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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 + add check in tic for mismatch between ccc and initp/initc
50 + cancel ccc in putty-256color and konsole-256color for consistency
51 with the cancelled initc capability (patch by Sven Zuhlsdorf).
52 + add xterm+256setaf building block for various terminals which only
53 get the 256-color feature half-implemented -TD
54 + updated "st" entry (leaving the 0.1.1 version as "simpleterm") to
58 + fix typo in "mlterm" entry (report by Gabriele Balducci) -TD
61 + use types from <stdint.h> in sample build-scripts for chtype, etc.
62 + modify configure script and curses.h.in to allow the types specified
63 using --with-chtype and related options to be defined in <stdint.h>
64 + add terminology entry -TD
65 + add mlterm3 entry, use that as "mlterm" -TD
66 + inherit mlterm-256color from mlterm -TD
69 + modify _nc_New_TopRow_and_CurrentItem() to ensure that the menu's
70 top-row is adjusted as needed to ensure that the current item is
71 on the screen (patch by Johann Klammer).
72 + add wgetdelay() to retrieve _delay member of WINDOW if it happens to
73 be opaque, e.g., in the pthread configuration (prompted by patch by
77 + modify ifdef in read_entry.c to handle the case where
78 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE is not defined (patch by Xin Li).
79 + add cast in form_driver_w() to fix ARM build (patch by Xin Li).
80 + add logic to win_driver.c to save/restore screen contents when not
81 allocating a console-buffer (cf: 20140215).
84 + clarify error-returns from newwin (report by Ruslan Nabioullin).
87 + fix some compiler warnings in win_driver.c
88 + updated notes for wsvt25 based on tack and vttest -TD
89 + add teken entry to show actual properties of FreeBSD's "xterm"
93 + in-progress changes to win_driver.c to implement output without
94 allocating a console-buffer. This uses a pre-existing environment
95 variable NCGDB used by Juergen Pfeifer for debugging (prompted by
96 discussion with Erwin Waterlander regarding Console2, which hangs
97 when reading in an allocated console-buffer).
98 + add -t option to gdc.c, and modify to accept "S" to step through the
100 + regenerate NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html to fix some of the broken
101 html emitted by docbook.
104 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to omit followup check to determine if
105 _XOPEN_SOURCE can/should be defined. g++ 4.7.2 built on Solaris 10
106 has some header breakage due to its own predefinition of this symbol
107 (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15796).
110 + add/use symbol NCURSES_PAIRS_T like NCURSES_COLOR_T, to illustrate
111 which "short" types are for color pairs and which are color values.
112 + fix build for s390x, by correcting field bit offsets in generated
113 representation clauses when int=32 long=64 and endian=big, or at
114 least on s390x (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
115 + minor cleanup change to test/form_driver_w.c (patch by Gaute Hope).
118 + remove unnecessary ifdef's in Ada95/gen/gen.c, which reportedly do
119 not work as is with gcc 4.8 due to fixes using chtype cast made for
120 new compiler warnings by gcc 4.8 in 20130824 (Debian #735753, patch
121 by Nicolas Boulenguez).
124 + apply includesubdir variable which was introduced in 20130805 to
125 gen-pkgconfig.in (Debian #735782).
128 + further improved man2html, used this to fix broken links in html
130 ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/man2html
133 + modify configure-script/ifdef's to allow OLD_TTY feature to be
134 suppressed if the type of ospeed is configured using the option
135 --with-ospeed to not be a short. By default, it is a short for
136 termcap-compatibility (adapted from suggestion by Christian
138 + correct a typo in _nc_baudrate() (patch by Christian Weisgerber,
140 + fix a few -Wlogical-op warnings.
141 + updated llib-l* files.
144 + add form_driver_w() entrypoint to wide-character forms library, as
145 well as test program form_driver_w (adapted from patch by Gaute
149 + minor fix for CF_GCC_WARNINGS to special-case options which are not
153 + add special case to configure script to move _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
154 definition from CPPFLAGS to CFLAGS if it happens to be needed for
155 Solaris, because g++ errors with that definition (report by
156 Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15268).
157 + correct logic in infocmp's -i option which was intended to ignore
158 strings which correspond to function-keys as candidates for piecing
159 together initialization- or reset-strings. The problem dates to
160 1.9.7a, but was overlooked until changes in -Wlogical-op warnings for
161 gcc 4.8 (report by David Binderman).
162 + updated CF_GCC_WARNINGS to documented options for gcc 4.9.0, adding
163 checks for -Wextra, -Wignored-qualifiers and -Wlogical-op
164 + updated CF_GCC_WARNINGS to documented options for gcc 4.9.0, moving
165 checks for -Wextra and -Wdeclaration-after-statement into the macro,
166 and adding checks for -Wignored-qualifiers, -Wlogical-op and
168 + updated CF_CURSES_UNCTRL_H and CF_SHARED_OPTS macros from ongoing
170 + update config.sub from
171 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
174 + minor cleanup of terminfo.tail
177 + use TS extension to describe xterm's title-escapes -TD
178 + modify terminator and nsterm-s to use xterm+sl-twm building block -TD
179 + update hurd.ti, add xenl to reflect 2011-03-06 change in
180 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/hurd.git/log/console/display.c
182 + simplify pfkey expression in ansi.sys -TD
185 + correct/simplify ifdef's for cur_term versus broken-linker and
186 reentrant options (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, cf: 20090530).
187 + modify release/version combinations in test build-scripts to make
188 them more consistent with other packages.
191 + add nc_mingw.h to installed headers for MinGW port; needed for
192 compiling ncurses-examples.
193 + add rpm-script for testing cross-compile of ncurses-examples.
196 + fix new typo in CF_ADA_INCLUDE_DIRS macro (report by Roumen Petrov).
199 + fix a few compiler warnings in progs and test.
200 + minor fix to package/debian-mingw/rules, do not strip dll's.
201 + minor fixes to configure script for empty $prefix, e.g., when doing
202 cross-compiles to MinGW.
203 + add script for building test-packages of binaries cross-compiled to
207 + minor fixes for ncurses-example package and makefile.
208 + add scripts for test-builds of cross-compiler packages for ncurses6
212 + some build-fixes for ncurses-examples with NetBSD-6.0 curses, though
213 it lacks some common functions such as use_env() which is not yet
215 + build-fix and some compiler warning fixes for ncurses-examples with
217 + fix a possible null-pointer reference in a trace message from newterm.
218 + quiet a few warnings from NetBSD 6.0 namespace pollution by
219 nonstandard popcount() function in standard strings.h header.
220 + ignore g++ 4.2.1 warnings for "-Weffc++" in c++/cursesmain.cc
221 + fix a few overlooked places for --enable-string-hacks option.
224 + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130831).
225 + build-fix for --with-shared option for DragonFly and FreeBSD (report
226 by Rong-En Fan, cf: 20130727).
229 + build-fixes for MSYS for two test-programs (patches by Ray Donnelly,
231 + revert change to two of the dpkg format files, to work with dpkg
232 before/after Debian #700177.
233 + fix gcc -Wconversion warning in wattr_get() macro.
234 + add msys and msysdll to known host/configuration types (patch by
236 + modify CF_RPATH_HACK configure macro to not rely upon "-u" option
237 of sort, improving portability.
238 + minor improvements for test-programs from reviewing Solaris port.
239 + update config.guess, config.sub from
240 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
243 + modify test/ncurses.c b/B tests to display lines only for the
244 attributes which a given terminal supports, to make room for an
246 + completed ncv table in terminfo.tail; it did not list the wide
247 character codes listed in X/Open Curses issue 7.
248 + add A_ITALIC extension (prompted by discussion with Egmont Koblinger).
251 + fix some gcc 4.8 -Wconversion warnings.
252 + change format of dpkg test-scripts to quilted to work around bug
253 introduced by Debian #700177.
254 + discard cached keyname() values if meta() is changed after a value
255 was cached using (report by Kurban Mallachiev).
258 + add checks in tic to warn about terminals which lack cursor
259 addressing, capabilities or having those, are marked as hard_copy or
261 + use --without-progs in mingw-ncurses rpm.
262 + split out _nc_init_termtype() from alloc_entry.c to use in MinGW
263 port when tic and other programs are not needed.
266 + minor fixes to the --disable-overwrite logic, to ensure that the
267 configured $(includedir) is not cancelled by the mingwxx-filesystem
269 + add --disable-db-install configure option, to simplify building
270 cross-compile support packages.
271 + add mingw-ncurses.spec file, for testing cross-compiles.
274 + improve configure macros from ongoing work on cdk, dialog, xterm:
275 + CF_ADD_LIB_AFTER - fix a problem with -Wl options
276 + CF_RPATH_HACK - add missing result-message
277 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify to use $rel_builddir in cygwin and mingw
278 dll symbols (which can be overridden) rather than explicit "../".
279 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify NetBSD and DragonFly symbols to use ${CC}
280 rather than ${LD} to improve rpath support.
281 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - add a symbol to denote the temporary files that
282 are created by the macro, to simplify clean-rules.
283 + CF_X_ATHENA - trim extra libraries to work with -Wl,--as-needed
284 + fix a regression in hashed-database support for NetBSD, which uses
285 the key-size differently from other implementations (cf: 20121229).
288 + further improvements for setupterm manpage, clarifying the
289 initialization of cur_term.
292 + improve manpages for initscr and setupterm.
293 + minor compiler-warning fixes
296 + add fallback defs for <inttypes.h> and <stdint.h> (cf: 20120225).
297 + add check for size of wchar_t, use that to suppress a chunk of
298 wcwidth.h in MinGW port.
299 + quiet linker warnings for MinGW cross-compile with dll's using the
300 --enable-auto-import flag.
301 + add ncurses.map rule to ncurses/Makefile to help diagnose symbol
305 + modify the clear program to take into account the E3 extended
306 capability to clear the terminal's scrollback buffer (patch by
307 Miroslav Lichvar, Redhat #815790).
308 + clarify in resizeterm manpage that LINES and COLS are updated.
309 + updated ansi example in terminfo.tail, correct misordered example
311 + fix other doclifter warnings for manpages
312 + remove unnecessary ".ta" in terminfo.tail, add missing ".fi"
313 (patch by Eric Raymond).
316 + minor changes to some configure macros to make them more reusable.
317 + fixes for tabs program (prompted by report by Nick Andrik):
318 + corrected logic in command-line parsing of -a and -c predefined
320 + allow "-0" and "-8" options to be combined with others, e.g.,"-0d".
321 + make warning messages more consistent with the other utilities by
322 not printing the full pathname of the program.
323 + add -V option for consistency with other utilities.
324 + fix off-by-one in columns for tabs program when processing an option
325 such as "-5" (patch by Nick Andrik).
328 + add to test/demo_forms.c examples of using the menu-hooks as well
329 as showing how the menu item user-data can be used to pass a callback
331 + add test/dots_termcap.c
332 + remove setupterm call from test/demo_termcap.c
333 + build-fix if --disable-ext-funcs configure option is used.
334 + modified test/edit_field.c and test/demo_forms.c to move the lengths
335 into a user-data structure, keeping the original string for later
336 expansion to free-format input/out demo.
337 + modified test/demo_forms.c to load data from file.
338 + added note to clarify Terminal.app's non-emulation of the various
339 terminal types listed in the preferences dialog -TD
340 + fix regression in error-reporting in lib_setup.c (Debian #711134,
342 + build-fix for a case where --enable-broken_linker and
343 --enable-reentrant options are combined (report by George R Goffe).
346 + modify mvcur() to distinguish between internal use by the ncurses
347 library, and external callers, preventing it from reading the content
348 of the screen which is only nonblank when curses calls have updated
349 it. This makes test/dots_mvcur.c avoid painting colored cells in
350 the left margin of the display.
351 + minor fix to test/dots_mvcur.c
352 + move configured symbols USE_DATABASE and USE_TERMCAP to term.h as
353 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE and NCURSES_USE_TERMCAP to allow consistent
354 use of these symbols in term_entry.h
357 + corrected ifdefs in test/testcurs.c to allow comparison of mouse
358 interface versus pdcurses (cf: 20130316).
359 + add pow() to configure-check for math library, needed since
360 20121208 for test/hanoi (Debian #708056).
361 + regenerated html manpages.
362 + update doctype used for html documentation.
365 + move nsterm-related entries out of "obsolete" section to more
366 plausible "ansi consoles" -TD
367 + additional cleanup of table-of-contents by reordering -TD
368 + revise fix for check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch(); prior fix
369 prevented inserts when video attributes were attached to the data
370 (cf: 20121215) (Redhat #959534).
373 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
374 + correct FNKEY() macro in progs/dump_entry.c, allowing kf11-kf63 to
375 display when infocmp's -R option is used for HP or AIX subsets.
376 + fix dead-code issue with test/movewindow.c
377 + improve limited-checking in _nc_read_termtype().
380 + fix clang 3.2 warning in progs/dump_entry.c
381 + drop AC_TYPE_SIGNAL check; ncurses relies on c89 and later.
384 + add MinGW to cases where ncurses installs by default into /usr
385 (prompted by discussion with Daniel Silva Ferreira).
386 + add -D option to infocmp's usage-message (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
387 + add a missing 'int' type for main function in configure check for
388 type of bool variable, to work with clang 3.2 (report by Dmitri
390 + improve configure check for static_cast, to work with clang 3.2
391 (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
392 + re-order rule for demo.o and macros defining header dependencies in
393 c++/Makefile.in to accommodate gmake (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
396 + improve parameter checking in copywin().
397 + modify configure script to work around OS X's "libtool" program, to
398 choose glibtool instead. At the same time, chance the autoconf macro
399 to look for a "tool" rather than a "prog", to help with potential use
401 + separate the rpath usage for c++ library from demo program
403 + update/correct header-dependencies in c++ makefile (report by Werner
405 + add --with-cxx-shared to dpkg-script, as done for rpm-script.
408 + build-fix for libtool configuration (reports by Daniel Silva Ferreira
412 + build-fix for OS X, to handle changes for --with-cxx-shared feature
413 (report by Christian Ebert).
414 + change initialization for vt220, similar entries for consistency
415 with cursor-key strings (NetBSD #47674) -TD
416 + further improvements to linux-16color (Benjamin Sittler)
419 + additional fix for tic.c, to allocate missing buffer space.
420 + eliminate configure-script warnings for gen-pkgconfig.in
421 + correct typo in sgr string for sun-color,
422 add bold for consistency with sgr,
423 change smso for consistency with sgr -TD
424 + correct typo in sgr string for terminator -TD
425 + add blink to the attributes masked by ncv in linux-16color (report
427 + improve warning message from post-load checking for missing "%?"
428 operator by tic/infocmp by showing the entry name and capability.
429 + minor formatting improvement to tic/infocmp -f option to ensure
430 line split after "%;".
431 + amend scripting for --with-cxx-shared option to handle the debug
432 library "libncurses++_g.a" (report by Sven Joachim).
435 + amend change to toe.c for reading from /dev/zero, to ensure that
436 there is a buffer for the temporary filename (cf: 20120324).
437 + regenerated html manpages.
438 + fix typo in terminfo.head (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130302).
439 + updated some autoconf macros:
440 + CF_ACVERSION_CHECK, from byacc 1.9 20130304
441 + CF_INTEL_COMPILER, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE from luit 2.0-20130217
442 + add configure option --with-cxx-shared to permit building
443 libncurses++ as a shared library when using g++, e.g., the same
444 limitations as libtool but better integrated with the usual build
445 configuration (Redhat #911540).
446 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to filter out build-path which was unnecessarily
447 shown in curses.h (Debian #689131).
450 + add section to terminfo manpage discussing user-defined capabilities.
451 + update manpage description of NCURSES_NO_SETBUF, explaining why it
453 + add a check in waddch_nosync() to ensure that tab characters are
454 treated as control characters; some broken locales claim they are
456 + add some traces to the Windows console driver.
457 + initialize a temporary array in _nc_mbtowc, needed for some cases
458 of raw input in MinGW port.
461 + correct ifdef on change to lib_twait.c (report by Werner Fink).
462 + update config.guess, config.sub
465 + modify test/testcurs.c to work with mouse for ncurses as it does for
467 + modify test/knight.c to work with mouse for pdcurses as it does for
469 + modify internal recursion in wgetch() which handles cooked mode to
470 check if the call to wgetnstr() returned an error. This can happen
471 when both nocbreak() and nodelay() are set, for instance (report by
472 Nils Christopher Brause) (cf: 960418).
473 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
474 + add a check for valid position in ClearToEOS()
475 + fix in lib_twait.c when --enable-wgetch-events is used, pointer
477 + improve a limit-check in make_hash.c
478 + fix a memory leak in hashed_db.c
481 + modify test/configure script to make it simpler to override names
482 of curses-related libraries, to help with linking with pdcurses in
484 + if the --with-terminfo-dirs configure option is not used, there is
485 no corresponding compiled-in value for that. Fill in "no default
486 value" for that part of the manpage substitution.
489 + correct initialization in knight.c which let it occasionally make
490 an incorrect move (cf: 20001028).
491 + improve documentation of the terminfo/termcap search path.
494 + further fixes to mvcur to pass callback function (cf: 20130112),
495 needed to make test/dots_mvcur work.
496 + reduce calls to SetConsoleActiveScreenBuffer in win_driver.c, to
498 + modify configure script to omit "+b" from linker options for very
499 old HP-UX systems (report by Dennis Grevenstein)
500 + add HP-UX workaround for missing EILSEQ on old HP-UX systems (patch
501 by Dennis Grevenstein).
502 + restore memmove/strdup support for antique systems (request by
504 + change %l behavior in tparm to push the string length onto the stack
505 rather than saving the formatted length into the output buffer
506 (report by Roy Marples, cf: 980620).
509 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
510 + fix memory leak in safe_sprintf.c
511 + add check for return-value in tty_update.c
512 + correct initialization for -s option in test/view.c
513 + add check for numeric overflow in lib_instr.c
514 + improve error-checking in copywin
515 + add advice in infocmp manpage for termcap users (Debian #698469).
516 + add "-y" option to test/demo_termcap and test/demo_terminfo to
517 demonstrate behavior with/without extended capabilities.
518 + updated termcap manpage to document legacy termcap behavior for
519 matching capability names.
520 + modify name-comparison for tgetstr, etc., to accommodate legacy
521 applications as well as to improve compatbility with BSD 4.2
522 termcap implementations (Debian #698299) (cf: 980725).
525 + correct prototype in manpage for vid_puts.
526 + drop ncurses/tty/tty_display.h, ncurses/tty/tty_input.h, since they
527 are unused in the current driver model.
528 + modify mvcur to use stdout except when called within the ncurses
530 + modify vidattr and vid_attr to use stdout as documented in manpage.
531 + amend changes made to buffering in 20120825 so that the low-level
532 putp() call uses stdout rather than ncurses' internal buffering.
533 The putp_sp() call does the same, for consistency (Redhat #892674).
536 + add "-s" option to test/view.c to allow it to start in single-step
537 mode, reducing size of trace files when it is used for debugging
539 + revert part of 20121222 change to tinfo_driver.c
540 + add experimental logic in win_driver.c to improve optimization of
541 screen updates. This does not yet work with double-width characters,
542 so it is ifdef'd out for the moment (prompted by report by Erwin
543 Waterlander regarding screen flicker).
546 + fix coverity warnings regarding copying into fixed-size buffers.
547 + add throw-declarations in the c++ binding per Coverity warning.
548 + minor changes to new-items for consistent reference to bug-report
552 + add *.dSYM directories to clean-rule in ncurses directory makefile,
554 + add a configure check for gcc option -no-cpp-precomp, which is not
555 available in all Mac OS X configurations (report by Andras Salamon,
557 + improve 20021221 workaround for broken acs, handling a case where
558 that ACS_xxx character is not in the acsc string but there is a known
559 wide-character which can be used.
562 + fix several warnings from clang 3.1 --analyze, includes correcting
563 a null-pointer check in _nc_mvcur_resume.
564 + correct display of double-width characters with MinGW port (report
565 by Erwin Waterlander).
566 + replace MinGW's wcrtomb(), fixing a problem with _nc_viscbuf
567 > fixes based on Coverity report:
568 + correct coloring in test/bs.c
569 + correct check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch().
570 + remove dead code in progs/tset.c, test/linedata.h
571 + add null-pointer checks in lib_tracemse.c, panel.priv.h, and some
575 + modify test/knight.c to show the number of choices possible for
576 each position in automove option, e.g., to allow user to follow
577 Warnsdorff's rule to solve the puzzle.
578 + modify test/hanoi.c to show the minimum number of moves possible for
579 the given number of tiles (prompted by patch by Lucas Gioia).
580 > fixes based on Coverity report:
581 + remove a few redundant checks.
582 + correct logic in test/bs.c, when randomly placing a specific type of
584 + check return value from remove/unlink in tic.
585 + check return value from sscanf in test/ncurses.c
586 + fix a null dereference in c++/cursesw.cc
587 + fix two instances of uninitialized variables when configuring for the
589 + correct scope of variable used in SetSafeOutcWrapper macro.
590 + set umask when calling mkstemp in tic.
591 + initialize wbkgrndset() temporary variable when extended-colors are
595 + also replace MinGW's wctomb(), fixing a problem with setcchar().
596 + modify test/view.c to load UTF-8 when built with MinGW by using
597 regular win32 API because the MinGW functions mblen() and mbtowc()
601 + correct order of color initialization versus display in some of the
602 test-programs, e.g., test_addstr.c
603 > fixes based on Coverity report:
604 + delete windows on exit from some of the test-programs.
607 > fixes based on Coverity report:
608 + add missing braces around FreeAndNull in two places.
609 + various fixes in test/ncurses.c
610 + improve limit-checks in tinfo/make_hash.c, tinfo/read_entry.c
611 + correct malloc size in progs/infocmp.c
612 + guard against negative array indices in test/knight.c
613 + fix off-by-one limit check in test/color_name.h
614 + add null-pointer check in progs/tabs.c, test/bs.c, test/demo_forms.c,
616 + fix memory-leak in tinfo/lib_setup.c, progs/toe.c,
617 test/clip_printw.c, test/demo_menus.c
618 + delete unused windows in test/chgat.c, test/clip_printw.c,
619 test/insdelln.c, test/newdemo.c on error-return.
622 + modify configure macro CF_INCLUDE_DIRS to put $CPPFLAGS after the
623 local -I include options in case someone has set conflicting -I
624 options in $CPPFLAGS (prompted by patch for ncurses/Makefile.in by
626 + modify the ncurses*-config scripts to eliminate relative paths from
627 the RPATH_LIST variable, e.g., "../lib" as used in installing shared
628 libraries or executables.
631 + realign these related pages:
636 and fix a long-ago error in curs_addstr.3x which said that a -1
637 length parameter would only write as much as fit onto one line
638 (report by Reuben Thomas).
639 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_memmove() for memmove()/bcopy().
640 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_strdup() for strdup().
641 + cancel any debug-rpm in package/ncurses.spec
642 + reviewed vte-2012, reverted most of the change since it was incorrect
643 based on testing with tack -TD
644 + un-cancel the initc in vte-256color, since this was implemented
645 starting with version 0.20 in 2009 -TD
648 + improve malloc/realloc checking (prompted by discussion in Redhat
650 + add ncurses test-program as "ncurses6" to the rpm- and dpkg-scripts.
651 + updated configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_WITH_PATHLIST. The
652 first corrects pattern used for Mac OS X's customization of gcc.
655 + fix change to _nc_scroll_optimize(), which incorrectly freed memory
659 + add vte-2012, gnome-2012, making these the defaults for vte/gnome
660 (patch by Christian Persch).
663 + improve CF_GCC_VERSION to work around Debian's customization of gcc
665 + improve configure macros as done in byacc:
666 + drop 2.13 compatibility; use 2.52.xxxx version only since EMX port
667 has used that for a while.
668 + add 3rd parameter to AC_DEFINE's to allow autoheader to run, i.e.,
669 for experimental use.
670 + remove unused configure macros.
671 + modify configure script and makefiles to quiet new autoconf warning
672 for LIBS_TO_MAKE variable.
673 + modify configure script to show $PATH_SEPARATOR variable.
674 + update config.guess, config.sub
677 + modify setupterm to set its copy of TERM to "unknown" if configured
678 for the terminal driver and TERM was null or empty.
679 + modify treatment of TERM variable for MinGW port to allow explicit
680 use of the windows console driver by checking if $TERM is set to
681 "#win32con" or an abbreviation of that.
682 + undo recent change to fallback definition of vsscanf() to build with
683 older Solaris compilers (cf: 20120728).
686 + add test-screens to test/ncurses to show 256-characters at a time,
687 to help with MinGW port.
690 + simplify varargs logic in lib_printw.c; va_copy is no longer needed
692 + modifications for MinGW port to make wide-character display usable.
695 + regenerate configure script (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20120901).
698 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_flush (cf: 20120825).
699 + fix a case in _nc_scroll_optimize() where the _oldnums_list array
700 might not be allocated.
701 + improve comparisons in configure.in for unset shell variables.
704 + increase size of ncurses' output-buffer, in case of very small
705 initial screen-sizes.
706 + fix evaluation of TERMINFO and TERMINFO_DIRS default values as needed
707 after changes to use --datarootdir (reports by Gabriele Balducci,
711 + change output buffering scheme, using buffer maintained by ncurses
712 rather than stdio, to avoid problems with SIGTSTP handling (report
716 + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20120811, adding --datarootdir
717 (prompted by discussion with Erwin Waterlander).
718 + improve description of --enable-reentrant option in README and the
720 + add nsterm-256color, make this the default nsterm -TD
721 + remove bw from nsterm-bce, per testing with tack -TD
724 + update test/configure, adding check for tinfo library.
725 + improve limit-checks for the getch fifo (report by Werner Fink).
726 + fix a remaining mismatch between $with_echo and the symbols updated
727 for CF_DISABLE_ECHO affecting parameters for mk-2nd.awk (report by
728 Sven Joachim, cf: 20120317).
729 + modify followup check for pkg-config's library directory in the
730 --enable-pc-files option to validate syntax (report by Sven Joachim,
734 + correct path for ncurses_mingw.h in include/headers, in case build
735 is done outside source-tree (patch by Roumen Petrov).
736 + modify some older xterm entries to align with xterm source -TD
737 + separate "xterm-old" alias from "xterm-r6" -TD
738 + add E3 extended capability to xterm-basic and putty -TD
739 + parenthesize parameters of other macros in curses.h -TD
740 + parenthesize parameter of COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER in curses.h
741 in case it happens to be a comma-expression, etc. (patch by Nick
745 + improved form_request_by_name() and menu_request_by_name().
746 + eliminate two fixed-size buffers in toe.c
747 + extend use_tioctl() to have expected behavior when use_env(FALSE) and
748 use_tioctl(TRUE) are called.
749 + modify ncurses test-program, adding -E and -T options to demonstrate
750 use_env() versus use_tioctl().
753 + add use_tioctl() function (adapted from patch by Werner Fink,
757 + add ncurses_mingw.h to installed headers (prompted by patch by
759 + clarify return-codes from wgetch() in response to SIGWINCH (prompted
761 + modify resizeterm() to always push a KEY_RESIZE onto the fifo, even
762 if screensize is unchanged. Modify _nc_update_screensize() to push a
763 KEY_RESIZE if there was a SIGWINCH, even if it does not call
764 resizeterm(). These changes eliminate the case where a SIGWINCH is
765 received, but ERR returned from wgetch or wgetnstr because the screen
766 dimensions did not change (Novell #769788).
769 + add --enable-interop to sample package scripts (suggested by Juergen
771 + update CF_PATH_SYNTAX macro, from mawk changes.
772 + modify mk-0th.awk to allow for generating llib-ltic, etc., though
773 some work is needed on cproto to work with lib_gen.c to update
775 + remove redundant getenv() cal in database-iterator leftover from
776 cleanup in 20120622 changes (report by Sven Joachim).
779 + add -d, -e and -q options to test/demo_terminfo and test/demo_termcap
780 + fix caching of environment variables in database-iterator (patch by
781 Philippe Troin, Redhat #831366).
784 + add configure check to distinguish clang from gcc to eliminate
785 warnings about unused command-line parameters when compiler warnings
787 + improve behavior when updating terminfo entries which are hardlinked
788 by allowing for the possibility that an alias has been repurposed to
790 + fix some strict compiler warnings based on package scripts.
791 + further fixes for configure check for working poll (Debian #676461).
794 + fix an uninitialized variable in -c/-n logic for infocmp changes
796 + corrected fix for building c++ binding with clang 3.0 (report/patch
797 by Richard Yao, Gentoo #417613, cf: 20110409)
798 + correct configure check for working poll, fixing the case where stdin
799 is redirected, e.g., in rpm/dpkg builds (Debian #676461).
800 + add rpm- and dpkg-scripts, to test those build-environments.
801 The resulting packages are used only for testing.
804 + add kdch1 aka "Remove" to vt220 and vt220-8 entries -TD
805 + add kdch1, etc., to qvt108 -TD
806 + add dl1/il1 to some entries based on dl/il values -TD
807 + add dl to simpleterm -TD
808 + add consistency-checks in tic for insert-line vs delete-line
809 controls, and insert/delete-char keys
810 + correct no-leaks logic in infocmp when doing comparisons, fixing
811 duplicate free of entries given via the command-line, and freeing
812 entries loaded from the last-but-one of files specified on the
814 + add kdch1 to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (reported by David Lord,
815 analysis by Martin Husemann).
816 + add cnorm/civis to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (report/analysis by
817 Onno van der Linden).
820 + extend -c and -n options of infocmp to allow comparing more than two
822 + correct check in infocmp for number of terminal names when more than
824 + correct typo in curs_threads.3x (report by Yanhui Shen on
825 freebsd-hackers mailing list).
828 + corrected 'op' for bterm (report by Samuel Thibault) -TD
829 + modify test/background.c to demonstrate a background character
830 holding a colored ACS_HLINE. The behavior differs from SVr4 due to
831 the thick- and double-line extension (cf: 20091003).
832 + modify handling of acs characters in PutAttrChar to avoid mapping an
833 unmapped character to a space with A_ALTCHARSET set.
834 + rewrite vt520 entry based on vt420 -TD
837 + remove p6 (bold) from opus3n1+ for consistency -TD
838 + remove acs stuff from env230 per clues in Ingres termcap -TD
839 + modify env230 sgr/sgr0 to match other capabilities -TD
840 + modify smacs/rmacs in bq300-8 to match sgr/sgr0 -TD
841 + make sgr for dku7202 agree with other caps -TD
842 + make sgr for ibmpc agree with other caps -TD
843 + make sgr for tek4107 agree with other caps -TD
844 + make sgr for ndr9500 agree with other caps -TD
845 + make sgr for sco-ansi agree with other caps -TD
846 + make sgr for d410 agree with other caps -TD
847 + make sgr for d210 agree with other caps -TD
848 + make sgr for d470c, d470c-7b agree with other caps -TD
849 + remove redundant AC_DEFINE for NDEBUG versus Makefile definition.
850 + fix a back-link in _nc_delink_entry(), which is needed if ncurses is
851 configured with --enable-termcap and --disable-getcap.
854 + fix some inconsistencies between vt320/vt420, e.g., cnorm/civis -TD
855 + add eslok flag to dec+sl -TD
856 + dec+sl applies to vt320 and up -TD
857 + drop wsl width from xterm+sl -TD
858 + reuse xterm+sl in putty and nsca-m -TD
859 + add ansi+tabs to vt520 -TD
860 + add ansi+enq to vt220-vt520 -TD
861 + fix a compiler warning in example in ncurses-intro.doc (Paul Waring).
862 + added paragraph in keyname manpage telling how extended capabilities
863 are interpreted as key definitions.
864 + modify tic's check of conflicting key definitions to include extended
865 capability strings in addition to the existing check on predefined
869 + improve cleanup of temporary files in tic using atexit().
870 + add msgr to vt420, similar DEC vtXXX entries -TD
871 + add several missing vt420 capabilities from vt220 -TD
872 + factor out ansi+pp from several entries -TD
873 + change xterm+sl and xterm+sl-twm to include only the status-line
874 capabilities and not "use=xterm", making them more generally useful
875 as building-blocks -TD
876 + add dec+sl building block, as example -TD
879 + add XT to some terminfo entries to improve usefulness for other
880 applications than screen, which would like to pretend that xterm's
881 title is a status-line. -TD
882 + change use-clauses in ansi-mtabs, hp2626, and hp2622 based on review
883 of ordering and overrides -TD
884 + add consistency check in tic for screen's "XT" capability.
885 + add section in terminfo.src summarizing the user-defined capabilities
886 used in that file -TD
889 + fix an inconsistency between tic/infocmp "-x" option; tic omits all
890 non-standard capabilities, while infocmp was ignoring only the user
891 definable capabilities.
892 + improve special case in tic parsing of description to allow it to be
893 followed by terminfo capabilities. Previously the description had to
894 be the last field on an input line to allow tic to distinguish
895 between termcap and terminfo format while still allowing commas to be
896 embedded in the description.
897 + correct variable name in gen_edit.sh which broke configurability of
898 the --with-xterm-kbs option.
899 + revert 2011-07-16 change to "linux" alias, return to "linux2.2" -TD
900 + further amend 20110910 change, providing for configure-script
901 override of the "linux" terminfo entry to install and changing the
902 default for that to "linux2.2" (Debian #665959).
905 + update Ada95/configure to use CF_DISABLE_ECHO (cf: 20120317).
906 + correct order of use-clauses in st-256color -TD
907 + modify configure script to look for gnatgcc if the Ada95 binding
908 is built, in preference to the default gcc/cc (suggested by
910 + modify configure script to ensure that the same -On option used for
911 the C compiler in CFLAGS is used for ADAFLAGS rather than simply
912 using "-O3" (suggested by Nicolas Boulenguez)
915 + amend an old fix so that next_char() exits properly for empty files,
916 e.g., from reading /dev/null (cf: 20080804).
917 + modify tic so that it can read from the standard input, or from
918 a character device. Because tic uses seek's, this requires writing
919 the data to a temporary file first (prompted by remark by Sven
920 Joachim) (cf: 20000923).
923 + correct a check made in lib_napms.c, so that terminfo applications
924 can again use napms() (cf: 20110604).
925 + add a note in tic.h regarding required casts for ABSENT_BOOLEAN
927 + correct scripting for --disable-echo option in test/configure.
928 + amend check for missing c++ compiler to work when no error is
929 reported, and no variables set (cf: 20021206).
930 + add/use configure macro CF_DISABLE_ECHO.
933 + fix some strict compiler warnings for abi6 and 64-bits.
934 + use begin_va_copy/end_va_copy macros in lib_printw.c (cf: 20120303).
935 + improve a limit-check in infocmp.c (Werner Fink):
938 + minor tidying of terminfo.tail, clarify reason for limitation
939 regarding mapping of \0 to \200
940 + minor improvement to _nc_copy_termtype(), using memcpy to replace
942 + fix no-leaks checking in test/demo_termcap.c to account for multiple
943 calls to setupterm().
944 + modified the libgpm change to show previous load as a problem in the
946 > merge some patches from OpenSUSE rpm (Werner Fink):
947 + ncurses-5.7-printw.dif, fixes for varargs handling in lib_printw.c
948 + ncurses-5.7-gpm.dif, do not dlopen libgpm if already loaded by
950 + ncurses-5.6-fallback.dif, do not free arrays and strings from static
954 + fix breakage in tic/infocmp from 20120225 (report by Werner Fink).
957 + modify configure script to allow creating dll's for MinGW when
959 + add --enable-string-hacks option to control whether strlcat and
960 strlcpy may be used. The same issue applies to OpenBSD's warnings
961 about snprintf, noting that this function is weakly standardized.
962 + add configure checks for strlcat, strlcpy and snprintf, to help
963 reduce bogus warnings with OpenBSD builds.
964 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 to supply consistent intptr_t declaration
966 + update config.guess, config.sub
969 + correct CF_ETIP_DEFINES configure macro, making it exit properly on
970 the first success (patch by Pierre Labastie).
971 + improve configure macro CF_MKSTEMP by moving existence-check for
972 mkstemp out of the AC_TRY_RUN, to help with cross-compiles.
973 + improve configure macro CF_FUNC_POLL from luit changes to detect
974 broken implementations, e.g., with Mac OS X.
975 + add configure option --with-tparm-arg
976 + build-fix for MinGW cross-compiling, so that make_hash does not
977 depend on TTY definition (cf: 20111008).
980 + make sgr for xterm-pcolor agree with other caps -TD
981 + make sgr for att5425 agree with other caps -TD
982 + make sgr for att630 agree with other caps -TD
983 + make sgr for linux entries agree with other caps -TD
984 + make sgr for tvi9065 agree with other caps -TD
985 + make sgr for ncr260vt200an agree with other caps -TD
986 + make sgr for ncr160vt100pp agree with other caps -TD
987 + make sgr for ncr260vt300an agree with other caps -TD
988 + make sgr for aaa-60-dec-rv, aaa+dec agree with other caps -TD
989 + make sgr for cygwin, cygwinDBG agree with other caps -TD
990 + add configure option --with-xterm-kbs to simplify configuration for
991 Linux versus most other systems.
994 + improved tic -D option, avoid making target directory and provide
998 + add mach-gnu (Debian #614316, patch by Samuel Thibault)
999 + add mach-gnu-color, tweaks to mach-gnu terminfo -TD
1000 + make sgr for sun-color agree with smso -TD
1001 + make sgr for prism9 agree with other caps -TD
1002 + make sgr for icl6404 agree with other caps -TD
1003 + make sgr for ofcons agree with other caps -TD
1004 + make sgr for att5410v1, att4415, att620 agree with other caps -TD
1005 + make sgr for aaa-unk, aaa-rv agree with other caps -TD
1006 + make sgr for avt-ns agree with other caps -TD
1007 + amend fix intended to separate fixups for acsc to allow "tic -cv" to
1008 give verbose warnings (cf: 20110730).
1009 + modify misc/gen-edit.sh to make the location of the tabset directory
1010 consistent with misc/Makefile.in, i.e., using ${datadir}/tabset
1011 (Debian #653435, patch by Sven Joachim).
1014 + add --with-lib-prefix option to allow configuring for old/new flavors
1016 + modify check for gnat version to allow for year, as used in FreeBSD
1018 + modify check_existence() in db_iterator.c to simply check if the
1019 path is a directory or file, according to the need. Checking for
1020 directory size also gives no usable result with OS/2 (cf: 20120107).
1021 + support OS/2 kLIBC (patch by KO Myung-Han).
1024 + several improvements to test/movewindow.c (prompted by discussion on
1026 + modify movement commands to make them continuous
1027 + rewrote the test for mvderwin
1028 + rewrote the test for recursive mvwin
1029 + split-out reusable CF_WITH_NCURSES_ETC macro in test/configure.in
1030 + updated configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, build-fixes for Mac OS X
1032 + regenerated html manpages.
1035 + various improvments for MinGW (Juergen Pfeifer):
1036 + modify stat() calls to ignore the st_size member
1037 + drop mk-dlls.sh script.
1038 + change recommended regular expression library.
1039 + modify rain.c to allow for threaded configuraton.
1040 + modify tset.c to allow for case when size-change logic is not used.
1043 + modify toe's report when -a and -s options are combined, to add
1044 a column showing which entries belong to a given database.
1045 + add -s option to toe, to sort its output.
1046 + modify progs/toe.c, simplifying use of db-iterator results to use
1047 caching improvements from 20111001 and 20111126.
1048 + correct generation of pc-files when ticlib or termlib options are
1049 given to rename the corresponding tic- or tinfo-libraries (report
1053 + document a portability issue with tput, i.e., that scripts which work
1054 with ncurses may fail in other implementations that do no parameter
1056 + add putty-sco entry -TD
1059 + review/fix places in manpages where --program-prefix configure option
1061 + add -D option to infocmp, to show the database locations that it
1063 + fix build for the special case where term-driver, ticlib and termlib
1064 are all enabled. The terminal driver depends on a few features in
1065 the base ncurses library, so tic's dependencies include both ncurses
1067 + fix build work for term-driver when --enable-wgetch-events option is
1069 + use <stdint.h> types to fix some questionable casts to void*.
1072 + modify configure script to check if thread library provides
1073 pthread_mutexattr_settype(), e.g., not provided by Solaris 2.6
1074 + modify configure script to suppress check to define _XOPEN_SOURCE
1075 for IRIX64, since its header files have a conflict versus
1077 + modify configure script to add ".pc" files for tic- and
1078 tinfo-libraries, which were omitted in recent change (cf: 20111126).
1079 + fix inconsistent checks on $PKG_CONFIG variable in configure script.
1082 + modify configure-check for etip.h dependencies, supplying a temporary
1083 copy of ncurses_dll.h since it is a generated file (prompted by
1085 + modify CF_CPP_PARAM_INIT "main" function to work with current C++.
1088 + correct database iterator's check for duplicate entries
1090 + modify database iterator to ignore $TERMCAP when it is not an
1092 + add -D option to tic, to show the database locations that it could
1094 + improve description of database locations in tic manpage.
1095 + modify the configure script to generate a list of the ".pc" files to
1096 generate, rather than deriving the list from the libraries which have
1097 been built (patch by Mike Frysinger).
1098 + use AC_CHECK_TOOLS in preference to AC_PATH_PROGS when searching for
1099 ncurses*-config, e.g., in Ada95/configure and test/configure (adapted
1100 from patch by Mike Frysinger).
1103 + remove obsolete/conflicting fallback definition for _POSIX_SOURCE
1104 from curses.priv.h, fixing a regression with IRIX64 and Tru64
1106 + modify _nc_tic_dir() to ensure that its return-value is nonnull,
1107 i.e., the database iterator was not initialized. This case is needed
1108 to when tic is translating to termcap, rather than loading the
1109 database (cf: 20111001).
1112 + add pccon entries for OpenBSD console (Alexei Malinin).
1113 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 with gcc 4.2.1, setting _XOPEN_SOURCE to
1114 600 to work around inconsistent ifdef'ing of wcstof between C and
1116 + modify capconvert script to accept more than exact match on "xterm",
1117 e.g., the "xterm-*" variants, to exclude from the conversion (patch
1119 + add -lc_r as alternative for -lpthread, allows build of threaded code
1120 in older FreeBSD machines.
1121 + build-fix for MirBSD, which fails when either _XOPEN_SOURCE or
1122 _POSIX_SOURCE are defined.
1123 + fix a typo misc/Makefile.in, used in uninstalling pc-files.
1126 + modify make_db_path() to allow creating "terminfo.db" in the same
1127 directory as an existing "terminfo" directory. This fixes a case
1128 where switching between hashed/filesystem databases would cause the
1129 new hashed database to be installed in the next best location -
1130 root's home directory.
1131 + add variable cf_cv_prog_gnat_correct to those passed to
1132 config.status, fixing a problem with Ada95 builds (cf: 20111022).
1133 + change feature test from _XPG5 to _XOPEN_SOURCE in two places, to
1134 accommodate broken implementations for _XPG6.
1135 + eliminate usage of NULL symbol from etip.h, to reduce header
1137 + add configure check to decide when to add _XOPEN_SOURCE define to
1138 compiler options, i.e., for Solaris 10 and later (cf: 20100403).
1139 This is a workaround for gcc 4.6, which fails to build the c++
1140 binding if that symbol is defined by the application, due to
1141 incorrectly combining the corresponding feature test macros
1142 (report by Peter Kruse).
1145 + correct logic for discarding mouse events, retaining the partial
1146 events used to build up click, double-click, etc, until needed
1148 + fix configure script to avoid creating unused Ada95 makefile when
1150 + cleanup width-related gcc 3.4.3 warnings for 64-bit platform, for the
1151 internal functions of libncurses. The external interface of courses
1152 uses bool, which still produces these warnings.
1155 + improve description of --disable-tic-depends option to make it
1156 clear that it may be useful whether or not the --with-termlib
1157 option is also given (report by Sven Joachim).
1158 + amend termcap equivalent for set_pglen_inch to use the X/Open
1159 "YI" rather than the obsolete Solaris 2.5 "sL" (cf: 990109).
1160 + improve manpage for tgetent differences from termcap library.
1163 + moved static data from db_iterator.c to lib_data.c
1164 + modify db_iterator.c for memory-leak checking, fix one leak.
1165 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to use Requires.private for the parts
1166 of ncurses rather than Requires, as well as Libs.private for the
1167 other library dependencies (prompted by Debian #644728).
1170 + modify tic "-K" option to only set the strict-flag rather than force
1171 source-output. That allows the same flag to control the parser for
1172 input and output of termcap source.
1173 + modify _nc_getent() to ignore backslash at the end of a comment line,
1174 making it consistent with ncurses' parser.
1175 + restore a special-case check for directory needed to make termcap
1176 text files load as if they were databases (cf: 20110924).
1177 + modify tic's resolution/collision checking to attempt to remove the
1178 conflicting alias from the second entry in the pair, which is
1179 normally following in the source file. Also improved the warning
1180 message to make it simpler to see which alias is the problem.
1181 + improve performance of the database iterator by caching search-list.
1184 + add a missing "else" in changes to _nc_read_tic_entry().
1187 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() so that hashed-database is checked before
1189 + updated CF_CURSES_LIBS check in test/configure script.
1190 + modify configure script and makefiles to split TIC_ARGS and
1191 TINFO_ARGS into pieces corresponding to LDFLAGS and LIBS variables,
1192 to help separate searches for tic- and tinfo-libraries (patch by Nick
1194 + build-fix for lib_mouse.c changes (cf: 20110917).
1197 + fix compiler warning for clang 2.9
1198 + improve merging of mouse events (integrated patch by Damien
1200 + correct mask-check used in lib_mouse for wheel mouse buttons 4/5
1201 (patch by Damien Guibouret).
1204 + modify misc/gen_edit.sh to select a "linux" entry which works with
1205 the current kernel rather than assuming it is always "linux3.0"
1207 + revert a change to getmouse() which had the undesirable side-effect
1208 of suppressing button-release events (report by Damien Guibouret,
1210 + add xterm+kbs fragment from xterm #272 -TD
1211 + add configure option --with-pkg-config-libdir to provide control over
1212 the actual directory into which pc-files are installed, do not use
1213 the pkg-config environment variables (discussion with Frederic L W
1215 + add link to mailing-list archive in announce.html.in, as done in
1216 FAQ (prompted by question by Andrius Bentkus).
1217 + improve manpage install by adjusting the "#include" examples to
1218 show the ncurses-subdirectory used when --disable-overwrite option
1220 + install an alias for "curses" to the ncurses manpage, tied to the
1221 --with-curses-h configure option (suggested by Reuben Thomas).
1224 + propagate error-returns from wresize, i.e., the internal
1225 increase_size and decrease_size functions through resize_term (report
1226 by Tim van der Molen, cf: 20020713).
1227 + fix typo in tset manpage (patch by Sven Joachim).
1230 + add a check to ensure that termcap files which might have "^?" do
1231 not use the terminfo interpretation as "\177".
1232 + minor cleanup of X-terminal emulator section of terminfo.src -TD
1233 + add terminator entry -TD
1234 + add simpleterm entry -TD
1235 + improve wattr_get macros by ensuring that if the window pointer is
1236 null, then the attribute and color values returned will be zero
1240 + add substitution for $RPATH_LIST to misc/ncurses-config.in
1241 + improve performance of tic with hashed-database by caching the
1242 database connection, using atexit() to cleanup.
1243 + modify treatment of 2-character aliases at the beginning of termcap
1244 entries so they are not counted in use-resolution, since these are
1245 guaranteed to be unique. Also ignore these aliases when reporting
1246 the primary name of the entry (cf: 20040501)
1247 + double-check gn (generic) flag in terminal descriptions to
1248 accommodate old/buggy termcap databases which misused that feature.
1249 + minor fixes to _nc_tgetent(), ensure buffer is initialized even on
1253 + improve rpath fix from 20110730 by ensuring that the new $RPATH_LIST
1254 variable is defined in the makefiles which use it.
1255 + build-fix for DragonFlyBSD's pkgsrc in test/configure script.
1256 + build-fixes for NetBSD 5.1 with termcap support enabled.
1257 + corrected k9 in dg460-ansi, add other features based on manuals -TD
1258 + improve trimming of whitespace at the end of terminfo/termcap output
1260 + when writing termcap source, ensure that colons in the description
1261 field are translated to a non-delimiter, i.e., "=".
1262 + add "-0" option to tic/infocmp, to make the termcap/terminfo source
1264 + add a null-pointer check when handling the $CC variable.
1267 + modify configure script and makefiles in c++ and progs to allow the
1268 directory used for rpath option to be overridden, e.g., to work
1269 around updates to the variables used by tic during an install.
1270 + add -K option to tic/infocmp, to provide stricter BSD-compatibility
1272 + add _nc_strict_bsd variable in tic library which controls the
1273 "strict" BSD termcap compatibility from 20110723, plus these
1275 + allow escapes such as "\8" and "\9" when reading termcap
1276 + disallow "\a", "\e", "\l", "\s" and "\:" escapes when reading
1277 termcap files, passing through "a", "e", etc.
1278 + expand "\:" as "\072" on output.
1279 + modify _nc_get_token() to reset the token's string value in case
1280 there is a string-typed token lacking the "=" marker.
1281 + fix a few memory leaks in _nc_tgetent.
1282 + fix a few places where reading from a termcap file could refer to
1284 + add an overflow check when converting terminfo/termcap numeric
1285 values, since terminfo stores those in a short, and they must be
1287 + correct internal variables used for translating to termcap "%>"
1288 feature, and translating from termcap %B to terminfo, needed by
1289 tctest (cf: 19991211).
1290 + amend a minor fix to acsc when loading a termcap file to separate it
1291 from warnings needed for tic (cf: 20040710)
1292 + modify logic in _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_tic_entry() to allow
1293 a termcap file to be handled via TERMINFO_DIRS.
1294 + modify _nc_infotocap() to include non-mandatory padding when
1295 translating to termcap.
1296 + modify _nc_read_termcap_entry(), passing a flag in the case where
1297 getcap is used, to reduce interactive warning messages.
1300 + add a check in start_color() to limit color-pairs to 256 when
1301 extended colors are not supported (patch by David Benjamin).
1302 + modify setcchar to omit no-longer-needed OR'ing of color pair in
1303 the SetAttr() macro (patch by David Benjamin).
1304 + add kich1 to sun terminfo entry (Yuri Pankov)
1305 + use bold rather than reverse for smso in sun-color terminfo entry
1307 + improve generation of termcap using tic/infocmp -C option, e.g.,
1308 to correspond with 4.2BSD (prompted by discussion with Yuri Pankov
1309 regarding Schilling's test program):
1310 + translate %02 and %03 to %2 and %3 respectively.
1311 + suppress string capabilities which use %s, not supported by tgoto
1312 + use \040 rather than \s
1313 + expand null characters as \200 rather than \0
1314 + modify configure script to support shared libraries for DragonFlyBSD.
1317 + replace an assert() in _nc_Free_Argument() with a regular null
1318 pointer check (report/analysis by Franjo Ivancic).
1319 + modify configure --enable-pc-files option to take into account the
1320 PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
1321 + add/use xterm+tmux chunk from xterm #271 -TD
1322 + resync xterm-new entry from xterm #271 -TD
1323 + add E3 extended capability to linux-basic (Miroslav Lichvar)
1324 + add linux2.2, linux2.6, linux3.0 entries to give context for E3 -TD
1325 + add SI/SO change to linux2.6 entry (Debian #515609) -TD
1326 + fix inconsistent tabset path in pcmw (Todd C. Miller).
1327 + remove a backslash which continued comment, obscuring altos3
1328 definition with OpenBSD toolset (Nicholas Marriott).
1331 + add workaround from xterm #271 changes to ensure that compiler flags
1332 are not used in the $CC variable.
1333 + improve support for shared libraries, tested with AIX 5.3, 6.1 and
1334 7.1 with both gcc 4.2.4 and cc.
1335 + modify configure checks for AIX to include release 7.x
1336 + add loader flags/libraries to libtool options so that dynamic loading
1337 works properly, adapted from ncurses-5.7-ldflags-with-libtool.patch
1338 at gentoo prefix repository (patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
1341 + move include of nc_termios.h out of term_entry.h, since the latter
1342 is installed, e.g., for tack while the former is not (report by
1346 + improve cleanup() function in lib_tstp.c, using _exit() rather than
1347 exit() and checking for SIGTERM rather than SIGQUIT (prompted by
1348 comments forwarded by Nicholas Marriott).
1349 + reduce name pollution from term.h, moving fallback #define's for
1350 tcgetattr(), etc., to new private header nc_termios.h (report by
1352 + two minor fixes for tracing (patch by Vassili Courzakis).
1353 + improve trace initialization by starting it in use_env() and
1355 + review old email, add details for some changelog entries.
1358 + update minix entry to minix 3.2 (Thomas Cort).
1359 + fix a strict compiler warning in change to wattr_get (cf: 20110528).
1362 + fixes for MirBSD port:
1363 + set default prefix to /usr.
1364 + add support for shared libraries in configure script.
1365 + use S_ISREG and S_ISDIR consistently, with fallback definitions.
1366 + add a few more checks based on ncurses/link_test.
1367 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle sp-funcs renaming of NCURSES_OUTC type.
1370 + add case to CF_SHARED_OPTS for Interix (patch by Markus Duft).
1371 + used ncurses/link_test to check for behavior when the terminal has
1372 not been initialized and when an application passes null pointers
1373 to the library. Added checks to cover this (prompted by Redhat
1375 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to make its main() function call each function
1376 with zero parameters, to help find inconsistent checking for null
1380 + fix warnings from clang 2.7 "--analyze"
1383 + compiler-warning fixes in panel and progs.
1384 + modify CF_PKG_CONFIG macro, from changes to tin -TD
1385 + modify CF_CURSES_FUNCS configure macro, used in test directory
1387 + work around (non-optimizer) bug in gcc 4.2.1 which caused
1388 test-expression to be omitted from executable.
1389 + force the linker to see a link-time expression of a symbol, to
1390 help work around weak-symbol issues.
1393 + update discussion of MKfallback.sh script in INSTALL; normally the
1394 script is used automatically via the configured makefiles. However
1395 there are still occasions when it might be used directly by packagers
1396 (report by Gunter Schaffler).
1397 + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to omit the "-L" option from the
1398 "--libs" output if the library directory is /usr/lib.
1399 + change order of tests for curses.h versus ncurses.h headers in the
1400 configure scripts for Ada95 and test-directories, to look for
1401 ncurses.h, from fixes to tin -TD
1402 + modify ncurses/tinfo/access.c to account for Tandem's root uid
1403 (report by Joachim Schmitz).
1406 + modify rules in Ada95/src/Makefile.in to ensure that the PIC option
1407 is not used when building a static library (report by Nicolas
1409 + Ada95 build-fix for big-endian architectures such as sparc. This
1410 undoes one of the fixes from 20110319, which added an "Unused" member
1411 to representation clauses, replacing that with pragmas to suppress
1412 warnings about unused bits (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez):
1415 + add check in test/configure for use_window, use_screen.
1416 + add configure-checks for getopt's variables, which may be declared
1417 as different types on some Unix systems.
1418 + add check in test/configure for some legacy curses types of the
1419 function pointer passed to tputs().
1420 + modify init_pair() to accept -1's for color value after
1421 assume_default_colors() has been called (Debian #337095).
1422 + modify test/background.c, adding commmand-line options to demonstrate
1423 assume_default_colors() and use_default_colors().
1426 + modify configure script/source-code to only define _POSIX_SOURCE if
1427 the checks for sigaction and/or termios fail, and if _POSIX_C_SOURCE
1428 and _XOPEN_SOURCE are undefined (report by Valentin Ochs).
1429 + update config.guess, config.sub
1432 + fixes to build c++ binding with clang 3.0 (patch by Alexander
1434 + add check for unctrl.h in test/configure, to work around breakage in
1435 some ncurses packages.
1436 + add "--disable-widec" option to test/configure script.
1437 + add "--with-curses-colr" and "--with-curses-5lib" options to the
1438 test/configure script to address testing with very old machines.
1440 20110404 5.9 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1443 + various build-fixes for the rpm/dpkg scripts.
1444 + add "--enable-rpath-link" option to Ada95/configure, to allow
1445 packages to suppress the rpath feature which is normally used for
1446 the in-tree build of sample programs.
1447 + corrected definition of libdir variable in Ada95/src/Makefile.in,
1448 needed for rpm script.
1449 + add "--with-shared" option to Ada95/configure script, to allow
1450 making the C-language parts of the binding use appropriate compiler
1451 options if building a shared library with gnat.
1454 > portability fixes for Ada95 binding:
1455 + add configure check to ensure that SIGINT works with gnat. This is
1456 needed for the "rain" sample program. If SIGINT does not work, omit
1457 that sample program.
1458 + correct typo in check of $PKG_CONFIG variable in Ada95/configure
1459 + add ncurses_compat.c, to supply functions used in the Ada95 binding
1460 which were added in 5.7 and later.
1461 + modify sed expression in CF_NCURSES_ADDON to eliminate a dependency
1465 + add special check in Ada95/configure script for ncurses6 reentrant
1467 + regen Ada html documentation.
1468 + build-fix for Ada shared libraries versus the varargs workaround.
1469 + add rpm and dpkg scripts for Ada95 and test directories, for test
1471 + update test/configure macros CF_CURSES_LIBS, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and
1473 + add configure check to determine if gnat's project feature supports
1474 libraries, i.e., collections of .ali files.
1475 + make all dereferences in Ada95 samples explicit.
1476 + fix typo in comment in lib_add_wch.c (patch by Petr Pavlu).
1477 + add configure check for, ifdef's for math.h which is in a separate
1478 package on Solaris and potentially not installed (report by Petr
1480 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
1481 + improve type-checking in Ada95 by eliminating a few warning-suppress
1483 + suppress unreferenced warnings.
1484 + make all dereferences in binding explicit.
1487 + regen Ada html documentation.
1488 + change order of -I options from ncurses*-config script when the
1489 --disable-overwrite option was used, so that the subdirectory include
1491 + modify the make-tar.sh scripts to add a MANIFEST and NEWS file.
1492 + modify configure script to provide value for HTML_DIR in
1493 Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, which depends on whether the Ada95 binding is
1494 distributed separately (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
1495 + modify configure script to add "-g" and/or "-O3" to ADAFLAGS if the
1496 CFLAGS for the build has these options.
1497 + amend change from 20070324, to not add 1 to the result of getmaxx
1498 and getmaxy in the Ada binding (report by Nicolas Boulenguez for
1499 thread in comp.lang.ada).
1500 + build-fix Ada95/samples for gnat 4.5
1501 + spelling fixes for Ada95/samples/explain.txt
1502 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
1503 + add item in Trace_Attribute_Set corresponding to TRACE_ATTRS.
1504 + add workaround for binding to set_field_type(), which uses varargs.
1505 The original binding from 990220 relied on the prevalent
1506 implementation of varargs which did not support or need va_copy().
1507 + add dependency on gen/Makefile.in needed for *-panels.ads
1508 + add Library_Options to library.gpr
1509 + add Languages to library.gpr, for gprbuild
1512 + revert changes to limit-checks from 20110122 (Debian #616711).
1513 > minor type-cleanup of Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
1514 + corrected a minor sign error in a field of Low_Level_Field_Type, to
1516 + replaced C_Int by Curses_Bool as return type for some callbacks, see
1518 + modify samples/sample-explain.adb to provide explicit message when
1519 explain.txt is not found.
1522 + improve makefiles for Ada95 tree (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
1523 + fix an off-by-one error in _nc_slk_initialize() from 20100605 fixes
1524 for compiler warnings (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
1525 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to declare unused bits in generated layouts,
1526 needed to compile when chtype is 64-bits using gnat 4.4.5
1528 20110226 5.8 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1531 + update release notes, for 5.8.
1532 + regenerated html manpages.
1533 + change open() in _nc_read_file_entry() to fopen() for consistency
1535 + modify misc/run_tic.in to create parent directory, in case this is
1536 a new install of hashed database.
1537 + fix typo in Ada95/mk-1st.awk which causes error with original awk.
1540 + configure script rpath fixes from xterm #269.
1541 + workaround for cygwin's non-functional features.h, to force ncurses'
1542 configure script to define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED when building
1543 wide-character configuration.
1544 + build-fix in run_tic.sh for OS/2 EMX install
1545 + add cons25-debian entry (patch by Brian M Carlson, Debian #607662).
1548 + regenerated html manpages.
1549 + use _tracef() in show_where() function of tic, to work correctly with
1550 special case of trace configuration.
1553 + add xterm-utf8 entry as a demo of the U8 feature -TD
1554 + add U8 feature to denote entries for terminal emulators which do not
1555 support VT100 SI/SO when processing UTF-8 encoding -TD
1556 + improve the NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS feature by adding a check for an
1557 extended terminfo capability U8 (prompted by mailing list
1561 + start documenting interface changes for upcoming 5.8 release.
1562 + correct limit-checks in derwin().
1563 + correct limit-checks in newwin(), to ensure that windows have nonzero
1564 size (report by Garrett Cooper).
1565 + fix a missing "weak" declaration for pthread_kill (patch by Nicholas
1567 + improve documentation of KEY_ENTER in curs_getch.3x manpage (prompted
1568 by discussion with Kevin Martin).
1571 + modify Ada95/configure script to make the --with-curses-dir option
1572 work without requiring the --with-ncurses option.
1573 + modify test programs to allow them to be built with NetBSD curses.
1574 + document thick- and double-line symbols in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
1575 + document WACS_xxx constants in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
1576 + fix some warnings for clang 2.6 "--analyze"
1577 + modify Ada95 makefiles to make html-documentation with the project
1578 file configuration if that is used.
1579 + update config.guess, config.sub
1582 + regenerated html manpages.
1583 + minor fixes to enable lint when trace is not enabled, e.g., with
1585 + fix typo in man/default_colors.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
1586 + update ncurses/llib-lncurses*
1589 + fix remaining strict compiler warnings in ncurses library ABI=5,
1590 except those dealing with function pointers, etc.
