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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 may be cited in this file by their initials.
42 Each accounts for half of one percent or more of the changes since 1.9.9e.
43 See the AUTHORS file for the corresponding full names.
45 Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
46 it is not possible to add this information.
49 + add midnightbsd to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro (patch by Urs Jansen).
50 + add "@" command to test/ncurses F-test, to allow rapid jump to
51 different character pages.
52 + update config.guess, config.sub from
53 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
56 + build-fix (reports by Chih-Hsuan Yen, Sven Joachim).
59 + check --with-fallbacks option to ensure there is a value, and add
60 the fallback information to top-level Makefile summary.
61 + add some traces in initialization to show whether a fallback entry is
63 + build-fix for test/movewindow with ncurses-examples on Solaris.
64 + add "-l" option to test/background, to dump screen contents in a form
65 that lets different curses implementations be compared.
66 + modify the initialization checks for mouse so that the xterm+sm+1006
67 block will work with terminal descriptions not mentioning xterm
68 (report by Tomas Janousek).
71 + ignore the hex/b64 $TERMINFO in toe's listing.
72 + correct a status-check in _nc_read_tic_entry() so that if reading
73 a hex/b64 $TERMINFO, and the $TERM does not match, fall-through to
74 the compiled-in search list.
77 + several workarounds to ensure proper C compiler used in parts of
79 + update config.guess, config.sub from
80 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
83 + add OpenGL clients alacritty and kitty -TD
84 + add Smulx for tmux, vte-2018 -Nicholas Marriott
87 + ignore $TERMINFO as a default value in configure script if it came
88 from the infocmp -Q option.
89 + allow value for --with-versioned-syms to be a relative pathname
90 + add a couple of broken-linker symbols to the list of versioned
91 symbols to help with link-time optimization versus weak symbols.
92 + apply shift/control/alt logic when decoding xterm's 1006 mode to
93 wheel-mouse events (Redhat #1610681).
96 + amend change from 20180818, which undid a fix for the $INSTALL value
97 to make it an absolute path.
100 + improve a configure check to work with newer optimizers (report by
101 Denis Pronin, Gentoo #606142).
102 + fix typo in tput.c (Sven Joachim, cf: 20180825).
105 + fix typo in tvi955 -TD
106 + corrected acsc for regent60 -TD
107 + add alias n7900 -TD
108 + corrected acsc for tvi950 -TD
109 + remove bogus kf0 from tvi950 -TD
110 + added function-key definitions to agree with Televideo 950 manual -TD
111 + add bel to tvi950 -TD
112 + add shifted function-keys to regent60 -TD
113 + renumber regent40 function-keys to match manual -TD
114 + add cd (clr_eos) to adds200 -TD
117 + build-fix: remove a _tracef call which was used for debugging (report
121 + ignore interrupted system-call in test/ncurses's command-line, e.g.,
122 if the terminal were resized.
123 + add shift/control/alt logic for decoding xterm's 1006 mode (Redhat
124 #1610681, cf: 20141011).
125 + modify rpm test-packages to not use --disable-relink with Redhat,
126 since Fedora 28's tools do not work with that feature.
129 + document --with-pcre2 configure option in INSTALL.
130 + improve workaround for special case in PutAttrChar() where a cell is
131 marked as alternate-character set, to handle a case where the
132 character in the cell does not correspond to any of the ASCII
133 fallbacks (report by Leon Winter, cf: 20180505).
134 + amend change to form library which attempted to avoid unnecessary
135 update of cursor position in non-public fields, to simply disable
136 output in this case (patch by Leon Winter, cf: 20180414).
137 + improve check for LINE_MAX runtime limit, to accommodate broken
138 implementations of sysconf().
141 + improve manual page for wgetnstr, giving background for the length
143 + define a limit for wgetnstr, wgetn_wstr when length is negative or
145 + update configure script to autoconf 2.52.20180819 (Debian #887390).
148 + add a section to tput manual page clarifying how it determines the
149 terminal size (prompted by discussion with Grant Jenks).
150 + add "--disable-relink" to rpm test-packages, for consistency with the
152 + split spec-file into ncurses6.spec and ncursest6.spec to work around
153 toolset breakage in Fedora 28.
154 + drop mention of "--disable-touching", which was not in the final
158 + build-fix for PDCurses with ncurses-examples.
159 + improved CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS.
160 + modify configure scripts to reduce relinking/ranlib during library
161 install (Debian #903790):
162 + use "install -p" when available, to avoid need for ranlib of
164 + modify scripts which use "--disable-relink" to add a 1-second
165 sleep to work around tools which use whole-second timestamps, e.g.,
166 in utime() rather than the actual file system resolution.
169 + improve logic for clear with E3 extension, in case the terminal
170 scrolls content onto its saved-lines before actually clearing
171 the display, by clearing the saved-lines after clearing the
172 display (report/patch by Nicholas Marriott).
175 + improve documentation regarding feature-test macros in curses.h
176 + improve documentation regarding the virtual and physical screens.
177 + formatting fixes for manpages, regenerate man-html documentation.
180 + build-fixes for gcc8.
181 + corrected acsc for wy50 -TD
182 + add wy50 and wy60 shifted function-keys as kF1 to kF16 -TD
183 + remove ansi+rep mis-added to interix in 2018-02-23 -TD
186 + add enum, regex examples to test/demo_forms
187 + add configure check for pcre-posix library to help with MinGW port.
190 + build-fixes for gcc8.
191 + correct order of WINDOW._ttytype versus WINDOW._windowlist in
193 + fix a case where tiparm could return null if the format-string was
194 empty (Debian #902630).
197 + add acsc string to vi200 (Nibby Nebbulous)
198 add right/down-arrow to vi200's acsc -TD
199 + add "x" to tput's getopt string so that "tput -x clear" works
201 + minor fixes prompted by anonymous report on stack overflow:
202 + correct order of checks in _nc_get_locale(), for systems lacking
204 + add "#error" in a few places to flag unsupported configurations
207 + use _WIN32/_WIN64 in preference to __MINGW32__/__MINGW64__ symbols
208 to simplify building with MSVC, since the former are defined in both
209 compiler configurations (report by Ali Abdulkadir).
210 + further improvements to configure-checks from work on dialog, i.e.,
211 updated CF_ADD_INCDIR, CF_FIND_LINKAGE, CF_GCC_WARNINGS,
212 CF_GNU_SOURCE, CF_LARGEFILE, CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE, CF_SIZECHANGE, and
214 + update config.guess, config.sub from
215 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
218 + build-fix for ncurses-examples related to gcc8-fixes (cf: 20180526).
219 + reduce use of _GNU_SOURCE for current glibc where _DEFAULT_SOURCE
220 combines with _XOPEN_SOURCE (Debian #900987).
221 + change target configure level for _XOPEN_SOURCE to 600 to address
222 use of vsscanf and setenv.
223 + improved configure-checks CF_SIZECHANGE and CF_STRUCT_TERMIOS from
227 + modify generated ncurses*config and ncurses.pc, ncursesw.pc, etc.,
228 to list helper libraries such as gpm for static linking (Debian
230 + marked vwprintw and vwscanw as deprecated; recommend using vw_printw
231 and vw_scanw, respectively.
234 + add RPM test-package "ncursest-examples".
235 + modified RPM test-package to work with Mageia6.
238 + add note in curs_util.3x about unctrl.h
239 + review/improve header files to ensure that those include necessary
240 files except for the previously-documented cases (report by Isaac
242 + improved test-package scripts, adapted from byacc 1.9 20180525.
243 + fix some gcc8 warnings seen in Redhat package build, but
244 work around bug in gcc8 compiler warnings in comp_parse.c
247 + formatting fixes for manpages, regenerate man-html documentation.
248 + trim spurious whitespace from tmux in 2018-02-24 changes;
249 fix some inconsistencies in/between tmux- and iterm2-entries for SGR
250 (report by C Anthony Risinger)
251 + improve iterm2 using some xterm features which it has adapted -TD
252 + add check in pair_content() to handle the case where caller asks
253 for an uninitialized pair (Debian #898658).
256 + remove trailing ';' from GCC_DEPRECATED definition.
257 + repair a change from 20110730 which left an error-check/warning dead.
258 + fix several minor Coverity warnings.
261 + add deprecation warnings for internal functions called by older
263 + fix a special case in PutAttrChar() where a cell is marked as
264 alternate-character set, but the terminal does not actually support
265 the given graphic character. This would happen in an older terminal
266 such as vt52, which lacks most line-drawing capability.
267 + use configure --with-config-suffix option to work around filename
268 conflict with Debian packages versus test-packages.
269 + update tracemunch to work with perl 5.26.2, which changed the rules
270 for escaping regular expressions.
273 + document new form-extension O_EDGE_INSERT_STAY (report by Leon
275 + correct error-returns listed in manual pages for a few form functions
276 (report by Leon Winter).
277 + add a check in form-library for null-pointer dereference:
278 unfocus_current_field (form);
279 form_driver (form, REQ_VALIDATION);
280 (patch by Leon Winter).
283 + modify form library to optionally delay cursor movement on a field
284 edge/boundary (patch by Leon Winter).
285 + modify form library to avoid unnecessary update of cursor position in
286 non-public fields (patch by Leon Winter).
287 + remove unused _nc_import_termtype2() function.
288 + also add/improve null-pointer checks in other places
289 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_parse_entry to handle an error when
290 a use-name is invalid syntax (report by Chung-Yi Lin).
293 + clarify in manual pages that vwprintw and vwscanw are obsolete,
294 not part of X/Open Curses since 2007.
295 + use "const" in some prototypes rather than NCURSES_CONST where X/Open
296 Curses was updated to do this, e.g., wscanw, newterm, the terminfo
297 interface. Also use "const" for consistency in the termcap
298 interface, which was withdrawn by X/Open Curses in Issue 5 (2007).
299 As of Issue 7, X/Open Curses still lacks "const" for certain return
300 values, e.g., keyname().
303 + improve terminfo write/read by modifying the fourth item of the
304 extended header to denote the number of valid strings in the extended
305 string table (prompted by a comment in unibilium's sources).
308 + amend Scaled256() macro in test/picsmap.c to cover the full range
309 0..1000 (report by Roger Pau Monne).
310 + add some checks in tracemunch for undefined variables.
311 + trim some redundant capabilities from st-0.7 -TD
312 + trim unnecessary setf/setb from interix -TD
315 + fix a check in infotocap which may not have detected a problem when
317 + add a check in tic for the case where setf/setb are given using
318 different strings, but provide identical results to setaf/setab.
319 + further improve fix for terminfo.5 (patch by Kir Kolyshkin).
320 + reorder loop-limit checks in winsnstr() in case the string has no
321 terminating null and only the number of characters is used (patch
325 + modify TurnOn/TurnOff macros in lib_vidattr.c and lib_vid_attr.c to
326 avoid expansion of "CUR" in trace.
327 + improve a few lintian warnings in test-packages.
328 + modify lib_setup to avoid calling pthread_self() without first
329 verifying that the address is valid, i.e., for weak symbols
330 (report/patch by Werner Fink).
331 + modify generated terminfo.5 to not use "expand" and related width
332 on the last column of tables, making layout on wide terminals look
333 better (adapted from patch by Kir Kolyshkin).
334 + add a category to report_offsets, e.g., "w" for wide-character, "t"
335 for threads to make the report more readable. Reorganized the
336 structures reported to make the categories more apparent.
