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32 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
33 working with Pavel Curtis' original work, pcurses, in 1992.
35 Changes through 1.9.9e are recorded by Zeyd M Ben-Halim.
36 Changes since 1.9.9e are recorded by Thomas E Dickey.
38 Contributors include those who have provided patches (even small ones), as well
39 as those who provide useful information (bug reports, analyses). Changes with
40 no cited author are the work of Thomas E Dickey (TD).
42 A few contributors may be cited in this file by their initials.
43 Each accounts for half of one percent or more of the changes since 1.9.9e.
44 See the AUTHORS file for the corresponding full names.
46 Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
47 it is not possible to add this information.
50 + improve font-formatting in other manpages, for consistency.
51 + correct/improve font-formatting in curs_wgetch.3x (patch by Benno
55 + workaround in test/picsmap.c for use of floating point for rgb values
56 by ImageMagick 6.9.11, which appears to use the wrong upper limit.
57 + improve use of "trap" in shell scripts, using "fixup-trap".
60 + minor updates for test-packages
61 + improve handling of --with-pkg-config-libdir option, allowing for the
62 case where either $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR or the option value has a
63 colon-separated list of directories (report by Rudi Heitbaum,
68 + add ABI 7 defaults to configure script.
69 + add warning in configure script if file specified for "--with-caps"
71 + use fix for CF_FIX_WARNINGS from cdk-perl, ignoring error-exit on
73 + improve readability of long parameterized expressions with the
74 infocmp "-f" option by allowing split before a "%p" marker.
77 + improve checks for valid mouse events when an intermediate mouse
78 state is not part of the mousemask specified by the caller (report by
79 Anton Vidovic, cf: 20111022).
80 + use newer version 1.36 of gnathtml for generating Ada html files.
83 + add section on releasing memory to curs_termcap.3x and
84 curs_terminfo.3x manpages.
87 + improve markup, e.g., for external manpage links in the manpages
88 (prompted by report by Helge Kreutzmann).
91 + install ncurses-examples programs in libexecdir, adding a wrapper
92 script to invoke those.
93 + add help-screen and screen-dump to test/combine.c
96 + add test/combine.c, to demo/test combining characters.
99 + improve configure check for getttynam (report by Werner Fink).
102 + fix errata in description fields (report by Eric Lindblad) -TD
103 + add x10term+sl, aixterm+sl, ncr260vp+sl, ncr260vp+vt, wyse+sl -TD
106 + add dim, ecma+strikeout to st-0.6 -TD
107 + deallocate the tparm cache when del_curterm is called for the last
108 allocated TERMINAL structure (report/testcase by Bram Moolenaar,
110 + modify test-package to more closely conform to Debian multi-arch.
111 + if the --with-pkg-config-libdir option is not given, use
112 ${libdir}/pkgconfig as a default (prompted by discussion with Ross
116 + fix memory-leak in delwin for pads (report by Werner Fink, OpenSUSE
117 #1192668, cf: 20211106),
120 + minor clarification to clear.1 (Debian #999437).
121 + add xterm+sl-alt, use that in foot+base (report by Jonas Grosse
123 + improve search-path check for pkg-config, for Debian testing which
124 installs pkg-config with architecture-prefixes.
127 + improve check in misc/Makefile.in for empty $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR
128 + modify wnoutrefresh to call pnoutrefresh if its parameter is a pad,
129 rather than treating it as an error, and modify new_panel to permit
130 its window-parameter to be a pad (report by Giorgos Xou).
131 + fix a memory-leak in del_curterm (prompted by discussion with Bram
132 Moolenaar, cf: 20210821).
135 + simplify some references to WINDOWS._flags using macros.
136 + add a "check" rule in Ada95 makefile, to help with test-packages.
137 + build-fix for cross-compiling to MingW, conditionally add -lssp
140 + corrected regex needed for older pkg-config used in Solaris 10.
141 + amend configure option's auto-search to account for systems where
142 none of the directories known to pkg-config exist, adapted from
143 mailing-list comment (report by Milan P. Stanic).
145 20211021 6.3 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
146 + update release notes
147 + add "ncu2openbsd" script, to illustrate how to update an OpenBSD
148 system to use a current ncurses release.
151 + check for screen size-change in scr_init() and scr_restore(), in case
152 a screen dump does not match the current screen dimensions (report by
156 + amend change for pkg-config to account for "none" being returned in
157 the libdir-path result rather than "no" (report by Gabriele Balducci).
160 + build-fix for pmake with libtool.
161 + improve make-tar.sh scripts, adding COPYING to tar file, and clean up
163 + add link for "reset6" manpage in test-package ncurses6-doc
164 + revise configure option --with-pkg-config-libdir, using the actual
165 search path from pkg-config or pkgconf using the output from --debug
166 (report by Pascal Pignard).
167 + freeze ABI in ".map" files.
170 + implement "+m" option in tabs program.
171 + fill in some details for infoton -TD
172 + fix spelling/consistency in several descriptions -TD
173 + use vt420+lrmm in vt420 -TD
174 + modify save_tty_settings() to avoid opening /dev/tty for cases other
175 than reset/init, e.g., for clear.
176 + modify output of "toe -as" to show first description found rather
178 + improve tic checks for number of parameters of smglp, smgrp, smgtp,
179 and smgbp (cf: 20020525).
180 + correct off-by-one comparison in last_char(), which did not allow
181 special case of ":" in a terminfo description field (cf: 20120407).
182 + remove check in tic that assumes that none or both parameterized and
183 non-parameterized margin-setting capabilities are present
187 + use return-value from vsnprintf to reallocate as needed to allow for
188 buffers larger than the screen size (report by "_RuRo_").
189 + modify tset "-q" option to refrain from modifying terminal modes, to
190 match the documentation.
191 + add section on margins to terminfo.5, adapted from X/Open Curses.
192 + make tput/tset warning messages consistently using alias names when
193 those are used, rather than the underlying program's name.
194 + improve tput usage message for aliases such as clear, by eliminating
195 tput-specific portions.
196 + add a check in toe to ensure that a "termcap file" is text rather
198 + further build-fixes for OpenBSD 6.9, whose header files differ from
202 + add kbeg to xterm+keypad to accommodate termcap applications -TD
203 + add smglp and smgrp to vt420+lrmm, to provide useful data for the
205 + build-fix for gcc 3.4.3 with Solaris10, which does not allow forward
206 reference of anonymous struct typedef.
207 + modify tput to allow multiple commands per line.
208 + minor fixes for tset manpage.
211 + adjust ifdef in test_opaque.c to fix build with ncurses 5.7
212 + add testing note for xterm-{hp|sco|sun} -TD
213 + corrected description for ansi.sys-old -TD
214 + add xterm+nopcfkeys, to fill in keys for xterm-hp, xterm-sun -TD
215 + use hp+arrows in a few places -TD
216 + use hp+pfk-cr in a few places -TD
219 + correct logic in filtering of redefinitions (report by Sven Joachim,
223 + modify linux3.0 entry to reflect default mapping of shift-tab by
224 kbd 1.14 (report by Jan Engelhardt) -TD
225 + add historical note to tput, curses-terminfo and curses-color
226 manpages based on source-code for SVr2, SVr3 and SVr4.
227 + minor grammatical fixes for "it's" vs "its" (report by Nick Black).
228 + amend fix for --disable-root-environ (report by Arnav Singh).
229 + build-fix for compiling link_test
230 + drop symbols GCC_PRINTF and GCC_SCANF from curses.h.in, to simplify
231 use (Debian #993179).
234 + correct reversed check for --disable-root-environ (report/analysis
235 by Arnav Singh, cf: 20210626).
236 + apply gcc format attribute to prototypes which use a va_list
237 parameter rather than a "..." variable-length parameter list
238 (prompted by discussion in a tmux pull-request).
239 + modify configure scripts to filter out redefinitions of _XOPEN_SOURCE,
240 e.g., for NetBSD which generally supports 500, but 600 is needed for
242 + improve documentation for tparm and static/dynamic variables.
243 + improve typography in terminfo.5 (patch by Branden Robinson).
246 + improve tparm implementation of %P and %g, more closely matching
248 + move internals of TERMINAL structure to new header term.priv.h
249 + add "check" rule for ncurses/Makefile
250 + corrected tsl capability for terminator -TD
251 + add check in tic to report instances where tparm would detect an
252 error in an expression (cf: 20201010).
253 + correct a few places where SP->_pair_limit was used rather than
254 SP->_pair_alloc (cf: 20170812).
255 + fix missing "%d" for setaf/setab code 8-15 in xterm+direct16 (report
256 by Florian Weimer) -TD
257 + fix some documentation errata from OpenBSD changes.
261 + add workaround for broken pcre2 package in Debian 10, from xterm #369.
264 + ignore "--dynamic-linker" option in generated pkg/config files,
265 adapted from "distr1" patch.
266 + add CF_SHARED_OPTS case for Haiku, from patch in haikuports.
269 + add extensions in xterm+tmux and ecma+strikeout to ms-terminal,
270 but cancel the non-working Cr and Ms capabilities -TD
271 + add foot and foot-direct -TD
274 + add workaround for Windows Terminal's problems with CR/LF mapping to
275 ms-terminal (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
276 + review/update current Windows Terminal vs ms-terminal -TD
279 + correct typo in "vip" comments (report by Nick Black), reviewed this
280 against Glink manual -TD
281 + fill in some missing pieces for pccons, to make it comparable to the
283 + modify mk-1st.awk to account for extra-suffix configure option
284 (report by Juergen Pfeifer).
285 + change default for --disable-wattr-macros option to help packagers
286 who reuse wide ncursesw header file with non-wide ncurses library.
287 + build-fix for test/test_opaque.c, for configurations without opaque
291 + improve history section for tset manpage based on the 1BSD tarball,
292 which preceded BSD's SCCS checkins by more than three years.
293 + improve CF_XOPEN_CURSES macro used in test/configure (report by Urs
295 + further improvement of libtool configuration, adding a dependency of
296 the install.tic rule, etc., on the library in the build-tree.
300 + amend libtool configuration to add dependency for install.tic, etc.,
301 in ncurses/Makefile on the lower-level libraries.
302 + modify configure script to support ".PHONY" make program feature.
305 + add configure option --disable-root-access, which tells ncurses to
306 disallow most file-opens by setuid processes.
307 + use default colors in pccon "op" -TD
308 + correct rmacs/smacs in aaa+dec, aaa+rv -TD
309 + add hpterm-color2 and hp98550-color (Martin Trusler)
310 + regenerate man-html documentation.
313 + improve configure-macro used for dependencies of --disable-leaks such
315 + trim trailing blanks from files
318 + fixes for scan-build, valgrind build/testing.
319 + update config.guess
322 + add a summary of ncurses-specific preprocessor symbols to curses.h
323 (prompted by discussion with Peter Farley, Bill Gray).
326 + regenerate configure scripts with autoconf 2.52.20210509 to eliminate
327 an unnecessary warning in config.log (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
328 + add a note in manual page to explain ungetch vs unget_wch (prompted
329 by discussion with Peter Farley).
330 + add sp-funcs for erasewchar, killwchar.
331 + modify wgetnstr, wgetn_wstr to improve compatibility with SVr4 curses
332 in its treatment of interrupt and quit characters (prompted by
333 report/testcase by Bill Gray)
334 + update config.guess, config.sub
337 + improve manual pages for wgetnstr, newwin (prompted by
338 report/testcase by Bill Gray).
341 + modify tputs' error check to allow it to be used without first
342 calling tgetent or setupterm, noting that terminfo initialization
343 is required for supporting the terminfo delay feature (report by
345 + fix several warnings from clang --analyze
346 + add null-pointer check in comp_parse.c, when a "use=" clause refers
347 to a nonexisting terminal description (report/patch by Miroslav
348 Lichvar, cf: 20210227).
351 + add a special case in the configure script to work around one of the
352 build-time breakages reported for OpenBSD 6 here:
353 https://www.mail-archive.com/bugs@openbsd.org/msg13200.html
354 There is no workaround for the other issue, a broken linker spec.
355 + modify configure check for libtool to prevent accidental use of an
356 OpenBSD program which uses the same name.
357 + update config.guess, config.sub
360 + avoid using broken system macros for snprintf which interfere with
361 _nc_SLIMIT's conditionally adding a parameter when the string-hacks
362 configure option is enabled.
363 + add a "all::" rule before the new "check" rule in test/Makefile.in
366 + improve CF_LINK_FUNCS by ensuring that the source-file is closed
367 before linking to the target.
368 + add "check" rules for headers in c++, progs and test-directories.
369 + build-fix for termsort module when configured with termcap (reports
370 by Rajeev V Pillai, Rudi Heitbaum).
373 + extend --disable-pkg-ldflags option to also control whether $LDFLAGS
374 from the build is provided in -config and .pc files (Debian #986764).
375 + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses and c++
376 libraries and progs directory.
377 + fix off-by-one limit for tput's processing command-line arguments
378 (patch by Hadrien Lacour).
381 + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses library and
383 + improve description of BSD-style padding in curs_termcap.3x
384 + improved CF_C11_NORETURN macro, from byacc changes.
385 + fix "--enable-leak" in CF_DISABLE_LEAKS to allow turning
386 leak-checking off later in a set of options.
387 + relax modification-time comparison in CF_LINK_FUNCS to allow it to
388 accept link() function with NFS filesystems which change the mtime
389 on the link target, e.g., several BSD systems.
390 + call delay_output_sp to handle BSD-style padding when tputs_sp is
391 called, whether directly or internally, to ensure that the SCREEN
392 pointer is passed correctly (reports by Henric Jungheim, Juraj
396 + build-fixes for Solaris10 /bin/sh
397 + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses test-programs,
398 form and menu libraries.
401 + add configure option --enable-stdnoreturn, making the _Noreturn
402 keyword optional to ease transition (prompted by report by
406 + improve parameter-checking in tput by forcing it to analyze any
407 extended string capability, e.g., as used in the Cs and Ms
408 capabilities of the tmux description (report by Brad Town,
410 + remove an incorrect free in the fallback (non-checking) version of
411 _nc_free_and_exit (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
412 + correct use-ordering in some xterm-direct flavors -TD
413 + add hterm, hterm-256color (Mike Frysinger)
414 + if the build-time compiler accepts c11's _Noreturn keyword, use that
415 rather than gcc's attribute.
416 + change configure-check for gcc's noreturn attribute to assume it is
417 a prefix rather than suffix, matching c11's _Noreturn convention.
418 + add "lint" rule to c++/Makefile, e.g., with cppcheck.
421 + improve configure CF_LD_SEARCHPATH macro used for ncurses*-config and
422 ".pc" files, from dialog changes.
423 + reduce dependency of math-library in test programs.
424 + minor fixes for test_tparm.c (cf: 20210306)
425 + mention "ncurses" prefix in curses_version() manpage (report by
429 + improved test/test_tparm.c, by limiting the tests to capabilities
430 that might have parameters or padding, and combined with tputs test.
431 + improve discussion of padding versus tparm and tputs in
433 + update portability note for FreeBSD in man/tput.1
436 + modify tic/infocmp to eliminate unnecessary "\" to escape ":" in
438 + add check in tic for duplicate "use=" clauses.
441 + improve tic warning when oc/op do not mention SGR 39/49 for xterm
443 + revert change to lib_addch.c in waddch_literal() from 20210130, since
444 the followup fix in PutCharLR() actually corrects the problem while
445 this change causes too-early filling/wrapping (report by Johannes
447 + add/use vt220+pcedit and vt220+vtedit -TD
448 + add scrt/securecrt and absolute -TD
449 + add nel to xterm-new, though supported since X11R5 -TD
450 + add/use xterm+nofkeys -TD
451 + move use of ecma+italics from xterm-basic to xterm+nofkeys -TD
454 + add test/back_ground.c, to exercise the wide-character background
456 + add a check in _nc_build_wch() in case the background character is a
457 wide-character, rather than a new part of a multibyte character.
458 + improve tracemunch's coverage of form/menu/panel libraries.
459 + improve tracemunch's checking/reporting the type for the first
460 parameter, e.g., "WINDOW*" rather than "#1".
463 + provide for wide-characters as background character in wbkgrnd
464 (report/testcase by Anton Vidovic)
465 + add name for Fedora's pcre2 to configure check for "--with-pcre2"
466 option, from xterm #363 -TD
467 + modify adjustment in PutCharLR to restore the cursor position before
468 writing to the lower-right corner, rather than decrementing the
469 cursor column, in case it was a double-width character (cf: 20210130).
472 + correct an off-by-one in comparison in waddch_literal() which caused
473 scrolling when a double-cell character would not fit at the lower
474 right corner of the screen (report by Benno Schulenberg).
475 + split-out att610+cvis, vt220+cvis, vt220+cvis8 -TD
476 + add vt220-base, for terminal emulators which generally have not
477 supported att610's blinking cursor control -TD
478 + use vt220+cvis in vt220, etc -TD
479 + use att610+cvis, xterm+tmux and ansi+enq in kitty -TD
480 + use vt220+cvis in st, terminology, termite since they ignore
481 blinking-cursor detail in att610+cvis -TD
484 + modify package/config scripts to provide an explicit -L option for
485 cases when the loader search path has other directories preceding
486 the one in which ncurses is installed (report by Yuri Victorovich).
487 + minor build-fixes in configure script and makefiles to work around
491 + add comment for linux2.6 regarding CONFIG_CONSOLE_TRANSLATIONS
492 (report by Patrick McDermott) -TD
493 + make opts extension for getcchar work as documented for ncurses 6.1,
494 adding "-g" flag to test/demo_new_pair to illustrate.
497 + fix errata in man/ncurses.3x from recent updates.
498 + improve quoting/escaping in configure script, uses some features of
499 autoconf 2.52.20210105
502 + update man/curs_memleaks.3x, to include <term.h> which declares
504 + clarify man/curs_terminfo.3x, to mention why the macro setterm is
505 defined in <curses.h>, and remove it from the list of prototypes
506 (prompted by patch by Graeme McCutcheon).
507 + amend man/curs_terminfo.3x, to note that <curses.h> is required
508 for certain functions, e.g., those using chtype or attr_t for
509 types, as well as mvcur (cf: 20201031).
510 + use parameter-names in prototypes in curs_sp_funcs.3x, for
511 consistency with other manpages.
514 + update terminology entry to 1.8.1 -TD
515 + fix some compiler-warnings which gcc8 reports incorrectly.
518 + suppress hyphenation in generated html for manpages, to address
519 regression in upgrade of groff 1.22.2 to 1.22.3.
520 + fix inconsistent sort-order in see-also sections of manpages (report
524 + improve manual pages for form field-types.
527 + amend build-fixes for gnat 10 to work with certain systems lacking
528 gprbuild (cf: 20200627).
529 + eliminate an additional strlen and wsclen.
530 + eliminate an unnecessary strlen in waddnstr() (suggested by Benjamin
532 + modify inopts manpage, separating the items for nodelay and notimeout
533 (patch by Benno Schulenberg).
534 + correct mlterm3 kf1-kf4 (Debian #975322) -TD
535 + add flash to mlterm3 -TD
538 + add Smulx to alacritty (Christian Duerr).
539 + add rep to PuTTY -TD
540 + add putty+keypad -TD
541 + add another fflush(stdout) in _nc_flush() to handle time-delays in
542 the middle of strings such as flash when the application uses
543 low-level calls rather than curses (cf: 20161217).
544 + modify configure check for c89/c99 aliases of clang to use its
545 -std option instead, because some platforms, in particular macOS,
546 do not provide workable c89/c99 aliases.
549 + fix some compiler-warnings in experimental Windows-10 driver.
550 + add the definitions needed in recent configure-check for clang
551 (report by Steven Pitman).
554 + fix some compiler-warnings in experimental Windows-10 driver.
555 + modify a check for parameters in terminfo capabilities to handle the
556 special case where short extended capability strings were not
557 converted from terminfo to termcap format.
558 + modify CF_MIXEDCASE_FILENAMES macro, adding darwin as special case
559 when cross-compiling (report by Eli Rykoff).
562 + update kitty+common -TD
563 + add putty+screen and putty-screen (suggested by Alexandre Montaron).
564 + explain in ncurses.3x that functions in the tinfo library do not rely
565 upon wide-characters (prompted by discussion with Reuben Thomas).
568 + modify MKterm.h.in so that it is not necessary to include <curses.h>
569 before <term.h> (prompted by discussion with Reuben Thomas).
570 + review/improve synopsis for curs_sp_funcs.3x (prompted by discussion
572 + improve format of output in tic's check_infotocap() function, to
573 ensure that the messages contain only printable text.
574 + modify configure-check for clang to verify that -Qunused-arguments
575 is supported. IBM's xlclang does not support it (report by Steven
579 + provide workaround configure-check for bool when cross-compiling.
580 + fix a potential indexing error in _nc_parse_entry(), seen with
581 Herlim's test data using address-sanitizer.
582 + change a null-pointer check in set_curterm to a valid-string check,
583 needed in to tic's use-resolution when pad_char is cancelled
584 (report/testcase by Robert Sebastian Herlim)
585 + improve tic's -c option to validate the number and type of parameters
586 and compare against expected number/type before deciding which set of
587 parameter-lists to use in tparm calls (report/testcase by Robert
589 + fix a link for tabs.1 manpage in announce.html.in (report by Nick
590 Black), as well as some fixes via linklint.
593 + improve manpage typography.
594 + improve discussion in curs_addch.3x of the use of unctrl to display
595 nonprintable characters.
596 + add a note in terminfo.5 explaining that no-parameter strings such
597 as sgr0 or cnorm should not be used with tparm.
600 + correct sgr in aaa+rv (report by Florian Weimer) -TD
601 + fix some sgr inconsistencies in d230c, ibm6153, ibm6154,
603 + improve tic's check for errors detected in tparm (prompted by
604 discussion with Florian Weimer).
605 + set output-mode to binary in experimental Windows-10 driver (Juergen
609 + remove output-related checks for nl/nonl (report by Leon Winter).
610 + change tmux's kbs to ^? (report by Premysl Eric Janouch)
611 + simplify mlterm initialization with DECSTR -TD
612 + fix a typo in man/curs_terminfo.3 (Reuben Thomas).
613 + add tmux-direct (tmux #2370, Debian #895754)
614 + add user-defined capabilities from mintty to Caps-ncurses, for
615 checking consistency with tic.
618 + correct configure-check for gnurx library.
619 + regenerate llib-* files.
620 + modify tracemunch and the panel library to show readable traces for
621 panel- and user-pointers.
624 + update mlterm3 for 3.9.0 (report by Premysl Eric Janouch) -TD
627 + corrected condition for appending curses.events to the generated
628 curses.h (report by Sven Joachim, Debian #970545).
631 + add configure-check for systre/tre with mingw configuration, to get
632 the library-dependencies as seen in msys2 configuration for mingw64.
633 + build-fixes for the win32-driver configuration.
634 + use more defensive binary mode setting for Win32 (Juergen Pfeifer).
637 + fix regression in setupterm validating non-empty $TERM (report by
641 + merge/adapt in-progress work by Juergen Pfeifer for new version of
643 + correct description of vt330/vt340 (Ross Combs).
646 + build-fix for awk-scripts modified for win32-driver (report by Werner
650 + remove a redundant NCURSES_EXPORT as a build-fix for "Maarten
652 + merge/adapt in-progress work by Juergen Pfeifer for new version of
654 + modify configure script, moving gcc -Werror options to EXTRA_CFLAGS
655 to avoid breaking configure-checks (adapted from ongoing work on
657 > errata for terminfo.src (report by Florian Weimer):
658 + correct icl6404 csr
663 + improve version-number extraction in MKlib_gen.sh
664 + make the test-package for manpages installable by adjusting the
666 + correct an off-by-one loop-limit in convert_strings function
668 + add CF_SHARED_OPTS cases for HPE NonStop systems (Randall S Becker).
669 + modify CF_SHARED_OPTS case for NetBSD to use the same "-shared"
670 option for the non-rpath case as for the rpath case, to allow gcc to
671 provide suitable runtime initialization (report by Rajeev V Pillai).
674 + reduce build-warnings by excluding ncurses-internals from deprecation
676 + mark wgetch-events feature as deprecated.
677 + add definition for $(LIBS) to ncurses/Makefile.in, to simplify builds
678 using the string-hacks option.
679 + prevent KEY_EVENT from appearing in curses.h unless the configure
680 option --enable-wgetch-events is used (report by Werner Fink).
683 + amend tic/infocmp check to allow for the respective tool's absence
684 (report by Steve Wills, cf: 20200808).
685 + improved some of the build-scripts with shellcheck
686 + filter out -MT/-MD/-MTd/-MDd options in script for Visual Studio C++
687 (discussion with "Maarten Anonymous").
690 + improve discussion of the system's tic utility when used as part
691 of cross-compiling (discussion with Keith Marshall).
692 + modify configuration checks for build-time tic/infocmp to use
693 AC_CHECK_TOOL. That can still be overridden by --with-tic-path and
694 --with-infocmp-path when fallbacks are used, but even if not using
695 fallbacks, the improved check may help with cross-compiling
696 (discussion with Keith Marshall).
697 + other build-fixes for Ada95 with MinGW.
698 + modify Ada95 source-generation utility to write to a file given as
699 parameter rather than to the standard output, allowing builds with
703 + remove remaining parts of checks for ISC Unix (cf: 20121006).
704 + add user32.lib to LDFLAGS for Visual Studio C++ configuration
705 (discussion with "Maarten Anonymous").
706 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to hide ncurses' definition of KEY_EVENTS to
707 reduce Visual Studio C++ redefinition warnings.
708 + improve/update checks for external functions in test/configure
711 + set LINK_TESTS in CF_SHARED_OPTS for msvc (patch by
713 + improved workaround for redefinition-warnings for KEY_EVENT.
714 + improve man/term.5 section on legacy storage format (report by
718 + reduce redefinition-warnings for KEY_EVENT when building with Visual
720 + define NCURSES_STATIC when compiling programs to link with static
721 libraries, to work with MinGW vs Visual Studio C++.
722 > additional changes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2
723 (reports/patches by "Maarten Anonymous")
724 + modify c++/Makefile.in to set the current directory while compiling
725 the main program, so the linker can find related objects.
726 + several changes to allow the c++/demo program to compile/link.
727 + change an ifdef in test-directory, to use VC++ wide-character funcs.
730 + fix pound-sign mapping in acsc of linux2.6 entry (report by Ingo
732 + additional changes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2
733 (reports/patches by "Maarten Anonymous")
734 + build-improvements for Windows 10 and MinGW (patch by Juergen
736 + fix a typo in curs_printw.3x (patch by William Pursell).
737 + fix two errors in infotocap which allowed indexing outside the
738 buffer (report/testcases by Zhang Gan).
739 + update length of strings in infocmp's usage function to restore a
740 trailing null on the longest string (report/testcase by Zhang Gen).
743 + modify version-check with Ada generics to use the same pattern as in
744 the check for supported gnat versions (report by Pascal Pignard).
745 > additional changes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2
746 (patches by "Maarten Anonymous"):
747 + adjust headers/declarations to provide for "dllimport" vs "dllexport"
748 declarations when constructing DLLs, to worko with Visual Studio C++.
751 + build-fixes for gnat 10.1.1, whose gnatmake drops integration with
753 + correct buffer-length in test/color_name.h
756 + update list of functions in ncurses.3x
757 + move dlclose() call from lib_mouse.c to delscreen() to avoid a case
758 in the former which could be called from SIGTSTP handler (Debian
762 + add xterm+256color2, xterm+88color2, to deprecate nonstandard usage
763 in xterm+256color, xterm+88color -TD
764 + add shifted Linux console keys in linux+sfkeys entry for
765 screen.linux (report by Alexandre Montaron).
766 + use vt100+enq in screen (report by Alexandre Montaron).
767 + add screen.linux-s alias (suggested by Alexandre Montaron).
770 + correct configure version-check/warnng for g++ to allow for 10.x
771 + re-enable "bel" in konsole-base (report by Nia Huang)
772 + add linux-s entry (patch by Alexandre Montaron).
773 + drop long-obsolete convert_configure.pl
774 + add test/test_tparm.c, for checking tparm changes.
775 + improve parameter-checking for tparm, adding function _nc_tiparm() to
776 handle the most-used case, which accepts only numeric parameters
777 (report/testcase by "puppet-meteor").
778 + use a more conservative estimate of the buffer-size in lib_tparm.c's
779 save_text() and save_number(), in case the sprintf() function
780 passes-through unexpected characters from a format specifier
781 (report/testcase by "puppet-meteor").
782 + add a check for end-of-string in cvtchar to handle a malformed
783 string in infotocap (report/testcase by "puppet-meteor").
786 + update version-check for gnat to allow for gnat 10.x to 99.x
787 + fix an uninitialized variable in lib_mouse.c changes (cf: 20200502)
788 + add a check in EmitRange to guard against repeat_char emitting digits
789 which could be interpreted as BSD-style padding when --enable-bsdpad
790 is configured (report/patch by Hiltjo Posthuma).
791 + add --disable-pkg-ldflags to suppress EXTRA_LDFLAGS from the
792 generated pkg-config and ncurses*-config files, to simplify
793 configuring in the case where rpath is used but the packager wants
794 to hide the feature (report by Michael Stapelberg).
795 > fixes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 (patches by
796 "Maarten Anonymous"):
797 + modify CF_SHARED_OPTS to generate a script which translates linker
798 options into Visual Studio's dialect.
799 + omit parentheses around function-names in generated lib_gen.c to
800 work around a Visual Studio C++ limitation.
803 + add notes on termcap.h header in curs_termcap.3x
804 + update notes on vscode / xterm.js -TD
807 + add "-r" option to the dots test-programs, to help with scripting
808 a performance comparison.
809 + build-fix test/move_field.c for NetBSD curses, whose form headers
810 use different names than SVr4 or ncurses.
813 + add details on the change to Linux SGR 21 in 2018 -TD
814 + add xterm-direct16 and xterm-direct256 -TD
815 + modify lib_mouse.c to check for out-of-range button numbers, convert
816 those to position reports.
819 + use vt100+fnkeys in putty -TD
820 + fix a typo in tput.1; "columns" should be "cols".
823 + improve tracemunch logic for "RUN" compaction.
824 + fix a special case in wresize() where copying the old text did not
825 check if the last cell on a row was the beginning of a fullwidth
826 character (adapted from patch by Benno Schulenberg).
827 + use vt52+keypad in xterm-vt52, from xterm #354 -TD
828 + improve see-also section of user_caps.5
831 + fix find_pair(), overlooked when refactoring for _nc_reserve_pairs()
832 (report/testcase by Brad Town, cf: 20170812).
833 + add a trailing null for magic-string in putwin, flagged by gcc 10
834 + update check for gcc version versus gnat to work with gcc 10.x
837 + modify -fvisibility check to work with g++
838 > fixes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 (patches by
839 "Maarten Anonymous"):
840 + add configure option and check for gcc -fvisibility=hidden feature
841 + define NCURSES_NOMACROS in lib_gen.c to work around Visual Studio
842 C++ preprocessor limitations.
843 + modify some of the configure-macros, as well as mk-1st.awk to work
844 with Visual Studio C++ default filenaming.
847 + correct length of buffer copied in dup_field().
848 + remove "$(srcdir)/" from path of library.gpr, needed for out-of-tree
849 builds of Ada95 (patch by Adam Van Ymeren).
852 + improve configure-checks to reduce warnings about unused variables.
853 + improve description of error-returns in waddch and waddnstr manual
854 pages (prompted by patch by Benno Schulenberg).
855 + add test/move_field.c to demonstrate move_field(), and a stub for
856 a corresponding demo of dup_field().
859 + add history note to curs_scanw.3x for <stdarg.h> and <varargs.h>
860 + add history note to curs_printw.3x for <stdarg.h> and <varargs.h>
861 + add portability note to ncurses.3x regarding <stdarg.h>
864 + update copyright notices in test-packages.
865 + modify tracemunch to guard against errors in its known_p1 table.
866 + add several --with-xxx-libname options, to help with pkgsrc (prompted
867 by discussion with Thomas Klausner).
870 + modify wbkgd() and wbkgrnd() to avoid storing a null in the
871 background character, because it may be used in cases where the
872 corresponding 0x80 is not treated as a null (report by Marc Rechte,
876 + modify CF_NCURSES_CONFIG to work around xcode's c99 "-W" option,
877 which conflicts with conventional use for passing linker options.
878 > fixes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 (patches by
879 "Maarten Anonymous"):
880 + check for pcre2posix.h instead of pcre2-posix.h
881 + add case in CF_SHARED_OPTS for msys2 + msvc
882 + add fallback definition for STDIN_FILENO in progs.priv.h
883 + modify win_driver.c to use _alloca() rather than gcc's variable
884 length array feature.
885 + add NCURSES_IMPEXP to ncurses wrapped-variable declarations
886 + remove NCURSES_IMPEXP from class variables in c++/cursslk.h
887 + remove fallback prototype for exit() from c++/etip.h.in
888 + use configured check for <sys/time.h> in a couple of places
889 + conditionally include winsock.h in ncurses/win32con/gettimeofday.c,
890 because Visual Studio needs this for the timestruct declaration.
891 + adjust syntax in a couple of files using the NCURSES_API symbol.
894 + expanded note in ncurses.3x regarding automatically-included headers
895 + improve vt50h and vt52 based on DECScope manual -TD
896 + add/use vt52+keypad and vt52-basic -TD
897 + check/workaround for line-too-long in Ada95 generate utility when
898 building out-of-tree.
899 + improve/update HEADER_DEPS in */Makefile.in
900 + add "check" rule to include/Makefile, to demonstrate that the headers
901 include all of the required headers for the types used.
904 + improve manual page for panel library, extending the portability
905 section as well as documenting error-returns.
906 + show tic's version when installing terminal database in run_tic.sh
907 + correct check for gcc vs other compilers used in ncurses 6.0, from
908 FreeBSD patch by Kyle Evans (cf: 20150725).
909 + add notes for 6.2 to INSTALL.
911 20200212 6.2 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
912 + update release notes
913 + minor build-fixes, mostly to test-package scripts
916 + modify check for sizeof(wchar_t) to ensure it gives useful result
917 when cross-compiling.
918 + drop assumption in configure script that Cygwin's linker is broken.
919 + define NCURSES_BROKEN_LINKER if the broken-linker feature is used,
920 to simplify configure-checks for ncurses-examples.
923 + reassert copyright on ncurses, per discussion in ncurses FAQ:
924 https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html#relicensed
927 + modify comparison in make_hash.c to correct a special case in
928 collision handling for Caps-hpux11
929 + add testing utility report_hashing to check hash-tables used for
930 terminfo and termcap names.
931 + fix a missing prototype for _nc_free_and_exit().
932 + update a few comments about tack 1.07
933 + use an awk script to split too-long pathnames used in Ada95 sample
934 programs for explain.txt
937 + expanded description of XM in user_caps.5
938 + improve xm example for xterm+x11mouse, xterm+sm+1006 -TD
939 + add history section to curs_slk.3x and curs_terminfo.3x manpages.
940 + update alacritty entries for 0.4.0 (prompted by patch by
942 + correct spelling errors found with codespell.
943 + fix for test/configure, from xterm #352.
946 + improve configure macros which check for the X11/Intrinsic.h header,
947 to accommodate recent MacOS changes.
948 + suppress gcc's -Winline warning; it has not been useful for some time
949 + update config.guess, config.sub
952 + modify a couple of macros in aclocal.m4 to allow autoconf 2.69 to
953 "work", to help illustrate discussion in
954 https://invisible-island.net/autoconf/my-autoconf.html
955 + fix some warnings from autoheader-252
958 + in gen-pkgconfig.in, move the RPATH_LIST and PRIVATE_LIBS assignments
959 past the various prefix/libdir assignments, to allow for using those
960 symbols, e.g., as done via CF_SHARED_OPTS.
961 + improve ncurses*-config and pc-files by filtering out linker-specs.
962 + modify test-package to more closely match Fedora's configuration
963 for PIE/PIC feature and debug-packages.
966 + correct pathname used in Ada95 sample programs for explain.txt, to
967 work with test-packages.
968 + improve tracemunch:
969 + keep track of TERMINAL* values
970 + if tracing was first turned on after initialization, attempt to
971 show distinct screen, window and terminal names anyway.
972 + ensure that GCC_NORETURN is defined in term.h, because the prototype
973 for exit_terminfo() uses it (report by Werner Fink).
976 + add exit_curses() and exit_terminfo() to replace internal symbols for
980 + fix a few warnings for test-package builds
981 + add curses_trace(), to replace trace().
984 + add portability section to curs_getcchar manpage (prompted by
985 discussion with Nick Black).
986 + improve portability discussion of ACS characters in curs_addch
988 + improve typography for double-quotes in manpages.
991 + fix typo for MinGW rpm test-package.
992 + workaround in rpm specs for NFS problems in Fedora 31.
995 + modify ncurses/Makefile.in to fix a case where Debian/testing changes
996 to the ld --as-needed configuration broke ncurses-examples test
998 + drop library-dependency on psapi for MinGW port, since win_driver.c
999 defines PSAPI_VERSION to 2, making it use GetProcessImageFileName
1000 from kernel32.dll (prompted by patch by Simon Sobish, cf: 20140503).
1003 + add warning-check in tic for terminals with parm_dch vs parm_ich.
1004 + drop ich1 from rxvt-basic, Eterm and mlterm to improve compatibility
1005 with old non-curses programs -TD
1006 + reviewed st 0.8.2, updated some details -TD
1007 + use ansi+rep several places -TD
1008 + corrected tic's check for ich1 (report by Sebastian J. Bronner,
1012 + check parameter of set_escdelay, return ERR if negative.
1013 + check parameter of set_tabsize, return ERR if not greater than zero
1014 (report/patch by Anthony Sottile).
1015 + revise CF_ADD_LIBS macro to prepend rather than append libraries.
1016 + add "xterm-mono" to help packagers (report by Sven Joachim) -TD
1019 + add a note in man/curs_add_wch.3x about Unicode terminology for the
1020 line-drawing characters (report by Nick Black).
1021 + improve comment in lib_tgoto.c regarding the use of \200 where a
1022 \0 would be intended by the caller (report by "64 bit", cf: 20000923).
1023 + modify linux-16color to accommodate Linux console driver change in
1024 early 2018 (report by Dino Petrucci).
1027 + modify make_hash to not require --disable-leaks, to simplify building
1028 with address-sanitizer.
1029 + modify tic to exit if it cannot remove a conflicting name, because
1030 treating that as a partial success can cause an infinite loop in
1031 use-resolution (report/testcase by Hongxu Chen, cf: 20111001).
1034 + improve buffer-checks in captoinfo.c, for some cases when the
1035 input string is shorter than expected.
1036 > fix two errata in tic (report/testcases by Hongxu Chen):
1037 + check for missing character after backslash in write_it
1038 + check for missing characters after "%>" when converting from termcap
1039 syntax (cf: 980530).
1042 + amend recent changes to ncurses*-config and pc-files to filter out
1043 Debian linker-flags (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20150516).
1044 + clarify relationship between tic, infocmp and captoinfo in manpage.
1045 + check for invalid hashcode in _nc_find_type_entry and
1046 _nc_find_name_entry.
1047 > fix several errata in tic (reports/testcases by "zjuchenyuan"):
1048 + check for invalid hashcode in _nc_find_entry.
1049 + check for missing character after backslash in fmt_entry
1050 + check for acsc with odd length in dump_entry in check for one-one
1051 mapping (cf: 20060415);
1052 + check length when converting from old AIX box_chars_1 capability,
1053 overlooked in changes to eliminate strcpy (cf: 20001007).
1056 + modify the ncurse*-config and pc-files to more closely match for the
1060 + amend the ncurses*-config and pc-files to take into account the rpath
1061 hack which differed between those files.
1062 + improve -L option filtering in ncurses*-config
1063 + improve recovery from error when reading command-character in
1064 test/ncurses.c, showing the relevant error message and not exiting on
1065 EINTR (cf: 20180922)
1068 + add a note in resizeterm manpage about top-level windows which touch
1069 the screen's borders.
1070 + modify configure-checks for gnat to identify each of the tools path
1074 + build-fixes for Ada95 configure-script and corresponding test package
1077 + add --with-ada-libname option and modify Ada95 configuration to
1078 allow renaming the "AdaCurses" library (prompted by proposed changes
1080 + modify configure script to distinguish gcc from icc and clang when
1081 the --enable-warnings option is not used, to avoid unnecessary
1082 warnings about unrecognized inline options (report by Sven Joachim).
1085 + build-fixes for configuration using --program-suffix with Ada95,
1086 noticed with MacOS but applicable to other platforms without
1090 + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses test-programs.
1093 + amend 20181208 changes for wbkgd() and wbkgrnd(), fixing a few
1094 details where it still differed from SVr4.
1095 + fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses test-programs.
1098 + fix a few more coverity warnings.
1101 + improve loop limits in _nc_scroll_window() to handle a case where
1102 the scrolled data is a pad which is taller than the window (patch
1104 + amend the change to screen, because tmux relies upon that entry
1105 and does not support that feature (Debian #933572) -TD
1106 + updated ms-terminal entry & notes -TD
1107 + updated kitty entry & notes -TD
1108 + updated alacritty+common entry & notes -TD
1109 + use xterm+sl-twm for consistency -TD
1112 + fix a few more coverity warnings.
1113 + more documentation updates based on tctest.
1116 + fix a few coverity warnings.
1117 + documentation updates based on tctest.
1120 + fix a few warnings for gcc 4.x
1121 + add some portability/historical details to the tic, toe and infocmp
1123 + correct fix for broken link from terminfo(5) to tabs(1) manpage
1124 (report by Sven Joachim).
1127 + change reset's behavior for margins to simply clear soft-margins if
1128 possible, rather than clearing and then setting them according to the
1129 terminal's width (suggested by Thomas Wolff).
1130 + correct order of one wbkgd versus start_color call in test/padview.c
1134 + improve comments for recent changes, add alias xterm.js -TD
1137 + add --with-tic-path and --with-infocmp-path to work around problems
1138 building fallback source using pre-6.0 tic/infocmp.
1139 + add a check in tic for paired indn/rin
1140 + correct a buffer-limit in write_entry.c for systems that use caseless
1142 + add ms-terminal -TD
1143 + add vscode, vscode-direct -TD
1146 + improve the tabs.1 manual page to distinguish the PWB/Unix and 7th
1147 Edition versions of the tabs utility.
1148 + add configure check for getenv() to work around implementation shown
1149 in Emscripten #6766, use that to optionally suppress START_TRACE
1150 macro, whose call to getenv() may not work properly (report by Ilya
1152 + modify initialization functions to avoid relying upon persistent
1153 data for the result from getenv().
1154 + update config.guess, config.sub
1157 + expand the portability section of the man/tabs.1 manual page.
1158 + regenerate HTML manpages.
1161 + add mintty, mintty-direct (adapted from patch by Thomas Wolff).
1162 Some of the suggested user-defined capabilities are commented-out,
1163 to allow builds with ncurses 5.9 and 6.0
1164 + add Smol/Rmol for tmux, vte-2018 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
1165 + add rs1 to konsole, mlterm -TD
1166 + modify _nc_merge_entry() to make a copy of the data which it merges,
1167 to avoid modifying the source-data when aligning extended names.
1170 + modify an internal call to vid_puts to pass extended color pairs
1171 e.g., from tty_update.c and lib_mvcur.c (report by Niegodziwy Beru).
1172 + improve manual page description of init_tabs capability and TABSIZE
1176 + modify reset_cmd.c to allow for tabstops at intervals other than 8
1177 (report by Vincent Huisman).
1180 + update xterm-new to xterm patch #345 -TD
1181 + add/use xterm+keypad in xterm-new (report by Alain D D Williams) -TD
1182 + update terminator entry -TD
1183 + remove hard-tabs from ti703 (report by Robert Clausecker)
1184 + mention meml/memu/box1 in user_caps manual page.
1185 + mention user_caps.5 in tic and infocmp manual pages.
1188 + fix a spurious blank line seen with "infocmp -1fx xterm+x11mouse"
1189 + add checks in repair_subwindows() to keep the current position and
1190 scroll-margins inside the resized subwindow.
1191 + add a limit check in newline_forces_scroll() for the case where the
1192 row is inside scroll-margins, but not at the end (report by Toshio
1193 Kuratomi, cf: 20170729).
1194 + corrected a warning message in tic for extended capabilities versus
1195 number of parameters.
1198 + improve workaround for Solaris wcwidth versus line-drawing characters
1199 (report by Pavel Stehule).
1200 + add special case in tic to validate RGB string-capability extension.
1201 + corrected string/parameter-field for RGB in Caps-ncurses.
1204 + corrected problem in terminfo load/realignment which prevented
1205 infocmp from comparing extended capabilities with the same name
1206 but different types.
1209 + improve ifdef's for TABSIZE variable, to help with AIX/HPUX ports.
1212 + check for TABSIZE variable in test/configure script.
1213 + used test/test_arrays.c to improve Caps.aix1 and Caps.hpux11
1214 + corrected filtering of comments in MKparametrized.sh
1215 + reduce duplication across Caps* files by moving some parts which do
1216 not depend on order into Caps-ncurses.
1219 + modify MKcaptab.sh, MKkey_defs.sh, and MKhashsize.sh to handle
1220 split-up Caps-files.
1221 + build-fixes if extended-functions are disabled.
1224 + add "screen5", to mention italics (report by Stefan Assmann)
1225 + modify description of xterm+x11hilite to eliminate unused p5 -TD
1226 + add configure script checks to help with a port to Ultrix 3.1
1227 (report by Dennis Grevenstein).
1228 + check if "b" binary feature of fopen works
1229 + check for missing feature of locale.h
1230 + add fallback for strstr() in test-programs
1231 + add fallback for STDOUT_FILENO in test-programs
1232 + update config.guess, config.sub
1235 + move macro for is_linetouched() inside NCURSES_NOMACROS ifndef.
1236 + corrected prototypes in several manpages using script to extract
1237 those in compilable form.
1238 + use _nc_copy_termtype2() rather than direct assignment in setupterm,
1239 in case it is called repeatedly using fallback terminfo descriptions
1240 (report/patch by Werner Fink).
1243 + regenerate llib-* files.
1244 + modify tic to also use new function for user-defined capability info.
1245 + modify _nc_parse_entry() to check if a user-defined capability has
1246 an unexpected type; ignore it in that case.
1247 + fix a special case of link-anchors in generated Ada html files.
1248 + use newer rel=author tag in generated html rather than rev=made,
1249 which did not become accepted.
1252 + in-progress changes to add parameter-checking for common user-defined
1253 capabilities in tic.
1254 + update MKcodes.awk and MKnames.awk to ignore the new "userdef"
1255 data in Caps-ncurses (cf: 20190302).
1258 + corrected some of the undocumented terminfo names in Caps.hpux11
1259 + add "Caps-ncurses" file to help with checking inconsistencies in some
1260 user-defined capabilities.
1261 + amend check for repeat_char to handle a case where setlocale() was
1262 called after initscr() (report by "Ampera").
1265 + fix typo in adds200 -TD
1266 + add tic check for consistent alternate character set capabilities.
1267 + improve check in mvcur() to decide whether to use hard-tabs, using
1268 xt, tbc and hts as clues.
1269 + replace check in reset command for obsolete "pt" capability using
1270 tbc and hts capabilities as clues (report by Nicolas Marriott).
1273 + improve manual page description of TABSIZE.
1274 + add test/demo_tabs program.
1277 + add check in tic to provide warnings for mismatched number of
1278 parameters in the documented user-capability extensions.
1281 + modify rpm test-package ".spec" file to work around naming conflict
1282 with Redhat's package for ncurses6.
1283 + modify no-leaks code in test/picsmap to avoid non-standard tdestroy.
1284 + amend change to configure script which altered the top-level makefile
1285 to avoid attempting to install the terminfo database when it was not
1286 configured, to allow for installing the ".pc" files which are also
1287 in the misc directory (report by Steve Wills).
1290 + change some "%define" statements in test-packages for RPMs to
1291 "%global" to work around changes in rpm 4.14 from recent Redhat.
1292 + fixes for O_INPUT_FIELD extension (patch by Leon Winter).
1293 + eliminate fixed buffer-size when reading $TERMCAP variable.
1294 + correct logic in read_entry.c which prevented $TERMCAP variable from
1295 being interpreted as a fallback to terminfo entry (prompted by
1296 Savannah #54556, cf: 20110924).
1299 + add a check in test/configure to work around non-ncurses termcap.h
1301 + corrected flag for "seq" method of db 1.8.5 interface, needed by toe
1302 on some of the BSDs.
1303 + updated "string-hacks" feature.
1304 + minor improvements to manpage typography.
1305 + corrected conditionally-compiled limit on color pairs (report by
1307 + add -x option to test/pair_content, test/color_content for testing
1308 init_extended_pair, extended_pair_content, init_extended_color,
1309 extended_color_content
1310 + add -p option to test/pair_content, test/color_content to show the
1311 return values from the tested functions.
1312 + improve manual page curs_color.3x discussion of error returns and
1314 + add O_INPUT_FIELD extension to form library (patch by Leon Winter).
1315 + override/suppress --enable-db-install if --disable-database configure
1317 + change a too-large terminal entry in tic from a fatal error to a
1318 warning (prompted by discussion with Gabriele Balducci).
1321 + fix typo in term(5), improve explanation of format (report by Otto
1323 + add nsterm-direct -TD
1324 + use SGR 1006 mouse for konsole-base -TD
1325 + use SGR 1006 mouse for putty -TD
1326 + add ti703/ti707, ti703-w/ti707-w (Robert Clausecker)
1329 + add dummy "check" rule in top-level and test-Makefile to simply
1330 building test-packages for Arch.
1331 + modify configure script to avoid conflict with a non-POSIX feature
1332 that enables all parts of the system headers by default. Some
1333 packagers have come to rely upon this behavior (FreeBSD #234049).
1334 + update config.guess, config.sub
1337 + improve man/curs_mouse.3x with regard to xterm
1338 + modify tracemunch to accept filename parameters in addition to use
1340 + minor optimization to reduce calls to _nc_reserve_pairs (prompted by
1341 discussion with Bryan Christ).
1342 + add test/pair_content.c and test/color_content.c
1343 + modify infocmp to omit filtering of "OTxx" names which are used for
1344 obsolete capabilities, when the output is sorted by long-names.
1345 Doing this helps when making a table of the short/long capability
1349 + several fixes for gcc8 strict compiler warnings.
1350 + fix a typo in comments (Aaron Gyes).
1351 + add nsterm-build309 to replace nsterm-256color, assigning the latter
1352 as an alias of nsterm, to make mouse work with nsterm-256color -TD
1353 + base gnome-256color entry on "gnome", not "vte", for consistency -TD
1354 + updates for configure macros from work on tin and xterm:
1355 + CF_GNU_SOURCE, allow for Cygwin's newlib when checking for the
1356 _DEFAULT_SOURCE symbol.
1357 + CF_VA_COPY, add fallback check if neither va_copy/__va_copy is
1358 supported, to try copying the pointers for va_list, or as an array.
1359 Also add another fallback check, for __builtin_va_copy(), which
1360 could be used with AIX xlc in c89 mode.
1363 + modify wbkgd() and wbkgrnd() to improve compatibility with SVr4
1364 curses, changing the way the window rendition is updated when the
1365 background character is modified (report by Valery Ushakov).
1368 + add midnightbsd to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro (patch by Urs Jansen).
1369 + add "@" command to test/ncurses F-test, to allow rapid jump to
1370 different character pages.
1371 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1372 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1375 + build-fix (reports by Chih-Hsuan Yen, Sven Joachim).
1378 + check --with-fallbacks option to ensure there is a value, and add
1379 the fallback information to top-level Makefile summary.
1380 + add some traces in initialization to show whether a fallback entry is
1382 + build-fix for test/movewindow with ncurses-examples on Solaris.
1383 + add "-l" option to test/background, to dump screen contents in a form
1384 that lets different curses implementations be compared.
1385 + modify the initialization checks for mouse so that the xterm+sm+1006
1386 block will work with terminal descriptions not mentioning xterm
1387 (report by Tomas Janousek).
1390 + ignore the hex/b64 $TERMINFO in toe's listing.
1391 + correct a status-check in _nc_read_tic_entry() so that if reading
1392 a hex/b64 $TERMINFO, and the $TERM does not match, fall-through to
1393 the compiled-in search list.
1396 + several workarounds to ensure proper C compiler used in parts of
1398 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1399 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1402 + add OpenGL clients alacritty and kitty -TD
1403 + add Smulx for tmux, vte-2018 -Nicholas Marriott
1406 + ignore $TERMINFO as a default value in configure script if it came
1407 from the infocmp -Q option.
1408 + allow value for --with-versioned-syms to be a relative pathname
1409 + add a couple of broken-linker symbols to the list of versioned
1410 symbols to help with link-time optimization versus weak symbols.
1411 + apply shift/control/alt logic when decoding xterm's 1006 mode to
1412 wheel-mouse events (Redhat #1610681).
1415 + amend change from 20180818, which undid a fix for the $INSTALL value
1416 to make it an absolute path.
1419 + improve a configure check to work with newer optimizers (report by
1420 Denis Pronin, Gentoo #606142).
1421 + fix typo in tput.c (Sven Joachim, cf: 20180825).
1424 + fix typo in tvi955 -TD
1425 + corrected acsc for regent60 -TD
1426 + add alias n7900 -TD
1427 + corrected acsc for tvi950 -TD
1428 + remove bogus kf0 from tvi950 -TD
1429 + added function-key definitions to agree with Televideo 950 manual -TD
1430 + add bel to tvi950 -TD
1431 + add shifted function-keys to regent60 -TD
1432 + renumber regent40 function-keys to match manual -TD
1433 + add cd (clr_eos) to adds200 -TD
1436 + build-fix: remove a _tracef call which was used for debugging (report
1440 + ignore interrupted system-call in test/ncurses's command-line, e.g.,
1441 if the terminal were resized.
1442 + add shift/control/alt logic for decoding xterm's 1006 mode (Redhat
1443 #1610681, cf: 20141011).
1444 + modify rpm test-packages to not use --disable-relink with Redhat,
1445 since Fedora 28's tools do not work with that feature.
1448 + document --with-pcre2 configure option in INSTALL.
1449 + improve workaround for special case in PutAttrChar() where a cell is
1450 marked as alternate-character set, to handle a case where the
1451 character in the cell does not correspond to any of the ASCII
1452 fallbacks (report by Leon Winter, cf: 20180505).
1453 + amend change to form library which attempted to avoid unnecessary
1454 update of cursor position in non-public fields, to simply disable
1455 output in this case (patch by Leon Winter, cf: 20180414).
1456 + improve check for LINE_MAX runtime limit, to accommodate broken
1457 implementations of sysconf().
1460 + improve manual page for wgetnstr, giving background for the length
1462 + define a limit for wgetnstr, wgetn_wstr when length is negative or
1464 + update configure script to autoconf 2.52.20180819 (Debian #887390).
1467 + add a section to tput manual page clarifying how it determines the
1468 terminal size (prompted by discussion with Grant Jenks).
1469 + add "--disable-relink" to rpm test-packages, for consistency with the
1471 + split spec-file into ncurses6.spec and ncursest6.spec to work around
1472 toolset breakage in Fedora 28.
1473 + drop mention of "--disable-touching", which was not in the final
1477 + build-fix for PDCurses with ncurses-examples.
1478 + improved CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS.
1479 + modify configure scripts to reduce relinking/ranlib during library
1480 install (Debian #903790):
1481 + use "install -p" when available, to avoid need for ranlib of
1483 + modify scripts which use "--disable-relink" to add a 1-second
1484 sleep to work around tools which use whole-second timestamps, e.g.,
1485 in utime() rather than the actual file system resolution.
1488 + improve logic for clear with E3 extension, in case the terminal
1489 scrolls content onto its saved-lines before actually clearing
1490 the display, by clearing the saved-lines after clearing the
1491 display (report/patch by Nicholas Marriott).
1494 + improve documentation regarding feature-test macros in curses.h
1495 + improve documentation regarding the virtual and physical screens.
1496 + formatting fixes for manpages, regenerate man-html documentation.
1499 + build-fixes for gcc8.
1500 + corrected acsc for wy50 -TD
1501 + add wy50 and wy60 shifted function-keys as kF1 to kF16 -TD
1502 + remove ansi+rep mis-added to interix in 2018-02-23 -TD
1505 + add enum, regex examples to test/demo_forms
1506 + add configure check for pcre-posix library to help with MinGW port.
1509 + build-fixes for gcc8.
1510 + correct order of WINDOW._ttytype versus WINDOW._windowlist in
1512 + fix a case where tiparm could return null if the format-string was
1513 empty (Debian #902630).
1516 + add acsc string to vi200 (Nibby Nebbulous)
1517 add right/down-arrow to vi200's acsc -TD
1518 + add "x" to tput's getopt string so that "tput -x clear" works
1519 (Nicholas Marriott).
1520 + minor fixes prompted by anonymous report on stack overflow:
1521 + correct order of checks in _nc_get_locale(), for systems lacking
1523 + add "#error" in a few places to flag unsupported configurations
1526 + use _WIN32/_WIN64 in preference to __MINGW32__/__MINGW64__ symbols
1527 to simplify building with MSVC, since the former are defined in both
1528 compiler configurations (report by Ali Abdulkadir).
1529 + further improvements to configure-checks from work on dialog, i.e.,
1530 updated CF_ADD_INCDIR, CF_FIND_LINKAGE, CF_GCC_WARNINGS,
1531 CF_GNU_SOURCE, CF_LARGEFILE, CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE, CF_SIZECHANGE, and
1532 CF_TRY_XOPEN_SOURCE.
1533 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1534 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1537 + build-fix for ncurses-examples related to gcc8-fixes (cf: 20180526).
1538 + reduce use of _GNU_SOURCE for current glibc where _DEFAULT_SOURCE
1539 combines with _XOPEN_SOURCE (Debian #900987).
1540 + change target configure level for _XOPEN_SOURCE to 600 to address
1541 use of vsscanf and setenv.
1542 + improved configure-checks CF_SIZECHANGE and CF_STRUCT_TERMIOS from
1546 + modify generated ncurses*config and ncurses.pc, ncursesw.pc, etc.,
1547 to list helper libraries such as gpm for static linking (Debian
1549 + marked vwprintw and vwscanw as deprecated; recommend using vw_printw
1550 and vw_scanw, respectively.
1553 + add RPM test-package "ncursest-examples".
1554 + modified RPM test-package to work with Mageia6.
1557 + add note in curs_util.3x about unctrl.h
1558 + review/improve header files to ensure that those include necessary
1559 files except for the previously-documented cases (report by Isaac
1561 + improved test-package scripts, adapted from byacc 1.9 20180525.
1562 + fix some gcc8 warnings seen in Redhat package build, but
1563 work around bug in gcc8 compiler warnings in comp_parse.c
1566 + formatting fixes for manpages, regenerate man-html documentation.
1567 + trim spurious whitespace from tmux in 2018-02-24 changes;
1568 fix some inconsistencies in/between tmux- and iterm2-entries for SGR
1569 (report by C Anthony Risinger)
1570 + improve iterm2 using some xterm features which it has adapted -TD
1571 + add check in pair_content() to handle the case where caller asks
1572 for an uninitialized pair (Debian #898658).
1575 + remove trailing ';' from GCC_DEPRECATED definition.
1576 + repair a change from 20110730 which left an error-check/warning dead.
1577 + fix several minor Coverity warnings.
1580 + add deprecation warnings for internal functions called by older
1582 + fix a special case in PutAttrChar() where a cell is marked as
1583 alternate-character set, but the terminal does not actually support
1584 the given graphic character. This would happen in an older terminal
1585 such as vt52, which lacks most line-drawing capability.
1586 + use configure --with-config-suffix option to work around filename
1587 conflict with Debian packages versus test-packages.
1588 + update tracemunch to work with perl 5.26.2, which changed the rules
1589 for escaping regular expressions.
1592 + document new form-extension O_EDGE_INSERT_STAY (report by Leon
1594 + correct error-returns listed in manual pages for a few form functions
1595 (report by Leon Winter).
1596 + add a check in form-library for null-pointer dereference:
1597 unfocus_current_field (form);
1598 form_driver (form, REQ_VALIDATION);
1599 (patch by Leon Winter).
1602 + modify form library to optionally delay cursor movement on a field
1603 edge/boundary (patch by Leon Winter).
1604 + modify form library to avoid unnecessary update of cursor position in
1605 non-public fields (patch by Leon Winter).
1606 + remove unused _nc_import_termtype2() function.
1607 + also add/improve null-pointer checks in other places
1608 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_parse_entry to handle an error when
1609 a use-name is invalid syntax (report by Chung-Yi Lin).
1612 + clarify in manual pages that vwprintw and vwscanw are obsolete,
1613 not part of X/Open Curses since 2007.
1614 + use "const" in some prototypes rather than NCURSES_CONST where X/Open
1615 Curses was updated to do this, e.g., wscanw, newterm, the terminfo
1616 interface. Also use "const" for consistency in the termcap
1617 interface, which was withdrawn by X/Open Curses in Issue 5 (2007).
1618 As of Issue 7, X/Open Curses still lacks "const" for certain return
1619 values, e.g., keyname().
1622 + improve terminfo write/read by modifying the fourth item of the
1623 extended header to denote the number of valid strings in the extended
1624 string table (prompted by a comment in unibilium's sources).
1627 + amend Scaled256() macro in test/picsmap.c to cover the full range
1628 0..1000 (report by Roger Pau Monne).
1629 + add some checks in tracemunch for undefined variables.
1630 + trim some redundant capabilities from st-0.7 -TD
1631 + trim unnecessary setf/setb from interix -TD
1634 + fix a check in infotocap which may not have detected a problem when
1636 + add a check in tic for the case where setf/setb are given using
1637 different strings, but provide identical results to setaf/setab.
1638 + further improve fix for terminfo.5 (patch by Kir Kolyshkin).
1639 + reorder loop-limit checks in winsnstr() in case the string has no
1640 terminating null and only the number of characters is used (patch
1644 + modify TurnOn/TurnOff macros in lib_vidattr.c and lib_vid_attr.c to
1645 avoid expansion of "CUR" in trace.
1646 + improve a few lintian warnings in test-packages.
1647 + modify lib_setup to avoid calling pthread_self() without first
1648 verifying that the address is valid, i.e., for weak symbols
1649 (report/patch by Werner Fink).
1650 + modify generated terminfo.5 to not use "expand" and related width
1651 on the last column of tables, making layout on wide terminals look
1652 better (adapted from patch by Kir Kolyshkin).
1653 + add a category to report_offsets, e.g., "w" for wide-character, "t"
1654 for threads to make the report more readable. Reorganized the
1655 structures reported to make the categories more apparent.
1656 + simplify some ifdef's for extended-colors.
1657 + add NCURSES_GLOBALS and NCURSES_PRESCREEN to report_offsets, to show
1658 how similar the different tinfo configurations are.
1661 + modify _nc_resolve_uses2() to detect incompatible types when merging
1662 a "use=" clause of extended capabilities. The problem was seen in a
1663 defective terminfo integrated from simpleterm sources in 20171111,
1664 compounded by repair in 20180121.
1665 + correct Ss/Ms interchange in st-0.7 entry (tmux #1264) -TD
1666 + fix remaining flash capabilities with trailing mandatory delays -TD
1667 + correct cut/paste in NEWS (report by Sven Joachim).
1670 + remove incorrect free() from 20170617 changes (report by David Macek).
1671 + correct type for "U8" in user_caps.5; it is a number not boolean.
1672 + add a null-pointer check in safe_sprintf.c (report by Steven Noonan).
1673 + improve fix for Debian #882620 by reusing limit2 variable (report by
1674 Julien Cristau, Sven Joachim).
1677 + modify misc/Makefile.in to install/uninstall explicit list in case
1678 the build-directory happens to have no ".pc" files when an uninstall
1679 is performed (report by Jeffrey Walton).
1680 + deprecate safe-sprintf, since the vsnprintf function, which does what
1681 was needed, was standardized long ago.
1682 + add several development/experimental options to development packages.
1683 + minor reordering of options in configure script to make the threaded
1684 and reentrant options distinct from the other extensions which are
1688 + minor fixes to test/*.h to make them idempotent.
1689 + add/use test/parse_rgb.h to show how the "RGB" capability works.
1690 + add a clarification in user_caps.5 regarding "RGB" capability.
1691 + add extended_slk_color{,_sp} symbols to the appropriate
1692 package/*.{map,sym} files (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20170401).
1695 + update "VERSION" file, used in shared-library naming.
1697 20180127 6.1 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1700 + updated release notes
1701 + amend a warning message from tic which should have flagged misuse
1702 of "XT" capability in "screen" terminal description.
1704 + trim "XT" from screen entry, add comments to explain why it was
1706 + modify iterm to use xterm+sl-twm building block -TD
1707 + mark konsole-420pc, konsole-vt100, konsole-xf3x obsolete reflecting
1708 konsole's removal in 2008 -TD
1709 + expanded the history section of konsole to explain its flawed
1710 imitation of xterm's keyboard -TD
1711 + use xterm+x11mouse in screen.* entries because screen does not yet
1712 support xterm's 1006 mode -TD
1713 + add nsterm-build400 for macOS 10.13 -TD
1714 + add ansi+idc1, use that in ansi+idc adding dch for consistency -TD
1715 + update vte to vte-2017 -TD
1716 + add ecma+strikeout to vte-2017 -TD
1717 + add iterm2-direct -TD
1718 + updated teraterm, added teraterm-256color -TD
1719 + add mlterm-direct -TD
1720 + add descriptions for ANSI building-blocks -TD
1722 20180121 pre-release
1724 + add xterm+noalt, xterm+titlestack, xterm+alt1049, xterm+alt+title
1725 blocks from xterm #331 -TD
1726 + add xterm+direct, xterm+indirect, xterm-direct entries from xterm
1728 + modify xterm+256color and xterm+256setaf to use correct number of
1729 color pairs, for ncurses 6.1 -TD
1730 + add rs1 capability to xterm-256color -TD
1731 + modify xterm-r5, xterm-r6 and xterm-xf86-v32 to use xterm+kbs to
1732 match xterm #272, reflecting packager's changes -TD
1733 + remove "boolean" Se, Ss from st-0.7 -TD
1734 + add konsole-direct and st-direct -TD
1735 + remove unsupported "Tc" capability from st-0.7; use st-direct if
1736 direct-colors are wanted -TD
1737 + add vte-direct -TD
1738 + add XT, hpa, indn, and vpa to screen, and invis, E3 to tmux (patch by
1740 + use xterm+sm+1006 in xterm-new, vte-2014 -TD
1741 + use xterm+x11mouse in iterm, iterm2, mlterm3 because xterm's 1006
1742 mode does not work with those programs. konsole is debatable -TD
1743 + add "termite" entry (report by Markus Pfeiffer) -TD
1744 > merge branch begun April 2, 2017 which provides these features:
1745 + support read/write new binary-format for terminfo which stores
1746 numeric capabilities as a signed 32-bit integer. The test programs
1747 such as picsmap, ncurses were created or updated during 2017 to use
1749 + the new format is written by the wide-character configuration of
1750 tic when it finds a numeric capability larger than 32767.
1751 + other applications such as infocmp built with the wide-character
1752 ncurses library work as expected.
1753 + applications built with the "narrow" (8-bit) configuration will
1754 read the new format, but will limit those extended values to 32767.
1755 + in either wide/narrow configuration, the structure defined in
1756 term.h still uses signed 16-bit values.
1757 + because it is incompatible with the legacy (mid-1980s) binary format,
1758 a new magic value is provided for the "file" program.
1759 + the term.5 manual page is updated to describe this new format.
1760 + the limit on file-size for compiled terminfo is increased in the
1761 wide-character configuration to 32768.
1764 + build-fix in picsmap.c for stdint.h existence.
1765 + add --disable-stripping option to configure scripts.
1766 + modify ncurses-examples to install test-scripts in the data directory.
1767 + work around tool-breakage in Debian 9 and later by invoking
1768 gprconfig to specify the C compiler to be used by gnatmake,
1769 and conditionally suppressing Library_Options line for static
1771 + bump the compat level for test-packages to 7, i.e., Debian 5.
1774 + fixes for writing extended color pairs in putwin.
1775 + modify test/savescreen.c to add test patterns that exercise 88-,
1777 + modify configure option --with-build-cc, adding clang, c89 and c99
1778 as possible default values.
1779 + modify ncurses-examples configure script to use pkg-config for the
1780 extra form/menu/panel libraries, to be more consistent with the
1781 handling of the curses/ncurses library.
1782 + modify test-packages for mingw to supply "pc" files.
1783 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to list -lpthread as a private library when
1784 configured to access it via weak symbols.
1785 + simplify gen-pkgconfig.in, adding -ltinfo without the special linker
1786 checks because some versions of the linker simply hard-code the
1788 + update URLs for ncurses website to use https.
1789 + modify CF_CURSES_LIBS to fill in $cf_nculib_root in case the
1790 ncurses-examples are built with a system ncurses that lacks the
1791 standard "curses" symbolic link, as done by SuSE. The symbol is
1792 needed to make a followup check for the pthread library work, and
1793 would be set properly using the options "--with-screen", etc.
1794 + generate misc/*.pc with "all" rule, as done for "sources" rule
1795 (report by Jeffrey Walton).
1798 + build-fix for ncurses-examples with Fedora27, adding check for
1799 reset_color_pairs() -- not yet in Fedora's package.
1800 + consistently add $CFLAGS to $MK_SHARED_LIB symbol in configure
1801 script when the latter happens to use the C compiler rather than
1802 directly using the loader (report by Jeffrey Walton).
1803 + set ABI for upcoming 6.1 release in "*.map" files. While there are
1804 some remaining internals to apply, no ABI-related changes are
1806 + add configure --with-config-suffix option to work around filename
1807 conflict with Redhat packages versus test-packages.
1810 + modify ncurses-examples to quiet const-warnings when building with
1812 + modify toe to not exit if unable to read a terminal description,
1813 e.g., if there is a permission problem.
1814 + minor fix for progs/toe.c, using _nc_free_termtype2.
1815 + assign 0 to pointer in _nc_tgetent_leak() after freeing it. Also
1816 avoid reusing pointer from previous successful call to tgetent
1817 if the latest call is unsuccessful (patch by Michael Schroeder,
1819 + minor fix for test/tracemunch, initialize $awaiting variable.
1822 + repair template in test/package/ncurses-examples.spec (cf: 20171111).
1823 + improve tic's warning about the number of parameters tparm might use
1824 for u1-u9 by making a special case for u6.
1825 + improve curs_attr.3x discussion of color pairs.
1828 + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to make output with --includedir
1829 consistent with --cflags, i.e., when --disable-overwrite option was
1830 configured the output should show the subdirectory where headers
1832 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to suppress macros when calling an "implemented"
1833 function in link_test.c
1834 + updated ftp-url used in test-packages, etc.
1835 + modify order of -pie/-shared options in configure script in case
1836 LDFLAGS uses "-pie", working around a defect or limitation in the GNU
1837 linker (prompted by patch by Yogesh Prasad, forwarded by Jay Shah).
1838 + add entry in man_db.renames for user_caps.5
1841 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to avoid tracing result from getstr/getnstr
1843 + add "-a" aspect-ratio option to picsmap.
1844 + add configure check for default path of rgb.txt, used in picsmap.
1845 + modify _nc_write_entry() to truncate too-long filename (report by
1846 Hosein Askari, Debian #882620).
1847 + build-fix for ncurses-examples with NetBSD curses:
1848 + it lacks the use_env() function.
1849 + it lacks libpanel; a recent change used the wrong ifdef symbol.
1850 + add a macro for is_linetouched() and adjust the function's return
1851 value to make it possible for most applications to check for an
1852 error-return (report by Midolikawa H).
1853 + additional manpage cleanup.
1854 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1855 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1858 + add a note to curs_addch.3x on portability.
1859 + add a note to curs_pad.3x on the origin and portability of pads.
1860 + improve manpage description of getattrs (report by Midolikawa H).
1861 + improve manpage macros (prompted by discussion in Debian #880551.
1862 + reviewed test-programs using KEY_RESIZE, made fixes to test/worm.c
1863 + add a "-d" option to picsmap for default-colors.
1864 + modify old terminology entry and a few other terminal emulators to
1866 + correct sgr string for tmux, which used screen's "standout" code
1867 rather than the standard code (patch by Roman Kagan)
1868 + correct sgr/sgr0 strings in a few other cases reported by tic, making
1869 those correspond to the non-sgr settings where they differ, but
1870 otherwise use ECMA-48 consistently:
1871 jaixterm, aixterm, att5420_2, att4424, att500, decansi, d410-7b,
1872 dm80, hpterm, emu-220, hp2, iTerm2.app, mterm-ansi, ncrvt100an,
1873 st-0.7, vi603, vwmterm -TD
1874 + build-fix for diagnostics warning in lib_mouse.c for pre-5.0 versions
1875 of gcc which did not recognize the diagnostic "push" pragma (patch by
1879 + add "op" to xterm+256setaf -TD
1880 + reviewed terminology 1.0.0 -TD
1881 + reviewed st 0.7 -TD
1882 + suppress debug-package for ncurses-examples rpm build.
1885 + check for interrupt in color-pair initialization of dots_curses.c,
1887 + add z/Z zoom feature to test/ncurses.c C/c screens.
1888 + add '<' and '>' commands to test/ncurses.c S/s screens, to better
1889 test off-by-ones in the overlap/copywin functions.
1892 + improve man/curs_inwstr.3x, correct end-logic for lib_inwstr.c
1893 (report by Midolikawa H).
1894 + fix typo in a few places for "improvements" (patch by Sven Joachim).
1895 + clear the other half of a double-width character on which a line
1896 drawing character is drawn.
1897 + make test/ncurses.c "s" test easier to understand which subtests are
1898 available; add a "S" wide-character overlap test-screen.
1899 + modify test/ncurses.c C/c tests to allow for extended color pairs.
1900 + add endwin() call in error-returns from test/ncurses.c omitted in
1901 recent redesign of its menu (cf: 20170923).
1902 + improve install of hashed-db by removing the ".db" file as done for
1903 directory-tree terminal databases.
1904 + repair a few overlooked items in include/ncurses_defs from recent
1905 port/refactoring of test-programs (cf: 20170909).
1906 + add test/padview.c, to compare pads with direct updates in view.c
1909 + modify test/view.c to expand tabs using the ncurses library rather
1910 than in the test-program.
1911 + remove very old SIGWINCH example in test/view.c, just use KEY_RESIZE.
1912 + add -T, -e, -f -m options to "dots" test-programs.
1913 + fix a few typos in usage-messages for test-programs.
1916 + minor cleanup to test/view.c:
1917 + eliminate "-n" option by simply reading the whole file.
1918 + implement page up/down commands.
1919 + add check in tput for init/reset operands to ensure those use a
1921 + improve manual pages which discuss chtype, cchar_t types and the
1922 attribute values which can be stored in those types.
1923 + correct array-index when parsing "-T" command-line option in tabs
1925 + modify demo_new_pair.c to pass extended pairs to setcchar().
1926 + add test/dots_xcurses.c to illustrate a different approach used for
1927 extended colors which can be contrasted with dots_curses.c.
1928 + add a check in tic to note when a description uses non-mandatory
1929 delays without xon_xoff. This is not an error, but some descriptions
1930 for a terminal emulator may use the combination incorrectly.
1933 + modify "-T" option of clear and tput to call use_tioctl() to obtain
1934 the operating system's notion of the screensize if possible.
1935 + review/repair some exit-codes for tput, making usage-message exit
1936 with 2 rather than 1, and a failure to open terminal 4+errno.
1937 + amend check in tput, tabs and clear to allow those to use the
1938 database-only features in cron if a -T option gives a suitable
1939 terminal name (report by Lauri Tirkkonen).
1940 + correct an ifdef in test/ncurses.c for systems with soft-keys but
1942 + regenerate man-html documentation.
1945 + fix a symbol conflict that made ncurses.c C/c menu not work with
1946 Solaris xpg4 curses.
1947 + add refresh() call to dots_mvcur.c, needed to use mvcur() with
1948 Solaris xpg4 curses after calling newterm().
1949 + minor fixes for configure script from work on ncurses-examples and
1951 + improve animation in test/xmas.c by adding a time-delay in blinkit().
1952 + modify several test programs to reflect that ncurses honors existing
1953 signal handlers in initscr(), while other implementations do not.
1954 + modify bs.c to make it easier to quit.
1955 + change ncurses-examples to use attr_t vs chtype to follow X/Open
1956 documentation more closely since Solaris xpg4-curses uses different
1957 values for WA_xxx vs A_xxx that rely on attr_t being an unsigned
1958 short. Tru64 aka OSF1, HPUX, AIX did as ncurses does, equating the
1962 + modify menu for test/ncurses.c to fit on 24-line screen.
1963 + build-fix for configure --with-caps=uwin
1964 + add options to test_arrays.c, for selecting termcap vs terminfo, etc.
1967 + minor fix to test/filter.c to avoid clearing the command in one case.
1968 + modify filter() to discard clr_eos if back_color_erase is set.
1971 + improve wide-character implementation of myADDNSTR() in frm_driver.c,
1972 which was inconsistent with the normal implementation.
1973 + save/restore cursor position in Undo_Justification(), matching
1974 behavior of Buffer_To_Window() (report by Leon Winter).
1975 + modify test/knight to provide the "slow" solution for small screens
1976 using "R", noting that Warnsdorf's method is easily done with "a".
1977 + modify several test-programs which call use_default_colors() to
1978 consistently do this only if "-d" option is given.
1979 + additional changes to test with non-standard variants of curses:
1980 + modify a loop limit in firework.c to work around absence of limit
1981 checks in some libraries.
1982 + fill the last row of a window with "?" in firstlast if waddch does
1983 not return ERR on the lower-right corner.
1984 + add checks in test/configure for some functions not in 4.3BSD curses.
1985 + fix a regression in test/configure (cf: 20170826).
1988 + amend change for endwin-state for better consistency with the older
1989 logic (report/patch by Jeb Rosen, cf: 20170722).
1990 + modify check in fmt_entry() to handle a cancelled reset string
1991 (Debian #873746). Make similar fixes in other parts of dump_entry.c
1995 + fix a bug in repeat_char logic (cf: 20170729, report by Chris Clayton).
1998 + fixes for "iterm2" (report by Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD
1999 + corrected a warning from tic about keys which are the same, to skip
2000 over missing/cancelled values.
2001 + add check in tic for unnecessary use of "2" to denote a shifted
2003 + improve checks in trim_sgr0, comp_parse.c and parse_entry.c, for
2004 cancelled string capabilities.
2005 + add check in _nc_parse_entry() for invalid entry name, setting the
2006 name to "invalid" to avoid problems storing entries.
2007 + add/improve checks in tic's parser to address invalid input
2008 + add a check in comp_scan.c to handle the special case where a
2009 nontext file ending with a NUL rather than newline is given to tic
2010 as input (Redhat #1484274).
2011 + allow for cancelled capabilities in _nc_save_str (Redhat #1484276).
2012 + add validity checks for "use=" target in _nc_parse_entry (Redhat
2014 + check for invalid strings in postprocess_termcap (Redhat #1484285)
2015 + reset secondary pointers on EOF in next_char() (Redhat #1484287).
2016 + guard _nc_safe_strcpy() and _nc_safe_strcat() against calls using
2017 cancelled strings (Redhat #1484291).
2018 + correct typo in curs_memleaks.3x (Sven Joachim).
2019 + improve test/configure checks for some curses variants not based on
2021 + add options for test/configure to disable checks for form, menu and
2025 + update "iterm" entry -TD
2026 + add "iterm2" entry (report by Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD
2027 + regenerate llib-* files.
2028 + regenerate HTML manpages.
2029 + improve picsmap test-program:
2030 + reduce memory used for tsearch
2031 + add report in log file showing cumulative color coverage.
2032 + add -x option to clear/tput to make the E3 extension optional
2034 + add options -T and -V to clear command for compatibility with tput.
2035 + add usage message to clear command (Debian #371855).
2036 + improve usage messages for tset and tput.
2037 + minor fixes to "RGB" extension and reset_color_pairs().
2040 + improve description of -R option in infocmp manual page (report by
2042 + add reset_color_pairs() function.
2043 + add user_caps.5 manual page to document the terminfo extensions used
2045 + improve build scripts, using SIGQUIT vs SIGTRAP; add other configure
2046 script fixes from work on xterm, lynx and tack.
2047 + modify install-rule for ncurses-examples to put the data files in
2048 /usr/share/ncurses-examples
2049 + improve tracemunch, by changing address-parameters of add_wch(),
2050 color_content() and pair_content() to dummy parameters.
