 interface if neither termio or termios is available. Tested this
7510 with FreeBSD 2.1.5 (which does have termios - but the sgttyb does
7513 20000708 5.1 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
7514 + document configure options in INSTALL.
7515 + add man-page for ncurses trace functions.
7516 + correct return value shown in curs_touch.3x for is_linetouched() and
7517 is_wintouched(), in curs_initscr.3x for isendwin(), and in
7518 curs_termattr.3x for has_ic() and has_il().
7519 + add prototypes for touchline() and touchwin(), adding them to the
7520 list of generated functions.
7521 + modify fifo_push() to put ERR into the fifo just like other values to
7522 return from wgetch(). It was returning without doing that, making
7523 end-of-file condition incorrectly return a 0 (reported by Todd C
7525 + uncomment CC_SHARED_OPTS for progs and tack (see 971115), since they
7526 are needed for SCO OpenServer.
7527 + move _nc_disable_period from free_ttype.c to comp_scan.c to appease
7528 dynamic loaders on SCO and IRIX64.
7529 + add "-a" option to test/ncurses.c to invoke assume_default_colors()
7531 + correct assignment in assume_default_colors() which tells ncurses
7532 whether to use default colors, or the assumed ones (reported by Gary
7533 Funck <gary@Intrepid.Com>).
7534 + review/correct logic in mk-1st.awk for making symbolic links for
7535 shared libraries, in particular for FreeBSD, etc.
7536 + regenerate misc/*.def files for OS/2 EMX dll's.
7537 + correct quoting of values for CC_SHARED_OPTS in aclocal.m4 for
7538 cases openbsd2*, openbsd*, freebsd* and netbsd* (patch by Peter
7539 Wemm) (err in 20000610).
7540 + minor updates to release notes, as well as adding/updating URLs for
7541 examples cited in announce.html
7542 > several fixes from Philippe Blain <philippe.blain2@freesbee.fr>:
7543 + correct placement of ifdef for NCURSES_XNAMES in function
7544 _nc_free_termtype(), fixes a memory leak.
7545 + add a call to _nc_synchook() to the end of function whline() like
7546 that in wvline() (difference was in 1.9.4).
7547 + make ClearScreen() a little faster by moving two instances of
7548 UpdateAttr() out of for-loops.
7549 + simplify ClrBottom() by eliminating the tstLine data, using for-loops
7552 20000701 pre-release
7553 + change minor version to 1, i.e., ncurses 5.1
7554 + add experimental configure option --enable-colorfgbg to check for
7555 $COLORTERM variable as set by rxvt/aterm/Eterm.
7556 + add Eterm terminfo entry (Michael Jennings <mej@valinux.com>).
7557 + modify manlinks.sed to pick aliases from the SYNOPSIS section, and
7558 several manpages so manlinks.sed can find aliases for creating
7560 + add explanation to run_tic.sh regarding extended terminal
7562 + change message format for edit_cfg.sh, since some people interpret
7564 + correct unescaped '$' in sysv5uw7*|unix_sv* rule for CF_SHARED_OPTS
7565 configure macro (report by Thanh Ma <Thanh.Ma@casi-rusco.com>).
7566 + correct logic in lib_twait.c as used by lib_mouse.c for GPM mouse
7567 support when poll() is used rather than select() (prompted by
7568 discussion with David Allen <DAllen24@aol.com>).
7570 20000624 pre-release
7571 + modify TransformLine() to check for cells with different color pairs
7572 that happen to render the same display colors.
7573 + apply $NCURSES_NO_PADDING to cost-computation in mvcur().
7574 + improve cost computation in PutRange() by accounting for the use
7575 of parm_right_cursor in mvcur().
7576 + correct cost computation in EmitRange(), which was not using the
7577 normalized value for cursor_address.
7578 + newer config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in TIN 1.5.6).
7581 + update config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in PCRE 3.2).
7582 + resync changes to gnathtml against version 1.22, regenerated html
7583 files under doc/html/ada using this (1.22.1.1).
7584 + regenerated html files under doc/html/man after correcting top and
7585 bottom margin options for man2html in dist.mk
7586 + minor fixes to test programs ncurses 'i' and testcurs program to make
7587 the subwindow's background color cover the subwindow.
7588 + modify configure script so AC_MSG_ERROR is temporarily defined to a
7589 warning in AC_PROG_CXX to make it recover from a missing C++ compiler
7590 without requiring user to add --without-cxx option (adapted from
7591 comment by Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr> to autoconf mailing list).
7592 + modify headers.sh to avoid creating temporary files in the build
7593 directory when installing headers (reported by Sergei Pokrovsky
7597 + regenerated the html files under doc/html/ada/files and
7598 doc/html/ada/funcs with a slightly-improved gnathtml.
7599 + add kmous capability to linux terminfo entry to allow it to use
7600 xterm-style events provided by gpm patch by Joerg Schoen.
7601 + make the configure macro CF_SHARED_OPTS a little smarter by testing
7602 if -fPIC is supported by gcc rather than -fpic. The former option
7603 allows larger symbol tables.
7604 + update config.guess and config.sub (patches by
7605 Kevin Buettner <kev@primenet.com> (for elf64_ia64),
7606 Bernd Kuemmerlen <bkuemmer@mevis.de> (for MacOS X)).
7607 + add warning for 'tic -cv' about use of '^?' in terminfo source, which
7611 + modify echo() behavior of getch() to match Solaris curses for
7612 carriage return and backspace (reported by Neil Zanella).
7613 + change _nc_flush() to a function.
7614 + modify delscreen() to check if the output stream has been closed, and
7615 if so, free the buffer allocated for setbuf (this provides an
7616 ncurses-specific way to avoid a memory leak when repeatedly calling
7617 newterm reported by Chipp C <at_1@zdnetonebox.com>).
7618 + correct typo in curs_getch.3x manpage regarding noecho (reported by
7619 David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>).
7620 + add a "make libs" rule.
7621 + make the Ada95 interface build with configure --enable-widec.
7622 + if the configure --enable-widec option is given, append 'w' to names
7623 of the generated libraries (e.g., libncursesw.so) to avoid conflict
7624 with existing ncurses libraries.
7627 + modify view.c to make a rudimentary viewer of UTF-8 text if ncurses
7628 is configured with the experimental wide-character support.
7629 + add a simple UTF-8 output driver to the experimental wide-character
7630 support. If any of the environment variables LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE or
7631 LANG contain the string "UTF-8", this driver will be used to
7632 translate the output to UTF-8. This works with XFree86 xterm.
7633 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries on BeOS
7634 (from a patch by Valeriy E Ushakov).
7635 + modify lib_addch.c to allow repeated update to the lower-right
7636 corner, rather than displaying only the first character written until
7637 the cursor is moved. Recent versions of SVr4 curses can update the
7638 lower-right corner, and behave this way (reported by Neil Zanella).
7639 + add a limit-check in _nc_do_color(), to avoid using invalid color
7640 pair value (report by Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>).
7643 + the tack program knows how to use smcup and rmcup but the "show caps
7644 that can be tested" feature did not reflect this knowledge. Correct
7645 the display in the menu tack/test/edit/c (patch by Daniel Weaver).
7646 + xterm-16color does allow bold+colors, removed ncv#32 from that
7650 + correct assignment to SP->_has_sgr_39_49 in lib_dft_fgbg.c, which
7651 broke check for screen's AX capability (reported by Valeriy E Ushakov
7653 + change man2html rule in dist.mk to workaround bug in some
7654 man-programs that ignores locale when rendering hyphenation.
7655 + change web- and ftp-site to dickey.his.com
7658 + move _nc_curr_token from parse_entry.c to comp_scan.c, to work around
7659 problem linking tack on MacOS X DP3.
7660 + include <sys/time.h> in lib_napms.c to compile on MacOS X DP3
7661 (reported by Gerben Wierda <wierda@holmes.nl>).
7662 + modify lib_vidattr.c to check for ncv fixes when pair-0 is not
7664 + add -d option to ncurses.c, to turn on default-colors for testing.
7665 + add a check to _nc_makenew() to ensure that newwin() and newpad()
7666 calls do not silently fail by passing too-large limits.
7667 + add symbol NCURSES_SIZE_T to use rather than explicit 'short' for
7668 internal window and pad sizes. Note that since this is visible in
7669 the WINDOW struct, it would be an ABI change to make this an 'int'
7670 (prompted by a question by Bastian Trompetter
7671 <btrompetter@firemail.de>, who attempted to create a 96000-line pad).
7674 + add mgterm terminfo entry from NetBSD, minor adjustments to sun-ss5,
7676 + modify tack/ansi.c to make it more tolerant of bad ANSI replies. An
7677 example of an illegal ANSI resonse can be found using Microsoft's
7678 Telnet client. A correct display can be found using a VT-4xx
7679 terminal or XFree86 xterm with:
7680 XTerm*VT100*decTerminalID: 450
7681 (patch by Daniel Weaver).
7682 + modify gdc.c to recognize 'q' for quit, 's' for single-step and ' '
7683 for resume. Add '-n' option to force gdc's standard input to
7684 /dev/null, to both illustrate the use of newterm() for specifying
7685 alternate inputs as well as for testing signal handling.
7686 + minor fix for configure option --with-manpage-symlinks, for target
7687 directories that contain a period ('.') (reported by Larry Virden).
7690 + minor additions to beterm entry (feedback from Rico Tudor) -TD
7691 + corrections/updates for some IBM terminfo entries -TD
7692 + modify _nc_screen_wrap() so that when exiting curses mode with
7693 non-default colors, the last line on the screen will be cleared to
7694 the screen's default colors (request by Alexander V Lukyanov).
7695 + modify ncurses.c 'r' example to set nonl(), allowing control/M to be
7696 read for demonstrating the REQ_NEW_LINE operation (prompted by a
7697 question by Tony L Keith <tlkeith@keithconsulting.com>).
7698 + modify ncurses.c 'r' example of field_info() to work on Solaris 2.7,
7699 documented extension of ncurses which allows a zero pointer.
7700 + modify fmt_complex() to avoid buffer overflow in case of excess
7701 recursion, and to recognize "%e%?" as a synonym for else-if, which
7702 means that it will not recur for that special case.
7703 + add logic to support $TERMCAP variable in case the USE_GETCAP symbol
7704 is defined (patch by Todd C Miller).
7705 + modify one of the m4 files used to generate the Ada95 sources,
7706 to avoid using the token "symbols" (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7709 + add terminfo entries bsdos-pc-m, bsdos-pc-mono (Jeffrey C Honig)
7710 + correct spelling error in terminfo entry name: bq300-rv was given as
7711 bg300-rv in esr's version.
7712 + modify redrawwin() macro so its parameter is fully parenthesized
7713 (fixes Debian #61088).
7714 + correct formatting error in dump_entry() which set incorrect column
7715 value when no newline trimming was needed at the end of an entry,
7716 before appending "use=" clauses (cf: 960406).
7719 + add configure option --with-manpage-symlinks
7720 + change unctrl() to render C1 characters (128-159) as ~@, ~A, etc.
7721 + change makefiles so trace() function is provided only if TRACE is
7722 defined, e.g., in the debug library. Modify related calls to
7723 _tracechar() to use unctrl() instead.
7726 + add screen's AX capability (for ECMA SGR 39 and 49) to applicable
7727 terminfo entries, use presence of this as a check for a small
7728 improvement in setting default colors.
7729 + improve logic in _nc_do_color() implementing assume_default_colors()
7730 by passing in previous color pair info to eliminate redundant call to
7731 set_original_colors(). (Part of this is from a patch by Alexander
7733 + modify warning in _nc_trans_string() about a possibly too-long string
7734 to do this once only rather than for each character past the
7735 threshold (600). Change interface of _nc_trans_string() to allow
7736 check for buffer overflow.
7737 + correct use of memset in _nc_read_entry_source() to initialize ENTRY
7738 struct each time before reading new data into it, rather than once
7739 per loop (cf: 990301). This affects multi-entry in-core operations
7740 such as "infocmp -Fa".
7743 + remove a spurious pointer increment in _nc_infotocap() changes from
7744 20000311. Add check for '.' in format of number, since that also
7745 is not permitted in termcap.
7746 + correct typo in rxvt-basic terminfo from temporary change made while
7747 integrating 20000318.
7750 + revert part of the vt220 change (request by Todd C Miller).
7751 + add ansi-* terminfo entries from ESR's version.
7752 + add -a option to tic and infocmp, which retains commented-out
7753 capabilities during source translation/comparison, e.g., captoinfo
7755 + modify cardfile.c to display an empty card if no input data file is
7756 found, fixes a core dump in that case (reported by Bruno Haible).
7757 + correct bracketing in CF_MATH_LIB configure macro, which gave wrong
7758 result for OS/2 EMX.
7759 + supply required parameter for _nc_resolve_uses() call in
7760 read_termcap.c, overlooked in 20000311 (reported by Todd C Miller).
7761 > patches by Bruno Haible <haible@ilog.fr>:
7762 + fix a compiler warning in fty_enum.c
7763 + correct LIB_PREFIX expression for DEPS_CURSES in progs, tack
7764 makefiles, which resulted in redundant linking (cf: 20000122).
7767 + make ifdef's for BROKEN_LINKER consistent (patch by Todd C Miller).
7768 + improved tack/README (patch by Daniel Weaver).
7769 + modify tput.c to ensure that unspecified parameters are passed to
7771 + add a few checks in infocmp to guard against buffer overflow when
7772 displaying string capabilities.
7773 + add check for zero-uses in infocmp's file_comparison() function
7774 before calling _nc_align_termtype(). Otherwise one parameter is
7775 indexed past the end of the uses-array.
7776 + add an option -q to infocmp to specify the less verbose output,
7777 keeping the existing format as the default, though not retaining the
7778 previous behavior that made the -F option compare each entry to
7780 + adapted patch by ESR to make infocmp -F less verbose -TD
7781 (the submitted patch was unusable because it did not compile
7783 + modify write_entry.c to ensure that absent or cancelled booleans
7784 are written as FALSE, for consistency with infocmp which now
7785 assumes this. Note that for the small-core configuration, tic
7786 may not produce the same result as before.
7787 + change some private library interfaces used by infocmp, e.g.,
7789 + add a check in _nc_infotocap() to ensure that cm-style capabilities
7790 accept only %d codes when converting the format from terminfo to
7792 + modify ENTRY struct to separate the data in 'parent' into the name
7793 and link values (the original idea to merge both into 'parent' was
7795 + discard repair_acsc(tterm);
7796 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7797 + drop support for gnat 3.10
7798 + move generated documentation and html files under ./doc directory,
7799 adding makefile rules for this to dist.mk
7802 + correct conflicting use of tparm() in 20000226 change to tic, which
7803 made it check only one entry at a time.
7804 + fix errors in ncurses-intro.html and hackguide.html shown by Dave
7806 + make the example in ncurses-intro.html do something plausible, and
7807 corrected misleading comment (reported by Neil Zanella).
7808 + modify pnoutrefresh() to set newscr->_leaveok as wnoutrefresh() does,
7809 to fix a case where the cursor position was not updated as in
7810 Solaris (patch by David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>).
7811 + add a limit-check for wresize() to ensure that a subwindow does not
7812 address out of bounds.
7813 + correct offsets used for subwindows in wresize() (patch by Michael
7814 Andres <ma@suse.de>).
7815 + regenerate html'ized manual pages with man2html 3.0.1 (patch by
7816 Juergen Pfeifer). This generated a file with a space in its name,
7818 + fix a few spelling errors in tack.
7819 + modify tack/Makefile.in to match linker options of progs/Makefile.in;
7820 otherwise it does not build properly for older HPUX shared library
7822 + add several terminfo entries from esr's "11.0".
7825 + make 'tput flash' work properly for xterm by flushing output in
7826 delay_output() when using napms(), and modifying xterm's terminfo to
7827 specify no padding character. Otherwise, xterm's reported baud rate
7828 can mislead ncurses into producing too few padding characters
7830 + add a check to tic for consistency between sgr and the separate
7831 capabilities such as smso, use this to check/correct several
7832 terminfo entries (Debian #58530).
7833 + add a check to tic if cvvis is the same as cnorm, adjusted several
7834 terminfo entries to remove the conflict (Debian #58530).
7835 + correct prototype shown in attr_set()/wattr_set() manpages (fixes
7837 + minor clarification for curs_set() and leaveok() manpages.
7838 + use mkstemp() for creating temporary file for tic's processing of
7839 $TERMCAP contents (fixes Debian #56465).
7840 + correct two errors from integrating Alexander's changes: did not
7841 handle the non-bce case properly in can_erase_with() (noted by
7842 Alexander), and left fg/bg uninitialized in the pair-zero case of
7843 _nc_do_color() (reported by Dr Werner Fink <werner@suse.de> and
7844 Ismael Cordeiro <ismael@cordeiro.com>).
7847 + store default-color code consistently as C_MASK, even if given as
7848 -1 for convenience (adapted from patches by Alexander V Lukyanov).
7849 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
7850 + change can_clear_with() macro to accommodate logic for
7851 assume_default_colors(), making most of the FILL_BCE logic
7852 unnecessary. Made can_clear_with() an inline function to make it
7856 + corrected form of recent copyright dates.
7857 + minor corrections to xterm-xf86-v333 terminfo entry -TD
7858 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
7859 + reworded dft_fgbg.3x to avoid assuming that the terminal's default
7860 colors are white on black.
7861 + fix initialization of tstLine so that it is filled with current blank
7862 character in any case. Previously it was possible to have it filled
7863 with old blank. The wrong over-optimization was introduced in 991002
7864 patch. (it is not very critical as the only bad effect is not using
7865 clr_eos for clearing if blank has changed).
7868 + minor corrections/updates to several terminfo entries: rxvt-basic,
7869 vt520, vt525, ibm5151, xterm-xf86-v40 -TD
7870 + modify ifdef's for poll() to allow it to use <sys/poll.h>, thereby
7871 allowing poll() to be used on Linux.
7872 + add CF_FUNC_POLL macro to check if poll() is able to select from
7873 standard input. If not we will not use it, preferring select()
7874 (adapted from patch by Michael Pakovic <mpakovic@fdn.com>).
7875 + update CF_SHARED_OPTS macro for SCO Unixware 7.1 to allow building
7876 shared libraries (reported/tested by Thanh <thanhma@mediaone.net>).
7877 + override $LANGUAGE in build to avoid incorrect ordering of keynames.
7878 + correct CF_MATH_LIB parameter, must be sin(x), not sqrt(x).
7881 + resync CF_CHECK_ERRNO and CF_LIB_PREFIX macros from tin and xterm -TD
7882 + modify CF_MATH_LIB configure macro to parameterize the test function
7883 used, for reuse in dialog and similar packages.
7884 + correct tests for file-descriptors in OS/2 EMX mouse support. A
7885 negative value could be used by FD_SET, causing the select() call
7886 to wait indefinitely.
7889 + additional fixes for non-bce terminals (handling of delete_character)
7890 to work when assume_default_colors() is not specified.
7891 + modify warning message from _nc_parse_entry() regarding extended
7892 capability names to print only if tic/infocmp/toe have the -v flag
7893 set, and not at all in ordinary user applications. Otherwise, this
7894 warning would be shown for screen's extended capabilities in programs
7895 that use the termcap interface (reported by Todd C Miller).
7896 + modify use of _nc_tracing from programs such as tic so their debug
7897 level is not in the same range as values set by trace() function.
7898 + small panel header cleanup (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7899 + add 'railroad' demo for termcap interface.
7900 + modify 'tic' to write its usage message to stderr (patch by Todd C
7904 + add prototype for erase() to curses.h.in, needed to make test
7905 programs build with c++/g++.
7906 + add .c.i and .c.h suffix rules to generated makefiles, for debugging.
7907 + correct install rule for tack.1; it assumed that file was in the
7908 current directory (reported by Mike Castle <dalgoda@ix.netcom.com>).
7909 + modify terminfo/termcap translation to suppress acsc before trying
7910 sgr if the entry would be too large (patch by Todd C Miller).
7911 + document a special case of incompatiblity between ncurses 4.2 and
7912 5.0, add a section for this in INSTALL.
7913 + add TRACE_DATABASE flag for trace().
7916 + update mach, add mach-color terminfo entries based on Debian diffs
7918 + add entries for xterm-hp, xterm-vt220, xterm-vt52 and xterm-noapp
7919 terminfo entries -TD
7920 + change OTrs capabilities to rs2 in terminfo.src -TD
7921 + add obsolete and extended capabilities to 'screen' terminfo -TD
7922 + corrected conversion from terminfo rs2 to termcap rs (cf: 980704)
7923 + make conversion to termcap ug (underline glitch) more consistently
7925 + fix out-of-scope use of 'personal[]' buffer in 'toe' (this error
7926 was in the original pre-1.9.7 version, when $HOME/.terminfo was
7928 + modify 'toe' to ignore terminfo directories to which it has no
7930 + modify read_termtype(), fixing 'toe', which could dump core when it
7931 found an incomplete entry such as "dumb" because it did not
7932 initialize its buffer for _nc_read_file_entry().
7933 + use -fPIC rather than -fpic for shared libraries on Linux, not
7934 needed for i386 but some ports (from Debian diffs for 5.0) -TD
7935 + use explicit VALID_NUMERIC() checks in a few places that had been
7936 overlooked, and add a check to ensure that init_tabs is nonzero,
7937 to avoid divide-by-zero (reported by Todd C Miller).
7938 + minor fix for CF_ANSI_CC_CHECK configure macro, for HPUX 10.x (from
7942 + reorder tests during mouse initialization to allow for gpm to run in
7943 xterm, or for xterm to be used under OS/2 EMX. Also drop test for
7944 $DISPLAY in favor of kmous=\E[M or $TERM containing "xterm" (report
7945 by Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de>).
7946 + modify raw() and noraw() to clear/restore IEXTEN flag which affects
7947 stty lnext on systems such as FreeBSD (report by Bruce Evans
7948 <bde@zeta.org.au>, via Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>).
7949 + fix a potential (but unlikely) buffer overflow in failed() function
7950 of tset.c (reported by Todd C Miller).
7951 + add manual-page for ncurses extensions, documented curses_version(),
7952 use_extended_names().
7955 + treat as untranslatable to termcap those terminfo strings which
7956 contain non-decimal formatting, e.g., hexadecimal or octal.
7957 + correct commented-out capabilities that cannot be translated to
7958 termcap, which did not check if a colon must be escaped.
7959 + correct termcap translation for "%>" and "%+", which did not check
7960 if a colon must be escaped, for instance.
7961 + use save_string/save_char for _nc_captoinfo() to eliminate fixed
7962 buffer (originally for _nc_infotocap() in 960301 -TD).
7963 + correct expression used for terminfo equivalent of termcap %B,
7964 adjust regent100 entry which uses this.
7965 + some cleanup and commenting of ad hoc cases in _nc_infotocap().
7966 + eliminate a fixed-buffer in tic, used for translating comments.
7967 + add manpage for infotocap
7970 + add kvt and gnome terminfo entries -TD
7971 + correct translation of "%%" by infotocap, which was emitted as "%".
7972 + add "obsolete" termcap strings to terminfo.src
7973 + modify infocmp to default to showing obsolete capabilities rather
7975 + modify write_entry.c so that if extended names (i.e., configure
7976 --enable-tcap-names) are active, then tic will also write "obsolete"
7977 capabilities that are present in the terminfo source.
7978 + modify tic so that when running as captoinfo or infotocap, it
7979 initializes the output format as in -C and -I options, respectively.
7980 + improve infocmp and tic -f option by splitting long strings that do
7981 not have if-then-else construct, but do have parameters, e.g., the
7982 initc for xterm-88color.
7983 + refine MKtermsort.sh slightly by using bool for the *_from_termcap
7987 + additional fixes for non-bce terminals (handling of clear_screen,
7988 clr_eol, clr_eos, scrolling) to work when assume_default_colors() is
7990 + several small changes to xterm terminfo entries -TD.
7991 + move logic for _nc_windows in lib_freeall.c inside check for nonnull
7992 SP, since it is part of that struct.
7993 + remove obsolete shlib-versions, which was unintentionally re-added
7995 + modify infocmp -e, -E options to ensure that generated fallback.c
7996 type for Booleans agrees with term.h (reported by Eric Norum
7997 <eric@cls.usask.ca>).
7998 + correct configure script's use of $LIB_PREFIX, which did not work
7999 for installing the c++ directory if $libdir did not end with "/lib"
8000 (reported by Huy Le <huyle@ugcs.caltech.edu>).
8001 + modify infocmp so -L and -f options work together.
8002 + modify the initialization of SP->_color_table[] in start_color() so
8003 that color_content() will return usable values for COLORS greater
8005 + modify ncurses 'd' test in case COLORS is greater than 16, e.g., for
8006 xterm-88color, to limit the displayed/computed colors to 16.
8007 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
8008 + simplify coding of the panel library according to suggestions by
8010 + improve macro coding for a few macros in curses.priv.h
8013 + modify treatment of color pair 0 so that if ncurses is configured
8014 to support default colors, and they are not active, then ncurses
8015 will set that explicitly, not relying on orig_colors or orig_pair.
8016 + add new extension, assume_default_colors() to provide better control
8017 over the use of default colors.
8018 + modify test programs to use more-specific ifdef's for existence of
8019 wresize(), resizeterm() and use_default_colors().
8020 + modify configure script to add specific ifdef's for some functions
8021 that are included when --enable-ext-funcs is in effect, so their
8022 existence can be ifdef'd in the test programs.
8023 + reorder some configure options, moving those extensions that have
8024 evolved from experimental status into a new section.
8025 + change configure --enable-tcap-names to enable this by default.
8028 + install tack's manpage (reported by Robert Weiner
8029 <robert@progplus.com>)
8030 + correct worm.c's handling of KEY_RESIZE (patch by Frank Heckenbach).
