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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 + improve fix for FreeBSD gnu/98975, to allow for null pointer passed
50 to tgetent() (report by Rong-en Fan).
51 + update tack/HISTORY and tack/README to tell how to build it after
52 it is removed from the ncurses tree.
53 + fix configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
54 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
55 + review/eliminate other original-file artifacts in cursesw.cc, making
56 its license consistent with ncurses.
57 + use ncurses vw_scanw() rather than reading into a fixed buffer in
58 the c++ binding for scanw() methods.
59 + eliminate fixed-buffer vsprintf() calls in c++ binding.
62 + add _nc_leaks_tic() to separate leak-checking of tic library from
63 term/ncurses libraries, and thereby eliminate a library dependency.
64 + fix test/mk-test.awk to ignore blank lines.
65 + correct paths in include/headers, for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav
69 + add a break-statement in misc/shlib to ensure that it exits on the
70 _first_ matched directory (report by Paul Novak).
71 + add tack/configure, which can be used to build tack outside the
73 + add --with-ticlib option, to build/install the tic-support functions
74 in a separate library (suggested by Miroslav Lichvar).
77 + change MKunctrl.awk to reduce relocation table for unctrl.o
78 + change MKkeyname.awk to reduce relocation table for keyname.o
79 (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
82 + modify configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
83 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
84 + modify some modules to allow them to be reentrant if _REENTRANT is
85 defined: lib_baudrate.c, resizeterm.c (local data only)
86 + eliminate static data from some modules: add_tries.c, hardscroll.c,
87 lib_ttyflags.c, lib_twait.c
88 + improve manpage install to add aliases for the transformed program
89 names, e.g., from --program-prefix.
90 + used linklint to verify links in the HTML documentation, made fixes
91 to manpages as needed.
92 + fix a typo in curs_mouse.3x (report by William McBrine).
93 + fix install-rule for ncurses5-config to make the bin-directory.
96 + modify configure script to omit the tic (terminfo compiler) support
97 from ncurses library if --without-progs option is given.
98 + modify install rule for ncurses5-config to do this via "install.libs"
99 + modify shared-library rules to allow FreeBSD 3.x to use rpath.
100 + update config.guess, config.sub
102 20061217 5.6 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
105 + add ifdef's for <wctype.h> for HPUX, which has the corresponding
106 definitions in <wchar.h>.
107 + revert the va_copy() change from 20061202, since it was neither
108 correct nor portable.
109 + add $(LOCAL_LIBS) definition to progs/Makefile.in, needed for
111 + ignore wide-acs line-drawing characters that wcwidth() claims are
112 not one-column. This is a workaround for Solaris' broken locale
116 + modify configure --with-gpm option to allow it to accept a parameter,
117 i.e., the name of the dynamic GPM library to load via dlopen()
118 (requested by Bryan Henderson).
119 + add configure option --with-valgrind (from vile).
120 + modify configure script AC_TRY_RUN and AC_TRY_LINK checks to use
121 'return' in preference to 'exit()'.
124 + change default for --with-develop back to "no".
125 + add XTABS to tracing of TTY bits.
126 + updated autoconf patch to ifdef-out the misfeature which declares
127 exit() for configure tests. This fixes a redefinition warning on
129 + use ${CC} rather than ${LD} in shared library rules for IRIX64,
130 Solaris to help ensure that initialization sections are provided for
131 extra linkage requirements, e.g., of C++ applications (prompted by
132 comment by Casper Dik in newsgroup).
133 + rename "$target" in CF_MAN_PAGES to make it easier to distinguish
134 from the autoconf predefined symbol. There was no conflict,
135 since "$target" was used only in the generated edit_man.sh file,
136 but SuSE's rpm package contains a patch.
139 + update man/term.5 to reflect extended terminfo support and hashed
140 database configuration.
141 + updates for test/configure script.
142 + adapted from SuSE rpm package:
143 + remove long-obsolete workaround for broken-linker which declared
145 + improve error recovery in PUTC() macro when wcrtomb() does not
146 return usable results for an 8-bit character.
147 + patches from rpm package (SuSE):
148 + use va_copy() in extra varargs manipulation for tracing version
150 + use a va_list rather than a null in _nc_freeall()'s call to
152 + add some see-also references in manpages to show related
153 wide-character functions (suggested by Claus Fischer).
156 + add a check in lib_color.c to ensure caller does not increase COLORS
157 above max_colors, which is used as an array index (discussion with
159 + add ifdef's allowing ncurses to be built with tparm() using either
160 varargs (the existing status), or using a fixed-parameter list (to
164 + fix redrawing of windows other than stdscr using wredrawln() by
165 touching the corresponding rows in curscr (discussion with Dan
168 + add test/echochar.c
169 + review/cleanup manpage descriptions of error-returns for form- and
170 menu-libraries (prompted by FreeBSD docs/46196).
173 + add AUTHORS file -TD
174 + omit the -D options from output of the new config script --cflags
175 option (suggested by Ralf S Engelschall).
176 + make NCURSES_INLINE unconditionally defined in curses.h
179 + revert change to accommodate bash 3.2, since that breaks other
180 platforms, e.g., Solaris.
181 + minor fixes to NEWS file to simplify scripting to obtain list of
183 + improve some shared-library configure scripting for Linux, FreeBSD
184 and NetBSD to make "--with-shlib-version" work.
185 + change configure-script rules for FreeBSD shared libraries to allow
186 for rpath support in versions past 3.
187 + use $(DESTDIR) in makefile rules for installing/uninstalling the
188 package config script (reports/patches by Christian Wiese,
190 + fix a warning in the configure script for NetBSD 2.0, working around
191 spurious blanks embedded in its ${MAKEFLAGS} symbol.
192 + change test/Makefile to simplify installing test programs in a
193 different directory when --enable-rpath is used.
196 + work around bug in bash 3.2 by adding extra quotes (Jim Gifford).
197 + add/install a package config script, e.g., "ncurses5-config" or
198 "ncursesw5-config", according to configuration options.
201 + add several GNU Screen terminfo variations with 16- and 256-colors,
202 and status line (Alain Bench).
203 + change the way shared libraries (other than libtool) are installed.
204 Rather than copying the build-tree's libraries, link the shared
205 objects into the install directory. This makes the --with-rpath
206 option work except with $(DESTDIR) (cf: 20000930).
209 + fix ifdef in c++/internal.h for QNX 6.1
210 + test-compiled with (old) egcs-1.1.2, modified configure script to
211 not unset the $CXX and related variables which would prevent this.
212 + fix a few terminfo.src typos exposed by improvments to "-f" option.
213 + improve infocmp/tic "-f" option formatting.
216 + make --disable-largefile option work (report by Thomas M Ott).
217 + updated html documentation.
218 + add ka2, kb1, kb3, kc2 to vt220-keypad as an extension -TD
219 + minor improvements to rxvt+pcfkeys -TD
222 + move static data from lib_mouse.c into SCREEN struct.
223 + improve ifdef's for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset to work with Mac OS X
224 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
225 + modify CF_PATH_SYNTAX to ensure it uses the result from --prefix
226 option (from lynx changes) -TD
227 + adapt AC_PROG_EGREP check, noting that this is likely to be another
228 place aggravated by POSIXLY_CORRECT.
229 + modify configure check for awk to ensure that it is found (prompted
230 by report by Christopher Parker).
234 + add kon, kon2 and jfbterm terminfo entry (request by Till Maas) -TD
235 + remove invis capability from klone+sgr, mainly used by linux entry,
236 since it does not really do this -TD
239 + correct logic in wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not guard
240 against passing the multi-column attribute into a call on waddch(),
241 e.g., using data returned by win_wch() (cf: 20041023)
242 (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
245 + fix kterm's acsc string -TD
246 + fix for change to tic/infocmp in 20060819 to ensure no blank is
247 embedded into a termcap description.
248 + workaround for 20050806 ifdef's change to allow visbuf.c to compile
249 when using --with-termlib --with-trace options.
250 + improve tgetstr() by making the return value point into the user's
251 buffer, if provided (patch by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat Bugzilla
253 + correct libraries needed for foldkeys (report by Stanislav Ievlev)
256 + add terminfo entries for xfce terminal (xfce) and multi gnome
258 + add test/foldkeys.c
261 + modify tic and infocmp to avoid writing trailing blanks on terminfo
262 source output (Debian #378783).
263 + modify configure script to ensure that if the C compiler is used
264 rather than the loader in making shared libraries, the $(CFLAGS)
265 variable is also used (Redhat Bugzilla #199369).
266 + port hashed-db code to db2 and db3.
267 + fix a bug in tgetent() from 20060625 and 20060715 changes
268 (patch/analysis by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat Bugzilla #202480)).
271 + updated xterm function-keys terminfo to match xterm #216 -TD
272 + add configure --with-hashed-db option (tested only with FreeBSD 6.0,
273 e.g., the db 1.8.5 interface).
276 + modify toe to access termcap data, e.g., via cgetent() functions,
277 or as a text file if those are not available.
278 + use _nc_basename() in tset to improve $SHELL check for csh/sh.
279 + modify _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_termcap_entry() so infocmp,
280 can access termcap data when the terminfo database is disabled.
283 + widen the test for xterm kmous a little to allow for other strings
284 than \E[M, e.g., for xterm-sco functionality in xterm.
285 + update xterm-related terminfo entries to match xterm patch #216 -TD
286 + update config.guess, config.sub
289 + fix for install-rule in Ada95 to add terminal_interface.ads
290 and terminal_interface.ali (anonymous posting in comp.lang.ada).
291 + correction to manpage for getcchar() (report by William McBrine).
293 + modify wchgat() to mark updated cells as changed so a refresh will
294 repaint those cells (comments by Sadrul H Chowdhury and William
296 + split up dependency of names.c and codes.c in ncurses/Makefile to
297 work with parallel make (report/analysis by Joseph S Myers).
298 + suppress a warning message (which is ignored) for systems without
299 an ldconfig program (patch by Justin Hibbits).
300 + modify configure script --disable-symlinks option to allow one to
301 disable symlink() in tic even when link() does not work (report by
303 + modify MKfallback.sh to use tic -x when constructing fallback tables
304 to allow extended capabilities to be retrieved from a fallback entry.
305 + improve leak-checking logic in tgetent() from 20060625 to ensure that
306 it does not free the current screen (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
309 + add a check for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset (NetBSD #33916).
310 + correct _nc_free_entries() and related functions used for memory leak
314 + revert a minor change for magic-cookie support from 20060513, which
315 caused unexpected reset of attributes, e.g., when resizing test/view
317 + note in clear manpage that the program ignores command-line
318 parameters (prompted by Debian #371855).
319 + fixes to make lib_gen.c build properly with changes to the configure
320 --disable-macros option and NCURSES_NOMACROS (cf: 20060527)
321 + update/correct several terminfo entries -TD
322 + add some notes regarding copyright to terminfo.src -TD
325 + fixes to build Ada95 binding with gnat-4.1.0
326 + modify read_termtype() so the term_names data is always allocated as
327 part of the str_table, a better fix for a memory leak (cf: 20030809).
328 + reduce memory leaks in repeated calls to tgetent() by remembering the
329 last TERMINAL* value allocated to hold the corresponding data and
330 freeing that if the tgetent() result buffer is the same as the
331 previous call (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
332 + modify tack to test extended capability function-key strings.
333 + improved gnome terminfo entry (GenToo #122566).
334 + improved xterm-256color terminfo entry (patch by Alain Bench).
337 + fix two small memory leaks related to repeated tgetent() calls
338 with TERM=screen (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
339 + add --enable-signed-char to simplify Debian package.
340 + reduce name-pollution in term.h by removing #define's for HAVE_xxx
342 + correct typo in curs_terminfo.3x (Debian #369168).
345 + enable the mouse in test/movewindow.c
346 + improve a limit-check in frm_def.c (John Heasley).
347 + minor copyright fixes.
348 + change configure script to produce test/Makefile from data file.
351 + add a configure option --enable-wgetch-events to enable
352 NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS, and correct the associated loop-logic in
353 lib_twait.c (report by Bernd Jendrissek).
354 + remove include/nomacros.h from build, since the ifdef for
355 NCURSES_NOMACROS makes that obsolete.
356 + add entrypoints for some functions which were only provided as macros
357 to make NCURSES_NOMACROS ifdef work properly: getcurx(), getcury(),
358 getbegx(), getbegy(), getmaxx(), getmaxy(), getparx() and getpary(),
360 + provide ifdef for NCURSES_NOMACROS which suppresses most macro
361 definitions from curses.h, i.e., where a macro is defined to override
362 a function to improve performance. Allowing a developer to suppress
363 these definitions can simplify some application (discussion with
365 + improve description of memu/meml in terminfo manpage.
368 + if msgr is false, reset video attributes when doing an automargin
369 wrap to the next line. This makes the ncurses 'k' test work properly
371 + correct caching of keyname(), which was using only half of its table.
372 + minor fixes to memory-leak checking.
373 + make SCREEN._acs_map and SCREEN._screen_acs_map pointers rather than
374 arrays, making ACS_LEN less visible to applications (suggested by
376 + move chunk in SCREEN ifdef'd for USE_WIDEC_SUPPORT to the end, so
377 _screen_acs_map will have the same offset in both ncurses/ncursesw,
378 making the corresponding tinfo/tinfow libraries binary-compatible
379 (cf: 20041016, report by Stanislav Ievlev).
382 + improve debug-tracing for EmitRange().
383 + change default for --with-develop to "yes". Add NCURSES_NO_HARD_TABS
384 and NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE environment variables to allow runtime
385 suppression of the related hard-tabs and xmc-glitch features.
386 + add ncurses version number to top-level manpages, e.g., ncurses, tic,
387 infocmp, terminfo as well as form, menu, panel.
388 + update config.guess, config.sub
389 + modify ncurses.c to work around a bug in NetBSD 3.0 curses
390 (field_buffer returning null for a valid field). The 'r' test
391 appears to not work with that configuration since the new_fieldtype()
392 function is broken in that implementation.
395 + add hpterm-color terminfo entry -TD
396 + fixes to compile test-programs with HPUX 11.23
399 + add copyright notices to files other than those that are generated,
400 data or adapted from pdcurses (reports by William McBrine, David
402 + improve rendering on hpterm by not resetting attributes at the end
403 of doupdate() if the terminal has the magic-cookie feature (report
405 + add 256color variants of terminfo entries for programs which are
406 reported to implement this feature -TD
409 + fix typo in change to NewChar() macro from 20060311 changes, which
410 broke tab-expansion (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
413 + document -U option of tic and infocmp.
414 + modify tic/infocmp to suppress smacs/rmacs when acsc is suppressed
415 due to size limit, e.g., converting to termcap format. Also
416 suppress them if the output format does not contain acsc and it
417 was not VT100-like, i.e., a one-one mapping (Novell #163715).
418 + add configure check to ensure that SIGWINCH is defined on platforms
419 such as OS X which exclude that when _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., are
420 defined (report by Nicholas Cole)
423 + modify write_object() to not write coincidental extensions of an
424 entry made due to it being referenced in a use= clause (report by
426 + another fix for infocmp -i option, which did not ensure that some
427 escape sequences had comparable prefixes (report by Alain Bench).
430 + improve discussion of init/reset in terminfo and tput manpages
431 (report by Alain Bench).
432 + use is3 string for a fallback of rs3 in the reset program; it was
433 using is2 (report by Alain Bench).
434 + correct logic for infocmp -i option, which did not account for
435 multiple digits in a parameter (cf: 20040828) (report by Alain
437 + move _nc_handle_sigwinch() to lib_setup.c to make --with-termlib
438 option work after 20060114 changes (report by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz).
439 + add copyright notices to test-programs as needed (report by William
443 + modify ncurses.c 'F' test to combine the wide-characters with color
444 and/or video attributes.
445 + modify test/ncurses to use CTL/Q or ESC consistently for exiting
446 a test-screen (some commands used 'x' or 'q').
449 + fix an off-by-one in the scrolling-region change (cf_ 20060311).
452 + add checks in waddchnstr() and wadd_wchnstr() to stop copying when
453 a null character is found (report by Igor Bogomazov).
454 + modify progs/Makefile.in to make "tput init" work properly with
455 cygwin, i.e., do not pass a ".exe" in the reference string used
456 in check_aliases (report by Samuel Thibault).
457 + add some checks to ensure current position is within scrolling
458 region before scrolling on a new line (report by Dan Gookin).
459 + change some NewChar() usage to static variables to work around
460 stack garbage introduced when cchar_t is not packed (Redhat #182024).
463 + workarounds to build test/movewindow with PDcurses 2.7.
464 + fix for nsterm-16color entry (patch by Alain Bench).
465 + correct a typo in infocmp manpage (Debian #354281).
468 + add nsterm-16color entry -TD
469 + updated mlterm terminfo entry -TD
470 + remove 970913 feature for copying subwindows as they are moved in
471 mvwin() (discussion with Bryan Christ).
472 + modify test/demo_menus.c to demonstrate moving a menu (both the
473 window and subwindow) using shifted cursor-keys.
474 + start implementing recursive mvwin() in movewindow.c (incomplete).
475 + add a fallback definition for GCC_PRINTFLIKE() in test.priv.h,
476 for movewindow.c (report by William McBrine).
477 + add help-message to test/movewindow.c
480 + add test/movewindow.c, to test mvderwin().
481 + fix ncurses soft-key test so color changes are shown immediately
483 + modify ncurses soft-key test to hide the keys when exiting the test
485 + fixes to build test programs with PDCurses 2.7, e.g., its headers
486 rely on autoconf symbols, and it declares stubs for nonfunctional
487 terminfo and termcap entrypoints.
490 + improved test/configure to build test/ncurses on HPUX 11 using the
492 + documented ALTERNATE CONFIGURATIONS in the ncurses manpage, for the
493 benefit of developers who do not read INSTALL.
496 + correct form library Window_To_Buffer() change (cf: 20040516), which
497 should ignore the video attributes (report by Ricardo Cantu).
500 + minor fixes to xmc-glitch experimental code:
501 + suppress line-drawing
502 + implement max_attributes
504 + minor fixes for the database iterator.
505 + fix some buffer limits in c++ demo (comment by Falk Hueffner in
509 + add toe -a option, to show all databases. This uses new private
510 interfaces in the ncurses library for iterating through the list of
512 + fix toe from 20000909 changes which made it not look at
514 + make toe's -v option parameter optional as per manpage.
515 + improve SIGWINCH handling by postponing its effect during newterm(),
516 etc., when allocating screens.
519 + modify wgetnstr() to return KEY_RESIZE if a sigwinch occurs. Use
520 this in test/filter.c
521 + fix an error in filter() modification which caused some applications
525 + check if filter() was called when getting the screensize. Keep it
526 at 1 if so (based on Redhat #174498).
527 + add extension nofilter().
528 + refined the workaround for ACS mapping.
529 + make ifdef's consistent in curses.h for the extended colors so the
530 header file can be used for the normal curses library. The header
531 file installed for extended colors is a variation of the
532 wide-character configuration (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
535 + add a workaround to ACS mapping to allow applications such as
536 test/blue.c to use the "PC ROM" characters by masking them with
537 A_ALTCHARSET. This worked up til 5.5, but was lost in the revision
538 of legacy coding (report by Michael Deutschmann).
539 + add a null-pointer check in the wide-character version of
540 calculate_actual_width() (report by Victor Julien).
541 + improve test/ncurses 'd' (color-edit) test by allowing the RGB
542 values to be set independently (patch by William McBrine).
543 + modify test/configure script to allow building test programs with
545 + modified test programs to allow some to work with NetBSD curses.
546 Several do not because NetBSD curses implements a subset of X/Open
547 curses, and also lacks much of SVr4 additions. But it's enough for
549 + update config.guess and config.sub
552 + use BSD-specific fix for return-value from cgetent() from CVS where
553 an unknown terminal type would be reportd as "database not found".
554 + make tgetent() return code more readable using new symbols
556 + remove references to non-existent "tctest" program.
557 + remove TESTPROGS from progs/Makefile.in (it was referring to code
558 that was never built in that directory).
559 + typos in curs_addchstr.3x, some doc files (noticed in OpenBSD CVS).
562 + add use_legacy_coding() function to support lynx's font-switching
564 + fix formatting in curs_termcap.3x (report by Mike Frysinger).
565 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to change preprocessor-expanded _Bool back to
569 + extend test/ncurses.c 's' (overlay window) test to exercise overlay(),
570 overwrite() and copywin() with different combinations of colors and
571 attributes (including background color) to make it easy to see the
572 effect of the different functions.
573 + corrections to menu/m_global.c for wide-characters (report by
577 + add configure option --without-dlsym, allowing developers to
578 configure GPM support without using dlsym() (discussion with Michael
580 + fix wins_nwstr(), which did not handle single-column non-8bit codes
584 + move prototypes for wide-character trace functions from curses.tail
585 to curses.wide to avoid accidental reference to those if
586 _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined without ensuring that <wchar.h> is
588 + add/use NCURSES_INLINE definition.
589 + change some internal functions to use int/unsigned rather than the
593 + remove a redundant check in lib_color.c (Debian #335655).
594 + use ld's -search_paths_first option on Darwin to work around odd
595 search rules on that platform (report by Christian Gennerat, analysis
597 + remove special case for Darwin in CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro.