2051 + minor optimization to _nc_change_pair, to return quickly when the
2052 current screen is marked for clearing.
2053 + in-progress changes to improve performance of test/picsmap.c for
2054 loading image files.
2055 + modify allocation for SCREEN's color-pair table to start small, grow
2056 on demand up to the existing limit.
2057 + add "RGB" extension capability for direct-color support, use this to
2058 improve color_content().
2059 + improve picsmap test-program:
2060 + if no palette file is needed, attempt to load one based on $TERM,
2061 checking first in the current directory, then by adding ".dat"
2062 suffix, and finally in the data-directory, e.g.,
2063 /usr/share/ncurses-examples
2064 + add "-l" option for logging
2065 + add "-d" option for debugging
2066 + add "-s" option for stepping automatically through list of images,
2068 + use tsearch to improve time for loading color table for images.
2069 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2070 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
2073 + update interix entry using tack and SFU on Windows 7 Ultimate -TD
2074 + use ^? for kdch1 in interix (reported by Jonathan de Boyne Pollard)
2075 + add "rep" to xterm-new, available since 1997/01/26 -TD
2076 + move SGR 24 and 27 from vte-2014 to vte-2012 (request by Alain
2078 + add a check in newline_forces_scroll() in case a program moves the
2079 cursor outside scrolling margins (report by Robert King).
2080 + improve _nc_tparm_analyze, using that to extend the checks made by
2081 tic for reporting inconsistencies between the expected number of
2082 parameters for a capability and the actual.
2083 + amend handling of repeat_char capability in EmitRange (adapted from
2084 report/patch by Dick Wesseling):
2085 + translate the character to the alternate character set when the
2086 alternate character set is enabled.
2087 + do not use repeat_char for characters past 255.
2088 + document "_nc_free_tinfo" in manual page, because it could be used in
2089 tack for memory-leak checking.
2090 + add "--without-tack" configure option to refine "--with-progs"
2091 configure option. Normally tack is no longer built in-tree, but
2092 a few packagers combine it during the build. If term_entry.h is
2093 installed, there is no advantage to in-tree builds.
2094 + adjust configure-script to define HAVE_CURSES_DATA_BOOLNAMES symbol
2095 needed for tack 1.08 when built in-tree. Rather than relying upon
2096 internal "_nc_" functions, tack now uses the boolean, number and
2097 string capability name-arrays provided by ncurses and SVr4 Unix
2098 curses. It still uses term_entry.h for the definitions of the
2099 extended capability arrays.
2100 + add an overlooked null-pointer check in mvcur changes from 20170722
2103 + improve test-packages for ncurses-examples and AdaCurses for lintian
2104 + modify logic for endwin-state to be able to detect the case where
2105 the screen was never initialized, using that to trigger a flush of
2106 ncurses' buffer for mvcur, e.g., in test/dots_mvcur.c for the
2107 term-driver configuration.
2108 + add dependency upon ncurses_cfg.h to a few other internal header
2109 files to allow each to be compiled separately.
2110 + add dependency upon ncurses_cfg.h to tic's header-files; any program
2111 using tic-library will have to supply this file. Legacy tack
2112 versions supply this file; ongoing tack development has dropped the
2113 dependency upon tic-library and new releases will not be affected.
2116 + modify command-line parameters for "convert" used in picsmap to work
2117 with ImageMagick 6.8 and newer.
2118 + fix build-problem with tack and ABI-5 (Debian #868328).
2119 + repair termcap-format from tic/infocmp broken in 20170701 fixes
2121 + reformat terminfo.src with 20170513 updates.
2122 + improve test-packages to address lintian warnings.
2125 + add a note to tic manual page about -W versus -f options.
2126 + correct a limit-check in fixes from 20170701 (report by Sven Joachim).
2129 + modify update_getenv() in db_iterator.c to ensure that environment
2130 variables which are not initially set will be checked later if an
2131 application happens to set them (patch by Guillaume Maudoux).
2132 + remove initialization-check for calling napms() in the term-driver
2133 configuration; none is needed.
2134 + add help-screen to test/test_getstr.c and test/test_get_wstr.c
2135 + improve compatibility between different configurations of new_prescr,
2136 fixing a case with threaded code and term-driver where c++/demo did
2137 not work (cf: 20160213).
2138 + the fixes for Redhat #1464685 obscured a problem subsequently
2139 reported in Redhat #1464687; the given test-case was no longer
2140 reproducible. Testing without the fixes for the earlier reports
2141 showed a problem with buffer overflow in dump_entry.c, which is
2142 addressed by reducing the use of a fixed-size buffer.
2143 + add/improve checks in tic's parser to address invalid input
2144 (Redhat #1464684, #1464685, #1464686, #1464691).
2145 + alloc_entry.c, add a check for a null-pointer.
2146 + parse_entry.c, add several checks for valid pointers as well as
2147 one check to ensure that a single character on a line is not
2148 treated as the 2-character termcap short-name.
2149 + fix a memory leak in delscreen() (report by Bai Junq).
2150 + improve tracemunch, showing thread identifiers as names.
2151 + fix a use-after-free in NCursesMenu::~NCursesMenu()
2152 + further amend incorrect calls for memory-leaks from 20170617 changes
2153 (report by Allen Hewes).
2156 + modify c++/etip.h.in to accommodate deprecation of throw() and
2157 throws() in c++17 (prompted by patch by Romain Geissler).
2158 + remove some incorrect calls for memory-leaks from 20170617 changes
2159 (report by Allen Hewes).
2160 + add test-programs for termattrs and term_attrs.
2161 + modify _nc_outc_wrapper to use the standard output if the screen was
2162 not initialized, rather than returning an error.
2163 + improve checks for low-level terminfo functions when the terminal
2164 has not been initialized (Redhat #1345963).
2165 + modify make_hash to allow building with address-sanitizer,
2166 assuming that --disable-leaks is configured.
2167 + amend changes for number_format() in 20170506 to avoid undefined
2168 behavior when shifting (patch by Emanuele Giaquinta).
2171 + fill in some places where TERMTYPE2 vs TERMTYPE was not used
2172 (report by Allen Hewes).
2173 + use ExitTerminfo() internally in error-exits for ncurses' setupterm
2174 to help with leak checking.
2175 + use ExitProgram() in error-exit from initscr() to help with leak
2177 + review test-programs, adding checks for cases where the terminal
2178 cannot be initialized.
2181 + add option "-xp" to picsmap.c, to use init_extended_pair().
2182 + make simple performance fixes for picsmap.c
2183 + improve aspect ratio of images read from "convert" in picsmap.c
2186 + add option to picsmap to use color-palette files, e.g., for mapping
2188 + move the data in SCREEN used for the alloc_pair() function to the
2189 end, to restore compatibility between ncurses/ncursesw libtinfo
2190 (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
2191 + add build-time utility "report_offsets" to help show when the various
2192 configurations of tinfo library are compatible or not.
2195 + improved test/picsmap.c:
2196 + lookup named colors for xpm files in rgb.txt
2197 + accept blanks in color-keys for xpm files.
2198 + if neither xbm/xpm work, try "convert", which may be available.
2201 + modify test/picsmap.c to read xpm files.
2202 + modify package/debian/* to create documentation packages, so the
2203 related files can be checked with lintian.
2204 + fix some typos in manpages (report/patch by Sven Joachim).
2207 + add test/picsmap.c to fill in some testing issues not met by dots.
2208 The initial version reads X bitmap (".xbm") files.
2209 + repair logic which forces a repaint where a color-pair's content is
2210 changed (cf: 20170311).
2211 + improve tracemunch, showing screenXX pointers as names.
2214 + modify tic/infocmp display of numeric values to use hexadecimal when
2215 they are "close" to a power of two, making the result more readable.
2216 + improve discussion of portability in curs_mouse.3x
2217 + change line-length for generated html/manpages to 78 columns from 65.
2218 + improve discussion of line-drawing characters in curs_add_wch.3x
2219 (prompted by discussion with Lorinczy Zsigmond).
2220 + cleanup formatting of hackguide.html and ncurses-intro.html
2221 + add examples for WACS_D_PLUS and WACS_T_PLUS to test/ncurses.c
2224 + corrected a case where $with_gpm was set to "maybe" after CF_WITH_GPM,
2225 overlooked in 20160528 fixes (report by Alexandre Bury).
2226 + improve a couple of test-program's help-messages.
2227 + corrected loop in rain.c from 20170415 changes.
2228 + modify winnstr and winchnstr to return error if the output pointer is
2229 null, as well as adding a null pointer check of the window pointer
2230 for better compatibility with other implementations.
2231 + improve discussion of NetBSD curses in scr_dump.5
2232 + modify LIMIT_TYPED macro in new_pair.h to avoid changing sign of the
2233 value to be limited (reports by Darby Payne, Rob Boudreau).
2234 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2235 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
2238 + build-fix for termcap-configuration (report by Chi-Hsuan Yen).
2239 + improve terminfo manual page discussion of control- and graphics-
2241 + remove tic warning about "^?" in string capabilities, which was
2242 marked as an extension (cf: 20000610, 20110820); however all Unix
2243 implementations support this and X/Open Curses does not address it.
2244 On the other hand, termcap never did support this feature.
2245 + correct missing comma-separator between string capabilities in
2246 icl6402 and m2-nam -TD
2247 + restore rmir/smir in ansi+idc to better match original ansiterm+idc,
2248 add alias ansiterm (report by Robert King).
2249 + amend an old check for ambiguous use of "ma" in terminfo versus
2250 a termcap use, if the capability is cancelled to treat it as number.
2251 + correct a case in _nc_captoinfo() which read "%%" and emitted "%".
2252 + modify sscanf calls in _nc_infotocap() for patterns "%{number}%+%c"
2253 and "%'char'%+%c" to check that the final character is really 'c',
2254 avoiding a case in icl6404 which cannot be converted to termcap.
2255 + in _nc_infotocap(), add a check to ensure that terminfo "^?" is not
2256 written to termcap, because the BSDs did not implement that.
2257 + in _nc_tic_expand() and _nc_infotocap(), improve string-length check
2258 when deciding whether to use "^X" or "\xxx" format for control
2259 characters, to make the output of tic/infocmp more predictable.
2260 + limit termcap "%d" width to 2 digits on input, and use "%2" in
2261 preference to "%02" on output.
2262 + correct terminfo/termcap conversion of "%02" and "%03" into "%2" and
2263 "%3"; the result repeated the last character.
2264 + add man/scr_dump.5 to document screen-dump format.
2267 + modify several test programs to use new popup_msgs, adapted from
2268 help-screen used in test/edit_field.c
2269 + drop two symbols obsoleted in 2004: _nc_check_termtype, and
2271 + fix some old copyright dates (cf: 20031025).
2272 + build-fixes for test/savescreen.c to work with AIX and HPUX.
2273 + minor fix to configure script, adding a backslash/continuation.
2274 + extend TERMINAL structure for ABI 6 to store numbers internally as
2275 integers rather than short, by adding new data for this purpose.
2276 + more fixes for minor memory-leaks in test-programs.
2279 + change logic in wins_nwstr() to avoid addressing data past the output
2281 + correct a call to setcchar() in Data_Entry_w() from 20131207 changes.
2282 + fix minor memory-leaks in test-programs.
2283 + further improve ifdef in term_entry.h for internal definitions not
2287 + minor fixes for vt100+4bsd, e.g., delay in sgr for consistency -TD
2288 + add smso for env230, to match sgr -TD
2289 + remove p7/protect from sgr in fbterm -TD
2290 + drop setf/setb from fbterm; setaf/setab are enough -TD
2291 + make xterm-pcolor sgr consistent with other capabilities -TD
2292 + add rmxx/smxx ECMA-48 strikeout extension to tmux and xterm-basic
2293 (discussion with Nicholas Marriott)
2294 + add test-programs sp_tinfo and extended_color
2295 + modify no-leaks code for lib_cur_term.c to account for the tgetent()
2297 + modify setupterm() to save original tty-modes so that erasechar()
2298 works as expected. Also modify _nc_setupscreen() to avoid redundant
2299 calls to get original tty-modes.
2300 + modify set_curterm() to update ttytype[] data used by longname().
2301 + modify wattr_set() and wattr_get() to return ERR if win-parameter is
2302 null, as documented.
2303 + improve cast used for null-pointer checks in header macros, to
2304 reduce compiler warnings.
2305 + modify several functions, using the reserved "opts" parameter to pass
2306 color- and pair-values larger than 16-bits:
2307 + getcchar(), setcchar(), slk_attr_set(), vid_puts(), wattr_get(),
2308 wattr_set(), wchgat(), wcolor_set().
2309 + Other functions call these with the corresponding altered behavior,
2310 including chgat(), mvchgat(), mvwchgat(), slk_color_on(),
2311 slk_color_off(), vid_attr().
2312 + add new functions for manipulating color- and pair-values larger
2313 than 16-bits. These are extended_color_content(),
2314 extended_pair_content(), extended_slk_color(), init_extended_color(),
2315 init_extended_pair(), and the corresponding sp-funcs.
2318 + fix a memory leak in the window-list when creating multiple screens
2319 (reports by Andres Martinelli, Debian #783486).
2320 + reviewed calls from link_test.c, added a few more null-pointer
2322 + add a null-pointer check in ungetmouse, in case mousemask was not
2323 called (report by "Kau").
2324 + updated curs_sp_funcs.3x for new functions.
2327 + change TERMINAL structure in term.h to make it opaque. Some
2328 applications misuse its members, e.g., directly modifying it
2329 rather than using def_prog_mode().
2330 + modify utility headers such as tic.h to make it clearer which are
2331 externals that are used by tack.
2332 + improve curs_slk.3x in particular its discussion of portability.
2333 + fix cut/paste in legacy_encoding.3x
2334 + add prototype for find_pair() to new_pair.3x (report by Branden
2336 + fix a couple of broken links in generated man-html documentation.
2337 + regenerate man-html documentation.
2340 + modify vt100 rs2 string to reset vt52 mode and scrolling regions
2341 (report/analysis by Robert King) -TD
2342 + add vt100+4bsd building block, use that for older terminals rather
2343 than "vt100" which is now mostly used as a building block for
2344 terminal emulators -TD
2345 + correct a few spelling errors in terminfo.src comments -TD
2347 + fix a typo in ncurses.c test_attr legend (patch by Petr Vanek).
2348 + changed internal colorpair_t to a struct, eliminating an internal
2349 8-bit limit on colors
2350 + add ncurses/new_pair.h
2351 + add ncurses/base/new_pair.c with alloc_pair(), find_pair() and
2352 free_pair() functions
2353 + add test/demo_new_pair.c
2356 + improve terminfo manual description of terminfo syntax.
2357 + clarify the use of wint_t vs wchar_t in curs_get_wstr.3x
2358 + improve description of endwin() in manual.
2359 + modify setcchar() and getcchar() to treat negative color-pair as an
2361 + fix a typo in include/hashed_db.h (Andre Sa).
2364 + fixes for CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS (report by Ross Burton).
2367 + fix several formatting issues with manual pages.
2368 + correct read of terminfo entry in which all strings are absent or
2369 explicitly cancelled. Before this fix, the result was that all were
2370 treated as only absent.
2371 + modify infocmp to suppress mixture of absent/cancelled capabilities
2372 that would only show as "NULL, NULL", unless the -q option is used,
2373 e.g., to show "-, @" or "@, -".
2376 + build-fixes for PGI compilers (report by Adam J. Stewart)
2377 + accept whitespace in sed expression for generating expanded.c
2378 + modify configure check that g++ compiler warnings are not used.
2379 + add configure check for -fPIC option needed for shared libraries.
2380 + let configure --disable-ext-funcs override the default for the
2381 --enable-sp-funcs option.
2382 + mark some structs in form/menu/panel libraries as potentially opaque
2383 without modifying API/ABI.
2384 + add configure option --enable-opaque-curses for ncurses library and
2385 similar options for the other libraries.
2388 + trim newlines, tabs and escaped newlines from terminfo "paths" passed
2390 + ignore zero-length files in db-iterator; these are useful for
2391 instance to suppress "$HOME/.terminfo" when not wanted.
2392 + amended "b64:" encoder to work with the terminfo reader.
2393 + modify terminfo reader to accept "b64:" format using RFC-3548 in
2394 as well as RFC-4648 url/filename-safe format.
2395 + modify terminfo reader to accept "hex:" format as generated by
2396 "infocmp -0qQ1" (cf: 20150905).
2397 + adjust authors comment to reflect drop below 1% for SV.
2400 + minor comment-fixes to help automate links to bug-urls -TD
2401 + add dvtm, dvtm-256color -TD
2402 + add settings corresponding to xterm-keys option to tmux entry to
2403 reflect upcoming change to make that option "on" by default
2404 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
2405 + uncancel Ms in tmux entry (Harry Gindi, Nicholas Marriott).
2406 + add dumb-emacs-ansi -TD
2409 + improve discussion of early history of tput program.
2410 + incorporate A_COLOR mask into COLOR_PAIR(), in case user application
2411 provides an out-of-range pair number (report by Elijah Stone).
2412 + clarify description in tput manual page regarding support for
2413 termcap names (prompted by FreeBSD #214709).
2414 + remove a restriction in tput's support for termcap names which
2415 omitted capabilities normally not shown in termcap translations
2417 + modify configure script for clang as used on FreeBSD, to work around
2418 clang's differences in exit codes vs gcc.
2421 + improve discussion of early history of tset/reset programs.
2422 + clarify in manual pages that the optional verbose option level is
2423 available only when ncurses is configured for tracing.
2424 + amend change from 20161231 to avoid writing traces to the standard
2425 error after initializing the trace feature using the environment
2429 + amend changes for tput to reset tty modes to "sane" if the program
2430 is run as "reset", like tset. Likewise, ensure that tset sends
2431 either reset- or init-strings.
2432 + improve manual page descriptions of tput init/reset and tset/reset,
2433 to make it easier to see how they are similar and different.
2434 + move a static result from key_name() to _nc_globals
2435 + modify _nc_get_screensize to allow for use_env() and use_tioctl()
2436 state to be per-screen when sp-funcs are configured, better matching
2437 the behavior when using the term-driver configuration.
2438 + improve cross-references in manual pages for often used functions
2439 + move SCREEN field for use_tioctl() data before the ncursesw fields,
2440 and limit that to the sp-funcs configuration to improve termlib
2441 compatibility (cf: 20120714).
2442 + correct order of initialization for traces in use_env() and
2443 use_tioctl() versus first trace calls.
2446 + fix errata for ncurses-howto (report by Damien Ruscoe).
2447 + fix a few places in configure/build scripts where DESTDIR and rpath
2448 were combined (report by Thomas Klausner).
2449 + merge current st description (report by Harry Gindi) -TD
2450 + modify flash capability for linux and wyse entries to put the delay
2451 between the reverse/normal escapes rather than after -TD
2452 + modify program tabs to pass the actual tty file descriptor to
2453 setupterm rather than the standard output, making padding work
2455 + explain in clear's manual page that it writes to stdout.
2456 + add special case for verbose debugging traces of command-line
2457 utilities which write to stderr (cf: 20161126).
2458 + remove a trace with literal escapes from skip_DECSCNM(), added in
2460 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2461 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
2464 + correct parameters for copywin call in _nc_Synchronize_Attributes()
2465 (patch by Leon Winter).
2466 + improve color-handling section in terminfo manual page (prompted by
2467 patch by Mihail Konev).
2468 + modify programs clear, tput and tset to pass the actual tty file
2469 descriptor to setupterm rather than the standard output, making
2473 + add tput-colorcube demo script.
2474 + add -r and -s options to tput-initc demo, to match usage in xterm.
2475 + flush the standard output in _nc_flush for the case where SP is zero,
2476 e.g., when called via putp. This fixes a scenario where "tput flash"
2477 did not work after changes in 20130112.
2480 + add configure script option --disable-wattr-macros for use in cases
2481 where one wants to use the same headers for ncurses5/ncurses6
2482 development, by suppressing the wattr* macros which differ due to
2483 the introduction of extended colors (prompted by comments in
2484 Debian #230990, Redhat #1270534).
2485 + add test/tput-initc to demonstrate tput used to initialize palette
2487 + modify test/xterm*.dat to use the newer color4/color12 values.
2490 + improve discussion of field validation in form_driver.3x manual page.
2491 + update curs_trace.3x manual page.
2494 + modify linux-16color to not mask dim, standout or reverse with the
2496 + add 0.1sec mandatory delay to flash capabilities using the VT100
2497 reverse-video control -TD
2498 + omit selection of ISO-8859-1 for G0 in enacs capability from linux2.6
2499 entry, to avoid conflict with the user-defined mapping. The reset
2500 feature will use ISO-8859-1 in any case (Mikulas Patocka).
2501 + improve check in tic for delays by also warning about beep/flash
2502 when a delay is not embedded, or if those use the VT100 reverse
2503 video escape without using a delay.
2504 + minor fix for syntax-check of delays from 20161119 changes.
2505 + modify trace() to avoid overwriting existing file (report by Maor
2509 + add check in tic for some syntax errors of delays, as well as use of
2510 proportional delays for non-line capabilities.
2511 + document history of the clear program and the E3 extension, prompted
2512 by various discussions including
2513 http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/87469/clearing-the-old-scrollback-buffer
2516 + improve -W option in tic/infocmp:
2517 + correct order of size-adjustments in wrapped lines
2518 + if -f option splits line, do not further split it with -W
2519 + begin a new line when adding "use=" after a wrapped line
2522 + fix typo in man/terminfo.tail (Alain Williams).
2523 + correct program-name in adacurses6-config.1 manual page.
2526 + add new function "unfocus_current_field" (Leon Winter)
2529 + modify tset -w (and tput reset) to update the program's copy of the
2530 screensize if it was already set in the system, to improve tabstop
2531 setting which relies upon knowing the actual screensize.
2532 + add functionality of tset -w to tput, like the "-c" feature this is
2533 not optional in tput.
2534 + add "clear" as a possible link/alias to tput.
2535 + improve tput's check for being called as "init" or "reset" to allow
2536 for transformed names.
2537 + split-out the "clear" function from progs/clear.c, share with
2538 tput to get the same behavior, e.g., the E3 extension.
2541 + amend internal use of tputs to consistently use the number of lines
2542 affected, e.g., for insert/delete character operations. While
2543 merging terminfo source early in 1995, several descriptions used the
2544 "*" proportional delay for these operations, prompting a change in
2546 + regenerate llib-* files.
2547 + regenerate HTML manpages.
2548 + fix several formatting issues with manual pages.
2551 + adjust size in infocmp/tic to work with strlcpy.
2552 + fix configure script to record when strlcat is found on OpenBSD.
2553 + build-fix for "recent" OpenBSD vs baudrate.
2556 + add -W option to tic/infocmp to force long strings to wrap. This is
2557 in addition to the -w option which attempts to fit capabilities into
2558 a given line-length.
2559 + add linux-m1 minitel entries (patch by Alexandre Montaron).
2560 + correct rs2 string for vt100-nam -TD
2563 + modify _nc_tic_expand to escape comma if it immediately follows a
2564 percent sign, to work with minitel change.
2565 + updated minitel and viewdata descriptions (Alexandre Montaron).
2568 + build-fix for gnat6, which unhelpfully attempts to compile C files.
2569 + fix typo in 20160910 changes (Debian #837892, patch by Sven Joachim).
2572 + trim dead code ifdef'd with HIDE_EINTR since 970830 (discussion with
2574 + trim some obsolete/incorrect wording about EINTR from wgetch manual
2575 page (patch by Leon Winter).
2576 + really correct 20100515 change (patch by Rich Coe).
2577 + add "--enable-string-hacks" option to test/configure
2578 + completed string-hacks for "sprintf", etc., including test-programs.
2579 + make "--enable-string-hacks" work with Debian by checking for the
2580 "bsd" library and its associated "<bsd/string.h>" header.
2583 + correct 20100515 change for weak signals versus sigprocmask (report
2585 + modify misc/Makefile.in to work around OpenBSD "make" which unlike
2586 all other versions of "make" does not recognize continuation lines
2588 + amend the last change to CF_C_ENV_FLAGS to move only the
2589 preprocessor, optimization and warning flags to CPPFLAGS and CFLAGS,
2590 leaving the residue in CC. That happens to work for gcc's various
2591 "model" options, but may require tuning for other compilers (report
2595 + add "v" menu entry to test/ncurses.c to show baudrate and other
2597 + add "newer" baudrate symbols from Linux and FreeBSD to progs/tset.c,
2599 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro:
2600 + add "uclinux" to case for "linux" (patch by Yann E. Morin)
2601 + modify _GNU_SOURCE for cygwin headers, tested with cygwin 2.3, 2.5
2602 (patch by Corinna Vinschen, from changes to tin).
2603 + improve CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS macro to allow for compiler wrappers such
2604 as "ccache" (report by Enrico Scholz).
2605 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2606 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
2609 + update tput manual page to reflect changes to manipulate terminal
2610 modes by sharing functions with tset.
2611 + add the terminal-mode parts of "reset" (aka tset) to the "tput reset"
2612 command, making the two almost the same except for window-size.
2613 + adapt logic used in dialog "--keep-tite" option for test/filter.c as
2614 "-a" option. When set, test/filter attempts to suppress the
2616 + correct a typo in interix entry -TD
2619 + add a dependency upon generated-sources in Ada95/src/Makefile.in to
2620 handle a case of "configure && make install".
2621 + trim trailing blanks from include/Caps*, to work around a problem
2622 in sed (Debian #818067).
2625 + improve CF_GNU_SOURCE configure macro to optionally define
2626 _DEFAULT_SOURCE work around a nuisance in recent glibc releases.
2627 + move the terminfo-specific parts of tput's "reset" function into
2628 the shared reset_cmd.c, making the two forms of reset use the same
2630 + split-out the terminal initialization functions from tset as
2631 progs/reset_cmd.c, as part of changes to merge the reset-feature
2635 + change tset's initialization to allow it to get settings from the
2636 standard input as well as /dev/tty, to be more effective when
2637 output or error are redirected.
2638 + improve discussion of history and portability for tset/reset/tput
2642 + improve error message from tset/reset when both stderr/stdout are
2643 redirected to a file or pipe.
2644 + improve organization of curs_attr.3x, curs_color.3x
2647 + work around Debian's antique/unmaintained version of mawk when
2649 + improve test/list_keys.c, showing ncurses's convention of modifiers
2650 for special keys, based on xterm.
2653 + improve test/list_keys.c, using $TERM if no parameters are given.
2656 + build-fixes for ncurses "test_progs" rule.
2657 + amend change to CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS in 20160521 to make multilib build
2658 work (report by Sven Joachim).
2661 + build-fixes for ncurses-examples with NetBSD curses.
2662 + improve test/list_keys.c, fixing column-widths and sorting the list
2663 to make it more readable.
2666 + revise fix for Debian #805618 (report by Vlado Potisk, cf: 20151128).
2667 + modify test/ncurses.c a/A screens to make exiting on an escape
2668 character depend on the start of keypad and timeout modes, to allow
2669 better testing of function-keys.
2670 + modify rs1 for xterm-16color, xterm-88color and xterm-256color to
2671 reset palette using "oc" string as in linux -TD
2672 + use ANSI reply for u8 in xterm-new, to reflect vt220-style responses
2673 that could be returned -TD
2674 + added a few capabilities fixed in recent vte -TD
2677 + correct logic for -f option in test/demo_terminfo.c
2678 + add test/list_keys.c
2681 + further workaround for PIE/PIC breakage which causes gpm to not link.
2682 + fix most cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses library.
2685 + improved manual page description of tset/reset versus window-size.
2686 + fixes to work with a slightly broken compiler configuration which
2687 cannot compile "Hello World!" without adding compiler options
2688 (report by Ola x Nilsson):
2689 + pass appropriate compiler options to the CF_PROG_CC_C_O macro.
2690 + when separating compiler and options in CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS, ensure
2691 that all options are split-off into CFLAGS or CPPFLAGS
2692 + restore some -I options removed in 20140726 because they appeared
2693 to be redundant. In fact, they are needed for a compiler that
2694 cannot combine -c and -o options.
2697 + regenerate HTML manpages.
2698 + improve manual pages for wgetch and wget_wch to point out that they
2699 might return values without names in curses.h (Debian #822426).
2700 + make linux3.0 entry the default linux entry (Debian #823658) -TD
2701 + modify linux2.6 entry to improve line-drawing so that the linux3.0
2702 entry can be used in non-UTF-8 mode -TD
2703 + document return value of use_extended_names (report by Mike Gran).
2706 + amend change to _nc_do_color to restore the early return for the
2707 special case used in _nc_screen_wrap (report by Dick Streefland,
2709 + modify test/ncurses.c:
2710 + check return-value of putwin
2711 + correct ifdef which made the 'g' test's legend not reflect changes
2712 to keypad- and scroll-modes.
2713 + correct return-value of extended putwin (report by Mike Gran).
2716 + modify test/ncurses.c 'd' edit-color menu to optionally read xterm
2717 color palette directly from terminal, as well as handling KEY_RESIZE
2718 and screen-repainting with control/L and control/R.
2719 + add 'oc' capability to xterm+256color, allowing palette reset for
2723 + add workaround in configure script for inept transition to PIE vs
2724 PIC builds documented in
2725 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Harden_All_Packages
2726 + add "reset" to list of programs whose names might change in manpages
2727 due to program-transformation configure options.
2728 + drop long-obsolete "-n" option from tset.
2731 + modify test/blue.c to use Unicode values for card-glyphs when
2732 available, as well as improving the check for CP437 and CP850.
2735 + regenerate HTML manpages.
2736 + improve manual pages for utilities with respect to POSIX versus
2740 + regenerate HTML manpages.
2741 + improve test/demo_menus.c, allowing mouse-click on the menu-headers
2742 to switch the active menu. This requires a new extension option
2743 O_MOUSE_MENU to tell the menu driver to put mouse events which do not
2744 apply to the active menu back into the queue so that the application
2745 can handle the event.
2748 + improve description of tgoto parameters (report by Steffen Nurpmeso).
2749 + amend workaround for Solaris line-drawing to restore a special case
2750 that maps Unicode line-drawing characters into the acsc string for
2751 non-Unicode locales (Debian #816888).
2754 + modified test/filter.c to illustrate an alternative to getnstr, that
2755 polls for input while updating a clock on the right margin as well
2756 as responding to window size-changes.
2759 + omit a redefinition of "inline" when traces are enabled, since this
2760 does not work with gcc 5.3.x MinGW cross-compiling (cf: 20150912).
2763 + modify test/configure script to check for pthread dependency of
2764 ncursest or ncursestw library when building ncurses examples, e.g.,
2765 in case weak symbols are used.
2766 + modify configure macro for shared-library rules to use -Wl,-rpath
2767 rather than -rpath to work around a bug in scons (FreeBSD #178732,
2769 + double-width multibyte characters were not counted properly in
2770 winsnstr and wins_nwstr (report/example by Eric Pruitt).
2771 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2772 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
2775 + amend fix for _nc_ripoffline from 20091031 to make test/ditto.c work
2776 in threaded configuration.
2777 + move _nc_tracebits, _tracedump and _tracemouse to curses.priv.h,
2778 since they are not part of the suggested ABI6.
2781 + define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN for MinGW port, making builds faster.
2782 + modify test/ditto.c to allow $XTERM_PROG environment variable to
2783 override "xterm" as the name of the program to run in the threaded
2787 + improve formatting of man/curs_refresh.3x and man/tset.1 manpages
2788 + regenerate HTML manpages using newer man2html to eliminate some
2789 unwanted blank lines.
2792 + ifdef'd header-file definition of mouse_trafo() with NCURSES_NOMACROS
2793 (report by Corey Minyard).
2794 + fix some strict compiler-warnings in traces.
2797 + tidy up comments about hardcoded 256color palette (report by
2798 Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD
2799 + add putty-noapp entry, and amend putty entry to use application mode
2800 for better consistency with xterm (report by Leonardo Brondani
2802 + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to trace wide-characters
2803 as a whole rather than their multibyte equivalents.
2804 + minor fix in wadd_wchnstr() to ensure that each cell has nonzero
2806 + move PUTC_INIT calls next to wcrtomb calls, to avoid carry-over of
2807 error status when processing Unicode values which are not mapped.
2810 + modify ncurses c/C color test-screens to take advantage of wide
2811 screens, reducing the number of lines used for 88- and 256-colors.
2812 + minor refinement to check versus ncv to ignore two parameters of
2813 SGR 38 and 48 when those come from color-capabilities.
2816 + add check in tic for use of bold, etc., video attributes in the
2817 color capabilities, accounting whether the feature is listed in ncv.
2818 + add check in tic for conflict between ritm, rmso, rmul versus sgr0.
2821 + add a paragraph to curs_getch.3x discussing key naming (discussion
2822 with James Crippen).
2823 + amend workaround for Solaris vs line-drawing to take the configure
2825 + add a configure check for wcwidth() versus the ncurses line-drawing
2826 characters, to use in special-casing systems such as Solaris.
2829 + improve CF_XOPEN_CURSES macro used in test/configure, to define as
2830 needed NCURSES_WIDECHAR for platforms where _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
2831 does not work. Also modified the test program to ensure that if
2832 building with ncurses, that the cchar_t type is checked, since that
2833 normally is since 20111030 ifdef'd depending on this test.
2834 + improve 20121222 workaround for broken acs, letting Solaris "work"
2835 in spite of its misconfigured wcwidth which marks all of the line
2836 drawing characters as double-width.
2839 + update form_cursor.3x, form_post.3x, menu_attributes.3x to list
2840 function names in NAME section (patch by Jason McIntyre).
2841 + minor fixes to manpage NAME/SYNOPSIS sections to consistently use
2842 rule that either all functions which are prototyped in SYNOPSIS are
2843 listed in the NAME section, or the manual-page name is the sole item
2844 listed in the NAME section. The latter is used to reduce clutter,
2845 e.g., for the top-level library manual pages as well as for certain
2846 feature-pages such as SP-funcs and threading (prompted by patches by
2850 + add option to preserve leading whitespace in form fields (patch by
2852 + add missing assignment in lib_getch.c to make notimeout() work
2854 + add 't' toggle for notimeout() function in test/ncurses.c a/A screens
2855 + add viewdata terminal description (Alexandre Montaron).
2856 + fix a case in tic/infocmp for formatting capabilities where a
2857 backslash at the end of a string was mishandled.
2858 + fix some typos in curs_inopts.3x (Benno Schulenberg).
2861 + fix some inconsistencies in the pccon* entries -TD
2862 + add bold to pccon+sgr+acs and pccon-base (Tati Chevron).
2863 + add keys f12-f124 to pccon+keys (Tati Chevron).
2864 + add test/test_sgr.c program to exercise all combinations of sgr.
2867 + modify tset's assignment to TERM in its output to reflect the name by
2868 which the terminal description is found, rather than the primary
2869 name. That was an unnecessary part from the initial conversion of
2870 tset from termcap to terminfo. The termcap program in 4.3BSD did
2871 this to avoid using the short 2-character name (report by Rich
2873 + minor fix to configure script to ensure that rules for resulting.map
2874 are only generated when needed (cf: 20151101).
2875 + modify configure script to handle the case where tic-library is
2876 renamed, but the --with-debug option is used by itself without
2877 normal or shared libraries (prompted by comment in Debian #803482).
2880 + amend change for pkg-config which allows build of pc-files when no
2881 valid pkg-config library directory was configured to suppress the
2882 actual install if it is not overridden to a valid directory at
2883 install time (cf: 20150822).
2884 + modify editing script which generates resulting.map to work with the
2885 clang configuration on recent FreeBSD, which gives an error on an
2886 empty "local" section.
2887 + fix a spurious "(Part)" message in test/ncurses.c b/B tests due
2888 to incorrect attribute-masking.
2891 + modify MKexpanded.sh to update the expansion of a temporary filename
2892 to "expanded.c", for use in trace statements.
2893 + modify layout of b/B tests in test/ncurses.c to allow for additional
2894 annotation on the right margin; some terminals with partial support
2895 did not display well.
2896 + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim).
2897 + fix typo in INSTALL (patch by Tomas Cech).
2898 + improve configure check for setting WILDCARD_SYMS variable; on ppc64
2899 the variable is in the Data section rather than Text (patch by Michel
2900 Normand, Novell #946048).
2901 + using configure option "--without-fallbacks" incorrectly caused
2902 FALLBACK_LIST to be set to "no" (patch by Tomas Cech).
2903 + updated minitel entries to fix kel problem with emacs, and add
2904 minitel1b-nb (Alexandre Montaron).
2905 + reviewed/updated nsterm entry Terminal.app in OSX -TD
2906 + replace some dead URLs in comments with equivalents from the
2907 Internet Archive -TD
2908 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2909 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
2912 + modify ncurses/Makefile.in to sort keys.list in POSIX locale
2913 (Debian #801864, patch by Esa Peuha).
2914 + remove an early-return from _nc_do_color, which can interfere with
2915 data needed by bkgd when ncurses is configured with extended colors
2916 (patch by Denis Tikhomirov).
2917 > fixes for OS/2 (patches by KO Myung-Hun)
2918 + use button instead of kbuf[0] in EMX-specific part of lib_mouse.c
2919 + support building with libtool on OS/2
2920 + use stdc++ on OS/2 kLIBC
2921 + clear cf_XOPEN_SOURCE on OS/2
2924 + add configure check for openpty to test/configure script, for ditto.
2925 + minor fixes to test/view.c in investigating Debian #790847.
2926 + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20150926, incorporates a fix for Cdk.
2927 + add workaround for breakage of POSIX makefiles by recent binutils
2929 + improve check for working poll() by using posix_openpt() as a
2930 fallback in case there is no valid terminal on the standard input
2931 (prompted by discussion on bug-ncurses mailing list, Debian #676461).
2934 + change makefile rule for removing resulting.map to distclean rather
2936 + add /lib/terminfo to terminfo-dirs in ".deb" test-package.
2937 + add note on portability of resizeterm and wresize to manual pages.
2940 + clarify in resizeterm.3x how KEY_RESIZE is pushed onto the input
2942 + clarify in curs_getch.3x that the keypad mode affects ability to
2943 read KEY_MOUSE codes, but does not affect KEY_RESIZE.
2944 + add overlooked build-fix needed with Cygwin for separate Ada95
2945 configure script, cf: 20150606 (report by Nicolas Boulenguez)
2948 + fixes for configure/build using clang on OSX (prompted by report by
2950 + do not redefine "inline" in ncurses_cfg.h; this was originally to
2951 solve a problem with gcc/g++, but is aggravated by clang's misuse
2952 of symbols to pretend it is gcc.
2953 + add braces to configure script to prevent unwanted add of
2954 "-lstdc++" to the CXXLIBS symbol.
2955 + improve/update test-program used for checking existence of stdc++
2957 + if $CXXLIBS is set, the linkage test uses that in addition to $LIBS
2960 + add note in curs_addch.3x about line-drawing when it depends upon
2962 + add tic -q option for consistency with infocmp, use it to suppress
2963 all comments from the "tic -I" output.
2964 + modify infocmp -q option to suppress the "Reconstructed from"
2966 + add infocmp/tic -Q option, which allows one to dump the compiled
2967 form of the terminal entry, in hexadecimal or base64.
2970 + sort options in usage message for infocmp, to make it simpler to
2972 + update usage message for tic, adding "-0" option.
2973 + documented differences in ESCDELAY versus AIX's implementation.
2974 + fix some compiler warnings from ports.
2975 + modify --with-pkg-config-libdir option to make it possible to install
2976 ".pc" files even if pkg-config is not found (adapted from patch by
2980 + disallow "no" as a possible value for "--with-shlib-version" option,
2981 overlooked in cleanup-changes for 20000708 (report by Tommy Alex).
2982 + update release notes in INSTALL.
2983 + regenerate llib-* files to help with review for release notes.
2986 + workaround for Debian #65617, which was fixed in mawk's upstream
2987 releases in 2009 (report by Sven Joachim). See
2988 https://invisible-island.net/mawk/CHANGES.html#t20090727
2990 20150808 6.0 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2993 + build-fix for Ada95 on older platforms without stdint.h
2994 + build-fix for Solaris, whose /bin/sh and /usr/bin/sed are non-POSIX.
2995 + update release announcement, summarizing more than 800 changes across
2996 more than 200 snapshots.
2997 + minor fixes to manpages, etc., to simplify linking from announcement
3001 + updated llib-* files.
3002 + build-fixes for ncurses library "test_progs" rule.
3003 + use alternate workaround for gcc 5.x feature (adapted from patch by
3005 + add status line to tmux via xterm+sl (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
3006 + fixes for st 0.5 from testing with tack -TD
3007 + review/improve several manual pages to break up wall-of-text:
3008 curs_add_wch.3x, curs_attr.3x, curs_bkgd.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x,
3009 curs_getcchar.3x, curs_getch.3x, curs_kernel.3x, curs_mouse.3x,
3010 curs_outopts.3x, curs_overlay.3x, curs_pad.3x, curs_termattrs.3x
3011 curs_trace.3x, and curs_window.3x
3014 + correct an old logic error for %A and %O in tparm (report by "zreed").
3015 + improve documentation for signal handlers by adding section in the
3016 curs_initscr.3x page.
3017 + modify logic in make_keys.c to not assume anything about the size
3018 of strnames and strfnames variables, since those may be functions
3019 in the thread- or broken-linker configurations (problem found by
3021 + modify test/configure script to check for pthreads configuration,
3022 e.g., ncursestw library.
3025 + modify scripts to build/use test-packages for the pthreads
3026 configuration of ncurses6.
3027 + add references to ttytype and termcap symbols in demo_terminfo.c and
3028 demo_termcap.c to ensure that when building ncursest.map, etc., that
3029 the corresponding names such as _nc_ttytype are added to the list of
3030 versioned symbols (report by Werner Fink)
3031 + fix regression from 20150704 (report/patch by Werner Fink).
3034 + fix a few problems reported by Coverity.
3035 + fix comparison against "/usr/include" in misc/gen-pkgconfig.in
3036 (report by Daiki Ueno, Debian #790548, cf: 20141213).
3039 + modify configure script to remove deprecated ABI 5 symbols when
3041 + add symbols _nc_Default_Field, _nc_Default_Form, _nc_has_mouse to
3042 map-files, but marked as deprecated so that they can easily be
3043 suppressed from ABI 6 builds (Debian #788610).
3044 + comment-out "screen.xterm" entry, and inherit screen.xterm-256color
3045 from xterm-new (report by Richard Birkett) -TD
3046 + modify read_entry.c to set the error-return to -1 if no terminal
3047 databases were found, as documented for setupterm.
3048 + add test_setupterm.c to demonstrate normal/error returns from the
3049 setupterm and restartterm functions.
3050 + amend cleanup change from 20110813 which removed redundant definition
3051 of ret_error, etc., from tinfo_driver.c, to account for the fact that
3052 it should return a bool rather than int (report/analysis by Johannes
3056 + fix overflow warning for OSX with lib_baudrate.c (cf: 20010630).
3057 + modify script used to generate map/sym files to mark 5.9.20150530 as
3058 the last "5.9" version, and regenerated the files. That makes the
3059 files not use ".current" for the post-5.9 symbols. This also
3060 corrects the label for _nc_sigprocmask used in when weak symbols are
3061 configured for the ncursest/ncursestw libraries (prompted by
3062 discussion with Sven Joachim).
3063 + fix typo in NEWS (report by Sven Joachim).
3065 20150606 pre-release
3066 + make ABI 6 the default by updates to dist.mk and VERSION, with the
3067 intention that the existing ABI 5 should build as before using the
3068 "--with-abi-version=5" option.
3069 + regenerate ada- and man-html documentation.
3070 + minor fixes to color- and util-manpages.
3071 + fix a regression in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, to handle special case of
3072 Cygwin, which uses the broken-linker feature.
3073 + amend fix for CF_NCURSES_CONFIG used in test/configure to assume that
3074 ncurses package scripts work when present for cross-compiling, as the
3075 lessor of two evils (cf: 20150530).
3076 + add check in configure script to disallow conflicting options
3077 "--with-termlib" and "--enable-term-driver".
3078 + move defaults for "--disable-lp64" and "--with-versioned-syms" into
3079 CF_ABI_DEFAULTS macro.
3082 + change private type for Event_Mask in Ada95 binding to work when
3083 mmask_t is set to 32-bits.
3084 + remove spurious "%;" from st entry (report by Daniel Pitts) -TD
3085 + add vte-2014, update vte to use that -TD
3086 + modify tic and infocmp to "move" a diagnostic for tparm strings that
3087 have a syntax error to tic's "-c" option (report by Daniel Pitts).
3088 + fix two problems with configure script macros (Debian #786436,
3089 cf: 20150425, cf: 20100529).
3092 + add 'P' menu item to test/ncurses.c, to show pad in color.
3093 + improve discussion in curs_color.3x about color rendering (prompted
3094 by comment on Stack Overflow forum):
3095 + remove screen-bce.mlterm, since mlterm does not do "bce" -TD
3096 + add several screen.XXX entries to support the respective variations
3098 + add putty+fnkeys* building-block entries -TD
3099 + add smkx/rmkx to capabilities analyzed with infocmp "-i" option.
3102 + amend change to ".pc" files to only use the extra loader flags which
3103 may have rpath options (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20150502).
3104 + change versioning for dpkg's in test-packages for Ada95 and
3105 ncurses-examples for consistency with Debian, to work with package
3107 + regenerate html manpages.
3108 + clarify handling of carriage return in waddch manual page; it was
3109 discussed only in the portability section (prompted by comment on
3110 Stack Overflow forum):
3113 + add test-packages for cross-compiling ncurses-examples using the
3114 MinGW test-packages. These are only the Debian packages; RPM later.
3115 + cleanup format of debian/copyright files
3116 + add pc-files to the MinGW cross-compiling test-packages.
3117 + correct a couple of places in gen-pkgconfig.in to handle renaming of
3121 + modify the configure script to allow different default values
3122 for ABI 5 versus ABI 6.
3123 + add wgetch-events to test-packages.
3124 + add a note on how to build ncurses-examples to test/README.
3125 + fix a memory leak in delscreen (report by Daniel Kahn Gillmor,
3127 + remove unnecessary ';' from E3 capabilities -TD
3128 + add tmux entry, derived from screen (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
3129 + split-out recent change to nsterm-bce as nsterm-build326, and add
3130 nsterm-build342 to reflect changes with successive releases of OSX
3131 (discussion with Leonardo B Schenkel)
3132 + add xon, ich1, il1 to ibm3161 (patch by Stephen Powell, Debian
3134 + add sample "magic" file, to document ext-putwin.
3135 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to add explicit -ltinfo, etc., to the
3136 generated ".pc" file when ld option "--as-needed" is used, or when
3137 ncurses and tinfo are installed without using rpath (prompted by
3138 discussion with Sylvain Bertrand).
3139 + modify test-package for ncurses6 to omit rpath feature when installed
3141 + add OSX's "*.dSYM" to clean-rules in makefiles.
3142 + make extra-suffix work for OSX configuration, e.g., for shared
3144 + modify Ada95/configure script to work with pkg-config
3145 + move test-package for ncurses6 to /usr, since filename-conflicts have
3147 + corrected build rules for Ada95/gen/generate; it does not depend on
3148 the ncurses library aside from headers.
3149 + reviewed man pages, fixed a few other spelling errors.
3150 + fix a typo in curs_util.3x (Sven Joachim).
3151 + use extra-suffix in some overlooked shared library dependencies
3152 found by 20150425 changes for test-packages.
3153 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3154 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
3157 + expanded description of tgetstr's area pointer in manual page
3158 (report by Todd M Lewis).
3159 + in-progress changes to modify test-packages to use ncursesw6 rather
3160 than ncursesw, with updated configure scripts.
3161 + modify CF_NCURSES_CONFIG in Ada95- and test-configure scripts to
3162 check for ".pc" files via pkg-config, but add a linkage check since
3163 frequently pkg-config configurations are broken.
3164 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to include EXTRA_LDFLAGS, e.g., for the
3166 + add 'dim' capability to screen entry (report by Leonardo B Schenkel)
3167 + add several key definitions to nsterm-bce to match preconfigured
3168 keys, e.g., with OSX 10.9 and 10.10 (report by Leonardo B Schenkel)
3169 + fix repeated "extra-suffix" in ncurses-config.in (cf: 20150418).
3170 + improve term_variables manual page, adding section on the terminfo
3171 long-name symbols which are defined in the term.h header.
3172 + fix bug in lib_tracebits.c introduced in const-fixes (cf: 20150404).
3175 + avoid a blank line in output from tabs program by ending it with
3176 a carriage return as done in FreeBSD (patch by James Clarke).
3177 + build-fix for the "--enable-ext-putwin" feature when not using
3178 wide characters (report by Werner Fink).
3179 + modify autoconf macros to use scripting improvement from xterm.
3180 + add -brtl option to compiler options on AIX 5-7, needed to link
3181 with the shared libraries.
3182 + add --with-extra-suffix option to help with installing nonconflicting
3183 ncurses6 packages, e.g., avoiding header- and library-conflicts.
3184 NOTE: as a side-effect, this renames
3185 adacurses-config to adacurses5-config and
3186 adacursesw-config to adacursesw5-config
3187 + modify debian/rules test package to suffix programs with "6".
3188 + clarify in curs_inopts.3x that window-specific settings do not
3189 inherit into new windows.
3192 + improve description of start_color() in the manual.
3193 + modify several files in ncurses- and progs-directories to allow
3194 const data used in internal tables to be put by the linker into the
3195 readonly text segment.
3198 + correct cut/paste error for "--enable-ext-putwin" that made it the
3199 same as "--enable-ext-colors" (report by Roumen Petrov)
3202 + add "-f" option to test/savescreen.c to help with testing/debugging
3203 the extended putwin/getwin.
3204 + add logic for writing/reading combining characters in the extended
3206 + add "--enable-ext-putwin" configure option to turn on the extended
3210 + in-progress changes to provide an extended version of putwin and
3211 getwin which will be capable of reading screen-dumps between the
3212 wide/normal ncurses configurations. These are text files, except
3213 for a magic code at the beginning:
3214 0 string \210\210 Screen-dump (ncurses)
3217 + document limitations of getwin in manual page (prompted by discussion
3219 + extend test/savescreen.c to demonstrate that color pair values
3220 and graphic characters can be restored using getwin.
3223 + modify win_driver.c to eliminate the constructor, to make it more
3224 usable in an application which may/may not need the console window
3225 (report by Grady Martin).
3228 + capture define's related to -D_XOPEN_SOURCE from the configure check
3229 and add those to the *-config and *.pc files, to simplify use for
3230 the wide-character libraries.
3231 + modify ncurses.spec to accommodate Fedora21's location of pkg-config
3233 + correct sense of "--disable-lib-suffixes" configure option (report
3234 by Nicolas Boos, cf: 20140426).
3237 + regenerate html manpages using improved man2html from work on xterm.
3238 + regenerated ".map" and ".sym" files using improved script, accounting
3239 for the "--enable-weak-symbols" configure option (report by Werner
3243 + regenerated ".map" and ".sym" files using improved script, showing
3244 the combinations of configure options used at each stage.
3247 + add configure check to determine if "local: _*;" can be used in the
3248 ".map" files to selectively omit symbols beginning with "_". On at
3249 least recent FreeBSD, the wildcard applies to all "_" symbols.
3250 + remove obsolete/conflicting rule for ncurses.map from
3251 ncurses/Makefile.in (cf: 20130706).
3254 + improve description in INSTALL of the --with-versioned-syms option.
3255 + add combination of --with-hashed-db and --with-ticlib to
3256 configurations for ".map" files (report by Werner Fink).
3259 + add a step to generating ".map" files, to declare any remaining
3260 symbols beginning with "_" as local, at the last version node.
3261 + improve configure checks for pkg-config, addressing a variant found
3263 + modify win_driver.c to provide characters for special keys, like
3264 ansi.sys, when keypad mode is off, rather than returning nothing at
3265 all (discussion with Eli Zaretskii).
3266 + add "broken_linker" and "hashed-db" configure options to combinations
3267 use for generating the ".map" and ".sym" files.
3268 + avoid using "ld" directly when creating shared library, to simplify
3269 cross-compiles. Also drop "-Bsharable" option from shared-library
3270 rules for FreeBSD and DragonFly (FreeBSD #196592).
3271 + fix a memory leak in form library Free_RegularExpression_Type()
3272 (report by Pavel Balaev).
3275 + modify_nc_flush() to retry if interrupted (patch by Stian Skjelstad).
3276 + change map files to make _nc_freeall a global, since it may be used
3277 via the Ada95 binding when checking for memory leaks.
3278 + improve sed script used in 20141220 to account for wide-, threaded-
3279 variations in ABI 6.
3282 + regenerate ".map" files, using step overlooked in 20141213 to use
3283 the same patch-dates across each file to match ncurses.map (report by
3287 + fix an incorrect variable assignment in 20141220 changes (report by
3291 + updated Ada95/configure with macro changes from 20141213
3292 + tie configure options --with-abi-version and --with-versioned-syms
3293 together, so that ABI 6 libraries have distinct symbol versions from
3294 the ABI 5 libraries.
3295 + replace obsolete/nonworking link to man2html with current one,
3296 regenerate html-manpages.
3299 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to add -I option for include-directory
3300 when using both --prefix and --disable-overwrite (report by Misty
3302 + add configure option --with-pc-suffix to allow minor renaming of
3303 ".pc" files and the corresponding library. Use this in the test
3304 package for ncurses6.
3305 + modify configure script so that if pkg-config is not installed, it
3306 is still possible to install ".pc" files (report by Misty De Meo).
3307 + updated ".sym" files, removing symbols which are marked as "local"
3308 in the corresponding ".map" files.
3309 + updated ".map" files to reflect move of comp_captab and comp_hash
3310 from tic-library to tinfo-library in 20090711 (report by Sven
3314 + updated ".map" files so that each symbol that may be shared across
3315 the different library configurations has the same label. Some
3316 review is needed to ensure these are really compatible.
3317 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to work around change in development version of
3318 gcc introduced here:
3319 https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-06/msg02185.html
3320 https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-07/msg00236.html
3321 (reports by Marcus Shawcroft, Maohui Lei).
3322 + improved configure macro CF_SUBDIR_PATH, from lynx changes.
3325 + improved ".map" files by generating them with a script that builds
3326 ncurses with several related configurations and merges the results.
3327 A further refinement is planned, to make the tic- and tinfo-library
3328 symbols use the same versions across each of the four configurations
3329 which are represented (reports by Sven Joachim, Werner Fink).
3332 + improve description of limits for color values and color pairs in
3333 curs_color.3x (prompted by patch by Tim van der Molen).
3334 + add VERSION file, using first field in that to record the ABI version
3335 used for configure --with-libtool --disable-libtool-version
3336 + add configure options for applying the ".map" and ".sym" files to
3337 the ncurses, form, menu and panel libraries.
3338 + add ".map" and ".sym" files to show exported symbols, e.g., for
3342 + improve strict compiler-warnings by adding a cast in TRACE_RETURN
3343 and making a new TRACE_RETURN1 macro for cases where the cast does
3347 + in-progress changes to integrate the win32 console driver with the
3348 msys2 configuration.
3351 + reviewed terminology 0.6.1, add function key definitions. None of
3352 the vt100-compatibility issues were improved -TD
3353 + improve infocmp conversion of extended capabilities to termcap by
3354 correcting the limit check against parametrized[], as well as filling
3355 in a check if the string happens to have parameters, e.g., "xm"
3357 + add check for zero/negative dimensions for resizeterm and resize_term
3358 (report by Mike Gran).
3361 + add experimental support for xterm's 1005 mouse mode, to use in a
3362 demonstration of its limitations.
3363 + add experimental support for "%u" format to terminfo.
3364 + modify test/ncurses.c to also show position reports in 'a' test.
3365 + minor formatting fixes to _nc_trace_mmask_t, make this function
3366 exported to help with debugging mouse changes.
3367 + improve behavior of wheel-mice for xterm protocol, noting that there
3368 are only button-presses for buttons "4" and "5", so there is no need
3369 to wait to combine events into double-clicks (report/analysis by
3371 + provide examples xterm-1005 and xterm-1006 terminfo entries -TD
3372 + implement decoder for xterm SGR 1006 mouse mode.
3375 + implement curs_set in win_driver.c
3376 + implement flash in win_driver.c
3377 + fix an infinite loop in win_driver.c if the command-window loses
3379 + improve the non-buffered mode, i.e., NCURSES_CONSOLE2, of
3380 win_driver.c by temporarily changing the buffer-size to match the
3381 window-size to eliminate the scrollback. Also enforce a minimum
3382 screen-size of 24x80 in the non-buffered mode.
3383 + modify generated misc/Makefile to suppress install.data from the
3384 dependencies if the --disable-db-install option is used, compensating
3385 for the top-level makefile changes used to add ncurses*-config in the
3386 20140920 changes (report by Steven Honeyman).
3389 + add ncurses*-config to bin-directory of sample package-scripts.
3390 + add check to ensure that getopt is available; this is a problem in
3391 some older cross-compiler environments.
3392 + expanded on the description of --disable-overwrite in INSTALL
3393 (prompted by reports by Joakim Tjernlund, Thomas Klausner).
3394 See Gentoo #522586 and NetBSD #49200 for examples.
3395 which relates to the clarified guidelines.
3396 + remove special logic from CF_INCLUDE_DIRS which adds the directory
3397 for the --includedir from the build (report by Joakim Tjernlund).
3398 + add case for Unixware to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, from lynx changes.
3399 + update config.sub from
3400 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
3403 + add a configure check to ignore some of the plethora of non-working
3404 C++ cross-compilers.
3405 + build-fixes for Ada95 with gnat 4.9
3408 + build-fix and other improvements for port of ncurses-examples to
3410 + minor compiler-warning fixes.
3413 + modify test/demo_termcap.c and test/demo_terminfo.c to make their
3414 options more directly comparable, and add "-i" option to specify
3415 a terminal description filename to parse for names to lookup.
3418 + fix special case where double-width character overwrites a single-
3419 width character in the first column (report by Egmont Koblinger,
3423 + fix colors in ncurses 'b' test which did not work after changing
3424 it to put the test-strings in subwindows (cf: 20140705).
3425 + merge redundant SEE-ALSO sections in form and menu manpages.
3428 + modify declarations for user-data pointers in C++ binding to use
3429 reinterpret_cast to facilitate converting typed pointers to void*
3430 in user's application (patch by Adam Jiang).
3431 + regenerated html manpages.
3432 + add note regarding cause and effect for TERM in ncurses manpage,
3433 having noted clueless verbiage in Terminal.app's "help" file
3434 which reverses cause/effect.
3435 + remove special fallback definition for NCURSES_ATTR_T, since macros
3436 have resolved type-mismatches using casts (cf: 970412).
3437 + fixes for win_driver.c:
3438 + handle repainting on endwin/refresh combination.
3443 + minor portability fixes for MinGW:
3444 + ensure WINVER is defined in makefiles rather than using headers
3445 + add check for gnatprep "-T" option
3446 + work around bug introduced by gcc 4.8.1 in MinGW which breaks
3448 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20877689/gcc-4-8-1-minggw-d-option-does-not-work-as-usual
3449 + fix most compiler warnings for Cygwin ncurses-examples.
3450 + restore "redundant" -I options in test/Makefile.in, since they are
3451 typically needed when building the derived ncurses-examples package
3455 + eliminate some redundant -I options used for building libraries, and
3456 ensure that ${srcdir} is added to the include-options (prompted by
3457 discussion with Paul Gilmartin).
3458 + modify configure script to work with Minix3.2
3459 + add form library extension O_DYNAMIC_JUSTIFY option which can be
3460 used to override the different treatment of justification for static
3461 versus dynamic fields (adapted from patch by Leon Winter).
3462 + add a null pointer check in test/edit_field.c (report/analysis by
3463 Leon Winter, cf: 20130608).
3466 + make workarounds for compiling test-programs with NetBSD curses.
3467 + improve configure macro CF_ADD_LIBS, to eliminate repeated -l/-L
3468 options, from xterm changes.
3471 + correct Charable() macro check for A_ALTCHARSET in wide-characters.
3472 + build-fix for position-debug code in tty_update.c, to work with or
3476 + add w/W toggle to ncurses.c 'B' test, to demonstrate permutation of
3477 video-attributes and colors with double-width character strings.
3480 + correct check in win_driver.c for saving screen contents, e.g., when
3481 NCURSES_CONSOLE2 is set (cf: 20140503).
3482 + reorganize b/B menu items in ncurses.c, putting the test-strings into
3483 subwindows. This is needed for a planned change to use Unicode
3484 fullwidth characters in the test-screens.
3485 + correct update to form status for _NEWTOP, broken by fixes for
3486 compiler warnings (patch by Leon Winter, cf: 20120616).
3489 + change shared-library suffix for AIX 5 and 6 to ".so", avoiding
3490 conflict with the static library (report by Ben Lentz).
3491 + document RPATH_LIST in INSTALLATION file, as part of workarounds for
3492 upgrading an ncurses library using the "--with-shared" option.
3493 + modify test/ncurses.c c/C tests to cycle through subsets of the
3494 total number of colors, to better illustrate 8/16/88/256-colors by
3495 providing directly comparable screens.
3496 + add test/dots_curses.c, for comparison with the low-level examples.
3499 + fix dereference before null check found by Coverity in tic.c
3501 + fix sign-extension bug in read_entry.c which prevented "toe" from
3502 reading empty "screen+italics" entry.
3503 + modify sgr for screen.xterm-new to support dim capability -TD
3504 + add dim capability to nsterm+7 -TD
3505 + cancel dim capability for iterm -TD
3506 + add dim, invis capabilities to vte-2012 -TD
3507 + add sitm/ritm to konsole-base and mlterm3 -TD
3510 > fix regression in screen terminfo entries (reports by Christian
3511 Ebert, Gabriele Balducci) -TD
3512 + revert the change to screen; see notes for why this did not work -TD
3513 + cancel sitm/ritm for entries which extend "screen", to work around
3514 screen's hardcoded behavior for SGR 3 -TD
3517 + separate masking for sgr in vidputs from sitm/ritm, which do not
3518 overlap with sgr functionality.
3519 + remove unneeded -i option from adacurses-config; put -a in the -I
3520 option for consistency (patch by Pascal Pignard).
3521 + update xterm-new terminfo entry to xterm patch #305 -TD
3522 + change format of test-scripts for Debian Ada95 and ncurses-examples
3523 packages to quilted to work around Debian #700177 (cf: 20130907).
3524 + build fix for form_driver_w.c as part of ncurses-examples package for
3525 older ncurses than 20131207.
3526 + add Hello World example to adacurses-config manpage.
3527 + remove unused --enable-pc-files option from Ada95/configure.
3528 + add --disable-gnat-projects option for testing.
3529 + revert changes to Ada95 project-files configuration (cf: 20140524).
3530 + corrected usage message in adacurses-config.
3533 + fix typo in ncurses manpage for the NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE
3534 environment variable.
3535 + improve discussion of input-echoing in curs_getch.3x
3536 + clarify discussion in curs_addch.3x of wrapping.
3537 + modify parametrized.h to make fln non-padded.
3538 + correct several entries which had termcap-style padding used in
3539 terminfo: adm21, aj510, alto-h19, att605-pc, x820 -TD
3540 + correct syntax for padding in some entries: dg211, h19 -TD
3541 + correct ti924-8 which had confused padding versus octal escapes -TD
3542 + correct padding in sbi entry -TD
3543 + fix an old bug in the termcap emulation; "%i" was ignored in tparm()
3544 because the parameters to be incremented were already on the internal
3545 stack (report by Corinna Vinschen).
3546 + modify tic's "-c" option to take into account the "-C" option to
3547 activate additional checks which compare the results from running
3548 tparm() on the terminfo expressions versus the translated termcap
3550 + modify tic to allow it to read from FIFOs (report by Matthieu Fronton,
3552 > patches by Nicolas Boulenguez:
3553 + explicit dereferences to suppress some style warnings.
3554 + when c_varargs_to_ada.c includes its header, use double quotes
3556 + samples/ncurses2-util.adb: removed unused with clause. The warning
3557 was removed by an obsolete pragma.
3558 + replaced Unreferenced pragmas with Warnings (Off). The latter,
3559 available with older GNATs, needs no configure test. This also
3560 replaces 3 untested Unreferenced pragmas.
3561 + simplified To_C usage in trace handling. Using two parameters allows
3562 some basic formatting, and avoids a warning about security with some
3564 + for generated Ada sources, replace many snippets with one pure
3566 + removed C_Chtype and its conversions.
3567 + removed C_AttrType and its conversions.
3568 + removed conversions between int, Item_Option_Set, Menu_Option_Set.
3569 + removed int, Field_Option_Set, Item_Option_Set conversions.
3570 + removed C_TraceType, Attribute_Option_Set conversions.
3571 + replaced C.int with direct use of Eti_Error, now enumerated. As it
3572 was used in a case statement, values were tested by the Ada compiler
3573 to be consecutive anyway.
3574 + src/Makefile.in: remove duplicate stanza
3575 + only consider using a project for shared libraries.
3576 + style. Silent gnat-4.9 warning about misplaced "then".
3577 + generate shared library project to honor ADAFLAGS, LDFLAGS.
3580 + cleanup recently introduced compiler warnings for MingW port.
3581 + workaround for ${MAKEFLAGS} configure check versus GNU make 4.0,
3582 which introduces more than one gratuitous incompatibility.
3585 + add vt520ansi terminfo entry (patch by Mike Gran)
3586 + further improve MinGW support for the scenario where there is an
3587 ANSI-escapes handler such as ansicon running in the console window
3588 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3591 + add --disable-lib-suffixes option (adapted from patch by Juergen
3593 + merge some changes from Juergen Pfeifer's work with MSYS2, to
3594 simplify later merging:
3595 + use NC_ISATTY() macro for isatty() in library
3596 + add _nc_mingw_isatty() and related functions to windows-driver
3597 + rename terminal driver entrypoints to simplify grep's
3598 + remove a check in the sp-funcs flavor of newterm() which allowed only
3599 the first call to newterm() to succeed (report by Thomas Beierlein,
3603 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3604 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
3607 + modify configure script:
3608 + drop the -no-gcc option from Intel compiler, from lynx changes.
3609 + extend the --with-hashed-db configure option to simplify building
3610 with different versions of Berkeley database using FreeBSD ports.
3611 + improve initialization for MinGW port (Juergen Pfeifer):
3612 + enforce Windows-style path-separator if cross-compiling,
3613 + add a driver-name method to each of the drivers,
3614 + allow the Windows driver name to match "unknown", ignoring case,
3615 + lengthen the built-in name for the Windows console driver to
3616 "#win32console", and
3617 + move the comparison of driver-names allowing abbreviation, e.g.,
3618 to "#win32con" into the Windows console driver.
3621 + add check in tic for mismatch between ccc and initp/initc
3622 + cancel ccc in putty-256color and konsole-256color for consistency
3623 with the cancelled initc capability (patch by Sven Zuhlsdorf).
3624 + add xterm+256setaf building block for various terminals which only
3625 get the 256-color feature half-implemented -TD
3626 + updated "st" entry (leaving the 0.1.1 version as "simpleterm") to
3630 + fix typo in "mlterm" entry (report by Gabriele Balducci) -TD
3633 + use types from <stdint.h> in sample build-scripts for chtype, etc.
3634 + modify configure script and curses.h.in to allow the types specified
3635 using --with-chtype and related options to be defined in <stdint.h>
3636 + add terminology entry -TD
3637 + add mlterm3 entry, use that as "mlterm" -TD
3638 + inherit mlterm-256color from mlterm -TD
3641 + modify _nc_New_TopRow_and_CurrentItem() to ensure that the menu's
3642 top-row is adjusted as needed to ensure that the current item is
3643 on the screen (patch by Johann Klammer).
3644 + add wgetdelay() to retrieve _delay member of WINDOW if it happens to
3645 be opaque, e.g., in the pthread configuration (prompted by patch by
3649 + modify ifdef in read_entry.c to handle the case where
3650 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE is not defined (patch by Xin Li).
3651 + add cast in form_driver_w() to fix ARM build (patch by Xin Li).
3652 + add logic to win_driver.c to save/restore screen contents when not
3653 allocating a console-buffer (cf: 20140215).
3656 + clarify error-returns from newwin (report by Ruslan Nabioullin).
3659 + fix some compiler warnings in win_driver.c
3660 + updated notes for wsvt25 based on tack and vttest -TD
3661 + add teken entry to show actual properties of FreeBSD's "xterm"
3665 + in-progress changes to win_driver.c to implement output without
3666 allocating a console-buffer. This uses a pre-existing environment
3667 variable NCGDB used by Juergen Pfeifer for debugging (prompted by
3668 discussion with Erwin Waterlander regarding Console2, which hangs
3669 when reading in an allocated console-buffer).
3670 + add -t option to gdc.c, and modify to accept "S" to step through the
3672 + regenerate NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html to fix some of the broken
3673 html emitted by docbook.
3676 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to omit followup check to determine if
3677 _XOPEN_SOURCE can/should be defined. g++ 4.7.2 built on Solaris 10
3678 has some header breakage due to its own predefinition of this symbol
3679 (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15796).
3682 + add/use symbol NCURSES_PAIRS_T like NCURSES_COLOR_T, to illustrate
3683 which "short" types are for color pairs and which are color values.
3684 + fix build for s390x, by correcting field bit offsets in generated
3685 representation clauses when int=32 long=64 and endian=big, or at
3686 least on s390x (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
3687 + minor cleanup change to test/form_driver_w.c (patch by Gaute Hope).
3690 + remove unnecessary ifdef's in Ada95/gen/gen.c, which reportedly do
3691 not work as is with gcc 4.8 due to fixes using chtype cast made for
3692 new compiler warnings by gcc 4.8 in 20130824 (Debian #735753, patch
3693 by Nicolas Boulenguez).
3696 + apply includesubdir variable which was introduced in 20130805 to
3697 gen-pkgconfig.in (Debian #735782).
3700 + further improved man2html, used this to fix broken links in html
3702 ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/man2html
3705 + modify configure-script/ifdef's to allow OLD_TTY feature to be
3706 suppressed if the type of ospeed is configured using the option
3707 --with-ospeed to not be a short. By default, it is a short for
3708 termcap-compatibility (adapted from suggestion by Christian
3710 + correct a typo in _nc_baudrate() (patch by Christian Weisgerber,
3712 + fix a few -Wlogical-op warnings.
3713 + updated llib-l* files.
3716 + add form_driver_w() entrypoint to wide-character forms library, as
3717 well as test program form_driver_w (adapted from patch by Gaute
3721 + minor fix for CF_GCC_WARNINGS to special-case options which are not
3722 recognized by clang.
3725 + add special case to configure script to move _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
3726 definition from CPPFLAGS to CFLAGS if it happens to be needed for
3727 Solaris, because g++ errors with that definition (report by
3728 Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15268).
3729 + correct logic in infocmp's -i option which was intended to ignore
3730 strings which correspond to function-keys as candidates for piecing
3731 together initialization- or reset-strings. The problem dates to
3732 1.9.7a, but was overlooked until changes in -Wlogical-op warnings for
3733 gcc 4.8 (report by David Binderman).
3734 + updated CF_GCC_WARNINGS to documented options for gcc 4.9.0, moving
3735 checks for -Wextra and -Wdeclaration-after-statement into the macro,
3736 and adding checks for -Wignored-qualifiers, -Wlogical-op and
3738 + updated CF_CURSES_UNCTRL_H and CF_SHARED_OPTS macros from ongoing
3740 + update config.sub from
3741 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
3744 + minor cleanup of terminfo.tail
3747 + use TS extension to describe xterm's title-escapes -TD
3748 + modify terminator and nsterm-s to use xterm+sl-twm building block -TD
3749 + update hurd.ti, add xenl to reflect 2011-03-06 change in
3750 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/hurd.git/log/console/display.c
3752 + simplify pfkey expression in ansi.sys -TD
3755 + correct/simplify ifdef's for cur_term versus broken-linker and
3756 reentrant options (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, cf: 20090530).
3757 + modify release/version combinations in test build-scripts to make
3758 them more consistent with other packages.
3761 + add nc_mingw.h to installed headers for MinGW port; needed for
3762 compiling ncurses-examples.
3763 + add rpm-script for testing cross-compile of ncurses-examples.
3766 + fix new typo in CF_ADA_INCLUDE_DIRS macro (report by Roumen Petrov).
3769 + fix a few compiler warnings in progs and test.
3770 + minor fix to package/debian-mingw/rules, do not strip dll's.
3771 + minor fixes to configure script for empty $prefix, e.g., when doing
3772 cross-compiles to MinGW.
3773 + add script for building test-packages of binaries cross-compiled to
3777 + minor fixes for ncurses-example package and makefile.
3778 + add scripts for test-builds of cross-compiler packages for ncurses6
3782 + some build-fixes for ncurses-examples with NetBSD-6.0 curses, though
3783 it lacks some common functions such as use_env() which is not yet
3785 + build-fix and some compiler warning fixes for ncurses-examples with
3787 + fix a possible null-pointer reference in a trace message from newterm.
3788 + quiet a few warnings from NetBSD 6.0 namespace pollution by
3789 nonstandard popcount() function in standard strings.h header.
3790 + ignore g++ 4.2.1 warnings for "-Weffc++" in c++/cursesmain.cc
3791 + fix a few overlooked places for --enable-string-hacks option.
3794 + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130831).
3795 + build-fix for --with-shared option for DragonFly and FreeBSD (report
3796 by Rong-En Fan, cf: 20130727).
3799 + build-fixes for MSYS for two test-programs (patches by Ray Donnelly,
3801 + revert change to two of the dpkg format files, to work with dpkg
3802 before/after Debian #700177.
3803 + fix gcc -Wconversion warning in wattr_get() macro.
3804 + add msys and msysdll to known host/configuration types (patch by
3806 + modify CF_RPATH_HACK configure macro to not rely upon "-u" option
3807 of sort, improving portability.
3808 + minor improvements for test-programs from reviewing Solaris port.
3809 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3810 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
3813 + modify test/ncurses.c b/B tests to display lines only for the
3814 attributes which a given terminal supports, to make room for an
3816 + completed ncv table in terminfo.tail; it did not list the wide
3817 character codes listed in X/Open Curses issue 7.
3818 + add A_ITALIC extension (prompted by discussion with Egmont Koblinger).
3821 + fix some gcc 4.8 -Wconversion warnings.
3822 + change format of dpkg test-scripts to quilted to work around bug
3823 introduced by Debian #700177.
3824 + discard cached keyname() values if meta() is changed after a value
3825 was cached using (report by Kurban Mallachiev).
3828 + add checks in tic to warn about terminals which lack cursor
3829 addressing, capabilities or having those, are marked as hard_copy or
3831 + use --without-progs in mingw-ncurses rpm.
3832 + split out _nc_init_termtype() from alloc_entry.c to use in MinGW
3833 port when tic and other programs are not needed.
3836 + minor fixes to the --disable-overwrite logic, to ensure that the
3837 configured $(includedir) is not cancelled by the mingwxx-filesystem
3839 + add --disable-db-install configure option, to simplify building
3840 cross-compile support packages.
3841 + add mingw-ncurses.spec file, for testing cross-compiles.
3844 + improve configure macros from ongoing work on cdk, dialog, xterm:
3845 + CF_ADD_LIB_AFTER - fix a problem with -Wl options
3846 + CF_RPATH_HACK - add missing result-message
3847 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify to use $rel_builddir in cygwin and mingw
3848 dll symbols (which can be overridden) rather than explicit "../".
3849 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify NetBSD and DragonFly symbols to use ${CC}
3850 rather than ${LD} to improve rpath support.
3851 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - add a symbol to denote the temporary files that
3852 are created by the macro, to simplify clean-rules.
3853 + CF_X_ATHENA - trim extra libraries to work with -Wl,--as-needed
3854 + fix a regression in hashed-database support for NetBSD, which uses
3855 the key-size differently from other implementations (cf: 20121229).
3858 + further improvements for setupterm manpage, clarifying the
3859 initialization of cur_term.
3862 + improve manpages for initscr and setupterm.
3863 + minor compiler-warning fixes
3866 + add fallback defs for <inttypes.h> and <stdint.h> (cf: 20120225).
3867 + add check for size of wchar_t, use that to suppress a chunk of
3868 wcwidth.h in MinGW port.
3869 + quiet linker warnings for MinGW cross-compile with dll's using the
3870 --enable-auto-import flag.
3871 + add ncurses.map rule to ncurses/Makefile to help diagnose symbol
3875 + modify the clear program to take into account the E3 extended
3876 capability to clear the terminal's scrollback buffer (patch by
3877 Miroslav Lichvar, Redhat #815790).
3878 + clarify in resizeterm manpage that LINES and COLS are updated.
3879 + updated ansi example in terminfo.tail, correct misordered example
3881 + fix other doclifter warnings for manpages
3882 + remove unnecessary ".ta" in terminfo.tail, add missing ".fi"
3883 (patch by Eric Raymond).
3886 + minor changes to some configure macros to make them more reusable.
3887 + fixes for tabs program (prompted by report by Nick Andrik).
3888 + corrected logic in command-line parsing of -a and -c predefined
3890 + allow "-0" and "-8" options to be combined with others, e.g.,"-0d".
3891 + make warning messages more consistent with the other utilities by
3892 not printing the full pathname of the program.
3893 + add -V option for consistency with other utilities.
3894 + fix off-by-one in columns for tabs program when processing an option
3895 such as "-5" (patch by Nick Andrik).
3898 + add to test/demo_forms.c examples of using the menu-hooks as well
3899 as showing how the menu item user-data can be used to pass a callback
3901 + add test/dots_termcap.c
3902 + remove setupterm call from test/demo_termcap.c
3903 + build-fix if --disable-ext-funcs configure option is used.
3904 + modified test/edit_field.c and test/demo_forms.c to move the lengths
3905 into a user-data structure, keeping the original string for later
3906 expansion to free-format input/out demo.
3907 + modified test/demo_forms.c to load data from file.
3908 + added note to clarify Terminal.app's non-emulation of the various
3909 terminal types listed in the preferences dialog -TD
3910 + fix regression in error-reporting in lib_setup.c (Debian #711134,
3912 + build-fix for a case where --enable-broken_linker and
3913 --enable-reentrant options are combined (report by George R Goffe).
3916 + modify mvcur() to distinguish between internal use by the ncurses
3917 library, and external callers, preventing it from reading the content
3918 of the screen which is only nonblank when curses calls have updated
3919 it. This makes test/dots_mvcur.c avoid painting colored cells in
3920 the left margin of the display.
3921 + minor fix to test/dots_mvcur.c
3922 + move configured symbols USE_DATABASE and USE_TERMCAP to term.h as
3923 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE and NCURSES_USE_TERMCAP to allow consistent
3924 use of these symbols in term_entry.h
3927 + corrected ifdefs in test/testcurs.c to allow comparison of mouse
3928 interface versus pdcurses (cf: 20130316).
3929 + add pow() to configure-check for math library, needed since
3930 20121208 for test/hanoi (Debian #708056).
3931 + regenerated html manpages.
3932 + update doctype used for html documentation.
3935 + move nsterm-related entries out of "obsolete" section to more
3936 plausible "ansi consoles" -TD
3937 + additional cleanup of table-of-contents by reordering -TD
3938 + revise fix for check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch(); prior fix
3939 prevented inserts when video attributes were attached to the data
3940 (cf: 20121215) (Redhat #959534).
3943 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
3944 + correct FNKEY() macro in progs/dump_entry.c, allowing kf11-kf63 to
3945 display when infocmp's -R option is used for HP or AIX subsets.
3946 + fix dead-code issue with test/movewindow.c
3947 + improve limited-checking in _nc_read_termtype().
3950 + fix clang 3.2 warning in progs/dump_entry.c
3951 + drop AC_TYPE_SIGNAL check; ncurses relies on c89 and later.
3954 + add MinGW to cases where ncurses installs by default into /usr
3955 (prompted by discussion with Daniel Silva Ferreira).
3956 + add -D option to infocmp's usage-message (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
3957 + add a missing 'int' type for main function in configure check for
3958 type of bool variable, to work with clang 3.2 (report by Dmitri
3960 + improve configure check for static_cast, to work with clang 3.2
3961 (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
3962 + re-order rule for demo.o and macros defining header dependencies in
3963 c++/Makefile.in to accommodate gmake (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
3966 + improve parameter checking in copywin().
3967 + modify configure script to work around OS X's "libtool" program, to
3968 choose glibtool instead. At the same time, chance the autoconf macro
3969 to look for a "tool" rather than a "prog", to help with potential use
3971 + separate the rpath usage for c++ library from demo program
3973 + update/correct header-dependencies in c++ makefile (report by Werner
3975 + add --with-cxx-shared to dpkg-script, as done for rpm-script.