337 + simplify some ifdef's for extended-colors.
338 + add NCURSES_GLOBALS and NCURSES_PRESCREEN to report_offsets, to show
339 how similar the different tinfo configurations are.
342 + modify _nc_resolve_uses2() to detect incompatible types when merging
343 a "use=" clause of extended capabilities. The problem was seen in a
344 defective terminfo integrated from simpleterm sources in 20171111,
345 compounded by repair in 20180121.
346 + correct Ss/Ms interchange in st-0.7 entry (tmux #1264) -TD
347 + fix remaining flash capabilities with trailing mandatory delays -TD
348 + correct cut/paste in NEWS (report by Sven Joachim).
351 + remove incorrect free() from 20170617 changes (report by David Macek).
352 + correct type for "U8" in user_caps.5; it is a number not boolean.
353 + add a null-pointer check in safe_sprintf.c (report by Steven Noonan).
354 + improve fix for Debian #882620 by reusing limit2 variable (report by
355 Julien Cristau, Sven Joachim).
358 + modify misc/Makefile.in to install/uninstall explicit list in case
359 the build-directory happens to have no ".pc" files when an uninstall
360 is performed (report by Jeffrey Walton).
361 + deprecate safe-sprintf, since the vsnprintf function, which does what
362 was needed, was standardized long ago.
363 + add several development/experimental options to development packages.
364 + minor reordering of options in configure script to make the threaded
365 and reentrant options distinct from the other extensions which are
369 + minor fixes to test/*.h to make them idempotent.
370 + add/use test/parse_rgb.h to show how the "RGB" capability works.
371 + add a clarification in user_caps.5 regarding "RGB" capability.
372 + add extended_slk_color{,_sp} symbols to the appropriate
373 package/*.{map,sym} files (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20170401).
376 + update "VERSION" file, used in shared-library naming.
378 20180127 6.1 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
381 + updated release notes
382 + amend a warning message from tic which should have flagged misuse
383 of "XT" capability in "screen" terminal description.
385 + trim "XT" from screen entry, add comments to explain why it was
387 + modify iterm to use xterm+sl-twm building block -TD
388 + mark konsole-420pc, konsole-vt100, konsole-xf3x obsolete reflecting
389 konsole's removal in 2008 -TD
390 + expanded the history section of konsole to explain its flawed
391 imitation of xterm's keyboard -TD
392 + use xterm+x11mouse in screen.* entries because screen does not yet
393 support xterm's 1006 mode -TD
394 + add nsterm-build400 for macOS 10.13 -TD
395 + add ansi+idc1, use that in ansi+idc adding dch for consistency -TD
396 + update vte to vte-2017 -TD
397 + add ecma+strikeout to vte-2017 -TD
398 + add iterm2-direct -TD
399 + updated teraterm, added teraterm-256color -TD
400 + add mlterm-direct -TD
401 + add descriptions for ANSI building-blocks -TD
405 + add xterm+noalt, xterm+titlestack, xterm+alt1049, xterm+alt+title
406 blocks from xterm #331 -TD
407 + add xterm+direct, xterm+indirect, xterm-direct entries from xterm
409 + modify xterm+256color and xterm+256setaf to use correct number of
410 color pairs, for ncurses 6.1 -TD
411 + add rs1 capability to xterm-256color -TD
412 + modify xterm-r5, xterm-r6 and xterm-xf86-v32 to use xterm+kbs to
413 match xterm #272, reflecting packager's changes -TD
414 + remove "boolean" Se, Ss from st-0.7 -TD
415 + add konsole-direct and st-direct -TD
416 + remove unsupported "Tc" capability from st-0.7; use st-direct if
417 direct-colors are wanted -TD
419 + add XT, hpa, indn, and vpa to screen, and invis, E3 to tmux (patch by
421 + use xterm+sm+1006 in xterm-new, vte-2014 -TD
422 + use xterm+x11mouse in iterm, iterm2, mlterm3 because xterm's 1006
423 mode does not work with those programs. konsole is debatable -TD
424 + add "termite" entry (report by Markus Pfeiffer) -TD
425 > merge branch begun April 2, 2017 which provides these features:
426 + support read/write new binary-format for terminfo which stores
427 numeric capabilities as a signed 32-bit integer. The test programs
428 such as picsmap, ncurses were created or updated during 2017 to use
430 + the new format is written by the wide-character configuration of
431 tic when it finds a numeric capability larger than 32767.
432 + other applications such as infocmp built with the wide-character
433 ncurses library work as expected.
434 + applications built with the "narrow" (8-bit) configuration will
435 read the new format, but will limit those extended values to 32767.
436 + in either wide/narrow configuration, the structure defined in
437 term.h still uses signed 16-bit values.
438 + because it is incompatible with the legacy (mid-1980s) binary format,
439 a new magic value is provided for the "file" program.
440 + the term.5 manual page is updated to describe this new format.
441 + the limit on file-size for compiled terminfo is increased in the
442 wide-character configuration to 32768.
445 + build-fix in picsmap.c for stdint.h existence.
446 + add --disable-stripping option to configure scripts.
447 + modify ncurses-examples to install test-scripts in the data directory.
448 + work around tool-breakage in Debian 9 and later by invoking
449 gprconfig to specify the C compiler to be used by gnatmake,
450 and conditionally suppressing Library_Options line for static
452 + bump the compat level for test-packages to 7, i.e., Debian 5.
455 + fixes for writing extended color pairs in putwin.
456 + modify test/savescreen.c to add test patterns that exercise 88-,
458 + modify configure option --with-build-cc, adding clang, c89 and c99
459 as possible default values.
460 + modify ncurses-examples configure script to use pkg-config for the
461 extra form/menu/panel libraries, to be more consistent with the
462 handling of the curses/ncurses library.
463 + modify test-packages for mingw to supply "pc" files.
464 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to list -lpthread as a private library when
465 configured to access it via weak symbols.
466 + simplify gen-pkgconfig.in, adding -ltinfo without the special linker
467 checks because some versions of the linker simply hard-code the
469 + update URLs for ncurses website to use https.
470 + modify CF_CURSES_LIBS to fill in $cf_nculib_root in case the
471 ncurses-examples are built with a system ncurses that lacks the
472 standard "curses" symbolic link, as done by SuSE. The symbol is
473 needed to make a followup check for the pthread library work, and
474 would be set properly using the options "--with-screen", etc.
475 + generate misc/*.pc with "all" rule, as done for "sources" rule
476 (report by Jeffrey Walton).
479 + build-fix for ncurses-examples with Fedora27, adding check for
480 reset_color_pairs() -- not yet in Fedora's package.
481 + consistently add $CFLAGS to $MK_SHARED_LIB symbol in configure
482 script when the latter happens to use the C compiler rather than
483 directly using the loader (report by Jeffrey Walton).
484 + set ABI for upcoming 6.1 release in "*.map" files. While there are
485 some remaining internals to apply, no ABI-related changes are
487 + add configure --with-config-suffix option to work around filename
488 conflict with Redhat packages versus test-packages.
491 + modify ncurses-examples to quiet const-warnings when building with
493 + modify toe to not exit if unable to read a terminal description,
494 e.g., if there is a permission problem.
495 + minor fix for progs/toe.c, using _nc_free_termtype2.
496 + assign 0 to pointer in _nc_tgetent_leak() after freeing it. Also
497 avoid reusing pointer from previous successful call to tgetent
498 if the latest call is unsuccessful (patch by Michael Schroeder,
500 + minor fix for test/tracemunch, initialize $awaiting variable.
503 + repair template in test/package/ncurses-examples.spec (cf: 20171111).
504 + improve tic's warning about the number of parameters tparm might use
505 for u1-u9 by making a special case for u6.
506 + improve curs_attr.3x discussion of color pairs.
509 + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to make output with --includedir
510 consistent with --cflags, i.e., when --disable-overwrite option was
511 configured the output should show the subdirectory where headers
513 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to suppress macros when calling an "implemented"
514 function in link_test.c
515 + updated ftp-url used in test-packages, etc.
516 + modify order of -pie/-shared options in configure script in case
517 LDFLAGS uses "-pie", working around a defect or limitation in the GNU
518 linker (prompted by patch by Yogesh Prasad, forwarded by Jay Shah).
519 + add entry in man_db.renames for user_caps.5
522 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to avoid tracing result from getstr/getnstr
524 + add "-a" aspect-ratio option to picsmap.
525 + add configure check for default path of rgb.txt, used in picsmap.
526 + modify _nc_write_entry() to truncate too-long filename (report by
527 Hosein Askari, Debian #882620).
528 + build-fix for ncurses-examples with NetBSD curses:
529 + it lacks the use_env() function.
530 + it lacks libpanel; a recent change used the wrong ifdef symbol.
531 + add a macro for is_linetouched() and adjust the function's return
532 value to make it possible for most applications to check for an
533 error-return (report by Midolikawa H).
534 + additional manpage cleanup.
535 + update config.guess, config.sub from
536 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
539 + add a note to curs_addch.3x on portability.
540 + add a note to curs_pad.3x on the origin and portability of pads.
541 + improve manpage description of getattrs (report by Midolikawa H).
542 + improve manpage macros (prompted by discussion in Debian #880551.
543 + reviewed test-programs using KEY_RESIZE, made fixes to test/worm.c
544 + add a "-d" option to picsmap for default-colors.
545 + modify old terminology entry and a few other terminal emulators to
547 + correct sgr string for tmux, which used screen's "standout" code
548 rather than the standard code (patch by Roman Kagan)
549 + correct sgr/sgr0 strings in a few other cases reported by tic, making
550 those correspond to the non-sgr settings where they differ, but
551 otherwise use ECMA-48 consistently:
552 jaixterm, aixterm, att5420_2, att4424, att500, decansi, d410-7b,
553 dm80, hpterm, emu-220, hp2, iTerm2.app, mterm-ansi, ncrvt100an,
554 st-0.7, vi603, vwmterm -TD
555 + build-fix for diagnostics warning in lib_mouse.c for pre-5.0 versions
556 of gcc which did not recognize the diagnostic "push" pragma (patch by
560 + add "op" to xterm+256setaf -TD
561 + reviewed terminology 1.0.0 -TD
562 + reviewed st 0.7 -TD
563 + suppress debug-package for ncurses-examples rpm build.
566 + check for interrupt in color-pair initialization of dots_curses.c,
568 + add z/Z zoom feature to test/ncurses.c C/c screens.
569 + add '<' and '>' commands to test/ncurses.c S/s screens, to better
570 test off-by-ones in the overlap/copywin functions.
573 + improve man/curs_inwstr.3x, correct end-logic for lib_inwstr.c
574 (report by Midolikawa H).
575 + fix typo in a few places for "improvements" (patch by Sven Joachim).
576 + clear the other half of a double-width character on which a line
577 drawing character is drawn.
578 + make test/ncurses.c "s" test easier to understand which subtests are
579 available; add a "S" wide-character overlap test-screen.
580 + modify test/ncurses.c C/c tests to allow for extended color pairs.
581 + add endwin() call in error-returns from test/ncurses.c omitted in
582 recent redesign of its menu (cf: 20170923).
583 + improve install of hashed-db by removing the ".db" file as done for
584 directory-tree terminal databases.
585 + repair a few overlooked items in include/ncurses_defs from recent
586 port/refactoring of test-programs (cf: 20170909).
587 + add test/padview.c, to compare pads with direct updates in view.c
590 + modify test/view.c to expand tabs using the ncurses library rather
591 than in the test-program.