598 + ignore EINTR in tcgetattr/tcsetattr calls (Debian #339518).
599 + fix several bugs in test/bs.c (patch by Stephen Lindholm).
602 + other minor fixes to cygwin based on tack -TD
603 + correct smacs in cygwin (Debian #338234, report by Baurzhan
604 Ismagulov, who noted that it was fixed in Cygwin).
607 + add shifted up/down arrow codes to xterm-new as kind/kri strings -TD
608 + modify wbkgrnd() to avoid clearing the A_CHARTEXT attribute bits
609 since those record the state of multicolumn characters (Debian
611 + modify werase to clear multicolumn characters that extend into
612 a derived window (Debian #316663).
615 + move assignment from environment variable ESCDELAY from initscr()
616 down to newterm() so the environment variable affects timeouts for
617 terminals opened with newterm() as well.
618 + fix a memory leak in keyname().
619 + add test/demo_altkeys.c
620 + modify test/demo_defkey.c to exit from loop via 'q' to allow
621 leak-checking, as well as fix a buffer size in winnstr() call.
624 + correct order of use-clauses in rxvt-basic entry which made codes for
625 f1-f4 vt100-style rather than vt220-style (report by Gabor Z Papp).
626 + suppress configure check for gnatmake if Ada95/Makefile.in is not
628 + correct a typo in configure --with-bool option for the case where
629 --without-cxx is used (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
630 + add a note to INSTALL's discussion of --with-normal, pointing out
631 that one may wish to use --without-gpm to ensure a completely
632 static link (prompted by report by Felix von Leitner).
634 20051010 5.5 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
637 + document in demo_forms.c some portability issues.
640 + document side-effect of werase() which sets the cursor position.
641 + save/restore the current position in form field editing to make
645 + correct header dependencies in progs, allowing parallel make (report
646 by Daniel Jacobowitz).
647 + modify CF_BUILD_CC to ensure that pre-setting $BUILD_CC overrides
648 the configure check for --with-build-cc (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
649 + modify CF_CFG_DEFAULTS to not use /usr as the default prefix for
651 + update config.guess and config.sub from
652 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
655 + modify sed expression which computes path for /usr/lib/terminfo
656 symbolic link in install to ensure that it does not change unexpected
657 levels of the path (Gentoo #42336).
658 + modify default for --disable-lp64 configure option to reduce impact
659 on existing 64-bit builds. Enabling the _LP64 option may change the
660 size of chtype and mmask_t. However, for ABI 6, it is enabled by
661 default (report by Mike Frysinger).
662 + add configure script check for --enable-ext-mouse, bump ABI to 6 by
663 default if it is used.
664 + improve configure script logic for bumping ABI to omit this if the
665 --with-abi-version option was used.
666 + update address for Free Software Foundation in tack's source.
667 + correct wins_wch(), which was not marking the filler-cells of
668 multi-column characters (cf: 20041023).
671 + modify mouse initialization to ensure that Gpm_Open() is called only
672 once. Otherwise GPM gets confused in its initialization of signal
673 handlers (Debian #326709).
676 + modify logic for backspacing in a multiline form field to ensure that
677 it works even when the preceding line is full (report by Frank van
679 + remove comment about BUGS section of ncurses manpage (Debian #325481)
682 + document some workarounds for shared and libtool library
683 configurations in INSTALL (see --with-shared and --with-libtool).
684 + modify CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GXX_VERSION macros to accommodate
685 cross-compilers which emit the platform name in their version
687 arm-sa1100-linux-gnu-g++ (GCC) 4.0.1
688 (report by Frank van Vugt).
691 + start updating documentation for upcoming 5.5 release.
692 + fix to make libtool and libtinfo work together again (cf: 20050122).
693 + fixes to allow building traces into libtinfo
694 + add debug trace to tic that shows if/how ncurses will write to the
695 lower corner of a terminal's screen.
696 + update llib-l* files.
699 + modify initializers in c++ binding to build with old versions of g++.
700 + improve special case for 20050115 repainting fix, ensuring that if
701 the first changed cell is not a character that the range to be
702 repainted is adjusted to start at a character's beginning (Debian
706 + fixes to build on QNX 6.1
707 + improve configure script checks for Intel 9.0 compiler.
708 + remove #include's for libc.h (obsolete).
709 + adjust ifdef's in curses.priv.h so that when cross-compiling to
710 produce comp_hash and make_keys, no dependency on wchar.h is needed.
711 That simplifies the build-cppflags (report by Frank van Vugt).
712 + move modules related to key-binding into libtinfo to fix linkage
713 problem caused by 20050430 changes to MKkeyname.sh (report by
717 + updates/fixes for configure script macros from vile -TD
718 + make prism9's sgr string agree with the rest of the terminfo -TD
719 + make vt220's sgr0 string consistent with sgr string, do this for
720 several related cases -TD
721 + improve translation to termcap by filtering the 'me' (sgr0) strings
722 as in the runtime call to tgetent() (prompted by a discussion with
724 + improve tic check for sgr0 versus sgr(0), to help ensure that sgr0
728 + fix special cases for trimming sgr0 for hurd and vt220 (Debian
730 + split-out _nc_trim_sgr0() from modifications made to tgetent(), to
731 allow it to be used by tic to provide information about the runtime
732 changes that would be made to sgr0 for termcap applications.
733 + modify make_sed.sh to make the group-name in the NAME section of
734 form/menu library manpage agree with the TITLE string when renaming
735 is done for Debian (Debian #78866).
738 + modify parameter type in c++ binding for insch() and mvwinsch() to
739 be consistent with underlying ncurses library (was char, is chtype).
740 + modify treatment of Intel compiler to allow _GNU_SOURCE to be defined
742 + improve configure check for nanosleep(), checking that it works since
743 some older systems such as AIX 4.3 have a nonworking version.
746 + update config.guess and config.sub from
747 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
748 + modify misc/shlib to work in test-directory.
749 + suppress $suffix in misc/run_tic.sh when cross-compiling. This
750 allows cross-compiles to use the host's tic program to handle the
751 "make install.data" step.
752 + improve description of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables in manpages
753 (prompted by report by Dave Ulrick).
754 + improve description of cross-compiling in INSTALL
755 + add NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html by Pradeep Padala
756 (see http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/).
757 + modify configure script to obtain soname for GPM library (discussion
758 with Daniel Jacobowitz).
759 + modify configure script so that --with-chtype option will still
760 compute the unsigned literals suffix for constants in curses.h
761 (report by Daniel Jacobowitz:
762 + patches from Daniel Jacobowitz:
763 + the man_db.renames entry for tack.1 was backwards.
764 + tack.1 had some 1m's that should have been 1M's.
765 + the section for curs_inwstr.3 was wrong.
768 + correction to --with-chtype option (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
771 + move build-time edit_man.sh and edit_man.sed scripts to top directory
772 to simplify reusing them for renaming tack's manpage (prompted by a
773 review of Debian package).
774 + revert minor optimization from 20041030 (Debian #313609).
775 + libtool-specific fixes, tested with libtool 1.4.3, 1.5.0, 1.5.6,
776 1.5.10 and 1.5.18 (all work except as noted previously for the c++
777 install using libtool 1.5.0):
778 + modify the clean-rule in c++/Makefile.in to work with IRIX64 make
780 + use $(LIBTOOL_UNINSTALL) symbol, overlooked in 20030830
781 + add configure options --with-chtype and --with-mmask-t, to allow
782 overriding of the non-LP64 model's use of the corresponding types.
783 + revise test for size of chtype (and mmask_t), which always returned
784 "long" due to an uninitialized variable (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
787 + change _tracef's that used "%p" format for va_list values to ignore
788 that, since on some platforms those are not pointers.
789 + fixes for long-formats in printf's due to largefile support.
792 + fixes for termcap support:
793 + reset pointer to _nc_curr_token.tk_name when the input stream is
794 closed, which could point to free memory (cf: 20030215).
795 + delink TERMTYPE data which is used by the termcap reader, so that
796 extended names data will be freed consistently.
797 + free pointer to TERMTYPE data in _nc_free_termtype() rather than
799 + add some entrypoints for freeing permanently allocated data via
800 _nc_freeall() when NO_LEAKS is defined.
801 + amend 20041030 change to _nc_do_color to ensure that optimization is
802 applied only when the terminal supports back_color_erase (bce).
805 + add sun-color terminfo entry -TD
806 + correct a missing assignment in c++ binding's method
807 NCursesPanel::UserPointer() from 20050409 changes.
808 + improve configure check for large-files, adding check for dirent64
810 + minor change to configure script to improve linker options for the
814 + document error conditions for ncurses library functions (report by
816 + regenerated html documentation for ada binding.
817 see ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/gnathtml
820 + regenerated html documentation for manpages.
821 + add $(BUILD_EXEEXT) suffix to invocation of make_keys in
822 ncurses/Makefile (Gentoo #89772).
823 + modify c++/demo.cc to build with g++ -fno-implicit-templates option
824 (patch by Mike Frysinger).
825 + modify tic to filter out long extended names when translating to
826 termcap format. Only two characters are permissible for termcap
830 + modify terminfo entries xterm-new and rxvt to add strings for
831 shift-, control-cursor keys.
832 + workaround to allow c++ binding to compile with g++ 2.95.3, which
833 has a broken implementation of static_cast<> (patch by Jeff Chua).
834 + modify initialization of key lookup table so that if an extended
835 capability (tic -x) string is defined, and its name begins with 'k',
836 it will automatically be treated as a key.
837 + modify test/keynames.c to allow for the possibility of extended
838 key names, e.g., via define_key(), or via "tic -x".
839 + add test/demo_termcap.c to show the contents of given entry via the
843 + minor fixes for vt100/vt52 entries -TD
844 + add configure option --enable-largefile
845 + corrected libraries used to build Ada95/gen/gen, found in testing
849 + update config.guess, config.sub
850 + modify configure script check for _XOPEN_SOURCE, disable that on
851 Darwin whose header files have problems (patch by Chris Zubrzycki).
852 + modify form library Is_Printable_String() to use iswprint() rather
853 than wcwidth() for determining if a character is printable. The
854 latter caused it to reject menu items containing non-spacing
856 + modify ncurses test program's F-test to handle non-spacing characters
857 by combining them with a reverse-video blank.
858 + review/fix several gcc -Wconversion warnings.
861 + correct an off-by-one error in m_driver() for mouse-clicks used to
862 position the mouse to a particular item.
863 + implement test/demo_menus.c
864 + add some checks in lib_mouse to ensure SP is set.
865 + modify C++ binding to make 20050403 changes work with the configure
866 --enable-const option.
869 + modify start_color() to return ERR if it cannot allocate memory.
870 + address g++ compiler warnings in C++ binding by adding explicit
871 member initialization, assignment operators and copy constructors.
872 Most of the changes simply preserve the existing semantics of the
873 binding, which can leak memory, etc., but by making these features
874 visible, it provides a framework for improving the binding.
875 + improve C++ binding using static_cast, etc.
876 + modify configure script --enable-warnings to add options to g++ to
877 correspond to the gcc --enable-warnings.
878 + modify C++ binding to use some C internal functions to make it
879 compile properly on Solaris (and other platforms).
882 + amend change from 20050320 to limit it to configurations with a
884 + fix a bug introduced in 20050320 which broke the translation of
885 nonprinting characters to uparrow form (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
888 + add ifdef's for _LP64 in curses.h to avoid using wasteful 64-bits for
889 chtype and mmask_t, but add configure option --disable-lp64 in case
890 anyone used that configuration.
891 + update misc/shlib script to account for Mac OS X (report by Michail
893 + correct comparison for wrapping multibyte characters in
894 waddch_literal() (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
897 + add -c and -w options to tset to allow user to suppress ncurses'
898 resizing of the terminal emulator window in the special case where it
899 is not able to detect the true size (report by Win Delvaux, Debian
901 + modify waddch_nosync() to account for locale zn_CH.GBK, which uses
902 codes 128-159 as part of multibyte characters (report by Wang
903 WenRui, Debian #300512).
906 + modify ncurses.c 'd' test to make it work with 88-color
907 configuration, i.e., by implementing scrolling.
908 + improve scrolling in ncurses.c 'c' and 'C' tests, e.g., for 88-color
912 + change tracemunch to use strict checking.
913 + modify ncurses.c 'p' test to test line-drawing within a pad.
914 + implement environment variable NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS to support
915 miscellaneous terminal emulators which ignore alternate character
916 set escape sequences when in UTF-8 mode.
919 + change NCursesWindow::err_handler() to a virtual function (request by
921 + modify fty_int.c and fty_num.c to handle wide characters (report by
923 + adapt fix for fty_alpha.c to fty_alnum.c, which also handled normal
924 and wide characters inconsistently (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
925 + update llib-* files to reflect internal interface additions/changes.
928 + improve test/configure script, adding tests for _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc.,
930 + add aixterm-16color terminfo entry -TD
931 + modified xterm-new terminfo entry to work with tgetent() changes -TD
932 + extended changes in tgetent() from 20040710 to allow the substring of
933 sgr0 which matches rmacs to be at the beginning of the sgr0 string
934 (request by Thomas Wolff). Wolff says the visual effect in
935 combination with pre-20040710 ncurses is improved.
936 + fix off-by-one in winnstr() call which caused form field validation
937 of multibyte characters to ignore the last character in a field.
938 + correct logic in winsch() for inserting multibyte strings; the code
939 would clear cells after the insertion rather than push them to the
940 right (cf: 20040228).
941 + fix an inconsistency in Check_Alpha_Field() between normal and wide
942 character logic (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
945 + fix a bug in editing wide-characters in form library: deleting a
946 nonwide character modified the previous wide-character.
947 + update manpage to describe NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2.
948 + correct manpage description of mouseinterval() (Debian #280687).
949 + add a note to default_colors.3x explaining why this extension was
950 added (Debian #295083).
951 + add traces to panel library.
954 + improve editing of wide-characters in form library: left/right
955 cursor movement, and single-character deletions work properly.
956 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM happens to be prefixed with
957 "xterm". Gpm_Open() would otherwise assert that it can deal with
958 mouse events in this case.
959 + modify GPM mouse support so it closes the server connection when
960 the caller disables the mouse (report by Stanislav Ievlev).
963 + add traces for callback functions in form library.
964 + add experimental configure option --enable-ext-mouse, which defines
965 NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2, and modifies the encoding of mouse events to
966 support wheel mice, which may transmit buttons 4 and 5. This works
967 with xterm and similar X terminal emulators (prompted by question by
968 Andreas Henningsson, this is also related to Debian #230990).
969 + improve configure macros CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE to
970 avoid redefinition warnings on cygwin.
973 + merge remaining development changes for extended colors (mostly
974 complete, does not appear to break other configurations).
975 + add xterm-88color.dat (part of extended colors testing).
976 + improve _tracedump() handling of color pairs past 96.
977 + modify return-value from start_color() to return OK if colors have
978 already been started.
979 + modify curs_color.3x list error conditions for init_pair(),
980 pair_content() and color_content().
981 + modify pair_content() to return -1 for consistency with init_pair()
982 if it corresponds to the default-color.
983 + change internal representation of default-color to allow application
984 to use color number 255. This does not affect the total number of
985 color pairs which are allowed.
986 + add a top-level tags rule.
989 + add a null-pointer check in wgetch() in case it is called without
990 first calling initscr().
991 + add some null-pointer checks for SP, which is not set by libtinfo.
992 + modify misc/shlib to ensure that absolute pathnames are used.
993 + modify test/Makefile.in, etc., to link test programs only against the
994 libraries needed, e.g., omit form/menu/panel library for the ones
995 that are curses-specific.
996 + change SP->_current_attr to a pointer, adjust ifdef's to ensure that
997 libtinfo.so and libtinfow.so have the same ABI. The reason for this
998 is that the corresponding data which belongs to the upper-level
999 ncurses library has a different size in each model (report by
1003 + minor fixes to allow test-compiles with g++.
1004 + correct column value shown in tic's warnings, which did not account
1005 for leading whitespace.
1006 + add a check in _nc_trans_string() for improperly ended strings, i.e.,
1007 where a following line begins in column 1.
1008 + modify _nc_save_str() to return a null pointer on buffer overflow.
1009 + improve repainting while scrolling wide-character data (Eungkyu Song).
1012 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
1015 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
1016 + fix manpage typo (FreeBSD report docs/75544).
1017 + update config.guess, config.sub
1018 > patches for configure script (Albert Chin-A-Young):
1019 + improved fix to make mbstate_t recognized on HPUX 11i (cf:
1020 20030705), making vsscanf() prototype visible on IRIX64. Tested for
1021 on HP-UX 11i, Solaris 7, 8, 9, AIX 4.3.3, 5.2, Tru64 UNIX 4.0D, 5.1,
1022 IRIX64 6.5, Redhat Linux 7.1, 9, and RHEL 2.1, 3.0.
1023 + print the result of the --disable-home-terminfo option.
1024 + use -rpath when compiling with SGI C compiler.
1027 + add trace calls to remaining public functions in form and menu
1029 + fix check for numeric digits in test/ncurses.c 'b' and 'B' tests.
1030 + fix typo in test/ncurses.c 'c' test from 20041218.
1033 + revise test/ncurses.c 'c' color test to improve use for xterm-88color
1034 and xterm-256color, added 'C' test using the wide-character color_set
1035 and attr_set functions.
1038 + modify configure script to work with Intel compiler.
1039 + fix an limit-check in wadd_wchnstr() which caused labels in the
1040 forms-demo to be one character short.
1041 + fix typo in curs_addchstr.3x (Jared Yanovich).
1042 + add trace calls to most functions in form and menu libraries.
1043 + update working-position for adding wide-characters when window is
1044 scrolled (prompted by related report by Eungkyu Song).
1047 + replace some references on Linux to wcrtomb() which use it to obtain
1048 the length of a multibyte string with _nc_wcrtomb, since wcrtomb() is
1049 broken in glibc (see Debian #284260).
1050 + corrected length-computation in wide-character support for
1052 + some fixes to frm_driver.c to allow it to accept multibyte input.
1053 + modify configure script to work with Intel 8.0 compiler.
1056 + amend change to setupterm() in 20030405 which would reuse the value
1057 of cur_term if the same output was selected. This now reuses it only
1058 when setupterm() is called from tgetent(), which has no notion of
1059 separate SCREENs. Note that tgetent() must be called after initscr()
1060 or newterm() to use this feature (Redhat Bugzilla #140326).
1061 + add a check in CF_BUILD_CC macro to ensure that developer has given
1062 the --with-build-cc option when cross-compiling (report by Alexandre
1064 + improved configure script checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE and
1065 _POSIX_C_SOURCE (fix for IRIX 5.3 from Georg Schwarz, _POSIX_C_SOURCE
1067 + cosmetic fix to test/gdc.c to recolor the bottom edge of the box
1068 for consistency (comment by Dan Nelson).
1071 + update wsvt25 terminfo entry -TD
1072 + modify test/ins_wide.c to test all flavors of ins_wstr().
1073 + ignore filler-cells in wadd_wchnstr() when adding a cchar_t array
1074 which consists of multi-column characters, since this function
1075 constructs them (cf: 20041023).
1076 + modify winnstr() to return multibyte character strings for the
1077 wide-character configuration.
1080 + fixes to make slk_set() and slk_wset() accept and store multibyte
1081 or multicolumn characters.
1084 + improve color optimization a little by making _nc_do_color() check
1085 if the old/new pairs are equivalent to the default pair 0.
1086 + modify assume_default_colors() to not require that
1087 use_default_colors() be called first.
1090 + modify term_attrs() to use termattrs(), add the extended attributes
1091 such as enter_horizontal_hl_mode for WA_HORIZONTAL to term_attrs().
1092 + add logic in waddch_literal() to clear orphaned cells when one
1093 multi-column character partly overwrites another.
1094 + improved logic for clearing cells when a multi-column character
1095 must be wrapped to a new line.
1096 + revise storage of cells for multi-column characters to correct a
1097 problem with repainting. In the old scheme, it was possible for
1098 doupdate() to decide that only part of a multi-column character
1099 should be repainted since the filler cells stored only an attribute
1100 to denote them as fillers, rather than the character value and the
1104 + minor fixes for traces.
1105 + add SP->_screen_acs_map[], used to ensure that mapping of missing
1106 line-drawing characters is handled properly. For example, ACS_DARROW
1107 is absent from xterm-new, and it was coincidentally displayed the
1111 + amend 20021221 workaround for broken acs to reset the sgr, rmacs
1112 and smacs strings as well. Also modify the check for screen's
1113 limitations in that area to allow the multi-character shift-in
1114 and shift-out which seem to work.
1115 + change GPM initialization, using dl library to load it dynamically
1116 at runtime (Debian #110586).
1119 + correct logic for color pair in setcchar() and getcchar() (patch by
1120 Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
1121 + add t/T commands to ncurses b/B tests to allow a different color to
1122 be tested for the attrset part of the test than is used in the
1126 + fix to make setcchar() to work when its wchar_t* parameter is
1127 pointing to a string which contains more data than can be converted.
1128 + modify wget_wstr() and example in ncurses.c to work if wchar_t and
1129 wint_t are different sizes (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
1132 + remove check in wget_wch() added to fix an infinite loop, appears to
1133 have been working around a transitory glibc bug, and interferes
1134 with normal operation (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
1135 + correct wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not pass the rendition
1136 information (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
1137 + fix aclocal.m4 so that the wide-character version of ncurses gets
1138 compiled as libncursesw.5.dylib, instead of libncurses.5w.dylib
1139 (adapted from patch by James J Ramsey).