1593 + modify nc_tparm.h, adding guards against repeated inclusion, and
1594 allowing TPARM_ARG to be overridden.
1595 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
1598 + suppress ncv in screen entry, allowing underline (patch by Alejandro
1600 + also suppress ncv in konsole-base -TD
1601 + fixes in wins_nwstr() and related functions to ensure that special
1602 characters, i.e., control characters are handled properly with the
1603 wide-character configuration.
1604 + correct a comparison in wins_nwstr() (Redhat #661506).
1605 + correct help-messages in some of the test-programs, which still
1606 referred to quitting with 'q'.
1609 + add special case to _nc_infotocap() to recognize the setaf/setab
1610 strings from xterm+256color and xterm+88color, and provide a reduced
1611 version which works with termcap.
1612 + remove obsolete emacs "Local Variables" section from documentation
1613 (request by Sven Joachim).
1614 + update doc/html/index.html to include NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html
1615 (report by Sven Joachim).
1618 + modify test/configure and test/Makefile.in to handle this special
1619 case of building within a build-tree (Debian #34182):
1620 mkdir -p build && cd build && ../test/configure && make
1623 + miscellaneous build-fixes for Ada95 and test-directories when built
1625 + use VPATH in makefiles to simplify out-of-tree builds (Debian #34182).
1626 + fix typo in rmso for tek4106 entry -Goran Weinholt
1629 + improve checks in test/configure for X libraries, from xterm #267
1631 + modify test/configure to allow it to use the build-tree's libraries
1632 e.g., when using that to configure the test-programs without the
1633 rpath feature (request by Sven Joachim).
1634 + repurpose "gnome" terminfo entries as "vte", retaining "gnome" items
1635 for compatibility, but generally deprecating those since the VTE
1636 library is what actually defines the behavior of "gnome", etc.,
1640 + compiler warning fixes for test programs.
1641 + various build-fixes for test-programs with pdcurses.
1642 + updated configure checks for X packages in test/configure from xterm
1644 + add configure check to gnatmake, to accommodate cygwin.
1647 + correct list of sub-directories needed in Ada95 tree for building as
1649 + modify scripts in test-directory to improve builds as a separate
1653 + correct parsing of relative tab-stops in tabs program (report by
1655 + adjust configure script so that "t" is not added to library suffix
1656 when weak-symbols are used, allowing the pthread configuration to
1657 more closely match the non-thread naming (report by Werner Fink).
1658 + modify configure check for tic program, used for fallbacks, to a
1659 warning if not found. This makes it simpler to use additonal
1660 scripts to bootstrap the fallbacks code using tic from the build
1661 tree (report by Werner Fink).
1662 + fix several places in configure script using ${variable-value} form.
1663 + modify configure macro CF_LDFLAGS_STATIC to accommodate some loaders
1664 which do not support selectively linking against static libraries
1665 (report by John P. Hartmann)
1666 + fix an unescaped dash in man/tset.1 (report by Sven Joachim).
1669 + correct comparison used for setting 16-colors in linux-16color
1670 entry (Novell #644831) -TD
1671 + improve linux-16color entry, using "dim" for color-8 which makes it
1672 gray rather than black like color-0 -TD
1673 + drop misc/ncu-indent and misc/jpf-indent; they are provided by an
1674 external package "cindent".
1677 + improve linkages in html manpages, adding references to the newer
1678 pages, e.g., *_variables, curs_sp_funcs, curs_threads.
1679 + add checks in tic for inconsistent cursor-movement controls, and for
1680 inconsistent printer-controls.
1681 + fill in no-parameter forms of cursor-movement where a parameterized
1682 form is available -TD
1683 + fill in missing cursor controls where the form of the controls is
1685 + fix inconsistent punctuation in form_variables manpage (patch by
1687 + add parameterized cursor-controls to linux-basic (report by Dae) -TD
1688 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
1689 + document how to build 32-bit libraries in README.MinGW
1690 + fixes to filename computation in mk-dlls.sh.in
1691 + use POSIX locale in mk-dlls.sh.in rather than en_US (report by Sven
1693 + add a check in mk-dlls.sh.in to obtain the size of a pointer to
1694 distinguish between 32-bit and 64-bit hosts. The result is stored
1698 + add "XT" capability to entries for terminals that support both
1699 xterm-style mouse- and title-controls, for "screen" which
1700 special-cases TERM beginning with "xterm" or "rxvt" -TD
1701 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
1702 + use 64-Bit MinGW toolchain (recommended package from TDM, see
1704 + support pthreads when using the TDM MinGW toolchain
1707 + regenerated html manpages.
1708 + minor fixes for symlinks to curs_legacy.3x and curs_slk.3x manpages.
1709 + add manpage for sp-funcs.
1710 + add sp-funcs to test/listused.sh, for documentation aids.
1713 + add manpages for summarizing public variables of curses-, terminfo-
1715 + minor fixes to manpages for consistency (patch by Jason McIntyre).
1716 + modify tic's -I/-C dump to reformat acsc strings into canonical form
1717 (sorted, unique mapping) (cf: 971004).
1718 + add configure check for pthread_kill(), needed for some old
1722 + add configure option --without-tests, to suppress building test
1723 programs (request by Frederic L W Meunier).
1726 + modify nsterm, xnuppc and tek4115 to make sgr/sgr0 consistent -TD
1727 + add check in terminfo source-reader to provide more informative
1728 message when someone attempts to run tic on a compiled terminal
1729 description (prompted by Debian #593920).
1730 + note in infotocap and captoinfo manpages that they read terminal
1731 descriptions from text-files (Debian #593920).
1732 + improve acsc string for vt52, show arrow keys (patch by Benjamin
1736 + document in manpages that "mv" functions first use wmove() to check
1737 the window pointer and whether the position lies within the window
1738 (suggested by Poul-Henning Kamp).
1739 + fixes to curs_color.3x, curs_kernel.3x and wresize.3x manpages (patch
1740 by Tim van der Molen).
1741 + modify configure script to transform library names for tic- and
1742 tinfo-libraries so that those build properly with Mac OS X shared
1743 library configuration.
1744 + modify configure script to ensure that it removes conftest.dSYM
1745 directory leftover on checks with Mac OS X.
1746 + modify configure script to cleanup after check for symbolic links.
1749 + correct a typo in mk-1st.awk (patch by Gabriele Balducci)
1751 + improve configure checks for location of tic and infocmp programs
1752 used for installing database and for generating fallback data,
1753 e.g., for cross-compiling.
1754 + add Markus Kuhn's wcwidth function for compiling MinGW
1755 + add special case to CF_REGEX for cross-compiling to MinGW target.
1758 + modify initialization check for win32con driver to eliminate need for
1759 special case for TERM "unknown", using terminal database if available
1760 (prompted by discussion with Roumen Petrov).
1761 + for MinGW port, ensure that terminal driver is setup if tgetent()
1762 is called (patch by Roumen Petrov).
1763 + document tabs "-0" and "-8" options in manpage.
1764 + fix Debian "lintian" issues with manpages reported in
1765 http://lintian.debian.org/full/csmall@debian.org.html#ncurses
1768 + add a check in tic for missing set_tab if clear_all_tabs given.
1769 + improve use of symbolic links in makefiles by using "-f" option if
1770 it is supported, to eliminate temporary removal of the target
1771 (prompted by http://www.t2-project.org/packages/ncurses.html)
1772 + minor improvement to test/ncurses.c, reset color pairs in 'd' test
1773 after exit from 'm' main-menu command.
1774 + improved ncu-indent, from mawk changes, allows more than one of
1775 GCC_NORETURN, GCC_PRINTFLIKE and GCC_SCANFLIKE on a single line.
1778 + add hard-reset for rs2 to wsvt25 to help ensure that reset ends
1779 the alternate character set (patch by Nicholas Marriott)
1780 + remove tar-copy.sh and related configure/Makefile chunks, since the
1781 Ada95 binding is now installed using rules in Ada95/src.
1784 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
1785 + add/use configure check to turn on project rules for Ada95/src.
1786 + revert the vfork change from 20100130, since it does not work.
1789 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
1790 + old gnatmake (3.15) does not produce libraries using project-file;
1791 work around by adding script to generate alternate makefile.
1794 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
1795 + add configure --with-ada-sharedlib option, for the test_make rule.
1796 + move Ada95-related logic into aclocal.m4, since additional checks
1797 will be needed to distinguish old/new implementations of gnat.
1800 + start integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95 tree
1801 + add test_make / test_clean / test_install rules in Ada95/src
1802 + change install-path for adainclude directory to /usr/share/ada (was
1804 + update Ada95/configure.
1805 + add mlterm+256color entry, for mlterm 3.0.0 -TD
1806 + modify test/configure to use macros to ensure consistent order
1807 of updating LIBS variable.
1810 + change search order of options for Solaris in CF_SHARED_OPTS, to
1811 work with 64-bit compiles.
1812 + correct quoting of assignment in CF_SHARED_OPTS case for aix
1816 + regenerated html documentation.
1817 + modify test/configure to support pkg-config for checking X libraries
1819 + add/use configure macro CF_ADD_LIB to force consistency of
1820 assignments to $LIBS, etc.
1821 + fix configure script for combining --with-pthread
1822 and --enable-weak-symbols options.
1825 + correct cross-compiling configure check for CF_MKSTEMP macro, by
1826 adding a check cache variable set by AC_CHECK_FUNC (report by
1828 + simplify include-dependencies of make_hash and make_keys, to reduce
1829 the need for setting BUILD_CPPFLAGS in cross-compiling when the
1830 build- and target-machines differ.
1831 + repair broken-linker configuration by restoring a definition of SP
1832 variable to curses.priv.h, and adjusting for cases where sp-funcs
1834 + improve configure macro CF_AR_FLAGS, allowing ARFLAGS environment
1835 variable to override (prompted by report by Pablo Cazallas).
1838 + add configure option --enable-pthreads-eintr to control whether the
1839 new EINTR feature is enabled.
1840 + modify logic in pthread configuration to allow EINTR to interrupt
1841 a read operation in wgetch() (Novell #540571, patch by Werner Fink).
1842 + drop mkdirs.sh, use "mkdir -p".
1843 + add configure option --disable-libtool-version, to use the
1844 "-version-number" feature which was added in libtool 1.5 (report by
1845 Peter Haering). The default value for the option uses the newer
1846 feature, which makes libraries generated using libtool compatible
1847 with the standard builds of ncurses.
1848 + updated test/configure to match configure script macros.
1849 + fixes for configure script from lynx changes:
1850 + improve CF_FIND_LINKAGE logic for the case where a function is
1851 found in predefined libraries.
1852 + revert part of change to CF_HEADER (cf: 20100424)
1855 + correct limit-check in wredrawln, accounting for begy/begx values
1856 (patch by David Benjamin).
1857 + fix most compiler warnings from clang.
1858 + amend build-fix for OpenSolaris, to ensure that a system header is
1859 included in curses.h before testing feature symbols, since they
1860 may be defined by that route.
1863 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
1864 + modify configure macro CF_HEADER_PATH to not look for variations in
1865 the predefined include directories.
1866 + improve configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GCC_WARNINGS to work
1867 with gcc 4.x's c89 alias, which gives warning messages for cases
1868 where older versions would produce an error.
1871 + modify _nc_capcmp() to work with cancelled strings.
1872 + correct translation of "^" in _nc_infotocap(), used to transform
1873 terminfo to termcap strings
1874 + add configure --disable-rpath-hack, to allow disabling the feature
1875 which adds rpath options for libraries in unusual places.
1876 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by checking if the rpath option for a given
1877 directory was already added.
1878 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by using ldd to provide a standard list of
1879 directories (which will be ignored).
1882 + improve win_driver.c handling of mouse:
1883 + discard motion events
1884 + avoid calling _nc_timed_wait when there is a mouse event
1885 + handle 4th and "rightmost" buttons.
1886 + quote substitutions in CF_RPATH_HACK_2 configure macro, needed for
1887 cases where there are embedded blanks in the rpath option.
1890 + add configure check for exctags vs ctags, to work around pkgsrc.
1891 + simplify logic in _nc_get_screensize() to make it easier to see how
1892 environment variables may override system- and terminfo-values
1893 (prompted by discussion with Igor Bujna).
1894 + make debug-traces for COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER less verbose.
1895 + improve handling of color-pairs embedded in attributes for the
1896 extended-colors configuration.
1897 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to build link_test with sp-funcs.
1898 + build-fixes for OpenSolaris aka Solaris 11, for wide-character
1899 configuration as well as for rpath feature in *-config scripts.
1902 + refactor CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro, making CF_RPATH_HACK more
1904 + improve configure CF_REGEX, similar fixes.
1905 + improve configure CF_FIND_LINKAGE, adding add check between system
1906 (default) and explicit paths, where we can find the entrypoint in the
1908 + add check if Gpm_Open() returns a -2, e.g., for "xterm". This is
1909 normally suppressed but can be overridden using $NCURSES_GPM_TERMS.
1910 Ensure that Gpm_Close() is called in this case.
1913 + rename atari and st52 terminfo entries to atari-old, st52-old, use
1914 newer entries from FreeMiNT by Guido Flohr (from patch/report by Alan
1918 + modify install-rule for manpages so that *-config manpages will
1919 install when building with --srcdir (report by Sven Joachim).
1920 + modify CF_DISABLE_LEAKS configure macro so that the --enable-leaks
1921 option is not the same as --disable-leaks (GenToo #305889).
1922 + modify #define's for build-compiler to suppress cchar_t symbol from
1923 compile of make_hash and make_keys, improving cross-compilation of
1924 ncursesw (report by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
1925 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to replace all occurrences of
1926 TPUT in tput.1's manpage (Debian #573597, report/analysis by Anders
1930 + generate manpages for the *-config scripts, adapted from help2man
1931 (suggested by Sven Joachim).
1932 + use va_copy() in _nc_printf_string() to avoid conflicting use of
1933 va_list value in _nc_printf_length() (report by Wim Lewis).
1936 + add Ada95/configure script, to use in tar-file created by
1938 + fix typo in wresize.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
1939 + modify screen-bce.XXX entries to exclude ech, since screen's color
1940 model does not clear with color for that feature -TD
1943 + add make-tar.sh scripts to Ada95 and test subdirectories to help with
1944 making those separately distributable.
1945 + build-fix for static libraries without dlsym (Debian #556378).
1946 + fix a syntax error in man/form_field_opts.3x (patch by Ingo
1950 + add several screen-bce.XXX entries -TD
1953 + update mrxvt terminfo entry -TD
1954 + modify win_driver.c to support mouse single-clicks.
1955 + correct name for termlib in ncurses*-config, e.g., if it is renamed
1956 to provide a single file for ncurses/ncursesw libraries (patch by
1960 + use vfork in test/ditto.c if available (request by Mike Frysinger).
1961 + miscellaneous cleanup of manpages.
1962 + fix typo in curs_bkgd.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
1963 + build-fix for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
1966 + for term-driver configuration, ensure that the driver pointer is
1967 initialized in setupterm so that terminfo/termcap programs work.
1968 + amend fix for Debian #542031 to ensure that wattrset() returns only
1969 OK or ERR, rather than the attribute value (report by Miroslav
1971 + reorder WINDOWLIST to put WINDOW data after SCREEN pointer, making
1972 _nc_screen_of() compatible between normal/wide libraries again (patch
1973 by Miroslav Lichvar)
1974 + review/fix include-dependencies in modules files (report by Miroslav
1978 + modify win_driver.c to initialize acs_map for win32 console, so
1979 that line-drawing works.
1980 + modify win_driver.c to initialize TERMINAL struct so that programs
1981 such as test/lrtest.c and test/ncurses.c which test string
1982 capabilities can run.
1983 + modify term-driver modules to eliminate forward-reference
1987 + modify configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., to use CF_ADD_CFLAGS
1988 consistently to add new -D's while removing duplicates.
1989 + modify a few configure macros to consistently put new options
1990 before older in the list.
1991 + add tiparm(), based on review of X/Open Curses Issue 7.
1992 + minor documentation cleanup.
1993 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1994 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
1995 (caveat - its maintainer put 2010 copyright date on files dated 2009)
1998 + minor improvement to tic's checking of similar SGR's to allow for the
1999 most common case of SGR 0.
2000 + modify getmouse() to act as its documentation implied, returning on
2001 each call the preceding event until none are left. When no more
2002 events remain, it will return ERR.
2005 + change order of lookup in progs/tput.c, looking for terminfo data
2006 first. This fixes a confusion between termcap "sg" and terminfo
2007 "sgr" or "sgr0", originally from 990123 changes, but exposed by
2008 20091114 fixes for hashing. With this change, only "dl" and "ed" are
2009 ambiguous (Mandriva #56272).
2012 + add bterm terminfo entry, based on bogl 0.1.18 -TD
2013 + minor fix to rxvt+pcfkeys terminfo entry -TD
2014 + build-fixes for Ada95 tree for gnat 4.4 "style".
2017 + remove old check in mvderwin() which prevented moving a derived
2018 window whose origin happened to coincide with its parent's origin
2019 (report by Katarina Machalkova).
2020 + improve test/ncurses.c to put mouse droppings in the proper window.
2021 + update minix terminfo entry -TD
2022 + add bw (auto-left-margin) to nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler)
2025 + correct transfer of multicolumn characters in multirow
2026 field_buffer(), which stopped at the end of the first row due to
2027 filling of unused entries in a cchar_t array with nulls.
2028 + updated nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler, Emanuele Giaquinta)
2029 + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to show wide-character
2031 + use strdup() in set_menu_mark(), restore .marklen struct member on
2033 + eliminate clause 3 from the UCB copyrights in read_termcap.c and
2035 ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change
2036 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
2037 + replace a malloc in tic.c with strdup, checking for failure (patch by
2039 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2040 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
2043 + correct layout of working window used to extract data in
2044 wide-character configured by set_field_buffer (patch by Rafael
2046 + improve some limit-checks related to filename length in reading and
2047 writing terminfo entries.
2048 + ensure that filename is always filled in when attempting to read
2049 a terminfo entry, so that infocmp can report the filename (patch
2050 by Nicholas Marriott).
2053 + modify mk-1st.awk to allow tinfo library to be built when term-driver
2055 + add error-check to configure script to ensure that sp-funcs is
2056 enabled if term-driver is, since some internal interfaces rely upon
2060 + fix case where progs/tput is used while sp-funcs is configure; this
2061 requires save/restore of out-character function from _nc_prescreen
2062 rather than the SCREEN structure (report by Charles Wilson).
2063 + fix typo in man/curs_trace.3x which caused incorrect symbolic links
2064 + improved configure macros CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES, CF_PROG_LINT.
2068 + updated man/curs_trace.3x
2069 + limit hashing for termcap-names to 2-characters (Ubuntu #481740).
2070 + change a variable name in lib_newwin.c to make it clearer which
2071 value is being freed on error (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
2074 + improve test/ncurses.c color-cycling test by reusing attribute-
2075 and color-cycling logic from the video-attributes screen.
2076 + add ifdef'd with NCURSES_INTEROP_FUNCS experimental bindings in form
2077 library which help make it compatible with interop applications
2078 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
2079 + add configure option --enable-interop, for integrating changes
2080 for generic/interop support to form-library by Juergen Pfeifer
2083 + modify use of $CC environment variable which is defined by X/Open
2084 as a curses feature, to ignore it if it is not a single character
2085 (prompted by discussion with Benjamin C W Sittler).
2086 + add START_TRACE in slk_init
2087 + fix a regression in _nc_ripoffline which made test/ncurses.c not show
2088 soft-keys, broken in 20090927 merging.
2089 + change initialization of "hidden" flag for soft-keys from true to
2090 false, broken in 20090704 merging (Ubuntu #464274).
2091 + update nsterm entries (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler, prompted by
2092 discussion with Fabian Groffen in GenToo #206201).
2093 + add test/xterm-256color.dat
2096 + quiet some pedantic gcc warnings.
2097 + modify _nc_wgetch() to check for a -1 in the fifo, e.g., after a
2098 SIGWINCH, and discard that value, to avoid confusing application
2099 (patch by Eygene Ryabinkin, FreeBSD bin/136223).
2102 + modify handling of $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR to use only the first item in
2103 a possibly colon-separated list (Debian #550716).
2106 + supply a null-terminator to buffer in _nc_viswibuf().
2107 + fix a sign-extension bug in unget_wch() (report by Mike Gran).
2108 + minor fixes to error-returns in default function for tputs, as well
2112 + add WACS_xxx definitions to wide-character configuration for thick-
2113 and double-lines (discussion with Slava Zanko).
2114 + remove unnecessary kcan assignment to ^C from putty (Sven Joachim)
2115 + add ccc and initc capabilities to xterm-16color -TD
2116 > patch by Benjamin C W Sittler:
2118 + correct initc capability of linux-c-nc end-of-range
2119 + similar change for dg+ccc and dgunix+ccc
2122 + move leak-checking for comp_captab.c into _nc_leaks_tinfo() since
2123 that module since 20090711 is in libtinfo.
2124 + add configure option --enable-term-driver, to allow compiling with
2125 terminal-driver. That is used in MinGW port, and (being somewhat
2126 more complicated) is an experimental alternative to the conventional
2127 termlib internals. Currently, it requires the sp-funcs feature to
2129 + completed integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer in ncurses
2130 library (some work remains for forms library).
2133 + document return code from define_key (report by Mike Gran).
2134 + make some symbolic links in the terminfo directory-tree shorter
2135 (patch by Daniel Jacobowitz, forwarded by Sven Joachim).).
2136 + fix some groff warnings in terminfo.5, etc., from recent Debian
2138 + change ncv and op capabilities in sun-color terminfo entry to match
2139 Sun's entry for this (report by Laszlo Peter).
2140 + improve interix smso terminfo capability by using reverse rather than
2141 bold (report by Kristof Zelechovski).
2144 + add some test programs (and make these use the same special keys
2145 by sharing linedata.h functions):
2148 test/test_addchstr.c
2149 test/test_add_wchstr.c
2150 + correct internal _nc_insert_ch() to use _nc_insert_wch() when
2151 inserting wide characters, since the wins_wch() function that it used
2152 did not update the cursor position (report by Ciprian Craciun).
2155 + fix typo s/is_timeout/is_notimeout/ which made "man is_notimeout" not
2157 + add null-pointer checks to other opaque-functions.
2158 + add is_pad() and is_subwin() functions for opaque access to WINDOW
2159 (discussion with Mark Dickinson).
2160 + correct merge to lib_newterm.c, which broke when sp-funcs was
2164 + build-fix for building outside source-tree (report by Sven Joachim).
2165 + fix Debian lintian warning for man/tabs.1 by making section number
2166 agree with file-suffix (report by Sven Joachim).
2167 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2170 + workaround for bug in g++ 4.1-4.4 warnings for wattrset() macro on
2171 amd64 (Debian #542031).
2172 + fix typo in curs_mouse.3x (Debian #429198).
2175 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2178 + correct use of terminfo capabilities for initializing soft-keys,
2179 broken in 20090509 merging.
2180 + modify wgetch() to ensure it checks SIGWINCH when it gets an error
2181 in non-blocking mode (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
2182 + use PATH_SEPARATOR symbol when substituting into run_tic.sh, to
2183 help with builds on non-Unix platforms such as OS/2 EMX.
2184 + modify scripting for misc/run_tic.sh to test configure script's
2185 $cross_compiling variable directly rather than comparing host/build
2186 compiler names (prompted by comment in GenToo #249363).
2187 + fix configure script option --with-database, which was coded as an
2189 + build-fixes for --srcdir (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
2192 + separate _nc_find_entry() and _nc_find_type_entry() from
2193 implementation details of hash function.
2196 + add tabs.1 to man/man_db.renames
2197 + modify lib_addch.c to compensate for removal of wide-character test
2198 from unctrl() in 20090704 (Debian #539735).
2201 + improve discussion in INSTALL for use of system's tic/infocmp for
2202 cross-compiling and building fallbacks.
2203 + modify test/demo_termcap.c to correspond better to options in
2204 test/demo_terminfo.c
2205 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2206 + fix logic for 'V' in test/ncurses.c tests f/F.
2209 + correct logic in tigetnum(), which caused tput program to treat all
2210 string capabilities as numeric (report by Rajeev V Pillai,
2214 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2217 + fix a null-pointer check in _nc_format_slks() in lib_slk.c, from
2219 + modify _nc_find_type_entry() to use hashing.
2220 + make CCHARW_MAX value configurable, noting that changing this would
2221 change the size of cchar_t, and would be ABI-incompatible.
2222 + modify test-programs, e.g,. test/view.c, to address subtle
2223 differences between Tru64/Solaris and HPUX/AIX getcchar() return
2225 + modify length returned by getcchar() to count the trailing null
2226 which is documented in X/Open (cf: 20020427).
2227 + fixes for test programs to build/work on HPUX and AIX, etc.
2230 + improve performance of tigetstr, etc., by using hashing code from tic.
2231 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking.
2232 + add test/demo_terminfo, for comparison with demo_termcap
2235 + remove wide-character checks from unctrl() (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
2236 + revise wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to eliminate dependency on
2238 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2241 + update llib-lncurses[wt] to use sp-funcs.
2242 + various code-fixes to build/work with --disable-macros configure
2244 + add several new files from Juergen Pfeifer which will be used when
2245 integration of "sp-funcs" is complete. This includes a port to
2249 + move definition for NCURSES_WRAPPED_VAR back to ncurses_dll.h, to
2250 make includes of term.h without curses.h work (report by "Nix").
2251 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2254 + fix a regression in lib_tputs.c, from ongoing merges.
2257 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2260 + fix an infinite recursion when adding a legacy-coding 8-bit value
2261 using insch() (report by Clemens Ladisch).
2262 + free home-terminfo string in del_curterm() (patch by Dan Weber).
2263 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2266 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2269 + work around antique BSD game's manipulation of stdscr, etc., versus
2270 SCREEN's copy of the pointer (Debian #528411).
2271 + add a cast to wattrset macro to avoid compiler warning when comparing
2272 its result against ERR (adapted from patch by Matt Kraii, Debian
2276 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2279 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2280 + add vwmterm terminfo entry (patch by Bryan Christ).
2283 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2286 + build fix for _nc_free_and_exit() change in 20090418 (report by
2290 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2293 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2294 This change finishes merging for menu and panel libraries, does
2295 part of the form library.
2298 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
2299 Darwin (report by Nelson Beebe).
2302 + extend ansi.sys pfkey capability from kf1-kf10 to kf1-kf48, moving
2303 function key definitions from emx-base for consistency -TD
2304 + correct missing final 'p' in pfkey capability of ansi.sys-old (report
2305 by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo).
2306 + improve test/ncurses.c 'F' test, show combining characters in color.
2307 + quiet a false report by cppcheck in c++/cursesw.cc by eliminating
2308 a temporary variable.
2309 + use _nc_doalloc() rather than realloc() in a few places in ncurses
2310 library to avoid leak in out-of-memory condition (reports by William
2311 Egert and Martin Ettl based on cppcheck tool).
2312 + add --with-ncurses-wrap-prefix option to test/configure (discussion
2313 with Charles Wilson).
2314 + use ncurses*-config scripts if available for test/configure.
2315 + update test/aclocal.m4 and test/configure
2316 > patches by Charles Wilson:
2317 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL configure check to allow unreleased libtool
2318 version numbers (e.g. which include alphabetic chars, as well as
2319 digits, after the final '.').
2320 + improve use of -no-undefined option for libtool by setting an
2321 intermediate variable LT_UNDEF in the configure script, and then
2322 using that in the libtool link-commands.
2323 + fix an missing use of NCURSES_PUBLIC_VAR() in tinfo/MKcodes.awk
2324 from 2009031 changes.
2325 + improve mk-1st.awk script by writing separate cases for the
2326 LIBTOOL_LINK command, depending on which library (ncurses, ticlib,
2327 termlib) is to be linked.
2328 + modify configure.in to allow broken-linker configurations, not just
2329 enable-reentrant, to set public wrap prefix.
2332 + add TICS_LIST and SHLIB_LIST to allow libtool 2.2.6 on Cygwin to
2333 build with tic and term libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
2334 + add -no-undefined option to libtool for Cygwin, MinGW, U/Win and AIX
2335 (report by Charles Wilson).
2336 + fix definition for c++/Makefile.in's SHLIB_LIST, which did not list
2337 the form, menu or panel libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
2338 + add configure option --with-wrap-prefix to allow setting the prefix
2339 for functions used to wrap global variables to something other than
2340 "_nc_" (discussion with Charles Wilson).
2343 + modify scripts to generate ncurses*-config and pc-files to add
2344 dependency for tinfo library (patch by Charles Wilson).
2345 + improve comparison of program-names when checking for linked flavors
2346 such as "reset" by ignoring the executable suffix (reports by Charles
2347 Wilson, Samuel Thibault and Cedric Bretaudeau on Cygwin mailing
2349 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
2350 Solaris 10, since gcc is confused by absence of static libc, and
2351 does not switch back to dynamic mode before finishing the libraries
2352 (reports by Joel Bertrand, Alan Pae).
2353 + minor fixes to Intel compiler warning checks in configure script.
2354 + modify _nc_leaks_tinfo() so leak-checking in test/railroad.c works.
2355 + modify set_curterm() to make broken-linker configuration work with
2356 changes from 20090228 (report by Charles Wilson).
2359 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2360 + modify declaration of cur_term when broken-linker is used, but
2361 enable-reentrant is not, to match pre-5.7 (report by Charles Wilson).
2364 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2367 + add configure script --enable-sp-funcs to enable the new set of
2369 + start integrating patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
2370 + add extended functions which specify the SCREEN pointer for several
2371 curses functions which use the global SP (these are incomplete;
2372 some internals work is needed to complete these).
2373 + add special cases to configure script for MinGW port.
2376 + update several configure macros from lynx changes
2377 + append (not prepend) to CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS
2378 + change variable from PATHSEP to PATH_SEPARATOR
2379 + improve install-rules for pc-files (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
2380 + make it work with $DESTDIR
2381 + create the pkg-config library directory if needed.
2384 + modify init_pair() to allow caller to create extra color pairs beyond
2385 the color_pairs limit, which use default colors (request by Emanuele
2387 + add misc/terminfo.tmp and misc/*.pc to "sources" rule.
2388 + fix typo "==" where "=" is needed in ncurses-config.in and
2389 gen-pkgconfig.in files (Debian #512161).
2392 + add -shared option to MK_SHARED_LIB when -Bsharable is used, for
2393 *BSD's, without which "main" might be one of the shared library's
2394 dependencies (report/analysis by Ken Dickey).
2395 + modify waddch_literal(), updating line-pointer after a multicolumn
2396 character is found to not fit on the current row, and wrapping is
2397 done. Since the line-pointer was not updated, the wrapped
2398 multicolumn character was written to the beginning of the current row
2399 (cf: 20041023, reported by "Nick" regarding problem with ncmpc
2400 http://musicpd.org/mantis/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1930).
2403 + add screen.Eterm terminfo entry (GenToo #124887) -TD
2404 + modify adacurses-config to look for ".ali" files in the adalib
2406 + correct install for Ada95, which omitted libAdaCurses.a used in
2408 + change install for adacurses-config to provide additional flavors
2409 such as adacursesw-config, for ncursesw (GenToo #167849).
2412 + remove undeveloped feature in ncurses-config.in for setting
2414 + recent change to ncurses-config.in did not take into account the
2415 --disable-overwrite option, which sets $includedir to the
2416 subdirectory and using just that for a -I option does not work - fix
2417 (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
2420 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to eliminate a dependency on rpath when
2421 deciding whether to add $LIBS to --libs output; that should be shown
2422 for the ncurses and tinfo libraries without taking rpath into
2424 + fix an overlooked change from $AR_OPTS to $ARFLAGS in mk-1st.awk,
2425 used in static libraries (report by Marty Jack).
2428 + add a configure-time check to pick a suitable value for
2429 CC_SHARED_OPTS for Solaris (report by Dagobert Michelsen).
2430 + add configure --with-pkg-config and --enable-pc-files options, along
2431 with misc/gen-pkgconfig.in which can be used to generate ".pc" files
2432 for pkg-config (request by Jan Engelhardt).
2433 + use $includedir symbol in misc/ncurses-config.in, add --includedir
2435 + change makefiles to use $ARFLAGS rather than $AR_OPTS, provide a
2436 configure check to detect whether a "-" is needed before "ar"
2438 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2439 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
2442 + modify mk-1st.awk to work with extra categories for tinfo library.
2443 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries with gcc
2444 on AIX 5 or 6 (adapted from patch by Lital Natan).
2447 + modify to omit the opaque-functions from lib_gen.o when
2448 --disable-ext-funcs is used.
2449 + add test/clip_printw.c to illustrate how to use printw without
2451 + modify ncurses 'F' test to demo wborder_set() with colored lines.
2452 + modify ncurses 'f' test to demo wborder() with colored lines.
2455 + add check for failure to open hashed-database needed for db4.6
2457 + corrected --without-manpages option; previous change only suppressed
2458 the auxiliary rules install.man and uninstall.man
2459 + add case for FreeMINT to configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE (patch from
2461 + fixes from NetBSD port at
2462 http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/devel/ncurses/patches
2463 patch-ac (build-fix for DragonFly)
2464 patch-ae (use INSTALL_SCRIPT for installing misc/ncurses*-config).
2465 + improve configure script macros CF_HEADER_PATH and CF_LIBRARY_PATH
2466 by adding CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS, LIBS values to the
2468 + correct title string for keybound manpage (patch by Frederic Culot,
2469 OpenBSD documentation/6019),
2472 + move del_curterm() call from _nc_freeall() to _nc_leaks_tinfo() to
2473 work for progs/clear, progs/tabs, etc.
2474 + correct buffer-size after internal resizing of wide-character
2475 set_field_buffer(), broken in 20081018 changes (report by Mike Gran).
2476 + add "-i" option to test/filter.c to tell it to use initscr() rather
2477 than newterm(), to investigate report on comp.unix.programmer that
2478 ncurses would clear the screen in that case (it does not - the issue
2479 was xterm's alternate screen feature).
2480 + add check in mouse-driver to disable connection if GPM returns a
2481 zero, indicating that the connection is closed (Debian #506717,
2482 adapted from patch by Samuel Thibault).
2485 + improve a workaround in adding wide-characters, when a control
2486 character is found. The library (cf: 20040207) uses unctrl() to
2487 obtain a printable version of the control character, but was not
2488 passing color or video attributes.
2489 + improve test/ncurses.c 'a' test, using unctrl() more consistently to
2490 display meta-characters.
2491 + turn on _XOPEN_CURSES definition in curses.h
2492 + add eterm-color entry (report by Vincent Lefevre) -TD
2493 + correct use of key_name() in test/ncurses.c 'A' test, which only
2494 displays wide-characters, not key-codes since 20070612 (report by
2498 + change _nc_has_mouse() to has_mouse(), reflect its use in C++ and
2499 Ada95 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
2500 + document in TO-DO an issue with Cygwin's package for GNAT (report
2502 + improve error-checking of command-line options in "tabs" program.
2505 + change several terminfo entries to make consistent use of ANSI
2507 + add "tabs" program (prompted by Debian #502260).
2508 + add configure --without-manpages option (request by Mike Frysinger).
2510 20081102 5.7 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2513 + add a manpage to discuss memory leaks.
2514 + add support for shared libraries for QNX (other than libtool, which
2515 does not work well on that platform).
2516 + build-fix for QNX C++ binding.
2519 + build-fixes for OS/2 EMX.
2520 + modify form library to accept control characters such as newline
2521 in set_field_buffer(), which is compatible with Solaris (report by
2523 + modify configure script to assume --without-hashed-db when
2524 --disable-database is used.
2525 + add "-e" option in ncurses/Makefile.in when generating source-files
2526 to force earlier exit if the build environment fails unexpectedly
2527 (prompted by patch by Adrian Bunk).
2528 + change configure script to use CF_UTF8_LIB, improved variant of
2532 + add teraterm4.59 terminfo entry, use that as primary teraterm entry, rename
2533 original to teraterm2.3 -TD
2534 + update "gnome" terminfo to 2.22.3 -TD
2535 + update "konsole" terminfo to 1.6.6, needs today's fix for tic -TD
2536 + add "aterm" terminfo -TD
2537 + add "linux2.6.26" terminfo -TD
2538 + add logic to tic for cancelling strings in user-defined capabilities,
2542 + regenerated html documentation.
2543 + add -m and -s options to test/keynames.c and test/key_names.c to test
2544 the meta() function with keyname() or key_name(), respectively.
2545 + correct return value of key_name() on error; it is null.
2546 + document some unresolved issues for rpath and pthreads in TO-DO.
2547 + fix a missing prototype for ioctl() on OpenBSD in tset.c
2548 + add configure option --disable-tic-depends to make explicit whether
2549 tic library depends on ncurses/ncursesw library, amends change from
2550 20080823 (prompted by Debian #501421).
2553 + some build-fixes for configure --disable-ext-funcs (incomplete, but
2554 works for C/C++ parts).
2555 + improve configure-check for awks unable to handle large strings, e.g.
2556 AIX 5.1 whose awk silently gives up on large printf's.
2559 + fix build for --with-dmalloc by workaround for redefinition of
2560 strndup between string.h and dmalloc.h
2561 + fix build for --disable-sigwinch
2562 + add environment variable NCURSES_GPM_TERMS to allow override to use
2563 GPM on terminals other than "linux", etc.
2564 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM does not happen to contain
2565 "linux", since Gpm_Open() no longer limits its assertion to terminals
2566 that it might handle, e.g., within "screen" in xterm.
2567 + reset mouse file-descriptor when unloading GPM library (report by
2569 + fix build for --disable-leaks --enable-widec --with-termlib
2570 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
2571 + use improved initialization for soft-label keys in Ada95 sample code.
2572 + discard internal symbol _nc_slk_format (unused since 20080112).
2573 + move call of slk_paint_info() from _nc_slk_initialize() to
2574 slk_intern_refresh(), improving initialization.
2577 + fix bug in mouse code for GPM from 20080920 changes (reported in
2578 Debian #500103, also Miroslav Lichvar).
2581 + fix shared-library rules for cygwin with tic- and tinfo-libraries.
2582 + fix a memory leak when failure to connect to GPM.
2583 + correct check for notimeout() in wgetch() (report on linux.redhat
2584 newsgroup by FurtiveBertie).
2585 + add an example warning-suppression file for valgrind,
2586 misc/ncurses.supp (based on example from Reuben Thomas)
2589 + change shared-library configuration for OpenBSD, make rpath work.
2590 + build-fixes for using libutf8, e.g., on OpenBSD 3.7
2593 + corrected fix for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
2597 + corrected gcc options for building shared libraries on IRIX64.
2598 + add configure check for awk programs unable to handle big-strings,
2599 use that to improve the default for --enable-big-strings option.
2600 + makefile-fixes for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
2602 + update test/configure script.
2603 + adapt ifdef's from library to make test/view.c build when mbrtowc()
2604 is unavailable, e.g., with HPUX 10.20.
2605 + add configure check for wcsrtombs, mbsrtowcs, which are used in
2606 test/ncurses.c, and use wcstombs, mbstowcs instead if available,
2607 fixing build of ncursew for HPUX 11.00
2610 + fixes to make Ada95 demo_panels() example work.
2611 + modify Ada95 'rain' test program to accept keyboard commands like the
2613 + modify BeOS-specific ifdef's to build on Haiku (patch by Scott
2615 + add configure-check to see if the std namespace is legal for cerr
2616 and endl, to fix a build issue with Tru64.
2617 + consistently use NCURSES_BOOL in lib_gen.c
2618 + filter #line's from lib_gen.c
2619 + change delimiter in MKlib_gen.sh from '%' to '@', to avoid
2620 substitution by IBM xlc to '#' as part of its extensions to digraphs.
2621 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2622 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
2623 (caveat - its maintainer removed support for older Linux systems).
2626 + modify configure check for pthread library to work with OSF/1 5.1,
2627 which uses #define's to associate its header and library.
2628 + use pthread_mutexattr_init() for initializing pthread_mutexattr_t,
2629 makes threaded code work on HPUX 11.23
2630 + fix a bug in demo_menus in freeing menus (cf: 20080804).
2631 + modify configure script for the case where tic library is used (and
2632 possibly renamed) to remove its dependency upon ncurses/ncursew
2633 library (patch by Dr Werner Fink).
2634 + correct manpage for menu_fore() which gave wrong default for
2635 the attribute used to display a selected entry (report by Mike Gran).
2636 + add Eterm-256color, Eterm-88color and rxvt-88color (prompted by
2640 + add configure option --enable-weak-symbols to turn on new feature.
2641 + add configure-check for availability of weak symbols.
2642 + modify linkage with pthread library to use weak symbols so that
2643 applications not linked to that library will not use the mutexes,
2644 etc. This relies on gcc, and may be platform-specific (patch by Dr
2646 + add note to INSTALL to document limitation of renaming of tic library
2647 using the --with-ticlib configure option (report by Dr Werner Fink).
2648 + document (in manpage) why tputs does not detect I/O errors (prompted
2649 by comments by Samuel Thibault).
2650 + fix remaining warnings from Klocwork report.
2653 + modify _nc_panelhook() data to account for a permanent memory leak.
2654 + fix memory leaks in test/demo_menus
2655 + fix most warnings from Klocwork tool (report by Larry Zhou).
2656 + modify configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to add case for
2657 "dragonfly" from xterm #236 changes.
2658 + modify configure script --with-hashed-db to let $LIBS override the
2659 search for the db library (prompted by report by Samson Pierre).
2662 + build-fixes for gcc 4.3.1 (changes to gnat "warnings", and C inlining
2666 + build-fix (reports by Christian Ebert, Funda Wang).
2669 + compiler-warning fixes for Solaris.
2672 + use NCURSES_MOUSE_MASK() in definition of BUTTON_RELEASE(), etc., to
2673 make those work properly with the "--enable-ext-mouse" configuration
2675 + improve documentation of build-cc options in INSTALL.
2676 + work-around a bug in gcc 4.2.4 on AIX, which does not pass the
2677 -static/-dynamic flags properly to linker, causing test/bs to
2681 + correct some ifdef's needed for the broken-linker configuration.
2682 + make debugging library's $BAUDRATE feature work for termcap
2684 + make $NCURSES_NO_PADDING feature work for termcap interface (prompted
2685 by comment on FreeBSD mailing list).
2686 + add screen.mlterm terminfo entry -TD
2687 + improve mlterm and mlterm+pcfkeys terminfo entries -TD
2690 + regenerated html documentation.
2691 + expand manpage description of parameters for form_driver() and
2692 menu_driver() (prompted by discussion with Adam Spragg).
2693 + add null-pointer checks for cur_term in baudrate() and
2694 def_shell_mode(), def_prog_mode()
2695 + fix some memory leaks in delscreen() and wide acs.
2698 + modify test/ditto.c to illustrate multi-threaded use_screen().
2699 + change CC_SHARED_OPTS from -KPIC to -xcode=pic32 for Solaris.
2700 + add "-shared" option to MK_SHARED_LIB for gcc on Solaris (report
2704 + finish changes to wgetch(), making it switch as needed to the
2705 window's actual screen when calling wrefresh() and wgetnstr(). That
2706 allows wgetch() to get used concurrently in different threads with
2707 some minor restrictions, e.g., the application should not delete a
2708 window which is being used in a wgetch().
2709 + simplify mutex's, combining the window- and screen-mutex's.
2712 + modify wgetch() to use the screen which corresponds to its window
2713 parameter rather than relying on SP; some dependent functions still
2715 + factor out most use of SP in lib_mouse.c, using parameter.
2716 + add internal _nc_keyname(), replacing keyname() to associate with a
2717 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
2718 + add internal _nc_unctrl(), replacing unctrl() to associate with a
2719 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
2720 + add internal _nc_tracemouse(), replacing _tracemouse() to eliminate
2721 its associated global buffer _nc_globals.tracemse_buf now in SCREEN.
2722 + add internal _nc_tracechar(), replacing _tracechar() to use SCREEN in
2723 preference to the global _nc_globals.tracechr_buf buffer.
2726 + modify _nc_keypad() to make it switch temporarily as needed to the
2727 screen which must be updated.
2728 + wrap cur_term variable to help make _nc_keymap() thread-safe, and
2729 always set the screen's copy of this variable in set_curterm().
2730 + restore curs_set() state after endwin()/refresh() (report/patch
2734 + modify configure script to note that --enable-ext-colors and
2735 --enable-ext-mouse are not experimental, but extensions from
2737 + corrected manpage description of setcchar() (discussion with
2738 Emanuele Giaquinta).
2739 + fix for adding a non-spacing character at the beginning of a line
2740 (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
2743 + modify screen.* terminfo entries using new screen+fkeys to fix
2744 overridden keys in screen.rxvt (Debian #478094) -TD
2745 + modify internal interfaces to reduce wgetch()'s dependency on the
2747 + simplify some loops with macros each_screen(), each_window() and
2751 + continue modifying test/ditto.c toward making it demonstrate
2752 multithreaded use_screen(), using fifos to pass data between screens.
2753 + fix typo in form.3x (report by Mike Gran).
2756 + add screen.rxvt terminfo entry -TD
2757 + modify tic -f option to format spaces as \s to prevent them from
2758 being lost when that is read back in unformatted strings.
2759 + improve test/ditto.c, using a "talk"-style layout.
2762 + change test/ditto.c to use openpty() and xterm.
2763 + add locks for copywin(), dupwin(), overlap(), overlay() on their
2765 + add locks for initscr() and newterm() on updates to the SCREEN
2767 + finish table in curs_thread.3x manpage.
2770 + begin table in curs_thread.3x manpage describing the scope of data
2771 used by each function (or symbol) for threading analysis.
2772 + add null-pointer checks to setsyx() and getsyx() (prompted by
2773 discussion by Martin v. Lowis and Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven on
2774 python-dev2 mailing list).
2777 + add null-pointer checks in set_term() and delscreen().
2778 + move _nc_windows into _nc_globals, since windows can be pads, which
2779 are not associated with a particular screen.
2780 + change use_screen() to pass the SCREEN* parameter rather than
2781 stdscr to the callback function.
2782 + force libtool to use tag for 'CC' in case it does not detect this,
2783 e.g., on aix when using CC=powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0-gcc
2784 (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
2785 + override OBJEXT to "lo" when building with libtool, to work on
2786 platforms such as AIX where libtool may use a different suffix for
2787 the object files than ".o" (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
2788 + add configure --with-pthread option, for building with the POSIX
2792 + fill in extended-color pair two more places in wbkgrndset() and
2793 waddch_nosync() (prompted by Sedeno's patch).
2794 + fill in extended-color pair in _nc_build_wch() to make colors work
2795 for wide-characters using extended-colors (patch by Alejandro R
2797 + add x/X toggles to ncurses.c C color test to test/demo
2798 wide-characters with extended-colors.
2799 + add a/A toggles to ncurses.c c/C color tests.
2800 + modify test/ditto.c to use use_screen().
2801 + finish modifying test/rain.c to demonstrate threads.
2804 + start modifying test/rain.c for threading demo.
2805 + modify test/ncurses.c to make 'f' test accept the f/F/b/F/</> toggles
2806 that the 'F' accepts.
2807 + modify test/worm.c to show trail in reverse-video when other threads
2808 are working concurrently.
2809 + fix a deadlock from improper nesting of mutexes for windowlist and
2813 + fixes from 20080223 resolved issue with mutexes; change to use
2814 recursive mutexes to fix memory leak in delwin() as called from
2815 _nc_free_and_exit().
2818 + fix a size-difference in _nc_globals which caused hanging of mutex
2819 lock/unlock when termlib was built separately.
2822 + avoid using nanosleep() in threaded configuration since that often
2823 is implemented to suspend the entire process.
2826 + update test programs to build/work with various UNIX curses for
2827 comparisons. This was to reinvestigate statement in X/Open curses
2828 that insnstr and winsnstr perform wrapping. None of the Unix-branded
2829 implementations do this, as noted in manpage (cf: 20040228).
2832 + modify _nc_setupscreen() to set the legacy-coding value the same
2833 for both narrow/wide models. It had been set only for wide model,
2834 but is needed to make unctrl() work with locale in the narrow model.
2835 + improve waddch() and winsch() handling of EILSEQ from mbrtowc() by
2836 using unctrl() to display illegal bytes rather than trying to append
2837 further bytes to make up a valid sequence (reported by Andrey A
2839 + modify unctrl() to check codes in 128-255 range versus isprint().
2840 If they are not printable, and locale was set, use a "M-" or "~"
2844 + improve threading in test/worm.c (wrap refresh calls, and KEY_RESIZE
2845 handling). Now it hangs in napms(), no matter whether nanosleep()
2846 or poll() or select() are used on Linux.
2849 + fixes to build with --disable-ext-funcs
2850 + add manpage for use_window and use_screen.
2851 + add set_tabsize() and set_escdelay() functions.
2854 + remove recursive-mutex definitions, finish threading demo for worm.c
2855 + remove a redundant adjustment of lines in resizeterm.c's
2856 adjust_window() which caused occasional misadjustment of stdscr when
2860 + several improvements to terminfo entries based on xterm #230 -TD
2861 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle keyname/key_name prototypes, so the
2862 "link_test" builds properly.
2863 + fix for toe command-line options -u/-U to ensure filename is given.
2864 + fix allocation-size for command-line parsing in infocmp from 20070728
2865 (report by Miroslav Lichvar)
2866 + improve resizeterm() by moving ripped-off lines, and repainting the
2867 soft-keys (report by Katarina Machalkova)
2868 + add clarification in wclear's manpage noting that the screen will be
2869 cleared even if a subwindow is cleared (prompted by Christer Enfors
2871 + change test/ncurses.c soft-key tests to work with KEY_RESIZE.
2874 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
2878 + add several functions to C++ binding which wrap C functions that
2879 pass a WINDOW* parameter (request by Chris Lee).
2882 + add note about configure options needed for Berkeley database to the
2884 + improve checks for version of Berkeley database libraries.
2885 + amend fix for rpath to not modify LDFLAGS if the platform has no
2886 applicable transformation (report by Christian Ebert, cf: 20071124).
2889 + modify configure option --with-hashed-db to accept a parameter which
2890 is the install-prefix of a given Berkeley Database (prompted by
2891 pierre4d2 comments).
2892 + rewrite wrapper for wcrtomb(), making it work on Solaris. This is
2893 used in the form library to determine the length of the buffer needed
2894 by field_buffer (report by Alfred Fung).
2895 + remove unneeded window-parameter from C++ binding for wresize (report
2899 + modify the support for filesystems which do not support mixed-case to
2900 generate 2-character (hexadecimal) codes for the lower-level of the
2901 filesystem terminfo database (request by Michail Vidiassov).
2902 + add configure option --enable-mixed-case, to allow overriding the
2903 configure script's check if the filesystem supports mixed-case
2905 + add wresize() to C++ binding (request by Chris Lee).
2906 + define NCURSES_EXT_FUNCS and NCURSES_EXT_COLORS in curses.h to make
2907 it simpler to tell if the extended functions and/or colors are
2911 + update memory-leak checks for changes to names.c and codes.c
2912 + correct acsc strings in h19, z100 (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler).
2915 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
2917 + add mrxvt terminfo entry, add/fix xterm building blocks for modified
2919 + compile with FreeBSD "contemporary" TTY interface (patch by
2923 + modify makefile rules to allow clear, tput and tset to be built
2924 without libtic. The other programs (infocmp, tic and toe) rely on
2926 + add/modify null-pointer checks in several functions for SP and/or
2927 the WINDOW* parameter (report by Thorben Krueger).
2928 + fixes for field_buffer() in formw library (see Redhat #310071,
2929 patches by Miroslav Lichvar).
2930 + improve performance of NCURSES_CHAR_EQ code (patch by Miroslav
2932 + update/improve mlterm and rxvt terminfo entries, e.g., for
2933 the modified cursor- and keypad-keys -TD
2936 + add code to curses.priv.h ifdef'd with NCURSES_CHAR_EQ, which
2937 changes the CharEq() macro to an inline function to allow comparing
2938 cchar_t struct's without comparing gaps in a possibly unpacked
2939 memory layout (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
2942 + add new functions to lib_trace.c to setup mutex's for the _tracef()
2943 calls within the ncurses library.
2944 + for the reentrant model, move _nc_tputs_trace and _nc_outchars into
2946 + start modifying test/worm.c to provide threading demo (incomplete).
2947 + separated ifdef's for some BSD-related symbols in tset.c, to make
2948 it compile on LynxOS (report by Greg Gemmer).
2950 + modify Ada95/gen/Makefile to use shlib script, to simplify building
2951 shared-library configuration on platforms lacking rpath support.
2952 + build-fix for Ada95/src/Makefile to reflect changed dependency for
2953 the terminal-interface-curses-aux.adb file which is now generated.
2954 + restructuring test/worm.c, for use_window() example.
2957 + add use_window() and use_screen() functions, to develop into support
2958 for threaded library (incomplete).
2959 + fix typos in man/curs_opaque.3x which kept the install script from
2960 creating symbolic links to two aliases created in 20070818 (report by
2964 + remove a spurious newline from output of html.m4, which caused links
2965 for Ada95 html to be incorrect for the files generated using m4.
2966 + start investigating mutex's for SCREEN manipulation (incomplete).
2967 + minor cleanup of codes.c/names.c for --enable-const
2968 + expand/revise "Routine and Argument Names" section of ncurses manpage
2969 to address report by David Givens in newsgroup discussion.
2970 + fix interaction between --without-progs/--with-termcap configure
2971 options (report by Michail Vidiassov).
2972 + fix typo in "--disable-relink" option (report by Michail Vidiassov).
2975 + fix a sign-extension bug in infocmp's repair_acsc() function
2977 + fix old configure script bug which prevented "--disable-warnings"
2978 option from working (patch by Mike Frysinger).
2981 + add 9term terminal description (request by Juhapekka Tolvanen) -TD
2982 + modify comp_hash.c's string output to avoid misinterpreting a null
2983 "\0" followed by a digit.
2984 + modify MKnames.awk and MKcodes.awk to support big-strings.
2985 This only applies to the cases (broken linker, reentrant) where
2986 the corresponding arrays are accessed via wrapper functions.
2987 + split MKnames.awk into two scripts, eliminating the shell redirection
2988 which complicated the make process and also the bogus timestamp file
2989 which was introduced to fix "make -j".
2990 + add test/test_opaque.c, test/test_arrays.c
2991 + add wgetscrreg() and wgetparent() for applications that may need it
2992 when NCURSES_OPAQUE is defined (prompted by Bryan Christ).
2995 + amend treatment of infocmp "-r" option to retain the 1023-byte limit
2996 unless "-T" is given (cf: 981017).
2997 + modify comp_captab.c generation to use big-strings.
2998 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private accessed via
2999 _nc_get_alias_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
3001 + modify configure script to skip Intel compiler in CF_C_INLINE.
3002 + make _nc_info_hash_table and _nc_cap_hash_table private accessed via
3003 _nc_get_hash_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
3007 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private, accessed via
3008 _nc_get_alias_table() since they are used only by parse_entry.c
3009 + make _nc_key_names private since it is used only by lib_keyname.c
3010 + add --disable-big-strings configure option to control whether
3011 unctrl.c is generated using the big-string optimization - which may
3012 use strings longer than supported by a given compiler.
3013 + reduce relocation tables for tic, infocmp by changing type of
3014 internal hash tables to short, and make those private symbols.
3015 + eliminate large fixed arrays from progs/infocmp.c
3018 + change winnstr() to stop at the end of the line (cf: 970315).
3019 + add test/test_get_wstr.c
3020 + add test/test_getstr.c
3021 + add test/test_inwstr.c
3022 + add test/test_instr.c
3025 + restore a call to obtain screen-size in _nc_setupterm(), which
3026 is used in tput and other non-screen applications via setupterm()
3027 (Debian #433357, reported by Florent Bayle, Christian Ohm,
3031 + add test/savescreen.c test-program
3032 + add check to trace-file open, if the given name is a directory, add
3033 ".log" to the name and try again.
3034 + add konsole-256color entry -TD
3035 + add extra gcc warning options from xterm.
3036 + minor fixes for ncurses/hashmap test-program.
3037 + modify configure script to quiet c++ build with libtool when the
3038 --disable-echo option is used.
3039 + modify configure script to disable ada95 if libtool is selected,
3040 writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD #114493).
3041 + update config.guess, config.sub
3044 + add continuous-move "M" to demo_panels to help test refresh changes.
3045 + improve fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters,
3046 taking into account some split characters on left/right window
3050 + add "widec" row to _tracedump() output to help diagnose remaining
3051 problems with multi-column characters.
3052 + partial fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters
3053 which are partly overwritten (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
3054 + ignore A_CHARTEXT bits in vidattr() and vid_attr(), in case
3055 multi-column extension bits are passed there.
3056 + add setlocale() call to demo_panels.c, needed for wide-characters.
3057 + add some output flags to _nc_trace_ttymode to help diagnose a bug
3058 report by Larry Virden, i.e., ONLCR, OCRNL, ONOCR and ONLRET,
3061 + add test/demo_panels.c
3062 + implement opaque version of setsyx() and getsyx().
3065 + corrected xterm+pcf2 terminfo modifiers for F1-F4, to match xterm
3067 + split-out key_name() from MKkeyname.awk since it now depends upon
3068 wunctrl() which is not in libtinfo (report by Rong-En Fan).
3071 + add test/key_name.c
3072 + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test/inch_wide.c
3073 + update test/configure
3074 + correct formatting of DEL (0x7f) in _nc_vischar().
3075 + null-terminate result of wunctrl().
3076 + add null-pointer check in key_name() (report by Andreas Krennmair,
3080 + adapt mouse-handling code from menu library in form-library
3081 (discussion with Clive Nicolson).
3082 + add a modification of test/dots.c, i.e., test/dots_mvcur.c to
3083 illustrate how to use mvcur().
3084 + modify wide-character flavor of SetAttr() to preserve the
3085 WidecExt() value stored in the .attr field, e.g., in case it
3086 is overwritten by chgat (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
3087 + correct buffer-size for _nc_viswbuf2n() (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
3088 + build-fixes for Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 (patch by Peter O'Gorman).
3091 + modify keyname() to use "^X" form only if meta() has been called, or
3092 if keyname() is called without initializing curses, e.g., via
3093 initscr() or newterm() (prompted by LinuxBase #1604).
3094 + document some portability issues in man/curs_util.3x
3095 + add a shadow copy of TTY buffer to _nc_prescreen to fix applications
3096 broken by moving that data into SCREEN (cf: 20061230).
3099 + add 'O' (wide-character panel test) in ncurses.c to demonstrate a
3100 problem reported by Sadrul H Chowdhury with repainting parts of
3102 + modify slk_init() so that if there are preceding calls to
3103 ripoffline(), those affect the available lines for soft-keys (adapted
3104 from patch by Clive Nicolson).
3105 + document some portability issues in man/curs_getyx.3x
3108 + fix a bug in Ada95/samples/ncurses which caused a variable to
3109 become uninitialized in the "b" test.
3110 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in adahtml rule to account for recent
3111 movement of files, fix a few incorrect manpage references in the
3113 + add Ada95 binding to _nc_freeall() as Curses_Free_All to help with
3115 + correct some functions in Ada95 binding which were using return value
3116 from C where none was returned: idcok(), immedok() and wtimeout().
3117 + amend recent changes for Ada95 binding to make it build with
3118 Cygwin's linker, e.g., with configure options
3119 --enable-broken-linker --with-ticlib
3122 + add a configure check for gcc's options for inlining, use that to
3123 quiet a warning message where gcc's default behavior changed from
3125 + improve warning message when checking if GPM is linked to curses
3126 library by not warning if its use of "wgetch" is via a weak symbol.
3127 + add loader options when building with static libraries to ensure that
3128 an installed shared library for ncurses does not conflict. This is
3129 reported as problem with Tru64, but could affect other platforms
3130 (report Martin Mokrejs, analysis by Tim Mooney).
3131 + fix build on cygwin after recent ticlib/termlib changes, i.e.,
3132 + adjust TINFO_SUFFIX value to work with cygwin's dll naming
3133 + revert a change from 20070303 which commented out dependency of
3134 SHLIB_LIST in form/menu/panel/c++ libraries.
3135 + fix initialization of ripoff stack pointer (cf: 20070421).
3138 + move most static variables into structures _nc_globals and
3139 _nc_prescreen, to simplify storage.
3140 + add/use configure script macro CF_SIG_ATOMIC_T, use the corresponding
3141 type for data manipulated by signal handlers (prompted by comments
3142 in mailing.openbsd.bugs newsgroup).
3143 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to allow one to pass options such as -static
3144 to the libtool create- and link-operations.
3147 + fix whitespace in curs_opaque.3x which caused a spurious ';' in
3148 the installed aliases (report by Peter Santoro).
3149 + fix configure script to not try to generate adacurses-config when
3150 Ada95 tree is not built.
3153 + add man/curs_legacy.3x, man/curs_opaque.3x
3154 + fix acs_map binding for Ada95 when --enable-reentrant is used.
3155 + add adacurses-config to the Ada95 install, based on version from
3156 FreeBSD port, in turn by Juergen Pfeifer in 2000 (prompted by
3157 comment on comp.lang.ada newsgroup).
3158 + fix includes in c++ binding to build with Intel compiler
3160 + update install rule in Ada95 to use mkdirs.sh
3161 > other fixes prompted by inspection for Coverity report:
3162 + modify ifdef's for c++ binding to use try/catch/throw statements
3163 + add a null-pointer check in tack/ansi.c request_cfss()
3164 + fix a memory leak in ncurses/base/wresize.c
3165 + corrected check for valid memu/meml capabilities in
3166 progs/dump_entry.c when handling V_HPUX case.
3167 > fixes based on Coverity report:
3168 + remove dead code in test/bs.c
3169 + remove dead code in test/demo_defkey.c
3170 + remove an unused assignment in progs/infocmp.c
3171 + fix a limit check in tack/ansi.c tools_charset()
3172 + fix tack/ansi.c tools_status() to perform the VT320/VT420
3173 tests in request_cfss(). The function had exited too soon.