3978 + build-fix for libtool configuration (reports by Daniel Silva Ferreira
3982 + build-fix for OS X, to handle changes for --with-cxx-shared feature
3983 (report by Christian Ebert).
3984 + change initialization for vt220, similar entries for consistency
3985 with cursor-key strings (NetBSD #47674) -TD
3986 + further improvements to linux-16color (Benjamin Sittler)
3989 + additional fix for tic.c, to allocate missing buffer space.
3990 + eliminate configure-script warnings for gen-pkgconfig.in
3991 + correct typo in sgr string for sun-color,
3992 add bold for consistency with sgr,
3993 change smso for consistency with sgr -TD
3994 + correct typo in sgr string for terminator -TD
3995 + add blink to the attributes masked by ncv in linux-16color (report
3996 by Benjamin Sittler)
3997 + improve warning message from post-load checking for missing "%?"
3998 operator by tic/infocmp by showing the entry name and capability.
3999 + minor formatting improvement to tic/infocmp -f option to ensure
4000 line split after "%;".
4001 + amend scripting for --with-cxx-shared option to handle the debug
4002 library "libncurses++_g.a" (report by Sven Joachim).
4005 + amend change to toe.c for reading from /dev/zero, to ensure that
4006 there is a buffer for the temporary filename (cf: 20120324).
4007 + regenerated html manpages.
4008 + fix typo in terminfo.head (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130302).
4009 + updated some autoconf macros:
4010 + CF_ACVERSION_CHECK, from byacc 1.9 20130304
4011 + CF_INTEL_COMPILER, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE from luit 2.0-20130217
4012 + add configure option --with-cxx-shared to permit building
4013 libncurses++ as a shared library when using g++, e.g., the same
4014 limitations as libtool but better integrated with the usual build
4015 configuration (Redhat #911540).
4016 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to filter out build-path which was unnecessarily
4017 shown in curses.h (Debian #689131).
4020 + add section to terminfo manpage discussing user-defined capabilities.
4021 + update manpage description of NCURSES_NO_SETBUF, explaining why it
4023 + add a check in waddch_nosync() to ensure that tab characters are
4024 treated as control characters; some broken locales claim they are
4026 + add some traces to the Windows console driver.
4027 + initialize a temporary array in _nc_mbtowc, needed for some cases
4028 of raw input in MinGW port.
4031 + correct ifdef on change to lib_twait.c (report by Werner Fink).
4032 + update config.guess, config.sub
4035 + modify test/testcurs.c to work with mouse for ncurses as it does for
4037 + modify test/knight.c to work with mouse for pdcurses as it does for
4039 + modify internal recursion in wgetch() which handles cooked mode to
4040 check if the call to wgetnstr() returned an error. This can happen
4041 when both nocbreak() and nodelay() are set, for instance (report by
4042 Nils Christopher Brause) (cf: 960418).
4043 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
4044 + add a check for valid position in ClearToEOS()
4045 + fix in lib_twait.c when --enable-wgetch-events is used, pointer
4047 + improve a limit-check in make_hash.c
4048 + fix a memory leak in hashed_db.c
4051 + modify test/configure script to make it simpler to override names
4052 of curses-related libraries, to help with linking with pdcurses in
4054 + if the --with-terminfo-dirs configure option is not used, there is
4055 no corresponding compiled-in value for that. Fill in "no default
4056 value" for that part of the manpage substitution.
4059 + correct initialization in knight.c which let it occasionally make
4060 an incorrect move (cf: 20001028).
4061 + improve documentation of the terminfo/termcap search path.
4064 + further fixes to mvcur to pass callback function (cf: 20130112),
4065 needed to make test/dots_mvcur work.
4066 + reduce calls to SetConsoleActiveScreenBuffer in win_driver.c, to
4067 help reduce flicker.
4068 + modify configure script to omit "+b" from linker options for very
4069 old HP-UX systems (report by Dennis Grevenstein)
4070 + add HP-UX workaround for missing EILSEQ on old HP-UX systems (patch
4071 by Dennis Grevenstein).
4072 + restore memmove/strdup support for antique systems (request by
4073 Dennis Grevenstein).
4074 + change %l behavior in tparm to push the string length onto the stack
4075 rather than saving the formatted length into the output buffer
4076 (report by Roy Marples, cf: 980620).
4079 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
4080 + fix memory leak in safe_sprintf.c
4081 + add check for return-value in tty_update.c
4082 + correct initialization for -s option in test/view.c
4083 + add check for numeric overflow in lib_instr.c
4084 + improve error-checking in copywin
4085 + add advice in infocmp manpage for termcap users (Debian #698469).
4086 + add "-y" option to test/demo_termcap and test/demo_terminfo to
4087 demonstrate behavior with/without extended capabilities.
4088 + updated termcap manpage to document legacy termcap behavior for
4089 matching capability names.
4090 + modify name-comparison for tgetstr, etc., to accommodate legacy
4091 applications as well as to improve compatibility with BSD 4.2
4092 termcap implementations (Debian #698299) (cf: 980725).
4095 + correct prototype in manpage for vid_puts.
4096 + drop ncurses/tty/tty_display.h, ncurses/tty/tty_input.h, since they
4097 are unused in the current driver model.
4098 + modify mvcur to use stdout except when called within the ncurses
4100 + modify vidattr and vid_attr to use stdout as documented in manpage.
4101 + amend changes made to buffering in 20120825 so that the low-level
4102 putp() call uses stdout rather than ncurses' internal buffering.
4103 The putp_sp() call does the same, for consistency (Redhat #892674).
4106 + add "-s" option to test/view.c to allow it to start in single-step
4107 mode, reducing size of trace files when it is used for debugging
4109 + revert part of 20121222 change to tinfo_driver.c
4110 + add experimental logic in win_driver.c to improve optimization of
4111 screen updates. This does not yet work with double-width characters,
4112 so it is ifdef'd out for the moment (prompted by report by Erwin
4113 Waterlander regarding screen flicker).
4116 + fix Coverity warnings regarding copying into fixed-size buffers.
4117 + add throw-declarations in the c++ binding per Coverity warning.
4118 + minor changes to new-items for consistent reference to bug-report
4122 + add *.dSYM directories to clean-rule in ncurses directory makefile,
4124 + add a configure check for gcc option -no-cpp-precomp, which is not
4125 available in all Mac OS X configurations (report by Andras Salamon,
4127 + improve 20021221 workaround for broken acs, handling a case where
4128 that ACS_xxx character is not in the acsc string but there is a known
4129 wide-character which can be used.
4132 + fix several warnings from clang 3.1 --analyze, includes correcting
4133 a null-pointer check in _nc_mvcur_resume.
4134 + correct display of double-width characters with MinGW port (report
4135 by Erwin Waterlander).
4136 + replace MinGW's wcrtomb(), fixing a problem with _nc_viscbuf
4137 > fixes based on Coverity report:
4138 + correct coloring in test/bs.c
4139 + correct check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch().
4140 + remove dead code in progs/tset.c, test/linedata.h
4141 + add null-pointer checks in lib_tracemse.c, panel.priv.h, and some
4145 + modify test/knight.c to show the number of choices possible for
4146 each position in automove option, e.g., to allow user to follow
4147 Warnsdorff's rule to solve the puzzle.
4148 + modify test/hanoi.c to show the minimum number of moves possible for
4149 the given number of tiles (prompted by patch by Lucas Gioia).
4150 > fixes based on Coverity report:
4151 + remove a few redundant checks.
4152 + correct logic in test/bs.c, when randomly placing a specific type of
4154 + check return value from remove/unlink in tic.
4155 + check return value from sscanf in test/ncurses.c
4156 + fix a null dereference in c++/cursesw.cc
4157 + fix two instances of uninitialized variables when configuring for the
4159 + correct scope of variable used in SetSafeOutcWrapper macro.
4160 + set umask when calling mkstemp in tic.
4161 + initialize wbkgrndset() temporary variable when extended-colors are
4165 + also replace MinGW's wctomb(), fixing a problem with setcchar().
4166 + modify test/view.c to load UTF-8 when built with MinGW by using
4167 regular win32 API because the MinGW functions mblen() and mbtowc()
4171 + correct order of color initialization versus display in some of the
4172 test-programs, e.g., test_addstr.c
4173 > fixes based on Coverity report:
4174 + delete windows on exit from some of the test-programs.
4177 > fixes based on Coverity report:
4178 + add missing braces around FreeAndNull in two places.
4179 + various fixes in test/ncurses.c
4180 + improve limit-checks in tinfo/make_hash.c, tinfo/read_entry.c
4181 + correct malloc size in progs/infocmp.c
4182 + guard against negative array indices in test/knight.c
4183 + fix off-by-one limit check in test/color_name.h
4184 + add null-pointer check in progs/tabs.c, test/bs.c, test/demo_forms.c,
4186 + fix memory-leak in tinfo/lib_setup.c, progs/toe.c,
4187 test/clip_printw.c, test/demo_menus.c
4188 + delete unused windows in test/chgat.c, test/clip_printw.c,
4189 test/insdelln.c, test/newdemo.c on error-return.
4192 + modify configure macro CF_INCLUDE_DIRS to put $CPPFLAGS after the
4193 local -I include options in case someone has set conflicting -I
4194 options in $CPPFLAGS (prompted by patch for ncurses/Makefile.in by
4196 + modify the ncurses*-config scripts to eliminate relative paths from
4197 the RPATH_LIST variable, e.g., "../lib" as used in installing shared
4198 libraries or executables.
4201 + realign these related pages:
4206 and fix a long-ago error in curs_addstr.3x which said that a -1
4207 length parameter would only write as much as fit onto one line
4208 (report by Reuben Thomas).
4209 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_memmove() for memmove()/bcopy().
4210 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_strdup() for strdup().
4211 + cancel any debug-rpm in package/ncurses.spec
4212 + reviewed vte-2012, reverted most of the change since it was incorrect
4213 based on testing with tack -TD
4214 + un-cancel the initc in vte-256color, since this was implemented
4215 starting with version 0.20 in 2009 -TD
4218 + improve malloc/realloc checking (prompted by discussion in Redhat
4220 + add ncurses test-program as "ncurses6" to the rpm- and dpkg-scripts.
4221 + updated configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_WITH_PATHLIST. The
4222 first corrects pattern used for Mac OS X's customization of gcc.
4225 + fix change to _nc_scroll_optimize(), which incorrectly freed memory
4229 + add vte-2012, gnome-2012, making these the defaults for vte/gnome
4230 (patch by Christian Persch).
4233 + improve CF_GCC_VERSION to work around Debian's customization of gcc
4235 + improve configure macros as done in byacc:
4236 + drop 2.13 compatibility; use 2.52.xxxx version only since EMX port
4237 has used that for a while.
4238 + add 3rd parameter to AC_DEFINE's to allow autoheader to run, i.e.,
4239 for experimental use.
4240 + remove unused configure macros.
4241 + modify configure script and makefiles to quiet new autoconf warning
4242 for LIBS_TO_MAKE variable.
4243 + modify configure script to show $PATH_SEPARATOR variable.
4244 + update config.guess, config.sub
4247 + modify setupterm to set its copy of TERM to "unknown" if configured
4248 for the terminal driver and TERM was null or empty.
4249 + modify treatment of TERM variable for MinGW port to allow explicit
4250 use of the windows console driver by checking if $TERM is set to
4251 "#win32con" or an abbreviation of that.
4252 + undo recent change to fallback definition of vsscanf() to build with
4253 older Solaris compilers (cf: 20120728).
4256 + add test-screens to test/ncurses to show 256-characters at a time,
4257 to help with MinGW port.
4260 + simplify varargs logic in lib_printw.c; va_copy is no longer needed
4262 + modifications for MinGW port to make wide-character display usable.
4265 + regenerate configure script (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20120901).
4268 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_flush (cf: 20120825).
4269 + fix a case in _nc_scroll_optimize() where the _oldnums_list array
4270 might not be allocated.
4271 + improve comparisons in configure.in for unset shell variables.
4274 + increase size of ncurses' output-buffer, in case of very small
4275 initial screen-sizes.
4276 + fix evaluation of TERMINFO and TERMINFO_DIRS default values as needed
4277 after changes to use --datarootdir (reports by Gabriele Balducci,
4281 + change output buffering scheme, using buffer maintained by ncurses
4282 rather than stdio, to avoid problems with SIGTSTP handling (report
4286 + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20120811, adding --datarootdir
4287 (prompted by discussion with Erwin Waterlander).
4288 + improve description of --enable-reentrant option in README and the
4290 + add nsterm-256color, make this the default nsterm -TD
4291 + remove bw from nsterm-bce, per testing with tack -TD
4294 + update test/configure, adding check for tinfo library.
4295 + improve limit-checks for the getch fifo (report by Werner Fink).
4296 + fix a remaining mismatch between $with_echo and the symbols updated
4297 for CF_DISABLE_ECHO affecting parameters for mk-2nd.awk (report by
4298 Sven Joachim, cf: 20120317).
4299 + modify followup check for pkg-config's library directory in the
4300 --enable-pc-files option to validate syntax (report by Sven Joachim,
4304 + correct path for ncurses_mingw.h in include/headers, in case build
4305 is done outside source-tree (patch by Roumen Petrov).
4306 + modify some older xterm entries to align with xterm source -TD
4307 + separate "xterm-old" alias from "xterm-r6" -TD
4308 + add E3 extended capability to xterm-basic and putty -TD
4309 + parenthesize parameters of other macros in curses.h -TD
4310 + parenthesize parameter of COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER in curses.h
4311 in case it happens to be a comma-expression, etc. (patch by Nick
4315 + improved form_request_by_name() and menu_request_by_name().
4316 + eliminate two fixed-size buffers in toe.c
4317 + extend use_tioctl() to have expected behavior when use_env(FALSE) and
4318 use_tioctl(TRUE) are called.
4319 + modify ncurses test-program, adding -E and -T options to demonstrate
4320 use_env() versus use_tioctl().
4323 + add use_tioctl() function (adapted from patch by Werner Fink,
4327 + add ncurses_mingw.h to installed headers (prompted by patch by
4329 + clarify return-codes from wgetch() in response to SIGWINCH (prompted
4331 + modify resizeterm() to always push a KEY_RESIZE onto the fifo, even
4332 if screensize is unchanged. Modify _nc_update_screensize() to push a
4333 KEY_RESIZE if there was a SIGWINCH, even if it does not call
4334 resizeterm(). These changes eliminate the case where a SIGWINCH is
4335 received, but ERR returned from wgetch or wgetnstr because the screen
4336 dimensions did not change (Novell #769788).
4339 + add --enable-interop to sample package scripts (suggested by Juergen
4341 + update CF_PATH_SYNTAX macro, from mawk changes.
4342 + modify mk-0th.awk to allow for generating llib-ltic, etc., though
4343 some work is needed on cproto to work with lib_gen.c to update
4345 + remove redundant getenv() cal in database-iterator leftover from
4346 cleanup in 20120622 changes (report by Sven Joachim).
4349 + add -d, -e and -q options to test/demo_terminfo and test/demo_termcap
4350 + fix caching of environment variables in database-iterator (patch by
4351 Philippe Troin, Redhat #831366).
4354 + add configure check to distinguish clang from gcc to eliminate
4355 warnings about unused command-line parameters when compiler warnings
4357 + improve behavior when updating terminfo entries which are hardlinked
4358 by allowing for the possibility that an alias has been repurposed to
4360 + fix some strict compiler warnings based on package scripts.
4361 + further fixes for configure check for working poll (Debian #676461).
4364 + fix an uninitialized variable in -c/-n logic for infocmp changes
4366 + corrected fix for building c++ binding with clang 3.0 (report/patch
4367 by Richard Yao, Gentoo #417613, cf: 20110409)
4368 + correct configure check for working poll, fixing the case where stdin
4369 is redirected, e.g., in rpm/dpkg builds (Debian #676461).
4370 + add rpm- and dpkg-scripts, to test those build-environments.
4371 The resulting packages are used only for testing.
4374 + add kdch1 aka "Remove" to vt220 and vt220-8 entries -TD
4375 + add kdch1, etc., to qvt108 -TD
4376 + add dl1/il1 to some entries based on dl/il values -TD
4377 + add dl to simpleterm -TD
4378 + add consistency-checks in tic for insert-line vs delete-line
4379 controls, and insert/delete-char keys
4380 + correct no-leaks logic in infocmp when doing comparisons, fixing
4381 duplicate free of entries given via the command-line, and freeing
4382 entries loaded from the last-but-one of files specified on the
4384 + add kdch1 to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (reported by David Lord,
4385 analysis by Martin Husemann).
4386 + add cnorm/civis to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (report/analysis by
4387 Onno van der Linden).
4390 + extend -c and -n options of infocmp to allow comparing more than two
4392 + correct check in infocmp for number of terminal names when more than
4394 + correct typo in curs_threads.3x (report by Yanhui Shen on
4395 freebsd-hackers mailing list).
4398 + corrected 'op' for bterm (report by Samuel Thibault) -TD
4399 + modify test/background.c to demonstrate a background character
4400 holding a colored ACS_HLINE. The behavior differs from SVr4 due to
4401 the thick- and double-line extension (cf: 20091003).
4402 + modify handling of acs characters in PutAttrChar to avoid mapping an
4403 unmapped character to a space with A_ALTCHARSET set.
4404 + rewrite vt520 entry based on vt420 -TD
4407 + remove p6 (bold) from opus3n1+ for consistency -TD
4408 + remove acs stuff from env230 per clues in Ingres termcap -TD
4409 + modify env230 sgr/sgr0 to match other capabilities -TD
4410 + modify smacs/rmacs in bq300-8 to match sgr/sgr0 -TD
4411 + make sgr for dku7202 agree with other caps -TD
4412 + make sgr for ibmpc agree with other caps -TD
4413 + make sgr for tek4107 agree with other caps -TD
4414 + make sgr for ndr9500 agree with other caps -TD
4415 + make sgr for sco-ansi agree with other caps -TD
4416 + make sgr for d410 agree with other caps -TD
4417 + make sgr for d210 agree with other caps -TD
4418 + make sgr for d470c, d470c-7b agree with other caps -TD
4419 + remove redundant AC_DEFINE for NDEBUG versus Makefile definition.
4420 + fix a back-link in _nc_delink_entry(), which is needed if ncurses is
4421 configured with --enable-termcap and --disable-getcap.
4424 + fix some inconsistencies between vt320/vt420, e.g., cnorm/civis -TD
4425 + add eslok flag to dec+sl -TD
4426 + dec+sl applies to vt320 and up -TD
4427 + drop wsl width from xterm+sl -TD
4428 + reuse xterm+sl in putty and nsca-m -TD
4429 + add ansi+tabs to vt520 -TD
4430 + add ansi+enq to vt220-vt520 -TD
4431 + fix a compiler warning in example in ncurses-intro.doc (Paul Waring).
4432 + added paragraph in keyname manpage telling how extended capabilities
4433 are interpreted as key definitions.
4434 + modify tic's check of conflicting key definitions to include extended
4435 capability strings in addition to the existing check on predefined
4439 + improve cleanup of temporary files in tic using atexit().
4440 + add msgr to vt420, similar DEC vtXXX entries -TD
4441 + add several missing vt420 capabilities from vt220 -TD
4442 + factor out ansi+pp from several entries -TD
4443 + change xterm+sl and xterm+sl-twm to include only the status-line
4444 capabilities and not "use=xterm", making them more generally useful
4445 as building-blocks -TD
4446 + add dec+sl building block, as example -TD
4449 + add XT to some terminfo entries to improve usefulness for other
4450 applications than screen, which would like to pretend that xterm's
4451 title is a status-line. -TD
4452 + change use-clauses in ansi-mtabs, hp2626, and hp2622 based on review
4453 of ordering and overrides -TD
4454 + add consistency check in tic for screen's "XT" capability.
4455 + add section in terminfo.src summarizing the user-defined capabilities
4456 used in that file -TD
4459 + fix an inconsistency between tic/infocmp "-x" option; tic omits all
4460 non-standard capabilities, while infocmp was ignoring only the user
4461 definable capabilities.
4462 + improve special case in tic parsing of description to allow it to be
4463 followed by terminfo capabilities. Previously the description had to
4464 be the last field on an input line to allow tic to distinguish
4465 between termcap and terminfo format while still allowing commas to be
4466 embedded in the description.
4467 + correct variable name in gen_edit.sh which broke configurability of
4468 the --with-xterm-kbs option.
4469 + revert 2011-07-16 change to "linux" alias, return to "linux2.2" -TD
4470 + further amend 20110910 change, providing for configure-script
4471 override of the "linux" terminfo entry to install and changing the
4472 default for that to "linux2.2" (Debian #665959).
4475 + update Ada95/configure to use CF_DISABLE_ECHO (cf: 20120317).
4476 + correct order of use-clauses in st-256color -TD
4477 + modify configure script to look for gnatgcc if the Ada95 binding
4478 is built, in preference to the default gcc/cc (suggested by
4479 Nicolas Boulenguez).
4480 + modify configure script to ensure that the same -On option used for
4481 the C compiler in CFLAGS is used for ADAFLAGS rather than simply
4482 using "-O3" (suggested by Nicolas Boulenguez)
4485 + amend an old fix so that next_char() exits properly for empty files,
4486 e.g., from reading /dev/null (cf: 20080804).
4487 + modify tic so that it can read from the standard input, or from
4488 a character device. Because tic uses seek's, this requires writing
4489 the data to a temporary file first (prompted by remark by Sven
4490 Joachim) (cf: 20000923).
4493 + correct a check made in lib_napms.c, so that terminfo applications
4494 can again use napms() (cf: 20110604).
4495 + add a note in tic.h regarding required casts for ABSENT_BOOLEAN
4497 + correct scripting for --disable-echo option in test/configure.
4498 + amend check for missing c++ compiler to work when no error is
4499 reported, and no variables set (cf: 20021206).
4500 + add/use configure macro CF_DISABLE_ECHO.
4503 + fix some strict compiler warnings for abi6 and 64-bits.
4504 + use begin_va_copy/end_va_copy macros in lib_printw.c (cf: 20120303).
4505 + improve a limit-check in infocmp.c (Werner Fink):
4508 + minor tidying of terminfo.tail, clarify reason for limitation
4509 regarding mapping of \0 to \200
4510 + minor improvement to _nc_copy_termtype(), using memcpy to replace
4512 + fix no-leaks checking in test/demo_termcap.c to account for multiple
4513 calls to setupterm().
4514 + modified the libgpm change to show previous load as a problem in the
4516 > merge some patches from OpenSUSE rpm (Werner Fink):
4517 + ncurses-5.7-printw.dif, fixes for varargs handling in lib_printw.c
4518 + ncurses-5.7-gpm.dif, do not dlopen libgpm if already loaded by
4520 + ncurses-5.6-fallback.dif, do not free arrays and strings from static
4524 + fix breakage in tic/infocmp from 20120225 (report by Werner Fink).
4527 + modify configure script to allow creating dll's for MinGW when
4529 + add --enable-string-hacks option to control whether strlcat and
4530 strlcpy may be used. The same issue applies to OpenBSD's warnings
4531 about snprintf, noting that this function is weakly standardized.
4532 + add configure checks for strlcat, strlcpy and snprintf, to help
4533 reduce bogus warnings with OpenBSD builds.
4534 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 to supply consistent intptr_t declaration
4536 + update config.guess, config.sub
4539 + correct CF_ETIP_DEFINES configure macro, making it exit properly on
4540 the first success (patch by Pierre Labastie).
4541 + improve configure macro CF_MKSTEMP by moving existence-check for
4542 mkstemp out of the AC_TRY_RUN, to help with cross-compiles.
4543 + improve configure macro CF_FUNC_POLL from luit changes to detect
4544 broken implementations, e.g., with Mac OS X.
4545 + add configure option --with-tparm-arg
4546 + build-fix for MinGW cross-compiling, so that make_hash does not
4547 depend on TTY definition (cf: 20111008).
4550 + make sgr for xterm-pcolor agree with other caps -TD
4551 + make sgr for att5425 agree with other caps -TD
4552 + make sgr for att630 agree with other caps -TD
4553 + make sgr for linux entries agree with other caps -TD
4554 + make sgr for tvi9065 agree with other caps -TD
4555 + make sgr for ncr260vt200an agree with other caps -TD
4556 + make sgr for ncr160vt100pp agree with other caps -TD
4557 + make sgr for ncr260vt300an agree with other caps -TD
4558 + make sgr for aaa-60-dec-rv, aaa+dec agree with other caps -TD
4559 + make sgr for cygwin, cygwinDBG agree with other caps -TD
4560 + add configure option --with-xterm-kbs to simplify configuration for
4561 Linux versus most other systems.
4564 + improved tic -D option, avoid making target directory and provide
4568 + add mach-gnu (Debian #614316, patch by Samuel Thibault)
4569 + add mach-gnu-color, tweaks to mach-gnu terminfo -TD
4570 + make sgr for sun-color agree with smso -TD
4571 + make sgr for prism9 agree with other caps -TD
4572 + make sgr for icl6404 agree with other caps -TD
4573 + make sgr for ofcons agree with other caps -TD
4574 + make sgr for att5410v1, att4415, att620 agree with other caps -TD
4575 + make sgr for aaa-unk, aaa-rv agree with other caps -TD
4576 + make sgr for avt-ns agree with other caps -TD
4577 + amend fix intended to separate fixups for acsc to allow "tic -cv" to
4578 give verbose warnings (cf: 20110730).
4579 + modify misc/gen-edit.sh to make the location of the tabset directory
4580 consistent with misc/Makefile.in, i.e., using ${datadir}/tabset
4581 (Debian #653435, patch by Sven Joachim).
4584 + add --with-lib-prefix option to allow configuring for old/new flavors
4586 + modify check for gnat version to allow for year, as used in FreeBSD
4588 + modify check_existence() in db_iterator.c to simply check if the
4589 path is a directory or file, according to the need. Checking for
4590 directory size also gives no usable result with OS/2 (cf: 20120107).
4591 + support OS/2 kLIBC (patch by KO Myung-Hun).
4594 + several improvements to test/movewindow.c (prompted by discussion on
4596 + modify movement commands to make them continuous
4597 + rewrote the test for mvderwin
4598 + rewrote the test for recursive mvwin
4599 + split-out reusable CF_WITH_NCURSES_ETC macro in test/configure.in
4600 + updated configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, build-fixes for Mac OS X
4602 + regenerated html manpages.
4605 + various improvements for MinGW (Juergen Pfeifer):
4606 + modify stat() calls to ignore the st_size member
4607 + drop mk-dlls.sh script.
4608 + change recommended regular expression library.
4609 + modify rain.c to allow for threaded configuration.
4610 + modify tset.c to allow for case when size-change logic is not used.
4613 + modify toe's report when -a and -s options are combined, to add
4614 a column showing which entries belong to a given database.
4615 + add -s option to toe, to sort its output.
4616 + modify progs/toe.c, simplifying use of db-iterator results to use
4617 caching improvements from 20111001 and 20111126.
4618 + correct generation of pc-files when ticlib or termlib options are
4619 given to rename the corresponding tic- or tinfo-libraries (report
4623 + document a portability issue with tput, i.e., that scripts which work
4624 with ncurses may fail in other implementations that do no parameter
4626 + add putty-sco entry -TD
4629 + review/fix places in manpages where --program-prefix configure option
4631 + add -D option to infocmp, to show the database locations that it
4633 + fix build for the special case where term-driver, ticlib and termlib
4634 are all enabled. The terminal driver depends on a few features in
4635 the base ncurses library, so tic's dependencies include both ncurses
4637 + fix build work for term-driver when --enable-wgetch-events option is
4639 + use <stdint.h> types to fix some questionable casts to void*.
4642 + modify configure script to check if thread library provides
4643 pthread_mutexattr_settype(), e.g., not provided by Solaris 2.6
4644 + modify configure script to suppress check to define _XOPEN_SOURCE
4645 for IRIX64, since its header files have a conflict versus
4647 + modify configure script to add ".pc" files for tic- and
4648 tinfo-libraries, which were omitted in recent change (cf: 20111126).
4649 + fix inconsistent checks on $PKG_CONFIG variable in configure script.
4652 + modify configure-check for etip.h dependencies, supplying a temporary
4653 copy of ncurses_dll.h since it is a generated file (prompted by
4655 + modify CF_CPP_PARAM_INIT "main" function to work with current C++.
4658 + correct database iterator's check for duplicate entries
4660 + modify database iterator to ignore $TERMCAP when it is not an
4662 + add -D option to tic, to show the database locations that it could
4664 + improve description of database locations in tic manpage.
4665 + modify the configure script to generate a list of the ".pc" files to
4666 generate, rather than deriving the list from the libraries which have
4667 been built (patch by Mike Frysinger).
4668 + use AC_CHECK_TOOLS in preference to AC_PATH_PROGS when searching for
4669 ncurses*-config, e.g., in Ada95/configure and test/configure (adapted
4670 from patch by Mike Frysinger).
4673 + remove obsolete/conflicting fallback definition for _POSIX_SOURCE
4674 from curses.priv.h, fixing a regression with IRIX64 and Tru64
4676 + modify _nc_tic_dir() to ensure that its return-value is nonnull,
4677 i.e., the database iterator was not initialized. This case is needed
4678 to when tic is translating to termcap, rather than loading the
4679 database (cf: 20111001).
4682 + add pccon entries for OpenBSD console (Alexei Malinin).
4683 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 with gcc 4.2.1, setting _XOPEN_SOURCE to
4684 600 to work around inconsistent ifdef'ing of wcstof between C and
4686 + modify capconvert script to accept more than exact match on "xterm",
4687 e.g., the "xterm-*" variants, to exclude from the conversion (patch
4689 + add -lc_r as alternative for -lpthread, allows build of threaded code
4690 in older FreeBSD machines.
4691 + build-fix for MirBSD, which fails when either _XOPEN_SOURCE or
4692 _POSIX_SOURCE are defined.
4693 + fix a typo misc/Makefile.in, used in uninstalling pc-files.
4696 + modify make_db_path() to allow creating "terminfo.db" in the same
4697 directory as an existing "terminfo" directory. This fixes a case
4698 where switching between hashed/filesystem databases would cause the
4699 new hashed database to be installed in the next best location -
4700 root's home directory.
4701 + add variable cf_cv_prog_gnat_correct to those passed to
4702 config.status, fixing a problem with Ada95 builds (cf: 20111022).
4703 + change feature test from _XPG5 to _XOPEN_SOURCE in two places, to
4704 accommodate broken implementations for _XPG6.
4705 + eliminate usage of NULL symbol from etip.h, to reduce header
4707 + add configure check to decide when to add _XOPEN_SOURCE define to
4708 compiler options, i.e., for Solaris 10 and later (cf: 20100403).
4709 This is a workaround for gcc 4.6, which fails to build the c++
4710 binding if that symbol is defined by the application, due to
4711 incorrectly combining the corresponding feature test macros
4712 (report by Peter Kruse).
4715 + correct logic for discarding mouse events, retaining the partial
4716 events used to build up click, double-click, etc, until needed
4718 + fix configure script to avoid creating unused Ada95 makefile when
4720 + cleanup width-related gcc 3.4.3 warnings for 64-bit platform, for the
4721 internal functions of libncurses. The external interface of courses
4722 uses bool, which still produces these warnings.
4725 + improve description of --disable-tic-depends option to make it
4726 clear that it may be useful whether or not the --with-termlib
4727 option is also given (report by Sven Joachim).
4728 + amend termcap equivalent for set_pglen_inch to use the X/Open
4729 "YI" rather than the obsolete Solaris 2.5 "sL" (cf: 990109).
4730 + improve manpage for tgetent differences from termcap library.
4733 + moved static data from db_iterator.c to lib_data.c
4734 + modify db_iterator.c for memory-leak checking, fix one leak.
4735 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to use Requires.private for the parts
4736 of ncurses rather than Requires, as well as Libs.private for the
4737 other library dependencies (prompted by Debian #644728).
4740 + modify tic "-K" option to only set the strict-flag rather than force
4741 source-output. That allows the same flag to control the parser for
4742 input and output of termcap source.
4743 + modify _nc_getent() to ignore backslash at the end of a comment line,
4744 making it consistent with ncurses' parser.
4745 + restore a special-case check for directory needed to make termcap
4746 text files load as if they were databases (cf: 20110924).
4747 + modify tic's resolution/collision checking to attempt to remove the
4748 conflicting alias from the second entry in the pair, which is
4749 normally following in the source file. Also improved the warning
4750 message to make it simpler to see which alias is the problem.
4751 + improve performance of the database iterator by caching search-list.
4754 + add a missing "else" in changes to _nc_read_tic_entry().
4757 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() so that hashed-database is checked before
4759 + updated CF_CURSES_LIBS check in test/configure script.
4760 + modify configure script and makefiles to split TIC_ARGS and
4761 TINFO_ARGS into pieces corresponding to LDFLAGS and LIBS variables,
4762 to help separate searches for tic- and tinfo-libraries (patch by Nick
4764 + build-fix for lib_mouse.c changes (cf: 20110917).
4767 + fix compiler warning for clang 2.9
4768 + improve merging of mouse events (integrated patch by Damien
4770 + correct mask-check used in lib_mouse for wheel mouse buttons 4/5
4771 (patch by Damien Guibouret).
4774 + modify misc/gen_edit.sh to select a "linux" entry which works with
4775 the current kernel rather than assuming it is always "linux3.0"
4777 + revert a change to getmouse() which had the undesirable side-effect
4778 of suppressing button-release events (report by Damien Guibouret,
4780 + add xterm+kbs fragment from xterm #272 -TD
4781 + add configure option --with-pkg-config-libdir to provide control over
4782 the actual directory into which pc-files are installed, do not use
4783 the pkg-config environment variables (discussion with Frederic L W
4785 + add link to mailing-list archive in announce.html.in, as done in
4786 FAQ (prompted by question by Andrius Bentkus).
4787 + improve manpage install by adjusting the "#include" examples to
4788 show the ncurses-subdirectory used when --disable-overwrite option
4790 + install an alias for "curses" to the ncurses manpage, tied to the
4791 --with-curses-h configure option (suggested by Reuben Thomas).
4794 + propagate error-returns from wresize, i.e., the internal
4795 increase_size and decrease_size functions through resize_term (report
4796 by Tim van der Molen, cf: 20020713).
4797 + fix typo in tset manpage (patch by Sven Joachim).
4800 + add a check to ensure that termcap files which might have "^?" do
4801 not use the terminfo interpretation as "\177".
4802 + minor cleanup of X-terminal emulator section of terminfo.src -TD
4803 + add terminator entry -TD
4804 + add simpleterm entry -TD
4805 + improve wattr_get macros by ensuring that if the window pointer is
4806 null, then the attribute and color values returned will be zero
4810 + add substitution for $RPATH_LIST to misc/ncurses-config.in
4811 + improve performance of tic with hashed-database by caching the
4812 database connection, using atexit() to cleanup.
4813 + modify treatment of 2-character aliases at the beginning of termcap
4814 entries so they are not counted in use-resolution, since these are
4815 guaranteed to be unique. Also ignore these aliases when reporting
4816 the primary name of the entry (cf: 20040501)
4817 + double-check gn (generic) flag in terminal descriptions to
4818 accommodate old/buggy termcap databases which misused that feature.
4819 + minor fixes to _nc_tgetent(), ensure buffer is initialized even on
4823 + improve rpath fix from 20110730 by ensuring that the new $RPATH_LIST
4824 variable is defined in the makefiles which use it.
4825 + build-fix for DragonFlyBSD's pkgsrc in test/configure script.
4826 + build-fixes for NetBSD 5.1 with termcap support enabled.
4827 + corrected k9 in dg460-ansi, add other features based on manuals -TD
4828 + improve trimming of whitespace at the end of terminfo/termcap output
4830 + when writing termcap source, ensure that colons in the description
4831 field are translated to a non-delimiter, i.e., "=".
4832 + add "-0" option to tic/infocmp, to make the termcap/terminfo source
4834 + add a null-pointer check when handling the $CC variable.
4837 + modify configure script and makefiles in c++ and progs to allow the
4838 directory used for rpath option to be overridden, e.g., to work
4839 around updates to the variables used by tic during an install.
4840 + add -K option to tic/infocmp, to provide stricter BSD-compatibility
4842 + add _nc_strict_bsd variable in tic library which controls the
4843 "strict" BSD termcap compatibility from 20110723, plus these
4845 + allow escapes such as "\8" and "\9" when reading termcap
4846 + disallow "\a", "\e", "\l", "\s" and "\:" escapes when reading
4847 termcap files, passing through "a", "e", etc.
4848 + expand "\:" as "\072" on output.
4849 + modify _nc_get_token() to reset the token's string value in case
4850 there is a string-typed token lacking the "=" marker.
4851 + fix a few memory leaks in _nc_tgetent.
4852 + fix a few places where reading from a termcap file could refer to
4854 + add an overflow check when converting terminfo/termcap numeric
4855 values, since terminfo stores those in a short, and they must be
4857 + correct internal variables used for translating to termcap "%>"
4858 feature, and translating from termcap %B to terminfo, needed by
4859 tctest (cf: 19991211).
4860 + amend a minor fix to acsc when loading a termcap file to separate it
4861 from warnings needed for tic (cf: 20040710)
4862 + modify logic in _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_tic_entry() to allow
4863 a termcap file to be handled via TERMINFO_DIRS.
4864 + modify _nc_infotocap() to include non-mandatory padding when
4865 translating to termcap.
4866 + modify _nc_read_termcap_entry(), passing a flag in the case where
4867 getcap is used, to reduce interactive warning messages.
4870 + add a check in start_color() to limit color-pairs to 256 when
4871 extended colors are not supported (patch by David Benjamin).
4872 + modify setcchar to omit no-longer-needed OR'ing of color pair in
4873 the SetAttr() macro (patch by David Benjamin).
4874 + add kich1 to sun terminfo entry (Yuri Pankov)
4875 + use bold rather than reverse for smso in sun-color terminfo entry
4877 + improve generation of termcap using tic/infocmp -C option, e.g.,
4878 to correspond with 4.2BSD (prompted by discussion with Yuri Pankov
4879 regarding Schilling's test program):
4880 + translate %02 and %03 to %2 and %3 respectively.
4881 + suppress string capabilities which use %s, not supported by tgoto
4882 + use \040 rather than \s
4883 + expand null characters as \200 rather than \0
4884 + modify configure script to support shared libraries for DragonFlyBSD.
4887 + replace an assert() in _nc_Free_Argument() with a regular null
4888 pointer check (report/analysis by Franjo Ivancic).
4889 + modify configure --enable-pc-files option to take into account the
4890 PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
4891 + add/use xterm+tmux chunk from xterm #271 -TD
4892 + resync xterm-new entry from xterm #271 -TD
4893 + add E3 extended capability to linux-basic (Miroslav Lichvar)
4894 + add linux2.2, linux2.6, linux3.0 entries to give context for E3 -TD
4895 + add SI/SO change to linux2.6 entry (Debian #515609) -TD
4896 + fix inconsistent tabset path in pcmw (Todd C. Miller).
4897 + remove a backslash which continued comment, obscuring altos3
4898 definition with OpenBSD toolset (Nicholas Marriott).
4901 + add workaround from xterm #271 changes to ensure that compiler flags
4902 are not used in the $CC variable.
4903 + improve support for shared libraries, tested with AIX 5.3, 6.1 and
4904 7.1 with both gcc 4.2.4 and cc.
4905 + modify configure checks for AIX to include release 7.x
4906 + add loader flags/libraries to libtool options so that dynamic loading
4907 works properly, adapted from ncurses-5.7-ldflags-with-libtool.patch
4908 at gentoo prefix repository (patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
4911 + move include of nc_termios.h out of term_entry.h, since the latter
4912 is installed, e.g., for tack while the former is not (report by
4916 + improve cleanup() function in lib_tstp.c, using _exit() rather than
4917 exit() and checking for SIGTERM rather than SIGQUIT (prompted by
4918 comments forwarded by Nicholas Marriott).
4919 + reduce name pollution from term.h, moving fallback #define's for
4920 tcgetattr(), etc., to new private header nc_termios.h (report by
4922 + two minor fixes for tracing (patch by Vassili Courzakis).
4923 + improve trace initialization by starting it in use_env() and
4925 + review old email, add details for some changelog entries.
4928 + update minix entry to minix 3.2 (Thomas Cort).
4929 + fix a strict compiler warning in change to wattr_get (cf: 20110528).
4932 + fixes for MirBSD port:
4933 + set default prefix to /usr.
4934 + add support for shared libraries in configure script.
4935 + use S_ISREG and S_ISDIR consistently, with fallback definitions.
4936 + add a few more checks based on ncurses/link_test.
4937 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle sp-funcs renaming of NCURSES_OUTC type.
4940 + add case to CF_SHARED_OPTS for Interix (patch by Markus Duft).
4941 + used ncurses/link_test to check for behavior when the terminal has
4942 not been initialized and when an application passes null pointers
4943 to the library. Added checks to cover this (prompted by Redhat
4945 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to make its main() function call each function
4946 with zero parameters, to help find inconsistent checking for null
4950 + fix warnings from clang 2.7 "--analyze"
4953 + compiler-warning fixes in panel and progs.
4954 + modify CF_PKG_CONFIG macro, from changes to tin -TD
4955 + modify CF_CURSES_FUNCS configure macro, used in test directory
4957 + work around (non-optimizer) bug in gcc 4.2.1 which caused
4958 test-expression to be omitted from executable.
4959 + force the linker to see a link-time expression of a symbol, to
4960 help work around weak-symbol issues.
4963 + update discussion of MKfallback.sh script in INSTALL; normally the
4964 script is used automatically via the configured makefiles. However
4965 there are still occasions when it might be used directly by packagers
4966 (report by Gunter Schaffler).
4967 + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to omit the "-L" option from the
4968 "--libs" output if the library directory is /usr/lib.
4969 + change order of tests for curses.h versus ncurses.h headers in the
4970 configure scripts for Ada95 and test-directories, to look for
4971 ncurses.h, from fixes to tin -TD
4972 + modify ncurses/tinfo/access.c to account for Tandem's root uid
4973 (report by Joachim Schmitz).
4976 + modify rules in Ada95/src/Makefile.in to ensure that the PIC option
4977 is not used when building a static library (report by Nicolas
4979 + Ada95 build-fix for big-endian architectures such as sparc. This
4980 undoes one of the fixes from 20110319, which added an "Unused" member
4981 to representation clauses, replacing that with pragmas to suppress
4982 warnings about unused bits (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
4985 + add check in test/configure for use_window, use_screen.
4986 + add configure-checks for getopt's variables, which may be declared
4987 as different types on some Unix systems.
4988 + add check in test/configure for some legacy curses types of the
4989 function pointer passed to tputs().
4990 + modify init_pair() to accept -1's for color value after
4991 assume_default_colors() has been called (Debian #337095).
4992 + modify test/background.c, adding commmand-line options to demonstrate
4993 assume_default_colors() and use_default_colors().
4996 + modify configure script/source-code to only define _POSIX_SOURCE if
4997 the checks for sigaction and/or termios fail, and if _POSIX_C_SOURCE
4998 and _XOPEN_SOURCE are undefined (report by Valentin Ochs).
4999 + update config.guess, config.sub
5002 + fixes to build c++ binding with clang 3.0 (patch by Alexander
5004 + add check for unctrl.h in test/configure, to work around breakage in
5005 some ncurses packages.
5006 + add "--disable-widec" option to test/configure script.
5007 + add "--with-curses-colr" and "--with-curses-5lib" options to the
5008 test/configure script to address testing with very old machines.
5010 20110404 5.9 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
5013 + various build-fixes for the rpm/dpkg scripts.
5014 + add "--enable-rpath-link" option to Ada95/configure, to allow
5015 packages to suppress the rpath feature which is normally used for
5016 the in-tree build of sample programs.
5017 + corrected definition of libdir variable in Ada95/src/Makefile.in,
5018 needed for rpm script.
5019 + add "--with-shared" option to Ada95/configure script, to allow
5020 making the C-language parts of the binding use appropriate compiler
5021 options if building a shared library with gnat.
5024 > portability fixes for Ada95 binding:
5025 + add configure check to ensure that SIGINT works with gnat. This is
5026 needed for the "rain" sample program. If SIGINT does not work, omit
5027 that sample program.
5028 + correct typo in check of $PKG_CONFIG variable in Ada95/configure
5029 + add ncurses_compat.c, to supply functions used in the Ada95 binding
5030 which were added in 5.7 and later.
5031 + modify sed expression in CF_NCURSES_ADDON to eliminate a dependency
5035 + add special check in Ada95/configure script for ncurses6 reentrant
5037 + regen Ada html documentation.
5038 + build-fix for Ada shared libraries versus the varargs workaround.
5039 + add rpm and dpkg scripts for Ada95 and test directories, for test
5041 + update test/configure macros CF_CURSES_LIBS, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and
5043 + add configure check to determine if gnat's project feature supports
5044 libraries, i.e., collections of .ali files.
5045 + make all dereferences in Ada95 samples explicit.
5046 + fix typo in comment in lib_add_wch.c (patch by Petr Pavlu).
5047 + add configure check for, ifdef's for math.h which is in a separate
5048 package on Solaris and potentially not installed (report by Petr
5050 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
5051 + improve type-checking in Ada95 by eliminating a few warning-suppress
5053 + suppress unreferenced warnings.
5054 + make all dereferences in binding explicit.
5057 + regen Ada html documentation.
5058 + change order of -I options from ncurses*-config script when the
5059 --disable-overwrite option was used, so that the subdirectory include
5061 + modify the make-tar.sh scripts to add a MANIFEST and NEWS file.
5062 + modify configure script to provide value for HTML_DIR in
5063 Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, which depends on whether the Ada95 binding is
5064 distributed separately (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
5065 + modify configure script to add "-g" and/or "-O3" to ADAFLAGS if the
5066 CFLAGS for the build has these options.
5067 + amend change from 20070324, to not add 1 to the result of getmaxx
5068 and getmaxy in the Ada binding (report by Nicolas Boulenguez for
5069 thread in comp.lang.ada).
5070 + build-fix Ada95/samples for gnat 4.5
5071 + spelling fixes for Ada95/samples/explain.txt
5072 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
5073 + add item in Trace_Attribute_Set corresponding to TRACE_ATTRS.
5074 + add workaround for binding to set_field_type(), which uses varargs.
5075 The original binding from 990220 relied on the prevalent
5076 implementation of varargs which did not support or need va_copy().
5077 + add dependency on gen/Makefile.in needed for *-panels.ads
5078 + add Library_Options to library.gpr
5079 + add Languages to library.gpr, for gprbuild
5082 + revert changes to limit-checks from 20110122 (Debian #616711).
5083 > minor type-cleanup of Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
5084 + corrected a minor sign error in a field of Low_Level_Field_Type, to
5086 + replaced C_Int by Curses_Bool as return type for some callbacks, see
5088 + modify samples/sample-explain.adb to provide explicit message when
5089 explain.txt is not found.
5092 + improve makefiles for Ada95 tree (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
5093 + fix an off-by-one error in _nc_slk_initialize() from 20100605 fixes
5094 for compiler warnings (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
5095 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to declare unused bits in generated layouts,
5096 needed to compile when chtype is 64-bits using gnat 4.4.5
5098 20110226 5.8 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
5101 + update release notes, for 5.8.
5102 + regenerated html manpages.
5103 + change open() in _nc_read_file_entry() to fopen() for consistency
5105 + modify misc/run_tic.in to create parent directory, in case this is
5106 a new install of hashed database.
5107 + fix typo in Ada95/mk-1st.awk which causes error with original awk.
5110 + configure script rpath fixes from xterm #269.
5111 + workaround for cygwin's non-functional features.h, to force ncurses'
5112 configure script to define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED when building
5113 wide-character configuration.
5114 + build-fix in run_tic.sh for OS/2 EMX install
5115 + add cons25-debian entry (patch by Brian M Carlson, Debian #607662).
5118 + regenerated html manpages.
5119 + use _tracef() in show_where() function of tic, to work correctly with
5120 special case of trace configuration.
5123 + add xterm-utf8 entry as a demo of the U8 feature -TD
5124 + add U8 feature to denote entries for terminal emulators which do not
5125 support VT100 SI/SO when processing UTF-8 encoding -TD
5126 + improve the NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS feature by adding a check for an
5127 extended terminfo capability U8 (prompted by mailing list
5131 + start documenting interface changes for upcoming 5.8 release.
5132 + correct limit-checks in derwin().
5133 + correct limit-checks in newwin(), to ensure that windows have nonzero
5134 size (report by Garrett Cooper).
5135 + fix a missing "weak" declaration for pthread_kill (patch by Nicholas
5137 + improve documentation of KEY_ENTER in curs_getch.3x manpage (prompted
5138 by discussion with Kevin Martin).
5141 + modify Ada95/configure script to make the --with-curses-dir option
5142 work without requiring the --with-ncurses option.
5143 + modify test programs to allow them to be built with NetBSD curses.
5144 + document thick- and double-line symbols in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
5145 + document WACS_xxx constants in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
5146 + fix some warnings for clang 2.6 "--analyze"
5147 + modify Ada95 makefiles to make html-documentation with the project
5148 file configuration if that is used.
5149 + update config.guess, config.sub
5152 + regenerated html manpages.
5153 + minor fixes to enable lint when trace is not enabled, e.g., with
5155 + fix typo in man/default_colors.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
5156 + update ncurses/llib-lncurses*
5159 + fix remaining strict compiler warnings in ncurses library ABI=5,
5160 except those dealing with function pointers, etc.
5163 + modify nc_tparm.h, adding guards against repeated inclusion, and
5164 allowing TPARM_ARG to be overridden.
5165 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
5168 + suppress ncv in screen entry, allowing underline (patch by Alejandro
5170 + also suppress ncv in konsole-base -TD
5171 + fixes in wins_nwstr() and related functions to ensure that special
5172 characters, i.e., control characters are handled properly with the
5173 wide-character configuration.
5174 + correct a comparison in wins_nwstr() (Redhat #661506).
5175 + correct help-messages in some of the test-programs, which still
5176 referred to quitting with 'q'.
5179 + add special case to _nc_infotocap() to recognize the setaf/setab
5180 strings from xterm+256color and xterm+88color, and provide a reduced
5181 version which works with termcap.
5182 + remove obsolete emacs "Local Variables" section from documentation
5183 (request by Sven Joachim).
5184 + update doc/html/index.html to include NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html
5185 (report by Sven Joachim).
5188 + modify test/configure and test/Makefile.in to handle this special
5189 case of building within a build-tree (Debian #34182):
5190 mkdir -p build && cd build && ../test/configure && make
5193 + miscellaneous build-fixes for Ada95 and test-directories when built
5195 + use VPATH in makefiles to simplify out-of-tree builds (Debian #34182).
5196 + fix typo in rmso for tek4106 entry -Goran Weinholt
5199 + improve checks in test/configure for X libraries, from xterm #267
5201 + modify test/configure to allow it to use the build-tree's libraries
5202 e.g., when using that to configure the test-programs without the
5203 rpath feature (request by Sven Joachim).
5204 + repurpose "gnome" terminfo entries as "vte", retaining "gnome" items
5205 for compatibility, but generally deprecating those since the VTE
5206 library is what actually defines the behavior of "gnome", etc.,
5210 + compiler warning fixes for test programs.
5211 + various build-fixes for test-programs with pdcurses.
5212 + updated configure checks for X packages in test/configure from xterm
5214 + add configure check to gnatmake, to accommodate cygwin.
5217 + correct list of sub-directories needed in Ada95 tree for building as
5219 + modify scripts in test-directory to improve builds as a separate
5223 + correct parsing of relative tab-stops in tabs program (report by
5225 + adjust configure script so that "t" is not added to library suffix
5226 when weak-symbols are used, allowing the pthread configuration to
5227 more closely match the non-thread naming (report by Werner Fink).
5228 + modify configure check for tic program, used for fallbacks, to a
5229 warning if not found. This makes it simpler to use additional
5230 scripts to bootstrap the fallbacks code using tic from the build
5231 tree (report by Werner Fink).
5232 + fix several places in configure script using ${variable-value} form.
5233 + modify configure macro CF_LDFLAGS_STATIC to accommodate some loaders
5234 which do not support selectively linking against static libraries
5235 (report by John P. Hartmann)
5236 + fix an unescaped dash in man/tset.1 (report by Sven Joachim).
5239 + correct comparison used for setting 16-colors in linux-16color
5240 entry (Novell #644831) -TD
5241 + improve linux-16color entry, using "dim" for color-8 which makes it
5242 gray rather than black like color-0 -TD
5243 + drop misc/ncu-indent and misc/jpf-indent; they are provided by an
5244 external package "cindent".
5247 + improve linkages in html manpages, adding references to the newer
5248 pages, e.g., *_variables, curs_sp_funcs, curs_threads.
5249 + add checks in tic for inconsistent cursor-movement controls, and for
5250 inconsistent printer-controls.
5251 + fill in no-parameter forms of cursor-movement where a parameterized
5252 form is available -TD
5253 + fill in missing cursor controls where the form of the controls is
5255 + fix inconsistent punctuation in form_variables manpage (patch by
5257 + add parameterized cursor-controls to linux-basic (report by Dae) -TD
5258 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
5259 + document how to build 32-bit libraries in README.MinGW
5260 + fixes to filename computation in mk-dlls.sh.in
5261 + use POSIX locale in mk-dlls.sh.in rather than en_US (report by Sven
5263 + add a check in mk-dlls.sh.in to obtain the size of a pointer to
5264 distinguish between 32-bit and 64-bit hosts. The result is stored
5268 + add "XT" capability to entries for terminals that support both
5269 xterm-style mouse- and title-controls, for "screen" which
5270 special-cases TERM beginning with "xterm" or "rxvt" -TD
5271 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
5272 + use 64-Bit MinGW toolchain (recommended package from TDM, see
5274 + support pthreads when using the TDM MinGW toolchain
5277 + regenerated html manpages.
5278 + minor fixes for symlinks to curs_legacy.3x and curs_slk.3x manpages.
5279 + add manpage for sp-funcs.
5280 + add sp-funcs to test/listused.sh, for documentation aids.
5283 + add manpages for summarizing public variables of curses-, terminfo-
5285 + minor fixes to manpages for consistency (patch by Jason McIntyre).
5286 + modify tic's -I/-C dump to reformat acsc strings into canonical form
5287 (sorted, unique mapping) (cf: 971004).
5288 + add configure check for pthread_kill(), needed for some old
5292 + add configure option --without-tests, to suppress building test
5293 programs (request by Frederic L W Meunier).
5296 + modify nsterm, xnuppc and tek4115 to make sgr/sgr0 consistent -TD
5297 + add check in terminfo source-reader to provide more informative
5298 message when someone attempts to run tic on a compiled terminal
5299 description (prompted by Debian #593920).
5300 + note in infotocap and captoinfo manpages that they read terminal
5301 descriptions from text-files (Debian #593920).
5302 + improve acsc string for vt52, show arrow keys (patch by Benjamin
5306 + document in manpages that "mv" functions first use wmove() to check
5307 the window pointer and whether the position lies within the window
5308 (suggested by Poul-Henning Kamp).
5309 + fixes to curs_color.3x, curs_kernel.3x and wresize.3x manpages (patch
5310 by Tim van der Molen).
5311 + modify configure script to transform library names for tic- and
5312 tinfo-libraries so that those build properly with Mac OS X shared
5313 library configuration.
5314 + modify configure script to ensure that it removes conftest.dSYM
5315 directory leftover on checks with Mac OS X.
5316 + modify configure script to cleanup after check for symbolic links.
5319 + correct a typo in mk-1st.awk (patch by Gabriele Balducci)
5321 + improve configure checks for location of tic and infocmp programs
5322 used for installing database and for generating fallback data,
5323 e.g., for cross-compiling.
5324 + add Markus Kuhn's wcwidth function for compiling MinGW
5325 + add special case to CF_REGEX for cross-compiling to MinGW target.
5328 + modify initialization check for win32con driver to eliminate need for
5329 special case for TERM "unknown", using terminal database if available
5330 (prompted by discussion with Roumen Petrov).
5331 + for MinGW port, ensure that terminal driver is setup if tgetent()
5332 is called (patch by Roumen Petrov).
5333 + document tabs "-0" and "-8" options in manpage.
5334 + fix Debian "lintian" issues with manpages reported in
5335 http://lintian.debian.org/full/csmall@debian.org.html#ncurses
5338 + add a check in tic for missing set_tab if clear_all_tabs given.
5339 + improve use of symbolic links in makefiles by using "-f" option if
5340 it is supported, to eliminate temporary removal of the target
5341 (prompted by http://www.t2-project.org/packages/ncurses.html)
5342 + minor improvement to test/ncurses.c, reset color pairs in 'd' test
5343 after exit from 'm' main-menu command.
5344 + improved ncu-indent, from mawk changes, allows more than one of
5345 GCC_NORETURN, GCC_PRINTFLIKE and GCC_SCANFLIKE on a single line.
5348 + add hard-reset for rs2 to wsvt25 to help ensure that reset ends
5349 the alternate character set (patch by Nicholas Marriott)
5350 + remove tar-copy.sh and related configure/Makefile chunks, since the
5351 Ada95 binding is now installed using rules in Ada95/src.
5354 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
5355 + add/use configure check to turn on project rules for Ada95/src.
5356 + revert the vfork change from 20100130, since it does not work.
5359 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
5360 + old gnatmake (3.15) does not produce libraries using project-file;
5361 work around by adding script to generate alternate makefile.
5364 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
5365 + add configure --with-ada-sharedlib option, for the test_make rule.
5366 + move Ada95-related logic into aclocal.m4, since additional checks
5367 will be needed to distinguish old/new implementations of gnat.
5370 + start integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95 tree
5371 + add test_make / test_clean / test_install rules in Ada95/src
5372 + change install-path for adainclude directory to /usr/share/ada (was
5374 + update Ada95/configure.
5375 + add mlterm+256color entry, for mlterm 3.0.0 -TD
5376 + modify test/configure to use macros to ensure consistent order
5377 of updating LIBS variable.
5380 + change search order of options for Solaris in CF_SHARED_OPTS, to
5381 work with 64-bit compiles.
5382 + correct quoting of assignment in CF_SHARED_OPTS case for aix
5386 + regenerated html documentation.
5387 + modify test/configure to support pkg-config for checking X libraries
5389 + add/use configure macro CF_ADD_LIB to force consistency of
5390 assignments to $LIBS, etc.
5391 + fix configure script for combining --with-pthread
5392 and --enable-weak-symbols options.
5395 + correct cross-compiling configure check for CF_MKSTEMP macro, by
5396 adding a check cache variable set by AC_CHECK_FUNC (report by
5398 + simplify include-dependencies of make_hash and make_keys, to reduce
5399 the need for setting BUILD_CPPFLAGS in cross-compiling when the
5400 build- and target-machines differ.
5401 + repair broken-linker configuration by restoring a definition of SP
5402 variable to curses.priv.h, and adjusting for cases where sp-funcs
5404 + improve configure macro CF_AR_FLAGS, allowing ARFLAGS environment
5405 variable to override (prompted by report by Pablo Cazallas).
5408 + add configure option --enable-pthreads-eintr to control whether the
5409 new EINTR feature is enabled.
5410 + modify logic in pthread configuration to allow EINTR to interrupt
5411 a read operation in wgetch() (Novell #540571, patch by Werner Fink).
5412 + drop mkdirs.sh, use "mkdir -p".
5413 + add configure option --disable-libtool-version, to use the
5414 "-version-number" feature which was added in libtool 1.5 (report by
5415 Peter Haering). The default value for the option uses the newer
5416 feature, which makes libraries generated using libtool compatible
5417 with the standard builds of ncurses.
5418 + updated test/configure to match configure script macros.
5419 + fixes for configure script from lynx changes:
5420 + improve CF_FIND_LINKAGE logic for the case where a function is
5421 found in predefined libraries.
5422 + revert part of change to CF_HEADER (cf: 20100424)
5425 + correct limit-check in wredrawln, accounting for begy/begx values
5426 (patch by David Benjamin).
5427 + fix most compiler warnings from clang.
5428 + amend build-fix for OpenSolaris, to ensure that a system header is
5429 included in curses.h before testing feature symbols, since they
5430 may be defined by that route.
5433 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
5434 + modify configure macro CF_HEADER_PATH to not look for variations in
5435 the predefined include directories.
5436 + improve configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GCC_WARNINGS to work
5437 with gcc 4.x's c89 alias, which gives warning messages for cases
5438 where older versions would produce an error.
5441 + modify _nc_capcmp() to work with cancelled strings.
5442 + correct translation of "^" in _nc_infotocap(), used to transform
5443 terminfo to termcap strings
5444 + add configure --disable-rpath-hack, to allow disabling the feature
5445 which adds rpath options for libraries in unusual places.
5446 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by checking if the rpath option for a given
5447 directory was already added.
5448 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by using ldd to provide a standard list of
5449 directories (which will be ignored).
5452 + improve win_driver.c handling of mouse:
5453 + discard motion events
5454 + avoid calling _nc_timed_wait when there is a mouse event
5455 + handle 4th and "rightmost" buttons.
5456 + quote substitutions in CF_RPATH_HACK_2 configure macro, needed for
5457 cases where there are embedded blanks in the rpath option.
5460 + add configure check for exctags vs ctags, to work around pkgsrc.
5461 + simplify logic in _nc_get_screensize() to make it easier to see how
5462 environment variables may override system- and terminfo-values
5463 (prompted by discussion with Igor Bujna).
5464 + make debug-traces for COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER less verbose.
5465 + improve handling of color-pairs embedded in attributes for the
5466 extended-colors configuration.
5467 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to build link_test with sp-funcs.
5468 + build-fixes for OpenSolaris aka Solaris 11, for wide-character
5469 configuration as well as for rpath feature in *-config scripts.
5472 + refactor CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro, making CF_RPATH_HACK more
5474 + improve configure CF_REGEX, similar fixes.
5475 + improve configure CF_FIND_LINKAGE, adding add check between system
5476 (default) and explicit paths, where we can find the entrypoint in the
5478 + add check if Gpm_Open() returns a -2, e.g., for "xterm". This is
5479 normally suppressed but can be overridden using $NCURSES_GPM_TERMS.
5480 Ensure that Gpm_Close() is called in this case.
5483 + rename atari and st52 terminfo entries to atari-old, st52-old, use
5484 newer entries from FreeMiNT by Guido Flohr (from patch/report by Alan
5488 + modify install-rule for manpages so that *-config manpages will
5489 install when building with --srcdir (report by Sven Joachim).
5490 + modify CF_DISABLE_LEAKS configure macro so that the --enable-leaks
5491 option is not the same as --disable-leaks (GenToo #305889).
5492 + modify #define's for build-compiler to suppress cchar_t symbol from
5493 compile of make_hash and make_keys, improving cross-compilation of
5494 ncursesw (report by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
5495 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to replace all occurrences of
5496 TPUT in tput.1's manpage (Debian #573597, report/analysis by Anders
5500 + generate manpages for the *-config scripts, adapted from help2man
5501 (suggested by Sven Joachim).
5502 + use va_copy() in _nc_printf_string() to avoid conflicting use of
5503 va_list value in _nc_printf_length() (report by Wim Lewis).
5506 + add Ada95/configure script, to use in tar-file created by
5508 + fix typo in wresize.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
5509 + modify screen-bce.XXX entries to exclude ech, since screen's color
5510 model does not clear with color for that feature -TD
5513 + add make-tar.sh scripts to Ada95 and test subdirectories to help with
5514 making those separately distributable.
5515 + build-fix for static libraries without dlsym (Debian #556378).
5516 + fix a syntax error in man/form_field_opts.3x (patch by Ingo
5520 + add several screen-bce.XXX entries -TD
5523 + update mrxvt terminfo entry -TD
5524 + modify win_driver.c to support mouse single-clicks.
5525 + correct name for termlib in ncurses*-config, e.g., if it is renamed
5526 to provide a single file for ncurses/ncursesw libraries (patch by
5530 + use vfork in test/ditto.c if available (request by Mike Frysinger).
5531 + miscellaneous cleanup of manpages.
5532 + fix typo in curs_bkgd.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
5533 + build-fix for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
5536 + for term-driver configuration, ensure that the driver pointer is
5537 initialized in setupterm so that terminfo/termcap programs work.
5538 + amend fix for Debian #542031 to ensure that wattrset() returns only
5539 OK or ERR, rather than the attribute value (report by Miroslav
5541 + reorder WINDOWLIST to put WINDOW data after SCREEN pointer, making
5542 _nc_screen_of() compatible between normal/wide libraries again (patch
5543 by Miroslav Lichvar)
5544 + review/fix include-dependencies in modules files (report by Miroslav
5548 + modify win_driver.c to initialize acs_map for win32 console, so
5549 that line-drawing works.
5550 + modify win_driver.c to initialize TERMINAL struct so that programs
5551 such as test/lrtest.c and test/ncurses.c which test string
5552 capabilities can run.
5553 + modify term-driver modules to eliminate forward-reference
5557 + modify configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., to use CF_ADD_CFLAGS
5558 consistently to add new -D's while removing duplicates.
5559 + modify a few configure macros to consistently put new options
5560 before older in the list.
5561 + add tiparm(), based on review of X/Open Curses Issue 7.
5562 + minor documentation cleanup.
5563 + update config.guess, config.sub from
5564 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
5565 (caveat - its maintainer put 2010 copyright date on files dated 2009)
5568 + minor improvement to tic's checking of similar SGR's to allow for the
5569 most common case of SGR 0.
5570 + modify getmouse() to act as its documentation implied, returning on
5571 each call the preceding event until none are left. When no more
5572 events remain, it will return ERR.
5575 + change order of lookup in progs/tput.c, looking for terminfo data
5576 first. This fixes a confusion between termcap "sg" and terminfo
5577 "sgr" or "sgr0", originally from 990123 changes, but exposed by
5578 20091114 fixes for hashing. With this change, only "dl" and "ed" are
5579 ambiguous (Mandriva #56272).
5582 + add bterm terminfo entry, based on bogl 0.1.18 -TD
5583 + minor fix to rxvt+pcfkeys terminfo entry -TD
5584 + build-fixes for Ada95 tree for gnat 4.4 "style".
5587 + remove old check in mvderwin() which prevented moving a derived
5588 window whose origin happened to coincide with its parent's origin
5589 (report by Katarina Machalkova).
5590 + improve test/ncurses.c to put mouse droppings in the proper window.
5591 + update minix terminfo entry -TD
5592 + add bw (auto-left-margin) to nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler)
5595 + correct transfer of multicolumn characters in multirow
5596 field_buffer(), which stopped at the end of the first row due to
5597 filling of unused entries in a cchar_t array with nulls.
5598 + updated nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler, Emanuele Giaquinta)
5599 + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to show wide-character
5601 + use strdup() in set_menu_mark(), restore .marklen struct member on
5603 + eliminate clause 3 from the UCB copyrights in read_termcap.c and
5605 ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change
5606 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
5607 + replace a malloc in tic.c with strdup, checking for failure (patch by
5609 + update config.guess, config.sub from
5610 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
5613 + correct layout of working window used to extract data in
5614 wide-character configured by set_field_buffer (patch by Rafael
5616 + improve some limit-checks related to filename length in reading and
5617 writing terminfo entries.
5618 + ensure that filename is always filled in when attempting to read
5619 a terminfo entry, so that infocmp can report the filename (patch
5620 by Nicholas Marriott).
5623 + modify mk-1st.awk to allow tinfo library to be built when term-driver
5625 + add error-check to configure script to ensure that sp-funcs is
5626 enabled if term-driver is, since some internal interfaces rely upon
5630 + fix case where progs/tput is used while sp-funcs is configure; this
5631 requires save/restore of out-character function from _nc_prescreen
5632 rather than the SCREEN structure (report by Charles Wilson).
5633 + fix typo in man/curs_trace.3x which caused incorrect symbolic links
5634 + improved configure macros CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES, CF_PROG_LINT.
5637 + updated man/curs_trace.3x
5638 + limit hashing for termcap-names to 2-characters (Ubuntu #481740).
5639 + change a variable name in lib_newwin.c to make it clearer which
5640 value is being freed on error (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
5643 + improve test/ncurses.c color-cycling test by reusing attribute-
5644 and color-cycling logic from the video-attributes screen.
5645 + add ifdef'd with NCURSES_INTEROP_FUNCS experimental bindings in form
5646 library which help make it compatible with interop applications
5647 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
5648 + add configure option --enable-interop, for integrating changes
5649 for generic/interop support to form-library by Juergen Pfeifer
5652 + modify use of $CC environment variable which is defined by X/Open
5653 as a curses feature, to ignore it if it is not a single character
5654 (prompted by discussion with Benjamin C W Sittler).
5655 + add START_TRACE in slk_init
5656 + fix a regression in _nc_ripoffline which made test/ncurses.c not show
5657 soft-keys, broken in 20090927 merging.
5658 + change initialization of "hidden" flag for soft-keys from true to
5659 false, broken in 20090704 merging (Ubuntu #464274).
5660 + update nsterm entries (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler, prompted by
5661 discussion with Fabian Groffen in GenToo #206201).
5662 + add test/xterm-256color.dat
5665 + quiet some pedantic gcc warnings.
5666 + modify _nc_wgetch() to check for a -1 in the fifo, e.g., after a
5667 SIGWINCH, and discard that value, to avoid confusing application
5668 (patch by Eygene Ryabinkin, FreeBSD #136223).
5671 + modify handling of $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR to use only the first item in
5672 a possibly colon-separated list (Debian #550716).
5675 + supply a null-terminator to buffer in _nc_viswibuf().
5676 + fix a sign-extension bug in unget_wch() (report by Mike Gran).
5677 + minor fixes to error-returns in default function for tputs, as well
5681 + add WACS_xxx definitions to wide-character configuration for thick-
5682 and double-lines (discussion with Slava Zanko).
5683 + remove unnecessary kcan assignment to ^C from putty (Sven Joachim)
5684 + add ccc and initc capabilities to xterm-16color -TD
5685 > patch by Benjamin C W Sittler:
5687 + correct initc capability of linux-c-nc end-of-range
5688 + similar change for dg+ccc and dgunix+ccc
5691 + move leak-checking for comp_captab.c into _nc_leaks_tinfo() since
5692 that module since 20090711 is in libtinfo.
5693 + add configure option --enable-term-driver, to allow compiling with
5694 terminal-driver. That is used in MinGW port, and (being somewhat
5695 more complicated) is an experimental alternative to the conventional
5696 termlib internals. Currently, it requires the sp-funcs feature to
5698 + completed integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer in ncurses
5699 library (some work remains for forms library).
5702 + document return code from define_key (report by Mike Gran).
5703 + make some symbolic links in the terminfo directory-tree shorter
5704 (patch by Daniel Jacobowitz, forwarded by Sven Joachim).).
5705 + fix some groff warnings in terminfo.5, etc., from recent Debian
5707 + change ncv and op capabilities in sun-color terminfo entry to match
5708 Sun's entry for this (report by Laszlo Peter).
5709 + improve interix smso terminfo capability by using reverse rather than
5710 bold (report by Kristof Zelechovski).
5713 + add some test programs (and make these use the same special keys
5714 by sharing linedata.h functions):
5717 test/test_addchstr.c
5718 test/test_add_wchstr.c
5719 + correct internal _nc_insert_ch() to use _nc_insert_wch() when
5720 inserting wide characters, since the wins_wch() function that it used
5721 did not update the cursor position (report by Ciprian Craciun).
5724 + fix typo s/is_timeout/is_notimeout/ which made "man is_notimeout" not
5726 + add null-pointer checks to other opaque-functions.
5727 + add is_pad() and is_subwin() functions for opaque access to WINDOW
5728 (discussion with Mark Dickinson).
5729 + correct merge to lib_newterm.c, which broke when sp-funcs was
5733 + build-fix for building outside source-tree (report by Sven Joachim).
5734 + fix Debian lintian warning for man/tabs.1 by making section number
5735 agree with file-suffix (report by Sven Joachim).
5736 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
5739 + workaround for bug in g++ 4.1-4.4 warnings for wattrset() macro on
5740 amd64 (Debian #542031).
5741 + fix typo in curs_mouse.3x (Debian #429198).
5744 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
5747 + correct use of terminfo capabilities for initializing soft-keys,
5748 broken in 20090510 merging.
5749 + modify wgetch() to ensure it checks SIGWINCH when it gets an error
5750 in non-blocking mode (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
5751 + use PATH_SEPARATOR symbol when substituting into run_tic.sh, to
5752 help with builds on non-Unix platforms such as OS/2 EMX.
5753 + modify scripting for misc/run_tic.sh to test configure script's
5754 $cross_compiling variable directly rather than comparing host/build
5755 compiler names (prompted by comment in GenToo #249363).
5756 + fix configure script option --with-database, which was coded as an
5758 + build-fixes for --srcdir (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
5761 + separate _nc_find_entry() and _nc_find_type_entry() from
5762 implementation details of hash function.
5765 + add tabs.1 to man/man_db.renames
5766 + modify lib_addch.c to compensate for removal of wide-character test
5767 from unctrl() in 20090704 (Debian #539735).
5770 + improve discussion in INSTALL for use of system's tic/infocmp for
5771 cross-compiling and building fallbacks.
5772 + modify test/demo_termcap.c to correspond better to options in
5773 test/demo_terminfo.c
5774 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
5775 + fix logic for 'V' in test/ncurses.c tests f/F.
5778 + correct logic in tigetnum(), which caused tput program to treat all
5779 string capabilities as numeric (report by Rajeev V Pillai,
5783 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
5786 + fix a null-pointer check in _nc_format_slks() in lib_slk.c, from
5788 + modify _nc_find_type_entry() to use hashing.
5789 + make CCHARW_MAX value configurable, noting that changing this would
5790 change the size of cchar_t, and would be ABI-incompatible.
5791 + modify test-programs, e.g,. test/view.c, to address subtle
5792 differences between Tru64/Solaris and HPUX/AIX getcchar() return
5794 + modify length returned by getcchar() to count the trailing null
5795 which is documented in X/Open (cf: 20020427).
5796 + fixes for test programs to build/work on HPUX and AIX, etc.
5799 + improve performance of tigetstr, etc., by using hashing code from tic.
5800 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking.
5801 + add test/demo_terminfo, for comparison with demo_termcap
5804 + remove wide-character checks from unctrl() (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
5805 + revise wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to eliminate dependency on
5807 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
5810 + update llib-lncurses[wt] to use sp-funcs.
5811 + various code-fixes to build/work with --disable-macros configure
5813 + add several new files from Juergen Pfeifer which will be used when
5814 integration of "sp-funcs" is complete. This includes a port to
5818 + move definition for NCURSES_WRAPPED_VAR back to ncurses_dll.h, to
5819 make includes of term.h without curses.h work (report by "Nix").
5820 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
5823 + fix a regression in lib_tputs.c, from ongoing merges.
5826 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
5829 + fix an infinite recursion when adding a legacy-coding 8-bit value
5830 using insch() (report by Clemens Ladisch).
5831 + free home-terminfo string in del_curterm() (patch by Dan Weber).
5832 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
5835 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
5838 + work around antique BSD game's manipulation of stdscr, etc., versus
5839 SCREEN's copy of the pointer (Debian #528411).
5840 + add a cast to wattrset macro to avoid compiler warning when comparing
5841 its result against ERR (adapted from patch by Matt Kraii, Debian
5845 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
5848 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
5849 + add vwmterm terminfo entry (patch by Bryan Christ).
5852 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
5855 + build fix for _nc_free_and_exit() change in 20090418 (report by
5859 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
5862 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
5863 This change finishes merging for menu and panel libraries, does
5864 part of the form library.
5867 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
5868 Darwin (report by Nelson Beebe).
5871 + extend ansi.sys pfkey capability from kf1-kf10 to kf1-kf48, moving
5872 function key definitions from emx-base for consistency -TD
5873 + correct missing final 'p' in pfkey capability of ansi.sys-old (report
5874 by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo).
5875 + improve test/ncurses.c 'F' test, show combining characters in color.
5876 + quiet a false report by cppcheck in c++/cursesw.cc by eliminating
5877 a temporary variable.
5878 + use _nc_doalloc() rather than realloc() in a few places in ncurses
5879 library to avoid leak in out-of-memory condition (reports by William
5880 Egert and Martin Ettl based on cppcheck tool).
5881 + add --with-ncurses-wrap-prefix option to test/configure (discussion
5882 with Charles Wilson).
5883 + use ncurses*-config scripts if available for test/configure.
5884 + update test/aclocal.m4 and test/configure
5885 > patches by Charles Wilson:
5886 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL configure check to allow unreleased libtool
5887 version numbers (e.g. which include alphabetic chars, as well as
5888 digits, after the final '.').
5889 + improve use of -no-undefined option for libtool by setting an
5890 intermediate variable LT_UNDEF in the configure script, and then
5891 using that in the libtool link-commands.
5892 + fix an missing use of NCURSES_PUBLIC_VAR() in tinfo/MKcodes.awk
5893 from 20090321 changes.
5894 + improve mk-1st.awk script by writing separate cases for the
5895 LIBTOOL_LINK command, depending on which library (ncurses, ticlib,
5896 termlib) is to be linked.
5897 + modify configure.in to allow broken-linker configurations, not just
5898 enable-reentrant, to set public wrap prefix.
5901 + add TICS_LIST and SHLIB_LIST to allow libtool 2.2.6 on Cygwin to
5902 build with tic and term libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
5903 + add -no-undefined option to libtool for Cygwin, MinGW, U/Win and AIX
5904 (report by Charles Wilson).
5905 + fix definition for c++/Makefile.in's SHLIB_LIST, which did not list
5906 the form, menu or panel libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
5907 + add configure option --with-wrap-prefix to allow setting the prefix
5908 for functions used to wrap global variables to something other than
5909 "_nc_" (discussion with Charles Wilson).
5912 + modify scripts to generate ncurses*-config and pc-files to add
5913 dependency for tinfo library (patch by Charles Wilson).
5914 + improve comparison of program-names when checking for linked flavors
5915 such as "reset" by ignoring the executable suffix (reports by Charles
5916 Wilson, Samuel Thibault and Cedric Bretaudeau on Cygwin mailing
5918 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
5919 Solaris 10, since gcc is confused by absence of static libc, and
5920 does not switch back to dynamic mode before finishing the libraries
5921 (reports by Joel Bertrand, Alan Pae).
5922 + minor fixes to Intel compiler warning checks in configure script.
5923 + modify _nc_leaks_tinfo() so leak-checking in test/railroad.c works.
5924 + modify set_curterm() to make broken-linker configuration work with
5925 changes from 20090228 (report by Charles Wilson).
5928 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
5929 + modify declaration of cur_term when broken-linker is used, but
5930 enable-reentrant is not, to match pre-5.7 (report by Charles Wilson).
5933 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
5936 + add configure script --enable-sp-funcs to enable the new set of
5938 + start integrating patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
5939 + add extended functions which specify the SCREEN pointer for several
5940 curses functions which use the global SP (these are incomplete;
5941 some internals work is needed to complete these).
5942 + add special cases to configure script for MinGW port.
5945 + update several configure macros from lynx changes
5946 + append (not prepend) to CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS
5947 + change variable from PATHSEP to PATH_SEPARATOR
5948 + improve install-rules for pc-files (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
5949 + make it work with $DESTDIR
5950 + create the pkg-config library directory if needed.
5953 + modify init_pair() to allow caller to create extra color pairs beyond
5954 the color_pairs limit, which use default colors (request by Emanuele
5956 + add misc/terminfo.tmp and misc/*.pc to "sources" rule.
5957 + fix typo "==" where "=" is needed in ncurses-config.in and
5958 gen-pkgconfig.in files (Debian #512161).
5961 + add -shared option to MK_SHARED_LIB when -Bsharable is used, for
5962 *BSD's, without which "main" might be one of the shared library's
5963 dependencies (report/analysis by Ken Dickey).
5964 + modify waddch_literal(), updating line-pointer after a multicolumn
5965 character is found to not fit on the current row, and wrapping is
5966 done. Since the line-pointer was not updated, the wrapped
5967 multicolumn character was written to the beginning of the current row
5968 (cf: 20041023, reported by "Nick" regarding problem with ncmpc
5969 http://musicpd.org/mantis/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1930).
5972 + add screen.Eterm terminfo entry (GenToo #124887) -TD
5973 + modify adacurses-config to look for ".ali" files in the adalib
5975 + correct install for Ada95, which omitted libAdaCurses.a used in
5977 + change install for adacurses-config to provide additional flavors
5978 such as adacursesw-config, for ncursesw (GenToo #167849).