8031 + modify curses.h.in, undef'ing some symbols to avoid conflict with C++
8032 STL (reported by Matt Gerassimoff <mgeras@ticon.net>)
8035 + modify linux terminfo entry to indicate that dim does not mix with
8036 color (reported by Klaus Weide <kweide@enteract.com>).
8037 + correct several typos in terminfo entries related to missing '['
8039 + fix several compiler warnings in c++ binding (reported by Tim
8040 Mooney for alphaev56-dec-osf4.0f
8041 + rename parameter of _nc_free_entries() to accommodate lint.
8042 + correct lint rule for tack, used incorrect list of source files.
8043 + add case to config.guess, config.sub for Rhapsody.
8044 + improve configure tests for libg++ and libstdc++ by omitting the
8045 math library (which is missing on Rhapsody), and improved test for
8046 the math library itself (adapted from path by Nelson H. F. Beebe).
8047 + explicitly initialize to zero several data items which were
8048 implicitly initialized, e.g., cur_term. If not explicitly
8049 initialized, their storage type is C (common), and causes problems
8050 linking on Rhapsody 5.5 using gcc 2.7.2.1 (reported by Nelson H. F.
8052 + modify Ada95 binding to not include the linker option for Ada
8053 bindings in the Ada headers, but in the Makefiles instead (patch by
8056 19991023 5.0 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
8057 + effective with release of 5.0, change NCURSES_VERSION_PATCH to
8059 + add function curses_version(), to return ncurses library version
8060 (request by Bob van der Poel).
8061 + remove rmam, smam from cygwin terminfo entry.
8062 + modify FreeBSD cons25 terminfo entry to add cnorm and cvvis, as well
8063 as update ncv to indicate that 'dim' conflicts with colors.
8064 + modify configure script to use symbolic links for FreeBSD shared
8065 libraries by default.
8066 + correct ranf() function in rain and worm programs to ensure it does
8068 + hide the cursor in hanoi.c if it is running automatically.
8069 + amend lrtest.c to account for optimizations that exploit margin
8071 + add a simple terminfo demo, dots.c
8072 + modify SIGINT/SIGQUIT handler to set a flag used in _nc_outch() to
8073 tell it to use write() rather than putc(), since the latter is not
8074 safe in a signal handler according to POSIX.
8075 + add/use internal macros _nc_flush() and NC_OUTPUT to hide details
8076 of output-file pointer in ncurses library.
8077 + uncomment CC_SHARED_OPTS (see 971115), since they are needed for SCO
8079 + correct CC_SHARED_OPTS for building shared libraries for SCO
8081 + remove usleep() from alternatives in napms(), since it may interact
8082 with alarm(), causing a process to be interrupted by SIGALRM (with
8083 advice from Bela Lubkin).
8084 + modify terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4 to build/work with
8085 GNAT 3.10 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
8086 + remove part of CF_GPP_LIBRARY configure-script macro, which did not
8087 work with gcc 2.7.2.3
8088 + minor fix to test/tclock.c to avoid beeping more than once per second
8089 + add 's' and ' ' decoding to test/rain.c
8092 + corrected BeOS code for lib_twait.c, making nodelay() function work.
8095 + correct ncurses' value for cursor-column in PutCharLR(), which was
8096 off-by-one in one case (patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
8097 + fix some minor errors in position_check() debugging code, found while
8098 using this to validate the PutCharLR() patch.
8099 + modify firework, lrtest, worm examples to be resizable, and to
8100 recognize 'q' for quit, 's' for single-step and ' ' for resume.
8101 + restore reverted change to terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4,
8102 add a note on building with gnat 3.10p to Ada95/TODO.
8103 + add a copy of the standalone configure script for the test-directory
8104 to simplify testing on SCO and Solaris.
8107 + minor fixes for _nc_msec_cost(), color_content(), pair_content(),
8108 _nc_freewin(), ClrBottom() and onscreen_mvcur() (analysis by Philippe
8109 Blain, comments by Alexander V Lukyanov).
8110 + simplify definition of PANEL and eliminate internal functions
8111 _nc_calculate_obscure(), _nc_free_obscure() and _nc_override(),
8112 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer, analysis by Philippe Blain
8114 + change renaming of dft_fgbg.3x to use_default_colors.3ncurses in
8115 man_db.renames, since Debian is not concerned with 14-character
8116 filename limitation (Debian bug report by Josip Rodin
8117 <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr>).
8118 + corrected scoansi terminfo entry by testing with scoterm and console.
8119 + revert change from 990614 to terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4,
8120 since this does not work for gnat 3.10p
8121 + modify tclock example to be resizable (if ncurses' sigwinch handler
8122 is used), and in color.
8123 + use $(CC) rather than 'gcc' in MK_SHARED_LIB symbols, used for Linux
8124 shared library rules.
8127 + add newer NetBSD console terminfo entries
8128 + add amiga-8bit terminfo entry (from Henning 'Faroul' Peters
8129 <Faroul@beyond.kn-bremen.de>)
8130 + remove -lcurses -ltermcap from configure script's check for the gpm
8131 library, since they are not really necessary (a properly configured
8132 gpm library has no dependency on any curses library), and if the
8133 curses library is not installed, this would cause the test to fail.
8134 + modify tic's -C option so that terminfo "use=" clauses are translated
8135 to "tc=" clauses even when running it as captoinfo.
8136 + modify CF_STDCPP_LIBRARY configure macro to perform its check only
8137 for GNU C++, since that library conflicts with SGI's libC on IRIX-6.2
8138 + modify CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro to support build on NetBSD with
8139 ELF libraries (patch by Bernd Ernesti <bernd@arresum.inka.de>).
8140 + correct a problem in libpanel, where the _nc_top_panel variable was
8141 not set properly when bottom_panel() is called to hide a panel which
8142 is the only one on the stack (report/analysis by Michael Andres
8143 <ma@suse.de>, patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
8146 + add acsc string to HP 70092 terminfo entry (patch by Joerg Wunsch
8147 <j@interface-business.de>).
8148 + add top-level uninstall.data and uninstall.man makefile rules.
8149 + correct logic of CF_LINK_FUNCS configure script, from BeOS changes so
8150 that hard-links work on Unix again.
8151 + change default value of cf_cv_builtin_bool to 1 (suggested by
8152 Jeremy Buhler), making it less likely that a conflicting declaration
8153 of bool will be seen when compiling with C++.
8156 + improved configure checks for builtin.h
8157 + minor changes to C++ binding (remove static initializations, and make
8158 configure-test for parameter initializations) for features not
8159 allowed by vendor's C++ compilers (reported by Martin Mokrejs, this
8160 applies to SGI, though I found SCO has the same characteristics).
8161 + corrected quoting of ETIP_xxx definitions which support old versions
8162 of g++, e.g., those using -lg++
8163 + remove 'L' code from safe_sprintf.c, since 'long double' is not
8164 widely portable. safe_sprintf.c is experimental, however, and
8165 exists mainly as a fallback for systems without snprintf (reported
8166 by Martin Mokrejs <mmokrejs@natur.cuni.cz>, for IRIX 6.2)
8167 + modify definition of _nc_tinfo_fkeys in broken-linker configuration
8168 so that it is not unnecessarily made extern (Jeffrey C Honig).
8171 + move definition for builtin.h in configure tests to specific check
8172 for libg++, since qt uses the same filename incompatibly.
8173 + correct logic of lib_termcap.c tgetstr function, which did not copy
8174 the result to the buffer parameter. Testing shows Solaris does
8175 update this, though of course tgetent's buffer is untouched (reported
8176 in Peter Edwards <peter.edwards@ireland.com> in
8177 mpc.lists.freebsd.current newsgroup.
8178 + corrected beterm terminfo entry, which lists some capabilities which
8179 are not actually provided by the BeOS Terminal.
8180 + add special logic to replace select() calls on BeOS, whose select()
8181 function works only for sockets.
8182 + correct missing escape in mkterm.h.awk.in, which caused part
8183 of the copyright noticed to be omitted (reported by Peter
8184 Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>).
8185 > several small changes to make the c++ binding and demo work on OS/2
8186 EMX (related to a clean reinstall of EMX):
8187 + correct library-prefix for c++ binding; none is needed.
8188 + add $x suffix to make_hash and make_keys so 'make distclean' works.
8189 + correct missing $x suffix for tack, c++ demo executables.
8190 + split CF_CXX_LIBRARY into CF_GPP_LIBRARY (for -lg++) and
8191 CF_STDCPP_LIBRARY (for -lstdc++)
8194 + add cygwin terminfo entry -TD
8195 + modify CF_PROG_EXT configure macro to set .exe extension for cygwin.
8196 + add configure option --without-cxx-binding, modifying the existing
8197 --without-cxx option to check only for the C++ compiler
8198 characteristics. Whether or not the C++ binding is needed, the
8199 configure script checks for the size/type of bool, to make ncurses
8200 match. Otherwise C++ applications cannot use ncurses.
8203 + updated configure macros CF_MAKEFLAGS, CF_CHECK_ERRNO
8204 + minor corrections to beterm terminfo entry.
8205 + modify lib_setup.c to reject values of $TERM which have a '/' in
8207 + add ifdef's to guard against CS5, CS6, CS7, CS8 being zero, as more
8208 than one is on BeOS. That would break a switch statement.
8209 + add configure macro CF_LINK_FUNCS to detect and work around BeOS's
8210 nonfunctional link().
8211 + improved configure macros CF_BOOL_DECL and CF_BOOL_SIZE to detect
8212 BeOS's bool, which is declared as an unsigned char.
8215 + add ms-vt100 terminfo entry -TD
8216 + minor fixes for misc/emx.src, based on testing with tack.
8217 + minor fix for test/ncurses.c, test 'a', in case ncv is not set.
8220 + minor correction for 'screen' terminfo entry.
8221 + clarify description of errret values for setupterm in manpage.
8222 + modify tput to allow it to emit capabilities for hardcopy terminals
8223 (patch by Goran Uddeborg <goeran@uddeborg.pp.se>).
8224 + modify the 'o' (panel) test in ncurses.c to show the panels in color
8225 or at least in bold, to test Juergen's change to wrefresh().
8226 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
8227 + Fixes a problem using wbkgdset() with panels. It has actually
8228 nothing to with panels but is a problem in the implementation of
8229 wrefresh(). Whenever a window changes its background attribute to
8230 something different than newscr's background attribute, the whole
8231 window is touched to force a copy to newscr. This is an unwanted
8232 side-effect of wrefresh() and it is actually not necessary. A
8233 changed background attribute affects only further outputs of
8234 background it doesn't mean anything to the current content of the
8235 window. So there is no need to force a copy. (reported by Frank
8236 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>).
8237 + an upward compatible enhancement of the NCursesPad class in the C++
8238 binding. It allows one to add a "viewport" window to a pad and then
8239 to use panning to view the pad through the viewport window.
8242 + suppress a call to def_prog_mode() in the SIGTSTP handler if the
8243 signal was received while not in curses mode, e.g., endwin() was
8244 called in preparation for spawning a shell command (reported by Frank
8245 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>)
8246 + corrected/enhanced xterm-r5, xterm+sl, xterm+sl-twm terminfo entries.
8247 + change test for xterm mouse capability: it now checks only if the
8248 user's $DISPLAY variable is set in conjunction with the kmous
8249 capability being present in the terminfo. Before, it checked if any
8250 of "xterm", "rxvt" or "kterm" were substrings of the terminal name.
8251 However, some emulators which are incompatible with xterm in other
8252 ways do support the xterm mouse capability.
8253 + reviewed and made minor changes in ncurses to quiet g++ warnings
8254 about shadowed or uninitialized variables. g++ incorrectly warns
8255 about uninitialized variables because it does not take into account
8256 short-circuit expression evaluation.
8257 + change ncurses 'b' test to start in color pair 0 and to show in the
8258 right margin those attributes which are suppressed by no_color_video,
8260 + modify ifdef's in curses.h so that __attribute__ is not redefined
8261 when compiling with g++, but instead disabled the macros derived for
8262 __attribute__ since g++ does not consistently recognize the same
8263 keywords as gcc (reported by Stephan K Zitz <zitz@erf.net>).
8264 + update dependencies for term.h in ncurses/modules (reported by
8268 + modify the form demo in ncurses.c to illustrate how to manipulate the
8269 field appearance, e.g, for highlighting or translating the field
8271 + correct logic in write_entry from split-out of home_terminfo in
8272 980919, which prevented update of $HOME/.terminfo (reported by Philip
8273 Spencer <pspencer@fields.utoronto.ca>).
8276 + modify linux terminfo description to make use of kernel 2.2.x mods
8277 that support cursor style, e.g., to implement cvvis (patch by Frank
8278 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>)
8279 + add special-case in setupterm to retain previously-saved terminal
8280 settings in cur_term, which happens when curses and termcap calls are
8281 mixed (from report by Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@dhc.net>).
8282 + suppress initialization of key-tries in _nc_keypad() if we are only
8283 disabling keypad mode, e.g., in endwin() called when keypad() was
8285 + modify the Ada95 makefile to ensure that always the Ada files from
8286 the development tree are used for building and not the eventually
8287 installed ones (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
8290 + use TTY definition in tack/sysdep.c rather than struct termios
8291 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
8292 + add a fallback for strstr, used in lib_mvcur.c and tack/edit.c,
8293 not present on sysV68 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
8294 + correct definition in comp_hash.c to build with configure
8295 --with-rcs-ids option.
8298 + modified ifdef's for sigaction and sigvec to ensure we do not try to
8299 handle SIGTSTP if neither is available (from report by Philippe De
8301 > patch by Philippe De Muyter:
8302 + in tic.c, use `unlink' if `remove' is not available.
8303 + use only `unsigned' as fallback value for `speed_t'. Some files used
8307 + fix some compiler warnings in tack.
8308 + add a check for predefined bool type in CC, based on report that
8309 BeOS predefines a bool type.
8310 + correct logic for infocmp -e option, i.e., the configure
8311 --with-fallbacks option, which I'd not updated when implementing
8312 extended names (cf: 990301). The new implementation adds a "-E"
8313 option to infocmp -TD
8314 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
8315 + introduce the private type Curses_Bool in the Ada95 binding
8316 implementation. This is to clearly represent the use of "bool" also
8317 in the binding. It should have no effect on the generated code.
8318 + improve the man page for field_buffer() to tell the people, that the
8319 whole buffer including leading/trailing spaces is returned. This is
8320 a common source of confusion, so it's better to document it clearly.
8323 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
8324 + use pragma PreElaborate in several places.
8325 + change a few System.Address uses to more specific types.
8326 + change interface version-number to 1.0
8327 + regenerate Ada95 HTML files.
8330 + modify lib_endwin.c to avoid calling reset_shell_mode(), return ERR
8331 if it appears that curses was never initialized, e.g., by initscr().
8332 For instance, this guards against setting the terminal modes to
8333 strange values if endwin() is called after setupterm(). In the same
8334 context, Solaris curses will dump core.
8335 + modify logic that avoids a conflict in lib_vidattr.c between sgr0 and
8336 equivalent values in rmso or rmul by ensuring we do not modify the
8337 data which would be returned by the terminfo or termcap interfaces
8338 (reported by Brad Pepers <brad@linuxcanada.com>, cf: 960706).
8339 + add a null-pointer check for SP in lib_vidattr.c to logic that checks
8341 + improve fallback declaration of 'bool' when the --without-cxx option
8342 is given, by using a 'char' on i386 and related hosts (prompted by
8343 discussion with Alexander V Lukyanov).
8346 + include time.h in lib_napms.c if nanosleep is used (patch by
8347 R Lindsay Todd <toddr@rpi.edu>).
8348 + add an "#undef bool" to curses.h, in case someone tries to define it,
8350 + add check to tparm to guard against divide by zero (reported by Aaron
8351 Campbell <aaron@ug.cs.dal.ca>).
8354 + minor fix to build tack on CLIX (mismatched const).
8355 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
8356 + change Juergen's old email address with new one in the files where it
8357 is referenced. The Ada95 HTML pages are regenerated.
8358 + update MANIFEST to list the tack files.
8361 + minor fixes to make 'tack' build/link on NeXT (reported by Francisco
8365 + add 'tack' program (which is GPL'd), updating it to work with the
8366 modified TERMTYPE struct and making a fix to support setaf/setab
8367 capabilities. Note that the tack program is not part of the
8368 ncurses libraries, but an application which can be distributed with
8369 ncurses. The configure script will ignore the directory if it is
8371 + modify gpm mouse support so that buttons 2 and 3 are used for
8372 select/paste only when shift key is pressed, making them available
8373 for use by an application (patch by Klaus Weide).
8374 + add complete list of function keys to scoansi terminfo entry - TD
8377 + add a simple test program cardfile.c to illustrate how to read form
8378 fields, and showing forms within panels.
8379 + change shared-library versioning for the Hurd to be like Linux rather
8380 than *BSD (patch by Mark Kettenis <kettenis@wins.uva.nl>).
8381 + add linux-lat terminfo entry.
8382 + back-out _nc_access check in read_termcap.c (both incorrect and
8383 unnecessary, except to guard against a small window where the file's
8384 ownership may change).
8387 + remove conflicting _nc_free_termtype() function from test module
8389 + use _nc_access check in read_termcap.c for termpaths[] array (noted
8390 by Jeremy Buhler, indicating that Alan Cox made a similar patch).
8391 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
8392 + modify menu creation to not inherit status flag from the default menu
8393 which says that the associated marker string has been allocated and
8394 should be freed (bug reported by Marek Paliwoda"
8395 <paliwoda@kki.net.pl>)
8397 990327 pre-release (alpha.gnu.org:/gnu/ncurses-5.0-beta1.tar.gz)
8398 + minor fixes to xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry - TD.
8399 + split up an expression in configure script check for ldconfig to
8400 workaround limitation of BSD/OS sh (reported by Jeff Haas
8401 <jmh@mail.msen.com>).
8402 + correct a typo in man/form_hook.3x (Todd C Miller).
8405 + parenthesize and undef 'index' symbol in c++ binding and demo, to
8406 accommodate its definition on NeXT (reported by Francisco A. Tomei
8408 + add sigismember() to base/sigaction.c compatibility to link on NeXT
8409 (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
8410 + further refinements to inequality in hashmap.c to cover a case with
8411 ^U in nvi (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
8414 + add fallback definition for getcwd, to link on NeXT.
8415 + add a copy of cur_term to tic.c to make it link properly on NeXT
8416 (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
8417 + change inequality in hashmap.c which checks the distance traveled by
8418 a chunk so that ^D command in nvi (scrolls 1/2 screen) will use
8419 scrolling logic (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov, reported by Jeffrey
8423 + modify lib_color.c to handle a special case where the curscr
8424 attributes have been made obsolete (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
8425 + update BSD/OS console terminfo entries to use klone+sgr and
8426 klone+color (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
8427 + update glibc addon configure script for extended capabilities.
8428 + correct a couple of warnings in the --enable-const configuration.
8429 + make comp_hash build properly with _nc_strdup(), on NeXT (reported by
8430 Francisco A. Tomei Torres <francisco.tomei@cwix.com>).
8433 + correct typos in linux-c initc string - TD
8434 + add 'crt' terminfo entry, update xterm-xfree86 entry - TD
8435 + remove a spurious argument to tparm() in lib_sklrefr.c (patch by
8436 Alexander V Lukyanov).
8439 + back-out change to wgetch because it causes a problem with ^Z
8440 handling in lynx (reported by Kim DeVaughn).
8443 + add -G option to tic and infocmp, to reverse the "-g" option.
8444 + recode functions in name_match.c to avoid use of strncpy, which
8445 caused a 4-fold slowdown in tic (cf: 980530).
8446 + correct a few warnings about sign-extension in recent changes.
8447 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
8448 + fixes suggested by Jeff Bradbury <jibradbury@lucent.com>:
8449 + improved parameter checking in new_fieldtype().
8450 + fixed a typo in wgetch() timeout handling.
8451 + allow slk_init() to be called per newterm call. The internal SLK
8452 state is stored in the SCREEN struct after every newterm() and then
8453 reset for the next newterm.
8454 + fix the problem that a slk_refresh() refreshes stdscr if the
8455 terminal has true SLKs.
8456 + update HTML documentation for Ada binding.
8459 + remove 'bool' casts from definitions of TRUE/FALSE so that statements
8460 such as "#if TRUE" work. This was originally done to allow for a C++
8461 compiler which would warn of implicit conversions between enum and
8462 int, but is not needed for g++ (reported by Kim DeVaughn).
8463 + add use_extended_names() function to allow applications to suppress
8464 read of the extended capabilities.
8465 + add configure option --enable-tcap-names to support logic which
8466 allows ncurses' tic to define new (i.e., extended) terminal
8467 capabilities. This is activated by the tic -x switch. The infocmp
8468 program automatically shows or compares extended capabilities.
8469 Note: This changes the Strings and similar arrays in the TERMTYPE
8470 struct so that applications which manipulate it must be recompiled.
8471 + use macros typeMalloc, typeCalloc and typeRealloc consistently
8472 throughout ncurses library.
8473 + add _nc_strdup() to doalloc.c.
8474 + modify define_key() to allow multiple strings to be bound to the
8476 + correct logic error in _nc_remove_string, from 990220.
8477 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
8478 + regenerate some of the html documentation
8479 + minor cleanup in terminal_interface-curses.adb
8482 + resolve ambiguity of kend/kll/kslt and khome/kfnd/kich1 strings in
8483 xterm and ncsa terminfo entries by removing the unneeded ones. Note
8484 that some entries will return kend & khome versus kslt and kfnd, for
8485 PC-style keyboards versus strict vt220 compatiblity - TD
8486 + add function keybound(), which returns the definition associated with
8488 + modify define_key() to undefine the given string when no keycode is
8490 + modify keyok() so it works properly if there is more than one string
8491 defined for a keycode.
8492 + add check to tic to warn about terminfo descriptions that contain
8493 more than one key assigned to the same string. This is shown only if
8494 the verbose (-v) option is given. Moved related logic (tic -v) from
8495 comp_parse.c into the tic program.
8496 + add/use _nc_trace_tries() to show the function keys that will be
8498 + rename init_acs to _nc_init_acs (request by Alexander V Lukyanov).
8499 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
8500 + remove all the *_adabind.c from ncurses, menu and form projects.
8501 Those little helper routines have all been implemented in Ada and are
8503 + The option handling routines in menu and form have been made more
8504 save. They now make sure that the unused bits in options are always
8506 + modify configuration scripts to
8507 + use gnatmake as default compiler name. This is a safer choice than
8508 gcc, because some GNAT implementations use other names for the
8509 compilerdriver to avoid conflicts.
8510 + use new default installation locations for the Ada files according
8511 to the proposed GNU Ada filesystem standard (for Linux).
8512 + simplify the Makefiles for the Ada binding
8513 + rename ada_include directory to src.
8516 + enable sigwinch handler by default.
8517 + disable logic that allows setbuf to be turned off/on, because some
8518 implementations will overrun the buffer after it has been disabled
8522 + suppress sc/rc capabilities from terminal description if they appear
8523 in smcup/rmcup. This affects only scrolling optimization, to fix a
8524 problem reported by several people with xterm's alternate screen,
8525 though the problem is more general.
8526 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
8527 + removed all pragma Preelaborate() stuff, because the just released
8528 gnat-3.11p complains on some constructs.
8529 + fixed some upper/lower case notations because gnat-3.11p found
8531 + used a new method to generate the HTML documentation of the Ada95
8532 binding. This invalidates nearly the whole ./Ada95/html subtree.
8533 Nearly all current files in this subtree are removed
8536 + cache last result from _nc_baudrate, for performance (suggested by
8537 Alexander V Lukyanov).
8538 + modify ClrUpdate() function to workaround a problem in nvi, which
8539 uses redrawwin in SIGTSTP handling. Jeffrey C Honig reported that
8540 ncurses repainted the screen with nulls before resuming normal
8541 operation (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
8542 + generalize is_xterm() function a little by letting xterm/rxvt/kterm
8543 be any substring rather than the prefix.
8544 + modify lib_data.c to initialize SP. Some linkers, e.g., IBM's, will
8545 not link a module if the only symbols exported from the module are
8546 uninitialized ones (patch by Ilya Zakharevich). Ilya says that he
8547 has seen messages claiming this behavior conforms to the standard.)
8548 + move call on _nc_signal_handler past _nc_initscr, to avoid a small
8549 window where Nttyb hasn't yet been filled (reported by Klaus Weide).
8550 + modify lib_tstp.c to block SIGTTOU when handling SIGTSTP, fixes a
8551 problem where ncurses applications which were run via a shell script
8552 would hang when given a ^Z. Also, check if the terminal's process
8553 group is consistent, i.e., a shell has not taken ownership of it,
8554 before deciding to save the current terminal settings in the SIGTSTP
8555 handler (patch by Klaus Weide).
8556 + correct spelling of ACS_ names in curs_border.3x (reported by Bob van
8557 der Poel <bvdpoel@kootenay.com>).
8558 + correct a couple of typos in the macros supporting the configure
8559 --with-shlib-version option.
8562 + modify fty_regex.c to compile on HAVE_REGEXPR_H_FUNCS machine (patch
8563 by Kimio Ishii <ishii@csl.sony.co.jp>).
8564 + rename BSDI console terminfo entries: bsdos to bsdos-pc-nobold, and
8565 bsdos-bold to bsdos-pc (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
8566 + modify tput to accept termcap names as an alternative to terminfo
8567 names (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
8568 + correct a typo in term.7 (Todd C Miller).
8569 + add configure --with-shlib-version option to allow installing shared
8570 libraries named according to release or ABI versions. This
8571 parameterizes some existing logic in the configure script, and is
8572 intended for compatiblity upgrades on Digital Unix, which used
8573 versioned libraries in ncurses 4.2, but no longer does (cf: 980425).