1140 + change configure script for --with-caps option to indicate that it
1141 is no longer experimental.
1142 + change configure script to reflect the fact that --enable-widec has
1143 not been "experimental" since 5.3 (report by Bruno Lustosa).
1146 + add 'B' test to ncurses.c, to exercise some wide-character functions.
1149 + modify infocmp -i option to match 8-bit controls against its table
1150 entries, e.g., so it can analyze the xterm-8bit entry.
1151 + add morphos terminfo entry, improve amiga-8bit entry (Pavel Fedin).
1152 + correct translation of "%%" in terminfo format to termcap, e.g.,
1153 using "tic -C" (Redhat Bugzilla #130921).
1154 + modified configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to ensure that if
1155 it defines _POSIX_C_SOURCE, that it defines it to a specific value
1156 (comp.os.stratus newsgroup comment).
1159 + fixes to build with Ada95 binding with gnat 3.4 (all warnings are
1160 fatal, and gnat does not follow the guidelines for pragmas).
1161 However that did find a coding error in Assume_Default_Colors().
1162 + modify several terminfo entries to ensure xterm mouse and cursor
1163 visibility are reset in rs2 string: hurd, putty, gnome,
1164 konsole-base, mlterm, Eterm, screen (Debian #265784, #55637). The
1165 xterm entries are left alone - old ones for compatibility, and the
1166 new ones do not require this change. -TD
1169 + fake a SIGWINCH in newterm() to accommodate buggy terminal emulators
1170 and window managers (Debian #265631).
1171 > terminfo updates -TD
1172 + remove dch/dch1 from rxvt because they are implemented inconsistently
1173 with the common usage of bce/ech
1174 + remove khome from vt220 (vt220's have no home key)
1178 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test, adding v/V toggles to cycle through
1179 combinations of video attributes so that for instance bold and
1180 underline can be tested. This made the legend too crowded, added
1181 a help window as well.
1182 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test to cycle through default colors if
1183 the -d option is set.
1184 + update putty terminfo entry (Robert de Bath).
1187 + modify test/cardfile.c to allow it to read more data than can be
1189 + correct logic in resizeterm.c which kept it from processing all
1190 levels of window hierarchy (reports by Folkert van Heusden,
1194 + modify "tic -cv" to ignore delays when comparing strings. Also
1195 modify it to ignore a canceled sgr string, e.g., for terminals which
1196 cannot properly combine attributes in one control sequence.
1197 + corrections for gnome and konsole entries (Redhat Bugzilla #122815,
1198 patch by Hans de Goede)
1199 > terminfo updates -TD
1200 + make ncsa-m rmacs/smacs consistent with sgr
1201 + add sgr, rc/sc and ech to syscons entries
1202 + add function-keys to decansi
1203 + add sgr to mterm-ansi
1204 + add sgr, civis, cnorm to emu
1205 + correct/simplify cup in addrinfo
1208 > terminfo updates -TD
1209 + add xterm-pc-fkeys
1210 + review/update gnome and gnome-rh90 entries (prompted by Redhat
1212 + review/update konsole entries
1213 + add sgr, correct sgr0 for kterm and mlterm
1214 + correct tsl string in kterm
1217 + add configure option --without-xterm-new
1220 + add check in wget_wch() for printable bytes that are not part of a
1221 multibyte character.
1222 + modify wadd_wchnstr() to render text using window's background
1224 + improve tic's check to compare sgr and sgr0.
1225 + fix c++ directory's .cc.i rule.
1226 + modify logic in tgetent() which adjusts the termcap "me" string
1227 to work with ISO-2022 string used in xterm-new (cf: 20010908).
1228 + modify tic's check for conflicting function keys to omit that if
1229 converting termcap to termcap format.
1230 + add -U option to tic and infocmp.
1231 + add rmam/smam to linux terminfo entry (Trevor Van Bremen)
1232 > terminfo updates -TD
1233 + minor fixes for emu
1235 + change wyse acsc strings to use 'i' map rather than 'I'
1240 + use tic -x to install terminfo database -TD
1241 + add -x to infocmp's usage message.
1242 + correct field used for comparing O_ROWMAJOR in set_menu_format()
1243 (report/patch by Tony Li).
1244 + fix a missing nul check in set_field_buffer() from 20040508 changes.
1245 > terminfo updates -TD
1246 + make xterm-xf86-v43 derived from xterm-xf86-v40 rather than
1248 + align with xterm patch #192's use of xterm-new -TD
1249 + update xterm-new and xterm-8bit for cvvis/cnorm strings -TD
1250 + make xterm-new the default "xterm" entry -TD
1253 + correct BUILD_CPPFLAGS substitution in ncurses/Makefile.in, to allow
1254 cross-compiling from a separate directory tree (report/patch by
1256 + modify is_term_resized() to ensure that window sizes are nonzero,
1257 as documented in the manpage (report by Ian Collier).
1258 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro to make Hurd port build
1259 (Debian #249214, report/patch by Jeff Bailey).
1260 + configure-script mods from xterm, e.g., updates to CF_ADD_CFLAGS
1261 + update config.guess, config.sub
1262 > terminfo updates -TD
1264 + add xterm-xf86-v44
1265 + modify xterm-new aka xterm-xfree86 to accommodate luit, which
1266 relies on G1 being used via an ISO-2022 escape sequence (report by
1271 + reconsidered winsnstr(), decided after comparing other
1272 implementations that wrapping is an X/Open documentation error.
1273 + modify test/inserts.c to test all flavors of insstr().
1276 + add setlocale() calls to a few test programs which may require it:
1277 demo_forms.c, filter.c, ins_wide.c, inserts.c
1278 + correct a few misspelled function names in ncurses-intro.html (report
1280 + correct internal name of key_defined() manpage, which conflicted with
1284 + correct size of internal pad used for holding wide-character
1285 field_buffer() results.
1286 + modify data_ahead() to work with wide-characters.
1289 + improve description of terminfo if-then-else expressions (suggested
1291 + improve test/ncurses.c 'd' test, allow it to use external file for
1292 initial palette (added xterm-16color.dat and linux-color.dat), and
1293 reset colors to the initial palette when starting/ending the test.
1294 + change limit-check in init_color() to allow r/g/b component to
1295 reach 1000 (cf: 20020928).
1298 + modify form library to use cchar_t's rather than char's in the
1299 wide-character configuration for storing data for field buffers.
1300 + correct logic of win_wchnstr(), which did not work for more than
1304 + replace memset/memcpy usage in form library with for-loops to
1305 simplify changing the datatype of FIELD.buf, part of wide-character
1307 + fix some inconsistent use of #if/#ifdef (report by Alain Guibert).
1310 + modify menu library to account for actual number of columns used by
1311 multibyte character strings, in the wide-character configuration
1312 (adapted from patch by Philipp Tomsich).
1313 + add "-x" option to infocmp like tic's "-x", for use in "-F"
1314 comparisons. This modifies infocmp to only report extended
1315 capabilities if the -x option is given, making this more consistent
1316 with tic. Some scripts may break, since infocmp previous gave this
1317 information without an option.
1318 + modify termcap-parsing to retain 2-character aliases at the beginning
1319 of an entry if the "-x" option is used in tic.
1322 + minor compiler-warning and test-program fixes.
1325 + modify tic's missing-sgr warning to apply to terminfo only.
1326 + free some memory leaks in tic.
1327 + remove check in post_menu() that prevented menus from extending
1328 beyond the screen (request by Max J. Werner).
1329 + remove check in newwin() that prevents allocating windows
1330 that extend beyond the screen. Solaris curses does this.
1331 + add ifdef in test/color_set.c to allow it to compile with older
1333 + add napms() calls to test/dots.c to make it not be a CPU hog.
1336 + modify unctrl() to return null if its parameter does not correspond
1337 to an unsigned char.
1338 + add some limit-checks to guard isprint(), etc., from being used on
1339 values that do not fit into an unsigned char (report by Sami Farin).
1342 + fix a typo in the _nc_get_locale() change.
1345 + modify _nc_get_locale() to use setlocale() to query the program's
1346 current locale rather than using getenv(). This fixes a case in tin
1347 which relies on legacy treatment of 8-bit characters when the locale
1348 is not initialized (reported by Urs Jansen).
1349 + add sgr string to screen's and rxvt's terminfo entries -TD.
1350 + add a check in tic for terminfo entries having an sgr0 but no sgr
1351 string. This confuses Tru64 and HPUX curses when combined with
1352 color, e.g., making them leave line-drawing characters in odd places.
1353 + correct casts used in ABSENT_BOOLEAN, CANCELLED_BOOLEAN, matches the
1354 original definitions used in Debian package to fix PowerPC bug before
1355 20030802 (Debian #237629).
1358 + modify PutAttrChar() and PUTC() macro to improve use of
1359 A_ALTCHARSET attribute to prevent line-drawing characters from
1360 being lost in situations where the locale would otherwise treat the
1361 raw data as nonprintable (Debian #227879).
1364 + fix a redefinition of CTRL() macro in test/view.c for AIX 5.2 (report
1366 + remove ".PP" after ".SH NAME" in a few manpages; this confuses
1367 some apropos script (Debian #237831).
1370 + modify ncurses.c 'r' test so editing commands, like inserted text,
1371 set the field background, and the state of insert/overlay editing
1372 mode is shown in that test.
1373 + change syntax of dummy targets in Ada95 makefiles to work with pmake.
1374 + correct logic in test/ncurses.c 'b' for noncolor terminals which
1375 did not recognize a quit-command (cf: 20030419).
1378 + modify _nc_insert_ch() to allow for its input to be part of a
1380 + split out lib_insnstr.c, to prepare to rewrite it. X/Open states
1381 that this function performs wrapping, unlike all of the other
1382 insert-functions. Currently it does not wrap.
1383 + check for nl_langinfo(CODESET), use it if available (report by
1385 + split-out CF_BUILD_CC macro, actually did this for lynx first.
1386 + fixes for configure script CF_WITH_DBMALLOC and CF_WITH_DMALLOC,
1387 which happened to work with bash, but not with Bourne shell (report
1388 by Marco d'Itri via tin-dev).
1391 + some changes to adapt the form library to wide characters, incomplete
1392 (request by Mike Aubury).
1393 + add symbol to curses.h which can be used to suppress include of
1395 #define NCURSES_ENABLE_STDBOOL_H 0
1397 (discussion on XFree86 mailing list).
1400 + modify configure --with-termlib option to accept a value which sets
1401 the name of the terminfo library. This would allow a packager to
1402 build libtinfow.so renamed to coincide with libtinfo.so (discussion
1403 with Stanislav Ievlev).
1404 + improve documentation of --with-install-prefix, --prefix and
1405 $(DESTDIR) in INSTALL (prompted by discussion with Paul Lew).
1406 + add configure check if the compiler can use -c -o options to rename
1407 its output file, use that to omit the 'cd' command which was used to
1408 ensure object files are created in a separate staging directory
1409 (prompted by comments by Johnny Wezel, Martin Mokrejs).
1411 20040208 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1414 20040207 pre-release
1415 + minor fixes to _nc_tparm_analyze(), i.e., do not count %i as a param,
1416 and do not count %d if it follows a %p.
1417 + correct an inconsistency between handling of codes in the 128-255
1418 range, e.g., as illustrated by test/ncurses.c f/F tests. In POSIX
1419 locale, the latter did not show printable results, while the former
1421 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to compensate for broken C preprocessor on Mac
1422 OS X, which alters "%%" to "% % " (report by Robert Simms, fix
1423 verified by Scott Corscadden).
1425 20040131 pre-release
1426 + modify SCREEN struct to align it between normal/wide curses flavors
1427 to simplify future changes to build a single version of libtinfo
1428 (patch by Stanislav Ievlev).
1429 + document handling of carriage return by addch() in manpage.
1430 + document special features of unctrl() in manpage.
1431 + documented interface changes in INSTALL.
1432 + corrected control-char test in lib_addch.c to account for locale
1433 (Debian #230335, cf: 971206).
1434 + updated test/configure.in to use AC_EXEEXT and AC_OBJEXT.
1435 + fixes to compile Ada95 binding with Debian gnat 3.15p-4 package.
1436 + minor configure-script fixes for older ports, e.g., BeOS R4.5.
1438 20040125 pre-release
1439 + amend change to PutAttrChar() from 20030614 which computed the number
1440 of cells for a possibly multi-cell character. The 20030614 change
1441 forced the cell to a blank if the result from wcwidth() was not
1442 greater than zero. However, wcwidth() called for parameters in the
1443 range 128-255 can give this return value. The logic now simply
1444 ensures that the number of cells is greater than zero without
1445 modifying the displayed value.
1447 20040124 pre-release
1448 + looked good for 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org (but see above)
1449 + modify configure script check for ranlib to use AC_CHECK_TOOL, since
1450 that works better for cross-compiling.
1452 20040117 pre-release
1453 + modify lib_get_wch.c to prefer mblen/mbtowc over mbrlen/mbrtowc to
1454 work around core dump in Solaris 8's locale support, e.g., for
1455 zh_CN.GB18030 (report by Saravanan Bellan).
1456 + add includes for <stdarg.h> and <stdio.h> in configure script macro
1457 to make <wchar.h> check work with Tru64 4.0d.
1458 + add terminfo entry for U/Win -TD
1459 + add terminfo entries for SFU aka Interix aka OpenNT (Federico
1461 + modify tput's error messages to prefix them with the program name
1462 (report by Vincent Lefevre, patch by Daniel Jacobowitz (see Debian
1464 + correct a place in tack where exit_standout_mode was used instead of
1465 exit_attribute_mode (patch by Jochen Voss (see Debian #224443)).
1466 + modify c++/cursesf.h to use const in the Enumeration_Field method.
1467 + remove an ambiguous (actually redundant) method from c++/cursesf.h
1468 + make $HOME/.terminfo update optional (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
1469 + improve sed script which extracts libtool's version in the
1470 CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro.
1471 + add ifdef'd call to AC_PROG_LIBTOOL to CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro (to
1472 simplify local patch for Albert Chin-A-Young)..
1473 + add $(CXXFLAGS) to link command in c++/Makefile.in (adapted from
1474 patch by Albert Chin-A-Young)..
1475 + fix a missing substitution in configure.in for "$target" needed for
1477 + resync CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro with lynx; fixes IRIX64 and
1478 NetBSD 1.6 conflicts with _XOPEN_SOURCE.
1479 + make check for stdbool.h more specific, to ensure that including it
1480 will actually define/declare bool for the configured compiler.
1481 + rewrite ifdef's in curses.h relating NCURSES_BOOL and bool. The
1482 intention of that is to #define NCURSES_BOOL as bool when the
1483 compiler declares bool, and to #define bool as NCURSES_BOOL when it
1484 does not (reported by Jim Gifford, Sam Varshavchik, cf: 20031213).
1486 20040110 pre-release
1487 + change minor version to 4, i.e., ncurses 5.4
1488 + revised/improved terminfo entries for tvi912b, tvi920b (Benjamin C W
1490 + simplified ncurses/base/version.c by defining the result from the
1491 configure script rather than using sprintf (suggested by Stanislav
1493 + remove obsolete casts from c++/cursesw.h (reported by Stanislav
1495 + modify configure script so that when configuring for termlib, programs
1496 such as tic are not linked with the upper-level ncurses library
1497 (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
1498 + move version.c from ncurses/base to ncurses/tinfo to allow linking
1499 of tic, etc., using libtinfo (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
1502 + adjust -D's to build ncursesw on OpenBSD.
1503 + modify CF_PROG_EXT to make OS/2 build with EXEEXT.
1504 + add pecho_wchar().
1505 + remove <wctype.h> include from lib_slk_wset.c which is not needed (or
1506 available) on older platforms.
1509 + add -D's to build ncursew on FreeBSD 5.1.
1510 + modify shared library configuration for FreeBSD 4.x/5.x to add the
1511 soname information (request by Marc Glisse).
1512 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() to not use MAX_ALIAS, but PATH_MAX only
1513 for limiting the length of a filename in the terminfo database.
1514 + modify termname() to return the terminal name used by setupterm()
1515 rather than $TERM, without truncating to 14 characters as documented
1516 by X/Open (report by Stanislav Ievlev, cf: 970719).
1517 + re-add definition for _BSD_TYPES, lost in merge (cf: 20031206).
1520 + add configure option --with-manpage-format=catonly to address
1521 behavior of BSDI, allow install of man+cat files on NetBSD, whose
1522 behavior has diverged by requiring both to be present.
1523 + remove leading blanks from comment-lines in manlinks.sed script to
1524 work with Tru64 4.0d.
1525 + add screen.linux terminfo entry (discussion on mutt-users mailing
1529 + add a check for tic to flag missing backslashes for termcap
1530 continuation lines. ncurses reads the whole entry, but termcap
1531 applications do not.
1532 + add configure option "--with-manpage-aliases" extending
1533 "--with-manpage-aliases" to provide the option of generating ".so"
1534 files rather than symbolic links for manpage aliases.
1535 + add bool definition in include/curses.h.in for configurations with no
1536 usable C++ compiler (cf: 20030607).
1537 + fix pathname of SigAction.h for building with --srcdir (reported by
1541 + folded ncurses/base/sigaction.c into includes of ncurses/SigAction.h,
1542 since that header is used only within ncurses/tty/lib_tstp.c, for
1543 non-POSIX systems (discussion with Stanislav Ievlev).
1544 + remove obsolete _nc_outstr() function (report by Stanislav Ievlev
1545 <inger@altlinux.org>).
1546 + add test/background.c and test/color_set.c
1547 + modify color_set() function to work with color pair 0 (report by
1548 George Andreou <gbandreo@tem.uoc.gr>).
1549 + add configure option --with-trace, since defining TRACE seems too
1550 awkward for some cases.
1551 + remove a call to _nc_free_termtype() from read_termtype(), since the
1552 corresponding buffer contents were already zeroed by a memset (cf:
1554 + improve configure check for _XOPEN_SOURCE and related definitions,
1555 adding special cases for Solaris' __EXTENSIONS__ and FreeBSD's
1556 __BSD_TYPES (reports by Marc Glisse <marc.glisse@normalesup.org>).
1557 + small fixes to compile on Solaris and IRIX64 using cc.
1558 + correct typo in check for pre-POSIX sort options in MKkey_defs.sh
1562 + modify _nc_gettime() to avoid a problem with arithmetic on unsigned
1563 values (Philippe Blain).
1564 + improve the nanosleep() logic in napms() by checking for EINTR and
1565 restarting (Philippe Blain).
1566 + correct expression for "%D" in lib_tgoto.c (Juha Jarvi
1570 + add linux-vt terminfo entry (Andrey V Lukyanov <land@long.yar.ru>).
1571 + allow "\|" escape in terminfo; tic should not warn about this.
1572 + save the full pathname of the trace-file the first time it is opened,
1573 to avoid creating it in different directories if the application
1574 opens and closes it while changing its working directory.
1575 + modify configure script to provide a non-empty default for
1579 + add DJGPP to special case of DOS-style drive letters potentially
1580 appearing in TERMCAP environment variable.
1581 + fix some spelling in comments (reports by jmc, Jonathon Gray).
1582 + update config.guess, config.sub
1585 + fix a memory leak in error-return from setupterm() (report by
1586 Stanislav Ievlev <inger@altlinux.org>).
1587 + use EXEEXT and OBJEXT consistently in makefiles.
1588 + amend fixes for cross-compiling to use separate executable-suffix
1589 BUILD_EXEEXT (cf: 20031018).
1590 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for sort utility that does not
1591 recognize key options, e.g., busybox (report by Peter S Mazinger
1593 + fix potential out-of-bounds indexing in _nc_infotocap() (found by
1594 David Krause using some of the new malloc debugging features
1595 under OpenBSD, patch by Ted Unangst).
1596 + modify CF_LIB_SUFFIX for Itanium releases of HP-UX, which use a
1597 ".so" suffix (patch by Jonathan Ward <Jonathan.Ward@hp.com>).
1600 + update terminfo for xterm-xfree86 -TD
1601 + add check for multiple "tc=" clauses in a termcap to tic.
1602 + check for missing op/oc in tic.
1603 + correct _nc_resolve_uses() and _nc_merge_entry() to allow infocmp and
1604 tic to show cancelled capabilities. These functions were ignoring
1605 the state of the target entry, which should be untouched if cancelled.
1606 + correct comment in tack/output.c (Debian #215806).
1607 + add some null-pointer checks to lib_options.c (report by Michael
1609 + regenerated html documentation.
1610 + correction to tar-copy.sh, remove a trap command that resulted in
1611 leaving temporary files (cf: 20030510).
1612 + remove contact/maintainer addresses for Juergen Pfeifer (his request).
1615 + updated test/configure to reflect changes for libtool (cf: 20030830).
1616 + fix several places in tack/pad.c which tested and used the parameter-
1617 and parameterless strings inconsistently, i.e., in pad_rin(),
1618 pad_il(), pad_indn() and pad_dl() (Debian #215805).
1619 + minor fixes for configure script and makefiles to cleanup executables
1620 generated when cross-compiling for DJGPP.
