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31 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
32 working with Pavel Curtis' original work, pcurses, in 1992.
34 Changes through 1.9.9e are recorded by Zeyd M Ben-Halim.
35 Changes since 1.9.9e are recorded by Thomas E Dickey.
37 Contributors include those who have provided patches (even small ones), as well
38 as those who provide useful information (bug reports, analyses). Changes with
39 no cited author are the work of Thomas E Dickey (TD).
41 A few contributors are given in this file by their initials.
42 They each account for one percent or more of the changes since 1.9.9e.
43 See the AUTHORS file for the corresponding full names.
45 Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
46 it is not possible to add this information.
49 + regenerate configure script (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20120901).
52 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_flush (cf: 20120825).
53 + fix a case in _nc_scroll_optimize() where the _oldnums_list array
54 might not be allocated.
55 + improve comparisons in configure.in for unset shell variables.
58 + increase size of ncurses' output-buffer, in case of very small
60 + fix evaluation of TERMINFO and TERMINFO_DIRS default values as needed
61 after changes to use --datarootdir (reports by Gabriele Balducci,
65 + change output buffering scheme, using buffer maintained by ncurses
66 rather than stdio, to avoid problems with SIGTSTP handling (report
70 + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20120811, adding --datarootdir
71 (prompted by discussion with Erwin Waterlander).
72 + improve description of --enable-reentrant option in README and the
74 + add nsterm-256color, make this the default nsterm -TD
75 + remove bw from nsterm-bce, per testing with tack -TD
78 + update test/configure, adding check for tinfo library.
79 + improve limit-checks for the getch fifo (report by Werner Fink).
80 + fix a remaining mismatch between $with_echo and the symbols updated
81 for CF_DISABLE_ECHO affecting parameters for mk-2nd.awk (report by
82 Sven Joachim, cf: 20120317).
83 + modify followup check for pkg-config's library directory in the
84 --enable-pc-files option to validate syntax (report by Sven Joachim,
88 + correct path for ncurses_mingw.h in include/headers, in case build
89 is done outside source-tree (patch by Roumen Petrov).
90 + modify some older xterm entries to align with xterm source -TD
91 + separate "xterm-old" alias from "xterm-r6" -TD
92 + add E3 extended capability to xterm-basic and putty -TD
93 + parenthesize parameters of other macros in curses.h -TD
94 + parenthesize parameter of COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER in curses.h
95 in case it happens to be a comma-expression, etc. (patch by Nick
99 + improved form_request_by_name() and menu_request_by_name().
100 + eliminate two fixed-size buffers in toe.c
101 + extend use_tioctl() to have expected behavior when use_env(FALSE) and
102 use_tioctl(TRUE) are called.
103 + modify ncurses test-program, adding -E and -T options to demonstrate
104 use_env() versus use_tioctl().
107 + add use_tioctl() function (adapted from patch by Werner Fink,
111 + add ncurses_mingw.h to installed headers (prompted by patch by
113 + clarify return-codes from wgetch() in response to SIGWINCH (prompted
115 + modify resizeterm() to always push a KEY_RESIZE onto the fifo, even
116 if screensize is unchanged. Modify _nc_update_screensize() to push a
117 KEY_RESIZE if there was a SIGWINCH, even if it does not call
118 resizeterm(). These changes eliminate the case where a SIGWINCH is
119 received, but ERR returned from wgetch or wgetnstr because the screen
120 dimensions did not change (Novell #769788).
123 + add --enable-interop to sample package scripts (suggested by Juergen
125 + update CF_PATH_SYNTAX macro, from mawk changes.
126 + modify mk-0th.awk to allow for generating llib-ltic, etc., though
127 some work is needed on cproto to work with lib_gen.c to update
129 + remove redundant getenv() cal in database-iterator leftover from
130 cleanup in 20120622 changes (report by Sven Joachim).
133 + add -d, -e and -q options to test/demo_terminfo and test/demo_termcap
134 + fix caching of environment variables in database-iterator (patch by
135 Philippe Troin, Redhat #831366).
138 + add configure check to distinguish clang from gcc to eliminate
139 warnings about unused command-line parameters when compiler warnings
141 + improve behavior when updating terminfo entries which are hardlinked
142 by allowing for the possibility that an alias has been repurposed to
144 + fix some strict compiler warnings based on package scripts.
145 + further fixes for configure check for working poll (Debian #676461).
148 + fix an uninitialized variable in -c/-n logic for infocmp changes
150 + corrected fix for building c++ binding with clang 3.0 (report/patch
151 by Richard Yao, Gentoo #417613, cf: 20110409)
152 + correct configure check for working poll, fixing the case where stdin
153 is redirected, e.g., in rpm/dpkg builds (Debian #676461).
154 + add rpm- and dpkg-scripts, to test those build-environments.
155 The resulting packages are used only for testing.
158 + add kdch1 aka "Remove" to vt220 and vt220-8 entries -TD
159 + add kdch1, etc., to qvt108 -TD
160 + add dl1/il1 to some entries based on dl/il values -TD
161 + add dl to simpleterm -TD
162 + add consistency-checks in tic for insert-line vs delete-line
163 controls, and insert/delete-char keys
164 + correct no-leaks logic in infocmp when doing comparisons, fixing
165 duplicate free of entries given via the command-line, and freeing
166 entries loaded from the last-but-one of files specified on the
168 + add kdch1 to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (reported by David Lord,
169 analysis by Martin Husemann).
170 + add cnorm/civis to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (report/analysis by
171 Onno van der Linden).
174 + extend -c and -n options of infocmp to allow comparing more than two
176 + correct check in infocmp for number of terminal names when more than
178 + correct typo in curs_threads.3x (report by Yanhui Shen on
179 freebsd-hackers mailing list).
182 + corrected 'op' for bterm (report by Samuel Thibault) -TD
183 + modify test/background.c to demonstrate a background character
184 holding a colored ACS_HLINE. The behavior differs from SVr4 due to
185 the thick- and double-line extension (cf: 20091003).
186 + modify handling of acs characters in PutAttrChar to avoid mapping an
187 unmapped character to a space with A_ALTCHARSET set.
188 + rewrite vt520 entry based on vt420 -TD
191 + remove p6 (bold) from opus3n1+ for consistency -TD
192 + remove acs stuff from env230 per clues in Ingres termcap -TD
193 + modify env230 sgr/sgr0 to match other capabilities -TD
194 + modify smacs/rmacs in bq300-8 to match sgr/sgr0 -TD
195 + make sgr for dku7202 agree with other caps -TD
196 + make sgr for ibmpc agree with other caps -TD
197 + make sgr for tek4107 agree with other caps -TD
198 + make sgr for ndr9500 agree with other caps -TD
199 + make sgr for sco-ansi agree with other caps -TD
200 + make sgr for d410 agree with other caps -TD
201 + make sgr for d210 agree with other caps -TD
202 + make sgr for d470c, d470c-7b agree with other caps -TD
203 + remove redundant AC_DEFINE for NDEBUG versus Makefile definition.
204 + fix a back-link in _nc_delink_entry(), which is needed if ncurses is
205 configured with --enable-termcap and --disable-getcap.
208 + fix some inconsistencies between vt320/vt420, e.g., cnorm/civis -TD
209 + add eslok flag to dec+sl -TD
210 + dec+sl applies to vt320 and up -TD
211 + drop wsl width from xterm+sl -TD
212 + reuse xterm+sl in putty and nsca-m -TD
213 + add ansi+tabs to vt520 -TD
214 + add ansi+enq to vt220-vt520 -TD
215 + fix a compiler warning in example in ncurses-intro.doc (Paul Waring).
216 + added paragraph in keyname manpage telling how extended capabilities
217 are interpreted as key definitions.
218 + modify tic's check of conflicting key definitions to include extended
219 capability strings in addition to the existing check on predefined
223 + improve cleanup of temporary files in tic using atexit().
224 + add msgr to vt420, similar DEC vtXXX entries -TD
225 + add several missing vt420 capabilities from vt220 -TD
226 + factor out ansi+pp from several entries -TD
227 + change xterm+sl and xterm+sl-twm to include only the status-line
228 capabilities and not "use=xterm", making them more generally useful
229 as building-blocks -TD
230 + add dec+sl building block, as example -TD
233 + add XT to some terminfo entries to improve usefulness for other
234 applications than screen, which would like to pretend that xterm's
235 title is a status-line. -TD
236 + change use-clauses in ansi-mtabs, hp2626, and hp2622 based on review
237 of ordering and overrides -TD
238 + add consistency check in tic for screen's "XT" capability.
239 + add section in terminfo.src summarizing the user-defined capabilities
240 used in that file -TD
243 + fix an inconsistency between tic/infocmp "-x" option; tic omits all
244 non-standard capabilities, while infocmp was ignoring only the user
245 definable capabilities.
246 + improve special case in tic parsing of description to allow it to be
247 followed by terminfo capabilities. Previously the description had to
248 be the last field on an input line to allow tic to distinguish
249 between termcap and terminfo format while still allowing commas to be
250 embedded in the description.
251 + correct variable name in gen_edit.sh which broke configurability of
252 the --with-xterm-kbs option.
253 + revert 2011-07-16 change to "linux" alias, return to "linux2.2" -TD
254 + further amend 20110910 change, providing for configure-script
255 override of the "linux" terminfo entry to install and changing the
256 default for that to "linux2.2" (Debian #665959).
259 + update Ada95/configure to use CF_DISABLE_ECHO (cf: 20120317).
260 + correct order of use-clauses in st-256color -TD
261 + modify configure script to look for gnatgcc if the Ada95 binding
262 is built, in preference to the default gcc/cc (suggested by
264 + modify configure script to ensure that the same -On option used for
265 the C compiler in CFLAGS is used for ADAFLAGS rather than simply
266 using "-O3" (suggested by Nicolas Boulenguez)
269 + amend an old fix so that next_char() exits properly for empty files,
270 e.g., from reading /dev/null (cf: 20080804).
271 + modify tic so that it can read from the standard input, or from
272 a character device. Because tic uses seek's, this requires writing
273 the data to a temporary file first (prompted by remark by Sven
274 Joachim) (cf: 20000923).
277 + correct a check made in lib_napms.c, so that terminfo applications
278 can again use napms() (cf: 20110604).
279 + add a note in tic.h regarding required casts for ABSENT_BOOLEAN
281 + correct scripting for --disable-echo option in test/configure.
282 + amend check for missing c++ compiler to work when no error is
283 reported, and no variables set (cf: 20021206).
284 + add/use configure macro CF_DISABLE_ECHO.
287 + fix some strict compiler warnings for abi6 and 64-bits.
288 + use begin_va_copy/end_va_copy macros in lib_printw.c (cf: 20120303).
289 + improve a limit-check in infocmp.c (Werner Fink):
292 + minor tidying of terminfo.tail, clarify reason for limitation
293 regarding mapping of \0 to \200
294 + minor improvement to _nc_copy_termtype(), using memcpy to replace
296 + fix no-leaks checking in test/demo_termcap.c to account for multiple
297 calls to setupterm().
298 + modified the libgpm change to show previous load as a problem in the
300 > merge some patches from OpenSUSE rpm (Werner Fink):
301 + ncurses-5.7-printw.dif, fixes for varargs handling in lib_printw.c
302 + ncurses-5.7-gpm.dif, do not dlopen libgpm if already loaded by
304 + ncurses-5.6-fallback.dif, do not free arrays and strings from static
308 + fix breakage in tic/infocmp from 20120225 (report by Werner Fink).
311 + modify configure script to allow creating dll's for MinGW when
313 + add --enable-string-hacks option to control whether strlcat and
314 strlcpy may be used. The same issue applies to OpenBSD's warnings
315 about snprintf, noting that this function is weakly standardized.
316 + add configure checks for strlcat, strlcpy and snprintf, to help
317 reduce bogus warnings with OpenBSD builds.
318 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 to supply consistent intptr_t declaration
320 + update config.guess, config.sub
323 + correct CF_ETIP_DEFINES configure macro, making it exit properly on
324 the first success (patch by Pierre Labastie).
325 + improve configure macro CF_MKSTEMP by moving existence-check for
326 mkstemp out of the AC_TRY_RUN, to help with cross-compiles.
327 + improve configure macro CF_FUNC_POLL from luit changes to detect
328 broken implementations, e.g., with Mac OS X.
329 + add configure option --with-tparm-arg
330 + build-fix for MinGW cross-compiling, so that make_hash does not
331 depend on TTY definition (cf: 20111008).
334 + make sgr for xterm-pcolor agree with other caps -TD
335 + make sgr for att5425 agree with other caps -TD
336 + make sgr for att630 agree with other caps -TD
337 + make sgr for linux entries agree with other caps -TD
338 + make sgr for tvi9065 agree with other caps -TD
339 + make sgr for ncr260vt200an agree with other caps -TD
340 + make sgr for ncr160vt100pp agree with other caps -TD
341 + make sgr for ncr260vt300an agree with other caps -TD
342 + make sgr for aaa-60-dec-rv, aaa+dec agree with other caps -TD
343 + make sgr for cygwin, cygwinDBG agree with other caps -TD
344 + add configure option --with-xterm-kbs to simplify configuration for
345 Linux versus most other systems.
348 + improved tic -D option, avoid making target directory and provide
352 + add mach-gnu (Debian #614316, patch by Samuel Thibault)
353 + add mach-gnu-color, tweaks to mach-gnu terminfo -TD
354 + make sgr for sun-color agree with smso -TD
355 + make sgr for prism9 agree with other caps -TD
356 + make sgr for icl6404 agree with other caps -TD
357 + make sgr for ofcons agree with other caps -TD
358 + make sgr for att5410v1, att4415, att620 agree with other caps -TD
359 + make sgr for aaa-unk, aaa-rv agree with other caps -TD
360 + make sgr for avt-ns agree with other caps -TD
361 + amend fix intended to separate fixups for acsc to allow "tic -cv" to
362 give verbose warnings (cf: 20110730).
363 + modify misc/gen-edit.sh to make the location of the tabset directory
364 consistent with misc/Makefile.in, i.e., using ${datadir}/tabset
365 (Debian #653435, patch by Sven Joachim).
368 + add --with-lib-prefix option to allow configuring for old/new flavors
370 + modify check for gnat version to allow for year, as used in FreeBSD
372 + modify check_existence() in db_iterator.c to simply check if the
373 path is a directory or file, according to the need. Checking for
374 directory size also gives no usable result with OS/2 (cf: 20120107).
375 + support OS/2 kLIBC (patch by KO Myung-Han).
378 + several improvements to test/movewindow.c (prompted by discussion on
380 + modify movement commands to make them continuous
381 + rewrote the test for mvderwin
382 + rewrote the test for recursive mvwin
383 + split-out reusable CF_WITH_NCURSES_ETC macro in test/configure.in
384 + updated configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, build-fixes for Mac OS X
386 + regenerated html manpages.
389 + various improvments for MinGW (Juergen Pfeifer):
390 + modify stat() calls to ignore the st_size member
391 + drop mk-dlls.sh script.
392 + change recommended regular expression library.
393 + modify rain.c to allow for threaded configuraton.
394 + modify tset.c to allow for case when size-change logic is not used.
397 + modify toe's report when -a and -s options are combined, to add
398 a column showing which entries belong to a given database.
399 + add -s option to toe, to sort its output.
400 + modify progs/toe.c, simplifying use of db-iterator results to use
401 caching improvements from 20111001 and 20111126.
402 + correct generation of pc-files when ticlib or termlib options are
403 given to rename the corresponding tic- or tinfo-libraries (report
407 + document a portability issue with tput, i.e., that scripts which work
408 with ncurses may fail in other implementations that do no parameter
410 + add putty-sco entry -TD
413 + review/fix places in manpages where --program-prefix configure option
415 + add -D option to infocmp, to show the database locations that it
417 + fix build for the special case where term-driver, ticlib and termlib
418 are all enabled. The terminal driver depends on a few features in
419 the base ncurses library, so tic's dependencies include both ncurses
421 + fix build work for term-driver when --enable-wgetch-events option is
423 + use <stdint.h> types to fix some questionable casts to void*.
426 + modify configure script to check if thread library provides
427 pthread_mutexattr_settype(), e.g., not provided by Solaris 2.6
428 + modify configure script to suppress check to define _XOPEN_SOURCE
429 for IRIX64, since its header files have a conflict versus
431 + modify configure script to add ".pc" files for tic- and
432 tinfo-libraries, which were omitted in recent change (cf: 20111126).
433 + fix inconsistent checks on $PKG_CONFIG variable in configure script.
436 + modify configure-check for etip.h dependencies, supplying a temporary
437 copy of ncurses_dll.h since it is a generated file (prompted by
439 + modify CF_CPP_PARAM_INIT "main" function to work with current C++.
442 + correct database iterator's check for duplicate entries
444 + modify database iterator to ignore $TERMCAP when it is not an
446 + add -D option to tic, to show the database locations that it could
448 + improve description of database locations in tic manpage.
449 + modify the configure script to generate a list of the ".pc" files to
450 generate, rather than deriving the list from the libraries which have
451 been built (patch by Mike Frysinger).
452 + use AC_CHECK_TOOLS in preference to AC_PATH_PROGS when searching for
453 ncurses*-config, e.g., in Ada95/configure and test/configure (adapted
454 from patch by Mike Frysinger).
457 + remove obsolete/conflicting fallback definition for _POSIX_SOURCE
458 from curses.priv.h, fixing a regression with IRIX64 and Tru64
460 + modify _nc_tic_dir() to ensure that its return-value is nonnull,
461 i.e., the database iterator was not initialized. This case is needed
462 to when tic is translating to termcap, rather than loading the
463 database (cf: 20111001).
466 + add pccon entries for OpenBSD console (Alexei Malinin).
467 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 with gcc 4.2.1, setting _XOPEN_SOURCE to
468 600 to work around inconsistent ifdef'ing of wcstof between C and
470 + modify capconvert script to accept more than exact match on "xterm",
471 e.g., the "xterm-*" variants, to exclude from the conversion (patch
473 + add -lc_r as alternative for -lpthread, allows build of threaded code
474 in older FreeBSD machines.
475 + build-fix for MirBSD, which fails when either _XOPEN_SOURCE or
476 _POSIX_SOURCE are defined.
477 + fix a typo misc/Makefile.in, used in uninstalling pc-files.
480 + modify make_db_path() to allow creating "terminfo.db" in the same
481 directory as an existing "terminfo" directory. This fixes a case
482 where switching between hashed/filesystem databases would cause the
483 new hashed database to be installed in the next best location -
484 root's home directory.
485 + add variable cf_cv_prog_gnat_correct to those passed to
486 config.status, fixing a problem with Ada95 builds (cf: 20111022).
487 + change feature test from _XPG5 to _XOPEN_SOURCE in two places, to
488 accommodate broken implementations for _XPG6.
489 + eliminate usage of NULL symbol from etip.h, to reduce header
491 + add configure check to decide when to add _XOPEN_SOURCE define to
492 compiler options, i.e., for Solaris 10 and later (cf: 20100403).
493 This is a workaround for gcc 4.6, which fails to build the c++
494 binding if that symbol is defined by the application, due to
495 incorrectly combining the corresponding feature test macros
496 (report by Peter Kruse).
499 + correct logic for discarding mouse events, retaining the partial
500 events used to build up click, double-click, etc, until needed
502 + fix configure script to avoid creating unused Ada95 makefile when
504 + cleanup width-related gcc 3.4.3 warnings for 64-bit platform, for the
505 internal functions of libncurses. The external interface of courses
506 uses bool, which still produces these warnings.
509 + improve description of --disable-tic-depends option to make it
510 clear that it may be useful whether or not the --with-termlib
511 option is also given (report by Sven Joachim).
512 + amend termcap equivalent for set_pglen_inch to use the X/Open
513 "YI" rather than the obsolete Solaris 2.5 "sL" (cf: 990109).
514 + improve manpage for tgetent differences from termcap library.
517 + moved static data from db_iterator.c to lib_data.c
518 + modify db_iterator.c for memory-leak checking, fix one leak.