5981 + remove undeveloped feature in ncurses-config.in for setting
5983 + recent change to ncurses-config.in did not take into account the
5984 --disable-overwrite option, which sets $includedir to the
5985 subdirectory and using just that for a -I option does not work - fix
5986 (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
5989 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to eliminate a dependency on rpath when
5990 deciding whether to add $LIBS to --libs output; that should be shown
5991 for the ncurses and tinfo libraries without taking rpath into
5993 + fix an overlooked change from $AR_OPTS to $ARFLAGS in mk-1st.awk,
5994 used in static libraries (report by Marty Jack).
5997 + add a configure-time check to pick a suitable value for
5998 CC_SHARED_OPTS for Solaris (report by Dagobert Michelsen).
5999 + add configure --with-pkg-config and --enable-pc-files options, along
6000 with misc/gen-pkgconfig.in which can be used to generate ".pc" files
6001 for pkg-config (request by Jan Engelhardt).
6002 + use $includedir symbol in misc/ncurses-config.in, add --includedir
6004 + change makefiles to use $ARFLAGS rather than $AR_OPTS, provide a
6005 configure check to detect whether a "-" is needed before "ar"
6007 + update config.guess, config.sub from
6008 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
6011 + modify mk-1st.awk to work with extra categories for tinfo library.
6012 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries with gcc
6013 on AIX 5 or 6 (adapted from patch by Lital Natan).
6016 + modify to omit the opaque-functions from lib_gen.o when
6017 --disable-ext-funcs is used.
6018 + add test/clip_printw.c to illustrate how to use printw without
6020 + modify ncurses 'F' test to demo wborder_set() with colored lines.
6021 + modify ncurses 'f' test to demo wborder() with colored lines.
6024 + add check for failure to open hashed-database needed for db4.6
6026 + corrected --without-manpages option; previous change only suppressed
6027 the auxiliary rules install.man and uninstall.man
6028 + add case for FreeMINT to configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE (patch from
6030 + fixes from NetBSD port at
6031 http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/devel/ncurses/patches
6032 patch-ac (build-fix for DragonFly)
6033 patch-ae (use INSTALL_SCRIPT for installing misc/ncurses*-config).
6034 + improve configure script macros CF_HEADER_PATH and CF_LIBRARY_PATH
6035 by adding CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS, LIBS values to the
6037 + correct title string for keybound manpage (patch by Frederic Culot,
6038 OpenBSD documentation/6019),
6041 + move del_curterm() call from _nc_freeall() to _nc_leaks_tinfo() to
6042 work for progs/clear, progs/tabs, etc.
6043 + correct buffer-size after internal resizing of wide-character
6044 set_field_buffer(), broken in 20081018 changes (report by Mike Gran).
6045 + add "-i" option to test/filter.c to tell it to use initscr() rather
6046 than newterm(), to investigate report on comp.unix.programmer that
6047 ncurses would clear the screen in that case (it does not - the issue
6048 was xterm's alternate screen feature).
6049 + add check in mouse-driver to disable connection if GPM returns a
6050 zero, indicating that the connection is closed (Debian #506717,
6051 adapted from patch by Samuel Thibault).
6054 + improve a workaround in adding wide-characters, when a control
6055 character is found. The library (cf: 20040207) uses unctrl() to
6056 obtain a printable version of the control character, but was not
6057 passing color or video attributes.
6058 + improve test/ncurses.c 'a' test, using unctrl() more consistently to
6059 display meta-characters.
6060 + turn on _XOPEN_CURSES definition in curses.h
6061 + add eterm-color entry (report by Vincent Lefevre) -TD
6062 + correct use of key_name() in test/ncurses.c 'A' test, which only
6063 displays wide-characters, not key-codes since 20070612 (report by
6067 + change _nc_has_mouse() to has_mouse(), reflect its use in C++ and
6068 Ada95 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
6069 + document in TO-DO an issue with Cygwin's package for GNAT (report
6071 + improve error-checking of command-line options in "tabs" program.
6074 + change several terminfo entries to make consistent use of ANSI
6076 + add "tabs" program (prompted by Debian #502260).
6077 + add configure --without-manpages option (request by Mike Frysinger).
6079 20081102 5.7 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
6082 + add a manpage to discuss memory leaks.
6083 + add support for shared libraries for QNX (other than libtool, which
6084 does not work well on that platform).
6085 + build-fix for QNX C++ binding.
6088 + build-fixes for OS/2 EMX.
6089 + modify form library to accept control characters such as newline
6090 in set_field_buffer(), which is compatible with Solaris (report by
6092 + modify configure script to assume --without-hashed-db when
6093 --disable-database is used.
6094 + add "-e" option in ncurses/Makefile.in when generating source-files
6095 to force earlier exit if the build environment fails unexpectedly
6096 (prompted by patch by Adrian Bunk).
6097 + change configure script to use CF_UTF8_LIB, improved variant of
6101 + add teraterm4.59 terminfo entry, use that as primary teraterm entry, rename
6102 original to teraterm2.3 -TD
6103 + update "gnome" terminfo to 2.22.3 -TD
6104 + update "konsole" terminfo to 1.6.6, needs today's fix for tic -TD
6105 + add "aterm" terminfo -TD
6106 + add "linux2.6.26" terminfo -TD
6107 + add logic to tic for cancelling strings in user-defined capabilities,
6111 + regenerated html documentation.
6112 + add -m and -s options to test/keynames.c and test/key_names.c to test
6113 the meta() function with keyname() or key_name(), respectively.
6114 + correct return value of key_name() on error; it is null.
6115 + document some unresolved issues for rpath and pthreads in TO-DO.
6116 + fix a missing prototype for ioctl() on OpenBSD in tset.c
6117 + add configure option --disable-tic-depends to make explicit whether
6118 tic library depends on ncurses/ncursesw library, amends change from
6119 20080823 (prompted by Debian #501421).
6122 + some build-fixes for configure --disable-ext-funcs (incomplete, but
6123 works for C/C++ parts).
6124 + improve configure-check for awks unable to handle large strings, e.g.
6125 AIX 5.1 whose awk silently gives up on large printf's.
6128 + fix build for --with-dmalloc by workaround for redefinition of
6129 strndup between string.h and dmalloc.h
6130 + fix build for --disable-sigwinch
6131 + add environment variable NCURSES_GPM_TERMS to allow override to use
6132 GPM on terminals other than "linux", etc.
6133 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM does not happen to contain
6134 "linux", since Gpm_Open() no longer limits its assertion to terminals
6135 that it might handle, e.g., within "screen" in xterm.
6136 + reset mouse file-descriptor when unloading GPM library (report by
6138 + fix build for --disable-leaks --enable-widec --with-termlib
6139 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
6140 + use improved initialization for soft-label keys in Ada95 sample code.
6141 + discard internal symbol _nc_slk_format (unused since 20080112).
6142 + move call of slk_paint_info() from _nc_slk_initialize() to
6143 slk_intern_refresh(), improving initialization.
6146 + fix bug in mouse code for GPM from 20080920 changes (reported in
6147 Debian #500103, also Miroslav Lichvar).
6150 + fix shared-library rules for cygwin with tic- and tinfo-libraries.
6151 + fix a memory leak when failure to connect to GPM.
6152 + correct check for notimeout() in wgetch() (report on linux.redhat
6153 newsgroup by FurtiveBertie).
6154 + add an example warning-suppression file for valgrind,
6155 misc/ncurses.supp (based on example from Reuben Thomas)
6158 + change shared-library configuration for OpenBSD, make rpath work.
6159 + build-fixes for using libutf8, e.g., on OpenBSD 3.7
6162 + corrected fix for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
6166 + corrected gcc options for building shared libraries on IRIX64.
6167 + add configure check for awk programs unable to handle big-strings,
6168 use that to improve the default for --enable-big-strings option.
6169 + makefile-fixes for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
6171 + update test/configure script.
6172 + adapt ifdef's from library to make test/view.c build when mbrtowc()
6173 is unavailable, e.g., with HPUX 10.20.
6174 + add configure check for wcsrtombs, mbsrtowcs, which are used in
6175 test/ncurses.c, and use wcstombs, mbstowcs instead if available,
6176 fixing build of ncursew for HPUX 11.00
6179 + fixes to make Ada95 demo_panels() example work.
6180 + modify Ada95 'rain' test program to accept keyboard commands like the
6182 + modify BeOS-specific ifdef's to build on Haiku (patch by Scott
6184 + add configure-check to see if the std namespace is legal for cerr
6185 and endl, to fix a build issue with Tru64.
6186 + consistently use NCURSES_BOOL in lib_gen.c
6187 + filter #line's from lib_gen.c
6188 + change delimiter in MKlib_gen.sh from '%' to '@', to avoid
6189 substitution by IBM xlc to '#' as part of its extensions to digraphs.
6190 + update config.guess, config.sub from
6191 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
6192 (caveat - its maintainer removed support for older Linux systems).
6195 + modify configure check for pthread library to work with OSF/1 5.1,
6196 which uses #define's to associate its header and library.
6197 + use pthread_mutexattr_init() for initializing pthread_mutexattr_t,
6198 makes threaded code work on HPUX 11.23
6199 + fix a bug in demo_menus in freeing menus (cf: 20080804).
6200 + modify configure script for the case where tic library is used (and
6201 possibly renamed) to remove its dependency upon ncurses/ncursew
6202 library (patch by Dr Werner Fink).
6203 + correct manpage for menu_fore() which gave wrong default for
6204 the attribute used to display a selected entry (report by Mike Gran).
6205 + add Eterm-256color, Eterm-88color and rxvt-88color (prompted by
6209 + add configure option --enable-weak-symbols to turn on new feature.
6210 + add configure-check for availability of weak symbols.
6211 + modify linkage with pthread library to use weak symbols so that
6212 applications not linked to that library will not use the mutexes,
6213 etc. This relies on gcc, and may be platform-specific (patch by Dr
6215 + add note to INSTALL to document limitation of renaming of tic library
6216 using the --with-ticlib configure option (report by Dr Werner Fink).
6217 + document (in manpage) why tputs does not detect I/O errors (prompted
6218 by comments by Samuel Thibault).
6219 + fix remaining warnings from Klocwork report.
6222 + modify _nc_panelhook() data to account for a permanent memory leak.
6223 + fix memory leaks in test/demo_menus
6224 + fix most warnings from Klocwork tool (report by Larry Zhou).
6225 + modify configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to add case for
6226 "dragonfly" from xterm #236 changes.
6227 + modify configure script --with-hashed-db to let $LIBS override the
6228 search for the db library (prompted by report by Samson Pierre).
6231 + build-fixes for gcc 4.3.1 (changes to gnat "warnings", and C inlining
6235 + build-fix (reports by Christian Ebert, Funda Wang).
6238 + compiler-warning fixes for Solaris.
6241 + use NCURSES_MOUSE_MASK() in definition of BUTTON_RELEASE(), etc., to
6242 make those work properly with the "--enable-ext-mouse" configuration
6244 + improve documentation of build-cc options in INSTALL.
6245 + work-around a bug in gcc 4.2.4 on AIX, which does not pass the
6246 -static/-dynamic flags properly to linker, causing test/bs to
6250 + correct some ifdef's needed for the broken-linker configuration.
6251 + make debugging library's $BAUDRATE feature work for termcap
6253 + make $NCURSES_NO_PADDING feature work for termcap interface (prompted
6254 by comment on FreeBSD mailing list).
6255 + add screen.mlterm terminfo entry -TD
6256 + improve mlterm and mlterm+pcfkeys terminfo entries -TD
6259 + regenerated html documentation.
6260 + expand manpage description of parameters for form_driver() and
6261 menu_driver() (prompted by discussion with Adam Spragg).
6262 + add null-pointer checks for cur_term in baudrate() and
6263 def_shell_mode(), def_prog_mode()
6264 + fix some memory leaks in delscreen() and wide acs.
6267 + modify test/ditto.c to illustrate multi-threaded use_screen().
6268 + change CC_SHARED_OPTS from -KPIC to -xcode=pic32 for Solaris.
6269 + add "-shared" option to MK_SHARED_LIB for gcc on Solaris (report
6273 + finish changes to wgetch(), making it switch as needed to the
6274 window's actual screen when calling wrefresh() and wgetnstr(). That
6275 allows wgetch() to get used concurrently in different threads with
6276 some minor restrictions, e.g., the application should not delete a
6277 window which is being used in a wgetch().
6278 + simplify mutex's, combining the window- and screen-mutex's.
6281 + modify wgetch() to use the screen which corresponds to its window
6282 parameter rather than relying on SP; some dependent functions still
6284 + factor out most use of SP in lib_mouse.c, using parameter.
6285 + add internal _nc_keyname(), replacing keyname() to associate with a
6286 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
6287 + add internal _nc_unctrl(), replacing unctrl() to associate with a
6288 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
6289 + add internal _nc_tracemouse(), replacing _tracemouse() to eliminate
6290 its associated global buffer _nc_globals.tracemse_buf now in SCREEN.
6291 + add internal _nc_tracechar(), replacing _tracechar() to use SCREEN in
6292 preference to the global _nc_globals.tracechr_buf buffer.
6295 + modify _nc_keypad() to make it switch temporarily as needed to the
6296 screen which must be updated.
6297 + wrap cur_term variable to help make _nc_keymap() thread-safe, and
6298 always set the screen's copy of this variable in set_curterm().
6299 + restore curs_set() state after endwin()/refresh() (report/patch
6303 + modify configure script to note that --enable-ext-colors and
6304 --enable-ext-mouse are not experimental, but extensions from
6306 + corrected manpage description of setcchar() (discussion with
6307 Emanuele Giaquinta).
6308 + fix for adding a non-spacing character at the beginning of a line
6309 (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
6312 + modify screen.* terminfo entries using new screen+fkeys to fix
6313 overridden keys in screen.rxvt (Debian #478094) -TD
6314 + modify internal interfaces to reduce wgetch()'s dependency on the
6316 + simplify some loops with macros each_screen(), each_window() and
6320 + continue modifying test/ditto.c toward making it demonstrate
6321 multithreaded use_screen(), using fifos to pass data between screens.
6322 + fix typo in form.3x (report by Mike Gran).
6325 + add screen.rxvt terminfo entry -TD
6326 + modify tic -f option to format spaces as \s to prevent them from
6327 being lost when that is read back in unformatted strings.
6328 + improve test/ditto.c, using a "talk"-style layout.
6331 + change test/ditto.c to use openpty() and xterm.
6332 + add locks for copywin(), dupwin(), overlap(), overlay() on their
6334 + add locks for initscr() and newterm() on updates to the SCREEN
6336 + finish table in curs_thread.3x manpage.
6339 + begin table in curs_thread.3x manpage describing the scope of data
6340 used by each function (or symbol) for threading analysis.
6341 + add null-pointer checks to setsyx() and getsyx() (prompted by
6342 discussion by Martin v. Lowis and Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven on
6343 python-dev2 mailing list).
6346 + add null-pointer checks in set_term() and delscreen().
6347 + move _nc_windows into _nc_globals, since windows can be pads, which
6348 are not associated with a particular screen.
6349 + change use_screen() to pass the SCREEN* parameter rather than
6350 stdscr to the callback function.
6351 + force libtool to use tag for 'CC' in case it does not detect this,
6352 e.g., on aix when using CC=powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0-gcc
6353 (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
6354 + override OBJEXT to "lo" when building with libtool, to work on
6355 platforms such as AIX where libtool may use a different suffix for
6356 the object files than ".o" (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
6357 + add configure --with-pthread option, for building with the POSIX
6361 + fill in extended-color pair two more places in wbkgrndset() and
6362 waddch_nosync() (prompted by Sedeno's patch).
6363 + fill in extended-color pair in _nc_build_wch() to make colors work
6364 for wide-characters using extended-colors (patch by Alejandro R
6366 + add x/X toggles to ncurses.c C color test to test/demo
6367 wide-characters with extended-colors.
6368 + add a/A toggles to ncurses.c c/C color tests.
6369 + modify test/ditto.c to use use_screen().
6370 + finish modifying test/rain.c to demonstrate threads.
6373 + start modifying test/rain.c for threading demo.
6374 + modify test/ncurses.c to make 'f' test accept the f/F/b/F/</> toggles
6375 that the 'F' accepts.
6376 + modify test/worm.c to show trail in reverse-video when other threads
6377 are working concurrently.
6378 + fix a deadlock from improper nesting of mutexes for windowlist and
6382 + fixes from 20080223 resolved issue with mutexes; change to use
6383 recursive mutexes to fix memory leak in delwin() as called from
6384 _nc_free_and_exit().
6387 + fix a size-difference in _nc_globals which caused hanging of mutex
6388 lock/unlock when termlib was built separately.
6391 + avoid using nanosleep() in threaded configuration since that often
6392 is implemented to suspend the entire process.
6395 + update test programs to build/work with various UNIX curses for
6396 comparisons. This was to reinvestigate statement in X/Open Curses
6397 that insnstr and winsnstr perform wrapping. None of the Unix-branded
6398 implementations do this, as noted in manpage (cf: 20040228).
6401 + modify _nc_setupscreen() to set the legacy-coding value the same
6402 for both narrow/wide models. It had been set only for wide model,
6403 but is needed to make unctrl() work with locale in the narrow model.
6404 + improve waddch() and winsch() handling of EILSEQ from mbrtowc() by
6405 using unctrl() to display illegal bytes rather than trying to append
6406 further bytes to make up a valid sequence (reported by Andrey A
6408 + modify unctrl() to check codes in 128-255 range versus isprint().
6409 If they are not printable, and locale was set, use a "M-" or "~"
6413 + improve threading in test/worm.c (wrap refresh calls, and KEY_RESIZE
6414 handling). Now it hangs in napms(), no matter whether nanosleep()
6415 or poll() or select() are used on Linux.
6418 + fixes to build with --disable-ext-funcs
6419 + add manpage for use_window and use_screen.
6420 + add set_tabsize() and set_escdelay() functions.
6423 + remove recursive-mutex definitions, finish threading demo for worm.c
6424 + remove a redundant adjustment of lines in resizeterm.c's
6425 adjust_window() which caused occasional misadjustment of stdscr when
6429 + several improvements to terminfo entries based on xterm #230 -TD
6430 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle keyname/key_name prototypes, so the
6431 "link_test" builds properly.
6432 + fix for toe command-line options -u/-U to ensure filename is given.
6433 + fix allocation-size for command-line parsing in infocmp from 20070728
6434 (report by Miroslav Lichvar)
6435 + improve resizeterm() by moving ripped-off lines, and repainting the
6436 soft-keys (report by Katarina Machalkova)
6437 + add clarification in wclear's manpage noting that the screen will be
6438 cleared even if a subwindow is cleared (prompted by Christer Enfors
6440 + change test/ncurses.c soft-key tests to work with KEY_RESIZE.
6443 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
6447 + add several functions to C++ binding which wrap C functions that
6448 pass a WINDOW* parameter (request by Chris Lee).
6451 + add note about configure options needed for Berkeley database to the
6453 + improve checks for version of Berkeley database libraries.
6454 + amend fix for rpath to not modify LDFLAGS if the platform has no
6455 applicable transformation (report by Christian Ebert, cf: 20071124).
6458 + modify configure option --with-hashed-db to accept a parameter which
6459 is the install-prefix of a given Berkeley Database (prompted by
6460 pierre4d2 comments).
6461 + rewrite wrapper for wcrtomb(), making it work on Solaris. This is
6462 used in the form library to determine the length of the buffer needed
6463 by field_buffer (report by Alfred Fung).
6464 + remove unneeded window-parameter from C++ binding for wresize (report
6468 + modify the support for filesystems which do not support mixed-case to
6469 generate 2-character (hexadecimal) codes for the lower-level of the
6470 filesystem terminfo database (request by Michail Vidiassov).
6471 + add configure option --enable-mixed-case, to allow overriding the
6472 configure script's check if the filesystem supports mixed-case
6474 + add wresize() to C++ binding (request by Chris Lee).
6475 + define NCURSES_EXT_FUNCS and NCURSES_EXT_COLORS in curses.h to make
6476 it simpler to tell if the extended functions and/or colors are
6480 + update memory-leak checks for changes to names.c and codes.c
6481 + correct acsc strings in h19, z100 (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler).
6484 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
6486 + add mrxvt terminfo entry, add/fix xterm building blocks for modified
6488 + compile with FreeBSD "contemporary" TTY interface (patch by
6492 + modify makefile rules to allow clear, tput and tset to be built
6493 without libtic. The other programs (infocmp, tic and toe) rely on
6495 + add/modify null-pointer checks in several functions for SP and/or
6496 the WINDOW* parameter (report by Thorben Krueger).
6497 + fixes for field_buffer() in formw library (see Redhat #310071,
6498 patches by Miroslav Lichvar).
6499 + improve performance of NCURSES_CHAR_EQ code (patch by Miroslav
6501 + update/improve mlterm and rxvt terminfo entries, e.g., for
6502 the modified cursor- and keypad-keys -TD
6505 + add code to curses.priv.h ifdef'd with NCURSES_CHAR_EQ, which
6506 changes the CharEq() macro to an inline function to allow comparing
6507 cchar_t struct's without comparing gaps in a possibly unpacked
6508 memory layout (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
6511 + add new functions to lib_trace.c to setup mutex's for the _tracef()
6512 calls within the ncurses library.
6513 + for the reentrant model, move _nc_tputs_trace and _nc_outchars into
6515 + start modifying test/worm.c to provide threading demo (incomplete).
6516 + separated ifdef's for some BSD-related symbols in tset.c, to make
6517 it compile on LynxOS (report by Greg Gemmer).
6519 + modify Ada95/gen/Makefile to use shlib script, to simplify building
6520 shared-library configuration on platforms lacking rpath support.
6521 + build-fix for Ada95/src/Makefile to reflect changed dependency for
6522 the terminal-interface-curses-aux.adb file which is now generated.
6523 + restructuring test/worm.c, for use_window() example.
6526 + add use_window() and use_screen() functions, to develop into support
6527 for threaded library (incomplete).
6528 + fix typos in man/curs_opaque.3x which kept the install script from
6529 creating symbolic links to two aliases created in 20070818 (report by
6533 + remove a spurious newline from output of html.m4, which caused links
6534 for Ada95 html to be incorrect for the files generated using m4.
6535 + start investigating mutex's for SCREEN manipulation (incomplete).
6536 + minor cleanup of codes.c/names.c for --enable-const
6537 + expand/revise "Routine and Argument Names" section of ncurses manpage
6538 to address report by David Givens in newsgroup discussion.
6539 + fix interaction between --without-progs/--with-termcap configure
6540 options (report by Michail Vidiassov).
6541 + fix typo in "--disable-relink" option (report by Michail Vidiassov).
6544 + fix a sign-extension bug in infocmp's repair_acsc() function
6546 + fix old configure script bug which prevented "--disable-warnings"
6547 option from working (patch by Mike Frysinger).
6550 + add 9term terminal description (request by Juhapekka Tolvanen) -TD
6551 + modify comp_hash.c's string output to avoid misinterpreting a null
6552 "\0" followed by a digit.
6553 + modify MKnames.awk and MKcodes.awk to support big-strings.
6554 This only applies to the cases (broken linker, reentrant) where
6555 the corresponding arrays are accessed via wrapper functions.
6556 + split MKnames.awk into two scripts, eliminating the shell redirection
6557 which complicated the make process and also the bogus timestamp file
6558 which was introduced to fix "make -j".
6559 + add test/test_opaque.c, test/test_arrays.c
6560 + add wgetscrreg() and wgetparent() for applications that may need it
6561 when NCURSES_OPAQUE is defined (prompted by Bryan Christ).
6564 + amend treatment of infocmp "-r" option to retain the 1023-byte limit
6565 unless "-T" is given (cf: 981017).
6566 + modify comp_captab.c generation to use big-strings.
6567 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private accessed via
6568 _nc_get_alias_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
6570 + modify configure script to skip Intel compiler in CF_C_INLINE.
6571 + make _nc_info_hash_table and _nc_cap_hash_table private accessed via
6572 _nc_get_hash_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
6576 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private, accessed via
6577 _nc_get_alias_table() since they are used only by parse_entry.c
6578 + make _nc_key_names private since it is used only by lib_keyname.c
6579 + add --disable-big-strings configure option to control whether
6580 unctrl.c is generated using the big-string optimization - which may
6581 use strings longer than supported by a given compiler.
6582 + reduce relocation tables for tic, infocmp by changing type of
6583 internal hash tables to short, and make those private symbols.
6584 + eliminate large fixed arrays from progs/infocmp.c
6587 + change winnstr() to stop at the end of the line (cf: 970315).
6588 + add test/test_get_wstr.c
6589 + add test/test_getstr.c
6590 + add test/test_inwstr.c
6591 + add test/test_instr.c
6594 + restore a call to obtain screen-size in _nc_setupterm(), which
6595 is used in tput and other non-screen applications via setupterm()
6596 (Debian #433357, reported by Florent Bayle, Christian Ohm,
6600 + add test/savescreen.c test-program
6601 + add check to trace-file open, if the given name is a directory, add
6602 ".log" to the name and try again.
6603 + add konsole-256color entry -TD
6604 + add extra gcc warning options from xterm.
6605 + minor fixes for ncurses/hashmap test-program.
6606 + modify configure script to quiet c++ build with libtool when the
6607 --disable-echo option is used.
6608 + modify configure script to disable ada95 if libtool is selected,
6609 writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD #114493).
6610 + update config.guess, config.sub
6613 + add continuous-move "M" to demo_panels to help test refresh changes.
6614 + improve fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters,
6615 taking into account some split characters on left/right window
6619 + add "widec" row to _tracedump() output to help diagnose remaining
6620 problems with multi-column characters.
6621 + partial fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters
6622 which are partly overwritten (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
6623 + ignore A_CHARTEXT bits in vidattr() and vid_attr(), in case
6624 multi-column extension bits are passed there.
6625 + add setlocale() call to demo_panels.c, needed for wide-characters.
6626 + add some output flags to _nc_trace_ttymode to help diagnose a bug
6627 report by Larry Virden, i.e., ONLCR, OCRNL, ONOCR and ONLRET,
6630 + add test/demo_panels.c
6631 + implement opaque version of setsyx() and getsyx().
6634 + corrected xterm+pcf2 terminfo modifiers for F1-F4, to match xterm
6636 + split-out key_name() from MKkeyname.awk since it now depends upon
6637 wunctrl() which is not in libtinfo (report by Rong-En Fan).
6640 + add test/key_name.c
6641 + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test/inch_wide.c
6642 + update test/configure
6643 + correct formatting of DEL (0x7f) in _nc_vischar().
6644 + null-terminate result of wunctrl().
6645 + add null-pointer check in key_name() (report by Andreas Krennmair,
6649 + adapt mouse-handling code from menu library in form-library
6650 (discussion with Clive Nicolson).
6651 + add a modification of test/dots.c, i.e., test/dots_mvcur.c to
6652 illustrate how to use mvcur().
6653 + modify wide-character flavor of SetAttr() to preserve the
6654 WidecExt() value stored in the .attr field, e.g., in case it
6655 is overwritten by chgat (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
6656 + correct buffer-size for _nc_viswbuf2n() (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
6657 + build-fixes for Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 (patch by Peter O'Gorman).
6660 + modify keyname() to use "^X" form only if meta() has been called, or
6661 if keyname() is called without initializing curses, e.g., via
6662 initscr() or newterm() (prompted by LinuxBase #1604).
6663 + document some portability issues in man/curs_util.3x
6664 + add a shadow copy of TTY buffer to _nc_prescreen to fix applications
6665 broken by moving that data into SCREEN (cf: 20061230).
6668 + add 'O' (wide-character panel test) in ncurses.c to demonstrate a
6669 problem reported by Sadrul H Chowdhury with repainting parts of
6671 + modify slk_init() so that if there are preceding calls to
6672 ripoffline(), those affect the available lines for soft-keys (adapted
6673 from patch by Clive Nicolson).
6674 + document some portability issues in man/curs_getyx.3x
6677 + fix a bug in Ada95/samples/ncurses which caused a variable to
6678 become uninitialized in the "b" test.
6679 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in adahtml rule to account for recent
6680 movement of files, fix a few incorrect manpage references in the
6682 + add Ada95 binding to _nc_freeall() as Curses_Free_All to help with
6684 + correct some functions in Ada95 binding which were using return value
6685 from C where none was returned: idcok(), immedok() and wtimeout().
6686 + amend recent changes for Ada95 binding to make it build with
6687 Cygwin's linker, e.g., with configure options
6688 --enable-broken-linker --with-ticlib
6691 + add a configure check for gcc's options for inlining, use that to
6692 quiet a warning message where gcc's default behavior changed from
6694 + improve warning message when checking if GPM is linked to curses
6695 library by not warning if its use of "wgetch" is via a weak symbol.
6696 + add loader options when building with static libraries to ensure that
6697 an installed shared library for ncurses does not conflict. This is
6698 reported as problem with Tru64, but could affect other platforms
6699 (report Martin Mokrejs, analysis by Tim Mooney).
6700 + fix build on cygwin after recent ticlib/termlib changes, i.e.,
6701 + adjust TINFO_SUFFIX value to work with cygwin's dll naming
6702 + revert a change from 20070303 which commented out dependency of
6703 SHLIB_LIST in form/menu/panel/c++ libraries.
6704 + fix initialization of ripoff stack pointer (cf: 20070421).
6707 + move most static variables into structures _nc_globals and
6708 _nc_prescreen, to simplify storage.
6709 + add/use configure script macro CF_SIG_ATOMIC_T, use the corresponding
6710 type for data manipulated by signal handlers (prompted by comments
6711 in mailing.openbsd.bugs newsgroup).
6712 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to allow one to pass options such as -static
6713 to the libtool create- and link-operations.
6716 + fix whitespace in curs_opaque.3x which caused a spurious ';' in
6717 the installed aliases (report by Peter Santoro).
6718 + fix configure script to not try to generate adacurses-config when
6719 Ada95 tree is not built.
6722 + add man/curs_legacy.3x, man/curs_opaque.3x
6723 + fix acs_map binding for Ada95 when --enable-reentrant is used.
6724 + add adacurses-config to the Ada95 install, based on version from
6725 FreeBSD port, in turn by Juergen Pfeifer in 2000 (prompted by
6726 comment on comp.lang.ada newsgroup).
6727 + fix includes in c++ binding to build with Intel compiler
6729 + update install rule in Ada95 to use mkdirs.sh
6730 > other fixes prompted by inspection for Coverity report:
6731 + modify ifdef's for c++ binding to use try/catch/throw statements
6732 + add a null-pointer check in tack/ansi.c request_cfss()
6733 + fix a memory leak in ncurses/base/wresize.c
6734 + corrected check for valid memu/meml capabilities in
6735 progs/dump_entry.c when handling V_HPUX case.
6736 > fixes based on Coverity report:
6737 + remove dead code in test/bs.c
6738 + remove dead code in test/demo_defkey.c
6739 + remove an unused assignment in progs/infocmp.c
6740 + fix a limit check in tack/ansi.c tools_charset()
6741 + fix tack/ansi.c tools_status() to perform the VT320/VT420
6742 tests in request_cfss(). The function had exited too soon.
6743 + fix a memory leak in tic.c's make_namelist()
6744 + fix a couple of places in tack/output.c which did not check for EOF.
6745 + fix a loop-condition in test/bs.c
6746 + add index checks in lib_color.c for color palettes
6747 + add index checks in progs/dump_entry.c for version_filter() handling
6749 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in copywin()
6750 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in waddchnstr()
6751 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
6752 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c's make_namelist()
6753 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
6754 + add null-pointer checks in test/cardfile.c
6755 + fix a double-free in ncurses/tinfo/trim_sgr0.c
6756 + fix a double-free in ncurses/base/wresize.c
6757 + add try/catch block to c++/cursesmain.cc
6760 + modify Ada95 binding to build with --enable-reentrant by wrapping
6761 global variables (bug: acs_map does not yet work).
6762 + modify Ada95 binding to use the new access-functions, allowing it
6763 to build/run when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
6764 + add access-functions and macros to return properties of the WINDOW
6765 structure, e.g., when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
6766 + improved install-sh's quoting.
6767 + use mkdirs.sh rather than mkinstalldirs, e.g., to use fixes from
6771 + eliminate part of the direct use of WINDOW data from Ada95 interface.
6772 + fix substitutions for termlib filename to make configure option
6773 --enable-reentrant work with --with-termlib.
6774 + change a constructor for NCursesWindow to allow compiling with
6775 NCURSES_OPAQUE set, since we cannot pass a reference to
6779 + ignore --with-chtype=unsigned since unsigned is always added to
6780 the type in curses.h; do the same for --with-mmask-t.
6781 + change warning regarding --enable-ext-colors and wide-character
6782 in the configure script to an error.
6783 + tweak error message in CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to distinguish other programs
6784 such as Darwin's libtool program (report by Michail Vidiassov)
6785 + modify edit_man.sh to allow for multiple substitutions per line.
6786 + set locale in misc/ncurses-config.in since it uses a range
6787 + change permissions libncurses++.a install (report by Michail
6789 + corrected length of temporary buffer in wide-character version
6790 of set_field_buffer() (related to report by Bryan Christ).
6793 + fix mk-1st.awk script install_shlib() function, broken in 20070224
6794 changes for cygwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
6797 + increase size of array in _nc_visbuf2n() to make "tic -v" work
6798 properly in its similar_sgr() function (report/analysis by Peter
6800 + add --enable-reentrant configure option for ongoing changes to
6801 implement a reentrant version of ncurses:
6802 + libraries are suffixed with "t"
6803 + wrap several global variables (curscr, newscr, stdscr, ttytype,
6804 COLORS, COLOR_PAIRS, COLS, ESCDELAY, LINES and TABSIZE) as
6805 functions returning values stored in SCREEN or cur_term.
6806 + move some initialization (LINES, COLS) from lib_setup.c,
6807 i.e., setupterm() to _nc_setupscreen(), i.e., newterm().
6810 + regenerated html documentation.
6811 + add NCURSES_OPAQUE symbol to curses.h, will use to make structs
6812 opaque in selected configurations.
6813 + move the chunk in lib_acs.c which resets acs capabilities when
6814 running on a terminal whose locale interferes with those into
6815 _nc_setupscreen(), so the libtinfo/libtinfow files can be made
6816 identical (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
6817 + do not use configure variable SHLIB_LIBS for building libraries
6818 outside the ncurses directory, since that symbol is customized
6819 only for that directory, and using it introduces an unneeded
6820 dependency on libdl (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
6821 + modify mk-1st.awk so the generated makefile rules for linking or
6822 installing shared libraries do not first remove the library, in
6823 case it is in use, e.g., libncurses.so by /bin/sh (report by Jeff
6825 + revised section "Using NCURSES under XTERM" in ncurses-intro.html
6826 (prompted by newsgroup comment by Nick Guenther).
6829 + change internal return codes of _nc_wgetch() to check for cases
6830 where KEY_CODE_YES should be returned, e.g., if a KEY_RESIZE was
6831 ungetch'd, and read by wget_wch().
6832 + fix static-library build broken in 20070217 changes to remove "-ldl"
6833 (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
6834 + change makefile/scripts for cygwin to allow building termlib.
6835 + use Form_Hook in manpages to match form.h
6836 + use Menu_Hook in manpages, as well as a few places in menu.h
6837 + correct form- and menu-manpages to use specific Field_Options,
6838 Menu_Options and Item_Options types.
6839 + correct prototype for _tracechar() in manpage (cf: 20011229).
6840 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
6843 + fixes for $(TICS_LIST) in ncurses/Makefile (report by Miroslav
6845 + modify relinking of shared libraries to apply only when rpath is
6846 enabled, and add --disable-relink option which can be used to
6847 disable the feature altogether (reports by Michail Vidiassov,
6849 + fix --with-termlib option for wide-character configuration, stripping
6850 the "w" suffix in one place (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
6851 + remove "-ldl" from some library lists to reduce dependencies in
6852 programs (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
6853 + correct description of --enable-signed-char in configure --help
6854 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
6855 + add pattern for GNU/kFreeBSD configuration to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE,
6856 which matches an earlier change to CF_SHARED_OPTS, from xterm #224
6858 + remove "${DESTDIR}" from -install_name option used for linking
6859 shared libraries on Darwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
6862 + add test/inchs.c, test/inch_wide.c, to test win_wchnstr().
6863 + remove libdl from library list for termlib (report by Miroslav
6865 + fix configure.in to allow --without-progs --with-termlib (patch by
6867 + modify win_wchnstr() to ensure that only a base cell is returned
6868 for each multi-column character (prompted by report by Wei Kong
6869 regarding change in mvwin_wch() cf: 20041023).
6872 + modify fix_wchnstr() in form library to strip attributes (and color)
6873 from the cchar_t array (field cells) read from a field's window.
6874 Otherwise, when copying the field cells back to the window, the
6875 associated color overrides the field's background color (report by
6877 + improve tracing for form library, showing created forms, fields, etc.
6878 + ignore --enable-rpath configure option if --with-shared was omitted.
6879 + add _nc_leaks_tinfo(), _nc_free_tic(), _nc_free_tinfo() entrypoints
6880 to allow leak-checking when both tic- and tinfo-libraries are built.
6881 + drop CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC macro from configure script, since C++ binding
6882 no longer relies on it.
6883 + disallow combining configure script options --with-ticlib and
6884 --enable-termcap (report by Rong-En Fan).
6885 + remove tack from ncurses tree.
6888 + fix typo in configure script that broke --with-termlib option
6889 (report by Rong-En Fan).
6892 + improve fix for FreeBSD gnu/98975, to allow for null pointer passed
6893 to tgetent() (report by Rong-en Fan).
6894 + update tack/HISTORY and tack/README to tell how to build it after
6895 it is removed from the ncurses tree.
6896 + fix configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
6897 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
6898 + review/eliminate other original-file artifacts in cursesw.cc, making
6899 its license consistent with ncurses.
6900 + use ncurses vw_scanw() rather than reading into a fixed buffer in
6901 the c++ binding for scanw() methods (prompted by report by Nuno Dias).
6902 + eliminate fixed-buffer vsprintf() calls in c++ binding.
6905 + add _nc_leaks_tic() to separate leak-checking of tic library from
6906 term/ncurses libraries, and thereby eliminate a library dependency.
6907 + fix test/mk-test.awk to ignore blank lines.
6908 + correct paths in include/headers, for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav
6912 + add a break-statement in misc/shlib to ensure that it exits on the
6913 _first_ matched directory (report by Paul Novak).
6914 + add tack/configure, which can be used to build tack outside the
6916 + add --with-ticlib option, to build/install the tic-support functions
6917 in a separate library (suggested by Miroslav Lichvar).
6920 + change MKunctrl.awk to reduce relocation table for unctrl.o
6921 + change MKkeyname.awk to reduce relocation table for keyname.o
6922 (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
6925 + modify configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
6926 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
6927 + modify some modules to allow them to be reentrant if _REENTRANT is
6928 defined: lib_baudrate.c, resizeterm.c (local data only)
6929 + eliminate static data from some modules: add_tries.c, hardscroll.c,
6930 lib_ttyflags.c, lib_twait.c
6931 + improve manpage install to add aliases for the transformed program
6932 names, e.g., from --program-prefix.
6933 + used linklint to verify links in the HTML documentation, made fixes
6934 to manpages as needed.
6935 + fix a typo in curs_mouse.3x (report by William McBrine).
6936 + fix install-rule for ncurses5-config to make the bin-directory.
6939 + modify configure script to omit the tic (terminfo compiler) support
6940 from ncurses library if --without-progs option is given.
6941 + modify install rule for ncurses5-config to do this via "install.libs"
6942 + modify shared-library rules to allow FreeBSD 3.x to use rpath.
6943 + update config.guess, config.sub
6945 20061217 5.6 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
6948 + add ifdef's for <wctype.h> for HPUX, which has the corresponding
6949 definitions in <wchar.h>.
6950 + revert the va_copy() change from 20061202, since it was neither
6951 correct nor portable.
6952 + add $(LOCAL_LIBS) definition to progs/Makefile.in, needed for
6954 + ignore wide-acs line-drawing characters that wcwidth() claims are
6955 not one-column. This is a workaround for Solaris' broken locale
6959 + modify configure --with-gpm option to allow it to accept a parameter,
6960 i.e., the name of the dynamic GPM library to load via dlopen()
6961 (requested by Bryan Henderson).
6962 + add configure option --with-valgrind, changes from vile.
6963 + modify configure script AC_TRY_RUN and AC_TRY_LINK checks to use
6964 'return' in preference to 'exit()'.
6967 + change default for --with-develop back to "no".
6968 + add XTABS to tracing of TTY bits.
6969 + updated autoconf patch to ifdef-out the misfeature which declares
6970 exit() for configure tests. This fixes a redefinition warning on
6972 + use ${CC} rather than ${LD} in shared library rules for IRIX64,
6973 Solaris to help ensure that initialization sections are provided for
6974 extra linkage requirements, e.g., of C++ applications (prompted by
6975 comment by Casper Dik in newsgroup).
6976 + rename "$target" in CF_MAN_PAGES to make it easier to distinguish
6977 from the autoconf predefined symbol. There was no conflict,
6978 since "$target" was used only in the generated edit_man.sh file,
6979 but SuSE's rpm package contains a patch.
6982 + update man/term.5 to reflect extended terminfo support and hashed
6983 database configuration.
6984 + updates for test/configure script.
6985 + adapted from SuSE rpm package:
6986 + remove long-obsolete workaround for broken-linker which declared
6988 + improve error recovery in PUTC() macro when wcrtomb() does not
6989 return usable results for an 8-bit character.
6990 + patches from rpm package (SuSE):
6991 + use va_copy() in extra varargs manipulation for tracing version
6993 + use a va_list rather than a null in _nc_freeall()'s call to
6994 _nc_printf_string().
6995 + add some see-also references in manpages to show related
6996 wide-character functions (suggested by Claus Fischer).
6999 + add a check in lib_color.c to ensure caller does not increase COLORS
7000 above max_colors, which is used as an array index (discussion with
7002 + add ifdef's allowing ncurses to be built with tparm() using either
7003 varargs (the existing status), or using a fixed-parameter list (to
7007 + fix redrawing of windows other than stdscr using wredrawln() by
7008 touching the corresponding rows in curscr (discussion with Dan
7011 + add test/echochar.c
7012 + review/cleanup manpage descriptions of error-returns for form- and
7013 menu-libraries (prompted by FreeBSD docs/46196).
7016 + add AUTHORS file -TD
7017 + omit the -D options from output of the new config script --cflags
7018 option (suggested by Ralf S Engelschall).
7019 + make NCURSES_INLINE unconditionally defined in curses.h
7022 + revert change to accommodate bash 3.2, since that breaks other
7023 platforms, e.g., Solaris.
7024 + minor fixes to NEWS file to simplify scripting to obtain list of
7026 + improve some shared-library configure scripting for Linux, FreeBSD
7027 and NetBSD to make "--with-shlib-version" work.
7028 + change configure-script rules for FreeBSD shared libraries to allow
7029 for rpath support in versions past 3.
7030 + use $(DESTDIR) in makefile rules for installing/uninstalling the
7031 package config script (reports/patches by Christian Wiese,
7032 Ralf S Engelschall).
7033 + fix a warning in the configure script for NetBSD 2.0, working around
7034 spurious blanks embedded in its ${MAKEFLAGS} symbol.
7035 + change test/Makefile to simplify installing test programs in a
7036 different directory when --enable-rpath is used.
7039 + work around bug in bash 3.2 by adding extra quotes (Jim Gifford).
7040 + add/install a package config script, e.g., "ncurses5-config" or
7041 "ncursesw5-config", according to configuration options.
7044 + add several GNU Screen terminfo variations with 16- and 256-colors,
7045 and status line (Alain Bench).
7046 + change the way shared libraries (other than libtool) are installed.
7047 Rather than copying the build-tree's libraries, link the shared
7048 objects into the install directory. This makes the --with-rpath
7049 option work except with $(DESTDIR) (cf: 20000930).
7052 + fix ifdef in c++/internal.h for QNX 6.1
7053 + test-compiled with (old) egcs-1.1.2, modified configure script to
7054 not unset the $CXX and related variables which would prevent this.
7055 + fix a few terminfo.src typos exposed by improvements to "-f" option.
7056 + improve infocmp/tic "-f" option formatting.
7059 + make --disable-largefile option work (report by Thomas M Ott).
7060 + updated html documentation.
7061 + add ka2, kb1, kb3, kc2 to vt220-keypad as an extension -TD
7062 + minor improvements to rxvt+pcfkeys -TD
7065 + move static data from lib_mouse.c into SCREEN struct.
7066 + improve ifdef's for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset to work with Mac OS X
7067 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
7068 + modify CF_PATH_SYNTAX to ensure it uses the result from --prefix
7069 option (from lynx changes) -TD
7070 + adapt AC_PROG_EGREP check, noting that this is likely to be another
7071 place aggravated by POSIXLY_CORRECT.
7072 + modify configure check for awk to ensure that it is found (prompted
7073 by report by Christopher Parker).
7077 + add kon, kon2 and jfbterm terminfo entry (request by Till Maas) -TD
7078 + remove invis capability from klone+sgr, mainly used by linux entry,
7079 since it does not really do this -TD
7082 + correct logic in wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not guard
7083 against passing the multi-column attribute into a call on waddch(),
7084 e.g., using data returned by win_wch() (cf: 20041023)
7085 (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
7088 + fix kterm's acsc string -TD
7089 + fix for change to tic/infocmp in 20060819 to ensure no blank is
7090 embedded into a termcap description.
7091 + workaround for 20050806 ifdef's change to allow visbuf.c to compile
7092 when using --with-termlib --with-trace options.
7093 + improve tgetstr() by making the return value point into the user's
7094 buffer, if provided (patch by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat #202480)).
7095 + correct libraries needed for foldkeys (report by Stanislav Ievlev)
7098 + add terminfo entries for xfce terminal (xfce) and multi gnome
7100 + add test/foldkeys.c
7103 + modify tic and infocmp to avoid writing trailing blanks on terminfo
7104 source output (Debian #378783).
7105 + modify configure script to ensure that if the C compiler is used
7106 rather than the loader in making shared libraries, the $(CFLAGS)
7107 variable is also used (Redhat #199369).
7108 + port hashed-db code to db2 and db3.
7109 + fix a bug in tgetent() from 20060625 and 20060715 changes
7110 (patch/analysis by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat #202480)).
7113 + updated xterm function-keys terminfo to match xterm #216 -TD
7114 + add configure --with-hashed-db option (tested only with FreeBSD 6.0,
7115 e.g., the db 1.8.5 interface).
7118 + modify toe to access termcap data, e.g., via cgetent() functions,
7119 or as a text file if those are not available.
7120 + use _nc_basename() in tset to improve $SHELL check for csh/sh.
7121 + modify _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_termcap_entry() so infocmp,
7122 can access termcap data when the terminfo database is disabled.
7125 + widen the test for xterm kmous a little to allow for other strings
7126 than \E[M, e.g., for xterm-sco functionality in xterm.
7127 + update xterm-related terminfo entries to match xterm patch #216 -TD
7128 + update config.guess, config.sub
7131 + fix for install-rule in Ada95 to add terminal_interface.ads
7132 and terminal_interface.ali (anonymous posting in comp.lang.ada).
7133 + correction to manpage for getcchar() (report by William McBrine).
7135 + modify wchgat() to mark updated cells as changed so a refresh will
7136 repaint those cells (comments by Sadrul H Chowdhury and William
7138 + split up dependency of names.c and codes.c in ncurses/Makefile to
7139 work with parallel make (report/analysis by Joseph S Myers).
7140 + suppress a warning message (which is ignored) for systems without
7141 an ldconfig program (patch by Justin Hibbits).
7142 + modify configure script --disable-symlinks option to allow one to
7143 disable symlink() in tic even when link() does not work (report by
7145 + modify MKfallback.sh to use tic -x when constructing fallback tables
7146 to allow extended capabilities to be retrieved from a fallback entry.
7147 + improve leak-checking logic in tgetent() from 20060625 to ensure that
7148 it does not free the current screen (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
7151 + add a check for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset (NetBSD #33916).
7152 + correct _nc_free_entries() and related functions used for memory leak
7156 + revert a minor change for magic-cookie support from 20060513, which
7157 caused unexpected reset of attributes, e.g., when resizing test/view
7159 + note in clear manpage that the program ignores command-line
7160 parameters (prompted by Debian #371855).
7161 + fixes to make lib_gen.c build properly with changes to the configure
7162 --disable-macros option and NCURSES_NOMACROS (cf: 20060527)
7163 + update/correct several terminfo entries -TD
7164 + add some notes regarding copyright to terminfo.src -TD
7167 + fixes to build Ada95 binding with gnat-4.1.0
7168 + modify read_termtype() so the term_names data is always allocated as
7169 part of the str_table, a better fix for a memory leak (cf: 20030809).
7170 + reduce memory leaks in repeated calls to tgetent() by remembering the
7171 last TERMINAL* value allocated to hold the corresponding data and
7172 freeing that if the tgetent() result buffer is the same as the
7173 previous call (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
7174 + modify tack to test extended capability function-key strings.
7175 + improved gnome terminfo entry (GenToo #122566).
7176 + improved xterm-256color terminfo entry (patch by Alain Bench).
7179 + fix two small memory leaks related to repeated tgetent() calls
7180 with TERM=screen (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
7181 + add --enable-signed-char to simplify Debian package.
7182 + reduce name-pollution in term.h by removing #define's for HAVE_xxx
7184 + correct typo in curs_terminfo.3x (Debian #369168).
7187 + enable the mouse in test/movewindow.c
7188 + improve a limit-check in frm_def.c (John Heasley).
7189 + minor copyright fixes.
7190 + change configure script to produce test/Makefile from data file.
7193 + add a configure option --enable-wgetch-events to enable
7194 NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS, and correct the associated loop-logic in
7195 lib_twait.c (report by Bernd Jendrissek).
7196 + remove include/nomacros.h from build, since the ifdef for
7197 NCURSES_NOMACROS makes that obsolete.
7198 + add entrypoints for some functions which were only provided as macros
7199 to make NCURSES_NOMACROS ifdef work properly: getcurx(), getcury(),
7200 getbegx(), getbegy(), getmaxx(), getmaxy(), getparx() and getpary(),
7202 + provide ifdef for NCURSES_NOMACROS which suppresses most macro
7203 definitions from curses.h, i.e., where a macro is defined to override
7204 a function to improve performance. Allowing a developer to suppress
7205 these definitions can simplify some application (discussion with
7207 + improve description of memu/meml in terminfo manpage.
7210 + if msgr is false, reset video attributes when doing an automargin
7211 wrap to the next line. This makes the ncurses 'k' test work properly
7213 + correct caching of keyname(), which was using only half of its table.
7214 + minor fixes to memory-leak checking.
7215 + make SCREEN._acs_map and SCREEN._screen_acs_map pointers rather than
7216 arrays, making ACS_LEN less visible to applications (suggested by
7218 + move chunk in SCREEN ifdef'd for USE_WIDEC_SUPPORT to the end, so
7219 _screen_acs_map will have the same offset in both ncurses/ncursesw,
7220 making the corresponding tinfo/tinfow libraries binary-compatible
7221 (cf: 20041016, report by Stanislav Ievlev).
7224 + improve debug-tracing for EmitRange().
7225 + change default for --with-develop to "yes". Add NCURSES_NO_HARD_TABS
7226 and NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE environment variables to allow runtime
7227 suppression of the related hard-tabs and xmc-glitch features.
7228 + add ncurses version number to top-level manpages, e.g., ncurses, tic,
7229 infocmp, terminfo as well as form, menu, panel.
7230 + update config.guess, config.sub
7231 + modify ncurses.c to work around a bug in NetBSD 3.0 curses
7232 (field_buffer returning null for a valid field). The 'r' test
7233 appears to not work with that configuration since the new_fieldtype()
7234 function is broken in that implementation.
7237 + add hpterm-color terminfo entry -TD
7238 + fixes to compile test-programs with HPUX 11.23
7241 + add copyright notices to files other than those that are generated,
7242 data or adapted from pdcurses (reports by William McBrine, David
7244 + improve rendering on hpterm by not resetting attributes at the end
7245 of doupdate() if the terminal has the magic-cookie feature (report
7247 + add 256color variants of terminfo entries for programs which are
7248 reported to implement this feature -TD
7251 + fix typo in change to NewChar() macro from 20060311 changes, which
7252 broke tab-expansion (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
7255 + document -U option of tic and infocmp.
7256 + modify tic/infocmp to suppress smacs/rmacs when acsc is suppressed
7257 due to size limit, e.g., converting to termcap format. Also
7258 suppress them if the output format does not contain acsc and it
7259 was not VT100-like, i.e., a one-one mapping (Novell #163715).
7260 + add configure check to ensure that SIGWINCH is defined on platforms
7261 such as OS X which exclude that when _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., are
7262 defined (report by Nicholas Cole)
7265 + modify write_object() to not write coincidental extensions of an
7266 entry made due to it being referenced in a use= clause (report by
7268 + another fix for infocmp -i option, which did not ensure that some
7269 escape sequences had comparable prefixes (report by Alain Bench).
7272 + improve discussion of init/reset in terminfo and tput manpages
7273 (report by Alain Bench).
7274 + use is3 string for a fallback of rs3 in the reset program; it was
7275 using is2 (report by Alain Bench).
7276 + correct logic for infocmp -i option, which did not account for
7277 multiple digits in a parameter (cf: 20040828) (report by Alain
7279 + move _nc_handle_sigwinch() to lib_setup.c to make --with-termlib
7280 option work after 20060114 changes (report by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz).
7281 + add copyright notices to test-programs as needed (report by William
7285 + modify ncurses.c 'F' test to combine the wide-characters with color
7286 and/or video attributes.
7287 + modify test/ncurses to use CTL/Q or ESC consistently for exiting
7288 a test-screen (some commands used 'x' or 'q').
7291 + fix an off-by-one in the scrolling-region change (cf_ 20060311).
7294 + add checks in waddchnstr() and wadd_wchnstr() to stop copying when
7295 a null character is found (report by Igor Bogomazov).
7296 + modify progs/Makefile.in to make "tput init" work properly with
7297 cygwin, i.e., do not pass a ".exe" in the reference string used
7298 in check_aliases (report by Samuel Thibault).
7299 + add some checks to ensure current position is within scrolling
7300 region before scrolling on a new line (report by Dan Gookin).
7301 + change some NewChar() usage to static variables to work around
7302 stack garbage introduced when cchar_t is not packed (Redhat #182024).
7305 + workarounds to build test/movewindow with PDcurses 2.7.
7306 + fix for nsterm-16color entry (patch by Alain Bench).
7307 + correct a typo in infocmp manpage (Debian #354281).
7310 + add nsterm-16color entry -TD
7311 + updated mlterm terminfo entry -TD
7312 + remove 970913 feature for copying subwindows as they are moved in
7313 mvwin() (discussion with Bryan Christ).
7314 + modify test/demo_menus.c to demonstrate moving a menu (both the
7315 window and subwindow) using shifted cursor-keys.
7316 + start implementing recursive mvwin() in movewindow.c (incomplete).
7317 + add a fallback definition for GCC_PRINTFLIKE() in test.priv.h,
7318 for movewindow.c (report by William McBrine).
7319 + add help-message to test/movewindow.c
7322 + add test/movewindow.c, to test mvderwin().
7323 + fix ncurses soft-key test so color changes are shown immediately
7324 rather than delayed.
7325 + modify ncurses soft-key test to hide the keys when exiting the test
7327 + fixes to build test programs with PDCurses 2.7, e.g., its headers
7328 rely on autoconf symbols, and it declares stubs for nonfunctional
7329 terminfo and termcap entrypoints.
7332 + improved test/configure to build test/ncurses on HPUX 11 using the
7334 + documented ALTERNATE CONFIGURATIONS in the ncurses manpage, for the
7335 benefit of developers who do not read INSTALL.
7338 + correct form library Window_To_Buffer() change (cf: 20040516), which
7339 should ignore the video attributes (report by Ricardo Cantu).
7342 + minor fixes to xmc-glitch experimental code:
7343 + suppress line-drawing
7344 + implement max_attributes
7346 + minor fixes for the database iterator.
7347 + fix some buffer limits in c++ demo (comment by Falk Hueffner in
7351 + add toe -a option, to show all databases. This uses new private
7352 interfaces in the ncurses library for iterating through the list of
7354 + fix toe from 20000909 changes which made it not look at
7356 + make toe's -v option parameter optional as per manpage.
7357 + improve SIGWINCH handling by postponing its effect during newterm(),
7358 etc., when allocating screens.
7361 + modify wgetnstr() to return KEY_RESIZE if a sigwinch occurs. Use
7362 this in test/filter.c
7363 + fix an error in filter() modification which caused some applications
7367 + check if filter() was called when getting the screensize. Keep it
7368 at 1 if so (based on Redhat #174498).
7369 + add extension nofilter().
7370 + refined the workaround for ACS mapping.
7371 + make ifdef's consistent in curses.h for the extended colors so the
7372 header file can be used for the normal curses library. The header
7373 file installed for extended colors is a variation of the
7374 wide-character configuration (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
7377 + add a workaround to ACS mapping to allow applications such as
7378 test/blue.c to use the "PC ROM" characters by masking them with
7379 A_ALTCHARSET. This worked up til 5.5, but was lost in the revision
7380 of legacy coding (report by Michael Deutschmann).
7381 + add a null-pointer check in the wide-character version of
7382 calculate_actual_width() (report by Victor Julien).
7383 + improve test/ncurses 'd' (color-edit) test by allowing the RGB
7384 values to be set independently (patch by William McBrine).
7385 + modify test/configure script to allow building test programs with
7387 + modified test programs to allow some to work with NetBSD curses.
7388 Several do not because NetBSD curses implements a subset of X/Open
7389 curses, and also lacks much of SVr4 additions. But it's enough for
7391 + update config.guess and config.sub
7394 + use BSD-specific fix for return-value from cgetent() from CVS where
7395 an unknown terminal type would be reportd as "database not found".
7396 + make tgetent() return code more readable using new symbols
7398 + remove references to non-existent "tctest" program.
7399 + remove TESTPROGS from progs/Makefile.in (it was referring to code
7400 that was never built in that directory).
7401 + typos in curs_addchstr.3x, some doc files (noticed in OpenBSD CVS).
7404 + add use_legacy_coding() function to support lynx's font-switching
7406 + fix formatting in curs_termcap.3x (report by Mike Frysinger).
7407 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to change preprocessor-expanded _Bool back to
7411 + extend test/ncurses.c 's' (overlay window) test to exercise overlay(),
7412 overwrite() and copywin() with different combinations of colors and
7413 attributes (including background color) to make it easy to see the
7414 effect of the different functions.
7415 + corrections to menu/m_global.c for wide-characters (report by
7419 + add configure option --without-dlsym, allowing developers to
7420 configure GPM support without using dlsym() (discussion with Michael
7422 + fix wins_nwstr(), which did not handle single-column non-8bit codes
7426 + move prototypes for wide-character trace functions from curses.tail
7427 to curses.wide to avoid accidental reference to those if
7428 _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined without ensuring that <wchar.h> is
7430 + add/use NCURSES_INLINE definition.
7431 + change some internal functions to use int/unsigned rather than the
7435 + remove a redundant check in lib_color.c (Debian #335655).
7436 + use ld's -search_paths_first option on Darwin to work around odd
7437 search rules on that platform (report by Christian Gennerat, analysis
7439 + remove special case for Darwin in CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro.
7440 + ignore EINTR in tcgetattr/tcsetattr calls (Debian #339518).
7441 + fix several bugs in test/bs.c (patch by Stephen Lindholm).
7444 + other minor fixes to cygwin based on tack -TD
7445 + correct smacs in cygwin (Debian #338234, report by Baurzhan
7446 Ismagulov, who noted that it was fixed in Cygwin).
7449 + add shifted up/down arrow codes to xterm-new as kind/kri strings -TD
7450 + modify wbkgrnd() to avoid clearing the A_CHARTEXT attribute bits
7451 since those record the state of multicolumn characters (Debian
7453 + modify werase to clear multicolumn characters that extend into
7454 a derived window (Debian #316663).
7457 + move assignment from environment variable ESCDELAY from initscr()
7458 down to newterm() so the environment variable affects timeouts for
7459 terminals opened with newterm() as well.
7460 + fix a memory leak in keyname().
7461 + add test/demo_altkeys.c
7462 + modify test/demo_defkey.c to exit from loop via 'q' to allow
7463 leak-checking, as well as fix a buffer size in winnstr() call.
7466 + correct order of use-clauses in rxvt-basic entry which made codes for
7467 f1-f4 vt100-style rather than vt220-style (report by Gabor Z Papp).
7468 + suppress configure check for gnatmake if Ada95/Makefile.in is not
7470 + correct a typo in configure --with-bool option for the case where
7471 --without-cxx is used (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
7472 + add a note to INSTALL's discussion of --with-normal, pointing out
7473 that one may wish to use --without-gpm to ensure a completely
7474 static link (prompted by report by Felix von Leitner).
7476 20051010 5.5 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
7479 + document in demo_forms.c some portability issues.
7482 + document side-effect of werase() which sets the cursor position.
7483 + save/restore the current position in form field editing to make
7487 + correct header dependencies in progs, allowing parallel make (report
7488 by Daniel Jacobowitz).
7489 + modify CF_BUILD_CC to ensure that pre-setting $BUILD_CC overrides
7490 the configure check for --with-build-cc (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
7491 + modify CF_CFG_DEFAULTS to not use /usr as the default prefix for
7493 + update config.guess and config.sub from
7494 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
7497 + modify sed expression which computes path for /usr/lib/terminfo
7498 symbolic link in install to ensure that it does not change unexpected
7499 levels of the path (Gentoo #42336).
7500 + modify default for --disable-lp64 configure option to reduce impact
7501 on existing 64-bit builds. Enabling the _LP64 option may change the
7502 size of chtype and mmask_t. However, for ABI 6, it is enabled by
7503 default (report by Mike Frysinger).
7504 + add configure script check for --enable-ext-mouse, bump ABI to 6 by
7505 default if it is used.
7506 + improve configure script logic for bumping ABI to omit this if the
7507 --with-abi-version option was used.
7508 + update address for Free Software Foundation in tack's source.
7509 + correct wins_wch(), which was not marking the filler-cells of
7510 multi-column characters (cf: 20041023).
7513 + modify mouse initialization to ensure that Gpm_Open() is called only
7514 once. Otherwise GPM gets confused in its initialization of signal
7515 handlers (Debian #326709).
7518 + modify logic for backspacing in a multiline form field to ensure that
7519 it works even when the preceding line is full (report by Frank van
7521 + remove comment about BUGS section of ncurses manpage (Debian #325481)
7524 + document some workarounds for shared and libtool library
7525 configurations in INSTALL (see --with-shared and --with-libtool).
7526 + modify CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GXX_VERSION macros to accommodate
7527 cross-compilers which emit the platform name in their version
7529 arm-sa1100-linux-gnu-g++ (GCC) 4.0.1
7530 (report by Frank van Vugt).
7533 + start updating documentation for upcoming 5.5 release.
7534 + fix to make libtool and libtinfo work together again (cf: 20050122).
7535 + fixes to allow building traces into libtinfo
7536 + add debug trace to tic that shows if/how ncurses will write to the
7537 lower corner of a terminal's screen.
7538 + update llib-l* files.
7541 + modify initializers in c++ binding to build with old versions of g++.
7542 + improve special case for 20050115 repainting fix, ensuring that if
7543 the first changed cell is not a character that the range to be
7544 repainted is adjusted to start at a character's beginning (Debian
7548 + fixes to build on QNX 6.1
7549 + improve configure script checks for Intel 9.0 compiler.
7550 + remove #include's for libc.h (obsolete).
7551 + adjust ifdef's in curses.priv.h so that when cross-compiling to
7552 produce comp_hash and make_keys, no dependency on wchar.h is needed.
7553 That simplifies the build-cppflags (report by Frank van Vugt).
7554 + move modules related to key-binding into libtinfo to fix linkage
7555 problem caused by 20050430 changes to MKkeyname.sh (report by
7556 Konstantin Andreev).
7559 + updates/fixes for configure script macros from vile -TD
7560 + make prism9's sgr string agree with the rest of the terminfo -TD
7561 + make vt220's sgr0 string consistent with sgr string, do this for
7562 several related cases -TD
7563 + improve translation to termcap by filtering the 'me' (sgr0) strings
7564 as in the runtime call to tgetent() (prompted by a discussion with
7566 + improve tic check for sgr0 versus sgr(0), to help ensure that sgr0
7567 resets line-drawing.
7570 + fix special cases for trimming sgr0 for hurd and vt220 (Debian
7572 + split-out _nc_trim_sgr0() from modifications made to tgetent(), to
7573 allow it to be used by tic to provide information about the runtime
7574 changes that would be made to sgr0 for termcap applications.
7575 + modify make_sed.sh to make the group-name in the NAME section of
7576 form/menu library manpage agree with the TITLE string when renaming
7577 is done for Debian (Debian #78866).
7580 + modify parameter type in c++ binding for insch() and mvwinsch() to
7581 be consistent with underlying ncurses library (was char, is chtype).
7582 + modify treatment of Intel compiler to allow _GNU_SOURCE to be defined
7584 + improve configure check for nanosleep(), checking that it works since
7585 some older systems such as AIX 4.3 have a nonworking version.
7588 + update config.guess and config.sub from
7589 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
7590 + modify misc/shlib to work in test-directory.
7591 + suppress $suffix in misc/run_tic.sh when cross-compiling. This
7592 allows cross-compiles to use the host's tic program to handle the
7593 "make install.data" step.
7594 + improve description of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables in manpages
7595 (prompted by report by Dave Ulrick).
7596 + improve description of cross-compiling in INSTALL
7597 + add NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html by Pradeep Padala
7598 (see http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/).
7599 + modify configure script to obtain soname for GPM library (discussion
7600 with Daniel Jacobowitz).
7601 + modify configure script so that --with-chtype option will still
7602 compute the unsigned literals suffix for constants in curses.h
7603 (report by Daniel Jacobowitz:
7604 + patches from Daniel Jacobowitz:
7605 + the man_db.renames entry for tack.1 was backwards.
7606 + tack.1 had some 1m's that should have been 1M's.
7607 + the section for curs_inwstr.3 was wrong.
7610 + correction to --with-chtype option (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
7613 + move build-time edit_man.sh and edit_man.sed scripts to top directory
7614 to simplify reusing them for renaming tack's manpage (prompted by a
7615 review of Debian package).
7616 + revert minor optimization from 20041030 (Debian #313609).
7617 + libtool-specific fixes, tested with libtool 1.4.3, 1.5.0, 1.5.6,
7618 1.5.10 and 1.5.18 (all work except as noted previously for the c++
7619 install using libtool 1.5.0):
7620 + modify the clean-rule in c++/Makefile.in to work with IRIX64 make
7622 + use $(LIBTOOL_UNINSTALL) symbol, overlooked in 20030830
7623 + add configure options --with-chtype and --with-mmask-t, to allow
7624 overriding of the non-LP64 model's use of the corresponding types.
7625 + revise test for size of chtype (and mmask_t), which always returned
7626 "long" due to an uninitialized variable (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
7629 + change _tracef's that used "%p" format for va_list values to ignore
7630 that, since on some platforms those are not pointers.
7631 + fixes for long-formats in printf's due to largefile support.
7634 + fixes for termcap support:
7635 + reset pointer to _nc_curr_token.tk_name when the input stream is
7636 closed, which could point to free memory (cf: 20030215).
7637 + delink TERMTYPE data which is used by the termcap reader, so that
7638 extended names data will be freed consistently.
7639 + free pointer to TERMTYPE data in _nc_free_termtype() rather than
7641 + add some entrypoints for freeing permanently allocated data via
7642 _nc_freeall() when NO_LEAKS is defined.
7643 + amend 20041030 change to _nc_do_color to ensure that optimization is
7644 applied only when the terminal supports back_color_erase (bce).
7647 + add sun-color terminfo entry -TD
7648 + correct a missing assignment in c++ binding's method
7649 NCursesPanel::UserPointer() from 20050409 changes.
7650 + improve configure check for large-files, adding check for dirent64
7652 + minor change to configure script to improve linker options for the
7656 + document error conditions for ncurses library functions (report by
7658 + regenerated html documentation for ada binding.
7659 see ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/gnathtml
7662 + regenerated html documentation for manpages.
7663 + add $(BUILD_EXEEXT) suffix to invocation of make_keys in
7664 ncurses/Makefile (Gentoo #89772).
7665 + modify c++/demo.cc to build with g++ -fno-implicit-templates option
7666 (patch by Mike Frysinger).
7667 + modify tic to filter out long extended names when translating to
7668 termcap format. Only two characters are permissible for termcap
7672 + modify terminfo entries xterm-new and rxvt to add strings for
7673 shift-, control-cursor keys.
7674 + workaround to allow c++ binding to compile with g++ 2.95.3, which
7675 has a broken implementation of static_cast<> (patch by Jeff Chua).
7676 + modify initialization of key lookup table so that if an extended
7677 capability (tic -x) string is defined, and its name begins with 'k',
7678 it will automatically be treated as a key.
7679 + modify test/keynames.c to allow for the possibility of extended
7680 key names, e.g., via define_key(), or via "tic -x".
7681 + add test/demo_termcap.c to show the contents of given entry via the
7685 + minor fixes for vt100/vt52 entries -TD
7686 + add configure option --enable-largefile
7687 + corrected libraries used to build Ada95/gen/gen, found in testing
7691 + update config.guess, config.sub
7692 + modify configure script check for _XOPEN_SOURCE, disable that on
7693 Darwin whose header files have problems (patch by Chris Zubrzycki).
7694 + modify form library Is_Printable_String() to use iswprint() rather
7695 than wcwidth() for determining if a character is printable. The
7696 latter caused it to reject menu items containing non-spacing
7698 + modify ncurses test program's F-test to handle non-spacing characters
7699 by combining them with a reverse-video blank.
7700 + review/fix several gcc -Wconversion warnings.
7703 + correct an off-by-one error in m_driver() for mouse-clicks used to
7704 position the mouse to a particular item.
7705 + implement test/demo_menus.c
7706 + add some checks in lib_mouse to ensure SP is set.
7707 + modify C++ binding to make 20050403 changes work with the configure
7708 --enable-const option.
7711 + modify start_color() to return ERR if it cannot allocate memory.
7712 + address g++ compiler warnings in C++ binding by adding explicit
7713 member initialization, assignment operators and copy constructors.
7714 Most of the changes simply preserve the existing semantics of the
7715 binding, which can leak memory, etc., but by making these features
7716 visible, it provides a framework for improving the binding.
7717 + improve C++ binding using static_cast, etc.
7718 + modify configure script --enable-warnings to add options to g++ to
7719 correspond to the gcc --enable-warnings.
7720 + modify C++ binding to use some C internal functions to make it
7721 compile properly on Solaris (and other platforms).
7724 + amend change from 20050320 to limit it to configurations with a
7726 + fix a bug introduced in 20050320 which broke the translation of
7727 nonprinting characters to uparrow form (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
7730 + add ifdef's for _LP64 in curses.h to avoid using wasteful 64-bits for
7731 chtype and mmask_t, but add configure option --disable-lp64 in case
7732 anyone used that configuration.
7733 + update misc/shlib script to account for Mac OS X (report by Michail
7735 + correct comparison for wrapping multibyte characters in
7736 waddch_literal() (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
7739 + add -c and -w options to tset to allow user to suppress ncurses'
7740 resizing of the terminal emulator window in the special case where it
7741 is not able to detect the true size (report by Win Delvaux, Debian
7743 + modify waddch_nosync() to account for locale zn_CH.GBK, which uses
7744 codes 128-159 as part of multibyte characters (report by Wang
7745 WenRui, Debian #300512).
7748 + modify ncurses.c 'd' test to make it work with 88-color
7749 configuration, i.e., by implementing scrolling.
7750 + improve scrolling in ncurses.c 'c' and 'C' tests, e.g., for 88-color
7754 + change tracemunch to use strict checking.
7755 + modify ncurses.c 'p' test to test line-drawing within a pad.
7756 + implement environment variable NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS to support
7757 miscellaneous terminal emulators which ignore alternate character
7758 set escape sequences when in UTF-8 mode.
7761 + change NCursesWindow::err_handler() to a virtual function (request by
7763 + modify fty_int.c and fty_num.c to handle wide characters (report by
7765 + adapt fix for fty_alpha.c to fty_alnum.c, which also handled normal
7766 and wide characters inconsistently (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
7767 + update llib-* files to reflect internal interface additions/changes.
7770 + improve test/configure script, adding tests for _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc.,
7772 + add aixterm-16color terminfo entry -TD
7773 + modified xterm-new terminfo entry to work with tgetent() changes -TD
7774 + extended changes in tgetent() from 20040710 to allow the substring of
7775 sgr0 which matches rmacs to be at the beginning of the sgr0 string
7776 (request by Thomas Wolff). Wolff says the visual effect in
7777 combination with pre-20040710 ncurses is improved.
7778 + fix off-by-one in winnstr() call which caused form field validation
7779 of multibyte characters to ignore the last character in a field.
7780 + correct logic in winsch() for inserting multibyte strings; the code
7781 would clear cells after the insertion rather than push them to the
7782 right (cf: 20040228).
7783 + fix an inconsistency in Check_Alpha_Field() between normal and wide
7784 character logic (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
7787 + fix a bug in editing wide-characters in form library: deleting a
7788 nonwide character modified the previous wide-character.
7789 + update manpage to describe NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2.
7790 + correct manpage description of mouseinterval() (Debian #280687).
7791 + add a note to default_colors.3x explaining why this extension was
7792 added (Debian #295083).
7793 + add traces to panel library.
7796 + improve editing of wide-characters in form library: left/right
7797 cursor movement, and single-character deletions work properly.
7798 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM happens to be prefixed with
7799 "xterm". Gpm_Open() would otherwise assert that it can deal with
7800 mouse events in this case.
7801 + modify GPM mouse support so it closes the server connection when
7802 the caller disables the mouse (report by Stanislav Ievlev).
7805 + add traces for callback functions in form library.
7806 + add experimental configure option --enable-ext-mouse, which defines
7807 NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2, and modifies the encoding of mouse events to
7808 support wheel mice, which may transmit buttons 4 and 5. This works
7809 with xterm and similar X terminal emulators (prompted by question by
7810 Andreas Henningsson, this is also related to Debian #230990).
7811 + improve configure macros CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE to
7812 avoid redefinition warnings on cygwin.
7815 + merge remaining development changes for extended colors (mostly
7816 complete, does not appear to break other configurations).
7817 + add xterm-88color.dat (part of extended colors testing).
7818 + improve _tracedump() handling of color pairs past 96.
7819 + modify return-value from start_color() to return OK if colors have
7820 already been started.
7821 + modify curs_color.3x list error conditions for init_pair(),
7822 pair_content() and color_content().
7823 + modify pair_content() to return -1 for consistency with init_pair()
7824 if it corresponds to the default-color.
7825 + change internal representation of default-color to allow application
7826 to use color number 255. This does not affect the total number of
7827 color pairs which are allowed.
7828 + add a top-level tags rule.
7831 + add a null-pointer check in wgetch() in case it is called without
7832 first calling initscr().
7833 + add some null-pointer checks for SP, which is not set by libtinfo.
7834 + modify misc/shlib to ensure that absolute pathnames are used.
7835 + modify test/Makefile.in, etc., to link test programs only against the
7836 libraries needed, e.g., omit form/menu/panel library for the ones
7837 that are curses-specific.
7838 + change SP->_current_attr to a pointer, adjust ifdef's to ensure that
7839 libtinfo.so and libtinfow.so have the same ABI. The reason for this
7840 is that the corresponding data which belongs to the upper-level
7841 ncurses library has a different size in each model (report by
7845 + minor fixes to allow test-compiles with g++.
7846 + correct column value shown in tic's warnings, which did not account
7847 for leading whitespace.
7848 + add a check in _nc_trans_string() for improperly ended strings, i.e.,
7849 where a following line begins in column 1.
7850 + modify _nc_save_str() to return a null pointer on buffer overflow.
7851 + improve repainting while scrolling wide-character data (Eungkyu Song).
7854 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
7857 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
7858 + fix manpage typo (FreeBSD report docs/75544).
7859 + update config.guess, config.sub
7860 > patches for configure script (Albert Chin-A-Young):
7861 + improved fix to make mbstate_t recognized on HPUX 11i (cf:
7862 20030705), making vsscanf() prototype visible on IRIX64. Tested for
7863 on HP-UX 11i, Solaris 7, 8, 9, AIX 4.3.3, 5.2, Tru64 UNIX 4.0D, 5.1,
7864 IRIX64 6.5, Redhat Linux 7.1, 9, and RHEL 2.1, 3.0.
7865 + print the result of the --disable-home-terminfo option.
7866 + use -rpath when compiling with SGI C compiler.
7869 + add trace calls to remaining public functions in form and menu
7871 + fix check for numeric digits in test/ncurses.c 'b' and 'B' tests.
7872 + fix typo in test/ncurses.c 'c' test from 20041218.
7875 + revise test/ncurses.c 'c' color test to improve use for xterm-88color
7876 and xterm-256color, added 'C' test using the wide-character color_set
7877 and attr_set functions.
7880 + modify configure script to work with Intel compiler.
7881 + fix an limit-check in wadd_wchnstr() which caused labels in the
7882 forms-demo to be one character short.
7883 + fix typo in curs_addchstr.3x (Jared Yanovich).
7884 + add trace calls to most functions in form and menu libraries.
7885 + update working-position for adding wide-characters when window is
7886 scrolled (prompted by related report by Eungkyu Song).
7889 + replace some references on Linux to wcrtomb() which use it to obtain
7890 the length of a multibyte string with _nc_wcrtomb, since wcrtomb() is
7891 broken in glibc (see Debian #284260).
7892 + corrected length-computation in wide-character support for
7894 + some fixes to frm_driver.c to allow it to accept multibyte input.
7895 + modify configure script to work with Intel 8.0 compiler.
7898 + amend change to setupterm() in 20030405 which would reuse the value
7899 of cur_term if the same output was selected. This now reuses it only
7900 when setupterm() is called from tgetent(), which has no notion of
7901 separate SCREENs. Note that tgetent() must be called after initscr()
7902 or newterm() to use this feature (Redhat #140326).
7903 + add a check in CF_BUILD_CC macro to ensure that developer has given
7904 the --with-build-cc option when cross-compiling (report by Alexandre
7906 + improved configure script checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE and
7907 _POSIX_C_SOURCE (fix for IRIX 5.3 from Georg Schwarz, _POSIX_C_SOURCE
7909 + cosmetic fix to test/gdc.c to recolor the bottom edge of the box
7910 for consistency (comment by Dan Nelson).
7913 + update wsvt25 terminfo entry -TD
7914 + modify test/ins_wide.c to test all flavors of ins_wstr().
7915 + ignore filler-cells in wadd_wchnstr() when adding a cchar_t array
7916 which consists of multi-column characters, since this function
7917 constructs them (cf: 20041023).
7918 + modify winnstr() to return multibyte character strings for the
7919 wide-character configuration.
7922 + fixes to make slk_set() and slk_wset() accept and store multibyte
7923 or multicolumn characters.
7926 + improve color optimization a little by making _nc_do_color() check
7927 if the old/new pairs are equivalent to the default pair 0.
7928 + modify assume_default_colors() to not require that
7929 use_default_colors() be called first.
7932 + modify term_attrs() to use termattrs(), add the extended attributes
7933 such as enter_horizontal_hl_mode for WA_HORIZONTAL to term_attrs().
7934 + add logic in waddch_literal() to clear orphaned cells when one
7935 multi-column character partly overwrites another.
7936 + improved logic for clearing cells when a multi-column character
7937 must be wrapped to a new line.
7938 + revise storage of cells for multi-column characters to correct a
7939 problem with repainting. In the old scheme, it was possible for
7940 doupdate() to decide that only part of a multi-column character
7941 should be repainted since the filler cells stored only an attribute
7942 to denote them as fillers, rather than the character value and the
7946 + minor fixes for traces.
7947 + add SP->_screen_acs_map[], used to ensure that mapping of missing
7948 line-drawing characters is handled properly. For example, ACS_DARROW
7949 is absent from xterm-new, and it was coincidentally displayed the
7953 + amend 20021221 workaround for broken acs to reset the sgr, rmacs
7954 and smacs strings as well. Also modify the check for screen's
7955 limitations in that area to allow the multi-character shift-in
7956 and shift-out which seem to work.
7957 + change GPM initialization, using dl library to load it dynamically
7958 at runtime (Debian #110586).