1621 + modify infocmp to omit check for $TERM for operations that do not
1622 require it, e.g., "infocmp -e" used to build fallback list (report by
1626 + add terminfo entries for DJGPP.
1627 + updated note about maintainer in ncurses-intro.html
1630 + update terminfo entries for gnome terminal.
1631 + modify tack to reset colors after each color test, correct a place
1632 where exit_standout_mode was used instead of exit_attribute_mode.
1633 + improve tack's bce test by making it set colors other than black
1635 + plug a potential recursion between napms() and _nc_timed_wait()
1636 (report by Philippe Blain).
1639 + add --with-rel-version option to allow workaround to allow making
1640 libtool on Darwin generate the "same" library names as with the
1641 --with-shared option. The Darwin ld program does not work well
1642 with a zero as the minor-version value (request by Chris Zubrzycki).
1643 + modify CF_MIXEDCASE_FILENAMES macro to work with cross-compiling.
1644 + modify tack to allow it to run from fallback terminfo data.
1645 > patch by Philippe Blain:
1646 + improve PutRange() by adjusting call to EmitRange() and corresponding
1647 return-value to not emit unchanged characters on the end of the
1649 + improve a check for changed-attribute by exiting a loop when the
1651 + improve logic in TransformLine(), eliminating a duplicated comparison
1652 in the clr_bol logic.
1655 > patch by Philippe Blain:
1656 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
1657 move the label 'nonlocal' just before the second gettimeofday() to
1658 be able to compute the diff time when 'goto nonlocal' used.
1659 Rename 'msec' to 'microsec' in the debug-message.
1660 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
1661 Use _nc_outch() in carriage return/newline movement instead of
1662 putchar() which goes to stdout. Move test for xold>0 out of loop.
1663 + in ncurses/tinfo/setbuf.c,
1664 Set the flag SP->_buffered at the end of operations when all has been
1665 successful (typeMalloc can fail).
1666 + simplify NC_BUFFERED macro by moving check inside _nc_setbuf().
1669 + modify configure script to avoid using "head -1", which does not
1670 work if POSIXLY_CORRECT (sic) is set.
1671 + modify run_tic.in to avoid using wrong shared libraries when
1672 cross-compiling (Dan Kegel).
1675 + alter configure script help message to make it clearer that
1676 --with-build-cc does not specify a cross-compiler (suggested by Dan
1677 Kegel <dank@kegel.com>).
1678 + modify configure script to accommodate libtool 1.5, as well as add an
1679 parameter to the "--with-libtool" option which can specify the
1680 pathname of libtool (report by Chris Zubrzycki). We note that
1681 libtool 1.5 has more than one bug in its C++ support, so it is not
1682 able to install libncurses++, for instance, if $DESTDIR or the option
1683 --with-install-prefix is used.
1686 > patch by Philippe Blain:
1687 + move assignments to SP->_cursrow, SP->_curscol into online_mvcur().
1688 + make baudrate computation in delay_output() consistent with the
1689 assumption in _nc_mvcur_init(), i.e., a byte is 9 bits.
1692 + modify logic in waddch_literal() to take into account zh_TW.Big5
1693 whose multibyte sequences may contain "printable" characters, e.g.,
1694 a "g" in the sequence "\247g" (Debian #204889, cf: 20030621).
1695 + improve storage used by _nc_safe_strcpy() by ensuring that the size
1696 is reset based on the initialization call, in case it were called
1697 after other strcpy/strcat calls (report by Philippe Blain).
1698 > patch by Philippe Blain:
1699 + remove an unused ifdef for REAL_ATTR & WANT_CHAR
1700 + correct a place where _cup_cost was used rather than _cuu_cost
1703 + fix a small memory leak in _nc_free_termtype().
1704 + close trace-file if trace() is called with a zero parameter.
1705 + free memory allocated for soft-key strings, in delscreen().
1706 + fix an allocation size in safe_sprintf.c for the "*" format code.
1707 + correct safe_sprintf.c to not return a null pointer if the format
1708 happens to be an empty string. This applies to the "configure
1709 --enable-safe-sprintf" option (Redhat #101486).
1712 + modify casts used for ABSENT_BOOLEAN and CANCELLED_BOOLEAN (report by
1714 > patch by Philippe Blain:
1715 + change padding for change_scroll_region to not be proportional to
1716 the size of the scroll-region.
1717 + correct error-return in _nc_safe_strcat().
1720 + correct limit-checks in _nc_scroll_window() (report and test-case by
1721 Thomas Graf <graf@dms.at> cf: 20011020).
1722 + re-order configure checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE to avoid conflict with
1726 + use clr_eol in preference to blanks for bce terminals, so select and
1727 paste will have fewer trailing blanks, e.g., when using xterm
1728 (request by Vincent Lefevre).
1729 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
1730 + add configure --with-abi-version option (discussion with Charles
1732 > cygwin changes from Charles Wilson:
1733 + aclocal.m4: on cygwin, use autodetected prefix for import
1734 and static lib, but use "cyg" for DLL.
1735 + include/ncurses_dll.h: correct the comments to reflect current
1736 status of cygwin/mingw port. Fix compiler warning.
1737 + misc/run_tic.in: ensure that tic.exe can find the uninstalled
1738 DLL, by adding the lib-directory to the PATH variable.
1739 + misc/terminfo.src (nxterm|xterm-color): make xterm-color
1740 primary instead of nxterm, to match XFree86's xterm.terminfo
1741 usage and to prevent circular links.
1742 (rxvt): add additional codes from rxvt.org.
1743 (rxvt-color): new alias
1744 (rxvt-xpm): new alias
1745 (rxvt-cygwin): like rxvt, but with special acsc codes.
1746 (rxvt-cygwin-native): ditto. rxvt may be run under XWindows, or
1747 with a "native" MSWin GUI. Each takes different acsc codes,
1748 which are both different from the "normal" rxvt's acsc.
1749 (cygwin): cygwin-in-cmd.exe window. Lots of fixes.
1751 + mk-1st.awk: use "cyg" for the DLL prefix, but "lib" for import
1755 + update config.guess, config.sub
1756 + add triples for configuring shared libraries with the Debian
1757 GNU/FreeBSD packages (patch by Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es>).
1760 + modify CF_GCC_WARNINGS so it only applies to gcc, not g++. Some
1761 platforms have installed g++ along with the native C compiler, which
1762 would not accept gcc warning options.
1763 + add -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 when configuring with --enable-widec, to
1764 get mbstate_t declaration on HPUX 11.11 (report by David Ellement).
1765 + add _nc_pathlast() to get rid of casts in _nc_basename() calls.
1766 + correct a sign-extension in wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() from
1767 20030628 (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
1768 + work around omission of btowc() and wctob() from wide-character
1769 support (sic) in NetBSD 1.6 using mbtowc() and wctomb() (report by
1771 + add portability note to curs_get_wstr.3x (Debian #199957).
1774 + rewrite wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to call waddch() and wechochar()
1775 respectively, to avoid calling waddch_noecho() with wide-character
1776 data, since that function assumes its input is 8-bit data.
1777 Similarly, modify waddnwstr() to call wadd_wch().
1778 + remove logic from waddnstr() which transformed multibyte character
1779 strings into wide-characters. Rewrite of waddch_literal() from
1780 20030621 assumes its input is raw multibyte data rather than wide
1781 characters (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
1784 + write getyx() and related 2-return macros in terms of getcury(),
1786 + modify waddch_literal() in case an application passes bytes of a
1787 multibyte character directly to waddch(). In this case, waddch()
1788 must reassemble the bytes into a wide-character (report by Tomohiro
1789 Kubota <kubota@debian.org>).
1792 + modify waddch_literal() in case a multibyte value occupies more than
1794 + modify PutAttrChar() to compute the number of character cells that
1795 are used in multibyte values. This fixes a problem displaying
1796 double-width characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen
1797 <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
1798 + add a null-pointer check for result of keyname() in _tracechar()
1799 + modify _tracechar() to work around glibc sprintf bug.
1802 + add a call to setlocale() in cursesmain.cc, making demo display
1803 properly in a UTF-8 locale.
1804 + add a fallback definition in curses.priv.h for MB_LEN_MAX (prompted
1805 by discussion with Gabor Z Papp).
1806 + use macros NCURSES_ACS() and NCURSES_WACS() to hide cast needed to
1807 appease -Wchar-subscript with g++ 3.3 (Debian #195732).
1808 + fix a redefinition of $RANLIB in the configure script when libtool
1809 is used, which broke configure on Mac OS X (report by Chris Zubrzycki
1811 + simplify ifdef for bool declaration in curses.h.in (suggested by
1812 Albert Chin-A-Young).
1813 + remove configure script check to allow -Wconversion for older
1814 versions of gcc (suggested by Albert Chin-A-Young).
1817 + regenerated html manpages.
1818 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in that disabled use of __attribute__()
1819 for g++, since recent versions implement the cases which ncurses uses
1821 + modify _nc_get_token() to handle a case where an entry has no
1822 description, and capabilities begin on the same line as the entry
1824 + fix a typo in ncurses_dll.h reported by gcc 3.3.
1825 + add an entry for key_defined.3x to man_db.renames.
1828 + modify setcchar() to allow converting control characters to complex
1829 characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
1830 + add tkterm entry -TD
1831 + modify parse_entry.c to allow a terminfo entry with a leading
1832 2-character name (report by Don Libes).
1833 + corrected acsc in screen.teraterm, which requires a PC-style mapping.
1834 + fix trace statements in read_entry.c to use lseek() rather than
1836 + fix signed/unsigned warnings from Sun's compiler (gcc should give
1837 these warnings, but it is unpredictable).
1838 + modify configure script to omit -Winline for gcc 3.3, since that
1840 + modify manlinks.sed to add a few functions that were overlooked since
1841 they return function pointers: field_init, field_term, form_init,
1842 form_term, item_init, item_term, menu_init and menu_term.
1845 + prevent recursion in wgetch() via wgetnstr() if the connection cannot
1846 be switched between cooked/raw modes because it is not a TTY (report
1847 by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.com>).
1848 + change parameter of define_key() and key_defined() to const (prompted
1850 + add a check in test/configure for ncurses extensions, since there
1851 are some older versions, etc., which would not compile with the
1852 current test programs.
1853 + corrected demo in test/ncurses.c of wgetn_wstr(), which did not
1854 convert wchar_t string to multibyte form before printing it.
1855 + corrections to lib_get_wstr.c:
1856 + null-terminate buffer passed to setcchar(), which occasionally
1858 + map special characters such as erase- and kill-characters into
1859 key-codes so those will work as expected even if they are not
1860 mentioned in the terminfo.
1861 + modify PUTC() and Charable() macros to make wide-character line
1862 drawing work for POSIX locale on Linux console (cf: 20021221).
1865 + make typography for program options in manpages consistent (report
1866 by Miloslav Trmac <mitr@volny.cz>).
1867 + correct dependencies in Ada95/src/Makefile.in, so the builds with
1868 "--srcdir" work (report by Warren L Dodge).
1869 + correct missing definition of $(CC) in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in
1870 (reported by Warren L Dodge <warrend@mdhost.cse.tek.com>).
1871 + fix typos and whitespace in manpages (patch by jmc
1872 <jmc@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl>).
1875 + fix form_driver() cases for REQ_CLR_EOF, REQ_CLR_EOL, REQ_DEL_CHAR,
1876 REQ_DEL_PREV and REQ_NEW_LINE, which did not ensure the cursor was at
1877 the editing position before making modifications.
1878 + add test/demo_forms and associated test/edit_field.c demos.
1879 + modify test/configure.in to use test/modules for the list of objects
1880 to compile rather than using the list of programs.
1883 + modify logic of acsc to use the original character if no mapping is
1884 defined, noting that Solaris does this.
1885 + modify ncurses 'b' test to avoid using the acs_map[] array since
1886 20021231 changes it to no longer contain information from the acsc
1888 + modify makefile rules in c++, progs, tack and test to ensure that
1889 the compiler flags (e.g., $CFLAGS or $CCFLAGS) are used in the link
1890 command (report by Jose Luis Rico Botella <informatica@serpis.com>).
1891 + modify soft-key initialization to use A_REVERSE if A_STANDOUT would
1892 not be shown when colors are used, i.e., if ncv#1 is set in the
1893 terminfo as is done in "screen".
1896 + add a test for slk_color(), in ncurses.c
1897 + fix some issues reported by valgrind in the slk_set() and slk_wset()
1898 code, from recent rewrite.
1899 + modify ncurses 'E' test to use show previous label via slk_label(),
1901 + modify wide-character versions of NewChar(), NewChar2() macros to
1902 ensure that the whole struct is initialized.
1905 + modify setupterm() to check if the terminfo and terminal-modes have
1906 already been read. This ensures that it does not reinvoke
1907 def_prog_mode() when an application calls more than one function,
1908 such as tgetent() and initscr() (report by Olaf Buddenhagen).
1911 + add 'E' test to ncurses.c, to exercise slk_wset().
1912 + correct handling of carriage-return in wgetn_wstr(), used in demo of
1914 + first draft of slk_wset() function.
1917 + improved warnings in tic when suppressing items to fit in termcap's
1919 + built a list in test/README showing which externals are being used
1920 by either programs in the test-directory or via internal library
1922 + adjust include-options in CF_ETIP_DEFINES to avoid missing
1923 ncurses_dll.h, fixing special definitions that may be needed for
1924 etip.h (reported by Greg Schafer <gschafer@zip.com.au>).
1927 + minor fixes for cardfile.c, to make it write the updated fields to
1928 a file when ^W is given.
1929 + add/use _nc_trace_bufcat() to eliminate some fixed buffer limits in
1933 + correct a case in _nc_remove_string(), used by define_key(), to avoid
1934 infinite loop if the given string happens to be a substring of other
1935 strings which are assigned to keys (report by John McCutchan).
1936 + add key_defined() function, to tell which keycode a string is bound
1937 to (discussion with John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>).
1938 + correct keybound(), which reported definitions in the wrong table,
1939 i.e., the list of definitions which are disabled by keyok().
1940 + modify demo_keydef.c to show the details it changes, and to check
1944 + restructured test/configure script, make it work for libncursesw.
1945 + add description of link_fieldtype() to manpage (report by
1946 L Dee Holtsclaw <dee@sunbeltsoft.com>).
1949 + corrected ifdef's relating to configure check for wchar_t, etc.
1950 + if the output is a socket or other non-tty device, use 1 millisecond
1951 for the cost in mvcur; previously it was 9 milliseconds because the
1952 baudrate was not known.
1953 + in _nc_get_tty_mode(), initialize the TTY buffer on error, since
1954 glibc copies uninitialized data in that case, as noted by valgrind.
1955 + modify tput to use the same parameter analysis as tparm() does, to
1956 provide for user-defined strings, e.g., for xterm title, a
1957 corresponding capability might be
1959 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to avoid passing "#" tokens through the C
1960 preprocessor. This works around Mac OS X's preprocessor, which
1961 insists on adding a blank on each side of the token (report/analysis
1962 by Kevin Murphy <murphy@genome.chop.edu>).
1965 + add configure check for wchar_t and wint_t types, rather than rely
1966 on preprocessor definitions. Also work around for gcc fixinclude
1967 bug which creates a shadow copy of curses.h if it sees these symbols
1968 apparently typedef'd.
1969 + if database is disabled, do not generate run_tic.sh
1970 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking when termcap is read.
1973 + add checking in tic for incomplete line-drawing character mapping.
1974 + update configure script to reflect fix for AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL,
1975 which is broken in autoconf 2.5x for Mac OS X 10.2.3 (report by
1976 Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl>).
1977 + make return value from _nc_printf_string() consistent. Before,
1978 depending on whether --enable-safe-sprintf was used, it might not be
1979 cached for reallocating.
1982 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking in lib_tparm.c, hardscroll.c
1983 + correct a potentially-uninitialized value if _read_termtype() does
1984 not read as much data as expected (report by Wolfgang Rohdewald
1986 + correct several places where the aclocal.m4 macros relied on cache
1987 variable names which were incompatible (as usual) between autoconf
1988 2.13 and 2.5x, causing the test for broken-linker to give incorrect
1989 results (reports by Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl> and Thomas Esser
1990 <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de>).
1991 + do not try to open gpm mouse driver if standard output is not a tty;
1992 the gpm library does not make this check (bug report for dialog
1993 by David Oliveira <davidoliveira@develop.prozone.ws>).
1996 + modified emx.src to correspond more closely to terminfo.src, added
1997 emx-base to the latter -TD
1998 + add configure option for FreeBSD sysmouse, --with-sysmouse, and
1999 implement support for that in lib_mouse.c, lib_getch.c
2002 + revert 20030105 change to can_clear_with(), does not work for the
2003 case where the update is made on cells which are blanks with
2004 attributes, e.g., reverse.
2005 + improve ifdef's to guard against redefinition of wchar_t and wint_t
2006 in curses.h (report by Urs Jansen).
2009 + improve mvcur() by checking if it is safe to move when video
2010 attributes are set (msgr), and if not, reset/restore attributes
2011 within that function rather than doing it separately in the GoTo()
2012 function in tty_update.c (suggested by Philippe Blain).
2013 + add a message in run_tic.in to explain more clearly what does not
2014 work when attempting to create a symbolic link for /usr/lib/terminfo
2015 on OS/2 and other platforms with no symbolic links (report by John
2017 + change several sed scripts to avoid using "\+" since it is not a BRE
2018 (basic regular expression). One instance caused terminfo.5 to be
2019 misformatted on FreeBSD (report by Kazuo Horikawa
2020 <horikawa@FreeBSD.org> (see FreeBSD docs/46709)).
2021 + correct misspelled 'wint_t' in curs_get_wch.3x (Michael Elkins).
2024 + improve description of terminfo operators, especially static/dynamic
2025 variables (comments by Mark I Manning IV <mark4th@earthlink.net>).
2026 + demonstrate use of FIELDTYPE by modifying test/ncurses 'r' test to
2027 use the predefined TYPE_ALPHA field-type, and by defining a
2028 specialized type for the middle initial/name.
2029 + fix MKterminfo.sh, another workaround for POSIXLY_CORRECT misfeature
2031 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2032 + optimize can_clear_with() a little by testing first if the parameter
2033 is indeed a "blank".
2034 + simplify ClrBottom() a little by allowing it to use clr_eos to clear
2035 sections as small as one line.
2036 + improve ClrToEOL() by checking if clr_eos is available before trying
2038 + use tputs() rather than putp() in a few cases in tty_update.c since
2039 the corresponding delays are proportional to the number of lines
2040 affected: repeat_char, clr_eos, change_scroll_region.
2043 + rewrite of lib_acs.c conflicts with copying of SCREEN acs_map to/from
2044 global acs_map[] array; removed the lines that did the copying.
2047 + change some overlooked tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp()
2048 (report by Philippe Blain).
2049 + modify lib_getch.c to avoid recursion via wgetnstr() when the input
2050 is not a tty and consequently mode-changes do not work (report by
2051 <R.Chamberlin@querix.com>).
2052 + rewrote lib_acs.c to allow PutAttrChar() to decide how to render
2053 alternate-characters, i.e., to work with Linux console and UTF-8
2055 + correct line/column reference in adjust_window(), needed to make
2056 special windows such as curscr track properly when resizing (report
2057 by Lucas Gonze <lgonze@panix.com>).
2058 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2059 + correct the value used for blank in ClrBottom() (broken in 20000708).
2060 + correct an off-by-one in GoTo() parameter in _nc_scrolln().
2063 + change several tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp(), to
2064 enable padding which may be needed for some terminals (patch by
2066 + use '%' as sed substitute delimiter in run_tic script to avoid
2067 problems with pathname delimiters such as ':' and '@' (report by John
2069 + implement a workaround so that line-drawing works with screen's
2070 crippled UTF-8 support (tested with 3.9.13). This only works with
2071 the wide-character support (--enable-widec); the normal library will
2072 simply suppress line-drawing when running in a UTF-8 locale in screen.
2075 + allow BUILD_CC and related configure script variables to be
2076 overridden from the environment.
2077 + make build-tools variables in ncurses/Makefile.in consistent with
2078 the configure script variables (report by Maciej W Rozycki).
2079 + modify ncurses/modules to allow
2080 configure --disable-leaks --disable-ext-funcs
2081 to build (report by Gary Samuelson).
2082 + fix a few places in configure.in which lacked quotes (report by
2083 Gary Samuelson <gary.samuelson@verizon.com>).
2084 + correct handling of multibyte characters in waddch_literal() which
2085 force wrapping because they are started too late on the line (report
2086 by Sam Varshavchik).
2087 + small fix for CF_GNAT_VERSION to ignore the help-message which
2088 gnatmake adds to its version-message.
2089 > Maciej W Rozycki <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>:
2090 + use AC_CHECK_TOOL to get proper values for AR and LD for cross
2092 + use $cross_compiling variable in configure script rather than
2093 comparing $host_alias and $target alias, since "host" is
2094 traditionally misused in autoconf to refer to the target platform.
2095 + change configure --help message to use "build" rather than "host"
2096 when referring to the --with-build-XXX options.
2099 + modify CF_GNAT_VERSION to print gnatmake's version, and to allow for
2100 possible gnat versions such as 3.2 (report by Chris Lingard
2101 <chris@stockwith.co.uk>).