3174 + fix a memory leak in tic.c's make_namelist()
3175 + fix a couple of places in tack/output.c which did not check for EOF.
3176 + fix a loop-condition in test/bs.c
3177 + add index checks in lib_color.c for color palettes
3178 + add index checks in progs/dump_entry.c for version_filter() handling
3180 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in copywin()
3181 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in waddchnstr()
3182 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
3183 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c's make_namelist()
3184 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
3185 + add null-pointer checks in test/cardfile.c
3186 + fix a double-free in ncurses/tinfo/trim_sgr0.c
3187 + fix a double-free in ncurses/base/wresize.c
3188 + add try/catch block to c++/cursesmain.cc
3191 + modify Ada95 binding to build with --enable-reentrant by wrapping
3192 global variables (bug: acs_map does not yet work).
3193 + modify Ada95 binding to use the new access-functions, allowing it
3194 to build/run when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
3195 + add access-functions and macros to return properties of the WINDOW
3196 structure, e.g., when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
3197 + improved install-sh's quoting.
3198 + use mkdirs.sh rather than mkinstalldirs, e.g., to use fixes from
3202 + eliminate part of the direct use of WINDOW data from Ada95 interface.
3203 + fix substitutions for termlib filename to make configure option
3204 --enable-reentrant work with --with-termlib.
3205 + change a constructor for NCursesWindow to allow compiling with
3206 NCURSES_OPAQUE set, since we cannot pass a reference to
3210 + ignore --with-chtype=unsigned since unsigned is always added to
3211 the type in curses.h; do the same for --with-mmask-t.
3212 + change warning regarding --enable-ext-colors and wide-character
3213 in the configure script to an error.
3214 + tweak error message in CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to distinguish other programs
3215 such as Darwin's libtool program (report by Michail Vidiassov)
3216 + modify edit_man.sh to allow for multiple substitutions per line.
3217 + set locale in misc/ncurses-config.in since it uses a range
3218 + change permissions libncurses++.a install (report by Michail
3220 + corrected length of temporary buffer in wide-character version
3221 of set_field_buffer() (related to report by Bryan Christ).
3224 + fix mk-1st.awk script install_shlib() function, broken in 20070224
3225 changes for cygwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
3228 + increase size of array in _nc_visbuf2n() to make "tic -v" work
3229 properly in its similar_sgr() function (report/analysis by Peter
3231 + add --enable-reentrant configure option for ongoing changes to
3232 implement a reentrant version of ncurses:
3233 + libraries are suffixed with "t"
3234 + wrap several global variables (curscr, newscr, stdscr, ttytype,
3235 COLORS, COLOR_PAIRS, COLS, ESCDELAY, LINES and TABSIZE) as
3236 functions returning values stored in SCREEN or cur_term.
3237 + move some initialization (LINES, COLS) from lib_setup.c,
3238 i.e., setupterm() to _nc_setupscreen(), i.e., newterm().
3241 + regenerated html documentation.
3242 + add NCURSES_OPAQUE symbol to curses.h, will use to make structs
3243 opaque in selected configurations.
3244 + move the chunk in lib_acs.c which resets acs capabilities when
3245 running on a terminal whose locale interferes with those into
3246 _nc_setupscreen(), so the libtinfo/libtinfow files can be made
3247 identical (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
3248 + do not use configure variable SHLIB_LIBS for building libraries
3249 outside the ncurses directory, since that symbol is customized
3250 only for that directory, and using it introduces an unneeded
3251 dependency on libdl (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
3252 + modify mk-1st.awk so the generated makefile rules for linking or
3253 installing shared libraries do not first remove the library, in
3254 case it is in use, e.g., libncurses.so by /bin/sh (report by Jeff
3256 + revised section "Using NCURSES under XTERM" in ncurses-intro.html
3257 (prompted by newsgroup comment by Nick Guenther).
3260 + change internal return codes of _nc_wgetch() to check for cases
3261 where KEY_CODE_YES should be returned, e.g., if a KEY_RESIZE was
3262 ungetch'd, and read by wget_wch().
3263 + fix static-library build broken in 20070217 changes to remove "-ldl"
3264 (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
3265 + change makefile/scripts for cygwin to allow building termlib.
3266 + use Form_Hook in manpages to match form.h
3267 + use Menu_Hook in manpages, as well as a few places in menu.h
3268 + correct form- and menu-manpages to use specific Field_Options,
3269 Menu_Options and Item_Options types.
3270 + correct prototype for _tracechar() in manpage (cf: 20011229).
3271 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
3274 + fixes for $(TICS_LIST) in ncurses/Makefile (report by Miroslav
3276 + modify relinking of shared libraries to apply only when rpath is
3277 enabled, and add --disable-relink option which can be used to
3278 disable the feature altogether (reports by Michail Vidiassov,
3280 + fix --with-termlib option for wide-character configuration, stripping
3281 the "w" suffix in one place (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
3282 + remove "-ldl" from some library lists to reduce dependencies in
3283 programs (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
3284 + correct description of --enable-signed-char in configure --help
3285 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
3286 + add pattern for GNU/kFreeBSD configuration to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE,
3287 which matches an earlier change to CF_SHARED_OPTS, from xterm #224
3289 + remove "${DESTDIR}" from -install_name option used for linking
3290 shared libraries on Darwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
3293 + add test/inchs.c, test/inch_wide.c, to test win_wchnstr().
3294 + remove libdl from library list for termlib (report by Miroslav
3296 + fix configure.in to allow --without-progs --with-termlib (patch by
3298 + modify win_wchnstr() to ensure that only a base cell is returned
3299 for each multi-column character (prompted by report by Wei Kong
3300 regarding change in mvwin_wch() cf: 20041023).
3303 + modify fix_wchnstr() in form library to strip attributes (and color)
3304 from the cchar_t array (field cells) read from a field's window.
3305 Otherwise, when copying the field cells back to the window, the
3306 associated color overrides the field's background color (report by
3308 + improve tracing for form library, showing created forms, fields, etc.
3309 + ignore --enable-rpath configure option if --with-shared was omitted.
3310 + add _nc_leaks_tinfo(), _nc_free_tic(), _nc_free_tinfo() entrypoints
3311 to allow leak-checking when both tic- and tinfo-libraries are built.
3312 + drop CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC macro from configure script, since C++ binding
3313 no longer relies on it.
3314 + disallow combining configure script options --with-ticlib and
3315 --enable-termcap (report by Rong-En Fan).
3316 + remove tack from ncurses tree.
3319 + fix typo in configure script that broke --with-termlib option
3320 (report by Rong-En Fan).
3323 + improve fix for FreeBSD gnu/98975, to allow for null pointer passed
3324 to tgetent() (report by Rong-en Fan).
3325 + update tack/HISTORY and tack/README to tell how to build it after
3326 it is removed from the ncurses tree.
3327 + fix configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
3328 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
3329 + review/eliminate other original-file artifacts in cursesw.cc, making
3330 its license consistent with ncurses.
3331 + use ncurses vw_scanw() rather than reading into a fixed buffer in
3332 the c++ binding for scanw() methods (prompted by report by Nuno Dias).
3333 + eliminate fixed-buffer vsprintf() calls in c++ binding.
3336 + add _nc_leaks_tic() to separate leak-checking of tic library from
3337 term/ncurses libraries, and thereby eliminate a library dependency.
3338 + fix test/mk-test.awk to ignore blank lines.
3339 + correct paths in include/headers, for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav
3343 + add a break-statement in misc/shlib to ensure that it exits on the
3344 _first_ matched directory (report by Paul Novak).
3345 + add tack/configure, which can be used to build tack outside the
3347 + add --with-ticlib option, to build/install the tic-support functions
3348 in a separate library (suggested by Miroslav Lichvar).
3351 + change MKunctrl.awk to reduce relocation table for unctrl.o
3352 + change MKkeyname.awk to reduce relocation table for keyname.o
3353 (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
3356 + modify configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
3357 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
3358 + modify some modules to allow them to be reentrant if _REENTRANT is
3359 defined: lib_baudrate.c, resizeterm.c (local data only)
3360 + eliminate static data from some modules: add_tries.c, hardscroll.c,
3361 lib_ttyflags.c, lib_twait.c
3362 + improve manpage install to add aliases for the transformed program
3363 names, e.g., from --program-prefix.
3364 + used linklint to verify links in the HTML documentation, made fixes
3365 to manpages as needed.
3366 + fix a typo in curs_mouse.3x (report by William McBrine).
3367 + fix install-rule for ncurses5-config to make the bin-directory.
3370 + modify configure script to omit the tic (terminfo compiler) support
3371 from ncurses library if --without-progs option is given.
3372 + modify install rule for ncurses5-config to do this via "install.libs"
3373 + modify shared-library rules to allow FreeBSD 3.x to use rpath.
3374 + update config.guess, config.sub
3376 20061217 5.6 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3379 + add ifdef's for <wctype.h> for HPUX, which has the corresponding
3380 definitions in <wchar.h>.
3381 + revert the va_copy() change from 20061202, since it was neither
3382 correct nor portable.
3383 + add $(LOCAL_LIBS) definition to progs/Makefile.in, needed for
3385 + ignore wide-acs line-drawing characters that wcwidth() claims are
3386 not one-column. This is a workaround for Solaris' broken locale
3390 + modify configure --with-gpm option to allow it to accept a parameter,
3391 i.e., the name of the dynamic GPM library to load via dlopen()
3392 (requested by Bryan Henderson).
3393 + add configure option --with-valgrind, changes from vile.
3394 + modify configure script AC_TRY_RUN and AC_TRY_LINK checks to use
3395 'return' in preference to 'exit()'.
3398 + change default for --with-develop back to "no".
3399 + add XTABS to tracing of TTY bits.
3400 + updated autoconf patch to ifdef-out the misfeature which declares
3401 exit() for configure tests. This fixes a redefinition warning on
3403 + use ${CC} rather than ${LD} in shared library rules for IRIX64,
3404 Solaris to help ensure that initialization sections are provided for
3405 extra linkage requirements, e.g., of C++ applications (prompted by
3406 comment by Casper Dik in newsgroup).
3407 + rename "$target" in CF_MAN_PAGES to make it easier to distinguish
3408 from the autoconf predefined symbol. There was no conflict,
3409 since "$target" was used only in the generated edit_man.sh file,
3410 but SuSE's rpm package contains a patch.
3413 + update man/term.5 to reflect extended terminfo support and hashed
3414 database configuration.
3415 + updates for test/configure script.
3416 + adapted from SuSE rpm package:
3417 + remove long-obsolete workaround for broken-linker which declared
3419 + improve error recovery in PUTC() macro when wcrtomb() does not
3420 return usable results for an 8-bit character.
3421 + patches from rpm package (SuSE):
3422 + use va_copy() in extra varargs manipulation for tracing version
3424 + use a va_list rather than a null in _nc_freeall()'s call to
3425 _nc_printf_string().
3426 + add some see-also references in manpages to show related
3427 wide-character functions (suggested by Claus Fischer).
3430 + add a check in lib_color.c to ensure caller does not increase COLORS
3431 above max_colors, which is used as an array index (discussion with
3433 + add ifdef's allowing ncurses to be built with tparm() using either
3434 varargs (the existing status), or using a fixed-parameter list (to
3438 + fix redrawing of windows other than stdscr using wredrawln() by
3439 touching the corresponding rows in curscr (discussion with Dan
3442 + add test/echochar.c
3443 + review/cleanup manpage descriptions of error-returns for form- and
3444 menu-libraries (prompted by FreeBSD docs/46196).
3447 + add AUTHORS file -TD
3448 + omit the -D options from output of the new config script --cflags
3449 option (suggested by Ralf S Engelschall).
3450 + make NCURSES_INLINE unconditionally defined in curses.h
3453 + revert change to accommodate bash 3.2, since that breaks other
3454 platforms, e.g., Solaris.
3455 + minor fixes to NEWS file to simplify scripting to obtain list of
3457 + improve some shared-library configure scripting for Linux, FreeBSD
3458 and NetBSD to make "--with-shlib-version" work.
3459 + change configure-script rules for FreeBSD shared libraries to allow
3460 for rpath support in versions past 3.
3461 + use $(DESTDIR) in makefile rules for installing/uninstalling the
3462 package config script (reports/patches by Christian Wiese,
3463 Ralf S Engelschall).
3464 + fix a warning in the configure script for NetBSD 2.0, working around
3465 spurious blanks embedded in its ${MAKEFLAGS} symbol.
3466 + change test/Makefile to simplify installing test programs in a
3467 different directory when --enable-rpath is used.
3470 + work around bug in bash 3.2 by adding extra quotes (Jim Gifford).
3471 + add/install a package config script, e.g., "ncurses5-config" or
3472 "ncursesw5-config", according to configuration options.
3475 + add several GNU Screen terminfo variations with 16- and 256-colors,
3476 and status line (Alain Bench).
3477 + change the way shared libraries (other than libtool) are installed.
3478 Rather than copying the build-tree's libraries, link the shared
3479 objects into the install directory. This makes the --with-rpath
3480 option work except with $(DESTDIR) (cf: 20000930).
3483 + fix ifdef in c++/internal.h for QNX 6.1
3484 + test-compiled with (old) egcs-1.1.2, modified configure script to
3485 not unset the $CXX and related variables which would prevent this.
3486 + fix a few terminfo.src typos exposed by improvments to "-f" option.
3487 + improve infocmp/tic "-f" option formatting.
3490 + make --disable-largefile option work (report by Thomas M Ott).
3491 + updated html documentation.
3492 + add ka2, kb1, kb3, kc2 to vt220-keypad as an extension -TD
3493 + minor improvements to rxvt+pcfkeys -TD
3496 + move static data from lib_mouse.c into SCREEN struct.
3497 + improve ifdef's for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset to work with Mac OS X
3498 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
3499 + modify CF_PATH_SYNTAX to ensure it uses the result from --prefix
3500 option (from lynx changes) -TD
3501 + adapt AC_PROG_EGREP check, noting that this is likely to be another
3502 place aggravated by POSIXLY_CORRECT.
3503 + modify configure check for awk to ensure that it is found (prompted
3504 by report by Christopher Parker).
3508 + add kon, kon2 and jfbterm terminfo entry (request by Till Maas) -TD
3509 + remove invis capability from klone+sgr, mainly used by linux entry,
3510 since it does not really do this -TD
3513 + correct logic in wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not guard
3514 against passing the multi-column attribute into a call on waddch(),
3515 e.g., using data returned by win_wch() (cf: 20041023)
3516 (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
3519 + fix kterm's acsc string -TD
3520 + fix for change to tic/infocmp in 20060819 to ensure no blank is
3521 embedded into a termcap description.
3522 + workaround for 20050806 ifdef's change to allow visbuf.c to compile
3523 when using --with-termlib --with-trace options.
3524 + improve tgetstr() by making the return value point into the user's
3525 buffer, if provided (patch by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat #202480)).
3526 + correct libraries needed for foldkeys (report by Stanislav Ievlev)
3529 + add terminfo entries for xfce terminal (xfce) and multi gnome
3531 + add test/foldkeys.c
3534 + modify tic and infocmp to avoid writing trailing blanks on terminfo
3535 source output (Debian #378783).
3536 + modify configure script to ensure that if the C compiler is used
3537 rather than the loader in making shared libraries, the $(CFLAGS)
3538 variable is also used (Redhat #199369).
3539 + port hashed-db code to db2 and db3.
3540 + fix a bug in tgetent() from 20060625 and 20060715 changes
3541 (patch/analysis by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat #202480)).
3544 + updated xterm function-keys terminfo to match xterm #216 -TD
3545 + add configure --with-hashed-db option (tested only with FreeBSD 6.0,
3546 e.g., the db 1.8.5 interface).
3549 + modify toe to access termcap data, e.g., via cgetent() functions,
3550 or as a text file if those are not available.
3551 + use _nc_basename() in tset to improve $SHELL check for csh/sh.
3552 + modify _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_termcap_entry() so infocmp,
3553 can access termcap data when the terminfo database is disabled.
3556 + widen the test for xterm kmous a little to allow for other strings
3557 than \E[M, e.g., for xterm-sco functionality in xterm.
3558 + update xterm-related terminfo entries to match xterm patch #216 -TD
3559 + update config.guess, config.sub
3562 + fix for install-rule in Ada95 to add terminal_interface.ads
3563 and terminal_interface.ali (anonymous posting in comp.lang.ada).
3564 + correction to manpage for getcchar() (report by William McBrine).
3566 + modify wchgat() to mark updated cells as changed so a refresh will
3567 repaint those cells (comments by Sadrul H Chowdhury and William
3569 + split up dependency of names.c and codes.c in ncurses/Makefile to
3570 work with parallel make (report/analysis by Joseph S Myers).
3571 + suppress a warning message (which is ignored) for systems without
3572 an ldconfig program (patch by Justin Hibbits).
3573 + modify configure script --disable-symlinks option to allow one to
3574 disable symlink() in tic even when link() does not work (report by
3576 + modify MKfallback.sh to use tic -x when constructing fallback tables
3577 to allow extended capabilities to be retrieved from a fallback entry.
3578 + improve leak-checking logic in tgetent() from 20060625 to ensure that
3579 it does not free the current screen (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
3582 + add a check for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset (NetBSD #33916).
3583 + correct _nc_free_entries() and related functions used for memory leak
3587 + revert a minor change for magic-cookie support from 20060513, which
3588 caused unexpected reset of attributes, e.g., when resizing test/view
3590 + note in clear manpage that the program ignores command-line
3591 parameters (prompted by Debian #371855).
3592 + fixes to make lib_gen.c build properly with changes to the configure
3593 --disable-macros option and NCURSES_NOMACROS (cf: 20060527)
3594 + update/correct several terminfo entries -TD
3595 + add some notes regarding copyright to terminfo.src -TD
3598 + fixes to build Ada95 binding with gnat-4.1.0
3599 + modify read_termtype() so the term_names data is always allocated as
3600 part of the str_table, a better fix for a memory leak (cf: 20030809).
3601 + reduce memory leaks in repeated calls to tgetent() by remembering the
3602 last TERMINAL* value allocated to hold the corresponding data and
3603 freeing that if the tgetent() result buffer is the same as the
3604 previous call (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
3605 + modify tack to test extended capability function-key strings.
3606 + improved gnome terminfo entry (GenToo #122566).
3607 + improved xterm-256color terminfo entry (patch by Alain Bench).
3610 + fix two small memory leaks related to repeated tgetent() calls
3611 with TERM=screen (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
3612 + add --enable-signed-char to simplify Debian package.
3613 + reduce name-pollution in term.h by removing #define's for HAVE_xxx
3615 + correct typo in curs_terminfo.3x (Debian #369168).
3618 + enable the mouse in test/movewindow.c
3619 + improve a limit-check in frm_def.c (John Heasley).
3620 + minor copyright fixes.
3621 + change configure script to produce test/Makefile from data file.
3624 + add a configure option --enable-wgetch-events to enable
3625 NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS, and correct the associated loop-logic in
3626 lib_twait.c (report by Bernd Jendrissek).
3627 + remove include/nomacros.h from build, since the ifdef for
3628 NCURSES_NOMACROS makes that obsolete.
3629 + add entrypoints for some functions which were only provided as macros
3630 to make NCURSES_NOMACROS ifdef work properly: getcurx(), getcury(),
3631 getbegx(), getbegy(), getmaxx(), getmaxy(), getparx() and getpary(),
3633 + provide ifdef for NCURSES_NOMACROS which suppresses most macro
3634 definitions from curses.h, i.e., where a macro is defined to override
3635 a function to improve performance. Allowing a developer to suppress
3636 these definitions can simplify some application (discussion with
3638 + improve description of memu/meml in terminfo manpage.
3641 + if msgr is false, reset video attributes when doing an automargin
3642 wrap to the next line. This makes the ncurses 'k' test work properly
3644 + correct caching of keyname(), which was using only half of its table.
3645 + minor fixes to memory-leak checking.
3646 + make SCREEN._acs_map and SCREEN._screen_acs_map pointers rather than
3647 arrays, making ACS_LEN less visible to applications (suggested by
3649 + move chunk in SCREEN ifdef'd for USE_WIDEC_SUPPORT to the end, so
3650 _screen_acs_map will have the same offset in both ncurses/ncursesw,
3651 making the corresponding tinfo/tinfow libraries binary-compatible
3652 (cf: 20041016, report by Stanislav Ievlev).
3655 + improve debug-tracing for EmitRange().
3656 + change default for --with-develop to "yes". Add NCURSES_NO_HARD_TABS
3657 and NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE environment variables to allow runtime
3658 suppression of the related hard-tabs and xmc-glitch features.
3659 + add ncurses version number to top-level manpages, e.g., ncurses, tic,
3660 infocmp, terminfo as well as form, menu, panel.
3661 + update config.guess, config.sub
3662 + modify ncurses.c to work around a bug in NetBSD 3.0 curses
3663 (field_buffer returning null for a valid field). The 'r' test
3664 appears to not work with that configuration since the new_fieldtype()
3665 function is broken in that implementation.
3668 + add hpterm-color terminfo entry -TD
3669 + fixes to compile test-programs with HPUX 11.23
3672 + add copyright notices to files other than those that are generated,
3673 data or adapted from pdcurses (reports by William McBrine, David
3675 + improve rendering on hpterm by not resetting attributes at the end
3676 of doupdate() if the terminal has the magic-cookie feature (report
3678 + add 256color variants of terminfo entries for programs which are
3679 reported to implement this feature -TD
3682 + fix typo in change to NewChar() macro from 20060311 changes, which
3683 broke tab-expansion (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
3686 + document -U option of tic and infocmp.
3687 + modify tic/infocmp to suppress smacs/rmacs when acsc is suppressed
3688 due to size limit, e.g., converting to termcap format. Also
3689 suppress them if the output format does not contain acsc and it
3690 was not VT100-like, i.e., a one-one mapping (Novell #163715).
3691 + add configure check to ensure that SIGWINCH is defined on platforms
3692 such as OS X which exclude that when _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., are
3693 defined (report by Nicholas Cole)
3696 + modify write_object() to not write coincidental extensions of an
3697 entry made due to it being referenced in a use= clause (report by
3699 + another fix for infocmp -i option, which did not ensure that some
3700 escape sequences had comparable prefixes (report by Alain Bench).
3703 + improve discussion of init/reset in terminfo and tput manpages
3704 (report by Alain Bench).
3705 + use is3 string for a fallback of rs3 in the reset program; it was
3706 using is2 (report by Alain Bench).
3707 + correct logic for infocmp -i option, which did not account for
3708 multiple digits in a parameter (cf: 20040828) (report by Alain
3710 + move _nc_handle_sigwinch() to lib_setup.c to make --with-termlib
3711 option work after 20060114 changes (report by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz).
3712 + add copyright notices to test-programs as needed (report by William
3716 + modify ncurses.c 'F' test to combine the wide-characters with color
3717 and/or video attributes.
3718 + modify test/ncurses to use CTL/Q or ESC consistently for exiting
3719 a test-screen (some commands used 'x' or 'q').
3722 + fix an off-by-one in the scrolling-region change (cf_ 20060311).
3725 + add checks in waddchnstr() and wadd_wchnstr() to stop copying when
3726 a null character is found (report by Igor Bogomazov).
3727 + modify progs/Makefile.in to make "tput init" work properly with
3728 cygwin, i.e., do not pass a ".exe" in the reference string used
3729 in check_aliases (report by Samuel Thibault).
3730 + add some checks to ensure current position is within scrolling
3731 region before scrolling on a new line (report by Dan Gookin).
3732 + change some NewChar() usage to static variables to work around
3733 stack garbage introduced when cchar_t is not packed (Redhat #182024).
3736 + workarounds to build test/movewindow with PDcurses 2.7.
3737 + fix for nsterm-16color entry (patch by Alain Bench).
3738 + correct a typo in infocmp manpage (Debian #354281).
3741 + add nsterm-16color entry -TD
3742 + updated mlterm terminfo entry -TD
3743 + remove 970913 feature for copying subwindows as they are moved in
3744 mvwin() (discussion with Bryan Christ).
3745 + modify test/demo_menus.c to demonstrate moving a menu (both the
3746 window and subwindow) using shifted cursor-keys.
3747 + start implementing recursive mvwin() in movewindow.c (incomplete).
3748 + add a fallback definition for GCC_PRINTFLIKE() in test.priv.h,
3749 for movewindow.c (report by William McBrine).
3750 + add help-message to test/movewindow.c
3753 + add test/movewindow.c, to test mvderwin().
3754 + fix ncurses soft-key test so color changes are shown immediately
3755 rather than delayed.
3756 + modify ncurses soft-key test to hide the keys when exiting the test
3758 + fixes to build test programs with PDCurses 2.7, e.g., its headers
3759 rely on autoconf symbols, and it declares stubs for nonfunctional
3760 terminfo and termcap entrypoints.
3763 + improved test/configure to build test/ncurses on HPUX 11 using the
3765 + documented ALTERNATE CONFIGURATIONS in the ncurses manpage, for the
3766 benefit of developers who do not read INSTALL.
3769 + correct form library Window_To_Buffer() change (cf: 20040516), which
3770 should ignore the video attributes (report by Ricardo Cantu).
3773 + minor fixes to xmc-glitch experimental code:
3774 + suppress line-drawing
3775 + implement max_attributes
3777 + minor fixes for the database iterator.
3778 + fix some buffer limits in c++ demo (comment by Falk Hueffner in
3782 + add toe -a option, to show all databases. This uses new private
3783 interfaces in the ncurses library for iterating through the list of
3785 + fix toe from 20000909 changes which made it not look at
3787 + make toe's -v option parameter optional as per manpage.
3788 + improve SIGWINCH handling by postponing its effect during newterm(),
3789 etc., when allocating screens.
3792 + modify wgetnstr() to return KEY_RESIZE if a sigwinch occurs. Use
3793 this in test/filter.c
3794 + fix an error in filter() modification which caused some applications
3798 + check if filter() was called when getting the screensize. Keep it
3799 at 1 if so (based on Redhat #174498).
3800 + add extension nofilter().
3801 + refined the workaround for ACS mapping.
3802 + make ifdef's consistent in curses.h for the extended colors so the
3803 header file can be used for the normal curses library. The header
3804 file installed for extended colors is a variation of the
3805 wide-character configuration (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
3808 + add a workaround to ACS mapping to allow applications such as
3809 test/blue.c to use the "PC ROM" characters by masking them with
3810 A_ALTCHARSET. This worked up til 5.5, but was lost in the revision
3811 of legacy coding (report by Michael Deutschmann).
3812 + add a null-pointer check in the wide-character version of
3813 calculate_actual_width() (report by Victor Julien).
3814 + improve test/ncurses 'd' (color-edit) test by allowing the RGB
3815 values to be set independently (patch by William McBrine).
3816 + modify test/configure script to allow building test programs with
3818 + modified test programs to allow some to work with NetBSD curses.
3819 Several do not because NetBSD curses implements a subset of X/Open
3820 curses, and also lacks much of SVr4 additions. But it's enough for
3822 + update config.guess and config.sub
3825 + use BSD-specific fix for return-value from cgetent() from CVS where
3826 an unknown terminal type would be reportd as "database not found".
3827 + make tgetent() return code more readable using new symbols
3829 + remove references to non-existent "tctest" program.
3830 + remove TESTPROGS from progs/Makefile.in (it was referring to code
3831 that was never built in that directory).
3832 + typos in curs_addchstr.3x, some doc files (noticed in OpenBSD CVS).
3835 + add use_legacy_coding() function to support lynx's font-switching
3837 + fix formatting in curs_termcap.3x (report by Mike Frysinger).
3838 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to change preprocessor-expanded _Bool back to
3842 + extend test/ncurses.c 's' (overlay window) test to exercise overlay(),
3843 overwrite() and copywin() with different combinations of colors and
3844 attributes (including background color) to make it easy to see the
3845 effect of the different functions.
3846 + corrections to menu/m_global.c for wide-characters (report by
3850 + add configure option --without-dlsym, allowing developers to
3851 configure GPM support without using dlsym() (discussion with Michael
3853 + fix wins_nwstr(), which did not handle single-column non-8bit codes
3857 + move prototypes for wide-character trace functions from curses.tail
3858 to curses.wide to avoid accidental reference to those if
3859 _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined without ensuring that <wchar.h> is
3861 + add/use NCURSES_INLINE definition.
3862 + change some internal functions to use int/unsigned rather than the
3866 + remove a redundant check in lib_color.c (Debian #335655).
3867 + use ld's -search_paths_first option on Darwin to work around odd
3868 search rules on that platform (report by Christian Gennerat, analysis
3870 + remove special case for Darwin in CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro.
3871 + ignore EINTR in tcgetattr/tcsetattr calls (Debian #339518).
3872 + fix several bugs in test/bs.c (patch by Stephen Lindholm).
3875 + other minor fixes to cygwin based on tack -TD
3876 + correct smacs in cygwin (Debian #338234, report by Baurzhan
3877 Ismagulov, who noted that it was fixed in Cygwin).
3880 + add shifted up/down arrow codes to xterm-new as kind/kri strings -TD
3881 + modify wbkgrnd() to avoid clearing the A_CHARTEXT attribute bits
3882 since those record the state of multicolumn characters (Debian
3884 + modify werase to clear multicolumn characters that extend into
3885 a derived window (Debian #316663).
3888 + move assignment from environment variable ESCDELAY from initscr()
3889 down to newterm() so the environment variable affects timeouts for
3890 terminals opened with newterm() as well.
3891 + fix a memory leak in keyname().
3892 + add test/demo_altkeys.c
3893 + modify test/demo_defkey.c to exit from loop via 'q' to allow
3894 leak-checking, as well as fix a buffer size in winnstr() call.
3897 + correct order of use-clauses in rxvt-basic entry which made codes for
3898 f1-f4 vt100-style rather than vt220-style (report by Gabor Z Papp).
3899 + suppress configure check for gnatmake if Ada95/Makefile.in is not
3901 + correct a typo in configure --with-bool option for the case where
3902 --without-cxx is used (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
3903 + add a note to INSTALL's discussion of --with-normal, pointing out
3904 that one may wish to use --without-gpm to ensure a completely
3905 static link (prompted by report by Felix von Leitner).
3907 20051010 5.5 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3910 + document in demo_forms.c some portability issues.
3913 + document side-effect of werase() which sets the cursor position.
3914 + save/restore the current position in form field editing to make
3918 + correct header dependencies in progs, allowing parallel make (report
3919 by Daniel Jacobowitz).
3920 + modify CF_BUILD_CC to ensure that pre-setting $BUILD_CC overrides
3921 the configure check for --with-build-cc (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
3922 + modify CF_CFG_DEFAULTS to not use /usr as the default prefix for
3924 + update config.guess and config.sub from
3925 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
3928 + modify sed expression which computes path for /usr/lib/terminfo
3929 symbolic link in install to ensure that it does not change unexpected
3930 levels of the path (Gentoo #42336).
3931 + modify default for --disable-lp64 configure option to reduce impact
3932 on existing 64-bit builds. Enabling the _LP64 option may change the
3933 size of chtype and mmask_t. However, for ABI 6, it is enabled by
3934 default (report by Mike Frysinger).
3935 + add configure script check for --enable-ext-mouse, bump ABI to 6 by
3936 default if it is used.
3937 + improve configure script logic for bumping ABI to omit this if the
3938 --with-abi-version option was used.
3939 + update address for Free Software Foundation in tack's source.
3940 + correct wins_wch(), which was not marking the filler-cells of
3941 multi-column characters (cf: 20041023).
3944 + modify mouse initialization to ensure that Gpm_Open() is called only
3945 once. Otherwise GPM gets confused in its initialization of signal
3946 handlers (Debian #326709).
3949 + modify logic for backspacing in a multiline form field to ensure that
3950 it works even when the preceding line is full (report by Frank van
3952 + remove comment about BUGS section of ncurses manpage (Debian #325481)
3955 + document some workarounds for shared and libtool library
3956 configurations in INSTALL (see --with-shared and --with-libtool).
3957 + modify CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GXX_VERSION macros to accommodate
3958 cross-compilers which emit the platform name in their version
3960 arm-sa1100-linux-gnu-g++ (GCC) 4.0.1
3961 (report by Frank van Vugt).
3964 + start updating documentation for upcoming 5.5 release.
3965 + fix to make libtool and libtinfo work together again (cf: 20050122).
3966 + fixes to allow building traces into libtinfo
3967 + add debug trace to tic that shows if/how ncurses will write to the
3968 lower corner of a terminal's screen.
3969 + update llib-l* files.
3972 + modify initializers in c++ binding to build with old versions of g++.
3973 + improve special case for 20050115 repainting fix, ensuring that if
3974 the first changed cell is not a character that the range to be
3975 repainted is adjusted to start at a character's beginning (Debian
3979 + fixes to build on QNX 6.1
3980 + improve configure script checks for Intel 9.0 compiler.
3981 + remove #include's for libc.h (obsolete).
3982 + adjust ifdef's in curses.priv.h so that when cross-compiling to
3983 produce comp_hash and make_keys, no dependency on wchar.h is needed.
3984 That simplifies the build-cppflags (report by Frank van Vugt).
3985 + move modules related to key-binding into libtinfo to fix linkage
3986 problem caused by 20050430 changes to MKkeyname.sh (report by
3987 Konstantin Andreev).
3990 + updates/fixes for configure script macros from vile -TD
3991 + make prism9's sgr string agree with the rest of the terminfo -TD
3992 + make vt220's sgr0 string consistent with sgr string, do this for
3993 several related cases -TD
3994 + improve translation to termcap by filtering the 'me' (sgr0) strings
3995 as in the runtime call to tgetent() (prompted by a discussion with
3997 + improve tic check for sgr0 versus sgr(0), to help ensure that sgr0
3998 resets line-drawing.
4001 + fix special cases for trimming sgr0 for hurd and vt220 (Debian
4003 + split-out _nc_trim_sgr0() from modifications made to tgetent(), to
4004 allow it to be used by tic to provide information about the runtime
4005 changes that would be made to sgr0 for termcap applications.
4006 + modify make_sed.sh to make the group-name in the NAME section of
4007 form/menu library manpage agree with the TITLE string when renaming
4008 is done for Debian (Debian #78866).
4011 + modify parameter type in c++ binding for insch() and mvwinsch() to
4012 be consistent with underlying ncurses library (was char, is chtype).
4013 + modify treatment of Intel compiler to allow _GNU_SOURCE to be defined
4015 + improve configure check for nanosleep(), checking that it works since
4016 some older systems such as AIX 4.3 have a nonworking version.
4019 + update config.guess and config.sub from
4020 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
4021 + modify misc/shlib to work in test-directory.
4022 + suppress $suffix in misc/run_tic.sh when cross-compiling. This
4023 allows cross-compiles to use the host's tic program to handle the
4024 "make install.data" step.
4025 + improve description of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables in manpages
4026 (prompted by report by Dave Ulrick).
4027 + improve description of cross-compiling in INSTALL
4028 + add NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html by Pradeep Padala
4029 (see http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/).
4030 + modify configure script to obtain soname for GPM library (discussion
4031 with Daniel Jacobowitz).
4032 + modify configure script so that --with-chtype option will still
4033 compute the unsigned literals suffix for constants in curses.h
4034 (report by Daniel Jacobowitz:
4035 + patches from Daniel Jacobowitz:
4036 + the man_db.renames entry for tack.1 was backwards.
4037 + tack.1 had some 1m's that should have been 1M's.
4038 + the section for curs_inwstr.3 was wrong.
4041 + correction to --with-chtype option (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
4044 + move build-time edit_man.sh and edit_man.sed scripts to top directory
4045 to simplify reusing them for renaming tack's manpage (prompted by a
4046 review of Debian package).
4047 + revert minor optimization from 20041030 (Debian #313609).
4048 + libtool-specific fixes, tested with libtool 1.4.3, 1.5.0, 1.5.6,
4049 1.5.10 and 1.5.18 (all work except as noted previously for the c++
4050 install using libtool 1.5.0):
4051 + modify the clean-rule in c++/Makefile.in to work with IRIX64 make
4053 + use $(LIBTOOL_UNINSTALL) symbol, overlooked in 20030830
4054 + add configure options --with-chtype and --with-mmask-t, to allow
4055 overriding of the non-LP64 model's use of the corresponding types.
4056 + revise test for size of chtype (and mmask_t), which always returned
4057 "long" due to an uninitialized variable (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
4060 + change _tracef's that used "%p" format for va_list values to ignore
4061 that, since on some platforms those are not pointers.
4062 + fixes for long-formats in printf's due to largefile support.
4065 + fixes for termcap support:
4066 + reset pointer to _nc_curr_token.tk_name when the input stream is
4067 closed, which could point to free memory (cf: 20030215).
4068 + delink TERMTYPE data which is used by the termcap reader, so that
4069 extended names data will be freed consistently.
4070 + free pointer to TERMTYPE data in _nc_free_termtype() rather than
4072 + add some entrypoints for freeing permanently allocated data via
4073 _nc_freeall() when NO_LEAKS is defined.
4074 + amend 20041030 change to _nc_do_color to ensure that optimization is
4075 applied only when the terminal supports back_color_erase (bce).
4078 + add sun-color terminfo entry -TD
4079 + correct a missing assignment in c++ binding's method
4080 NCursesPanel::UserPointer() from 20050409 changes.
4081 + improve configure check for large-files, adding check for dirent64
4083 + minor change to configure script to improve linker options for the
4087 + document error conditions for ncurses library functions (report by
4089 + regenerated html documentation for ada binding.
4090 see ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/gnathtml
4093 + regenerated html documentation for manpages.
4094 + add $(BUILD_EXEEXT) suffix to invocation of make_keys in
4095 ncurses/Makefile (Gentoo #89772).
4096 + modify c++/demo.cc to build with g++ -fno-implicit-templates option
4097 (patch by Mike Frysinger).
4098 + modify tic to filter out long extended names when translating to
4099 termcap format. Only two characters are permissible for termcap
4103 + modify terminfo entries xterm-new and rxvt to add strings for
4104 shift-, control-cursor keys.
4105 + workaround to allow c++ binding to compile with g++ 2.95.3, which
4106 has a broken implementation of static_cast<> (patch by Jeff Chua).
4107 + modify initialization of key lookup table so that if an extended
4108 capability (tic -x) string is defined, and its name begins with 'k',
4109 it will automatically be treated as a key.
4110 + modify test/keynames.c to allow for the possibility of extended
4111 key names, e.g., via define_key(), or via "tic -x".
4112 + add test/demo_termcap.c to show the contents of given entry via the
4116 + minor fixes for vt100/vt52 entries -TD
4117 + add configure option --enable-largefile
4118 + corrected libraries used to build Ada95/gen/gen, found in testing
4122 + update config.guess, config.sub
4123 + modify configure script check for _XOPEN_SOURCE, disable that on
4124 Darwin whose header files have problems (patch by Chris Zubrzycki).
4125 + modify form library Is_Printable_String() to use iswprint() rather
4126 than wcwidth() for determining if a character is printable. The
4127 latter caused it to reject menu items containing non-spacing
4129 + modify ncurses test program's F-test to handle non-spacing characters
4130 by combining them with a reverse-video blank.
4131 + review/fix several gcc -Wconversion warnings.
4134 + correct an off-by-one error in m_driver() for mouse-clicks used to
4135 position the mouse to a particular item.
4136 + implement test/demo_menus.c
4137 + add some checks in lib_mouse to ensure SP is set.
4138 + modify C++ binding to make 20050403 changes work with the configure
4139 --enable-const option.
4142 + modify start_color() to return ERR if it cannot allocate memory.
4143 + address g++ compiler warnings in C++ binding by adding explicit
4144 member initialization, assignment operators and copy constructors.
4145 Most of the changes simply preserve the existing semantics of the
4146 binding, which can leak memory, etc., but by making these features
4147 visible, it provides a framework for improving the binding.
4148 + improve C++ binding using static_cast, etc.
4149 + modify configure script --enable-warnings to add options to g++ to
4150 correspond to the gcc --enable-warnings.
4151 + modify C++ binding to use some C internal functions to make it
4152 compile properly on Solaris (and other platforms).
4155 + amend change from 20050320 to limit it to configurations with a
4157 + fix a bug introduced in 20050320 which broke the translation of
4158 nonprinting characters to uparrow form (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
4161 + add ifdef's for _LP64 in curses.h to avoid using wasteful 64-bits for
4162 chtype and mmask_t, but add configure option --disable-lp64 in case
4163 anyone used that configuration.
4164 + update misc/shlib script to account for Mac OS X (report by Michail
4166 + correct comparison for wrapping multibyte characters in
4167 waddch_literal() (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
4170 + add -c and -w options to tset to allow user to suppress ncurses'
4171 resizing of the terminal emulator window in the special case where it
4172 is not able to detect the true size (report by Win Delvaux, Debian
4174 + modify waddch_nosync() to account for locale zn_CH.GBK, which uses
4175 codes 128-159 as part of multibyte characters (report by Wang
4176 WenRui, Debian #300512).
4179 + modify ncurses.c 'd' test to make it work with 88-color
4180 configuration, i.e., by implementing scrolling.
4181 + improve scrolling in ncurses.c 'c' and 'C' tests, e.g., for 88-color
4185 + change tracemunch to use strict checking.
4186 + modify ncurses.c 'p' test to test line-drawing within a pad.
4187 + implement environment variable NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS to support
4188 miscellaneous terminal emulators which ignore alternate character
4189 set escape sequences when in UTF-8 mode.
4192 + change NCursesWindow::err_handler() to a virtual function (request by
4194 + modify fty_int.c and fty_num.c to handle wide characters (report by
4196 + adapt fix for fty_alpha.c to fty_alnum.c, which also handled normal
4197 and wide characters inconsistently (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
4198 + update llib-* files to reflect internal interface additions/changes.
4201 + improve test/configure script, adding tests for _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc.,
4203 + add aixterm-16color terminfo entry -TD
4204 + modified xterm-new terminfo entry to work with tgetent() changes -TD
4205 + extended changes in tgetent() from 20040710 to allow the substring of
4206 sgr0 which matches rmacs to be at the beginning of the sgr0 string
4207 (request by Thomas Wolff). Wolff says the visual effect in
4208 combination with pre-20040710 ncurses is improved.
4209 + fix off-by-one in winnstr() call which caused form field validation
4210 of multibyte characters to ignore the last character in a field.
4211 + correct logic in winsch() for inserting multibyte strings; the code
4212 would clear cells after the insertion rather than push them to the
4213 right (cf: 20040228).
4214 + fix an inconsistency in Check_Alpha_Field() between normal and wide
4215 character logic (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
4218 + fix a bug in editing wide-characters in form library: deleting a
4219 nonwide character modified the previous wide-character.
4220 + update manpage to describe NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2.
4221 + correct manpage description of mouseinterval() (Debian #280687).
4222 + add a note to default_colors.3x explaining why this extension was
4223 added (Debian #295083).
4224 + add traces to panel library.
4227 + improve editing of wide-characters in form library: left/right
4228 cursor movement, and single-character deletions work properly.
4229 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM happens to be prefixed with
4230 "xterm". Gpm_Open() would otherwise assert that it can deal with
4231 mouse events in this case.
4232 + modify GPM mouse support so it closes the server connection when
4233 the caller disables the mouse (report by Stanislav Ievlev).
4236 + add traces for callback functions in form library.
4237 + add experimental configure option --enable-ext-mouse, which defines
4238 NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2, and modifies the encoding of mouse events to
4239 support wheel mice, which may transmit buttons 4 and 5. This works
4240 with xterm and similar X terminal emulators (prompted by question by
4241 Andreas Henningsson, this is also related to Debian #230990).
4242 + improve configure macros CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE to
4243 avoid redefinition warnings on cygwin.
4246 + merge remaining development changes for extended colors (mostly
4247 complete, does not appear to break other configurations).
4248 + add xterm-88color.dat (part of extended colors testing).
4249 + improve _tracedump() handling of color pairs past 96.
4250 + modify return-value from start_color() to return OK if colors have
4251 already been started.
4252 + modify curs_color.3x list error conditions for init_pair(),
4253 pair_content() and color_content().
4254 + modify pair_content() to return -1 for consistency with init_pair()
4255 if it corresponds to the default-color.
4256 + change internal representation of default-color to allow application
4257 to use color number 255. This does not affect the total number of
4258 color pairs which are allowed.
4259 + add a top-level tags rule.
4262 + add a null-pointer check in wgetch() in case it is called without
4263 first calling initscr().
4264 + add some null-pointer checks for SP, which is not set by libtinfo.
4265 + modify misc/shlib to ensure that absolute pathnames are used.
4266 + modify test/Makefile.in, etc., to link test programs only against the
4267 libraries needed, e.g., omit form/menu/panel library for the ones
4268 that are curses-specific.
4269 + change SP->_current_attr to a pointer, adjust ifdef's to ensure that
4270 libtinfo.so and libtinfow.so have the same ABI. The reason for this
4271 is that the corresponding data which belongs to the upper-level
4272 ncurses library has a different size in each model (report by
4276 + minor fixes to allow test-compiles with g++.
4277 + correct column value shown in tic's warnings, which did not account
4278 for leading whitespace.
4279 + add a check in _nc_trans_string() for improperly ended strings, i.e.,
4280 where a following line begins in column 1.
4281 + modify _nc_save_str() to return a null pointer on buffer overflow.
4282 + improve repainting while scrolling wide-character data (Eungkyu Song).
4285 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
4288 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
4289 + fix manpage typo (FreeBSD report docs/75544).
4290 + update config.guess, config.sub
4291 > patches for configure script (Albert Chin-A-Young):
4292 + improved fix to make mbstate_t recognized on HPUX 11i (cf:
4293 20030705), making vsscanf() prototype visible on IRIX64. Tested for
4294 on HP-UX 11i, Solaris 7, 8, 9, AIX 4.3.3, 5.2, Tru64 UNIX 4.0D, 5.1,
4295 IRIX64 6.5, Redhat Linux 7.1, 9, and RHEL 2.1, 3.0.
4296 + print the result of the --disable-home-terminfo option.
4297 + use -rpath when compiling with SGI C compiler.
4300 + add trace calls to remaining public functions in form and menu
4302 + fix check for numeric digits in test/ncurses.c 'b' and 'B' tests.
4303 + fix typo in test/ncurses.c 'c' test from 20041218.
4306 + revise test/ncurses.c 'c' color test to improve use for xterm-88color
4307 and xterm-256color, added 'C' test using the wide-character color_set
4308 and attr_set functions.
4311 + modify configure script to work with Intel compiler.
4312 + fix an limit-check in wadd_wchnstr() which caused labels in the
4313 forms-demo to be one character short.
4314 + fix typo in curs_addchstr.3x (Jared Yanovich).
4315 + add trace calls to most functions in form and menu libraries.
4316 + update working-position for adding wide-characters when window is
4317 scrolled (prompted by related report by Eungkyu Song).
4320 + replace some references on Linux to wcrtomb() which use it to obtain
4321 the length of a multibyte string with _nc_wcrtomb, since wcrtomb() is
4322 broken in glibc (see Debian #284260).
4323 + corrected length-computation in wide-character support for
4325 + some fixes to frm_driver.c to allow it to accept multibyte input.
4326 + modify configure script to work with Intel 8.0 compiler.
4329 + amend change to setupterm() in 20030405 which would reuse the value
4330 of cur_term if the same output was selected. This now reuses it only
4331 when setupterm() is called from tgetent(), which has no notion of
4332 separate SCREENs. Note that tgetent() must be called after initscr()
4333 or newterm() to use this feature (Redhat #140326).
4334 + add a check in CF_BUILD_CC macro to ensure that developer has given
4335 the --with-build-cc option when cross-compiling (report by Alexandre
4337 + improved configure script checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE and
4338 _POSIX_C_SOURCE (fix for IRIX 5.3 from Georg Schwarz, _POSIX_C_SOURCE
4340 + cosmetic fix to test/gdc.c to recolor the bottom edge of the box
4341 for consistency (comment by Dan Nelson).
4344 + update wsvt25 terminfo entry -TD
4345 + modify test/ins_wide.c to test all flavors of ins_wstr().
4346 + ignore filler-cells in wadd_wchnstr() when adding a cchar_t array
4347 which consists of multi-column characters, since this function
4348 constructs them (cf: 20041023).
4349 + modify winnstr() to return multibyte character strings for the
4350 wide-character configuration.
4353 + fixes to make slk_set() and slk_wset() accept and store multibyte
4354 or multicolumn characters.
4357 + improve color optimization a little by making _nc_do_color() check
4358 if the old/new pairs are equivalent to the default pair 0.
4359 + modify assume_default_colors() to not require that
4360 use_default_colors() be called first.
4363 + modify term_attrs() to use termattrs(), add the extended attributes
4364 such as enter_horizontal_hl_mode for WA_HORIZONTAL to term_attrs().
4365 + add logic in waddch_literal() to clear orphaned cells when one
4366 multi-column character partly overwrites another.
4367 + improved logic for clearing cells when a multi-column character
4368 must be wrapped to a new line.
4369 + revise storage of cells for multi-column characters to correct a
4370 problem with repainting. In the old scheme, it was possible for
4371 doupdate() to decide that only part of a multi-column character
4372 should be repainted since the filler cells stored only an attribute
4373 to denote them as fillers, rather than the character value and the
4377 + minor fixes for traces.
4378 + add SP->_screen_acs_map[], used to ensure that mapping of missing
4379 line-drawing characters is handled properly. For example, ACS_DARROW
4380 is absent from xterm-new, and it was coincidentally displayed the
4384 + amend 20021221 workaround for broken acs to reset the sgr, rmacs
4385 and smacs strings as well. Also modify the check for screen's
4386 limitations in that area to allow the multi-character shift-in
4387 and shift-out which seem to work.
4388 + change GPM initialization, using dl library to load it dynamically
4389 at runtime (Debian #110586).
4392 + correct logic for color pair in setcchar() and getcchar() (patch by
4393 Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
4394 + add t/T commands to ncurses b/B tests to allow a different color to
4395 be tested for the attrset part of the test than is used in the
4399 + fix to make setcchar() to work when its wchar_t* parameter is
4400 pointing to a string which contains more data than can be converted.
4401 + modify wget_wstr() and example in ncurses.c to work if wchar_t and
4402 wint_t are different sizes (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
4405 + remove check in wget_wch() added to fix an infinite loop, appears to
4406 have been working around a transitory glibc bug, and interferes
4407 with normal operation (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
4408 + correct wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not pass the rendition
4409 information (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
4410 + fix aclocal.m4 so that the wide-character version of ncurses gets
4411 compiled as libncursesw.5.dylib, instead of libncurses.5w.dylib
4412 (adapted from patch by James J Ramsey).
4413 + change configure script for --with-caps option to indicate that it
4414 is no longer experimental.
4415 + change configure script to reflect the fact that --enable-widec has
4416 not been "experimental" since 5.3 (report by Bruno Lustosa).
4419 + add 'B' test to ncurses.c, to exercise some wide-character functions.
4422 + modify infocmp -i option to match 8-bit controls against its table
4423 entries, e.g., so it can analyze the xterm-8bit entry.
4424 + add morphos terminfo entry, improve amiga-8bit entry (Pavel Fedin).
4425 + correct translation of "%%" in terminfo format to termcap, e.g.,
4426 using "tic -C" (Redhat #130921).
4427 + modified configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to ensure that if
4428 it defines _POSIX_C_SOURCE, that it defines it to a specific value
4429 (comp.os.stratus newsgroup comment).
4432 + fixes to build with Ada95 binding with gnat 3.4 (all warnings are
4433 fatal, and gnat does not follow the guidelines for pragmas).
4434 However that did find a coding error in Assume_Default_Colors().
4435 + modify several terminfo entries to ensure xterm mouse and cursor
4436 visibility are reset in rs2 string: hurd, putty, gnome,
4437 konsole-base, mlterm, Eterm, screen (Debian #265784, Debian #55637).
4438 The xterm entries are left alone - old ones for compatibility, and
4439 the new ones do not require this change. -TD
4442 + fake a SIGWINCH in newterm() to accommodate buggy terminal emulators
4443 and window managers (Debian #265631).
4444 > terminfo updates -TD
4445 + remove dch/dch1 from rxvt because they are implemented inconsistently
4446 with the common usage of bce/ech
4447 + remove khome from vt220 (vt220's have no home key)
4451 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test, adding v/V toggles to cycle through
4452 combinations of video attributes so that for instance bold and
4453 underline can be tested. This made the legend too crowded, added
4454 a help window as well.
4455 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test to cycle through default colors if
4456 the -d option is set.
4457 + update putty terminfo entry (Robert de Bath).
4460 + modify test/cardfile.c to allow it to read more data than can be
4462 + correct logic in resizeterm.c which kept it from processing all
4463 levels of window hierarchy (reports by Folkert van Heusden,
4467 + modify "tic -cv" to ignore delays when comparing strings. Also
4468 modify it to ignore a canceled sgr string, e.g., for terminals which
4469 cannot properly combine attributes in one control sequence.
4470 + corrections for gnome and konsole entries (Redhat #122815, patch by
4472 > terminfo updates -TD
4473 + make ncsa-m rmacs/smacs consistent with sgr
4474 + add sgr, rc/sc and ech to syscons entries
4475 + add function-keys to decansi
4476 + add sgr to mterm-ansi
4477 + add sgr, civis, cnorm to emu
4478 + correct/simplify cup in addrinfo
4481 > terminfo updates -TD
4482 + add xterm-pc-fkeys
4483 + review/update gnome and gnome-rh90 entries (prompted by Redhat
4485 + review/update konsole entries
4486 + add sgr, correct sgr0 for kterm and mlterm
4487 + correct tsl string in kterm
4490 + add configure option --without-xterm-new
4493 + add check in wget_wch() for printable bytes that are not part of a
4494 multibyte character.
4495 + modify wadd_wchnstr() to render text using window's background
4497 + improve tic's check to compare sgr and sgr0.
4498 + fix c++ directory's .cc.i rule.
4499 + modify logic in tgetent() which adjusts the termcap "me" string
4500 to work with ISO-2022 string used in xterm-new (cf: 20010908).
4501 + modify tic's check for conflicting function keys to omit that if
4502 converting termcap to termcap format.
4503 + add -U option to tic and infocmp.
4504 + add rmam/smam to linux terminfo entry (Trevor Van Bremen)
4505 > terminfo updates -TD
4506 + minor fixes for emu
4508 + change wyse acsc strings to use 'i' map rather than 'I'
4513 + use tic -x to install terminfo database -TD
4514 + add -x to infocmp's usage message.
4515 + correct field used for comparing O_ROWMAJOR in set_menu_format()
4516 (report/patch by Tony Li).
4517 + fix a missing nul check in set_field_buffer() from 20040508 changes.
4518 > terminfo updates -TD
4519 + make xterm-xf86-v43 derived from xterm-xf86-v40 rather than
4521 + align with xterm patch #192's use of xterm-new -TD
4522 + update xterm-new and xterm-8bit for cvvis/cnorm strings -TD
4523 + make xterm-new the default "xterm" entry -TD
4526 + correct BUILD_CPPFLAGS substitution in ncurses/Makefile.in, to allow
4527 cross-compiling from a separate directory tree (report/patch by
4529 + modify is_term_resized() to ensure that window sizes are nonzero,
4530 as documented in the manpage (report by Ian Collier).
4531 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro to make Hurd port build
4532 (Debian #249214, report/patch by Jeff Bailey).
4533 + configure-script mods from xterm, e.g., updates to CF_ADD_CFLAGS
4534 + update config.guess, config.sub
4535 > terminfo updates -TD
4537 + add xterm-xf86-v44
4538 + modify xterm-new aka xterm-xfree86 to accommodate luit, which
4539 relies on G1 being used via an ISO-2022 escape sequence (report by
4544 + reconsidered winsnstr(), decided after comparing other
4545 implementations that wrapping is an X/Open documentation error.
4546 + modify test/inserts.c to test all flavors of insstr().
4549 + add setlocale() calls to a few test programs which may require it:
4550 demo_forms.c, filter.c, ins_wide.c, inserts.c
4551 + correct a few misspelled function names in ncurses-intro.html (report
4553 + correct internal name of key_defined() manpage, which conflicted with
4557 + correct size of internal pad used for holding wide-character
4558 field_buffer() results.
4559 + modify data_ahead() to work with wide-characters.
4562 + improve description of terminfo if-then-else expressions (suggested
4564 + improve test/ncurses.c 'd' test, allow it to use external file for
4565 initial palette (added xterm-16color.dat and linux-color.dat), and
4566 reset colors to the initial palette when starting/ending the test.
4567 + change limit-check in init_color() to allow r/g/b component to
4568 reach 1000 (cf: 20020928).
4571 + modify form library to use cchar_t's rather than char's in the
4572 wide-character configuration for storing data for field buffers.
4573 + correct logic of win_wchnstr(), which did not work for more than
4577 + replace memset/memcpy usage in form library with for-loops to
4578 simplify changing the datatype of FIELD.buf, part of wide-character
4580 + fix some inconsistent use of #if/#ifdef (report by Alain Guibert).
4583 + modify menu library to account for actual number of columns used by
4584 multibyte character strings, in the wide-character configuration
4585 (adapted from patch by Philipp Tomsich).
4586 + add "-x" option to infocmp like tic's "-x", for use in "-F"
4587 comparisons. This modifies infocmp to only report extended
4588 capabilities if the -x option is given, making this more consistent
4589 with tic. Some scripts may break, since infocmp previous gave this
4590 information without an option.
4591 + modify termcap-parsing to retain 2-character aliases at the beginning
4592 of an entry if the "-x" option is used in tic.
4595 + minor compiler-warning and test-program fixes.
4598 + modify tic's missing-sgr warning to apply to terminfo only.
4599 + free some memory leaks in tic.
4600 + remove check in post_menu() that prevented menus from extending
4601 beyond the screen (request by Max J. Werner).
4602 + remove check in newwin() that prevents allocating windows
4603 that extend beyond the screen. Solaris curses does this.
4604 + add ifdef in test/color_set.c to allow it to compile with older
4606 + add napms() calls to test/dots.c to make it not be a CPU hog.
4609 + modify unctrl() to return null if its parameter does not correspond
4610 to an unsigned char.
4611 + add some limit-checks to guard isprint(), etc., from being used on
4612 values that do not fit into an unsigned char (report by Sami Farin).
4615 + fix a typo in the _nc_get_locale() change.
4618 + modify _nc_get_locale() to use setlocale() to query the program's
4619 current locale rather than using getenv(). This fixes a case in tin
4620 which relies on legacy treatment of 8-bit characters when the locale
4621 is not initialized (reported by Urs Jansen).
4622 + add sgr string to screen's and rxvt's terminfo entries -TD.
4623 + add a check in tic for terminfo entries having an sgr0 but no sgr
4624 string. This confuses Tru64 and HPUX curses when combined with
4625 color, e.g., making them leave line-drawing characters in odd places.
4626 + correct casts used in ABSENT_BOOLEAN, CANCELLED_BOOLEAN, matches the
4627 original definitions used in Debian package to fix PowerPC bug before
4628 20030802 (Debian #237629).
4631 + modify PutAttrChar() and PUTC() macro to improve use of
4632 A_ALTCHARSET attribute to prevent line-drawing characters from
4633 being lost in situations where the locale would otherwise treat the
4634 raw data as nonprintable (Debian #227879).
4637 + fix a redefinition of CTRL() macro in test/view.c for AIX 5.2 (report
4639 + remove ".PP" after ".SH NAME" in a few manpages; this confuses
4640 some apropos script (Debian #237831).
4643 + modify ncurses.c 'r' test so editing commands, like inserted text,
4644 set the field background, and the state of insert/overlay editing
4645 mode is shown in that test.
4646 + change syntax of dummy targets in Ada95 makefiles to work with pmake.
4647 + correct logic in test/ncurses.c 'b' for noncolor terminals which
4648 did not recognize a quit-command (cf: 20030419).
4651 + modify _nc_insert_ch() to allow for its input to be part of a
4653 + split out lib_insnstr.c, to prepare to rewrite it. X/Open states
4654 that this function performs wrapping, unlike all of the other
4655 insert-functions. Currently it does not wrap.
4656 + check for nl_langinfo(CODESET), use it if available (report by
4658 + split-out CF_BUILD_CC macro, actually did this for lynx first.
4659 + fixes for configure script CF_WITH_DBMALLOC and CF_WITH_DMALLOC,
4660 which happened to work with bash, but not with Bourne shell (report
4661 by Marco d'Itri via tin-dev).
4664 + some changes to adapt the form library to wide characters, incomplete
4665 (request by Mike Aubury).
4666 + add symbol to curses.h which can be used to suppress include of
4668 #define NCURSES_ENABLE_STDBOOL_H 0
4670 (discussion on XFree86 mailing list).
4673 + modify configure --with-termlib option to accept a value which sets
4674 the name of the terminfo library. This would allow a packager to
4675 build libtinfow.so renamed to coincide with libtinfo.so (discussion
4676 with Stanislav Ievlev).
4677 + improve documentation of --with-install-prefix, --prefix and
4678 $(DESTDIR) in INSTALL (prompted by discussion with Paul Lew).
4679 + add configure check if the compiler can use -c -o options to rename
4680 its output file, use that to omit the 'cd' command which was used to
4681 ensure object files are created in a separate staging directory
4682 (prompted by comments by Johnny Wezel, Martin Mokrejs).
4684 20040208 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
4687 20040207 pre-release
4688 + minor fixes to _nc_tparm_analyze(), i.e., do not count %i as a param,
4689 and do not count %d if it follows a %p.
4690 + correct an inconsistency between handling of codes in the 128-255
4691 range, e.g., as illustrated by test/ncurses.c f/F tests. In POSIX
4692 locale, the latter did not show printable results, while the former
4694 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to compensate for broken C preprocessor on Mac
4695 OS X, which alters "%%" to "% % " (report by Robert Simms, fix
4696 verified by Scott Corscadden).
4698 20040131 pre-release
4699 + modify SCREEN struct to align it between normal/wide curses flavors
4700 to simplify future changes to build a single version of libtinfo
4701 (patch by Stanislav Ievlev).