7961 + correct logic for color pair in setcchar() and getcchar() (patch by
7962 Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
7963 + add t/T commands to ncurses b/B tests to allow a different color to
7964 be tested for the attrset part of the test than is used in the
7968 + fix to make setcchar() to work when its wchar_t* parameter is
7969 pointing to a string which contains more data than can be converted.
7970 + modify wget_wstr() and example in ncurses.c to work if wchar_t and
7971 wint_t are different sizes (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
7974 + remove check in wget_wch() added to fix an infinite loop, appears to
7975 have been working around a transitory glibc bug, and interferes
7976 with normal operation (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
7977 + correct wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not pass the rendition
7978 information (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
7979 + fix aclocal.m4 so that the wide-character version of ncurses gets
7980 compiled as libncursesw.5.dylib, instead of libncurses.5w.dylib
7981 (adapted from patch by James J Ramsey).
7982 + change configure script for --with-caps option to indicate that it
7983 is no longer experimental.
7984 + change configure script to reflect the fact that --enable-widec has
7985 not been "experimental" since 5.3 (report by Bruno Lustosa).
7988 + add 'B' test to ncurses.c, to exercise some wide-character functions.
7991 + modify infocmp -i option to match 8-bit controls against its table
7992 entries, e.g., so it can analyze the xterm-8bit entry.
7993 + add morphos terminfo entry, improve amiga-8bit entry (Pavel Fedin).
7994 + correct translation of "%%" in terminfo format to termcap, e.g.,
7995 using "tic -C" (Redhat #130921).
7996 + modified configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to ensure that if
7997 it defines _POSIX_C_SOURCE, that it defines it to a specific value
7998 (comp.os.stratus newsgroup comment).
8001 + fixes to build with Ada95 binding with gnat 3.4 (all warnings are
8002 fatal, and gnat does not follow the guidelines for pragmas).
8003 However that did find a coding error in Assume_Default_Colors().
8004 + modify several terminfo entries to ensure xterm mouse and cursor
8005 visibility are reset in rs2 string: hurd, putty, gnome,
8006 konsole-base, mlterm, Eterm, screen (Debian #265784, Debian #55637).
8007 The xterm entries are left alone - old ones for compatibility, and
8008 the new ones do not require this change. -TD
8011 + fake a SIGWINCH in newterm() to accommodate buggy terminal emulators
8012 and window managers (Debian #265631).
8013 > terminfo updates -TD
8014 + remove dch/dch1 from rxvt because they are implemented inconsistently
8015 with the common usage of bce/ech
8016 + remove khome from vt220 (vt220's have no home key)
8020 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test, adding v/V toggles to cycle through
8021 combinations of video attributes so that for instance bold and
8022 underline can be tested. This made the legend too crowded, added
8023 a help window as well.
8024 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test to cycle through default colors if
8025 the -d option is set.
8026 + update putty terminfo entry (Robert de Bath).
8029 + modify test/cardfile.c to allow it to read more data than can be
8031 + correct logic in resizeterm.c which kept it from processing all
8032 levels of window hierarchy (reports by Folkert van Heusden,
8036 + modify "tic -cv" to ignore delays when comparing strings. Also
8037 modify it to ignore a canceled sgr string, e.g., for terminals which
8038 cannot properly combine attributes in one control sequence.
8039 + corrections for gnome and konsole entries (Redhat #122815, patch by
8041 > terminfo updates -TD
8042 + make ncsa-m rmacs/smacs consistent with sgr
8043 + add sgr, rc/sc and ech to syscons entries
8044 + add function-keys to decansi
8045 + add sgr to mterm-ansi
8046 + add sgr, civis, cnorm to emu
8047 + correct/simplify cup in addrinfo
8050 > terminfo updates -TD
8051 + add xterm-pc-fkeys
8052 + review/update gnome and gnome-rh90 entries (prompted by Redhat
8054 + review/update konsole entries
8055 + add sgr, correct sgr0 for kterm and mlterm
8056 + correct tsl string in kterm
8059 + add configure option --without-xterm-new
8062 + add check in wget_wch() for printable bytes that are not part of a
8063 multibyte character.
8064 + modify wadd_wchnstr() to render text using window's background
8066 + improve tic's check to compare sgr and sgr0.
8067 + fix c++ directory's .cc.i rule.
8068 + modify logic in tgetent() which adjusts the termcap "me" string
8069 to work with ISO-2022 string used in xterm-new (cf: 20010908).
8070 + modify tic's check for conflicting function keys to omit that if
8071 converting termcap to termcap format.
8072 + add -U option to tic and infocmp.
8073 + add rmam/smam to linux terminfo entry (Trevor Van Bremen)
8074 > terminfo updates -TD
8075 + minor fixes for emu
8077 + change wyse acsc strings to use 'i' map rather than 'I'
8082 + use tic -x to install terminfo database -TD
8083 + add -x to infocmp's usage message.
8084 + correct field used for comparing O_ROWMAJOR in set_menu_format()
8085 (report/patch by Tony Li).
8086 + fix a missing nul check in set_field_buffer() from 20040508 changes.
8087 > terminfo updates -TD
8088 + make xterm-xf86-v43 derived from xterm-xf86-v40 rather than
8090 + align with xterm patch #192's use of xterm-new -TD
8091 + update xterm-new and xterm-8bit for cvvis/cnorm strings -TD
8092 + make xterm-new the default "xterm" entry -TD
8095 + correct BUILD_CPPFLAGS substitution in ncurses/Makefile.in, to allow
8096 cross-compiling from a separate directory tree (report/patch by
8098 + modify is_term_resized() to ensure that window sizes are nonzero,
8099 as documented in the manpage (report by Ian Collier).
8100 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro to make Hurd port build
8101 (Debian #249214, report/patch by Jeff Bailey).
8102 + configure-script mods from xterm, e.g., updates to CF_ADD_CFLAGS
8103 + update config.guess, config.sub
8104 > terminfo updates -TD
8106 + add xterm-xf86-v44
8107 + modify xterm-new aka xterm-xfree86 to accommodate luit, which
8108 relies on G1 being used via an ISO-2022 escape sequence (report by
8113 + reconsidered winsnstr(), decided after comparing other
8114 implementations that wrapping is an X/Open documentation error.
8115 + modify test/inserts.c to test all flavors of insstr().
8118 + add setlocale() calls to a few test programs which may require it:
8119 demo_forms.c, filter.c, ins_wide.c, inserts.c
8120 + correct a few misspelled function names in ncurses-intro.html (report
8122 + correct internal name of key_defined() manpage, which conflicted with
8126 + correct size of internal pad used for holding wide-character
8127 field_buffer() results.
8128 + modify data_ahead() to work with wide-characters.
8131 + improve description of terminfo if-then-else expressions (suggested
8133 + improve test/ncurses.c 'd' test, allow it to use external file for
8134 initial palette (added xterm-16color.dat and linux-color.dat), and
8135 reset colors to the initial palette when starting/ending the test.
8136 + change limit-check in init_color() to allow r/g/b component to
8137 reach 1000 (cf: 20020928).
8140 + modify form library to use cchar_t's rather than char's in the
8141 wide-character configuration for storing data for field buffers.
8142 + correct logic of win_wchnstr(), which did not work for more than
8146 + replace memset/memcpy usage in form library with for-loops to
8147 simplify changing the datatype of FIELD.buf, part of wide-character
8149 + fix some inconsistent use of #if/#ifdef (report by Alain Guibert).
8152 + modify menu library to account for actual number of columns used by
8153 multibyte character strings, in the wide-character configuration
8154 (adapted from patch by Philipp Tomsich).
8155 + add "-x" option to infocmp like tic's "-x", for use in "-F"
8156 comparisons. This modifies infocmp to only report extended
8157 capabilities if the -x option is given, making this more consistent
8158 with tic. Some scripts may break, since infocmp previous gave this
8159 information without an option.
8160 + modify termcap-parsing to retain 2-character aliases at the beginning
8161 of an entry if the "-x" option is used in tic.
8164 + minor compiler-warning and test-program fixes.
8167 + modify tic's missing-sgr warning to apply to terminfo only.
8168 + free some memory leaks in tic.
8169 + remove check in post_menu() that prevented menus from extending
8170 beyond the screen (request by Max J. Werner).
8171 + remove check in newwin() that prevents allocating windows
8172 that extend beyond the screen. Solaris curses does this.
8173 + add ifdef in test/color_set.c to allow it to compile with older
8175 + add napms() calls to test/dots.c to make it not be a CPU hog.
8178 + modify unctrl() to return null if its parameter does not correspond
8179 to an unsigned char.
8180 + add some limit-checks to guard isprint(), etc., from being used on
8181 values that do not fit into an unsigned char (report by Sami Farin).
8184 + fix a typo in the _nc_get_locale() change.
8187 + modify _nc_get_locale() to use setlocale() to query the program's
8188 current locale rather than using getenv(). This fixes a case in tin
8189 which relies on legacy treatment of 8-bit characters when the locale
8190 is not initialized (reported by Urs Jansen).
8191 + add sgr string to screen's and rxvt's terminfo entries -TD.
8192 + add a check in tic for terminfo entries having an sgr0 but no sgr
8193 string. This confuses Tru64 and HPUX curses when combined with
8194 color, e.g., making them leave line-drawing characters in odd places.
8195 + correct casts used in ABSENT_BOOLEAN, CANCELLED_BOOLEAN, matches the
8196 original definitions used in Debian package to fix PowerPC bug before
8197 20030802 (Debian #237629).
8200 + modify PutAttrChar() and PUTC() macro to improve use of
8201 A_ALTCHARSET attribute to prevent line-drawing characters from
8202 being lost in situations where the locale would otherwise treat the
8203 raw data as nonprintable (Debian #227879).
8206 + fix a redefinition of CTRL() macro in test/view.c for AIX 5.2 (report
8208 + remove ".PP" after ".SH NAME" in a few manpages; this confuses
8209 some apropos script (Debian #237831).
8212 + modify ncurses.c 'r' test so editing commands, like inserted text,
8213 set the field background, and the state of insert/overlay editing
8214 mode is shown in that test.
8215 + change syntax of dummy targets in Ada95 makefiles to work with pmake.
8216 + correct logic in test/ncurses.c 'b' for noncolor terminals which
8217 did not recognize a quit-command (cf: 20030419).
8220 + modify _nc_insert_ch() to allow for its input to be part of a
8222 + split out lib_insnstr.c, to prepare to rewrite it. X/Open states
8223 that this function performs wrapping, unlike all of the other
8224 insert-functions. Currently it does not wrap.
8225 + check for nl_langinfo(CODESET), use it if available (report by
8227 + split-out CF_BUILD_CC macro, actually did this for lynx first.
8228 + fixes for configure script CF_WITH_DBMALLOC and CF_WITH_DMALLOC,
8229 which happened to work with bash, but not with Bourne shell (report
8230 by Marco d'Itri via tin-dev).
8233 + some changes to adapt the form library to wide characters, incomplete
8234 (request by Mike Aubury).
8235 + add symbol to curses.h which can be used to suppress include of
8237 #define NCURSES_ENABLE_STDBOOL_H 0
8239 (discussion on XFree86 mailing list).
8242 + modify configure --with-termlib option to accept a value which sets
8243 the name of the terminfo library. This would allow a packager to
8244 build libtinfow.so renamed to coincide with libtinfo.so (discussion
8245 with Stanislav Ievlev).
8246 + improve documentation of --with-install-prefix, --prefix and
8247 $(DESTDIR) in INSTALL (prompted by discussion with Paul Lew).
8248 + add configure check if the compiler can use -c -o options to rename
8249 its output file, use that to omit the 'cd' command which was used to
8250 ensure object files are created in a separate staging directory
8251 (prompted by comments by Johnny Wezel, Martin Mokrejs).
8253 20040208 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
8256 20040207 pre-release
8257 + minor fixes to _nc_tparm_analyze(), i.e., do not count %i as a param,
8258 and do not count %d if it follows a %p.
8259 + correct an inconsistency between handling of codes in the 128-255
8260 range, e.g., as illustrated by test/ncurses.c f/F tests. In POSIX
8261 locale, the latter did not show printable results, while the former
8263 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to compensate for broken C preprocessor on Mac
8264 OS X, which alters "%%" to "% % " (report by Robert Simms, fix
8265 verified by Scott Corscadden).
8267 20040131 pre-release
8268 + modify SCREEN struct to align it between normal/wide curses flavors
8269 to simplify future changes to build a single version of libtinfo
8270 (patch by Stanislav Ievlev).
8271 + document handling of carriage return by addch() in manpage.
8272 + document special features of unctrl() in manpage.
8273 + documented interface changes in INSTALL.
8274 + corrected control-char test in lib_addch.c to account for locale
8275 (Debian #230335, cf: 971206).
8276 + updated test/configure.in to use AC_EXEEXT and AC_OBJEXT.
8277 + fixes to compile Ada95 binding with Debian gnat 3.15p-4 package.
8278 + minor configure-script fixes for older ports, e.g., BeOS R4.5.
8280 20040125 pre-release
8281 + amend change to PutAttrChar() from 20030614 which computed the number
8282 of cells for a possibly multi-cell character. The 20030614 change
8283 forced the cell to a blank if the result from wcwidth() was not
8284 greater than zero. However, wcwidth() called for parameters in the
8285 range 128-255 can give this return value. The logic now simply
8286 ensures that the number of cells is greater than zero without
8287 modifying the displayed value.
8289 20040124 pre-release
8290 + looked good for 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org (but see above)
8291 + modify configure script check for ranlib to use AC_CHECK_TOOL, since
8292 that works better for cross-compiling.
8294 20040117 pre-release
8295 + modify lib_get_wch.c to prefer mblen/mbtowc over mbrlen/mbrtowc to
8296 work around core dump in Solaris 8's locale support, e.g., for
8297 zh_CN.GB18030 (report by Saravanan Bellan).
8298 + add includes for <stdarg.h> and <stdio.h> in configure script macro
8299 to make <wchar.h> check work with Tru64 4.0d.
8300 + add terminfo entry for U/Win -TD
8301 + add terminfo entries for SFU aka Interix aka OpenNT (Federico
8303 + modify tput's error messages to prefix them with the program name
8304 (report by Vincent Lefevre, patch by Daniel Jacobowitz (see Debian
8306 + correct a place in tack where exit_standout_mode was used instead of
8307 exit_attribute_mode (patch by Jochen Voss (see Debian #224443)).
8308 + modify c++/cursesf.h to use const in the Enumeration_Field method.
8309 + remove an ambiguous (actually redundant) method from c++/cursesf.h
8310 + make $HOME/.terminfo update optional (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
8311 + improve sed script which extracts libtool's version in the
8312 CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro.
8313 + add ifdef'd call to AC_PROG_LIBTOOL to CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro (to
8314 simplify local patch for Albert Chin-A-Young)..
8315 + add $(CXXFLAGS) to link command in c++/Makefile.in (adapted from
8316 patch by Albert Chin-A-Young)..
8317 + fix a missing substitution in configure.in for "$target" needed for
8319 + resync CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro with lynx; fixes IRIX64 and
8320 NetBSD 1.6 conflicts with _XOPEN_SOURCE.
8321 + make check for stdbool.h more specific, to ensure that including it
8322 will actually define/declare bool for the configured compiler.
8323 + rewrite ifdef's in curses.h relating NCURSES_BOOL and bool. The
8324 intention of that is to #define NCURSES_BOOL as bool when the
8325 compiler declares bool, and to #define bool as NCURSES_BOOL when it
8326 does not (reported by Jim Gifford, Sam Varshavchik, cf: 20031213).
8328 20040110 pre-release
8329 + change minor version to 4, i.e., ncurses 5.4
8330 + revised/improved terminfo entries for tvi912b, tvi920b (Benjamin C W
8332 + simplified ncurses/base/version.c by defining the result from the
8333 configure script rather than using sprintf (suggested by Stanislav
8335 + remove obsolete casts from c++/cursesw.h (reported by Stanislav
8337 + modify configure script so that when configuring for termlib, programs
8338 such as tic are not linked with the upper-level ncurses library
8339 (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
8340 + move version.c from ncurses/base to ncurses/tinfo to allow linking
8341 of tic, etc., using libtinfo (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
8344 + adjust -D's to build ncursesw on OpenBSD.
8345 + modify CF_PROG_EXT to make OS/2 build with EXEEXT.
8346 + add pecho_wchar().
8347 + remove <wctype.h> include from lib_slk_wset.c which is not needed (or
8348 available) on older platforms.
8351 + add -D's to build ncursew on FreeBSD 5.1.
8352 + modify shared library configuration for FreeBSD 4.x/5.x to add the
8353 soname information (request by Marc Glisse).
8354 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() to not use MAX_ALIAS, but PATH_MAX only
8355 for limiting the length of a filename in the terminfo database.
8356 + modify termname() to return the terminal name used by setupterm()
8357 rather than $TERM, without truncating to 14 characters as documented
8358 by X/Open (report by Stanislav Ievlev, cf: 970719).
8359 + re-add definition for _BSD_TYPES, lost in merge (cf: 20031206).
8362 + add configure option --with-manpage-format=catonly to address
8363 behavior of BSDI, allow install of man+cat files on NetBSD, whose
8364 behavior has diverged by requiring both to be present.
8365 + remove leading blanks from comment-lines in manlinks.sed script to
8366 work with Tru64 4.0d.
8367 + add screen.linux terminfo entry (discussion on mutt-users mailing
8371 + add a check for tic to flag missing backslashes for termcap
8372 continuation lines. ncurses reads the whole entry, but termcap
8373 applications do not.
8374 + add configure option "--with-manpage-aliases" extending
8375 "--with-manpage-aliases" to provide the option of generating ".so"
8376 files rather than symbolic links for manpage aliases.
8377 + add bool definition in include/curses.h.in for configurations with no
8378 usable C++ compiler (cf: 20030607).
8379 + fix pathname of SigAction.h for building with --srcdir (reported by
8383 + folded ncurses/base/sigaction.c into includes of ncurses/SigAction.h,
8384 since that header is used only within ncurses/tty/lib_tstp.c, for
8385 non-POSIX systems (discussion with Stanislav Ievlev).
8386 + remove obsolete _nc_outstr() function (report by Stanislav Ievlev
8387 <inger@altlinux.org>).
8388 + add test/background.c and test/color_set.c
8389 + modify color_set() function to work with color pair 0 (report by
8390 George Andreou <gbandreo@tem.uoc.gr>).
8391 + add configure option --with-trace, since defining TRACE seems too
8392 awkward for some cases.
8393 + remove a call to _nc_free_termtype() from read_termtype(), since the
8394 corresponding buffer contents were already zeroed by a memset (cf:
8396 + improve configure check for _XOPEN_SOURCE and related definitions,
8397 adding special cases for Solaris' __EXTENSIONS__ and FreeBSD's
8398 __BSD_TYPES (reports by Marc Glisse <marc.glisse@normalesup.org>).
8399 + small fixes to compile on Solaris and IRIX64 using cc.
8400 + correct typo in check for pre-POSIX sort options in MKkey_defs.sh
8404 + modify _nc_gettime() to avoid a problem with arithmetic on unsigned
8405 values (Philippe Blain).
8406 + improve the nanosleep() logic in napms() by checking for EINTR and
8407 restarting (Philippe Blain).
8408 + correct expression for "%D" in lib_tgoto.c (Juha Jarvi
8412 + add linux-vt terminfo entry (Andrey V Lukyanov <land@long.yar.ru>).
8413 + allow "\|" escape in terminfo; tic should not warn about this.
8414 + save the full pathname of the trace-file the first time it is opened,
8415 to avoid creating it in different directories if the application
8416 opens and closes it while changing its working directory.
8417 + modify configure script to provide a non-empty default for
8421 + add DJGPP to special case of DOS-style drive letters potentially
8422 appearing in TERMCAP environment variable.
8423 + fix some spelling in comments (reports by Jason McIntyre, Jonathon
8425 + update config.guess, config.sub
8428 + fix a memory leak in error-return from setupterm() (report by
8429 Stanislav Ievlev <inger@altlinux.org>).
8430 + use EXEEXT and OBJEXT consistently in makefiles.
8431 + amend fixes for cross-compiling to use separate executable-suffix
8432 BUILD_EXEEXT (cf: 20031018).
8433 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for sort utility that does not
8434 recognize key options, e.g., busybox (report by Peter S Mazinger
8436 + fix potential out-of-bounds indexing in _nc_infotocap() (found by
8437 David Krause using some of the new malloc debugging features
8438 under OpenBSD, patch by Ted Unangst).
8439 + modify CF_LIB_SUFFIX for Itanium releases of HP-UX, which use a
8440 ".so" suffix (patch by Jonathan Ward <Jonathan.Ward@hp.com>).
8443 + update terminfo for xterm-xfree86 -TD
8444 + add check for multiple "tc=" clauses in a termcap to tic.
8445 + check for missing op/oc in tic.
8446 + correct _nc_resolve_uses() and _nc_merge_entry() to allow infocmp and
8447 tic to show cancelled capabilities. These functions were ignoring
8448 the state of the target entry, which should be untouched if cancelled.
8449 + correct comment in tack/output.c (Debian #215806).
8450 + add some null-pointer checks to lib_options.c (report by Michael
8452 + regenerated html documentation.
8453 + correction to tar-copy.sh, remove a trap command that resulted in
8454 leaving temporary files (cf: 20030510).
8455 + remove contact/maintainer addresses for Juergen Pfeifer (his request).
8458 + updated test/configure to reflect changes for libtool (cf: 20030830).
8459 + fix several places in tack/pad.c which tested and used the parameter-
8460 and parameterless strings inconsistently, i.e., in pad_rin(),
8461 pad_il(), pad_indn() and pad_dl() (Debian #215805).
8462 + minor fixes for configure script and makefiles to cleanup executables
8463 generated when cross-compiling for DJGPP.
8464 + modify infocmp to omit check for $TERM for operations that do not
8465 require it, e.g., "infocmp -e" used to build fallback list (report by
8469 + add terminfo entries for DJGPP.
8470 + updated note about maintainer in ncurses-intro.html
8473 + update terminfo entries for gnome terminal.
8474 + modify tack to reset colors after each color test, correct a place
8475 where exit_standout_mode was used instead of exit_attribute_mode.
8476 + improve tack's bce test by making it set colors other than black
8478 + plug a potential recursion between napms() and _nc_timed_wait()
8479 (report by Philippe Blain).
8482 + add --with-rel-version option to allow workaround to allow making
8483 libtool on Darwin generate the "same" library names as with the
8484 --with-shared option. The Darwin ld program does not work well
8485 with a zero as the minor-version value (request by Chris Zubrzycki).
8486 + modify CF_MIXEDCASE_FILENAMES macro to work with cross-compiling.
8487 + modify tack to allow it to run from fallback terminfo data.
8488 > patch by Philippe Blain:
8489 + improve PutRange() by adjusting call to EmitRange() and corresponding
8490 return-value to not emit unchanged characters on the end of the
8492 + improve a check for changed-attribute by exiting a loop when the
8494 + improve logic in TransformLine(), eliminating a duplicated comparison
8495 in the clr_bol logic.
8498 > patch by Philippe Blain:
8499 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
8500 move the label 'nonlocal' just before the second gettimeofday() to
8501 be able to compute the diff time when 'goto nonlocal' used.
8502 Rename 'msec' to 'microsec' in the debug-message.
8503 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
8504 Use _nc_outch() in carriage return/newline movement instead of
8505 putchar() which goes to stdout. Move test for xold>0 out of loop.
8506 + in ncurses/tinfo/setbuf.c,
8507 Set the flag SP->_buffered at the end of operations when all has been
8508 successful (typeMalloc can fail).
8509 + simplify NC_BUFFERED macro by moving check inside _nc_setbuf().
8512 + modify configure script to avoid using "head -1", which does not
8513 work if POSIXLY_CORRECT (sic) is set.
8514 + modify run_tic.in to avoid using wrong shared libraries when
8515 cross-compiling (Dan Kegel).
8518 + alter configure script help message to make it clearer that
8519 --with-build-cc does not specify a cross-compiler (suggested by Dan
8520 Kegel <dank@kegel.com>).
8521 + modify configure script to accommodate libtool 1.5, as well as add an
8522 parameter to the "--with-libtool" option which can specify the
8523 pathname of libtool (report by Chris Zubrzycki). We note that
8524 libtool 1.5 has more than one bug in its C++ support, so it is not
8525 able to install libncurses++, for instance, if $DESTDIR or the option
8526 --with-install-prefix is used.
8529 > patch by Philippe Blain:
8530 + move assignments to SP->_cursrow, SP->_curscol into online_mvcur().
8531 + make baudrate computation in delay_output() consistent with the
8532 assumption in _nc_mvcur_init(), i.e., a byte is 9 bits.
8535 + modify logic in waddch_literal() to take into account zh_TW.Big5
8536 whose multibyte sequences may contain "printable" characters, e.g.,
8537 a "g" in the sequence "\247g" (Debian #204889, cf: 20030621).
8538 + improve storage used by _nc_safe_strcpy() by ensuring that the size
8539 is reset based on the initialization call, in case it were called
8540 after other strcpy/strcat calls (report by Philippe Blain).
8541 > patch by Philippe Blain:
8542 + remove an unused ifdef for REAL_ATTR & WANT_CHAR
8543 + correct a place where _cup_cost was used rather than _cuu_cost
8546 + fix a small memory leak in _nc_free_termtype().
8547 + close trace-file if trace() is called with a zero parameter.
8548 + free memory allocated for soft-key strings, in delscreen().
8549 + fix an allocation size in safe_sprintf.c for the "*" format code.
8550 + correct safe_sprintf.c to not return a null pointer if the format
8551 happens to be an empty string. This applies to the "configure
8552 --enable-safe-sprintf" option (Redhat #101486).
8555 + modify casts used for ABSENT_BOOLEAN and CANCELLED_BOOLEAN (report by
8557 > patch by Philippe Blain:
8558 + change padding for change_scroll_region to not be proportional to
8559 the size of the scroll-region.
8560 + correct error-return in _nc_safe_strcat().
8563 + correct limit-checks in _nc_scroll_window() (report and test-case by
8564 Thomas Graf <graf@dms.at> cf: 20011020).
8565 + re-order configure checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE to avoid conflict with
8569 + use clr_eol in preference to blanks for bce terminals, so select and
8570 paste will have fewer trailing blanks, e.g., when using xterm
8571 (request by Vincent Lefevre).
8572 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
8573 + add configure --with-abi-version option (discussion with Charles
8575 > cygwin changes from Charles Wilson:
8576 + aclocal.m4: on cygwin, use autodetected prefix for import
8577 and static lib, but use "cyg" for DLL.
8578 + include/ncurses_dll.h: correct the comments to reflect current
8579 status of cygwin/mingw port. Fix compiler warning.
8580 + misc/run_tic.in: ensure that tic.exe can find the uninstalled
8581 DLL, by adding the lib-directory to the PATH variable.
8582 + misc/terminfo.src (nxterm|xterm-color): make xterm-color
8583 primary instead of nxterm, to match XFree86's xterm.terminfo
8584 usage and to prevent circular links.
8585 (rxvt): add additional codes from rxvt.org.
8586 (rxvt-color): new alias
8587 (rxvt-xpm): new alias
8588 (rxvt-cygwin): like rxvt, but with special acsc codes.
8589 (rxvt-cygwin-native): ditto. rxvt may be run under XWindows, or
8590 with a "native" MSWin GUI. Each takes different acsc codes,
8591 which are both different from the "normal" rxvt's acsc.
8592 (cygwin): cygwin-in-cmd.exe window. Lots of fixes.
8594 + mk-1st.awk: use "cyg" for the DLL prefix, but "lib" for import
8598 + update config.guess, config.sub
8599 + add triples for configuring shared libraries with the Debian
8600 GNU/FreeBSD packages (patch by Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es>).
8603 + modify CF_GCC_WARNINGS so it only applies to gcc, not g++. Some
8604 platforms have installed g++ along with the native C compiler, which
8605 would not accept gcc warning options.
8606 + add -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 when configuring with --enable-widec, to
8607 get mbstate_t declaration on HPUX 11.11 (report by David Ellement).
8608 + add _nc_pathlast() to get rid of casts in _nc_basename() calls.
8609 + correct a sign-extension in wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() from
8610 20030628 (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
8611 + work around omission of btowc() and wctob() from wide-character
8612 support (sic) in NetBSD 1.6 using mbtowc() and wctomb() (report by
8614 + add portability note to curs_get_wstr.3x (Debian #199957).
8617 + rewrite wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to call waddch() and wechochar()
8618 respectively, to avoid calling waddch_noecho() with wide-character
8619 data, since that function assumes its input is 8-bit data.
8620 Similarly, modify waddnwstr() to call wadd_wch().
8621 + remove logic from waddnstr() which transformed multibyte character
8622 strings into wide-characters. Rewrite of waddch_literal() from
8623 20030621 assumes its input is raw multibyte data rather than wide
8624 characters (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
8627 + write getyx() and related 2-return macros in terms of getcury(),
8629 + modify waddch_literal() in case an application passes bytes of a
8630 multibyte character directly to waddch(). In this case, waddch()
8631 must reassemble the bytes into a wide-character (report by Tomohiro
8632 Kubota <kubota@debian.org>).
8635 + modify waddch_literal() in case a multibyte value occupies more than
8637 + modify PutAttrChar() to compute the number of character cells that
8638 are used in multibyte values. This fixes a problem displaying
8639 double-width characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen
8640 <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
8641 + add a null-pointer check for result of keyname() in _tracechar()
8642 + modify _tracechar() to work around glibc sprintf bug.
8645 + add a call to setlocale() in cursesmain.cc, making demo display
8646 properly in a UTF-8 locale.
8647 + add a fallback definition in curses.priv.h for MB_LEN_MAX (prompted
8648 by discussion with Gabor Z Papp).
8649 + use macros NCURSES_ACS() and NCURSES_WACS() to hide cast needed to
8650 appease -Wchar-subscript with g++ 3.3 (Debian #195732).
8651 + fix a redefinition of $RANLIB in the configure script when libtool
8652 is used, which broke configure on Mac OS X (report by Chris Zubrzycki
8654 + simplify ifdef for bool declaration in curses.h.in (suggested by
8655 Albert Chin-A-Young).
8656 + remove configure script check to allow -Wconversion for older
8657 versions of gcc (suggested by Albert Chin-A-Young).
8660 + regenerated html manpages.
8661 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in that disabled use of __attribute__()
8662 for g++, since recent versions implement the cases which ncurses uses
8664 + modify _nc_get_token() to handle a case where an entry has no
8665 description, and capabilities begin on the same line as the entry
8667 + fix a typo in ncurses_dll.h reported by gcc 3.3.
8668 + add an entry for key_defined.3x to man_db.renames.
8671 + modify setcchar() to allow converting control characters to complex
8672 characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
8673 + add tkterm entry -TD
8674 + modify parse_entry.c to allow a terminfo entry with a leading
8675 2-character name (report by Don Libes).
8676 + corrected acsc in screen.teraterm, which requires a PC-style mapping.
8677 + fix trace statements in read_entry.c to use lseek() rather than
8679 + fix signed/unsigned warnings from Sun's compiler (gcc should give
8680 these warnings, but it is unpredictable).
8681 + modify configure script to omit -Winline for gcc 3.3, since that
8683 + modify manlinks.sed to add a few functions that were overlooked since
8684 they return function pointers: field_init, field_term, form_init,
8685 form_term, item_init, item_term, menu_init and menu_term.
8688 + prevent recursion in wgetch() via wgetnstr() if the connection cannot
8689 be switched between cooked/raw modes because it is not a TTY (report
8690 by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.com>).
8691 + change parameter of define_key() and key_defined() to const (prompted
8693 + add a check in test/configure for ncurses extensions, since there
8694 are some older versions, etc., which would not compile with the
8695 current test programs.
8696 + corrected demo in test/ncurses.c of wgetn_wstr(), which did not
8697 convert wchar_t string to multibyte form before printing it.
8698 + corrections to lib_get_wstr.c:
8699 + null-terminate buffer passed to setcchar(), which occasionally
8701 + map special characters such as erase- and kill-characters into
8702 key-codes so those will work as expected even if they are not
8703 mentioned in the terminfo.
8704 + modify PUTC() and Charable() macros to make wide-character line
8705 drawing work for POSIX locale on Linux console (cf: 20021221).
8708 + make typography for program options in manpages consistent (report
8709 by Miloslav Trmac <mitr@volny.cz>).
8710 + correct dependencies in Ada95/src/Makefile.in, so the builds with
8711 "--srcdir" work (report by Warren L Dodge).
8712 + correct missing definition of $(CC) in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in
8713 (reported by Warren L Dodge <warrend@mdhost.cse.tek.com>).
8714 + fix typos and whitespace in manpages (patch by Jason McIntyre
8715 <jmc@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl>).
8718 + fix form_driver() cases for REQ_CLR_EOF, REQ_CLR_EOL, REQ_DEL_CHAR,
8719 REQ_DEL_PREV and REQ_NEW_LINE, which did not ensure the cursor was at
8720 the editing position before making modifications.
8721 + add test/demo_forms and associated test/edit_field.c demos.
8722 + modify test/configure.in to use test/modules for the list of objects
8723 to compile rather than using the list of programs.
8726 + modify logic of acsc to use the original character if no mapping is
8727 defined, noting that Solaris does this.
8728 + modify ncurses 'b' test to avoid using the acs_map[] array since
8729 20021231 changes it to no longer contain information from the acsc
8731 + modify makefile rules in c++, progs, tack and test to ensure that
8732 the compiler flags (e.g., $CFLAGS or $CCFLAGS) are used in the link
8733 command (report by Jose Luis Rico Botella <informatica@serpis.com>).
8734 + modify soft-key initialization to use A_REVERSE if A_STANDOUT would
8735 not be shown when colors are used, i.e., if ncv#1 is set in the
8736 terminfo as is done in "screen".
8739 + add a test for slk_color(), in ncurses.c
8740 + fix some issues reported by valgrind in the slk_set() and slk_wset()
8741 code, from recent rewrite.
8742 + modify ncurses 'E' test to use show previous label via slk_label(),
8744 + modify wide-character versions of NewChar(), NewChar2() macros to
8745 ensure that the whole struct is initialized.
8748 + modify setupterm() to check if the terminfo and terminal-modes have
8749 already been read. This ensures that it does not reinvoke
8750 def_prog_mode() when an application calls more than one function,
8751 such as tgetent() and initscr() (report by Olaf Buddenhagen).
8754 + add 'E' test to ncurses.c, to exercise slk_wset().
8755 + correct handling of carriage-return in wgetn_wstr(), used in demo of
8757 + first draft of slk_wset() function.
8760 + improved warnings in tic when suppressing items to fit in termcap's
8762 + built a list in test/README showing which externals are being used
8763 by either programs in the test-directory or via internal library
8765 + adjust include-options in CF_ETIP_DEFINES to avoid missing
8766 ncurses_dll.h, fixing special definitions that may be needed for
8767 etip.h (reported by Greg Schafer <gschafer@zip.com.au>).
8770 + minor fixes for cardfile.c, to make it write the updated fields to
8771 a file when ^W is given.
8772 + add/use _nc_trace_bufcat() to eliminate some fixed buffer limits in
8776 + correct a case in _nc_remove_string(), used by define_key(), to avoid
8777 infinite loop if the given string happens to be a substring of other
8778 strings which are assigned to keys (report by John McCutchan).
8779 + add key_defined() function, to tell which keycode a string is bound
8780 to (discussion with John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>).
8781 + correct keybound(), which reported definitions in the wrong table,
8782 i.e., the list of definitions which are disabled by keyok().
8783 + modify demo_keydef.c to show the details it changes, and to check
8787 + restructured test/configure script, make it work for libncursesw.
8788 + add description of link_fieldtype() to manpage (report by
8789 L Dee Holtsclaw <dee@sunbeltsoft.com>).
8792 + corrected ifdef's relating to configure check for wchar_t, etc.
8793 + if the output is a socket or other non-tty device, use 1 millisecond
8794 for the cost in mvcur; previously it was 9 milliseconds because the
8795 baudrate was not known.
8796 + in _nc_get_tty_mode(), initialize the TTY buffer on error, since
8797 glibc copies uninitialized data in that case, as noted by valgrind.
8798 + modify tput to use the same parameter analysis as tparm() does, to
8799 provide for user-defined strings, e.g., for xterm title, a
8800 corresponding capability might be
8802 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to avoid passing "#" tokens through the C
8803 preprocessor. This works around Mac OS X's preprocessor, which
8804 insists on adding a blank on each side of the token (report/analysis
8805 by Kevin Murphy <murphy@genome.chop.edu>).
8808 + add configure check for wchar_t and wint_t types, rather than rely
8809 on preprocessor definitions. Also work around for gcc fixinclude
8810 bug which creates a shadow copy of curses.h if it sees these symbols
8811 apparently typedef'd.
8812 + if database is disabled, do not generate run_tic.sh
8813 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking when termcap is read.
8816 + add checking in tic for incomplete line-drawing character mapping.
8817 + updated configure script to reflect fix for AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL,
8818 which is broken in autoconf 2.5x for Mac OS X 10.2.3 (report by
8819 Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl>).
8820 + make return value from _nc_printf_string() consistent. Before,
8821 depending on whether --enable-safe-sprintf was used, it might not be
8822 cached for reallocating.
8825 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking in lib_tparm.c, hardscroll.c
8826 + correct a potentially-uninitialized value if _read_termtype() does
8827 not read as much data as expected (report by Wolfgang Rohdewald
8829 + correct several places where the aclocal.m4 macros relied on cache
8830 variable names which were incompatible (as usual) between autoconf
8831 2.13 and 2.5x, causing the test for broken-linker to give incorrect
8832 results (reports by Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl> and Thomas Esser
8833 <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de>).
8834 + do not try to open gpm mouse driver if standard output is not a tty;
8835 the gpm library does not make this check (bug report for dialog
8836 by David Oliveira <davidoliveira@develop.prozone.ws>).
8839 + modified emx.src to correspond more closely to terminfo.src, added
8840 emx-base to the latter -TD
8841 + add configure option for FreeBSD sysmouse, --with-sysmouse, and
8842 implement support for that in lib_mouse.c, lib_getch.c
8845 + revert 20030105 change to can_clear_with(), does not work for the
8846 case where the update is made on cells which are blanks with
8847 attributes, e.g., reverse.
8848 + improve ifdef's to guard against redefinition of wchar_t and wint_t
8849 in curses.h (report by Urs Jansen).
8852 + improve mvcur() by checking if it is safe to move when video
8853 attributes are set (msgr), and if not, reset/restore attributes
8854 within that function rather than doing it separately in the GoTo()
8855 function in tty_update.c (suggested by Philippe Blain).
8856 + add a message in run_tic.in to explain more clearly what does not
8857 work when attempting to create a symbolic link for /usr/lib/terminfo
8858 on OS/2 and other platforms with no symbolic links (report by John
8860 + change several sed scripts to avoid using "\+" since it is not a BRE
8861 (basic regular expression). One instance caused terminfo.5 to be
8862 misformatted on FreeBSD (report by Kazuo Horikawa
8863 <horikawa@FreeBSD.org> (see FreeBSD docs/46709)).
8864 + correct misspelled 'wint_t' in curs_get_wch.3x (Michael Elkins).
8867 + improve description of terminfo operators, especially static/dynamic
8868 variables (comments by Mark I Manning IV <mark4th@earthlink.net>).
8869 + demonstrate use of FIELDTYPE by modifying test/ncurses 'r' test to
8870 use the predefined TYPE_ALPHA field-type, and by defining a
8871 specialized type for the middle initial/name.
8872 + fix MKterminfo.sh, another workaround for POSIXLY_CORRECT misfeature
8874 > patch by Philippe Blain:
8875 + optimize can_clear_with() a little by testing first if the parameter
8876 is indeed a "blank".
8877 + simplify ClrBottom() a little by allowing it to use clr_eos to clear
8878 sections as small as one line.
8879 + improve ClrToEOL() by checking if clr_eos is available before trying
8881 + use tputs() rather than putp() in a few cases in tty_update.c since
8882 the corresponding delays are proportional to the number of lines
8883 affected: repeat_char, clr_eos, change_scroll_region.
8886 + rewrite of lib_acs.c conflicts with copying of SCREEN acs_map to/from
8887 global acs_map[] array; removed the lines that did the copying.
8890 + change some overlooked tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp()
8891 (report by Philippe Blain).
8892 + modify lib_getch.c to avoid recursion via wgetnstr() when the input
8893 is not a tty and consequently mode-changes do not work (report by
8894 <R.Chamberlin@querix.com>).
8895 + rewrote lib_acs.c to allow PutAttrChar() to decide how to render
8896 alternate-characters, i.e., to work with Linux console and UTF-8
8898 + correct line/column reference in adjust_window(), needed to make
8899 special windows such as curscr track properly when resizing (report
8900 by Lucas Gonze <lgonze@panix.com>).
8901 > patch by Philippe Blain:
8902 + correct the value used for blank in ClrBottom() (broken in 20000708).
8903 + correct an off-by-one in GoTo() parameter in _nc_scrolln().
8906 + change several tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp(), to
8907 enable padding which may be needed for some terminals (patch by
8909 + use '%' as sed substitute delimiter in run_tic script to avoid
8910 problems with pathname delimiters such as ':' and '@' (report by John
8912 + implement a workaround so that line-drawing works with screen's
8913 crippled UTF-8 support (tested with 3.9.13). This only works with
8914 the wide-character support (--enable-widec); the normal library will
8915 simply suppress line-drawing when running in a UTF-8 locale in screen.
8918 + allow BUILD_CC and related configure script variables to be
8919 overridden from the environment.
8920 + make build-tools variables in ncurses/Makefile.in consistent with
8921 the configure script variables (report by Maciej W Rozycki).
8922 + modify ncurses/modules to allow
8923 configure --disable-leaks --disable-ext-funcs
8924 to build (report by Gary Samuelson).
8925 + fix a few places in configure.in which lacked quotes (report by
8926 Gary Samuelson <gary.samuelson@verizon.com>).
8927 + correct handling of multibyte characters in waddch_literal() which
8928 force wrapping because they are started too late on the line (report
8929 by Sam Varshavchik).
8930 + small fix for CF_GNAT_VERSION to ignore the help-message which
8931 gnatmake adds to its version-message.
8932 > Maciej W Rozycki <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>:
8933 + use AC_CHECK_TOOL to get proper values for AR and LD for cross
8935 + use $cross_compiling variable in configure script rather than
8936 comparing $host_alias and $target alias, since "host" is
8937 traditionally misused in autoconf to refer to the target platform.
8938 + change configure --help message to use "build" rather than "host"
8939 when referring to the --with-build-XXX options.
8942 + modify CF_GNAT_VERSION to print gnatmake's version, and to allow for
8943 possible gnat versions such as 3.2 (report by Chris Lingard
8944 <chris@stockwith.co.uk>).
8945 + modify #define's for CKILL and other default control characters in
8946 tset to use the system's default values if they are defined.
8947 + correct interchanged defaults for kill and interrupt characters
8948 in tset, which caused it to report unnecessarily (Debian #171583).
8949 + repair check for missing C++ compiler, which is broken in autoconf
8950 2.5x by hardcoding it to g++ (report by Martin Mokrejs).
8951 + update config.guess, config.sub (2002-11-30)
8952 + modify configure script to skip --with-shared, etc., when the
8953 --with-libtool option is given, since they would be ignored anyway.
8954 + fix to allow "configure --with-libtool --with-termlib" to build.
8955 + modify configure script to show version number of libtool, to help
8956 with bug reports. libtool still gets confused if the installed
8957 ncurses libraries are old, since it ignores the -L options at some
8958 point (tested with libtool 1.3.3 and 1.4.3).
8959 + reorder configure script's updating of $CPPFLAGS and $CFLAGS to
8960 prevent -I options in the user's environment from introducing
8961 conflicts with the build -I options (may be related to reports by
8962 Patrick Ash and George Goffe).
8963 + rename test/define_key.c to test/demo_defkey.c, test/keyok.c to
8964 test/demo_keyok.c to allow building these with libtool.
8967 + add example program test/define_key.c for define_key().
8968 + add example program test/keyok.c for keyok().
8969 + add example program test/ins_wide.c for wins_wch() and wins_wstr().
8970 + modify wins_wch() and wins_wstr() to interpret tabs by using the
8971 winsch() internal function.
8972 + modify setcchar() to allow for wchar_t input strings that have
8973 more than one spacing character.
8976 + fix a boundary check in lib_insch.c (patch by Philippe Blain).
8977 + change type for *printw functions from NCURSES_CONST to const
8978 (prompted by comment by Pedro Palhoto Matos <plpm@mega.ist.utl.pt>,
8979 but really from a note on X/Open's website stating that either is
8980 acceptable, and the latter will be used in a future revision).
8981 + add xterm-1002, xterm-1003 terminfo entries to demonstrate changes in
8982 lib_mouse.c (20021026) -TD
8983 + add screen-bce, screen-s entries from screen 3.9.13 (report by
8984 Adam Lazur <zal@debian.org>) -TD
8985 + add mterm terminfo entries -TD
8988 + split-out useful fragments in terminfo for vt100 and vt220 numeric
8989 keypad, i.e., vt100+keypad, vt100+pfkeys, vt100+fnkeys and
8990 vt220+keypad. The last as embedded in various entries had ka3 and
8991 kb2 interchanged (report/discussion with Leonard den Ottolander
8992 <leonardjo@hetnet.nl>).
8993 + add check in tic for keypads consistent with vt100 layout.
8994 + improve checks in tic for color capabilities
8997 + check for missing/empty/illegal terminfo name in _nc_read_entry()
8998 (report by Martin Mokrejs, where $TERM was set to an empty string).
8999 + rewrote lib_insch.c, combining it with lib_insstr.c so both handle
9000 tab and other control characters consistently (report by Philippe
9002 + remove an #undef for KEY_EVENT from curses.tail used in the
9003 experimental NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS feature. The #undef confuses
9004 dpkg's build script (Debian #165897).
9005 + fix MKlib_gen.sh, working around the ironically named POSIXLY_CORRECT
9006 feature of GNU sed 4.0 (reported by Ervin Nemeth <airwin@inf.bme.hu>).
9009 + implement logic in lib_mouse.c to handle position reports which are
9010 generated when XFree86 xterm is initialized with private modes 1002
9011 or 1003. These are returned to the application as the
9012 REPORT_MOUSE_POSITION mask, which was not implemented. Tested both
9013 with ncurses 'a' menu (prompted by discussion with Larry Riedel
9014 <Larry@Riedel.org>).
9015 + modify lib_mouse.c to look for "XM" terminfo string, which allows
9016 one to override the escape sequence used to enable/disable mouse
9017 mode. In particular this works for XFree86 xterm private modes
9018 1002 and 1003. If "XM" is missing (note that this is an extended
9019 name), lib_mouse uses the conventional private mode 1000.
9020 + correct NOT_LOCAL() macro in lib_mvcur.c to refer to screen_columns
9021 where it used screen_lines (report by Philippe Blain).
9022 + correct makefile rules for the case when both --with-libtool and
9023 --with-gpm are given (report by Mr E_T <troll@logi.net.au>).
9024 + add note to terminfo manpage regarding the differences between
9025 setaf/setab and setf/setb capabilities (report by Pavel Roskin).
9028 + remove redundant initialization of TABSIZE in newterm(), since it is
9029 already done in setupterm() (report by Philippe Blain).
9030 + add test/inserts.c, to test winnstr() and winsch().
9031 + replace 'sort' in dist.mk with script that sets locale to POSIX.
9032 + update URLs in announce.html.in (patch by Frederic L W Meunier).
9033 + remove glibc add-on files, which are no longer needed (report by
9034 Frederic L W Meunier).
9036 20021012 5.3 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
9037 + modify ifdef's in etip.h.in to allow the etip.h header to compile
9038 with gcc 3.2 (patch by Dimitar Zhekov <jimmy@is-vn.bg>).
9039 + add logic to setupterm() to make it like initscr() and newterm(),
9040 by checking for $NCURSES_TRACE environment variable and enabling
9041 the debug trace in that case.
9042 + modify setupterm() to ensure that it initializes the baudrate, for
9043 applications such as tput (report by Frank Henigman).
9044 + modify definition of bits used for command-line and library debug
9045 traces to avoid overlap, using new definition TRACE_SHIFT to relate
9047 + document tput's interpretation of parameterized strings according to
9048 whether parameters are given, etc. (discussion with Robert De Bath).
9050 20021005 pre-release
9051 + correct winnwstr() to account for non-character cells generated when
9052 a double-width character is added (report by Michael Bienia
9053 <michael@vorlon.ping.de>).
9054 + modify _nc_viswbuf2n() to provide better results using wctomb().
9055 + correct logic in _nc_varargs() which broke tracing of parameters for
9056 formats such as "%.*s".
9057 + correct scale factor in linux-c and linux-c-nc terminfo entries
9058 (report Floyd Davidson).
9059 + change tic -A option to -t, add the same option to infocmp for
9061 + correct "%c" implementation in lib_tparm.c, which did not map a null
9062 character to a 128 (cf: 980620) (patch by Frank Henigman
9063 <fjhenigman@mud.cgl.uwaterloo.ca>).
9065 20020928 pre-release
9066 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for POSIX sort -k option, use that if
9067 it is found, to accommodate newer utility which dropped the
9068 compatibility support for +number options (reported by Andrey A
9070 + modify linux terminfo entry to use color palette feature from
9071 linux-c-nc entry (comments by Tomasz Wasiak and Floyd Davidson).
9072 + restore original color definitions in endwin() if init_color() was
9073 used, and resume those colors on the next doupdate() or refresh()
9074 (report by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@komputom.com.pl>).
9075 + improve debug-traces by modifying MKlib_gen.sh to generate calls
9076 to returnBool() and returnAttr().
9077 + add/use _nc_visbufn() and _nc_viswbufn() to limit the debug trace
9078 of waddnstr() and similar functions to match the parameters as used.
9079 + add/use _nc_retrace_bool() and _nc_retrace_unsigned().
9080 + correct type used by _nc_retrace_chtype().
9081 + add debug traces to some functions in lib_mouse.c
9082 + modify lib_addch.c to handle non-spacing characters.
9083 + correct parameter of RemAttr() in lib_bkgd.c, which caused the c++
9084 demo's boxes to lose the A_ALTCHARSET flag (broken in 20020629).
9085 + correct width computed in _tracedump(), which did not account for
9086 the attributes (broken in 20010602).
9087 + modify test/tracemunch to replace addresses for windows other than
9088 curscr, newscr and stdscr with window0, window1, etc.
9090 20020921 pre-release
9091 + redid fix for edit_man.sed path.
9092 + workaround for Cygwin bug which makes subprocess writes to stdout
9093 result in core dump.
9094 + documented getbegx(), etc.
9095 + minor fixes to configure script to use '%' consistently as a sed
9096 delimiter rather than '@'.
9097 > patch by Philippe Blain:
9098 + add check in lib_overlay.c to ensure that the windows to be merged
9099 actually overlap, and in copywin(), limit the area to be touched
9100 to the lines given for the destination window.
9102 20020914 pre-release
9103 + modified curses.h so that if the wide-character version is installed
9104 overwriting /usr/include/curses.h, and if it relied on libutf8.h,
9105 then applications that use that header for wide-character support
9106 must define HAVE_LIBUTF8_H.
9107 + modify putwin(), getwin() and dupwin() to allow them to operate on
9108 pads (request by Philippe Blain).
9109 + correct attribute-merging in wborder(), broken in 20020216 (report
9110 by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@grubasek.komputom.com.pl>).
9111 > patch by Philippe Blain:
9112 + corrected pop-counts in tparam_internal() to '!' and '~' cases.
9113 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in one place that used sizeof(chtype).
9114 + remove some unused variables from mvcur test-driver.
9116 20020907 pre-release
9117 + change configure script to allow install of widec-character
9118 (ncursesw) headers to overwrite normal (ncurses) headers, since the
9119 latter is a compatible subset of the former.
9120 + fix path of edit_man.sed in configure script, needed to regenerate
9121 html manpages on Debian.
9122 + fix mismatched enums in vsscanf.c, which caused warning on Solaris.
9123 + update README.emx to reflect current patch used for autoconf.
9124 + change web- and ftp-site to invisible-island.net
9125 > patch by Philippe Blain:
9126 + change case for 'P' in tparam_internal() to indicate that it pops
9127 a variable from the stack.
9128 + correct sense of precision and width in parse_format(), to avoid
9130 + modify lib_tparm.c, absorb really_get_space() into get_space().
9131 + modify getwin() and dupwin() to copy the _notimeout, _idlok and
9132 _idcok window fields.
9133 + better fix for _nc_set_type(), using typeMalloc().
9135 20020901 pre-release
9136 + change minor version to 3, i.e., ncurses 5.3
9137 + update config.guess, config.sub
9138 + retest build with each configure option; minor ifdef fixes.
9139 + make keyname() return a null pointer rather than "UNKNOWN STRING" to
9141 + modify handling of wide line-drawing character functions to use the
9142 normal line-drawing characters when not in UTF-8 locale.
9143 + add check/fix to comp_parse.c to suppress warning about missing acsc
9144 string. This happens in configurations where raw termcap information
9145 is processed; tic already does this and other checks.
9146 + modify tic's check for ich/ich1 versus rmir/smir to only warn about
9147 ich1, to match xterm patch #70 notes.
9148 + moved information for ripped-off lines into SCREEN struct to allow
9149 use in resizeterm().
9150 + add experimental wgetch_events(), ifdef'd with NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS
9151 (adapted from patch by Ilya Zakharevich - see ncurses/README.IZ).
9152 + amend check in kgetch() from 20020824 to look only for function-keys,
9153 otherwise escape sequences are not resolved properly.
9154 > patch by Philippe Blain:
9155 + removed redundant assignment to SP->_checkfd from newterm().
9156 + check return-value of setupterm() in restartterm().
9157 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in a few places that used sizeof(chtype).
9158 + prevent dupwin() from duplicating a pad.
9159 + prevent putwin() from writing a pad.
9160 + use typeRealloc() or typeMalloc() in preference to direct calls on
9164 + add a check in kgetch() for cooked characters in the fifo to avoid
9165 calling fifo_push() when a KEY_RESIZE is available (report/analysis
9166 by Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>).
9167 + fix an overlooked case for Redhat #68199 (Philippe Blain).
9168 + ensure clearerr() is called before using ferror() e.g., in
9169 lib_screen.c (report by Philippe Blain).
9172 + modify lib_screen.c and lib_newwin.c to maintain the SCREEN-specific
9173 pointers for curscr/stdscr/newscr when scr_save() and scr_restore()
9174 modify the global curscr/stdscr/newscr variables. Fixes Redhat
9176 + add checks for null pointer in calls to tparm() and tgoto() based on
9177 FreeBSD bug report. If ncurses were built with termcap support, and
9178 the first call to tgoto() were a zero-length string, the result would
9179 be a null pointer, which was not handled properly.
9180 + correct a typo in terminfo.head, which gave the octal code for colon
9182 + remove the "tic -u" option from 20020810, since it did not account
9183 for nested "tc=" clauses, and when that was addressed, was still
9187 + add tic -A option to suppress capabilities which are commented out
9188 when translating to termcap.
9189 + add tic -u option to provide older behavior of "tc=" clauses.
9190 + modified tic to expand all but the final "tc=" clause in a termcap
9191 entry, to accommodate termcap libraries which do not handle multiple
9193 + correct typo in curs_inopts.3x regarding CS8/CS7 usage (report by
9195 + remove a couple of redundant uses of A_ATTRIBUTES in expressions
9196 using AttrOf(), which already incorporates that mask (report by
9198 + document TABSIZE variable.
9199 + add NCURSES_ASSUMED_COLORS environment variable, to allow users to
9200 override compiled-in default black-on-white assumption used in
9201 assume_default_colors().
9202 + correct an off-by-one comparison against max_colors in COLORFGBG
9204 + correct a use of uninitialized memory found by valgrind (reported by
9205 Olaf Buddenhagen <olafBuddenhagen@web.de>).
9206 + modified wresize() to ensure that a failed realloc will not corrupt
9207 the window structure, and to make subwindows fit within the resized
9208 window (completes Debian #87678, Debian #101699)
9211 + fix an off-by-one in lib_pad.c check for limits of pad (patch by
9213 + revise logic for BeOS in lib_twait.c altered in 20011013 to restore
9214 logic used by lib_getch.c's support for GPM or EMX mouse (report by
9216 + remove NCURSES_CONST from several prototypes in curses.wide, to make
9217 the --enable-const --enable-widec configure options to work together
9218 (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@yahoo.com>).
9221 + finish no-leak checking in cardfile.c, using this for testing changes
9223 + simplify _nc_freeall() using delscreen().
9226 + check error-return from _nc_set_tty_mode() in _nc_initscr() and
9227 reset_prog_mode() (report/patch by Philippe Blain).
9228 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52, to address
9229 problem with identifying C++ bool type.
9230 + correct/improve logic to produce an exit status for errors in tput,
9231 which did not exit with an error when told to put a string not in the
9232 current terminfo entry (report by David Gomez <david@pleyades.net>).
9233 + modify configure script AC_OUTPUT() call to work around defect in
9234 autoconf 2.52 which adds an ifdef'd include to the generated
9235 configure definitions.
9236 + remove fstat() check from scr_init(), which also fixes a missing
9237 include for <sys/stat.h> from 20020713 (reported by David Ellement,
9238 fix suggested by Philippe Blain).
9239 + update curs_scanw.3x manpage to note that XSI curses differs from
9240 SVr4 curses: return-values are incompatible.
9241 + correct several prototypes in manpages which used const
9242 inconsistently with the curses.h file, and removed spurious const's
9243 in a few places from curses.h, e.g., for wbkgd() (report by Glenn
9244 Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>).
9245 + change internal type used by tparm() to long, to work with LP64 model.
9246 + modify nc_alloc.h to allow building with g++, for testing.
9249 + add resize-handling to cardfile.c test program.
9250 + altered resizeterm() to avoid having it fail when a child window
9251 cannot be resized because it would be larger than its parent. (More
9252 work must be done on this, but it works well enough to integrate).
9253 + improve a limit-check in lib_refresh.c
9254 + remove check in lib_screen.c relating dumptime to file's modification
9255 times, since that would not necessarily work for remotely mounted
9257 + modify lrtest to simplify debugging changes to resizeterm, e.g.,
9258 t/T commands to enable/disable tracing.
9259 + updated status of multibyte support in TO-DO.
9260 + update contact info in source-files (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
9263 + add Caps.hpux11, as an example.
9264 + modify version_filter(), used to implement -R option for tic and
9265 infocmp, to use computed array offsets based on the Caps.* file which
9266 is actually configured, rather than constants which correspond to
9268 + reorganized lib_raw.c to avoid updating SP and cur_term state if the
9269 functions fail (reported by Philippe Blain).
9270 + add -Wundef to gcc warnings, adjust a few ifdef's to accommodate gcc.
9273 + correct parameters to setcchar() in ncurses.c (cf: 20020406).
9274 + set locale in most test programs (view.c and ncurses.c were the
9276 + add configure option --with-build-cppflags (report by Maksim A
9277 Nikulin <M.A.Nikulin@inp.nsk.su>).
9278 + correct a typo in wide-character logic for lib_bkgnd.c (Philippe
9280 + modify lib_wacs.c to not cancel the acsc, smacs, rmacs strings when
9281 in UTF-8 locale. Wide-character functions use Unicode values, while
9282 narrow-character functions use the terminfo data.
9283 + fix a couple of places in Ada95/samples which did not compile with
9285 + modify mkinstalldirs so the DOS-pathname case is locale-independent.
9286 + fix locale problem in MKlib_gen.sh by forcing related variables to
9287 POSIX (C), using same approach as autoconf (set variables only if
9288 they were set before). Update MKterminfo.sh and MKtermsort.sh to
9292 + add charset to generated html.
9293 + add mvterm entry, adapted from a FreeBSD bug-report by Daniel Rudy
9294 <dcrudy@pacbell.net> -TD
9295 + add rxvt-16color, ibm+16color entries -TD
9296 + modify check in --disable-overwrite option so that it is used by
9297 default unless the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr, in attempt to
9298 work around packagers, e.g., for Sun's freeware, who do not read the
9302 + modify wgetch() to allow returning ungetch'd KEY_RESIZE as a function
9303 key code in get_wch().
9304 + extended resize-handling in test/ncurses 'a' menu to the entire
9305 stack of windows created with 'w' commands.
9306 + improve $COLORFGBG feature by interpreting an out-of-range color
9307 value as an SGR 39 or 49, for foreground/background respectively.
9308 + correct a typo in configure --enable-colorfgbg option, and move it
9309 to the experimental section (cf: 20011208).
9312 + add logic to dump_entry.c to remove function-key definitions that do
9313 not fit into the 1023-byte limit for generated termcaps. This makes
9315 + more improvements to tic's warnings, including logic to ignore
9316 differences between delay values in sgr strings.
9317 + move definition of KEY_RESIZE into MKkeydefs.sh script, to
9318 accommodate Caps.osf1r5 which introduced a conflicting definition.
9321 + add simple resize-handling in test/ncurses.c 'a' menu.
9322 + fixes in keyname() and _tracechar() to handle negative values.
9323 + make tic's warnings about mismatches in sgr strings easier to follow.
9324 + correct tic checks for number of parameters in smgbp and smglp.
9325 + improve scoansi terminfo entry, and add scoansi-new entry -TD
9326 + add pcvt25-color terminfo entry -TD
9327 + add kf13-kf48 strings to cons25w terminfo entry (reported by Stephen
9328 Hurd <deuce@lordlegacy.org> in newsgroup lucky.freebsd.bugs) -TD
9329 + add entrypoint _nc_trace_ttymode(), use this to distinguish the
9330 Ottyb and Nttyb members of terminal (aka cur_term), for tracing.
9333 + correct and simplify logic for lib_pad.c change in 20020518 (reported
9337 + fix lib_pad.c for case of drawing a double-width character which
9338 falls off the left margin of the pad (patch by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij
9339 <lerdsuwa@users.sourceforge.net>)
9340 + modify configure script to work around broken gcc 3.1 "--version"
9341 option, which adds unnecessary trash to the requested information.
9342 + adjust ifdef's in case SIGWINCH is not defined, e.g., with DJGPP
9343 (reported by Ben Decker <deckerben@freenet.de>).
9346 + implement vid_puts(), vid_attr(), term_attrs() based on the narrow-
9347 character versions as well.
9348 + implement erasewchar(), killwchar() based on erasechar() and
9350 + modify erasechar() and killchar() to return ERR if the value was
9352 + correct a bug in wresize() in handling subwindows (based on patch by
9353 Roger Gammans <rgammans@computer-surgery.co.uk>, report by Scott Beck
9354 <scott@gossamer-threads.com>).
9355 + improve test/tclock.c by making the second-hand update more often
9356 if gettimeofday() is available.
9359 + workaround for Solaris sed with MKlib_gen.sh (reported by Andy
9360 Tsouladze <andyt@mypoints.com>).
9363 + correct return-value from getcchar(), making it consistent with
9365 + reorder loops that generate makefile rules for different models vs
9366 subsets so configure --with-termlib works again. This was broken by
9367 logic added to avoid duplicate rules in changes to accommodate cygwin
9368 dll's (reported by George.R.Goffe@seagate.com).
9369 + update config.guess, config.sub
9372 + modify ifdef's in write_entry.c to allow use of symbolic links on
9373 platforms with no hard links, e.g., BeOS.
9374 + modify a few includes to allow compile with BeOS, which has stdbool.h
9375 with a conflicting definition for 'bool' versus its OS.h definition.
9376 + amend MKlib_gen.sh to work with gawk, which defines 'func' as an
9377 alias for 'function'.
9380 + correct form of prototype for ripoffline().
9381 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to test that all functions marked as implemented
9385 + add manpages: curs_get_wstr.3x, curs_in_wchstr.3x
9386 + implement wgetn_wstr().
9387 + implement win_wchnstr().
9388 + remove redefinition of unget_wch() in lib_gen.c (reported by
9389 Jungshik Shin <jshin@jtan.com>).
9392 + modified several of the test programs to allow them to compile with
9393 vendor curses implementations, e.g., Solaris, AIX -TD
9396 + modified test/configure to allow configuring against ncursesw.
9397 + change WACS_xxx definition to use address, to work like Tru64 curses.
9400 + add 'e' and 'm' toggles to 'a', 'A' tests in ncurses.c to demonstrate
9401 effect of echo/noecho and meta modes.
9402 + add 'A' test to ncurses.c to demonstrate wget_wch() and related
9404 + add manpage: curs_get_wch.3x
9405 + implement unget_wch().
9406 + implement wget_wch().
9409 + regenerated html manpages.
9410 + add manpages: curs_in_wch.3x, curs_ins_wch.3x, curs_ins_wstr.3x
9411 + implement wins_wch().
9412 + implement win_wch().
9413 + implement wins_nwstr(), wins_wstr().
9416 + add manpages: curs_addwstr.3x, curs_winwstr.3x
9417 + implement winnwstr(), winwstr().
9420 + add manpages: curs_add_wchstr.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x
9421 + document wunctrl, key_name.
9422 + implement key_name().
9423 + remove const's in lib_box.c incorrectly leftover after splitting off
9425 + update llib-lncurses, llib-ncursesw, fix configure script related to
9429 + remove quotes on "SYNOPSIS" in man/curs_box_set.3x, which resulted
9430 in spurious symlinks on install.
9433 + implement whline_set(), wvline_set(), add manpage curs_border_set.
9434 + add subtest 'b' to 'F' and 'f' in ncurses.c to demonstrate use of
9435 box() and box_set() functions.
9436 + add subtest 'u' to 'F' in ncurses.c, to demonstrate use of addstr()
9437 given UTF-8 string equivalents of WACS_xxx symbols.
9438 + minor fixes to several manpages based on groff -ww output.
9439 + add descriptions of external variables of termcap interface to
9440 the manpage (report by Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>).
9441 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
9442 + correct configure option --with-bool, which was executed as
9444 + add quotes for parameters of --with-bool and --with-ospeed configure
9446 > patch by Sven Verdoolaege (report by Gerhard Haering
9447 <haering_linux@gmx.de>):
9448 + correct typos in definitions of several wide-character macros:
9449 waddwstr, wgetbkgrnd, mvaddwstr, mvwadd_wchnstr, mvwadd_wchnstr,
9451 + pass $(CPPFLAGS) to MKlib_gen.sh, thereby fixing a missing definition
9452 of _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, e.g., on Solaris
9455 + implement wide-acs characters for UTF-8 locales. When in UTF-8
9456 locale, ignore narrow version of acs. Add 'F' test to test/ncurses.c
9458 + correct prototype in keybound manpage (noted from a Debian mailing
9462 + add several cases to the wscanw() example in testcurs.c, showing the
9464 + implement a simple vsscanf() fallback function which uses the %n
9465 conversion to help parse the input data (prompted by discussion with
9466 Albert Chin-A-Young).
9467 + modify mk-1st.awk and test/Makefile.in to add $(LDFLAGS) when making
9468 shared libraries, and to use $(CFLAGS) when linking test programs
9469 (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
9470 + add a call to _nc_keypad() in keypad() to accommodate applications
9471 such as nvi, which use curses for output but not for input (fixes
9472 Debian #131263, cf: 20011215).
9473 + add entrypoints to resizeterm.c which provide better control over the
9474 process: is_term_resized() and resize_term(). The latter restores
9475 the original design of resizeterm() before KEY_RESIZE was added in
9476 970906. Do this to accommodate 20010922 changes to view.c, but allow
9477 for programs with their own sigwinch handler, such as lynx (reported
9478 by Russell Ruby <russ@math.orst.edu>).
9481 + fix a typo in change to mk-1st.awk, which broke the shared-library
9482 makefile rules (reported by Martin Mokrejs).
9485 + update config.guess, config.sub
9486 + finish changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
9487 + fix a typo in mvwchat() macro (reported by Cy <yam@homerow.net).
9490 + add case in lib_baudrate.c for B921600 (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
9491 + correct missing sed-editing stage in manpage installs which is used
9492 to rename manpages, broken in 20010324 fix for Debian #89939 (Debian
9494 + remove -L$(libdir) from linker flags, probably not needed any more
9495 since HPUX is handled properly (reported by Niibe Yutaka
9497 + add configure check for mbstate_t, needed for wide-character
9498 configuration. On some platforms we must include <wchar.h> to
9499 define this (reported by Daniel Jacobowitz).
9500 + incorporate some of the changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
9503 + workaround for awk did not work with mawk, adjusted shell script.
9506 + add Caps.osf1r5, as an example.
9507 + modify behavior of can_clear_with() so that if an application is
9508 running in a non-bce terminals with default colors enabled, it
9509 returns true, allowing the user to select/paste text without picking
9510 up extraneous trailing blanks (adapted from patch by Daniel
9511 Jacobowitz <dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu>).
9512 + modify generated curses.h to ifdef-out prototypes for extensions if
9513 they are disabled, and to define curses_version() as a string in that
9514 case. This is needed to make the programs such as tic build in that
9516 + modified generated headers.sh to remove a gzip'd version of the
9517 target file if it exists, in case non-gzip'd manpages are installed
9518 into a directory where gzip'd ones exist. In that case, the latter
9520 + corrected a redundant initialization of signal handlers from 20010922
9522 + clarified bug-reporting address in terminfo.src (report by John H
9523 DuBois III <spcecdt@armory.com>).
9524 > several fixes from Robert Joop:
9525 + do not use "-v" option of awk in MKkey_defs.sh because it does not
9526 work with SunOS nawk.
9527 + modify definitions for libutf8 in curses.h to avoid redefinition
9529 + quoted references to compiler in shell command in misc/Makefile, in
9530 case it uses multiple tokens.
9533 + restore special case from 20010922 changes to omit SA_RESTART when
9534 setting up SIGWINCH handler, which is needed to allow wgetch() to be
9535 interrupted by that signal.
9536 + updated configure macro CF_WITH_PATHLIST, to omit some double quotes
9537 not needed with autoconf 2.52
9538 + revert configure script to autoconf 2.13 patched with
9539 autoconf-2.13-19990117.patch.gz (or later)
9541 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
9542 because autoconf 2.52 macro AC_PROG_AWK does not work on HPUX 11.0
9543 (report by David Ellement <ellement@sdd.hp.com>). This also fixes a
9544 different problem configuring with Mac OS X (reported by Marc Smith
9545 <marc.a.smith@home.com>).
9548 + modify include/edit_cfg.h to eliminate BROKEN_LINKER symbol from
9550 + move prototype for _nc_vsscanf() into curses.h.in to omit
9551 HAVE_VSSCANF symbol from curses.h, which was dependent upon the
9552 ncurses_cfg.h file which is not installed.
9553 + use ACS_LEN rather than SIZEOF(acs_map) in trace code of lib_acs.c,
9554 to work with broken linker configuration, e.g., cygwin (report by
9555 Robert Joop <rj@rainbow.in-berlin.de>).
9556 + make napms() call _nc_timed_wait() rather than poll() or select(),
9557 to work around broken implementations of these on cygwin.
9560 + drop configure macro CF_WIDEC_SHIFT, since that was rendered obsolete
9561 by Sven Verdoolaege's rewrite of wide-character support. This makes
9562 libncursesw incompatible again, but makes the header files almost the
9563 same as in the narrow-character configuration.
9564 + simplify definitions that combine wide/narrow versions of bkgd, etc.,
9565 to eliminate differences between the wide/narrow versions of curses.h
9566 + correct typo in configure macro CF_FUNC_VSSCANF
9567 + correct location of call to _nc_keypad() from 20011215 changes which
9568 prevented keypad() from being disabled (reported by Lars Hecking).
9571 + rewrote ncurses 'a' test to exercise wgetch() and keypad() functions
9572 better, e.g., by adding a 'w' command to create new windows which
9573 may have different keypad() settings.
9574 + corrected logic of keypad() by adding internal screen state to track
9575 whether the terminal's keypad-mode has been set. Use this in
9576 wgetch() to update the keypad-mode according to whether the
9577 associated window's keypad-mode has been set with keypad(). This
9578 corrects a related problem restoring terminal state after handling
9579 SIGTSTP (reported by Mike Castle).
9580 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52
9581 autoconf-2.52-patch.gz
9583 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
9584 + update config.guess, config.sub from
9585 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
9586 + minor changes to quoting in configure script to allow it to work
9590 + modify final checks in lib_setup.c for line and col values, making
9592 + modify acs_map[] if configure --broken-linker is specified, to make
9593 it use a function rather than an array (prompted by an incorrect
9594 implementation in cygwin package).
9595 + correct spelling of configure option --enable-colorfgbg, which
9596 happened to work if --with-develop was set (noted in cygwin package
9598 + modify ifdef for genericerror() to compile with SUNWspro Sun WorkShop
9599 6 update 1 C++ 5.2 (patch by Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu>).
9600 + add configure checks to see if ncurses' fallback vsscanf() will
9601 compile either of the special cases for FILE structs, and if not,
9602 force it to the case which simply returns an error (report by
9603 Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu> indicates that Solaris 8 with
9604 64-bits does not allow access to FILE's fields).
9605 + modify ifdef's for c++/cursesw.cc to use the fallback vsscanf() in
9606 the ncurses library if no better substitute for this can be found
9608 + modify the build to name dynamic libraries according to the
9609 convention used on OS X and Darwin. Rather than something like
9610 libncurses.dylib.5.2, Darwin would name it libncurses. 5.dylib.
9611 There are a few additional minor fixes, such as setting the library
9612 version and compatibility version numbers (patch by Jason Evans
9613 <jevans@apple.com>).
9614 + use 'sh' to run mkinstalldirs, to work around problems with buggy
9615 versions of 'make' on OS/2 (report by John Polterak <jp@eyup.org>).
9616 + correct typo in manpage description of curs_set() (Debian #121548).
9617 + replace the configure script existence-check for mkstemp() by one
9618 that checks if the function works, needed for older glibc and
9622 + modify script that generates fallbacks.c to compile a temporary
9623 copy of the terminfo source in case the host does not contain all of
9624 the entries requested for fallbacks (request by Greg Roelofs).
9625 + modify configure script to accommodate systems such as Mac OS X whose
9626 <stdbool.h> header defines a 'bool' type inconsistent with ncurses,
9627 which normally makes 'bool' consistent with C++. Include <stdbool.h>
9628 from curses.h to force consistent usage, define a new type
9629 NCURSES_BOOL and related that to the exported 'bool' as either a
9630 typedef or definition, according to whether <stdbool.h> is present
9631 (based on a bug report for tin 1.5.9 by Aaron Adams <adamsa@mac.com>).
9634 + added/updated terminfo entries for M$ telnet and KDE konsole -TD
9637 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
9638 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
9639 + add putty terminfo entry -TD
9640 + if configuring for wide-curses, define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, since
9641 this may not otherwise be defined to make test/view.c compile.
9644 + review/correct several missing/generated items in curses.wide, sorted
9645 the lists to make subsequent diff's easier to track.
9648 + add manual pages for add_wch(), echo_wchar(), getcchar(),
9649 mvadd_wch(), mvwadd_wch(), setcchar(), wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar().
9650 + implement wecho_wchar()
9651 + modify _tracedump() to handle wide-characters by mapping them to '?'
9652 and control-characters to '.', to make the trace file readable. Also
9653 dynamically allocate the buffer used by _tracedump() for formatting
9655 + modify T_CALLED/T_RETURN macros to ease balancing call/return lines
9656 in a trace by using curly braces.
9657 + implement _nc_viscbuf(), for tracing cchar_t arrays.
9658 + correct trace-calls in setcchar() and getcchar() functions, which
9659 traced the return values but not the entry to each function.
9660 + correct usage message in test/view.c, which still mentioned -u flag.
9663 + modify configure script to allow building with termcap only, or with
9664 fallbacks only. In this case, we do not build tic and toe.
9665 + add configure --with-termpath option, to override default TERMPATH
9666 value of /etc/termcap:/usr/share/misc/termcap.
9667 + cosmetic change to tack: make menu descriptions agree with menu
9671 + rewrote limit-checks in wscrl() and associated _nc_scroll_window(),
9672 to ensure that if the parameter of wscrl() is larger than the size of
9673 the scrolling region, then the scrolling region will be cleared
9674 (report by Ben Kohlen <bckohlen@yahoo.com>).
9675 + add trace/varargs.c, using this to trace parameters in lib_printw.c
9676 + implement _tracecchar_t2() and _tracecchar_t().
9677 + split-out trace/visbuf.c
9678 + correct typo in lib_printw.c changes from 20010922 (report by Mike
9682 + modify run_tic.sh to check if the build is a cross-compile. In that
9683 case, do not use the build's tic to install the terminfo database
9684 (report by Rafael Rodriguez Velilla <rrv@tid.es>).
9685 + modify mouse click resolution so that mouseinterval(-1) will disable
9686 it, e.g., to handle touchscreens via a slow connection (request by
9687 Byron Stanoszek <gandalf@winds.org>).
9688 + correct mouseinterval() default value shown in curs_mouse.3x
9689 + remove conflicting definition of mouse_trafo() (reported by Lars
9690 Hecking, using gcc 2.95.3).
9693 + simpler fix for signal_name(), to replace the one overlooked in
9694 20010929 (reported by Larry Virden).
9697 + add -i option to view.c, to test ncurses' check for non-default
9698 signal handler for SIGINT, etc.
9699 + add cases for shared-libraries on Darwin/OS X (patch by Rob Braun
9700 <bbraun@synack.net>).
9701 + modify tset to restore original I/O modes if an error is encountered.
9702 Also modify to use buffered stderr consistently rather than mixing
9704 + change signal_name() function to use if-then-else rather than case
9705 statement, since signal-values aren't really integers (reported by
9707 + add limit checks in wredrawln(), fixing a problem where lynx was
9708 repainting a pad which was much larger than the screen.
9711 + fix: PutRange() was counting the second part of a wide character as
9712 part of a run, resulting in a cursor position that was one too far
9713 (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
9714 + modify resizeterm() to not queue a KEY_RESIZE if there was no
9715 SIGWINCH, thereby separating the two styles of SIGWINCH handling
9717 + simplified lib_tstp.c, modify it to use SA_RESTART flag for SIGWINCH.
9718 + eliminate several static buffers in the terminfo compiler, using
9720 + modify MKkeyname.awk so that keyname() does not store its result into
9721 a static buffer that is overwritten by the next call.
9722 + reorganize the output of infocmp -E and -e options to compile cleanly
9723 with gcc -Wwrite-strings warnings.
9724 + remove redefinition of chgat/wchgat/mvwchgat from curses.wide
9727 + add label to test/view.c, showing the name of the last key or signal
9728 that made the screen repaint, to make it clearer when a sigwinch
9730 + use ExitProgram() consistently in the test-programs to make it
9731 simpler to test leaks with dmalloc, etc.
9732 + move hashtab static data out of hashmap.c into SCREEN struct.
9733 + make NO_LEAK code compile with revised WINDOWLIST structs.
9736 + modify tgetent() to check if exit_attribute_mode resets the alternate
9737 character set, and if so, attempt to adjust the copy of the termcap
9738 "me" string which it will return to eliminate that part. In
9739 particular, 'screen' would lose track of line-drawing characters
9740 (report by Frederic L W Meunier <0@pervalidus.net>, analysis by
9744 + specify DOCTYPE in html manpages.
9745 + add missing macros for several "generated" functions: attr_get(),
9746 attr_off(), attr_on(), attr_set(), chgat(), mvchgat(), mvwchgat() and
9748 + modify view.c to agree with non-experimental status of ncurses'
9750 + change the sense of the -r option, making it default to ncurses'
9752 + add a note explaining what functions are unsafe in a signal
9754 + add a -c option, to set color display, for testing.
9755 + unset $data variable in MKterminfo.sh script, to address potential
9756 infinite loop if shell malfunction (report by Samuel Mikes
9757 <smikes@cubane.com>, for bash 2.05.0 on a Linux 2.0.36 system).
9758 + change kbs in mach terminfo entries to ^? (Marcus Brinkmann
9759 <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>).
9760 + correct logic for COLORFGBG environment variable: if rxvt is compiled
9761 with xpm support, the variable has three fields, making it slightly
9762 incompatible with itself. In either case, the background color is
9766 + move calls to def_shell_mode() and def_prog_mode() before loop with
9767 callbacks in lib_set_term.c, since the c++ demo otherwise initialized
9768 the tty modes before saving them (patch by John David Anglin
9769 <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>).
9770 + duplicate logic used to initialize trace in newterm(), in initscr()
9771 to avoid confusing trace of initscr().