592 + remove very old SIGWINCH example in test/view.c, just use KEY_RESIZE.
593 + add -T, -e, -f -m options to "dots" test-programs.
594 + fix a few typos in usage-messages for test-programs.
597 + minor cleanup to test/view.c:
598 + eliminate "-n" option by simply reading the whole file.
599 + implement page up/down commands.
600 + add check in tput for init/reset operands to ensure those use a
602 + improve manual pages which discuss chtype, cchar_t types and the
603 attribute values which can be stored in those types.
604 + correct array-index when parsing "-T" command-line option in tabs
606 + modify demo_new_pair.c to pass extended pairs to setcchar().
607 + add test/dots_xcurses.c to illustrate a different approach used for
608 extended colors which can be contrasted with dots_curses.c.
609 + add a check in tic to note when a description uses non-mandatory
610 delays without xon_xoff. This is not an error, but some descriptions
611 for a terminal emulator may use the combination incorrectly.
614 + modify "-T" option of clear and tput to call use_tioctl() to obtain
615 the operating system's notion of the screensize if possible.
616 + review/repair some exit-codes for tput, making usage-message exit
617 with 2 rather than 1, and a failure to open terminal 4+errno.
618 + amend check in tput, tabs and clear to allow those to use the
619 database-only features in cron if a -T option gives a suitable
620 terminal name (report by Lauri Tirkkonen).
621 + correct an ifdef in test/ncurses.c for systems with soft-keys but
623 + regenerate man-html documentation.
626 + fix a symbol conflict that made ncurses.c C/c menu not work with
628 + add refresh() call to dots_mvcur.c, needed to use mvcur() with
629 Solaris xpg4 curses after calling newterm().
630 + minor fixes for configure script from work on ncurses-examples and
632 + improve animation in test/xmas.c by adding a time-delay in blinkit().
633 + modify several test programs to reflect that ncurses honors existing
634 signal handlers in initscr(), while other implementations do not.
635 + modify bs.c to make it easier to quit.
636 + change ncurses-examples to use attr_t vs chtype to follow X/Open
637 documentation more closely since Solaris xpg4-curses uses different
638 values for WA_xxx vs A_xxx that rely on attr_t being an unsigned
639 short. Tru64 aka OSF1, HPUX, AIX did as ncurses does, equating the
643 + modify menu for test/ncurses.c to fit on 24-line screen.
644 + build-fix for configure --with-caps=uwin
645 + add options to test_arrays.c, for selecting termcap vs terminfo, etc.
648 + minor fix to test/filter.c to avoid clearing the command in one case.
649 + modify filter() to discard clr_eos if back_color_erase is set.
652 + improve wide-character implementation of myADDNSTR() in frm_driver.c,
653 which was inconsistent with the normal implementation.
654 + save/restore cursor position in Undo_Justification(), matching
655 behavior of Buffer_To_Window() (report by Leon Winter).
656 + modify test/knight to provide the "slow" solution for small screens
657 using "R", noting that Warnsdorf's method is easily done with "a".
658 + modify several test-programs which call use_default_colors() to
659 consistently do this only if "-d" option is given.
660 + additional changes to test with non-standard variants of curses:
661 + modify a loop limit in firework.c to work around absense of limit
662 checks in some libraries.
663 + fill the last row of a window with "?" in firstlast if waddch does
664 not return ERR on the lower-right corner.
665 + add checks in test/configure for some functions not in 4.3BSD curses.
666 + fix a regression in test/configure (cf: 20170826).
669 + amend change for endwin-state for better consistency with the older
670 logic (report/patch by Jeb Rosen, cf: 20170722).
671 + modify check in fmt_entry() to handle a cancelled reset string
672 (Debian #873746). Make similar fixes in other parts of dump_entry.c
676 + fix a bug in repeat_char logic (cf: 20170729, report by Chris Clayton).
679 + fixes for "iterm2" (report by Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD
680 + corrected a warning from tic about keys which are the same, to skip
681 over missing/cancelled values.
682 + add check in tic for unnecessary use of "2" to denote a shifted
684 + improve checks in trim_sgr0, comp_parse.c and parse_entry.c, for
685 cancelled string capabilities.
686 + add check in _nc_parse_entry() for invalid entry name, setting the
687 name to "invalid" to avoid problems storing entries.
688 + add/improve checks in tic's parser to address invalid input
689 + add a check in comp_scan.c to handle the special case where a
690 nontext file ending with a NUL rather than newline is given to tic
691 as input (Redhat #1484274).
692 + allow for cancelled capabilities in _nc_save_str (Redhat #1484276).
693 + add validity checks for "use=" target in _nc_parse_entry (Redhat
695 + check for invalid strings in postprocess_termcap (Redhat #1484285)
696 + reset secondary pointers on EOF in next_char() (Redhat #1484287).
697 + guard _nc_safe_strcpy() and _nc_safe_strcat() against calls using
698 cancelled strings (Redhat #1484291).
699 + correct typo in curs_memleaks.3x (Sven Joachim).
700 + improve test/configure checks for some curses variants not based on
702 + add options for test/configure to disable checks for form, menu and
706 + update "iterm" entry -TD
707 + add "iterm2" entry (report by Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD
708 + regenerate llib-* files.
709 + regenerate HTML manpages.
710 + improve picsmap test-program:
711 + reduce memory used for tsearch
712 + add report in log file showing cumulative color coverage.
713 + add -x option to clear/tput to make the E3 extension optional
715 + add options -T and -V to clear command for compatibility with tput.
716 + add usage message to clear command (Debian #371855).
717 + improve usage messages for tset and tput.
718 + minor fixes to "RGB" extension and reset_color_pairs().
721 + improve description of -R option in infocmp manual page (report by
723 + add reset_color_pairs() function.
724 + add user_caps.5 manual page to document the terminfo extensions used
726 + improve build scripts, using SIGQUIT vs SIGTRAP; add other configure
727 script fixes from work on xterm, lynx and tack.
728 + modify install-rule for ncurses-examples to put the data files in
729 /usr/share/ncurses-examples
730 + improve tracemunch, by changing address-parameters of add_wch(),
731 color_content() and pair_content() to dummy parameters.
732 + minor optimization to _nc_change_pair, to return quickly when the
733 current screen is marked for clearing.
734 + in-progress changes to improve performance of test/picsmap.c for
736 + modify allocation for SCREEN's color-pair table to start small, grow
737 on demand up to the existing limit.
738 + add "RGB" extension capability for direct-color support, use this to
739 improve color_content().
740 + improve picsmap test-program:
741 + if no palette file is needed, attempt to load one based on $TERM,
742 checking first in the current directory, then by adding ".dat"
743 suffix, and finally in the data-directory, e.g.,
744 /usr/share/ncurses-examples
745 + add "-l" option for logging
746 + add "-d" option for debugging
747 + add "-s" option for stepping automatically through list of images,
749 + use tsearch to improve time for loading color table for images.
750 + update config.guess, config.sub from
751 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
754 + update interix entry using tack and SFU on Windows 7 Ultimate -TD
755 + use ^? for kdch1 in interix (reported by Jonathan de Boyne Pollard)
756 + add "rep" to xterm-new, available since 1997/01/26 -TD
757 + move SGR 24 and 27 from vte-2014 to vte-2012 (request by Alain
759 + add a check in newline_forces_scroll() in case a program moves the
760 cursor outside scrolling margins (report by Robert King).
761 + improve _nc_tparm_analyze, using that to extend the checks made by
762 tic for reporting inconsistencies between the expected number of
763 parameters for a capability and the actual.
764 + amend handling of repeat_char capability in EmitRange (adapted from
765 report/patch by Dick Wesseling):
766 + translate the character to the alternate character set when the
767 alternate character set is enabled.
768 + do not use repeat_char for characters past 255.
769 + document "_nc_free_tinfo" in manual page, because it could be used in
770 tack for memory-leak checking.
771 + add "--without-tack" configure option to refine "--with-progs"
772 configure option. Normally tack is no longer built in-tree, but
773 a few packagers combine it during the build. If term_entry.h is
774 installed, there is no advantage to in-tree builds.
775 + adjust configure-script to define HAVE_CURSES_DATA_BOOLNAMES symbol
776 needed for tack 1.08 when built in-tree. Rather than relying upon
777 internal "_nc_" functions, tack now uses the boolean, number and
778 string capability name-arrays provided by ncurses and SVr4 Unix
779 curses. It still uses term_entry.h for the definitions of the
780 extended capability arrays.
781 + add an overlooked null-pointer check in mvcur changes from 20170722
784 + improve test-packages for ncurses-examples and AdaCurses for lintian
785 + modify logic for endwin-state to be able to detect the case where
786 the screen was never initialized, using that to trigger a flush of
787 ncurses' buffer for mvcur, e.g., in test/dots_mvcur.c for the
788 term-driver configuration.
789 + add dependency upon ncurses_cfg.h to a few other internal header
790 files to allow each to be compiled separately.
791 + add dependency upon ncurses_cfg.h to tic's header-files; any program
792 using tic-library will have to supply this file. Legacy tack
793 versions supply this file; ongoing tack development has dropped the
794 dependency upon tic-library and new releases will not be affected.
797 + modify command-line parameters for "convert" used in picsmap to work
798 with ImageMagick 6.8 and newer.
799 + fix build-problem with tack and ABI-5 (Debian #868328).
800 + repair termcap-format from tic/infocmp broken in 20170701 fixes
802 + reformat terminfo.src with 20170513 updates.
803 + improve test-packages to address lintian warnings.
806 + add a note to tic manual page about -W versus -f options.
807 + correct a limit-check in fixes from 20170701 (report by Sven Joachim).
810 + modify update_getenv() in db_iterator.c to ensure that environment
811 variables which are not initially set will be checked later if an
812 application happens to set them (patch by Guillaume Maudoux).
813 + remove initialization-check for calling napms() in the term-driver
814 configuration; none is needed.
815 + add help-screen to test/test_getstr.c and test/test_get_wstr.c
816 + improve compatibility between different configurations of new_prescr,
817 fixing a case with threaded code and term-driver where c++/demo did
818 not work (cf: 20160213).
819 + the fixes for Redhat #1464685 obscured a problem subsequently
820 reported in Redhat #1464687; the given test-case was no longer
821 reproducible. Testing without the fixes for the earlier reports
822 showed a problem with buffer overflow in dump_entry.c, which is
823 addressed by reducing the use of a fixed-size buffer.
824 + add/improve checks in tic's parser to address invalid input
825 (Redhat #1464684, #1464685, #1464686, #1464691).
826 + alloc_entry.c, add a check for a null-pointer.
827 + parse_entry.c, add several checks for valid pointers as well as
828 one check to ensure that a single character on a line is not
829 treated as the 2-character termcap short-name.
830 + fix a memory leak in delscreen() (report by Bai Junq).
831 + improve tracemunch, showing thread identifiers as names.
832 + fix a use-after-free in NCursesMenu::~NCursesMenu()
833 + further amend incorrect calls for memory-leaks from 20170617 changes
834 (report by Allen Hewes).
837 + modify c++/etip.h.in to accommodate deprecation of throw() and
838 throws() in c++17 (prompted by patch by Romain Geissler).
839 + remove some incorrect calls for memory-leaks from 20170617 changes
840 (report by Allen Hewes).
841 + add test-programs for termattrs and term_attrs.