519 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to use Requires.private for the parts
520 of ncurses rather than Requires, as well as Libs.private for the
521 other library dependencies (prompted by Debian #644728).
524 + modify tic "-K" option to only set the strict-flag rather than force
525 source-output. That allows the same flag to control the parser for
526 input and output of termcap source.
527 + modify _nc_getent() to ignore backslash at the end of a comment line,
528 making it consistent with ncurses' parser.
529 + restore a special-case check for directory needed to make termcap
530 text files load as if they were databases (cf: 20110924).
531 + modify tic's resolution/collision checking to attempt to remove the
532 conflicting alias from the second entry in the pair, which is
533 normally following in the source file. Also improved the warning
534 message to make it simpler to see which alias is the problem.
535 + improve performance of the database iterator by caching search-list.
538 + add a missing "else" in changes to _nc_read_tic_entry().
541 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() so that hashed-database is checked before
543 + updated CF_CURSES_LIBS check in test/configure script.
544 + modify configure script and makefiles to split TIC_ARGS and
545 TINFO_ARGS into pieces corresponding to LDFLAGS and LIBS variables,
546 to help separate searches for tic- and tinfo-libraries (patch by Nick
548 + build-fix for lib_mouse.c changes (cf: 20110917).
551 + fix compiler warning for clang 2.9
552 + improve merging of mouse events (integrated patch by Damien
554 + correct mask-check used in lib_mouse for wheel mouse buttons 4/5
555 (patch by Damien Guibouret).
558 + modify misc/gen_edit.sh to select a "linux" entry which works with
559 the current kernel rather than assuming it is always "linux3.0"
561 + revert a change to getmouse() which had the undesirable side-effect
562 of suppressing button-release events (report by Damien Guibouret,
564 + add xterm+kbs fragment from xterm #272 -TD
565 + add configure option --with-pkg-config-libdir to provide control over
566 the actual directory into which pc-files are installed, do not use
567 the pkg-config environment variables (discussion with Frederic L W
569 + add link to mailing-list archive in announce.html.in, as done in
570 FAQ (prompted by question by Andrius Bentkus).
571 + improve manpage install by adjusting the "#include" examples to
572 show the ncurses-subdirectory used when --disable-overwrite option
574 + install an alias for "curses" to the ncurses manpage, tied to the
575 --with-curses-h configure option (suggested by Reuben Thomas).
578 + propagate error-returns from wresize, i.e., the internal
579 increase_size and decrease_size functions through resize_term (report
580 by Tim van der Molen, cf: 20020713).
581 + fix typo in tset manpage (patch by Sven Joachim).
584 + add a check to ensure that termcap files which might have "^?" do
585 not use the terminfo interpretation as "\177".
586 + minor cleanup of X-terminal emulator section of terminfo.src -TD
587 + add terminator entry -TD
588 + add simpleterm entry -TD
589 + improve wattr_get macros by ensuring that if the window pointer is
590 null, then the attribute and color values returned will be zero
594 + add substitution for $RPATH_LIST to misc/ncurses-config.in
595 + improve performance of tic with hashed-database by caching the
596 database connection, using atexit() to cleanup.
597 + modify treatment of 2-character aliases at the beginning of termcap
598 entries so they are not counted in use-resolution, since these are
599 guaranteed to be unique. Also ignore these aliases when reporting
600 the primary name of the entry (cf: 20040501)
601 + double-check gn (generic) flag in terminal descriptions to
602 accommodate old/buggy termcap databases which misused that feature.
603 + minor fixes to _nc_tgetent(), ensure buffer is initialized even on
607 + improve rpath fix from 20110730 by ensuring that the new $RPATH_LIST
608 variable is defined in the makefiles which use it.
609 + build-fix for DragonFlyBSD's pkgsrc in test/configure script.
610 + build-fixes for NetBSD 5.1 with termcap support enabled.
611 + corrected k9 in dg460-ansi, add other features based on manuals -TD
612 + improve trimming of whitespace at the end of terminfo/termcap output
614 + when writing termcap source, ensure that colons in the description
615 field are translated to a non-delimiter, i.e., "=".
616 + add "-0" option to tic/infocmp, to make the termcap/terminfo source
618 + add a null-pointer check when handling the $CC variable.
621 + modify configure script and makefiles in c++ and progs to allow the
622 directory used for rpath option to be overridden, e.g., to work
623 around updates to the variables used by tic during an install.
624 + add -K option to tic/infocmp, to provide stricter BSD-compatibility
626 + add _nc_strict_bsd variable in tic library which controls the
627 "strict" BSD termcap compatibility from 20110723, plus these
629 + allow escapes such as "\8" and "\9" when reading termcap
630 + disallow "\a", "\e", "\l", "\s" and "\:" escapes when reading
631 termcap files, passing through "a", "e", etc.
632 + expand "\:" as "\072" on output.
633 + modify _nc_get_token() to reset the token's string value in case
634 there is a string-typed token lacking the "=" marker.
635 + fix a few memory leaks in _nc_tgetent.
636 + fix a few places where reading from a termcap file could refer to
638 + add an overflow check when converting terminfo/termcap numeric
639 values, since terminfo stores those in a short, and they must be
641 + correct internal variables used for translating to termcap "%>"
642 feature, and translating from termcap %B to terminfo, needed by
643 tctest (cf: 19991211).
644 + amend a minor fix to acsc when loading a termcap file to separate it
645 from warnings needed for tic (cf: 20040710)
646 + modify logic in _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_tic_entry() to allow
647 a termcap file to be handled via TERMINFO_DIRS.
648 + modify _nc_infotocap() to include non-mandatory padding when
649 translating to termcap.
650 + modify _nc_read_termcap_entry(), passing a flag in the case where
651 getcap is used, to reduce interactive warning messages.
654 + add a check in start_color() to limit color-pairs to 256 when
655 extended colors are not supported (patch by David Benjamin).
656 + modify setcchar to omit no-longer-needed OR'ing of color pair in
657 the SetAttr() macro (patch by David Benjamin).
658 + add kich1 to sun terminfo entry (Yuri Pankov)
659 + use bold rather than reverse for smso in sun-color terminfo entry
661 + improve generation of termcap using tic/infocmp -C option, e.g.,
662 to correspond with 4.2BSD (prompted by discussion with Yuri Pankov
663 regarding Schilling's test program):
664 + translate %02 and %03 to %2 and %3 respectively.
665 + suppress string capabilities which use %s, not supported by tgoto
666 + use \040 rather than \s
667 + expand null characters as \200 rather than \0
668 + modify configure script to support shared libraries for DragonFlyBSD.
671 + replace an assert() in _nc_Free_Argument() with a regular null
672 pointer check (report/analysis by Franjo Ivancic).
673 + modify configure --enable-pc-files option to take into account the
674 PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
675 + add/use xterm+tmux chunk from xterm #271 -TD
676 + resync xterm-new entry from xterm #271 -TD
677 + add E3 extended capability to linux-basic (Miroslav Lichvar)
678 + add linux2.2, linux2.6, linux3.0 entries to give context for E3 -TD
679 + add SI/SO change to linux2.6 entry (Debian #515609) -TD
680 + fix inconsistent tabset path in pcmw (Todd C. Miller).
681 + remove a backslash which continued comment, obscuring altos3
682 definition with OpenBSD toolset (Nicholas Marriott).
685 + add workaround from xterm #271 changes to ensure that compiler flags
686 are not used in the $CC variable.
687 + improve support for shared libraries, tested with AIX 5.3, 6.1 and
688 7.1 with both gcc 4.2.4 and cc.
689 + modify configure checks for AIX to include release 7.x
690 + add loader flags/libraries to libtool options so that dynamic loading
691 works properly, adapted from ncurses-5.7-ldflags-with-libtool.patch
692 at gentoo prefix repository (patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
695 + move include of nc_termios.h out of term_entry.h, since the latter
696 is installed, e.g., for tack while the former is not (report by
700 + improve cleanup() function in lib_tstp.c, using _exit() rather than
701 exit() and checking for SIGTERM rather than SIGQUIT (prompted by
702 comments forwarded by Nicholas Marriott).
703 + reduce name pollution from term.h, moving fallback #define's for
704 tcgetattr(), etc., to new private header nc_termios.h (report by
706 + two minor fixes for tracing (patch by Vassili Courzakis).
707 + improve trace initialization by starting it in use_env() and
709 + review old email, add details for some changelog entries.
712 + update minix entry to minix 3.2 (Thomas Cort).
713 + fix a strict compiler warning in change to wattr_get (cf: 20110528).
716 + fixes for MirBSD port:
717 + set default prefix to /usr.
718 + add support for shared libraries in configure script.
719 + use S_ISREG and S_ISDIR consistently, with fallback definitions.
720 + add a few more checks based on ncurses/link_test.
721 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle sp-funcs renaming of NCURSES_OUTC type.
724 + add case to CF_SHARED_OPTS for Interix (patch by Markus Duft).
725 + used ncurses/link_test to check for behavior when the terminal has
726 not been initialized and when an application passes null pointers
727 to the library. Added checks to cover this (prompted by Redhat
729 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to make its main() function call each function
730 with zero parameters, to help find inconsistent checking for null
734 + fix warnings from clang 2.7 "--analyze"
737 + compiler-warning fixes in panel and progs.
738 + modify CF_PKG_CONFIG macro, from changes to tin -TD
739 + modify CF_CURSES_FUNCS configure macro, used in test directory
741 + work around (non-optimizer) bug in gcc 4.2.1 which caused
742 test-expression to be omitted from executable.
743 + force the linker to see a link-time expression of a symbol, to
744 help work around weak-symbol issues.
747 + update discussion of MKfallback.sh script in INSTALL; normally the
748 script is used automatically via the configured makefiles. However
749 there are still occasions when it might be used directly by packagers
750 (report by Gunter Schaffler).
751 + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to omit the "-L" option from the
752 "--libs" output if the library directory is /usr/lib.
753 + change order of tests for curses.h versus ncurses.h headers in the
754 configure scripts for Ada95 and test-directories, to look for
755 ncurses.h, from fixes to tin -TD
756 + modify ncurses/tinfo/access.c to account for Tandem's root uid
757 (report by Joachim Schmitz).
760 + modify rules in Ada95/src/Makefile.in to ensure that the PIC option
761 is not used when building a static library (report by Nicolas
763 + Ada95 build-fix for big-endian architectures such as sparc. This
764 undoes one of the fixes from 20110319, which added an "Unused" member
765 to representation clauses, replacing that with pragmas to suppress
766 warnings about unused bits (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez):
769 + add check in test/configure for use_window, use_screen.
770 + add configure-checks for getopt's variables, which may be declared
771 as different types on some Unix systems.
772 + add check in test/configure for some legacy curses types of the
773 function pointer passed to tputs().
774 + modify init_pair() to accept -1's for color value after
775 assume_default_colors() has been called (Debian #337095).
776 + modify test/background.c, adding commmand-line options to demonstrate
777 assume_default_colors() and use_default_colors().
780 + modify configure script/source-code to only define _POSIX_SOURCE if
781 the checks for sigaction and/or termios fail, and if _POSIX_C_SOURCE
782 and _XOPEN_SOURCE are undefined (report by Valentin Ochs).
783 + update config.guess, config.sub
786 + fixes to build c++ binding with clang 3.0 (patch by Alexander
788 + add check for unctrl.h in test/configure, to work around breakage in
789 some ncurses packages.
790 + add "--disable-widec" option to test/configure script.
791 + add "--with-curses-colr" and "--with-curses-5lib" options to the
792 test/configure script to address testing with very old machines.
794 20110404 5.9 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
797 + various build-fixes for the rpm/dpkg scripts.
798 + add "--enable-rpath-link" option to Ada95/configure, to allow
799 packages to suppress the rpath feature which is normally used for
800 the in-tree build of sample programs.
801 + corrected definition of libdir variable in Ada95/src/Makefile.in,
802 needed for rpm script.
803 + add "--with-shared" option to Ada95/configure script, to allow
804 making the C-language parts of the binding use appropriate compiler
805 options if building a shared library with gnat.
808 > portability fixes for Ada95 binding:
809 + add configure check to ensure that SIGINT works with gnat. This is
810 needed for the "rain" sample program. If SIGINT does not work, omit
812 + correct typo in check of $PKG_CONFIG variable in Ada95/configure
813 + add ncurses_compat.c, to supply functions used in the Ada95 binding
814 which were added in 5.7 and later.
815 + modify sed expression in CF_NCURSES_ADDON to eliminate a dependency
819 + add special check in Ada95/configure script for ncurses6 reentrant
821 + regen Ada html documentation.
822 + build-fix for Ada shared libraries versus the varargs workaround.
823 + add rpm and dpkg scripts for Ada95 and test directories, for test
825 + update test/configure macros CF_CURSES_LIBS, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and
827 + add configure check to determine if gnat's project feature supports
828 libraries, i.e., collections of .ali files.
829 + make all dereferences in Ada95 samples explicit.
830 + fix typo in comment in lib_add_wch.c (patch by Petr Pavlu).
831 + add configure check for, ifdef's for math.h which is in a separate
832 package on Solaris and potentially not installed (report by Petr
834 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
835 + improve type-checking in Ada95 by eliminating a few warning-suppress
837 + suppress unreferenced warnings.
838 + make all dereferences in binding explicit.
841 + regen Ada html documentation.
842 + change order of -I options from ncurses*-config script when the
843 --disable-overwrite option was used, so that the subdirectory include
845 + modify the make-tar.sh scripts to add a MANIFEST and NEWS file.
846 + modify configure script to provide value for HTML_DIR in
847 Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, which depends on whether the Ada95 binding is
848 distributed separately (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
849 + modify configure script to add "-g" and/or "-O3" to ADAFLAGS if the
850 CFLAGS for the build has these options.
851 + amend change from 20070324, to not add 1 to the result of getmaxx
852 and getmaxy in the Ada binding (report by Nicolas Boulenguez for
853 thread in comp.lang.ada).
854 + build-fix Ada95/samples for gnat 4.5
855 + spelling fixes for Ada95/samples/explain.txt
856 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
857 + add item in Trace_Attribute_Set corresponding to TRACE_ATTRS.
858 + add workaround for binding to set_field_type(), which uses varargs.
859 The original binding from 990220 relied on the prevalent
860 implementation of varargs which did not support or need va_copy().
861 + add dependency on gen/Makefile.in needed for *-panels.ads
862 + add Library_Options to library.gpr
863 + add Languages to library.gpr, for gprbuild
866 + revert changes to limit-checks from 20110122 (Debian #616711).
867 > minor type-cleanup of Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
868 + corrected a minor sign error in a field of Low_Level_Field_Type, to
870 + replaced C_Int by Curses_Bool as return type for some callbacks, see
872 + modify samples/sample-explain.adb to provide explicit message when
873 explain.txt is not found.
876 + improve makefiles for Ada95 tree (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
877 + fix an off-by-one error in _nc_slk_initialize() from 20100605 fixes
878 for compiler warnings (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
879 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to declare unused bits in generated layouts,
880 needed to compile when chtype is 64-bits using gnat 4.4.5
882 20110226 5.8 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
885 + update release notes, for 5.8.
886 + regenerated html manpages.
887 + change open() in _nc_read_file_entry() to fopen() for consistency
889 + modify misc/run_tic.in to create parent directory, in case this is
890 a new install of hashed database.
891 + fix typo in Ada95/mk-1st.awk which causes error with original awk.
894 + configure script rpath fixes from xterm #269.
895 + workaround for cygwin's non-functional features.h, to force ncurses'
896 configure script to define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED when building
897 wide-character configuration.
898 + build-fix in run_tic.sh for OS/2 EMX install
899 + add cons25-debian entry (patch by Brian M Carlson, Debian #607662).
902 + regenerated html manpages.
903 + use _tracef() in show_where() function of tic, to work correctly with
904 special case of trace configuration.
907 + add xterm-utf8 entry as a demo of the U8 feature -TD
908 + add U8 feature to denote entries for terminal emulators which do not
909 support VT100 SI/SO when processing UTF-8 encoding -TD
910 + improve the NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS feature by adding a check for an
911 extended terminfo capability U8 (prompted by mailing list
915 + start documenting interface changes for upcoming 5.8 release.
916 + correct limit-checks in derwin().
917 + correct limit-checks in newwin(), to ensure that windows have nonzero
918 size (report by Garrett Cooper).
919 + fix a missing "weak" declaration for pthread_kill (patch by Nicholas
921 + improve documentation of KEY_ENTER in curs_getch.3x manpage (prompted
922 by discussion with Kevin Martin).
925 + modify Ada95/configure script to make the --with-curses-dir option
926 work without requiring the --with-ncurses option.
927 + modify test programs to allow them to be built with NetBSD curses.
928 + document thick- and double-line symbols in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
929 + document WACS_xxx constants in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
930 + fix some warnings for clang 2.6 "--analyze"
931 + modify Ada95 makefiles to make html-documentation with the project
932 file configuration if that is used.
933 + update config.guess, config.sub
936 + regenerated html manpages.
937 + minor fixes to enable lint when trace is not enabled, e.g., with
939 + fix typo in man/default_colors.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
940 + update ncurses/llib-lncurses*
943 + fix remaining strict compiler warnings in ncurses library ABI=5,
944 except those dealing with function pointers, etc.
947 + modify nc_tparm.h, adding guards against repeated inclusion, and
948 allowing TPARM_ARG to be overridden.
949 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
952 + suppress ncv in screen entry, allowing underline (patch by Alejandro
954 + also suppress ncv in konsole-base -TD
955 + fixes in wins_nwstr() and related functions to ensure that special
956 characters, i.e., control characters are handled properly with the
957 wide-character configuration.
958 + correct a comparison in wins_nwstr() (Redhat #661506).
959 + correct help-messages in some of the test-programs, which still
960 referred to quitting with 'q'.
963 + add special case to _nc_infotocap() to recognize the setaf/setab
964 strings from xterm+256color and xterm+88color, and provide a reduced
965 version which works with termcap.
966 + remove obsolete emacs "Local Variables" section from documentation
967 (request by Sven Joachim).
968 + update doc/html/index.html to include NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html
969 (report by Sven Joachim).
972 + modify test/configure and test/Makefile.in to handle this special
973 case of building within a build-tree (Debian #34182):
974 mkdir -p build && cd build && ../test/configure && make
977 + miscellaneous build-fixes for Ada95 and test-directories when built
979 + use VPATH in makefiles to simplify out-of-tree builds (Debian #34182).
980 + fix typo in rmso for tek4106 entry -Goran Weinholt
983 + improve checks in test/configure for X libraries, from xterm #267
985 + modify test/configure to allow it to use the build-tree's libraries
986 e.g., when using that to configure the test-programs without the
987 rpath feature (request by Sven Joachim).
988 + repurpose "gnome" terminfo entries as "vte", retaining "gnome" items
989 for compatibility, but generally deprecating those since the VTE
990 library is what actually defines the behavior of "gnome", etc.,
994 + compiler warning fixes for test programs.
995 + various build-fixes for test-programs with pdcurses.
996 + updated configure checks for X packages in test/configure from xterm
998 + add configure check to gnatmake, to accommodate cygwin.
1001 + correct list of sub-directories needed in Ada95 tree for building as
1003 + modify scripts in test-directory to improve builds as a separate
1007 + correct parsing of relative tab-stops in tabs program (report by
1009 + adjust configure script so that "t" is not added to library suffix
1010 when weak-symbols are used, allowing the pthread configuration to
1011 more closely match the non-thread naming (report by Werner Fink).
1012 + modify configure check for tic program, used for fallbacks, to a
1013 warning if not found. This makes it simpler to use additonal
1014 scripts to bootstrap the fallbacks code using tic from the build
1015 tree (report by Werner Fink).
1016 + fix several places in configure script using ${variable-value} form.
1017 + modify configure macro CF_LDFLAGS_STATIC to accommodate some loaders
1018 which do not support selectively linking against static libraries
1019 (report by John P. Hartmann)
1020 + fix an unescaped dash in man/tset.1 (report by Sven Joachim).