9772 + simplify allocation of WINDOW and WINDOWLIST structs by making the
9773 first a part of the second rather than storing a pointer. This saves
9774 a call to malloc for each window (discussion with Philippe Blain).
9775 + remove unused variable 'used_ncv' from lib_vidattr.c (Philippe
9777 + modify c++/Makefile.in to accommodate archive programs that are
9778 different for C++ than for C, and add cases for vendor's C++
9779 compilers on Solaris and IRIX (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
9780 + correct manpage description of criteria for deciding if the terminal
9781 supports xterm mouse controls.
9782 + add several configure script options to aid with cross-compiling:
9783 --with-build-cc, --with-build-cflags, --with-build-ldflags, and
9784 --with-build-libs (request by Greg Roelofs).
9785 + change criteria for deciding if configure is cross-compiling from
9786 host/build mismatch to host/target mismatch (request by Greg Roelofs
9787 <greg.roelofs@philips.com>).
9788 + correct logic for infocmp -e and -E options which writes the data for
9789 the ext_Names[] array. This is needed if one constructs a fallback
9790 table for a terminfo entry which uses extended termcap names, e.g.,
9791 AX in a color xterm.
9792 + fix undefined NCURSES_PATHSEP when configure --disable-database
9796 + fix for VALID_BOOLEAN() macro when char is not signed.
9797 + modify 'clean' rule for C++ binding to work with Sun compiler, which
9798 caches additional information in a subdirectory of the objects.
9799 + added llib-ncursesw.
9802 + add Caps.keys example for experimental extended function keys
9803 (adapted from a patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
9804 + correct parameter types of vidputs() and vidattr() to agree with
9805 header files (report by William P Setzer).
9806 + fix typos in several man-pages (patch by William P Setzer).
9807 + remove unneeded ifdef for __GNUG__ in CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC configure
9808 macro, which made ncurses C++ binding fail to build with other
9809 C++ compilers such as HPUX 11.x (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
9810 + workaround for bug in HPUX 11.x C compiler: add a blank after
9811 NCURSES_EXPORT macro in form.h (report by Albert Chin-A-Young)
9812 + ignore blank lines in Caps* files in MKkey_defs.sh script (report by
9813 Albert Chin-A-Young).
9814 + correct definition of key_end in Caps.aix4, which left KEY_END
9815 undefined (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
9816 + remove a QNX-specific fallback prototype for vsscanf(), which is
9817 obsolete with QNX RTP.
9818 + review/fix some of the T() and TR() macro calls, having noticed that
9819 there was no data for delwin() in a trace of dialog because there was
9820 no returnVoid call for wtimeout(). Also, traces in lib_twait.c are
9821 now selected under TRACE_IEVENT rather than TRACE_CALLS.
9824 + add a _nc_access() check before opening files listed via $TERMPATH.
9825 + using modified man2html, regenerate some of the html manpages to fix
9826 broken HREF's where the link was hyphenated.
9829 + add some limit/pointer checks to -S option of tputs.
9830 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
9831 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
9832 + add a note in curs_termcap.3x regarding a defect in the XSI
9833 description of tgetent (based on a discussion with Urs Jansen
9834 regarding the HPUX 11.x implementation, whose termcap interface is
9835 not compatible with existing termcap programs).
9836 + modify manhtml rule in dist.mk to preserve copyright notice on the
9837 generated files, as well as to address HTML style issues reported by
9838 tidy and weblint. Regenerated/updated corresponding html files.
9839 + comment out use of Protected_Character and related rarely used
9840 attributes in ncurses Ada95 test/demo to compile with wide-character
9844 + implement a simple example in C++ demo to test scanw().
9845 + corrected stdio function used to implement scanw() in cursesw.cc
9846 + correct definition of RemAttr() macro from 20010602 changes, which
9847 caused C++ SillyDemo to not show line-drawing characters.
9848 + modify C++ binding, adding getKey() which can be overridden by user
9849 to substitute functions other than getch() for keyboard processing
9850 of forms and menus (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
9853 + fix some of the trace calls which needed modification to work with
9854 new wide-character structures.
9855 + modify magic-cookie code in tty_update.c to compile with new
9856 wide-character structures (report by <George.R.Goffe@seagate.com>).
9857 + ensure that _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined in curses.priv.h if
9858 compiling for wide-character configuration.
9859 + make addwnstr() handle non-spacing characters (patch by Sven
9863 + add configure check to define _GNU_SOURCE, needed to prop up glibc
9865 + split-out include/curses.wide to solve spurious redefinitions caused
9866 by defining _GNU_SOURCE, and move includes for <signal.h> before
9867 <curses.h> to work around misdefinition of ERR in glibc 2.1.3 header
9869 + extended ospeed change to NetBSD and OpenBSD -TD
9870 + modify logic in lib_baudrate.c for ospeed, for FreeBSD to make it
9871 work properly for termcap applications (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
9874 + correct an overlooked CharOf/UChar instance (reports by Eugene Lee
9875 <eugene@anime.net>, Sven Verdoolaege).
9876 + correct unneeded ifdef for wunctrl() (reported by Sven Verdoolaege)
9879 + change overlooked several CharOf/UChar instances.
9880 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
9881 + correct a typo in wunctrl(), which made it appear that botwc() was
9882 needed (no such function: use btowc()).
9883 + reimplement wide-character demo in test/view.c, using new functions.
9884 + implement getcchar(), setcchar(), wadd_wchnstr() and related macros.
9885 + fix a syntax problem with do/if/while in PUTC macro (curses.priv.h).
9888 + add parentheses in macros for malloc in test.priv.h, fixes an
9889 expression in view.c (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.co.at>).
9890 + add Caps.uwin, as an example.
9891 + change the way curses.h is generated, making the list of function
9892 key definitions extracted from the Caps file.
9893 + add #undef's before possible redefinition of ERR and OK in curses.h
9894 + modify logic in tic, toe, tput and tset which checks for basename of
9895 argv[0] to work properly on systems such as OS/2 which have
9896 case-independent filenames and/or program suffixes, e.g., ".ext".
9899 + add a configure check, if --enable-widec is specified, for putwc(),
9900 which may be in libutf8.
9901 + remove some unnecessary text from curs_extend.3x and
9902 default_colors.3x which caused man-db to make incorrect symbolic
9903 links (Debian #99550).
9904 + add configure check if cast for _IO_va_list is needed to compile
9905 C++ vscan code (Debian #97945).
9906 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
9907 + correct code that used non-standard auto-initialization of a struct,
9908 which gcc allows (report by Larry Virden).
9909 + use putwc() in PUTC() macro.
9910 + make addstr() work for the special case where the codeset is
9911 non-stateful (eg. UTF-8), as well as stateful codesets.
9914 + correct loop expression in NEXT_CHAR macro for lib_addstr.c changes
9915 from 20010602 (report by Mike Castle).
9918 + modify mvcur() to avoid emitting newline characters when nonl() mode
9919 is set. Normally this is not a problem since the actual terminal
9920 mode is set to suppress nl/crlf translations, however it is useful to
9921 allow the caller to manipulate the terminal mode to avoid staircasing
9922 effects after spawning a process which writes messages (for lynx
9924 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>:
9925 + remove redundant type-conversion in fifo_push()
9926 + correct definition of addwstr() macro in curses.h.in
9927 + remove _nc_utf8_outch()
9928 + rename most existing uses of CharOf() to UChar(), e.g., where it is
9929 used to prevent sign-extension in ctype macros.
9930 + change some chtype's to attr_t's where the corresponding variables
9931 are used to manipulate attributes.
9932 + UpdateAttr() was applied to both attributes (attr_t) and characters
9933 (chtype). Modify macro and calls to it to make these distinct.
9934 + add CharEq() macro, use in places where wide-character configuration
9935 implementation uses a struct for cchar_t.
9936 + moved struct ldat into curses.priv.h, to hide implementation details.
9937 + change CharOf() macro to use it for masking A_CHARTEXT data from
9939 + add L() macro to curses.priv.h, for long-character literals.
9940 + replace several assignments from struct ldat entries to chtype or
9941 char values with combinations of CharOf() and AttrOf() macros.
9942 + add/use intermediate ChAttrOf() and ChCharOf() macros where we know
9943 we are using chtype data.
9944 + add/use lowlevel attribute manipulation macros AddAttr(), RemAttr()
9946 + add/use SetChar() macro, to change a cchar_t based on a character and
9948 + convert most internal use of chtype to NCURSES_CH_T, to simplify use
9949 of cchar_t for wide-character configuration. Similarly, use ARG_CH_T
9950 where a pointer would be more useful.
9951 + add stubs for tracing cchar_t values.
9952 + add/use macro ISBLANK()
9953 + add/use constructors for cchar_t's: NewChar(), NewChar2().
9954 + add/use macros CHREF(), CHDEREF(), AttrOfD(), CharOfD() to facilitate
9955 passing cchar_t's by address.
9956 + add/use PUTC_DATA, PUTC() macros.
9957 + for wide-character configuration, move the window background data to
9958 the end of the WINDOW struct so that whether _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
9959 is defined or not, the offsets in the struct will not change.
9960 + modify addch() to work with wide-characters.
9961 + mark several wide-character functions as generated in curses.h.in
9962 + implement wunctrl(), wadd_wch(), wbkgrndset(), wbkgrnd(),
9963 wborder_set() and waddnwstr().
9966 + add experimental --with-caps=XXX option to customize to similar
9967 terminfo database formats such as AIX 4.x
9968 + add Caps.aix4 as an example.
9969 + modify Caps to add columns for the the KEY_xxx symbols.
9970 + modify configure --with-widec to suppress overwrite of libcurses.so
9972 + add checks to toe.c to avoid being confused by files and directories
9973 where we would expect the reverse, e.g., source-files in the
9974 top-level terminfo levels as is the case for AIX.
9977 + add top-level 'depend' rule for the C sources, assuming that the
9978 makedepend program is available. As a side-effect, this makes
9979 the generated sources, as in "make sources" (prompted by a report
9980 by Mike Castle that "make -j" fails because the resulting parallel
9981 processes race to generate ncurses/names.c).
9982 + modify configure script so that --disable-overwrite option's action
9983 to add a symbolic link for libcurses applies to the static library as
9984 well as the shared library when both are configured (report by Felix
9985 Natter <f.natter@ndh.net>).
9986 + add ELKS terminfo entries (Federico Bianchi
9987 <bianchi@www.arte.unipi.it>)
9988 + add u6 (CSR) to Eterm (Michael Jennings).
9991 + modify test/ncurses.c to work with xterm-256color, which has fewer
9992 color pairs than colors*colors (report by David Ellement
9993 <ellement@sdd.hp.com>).
9996 + corrected screen.xterm-xfree86 entry.
9997 + update comment in Caps regarding IBM (AIX) function-key definitions.
10000 + modify c++/Makefile.in to link with libncurses++w.a when configured
10001 for wide-characters (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
10002 + add check in _nc_trace_buf() to refrain from freeing a null pointer.
10003 + improve CF_PROG_INSTALL macro using CF_DIRNAME.
10004 + update config.guess, config.sub from autoconf 2.49e (alpha).
10007 + add secondary check in tic.c, similar_sgr() to see if the reason
10008 for mismatch was that the individual capabilities used a time-delay
10009 while sgr did not. Used this to cleanup mismatches, e.g., in vt100,
10010 and remove time-delay from Apple_Terminal entries.
10011 + add Apple_Terminal terminfo entries (Benjamin C W Sittler
10012 <bsittler@iname.com>).
10013 + correct definitions of shifted editing keys for xterm-xfree86 -TD
10014 + fix a bug in test/bs.c from 20010407 (patch by Erik Sigra).
10015 + prevent relative_move() from doing an overwrite if it detects 8-bit
10016 characters when configured for UTF-8 (reported by Sven Verdoolaege
10017 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
10020 + add configure checks for strstream.h vscan function, and similar
10021 stdio-based function which may be used in C++ binding for gcc 3.0
10022 (reports by George Goffe, Lars Hecking, Mike Castle).
10023 + rewrite parts of configure.in which used changequote(). That feature
10024 is broken in the latest autoconf alphas (e.g., 2.49d).
10025 + add a missing pathname for ncurses_dll.h, needed when building in
10026 a directory outside the source tree (patch by Sven Verdoolaege
10027 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
10028 > fix 2 bugs in test/bs.c Erik Sigra <sigra@home.se>:
10029 + no ships were ever placed in the last row or in the last column.
10030 This made the game very easy to win, because you never had to waste
10031 any shots there, but the computer did.
10032 + the squares around a sunken ship that belonged to the player were not
10033 displayed as already hit by the computer, like it does for the
10037 + add some examples of customizing screen's terminfo:
10038 screen.xterm-xfree86, screen.xterm-r6, screen.teraterm -TD
10039 + modify screen's terminfo entry to match the khome/kend in screen
10040 3.09.08 (Debian #92215).
10041 + correct a memory leak in forms library (report by Stefan Vogtner
10042 <stefan@vogtner.de>) (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
10045 + change symbols used to guard against repeated includes to begin
10046 consistently with "NCURSES_" rather than a leading underscore. There
10047 are other symbols defined in the header files which begin with a
10048 leading underscore, but they are part of the legacy interface.
10049 + reorder includes in c++ binding so that rcs identifiers can be
10051 + add .cc.ii rule to c++ makefile, to get preprocessor output for
10053 + correct configure script handling of @keyword@ substitutions when the
10054 --with-manpage-renames option is given (cf: 20000715, fixes Debian
10056 + report stack underflow/overflow in tparm() when tic -cv option is
10058 + remove spurious "%|" operator from xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry,
10059 (reported by Adam Costello <amc@cs.berkeley.edu>, Debian #89222).
10062 + cleanup of newdemo.c, fixing some ambiguous expressions noted by gcc
10063 2.95.2, and correcting some conflicting color pair initializations.
10064 + add missing copyright notice for cursesw.h
10065 + review, make minor fixes for use of '::' for referring to C-language
10066 interface from C++ binding.
10067 + modify configure check for g++ library slightly to accommodate
10068 nonstandard version number, e.g., <vendor>-2.7 (report by Ronald Ho
10069 <rho@mipos2.intel.com>).
10070 + add configure check for c++ <sstream> header, replace hardcoded
10072 + workaround for pre-release of gcc 3.0 libstdc++, which has dropped
10073 vscan from strstreambuf to follow standard, use wrapper for C vscanf
10074 instead (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@excite.com> and Matt Taggart
10075 <taggart@carmen.fc.hp.com>, fixes Debian .
10078 + modify interface of _nc_get_token() to pass 'silent' parameter to it,
10079 to make quieter loading of /etc/termcap (patch by Todd C Miller).
10080 + correct a few typos in curs_slk.3x and curs_outopts.3x manpages
10081 (patch by Todd C Miller).
10084 + compiler-warning fixes (reported by Nelson Beebe).
10087 + modify screen terminfo entry to use new 3.9.8 feature allowing xterm
10091 + broaden patterns used to match OS/2 EMX in configure script to cover
10092 variant used in newer config.guess/config.sub
10093 + remove changequote() calls from configure script, since this feature
10094 is broken in the autoconf 2.49c alpha, maintainers decline to fix.
10095 + remove macro callPutChar() from tty_update.c, since this is no longer
10096 needed (reported by Philippe Blain).
10097 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c to handle the case when the input
10098 file is really empty. Modify the next_char() function in comp_scan.c
10099 to allow arbitrarily long lines, and incidentally supply a newline to
10100 files that do not end in a newline. These changes improve tic's
10101 recovery from attempts to read binary files, e.g., its output from
10102 the terminfo database (reported by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
10105 + revert change to c++/demo.cc from 20001209, which changed definition
10106 of main() apparently to accommodate cygwin linker, but broke the demo
10108 + workaround for broken egcs 2.91.66 which calls member functions
10109 (i.e., lines() and colors() of NCursesWindow before calling its
10110 constructor. Add calls to initialize() in a few constructors which
10111 did not do this already.
10112 + use the GNAT preprocessor to make the necessary switch between TRACE
10113 and NO_TRACE configurations (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
10114 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
10115 + modify kterm terminfo entry to use SCS sequence to support alternate
10116 character set (it does not work with SI/SO).
10117 + --with-ospeed=something didn't work. configure.in checked for a
10118 $enableval where it should check for $withval. Also,
10119 ncurses/llib-lncurses still had a hardcoded short.
10122 + correction to my merge of Tom Riddle's patch that broke tic in some
10123 conditions (reported by Enoch Wexler <enoch@wexler.co.il>) -TD
10126 + modify view.c to test halfdelay(). Like other tests, this recognizes
10127 the 's' and space commands for stopping/starting polled input, shows
10128 a freerunning clock in the header. If given a parameter to 's', that
10129 makes view.c use halfdelay() with that parameter rather than
10131 + fix to allow compile with the experimental configure option
10133 + modify postprocess_termcap() to avoid overwriting key_backspace,
10134 key_left, key_down when processing a non-base entry (report/patch by
10136 + modify _nc_wrap_entry(), adding option to reallocate the string
10137 table, needed in _nc_merge_entry() when merging termcap entries.
10138 (adapted from report/patch by Tom Riddle <ftr@oracom.com>).
10139 + modify a few configure script macros to keep $CFLAGS used only for
10140 compiler options, preprocessor options in $CPPFLAGS.
10143 + correct marker positions in lrtest.c after receiving a sigwinch.
10144 + fix ifdef's in ncurses.c to build against pre-5.2 for testing.
10145 + fixes to tclock for resizing behavior, redundant computation (report
10146 and patch by A M Kuchling <akuchlin@mems-exchange.org>).
10149 + improved scoansi terminfo entry -TD
10150 + modify configure script and makefile in Ada95/src to compile a stub
10151 for the trace functions when ncurses does not provide those.
10154 + add ncurses_dll.h and related definitions to support generating DLL's
10155 with cygwin (adapted from a patch by Charles Wilson
10156 <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>, changed NCURSES_EXPORT macro to make it
10157 work with 'indent') -TD
10160 + correct prototypes for some functions in curs_termcap.3x, matching
10161 termcap.h, which matches X/Open.
10162 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
10163 + a revised version of the Ada enhancements sent in by "H.
10164 Nanosecond", aka Eugene V Melaragno <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>. This
10166 - small fixes to the existing ncurses binding
10167 - addition of some more low-level functions to the binding, including
10168 termcap and terminfo functions
10169 - An Ada implementation of the "ncurses" test application originally
10173 + modify logic in lib_setup.c to allow either lines or columns value
10174 from terminfo to be used if the screen size cannot be determined
10175 dynamically rather than requiring both (patch by Ehud Karni
10176 <ehud@unix.simonwiesel.co.il>).
10177 + add check in lib_tgoto.c's is_termcap() function to reject null or
10178 empty strings (reported by Valentin Nechayev <netch@netch.kiev.ua> to
10180 + add definition from configure script that denotes the path-separator,
10181 which is normally a colon. The path-separator is a semicolon on
10182 OS/2 EMX and similar systems which may use a colon within pathnames.
10183 + alter logic to set default for --disable-overwrite option to set it
10184 to 'yes' if the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr/local, thereby
10185 accommodating the most common cause of problems: gcc's nonstandard
10186 search rules. Other locations such as /usr/local/ncurses will
10187 default to overwriting (report by Lars Hecking <lhecking@nmrc.ie>).
10190 + modify default for --disable-overwrite configure option to disable
10191 if the --prefix or $prefix value is not /usr.
10192 + add cygwin to systems for which ncurses is installed by default into
10193 /usr rather than /usr/local.
10196 + minor optimization in comp_error.c and lib_termname.c, using
10197 strncat() to replace strncpy() (patch by Solar Designer).
10198 + add a use_terminfo_vars() check for $HOME/.termcap, and check for
10199 geteuid() to use_terminfo_vars() (patch by Solar Designer
10200 <solar@false.com>).
10201 + improved cygwin terminfo entry, based on patch by
10202 <ernie_boyd@yahoo.com>.
10203 + modify _nc_write_entry() to allow for the possibility that linking
10204 aliases on a filesystem that ignores case would not succeed because
10205 the source and destination differ only by case, e.g., NCR260VT300WPP0
10206 on cygwin (report by Neil Zanella).
10207 + fix a typo in the curs_deleteln.3x man page (patch by Bernhard
10208 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
10211 + add configure option --with-ospeed to assist packagers in transition
10212 to 5.3 change to ospeed type.
10213 + add/use CharOf() macro to suppress sign-extension of char type on
10214 platforms where this is a problem in ctype macros, e.g., Solaris.
10215 + change trace output to binary format.
10216 + correct a missing quote adjustment in CF_PATH_SYNTAX autoconf
10217 macro, for OS/2 EMX configuration.
10218 + rearrange a few configure macros, moving preprocessor options to
10219 $CPPFLAGS (a now-obsolete version of autoconf did not consistently
10220 use $CPPFLAGS in both the compile and preprocessor checks).
10221 + add a check in relative_move() to guard against buffer overflow in
10222 the overwrite logic.
10225 + add message to configure script showing g++ version.
10226 + resync config.guess, config.sub
10227 + modify lib_delwin.c, making it return ERR if the window did not exist
10228 (suggested by Neil Zanella).
10229 + add cases for FreeBSD 3.1 to tdlint and makellib scripts, used this
10230 to test/review ncurses library. (Would use lclint, but it doesn't
10232 + reorganized knight.c to avoid forward references. Correct screen
10233 updates when backtracking, especially to the first cell. Add F/B/a
10236 20001021 5.2 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
10237 + update generated html files from manpages.
10238 + modify dist.mk to use edit_man.sh to substitute autoconf'd variables
10240 + fix an uninitialized pointer in read_termcap.c (report by Todd C
10241 Miller, from report/patch by Philip Guenther <guenther@gac.edu>).
10242 + correct help-message and array limit in knight.c (patch by Brian
10243 Raiter <breadbox@muppetlabs.com>).
10244 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
10245 + fix to avoid warning by GNAT-3.13p about use of inconsistent casing
10246 for some identifiers defined in the standard package.
10247 + cosmetic change to forms/fty_enum.c
10250 + correct an off-by-one position in test/railroad.c which could cause
10251 wrapping at the right margin.
10252 + test/repair some issues with libtool configuration. Make
10253 --disable-echo force libtool --silent. (Libtool does not work for
10254 OS/2 EMX, works partly for SCO - libtool is still very specific to
10256 + change default of --with-manpage-tbl to "no", since for most of the
10257 platforms which do have tbl installed, the system "man" program
10258 understands how to run tbl automatically.
10259 + minor improvement to force_bar() in comp_parse.c (Bernhard
10260 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
10261 + modify lib_tparm.c to use get_space() before writing terminating
10262 null character, both for consistency as well as to ensure that if
10263 save_char() was called immediately before, that the allocated memory
10264 is enough (patch by Sergei Ivanov).
10265 + add note about termcap ML capability which is duplicated between two
10266 different capabilities: smgl and smglr (reported by Sergei Ivanov
10267 <svivanov@pdmi.ras.ru>).
10268 + correct parameter counts in include/Caps for dclk as well as some
10269 printer-specific capabilities: csnm, defc, scs, scsd, smgtp, smglp.
10270 > patch by Johnny C Lam <lamj@stat.cmu.edu>:
10271 + add support for building with libtool (apparently version 1.3.5,
10272 since old versions do not handle -L../lib), using new configure
10273 option --with-libtool.
10274 + add configure option --with-manpage-tbl, which causes the manpages to
10275 be preprocessed by tbl(1) prior to installation,
10276 + add configure option --without-curses-h, which causes the
10277 installation process to install curses.h as ncurses.h and make
10278 appropriate changes to headers and manpages.
10281 + correct order of options/parameters in run_tic.in invocation of tic,
10282 which did not work with standard getopt() (reported by Ethan
10283 Butterfield <primus@veris.org>).
10284 + correct logic for 'reverse' variable in lib_vidattr.c, which was
10285 setting it true without checking if newmode had A_REVERSE set, e.g.,
10286 using $TERM=ansi on OS/2 EMX (see 20000917).
10287 > patch by Todd C Miller:
10288 + add a few missing use_terminfo_vars() and fixes up _nc_tgetent().
10289 Previously, _nc_cgetset() would still get called on cp so the
10290 simplest thing is to set cp to NULL if !use_terminfo_vars().
10291 + added checks for an empty $HOME environment variable.
10292 > patches for OS/2 EMX (Ilya Zakharevich):
10293 + modify convert_configure.pl to support INSTALL. Change compiler
10294 options in that script to use multithreading, needed for the mouse.
10295 + modify OS/2 mouse support, retrying as a 2-button mouse if code fails
10296 to set up a 3-button mouse.
10297 + improve code for OS/2 mouse support, using _nc_timed_wait() to
10298 replace select() call.
10301 + change type of ospeed variable back to short to match its use in
10302 legacy applications (reported by Andrey A Chernov).
10303 + add case to configure script for --enable-rpath on IRIX (patch by
10304 Albert Chin-A-Young).
10305 + minor fix to position_check() function, to ensure it gets the whole
10306 cursor report before decoding.
10307 + add configure option --disable-assumed-color, to allow pre-5.1
10308 convention of default colors used for color-pair 0 to be configured
10309 (see assume_default_colors()).
10310 + rename configure option --enable-hashmap --disable-hashmap, and
10311 reorder the configure options, splitting the experimental and
10313 + add configure option --disable-root-environ, which tells ncurses to
10314 disregard $TERMINFO and similar environment variables if the current
10315 user is root, or running setuid/setgid (based on discussion with
10317 + modified misc/run_tic.in to use tic -o, to eliminate dependency on
10318 $TERMINFO variable for installs.
10319 + add table entry for plab_norm to tput, so it passes in strings
10320 for that capability.
10321 + modify parse_format() in lib_tparm.c to ignore precision if it is
10322 longer than 10000 (report by Jouko Pynnonen).
10323 + rewrote limit checks in lib_mvcur.c using new functions
10324 _nc_safe_strcat(), etc. Made other related changes to check lengths
10325 used for strcat/strcpy (report by Jouko Pynnonen
10326 <jouko@solutions.fi>).
10329 + modify several descriptions, including those for setaf, setab, in
10330 include/Caps to indicate that the entries are parameterized. This
10331 information is used to tell which strings are translated when
10332 converting to termcap. Fixes a problem where the generated termcap
10333 would contain a spurious "%p1" for the terminfo "%p1%d".
10334 + modify ld -rpath options (e.g., Linux, and Solaris) to use an
10335 absolute pathname for the build tree's lib directory (prompted by
10336 discussion with Albert Chin-A-Young).
10337 + modify "make install.man" and "make uninstall.man" to include tack's
10339 + various fixes for install scripts used to support configure --srcdir
10340 and --with-install-prefix (reported by Matthew Clarke
10341 <Matthew_Clarke@mindlink.bc.ca>).
10342 + make configure script checks on variables $GCC and $GXX consistently
10343 compare against 'yes' rather than test if they are nonnull, since
10344 either may be set to the corresponding name of the C or C++ compiler
10345 (report/patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
10348 + modify rs2 capability in xterm-r6 and similar where cursor
10349 save/restore bracketed the sequence for resetting video attributes.
10350 The cursor restore would undo that (report by John Hawkinson
10351 <jhawk@MIT.EDU> (see NetBSD misc/11052)).
10352 + using parameter check added to tic, corrected 27 typos in
10354 + modify tic to verify that its inputs are really files, in case
10355 someone tries to read a directory (or /dev/zero).
10356 + add a check for empty buffers returned by fgets() in comp_scan.c
10357 next_char() function, in case tic is run on a non-text file (fixes
10358 a core dump reported by Aaron Campbell <aaron@cs.dal.ca>).
10359 + add to railroad.c some code exercising tgoto(), providing an
10360 alternate form of display if the terminal supports cursor addressing.
10361 + split-out tgoto() again, this time into new file lib_tgoto.c, and
10362 implement a conventional BSD-style tgoto() which is used if the
10363 capability string does not contain terminfo-style padding or
10364 parameters (requested by Andrey A Chernov).
10365 + add check to tic which reports capabilities that do not reference
10366 the expected number of parameters.
10367 + add error checking to infocmp's -v and -m options to ensure that
10368 the option value is indeed a number.
10369 + some cleanup of logic in _nc_signal_handler() to verify if SIGWINCH
10370 handler is setup. Separated the old/new sigaction data for SIGTSTP
10371 from the other signals.
10374 + add S0, E0 extensions to screen's terminfo entry, which is another
10375 way to solve the misconfiguration issue -TD
10376 + completed special case for tgoto from 20000916
10379 + update xterm terminfo entries to match XFree86 xterm patch #146 -TD
10380 + add Matrix Orbital terminfo entries (from Eric Z Ayers
10382 + add special case to lib_tparm.c to allow 'screen' program to use a
10383 termcap-style parameter "%." to tgoto() for switching character sets.
10384 + use LN_S substitution in run_tic.in, to work on OS/2 EMX which has
10386 + updated notes in README.emx regarding autoconf patches.
10387 + replace a lookup table in lib_vidattr.c used to decode no_color_video
10388 with a logic expression (suggested by Philippe Blain).
10389 + add a/A toggle to ncurses.c 'b' test, which clears/sets alternate
10390 character set attribute from the displayed text.
10391 + correct inequality in parameter analysis of rewritten lib_tparm.c
10392 which had the effect of ignoring p9 in set_attributes (sgr), breaking
10393 alternate character set (reported by Piotr Majka <charvel@link.pl>).
10394 + correct ifdef'ing for GCC_PRINTF, GCC_SCANF which would not compile
10395 with Sun WorkShop compilers since these tokens were empty (cf:
10396 20000902, reported by Albert Chin-A-Young).
10399 + correct an uninitialized parameter to open_tempfile() in tic.c which
10400 made "tic -I" give an ambiguous error message about tmpnam.
10401 + add special case in lib_vidattr.c to reset underline and standout for
10402 devices that have no sgr0 defined (patch by Don Lewis
10403 <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>). Note that this will not work for bold
10404 mode, since there is no exit-bold-mode capability.
10405 + improved patch for Make_Enum_Type (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
10406 + modify tparm to disallow arithmetic on strings, analyze the varargs
10407 list to read strings as strings and numbers as numbers.
10408 + modify tparm's internal function spop() to treat a null pointer as
10410 + modify tput program so it can be renamed or invoked via a link as
10411 'reset' or 'init', producing the same effect as 'tput reset' or 'tput
10413 + add private entrypoint _nc_basename(), use to consolidate related
10414 code in progs, as well as accommodating OS/2 EMX pathnames.
10415 + remove NCURSES_CONST line from edit_cfg.sh to compensate for its
10416 removal (except via AC_SUBST) from configure.in, making
10417 --enable-const work again (reported by Juergen Pfeifer).
10418 + regen'd configure to pick up "hpux*" change from 20000902.
10421 + modify tset.c to check for transformed "reset" program name, if any.
10422 + add a check for null pointer in Make_Enum_Type() (reported by Steven
10423 W Orr <steveo@world.std.com>).
10424 + change functions _nc_parse_entry() and postprocess_termcap() to avoid
10425 using strtok(), because it is non-reentrant (reported by Andrey A
10426 Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>).
10427 + remove "hpux10.*" case from CF_SHARED_OPTS configure script macro.
10428 This differed from the "hpux*" case by using reversed symbolic
10429 links, which made the 5.1 version not match the configuration of
10430 5.0 shared libraries (reported by Albert Chin-A-Young).
10431 + correct a dependency in Ada95/src/Makefile.in which prevented
10432 building with configure --srcdir (patch by H Nanosecond
10433 <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>).
10434 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in to avoid warning if GCC_PRINTF or
10435 GCC_SCANF was not previously defined (reported by Pavel Roskin
10437 + add MKncurses_def.sh to generate fallback definitions for
10438 ncurses_cfg.h, to quiet gcc -Wundef warnings, modified ifdef's in
10439 code to consistently use "#if" rather than "#ifdef".
10442 + add QNX qansi entries to terminfo -TD
10443 + add os2 entry to misc/emx.src (<jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>).
10444 + add configure option --with-database to allow specifying a different
10445 terminfo source-file to install. On OS/2 EMX, this defaults to
10447 + change misc/run_tic.sh to derive it from misc/run_tic.in, to simplify
10448 setting .exe extension on OS/2 EMX.
10449 + add .exe extension in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in,
10450 Ada95/samples/Makefile.in, for OS/2 EMX (reported by
10451 <jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>).
10452 + add configure check for filesystems (such as OS/2 EMX) which do not
10453 distinguish between upper/lowercase filenames, use this to fix tags
10454 rules in makefiles.
10455 + initialize fds[] array to 0's in _nc_timed_wait(); apparently poll()
10456 only sets the revents members of that array when there is activity
10457 corresponding to the related file (report by Glenn Cooper
10458 <gcooper@qantas.com.au>, using Purify on Solaris 5.6).
10459 + change configure script to use AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM rather than
10460 AC_CANONICAL_HOST, which means that configure --target will set
10461 a default program-prefix.
10462 + add note on cross-compiling to INSTALL (which does not rely on the
10463 AC_CANONICAL_* macros).
10466 + add cases for EMX OS/2 to config.guess, config.sub
10467 + new version of config.guess, config.sub from lynx 2.8.4dev.7
10468 + add definitions via transform.h to allow tic and tput to check for
10469 the transformed aliases rather than the original infotocap, etc.
10470 + simplify transform-expressions in progs/Makefile.in, make the
10471 uninstall rule work for transformed program names.
10472 + change symbol used by --install-prefix configure option from
10473 INSTALL_PREFIX to DESTDIR (the latter has become common usage
10474 although the name is misleading).
10475 + modify programs to use curses_version() string to report the version
10476 of ncurses with which they are compiled rather than the
10477 NCURSES_VERSION string. The function returns the patch level in
10478 addition to the major and minor version numbers.
10481 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to make transformed program names
10482 a parameter to that macro rather than embedding them in the macro.
10483 + newer config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in lynx
10485 + add configure option --with-default-terminfo-dir=DIR to allow
10486 specifying the default terminfo database directory (request by Albert
10488 + minor updates for terminfo.src from FreeBSD termcap change-history.
10489 + correct notes in README and INSTALL regarding documentation files
10490 that were moved from misc directory to doc (report by Rich Kulawiec
10492 + change most remaining unquoted parameters of 'test' in configure
10493 script to use quotes, for instance fixing a problem in the
10494 --disable-database option (reported by Christian Mondrup
10495 <scancm@biobase.dk>).
10496 + minor adjustments to work around some of the incompatibilities/bugs
10497 in autoconf 2.29a alpha.
10498 + add -I/usr/local/include when --with-ncurses option is used in
10499 test/configure script.
10500 + correct logic in adjust_cancels(), which did not check both
10501 alternatives when reclassifying an extended name between boolean,
10502 number and string, causing an infinite loop in tic.
10505 + correct a missing backslash in curses.priv.h
10508 + change handling of non_dest_scroll_region in tty_update.c to clear
10509 text after it is shifted in rather than before shifting out. Also
10510 correct row computation (reported by Ruediger Kuhlmann
10511 <uck4@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>).
10512 + add/use new trace function to display chtype values from winch() and
10514 + add trace mask TRACE_ATTRS, alter several existing _tracef calls that
10515 trace attribute changes under TRACE_CALLS to use this.
10516 + modify MKlib_gen.sh so that functions returning chtype will call
10518 + add returnChar() trace, for functions returning chtype.
10519 + change indent.pro to line up parenthesis.
10522 + fix a heap problem with the c++ binding (report by
10523 <alexander_liberson@ninewest.com>, patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
10524 + minor adjustment to ClrToEOL() to handle an out-of-bounds parameter.
10525 + modify the check for big-core to force a couple of memory accesses,
10526 which may work as needed for older/less-capable machines (if not,
10527 there's still the explicit configure option).
10528 > fixes based on diff's for Amiga and BeOS found at
10529 http://www.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de/~kuhlmann/cross/ncurses/
10530 + alter definition of NCURSES_CONST to make it non-empty.
10531 + add amiga-vnc terminfo entry.
10532 + redefine 'TEXT' in menu.h for AMIGA, since it is reported to have
10533 an (unspecified) symbol conflict.
10534 + replaced case-statement in _nc_tracebits() for CSIZE with a table to
10535 simplify working around implementations that define random
10536 combinations of the related macros to zero.
10537 + modify configure test for tcgetattr() to allow for old
10538 implementations, e.g., on BeOS, which only defined it as a macro.
10539 > patches by Bruno Haible:
10540 + when checking LC_ALL/LC_CTYPE/LANG environment variables for UTF-8
10541 locale, ignore those which are set to an empty value, as per SUSV2.
10542 + encode 0xFFFD in UTF-8 with 3 bytes, not 2.
10543 + modify _nc_utf8_outch() to avoid sign-extension when checking for
10544 out-of-range value.
10547 + correct manlinks.sed script to avoid using ERE "\+", which is not
10548 understood by older versions of sed (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
10549 + implement configure script options that transform installed program
10550 names, e.g., --program-prefix, including the manpage names and cross
10551 references (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com>).
10552 + correct several mismatches between manpage filename and ".TH"
10553 directives, renaming dft_fgbg.3x to default_colors.3x and
10554 menu_attribs.3x to menu_attributes.3x (report by Todd C Miller).
10555 + correct missing includes for <string.h> in several places, including
10556 the C++ binding. This is not noted by gcc unless we use the
10557 -fno-builtin option (reported by Igor Schein <igor@txc.com>).
10558 + modified progs/tset.c and tack/sysdep.c to build with sgttyb
10559 interface if neither termio or termios is available. Tested this
10560 with FreeBSD 2.1.5 (which does have termios - but the sgttyb does
10563 20000708 5.1 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
10564 + document configure options in INSTALL.
10565 + add man-page for ncurses trace functions.
10566 + correct return value shown in curs_touch.3x for is_linetouched() and
10567 is_wintouched(), in curs_initscr.3x for isendwin(), and in
10568 curs_termattr.3x for has_ic() and has_il().
10569 + add prototypes for touchline() and touchwin(), adding them to the
10570 list of generated functions.
10571 + modify fifo_push() to put ERR into the fifo just like other values to
10572 return from wgetch(). It was returning without doing that, making
10573 end-of-file condition incorrectly return a 0 (reported by Todd C
10575 + uncomment CC_SHARED_OPTS for progs and tack (see 971115), since they
10576 are needed for SCO OpenServer.
10577 + move _nc_disable_period from free_ttype.c to comp_scan.c to appease
10578 dynamic loaders on SCO and IRIX64.
10579 + add "-a" option to test/ncurses.c to invoke assume_default_colors()
10581 + correct assignment in assume_default_colors() which tells ncurses
10582 whether to use default colors, or the assumed ones (reported by Gary
10583 Funck <gary@Intrepid.Com>).
10584 + review/correct logic in mk-1st.awk for making symbolic links for
10585 shared libraries, in particular for FreeBSD, etc.
10586 + regenerate misc/*.def files for OS/2 EMX dll's.
10587 + correct quoting of values for CC_SHARED_OPTS in aclocal.m4 for
10588 cases openbsd2*, openbsd*, freebsd* and netbsd* (patch by Peter
10589 Wemm) (err in 20000610).
10590 + minor updates to release notes, as well as adding/updating URLs for
10591 examples cited in announce.html
10592 > several fixes from Philippe Blain <philippe.blain2@freesbee.fr>:
10593 + correct placement of ifdef for NCURSES_XNAMES in function
10594 _nc_free_termtype(), fixes a memory leak.
10595 + add a call to _nc_synchook() to the end of function whline() like
10596 that in wvline() (difference was in 1.9.4).
10597 + make ClearScreen() a little faster by moving two instances of
10598 UpdateAttr() out of for-loops.
10599 + simplify ClrBottom() by eliminating the tstLine data, using for-loops
10602 20000701 pre-release
10603 + change minor version to 1, i.e., ncurses 5.1
10604 + add experimental configure option --enable-colorfgbg to check for
10605 $COLORFGBG variable as set by rxvt/aterm/Eterm.
10606 + add Eterm terminfo entry (Michael Jennings <mej@valinux.com>).
10607 + modify manlinks.sed to pick aliases from the SYNOPSIS section, and
10608 several manpages so manlinks.sed can find aliases for creating
10610 + add explanation to run_tic.sh regarding extended terminal
10612 + change message format for edit_cfg.sh, since some people interpret
10614 + correct unescaped '$' in sysv5uw7*|unix_sv* rule for CF_SHARED_OPTS
10615 configure macro (report by Thanh Ma <Thanh.Ma@casi-rusco.com>).
10616 + correct logic in lib_twait.c as used by lib_mouse.c for GPM mouse
10617 support when poll() is used rather than select() (prompted by
10618 discussion with David Allen <DAllen24@aol.com>).
10620 20000624 pre-release
10621 + modify TransformLine() to check for cells with different color pairs
10622 that happen to render the same display colors.
10623 + apply $NCURSES_NO_PADDING to cost-computation in mvcur().
10624 + improve cost computation in PutRange() by accounting for the use
10625 of parm_right_cursor in mvcur().
10626 + correct cost computation in EmitRange(), which was not using the
10627 normalized value for cursor_address.
10628 + newer config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in TIN 1.5.6).
10631 + update config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in PCRE 3.2).
10632 + resync changes to gnathtml against version 1.22, regenerated html
10633 files under doc/html/ada using this (1.22.1.1).
10634 + regenerated html files under doc/html/man after correcting top and
10635 bottom margin options for man2html in dist.mk
10636 + minor fixes to test programs ncurses 'i' and testcurs program to make
10637 the subwindow's background color cover the subwindow.
10638 + modify configure script so AC_MSG_ERROR is temporarily defined to a
10639 warning in AC_PROG_CXX to make it recover from a missing C++ compiler
10640 without requiring user to add --without-cxx option (adapted from
10641 comment by Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr> to autoconf mailing list).
10642 + modify headers.sh to avoid creating temporary files in the build
10643 directory when installing headers (reported by Sergei Pokrovsky
10647 + regenerated the html files under doc/html/ada/files and
10648 doc/html/ada/funcs with a slightly-improved gnathtml.
10649 + add kmous capability to linux terminfo entry to allow it to use
10650 xterm-style events provided by gpm patch by Joerg Schoen.
10651 + make the configure macro CF_SHARED_OPTS a little smarter by testing
10652 if -fPIC is supported by gcc rather than -fpic. The former option
10653 allows larger symbol tables.
10654 + update config.guess and config.sub (patches by
10655 Kevin Buettner <kev@primenet.com> (for elf64_ia64),
10656 Bernd Kuemmerlen <bkuemmer@mevis.de> (for MacOS X)).
10657 + add warning for 'tic -cv' about use of '^?' in terminfo source, which
10661 + modify echo() behavior of getch() to match Solaris curses for
10662 carriage return and backspace (reported by Neil Zanella).
10663 + change _nc_flush() to a function.
10664 + modify delscreen() to check if the output stream has been closed, and
10665 if so, free the buffer allocated for setbuf (this provides an
10666 ncurses-specific way to avoid a memory leak when repeatedly calling
10667 newterm reported by Chipp C <at_1@zdnetonebox.com>).
10668 + correct typo in curs_getch.3x manpage regarding noecho (reported by
10669 David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>).
10670 + add a "make libs" rule.
10671 + make the Ada95 interface build with configure --enable-widec.
10672 + if the configure --enable-widec option is given, append 'w' to names
10673 of the generated libraries (e.g., libncursesw.so) to avoid conflict
10674 with existing ncurses libraries.
10677 + modify view.c to make a rudimentary viewer of UTF-8 text if ncurses
10678 is configured with the experimental wide-character support.
10679 + add a simple UTF-8 output driver to the experimental wide-character
10680 support. If any of the environment variables LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE or
10681 LANG contain the string "UTF-8", this driver will be used to
10682 translate the output to UTF-8. This works with XFree86 xterm.
10683 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries on BeOS
10684 (from a patch by Valeriy E Ushakov).
10685 + modify lib_addch.c to allow repeated update to the lower-right
10686 corner, rather than displaying only the first character written until
10687 the cursor is moved. Recent versions of SVr4 curses can update the
10688 lower-right corner, and behave this way (reported by Neil Zanella).
10689 + add a limit-check in _nc_do_color(), to avoid using invalid color
10690 pair value (report by Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>).
10693 + the tack program knows how to use smcup and rmcup but the "show caps
10694 that can be tested" feature did not reflect this knowledge. Correct
10695 the display in the menu tack/test/edit/c (patch by Daniel Weaver).
10696 + xterm-16color does allow bold+colors, removed ncv#32 from that
10700 + correct assignment to SP->_has_sgr_39_49 in lib_dft_fgbg.c, which
10701 broke check for screen's AX capability (reported by Valeriy E Ushakov
10702 <uwe@ptc.spbu.ru>).
10703 + change man2html rule in dist.mk to workaround bug in some
10704 man-programs that ignores locale when rendering hyphenation.
10705 + change web- and ftp-site to dickey.his.com
10708 + move _nc_curr_token from parse_entry.c to comp_scan.c, to work around
10709 problem linking tack on MacOS X DP3.
10710 + include <sys/time.h> in lib_napms.c to compile on MacOS X DP3
10711 (reported by Gerben Wierda <wierda@holmes.nl>).
10712 + modify lib_vidattr.c to check for ncv fixes when pair-0 is not
10714 + add -d option to ncurses.c, to turn on default-colors for testing.
10715 + add a check to _nc_makenew() to ensure that newwin() and newpad()
10716 calls do not silently fail by passing too-large limits.
10717 + add symbol NCURSES_SIZE_T to use rather than explicit 'short' for
10718 internal window and pad sizes. Note that since this is visible in
10719 the WINDOW struct, it would be an ABI change to make this an 'int'
10720 (prompted by a question by Bastian Trompetter
10721 <btrompetter@firemail.de>, who attempted to create a 96000-line pad).
10724 + add mgterm terminfo entry from NetBSD, minor adjustments to sun-ss5,
10725 aixterm entries -TD
10726 + modify tack/ansi.c to make it more tolerant of bad ANSI replies. An
10727 example of an illegal ANSI resonse can be found using Microsoft's
10728 Telnet client. A correct display can be found using a VT-4xx
10729 terminal or XFree86 xterm with:
10730 XTerm*VT100*decTerminalID: 450
10731 (patch by Daniel Weaver).
10732 + modify gdc.c to recognize 'q' for quit, 's' for single-step and ' '
10733 for resume. Add '-n' option to force gdc's standard input to
10734 /dev/null, to both illustrate the use of newterm() for specifying
10735 alternate inputs as well as for testing signal handling.
10736 + minor fix for configure option --with-manpage-symlinks, for target
10737 directories that contain a period ('.') (reported by Larry Virden).
10740 + minor additions to beterm entry (feedback from Rico Tudor) -TD
10741 + corrections/updates for some IBM terminfo entries -TD
10742 + modify _nc_screen_wrap() so that when exiting curses mode with
10743 non-default colors, the last line on the screen will be cleared to
10744 the screen's default colors (request by Alexander V Lukyanov).
10745 + modify ncurses.c 'r' example to set nonl(), allowing control/M to be
10746 read for demonstrating the REQ_NEW_LINE operation (prompted by a
10747 question by Tony L Keith <tlkeith@keithconsulting.com>).
10748 + modify ncurses.c 'r' example of field_info() to work on Solaris 2.7,
10749 documented extension of ncurses which allows a zero pointer.
10750 + modify fmt_complex() to avoid buffer overflow in case of excess
10751 recursion, and to recognize "%e%?" as a synonym for else-if, which
10752 means that it will not recur for that special case.
10753 + add logic to support $TERMCAP variable in case the USE_GETCAP symbol
10754 is defined (patch by Todd C Miller).
10755 + modify one of the m4 files used to generate the Ada95 sources,
10756 to avoid using the token "symbols" (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
10759 + add terminfo entries bsdos-pc-m, bsdos-pc-mono (Jeffrey C Honig)
10760 + correct spelling error in terminfo entry name: bq300-rv was given as
10761 bg300-rv in esr's version.
10762 + modify redrawwin() macro so its parameter is fully parenthesized
10763 (fixes Debian #61088).
10764 + correct formatting error in dump_entry() which set incorrect column
10765 value when no newline trimming was needed at the end of an entry,
10766 before appending "use=" clauses (cf: 960406).
10769 + add configure option --with-manpage-symlinks
10770 + change unctrl() to render C1 characters (128-159) as ~@, ~A, etc.
10771 + change makefiles so trace() function is provided only if TRACE is
10772 defined, e.g., in the debug library. Modify related calls to
10773 _tracechar() to use unctrl() instead.
10776 + add screen's AX capability (for ECMA SGR 39 and 49) to applicable
10777 terminfo entries, use presence of this as a check for a small
10778 improvement in setting default colors.
10779 + improve logic in _nc_do_color() implementing assume_default_colors()
10780 by passing in previous color pair info to eliminate redundant call to
10781 set_original_colors(). (Part of this is from a patch by Alexander
10783 + modify warning in _nc_trans_string() about a possibly too-long string
10784 to do this once only rather than for each character past the
10785 threshold (600). Change interface of _nc_trans_string() to allow
10786 check for buffer overflow.
10787 + correct use of memset in _nc_read_entry_source() to initialize ENTRY
10788 struct each time before reading new data into it, rather than once
10789 per loop (cf: 990301). This affects multi-entry in-core operations
10790 such as "infocmp -Fa".
10793 + remove a spurious pointer increment in _nc_infotocap() changes from
10794 20000311. Add check for '.' in format of number, since that also
10795 is not permitted in termcap.
10796 + correct typo in rxvt-basic terminfo from temporary change made while
10797 integrating 20000318.
10800 + revert part of the vt220 change (request by Todd C Miller).
10801 + add ansi-* terminfo entries from ESR's version.
10802 + add -a option to tic and infocmp, which retains commented-out
10803 capabilities during source translation/comparison, e.g., captoinfo
10805 + modify cardfile.c to display an empty card if no input data file is
10806 found, fixes a core dump in that case (reported by Bruno Haible).
10807 + correct bracketing in CF_MATH_LIB configure macro, which gave wrong
10808 result for OS/2 EMX.
10809 + supply required parameter for _nc_resolve_uses() call in
10810 read_termcap.c, overlooked in 20000311 (reported by Todd C Miller).
10811 > patches by Bruno Haible <haible@ilog.fr>:
10812 + fix a compiler warning in fty_enum.c
10813 + correct LIB_PREFIX expression for DEPS_CURSES in progs, tack
10814 makefiles, which resulted in redundant linking (cf: 20000122).
10817 + make ifdef's for BROKEN_LINKER consistent (patch by Todd C Miller).
10818 + improved tack/README (patch by Daniel Weaver).
10819 + modify tput.c to ensure that unspecified parameters are passed to
10821 + add a few checks in infocmp to guard against buffer overflow when
10822 displaying string capabilities.
10823 + add check for zero-uses in infocmp's file_comparison() function
10824 before calling _nc_align_termtype(). Otherwise one parameter is
10825 indexed past the end of the uses-array.
10826 + add an option -q to infocmp to specify the less verbose output,
10827 keeping the existing format as the default, though not retaining the
10828 previous behavior that made the -F option compare each entry to
10830 + adapted patch by ESR to make infocmp -F less verbose -TD
10831 (the submitted patch was unusable because it did not compile
10833 + modify write_entry.c to ensure that absent or cancelled booleans
10834 are written as FALSE, for consistency with infocmp which now
10835 assumes this. Note that for the small-core configuration, tic
10836 may not produce the same result as before.
10837 + change some private library interfaces used by infocmp, e.g.,
10838 _nc_resolve_uses().
10839 + add a check in _nc_infotocap() to ensure that cm-style capabilities
10840 accept only %d codes when converting the format from terminfo to
10842 + modify ENTRY struct to separate the data in 'parent' into the name
10843 and link values (the original idea to merge both into 'parent' was
10845 + discard repair_acsc(tterm);
10846 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
10847 + drop support for gnat 3.10
10848 + move generated documentation and html files under ./doc directory,
10849 adding makefile rules for this to dist.mk
10852 + correct conflicting use of tparm() in 20000226 change to tic, which
10853 made it check only one entry at a time.
10854 + fix errors in ncurses-intro.html and hackguide.html shown by Dave
10856 + make the example in ncurses-intro.html do something plausible, and
10857 corrected misleading comment (reported by Neil Zanella).
10858 + modify pnoutrefresh() to set newscr->_leaveok as wnoutrefresh() does,
10859 to fix a case where the cursor position was not updated as in
10860 Solaris (patch by David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>).
10861 + add a limit-check for wresize() to ensure that a subwindow does not
10862 address out of bounds.
10863 + correct offsets used for subwindows in wresize() (patch by Michael
10864 Andres <ma@suse.de>).
10865 + regenerate html'ized manual pages with man2html 3.0.1 (patch by
10866 Juergen Pfeifer). This generated a file with a space in its name,
10868 + fix a few spelling errors in tack.
10869 + modify tack/Makefile.in to match linker options of progs/Makefile.in;
10870 otherwise it does not build properly for older HPUX shared library
10872 + add several terminfo entries from esr's "11.0".
10875 + make 'tput flash' work properly for xterm by flushing output in
10876 delay_output() when using napms(), and modifying xterm's terminfo to
10877 specify no padding character. Otherwise, xterm's reported baud rate
10878 can mislead ncurses into producing too few padding characters
10880 + add a check to tic for consistency between sgr and the separate
10881 capabilities such as smso, use this to check/correct several
10882 terminfo entries (Debian #58530).
10883 + add a check to tic if cvvis is the same as cnorm, adjusted several
10884 terminfo entries to remove the conflict (Debian #58530).
10885 + correct prototype shown in attr_set()/wattr_set() manpages (fixes
10887 + minor clarification for curs_set() and leaveok() manpages.
10888 + use mkstemp() for creating temporary file for tic's processing of
10889 $TERMCAP contents (fixes Debian #56465).
10890 + correct two errors from integrating Alexander's changes: did not
10891 handle the non-bce case properly in can_erase_with() (noted by
10892 Alexander), and left fg/bg uninitialized in the pair-zero case of
10893 _nc_do_color() (reported by Dr Werner Fink <werner@suse.de> and
10894 Ismael Cordeiro <ismael@cordeiro.com>).
10897 + store default-color code consistently as C_MASK, even if given as
10898 -1 for convenience (adapted from patches by Alexander V Lukyanov).
10899 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
10900 + change can_clear_with() macro to accommodate logic for
10901 assume_default_colors(), making most of the FILL_BCE logic
10902 unnecessary. Made can_clear_with() an inline function to make it
10906 + corrected form of recent copyright dates.
10907 + minor corrections to xterm-xf86-v333 terminfo entry -TD
10908 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
10909 + reworded dft_fgbg.3x to avoid assuming that the terminal's default
10910 colors are white on black.
10911 + fix initialization of tstLine so that it is filled with current blank
10912 character in any case. Previously it was possible to have it filled
10913 with old blank. The wrong over-optimization was introduced in 991002
10914 patch. (it is not very critical as the only bad effect is not using
10915 clr_eos for clearing if blank has changed).
10918 + minor corrections/updates to several terminfo entries: rxvt-basic,
10919 vt520, vt525, ibm5151, xterm-xf86-v40 -TD
10920 + modify ifdef's for poll() to allow it to use <sys/poll.h>, thereby
10921 allowing poll() to be used on Linux.
10922 + add CF_FUNC_POLL macro to check if poll() is able to select from
10923 standard input. If not we will not use it, preferring select()
10924 (adapted from patch by Michael Pakovic <mpakovic@fdn.com>).
10925 + update CF_SHARED_OPTS macro for SCO Unixware 7.1 to allow building
10926 shared libraries (reported/tested by Thanh <thanhma@mediaone.net>).
10927 + override $LANGUAGE in build to avoid incorrect ordering of keynames.
10928 + correct CF_MATH_LIB parameter, must be sin(x), not sqrt(x).
10931 + resync CF_CHECK_ERRNO and CF_LIB_PREFIX macros from tin and xterm -TD
10932 + modify CF_MATH_LIB configure macro to parameterize the test function
10933 used, for reuse in dialog and similar packages.
10934 + correct tests for file-descriptors in OS/2 EMX mouse support. A
10935 negative value could be used by FD_SET, causing the select() call
10936 to wait indefinitely.
10939 + additional fixes for non-bce terminals (handling of delete_character)
10940 to work when assume_default_colors() is not specified.
10941 + modify warning message from _nc_parse_entry() regarding extended
10942 capability names to print only if tic/infocmp/toe have the -v flag
10943 set, and not at all in ordinary user applications. Otherwise, this
10944 warning would be shown for screen's extended capabilities in programs
10945 that use the termcap interface (reported by Todd C Miller).
10946 + modify use of _nc_tracing from programs such as tic so their debug
10947 level is not in the same range as values set by trace() function.
10948 + small panel header cleanup (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
10949 + add 'railroad' demo for termcap interface.
10950 + modify 'tic' to write its usage message to stderr (patch by Todd C
10954 + add prototype for erase() to curses.h.in, needed to make test
10955 programs build with c++/g++.
10956 + add .c.i and .c.h suffix rules to generated makefiles, for debugging.
10957 + correct install rule for tack.1; it assumed that file was in the
10958 current directory (reported by Mike Castle <dalgoda@ix.netcom.com>).
10959 + modify terminfo/termcap translation to suppress acsc before trying
10960 sgr if the entry would be too large (patch by Todd C Miller).
10961 + document a special case of incompatibility between ncurses 4.2 and
10962 5.0, add a section for this in INSTALL.
10963 + add TRACE_DATABASE flag for trace().
10966 + update mach, add mach-color terminfo entries based on Debian diffs
10967 for ncurses 5.0 -TD
10968 + add entries for xterm-hp, xterm-vt220, xterm-vt52 and xterm-noapp
10969 terminfo entries -TD
10970 + change OTrs capabilities to rs2 in terminfo.src -TD
10971 + add obsolete and extended capabilities to 'screen' terminfo -TD
10972 + corrected conversion from terminfo rs2 to termcap rs (cf: 980704)
10973 + make conversion to termcap ug (underline glitch) more consistently
10975 + fix out-of-scope use of 'personal[]' buffer in 'toe' (this error
10976 was in the original pre-1.9.7 version, when $HOME/.terminfo was
10978 + modify 'toe' to ignore terminfo directories to which it has no
10980 + modify read_termtype(), fixing 'toe', which could dump core when it
10981 found an incomplete entry such as "dumb" because it did not
10982 initialize its buffer for _nc_read_file_entry().
10983 + use -fPIC rather than -fpic for shared libraries on Linux, not
10984 needed for i386 but some ports (from Debian diffs for 5.0) -TD
10985 + use explicit VALID_NUMERIC() checks in a few places that had been
10986 overlooked, and add a check to ensure that init_tabs is nonzero,
10987 to avoid divide-by-zero (reported by Todd C Miller).
10988 + minor fix for CF_ANSI_CC_CHECK configure macro, for HPUX 10.x (from
10992 + reorder tests during mouse initialization to allow for gpm to run in
10993 xterm, or for xterm to be used under OS/2 EMX. Also drop test for
10994 $DISPLAY in favor of kmous=\E[M or $TERM containing "xterm" (report
10995 by Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de>).
10996 + modify raw() and noraw() to clear/restore IEXTEN flag which affects
10997 stty lnext on systems such as FreeBSD (report by Bruce Evans
10998 <bde@zeta.org.au>, via Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>).
10999 + fix a potential (but unlikely) buffer overflow in failed() function
11000 of tset.c (reported by Todd C Miller).
11001 + add manual-page for ncurses extensions, documented curses_version(),
11002 use_extended_names().
11005 + treat as untranslatable to termcap those terminfo strings which
11006 contain non-decimal formatting, e.g., hexadecimal or octal.
11007 + correct commented-out capabilities that cannot be translated to
11008 termcap, which did not check if a colon must be escaped.
11009 + correct termcap translation for "%>" and "%+", which did not check
11010 if a colon must be escaped, for instance.
11011 + use save_string/save_char for _nc_captoinfo() to eliminate fixed
11012 buffer (originally for _nc_infotocap() in 960301 -TD).
11013 + correct expression used for terminfo equivalent of termcap %B,
11014 adjust regent100 entry which uses this.
11015 + some cleanup and commenting of ad hoc cases in _nc_infotocap().
11016 + eliminate a fixed-buffer in tic, used for translating comments.
11017 + add manpage for infotocap
11020 + add kvt and gnome terminfo entries -TD
11021 + correct translation of "%%" by infotocap, which was emitted as "%".
11022 + add "obsolete" termcap strings to terminfo.src
11023 + modify infocmp to default to showing obsolete capabilities rather
11024 than terminfo only.
11025 + modify write_entry.c so that if extended names (i.e., configure
11026 --enable-tcap-names) are active, then tic will also write "obsolete"
11027 capabilities that are present in the terminfo source.
11028 + modify tic so that when running as captoinfo or infotocap, it
11029 initializes the output format as in -C and -I options, respectively.
11030 + improve infocmp and tic -f option by splitting long strings that do
11031 not have if-then-else construct, but do have parameters, e.g., the
11032 initc for xterm-88color.
11033 + refine MKtermsort.sh slightly by using bool for the *_from_termcap
11037 + additional fixes for non-bce terminals (handling of clear_screen,
11038 clr_eol, clr_eos, scrolling) to work when assume_default_colors() is
11040 + several small changes to xterm terminfo entries -TD.
11041 + move logic for _nc_windows in lib_freeall.c inside check for nonnull
11042 SP, since it is part of that struct.
11043 + remove obsolete shlib-versions, which was unintentionally re-added
11045 + modify infocmp -e, -E options to ensure that generated fallback.c
11046 type for Booleans agrees with term.h (reported by Eric Norum
11047 <eric@cls.usask.ca>).
11048 + correct configure script's use of $LIB_PREFIX, which did not work
11049 for installing the c++ directory if $libdir did not end with "/lib"
11050 (reported by Huy Le <huyle@ugcs.caltech.edu>).
11051 + modify infocmp so -L and -f options work together.
11052 + modify the initialization of SP->_color_table[] in start_color() so
11053 that color_content() will return usable values for COLORS greater
11055 + modify ncurses 'd' test in case COLORS is greater than 16, e.g., for
11056 xterm-88color, to limit the displayed/computed colors to 16.
11057 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
11058 + simplify coding of the panel library according to suggestions by
11060 + improve macro coding for a few macros in curses.priv.h
11063 + modify treatment of color pair 0 so that if ncurses is configured
11064 to support default colors, and they are not active, then ncurses
11065 will set that explicitly, not relying on orig_colors or orig_pair.
11066 + add new extension, assume_default_colors() to provide better control
11067 over the use of default colors.
11068 + modify test programs to use more-specific ifdef's for existence of
11069 wresize(), resizeterm() and use_default_colors().
11070 + modify configure script to add specific ifdef's for some functions
11071 that are included when --enable-ext-funcs is in effect, so their
11072 existence can be ifdef'd in the test programs.
11073 + reorder some configure options, moving those extensions that have
11074 evolved from experimental status into a new section.
11075 + change configure --enable-tcap-names to enable this by default.
11078 + install tack's manpage (reported by Robert Weiner
11079 <robert@progplus.com>)
11080 + correct worm.c's handling of KEY_RESIZE (patch by Frank Heckenbach).
11081 + modify curses.h.in, undef'ing some symbols to avoid conflict with C++
11082 STL (reported by Matt Gerassimoff <mgeras@ticon.net>)
11085 + modify linux terminfo entry to indicate that dim does not mix with
11086 color (reported by Klaus Weide <kweide@enteract.com>).
11087 + correct several typos in terminfo entries related to missing '['
11089 + fix several compiler warnings in c++ binding (reported by Tim
11090 Mooney for alphaev56-dec-osf4.0f
11091 + rename parameter of _nc_free_entries() to accommodate lint.
11092 + correct lint rule for tack, used incorrect list of source files.
11093 + add case to config.guess, config.sub for Rhapsody.
11094 + improve configure tests for libg++ and libstdc++ by omitting the
11095 math library (which is missing on Rhapsody), and improved test for
11096 the math library itself (adapted from path by Nelson H. F. Beebe).
11097 + explicitly initialize to zero several data items which were
11098 implicitly initialized, e.g., cur_term. If not explicitly
11099 initialized, their storage type is C (common), and causes problems
11100 linking on Rhapsody 5.5 using gcc 2.7.2.1 (reported by Nelson H. F.
11102 + modify Ada95 binding to not include the linker option for Ada
11103 bindings in the Ada headers, but in the Makefiles instead (patch by
11106 19991023 5.0 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
11107 + effective with release of 5.0, change NCURSES_VERSION_PATCH to
11109 + add function curses_version(), to return ncurses library version
11110 (request by Bob van der Poel).
11111 + remove rmam, smam from cygwin terminfo entry.
11112 + modify FreeBSD cons25 terminfo entry to add cnorm and cvvis, as well
11113 as update ncv to indicate that 'dim' conflicts with colors.
11114 + modify configure script to use symbolic links for FreeBSD shared
11115 libraries by default.
11116 + correct ranf() function in rain and worm programs to ensure it does
11118 + hide the cursor in hanoi.c if it is running automatically.
11119 + amend lrtest.c to account for optimizations that exploit margin
11121 + add a simple terminfo demo, dots.c
11122 + modify SIGINT/SIGQUIT handler to set a flag used in _nc_outch() to
11123 tell it to use write() rather than putc(), since the latter is not
11124 safe in a signal handler according to POSIX.
11125 + add/use internal macros _nc_flush() and NC_OUTPUT to hide details
11126 of output-file pointer in ncurses library.
11127 + uncomment CC_SHARED_OPTS (see 971115), since they are needed for SCO
11129 + correct CC_SHARED_OPTS for building shared libraries for SCO
11131 + remove usleep() from alternatives in napms(), since it may interact
11132 with alarm(), causing a process to be interrupted by SIGALRM (with
11133 advice from Bela Lubkin).
11134 + modify terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4 to build/work with
11135 GNAT 3.10 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
11136 + remove part of CF_GPP_LIBRARY configure-script macro, which did not
11137 work with gcc 2.7.2.3
11138 + minor fix to test/tclock.c to avoid beeping more than once per second
11139 + add 's' and ' ' decoding to test/rain.c
11142 + corrected BeOS code for lib_twait.c, making nodelay() function work.
11145 + correct ncurses' value for cursor-column in PutCharLR(), which was
11146 off-by-one in one case (patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
11147 + fix some minor errors in position_check() debugging code, found while
11148 using this to validate the PutCharLR() patch.
11149 + modify firework, lrtest, worm examples to be resizable, and to
11150 recognize 'q' for quit, 's' for single-step and ' ' for resume.
11151 + restore reverted change to terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4,
11152 add a note on building with gnat 3.10p to Ada95/TODO.
11153 + add a copy of the standalone configure script for the test-directory
11154 to simplify testing on SCO and Solaris.
11157 + minor fixes for _nc_msec_cost(), color_content(), pair_content(),
11158 _nc_freewin(), ClrBottom() and onscreen_mvcur() (analysis by Philippe
11159 Blain, comments by Alexander V Lukyanov).
11160 + simplify definition of PANEL and eliminate internal functions
11161 _nc_calculate_obscure(), _nc_free_obscure() and _nc_override(),
11162 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer, analysis by Philippe Blain
11163 <bledp@voila.fr>)).
11164 + change renaming of dft_fgbg.3x to use_default_colors.3ncurses in
11165 man_db.renames, since Debian is not concerned with 14-character
11166 filename limitation (Debian bug report by Josip Rodin
11167 <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr>).
11168 + corrected scoansi terminfo entry by testing with scoterm and console.
11169 + revert change from 990614 to terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4,
11170 since this does not work for gnat 3.10p
11171 + modify tclock example to be resizable (if ncurses' sigwinch handler
11172 is used), and in color.
11173 + use $(CC) rather than 'gcc' in MK_SHARED_LIB symbols, used for Linux
11174 shared library rules.
11177 + add newer NetBSD console terminfo entries
11178 + add amiga-8bit terminfo entry (from Henning 'Faroul' Peters
11179 <Faroul@beyond.kn-bremen.de>)
11180 + remove -lcurses -ltermcap from configure script's check for the gpm
11181 library, since they are not really necessary (a properly configured
11182 gpm library has no dependency on any curses library), and if the
11183 curses library is not installed, this would cause the test to fail.
11184 + modify tic's -C option so that terminfo "use=" clauses are translated
11185 to "tc=" clauses even when running it as captoinfo.
11186 + modify CF_STDCPP_LIBRARY configure macro to perform its check only
11187 for GNU C++, since that library conflicts with SGI's libC on IRIX-6.2
11188 + modify CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro to support build on NetBSD with
11189 ELF libraries (patch by Bernd Ernesti <bernd@arresum.inka.de>).
11190 + correct a problem in libpanel, where the _nc_top_panel variable was
11191 not set properly when bottom_panel() is called to hide a panel which
11192 is the only one on the stack (report/analysis by Michael Andres
11193 <ma@suse.de>, patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
11196 + add acsc string to HP 70092 terminfo entry (patch by Joerg Wunsch
11197 <j@interface-business.de>).
11198 + add top-level uninstall.data and uninstall.man makefile rules.
11199 + correct logic of CF_LINK_FUNCS configure script, from BeOS changes so
11200 that hard-links work on Unix again.
11201 + change default value of cf_cv_builtin_bool to 1 (suggested by
11202 Jeremy Buhler), making it less likely that a conflicting declaration
11203 of bool will be seen when compiling with C++.
11206 + improved configure checks for builtin.h
11207 + minor changes to C++ binding (remove static initializations, and make
11208 configure-test for parameter initializations) for features not
11209 allowed by vendor's C++ compilers (reported by Martin Mokrejs, this
11210 applies to SGI, though I found SCO has the same characteristics).
11211 + corrected quoting of ETIP_xxx definitions which support old versions
11212 of g++, e.g., those using -lg++
11213 + remove 'L' code from safe_sprintf.c, since 'long double' is not
11214 widely portable. safe_sprintf.c is experimental, however, and
11215 exists mainly as a fallback for systems without snprintf (reported
11216 by Martin Mokrejs <mmokrejs@natur.cuni.cz>, for IRIX 6.2)
11217 + modify definition of _nc_tinfo_fkeys in broken-linker configuration
11218 so that it is not unnecessarily made extern (Jeffrey C Honig).
11221 + move definition for builtin.h in configure tests to specific check
11222 for libg++, since qt uses the same filename incompatibly.
11223 + correct logic of lib_termcap.c tgetstr function, which did not copy
11224 the result to the buffer parameter. Testing shows Solaris does
11225 update this, though of course tgetent's buffer is untouched (reported
11226 in Peter Edwards <peter.edwards@ireland.com> in
11227 mpc.lists.freebsd.current newsgroup.
11228 + corrected beterm terminfo entry, which lists some capabilities which
11229 are not actually provided by the BeOS Terminal.
11230 + add special logic to replace select() calls on BeOS, whose select()
11231 function works only for sockets.
11232 + correct missing escape in mkterm.h.awk.in, which caused part
11233 of the copyright noticed to be omitted (reported by Peter
11234 Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>).
11235 > several small changes to make the c++ binding and demo work on OS/2
11236 EMX (related to a clean reinstall of EMX):
11237 + correct library-prefix for c++ binding; none is needed.
11238 + add $x suffix to make_hash and make_keys so 'make distclean' works.
11239 + correct missing $x suffix for tack, c++ demo executables.
11240 + split CF_CXX_LIBRARY into CF_GPP_LIBRARY (for -lg++) and
11241 CF_STDCPP_LIBRARY (for -lstdc++)
11244 + add cygwin terminfo entry -TD
11245 + modify CF_PROG_EXT configure macro to set .exe extension for cygwin.
11246 + add configure option --without-cxx-binding, modifying the existing
11247 --without-cxx option to check only for the C++ compiler
11248 characteristics. Whether or not the C++ binding is needed, the
11249 configure script checks for the size/type of bool, to make ncurses
11250 match. Otherwise C++ applications cannot use ncurses.
11253 + updated configure macros CF_MAKEFLAGS, CF_CHECK_ERRNO
11254 + minor corrections to beterm terminfo entry.
11255 + modify lib_setup.c to reject values of $TERM which have a '/' in
11257 + add ifdef's to guard against CS5, CS6, CS7, CS8 being zero, as more
11258 than one is on BeOS. That would break a switch statement.
11259 + add configure macro CF_LINK_FUNCS to detect and work around BeOS's
11260 nonfunctional link().
11261 + improved configure macros CF_BOOL_DECL and CF_BOOL_SIZE to detect
11262 BeOS's bool, which is declared as an unsigned char.
11265 + add ms-vt100 terminfo entry -TD
11266 + minor fixes for misc/emx.src, based on testing with tack.
11267 + minor fix for test/ncurses.c, test 'a', in case ncv is not set.
11270 + minor correction for 'screen' terminfo entry.
11271 + clarify description of errret values for setupterm in manpage.
11272 + modify tput to allow it to emit capabilities for hardcopy terminals
11273 (patch by Goran Uddeborg <goeran@uddeborg.pp.se>).
11274 + modify the 'o' (panel) test in ncurses.c to show the panels in color
11275 or at least in bold, to test Juergen's change to wrefresh().
11276 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
11277 + Fixes a problem using wbkgdset() with panels. It has actually
11278 nothing to with panels but is a problem in the implementation of
11279 wrefresh(). Whenever a window changes its background attribute to
11280 something different than newscr's background attribute, the whole
11281 window is touched to force a copy to newscr. This is an unwanted
11282 side-effect of wrefresh() and it is actually not necessary. A
11283 changed background attribute affects only further outputs of
11284 background it doesn't mean anything to the current content of the
11285 window. So there is no need to force a copy. (reported by Frank
11286 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>).
11287 + an upward compatible enhancement of the NCursesPad class in the C++
11288 binding. It allows one to add a "viewport" window to a pad and then
11289 to use panning to view the pad through the viewport window.
11292 + suppress a call to def_prog_mode() in the SIGTSTP handler if the
11293 signal was received while not in curses mode, e.g., endwin() was
11294 called in preparation for spawning a shell command (reported by Frank
11295 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>)
11296 + corrected/enhanced xterm-r5, xterm+sl, xterm+sl-twm terminfo entries.
11297 + change test for xterm mouse capability: it now checks only if the
11298 user's $DISPLAY variable is set in conjunction with the kmous
11299 capability being present in the terminfo. Before, it checked if any
11300 of "xterm", "rxvt" or "kterm" were substrings of the terminal name.
11301 However, some emulators which are incompatible with xterm in other
11302 ways do support the xterm mouse capability.
11303 + reviewed and made minor changes in ncurses to quiet g++ warnings
11304 about shadowed or uninitialized variables. g++ incorrectly warns
11305 about uninitialized variables because it does not take into account
11306 short-circuit expression evaluation.
11307 + change ncurses 'b' test to start in color pair 0 and to show in the
11308 right margin those attributes which are suppressed by no_color_video,
11310 + modify ifdef's in curses.h so that __attribute__ is not redefined
11311 when compiling with g++, but instead disabled the macros derived for
11312 __attribute__ since g++ does not consistently recognize the same
11313 keywords as gcc (reported by Stephan K Zitz <zitz@erf.net>).
11314 + update dependencies for term.h in ncurses/modules (reported by
11318 + modify the form demo in ncurses.c to illustrate how to manipulate the
11319 field appearance, e.g, for highlighting or translating the field
11321 + correct logic in write_entry from split-out of home_terminfo in
11322 980919, which prevented update of $HOME/.terminfo (reported by Philip
11323 Spencer <pspencer@fields.utoronto.ca>).
11326 + modify linux terminfo description to make use of kernel 2.2.x mods
11327 that support cursor style, e.g., to implement cvvis (patch by Frank
11328 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>)
11329 + add special-case in setupterm to retain previously-saved terminal
11330 settings in cur_term, which happens when curses and termcap calls are
11331 mixed (from report by Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@dhc.net>).
11332 + suppress initialization of key-tries in _nc_keypad() if we are only
11333 disabling keypad mode, e.g., in endwin() called when keypad() was
11335 + modify the Ada95 makefile to ensure that always the Ada files from
11336 the development tree are used for building and not the eventually
11337 installed ones (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
11340 + use TTY definition in tack/sysdep.c rather than struct termios
11341 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
11342 + add a fallback for strstr, used in lib_mvcur.c and tack/edit.c,
11343 not present on sysV68 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
11344 + correct definition in comp_hash.c to build with configure
11345 --with-rcs-ids option.
11348 + modified ifdef's for sigaction and sigvec to ensure we do not try to
11349 handle SIGTSTP if neither is available (from report by Philippe De
11351 > patch by Philippe De Muyter:
11352 + in tic.c, use `unlink' if `remove' is not available.
11353 + use only `unsigned' as fallback value for `speed_t'. Some files used
11357 + fix some compiler warnings in tack.
11358 + add a check for predefined bool type in CC, based on report that
11359 BeOS predefines a bool type.
11360 + correct logic for infocmp -e option, i.e., the configure
11361 --with-fallbacks option, which I'd not updated when implementing
11362 extended names (cf: 990301). The new implementation adds a "-E"
11363 option to infocmp -TD
11364 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
11365 + introduce the private type Curses_Bool in the Ada95 binding
11366 implementation. This is to clearly represent the use of "bool" also
11367 in the binding. It should have no effect on the generated code.
11368 + improve the man page for field_buffer() to tell the people, that the
11369 whole buffer including leading/trailing spaces is returned. This is
11370 a common source of confusion, so it's better to document it clearly.
11373 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
11374 + use pragma PreElaborate in several places.
11375 + change a few System.Address uses to more specific types.
11376 + change interface version-number to 1.0
11377 + regenerate Ada95 HTML files.
11380 + modify lib_endwin.c to avoid calling reset_shell_mode(), return ERR
11381 if it appears that curses was never initialized, e.g., by initscr().
11382 For instance, this guards against setting the terminal modes to
11383 strange values if endwin() is called after setupterm(). In the same
11384 context, Solaris curses will dump core.
11385 + modify logic that avoids a conflict in lib_vidattr.c between sgr0 and
11386 equivalent values in rmso or rmul by ensuring we do not modify the
11387 data which would be returned by the terminfo or termcap interfaces
11388 (reported by Brad Pepers <brad@linuxcanada.com>, cf: 960706).
11389 + add a null-pointer check for SP in lib_vidattr.c to logic that checks
11391 + improve fallback declaration of 'bool' when the --without-cxx option
11392 is given, by using a 'char' on i386 and related hosts (prompted by
11393 discussion with Alexander V Lukyanov).
11396 + include time.h in lib_napms.c if nanosleep is used (patch by
11397 R Lindsay Todd <toddr@rpi.edu>).
11398 + add an "#undef bool" to curses.h, in case someone tries to define it,
11400 + add check to tparm to guard against divide by zero (reported by Aaron
11401 Campbell <aaron@ug.cs.dal.ca>).
11404 + minor fix to build tack on CLIX (mismatched const).
11405 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
11406 + change Juergen's old email address with new one in the files where it
11407 is referenced. The Ada95 HTML pages are regenerated.
11408 + update MANIFEST to list the tack files.
11411 + minor fixes to make 'tack' build/link on NeXT (reported by Francisco
11415 + add 'tack' program (which is GPL'd), updating it to work with the
11416 modified TERMTYPE struct and making a fix to support setaf/setab
11417 capabilities. Note that the tack program is not part of the
11418 ncurses libraries, but an application which can be distributed with
11419 ncurses. The configure script will ignore the directory if it is
11421 + modify gpm mouse support so that buttons 2 and 3 are used for
11422 select/paste only when shift key is pressed, making them available
11423 for use by an application (patch by Klaus Weide).
11424 + add complete list of function keys to scoansi terminfo entry - TD
11427 + add a simple test program cardfile.c to illustrate how to read form
11428 fields, and showing forms within panels.
11429 + change shared-library versioning for the Hurd to be like Linux rather
11430 than *BSD (patch by Mark Kettenis <kettenis@wins.uva.nl>).
11431 + add linux-lat terminfo entry.
11432 + back-out _nc_access check in read_termcap.c (both incorrect and
11433 unnecessary, except to guard against a small window where the file's
11434 ownership may change).
11437 + remove conflicting _nc_free_termtype() function from test module
11439 + use _nc_access check in read_termcap.c for termpaths[] array (noted
11440 by Jeremy Buhler, indicating that Alan Cox made a similar patch).
11441 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
11442 + modify menu creation to not inherit status flag from the default menu
11443 which says that the associated marker string has been allocated and
11444 should be freed (bug reported by Marek Paliwoda"
11445 <paliwoda@kki.net.pl>)
11447 990327 pre-release (alpha.gnu.org:/gnu/ncurses-5.0-beta1.tar.gz)
11448 + minor fixes to xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry - TD.