842 + modify _nc_outc_wrapper to use the standard output if the screen was
843 not initialized, rather than returning an error.
844 + improve checks for low-level terminfo functions when the terminal
845 has not been initialized (Redhat #1345963).
846 + modify make_hash to allow building with address-sanitizer,
847 assuming that --disable-leaks is configured.
848 + amend changes for number_format() in 20170506 to avoid undefined
849 behavior when shifting (patch by Emanuele Giaquinta).
852 + fill in some places where TERMTYPE2 vs TERMTYPE was not used
853 (report by Allen Hewes).
854 + use ExitTerminfo() internally in error-exits for ncurses' setupterm
855 to help with leak checking.
856 + use ExitProgram() in error-exit from initscr() to help with leak
858 + review test-programs, adding checks for cases where the terminal
859 cannot be initialized.
862 + add option "-xp" to picsmap.c, to use init_extended_pair().
863 + make simple performance fixes for picsmap.c
864 + improve aspect ratio of images read from "convert" in picsmap.c
867 + add option to picsmap to use color-palette files, e.g., for mapping
869 + move the data in SCREEN used for the alloc_pair() function to the
870 end, to restore compatibility between ncurses/ncursesw libtinfo
871 (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
872 + add build-time utility "report_offsets" to help show when the various
873 configurations of tinfo library are compatible or not.
876 + improved test/picsmap.c:
877 + lookup named colors for xpm files in rgb.txt
878 + accept blanks in color-keys for xpm files.
879 + if neither xbm/xpm work, try "convert", which may be available.
882 + modify test/picsmap.c to read xpm files.
883 + modify package/debian/* to create documentation packages, so the
884 related files can be checked with lintian.
885 + fix some typos in manpages (report/patch by Sven Joachim).
888 + add test/picsmap.c to fill in some testing issues not met by dots.
889 The initial version reads X bitmap (".xbm") files.
890 + repair logic which forces a repaint where a color-pair's content is
891 changed (cf: 20170311).
892 + improve tracemunch, showing screenXX pointers as names.
895 + modify tic/infocmp display of numeric values to use hexadecimal when
896 they are "close" to a power of two, making the result more readable.
897 + improve discussion of portability in curs_mouse.3x
898 + change line-length for generated html/manpages to 78 columns from 65.
899 + improve discussion of line-drawing characters in curs_add_wch.3x
900 (prompted by discussion with Lorinczy Zsigmond).
901 + cleanup formatting of hackguide.html and ncurses-intro.html
902 + add examples for WACS_D_PLUS and WACS_T_PLUS to test/ncurses.c
905 + corrected a case where $with_gpm was set to "maybe" after CF_WITH_GPM,
906 overlooked in 20160528 fixes (report by Alexandre Bury).
907 + improve a couple of test-program's help-messages.
908 + corrected loop in rain.c from 20170415 changes.
909 + modify winnstr and winchnstr to return error if the output pointer is
910 null, as well as adding a null pointer check of the window pointer
911 for better compatibility with other implementations.
912 + improve discussion of NetBSD curses in scr_dump.5
913 + modify LIMIT_TYPED macro in new_pair.h to avoid changing sign of the
914 value to be limited (reports by Darby Payne, Rob Boudreau).
915 + update config.guess, config.sub from
916 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
919 + build-fix for termcap-configuration (report by Chi-Hsuan Yen).
920 + improve terminfo manual page discussion of control- and graphics-
922 + remove tic warning about "^?" in string capabilities, which was
923 marked as an extension (cf: 20000610, 20110820); however all Unix
924 implementations support this and X/Open Curses does not address it.
925 On the other hand, termcap never did support this feature.
926 + correct missing comma-separator between string capabilities in
927 icl6402 and m2-nam -TD
928 + restore rmir/smir in ansi+idc to better match original ansiterm+idc,
929 add alias ansiterm (report by Robert King).
930 + amend an old check for ambiguous use of "ma" in terminfo versus
931 a termcap use, if the capability is cancelled to treat it as number.
932 + correct a case in _nc_captoinfo() which read "%%" and emitted "%".
933 + modify sscanf calls in _nc_infotocap() for patterns "%{number}%+%c"
934 and "%'char'%+%c" to check that the final character is really 'c',
935 avoiding a case in icl6404 which cannot be converted to termcap.
936 + in _nc_infotocap(), add a check to ensure that terminfo "^?" is not
937 written to termcap, because the BSDs did not implement that.
938 + in _nc_tic_expand() and _nc_infotocap(), improve string-length check
939 when deciding whether to use "^X" or "\xxx" format for control
940 characters, to make the output of tic/infocmp more predictable.
941 + limit termcap "%d" width to 2 digits on input, and use "%2" in
942 preference to "%02" on output.
943 + correct terminfo/termcap conversion of "%02" and "%03" into "%2" and
944 "%3"; the result repeated the last character.
945 + add man/scr_dump.5 to document screen-dump format.
948 + modify several test programs to use new popup_msgs, adapted from
949 help-screen used in test/edit_field.c
950 + drop two symbols obsoleted in 2004: _nc_check_termtype, and
952 + fix some old copyright dates (cf: 20031025).
953 + build-fixes for test/savescreen.c to work with AIX and HPUX.
954 + minor fix to configure script, adding a backslash/continuation.
955 + extend TERMINAL structure for ABI 6 to store numbers internally as
956 integers rather than short, by adding new data for this purpose.
957 + more fixes for minor memory-leaks in test-programs.
960 + change logic in wins_nwstr() to avoid addressing data past the output
962 + correct a call to setcchar() in Data_Entry_w() from 20131207 changes.
963 + fix minor memory-leaks in test-programs.
964 + further improve ifdef in term_entry.h for internal definitions not
968 + minor fixes for vt100+4bsd, e.g., delay in sgr for consistency -TD
969 + add smso for env230, to match sgr -TD
970 + remove p7/protect from sgr in fbterm -TD
971 + drop setf/setb from fbterm; setaf/setab are enough -TD
972 + make xterm-pcolor sgr consistent with other capabilities -TD
973 + add rmxx/smxx ECMA-48 strikeout extension to tmux and xterm-basic
974 (discussion with Nicholas Marriott)
975 + add test-programs sp_tinfo and extended_color
976 + modify no-leaks code for lib_cur_term.c to account for the tgetent()
978 + modify setupterm() to save original tty-modes so that erasechar()
979 works as expected. Also modify _nc_setupscreen() to avoid redundant
980 calls to get original tty-modes.
981 + modify set_curterm() to update ttytype[] data used by longname().
982 + modify wattr_set() and wattr_get() to return ERR if win-parameter is
984 + improve cast used for null-pointer checks in header macros, to
985 reduce compiler warnings.
986 + modify several functions, using the reserved "opts" parameter to pass
987 color- and pair-values larger than 16-bits:
988 + getcchar(), setcchar(), slk_attr_set(), vid_puts(), wattr_get(),
989 wattr_set(), wchgat(), wcolor_set().
990 + Other functions call these with the corresponding altered behavior,
991 including chgat(), mvchgat(), mvwchgat(), slk_color_on(),
992 slk_color_off(), vid_attr().
993 + add new functions for manipulating color- and pair-values larger
994 than 16-bits. These are extended_color_content(),
995 extended_pair_content(), extended_slk_color(), init_extended_color(),
996 init_extended_pair(), and the corresponding sp-funcs.
999 + fix a memory leak in the window-list when creating multiple screens
1000 (reports by Andres Martinelli, Debian #783486).
1001 + reviewed calls from link_test.c, added a few more null-pointer
1003 + add a null-pointer check in ungetmouse, in case mousemask was not
1004 called (report by "Kau").
1005 + updated curs_sp_funcs.3x for new functions.
1008 + change TERMINAL structure in term.h to make it opaque. Some
1009 applications misuse its members, e.g., directly modifying it
1010 rather than using def_prog_mode().
1011 + modify utility headers such as tic.h to make it clearer which are
1012 externals that are used by tack.
1013 + improve curs_slk.3x in particular its discussion of portability.
1014 + fix cut/paste in legacy_encoding.3x
1015 + add prototype for find_pair() to new_pair.3x (report by Branden
1017 + fix a couple of broken links in generated man-html documentation.
1018 + regenerate man-html documentation.
1021 + modify vt100 rs2 string to reset vt52 mode and scrolling regions
1022 (report/analysis by Robert King) -TD
1023 + add vt100+4bsd building block, use that for older terminals rather
1024 than "vt100" which is now mostly used as a building block for
1025 terminal emulators -TD
1026 + correct a few spelling errors in terminfo.src comments -TD
1028 + fix a typo in ncurses.c test_attr legend (patch by Petr Vanek).
1029 + changed internal colorpair_t to a struct, eliminating an internal
1030 8-bit limit on colors
1031 + add ncurses/new_pair.h
1032 + add ncurses/base/new_pair.c with alloc_pair(), find_pair() and
1033 free_pair() functions
1034 + add test/demo_new_pair.c
1037 + improve terminfo manual description of terminfo syntax.
1038 + clarify the use of wint_t vs wchar_t in curs_get_wstr.3x
1039 + improve description of endwin() in manual.
1040 + modify setcchar() and getcchar() to treat negative color-pair as an
1042 + fix a typo in include/hashed_db.h (Andre Sa).
1045 + fixes for CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS (report by Ross Burton).
1048 + fix several formatting issues with manual pages.
1049 + correct read of terminfo entry in which all strings are absent or
1050 explicitly cancelled. Before this fix, the result was that all were
1051 treated as only absent.
1052 + modify infocmp to suppress mixture of absent/cancelled capabilities
1053 that would only show as "NULL, NULL", unless the -q option is used,
1054 e.g., to show "-, @" or "@, -".
1057 + build-fixes for PGI compilers (report by Adam J. Stewart)
1058 + accept whitespace in sed expression for generating expanded.c
1059 + modify configure check that g++ compiler warnings are not used.
1060 + add configure check for -fPIC option needed for shared libraries.
1061 + let configure --disable-ext-funcs override the default for the
1062 --enable-sp-funcs option.
1063 + mark some structs in form/menu/panel libraries as potentially opaque
1064 without modifying API/ABI.
1065 + add configure option --enable-opaque-curses for ncurses library and
1066 similar options for the other libraries.
1069 + trim newlines, tabs and escaped newlines from terminfo "paths" passed
1071 + ignore zero-length files in db-iterator; these are useful for
1072 instance to suppress "$HOME/.terminfo" when not wanted.
1073 + amended "b64:" encoder to work with the terminfo reader.
1074 + modify terminfo reader to accept "b64:" format using RFC-3548 in
1075 as well as RFC-4648 url/filename-safe format.
1076 + modify terminfo reader to accept "hex:" format as generated by
1077 "infocmp -0qQ1" (cf: 20150905).
1078 + adjust authors comment to reflect drop below 1% for SV.
1081 + minor comment-fixes to help automate links to bug-urls -TD
1082 + add dvtm, dvtm-256color -TD
1083 + add settings corresponding to xterm-keys option to tmux entry to
1084 reflect upcoming change to make that option "on" by default
1085 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
1086 + uncancel Ms in tmux entry (Harry Gindi, Nicholas Marriott).
1087 + add dumb-emacs-ansi -TD
1090 + improve discussion of early history of tput program.
1091 + incorporate A_COLOR mask into COLOR_PAIR(), in case user application
1092 provides an out-of-range pair number (report by Elijah Stone).