4702 + document handling of carriage return by addch() in manpage.
4703 + document special features of unctrl() in manpage.
4704 + documented interface changes in INSTALL.
4705 + corrected control-char test in lib_addch.c to account for locale
4706 (Debian #230335, cf: 971206).
4707 + updated test/configure.in to use AC_EXEEXT and AC_OBJEXT.
4708 + fixes to compile Ada95 binding with Debian gnat 3.15p-4 package.
4709 + minor configure-script fixes for older ports, e.g., BeOS R4.5.
4711 20040125 pre-release
4712 + amend change to PutAttrChar() from 20030614 which computed the number
4713 of cells for a possibly multi-cell character. The 20030614 change
4714 forced the cell to a blank if the result from wcwidth() was not
4715 greater than zero. However, wcwidth() called for parameters in the
4716 range 128-255 can give this return value. The logic now simply
4717 ensures that the number of cells is greater than zero without
4718 modifying the displayed value.
4720 20040124 pre-release
4721 + looked good for 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org (but see above)
4722 + modify configure script check for ranlib to use AC_CHECK_TOOL, since
4723 that works better for cross-compiling.
4725 20040117 pre-release
4726 + modify lib_get_wch.c to prefer mblen/mbtowc over mbrlen/mbrtowc to
4727 work around core dump in Solaris 8's locale support, e.g., for
4728 zh_CN.GB18030 (report by Saravanan Bellan).
4729 + add includes for <stdarg.h> and <stdio.h> in configure script macro
4730 to make <wchar.h> check work with Tru64 4.0d.
4731 + add terminfo entry for U/Win -TD
4732 + add terminfo entries for SFU aka Interix aka OpenNT (Federico
4734 + modify tput's error messages to prefix them with the program name
4735 (report by Vincent Lefevre, patch by Daniel Jacobowitz (see Debian
4737 + correct a place in tack where exit_standout_mode was used instead of
4738 exit_attribute_mode (patch by Jochen Voss (see Debian #224443)).
4739 + modify c++/cursesf.h to use const in the Enumeration_Field method.
4740 + remove an ambiguous (actually redundant) method from c++/cursesf.h
4741 + make $HOME/.terminfo update optional (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
4742 + improve sed script which extracts libtool's version in the
4743 CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro.
4744 + add ifdef'd call to AC_PROG_LIBTOOL to CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro (to
4745 simplify local patch for Albert Chin-A-Young)..
4746 + add $(CXXFLAGS) to link command in c++/Makefile.in (adapted from
4747 patch by Albert Chin-A-Young)..
4748 + fix a missing substitution in configure.in for "$target" needed for
4750 + resync CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro with lynx; fixes IRIX64 and
4751 NetBSD 1.6 conflicts with _XOPEN_SOURCE.
4752 + make check for stdbool.h more specific, to ensure that including it
4753 will actually define/declare bool for the configured compiler.
4754 + rewrite ifdef's in curses.h relating NCURSES_BOOL and bool. The
4755 intention of that is to #define NCURSES_BOOL as bool when the
4756 compiler declares bool, and to #define bool as NCURSES_BOOL when it
4757 does not (reported by Jim Gifford, Sam Varshavchik, cf: 20031213).
4759 20040110 pre-release
4760 + change minor version to 4, i.e., ncurses 5.4
4761 + revised/improved terminfo entries for tvi912b, tvi920b (Benjamin C W
4763 + simplified ncurses/base/version.c by defining the result from the
4764 configure script rather than using sprintf (suggested by Stanislav
4766 + remove obsolete casts from c++/cursesw.h (reported by Stanislav
4768 + modify configure script so that when configuring for termlib, programs
4769 such as tic are not linked with the upper-level ncurses library
4770 (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
4771 + move version.c from ncurses/base to ncurses/tinfo to allow linking
4772 of tic, etc., using libtinfo (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
4775 + adjust -D's to build ncursesw on OpenBSD.
4776 + modify CF_PROG_EXT to make OS/2 build with EXEEXT.
4777 + add pecho_wchar().
4778 + remove <wctype.h> include from lib_slk_wset.c which is not needed (or
4779 available) on older platforms.
4782 + add -D's to build ncursew on FreeBSD 5.1.
4783 + modify shared library configuration for FreeBSD 4.x/5.x to add the
4784 soname information (request by Marc Glisse).
4785 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() to not use MAX_ALIAS, but PATH_MAX only
4786 for limiting the length of a filename in the terminfo database.
4787 + modify termname() to return the terminal name used by setupterm()
4788 rather than $TERM, without truncating to 14 characters as documented
4789 by X/Open (report by Stanislav Ievlev, cf: 970719).
4790 + re-add definition for _BSD_TYPES, lost in merge (cf: 20031206).
4793 + add configure option --with-manpage-format=catonly to address
4794 behavior of BSDI, allow install of man+cat files on NetBSD, whose
4795 behavior has diverged by requiring both to be present.
4796 + remove leading blanks from comment-lines in manlinks.sed script to
4797 work with Tru64 4.0d.
4798 + add screen.linux terminfo entry (discussion on mutt-users mailing
4802 + add a check for tic to flag missing backslashes for termcap
4803 continuation lines. ncurses reads the whole entry, but termcap
4804 applications do not.
4805 + add configure option "--with-manpage-aliases" extending
4806 "--with-manpage-aliases" to provide the option of generating ".so"
4807 files rather than symbolic links for manpage aliases.
4808 + add bool definition in include/curses.h.in for configurations with no
4809 usable C++ compiler (cf: 20030607).
4810 + fix pathname of SigAction.h for building with --srcdir (reported by
4814 + folded ncurses/base/sigaction.c into includes of ncurses/SigAction.h,
4815 since that header is used only within ncurses/tty/lib_tstp.c, for
4816 non-POSIX systems (discussion with Stanislav Ievlev).
4817 + remove obsolete _nc_outstr() function (report by Stanislav Ievlev
4818 <inger@altlinux.org>).
4819 + add test/background.c and test/color_set.c
4820 + modify color_set() function to work with color pair 0 (report by
4821 George Andreou <gbandreo@tem.uoc.gr>).
4822 + add configure option --with-trace, since defining TRACE seems too
4823 awkward for some cases.
4824 + remove a call to _nc_free_termtype() from read_termtype(), since the
4825 corresponding buffer contents were already zeroed by a memset (cf:
4827 + improve configure check for _XOPEN_SOURCE and related definitions,
4828 adding special cases for Solaris' __EXTENSIONS__ and FreeBSD's
4829 __BSD_TYPES (reports by Marc Glisse <marc.glisse@normalesup.org>).
4830 + small fixes to compile on Solaris and IRIX64 using cc.
4831 + correct typo in check for pre-POSIX sort options in MKkey_defs.sh
4835 + modify _nc_gettime() to avoid a problem with arithmetic on unsigned
4836 values (Philippe Blain).
4837 + improve the nanosleep() logic in napms() by checking for EINTR and
4838 restarting (Philippe Blain).
4839 + correct expression for "%D" in lib_tgoto.c (Juha Jarvi
4843 + add linux-vt terminfo entry (Andrey V Lukyanov <land@long.yar.ru>).
4844 + allow "\|" escape in terminfo; tic should not warn about this.
4845 + save the full pathname of the trace-file the first time it is opened,
4846 to avoid creating it in different directories if the application
4847 opens and closes it while changing its working directory.
4848 + modify configure script to provide a non-empty default for
4852 + add DJGPP to special case of DOS-style drive letters potentially
4853 appearing in TERMCAP environment variable.
4854 + fix some spelling in comments (reports by Jason McIntyre, Jonathon
4856 + update config.guess, config.sub
4859 + fix a memory leak in error-return from setupterm() (report by
4860 Stanislav Ievlev <inger@altlinux.org>).
4861 + use EXEEXT and OBJEXT consistently in makefiles.
4862 + amend fixes for cross-compiling to use separate executable-suffix
4863 BUILD_EXEEXT (cf: 20031018).
4864 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for sort utility that does not
4865 recognize key options, e.g., busybox (report by Peter S Mazinger
4867 + fix potential out-of-bounds indexing in _nc_infotocap() (found by
4868 David Krause using some of the new malloc debugging features
4869 under OpenBSD, patch by Ted Unangst).
4870 + modify CF_LIB_SUFFIX for Itanium releases of HP-UX, which use a
4871 ".so" suffix (patch by Jonathan Ward <Jonathan.Ward@hp.com>).
4874 + update terminfo for xterm-xfree86 -TD
4875 + add check for multiple "tc=" clauses in a termcap to tic.
4876 + check for missing op/oc in tic.
4877 + correct _nc_resolve_uses() and _nc_merge_entry() to allow infocmp and
4878 tic to show cancelled capabilities. These functions were ignoring
4879 the state of the target entry, which should be untouched if cancelled.
4880 + correct comment in tack/output.c (Debian #215806).
4881 + add some null-pointer checks to lib_options.c (report by Michael
4883 + regenerated html documentation.
4884 + correction to tar-copy.sh, remove a trap command that resulted in
4885 leaving temporary files (cf: 20030510).
4886 + remove contact/maintainer addresses for Juergen Pfeifer (his request).
4889 + updated test/configure to reflect changes for libtool (cf: 20030830).
4890 + fix several places in tack/pad.c which tested and used the parameter-
4891 and parameterless strings inconsistently, i.e., in pad_rin(),
4892 pad_il(), pad_indn() and pad_dl() (Debian #215805).
4893 + minor fixes for configure script and makefiles to cleanup executables
4894 generated when cross-compiling for DJGPP.
4895 + modify infocmp to omit check for $TERM for operations that do not
4896 require it, e.g., "infocmp -e" used to build fallback list (report by
4900 + add terminfo entries for DJGPP.
4901 + updated note about maintainer in ncurses-intro.html
4904 + update terminfo entries for gnome terminal.
4905 + modify tack to reset colors after each color test, correct a place
4906 where exit_standout_mode was used instead of exit_attribute_mode.
4907 + improve tack's bce test by making it set colors other than black
4909 + plug a potential recursion between napms() and _nc_timed_wait()
4910 (report by Philippe Blain).
4913 + add --with-rel-version option to allow workaround to allow making
4914 libtool on Darwin generate the "same" library names as with the
4915 --with-shared option. The Darwin ld program does not work well
4916 with a zero as the minor-version value (request by Chris Zubrzycki).
4917 + modify CF_MIXEDCASE_FILENAMES macro to work with cross-compiling.
4918 + modify tack to allow it to run from fallback terminfo data.
4919 > patch by Philippe Blain:
4920 + improve PutRange() by adjusting call to EmitRange() and corresponding
4921 return-value to not emit unchanged characters on the end of the
4923 + improve a check for changed-attribute by exiting a loop when the
4925 + improve logic in TransformLine(), eliminating a duplicated comparison
4926 in the clr_bol logic.
4929 > patch by Philippe Blain:
4930 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
4931 move the label 'nonlocal' just before the second gettimeofday() to
4932 be able to compute the diff time when 'goto nonlocal' used.
4933 Rename 'msec' to 'microsec' in the debug-message.
4934 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
4935 Use _nc_outch() in carriage return/newline movement instead of
4936 putchar() which goes to stdout. Move test for xold>0 out of loop.
4937 + in ncurses/tinfo/setbuf.c,
4938 Set the flag SP->_buffered at the end of operations when all has been
4939 successful (typeMalloc can fail).
4940 + simplify NC_BUFFERED macro by moving check inside _nc_setbuf().
4943 + modify configure script to avoid using "head -1", which does not
4944 work if POSIXLY_CORRECT (sic) is set.
4945 + modify run_tic.in to avoid using wrong shared libraries when
4946 cross-compiling (Dan Kegel).
4949 + alter configure script help message to make it clearer that
4950 --with-build-cc does not specify a cross-compiler (suggested by Dan
4951 Kegel <dank@kegel.com>).
4952 + modify configure script to accommodate libtool 1.5, as well as add an
4953 parameter to the "--with-libtool" option which can specify the
4954 pathname of libtool (report by Chris Zubrzycki). We note that
4955 libtool 1.5 has more than one bug in its C++ support, so it is not
4956 able to install libncurses++, for instance, if $DESTDIR or the option
4957 --with-install-prefix is used.
4960 > patch by Philippe Blain:
4961 + move assignments to SP->_cursrow, SP->_curscol into online_mvcur().
4962 + make baudrate computation in delay_output() consistent with the
4963 assumption in _nc_mvcur_init(), i.e., a byte is 9 bits.
4966 + modify logic in waddch_literal() to take into account zh_TW.Big5
4967 whose multibyte sequences may contain "printable" characters, e.g.,
4968 a "g" in the sequence "\247g" (Debian #204889, cf: 20030621).
4969 + improve storage used by _nc_safe_strcpy() by ensuring that the size
4970 is reset based on the initialization call, in case it were called
4971 after other strcpy/strcat calls (report by Philippe Blain).
4972 > patch by Philippe Blain:
4973 + remove an unused ifdef for REAL_ATTR & WANT_CHAR
4974 + correct a place where _cup_cost was used rather than _cuu_cost
4977 + fix a small memory leak in _nc_free_termtype().
4978 + close trace-file if trace() is called with a zero parameter.
4979 + free memory allocated for soft-key strings, in delscreen().
4980 + fix an allocation size in safe_sprintf.c for the "*" format code.
4981 + correct safe_sprintf.c to not return a null pointer if the format
4982 happens to be an empty string. This applies to the "configure
4983 --enable-safe-sprintf" option (Redhat #101486).
4986 + modify casts used for ABSENT_BOOLEAN and CANCELLED_BOOLEAN (report by
4988 > patch by Philippe Blain:
4989 + change padding for change_scroll_region to not be proportional to
4990 the size of the scroll-region.
4991 + correct error-return in _nc_safe_strcat().
4994 + correct limit-checks in _nc_scroll_window() (report and test-case by
4995 Thomas Graf <graf@dms.at> cf: 20011020).
4996 + re-order configure checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE to avoid conflict with
5000 + use clr_eol in preference to blanks for bce terminals, so select and
5001 paste will have fewer trailing blanks, e.g., when using xterm
5002 (request by Vincent Lefevre).
5003 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
5004 + add configure --with-abi-version option (discussion with Charles
5006 > cygwin changes from Charles Wilson:
5007 + aclocal.m4: on cygwin, use autodetected prefix for import
5008 and static lib, but use "cyg" for DLL.
5009 + include/ncurses_dll.h: correct the comments to reflect current
5010 status of cygwin/mingw port. Fix compiler warning.
5011 + misc/run_tic.in: ensure that tic.exe can find the uninstalled
5012 DLL, by adding the lib-directory to the PATH variable.
5013 + misc/terminfo.src (nxterm|xterm-color): make xterm-color
5014 primary instead of nxterm, to match XFree86's xterm.terminfo
5015 usage and to prevent circular links.
5016 (rxvt): add additional codes from rxvt.org.
5017 (rxvt-color): new alias
5018 (rxvt-xpm): new alias
5019 (rxvt-cygwin): like rxvt, but with special acsc codes.
5020 (rxvt-cygwin-native): ditto. rxvt may be run under XWindows, or
5021 with a "native" MSWin GUI. Each takes different acsc codes,
5022 which are both different from the "normal" rxvt's acsc.
5023 (cygwin): cygwin-in-cmd.exe window. Lots of fixes.
5025 + mk-1st.awk: use "cyg" for the DLL prefix, but "lib" for import
5029 + update config.guess, config.sub
5030 + add triples for configuring shared libraries with the Debian
5031 GNU/FreeBSD packages (patch by Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es>).
5034 + modify CF_GCC_WARNINGS so it only applies to gcc, not g++. Some
5035 platforms have installed g++ along with the native C compiler, which
5036 would not accept gcc warning options.
5037 + add -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 when configuring with --enable-widec, to
5038 get mbstate_t declaration on HPUX 11.11 (report by David Ellement).
5039 + add _nc_pathlast() to get rid of casts in _nc_basename() calls.
5040 + correct a sign-extension in wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() from
5041 20030628 (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
5042 + work around omission of btowc() and wctob() from wide-character
5043 support (sic) in NetBSD 1.6 using mbtowc() and wctomb() (report by
5045 + add portability note to curs_get_wstr.3x (Debian #199957).
5048 + rewrite wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to call waddch() and wechochar()
5049 respectively, to avoid calling waddch_noecho() with wide-character
5050 data, since that function assumes its input is 8-bit data.
5051 Similarly, modify waddnwstr() to call wadd_wch().
5052 + remove logic from waddnstr() which transformed multibyte character
5053 strings into wide-characters. Rewrite of waddch_literal() from
5054 20030621 assumes its input is raw multibyte data rather than wide
5055 characters (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
5058 + write getyx() and related 2-return macros in terms of getcury(),
5060 + modify waddch_literal() in case an application passes bytes of a
5061 multibyte character directly to waddch(). In this case, waddch()
5062 must reassemble the bytes into a wide-character (report by Tomohiro
5063 Kubota <kubota@debian.org>).
5066 + modify waddch_literal() in case a multibyte value occupies more than
5068 + modify PutAttrChar() to compute the number of character cells that
5069 are used in multibyte values. This fixes a problem displaying
5070 double-width characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen
5071 <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
5072 + add a null-pointer check for result of keyname() in _tracechar()
5073 + modify _tracechar() to work around glibc sprintf bug.
5076 + add a call to setlocale() in cursesmain.cc, making demo display
5077 properly in a UTF-8 locale.
5078 + add a fallback definition in curses.priv.h for MB_LEN_MAX (prompted
5079 by discussion with Gabor Z Papp).
5080 + use macros NCURSES_ACS() and NCURSES_WACS() to hide cast needed to
5081 appease -Wchar-subscript with g++ 3.3 (Debian #195732).
5082 + fix a redefinition of $RANLIB in the configure script when libtool
5083 is used, which broke configure on Mac OS X (report by Chris Zubrzycki
5085 + simplify ifdef for bool declaration in curses.h.in (suggested by
5086 Albert Chin-A-Young).
5087 + remove configure script check to allow -Wconversion for older
5088 versions of gcc (suggested by Albert Chin-A-Young).
5091 + regenerated html manpages.
5092 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in that disabled use of __attribute__()
5093 for g++, since recent versions implement the cases which ncurses uses
5095 + modify _nc_get_token() to handle a case where an entry has no
5096 description, and capabilities begin on the same line as the entry
5098 + fix a typo in ncurses_dll.h reported by gcc 3.3.
5099 + add an entry for key_defined.3x to man_db.renames.
5102 + modify setcchar() to allow converting control characters to complex
5103 characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
5104 + add tkterm entry -TD
5105 + modify parse_entry.c to allow a terminfo entry with a leading
5106 2-character name (report by Don Libes).
5107 + corrected acsc in screen.teraterm, which requires a PC-style mapping.
5108 + fix trace statements in read_entry.c to use lseek() rather than
5110 + fix signed/unsigned warnings from Sun's compiler (gcc should give
5111 these warnings, but it is unpredictable).
5112 + modify configure script to omit -Winline for gcc 3.3, since that
5114 + modify manlinks.sed to add a few functions that were overlooked since
5115 they return function pointers: field_init, field_term, form_init,
5116 form_term, item_init, item_term, menu_init and menu_term.
5119 + prevent recursion in wgetch() via wgetnstr() if the connection cannot
5120 be switched between cooked/raw modes because it is not a TTY (report
5121 by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.com>).
5122 + change parameter of define_key() and key_defined() to const (prompted
5124 + add a check in test/configure for ncurses extensions, since there
5125 are some older versions, etc., which would not compile with the
5126 current test programs.
5127 + corrected demo in test/ncurses.c of wgetn_wstr(), which did not
5128 convert wchar_t string to multibyte form before printing it.
5129 + corrections to lib_get_wstr.c:
5130 + null-terminate buffer passed to setcchar(), which occasionally
5132 + map special characters such as erase- and kill-characters into
5133 key-codes so those will work as expected even if they are not
5134 mentioned in the terminfo.
5135 + modify PUTC() and Charable() macros to make wide-character line
5136 drawing work for POSIX locale on Linux console (cf: 20021221).
5139 + make typography for program options in manpages consistent (report
5140 by Miloslav Trmac <mitr@volny.cz>).
5141 + correct dependencies in Ada95/src/Makefile.in, so the builds with
5142 "--srcdir" work (report by Warren L Dodge).
5143 + correct missing definition of $(CC) in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in
5144 (reported by Warren L Dodge <warrend@mdhost.cse.tek.com>).
5145 + fix typos and whitespace in manpages (patch by Jason McIntyre
5146 <jmc@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl>).
5149 + fix form_driver() cases for REQ_CLR_EOF, REQ_CLR_EOL, REQ_DEL_CHAR,
5150 REQ_DEL_PREV and REQ_NEW_LINE, which did not ensure the cursor was at
5151 the editing position before making modifications.
5152 + add test/demo_forms and associated test/edit_field.c demos.
5153 + modify test/configure.in to use test/modules for the list of objects
5154 to compile rather than using the list of programs.
5157 + modify logic of acsc to use the original character if no mapping is
5158 defined, noting that Solaris does this.
5159 + modify ncurses 'b' test to avoid using the acs_map[] array since
5160 20021231 changes it to no longer contain information from the acsc
5162 + modify makefile rules in c++, progs, tack and test to ensure that
5163 the compiler flags (e.g., $CFLAGS or $CCFLAGS) are used in the link
5164 command (report by Jose Luis Rico Botella <informatica@serpis.com>).
5165 + modify soft-key initialization to use A_REVERSE if A_STANDOUT would
5166 not be shown when colors are used, i.e., if ncv#1 is set in the
5167 terminfo as is done in "screen".
5170 + add a test for slk_color(), in ncurses.c
5171 + fix some issues reported by valgrind in the slk_set() and slk_wset()
5172 code, from recent rewrite.
5173 + modify ncurses 'E' test to use show previous label via slk_label(),
5175 + modify wide-character versions of NewChar(), NewChar2() macros to
5176 ensure that the whole struct is initialized.
5179 + modify setupterm() to check if the terminfo and terminal-modes have
5180 already been read. This ensures that it does not reinvoke
5181 def_prog_mode() when an application calls more than one function,
5182 such as tgetent() and initscr() (report by Olaf Buddenhagen).
5185 + add 'E' test to ncurses.c, to exercise slk_wset().
5186 + correct handling of carriage-return in wgetn_wstr(), used in demo of
5188 + first draft of slk_wset() function.
5191 + improved warnings in tic when suppressing items to fit in termcap's
5193 + built a list in test/README showing which externals are being used
5194 by either programs in the test-directory or via internal library
5196 + adjust include-options in CF_ETIP_DEFINES to avoid missing
5197 ncurses_dll.h, fixing special definitions that may be needed for
5198 etip.h (reported by Greg Schafer <gschafer@zip.com.au>).
5201 + minor fixes for cardfile.c, to make it write the updated fields to
5202 a file when ^W is given.
5203 + add/use _nc_trace_bufcat() to eliminate some fixed buffer limits in
5207 + correct a case in _nc_remove_string(), used by define_key(), to avoid
5208 infinite loop if the given string happens to be a substring of other
5209 strings which are assigned to keys (report by John McCutchan).
5210 + add key_defined() function, to tell which keycode a string is bound
5211 to (discussion with John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>).
5212 + correct keybound(), which reported definitions in the wrong table,
5213 i.e., the list of definitions which are disabled by keyok().
5214 + modify demo_keydef.c to show the details it changes, and to check
5218 + restructured test/configure script, make it work for libncursesw.
5219 + add description of link_fieldtype() to manpage (report by
5220 L Dee Holtsclaw <dee@sunbeltsoft.com>).
5223 + corrected ifdef's relating to configure check for wchar_t, etc.
5224 + if the output is a socket or other non-tty device, use 1 millisecond
5225 for the cost in mvcur; previously it was 9 milliseconds because the
5226 baudrate was not known.
5227 + in _nc_get_tty_mode(), initialize the TTY buffer on error, since
5228 glibc copies uninitialized data in that case, as noted by valgrind.
5229 + modify tput to use the same parameter analysis as tparm() does, to
5230 provide for user-defined strings, e.g., for xterm title, a
5231 corresponding capability might be
5233 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to avoid passing "#" tokens through the C
5234 preprocessor. This works around Mac OS X's preprocessor, which
5235 insists on adding a blank on each side of the token (report/analysis
5236 by Kevin Murphy <murphy@genome.chop.edu>).
5239 + add configure check for wchar_t and wint_t types, rather than rely
5240 on preprocessor definitions. Also work around for gcc fixinclude
5241 bug which creates a shadow copy of curses.h if it sees these symbols
5242 apparently typedef'd.
5243 + if database is disabled, do not generate run_tic.sh
5244 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking when termcap is read.
5247 + add checking in tic for incomplete line-drawing character mapping.
5248 + updated configure script to reflect fix for AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL,
5249 which is broken in autoconf 2.5x for Mac OS X 10.2.3 (report by
5250 Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl>).
5251 + make return value from _nc_printf_string() consistent. Before,
5252 depending on whether --enable-safe-sprintf was used, it might not be
5253 cached for reallocating.
5256 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking in lib_tparm.c, hardscroll.c
5257 + correct a potentially-uninitialized value if _read_termtype() does
5258 not read as much data as expected (report by Wolfgang Rohdewald
5260 + correct several places where the aclocal.m4 macros relied on cache
5261 variable names which were incompatible (as usual) between autoconf
5262 2.13 and 2.5x, causing the test for broken-linker to give incorrect
5263 results (reports by Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl> and Thomas Esser
5264 <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de>).
5265 + do not try to open gpm mouse driver if standard output is not a tty;
5266 the gpm library does not make this check (bug report for dialog
5267 by David Oliveira <davidoliveira@develop.prozone.ws>).
5270 + modified emx.src to correspond more closely to terminfo.src, added
5271 emx-base to the latter -TD
5272 + add configure option for FreeBSD sysmouse, --with-sysmouse, and
5273 implement support for that in lib_mouse.c, lib_getch.c
5276 + revert 20030105 change to can_clear_with(), does not work for the
5277 case where the update is made on cells which are blanks with
5278 attributes, e.g., reverse.
5279 + improve ifdef's to guard against redefinition of wchar_t and wint_t
5280 in curses.h (report by Urs Jansen).
5283 + improve mvcur() by checking if it is safe to move when video
5284 attributes are set (msgr), and if not, reset/restore attributes
5285 within that function rather than doing it separately in the GoTo()
5286 function in tty_update.c (suggested by Philippe Blain).
5287 + add a message in run_tic.in to explain more clearly what does not
5288 work when attempting to create a symbolic link for /usr/lib/terminfo
5289 on OS/2 and other platforms with no symbolic links (report by John
5291 + change several sed scripts to avoid using "\+" since it is not a BRE
5292 (basic regular expression). One instance caused terminfo.5 to be
5293 misformatted on FreeBSD (report by Kazuo Horikawa
5294 <horikawa@FreeBSD.org> (see FreeBSD docs/46709)).
5295 + correct misspelled 'wint_t' in curs_get_wch.3x (Michael Elkins).
5298 + improve description of terminfo operators, especially static/dynamic
5299 variables (comments by Mark I Manning IV <mark4th@earthlink.net>).
5300 + demonstrate use of FIELDTYPE by modifying test/ncurses 'r' test to
5301 use the predefined TYPE_ALPHA field-type, and by defining a
5302 specialized type for the middle initial/name.
5303 + fix MKterminfo.sh, another workaround for POSIXLY_CORRECT misfeature
5305 > patch by Philippe Blain:
5306 + optimize can_clear_with() a little by testing first if the parameter
5307 is indeed a "blank".
5308 + simplify ClrBottom() a little by allowing it to use clr_eos to clear
5309 sections as small as one line.
5310 + improve ClrToEOL() by checking if clr_eos is available before trying
5312 + use tputs() rather than putp() in a few cases in tty_update.c since
5313 the corresponding delays are proportional to the number of lines
5314 affected: repeat_char, clr_eos, change_scroll_region.
5317 + rewrite of lib_acs.c conflicts with copying of SCREEN acs_map to/from
5318 global acs_map[] array; removed the lines that did the copying.
5321 + change some overlooked tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp()
5322 (report by Philippe Blain).
5323 + modify lib_getch.c to avoid recursion via wgetnstr() when the input
5324 is not a tty and consequently mode-changes do not work (report by
5325 <R.Chamberlin@querix.com>).
5326 + rewrote lib_acs.c to allow PutAttrChar() to decide how to render
5327 alternate-characters, i.e., to work with Linux console and UTF-8
5329 + correct line/column reference in adjust_window(), needed to make
5330 special windows such as curscr track properly when resizing (report
5331 by Lucas Gonze <lgonze@panix.com>).
5332 > patch by Philippe Blain:
5333 + correct the value used for blank in ClrBottom() (broken in 20000708).
5334 + correct an off-by-one in GoTo() parameter in _nc_scrolln().
5337 + change several tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp(), to
5338 enable padding which may be needed for some terminals (patch by
5340 + use '%' as sed substitute delimiter in run_tic script to avoid
5341 problems with pathname delimiters such as ':' and '@' (report by John
5343 + implement a workaround so that line-drawing works with screen's
5344 crippled UTF-8 support (tested with 3.9.13). This only works with
5345 the wide-character support (--enable-widec); the normal library will
5346 simply suppress line-drawing when running in a UTF-8 locale in screen.
5349 + allow BUILD_CC and related configure script variables to be
5350 overridden from the environment.
5351 + make build-tools variables in ncurses/Makefile.in consistent with
5352 the configure script variables (report by Maciej W Rozycki).
5353 + modify ncurses/modules to allow
5354 configure --disable-leaks --disable-ext-funcs
5355 to build (report by Gary Samuelson).
5356 + fix a few places in configure.in which lacked quotes (report by
5357 Gary Samuelson <gary.samuelson@verizon.com>).
5358 + correct handling of multibyte characters in waddch_literal() which
5359 force wrapping because they are started too late on the line (report
5360 by Sam Varshavchik).
5361 + small fix for CF_GNAT_VERSION to ignore the help-message which
5362 gnatmake adds to its version-message.
5363 > Maciej W Rozycki <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>:
5364 + use AC_CHECK_TOOL to get proper values for AR and LD for cross
5366 + use $cross_compiling variable in configure script rather than
5367 comparing $host_alias and $target alias, since "host" is
5368 traditionally misused in autoconf to refer to the target platform.
5369 + change configure --help message to use "build" rather than "host"
5370 when referring to the --with-build-XXX options.
5373 + modify CF_GNAT_VERSION to print gnatmake's version, and to allow for
5374 possible gnat versions such as 3.2 (report by Chris Lingard
5375 <chris@stockwith.co.uk>).
5376 + modify #define's for CKILL and other default control characters in
5377 tset to use the system's default values if they are defined.
5378 + correct interchanged defaults for kill and interrupt characters
5379 in tset, which caused it to report unnecessarily (Debian #171583).
5380 + repair check for missing C++ compiler, which is broken in autoconf
5381 2.5x by hardcoding it to g++ (report by Martin Mokrejs).
5382 + update config.guess, config.sub (2002-11-30)
5383 + modify configure script to skip --with-shared, etc., when the
5384 --with-libtool option is given, since they would be ignored anyway.
5385 + fix to allow "configure --with-libtool --with-termlib" to build.
5386 + modify configure script to show version number of libtool, to help
5387 with bug reports. libtool still gets confused if the installed
5388 ncurses libraries are old, since it ignores the -L options at some
5389 point (tested with libtool 1.3.3 and 1.4.3).
5390 + reorder configure script's updating of $CPPFLAGS and $CFLAGS to
5391 prevent -I options in the user's environment from introducing
5392 conflicts with the build -I options (may be related to reports by
5393 Patrick Ash and George Goffe).
5394 + rename test/define_key.c to test/demo_defkey.c, test/keyok.c to
5395 test/demo_keyok.c to allow building these with libtool.
5398 + add example program test/define_key.c for define_key().
5399 + add example program test/keyok.c for keyok().
5400 + add example program test/ins_wide.c for wins_wch() and wins_wstr().
5401 + modify wins_wch() and wins_wstr() to interpret tabs by using the
5402 winsch() internal function.
5403 + modify setcchar() to allow for wchar_t input strings that have
5404 more than one spacing character.
5407 + fix a boundary check in lib_insch.c (patch by Philippe Blain).
5408 + change type for *printw functions from NCURSES_CONST to const
5409 (prompted by comment by Pedro Palhoto Matos <plpm@mega.ist.utl.pt>,
5410 but really from a note on X/Open's website stating that either is
5411 acceptable, and the latter will be used in a future revision).
5412 + add xterm-1002, xterm-1003 terminfo entries to demonstrate changes in
5413 lib_mouse.c (20021026) -TD
5414 + add screen-bce, screen-s entries from screen 3.9.13 (report by
5415 Adam Lazur <zal@debian.org>) -TD
5416 + add mterm terminfo entries -TD
5419 + split-out useful fragments in terminfo for vt100 and vt220 numeric
5420 keypad, i.e., vt100+keypad, vt100+pfkeys, vt100+fnkeys and
5421 vt220+keypad. The last as embedded in various entries had ka3 and
5422 kb2 interchanged (report/discussion with Leonard den Ottolander
5423 <leonardjo@hetnet.nl>).
5424 + add check in tic for keypads consistent with vt100 layout.
5425 + improve checks in tic for color capabilities
5428 + check for missing/empty/illegal terminfo name in _nc_read_entry()
5429 (report by Martin Mokrejs, where $TERM was set to an empty string).
5430 + rewrote lib_insch.c, combining it with lib_insstr.c so both handle
5431 tab and other control characters consistently (report by Philippe
5433 + remove an #undef for KEY_EVENT from curses.tail used in the
5434 experimental NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS feature. The #undef confuses
5435 dpkg's build script (Debian #165897).
5436 + fix MKlib_gen.sh, working around the ironically named POSIXLY_CORRECT
5437 feature of GNU sed 4.0 (reported by Ervin Nemeth <airwin@inf.bme.hu>).
5440 + implement logic in lib_mouse.c to handle position reports which are
5441 generated when XFree86 xterm is initialized with private modes 1002
5442 or 1003. These are returned to the application as the
5443 REPORT_MOUSE_POSITION mask, which was not implemented. Tested both
5444 with ncurses 'a' menu (prompted by discussion with Larry Riedel
5445 <Larry@Riedel.org>).
5446 + modify lib_mouse.c to look for "XM" terminfo string, which allows
5447 one to override the escape sequence used to enable/disable mouse
5448 mode. In particular this works for XFree86 xterm private modes
5449 1002 and 1003. If "XM" is missing (note that this is an extended
5450 name), lib_mouse uses the conventional private mode 1000.
5451 + correct NOT_LOCAL() macro in lib_mvcur.c to refer to screen_columns
5452 where it used screen_lines (report by Philippe Blain).
5453 + correct makefile rules for the case when both --with-libtool and
5454 --with-gpm are given (report by Mr E_T <troll@logi.net.au>).
5455 + add note to terminfo manpage regarding the differences between
5456 setaf/setab and setf/setb capabilities (report by Pavel Roskin).
5459 + remove redundant initialization of TABSIZE in newterm(), since it is
5460 already done in setupterm() (report by Philippe Blain).
5461 + add test/inserts.c, to test winnstr() and winsch().
5462 + replace 'sort' in dist.mk with script that sets locale to POSIX.
5463 + update URLs in announce.html.in (patch by Frederic L W Meunier).
5464 + remove glibc add-on files, which are no longer needed (report by
5465 Frederic L W Meunier).
5467 20021012 5.3 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
5468 + modify ifdef's in etip.h.in to allow the etip.h header to compile
5469 with gcc 3.2 (patch by Dimitar Zhekov <jimmy@is-vn.bg>).
5470 + add logic to setupterm() to make it like initscr() and newterm(),
5471 by checking for $NCURSES_TRACE environment variable and enabling
5472 the debug trace in that case.
5473 + modify setupterm() to ensure that it initializes the baudrate, for
5474 applications such as tput (report by Frank Henigman).
5475 + modify definition of bits used for command-line and library debug
5476 traces to avoid overlap, using new definition TRACE_SHIFT to relate
5478 + document tput's interpretation of parameterized strings according to
5479 whether parameters are given, etc. (discussion with Robert De Bath).
5481 20021005 pre-release
5482 + correct winnwstr() to account for non-character cells generated when
5483 a double-width character is added (report by Michael Bienia
5484 <michael@vorlon.ping.de>).
5485 + modify _nc_viswbuf2n() to provide better results using wctomb().
5486 + correct logic in _nc_varargs() which broke tracing of parameters for
5487 formats such as "%.*s".
5488 + correct scale factor in linux-c and linux-c-nc terminfo entries
5489 (report Floyd Davidson).
5490 + change tic -A option to -t, add the same option to infocmp for
5492 + correct "%c" implementation in lib_tparm.c, which did not map a null
5493 character to a 128 (cf: 980620) (patch by Frank Henigman
5494 <fjhenigman@mud.cgl.uwaterloo.ca>).
5496 20020928 pre-release
5497 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for POSIX sort -k option, use that if
5498 it is found, to accommodate newer utility which dropped the
5499 compatibility support for +number options (reported by Andrey A
5501 + modify linux terminfo entry to use color palette feature from
5502 linux-c-nc entry (comments by Tomasz Wasiak and Floyd Davidson).
5503 + restore original color definitions in endwin() if init_color() was
5504 used, and resume those colors on the next doupdate() or refresh()
5505 (report by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@komputom.com.pl>).
5506 + improve debug-traces by modifying MKlib_gen.sh to generate calls
5507 to returnBool() and returnAttr().
5508 + add/use _nc_visbufn() and _nc_viswbufn() to limit the debug trace
5509 of waddnstr() and similar functions to match the parameters as used.
5510 + add/use _nc_retrace_bool() and _nc_retrace_unsigned().
5511 + correct type used by _nc_retrace_chtype().
5512 + add debug traces to some functions in lib_mouse.c
5513 + modify lib_addch.c to handle non-spacing characters.
5514 + correct parameter of RemAttr() in lib_bkgd.c, which caused the c++
5515 demo's boxes to lose the A_ALTCHARSET flag (broken in 20020629).
5516 + correct width computed in _tracedump(), which did not account for
5517 the attributes (broken in 20010602).
5518 + modify test/tracemunch to replace addresses for windows other than
5519 curscr, newscr and stdscr with window0, window1, etc.
5521 20020921 pre-release
5522 + redid fix for edit_man.sed path.
5523 + workaround for Cygwin bug which makes subprocess writes to stdout
5524 result in core dump.
5525 + documented getbegx(), etc.
5526 + minor fixes to configure script to use '%' consistently as a sed
5527 delimiter rather than '@'.
5528 > patch by Philippe Blain:
5529 + add check in lib_overlay.c to ensure that the windows to be merged
5530 actually overlap, and in copywin(), limit the area to be touched
5531 to the lines given for the destination window.
5533 20020914 pre-release
5534 + modified curses.h so that if the wide-character version is installed
5535 overwriting /usr/include/curses.h, and if it relied on libutf8.h,
5536 then applications that use that header for wide-character support
5537 must define HAVE_LIBUTF8_H.
5538 + modify putwin(), getwin() and dupwin() to allow them to operate on
5539 pads (request by Philippe Blain).
5540 + correct attribute-merging in wborder(), broken in 20020216 (report
5541 by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@grubasek.komputom.com.pl>).
5542 > patch by Philippe Blain:
5543 + corrected pop-counts in tparam_internal() to '!' and '~' cases.
5544 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in one place that used sizeof(chtype).
5545 + remove some unused variables from mvcur test-driver.
5547 20020907 pre-release
5548 + change configure script to allow install of widec-character
5549 (ncursesw) headers to overwrite normal (ncurses) headers, since the
5550 latter is a compatible subset of the former.
5551 + fix path of edit_man.sed in configure script, needed to regenerate
5552 html manpages on Debian.
5553 + fix mismatched enums in vsscanf.c, which caused warning on Solaris.
5554 + update README.emx to reflect current patch used for autoconf.
5555 + change web- and ftp-site to invisible-island.net
5556 > patch by Philippe Blain:
5557 + change case for 'P' in tparam_internal() to indicate that it pops
5558 a variable from the stack.
5559 + correct sense of precision and width in parse_format(), to avoid
5561 + modify lib_tparm.c, absorb really_get_space() into get_space().
5562 + modify getwin() and dupwin() to copy the _notimeout, _idlok and
5563 _idcok window fields.
5564 + better fix for _nc_set_type(), using typeMalloc().
5566 20020901 pre-release
5567 + change minor version to 3, i.e., ncurses 5.3
5568 + update config.guess, config.sub
5569 + retest build with each configure option; minor ifdef fixes.
5570 + make keyname() return a null pointer rather than "UNKNOWN STRING" to
5572 + modify handling of wide line-drawing character functions to use the
5573 normal line-drawing characters when not in UTF-8 locale.
5574 + add check/fix to comp_parse.c to suppress warning about missing acsc
5575 string. This happens in configurations where raw termcap information
5576 is processed; tic already does this and other checks.
5577 + modify tic's check for ich/ich1 versus rmir/smir to only warn about
5578 ich1, to match xterm patch #70 notes.
5579 + moved information for ripped-off lines into SCREEN struct to allow
5580 use in resizeterm().
5581 + add experimental wgetch_events(), ifdef'd with NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS
5582 (adapted from patch by Ilya Zakharevich - see ncurses/README.IZ).
5583 + amend check in kgetch() from 20020824 to look only for function-keys,
5584 otherwise escape sequences are not resolved properly.
5585 > patch by Philippe Blain:
5586 + removed redundant assignment to SP->_checkfd from newterm().
5587 + check return-value of setupterm() in restartterm().
5588 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in a few places that used sizeof(chtype).
5589 + prevent dupwin() from duplicating a pad.
5590 + prevent putwin() from writing a pad.
5591 + use typeRealloc() or typeMalloc() in preference to direct calls on
5595 + add a check in kgetch() for cooked characters in the fifo to avoid
5596 calling fifo_push() when a KEY_RESIZE is available (report/analysis
5597 by Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>).
5598 + fix an overlooked case for Redhat #68199 (Philippe Blain).
5599 + ensure clearerr() is called before using ferror() e.g., in
5600 lib_screen.c (report by Philippe Blain).
5603 + modify lib_screen.c and lib_newwin.c to maintain the SCREEN-specific
5604 pointers for curscr/stdscr/newscr when scr_save() and scr_restore()
5605 modify the global curscr/stdscr/newscr variables. Fixes Redhat
5607 + add checks for null pointer in calls to tparm() and tgoto() based on
5608 FreeBSD bug report. If ncurses were built with termcap support, and
5609 the first call to tgoto() were a zero-length string, the result would
5610 be a null pointer, which was not handled properly.
5611 + correct a typo in terminfo.head, which gave the octal code for colon
5613 + remove the "tic -u" option from 20020810, since it did not account
5614 for nested "tc=" clauses, and when that was addressed, was still
5618 + add tic -A option to suppress capabilities which are commented out
5619 when translating to termcap.
5620 + add tic -u option to provide older behavior of "tc=" clauses.
5621 + modified tic to expand all but the final "tc=" clause in a termcap
5622 entry, to accommodate termcap libraries which do not handle multiple
5624 + correct typo in curs_inopts.3x regarding CS8/CS7 usage (report by
5626 + remove a couple of redundant uses of A_ATTRIBUTES in expressions
5627 using AttrOf(), which already incorporates that mask (report by
5629 + document TABSIZE variable.
5630 + add NCURSES_ASSUMED_COLORS environment variable, to allow users to
5631 override compiled-in default black-on-white assumption used in
5632 assume_default_colors().
5633 + correct an off-by-one comparison against max_colors in COLORFGBG
5635 + correct a use of uninitialized memory found by valgrind (reported by
5636 Olaf Buddenhagen <olafBuddenhagen@web.de>).
5637 + modified wresize() to ensure that a failed realloc will not corrupt
5638 the window structure, and to make subwindows fit within the resized
5639 window (completes Debian #87678, Debian #101699)
5642 + fix an off-by-one in lib_pad.c check for limits of pad (patch by
5644 + revise logic for BeOS in lib_twait.c altered in 20011013 to restore
5645 logic used by lib_getch.c's support for GPM or EMX mouse (report by
5647 + remove NCURSES_CONST from several prototypes in curses.wide, to make
5648 the --enable-const --enable-widec configure options to work together
5649 (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@yahoo.com>).
5652 + finish no-leak checking in cardfile.c, using this for testing changes
5654 + simplify _nc_freeall() using delscreen().
5657 + check error-return from _nc_set_tty_mode() in _nc_initscr() and
5658 reset_prog_mode() (report/patch by Philippe Blain).
5659 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52, to address
5660 problem with identifying C++ bool type.
5661 + correct/improve logic to produce an exit status for errors in tput,
5662 which did not exit with an error when told to put a string not in the
5663 current terminfo entry (report by David Gomez <david@pleyades.net>).
5664 + modify configure script AC_OUTPUT() call to work around defect in
5665 autoconf 2.52 which adds an ifdef'd include to the generated
5666 configure definitions.
5667 + remove fstat() check from scr_init(), which also fixes a missing
5668 include for <sys/stat.h> from 20020713 (reported by David Ellement,
5669 fix suggested by Philippe Blain).
5670 + update curs_scanw.3x manpage to note that XSI curses differs from
5671 SVr4 curses: return-values are incompatible.
5672 + correct several prototypes in manpages which used const
5673 inconsistently with the curses.h file, and removed spurious const's
5674 in a few places from curses.h, e.g., for wbkgd() (report by Glenn
5675 Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>).
5676 + change internal type used by tparm() to long, to work with LP64 model.
5677 + modify nc_alloc.h to allow building with g++, for testing.
5680 + add resize-handling to cardfile.c test program.
5681 + altered resizeterm() to avoid having it fail when a child window
5682 cannot be resized because it would be larger than its parent. (More
5683 work must be done on this, but it works well enough to integrate).
5684 + improve a limit-check in lib_refresh.c
5685 + remove check in lib_screen.c relating dumptime to file's modification
5686 times, since that would not necessarily work for remotely mounted
5688 + modify lrtest to simplify debugging changes to resizeterm, e.g.,
5689 t/T commands to enable/disable tracing.
5690 + updated status of multibyte support in TO-DO.
5691 + update contact info in source-files (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
5694 + add Caps.hpux11, as an example.
5695 + modify version_filter(), used to implement -R option for tic and
5696 infocmp, to use computed array offsets based on the Caps.* file which
5697 is actually configured, rather than constants which correspond to
5699 + reorganized lib_raw.c to avoid updating SP and cur_term state if the
5700 functions fail (reported by Philippe Blain).
5701 + add -Wundef to gcc warnings, adjust a few ifdef's to accommodate gcc.
5704 + correct parameters to setcchar() in ncurses.c (cf: 20020406).
5705 + set locale in most test programs (view.c and ncurses.c were the
5707 + add configure option --with-build-cppflags (report by Maksim A
5708 Nikulin <M.A.Nikulin@inp.nsk.su>).
5709 + correct a typo in wide-character logic for lib_bkgnd.c (Philippe
5711 + modify lib_wacs.c to not cancel the acsc, smacs, rmacs strings when
5712 in UTF-8 locale. Wide-character functions use Unicode values, while
5713 narrow-character functions use the terminfo data.
5714 + fix a couple of places in Ada95/samples which did not compile with
5716 + modify mkinstalldirs so the DOS-pathname case is locale-independent.
5717 + fix locale problem in MKlib_gen.sh by forcing related variables to
5718 POSIX (C), using same approach as autoconf (set variables only if
5719 they were set before). Update MKterminfo.sh and MKtermsort.sh to
5723 + add charset to generated html.
5724 + add mvterm entry, adapted from a FreeBSD bug-report by Daniel Rudy
5725 <dcrudy@pacbell.net> -TD
5726 + add rxvt-16color, ibm+16color entries -TD
5727 + modify check in --disable-overwrite option so that it is used by
5728 default unless the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr, in attempt to
5729 work around packagers, e.g., for Sun's freeware, who do not read the
5733 + modify wgetch() to allow returning ungetch'd KEY_RESIZE as a function
5734 key code in get_wch().
5735 + extended resize-handling in test/ncurses 'a' menu to the entire
5736 stack of windows created with 'w' commands.
5737 + improve $COLORFGBG feature by interpreting an out-of-range color
5738 value as an SGR 39 or 49, for foreground/background respectively.
5739 + correct a typo in configure --enable-colorfgbg option, and move it
5740 to the experimental section (cf: 20011208).
5743 + add logic to dump_entry.c to remove function-key definitions that do
5744 not fit into the 1023-byte limit for generated termcaps. This makes
5746 + more improvements to tic's warnings, including logic to ignore
5747 differences between delay values in sgr strings.
5748 + move definition of KEY_RESIZE into MKkeydefs.sh script, to
5749 accommodate Caps.osf1r5 which introduced a conflicting definition.
5752 + add simple resize-handling in test/ncurses.c 'a' menu.
5753 + fixes in keyname() and _tracechar() to handle negative values.
5754 + make tic's warnings about mismatches in sgr strings easier to follow.
5755 + correct tic checks for number of parameters in smgbp and smglp.
5756 + improve scoansi terminfo entry, and add scoansi-new entry -TD
5757 + add pcvt25-color terminfo entry -TD
5758 + add kf13-kf48 strings to cons25w terminfo entry (reported by Stephen
5759 Hurd <deuce@lordlegacy.org> in newsgroup lucky.freebsd.bugs) -TD
5760 + add entrypoint _nc_trace_ttymode(), use this to distinguish the
5761 Ottyb and Nttyb members of terminal (aka cur_term), for tracing.
5764 + correct and simplify logic for lib_pad.c change in 20020518 (reported
5768 + fix lib_pad.c for case of drawing a double-width character which
5769 falls off the left margin of the pad (patch by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij
5770 <lerdsuwa@users.sourceforge.net>)
5771 + modify configure script to work around broken gcc 3.1 "--version"
5772 option, which adds unnecessary trash to the requested information.
5773 + adjust ifdef's in case SIGWINCH is not defined, e.g., with DJGPP
5774 (reported by Ben Decker <deckerben@freenet.de>).
5777 + implement vid_puts(), vid_attr(), term_attrs() based on the narrow-
5778 character versions as well.
5779 + implement erasewchar(), killwchar() based on erasechar() and
5781 + modify erasechar() and killchar() to return ERR if the value was
5783 + correct a bug in wresize() in handling subwindows (based on patch by
5784 Roger Gammans <rgammans@computer-surgery.co.uk>, report by Scott Beck
5785 <scott@gossamer-threads.com>).
5786 + improve test/tclock.c by making the second-hand update more often
5787 if gettimeofday() is available.
5790 + workaround for Solaris sed with MKlib_gen.sh (reported by Andy
5791 Tsouladze <andyt@mypoints.com>).
5794 + correct return-value from getcchar(), making it consistent with
5796 + reorder loops that generate makefile rules for different models vs
5797 subsets so configure --with-termlib works again. This was broken by
5798 logic added to avoid duplicate rules in changes to accommodate cygwin
5799 dll's (reported by George.R.Goffe@seagate.com).
5800 + update config.guess, config.sub
5803 + modify ifdef's in write_entry.c to allow use of symbolic links on
5804 platforms with no hard links, e.g., BeOS.
5805 + modify a few includes to allow compile with BeOS, which has stdbool.h
5806 with a conflicting definition for 'bool' versus its OS.h definition.
5807 + amend MKlib_gen.sh to work with gawk, which defines 'func' as an
5808 alias for 'function'.
5811 + correct form of prototype for ripoffline().
5812 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to test that all functions marked as implemented
5816 + add manpages: curs_get_wstr.3x, curs_in_wchstr.3x
5817 + implement wgetn_wstr().
5818 + implement win_wchnstr().
5819 + remove redefinition of unget_wch() in lib_gen.c (reported by
5820 Jungshik Shin <jshin@jtan.com>).
5823 + modified several of the test programs to allow them to compile with
5824 vendor curses implementations, e.g., Solaris, AIX -TD
5827 + modified test/configure to allow configuring against ncursesw.
5828 + change WACS_xxx definition to use address, to work like Tru64 curses.
5831 + add 'e' and 'm' toggles to 'a', 'A' tests in ncurses.c to demonstrate
5832 effect of echo/noecho and meta modes.
5833 + add 'A' test to ncurses.c to demonstrate wget_wch() and related
5835 + add manpage: curs_get_wch.3x
5836 + implement unget_wch().
5837 + implement wget_wch().
5840 + regenerated html manpages.
5841 + add manpages: curs_in_wch.3x, curs_ins_wch.3x, curs_ins_wstr.3x
5842 + implement wins_wch().
5843 + implement win_wch().
5844 + implement wins_nwstr(), wins_wstr().
5847 + add manpages: curs_addwstr.3x, curs_winwstr.3x
5848 + implement winnwstr(), winwstr().
5851 + add manpages: curs_add_wchstr.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x
5852 + document wunctrl, key_name.
5853 + implement key_name().
5854 + remove const's in lib_box.c incorrectly leftover after splitting off
5856 + update llib-lncurses, llib-ncursesw, fix configure script related to
5860 + remove quotes on "SYNOPSIS" in man/curs_box_set.3x, which resulted
5861 in spurious symlinks on install.
5864 + implement whline_set(), wvline_set(), add manpage curs_border_set.
5865 + add subtest 'b' to 'F' and 'f' in ncurses.c to demonstrate use of
5866 box() and box_set() functions.
5867 + add subtest 'u' to 'F' in ncurses.c, to demonstrate use of addstr()
5868 given UTF-8 string equivalents of WACS_xxx symbols.
5869 + minor fixes to several manpages based on groff -ww output.
5870 + add descriptions of external variables of termcap interface to
5871 the manpage (report by Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>).
5872 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
5873 + correct configure option --with-bool, which was executed as
5875 + add quotes for parameters of --with-bool and --with-ospeed configure
5877 > patch by Sven Verdoolaege (report by Gerhard Haering
5878 <haering_linux@gmx.de>):
5879 + correct typos in definitions of several wide-character macros:
5880 waddwstr, wgetbkgrnd, mvaddwstr, mvwadd_wchnstr, mvwadd_wchnstr,
5882 + pass $(CPPFLAGS) to MKlib_gen.sh, thereby fixing a missing definition
5883 of _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, e.g., on Solaris
5886 + implement wide-acs characters for UTF-8 locales. When in UTF-8
5887 locale, ignore narrow version of acs. Add 'F' test to test/ncurses.c
5889 + correct prototype in keybound manpage (noted from a Debian mailing
5893 + add several cases to the wscanw() example in testcurs.c, showing the
5895 + implement a simple vsscanf() fallback function which uses the %n
5896 conversion to help parse the input data (prompted by discussion with
5897 Albert Chin-A-Young).
5898 + modify mk-1st.awk and test/Makefile.in to add $(LDFLAGS) when making
5899 shared libraries, and to use $(CFLAGS) when linking test programs
5900 (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
5901 + add a call to _nc_keypad() in keypad() to accommodate applications
5902 such as nvi, which use curses for output but not for input (fixes
5903 Debian #131263, cf: 20011215).
5904 + add entrypoints to resizeterm.c which provide better control over the
5905 process: is_term_resized() and resize_term(). The latter restores
5906 the original design of resizeterm() before KEY_RESIZE was added in
5907 970906. Do this to accommodate 20010922 changes to view.c, but allow
5908 for programs with their own sigwinch handler, such as lynx (reported
5909 by Russell Ruby <russ@math.orst.edu>).
5912 + fix a typo in change to mk-1st.awk, which broke the shared-library
5913 makefile rules (reported by Martin Mokrejs).
5916 + update config.guess, config.sub
5917 + finish changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
5918 + fix a typo in mvwchat() macro (reported by Cy <yam@homerow.net).
5921 + add case in lib_baudrate.c for B921600 (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
5922 + correct missing sed-editing stage in manpage installs which is used
5923 to rename manpages, broken in 20010324 fix for Debian #89939 (Debian
5925 + remove -L$(libdir) from linker flags, probably not needed any more
5926 since HPUX is handled properly (reported by Niibe Yutaka
5928 + add configure check for mbstate_t, needed for wide-character
5929 configuration. On some platforms we must include <wchar.h> to
5930 define this (reported by Daniel Jacobowitz).
5931 + incorporate some of the changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
5934 + workaround for awk did not work with mawk, adjusted shell script.
5937 + add Caps.osf1r5, as an example.
5938 + modify behavior of can_clear_with() so that if an application is
5939 running in a non-bce terminals with default colors enabled, it
5940 returns true, allowing the user to select/paste text without picking
5941 up extraneous trailing blanks (adapted from patch by Daniel
5942 Jacobowitz <dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu>).
5943 + modify generated curses.h to ifdef-out prototypes for extensions if
5944 they are disabled, and to define curses_version() as a string in that
5945 case. This is needed to make the programs such as tic build in that
5947 + modified generated headers.sh to remove a gzip'd version of the
5948 target file if it exists, in case non-gzip'd manpages are installed
5949 into a directory where gzip'd ones exist. In that case, the latter
5951 + corrected a redundant initialization of signal handlers from 20010922
5953 + clarified bug-reporting address in terminfo.src (report by John H
5954 DuBois III <spcecdt@armory.com>).
5955 > several fixes from Robert Joop:
5956 + do not use "-v" option of awk in MKkey_defs.sh because it does not
5957 work with SunOS nawk.
5958 + modify definitions for libutf8 in curses.h to avoid redefinition
5960 + quoted references to compiler in shell command in misc/Makefile, in
5961 case it uses multiple tokens.
5964 + restore special case from 20010922 changes to omit SA_RESTART when
5965 setting up SIGWINCH handler, which is needed to allow wgetch() to be
5966 interrupted by that signal.
5967 + updated configure macro CF_WITH_PATHLIST, to omit some double quotes
5968 not needed with autoconf 2.52
5969 + revert configure script to autoconf 2.13 patched with
5970 autoconf-2.13-19990117.patch.gz (or later)
5972 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
5973 because autoconf 2.52 macro AC_PROG_AWK does not work on HPUX 11.0
5974 (report by David Ellement <ellement@sdd.hp.com>). This also fixes a
5975 different problem configuring with Mac OS X (reported by Marc Smith
5976 <marc.a.smith@home.com>).
5979 + modify include/edit_cfg.h to eliminate BROKEN_LINKER symbol from
5981 + move prototype for _nc_vsscanf() into curses.h.in to omit
5982 HAVE_VSSCANF symbol from curses.h, which was dependent upon the
5983 ncurses_cfg.h file which is not installed.
5984 + use ACS_LEN rather than SIZEOF(acs_map) in trace code of lib_acs.c,
5985 to work with broken linker configuration, e.g., cygwin (report by
5986 Robert Joop <rj@rainbow.in-berlin.de>).
5987 + make napms() call _nc_timed_wait() rather than poll() or select(),
5988 to work around broken implementations of these on cygwin.
5991 + drop configure macro CF_WIDEC_SHIFT, since that was rendered obsolete
5992 by Sven Verdoolaege's rewrite of wide-character support. This makes
5993 libncursesw incompatible again, but makes the header files almost the
5994 same as in the narrow-character configuration.
5995 + simplify definitions that combine wide/narrow versions of bkgd, etc.,
5996 to eliminate differences between the wide/narrow versions of curses.h
5997 + correct typo in configure macro CF_FUNC_VSSCANF
5998 + correct location of call to _nc_keypad() from 20011215 changes which
5999 prevented keypad() from being disabled (reported by Lars Hecking).
6002 + rewrote ncurses 'a' test to exercise wgetch() and keypad() functions
6003 better, e.g., by adding a 'w' command to create new windows which
6004 may have different keypad() settings.
6005 + corrected logic of keypad() by adding internal screen state to track
6006 whether the terminal's keypad-mode has been set. Use this in
6007 wgetch() to update the keypad-mode according to whether the
6008 associated window's keypad-mode has been set with keypad(). This
6009 corrects a related problem restoring terminal state after handling
6010 SIGTSTP (reported by Mike Castle).
6011 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52
6012 autoconf-2.52-patch.gz
6014 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
6015 + update config.guess, config.sub from
6016 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
6017 + minor changes to quoting in configure script to allow it to work
6021 + modify final checks in lib_setup.c for line and col values, making
6023 + modify acs_map[] if configure --broken-linker is specified, to make
6024 it use a function rather than an array (prompted by an incorrect
6025 implementation in cygwin package).
6026 + correct spelling of configure option --enable-colorfgbg, which
6027 happened to work if --with-develop was set (noted in cygwin package
6029 + modify ifdef for genericerror() to compile with SUNWspro Sun WorkShop
6030 6 update 1 C++ 5.2 (patch by Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu>).
6031 + add configure checks to see if ncurses' fallback vsscanf() will
6032 compile either of the special cases for FILE structs, and if not,
6033 force it to the case which simply returns an error (report by
6034 Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu> indicates that Solaris 8 with
6035 64-bits does not allow access to FILE's fields).
6036 + modify ifdef's for c++/cursesw.cc to use the fallback vsscanf() in
6037 the ncurses library if no better substitute for this can be found
6039 + modify the build to name dynamic libraries according to the
6040 convention used on OS X and Darwin. Rather than something like
6041 libncurses.dylib.5.2, Darwin would name it libncurses. 5.dylib.
6042 There are a few additional minor fixes, such as setting the library
6043 version and compatibility version numbers (patch by Jason Evans
6044 <jevans@apple.com>).
6045 + use 'sh' to run mkinstalldirs, to work around problems with buggy
6046 versions of 'make' on OS/2 (report by John Polterak <jp@eyup.org>).
6047 + correct typo in manpage description of curs_set() (Debian #121548).
6048 + replace the configure script existence-check for mkstemp() by one
6049 that checks if the function works, needed for older glibc and
6053 + modify script that generates fallbacks.c to compile a temporary
6054 copy of the terminfo source in case the host does not contain all of
6055 the entries requested for fallbacks (request by Greg Roelofs).