2102 + modify #define's for CKILL and other default control characters in
2103 tset to use the system's default values if they are defined.
2104 + correct interchanged defaults for kill and interrupt characters
2105 in tset, which caused it to report unnecessarily (Debian #171583).
2106 + repair check for missing C++ compiler, which is broken in autoconf
2107 2.5x by hardcoding it to g++ (report by Martin Mokrejs).
2108 + update config.guess, config.sub (2002-11-30)
2109 + modify configure script to skip --with-shared, etc., when the
2110 --with-libtool option is given, since they would be ignored anyway.
2111 + fix to allow "configure --with-libtool --with-termlib" to build.
2112 + modify configure script to show version number of libtool, to help
2113 with bug reports. libtool still gets confused if the installed
2114 ncurses libraries are old, since it ignores the -L options at some
2115 point (tested with libtool 1.3.3 and 1.4.3).
2116 + reorder configure script's updating of $CPPFLAGS and $CFLAGS to
2117 prevent -I options in the user's environment from introducing
2118 conflicts with the build -I options (may be related to reports by
2119 Patrick Ash and George Goffe).
2120 + rename test/define_key.c to test/demo_defkey.c, test/keyok.c to
2121 test/demo_keyok.c to allow building these with libtool.
2124 + add example program test/define_key.c for define_key().
2125 + add example program test/keyok.c for keyok().
2126 + add example program test/ins_wide.c for wins_wch() and wins_wstr().
2127 + modify wins_wch() and wins_wstr() to interpret tabs by using the
2128 winsch() internal function.
2129 + modify setcchar() to allow for wchar_t input strings that have
2130 more than one spacing character.
2133 + fix a boundary check in lib_insch.c (patch by Philippe Blain).
2134 + change type for *printw functions from NCURSES_CONST to const
2135 (prompted by comment by Pedro Palhoto Matos <plpm@mega.ist.utl.pt>,
2136 but really from a note on X/Open's website stating that either is
2137 acceptable, and the latter will be used in a future revision).
2138 + add xterm-1002, xterm-1003 terminfo entries to demonstrate changes in
2139 lib_mouse.c (20021026) -TD
2140 + add screen-bce, screen-s entries from screen 3.9.13 (report by
2141 Adam Lazur <zal@debian.org>) -TD
2142 + add mterm terminfo entries -TD
2145 + split-out useful fragments in terminfo for vt100 and vt220 numeric
2146 keypad, i.e., vt100+keypad, vt100+pfkeys, vt100+fnkeys and
2147 vt220+keypad. The last as embedded in various entries had ka3 and
2148 kb2 interchanged (report/discussion with Leonard den Ottolander
2149 <leonardjo@hetnet.nl>).
2150 + add check in tic for keypads consistent with vt100 layout.
2151 + improve checks in tic for color capabilities
2154 + check for missing/empty/illegal terminfo name in _nc_read_entry()
2155 (report by Martin Mokrejs, where $TERM was set to an empty string).
2156 + rewrote lib_insch.c, combining it with lib_insstr.c so both handle
2157 tab and other control characters consistently (report by Philippe
2159 + remove an #undef for KEY_EVENT from curses.tail used in the
2160 experimental NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS feature. The #undef confuses
2161 dpkg's build script (Debian #165897).
2162 + fix MKlib_gen.sh, working around the ironically named POSIXLY_CORRECT
2163 feature of GNU sed 4.0 (reported by Ervin Nemeth <airwin@inf.bme.hu>).
2166 + implement logic in lib_mouse.c to handle position reports which are
2167 generated when XFree86 xterm is initialized with private modes 1002
2168 or 1003. These are returned to the application as the
2169 REPORT_MOUSE_POSITION mask, which was not implemented. Tested both
2170 with ncurses 'a' menu (prompted by discussion with Larry Riedel
2171 <Larry@Riedel.org>).
2172 + modify lib_mouse.c to look for "XM" terminfo string, which allows
2173 one to override the escape sequence used to enable/disable mouse
2174 mode. In particular this works for XFree86 xterm private modes
2175 1002 and 1003. If "XM" is missing (note that this is an extended
2176 name), lib_mouse uses the conventional private mode 1000.
2177 + correct NOT_LOCAL() macro in lib_mvcur.c to refer to screen_columns
2178 where it used screen_lines (report by Philippe Blain).
2179 + correct makefile rules for the case when both --with-libtool and
2180 --with-gpm are given (report by Mr E_T <troll@logi.net.au>).
2181 + add note to terminfo manpage regarding the differences between
2182 setaf/setab and setf/setb capabilities (report by Pavel Roskin).
2185 + remove redundant initialization of TABSIZE in newterm(), since it is
2186 already done in setupterm() (report by Philippe Blain).
2187 + add test/inserts.c, to test winnstr() and winsch().
2188 + replace 'sort' in dist.mk with script that sets locale to POSIX.
2189 + update URLs in announce.html.in (patch by Frederic L W Meunier).
2190 + remove glibc add-on files, which are no longer needed (report by
2191 Frederic L W Meunier).
2193 20021012 5.3 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2194 + modify ifdef's in etip.h.in to allow the etip.h header to compile
2195 with gcc 3.2 (patch by Dimitar Zhekov <jimmy@is-vn.bg>).
2196 + add logic to setupterm() to make it like initscr() and newterm(),
2197 by checking for $NCURSES_TRACE environment variable and enabling
2198 the debug trace in that case.
2199 + modify setupterm() to ensure that it initializes the baudrate, for
2200 applications such as tput (report by Frank Henigman).
2201 + modify definition of bits used for command-line and library debug
2202 traces to avoid overlap, using new definition TRACE_SHIFT to relate
2204 + document tput's interpretation of parameterized strings according to
2205 whether parameters are given, etc. (discussion with Robert De Bath).
2207 20021005 pre-release
2208 + correct winnwstr() to account for non-character cells generated when
2209 a double-width character is added (report by Michael Bienia
2210 <michael@vorlon.ping.de>).
2211 + modify _nc_viswbuf2n() to provide better results using wctomb().
2212 + correct logic in _nc_varargs() which broke tracing of parameters for
2213 formats such as "%.*s".
2214 + correct scale factor in linux-c and linux-c-nc terminfo entries
2215 (report Floyd Davidson).
2216 + change tic -A option to -t, add the same option to infocmp for
2218 + correct "%c" implementation in lib_tparm.c, which did not map a null
2219 character to a 128 (cf: 980620) (patch by Frank Henigman
2220 <fjhenigman@mud.cgl.uwaterloo.ca>).
2222 20020928 pre-release
2223 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for POSIX sort -k option, use that if
2224 it is found, to accommodate newer utility which dropped the
2225 compatibility support for +number options (reported by Andrey A
2227 + modify linux terminfo entry to use color palette feature from
2228 linux-c-nc entry (comments by Tomasz Wasiak and Floyd Davidson).
2229 + restore original color definitions in endwin() if init_color() was
2230 used, and resume those colors on the next doupdate() or refresh()
2231 (report by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@komputom.com.pl>).
2232 + improve debug-traces by modifying MKlib_gen.sh to generate calls
2233 to returnBool() and returnAttr().
2234 + add/use _nc_visbufn() and _nc_viswbufn() to limit the debug trace
2235 of waddnstr() and similar functions to match the parameters as used.
2236 + add/use _nc_retrace_bool() and _nc_retrace_unsigned().
2237 + correct type used by _nc_retrace_chtype().
2238 + add debug traces to some functions in lib_mouse.c
2239 + modify lib_addch.c to handle non-spacing characters.
2240 + correct parameter of RemAttr() in lib_bkgd.c, which caused the c++
2241 demo's boxes to lose the A_ALTCHARSET flag (broken in 20020629).
2242 + correct width computed in _tracedump(), which did not account for
2243 the attributes (broken in 20010602).
2244 + modify test/tracemunch to replace addresses for windows other than
2245 curscr, newscr and stdscr with window0, window1, etc.
2247 20020921 pre-release
2248 + redid fix for edit_man.sed path.
2249 + workaround for Cygwin bug which makes subprocess writes to stdout
2250 result in core dump.
2251 + documented getbegx(), etc.
2252 + minor fixes to configure script to use '%' consistently as a sed
2253 delimiter rather than '@'.
2254 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2255 + add check in lib_overlay.c to ensure that the windows to be merged
2256 actually overlap, and in copywin(), limit the area to be touched
2257 to the lines given for the destination window.
2259 20020914 pre-release
2260 + modified curses.h so that if the wide-character version is installed
2261 overwriting /usr/include/curses.h, and if it relied on libutf8.h,
2262 then applications that use that header for wide-character support
2263 must define HAVE_LIBUTF8_H.
2264 + modify putwin(), getwin() and dupwin() to allow them to operate on
2265 pads (request by Philippe Blain).
2266 + correct attribute-merging in wborder(), broken in 20020216 (report
2267 by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@grubasek.komputom.com.pl>).
2268 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2269 + corrected pop-counts in tparam_internal() to '!' and '~' cases.
2270 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in one place that used sizeof(chtype).
2271 + remove some unused variables from mvcur test-driver.
2273 20020907 pre-release
2274 + change configure script to allow install of widec-character
2275 (ncursesw) headers to overwrite normal (ncurses) headers, since the
2276 latter is a compatible subset of the former.
2277 + fix path of edit_man.sed in configure script, needed to regenerate
2278 html manpages on Debian.
2279 + fix mismatched enums in vsscanf.c, which caused warning on Solaris.
2280 + update README.emx to reflect current patch used for autoconf.
2281 + change web- and ftp-site to invisible-island.net
2282 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2283 + change case for 'P' in tparam_internal() to indicate that it pops
2284 a variable from the stack.
2285 + correct sense of precision and width in parse_format(), to avoid
2287 + modify lib_tparm.c, absorb really_get_space() into get_space().
2288 + modify getwin() and dupwin() to copy the _notimeout, _idlok and
2289 _idcok window fields.
2290 + better fix for _nc_set_type(), using typeMalloc().
2292 20020901 pre-release
2293 + change minor version to 3, i.e., ncurses 5.3
2294 + update config.guess, config.sub
2295 + retest build with each configure option; minor ifdef fixes.
2296 + make keyname() return a null pointer rather than "UNKNOWN STRING" to
2298 + modify handling of wide line-drawing character functions to use the
2299 normal line-drawing characters when not in UTF-8 locale.
2300 + add check/fix to comp_parse.c to suppress warning about missing acsc
2301 string. This happens in configurations where raw termcap information
2302 is processed; tic already does this and other checks.
2303 + modify tic's check for ich/ich1 versus rmir/smir to only warn about
2304 ich1, to match xterm patch #70 notes.
2305 + moved information for ripped-off lines into SCREEN struct to allow
2306 use in resizeterm().
2307 + add experimental wgetch_events(), ifdef'd with NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS
2308 (adapted from patch by Ilya Zakharevich - see ncurses/README.IZ).
2309 + amend check in kgetch() from 20020824 to look only for function-keys,
2310 otherwise escape sequences are not resolved properly.
2311 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2312 + removed redundant assignment to SP->_checkfd from newterm().
2313 + check return-value of setupterm() in restartterm().
2314 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in a few places that used sizeof(chtype).
2315 + prevent dupwin() from duplicating a pad.
2316 + prevent putwin() from writing a pad.
2317 + use typeRealloc() or typeMalloc() in preference to direct calls on
2321 + add a check in kgetch() for cooked characters in the fifo to avoid
2322 calling fifo_push() when a KEY_RESIZE is available (report/analysis
2323 by Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>).
2324 + fix an overlooked case for bugzilla #68199 (Philippe Blain).
2325 + ensure clearerr() is called before using ferror() e.g., in
2326 lib_screen.c (report by Philippe Blain).
2329 + modify lib_screen.c and lib_newwin.c to maintain the SCREEN-specific
2330 pointers for curscr/stdscr/newscr when scr_save() and scr_restore()
2331 modify the global curscr/stdscr/newscr variables. Fixes Redhat
2332 bugzilla #68199 dated 2002-07-07.
2333 + add checks for null pointer in calls to tparm() and tgoto() based on
2334 FreeBSD bug report. If ncurses were built with termcap support, and
2335 the first call to tgoto() were a zero-length string, the result would
2336 be a null pointer, which was not handled properly.
2337 + correct a typo in terminfo.head, which gave the octal code for colon
2339 + remove the "tic -u" option from 20020810, since it did not account
2340 for nested "tc=" clauses, and when that was addressed, was still
2344 + add tic -A option to suppress capabilities which are commented out
2345 when translating to termcap.
2346 + add tic -u option to provide older behavior of "tc=" clauses.
2347 + modified tic to expand all but the final "tc=" clause in a termcap
2348 entry, to accommodate termcap libraries which do not handle multiple
2350 + correct typo in curs_inopts.3x regarding CS8/CS7 usage (report by
2352 + remove a couple of redundant uses of A_ATTRIBUTES in expressions
2353 using AttrOf(), which already incorporates that mask (report by
2355 + document TABSIZE variable.
2356 + add NCURSES_ASSUMED_COLORS environment variable, to allow users to
2357 override compiled-in default black-on-white assumption used in
2358 assume_default_colors().
2359 + correct an off-by-one comparison against max_colors in COLORFGBG
2361 + correct a use of uninitialized memory found by valgrind (reported by
2362 Olaf Buddenhagen <olafBuddenhagen@web.de>).
2363 + modified wresize() to ensure that a failed realloc will not corrupt
2364 the window structure, and to make subwindows fit within the resized
2365 window (completes Debian #87678, #101699)
2368 + fix an off-by-one in lib_pad.c check for limits of pad (patch by
2370 + revise logic for BeOS in lib_twait.c altered in 20011013 to restore
2371 logic used by lib_getch.c's support for GPM or EMX mouse (report by
2373 + remove NCURSES_CONST from several prototypes in curses.wide, to make
2374 the --enable-const --enable-widec configure options to work together
2375 (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@yahoo.com>).
2378 + finish no-leak checking in cardfile.c, using this for testing changes
2380 + simplify _nc_freeall() using delscreen().
2383 + check error-return from _nc_set_tty_mode() in _nc_initscr() and
2384 reset_prog_mode() (report/patch by Philippe Blain).
2385 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52, to address
2386 problem with identifying C++ bool type.
2387 + correct/improve logic to produce an exit status for errors in tput,
2388 which did not exit with an error when told to put a string not in the
2389 current terminfo entry (report by David Gomez <david@pleyades.net>).
2390 + modify configure script AC_OUTPUT() call to work around defect in
2391 autoconf 2.52 which adds an ifdef'd include to the generated
2392 configure definitions.
2393 + remove fstat() check from scr_init(), which also fixes a missing
2394 include for <sys/stat.h> from 20020713 (reported by David Ellement,
2395 fix suggested by Philippe Blain).
2396 + update curs_scanw.3x manpage to note that XSI curses differs from
2397 SVr4 curses: return-values are incompatible.
2398 + correct several prototypes in manpages which used const
2399 inconsistently with the curses.h file, and removed spurious const's
2400 in a few places from curses.h, e.g., for wbkgd() (report by Glenn
2401 Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>).
2402 + change internal type used by tparm() to long, to work with LP64 model.
2403 + modify nc_alloc.h to allow building with g++, for testing.
2406 + add resize-handling to cardfile.c test program.
2407 + altered resizeterm() to avoid having it fail when a child window
2408 cannot be resized because it would be larger than its parent. (More
2409 work must be done on this, but it works well enough to integrate).
2410 + improve a limit-check in lib_refresh.c
2411 + remove check in lib_screen.c relating dumptime to file's modification
2412 times, since that would not necessarily work for remotely mounted
2414 + modify lrtest to simplify debugging changes to resizeterm, e.g.,
2415 t/T commands to enable/disable tracing.
2416 + updated status of multibyte support in TO-DO.
2417 + update contact info in source-files (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
2420 + add Caps.hpux11, as an example.
2421 + modify version_filter(), used to implement -R option for tic and
2422 infocmp, to use computed array offsets based on the Caps.* file which
2423 is actually configured, rather than constants which correspond to
2425 + reorganized lib_raw.c to avoid updating SP and cur_term state if the
2426 functions fail (reported by Philippe Blain).
2427 + add -Wundef to gcc warnings, adjust a few ifdef's to accommodate gcc.
2430 + correct parameters to setcchar() in ncurses.c (cf: 20020406).
2431 + set locale in most test programs (view.c and ncurses.c were the
2433 + add configure option --with-build-cppflags (report by Maksim A
2434 Nikulin <M.A.Nikulin@inp.nsk.su>).
2435 + correct a typo in wide-character logic for lib_bkgnd.c (Philippe
2437 + modify lib_wacs.c to not cancel the acsc, smacs, rmacs strings when
2438 in UTF-8 locale. Wide-character functions use Unicode values, while
2439 narrow-character functions use the terminfo data.
2440 + fix a couple of places in Ada95/samples which did not compile with
2442 + modify mkinstalldirs so the DOS-pathname case is locale-independent.
2443 + fix locale problem in MKlib_gen.sh by forcing related variables to
2444 POSIX (C), using same approach as autoconf (set variables only if
2445 they were set before). Update MKterminfo.sh and MKtermsort.sh to
2449 + add charset to generated html.
2450 + add mvterm entry, adapted from a FreeBSD bug-report by Daniel Rudy
2451 <dcrudy@pacbell.net> -TD
2452 + add rxvt-16color, ibm+16color entries -TD
2453 + modify check in --disable-overwrite option so that it is used by
2454 default unless the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr, in attempt to
2455 work around packagers, e.g., for Sun's freeware, who do not read the
2459 + modify wgetch() to allow returning ungetch'd KEY_RESIZE as a function
2460 key code in get_wch().
2461 + extended resize-handling in test/ncurses 'a' menu to the entire
2462 stack of windows created with 'w' commands.
2463 + improve $COLORFGBG feature by interpreting an out-of-range color
2464 value as an SGR 39 or 49, for foreground/background respectively.
2465 + correct a typo in configure --enable-colorfgbg option, and move it
2466 to the experimental section (cf: 20011208).
2469 + add logic to dump_entry.c to remove function-key definitions that do
2470 not fit into the 1023-byte limit for generated termcaps. This makes
2472 + more improvements to tic's warnings, including logic to ignore
2473 differences between delay values in sgr strings.
2474 + move definition of KEY_RESIZE into MKkeydefs.sh script, to
2475 accommodate Caps.osf1r5 which introduced a conflicting definition.
2478 + add simple resize-handling in test/ncurses.c 'a' menu.
2479 + fixes in keyname() and _tracechar() to handle negative values.
2480 + make tic's warnings about mismatches in sgr strings easier to follow.
2481 + correct tic checks for number of parameters in smgbp and smglp.
2482 + improve scoansi terminfo entry, and add scoansi-new entry -TD
2483 + add pcvt25-color terminfo entry -TD
2484 + add kf13-kf48 strings to cons25w terminfo entry (reported by Stephen
2485 Hurd <deuce@lordlegacy.org> in newsgroup lucky.freebsd.bugs) -TD
2486 + add entrypoint _nc_trace_ttymode(), use this to distinguish the
2487 Ottyb and Nttyb members of terminal (aka cur_term), for tracing.
2490 + correct and simplify logic for lib_pad.c change in 20020518 (reported
2494 + fix lib_pad.c for case of drawing a double-width character which
2495 falls off the left margin of the pad (patch by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij
2496 <lerdsuwa@users.sourceforge.net>)
2497 + modify configure script to work around broken gcc 3.1 "--version"
2498 option, which adds unnecessary trash to the requested information.
2499 + adjust ifdef's in case SIGWINCH is not defined, e.g., with DJGPP
2500 (reported by Ben Decker <deckerben@freenet.de>).
2503 + implement vid_puts(), vid_attr(), term_attrs() based on the narrow-
2504 character versions as well.
2505 + implement erasewchar(), killwchar() based on erasechar() and
2507 + modify erasechar() and killchar() to return ERR if the value was
2509 + correct a bug in wresize() in handling subwindows (based on patch by
2510 Roger Gammans <rgammans@computer-surgery.co.uk>, report by Scott Beck
2511 <scott@gossamer-threads.com>).
2512 + improve test/tclock.c by making the second-hand update more often
2513 if gettimeofday() is available.
2516 + workaround for Solaris sed with MKlib_gen.sh (reported by Andy
2517 Tsouladze <andyt@mypoints.com>).
2520 + correct return-value from getcchar(), making it consistent with
2522 + reorder loops that generate makefile rules for different models vs
2523 subsets so configure --with-termlib works again. This was broken by
2524 logic added to avoid duplicate rules in changes to accommodate cygwin
2525 dll's (reported by George.R.Goffe@seagate.com).
2526 + update config.guess, config.sub
2529 + modify ifdef's in write_entry.c to allow use of symbolic links on
2530 platforms with no hard links, e.g., BeOS.
2531 + modify a few includes to allow compile with BeOS, which has stdbool.h
2532 with a conflicting definition for 'bool' versus its OS.h definition.
2533 + amend MKlib_gen.sh to work with gawk, which defines 'func' as an
2534 alias for 'function'.
2537 + correct form of prototype for ripoffline().
2538 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to test that all functions marked as implemented
2542 + add manpages: curs_get_wstr.3x, curs_in_wchstr.3x
2543 + implement wgetn_wstr().
2544 + implement win_wchnstr().