8574 + resync configure script against autoconf 2.13 + patches
8575 + minor improvements for teraterm terminfo entry based on the program's
8576 source distribution.
8579 + change default for configure --enable-big-core to assume machines do
8580 have enough memory to resolve terminfo.src in-memory.
8581 + correct name of ncurses library in TEST_ARGS when configuring with
8583 + minor fixes to compile ncurses library with broken-linker with g++.
8584 + add --enable-broken-linker configure option, default to environment
8585 variable $BROKEN_LINKER (request by Jeffrey C Honig).
8586 + change key_names[] array to static since it is not part of the curses
8587 interface (reported by Jeffrey C Honig <jch@bsdi.com>).
8590 + add Tera Term terminfo entry - TD
8593 + reviewed/corrected macros in curses.h as per XSI document.
8594 + provide support for termcap PC variable by copying it from terminfo
8595 data and using it as the padding character in tputs (reported by
8596 Alexander V Lukyanov).
8597 + corrected iris-ansi and iris-ansi-ap terminfo entries for kent and
8598 kf9-kf12 capabilities, as well as adding kcbt.
8599 + document the mouse handling mechanism in menu_driver and make a small
8600 change in menu_driver's return codes to provide more consistency
8601 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
8602 + add fallback definition for NCURSES_CONST to termcap.h.in (reported
8603 by Uchiyama Yasushi <uch@nop.or.jp>).
8604 + move lib_restart.c to ncurses/base, since it uses curses functions
8605 directly, and therefore cannot be used in libtinfo.so
8606 + rename micro_char_size to micro_col_size, adding #define to retain
8608 + add set_a_attributes and set_pglen_inch to terminfo structure, as per
8609 XSI and Solaris 2.5.
8610 + minor makefile files to build ncurses test_progs
8611 + update html files in misc directory to reflect changes since 4.2
8614 + disable scroll hints when hashmap is enabled (patch by Alexander
8616 + move logic for tic's verify of -e option versus -I and -C so that the
8617 terminfo data is not processed if we cannot handle -e (reported by
8618 Steven Schwartz <steves@unitrends.com>.
8619 + add test-driver traces to terminfo and termcap functions.
8620 + provide support for termcap ospeed variable by copying it from the
8621 internal cur_term member, and using ospeed as the baudrate reference
8622 for the delay_output and tputs functions. If an application does not
8623 set ospeed, the library behaves as before, except that _nc_timed_wait
8624 is no longer used, or needed, since ospeed always has a value. But
8625 the application can modify ospeed to adjust the output of padding
8626 characters (prompted by a bug report for screen 3.7.6 and email from
8627 Michael Schroeder <Michael.Schroeder@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>).
8628 + removed some unused ifdef's as part of Alexander's restructuring.
8629 + reviewed/updated curses.h, term.h against X/Open Curses Issue 4
8630 Version 2. This includes making some parameters NCURSES_CONST
8631 rather than const, e.g., in termcap.h.
8632 + change linux terminfo entry to use ncv#2, since underline does not
8636 + miscellaneous corrections for curses.h to match XSI.
8637 + change --enable-no-padding configure option to be normally enabled.
8638 + add section to ncurses manpage for environment variables.
8639 + investigated Debian bug report that pertains to screen 3.7.4/3.7.6
8640 changes, found no sign of problems on Linux (or on SunOS, Solaris)
8641 running screen built with ncurses.
8642 + check if tmp_fp is opened in tic.c before closing it (patch by Pavel
8643 Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>).
8644 + correct several font specification typos in man-pages.
8647 + correct default value for BUILD_CC (reported by Larry Virden).
8650 + modify _nc_set_writedir() to set a flag in _nc_tic_dir() to prevent
8651 it from changing the terminfo directory after chdir'ing to it.
8652 Otherwise, a relative path in $TERMINFO would confuse tic (prompted
8653 by a Debian bug report).
8654 + correct/update ncsa terminfo entry (report by Larry Virden).
8655 + update xterm-xfree86 terminfo to current (patch 90), smcur/rmcur
8657 + add Mathew Vernon's mach console entries to terminfo.src
8658 + more changes, moving functions, as part of Alexander's restructuring.
8659 + modify configure script for GNU/Hurd share-library support, introduce
8660 BUILD_CC variable for cross compiling (patch by Uchiyama Yasushi
8664 + add environment variable NCURSES_NO_SETBUF to allow disabling the
8665 setbuf feature, for testing purposes.
8666 + correct ifdef's for termcap.h versus term.h that suppress redundant
8667 declarations of prototypes (reported by H.J.Lu).
8668 + modify Makefile.os2 to add linker flags which allow multiple copies
8669 of an application to coexist (reported by Ilya Zakharevich).
8670 + update Makefile.glibc and associated configure script so that ncurses
8671 builds as a glibc add-on with the new directory configuration
8672 (reported by H.J.Lu).
8675 + modify gen_reps() function in gen.c to work properly on SunOS
8676 (sparc), which is a left-to-right architecture.
8677 + modify relative_move and tputs to avoid an interaction with the
8678 BSD-style padding. The relative_move function could produce a string
8679 to replace on the screen which began with a numeric character, which
8680 was then interpreted by tputs as padding. Now relative_move will not
8681 generate a string with a leading digit in that case (overwrite).
8682 Also, tputs will only interpret padding if the string begins with a
8683 digit; as coded it permitted a string to begin with a decimal point
8684 or asterisk (reported by Larry Virden).
8685 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
8686 + fix a typo in m_driver.c mouse handling and improves the error
8688 + fix broken mouse handling in the Ada95 binding
8689 + make the Ada95 sample application menus work with the new menu mouse
8691 + improve the mouse handling introduced by Ilya; it now handles menus
8693 + repair a minor bug in the menu_driver code discovered during this
8695 + add new function wmouse_trafo() to hide implementation details of
8696 _yoffset member of WINDOW struct needed for mouse coordinate
8700 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to avoid using return-value of sprintf, since
8701 some older implementations (e.g., SunOS 4.x) return the buffer
8702 address rather than its length.
8703 > patch by Rick Ohnemus:
8704 + modify demo.cc to get it to compile with newer versions of egcs.
8705 + trim a space that appears at the end of the table preprocessor lines
8706 ('\" t). This space prevents some versions of man from displaying
8707 the pages - changed to remove all trailing whitespace (TD)
8708 + finally, 'make clean' does not remove panel objects.
8709 > patches by Ilya Zakharevich:
8710 + allow remapping of OS/2 mouse buttons using environment variable
8711 MOUSE_BUTTONS_123 with the default value 132.
8712 + add mouse support to ncurses menus.
8715 + modify misc/makedef.cmd to report old-style .def file symbols, and to
8716 generate the .def files sorted by increasing names rather than the
8718 + add misc/*.ref which are J.J.G.Ripoll's dll definition files (renamed
8719 from misc/*.old), and updated based on the entrypoint coding he used
8720 for an older version of ncurses.
8721 + add README.emx, to document how to build on OS/2 EMX.
8722 + updates for config.guess, config.sub from Lynx
8723 > patches by Ilya Zakharevich:
8724 + minor fixes for mouse handling mode:
8725 a) Do not initialize mouse if the request is to have no mouse;
8726 b) Allow switching of OS/2 VIO mouse on and off.
8727 + modify Makefile.os2 to support alternative means of generating
8728 configure script, by translating Unix script with Perl.
8729 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
8730 + Updates MANIFEST to reflect changes in source structure
8731 + Eliminates a problem introduced with my last patch for the C++
8732 binding in the panels code. It removes the update() call done in the
8734 + Changes in the Ada95 binding to better support systems where
8735 sizeof(chtype)!=sizeof(int) (e.g. DEC Alpha).
8738 + modify install-script for manpages to skip over .orig and .rej files
8739 (request by Larry Virden).
8740 > patches/discussion by Alexander V Lukyanov:
8741 + move base-library sources into ncurses/base and tty (serial terminal)
8742 sources into ncurses/tty, as part of Alexander V Lukyanov's proposed
8743 changes to ncurses library.
8744 + copy _tracemouse() into ncurses.c so that lib_tracemse.c need not
8745 be linked into the normal ncurses library.
8746 + move macro winch to a function, to hide details of struct ldat
8747 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
8748 + fix a potential compile problem in cursesw.cc
8749 + some Ada95 cosmetics
8750 + fix a gen.c problem when compiling on 64-Bit machines
8751 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in "-L" linker switch
8752 + modify Ada95 makefiles to use the INSTALL_PREFIX setting.
8755 + ifdef'd out lib_freeall.c when not configured.
8756 + rename _tracebits() to _nc_tracebits().
8757 + move terminfo-library sources into ncurses/tinfo, and trace-support
8758 functions into ncurses/trace as part of Alexander V Lukyanov's
8759 proposed changes to ncurses library.
8760 + modify generated term.h to always specify its own definitions for
8761 HAVE_TERMIOS_H, etc., to guard against inclusion by programs with
8762 broken configure scripts.
8765 + modify terminfo parsing to accept octal and hexadecimal constants,
8767 + remove an autoconf 2.10 artifact from the configure script's check
8768 for "-g" compiler options. (Though harmless, this confused someone
8769 at Debian, who recently issued a patch that results in the opposite
8771 + add configure option --with-ada-compiler to accommodate installations
8772 that do not use gcc as the driver for GNAT (patch by Juergen
8776 + ensure ./man exists in configure script, needed when configuring
8777 with --srcdir option.
8778 + modify infocmp "-r" option to remove limit on formatted termcap
8779 output, which makes it more like Solaris' version.
8780 + modify captoinfo to treat no-argument case more like Solaris'
8781 version, which uses the contents of $TERMCAP as the entry to format.
8782 + modify mk-2nd.awk to handle subdirectories, e.g., ncurses/tty
8783 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
8786 + modify --with-terminfo-dirs option so that the default value is the
8787 ${datadir} value, unless $TERMINFO_DIRS is already set. This gets
8788 rid of a hardcoded list of candidate directories in the configure
8790 + add some error-checking to _nc_read_file_entry() to ensure that
8791 strings are properly terminated (Todd C Miller).
8792 + rename manpage file curs_scr_dmp.3x to curs_scr_dump.3x, to
8793 correspond with contents (reported by Neil Zanella
8794 <nzanella@cs.mun.ca>).
8795 + remove redundant configure check for C++ which did not work when $CXX
8796 was specified with a full pathname (reported by Andreas Jaeger).
8797 + corrected bcopy/memmove check; the macro was not standalone.
8800 + remove unnecessary portion of OS/2 EMX mouse change from
8801 check_pending() (reported by Alexander V Lukyanov).
8804 + implement mouse support for OS/2 EMX (adapted from patch against
8805 4.2(?) by Ilya Zakharevich).
8806 + add configure-check for bcopy/memmove, for 980919 changes to hashmap.
8807 + merge Data General terminfo from Hasufin <hasufin@vidnet.net> - TD
8808 + merge AIX 3.2.5 terminfo descriptions for IBM terminals, replaces
8809 some older entries - TD
8810 + modify tic to compile into %'char' form in preference to %{number},
8811 since that is a little more efficient.
8812 + minor correction to infocmp to avoid displaying "difference" between
8813 two capabilities that are rendered in equivalent forms.
8814 + add "-g" option to tic/infocmp to force character constants to be
8815 displayed in quoted form. Otherwise their decimal values are shown.
8816 + modify setupterm so that cancelled strings are treated the same as
8817 absent strings, cancelled and absent booleans false (does not affect
8819 + modify tic, infocmp to discard redundant i3, r3 strings when output
8821 > patch by Alexander V Lukyanov:
8822 + improve performance of tparm, now it takes 19% instead of 25% when
8824 + rename maxlen/minlen to prec/width for better readability.
8825 + use format string for printing strings.
8826 + use len argument correctly in save_text, and pass it to save_number.
8829 + make test_progs compile (but hashmap does not function).
8830 + correct NC_BUFFERED macro, used in lib_mvcur test-driver, modify
8831 associated logic to avoid freeing the SP->_setbuf data.
8832 + add modules home_terminfo and getenv_num to libtinfo.
8833 + move write_entry to libtinfo, to work with termcap caching.
8834 + minor fixes to blue.c to build with atac.
8835 + remove softscroll.c module; no longer needed for testing.
8836 > patches by Todd C Miller:
8837 + use strtol(3) instead of atoi(3) when parsing env variables so we can
8838 detect a bogus (non-numeric) value.
8839 + check for terminal names > MAX_NAME_SIZE in a few more places when
8840 dealing with env variables again.
8841 + fix a MAX_NAME_SIZE that should be MAX_NAME_SIZE+1
8842 + use sizeof instead of strlen(3) on PRIVATE_INFO since it is a fixed
8843 string #define (compile time vs runtime).
8844 + when setting errno to ENOMEM, set it right before the return, not
8845 before code that could, possibly, set errno to a different value.
8846 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
8847 + use default background in update_cost_from_blank()
8848 + disable scroll-hints when hashmap is configured.
8849 + improve integration of hashmap scrolling code, by adding oldhash and
8850 newhash data to SP struct.
8851 + invoke del_curterm from delscreen.
8852 + modify del_curterm to set cur_term to null if it matches the
8853 function's parameter which is deleted.
8854 + modify lib_doupdate to prefer parm_ich to the enter_insert_mode and
8855 exit_insert_mode combination, adjusting InsCharCost to check
8856 enter_insert_mode, exit_insert_mode and insert_padding. Add
8857 insert_padding in insert mode after each char. This adds new costs
8861 + modify test-driver in lib_mvcur.s to use _nc_setbuffer, for
8862 consistent treatment.
8863 + modify ncurses to restore output to unbuffered on endwin, and resume
8864 buffering in refresh (see lib_set_term.c and NC_BUFFERED macro).
8865 + corrected HTML version numbers (according to the W3C validator, they
8866 never were HTML 2.0-compliant, but are acceptable 3.0).
8869 + modify MKterminfo.sh to generate terminfo.5 with tables sorted by
8870 capability name, as in SVr4.
8871 + modified term.h, termcap.h headers to avoid redundant declarations.
8872 + change 'u_int' type in tset.c to unsigned, making this compile on
8873 Sequent PRX 4.1 (reported by Michael Sterrett <msterret@coat.com>).
8876 + corrections to mailing addresses, and moving the magic line that
8877 causes the man program to invoke tbl to the first line of each
8878 manpage (patch by Rick Ohnemus <rick@ecompcon.com>).
8879 + add Makefile.os2 and supporting scripts to generate dll's on OS/2 EMX
8880 (from J.J.G.Ripoll, with further integration by TD).
8881 + correct a typo in icl6404 terminfo entry.
8882 + add xtermm and xtermc terminfo entries.
8883 > from esr's terminfo version:
8884 + Added Francesco Potorti's tuned Wyse 99 entries.
8885 + dtterm enacs (from Alexander V Lukyanov).
8886 + Add ncsa-ns, ncsa-m-ns and ncsa-m entries from esr version.
8889 + document AT&T acs characters in terminfo.5 manpage.
8890 + use EMX _scrsize() function if terminfo and environment do not
8891 declare the screen size (reported by Ilya Zakharevich
8892 <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>).
8893 + remove spurious '\' characters from eterm and osborne terminfo
8894 entries (prompted by an old Debian bug report).
8895 + correct reversed malloc/realloc calls in _nc_doalloc (reported by
8896 Hans-Joachim Widmaier <hjwidmai@foxboro.com>).
8897 + correct misplaced parenthesis which caused file-descriptor from
8898 opening termcap to be lost, from 980725 changes (reported by Andreas
8902 + modify lib_setup.c to eliminate unneeded include of <sys/ioctl.h>
8903 when termios is not used (patch by Todd C Miller).
8904 + add function _nc_doalloc, to ensure that failed realloc calls do not
8905 leak memory (reported by Todd C Miller).
8906 + improved ncsa-telnet terminfo entry.
8909 + correct missing braces around a trace statement in read_entry.c,
8910 from 980808 (reported by Kim DeVaughn <kimdv@best.com> and Liviu
8914 + fix missing include <errno.h> in ditto.c (reported by Bernhard
8915 Rosenkraenzer <bero@k5.sucks.eu.org>)
8916 + add NCSA telnet terminfo entries from Francesco Potorti
8917 <F.Potorti@cnuce.cnr.it>, from Debian bug reports.
8918 + make handling of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables more compatible with
8919 Solaris by allowing them to individually override the window size
8920 as obtained via ioctl.
8923 + modify lib_vidattr.c to allow for terminal types (e.g., xterm-color)
8924 which may reset all attributes in the 'op' capability, so that colors
8925 are set before turning on bold and other attributes, but still after
8926 turning attributes off.
8927 + add 'ditto.c' to test directory to illustrate use of newterm for
8928 initializing multiple screens.
8929 + modify _nc_write_entry() to recover from failed attempt to link alias
8930 for a terminfo on a filesystem which does not preserve character case
8931 (reported by Peter L Jordan <PJordan@chla.usc.edu>).
8934 + updated versions of config.guess and config.sub based on automake 1.3
8935 + change name-comparisons in lib_termcap to compare no more than 2
8936 characters (gleaned from Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-8.8, verified
8937 with Solaris curses).
8938 + fix typo in curs_insstr.3x (patch by Todd C Miller)
8939 + use 'access()' to check if ncurses library should be permitted to
8940 open or modify files with fopen/open/link/unlink/remove calls, in
8941 case the calling application is running in setuid mode (request by
8942 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>, responding to Duncan Simpson
8943 <dps@io.stargate.co.uk>).
8944 + arm100 terminfo entries from Dave Millen <dmill@globalnet.co.uk>).
8945 + qnxt2 and minitel terminfo entries from esr's version.
8948 + use -R option with ldconfig on FreeBSD because otherwise it resets
8949 the search path to /usr/lib (reported by Dan Nelson).
8950 + add -soname option when building shared libraries on OpenBSD 2.x
8951 (request by QingLong).
8952 + add configure options --with-manpage-format and
8953 --with-manpage-renames (request by QingLong).
8954 + correct conversion of CANCELLED_NUMERIC in write_object(), which was
8955 omitting the high-order byte, producing a 254 in the compiled
8957 + modify return-values of tgetflag, tgetnum, tgetstr, tigetflag,
8958 tigetnum and tigetstr to be compatible with Solaris (gleaned from
8959 Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-8.8).
8960 + modify _nc_syserr_abort to abort only when compiled for debugging,
8961 otherwise simply exit with an error.
8964 + modify Ada95 'gen' program to use appropriate library suffix (e.g.,
8965 "_g" for a debug build).
8966 + update Ada95 'make clean' rule to include generics .ali files
8967 + add a configure test to ensure that if GNAT is found, that it can
8968 compile/link working Ada95 program.
8969 + flush output in beep and flash functions, fixing a problem with
8970 getstr (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov)
8971 + fix egcs 1.0.2 warning for etip.h (patch by Chris Johns).
8972 + correct ifdef/brace nesting in lib_sprintf.c (patch by Bernhard
8973 Rosenkraenzer <bero@Pool.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>).
8974 + correct typo in wattr_get macro from 980509 fixes (patch by Dan
8978 + merge changes from current XFree86 xterm terminfo descriptions.
8979 + add configure option '--without-ada'.
8980 + add a smart-default for termcap 'ac' to terminfo 'acs_chars' which
8981 corresponds to vt100.
8982 + change translation for termcap 'rs' to terminfo 'rs2', which is
8983 the documented equivalent, rather than 'rs1'.
8986 + slow 'worm' down a little, for very fast machines.
8987 + corrected firstchar/lastchar computation in lib_hline.c
8988 + simplify some expressions with CHANGED_CELL, CHANGED_RANGE and
8989 CHANGED_TO_EOL macros.
8990 + modify init_pair so that if a color-pair is reinitialized, we will
8991 repaint the areas of the screen whose color changes, like SVr4 curses
8992 (reported by Christian Maurer <maurer@inf.fu-berlin.de>).
8993 + modify getsyx/setsyx macros to comply with SVr4 man-page which
8994 says that leaveok() affects their behavior (report by Darryl Miles,
8995 patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
8998 + review terminfo.5 against Solaris 2.6 curses version, corrected
8999 several minor errors/omissions.
9000 + implement tparm %l format.
9001 + implement tparm printf-style width and precision for %s, %d, %x, %o
9003 + implement tparm dynamic variables (reported by Xiaodan Tang).
9006 + update man-page for for wattr_set, wattr_get (cf: 980509)
9007 + correct limits in hashtest, which would cause nonprinting characters
9008 to be written to large screens.
9009 + correct configure script, when --without-cxx was specified: the
9010 wrong variable was used for cf_cv_type_of_bool. Compilers up to gcc
9011 2.8 tolerated the missing 'int'.
9012 + remove the hardcoded name "gcc" for the GNU Ada compiler. The
9013 compiler's name might be something like "egcs" (patch by Juergen
9015 + correct curs_addch.3x, which implied that echochar could directly
9016 display control characters (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
9017 + fix typos in ncurses-intro.html (patch by Sidik Isani
9018 <isani@cfht.hawaii.edu>)
9021 + add configure test for conflicting use of exception in math.h and
9023 + minor optimization to 'hash()' function in hashmap.c, reduces its
9025 + correct form of LD_SHARED_OPTS for HP-UX 10.x (patch by Tim Mooney).
9026 + fix missing quotes for 'print' in MKunctrl.awk script (reported by
9027 Mihai Budiu <mihaib@gs41.sp.cs.cmu.edu>).
9028 > patch by Alexander V Lukyanov:
9029 + correct problem on Solaris (with poll() function) where getch could
9030 hang indefinitely even if timeout(x) was called. This turned out to
9031 be because milliseconds was not updated before 'goto retry' in
9033 + simplified the function _nc_timed_wait and fixed another bug, which
9034 was the assumption of !GOOD_SELECT && HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY in *timeleft
9036 + removed the cycle on EINTR, as it seems to be useless.
9039 + add makefile-rule for test/keynames
9040 + modify run_tic.sh and shlib to ensure that user's .profile does not
9041 override the $PATH used to run tic (patch by Tim Mooney).
9042 + restore LD_SHARED_OPTS to $(LD_SHARED_FLAGS) when linking programs,
9043 needed for HP-UX shared-library path (recommended by Tim Mooney).
9044 + remove special case of HP-UX -L options, use +b options to embed
9045 $(libdir) in the shared libraries (recommended by Tim Mooney).
9046 + add checks for some possible buffer overflows and unchecked
9047 malloc/realloc/calloc/strdup return values (patch by Todd C Miller
9048 <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>)
9051 + correct maxx/maxy expression for num_columns/num_lines in derwin
9052 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
9053 + add /usr/share/lib/terminfo and /usr/lib/terminfo as compatibilty
9054 fallbacks to _nc_read_entry(), along with --with-terminfo-dirs
9055 configure option (suggested by Mike Hopkirk).
9056 + modify config.guess to recognize Unixware 2.1 and 7 (patch by Mike
9057 Hopkirk <hops@sco.com>).
9058 + suppress definition of CC_SHARED_OPTS in LDFLAGS_SHARED in c++
9059 Makefile.in, since this conflicts when g++ is used with HP-UX
9060 compiler (reported by Tim Mooney).
9061 + parenthesize 'strcpy' calls in c++ binding to workaround redefinition
9062 in some C++ implementations (reported by several people running
9063 egcs with glibc 2.0.93, analysis by Andreas Jaeger.
9066 + modify write_entry.c so that it will not attempt to link aliases
9067 with embedded '/', but give only a warning.
9068 + put -L$(libdir) first when linking programs, except for HP-UX.
9069 + modify comp_scan.c to handle SVr4 terminfo description for att477,
9070 which contains a colon in the description field.
9071 + modify configure script to support SCO osr5.0.5 shared libraries,
9072 from comp.unix.sco.programmer newsgroup item (Mike Hopkirk).
9073 + eliminate extra GoTo call in lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V.
9075 + minor adjustments of const/NCURSES_CONST from IRIX compile.
9076 + add updates based on esr's 980509 version of terminfo.src.
9079 + correct macros for wattr_set, wattr_get, separate wattrset macro from
9080 these to preserve behavior that allows attributes to be combined with
9082 + add configure option --enable-no-padding, to allow environment
9083 variable $NCURSES_NO_PADDING to eliminate non-mandatory padding,
9084 thereby making terminal emulators (e.g., for vt100) a little more
9085 efficient (request by Daniel Eisenbud <eisenbud@cs.swarthmore.edu>).
9086 + modify configure script to embed ABI in shared libraries for HP-UX
9087 10.x (detailed request by Tim Mooney).
9088 + add test/example of the 'filter()' function.
9089 + add nxterm and xterm-color terminfo description (request by Cristian
9090 Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>).
9091 + modify rxvt terminfo description to clear alternate screen before
9092 switching back to normal screen, for compatibility with applications
9093 which use xterm (reported by Manoj Kasichainula <manojk@io.com>).
9094 + modify linux terminfo description to reset color palette (reported
9095 by Telford Tendys <telford@eng.uts.edu.au>).
9096 + correction to doupdate, for case where terminal does not support
9097 insert/delete character. The logic did not check that there was a
9098 difference in alignment of changes to old/new screens before
9099 repainting the whole non-blank portion of the line. Modified to fall
9100 through into logic that reduces by the portion which does not differ
9101 (reported by Daniel Eisenbud <eisenbud@cs.swarthmore.edu>).
9102 + minor performance improvement to wnoutrefresh by moving some
9103 comparisons out of inner loop.
9106 + modify configure script to substitute NCURSES_CONST in curses.h
9107 + updated terminfo entries for xterm-xf86-v40, xterm-16color,
9108 xterm-8bit to correspond to XFree86 3.9Ag.