6056 + modify configure script to accommodate systems such as Mac OS X whose
6057 <stdbool.h> header defines a 'bool' type inconsistent with ncurses,
6058 which normally makes 'bool' consistent with C++. Include <stdbool.h>
6059 from curses.h to force consistent usage, define a new type
6060 NCURSES_BOOL and related that to the exported 'bool' as either a
6061 typedef or definition, according to whether <stdbool.h> is present
6062 (based on a bug report for tin 1.5.9 by Aaron Adams <adamsa@mac.com>).
6065 + added/updated terminfo entries for M$ telnet and KDE konsole -TD
6068 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
6069 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
6070 + add putty terminfo entry -TD
6071 + if configuring for wide-curses, define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, since
6072 this may not otherwise be defined to make test/view.c compile.
6075 + review/correct several missing/generated items in curses.wide, sorted
6076 the lists to make subsequent diff's easier to track.
6079 + add manual pages for add_wch(), echo_wchar(), getcchar(),
6080 mvadd_wch(), mvwadd_wch(), setcchar(), wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar().
6081 + implement wecho_wchar()
6082 + modify _tracedump() to handle wide-characters by mapping them to '?'
6083 and control-characters to '.', to make the trace file readable. Also
6084 dynamically allocate the buffer used by _tracedump() for formatting
6086 + modify T_CALLED/T_RETURN macros to ease balancing call/return lines
6087 in a trace by using curly braces.
6088 + implement _nc_viscbuf(), for tracing cchar_t arrays.
6089 + correct trace-calls in setcchar() and getcchar() functions, which
6090 traced the return values but not the entry to each function.
6091 + correct usage message in test/view.c, which still mentioned -u flag.
6094 + modify configure script to allow building with termcap only, or with
6095 fallbacks only. In this case, we do not build tic and toe.
6096 + add configure --with-termpath option, to override default TERMPATH
6097 value of /etc/termcap:/usr/share/misc/termcap.
6098 + cosmetic change to tack: make menu descriptions agree with menu
6102 + rewrote limit-checks in wscrl() and associated _nc_scroll_window(),
6103 to ensure that if the parameter of wscrl() is larger than the size of
6104 the scrolling region, then the scrolling region will be cleared
6105 (report by Ben Kohlen <bckohlen@yahoo.com>).
6106 + add trace/varargs.c, using this to trace parameters in lib_printw.c
6107 + implement _tracecchar_t2() and _tracecchar_t().
6108 + split-out trace/visbuf.c
6109 + correct typo in lib_printw.c changes from 20010922 (report by Mike
6113 + modify run_tic.sh to check if the build is a cross-compile. In that
6114 case, do not use the build's tic to install the terminfo database
6115 (report by Rafael Rodriguez Velilla <rrv@tid.es>).
6116 + modify mouse click resolution so that mouseinterval(-1) will disable
6117 it, e.g., to handle touchscreens via a slow connection (request by
6118 Byron Stanoszek <gandalf@winds.org>).
6119 + correct mouseinterval() default value shown in curs_mouse.3x
6120 + remove conflicting definition of mouse_trafo() (reported by Lars
6121 Hecking, using gcc 2.95.3).
6124 + simpler fix for signal_name(), to replace the one overlooked in
6125 20010929 (reported by Larry Virden).
6128 + add -i option to view.c, to test ncurses' check for non-default
6129 signal handler for SIGINT, etc.
6130 + add cases for shared-libraries on Darwin/OS X (patch by Rob Braun
6131 <bbraun@synack.net>).
6132 + modify tset to restore original I/O modes if an error is encountered.
6133 Also modify to use buffered stderr consistently rather than mixing
6135 + change signal_name() function to use if-then-else rather than case
6136 statement, since signal-values aren't really integers (reported by
6138 + add limit checks in wredrawln(), fixing a problem where lynx was
6139 repainting a pad which was much larger than the screen.
6142 + fix: PutRange() was counting the second part of a wide character as
6143 part of a run, resulting in a cursor position that was one too far
6144 (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
6145 + modify resizeterm() to not queue a KEY_RESIZE if there was no
6146 SIGWINCH, thereby separating the two styles of SIGWINCH handling
6148 + simplified lib_tstp.c, modify it to use SA_RESTART flag for SIGWINCH.
6149 + eliminate several static buffers in the terminfo compiler, using
6151 + modify MKkeyname.awk so that keyname() does not store its result into
6152 a static buffer that is overwritten by the next call.
6153 + reorganize the output of infocmp -E and -e options to compile cleanly
6154 with gcc -Wwrite-strings warnings.
6155 + remove redefinition of chgat/wchgat/mvwchgat from curses.wide
6158 + add label to test/view.c, showing the name of the last key or signal
6159 that made the screen repaint, to make it clearer when a sigwinch
6161 + use ExitProgram() consistently in the test-programs to make it
6162 simpler to test leaks with dmalloc, etc.
6163 + move hashtab static data out of hashmap.c into SCREEN struct.
6164 + make NO_LEAK code compile with revised WINDOWLIST structs.
6167 + modify tgetent() to check if exit_attribute_mode resets the alternate
6168 character set, and if so, attempt to adjust the copy of the termcap
6169 "me" string which it will return to eliminate that part. In
6170 particular, 'screen' would lose track of line-drawing characters
6171 (report by Frederic L W Meunier <0@pervalidus.net>, analysis by
6175 + specify DOCTYPE in html manpages.
6176 + add missing macros for several "generated" functions: attr_get(),
6177 attr_off(), attr_on(), attr_set(), chgat(), mvchgat(), mvwchgat() and
6179 + modify view.c to agree with non-experimental status of ncurses'
6181 + change the sense of the -r option, making it default to ncurses'
6183 + add a note explaining what functions are unsafe in a signal
6185 + add a -c option, to set color display, for testing.
6186 + unset $data variable in MKterminfo.sh script, to address potential
6187 infinite loop if shell malfunction (report by Samuel Mikes
6188 <smikes@cubane.com>, for bash 2.05.0 on a Linux 2.0.36 system).
6189 + change kbs in mach terminfo entries to ^? (Marcus Brinkmann
6190 <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>).
6191 + correct logic for COLORFGBG environment variable: if rxvt is compiled
6192 with xpm support, the variable has three fields, making it slightly
6193 incompatible with itself. In either case, the background color is
6197 + move calls to def_shell_mode() and def_prog_mode() before loop with
6198 callbacks in lib_set_term.c, since the c++ demo otherwise initialized
6199 the tty modes before saving them (patch by John David Anglin
6200 <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>).
6201 + duplicate logic used to initialize trace in newterm(), in initscr()
6202 to avoid confusing trace of initscr().
6203 + simplify allocation of WINDOW and WINDOWLIST structs by making the
6204 first a part of the second rather than storing a pointer. This saves
6205 a call to malloc for each window (discussion with Philippe Blain).
6206 + remove unused variable 'used_ncv' from lib_vidattr.c (Philippe
6208 + modify c++/Makefile.in to accommodate archive programs that are
6209 different for C++ than for C, and add cases for vendor's C++
6210 compilers on Solaris and IRIX (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
6211 + correct manpage description of criteria for deciding if the terminal
6212 supports xterm mouse controls.
6213 + add several configure script options to aid with cross-compiling:
6214 --with-build-cc, --with-build-cflags, --with-build-ldflags, and
6215 --with-build-libs (request by Greg Roelofs).
6216 + change criteria for deciding if configure is cross-compiling from
6217 host/build mismatch to host/target mismatch (request by Greg Roelofs
6218 <greg.roelofs@philips.com>).
6219 + correct logic for infocmp -e and -E options which writes the data for
6220 the ext_Names[] array. This is needed if one constructs a fallback
6221 table for a terminfo entry which uses extended termcap names, e.g.,
6222 AX in a color xterm.
6223 + fix undefined NCURSES_PATHSEP when configure --disable-database
6227 + fix for VALID_BOOLEAN() macro when char is not signed.
6228 + modify 'clean' rule for C++ binding to work with Sun compiler, which
6229 caches additional information in a subdirectory of the objects.
6230 + added llib-ncursesw.
6233 + add Caps.keys example for experimental extended function keys
6234 (adapted from a patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
6235 + correct parameter types of vidputs() and vidattr() to agree with
6236 header files (report by William P Setzer).
6237 + fix typos in several man-pages (patch by William P Setzer).
6238 + remove unneeded ifdef for __GNUG__ in CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC configure
6239 macro, which made ncurses C++ binding fail to build with other
6240 C++ compilers such as HPUX 11.x (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
6241 + workaround for bug in HPUX 11.x C compiler: add a blank after
6242 NCURSES_EXPORT macro in form.h (report by Albert Chin-A-Young)
6243 + ignore blank lines in Caps* files in MKkey_defs.sh script (report by
6244 Albert Chin-A-Young).
6245 + correct definition of key_end in Caps.aix4, which left KEY_END
6246 undefined (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
6247 + remove a QNX-specific fallback prototype for vsscanf(), which is
6248 obsolete with QNX RTP.
6249 + review/fix some of the T() and TR() macro calls, having noticed that
6250 there was no data for delwin() in a trace of dialog because there was
6251 no returnVoid call for wtimeout(). Also, traces in lib_twait.c are
6252 now selected under TRACE_IEVENT rather than TRACE_CALLS.
6255 + add a _nc_access() check before opening files listed via $TERMPATH.
6256 + using modified man2html, regenerate some of the html manpages to fix
6257 broken HREF's where the link was hyphenated.
6260 + add some limit/pointer checks to -S option of tputs.
6261 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
6262 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
6263 + add a note in curs_termcap.3x regarding a defect in the XSI
6264 description of tgetent (based on a discussion with Urs Jansen
6265 regarding the HPUX 11.x implementation, whose termcap interface is
6266 not compatible with existing termcap programs).
6267 + modify manhtml rule in dist.mk to preserve copyright notice on the
6268 generated files, as well as to address HTML style issues reported by
6269 tidy and weblint. Regenerated/updated corresponding html files.
6270 + comment out use of Protected_Character and related rarely used
6271 attributes in ncurses Ada95 test/demo to compile with wide-character
6275 + implement a simple example in C++ demo to test scanw().
6276 + corrected stdio function used to implement scanw() in cursesw.cc
6277 + correct definition of RemAttr() macro from 20010602 changes, which
6278 caused C++ SillyDemo to not show line-drawing characters.
6279 + modify C++ binding, adding getKey() which can be overridden by user
6280 to substitute functions other than getch() for keyboard processing
6281 of forms and menus (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
6284 + fix some of the trace calls which needed modification to work with
6285 new wide-character structures.
6286 + modify magic-cookie code in tty_update.c to compile with new
6287 wide-character structures (report by <George.R.Goffe@seagate.com>).
6288 + ensure that _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined in curses.priv.h if
6289 compiling for wide-character configuration.
6290 + make addwnstr() handle non-spacing characters (patch by Sven
6294 + add configure check to define _GNU_SOURCE, needed to prop up glibc
6296 + split-out include/curses.wide to solve spurious redefinitions caused
6297 by defining _GNU_SOURCE, and move includes for <signal.h> before
6298 <curses.h> to work around misdefinition of ERR in glibc 2.1.3 header
6300 + extended ospeed change to NetBSD and OpenBSD -TD
6301 + modify logic in lib_baudrate.c for ospeed, for FreeBSD to make it
6302 work properly for termcap applications (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
6305 + correct an overlooked CharOf/UChar instance (reports by Eugene Lee
6306 <eugene@anime.net>, Sven Verdoolaege).
6307 + correct unneeded ifdef for wunctrl() (reported by Sven Verdoolaege)
6310 + change overlooked several CharOf/UChar instances.
6311 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
6312 + correct a typo in wunctrl(), which made it appear that botwc() was
6313 needed (no such function: use btowc()).
6314 + reimplement wide-character demo in test/view.c, using new functions.
6315 + implement getcchar(), setcchar(), wadd_wchnstr() and related macros.
6316 + fix a syntax problem with do/if/while in PUTC macro (curses.priv.h).
6319 + add parentheses in macros for malloc in test.priv.h, fixes an
6320 expression in view.c (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.co.at>).
6321 + add Caps.uwin, as an example.
6322 + change the way curses.h is generated, making the list of function
6323 key definitions extracted from the Caps file.
6324 + add #undef's before possible redefinition of ERR and OK in curses.h
6325 + modify logic in tic, toe, tput and tset which checks for basename of
6326 argv[0] to work properly on systems such as OS/2 which have
6327 case-independent filenames and/or program suffixes, e.g., ".ext".
6330 + add a configure check, if --enable-widec is specified, for putwc(),
6331 which may be in libutf8.
6332 + remove some unnecessary text from curs_extend.3x and
6333 default_colors.3x which caused man-db to make incorrect symbolic
6334 links (Debian #99550).
6335 + add configure check if cast for _IO_va_list is needed to compile
6336 C++ vscan code (Debian #97945).
6337 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
6338 + correct code that used non-standard auto-initialization of a struct,
6339 which gcc allows (report by Larry Virden).
6340 + use putwc() in PUTC() macro.
6341 + make addstr() work for the special case where the codeset is
6342 non-stateful (eg. UTF-8), as well as stateful codesets.
6345 + correct loop expression in NEXT_CHAR macro for lib_addstr.c changes
6346 from 20010602 (report by Mike Castle).
6349 + modify mvcur() to avoid emitting newline characters when nonl() mode
6350 is set. Normally this is not a problem since the actual terminal
6351 mode is set to suppress nl/crlf translations, however it is useful to
6352 allow the caller to manipulate the terminal mode to avoid staircasing
6353 effects after spawning a process which writes messages (for lynx
6355 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>:
6356 + remove redundant type-conversion in fifo_push()
6357 + correct definition of addwstr() macro in curses.h.in
6358 + remove _nc_utf8_outch()
6359 + rename most existing uses of CharOf() to UChar(), e.g., where it is
6360 used to prevent sign-extension in ctype macros.
6361 + change some chtype's to attr_t's where the corresponding variables
6362 are used to manipulate attributes.
6363 + UpdateAttr() was applied to both attributes (attr_t) and characters
6364 (chtype). Modify macro and calls to it to make these distinct.
6365 + add CharEq() macro, use in places where wide-character configuration
6366 implementation uses a struct for cchar_t.
6367 + moved struct ldat into curses.priv.h, to hide implementation details.
6368 + change CharOf() macro to use it for masking A_CHARTEXT data from
6370 + add L() macro to curses.priv.h, for long-character literals.
6371 + replace several assignments from struct ldat entries to chtype or
6372 char values with combinations of CharOf() and AttrOf() macros.
6373 + add/use intermediate ChAttrOf() and ChCharOf() macros where we know
6374 we are using chtype data.
6375 + add/use lowlevel attribute manipulation macros AddAttr(), RemAttr()
6377 + add/use SetChar() macro, to change a cchar_t based on a character and
6379 + convert most internal use of chtype to NCURSES_CH_T, to simplify use
6380 of cchar_t for wide-character configuration. Similarly, use ARG_CH_T
6381 where a pointer would be more useful.
6382 + add stubs for tracing cchar_t values.
6383 + add/use macro ISBLANK()
6384 + add/use constructors for cchar_t's: NewChar(), NewChar2().
6385 + add/use macros CHREF(), CHDEREF(), AttrOfD(), CharOfD() to facilitate
6386 passing cchar_t's by address.
6387 + add/use PUTC_DATA, PUTC() macros.
6388 + for wide-character configuration, move the window background data to
6389 the end of the WINDOW struct so that whether _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
6390 is defined or not, the offsets in the struct will not change.
6391 + modify addch() to work with wide-characters.
6392 + mark several wide-character functions as generated in curses.h.in
6393 + implement wunctrl(), wadd_wch(), wbkgrndset(), wbkgrnd(),
6394 wborder_set() and waddnwstr().
6397 + add experimental --with-caps=XXX option to customize to similar
6398 terminfo database formats such as AIX 4.x
6399 + add Caps.aix4 as an example.
6400 + modify Caps to add columns for the the KEY_xxx symbols.
6401 + modify configure --with-widec to suppress overwrite of libcurses.so
6403 + add checks to toe.c to avoid being confused by files and directories
6404 where we would expect the reverse, e.g., source-files in the
6405 top-level terminfo levels as is the case for AIX.
6408 + add top-level 'depend' rule for the C sources, assuming that the
6409 makedepend program is available. As a side-effect, this makes
6410 the generated sources, as in "make sources" (prompted by a report
6411 by Mike Castle that "make -j" fails because the resulting parallel
6412 processes race to generate ncurses/names.c).
6413 + modify configure script so that --disable-overwrite option's action
6414 to add a symbolic link for libcurses applies to the static library as
6415 well as the shared library when both are configured (report by Felix
6416 Natter <f.natter@ndh.net>).
6417 + add ELKS terminfo entries (Federico Bianchi
6418 <bianchi@www.arte.unipi.it>)
6419 + add u6 (CSR) to Eterm (Michael Jennings).
6422 + modify test/ncurses.c to work with xterm-256color, which has fewer
6423 color pairs than colors*colors (report by David Ellement
6424 <ellement@sdd.hp.com>).
6427 + corrected screen.xterm-xfree86 entry.
6428 + update comment in Caps regarding IBM (AIX) function-key definitions.
6431 + modify c++/Makefile.in to link with libncurses++w.a when configured
6432 for wide-characters (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
6433 + add check in _nc_trace_buf() to refrain from freeing a null pointer.
6434 + improve CF_PROG_INSTALL macro using CF_DIRNAME.
6435 + update config.guess, config.sub from autoconf 2.49e (alpha).
6438 + add secondary check in tic.c, similar_sgr() to see if the reason
6439 for mismatch was that the individual capabilities used a time-delay
6440 while sgr did not. Used this to cleanup mismatches, e.g., in vt100,
6441 and remove time-delay from Apple_Terminal entries.
6442 + add Apple_Terminal terminfo entries (Benjamin C W Sittler
6443 <bsittler@iname.com>).
6444 + correct definitions of shifted editing keys for xterm-xfree86 -TD
6445 + fix a bug in test/bs.c from 20010407 (patch by Erik Sigra).
6446 + prevent relative_move() from doing an overwrite if it detects 8-bit
6447 characters when configured for UTF-8 (reported by Sven Verdoolaege
6448 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
6451 + add configure checks for strstream.h vscan function, and similar
6452 stdio-based function which may be used in C++ binding for gcc 3.0
6453 (reports by George Goffe, Lars Hecking, Mike Castle).
6454 + rewrite parts of configure.in which used changequote(). That feature
6455 is broken in the latest autoconf alphas (e.g., 2.49d).
6456 + add a missing pathname for ncurses_dll.h, needed when building in
6457 a directory outside the source tree (patch by Sven Verdoolaege
6458 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
6459 > fix 2 bugs in test/bs.c Erik Sigra <sigra@home.se>:
6460 + no ships were ever placed in the last row or in the last column.
6461 This made the game very easy to win, because you never had to waste
6462 any shots there, but the computer did.
6463 + the squares around a sunken ship that belonged to the player were not
6464 displayed as already hit by the computer, like it does for the
6468 + add some examples of customizing screen's terminfo:
6469 screen.xterm-xfree86, screen.xterm-r6, screen.teraterm -TD
6470 + modify screen's terminfo entry to match the khome/kend in screen
6471 3.09.08 (Debian #92215).
6472 + correct a memory leak in forms library (report by Stefan Vogtner
6473 <stefan@vogtner.de>) (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
6476 + change symbols used to guard against repeated includes to begin
6477 consistently with "NCURSES_" rather than a leading underscore. There
6478 are other symbols defined in the header files which begin with a
6479 leading underscore, but they are part of the legacy interface.
6480 + reorder includes in c++ binding so that rcs identifiers can be
6482 + add .cc.ii rule to c++ makefile, to get preprocessor output for
6484 + correct configure script handling of @keyword@ substitutions when the
6485 --with-manpage-renames option is given (cf: 20000715, fixes Debian
6487 + report stack underflow/overflow in tparm() when tic -cv option is
6489 + remove spurious "%|" operator from xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry,
6490 (reported by Adam Costello <amc@cs.berkeley.edu>, Debian #89222).
6493 + cleanup of newdemo.c, fixing some ambiguous expressions noted by gcc
6494 2.95.2, and correcting some conflicting color pair initializations.
6495 + add missing copyright notice for cursesw.h
6496 + review, make minor fixes for use of '::' for referring to C-language
6497 interface from C++ binding.
6498 + modify configure check for g++ library slightly to accommodate
6499 nonstandard version number, e.g., <vendor>-2.7 (report by Ronald Ho
6500 <rho@mipos2.intel.com>).
6501 + add configure check for c++ <sstream> header, replace hardcoded
6503 + workaround for pre-release of gcc 3.0 libstdc++, which has dropped
6504 vscan from strstreambuf to follow standard, use wrapper for C vscanf
6505 instead (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@excite.com> and Matt Taggart
6506 <taggart@carmen.fc.hp.com>, fixes Debian .
6509 + modify interface of _nc_get_token() to pass 'silent' parameter to it,
6510 to make quieter loading of /etc/termcap (patch by Todd C Miller).
6511 + correct a few typos in curs_slk.3x and curs_outopts.3x manpages
6512 (patch by Todd C Miller).
6515 + compiler-warning fixes (reported by Nelson Beebe).
6518 + modify screen terminfo entry to use new 3.9.8 feature allowing xterm
6522 + broaden patterns used to match OS/2 EMX in configure script to cover
6523 variant used in newer config.guess/config.sub
6524 + remove changequote() calls from configure script, since this feature
6525 is broken in the autoconf 2.49c alpha, maintainers decline to fix.
6526 + remove macro callPutChar() from tty_update.c, since this is no longer
6527 needed (reported by Philippe Blain).
6528 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c to handle the case when the input
6529 file is really empty. Modify the next_char() function in comp_scan.c
6530 to allow arbitrarily long lines, and incidentally supply a newline to
6531 files that do not end in a newline. These changes improve tic's
6532 recovery from attempts to read binary files, e.g., its output from
6533 the terminfo database (reported by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
6536 + revert change to c++/demo.cc from 20001209, which changed definition
6537 of main() apparently to accommodate cygwin linker, but broke the demo
6539 + workaround for broken egcs 2.91.66 which calls member functions
6540 (i.e., lines() and colors() of NCursesWindow before calling its
6541 constructor. Add calls to initialize() in a few constructors which
6542 did not do this already.
6543 + use the GNAT preprocessor to make the necessary switch between TRACE
6544 and NO_TRACE configurations (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
6545 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
6546 + modify kterm terminfo entry to use SCS sequence to support alternate
6547 character set (it does not work with SI/SO).
6548 + --with-ospeed=something didn't work. configure.in checked for a
6549 $enableval where it should check for $withval. Also,
6550 ncurses/llib-lncurses still had a hardcoded short.
6553 + correction to my merge of Tom Riddle's patch that broke tic in some
6554 conditions (reported by Enoch Wexler <enoch@wexler.co.il>) -TD
6557 + modify view.c to test halfdelay(). Like other tests, this recognizes
6558 the 's' and space commands for stopping/starting polled input, shows
6559 a freerunning clock in the header. If given a parameter to 's', that
6560 makes view.c use halfdelay() with that parameter rather than
6562 + fix to allow compile with the experimental configure option
6564 + modify postprocess_termcap() to avoid overwriting key_backspace,
6565 key_left, key_down when processing a non-base entry (report/patch by
6567 + modify _nc_wrap_entry(), adding option to reallocate the string
6568 table, needed in _nc_merge_entry() when merging termcap entries.
6569 (adapted from report/patch by Tom Riddle <ftr@oracom.com>).
6570 + modify a few configure script macros to keep $CFLAGS used only for
6571 compiler options, preprocessor options in $CPPFLAGS.
6574 + correct marker positions in lrtest.c after receiving a sigwinch.
6575 + fix ifdef's in ncurses.c to build against pre-5.2 for testing.
6576 + fixes to tclock for resizing behavior, redundant computation (report
6577 and patch by A M Kuchling <akuchlin@mems-exchange.org>).
6580 + improved scoansi terminfo entry -TD
6581 + modify configure script and makefile in Ada95/src to compile a stub
6582 for the trace functions when ncurses does not provide those.
6585 + add ncurses_dll.h and related definitions to support generating DLL's
6586 with cygwin (adapted from a patch by Charles Wilson
6587 <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>, changed NCURSES_EXPORT macro to make it
6588 work with 'indent') -TD
6591 + correct prototypes for some functions in curs_termcap.3x, matching
6592 termcap.h, which matches X/Open.
6593 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
6594 + a revised version of the Ada enhancements sent in by "H.
6595 Nanosecond", aka Eugene V Melaragno <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>. This
6597 - small fixes to the existing ncurses binding
6598 - addition of some more low-level functions to the binding, including
6599 termcap and terminfo functions
6600 - An Ada implementation of the "ncurses" test application originally
6604 + modify logic in lib_setup.c to allow either lines or columns value
6605 from terminfo to be used if the screen size cannot be determined
6606 dynamically rather than requiring both (patch by Ehud Karni
6607 <ehud@unix.simonwiesel.co.il>).
6608 + add check in lib_tgoto.c's is_termcap() function to reject null or
6609 empty strings (reported by Valentin Nechayev <netch@netch.kiev.ua> to
6611 + add definition from configure script that denotes the path-separator,
6612 which is normally a colon. The path-separator is a semicolon on
6613 OS/2 EMX and similar systems which may use a colon within pathnames.
6614 + alter logic to set default for --disable-overwrite option to set it
6615 to 'yes' if the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr/local, thereby
6616 accommodating the most common cause of problems: gcc's nonstandard
6617 search rules. Other locations such as /usr/local/ncurses will
6618 default to overwriting (report by Lars Hecking <lhecking@nmrc.ie>).
6621 + modify default for --disable-overwrite configure option to disable
6622 if the --prefix or $prefix value is not /usr.
6623 + add cygwin to systems for which ncurses is installed by default into
6624 /usr rather than /usr/local.
6627 + minor optimization in comp_error.c and lib_termname.c, using
6628 strncat() to replace strncpy() (patch by Solar Designer).
6629 + add a use_terminfo_vars() check for $HOME/.termcap, and check for
6630 geteuid() to use_terminfo_vars() (patch by Solar Designer
6632 + improved cygwin terminfo entry, based on patch by
6633 <ernie_boyd@yahoo.com>.
6634 + modify _nc_write_entry() to allow for the possibility that linking
6635 aliases on a filesystem that ignores case would not succeed because
6636 the source and destination differ only by case, e.g., NCR260VT300WPP0
6637 on cygwin (report by Neil Zanella).
6638 + fix a typo in the curs_deleteln.3x man page (patch by Bernhard
6639 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
6642 + add configure option --with-ospeed to assist packagers in transition
6643 to 5.3 change to ospeed type.
6644 + add/use CharOf() macro to suppress sign-extension of char type on
6645 platforms where this is a problem in ctype macros, e.g., Solaris.
6646 + change trace output to binary format.
6647 + correct a missing quote adjustment in CF_PATH_SYNTAX autoconf
6648 macro, for OS/2 EMX configuration.
6649 + rearrange a few configure macros, moving preprocessor options to
6650 $CPPFLAGS (a now-obsolete version of autoconf did not consistently
6651 use $CPPFLAGS in both the compile and preprocessor checks).
6652 + add a check in relative_move() to guard against buffer overflow in
6653 the overwrite logic.
6656 + add message to configure script showing g++ version.
6657 + resync config.guess, config.sub
6658 + modify lib_delwin.c, making it return ERR if the window did not exist
6659 (suggested by Neil Zanella).
6660 + add cases for FreeBSD 3.1 to tdlint and makellib scripts, used this
6661 to test/review ncurses library. (Would use lclint, but it doesn't
6663 + reorganized knight.c to avoid forward references. Correct screen
6664 updates when backtracking, especially to the first cell. Add F/B/a
6667 20001021 5.2 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
6668 + update generated html files from manpages.
6669 + modify dist.mk to use edit_man.sh to substitute autoconf'd variables
6671 + fix an uninitialized pointer in read_termcap.c (report by Todd C
6672 Miller, from report/patch by Philip Guenther <guenther@gac.edu>).
6673 + correct help-message and array limit in knight.c (patch by Brian
6674 Raiter <breadbox@muppetlabs.com>).
6675 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
6676 + fix to avoid warning by GNAT-3.13p about use of inconsistent casing
6677 for some identifiers defined in the standard package.
6678 + cosmetic change to forms/fty_enum.c
6681 + correct an off-by-one position in test/railroad.c which could cause
6682 wrapping at the right margin.
6683 + test/repair some issues with libtool configuration. Make
6684 --disable-echo force libtool --silent. (Libtool does not work for
6685 OS/2 EMX, works partly for SCO - libtool is still very specific to
6687 + change default of --with-manpage-tbl to "no", since for most of the
6688 platforms which do have tbl installed, the system "man" program
6689 understands how to run tbl automatically.
6690 + minor improvement to force_bar() in comp_parse.c (Bernhard
6691 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
6692 + modify lib_tparm.c to use get_space() before writing terminating
6693 null character, both for consistency as well as to ensure that if
6694 save_char() was called immediately before, that the allocated memory
6695 is enough (patch by Sergei Ivanov).
6696 + add note about termcap ML capability which is duplicated between two
6697 different capabilities: smgl and smglr (reported by Sergei Ivanov
6698 <svivanov@pdmi.ras.ru>).
6699 + correct parameter counts in include/Caps for dclk as well as some
6700 printer-specific capabilities: csnm, defc, scs, scsd, smgtp, smglp.
6701 > patch by Johnny C Lam <lamj@stat.cmu.edu>:
6702 + add support for building with libtool (apparently version 1.3.5,
6703 since old versions do not handle -L../lib), using new configure
6704 option --with-libtool.
6705 + add configure option --with-manpage-tbl, which causes the manpages to
6706 be preprocessed by tbl(1) prior to installation,
6707 + add configure option --without-curses-h, which causes the
6708 installation process to install curses.h as ncurses.h and make
6709 appropriate changes to headers and manpages.
6712 + correct order of options/parameters in run_tic.in invocation of tic,
6713 which did not work with standard getopt() (reported by Ethan
6714 Butterfield <primus@veris.org>).
6715 + correct logic for 'reverse' variable in lib_vidattr.c, which was
6716 setting it true without checking if newmode had A_REVERSE set, e.g.,
6717 using $TERM=ansi on OS/2 EMX (see 20000917).
6718 > patch by Todd C Miller:
6719 + add a few missing use_terminfo_vars() and fixes up _nc_tgetent().
6720 Previously, _nc_cgetset() would still get called on cp so the
6721 simplest thing is to set cp to NULL if !use_terminfo_vars().
6722 + added checks for an empty $HOME environment variable.
6723 > patches for OS/2 EMX (Ilya Zakharevich):
6724 + modify convert_configure.pl to support INSTALL. Change compiler
6725 options in that script to use multithreading, needed for the mouse.
6726 + modify OS/2 mouse support, retrying as a 2-button mouse if code fails
6727 to set up a 3-button mouse.
6728 + improve code for OS/2 mouse support, using _nc_timed_wait() to
6729 replace select() call.
6732 + change type of ospeed variable back to short to match its use in
6733 legacy applications (reported by Andrey A Chernov).
6734 + add case to configure script for --enable-rpath on IRIX (patch by
6735 Albert Chin-A-Young).
6736 + minor fix to position_check() function, to ensure it gets the whole
6737 cursor report before decoding.
6738 + add configure option --disable-assumed-color, to allow pre-5.1
6739 convention of default colors used for color-pair 0 to be configured
6740 (see assume_default_colors()).
6741 + rename configure option --enable-hashmap --disable-hashmap, and
6742 reorder the configure options, splitting the experimental and
6744 + add configure option --disable-root-environ, which tells ncurses to
6745 disregard $TERMINFO and similar environment variables if the current
6746 user is root, or running setuid/setgid (based on discussion with
6748 + modified misc/run_tic.in to use tic -o, to eliminate dependency on
6749 $TERMINFO variable for installs.
6750 + add table entry for plab_norm to tput, so it passes in strings
6751 for that capability.
6752 + modify parse_format() in lib_tparm.c to ignore precision if it is
6753 longer than 10000 (report by Jouko Pynnonen).
6754 + rewrote limit checks in lib_mvcur.c using new functions
6755 _nc_safe_strcat(), etc. Made other related changes to check lengths
6756 used for strcat/strcpy (report by Jouko Pynnonen
6757 <jouko@solutions.fi>).
6760 + modify several descriptions, including those for setaf, setab, in
6761 include/Caps to indicate that the entries are parameterized. This
6762 information is used to tell which strings are translated when
6763 converting to termcap. Fixes a problem where the generated termcap
6764 would contain a spurious "%p1" for the terminfo "%p1%d".
6765 + modify ld -rpath options (e.g., Linux, and Solaris) to use an
6766 absolute pathname for the build tree's lib directory (prompted by
6767 discussion with Albert Chin-A-Young).
6768 + modify "make install.man" and "make uninstall.man" to include tack's
6770 + various fixes for install scripts used to support configure --srcdir
6771 and --with-install-prefix (reported by Matthew Clarke
6772 <Matthew_Clarke@mindlink.bc.ca>).
6773 + make configure script checks on variables $GCC and $GXX consistently
6774 compare against 'yes' rather than test if they are nonnull, since
6775 either may be set to the corresponding name of the C or C++ compiler
6776 (report/patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
6779 + modify rs2 capability in xterm-r6 and similar where cursor
6780 save/restore bracketed the sequence for resetting video attributes.
6781 The cursor restore would undo that (report by John Hawkinson
6782 <jhawk@MIT.EDU> (see NetBSD misc/11052)).
6783 + using parameter check added to tic, corrected 27 typos in
6785 + modify tic to verify that its inputs are really files, in case
6786 someone tries to read a directory (or /dev/zero).
6787 + add a check for empty buffers returned by fgets() in comp_scan.c
6788 next_char() function, in case tic is run on a non-text file (fixes
6789 a core dump reported by Aaron Campbell <aaron@cs.dal.ca>).
6790 + add to railroad.c some code exercising tgoto(), providing an
6791 alternate form of display if the terminal supports cursor addressing.
6792 + split-out tgoto() again, this time into new file lib_tgoto.c, and
6793 implement a conventional BSD-style tgoto() which is used if the
6794 capability string does not contain terminfo-style padding or
6795 parameters (requested by Andrey A Chernov).
6796 + add check to tic which reports capabilities that do not reference
6797 the expected number of parameters.
6798 + add error checking to infocmp's -v and -m options to ensure that
6799 the option value is indeed a number.
6800 + some cleanup of logic in _nc_signal_handler() to verify if SIGWINCH
6801 handler is setup. Separated the old/new sigaction data for SIGTSTP
6802 from the other signals.
6805 + add S0, E0 extensions to screen's terminfo entry, which is another
6806 way to solve the misconfiguration issue -TD
6807 + completed special case for tgoto from 20000916
6810 + update xterm terminfo entries to match XFree86 xterm patch #146 -TD
6811 + add Matrix Orbital terminfo entries (from Eric Z Ayers
6813 + add special case to lib_tparm.c to allow 'screen' program to use a
6814 termcap-style parameter "%." to tgoto() for switching character sets.
6815 + use LN_S substitution in run_tic.in, to work on OS/2 EMX which has
6817 + updated notes in README.emx regarding autoconf patches.
6818 + replace a lookup table in lib_vidattr.c used to decode no_color_video
6819 with a logic expression (suggested by Philippe Blain).
6820 + add a/A toggle to ncurses.c 'b' test, which clears/sets alternate
6821 character set attribute from the displayed text.
6822 + correct inequality in parameter analysis of rewritten lib_tparm.c
6823 which had the effect of ignoring p9 in set_attributes (sgr), breaking
6824 alternate character set (reported by Piotr Majka <charvel@link.pl>).
6825 + correct ifdef'ing for GCC_PRINTF, GCC_SCANF which would not compile
6826 with Sun WorkShop compilers since these tokens were empty (cf:
6827 20000902, reported by Albert Chin-A-Young).
6830 + correct an uninitialized parameter to open_tempfile() in tic.c which
6831 made "tic -I" give an ambiguous error message about tmpnam.
6832 + add special case in lib_vidattr.c to reset underline and standout for
6833 devices that have no sgr0 defined (patch by Don Lewis
6834 <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>). Note that this will not work for bold
6835 mode, since there is no exit-bold-mode capability.
6836 + improved patch for Make_Enum_Type (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
6837 + modify tparm to disallow arithmetic on strings, analyze the varargs
6838 list to read strings as strings and numbers as numbers.
6839 + modify tparm's internal function spop() to treat a null pointer as
6841 + modify tput program so it can be renamed or invoked via a link as
6842 'reset' or 'init', producing the same effect as 'tput reset' or 'tput
6844 + add private entrypoint _nc_basename(), use to consolidate related
6845 code in progs, as well as accommodating OS/2 EMX pathnames.
6846 + remove NCURSES_CONST line from edit_cfg.sh to compensate for its
6847 removal (except via AC_SUBST) from configure.in, making
6848 --enable-const work again (reported by Juergen Pfeifer).
6849 + regen'd configure to pick up "hpux*" change from 20000902.
6852 + modify tset.c to check for transformed "reset" program name, if any.
6853 + add a check for null pointer in Make_Enum_Type() (reported by Steven
6854 W Orr <steveo@world.std.com>).
6855 + change functions _nc_parse_entry() and postprocess_termcap() to avoid
6856 using strtok(), because it is non-reentrant (reported by Andrey A
6857 Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>).
6858 + remove "hpux10.*" case from CF_SHARED_OPTS configure script macro.
6859 This differed from the "hpux*" case by using reversed symbolic
6860 links, which made the 5.1 version not match the configuration of
6861 5.0 shared libraries (reported by Albert Chin-A-Young).
6862 + correct a dependency in Ada95/src/Makefile.in which prevented
6863 building with configure --srcdir (patch by H Nanosecond
6864 <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>).
6865 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in to avoid warning if GCC_PRINTF or
6866 GCC_SCANF was not previously defined (reported by Pavel Roskin
6868 + add MKncurses_def.sh to generate fallback definitions for
6869 ncurses_cfg.h, to quiet gcc -Wundef warnings, modified ifdef's in
6870 code to consistently use "#if" rather than "#ifdef".
6873 + add QNX qansi entries to terminfo -TD
6874 + add os2 entry to misc/emx.src (<jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>).
6875 + add configure option --with-database to allow specifying a different
6876 terminfo source-file to install. On OS/2 EMX, this defaults to
6878 + change misc/run_tic.sh to derive it from misc/run_tic.in, to simplify
6879 setting .exe extension on OS/2 EMX.
6880 + add .exe extension in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in,
6881 Ada95/samples/Makefile.in, for OS/2 EMX (reported by
6882 <jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>).
6883 + add configure check for filesystems (such as OS/2 EMX) which do not
6884 distinguish between upper/lowercase filenames, use this to fix tags
6886 + initialize fds[] array to 0's in _nc_timed_wait(); apparently poll()
6887 only sets the revents members of that array when there is activity
6888 corresponding to the related file (report by Glenn Cooper
6889 <gcooper@qantas.com.au>, using Purify on Solaris 5.6).
6890 + change configure script to use AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM rather than
6891 AC_CANONICAL_HOST, which means that configure --target will set
6892 a default program-prefix.
6893 + add note on cross-compiling to INSTALL (which does not rely on the
6894 AC_CANONICAL_* macros).
6897 + add cases for EMX OS/2 to config.guess, config.sub
6898 + new version of config.guess, config.sub from lynx 2.8.4dev.7
6899 + add definitions via transform.h to allow tic and tput to check for
6900 the transformed aliases rather than the original infotocap, etc.
6901 + simplify transform-expressions in progs/Makefile.in, make the
6902 uninstall rule work for transformed program names.
6903 + change symbol used by --install-prefix configure option from
6904 INSTALL_PREFIX to DESTDIR (the latter has become common usage
6905 although the name is misleading).
6906 + modify programs to use curses_version() string to report the version
6907 of ncurses with which they are compiled rather than the
6908 NCURSES_VERSION string. The function returns the patch level in
6909 addition to the major and minor version numbers.
6912 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to make transformed program names
6913 a parameter to that macro rather than embedding them in the macro.
6914 + newer config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in lynx
6916 + add configure option --with-default-terminfo-dir=DIR to allow
6917 specifying the default terminfo database directory (request by Albert
6919 + minor updates for terminfo.src from FreeBSD termcap change-history.
6920 + correct notes in README and INSTALL regarding documentation files
6921 that were moved from misc directory to doc (report by Rich Kulawiec
6923 + change most remaining unquoted parameters of 'test' in configure
6924 script to use quotes, for instance fixing a problem in the
6925 --disable-database option (reported by Christian Mondrup
6926 <scancm@biobase.dk>).
6927 + minor adjustments to work around some of the incompatibilities/bugs
6928 in autoconf 2.29a alpha.
6929 + add -I/usr/local/include when --with-ncurses option is used in
6930 test/configure script.
6931 + correct logic in adjust_cancels(), which did not check both
6932 alternatives when reclassifying an extended name between boolean,
6933 number and string, causing an infinite loop in tic.
6936 + correct a missing backslash in curses.priv.h
6939 + change handling of non_dest_scroll_region in tty_update.c to clear
6940 text after it is shifted in rather than before shifting out. Also
6941 correct row computation (reported by Ruediger Kuhlmann
6942 <uck4@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>).
6943 + add/use new trace function to display chtype values from winch() and
6945 + add trace mask TRACE_ATTRS, alter several existing _tracef calls that
6946 trace attribute changes under TRACE_CALLS to use this.
6947 + modify MKlib_gen.sh so that functions returning chtype will call
6949 + add returnChar() trace, for functions returning chtype.
6950 + change indent.pro to line up parenthesis.
6953 + fix a heap problem with the c++ binding (report by
6954 <alexander_liberson@ninewest.com>, patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
6955 + minor adjustment to ClrToEOL() to handle an out-of-bounds parameter.
6956 + modify the check for big-core to force a couple of memory accesses,
6957 which may work as needed for older/less-capable machines (if not,
6958 there's still the explicit configure option).
6959 > fixes based on diff's for Amiga and BeOS found at
6960 http://www.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de/~kuhlmann/cross/ncurses/
6961 + alter definition of NCURSES_CONST to make it non-empty.
6962 + add amiga-vnc terminfo entry.
6963 + redefine 'TEXT' in menu.h for AMIGA, since it is reported to have
6964 an (unspecified) symbol conflict.
6965 + replaced case-statement in _nc_tracebits() for CSIZE with a table to
6966 simplify working around implementations that define random
6967 combinations of the related macros to zero.
6968 + modify configure test for tcgetattr() to allow for old
6969 implementations, e.g., on BeOS, which only defined it as a macro.
6970 > patches by Bruno Haible:
6971 + when checking LC_ALL/LC_CTYPE/LANG environment variables for UTF-8
6972 locale, ignore those which are set to an empty value, as per SUSV2.
6973 + encode 0xFFFD in UTF-8 with 3 bytes, not 2.
6974 + modify _nc_utf8_outch() to avoid sign-extension when checking for
6978 + correct manlinks.sed script to avoid using ERE "\+", which is not
6979 understood by older versions of sed (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
6980 + implement configure script options that transform installed program
6981 names, e.g., --program-prefix, including the manpage names and cross
6982 references (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com>).
6983 + correct several mismatches between manpage filename and ".TH"
6984 directives, renaming dft_fgbg.3x to default_colors.3x and
6985 menu_attribs.3x to menu_attributes.3x (report by Todd C Miller).
6986 + correct missing includes for <string.h> in several places, including
6987 the C++ binding. This is not noted by gcc unless we use the
6988 -fno-builtin option (reported by Igor Schein <igor@txc.com>).
6989 + modified progs/tset.c and tack/sysdep.c to build with sgttyb
6990 interface if neither termio or termios is available. Tested this
6991 with FreeBSD 2.1.5 (which does have termios - but the sgttyb does
6994 20000708 5.1 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
6995 + document configure options in INSTALL.
6996 + add man-page for ncurses trace functions.
6997 + correct return value shown in curs_touch.3x for is_linetouched() and
6998 is_wintouched(), in curs_initscr.3x for isendwin(), and in
6999 curs_termattr.3x for has_ic() and has_il().
7000 + add prototypes for touchline() and touchwin(), adding them to the
7001 list of generated functions.
7002 + modify fifo_push() to put ERR into the fifo just like other values to
7003 return from wgetch(). It was returning without doing that, making
7004 end-of-file condition incorrectly return a 0 (reported by Todd C
7006 + uncomment CC_SHARED_OPTS for progs and tack (see 971115), since they
7007 are needed for SCO OpenServer.
7008 + move _nc_disable_period from free_ttype.c to comp_scan.c to appease
7009 dynamic loaders on SCO and IRIX64.
7010 + add "-a" option to test/ncurses.c to invoke assume_default_colors()
7012 + correct assignment in assume_default_colors() which tells ncurses
7013 whether to use default colors, or the assumed ones (reported by Gary
7014 Funck <gary@Intrepid.Com>).
7015 + review/correct logic in mk-1st.awk for making symbolic links for
7016 shared libraries, in particular for FreeBSD, etc.
7017 + regenerate misc/*.def files for OS/2 EMX dll's.
7018 + correct quoting of values for CC_SHARED_OPTS in aclocal.m4 for
7019 cases openbsd2*, openbsd*, freebsd* and netbsd* (patch by Peter
7020 Wemm) (err in 20000610).
7021 + minor updates to release notes, as well as adding/updating URLs for
7022 examples cited in announce.html
7023 > several fixes from Philippe Blain <philippe.blain2@freesbee.fr>:
7024 + correct placement of ifdef for NCURSES_XNAMES in function
7025 _nc_free_termtype(), fixes a memory leak.
7026 + add a call to _nc_synchook() to the end of function whline() like
7027 that in wvline() (difference was in 1.9.4).
7028 + make ClearScreen() a little faster by moving two instances of
7029 UpdateAttr() out of for-loops.
7030 + simplify ClrBottom() by eliminating the tstLine data, using for-loops
7033 20000701 pre-release
7034 + change minor version to 1, i.e., ncurses 5.1
7035 + add experimental configure option --enable-colorfgbg to check for
7036 $COLORTERM variable as set by rxvt/aterm/Eterm.
7037 + add Eterm terminfo entry (Michael Jennings <mej@valinux.com>).
7038 + modify manlinks.sed to pick aliases from the SYNOPSIS section, and
7039 several manpages so manlinks.sed can find aliases for creating
7041 + add explanation to run_tic.sh regarding extended terminal
7043 + change message format for edit_cfg.sh, since some people interpret
7045 + correct unescaped '$' in sysv5uw7*|unix_sv* rule for CF_SHARED_OPTS
7046 configure macro (report by Thanh Ma <Thanh.Ma@casi-rusco.com>).
7047 + correct logic in lib_twait.c as used by lib_mouse.c for GPM mouse
7048 support when poll() is used rather than select() (prompted by
7049 discussion with David Allen <DAllen24@aol.com>).
7051 20000624 pre-release
7052 + modify TransformLine() to check for cells with different color pairs
7053 that happen to render the same display colors.
7054 + apply $NCURSES_NO_PADDING to cost-computation in mvcur().
7055 + improve cost computation in PutRange() by accounting for the use
7056 of parm_right_cursor in mvcur().
7057 + correct cost computation in EmitRange(), which was not using the
7058 normalized value for cursor_address.
7059 + newer config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in TIN 1.5.6).
7062 + update config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in PCRE 3.2).
7063 + resync changes to gnathtml against version 1.22, regenerated html
7064 files under doc/html/ada using this (1.22.1.1).
7065 + regenerated html files under doc/html/man after correcting top and
7066 bottom margin options for man2html in dist.mk
7067 + minor fixes to test programs ncurses 'i' and testcurs program to make
7068 the subwindow's background color cover the subwindow.
7069 + modify configure script so AC_MSG_ERROR is temporarily defined to a
7070 warning in AC_PROG_CXX to make it recover from a missing C++ compiler
7071 without requiring user to add --without-cxx option (adapted from
7072 comment by Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr> to autoconf mailing list).
7073 + modify headers.sh to avoid creating temporary files in the build
7074 directory when installing headers (reported by Sergei Pokrovsky
7078 + regenerated the html files under doc/html/ada/files and
7079 doc/html/ada/funcs with a slightly-improved gnathtml.
7080 + add kmous capability to linux terminfo entry to allow it to use
7081 xterm-style events provided by gpm patch by Joerg Schoen.
7082 + make the configure macro CF_SHARED_OPTS a little smarter by testing
7083 if -fPIC is supported by gcc rather than -fpic. The former option
7084 allows larger symbol tables.
7085 + update config.guess and config.sub (patches by
7086 Kevin Buettner <kev@primenet.com> (for elf64_ia64),
7087 Bernd Kuemmerlen <bkuemmer@mevis.de> (for MacOS X)).
7088 + add warning for 'tic -cv' about use of '^?' in terminfo source, which
7092 + modify echo() behavior of getch() to match Solaris curses for
7093 carriage return and backspace (reported by Neil Zanella).
7094 + change _nc_flush() to a function.
7095 + modify delscreen() to check if the output stream has been closed, and
7096 if so, free the buffer allocated for setbuf (this provides an
7097 ncurses-specific way to avoid a memory leak when repeatedly calling
7098 newterm reported by Chipp C <at_1@zdnetonebox.com>).
7099 + correct typo in curs_getch.3x manpage regarding noecho (reported by
7100 David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>).
7101 + add a "make libs" rule.
7102 + make the Ada95 interface build with configure --enable-widec.
7103 + if the configure --enable-widec option is given, append 'w' to names
7104 of the generated libraries (e.g., libncursesw.so) to avoid conflict
7105 with existing ncurses libraries.
7108 + modify view.c to make a rudimentary viewer of UTF-8 text if ncurses
7109 is configured with the experimental wide-character support.
7110 + add a simple UTF-8 output driver to the experimental wide-character
7111 support. If any of the environment variables LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE or
7112 LANG contain the string "UTF-8", this driver will be used to
7113 translate the output to UTF-8. This works with XFree86 xterm.
7114 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries on BeOS
7115 (from a patch by Valeriy E Ushakov).
7116 + modify lib_addch.c to allow repeated update to the lower-right
7117 corner, rather than displaying only the first character written until
7118 the cursor is moved. Recent versions of SVr4 curses can update the
7119 lower-right corner, and behave this way (reported by Neil Zanella).
7120 + add a limit-check in _nc_do_color(), to avoid using invalid color
7121 pair value (report by Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>).
7124 + the tack program knows how to use smcup and rmcup but the "show caps
7125 that can be tested" feature did not reflect this knowledge. Correct
7126 the display in the menu tack/test/edit/c (patch by Daniel Weaver).
7127 + xterm-16color does allow bold+colors, removed ncv#32 from that
7131 + correct assignment to SP->_has_sgr_39_49 in lib_dft_fgbg.c, which
7132 broke check for screen's AX capability (reported by Valeriy E Ushakov
7134 + change man2html rule in dist.mk to workaround bug in some
7135 man-programs that ignores locale when rendering hyphenation.
7136 + change web- and ftp-site to dickey.his.com
7139 + move _nc_curr_token from parse_entry.c to comp_scan.c, to work around
7140 problem linking tack on MacOS X DP3.
7141 + include <sys/time.h> in lib_napms.c to compile on MacOS X DP3
7142 (reported by Gerben Wierda <wierda@holmes.nl>).
7143 + modify lib_vidattr.c to check for ncv fixes when pair-0 is not
7145 + add -d option to ncurses.c, to turn on default-colors for testing.
7146 + add a check to _nc_makenew() to ensure that newwin() and newpad()
7147 calls do not silently fail by passing too-large limits.
7148 + add symbol NCURSES_SIZE_T to use rather than explicit 'short' for
7149 internal window and pad sizes. Note that since this is visible in
7150 the WINDOW struct, it would be an ABI change to make this an 'int'
7151 (prompted by a question by Bastian Trompetter
7152 <btrompetter@firemail.de>, who attempted to create a 96000-line pad).
7155 + add mgterm terminfo entry from NetBSD, minor adjustments to sun-ss5,
7157 + modify tack/ansi.c to make it more tolerant of bad ANSI replies. An
7158 example of an illegal ANSI resonse can be found using Microsoft's
7159 Telnet client. A correct display can be found using a VT-4xx
7160 terminal or XFree86 xterm with:
7161 XTerm*VT100*decTerminalID: 450
7162 (patch by Daniel Weaver).
7163 + modify gdc.c to recognize 'q' for quit, 's' for single-step and ' '
7164 for resume. Add '-n' option to force gdc's standard input to
7165 /dev/null, to both illustrate the use of newterm() for specifying
7166 alternate inputs as well as for testing signal handling.
7167 + minor fix for configure option --with-manpage-symlinks, for target
7168 directories that contain a period ('.') (reported by Larry Virden).
7171 + minor additions to beterm entry (feedback from Rico Tudor) -TD
7172 + corrections/updates for some IBM terminfo entries -TD
7173 + modify _nc_screen_wrap() so that when exiting curses mode with
7174 non-default colors, the last line on the screen will be cleared to
7175 the screen's default colors (request by Alexander V Lukyanov).
7176 + modify ncurses.c 'r' example to set nonl(), allowing control/M to be
7177 read for demonstrating the REQ_NEW_LINE operation (prompted by a
7178 question by Tony L Keith <tlkeith@keithconsulting.com>).
7179 + modify ncurses.c 'r' example of field_info() to work on Solaris 2.7,
7180 documented extension of ncurses which allows a zero pointer.
7181 + modify fmt_complex() to avoid buffer overflow in case of excess
7182 recursion, and to recognize "%e%?" as a synonym for else-if, which
7183 means that it will not recur for that special case.
7184 + add logic to support $TERMCAP variable in case the USE_GETCAP symbol
7185 is defined (patch by Todd C Miller).
7186 + modify one of the m4 files used to generate the Ada95 sources,
7187 to avoid using the token "symbols" (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7190 + add terminfo entries bsdos-pc-m, bsdos-pc-mono (Jeffrey C Honig)
7191 + correct spelling error in terminfo entry name: bq300-rv was given as
7192 bg300-rv in esr's version.
7193 + modify redrawwin() macro so its parameter is fully parenthesized
7194 (fixes Debian #61088).
7195 + correct formatting error in dump_entry() which set incorrect column
7196 value when no newline trimming was needed at the end of an entry,
7197 before appending "use=" clauses (cf: 960406).
7200 + add configure option --with-manpage-symlinks
7201 + change unctrl() to render C1 characters (128-159) as ~@, ~A, etc.
7202 + change makefiles so trace() function is provided only if TRACE is
7203 defined, e.g., in the debug library. Modify related calls to
7204 _tracechar() to use unctrl() instead.
7207 + add screen's AX capability (for ECMA SGR 39 and 49) to applicable
7208 terminfo entries, use presence of this as a check for a small
7209 improvement in setting default colors.
7210 + improve logic in _nc_do_color() implementing assume_default_colors()
7211 by passing in previous color pair info to eliminate redundant call to
7212 set_original_colors(). (Part of this is from a patch by Alexander
7214 + modify warning in _nc_trans_string() about a possibly too-long string
7215 to do this once only rather than for each character past the
7216 threshold (600). Change interface of _nc_trans_string() to allow
7217 check for buffer overflow.
7218 + correct use of memset in _nc_read_entry_source() to initialize ENTRY
7219 struct each time before reading new data into it, rather than once
7220 per loop (cf: 990301). This affects multi-entry in-core operations
7221 such as "infocmp -Fa".
7224 + remove a spurious pointer increment in _nc_infotocap() changes from
7225 20000311. Add check for '.' in format of number, since that also
7226 is not permitted in termcap.
7227 + correct typo in rxvt-basic terminfo from temporary change made while
7228 integrating 20000318.
7231 + revert part of the vt220 change (request by Todd C Miller).
7232 + add ansi-* terminfo entries from ESR's version.
7233 + add -a option to tic and infocmp, which retains commented-out
7234 capabilities during source translation/comparison, e.g., captoinfo
7236 + modify cardfile.c to display an empty card if no input data file is
7237 found, fixes a core dump in that case (reported by Bruno Haible).
7238 + correct bracketing in CF_MATH_LIB configure macro, which gave wrong
7239 result for OS/2 EMX.
7240 + supply required parameter for _nc_resolve_uses() call in
7241 read_termcap.c, overlooked in 20000311 (reported by Todd C Miller).
7242 > patches by Bruno Haible <haible@ilog.fr>:
7243 + fix a compiler warning in fty_enum.c
7244 + correct LIB_PREFIX expression for DEPS_CURSES in progs, tack
7245 makefiles, which resulted in redundant linking (cf: 20000122).
7248 + make ifdef's for BROKEN_LINKER consistent (patch by Todd C Miller).
7249 + improved tack/README (patch by Daniel Weaver).
7250 + modify tput.c to ensure that unspecified parameters are passed to
7252 + add a few checks in infocmp to guard against buffer overflow when
7253 displaying string capabilities.
7254 + add check for zero-uses in infocmp's file_comparison() function
7255 before calling _nc_align_termtype(). Otherwise one parameter is
7256 indexed past the end of the uses-array.
7257 + add an option -q to infocmp to specify the less verbose output,
7258 keeping the existing format as the default, though not retaining the
7259 previous behavior that made the -F option compare each entry to
7261 + adapted patch by ESR to make infocmp -F less verbose -TD
7262 (the submitted patch was unusable because it did not compile
7264 + modify write_entry.c to ensure that absent or cancelled booleans
7265 are written as FALSE, for consistency with infocmp which now
7266 assumes this. Note that for the small-core configuration, tic
7267 may not produce the same result as before.
7268 + change some private library interfaces used by infocmp, e.g.,
7270 + add a check in _nc_infotocap() to ensure that cm-style capabilities
7271 accept only %d codes when converting the format from terminfo to
7273 + modify ENTRY struct to separate the data in 'parent' into the name
7274 and link values (the original idea to merge both into 'parent' was
7276 + discard repair_acsc(tterm);
7277 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7278 + drop support for gnat 3.10
7279 + move generated documentation and html files under ./doc directory,
7280 adding makefile rules for this to dist.mk
7283 + correct conflicting use of tparm() in 20000226 change to tic, which
7284 made it check only one entry at a time.
7285 + fix errors in ncurses-intro.html and hackguide.html shown by Dave
7287 + make the example in ncurses-intro.html do something plausible, and
7288 corrected misleading comment (reported by Neil Zanella).
7289 + modify pnoutrefresh() to set newscr->_leaveok as wnoutrefresh() does,
7290 to fix a case where the cursor position was not updated as in
7291 Solaris (patch by David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>).
7292 + add a limit-check for wresize() to ensure that a subwindow does not
7293 address out of bounds.
7294 + correct offsets used for subwindows in wresize() (patch by Michael
7295 Andres <ma@suse.de>).
7296 + regenerate html'ized manual pages with man2html 3.0.1 (patch by
7297 Juergen Pfeifer). This generated a file with a space in its name,
7299 + fix a few spelling errors in tack.
7300 + modify tack/Makefile.in to match linker options of progs/Makefile.in;
7301 otherwise it does not build properly for older HPUX shared library
7303 + add several terminfo entries from esr's "11.0".
7306 + make 'tput flash' work properly for xterm by flushing output in
7307 delay_output() when using napms(), and modifying xterm's terminfo to
7308 specify no padding character. Otherwise, xterm's reported baud rate
7309 can mislead ncurses into producing too few padding characters
7311 + add a check to tic for consistency between sgr and the separate
7312 capabilities such as smso, use this to check/correct several
7313 terminfo entries (Debian #58530).
7314 + add a check to tic if cvvis is the same as cnorm, adjusted several
7315 terminfo entries to remove the conflict (Debian #58530).
7316 + correct prototype shown in attr_set()/wattr_set() manpages (fixes
7318 + minor clarification for curs_set() and leaveok() manpages.
7319 + use mkstemp() for creating temporary file for tic's processing of
7320 $TERMCAP contents (fixes Debian #56465).
7321 + correct two errors from integrating Alexander's changes: did not
7322 handle the non-bce case properly in can_erase_with() (noted by
7323 Alexander), and left fg/bg uninitialized in the pair-zero case of
7324 _nc_do_color() (reported by Dr Werner Fink <werner@suse.de> and
7325 Ismael Cordeiro <ismael@cordeiro.com>).
7328 + store default-color code consistently as C_MASK, even if given as
7329 -1 for convenience (adapted from patches by Alexander V Lukyanov).
7330 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
7331 + change can_clear_with() macro to accommodate logic for
7332 assume_default_colors(), making most of the FILL_BCE logic
7333 unnecessary. Made can_clear_with() an inline function to make it
7337 + corrected form of recent copyright dates.
7338 + minor corrections to xterm-xf86-v333 terminfo entry -TD
7339 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
7340 + reworded dft_fgbg.3x to avoid assuming that the terminal's default
7341 colors are white on black.
7342 + fix initialization of tstLine so that it is filled with current blank
7343 character in any case. Previously it was possible to have it filled
7344 with old blank. The wrong over-optimization was introduced in 991002
7345 patch. (it is not very critical as the only bad effect is not using
7346 clr_eos for clearing if blank has changed).
7349 + minor corrections/updates to several terminfo entries: rxvt-basic,
7350 vt520, vt525, ibm5151, xterm-xf86-v40 -TD
7351 + modify ifdef's for poll() to allow it to use <sys/poll.h>, thereby
7352 allowing poll() to be used on Linux.
7353 + add CF_FUNC_POLL macro to check if poll() is able to select from
7354 standard input. If not we will not use it, preferring select()
7355 (adapted from patch by Michael Pakovic <mpakovic@fdn.com>).
7356 + update CF_SHARED_OPTS macro for SCO Unixware 7.1 to allow building
7357 shared libraries (reported/tested by Thanh <thanhma@mediaone.net>).
7358 + override $LANGUAGE in build to avoid incorrect ordering of keynames.
7359 + correct CF_MATH_LIB parameter, must be sin(x), not sqrt(x).
7362 + resync CF_CHECK_ERRNO and CF_LIB_PREFIX macros from tin and xterm -TD
7363 + modify CF_MATH_LIB configure macro to parameterize the test function
7364 used, for reuse in dialog and similar packages.