2545 + remove redefinition of unget_wch() in lib_gen.c (reported by
2546 Jungshik Shin <jshin@jtan.com>).
2549 + modified several of the test programs to allow them to compile with
2550 vendor curses implementations, e.g., Solaris, AIX -TD
2553 + modified test/configure to allow configuring against ncursesw.
2554 + change WACS_xxx definition to use address, to work like Tru64 curses.
2557 + add 'e' and 'm' toggles to 'a', 'A' tests in ncurses.c to demonstrate
2558 effect of echo/noecho and meta modes.
2559 + add 'A' test to ncurses.c to demonstrate wget_wch() and related
2561 + add manpage: curs_get_wch.3x
2562 + implement unget_wch().
2563 + implement wget_wch().
2566 + regenerated html manpages.
2567 + add manpages: curs_in_wch.3x, curs_ins_wch.3x, curs_ins_wstr.3x
2568 + implement wins_wch().
2569 + implement win_wch().
2570 + implement wins_nwstr(), wins_wstr().
2573 + add manpages: curs_addwstr.3x, curs_winwstr.3x
2574 + implement winnwstr(), winwstr().
2577 + add manpages: curs_add_wchstr.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x
2578 + document wunctrl, key_name.
2579 + implement key_name().
2580 + remove const's in lib_box.c incorrectly leftover after splitting off
2582 + update llib-lncurses, llib-ncursesw, fix configure script related to
2586 + remove quotes on "SYNOPSIS" in man/curs_box_set.3x, which resulted
2587 in spurious symlinks on install.
2590 + implement whline_set(), wvline_set(), add manpage curs_border_set.
2591 + add subtest 'b' to 'F' and 'f' in ncurses.c to demonstrate use of
2592 box() and box_set() functions.
2593 + add subtest 'u' to 'F' in ncurses.c, to demonstrate use of addstr()
2594 given UTF-8 string equivalents of WACS_xxx symbols.
2595 + minor fixes to several manpages based on groff -ww output.
2596 + add descriptions of external variables of termcap interface to
2597 the manpage (report by Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>).
2598 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
2599 + correct configure option --with-bool, which was executed as
2601 + add quotes for parameters of --with-bool and --with-ospeed configure
2603 > patch by Sven Verdoolaege (report by Gerhard Haering
2604 <haering_linux@gmx.de>):
2605 + correct typos in definitions of several wide-character macros:
2606 waddwstr, wgetbkgrnd, mvaddwstr, mvwadd_wchnstr, mvwadd_wchnstr,
2608 + pass $(CPPFLAGS) to MKlib_gen.sh, thereby fixing a missing definition
2609 of _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, e.g., on Solaris
2612 + implement wide-acs characters for UTF-8 locales. When in UTF-8
2613 locale, ignore narrow version of acs. Add 'F' test to test/ncurses.c
2615 + correct prototype in keybound manpage (noted from a Debian mailing
2619 + add several cases to the wscanw() example in testcurs.c, showing the
2621 + implement a simple vsscanf() fallback function which uses the %n
2622 conversion to help parse the input data (prompted by discussion with
2623 Albert Chin-A-Young).
2624 + modify mk-1st.awk and test/Makefile.in to add $(LDFLAGS) when making
2625 shared libraries, and to use $(CFLAGS) when linking test programs
2626 (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
2627 + add a call to _nc_keypad() in keypad() to accommodate applications
2628 such as nvi, which use curses for output but not for input (fixes
2629 Debian #131263, cf: 20011215).
2630 + add entrypoints to resizeterm.c which provide better control over the
2631 process: is_term_resized() and resize_term(). The latter restores
2632 the original design of resizeterm() before KEY_RESIZE was added in
2633 970906. Do this to accommodate 20010922 changes to view.c, but allow
2634 for programs with their own sigwinch handler, such as lynx (reported
2635 by Russell Ruby <russ@math.orst.edu>).
2638 + fix a typo in change to mk-1st.awk, which broke the shared-library
2639 makefile rules (reported by Martin Mokrejs).
2642 + update config.guess, config.sub
2643 + finish changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
2644 + fix a typo in mvwchat() macro (reported by Cy <yam@homerow.net).
2647 + add case in lib_baudrate.c for B921600 (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
2648 + correct missing sed-editing stage in manpage installs which is used
2649 to rename manpages, broken in 20010324 fix for Debian #89939 (Debian
2651 + remove -L$(libdir) from linker flags, probably not needed any more
2652 since HPUX is handled properly (reported by Niibe Yutaka
2654 + add configure check for mbstate_t, needed for wide-character
2655 configuration. On some platforms we must include <wchar.h> to
2656 define this (reported by Daniel Jacobowitz).
2657 + incorporate some of the changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
2660 + workaround for awk did not work with mawk, adjusted shell script.
2663 + add Caps.osf1r5, as an example.
2664 + modify behavior of can_clear_with() so that if an application is
2665 running in a non-bce terminals with default colors enabled, it
2666 returns true, allowing the user to select/paste text without picking
2667 up extraneous trailing blanks (adapted from patch by Daniel
2668 Jacobowitz <dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu>).
2669 + modify generated curses.h to ifdef-out prototypes for extensions if
2670 they are disabled, and to define curses_version() as a string in that
2671 case. This is needed to make the programs such as tic build in that
2673 + modified generated headers.sh to remove a gzip'd version of the
2674 target file if it exists, in case non-gzip'd manpages are installed
2675 into a directory where gzip'd ones exist. In that case, the latter
2677 + corrected a redundant initialization of signal handlers from 20010922
2679 + clarified bug-reporting address in terminfo.src (report by John H
2680 DuBois III <spcecdt@armory.com>).
2681 > several fixes from Robert Joop:
2682 + do not use "-v" option of awk in MKkey_defs.sh because it does not
2683 work with SunOS nawk.
2684 + modify definitions for libutf8 in curses.h to avoid redefinition
2686 + quoted references to compiler in shell command in misc/Makefile, in
2687 case it uses multiple tokens.
2690 + restore special case from 20010922 changes to omit SA_RESTART when
2691 setting up SIGWINCH handler, which is needed to allow wgetch() to be
2692 interrupted by that signal.
2693 + update configure macro CF_WITH_PATHLIST, to omit some double quotes
2694 not needed with autoconf 2.52
2695 + revert configure script to autoconf 2.13 patched with
2696 autoconf-2.13-19990117.patch.gz (or later)
2698 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
2699 because autoconf 2.52 macro AC_PROG_AWK does not work on HPUX 11.0
2700 (report by David Ellement <ellement@sdd.hp.com>). This also fixes a
2701 different problem configuring with Mac OS X (reported by Marc Smith
2702 <marc.a.smith@home.com>).
2705 + modify include/edit_cfg.h to eliminate BROKEN_LINKER symbol from
2707 + move prototype for _nc_vsscanf() into curses.h.in to omit
2708 HAVE_VSSCANF symbol from curses.h, which was dependent upon the
2709 ncurses_cfg.h file which is not installed.
2710 + use ACS_LEN rather than SIZEOF(acs_map) in trace code of lib_acs.c,
2711 to work with broken linker configuration, e.g., cygwin (report by
2712 Robert Joop <rj@rainbow.in-berlin.de>).
2713 + make napms() call _nc_timed_wait() rather than poll() or select(),
2714 to work around broken implementations of these on cygwin.
2717 + drop configure macro CF_WIDEC_SHIFT, since that was rendered obsolete
2718 by Sven Verdoolaege's rewrite of wide-character support. This makes
2719 libncursesw incompatible again, but makes the header files almost the
2720 same as in the narrow-character configuration.
2721 + simplify definitions that combine wide/narrow versions of bkgd, etc.,
2722 to eliminate differences between the wide/narrow versions of curses.h
2723 + correct typo in configure macro CF_FUNC_VSSCANF
2724 + correct location of call to _nc_keypad() from 20011215 changes which
2725 prevented keypad() from being disabled (reported by Lars Hecking).
2728 + rewrote ncurses 'a' test to exercise wgetch() and keypad() functions
2729 better, e.g., by adding a 'w' command to create new windows which
2730 may have different keypad() settings.
2731 + corrected logic of keypad() by adding internal screen state to track
2732 whether the terminal's keypad-mode has been set. Use this in
2733 wgetch() to update the keypad-mode according to whether the
2734 associated window's keypad-mode has been set with keypad(). This
2735 corrects a related problem restoring terminal state after handling
2736 SIGTSTP (reported by Mike Castle).
2737 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52
2738 autoconf-2.52-patch.gz
2740 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
2741 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2742 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
2743 + minor changes to quoting in configure script to allow it to work
2747 + modify final checks in lib_setup.c for line and col values, making
2749 + modify acs_map[] if configure --broken-linker is specified, to make
2750 it use a function rather than an array (prompted by an incorrect
2751 implementation in cygwin package).
2752 + correct spelling of configure option --enable-colorfgbg, which
2753 happened to work if --with-develop was set (noted in cygwin package
2755 + modify ifdef for genericerror() to compile with SUNWspro Sun WorkShop
2756 6 update 1 C++ 5.2 (patch by Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu>).
2757 + add configure checks to see if ncurses' fallback vsscanf() will
2758 compile either of the special cases for FILE structs, and if not,
2759 force it to the case which simply returns an error (report by
2760 Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu> indicates that Solaris 8 with
2761 64-bits does not allow access to FILE's fields).
2762 + modify ifdef's for c++/cursesw.cc to use the fallback vsscanf() in
2763 the ncurses library if no better substitute for this can be found
2765 + modify the build to name dynamic libraries according to the
2766 convention used on OS X and Darwin. Rather than something like
2767 libncurses.dylib.5.2, Darwin would name it libncurses. 5.dylib.
2768 There are a few additional minor fixes, such as setting the library
2769 version and compatibility version numbers (patch by Jason Evans
2770 <jevans@apple.com>).
2771 + use 'sh' to run mkinstalldirs, to work around problems with buggy
2772 versions of 'make' on OS/2 (report by John Polterak <jp@eyup.org>).
2773 + correct typo in manpage description of curs_set() (Debian #121548).
2774 + replace the configure script existence-check for mkstemp() by one
2775 that checks if the function works, needed for older glibc and
2779 + modify script that generates fallbacks.c to compile a temporary
2780 copy of the terminfo source in case the host does not contain all of
2781 the entries requested for fallbacks (request by Greg Roelofs).
2782 + modify configure script to accommodate systems such as Mac OS X whose
2783 <stdbool.h> header defines a 'bool' type inconsistent with ncurses,
2784 which normally makes 'bool' consistent with C++. Include <stdbool.h>
2785 from curses.h to force consistent usage, define a new type
2786 NCURSES_BOOL and related that to the exported 'bool' as either a
2787 typedef or definition, according to whether <stdbool.h> is present
2788 (based on a bug report for tin 1.5.9 by Aaron Adams <adamsa@mac.com>).
2791 + added/updated terminfo entries for M$ telnet and KDE konsole -TD
2794 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
2795 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
2796 + add putty terminfo entry -TD
2797 + if configuring for wide-curses, define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, since
2798 this may not otherwise be defined to make test/view.c compile.
2801 + review/correct several missing/generated items in curses.wide, sorted
2802 the lists to make subsequent diff's easier to track.
2805 + add manual pages for add_wch(), echo_wchar(), getcchar(),
2806 mvadd_wch(), mvwadd_wch(), setcchar(), wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar().
2807 + implement wecho_wchar()
2808 + modify _tracedump() to handle wide-characters by mapping them to '?'
2809 and control-characters to '.', to make the trace file readable. Also
2810 dynamically allocate the buffer used by _tracedump() for formatting
2812 + modify T_CALLED/T_RETURN macros to ease balancing call/return lines
2813 in a trace by using curly braces.
2814 + implement _nc_viscbuf(), for tracing cchar_t arrays.
2815 + correct trace-calls in setcchar() and getcchar() functions, which
2816 traced the return values but not the entry to each function.
2817 + correct usage message in test/view.c, which still mentioned -u flag.
2820 + modify configure script to allow building with termcap only, or with
2821 fallbacks only. In this case, we do not build tic and toe.
2822 + add configure --with-termpath option, to override default TERMPATH
2823 value of /etc/termcap:/usr/share/misc/termcap.
2824 + cosmetic change to tack: make menu descriptions agree with menu
2828 + rewrote limit-checks in wscrl() and associated _nc_scroll_window(),
2829 to ensure that if the parameter of wscrl() is larger than the size of
2830 the scrolling region, then the scrolling region will be cleared
2831 (report by Ben Kohlen <bckohlen@yahoo.com>).
2832 + add trace/varargs.c, using this to trace parameters in lib_printw.c
2833 + implement _tracecchar_t2() and _tracecchar_t().
2834 + split-out trace/visbuf.c
2835 + correct typo in lib_printw.c changes from 20010922 (report by Mike
2839 + modify run_tic.sh to check if the build is a cross-compile. In that
2840 case, do not use the build's tic to install the terminfo database
2841 (report by Rafael Rodriguez Velilla <rrv@tid.es>).
2842 + modify mouse click resolution so that mouseinterval(-1) will disable
2843 it, e.g., to handle touchscreens via a slow connection (request by
2844 Byron Stanoszek <gandalf@winds.org>).
2845 + correct mouseinterval() default value shown in curs_mouse.3x
2846 + remove conflicting definition of mouse_trafo() (reported by Lars
2847 Hecking, using gcc 2.95.3).
2850 + simpler fix for signal_name(), to replace the one overlooked in
2851 20010929 (reported by Larry Virden).
2854 + add -i option to view.c, to test ncurses' check for non-default
2855 signal handler for SIGINT, etc.
2856 + add cases for shared-libraries on Darwin/OS X (patch by Rob Braun
2857 <bbraun@synack.net>).
2858 + modify tset to restore original I/O modes if an error is encountered.
2859 Also modify to use buffered stderr consistently rather than mixing
2861 + change signal_name() function to use if-then-else rather than case
2862 statement, since signal-values aren't really integers (reported by
2864 + add limit checks in wredrawln(), fixing a problem where lynx was
2865 repainting a pad which was much larger than the screen.
2868 + fix: PutRange() was counting the second part of a wide character as
2869 part of a run, resulting in a cursor position that was one too far
2870 (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
2871 + modify resizeterm() to not queue a KEY_RESIZE if there was no
2872 SIGWINCH, thereby separating the two styles of SIGWINCH handling
2874 + simplified lib_tstp.c, modify it to use SA_RESTART flag for SIGWINCH.
2875 + eliminate several static buffers in the terminfo compiler, using
2877 + modify MKkeyname.awk so that keyname() does not store its result into
2878 a static buffer that is overwritten by the next call.
2879 + reorganize the output of infocmp -E and -e options to compile cleanly
2880 with gcc -Wwrite-strings warnings.
2881 + remove redefinition of chgat/wchgat/mvwchgat from curses.wide
2884 + add label to test/view.c, showing the name of the last key or signal
2885 that made the screen repaint, to make it clearer when a sigwinch
2887 + use ExitProgram() consistently in the test-programs to make it
2888 simpler to test leaks with dmalloc, etc.
2889 + move hashtab static data out of hashmap.c into SCREEN struct.
2890 + make NO_LEAK code compile with revised WINDOWLIST structs.
2893 + modify tgetent() to check if exit_attribute_mode resets the alternate
2894 character set, and if so, attempt to adjust the copy of the termcap
2895 "me" string which it will return to eliminate that part. In
2896 particular, 'screen' would lose track of line-drawing characters
2897 (report by Frederic L W Meunier <0@pervalidus.net>, analysis by
2901 + specify DOCTYPE in html manpages.
2902 + add missing macros for several "generated" functions: attr_get(),
2903 attr_off(), attr_on(), attr_set(), chgat(), mvchgat(), mvwchgat() and
2905 + modify view.c to agree with non-experimental status of ncurses'
2907 + change the sense of the -r option, making it default to ncurses'
2909 + add a note explaining what functions are unsafe in a signal
2911 + add a -c option, to set color display, for testing.
2912 + unset $data variable in MKterminfo.sh script, to address potential
2913 infinite loop if shell malfunction (report by Samuel Mikes
2914 <smikes@cubane.com>, for bash 2.05.0 on a Linux 2.0.36 system).
2915 + change kbs in mach terminfo entries to ^? (Marcus Brinkmann
2916 <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>).
2917 + correct logic for COLORFGBG environment variable: if rxvt is compiled
2918 with xpm support, the variable has three fields, making it slightly
2919 incompatible with itself. In either case, the background color is
2923 + move calls to def_shell_mode() and def_prog_mode() before loop with
2924 callbacks in lib_set_term.c, since the c++ demo otherwise initialized
2925 the tty modes before saving them (patch by John David Anglin
2926 <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>).
2927 + duplicate logic used to initialize trace in newterm(), in initscr()
2928 to avoid confusing trace of initscr().
2929 + simplify allocation of WINDOW and WINDOWLIST structs by making the
2930 first a part of the second rather than storing a pointer. This saves
2931 a call to malloc for each window (discussion with Philippe Blain).
2932 + remove unused variable 'used_ncv' from lib_vidattr.c (Philippe
2934 + modify c++/Makefile.in to accommodate archive programs that are
2935 different for C++ than for C, and add cases for vendor's C++
2936 compilers on Solaris and IRIX (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
2937 + correct manpage description of criteria for deciding if the terminal
2938 supports xterm mouse controls.
2939 + add several configure script options to aid with cross-compiling:
2940 --with-build-cc, --with-build-cflags, --with-build-ldflags, and
2941 --with-build-libs (request by Greg Roelofs).
2942 + change criteria for deciding if configure is cross-compiling from
2943 host/build mismatch to host/target mismatch (request by Greg Roelofs
2944 <greg.roelofs@philips.com>).
2945 + correct logic for infocmp -e and -E options which writes the data for
2946 the ext_Names[] array. This is needed if one constructs a fallback
2947 table for a terminfo entry which uses extended termcap names, e.g.,
2948 AX in a color xterm.
2949 + fix undefined NCURSES_PATHSEP when configure --disable-database
2953 + fix for VALID_BOOLEAN() macro when char is not signed.
2954 + modify 'clean' rule for C++ binding to work with Sun compiler, which
2955 caches additional information in a subdirectory of the objects.
2956 + added llib-ncursesw.
2959 + add Caps.keys example for experimental extended function keys
2960 (adapted from a patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
2961 + correct parameter types of vidputs() and vidattr() to agree with
2962 header files (report by William P Setzer).
2963 + fix typos in several man-pages (patch by William P Setzer).
2964 + remove unneeded ifdef for __GNUG__ in CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC configure
2965 macro, which made ncurses C++ binding fail to build with other
2966 C++ compilers such as HPUX 11.x (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
2967 + workaround for bug in HPUX 11.x C compiler: add a blank after
2968 NCURSES_EXPORT macro in form.h (report by Albert Chin-A-Young)
2969 + ignore blank lines in Caps* files in MKkey_defs.sh script (report by
2970 Albert Chin-A-Young).
2971 + correct definition of key_end in Caps.aix4, which left KEY_END
2972 undefined (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
2973 + remove a QNX-specific fallback prototype for vsscanf(), which is
2974 obsolete with QNX RTP.
2975 + review/fix some of the T() and TR() macro calls, having noticed that
2976 there was no data for delwin() in a trace of dialog because there was
2977 no returnVoid call for wtimeout(). Also, traces in lib_twait.c are
2978 now selected under TRACE_IEVENT rather than TRACE_CALLS.
2981 + add a _nc_access() check before opening files listed via $TERMPATH.
2982 + using modified man2html, regenerate some of the html manpages to fix
2983 broken HREF's where the link was hyphenated.
2986 + add some limit/pointer checks to -S option of tputs.
2987 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
2988 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
2989 + add a note in curs_termcap.3x regarding a defect in the XSI
2990 description of tgetent (based on a discussion with Urs Jansen
2991 regarding the HPUX 11.x implementation, whose termcap interface is
2992 not compatible with existing termcap programs).
2993 + modify manhtml rule in dist.mk to preserve copyright notice on the
2994 generated files, as well as to address HTML style issues reported by
2995 tidy and weblint. Regenerated/updated corresponding html files.
2996 + comment out use of Protected_Character and related rarely used
2997 attributes in ncurses Ada95 test/demo to compile with wide-character
3001 + implement a simple example in C++ demo to test scanw().
3002 + corrected stdio function used to implement scanw() in cursesw.cc
3003 + correct definition of RemAttr() macro from 20010602 changes, which
3004 caused C++ SillyDemo to not show line-drawing characters.
3005 + modify C++ binding, adding getKey() which can be overridden by user
3006 to substitute functions other than getch() for keyboard processing
3007 of forms and menus (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3010 + fix some of the trace calls which needed modification to work with
3011 new wide-character structures.
3012 + modify magic-cookie code in tty_update.c to compile with new
3013 wide-character structures (report by <George.R.Goffe@seagate.com>).
3014 + ensure that _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined in curses.priv.h if
3015 compiling for wide-character configuration.
3016 + make addwnstr() handle non-spacing characters (patch by Sven
3020 + add configure check to define _GNU_SOURCE, needed to prop up glibc
3022 + split-out include/curses.wide to solve spurious redefinitions caused
3023 by defining _GNU_SOURCE, and move includes for <signal.h> before
3024 <curses.h> to work around misdefinition of ERR in glibc 2.1.3 header
3026 + extended ospeed change to NetBSD and OpenBSD -TD
3027 + modify logic in lib_baudrate.c for ospeed, for FreeBSD to make it
3028 work properly for termcap applications (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
3031 + correct an overlooked CharOf/UChar instance (reports by Eugene Lee
3032 <eugene@anime.net>, Sven Verdoolaege).