1023 + correct comparison used for setting 16-colors in linux-16color
1024 entry (Novell #644831) -TD
1025 + improve linux-16color entry, using "dim" for color-8 which makes it
1026 gray rather than black like color-0 -TD
1027 + drop misc/ncu-indent and misc/jpf-indent; they are provided by an
1028 external package "cindent".
1031 + improve linkages in html manpages, adding references to the newer
1032 pages, e.g., *_variables, curs_sp_funcs, curs_threads.
1033 + add checks in tic for inconsistent cursor-movement controls, and for
1034 inconsistent printer-controls.
1035 + fill in no-parameter forms of cursor-movement where a parameterized
1036 form is available -TD
1037 + fill in missing cursor controls where the form of the controls is
1039 + fix inconsistent punctuation in form_variables manpage (patch by
1041 + add parameterized cursor-controls to linux-basic (report by Dae) -TD
1042 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
1043 + document how to build 32-bit libraries in README.MinGW
1044 + fixes to filename computation in mk-dlls.sh.in
1045 + use POSIX locale in mk-dlls.sh.in rather than en_US (report by Sven
1047 + add a check in mk-dlls.sh.in to obtain the size of a pointer to
1048 distinguish between 32-bit and 64-bit hosts. The result is stored
1052 + add "XT" capability to entries for terminals that support both
1053 xterm-style mouse- and title-controls, for "screen" which
1054 special-cases TERM beginning with "xterm" or "rxvt" -TD
1055 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
1056 + use 64-Bit MinGW toolchain (recommended package from TDM, see
1058 + support pthreads when using the TDM MinGW toolchain
1061 + regenerated html manpages.
1062 + minor fixes for symlinks to curs_legacy.3x and curs_slk.3x manpages.
1063 + add manpage for sp-funcs.
1064 + add sp-funcs to test/listused.sh, for documentation aids.
1067 + add manpages for summarizing public variables of curses-, terminfo-
1069 + minor fixes to manpages for consistency (patch by Jason McIntyre).
1070 + modify tic's -I/-C dump to reformat acsc strings into canonical form
1071 (sorted, unique mapping) (cf: 971004).
1072 + add configure check for pthread_kill(), needed for some old
1076 + add configure option --without-tests, to suppress building test
1077 programs (request by Frederic L W Meunier).
1080 + modify nsterm, xnuppc and tek4115 to make sgr/sgr0 consistent -TD
1081 + add check in terminfo source-reader to provide more informative
1082 message when someone attempts to run tic on a compiled terminal
1083 description (prompted by Debian #593920).
1084 + note in infotocap and captoinfo manpages that they read terminal
1085 descriptions from text-files (Debian #593920).
1086 + improve acsc string for vt52, show arrow keys (patch by Benjamin
1090 + document in manpages that "mv" functions first use wmove() to check
1091 the window pointer and whether the position lies within the window
1092 (suggested by Poul-Henning Kamp).
1093 + fixes to curs_color.3x, curs_kernel.3x and wresize.3x manpages (patch
1094 by Tim van der Molen).
1095 + modify configure script to transform library names for tic- and
1096 tinfo-libraries so that those build properly with Mac OS X shared
1097 library configuration.
1098 + modify configure script to ensure that it removes conftest.dSYM
1099 directory leftover on checks with Mac OS X.
1100 + modify configure script to cleanup after check for symbolic links.
1103 + correct a typo in mk-1st.awk (patch by Gabriele Balducci)
1105 + improve configure checks for location of tic and infocmp programs
1106 used for installing database and for generating fallback data,
1107 e.g., for cross-compiling.
1108 + add Markus Kuhn's wcwidth function for compiling MinGW
1109 + add special case to CF_REGEX for cross-compiling to MinGW target.
1112 + modify initialization check for win32con driver to eliminate need for
1113 special case for TERM "unknown", using terminal database if available
1114 (prompted by discussion with Roumen Petrov).
1115 + for MinGW port, ensure that terminal driver is setup if tgetent()
1116 is called (patch by Roumen Petrov).
1117 + document tabs "-0" and "-8" options in manpage.
1118 + fix Debian "lintian" issues with manpages reported in
1119 http://lintian.debian.org/full/csmall@debian.org.html#ncurses
1122 + add a check in tic for missing set_tab if clear_all_tabs given.
1123 + improve use of symbolic links in makefiles by using "-f" option if
1124 it is supported, to eliminate temporary removal of the target
1125 (prompted by http://www.t2-project.org/packages/ncurses.html)
1126 + minor improvement to test/ncurses.c, reset color pairs in 'd' test
1127 after exit from 'm' main-menu command.
1128 + improved ncu-indent, from mawk changes, allows more than one of
1129 GCC_NORETURN, GCC_PRINTFLIKE and GCC_SCANFLIKE on a single line.
1132 + add hard-reset for rs2 to wsvt25 to help ensure that reset ends
1133 the alternate character set (patch by Nicholas Marriott)
1134 + remove tar-copy.sh and related configure/Makefile chunks, since the
1135 Ada95 binding is now installed using rules in Ada95/src.
1138 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
1139 + add/use configure check to turn on project rules for Ada95/src.
1140 + revert the vfork change from 20100130, since it does not work.
1143 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
1144 + old gnatmake (3.15) does not produce libraries using project-file;
1145 work around by adding script to generate alternate makefile.
1148 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
1149 + add configure --with-ada-sharedlib option, for the test_make rule.
1150 + move Ada95-related logic into aclocal.m4, since additional checks
1151 will be needed to distinguish old/new implementations of gnat.
1154 + start integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95 tree
1155 + add test_make / test_clean / test_install rules in Ada95/src
1156 + change install-path for adainclude directory to /usr/share/ada (was
1158 + update Ada95/configure.
1159 + add mlterm+256color entry, for mlterm 3.0.0 -TD
1160 + modify test/configure to use macros to ensure consistent order
1161 of updating LIBS variable.
1164 + change search order of options for Solaris in CF_SHARED_OPTS, to
1165 work with 64-bit compiles.
1166 + correct quoting of assignment in CF_SHARED_OPTS case for aix
1170 + regenerated html documentation.
1171 + modify test/configure to support pkg-config for checking X libraries
1173 + add/use configure macro CF_ADD_LIB to force consistency of
1174 assignments to $LIBS, etc.
1175 + fix configure script for combining --with-pthread
1176 and --enable-weak-symbols options.
1179 + correct cross-compiling configure check for CF_MKSTEMP macro, by
1180 adding a check cache variable set by AC_CHECK_FUNC (report by
1182 + simplify include-dependencies of make_hash and make_keys, to reduce
1183 the need for setting BUILD_CPPFLAGS in cross-compiling when the
1184 build- and target-machines differ.
1185 + repair broken-linker configuration by restoring a definition of SP
1186 variable to curses.priv.h, and adjusting for cases where sp-funcs
1188 + improve configure macro CF_AR_FLAGS, allowing ARFLAGS environment
1189 variable to override (prompted by report by Pablo Cazallas).
1192 + add configure option --enable-pthreads-eintr to control whether the
1193 new EINTR feature is enabled.
1194 + modify logic in pthread configuration to allow EINTR to interrupt
1195 a read operation in wgetch() (Novell #540571, patch by Werner Fink).
1196 + drop mkdirs.sh, use "mkdir -p".
1197 + add configure option --disable-libtool-version, to use the
1198 "-version-number" feature which was added in libtool 1.5 (report by
1199 Peter Haering). The default value for the option uses the newer
1200 feature, which makes libraries generated using libtool compatible
1201 with the standard builds of ncurses.
1202 + updated test/configure to match configure script macros.
1203 + fixes for configure script from lynx changes:
1204 + improve CF_FIND_LINKAGE logic for the case where a function is
1205 found in predefined libraries.
1206 + revert part of change to CF_HEADER (cf: 20100424)
1209 + correct limit-check in wredrawln, accounting for begy/begx values
1210 (patch by David Benjamin).
1211 + fix most compiler warnings from clang.
1212 + amend build-fix for OpenSolaris, to ensure that a system header is
1213 included in curses.h before testing feature symbols, since they
1214 may be defined by that route.
1217 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
1218 + modify configure macro CF_HEADER_PATH to not look for variations in
1219 the predefined include directories.
1220 + improve configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GCC_WARNINGS to work
1221 with gcc 4.x's c89 alias, which gives warning messages for cases
1222 where older versions would produce an error.
1225 + modify _nc_capcmp() to work with cancelled strings.
1226 + correct translation of "^" in _nc_infotocap(), used to transform
1227 terminfo to termcap strings
1228 + add configure --disable-rpath-hack, to allow disabling the feature
1229 which adds rpath options for libraries in unusual places.
1230 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by checking if the rpath option for a given
1231 directory was already added.
1232 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by using ldd to provide a standard list of
1233 directories (which will be ignored).
1236 + improve win_driver.c handling of mouse:
1237 + discard motion events
1238 + avoid calling _nc_timed_wait when there is a mouse event
1239 + handle 4th and "rightmost" buttons.
1240 + quote substitutions in CF_RPATH_HACK_2 configure macro, needed for
1241 cases where there are embedded blanks in the rpath option.
1244 + add configure check for exctags vs ctags, to work around pkgsrc.
1245 + simplify logic in _nc_get_screensize() to make it easier to see how
1246 environment variables may override system- and terminfo-values
1247 (prompted by discussion with Igor Bujna).
1248 + make debug-traces for COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER less verbose.
1249 + improve handling of color-pairs embedded in attributes for the
1250 extended-colors configuration.
1251 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to build link_test with sp-funcs.
1252 + build-fixes for OpenSolaris aka Solaris 11, for wide-character
1253 configuration as well as for rpath feature in *-config scripts.
1256 + refactor CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro, making CF_RPATH_HACK more
1258 + improve configure CF_REGEX, similar fixes.
1259 + improve configure CF_FIND_LINKAGE, adding add check between system
1260 (default) and explicit paths, where we can find the entrypoint in the
1262 + add check if Gpm_Open() returns a -2, e.g., for "xterm". This is
1263 normally suppressed but can be overridden using $NCURSES_GPM_TERMS.
1264 Ensure that Gpm_Close() is called in this case.
1267 + rename atari and st52 terminfo entries to atari-old, st52-old, use
1268 newer entries from FreeMiNT by Guido Flohr (from patch/report by Alan
1272 + modify install-rule for manpages so that *-config manpages will
1273 install when building with --srcdir (report by Sven Joachim).
1274 + modify CF_DISABLE_LEAKS configure macro so that the --enable-leaks
1275 option is not the same as --disable-leaks (GenToo #305889).
1276 + modify #define's for build-compiler to suppress cchar_t symbol from
1277 compile of make_hash and make_keys, improving cross-compilation of
1278 ncursesw (report by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
1279 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to replace all occurrences of
1280 TPUT in tput.1's manpage (Debian #573597, report/analysis by Anders
1284 + generate manpages for the *-config scripts, adapted from help2man
1285 (suggested by Sven Joachim).
1286 + use va_copy() in _nc_printf_string() to avoid conflicting use of
1287 va_list value in _nc_printf_length() (report by Wim Lewis).
1290 + add Ada95/configure script, to use in tar-file created by
1292 + fix typo in wresize.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
1293 + modify screen-bce.XXX entries to exclude ech, since screen's color
1294 model does not clear with color for that feature -TD
1297 + add make-tar.sh scripts to Ada95 and test subdirectories to help with
1298 making those separately distributable.
1299 + build-fix for static libraries without dlsym (Debian #556378).
1300 + fix a syntax error in man/form_field_opts.3x (patch by Ingo
1304 + add several screen-bce.XXX entries -TD
1307 + update mrxvt terminfo entry -TD
1308 + modify win_driver.c to support mouse single-clicks.
1309 + correct name for termlib in ncurses*-config, e.g., if it is renamed
1310 to provide a single file for ncurses/ncursesw libraries (patch by
1314 + use vfork in test/ditto.c if available (request by Mike Frysinger).
1315 + miscellaneous cleanup of manpages.
1316 + fix typo in curs_bkgd.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
1317 + build-fix for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
1320 + for term-driver configuration, ensure that the driver pointer is
1321 initialized in setupterm so that terminfo/termcap programs work.
1322 + amend fix for Debian #542031 to ensure that wattrset() returns only
1323 OK or ERR, rather than the attribute value (report by Miroslav
1325 + reorder WINDOWLIST to put WINDOW data after SCREEN pointer, making
1326 _nc_screen_of() compatible between normal/wide libraries again (patch
1327 by Miroslav Lichvar)
1328 + review/fix include-dependencies in modules files (report by Miroslav
1332 + modify win_driver.c to initialize acs_map for win32 console, so
1333 that line-drawing works.
1334 + modify win_driver.c to initialize TERMINAL struct so that programs
1335 such as test/lrtest.c and test/ncurses.c which test string
1336 capabilities can run.
1337 + modify term-driver modules to eliminate forward-reference
1341 + modify configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., to use CF_ADD_CFLAGS
1342 consistently to add new -D's while removing duplicates.
1343 + modify a few configure macros to consistently put new options
1344 before older in the list.
1345 + add tiparm(), based on review of X/Open Curses Issue 7.
1346 + minor documentation cleanup.
1347 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1348 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
1349 (caveat - its maintainer put 2010 copyright date on files dated 2009)
1352 + minor improvement to tic's checking of similar SGR's to allow for the
1353 most common case of SGR 0.
1354 + modify getmouse() to act as its documentation implied, returning on
1355 each call the preceding event until none are left. When no more
1356 events remain, it will return ERR.
1359 + change order of lookup in progs/tput.c, looking for terminfo data
1360 first. This fixes a confusion between termcap "sg" and terminfo
1361 "sgr" or "sgr0", originally from 990123 changes, but exposed by
1362 20091114 fixes for hashing. With this change, only "dl" and "ed" are
1363 ambiguous (Mandriva #56272).
1366 + add bterm terminfo entry, based on bogl 0.1.18 -TD
1367 + minor fix to rxvt+pcfkeys terminfo entry -TD
1368 + build-fixes for Ada95 tree for gnat 4.4 "style".
1371 + remove old check in mvderwin() which prevented moving a derived
1372 window whose origin happened to coincide with its parent's origin
1373 (report by Katarina Machalkova).
1374 + improve test/ncurses.c to put mouse droppings in the proper window.
1375 + update minix terminfo entry -TD
1376 + add bw (auto-left-margin) to nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler)
1379 + correct transfer of multicolumn characters in multirow
1380 field_buffer(), which stopped at the end of the first row due to
1381 filling of unused entries in a cchar_t array with nulls.
1382 + updated nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler, Emanuele Giaquinta)
1383 + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to show wide-character
1385 + use strdup() in set_menu_mark(), restore .marklen struct member on
1387 + eliminate clause 3 from the UCB copyrights in read_termcap.c and
1389 ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change
1390 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
1391 + replace a malloc in tic.c with strdup, checking for failure (patch by
1393 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1394 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
1397 + correct layout of working window used to extract data in
1398 wide-character configured by set_field_buffer (patch by Rafael
1400 + improve some limit-checks related to filename length in reading and
1401 writing terminfo entries.
1402 + ensure that filename is always filled in when attempting to read
1403 a terminfo entry, so that infocmp can report the filename (patch
1404 by Nicholas Marriott).
1407 + modify mk-1st.awk to allow tinfo library to be built when term-driver
1409 + add error-check to configure script to ensure that sp-funcs is
1410 enabled if term-driver is, since some internal interfaces rely upon
1414 + fix case where progs/tput is used while sp-funcs is configure; this
1415 requires save/restore of out-character function from _nc_prescreen
1416 rather than the SCREEN structure (report by Charles Wilson).
1417 + fix typo in man/curs_trace.3x which caused incorrect symbolic links
1418 + improved configure macros CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES, CF_PROG_LINT.
1422 + updated man/curs_trace.3x
1423 + limit hashing for termcap-names to 2-characters (Ubuntu #481740).
1424 + change a variable name in lib_newwin.c to make it clearer which
1425 value is being freed on error (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
1428 + improve test/ncurses.c color-cycling test by reusing attribute-
1429 and color-cycling logic from the video-attributes screen.
1430 + add ifdef'd with NCURSES_INTEROP_FUNCS experimental bindings in form
1431 library which help make it compatible with interop applications
1432 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
1433 + add configure option --enable-interop, for integrating changes
1434 for generic/interop support to form-library by Juergen Pfeifer
1437 + modify use of $CC environment variable which is defined by X/Open
1438 as a curses feature, to ignore it if it is not a single character
1439 (prompted by discussion with Benjamin C W Sittler).
1440 + add START_TRACE in slk_init
1441 + fix a regression in _nc_ripoffline which made test/ncurses.c not show
1442 soft-keys, broken in 20090927 merging.
1443 + change initialization of "hidden" flag for soft-keys from true to
1444 false, broken in 20090704 merging (Ubuntu #464274).
1445 + update nsterm entries (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler, prompted by
1446 discussion with Fabian Groffen in GenToo #206201).
1447 + add test/xterm-256color.dat
1450 + quiet some pedantic gcc warnings.
1451 + modify _nc_wgetch() to check for a -1 in the fifo, e.g., after a
1452 SIGWINCH, and discard that value, to avoid confusing application
1453 (patch by Eygene Ryabinkin, FreeBSD bin/136223).
1456 + modify handling of $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR to use only the first item in
1457 a possibly colon-separated list (Debian #550716).
1460 + supply a null-terminator to buffer in _nc_viswibuf().
1461 + fix a sign-extension bug in unget_wch() (report by Mike Gran).
1462 + minor fixes to error-returns in default function for tputs, as well
1466 + add WACS_xxx definitions to wide-character configuration for thick-
1467 and double-lines (discussion with Slava Zanko).
1468 + remove unnecessary kcan assignment to ^C from putty (Sven Joachim)
1469 + add ccc and initc capabilities to xterm-16color -TD
1470 > patch by Benjamin C W Sittler:
1472 + correct initc capability of linux-c-nc end-of-range
1473 + similar change for dg+ccc and dgunix+ccc
1476 + move leak-checking for comp_captab.c into _nc_leaks_tinfo() since
1477 that module since 20090711 is in libtinfo.
1478 + add configure option --enable-term-driver, to allow compiling with
1479 terminal-driver. That is used in MinGW port, and (being somewhat
1480 more complicated) is an experimental alternative to the conventional
1481 termlib internals. Currently, it requires the sp-funcs feature to
1483 + completed integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer in ncurses
1484 library (some work remains for forms library).
1487 + document return code from define_key (report by Mike Gran).
1488 + make some symbolic links in the terminfo directory-tree shorter
1489 (patch by Daniel Jacobowitz, forwarded by Sven Joachim).).
1490 + fix some groff warnings in terminfo.5, etc., from recent Debian
1492 + change ncv and op capabilities in sun-color terminfo entry to match
1493 Sun's entry for this (report by Laszlo Peter).
1494 + improve interix smso terminfo capability by using reverse rather than
1495 bold (report by Kristof Zelechovski).
1498 + add some test programs (and make these use the same special keys
1499 by sharing linedata.h functions):
1502 test/test_addchstr.c
1503 test/test_add_wchstr.c
1504 + correct internal _nc_insert_ch() to use _nc_insert_wch() when
1505 inserting wide characters, since the wins_wch() function that it used
1506 did not update the cursor position (report by Ciprian Craciun).
1509 + fix typo s/is_timeout/is_notimeout/ which made "man is_notimeout" not
1511 + add null-pointer checks to other opaque-functions.
1512 + add is_pad() and is_subwin() functions for opaque access to WINDOW
1513 (discussion with Mark Dickinson).
1514 + correct merge to lib_newterm.c, which broke when sp-funcs was
1518 + build-fix for building outside source-tree (report by Sven Joachim).
1519 + fix Debian lintian warning for man/tabs.1 by making section number
1520 agree with file-suffix (report by Sven Joachim).
1521 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1524 + workaround for bug in g++ 4.1-4.4 warnings for wattrset() macro on
1525 amd64 (Debian #542031).
1526 + fix typo in curs_mouse.3x (Debian #429198).
1529 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1532 + correct use of terminfo capabilities for initializing soft-keys,
1533 broken in 20090509 merging.