7365 + correct tests for file-descriptors in OS/2 EMX mouse support. A
7366 negative value could be used by FD_SET, causing the select() call
7367 to wait indefinitely.
7370 + additional fixes for non-bce terminals (handling of delete_character)
7371 to work when assume_default_colors() is not specified.
7372 + modify warning message from _nc_parse_entry() regarding extended
7373 capability names to print only if tic/infocmp/toe have the -v flag
7374 set, and not at all in ordinary user applications. Otherwise, this
7375 warning would be shown for screen's extended capabilities in programs
7376 that use the termcap interface (reported by Todd C Miller).
7377 + modify use of _nc_tracing from programs such as tic so their debug
7378 level is not in the same range as values set by trace() function.
7379 + small panel header cleanup (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7380 + add 'railroad' demo for termcap interface.
7381 + modify 'tic' to write its usage message to stderr (patch by Todd C
7385 + add prototype for erase() to curses.h.in, needed to make test
7386 programs build with c++/g++.
7387 + add .c.i and .c.h suffix rules to generated makefiles, for debugging.
7388 + correct install rule for tack.1; it assumed that file was in the
7389 current directory (reported by Mike Castle <dalgoda@ix.netcom.com>).
7390 + modify terminfo/termcap translation to suppress acsc before trying
7391 sgr if the entry would be too large (patch by Todd C Miller).
7392 + document a special case of incompatiblity between ncurses 4.2 and
7393 5.0, add a section for this in INSTALL.
7394 + add TRACE_DATABASE flag for trace().
7397 + update mach, add mach-color terminfo entries based on Debian diffs
7399 + add entries for xterm-hp, xterm-vt220, xterm-vt52 and xterm-noapp
7400 terminfo entries -TD
7401 + change OTrs capabilities to rs2 in terminfo.src -TD
7402 + add obsolete and extended capabilities to 'screen' terminfo -TD
7403 + corrected conversion from terminfo rs2 to termcap rs (cf: 980704)
7404 + make conversion to termcap ug (underline glitch) more consistently
7406 + fix out-of-scope use of 'personal[]' buffer in 'toe' (this error
7407 was in the original pre-1.9.7 version, when $HOME/.terminfo was
7409 + modify 'toe' to ignore terminfo directories to which it has no
7411 + modify read_termtype(), fixing 'toe', which could dump core when it
7412 found an incomplete entry such as "dumb" because it did not
7413 initialize its buffer for _nc_read_file_entry().
7414 + use -fPIC rather than -fpic for shared libraries on Linux, not
7415 needed for i386 but some ports (from Debian diffs for 5.0) -TD
7416 + use explicit VALID_NUMERIC() checks in a few places that had been
7417 overlooked, and add a check to ensure that init_tabs is nonzero,
7418 to avoid divide-by-zero (reported by Todd C Miller).
7419 + minor fix for CF_ANSI_CC_CHECK configure macro, for HPUX 10.x (from
7423 + reorder tests during mouse initialization to allow for gpm to run in
7424 xterm, or for xterm to be used under OS/2 EMX. Also drop test for
7425 $DISPLAY in favor of kmous=\E[M or $TERM containing "xterm" (report
7426 by Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de>).
7427 + modify raw() and noraw() to clear/restore IEXTEN flag which affects
7428 stty lnext on systems such as FreeBSD (report by Bruce Evans
7429 <bde@zeta.org.au>, via Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>).
7430 + fix a potential (but unlikely) buffer overflow in failed() function
7431 of tset.c (reported by Todd C Miller).
7432 + add manual-page for ncurses extensions, documented curses_version(),
7433 use_extended_names().
7436 + treat as untranslatable to termcap those terminfo strings which
7437 contain non-decimal formatting, e.g., hexadecimal or octal.
7438 + correct commented-out capabilities that cannot be translated to
7439 termcap, which did not check if a colon must be escaped.
7440 + correct termcap translation for "%>" and "%+", which did not check
7441 if a colon must be escaped, for instance.
7442 + use save_string/save_char for _nc_captoinfo() to eliminate fixed
7443 buffer (originally for _nc_infotocap() in 960301 -TD).
7444 + correct expression used for terminfo equivalent of termcap %B,
7445 adjust regent100 entry which uses this.
7446 + some cleanup and commenting of ad hoc cases in _nc_infotocap().
7447 + eliminate a fixed-buffer in tic, used for translating comments.
7448 + add manpage for infotocap
7451 + add kvt and gnome terminfo entries -TD
7452 + correct translation of "%%" by infotocap, which was emitted as "%".
7453 + add "obsolete" termcap strings to terminfo.src
7454 + modify infocmp to default to showing obsolete capabilities rather
7456 + modify write_entry.c so that if extended names (i.e., configure
7457 --enable-tcap-names) are active, then tic will also write "obsolete"
7458 capabilities that are present in the terminfo source.
7459 + modify tic so that when running as captoinfo or infotocap, it
7460 initializes the output format as in -C and -I options, respectively.
7461 + improve infocmp and tic -f option by splitting long strings that do
7462 not have if-then-else construct, but do have parameters, e.g., the
7463 initc for xterm-88color.
7464 + refine MKtermsort.sh slightly by using bool for the *_from_termcap
7468 + additional fixes for non-bce terminals (handling of clear_screen,
7469 clr_eol, clr_eos, scrolling) to work when assume_default_colors() is
7471 + several small changes to xterm terminfo entries -TD.
7472 + move logic for _nc_windows in lib_freeall.c inside check for nonnull
7473 SP, since it is part of that struct.
7474 + remove obsolete shlib-versions, which was unintentionally re-added
7476 + modify infocmp -e, -E options to ensure that generated fallback.c
7477 type for Booleans agrees with term.h (reported by Eric Norum
7478 <eric@cls.usask.ca>).
7479 + correct configure script's use of $LIB_PREFIX, which did not work
7480 for installing the c++ directory if $libdir did not end with "/lib"
7481 (reported by Huy Le <huyle@ugcs.caltech.edu>).
7482 + modify infocmp so -L and -f options work together.
7483 + modify the initialization of SP->_color_table[] in start_color() so
7484 that color_content() will return usable values for COLORS greater
7486 + modify ncurses 'd' test in case COLORS is greater than 16, e.g., for
7487 xterm-88color, to limit the displayed/computed colors to 16.
7488 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7489 + simplify coding of the panel library according to suggestions by
7491 + improve macro coding for a few macros in curses.priv.h
7494 + modify treatment of color pair 0 so that if ncurses is configured
7495 to support default colors, and they are not active, then ncurses
7496 will set that explicitly, not relying on orig_colors or orig_pair.
7497 + add new extension, assume_default_colors() to provide better control
7498 over the use of default colors.
7499 + modify test programs to use more-specific ifdef's for existence of
7500 wresize(), resizeterm() and use_default_colors().
7501 + modify configure script to add specific ifdef's for some functions
7502 that are included when --enable-ext-funcs is in effect, so their
7503 existence can be ifdef'd in the test programs.
7504 + reorder some configure options, moving those extensions that have
7505 evolved from experimental status into a new section.
7506 + change configure --enable-tcap-names to enable this by default.
7509 + install tack's manpage (reported by Robert Weiner
7510 <robert@progplus.com>)
7511 + correct worm.c's handling of KEY_RESIZE (patch by Frank Heckenbach).
7512 + modify curses.h.in, undef'ing some symbols to avoid conflict with C++
7513 STL (reported by Matt Gerassimoff <mgeras@ticon.net>)
7516 + modify linux terminfo entry to indicate that dim does not mix with
7517 color (reported by Klaus Weide <kweide@enteract.com>).
7518 + correct several typos in terminfo entries related to missing '['
7520 + fix several compiler warnings in c++ binding (reported by Tim
7521 Mooney for alphaev56-dec-osf4.0f
7522 + rename parameter of _nc_free_entries() to accommodate lint.
7523 + correct lint rule for tack, used incorrect list of source files.
7524 + add case to config.guess, config.sub for Rhapsody.
7525 + improve configure tests for libg++ and libstdc++ by omitting the
7526 math library (which is missing on Rhapsody), and improved test for
7527 the math library itself (adapted from path by Nelson H. F. Beebe).
7528 + explicitly initialize to zero several data items which were
7529 implicitly initialized, e.g., cur_term. If not explicitly
7530 initialized, their storage type is C (common), and causes problems
7531 linking on Rhapsody 5.5 using gcc 2.7.2.1 (reported by Nelson H. F.
7533 + modify Ada95 binding to not include the linker option for Ada
7534 bindings in the Ada headers, but in the Makefiles instead (patch by
7537 19991023 5.0 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
7538 + effective with release of 5.0, change NCURSES_VERSION_PATCH to
7540 + add function curses_version(), to return ncurses library version
7541 (request by Bob van der Poel).
7542 + remove rmam, smam from cygwin terminfo entry.
7543 + modify FreeBSD cons25 terminfo entry to add cnorm and cvvis, as well
7544 as update ncv to indicate that 'dim' conflicts with colors.
7545 + modify configure script to use symbolic links for FreeBSD shared
7546 libraries by default.
7547 + correct ranf() function in rain and worm programs to ensure it does
7549 + hide the cursor in hanoi.c if it is running automatically.
7550 + amend lrtest.c to account for optimizations that exploit margin
7552 + add a simple terminfo demo, dots.c
7553 + modify SIGINT/SIGQUIT handler to set a flag used in _nc_outch() to
7554 tell it to use write() rather than putc(), since the latter is not
7555 safe in a signal handler according to POSIX.
7556 + add/use internal macros _nc_flush() and NC_OUTPUT to hide details
7557 of output-file pointer in ncurses library.
7558 + uncomment CC_SHARED_OPTS (see 971115), since they are needed for SCO
7560 + correct CC_SHARED_OPTS for building shared libraries for SCO
7562 + remove usleep() from alternatives in napms(), since it may interact
7563 with alarm(), causing a process to be interrupted by SIGALRM (with
7564 advice from Bela Lubkin).
7565 + modify terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4 to build/work with
7566 GNAT 3.10 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7567 + remove part of CF_GPP_LIBRARY configure-script macro, which did not
7568 work with gcc 2.7.2.3
7569 + minor fix to test/tclock.c to avoid beeping more than once per second
7570 + add 's' and ' ' decoding to test/rain.c
7573 + corrected BeOS code for lib_twait.c, making nodelay() function work.
7576 + correct ncurses' value for cursor-column in PutCharLR(), which was
7577 off-by-one in one case (patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
7578 + fix some minor errors in position_check() debugging code, found while
7579 using this to validate the PutCharLR() patch.
7580 + modify firework, lrtest, worm examples to be resizable, and to
7581 recognize 'q' for quit, 's' for single-step and ' ' for resume.
7582 + restore reverted change to terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4,
7583 add a note on building with gnat 3.10p to Ada95/TODO.
7584 + add a copy of the standalone configure script for the test-directory
7585 to simplify testing on SCO and Solaris.
7588 + minor fixes for _nc_msec_cost(), color_content(), pair_content(),
7589 _nc_freewin(), ClrBottom() and onscreen_mvcur() (analysis by Philippe
7590 Blain, comments by Alexander V Lukyanov).
7591 + simplify definition of PANEL and eliminate internal functions
7592 _nc_calculate_obscure(), _nc_free_obscure() and _nc_override(),
7593 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer, analysis by Philippe Blain
7595 + change renaming of dft_fgbg.3x to use_default_colors.3ncurses in
7596 man_db.renames, since Debian is not concerned with 14-character
7597 filename limitation (Debian bug report by Josip Rodin
7598 <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr>).
7599 + corrected scoansi terminfo entry by testing with scoterm and console.
7600 + revert change from 990614 to terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4,
7601 since this does not work for gnat 3.10p
7602 + modify tclock example to be resizable (if ncurses' sigwinch handler
7603 is used), and in color.
7604 + use $(CC) rather than 'gcc' in MK_SHARED_LIB symbols, used for Linux
7605 shared library rules.
7608 + add newer NetBSD console terminfo entries
7609 + add amiga-8bit terminfo entry (from Henning 'Faroul' Peters
7610 <Faroul@beyond.kn-bremen.de>)
7611 + remove -lcurses -ltermcap from configure script's check for the gpm
7612 library, since they are not really necessary (a properly configured
7613 gpm library has no dependency on any curses library), and if the
7614 curses library is not installed, this would cause the test to fail.
7615 + modify tic's -C option so that terminfo "use=" clauses are translated
7616 to "tc=" clauses even when running it as captoinfo.
7617 + modify CF_STDCPP_LIBRARY configure macro to perform its check only
7618 for GNU C++, since that library conflicts with SGI's libC on IRIX-6.2
7619 + modify CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro to support build on NetBSD with
7620 ELF libraries (patch by Bernd Ernesti <bernd@arresum.inka.de>).
7621 + correct a problem in libpanel, where the _nc_top_panel variable was
7622 not set properly when bottom_panel() is called to hide a panel which
7623 is the only one on the stack (report/analysis by Michael Andres
7624 <ma@suse.de>, patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7627 + add acsc string to HP 70092 terminfo entry (patch by Joerg Wunsch
7628 <j@interface-business.de>).
7629 + add top-level uninstall.data and uninstall.man makefile rules.
7630 + correct logic of CF_LINK_FUNCS configure script, from BeOS changes so
7631 that hard-links work on Unix again.
7632 + change default value of cf_cv_builtin_bool to 1 (suggested by
7633 Jeremy Buhler), making it less likely that a conflicting declaration
7634 of bool will be seen when compiling with C++.
7637 + improved configure checks for builtin.h
7638 + minor changes to C++ binding (remove static initializations, and make
7639 configure-test for parameter initializations) for features not
7640 allowed by vendor's C++ compilers (reported by Martin Mokrejs, this
7641 applies to SGI, though I found SCO has the same characteristics).
7642 + corrected quoting of ETIP_xxx definitions which support old versions
7643 of g++, e.g., those using -lg++
7644 + remove 'L' code from safe_sprintf.c, since 'long double' is not
7645 widely portable. safe_sprintf.c is experimental, however, and
7646 exists mainly as a fallback for systems without snprintf (reported
7647 by Martin Mokrejs <mmokrejs@natur.cuni.cz>, for IRIX 6.2)
7648 + modify definition of _nc_tinfo_fkeys in broken-linker configuration
7649 so that it is not unnecessarily made extern (Jeffrey C Honig).
7652 + move definition for builtin.h in configure tests to specific check
7653 for libg++, since qt uses the same filename incompatibly.
7654 + correct logic of lib_termcap.c tgetstr function, which did not copy
7655 the result to the buffer parameter. Testing shows Solaris does
7656 update this, though of course tgetent's buffer is untouched (reported
7657 in Peter Edwards <peter.edwards@ireland.com> in
7658 mpc.lists.freebsd.current newsgroup.
7659 + corrected beterm terminfo entry, which lists some capabilities which
7660 are not actually provided by the BeOS Terminal.
7661 + add special logic to replace select() calls on BeOS, whose select()
7662 function works only for sockets.
7663 + correct missing escape in mkterm.h.awk.in, which caused part
7664 of the copyright noticed to be omitted (reported by Peter
7665 Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>).
7666 > several small changes to make the c++ binding and demo work on OS/2
7667 EMX (related to a clean reinstall of EMX):
7668 + correct library-prefix for c++ binding; none is needed.
7669 + add $x suffix to make_hash and make_keys so 'make distclean' works.
7670 + correct missing $x suffix for tack, c++ demo executables.
7671 + split CF_CXX_LIBRARY into CF_GPP_LIBRARY (for -lg++) and
7672 CF_STDCPP_LIBRARY (for -lstdc++)
7675 + add cygwin terminfo entry -TD
7676 + modify CF_PROG_EXT configure macro to set .exe extension for cygwin.
7677 + add configure option --without-cxx-binding, modifying the existing
7678 --without-cxx option to check only for the C++ compiler
7679 characteristics. Whether or not the C++ binding is needed, the
7680 configure script checks for the size/type of bool, to make ncurses
7681 match. Otherwise C++ applications cannot use ncurses.
7684 + updated configure macros CF_MAKEFLAGS, CF_CHECK_ERRNO
7685 + minor corrections to beterm terminfo entry.
7686 + modify lib_setup.c to reject values of $TERM which have a '/' in
7688 + add ifdef's to guard against CS5, CS6, CS7, CS8 being zero, as more
7689 than one is on BeOS. That would break a switch statement.
7690 + add configure macro CF_LINK_FUNCS to detect and work around BeOS's
7691 nonfunctional link().
7692 + improved configure macros CF_BOOL_DECL and CF_BOOL_SIZE to detect
7693 BeOS's bool, which is declared as an unsigned char.
7696 + add ms-vt100 terminfo entry -TD
7697 + minor fixes for misc/emx.src, based on testing with tack.
7698 + minor fix for test/ncurses.c, test 'a', in case ncv is not set.
7701 + minor correction for 'screen' terminfo entry.
7702 + clarify description of errret values for setupterm in manpage.
7703 + modify tput to allow it to emit capabilities for hardcopy terminals
7704 (patch by Goran Uddeborg <goeran@uddeborg.pp.se>).
7705 + modify the 'o' (panel) test in ncurses.c to show the panels in color
7706 or at least in bold, to test Juergen's change to wrefresh().
7707 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
7708 + Fixes a problem using wbkgdset() with panels. It has actually
7709 nothing to with panels but is a problem in the implementation of
7710 wrefresh(). Whenever a window changes its background attribute to
7711 something different than newscr's background attribute, the whole
7712 window is touched to force a copy to newscr. This is an unwanted
7713 side-effect of wrefresh() and it is actually not necessary. A
7714 changed background attribute affects only further outputs of
7715 background it doesn't mean anything to the current content of the
7716 window. So there is no need to force a copy. (reported by Frank
7717 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>).
7718 + an upward compatible enhancement of the NCursesPad class in the C++
7719 binding. It allows one to add a "viewport" window to a pad and then
7720 to use panning to view the pad through the viewport window.
7723 + suppress a call to def_prog_mode() in the SIGTSTP handler if the
7724 signal was received while not in curses mode, e.g., endwin() was
7725 called in preparation for spawning a shell command (reported by Frank
7726 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>)
7727 + corrected/enhanced xterm-r5, xterm+sl, xterm+sl-twm terminfo entries.
7728 + change test for xterm mouse capability: it now checks only if the
7729 user's $DISPLAY variable is set in conjunction with the kmous
7730 capability being present in the terminfo. Before, it checked if any
7731 of "xterm", "rxvt" or "kterm" were substrings of the terminal name.
7732 However, some emulators which are incompatible with xterm in other
7733 ways do support the xterm mouse capability.
7734 + reviewed and made minor changes in ncurses to quiet g++ warnings
7735 about shadowed or uninitialized variables. g++ incorrectly warns
7736 about uninitialized variables because it does not take into account
7737 short-circuit expression evaluation.
7738 + change ncurses 'b' test to start in color pair 0 and to show in the
7739 right margin those attributes which are suppressed by no_color_video,
7741 + modify ifdef's in curses.h so that __attribute__ is not redefined
7742 when compiling with g++, but instead disabled the macros derived for
7743 __attribute__ since g++ does not consistently recognize the same
7744 keywords as gcc (reported by Stephan K Zitz <zitz@erf.net>).
7745 + update dependencies for term.h in ncurses/modules (reported by
7749 + modify the form demo in ncurses.c to illustrate how to manipulate the
7750 field appearance, e.g, for highlighting or translating the field
7752 + correct logic in write_entry from split-out of home_terminfo in
7753 980919, which prevented update of $HOME/.terminfo (reported by Philip
7754 Spencer <pspencer@fields.utoronto.ca>).
7757 + modify linux terminfo description to make use of kernel 2.2.x mods
7758 that support cursor style, e.g., to implement cvvis (patch by Frank
7759 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>)
7760 + add special-case in setupterm to retain previously-saved terminal
7761 settings in cur_term, which happens when curses and termcap calls are
7762 mixed (from report by Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@dhc.net>).
7763 + suppress initialization of key-tries in _nc_keypad() if we are only
7764 disabling keypad mode, e.g., in endwin() called when keypad() was
7766 + modify the Ada95 makefile to ensure that always the Ada files from
7767 the development tree are used for building and not the eventually
7768 installed ones (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7771 + use TTY definition in tack/sysdep.c rather than struct termios
7772 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
7773 + add a fallback for strstr, used in lib_mvcur.c and tack/edit.c,
7774 not present on sysV68 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
7775 + correct definition in comp_hash.c to build with configure
7776 --with-rcs-ids option.
7779 + modified ifdef's for sigaction and sigvec to ensure we do not try to
7780 handle SIGTSTP if neither is available (from report by Philippe De
7782 > patch by Philippe De Muyter:
7783 + in tic.c, use `unlink' if `remove' is not available.
7784 + use only `unsigned' as fallback value for `speed_t'. Some files used
7788 + fix some compiler warnings in tack.
7789 + add a check for predefined bool type in CC, based on report that
7790 BeOS predefines a bool type.
7791 + correct logic for infocmp -e option, i.e., the configure
7792 --with-fallbacks option, which I'd not updated when implementing
7793 extended names (cf: 990301). The new implementation adds a "-E"
7794 option to infocmp -TD
7795 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7796 + introduce the private type Curses_Bool in the Ada95 binding
7797 implementation. This is to clearly represent the use of "bool" also
7798 in the binding. It should have no effect on the generated code.
7799 + improve the man page for field_buffer() to tell the people, that the
7800 whole buffer including leading/trailing spaces is returned. This is
7801 a common source of confusion, so it's better to document it clearly.
7804 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7805 + use pragma PreElaborate in several places.
7806 + change a few System.Address uses to more specific types.
7807 + change interface version-number to 1.0
7808 + regenerate Ada95 HTML files.
7811 + modify lib_endwin.c to avoid calling reset_shell_mode(), return ERR
7812 if it appears that curses was never initialized, e.g., by initscr().
7813 For instance, this guards against setting the terminal modes to
7814 strange values if endwin() is called after setupterm(). In the same
7815 context, Solaris curses will dump core.
7816 + modify logic that avoids a conflict in lib_vidattr.c between sgr0 and
7817 equivalent values in rmso or rmul by ensuring we do not modify the
7818 data which would be returned by the terminfo or termcap interfaces
7819 (reported by Brad Pepers <brad@linuxcanada.com>, cf: 960706).
7820 + add a null-pointer check for SP in lib_vidattr.c to logic that checks
7822 + improve fallback declaration of 'bool' when the --without-cxx option
7823 is given, by using a 'char' on i386 and related hosts (prompted by
7824 discussion with Alexander V Lukyanov).
7827 + include time.h in lib_napms.c if nanosleep is used (patch by
7828 R Lindsay Todd <toddr@rpi.edu>).
7829 + add an "#undef bool" to curses.h, in case someone tries to define it,
7831 + add check to tparm to guard against divide by zero (reported by Aaron
7832 Campbell <aaron@ug.cs.dal.ca>).
7835 + minor fix to build tack on CLIX (mismatched const).
7836 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7837 + change Juergen's old email address with new one in the files where it
7838 is referenced. The Ada95 HTML pages are regenerated.
7839 + update MANIFEST to list the tack files.
7842 + minor fixes to make 'tack' build/link on NeXT (reported by Francisco
7846 + add 'tack' program (which is GPL'd), updating it to work with the
7847 modified TERMTYPE struct and making a fix to support setaf/setab
7848 capabilities. Note that the tack program is not part of the
7849 ncurses libraries, but an application which can be distributed with
7850 ncurses. The configure script will ignore the directory if it is
7852 + modify gpm mouse support so that buttons 2 and 3 are used for
7853 select/paste only when shift key is pressed, making them available
7854 for use by an application (patch by Klaus Weide).
7855 + add complete list of function keys to scoansi terminfo entry - TD
7858 + add a simple test program cardfile.c to illustrate how to read form
7859 fields, and showing forms within panels.
7860 + change shared-library versioning for the Hurd to be like Linux rather
7861 than *BSD (patch by Mark Kettenis <kettenis@wins.uva.nl>).
7862 + add linux-lat terminfo entry.
7863 + back-out _nc_access check in read_termcap.c (both incorrect and
7864 unnecessary, except to guard against a small window where the file's
7865 ownership may change).
7868 + remove conflicting _nc_free_termtype() function from test module
7870 + use _nc_access check in read_termcap.c for termpaths[] array (noted
7871 by Jeremy Buhler, indicating that Alan Cox made a similar patch).
7872 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7873 + modify menu creation to not inherit status flag from the default menu
7874 which says that the associated marker string has been allocated and
7875 should be freed (bug reported by Marek Paliwoda"
7876 <paliwoda@kki.net.pl>)
7878 990327 pre-release (alpha.gnu.org:/gnu/ncurses-5.0-beta1.tar.gz)
7879 + minor fixes to xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry - TD.
7880 + split up an expression in configure script check for ldconfig to
7881 workaround limitation of BSD/OS sh (reported by Jeff Haas
7882 <jmh@mail.msen.com>).
7883 + correct a typo in man/form_hook.3x (Todd C Miller).
7886 + parenthesize and undef 'index' symbol in c++ binding and demo, to
7887 accommodate its definition on NeXT (reported by Francisco A. Tomei
7889 + add sigismember() to base/sigaction.c compatibility to link on NeXT
7890 (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
7891 + further refinements to inequality in hashmap.c to cover a case with
7892 ^U in nvi (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
7895 + add fallback definition for getcwd, to link on NeXT.
7896 + add a copy of cur_term to tic.c to make it link properly on NeXT
7897 (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
7898 + change inequality in hashmap.c which checks the distance traveled by
7899 a chunk so that ^D command in nvi (scrolls 1/2 screen) will use
7900 scrolling logic (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov, reported by Jeffrey
7904 + modify lib_color.c to handle a special case where the curscr
7905 attributes have been made obsolete (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
7906 + update BSD/OS console terminfo entries to use klone+sgr and
7907 klone+color (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
7908 + update glibc addon configure script for extended capabilities.
7909 + correct a couple of warnings in the --enable-const configuration.
7910 + make comp_hash build properly with _nc_strdup(), on NeXT (reported by
7911 Francisco A. Tomei Torres <francisco.tomei@cwix.com>).
7914 + correct typos in linux-c initc string - TD
7915 + add 'crt' terminfo entry, update xterm-xfree86 entry - TD
7916 + remove a spurious argument to tparm() in lib_sklrefr.c (patch by
7917 Alexander V Lukyanov).
7920 + back-out change to wgetch because it causes a problem with ^Z
7921 handling in lynx (reported by Kim DeVaughn).
7924 + add -G option to tic and infocmp, to reverse the "-g" option.
7925 + recode functions in name_match.c to avoid use of strncpy, which
7926 caused a 4-fold slowdown in tic (cf: 980530).
7927 + correct a few warnings about sign-extension in recent changes.
7928 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7929 + fixes suggested by Jeff Bradbury <jibradbury@lucent.com>:
7930 + improved parameter checking in new_fieldtype().
7931 + fixed a typo in wgetch() timeout handling.
7932 + allow slk_init() to be called per newterm call. The internal SLK
7933 state is stored in the SCREEN struct after every newterm() and then
7934 reset for the next newterm.
7935 + fix the problem that a slk_refresh() refreshes stdscr if the
7936 terminal has true SLKs.
7937 + update HTML documentation for Ada binding.
7940 + remove 'bool' casts from definitions of TRUE/FALSE so that statements
7941 such as "#if TRUE" work. This was originally done to allow for a C++
7942 compiler which would warn of implicit conversions between enum and
7943 int, but is not needed for g++ (reported by Kim DeVaughn).
7944 + add use_extended_names() function to allow applications to suppress
7945 read of the extended capabilities.
7946 + add configure option --enable-tcap-names to support logic which
7947 allows ncurses' tic to define new (i.e., extended) terminal
7948 capabilities. This is activated by the tic -x switch. The infocmp
7949 program automatically shows or compares extended capabilities.
7950 Note: This changes the Strings and similar arrays in the TERMTYPE
7951 struct so that applications which manipulate it must be recompiled.
7952 + use macros typeMalloc, typeCalloc and typeRealloc consistently
7953 throughout ncurses library.
7954 + add _nc_strdup() to doalloc.c.
7955 + modify define_key() to allow multiple strings to be bound to the
7957 + correct logic error in _nc_remove_string, from 990220.
7958 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
7959 + regenerate some of the html documentation
7960 + minor cleanup in terminal_interface-curses.adb
7963 + resolve ambiguity of kend/kll/kslt and khome/kfnd/kich1 strings in
7964 xterm and ncsa terminfo entries by removing the unneeded ones. Note
7965 that some entries will return kend & khome versus kslt and kfnd, for
7966 PC-style keyboards versus strict vt220 compatiblity - TD
7967 + add function keybound(), which returns the definition associated with
7969 + modify define_key() to undefine the given string when no keycode is
7971 + modify keyok() so it works properly if there is more than one string
7972 defined for a keycode.
7973 + add check to tic to warn about terminfo descriptions that contain
7974 more than one key assigned to the same string. This is shown only if
7975 the verbose (-v) option is given. Moved related logic (tic -v) from
7976 comp_parse.c into the tic program.
7977 + add/use _nc_trace_tries() to show the function keys that will be
7979 + rename init_acs to _nc_init_acs (request by Alexander V Lukyanov).
7980 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
7981 + remove all the *_adabind.c from ncurses, menu and form projects.
7982 Those little helper routines have all been implemented in Ada and are
7984 + The option handling routines in menu and form have been made more
7985 save. They now make sure that the unused bits in options are always
7987 + modify configuration scripts to
7988 + use gnatmake as default compiler name. This is a safer choice than
7989 gcc, because some GNAT implementations use other names for the
7990 compilerdriver to avoid conflicts.
7991 + use new default installation locations for the Ada files according
7992 to the proposed GNU Ada filesystem standard (for Linux).
7993 + simplify the Makefiles for the Ada binding
7994 + rename ada_include directory to src.
7997 + enable sigwinch handler by default.
7998 + disable logic that allows setbuf to be turned off/on, because some
7999 implementations will overrun the buffer after it has been disabled
8003 + suppress sc/rc capabilities from terminal description if they appear
8004 in smcup/rmcup. This affects only scrolling optimization, to fix a
8005 problem reported by several people with xterm's alternate screen,
8006 though the problem is more general.
8007 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
8008 + removed all pragma Preelaborate() stuff, because the just released
8009 gnat-3.11p complains on some constructs.
8010 + fixed some upper/lower case notations because gnat-3.11p found
8012 + used a new method to generate the HTML documentation of the Ada95
8013 binding. This invalidates nearly the whole ./Ada95/html subtree.
8014 Nearly all current files in this subtree are removed
8017 + cache last result from _nc_baudrate, for performance (suggested by
8018 Alexander V Lukyanov).
8019 + modify ClrUpdate() function to workaround a problem in nvi, which
8020 uses redrawwin in SIGTSTP handling. Jeffrey C Honig reported that
8021 ncurses repainted the screen with nulls before resuming normal
8022 operation (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
8023 + generalize is_xterm() function a little by letting xterm/rxvt/kterm
8024 be any substring rather than the prefix.
8025 + modify lib_data.c to initialize SP. Some linkers, e.g., IBM's, will
8026 not link a module if the only symbols exported from the module are
8027 uninitialized ones (patch by Ilya Zakharevich). Ilya says that he
8028 has seen messages claiming this behavior conforms to the standard.)
8029 + move call on _nc_signal_handler past _nc_initscr, to avoid a small
8030 window where Nttyb hasn't yet been filled (reported by Klaus Weide).
8031 + modify lib_tstp.c to block SIGTTOU when handling SIGTSTP, fixes a
8032 problem where ncurses applications which were run via a shell script
8033 would hang when given a ^Z. Also, check if the terminal's process
8034 group is consistent, i.e., a shell has not taken ownership of it,
8035 before deciding to save the current terminal settings in the SIGTSTP
8036 handler (patch by Klaus Weide).
8037 + correct spelling of ACS_ names in curs_border.3x (reported by Bob van
8038 der Poel <bvdpoel@kootenay.com>).
8039 + correct a couple of typos in the macros supporting the configure
8040 --with-shlib-version option.
8043 + modify fty_regex.c to compile on HAVE_REGEXPR_H_FUNCS machine (patch
8044 by Kimio Ishii <ishii@csl.sony.co.jp>).
8045 + rename BSDI console terminfo entries: bsdos to bsdos-pc-nobold, and
8046 bsdos-bold to bsdos-pc (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
8047 + modify tput to accept termcap names as an alternative to terminfo
8048 names (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
8049 + correct a typo in term.7 (Todd C Miller).
8050 + add configure --with-shlib-version option to allow installing shared
8051 libraries named according to release or ABI versions. This
8052 parameterizes some existing logic in the configure script, and is
8053 intended for compatiblity upgrades on Digital Unix, which used
8054 versioned libraries in ncurses 4.2, but no longer does (cf: 980425).
8055 + resync configure script against autoconf 2.13 + patches
8056 + minor improvements for teraterm terminfo entry based on the program's
8057 source distribution.
8060 + change default for configure --enable-big-core to assume machines do
8061 have enough memory to resolve terminfo.src in-memory.
8062 + correct name of ncurses library in TEST_ARGS when configuring with
8064 + minor fixes to compile ncurses library with broken-linker with g++.
8065 + add --enable-broken-linker configure option, default to environment
8066 variable $BROKEN_LINKER (request by Jeffrey C Honig).
8067 + change key_names[] array to static since it is not part of the curses
8068 interface (reported by Jeffrey C Honig <jch@bsdi.com>).
8071 + add Tera Term terminfo entry - TD
8074 + reviewed/corrected macros in curses.h as per XSI document.
8075 + provide support for termcap PC variable by copying it from terminfo
8076 data and using it as the padding character in tputs (reported by
8077 Alexander V Lukyanov).
8078 + corrected iris-ansi and iris-ansi-ap terminfo entries for kent and
8079 kf9-kf12 capabilities, as well as adding kcbt.
8080 + document the mouse handling mechanism in menu_driver and make a small
8081 change in menu_driver's return codes to provide more consistency
8082 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
8083 + add fallback definition for NCURSES_CONST to termcap.h.in (reported
8084 by Uchiyama Yasushi <uch@nop.or.jp>).
8085 + move lib_restart.c to ncurses/base, since it uses curses functions
8086 directly, and therefore cannot be used in libtinfo.so
8087 + rename micro_char_size to micro_col_size, adding #define to retain
8089 + add set_a_attributes and set_pglen_inch to terminfo structure, as per
8090 XSI and Solaris 2.5.
8091 + minor makefile files to build ncurses test_progs
8092 + update html files in misc directory to reflect changes since 4.2
8095 + disable scroll hints when hashmap is enabled (patch by Alexander
8097 + move logic for tic's verify of -e option versus -I and -C so that the
8098 terminfo data is not processed if we cannot handle -e (reported by
8099 Steven Schwartz <steves@unitrends.com>.
8100 + add test-driver traces to terminfo and termcap functions.
8101 + provide support for termcap ospeed variable by copying it from the
8102 internal cur_term member, and using ospeed as the baudrate reference
8103 for the delay_output and tputs functions. If an application does not
8104 set ospeed, the library behaves as before, except that _nc_timed_wait
8105 is no longer used, or needed, since ospeed always has a value. But
8106 the application can modify ospeed to adjust the output of padding
8107 characters (prompted by a bug report for screen 3.7.6 and email from
8108 Michael Schroeder <Michael.Schroeder@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>).
8109 + removed some unused ifdef's as part of Alexander's restructuring.
8110 + reviewed/updated curses.h, term.h against X/Open Curses Issue 4
8111 Version 2. This includes making some parameters NCURSES_CONST
8112 rather than const, e.g., in termcap.h.
8113 + change linux terminfo entry to use ncv#2, since underline does not
8117 + miscellaneous corrections for curses.h to match XSI.
8118 + change --enable-no-padding configure option to be normally enabled.
8119 + add section to ncurses manpage for environment variables.
8120 + investigated Debian bug report that pertains to screen 3.7.4/3.7.6
8121 changes, found no sign of problems on Linux (or on SunOS, Solaris)
8122 running screen built with ncurses.
8123 + check if tmp_fp is opened in tic.c before closing it (patch by Pavel
8124 Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>).
8125 + correct several font specification typos in man-pages.
8128 + correct default value for BUILD_CC (reported by Larry Virden).
8131 + modify _nc_set_writedir() to set a flag in _nc_tic_dir() to prevent
8132 it from changing the terminfo directory after chdir'ing to it.
8133 Otherwise, a relative path in $TERMINFO would confuse tic (prompted
8134 by a Debian bug report).
8135 + correct/update ncsa terminfo entry (report by Larry Virden).
8136 + update xterm-xfree86 terminfo to current (patch 90), smcur/rmcur
8138 + add Mathew Vernon's mach console entries to terminfo.src
8139 + more changes, moving functions, as part of Alexander's restructuring.
8140 + modify configure script for GNU/Hurd share-library support, introduce
8141 BUILD_CC variable for cross compiling (patch by Uchiyama Yasushi
8145 + add environment variable NCURSES_NO_SETBUF to allow disabling the
8146 setbuf feature, for testing purposes.
8147 + correct ifdef's for termcap.h versus term.h that suppress redundant
8148 declarations of prototypes (reported by H.J.Lu).
8149 + modify Makefile.os2 to add linker flags which allow multiple copies
8150 of an application to coexist (reported by Ilya Zakharevich).
8151 + update Makefile.glibc and associated configure script so that ncurses
8152 builds as a glibc add-on with the new directory configuration
8153 (reported by H.J.Lu).
8156 + modify gen_reps() function in gen.c to work properly on SunOS
8157 (sparc), which is a left-to-right architecture.
8158 + modify relative_move and tputs to avoid an interaction with the
8159 BSD-style padding. The relative_move function could produce a string
8160 to replace on the screen which began with a numeric character, which
8161 was then interpreted by tputs as padding. Now relative_move will not
8162 generate a string with a leading digit in that case (overwrite).
8163 Also, tputs will only interpret padding if the string begins with a
8164 digit; as coded it permitted a string to begin with a decimal point
8165 or asterisk (reported by Larry Virden).
8166 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
8167 + fix a typo in m_driver.c mouse handling and improves the error
8169 + fix broken mouse handling in the Ada95 binding
8170 + make the Ada95 sample application menus work with the new menu mouse
8172 + improve the mouse handling introduced by Ilya; it now handles menus
8174 + repair a minor bug in the menu_driver code discovered during this
8176 + add new function wmouse_trafo() to hide implementation details of
8177 _yoffset member of WINDOW struct needed for mouse coordinate
8181 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to avoid using return-value of sprintf, since
8182 some older implementations (e.g., SunOS 4.x) return the buffer
8183 address rather than its length.
8184 > patch by Rick Ohnemus:
8185 + modify demo.cc to get it to compile with newer versions of egcs.
8186 + trim a space that appears at the end of the table preprocessor lines
8187 ('\" t). This space prevents some versions of man from displaying
8188 the pages - changed to remove all trailing whitespace (TD)
8189 + finally, 'make clean' does not remove panel objects.
8190 > patches by Ilya Zakharevich:
8191 + allow remapping of OS/2 mouse buttons using environment variable
8192 MOUSE_BUTTONS_123 with the default value 132.
8193 + add mouse support to ncurses menus.
8196 + modify misc/makedef.cmd to report old-style .def file symbols, and to
8197 generate the .def files sorted by increasing names rather than the
8199 + add misc/*.ref which are J.J.G.Ripoll's dll definition files (renamed
8200 from misc/*.old), and updated based on the entrypoint coding he used
8201 for an older version of ncurses.
8202 + add README.emx, to document how to build on OS/2 EMX.
8203 + updates for config.guess, config.sub from Lynx
8204 > patches by Ilya Zakharevich:
8205 + minor fixes for mouse handling mode:
8206 a) Do not initialize mouse if the request is to have no mouse;
8207 b) Allow switching of OS/2 VIO mouse on and off.
8208 + modify Makefile.os2 to support alternative means of generating
8209 configure script, by translating Unix script with Perl.
8210 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
8211 + Updates MANIFEST to reflect changes in source structure
8212 + Eliminates a problem introduced with my last patch for the C++
8213 binding in the panels code. It removes the update() call done in the
8215 + Changes in the Ada95 binding to better support systems where
8216 sizeof(chtype)!=sizeof(int) (e.g. DEC Alpha).
8219 + modify install-script for manpages to skip over .orig and .rej files
8220 (request by Larry Virden).
8221 > patches/discussion by Alexander V Lukyanov:
8222 + move base-library sources into ncurses/base and tty (serial terminal)
8223 sources into ncurses/tty, as part of Alexander V Lukyanov's proposed
8224 changes to ncurses library.
8225 + copy _tracemouse() into ncurses.c so that lib_tracemse.c need not
8226 be linked into the normal ncurses library.
8227 + move macro winch to a function, to hide details of struct ldat
8228 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
8229 + fix a potential compile problem in cursesw.cc
8230 + some Ada95 cosmetics
8231 + fix a gen.c problem when compiling on 64-Bit machines
8232 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in "-L" linker switch
8233 + modify Ada95 makefiles to use the INSTALL_PREFIX setting.
8236 + ifdef'd out lib_freeall.c when not configured.
8237 + rename _tracebits() to _nc_tracebits().
8238 + move terminfo-library sources into ncurses/tinfo, and trace-support
8239 functions into ncurses/trace as part of Alexander V Lukyanov's
8240 proposed changes to ncurses library.
8241 + modify generated term.h to always specify its own definitions for
8242 HAVE_TERMIOS_H, etc., to guard against inclusion by programs with
8243 broken configure scripts.
8246 + modify terminfo parsing to accept octal and hexadecimal constants,
8248 + remove an autoconf 2.10 artifact from the configure script's check
8249 for "-g" compiler options. (Though harmless, this confused someone
8250 at Debian, who recently issued a patch that results in the opposite
8252 + add configure option --with-ada-compiler to accommodate installations
8253 that do not use gcc as the driver for GNAT (patch by Juergen
8257 + ensure ./man exists in configure script, needed when configuring
8258 with --srcdir option.
8259 + modify infocmp "-r" option to remove limit on formatted termcap
8260 output, which makes it more like Solaris' version.
8261 + modify captoinfo to treat no-argument case more like Solaris'
8262 version, which uses the contents of $TERMCAP as the entry to format.
8263 + modify mk-2nd.awk to handle subdirectories, e.g., ncurses/tty
8264 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
8267 + modify --with-terminfo-dirs option so that the default value is the
8268 ${datadir} value, unless $TERMINFO_DIRS is already set. This gets
8269 rid of a hardcoded list of candidate directories in the configure
8271 + add some error-checking to _nc_read_file_entry() to ensure that
8272 strings are properly terminated (Todd C Miller).
8273 + rename manpage file curs_scr_dmp.3x to curs_scr_dump.3x, to
8274 correspond with contents (reported by Neil Zanella
8275 <nzanella@cs.mun.ca>).
8276 + remove redundant configure check for C++ which did not work when $CXX
8277 was specified with a full pathname (reported by Andreas Jaeger).
8278 + corrected bcopy/memmove check; the macro was not standalone.
8281 + remove unnecessary portion of OS/2 EMX mouse change from
8282 check_pending() (reported by Alexander V Lukyanov).
8285 + implement mouse support for OS/2 EMX (adapted from patch against
8286 4.2(?) by Ilya Zakharevich).
8287 + add configure-check for bcopy/memmove, for 980919 changes to hashmap.
8288 + merge Data General terminfo from Hasufin <hasufin@vidnet.net> - TD
8289 + merge AIX 3.2.5 terminfo descriptions for IBM terminals, replaces
8290 some older entries - TD
8291 + modify tic to compile into %'char' form in preference to %{number},
8292 since that is a little more efficient.
8293 + minor correction to infocmp to avoid displaying "difference" between
8294 two capabilities that are rendered in equivalent forms.
8295 + add "-g" option to tic/infocmp to force character constants to be
8296 displayed in quoted form. Otherwise their decimal values are shown.
8297 + modify setupterm so that cancelled strings are treated the same as
8298 absent strings, cancelled and absent booleans false (does not affect
8300 + modify tic, infocmp to discard redundant i3, r3 strings when output
8302 > patch by Alexander V Lukyanov:
8303 + improve performance of tparm, now it takes 19% instead of 25% when
8305 + rename maxlen/minlen to prec/width for better readability.
8306 + use format string for printing strings.
8307 + use len argument correctly in save_text, and pass it to save_number.
8310 + make test_progs compile (but hashmap does not function).
8311 + correct NC_BUFFERED macro, used in lib_mvcur test-driver, modify
8312 associated logic to avoid freeing the SP->_setbuf data.
8313 + add modules home_terminfo and getenv_num to libtinfo.
8314 + move write_entry to libtinfo, to work with termcap caching.
8315 + minor fixes to blue.c to build with atac.
8316 + remove softscroll.c module; no longer needed for testing.
8317 > patches by Todd C Miller:
8318 + use strtol(3) instead of atoi(3) when parsing env variables so we can
8319 detect a bogus (non-numeric) value.
8320 + check for terminal names > MAX_NAME_SIZE in a few more places when
8321 dealing with env variables again.
8322 + fix a MAX_NAME_SIZE that should be MAX_NAME_SIZE+1
8323 + use sizeof instead of strlen(3) on PRIVATE_INFO since it is a fixed
8324 string #define (compile time vs runtime).
8325 + when setting errno to ENOMEM, set it right before the return, not
8326 before code that could, possibly, set errno to a different value.
8327 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
8328 + use default background in update_cost_from_blank()
8329 + disable scroll-hints when hashmap is configured.
8330 + improve integration of hashmap scrolling code, by adding oldhash and
8331 newhash data to SP struct.
8332 + invoke del_curterm from delscreen.
8333 + modify del_curterm to set cur_term to null if it matches the
8334 function's parameter which is deleted.
8335 + modify lib_doupdate to prefer parm_ich to the enter_insert_mode and
8336 exit_insert_mode combination, adjusting InsCharCost to check
8337 enter_insert_mode, exit_insert_mode and insert_padding. Add
8338 insert_padding in insert mode after each char. This adds new costs
8342 + modify test-driver in lib_mvcur.s to use _nc_setbuffer, for
8343 consistent treatment.
8344 + modify ncurses to restore output to unbuffered on endwin, and resume
8345 buffering in refresh (see lib_set_term.c and NC_BUFFERED macro).
8346 + corrected HTML version numbers (according to the W3C validator, they
8347 never were HTML 2.0-compliant, but are acceptable 3.0).
8350 + modify MKterminfo.sh to generate terminfo.5 with tables sorted by
8351 capability name, as in SVr4.
8352 + modified term.h, termcap.h headers to avoid redundant declarations.
8353 + change 'u_int' type in tset.c to unsigned, making this compile on
8354 Sequent PRX 4.1 (reported by Michael Sterrett <msterret@coat.com>).
8357 + corrections to mailing addresses, and moving the magic line that
8358 causes the man program to invoke tbl to the first line of each
8359 manpage (patch by Rick Ohnemus <rick@ecompcon.com>).
8360 + add Makefile.os2 and supporting scripts to generate dll's on OS/2 EMX
8361 (from J.J.G.Ripoll, with further integration by TD).
8362 + correct a typo in icl6404 terminfo entry.
8363 + add xtermm and xtermc terminfo entries.
8364 > from esr's terminfo version:
8365 + Added Francesco Potorti's tuned Wyse 99 entries.
8366 + dtterm enacs (from Alexander V Lukyanov).
8367 + Add ncsa-ns, ncsa-m-ns and ncsa-m entries from esr version.
8370 + document AT&T acs characters in terminfo.5 manpage.
8371 + use EMX _scrsize() function if terminfo and environment do not
8372 declare the screen size (reported by Ilya Zakharevich
8373 <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>).
8374 + remove spurious '\' characters from eterm and osborne terminfo
8375 entries (prompted by an old Debian bug report).
8376 + correct reversed malloc/realloc calls in _nc_doalloc (reported by
8377 Hans-Joachim Widmaier <hjwidmai@foxboro.com>).
8378 + correct misplaced parenthesis which caused file-descriptor from
8379 opening termcap to be lost, from 980725 changes (reported by Andreas
8383 + modify lib_setup.c to eliminate unneeded include of <sys/ioctl.h>
8384 when termios is not used (patch by Todd C Miller).
8385 + add function _nc_doalloc, to ensure that failed realloc calls do not
8386 leak memory (reported by Todd C Miller).
8387 + improved ncsa-telnet terminfo entry.
8390 + correct missing braces around a trace statement in read_entry.c,
8391 from 980808 (reported by Kim DeVaughn <kimdv@best.com> and Liviu
8395 + fix missing include <errno.h> in ditto.c (reported by Bernhard
8396 Rosenkraenzer <bero@k5.sucks.eu.org>)
8397 + add NCSA telnet terminfo entries from Francesco Potorti
8398 <F.Potorti@cnuce.cnr.it>, from Debian bug reports.
8399 + make handling of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables more compatible with
8400 Solaris by allowing them to individually override the window size
8401 as obtained via ioctl.
8404 + modify lib_vidattr.c to allow for terminal types (e.g., xterm-color)
8405 which may reset all attributes in the 'op' capability, so that colors
8406 are set before turning on bold and other attributes, but still after
8407 turning attributes off.
8408 + add 'ditto.c' to test directory to illustrate use of newterm for
8409 initializing multiple screens.
8410 + modify _nc_write_entry() to recover from failed attempt to link alias
8411 for a terminfo on a filesystem which does not preserve character case
8412 (reported by Peter L Jordan <PJordan@chla.usc.edu>).
8415 + updated versions of config.guess and config.sub based on automake 1.3
8416 + change name-comparisons in lib_termcap to compare no more than 2
8417 characters (gleaned from Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-8.8, verified
8418 with Solaris curses).
8419 + fix typo in curs_insstr.3x (patch by Todd C Miller)
8420 + use 'access()' to check if ncurses library should be permitted to
8421 open or modify files with fopen/open/link/unlink/remove calls, in
8422 case the calling application is running in setuid mode (request by
8423 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>, responding to Duncan Simpson
8424 <dps@io.stargate.co.uk>).
8425 + arm100 terminfo entries from Dave Millen <dmill@globalnet.co.uk>).
8426 + qnxt2 and minitel terminfo entries from esr's version.
8429 + use -R option with ldconfig on FreeBSD because otherwise it resets
8430 the search path to /usr/lib (reported by Dan Nelson).
8431 + add -soname option when building shared libraries on OpenBSD 2.x
8432 (request by QingLong).
8433 + add configure options --with-manpage-format and
8434 --with-manpage-renames (request by QingLong).
8435 + correct conversion of CANCELLED_NUMERIC in write_object(), which was
8436 omitting the high-order byte, producing a 254 in the compiled
8438 + modify return-values of tgetflag, tgetnum, tgetstr, tigetflag,
8439 tigetnum and tigetstr to be compatible with Solaris (gleaned from
8440 Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-8.8).
8441 + modify _nc_syserr_abort to abort only when compiled for debugging,
8442 otherwise simply exit with an error.
8445 + modify Ada95 'gen' program to use appropriate library suffix (e.g.,
8446 "_g" for a debug build).
8447 + update Ada95 'make clean' rule to include generics .ali files
8448 + add a configure test to ensure that if GNAT is found, that it can
8449 compile/link working Ada95 program.
8450 + flush output in beep and flash functions, fixing a problem with
8451 getstr (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov)
8452 + fix egcs 1.0.2 warning for etip.h (patch by Chris Johns).
8453 + correct ifdef/brace nesting in lib_sprintf.c (patch by Bernhard
8454 Rosenkraenzer <bero@Pool.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>).
8455 + correct typo in wattr_get macro from 980509 fixes (patch by Dan
8459 + merge changes from current XFree86 xterm terminfo descriptions.
8460 + add configure option '--without-ada'.
8461 + add a smart-default for termcap 'ac' to terminfo 'acs_chars' which
8462 corresponds to vt100.
8463 + change translation for termcap 'rs' to terminfo 'rs2', which is
8464 the documented equivalent, rather than 'rs1'.
8467 + slow 'worm' down a little, for very fast machines.
8468 + corrected firstchar/lastchar computation in lib_hline.c
8469 + simplify some expressions with CHANGED_CELL, CHANGED_RANGE and
8470 CHANGED_TO_EOL macros.
8471 + modify init_pair so that if a color-pair is reinitialized, we will
8472 repaint the areas of the screen whose color changes, like SVr4 curses
8473 (reported by Christian Maurer <maurer@inf.fu-berlin.de>).
8474 + modify getsyx/setsyx macros to comply with SVr4 man-page which
8475 says that leaveok() affects their behavior (report by Darryl Miles,
8476 patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
8479 + review terminfo.5 against Solaris 2.6 curses version, corrected
8480 several minor errors/omissions.
8481 + implement tparm %l format.
8482 + implement tparm printf-style width and precision for %s, %d, %x, %o
8484 + implement tparm dynamic variables (reported by Xiaodan Tang).
8487 + update man-page for for wattr_set, wattr_get (cf: 980509)
8488 + correct limits in hashtest, which would cause nonprinting characters
8489 to be written to large screens.
8490 + correct configure script, when --without-cxx was specified: the
8491 wrong variable was used for cf_cv_type_of_bool. Compilers up to gcc
8492 2.8 tolerated the missing 'int'.
8493 + remove the hardcoded name "gcc" for the GNU Ada compiler. The
8494 compiler's name might be something like "egcs" (patch by Juergen
8496 + correct curs_addch.3x, which implied that echochar could directly
8497 display control characters (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
8498 + fix typos in ncurses-intro.html (patch by Sidik Isani
8499 <isani@cfht.hawaii.edu>)
8502 + add configure test for conflicting use of exception in math.h and
8504 + minor optimization to 'hash()' function in hashmap.c, reduces its
8506 + correct form of LD_SHARED_OPTS for HP-UX 10.x (patch by Tim Mooney).
8507 + fix missing quotes for 'print' in MKunctrl.awk script (reported by
8508 Mihai Budiu <mihaib@gs41.sp.cs.cmu.edu>).
8509 > patch by Alexander V Lukyanov:
8510 + correct problem on Solaris (with poll() function) where getch could
8511 hang indefinitely even if timeout(x) was called. This turned out to
8512 be because milliseconds was not updated before 'goto retry' in
8514 + simplified the function _nc_timed_wait and fixed another bug, which
8515 was the assumption of !GOOD_SELECT && HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY in *timeleft
8517 + removed the cycle on EINTR, as it seems to be useless.
8520 + add makefile-rule for test/keynames
8521 + modify run_tic.sh and shlib to ensure that user's .profile does not
8522 override the $PATH used to run tic (patch by Tim Mooney).
8523 + restore LD_SHARED_OPTS to $(LD_SHARED_FLAGS) when linking programs,
8524 needed for HP-UX shared-library path (recommended by Tim Mooney).
8525 + remove special case of HP-UX -L options, use +b options to embed
8526 $(libdir) in the shared libraries (recommended by Tim Mooney).
8527 + add checks for some possible buffer overflows and unchecked
8528 malloc/realloc/calloc/strdup return values (patch by Todd C Miller
8529 <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>)
8532 + correct maxx/maxy expression for num_columns/num_lines in derwin
8533 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
8534 + add /usr/share/lib/terminfo and /usr/lib/terminfo as compatibilty
8535 fallbacks to _nc_read_entry(), along with --with-terminfo-dirs
8536 configure option (suggested by Mike Hopkirk).
8537 + modify config.guess to recognize Unixware 2.1 and 7 (patch by Mike
8538 Hopkirk <hops@sco.com>).
8539 + suppress definition of CC_SHARED_OPTS in LDFLAGS_SHARED in c++
8540 Makefile.in, since this conflicts when g++ is used with HP-UX
8541 compiler (reported by Tim Mooney).
8542 + parenthesize 'strcpy' calls in c++ binding to workaround redefinition
8543 in some C++ implementations (reported by several people running
8544 egcs with glibc 2.0.93, analysis by Andreas Jaeger.
8547 + modify write_entry.c so that it will not attempt to link aliases
8548 with embedded '/', but give only a warning.
8549 + put -L$(libdir) first when linking programs, except for HP-UX.
8550 + modify comp_scan.c to handle SVr4 terminfo description for att477,
8551 which contains a colon in the description field.
8552 + modify configure script to support SCO osr5.0.5 shared libraries,
8553 from comp.unix.sco.programmer newsgroup item (Mike Hopkirk).
8554 + eliminate extra GoTo call in lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V.
8556 + minor adjustments of const/NCURSES_CONST from IRIX compile.
8557 + add updates based on esr's 980509 version of terminfo.src.
8560 + correct macros for wattr_set, wattr_get, separate wattrset macro from
8561 these to preserve behavior that allows attributes to be combined with
8563 + add configure option --enable-no-padding, to allow environment
8564 variable $NCURSES_NO_PADDING to eliminate non-mandatory padding,
8565 thereby making terminal emulators (e.g., for vt100) a little more
8566 efficient (request by Daniel Eisenbud <eisenbud@cs.swarthmore.edu>).
8567 + modify configure script to embed ABI in shared libraries for HP-UX
8568 10.x (detailed request by Tim Mooney).
8569 + add test/example of the 'filter()' function.
8570 + add nxterm and xterm-color terminfo description (request by Cristian
8571 Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>).
8572 + modify rxvt terminfo description to clear alternate screen before
8573 switching back to normal screen, for compatibility with applications
8574 which use xterm (reported by Manoj Kasichainula <manojk@io.com>).
8575 + modify linux terminfo description to reset color palette (reported
8576 by Telford Tendys <telford@eng.uts.edu.au>).
8577 + correction to doupdate, for case where terminal does not support
8578 insert/delete character. The logic did not check that there was a
8579 difference in alignment of changes to old/new screens before
8580 repainting the whole non-blank portion of the line. Modified to fall
8581 through into logic that reduces by the portion which does not differ
8582 (reported by Daniel Eisenbud <eisenbud@cs.swarthmore.edu>).
8583 + minor performance improvement to wnoutrefresh by moving some
8584 comparisons out of inner loop.
8587 + modify configure script to substitute NCURSES_CONST in curses.h
8588 + updated terminfo entries for xterm-xf86-v40, xterm-16color,
8589 xterm-8bit to correspond to XFree86 3.9Ag.
8590 + remove restriction that forces ncurses to use setaf/setab if the
8591 number of colors is greater than 8. (see 970524 for xterm-16color).
8592 + change order of -L options (so that $(libdir) is searched first) when
8593 linking tic and other programs, to workaround HP's linker.
8594 Otherwise, the -L../lib is embedded when linking against shared
8595 libraries and the installed program does not run (reported by Ralf
8597 + modify configuration of shared libraries on Digital Unix so that
8598 versioning is embedded in the library, rather than implied by
8599 links (patch by Tim Mooney).
8602 + modify etip.h to avoid conflict with math.h on HP-UX 9.03 with gcc
8603 2.8.1 which redefines 'exception' (reported by Ralf Hildebrandt
8604 <R.Hildebrandt@tu-bs.de>).
8605 + correct configure tests in CF_SHARED_OPTS which used $CC value to
8606 check for gcc, rather than autoconf's $GCC value. This did not
8607 work properly if the full pathname of the compiler were given
8608 (reported by Michael Yount <yount@csf.Colorado.edu>).
8609 + revise check for compiler options to force ANSI mode since repeating
8610 an option such as -Aa causes HP's compiler to fail on its own headers
8611 (reported by Clint Olsen <olsenc@ichips.intel.com>).
8614 + ifdef'd has_key() and mcprint() as extended functions.
8615 + modified several prototypes to correspond with 1997 version of
8616 X/Open Curses (affects ABI since developers have used attr_get).
8617 + remove spurious trailing blanks in glibc addon-scripts (patch by
8619 + insert a few braces at locations where gcc-2.8.x asks to use them to
8620 avoid ambigous else's, use -fpic rather than -fPIC for Linux (patch
8621 by Juergen Pfeifer).
8624 + split SHLIB_LIST into SHLIB_DIRS/SHLIB_LIST to keep -L options
8625 before -l to accommodate Solaris' linker (reported by Larry Virden).
8628 + modify lib_color.c to eliminate dependency on orig_colors and
8629 orig_pair, since SVr4 curses does not require these either, but
8630 uses them when they are available.
8631 + add detailed usage-message to infocmp.
8632 + correct a typo in att6386 entry (a "%?" which was "?").
8633 + add -f option to infocmp and tic, which formats the terminfo
8634 if/then/else/endif so that they are readable (with newlines and
8636 + fixes for glibc addon scripts (patch by H.J.Lu).
8639 + revise configure macro CF_SPEED_TYPE so that termcap.h has speed_t
8640 declared (from Adam J Richter <adam@yggdrasil.com>)
8641 + remove spurious curs_set() call from leaveok() (J T Conklin).
8642 + corrected handling leaveok() in doupdate() (patch by Alexander V.
8644 + improved version of wredrawln (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
8645 + correct c++/Makefile.in so install target do not have embedded ../lib
8646 to confuse it (patch by Thomas Graf <graf@essi.fr>).
8647 + add warning to preinstall rule which checks if the installer would
8648 overwrite a curses.h or termcap.h that is not derived from ncurses.
8649 (The recommended configuration for developers who need both is to
8650 use --disable-overwrite).
8651 + modify preinstall rule in top-level Makefile to avoid implicit
8652 use of 'sh', to accommodate Ultrix 4.4 (reported by Joao Palhoto
8653 Matos <jmatos@math.ist.utl.pt>, patch by Thomas Esser
8654 <te@informatik.uni-hannover.de>)
8655 + refine ifdef's for TRACE so that libncurses has fewer dependencies
8656 on libtinfo when TRACE is disabled.
8657 + modify configure script so that if the --with-termlib option is used
8658 to generate a separate terminfo library, we chain it to the ncurses
8659 library with a "-l" option (reported by Darryl Miles and Ian T.
8663 + correct limits and window in wredrawln function (reported/analysis by
8664 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
8665 + correct sed expression in configure script for --with-fallback
8666 option (patch by Jesse Thilo).