3033 + correct unneeded ifdef for wunctrl() (reported by Sven Verdoolaege)
3036 + change overlooked several CharOf/UChar instances.
3037 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
3038 + correct a typo in wunctrl(), which made it appear that botwc() was
3039 needed (no such function: use btowc()).
3040 + reimplement wide-character demo in test/view.c, using new functions.
3041 + implement getcchar(), setcchar(), wadd_wchnstr() and related macros.
3042 + fix a syntax problem with do/if/while in PUTC macro (curses.priv.h).
3045 + add parentheses in macros for malloc in test.priv.h, fixes an
3046 expression in view.c (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.co.at>).
3047 + add Caps.uwin, as an example.
3048 + change the way curses.h is generated, making the list of function
3049 key definitions extracted from the Caps file.
3050 + add #undef's before possible redefinition of ERR and OK in curses.h
3051 + modify logic in tic, toe, tput and tset which checks for basename of
3052 argv[0] to work properly on systems such as OS/2 which have
3053 case-independent filenames and/or program suffixes, e.g., ".ext".
3056 + add a configure check, if --enable-widec is specified, for putwc(),
3057 which may be in libutf8.
3058 + remove some unnecessary text from curs_extend.3x and
3059 default_colors.3x which caused man-db to make incorrect symbolic
3060 links (Debian bug report #99550).
3061 + add configure check if cast for _IO_va_list is needed to compile
3062 C++ vscan code (Debian bug report #97945).
3063 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
3064 + correct code that used non-standard auto-initialization of a struct,
3065 which gcc allows (report by Larry Virden).
3066 + use putwc() in PUTC() macro.
3067 + make addstr() work for the special case where the codeset is
3068 non-stateful (eg. UTF-8), as well as stateful codesets.
3071 + correct loop expression in NEXT_CHAR macro for lib_addstr.c changes
3072 from 20010602 (report by Mike Castle).
3075 + modify mvcur() to avoid emitting newline characters when nonl() mode
3076 is set. Normally this is not a problem since the actual terminal
3077 mode is set to suppress nl/crlf translations, however it is useful to
3078 allow the caller to manipulate the terminal mode to avoid staircasing
3079 effects after spawning a process which writes messages (for lynx
3081 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>:
3082 + remove redundant type-conversion in fifo_push()
3083 + correct definition of addwstr() macro in curses.h.in
3084 + remove _nc_utf8_outch()
3085 + rename most existing uses of CharOf() to UChar(), e.g., where it is
3086 used to prevent sign-extension in ctype macros.
3087 + change some chtype's to attr_t's where the corresponding variables
3088 are used to manipulate attributes.
3089 + UpdateAttr() was applied to both attributes (attr_t) and characters
3090 (chtype). Modify macro and calls to it to make these distinct.
3091 + add CharEq() macro, use in places where wide-character configuration
3092 implementation uses a struct for cchar_t.
3093 + moved struct ldat into curses.priv.h, to hide implementation details.
3094 + change CharOf() macro to use it for masking A_CHARTEXT data from
3096 + add L() macro to curses.priv.h, for long-character literals.
3097 + replace several assignments from struct ldat entries to chtype or
3098 char values with combinations of CharOf() and AttrOf() macros.
3099 + add/use intermediate ChAttrOf() and ChCharOf() macros where we know
3100 we are using chtype data.
3101 + add/use lowlevel attribute manipulation macros AddAttr(), RemAttr()
3103 + add/use SetChar() macro, to change a cchar_t based on a character and
3105 + convert most internal use of chtype to NCURSES_CH_T, to simplify use
3106 of cchar_t for wide-character configuration. Similarly, use ARG_CH_T
3107 where a pointer would be more useful.
3108 + add stubs for tracing cchar_t values.
3109 + add/use macro ISBLANK()
3110 + add/use constructors for cchar_t's: NewChar(), NewChar2().
3111 + add/use macros CHREF(), CHDEREF(), AttrOfD(), CharOfD() to facilitate
3112 passing cchar_t's by address.
3113 + add/use PUTC_DATA, PUTC() macros.
3114 + for wide-character configuration, move the window background data to
3115 the end of the WINDOW struct so that whether _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
3116 is defined or not, the offsets in the struct will not change.
3117 + modify addch() to work with wide-characters.
3118 + mark several wide-character functions as generated in curses.h.in
3119 + implement wunctrl(), wadd_wch(), wbkgrndset(), wbkgrnd(),
3120 wborder_set() and waddnwstr().
3123 + add experimental --with-caps=XXX option to customize to similar
3124 terminfo database formats such as AIX 4.x
3125 + add Caps.aix4 as an example.
3126 + modify Caps to add columns for the the KEY_xxx symbols.
3127 + modify configure --with-widec to suppress overwrite of libcurses.so
3129 + add checks to toe.c to avoid being confused by files and directories
3130 where we would expect the reverse, e.g., source-files in the
3131 top-level terminfo levels as is the case for AIX.
3134 + add top-level 'depend' rule for the C sources, assuming that the
3135 makedepend program is available. As a side-effect, this makes
3136 the generated sources, as in "make sources" (prompted by a report
3137 by Mike Castle that "make -j" fails because the resulting parallel
3138 processes race to generate ncurses/names.c).
3139 + modify configure script so that --disable-overwrite option's action
3140 to add a symbolic link for libcurses applies to the static library as
3141 well as the shared library when both are configured (report by Felix
3142 Natter <f.natter@ndh.net>).
3143 + add ELKS terminfo entries (Federico Bianchi
3144 <bianchi@www.arte.unipi.it>)
3145 + add u6 (CSR) to Eterm (Michael Jennings).
3148 + modify test/ncurses.c to work with xterm-256color, which has fewer
3149 color pairs than colors*colors (report by David Ellement
3150 <ellement@sdd.hp.com>).
3153 + corrected screen.xterm-xfree86 entry.
3154 + update comment in Caps regarding IBM (AIX) function-key definitions.
3157 + modify c++/Makefile.in to link with libncurses++w.a when configured
3158 for wide-characters (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
3159 + add check in _nc_trace_buf() to refrain from freeing a null pointer.
3160 + improve CF_PROG_INSTALL macro using CF_DIRNAME.
3161 + update config.guess, config.sub from autoconf 2.49e (alpha).
3164 + add secondary check in tic.c, similar_sgr() to see if the reason
3165 for mismatch was that the individual capabilities used a time-delay
3166 while sgr did not. Used this to cleanup mismatches, e.g., in vt100,
3167 and remove time-delay from Apple_Terminal entries.
3168 + add Apple_Terminal terminfo entries (Benjamin C W Sittler
3169 <bsittler@iname.com>).
3170 + correct definitions of shifted editing keys for xterm-xfree86 -TD
3171 + fix a bug in test/bs.c from 20010407 (patch by Erik Sigra).
3172 + prevent relative_move() from doing an overwrite if it detects 8-bit
3173 characters when configured for UTF-8 (reported by Sven Verdoolaege
3174 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
3177 + add configure checks for strstream.h vscan function, and similar
3178 stdio-based function which may be used in C++ binding for gcc 3.0
3179 (reports by George Goffe, Lars Hecking, Mike Castle).
3180 + rewrite parts of configure.in which used changequote(). That feature
3181 is broken in the latest autoconf alphas (e.g., 2.49d).
3182 + add a missing pathname for ncurses_dll.h, needed when building in
3183 a directory outside the source tree (patch by Sven Verdoolaege
3184 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
3185 > fix 2 bugs in test/bs.c Erik Sigra <sigra@home.se>:
3186 + no ships were ever placed in the last row or in the last column.
3187 This made the game very easy to win, because you never had to waste
3188 any shots there, but the computer did.
3189 + the squares around a sunken ship that belonged to the player were not
3190 displayed as already hit by the computer, like it does for the
3194 + add some examples of customizing screen's terminfo:
3195 screen.xterm-xfree86, screen.xterm-r6, screen.teraterm -TD
3196 + modify screen's terminfo entry to match the khome/kend in screen
3197 3.09.08 (Debian bug report #92215).
3198 + correct a memory leak in forms library (report by Stefan Vogtner
3199 <stefan@vogtner.de>) (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3202 + change symbols used to guard against repeated includes to begin
3203 consistently with "NCURSES_" rather than a leading underscore. There
3204 are other symbols defined in the header files which begin with a
3205 leading underscore, but they are part of the legacy interface.
3206 + reorder includes in c++ binding so that rcs identifiers can be
3208 + add .cc.ii rule to c++ makefile, to get preprocessor output for
3210 + correct configure script handling of @keyword@ substitutions when the
3211 --with-manpage-renames option is given (cf: 20000715, fixes Debian
3213 + report stack underflow/overflow in tparm() when tic -cv option is
3215 + remove spurious "%|" operator from xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry,
3216 (reported by Adam Costello <amc@cs.berkeley.edu>, Debian bug #89222).
3219 + cleanup of newdemo.c, fixing some ambiguous expressions noted by gcc
3220 2.95.2, and correcting some conflicting color pair initializations.
3221 + add missing copyright notice for cursesw.h
3222 + review, make minor fixes for use of '::' for referring to C-language
3223 interface from C++ binding.
3224 + modify configure check for g++ library slightly to accommodate
3225 nonstandard version number, e.g., <vendor>-2.7 (report by Ronald Ho
3226 <rho@mipos2.intel.com>).
3227 + add configure check for c++ <sstream> header, replace hardcoded
3229 + workaround for pre-release of gcc 3.0 libstdc++, which has dropped
3230 vscan from strstreambuf to follow standard, use wrapper for C vscanf
3231 instead (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@excite.com> and Matt Taggart
3232 <taggart@carmen.fc.hp.com>, fixes Debian .
3235 + modify interface of _nc_get_token() to pass 'silent' parameter to it,
3236 to make quieter loading of /etc/termcap (patch by Todd C Miller).
3237 + correct a few typos in curs_slk.3x and curs_outopts.3x manpages
3238 (patch by Todd C Miller).
3241 + compiler-warning fixes (reported by Nelson Beebe).
3244 + modify screen terminfo entry to use new 3.9.8 feature allowing xterm
3248 + broaden patterns used to match OS/2 EMX in configure script to cover
3249 variant used in newer config.guess/config.sub
3250 + remove changequote() calls from configure script, since this feature
3251 is broken in the autoconf 2.49c alpha, maintainers decline to fix.
3252 + remove macro callPutChar() from tty_update.c, since this is no longer
3253 needed (reported by Philippe Blain).
3254 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c to handle the case when the input
3255 file is really empty. Modify the next_char() function in comp_scan.c
3256 to allow arbitrarily long lines, and incidentally supply a newline to
3257 files that do not end in a newline. These changes improve tic's
3258 recovery from attempts to read binary files, e.g., its output from
3259 the terminfo database (reported by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
3262 + revert change to c++/demo.cc from 20001209, which changed definition
3263 of main() apparently to accommodate cygwin linker, but broke the demo
3265 + workaround for broken egcs 2.91.66 which calls member functions
3266 (i.e., lines() and colors() of NCursesWindow before calling its
3267 constructor. Add calls to initialize() in a few constructors which
3268 did not do this already.
3269 + use the GNAT preprocessor to make the necessary switch between TRACE
3270 and NO_TRACE configurations (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3271 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
3272 + modify kterm terminfo entry to use SCS sequence to support alternate
3273 character set (it does not work with SI/SO).
3274 + --with-ospeed=something didn't work. configure.in checked for a
3275 $enableval where it should check for $withval. Also,
3276 ncurses/llib-lncurses still had a hardcoded short.
3279 + correction to my merge of Tom Riddle's patch that broke tic in some
3280 conditions (reported by Enoch Wexler <enoch@wexler.co.il>) -TD
3283 + modify view.c to test halfdelay(). Like other tests, this recognizes
3284 the 's' and space commands for stopping/starting polled input, shows
3285 a freerunning clock in the header. If given a parameter to 's', that
3286 makes view.c use halfdelay() with that parameter rather than
3288 + fix to allow compile with the experimental configure option
3290 + modify postprocess_termcap() to avoid overwriting key_backspace,
3291 key_left, key_down when processing a non-base entry (report/patch by
3293 + modify _nc_wrap_entry(), adding option to reallocate the string
3294 table, needed in _nc_merge_entry() when merging termcap entries.
3295 (adapted from report/patch by Tom Riddle <ftr@oracom.com>).
3296 + modify a few configure script macros to keep $CFLAGS used only for
3297 compiler options, preprocessor options in $CPPFLAGS.
3300 + correct marker positions in lrtest.c after receiving a sigwinch.
3301 + fix ifdef's in ncurses.c to build against pre-5.2 for testing.
3302 + fixes to tclock for resizing behavior, redundant computation (report
3303 and patch by A M Kuchling <akuchlin@mems-exchange.org>).
3306 + improved scoansi terminfo entry -TD
3307 + modify configure script and makefile in Ada95/src to compile a stub
3308 for the trace functions when ncurses does not provide those.
3311 + add ncurses_dll.h and related definitions to support generating DLL's
3312 with cygwin (adapted from a patch by Charles Wilson
3313 <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>, changed NCURSES_EXPORT macro to make it
3314 work with 'indent') -TD
3317 + correct prototypes for some functions in curs_termcap.3x, matching
3318 termcap.h, which matches X/Open.
3319 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
3320 + a revised version of the Ada enhancements sent in by "H.
3321 Nanosecond", aka Eugene V Melaragno <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>. This
3323 - small fixes to the existing ncurses binding
3324 - addition of some more low-level functions to the binding, including
3325 termcap and terminfo functions
3326 - An Ada implementation of the "ncurses" test application originally
3330 + modify logic in lib_setup.c to allow either lines or columns value
3331 from terminfo to be used if the screen size cannot be determined
3332 dynamically rather than requiring both (patch by Ehud Karni
3333 <ehud@unix.simonwiesel.co.il>).
3334 + add check in lib_tgoto.c's is_termcap() function to reject null or
3335 empty strings (reported by Valentin Nechayev <netch@netch.kiev.ua> to
3337 + add definition from configure script that denotes the path-separator,
3338 which is normally a colon. The path-separator is a semicolon on
3339 OS/2 EMX and similar systems which may use a colon within pathnames.
3340 + alter logic to set default for --disable-overwrite option to set it
3341 to 'yes' if the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr/local, thereby
3342 accommodating the most common cause of problems: gcc's nonstandard
3343 search rules. Other locations such as /usr/local/ncurses will
3344 default to overwriting (report by Lars Hecking <lhecking@nmrc.ie>).
3347 + modify default for --disable-overwrite configure option to disable
3348 if the --prefix or $prefix value is not /usr.
3349 + add cygwin to systems for which ncurses is installed by default into
3350 /usr rather than /usr/local.
3353 + minor optimization in comp_error.c and lib_termname.c, using
3354 strncat() to replace strncpy() (patch by Solar Designer).
3355 + add a use_terminfo_vars() check for $HOME/.termcap, and check for
3356 geteuid() to use_terminfo_vars() (patch by Solar Designer
3358 + improved cygwin terminfo entry, based on patch by
3359 <ernie_boyd@yahoo.com>.
3360 + modify _nc_write_entry() to allow for the possibility that linking
3361 aliases on a filesystem that ignores case would not succeed because
3362 the source and destination differ only by case, e.g., NCR260VT300WPP0
3363 on cygwin (report by Neil Zanella).
3364 + fix a typo in the curs_deleteln.3x man page (patch by Bernhard
3365 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
3368 + add configure option --with-ospeed to assist packagers in transition
3369 to 5.3 change to ospeed type.
3370 + add/use CharOf() macro to suppress sign-extension of char type on
3371 platforms where this is a problem in ctype macros, e.g., Solaris.
3372 + change trace output to binary format.
3373 + correct a missing quote adjustment in CF_PATH_SYNTAX autoconf
3374 macro, for OS/2 EMX configuration.
3375 + rearrange a few configure macros, moving preprocessor options to
3376 $CPPFLAGS (a now-obsolete version of autoconf did not consistently
3377 use $CPPFLAGS in both the compile and preprocessor checks).
3378 + add a check in relative_move() to guard against buffer overflow in
3379 the overwrite logic.
3382 + add message to configure script showing g++ version.
3383 + resync config.guess, config.sub
3384 + modify lib_delwin.c, making it return ERR if the window did not exist
3385 (suggested by Neil Zanella).
3386 + add cases for FreeBSD 3.1 to tdlint and makellib scripts, used this
3387 to test/review ncurses library. (Would use lclint, but it doesn't
3389 + reorganized knight.c to avoid forward references. Correct screen
3390 updates when backtracking, especially to the first cell. Add F/B/a
3393 20001021 5.2 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3394 + update generated html files from manpages.
3395 + modify dist.mk to use edit_man.sh to substitute autoconf'd variables
3397 + fix an uninitialized pointer in read_termcap.c (report by Todd C
3398 Miller, from report/patch by Philip Guenther <guenther@gac.edu>).
3399 + correct help-message and array limit in knight.c (patch by Brian
3400 Raiter <breadbox@muppetlabs.com>).
3401 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
3402 + fix to avoid warning by GNAT-3.13p about use of inconsistent casing
3403 for some identifiers defined in the standard package.
3404 + cosmetic change to forms/fty_enum.c
3407 + correct an off-by-one position in test/railroad.c which could cause
3408 wrapping at the right margin.
3409 + test/repair some issues with libtool configuration. Make
3410 --disable-echo force libtool --silent. (Libtool does not work for
3411 OS/2 EMX, works partly for SCO - libtool is still very specific to
3413 + change default of --with-manpage-tbl to "no", since for most of the
3414 platforms which do have tbl installed, the system "man" program
3415 understands how to run tbl automatically.
3416 + minor improvement to force_bar() in comp_parse.c (Bernhard
3417 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
3418 + modify lib_tparm.c to use get_space() before writing terminating
3419 null character, both for consistency as well as to ensure that if
3420 save_char() was called immediately before, that the allocated memory
3421 is enough (patch by Sergei Ivanov).
3422 + add note about termcap ML capability which is duplicated between two
3423 different capabilities: smgl and smglr (reported by Sergei Ivanov
3424 <svivanov@pdmi.ras.ru>).
3425 + correct parameter counts in include/Caps for dclk as well as some
3426 printer-specific capabilities: csnm, defc, scs, scsd, smgtp, smglp.
3427 > patch by Johnny C Lam <lamj@stat.cmu.edu>:
3428 + add support for building with libtool (apparently version 1.3.5,
3429 since old versions do not handle -L../lib), using new configure
3430 option --with-libtool.
3431 + add configure option --with-manpage-tbl, which causes the manpages to
3432 be preprocessed by tbl(1) prior to installation,
3433 + add configure option --without-curses-h, which causes the
3434 installation process to install curses.h as ncurses.h and make
3435 appropriate changes to headers and manpages.
3438 + correct order of options/parameters in run_tic.in invocation of tic,
3439 which did not work with standard getopt() (reported by Ethan
3440 Butterfield <primus@veris.org>).
3441 + correct logic for 'reverse' variable in lib_vidattr.c, which was
3442 setting it true without checking if newmode had A_REVERSE set, e.g.,
3443 using $TERM=ansi on OS/2 EMX (see 20000917).
3444 > patch by Todd C Miller:
3445 + add a few missing use_terminfo_vars() and fixes up _nc_tgetent().
3446 Previously, _nc_cgetset() would still get called on cp so the
3447 simplest thing is to set cp to NULL if !use_terminfo_vars().
3448 + added checks for an empty $HOME environment variable.
3449 > patches for OS/2 EMX (Ilya Zakharevich):
3450 + modify convert_configure.pl to support INSTALL. Change compiler
3451 options in that script to use multithreading, needed for the mouse.
3452 + modify OS/2 mouse support, retrying as a 2-button mouse if code fails
3453 to set up a 3-button mouse.
3454 + improve code for OS/2 mouse support, using _nc_timed_wait() to
3455 replace select() call.
3458 + change type of ospeed variable back to short to match its use in
3459 legacy applications (reported by Andrey A Chernov).
3460 + add case to configure script for --enable-rpath on IRIX (patch by
3461 Albert Chin-A-Young).
3462 + minor fix to position_check() function, to ensure it gets the whole
3463 cursor report before decoding.
3464 + add configure option --disable-assumed-color, to allow pre-5.1
3465 convention of default colors used for color-pair 0 to be configured
3466 (see assume_default_colors()).
3467 + rename configure option --enable-hashmap --disable-hashmap, and
3468 reorder the configure options, splitting the experimental and
3470 + add configure option --disable-root-environ, which tells ncurses to
3471 disregard $TERMINFO and similar environment variables if the current
3472 user is root, or running setuid/setgid (based on discussion with
3474 + modified misc/run_tic.in to use tic -o, to eliminate dependency on
3475 $TERMINFO variable for installs.
3476 + add table entry for plab_norm to tput, so it passes in strings
3477 for that capability.
3478 + modify parse_format() in lib_tparm.c to ignore precision if it is
3479 longer than 10000 (report by Jouko Pynnonen).