1093 + clarify description in tput manual page regarding support for
1094 termcap names (prompted by FreeBSD #214709).
1095 + remove a restriction in tput's support for termcap names which
1096 omitted capabilities normally not shown in termcap translations
1098 + modify configure script for clang as used on FreeBSD, to work around
1099 clang's differences in exit codes vs gcc.
1102 + improve discussion of early history of tset/reset programs.
1103 + clarify in manual pages that the optional verbose option level is
1104 available only when ncurses is configured for tracing.
1105 + amend change from 20161231 to avoid writing traces to the standard
1106 error after initializing the trace feature using the environment
1110 + amend changes for tput to reset tty modes to "sane" if the program
1111 is run as "reset", like tset. Likewise, ensure that tset sends
1112 either reset- or init-strings.
1113 + improve manual page descriptions of tput init/reset and tset/reset,
1114 to make it easier to see how they are similar and different.
1115 + move a static result from key_name() to _nc_globals
1116 + modify _nc_get_screensize to allow for use_env() and use_tioctl()
1117 state to be per-screen when sp-funcs are configured, better matching
1118 the behavior when using the term-driver configuration.
1119 + improve cross-references in manual pages for often used functions
1120 + move SCREEN field for use_tioctl() data before the ncursesw fields,
1121 and limit that to the sp-funcs configuration to improve termlib
1122 compatibility (cf: 20120714).
1123 + correct order of initialization for traces in use_env() and
1124 use_tioctl() versus first trace calls.
1127 + fix errata for ncurses-howto (report by Damien Ruscoe).
1128 + fix a few places in configure/build scripts where DESTDIR and rpath
1129 were combined (report by Thomas Klausner).
1130 + merge current st description (report by Harry Gindi) -TD
1131 + modify flash capability for linux and wyse entries to put the delay
1132 between the reverse/normal escapes rather than after -TD
1133 + modify program tabs to pass the actual tty file descriptor to
1134 setupterm rather than the standard output, making padding work
1136 + explain in clear's manual page that it writes to stdout.
1137 + add special case for verbose debugging traces of command-line
1138 utilities which write to stderr (cf: 20161126).
1139 + remove a trace with literal escapes from skip_DECSCNM(), added in
1141 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1142 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1145 + correct parameters for copywin call in _nc_Synchronize_Attributes()
1146 (patch by Leon Winter).
1147 + improve color-handling section in terminfo manual page (prompted by
1148 patch by Mihail Konev).
1149 + modify programs clear, tput and tset to pass the actual tty file
1150 descriptor to setupterm rather than the standard output, making
1154 + add tput-colorcube demo script.
1155 + add -r and -s options to tput-initc demo, to match usage in xterm.
1156 + flush the standard output in _nc_flush for the case where SP is zero,
1157 e.g., when called via putp. This fixes a scenario where "tput flash"
1158 did not work after changes in 20130112.
1161 + add configure script option --disable-wattr-macros for use in cases
1162 where one wants to use the same headers for ncurses5/ncurses6
1163 development, by suppressing the wattr* macros which differ due to
1164 the introduction of extended colors (prompted by comments in
1165 Debian #230990, Redhat #1270534).
1166 + add test/tput-initc to demonstrate tput used to initialize palette
1168 + modify test/xterm*.dat to use the newer color4/color12 values.
1171 + improve discussion of field validation in form_driver.3x manual page.
1172 + update curs_trace.3x manual page.
1175 + modify linux-16color to not mask dim, standout or reverse with the
1177 + add 0.1sec mandatory delay to flash capabilities using the VT100
1178 reverse-video control -TD
1179 + omit selection of ISO-8859-1 for G0 in enacs capability from linux2.6
1180 entry, to avoid conflict with the user-defined mapping. The reset
1181 feature will use ISO-8859-1 in any case (Mikulas Patocka).
1182 + improve check in tic for delays by also warning about beep/flash
1183 when a delay is not embedded, or if those use the VT100 reverse
1184 video escape without using a delay.
1185 + minor fix for syntax-check of delays from 20161119 changes.
1186 + modify trace() to avoid overwriting existing file (report by Maor
1190 + add check in tic for some syntax errors of delays, as well as use of
1191 proportional delays for non-line capabilities.
1192 + document history of the clear program and the E3 extension, prompted
1193 by various discussions including
1194 http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/87469/clearing-the-old-scrollback-buffer
1197 + improve -W option in tic/infocmp:
1198 + correct order of size-adjustments in wrapped lines
1199 + if -f option splits line, do not further split it with -W
1200 + begin a new line when adding "use=" after a wrapped line
1203 + fix typo in man/terminfo.tail (Alain Williams).
1204 + correct program-name in adacurses6-config.1 manual page.
1207 + add new function "unfocus_current_field" (Leon Winter)
1210 + modify tset -w (and tput reset) to update the program's copy of the
1211 screensize if it was already set in the system, to improve tabstop
1212 setting which relies upon knowing the actual screensize.
1213 + add functionality of tset -w to tput, like the "-c" feature this is
1214 not optional in tput.
1215 + add "clear" as a possible link/alias to tput.
1216 + improve tput's check for being called as "init" or "reset" to allow
1217 for transformed names.
1218 + split-out the "clear" function from progs/clear.c, share with
1219 tput to get the same behavior, e.g., the E3 extension.
1222 + amend internal use of tputs to consistently use the number of lines
1223 affected, e.g., for insert/delete character operations. While
1224 merging terminfo source early in 1995, several descriptions used the
1225 "*" proportional delay for these operations, prompting a change in
1227 + regenerate llib-* files.
1228 + regenerate HTML manpages.
1229 + fix several formatting issues with manual pages.
1232 + adjust size in infocmp/tic to work with strlcpy.
1233 + fix configure script to record when strlcat is found on OpenBSD.
1234 + build-fix for "recent" OpenBSD vs baudrate.
1237 + add -W option to tic/infocmp to force long strings to wrap. This is
1238 in addition to the -w option which attempts to fit capabilities into
1239 a given line-length.
1240 + add linux-m1 minitel entries (patch by Alexandre Montaron).
1241 + correct rs2 string for vt100-nam -TD
1244 + modify _nc_tic_expand to escape comma if it immediately follows a
1245 percent sign, to work with minitel change.
1246 + updated minitel and viewdata descriptions (Alexandre Montaron).
1249 + build-fix for gnat6, which unhelpfully attempts to compile C files.
1250 + fix typo in 20160910 changes (Debian #837892, patch by Sven Joachim).
1253 + trim dead code ifdef'd with HIDE_EINTR since 970830 (discussion with
1255 + trim some obsolete/incorrect wording about EINTR from wgetch manual
1256 page (patch by Leon Winter).
1257 + really correct 20100515 change (patch by Rich Coe).
1258 + add "--enable-string-hacks" option to test/configure
1259 + completed string-hacks for "sprintf", etc., including test-programs.
1260 + make "--enable-string-hacks" work with Debian by checking for the
1261 "bsd" library and its associated "<bsd/string.h>" header.
1264 + correct 20100515 change for weak signals versus sigprocmask (report
1266 + modify misc/Makefile.in to work around OpenBSD "make" which unlike
1267 all other versions of "make" does not recognize continuation lines
1269 + amend the last change to CF_C_ENV_FLAGS to move only the
1270 preprocessor, optimization and warning flags to CPPFLAGS and CFLAGS,
1271 leaving the residue in CC. That happens to work for gcc's various
1272 "model" options, but may require tuning for other compilers (report
1276 + add "v" menu entry to test/ncurses.c to show baudrate and other
1278 + add "newer" baudrate symbols from Linux and FreeBSD to progs/tset.c,
1280 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro:
1281 + add "uclinux" to case for "linux" (patch by Yann E. Morin)
1282 + modify _GNU_SOURCE for cygwin headers, tested with cygwin 2.3, 2.5
1283 (patch by Corinna Vinschen, from changes to tin).
1284 + improve CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS macro to allow for compiler wrappers such
1285 as "ccache" (report by Enrico Scholz).
1286 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1287 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1290 + update tput manual page to reflect changes to manipulate terminal
1291 modes by sharing functions with tset.
1292 + add the terminal-mode parts of "reset" (aka tset) to the "tput reset"
1293 command, making the two almost the same except for window-size.
1294 + adapt logic used in dialog "--keep-tite" option for test/filter.c as
1295 "-a" option. When set, test/filter attempts to suppress the
1297 + correct a typo in interix entry -TD
1300 + add a dependency upon generated-sources in Ada95/src/Makefile.in to
1301 handle a case of "configure && make install".
1302 + trim trailing blanks from include/Caps*, to work around a problem
1303 in sed (Debian #818067).
1306 + improve CF_GNU_SOURCE configure macro to optionally define
1307 _DEFAULT_SOURCE work around a nuisance in recent glibc releases.
1308 + move the terminfo-specific parts of tput's "reset" function into
1309 the shared reset_cmd.c, making the two forms of reset use the same
1311 + split-out the terminal initialization functions from tset as
1312 progs/reset_cmd.c, as part of changes to merge the reset-feature
1316 + change tset's initialization to allow it to get settings from the
1317 standard input as well as /dev/tty, to be more effective when
1318 output or error are redirected.
1319 + improve discussion of history and portability for tset/reset/tput
1323 + improve error message from tset/reset when both stderr/stdout are
1324 redirected to a file or pipe.
1325 + improve organization of curs_attr.3x, curs_color.3x
1328 + work around Debian's antique/unmaintained version of mawk when
1330 + improve test/list_keys.c, showing ncurses's convention of modifiers
1331 for special keys, based on xterm.
1334 + improve test/list_keys.c, using $TERM if no parameters are given.
1337 + build-fixes for ncurses "test_progs" rule.
1338 + amend change to CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS in 20160521 to make multilib build
1339 work (report by Sven Joachim).
1342 + build-fixes for ncurses-examples with NetBSD curses.
1343 + improve test/list_keys.c, fixing column-widths and sorting the list
1344 to make it more readable.
1347 + revise fix for Debian #805618 (report by Vlado Potisk, cf: 20151128).
1348 + modify test/ncurses.c a/A screens to make exiting on an escape
1349 character depend on the start of keypad and timeout modes, to allow
1350 better testing of function-keys.
1351 + modify rs1 for xterm-16color, xterm-88color and xterm-256color to
1352 reset palette using "oc" string as in linux -TD
1353 + use ANSI reply for u8 in xterm-new, to reflect vt220-style responses
1354 that could be returned -TD
1355 + added a few capabilities fixed in recent vte -TD
1358 + correct logic for -f option in test/demo_terminfo.c
1359 + add test/list_keys.c
1362 + further workaround for PIE/PIC breakage which causes gpm to not link.
1363 + fix most cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses library.
1366 + improved manual page description of tset/reset versus window-size.
1367 + fixes to work with a slightly broken compiler configuration which
1368 cannot compile "Hello World!" without adding compiler options
1369 (report by Ola x Nilsson):
1370 + pass appropriate compiler options to the CF_PROG_CC_C_O macro.
1371 + when separating compiler and options in CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS, ensure
1372 that all options are split-off into CFLAGS or CPPFLAGS
1373 + restore some -I options removed in 20140726 because they appeared
1374 to be redundant. In fact, they are needed for a compiler that
1375 cannot combine -c and -o options.
1378 + regenerate HTML manpages.
1379 + improve manual pages for wgetch and wget_wch to point out that they
1380 might return values without names in curses.h (Debian #822426).