9109 + remove restriction that forces ncurses to use setaf/setab if the
9110 number of colors is greater than 8. (see 970524 for xterm-16color).
9111 + change order of -L options (so that $(libdir) is searched first) when
9112 linking tic and other programs, to workaround HP's linker.
9113 Otherwise, the -L../lib is embedded when linking against shared
9114 libraries and the installed program does not run (reported by Ralf
9116 + modify configuration of shared libraries on Digital Unix so that
9117 versioning is embedded in the library, rather than implied by
9118 links (patch by Tim Mooney).
9121 + modify etip.h to avoid conflict with math.h on HP-UX 9.03 with gcc
9122 2.8.1 which redefines 'exception' (reported by Ralf Hildebrandt
9123 <R.Hildebrandt@tu-bs.de>).
9124 + correct configure tests in CF_SHARED_OPTS which used $CC value to
9125 check for gcc, rather than autoconf's $GCC value. This did not
9126 work properly if the full pathname of the compiler were given
9127 (reported by Michael Yount <yount@csf.Colorado.edu>).
9128 + revise check for compiler options to force ANSI mode since repeating
9129 an option such as -Aa causes HP's compiler to fail on its own headers
9130 (reported by Clint Olsen <olsenc@ichips.intel.com>).
9133 + ifdef'd has_key() and mcprint() as extended functions.
9134 + modified several prototypes to correspond with 1997 version of
9135 X/Open Curses (affects ABI since developers have used attr_get).
9136 + remove spurious trailing blanks in glibc addon-scripts (patch by
9138 + insert a few braces at locations where gcc-2.8.x asks to use them to
9139 avoid ambigous else's, use -fpic rather than -fPIC for Linux (patch
9140 by Juergen Pfeifer).
9143 + split SHLIB_LIST into SHLIB_DIRS/SHLIB_LIST to keep -L options
9144 before -l to accommodate Solaris' linker (reported by Larry Virden).
9147 + modify lib_color.c to eliminate dependency on orig_colors and
9148 orig_pair, since SVr4 curses does not require these either, but
9149 uses them when they are available.
9150 + add detailed usage-message to infocmp.
9151 + correct a typo in att6386 entry (a "%?" which was "?").
9152 + add -f option to infocmp and tic, which formats the terminfo
9153 if/then/else/endif so that they are readable (with newlines and
9155 + fixes for glibc addon scripts (patch by H.J.Lu).
9158 + revise configure macro CF_SPEED_TYPE so that termcap.h has speed_t
9159 declared (from Adam J Richter <adam@yggdrasil.com>)
9160 + remove spurious curs_set() call from leaveok() (J T Conklin).
9161 + corrected handling leaveok() in doupdate() (patch by Alexander V.
9163 + improved version of wredrawln (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9164 + correct c++/Makefile.in so install target do not have embedded ../lib
9165 to confuse it (patch by Thomas Graf <graf@essi.fr>).
9166 + add warning to preinstall rule which checks if the installer would
9167 overwrite a curses.h or termcap.h that is not derived from ncurses.
9168 (The recommended configuration for developers who need both is to
9169 use --disable-overwrite).
9170 + modify preinstall rule in top-level Makefile to avoid implicit
9171 use of 'sh', to accommodate Ultrix 4.4 (reported by Joao Palhoto
9172 Matos <jmatos@math.ist.utl.pt>, patch by Thomas Esser
9173 <te@informatik.uni-hannover.de>)
9174 + refine ifdef's for TRACE so that libncurses has fewer dependencies
9175 on libtinfo when TRACE is disabled.
9176 + modify configure script so that if the --with-termlib option is used
9177 to generate a separate terminfo library, we chain it to the ncurses
9178 library with a "-l" option (reported by Darryl Miles and Ian T.
9182 + correct limits and window in wredrawln function (reported/analysis by
9183 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9184 + correct sed expression in configure script for --with-fallback
9185 option (patch by Jesse Thilo).
9186 + correct some places in configure script where $enableval was used
9187 rather than $withval (patch by Darryl Miles <dlm@g7led.demon.co.uk>).
9188 + modify some man-pages so no '.' or '..' falls between TH and SH
9189 macros, to accommodate man_db program (reported by Ian T. Zimmerman
9191 + terminfo.src 10.2.1 downloaded from ESR's webpage (ESR).
9192 > several changes by Juergen Pfeifer:
9193 + add copyright notices (and rcs id's) on remaining man-pages.
9194 + corrected prototypes for slk_* functions, using chtype rather than
9196 + implemented the wcolor_set() and slk_color() functions
9197 + the slk_attr_{set,off,on} functions need an additional void*
9198 parameter according to XSI.
9199 + fix the C++ and Ada95 binding as well as the man pages to
9200 reflect above enhancements.
9203 + use 'stat()' rather than 'access()' in toe.c to check for the
9204 existence of $HOME/.terminfo, since it may be a file.
9205 + suppress configure CF_CXX_LIBRARY check if we are not using g++
9206 2.7.x, since this is not needed with g++ 2.8 or egcs (patch by
9208 + turn on hashmap scrolling code by default, intend to remedy defects
9210 + minor corrections to terminfo.src changelog.
9212 980302 4.2 release for upload to prep.ai.mit.edu
9213 + correct Florian's email address in ncurses-intro.html
9214 + terminfo.src 10.2.0 (ESR).
9217 + add linux-koi8r replace linux-koi8, which is not KOI8 (patch by
9218 QingLong <qinglong@Bolizm.ihep.su>).
9219 + minor documentation fixes (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
9220 + add setlocale() call to ncurses.c (reported by Claes G. Lindblad
9221 <claesg@algonet.se>).
9222 + correct sign-extension in lib_insstr.c (reported by Sotiris
9223 Vassilopoulos <svas@leon.nrcps.ariadne-t.gr>)
9226 + regenerated some documentation overlooked in 980214 patch
9227 (ncurses-intro.doc, curs_outopts.3x.html)
9228 + minor ifdef change to C++ binding to work with gcc 2.8.0 (patch by
9230 + change maintainer's mailing address to florian@gnu.org, change
9231 tentative mailing list address to bug-ncurses-request@gnu.org (patch
9232 by Florian La Roche).
9233 + add definition of $(REL_VERSION) to c++/Makefile.in (reported by Gran
9234 Hasse <gh@raditex.se>).
9235 + restore version numbers to Ada95 binding, accidentally deleted by
9236 copyright patch (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
9239 + remove ncurses.lsm from MANIFEST so that it won't be used in FSF
9240 distributions, though it is retained in development.
9241 + correct scaling of milliseconds to nanoseconds in lib_napms.c (patch
9243 + update mailing-list information (bug-ncurses@gnu.org).
9244 + update announcement for upcoming 4.2 release.
9245 + modify -lm test to check for 'sin()' rather than 'floor()'
9246 + remove spurious commas from terminfo.src descriptions.
9247 + change copyright notices to Free Software Foundation
9250 + minor fixes for autoconf macros CF_ERRNO, CF_HELP_MESSAGE and
9252 + modify Makefile.glibc so that $(objpfx) is defined (H.J.Lu).
9253 + ifdef-out true-return from _nc_mouse_inline() which depends on
9254 merge of QNX patch (pending 4.2 release).
9255 > patch to split off seldom-used modules in ncurses (J T Conklin):
9256 This reduces size by up to 2.6kb.
9257 + move functionality of _nc_usleep into napms, add configuration case
9259 + moved wchgat() from lib_addch.c to lib_chgat.c
9260 + moved clearok(), immedok(), leaveok(), and scrollok() from
9261 lib_options.c to lib_clearok.c, lib_immedok.c, lib_leaveok.c and
9263 + moved napms() from lib_kernel.c to lib_napms.c
9264 + moved echo() and noecho() from lib_raw.c to lib_echo.c
9265 + moved nl() and nonl() from lib_raw.c to lib_nl.c
9268 + corrected conversion in tclock.c (cf: 971018).
9269 + updates to Makefile.glibc and associated Linux configure script
9271 + workaround a quoting problem on SunOS with tar-copy.sh
9272 + correct init_pair() calls in worm.c to work when use_default_colors()
9274 + include <sys/types.h> in CF_SYS_TIME_SELECT to work with FreeBSD
9276 + add ncv capability to FreeBSD console (cons25w), making reverse
9278 + correct sense of configure-test for sys/time.h inclusion with
9280 + fixes for Ada95/ada_include/Makefile.in to work with --srcdir option.
9281 + remove unused/obsolete test-program rules from progs/Makefile.in
9282 (the rules in ncurses/Makefile.in work).
9283 + remove shared-library loader flags from test/Makefile.in, etc.
9284 + simplify test/configure.in using new version of autoconf to create
9286 + suppress suffix rules in test/Makefile.in, provide explicit
9287 dependency to work with --srcdir option and less capable 'make'
9289 > adapted from patch for QNX by Xiaodan Tang:
9290 + initialize %P and %g variables set/used in tparm, and also ensure
9291 that empty strings don't return a null result from tparam_internal
9292 + add QNX-specific prototype for vsscanf()
9293 + move initialization of SP->_keytry from init_keytry() to newterm() to
9294 avoid resetting it via a keyok() call by mouse_activate().
9295 + reorganized some functions in lib_mouse() to use case-statements.
9296 + remove sgr string from qnx terminfo entry since it is reported to
9297 turn off attributes inconsistently.
9300 + add f/F/b/B commands to ncurses 'b' test to toggle colors, providing
9301 test for no_color_video.
9302 + adjusted emx.src to use no_color_video, now works with ncurses 'b'
9304 + implement no_color_video attribute, and as a special case, reverse
9305 colors when the reverse attribute cannot be combined with color.
9306 + check for empty string in $TERM variable (reported by Brett Michaels
9308 > from reports by Fred Fish:
9309 + add configure-test for isascii
9310 + add configure-test for -lm library.
9311 + modify CF_BOOL_SIZE to check if C++ bool types are unsigned.
9312 > patches by J.J.G.Ripoll
9313 + add configure/makefile variables to support .exe extension on
9314 OS/2 EMX (requires additional autoconf patches).
9315 + explicitly initialize variables in lib_data.c to appease OS/2 linker
9316 > patches by Fred Fish <fnf@ninemoons.com>
9317 + misc/Makefile.in (install.data): Avoid trying to install the CVS
9319 + aclocal.m4 (install.includes): Remove files in the include directory
9320 where we are going to install new ones, not the original source
9322 + misc/terminfo.src: Add entry for "beterm", derived from termcap
9323 distributed with BeOS PR2 using captoinfo.
9324 + aclocal.m4: Wrap $cf_cv_type_of_bool with quotes (contains space)
9325 + aclocal.m4: Assume bool types are unsigned.
9326 + progs/infocmp.c: workaround mwcc 32k function data limit
9329 + correct initialization of color-pair (cf: 970524) in xmas.c, which
9330 was using only one color-pair for all colors (reported by
9332 + add multithread options for objects build on EMX, for compatibility
9334 + split up an expression in MKlib_gen.sh to work around a problem on
9335 OS/2 EMX, with 'ash' (patch by J.J.G.Ripoll).
9336 + change terminfo entries xterm (xterm-xf86-v40), xterm-8bit rs1 to use
9338 + rename terminfo entry xterm-xf86-v39t to xterm-xf86-v40
9339 + remove bold/underline from sun console entries since they're not
9341 + correct _tracef calls in _tracedump(), which did not separate format
9343 + correct getopt string for tic "-o" option, and add it to man-page
9344 synopsis (reported by Darren Hiebert <darren@hmi.com>).
9345 + correct typo in panel/Makefile.in, reversed if-statement in scrolling
9346 optimization (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9347 + test for 'remove()', use 'unlink() if not found (patch by Philippe De
9348 Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>).
9349 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
9350 + Improve a feature of the forms driver. For invisible fields
9351 (O_VISIBLE off) only the contents but not the attributes are cleared.
9352 We now clear both. (Reported by Javier Kohan
9353 <jkohan@adan.fceia.unr.edu.ar>)
9354 + The man page form_field_opts.3x makes now clear, that invisible
9355 fields are also always inactive.
9356 + adjust ifdef's to compile the C++ binding with the just released
9357 gcc-2.8.0 c++ and the corresponding new C++ libraries.
9360 + correct "?" command in ncurses.c; it was performing non-screen writes
9361 while the program was in screen mode. (It "worked" in 1.9.9e because
9362 that version sets OPOST and OCRNL incorrectly).
9363 + return error from functions in lib_kernel, lib_raw and lib_ti if
9364 cur_term is null, or if underlying I/O fails.
9365 + amend change to tputs() so that it does not return an error if
9366 cur_term is null, since some applications depend on being able to use
9367 tputs without initializing the terminal (reported by Christian J.
9368 Robinson <infynity@cyberhighway.net>).
9371 + add a copy of emx.src from J.J.G.Ripoll's OS/2 EMX version of ncurses
9372 1.9.9e, together with fixes/additions for the "ansi" terminal type.
9373 + add tic check for save/restore cursor if change_scroll_region is
9374 defined (reference: O'Reilly book).
9375 + modify read_termcap.c to handle EMX-style pathnames (reported by
9377 + modify lib_raw.c to use EMX's setmode (patch from J.J.G.Ripoll).
9378 Ripoll says EMX's curses does this.
9379 + modify _nc_tic_expand() to generate \0 rather than \200.
9380 + move/revise 'expand()' from dump_entry.c to ncurses library as
9381 _nc_tic_expand(), for use by tack.
9382 + decode \a as \007 for terminfo, as per XSI.
9383 + correct translation of terminfo "^@", to \200, like \0.
9384 + modify next_char() to treat <cr><lf> the same as <newline>, for
9385 cross-platform compatibility.
9386 + use new version of autoconf (971230) to work around limited
9387 environment on CLIX, due to the way autoconf builds --help message.
9388 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9389 + check that the Ada95 binding runs against the correct version of
9391 + insert constants about the library version into the main spec-file of
9395 + modify open/fopen calls to use binary mode, needed for EMX.
9396 + modify configure script to work with autoconf 2.10 mods for OS/2
9397 EMX (from J.J.G.Ripoll).
9398 + generated ncurses_cfg.h with patch (971222) to autoconf 2.12 which
9399 bypasses limited sed buffer length.
9400 > several changes from Juan Jose Garcia Ripoll <worm@arrakis.es>
9401 (J.J.G.Ripoll) to support OS/2 EMX:
9402 + add a _scrolling flag to SP, to set when we encounter a terminal
9403 that simply cannot scroll.
9404 + corrected logic in _nc_add_to_try(), by ensuring that strings with
9405 embedded \200 characters are matched.
9406 + don't assume the host has 'link()' function, for linking terminfo
9410 + if there's no ioctl's to support sigwinch handler, disable it.
9411 + add configure option --disable-ext-funcs to remove the extended
9412 functions from the build.
9413 + add configure option --with-termlib to generate the terminfo
9414 functions as a separate library.
9415 + add 'sources' rule to facilitate cross-compiling.
9416 + review/fix order of mostlyclean/clean/distclean rules.
9417 + modify install-rule for headers to first remove old header, in
9418 case there was a symbolic link that confuses the install script.
9419 + corrected substitution for NCURSES_CONST in term.h (cf: 971108)
9420 + add null pointer checks in wnoutrefresh(), overlap() (patch by
9421 Xiaodan Tang <xtang@qnx.com>)
9422 + correct tputs(), which could dereference a null cur_term if invoked
9423 before terminal is initialized (patch by Christopher Seawood
9425 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9426 + makes better use of "pragma Inline" in the Ada95 binding
9427 + resynchronizes the generated html manpages
9430 + additional fixes for man-pages section-references
9431 + add (for debugging) a check for ich/ich1 conflict with smir/rmir
9433 + remove hpa/vpa from rxvt terminal description because they are not
9434 implemented correctly, added sgr0.
9435 + change ncurses 's' to use raw mode, so ^Q works (reported by Rudolf
9436 Leitgeb <leitgeb@leland.stanford.edu>)
9439 + modify protection when installing libraries to (normally) not
9440 executable. HP-UX shared libraries are an exception.
9441 + add configure check for 'tack'.
9442 + implement script for renaming section-references in man-page install,
9443 for Debian configuration.
9444 + add validity-check for SP in trace code in baudrate() (reported by
9446 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov (fixes to match sol25 curses)
9447 + modify 'overlay()' so that copy applies target window background to
9449 + correct 'mvwin()' so that it does not clear the previous locations.
9450 + correct lib_acs.c so that 8-bit character is not sign expanded in
9451 case of wide characters in chtype.
9452 + correct control-char test in lib_addch.c for use with wide chars
9453 + use attribute in the chtype when adding a control character in
9454 lib_addch.c control char was added with current attribute
9457 + save/restore errno in _tracef() function
9458 + change treatment of initialize_color to use a range of 0..1000
9459 (recommended by Daniel Weaver).
9460 + set umask in mkinstalldirs, fixing problems reported by users who
9461 have set root's umask to 077.
9462 + correct bug in tic that caused capabilities to be reprinted at the
9463 end of output when they had embedded comments.
9464 + rewrote wredrawln to correspond to XSI, and split-out since it is
9465 not often used (from report by Alexander V. Lukyanov, 970825)
9466 + rewrote Dan Nelson's change to make it portable, as well as to
9467 correct logic for handling backslashes.
9468 + add code to _nc_tgetent() to make it work more like a real tgetent().
9469 It removes all empty fields, and removes all but the first in a group
9470 of duplicate caps. The code was pulled from the BSD libtermcap code
9471 in termcap.c (patch by Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
9472 + don't include --enable-widec in the --with-develop configure option,
9473 since it is not binary-compatible with 4.1 (noted by Alexander V.
9475 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9476 + further improvements of the usage of elaboration pragmas in the Ada95
9478 + enhanced Ada95 sample to use the user_data mechanism for panels.
9479 + a fix for the configuration script to make gnat-3.10 the required
9481 + resync of the html version of the manpages
9484 > fixes/updates for terminfo.src:
9485 + add vt220-js, pilot, rbcomm, datapoint entries from esr's 27-jun-97
9487 + add hds200 description (Walter Skorski)
9488 + add EMX 0.9b descriptions
9489 + correct rmso/smso capabilities in wy30-mc and wy50-mc (Daniel Weaver)
9490 + rename xhpterm back to hpterm.
9491 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9492 + Improves the usage of elaboration pragmas for the Ada95 binding.
9493 + Adds a translation of the test/rain.c into Ada95 to the samples.
9494 This has been contributed to the project by Laurent Pautet
9498 + increase MAX_NAME_SIZE to 512 to handle extremely long alias list
9500 + correction & simplification of delay computation in tputs, based on
9501 comments from Daniel Weaver.
9502 + replace test for SCO with more precise header tests.
9503 + add configure test for unsigned literals, use in NCURSES_BITS macro.
9504 + comment-out the -PIC, etc., flags from c++, progs and test makefiles
9505 since they probably are not needed, and are less efficient (noted by
9507 + add -L$(libdir) to loader options, after -L../lib so that loaders
9508 that record this information will tend to do the right thing if
9509 the programs are moved around after installing them (suggested by
9511 + add -R option to loader options for programs for Solaris if the
9512 --enable-rpath option is specified for the libraries.
9515 + correct installed filename for shared libraries on *BSD (reported by
9519 + cleanup logic for deciding when tputs() should call delay_output(),
9520 based on comments from Daniel Weaver.
9521 + modified tputs() to avoid use of float.
9522 + correct use of trailpad in tputs(), which used the wrong variable
9523 in call to delay_output().
9524 + correct inverted expression for null-count in delay_output()
9525 (analysis by Daniel Weaver).
9526 + apply --enable-rpath option to Solaris (requested by Larry Virden).
9527 + correct substitution of EXTRA_CFLAGS for gcc 2.6.3
9528 + correct check for error-return by _nc_tgetent(), which returns 0
9530 + add configure test for BSD 4.4 cgetent() function, modify
9531 read_termcap.c to use the host's version of that if found, using the
9532 terminal database on FreeBSD (reported by Peter Wemm).
9533 + add u8, u9 strings to sun-il description for Daniel Weaver.
9534 + use NCURSES_CONST in panel's user-pointer.
9535 + modify edit_cfg.sh and MKterm.h.awk.in to substitute NCURSES_CONST
9536 so that will work on NeXT.
9537 + use _nc_set_screen() rather than assignments to SP to fix port to
9538 NeXT (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
9541 + force mandatory padding in bell and flash_screen, as specified in
9543 + don't allow padding_baud_rate to override mandatory delays (reported
9545 + modify delay_output() to use _nc_timed_wait() if no baudrate has been
9546 defined, or if the cur_term pointer is not initialized. XSI treats
9547 this as unspecified. (requested by Daniel Weaver).
9548 + change getcap-cache ifdef's to eliminate unnecessary chdir/mkdir
9549 when that feature is not configured.
9550 + remove _nc_err_abort() calls when write_entry.c finds a directory but
9551 cannot write to it, e.g., when translating part/all of /etc/termcap
9552 (reported by Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>).
9553 (this dates back to 951102 in 1.9.7a).
9554 + minor ifdef fixes to compile with atac and glibc 2.0.5c
9555 + add check for -lgen when configuring regexpr.h
9556 + modify Solaris shared-library option "-d y" to "-dy" to workaround
9557 incompatibility of gcc 2.7.2 vs vendor's tools.
9560 + correct ifdef's for struct winsize vs struct ttysize in lib_setup.c
9562 + remove dangling backslash in panel/Makefile.in
9563 + modify MKkeyname.awk to work with SCO's nawk, which dumps core in the
9565 + correct length of allocation in _nc_add_to_try(), to allow for
9567 + correct logic in _nc_remove_key(), which was discarding too many
9568 nodes (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov)
9571 + add definition for $(REL_VERSION) to test/Makefile.in, so *BSD
9572 shared libraries link properly (see 970524).
9573 + modify Linux shared-library generation to include library
9574 dependencies (e.g., -lncurses and -lgpm) in the forms, menu and
9575 panel libraries (suggested by Juergen Pfeifer).
9576 + modify configure script to use config.guess and config.sub rather
9577 than uname, which is unreliable on some systems.
9578 + updated Makefile.glibc, test-built with glibc 2.0.5c
9579 + modify keyname() to return values consistent with SVr4 curses (patch
9581 > changes requested by Daniel Weaver:
9582 + modify delay_output() so that it uses the same output function as
9583 tputs() if called from that function.
9584 + move _baudrate from SCREEN to TERMINAL so that low-level use of
9585 tputs works when SP is not set.
9586 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9587 + factor lib_menu and lib_form into smaller modules
9588 + clean up the interface between panel and SCREEN
9589 + minor changes to the Ada95 mouse support implemenation
9590 + minor bugfix in C++ binding to ripoff windows
9591 + fix a few Ada95 html documentation pages
9594 + split-out lib_ungetch.c, make runtime link to resizeterm() to
9595 decouple those modules from lib_restart.c
9596 + add xterm-xf86-v39t description to terminfo.src
9597 + reset SP->_endwin in lib_tstp.c cleanup() function after calling
9598 endwin() to avoid unnecessary repainting if the application has
9599 established an atexit function, etc. Encountered this problem in
9600 the c++ demo, whose destructors repaint the screen.
9601 + combine _nc_get_screensize() and resizeterm() calls as new function
9602 _nc_update_screensize().
9603 + minor fixes to allow compile with g++ (suggested by Nelson H. F.
9605 + implement install-rules for Ada95 makefiles.
9606 + use screen_lines or MAXLINES as needed where LINES was coded,
9607 as well as screen_columns for COLS, in the ncurses library.
9608 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
9609 + modify logic for ripped-off lines to handle several SCREENs.
9610 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9611 + factors lib_slk.c into some smaller modules
9612 + factors panel.c into some smaller modules
9613 + puts the static information about the current panel stack into the
9614 SCREEN structure to allow different panel stacks on different
9616 + preliminary fix for an error adjusting LINES to account for
9620 + move _nc_max_click_interval and other mouse interface items to SCREEN
9621 struct so that they are associated with a single terminal, and also
9622 save memory when the application does not need a mouse (roughly 3k vs
9624 + modify mouseinterval() so that a negative parameter queries the
9625 click-interval without modifying it.
9626 + modify ncurses 'i' test to work with ncurses' apparent extension from
9627 SVr4, i.e., allows nocbreak+noecho (analysis by Alexander V.
9629 + add configure options --with-ada-includes and --with-ada-objects,
9630 to drive Ada95 binding install (not yet implemented).
9631 + install C++ binding as -lncurses++ and associated headers with the
9632 other ncurses headers.
9633 + fix header uninstall if configure --srcdir is used.
9634 > minor interface changes to support 'tack' program -TD
9635 (request by Daniel Weaver <danw@znyx.com>).
9636 + export functions _nc_trans_string() and _nc_msec_cost().
9637 + add variable _nc_nulls_sent, to record the number of padding
9638 characters output in delay_output().
9639 + move tests for generic_type and hard_copy terminals in setupterm()
9640 to the end of that function so that the library will still be
9641 initialized, though not generally useful for curses programs.
9642 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
9643 + modify ClrBottom() to avoid using clr_eos if there is only one line
9645 + typo in configure --help.
9646 > patch by J T Conklin (with minor resync against Juergen's changes)
9647 + split-out lib_flash.c from lib_beep.c
9648 + split-out lib_hline.c and lib_vline.c from lib_box.c
9649 + split-out lib_wattron.c, lib_wattroff.c from lib_addch.c
9652 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9653 + correct source/target of c++/edit_cfg.sh
9656 + add color, mouse support to kterm terminfo entry.
9657 + modify lib_mouse.c to recognize rxvt, kterm, color_xterm also as
9658 providing "xterm"-style mouse.