1534 + modify wgetch() to ensure it checks SIGWINCH when it gets an error
1535 in non-blocking mode (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
1536 + use PATH_SEPARATOR symbol when substituting into run_tic.sh, to
1537 help with builds on non-Unix platforms such as OS/2 EMX.
1538 + modify scripting for misc/run_tic.sh to test configure script's
1539 $cross_compiling variable directly rather than comparing host/build
1540 compiler names (prompted by comment in GenToo #249363).
1541 + fix configure script option --with-database, which was coded as an
1543 + build-fixes for --srcdir (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
1546 + separate _nc_find_entry() and _nc_find_type_entry() from
1547 implementation details of hash function.
1550 + add tabs.1 to man/man_db.renames
1551 + modify lib_addch.c to compensate for removal of wide-character test
1552 from unctrl() in 20090704 (Debian #539735).
1555 + improve discussion in INSTALL for use of system's tic/infocmp for
1556 cross-compiling and building fallbacks.
1557 + modify test/demo_termcap.c to correspond better to options in
1558 test/demo_terminfo.c
1559 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1560 + fix logic for 'V' in test/ncurses.c tests f/F.
1563 + correct logic in tigetnum(), which caused tput program to treat all
1564 string capabilities as numeric (report by Rajeev V Pillai,
1568 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1571 + fix a null-pointer check in _nc_format_slks() in lib_slk.c, from
1573 + modify _nc_find_type_entry() to use hashing.
1574 + make CCHARW_MAX value configurable, noting that changing this would
1575 change the size of cchar_t, and would be ABI-incompatible.
1576 + modify test-programs, e.g,. test/view.c, to address subtle
1577 differences between Tru64/Solaris and HPUX/AIX getcchar() return
1579 + modify length returned by getcchar() to count the trailing null
1580 which is documented in X/Open (cf: 20020427).
1581 + fixes for test programs to build/work on HPUX and AIX, etc.
1584 + improve performance of tigetstr, etc., by using hashing code from tic.
1585 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking.
1586 + add test/demo_terminfo, for comparison with demo_termcap
1589 + remove wide-character checks from unctrl() (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
1590 + revise wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to eliminate dependency on
1592 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1595 + update llib-lncurses[wt] to use sp-funcs.
1596 + various code-fixes to build/work with --disable-macros configure
1598 + add several new files from Juergen Pfeifer which will be used when
1599 integration of "sp-funcs" is complete. This includes a port to
1603 + move definition for NCURSES_WRAPPED_VAR back to ncurses_dll.h, to
1604 make includes of term.h without curses.h work (report by "Nix").
1605 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1608 + fix a regression in lib_tputs.c, from ongoing merges.
1611 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1614 + fix an infinite recursion when adding a legacy-coding 8-bit value
1615 using insch() (report by Clemens Ladisch).
1616 + free home-terminfo string in del_curterm() (patch by Dan Weber).
1617 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1620 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1623 + work around antique BSD game's manipulation of stdscr, etc., versus
1624 SCREEN's copy of the pointer (Debian #528411).
1625 + add a cast to wattrset macro to avoid compiler warning when comparing
1626 its result against ERR (adapted from patch by Matt Kraii, Debian
1630 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1633 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1634 + add vwmterm terminfo entry (patch by Bryan Christ).
1637 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1640 + build fix for _nc_free_and_exit() change in 20090418 (report by
1644 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1647 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1648 This change finishes merging for menu and panel libraries, does
1649 part of the form library.
1652 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
1653 Darwin (report by Nelson Beebe).
1656 + extend ansi.sys pfkey capability from kf1-kf10 to kf1-kf48, moving
1657 function key definitions from emx-base for consistency -TD
1658 + correct missing final 'p' in pfkey capability of ansi.sys-old (report
1659 by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo).
1660 + improve test/ncurses.c 'F' test, show combining characters in color.
1661 + quiet a false report by cppcheck in c++/cursesw.cc by eliminating
1662 a temporary variable.
1663 + use _nc_doalloc() rather than realloc() in a few places in ncurses
1664 library to avoid leak in out-of-memory condition (reports by William
1665 Egert and Martin Ettl based on cppcheck tool).
1666 + add --with-ncurses-wrap-prefix option to test/configure (discussion
1667 with Charles Wilson).
1668 + use ncurses*-config scripts if available for test/configure.
1669 + update test/aclocal.m4 and test/configure
1670 > patches by Charles Wilson:
1671 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL configure check to allow unreleased libtool
1672 version numbers (e.g. which include alphabetic chars, as well as
1673 digits, after the final '.').
1674 + improve use of -no-undefined option for libtool by setting an
1675 intermediate variable LT_UNDEF in the configure script, and then
1676 using that in the libtool link-commands.
1677 + fix an missing use of NCURSES_PUBLIC_VAR() in tinfo/MKcodes.awk
1678 from 2009031 changes.
1679 + improve mk-1st.awk script by writing separate cases for the
1680 LIBTOOL_LINK command, depending on which library (ncurses, ticlib,
1681 termlib) is to be linked.
1682 + modify configure.in to allow broken-linker configurations, not just
1683 enable-reentrant, to set public wrap prefix.
1686 + add TICS_LIST and SHLIB_LIST to allow libtool 2.2.6 on Cygwin to
1687 build with tic and term libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
1688 + add -no-undefined option to libtool for Cygwin, MinGW, U/Win and AIX
1689 (report by Charles Wilson).
1690 + fix definition for c++/Makefile.in's SHLIB_LIST, which did not list
1691 the form, menu or panel libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
1692 + add configure option --with-wrap-prefix to allow setting the prefix
1693 for functions used to wrap global variables to something other than
1694 "_nc_" (discussion with Charles Wilson).
1697 + modify scripts to generate ncurses*-config and pc-files to add
1698 dependency for tinfo library (patch by Charles Wilson).
1699 + improve comparison of program-names when checking for linked flavors
1700 such as "reset" by ignoring the executable suffix (reports by Charles
1701 Wilson, Samuel Thibault and Cedric Bretaudeau on Cygwin mailing
1703 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
1704 Solaris 10, since gcc is confused by absence of static libc, and
1705 does not switch back to dynamic mode before finishing the libraries
1706 (reports by Joel Bertrand, Alan Pae).
1707 + minor fixes to Intel compiler warning checks in configure script.
1708 + modify _nc_leaks_tinfo() so leak-checking in test/railroad.c works.
1709 + modify set_curterm() to make broken-linker configuration work with
1710 changes from 20090228 (report by Charles Wilson).
1713 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1714 + modify declaration of cur_term when broken-linker is used, but
1715 enable-reentrant is not, to match pre-5.7 (report by Charles Wilson).
1718 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
1721 + add configure script --enable-sp-funcs to enable the new set of
1723 + start integrating patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
1724 + add extended functions which specify the SCREEN pointer for several
1725 curses functions which use the global SP (these are incomplete;
1726 some internals work is needed to complete these).
1727 + add special cases to configure script for MinGW port.
1730 + update several configure macros from lynx changes
1731 + append (not prepend) to CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS
1732 + change variable from PATHSEP to PATH_SEPARATOR
1733 + improve install-rules for pc-files (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
1734 + make it work with $DESTDIR
1735 + create the pkg-config library directory if needed.
1738 + modify init_pair() to allow caller to create extra color pairs beyond
1739 the color_pairs limit, which use default colors (request by Emanuele
1741 + add misc/terminfo.tmp and misc/*.pc to "sources" rule.
1742 + fix typo "==" where "=" is needed in ncurses-config.in and
1743 gen-pkgconfig.in files (Debian #512161).
1746 + add -shared option to MK_SHARED_LIB when -Bsharable is used, for
1747 *BSD's, without which "main" might be one of the shared library's
1748 dependencies (report/analysis by Ken Dickey).
1749 + modify waddch_literal(), updating line-pointer after a multicolumn
1750 character is found to not fit on the current row, and wrapping is
1751 done. Since the line-pointer was not updated, the wrapped
1752 multicolumn character was written to the beginning of the current row
1753 (cf: 20041023, reported by "Nick" regarding problem with ncmpc
1754 http://musicpd.org/mantis/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1930).
1757 + add screen.Eterm terminfo entry (GenToo #124887) -TD
1758 + modify adacurses-config to look for ".ali" files in the adalib
1760 + correct install for Ada95, which omitted libAdaCurses.a used in
1762 + change install for adacurses-config to provide additional flavors
1763 such as adacursesw-config, for ncursesw (GenToo #167849).
1766 + remove undeveloped feature in ncurses-config.in for setting
1768 + recent change to ncurses-config.in did not take into account the
1769 --disable-overwrite option, which sets $includedir to the
1770 subdirectory and using just that for a -I option does not work - fix
1771 (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
1774 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to eliminate a dependency on rpath when
1775 deciding whether to add $LIBS to --libs output; that should be shown
1776 for the ncurses and tinfo libraries without taking rpath into
1778 + fix an overlooked change from $AR_OPTS to $ARFLAGS in mk-1st.awk,
1779 used in static libraries (report by Marty Jack).
1782 + add a configure-time check to pick a suitable value for
1783 CC_SHARED_OPTS for Solaris (report by Dagobert Michelsen).
1784 + add configure --with-pkg-config and --enable-pc-files options, along
1785 with misc/gen-pkgconfig.in which can be used to generate ".pc" files
1786 for pkg-config (request by Jan Engelhardt).
1787 + use $includedir symbol in misc/ncurses-config.in, add --includedir
1789 + change makefiles to use $ARFLAGS rather than $AR_OPTS, provide a
1790 configure check to detect whether a "-" is needed before "ar"
1792 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1793 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
1796 + modify mk-1st.awk to work with extra categories for tinfo library.
1797 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries with gcc
1798 on AIX 5 or 6 (adapted from patch by Lital Natan).
1801 + modify to omit the opaque-functions from lib_gen.o when
1802 --disable-ext-funcs is used.
1803 + add test/clip_printw.c to illustrate how to use printw without
1805 + modify ncurses 'F' test to demo wborder_set() with colored lines.
1806 + modify ncurses 'f' test to demo wborder() with colored lines.
1809 + add check for failure to open hashed-database needed for db4.6
1811 + corrected --without-manpages option; previous change only suppressed
1812 the auxiliary rules install.man and uninstall.man
1813 + add case for FreeMINT to configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE (patch from
1815 + fixes from NetBSD port at
1816 http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/devel/ncurses/patches
1817 patch-ac (build-fix for DragonFly)
1818 patch-ae (use INSTALL_SCRIPT for installing misc/ncurses*-config).
1819 + improve configure script macros CF_HEADER_PATH and CF_LIBRARY_PATH
1820 by adding CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS, LIBS values to the
1822 + correct title string for keybound manpage (patch by Frederic Culot,
1823 OpenBSD documentation/6019),
1826 + move del_curterm() call from _nc_freeall() to _nc_leaks_tinfo() to
1827 work for progs/clear, progs/tabs, etc.
1828 + correct buffer-size after internal resizing of wide-character
1829 set_field_buffer(), broken in 20081018 changes (report by Mike Gran).
1830 + add "-i" option to test/filter.c to tell it to use initscr() rather
1831 than newterm(), to investigate report on comp.unix.programmer that
1832 ncurses would clear the screen in that case (it does not - the issue
1833 was xterm's alternate screen feature).
1834 + add check in mouse-driver to disable connection if GPM returns a
1835 zero, indicating that the connection is closed (Debian #506717,
1836 adapted from patch by Samuel Thibault).
1839 + improve a workaround in adding wide-characters, when a control
1840 character is found. The library (cf: 20040207) uses unctrl() to
1841 obtain a printable version of the control character, but was not
1842 passing color or video attributes.
1843 + improve test/ncurses.c 'a' test, using unctrl() more consistently to
1844 display meta-characters.
1845 + turn on _XOPEN_CURSES definition in curses.h
1846 + add eterm-color entry (report by Vincent Lefevre) -TD
1847 + correct use of key_name() in test/ncurses.c 'A' test, which only
1848 displays wide-characters, not key-codes since 20070612 (report by
1852 + change _nc_has_mouse() to has_mouse(), reflect its use in C++ and
1853 Ada95 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
1854 + document in TO-DO an issue with Cygwin's package for GNAT (report
1856 + improve error-checking of command-line options in "tabs" program.
1859 + change several terminfo entries to make consistent use of ANSI
1861 + add "tabs" program (prompted by Debian #502260).
1862 + add configure --without-manpages option (request by Mike Frysinger).
1864 20081102 5.7 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1867 + add a manpage to discuss memory leaks.
1868 + add support for shared libraries for QNX (other than libtool, which
1869 does not work well on that platform).
1870 + build-fix for QNX C++ binding.
1873 + build-fixes for OS/2 EMX.
1874 + modify form library to accept control characters such as newline
1875 in set_field_buffer(), which is compatible with Solaris (report by
1877 + modify configure script to assume --without-hashed-db when
1878 --disable-database is used.
1879 + add "-e" option in ncurses/Makefile.in when generating source-files
1880 to force earlier exit if the build environment fails unexpectedly
1881 (prompted by patch by Adrian Bunk).
1882 + change configure script to use CF_UTF8_LIB, improved variant of
1886 + add teraterm4.59 terminfo entry, use that as primary teraterm entry, rename
1887 original to teraterm2.3 -TD
1888 + update "gnome" terminfo to 2.22.3 -TD
1889 + update "konsole" terminfo to 1.6.6, needs today's fix for tic -TD
1890 + add "aterm" terminfo -TD
1891 + add "linux2.6.26" terminfo -TD
1892 + add logic to tic for cancelling strings in user-defined capabilities,
1896 + regenerated html documentation.
1897 + add -m and -s options to test/keynames.c and test/key_names.c to test
1898 the meta() function with keyname() or key_name(), respectively.
1899 + correct return value of key_name() on error; it is null.
1900 + document some unresolved issues for rpath and pthreads in TO-DO.
1901 + fix a missing prototype for ioctl() on OpenBSD in tset.c
1902 + add configure option --disable-tic-depends to make explicit whether
1903 tic library depends on ncurses/ncursesw library, amends change from
1904 20080823 (prompted by Debian #501421).
1907 + some build-fixes for configure --disable-ext-funcs (incomplete, but
1908 works for C/C++ parts).
1909 + improve configure-check for awks unable to handle large strings, e.g.
1910 AIX 5.1 whose awk silently gives up on large printf's.
1913 + fix build for --with-dmalloc by workaround for redefinition of
1914 strndup between string.h and dmalloc.h
1915 + fix build for --disable-sigwinch
1916 + add environment variable NCURSES_GPM_TERMS to allow override to use
1917 GPM on terminals other than "linux", etc.
1918 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM does not happen to contain
1919 "linux", since Gpm_Open() no longer limits its assertion to terminals
1920 that it might handle, e.g., within "screen" in xterm.
1921 + reset mouse file-descriptor when unloading GPM library (report by
1923 + fix build for --disable-leaks --enable-widec --with-termlib
1924 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
1925 + use improved initialization for soft-label keys in Ada95 sample code.
1926 + discard internal symbol _nc_slk_format (unused since 20080112).
1927 + move call of slk_paint_info() from _nc_slk_initialize() to
1928 slk_intern_refresh(), improving initialization.
1931 + fix bug in mouse code for GPM from 20080920 changes (reported in
1932 Debian #500103, also Miroslav Lichvar).
1935 + fix shared-library rules for cygwin with tic- and tinfo-libraries.
1936 + fix a memory leak when failure to connect to GPM.
1937 + correct check for notimeout() in wgetch() (report on linux.redhat
1938 newsgroup by FurtiveBertie).
1939 + add an example warning-suppression file for valgrind,
1940 misc/ncurses.supp (based on example from Reuben Thomas)
1943 + change shared-library configuration for OpenBSD, make rpath work.
1944 + build-fixes for using libutf8, e.g., on OpenBSD 3.7
1947 + corrected fix for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
1951 + corrected gcc options for building shared libraries on IRIX64.
1952 + add configure check for awk programs unable to handle big-strings,
1953 use that to improve the default for --enable-big-strings option.
1954 + makefile-fixes for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
1956 + update test/configure script.
1957 + adapt ifdef's from library to make test/view.c build when mbrtowc()
1958 is unavailable, e.g., with HPUX 10.20.
1959 + add configure check for wcsrtombs, mbsrtowcs, which are used in
1960 test/ncurses.c, and use wcstombs, mbstowcs instead if available,
1961 fixing build of ncursew for HPUX 11.00
1964 + fixes to make Ada95 demo_panels() example work.
1965 + modify Ada95 'rain' test program to accept keyboard commands like the
1967 + modify BeOS-specific ifdef's to build on Haiku (patch by Scott
1969 + add configure-check to see if the std namespace is legal for cerr
1970 and endl, to fix a build issue with Tru64.
1971 + consistently use NCURSES_BOOL in lib_gen.c
1972 + filter #line's from lib_gen.c
1973 + change delimiter in MKlib_gen.sh from '%' to '@', to avoid
1974 substitution by IBM xlc to '#' as part of its extensions to digraphs.
1975 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1976 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
1977 (caveat - its maintainer removed support for older Linux systems).
1980 + modify configure check for pthread library to work with OSF/1 5.1,
1981 which uses #define's to associate its header and library.
1982 + use pthread_mutexattr_init() for initializing pthread_mutexattr_t,
1983 makes threaded code work on HPUX 11.23
1984 + fix a bug in demo_menus in freeing menus (cf: 20080804).
1985 + modify configure script for the case where tic library is used (and
1986 possibly renamed) to remove its dependency upon ncurses/ncursew
1987 library (patch by Dr Werner Fink).
1988 + correct manpage for menu_fore() which gave wrong default for
1989 the attribute used to display a selected entry (report by Mike Gran).
1990 + add Eterm-256color, Eterm-88color and rxvt-88color (prompted by
1994 + add configure option --enable-weak-symbols to turn on new feature.
1995 + add configure-check for availability of weak symbols.
1996 + modify linkage with pthread library to use weak symbols so that
1997 applications not linked to that library will not use the mutexes,
1998 etc. This relies on gcc, and may be platform-specific (patch by Dr
2000 + add note to INSTALL to document limitation of renaming of tic library
2001 using the --with-ticlib configure option (report by Dr Werner Fink).
2002 + document (in manpage) why tputs does not detect I/O errors (prompted
2003 by comments by Samuel Thibault).
2004 + fix remaining warnings from Klocwork report.
2007 + modify _nc_panelhook() data to account for a permanent memory leak.
2008 + fix memory leaks in test/demo_menus
2009 + fix most warnings from Klocwork tool (report by Larry Zhou).
2010 + modify configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to add case for
2011 "dragonfly" from xterm #236 changes.
2012 + modify configure script --with-hashed-db to let $LIBS override the
2013 search for the db library (prompted by report by Samson Pierre).
2016 + build-fixes for gcc 4.3.1 (changes to gnat "warnings", and C inlining
2020 + build-fix (reports by Christian Ebert, Funda Wang).
2023 + compiler-warning fixes for Solaris.
2026 + use NCURSES_MOUSE_MASK() in definition of BUTTON_RELEASE(), etc., to
2027 make those work properly with the "--enable-ext-mouse" configuration
2029 + improve documentation of build-cc options in INSTALL.
2030 + work-around a bug in gcc 4.2.4 on AIX, which does not pass the
2031 -static/-dynamic flags properly to linker, causing test/bs to
2035 + correct some ifdef's needed for the broken-linker configuration.
2036 + make debugging library's $BAUDRATE feature work for termcap
2038 + make $NCURSES_NO_PADDING feature work for termcap interface (prompted
2039 by comment on FreeBSD mailing list).
2040 + add screen.mlterm terminfo entry -TD
2041 + improve mlterm and mlterm+pcfkeys terminfo entries -TD
2044 + regenerated html documentation.
2045 + expand manpage description of parameters for form_driver() and
2046 menu_driver() (prompted by discussion with Adam Spragg).
2047 + add null-pointer checks for cur_term in baudrate() and
2048 def_shell_mode(), def_prog_mode()
2049 + fix some memory leaks in delscreen() and wide acs.
2052 + modify test/ditto.c to illustrate multi-threaded use_screen().