1381 + make linux3.0 entry the default linux entry (Debian #823658) -TD
1382 + modify linux2.6 entry to improve line-drawing so that the linux3.0
1383 entry can be used in non-UTF-8 mode -TD
1384 + document return value of use_extended_names (report by Mike Gran).
1387 + amend change to _nc_do_color to restore the early return for the
1388 special case used in _nc_screen_wrap (report by Dick Streefland,
1390 + modify test/ncurses.c:
1391 + check return-value of putwin
1392 + correct ifdef which made the 'g' test's legend not reflect changes
1393 to keypad- and scroll-modes.
1394 + correct return-value of extended putwin (report by Mike Gran).
1397 + modify test/ncurses.c 'd' edit-color menu to optionally read xterm
1398 color palette directly from terminal, as well as handling KEY_RESIZE
1399 and screen-repainting with control/L and control/R.
1400 + add 'oc' capability to xterm+256color, allowing palette reset for
1404 + add workaround in configure script for inept transition to PIE vs
1405 PIC builds documented in
1406 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Harden_All_Packages
1407 + add "reset" to list of programs whose names might change in manpages
1408 due to program-transformation configure options.
1409 + drop long-obsolete "-n" option from tset.
1412 + modify test/blue.c to use Unicode values for card-glyphs when
1413 available, as well as improving the check for CP437 and CP850.
1416 + regenerate HTML manpages.
1417 + improve manual pages for utilities with respect to POSIX versus
1421 + regenerate HTML manpages.
1422 + improve test/demo_menus.c, allowing mouse-click on the menu-headers
1423 to switch the active menu. This requires a new extension option
1424 O_MOUSE_MENU to tell the menu driver to put mouse events which do not
1425 apply to the active menu back into the queue so that the application
1426 can handle the event.
1429 + improve description of tgoto parameters (report by Steffen Nurpmeso).
1430 + amend workaround for Solaris line-drawing to restore a special case
1431 that maps Unicode line-drawing characters into the acsc string for
1432 non-Unicode locales (Debian #816888).
1435 + modified test/filter.c to illustrate an alternative to getnstr, that
1436 polls for input while updating a clock on the right margin as well
1437 as responding to window size-changes.
1440 + omit a redefinition of "inline" when traces are enabled, since this
1441 does not work with gcc 5.3.x MinGW cross-compiling (cf: 20150912).
1444 + modify test/configure script to check for pthread dependency of
1445 ncursest or ncursestw library when building ncurses examples, e.g.,
1446 in case weak symbols are used.
1447 + modify configure macro for shared-library rules to use -Wl,-rpath
1448 rather than -rpath to work around a bug in scons (FreeBSD #178732,
1450 + double-width multibyte characters were not counted properly in
1451 winsnstr and wins_nwstr (report/example by Eric Pruitt).
1452 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1453 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1456 + amend fix for _nc_ripoffline from 20091031 to make test/ditto.c work
1457 in threaded configuration.
1458 + move _nc_tracebits, _tracedump and _tracemouse to curses.priv.h,
1459 since they are not part of the suggested ABI6.
1462 + define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN for MinGW port, making builds faster.
1463 + modify test/ditto.c to allow $XTERM_PROG environment variable to
1464 override "xterm" as the name of the program to run in the threaded
1468 + improve formatting of man/curs_refresh.3x and man/tset.1 manpages
1469 + regenerate HTML manpages using newer man2html to eliminate some
1470 unwanted blank lines.
1473 + ifdef'd header-file definition of mouse_trafo() with NCURSES_NOMACROS
1474 (report by Corey Minyard).
1475 + fix some strict compiler-warnings in traces.
1478 + tidy up comments about hardcoded 256color palette (report by
1479 Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD
1480 + add putty-noapp entry, and amend putty entry to use application mode
1481 for better consistency with xterm (report by Leonardo Brondani
1483 + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to trace wide-characters
1484 as a whole rather than their multibyte equivalents.
1485 + minor fix in wadd_wchnstr() to ensure that each cell has nonzero
1487 + move PUTC_INIT calls next to wcrtomb calls, to avoid carry-over of
1488 error status when processing Unicode values which are not mapped.
1491 + modify ncurses c/C color test-screens to take advantage of wide
1492 screens, reducing the number of lines used for 88- and 256-colors.
1493 + minor refinement to check versus ncv to ignore two parameters of
1494 SGR 38 and 48 when those come from color-capabilities.
1497 + add check in tic for use of bold, etc., video attributes in the
1498 color capabilities, accounting whether the feature is listed in ncv.
1499 + add check in tic for conflict between ritm, rmso, rmul versus sgr0.
1502 + add a paragraph to curs_getch.3x discussing key naming (discussion
1503 with James Crippen).
1504 + amend workaround for Solaris vs line-drawing to take the configure
1506 + add a configure check for wcwidth() versus the ncurses line-drawing
1507 characters, to use in special-casing systems such as Solaris.
1510 + improve CF_XOPEN_CURSES macro used in test/configure, to define as
1511 needed NCURSES_WIDECHAR for platforms where _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
1512 does not work. Also modified the test program to ensure that if
1513 building with ncurses, that the cchar_t type is checked, since that
1514 normally is since 20111030 ifdef'd depending on this test.
1515 + improve 20121222 workaround for broken acs, letting Solaris "work"
1516 in spite of its misconfigured wcwidth which marks all of the line
1517 drawing characters as double-width.
1520 + update form_cursor.3x, form_post.3x, menu_attributes.3x to list
1521 function names in NAME section (patch by Jason McIntyre).
1522 + minor fixes to manpage NAME/SYNOPSIS sections to consistently use
1523 rule that either all functions which are prototyped in SYNOPSIS are
1524 listed in the NAME section, or the manual-page name is the sole item
1525 listed in the NAME section. The latter is used to reduce clutter,
1526 e.g., for the top-level library manual pages as well as for certain
1527 feature-pages such as SP-funcs and threading (prompted by patches by
1531 + add option to preserve leading whitespace in form fields (patch by
1533 + add missing assignment in lib_getch.c to make notimeout() work
1535 + add 't' toggle for notimeout() function in test/ncurses.c a/A screens
1536 + add viewdata terminal description (Alexandre Montaron).
1537 + fix a case in tic/infocmp for formatting capabilities where a
1538 backslash at the end of a string was mishandled.
1539 + fix some typos in curs_inopts.3x (Benno Schulenberg).
1542 + fix some inconsistencies in the pccon* entries -TD
1543 + add bold to pccon+sgr+acs and pccon-base (Tati Chevron).
1544 + add keys f12-f124 to pccon+keys (Tati Chevron).
1545 + add test/test_sgr.c program to exercise all combinations of sgr.
1548 + modify tset's assignment to TERM in its output to reflect the name by
1549 which the terminal description is found, rather than the primary
1550 name. That was an unnecessary part from the initial conversion of
1551 tset from termcap to terminfo. The termcap program in 4.3BSD did
1552 this to avoid using the short 2-character name (report by Rich
1554 + minor fix to configure script to ensure that rules for resulting.map
1555 are only generated when needed (cf: 20151101).
1556 + modify configure script to handle the case where tic-library is
1557 renamed, but the --with-debug option is used by itself without
1558 normal or shared libraries (prompted by comment in Debian #803482).
1561 + amend change for pkg-config which allows build of pc-files when no
1562 valid pkg-config library directory was configured to suppress the
1563 actual install if it is not overridden to a valid directory at
1564 install time (cf: 20150822).
1565 + modify editing script which generates resulting.map to work with the
1566 clang configuration on recent FreeBSD, which gives an error on an
1567 empty "local" section.
1568 + fix a spurious "(Part)" message in test/ncurses.c b/B tests due
1569 to incorrect attribute-masking.
1572 + modify MKexpanded.sh to update the expansion of a temporary filename
1573 to "expanded.c", for use in trace statements.
1574 + modify layout of b/B tests in test/ncurses.c to allow for additional
1575 annotation on the right margin; some terminals with partial support
1576 did not display well.
1577 + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim).
1578 + fix typo in INSTALL (patch by Tomas Cech).
1579 + improve configure check for setting WILDCARD_SYMS variable; on ppc64
1580 the variable is in the Data section rather than Text (patch by Michel
1581 Normand, Novell #946048).
1582 + using configure option "--without-fallbacks" incorrectly caused
1583 FALLBACK_LIST to be set to "no" (patch by Tomas Cech).
1584 + updated minitel entries to fix kel problem with emacs, and add
1585 minitel1b-nb (Alexandre Montaron).
1586 + reviewed/updated nsterm entry Terminal.app in OSX -TD
1587 + replace some dead URLs in comments with equivalents from the
1588 Internet Archive -TD
1589 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1590 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1593 + modify ncurses/Makefile.in to sort keys.list in POSIX locale
1594 (Debian #801864, patch by Esa Peuha).
1595 + remove an early-return from _nc_do_color, which can interfere with
1596 data needed by bkgd when ncurses is configured with extended colors
1597 (patch by Denis Tikhomirov).
1598 > fixes for OS/2 (patches by KO Myung-Hun)
1599 + use button instead of kbuf[0] in EMX-specific part of lib_mouse.c
1600 + support building with libtool on OS/2
1601 + use stdc++ on OS/2 kLIBC
1602 + clear cf_XOPEN_SOURCE on OS/2
1605 + add configure check for openpty to test/configure script, for ditto.
1606 + minor fixes to test/view.c in investigating Debian #790847.
1607 + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20150926, incorporates a fix for Cdk.
1608 + add workaround for breakage of POSIX makefiles by recent binutils
1610 + improve check for working poll() by using posix_openpt() as a
1611 fallback in case there is no valid terminal on the standard input
1612 (prompted by discussion on bug-ncurses mailing list, Debian #676461).
1615 + change makefile rule for removing resulting.map to distclean rather
1617 + add /lib/terminfo to terminfo-dirs in ".deb" test-package.
1618 + add note on portability of resizeterm and wresize to manual pages.
1621 + clarify in resizeterm.3x how KEY_RESIZE is pushed onto the input
1623 + clarify in curs_getch.3x that the keypad mode affects ability to
1624 read KEY_MOUSE codes, but does not affect KEY_RESIZE.
1625 + add overlooked build-fix needed with Cygwin for separate Ada95
1626 configure script, cf: 20150606 (report by Nicolas Boulenguez)
1629 + fixes for configure/build using clang on OSX (prompted by report by
1631 + do not redefine "inline" in ncurses_cfg.h; this was originally to
1632 solve a problem with gcc/g++, but is aggravated by clang's misuse
1633 of symbols to pretend it is gcc.
1634 + add braces to configure script to prevent unwanted add of
1635 "-lstdc++" to the CXXLIBS symbol.
1636 + improve/update test-program used for checking existence of stdc++
1638 + if $CXXLIBS is set, the linkage test uses that in addition to $LIBS
1641 + add note in curs_addch.3x about line-drawing when it depends upon
1643 + add tic -q option for consistency with infocmp, use it to suppress
1644 all comments from the "tic -I" output.
1645 + modify infocmp -q option to suppress the "Reconstructed from"
1647 + add infocmp/tic -Q option, which allows one to dump the compiled
1648 form of the terminal entry, in hexadecimal or base64.
1651 + sort options in usage message for infocmp, to make it simpler to
1653 + update usage message for tic, adding "-0" option.
1654 + documented differences in ESCDELAY versus AIX's implementation.
1655 + fix some compiler warnings from ports.