9659 + updated rxvt's terminfo description to correspond to 2.21b, with
9660 fixes for the acsc (the box1 capability is incorrect, ech1 does not
9662 + fix logic in parse_entry.c that discarded acsc when 'synthesizing'
9663 an entry from equivalents in XENIX or AIX. This lets ncurses handle
9664 the distribution copy of rxvt's terminfo.
9665 + modify acsc capability for linux and linux-koi8 terminfo descriptions
9666 (from Pavel Roskin <pavel@absolute.spb.su>).
9667 + corrected definition in curses.h for ACS_LANTERN, which was 'I'
9668 rather than 'i' (see 970802).
9669 + updated terminfo.src with reformatted acsc entries, and repaired the
9670 trashed entries with spurious '\' characters that this exposed.
9671 + add logic to dump_entry.c to reformat acsc entries into canonical
9672 form (sorted, unique mapping).
9673 + add configure script to generate c++/etip.h
9674 + add configure --with-develop option, to enable by default most of the
9675 experimental options (requested by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9676 + rename 'deinstall' to 'uninstall', following GNU convention
9677 (suggested by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9678 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
9679 + modify tactics 2 and 5 in onscreen_mvcur(), to allow them on the last
9680 line of the screen, since carriage return will not cause a newline.
9681 + remove clause from PutCharLR() that would try to use
9682 eat_newline_glitch since that apparently does not work on some
9683 terminals (e.g., M$ telnet).
9684 + correct a limit check in scroll_csr_backward()
9685 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
9686 + adds dummy implementations of methods above() and below() to the
9688 + fixes missing returncode in NCursesWindow::ripoffline()
9689 + fixes missing returncode in TestApplication::run() in demo.cc
9690 + We should at least give a comment in etip.h why it is currently a
9691 problem to install the C++ binding somewhere
9692 + makes the WINDOW* argument of wenclose() a const.
9693 + modifies several of the routines in lib_adabind.c to use a const
9697 + add 'deinstall' rules.
9698 + use explicit assignments in configure --without-progs option to
9699 work around autoconf bug which doesn't always set $withval.
9700 + check for ldconfig, don't try to run it if not found.
9701 + implement simple/unoptimized case in lib_doupdate.c to handle
9702 display with magic cookie glitch, tested with ncurses.c program.
9703 + correct missing _tracef in getmouse(), to balance the returnCode
9705 + simplify show_attr() in ncurses.c using termattrs().
9706 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
9707 + provides missing inlines for mvw[hv]line in cursesw.h of the C++
9709 + fixes a typo in a comment of frm_driver.c
9710 + Enhances Ada95 Makefiles to fulfill the requirement of GNAT-3.10 that
9711 generics should be compiled. Proper fixes to the configuration
9712 scripts are also provided.
9715 + several modifications to the configure script (requested by Ward
9717 + add configure options --without-progs, to suppress the build of the
9718 utility programs, e.g., for cross-compiling.
9719 + add $(HOSTCCFLAGS) and $(HOSTLDFLAGS) symbols to ncurses
9720 Makefile.in, to simplify setup for cross compiling.
9721 + add logic in configure script to recognize "--target=vxworks", and
9722 generate load/install actions for VxWorks objects.
9723 + move typedef for sigaction_t into SigAction.h to work around problem
9724 generating lint library.
9725 + modify fty_regex.c to reflect renaming of ifdef's for regular
9727 + simplify ifdef in lib_setup.c for TIOCGWINSZ since that symbol may
9728 reside in <sys/ioctl.h>.
9729 + merge testcurs.c with version from PDCurses 2.3, clarifying some of
9730 the more obscure tests, which rely upon color.
9731 + use macros getbegyx() and getmaxyx() in newdemo.c and testcurs.c
9732 + modify ncurses.c to use getbegyx() and getmaxyx() macros to cover up
9733 implementation difference wrt SVr4 curses, allow 's' test to work.
9734 + add missing endwin() to testscanw.c program (reported by Fausto
9735 Saporito <fausap@itb.it>).
9736 + fixes/updates for Makefile.glibc and related files under sysdeps
9738 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
9739 + add checks for null pointers, especially WINDOW's throughout the
9741 + solve a problem with wrong calculation of panel overlapping (reported
9743 + make sure that a panel's window isn't a pad.
9744 + do more error checking in module lib_touch.c
9745 + missing files for Ada95 binding from the last patch
9746 + synch. of generated html pages (RCS-Id's were wrong in html files)
9747 + support for Key_Resize in Ada binding
9748 + changed documentation style in ./c++/cursesm.h
9749 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
9750 + undo attempt to do recursive inlining for PutChar(), noting that it
9751 did not improve timing measurably, but inflated the size of
9755 + modify rain.c to use color.
9756 + correct scroll_csr_backward() to match scroll_csr_forward().
9757 + minor adjustment to llib-lncurses, to work with Solaris 2.5.1
9758 + minor fixes to sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/configure to reflect renaming
9759 of configure cache variables in 970906.
9760 + correct logic involving changes to O_VISIBLE option in
9761 Synchronize_Options function in frm_driver.c (Tony Hoffmann
9762 <Tony.Hoffmann@hia.nrc.ca>)
9763 + add $(HOSTCC) symbol to ncurses Makefile.in, to simplify setup for
9764 cross compiling (suggested by Chris Johns).
9765 + modify ifdef in lib_setup.c to only include <sys/ioctl.h> if we can
9766 use it to support screen-size calculation (reported by Chris Johns).
9767 + #undef unctrl to avoid symbol conflict in port to RTEMS (reported by
9768 Chris Johns <cjohns@plessey.com.au>)
9769 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
9770 + simplified, made minor corrections to Ada95 binding to form
9772 + The C++ binding has been enhanced:
9773 + Improve NCursesWindow class: added additional methods to cover
9774 more ncurses functionality. Make refresh() and noutrefresh()
9775 virtual members to allow different implementation in the
9777 + CAUTION: changed order of parameters in vline() and hline() of
9778 NCursesWindow class.
9779 + Make refresh() in NCursesPanel non-static, it is now a
9780 reimplementation of refresh() in the base class. Added
9781 noutrefresh() to NCursesPanel.
9782 + Added NCursesForm and related classes to support libform
9784 + Moved most of configuration related stuff from cursesw.h to etip.h
9785 + Added NCursesApplication class to support easy configuration of
9786 menu and forms related attributes as well as ripped of title lines
9787 and Soft-Label-Keys for an application.
9788 + Support of Auto-Cleanup for a menu's fieldlist.
9789 + Change of return type for current_item() and operator[] for menus.
9791 + Fixed a bug in form/fld_def.c: take into account that copyarg and
9792 freearg for a fieldtype may be NULL, makearg must not be NULL
9793 + Fixed a bug in form/fld_type.c: in set_fieldtype_arg() makearg must
9794 not be NULL, copyarg and freearg may be NULL.
9795 + Fixed a bug in form/frm_def.c: Allow Disconnect_Fields() if it is
9796 already disconnected.
9797 + Enhance form/frm_driver.c: Allow growth of dynamic fields also on
9798 navigation requests.
9799 + Fixed a bug in form/fty_enum.c: wrong position of postincrement in
9800 case-insensitiva comparision routine.
9801 + Enhanced form/lib_adabind.c with function _nc_get_field() to get a
9802 forms field by index.
9803 + Enhanced menu/m_adabind.c with function _nc_get_item() to get a menus
9805 + Fixed in curses.h.in: make chtype argument for pechochar() constant.
9806 Mark wbkgdset() as implemented, remove wbkgdset macro, because it was
9807 broken (didn't handle colors correctly).
9808 + Enhanced lib_mouse.c: added _nc_has_mouse() function
9809 + Added _nc_has_mouse() prototype to curses.priv.h
9810 + Modified lib_bkgd.c: hopefully correct implementation of wbkgdset();
9811 streamlined implementation of wbkgd()
9812 + Modified lib_mvwin.c: Disable move of a pad. Implement (costly)
9813 move of subwindows. Fixed update behavior of movements of regular
9815 + Fixed lib_pad.c: make chtype argument of pechochar() const.
9816 + Fixed lib_window.c: dupwin() is not(!) in every bit a really clone
9817 of the original. Subwindows become regular windows by doing a
9819 + Improved manpage form_fieldtype.3x
9820 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
9821 + simplify the PutChar() handling of exit_am_mode, because we already
9822 know that auto_right_margin is true.
9823 + add a check in PutChar() for ability to insert to the case of
9824 shifting character to LR corner.
9825 + in terminal initialization by _nc_screen_resume(), make sure that
9826 terminal right margin mode is known.
9827 + move logic that invokes touchline(), or does the equivalent, into
9828 _nc_scroll_window().
9829 + modify scrolling logic use of insert/delete line capability, assuming
9830 that they affect the screen contents only within the current
9832 + modify rain.c to demonstrate SIGWINCH handler.
9833 + remove logic from getch() that would return an ERR if the application
9834 called getch() when the cursor was at the lower-right corner of the
9835 physical screen, and the terminal does not have insert-character
9837 + change view.c so that it breaks out of getch() loop if a KEY_RESIZE
9838 is read, and modify logic in getch() so this fix will yield the
9839 desired behavior, i.e., the screen is repainted automatically when
9840 the terminal window is resized.
9843 + add configure option --enable-sigwinch
9844 + modify view.c to test KEY_RESIZE logic, with "-r" option.
9845 + modify testcurs.c to eliminate misleading display wrt cursor type
9846 by testing if the terminal supports cnorm, civis, cvvis.
9847 + several fixes for m68k/NeXT 4.0, to bring cur_term, _nc_curr_line and
9848 _nc_curr_col variables into linked programs: move these variables,
9849 making new modules lib_cur_term and trace_buf (reported by Francisco
9850 Alberto Tomei Torres <fatomei@sandburg.unm.edu>).
9851 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
9852 + add pseudo-functionkey KEY_RESIZE which is returned by getch() when
9853 the SIGWINCH handler has been called since the last call to
9855 + modify lib_twait.c to hide EINTR only if HIDE_EINTR is defined.
9856 + add SIGWINCH handler to ncurses library which is used if there is no
9857 application SIGWINCH handler in effect when the screen is
9859 + make linked list of all SCREEN structures.
9860 + move curses.h include before definition of SCREEN to use types in
9862 + correction to ensure that wgetstr uses only a newline to force a
9866 + add experimental configure option --enable-safe-sprintf; the normal
9867 mode now allocates a buffer as large as the screen for the
9868 lib_printw.c functions.
9869 + modify wgetch to refresh screen when reading ungetch'd characters,
9870 since the application may require this - SVr4 does this.
9871 + refine treatment of newline in wgetstr to echo only when this would
9872 force the screen to scroll.
9875 + remove override in wgetstr() that forces keypad(), since SVr4 does
9877 + correct y-reference for erasure in wgetstr() when a wrap forces a
9879 + correct x-position in waddch() after a wrap forces a scroll.
9880 + echo newline in wgetstr(), making testscanw.c scroll properly when
9882 + modify vwscanw() to avoid potential buffer overflow.
9883 + rewrote lib_printw.c to eliminate fixed-buffer limits.
9884 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
9885 + correct an error in handling cooked mode in wgetch(); processing
9886 was in the wrong order.
9887 + simplified logic in wgetch() that handles backspace, etc., by using
9889 + correct wechochar() so that it interprets the output character as
9891 + modify pechochar() to use prefresh() rather than doupdate(), since
9892 the latter does not guarantee immediate refresh of the pad.
9893 + modify pechochar() so that if called with a non-pad WINDOW, will
9894 invoke wechochar() instead.
9895 + modify fifo indices to allow fifo to be longer than 127 bytes.
9898 + add xterm-8bit to terminfo.src
9899 + moved logic for SP->_fifohold inside check_pending() to make it
9900 work properly when we add calls to that function.
9901 + ensure that bool functions return only TRUE or FALSE, and TRUE/FALSE
9902 are assigned to bool values (patch by H.J.Lu).
9903 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
9904 + several fixes to getch:
9905 1. Separate cooked and raw keys in fifo
9906 2. Fix the case of ungetch'ed KEY_MOUSE
9907 3. wrap the code for hiding EINTR with ifdef HIDE_EINTR
9908 4. correctly handle input errors (i.e., EINTR) without loss of raw
9910 5. recognize ESC KEY_LEFT and similar
9911 6. correctly handle the case of receiption of KEY_MOUSE from gpm
9912 + correct off-by-one indexing error in _nc_mouse_parse(), that caused
9913 single mouse events (press/release) to be ignored in favor of
9914 composed events (click). Improves on a fix from integrating gpm
9916 + add another call to check_pending, before scrolling, for
9917 line-breakout optimization
9918 + improve hashmap.c by
9919 1. fixed loop condition in grow_hunks()
9920 2. not marking lines with offset 0
9921 3. fixed condition of 'too far' criteria, thus one-line hunks are
9922 ignored and two lines interchanged won't pass.
9923 + rewrote/simplified _nc_scroll_optimize() by separating into two
9924 passes, forward/backward, looking for chunks moving only in the given
9926 + move logic that emits sgr0 when initializing the screen to
9927 _nc_screen_init(), now invoked from newterm.
9928 + move cursor-movement cleanup from endwin() into _nc_mvcur_wrap()
9929 function and screen cleanup (i.e., color) into _nc_screen_wrap()
9931 + add new functions _nc_screen_init(), _nc_screen_resume() and
9933 + rename _nc_mvcur_scrolln() to _nc_scrolln().
9934 + add a copy of acs_map[] to the SCREEN structure, where it can be
9935 stored/retrieved via set_term().
9936 + move variables _nc_idcok, _nc_idlok, _nc_windows into the SCREEN
9940 + implement experimental _nc_perform_scroll().
9941 + modify newterm (actually _nc_setupscreen()) to emit an sgr0 when
9942 initializing the screen, as does SVr4 (reported by Alexander V.
9944 + added test_progs rule to ncurses/Makefile.
9945 + modify test/configure.in to check if initscr is already in $LIBS
9946 before looking for (n)curses library.
9947 + correct version-number in configure script for OSF1 shared-library
9948 options (patch by Tim Mooney).
9949 + add -DNDEBUG to CPPFLAGS for --enable-assertions (as Juergen
9950 originally patched) since the c++ demo files do not necessarily
9951 include ncurses_cfg.h
9952 + supply default value for --enable-assertions option in configure
9953 script (reported by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf-fs.usc.edu>).
9954 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
9955 + correct/simplify logic of werase(), wclrtoeol() and wclrbot(). See
9957 + optimize waddch_literal() and waddch_nosync() by factoring out
9958 common subexpressions.
9959 + correct sense of NDEBUG ifdef for CHECK_POSITION macro.
9960 + corrections to render_char(), to make handling of colored blanks
9961 match SVr4 curses, as well as to correct a bug that xor'd space
9962 against the background character.
9963 + replaced hash function with a faster one (timed it)
9964 + rewrote the hashmap algorithm to be one-pass, this avoids multiple
9965 cost_effective() calls on the same lines.
9966 + modified cost_effective() so it is now slightly more precise.
9967 > patches for glibc integration (H.J.Lu):
9968 + add modules define_key, keyok, name_match, tries
9969 + add makefile rules for some of the unit tests in ncurses (mvcur,
9970 captoinfo, hardscroll, hashmap).
9971 + update Linux configure-script for wide-character definitions.
9974 + modify _tracebits() to show the character size (e.g., CS8).
9975 + modify tparm() to emit '\200' where the generated string would have a
9976 null (reported by From: Ian Dall <Ian.Dall@dsto.defence.gov.au> for
9977 terminal type ncr7900).
9978 + modify install process so that ldconfig is not invoked if the
9979 package is built with an install-prefix.
9980 + correct test program for chtype size (reported by Tim Mooney).
9981 + add configure option --disable-scroll-hints, using this to ifdef the
9982 logic that computes indices for _nc_scroll_optimize().
9983 + add module ncurses/softscroll.c, to perform single-stage computation
9984 of scroll indices used in _nc_scroll_optimize(). This is faster than
9985 the existing scrolling algorithm, but tends to make too-small hunks.
9986 + eliminate fixed buffer size in _nc_linedump().
9987 + minor fixes to lib_doupdate.c to add tradeoff between clr_eol (el)
9988 and clr_bol (el1), refine logic in ClrUpdate() and ClrBottom() (patch
9989 by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9990 + add test/testaddch.c, from a pending patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov.
9991 + correct processing of "configure --enable-assertions" option (patch
9992 by Juergen Pfeifer).
9995 + add '-s' (single-step) option too test/hashtest.c, correct an error
9996 in loop limit for '-f' (footer option), toggle scrollok() when
9997 writing footer to avoid wrap at lower-right corner.
9998 + correct behavior of clrtoeol() immediately after wrapping cursor,
9999 which was not clearing the line at the cursor position (reported by
10000 Liviu Daia <daia@stoilow.imar.ro>).
10001 + corrected mapping for ACS_LANTERN, which was 'I' rather than 'i'
10002 (reported by Klaus Weide <kweide@tezcat.com>).
10003 + many corrections to make progs/capconvert work, as well as make it
10004 reasonably portable and integrated with ncurses 4.1 (reported by Dave
10005 Furstenau <df@ravine.binary.net>).
10008 + add flag SP->_fifohold, corresponding logic to modify the behavior of
10009 the line breakout logic so that if the application does not read
10010 input, refreshes will not be stopped, but only slowed.
10011 + generate slk_attr_off(), slk_attr_on(), slk_attr_set(), vid_attr(),
10012 ifdef'd for wide-character support, since ncurses' WA_xxx attribute
10013 masks are identical with the A_xxx masks.
10014 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to generate ifdef'd functions to support optional
10015 configuration of wide-characters.
10016 + modify tset to behave more like SVr4's tset, which does not modify
10017 the settings of intr, quit or erase unless they are given as command
10018 options (reported by Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe@math.utah.edu>).
10019 + modify tset to look in /etc/ttys or /etc/ttytype if the configuration
10020 does not have getttynam().
10021 + extend baudrate table in tset.c to match baudrate() function.
10022 + add table entries for B230400 and B460800 to baudrate() function.
10023 + improve breakout logic by allowing it before the first line updated,
10024 which is what SVr4 curses does (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10025 + correct initialization of vcost in relative_move(), for cursor-down
10026 case (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10027 > nits gleaned from Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-3:
10028 + install symbolic link for intotocap.
10029 + reference libc directly when making shared libraries.
10030 + correct renaming of curs_scr_dmp.3x in man_db.renames.
10031 + guard tgetflag() and other termcap functions against null cur_term
10035 + corrected initial state of software echo (error in 970405, reported
10036 by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10037 + reviewed/added messages to configure script, so that all non-test
10038 options should be accompanied by a message.
10039 + add configure check for long filenames, using this to determine if
10040 it is safe to allow long aliases for terminal descriptions as does
10042 + add configure options for widec (wide character), hashmap (both
10044 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
10045 + hashmap.c - improved by heuristic, so that scroll test works much
10046 better when csr is not available.
10047 + hardscroll.c - patched so that it continues to scroll other chunks
10048 after failure to scroll one.
10049 + lib_doupdate.c - _nc_mvcur_scrolln extended to handle more cases; csr
10050 is avoided as it is relative costly. Fixed wrong coordinates in one
10051 case and wrong string in TRACE.
10052 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
10053 + modify C++ binding to compile on AIX 4.x with the IBM C-SET++
10057 + remove alternate character set from kterm terminfo entry; it uses the
10058 shift-out control for a purpose incompatible with curses, i.e., font
10060 + disentangle 'xterm' terminfo entry from some derived entries that
10061 should be based on xterm-r6 instead.
10062 + add cbt to xterm-xf86-xv32 terminfo entry; I added the emulation for
10063 XFree86 3.1.2F, but overlooked its use in terminfo then - T.Dickey.
10064 + correct logic in lib_mvcur.c that uses back_tab.
10067 + correct change from 970628 to ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c so that
10068 contents of curscr are saved in newscr before clearing the screen.
10069 This is needed to make repainting work with the present logic of
10071 + use napms() rather than sleep() in tset.c to avoid interrupting I/O.
10074 + add limit checks to _nc_read_file_entry() to guard against overflow
10075 of buffer when reading incompatible terminfo format, e.g, from OSF/1.
10076 + correct some loop-variable errors in xmc support in lib_doupdate.c
10077 + modify ncurses 'b' test to add gaps, specified by user, to allow
10078 investigation of interaction with xmc (magic cookie) code.
10079 + correct typo in 970524 mods to xmas.c, had omitted empty parameter
10080 list from has_colors(), which gcc ignores, but SVr4 does not
10081 (reported by Larry Virden).
10082 + correct rmso capability in wy50-mc description.
10083 + add configure option "--enable-hard-tabs", renamed TABS_OK ifdef to
10085 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
10086 + Add bindings for keyok() and define_key() to the Ada95 packages.
10087 + Improve man pages menu_post.3x and menu_format.3x
10088 + Fix the HTML pages in the Ada95/html directory to reflect the above
10092 + modify change from 970101 to ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c so that
10093 pending changes to both curscr and newscr are flushed properly.
10094 This fixes a case where the first scrolling operation in nvi would
10095 cause the screen to be cleared unnecessarily and repainted before
10096 doing the indexing, i.e., by repeatedly pressing 'j' (reported by
10098 + correct error in trans_string() which added embedded newlines in a
10099 terminfo description to the stored strings.
10100 + remove spurious newlines from sgr in wyse50 (and several other)
10101 terminfo descriptions.
10102 + add configure option for experimental xmc (magic cookie) code,
10103 "--enable-xmc-glitch". When disabled (the default), attributes that
10104 would store a magic cookie are suppressed in vidputs(). The magic
10105 cookie code is far from workable at this stage; the configuration
10106 option is a stopgap.
10107 + move _nc_initscr() from lib_initscr.c to lib_newterm.c
10108 + correct path for invoking make_keys (a missing "./").
10111 + correct sign-extension problem with "infocmp -e", which corrupted
10112 acsc values computed for linux fallback data.
10113 + correct dependency on ncurses/names.c (a missing "./").
10114 + modify configure script to use '&&' even for cd'ing to existing
10115 directories to work around broken shell interpreters.
10116 + correct a loop-limit in _nc_hash_map() (patch by Alexander V.
10120 + restore logic in _nc_scroll_optimize() which marks as touched the
10121 lines in curscr that are shifted.
10122 + add new utility 'make_keys' to compute keys.tries as a table rather
10123 than a series of function calls.
10124 + correct include-dependency for tic.h used by name_match
10125 + removed buffer-allocation for name and description from m_item_new.c,
10126 since this might result in incompatibilities with SVr4. Also fixed
10127 the corresponding Ada95 binding module (patch by Juergen Pfeifer,
10128 report by Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@foxnet.net>)
10129 + removed the mechanism to timestamp the generated Ada95 sources. This
10130 resulted always in generating patches for the HTML doc, even when
10131 nothing really changed (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
10132 + improve man page mitem_new.3x (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
10135 + remove ech capability from rxvt description because it does not work.
10136 + add missing case logic for infocmp -I option (reported by Lorenzo M.
10137 Catucci <lorenzo@argon.roma2.infn.it>)
10138 + correct old bug in pnoutrefresh() unmasked by fix in 970531; this
10139 caused glitches in the ncurses 'p' test since the area outside the
10140 pad was not compared when setting up indices for _nc_scroll_optimize.
10141 + rewrote tracebits() to workaround misdefinition of TOSTOP on Ultrix
10142 4.4, as well as to eliminate fixed-size buffer (reported by Chris
10143 Tanner <tannerc@aecl.ca>)
10144 + correct prototype for termattrs() as per XPG4 version 2.
10145 + add placeholder prototypes for color_set(), erasewchar(),
10146 term_attrs(), wcolor_set() as per XPG4 version 2.
10147 + correct attribution for progs/progs.priv.h and lib_twait.c
10148 + improve line-breakout logic by checking based on changed lines rather
10149 than total lines (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10150 + correct loop limits for table-lookup of enumerated value in form
10151 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
10152 + improve threshhold computation for determining when to call ClrToEOL
10153 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10156 + add configure option --disable-database to force the library to
10157 use only the fallback data.
10158 + add configure option --with-fallbacks, to specify list of fallback
10159 terminal descriptions.
10160 + add a symbolic link for ncurses.h during install; too many programs
10161 still assume there's an ncurses.h
10162 + add new terminfo.src entry for xterm-xf86-v33.
10163 + restore terminfo.src entry for emu to using setf/setb, since it is
10164 not, after all, generating ANSI sequences. Corrected missing comma
10165 that caused setf/setb entries to merge.
10166 + modify mousemask() to use keyok() to enable/disable KEY_MOUSE, so
10167 that applications can disable ncurses' mouse and supply their own
10169 + add extensions keyok() and define_key(). These are designed to allow
10170 the user's application better control over the use of function keys,
10171 e.g., disabling the ncurses KEY_MOUSE. (The define_key idea was from
10172 a mailing-list thread started by Kenneth Albanowski
10173 <kjahds@kjahds.com> Nov'1995).
10174 + restore original behavior in ncurses 'g' test, i.e., explicitly
10175 set the keypad mode rather than use the default, since it confuses
10177 + rewrote the newdemo banner so it's readable (reported by Hugh
10179 + tidy up exit from hashtest (reported by Hugh Daniel).
10180 + restore check for ^Q in ncurses 'g' test broken in 970510 (reported
10182 + correct tput program, checking return-value of setupterm (patch by
10184 + correct logic in pnoutrefresh() and pechochar() functions (reported
10185 by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf.usc.edu>). The computation
10186 of 'wide' date to eric's #283 (1.9.9), and the pechochar bug to the
10187 original implementation (1.9.6).