11449 + split up an expression in configure script check for ldconfig to
11450 workaround limitation of BSD/OS sh (reported by Jeff Haas
11451 <jmh@mail.msen.com>).
11452 + correct a typo in man/form_hook.3x (Todd C Miller).
11455 + parenthesize and undef 'index' symbol in c++ binding and demo, to
11456 accommodate its definition on NeXT (reported by Francisco A. Tomei
11458 + add sigismember() to base/sigaction.c compatibility to link on NeXT
11459 (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
11460 + further refinements to inequality in hashmap.c to cover a case with
11461 ^U in nvi (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
11464 + add fallback definition for getcwd, to link on NeXT.
11465 + add a copy of cur_term to tic.c to make it link properly on NeXT
11466 (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
11467 + change inequality in hashmap.c which checks the distance traveled by
11468 a chunk so that ^D command in nvi (scrolls 1/2 screen) will use
11469 scrolling logic (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov, reported by Jeffrey
11473 + modify lib_color.c to handle a special case where the curscr
11474 attributes have been made obsolete (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
11475 + update BSD/OS console terminfo entries to use klone+sgr and
11476 klone+color (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
11477 + update glibc addon configure script for extended capabilities.
11478 + correct a couple of warnings in the --enable-const configuration.
11479 + make comp_hash build properly with _nc_strdup(), on NeXT (reported by
11480 Francisco A. Tomei Torres <francisco.tomei@cwix.com>).
11483 + correct typos in linux-c initc string - TD
11484 + add 'crt' terminfo entry, update xterm-xfree86 entry - TD
11485 + remove a spurious argument to tparm() in lib_sklrefr.c (patch by
11486 Alexander V Lukyanov).
11489 + back-out change to wgetch because it causes a problem with ^Z
11490 handling in lynx (reported by Kim DeVaughn).
11493 + add -G option to tic and infocmp, to reverse the "-g" option.
11494 + recode functions in name_match.c to avoid use of strncpy, which
11495 caused a 4-fold slowdown in tic (cf: 980530).
11496 + correct a few warnings about sign-extension in recent changes.
11497 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
11498 + fixes suggested by Jeff Bradbury <jibradbury@lucent.com>:
11499 + improved parameter checking in new_fieldtype().
11500 + fixed a typo in wgetch() timeout handling.
11501 + allow slk_init() to be called per newterm call. The internal SLK
11502 state is stored in the SCREEN struct after every newterm() and then
11503 reset for the next newterm.
11504 + fix the problem that a slk_refresh() refreshes stdscr if the
11505 terminal has true SLKs.
11506 + update HTML documentation for Ada binding.
11509 + remove 'bool' casts from definitions of TRUE/FALSE so that statements
11510 such as "#if TRUE" work. This was originally done to allow for a C++
11511 compiler which would warn of implicit conversions between enum and
11512 int, but is not needed for g++ (reported by Kim DeVaughn).
11513 + add use_extended_names() function to allow applications to suppress
11514 read of the extended capabilities.
11515 + add configure option --enable-tcap-names to support logic which
11516 allows ncurses' tic to define new (i.e., extended) terminal
11517 capabilities. This is activated by the tic -x switch. The infocmp
11518 program automatically shows or compares extended capabilities.
11519 Note: This changes the Strings and similar arrays in the TERMTYPE
11520 struct so that applications which manipulate it must be recompiled.
11521 + use macros typeMalloc, typeCalloc and typeRealloc consistently
11522 throughout ncurses library.
11523 + add _nc_strdup() to doalloc.c.
11524 + modify define_key() to allow multiple strings to be bound to the
11526 + correct logic error in _nc_remove_string, from 990220.
11527 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
11528 + regenerate some of the html documentation
11529 + minor cleanup in terminal_interface-curses.adb
11532 + resolve ambiguity of kend/kll/kslt and khome/kfnd/kich1 strings in
11533 xterm and ncsa terminfo entries by removing the unneeded ones. Note
11534 that some entries will return kend & khome versus kslt and kfnd, for
11535 PC-style keyboards versus strict vt220 compatibility - TD
11536 + add function keybound(), which returns the definition associated with
11538 + modify define_key() to undefine the given string when no keycode is
11540 + modify keyok() so it works properly if there is more than one string
11541 defined for a keycode.
11542 + add check to tic to warn about terminfo descriptions that contain
11543 more than one key assigned to the same string. This is shown only if
11544 the verbose (-v) option is given. Moved related logic (tic -v) from
11545 comp_parse.c into the tic program.
11546 + add/use _nc_trace_tries() to show the function keys that will be
11548 + rename init_acs to _nc_init_acs (request by Alexander V Lukyanov).
11549 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
11550 + remove all the *_adabind.c from ncurses, menu and form projects.
11551 Those little helper routines have all been implemented in Ada and are
11552 no longer required.
11553 + The option handling routines in menu and form have been made more
11554 save. They now make sure that the unused bits in options are always
11556 + modify configuration scripts to
11557 + use gnatmake as default compiler name. This is a safer choice than
11558 gcc, because some GNAT implementations use other names for the
11559 compilerdriver to avoid conflicts.
11560 + use new default installation locations for the Ada files according
11561 to the proposed GNU Ada filesystem standard (for Linux).
11562 + simplify the Makefiles for the Ada binding
11563 + rename ada_include directory to src.
11566 + enable sigwinch handler by default.
11567 + disable logic that allows setbuf to be turned off/on, because some
11568 implementations will overrun the buffer after it has been disabled
11572 + suppress sc/rc capabilities from terminal description if they appear
11573 in smcup/rmcup. This affects only scrolling optimization, to fix a
11574 problem reported by several people with xterm's alternate screen,
11575 though the problem is more general.
11576 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
11577 + removed all pragma Preelaborate() stuff, because the just released
11578 gnat-3.11p complains on some constructs.
11579 + fixed some upper/lower case notations because gnat-3.11p found
11581 + used a new method to generate the HTML documentation of the Ada95
11582 binding. This invalidates nearly the whole ./Ada95/html subtree.
11583 Nearly all current files in this subtree are removed
11586 + cache last result from _nc_baudrate, for performance (suggested by
11587 Alexander V Lukyanov).
11588 + modify ClrUpdate() function to workaround a problem in nvi, which
11589 uses redrawwin in SIGTSTP handling. Jeffrey C Honig reported that
11590 ncurses repainted the screen with nulls before resuming normal
11591 operation (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
11592 + generalize is_xterm() function a little by letting xterm/rxvt/kterm
11593 be any substring rather than the prefix.
11594 + modify lib_data.c to initialize SP. Some linkers, e.g., IBM's, will
11595 not link a module if the only symbols exported from the module are
11596 uninitialized ones (patch by Ilya Zakharevich). Ilya says that he
11597 has seen messages claiming this behavior conforms to the standard.)
11598 + move call on _nc_signal_handler past _nc_initscr, to avoid a small
11599 window where Nttyb hasn't yet been filled (reported by Klaus Weide).
11600 + modify lib_tstp.c to block SIGTTOU when handling SIGTSTP, fixes a
11601 problem where ncurses applications which were run via a shell script
11602 would hang when given a ^Z. Also, check if the terminal's process
11603 group is consistent, i.e., a shell has not taken ownership of it,
11604 before deciding to save the current terminal settings in the SIGTSTP
11605 handler (patch by Klaus Weide).
11606 + correct spelling of ACS_ names in curs_border.3x (reported by Bob van
11607 der Poel <bvdpoel@kootenay.com>).
11608 + correct a couple of typos in the macros supporting the configure
11609 --with-shlib-version option.
11612 + modify fty_regex.c to compile on HAVE_REGEXPR_H_FUNCS machine (patch
11613 by Kimio Ishii <ishii@csl.sony.co.jp>).
11614 + rename BSDI console terminfo entries: bsdos to bsdos-pc-nobold, and
11615 bsdos-bold to bsdos-pc (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
11616 + modify tput to accept termcap names as an alternative to terminfo
11617 names (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
11618 + correct a typo in term.7 (Todd C Miller).
11619 + add configure --with-shlib-version option to allow installing shared
11620 libraries named according to release or ABI versions. This
11621 parameterizes some existing logic in the configure script, and is
11622 intended for compatibility upgrades on Digital Unix, which used
11623 versioned libraries in ncurses 4.2, but no longer does (cf: 980425).
11624 + resync configure script against autoconf 2.13 + patches
11625 + minor improvements for teraterm terminfo entry based on the program's
11626 source distribution.
11629 + change default for configure --enable-big-core to assume machines do
11630 have enough memory to resolve terminfo.src in-memory.
11631 + correct name of ncurses library in TEST_ARGS when configuring with
11633 + minor fixes to compile ncurses library with broken-linker with g++.
11634 + add --enable-broken-linker configure option, default to environment
11635 variable $BROKEN_LINKER (request by Jeffrey C Honig).
11636 + change key_names[] array to static since it is not part of the curses
11637 interface (reported by Jeffrey C Honig <jch@bsdi.com>).
11640 + add Tera Term terminfo entry - TD
11643 + reviewed/corrected macros in curses.h as per XSI document.
11644 + provide support for termcap PC variable by copying it from terminfo
11645 data and using it as the padding character in tputs (reported by
11646 Alexander V Lukyanov).
11647 + corrected iris-ansi and iris-ansi-ap terminfo entries for kent and
11648 kf9-kf12 capabilities, as well as adding kcbt.
11649 + document the mouse handling mechanism in menu_driver and make a small
11650 change in menu_driver's return codes to provide more consistency
11651 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
11652 + add fallback definition for NCURSES_CONST to termcap.h.in (reported
11653 by Uchiyama Yasushi <uch@nop.or.jp>).
11654 + move lib_restart.c to ncurses/base, since it uses curses functions
11655 directly, and therefore cannot be used in libtinfo.so
11656 + rename micro_char_size to micro_col_size, adding #define to retain
11658 + add set_a_attributes and set_pglen_inch to terminfo structure, as per
11659 XSI and Solaris 2.5.
11660 + minor makefile files to build ncurses test_progs
11661 + update html files in misc directory to reflect changes since 4.2
11664 + disable scroll hints when hashmap is enabled (patch by Alexander
11666 + move logic for tic's verify of -e option versus -I and -C so that the
11667 terminfo data is not processed if we cannot handle -e (reported by
11668 Steven Schwartz <steves@unitrends.com>.
11669 + add test-driver traces to terminfo and termcap functions.
11670 + provide support for termcap ospeed variable by copying it from the
11671 internal cur_term member, and using ospeed as the baudrate reference
11672 for the delay_output and tputs functions. If an application does not
11673 set ospeed, the library behaves as before, except that _nc_timed_wait
11674 is no longer used, or needed, since ospeed always has a value. But
11675 the application can modify ospeed to adjust the output of padding
11676 characters (prompted by a bug report for screen 3.7.6 and email from
11677 Michael Schroeder <Michael.Schroeder@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>).
11678 + removed some unused ifdef's as part of Alexander's restructuring.
11679 + reviewed/updated curses.h, term.h against X/Open Curses Issue 4
11680 Version 2. This includes making some parameters NCURSES_CONST
11681 rather than const, e.g., in termcap.h.
11682 + change linux terminfo entry to use ncv#2, since underline does not
11686 + miscellaneous corrections for curses.h to match XSI.
11687 + change --enable-no-padding configure option to be normally enabled.
11688 + add section to ncurses manpage for environment variables.
11689 + investigated Debian bug report that pertains to screen 3.7.4/3.7.6
11690 changes, found no sign of problems on Linux (or on SunOS, Solaris)
11691 running screen built with ncurses.
11692 + check if tmp_fp is opened in tic.c before closing it (patch by Pavel
11693 Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>).
11694 + correct several font specification typos in man-pages.
11697 + correct default value for BUILD_CC (reported by Larry Virden).
11700 + modify _nc_set_writedir() to set a flag in _nc_tic_dir() to prevent
11701 it from changing the terminfo directory after chdir'ing to it.
11702 Otherwise, a relative path in $TERMINFO would confuse tic (prompted
11703 by a Debian bug report).
11704 + correct/update ncsa terminfo entry (report by Larry Virden).
11705 + update xterm-xfree86 terminfo to current (patch 90), smcur/rmcur
11707 + add Mathew Vernon's mach console entries to terminfo.src
11708 + more changes, moving functions, as part of Alexander's restructuring.
11709 + modify configure script for GNU/Hurd share-library support, introduce
11710 BUILD_CC variable for cross compiling (patch by Uchiyama Yasushi
11714 + add environment variable NCURSES_NO_SETBUF to allow disabling the
11715 setbuf feature, for testing purposes.
11716 + correct ifdef's for termcap.h versus term.h that suppress redundant
11717 declarations of prototypes (reported by H.J.Lu).
11718 + modify Makefile.os2 to add linker flags which allow multiple copies
11719 of an application to coexist (reported by Ilya Zakharevich).
11720 + update Makefile.glibc and associated configure script so that ncurses
11721 builds as a glibc add-on with the new directory configuration
11722 (reported by H.J.Lu).
11725 + modify gen_reps() function in gen.c to work properly on SunOS
11726 (sparc), which is a left-to-right architecture.
11727 + modify relative_move and tputs to avoid an interaction with the
11728 BSD-style padding. The relative_move function could produce a string
11729 to replace on the screen which began with a numeric character, which
11730 was then interpreted by tputs as padding. Now relative_move will not
11731 generate a string with a leading digit in that case (overwrite).
11732 Also, tputs will only interpret padding if the string begins with a
11733 digit; as coded it permitted a string to begin with a decimal point
11734 or asterisk (reported by Larry Virden).
11735 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
11736 + fix a typo in m_driver.c mouse handling and improves the error
11738 + fix broken mouse handling in the Ada95 binding
11739 + make the Ada95 sample application menus work with the new menu mouse
11741 + improve the mouse handling introduced by Ilya; it now handles menus
11743 + repair a minor bug in the menu_driver code discovered during this
11745 + add new function wmouse_trafo() to hide implementation details of
11746 _yoffset member of WINDOW struct needed for mouse coordinate
11750 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to avoid using return-value of sprintf, since
11751 some older implementations (e.g., SunOS 4.x) return the buffer
11752 address rather than its length.
11753 > patch by Rick Ohnemus:
11754 + modify demo.cc to get it to compile with newer versions of egcs.
11755 + trim a space that appears at the end of the table preprocessor lines
11756 ('\" t). This space prevents some versions of man from displaying
11757 the pages - changed to remove all trailing whitespace (TD)
11758 + finally, 'make clean' does not remove panel objects.
11759 > patches by Ilya Zakharevich:
11760 + allow remapping of OS/2 mouse buttons using environment variable
11761 MOUSE_BUTTONS_123 with the default value 132.
11762 + add mouse support to ncurses menus.
11765 + modify misc/makedef.cmd to report old-style .def file symbols, and to
11766 generate the .def files sorted by increasing names rather than the
11768 + add misc/*.ref which are J.J.G.Ripoll's dll definition files (renamed
11769 from misc/*.old), and updated based on the entrypoint coding he used
11770 for an older version of ncurses.
11771 + add README.emx, to document how to build on OS/2 EMX.
11772 + updates for config.guess, config.sub from Lynx
11773 > patches by Ilya Zakharevich:
11774 + minor fixes for mouse handling mode:
11775 a) Do not initialize mouse if the request is to have no mouse;
11776 b) Allow switching of OS/2 VIO mouse on and off.
11777 + modify Makefile.os2 to support alternative means of generating
11778 configure script, by translating Unix script with Perl.
11779 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
11780 + Updates MANIFEST to reflect changes in source structure
11781 + Eliminates a problem introduced with my last patch for the C++
11782 binding in the panels code. It removes the update() call done in the
11784 + Changes in the Ada95 binding to better support systems where
11785 sizeof(chtype)!=sizeof(int) (e.g. DEC Alpha).
11788 + modify install-script for manpages to skip over .orig and .rej files
11789 (request by Larry Virden).
11790 > patches/discussion by Alexander V Lukyanov:
11791 + move base-library sources into ncurses/base and tty (serial terminal)
11792 sources into ncurses/tty, as part of Alexander V Lukyanov's proposed
11793 changes to ncurses library.
11794 + copy _tracemouse() into ncurses.c so that lib_tracemse.c need not
11795 be linked into the normal ncurses library.
11796 + move macro winch to a function, to hide details of struct ldat
11797 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
11798 + fix a potential compile problem in cursesw.cc
11799 + some Ada95 cosmetics
11800 + fix a gen.c problem when compiling on 64-Bit machines
11801 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in "-L" linker switch
11802 + modify Ada95 makefiles to use the INSTALL_PREFIX setting.
11805 + ifdef'd out lib_freeall.c when not configured.
11806 + rename _tracebits() to _nc_tracebits().
11807 + move terminfo-library sources into ncurses/tinfo, and trace-support
11808 functions into ncurses/trace as part of Alexander V Lukyanov's
11809 proposed changes to ncurses library.
11810 + modify generated term.h to always specify its own definitions for
11811 HAVE_TERMIOS_H, etc., to guard against inclusion by programs with
11812 broken configure scripts.
11815 + modify terminfo parsing to accept octal and hexadecimal constants,
11817 + remove an autoconf 2.10 artifact from the configure script's check
11818 for "-g" compiler options. (Though harmless, this confused someone
11819 at Debian, who recently issued a patch that results in the opposite
11821 + add configure option --with-ada-compiler to accommodate installations
11822 that do not use gcc as the driver for GNAT (patch by Juergen
11826 + ensure ./man exists in configure script, needed when configuring
11827 with --srcdir option.
11828 + modify infocmp "-r" option to remove limit on formatted termcap
11829 output, which makes it more like Solaris' version.
11830 + modify captoinfo to treat no-argument case more like Solaris'
11831 version, which uses the contents of $TERMCAP as the entry to format.
11832 + modify mk-2nd.awk to handle subdirectories, e.g., ncurses/tty
11833 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
11836 + modify --with-terminfo-dirs option so that the default value is the
11837 ${datadir} value, unless $TERMINFO_DIRS is already set. This gets
11838 rid of a hardcoded list of candidate directories in the configure
11840 + add some error-checking to _nc_read_file_entry() to ensure that
11841 strings are properly terminated (Todd C Miller).
11842 + rename manpage file curs_scr_dmp.3x to curs_scr_dump.3x, to
11843 correspond with contents (reported by Neil Zanella
11844 <nzanella@cs.mun.ca>).
11845 + remove redundant configure check for C++ which did not work when $CXX
11846 was specified with a full pathname (reported by Andreas Jaeger).
11847 + corrected bcopy/memmove check; the macro was not standalone.
11850 + remove unnecessary portion of OS/2 EMX mouse change from
11851 check_pending() (reported by Alexander V Lukyanov).
11854 + implement mouse support for OS/2 EMX (adapted from patch against
11855 4.2(?) by Ilya Zakharevich).
11856 + add configure-check for bcopy/memmove, for 980919 changes to hashmap.
11857 + merge Data General terminfo from Hasufin <hasufin@vidnet.net> - TD
11858 + merge AIX 3.2.5 terminfo descriptions for IBM terminals, replaces
11859 some older entries - TD
11860 + modify tic to compile into %'char' form in preference to %{number},
11861 since that is a little more efficient.
11862 + minor correction to infocmp to avoid displaying "difference" between
11863 two capabilities that are rendered in equivalent forms.
11864 + add "-g" option to tic/infocmp to force character constants to be
11865 displayed in quoted form. Otherwise their decimal values are shown.
11866 + modify setupterm so that cancelled strings are treated the same as
11867 absent strings, cancelled and absent booleans false (does not affect
11869 + modify tic, infocmp to discard redundant i3, r3 strings when output
11871 > patch by Alexander V Lukyanov:
11872 + improve performance of tparm, now it takes 19% instead of 25% when
11874 + rename maxlen/minlen to prec/width for better readability.
11875 + use format string for printing strings.
11876 + use len argument correctly in save_text, and pass it to save_number.
11879 + make test_progs compile (but hashmap does not function).
11880 + correct NC_BUFFERED macro, used in lib_mvcur test-driver, modify
11881 associated logic to avoid freeing the SP->_setbuf data.
11882 + add modules home_terminfo and getenv_num to libtinfo.
11883 + move write_entry to libtinfo, to work with termcap caching.
11884 + minor fixes to blue.c to build with atac.
11885 + remove softscroll.c module; no longer needed for testing.
11886 > patches by Todd C Miller:
11887 + use strtol(3) instead of atoi(3) when parsing env variables so we can
11888 detect a bogus (non-numeric) value.
11889 + check for terminal names > MAX_NAME_SIZE in a few more places when
11890 dealing with env variables again.
11891 + fix a MAX_NAME_SIZE that should be MAX_NAME_SIZE+1
11892 + use sizeof instead of strlen(3) on PRIVATE_INFO since it is a fixed
11893 string #define (compile time vs runtime).
11894 + when setting errno to ENOMEM, set it right before the return, not
11895 before code that could, possibly, set errno to a different value.
11896 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
11897 + use default background in update_cost_from_blank()
11898 + disable scroll-hints when hashmap is configured.
11899 + improve integration of hashmap scrolling code, by adding oldhash and
11900 newhash data to SP struct.
11901 + invoke del_curterm from delscreen.
11902 + modify del_curterm to set cur_term to null if it matches the
11903 function's parameter which is deleted.
11904 + modify lib_doupdate to prefer parm_ich to the enter_insert_mode and
11905 exit_insert_mode combination, adjusting InsCharCost to check
11906 enter_insert_mode, exit_insert_mode and insert_padding. Add
11907 insert_padding in insert mode after each char. This adds new costs
11911 + modify test-driver in lib_mvcur.s to use _nc_setbuffer, for
11912 consistent treatment.
11913 + modify ncurses to restore output to unbuffered on endwin, and resume
11914 buffering in refresh (see lib_set_term.c and NC_BUFFERED macro).
11915 + corrected HTML version numbers (according to the W3C validator, they
11916 never were HTML 2.0-compliant, but are acceptable 3.0).
11919 + modify MKterminfo.sh to generate terminfo.5 with tables sorted by
11920 capability name, as in SVr4.
11921 + modified term.h, termcap.h headers to avoid redundant declarations.
11922 + change 'u_int' type in tset.c to unsigned, making this compile on
11923 Sequent PRX 4.1 (reported by Michael Sterrett <msterret@coat.com>).
11926 + corrections to mailing addresses, and moving the magic line that
11927 causes the man program to invoke tbl to the first line of each
11928 manpage (patch by Rick Ohnemus <rick@ecompcon.com>).
11929 + add Makefile.os2 and supporting scripts to generate dll's on OS/2 EMX
11930 (from J.J.G.Ripoll, with further integration by TD).
11931 + correct a typo in icl6404 terminfo entry.
11932 + add xtermm and xtermc terminfo entries.
11933 > from esr's terminfo version:
11934 + Added Francesco Potorti's tuned Wyse 99 entries.
11935 + dtterm enacs (from Alexander V Lukyanov).
11936 + Add ncsa-ns, ncsa-m-ns and ncsa-m entries from esr version.
11939 + document AT&T acs characters in terminfo.5 manpage.
11940 + use EMX _scrsize() function if terminfo and environment do not
11941 declare the screen size (reported by Ilya Zakharevich
11942 <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>).
11943 + remove spurious '\' characters from eterm and osborne terminfo
11944 entries (prompted by an old Debian bug report).
11945 + correct reversed malloc/realloc calls in _nc_doalloc (reported by
11946 Hans-Joachim Widmaier <hjwidmai@foxboro.com>).
11947 + correct misplaced parenthesis which caused file-descriptor from
11948 opening termcap to be lost, from 980725 changes (reported by Andreas
11952 + modify lib_setup.c to eliminate unneeded include of <sys/ioctl.h>
11953 when termios is not used (patch by Todd C Miller).
11954 + add function _nc_doalloc, to ensure that failed realloc calls do not
11955 leak memory (reported by Todd C Miller).
11956 + improved ncsa-telnet terminfo entry.
11959 + correct missing braces around a trace statement in read_entry.c,
11960 from 980808 (reported by Kim DeVaughn <kimdv@best.com> and Liviu
11964 + fix missing include <errno.h> in ditto.c (reported by Bernhard
11965 Rosenkraenzer <bero@k5.sucks.eu.org>)
11966 + add NCSA telnet terminfo entries from Francesco Potorti
11967 <F.Potorti@cnuce.cnr.it>, from Debian bug reports.
11968 + make handling of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables more compatible with
11969 Solaris by allowing them to individually override the window size
11970 as obtained via ioctl.
11973 + modify lib_vidattr.c to allow for terminal types (e.g., xterm-color)
11974 which may reset all attributes in the 'op' capability, so that colors
11975 are set before turning on bold and other attributes, but still after
11976 turning attributes off.
11977 + add 'ditto.c' to test directory to illustrate use of newterm for
11978 initializing multiple screens.
11979 + modify _nc_write_entry() to recover from failed attempt to link alias
11980 for a terminfo on a filesystem which does not preserve character case
11981 (reported by Peter L Jordan <PJordan@chla.usc.edu>).
11984 + updated versions of config.guess and config.sub based on automake 1.3
11985 + change name-comparisons in lib_termcap to compare no more than 2
11986 characters (gleaned from Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-8.8, verified
11987 with Solaris curses).
11988 + fix typo in curs_insstr.3x (patch by Todd C Miller)
11989 + use 'access()' to check if ncurses library should be permitted to
11990 open or modify files with fopen/open/link/unlink/remove calls, in
11991 case the calling application is running in setuid mode (request by
11992 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>, responding to Duncan Simpson
11993 <dps@io.stargate.co.uk>).
11994 + arm100 terminfo entries from Dave Millen <dmill@globalnet.co.uk>).
11995 + qnxt2 and minitel terminfo entries from esr's version.
11998 + use -R option with ldconfig on FreeBSD because otherwise it resets
11999 the search path to /usr/lib (reported by Dan Nelson).
12000 + add -soname option when building shared libraries on OpenBSD 2.x
12001 (request by QingLong).
12002 + add configure options --with-manpage-format and
12003 --with-manpage-renames (request by QingLong).
12004 + correct conversion of CANCELLED_NUMERIC in write_object(), which was
12005 omitting the high-order byte, producing a 254 in the compiled
12007 + modify return-values of tgetflag, tgetnum, tgetstr, tigetflag,
12008 tigetnum and tigetstr to be compatible with Solaris (gleaned from
12009 Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-8.8).
12010 + modify _nc_syserr_abort to abort only when compiled for debugging,
12011 otherwise simply exit with an error.
12014 + modify Ada95 'gen' program to use appropriate library suffix (e.g.,
12015 "_g" for a debug build).
12016 + update Ada95 'make clean' rule to include generics .ali files
12017 + add a configure test to ensure that if GNAT is found, that it can
12018 compile/link working Ada95 program.
12019 + flush output in beep and flash functions, fixing a problem with
12020 getstr (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov)
12021 + fix egcs 1.0.2 warning for etip.h (patch by Chris Johns).
12022 + correct ifdef/brace nesting in lib_sprintf.c (patch by Bernhard
12023 Rosenkraenzer <bero@Pool.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>).
12024 + correct typo in wattr_get macro from 980509 fixes (patch by Dan
12028 + merge changes from current XFree86 xterm terminfo descriptions.
12029 + add configure option '--without-ada'.
12030 + add a smart-default for termcap 'ac' to terminfo 'acs_chars' which
12031 corresponds to vt100.
12032 + change translation for termcap 'rs' to terminfo 'rs2', which is
12033 the documented equivalent, rather than 'rs1'.
12036 + slow 'worm' down a little, for very fast machines.
12037 + corrected firstchar/lastchar computation in lib_hline.c
12038 + simplify some expressions with CHANGED_CELL, CHANGED_RANGE and
12039 CHANGED_TO_EOL macros.
12040 + modify init_pair so that if a color-pair is reinitialized, we will
12041 repaint the areas of the screen whose color changes, like SVr4 curses
12042 (reported by Christian Maurer <maurer@inf.fu-berlin.de>).
12043 + modify getsyx/setsyx macros to comply with SVr4 man-page which
12044 says that leaveok() affects their behavior (report by Darryl Miles,
12045 patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
12048 + review terminfo.5 against Solaris 2.6 curses version, corrected
12049 several minor errors/omissions.
12050 + implement tparm %l format.
12051 + implement tparm printf-style width and precision for %s, %d, %x, %o
12053 + implement tparm dynamic variables (reported by Xiaodan Tang).
12056 + update man-page for for wattr_set, wattr_get (cf: 980509)
12057 + correct limits in hashtest, which would cause nonprinting characters
12058 to be written to large screens.
12059 + correct configure script, when --without-cxx was specified: the
12060 wrong variable was used for cf_cv_type_of_bool. Compilers up to gcc
12061 2.8 tolerated the missing 'int'.
12062 + remove the hardcoded name "gcc" for the GNU Ada compiler. The
12063 compiler's name might be something like "egcs" (patch by Juergen
12065 + correct curs_addch.3x, which implied that echochar could directly
12066 display control characters (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
12067 + fix typos in ncurses-intro.html (patch by Sidik Isani
12068 <isani@cfht.hawaii.edu>)
12071 + add configure test for conflicting use of exception in math.h and
12073 + minor optimization to 'hash()' function in hashmap.c, reduces its
12075 + correct form of LD_SHARED_OPTS for HP-UX 10.x (patch by Tim Mooney).
12076 + fix missing quotes for 'print' in MKunctrl.awk script (reported by
12077 Mihai Budiu <mihaib@gs41.sp.cs.cmu.edu>).
12078 > patch by Alexander V Lukyanov:
12079 + correct problem on Solaris (with poll() function) where getch could
12080 hang indefinitely even if timeout(x) was called. This turned out to
12081 be because milliseconds was not updated before 'goto retry' in
12083 + simplified the function _nc_timed_wait and fixed another bug, which
12084 was the assumption of !GOOD_SELECT && HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY in *timeleft
12086 + removed the cycle on EINTR, as it seems to be useless.
12089 + add makefile-rule for test/keynames
12090 + modify run_tic.sh and shlib to ensure that user's .profile does not
12091 override the $PATH used to run tic (patch by Tim Mooney).
12092 + restore LD_SHARED_OPTS to $(LD_SHARED_FLAGS) when linking programs,
12093 needed for HP-UX shared-library path (recommended by Tim Mooney).
12094 + remove special case of HP-UX -L options, use +b options to embed
12095 $(libdir) in the shared libraries (recommended by Tim Mooney).
12096 + add checks for some possible buffer overflows and unchecked
12097 malloc/realloc/calloc/strdup return values (patch by Todd C Miller
12098 <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>)
12101 + correct maxx/maxy expression for num_columns/num_lines in derwin
12102 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
12103 + add /usr/share/lib/terminfo and /usr/lib/terminfo as compatibility
12104 fallbacks to _nc_read_entry(), along with --with-terminfo-dirs
12105 configure option (suggested by Mike Hopkirk).
12106 + modify config.guess to recognize Unixware 2.1 and 7 (patch by Mike
12107 Hopkirk <hops@sco.com>).
12108 + suppress definition of CC_SHARED_OPTS in LDFLAGS_SHARED in c++
12109 Makefile.in, since this conflicts when g++ is used with HP-UX
12110 compiler (reported by Tim Mooney).
12111 + parenthesize 'strcpy' calls in c++ binding to workaround redefinition
12112 in some C++ implementations (reported by several people running
12113 egcs with glibc 2.0.93, analysis by Andreas Jaeger.
12116 + modify write_entry.c so that it will not attempt to link aliases
12117 with embedded '/', but give only a warning.
12118 + put -L$(libdir) first when linking programs, except for HP-UX.
12119 + modify comp_scan.c to handle SVr4 terminfo description for att477,
12120 which contains a colon in the description field.
12121 + modify configure script to support SCO osr5.0.5 shared libraries,
12122 from comp.unix.sco.programmer newsgroup item (Mike Hopkirk).
12123 + eliminate extra GoTo call in lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V.
12125 + minor adjustments of const/NCURSES_CONST from IRIX compile.
12126 + add updates based on esr's 980509 version of terminfo.src.
12129 + correct macros for wattr_set, wattr_get, separate wattrset macro from
12130 these to preserve behavior that allows attributes to be combined with
12131 color pair numbers.
12132 + add configure option --enable-no-padding, to allow environment
12133 variable $NCURSES_NO_PADDING to eliminate non-mandatory padding,
12134 thereby making terminal emulators (e.g., for vt100) a little more
12135 efficient (request by Daniel Eisenbud <eisenbud@cs.swarthmore.edu>).
12136 + modify configure script to embed ABI in shared libraries for HP-UX
12137 10.x (detailed request by Tim Mooney).
12138 + add test/example of the 'filter()' function.
12139 + add nxterm and xterm-color terminfo description (request by Cristian
12140 Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>).
12141 + modify rxvt terminfo description to clear alternate screen before
12142 switching back to normal screen, for compatibility with applications
12143 which use xterm (reported by Manoj Kasichainula <manojk@io.com>).
12144 + modify linux terminfo description to reset color palette (reported
12145 by Telford Tendys <telford@eng.uts.edu.au>).
12146 + correction to doupdate, for case where terminal does not support
12147 insert/delete character. The logic did not check that there was a
12148 difference in alignment of changes to old/new screens before
12149 repainting the whole non-blank portion of the line. Modified to fall
12150 through into logic that reduces by the portion which does not differ
12151 (reported by Daniel Eisenbud <eisenbud@cs.swarthmore.edu>).
12152 + minor performance improvement to wnoutrefresh by moving some
12153 comparisons out of inner loop.
12156 + modify configure script to substitute NCURSES_CONST in curses.h
12157 + updated terminfo entries for xterm-xf86-v40, xterm-16color,
12158 xterm-8bit to correspond to XFree86 3.9Ag.
12159 + remove restriction that forces ncurses to use setaf/setab if the
12160 number of colors is greater than 8. (see 970524 for xterm-16color).
12161 + change order of -L options (so that $(libdir) is searched first) when
12162 linking tic and other programs, to workaround HP's linker.
12163 Otherwise, the -L../lib is embedded when linking against shared
12164 libraries and the installed program does not run (reported by Ralf
12166 + modify configuration of shared libraries on Digital Unix so that
12167 versioning is embedded in the library, rather than implied by
12168 links (patch by Tim Mooney).
12171 + modify etip.h to avoid conflict with math.h on HP-UX 9.03 with gcc
12172 2.8.1 which redefines 'exception' (reported by Ralf Hildebrandt
12173 <R.Hildebrandt@tu-bs.de>).
12174 + correct configure tests in CF_SHARED_OPTS which used $CC value to
12175 check for gcc, rather than autoconf's $GCC value. This did not
12176 work properly if the full pathname of the compiler were given
12177 (reported by Michael Yount <yount@csf.Colorado.edu>).
12178 + revise check for compiler options to force ANSI mode since repeating
12179 an option such as -Aa causes HP's compiler to fail on its own headers
12180 (reported by Clint Olsen <olsenc@ichips.intel.com>).
12183 + ifdef'd has_key() and mcprint() as extended functions.
12184 + modified several prototypes to correspond with 1997 version of
12185 X/Open Curses (affects ABI since developers have used attr_get).
12186 + remove spurious trailing blanks in glibc addon-scripts (patch by
12188 + insert a few braces at locations where gcc-2.8.x asks to use them to
12189 avoid ambiguous else's, use -fpic rather than -fPIC for Linux (patch
12190 by Juergen Pfeifer).
12193 + split SHLIB_LIST into SHLIB_DIRS/SHLIB_LIST to keep -L options
12194 before -l to accommodate Solaris' linker (reported by Larry Virden).
12197 + modify lib_color.c to eliminate dependency on orig_colors and
12198 orig_pair, since SVr4 curses does not require these either, but
12199 uses them when they are available.
12200 + add detailed usage-message to infocmp.
12201 + correct a typo in att6386 entry (a "%?" which was "?").
12202 + add -f option to infocmp and tic, which formats the terminfo
12203 if/then/else/endif so that they are readable (with newlines and
12205 + fixes for glibc addon scripts (patch by H.J.Lu).
12208 + revise configure macro CF_SPEED_TYPE so that termcap.h has speed_t
12209 declared (from Adam J Richter <adam@yggdrasil.com>)
12210 + remove spurious curs_set() call from leaveok() (J T Conklin).
12211 + corrected handling leaveok() in doupdate() (patch by Alexander V.
12213 + improved version of wredrawln (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
12214 + correct c++/Makefile.in so install target do not have embedded ../lib
12215 to confuse it (patch by Thomas Graf <graf@essi.fr>).
12216 + add warning to preinstall rule which checks if the installer would
12217 overwrite a curses.h or termcap.h that is not derived from ncurses.
12218 (The recommended configuration for developers who need both is to
12219 use --disable-overwrite).
12220 + modify preinstall rule in top-level Makefile to avoid implicit
12221 use of 'sh', to accommodate Ultrix 4.4 (reported by Joao Palhoto
12222 Matos <jmatos@math.ist.utl.pt>, patch by Thomas Esser
12223 <te@informatik.uni-hannover.de>)
12224 + refine ifdef's for TRACE so that libncurses has fewer dependencies
12225 on libtinfo when TRACE is disabled.
12226 + modify configure script so that if the --with-termlib option is used
12227 to generate a separate terminfo library, we chain it to the ncurses
12228 library with a "-l" option (reported by Darryl Miles and Ian T.
12232 + correct limits and window in wredrawln function (reported/analysis by
12233 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
12234 + correct sed expression in configure script for --with-fallback
12235 option (patch by Jesse Thilo).
12236 + correct some places in configure script where $enableval was used
12237 rather than $withval (patch by Darryl Miles <dlm@g7led.demon.co.uk>).
12238 + modify some man-pages so no '.' or '..' falls between TH and SH
12239 macros, to accommodate man_db program (reported by Ian T. Zimmerman
12241 + terminfo.src 10.2.1 downloaded from ESR's webpage (ESR).
12242 > several changes by Juergen Pfeifer:
12243 + add copyright notices (and rcs id's) on remaining man-pages.
12244 + corrected prototypes for slk_* functions, using chtype rather than
12246 + implemented the wcolor_set() and slk_color() functions
12247 + the slk_attr_{set,off,on} functions need an additional void*
12248 parameter according to XSI.
12249 + fix the C++ and Ada95 binding as well as the man pages to
12250 reflect above enhancements.
12253 + use 'stat()' rather than 'access()' in toe.c to check for the
12254 existence of $HOME/.terminfo, since it may be a file.
12255 + suppress configure CF_CXX_LIBRARY check if we are not using g++
12256 2.7.x, since this is not needed with g++ 2.8 or egcs (patch by
12258 + turn on hashmap scrolling code by default, intend to remedy defects
12260 + minor corrections to terminfo.src changelog.
12262 980302 4.2 release for upload to prep.ai.mit.edu
12263 + correct Florian's email address in ncurses-intro.html
12264 + terminfo.src 10.2.0 (ESR).
12267 + add linux-koi8r replace linux-koi8, which is not KOI8 (patch by
12268 QingLong <qinglong@Bolizm.ihep.su>).
12269 + minor documentation fixes (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
12270 + add setlocale() call to ncurses.c (reported by Claes G. Lindblad
12271 <claesg@algonet.se>).
12272 + correct sign-extension in lib_insstr.c (reported by Sotiris
12273 Vassilopoulos <svas@leon.nrcps.ariadne-t.gr>)
12276 + regenerated some documentation overlooked in 980214 patch
12277 (ncurses-intro.doc, curs_outopts.3x.html)
12278 + minor ifdef change to C++ binding to work with gcc 2.8.0 (patch by
12280 + change maintainer's mailing address to florian@gnu.org, change
12281 tentative mailing list address to bug-ncurses-request@gnu.org (patch
12282 by Florian La Roche).
12283 + add definition of $(REL_VERSION) to c++/Makefile.in (reported by Gran
12284 Hasse <gh@raditex.se>).
12285 + restore version numbers to Ada95 binding, accidentally deleted by
12286 copyright patch (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
12289 + remove ncurses.lsm from MANIFEST so that it won't be used in FSF
12290 distributions, though it is retained in development.
12291 + correct scaling of milliseconds to nanoseconds in lib_napms.c (patch
12293 + update mailing-list information (bug-ncurses@gnu.org).
12294 + update announcement for upcoming 4.2 release.
12295 + modify -lm test to check for 'sin()' rather than 'floor()'
12296 + remove spurious commas from terminfo.src descriptions.
12297 + change copyright notices to Free Software Foundation
12300 + minor fixes for autoconf macros CF_ERRNO, CF_HELP_MESSAGE and
12302 + modify Makefile.glibc so that $(objpfx) is defined (H.J.Lu).
12303 + ifdef-out true-return from _nc_mouse_inline() which depends on
12304 merge of QNX patch (pending 4.2 release).
12305 > patch to split off seldom-used modules in ncurses (J T Conklin):
12306 This reduces size by up to 2.6kb.
12307 + move functionality of _nc_usleep into napms, add configuration case
12309 + moved wchgat() from lib_addch.c to lib_chgat.c
12310 + moved clearok(), immedok(), leaveok(), and scrollok() from
12311 lib_options.c to lib_clearok.c, lib_immedok.c, lib_leaveok.c and
12313 + moved napms() from lib_kernel.c to lib_napms.c
12314 + moved echo() and noecho() from lib_raw.c to lib_echo.c
12315 + moved nl() and nonl() from lib_raw.c to lib_nl.c
12318 + corrected conversion in tclock.c (cf: 971018).
12319 + updates to Makefile.glibc and associated Linux configure script
12321 + workaround a quoting problem on SunOS with tar-copy.sh
12322 + correct init_pair() calls in worm.c to work when use_default_colors()
12324 + include <sys/types.h> in CF_SYS_TIME_SELECT to work with FreeBSD
12326 + add ncv capability to FreeBSD console (cons25w), making reverse
12328 + correct sense of configure-test for sys/time.h inclusion with
12330 + fixes for Ada95/ada_include/Makefile.in to work with --srcdir option.
12331 + remove unused/obsolete test-program rules from progs/Makefile.in
12332 (the rules in ncurses/Makefile.in work).
12333 + remove shared-library loader flags from test/Makefile.in, etc.
12334 + simplify test/configure.in using new version of autoconf to create
12336 + suppress suffix rules in test/Makefile.in, provide explicit
12337 dependency to work with --srcdir option and less capable 'make'
12339 > adapted from patch for QNX by Xiaodan Tang:
12340 + initialize %P and %g variables set/used in tparm, and also ensure
12341 that empty strings don't return a null result from tparam_internal
12342 + add QNX-specific prototype for vsscanf()
12343 + move initialization of SP->_keytry from init_keytry() to newterm() to
12344 avoid resetting it via a keyok() call by mouse_activate().
12345 + reorganized some functions in lib_mouse() to use case-statements.
12346 + remove sgr string from qnx terminfo entry since it is reported to
12347 turn off attributes inconsistently.
12350 + add f/F/b/B commands to ncurses 'b' test to toggle colors, providing
12351 test for no_color_video.
12352 + adjusted emx.src to use no_color_video, now works with ncurses 'b'
12354 + implement no_color_video attribute, and as a special case, reverse
12355 colors when the reverse attribute cannot be combined with color.
12356 + check for empty string in $TERM variable (reported by Brett Michaels
12357 <brett@xylan.com>).
12358 > from reports by Fred Fish:
12359 + add configure-test for isascii
12360 + add configure-test for -lm library.
12361 + modify CF_BOOL_SIZE to check if C++ bool types are unsigned.
12362 > patches by J.J.G.Ripoll
12363 + add configure/makefile variables to support .exe extension on
12364 OS/2 EMX (requires additional autoconf patches).
12365 + explicitly initialize variables in lib_data.c to appease OS/2 linker
12366 > patches by Fred Fish <fnf@ninemoons.com>
12367 + misc/Makefile.in (install.data): Avoid trying to install the CVS
12369 + aclocal.m4 (install.includes): Remove files in the include directory
12370 where we are going to install new ones, not the original source
12372 + misc/terminfo.src: Add entry for "beterm", derived from termcap
12373 distributed with BeOS PR2 using captoinfo.
12374 + aclocal.m4: Wrap $cf_cv_type_of_bool with quotes (contains space)
12375 + aclocal.m4: Assume bool types are unsigned.
12376 + progs/infocmp.c: workaround mwcc 32k function data limit
12379 + correct initialization of color-pair (cf: 970524) in xmas.c, which
12380 was using only one color-pair for all colors (reported by
12382 + add multithread options for objects build on EMX, for compatibility
12384 + split up an expression in MKlib_gen.sh to work around a problem on
12385 OS/2 EMX, with 'ash' (patch by J.J.G.Ripoll).
12386 + change terminfo entries xterm (xterm-xf86-v40), xterm-8bit rs1 to use
12388 + rename terminfo entry xterm-xf86-v39t to xterm-xf86-v40
12389 + remove bold/underline from sun console entries since they're not
12391 + correct _tracef calls in _tracedump(), which did not separate format
12393 + correct getopt string for tic "-o" option, and add it to man-page
12394 synopsis (reported by Darren Hiebert <darren@hmi.com>).
12395 + correct typo in panel/Makefile.in, reversed if-statement in scrolling
12396 optimization (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
12397 + test for 'remove()', use 'unlink() if not found (patch by Philippe De
12398 Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>).
12399 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
12400 + Improve a feature of the forms driver. For invisible fields
12401 (O_VISIBLE off) only the contents but not the attributes are cleared.
12402 We now clear both. (Reported by Javier Kohan
12403 <jkohan@adan.fceia.unr.edu.ar>)
12404 + The man page form_field_opts.3x makes now clear, that invisible
12405 fields are also always inactive.
12406 + adjust ifdef's to compile the C++ binding with the just released
12407 gcc-2.8.0 c++ and the corresponding new C++ libraries.
12410 + correct "?" command in ncurses.c; it was performing non-screen writes
12411 while the program was in screen mode. (It "worked" in 1.9.9e because
12412 that version sets OPOST and OCRNL incorrectly).
12413 + return error from functions in lib_kernel, lib_raw and lib_ti if
12414 cur_term is null, or if underlying I/O fails.
12415 + amend change to tputs() so that it does not return an error if
12416 cur_term is null, since some applications depend on being able to use
12417 tputs without initializing the terminal (reported by Christian J.
12418 Robinson <infynity@cyberhighway.net>).
12421 + add a copy of emx.src from J.J.G.Ripoll's OS/2 EMX version of ncurses
12422 1.9.9e, together with fixes/additions for the "ansi" terminal type.
12423 + add tic check for save/restore cursor if change_scroll_region is
12424 defined (reference: O'Reilly book).
12425 + modify read_termcap.c to handle EMX-style pathnames (reported by
12427 + modify lib_raw.c to use EMX's setmode (patch from J.J.G.Ripoll).
12428 Ripoll says EMX's curses does this.
12429 + modify _nc_tic_expand() to generate \0 rather than \200.
12430 + move/revise 'expand()' from dump_entry.c to ncurses library as
12431 _nc_tic_expand(), for use by tack.
12432 + decode \a as \007 for terminfo, as per XSI.
12433 + correct translation of terminfo "^@", to \200, like \0.
12434 + modify next_char() to treat <cr><lf> the same as <newline>, for
12435 cross-platform compatibility.
12436 + use new version of autoconf (971230) to work around limited
12437 environment on CLIX, due to the way autoconf builds --help message.
12438 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
12439 + check that the Ada95 binding runs against the correct version of
12441 + insert constants about the library version into the main spec-file of
12445 + modify open/fopen calls to use binary mode, needed for EMX.
12446 + modify configure script to work with autoconf 2.10 mods for OS/2
12447 EMX (from J.J.G.Ripoll).
12448 + generated ncurses_cfg.h with patch (971222) to autoconf 2.12 which
12449 bypasses limited sed buffer length.
12450 > several changes from Juan Jose Garcia Ripoll <worm@arrakis.es>
12451 (J.J.G.Ripoll) to support OS/2 EMX:
12452 + add a _scrolling flag to SP, to set when we encounter a terminal
12453 that simply cannot scroll.
12454 + corrected logic in _nc_add_to_try(), by ensuring that strings with
12455 embedded \200 characters are matched.
12456 + don't assume the host has 'link()' function, for linking terminfo
12460 + if there's no ioctl's to support sigwinch handler, disable it.
12461 + add configure option --disable-ext-funcs to remove the extended
12462 functions from the build.
12463 + add configure option --with-termlib to generate the terminfo
12464 functions as a separate library.
12465 + add 'sources' rule to facilitate cross-compiling.
12466 + review/fix order of mostlyclean/clean/distclean rules.
12467 + modify install-rule for headers to first remove old header, in
12468 case there was a symbolic link that confuses the install script.
12469 + corrected substitution for NCURSES_CONST in term.h (cf: 971108)
12470 + add null pointer checks in wnoutrefresh(), overlap() (patch by
12471 Xiaodan Tang <xtang@qnx.com>)
12472 + correct tputs(), which could dereference a null cur_term if invoked
12473 before terminal is initialized (patch by Christopher Seawood
12475 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
12476 + makes better use of "pragma Inline" in the Ada95 binding
12477 + resynchronizes the generated html manpages
12480 + additional fixes for man-pages section-references
12481 + add (for debugging) a check for ich/ich1 conflict with smir/rmir
12483 + remove hpa/vpa from rxvt terminal description because they are not
12484 implemented correctly, added sgr0.
12485 + change ncurses 's' to use raw mode, so ^Q works (reported by Rudolf
12486 Leitgeb <leitgeb@leland.stanford.edu>)
12489 + modify protection when installing libraries to (normally) not
12490 executable. HP-UX shared libraries are an exception.
12491 + add configure check for 'tack'.
12492 + implement script for renaming section-references in man-page install,
12493 for Debian configuration.
12494 + add validity-check for SP in trace code in baudrate() (reported by
12496 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov (fixes to match sol25 curses)
12497 + modify 'overlay()' so that copy applies target window background to
12499 + correct 'mvwin()' so that it does not clear the previous locations.
12500 + correct lib_acs.c so that 8-bit character is not sign expanded in
12501 case of wide characters in chtype.
12502 + correct control-char test in lib_addch.c for use with wide chars
12503 + use attribute in the chtype when adding a control character in
12504 lib_addch.c control char was added with current attribute
12507 + save/restore errno in _tracef() function
12508 + change treatment of initialize_color to use a range of 0..1000
12509 (recommended by Daniel Weaver).
12510 + set umask in mkinstalldirs, fixing problems reported by users who
12511 have set root's umask to 077.
12512 + correct bug in tic that caused capabilities to be reprinted at the
12513 end of output when they had embedded comments.
12514 + rewrote wredrawln to correspond to XSI, and split-out since it is
12515 not often used (from report by Alexander V. Lukyanov, 970825)
12516 + rewrote Dan Nelson's change to make it portable, as well as to
12517 correct logic for handling backslashes.
12518 + add code to _nc_tgetent() to make it work more like a real tgetent().
12519 It removes all empty fields, and removes all but the first in a group
12520 of duplicate caps. The code was pulled from the BSD libtermcap code
12521 in termcap.c (patch by Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
12522 + don't include --enable-widec in the --with-develop configure option,
12523 since it is not binary-compatible with 4.1 (noted by Alexander V.
12525 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
12526 + further improvements of the usage of elaboration pragmas in the Ada95
12528 + enhanced Ada95 sample to use the user_data mechanism for panels.
12529 + a fix for the configuration script to make gnat-3.10 the required
12531 + resync of the html version of the manpages
12534 > fixes/updates for terminfo.src:
12535 + add vt220-js, pilot, rbcomm, datapoint entries from esr's 27-jun-97
12537 + add hds200 description (Walter Skorski)
12538 + add EMX 0.9b descriptions
12539 + correct rmso/smso capabilities in wy30-mc and wy50-mc (Daniel Weaver)
12540 + rename xhpterm back to hpterm.
12541 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
12542 + Improves the usage of elaboration pragmas for the Ada95 binding.
12543 + Adds a translation of the test/rain.c into Ada95 to the samples.
12544 This has been contributed to the project by Laurent Pautet
12548 + increase MAX_NAME_SIZE to 512 to handle extremely long alias list
12550 + correction & simplification of delay computation in tputs, based on
12551 comments from Daniel Weaver.
12552 + replace test for SCO with more precise header tests.
12553 + add configure test for unsigned literals, use in NCURSES_BITS macro.
12554 + comment-out the -PIC, etc., flags from c++, progs and test makefiles
12555 since they probably are not needed, and are less efficient (noted by
12557 + add -L$(libdir) to loader options, after -L../lib so that loaders
12558 that record this information will tend to do the right thing if
12559 the programs are moved around after installing them (suggested by
12561 + add -R option to loader options for programs for Solaris if the
12562 --enable-rpath option is specified for the libraries.
12565 + correct installed filename for shared libraries on *BSD (reported by
12569 + cleanup logic for deciding when tputs() should call delay_output(),
12570 based on comments from Daniel Weaver.
12571 + modified tputs() to avoid use of float.
12572 + correct use of trailpad in tputs(), which used the wrong variable
12573 in call to delay_output().
12574 + correct inverted expression for null-count in delay_output()
12575 (analysis by Daniel Weaver).
12576 + apply --enable-rpath option to Solaris (requested by Larry Virden).
12577 + correct substitution of EXTRA_CFLAGS for gcc 2.6.3
12578 + correct check for error-return by _nc_tgetent(), which returns 0
12580 + add configure test for BSD 4.4 cgetent() function, modify
12581 read_termcap.c to use the host's version of that if found, using the
12582 terminal database on FreeBSD (reported by Peter Wemm).
12583 + add u8, u9 strings to sun-il description for Daniel Weaver.
12584 + use NCURSES_CONST in panel's user-pointer.
12585 + modify edit_cfg.sh and MKterm.h.awk.in to substitute NCURSES_CONST
12586 so that will work on NeXT.
12587 + use _nc_set_screen() rather than assignments to SP to fix port to
12588 NeXT (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
12591 + force mandatory padding in bell and flash_screen, as specified in
12593 + don't allow padding_baud_rate to override mandatory delays (reported
12595 + modify delay_output() to use _nc_timed_wait() if no baudrate has been
12596 defined, or if the cur_term pointer is not initialized. XSI treats
12597 this as unspecified. (requested by Daniel Weaver).
12598 + change getcap-cache ifdef's to eliminate unnecessary chdir/mkdir
12599 when that feature is not configured.
12600 + remove _nc_err_abort() calls when write_entry.c finds a directory but
12601 cannot write to it, e.g., when translating part/all of /etc/termcap
12602 (reported by Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>).
12603 (this dates back to 951102 in 1.9.7a).
12604 + minor ifdef fixes to compile with atac and glibc 2.0.5c
12605 + add check for -lgen when configuring regexpr.h
12606 + modify Solaris shared-library option "-d y" to "-dy" to workaround
12607 incompatibility of gcc 2.7.2 vs vendor's tools.
12610 + correct ifdef's for struct winsize vs struct ttysize in lib_setup.c
12612 + remove dangling backslash in panel/Makefile.in
12613 + modify MKkeyname.awk to work with SCO's nawk, which dumps core in the
12615 + correct length of allocation in _nc_add_to_try(), to allow for
12617 + correct logic in _nc_remove_key(), which was discarding too many
12618 nodes (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov)
12621 + add definition for $(REL_VERSION) to test/Makefile.in, so *BSD
12622 shared libraries link properly (see 970524).
12623 + modify Linux shared-library generation to include library
12624 dependencies (e.g., -lncurses and -lgpm) in the forms, menu and
12625 panel libraries (suggested by Juergen Pfeifer).
12626 + modify configure script to use config.guess and config.sub rather
12627 than uname, which is unreliable on some systems.
12628 + updated Makefile.glibc, test-built with glibc 2.0.5c
12629 + modify keyname() to return values consistent with SVr4 curses (patch
12631 > changes requested by Daniel Weaver:
12632 + modify delay_output() so that it uses the same output function as
12633 tputs() if called from that function.
12634 + move _baudrate from SCREEN to TERMINAL so that low-level use of
12635 tputs works when SP is not set.
12636 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
12637 + factor lib_menu and lib_form into smaller modules
12638 + clean up the interface between panel and SCREEN
12639 + minor changes to the Ada95 mouse support implementation
12640 + minor bugfix in C++ binding to ripoff windows
12641 + fix a few Ada95 html documentation pages
12644 + split-out lib_ungetch.c, make runtime link to resizeterm() to
12645 decouple those modules from lib_restart.c
12646 + add xterm-xf86-v39t description to terminfo.src
12647 + reset SP->_endwin in lib_tstp.c cleanup() function after calling
12648 endwin() to avoid unnecessary repainting if the application has
12649 established an atexit function, etc. Encountered this problem in
12650 the c++ demo, whose destructors repaint the screen.
12651 + combine _nc_get_screensize() and resizeterm() calls as new function
12652 _nc_update_screensize().
12653 + minor fixes to allow compile with g++ (suggested by Nelson H. F.
12655 + implement install-rules for Ada95 makefiles.
12656 + use screen_lines or MAXLINES as needed where LINES was coded,
12657 as well as screen_columns for COLS, in the ncurses library.
12658 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
12659 + modify logic for ripped-off lines to handle several SCREENs.
12660 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
12661 + factors lib_slk.c into some smaller modules
12662 + factors panel.c into some smaller modules
12663 + puts the static information about the current panel stack into the
12664 SCREEN structure to allow different panel stacks on different
12666 + preliminary fix for an error adjusting LINES to account for
12670 + move _nc_max_click_interval and other mouse interface items to SCREEN
12671 struct so that they are associated with a single terminal, and also
12672 save memory when the application does not need a mouse (roughly 3k vs
12674 + modify mouseinterval() so that a negative parameter queries the
12675 click-interval without modifying it.
12676 + modify ncurses 'i' test to work with ncurses' apparent extension from
12677 SVr4, i.e., allows nocbreak+noecho (analysis by Alexander V.
12679 + add configure options --with-ada-includes and --with-ada-objects,
12680 to drive Ada95 binding install (not yet implemented).
12681 + install C++ binding as -lncurses++ and associated headers with the
12682 other ncurses headers.
12683 + fix header uninstall if configure --srcdir is used.
12684 > minor interface changes to support 'tack' program -TD
12685 (request by Daniel Weaver <danw@znyx.com>).
12686 + export functions _nc_trans_string() and _nc_msec_cost().
12687 + add variable _nc_nulls_sent, to record the number of padding
12688 characters output in delay_output().
12689 + move tests for generic_type and hard_copy terminals in setupterm()
12690 to the end of that function so that the library will still be
12691 initialized, though not generally useful for curses programs.
12692 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
12693 + modify ClrBottom() to avoid using clr_eos if there is only one line
12695 + typo in configure --help.
12696 > patch by J T Conklin (with minor resync against Juergen's changes)
12697 + split-out lib_flash.c from lib_beep.c
12698 + split-out lib_hline.c and lib_vline.c from lib_box.c
12699 + split-out lib_wattron.c, lib_wattroff.c from lib_addch.c
12702 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
12703 + correct source/target of c++/edit_cfg.sh
12706 + add color, mouse support to kterm terminfo entry.
12707 + modify lib_mouse.c to recognize rxvt, kterm, color_xterm also as
12708 providing "xterm"-style mouse.
12709 + updated rxvt's terminfo description to correspond to 2.21b, with
12710 fixes for the acsc (the box1 capability is incorrect, ech1 does not
12712 + fix logic in parse_entry.c that discarded acsc when 'synthesizing'
12713 an entry from equivalents in XENIX or AIX. This lets ncurses handle
12714 the distribution copy of rxvt's terminfo.
12715 + modify acsc capability for linux and linux-koi8 terminfo descriptions
12716 (from Pavel Roskin <pavel@absolute.spb.su>).
12717 + corrected definition in curses.h for ACS_LANTERN, which was 'I'
12718 rather than 'i' (see 970802).
12719 + updated terminfo.src with reformatted acsc entries, and repaired the
12720 trashed entries with spurious '\' characters that this exposed.
12721 + add logic to dump_entry.c to reformat acsc entries into canonical
12722 form (sorted, unique mapping).
12723 + add configure script to generate c++/etip.h
12724 + add configure --with-develop option, to enable by default most of the
12725 experimental options (requested by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
12726 + rename 'deinstall' to 'uninstall', following GNU convention
12727 (suggested by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
12728 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
12729 + modify tactics 2 and 5 in onscreen_mvcur(), to allow them on the last
12730 line of the screen, since carriage return will not cause a newline.
12731 + remove clause from PutCharLR() that would try to use
12732 eat_newline_glitch since that apparently does not work on some
12733 terminals (e.g., M$ telnet).
12734 + correct a limit check in scroll_csr_backward()
12735 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
12736 + adds dummy implementations of methods above() and below() to the
12737 NCursesPanel class.
12738 + fixes missing returncode in NCursesWindow::ripoffline()
12739 + fixes missing returncode in TestApplication::run() in demo.cc
12740 + We should at least give a comment in etip.h why it is currently a
12741 problem to install the C++ binding somewhere
12742 + makes the WINDOW* argument of wenclose() a const.
12743 + modifies several of the routines in lib_adabind.c to use a const
12747 + add 'deinstall' rules.
12748 + use explicit assignments in configure --without-progs option to
12749 work around autoconf bug which doesn't always set $withval.
12750 + check for ldconfig, don't try to run it if not found.
12751 + implement simple/unoptimized case in lib_doupdate.c to handle
12752 display with magic cookie glitch, tested with ncurses.c program.
12753 + correct missing _tracef in getmouse(), to balance the returnCode
12755 + simplify show_attr() in ncurses.c using termattrs().
12756 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
12757 + provides missing inlines for mvw[hv]line in cursesw.h of the C++
12759 + fixes a typo in a comment of frm_driver.c
12760 + Enhances Ada95 Makefiles to fulfill the requirement of GNAT-3.10 that
12761 generics should be compiled. Proper fixes to the configuration
12762 scripts are also provided.
12765 + several modifications to the configure script (requested by Ward
12767 + add configure options --without-progs, to suppress the build of the
12768 utility programs, e.g., for cross-compiling.
12769 + add $(HOSTCCFLAGS) and $(HOSTLDFLAGS) symbols to ncurses
12770 Makefile.in, to simplify setup for cross compiling.
12771 + add logic in configure script to recognize "--target=vxworks", and
12772 generate load/install actions for VxWorks objects.
12773 + move typedef for sigaction_t into SigAction.h to work around problem
12774 generating lint library.
12775 + modify fty_regex.c to reflect renaming of ifdef's for regular
12777 + simplify ifdef in lib_setup.c for TIOCGWINSZ since that symbol may
12778 reside in <sys/ioctl.h>.
12779 + merge testcurs.c with version from PDCurses 2.3, clarifying some of
12780 the more obscure tests, which rely upon color.
12781 + use macros getbegyx() and getmaxyx() in newdemo.c and testcurs.c
12782 + modify ncurses.c to use getbegyx() and getmaxyx() macros to cover up
12783 implementation difference wrt SVr4 curses, allow 's' test to work.
12784 + add missing endwin() to testscanw.c program (reported by Fausto
12785 Saporito <fausap@itb.it>).
12786 + fixes/updates for Makefile.glibc and related files under sysdeps
12788 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
12789 + add checks for null pointers, especially WINDOW's throughout the
12791 + solve a problem with wrong calculation of panel overlapping (reported
12793 + make sure that a panel's window isn't a pad.
12794 + do more error checking in module lib_touch.c
12795 + missing files for Ada95 binding from the last patch
12796 + synch. of generated html pages (RCS-Id's were wrong in html files)
12797 + support for Key_Resize in Ada binding
12798 + changed documentation style in ./c++/cursesm.h
12799 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
12800 + undo attempt to do recursive inlining for PutChar(), noting that it
12801 did not improve timing measurably, but inflated the size of
12805 + modify rain.c to use color.
12806 + correct scroll_csr_backward() to match scroll_csr_forward().
12807 + minor adjustment to llib-lncurses, to work with Solaris 2.5.1
12808 + minor fixes to sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/configure to reflect renaming
12809 of configure cache variables in 970906.
12810 + correct logic involving changes to O_VISIBLE option in
12811 Synchronize_Options function in frm_driver.c (Tony Hoffmann
12812 <Tony.Hoffmann@hia.nrc.ca>)
12813 + add $(HOSTCC) symbol to ncurses Makefile.in, to simplify setup for
12814 cross compiling (suggested by Chris Johns).
12815 + modify ifdef in lib_setup.c to only include <sys/ioctl.h> if we can
12816 use it to support screen-size calculation (reported by Chris Johns).
12817 + #undef unctrl to avoid symbol conflict in port to RTEMS (reported by
12818 Chris Johns <cjohns@plessey.com.au>)
12819 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
12820 + simplified, made minor corrections to Ada95 binding to form
12822 + The C++ binding has been enhanced:
12823 + Improve NCursesWindow class: added additional methods to cover
12824 more ncurses functionality. Make refresh() and noutrefresh()
12825 virtual members to allow different implementation in the
12826 NCursesPanel class.
12827 + CAUTION: changed order of parameters in vline() and hline() of
12828 NCursesWindow class.
12829 + Make refresh() in NCursesPanel non-static, it is now a
12830 reimplementation of refresh() in the base class. Added
12831 noutrefresh() to NCursesPanel.
12832 + Added NCursesForm and related classes to support libform
12834 + Moved most of configuration related stuff from cursesw.h to etip.h
12835 + Added NCursesApplication class to support easy configuration of
12836 menu and forms related attributes as well as ripped of title lines
12837 and Soft-Label-Keys for an application.
12838 + Support of Auto-Cleanup for a menu's fieldlist.
12839 + Change of return type for current_item() and operator[] for menus.
12841 + Fixed a bug in form/fld_def.c: take into account that copyarg and
12842 freearg for a fieldtype may be NULL, makearg must not be NULL
12843 + Fixed a bug in form/fld_type.c: in set_fieldtype_arg() makearg must
12844 not be NULL, copyarg and freearg may be NULL.
12845 + Fixed a bug in form/frm_def.c: Allow Disconnect_Fields() if it is
12846 already disconnected.
12847 + Enhance form/frm_driver.c: Allow growth of dynamic fields also on
12848 navigation requests.
12849 + Fixed a bug in form/fty_enum.c: wrong position of postincrement in
12850 case-insensitiva comparison routine.
12851 + Enhanced form/lib_adabind.c with function _nc_get_field() to get a
12852 forms field by index.
12853 + Enhanced menu/m_adabind.c with function _nc_get_item() to get a menus
12855 + Fixed in curses.h.in: make chtype argument for pechochar() constant.
12856 Mark wbkgdset() as implemented, remove wbkgdset macro, because it was
12857 broken (didn't handle colors correctly).
12858 + Enhanced lib_mouse.c: added _nc_has_mouse() function
12859 + Added _nc_has_mouse() prototype to curses.priv.h
12860 + Modified lib_bkgd.c: hopefully correct implementation of wbkgdset();
12861 streamlined implementation of wbkgd()
12862 + Modified lib_mvwin.c: Disable move of a pad. Implement (costly)
12863 move of subwindows. Fixed update behavior of movements of regular
12865 + Fixed lib_pad.c: make chtype argument of pechochar() const.
12866 + Fixed lib_window.c: dupwin() is not(!) in every bit a really clone
12867 of the original. Subwindows become regular windows by doing a
12869 + Improved manpage form_fieldtype.3x
12870 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
12871 + simplify the PutChar() handling of exit_am_mode, because we already
12872 know that auto_right_margin is true.
12873 + add a check in PutChar() for ability to insert to the case of
12874 shifting character to LR corner.
12875 + in terminal initialization by _nc_screen_resume(), make sure that
12876 terminal right margin mode is known.
12877 + move logic that invokes touchline(), or does the equivalent, into
12878 _nc_scroll_window().
12879 + modify scrolling logic use of insert/delete line capability, assuming
12880 that they affect the screen contents only within the current
12882 + modify rain.c to demonstrate SIGWINCH handler.
12883 + remove logic from getch() that would return an ERR if the application
12884 called getch() when the cursor was at the lower-right corner of the
12885 physical screen, and the terminal does not have insert-character
12887 + change view.c so that it breaks out of getch() loop if a KEY_RESIZE
12888 is read, and modify logic in getch() so this fix will yield the
12889 desired behavior, i.e., the screen is repainted automatically when
12890 the terminal window is resized.
12893 + add configure option --enable-sigwinch
12894 + modify view.c to test KEY_RESIZE logic, with "-r" option.
12895 + modify testcurs.c to eliminate misleading display wrt cursor type
12896 by testing if the terminal supports cnorm, civis, cvvis.
12897 + several fixes for m68k/NeXT 4.0, to bring cur_term, _nc_curr_line and
12898 _nc_curr_col variables into linked programs: move these variables,
12899 making new modules lib_cur_term and trace_buf (reported by Francisco
12900 Alberto Tomei Torres <fatomei@sandburg.unm.edu>).
12901 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
12902 + add pseudo-functionkey KEY_RESIZE which is returned by getch() when
12903 the SIGWINCH handler has been called since the last call to
12905 + modify lib_twait.c to hide EINTR only if HIDE_EINTR is defined.
12906 + add SIGWINCH handler to ncurses library which is used if there is no
12907 application SIGWINCH handler in effect when the screen is
12909 + make linked list of all SCREEN structures.
12910 + move curses.h include before definition of SCREEN to use types in
12912 + correction to ensure that wgetstr uses only a newline to force a
12916 + add experimental configure option --enable-safe-sprintf; the normal
12917 mode now allocates a buffer as large as the screen for the
12918 lib_printw.c functions.
12919 + modify wgetch to refresh screen when reading ungetch'd characters,
12920 since the application may require this - SVr4 does this.
12921 + refine treatment of newline in wgetstr to echo only when this would
12922 force the screen to scroll.
12925 + remove override in wgetstr() that forces keypad(), since SVr4 does
12927 + correct y-reference for erasure in wgetstr() when a wrap forces a
12929 + correct x-position in waddch() after a wrap forces a scroll.
12930 + echo newline in wgetstr(), making testscanw.c scroll properly when
12932 + modify vwscanw() to avoid potential buffer overflow.
12933 + rewrote lib_printw.c to eliminate fixed-buffer limits.
12934 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
12935 + correct an error in handling cooked mode in wgetch(); processing
12936 was in the wrong order.
12937 + simplified logic in wgetch() that handles backspace, etc., by using
12939 + correct wechochar() so that it interprets the output character as
12941 + modify pechochar() to use prefresh() rather than doupdate(), since
12942 the latter does not guarantee immediate refresh of the pad.
12943 + modify pechochar() so that if called with a non-pad WINDOW, will
12944 invoke wechochar() instead.
12945 + modify fifo indices to allow fifo to be longer than 127 bytes.
12948 + add xterm-8bit to terminfo.src
12949 + moved logic for SP->_fifohold inside check_pending() to make it
12950 work properly when we add calls to that function.
12951 + ensure that bool functions return only TRUE or FALSE, and TRUE/FALSE
12952 are assigned to bool values (patch by H.J.Lu).
12953 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
12954 + several fixes to getch:
12955 1. Separate cooked and raw keys in fifo
12956 2. Fix the case of ungetch'ed KEY_MOUSE
12957 3. wrap the code for hiding EINTR with ifdef HIDE_EINTR
12958 4. correctly handle input errors (i.e., EINTR) without loss of raw
12960 5. recognize ESC KEY_LEFT and similar
12961 6. correctly handle the case of reception of KEY_MOUSE from gpm
12962 + correct off-by-one indexing error in _nc_mouse_parse(), that caused
12963 single mouse events (press/release) to be ignored in favor of
12964 composed events (click). Improves on a fix from integrating gpm
12966 + add another call to check_pending, before scrolling, for
12967 line-breakout optimization
12968 + improve hashmap.c by
12969 1. fixed loop condition in grow_hunks()
12970 2. not marking lines with offset 0
12971 3. fixed condition of 'too far' criteria, thus one-line hunks are
12972 ignored and two lines interchanged won't pass.
12973 + rewrote/simplified _nc_scroll_optimize() by separating into two
12974 passes, forward/backward, looking for chunks moving only in the given
12976 + move logic that emits sgr0 when initializing the screen to
12977 _nc_screen_init(), now invoked from newterm.
12978 + move cursor-movement cleanup from endwin() into _nc_mvcur_wrap()
12979 function and screen cleanup (i.e., color) into _nc_screen_wrap()
12981 + add new functions _nc_screen_init(), _nc_screen_resume() and
12983 + rename _nc_mvcur_scrolln() to _nc_scrolln().
12984 + add a copy of acs_map[] to the SCREEN structure, where it can be
12985 stored/retrieved via set_term().
12986 + move variables _nc_idcok, _nc_idlok, _nc_windows into the SCREEN
12990 + implement experimental _nc_perform_scroll().
12991 + modify newterm (actually _nc_setupscreen()) to emit an sgr0 when
12992 initializing the screen, as does SVr4 (reported by Alexander V.
12994 + added test_progs rule to ncurses/Makefile.
12995 + modify test/configure.in to check if initscr is already in $LIBS
12996 before looking for (n)curses library.
12997 + correct version-number in configure script for OSF1 shared-library
12998 options (patch by Tim Mooney).
12999 + add -DNDEBUG to CPPFLAGS for --enable-assertions (as Juergen
13000 originally patched) since the c++ demo files do not necessarily
13001 include ncurses_cfg.h
13002 + supply default value for --enable-assertions option in configure
13003 script (reported by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf-fs.usc.edu>).
13004 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
13005 + correct/simplify logic of werase(), wclrtoeol() and wclrbot(). See
13006 example firstlast.c
13007 + optimize waddch_literal() and waddch_nosync() by factoring out
13008 common subexpressions.
13009 + correct sense of NDEBUG ifdef for CHECK_POSITION macro.
13010 + corrections to render_char(), to make handling of colored blanks
13011 match SVr4 curses, as well as to correct a bug that xor'd space
13012 against the background character.
13013 + replaced hash function with a faster one (timed it)
13014 + rewrote the hashmap algorithm to be one-pass, this avoids multiple
13015 cost_effective() calls on the same lines.
13016 + modified cost_effective() so it is now slightly more precise.
13017 > patches for glibc integration (H.J.Lu):
13018 + add modules define_key, keyok, name_match, tries
13019 + add makefile rules for some of the unit tests in ncurses (mvcur,
13020 captoinfo, hardscroll, hashmap).
13021 + update Linux configure-script for wide-character definitions.
13024 + modify _tracebits() to show the character size (e.g., CS8).
13025 + modify tparm() to emit '\200' where the generated string would have a
13026 null (reported by From: Ian Dall <Ian.Dall@dsto.defence.gov.au> for
13027 terminal type ncr7900).
13028 + modify install process so that ldconfig is not invoked if the
13029 package is built with an install-prefix.
13030 + correct test program for chtype size (reported by Tim Mooney).
13031 + add configure option --disable-scroll-hints, using this to ifdef the
13032 logic that computes indices for _nc_scroll_optimize().
13033 + add module ncurses/softscroll.c, to perform single-stage computation
13034 of scroll indices used in _nc_scroll_optimize(). This is faster than
13035 the existing scrolling algorithm, but tends to make too-small hunks.
13036 + eliminate fixed buffer size in _nc_linedump().
13037 + minor fixes to lib_doupdate.c to add tradeoff between clr_eol (el)
13038 and clr_bol (el1), refine logic in ClrUpdate() and ClrBottom() (patch
13039 by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13040 + add test/testaddch.c, from a pending patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov.
13041 + correct processing of "configure --enable-assertions" option (patch
13042 by Juergen Pfeifer).
13045 + add '-s' (single-step) option too test/hashtest.c, correct an error
13046 in loop limit for '-f' (footer option), toggle scrollok() when
13047 writing footer to avoid wrap at lower-right corner.
13048 + correct behavior of clrtoeol() immediately after wrapping cursor,
13049 which was not clearing the line at the cursor position (reported by
13050 Liviu Daia <daia@stoilow.imar.ro>).
13051 + corrected mapping for ACS_LANTERN, which was 'I' rather than 'i'
13052 (reported by Klaus Weide <kweide@tezcat.com>).
13053 + many corrections to make progs/capconvert work, as well as make it
13054 reasonably portable and integrated with ncurses 4.1 (reported by Dave
13055 Furstenau <df@ravine.binary.net>).
13058 + add flag SP->_fifohold, corresponding logic to modify the behavior of
13059 the line breakout logic so that if the application does not read
13060 input, refreshes will not be stopped, but only slowed.
13061 + generate slk_attr_off(), slk_attr_on(), slk_attr_set(), vid_attr(),
13062 ifdef'd for wide-character support, since ncurses' WA_xxx attribute
13063 masks are identical with the A_xxx masks.
13064 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to generate ifdef'd functions to support optional
13065 configuration of wide-characters.
13066 + modify tset to behave more like SVr4's tset, which does not modify
13067 the settings of intr, quit or erase unless they are given as command
13068 options (reported by Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe@math.utah.edu>).
13069 + modify tset to look in /etc/ttys or /etc/ttytype if the configuration
13070 does not have getttynam().
13071 + extend baudrate table in tset.c to match baudrate() function.
13072 + add table entries for B230400 and B460800 to baudrate() function.
13073 + improve breakout logic by allowing it before the first line updated,
13074 which is what SVr4 curses does (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13075 + correct initialization of vcost in relative_move(), for cursor-down
13076 case (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13077 > nits gleaned from Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-3:
13078 + install symbolic link for intotocap.
13079 + reference libc directly when making shared libraries.
13080 + correct renaming of curs_scr_dmp.3x in man_db.renames.
13081 + guard tgetflag() and other termcap functions against null cur_term
13085 + corrected initial state of software echo (error in 970405, reported
13086 by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13087 + reviewed/added messages to configure script, so that all non-test
13088 options should be accompanied by a message.
13089 + add configure check for long filenames, using this to determine if
13090 it is safe to allow long aliases for terminal descriptions as does
13092 + add configure options for widec (wide character), hashmap (both
13094 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
13095 + hashmap.c - improved by heuristic, so that scroll test works much
13096 better when csr is not available.
13097 + hardscroll.c - patched so that it continues to scroll other chunks
13098 after failure to scroll one.
13099 + lib_doupdate.c - _nc_mvcur_scrolln extended to handle more cases; csr
13100 is avoided as it is relative costly. Fixed wrong coordinates in one
13101 case and wrong string in TRACE.
13102 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
13103 + modify C++ binding to compile on AIX 4.x with the IBM C-SET++
13107 + remove alternate character set from kterm terminfo entry; it uses the
13108 shift-out control for a purpose incompatible with curses, i.e., font
13110 + disentangle 'xterm' terminfo entry from some derived entries that
13111 should be based on xterm-r6 instead.
13112 + add cbt to xterm-xf86-xv32 terminfo entry; I added the emulation for
13113 XFree86 3.1.2F, but overlooked its use in terminfo then - T.Dickey.
13114 + correct logic in lib_mvcur.c that uses back_tab.
13117 + correct change from 970628 to ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c so that
13118 contents of curscr are saved in newscr before clearing the screen.
13119 This is needed to make repainting work with the present logic of
13121 + use napms() rather than sleep() in tset.c to avoid interrupting I/O.
13124 + add limit checks to _nc_read_file_entry() to guard against overflow
13125 of buffer when reading incompatible terminfo format, e.g, from OSF/1.
13126 + correct some loop-variable errors in xmc support in lib_doupdate.c
13127 + modify ncurses 'b' test to add gaps, specified by user, to allow
13128 investigation of interaction with xmc (magic cookie) code.
13129 + correct typo in 970524 mods to xmas.c, had omitted empty parameter
13130 list from has_colors(), which gcc ignores, but SVr4 does not
13131 (reported by Larry Virden).
13132 + correct rmso capability in wy50-mc description.
13133 + add configure option "--enable-hard-tabs", renamed TABS_OK ifdef to
13135 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
13136 + Add bindings for keyok() and define_key() to the Ada95 packages.
13137 + Improve man pages menu_post.3x and menu_format.3x
13138 + Fix the HTML pages in the Ada95/html directory to reflect the above
13142 + modify change from 970101 to ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c so that
13143 pending changes to both curscr and newscr are flushed properly.
13144 This fixes a case where the first scrolling operation in nvi would
13145 cause the screen to be cleared unnecessarily and repainted before
13146 doing the indexing, i.e., by repeatedly pressing 'j' (reported by
13148 + correct error in trans_string() which added embedded newlines in a
13149 terminfo description to the stored strings.
13150 + remove spurious newlines from sgr in wyse50 (and several other)
13151 terminfo descriptions.
13152 + add configure option for experimental xmc (magic cookie) code,
13153 "--enable-xmc-glitch". When disabled (the default), attributes that
13154 would store a magic cookie are suppressed in vidputs(). The magic
13155 cookie code is far from workable at this stage; the configuration
13156 option is a stopgap.