1656 + modify --with-pkg-config-libdir option to make it possible to install
1657 ".pc" files even if pkg-config is not found (adapted from patch by
1661 + disallow "no" as a possible value for "--with-shlib-version" option,
1662 overlooked in cleanup-changes for 20000708 (report by Tommy Alex).
1663 + update release notes in INSTALL.
1664 + regenerate llib-* files to help with review for release notes.
1667 + workaround for Debian #65617, which was fixed in mawk's upstream
1668 releases in 2009 (report by Sven Joachim). See
1669 https://invisible-island.net/mawk/CHANGES.html#t20090727
1671 20150808 6.0 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1674 + build-fix for Ada95 on older platforms without stdint.h
1675 + build-fix for Solaris, whose /bin/sh and /usr/bin/sed are non-POSIX.
1676 + update release announcement, summarizing more than 800 changes across
1677 more than 200 snapshots.
1678 + minor fixes to manpages, etc., to simplify linking from announcement
1682 + updated llib-* files.
1683 + build-fixes for ncurses library "test_progs" rule.
1684 + use alternate workaround for gcc 5.x feature (adapted from patch by
1686 + add status line to tmux via xterm+sl (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
1687 + fixes for st 0.5 from testing with tack -TD
1688 + review/improve several manual pages to break up wall-of-text:
1689 curs_add_wch.3x, curs_attr.3x, curs_bkgd.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x,
1690 curs_getcchar.3x, curs_getch.3x, curs_kernel.3x, curs_mouse.3x,
1691 curs_outopts.3x, curs_overlay.3x, curs_pad.3x, curs_termattrs.3x
1692 curs_trace.3x, and curs_window.3x
1695 + correct an old logic error for %A and %O in tparm (report by "zreed").
1696 + improve documentation for signal handlers by adding section in the
1697 curs_initscr.3x page.
1698 + modify logic in make_keys.c to not assume anything about the size
1699 of strnames and strfnames variables, since those may be functions
1700 in the thread- or broken-linker configurations (problem found by
1702 + modify test/configure script to check for pthreads configuration,
1703 e.g., ncursestw library.
1706 + modify scripts to build/use test-packages for the pthreads
1707 configuration of ncurses6.
1708 + add references to ttytype and termcap symbols in demo_terminfo.c and
1709 demo_termcap.c to ensure that when building ncursest.map, etc., that
1710 the corresponding names such as _nc_ttytype are added to the list of
1711 versioned symbols (report by Werner Fink)
1712 + fix regression from 20150704 (report/patch by Werner Fink).
1715 + fix a few problems reported by Coverity.
1716 + fix comparison against "/usr/include" in misc/gen-pkgconfig.in
1717 (report by Daiki Ueno, Debian #790548, cf: 20141213).
1720 + modify configure script to remove deprecated ABI 5 symbols when
1722 + add symbols _nc_Default_Field, _nc_Default_Form, _nc_has_mouse to
1723 map-files, but marked as deprecated so that they can easily be
1724 suppressed from ABI 6 builds (Debian #788610).
1725 + comment-out "screen.xterm" entry, and inherit screen.xterm-256color
1726 from xterm-new (report by Richard Birkett) -TD
1727 + modify read_entry.c to set the error-return to -1 if no terminal
1728 databases were found, as documented for setupterm.
1729 + add test_setupterm.c to demonstrate normal/error returns from the
1730 setupterm and restartterm functions.
1731 + amend cleanup change from 20110813 which removed redundant definition
1732 of ret_error, etc., from tinfo_driver.c, to account for the fact that
1733 it should return a bool rather than int (report/analysis by Johannes
1737 + fix overflow warning for OSX with lib_baudrate.c (cf: 20010630).
1738 + modify script used to generate map/sym files to mark 5.9.20150530 as
1739 the last "5.9" version, and regenerated the files. That makes the
1740 files not use ".current" for the post-5.9 symbols. This also
1741 corrects the label for _nc_sigprocmask used in when weak symbols are
1742 configured for the ncursest/ncursestw libraries (prompted by
1743 discussion with Sven Joachim).
1744 + fix typo in NEWS (report by Sven Joachim).
1746 20150606 pre-release
1747 + make ABI 6 the default by updates to dist.mk and VERSION, with the
1748 intention that the existing ABI 5 should build as before using the
1749 "--with-abi-version=5" option.
1750 + regenerate ada- and man-html documentation.
1751 + minor fixes to color- and util-manpages.
1752 + fix a regression in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, to handle special case of
1753 Cygwin, which uses the broken-linker feature.
1754 + amend fix for CF_NCURSES_CONFIG used in test/configure to assume that
1755 ncurses package scripts work when present for cross-compiling, as the
1756 lessor of two evils (cf: 20150530).
1757 + add check in configure script to disallow conflicting options
1758 "--with-termlib" and "--enable-term-driver".
1759 + move defaults for "--disable-lp64" and "--with-versioned-syms" into
1760 CF_ABI_DEFAULTS macro.
1763 + change private type for Event_Mask in Ada95 binding to work when
1764 mmask_t is set to 32-bits.
1765 + remove spurious "%;" from st entry (report by Daniel Pitts) -TD
1766 + add vte-2014, update vte to use that -TD
1767 + modify tic and infocmp to "move" a diagnostic for tparm strings that
1768 have a syntax error to tic's "-c" option (report by Daniel Pitts).
1769 + fix two problems with configure script macros (Debian #786436,
1770 cf: 20150425, cf: 20100529).
1773 + add 'P' menu item to test/ncurses.c, to show pad in color.
1774 + improve discussion in curs_color.3x about color rendering (prompted
1775 by comment on Stack Overflow forum):
1776 + remove screen-bce.mlterm, since mlterm does not do "bce" -TD
1777 + add several screen.XXX entries to support the respective variations
1779 + add putty+fnkeys* building-block entries -TD
1780 + add smkx/rmkx to capabilities analyzed with infocmp "-i" option.
1783 + amend change to ".pc" files to only use the extra loader flags which
1784 may have rpath options (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20150502).
1785 + change versioning for dpkg's in test-packages for Ada95 and
1786 ncurses-examples for consistency with Debian, to work with package
1788 + regenerate html manpages.
1789 + clarify handling of carriage return in waddch manual page; it was
1790 discussed only in the portability section (prompted by comment on
1791 Stack Overflow forum):
1794 + add test-packages for cross-compiling ncurses-examples using the
1795 MinGW test-packages. These are only the Debian packages; RPM later.
1796 + cleanup format of debian/copyright files
1797 + add pc-files to the MinGW cross-compiling test-packages.
1798 + correct a couple of places in gen-pkgconfig.in to handle renaming of
1802 + modify the configure script to allow different default values
1803 for ABI 5 versus ABI 6.
1804 + add wgetch-events to test-packages.
1805 + add a note on how to build ncurses-examples to test/README.
1806 + fix a memory leak in delscreen (report by Daniel Kahn Gillmor,
1808 + remove unnecessary ';' from E3 capabilities -TD
1809 + add tmux entry, derived from screen (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
1810 + split-out recent change to nsterm-bce as nsterm-build326, and add
1811 nsterm-build342 to reflect changes with successive releases of OSX
1812 (discussion with Leonardo B Schenkel)
1813 + add xon, ich1, il1 to ibm3161 (patch by Stephen Powell, Debian
1815 + add sample "magic" file, to document ext-putwin.
1816 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to add explicit -ltinfo, etc., to the
1817 generated ".pc" file when ld option "--as-needed" is used, or when
1818 ncurses and tinfo are installed without using rpath (prompted by
1819 discussion with Sylvain Bertrand).
1820 + modify test-package for ncurses6 to omit rpath feature when installed
1822 + add OSX's "*.dSYM" to clean-rules in makefiles.
1823 + make extra-suffix work for OSX configuration, e.g., for shared
1825 + modify Ada95/configure script to work with pkg-config
1826 + move test-package for ncurses6 to /usr, since filename-conflicts have
1828 + corrected build rules for Ada95/gen/generate; it does not depend on
1829 the ncurses library aside from headers.
1830 + reviewed man pages, fixed a few other spelling errors.
1831 + fix a typo in curs_util.3x (Sven Joachim).
1832 + use extra-suffix in some overlooked shared library dependencies
1833 found by 20150425 changes for test-packages.
1834 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1835 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1838 + expanded description of tgetstr's area pointer in manual page
1839 (report by Todd M Lewis).
1840 + in-progress changes to modify test-packages to use ncursesw6 rather
1841 than ncursesw, with updated configure scripts.
1842 + modify CF_NCURSES_CONFIG in Ada95- and test-configure scripts to
1843 check for ".pc" files via pkg-config, but add a linkage check since
1844 frequently pkg-config configurations are broken.
1845 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to include EXTRA_LDFLAGS, e.g., for the
1847 + add 'dim' capability to screen entry (report by Leonardo B Schenkel)
1848 + add several key definitions to nsterm-bce to match preconfigured
1849 keys, e.g., with OSX 10.9 and 10.10 (report by Leonardo B Schenkel)
1850 + fix repeated "extra-suffix" in ncurses-config.in (cf: 20150418).
1851 + improve term_variables manual page, adding section on the terminfo
1852 long-name symbols which are defined in the term.h header.
1853 + fix bug in lib_tracebits.c introduced in const-fixes (cf: 20150404).
1856 + avoid a blank line in output from tabs program by ending it with
1857 a carriage return as done in FreeBSD (patch by James Clarke).
1858 + build-fix for the "--enable-ext-putwin" feature when not using
1859 wide characters (report by Werner Fink).
1860 + modify autoconf macros to use scripting improvement from xterm.
1861 + add -brtl option to compiler options on AIX 5-7, needed to link
1862 with the shared libraries.
1863 + add --with-extra-suffix option to help with installing nonconflicting
1864 ncurses6 packages, e.g., avoiding header- and library-conflicts.
1865 NOTE: as a side-effect, this renames
1866 adacurses-config to adacurses5-config and
1867 adacursesw-config to adacursesw5-config
1868 + modify debian/rules test package to suffix programs with "6".
1869 + clarify in curs_inopts.3x that window-specific settings do not
1870 inherit into new windows.
1873 + improve description of start_color() in the manual.
1874 + modify several files in ncurses- and progs-directories to allow
1875 const data used in internal tables to be put by the linker into the
1876 readonly text segment.
1879 + correct cut/paste error for "--enable-ext-putwin" that made it the
1880 same as "--enable-ext-colors" (report by Roumen Petrov)
1883 + add "-f" option to test/savescreen.c to help with testing/debugging
1884 the extended putwin/getwin.
1885 + add logic for writing/reading combining characters in the extended
1887 + add "--enable-ext-putwin" configure option to turn on the extended
1891 + in-progress changes to provide an extended version of putwin and
1892 getwin which will be capable of reading screen-dumps between the
1893 wide/normal ncurses configurations. These are text files, except
1894 for a magic code at the beginning:
1895 0 string \210\210 Screen-dump (ncurses)
1898 + document limitations of getwin in manual page (prompted by discussion
1900 + extend test/savescreen.c to demonstrate that color pair values
1901 and graphic characters can be restored using getwin.
1904 + modify win_driver.c to eliminate the constructor, to make it more
1905 usable in an application which may/may not need the console window
1906 (report by Grady Martin).
1909 + capture define's related to -D_XOPEN_SOURCE from the configure check
1910 and add those to the *-config and *.pc files, to simplify use for
1911 the wide-character libraries.