10188 + correct typo in vt102-w terminfo.src entry (patch by Robert Wuest
10189 <rwuest@sire.vt.com>)
10190 + move calls of _nc_background() out of various loops, as its return
10191 value will be the same for the whole window being operated on (patch
10193 + add macros getcur[xy] getbeg[xy] getpar[xy], which are defined in
10194 SVr4 headers (patch by J T Conklin <jtc@NetBSD.ORG>)
10195 + modify glibc addon-configure scripts (patch by H.J.Lu).
10196 + correct a bug in hashmap.c: the size used for clearing the hashmap
10197 table was incorrect, causing stack corruption for large values of
10198 LINES, e.g., >MAXLINES/2 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10199 + eric's terminfo 9.13.23 & 9.13.24 changes: replaced minitel-2 entry,
10200 added MGR, ansi-nt (note: the changes described for 9.13.24 have not
10202 > several changes by Juergen Pfeifer:
10203 + correct a missing error-return in form_driver.c when wrapping of a
10204 field is not possible.
10205 + correct logic in form_driver.c for configurations that do not have
10206 memccpy() (reported by Sidik Isani <isani@cfht.hawaii.edu>)
10207 + change several c++ binding functions to inline.
10208 + modify c++ menu binding to inherit from panels, for proper
10210 + correct freeing of menu items in c++ binding.
10211 + modify c++ binding to reflect removal of const from user data pointer
10212 in forms/menus libraries.
10215 + add description of xterm-16color.
10216 + modify name of shared-library on *BSD to end with $(REL_VERSION)
10217 rather than $(ABI_VERSION) to match actual convention on FreeBSD
10219 + add OpenBSD to shared-library case, same as NetBSD and FreeBSD
10220 (reported by Hugh Daniel <hugh@rat.toad.com>).
10221 + corrected include-dependency in menu/Makefile so that "make install"
10222 works properly w/o first doing "make".
10223 + add fallback definition for isascii, used in infocmp.
10224 + modify xmas to use color, and to exit right away when a key is
10226 + modify gdc so that the scrolled digits function as described (there
10227 was no time delay between the stages, and the digits overwrote the
10228 bounding box without tidying up).
10229 + modify lib_color.c to use setaf/setab only for the ANSI color codes
10230 0 through 7. Using 16 colors requires setf/setb.
10231 + modify ncurses 'c' test to work with 16 colors, as well as the normal
10233 + remove const qualifier from user data pointer in forms and menus
10234 libraries (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
10235 + rewrote 'waddchnstr()' to avoid using the _nc_waddch_nosync()
10236 function, thereby not interpreting tabs, etc., as per spec (patch by
10237 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10240 + suppress check for pre-existing ncurses header if the --prefix
10241 option is specified.
10242 + add configure options "--with-system-type" and
10243 "--with-system-release" to assist in checking the generated
10245 + add configure option "--enable-rpath" to allow installers to specify
10246 that programs linked against shared libraries will have their library
10247 path embedded, allowing installs into nonstandard locations.
10248 + add flags to OSF1 shared-library options to specify version and
10249 symbol file (patch by Tim Mooney <mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu>)
10250 + add missing definition for ABI_VERSION to c++/Makefile.in (reported
10251 by Satoshi Adachi <adachi@wisdom.aa.ap.titech.ac.jp>).
10252 + modify link flags to accommodate HP-UX linker which embeds absolute
10253 pathnames in executables linked against shared libraries (reported by
10254 Jason Evans <jasone@mrc.uidaho.edu>, solved by Alan Shutko
10255 <ats@hubert.wustl.edu>).
10256 + drop unnecessary check for attribute-change in onscreen_mvcur() since
10257 mvcur() is the only caller within the library, and that check in turn
10258 is exercised only from lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V.
10260 + add 'blank' parameter to _nc_scroll_window() so _nc_mvcur_scrolln()
10261 can use the background of stdscr as a parameter to that function
10262 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10263 + moved _nc_mvcur_scrolln() from lib_mvcur.c to lib_doupdate.c, to use
10264 the latter's internal functions, as well as to eliminate unnecessary
10265 cursor save/restore operations (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10266 + omit parameter of ClrUpdate(), since it is called only for newscr,
10267 further optimized/reduced by using ClearScreen() and TransformLine()
10268 to get rid of duplicate code (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10269 + modify scrolling algorithm in _nc_scroll_optimize() to reject hunks
10270 that are smaller than the distance to be moved (patch by Alexander V.
10272 + correct a place where the panel library was not ifdef'd in ncurses.c
10274 + documentation fixes (Juergen Pfeifer)
10276 970515 4.1 release for upload to prep.ai.mit.edu
10277 + re-tag changes since 970505 as 4.1 release.
10280 + modify ncurses 'g' test to allow mouse input
10281 + modify default xterm description to include mouse.
10282 + modify configure script to add -Wwrite-strings if gcc warnings are
10283 enabled while configuring --enable-const (and fixed related
10285 + add toggle, status display for keypad mode to ncurses 'g' test to
10286 verify that keypad and scrollok are not inherited from parent window
10287 during a call to newwin.
10288 + correction to MKexpanded.sh to make it work when configure --srcdir
10289 is used (reported by H.J.Lu).
10290 + revise test for bool-type, ensuring that it checks if builtin.h is
10291 available before including it, adding test for sizeof(bool) equal
10292 to sizeof(short), and warning user if the size cannot be determined
10293 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10294 + add files to support configuration of ncurses as an add-on library
10295 for GNU libc (patch by H.J.Lu <hjl@lucon.org>)
10298 + correct buffer overrun in lib_traceatr.c
10299 + modify change to lib_vidattr.c to avoid redundant orig_pair.
10300 + turn on 'echo()' in hanoi.c, since it is initially off.
10301 + rename local 'errno' variable in etip.h to avoid conflict with global
10303 + modify configure script to cache LD, AR, AR_OPTS (patch by H.J.Lu
10306 970505 4.1 pre-release
10307 + regenerate the misc directory html dumps without the link list, which
10309 + correct dependency in form directory makefile which caused
10310 unnecessary recompiles.
10311 + correct substitution for ABI_VERSION in test-makefile
10312 + modify install rules for shared-library targets to remove the target
10313 before installing, since some install programs do not properly handle
10314 overwrite of symbolic links.
10315 + change order of top-level targets so that 'include' immediate
10316 precedes the 'ncurses' directory, reducing the time between new
10317 headers and new libraries (requested by Larry Virden).
10318 + modify lib_vidattr.c so that colors are turned off only before
10319 modifying other attributes, turned on after others. This makes the
10320 hanoi.c program display correctly on FreeBSD console.
10321 + modify debug code in panel library to print user-data addresses
10322 rather than the strings which they (may) point to.
10323 + add check to ensure that C++ binding and demo are not built with g++
10324 versions below 2.7, since the binding uses templates.
10325 + modify c++ binding and demo to build and run with SGI's c++ compiler.
10326 (It also compiles with the Sun SparcWorks compiler, but the demo does
10327 not link, due to a vtbl problem).
10328 + corrections to demo.cc, to fix out-of-scope variables (Juergen
10332 + correct memory leak in _nc_trace_buf().
10333 + add configure test for regexpr.h, for Unixware 1.x.
10334 + correct missing "./" prefixing names of generated files in ncurses
10336 + use single-quotes in configure scripts assignments for MK_SHARED_LIB
10337 to workaround shell bug on FreeBSD 2.1.5
10338 + remove tabs from intermediate #define's for GCC_PRINTF, GCC_SCANF
10339 that caused incorrect result in ncurses_cfg.h
10340 + correct initialization in lib_trace.c, which omitted version info.
10341 + remove ech, el1 attributes from cons25w description; they appear to
10342 malfunction in FreeBSD 2.1.5
10343 + correct color attributes in terminfo.src and lib_color.c to match
10344 SVr4 behavior by interchanging codes 1,4, 3,6 in the setf/setb
10346 + use curs_set() rather than checks via tigetstr() for test programs
10347 that hide the cursor: firework, rain, worm.
10348 + ensure that if the terminal lacks change_scroll_region, parm_index
10349 and parm_rindex are used only to scroll the whole screen (patch by
10351 + correct curs_set() logic, which did not return ERR if the requested
10352 attributes did not exist, nor did it assume an unknown initial state
10353 for the cursor (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10354 + combine IDcTransformLine and NoIDcTransformLine to new TransformLine
10355 function in lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10356 + correct hashmap.c, which did not update index information (patch by
10357 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10358 + fixes for C++ binding and demo (see c++/NEWS) (Juergen Pfeifer).
10359 + correct index in lib_instr.c (Juergen Pfeifer).
10360 + correct typo in 970426 patch from Tom's cleanup of lib_overlay.c
10361 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
10364 + corrected cost computation in PutRange(), which was using
10365 milliseconds compared to characters by adding two new members to the
10366 SCREEN struct, _hpa_ch_cost and _cup_ch_cost.
10367 + drop ncurses/lib_unctrl.c, add ncurses/MKunctrl.awk to generate a
10368 const array of strings (suggested by Alexander V. Lukyanov). The
10369 original suggestion in 970118 used a perl script.
10370 + rewrote ncurses 'b' test to better exercise magic-cookie (xmc), as
10371 well as noting the attributes that are not supported by a terminal.
10372 + trace the computation of cost values in lib_mvcur.c
10373 + modify _nc_visbuf() to use octal rather than hex, corrected sign
10374 extension bug in that function that caused buffer overflow.
10375 + modify trace in lib_acs.c to use _nc_visbuf().
10376 + suppress trace within _traceattr2().
10377 + correct logic of _tracechtype2(), which did not account for repeats
10378 or redefinition within an acsc string.
10379 + modify debug-library version baudrate() to use environment variable
10380 $BAUDRATE to override speed computation. This is needed for
10381 regression testing.
10382 + correct problems shown by "weblint -pedantic".
10383 + update mailing-list information (now ncurses@bsdi.com).
10386 + Improve form_field_validation.3x manpage to better describe the
10387 precision parameter for TYPE_NUMERIC and TYPE_INTEGER. Provide more
10388 precise information how the range checking can be avoided. (patch by
10389 Juergen Pfeifer, reported by Bryan Henderson)
10390 + change type of min/max value of form types TYPE_INTEGER to long to
10391 match SVr4 documentation.
10392 + set the form window to stdscr in set_form_win() so that form_win()
10393 won't return null (patch by Juergen Pfeifer, reported by Bryan
10394 Henderson <bryanh@giraffe.netgate.net>).
10397 + corrected ifdef'ing of inline (cf: 970321) for TRACE vs C++.
10398 + corrected toggle_attr_off() macro (patch by Andries Brouwer).
10399 + modify treatment of empty token in $MANPATH to /usr/man (reported by
10400 <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>)
10401 + modify traces that record functions-called so that chtype and attr_t
10402 values are expressed symbolically, to simplify reuse of generated
10403 test-scripts on SVr4 regression testing.
10404 + add new trace functions _traceattr2() and _tracechtype2()
10407 + add configure option --enable-const, to support the use of 'const'
10408 where XSI should have, but did not, specify. This defines
10409 NCURSES_CONST, which is an empty token otherwise, for strict
10411 + make processing of configure options more verbose by echoing the
10412 --enable/--with values.
10413 + add configure option --enable-big-core
10414 + set initial state of software echo off as per XSI.
10415 + check for C++ builtin.h header
10416 + correct computation of absolute-path for $INSTALL that dropped "-c"
10417 parameter from the expression.
10418 + rename config.h to ncurses_cfg.h to avoid naming-conflict when
10419 ncurses is integrated into larger systems (adapted from diffs by
10421 + correct inequality in lib_doupdate.c that caused a single-char to not
10422 be updated when the char on the right-margin was not blank, idcok()
10423 was true (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov (in 970124), reported
10424 by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf-fs.usc.edu> in 970329).
10425 + modify 'clean' rule in include/Makefile so that files created by
10426 configure script are removed in 'distclean' rule instead.
10429 + correct array limit in tparam_internal(), add case to interpret "%x"
10430 (patch by Andreas Schwab)
10431 + rewrote number-parsing in ncurses.c 'd' test; it did not reset the
10432 value properly when non-numeric characters were given (reported by
10433 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>)
10436 + move definition of __INTERNAL_CAPS_VISIBLE before include for
10437 progs.priv.h (patch by David MacKenzie).
10438 + add configuration summary, reordered check for default include
10439 directory to better accommodate a case where installer is configuring
10440 a second copy of ncurses (reported by Klaus Weide
10441 <kweide@tezcat.com>)
10442 + moved the #define for 'inline' as an empty token from the
10443 $(CFLAGS_DEBUG) symbol into config.h, to avoid redefinition warning
10444 (reported by Ward Horner).
10445 + modify test for bool builtin type to use 'unsigned' rather than
10446 'unknown' when cross-compiling (reported by Ward Horner).
10449 + add header dependencies so that "make install.libs" will succeed
10450 even if "make all" is not done first.
10451 + moved some macros from lib_doupdate.c to curses.priv.h to use in
10452 expanded functions with ATAC.
10453 + correct implementation of lib_instr.c; both XSI and SVr4 agree that
10454 the winnstr functions can return more characters than will fit on one
10458 + modify script that generates lib_gen.c to support traces of called &
10460 + add new configure option "--disable-macros", for testing calls within
10462 + corrected logic that screens level-checking of called/return traces.
10465 + use new configure macro NC_SUBST to replace AC_PATH_PROG, better
10466 addressing request by Ward Horner.
10467 + check for cross-compiling before trying to invoke the autoconf
10468 AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED macro (reported by Ward Horner)
10469 + correct/simplify loop in _nc_visbuf(), 970201 changes omitted
10470 a pointer-increment.
10471 + eliminate obsolete symbol SHARED_ABI from dist.mk (noted by
10475 + add configure option --enable-expanded, together with code that
10476 implements an expanded form of certain complex macros, for testing
10478 + disable CHECK_POSITION unless --with-assertions is configured
10479 (Alexander V Lukyanov pointed out that this is redundant).
10480 + use keyname() to show traced chtype values where applicable rather
10481 than _tracechar(), which truncates the value to 8-bits.
10482 + minor fixes to TRACE_ICALLS, added T_CREATE, TRACE_CCALLS macros.
10483 + modify makefiles in progs and test directories to avoid using C
10484 preprocessor options on link commands (reported by Ward Horner)
10485 + correct ifdef/include-order for nc_alloc.h vs lib_freeall.c (reported
10487 + modify ifdef's to use configure-defined symbols consistently
10488 (reported by Ward Horner)
10489 + add/use new makefile symbols AR, AR_OPTS and LD to assist in non-UNIX
10490 ports (reported by Ward Horner <whorner@tsi-telsys.com>)
10491 + rename struct try to struct tries, to avoid name conflict with C++
10492 (reported by Gary Johnson).
10493 + modify worm.c to hide cursor while running.
10494 + add -Wcast-qual to gcc warnings, fix accordingly.
10495 + use PutChar rather than PutAttrChar in ClrToEOL to properly handle
10496 wrapping (Alexander V Lukyanov).
10497 + correct spurious echoing of input in hanoi.c from eric's #291 & #292
10498 patches (reported by Vernon C. Hoxie <vern@zebra.alphacdc.com>).
10499 + extend IRIX configuration to IRIX64
10500 + supply missing install.libs rule needed after restructuring
10504 + modify "make mostlyclean" to leave automatically-generated source
10505 in the ncurses directory, for use in cross-compiles.
10506 + autogenerated object-dependencies for test directory
10507 + add configure option --with-rcs-ids
10508 + modify configuration scripts to generate major/minor/patch versions
10509 (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
10510 + supply missing va_end's in lib_scanw.c
10511 + use stream I/O for trace-output, to eliminate fixed-size buffer
10512 + add TRACE_ICALLS definition/support to lib_trace.c
10513 + modify Ada95 binding to work with GNAT 3.09 (Juergen Pfeifer).
10516 + add/modify traces for called/return values to simplify extraction
10518 + changed _nc_visbuf to quote its result, and to dynamically allocate
10519 the returned buffer.
10520 + invoke ldconfig after installing shared library
10521 + modify install so that overwrite applies to shared library -lcurses
10522 in preference to static library (reported by Zeyd M Ben-Halim 960928).
10523 + correct missing ';' in 961221 mod to overwrite optional use of $(LN_S)
10525 + fixes to allow "make install" to work without first doing a "make
10526 all" (suggested by Larry Virden).
10529 + correct order of #ifdef for TABS_OK.
10530 + instrumented toe.c to test memory-leaks.
10531 + correct memory-deallocation in toe.c (patch by Jesse Thilo).
10532 + include <sys/types.h> in configuration test for regex.h (patch by
10534 + make infocmp recognize -I option, for SVr4 compatibility (reported by
10535 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>)
10538 + add extension 'use_default_colors()', modified test applications that
10539 use default background (firework, gdc, hanoi, knight, worm) to
10541 + correct some limit checks in lib_doupdate.c exposed while running
10543 + use typeCalloc macro for readability.
10544 + add/use definition for CONST to accommodate testing with Solaris
10545 (SVr4) curses, which doesn't use 'const' in its prototypes.
10546 + modify ifdef's in test/hashtest.c and test/view.c to compile with
10548 + modify _tracedump() to pad pad colors & attrs lines to match change
10549 in 970101 showing first/last changes.
10550 + corrected location of terminating null on dynamically allocated forms
10551 fields (patch by Per Foreby).
10554 + added headers to make view.c compile on SCO with the resizeterm()
10555 code (i.e., struct winsize) - though this compiles, I don't have a
10556 suitable test configuration since SIGWINCH doesn't pass my network to
10557 that machine - T.Dickey.
10558 + update test/configure.in to supply some default substitutions.
10559 + modify configure script to add -lncurses after -lgpm to fix problem
10560 linking against static libraries.
10561 + add a missing noraw() to test/ncurses.c (places noted by Jeremy
10563 + add a missing wclear() to test/testcurs.c (patch by Jeremy Buhler
10564 <jbuhler@cs.washington.edu>)
10565 + modify headers to accommodate compilers that don't allow duplicate
10566 "#define" lines for NCURSES_VERSION (reported by Larry W. Virden
10568 + fix formatting glitch in curs_getch.3x (patch by Jesse Thilo).
10569 + modify lib_doupdate to make el, el1 and ed optimization use the
10570 can_clear_with macro, and change EmitRange to allow leaving cursor at
10571 the middle of interval, rather than always at the end (patch by
10572 Alexander V Lukyanov). This was originally 960929, resync 970106.
10575 + workaround defect in autoconf 2.12 (which terminates configuration
10576 if no C++ compiler is found) by adding an option --without-cxx.
10577 + modify several man-pages to use tbl, where .nf/.fi was used (reported
10579 + correct font-codes in some man-pages (patch by Jesse Thilo
10580 <Jesse.Thilo@pobox.com>)
10581 + use configure script's knowledge of existence of g++ library for the
10582 c++ Makefile (reported by Paul Jackson).
10583 + correct misleading description of --datadir configuration option
10584 (reported by Paul Jackson <pj@sam.engr.sgi.com>)
10587 + several corrections to _nc_mvcur_scrolln(), prompted by a bug report
10589 > the logic for non_dest_scroll_region was interchanged between the
10590 forward & reverse scrolling cases.
10591 > multiple returns from the function allowed certain conditions to do
10592 part of an operation before discovering that it couldn't be
10593 completed, returning an error without restoring the cursor.
10594 > some returns were ERR, where the function had completed the
10595 operation, because the insert/delete line logic was improperly
10596 tested (this was probably the case Peter saw).
10597 > contrary to comments, some scrolling cases were tested after the
10598 insert/delete line method.
10599 + modify _tracedump() to show first/last changes.
10600 + modify param of ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c to 'newscr', fixes
10601 refresh problem (reported by Peter Wemm) that caused nvi to not show
10602 result of ":r !ls" until a ^L was typed.
10604 961229 (internal alpha)
10605 + correct some of the writable-strings warnings (reported by Gary
10606 Johnson <gjohnson@season.com>). Note that most of the remaining ones
10607 are part of the XSI specification, and can't be "fixed".
10608 + improve include-dependencies in form, menu, panel directories.
10609 + correct logic of delay_output(), which would return early if
10610 there is data on stdin.
10611 + modify interface & logic of _nc_timed_wait() to support 2 file
10612 descriptors, needed for GPM.
10613 + integrate patch by Andrew Kuchling <amk@magnet.com> for GPM (mouse)
10614 support, correcting logic in wgetch() and _nc_mouse_parse() which
10615 prevented patch from working properly -TD
10616 + improve performance of panel algorithm (Juergen Pfeifer 961203).
10617 + strip RCS id's from generated .html files in Ada95 subtree.
10618 + resync with generated .html files (Juergen Pfeifer 961223).
10619 + terminfo.src 10.1.0 (ESR).
10622 + release as 4.0 to accommodate Linux ld.so.1.8.5
10623 + correct syntax/spelling, regenerated .doc files from .html using
10625 + refined forms/menus makefiles (Juergen Pfeifer 961223).
10628 + remove logic in read_entry.c that attempts to refine errno by using
10629 'access()' for the directory (from patch by Florian La Roche).
10630 + correct configure test/substitution that inhibits generating
10631 include-path to /usr/include if gcc is used (reported by Florian La
10633 + modify setupterm() to allocate new TERMINAL for each call, just as
10634 solaris' curses does (Alexander V Lukyanov 960829).
10635 + corrected memory leaks in read_entry.c
10636 + add configure options --with-dbmalloc, --with-dmalloc, and
10637 --disable-leaks, tested by instrumenting infocmp, ncurses programs.
10638 + move #include's for stdlib.h and string.h to *.priv.h to accommodate
10640 + modify use of $(LN_S) to follow recommendation in autoconf 2.12,
10641 i.e., set current directory before linking.
10642 + split-out panel.priv.h, improve dependencies for forms, menus
10643 (Juergen Pfeifer 961204).
10644 + modify _nc_freewin() to reset globals curscr/newscr/stdscr when
10645 freeing the corresponding WINDOW (found using Purify).
10646 + modify delwin() to return ERR if the window to be deleted has
10647 subwindows, needed as a side-effect of resizeterm() (found using
10648 Purify). Tested and found that SVr4 curses behaves this way.
10649 + implement logic for _nc_freeall(), bringing stub up to date.
10652 + modify wbkgd() so that it doesn't set nulls in the rendered text,
10653 even if its argument doesn't specify a character (fixes test case by
10654 Juergen Pfeifer for bug-report).
10655 + set window-attributes in wbkgd(), to simplify comparison against
10656 Solaris curses, which does this.
10659 + replace most constants in ncurses 'o' test by expressions, making it
10660 work with wider range of screen sizes.
10661 + add options to ncurses.c to specify 'e' test softkey format, and the
10662 number of header/footer lines to rip-off.
10663 + add ^R (repaint after resize), ^L (refresh) commands to ncurses 'p'
10665 + add shell-out (!) command to ncurses 'p' test to allow test of
10666 resize between endwin/refresh.
10667 + correct line-wrap case in mvcur() by emitting carriage return,
10668 overlooked in 960928, but needed due to SVr4 compatibility changes to
10669 terminal modes in 960907.
10670 + correct logic in wresize that causes new lines to be allocated,
10671 broken for the special case of increasing rows only in 960907's fix
10673 + modify configure script to generate $(LDFLAGS) with -L and -l options
10674 in preference to explicit library filenames. (NOTE: this may
10675 require further amending, since I vaguely recall a dynamic loader
10676 that did not work properly without the full names, but it should be
10677 handled as an exception to the rule, since some linkers do bulk
10678 inclusion of libraries when given the full name - T.Dickey).
10679 + modify configure script to allow user-supplied $CFLAGS to set the
10680 debug-option in all libraries (requested by lots of people) -TD
10681 + use return consistently from main(), rather than exit (reported by
10683 + add --enable-getcap-cache option to configure, normally disabled
10684 (requested by Florian La Roche).
10685 + make configure test for gettimeofday() and possibly -lbsd more
10686 efficient (requested by Florian La Roche <florian@knorke.saar.de>)
10687 + minor adjustments to Ada95 binding (patches by Juergen Pfeifer)
10688 + correct attributes after emitting orig_pair in lib_vidattr.c (patch
10689 by Alexander V Lukyanov).
10692 + corrected README wrt Ada95 (Juergen Pfeifer)
10695 + integrate resizeterm() into doupdate(), so that if screen size
10696 changes between endwin/refresh, ncurses will resize windows to fit
10697 (this needs additional testing with pads and softkeys).
10698 + add, for memory-leak testing, _nc_freeall() entrypoint to free all
10699 data used in ncurses library.
10700 + initialize _nc_idcok, _nc_idlok statically to resolve discrepancy
10701 between initscr() and newwin() initialization (reported by
10702 Alexander V Lukyanov).
10703 + test built VERSION=4.0, SHARED_ABI=4 with Linux ld.so.1.8.5
10704 (set beta versions to those values -- NOTE that subsequent pre-4.0
10705 beta may not be interchangeable).
10706 + modify configure script to work with autoconf 2.12
10708 961130 1.9.9g release
10709 + add copyright notices to configuration scripts (written by Thomas
10713 > patch, mostly for panel (Juergen Pfeifer):
10714 + cosmetic improvement for a few routines in the ncurses core library
10715 to avoid warning messages.
10716 + the panel overlap detection was broken
10717 + the panel_window() function was not fool-proof.
10719 + Cosmetic changes (also to avoid warning messages when compiling with
10723 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
10724 + eliminates warning messages for the compile of libform.
10725 + inserts Per Foreby's new field type TYPE_IPV4 into libform.
10726 + Updates man page and the Ada95 binding to reflect this.
10727 + Improves inlining in libmenu and libform.