2053 + change CC_SHARED_OPTS from -KPIC to -xcode=pic32 for Solaris.
2054 + add "-shared" option to MK_SHARED_LIB for gcc on Solaris (report
2058 + finish changes to wgetch(), making it switch as needed to the
2059 window's actual screen when calling wrefresh() and wgetnstr(). That
2060 allows wgetch() to get used concurrently in different threads with
2061 some minor restrictions, e.g., the application should not delete a
2062 window which is being used in a wgetch().
2063 + simplify mutex's, combining the window- and screen-mutex's.
2066 + modify wgetch() to use the screen which corresponds to its window
2067 parameter rather than relying on SP; some dependent functions still
2069 + factor out most use of SP in lib_mouse.c, using parameter.
2070 + add internal _nc_keyname(), replacing keyname() to associate with a
2071 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
2072 + add internal _nc_unctrl(), replacing unctrl() to associate with a
2073 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
2074 + add internal _nc_tracemouse(), replacing _tracemouse() to eliminate
2075 its associated global buffer _nc_globals.tracemse_buf now in SCREEN.
2076 + add internal _nc_tracechar(), replacing _tracechar() to use SCREEN in
2077 preference to the global _nc_globals.tracechr_buf buffer.
2080 + modify _nc_keypad() to make it switch temporarily as needed to the
2081 screen which must be updated.
2082 + wrap cur_term variable to help make _nc_keymap() thread-safe, and
2083 always set the screen's copy of this variable in set_curterm().
2084 + restore curs_set() state after endwin()/refresh() (report/patch
2088 + modify configure script to note that --enable-ext-colors and
2089 --enable-ext-mouse are not experimental, but extensions from
2091 + corrected manpage description of setcchar() (discussion with
2092 Emanuele Giaquinta).
2093 + fix for adding a non-spacing character at the beginning of a line
2094 (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
2097 + modify screen.* terminfo entries using new screen+fkeys to fix
2098 overridden keys in screen.rxvt (Debian #478094) -TD
2099 + modify internal interfaces to reduce wgetch()'s dependency on the
2101 + simplify some loops with macros each_screen(), each_window() and
2105 + continue modifying test/ditto.c toward making it demonstrate
2106 multithreaded use_screen(), using fifos to pass data between screens.
2107 + fix typo in form.3x (report by Mike Gran).
2110 + add screen.rxvt terminfo entry -TD
2111 + modify tic -f option to format spaces as \s to prevent them from
2112 being lost when that is read back in unformatted strings.
2113 + improve test/ditto.c, using a "talk"-style layout.
2116 + change test/ditto.c to use openpty() and xterm.
2117 + add locks for copywin(), dupwin(), overlap(), overlay() on their
2119 + add locks for initscr() and newterm() on updates to the SCREEN
2121 + finish table in curs_thread.3x manpage.
2124 + begin table in curs_thread.3x manpage describing the scope of data
2125 used by each function (or symbol) for threading analysis.
2126 + add null-pointer checks to setsyx() and getsyx() (prompted by
2127 discussion by Martin v. Lowis and Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven on
2128 python-dev2 mailing list).
2131 + add null-pointer checks in set_term() and delscreen().
2132 + move _nc_windows into _nc_globals, since windows can be pads, which
2133 are not associated with a particular screen.
2134 + change use_screen() to pass the SCREEN* parameter rather than
2135 stdscr to the callback function.
2136 + force libtool to use tag for 'CC' in case it does not detect this,
2137 e.g., on aix when using CC=powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0-gcc
2138 (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
2139 + override OBJEXT to "lo" when building with libtool, to work on
2140 platforms such as AIX where libtool may use a different suffix for
2141 the object files than ".o" (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
2142 + add configure --with-pthread option, for building with the POSIX
2146 + fill in extended-color pair two more places in wbkgrndset() and
2147 waddch_nosync() (prompted by Sedeno's patch).
2148 + fill in extended-color pair in _nc_build_wch() to make colors work
2149 for wide-characters using extended-colors (patch by Alejandro R
2151 + add x/X toggles to ncurses.c C color test to test/demo
2152 wide-characters with extended-colors.
2153 + add a/A toggles to ncurses.c c/C color tests.
2154 + modify test/ditto.c to use use_screen().
2155 + finish modifying test/rain.c to demonstrate threads.
2158 + start modifying test/rain.c for threading demo.
2159 + modify test/ncurses.c to make 'f' test accept the f/F/b/F/</> toggles
2160 that the 'F' accepts.
2161 + modify test/worm.c to show trail in reverse-video when other threads
2162 are working concurrently.
2163 + fix a deadlock from improper nesting of mutexes for windowlist and
2167 + fixes from 20080223 resolved issue with mutexes; change to use
2168 recursive mutexes to fix memory leak in delwin() as called from
2169 _nc_free_and_exit().
2172 + fix a size-difference in _nc_globals which caused hanging of mutex
2173 lock/unlock when termlib was built separately.
2176 + avoid using nanosleep() in threaded configuration since that often
2177 is implemented to suspend the entire process.
2180 + update test programs to build/work with various UNIX curses for
2181 comparisons. This was to reinvestigate statement in X/Open curses
2182 that insnstr and winsnstr perform wrapping. None of the Unix-branded
2183 implementations do this, as noted in manpage (cf: 20040228).
2186 + modify _nc_setupscreen() to set the legacy-coding value the same
2187 for both narrow/wide models. It had been set only for wide model,
2188 but is needed to make unctrl() work with locale in the narrow model.
2189 + improve waddch() and winsch() handling of EILSEQ from mbrtowc() by
2190 using unctrl() to display illegal bytes rather than trying to append
2191 further bytes to make up a valid sequence (reported by Andrey A
2193 + modify unctrl() to check codes in 128-255 range versus isprint().
2194 If they are not printable, and locale was set, use a "M-" or "~"
2198 + improve threading in test/worm.c (wrap refresh calls, and KEY_RESIZE
2199 handling). Now it hangs in napms(), no matter whether nanosleep()
2200 or poll() or select() are used on Linux.
2203 + fixes to build with --disable-ext-funcs
2204 + add manpage for use_window and use_screen.
2205 + add set_tabsize() and set_escdelay() functions.
2208 + remove recursive-mutex definitions, finish threading demo for worm.c
2209 + remove a redundant adjustment of lines in resizeterm.c's
2210 adjust_window() which caused occasional misadjustment of stdscr when
2214 + several improvements to terminfo entries based on xterm #230 -TD
2215 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle keyname/key_name prototypes, so the
2216 "link_test" builds properly.
2217 + fix for toe command-line options -u/-U to ensure filename is given.
2218 + fix allocation-size for command-line parsing in infocmp from 20070728
2219 (report by Miroslav Lichvar)
2220 + improve resizeterm() by moving ripped-off lines, and repainting the
2221 soft-keys (report by Katarina Machalkova)
2222 + add clarification in wclear's manpage noting that the screen will be
2223 cleared even if a subwindow is cleared (prompted by Christer Enfors
2225 + change test/ncurses.c soft-key tests to work with KEY_RESIZE.
2228 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
2232 + add several functions to C++ binding which wrap C functions that
2233 pass a WINDOW* parameter (request by Chris Lee).
2236 + add note about configure options needed for Berkeley database to the
2238 + improve checks for version of Berkeley database libraries.
2239 + amend fix for rpath to not modify LDFLAGS if the platform has no
2240 applicable transformation (report by Christian Ebert, cf: 20071124).
2243 + modify configure option --with-hashed-db to accept a parameter which
2244 is the install-prefix of a given Berkeley Database (prompted by
2245 pierre4d2 comments).
2246 + rewrite wrapper for wcrtomb(), making it work on Solaris. This is
2247 used in the form library to determine the length of the buffer needed
2248 by field_buffer (report by Alfred Fung).
2249 + remove unneeded window-parameter from C++ binding for wresize (report
2253 + modify the support for filesystems which do not support mixed-case to
2254 generate 2-character (hexadecimal) codes for the lower-level of the
2255 filesystem terminfo database (request by Michail Vidiassov).
2256 + add configure option --enable-mixed-case, to allow overriding the
2257 configure script's check if the filesystem supports mixed-case
2259 + add wresize() to C++ binding (request by Chris Lee).
2260 + define NCURSES_EXT_FUNCS and NCURSES_EXT_COLORS in curses.h to make
2261 it simpler to tell if the extended functions and/or colors are
2265 + update memory-leak checks for changes to names.c and codes.c
2266 + correct acsc strings in h19, z100 (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler).
2269 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
2271 + add mrxvt terminfo entry, add/fix xterm building blocks for modified
2273 + compile with FreeBSD "contemporary" TTY interface (patch by
2277 + modify makefile rules to allow clear, tput and tset to be built
2278 without libtic. The other programs (infocmp, tic and toe) rely on
2280 + add/modify null-pointer checks in several functions for SP and/or
2281 the WINDOW* parameter (report by Thorben Krueger).
2282 + fixes for field_buffer() in formw library (see Redhat Bugzilla
2283 #310071, patches by Miroslav Lichvar).
2284 + improve performance of NCURSES_CHAR_EQ code (patch by Miroslav
2286 + update/improve mlterm and rxvt terminfo entries, e.g., for
2287 the modified cursor- and keypad-keys -TD
2290 + add code to curses.priv.h ifdef'd with NCURSES_CHAR_EQ, which
2291 changes the CharEq() macro to an inline function to allow comparing
2292 cchar_t struct's without comparing gaps in a possibly unpacked
2293 memory layout (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
2296 + add new functions to lib_trace.c to setup mutex's for the _tracef()
2297 calls within the ncurses library.
2298 + for the reentrant model, move _nc_tputs_trace and _nc_outchars into
2300 + start modifying test/worm.c to provide threading demo (incomplete).
2301 + separated ifdef's for some BSD-related symbols in tset.c, to make
2302 it compile on LynxOS (report by Greg Gemmer).
2304 + modify Ada95/gen/Makefile to use shlib script, to simplify building
2305 shared-library configuration on platforms lacking rpath support.
2306 + build-fix for Ada95/src/Makefile to reflect changed dependency for
2307 the terminal-interface-curses-aux.adb file which is now generated.
2308 + restructuring test/worm.c, for use_window() example.
2311 + add use_window() and use_screen() functions, to develop into support
2312 for threaded library (incomplete).
2313 + fix typos in man/curs_opaque.3x which kept the install script from
2314 creating symbolic links to two aliases created in 20070818 (report by
2318 + remove a spurious newline from output of html.m4, which caused links
2319 for Ada95 html to be incorrect for the files generated using m4.
2320 + start investigating mutex's for SCREEN manipulation (incomplete).
2321 + minor cleanup of codes.c/names.c for --enable-const
2322 + expand/revise "Routine and Argument Names" section of ncurses manpage
2323 to address report by David Givens in newsgroup discussion.
2324 + fix interaction between --without-progs/--with-termcap configure
2325 options (report by Michail Vidiassov).
2326 + fix typo in "--disable-relink" option (report by Michail Vidiassov).
2329 + fix a sign-extension bug in infocmp's repair_acsc() function
2331 + fix old configure script bug which prevented "--disable-warnings"
2332 option from working (patch by Mike Frysinger).
2335 + add 9term terminal description (request by Juhapekka Tolvanen) -TD
2336 + modify comp_hash.c's string output to avoid misinterpreting a null
2337 "\0" followed by a digit.
2338 + modify MKnames.awk and MKcodes.awk to support big-strings.
2339 This only applies to the cases (broken linker, reentrant) where
2340 the corresponding arrays are accessed via wrapper functions.
2341 + split MKnames.awk into two scripts, eliminating the shell redirection
2342 which complicated the make process and also the bogus timestamp file
2343 which was introduced to fix "make -j".
2344 + add test/test_opaque.c, test/test_arrays.c
2345 + add wgetscrreg() and wgetparent() for applications that may need it
2346 when NCURSES_OPAQUE is defined (prompted by Bryan Christ).
2349 + amend treatment of infocmp "-r" option to retain the 1023-byte limit
2350 unless "-T" is given (cf: 981017).
2351 + modify comp_captab.c generation to use big-strings.
2352 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private accessed via
2353 _nc_get_alias_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
2355 + modify configure script to skip Intel compiler in CF_C_INLINE.
2356 + make _nc_info_hash_table and _nc_cap_hash_table private accessed via
2357 _nc_get_hash_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
2361 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private, accessed via
2362 _nc_get_alias_table() since they are used only by parse_entry.c
2363 + make _nc_key_names private since it is used only by lib_keyname.c
2364 + add --disable-big-strings configure option to control whether
2365 unctrl.c is generated using the big-string optimization - which may
2366 use strings longer than supported by a given compiler.
2367 + reduce relocation tables for tic, infocmp by changing type of
2368 internal hash tables to short, and make those private symbols.
2369 + eliminate large fixed arrays from progs/infocmp.c
2372 + change winnstr() to stop at the end of the line (cf: 970315).
2373 + add test/test_get_wstr.c
2374 + add test/test_getstr.c
2375 + add test/test_inwstr.c
2376 + add test/test_instr.c
2379 + restore a call to obtain screen-size in _nc_setupterm(), which
2380 is used in tput and other non-screen applications via setupterm()
2381 (Debian #433357, reported by Florent Bayle, Christian Ohm,
2385 + add test/savescreen.c test-program
2386 + add check to trace-file open, if the given name is a directory, add
2387 ".log" to the name and try again.
2388 + add konsole-256color entry -TD
2389 + add extra gcc warning options from xterm.
2390 + minor fixes for ncurses/hashmap test-program.
2391 + modify configure script to quiet c++ build with libtool when the
2392 --disable-echo option is used.
2393 + modify configure script to disable ada95 if libtool is selected,
2394 writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD ports/114493).
2395 + update config.guess, config.sub
2398 + add continuous-move "M" to demo_panels to help test refresh changes.
2399 + improve fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters,
2400 taking into account some split characters on left/right window
2404 + add "widec" row to _tracedump() output to help diagnose remaining
2405 problems with multi-column characters.
2406 + partial fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters
2407 which are partly overwritten (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
2408 + ignore A_CHARTEXT bits in vidattr() and vid_attr(), in case
2409 multi-column extension bits are passed there.
2410 + add setlocale() call to demo_panels.c, needed for wide-characters.
2411 + add some output flags to _nc_trace_ttymode to help diagnose a bug
2412 report by Larry Virden, i.e., ONLCR, OCRNL, ONOCR and ONLRET,
2415 + add test/demo_panels.c
2416 + implement opaque version of setsyx() and getsyx().
2419 + corrected xterm+pcf2 terminfo modifiers for F1-F4, to match xterm
2421 + split-out key_name() from MKkeyname.awk since it now depends upon
2422 wunctrl() which is not in libtinfo (report by Rong-En Fan).
2425 + add test/key_name.c
2426 + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test/inch_wide.c
2427 + update test/configure
2428 + correct formatting of DEL (0x7f) in _nc_vischar().
2429 + null-terminate result of wunctrl().
2430 + add null-pointer check in key_name() (report by Andreas Krennmair,
2434 + adapt mouse-handling code from menu library in form-library
2435 (discussion with Clive Nicolson).
2436 + add a modification of test/dots.c, i.e., test/dots_mvcur.c to
2437 illustrate how to use mvcur().
2438 + modify wide-character flavor of SetAttr() to preserve the
2439 WidecExt() value stored in the .attr field, e.g., in case it
2440 is overwritten by chgat (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
2441 + correct buffer-size for _nc_viswbuf2n() (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
2442 + build-fixes for Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 (patch by Peter O'Gorman).
2445 + modify keyname() to use "^X" form only if meta() has been called, or
2446 if keyname() is called without initializing curses, e.g., via
2447 initscr() or newterm() (prompted by LinuxBase #1604).
2448 + document some portability issues in man/curs_util.3x
2449 + add a shadow copy of TTY buffer to _nc_prescreen to fix applications
2450 broken by moving that data into SCREEN (cf: 20061230).
2453 + add 'O' (wide-character panel test) in ncurses.c to demonstrate a
2454 problem reported by Sadrul H Chowdhury with repainting parts of
2456 + modify slk_init() so that if there are preceding calls to
2457 ripoffline(), those affect the available lines for soft-keys (adapted
2458 from patch by Clive Nicolson).
2459 + document some portability issues in man/curs_getyx.3x
2462 + fix a bug in Ada95/samples/ncurses which caused a variable to
2463 become uninitialized in the "b" test.
2464 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in adahtml rule to account for recent
2465 movement of files, fix a few incorrect manpage references in the
2467 + add Ada95 binding to _nc_freeall() as Curses_Free_All to help with
2469 + correct some functions in Ada95 binding which were using return value
2470 from C where none was returned: idcok(), immedok() and wtimeout().
2471 + amend recent changes for Ada95 binding to make it build with
2472 Cygwin's linker, e.g., with configure options
2473 --enable-broken-linker --with-ticlib
2476 + add a configure check for gcc's options for inlining, use that to
2477 quiet a warning message where gcc's default behavior changed from
2479 + improve warning message when checking if GPM is linked to curses
2480 library by not warning if its use of "wgetch" is via a weak symbol.
2481 + add loader options when building with static libraries to ensure that
2482 an installed shared library for ncurses does not conflict. This is
2483 reported as problem with Tru64, but could affect other platforms
2484 (report Martin Mokrejs, analysis by Tim Mooney).
2485 + fix build on cygwin after recent ticlib/termlib changes, i.e.,
2486 + adjust TINFO_SUFFIX value to work with cygwin's dll naming
2487 + revert a change from 20070303 which commented out dependency of
2488 SHLIB_LIST in form/menu/panel/c++ libraries.
2489 + fix initialization of ripoff stack pointer (cf: 20070421).
2492 + move most static variables into structures _nc_globals and
2493 _nc_prescreen, to simplify storage.
2494 + add/use configure script macro CF_SIG_ATOMIC_T, use the corresponding
2495 type for data manipulated by signal handlers (prompted by comments
2496 in mailing.openbsd.bugs newsgroup).
2497 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to allow one to pass options such as -static
2498 to the libtool create- and link-operations.
2501 + fix whitespace in curs_opaque.3x which caused a spurious ';' in
2502 the installed aliases (report by Peter Santoro).
2503 + fix configure script to not try to generate adacurses-config when
2504 Ada95 tree is not built.
2507 + add man/curs_legacy.3x, man/curs_opaque.3x
2508 + fix acs_map binding for Ada95 when --enable-reentrant is used.
2509 + add adacurses-config to the Ada95 install, based on version from
2510 FreeBSD port, in turn by Juergen Pfeifer in 2000 (prompted by
2511 comment on comp.lang.ada newsgroup).
2512 + fix includes in c++ binding to build with Intel compiler
2514 + update install rule in Ada95 to use mkdirs.sh
2515 > other fixes prompted by inspection for Coverity report:
2516 + modify ifdef's for c++ binding to use try/catch/throw statements
2517 + add a null-pointer check in tack/ansi.c request_cfss()
2518 + fix a memory leak in ncurses/base/wresize.c
2519 + corrected check for valid memu/meml capabilities in
2520 progs/dump_entry.c when handling V_HPUX case.
2521 > fixes based on Coverity report:
2522 + remove dead code in test/bs.c
2523 + remove dead code in test/demo_defkey.c
2524 + remove an unused assignment in progs/infocmp.c
2525 + fix a limit check in tack/ansi.c tools_charset()
2526 + fix tack/ansi.c tools_status() to perform the VT320/VT420
2527 tests in request_cfss(). The function had exited too soon.
2528 + fix a memory leak in tic.c's make_namelist()
2529 + fix a couple of places in tack/output.c which did not check for EOF.
2530 + fix a loop-condition in test/bs.c
2531 + add index checks in lib_color.c for color palettes
2532 + add index checks in progs/dump_entry.c for version_filter() handling
2534 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in copywin()
2535 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in waddchnstr()
2536 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
2537 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c's make_namelist()
2538 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
2539 + add null-pointer checks in test/cardfile.c
2540 + fix a double-free in ncurses/tinfo/trim_sgr0.c
2541 + fix a double-free in ncurses/base/wresize.c
2542 + add try/catch block to c++/cursesmain.cc
2545 + modify Ada95 binding to build with --enable-reentrant by wrapping
2546 global variables (bug: acs_map does not yet work).