3480 + rewrote limit checks in lib_mvcur.c using new functions
3481 _nc_safe_strcat(), etc. Made other related changes to check lengths
3482 used for strcat/strcpy (report by Jouko Pynnonen
3483 <jouko@solutions.fi>).
3486 + modify several descriptions, including those for setaf, setab, in
3487 include/Caps to indicate that the entries are parameterized. This
3488 information is used to tell which strings are translated when
3489 converting to termcap. Fixes a problem where the generated termcap
3490 would contain a spurious "%p1" for the terminfo "%p1%d".
3491 + modify ld -rpath options (e.g., Linux, and Solaris) to use an
3492 absolute pathname for the build tree's lib directory (prompted by
3493 discussion with Albert Chin-A-Young).
3494 + modify "make install.man" and "make uninstall.man" to include tack's
3496 + various fixes for install scripts used to support configure --srcdir
3497 and --with-install-prefix (reported by Matthew Clarke
3498 <Matthew_Clarke@mindlink.bc.ca>).
3499 + make configure script checks on variables $GCC and $GXX consistently
3500 compare against 'yes' rather than test if they are nonnull, since
3501 either may be set to the corresponding name of the C or C++ compiler
3502 (report/patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3505 + modify rs2 capability in xterm-r6 and similar where cursor
3506 save/restore bracketed the sequence for resetting video attributes.
3507 The cursor restore would undo that (report by John Hawkinson
3508 <jhawk@MIT.EDU> (see NetBSD misc/11052)).
3509 + using parameter check added to tic, corrected 27 typos in
3511 + modify tic to verify that its inputs are really files, in case
3512 someone tries to read a directory (or /dev/zero).
3513 + add a check for empty buffers returned by fgets() in comp_scan.c
3514 next_char() function, in case tic is run on a non-text file (fixes
3515 a core dump reported by Aaron Campbell <aaron@cs.dal.ca>).
3516 + add to railroad.c some code exercising tgoto(), providing an
3517 alternate form of display if the terminal supports cursor addressing.
3518 + split-out tgoto() again, this time into new file lib_tgoto.c, and
3519 implement a conventional BSD-style tgoto() which is used if the
3520 capability string does not contain terminfo-style padding or
3521 parameters (requested by Andrey A Chernov).
3522 + add check to tic which reports capabilities that do not reference
3523 the expected number of parameters.
3524 + add error checking to infocmp's -v and -m options to ensure that
3525 the option value is indeed a number.
3526 + some cleanup of logic in _nc_signal_handler() to verify if SIGWINCH
3527 handler is setup. Separated the old/new sigaction data for SIGTSTP
3528 from the other signals.
3531 + add S0, E0 extensions to screen's terminfo entry, which is another
3532 way to solve the misconfiguration issue -TD
3533 + completed special case for tgoto from 20000916
3536 + update xterm terminfo entries to match XFree86 xterm patch #146 -TD
3537 + add Matrix Orbital terminfo entries (from Eric Z Ayers
3539 + add special case to lib_tparm.c to allow 'screen' program to use a
3540 termcap-style parameter "%." to tgoto() for switching character sets.
3541 + use LN_S substitution in run_tic.in, to work on OS/2 EMX which has
3543 + updated notes in README.emx regarding autoconf patches.
3544 + replace a lookup table in lib_vidattr.c used to decode no_color_video
3545 with a logic expression (suggested by Philippe Blain).
3546 + add a/A toggle to ncurses.c 'b' test, which clears/sets alternate
3547 character set attribute from the displayed text.
3548 + correct inequality in parameter analysis of rewritten lib_tparm.c
3549 which had the effect of ignoring p9 in set_attributes (sgr), breaking
3550 alternate character set (reported by Piotr Majka <charvel@link.pl>).
3551 + correct ifdef'ing for GCC_PRINTF, GCC_SCANF which would not compile
3552 with Sun WorkShop compilers since these tokens were empty (cf:
3553 20000902, reported by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3556 + correct an uninitialized parameter to open_tempfile() in tic.c which
3557 made "tic -I" give an ambiguous error message about tmpnam.
3558 + add special case in lib_vidattr.c to reset underline and standout for
3559 devices that have no sgr0 defined (patch by Don Lewis
3560 <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>). Note that this will not work for bold
3561 mode, since there is no exit-bold-mode capability.
3562 + improved patch for Make_Enum_Type (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3563 + modify tparm to disallow arithmetic on strings, analyze the varargs
3564 list to read strings as strings and numbers as numbers.
3565 + modify tparm's internal function spop() to treat a null pointer as
3567 + modify tput program so it can be renamed or invoked via a link as
3568 'reset' or 'init', producing the same effect as 'tput reset' or 'tput
3570 + add private entrypoint _nc_basename(), use to consolidate related
3571 code in progs, as well as accommodating OS/2 EMX pathnames.
3572 + remove NCURSES_CONST line from edit_cfg.sh to compensate for its
3573 removal (except via AC_SUBST) from configure.in, making
3574 --enable-const work again (reported by Juergen Pfeifer).
3575 + regen'd configure to pick up "hpux*" change from 20000902.
3578 + modify tset.c to check for transformed "reset" program name, if any.
3579 + add a check for null pointer in Make_Enum_Type() (reported by Steven
3580 W Orr <steveo@world.std.com>).
3581 + change functions _nc_parse_entry() and postprocess_termcap() to avoid
3582 using strtok(), because it is non-reentrant (reported by Andrey A
3583 Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>).
3584 + remove "hpux10.*" case from CF_SHARED_OPTS configure script macro.
3585 This differed from the "hpux*" case by using reversed symbolic
3586 links, which made the 5.1 version not match the configuration of
3587 5.0 shared libraries (reported by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3588 + correct a dependency in Ada95/src/Makefile.in which prevented
3589 building with configure --srcdir (patch by H Nanosecond
3590 <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>).
3591 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in to avoid warning if GCC_PRINTF or
3592 GCC_SCANF was not previously defined (reported by Pavel Roskin
3594 + add MKncurses_def.sh to generate fallback definitions for
3595 ncurses_cfg.h, to quiet gcc -Wundef warnings, modified ifdef's in
3596 code to consistently use "#if" rather than "#ifdef".
3599 + add QNX qansi entries to terminfo -TD
3600 + add os2 entry to misc/emx.src (<jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>).
3601 + add configure option --with-database to allow specifying a different
3602 terminfo source-file to install. On OS/2 EMX, this defaults to
3604 + change misc/run_tic.sh to derive it from misc/run_tic.in, to simplify
3605 setting .exe extension on OS/2 EMX.
3606 + add .exe extension in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in,
3607 Ada95/samples/Makefile.in, for OS/2 EMX (reported by
3608 <jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>).
3609 + add configure check for filesystems (such as OS/2 EMX) which do not
3610 distinguish between upper/lowercase filenames, use this to fix tags
3612 + initialize fds[] array to 0's in _nc_timed_wait(); apparently poll()
3613 only sets the revents members of that array when there is activity
3614 corresponding to the related file (report by Glenn Cooper
3615 <gcooper@qantas.com.au>, using Purify on Solaris 5.6).
3616 + change configure script to use AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM rather than
3617 AC_CANONICAL_HOST, which means that configure --target will set
3618 a default program-prefix.
3619 + add note on cross-compiling to INSTALL (which does not rely on the
3620 AC_CANONICAL_* macros).
3623 + add cases for EMX OS/2 to config.guess, config.sub
3624 + new version of config.guess, config.sub from lynx 2.8.4dev.7
3625 + add definitions via transform.h to allow tic and tput to check for
3626 the transformed aliases rather than the original infotocap, etc.
3627 + simplify transform-expressions in progs/Makefile.in, make the
3628 uninstall rule work for transformed program names.
3629 + change symbol used by --install-prefix configure option from
3630 INSTALL_PREFIX to DESTDIR (the latter has become common usage
3631 although the name is misleading).
3632 + modify programs to use curses_version() string to report the version
3633 of ncurses with which they are compiled rather than the
3634 NCURSES_VERSION string. The function returns the patch level in
3635 addition to the major and minor version numbers.
3638 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to make transformed program names
3639 a parameter to that macro rather than embedding them in the macro.
3640 + newer config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in lynx
3642 + add configure option --with-default-terminfo-dir=DIR to allow
3643 specifying the default terminfo database directory (request by Albert
3645 + minor updates for terminfo.src from FreeBSD termcap change-history.
3646 + correct notes in README and INSTALL regarding documentation files
3647 that were moved from misc directory to doc (report by Rich Kulawiec
3649 + change most remaining unquoted parameters of 'test' in configure
3650 script to use quotes, for instance fixing a problem in the
3651 --disable-database option (reported by Christian Mondrup
3652 <scancm@biobase.dk>).
3653 + minor adjustments to work around some of the incompatibilities/bugs
3654 in autoconf 2.29a alpha.
3655 + add -I/usr/local/include when --with-ncurses option is used in
3656 test/configure script.
3657 + correct logic in adjust_cancels(), which did not check both
3658 alternatives when reclassifying an extended name between boolean,
3659 number and string, causing an infinite loop in tic.
3662 + correct a missing backslash in curses.priv.h
3665 + change handling of non_dest_scroll_region in tty_update.c to clear
3666 text after it is shifted in rather than before shifting out. Also
3667 correct row computation (reported by Ruediger Kuhlmann
3668 <uck4@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>).
3669 + add/use new trace function to display chtype values from winch() and
3671 + add trace mask TRACE_ATTRS, alter several existing _tracef calls that
3672 trace attribute changes under TRACE_CALLS to use this.
3673 + modify MKlib_gen.sh so that functions returning chtype will call
3675 + add returnChar() trace, for functions returning chtype.
3676 + change indent.pro to line up parenthesis.
3679 + fix a heap problem with the c++ binding (report by
3680 <alexander_liberson@ninewest.com>, patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3681 + minor adjustment to ClrToEOL() to handle an out-of-bounds parameter.
3682 + modify the check for big-core to force a couple of memory accesses,
3683 which may work as needed for older/less-capable machines (if not,
3684 there's still the explicit configure option).
3685 > fixes based on diff's for Amiga and BeOS found at
3686 http://www.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de/~kuhlmann/cross/ncurses/
3687 + alter definition of NCURSES_CONST to make it non-empty.
3688 + add amiga-vnc terminfo entry.
3689 + redefine 'TEXT' in menu.h for AMIGA, since it is reported to have
3690 an (unspecified) symbol conflict.
3691 + replaced case-statement in _nc_tracebits() for CSIZE with a table to
3692 simplify working around implementations that define random
3693 combinations of the related macros to zero.
3694 + modify configure test for tcgetattr() to allow for old
3695 implementations, e.g., on BeOS, which only defined it as a macro.
3696 > patches by Bruno Haible:
3697 + when checking LC_ALL/LC_CTYPE/LANG environment variables for UTF-8
3698 locale, ignore those which are set to an empty value, as per SUSV2.
3699 + encode 0xFFFD in UTF-8 with 3 bytes, not 2.
3700 + modify _nc_utf8_outch() to avoid sign-extension when checking for
3704 + correct manlinks.sed script to avoid using ERE "\+", which is not
3705 understood by older versions of sed (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3706 + implement configure script options that transform installed program
3707 names, e.g., --program-prefix, including the manpage names and cross
3708 references (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com>).
3709 + correct several mismatches between manpage filename and ".TH"
3710 directives, renaming dft_fgbg.3x to default_colors.3x and
3711 menu_attribs.3x to menu_attributes.3x (report by Todd C Miller).
3712 + correct missing includes for <string.h> in several places, including
3713 the C++ binding. This is not noted by gcc unless we use the
3714 -fno-builtin option (reported by Igor Schein <igor@txc.com>).
3715 + modified progs/tset.c and tack/sysdep.c to build with sgttyb
3716 interface if neither termio or termios is available. Tested this
3717 with FreeBSD 2.1.5 (which does have termios - but the sgttyb does
3720 20000708 5.1 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3721 + document configure options in INSTALL.
3722 + add man-page for ncurses trace functions.
3723 + correct return value shown in curs_touch.3x for is_linetouched() and
3724 is_wintouched(), in curs_initscr.3x for isendwin(), and in
3725 curs_termattr.3x for has_ic() and has_il().
3726 + add prototypes for touchline() and touchwin(), adding them to the
3727 list of generated functions.
3728 + modify fifo_push() to put ERR into the fifo just like other values to
3729 return from wgetch(). It was returning without doing that, making
3730 end-of-file condition incorrectly return a 0 (reported by Todd C
3732 + uncomment CC_SHARED_OPTS for progs and tack (see 971115), since they
3733 are needed for SCO OpenServer.
3734 + move _nc_disable_period from free_ttype.c to comp_scan.c to appease
3735 dynamic loaders on SCO and IRIX64.
3736 + add "-a" option to test/ncurses.c to invoke assume_default_colors()
3738 + correct assignment in assume_default_colors() which tells ncurses
3739 whether to use default colors, or the assumed ones (reported by Gary
3740 Funck <gary@Intrepid.Com>).
3741 + review/correct logic in mk-1st.awk for making symbolic links for
3742 shared libraries, in particular for FreeBSD, etc.
3743 + regenerate misc/*.def files for OS/2 EMX dll's.
3744 + correct quoting of values for CC_SHARED_OPTS in aclocal.m4 for
3745 cases openbsd2*, openbsd*, freebsd* and netbsd* (patch by Peter
3746 Wemm) (err in 20000610).
3747 + minor updates to release notes, as well as adding/updating URLs for
3748 examples cited in announce.html
3749 > several fixes from Philippe Blain <philippe.blain2@freesbee.fr>:
3750 + correct placement of ifdef for NCURSES_XNAMES in function
3751 _nc_free_termtype(), fixes a memory leak.
3752 + add a call to _nc_synchook() to the end of function whline() like
3753 that in wvline() (difference was in 1.9.4).
3754 + make ClearScreen() a little faster by moving two instances of
3755 UpdateAttr() out of for-loops.
3756 + simplify ClrBottom() by eliminating the tstLine data, using for-loops
3759 20000701 pre-release
3760 + change minor version to 1, i.e., ncurses 5.1
3761 + add experimental configure option --enable-colorfgbg to check for
3762 $COLORTERM variable as set by rxvt/aterm/Eterm.
3763 + add Eterm terminfo entry (Michael Jennings <mej@valinux.com>).
3764 + modify manlinks.sed to pick aliases from the SYNOPSIS section, and
3765 several manpages so manlinks.sed can find aliases for creating
3767 + add explanation to run_tic.sh regarding extended terminal
3769 + change message format for edit_cfg.sh, since some people interpret
3771 + correct unescaped '$' in sysv5uw7*|unix_sv* rule for CF_SHARED_OPTS
3772 configure macro (report by Thanh Ma <Thanh.Ma@casi-rusco.com>).
3773 + correct logic in lib_twait.c as used by lib_mouse.c for GPM mouse
3774 support when poll() is used rather than select() (prompted by
3775 discussion with David Allen <DAllen24@aol.com>).
3777 20000624 pre-release
3778 + modify TransformLine() to check for cells with different color pairs
3779 that happen to render the same display colors.
3780 + apply $NCURSES_NO_PADDING to cost-computation in mvcur().
3781 + improve cost computation in PutRange() by accounting for the use
3782 of parm_right_cursor in mvcur().
3783 + correct cost computation in EmitRange(), which was not using the
3784 normalized value for cursor_address.
3785 + newer config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in TIN 1.5.6).
3788 + update config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in PCRE 3.2).
3789 + resync changes to gnathtml against version 1.22, regenerated html
3790 files under doc/html/ada using this (1.22.1.1).
3791 + regenerated html files under doc/html/man after correcting top and
3792 bottom margin options for man2html in dist.mk
3793 + minor fixes to test programs ncurses 'i' and testcurs program to make
3794 the subwindow's background color cover the subwindow.
3795 + modify configure script so AC_MSG_ERROR is temporarily defined to a
3796 warning in AC_PROG_CXX to make it recover from a missing C++ compiler
3797 without requiring user to add --without-cxx option (adapted from
3798 comment by Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr> to autoconf mailing list).
3799 + modify headers.sh to avoid creating temporary files in the build
3800 directory when installing headers (reported by Sergei Pokrovsky
3804 + regenerated the html files under doc/html/ada/files and
3805 doc/html/ada/funcs with a slightly-improved gnathtml.
3806 + add kmous capability to linux terminfo entry to allow it to use
3807 xterm-style events provided by gpm patch by Joerg Schoen.
3808 + make the configure macro CF_SHARED_OPTS a little smarter by testing
3809 if -fPIC is supported by gcc rather than -fpic. The former option
3810 allows larger symbol tables.
3811 + update config.guess and config.sub (patches by
3812 Kevin Buettner <kev@primenet.com> (for elf64_ia64),
3813 Bernd Kuemmerlen <bkuemmer@mevis.de> (for MacOS X)).
3814 + add warning for 'tic -cv' about use of '^?' in terminfo source, which
3818 + modify echo() behavior of getch() to match Solaris curses for
3819 carriage return and backspace (reported by Neil Zanella).
3820 + change _nc_flush() to a function.
3821 + modify delscreen() to check if the output stream has been closed, and
3822 if so, free the buffer allocated for setbuf (this provides an
3823 ncurses-specific way to avoid a memory leak when repeatedly calling
3824 newterm reported by Chipp C <at_1@zdnetonebox.com>).
3825 + correct typo in curs_getch.3x manpage regarding noecho (reported by
3826 David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>).
3827 + add a "make libs" rule.
3828 + make the Ada95 interface build with configure --enable-widec.
3829 + if the configure --enable-widec option is given, append 'w' to names
3830 of the generated libraries (e.g., libncursesw.so) to avoid conflict
3831 with existing ncurses libraries.
3834 + modify view.c to make a rudimentary viewer of UTF-8 text if ncurses
3835 is configured with the experimental wide-character support.
3836 + add a simple UTF-8 output driver to the experimental wide-character
3837 support. If any of the environment variables LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE or
3838 LANG contain the string "UTF-8", this driver will be used to
3839 translate the output to UTF-8. This works with XFree86 xterm.
3840 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries on BeOS
3841 (from a patch by Valeriy E Ushakov).
3842 + modify lib_addch.c to allow repeated update to the lower-right
3843 corner, rather than displaying only the first character written until
3844 the cursor is moved. Recent versions of SVr4 curses can update the
3845 lower-right corner, and behave this way (reported by Neil Zanella).
3846 + add a limit-check in _nc_do_color(), to avoid using invalid color
3847 pair value (report by Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>).
3850 + the tack program knows how to use smcup and rmcup but the "show caps
3851 that can be tested" feature did not reflect this knowledge. Correct
3852 the display in the menu tack/test/edit/c (patch by Daniel Weaver).
3853 + xterm-16color does allow bold+colors, removed ncv#32 from that
3857 + correct assignment to SP->_has_sgr_39_49 in lib_dft_fgbg.c, which
3858 broke check for screen's AX capability (reported by Valeriy E Ushakov
3860 + change man2html rule in dist.mk to workaround bug in some
3861 man-programs that ignores locale when rendering hyphenation.
3862 + change web- and ftp-site to dickey.his.com
3865 + move _nc_curr_token from parse_entry.c to comp_scan.c, to work around
3866 problem linking tack on MacOS X DP3.
3867 + include <sys/time.h> in lib_napms.c to compile on MacOS X DP3
3868 (reported by Gerben Wierda <wierda@holmes.nl>).
3869 + modify lib_vidattr.c to check for ncv fixes when pair-0 is not
3871 + add -d option to ncurses.c, to turn on default-colors for testing.
3872 + add a check to _nc_makenew() to ensure that newwin() and newpad()
3873 calls do not silently fail by passing too-large limits.
3874 + add symbol NCURSES_SIZE_T to use rather than explicit 'short' for
3875 internal window and pad sizes. Note that since this is visible in
3876 the WINDOW struct, it would be an ABI change to make this an 'int'
3877 (prompted by a question by Bastian Trompetter
3878 <btrompetter@firemail.de>, who attempted to create a 96000-line pad).
3881 + add mgterm terminfo entry from NetBSD, minor adjustments to sun-ss5,
3883 + modify tack/ansi.c to make it more tolerant of bad ANSI replies. An
3884 example of an illegal ANSI resonse can be found using Microsoft's
3885 Telnet client. A correct display can be found using a VT-4xx
3886 terminal or XFree86 xterm with:
3887 XTerm*VT100*decTerminalID: 450
3888 (patch by Daniel Weaver).
3889 + modify gdc.c to recognize 'q' for quit, 's' for single-step and ' '
3890 for resume. Add '-n' option to force gdc's standard input to
3891 /dev/null, to both illustrate the use of newterm() for specifying
3892 alternate inputs as well as for testing signal handling.
3893 + minor fix for configure option --with-manpage-symlinks, for target
3894 directories that contain a period ('.') (reported by Larry Virden).
3897 + minor additions to beterm entry (feedback from Rico Tudor) -TD
3898 + corrections/updates for some IBM terminfo entries -TD
3899 + modify _nc_screen_wrap() so that when exiting curses mode with
3900 non-default colors, the last line on the screen will be cleared to
3901 the screen's default colors (request by Alexander V Lukyanov).
3902 + modify ncurses.c 'r' example to set nonl(), allowing control/M to be