10730 + improve the use of the "const" qualifier in the
10731 panel library (Juergen Pfeifer)
10732 + change set_panel_userptr() and panel_userptr() to use void*
10736 + change ABI to 3.4
10737 + package with 961119 version of Ada95 binding (fixes for gnat-3.07).
10739 + correct initialization of the stdscr pseudo panel in panel library
10741 + use MODULE_ID (rcs keywords) in forms and menus libraries (Juergen
10743 > patch #324 (ESR):
10744 + typo in curs_termcap man page (reported by Hendrik Reichel
10745 <106065.2344@compuserve.com>)
10746 + change default xterm entry to xterm-r6.
10747 + add entry for color_xterm
10750 + lint found several functions that had only #define implementations
10751 (e.g., attr_off), modified curses.h.in to generate them as per XSI
10752 Curses requirement that every macro be available as a function.
10753 + add check in infocmp.c to guard against string compare of
10754 CANCELLED_STRING values.
10755 + modify firework.c, rain.c to hide cursor while running.
10756 + correct missing va_end in lib_tparm.c
10757 + modify hanoi.c to work on non-color terminals, and to use timing
10758 delays when in autoplay mode.
10759 + correct 'echochar()' to refresh immediately (reported by Adrian
10760 Garside <94ajg2@eng.cam.ac.uk>)
10761 > patch #322 (ESR):
10762 + reorganize terminfo.src entries for xterm.
10765 + corrected error in line-breakout logic (lib_doupdate.c)
10766 + modified newdemo to use wgetch(win) rather than getch() to eliminate
10767 a spurious clear-screen.
10768 + corrected ifdef's for 'poll()' configuration.
10769 + added modules to ncurses, form, menu for Ada95 binding (Juergen
10771 + modify set_field_buffer() to allow assignment of string longer than
10772 the initial buffer length, and to return the complete string rather
10773 than only the initial size (Juergen Pfeifer and Per Foreby
10774 <perf@efd.lth.se>).
10777 + configure for 'poll()' in preference to 'select()', since older
10778 systems are more likely to have a broken 'select()'.
10779 + modified render_char() to avoid OR'ing colors.
10780 + minor fixes to testcurs.c, newdemo.c test programs: ifdef'd out the
10781 resize test, use wbkgd and corrected box() parameters.
10782 + make flushinp() test work in ncurses.c by using napms() instead of
10784 + undo ESR's changes to xterm-x11r6 (it no longer matched the X11R6.1
10785 distribution, as stated)
10786 + terminfo 9.13.18 resync (ESR)
10787 + check for getenv("HOME") returning null (ESR).
10788 + change buffer used to decode xterm-mouse commands to unsigned to
10789 handle displays wider than 128 chars (Juergen Pfeifer).
10790 + correct typo curs_outopts.3x (Juergen Pfeifer).
10791 + correct limit-checking in wenclose() (Juergen Pfeifer).
10792 + correction to Peter Wemm's newwin change (Thomas Fehr
10794 + corrections to logic that combines colors and attributes; they must
10795 not be OR'd (Juergen Pfeifer, extending from report/patch by Rick
10799 + reset flags in 'getwin()' that might cause refresh to attempt to
10800 manipulate the non-existent parent of a window that is read from a
10801 file (lib_screen.c).
10802 + restructure _nc_timed_wait() to log more information, and to try to
10803 recover from badly-behaved 'select()' calls (still testing this).
10804 + move define for GOOD_SELECT into configure script.
10805 + corrected extra '\' character inserted before ',' in comp_scan.c
10806 + corrected expansion of %-format characters in dump_entry.c; some were
10807 rendered as octal constants.
10808 + modify dump_entry.c to make terminfo output more readable and like
10809 SVr4, by using "\s" for spaces (leading/trailing only), "\," for
10810 comma, "\^" and "\:" as well.
10811 + corrected some memory leaks in ncurses.c, and a minor logic error
10812 in the top-level command-parser.
10813 + correction for label format 4 (PC style with info line), a
10814 slk_clear(), slk_restore() sequence didn't redraw the info line
10816 + modified the slk window (if simulated) to inherit the background and
10817 default character attributes from stdscr (Juergen Pfeifer).
10818 + corrected limit-check in set_top_row (Juergen Pfeifer).
10821 + correct loop-limit in wnoutrefresh(), bug exposed during pipe-testing
10822 had '.lastchar' entry one beyond '._maxx'.
10823 + modify ncurses test-program to work with data piped to it.
10824 + corrected pathname computation in run_tic.sh, removing extra "../"
10825 (reported by Tim Mooney).
10826 + modified configure script to use previous install's location for
10828 + added NetBSD and FreeBSD to platforms that use --prefix=/usr as
10832 + revised xterm terminfo descriptions to reflect the several versions
10833 that are available.
10834 + corrected a pointer reference in dump_entry.c that didn't test if
10835 the pointer was -1.
10838 + correct _nc_mvcur_scrolln for terminals w/o scrolling region.
10839 + add -x option to hashtest to control whether it allows writes to the
10840 lower-right corner.
10841 + ifdef'd (NCURSES_TEST) the logic for _nc_optimize_enable to make it
10842 simpler to construct tests (for double-check of _nc_hash_map tests).
10843 + correct ifdef's for c++ in curses.h
10844 + change default xterm type to xterm-x11r6.
10845 + correct quoting in configure that made man-pages installed with
10846 $datadir instead of actual terminfo path.
10847 + correct whitespace in include/Caps, which caused kf11, clr_eol and
10848 clr_end to be omitted from terminfo.5
10849 + fix memory leaks in delscreen() (adapted from Alexander V Lukyanov).
10850 + improve appearance of marker in multi-selection menu (Juergen
10852 + fix behavior for forms with all fields inactive (Juergen Pfeifer)
10853 + document 'field_index()' (Juergen Pfeifer)
10854 > patch #321 (ESR):
10855 + add some more XENIX keycap translations to include/Caps.
10856 + modify newwin to set initial state of each line to 'touched'
10857 (from patch by Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.dialix.com>)
10858 + in SET_TTY, replace TCSANOW with TCSADRAIN (Alexander V Lukyanov).
10861 + ifdef'd out _nc_hash_map (still slower)
10862 + add graphic characters to vt52 description.
10863 + use PutAttrChar in ClrToEOL to ensure proper background, position.
10864 + simplify/correct logic in 'mvcur()' that does wrapping; it was
10865 updating the position w/o actually moving the cursor, which broke
10867 + ensure that 'doupdate()' sets the .oldindex values back to a sane
10868 state; this was causing a spurious refresh in ncurses 'r'.
10869 + add logic to configure (from vile) to guard against builders who
10870 don't remove config.cache & config.status when doing new builds -TD
10871 + corrected logic for 'repeat_char' in EmitRange (cf: eric #317), which
10872 did not follow the 2-parameter scheme specified in XSI.
10873 + corrected logic of wrefresh, wnoutrefresh broken in #319, making
10874 clearok work properly (report by Michael Elkins).
10875 + corrected problem with endwin introduced by #314 (removing the
10876 scrolling-region reset) that broke ncurses.c tests.
10877 + corrected order of args in AC_CHECK_LIB (from report by Ami Fischman
10878 <fischman@math.ucla.edu>).
10879 + corrected formatting of terminfo.5 tables (Juergen Ehling)
10881 + change ABI to 3.3
10882 + emit a carriage-return in 'endwin()' to workaround a kernel bug in
10883 BSDI. (requested by Mike Karels <karels@redrock.bsdi.com>)
10884 + reverse the default o configure --enable-termcap (consensus).
10886 + modified logic for clearok and related functions (from report by
10887 Michael Elkins) - untested
10889 + correction to #317.
10891 + re-add _nc_hash_map
10892 + modify EmitRange to maintain position as per original design
10893 (patch by A. Lukyanov).
10894 + modify test/ncurses.c and tputs, etc., to allow trace counting
10896 + add hashtest.c program to time the hashmap optimization.
10898 + add logic to deal with magic-cookie (how was this tested?)
10900 + add ncurses.c driver for magic-cookie, some fixes to ncurses.c
10902 + merge changes to lib_doupdate.c to use ech and rep - untested
10903 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
10904 + modified handling of interrupted system calls - untested
10905 (lib_getch.c, lib_twait.c).
10906 + new function _nc_mvcur_resume()
10907 + fix return value for 'overlay()', 'overwrite()'
10910 + implement subwindow-logic in wresize, minor fixes to ncurses 'g'
10912 + corrected bracketing of fallback.c (reported/suggested fix by Juergen
10913 Ehling <eh@eclipse.aball.de>).
10914 + update xterm-color to reflect XFree86 3.1.3G release.
10915 + correct broken dtterm description from #314 patch (e.g., spurious
10916 newline. The 'pairs' change might work, but no one's tested it
10918 + clarify the documentation for the builtin form fieldtypes (Juergen
10921 + reset scroll region on startup rather than at wrapup time
10922 (enhancement suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
10923 + make storage of palette tables and their size counts per-screen for
10924 multi-terminal applications (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
10925 + Improved error reporting for infotocap translation errors.
10926 + Update terminfo.src to 9.13.14.
10929 + rewrote wgetstr to make it erase control chars and also fix bogus use
10930 of _nc_outstr which caused the display to not wrap properly (display
10931 problem reported by John M. Flinchbaugh <glynis@netrax.net>)
10932 + modify ncurses 'f' test to accommodate terminal responses to C1 codes
10933 (and split up this screen to accommodate non-ANSI terminals).
10934 + test enter_insert_mode and exit_insert_mode in has_ic().
10935 + removed bogus logic in mvcur that assumes nl/nonl set output modes
10936 (XSI says they are input modes; SVr4 implements this).
10937 + added macros SET_TTY, GET_TTY to term.h
10938 + correct getstr() logic that altered terminal modes w/o restoring.
10939 + disable ICRNL, etc., during initialization to match SVr4, removing
10940 the corresponding logic from raw, cbreak, etc.
10941 + disable ONLCR during initialization, to match SVr4 (this is needed
10942 for cursor optimization when the cursor-down is a newline).
10943 + replaced ESR's imitation of wresize with my original (his didn't
10947 + memory leaks (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10948 + modified pnoutrefresh() to be more tolerant of too-large screen
10949 size (reported by Michael Elkins).
10950 + correct handling of terminfo files with no strings (Philippe De
10952 + correct "tic -s" to take into account -I, -C options.
10953 + modify ncurses 'f' test to not print codes 80 through 9F, since they
10954 are considered control codes by ANSI terminals.
10957 + correct speed variable-type in 'tgetent()' (reported by Peter Wemm)
10958 + make "--enable-getcap" configuration-option work (reported by
10959 Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.DIALix.COM>)
10962 + correct err in 960817 that changed return-value of tigetflag()
10963 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10964 + modify infocmp to use library default search-path for terminfo
10965 directory (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10968 + corrected an err in mvcur that broke resizing-behavior.
10969 + correct fall-thru behavior of _nc_read_entry(), which was not finding
10970 descriptions that existed in directories past the first one searched
10971 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov)
10972 + corrected typo in dtterm description.
10974 + add dtterm description
10975 + clarify ncurses 'i' test (drop mvwscanw subtest)
10978 + correct nl()/nonl() to work as per SVr4 & XSI.
10979 + minor fixes to ncurses.c (use 'noraw()', mvscanw return-code)
10980 + refine configure-test for "-g" option (Tim Mooney).
10981 + correct interaction between O_BLANK and NEW_LINE request in form
10982 library (Juergen Pfeifer)
10985 + revised fix to tparm; previous fix reversed parameter order.
10987 correct terminfo.src corrupted by #310
10989 + fix idlok() and idcok() and the default of the idlok switch (report
10993 + corrected tparm to handle capability strings without explicit pop
10994 (reported by William P Setzer)
10995 + add fallback def for GCC_NORETURN, GCC_UNUSED for termcap users
10996 (reported by Tim Mooney).
10998 + documentation and prototyping errors for has_color, immedok and idcok
10999 (reported by William P Setzer <wsetzer@pams.ncsu.edu>)
11000 + updated qnx terminfo entry (patch by Michael Hunter)
11003 + eliminate quoted includes in ncurses subdirectory, ensure config.h
11005 + newterm initializes terminal settings the same as initscr (reported
11009 + call cbreak() in initscr(), as per XSI & SVr4.
11010 + turn off hardware echo in initscr() as per XSI & SVr4
11012 + terminfo changes (9.3.9), from BRL
11013 + add more checks to terminfo parser.
11014 + add more symbols to infocmp.
11017 + save previous-attribute in lib_vidattr.c if SP is null (reported by
11018 Juergen Fluk <louis@dachau.marco.de>)
11019 + corrected calls on _nc_render so that background character is set
11021 + corrected wbkgdset macro (XSI allows background character to be
11022 null), and tests that use it.
11023 + more corrections to terminfo (xterm & rxvt)
11024 + undid change to mcprint prototype (cannot use size_t in curses.h
11025 because not all systems declare it in the headers that we can safely
11027 + move the ifdefs for errno into curses.priv.h
11029 + terminfo changes (9.3.8)
11030 + modified logic of error-reporting in terminfo parser
11031 + fix option-processing bug in toe.
11034 + always check for <sys/bsdtypes.h> since ISC needs it to declare
11035 fd_set (Juergen Pfeifer)
11036 + install shared-libraries on NetBSD/FreeBSD with ABI-version (reported
11037 by Juergen Pfeifer, Mike Long)
11038 + add LOCAL_LDFLAGS2 symbol (Juergen Pfeifer)
11039 + corrected prototype for delay_output() -- bump ABI to 3.2
11041 + enable more translations of nonstandard caps, and document them.
11042 + misc/terminfo.src update to 9.13.8
11044 + moved logic that filters out rmul and rmso from setupterm to newterm
11045 where it is less likely to interfere with termcap applications.
11046 + cosmetic fixes to test/ncurses.c
11047 + modify open() call in ncurses/read_entry.c to use O_RDONLY symbol
11048 rather than constant (report by mib).
11049 + misc/terminfo.src sgr0 and acsc changes (report by Philippe De
11051 + modify ncurses/comp_parse.c so that entries containing a "+" can
11052 have missing rmcup vs smcup.
11055 + rollback ESR's #305 change to terminfo.src (it breaks existing
11056 applications, e.g., 'less 290').
11057 + correct path of edit_man.sh, and fix typo that made all man-pages
11059 + restore man/menu_requestname.3x omitted in Zeyd's resync (oops).
11060 + auto-configure the GCC_PRINTFLIKE/GCC_SCANFLIKE macros (reported by
11061 Philippe De Muyter).
11064 + make lib_vidattr.c more readable using macros.
11065 + filter out rmul, rmso that conflict with sgr0 when reading terminal
11067 + work around autoconf bug, force $INSTALL to absolute path
11068 (reported by Zeyd).
11069 + modify man-page install for BSDI to install preformatted .0 files
11070 (reported by David MacKenzie).
11071 + add/use gcc __attribute__ for printf and scanf in curses.h
11072 + added SGR attributes test-case to ncurses
11073 + revised ncurses 't' logic to show trace-disable effect in the menu.
11074 + use getopt in ncurses program to process -s and -t options.
11075 + make ncurses 'p' legend toggle with '?'
11076 + disable scrollok during the ncurses 'p' test; if it is enabled the
11077 stdscr will scroll when putting the box-corners in the lower-right
11080 + added sanity-checking of various paired string attributes.
11081 + misc/terminfo.src update to 9.13.7 (report by A. Lukyanov).
11082 + modify man/Makefile.in to make terminfo.5 during normal build.
11084 + corrected allocation-length for $HOME/.terminfo path.
11087 + check return code of _nc_mvcur_scrolln() in _nc_scroll_optimize() for
11088 terminals with no scrolling-support (reported by Nikolay Shadrin
11089 <queen@qh.mirea.ac.ru>)
11090 + added ^S scrollok-toggle to ncurses 'g' test.
11091 + added ^T trace-toggle to ncurses tests.
11092 + modified ncurses test program to use ^Q or ESC consistently for
11093 terminating tests (rather than ^D), and to use control keys rather
11094 than function keys in 'g' test.
11095 + corrected misplaced wclrtoeol calls in addch to accommodate wrapping
11096 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
11097 + modify lib_doupdate.c to use effective costs to tradeoff between
11098 delete-character/insert-character vs normal updating (reported by
11100 + compute effective costs for screen update operations (e.g., clr_eos,
11102 + corrected error in knight.c exposed by wrap fixes in 960622; the
11103 msgwin needed scrollok set.
11104 + corrected last change to IDcTransformLine logic to avoid conflict
11105 between PutRange and InsStr
11106 + modified run_tic.sh to not use /usr/tmp (reported by David
11107 MacKenzie), and further revised it and aclocal.m4 to use $TMPDIR if
11109 + corrected off-by-one in RoomFor call in read_entry.c
11112 + modified logic that wraps cursor in addch to follow the XSI spec,
11113 (implemented in SVr4) which states that the cursor position is
11114 updated when wrapping. Renamed _NEED_WRAP to _WRAPPED to reflect the
11116 + added -s option to tic, to provide better diagnostics in run_tic.sh
11117 + improved error-recovery for tabset install.
11118 + change ABI to 3.1 (dropped tparam, corrected getbkgd(), added
11119 _yoffset to WINDOW).
11120 + modified initialization of SP->_ofp so that init_acs() is called with
11121 the "right" file pointer (reported by Rick Marshall <rjm@nlc.net.au>
11122 + documentation fixes (Juergen Pfeifer).
11123 + corrected, using new SCREEN and WINDOW members, the behavior of
11124 ncurses if one uses ripoffline() to remove a line from the top of the
11125 screen (Juergen Pfeifer).
11126 + modified autoconf scripts to prepare for Ada95 (GNAT) binding to
11127 ncurses (Juergen Pfeifer).
11128 + incorrect buffer-size in _nc_read_entry, reported by ESR.
11131 + corrected two logic errors in read_entry.c, write_entry.c (called by
11132 tic, the write/read of terminfo entries used inconsistent rules for
11133 locating the entries; the $TERMINFO_DIRS code would find only the
11134 first entry in a list).
11135 + refined pathname computation in run_tic.sh and shlib.
11136 + corrected initialization of $IP in misc/run_tic.sh
11139 + ifdef'd out _nc_hash_map() call because it does not improve speed.
11140 + display version of gcc if configure script identifies it.
11141 + modify configure script to use /usr as Linux's default prefix.
11142 + modify run_tic.sh to use shlib script, fixes some problems installing
11143 with a shared-library configuration.
11144 + adjusted configure script so that it doesn't run tests with the
11145 warnings turned on, which makes config.log hard to read.
11146 + added 'lint' rule to top-level Makefile.
11147 + added configure option '--with-install-prefix' for use by system
11148 builders to install into staging locations (requested by
11149 Charles Levert <charles@comm.polymtl.ca>).
11150 + corrected autoconfigure for Debian man program; it's not installed
11152 + set noecho in 'worm'; it was ifdef'd for debug only
11153 + updated test/configure.in for timing-display in ncurses 'p' test
11154 + corrected misspelled 'getbkgd()'.
11155 + corrected wbkgdset to work like observed syvr4 (sets A_CHARTEXT part
11156 to blank if no character given, copies attributes to window's
11158 + modified lib_doupdate.c to use lower-level SP's current_attr state
11159 instead of curscr's state, since it is redundant.
11160 + correction to IDcTransformLine logic which controls where InsStr is
11161 invoked (refined by Alexander V Lukyanov).
11163 + conditionally include Chris Torek's hash function _nc_hash_map().
11164 + better fix for nvi refresh-bug (Rick Marshall)
11165 + fix for bug in handling of interrupted keystroke waits,
11167 + misc/ncurses-intro.html syntax fix (Kajiyama Tamito).
11170 + auto-configure man-page compression-format and renames for Debian.
11171 + corrected several typos in curses.h.in (i.e., the mvXXXX macros).
11172 + re-order curses.priv.h for lint.
11173 + added rules for lintlib, lint
11174 + corrected ifdef for BROKEN_LINKER in MKnames.awk.in
11175 + corrected missing INSTALL_DATA in misc/Makefile.in
11176 + flush output when changing cursor-visibility (Rick Marshall)
11177 + fix a minor bug in the _nc_ripoff() routine and improve error
11178 checking when creating the label window (Juergen Pfeifer).
11179 + enhancement to the control over the new PC-style soft key format.
11180 allow caller now to select whether or not one wants to have
11181 the index-line; see curs_slk.3x for documentation (Juergen Pfeifer).
11182 + typos, don't use inline with "-g" (Philippe De Muyter)
11183 + fixes for menus & wattr-, slk-functions (Juergen Pfeifer)
11186 + removed --with-ticdir option altogether, maintain compatibility with
11187 existing applications via symbolic link in run_tic.sh
11188 + patch for termio.h, signal (Philippe De Muyter)
11189 + auto-configure gcc warning options rather than infer from version.
11190 + auto-configure __attribute__ for different gcc versions.
11191 + corrected special use of clearok() in hardscroll.c by resetting flag
11193 + include stdlib.h before defs for EXIT_SUCCESS, for OSF/1.
11194 + include sys/types.h in case stdlib.h does not declare size_t.
11195 + fixes for makefile (Tim Mooney)
11196 + fixes for menus & forms (Juergen Pfeifer)
11198 + improve hash function (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
11199 + 9.13.4 update for terminfo.src
11202 + revised ncurses.c panner test, let pad abut all 4 sides of screen.
11203 + refined case in lib_doupdate.c for ClrToEOL().
11204 + corrected prior change for PutRange (Alexander V Lukyanov
11205 <lav@yars.free.net>).
11206 + autoconf mods (Tim Mooney <mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu>).
11207 + locale fix for forms (Philippe De Muyter <phdemuyt@ulb.ac.be>)
11208 + renamed "--with-datadir" option to "--with-ticdir" to avoid
11209 confusion, and made this check for the /usr/lib/terminfo pre-existing
11211 > patches 299-301 (ESR):
11212 + html fixes (Phillippe de Muyter).
11213 + fix typo in ncurses-intro.html (report by Fabrizio Polacco).
11215 + mods to tracing, especially for ACS chars.
11216 + corrected off-by-one in IDCtransform.
11217 + corrected intermittent mouse bug by using return-value from read().
11218 + mods to parse_entry.c, for smarter defaults.
11221 + use getopt in 'tic'; added -L option and modified -e option to allow
11225 + don't use fixed buffer-size in tparm().
11226 + modified tic to create terminfo directory if it doesn't exist.
11227 + added -T options to tic and infocmp (for testing/analysis)
11228 + refined the length criteria for termcap and terminfo
11229 + optimize lib_doupdate with memcpy, PutRange
11230 > patches 297, 298 (ESR):
11231 + implement TERMINFO_DIRS, and -o option of tic
11232 + added TRACE_IEVENT
11233 + fix REQ_TOGGLE_ITEM in menu/menu_driver.c; it could select but not
11235 + added lib_print.c (request by Rick Marshall).
11236 + added has_key() (request by Juergen Pfeifer).
11237 + do not issue clrtoeol or clrtobot if the relevant portion of the line
11238 is already blank (analysis by Keith Bostic).
11239 + add parentheses for parameters of COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER macros
11240 (analysis by Jurgen Eidt).
11241 + update screen's notion of cursor position in endwin() (analysis by
11242 Alexander Lukyanov).
11243 + added 't' to ncurses.c test.
11244 + moved delay_output() to lib_tputs.c
11245 + removed tparam() (was added in 1.9.9, but conflicts with emacs and
11246 is not part of X/Open Curses).
11247 + removed boolean version of 'getm'.
11248 + misc cursor & optimization fixes.
11251 + modified ncurses 'p' test to allow full-screen range for panner size.
11252 + fixes for locale (Philippe De Muyter <phdm@labauto1.ulb.ac.be>)
11253 + don't use fixed buffer-size in fmt_entry().
11254 + added usage-message to 'infocmp'.
11255 + modified install.includes rules to prepend subdirectory-name to
11256 "#include" if needed.
11259 + protect wrefresh, wnoutrefresh from invocation with pad argument.
11260 + corrected default CCFLAGS in test/Makefile.
11263 + implemented logic to support terminals with background color erase
11264 (e.g., rxvt and the newer color xterm).
11265 + improved screen update logic (off-by-one logic error; use clr_eos if
11269 + change ncurses 'a' test to run in raw mode.
11270 + make TIOCGWINSZ configure test less stringent, in case user
11271 configures via terminal that cannot get screen size.
11272 > patches 295, 296 (ESR):
11273 + split lib_kernel.c, lib_setup.c and names.c in order to reduce
11274 overhead for programs that use only termcap features.
11275 + new "-e" and "-h" options of tic (request by Tony Nugent).
11276 + fix bug in mandatory-delay logic in lib_tputs.c (report by Sven
11278 + fix for "infocmp -e" to emit correct initializers (reported by Manual
11280 + restore working-directory in read_termcap.c (report by Kayvan
11282 + use "-h" option on Solaris when generating shared libraries on
11283 Solaris 2.5 to record the library name in the file, for assisting
11284 the loader (patch by Scott Kramer).
11285 + undo patch #294 changes to form and menu libraries (request by
11290 + fix for AIX 3.2.5 (must define _POSIX_SOURCE to get termios struct
11291 definitions via <termios.h>, modified macros in lib_raw.c to avoid
11292 K&R-style substitution)
11293 > patches 293, 294 (ESR):
11294 + rewrite wsyncup(), wsyncdown(), as well as small fixes to form and
11295 menu libraries to fix echo-breakage introduced by 1.8.9, 1.9.9e
11296 changes (patches by Juergen Pfeifer).
11297 + fix compile under QNX 4.2 by defining ONLCR in lib_raw.c when
11298 __QNX__ is defined (patch by Michael Hunter).
11299 + modify setupterm() to match documentation for its return value, fix
11300 newterm to work with this change (report by Emmet Lazich).