8667 + correct some places in configure script where $enableval was used
8668 rather than $withval (patch by Darryl Miles <dlm@g7led.demon.co.uk>).
8669 + modify some man-pages so no '.' or '..' falls between TH and SH
8670 macros, to accommodate man_db program (reported by Ian T. Zimmerman
8672 + terminfo.src 10.2.1 downloaded from ESR's webpage (ESR).
8673 > several changes by Juergen Pfeifer:
8674 + add copyright notices (and rcs id's) on remaining man-pages.
8675 + corrected prototypes for slk_* functions, using chtype rather than
8677 + implemented the wcolor_set() and slk_color() functions
8678 + the slk_attr_{set,off,on} functions need an additional void*
8679 parameter according to XSI.
8680 + fix the C++ and Ada95 binding as well as the man pages to
8681 reflect above enhancements.
8684 + use 'stat()' rather than 'access()' in toe.c to check for the
8685 existence of $HOME/.terminfo, since it may be a file.
8686 + suppress configure CF_CXX_LIBRARY check if we are not using g++
8687 2.7.x, since this is not needed with g++ 2.8 or egcs (patch by
8689 + turn on hashmap scrolling code by default, intend to remedy defects
8691 + minor corrections to terminfo.src changelog.
8693 980302 4.2 release for upload to prep.ai.mit.edu
8694 + correct Florian's email address in ncurses-intro.html
8695 + terminfo.src 10.2.0 (ESR).
8698 + add linux-koi8r replace linux-koi8, which is not KOI8 (patch by
8699 QingLong <qinglong@Bolizm.ihep.su>).
8700 + minor documentation fixes (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
8701 + add setlocale() call to ncurses.c (reported by Claes G. Lindblad
8702 <claesg@algonet.se>).
8703 + correct sign-extension in lib_insstr.c (reported by Sotiris
8704 Vassilopoulos <svas@leon.nrcps.ariadne-t.gr>)
8707 + regenerated some documentation overlooked in 980214 patch
8708 (ncurses-intro.doc, curs_outopts.3x.html)
8709 + minor ifdef change to C++ binding to work with gcc 2.8.0 (patch by
8711 + change maintainer's mailing address to florian@gnu.org, change
8712 tentative mailing list address to bug-ncurses-request@gnu.org (patch
8713 by Florian La Roche).
8714 + add definition of $(REL_VERSION) to c++/Makefile.in (reported by Gran
8715 Hasse <gh@raditex.se>).
8716 + restore version numbers to Ada95 binding, accidentally deleted by
8717 copyright patch (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
8720 + remove ncurses.lsm from MANIFEST so that it won't be used in FSF
8721 distributions, though it is retained in development.
8722 + correct scaling of milliseconds to nanoseconds in lib_napms.c (patch
8724 + update mailing-list information (bug-ncurses@gnu.org).
8725 + update announcement for upcoming 4.2 release.
8726 + modify -lm test to check for 'sin()' rather than 'floor()'
8727 + remove spurious commas from terminfo.src descriptions.
8728 + change copyright notices to Free Software Foundation
8731 + minor fixes for autoconf macros CF_ERRNO, CF_HELP_MESSAGE and
8733 + modify Makefile.glibc so that $(objpfx) is defined (H.J.Lu).
8734 + ifdef-out true-return from _nc_mouse_inline() which depends on
8735 merge of QNX patch (pending 4.2 release).
8736 > patch to split off seldom-used modules in ncurses (J T Conklin):
8737 This reduces size by up to 2.6kb.
8738 + move functionality of _nc_usleep into napms, add configuration case
8740 + moved wchgat() from lib_addch.c to lib_chgat.c
8741 + moved clearok(), immedok(), leaveok(), and scrollok() from
8742 lib_options.c to lib_clearok.c, lib_immedok.c, lib_leaveok.c and
8744 + moved napms() from lib_kernel.c to lib_napms.c
8745 + moved echo() and noecho() from lib_raw.c to lib_echo.c
8746 + moved nl() and nonl() from lib_raw.c to lib_nl.c
8749 + corrected conversion in tclock.c (cf: 971018).
8750 + updates to Makefile.glibc and associated Linux configure script
8752 + workaround a quoting problem on SunOS with tar-copy.sh
8753 + correct init_pair() calls in worm.c to work when use_default_colors()
8755 + include <sys/types.h> in CF_SYS_TIME_SELECT to work with FreeBSD
8757 + add ncv capability to FreeBSD console (cons25w), making reverse
8759 + correct sense of configure-test for sys/time.h inclusion with
8761 + fixes for Ada95/ada_include/Makefile.in to work with --srcdir option.
8762 + remove unused/obsolete test-program rules from progs/Makefile.in
8763 (the rules in ncurses/Makefile.in work).
8764 + remove shared-library loader flags from test/Makefile.in, etc.
8765 + simplify test/configure.in using new version of autoconf to create
8767 + suppress suffix rules in test/Makefile.in, provide explicit
8768 dependency to work with --srcdir option and less capable 'make'
8770 > adapted from patch for QNX by Xiaodan Tang:
8771 + initialize %P and %g variables set/used in tparm, and also ensure
8772 that empty strings don't return a null result from tparam_internal
8773 + add QNX-specific prototype for vsscanf()
8774 + move initialization of SP->_keytry from init_keytry() to newterm() to
8775 avoid resetting it via a keyok() call by mouse_activate().
8776 + reorganized some functions in lib_mouse() to use case-statements.
8777 + remove sgr string from qnx terminfo entry since it is reported to
8778 turn off attributes inconsistently.
8781 + add f/F/b/B commands to ncurses 'b' test to toggle colors, providing
8782 test for no_color_video.
8783 + adjusted emx.src to use no_color_video, now works with ncurses 'b'
8785 + implement no_color_video attribute, and as a special case, reverse
8786 colors when the reverse attribute cannot be combined with color.
8787 + check for empty string in $TERM variable (reported by Brett Michaels
8789 > from reports by Fred Fish:
8790 + add configure-test for isascii
8791 + add configure-test for -lm library.
8792 + modify CF_BOOL_SIZE to check if C++ bool types are unsigned.
8793 > patches by J.J.G.Ripoll
8794 + add configure/makefile variables to support .exe extension on
8795 OS/2 EMX (requires additional autoconf patches).
8796 + explicitly initialize variables in lib_data.c to appease OS/2 linker
8797 > patches by Fred Fish <fnf@ninemoons.com>
8798 + misc/Makefile.in (install.data): Avoid trying to install the CVS
8800 + aclocal.m4 (install.includes): Remove files in the include directory
8801 where we are going to install new ones, not the original source
8803 + misc/terminfo.src: Add entry for "beterm", derived from termcap
8804 distributed with BeOS PR2 using captoinfo.
8805 + aclocal.m4: Wrap $cf_cv_type_of_bool with quotes (contains space)
8806 + aclocal.m4: Assume bool types are unsigned.
8807 + progs/infocmp.c: workaround mwcc 32k function data limit
8810 + correct initialization of color-pair (cf: 970524) in xmas.c, which
8811 was using only one color-pair for all colors (reported by
8813 + add multithread options for objects build on EMX, for compatibility
8815 + split up an expression in MKlib_gen.sh to work around a problem on
8816 OS/2 EMX, with 'ash' (patch by J.J.G.Ripoll).
8817 + change terminfo entries xterm (xterm-xf86-v40), xterm-8bit rs1 to use
8819 + rename terminfo entry xterm-xf86-v39t to xterm-xf86-v40
8820 + remove bold/underline from sun console entries since they're not
8822 + correct _tracef calls in _tracedump(), which did not separate format
8824 + correct getopt string for tic "-o" option, and add it to man-page
8825 synopsis (reported by Darren Hiebert <darren@hmi.com>).
8826 + correct typo in panel/Makefile.in, reversed if-statement in scrolling
8827 optimization (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
8828 + test for 'remove()', use 'unlink() if not found (patch by Philippe De
8829 Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>).
8830 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
8831 + Improve a feature of the forms driver. For invisible fields
8832 (O_VISIBLE off) only the contents but not the attributes are cleared.
8833 We now clear both. (Reported by Javier Kohan
8834 <jkohan@adan.fceia.unr.edu.ar>)
8835 + The man page form_field_opts.3x makes now clear, that invisible
8836 fields are also always inactive.
8837 + adjust ifdef's to compile the C++ binding with the just released
8838 gcc-2.8.0 c++ and the corresponding new C++ libraries.
8841 + correct "?" command in ncurses.c; it was performing non-screen writes
8842 while the program was in screen mode. (It "worked" in 1.9.9e because
8843 that version sets OPOST and OCRNL incorrectly).
8844 + return error from functions in lib_kernel, lib_raw and lib_ti if
8845 cur_term is null, or if underlying I/O fails.
8846 + amend change to tputs() so that it does not return an error if
8847 cur_term is null, since some applications depend on being able to use
8848 tputs without initializing the terminal (reported by Christian J.
8849 Robinson <infynity@cyberhighway.net>).
8852 + add a copy of emx.src from J.J.G.Ripoll's OS/2 EMX version of ncurses
8853 1.9.9e, together with fixes/additions for the "ansi" terminal type.
8854 + add tic check for save/restore cursor if change_scroll_region is
8855 defined (reference: O'Reilly book).
8856 + modify read_termcap.c to handle EMX-style pathnames (reported by
8858 + modify lib_raw.c to use EMX's setmode (patch from J.J.G.Ripoll).
8859 Ripoll says EMX's curses does this.
8860 + modify _nc_tic_expand() to generate \0 rather than \200.
8861 + move/revise 'expand()' from dump_entry.c to ncurses library as
8862 _nc_tic_expand(), for use by tack.
8863 + decode \a as \007 for terminfo, as per XSI.
8864 + correct translation of terminfo "^@", to \200, like \0.
8865 + modify next_char() to treat <cr><lf> the same as <newline>, for
8866 cross-platform compatibility.
8867 + use new version of autoconf (971230) to work around limited
8868 environment on CLIX, due to the way autoconf builds --help message.
8869 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
8870 + check that the Ada95 binding runs against the correct version of
8872 + insert constants about the library version into the main spec-file of
8876 + modify open/fopen calls to use binary mode, needed for EMX.
8877 + modify configure script to work with autoconf 2.10 mods for OS/2
8878 EMX (from J.J.G.Ripoll).
8879 + generated ncurses_cfg.h with patch (971222) to autoconf 2.12 which
8880 bypasses limited sed buffer length.
8881 > several changes from Juan Jose Garcia Ripoll <worm@arrakis.es>
8882 (J.J.G.Ripoll) to support OS/2 EMX:
8883 + add a _scrolling flag to SP, to set when we encounter a terminal
8884 that simply cannot scroll.
8885 + corrected logic in _nc_add_to_try(), by ensuring that strings with
8886 embedded \200 characters are matched.
8887 + don't assume the host has 'link()' function, for linking terminfo
8891 + if there's no ioctl's to support sigwinch handler, disable it.
8892 + add configure option --disable-ext-funcs to remove the extended
8893 functions from the build.
8894 + add configure option --with-termlib to generate the terminfo
8895 functions as a separate library.
8896 + add 'sources' rule to facilitate cross-compiling.
8897 + review/fix order of mostlyclean/clean/distclean rules.
8898 + modify install-rule for headers to first remove old header, in
8899 case there was a symbolic link that confuses the install script.
8900 + corrected substitution for NCURSES_CONST in term.h (cf: 971108)
8901 + add null pointer checks in wnoutrefresh(), overlap() (patch by
8902 Xiaodan Tang <xtang@qnx.com>)
8903 + correct tputs(), which could dereference a null cur_term if invoked
8904 before terminal is initialized (patch by Christopher Seawood
8906 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
8907 + makes better use of "pragma Inline" in the Ada95 binding
8908 + resynchronizes the generated html manpages
8911 + additional fixes for man-pages section-references
8912 + add (for debugging) a check for ich/ich1 conflict with smir/rmir
8914 + remove hpa/vpa from rxvt terminal description because they are not
8915 implemented correctly, added sgr0.
8916 + change ncurses 's' to use raw mode, so ^Q works (reported by Rudolf
8917 Leitgeb <leitgeb@leland.stanford.edu>)
8920 + modify protection when installing libraries to (normally) not
8921 executable. HP-UX shared libraries are an exception.
8922 + add configure check for 'tack'.
8923 + implement script for renaming section-references in man-page install,
8924 for Debian configuration.
8925 + add validity-check for SP in trace code in baudrate() (reported by
8927 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov (fixes to match sol25 curses)
8928 + modify 'overlay()' so that copy applies target window background to
8930 + correct 'mvwin()' so that it does not clear the previous locations.
8931 + correct lib_acs.c so that 8-bit character is not sign expanded in
8932 case of wide characters in chtype.
8933 + correct control-char test in lib_addch.c for use with wide chars
8934 + use attribute in the chtype when adding a control character in
8935 lib_addch.c control char was added with current attribute
8938 + save/restore errno in _tracef() function
8939 + change treatment of initialize_color to use a range of 0..1000
8940 (recommended by Daniel Weaver).
8941 + set umask in mkinstalldirs, fixing problems reported by users who
8942 have set root's umask to 077.
8943 + correct bug in tic that caused capabilities to be reprinted at the
8944 end of output when they had embedded comments.
8945 + rewrote wredrawln to correspond to XSI, and split-out since it is
8946 not often used (from report by Alexander V. Lukyanov, 970825)
8947 + rewrote Dan Nelson's change to make it portable, as well as to
8948 correct logic for handling backslashes.
8949 + add code to _nc_tgetent() to make it work more like a real tgetent().
8950 It removes all empty fields, and removes all but the first in a group
8951 of duplicate caps. The code was pulled from the BSD libtermcap code
8952 in termcap.c (patch by Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
8953 + don't include --enable-widec in the --with-develop configure option,
8954 since it is not binary-compatible with 4.1 (noted by Alexander V.
8956 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
8957 + further improvements of the usage of elaboration pragmas in the Ada95
8959 + enhanced Ada95 sample to use the user_data mechanism for panels.
8960 + a fix for the configuration script to make gnat-3.10 the required
8962 + resync of the html version of the manpages
8965 > fixes/updates for terminfo.src:
8966 + add vt220-js, pilot, rbcomm, datapoint entries from esr's 27-jun-97
8968 + add hds200 description (Walter Skorski)
8969 + add EMX 0.9b descriptions
8970 + correct rmso/smso capabilities in wy30-mc and wy50-mc (Daniel Weaver)
8971 + rename xhpterm back to hpterm.
8972 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
8973 + Improves the usage of elaboration pragmas for the Ada95 binding.
8974 + Adds a translation of the test/rain.c into Ada95 to the samples.
8975 This has been contributed to the project by Laurent Pautet
8979 + increase MAX_NAME_SIZE to 512 to handle extremely long alias list
8981 + correction & simplification of delay computation in tputs, based on
8982 comments from Daniel Weaver.
8983 + replace test for SCO with more precise header tests.
8984 + add configure test for unsigned literals, use in NCURSES_BITS macro.
8985 + comment-out the -PIC, etc., flags from c++, progs and test makefiles
8986 since they probably are not needed, and are less efficient (noted by
8988 + add -L$(libdir) to loader options, after -L../lib so that loaders
8989 that record this information will tend to do the right thing if
8990 the programs are moved around after installing them (suggested by
8992 + add -R option to loader options for programs for Solaris if the
8993 --enable-rpath option is specified for the libraries.
8996 + correct installed filename for shared libraries on *BSD (reported by
9000 + cleanup logic for deciding when tputs() should call delay_output(),
9001 based on comments from Daniel Weaver.
9002 + modified tputs() to avoid use of float.
9003 + correct use of trailpad in tputs(), which used the wrong variable
9004 in call to delay_output().
9005 + correct inverted expression for null-count in delay_output()
9006 (analysis by Daniel Weaver).
9007 + apply --enable-rpath option to Solaris (requested by Larry Virden).
9008 + correct substitution of EXTRA_CFLAGS for gcc 2.6.3
9009 + correct check for error-return by _nc_tgetent(), which returns 0
9011 + add configure test for BSD 4.4 cgetent() function, modify
9012 read_termcap.c to use the host's version of that if found, using the
9013 terminal database on FreeBSD (reported by Peter Wemm).
9014 + add u8, u9 strings to sun-il description for Daniel Weaver.
9015 + use NCURSES_CONST in panel's user-pointer.
9016 + modify edit_cfg.sh and MKterm.h.awk.in to substitute NCURSES_CONST
9017 so that will work on NeXT.
9018 + use _nc_set_screen() rather than assignments to SP to fix port to
9019 NeXT (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
9022 + force mandatory padding in bell and flash_screen, as specified in
9024 + don't allow padding_baud_rate to override mandatory delays (reported
9026 + modify delay_output() to use _nc_timed_wait() if no baudrate has been
9027 defined, or if the cur_term pointer is not initialized. XSI treats
9028 this as unspecified. (requested by Daniel Weaver).
9029 + change getcap-cache ifdef's to eliminate unnecessary chdir/mkdir
9030 when that feature is not configured.
9031 + remove _nc_err_abort() calls when write_entry.c finds a directory but
9032 cannot write to it, e.g., when translating part/all of /etc/termcap
9033 (reported by Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>).
9034 (this dates back to 951102, in 1.9.7a).
9035 + minor ifdef fixes to compile with atac and glibc 2.0.5c
9036 + add check for -lgen when configuring regexpr.h
9037 + modify Solaris shared-library option "-d y" to "-dy" to workaround
9038 incompatibility of gcc 2.7.2 vs vendor's tools.
9041 + correct ifdef's for struct winsize vs struct ttysize in lib_setup.c
9043 + remove dangling backslash in panel/Makefile.in
9044 + modify MKkeyname.awk to work with SCO's nawk, which dumps core in the
9046 + correct length of allocation in _nc_add_to_try(), to allow for
9048 + correct logic in _nc_remove_key(), which was discarding too many
9049 nodes (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov)
9052 + add definition for $(REL_VERSION) to test/Makefile.in, so *BSD
9053 shared libraries link properly (see 970524).
9054 + modify Linux shared-library generation to include library
9055 dependencies (e.g., -lncurses and -lgpm) in the forms, menu and
9056 panel libraries (suggested by Juergen Pfeifer).
9057 + modify configure script to use config.guess and config.sub rather
9058 than uname, which is unreliable on some systems.
9059 + updated Makefile.glibc, test-built with glibc 2.0.5c
9060 + modify keyname() to return values consistent with SVr4 curses (patch
9062 > changes requested by Daniel Weaver:
9063 + modify delay_output() so that it uses the same output function as
9064 tputs() if called from that function.
9065 + move _baudrate from SCREEN to TERMINAL so that low-level use of
9066 tputs works when SP is not set.
9067 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9068 + factor lib_menu and lib_form into smaller modules
9069 + clean up the interface between panel and SCREEN
9070 + minor changes to the Ada95 mouse support implemenation
9071 + minor bugfix in C++ binding to ripoff windows
9072 + fix a few Ada95 html documentation pages
9075 + split-out lib_ungetch.c, make runtime link to resizeterm() to
9076 decouple those modules from lib_restart.c
9077 + add xterm-xf86-v39t description to terminfo.src
9078 + reset SP->_endwin in lib_tstp.c cleanup() function after calling
9079 endwin() to avoid unnecessary repainting if the application has
9080 established an atexit function, etc. Encountered this problem in
9081 the c++ demo, whose destructors repaint the screen.
9082 + combine _nc_get_screensize() and resizeterm() calls as new function
9083 _nc_update_screensize().
9084 + minor fixes to allow compile with g++ (suggested by Nelson H. F.
9086 + implement install-rules for Ada95 makefiles.
9087 + use screen_lines or MAXLINES as needed where LINES was coded,
9088 as well as screen_columns for COLS, in the ncurses library.
9089 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
9090 + modify logic for ripped-off lines to handle several SCREENs.
9091 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9092 + factors lib_slk.c into some smaller modules
9093 + factors panel.c into some smaller modules
9094 + puts the static information about the current panel stack into the
9095 SCREEN structure to allow different panel stacks on different
9097 + preliminary fix for an error adjusting LINES to account for
9101 + move _nc_max_click_interval and other mouse interface items to SCREEN
9102 struct so that they are associated with a single terminal, and also
9103 save memory when the application does not need a mouse (roughly 3k vs
9105 + modify mouseinterval() so that a negative parameter queries the
9106 click-interval without modifying it.
9107 + modify ncurses 'i' test to work with ncurses' apparent extension from
9108 SVr4, i.e., allows nocbreak+noecho (analysis by Alexander V.
9110 + add configure options --with-ada-includes and --with-ada-objects,
9111 to drive Ada95 binding install (not yet implemented).
9112 + install C++ binding as -lncurses++ and associated headers with the
9113 other ncurses headers.
9114 + fix header uninstall if configure --srcdir is used.
9115 > minor interface changes to support 'tack' program -TD
9116 (request by Daniel Weaver <danw@znyx.com>).
9117 + export functions _nc_trans_string() and _nc_msec_cost().
9118 + add variable _nc_nulls_sent, to record the number of padding
9119 characters output in delay_output().
9120 + move tests for generic_type and hard_copy terminals in setupterm()
9121 to the end of that function so that the library will still be
9122 initialized, though not generally useful for curses programs.
9123 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
9124 + modify ClrBottom() to avoid using clr_eos if there is only one line
9126 + typo in configure --help.
9127 > patch by J T Conklin (with minor resync against Juergen's changes)
9128 + split-out lib_flash.c from lib_beep.c
9129 + split-out lib_hline.c and lib_vline.c from lib_box.c
9130 + split-out lib_wattron.c, lib_wattroff.c from lib_addch.c
9133 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9134 + correct source/target of c++/edit_cfg.sh
9137 + add color, mouse support to kterm terminfo entry.
9138 + modify lib_mouse.c to recognize rxvt, kterm, color_xterm also as
9139 providing "xterm"-style mouse.
9140 + updated rxvt's terminfo description to correspond to 2.21b, with
9141 fixes for the acsc (the box1 capability is incorrect, ech1 does not
9143 + fix logic in parse_entry.c that discarded acsc when 'synthesizing'
9144 an entry from equivalents in XENIX or AIX. This lets ncurses handle
9145 the distribution copy of rxvt's terminfo.
9146 + modify acsc capability for linux and linux-koi8 terminfo descriptions
9147 (from Pavel Roskin <pavel@absolute.spb.su>).
9148 + corrected definition in curses.h for ACS_LANTERN, which was 'I'
9149 rather than 'i' (see 970802).
9150 + updated terminfo.src with reformatted acsc entries, and repaired the
9151 trashed entries with spurious '\' characters that this exposed.
9152 + add logic to dump_entry.c to reformat acsc entries into canonical
9153 form (sorted, unique mapping).
9154 + add configure script to generate c++/etip.h
9155 + add configure --with-develop option, to enable by default most of the
9156 experimental options (requested by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9157 + rename 'deinstall' to 'uninstall', following GNU convention
9158 (suggested by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9159 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
9160 + modify tactics 2 and 5 in onscreen_mvcur(), to allow them on the last
9161 line of the screen, since carriage return will not cause a newline.
9162 + remove clause from PutCharLR() that would try to use
9163 eat_newline_glitch since that apparently does not work on some
9164 terminals (e.g., M$ telnet).
9165 + correct a limit check in scroll_csr_backward()
9166 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
9167 + adds dummy implementations of methods above() and below() to the
9169 + fixes missing returncode in NCursesWindow::ripoffline()
9170 + fixes missing returncode in TestApplication::run() in demo.cc
9171 + We should at least give a comment in etip.h why it is currently a
9172 problem to install the C++ binding somewhere
9173 + makes the WINDOW* argument of wenclose() a const.
9174 + modifies several of the routines in lib_adabind.c to use a const
9178 + add 'deinstall' rules.
9179 + use explicit assignments in configure --without-progs option to
9180 work around autoconf bug which doesn't always set $withval.
9181 + check for ldconfig, don't try to run it if not found.
9182 + implement simple/unoptimized case in lib_doupdate.c to handle
9183 display with magic cookie glitch, tested with ncurses.c program.
9184 + correct missing _tracef in getmouse(), to balance the returnCode
9186 + simplify show_attr() in ncurses.c using termattrs().
9187 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
9188 + provides missing inlines for mvw[hv]line in cursesw.h of the C++
9190 + fixes a typo in a comment of frm_driver.c
9191 + Enhances Ada95 Makefiles to fulfill the requirement of GNAT-3.10 that
9192 generics should be compiled. Proper fixes to the configuration
9193 scripts are also provided.
9196 + several modifications to the configure script (requested by Ward
9198 + add configure options --without-progs, to suppress the build of the
9199 utility programs, e.g., for cross-compiling.
9200 + add $(HOSTCCFLAGS) and $(HOSTLDFLAGS) symbols to ncurses
9201 Makefile.in, to simplify setup for cross compiling.
9202 + add logic in configure script to recognize "--target=vxworks", and
9203 generate load/install actions for VxWorks objects.
9204 + move typedef for sigaction_t into SigAction.h to work around problem
9205 generating lint library.
9206 + modify fty_regex.c to reflect renaming of ifdef's for regular
9208 + simplify ifdef in lib_setup.c for TIOCGWINSZ since that symbol may
9209 reside in <sys/ioctl.h>.
9210 + merge testcurs.c with version from PDCurses 2.3, clarifying some of
9211 the more obscure tests, which rely upon color.
9212 + use macros getbegyx() and getmaxyx() in newdemo.c and testcurs.c
9213 + modify ncurses.c to use getbegyx() and getmaxyx() macros to cover up
9214 implementation difference wrt SVr4 curses, allow 's' test to work.
9215 + add missing endwin() to testscanw.c program (reported by Fausto
9216 Saporito <fausap@itb.it>).
9217 + fixes/updates for Makefile.glibc and related files under sysdeps
9219 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
9220 + add checks for null pointers, especially WINDOW's throughout the
9222 + solve a problem with wrong calculation of panel overlapping (reported
9224 + make sure that a panel's window isn't a pad.
9225 + do more error checking in module lib_touch.c
9226 + missing files for Ada95 binding from the last patch
9227 + synch. of generated html pages (RCS-Id's were wrong in html files)
9228 + support for Key_Resize in Ada binding
9229 + changed documentation style in ./c++/cursesm.h
9230 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
9231 + undo attempt to do recursive inlining for PutChar(), noting that it
9232 did not improve timing measurably, but inflated the size of
9236 + modify rain.c to use color.
9237 + correct scroll_csr_backward() to match scroll_csr_forward().
9238 + minor adjustment to llib-lncurses, to work with Solaris 2.5.1
9239 + minor fixes to sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/configure to reflect renaming
9240 of configure cache variables in 970906.
9241 + correct logic involving changes to O_VISIBLE option in
9242 Synchronize_Options function in frm_driver.c (Tony Hoffmann
9243 <Tony.Hoffmann@hia.nrc.ca>)
9244 + add $(HOSTCC) symbol to ncurses Makefile.in, to simplify setup for
9245 cross compiling (suggested by Chris Johns).
9246 + modify ifdef in lib_setup.c to only include <sys/ioctl.h> if we can
9247 use it to support screen-size calculation (reported by Chris Johns).
9248 + #undef unctrl to avoid symbol conflict in port to RTEMS (reported by
9249 Chris Johns <cjohns@plessey.com.au>)
9250 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
9251 + simplified, made minor corrections to Ada95 binding to form
9253 + The C++ binding has been enhanced:
9254 + Improve NCursesWindow class: added additional methods to cover
9255 more ncurses functionality. Make refresh() and noutrefresh()
9256 virtual members to allow different implementation in the
9258 + CAUTION: changed order of parameters in vline() and hline() of
9259 NCursesWindow class.
9260 + Make refresh() in NCursesPanel non-static, it is now a
9261 reimplementation of refresh() in the base class. Added
9262 noutrefresh() to NCursesPanel.
9263 + Added NCursesForm and related classes to support libform
9265 + Moved most of configuration related stuff from cursesw.h to etip.h
9266 + Added NCursesApplication class to support easy configuration of
9267 menu and forms related attributes as well as ripped of title lines
9268 and Soft-Label-Keys for an application.
9269 + Support of Auto-Cleanup for a menu's fieldlist.
9270 + Change of return type for current_item() and operator[] for menus.
9272 + Fixed a bug in form/fld_def.c: take into account that copyarg and
9273 freearg for a fieldtype may be NULL, makearg must not be NULL
9274 + Fixed a bug in form/fld_type.c: in set_fieldtype_arg() makearg must
9275 not be NULL, copyarg and freearg may be NULL.
9276 + Fixed a bug in form/frm_def.c: Allow Disconnect_Fields() if it is
9277 already disconnected.
9278 + Enhance form/frm_driver.c: Allow growth of dynamic fields also on
9279 navigation requests.
9280 + Fixed a bug in form/fty_enum.c: wrong position of postincrement in
9281 case-insensitiva comparision routine.
9282 + Enhanced form/lib_adabind.c with function _nc_get_field() to get a
9283 forms field by index.
9284 + Enhanced menu/m_adabind.c with function _nc_get_item() to get a menus
9286 + Fixed in curses.h.in: make chtype argument for pechochar() constant.
9287 Mark wbkgdset() as implemented, remove wbkgdset macro, because it was
9288 broken (didn't handle colors correctly).
9289 + Enhanced lib_mouse.c: added _nc_has_mouse() function
9290 + Added _nc_has_mouse() prototype to curses.priv.h
9291 + Modified lib_bkgd.c: hopefully correct implementation of wbkgdset();
9292 streamlined implementation of wbkgd()
9293 + Modified lib_mvwin.c: Disable move of a pad. Implement (costly)
9294 move of subwindows. Fixed update behavior of movements of regular
9296 + Fixed lib_pad.c: make chtype argument of pechochar() const.
9297 + Fixed lib_window.c: dupwin() is not(!) in every bit a really clone
9298 of the original. Subwindows become regular windows by doing a
9300 + Improved manpage form_fieldtype.3x
9301 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
9302 + simplify the PutChar() handling of exit_am_mode, because we already
9303 know that auto_right_margin is true.
9304 + add a check in PutChar() for ability to insert to the case of
9305 shifting character to LR corner.
9306 + in terminal initialization by _nc_screen_resume(), make sure that
9307 terminal right margin mode is known.
9308 + move logic that invokes touchline(), or does the equivalent, into
9309 _nc_scroll_window().
9310 + modify scrolling logic use of insert/delete line capability, assuming
9311 that they affect the screen contents only within the current
9313 + modify rain.c to demonstrate SIGWINCH handler.
9314 + remove logic from getch() that would return an ERR if the application
9315 called getch() when the cursor was at the lower-right corner of the
9316 physical screen, and the terminal does not have insert-character
9318 + change view.c so that it breaks out of getch() loop if a KEY_RESIZE
9319 is read, and modify logic in getch() so this fix will yield the
9320 desired behavior, i.e., the screen is repainted automatically when
9321 the terminal window is resized.
9324 + add configure option --enable-sigwinch
9325 + modify view.c to test KEY_RESIZE logic, with "-r" option.
9326 + modify testcurs.c to eliminate misleading display wrt cursor type
9327 by testing if the terminal supports cnorm, civis, cvvis.
9328 + several fixes for m68k/NeXT 4.0, to bring cur_term, _nc_curr_line and
9329 _nc_curr_col variables into linked programs: move these variables,
9330 making new modules lib_cur_term and trace_buf (reported by Francisco
9331 Alberto Tomei Torres <fatomei@sandburg.unm.edu>).
9332 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
9333 + add pseudo-functionkey KEY_RESIZE which is returned by getch() when
9334 the SIGWINCH handler has been called since the last call to
9336 + modify lib_twait.c to hide EINTR only if HIDE_EINTR is defined.
9337 + add SIGWINCH handler to ncurses library which is used if there is no
9338 application SIGWINCH handler in effect when the screen is
9340 + make linked list of all SCREEN structures.
9341 + move curses.h include before definition of SCREEN to use types in
9343 + correction to ensure that wgetstr uses only a newline to force a
9347 + add experimental configure option --enable-safe-sprintf; the normal
9348 mode now allocates a buffer as large as the screen for the
9349 lib_printw.c functions.
9350 + modify wgetch to refresh screen when reading ungetch'd characters,
9351 since the application may require this - SVr4 does this.
9352 + refine treatment of newline in wgetstr to echo only when this would
9353 force the screen to scroll.
9356 + remove override in wgetstr() that forces keypad(), since SVr4 does
9358 + correct y-reference for erasure in wgetstr() when a wrap forces a
9360 + correct x-position in waddch() after a wrap forces a scroll.
9361 + echo newline in wgetstr(), making testscanw.c scroll properly when
9363 + modify vwscanw() to avoid potential buffer overflow.
9364 + rewrote lib_printw.c to eliminate fixed-buffer limits.
9365 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
9366 + correct an error in handling cooked mode in wgetch(); processing
9367 was in the wrong order.
9368 + simplified logic in wgetch() that handles backspace, etc., by using
9370 + correct wechochar() so that it interprets the output character as
9372 + modify pechochar() to use prefresh() rather than doupdate(), since
9373 the latter does not guarantee immediate refresh of the pad.
9374 + modify pechochar() so that if called with a non-pad WINDOW, will
9375 invoke wechochar() instead.
9376 + modify fifo indices to allow fifo to be longer than 127 bytes.
9379 + add xterm-8bit to terminfo.src
9380 + moved logic for SP->_fifohold inside check_pending() to make it
9381 work properly when we add calls to that function.
9382 + ensure that bool functions return only TRUE or FALSE, and TRUE/FALSE
9383 are assigned to bool values (patch by H.J.Lu).
9384 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
9385 + several fixes to getch:
9386 1. Separate cooked and raw keys in fifo
9387 2. Fix the case of ungetch'ed KEY_MOUSE
9388 3. wrap the code for hiding EINTR with ifdef HIDE_EINTR
9389 4. correctly handle input errors (i.e., EINTR) without loss of raw
9391 5. recognize ESC KEY_LEFT and similar
9392 6. correctly handle the case of receiption of KEY_MOUSE from gpm
9393 + correct off-by-one indexing error in _nc_mouse_parse(), that caused
9394 single mouse events (press/release) to be ignored in favor of
9395 composed events (click). Improves on a fix from integrating gpm
9397 + add another call to check_pending, before scrolling, for
9398 line-breakout optimization
9399 + improve hashmap.c by
9400 1. fixed loop condition in grow_hunks()
9401 2. not marking lines with offset 0
9402 3. fixed condition of 'too far' criteria, thus one-line hunks are
9403 ignored and two lines interchanged won't pass.
9404 + rewrote/simplified _nc_scroll_optimize() by separating into two
9405 passes, forward/backward, looking for chunks moving only in the given
9407 + move logic that emits sgr0 when initializing the screen to
9408 _nc_screen_init(), now invoked from newterm.
9409 + move cursor-movement cleanup from endwin() into _nc_mvcur_wrap()
9410 function and screen cleanup (i.e., color) into _nc_screen_wrap()
9412 + add new functions _nc_screen_init(), _nc_screen_resume() and
9414 + rename _nc_mvcur_scrolln() to _nc_scrolln().
9415 + add a copy of acs_map[] to the SCREEN structure, where it can be
9416 stored/retrieved via set_term().
9417 + move variables _nc_idcok, _nc_idlok, _nc_windows into the SCREEN
9421 + implement experimental _nc_perform_scroll().
9422 + modify newterm (actually _nc_setupscreen()) to emit an sgr0 when
9423 initializing the screen, as does SVr4 (reported by Alexander V.
9425 + added test_progs rule to ncurses/Makefile.
9426 + modify test/configure.in to check if initscr is already in $LIBS
9427 before looking for (n)curses library.
9428 + correct version-number in configure script for OSF1 shared-library
9429 options (patch by Tim Mooney).
9430 + add -DNDEBUG to CPPFLAGS for --enable-assertions (as Juergen
9431 originally patched) since the c++ demo files do not necessarily
9432 include ncurses_cfg.h
9433 + supply default value for --enable-assertions option in configure
9434 script (reported by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf-fs.usc.edu>).
9435 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
9436 + correct/simplify logic of werase(), wclrtoeol() and wclrbot(). See
9438 + optimize waddch_literal() and waddch_nosync() by factoring out
9439 common subexpressions.
9440 + correct sense of NDEBUG ifdef for CHECK_POSITION macro.
9441 + corrections to render_char(), to make handling of colored blanks
9442 match SVr4 curses, as well as to correct a bug that xor'd space
9443 against the background character.
9444 + replaced hash function with a faster one (timed it)
9445 + rewrote the hashmap algorithm to be one-pass, this avoids multiple
9446 cost_effective() calls on the same lines.
9447 + modified cost_effective() so it is now slightly more precise.
9448 > patches for glibc integration (H.J.Lu):
9449 + add modules define_key, keyok, name_match, tries
9450 + add makefile rules for some of the unit tests in ncurses (mvcur,
9451 captoinfo, hardscroll, hashmap).
9452 + update Linux configure-script for wide-character definitions.
9455 + modify _tracebits() to show the character size (e.g., CS8).
9456 + modify tparm() to emit '\200' where the generated string would have a
9457 null (reported by From: Ian Dall <Ian.Dall@dsto.defence.gov.au> for
9458 terminal type ncr7900).
9459 + modify install process so that ldconfig is not invoked if the
9460 package is built with an install-prefix.
9461 + correct test program for chtype size (reported by Tim Mooney).
9462 + add configure option --disable-scroll-hints, using this to ifdef the
9463 logic that computes indices for _nc_scroll_optimize().
9464 + add module ncurses/softscroll.c, to perform single-stage computation
9465 of scroll indices used in _nc_scroll_optimize(). This is faster than
9466 the existing scrolling algorithm, but tends to make too-small hunks.
9467 + eliminate fixed buffer size in _nc_linedump().
9468 + minor fixes to lib_doupdate.c to add tradeoff between clr_eol (el)
9469 and clr_bol (el1), refine logic in ClrUpdate() and ClrBottom() (patch
9470 by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9471 + add test/testaddch.c, from a pending patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov.
9472 + correct processing of "configure --enable-assertions" option (patch
9473 by Juergen Pfeifer).
9476 + add '-s' (single-step) option too test/hashtest.c, correct an error
9477 in loop limit for '-f' (footer option), toggle scrollok() when
9478 writing footer to avoid wrap at lower-right corner.
9479 + correct behavior of clrtoeol() immediately after wrapping cursor,
9480 which was not clearing the line at the cursor position (reported by
9481 Liviu Daia <daia@stoilow.imar.ro>).
9482 + corrected mapping for ACS_LANTERN, which was 'I' rather than 'i'
9483 (reported by Klaus Weide <kweide@tezcat.com>).
9484 + many corrections to make progs/capconvert work, as well as make it
9485 reasonably portable and integrated with ncurses 4.1 (reported by Dave
9486 Furstenau <df@ravine.binary.net>).
9489 + add flag SP->_fifohold, corresponding logic to modify the behavior of
9490 the line breakout logic so that if the application does not read
9491 input, refreshes will not be stopped, but only slowed.
9492 + generate slk_attr_off(), slk_attr_on(), slk_attr_set(), vid_attr(),
9493 ifdef'd for wide-character support, since ncurses' WA_xxx attribute
9494 masks are identical with the A_xxx masks.
9495 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to generate ifdef'd functions to support optional
9496 configuration of wide-characters.
9497 + modify tset to behave more like SVr4's tset, which does not modify
9498 the settings of intr, quit or erase unless they are given as command
9499 options (reported by Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe@math.utah.edu>).
9500 + modify tset to look in /etc/ttys or /etc/ttytype if the configuration
9501 does not have getttynam().
9502 + extend baudrate table in tset.c to match baudrate() function.
9503 + add table entries for 230400 and 460800 bd to baudrate() function.
9504 + improve breakout logic by allowing it before the first line updated,
9505 which is what SVr4 curses does (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9506 + correct initialization of vcost in relative_move(), for cursor-down
9507 case (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9508 > nits gleaned from Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-3:
9509 + install symbolic link for intotocap.
9510 + reference libc directly when making shared libraries.
9511 + correct renaming of curs_scr_dmp.3x in man_db.renames.
9512 + guard tgetflag() and other termcap functions against null cur_term
9516 + corrected initial state of software echo (error in 970405, reported
9517 by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9518 + reviewed/added messages to configure script, so that all non-test
9519 options should be accompanied by a message.
9520 + add configure check for long filenames, using this to determine if
9521 it is safe to allow long aliases for terminal descriptions as does
9523 + add configure options for widec (wide character), hashmap (both
9525 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
9526 + hashmap.c - improved by heuristic, so that scroll test works much
9527 better when csr is not available.
9528 + hardscroll.c - patched so that it continues to scroll other chunks
9529 after failure to scroll one.
9530 + lib_doupdate.c - _nc_mvcur_scrolln extended to handle more cases; csr
9531 is avoided as it is relative costly. Fixed wrong coordinates in one
9532 case and wrong string in TRACE.
9533 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9534 + modify C++ binding to compile on AIX 4.x with the IBM C-SET++
9538 + remove alternate character set from kterm terminfo entry; it uses the
9539 shift-out control for a purpose incompatible with curses, i.e., font
9541 + disentangle 'xterm' terminfo entry from some derived entries that
9542 should be based on xterm-r6 instead.
9543 + add cbt to xterm-xf86-xv32 terminfo entry; I added the emulation for
9544 XFree86 3.1.2F, but overlooked its use in terminfo then - T.Dickey.
9545 + correct logic in lib_mvcur.c that uses back_tab.
9548 + correct change from 970628 to ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c so that
9549 contents of curscr are saved in newscr before clearing the screen.
9550 This is needed to make repainting work with the present logic of
9552 + use napms() rather than sleep() in tset.c to avoid interrupting I/O.
9555 + add limit checks to _nc_read_file_entry() to guard against overflow
9556 of buffer when reading incompatible terminfo format, e.g, from OSF/1.
9557 + correct some loop-variable errors in xmc support in lib_doupdate.c
9558 + modify ncurses 'b' test to add gaps, specified by user, to allow
9559 investigation of interaction with xmc (magic cookie) code.
9560 + correct typo in 970524 mods to xmas.c, had omitted empty parameter
9561 list from has_colors(), which gcc ignores, but SVr4 does not
9562 (reported by Larry Virden).
9563 + correct rmso capability in wy50-mc description.
9564 + add configure option "--enable-hard-tabs", renamed TABS_OK ifdef to
9566 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9567 + Add bindings for keyok() and define_key() to the Ada95 packages.
9568 + Improve man pages menu_post.3x and menu_format.3x
9569 + Fix the HTML pages in the Ada95/html directory to reflect the above
9573 + modify change from 970101 to ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c so that
9574 pending changes to both curscr and newscr are flushed properly.
9575 This fixes a case where the first scrolling operation in nvi would
9576 cause the screen to be cleared unnecessarily and repainted before
9577 doing the indexing, i.e., by repeatedly pressing 'j' (reported by
9579 + correct error in trans_string() which added embedded newlines in a
9580 terminfo description to the stored strings.
9581 + remove spurious newlines from sgr in wyse50 (and several other)
9582 terminfo descriptions.
9583 + add configure option for experimental xmc (magic cookie) code,
9584 "--enable-xmc-glitch". When disabled (the default), attributes that
9585 would store a magic cookie are suppressed in vidputs(). The magic
9586 cookie code is far from workable at this stage; the configuration
9587 option is a stopgap.
9588 + move _nc_initscr() from lib_initscr.c to lib_newterm.c
9589 + correct path for invoking make_keys (a missing "./").
9592 + correct sign-extension problem with "infocmp -e", which corrupted
9593 acsc values computed for linux fallback data.
9594 + correct dependency on ncurses/names.c (a missing "./").
9595 + modify configure script to use '&&' even for cd'ing to existing
9596 directories to work around broken shell interpreters.
9597 + correct a loop-limit in _nc_hash_map() (patch by Alexander V.
9601 + restore logic in _nc_scroll_optimize() which marks as touched the
9602 lines in curscr that are shifted.
9603 + add new utility 'make_keys' to compute keys.tries as a table rather
9604 than a series of function calls.
9605 + correct include-dependency for tic.h used by name_match
9606 + removed buffer-allocation for name and description from m_item_new.c,
9607 since this might result in incompatibilities with SVr4. Also fixed
9608 the corresponding Ada95 binding module (patch by Juergen Pfeifer,
9609 report by Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@foxnet.net>)
9610 + removed the mechanism to timestamp the generated Ada95 sources. This
9611 resulted always in generating patches for the HTML doc, even when
9612 nothing really changed (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
9613 + improve man page mitem_new.3x (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
9616 + remove ech capability from rxvt description because it does not work.
9617 + add missing case logic for infocmp -I option (reported by Lorenzo M.
9618 Catucci <lorenzo@argon.roma2.infn.it>)
9619 + correct old bug in pnoutrefresh() unmasked by fix in 970531; this
9620 caused glitches in the ncurses 'p' test since the area outside the
9621 pad was not compared when setting up indices for _nc_scroll_optimize.
9622 + rewrote tracebits() to workaround misdefinition of TOSTOP on Ultrix
9623 4.4, as well as to eliminate fixed-size buffer (reported by Chris
9624 Tanner <tannerc@aecl.ca>)
9625 + correct prototype for termattrs() as per XPG4 version 2.
9626 + add placeholder prototypes for color_set(), erasewchar(),
9627 term_attrs(), wcolor_set() as per XPG4 version 2.
9628 + correct attribution for progs/progs.priv.h and lib_twait.c
9629 + improve line-breakout logic by checking based on changed lines rather
9630 than total lines (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9631 + correct loop limits for table-lookup of enumerated value in form
9632 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
9633 + improve threshhold computation for determining when to call ClrToEOL
9634 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9637 + add configure option --disable-database to force the library to
9638 use only the fallback data.
9639 + add configure option --with-fallbacks, to specify list of fallback
9640 terminal descriptions.
9641 + add a symbolic link for ncurses.h during install; too many programs
9642 still assume there's an ncurses.h
9643 + add new terminfo.src entry for xterm-xf86-v33.
9644 + restore terminfo.src entry for emu to using setf/setb, since it is
9645 not, after all, generating ANSI sequences. Corrected missing comma
9646 that caused setf/setb entries to merge.
9647 + modify mousemask() to use keyok() to enable/disable KEY_MOUSE, so
9648 that applications can disable ncurses' mouse and supply their own
9650 + add extensions keyok() and define_key(). These are designed to allow
9651 the user's application better control over the use of function keys,
9652 e.g., disabling the ncurses KEY_MOUSE. (The define_key idea was from
9653 a mailing-list thread started by Kenneth Albanowski
9654 <kjahds@kjahds.com> Nov'1995).
9655 + restore original behavior in ncurses 'g' test, i.e., explicitly
9656 set the keypad mode rather than use the default, since it confuses
9658 + rewrote the newdemo banner so it's readable (reported by Hugh
9660 + tidy up exit from hashtest (reported by Hugh Daniel).
9661 + restore check for ^Q in ncurses 'g' test broken in 970510 (reported
9663 + correct tput program, checking return-value of setupterm (patch by
9665 + correct logic in pnoutrefresh() and pechochar() functions (reported
9666 by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf.usc.edu>). The computation
9667 of 'wide' date to eric's #283 (1.9.9), and the pechochar bug to the
9668 original implementation (1.9.6).
9669 + correct typo in vt102-w terminfo.src entry (patch by Robert Wuest
9670 <rwuest@sire.vt.com>)
9671 + move calls of _nc_background() out of various loops, as its return
9672 value will be the same for the whole window being operated on (patch
9674 + add macros getcur[xy] getbeg[xy] getpar[xy], which are defined in
9675 SVr4 headers (patch by J T Conklin <jtc@NetBSD.ORG>)
9676 + modify glibc addon-configure scripts (patch by H.J.Lu).
9677 + correct a bug in hashmap.c: the size used for clearing the hashmap
9678 table was incorrect, causing stack corruption for large values of
9679 LINES, e.g., >MAXLINES/2 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9680 + eric's terminfo 9.13.23 & 9.13.24 changes: replaced minitel-2 entry,
9681 added MGR, ansi-nt (note: the changes described for 9.13.24 have not
9683 > several changes by Juergen Pfeifer:
9684 + correct a missing error-return in form_driver.c when wrapping of a
9685 field is not possible.
9686 + correct logic in form_driver.c for configurations that do not have
9687 memccpy() (reported by Sidik Isani <isani@cfht.hawaii.edu>)
9688 + change several c++ binding functions to inline.
9689 + modify c++ menu binding to inherit from panels, for proper
9691 + correct freeing of menu items in c++ binding.
9692 + modify c++ binding to reflect removal of const from user data pointer
9693 in forms/menus libraries.
9696 + add description of xterm-16color.
9697 + modify name of shared-library on *BSD to end with $(REL_VERSION)
9698 rather than $(ABI_VERSION) to match actual convention on FreeBSD
9700 + add OpenBSD to shared-library case, same as NetBSD and FreeBSD
9701 (reported by Hugh Daniel <hugh@rat.toad.com>).
9702 + corrected include-dependency in menu/Makefile so that "make install"
9703 works properly w/o first doing "make".
9704 + add fallback definition for isascii, used in infocmp.
9705 + modify xmas to use color, and to exit right away when a key is
9707 + modify gdc so that the scrolled digits function as described (there
9708 was no time delay between the stages, and the digits overwrote the
9709 bounding box without tidying up).
9710 + modify lib_color.c to use setaf/setab only for the ANSI color codes
9711 0 through 7. Using 16 colors requires setf/setb.
9712 + modify ncurses 'c' test to work with 16 colors, as well as the normal
9714 + remove const qualifier from user data pointer in forms and menus
9715 libraries (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
9716 + rewrote 'waddchnstr()' to avoid using the _nc_waddch_nosync()
9717 function, thereby not interpreting tabs, etc., as per spec (patch by
9718 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9721 + suppress check for pre-existing ncurses header if the --prefix
9722 option is specified.
9723 + add configure options "--with-system-type" and
9724 "--with-system-release" to assist in checking the generated
9726 + add configure option "--enable-rpath" to allow installers to specify
9727 that programs linked against shared libraries will have their library
9728 path embedded, allowing installs into nonstandard locations.
9729 + add flags to OSF1 shared-library options to specify version and
9730 symbol file (patch by Tim Mooney <mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu>)
9731 + add missing definition for ABI_VERSION to c++/Makefile.in (reported
9732 by Satoshi Adachi <adachi@wisdom.aa.ap.titech.ac.jp>).
9733 + modify link flags to accommodate HP-UX linker which embeds absolute
9734 pathnames in executables linked against shared libraries (reported by
9735 Jason Evans <jasone@mrc.uidaho.edu>, solved by Alan Shutko
9736 <ats@hubert.wustl.edu>).
9737 + drop unnecessary check for attribute-change in onscreen_mvcur() since
9738 mvcur() is the only caller within the library, and that check in turn
9739 is exercised only from lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V.
9741 + add 'blank' parameter to _nc_scroll_window() so _nc_mvcur_scrolln()
9742 can use the background of stdscr as a parameter to that function
9743 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9744 + moved _nc_mvcur_scrolln() from lib_mvcur.c to lib_doupdate.c, to use
9745 the latter's internal functions, as well as to eliminate unnecessary
9746 cursor save/restore operations (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9747 + omit parameter of ClrUpdate(), since it is called only for newscr,
9748 further optimized/reduced by using ClearScreen() and TransformLine()
9749 to get rid of duplicate code (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9750 + modify scrolling algorithm in _nc_scroll_optimize() to reject hunks
9751 that are smaller than the distance to be moved (patch by Alexander V.
9753 + correct a place where the panel library was not ifdef'd in ncurses.c
9755 + documentation fixes (Juergen Pfeifer)
9757 970515 4.1 release for upload to prep.ai.mit.edu
9758 + re-tag changes since 970505 as 4.1 release.
9761 + modify ncurses 'g' test to allow mouse input
9762 + modify default xterm description to include mouse.
9763 + modify configure script to add -Wwrite-strings if gcc warnings are
9764 enabled while configuring --enable-const (and fixed related
9766 + add toggle, status display for keypad mode to ncurses 'g' test to
9767 verify that keypad and scrollok are not inherited from parent window
9768 during a call to newwin.
9769 + correction to MKexpanded.sh to make it work when configure --srcdir
9770 is used (reported by H.J.Lu).
9771 + revise test for bool-type, ensuring that it checks if builtin.h is
9772 available before including it, adding test for sizeof(bool) equal
9773 to sizeof(short), and warning user if the size cannot be determined
9774 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9775 + add files to support configuration of ncurses as an add-on library
9776 for GNU libc (patch by H.J.Lu <hjl@lucon.org>)
9779 + correct buffer overrun in lib_traceatr.c
9780 + modify change to lib_vidattr.c to avoid redundant orig_pair.
9781 + turn on 'echo()' in hanoi.c, since it is initially off.
9782 + rename local 'errno' variable in etip.h to avoid conflict with global
9784 + modify configure script to cache LD, AR, AR_OPTS (patch by H.J.Lu
9787 970505 4.1 pre-release
9788 + regenerate the misc directory html dumps without the link list, which
9790 + correct dependency in form directory makefile which caused
9791 unnecessary recompiles.
9792 + correct substitution for ABI_VERSION in test-makefile
9793 + modify install rules for shared-library targets to remove the target
9794 before installing, since some install programs do not properly handle
9795 overwrite of symbolic links.
9796 + change order of top-level targets so that 'include' immediate
9797 precedes the 'ncurses' directory, reducing the time between new
9798 headers and new libraries (requested by Larry Virden).
9799 + modify lib_vidattr.c so that colors are turned off only before
9800 modifying other attributes, turned on after others. This makes the
9801 hanoi.c program display correctly on FreeBSD console.
9802 + modify debug code in panel library to print user-data addresses
9803 rather than the strings which they (may) point to.
9804 + add check to ensure that C++ binding and demo are not built with g++
9805 versions below 2.7, since the binding uses templates.
9806 + modify c++ binding and demo to build and run with SGI's c++ compiler.
9807 (It also compiles with the Sun SparcWorks compiler, but the demo does
9808 not link, due to a vtbl problem).
9809 + corrections to demo.cc, to fix out-of-scope variables (Juergen
9813 + correct memory leak in _nc_trace_buf().
9814 + add configure test for regexpr.h, for Unixware 1.x.
9815 + correct missing "./" prefixing names of generated files in ncurses
9817 + use single-quotes in configure scripts assignments for MK_SHARED_LIB
9818 to workaround shell bug on FreeBSD 2.1.5
9819 + remove tabs from intermediate #define's for GCC_PRINTF, GCC_SCANF
9820 that caused incorrect result in ncurses_cfg.h
9821 + correct initialization in lib_trace.c, which omitted version info.
9822 + remove ech, el1 attributes from cons25w description; they appear to
9823 malfunction in FreeBSD 2.1.5
9824 + correct color attributes in terminfo.src and lib_color.c to match
9825 SVr4 behavior by interchanging codes 1,4, 3,6 in the setf/setb
9827 + use curs_set() rather than checks via tigetstr() for test programs
9828 that hide the cursor: firework, rain, worm.
9829 + ensure that if the terminal lacks change_scroll_region, parm_index
9830 and parm_rindex are used only to scroll the whole screen (patch by
9832 + correct curs_set() logic, which did not return ERR if the requested
9833 attributes did not exist, nor did it assume an unknown initial state
9834 for the cursor (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9835 + combine IDcTransformLine and NoIDcTransformLine to new TransformLine
9836 function in lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9837 + correct hashmap.c, which did not update index information (patch by
9838 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9839 + fixes for C++ binding and demo (see c++/NEWS) (Juergen Pfeifer).
9840 + correct index in lib_instr.c (Juergen Pfeifer).
9841 + correct typo in 970426 patch from Tom's cleanup of lib_overlay.c
9842 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
9845 + corrected cost computation in PutRange(), which was using
9846 milliseconds compared to characters by adding two new members to the
9847 SCREEN struct, _hpa_ch_cost and _cup_ch_cost.
9848 + drop ncurses/lib_unctrl.c, add ncurses/MKunctrl.awk to generate a
9849 const array of strings (suggested by Alexander V. Lukyanov). The
9850 original suggestion in 970118 used a perl script.
9851 + rewrote ncurses 'b' test to better exercise magic-cookie (xmc), as
9852 well as noting the attributes that are not supported by a terminal.
9853 + trace the computation of cost values in lib_mvcur.c
9854 + modify _nc_visbuf() to use octal rather than hex, corrected sign
9855 extension bug in that function that caused buffer overflow.
9856 + modify trace in lib_acs.c to use _nc_visbuf().
9857 + suppress trace within _traceattr2().
9858 + correct logic of _tracechtype2(), which did not account for repeats
9859 or redefinition within an acsc string.
9860 + modify debug-library version baudrate() to use environment variable
9861 $BAUDRATE to override speed computation. This is needed for
9863 + correct problems shown by "weblint -pedantic".
9864 + update mailing-list information (now ncurses@bsdi.com).
9867 + Improve form_field_validation.3x manpage to better describe the
9868 precision parameter for TYPE_NUMERIC and TYPE_INTEGER. Provide more
9869 precise information how the range checking can be avoided. (patch by
9870 Juergen Pfeifer, reported by Bryan Henderson)
9871 + change type of min/max value of form types TYPE_INTEGER to long to
9872 match SVr4 documentation.
9873 + set the form window to stdscr in set_form_win() so that form_win()
9874 won't return null (patch by Juergen Pfeifer, reported by Bryan
9875 Henderson <bryanh@giraffe.netgate.net>).
9878 + corrected ifdef'ing of inline (cf: 970321) for TRACE vs C++.
9879 + corrected toggle_attr_off() macro (patch by Andries Brouwer).
9880 + modify treatment of empty token in $MANPATH to /usr/man (reported by
9881 <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>)
9882 + modify traces that record functions-called so that chtype and attr_t
9883 values are expressed symbolically, to simplify reuse of generated
9884 test-scripts on SVr4 regression testing.
9885 + add new trace functions _traceattr2() and _tracechtype2()
9888 + add configure option --enable-const, to support the use of 'const'
9889 where XSI should have, but did not, specify. This defines
9890 NCURSES_CONST, which is an empty token otherwise, for strict
9892 + make processing of configure options more verbose by echoing the
9893 --enable/--with values.
9894 + add configure option --enable-big-core
9895 + set initial state of software echo off as per XSI.
9896 + check for C++ builtin.h header
9897 + correct computation of absolute-path for $INSTALL that dropped "-c"
9898 parameter from the expression.
9899 + rename config.h to ncurses_cfg.h to avoid naming-conflict when
9900 ncurses is integrated into larger systems (adapted from diffs by
9902 + correct inequality in lib_doupdate.c that caused a single-char to not
9903 be updated when the char on the right-margin was not blank, idcok()
9904 was true (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov (in 970124), reported
9905 by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf-fs.usc.edu> in 970329).
9906 + modify 'clean' rule in include/Makefile so that files created by
9907 configure script are removed in 'distclean' rule instead.
9910 + correct array limit in tparam_internal(), add case to interpret "%x"
9911 (patch by Andreas Schwab)
9912 + rewrote number-parsing in ncurses.c 'd' test; it did not reset the
9913 value properly when non-numeric characters were given (reported by
9914 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>)
9917 + move definition of __INTERNAL_CAPS_VISIBLE before include for
9918 progs.priv.h (patch by David MacKenzie).
9919 + add configuration summary, reordered check for default include
9920 directory to better accommodate a case where installer is configuring
9921 a second copy of ncurses (reported by Klaus Weide
9922 <kweide@tezcat.com>)
9923 + moved the #define for 'inline' as an empty token from the
9924 $(CFLAGS_DEBUG) symbol into config.h, to avoid redefinition warning
9925 (reported by Ward Horner).
9926 + modify test for bool builtin type to use 'unsigned' rather than
9927 'unknown' when cross-compiling (reported by Ward Horner).
9930 + add header dependencies so that "make install.libs" will succeed
9931 even if "make all" is not done first.
9932 + moved some macros from lib_doupdate.c to curses.priv.h to use in
9933 expanded functions with ATAC.
9934 + correct implementation of lib_instr.c; both XSI and SVr4 agree that
9935 the winnstr functions can return more characters than will fit on one
9939 + modify script that generates lib_gen.c to support traces of called &
9941 + add new configure option "--disable-macros", for testing calls within
9943 + corrected logic that screens level-checking of called/return traces.
9946 + use new configure macro NC_SUBST to replace AC_PATH_PROG, better
9947 addressing request by Ward Horner.
9948 + check for cross-compiling before trying to invoke the autoconf
9949 AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED macro (reported by Ward Horner)
9950 + correct/simplify loop in _nc_visbuf(), 970201 changes omitted
9951 a pointer-increment.
9952 + eliminate obsolete symbol SHARED_ABI from dist.mk (noted by
9956 + add configure option --enable-expanded, together with code that
9957 implements an expanded form of certain complex macros, for testing
9959 + disable CHECK_POSITION unless --with-assertions is configured
9960 (Alexander V Lukyanov pointed out that this is redundant).
9961 + use keyname() to show traced chtype values where applicable rather
9962 than _tracechar(), which truncates the value to 8-bits.
9963 + minor fixes to TRACE_ICALLS, added T_CREATE, TRACE_CCALLS macros.
9964 + modify makefiles in progs and test directories to avoid using C
9965 preprocessor options on link commands (reported by Ward Horner)
9966 + correct ifdef/include-order for nc_alloc.h vs lib_freeall.c (reported
9968 + modify ifdef's to use configure-defined symbols consistently
9969 (reported by Ward Horner)
9970 + add/use new makefile symbols AR, AR_OPTS and LD to assist in non-UNIX
9971 ports (reported by Ward Horner <whorner@tsi-telsys.com>)
9972 + rename struct try to struct tries, to avoid name conflict with C++
9973 (reported by Gary Johnson).
9974 + modify worm.c to hide cursor while running.
9975 + add -Wcast-qual to gcc warnings, fix accordingly.