2547 + modify Ada95 binding to use the new access-functions, allowing it
2548 to build/run when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
2549 + add access-functions and macros to return properties of the WINDOW
2550 structure, e.g., when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
2551 + improved install-sh's quoting.
2552 + use mkdirs.sh rather than mkinstalldirs, e.g., to use fixes from
2556 + eliminate part of the direct use of WINDOW data from Ada95 interface.
2557 + fix substitutions for termlib filename to make configure option
2558 --enable-reentrant work with --with-termlib.
2559 + change a constructor for NCursesWindow to allow compiling with
2560 NCURSES_OPAQUE set, since we cannot pass a reference to
2564 + ignore --with-chtype=unsigned since unsigned is always added to
2565 the type in curses.h; do the same for --with-mmask-t.
2566 + change warning regarding --enable-ext-colors and wide-character
2567 in the configure script to an error.
2568 + tweak error message in CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to distinguish other programs
2569 such as Darwin's libtool program (report by Michail Vidiassov)
2570 + modify edit_man.sh to allow for multiple substitutions per line.
2571 + set locale in misc/ncurses-config.in since it uses a range
2572 + change permissions libncurses++.a install (report by Michail
2574 + corrected length of temporary buffer in wide-character version
2575 of set_field_buffer() (related to report by Bryan Christ).
2578 + fix mk-1st.awk script install_shlib() function, broken in 20070224
2579 changes for cygwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
2582 + increase size of array in _nc_visbuf2n() to make "tic -v" work
2583 properly in its similar_sgr() function (report/analysis by Peter
2585 + add --enable-reentrant configure option for ongoing changes to
2586 implement a reentrant version of ncurses:
2587 + libraries are suffixed with "t"
2588 + wrap several global variables (curscr, newscr, stdscr, ttytype,
2589 COLORS, COLOR_PAIRS, COLS, ESCDELAY, LINES and TABSIZE) as
2590 functions returning values stored in SCREEN or cur_term.
2591 + move some initialization (LINES, COLS) from lib_setup.c,
2592 i.e., setupterm() to _nc_setupscreen(), i.e., newterm().
2595 + regenerated html documentation.
2596 + add NCURSES_OPAQUE symbol to curses.h, will use to make structs
2597 opaque in selected configurations.
2598 + move the chunk in lib_acs.c which resets acs capabilities when
2599 running on a terminal whose locale interferes with those into
2600 _nc_setupscreen(), so the libtinfo/libtinfow files can be made
2601 identical (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
2602 + do not use configure variable SHLIB_LIBS for building libraries
2603 outside the ncurses directory, since that symbol is customized
2604 only for that directory, and using it introduces an unneeded
2605 dependency on libdl (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
2606 + modify mk-1st.awk so the generated makefile rules for linking or
2607 installing shared libraries do not first remove the library, in
2608 case it is in use, e.g., libncurses.so by /bin/sh (report by Jeff
2610 + revised section "Using NCURSES under XTERM" in ncurses-intro.html
2611 (prompted by newsgroup comment by Nick Guenther).
2614 + change internal return codes of _nc_wgetch() to check for cases
2615 where KEY_CODE_YES should be returned, e.g., if a KEY_RESIZE was
2616 ungetch'd, and read by wget_wch().
2617 + fix static-library build broken in 20070217 changes to remove "-ldl"
2618 (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
2619 + change makefile/scripts for cygwin to allow building termlib.
2620 + use Form_Hook in manpages to match form.h
2621 + use Menu_Hook in manpages, as well as a few places in menu.h
2622 + correct form- and menu-manpages to use specific Field_Options,
2623 Menu_Options and Item_Options types.
2624 + correct prototype for _tracechar() in manpage (cf: 20011229).
2625 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
2628 + fixes for $(TICS_LIST) in ncurses/Makefile (report by Miroslav
2630 + modify relinking of shared libraries to apply only when rpath is
2631 enabled, and add --disable-relink option which can be used to
2632 disable the feature altogether (reports by Michail Vidiassov,
2634 + fix --with-termlib option for wide-character configuration, stripping
2635 the "w" suffix in one place (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
2636 + remove "-ldl" from some library lists to reduce dependencies in
2637 programs (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
2638 + correct description of --enable-signed-char in configure --help
2639 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
2640 + add pattern for GNU/kFreeBSD configuration to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE,
2641 which matches an earlier change to CF_SHARED_OPTS, from xterm #224
2643 + remove "${DESTDIR}" from -install_name option used for linking
2644 shared libraries on Darwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
2647 + add test/inchs.c, test/inch_wide.c, to test win_wchnstr().
2648 + remove libdl from library list for termlib (report by Miroslav
2650 + fix configure.in to allow --without-progs --with-termlib (patch by
2652 + modify win_wchnstr() to ensure that only a base cell is returned
2653 for each multi-column character (prompted by report by Wei Kong
2654 regarding change in mvwin_wch() cf: 20041023).
2657 + modify fix_wchnstr() in form library to strip attributes (and color)
2658 from the cchar_t array (field cells) read from a field's window.
2659 Otherwise, when copying the field cells back to the window, the
2660 associated color overrides the field's background color (report by
2662 + improve tracing for form library, showing created forms, fields, etc.
2663 + ignore --enable-rpath configure option if --with-shared was omitted.
2664 + add _nc_leaks_tinfo(), _nc_free_tic(), _nc_free_tinfo() entrypoints
2665 to allow leak-checking when both tic- and tinfo-libraries are built.
2666 + drop CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC macro from configure script, since C++ binding
2667 no longer relies on it.
2668 + disallow combining configure script options --with-ticlib and
2669 --enable-termcap (report by Rong-En Fan).
2670 + remove tack from ncurses tree.
2673 + fix typo in configure script that broke --with-termlib option
2674 (report by Rong-En Fan).
2677 + improve fix for FreeBSD gnu/98975, to allow for null pointer passed
2678 to tgetent() (report by Rong-en Fan).
2679 + update tack/HISTORY and tack/README to tell how to build it after
2680 it is removed from the ncurses tree.
2681 + fix configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
2682 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
2683 + review/eliminate other original-file artifacts in cursesw.cc, making
2684 its license consistent with ncurses.
2685 + use ncurses vw_scanw() rather than reading into a fixed buffer in
2686 the c++ binding for scanw() methods (prompted by report by Nuno Dias).
2687 + eliminate fixed-buffer vsprintf() calls in c++ binding.
2690 + add _nc_leaks_tic() to separate leak-checking of tic library from
2691 term/ncurses libraries, and thereby eliminate a library dependency.
2692 + fix test/mk-test.awk to ignore blank lines.
2693 + correct paths in include/headers, for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav
2697 + add a break-statement in misc/shlib to ensure that it exits on the
2698 _first_ matched directory (report by Paul Novak).
2699 + add tack/configure, which can be used to build tack outside the
2701 + add --with-ticlib option, to build/install the tic-support functions
2702 in a separate library (suggested by Miroslav Lichvar).
2705 + change MKunctrl.awk to reduce relocation table for unctrl.o
2706 + change MKkeyname.awk to reduce relocation table for keyname.o
2707 (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
2710 + modify configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
2711 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
2712 + modify some modules to allow them to be reentrant if _REENTRANT is
2713 defined: lib_baudrate.c, resizeterm.c (local data only)
2714 + eliminate static data from some modules: add_tries.c, hardscroll.c,
2715 lib_ttyflags.c, lib_twait.c
2716 + improve manpage install to add aliases for the transformed program
2717 names, e.g., from --program-prefix.
2718 + used linklint to verify links in the HTML documentation, made fixes
2719 to manpages as needed.
2720 + fix a typo in curs_mouse.3x (report by William McBrine).
2721 + fix install-rule for ncurses5-config to make the bin-directory.
2724 + modify configure script to omit the tic (terminfo compiler) support
2725 from ncurses library if --without-progs option is given.
2726 + modify install rule for ncurses5-config to do this via "install.libs"
2727 + modify shared-library rules to allow FreeBSD 3.x to use rpath.
2728 + update config.guess, config.sub
2730 20061217 5.6 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2733 + add ifdef's for <wctype.h> for HPUX, which has the corresponding
2734 definitions in <wchar.h>.
2735 + revert the va_copy() change from 20061202, since it was neither
2736 correct nor portable.
2737 + add $(LOCAL_LIBS) definition to progs/Makefile.in, needed for
2739 + ignore wide-acs line-drawing characters that wcwidth() claims are
2740 not one-column. This is a workaround for Solaris' broken locale
2744 + modify configure --with-gpm option to allow it to accept a parameter,
2745 i.e., the name of the dynamic GPM library to load via dlopen()
2746 (requested by Bryan Henderson).
2747 + add configure option --with-valgrind, changes from vile.
2748 + modify configure script AC_TRY_RUN and AC_TRY_LINK checks to use
2749 'return' in preference to 'exit()'.
2752 + change default for --with-develop back to "no".
2753 + add XTABS to tracing of TTY bits.
2754 + updated autoconf patch to ifdef-out the misfeature which declares
2755 exit() for configure tests. This fixes a redefinition warning on
2757 + use ${CC} rather than ${LD} in shared library rules for IRIX64,
2758 Solaris to help ensure that initialization sections are provided for
2759 extra linkage requirements, e.g., of C++ applications (prompted by
2760 comment by Casper Dik in newsgroup).
2761 + rename "$target" in CF_MAN_PAGES to make it easier to distinguish
2762 from the autoconf predefined symbol. There was no conflict,
2763 since "$target" was used only in the generated edit_man.sh file,
2764 but SuSE's rpm package contains a patch.
2767 + update man/term.5 to reflect extended terminfo support and hashed
2768 database configuration.
2769 + updates for test/configure script.
2770 + adapted from SuSE rpm package:
2771 + remove long-obsolete workaround for broken-linker which declared
2773 + improve error recovery in PUTC() macro when wcrtomb() does not
2774 return usable results for an 8-bit character.
2775 + patches from rpm package (SuSE):
2776 + use va_copy() in extra varargs manipulation for tracing version
2778 + use a va_list rather than a null in _nc_freeall()'s call to
2779 _nc_printf_string().
2780 + add some see-also references in manpages to show related
2781 wide-character functions (suggested by Claus Fischer).
2784 + add a check in lib_color.c to ensure caller does not increase COLORS
2785 above max_colors, which is used as an array index (discussion with
2787 + add ifdef's allowing ncurses to be built with tparm() using either
2788 varargs (the existing status), or using a fixed-parameter list (to
2792 + fix redrawing of windows other than stdscr using wredrawln() by
2793 touching the corresponding rows in curscr (discussion with Dan
2796 + add test/echochar.c
2797 + review/cleanup manpage descriptions of error-returns for form- and
2798 menu-libraries (prompted by FreeBSD docs/46196).
2801 + add AUTHORS file -TD
2802 + omit the -D options from output of the new config script --cflags
2803 option (suggested by Ralf S Engelschall).
2804 + make NCURSES_INLINE unconditionally defined in curses.h
2807 + revert change to accommodate bash 3.2, since that breaks other
2808 platforms, e.g., Solaris.
2809 + minor fixes to NEWS file to simplify scripting to obtain list of
2811 + improve some shared-library configure scripting for Linux, FreeBSD
2812 and NetBSD to make "--with-shlib-version" work.
2813 + change configure-script rules for FreeBSD shared libraries to allow
2814 for rpath support in versions past 3.
2815 + use $(DESTDIR) in makefile rules for installing/uninstalling the
2816 package config script (reports/patches by Christian Wiese,
2817 Ralf S Engelschall).
2818 + fix a warning in the configure script for NetBSD 2.0, working around
2819 spurious blanks embedded in its ${MAKEFLAGS} symbol.
2820 + change test/Makefile to simplify installing test programs in a
2821 different directory when --enable-rpath is used.
2824 + work around bug in bash 3.2 by adding extra quotes (Jim Gifford).
2825 + add/install a package config script, e.g., "ncurses5-config" or
2826 "ncursesw5-config", according to configuration options.
2829 + add several GNU Screen terminfo variations with 16- and 256-colors,
2830 and status line (Alain Bench).
2831 + change the way shared libraries (other than libtool) are installed.
2832 Rather than copying the build-tree's libraries, link the shared
2833 objects into the install directory. This makes the --with-rpath
2834 option work except with $(DESTDIR) (cf: 20000930).
2837 + fix ifdef in c++/internal.h for QNX 6.1
2838 + test-compiled with (old) egcs-1.1.2, modified configure script to
2839 not unset the $CXX and related variables which would prevent this.
2840 + fix a few terminfo.src typos exposed by improvments to "-f" option.
2841 + improve infocmp/tic "-f" option formatting.
2844 + make --disable-largefile option work (report by Thomas M Ott).
2845 + updated html documentation.
2846 + add ka2, kb1, kb3, kc2 to vt220-keypad as an extension -TD
2847 + minor improvements to rxvt+pcfkeys -TD
2850 + move static data from lib_mouse.c into SCREEN struct.
2851 + improve ifdef's for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset to work with Mac OS X
2852 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
2853 + modify CF_PATH_SYNTAX to ensure it uses the result from --prefix
2854 option (from lynx changes) -TD
2855 + adapt AC_PROG_EGREP check, noting that this is likely to be another
2856 place aggravated by POSIXLY_CORRECT.
2857 + modify configure check for awk to ensure that it is found (prompted
2858 by report by Christopher Parker).
2862 + add kon, kon2 and jfbterm terminfo entry (request by Till Maas) -TD
2863 + remove invis capability from klone+sgr, mainly used by linux entry,
2864 since it does not really do this -TD
2867 + correct logic in wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not guard
2868 against passing the multi-column attribute into a call on waddch(),
2869 e.g., using data returned by win_wch() (cf: 20041023)
2870 (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
2873 + fix kterm's acsc string -TD
2874 + fix for change to tic/infocmp in 20060819 to ensure no blank is
2875 embedded into a termcap description.
2876 + workaround for 20050806 ifdef's change to allow visbuf.c to compile
2877 when using --with-termlib --with-trace options.
2878 + improve tgetstr() by making the return value point into the user's
2879 buffer, if provided (patch by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat Bugzilla
2881 + correct libraries needed for foldkeys (report by Stanislav Ievlev)
2884 + add terminfo entries for xfce terminal (xfce) and multi gnome
2886 + add test/foldkeys.c
2889 + modify tic and infocmp to avoid writing trailing blanks on terminfo
2890 source output (Debian #378783).
2891 + modify configure script to ensure that if the C compiler is used
2892 rather than the loader in making shared libraries, the $(CFLAGS)
2893 variable is also used (Redhat Bugzilla #199369).
2894 + port hashed-db code to db2 and db3.
2895 + fix a bug in tgetent() from 20060625 and 20060715 changes
2896 (patch/analysis by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat Bugzilla #202480)).
2899 + updated xterm function-keys terminfo to match xterm #216 -TD
2900 + add configure --with-hashed-db option (tested only with FreeBSD 6.0,
2901 e.g., the db 1.8.5 interface).
2904 + modify toe to access termcap data, e.g., via cgetent() functions,
2905 or as a text file if those are not available.
2906 + use _nc_basename() in tset to improve $SHELL check for csh/sh.
2907 + modify _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_termcap_entry() so infocmp,
2908 can access termcap data when the terminfo database is disabled.
2911 + widen the test for xterm kmous a little to allow for other strings
2912 than \E[M, e.g., for xterm-sco functionality in xterm.
2913 + update xterm-related terminfo entries to match xterm patch #216 -TD
2914 + update config.guess, config.sub
2917 + fix for install-rule in Ada95 to add terminal_interface.ads
2918 and terminal_interface.ali (anonymous posting in comp.lang.ada).
2919 + correction to manpage for getcchar() (report by William McBrine).
2921 + modify wchgat() to mark updated cells as changed so a refresh will
2922 repaint those cells (comments by Sadrul H Chowdhury and William
2924 + split up dependency of names.c and codes.c in ncurses/Makefile to
2925 work with parallel make (report/analysis by Joseph S Myers).
2926 + suppress a warning message (which is ignored) for systems without
2927 an ldconfig program (patch by Justin Hibbits).
2928 + modify configure script --disable-symlinks option to allow one to
2929 disable symlink() in tic even when link() does not work (report by
2931 + modify MKfallback.sh to use tic -x when constructing fallback tables
2932 to allow extended capabilities to be retrieved from a fallback entry.
2933 + improve leak-checking logic in tgetent() from 20060625 to ensure that
2934 it does not free the current screen (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
2937 + add a check for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset (NetBSD #33916).
2938 + correct _nc_free_entries() and related functions used for memory leak
2942 + revert a minor change for magic-cookie support from 20060513, which
2943 caused unexpected reset of attributes, e.g., when resizing test/view
2945 + note in clear manpage that the program ignores command-line
2946 parameters (prompted by Debian #371855).
2947 + fixes to make lib_gen.c build properly with changes to the configure
2948 --disable-macros option and NCURSES_NOMACROS (cf: 20060527)
2949 + update/correct several terminfo entries -TD
2950 + add some notes regarding copyright to terminfo.src -TD
2953 + fixes to build Ada95 binding with gnat-4.1.0
2954 + modify read_termtype() so the term_names data is always allocated as
2955 part of the str_table, a better fix for a memory leak (cf: 20030809).
2956 + reduce memory leaks in repeated calls to tgetent() by remembering the
2957 last TERMINAL* value allocated to hold the corresponding data and
2958 freeing that if the tgetent() result buffer is the same as the
2959 previous call (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
2960 + modify tack to test extended capability function-key strings.
2961 + improved gnome terminfo entry (GenToo #122566).
2962 + improved xterm-256color terminfo entry (patch by Alain Bench).
2965 + fix two small memory leaks related to repeated tgetent() calls
2966 with TERM=screen (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
2967 + add --enable-signed-char to simplify Debian package.
2968 + reduce name-pollution in term.h by removing #define's for HAVE_xxx
2970 + correct typo in curs_terminfo.3x (Debian #369168).
2973 + enable the mouse in test/movewindow.c
2974 + improve a limit-check in frm_def.c (John Heasley).
2975 + minor copyright fixes.
2976 + change configure script to produce test/Makefile from data file.
2979 + add a configure option --enable-wgetch-events to enable
2980 NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS, and correct the associated loop-logic in
2981 lib_twait.c (report by Bernd Jendrissek).
2982 + remove include/nomacros.h from build, since the ifdef for
2983 NCURSES_NOMACROS makes that obsolete.
2984 + add entrypoints for some functions which were only provided as macros
2985 to make NCURSES_NOMACROS ifdef work properly: getcurx(), getcury(),
2986 getbegx(), getbegy(), getmaxx(), getmaxy(), getparx() and getpary(),
2988 + provide ifdef for NCURSES_NOMACROS which suppresses most macro
2989 definitions from curses.h, i.e., where a macro is defined to override
2990 a function to improve performance. Allowing a developer to suppress
2991 these definitions can simplify some application (discussion with
2993 + improve description of memu/meml in terminfo manpage.
2996 + if msgr is false, reset video attributes when doing an automargin
2997 wrap to the next line. This makes the ncurses 'k' test work properly
2999 + correct caching of keyname(), which was using only half of its table.
3000 + minor fixes to memory-leak checking.
3001 + make SCREEN._acs_map and SCREEN._screen_acs_map pointers rather than
3002 arrays, making ACS_LEN less visible to applications (suggested by
3004 + move chunk in SCREEN ifdef'd for USE_WIDEC_SUPPORT to the end, so
3005 _screen_acs_map will have the same offset in both ncurses/ncursesw,
3006 making the corresponding tinfo/tinfow libraries binary-compatible
3007 (cf: 20041016, report by Stanislav Ievlev).
3010 + improve debug-tracing for EmitRange().
3011 + change default for --with-develop to "yes". Add NCURSES_NO_HARD_TABS
3012 and NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE environment variables to allow runtime
3013 suppression of the related hard-tabs and xmc-glitch features.