13157 + move _nc_initscr() from lib_initscr.c to lib_newterm.c
13158 + correct path for invoking make_keys (a missing "./").
13161 + correct sign-extension problem with "infocmp -e", which corrupted
13162 acsc values computed for linux fallback data.
13163 + correct dependency on ncurses/names.c (a missing "./").
13164 + modify configure script to use '&&' even for cd'ing to existing
13165 directories to work around broken shell interpreters.
13166 + correct a loop-limit in _nc_hash_map() (patch by Alexander V.
13170 + restore logic in _nc_scroll_optimize() which marks as touched the
13171 lines in curscr that are shifted.
13172 + add new utility 'make_keys' to compute keys.tries as a table rather
13173 than a series of function calls.
13174 + correct include-dependency for tic.h used by name_match
13175 + removed buffer-allocation for name and description from m_item_new.c,
13176 since this might result in incompatibilities with SVr4. Also fixed
13177 the corresponding Ada95 binding module (patch by Juergen Pfeifer,
13178 report by Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@foxnet.net>)
13179 + removed the mechanism to timestamp the generated Ada95 sources. This
13180 resulted always in generating patches for the HTML doc, even when
13181 nothing really changed (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
13182 + improve man page mitem_new.3x (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
13185 + remove ech capability from rxvt description because it does not work.
13186 + add missing case logic for infocmp -I option (reported by Lorenzo M.
13187 Catucci <lorenzo@argon.roma2.infn.it>)
13188 + correct old bug in pnoutrefresh() unmasked by fix in 970531; this
13189 caused glitches in the ncurses 'p' test since the area outside the
13190 pad was not compared when setting up indices for _nc_scroll_optimize.
13191 + rewrote tracebits() to workaround misdefinition of TOSTOP on Ultrix
13192 4.4, as well as to eliminate fixed-size buffer (reported by Chris
13193 Tanner <tannerc@aecl.ca>)
13194 + correct prototype for termattrs() as per XPG4 version 2.
13195 + add placeholder prototypes for color_set(), erasewchar(),
13196 term_attrs(), wcolor_set() as per XPG4 version 2.
13197 + correct attribution for progs/progs.priv.h and lib_twait.c
13198 + improve line-breakout logic by checking based on changed lines rather
13199 than total lines (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13200 + correct loop limits for table-lookup of enumerated value in form
13201 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
13202 + improve threshold computation for determining when to call ClrToEOL
13203 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13206 + add configure option --disable-database to force the library to
13207 use only the fallback data.
13208 + add configure option --with-fallbacks, to specify list of fallback
13209 terminal descriptions.
13210 + add a symbolic link for ncurses.h during install; too many programs
13211 still assume there's an ncurses.h
13212 + add new terminfo.src entry for xterm-xf86-v33.
13213 + restore terminfo.src entry for emu to using setf/setb, since it is
13214 not, after all, generating ANSI sequences. Corrected missing comma
13215 that caused setf/setb entries to merge.
13216 + modify mousemask() to use keyok() to enable/disable KEY_MOUSE, so
13217 that applications can disable ncurses' mouse and supply their own
13219 + add extensions keyok() and define_key(). These are designed to allow
13220 the user's application better control over the use of function keys,
13221 e.g., disabling the ncurses KEY_MOUSE. (The define_key idea was from
13222 a mailing-list thread started by Kenneth Albanowski
13223 <kjahds@kjahds.com> Nov'1995).
13224 + restore original behavior in ncurses 'g' test, i.e., explicitly
13225 set the keypad mode rather than use the default, since it confuses
13227 + rewrote the newdemo banner so it's readable (reported by Hugh
13229 + tidy up exit from hashtest (reported by Hugh Daniel).
13230 + restore check for ^Q in ncurses 'g' test broken in 970510 (reported
13232 + correct tput program, checking return-value of setupterm (patch by
13234 + correct logic in pnoutrefresh() and pechochar() functions (reported
13235 by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf.usc.edu>). The computation
13236 of 'wide' date to eric's #283 (1.9.9), and the pechochar bug to the
13237 original implementation (1.9.6).
13238 + correct typo in vt102-w terminfo.src entry (patch by Robert Wuest
13239 <rwuest@sire.vt.com>)
13240 + move calls of _nc_background() out of various loops, as its return
13241 value will be the same for the whole window being operated on (patch
13243 + add macros getcur[xy] getbeg[xy] getpar[xy], which are defined in
13244 SVr4 headers (patch by J T Conklin <jtc@NetBSD.ORG>)
13245 + modify glibc addon-configure scripts (patch by H.J.Lu).
13246 + correct a bug in hashmap.c: the size used for clearing the hashmap
13247 table was incorrect, causing stack corruption for large values of
13248 LINES, e.g., >MAXLINES/2 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13249 + eric's terminfo 9.13.23 & 9.13.24 changes: replaced minitel-2 entry,
13250 added MGR, ansi-nt (note: the changes described for 9.13.24 have not
13252 > several changes by Juergen Pfeifer:
13253 + correct a missing error-return in form_driver.c when wrapping of a
13254 field is not possible.
13255 + correct logic in form_driver.c for configurations that do not have
13256 memccpy() (reported by Sidik Isani <isani@cfht.hawaii.edu>)
13257 + change several c++ binding functions to inline.
13258 + modify c++ menu binding to inherit from panels, for proper
13260 + correct freeing of menu items in c++ binding.
13261 + modify c++ binding to reflect removal of const from user data pointer
13262 in forms/menus libraries.
13265 + add description of xterm-16color.
13266 + modify name of shared-library on *BSD to end with $(REL_VERSION)
13267 rather than $(ABI_VERSION) to match actual convention on FreeBSD
13269 + add OpenBSD to shared-library case, same as NetBSD and FreeBSD
13270 (reported by Hugh Daniel <hugh@rat.toad.com>).
13271 + corrected include-dependency in menu/Makefile so that "make install"
13272 works properly w/o first doing "make".
13273 + add fallback definition for isascii, used in infocmp.
13274 + modify xmas to use color, and to exit right away when a key is
13276 + modify gdc so that the scrolled digits function as described (there
13277 was no time delay between the stages, and the digits overwrote the
13278 bounding box without tidying up).
13279 + modify lib_color.c to use setaf/setab only for the ANSI color codes
13280 0 through 7. Using 16 colors requires setf/setb.
13281 + modify ncurses 'c' test to work with 16 colors, as well as the normal
13283 + remove const qualifier from user data pointer in forms and menus
13284 libraries (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
13285 + rewrote 'waddchnstr()' to avoid using the _nc_waddch_nosync()
13286 function, thereby not interpreting tabs, etc., as per spec (patch by
13287 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13290 + suppress check for pre-existing ncurses header if the --prefix
13291 option is specified.
13292 + add configure options "--with-system-type" and
13293 "--with-system-release" to assist in checking the generated
13295 + add configure option "--enable-rpath" to allow installers to specify
13296 that programs linked against shared libraries will have their library
13297 path embedded, allowing installs into nonstandard locations.
13298 + add flags to OSF1 shared-library options to specify version and
13299 symbol file (patch by Tim Mooney <mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu>)
13300 + add missing definition for ABI_VERSION to c++/Makefile.in (reported
13301 by Satoshi Adachi <adachi@wisdom.aa.ap.titech.ac.jp>).
13302 + modify link flags to accommodate HP-UX linker which embeds absolute
13303 pathnames in executables linked against shared libraries (reported by
13304 Jason Evans <jasone@mrc.uidaho.edu>, solved by Alan Shutko
13305 <ats@hubert.wustl.edu>).
13306 + drop unnecessary check for attribute-change in onscreen_mvcur() since
13307 mvcur() is the only caller within the library, and that check in turn
13308 is exercised only from lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V.
13310 + add 'blank' parameter to _nc_scroll_window() so _nc_mvcur_scrolln()
13311 can use the background of stdscr as a parameter to that function
13312 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13313 + moved _nc_mvcur_scrolln() from lib_mvcur.c to lib_doupdate.c, to use
13314 the latter's internal functions, as well as to eliminate unnecessary
13315 cursor save/restore operations (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13316 + omit parameter of ClrUpdate(), since it is called only for newscr,
13317 further optimized/reduced by using ClearScreen() and TransformLine()
13318 to get rid of duplicate code (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13319 + modify scrolling algorithm in _nc_scroll_optimize() to reject hunks
13320 that are smaller than the distance to be moved (patch by Alexander V.
13322 + correct a place where the panel library was not ifdef'd in ncurses.c
13324 + documentation fixes (Juergen Pfeifer)
13326 970515 4.1 release for upload to prep.ai.mit.edu
13327 + re-tag changes since 970505 as 4.1 release.
13330 + modify ncurses 'g' test to allow mouse input
13331 + modify default xterm description to include mouse.
13332 + modify configure script to add -Wwrite-strings if gcc warnings are
13333 enabled while configuring --enable-const (and fixed related
13335 + add toggle, status display for keypad mode to ncurses 'g' test to
13336 verify that keypad and scrollok are not inherited from parent window
13337 during a call to newwin.
13338 + correction to MKexpanded.sh to make it work when configure --srcdir
13339 is used (reported by H.J.Lu).
13340 + revise test for bool-type, ensuring that it checks if builtin.h is
13341 available before including it, adding test for sizeof(bool) equal
13342 to sizeof(short), and warning user if the size cannot be determined
13343 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13344 + add files to support configuration of ncurses as an add-on library
13345 for GNU libc (patch by H.J.Lu <hjl@lucon.org>)
13348 + correct buffer overrun in lib_traceatr.c
13349 + modify change to lib_vidattr.c to avoid redundant orig_pair.
13350 + turn on 'echo()' in hanoi.c, since it is initially off.
13351 + rename local 'errno' variable in etip.h to avoid conflict with global
13353 + modify configure script to cache LD, AR, AR_OPTS (patch by H.J.Lu
13356 970505 4.1 pre-release
13357 + regenerate the misc directory html dumps without the link list, which
13359 + correct dependency in form directory makefile which caused
13360 unnecessary recompiles.
13361 + correct substitution for ABI_VERSION in test-makefile
13362 + modify install rules for shared-library targets to remove the target
13363 before installing, since some install programs do not properly handle
13364 overwrite of symbolic links.
13365 + change order of top-level targets so that 'include' immediate
13366 precedes the 'ncurses' directory, reducing the time between new
13367 headers and new libraries (requested by Larry Virden).
13368 + modify lib_vidattr.c so that colors are turned off only before
13369 modifying other attributes, turned on after others. This makes the
13370 hanoi.c program display correctly on FreeBSD console.
13371 + modify debug code in panel library to print user-data addresses
13372 rather than the strings which they (may) point to.
13373 + add check to ensure that C++ binding and demo are not built with g++
13374 versions below 2.7, since the binding uses templates.
13375 + modify c++ binding and demo to build and run with SGI's c++ compiler.
13376 (It also compiles with the Sun SparcWorks compiler, but the demo does
13377 not link, due to a vtbl problem).
13378 + corrections to demo.cc, to fix out-of-scope variables (Juergen
13382 + correct memory leak in _nc_trace_buf().
13383 + add configure test for regexpr.h, for Unixware 1.x.
13384 + correct missing "./" prefixing names of generated files in ncurses
13386 + use single-quotes in configure scripts assignments for MK_SHARED_LIB
13387 to workaround shell bug on FreeBSD 2.1.5
13388 + remove tabs from intermediate #define's for GCC_PRINTF, GCC_SCANF
13389 that caused incorrect result in ncurses_cfg.h
13390 + correct initialization in lib_trace.c, which omitted version info.
13391 + remove ech, el1 attributes from cons25w description; they appear to
13392 malfunction in FreeBSD 2.1.5
13393 + correct color attributes in terminfo.src and lib_color.c to match
13394 SVr4 behavior by interchanging codes 1,4, 3,6 in the setf/setb
13396 + use curs_set() rather than checks via tigetstr() for test programs
13397 that hide the cursor: firework, rain, worm.
13398 + ensure that if the terminal lacks change_scroll_region, parm_index
13399 and parm_rindex are used only to scroll the whole screen (patch by
13401 + correct curs_set() logic, which did not return ERR if the requested
13402 attributes did not exist, nor did it assume an unknown initial state
13403 for the cursor (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13404 + combine IDcTransformLine and NoIDcTransformLine to new TransformLine
13405 function in lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13406 + correct hashmap.c, which did not update index information (patch by
13407 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13408 + fixes for C++ binding and demo (see c++/NEWS) (Juergen Pfeifer).
13409 + correct index in lib_instr.c (Juergen Pfeifer).
13410 + correct typo in 970426 patch from Tom's cleanup of lib_overlay.c
13411 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
13414 + corrected cost computation in PutRange(), which was using
13415 milliseconds compared to characters by adding two new members to the
13416 SCREEN struct, _hpa_ch_cost and _cup_ch_cost.
13417 + drop ncurses/lib_unctrl.c, add ncurses/MKunctrl.awk to generate a
13418 const array of strings (suggested by Alexander V. Lukyanov). The
13419 original suggestion in 970118 used a perl script.
13420 + rewrote ncurses 'b' test to better exercise magic-cookie (xmc), as
13421 well as noting the attributes that are not supported by a terminal.
13422 + trace the computation of cost values in lib_mvcur.c
13423 + modify _nc_visbuf() to use octal rather than hex, corrected sign
13424 extension bug in that function that caused buffer overflow.
13425 + modify trace in lib_acs.c to use _nc_visbuf().
13426 + suppress trace within _traceattr2().
13427 + correct logic of _tracechtype2(), which did not account for repeats
13428 or redefinition within an acsc string.
13429 + modify debug-library version baudrate() to use environment variable
13430 $BAUDRATE to override speed computation. This is needed for
13431 regression testing.
13432 + correct problems shown by "weblint -pedantic".
13433 + update mailing-list information (now ncurses@bsdi.com).
13436 + Improve form_field_validation.3x manpage to better describe the
13437 precision parameter for TYPE_NUMERIC and TYPE_INTEGER. Provide more
13438 precise information how the range checking can be avoided. (patch by
13439 Juergen Pfeifer, reported by Bryan Henderson)
13440 + change type of min/max value of form types TYPE_INTEGER to long to
13441 match SVr4 documentation.
13442 + set the form window to stdscr in set_form_win() so that form_win()
13443 won't return null (patch by Juergen Pfeifer, reported by Bryan
13444 Henderson <bryanh@giraffe.netgate.net>).
13447 + corrected ifdef'ing of inline (cf: 970321) for TRACE vs C++.
13448 + corrected toggle_attr_off() macro (patch by Andries Brouwer).
13449 + modify treatment of empty token in $MANPATH to /usr/man (reported by
13450 <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>)
13451 + modify traces that record functions-called so that chtype and attr_t
13452 values are expressed symbolically, to simplify reuse of generated
13453 test-scripts on SVr4 regression testing.
13454 + add new trace functions _traceattr2() and _tracechtype2()
13457 + add configure option --enable-const, to support the use of 'const'
13458 where XSI should have, but did not, specify. This defines
13459 NCURSES_CONST, which is an empty token otherwise, for strict
13461 + make processing of configure options more verbose by echoing the
13462 --enable/--with values.
13463 + add configure option --enable-big-core
13464 + set initial state of software echo off as per XSI.
13465 + check for C++ builtin.h header
13466 + correct computation of absolute-path for $INSTALL that dropped "-c"
13467 parameter from the expression.
13468 + rename config.h to ncurses_cfg.h to avoid naming-conflict when
13469 ncurses is integrated into larger systems (adapted from diffs by
13471 + correct inequality in lib_doupdate.c that caused a single-char to not
13472 be updated when the char on the right-margin was not blank, idcok()
13473 was true (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov (in 970124), reported
13474 by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf-fs.usc.edu> in 970329).
13475 + modify 'clean' rule in include/Makefile so that files created by
13476 configure script are removed in 'distclean' rule instead.
13479 + correct array limit in tparam_internal(), add case to interpret "%x"
13480 (patch by Andreas Schwab)
13481 + rewrote number-parsing in ncurses.c 'd' test; it did not reset the
13482 value properly when non-numeric characters were given (reported by
13483 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>)
13486 + move definition of __INTERNAL_CAPS_VISIBLE before include for
13487 progs.priv.h (patch by David MacKenzie).
13488 + add configuration summary, reordered check for default include
13489 directory to better accommodate a case where installer is configuring
13490 a second copy of ncurses (reported by Klaus Weide
13491 <kweide@tezcat.com>)
13492 + moved the #define for 'inline' as an empty token from the
13493 $(CFLAGS_DEBUG) symbol into config.h, to avoid redefinition warning
13494 (reported by Ward Horner).
13495 + modify test for bool builtin type to use 'unsigned' rather than
13496 'unknown' when cross-compiling (reported by Ward Horner).
13499 + add header dependencies so that "make install.libs" will succeed
13500 even if "make all" is not done first.
13501 + moved some macros from lib_doupdate.c to curses.priv.h to use in
13502 expanded functions with ATAC.
13503 + correct implementation of lib_instr.c; both XSI and SVr4 agree that
13504 the winnstr functions can return more characters than will fit on one
13508 + modify script that generates lib_gen.c to support traces of called &
13510 + add new configure option "--disable-macros", for testing calls within
13512 + corrected logic that screens level-checking of called/return traces.
13515 + use new configure macro NC_SUBST to replace AC_PATH_PROG, better
13516 addressing request by Ward Horner.
13517 + check for cross-compiling before trying to invoke the autoconf
13518 AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED macro (reported by Ward Horner)
13519 + correct/simplify loop in _nc_visbuf(), 970201 changes omitted
13520 a pointer-increment.
13521 + eliminate obsolete symbol SHARED_ABI from dist.mk (noted by
13525 + add configure option --enable-expanded, together with code that
13526 implements an expanded form of certain complex macros, for testing
13528 + disable CHECK_POSITION unless --with-assertions is configured
13529 (Alexander V Lukyanov pointed out that this is redundant).
13530 + use keyname() to show traced chtype values where applicable rather
13531 than _tracechar(), which truncates the value to 8-bits.
13532 + minor fixes to TRACE_ICALLS, added T_CREATE, TRACE_CCALLS macros.
13533 + modify makefiles in progs and test directories to avoid using C
13534 preprocessor options on link commands (reported by Ward Horner)
13535 + correct ifdef/include-order for nc_alloc.h vs lib_freeall.c (reported
13537 + modify ifdef's to use configure-defined symbols consistently
13538 (reported by Ward Horner)
13539 + add/use new makefile symbols AR, AR_OPTS and LD to assist in non-UNIX
13540 ports (reported by Ward Horner <whorner@tsi-telsys.com>)
13541 + rename struct try to struct tries, to avoid name conflict with C++
13542 (reported by Gary Johnson).
13543 + modify worm.c to hide cursor while running.
13544 + add -Wcast-qual to gcc warnings, fix accordingly.
13545 + use PutChar rather than PutAttrChar in ClrToEOL to properly handle
13546 wrapping (Alexander V Lukyanov).
13547 + correct spurious echoing of input in hanoi.c from eric's #291 & #292
13548 patches (reported by Vernon C. Hoxie <vern@zebra.alphacdc.com>).
13549 + extend IRIX configuration to IRIX64
13550 + supply missing install.libs rule needed after restructuring
13554 + modify "make mostlyclean" to leave automatically-generated source
13555 in the ncurses directory, for use in cross-compiles.
13556 + autogenerated object-dependencies for test directory
13557 + add configure option --with-rcs-ids
13558 + modify configuration scripts to generate major/minor/patch versions
13559 (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
13560 + supply missing va_end's in lib_scanw.c
13561 + use stream I/O for trace-output, to eliminate fixed-size buffer
13562 + add TRACE_ICALLS definition/support to lib_trace.c
13563 + modify Ada95 binding to work with GNAT 3.09 (Juergen Pfeifer).
13566 + add/modify traces for called/return values to simplify extraction
13568 + changed _nc_visbuf to quote its result, and to dynamically allocate
13569 the returned buffer.
13570 + invoke ldconfig after installing shared library
13571 + modify install so that overwrite applies to shared library -lcurses
13572 in preference to static library (reported by Zeyd M Ben-Halim 960928).
13573 + correct missing ';' in 961221 mod to overwrite optional use of $(LN_S)
13575 + fixes to allow "make install" to work without first doing a "make
13576 all" (suggested by Larry Virden).
13579 + correct order of #ifdef for TABS_OK.
13580 + instrumented toe.c to test memory-leaks.
13581 + correct memory-deallocation in toe.c (patch by Jesse Thilo).
13582 + include <sys/types.h> in configuration test for regex.h (patch by
13584 + make infocmp recognize -I option, for SVr4 compatibility (reported by
13585 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>)
13588 + add extension 'use_default_colors()', modified test applications that
13589 use default background (firework, gdc, hanoi, knight, worm) to
13591 + correct some limit checks in lib_doupdate.c exposed while running
13593 + use typeCalloc macro for readability.
13594 + add/use definition for CONST to accommodate testing with Solaris
13595 (SVr4) curses, which doesn't use 'const' in its prototypes.
13596 + modify ifdef's in test/hashtest.c and test/view.c to compile with
13598 + modify _tracedump() to pad colors & attrs lines to match change
13599 in 970101 showing first/last changes.
13600 + corrected location of terminating null on dynamically allocated forms
13601 fields (patch by Per Foreby).
13604 + added headers to make view.c compile on SCO with the resizeterm()
13605 code (i.e., struct winsize) - though this compiles, I don't have a
13606 suitable test configuration since SIGWINCH doesn't pass my network to
13607 that machine - T.Dickey.
13608 + update test/configure.in to supply some default substitutions.
13609 + modify configure script to add -lncurses after -lgpm to fix problem
13610 linking against static libraries.
13611 + add a missing noraw() to test/ncurses.c (places noted by Jeremy
13613 + add a missing wclear() to test/testcurs.c (patch by Jeremy Buhler
13614 <jbuhler@cs.washington.edu>)
13615 + modify headers to accommodate compilers that don't allow duplicate
13616 "#define" lines for NCURSES_VERSION (reported by Larry W. Virden
13618 + fix formatting glitch in curs_getch.3x (patch by Jesse Thilo).
13619 + modify lib_doupdate to make el, el1 and ed optimization use the
13620 can_clear_with macro, and change EmitRange to allow leaving cursor at
13621 the middle of interval, rather than always at the end (patch by
13622 Alexander V Lukyanov). This was originally 960929, resync 970106.
13625 + workaround defect in autoconf 2.12 (which terminates configuration
13626 if no C++ compiler is found) by adding an option --without-cxx.
13627 + modify several man-pages to use tbl, where .nf/.fi was used (reported
13629 + correct font-codes in some man-pages (patch by Jesse Thilo
13630 <Jesse.Thilo@pobox.com>)
13631 + use configure script's knowledge of existence of g++ library for the
13632 c++ Makefile (reported by Paul Jackson).
13633 + correct misleading description of --datadir configuration option
13634 (reported by Paul Jackson <pj@sam.engr.sgi.com>)
13637 + several corrections to _nc_mvcur_scrolln(), prompted by a bug report
13639 > the logic for non_dest_scroll_region was interchanged between the
13640 forward & reverse scrolling cases.
13641 > multiple returns from the function allowed certain conditions to do
13642 part of an operation before discovering that it couldn't be
13643 completed, returning an error without restoring the cursor.
13644 > some returns were ERR, where the function had completed the
13645 operation, because the insert/delete line logic was improperly
13646 tested (this was probably the case Peter saw).
13647 > contrary to comments, some scrolling cases were tested after the
13648 insert/delete line method.
13649 + modify _tracedump() to show first/last changes.
13650 + modify param of ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c to 'newscr', fixes
13651 refresh problem (reported by Peter Wemm) that caused nvi to not show
13652 result of ":r !ls" until a ^L was typed.
13654 961229 (internal alpha)
13655 + correct some of the writable-strings warnings (reported by Gary
13656 Johnson <gjohnson@season.com>). Note that most of the remaining ones
13657 are part of the XSI specification, and can't be "fixed".
13658 + improve include-dependencies in form, menu, panel directories.
13659 + correct logic of delay_output(), which would return early if
13660 there is data on stdin.
13661 + modify interface & logic of _nc_timed_wait() to support 2 file
13662 descriptors, needed for GPM.
13663 + integrate patch by Andrew Kuchling <amk@magnet.com> for GPM (mouse)
13664 support, correcting logic in wgetch() and _nc_mouse_parse() which
13665 prevented patch from working properly -TD
13666 + improve performance of panel algorithm (Juergen Pfeifer 961203).
13667 + strip RCS id's from generated .html files in Ada95 subtree.
13668 + resync with generated .html files (Juergen Pfeifer 961223).
13669 + terminfo.src 10.1.0 (ESR).
13672 + release as 4.0 to accommodate Linux ld.so.1.8.5
13673 + correct syntax/spelling, regenerated .doc files from .html using
13675 + refined forms/menus makefiles (Juergen Pfeifer 961223).
13678 + remove logic in read_entry.c that attempts to refine errno by using
13679 'access()' for the directory (from patch by Florian La Roche).
13680 + correct configure test/substitution that inhibits generating
13681 include-path to /usr/include if gcc is used (reported by Florian La
13683 + modify setupterm() to allocate new TERMINAL for each call, just as
13684 solaris' curses does (Alexander V Lukyanov 960829).
13685 + corrected memory leaks in read_entry.c
13686 + add configure options --with-dbmalloc, --with-dmalloc, and
13687 --disable-leaks, tested by instrumenting infocmp, ncurses programs.
13688 + move #include's for stdlib.h and string.h to *.priv.h to accommodate
13690 + modify use of $(LN_S) to follow recommendation in autoconf 2.12,
13691 i.e., set current directory before linking.
13692 + split-out panel.priv.h, improve dependencies for forms, menus
13693 (Juergen Pfeifer 961204).
13694 + modify _nc_freewin() to reset globals curscr/newscr/stdscr when
13695 freeing the corresponding WINDOW (found using Purify).
13696 + modify delwin() to return ERR if the window to be deleted has
13697 subwindows, needed as a side-effect of resizeterm() (found using
13698 Purify). Tested and found that SVr4 curses behaves this way.
13699 + implement logic for _nc_freeall(), bringing stub up to date.
13702 + modify wbkgd() so that it doesn't set nulls in the rendered text,
13703 even if its argument doesn't specify a character (fixes test case by
13704 Juergen Pfeifer for bug-report).
13705 + set window-attributes in wbkgd(), to simplify comparison against
13706 Solaris curses, which does this.
13709 + replace most constants in ncurses 'o' test by expressions, making it
13710 work with wider range of screen sizes.
13711 + add options to ncurses.c to specify 'e' test softkey format, and the
13712 number of header/footer lines to rip-off.
13713 + add ^R (repaint after resize), ^L (refresh) commands to ncurses 'p'
13715 + add shell-out (!) command to ncurses 'p' test to allow test of
13716 resize between endwin/refresh.
13717 + correct line-wrap case in mvcur() by emitting carriage return,
13718 overlooked in 960928, but needed due to SVr4 compatibility changes to
13719 terminal modes in 960907.
13720 + correct logic in wresize that causes new lines to be allocated,
13721 broken for the special case of increasing rows only in 960907's fix
13723 + modify configure script to generate $(LDFLAGS) with -L and -l options
13724 in preference to explicit library filenames. (NOTE: this may
13725 require further amending, since I vaguely recall a dynamic loader
13726 that did not work properly without the full names, but it should be
13727 handled as an exception to the rule, since some linkers do bulk
13728 inclusion of libraries when given the full name - T.Dickey).
13729 + modify configure script to allow user-supplied $CFLAGS to set the
13730 debug-option in all libraries (requested by lots of people) -TD
13731 + use return consistently from main(), rather than exit (reported by
13733 + add --enable-getcap-cache option to configure, normally disabled
13734 (requested by Florian La Roche).
13735 + make configure test for gettimeofday() and possibly -lbsd more
13736 efficient (requested by Florian La Roche <florian@knorke.saar.de>)
13737 + minor adjustments to Ada95 binding (patches by Juergen Pfeifer)
13738 + correct attributes after emitting orig_pair in lib_vidattr.c (patch
13739 by Alexander V Lukyanov).
13742 + corrected README wrt Ada95 (Juergen Pfeifer)
13745 + integrate resizeterm() into doupdate(), so that if screen size
13746 changes between endwin/refresh, ncurses will resize windows to fit
13747 (this needs additional testing with pads and softkeys).
13748 + add, for memory-leak testing, _nc_freeall() entrypoint to free all
13749 data used in ncurses library.
13750 + initialize _nc_idcok, _nc_idlok statically to resolve discrepancy
13751 between initscr() and newwin() initialization (reported by
13752 Alexander V Lukyanov).
13753 + test built VERSION=4.0, SHARED_ABI=4 with Linux ld.so.1.8.5
13754 (set beta versions to those values -- NOTE that subsequent pre-4.0
13755 beta may not be interchangeable).
13756 + modify configure script to work with autoconf 2.12
13758 961130 1.9.9g release
13759 + add copyright notices to configuration scripts (written by Thomas
13763 > patch, mostly for panel (Juergen Pfeifer):
13764 + cosmetic improvement for a few routines in the ncurses core library
13765 to avoid warning messages.
13766 + the panel overlap detection was broken
13767 + the panel_window() function was not fool-proof.
13769 + Cosmetic changes (also to avoid warning messages when compiling with
13773 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
13774 + eliminates warning messages for the compile of libform.
13775 + inserts Per Foreby's new field type TYPE_IPV4 into libform.
13776 + Updates man page and the Ada95 binding to reflect this.
13777 + Improves inlining in libmenu and libform.
13780 + improve the use of the "const" qualifier in the
13781 panel library (Juergen Pfeifer)
13782 + change set_panel_userptr() and panel_userptr() to use void*
13786 + change ABI to 3.4
13787 + package with 961119 version of Ada95 binding (fixes for gnat-3.07).
13789 + correct initialization of the stdscr pseudo panel in panel library
13791 + use MODULE_ID (rcs keywords) in forms and menus libraries (Juergen
13793 > patch #324 (ESR):
13794 + typo in curs_termcap man page (reported by Hendrik Reichel
13795 <106065.2344@compuserve.com>)
13796 + change default xterm entry to xterm-r6.
13797 + add entry for color_xterm
13800 + lint found several functions that had only #define implementations
13801 (e.g., attr_off), modified curses.h.in to generate them as per XSI
13802 Curses requirement that every macro be available as a function.
13803 + add check in infocmp.c to guard against string compare of
13804 CANCELLED_STRING values.
13805 + modify firework.c, rain.c to hide cursor while running.
13806 + correct missing va_end in lib_tparm.c
13807 + modify hanoi.c to work on non-color terminals, and to use timing
13808 delays when in autoplay mode.
13809 + correct 'echochar()' to refresh immediately (reported by Adrian
13810 Garside <94ajg2@eng.cam.ac.uk>)
13811 > patch #322 (ESR):
13812 + reorganize terminfo.src entries for xterm.
13815 + corrected error in line-breakout logic (lib_doupdate.c)
13816 + modified newdemo to use wgetch(win) rather than getch() to eliminate
13817 a spurious clear-screen.
13818 + corrected ifdef's for 'poll()' configuration.
13819 + added modules to ncurses, form, menu for Ada95 binding (Juergen
13821 + modify set_field_buffer() to allow assignment of string longer than
13822 the initial buffer length, and to return the complete string rather
13823 than only the initial size (Juergen Pfeifer and Per Foreby
13824 <perf@efd.lth.se>).
13827 + configure for 'poll()' in preference to 'select()', since older
13828 systems are more likely to have a broken 'select()'.
13829 + modified render_char() to avoid OR'ing colors.
13830 + minor fixes to testcurs.c, newdemo.c test programs: ifdef'd out the
13831 resize test, use wbkgd and corrected box() parameters.
13832 + make flushinp() test work in ncurses.c by using napms() instead of
13834 + undo ESR's changes to xterm-x11r6 (it no longer matched the X11R6.1
13835 distribution, as stated)
13836 + terminfo 9.13.18 resync (ESR)
13837 + check for getenv("HOME") returning null (ESR).
13838 + change buffer used to decode xterm-mouse commands to unsigned to
13839 handle displays wider than 128 chars (Juergen Pfeifer).
13840 + correct typo curs_outopts.3x (Juergen Pfeifer).
13841 + correct limit-checking in wenclose() (Juergen Pfeifer).
13842 + correction to Peter Wemm's newwin change (Thomas Fehr
13844 + corrections to logic that combines colors and attributes; they must
13845 not be OR'd (Juergen Pfeifer, extending from report/patch by Rick
13849 + reset flags in 'getwin()' that might cause refresh to attempt to
13850 manipulate the non-existent parent of a window that is read from a
13851 file (lib_screen.c).
13852 + restructure _nc_timed_wait() to log more information, and to try to
13853 recover from badly-behaved 'select()' calls (still testing this).
13854 + move define for GOOD_SELECT into configure script.
13855 + corrected extra '\' character inserted before ',' in comp_scan.c
13856 + corrected expansion of %-format characters in dump_entry.c; some were
13857 rendered as octal constants.
13858 + modify dump_entry.c to make terminfo output more readable and like
13859 SVr4, by using "\s" for spaces (leading/trailing only), "\," for
13860 comma, "\^" and "\:" as well.
13861 + corrected some memory leaks in ncurses.c, and a minor logic error
13862 in the top-level command-parser.
13863 + correction for label format 4 (PC style with info line), a
13864 slk_clear(), slk_restore() sequence didn't redraw the info line
13866 + modified the slk window (if simulated) to inherit the background and
13867 default character attributes from stdscr (Juergen Pfeifer).
13868 + corrected limit-check in set_top_row (Juergen Pfeifer).
13871 + correct loop-limit in wnoutrefresh(), bug exposed during pipe-testing
13872 had '.lastchar' entry one beyond '._maxx'.
13873 + modify ncurses test-program to work with data piped to it.
13874 + corrected pathname computation in run_tic.sh, removing extra "../"
13875 (reported by Tim Mooney).
13876 + modified configure script to use previous install's location for
13878 + added NetBSD and FreeBSD to platforms that use --prefix=/usr as
13882 + revised xterm terminfo descriptions to reflect the several versions
13883 that are available.
13884 + corrected a pointer reference in dump_entry.c that didn't test if
13885 the pointer was -1.
13888 + correct _nc_mvcur_scrolln for terminals w/o scrolling region.
13889 + add -x option to hashtest to control whether it allows writes to the
13890 lower-right corner.
13891 + ifdef'd (NCURSES_TEST) the logic for _nc_optimize_enable to make it
13892 simpler to construct tests (for double-check of _nc_hash_map tests).
13893 + correct ifdef's for c++ in curses.h
13894 + change default xterm type to xterm-x11r6.
13895 + correct quoting in configure that made man-pages installed with
13896 $datadir instead of actual terminfo path.
13897 + correct whitespace in include/Caps, which caused kf11, clr_eol and
13898 clr_end to be omitted from terminfo.5
13899 + fix memory leaks in delscreen() (adapted from Alexander V Lukyanov).
13900 + improve appearance of marker in multi-selection menu (Juergen
13902 + fix behavior for forms with all fields inactive (Juergen Pfeifer)
13903 + document 'field_index()' (Juergen Pfeifer)
13904 > patch #321 (ESR):
13905 + add some more XENIX keycap translations to include/Caps.
13906 + modify newwin to set initial state of each line to 'touched'
13907 (from patch by Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.dialix.com>)
13908 + in SET_TTY, replace TCSANOW with TCSADRAIN (Alexander V Lukyanov).
13911 + ifdef'd out _nc_hash_map (still slower)
13912 + add graphic characters to vt52 description.
13913 + use PutAttrChar in ClrToEOL to ensure proper background, position.
13914 + simplify/correct logic in 'mvcur()' that does wrapping; it was
13915 updating the position w/o actually moving the cursor, which broke
13917 + ensure that 'doupdate()' sets the .oldindex values back to a sane
13918 state; this was causing a spurious refresh in ncurses 'r'.
13919 + add logic to configure (from vile) to guard against builders who
13920 don't remove config.cache & config.status when doing new builds -TD
13921 + corrected logic for 'repeat_char' in EmitRange (cf: eric #317), which
13922 did not follow the 2-parameter scheme specified in XSI.
13923 + corrected logic of wrefresh, wnoutrefresh broken in #319, making
13924 clearok work properly (report by Michael Elkins).
13925 + corrected problem with endwin introduced by #314 (removing the
13926 scrolling-region reset) that broke ncurses.c tests.
13927 + corrected order of args in AC_CHECK_LIB (from report by Ami Fischman
13928 <fischman@math.ucla.edu>).
13929 + corrected formatting of terminfo.5 tables (Juergen Ehling)
13931 + change ABI to 3.3
13932 + emit a carriage-return in 'endwin()' to workaround a kernel bug in
13933 BSDI. (requested by Mike Karels <karels@redrock.bsdi.com>)
13934 + reverse the default o configure --enable-termcap (consensus).
13936 + modified logic for clearok and related functions (from report by
13937 Michael Elkins) - untested
13939 + correction to #317.
13941 + re-add _nc_hash_map
13942 + modify EmitRange to maintain position as per original design
13943 (patch by A. Lukyanov).
13944 + modify test/ncurses.c and tputs, etc., to allow trace counting
13946 + add hashtest.c program to time the hashmap optimization.
13948 + add logic to deal with magic-cookie (how was this tested?)
13950 + add ncurses.c driver for magic-cookie, some fixes to ncurses.c
13952 + merge changes to lib_doupdate.c to use ech and rep - untested
13953 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
13954 + modified handling of interrupted system calls - untested
13955 (lib_getch.c, lib_twait.c).
13956 + new function _nc_mvcur_resume()
13957 + fix return value for 'overlay()', 'overwrite()'
13960 + implement subwindow-logic in wresize, minor fixes to ncurses 'g'
13962 + corrected bracketing of fallback.c (reported/suggested fix by Juergen
13963 Ehling <eh@eclipse.aball.de>).
13964 + update xterm-color to reflect XFree86 3.1.3G release.
13965 + correct broken dtterm description from #314 patch (e.g., spurious
13966 newline. The 'pairs' change might work, but no one's tested it
13968 + clarify the documentation for the builtin form fieldtypes (Juergen
13971 + reset scroll region on startup rather than at wrapup time
13972 (enhancement suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
13973 + make storage of palette tables and their size counts per-screen for
13974 multi-terminal applications (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
13975 + Improved error reporting for infotocap translation errors.
13976 + Update terminfo.src to 9.13.14.
13979 + rewrote wgetstr to make it erase control chars and also fix bogus use
13980 of _nc_outstr which caused the display to not wrap properly (display
13981 problem reported by John M. Flinchbaugh <glynis@netrax.net>)
13982 + modify ncurses 'f' test to accommodate terminal responses to C1 codes
13983 (and split up this screen to accommodate non-ANSI terminals).
13984 + test enter_insert_mode and exit_insert_mode in has_ic().
13985 + removed bogus logic in mvcur that assumes nl/nonl set output modes
13986 (XSI says they are input modes; SVr4 implements this).
13987 + added macros SET_TTY, GET_TTY to term.h
13988 + correct getstr() logic that altered terminal modes w/o restoring.
13989 + disable ICRNL, etc., during initialization to match SVr4, removing
13990 the corresponding logic from raw, cbreak, etc.
13991 + disable ONLCR during initialization, to match SVr4 (this is needed
13992 for cursor optimization when the cursor-down is a newline).
13993 + replaced ESR's imitation of wresize with my original (his didn't
13997 + memory leaks (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
13998 + modified pnoutrefresh() to be more tolerant of too-large screen
13999 size (reported by Michael Elkins).
14000 + correct handling of terminfo files with no strings (Philippe De
14002 + correct "tic -s" to take into account -I, -C options.
14003 + modify ncurses 'f' test to not print codes 80 through 9F, since they
14004 are considered control codes by ANSI terminals.
14007 + correct speed variable-type in 'tgetent()' (reported by Peter Wemm)
14008 + make "--enable-getcap" configuration-option work (reported by
14009 Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.DIALix.COM>)
14012 + correct err in 960817 that changed return-value of tigetflag()
14013 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
14014 + modify infocmp to use library default search-path for terminfo
14015 directory (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
14018 + corrected an err in mvcur that broke resizing-behavior.
14019 + correct fall-thru behavior of _nc_read_entry(), which was not finding
14020 descriptions that existed in directories past the first one searched
14021 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov)
14022 + corrected typo in dtterm description.
14024 + add dtterm description
14025 + clarify ncurses 'i' test (drop mvwscanw subtest)
14028 + correct nl()/nonl() to work as per SVr4 & XSI.
14029 + minor fixes to ncurses.c (use 'noraw()', mvscanw return-code)
14030 + refine configure-test for "-g" option (Tim Mooney).
14031 + correct interaction between O_BLANK and NEW_LINE request in form
14032 library (Juergen Pfeifer)
14035 + revised fix to tparm; previous fix reversed parameter order.
14037 correct terminfo.src corrupted by #310
14039 + fix idlok() and idcok() and the default of the idlok switch (report
14043 + corrected tparm to handle capability strings without explicit pop
14044 (reported by William P Setzer)
14045 + add fallback def for GCC_NORETURN, GCC_UNUSED for termcap users
14046 (reported by Tim Mooney).
14048 + documentation and prototyping errors for has_color, immedok and idcok
14049 (reported by William P Setzer <wsetzer@pams.ncsu.edu>)
14050 + updated qnx terminfo entry (patch by Michael Hunter)
14053 + eliminate quoted includes in ncurses subdirectory, ensure config.h
14055 + newterm initializes terminal settings the same as initscr (reported
14059 + call cbreak() in initscr(), as per XSI & SVr4.
14060 + turn off hardware echo in initscr() as per XSI & SVr4
14062 + terminfo changes (9.3.9), from BRL
14063 + add more checks to terminfo parser.
14064 + add more symbols to infocmp.
14067 + save previous-attribute in lib_vidattr.c if SP is null (reported by
14068 Juergen Fluk <louis@dachau.marco.de>)
14069 + corrected calls on _nc_render so that background character is set
14071 + corrected wbkgdset macro (XSI allows background character to be
14072 null), and tests that use it.
14073 + more corrections to terminfo (xterm & rxvt)
14074 + undid change to mcprint prototype (cannot use size_t in curses.h
14075 because not all systems declare it in the headers that we can safely
14077 + move the ifdefs for errno into curses.priv.h
14079 + terminfo changes (9.3.8)
14080 + modified logic of error-reporting in terminfo parser
14081 + fix option-processing bug in toe.
14084 + always check for <sys/bsdtypes.h> since ISC needs it to declare
14085 fd_set (Juergen Pfeifer)
14086 + install shared-libraries on NetBSD/FreeBSD with ABI-version (reported
14087 by Juergen Pfeifer, Mike Long)
14088 + add LOCAL_LDFLAGS2 symbol (Juergen Pfeifer)
14089 + corrected prototype for delay_output() -- bump ABI to 3.2
14091 + enable more translations of nonstandard caps, and document them.
14092 + misc/terminfo.src update to 9.13.8
14094 + moved logic that filters out rmul and rmso from setupterm to newterm
14095 where it is less likely to interfere with termcap applications.
14096 + cosmetic fixes to test/ncurses.c
14097 + modify open() call in ncurses/read_entry.c to use O_RDONLY symbol
14098 rather than constant (report by mib).
14099 + misc/terminfo.src sgr0 and acsc changes (report by Philippe De
14101 + modify ncurses/comp_parse.c so that entries containing a "+" can
14102 have missing rmcup vs smcup.
14105 + rollback ESR's #305 change to terminfo.src (it breaks existing
14106 applications, e.g., 'less 290').
14107 + correct path of edit_man.sh, and fix typo that made all man-pages
14109 + restore man/menu_requestname.3x omitted in Zeyd's resync (oops).
14110 + auto-configure the GCC_PRINTFLIKE/GCC_SCANFLIKE macros (reported by
14111 Philippe De Muyter).
14114 + make lib_vidattr.c more readable using macros.
14115 + filter out rmul, rmso that conflict with sgr0 when reading terminal
14117 + work around autoconf bug, force $INSTALL to absolute path
14118 (reported by Zeyd).
14119 + modify man-page install for BSDI to install preformatted .0 files
14120 (reported by David MacKenzie).
14121 + add/use gcc __attribute__ for printf and scanf in curses.h
14122 + added SGR attributes test-case to ncurses
14123 + revised ncurses 't' logic to show trace-disable effect in the menu.
14124 + use getopt in ncurses program to process -s and -t options.
14125 + make ncurses 'p' legend toggle with '?'
14126 + disable scrollok during the ncurses 'p' test; if it is enabled the
14127 stdscr will scroll when putting the box-corners in the lower-right
14130 + added sanity-checking of various paired string attributes.
14131 + misc/terminfo.src update to 9.13.7 (report by A. Lukyanov).
14132 + modify man/Makefile.in to make terminfo.5 during normal build.
14134 + corrected allocation-length for $HOME/.terminfo path.
14137 + check return code of _nc_mvcur_scrolln() in _nc_scroll_optimize() for
14138 terminals with no scrolling-support (reported by Nikolay Shadrin
14139 <queen@qh.mirea.ac.ru>)
14140 + added ^S scrollok-toggle to ncurses 'g' test.
14141 + added ^T trace-toggle to ncurses tests.
14142 + modified ncurses test program to use ^Q or ESC consistently for
14143 terminating tests (rather than ^D), and to use control keys rather
14144 than function keys in 'g' test.
14145 + corrected misplaced wclrtoeol calls in addch to accommodate wrapping
14146 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
14147 + modify lib_doupdate.c to use effective costs to tradeoff between
14148 delete-character/insert-character vs normal updating (reported by
14150 + compute effective costs for screen update operations (e.g., clr_eos,
14152 + corrected error in knight.c exposed by wrap fixes in 960622; the
14153 msgwin needed scrollok set.
14154 + corrected last change to IDcTransformLine logic to avoid conflict
14155 between PutRange and InsStr
14156 + modified run_tic.sh to not use /usr/tmp (reported by David
14157 MacKenzie), and further revised it and aclocal.m4 to use $TMPDIR if
14159 + corrected off-by-one in RoomFor call in read_entry.c
14162 + modified logic that wraps cursor in addch to follow the XSI spec,
14163 (implemented in SVr4) which states that the cursor position is
14164 updated when wrapping. Renamed _NEED_WRAP to _WRAPPED to reflect the
14166 + added -s option to tic, to provide better diagnostics in run_tic.sh
14167 + improved error-recovery for tabset install.
14168 + change ABI to 3.1 (dropped tparam, corrected getbkgd(), added
14169 _yoffset to WINDOW).
14170 + modified initialization of SP->_ofp so that init_acs() is called with
14171 the "right" file pointer (reported by Rick Marshall <rjm@nlc.net.au>
14172 + documentation fixes (Juergen Pfeifer).
14173 + corrected, using new SCREEN and WINDOW members, the behavior of
14174 ncurses if one uses ripoffline() to remove a line from the top of the
14175 screen (Juergen Pfeifer).
14176 + modified autoconf scripts to prepare for Ada95 (GNAT) binding to
14177 ncurses (Juergen Pfeifer).
14178 + incorrect buffer-size in _nc_read_entry, reported by ESR.
14181 + corrected two logic errors in read_entry.c, write_entry.c (called by
14182 tic, the write/read of terminfo entries used inconsistent rules for
14183 locating the entries; the $TERMINFO_DIRS code would find only the
14184 first entry in a list).
14185 + refined pathname computation in run_tic.sh and shlib.
14186 + corrected initialization of $IP in misc/run_tic.sh
14189 + ifdef'd out _nc_hash_map() call because it does not improve speed.
14190 + display version of gcc if configure script identifies it.
14191 + modify configure script to use /usr as Linux's default prefix.
14192 + modify run_tic.sh to use shlib script, fixes some problems installing
14193 with a shared-library configuration.
14194 + adjusted configure script so that it doesn't run tests with the
14195 warnings turned on, which makes config.log hard to read.
14196 + added 'lint' rule to top-level Makefile.
14197 + added configure option '--with-install-prefix' for use by system
14198 builders to install into staging locations (requested by
14199 Charles Levert <charles@comm.polymtl.ca>).
14200 + corrected autoconfigure for Debian man program; it's not installed
14202 + set noecho in 'worm'; it was ifdef'd for debug only
14203 + updated test/configure.in for timing-display in ncurses 'p' test
14204 + corrected misspelled 'getbkgd()'.
14205 + corrected wbkgdset to work like observed syvr4 (sets A_CHARTEXT part
14206 to blank if no character given, copies attributes to window's
14208 + modified lib_doupdate.c to use lower-level SP's current_attr state
14209 instead of curscr's state, since it is redundant.
14210 + correction to IDcTransformLine logic which controls where InsStr is
14211 invoked (refined by Alexander V Lukyanov).
14213 + conditionally include Chris Torek's hash function _nc_hash_map().
14214 + better fix for nvi refresh-bug (Rick Marshall)
14215 + fix for bug in handling of interrupted keystroke waits,
14217 + misc/ncurses-intro.html syntax fix (Kajiyama Tamito).
14220 + auto-configure man-page compression-format and renames for Debian.
14221 + corrected several typos in curses.h.in (i.e., the mvXXXX macros).
14222 + re-order curses.priv.h for lint.
14223 + added rules for lintlib, lint
14224 + corrected ifdef for BROKEN_LINKER in MKnames.awk.in
14225 + corrected missing INSTALL_DATA in misc/Makefile.in
14226 + flush output when changing cursor-visibility (Rick Marshall)
14227 + fix a minor bug in the _nc_ripoff() routine and improve error
14228 checking when creating the label window (Juergen Pfeifer).
14229 + enhancement to the control over the new PC-style soft key format.
14230 allow caller now to select whether or not one wants to have
14231 the index-line; see curs_slk.3x for documentation (Juergen Pfeifer).
14232 + typos, don't use inline with "-g" (Philippe De Muyter)
14233 + fixes for menus & wattr-, slk-functions (Juergen Pfeifer)
14236 + removed --with-ticdir option altogether, maintain compatibility with
14237 existing applications via symbolic link in run_tic.sh
14238 + patch for termio.h, signal (Philippe De Muyter)
14239 + auto-configure gcc warning options rather than infer from version.
14240 + auto-configure __attribute__ for different gcc versions.
14241 + corrected special use of clearok() in hardscroll.c by resetting flag
14243 + include stdlib.h before defs for EXIT_SUCCESS, for OSF/1.
14244 + include sys/types.h in case stdlib.h does not declare size_t.
14245 + fixes for makefile (Tim Mooney)
14246 + fixes for menus & forms (Juergen Pfeifer)
14248 + improve hash function (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
14249 + 9.13.4 update for terminfo.src
14252 + revised ncurses.c panner test, let pad abut all 4 sides of screen.
14253 + refined case in lib_doupdate.c for ClrToEOL().
14254 + corrected prior change for PutRange (Alexander V Lukyanov
14255 <lav@yars.free.net>).
14256 + autoconf mods (Tim Mooney <mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu>).
14257 + locale fix for forms (Philippe De Muyter <phdemuyt@ulb.ac.be>)
14258 + renamed "--with-datadir" option to "--with-ticdir" to avoid
14259 confusion, and made this check for the /usr/lib/terminfo pre-existing
14261 > patches 299-301 (ESR):
14262 + html fixes (Phillippe de Muyter).
14263 + fix typo in ncurses-intro.html (report by Fabrizio Polacco).
14265 + mods to tracing, especially for ACS chars.
14266 + corrected off-by-one in IDCtransform.
14267 + corrected intermittent mouse bug by using return-value from read().
14268 + mods to parse_entry.c, for smarter defaults.
14271 + use getopt in 'tic'; added -L option and modified -e option to allow
14275 + don't use fixed buffer-size in tparm().
14276 + modified tic to create terminfo directory if it doesn't exist.
14277 + added -T options to tic and infocmp (for testing/analysis)
14278 + refined the length criteria for termcap and terminfo
14279 + optimize lib_doupdate with memcpy, PutRange
14280 > patches 297, 298 (ESR):
14281 + implement TERMINFO_DIRS, and -o option of tic
14282 + added TRACE_IEVENT
14283 + fix REQ_TOGGLE_ITEM in menu/menu_driver.c; it could select but not
14285 + added lib_print.c (request by Rick Marshall).
14286 + added has_key() (request by Juergen Pfeifer).
14287 + do not issue clrtoeol or clrtobot if the relevant portion of the line
14288 is already blank (analysis by Keith Bostic).
14289 + add parentheses for parameters of COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER macros
14290 (analysis by Jurgen Eidt).
14291 + update screen's notion of cursor position in endwin() (analysis by
14292 Alexander Lukyanov).
14293 + added 't' to ncurses.c test.
14294 + moved delay_output() to lib_tputs.c
14295 + removed tparam() (was added in 1.9.9, but conflicts with emacs and
14296 is not part of X/Open Curses).
14297 + removed boolean version of 'getm'.
14298 + misc cursor & optimization fixes.
14301 + modified ncurses 'p' test to allow full-screen range for panner size.
14302 + fixes for locale (Philippe De Muyter <phdm@labauto1.ulb.ac.be>)
14303 + don't use fixed buffer-size in fmt_entry().
14304 + added usage-message to 'infocmp'.
14305 + modified install.includes rules to prepend subdirectory-name to
14306 "#include" if needed.
14309 + protect wrefresh, wnoutrefresh from invocation with pad argument.
14310 + corrected default CCFLAGS in test/Makefile.
14313 + implemented logic to support terminals with background color erase
14314 (e.g., rxvt and the newer color xterm).
14315 + improved screen update logic (off-by-one logic error; use clr_eos if
14319 + change ncurses 'a' test to run in raw mode.
14320 + make TIOCGWINSZ configure test less stringent, in case user
14321 configures via terminal that cannot get screen size.
14322 > patches 295, 296 (ESR):
14323 + split lib_kernel.c, lib_setup.c and names.c in order to reduce
14324 overhead for programs that use only termcap features.
14325 + new "-e" and "-h" options of tic (request by Tony Nugent).
14326 + fix bug in mandatory-delay logic in lib_tputs.c (report by Sven
14328 + fix for "infocmp -e" to emit correct initializers (reported by Manual
14330 + restore working-directory in read_termcap.c (report by Kayvan
14332 + use "-h" option on Solaris when generating shared libraries on
14333 Solaris 2.5 to record the library name in the file, for assisting
14334 the loader (patch by Scott Kramer).
14335 + undo patch #294 changes to form and menu libraries (request by
14340 + fix for AIX 3.2.5 (must define _POSIX_SOURCE to get termios struct
14341 definitions via <termios.h>, modified macros in lib_raw.c to avoid
14342 K&R-style substitution)
14343 > patches 293, 294 (ESR):
14344 + rewrite wsyncup(), wsyncdown(), as well as small fixes to form and
14345 menu libraries to fix echo-breakage introduced by 1.8.9, 1.9.9e
14346 changes (patches by Juergen Pfeifer).
14347 + fix compile under QNX 4.2 by defining ONLCR in lib_raw.c when
14348 __QNX__ is defined (patch by Michael Hunter).
14349 + modify setupterm() to match documentation for its return value, fix
14350 newterm to work with this change (report by Emmet Lazich).
14351 + add checks in getch() for error, return ERR as appropriate (report by
14353 + mods to wgetch() in cooked mode (report by Pete Seebach).
14354 + corrected askuser() logic in tset (patch by Remco Treffkorn).
14355 + correct interaction of endwin() with mouse processing (report by
14357 + added trace support for TTY flags
14358 + update terminfo.src to 9.13.1
14359 + FreeBSD console entries (patch by Andrew Chernov).
14362 + fixes for NeXT, ISC and HPUX auto-configure
14363 + autogenerate development header-dependencies (config.h, *.priv.h)
14364 + corrected single-column formatting of "use=" (e.g., in tic)
14365 + modify tic to read full terminfo-names
14366 + corrected divide-by-zero that caused hang (or worse) when redirecting
14368 + modify tic to generate directories only as-needed (and corrected
14369 instance of use of data from function that had already returned).
14371 ### ncurses-1.9.8a -> 1.9.9e
14373 * fixed broken wsyncup()/wysncdown(), as a result wnoutrefresh() now has
14374 copy-changed-lines behavior.
14375 * added and documented wresize() function.
14376 * more fixes to LOWER-RIGHT corner handling.
14377 * changed the line-breakout optimization code to allow some lines to be
14378 emitted before the first check.
14379 * added option for tic to use symbolic instead of hard links (for AFS)
14380 * fix to restore auto-wrap mode.
14381 * trace level can be controlled by environment variable.
14382 * better handling of NULs in terminal descriptions.
14383 * improved compatibility with observed SVR4 behavior.
14384 * the refresh behavior of over-lapping windows is now more efficient and
14386 * use autoconf 2.7, which results in a working setup for SCO 5.0.
14387 * support for ESCDELAY.
14388 * small fixes for menu/form code.
14389 * the test directory has its own configure.
14390 * fixes to pads when optimizing scrolling.
14391 * fixed several off-by-one bugs.
14392 * fixes for termcap->terminfo translation; less restrictions more correct
14395 ### ncurses-1.9.7 -> 1.9.8a
14397 * teach infocmp -i to recognize ECMA highlight sequences
14398 * infocmp now dumps all SVr4 termcaps (not just the SVr4 ones) on -C
14399 * support infocmp -RBSD.
14400 * satisfy XSI Curses requirement that every macro be available as a function.
14401 * This represents the last big change to the public interface of ncurses. The
14402 ABI_VERSION has now been set at 3.0 and should stay there barring any great
14403 catastrophies or acts of God.
14404 * The C++ has been cleaned up in reaction to the changes to satisfy XSI's
14406 * libncurses now gets linked to libcurses to help seamless emulation
14407 (replacement) of a vendor's curses. --disable-overwrite turns this behavior
14410 ### ncurses-1.9.6 -> 1.9.7
14412 * corrected return values of setupterm()
14413 * Fixed some bugs in tput (it does padding now)
14414 * fixed a bug in tic that made it do the wrong thing on entries with more than
14415 one `use' capability.
14416 * corrected the screen-size calculation at startup time to alter the
14417 numeric capabilities as per SVr4, not just LINES and COLS.
14418 * toe(1) introduced; does what infocmp -T used to.
14419 * tic(1) can now translate AIX box1 and font[0123] capabilities.
14420 * tic uses much less core, the dotic.sh kluge can go away now.
14421 * fix read_entry() and write_entry() to pass through cancelled capabilities OK.
14422 * Add $HOME/.terminfo as source/target directory for terminfo entries.
14423 * termcap compilation now automatically dumps an entry to $HOME/.terminfo.
14424 * added -h option to toe(1).
14425 * added -R option to tic(1) and infocmp(1).
14426 * added fallback-entry-list feature.
14427 * added -i option to infocmp(1).
14428 * do a better job at detecting if we're on SCO.
14430 ### ncurses-1.9.5 -> 1.9.6
14432 * handling of TERMCAP environment variables now works correctly.
14433 * various changes to shorten termcap translations to less that 1024 chars.
14435 * mouse support for xterm.
14436 * most data tables are now const and accordingly live in shareable text space.
14437 * Obey the XPG4/SVr4 practice that echo() is initially off.
14438 * tic is much better at translating XENIX and AIX termcap entries now.
14439 * tic can interpret ko capabilities now.
14440 * integrated Juergen Pfeifer's forms library.
14441 * taught write_entry() how not to write more than it needs to; this change
14442 reduces the size of the terminfo tree by a full 26%!
14443 * infocmp -T option added.
14444 * better warnings about historical tic quirks from tic.
14446 ### ncurses 1.9.4 -> 1.9.5
14448 * menus library is now included with documentation.
14449 * lib_mvcur has been carefully profiled and tuned.
14450 * Fixed a ^Z-handling bug that was tanking lynx(1).
14451 * HJ Lu's patches for ELF shared libraries under Linux
14452 * terminfo.src 9.8.2
14453 * tweaks for compiling in separate directories.
14454 * Thomas Dickey's patches to support NeXT's brain-dead linker
14455 * Eric Raymond's patches to fix problems with long termcap entries.
14456 * more support for shared libraries under SunOS and IRIX.
14458 ### ncurses 1.9.3 -> 1.9.4
14460 * fixed an undefined-order-of-evaluation bug in lib_acs.c
14461 * systematically gave non-API public functions and data an _nc_ prefix.
14462 * integrated Juergen Pfeifer's menu code into the distribution.
14463 * totally rewrote the knight test game's interface
14465 ### ncurses 1.9.2c -> 1.9.3
14467 * fixed the TERMCAP_FILE Support.
14468 * fixed off-by-one errors in scrolling code
14469 * added tracemunch to the test tools
14470 * took steps to cut the running time of make install.data
14472 ### ncurses 1.9.2c -> 1.9.2d
14474 * revised 'configure' script to produce libraries for normal, debug,
14475 profile and shared object models.
14477 ### ncurses 1.9.1 -> 1.9.2
14479 * use 'autoconf' to implement 'configure' script.
14480 * panels support added
14481 * tic now checks for excessively long termcap entries when doing translation
14482 * first cut at eliminating namespace pollution.
14484 ### ncurses 1.8.9 -> 1.9
14486 * cleanup gcc warnings for the following: use size_t where 'int' is not
14487 appropriate, fixed some shadowed variables, change attr_t to compatible with
14488 chtype, use attr_t in some places where it was confused with 'int'.
14489 * use chtype/attr_t casts as appropriate to ensure portability of masking
14491 * added-back waddchnstr() to lib_addstr.c (it had been deleted).
14492 * supplied missing prototypes in curses.h
14493 * include <termcap.h> in lib_termcap.c to ensure that the prototypes
14494 are consistent (they weren't).
14495 * corrected prototype of tputs in <termcap.h>
14496 * rewrote varargs parsing in lib_tparm.c (to avoid referencing memory
14497 that may be out of bounds on the stack) -- Purify found this.
14498 * ensure that TRACE is defined in lib_trace.c (to solve prototype
14499 warnings from gcc).
14500 * corrected scrolling-region size in 'mvcur_wrap()'
14501 * more spelling fixes
14502 * use 'calloc()' to allocate WINDOW struct in lib_newwin.c (Purify).
14503 * set default value for SP->_ofp in lib_set_term.c (otherwise SunOS dumps
14504 core in init_acs()).
14505 * include <errno.h> in write_entry.c (most "braindead" includes declare errno
14508 ### ncurses 1.8.8 -> 1.8.9
14510 * compile (mostly) clean with gcc 2.5.8 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
14511 -Wmissing-prototypes -Wconversion and using __attribute__ to flush out
14512 non-portable use of "%x" for pointers, or for chtype data (which is declared
14514 * modified doupdate to ensure that typahead was turned on before attempting
14515 select-call (otherwise, some implementations hang).
14516 * added trace mask TRACE_FIFO, use this in lib_getch.c to allow finer
14517 resolution of traces.
14518 * improved bounds checking on several critical functions.
14519 * the data directory has been replaced by the new master terminfo file.
14520 * -F file-comparison option added to infocmp.
14521 * compatibility with XSI Curses is now documented in the man bages.
14522 * wsyncup/wsyncdown functions are reliable now; subwindow code in general
14523 is much less flaky.
14524 * capabilities ~msgr, tilde_glitch, insert_padding, generic_type, no_pad_char,
14525 memory_above, memory_below, and hard_copy are now used properly.
14526 * cursor-movement optimization has been completely rewritten.
14527 * vertical-movement optimization now uses hardware scrolling, il, dl.
14529 ### ncurses 1.8.7 -> 1.8.8
14530 * untic no longer exists, infocmp replaces it.
14531 * tic can understand termcap now, especially if it is called captoinfo.
14532 * The Linux Standard Console terminfo entry is called linux insead of console.
14533 It also uses the kernel's new method of changing charsets.
14534 * initscr() will EXIT upon error (as the docs say) This will mostly happen if
14535 you try to run on an undefined terminal.
14536 * I can get things running on AIX but tic can't compile terminfo. I have to
14537 compile entries on another machine. Volunteers to hunt this bug are welcome.
14538 * wbkgd() and wbkgdset() can be used to set a windows background to color.
14539 wclear()/werase() DO NOT use the current attribute to clear the screen.
14540 This is the way SVR4 curses works. PDCurses 2.1 is broken in this respect,
14541 though PDCurses 2.2 has been fixed.
14542 * cleaned up the test/ directory.
14543 * test/worm will segfault after quite a while.
14544 * many spelling corrections courtesy of Thomas E. Dickey
14546 ### ncurses 1.8.6 -> 1.8.7
14547 * cleaned up programs in test/ directory.
14548 * fixed wbkgdset() macro.
14549 * modified getstr() to stop it from advancing cursor in noecho mode.
14550 * modified linux terminfo entry to work with the latest kernel to get
14551 the correct alternate character set.
14552 * also added a linux-mono entry for those running on monochrome screens.
14553 * changed initscr() so that it behaves like the man page says it does.
14554 this fixes the problem with programs in test/ crashing with SIGSEV if
14555 a terminal is undefined.
14556 * modified addch() to avoid using any term.h #define's
14557 * removed duplicate tgoto() in lib_tparm.c
14558 * modified dump_entry.c so that infocmp deals correctly with ',' in acsc
14559 * modified delwin() to correctly handle deleting subwindows.
14560 * fixed Makefile.dist to stop installing an empty curses.h
14561 * fixed a couple of out-of-date notes in man pages.
14563 ### ncurses 1.8.5 -> 1.8.6
14564 * Implemented wbkgd(), bkgd(), bkgdset(), and wbkgdset().
14565 * The handling of attributes has been improved and now does not turn off color
14566 if other attributes are turned off.
14567 * scrolling code is improved. Scrolling in subwindows is still broken.
14568 * Fixes to several bugs that manifest them on platforms other than Linux.
14569 * The default to meta now depends on the status of the terminal when ncurses
14571 * The interface to the tracing facility has changed. Instead of the pair of
14572 functions traceon() and traceoff(), there is just one function trace() which
14573 takes a trace mask argument. The trace masks, defined in curses.h, are
14576 #define TRACE_DISABLE 0x00 /* turn off tracing */
14577 #define TRACE_ORDINARY 0x01 /* ordinary trace mode */
14578 #define TRACE_CHARPUT 0x02 /* also trace all character outputs */
14579 #define TRACE_MAXIMUM 0x0f /* maximum trace level */
14581 More trace masks may be added, or these may be changed, in future releases.
14582 * The pad code has been improved and the pad test code in test/ncurses.c has
14584 * The prototype ansi entry has been changed to work with a wider variety
14586 * Fix to the prototype ansi entry that enables it to work with PC emulators
14587 that treat trailing ";m" in a highlight sequence as ";0m"; this doesn't
14588 break operation with any emulators.
14589 * There are now working infocmp, captoinfo, tput, and tclear utilities.
14590 * tic can now compile entries in termcap syntax.
14591 * Core-dump bug in pnoutrefresh fixed.
14592 * We now recognize and compile all the nonstandard capabilities in Ross
14593 Ridge's mytinfo package (rendering it obsolete).
14594 * General cleanup and documentation improvements.
14595 * Fixes and additions to the installation-documentation files.
14596 * Take cursor to normal mode on endwin.
14598 ### ncurses 1.8.4 -> 1.8.5
14599 * serious bugs in updating screen which caused erratic non-display,
14601 * fixed initialization for getch() related variable which cause
14602 unpredictable results.
14603 * fixed another doupdate bug which only appeared if you have
14605 * implemented redrawln() and redrawwin().
14606 * implemented winsnstr() and related functions.
14607 * cleaned up insertln() and deleteln() and implemented (w)insdeln().
14608 * changed Makefile.dist so that installation of man pages will
14609 take note of the terminfo directory.
14610 * fixed Configure (removed the mysterious 'X').
14611 * Eric S. Raymond fixed the script.* files so that they work with
14614 #### ncurses 1.8.3 -> 1.8.4 #### ####
14615 * fixed bug in refreshing the screen after return from shell_mode.
14616 There are still problems but they don't manifest themselves on
14617 my machine (Linux 0.99.14f).
14618 * added wgetnstr() and modified things accordingly.
14619 * fixed the script.src script.test to work with awk not just gawk.
14620 * Configure can now take an argument of the target system.
14621 * added test/ncurses.c which replaces several other programs and
14622 performs more testing.
14623 [Thanks to Eric S Raymond for the last 4]
14624 * more fixes to lib_overlay.c and added test/over.c to illustrate
14626 * fixed ungetch() to take int instead of ch.
14627 * fixes to cure wgetch() if flushinp() is called.
14629 One note I forgot to mention in 1.8.3 is that tracing is off by
14630 default starting in the version. If you want tracing output, put
14631 traceon(); in your code and link with -ldcurses.
14633 #### ncurses 1.8.2 -> ncurses 1.8.3 #### ####
14635 1) The order of capabilities has been changed in order to achieve
14636 binary compatibility with SVR4 terminfo database. This has the
14637 unfortunate effect of breaking application currently linked with
14638 ncurses. To ensure correct behavior, recompile all such programs.
14639 Most programs using color or newer capabilities will break, others
14640 will probably continue to work ok.
14642 2) Pavel Curtis has renounced his copyright to the public domain.
14643 This means that his original sources (posted to comp.sources.unix,
14644 volume 1) are now in the public domain. The current sources are
14645 NOT in the public domain, they are copyrighted by me. I'm
14646 entertaining ideas on what the new terms ncurses is released under.
14648 3) Eric S. Raymond has supplied a complete set of man pages for
14649 ncurses in ?roff format. They will eventually replace most of the
14650 current docs. Both sets are included in this release.
14652 Other changes and notes from 1.8.2 include:
14653 * SIGSEGV during scrolling no longer occurs.
14654 * Other problems with scrolling and use of idl have been corrected.
14655 * lib_getch.c has been re-written and should perform flawlessly.
14656 please use test/getch.c and any other programs to test this.
14657 * ripoffline() is implemented (Thanks to Eric) and slk_ functions
14658 changed accordingly.
14659 * I've added support for terminals that scroll if you write in the
14660 bottom-right corner.
14661 * fixed more bugs in pads code. If anybody has a program that uses
14662 pads I'd love a copy.
14663 * correct handling for terminal with back_color_erase capability
14664 (such as Linux console, and most PC terminals)
14665 * ^Z handling apparently didn't work (I should never trust code
14666 sent me to me without extensive testing). It now seems to be
14667 fixed. Let me know if you have problems.
14668 * I've added support for Apollo and NeXT, but it may still be
14669 incomplete, especially when dealing with the lack of POSIX
14671 * scrolling should be more efficient on terminals with idl
14672 capabilities. Please see src/lib_scroll.c for more notes.
14673 * The line drawing routines were offset by 1 at both ends. This
14675 * added a few missing prototypes and macros (e.g. setterm())
14676 * fixed code in src/lib_overlay.c which used to crash.
14677 * added a few more programs in test/ The ones from the PDCurses
14678 package are useful, especially if you have SVR4 proper. I'm
14679 interested in the results you get on such a systems (Eric? ;-).
14680 They already exposed certain bugs in ncurses.
14681 * See src/README for porting notes.
14682 * The C++ code should really replace ncurses.h instead of working
14683 around it. It should avoid name-space clashes with nterm.h (use
14684 rows instead of lines, etc.)
14685 * The C++ should compile ok. I've added explicit rules to the
14686 Makefile because no C++ defaults are documented on the suns.
14687 * The docs say that echo() and nocbreak() are mutually exclusive.
14688 At the moment ncurses will switch to cbreak() if the case above
14689 occurs. Should it continue to do so? How about echo() and noraw()?
14690 * PDCurses seem to assume that wclear() will use current attribute
14691 when clearing the screen. According to Eric this is not the case
14693 * I have discovered, to my chagrin, SunOS 4.x (and probably other systems)
14694 * doesn't have vsscanf and God knows what else! I've will do a vsscanf().
14695 * I've also found out that the src/script.* rely on gawk and will not
14696 work with stock awk or even with nawk. Any changes are welcome.
14697 * Linux is more tolerant of NULL dereferences than most systems. This
14698 fact was exposed by hanoi.
14699 * ncurses still seems inefficient in drawing the screen on a serial
14700 link between Linux and suns. The padding may be the culprit.
14701 * There seems to be one lingering problem with doupdate() after shelling
14702 out. Despite the fact the it is sending out the correct information
14703 to the terminal, nothing takes effect until you press ^L or another
14704 refresh takes place. And yes, output does get flushed.
14706 #### ncurses 1.8.1 -> ncurses 1.8.2 #### Nov 28, 1993 ####
14708 * added support for SVR4 and BSDI's BSD/386.
14709 * major update and fix to scrolling routine.
14710 * MORE fixes to stuff in lib_getch.c.
14711 * cleaned-up configuration options and can now generate
14712 Config.* files through an awk script.
14713 * changed setupterm() so it can be called more than once,
14714 add added set_curterm(), del_curterm().
14715 * a few minor cleanups.
14716 * added more prototypes in curses.h
14718 #### ncurses 1.8 -> ncurses 1.8.1 #### Nov 4, 1993 ####
14720 * added support for NeXTStep 3.0
14721 * added termcap emulation (not well tested).
14722 * more complete C++ interface to ncurses.
14723 * fixed overlay(), overwrite(), and added copywin().
14724 * a couple of bug fixes.
14725 * a few code cleanups.
14727 #### ncurses 0.7.2/0.7.3 -> ncurses 1.8 #### Aug 31, 1993 ####
14729 * The annoying message "can't open file." was due to missing
14730 terminfo entry for the used terminal. It has now been
14731 replaced by a hopefully more helpful message.
14732 * Problems with running on serial lines are now fixed.
14733 * Added configuration files for SunOS, Linux, HP/UX, Ultrix,
14734 386bsd/BSDI (if you have others send'em to me)
14735 * Cleaner Makefile.
14736 * The documentation in manual.doc is now more uptodate.
14737 * update optimization and support for hp terminals, and 386bsd
14739 * mvcur optimization for terminals without cursor addressing
14740 (doesn't work on Linux)
14741 * if cursor moved since last update, getch() will refresh the
14742 screen before working.
14743 * getch() & alarm() can now live together. in 0.7.3 a signal
14744 interrupted getch() (bug or feature?) now the getch is
14746 * scanw() et all were sick, now fixed.
14747 * support for 8-bit input (use meta()).
14748 * added default screen size to all terminfos.
14749 * added c++ Ncursesw class.
14750 * several minor bug fixes.
14752 #### ncurses 0.7.2 -> ncurses 0.7.3 #### May 27, 1993 ####
14754 * Config file to cope with different platforms (386BSD, BSDI, Ultrix, SunOS)
14755 * more fixes to lib_getch.c
14756 * changes related to Config
14758 #### ncurses 0.7 -> ncurses 0.7.2 #### May 22, 1993 ####
14760 * docs updated slightly (color usage is now documented).
14761 * yet another fix for getch(), this one fixes problems with ESC being swallowed
14762 if another character is typed before the 1 second timeout.
14763 * Hopefully, addstr() and addch() are 8-bit clean.
14764 * fixed lib_tparm.c to use stdarg.h (should run on suns now)
14765 * order of capabilities changed to reflect that specified in SYSV
14766 this will allow for binary-compatibility with existing terminfo dbs.
14767 * added halfdelay()
14768 * fixed problems with asc_init()
14769 * added A_PROTECT and A_INVIS
14770 * cleaned up vidputs()
14771 * general cleanup of the code
14772 * more attention to portability to other systems
14773 * added terminfos for hp70092 (won't work until changes to lib_update.c are
14774 made) and 386BSD pcvt drivers.
14776 Thanks to Hellmuth Michaelis for his help.
14777 optimization code is slated for the next major release, stay tuned!
14779 #### ncurses 0.6/0.61 -> ncurses 0.7 #### April 1, 1993
14780 Please note that the next release will be called 1.8. If you want to know about
14781 the rationale drop me a line.
14783 Included are several test programs in test/.
14784 I've split up the panels library, reversi, tetris, sokoban. They are now
14785 available separately from netcom.com:pub/zmbenhal/
14787 * color and ACS support is now fully compatible with SYSV at the terminfo
14789 * Capabilities now includes as many SYSV caps I could find.
14790 * tigetflag,tigetnum,tigetstr functions added.
14791 * boolnames, boolfnames, boolcodes numnames, numfnames, numcodes,
14792 strnames, strfnames, strcodes arrays are now added.
14793 * keyname() is added.
14794 * All function keys can be defined in terminfo entries.
14795 * fixed lin_tparm.c to behave properly.
14796 * terminfo entries for vt* and xterm are included (improvements are welcome)
14797 * more automation in handling caps and keys.
14798 * included fixes from 0.6.1
14799 * added a few more missing functions.
14800 * fixed a couple of minor bugs.
14801 * updated docs JUST a little (still miles behind in documenting the newer
14804 #### ncurses 0.6 -> ncurses 0.61 ####
14806 1) Included the missing data/console.
14808 2) allow attributes when drawing boxes.
14810 3) corrected usage of win->_delay value.
14812 4) fixed a bug in lib_getch.c. if it didn't recognize a sequence it would
14813 simply return the last character in the sequence. The correct
14814 behavior is to return the entire sequence one character at a time.
14816 #### ncurses0.5 -> ncurses0.6 #### March 1, 1993 ####
14817 * removed _numchngd from struct _win_st and made appropriate changes.
14818 * rewritten kgetch() to remove problems with interaction between alarm and
14819 read(). It caused SIGSEGV every now and then.
14820 * fixed a bug that miscounted the numbers of columns when updating.
14821 (in lib_doupdate.c(ClrUpdate() -- iterate to columns not columns-1)
14822 * fixed a bug that cause the lower-right corner to be incorrect.
14823 (in lib_doupdate.c(putChar() -- check against columns not columns-1)
14824 * made resize() and cleanup() static to lib_newterm.c
14825 * added notimeout().
14826 * added timeout() define in curses.h
14827 * added more function prototypes and fixed napms.
14829 * moved screen size detection to lib_setup.c.
14830 * fixed newterm() to confirm to prototype.
14831 * removed SIGWINCH support as SYSV does not define its semantics.
14832 * cleaned-up lib_touch.c
14833 * added waddnstr() and relatives.
14834 * added slk_* support.
14835 * fixed a bug in wdeleteln().
14836 * added PANEL library.
14837 * modified Makefile for smoother installation.
14838 * terminfo.h is really term.h
14840 #### ncurses 0.4 -> ncurses 0.5 #### Feb 14, 1993 ####
14841 * changed _win_st structure to allow support for missing functionality.
14842 * Addition of terminfo support for all KEY_*.
14843 * Support for nodelay(), timeout(), notimeout().
14844 * fixed a bug with the keypad char reading that did not return ESC until
14845 another key is pressed.
14846 * nl mapping no longer occur on output (as should be)
14847 fixed bug '\n' no causing a LF.
14848 * fixed bug that reset terminal colors regardless of whether we use color
14850 * Better support for ACS (not quite complete).
14851 * fixed bug in wvline().
14852 * added curs_set().
14853 * changed from signal() to sigaction().
14854 * re-included the contents of important.patch into source.
14856 #### ncurses 0.3 -> ncurses 0.4 #### Feb 3, 1993 ####
14857 * Addition of more KEY_* definitions.
14858 * Addition of function prototypes.
14859 * Addition of several missing functions.
14860 * No more crashes if screen size is undefined (use SIGWINCH handler).
14861 * added a handler to cleanup after SIGSEGV (hopefully never needed).
14862 * changed SRCDIR from /etc/term to /usr/lib/terminfo.
14863 * renamed compile/dump to tic/untic.
14864 * New scrolling code.
14865 * fixed bug that reversed the sense of nl() and nonl().
14867 #### ncurses 0.2 -> ncurses 0.3 #### Jan 20, 1993 ####
14868 * more support for color and graphics see test/ for examples.
14869 * fixed various files to allow correct update after shelling out.
14870 * more fixes for updates.
14871 * no more core dumps if you don't have a terminfo entry.
14872 * support for LINES and COLUMNS environment variables.
14873 * support for SIGWINCH signal.
14874 * added a handler for SIGINT for clean exits.
14876 #### ncurses 0.1 -> ncurses 0.2 #### Aug 14, 1992 ####
14877 * support for color.
14878 * support for PC graphic characters.
14879 * lib_trace.c updated to use stdarg.h and vprintf routines.
14880 * added gdc.c (Great Digital Clock) as an example of using color.
14882 #### ncurses -> ncurses 0.1 #### Jul 31, 1992 ####
14883 * replacing sgtty stuff by termios stuff.
14884 * ANSIfication of some functions.
14885 * Disabling cost analysis 'cause it's incorrect.
14886 * A quick hack for a terminfo entry.