11301 + add checks in getch() for error, return ERR as appropriate (report by
11303 + mods to wgetch() in cooked mode (report by Pete Seebach).
11304 + corrected askuser() logic in tset (patch by Remco Treffkorn).
11305 + correct interaction of endwin() with mouse processing (report by
11307 + added trace support for TTY flags
11308 + update terminfo.src to 9.13.1
11309 + FreeBSD console entries (patch by Andrew Chernov).
11312 + fixes for NeXT, ISC and HPUX auto-configure
11313 + autogenerate development header-dependencies (config.h, *.priv.h)
11314 + corrected single-column formatting of "use=" (e.g., in tic)
11315 + modify tic to read full terminfo-names
11316 + corrected divide-by-zero that caused hang (or worse) when redirecting
11318 + modify tic to generate directories only as-needed (and corrected
11319 instance of use of data from function that had already returned).
11321 ### ncurses-1.9.8a -> 1.9.9e
11323 * fixed broken wsyncup()/wysncdown(), as a result wnoutrefresh() now has
11324 copy-changed-lines behavior.
11325 * added and documented wresize() function.
11326 * more fixes to LOWER-RIGHT corner handling.
11327 * changed the line-breakout optimization code to allow some lines to be
11328 emitted before the first check.
11329 * added option for tic to use symbolic instead of hard links (for AFS)
11330 * fix to restore auto-wrap mode.
11331 * trace level can be controlled by environment variable.
11332 * better handling of NULs in terminal descriptions.
11333 * improved compatibility with observed SVR4 behavior.
11334 * the refresh behavior of over-lapping windows is now more efficient and
11336 * use autoconf 2.7, which results in a working setup for SCO 5.0.
11337 * support for ESCDELAY.
11338 * small fixes for menu/form code.
11339 * the test directory has its own configure.
11340 * fixes to pads when optimizing scrolling.
11341 * fixed several off-by-one bugs.
11342 * fixes for termcap->terminfo translation; less restrictions more correct
11345 ### ncurses-1.9.7 -> 1.9.8a
11347 * teach infocmp -i to recognize ECMA highlight sequences
11348 * infocmp now dumps all SVr4 termcaps (not just the SVr4 ones) on -C
11349 * support infocmp -RBSD.
11350 * satisfy XSI Curses requirement that every macro be available as a function.
11351 * This represents the last big change to the public interface of ncurses. The
11352 ABI_VERSION has now been set at 3.0 and should stay there barring any great
11353 catastrophies or acts of God.
11354 * The C++ has been cleaned up in reaction to the changes to satisfy XSI's
11356 * libncurses now gets linked to libcurses to help seamless emulation
11357 (replacement) of a vendor's curses. --disable-overwrite turns this behavior
11360 ### ncurses-1.9.6 -> 1.9.7
11362 * corrected return values of setupterm()
11363 * Fixed some bugs in tput (it does padding now)
11364 * fixed a bug in tic that made it do the wrong thing on entries with more than
11365 one `use' capability.
11366 * corrected the screen-size calculation at startup time to alter the
11367 numeric capabilities as per SVr4, not just LINES and COLS.
11368 * toe(1) introduced; does what infocmp -T used to.
11369 * tic(1) can now translate AIX box1 and font[0123] capabilities.
11370 * tic uses much less core, the dotic.sh kluge can go away now.
11371 * fix read_entry() and write_entry() to pass through cancelled capabilities OK.
11372 * Add $HOME/.terminfo as source/target directory for terminfo entries.
11373 * termcap compilation now automatically dumps an entry to $HOME/.terminfo.
11374 * added -h option to toe(1).
11375 * added -R option to tic(1) and infocmp(1).
11376 * added fallback-entry-list feature.
11377 * added -i option to infocmp(1).
11378 * do a better job at detecting if we're on SCO.
11380 ### ncurses-1.9.5 -> 1.9.6
11382 * handling of TERMCAP environment variables now works correctly.
11383 * various changes to shorten termcap translations to less that 1024 chars.
11385 * mouse support for xterm.
11386 * most data tables are now const and accordingly live in shareable text space.
11387 * Obey the XPG4/SVr4 practice that echo() is initally off.
11388 * tic is much better at translating XENIX and AIX termcap entries now.
11389 * tic can interpret ko capabilities now.
11390 * integrated Juergen Pfeifer's forms library.
11391 * taught write_entry() how not to write more than it needs to; this change
11392 reduces the size of the terminfo tree by a full 26%!
11393 * infocmp -T option added.
11394 * better warnings about historical tic quirks from tic.
11396 ### ncurses 1.9.4 -> 1.9.5
11398 * menus library is now included with documentation.
11399 * lib_mvcur has been carefully profiled and tuned.
11400 * Fixed a ^Z-handling bug that was tanking lynx(1).
11401 * HJ Lu's patches for ELF shared libraries under Linux
11402 * terminfo.src 9.8.2
11403 * tweaks for compiling in seperate directories.
11404 * Thomas Dickey's patches to support NeXT's brain-dead linker
11405 * Eric Raymond's patches to fix problems with long termcap entries.
11406 * more support for shared libraries under SunOS and IRIX.
11408 ### ncurses 1.9.3 -> 1.9.4
11410 * fixed an undefined-order-of-evaluation bug in lib_acs.c
11411 * systematically gave non-API public functions and data an _nc_ prefix.
11412 * integrated Juergen Pfeifer's menu code into the distribution.
11413 * totally rewrote the knight test game's interface
11415 ### ncurses 1.9.2c -> 1.9.3
11417 * fixed the TERMCAP_FILE Support.
11418 * fixed off-by-one errors in scrolling code
11419 * added tracemunch to the test tools
11420 * took steps to cut the running time of make install.data
11422 ### ncurses 1.9.2c -> 1.9.2d
11424 * revised 'configure' script to produce libraries for normal, debug,
11425 profile and shared object models.
11427 ### ncurses 1.9.1 -> 1.9.2
11429 * use 'autoconf' to implement 'configure' script.
11430 * panels support added
11431 * tic now checks for excessively long termcap entries when doing translation
11432 * first cut at eliminating namespace pollution.
11434 ### ncurses 1.8.9 -> 1.9
11436 * cleanup gcc warnings for the following: use size_t where 'int' is not
11437 appropriate, fixed some shadowed variables, change attr_t to compatible with
11438 chtype, use attr_t in some places where it was confused with 'int'.
11439 * use chtype/attr_t casts as appropriate to ensure portability of masking
11441 * added-back waddchnstr() to lib_addstr.c (it had been deleted).
11442 * supplied missing prototypes in curses.h
11443 * include <termcap.h> in lib_termcap.c to ensure that the prototypes
11444 are consistent (they weren't).
11445 * corrected prototype of tputs in <termcap.h>
11446 * rewrote varargs parsing in lib_tparm.c (to avoid referencing memory
11447 that may be out of bounds on the stack) -- Purify found this.
11448 * ensure that TRACE is defined in lib_trace.c (to solve prototype
11449 warnings from gcc).
11450 * corrected scrolling-region size in 'mvcur_wrap()'
11451 * more spelling fixes
11452 * use 'calloc()' to allocate WINDOW struct in lib_newwin.c (Purify).
11453 * set default value for SP->_ofp in lib_set_term.c (otherwise SunOS dumps
11454 core in init_acs()).
11455 * include <errno.h> in write_entry.c (most "braindead" includes declare errno
11458 ### ncurses 1.8.8 -> 1.8.9
11460 * compile (mostly) clean with gcc 2.5.8 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
11461 -Wmissing-prototypes -Wconversion and using __attribute__ to flush out
11462 non-portable use of "%x" for pointers, or for chtype data (which is declared
11464 * modified doupdate to ensure that typahead was turned on before attempting
11465 select-call (otherwise, some implementations hang).
11466 * added trace mask TRACE_FIFO, use this in lib_getch.c to allow finer
11467 resolution of traces.
11468 * improved bounds checking on several critical functions.
11469 * the data directory has been replaced by the new master terminfo file.
11470 * -F file-comparison option added to infocmp.
11471 * compatibility with XSI Curses is now documented in the man bages.
11472 * wsyncup/wsyncdown functions are reliable now; subwindow code in general
11473 is much less flaky.
11474 * capabilities ~msgr, tilde_glitch, insert_padding, generic_type, no_pad_char,
11475 memory_above, memory_below, and hard_copy are now used properly.
11476 * cursor-movement optimization has been completely rewritten.
11477 * vertical-movement optimization now uses hardware scrolling, il, dl.
11479 ### ncurses 1.8.7 -> 1.8.8
11480 * untic no longer exists, infocmp replaces it.
11481 * tic can understand termcap now, especially if it is called captoinfo.
11482 * The Linux Standard Console terminfo entry is called linux insead of console.
11483 It also uses the kernel's new method of changing charsets.
11484 * initscr() will EXIT upon error (as the docs say) This wil mostly happen if
11485 you try to run on an undefined terminal.
11486 * I can get things running on AIX but tic can't compile terminfo. I have to
11487 compile entries on another machine. Volunteers to hunt this bug are welcome.
11488 * wbkgd() and wbkgdset() can be used to set a windows background to color.
11489 wclear()/werase() DO NOT use the current attribute to clear the screen.
11490 This is the way SVR4 curses works. PDCurses 2.1 is broken in this respect,
11491 though PDCurses 2.2 has been fixed.
11492 * cleaned up the test/ directory.
11493 * test/worm will segfault after quite a while.
11494 * many spelling corrections courtesy of Thomas E. Dickey
11496 ### ncurses 1.8.6 -> 1.8.7
11497 * cleaned up programs in test/ directory.
11498 * fixed wbkgdset() macro.
11499 * modified getstr() to stop it from advancing cursor in noecho mode.
11500 * modified linux terminfo entry to work with the latest kernel to get
11501 the correct alternate character set.
11502 * also added a linux-mono entry for those running on monochrome screens.
11503 * changed initscr() so that it behaves like the man page says it does.
11504 this fixes the problem with programs in test/ crashing with SIGSEV if
11505 a terminal is undefined.
11506 * modified addch() to avoid using any term.h #define's
11507 * removed duplicate tgoto() in lib_tparm.c
11508 * modified dump_entry.c so that infocmp deals correctly with ',' in acsc
11509 * modified delwin() to correctly handle deleting subwindows.
11510 * fixed Makefile.dist to stop installing an empty curses.h
11511 * fixed a couple of out-of-date notes in man pages.
11513 ### ncurses 1.8.5 -> 1.8.6
11514 * Implemented wbkgd(), bkgd(), bkgdset(), and wbkgdset().
11515 * The handling of attributes has been improved and now does not turn off color
11516 if other attributes are turned off.
11517 * scrolling code is improved. Scrolling in subwindows is still broken.
11518 * Fixes to several bugs that manifest them on platforms other than Linux.
11519 * The default to meta now depends on the status of the terminal when ncurses
11521 * The interface to the tracing facility has changed. Instead of the pair of
11522 functions traceon() and traceoff(), there is just one function trace() which
11523 takes a trace mask argument. The trace masks, defined in curses.h, are
11526 #define TRACE_DISABLE 0x00 /* turn off tracing */
11527 #define TRACE_ORDINARY 0x01 /* ordinary trace mode */
11528 #define TRACE_CHARPUT 0x02 /* also trace all character outputs */
11529 #define TRACE_MAXIMUM 0x0f /* maximum trace level */
11531 More trace masks may be added, or these may be changed, in future releases.
11532 * The pad code has been improved and the pad test code in test/ncurses.c has
11534 * The prototype ansi entry has been changed to work with a wider variety
11536 * Fix to the prototype ansi entry that enables it to work with PC emulators
11537 that treat trailing ";m" in a highlight sequence as ";0m"; this doesn't
11538 break operation with any emulators.
11539 * There are now working infocmp, captoinfo, tput, and tclear utilities.
11540 * tic can now compile entries in termcap syntax.
11541 * Core-dump bug in pnoutrefresh fixed.
11542 * We now recognize and compile all the nonstandard capabilities in Ross
11543 Ridge's mytinfo package (rendering it obsolete).
11544 * General cleanup and documentation improvements.
11545 * Fixes and additions to the installation-documentation files.
11546 * Take cursor to normal mode on endwin.
11548 ### ncurses 1.8.4 -> 1.8.5
11549 * serious bugs in updating screen which caused erratic non-display,
11551 * fixed initialization for getch() related variable which cause
11552 unpredictable results.
11553 * fixed another doupdate bug which only appeared if you have
11555 * implemented redrawln() and redrawwin().
11556 * implemented winsnstr() and related functions.
11557 * cleaned up insertln() and deleteln() and implemented (w)insdeln().
11558 * changed Makefile.dist so that installation of man pages will
11559 take note of the terminfo directory.
11560 * fixed Configure (removed the mysterious 'X').
11561 * Eric S. Raymond fixed the script.* files so that they work with
11564 #### ncurses 1.8.3 -> 1.8.4 #### ####
11565 * fixed bug in refreshing the screen after return from shell_mode.
11566 There are still problems but they don't manifest themselves on
11567 my machine (Linux 0.99.14f).
11568 * added wgetnstr() and modified things accordingly.
11569 * fixed the script.src script.test to work with awk not just gawk.
11570 * Configure can now take an argument of the target system.
11571 * added test/ncurses.c which replaces several other programs and
11572 performs more testing.
11573 [Thanks to Eric S Raymond for the last 4]
11574 * more fixes to lib_overlay.c and added test/over.c to illustrate
11576 * fixed ungetch() to take int instead of ch.
11577 * fixes to cure wgetch() if flushinp() is called.
11579 One note I forgot to mention in 1.8.3 is that tracing is off by
11580 default starting in the version. If you want tracing output, put
11581 traceon(); in your code and link with -ldcurses.
11583 #### ncurses 1.8.2 -> ncurses 1.8.3 #### ####
11585 1) The order of capabilities has been changed in order to achieve
11586 binary compatibility with SVR4 terminfo database. This has the
11587 unfortunate effect of breaking application currently linked with
11588 ncurses. To ensure correct behavior, recompile all such programs.
11589 Most programs using color or newer capabilities will break, others
11590 will probably continue to work ok.
11592 2) Pavel Curtis has renounced his copyright to the public domain.
11593 This means that his original sources (posted to comp.sources.unix,
11594 volume 1) are now in the public domain. The current sources are
11595 NOT in the public domain, they are copyrighted by me. I'm
11596 entertaining ideas on what the new terms ncurses is released under.
11598 3) Eric S. Raymond has supplied a complete set of man pages for
11599 ncurses in ?roff format. They will eventually replace most of the
11600 current docs. Both sets are included in this release.
11602 Other changes and notes from 1.8.2 include:
11603 * SIGSEGV during scrolling no longer occurs.
11604 * Other problems with scrolling and use of idl have been corrected.
11605 * lib_getch.c has been re-written and should perform flawlessly.
11606 please use test/getch.c and any other programs to test this.
11607 * ripoffline() is implemented (Thanks to Eric) and slk_ functions
11608 changed accordingly.
11609 * I've added support for terminals that scroll if you write in the
11610 bottom-right corner.
11611 * fixed more bugs in pads code. If anybody has a program that uses
11612 pads I'd love a copy.
11613 * correct handling for terminal with back_color_erase capability
11614 (such as Linux console, and most PC terminals)
11615 * ^Z handling apparently didn't work (I should never trust code
11616 sent me to me without extensive testing). It now seems to be
11617 fixed. Let me know if you have problems.
11618 * I've added support for Apollo and NeXT, but it may still be
11619 incomplete, especially when dealing with the lack of POSIX
11621 * scrolling should be more efficient on terminals with idl
11622 capabilities. Please see src/lib_scroll.c for more notes.
11623 * The line drawing routines were offset by 1 at both ends. This
11625 * added a few missing prototypes and macros (e.g. setterm())
11626 * fixed code in src/lib_overlay.c which used to crash.
11627 * added a few more programs in test/ The ones from the PDCurses
11628 package are useful, especially if you have SVR4 proper. I'm
11629 interested in the results you get on such a systems (Eric? ;-).
11630 They already exposed certain bugs in ncurses.
11631 * See src/README for porting notes.
11632 * The C++ code should really replace ncurses.h instead of working
11633 around it. It should avoid name-space clashes with nterm.h (use
11634 rows instead of lines, etc.)
11635 * The C++ should compile ok. I've added explicit rules to the
11636 Makefile because no C++ defaults are documented on the suns.
11637 * The docs say that echo() and nocbreak() are mutually exclusive.
11638 At the moment ncurses will switch to cbreak() if the case above
11639 occurs. Should it continue to do so? How about echo() and noraw()?
11640 * PDCurses seem to assume that wclear() will use current attribute
11641 when clearing the screen. According to Eric this is not the case
11643 * I have discovered, to my chagrin, SunOS 4.x (and probably other systems)
11644 * doesn't have vsscanf and God knows what else! I've will do a vsscanf().
11645 * I've also found out that the src/script.* rely on gawk and will not
11646 work with stock awk or even with nawk. Any changes are welcome.
11647 * Linux is more tolerant of NULL dereferences than most systems. This
11648 fact was exposed by hanoi.
11649 * ncurses still seems inefficient in drawing the screen on a serial
11650 link between Linux and suns. The padding may be the culprit.
11651 * There seems to be one lingering problem with doupdate() after shelling
11652 out. Despite the fact the it is sending out the correct information
11653 to the terminal, nothing takes effect until you press ^L or another
11654 refresh takes place. And yes, output does get flushed.
11656 #### ncurses 1.8.1 -> ncurses 1.8.2 #### Nov 28, 1993 ####
11658 * added support for SVR4 and BSDI's BSD/386.
11659 * major update and fix to scrolling routine.
11660 * MORE fixes to stuff in lib_getch.c.
11661 * cleaned-up configuration options and can now generate
11662 Config.* files through an awk script.
11663 * changed setupterm() so it can be called more than once,
11664 add added set_curterm(), del_curterm().
11665 * a few minor cleanups.
11666 * added more prototypes in curses.h
11668 #### ncurses 1.8 -> ncurses 1.8.1 #### Nov 4, 1993 ####
11670 * added support for NeXTStep 3.0
11671 * added termcap emulation (not well tested).
11672 * more complete C++ interface to ncurses.
11673 * fixed overlay(), overwrite(), and added copywin().
11674 * a couple of bug fixes.
11675 * a few code cleanups.
11677 #### ncurses 0.7.2/0.7.3 -> ncurses 1.8 #### Aug 31, 1993 ####
11679 * The annoying message "can't open file." was due to missing
11680 terminfo entry for the used terminal. It has now been
11681 replaced by a hopefully more helpful message.
11682 * Problems with running on serial lines are now fixed.
11683 * Added configuration files for SunOS, Linux, HP/UX, Ultrix,
11684 386bsd/BSDI (if you have others send'em to me)
11685 * Cleaner Makefile.
11686 * The documentation in manual.doc is now more uptodate.
11687 * update optimization and support for hp terminals, and 386bsd
11689 * mvcur optimization for terminals without cursor addressing
11690 (doesn't work on Linux)
11691 * if cursor moved since last update, getch() will refresh the
11692 screen before working.
11693 * getch() & alarm() can now live together. in 0.7.3 a signal
11694 interrupted getch() (bug or feature?) now the getch is
11696 * scanw() et all were sick, now fixed.
11697 * support for 8-bit input (use meta()).
11698 * added default screen size to all terminfos.
11699 * added c++ Ncursesw class.
11700 * several minor bug fixes.
11702 #### ncurses 0.7.2 -> ncurses 0.7.3 #### May 27, 1993 ####
11704 * Config file to cope with different platforms (386BSD, BSDI, Ultrix, SunOS)
11705 * more fixes to lib_getch.c
11706 * changes related to Config
11708 #### ncurses 0.7 -> ncurses 0.7.2 #### May 22, 1993 ####
11710 * docs updated slightly (color usage is now documented).
11711 * yet another fix for getch(), this one fixes problems with ESC being swallowed
11712 if another character is typed before the 1 second timeout.
11713 * Hopefully, addstr() and addch() are 8-bit clean.
11714 * fixed lib_tparm.c to use stdarg.h (should run on suns now)
11715 * order of capabilities changed to reflect that specified in SYSV
11716 this will allow for binary-compatibility with existing terminfo dbs.
11717 * added halfdelay()
11718 * fixed problems with asc_init()
11719 * added A_PROTECT and A_INVIS
11720 * cleaned up vidputs()
11721 * general cleanup of the code
11722 * more attention to portability to other systems
11723 * added terminfos for hp70092 (wont work until changes to lib_update.c are
11724 made) and 386BSD pcvt drivers.
11726 Thanks to Hellmuth Michaelis for his help.
11727 optimization code is slated for the next major release, stay tuned!
11729 #### ncurses 0.6/0.61 -> ncurses 0.7 #### April 1, 1993
11730 Please note that the next release will be called 1.8. If you want to know about
11731 the rationale drop me a line.
11733 Included are several test programs in test/.
11734 I've split up the panels library, reversi, tetris, sokoban. They are now
11735 available separately from netcom.com:pub/zmbenhal/
11737 * color and ACS support is now fully compatible with SYSV at the terminfo
11739 * Capabilities now includes as many SYSV caps I could find.
11740 * tigetflag,tigetnum,tigetstr functions added.
11741 * boolnames, boolfnames, boolcodes numnames, numfnames, numcodes,
11742 strnames, strfnames, strcodes arrays are now added.
11743 * keyname() is added.
11744 * All function keys can be defined in terminfo entries.
11745 * fixed lin_tparm.c to behave properly.
11746 * terminfo entries for vt* and xterm are included (improvements are welcome)
11747 * more automation in handling caps and keys.
11748 * included fixes from 0.6.1
11749 * added a few more missing functions.
11750 * fixed a couple of minor bugs.
11751 * updated docs JUST a little (still miles behind in documenting the newer
11754 #### ncurses 0.6 -> ncurses 0.61 ####
11756 1) Included the missing data/console.
11758 2) allow attributes when drawing boxes.
11760 3) corrected usage of win->_delay value.
11762 4) fixed a bug in lib_getch.c. if it didn't recognize a sequence it would
11763 simply return the last character in the sequence. The correct
11764 behavior is to return the entire sequence one character at a time.
11766 #### ncurses0.5 -> ncurses0.6 #### March 1, 1993 ####
11767 * removed _numchngd from struct _win_st and made appropriate changes.
11768 * rewritten kgetch() to remove problems with interaction between alarm and
11769 read(). It caused SIGSEGV every now and then.
11770 * fixed a bug that miscounted the numbers of columns when updating.
11771 (in lib_doupdate.c(ClrUpdate() -- iterate to columns not columns-1)
11772 * fixed a bug that cause the lower-right corner to be incorrect.
11773 (in lib_doupdate.c(putChar() -- check against columns not columns-1)
11774 * made resize() and cleanup() static to lib_newterm.c
11775 * added notimeout().
11776 * added timeout() define in curses.h
11777 * added more function prototypes and fixed napms.
11779 * moved screen size detection to lib_setup.c.
11780 * fixed newterm() to confirm to prototype.
11781 * removed SIGWINCH support as SYSV does not define its semantics.
11782 * cleaned-up lib_touch.c
11783 * added waddnstr() and relatives.
11784 * added slk_* support.
11785 * fixed a bug in wdeleteln().
11786 * added PANEL library.
11787 * modified Makefile for smoother installation.
11788 * terminfo.h is really term.h
11790 #### ncurses 0.4 -> ncurses 0.5 #### Feb 14, 1993 ####
11791 * changed _win_st structure to allow support for missing functionality.
11792 * Addition of terminfo support for all KEY_*.
11793 * Support for nodelay(), timeout(), notimeout().
11794 * fixed a bug with the keypad char reading that did not return ESC until
11795 another key is pressed.
11796 * nl mapping no longer occur on output (as should be)
11797 fixed bug '\n' no causing a LF.
11798 * fixed bug that reset terminal colors regardless of whether we use color
11800 * Better support for ACS (not quite complete).
11801 * fixed bug in wvline().
11802 * added curs_set().
11803 * changed from signal() to sigaction().
11804 * re-included the contents of important.patch into source.
11806 #### ncurses 0.3 -> ncurses 0.4 #### Feb 3, 1993 ####
11807 * Addition of more KEY_* definitions.
11808 * Addition of function prototypes.
11809 * Addition of several missing functions.
11810 * No more crashes if screen size is undefined (use SIGWINCH handler).
11811 * added a handler to cleanup after SIGSEGV (hopefully never needed).
11812 * changed SRCDIR from /etc/term to /usr/lib/terminfo.
11813 * renamed compile/dump to tic/untic.
11814 * New scrolling code.
11815 * fixed bug that reversed the sense of nl() and nonl().
11817 #### ncurses 0.2 -> ncurses 0.3 #### Jan 20, 1993 ####
11818 * more support for color and graphics see test/ for examples.
11819 * fixed various files to allow correct update after shelling out.
11820 * more fixes for updates.
11821 * no more core dumps if you don't have a terminfo entry.
11822 * support for LINES and COLUMNS environment variables.
11823 * support for SIGWINCH signal.
11824 * added a handler for SIGINT for clean exits.
11826 #### ncurses 0.1 -> ncurses 0.2 #### Aug 14, 1992 ####
11827 * support for color.
11828 * support for PC graphic characters.
11829 * lib_trace.c updated to use stdarg.h and vprintf routines.
11830 * added gdc.c (Great Digital Clock) as an example of using color.
11832 #### ncurses -> ncurses 0.1 #### Jul 31, 1992 ####
11833 * replacing sgtty stuff by termios stuff.
11834 * ANSIfication of some functions.
11835 * Disabling cost analysis 'cause it's incorrect.
11836 * A quick hack for a terminfo entry.
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