3014 + add ncurses version number to top-level manpages, e.g., ncurses, tic,
3015 infocmp, terminfo as well as form, menu, panel.
3016 + update config.guess, config.sub
3017 + modify ncurses.c to work around a bug in NetBSD 3.0 curses
3018 (field_buffer returning null for a valid field). The 'r' test
3019 appears to not work with that configuration since the new_fieldtype()
3020 function is broken in that implementation.
3023 + add hpterm-color terminfo entry -TD
3024 + fixes to compile test-programs with HPUX 11.23
3027 + add copyright notices to files other than those that are generated,
3028 data or adapted from pdcurses (reports by William McBrine, David
3030 + improve rendering on hpterm by not resetting attributes at the end
3031 of doupdate() if the terminal has the magic-cookie feature (report
3033 + add 256color variants of terminfo entries for programs which are
3034 reported to implement this feature -TD
3037 + fix typo in change to NewChar() macro from 20060311 changes, which
3038 broke tab-expansion (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
3041 + document -U option of tic and infocmp.
3042 + modify tic/infocmp to suppress smacs/rmacs when acsc is suppressed
3043 due to size limit, e.g., converting to termcap format. Also
3044 suppress them if the output format does not contain acsc and it
3045 was not VT100-like, i.e., a one-one mapping (Novell #163715).
3046 + add configure check to ensure that SIGWINCH is defined on platforms
3047 such as OS X which exclude that when _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., are
3048 defined (report by Nicholas Cole)
3051 + modify write_object() to not write coincidental extensions of an
3052 entry made due to it being referenced in a use= clause (report by
3054 + another fix for infocmp -i option, which did not ensure that some
3055 escape sequences had comparable prefixes (report by Alain Bench).
3058 + improve discussion of init/reset in terminfo and tput manpages
3059 (report by Alain Bench).
3060 + use is3 string for a fallback of rs3 in the reset program; it was
3061 using is2 (report by Alain Bench).
3062 + correct logic for infocmp -i option, which did not account for
3063 multiple digits in a parameter (cf: 20040828) (report by Alain
3065 + move _nc_handle_sigwinch() to lib_setup.c to make --with-termlib
3066 option work after 20060114 changes (report by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz).
3067 + add copyright notices to test-programs as needed (report by William
3071 + modify ncurses.c 'F' test to combine the wide-characters with color
3072 and/or video attributes.
3073 + modify test/ncurses to use CTL/Q or ESC consistently for exiting
3074 a test-screen (some commands used 'x' or 'q').
3077 + fix an off-by-one in the scrolling-region change (cf_ 20060311).
3080 + add checks in waddchnstr() and wadd_wchnstr() to stop copying when
3081 a null character is found (report by Igor Bogomazov).
3082 + modify progs/Makefile.in to make "tput init" work properly with
3083 cygwin, i.e., do not pass a ".exe" in the reference string used
3084 in check_aliases (report by Samuel Thibault).
3085 + add some checks to ensure current position is within scrolling
3086 region before scrolling on a new line (report by Dan Gookin).
3087 + change some NewChar() usage to static variables to work around
3088 stack garbage introduced when cchar_t is not packed (Redhat #182024).
3091 + workarounds to build test/movewindow with PDcurses 2.7.
3092 + fix for nsterm-16color entry (patch by Alain Bench).
3093 + correct a typo in infocmp manpage (Debian #354281).
3096 + add nsterm-16color entry -TD
3097 + updated mlterm terminfo entry -TD
3098 + remove 970913 feature for copying subwindows as they are moved in
3099 mvwin() (discussion with Bryan Christ).
3100 + modify test/demo_menus.c to demonstrate moving a menu (both the
3101 window and subwindow) using shifted cursor-keys.
3102 + start implementing recursive mvwin() in movewindow.c (incomplete).
3103 + add a fallback definition for GCC_PRINTFLIKE() in test.priv.h,
3104 for movewindow.c (report by William McBrine).
3105 + add help-message to test/movewindow.c
3108 + add test/movewindow.c, to test mvderwin().
3109 + fix ncurses soft-key test so color changes are shown immediately
3110 rather than delayed.
3111 + modify ncurses soft-key test to hide the keys when exiting the test
3113 + fixes to build test programs with PDCurses 2.7, e.g., its headers
3114 rely on autoconf symbols, and it declares stubs for nonfunctional
3115 terminfo and termcap entrypoints.
3118 + improved test/configure to build test/ncurses on HPUX 11 using the
3120 + documented ALTERNATE CONFIGURATIONS in the ncurses manpage, for the
3121 benefit of developers who do not read INSTALL.
3124 + correct form library Window_To_Buffer() change (cf: 20040516), which
3125 should ignore the video attributes (report by Ricardo Cantu).
3128 + minor fixes to xmc-glitch experimental code:
3129 + suppress line-drawing
3130 + implement max_attributes
3132 + minor fixes for the database iterator.
3133 + fix some buffer limits in c++ demo (comment by Falk Hueffner in
3137 + add toe -a option, to show all databases. This uses new private
3138 interfaces in the ncurses library for iterating through the list of
3140 + fix toe from 20000909 changes which made it not look at
3142 + make toe's -v option parameter optional as per manpage.
3143 + improve SIGWINCH handling by postponing its effect during newterm(),
3144 etc., when allocating screens.
3147 + modify wgetnstr() to return KEY_RESIZE if a sigwinch occurs. Use
3148 this in test/filter.c
3149 + fix an error in filter() modification which caused some applications
3153 + check if filter() was called when getting the screensize. Keep it
3154 at 1 if so (based on Redhat #174498).
3155 + add extension nofilter().
3156 + refined the workaround for ACS mapping.
3157 + make ifdef's consistent in curses.h for the extended colors so the
3158 header file can be used for the normal curses library. The header
3159 file installed for extended colors is a variation of the
3160 wide-character configuration (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
3163 + add a workaround to ACS mapping to allow applications such as
3164 test/blue.c to use the "PC ROM" characters by masking them with
3165 A_ALTCHARSET. This worked up til 5.5, but was lost in the revision
3166 of legacy coding (report by Michael Deutschmann).
3167 + add a null-pointer check in the wide-character version of
3168 calculate_actual_width() (report by Victor Julien).
3169 + improve test/ncurses 'd' (color-edit) test by allowing the RGB
3170 values to be set independently (patch by William McBrine).
3171 + modify test/configure script to allow building test programs with
3173 + modified test programs to allow some to work with NetBSD curses.
3174 Several do not because NetBSD curses implements a subset of X/Open
3175 curses, and also lacks much of SVr4 additions. But it's enough for
3177 + update config.guess and config.sub
3180 + use BSD-specific fix for return-value from cgetent() from CVS where
3181 an unknown terminal type would be reportd as "database not found".
3182 + make tgetent() return code more readable using new symbols
3184 + remove references to non-existent "tctest" program.
3185 + remove TESTPROGS from progs/Makefile.in (it was referring to code
3186 that was never built in that directory).
3187 + typos in curs_addchstr.3x, some doc files (noticed in OpenBSD CVS).
3190 + add use_legacy_coding() function to support lynx's font-switching
3192 + fix formatting in curs_termcap.3x (report by Mike Frysinger).
3193 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to change preprocessor-expanded _Bool back to
3197 + extend test/ncurses.c 's' (overlay window) test to exercise overlay(),
3198 overwrite() and copywin() with different combinations of colors and
3199 attributes (including background color) to make it easy to see the
3200 effect of the different functions.
3201 + corrections to menu/m_global.c for wide-characters (report by
3205 + add configure option --without-dlsym, allowing developers to
3206 configure GPM support without using dlsym() (discussion with Michael
3208 + fix wins_nwstr(), which did not handle single-column non-8bit codes
3212 + move prototypes for wide-character trace functions from curses.tail
3213 to curses.wide to avoid accidental reference to those if
3214 _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined without ensuring that <wchar.h> is
3216 + add/use NCURSES_INLINE definition.
3217 + change some internal functions to use int/unsigned rather than the
3221 + remove a redundant check in lib_color.c (Debian #335655).
3222 + use ld's -search_paths_first option on Darwin to work around odd
3223 search rules on that platform (report by Christian Gennerat, analysis
3225 + remove special case for Darwin in CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro.
3226 + ignore EINTR in tcgetattr/tcsetattr calls (Debian #339518).
3227 + fix several bugs in test/bs.c (patch by Stephen Lindholm).
3230 + other minor fixes to cygwin based on tack -TD
3231 + correct smacs in cygwin (Debian #338234, report by Baurzhan
3232 Ismagulov, who noted that it was fixed in Cygwin).
3235 + add shifted up/down arrow codes to xterm-new as kind/kri strings -TD
3236 + modify wbkgrnd() to avoid clearing the A_CHARTEXT attribute bits
3237 since those record the state of multicolumn characters (Debian
3239 + modify werase to clear multicolumn characters that extend into
3240 a derived window (Debian #316663).
3243 + move assignment from environment variable ESCDELAY from initscr()
3244 down to newterm() so the environment variable affects timeouts for
3245 terminals opened with newterm() as well.
3246 + fix a memory leak in keyname().
3247 + add test/demo_altkeys.c
3248 + modify test/demo_defkey.c to exit from loop via 'q' to allow
3249 leak-checking, as well as fix a buffer size in winnstr() call.
3252 + correct order of use-clauses in rxvt-basic entry which made codes for
3253 f1-f4 vt100-style rather than vt220-style (report by Gabor Z Papp).
3254 + suppress configure check for gnatmake if Ada95/Makefile.in is not
3256 + correct a typo in configure --with-bool option for the case where
3257 --without-cxx is used (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
3258 + add a note to INSTALL's discussion of --with-normal, pointing out
3259 that one may wish to use --without-gpm to ensure a completely
3260 static link (prompted by report by Felix von Leitner).
3262 20051010 5.5 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3265 + document in demo_forms.c some portability issues.
3268 + document side-effect of werase() which sets the cursor position.
3269 + save/restore the current position in form field editing to make
3273 + correct header dependencies in progs, allowing parallel make (report
3274 by Daniel Jacobowitz).
3275 + modify CF_BUILD_CC to ensure that pre-setting $BUILD_CC overrides
3276 the configure check for --with-build-cc (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
3277 + modify CF_CFG_DEFAULTS to not use /usr as the default prefix for
3279 + update config.guess and config.sub from
3280 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
3283 + modify sed expression which computes path for /usr/lib/terminfo
3284 symbolic link in install to ensure that it does not change unexpected
3285 levels of the path (Gentoo #42336).
3286 + modify default for --disable-lp64 configure option to reduce impact
3287 on existing 64-bit builds. Enabling the _LP64 option may change the
3288 size of chtype and mmask_t. However, for ABI 6, it is enabled by
3289 default (report by Mike Frysinger).
3290 + add configure script check for --enable-ext-mouse, bump ABI to 6 by
3291 default if it is used.
3292 + improve configure script logic for bumping ABI to omit this if the
3293 --with-abi-version option was used.
3294 + update address for Free Software Foundation in tack's source.
3295 + correct wins_wch(), which was not marking the filler-cells of
3296 multi-column characters (cf: 20041023).
3299 + modify mouse initialization to ensure that Gpm_Open() is called only
3300 once. Otherwise GPM gets confused in its initialization of signal
3301 handlers (Debian #326709).
3304 + modify logic for backspacing in a multiline form field to ensure that
3305 it works even when the preceding line is full (report by Frank van
3307 + remove comment about BUGS section of ncurses manpage (Debian #325481)
3310 + document some workarounds for shared and libtool library
3311 configurations in INSTALL (see --with-shared and --with-libtool).
3312 + modify CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GXX_VERSION macros to accommodate
3313 cross-compilers which emit the platform name in their version
3315 arm-sa1100-linux-gnu-g++ (GCC) 4.0.1
3316 (report by Frank van Vugt).
3319 + start updating documentation for upcoming 5.5 release.
3320 + fix to make libtool and libtinfo work together again (cf: 20050122).
3321 + fixes to allow building traces into libtinfo
3322 + add debug trace to tic that shows if/how ncurses will write to the
3323 lower corner of a terminal's screen.
3324 + update llib-l* files.
3327 + modify initializers in c++ binding to build with old versions of g++.
3328 + improve special case for 20050115 repainting fix, ensuring that if
3329 the first changed cell is not a character that the range to be
3330 repainted is adjusted to start at a character's beginning (Debian
3334 + fixes to build on QNX 6.1
3335 + improve configure script checks for Intel 9.0 compiler.
3336 + remove #include's for libc.h (obsolete).
3337 + adjust ifdef's in curses.priv.h so that when cross-compiling to
3338 produce comp_hash and make_keys, no dependency on wchar.h is needed.
3339 That simplifies the build-cppflags (report by Frank van Vugt).
3340 + move modules related to key-binding into libtinfo to fix linkage
3341 problem caused by 20050430 changes to MKkeyname.sh (report by
3342 Konstantin Andreev).
3345 + updates/fixes for configure script macros from vile -TD
3346 + make prism9's sgr string agree with the rest of the terminfo -TD
3347 + make vt220's sgr0 string consistent with sgr string, do this for
3348 several related cases -TD
3349 + improve translation to termcap by filtering the 'me' (sgr0) strings
3350 as in the runtime call to tgetent() (prompted by a discussion with
3352 + improve tic check for sgr0 versus sgr(0), to help ensure that sgr0
3353 resets line-drawing.
3356 + fix special cases for trimming sgr0 for hurd and vt220 (Debian
3358 + split-out _nc_trim_sgr0() from modifications made to tgetent(), to
3359 allow it to be used by tic to provide information about the runtime
3360 changes that would be made to sgr0 for termcap applications.
3361 + modify make_sed.sh to make the group-name in the NAME section of
3362 form/menu library manpage agree with the TITLE string when renaming
3363 is done for Debian (Debian #78866).
3366 + modify parameter type in c++ binding for insch() and mvwinsch() to
3367 be consistent with underlying ncurses library (was char, is chtype).
3368 + modify treatment of Intel compiler to allow _GNU_SOURCE to be defined
3370 + improve configure check for nanosleep(), checking that it works since
3371 some older systems such as AIX 4.3 have a nonworking version.
3374 + update config.guess and config.sub from
3375 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
3376 + modify misc/shlib to work in test-directory.
3377 + suppress $suffix in misc/run_tic.sh when cross-compiling. This
3378 allows cross-compiles to use the host's tic program to handle the
3379 "make install.data" step.
3380 + improve description of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables in manpages
3381 (prompted by report by Dave Ulrick).
3382 + improve description of cross-compiling in INSTALL
3383 + add NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html by Pradeep Padala
3384 (see http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/).
3385 + modify configure script to obtain soname for GPM library (discussion
3386 with Daniel Jacobowitz).
3387 + modify configure script so that --with-chtype option will still
3388 compute the unsigned literals suffix for constants in curses.h
3389 (report by Daniel Jacobowitz:
3390 + patches from Daniel Jacobowitz:
3391 + the man_db.renames entry for tack.1 was backwards.
3392 + tack.1 had some 1m's that should have been 1M's.
3393 + the section for curs_inwstr.3 was wrong.
3396 + correction to --with-chtype option (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
3399 + move build-time edit_man.sh and edit_man.sed scripts to top directory
3400 to simplify reusing them for renaming tack's manpage (prompted by a
3401 review of Debian package).
3402 + revert minor optimization from 20041030 (Debian #313609).
3403 + libtool-specific fixes, tested with libtool 1.4.3, 1.5.0, 1.5.6,
3404 1.5.10 and 1.5.18 (all work except as noted previously for the c++
3405 install using libtool 1.5.0):
3406 + modify the clean-rule in c++/Makefile.in to work with IRIX64 make
3408 + use $(LIBTOOL_UNINSTALL) symbol, overlooked in 20030830
3409 + add configure options --with-chtype and --with-mmask-t, to allow
3410 overriding of the non-LP64 model's use of the corresponding types.
3411 + revise test for size of chtype (and mmask_t), which always returned
3412 "long" due to an uninitialized variable (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
3415 + change _tracef's that used "%p" format for va_list values to ignore
3416 that, since on some platforms those are not pointers.
3417 + fixes for long-formats in printf's due to largefile support.
3420 + fixes for termcap support:
3421 + reset pointer to _nc_curr_token.tk_name when the input stream is
3422 closed, which could point to free memory (cf: 20030215).
3423 + delink TERMTYPE data which is used by the termcap reader, so that
3424 extended names data will be freed consistently.
3425 + free pointer to TERMTYPE data in _nc_free_termtype() rather than
3427 + add some entrypoints for freeing permanently allocated data via
3428 _nc_freeall() when NO_LEAKS is defined.
3429 + amend 20041030 change to _nc_do_color to ensure that optimization is
3430 applied only when the terminal supports back_color_erase (bce).
3433 + add sun-color terminfo entry -TD
3434 + correct a missing assignment in c++ binding's method
3435 NCursesPanel::UserPointer() from 20050409 changes.
3436 + improve configure check for large-files, adding check for dirent64
3438 + minor change to configure script to improve linker options for the
3442 + document error conditions for ncurses library functions (report by
3444 + regenerated html documentation for ada binding.
3445 see ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/gnathtml
3448 + regenerated html documentation for manpages.
3449 + add $(BUILD_EXEEXT) suffix to invocation of make_keys in
3450 ncurses/Makefile (Gentoo #89772).
3451 + modify c++/demo.cc to build with g++ -fno-implicit-templates option
3452 (patch by Mike Frysinger).
3453 + modify tic to filter out long extended names when translating to
3454 termcap format. Only two characters are permissible for termcap
3458 + modify terminfo entries xterm-new and rxvt to add strings for
3459 shift-, control-cursor keys.
3460 + workaround to allow c++ binding to compile with g++ 2.95.3, which
3461 has a broken implementation of static_cast<> (patch by Jeff Chua).
3462 + modify initialization of key lookup table so that if an extended
3463 capability (tic -x) string is defined, and its name begins with 'k',
3464 it will automatically be treated as a key.
3465 + modify test/keynames.c to allow for the possibility of extended
3466 key names, e.g., via define_key(), or via "tic -x".
3467 + add test/demo_termcap.c to show the contents of given entry via the
3471 + minor fixes for vt100/vt52 entries -TD
3472 + add configure option --enable-largefile
3473 + corrected libraries used to build Ada95/gen/gen, found in testing
3477 + update config.guess, config.sub
3478 + modify configure script check for _XOPEN_SOURCE, disable that on
3479 Darwin whose header files have problems (patch by Chris Zubrzycki).
3480 + modify form library Is_Printable_String() to use iswprint() rather
3481 than wcwidth() for determining if a character is printable. The
3482 latter caused it to reject menu items containing non-spacing
3484 + modify ncurses test program's F-test to handle non-spacing characters
3485 by combining them with a reverse-video blank.
3486 + review/fix several gcc -Wconversion warnings.
3489 + correct an off-by-one error in m_driver() for mouse-clicks used to
3490 position the mouse to a particular item.
3491 + implement test/demo_menus.c
3492 + add some checks in lib_mouse to ensure SP is set.
3493 + modify C++ binding to make 20050403 changes work with the configure
3494 --enable-const option.
3497 + modify start_color() to return ERR if it cannot allocate memory.
3498 + address g++ compiler warnings in C++ binding by adding explicit
3499 member initialization, assignment operators and copy constructors.
3500 Most of the changes simply preserve the existing semantics of the
3501 binding, which can leak memory, etc., but by making these features
3502 visible, it provides a framework for improving the binding.
3503 + improve C++ binding using static_cast, etc.
3504 + modify configure script --enable-warnings to add options to g++ to
3505 correspond to the gcc --enable-warnings.
3506 + modify C++ binding to use some C internal functions to make it
3507 compile properly on Solaris (and other platforms).
3510 + amend change from 20050320 to limit it to configurations with a
3512 + fix a bug introduced in 20050320 which broke the translation of
3513 nonprinting characters to uparrow form (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
3516 + add ifdef's for _LP64 in curses.h to avoid using wasteful 64-bits for
3517 chtype and mmask_t, but add configure option --disable-lp64 in case
3518 anyone used that configuration.