9976 + use PutChar rather than PutAttrChar in ClrToEOL to properly handle
9977 wrapping (Alexander V Lukyanov).
9978 + correct spurious echoing of input in hanoi.c from eric's #291 & #292
9979 patches (reported by Vernon C. Hoxie <vern@zebra.alphacdc.com>).
9980 + extend IRIX configuration to IRIX64
9981 + supply missing install.libs rule needed after restructuring
9985 + modify "make mostlyclean" to leave automatically-generated source
9986 in the ncurses directory, for use in cross-compiles.
9987 + autogenerated object-dependencies for test directory
9988 + add configure option --with-rcs-ids
9989 + modify configuration scripts to generate major/minor/patch versions
9990 (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
9991 + supply missing va_end's in lib_scanw.c
9992 + use stream I/O for trace-output, to eliminate fixed-size buffer
9993 + add TRACE_ICALLS definition/support to lib_trace.c
9994 + modify Ada95 binding to work with GNAT 3.09 (Juergen Pfeifer).
9997 + add/modify traces for called/return values to simplify extraction
9999 + changed _nc_visbuf to quote its result, and to dynamically allocate
10000 the returned buffer.
10001 + invoke ldconfig after installing shared library
10002 + modify install so that overwrite applies to shared library -lcurses
10003 in preference to static library (reported by Zeyd M Ben-Halim 960928).
10004 + correct missing ';' in 961221 mod to overwrite optional use of $(LN_S)
10006 + fixes to allow "make install" to work without first doing a "make
10007 all" (suggested by Larry Virden).
10010 + correct order of #ifdef for TABS_OK.
10011 + instrumented toe.c to test memory-leaks.
10012 + correct memory-deallocation in toe.c (patch by Jesse Thilo).
10013 + include <sys/types.h> in configuration test for regex.h (patch by
10015 + make infocmp recognize -I option, for SVr4 compatibility (reported by
10016 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>)
10019 + add extension 'use_default_colors()', modified test applications that
10020 use default background (firework, gdc, hanoi, knight, worm) to
10022 + correct some limit checks in lib_doupdate.c exposed while running
10024 + use typeCalloc macro for readability.
10025 + add/use definition for CONST to accommodate testing with Solaris
10026 (SVr4) curses, which doesn't use 'const' in its prototypes.
10027 + modify ifdef's in test/hashtest.c and test/view.c to compile with
10029 + modify _tracedump() to pad pad colors & attrs lines to match change
10030 in 970101 showing first/last changes.
10031 + corrected location of terminating null on dynamically allocated forms
10032 fields (patch by Per Foreby).
10035 + added headers to make view.c compile on SCO with the resizeterm()
10036 code (i.e., struct winsize) - though this compiles, I don't have a
10037 suitable test configuration since SIGWINCH doesn't pass my network to
10038 that machine - T.Dickey.
10039 + update test/configure.in to supply some default substitutions.
10040 + modify configure script to add -lncurses after -lgpm to fix problem
10041 linking against static libraries.
10042 + add a missing noraw() to test/ncurses.c (places noted by Jeremy
10044 + add a missing wclear() to test/testcurs.c (patch by Jeremy Buhler
10045 <jbuhler@cs.washington.edu>)
10046 + modify headers to accommodate compilers that don't allow duplicate
10047 "#define" lines for NCURSES_VERSION (reported by Larry W. Virden
10049 + fix formatting glitch in curs_getch.3x (patch by Jesse Thilo).
10050 + modify lib_doupdate to make el, el1 and ed optimization use the
10051 can_clear_with macro, and change EmitRange to allow leaving cursor at
10052 the middle of interval, rather than always at the end (patch by
10053 Alexander V Lukyanov). This was originally 960929, resync 970106.
10056 + workaround defect in autoconf 2.12 (which terminates configuration
10057 if no C++ compiler is found) by adding an option --without-cxx.
10058 + modify several man-pages to use tbl, where .nf/.fi was used (reported
10060 + correct font-codes in some man-pages (patch by Jesse Thilo
10061 <Jesse.Thilo@pobox.com>)
10062 + use configure script's knowledge of existence of g++ library for the
10063 c++ Makefile (reported by Paul Jackson).
10064 + correct misleading description of --datadir configuration option
10065 (reported by Paul Jackson <pj@sam.engr.sgi.com>)
10068 + several corrections to _nc_mvcur_scrolln(), prompted by a bug report
10070 > the logic for non_dest_scroll_region was interchanged between the
10071 forward & reverse scrolling cases.
10072 > multiple returns from the function allowed certain conditions to do
10073 part of an operation before discovering that it couldn't be
10074 completed, returning an error without restoring the cursor.
10075 > some returns were ERR, where the function had completed the
10076 operation, because the insert/delete line logic was improperly
10077 tested (this was probably the case Peter saw).
10078 > contrary to comments, some scrolling cases were tested after the
10079 insert/delete line method.
10080 + modify _tracedump() to show first/last changes.
10081 + modify param of ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c to 'newscr', fixes
10082 refresh problem (reported by Peter Wemm) that caused nvi to not show
10083 result of ":r !ls" until a ^L was typed.
10085 961229 (internal alpha)
10086 + correct some of the writable-strings warnings (reported by Gary
10087 Johnson <gjohnson@season.com>). Note that most of the remaining ones
10088 are part of the XSI specification, and can't be "fixed".
10089 + improve include-dependencies in form, menu, panel directories.
10090 + correct logic of delay_output(), which would return early if
10091 there is data on stdin.
10092 + modify interface & logic of _nc_timed_wait() to support 2 file
10093 descriptors, needed for GPM.
10094 + integrate patch by Andrew Kuchling <amk@magnet.com> for GPM (mouse)
10095 support, correcting logic in wgetch() and _nc_mouse_parse() which
10096 prevented patch from working properly -TD
10097 + improve performance of panel algorithm (Juergen Pfeifer 961203).
10098 + strip RCS id's from generated .html files in Ada95 subtree.
10099 + resync with generated .html files (Juergen Pfeifer 961223).
10100 + terminfo.src 10.1.0 (ESR).
10103 + release as 4.0 to accommodate Linux ld.so.1.8.5
10104 + correct syntax/spelling, regenerated .doc files from .html using
10106 + refined forms/menus makefiles (Juergen Pfeifer 961223).
10109 + remove logic in read_entry.c that attempts to refine errno by using
10110 'access()' for the directory (from patch by Florian La Roche).
10111 + correct configure test/substitution that inhibits generating
10112 include-path to /usr/include if gcc is used (reported by Florian La
10114 + modify setupterm() to allocate new TERMINAL for each call, just as
10115 solaris' curses does (Alexander V Lukyanov 960829).
10116 + corrected memory leaks in read_entry.c
10117 + add configure options --with-dbmalloc, --with-dmalloc, and
10118 --disable-leaks, tested by instrumenting infocmp, ncurses programs.
10119 + move #include's for stdlib.h and string.h to *.priv.h to accommodate
10121 + modify use of $(LN_S) to follow recommendation in autoconf 2.12,
10122 i.e., set current directory before linking.
10123 + split-out panel.priv.h, improve dependencies for forms, menus
10124 (Juergen Pfeifer 961204).
10125 + modify _nc_freewin() to reset globals curscr/newscr/stdscr when
10126 freeing the corresponding WINDOW (found using Purify).
10127 + modify delwin() to return ERR if the window to be deleted has
10128 subwindows, needed as a side-effect of resizeterm() (found using
10129 Purify). Tested and found that SVr4 curses behaves this way.
10130 + implement logic for _nc_freeall(), bringing stub up to date.
10133 + modify wbkgd() so that it doesn't set nulls in the rendered text,
10134 even if its argument doesn't specify a character (fixes test case by
10135 Juergen Pfeifer for bug-report).
10136 + set window-attributes in wbkgd(), to simplify comparison against
10137 Solaris curses, which does this.
10140 + replace most constants in ncurses 'o' test by expressions, making it
10141 work with wider range of screen sizes.
10142 + add options to ncurses.c to specify 'e' test softkey format, and the
10143 number of header/footer lines to rip-off.
10144 + add ^R (repaint after resize), ^L (refresh) commands to ncurses 'p'
10146 + add shell-out (!) command to ncurses 'p' test to allow test of
10147 resize between endwin/refresh.
10148 + correct line-wrap case in mvcur() by emitting carriage return,
10149 overlooked in 960928, but needed due to SVr4 compatibility changes to
10150 terminal modes in 960907.
10151 + correct logic in wresize that causes new lines to be allocated,
10152 broken for the special case of increasing rows only in 960907's fix
10154 + modify configure script to generate $(LDFLAGS) with -L and -l options
10155 in preference to explicit library filenames. (NOTE: this may
10156 require further amending, since I vaguely recall a dynamic loader
10157 that did not work properly without the full names, but it should be
10158 handled as an exception to the rule, since some linkers do bulk
10159 inclusion of libraries when given the full name - T.Dickey).
10160 + modify configure script to allow user-supplied $CFLAGS to set the
10161 debug-option in all libraries (requested by lots of people) -TD
10162 + use return consistently from main(), rather than exit (reported by
10164 + add --enable-getcap-cache option to configure, normally disabled
10165 (requested by Florian La Roche).
10166 + make configure test for gettimeofday() and possibly -lbsd more
10167 efficient (requested by Florian La Roche <florian@knorke.saar.de>)
10168 + minor adjustments to Ada95 binding (patches by Juergen Pfeifer)
10169 + correct attributes after emitting orig_pair in lib_vidattr.c (patch
10170 by Alexander V Lukyanov).
10173 + corrected README wrt Ada95 (Juergen Pfeifer)
10176 + integrate resizeterm() into doupdate(), so that if screen size
10177 changes between endwin/refresh, ncurses will resize windows to fit
10178 (this needs additional testing with pads and softkeys).
10179 + add, for memory-leak testing, _nc_freeall() entrypoint to free all
10180 data used in ncurses library.
10181 + initialize _nc_idcok, _nc_idlok statically to resolve discrepancy
10182 between initscr() and newwin() initialization (reported by
10183 Alexander V Lukyanov).
10184 + test built VERSION=4.0, SHARED_ABI=4 with Linux ld.so.1.8.5
10185 (set beta versions to those values -- NOTE that subsequent pre-4.0
10186 beta may not be interchangeable).
10187 + modify configure script to work with autoconf 2.12
10189 961130 1.9.9g release
10190 + add copyright notices to configuration scripts (written by Thomas
10194 > patch, mostly for panel (Juergen Pfeifer):
10195 + cosmetic improvement for a few routines in the ncurses core library
10196 to avoid warning messages.
10197 + the panel overlap detection was broken
10198 + the panel_window() function was not fool-proof.
10200 + Cosmetic changes (also to avoid warning messages when compiling with
10204 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
10205 + eliminates warning messages for the compile of libform.
10206 + inserts Per Foreby's new field type TYPE_IPV4 into libform.
10207 + Updates man page and the Ada95 binding to reflect this.
10208 + Improves inlining in libmenu and libform.
10211 + improve the use of the "const" qualifier in the
10212 panel library (Juergen Pfeifer)
10213 + change set_panel_userptr() and panel_userptr() to use void*
10217 + change ABI to 3.4
10218 + package with 961119 version of Ada95 binding (fixes for gnat-3.07).
10220 + correct initialization of the stdscr pseudo panel in panel library
10222 + use MODULE_ID (rcs keywords) in forms and menus libraries (Juergen
10224 > patch #324 (ESR):
10225 + typo in curs_termcap man page (reported by Hendrik Reichel
10226 <106065.2344@compuserve.com>)
10227 + change default xterm entry to xterm-r6.
10228 + add entry for color_xterm
10231 + lint found several functions that had only #define implementations
10232 (e.g., attr_off), modified curses.h.in to generate them as per XSI
10233 Curses requirement that every macro be available as a function.
10234 + add check in infocmp.c to guard against string compare of
10235 CANCELLED_STRING values.
10236 + modify firework.c, rain.c to hide cursor while running.
10237 + correct missing va_end in lib_tparm.c
10238 + modify hanoi.c to work on non-color terminals, and to use timing
10239 delays when in autoplay mode.
10240 + correct 'echochar()' to refresh immediately (reported by Adrian
10241 Garside <94ajg2@eng.cam.ac.uk>)
10242 > patch #322 (ESR):
10243 + reorganize terminfo.src entries for xterm.
10246 + corrected error in line-breakout logic (lib_doupdate.c)
10247 + modified newdemo to use wgetch(win) rather than getch() to eliminate
10248 a spurious clear-screen.
10249 + corrected ifdef's for 'poll()' configuration.
10250 + added modules to ncurses, form, menu for Ada95 binding (Juergen
10252 + modify set_field_buffer() to allow assignment of string longer than
10253 the initial buffer length, and to return the complete string rather
10254 than only the initial size (Juergen Pfeifer and Per Foreby
10255 <perf@efd.lth.se>).
10258 + configure for 'poll()' in preference to 'select()', since older
10259 systems are more likely to have a broken 'select()'.
10260 + modified render_char() to avoid OR'ing colors.
10261 + minor fixes to testcurs.c, newdemo.c test programs: ifdef'd out the
10262 resize test, use wbkgd and corrected box() parameters.
10263 + make flushinp() test work in ncurses.c by using napms() instead of
10265 + undo ESR's changes to xterm-x11r6 (it no longer matched the X11R6.1
10266 distribution, as stated)
10267 + terminfo 9.13.18 resync (ESR)
10268 + check for getenv("HOME") returning null (ESR).
10269 + change buffer used to decode xterm-mouse commands to unsigned to
10270 handle displays wider than 128 chars (Juergen Pfeifer).
10271 + correct typo curs_outopts.3x (Juergen Pfeifer).
10272 + correct limit-checking in wenclose() (Juergen Pfeifer).
10273 + correction to Peter Wemm's newwin change (Thomas Fehr
10275 + corrections to logic that combines colors and attributes; they must
10276 not be OR'd (Juergen Pfeifer, extending from report/patch by Rick
10280 + reset flags in 'getwin()' that might cause refresh to attempt to
10281 manipulate the non-existent parent of a window that is read from a
10282 file (lib_screen.c).
10283 + restructure _nc_timed_wait() to log more information, and to try to
10284 recover from badly-behaved 'select()' calls (still testing this).
10285 + move define for GOOD_SELECT into configure script.
10286 + corrected extra '\' character inserted before ',' in comp_scan.c
10287 + corrected expansion of %-format characters in dump_entry.c; some were
10288 rendered as octal constants.
10289 + modify dump_entry.c to make terminfo output more readable and like
10290 SVr4, by using "\s" for spaces (leading/trailing only), "\," for
10291 comma, "\^" and "\:" as well.
10292 + corrected some memory leaks in ncurses.c, and a minor logic error
10293 in the top-level command-parser.
10294 + correction for label format 4 (PC style with info line), a
10295 slk_clear(), slk_restore() sequence didn't redraw the info line
10297 + modified the slk window (if simulated) to inherit the background and
10298 default character attributes from stdscr (Juergen Pfeifer).
10299 + corrected limit-check in set_top_row (Juergen Pfeifer).
10302 + correct loop-limit in wnoutrefresh(), bug exposed during pipe-testing
10303 had '.lastchar' entry one beyond '._maxx'.
10304 + modify ncurses test-program to work with data piped to it.
10305 + corrected pathname computation in run_tic.sh, removing extra "../"
10306 (reported by Tim Mooney).
10307 + modified configure script to use previous install's location for
10309 + added NetBSD and FreeBSD to platforms that use --prefix=/usr as
10313 + revised xterm terminfo descriptions to reflect the several versions
10314 that are available.
10315 + corrected a pointer reference in dump_entry.c that didn't test if
10316 the pointer was -1.
10319 + correct _nc_mvcur_scrolln for terminals w/o scrolling region.
10320 + add -x option to hashtest to control whether it allows writes to the
10321 lower-right corner.
10322 + ifdef'd (NCURSES_TEST) the logic for _nc_optimize_enable to make it
10323 simpler to construct tests (for double-check of _nc_hash_map tests).
10324 + correct ifdef's for c++ in curses.h
10325 + change default xterm type to xterm-x11r6.
10326 + correct quoting in configure that made man-pages installed with
10327 $datadir instead of actual terminfo path.
10328 + correct whitespace in include/Caps, which caused kf11, clr_eol and
10329 clr_end to be omitted from terminfo.5
10330 + fix memory leaks in delscreen() (adapted from Alexander V Lukyanov).
10331 + improve appearance of marker in multi-selection menu (Juergen
10333 + fix behavior for forms with all fields inactive (Juergen Pfeifer)
10334 + document 'field_index()' (Juergen Pfeifer)
10335 > patch #321 (ESR):
10336 + add some more XENIX keycap translations to include/Caps.
10337 + modify newwin to set initial state of each line to 'touched'
10338 (from patch by Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.dialix.com>)
10339 + in SET_TTY, replace TCSANOW with TCSADRAIN (Alexander V Lukyanov).
10342 + ifdef'd out _nc_hash_map (still slower)
10343 + add graphic characters to vt52 description.
10344 + use PutAttrChar in ClrToEOL to ensure proper background, position.
10345 + simplify/correct logic in 'mvcur()' that does wrapping; it was
10346 updating the position w/o actually moving the cursor, which broke
10348 + ensure that 'doupdate()' sets the .oldindex values back to a sane
10349 state; this was causing a spurious refresh in ncurses 'r'.
10350 + add logic to configure (from vile) to guard against builders who
10351 don't remove config.cache & config.status when doing new builds -TD
10352 + corrected logic for 'repeat_char' in EmitRange (cf: eric #317), which
10353 did not follow the 2-parameter scheme specified in XSI.
10354 + corrected logic of wrefresh, wnoutrefresh broken in #319, making
10355 clearok work properly (report by Michael Elkins).
10356 + corrected problem with endwin introduced by #314 (removing the
10357 scrolling-region reset) that broke ncurses.c tests.
10358 + corrected order of args in AC_CHECK_LIB (from report by Ami Fischman
10359 <fischman@math.ucla.edu>).
10360 + corrected formatting of terminfo.5 tables (Juergen Ehling)
10362 + change ABI to 3.3
10363 + emit a carriage-return in 'endwin()' to workaround a kernel bug in
10364 BSDI. (requested by Mike Karels <karels@redrock.bsdi.com>)
10365 + reverse the default o configure --enable-termcap (consensus).
10367 + modified logic for clearok and related functions (from report by
10368 Michael Elkins) - untested
10370 + correction to #317.
10372 + re-add _nc_hash_map
10373 + modify EmitRange to maintain position as per original design
10374 (patch by A. Lukyanov).
10375 + modify test/ncurses.c and tputs, etc., to allow trace counting
10377 + add hashtest.c program to time the hashmap optimization.
10379 + add logic to deal with magic-cookie (how was this tested?)
10381 + add ncurses.c driver for magic-cookie, some fixes to ncurses.c
10383 + merge changes to lib_doupdate.c to use ech and rep - untested
10384 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
10385 + modified handling of interrupted system calls - untested
10386 (lib_getch.c, lib_twait.c).
10387 + new function _nc_mvcur_resume()
10388 + fix return value for 'overlay()', 'overwrite()'
10391 + implement subwindow-logic in wresize, minor fixes to ncurses 'g'
10393 + corrected bracketing of fallback.c (reported/suggested fix by Juergen
10394 Ehling <eh@eclipse.aball.de>).
10395 + update xterm-color to reflect XFree86 3.1.3G release.
10396 + correct broken dtterm description from #314 patch (e.g., spurious
10397 newline. The 'pairs' change might work, but no one's tested it
10399 + clarify the documentation for the builtin form fieldtypes (Juergen
10402 + reset scroll region on startup rather than at wrapup time
10403 (enhancement suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
10404 + make storage of palette tables and their size counts per-screen for
10405 multi-terminal applications (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
10406 + Improved error reporting for infotocap translation errors.
10407 + Update terminfo.src to 9.13.14.
10410 + rewrote wgetstr to make it erase control chars and also fix bogus use
10411 of _nc_outstr which caused the display to not wrap properly (display
10412 problem reported by John M. Flinchbaugh <glynis@netrax.net>)
10413 + modify ncurses 'f' test to accommodate terminal responses to C1 codes
10414 (and split up this screen to accommodate non-ANSI terminals).
10415 + test enter_insert_mode and exit_insert_mode in has_ic().
10416 + removed bogus logic in mvcur that assumes nl/nonl set output modes
10417 (XSI says they are input modes; SVr4 implements this).
10418 + added macros SET_TTY, GET_TTY to term.h
10419 + correct getstr() logic that altered terminal modes w/o restoring.
10420 + disable ICRNL, etc., during initialization to match SVr4, removing
10421 the corresponding logic from raw, cbreak, etc.
10422 + disable ONLCR during initialization, to match SVr4 (this is needed
10423 for cursor optimization when the cursor-down is a newline).
10424 + replaced ESR's imitation of wresize with my original (his didn't
10428 + memory leaks (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10429 + modified pnoutrefresh() to be more tolerant of too-large screen
10430 size (reported by Michael Elkins).
10431 + correct handling of terminfo files with no strings (Philippe De
10433 + correct "tic -s" to take into account -I, -C options.
10434 + modify ncurses 'f' test to not print codes 80 through 9F, since they
10435 are considered control codes by ANSI terminals.
10438 + correct speed variable-type in 'tgetent()' (reported by Peter Wemm)
10439 + make "--enable-getcap" configuration-option work (reported by
10440 Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.DIALix.COM>)
10443 + correct err in 960817 that changed return-value of tigetflag()
10444 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10445 + modify infocmp to use library default search-path for terminfo
10446 directory (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10449 + corrected an err in mvcur that broke resizing-behavior.
10450 + correct fall-thru behavior of _nc_read_entry(), which was not finding
10451 descriptions that existed in directories past the first one searched
10452 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov)
10453 + corrected typo in dtterm description.
10455 + add dtterm description
10456 + clarify ncurses 'i' test (drop mvwscanw subtest)
10459 + correct nl()/nonl() to work as per SVr4 & XSI.
10460 + minor fixes to ncurses.c (use 'noraw()', mvscanw return-code)
10461 + refine configure-test for "-g" option (Tim Mooney).
10462 + correct interaction between O_BLANK and NEW_LINE request in form
10463 library (Juergen Pfeifer)
10466 + revised fix to tparm; previous fix reversed parameter order.
10468 correct terminfo.src corrupted by #310
10470 + fix idlok() and idcok() and the default of the idlok switch (report
10474 + corrected tparm to handle capability strings without explicit pop
10475 (reported by William P Setzer)
10476 + add fallback def for GCC_NORETURN, GCC_UNUSED for termcap users
10477 (reported by Tim Mooney).
10479 + documentation and prototyping errors for has_color, immedok and idcok
10480 (reported by William P Setzer <wsetzer@pams.ncsu.edu>)
10481 + updated qnx terminfo entry (patch by Michael Hunter)
10484 + eliminate quoted includes in ncurses subdirectory, ensure config.h
10486 + newterm initializes terminal settings the same as initscr (reported
10490 + call cbreak() in initscr(), as per XSI & SVr4.
10491 + turn off hardware echo in initscr() as per XSI & SVr4
10493 + terminfo changes (9.3.9), from BRL
10494 + add more checks to terminfo parser.
10495 + add more symbols to infocmp.
10498 + save previous-attribute in lib_vidattr.c if SP is null (reported by
10499 Juergen Fluk <louis@dachau.marco.de>)
10500 + corrected calls on _nc_render so that background character is set
10502 + corrected wbkgdset macro (XSI allows background character to be
10503 null), and tests that use it.
10504 + more corrections to terminfo (xterm & rxvt)
10505 + undid change to mcprint prototype (cannot use size_t in curses.h
10506 because not all systems declare it in the headers that we can safely
10508 + move the ifdefs for errno into curses.priv.h
10510 + terminfo changes (9.3.8)
10511 + modified logic of error-reporting in terminfo parser
10512 + fix option-processing bug in toe.
10515 + always check for <sys/bsdtypes.h> since ISC needs it to declare
10516 fd_set (Juergen Pfeifer)
10517 + install shared-libraries on NetBSD/FreeBSD with ABI-version (reported
10518 by Juergen Pfeifer, Mike Long)
10519 + add LOCAL_LDFLAGS2 symbol (Juergen Pfeifer)
10520 + corrected prototype for delay_output() -- bump ABI to 3.2
10522 + enable more translations of nonstandard caps, and document them.
10523 + misc/terminfo.src update to 9.13.8
10525 + moved logic that filters out rmul and rmso from setupterm to newterm
10526 where it is less likely to interfere with termcap applications.
10527 + cosmetic fixes to test/ncurses.c
10528 + modify open() call in ncurses/read_entry.c to use O_RDONLY symbol
10529 rather than constant (report by mib).
10530 + misc/terminfo.src sgr0 and acsc changes (report by Philippe De
10532 + modify ncurses/comp_parse.c so that entries containing a "+" can
10533 have missing rmcup vs smcup.
10536 + rollback ESR's #305 change to terminfo.src (it breaks existing
10537 applications, e.g., 'less 290').
10538 + correct path of edit_man.sh, and fix typo that made all man-pages
10540 + restore man/menu_requestname.3x omitted in Zeyd's resync (oops).
10541 + auto-configure the GCC_PRINTFLIKE/GCC_SCANFLIKE macros (reported by
10542 Philippe De Muyter).
10545 + make lib_vidattr.c more readable using macros.
10546 + filter out rmul, rmso that conflict with sgr0 when reading terminal
10548 + work around autoconf bug, force $INSTALL to absolute path
10549 (reported by Zeyd).
10550 + modify man-page install for BSDI to install preformatted .0 files
10551 (reported by David MacKenzie).
10552 + add/use gcc __attribute__ for printf and scanf in curses.h
10553 + added SGR attributes test-case to ncurses
10554 + revised ncurses 't' logic to show trace-disable effect in the menu.
10555 + use getopt in ncurses program to process -s and -t options.
10556 + make ncurses 'p' legend toggle with '?'
10557 + disable scrollok during the ncurses 'p' test; if it is enabled the
10558 stdscr will scroll when putting the box-corners in the lower-right
10561 + added sanity-checking of various paired string attributes.
10562 + misc/terminfo.src update to 9.13.7 (report by A. Lukyanov).
10563 + modify man/Makefile.in to make terminfo.5 during normal build.
10565 + corrected allocation-length for $HOME/.terminfo path.
10568 + check return code of _nc_mvcur_scrolln() in _nc_scroll_optimize() for
10569 terminals with no scrolling-support (reported by Nikolay Shadrin
10570 <queen@qh.mirea.ac.ru>)
10571 + added ^S scrollok-toggle to ncurses 'g' test.
10572 + added ^T trace-toggle to ncurses tests.
10573 + modified ncurses test program to use ^Q or ESC consistently for
10574 terminating tests (rather than ^D), and to use control keys rather
10575 than function keys in 'g' test.
10576 + corrected misplaced wclrtoeol calls in addch to accommodate wrapping
10577 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
10578 + modify lib_doupdate.c to use effective costs to tradeoff between
10579 delete-character/insert-character vs normal updating (reported by
10581 + compute effective costs for screen update operations (e.g., clr_eos,
10583 + corrected error in knight.c exposed by wrap fixes in 960622; the
10584 msgwin needed scrollok set.
10585 + corrected last change to IDcTransformLine logic to avoid conflict
10586 between PutRange and InsStr
10587 + modified run_tic.sh to not use /usr/tmp (reported by David
10588 MacKenzie), and further revised it and aclocal.m4 to use $TMPDIR if
10590 + corrected off-by-one in RoomFor call in read_entry.c
10593 + modified logic that wraps cursor in addch to follow the XSI spec,
10594 (implemented in SVr4) which states that the cursor position is
10595 updated when wrapping. Renamed _NEED_WRAP to _WRAPPED to reflect the
10597 + added -s option to tic, to provide better diagnostics in run_tic.sh
10598 + improved error-recovery for tabset install.
10599 + change ABI to 3.1 (dropped tparam, corrected getbkgd(), added
10600 _yoffset to WINDOW).
10601 + modified initialization of SP->_ofp so that init_acs() is called with
10602 the "right" file pointer (reported by Rick Marshall <rjm@nlc.net.au>
10603 + documentation fixes (Juergen Pfeifer).
10604 + corrected, using new SCREEN and WINDOW members, the behavior of
10605 ncurses if one uses ripoffline() to remove a line from the top of the
10606 screen (Juergen Pfeifer).
10607 + modified autoconf scripts to prepare for Ada95 (GNAT) binding to
10608 ncurses (Juergen Pfeifer).
10609 + incorrect buffer-size in _nc_read_entry, reported by ESR.
10612 + corrected two logic errors in read_entry.c, write_entry.c (called by
10613 tic, the write/read of terminfo entries used inconsistent rules for
10614 locating the entries; the $TERMINFO_DIRS code would find only the
10615 first entry in a list).
10616 + refined pathname computation in run_tic.sh and shlib.
10617 + corrected initialization of $IP in misc/run_tic.sh
10620 + ifdef'd out _nc_hash_map() call because it does not improve speed.
10621 + display version of gcc if configure script identifies it.
10622 + modify configure script to use /usr as Linux's default prefix.
10623 + modify run_tic.sh to use shlib script, fixes some problems installing
10624 with a shared-library configuration.
10625 + adjusted configure script so that it doesn't run tests with the
10626 warnings turned on, which makes config.log hard to read.
10627 + added 'lint' rule to top-level Makefile.
10628 + added configure option '--with-install-prefix' for use by system
10629 builders to install into staging locations (requested by
10630 Charles Levert <charles@comm.polymtl.ca>).
10631 + corrected autoconfigure for Debian man program; it's not installed
10633 + set noecho in 'worm'; it was ifdef'd for debug only
10634 + updated test/configure.in for timing-display in ncurses 'p' test
10635 + corrected misspelled 'getbkgd()'.
10636 + corrected wbkgdset to work like observed syvr4 (sets A_CHARTEXT part
10637 to blank if no character given, copies attributes to window's
10639 + modified lib_doupdate.c to use lower-level SP's current_attr state
10640 instead of curscr's state, since it is redundant.
10641 + correction to IDcTransformLine logic which controls where InsStr is
10642 invoked (refined by Alexander V Lukyanov).
10644 + conditionally include Chris Torek's hash function _nc_hash_map().
10645 + better fix for nvi refresh-bug (Rick Marshall)
10646 + fix for bug in handling of interrupted keystroke waits,
10648 + misc/ncurses-intro.html syntax fix (Kajiyama Tamito).
10651 + auto-configure man-page compression-format and renames for Debian.
10652 + corrected several typos in curses.h.in (i.e., the mvXXXX macros).
10653 + re-order curses.priv.h for lint.
10654 + added rules for lintlib, lint
10655 + corrected ifdef for BROKEN_LINKER in MKnames.awk.in
10656 + corrected missing INSTALL_DATA in misc/Makefile.in
10657 + flush output when changing cursor-visibility (Rick Marshall)
10658 + fix a minor bug in the _nc_ripoff() routine and improve error
10659 checking when creating the label window (Juergen Pfeifer).
10660 + enhancement to the control over the new PC-style soft key format.
10661 allow caller now to select whether or not one wants to have
10662 the index-line; see curs_slk.3x for documentation (Juergen Pfeifer).
10663 + typos, don't use inline with "-g" (Philippe De Muyter)
10664 + fixes for menus & wattr-, slk-functions (Juergen Pfeifer)
10667 + removed --with-ticdir option altogether, maintain compatibility with
10668 existing applications via symbolic link in run_tic.sh
10669 + patch for termio.h, signal (Philippe De Muyter)
10670 + auto-configure gcc warning options rather than infer from version.
10671 + auto-configure __attribute__ for different gcc versions.
10672 + corrected special use of clearok() in hardscroll.c by resetting flag
10674 + include stdlib.h before defs for EXIT_SUCCESS, for OSF/1.
10675 + include sys/types.h in case stdlib.h does not declare size_t.
10676 + fixes for makefile (Tim Mooney)
10677 + fixes for menus & forms (Juergen Pfeifer)
10679 + improve hash function (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
10680 + 9.13.4 update for terminfo.src
10683 + revised ncurses.c panner test, let pad abut all 4 sides of screen.
10684 + refined case in lib_doupdate.c for ClrToEOL().
10685 + corrected prior change for PutRange (Alexander V Lukyanov
10686 <lav@yars.free.net>).
10687 + autoconf mods (Tim Mooney <mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu>).
10688 + locale fix for forms (Philippe De Muyter <phdemuyt@ulb.ac.be>)
10689 + renamed "--with-datadir" option to "--with-ticdir" to avoid
10690 confusion, and made this check for the /usr/lib/terminfo pre-existing
10692 > patches 299-301 (ESR):
10693 + html fixes (Phillippe de Muyter).
10694 + fix typo in ncurses-intro.html (report by Fabrizio Polacco).
10696 + mods to tracing, especially for ACS chars.
10697 + corrected off-by-one in IDCtransform.
10698 + corrected intermittent mouse bug by using return-value from read().
10699 + mods to parse_entry.c, for smarter defaults.
10702 + use getopt in 'tic'; added -L option and modified -e option to allow
10706 + don't use fixed buffer-size in tparm().
10707 + modified tic to create terminfo directory if it doesn't exist.
10708 + added -T options to tic and infocmp (for testing/analysis)
10709 + refined the length criteria for termcap and terminfo
10710 + optimize lib_doupdate with memcpy, PutRange
10711 > patches 297, 298 (ESR):
10712 + implement TERMINFO_DIRS, and -o option of tic
10713 + added TRACE_IEVENT
10714 + fix REQ_TOGGLE_ITEM in menu/menu_driver.c; it could select but not
10716 + added lib_print.c (request by Rick Marshall).
10717 + added has_key() (request by Juergen Pfeifer).
10718 + do not issue clrtoeol or clrtobot if the relevant portion of the line
10719 is already blank (analysis by Keith Bostic).
10720 + add parentheses for parameters of COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER macros
10721 (analysis by Jurgen Eidt).
10722 + update screen's notion of cursor position in endwin() (analysis by
10723 Alexander Lukyanov).
10724 + added 't' to ncurses.c test.
10725 + moved delay_output() to lib_tputs.c
10726 + removed tparam() (was added in 1.9.9, but conflicts with emacs and
10727 is not part of X/Open Curses).
10728 + removed boolean version of 'getm'.
10729 + misc cursor & optimization fixes.
10732 + modified ncurses 'p' test to allow full-screen range for panner size.
10733 + fixes for locale (Philippe De Muyter <phdm@labauto1.ulb.ac.be>)
10734 + don't use fixed buffer-size in fmt_entry().
10735 + added usage-message to 'infocmp'.
10736 + modified install.includes rules to prepend subdirectory-name to
10737 "#include" if needed.
10740 + protect wrefresh, wnoutrefresh from invocation with pad argument.
10741 + corrected default CCFLAGS in test/Makefile.
10744 + implemented logic to support terminals with background color erase
10745 (e.g., rxvt and the newer color xterm).
10746 + improved screen update logic (off-by-one logic error; use clr_eos if
10750 + change ncurses 'a' test to run in raw mode.
10751 + make TIOCGWINSZ configure test less stringent, in case user
10752 configures via terminal that cannot get screen size.
10753 > patches 295, 296 (ESR):
10754 + split lib_kernel.c, lib_setup.c and names.c in order to reduce
10755 overhead for programs that use only termcap features.
10756 + new "-e" and "-h" options of tic (request by Tony Nugent).
10757 + fix bug in mandatory-delay logic in lib_tputs.c (report by Sven
10759 + fix for "infocmp -e" to emit correct initializers (reported by Manual
10761 + restore working-directory in read_termcap.c (report by Kayvan
10763 + use "-h" option on Solaris when generating shared libraries on
10764 Solaris 2.5 to record the library name in the file, for assisting
10765 the loader (patch by Scott Kramer).
10766 + undo patch #294 changes to form and menu libraries (request by
10771 + fix for AIX 3.2.5 (must define _POSIX_SOURCE to get termios struct
10772 definitions via <termios.h>, modified macros in lib_raw.c to avoid
10773 K&R-style substitution)
10774 > patches 293, 294 (ESR):
10775 + rewrite wsyncup(), wsyncdown(), as well as small fixes to form and
10776 menu libraries to fix echo-breakage introduced by 1.8.9, 1.9.9e
10777 changes (patches by Juergen Pfeifer).
10778 + fix compile under QNX 4.2 by defining ONLCR in lib_raw.c when
10779 __QNX__ is defined (patch by Michael Hunter).
10780 + modify setupterm() to match documentation for its return value, fix
10781 newterm to work with this change (report by Emmet Lazich).
10782 + add checks in getch() for error, return ERR as appropriate (report by
10784 + mods to wgetch() in cooked mode (report by Pete Seebach).
10785 + corrected askuser() logic in tset (patch by Remco Treffkorn).
10786 + correct interaction of endwin() with mouse processing (report by
10788 + added trace support for TTY flags
10789 + update terminfo.src to 9.13.1
10790 + FreeBSD console entries (patch by Andrew Chernov).
10793 + fixes for NeXT, ISC and HPUX auto-configure
10794 + autogenerate development header-dependencies (config.h, *.priv.h)
10795 + corrected single-column formatting of "use=" (e.g., in tic)
10796 + modify tic to read full terminfo-names
10797 + corrected divide-by-zero that caused hang (or worse) when redirecting
10799 + modify tic to generate directories only as-needed (and corrected
10800 instance of use of data from function that had already returned).
10802 ### ncurses-1.9.8a -> 1.9.9e
10804 * fixed broken wsyncup()/wysncdown(), as a result wnoutrefresh() now has
10805 copy-changed-lines behavior.
10806 * added and documented wresize() function.
10807 * more fixes to LOWER-RIGHT corner handling.
10808 * changed the line-breakout optimization code to allow some lines to be
10809 emitted before the first check.
10810 * added option for tic to use symbolic instead of hard links (for AFS)
10811 * fix to restore auto-wrap mode.
10812 * trace level can be controlled by environment variable.
10813 * better handling of NULs in terminal descriptions.
10814 * improved compatibility with observed SVR4 behavior.
10815 * the refresh behavior of over-lapping windows is now more efficient and
10817 * use autoconf 2.7, which results in a working setup for SCO 5.0.
10818 * support for ESCDELAY.
10819 * small fixes for menu/form code.
10820 * the test directory has its own configure.
10821 * fixes to pads when optimizing scrolling.
10822 * fixed several off-by-one bugs.
10823 * fixes for termcap->terminfo translation; less restrictions more correct
10826 ### ncurses-1.9.7 -> 1.9.8a
10828 * teach infocmp -i to recognize ECMA highlight sequences
10829 * infocmp now dumps all SVr4 termcaps (not just the SVr4 ones) on -C
10830 * support infocmp -RBSD.
10831 * satisfy XSI Curses requirement that every macro be available as a function.
10832 * This represents the last big change to the public interface of ncurses. The
10833 ABI_VERSION has now been set at 3.0 and should stay there barring any great
10834 catastrophies or acts of God.
10835 * The C++ has been cleaned up in reaction to the changes to satisfy XSI's
10837 * libncurses now gets linked to libcurses to help seamless emulation
10838 (replacement) of a vendor's curses. --disable-overwrite turns this behavior
10841 ### ncurses-1.9.6 -> 1.9.7
10843 * corrected return values of setupterm()
10844 * Fixed some bugs in tput (it does padding now)
10845 * fixed a bug in tic that made it do the wrong thing on entries with more than
10846 one `use' capability.
10847 * corrected the screen-size calculation at startup time to alter the
10848 numeric capabilities as per SVr4, not just LINES and COLS.
10849 * toe(1) introduced; does what infocmp -T used to.
10850 * tic(1) can now translate AIX box1 and font[0123] capabilities.
10851 * tic uses much less core, the dotic.sh kluge can go away now.
10852 * fix read_entry() and write_entry() to pass through cancelled capabilities OK.
10853 * Add $HOME/.terminfo as source/target directory for terminfo entries.
10854 * termcap compilation now automatically dumps an entry to $HOME/.terminfo.
10855 * added -h option to toe(1).
10856 * added -R option to tic(1) and infocmp(1).
10857 * added fallback-entry-list feature.
10858 * added -i option to infocmp(1).
10859 * do a better job at detecting if we're on SCO.
10861 ### ncurses-1.9.5 -> 1.9.6
10863 * handling of TERMCAP environment variables now works correctly.
10864 * various changes to shorten termcap translations to less that 1024 chars.
10866 * mouse support for xterm.
10867 * most data tables are now const and accordingly live in shareable text space.
10868 * Obey the XPG4/SVr4 practice that echo() is initally off.
10869 * tic is much better at translating XENIX and AIX termcap entries now.
10870 * tic can interpret ko capabilities now.
10871 * integrated Juergen Pfeifer's forms library.
10872 * taught write_entry() how not to write more than it needs to; this change
10873 reduces the size of the terminfo tree by a full 26%!
10874 * infocmp -T option added.
10875 * better warnings about historical tic quirks from tic.
10877 ### ncurses 1.9.4 -> 1.9.5
10879 * menus library is now included with documentation.
10880 * lib_mvcur has been carefully profiled and tuned.
10881 * Fixed a ^Z-handling bug that was tanking lynx(1).
10882 * HJ Lu's patches for ELF shared libraries under Linux
10883 * terminfo.src 9.8.2
10884 * tweaks for compiling in seperate directories.
10885 * Thomas Dickey's patches to support NeXT's brain-dead linker
10886 * Eric Raymond's patches to fix problems with long termcap entries.
10887 * more support for shared libraries under SunOS and IRIX.
10889 ### ncurses 1.9.3 -> 1.9.4
10891 * fixed an undefined-order-of-evaluation bug in lib_acs.c
10892 * systematically gave non-API public functions and data an _nc_ prefix.
10893 * integrated Juergen Pfeifer's menu code into the distribution.
10894 * totally rewrote the knight test game's interface
10896 ### ncurses 1.9.2c -> 1.9.3
10898 * fixed the TERMCAP_FILE Support.
10899 * fixed off-by-one errors in scrolling code
10900 * added tracemunch to the test tools
10901 * took steps to cut the running time of make install.data
10903 ### ncurses 1.9.2c -> 1.9.2d
10905 * revised 'configure' script to produce libraries for normal, debug,
10906 profile and shared object models.
10908 ### ncurses 1.9.1 -> 1.9.2
10910 * use 'autoconf' to implement 'configure' script.
10911 * panels support added
10912 * tic now checks for excessively long termcap entries when doing translation
10913 * first cut at eliminating namespace pollution.
10915 ### ncurses 1.8.9 -> 1.9
10917 * cleanup gcc warnings for the following: use size_t where 'int' is not
10918 appropriate, fixed some shadowed variables, change attr_t to compatible with
10919 chtype, use attr_t in some places where it was confused with 'int'.
10920 * use chtype/attr_t casts as appropriate to ensure portability of masking
10922 * added-back waddchnstr() to lib_addstr.c (it had been deleted).
10923 * supplied missing prototypes in curses.h
10924 * include <termcap.h> in lib_termcap.c to ensure that the prototypes
10925 are consistent (they weren't).
10926 * corrected prototype of tputs in <termcap.h>
10927 * rewrote varargs parsing in lib_tparm.c (to avoid referencing memory
10928 that may be out of bounds on the stack) -- Purify found this.
10929 * ensure that TRACE is defined in lib_trace.c (to solve prototype
10930 warnings from gcc).
10931 * corrected scrolling-region size in 'mvcur_wrap()'
10932 * more spelling fixes
10933 * use 'calloc()' to allocate WINDOW struct in lib_newwin.c (Purify).
10934 * set default value for SP->_ofp in lib_set_term.c (otherwise SunOS dumps
10935 core in init_acs()).
10936 * include <errno.h> in write_entry.c (most "braindead" includes declare errno
10939 ### ncurses 1.8.8 -> 1.8.9
10941 * compile (mostly) clean with gcc 2.5.8 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
10942 -Wmissing-prototypes -Wconversion and using __attribute__ to flush out
10943 non-portable use of "%x" for pointers, or for chtype data (which is declared
10945 * modified doupdate to ensure that typahead was turned on before attempting
10946 select-call (otherwise, some implementations hang).
10947 * added trace mask TRACE_FIFO, use this in lib_getch.c to allow finer
10948 resolution of traces.
10949 * improved bounds checking on several critical functions.
10950 * the data directory has been replaced by the new master terminfo file.
10951 * -F file-comparison option added to infocmp.
10952 * compatibility with XSI Curses is now documented in the man bages.
10953 * wsyncup/wsyncdown functions are reliable now; subwindow code in general
10954 is much less flaky.
10955 * capabilities ~msgr, tilde_glitch, insert_padding, generic_type, no_pad_char,
10956 memory_above, memory_below, and hard_copy are now used properly.
10957 * cursor-movement optimization has been completely rewritten.
10958 * vertical-movement optimization now uses hardware scrolling, il, dl.
10960 ### ncurses 1.8.7 -> 1.8.8
10961 * untic no longer exists, infocmp replaces it.
10962 * tic can understand termcap now, especially if it is called captoinfo.
10963 * The Linux Standard Console terminfo entry is called linux insead of console.
10964 It also uses the kernel's new method of changing charsets.
10965 * initscr() will EXIT upon error (as the docs say) This wil mostly happen if
10966 you try to run on an undefined terminal.
10967 * I can get things running on AIX but tic can't compile terminfo. I have to
10968 compile entries on another machine. Volunteers to hunt this bug are welcome.
10969 * wbkgd() and wbkgdset() can be used to set a windows background to color.
10970 wclear()/werase() DO NOT use the current attribute to clear the screen.
10971 This is the way SVR4 curses works. PDCurses 2.1 is broken in this respect,
10972 though PDCurses 2.2 has been fixed.
10973 * cleaned up the test/ directory.
10974 * test/worm will segfault after quite a while.
10975 * many spelling corrections courtesy of Thomas E. Dickey
10977 ### ncurses 1.8.6 -> 1.8.7
10978 * cleaned up programs in test/ directory.
10979 * fixed wbkgdset() macro.
10980 * modified getstr() to stop it from advancing cursor in noecho mode.
10981 * modified linux terminfo entry to work with the latest kernel to get
10982 the correct alternate character set.
10983 * also added a linux-mono entry for those running on monochrome screens.
10984 * changed initscr() so that it behaves like the man page says it does.
10985 this fixes the problem with programs in test/ crashing with SIGSEV if
10986 a terminal is undefined.
10987 * modified addch() to avoid using any term.h #define's
10988 * removed duplicate tgoto() in lib_tparm.c
10989 * modified dump_entry.c so that infocmp deals correctly with ',' in acsc
10990 * modified delwin() to correctly handle deleting subwindows.
10991 * fixed Makefile.dist to stop installing an empty curses.h
10992 * fixed a couple of out-of-date notes in man pages.
10994 ### ncurses 1.8.5 -> 1.8.6
10995 * Implemented wbkgd(), bkgd(), bkgdset(), and wbkgdset().
10996 * The handling of attributes has been improved and now does not turn off color
10997 if other attributes are turned off.
10998 * scrolling code is improved. Scrolling in subwindows is still broken.
10999 * Fixes to several bugs that manifest them on platforms other than Linux.
11000 * The default to meta now depends on the status of the terminal when ncurses
11002 * The interface to the tracing facility has changed. Instead of the pair of
11003 functions traceon() and traceoff(), there is just one function trace() which
11004 takes a trace mask argument. The trace masks, defined in curses.h, are
11007 #define TRACE_DISABLE 0x00 /* turn off tracing */
11008 #define TRACE_ORDINARY 0x01 /* ordinary trace mode */
11009 #define TRACE_CHARPUT 0x02 /* also trace all character outputs */
11010 #define TRACE_MAXIMUM 0x0f /* maximum trace level */
11012 More trace masks may be added, or these may be changed, in future releases.
11013 * The pad code has been improved and the pad test code in test/ncurses.c has
11015 * The prototype ansi entry has been changed to work with a wider variety
11017 * Fix to the prototype ansi entry that enables it to work with PC emulators
11018 that treat trailing ";m" in a highlight sequence as ";0m"; this doesn't
11019 break operation with any emulators.
11020 * There are now working infocmp, captoinfo, tput, and tclear utilities.
11021 * tic can now compile entries in termcap syntax.
11022 * Core-dump bug in pnoutrefresh fixed.
11023 * We now recognize and compile all the nonstandard capabilities in Ross
11024 Ridge's mytinfo package (rendering it obsolete).
11025 * General cleanup and documentation improvements.
11026 * Fixes and additions to the installation-documentation files.
11027 * Take cursor to normal mode on endwin.
11029 ### ncurses 1.8.4 -> 1.8.5
11030 * serious bugs in updating screen which caused erratic non-display,
11032 * fixed initialization for getch() related variable which cause
11033 unpredictable results.
11034 * fixed another doupdate bug which only appeared if you have
11036 * implemented redrawln() and redrawwin().
11037 * implemented winsnstr() and related functions.
11038 * cleaned up insertln() and deleteln() and implemented (w)insdeln().
11039 * changed Makefile.dist so that installation of man pages will
11040 take note of the terminfo directory.
11041 * fixed Configure (removed the mysterious 'X').
11042 * Eric S. Raymond fixed the script.* files so that they work with
11045 #### ncurses 1.8.3 -> 1.8.4 #### ####
11046 * fixed bug in refreshing the screen after return from shell_mode.
11047 There are still problems but they don't manifest themselves on
11048 my machine (Linux 0.99.14f).
11049 * added wgetnstr() and modified things accordingly.
11050 * fixed the script.src script.test to work with awk not just gawk.
11051 * Configure can now take an argument of the target system.
11052 * added test/ncurses.c which replaces several other programs and
11053 performs more testing.
11054 [Thanks to Eric S Raymond for the last 4]
11055 * more fixes to lib_overlay.c and added test/over.c to illustrate
11057 * fixed ungetch() to take int instead of ch.
11058 * fixes to cure wgetch() if flushinp() is called.
11060 One note I forgot to mention in 1.8.3 is that tracing is off by
11061 default starting in the version. If you want tracing output, put
11062 traceon(); in your code and link with -ldcurses.
11064 #### ncurses 1.8.2 -> ncurses 1.8.3 #### ####
11066 1) The order of capabilities has been changed in order to achieve
11067 binary compatibility with SVR4 terminfo database. This has the
11068 unfortunate effect of breaking application currently linked with
11069 ncurses. To ensure correct behavior, recompile all such programs.
11070 Most programs using color or newer capabilities will break, others
11071 will probably continue to work ok.
11073 2) Pavel Curtis has renounced his copyright to the public domain.
11074 This means that his original sources (posted to comp.sources.unix,
11075 volume 1) are now in the public domain. The current sources are
11076 NOT in the public domain, they are copyrighted by me. I'm
11077 entertaining ideas on what the new terms ncurses is released under.
11079 3) Eric S. Raymond has supplied a complete set of man pages for
11080 ncurses in ?roff format. They will eventually replace most of the
11081 current docs. Both sets are included in this release.
11083 Other changes and notes from 1.8.2 include:
11084 * SIGSEGV during scrolling no longer occurs.
11085 * Other problems with scrolling and use of idl have been corrected.
11086 * lib_getch.c has been re-written and should perform flawlessly.
11087 please use test/getch.c and any other programs to test this.
11088 * ripoffline() is implemented (Thanks to Eric) and slk_ functions
11089 changed accordingly.
11090 * I've added support for terminals that scroll if you write in the
11091 bottom-right corner.
11092 * fixed more bugs in pads code. If anybody has a program that uses
11093 pads I'd love a copy.
11094 * correct handling for terminal with back_color_erase capability
11095 (such as Linux console, and most PC terminals)
11096 * ^Z handling apparently didn't work (I should never trust code
11097 sent me to me without extensive testing). It now seems to be
11098 fixed. Let me know if you have problems.
11099 * I've added support for Apollo and NeXT, but it may still be
11100 incomplete, especially when dealing with the lack of POSIX
11102 * scrolling should be more efficient on terminals with idl
11103 capabilities. Please see src/lib_scroll.c for more notes.
11104 * The line drawing routines were offset by 1 at both ends. This
11106 * added a few missing prototypes and macros (e.g. setterm())
11107 * fixed code in src/lib_overlay.c which used to crash.
11108 * added a few more programs in test/ The ones from the PDCurses
11109 package are useful, especially if you have SVR4 proper. I'm
11110 interested in the results you get on such a systems (Eric? ;-).
11111 They already exposed certain bugs in ncurses.
11112 * See src/README for porting notes.
11113 * The C++ code should really replace ncurses.h instead of working
11114 around it. It should avoid name-space clashes with nterm.h (use
11115 rows instead of lines, etc.)
11116 * The C++ should compile ok. I've added explicit rules to the
11117 Makefile because no C++ defaults are documented on the suns.
11118 * The docs say that echo() and nocbreak() are mutually exclusive.
11119 At the moment ncurses will switch to cbreak() if the case above
11120 occurs. Should it continue to do so? How about echo() and noraw()?
11121 * PDCurses seem to assume that wclear() will use current attribute
11122 when clearing the screen. According to Eric this is not the case
11124 * I have discovered, to my chagrin, SunOS 4.x (and probably other systems)
11125 * doesn't have vsscanf and God knows what else! I've will do a vsscanf().
11126 * I've also found out that the src/script.* rely on gawk and will not
11127 work with stock awk or even with nawk. Any changes are welcome.
11128 * Linux is more tolerant of NULL dereferences than most systems. This
11129 fact was exposed by hanoi.
11130 * ncurses still seems inefficient in drawing the screen on a serial
11131 link between Linux and suns. The padding may be the culprit.
11132 * There seems to be one lingering problem with doupdate() after shelling
11133 out. Despite the fact the it is sending out the correct information
11134 to the terminal, nothing takes effect until you press ^L or another
11135 refresh takes place. And yes, output does get flushed.
11137 #### ncurses 1.8.1 -> ncurses 1.8.2 #### Nov 28, 1993 ####
11139 * added support for SVR4 and BSDI's BSD/386.
11140 * major update and fix to scrolling routine.
11141 * MORE fixes to stuff in lib_getch.c.
11142 * cleaned-up configuration options and can now generate
11143 Config.* files through an awk script.
11144 * changed setupterm() so it can be called more than once,
11145 add added set_curterm(), del_curterm().
11146 * a few minor cleanups.
11147 * added more prototypes in curses.h
11149 #### ncurses 1.8 -> ncurses 1.8.1 #### Nov 4, 1993 ####
11151 * added support for NeXTStep 3.0
11152 * added termcap emulation (not well tested).
11153 * more complete C++ interface to ncurses.
11154 * fixed overlay(), overwrite(), and added copywin().
11155 * a couple of bug fixes.
11156 * a few code cleanups.
11158 #### ncurses 0.7.2/0.7.3 -> ncurses 1.8 #### Aug 31, 1993 ####
11160 * The annoying message "can't open file." was due to missing
11161 terminfo entry for the used terminal. It has now been
11162 replaced by a hopefully more helpful message.
11163 * Problems with running on serial lines are now fixed.
11164 * Added configuration files for SunOS, Linux, HP/UX, Ultrix,
11165 386bsd/BSDI (if you have others send'em to me)
11166 * Cleaner Makefile.
11167 * The documentation in manual.doc is now more uptodate.
11168 * update optimization and support for hp terminals, and 386bsd
11170 * mvcur optimization for terminals without cursor addressing
11171 (doesn't work on Linux)
11172 * if cursor moved since last update, getch() will refresh the
11173 screen before working.
11174 * getch() & alarm() can now live together. in 0.7.3 a signal
11175 interrupted getch() (bug or feature?) now the getch is
11177 * scanw() et all were sick, now fixed.
11178 * support for 8-bit input (use meta()).
11179 * added default screen size to all terminfos.
11180 * added c++ Ncursesw class.
11181 * several minor bug fixes.
11183 #### ncurses 0.7.2 -> ncurses 0.7.3 #### May 27, 1993 ####
11185 * Config file to cope with different platforms (386BSD, BSDI, Ultrix, SunOS)
11186 * more fixes to lib_getch.c
11187 * changes related to Config
11189 #### ncurses 0.7 -> ncurses 0.7.2 #### May 22, 1993 ####
11191 * docs updated slightly (color usage is now documented).
11192 * yet another fix for getch(), this one fixes problems with ESC being swallowed
11193 if another character is typed before the 1 second timeout.
11194 * Hopefully, addstr() and addch() are 8-bit clean.
11195 * fixed lib_tparm.c to use stdarg.h (should run on suns now)
11196 * order of capabilities changed to reflect that specified in SYSV
11197 this will allow for binary-compatibility with existing terminfo dbs.
11198 * added halfdelay()
11199 * fixed problems with asc_init()
11200 * added A_PROTECT and A_INVIS
11201 * cleaned up vidputs()
11202 * general cleanup of the code
11203 * more attention to portability to other systems
11204 * added terminfos for hp70092 (wont work until changes to lib_update.c are
11205 made) and 386BSD pcvt drivers.
11207 Thanks to Hellmuth Michaelis for his help.
11208 optimization code is slated for the next major release, stay tuned!
11210 #### ncurses 0.6/0.61 -> ncurses 0.7 #### April 1, 1993
11211 Please note that the next release will be called 1.8. If you want to know about
11212 the rationale drop me a line.
11214 Included are several test programs in test/.
11215 I've split up the panels library, reversi, tetris, sokoban. They are now
11216 available separately from netcom.com:pub/zmbenhal/
11218 * color and ACS support is now fully compatible with SYSV at the terminfo
11220 * Capabilities now includes as many SYSV caps I could find.
11221 * tigetflag,tigetnum,tigetstr functions added.
11222 * boolnames, boolfnames, boolcodes numnames, numfnames, numcodes,
11223 strnames, strfnames, strcodes arrays are now added.
11224 * keyname() is added.
11225 * All function keys can be defined in terminfo entries.
11226 * fixed lin_tparm.c to behave properly.
11227 * terminfo entries for vt* and xterm are included (improvements are welcome)
11228 * more automation in handling caps and keys.
11229 * included fixes from 0.6.1
11230 * added a few more missing functions.
11231 * fixed a couple of minor bugs.
11232 * updated docs JUST a little (still miles behind in documenting the newer
11235 #### ncurses 0.6 -> ncurses 0.61 ####
11237 1) Included the missing data/console.
11239 2) allow attributes when drawing boxes.
11241 3) corrected usage of win->_delay value.
11243 4) fixed a bug in lib_getch.c. if it didn't recognize a sequence it would
11244 simply return the last character in the sequence. The correct
11245 behavior is to return the entire sequence one character at a time.
11247 #### ncurses0.5 -> ncurses0.6 #### March 1, 1993 ####
11248 * removed _numchngd from struct _win_st and made appropriate changes.
11249 * rewritten kgetch() to remove problems with interaction between alarm and
11250 read(). It caused SIGSEGV every now and then.
11251 * fixed a bug that miscounted the numbers of columns when updating.
11252 (in lib_doupdate.c(ClrUpdate() -- iterate to columns not columns-1)
11253 * fixed a bug that cause the lower-right corner to be incorrect.
11254 (in lib_doupdate.c(putChar() -- check against columns not columns-1)
11255 * made resize() and cleanup() static to lib_newterm.c
11256 * added notimeout().
11257 * added timeout() define in curses.h
11258 * added more function prototypes and fixed napms.
11260 * moved screen size detection to lib_setup.c.
11261 * fixed newterm() to confirm to prototype.
11262 * removed SIGWINCH support as SYSV does not define its semantics.
11263 * cleaned-up lib_touch.c
11264 * added waddnstr() and relatives.
11265 * added slk_* support.
11266 * fixed a bug in wdeleteln().
11267 * added PANEL library.
11268 * modified Makefile for smoother installation.
11269 * terminfo.h is really term.h
11271 #### ncurses 0.4 -> ncurses 0.5 #### Feb 14, 1993 ####
11272 * changed _win_st structure to allow support for missing functionality.
11273 * Addition of terminfo support for all KEY_*.
11274 * Support for nodelay(), timeout(), notimeout().
11275 * fixed a bug with the keypad char reading that did not return ESC until
11276 another key is pressed.
11277 * nl mapping no longer occur on output (as should be)
11278 fixed bug '\n' no causing a LF.
11279 * fixed bug that reset terminal colors regardless of whether we use color
11281 * Better support for ACS (not quite complete).
11282 * fixed bug in wvline().
11283 * added curs_set().
11284 * changed from signal() to sigaction().
11285 * re-included the contents of important.patch into source.
11287 #### ncurses 0.3 -> ncurses 0.4 #### Feb 3, 1993 ####
11288 * Addition of more KEY_* definitions.
11289 * Addition of function prototypes.
11290 * Addition of several missing functions.
11291 * No more crashes if screen size is undefined (use SIGWINCH handler).
11292 * added a handler to cleanup after SIGSEGV (hopefully never needed).
11293 * changed SRCDIR from /etc/term to /usr/lib/terminfo.
11294 * renamed compile/dump to tic/untic.
11295 * New scrolling code.
11296 * fixed bug that reversed the sense of nl() and nonl().
11298 #### ncurses 0.2 -> ncurses 0.3 #### Jan 20, 1993 ####
11299 * more support for color and graphics see test/ for examples.
11300 * fixed various files to allow correct update after shelling out.
11301 * more fixes for updates.
11302 * no more core dumps if you don't have a terminfo entry.
11303 * support for LINES and COLUMNS environment variables.
11304 * support for SIGWINCH signal.
11305 * added a handler for SIGINT for clean exits.
11307 #### ncurses 0.1 -> ncurses 0.2 #### Aug 14, 1992 ####
11308 * support for color.
11309 * support for PC graphic characters.
11310 * lib_trace.c updated to use stdarg.h and vprintf routines.
11311 * added gdc.c (Great Digital Clock) as an example of using color.
11313 #### ncurses -> ncurses 0.1 #### Jul 31, 1992 ####
11314 * replacing sgtty stuff by termios stuff.
11315 * ANSIfication of some functions.
11316 * Disabling cost analysis 'cause it's incorrect.
11317 * A quick hack for a terminfo entry.
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