3519 + update misc/shlib script to account for Mac OS X (report by Michail
3521 + correct comparison for wrapping multibyte characters in
3522 waddch_literal() (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
3525 + add -c and -w options to tset to allow user to suppress ncurses'
3526 resizing of the terminal emulator window in the special case where it
3527 is not able to detect the true size (report by Win Delvaux, Debian
3529 + modify waddch_nosync() to account for locale zn_CH.GBK, which uses
3530 codes 128-159 as part of multibyte characters (report by Wang
3531 WenRui, Debian #300512).
3534 + modify ncurses.c 'd' test to make it work with 88-color
3535 configuration, i.e., by implementing scrolling.
3536 + improve scrolling in ncurses.c 'c' and 'C' tests, e.g., for 88-color
3540 + change tracemunch to use strict checking.
3541 + modify ncurses.c 'p' test to test line-drawing within a pad.
3542 + implement environment variable NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS to support
3543 miscellaneous terminal emulators which ignore alternate character
3544 set escape sequences when in UTF-8 mode.
3547 + change NCursesWindow::err_handler() to a virtual function (request by
3549 + modify fty_int.c and fty_num.c to handle wide characters (report by
3551 + adapt fix for fty_alpha.c to fty_alnum.c, which also handled normal
3552 and wide characters inconsistently (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
3553 + update llib-* files to reflect internal interface additions/changes.
3556 + improve test/configure script, adding tests for _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc.,
3558 + add aixterm-16color terminfo entry -TD
3559 + modified xterm-new terminfo entry to work with tgetent() changes -TD
3560 + extended changes in tgetent() from 20040710 to allow the substring of
3561 sgr0 which matches rmacs to be at the beginning of the sgr0 string
3562 (request by Thomas Wolff). Wolff says the visual effect in
3563 combination with pre-20040710 ncurses is improved.
3564 + fix off-by-one in winnstr() call which caused form field validation
3565 of multibyte characters to ignore the last character in a field.
3566 + correct logic in winsch() for inserting multibyte strings; the code
3567 would clear cells after the insertion rather than push them to the
3568 right (cf: 20040228).
3569 + fix an inconsistency in Check_Alpha_Field() between normal and wide
3570 character logic (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
3573 + fix a bug in editing wide-characters in form library: deleting a
3574 nonwide character modified the previous wide-character.
3575 + update manpage to describe NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2.
3576 + correct manpage description of mouseinterval() (Debian #280687).
3577 + add a note to default_colors.3x explaining why this extension was
3578 added (Debian #295083).
3579 + add traces to panel library.
3582 + improve editing of wide-characters in form library: left/right
3583 cursor movement, and single-character deletions work properly.
3584 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM happens to be prefixed with
3585 "xterm". Gpm_Open() would otherwise assert that it can deal with
3586 mouse events in this case.
3587 + modify GPM mouse support so it closes the server connection when
3588 the caller disables the mouse (report by Stanislav Ievlev).
3591 + add traces for callback functions in form library.
3592 + add experimental configure option --enable-ext-mouse, which defines
3593 NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2, and modifies the encoding of mouse events to
3594 support wheel mice, which may transmit buttons 4 and 5. This works
3595 with xterm and similar X terminal emulators (prompted by question by
3596 Andreas Henningsson, this is also related to Debian #230990).
3597 + improve configure macros CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE to
3598 avoid redefinition warnings on cygwin.
3601 + merge remaining development changes for extended colors (mostly
3602 complete, does not appear to break other configurations).
3603 + add xterm-88color.dat (part of extended colors testing).
3604 + improve _tracedump() handling of color pairs past 96.
3605 + modify return-value from start_color() to return OK if colors have
3606 already been started.
3607 + modify curs_color.3x list error conditions for init_pair(),
3608 pair_content() and color_content().
3609 + modify pair_content() to return -1 for consistency with init_pair()
3610 if it corresponds to the default-color.
3611 + change internal representation of default-color to allow application
3612 to use color number 255. This does not affect the total number of
3613 color pairs which are allowed.
3614 + add a top-level tags rule.
3617 + add a null-pointer check in wgetch() in case it is called without
3618 first calling initscr().
3619 + add some null-pointer checks for SP, which is not set by libtinfo.
3620 + modify misc/shlib to ensure that absolute pathnames are used.
3621 + modify test/Makefile.in, etc., to link test programs only against the
3622 libraries needed, e.g., omit form/menu/panel library for the ones
3623 that are curses-specific.
3624 + change SP->_current_attr to a pointer, adjust ifdef's to ensure that
3625 libtinfo.so and libtinfow.so have the same ABI. The reason for this
3626 is that the corresponding data which belongs to the upper-level
3627 ncurses library has a different size in each model (report by
3631 + minor fixes to allow test-compiles with g++.
3632 + correct column value shown in tic's warnings, which did not account
3633 for leading whitespace.
3634 + add a check in _nc_trans_string() for improperly ended strings, i.e.,
3635 where a following line begins in column 1.
3636 + modify _nc_save_str() to return a null pointer on buffer overflow.
3637 + improve repainting while scrolling wide-character data (Eungkyu Song).
3640 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
3643 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
3644 + fix manpage typo (FreeBSD report docs/75544).
3645 + update config.guess, config.sub
3646 > patches for configure script (Albert Chin-A-Young):
3647 + improved fix to make mbstate_t recognized on HPUX 11i (cf:
3648 20030705), making vsscanf() prototype visible on IRIX64. Tested for
3649 on HP-UX 11i, Solaris 7, 8, 9, AIX 4.3.3, 5.2, Tru64 UNIX 4.0D, 5.1,
3650 IRIX64 6.5, Redhat Linux 7.1, 9, and RHEL 2.1, 3.0.
3651 + print the result of the --disable-home-terminfo option.
3652 + use -rpath when compiling with SGI C compiler.
3655 + add trace calls to remaining public functions in form and menu
3657 + fix check for numeric digits in test/ncurses.c 'b' and 'B' tests.
3658 + fix typo in test/ncurses.c 'c' test from 20041218.
3661 + revise test/ncurses.c 'c' color test to improve use for xterm-88color
3662 and xterm-256color, added 'C' test using the wide-character color_set
3663 and attr_set functions.
3666 + modify configure script to work with Intel compiler.
3667 + fix an limit-check in wadd_wchnstr() which caused labels in the
3668 forms-demo to be one character short.
3669 + fix typo in curs_addchstr.3x (Jared Yanovich).
3670 + add trace calls to most functions in form and menu libraries.
3671 + update working-position for adding wide-characters when window is
3672 scrolled (prompted by related report by Eungkyu Song).
3675 + replace some references on Linux to wcrtomb() which use it to obtain
3676 the length of a multibyte string with _nc_wcrtomb, since wcrtomb() is
3677 broken in glibc (see Debian #284260).
3678 + corrected length-computation in wide-character support for
3680 + some fixes to frm_driver.c to allow it to accept multibyte input.
3681 + modify configure script to work with Intel 8.0 compiler.
3684 + amend change to setupterm() in 20030405 which would reuse the value
3685 of cur_term if the same output was selected. This now reuses it only
3686 when setupterm() is called from tgetent(), which has no notion of
3687 separate SCREENs. Note that tgetent() must be called after initscr()
3688 or newterm() to use this feature (Redhat Bugzilla #140326).
3689 + add a check in CF_BUILD_CC macro to ensure that developer has given
3690 the --with-build-cc option when cross-compiling (report by Alexandre
3692 + improved configure script checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE and
3693 _POSIX_C_SOURCE (fix for IRIX 5.3 from Georg Schwarz, _POSIX_C_SOURCE
3695 + cosmetic fix to test/gdc.c to recolor the bottom edge of the box
3696 for consistency (comment by Dan Nelson).
3699 + update wsvt25 terminfo entry -TD
3700 + modify test/ins_wide.c to test all flavors of ins_wstr().
3701 + ignore filler-cells in wadd_wchnstr() when adding a cchar_t array
3702 which consists of multi-column characters, since this function
3703 constructs them (cf: 20041023).
3704 + modify winnstr() to return multibyte character strings for the
3705 wide-character configuration.
3708 + fixes to make slk_set() and slk_wset() accept and store multibyte
3709 or multicolumn characters.
3712 + improve color optimization a little by making _nc_do_color() check
3713 if the old/new pairs are equivalent to the default pair 0.
3714 + modify assume_default_colors() to not require that
3715 use_default_colors() be called first.
3718 + modify term_attrs() to use termattrs(), add the extended attributes
3719 such as enter_horizontal_hl_mode for WA_HORIZONTAL to term_attrs().
3720 + add logic in waddch_literal() to clear orphaned cells when one
3721 multi-column character partly overwrites another.
3722 + improved logic for clearing cells when a multi-column character
3723 must be wrapped to a new line.
3724 + revise storage of cells for multi-column characters to correct a
3725 problem with repainting. In the old scheme, it was possible for
3726 doupdate() to decide that only part of a multi-column character
3727 should be repainted since the filler cells stored only an attribute
3728 to denote them as fillers, rather than the character value and the
3732 + minor fixes for traces.
3733 + add SP->_screen_acs_map[], used to ensure that mapping of missing
3734 line-drawing characters is handled properly. For example, ACS_DARROW
3735 is absent from xterm-new, and it was coincidentally displayed the
3739 + amend 20021221 workaround for broken acs to reset the sgr, rmacs
3740 and smacs strings as well. Also modify the check for screen's
3741 limitations in that area to allow the multi-character shift-in
3742 and shift-out which seem to work.
3743 + change GPM initialization, using dl library to load it dynamically
3744 at runtime (Debian #110586).
3747 + correct logic for color pair in setcchar() and getcchar() (patch by
3748 Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
3749 + add t/T commands to ncurses b/B tests to allow a different color to
3750 be tested for the attrset part of the test than is used in the
3754 + fix to make setcchar() to work when its wchar_t* parameter is
3755 pointing to a string which contains more data than can be converted.
3756 + modify wget_wstr() and example in ncurses.c to work if wchar_t and
3757 wint_t are different sizes (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
3760 + remove check in wget_wch() added to fix an infinite loop, appears to
3761 have been working around a transitory glibc bug, and interferes
3762 with normal operation (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
3763 + correct wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not pass the rendition
3764 information (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
3765 + fix aclocal.m4 so that the wide-character version of ncurses gets
3766 compiled as libncursesw.5.dylib, instead of libncurses.5w.dylib
3767 (adapted from patch by James J Ramsey).
3768 + change configure script for --with-caps option to indicate that it
3769 is no longer experimental.
3770 + change configure script to reflect the fact that --enable-widec has
3771 not been "experimental" since 5.3 (report by Bruno Lustosa).
3774 + add 'B' test to ncurses.c, to exercise some wide-character functions.
3777 + modify infocmp -i option to match 8-bit controls against its table
3778 entries, e.g., so it can analyze the xterm-8bit entry.
3779 + add morphos terminfo entry, improve amiga-8bit entry (Pavel Fedin).
3780 + correct translation of "%%" in terminfo format to termcap, e.g.,
3781 using "tic -C" (Redhat Bugzilla #130921).
3782 + modified configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to ensure that if
3783 it defines _POSIX_C_SOURCE, that it defines it to a specific value
3784 (comp.os.stratus newsgroup comment).
3787 + fixes to build with Ada95 binding with gnat 3.4 (all warnings are
3788 fatal, and gnat does not follow the guidelines for pragmas).
3789 However that did find a coding error in Assume_Default_Colors().
3790 + modify several terminfo entries to ensure xterm mouse and cursor
3791 visibility are reset in rs2 string: hurd, putty, gnome,
3792 konsole-base, mlterm, Eterm, screen (Debian #265784, #55637). The
3793 xterm entries are left alone - old ones for compatibility, and the
3794 new ones do not require this change. -TD
3797 + fake a SIGWINCH in newterm() to accommodate buggy terminal emulators
3798 and window managers (Debian #265631).
3799 > terminfo updates -TD
3800 + remove dch/dch1 from rxvt because they are implemented inconsistently
3801 with the common usage of bce/ech
3802 + remove khome from vt220 (vt220's have no home key)
3806 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test, adding v/V toggles to cycle through
3807 combinations of video attributes so that for instance bold and
3808 underline can be tested. This made the legend too crowded, added
3809 a help window as well.
3810 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test to cycle through default colors if
3811 the -d option is set.
3812 + update putty terminfo entry (Robert de Bath).
3815 + modify test/cardfile.c to allow it to read more data than can be
3817 + correct logic in resizeterm.c which kept it from processing all
3818 levels of window hierarchy (reports by Folkert van Heusden,
3822 + modify "tic -cv" to ignore delays when comparing strings. Also
3823 modify it to ignore a canceled sgr string, e.g., for terminals which
3824 cannot properly combine attributes in one control sequence.
3825 + corrections for gnome and konsole entries (Redhat Bugzilla #122815,
3826 patch by Hans de Goede)
3827 > terminfo updates -TD
3828 + make ncsa-m rmacs/smacs consistent with sgr
3829 + add sgr, rc/sc and ech to syscons entries
3830 + add function-keys to decansi
3831 + add sgr to mterm-ansi
3832 + add sgr, civis, cnorm to emu
3833 + correct/simplify cup in addrinfo
3836 > terminfo updates -TD
3837 + add xterm-pc-fkeys
3838 + review/update gnome and gnome-rh90 entries (prompted by Redhat
3840 + review/update konsole entries
3841 + add sgr, correct sgr0 for kterm and mlterm
3842 + correct tsl string in kterm
3845 + add configure option --without-xterm-new
3848 + add check in wget_wch() for printable bytes that are not part of a
3849 multibyte character.
3850 + modify wadd_wchnstr() to render text using window's background
3852 + improve tic's check to compare sgr and sgr0.
3853 + fix c++ directory's .cc.i rule.
3854 + modify logic in tgetent() which adjusts the termcap "me" string
3855 to work with ISO-2022 string used in xterm-new (cf: 20010908).
3856 + modify tic's check for conflicting function keys to omit that if
3857 converting termcap to termcap format.
3858 + add -U option to tic and infocmp.
3859 + add rmam/smam to linux terminfo entry (Trevor Van Bremen)
3860 > terminfo updates -TD
3861 + minor fixes for emu
3863 + change wyse acsc strings to use 'i' map rather than 'I'
3868 + use tic -x to install terminfo database -TD
3869 + add -x to infocmp's usage message.
3870 + correct field used for comparing O_ROWMAJOR in set_menu_format()
3871 (report/patch by Tony Li).
3872 + fix a missing nul check in set_field_buffer() from 20040508 changes.
3873 > terminfo updates -TD
3874 + make xterm-xf86-v43 derived from xterm-xf86-v40 rather than
3876 + align with xterm patch #192's use of xterm-new -TD
3877 + update xterm-new and xterm-8bit for cvvis/cnorm strings -TD
3878 + make xterm-new the default "xterm" entry -TD
3881 + correct BUILD_CPPFLAGS substitution in ncurses/Makefile.in, to allow
3882 cross-compiling from a separate directory tree (report/patch by
3884 + modify is_term_resized() to ensure that window sizes are nonzero,
3885 as documented in the manpage (report by Ian Collier).
3886 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro to make Hurd port build
3887 (Debian #249214, report/patch by Jeff Bailey).
3888 + configure-script mods from xterm, e.g., updates to CF_ADD_CFLAGS
3889 + update config.guess, config.sub
3890 > terminfo updates -TD
3892 + add xterm-xf86-v44
3893 + modify xterm-new aka xterm-xfree86 to accommodate luit, which
3894 relies on G1 being used via an ISO-2022 escape sequence (report by
3899 + reconsidered winsnstr(), decided after comparing other
3900 implementations that wrapping is an X/Open documentation error.
3901 + modify test/inserts.c to test all flavors of insstr().
3904 + add setlocale() calls to a few test programs which may require it:
3905 demo_forms.c, filter.c, ins_wide.c, inserts.c
3906 + correct a few misspelled function names in ncurses-intro.html (report
3908 + correct internal name of key_defined() manpage, which conflicted with
3912 + correct size of internal pad used for holding wide-character
3913 field_buffer() results.
3914 + modify data_ahead() to work with wide-characters.
3917 + improve description of terminfo if-then-else expressions (suggested
3919 + improve test/ncurses.c 'd' test, allow it to use external file for
3920 initial palette (added xterm-16color.dat and linux-color.dat), and
3921 reset colors to the initial palette when starting/ending the test.
3922 + change limit-check in init_color() to allow r/g/b component to
3923 reach 1000 (cf: 20020928).
3926 + modify form library to use cchar_t's rather than char's in the
3927 wide-character configuration for storing data for field buffers.
3928 + correct logic of win_wchnstr(), which did not work for more than
3932 + replace memset/memcpy usage in form library with for-loops to
3933 simplify changing the datatype of FIELD.buf, part of wide-character
3935 + fix some inconsistent use of #if/#ifdef (report by Alain Guibert).
3938 + modify menu library to account for actual number of columns used by
3939 multibyte character strings, in the wide-character configuration
3940 (adapted from patch by Philipp Tomsich).
3941 + add "-x" option to infocmp like tic's "-x", for use in "-F"
3942 comparisons. This modifies infocmp to only report extended
3943 capabilities if the -x option is given, making this more consistent
3944 with tic. Some scripts may break, since infocmp previous gave this
3945 information without an option.
3946 + modify termcap-parsing to retain 2-character aliases at the beginning
3947 of an entry if the "-x" option is used in tic.
3950 + minor compiler-warning and test-program fixes.
3953 + modify tic's missing-sgr warning to apply to terminfo only.
3954 + free some memory leaks in tic.
3955 + remove check in post_menu() that prevented menus from extending
3956 beyond the screen (request by Max J. Werner).
3957 + remove check in newwin() that prevents allocating windows
3958 that extend beyond the screen. Solaris curses does this.
3959 + add ifdef in test/color_set.c to allow it to compile with older
3961 + add napms() calls to test/dots.c to make it not be a CPU hog.
3964 + modify unctrl() to return null if its parameter does not correspond
3965 to an unsigned char.
3966 + add some limit-checks to guard isprint(), etc., from being used on
3967 values that do not fit into an unsigned char (report by Sami Farin).
3970 + fix a typo in the _nc_get_locale() change.
3973 + modify _nc_get_locale() to use setlocale() to query the program's
3974 current locale rather than using getenv(). This fixes a case in tin
3975 which relies on legacy treatment of 8-bit characters when the locale
3976 is not initialized (reported by Urs Jansen).
3977 + add sgr string to screen's and rxvt's terminfo entries -TD.
3978 + add a check in tic for terminfo entries having an sgr0 but no sgr
3979 string. This confuses Tru64 and HPUX curses when combined with
3980 color, e.g., making them leave line-drawing characters in odd places.
3981 + correct casts used in ABSENT_BOOLEAN, CANCELLED_BOOLEAN, matches the
3982 original definitions used in Debian package to fix PowerPC bug before
3983 20030802 (Debian #237629).
3986 + modify PutAttrChar() and PUTC() macro to improve use of
3987 A_ALTCHARSET attribute to prevent line-drawing characters from
3988 being lost in situations where the locale would otherwise treat the
3989 raw data as nonprintable (Debian #227879).
3992 + fix a redefinition of CTRL() macro in test/view.c for AIX 5.2 (report
3994 + remove ".PP" after ".SH NAME" in a few manpages; this confuses
3995 some apropos script (Debian #237831).
3998 + modify ncurses.c 'r' test so editing commands, like inserted text,
3999 set the field background, and the state of insert/overlay editing
4000 mode is shown in that test.
4001 + change syntax of dummy targets in Ada95 makefiles to work with pmake.
4002 + correct logic in test/ncurses.c 'b' for noncolor terminals which
4003 did not recognize a quit-command (cf: 20030419).
4006 + modify _nc_insert_ch() to allow for its input to be part of a
4008 + split out lib_insnstr.c, to prepare to rewrite it. X/Open states
4009 that this function performs wrapping, unlike all of the other
4010 insert-functions. Currently it does not wrap.
4011 + check for nl_langinfo(CODESET), use it if available
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