1912 + modify ncurses.spec to accommodate Fedora21's location of pkg-config
1914 + correct sense of "--disable-lib-suffixes" configure option (report
1915 by Nicolas Boos, cf: 20140426).
1918 + regenerate html manpages using improved man2html from work on xterm.
1919 + regenerated ".map" and ".sym" files using improved script, accounting
1920 for the "--enable-weak-symbols" configure option (report by Werner
1924 + regenerated ".map" and ".sym" files using improved script, showing
1925 the combinations of configure options used at each stage.
1928 + add configure check to determine if "local: _*;" can be used in the
1929 ".map" files to selectively omit symbols beginning with "_". On at
1930 least recent FreeBSD, the wildcard applies to all "_" symbols.
1931 + remove obsolete/conflicting rule for ncurses.map from
1932 ncurses/Makefile.in (cf: 20130706).
1935 + improve description in INSTALL of the --with-versioned-syms option.
1936 + add combination of --with-hashed-db and --with-ticlib to
1937 configurations for ".map" files (report by Werner Fink).
1940 + add a step to generating ".map" files, to declare any remaining
1941 symbols beginning with "_" as local, at the last version node.
1942 + improve configure checks for pkg-config, addressing a variant found
1944 + modify win_driver.c to provide characters for special keys, like
1945 ansi.sys, when keypad mode is off, rather than returning nothing at
1946 all (discussion with Eli Zaretskii).
1947 + add "broken_linker" and "hashed-db" configure options to combinations
1948 use for generating the ".map" and ".sym" files.
1949 + avoid using "ld" directly when creating shared library, to simplify
1950 cross-compiles. Also drop "-Bsharable" option from shared-library
1951 rules for FreeBSD and DragonFly (FreeBSD #196592).
1952 + fix a memory leak in form library Free_RegularExpression_Type()
1953 (report by Pavel Balaev).
1956 + modify_nc_flush() to retry if interrupted (patch by Stian Skjelstad).
1957 + change map files to make _nc_freeall a global, since it may be used
1958 via the Ada95 binding when checking for memory leaks.
1959 + improve sed script used in 20141220 to account for wide-, threaded-
1960 variations in ABI 6.
1963 + regenerate ".map" files, using step overlooked in 20141213 to use
1964 the same patch-dates across each file to match ncurses.map (report by
1968 + fix an incorrect variable assignment in 20141220 changes (report by
1972 + updated Ada95/configure with macro changes from 20141213
1973 + tie configure options --with-abi-version and --with-versioned-syms
1974 together, so that ABI 6 libraries have distinct symbol versions from
1975 the ABI 5 libraries.
1976 + replace obsolete/nonworking link to man2html with current one,
1977 regenerate html-manpages.
1980 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to add -I option for include-directory
1981 when using both --prefix and --disable-overwrite (report by Misty
1983 + add configure option --with-pc-suffix to allow minor renaming of
1984 ".pc" files and the corresponding library. Use this in the test
1985 package for ncurses6.
1986 + modify configure script so that if pkg-config is not installed, it
1987 is still possible to install ".pc" files (report by Misty De Meo).
1988 + updated ".sym" files, removing symbols which are marked as "local"
1989 in the corresponding ".map" files.
1990 + updated ".map" files to reflect move of comp_captab and comp_hash
1991 from tic-library to tinfo-library in 20090711 (report by Sven
1995 + updated ".map" files so that each symbol that may be shared across
1996 the different library configurations has the same label. Some
1997 review is needed to ensure these are really compatible.
1998 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to work around change in development version of
1999 gcc introduced here:
2000 https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-06/msg02185.html
2001 https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-07/msg00236.html
2002 (reports by Marcus Shawcroft, Maohui Lei).
2003 + improved configure macro CF_SUBDIR_PATH, from lynx changes.
2006 + improved ".map" files by generating them with a script that builds
2007 ncurses with several related configurations and merges the results.
2008 A further refinement is planned, to make the tic- and tinfo-library
2009 symbols use the same versions across each of the four configurations
2010 which are represented (reports by Sven Joachim, Werner Fink).
2013 + improve description of limits for color values and color pairs in
2014 curs_color.3x (prompted by patch by Tim van der Molen).
2015 + add VERSION file, using first field in that to record the ABI version
2016 used for configure --with-libtool --disable-libtool-version
2017 + add configure options for applying the ".map" and ".sym" files to
2018 the ncurses, form, menu and panel libraries.
2019 + add ".map" and ".sym" files to show exported symbols, e.g., for
2023 + improve strict compiler-warnings by adding a cast in TRACE_RETURN
2024 and making a new TRACE_RETURN1 macro for cases where the cast does
2028 + in-progress changes to integrate the win32 console driver with the
2029 msys2 configuration.
2032 + reviewed terminology 0.6.1, add function key definitions. None of
2033 the vt100-compatibility issues were improved -TD
2034 + improve infocmp conversion of extended capabilities to termcap by
2035 correcting the limit check against parametrized[], as well as filling
2036 in a check if the string happens to have parameters, e.g., "xm"
2038 + add check for zero/negative dimensions for resizeterm and resize_term
2039 (report by Mike Gran).
2042 + add experimental support for xterm's 1005 mouse mode, to use in a
2043 demonstration of its limitations.
2044 + add experimental support for "%u" format to terminfo.
2045 + modify test/ncurses.c to also show position reports in 'a' test.
2046 + minor formatting fixes to _nc_trace_mmask_t, make this function
2047 exported to help with debugging mouse changes.
2048 + improve behavior of wheel-mice for xterm protocol, noting that there
2049 are only button-presses for buttons "4" and "5", so there is no need
2050 to wait to combine events into double-clicks (report/analysis by
2052 + provide examples xterm-1005 and xterm-1006 terminfo entries -TD
2053 + implement decoder for xterm SGR 1006 mouse mode.
2056 + implement curs_set in win_driver.c
2057 + implement flash in win_driver.c
2058 + fix an infinite loop in win_driver.c if the command-window loses
2060 + improve the non-buffered mode, i.e., NCURSES_CONSOLE2, of
2061 win_driver.c by temporarily changing the buffer-size to match the
2062 window-size to eliminate the scrollback. Also enforce a minimum
2063 screen-size of 24x80 in the non-buffered mode.
2064 + modify generated misc/Makefile to suppress install.data from the
2065 dependencies if the --disable-db-install option is used, compensating
2066 for the top-level makefile changes used to add ncurses*-config in the
2067 20140920 changes (report by Steven Honeyman).
2070 + add ncurses*-config to bin-directory of sample package-scripts.
2071 + add check to ensure that getopt is available; this is a problem in
2072 some older cross-compiler environments.
2073 + expanded on the description of --disable-overwrite in INSTALL
2074 (prompted by reports by Joakim Tjernlund, Thomas Klausner).
2075 See Gentoo #522586 and NetBSD #49200 for examples.
2076 which relates to the clarified guidelines.
2077 + remove special logic from CF_INCLUDE_DIRS which adds the directory
2078 for the --includedir from the build (report by Joakim Tjernlund).
2079 + add case for Unixware to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, from lynx changes.
2080 + update config.sub from
2081 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
2084 + add a configure check to ignore some of the plethora of non-working
2085 C++ cross-compilers.
2086 + build-fixes for Ada95 with gnat 4.9
2089 + build-fix and other improvements for port of ncurses-examples to
2091 + minor compiler-warning fixes.
2094 + modify test/demo_termcap.c and test/demo_terminfo.c to make their
2095 options more directly comparable, and add "-i" option to specify
2096 a terminal description filename to parse for names to lookup.
2099 + fix special case where double-width character overwrites a single-
2100 width character in the first column (report by Egmont Koblinger,
2104 + fix colors in ncurses 'b' test which did not work after changing
2105 it to put the test-strings in subwindows (cf: 20140705).
2106 + merge redundant SEE-ALSO sections in form and menu manpages.
2109 + modify declarations for user-data pointers in C++ binding to use
2110 reinterpret_cast to facilitate converting typed pointers to void*
2111 in user's application (patch by Adam Jiang).
2112 + regenerated html manpages.
2113 + add note regarding cause and effect for TERM in ncurses manpage,
2114 having noted clueless verbiage in Terminal.app's "help" file
2115 which reverses cause/effect.
2116 + remove special fallback definition for NCURSES_ATTR_T, since macros
2117 have resolved type-mismatches using casts (cf: 970412).
2118 + fixes for win_driver.c:
2119 + handle repainting on endwin/refresh combination.
2124 + minor portability fixes for MinGW:
2125 + ensure WINVER is defined in makefiles rather than using headers
2126 + add check for gnatprep "-T" option
2127 + work around bug introduced by gcc 4.8.1 in MinGW which breaks
2129 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20877689/gcc-4-8-1-minggw-d-option-does-not-work-as-usual
2130 + fix most compiler warnings for Cygwin ncurses-examples.
2131 + restore "redundant" -I options in test/Makefile.in, since they are
2132 typically needed when building the derived ncurses-examples package
2136 + eliminate some redundant -I options used for building libraries, and
2137 ensure that ${srcdir} is added to the include-options (prompted by
2138 discussion with Paul Gilmartin).
2139 + modify configure script to work with Minix3.2
2140 + add form library extension O_DYNAMIC_JUSTIFY option which can be
2141 used to override the different treatment of justification for static
2142 versus dynamic fields (adapted from patch by Leon Winter).
2143 + add a null pointer check in test/edit_field.c (report/analysis by
2144 Leon Winter, cf: 20130608).
2147 + make workarounds for compiling test-programs with NetBSD curses.
2148 + improve configure macro CF_ADD_LIBS, to eliminate repeated -l/-L
2149 options, from xterm changes.
2152 + correct Charable() macro check for A_ALTCHARSET in wide-characters.
2153 + build-fix for position-debug code in tty_update.c, to work with or
2157 + add w/W toggle to ncurses.c 'B' test, to demonstrate permutation of
2158 video-attributes and colors with double-width character strings.
2161 + correct check in win_driver.c for saving screen contents, e.g., when
2162 NCURSES_CONSOLE2 is set (cf: 20140503).
2163 + reorganize b/B menu items in ncurses.c, putting the test-strings into
2164 subwindows. This is needed for a planned change to use Unicode
2165 fullwidth characters in the test-screens.
2166 + correct update to form status for _NEWTOP, broken by fixes for
2167 compiler warnings (patch by Leon Winter, cf: 20120616).
2170 + change shared-library suffix for AIX 5 and 6 to ".so", avoiding
2171 conflict with the static library (report by Ben Lentz).
2172 + document RPATH_LIST in INSTALLATION file, as part of workarounds for
2173 upgrading an ncurses library using the "--with-shared" option.
2174 + modify test/ncurses.c c/C tests to cycle through subsets of the
2175 total number of colors, to better illustrate 8/16/88/256-colors by
2176 providing directly comparable screens.
2177 + add test/dots_curses.c, for comparison with the low-level examples.
2180 + fix dereference before null check found by Coverity in tic.c
2182 + fix sign-extension bug in read_entry.c which prevented "toe" from
2183 reading empty "screen+italics" entry.
2184 + modify sgr for screen.xterm-new to support dim capability -TD
2185 + add dim capability to nsterm+7 -TD
2186 + cancel dim capability for iterm -TD
2187 + add dim, invis capabilities to vte-2012 -TD
2188 + add sitm/ritm to konsole-base and mlterm3 -TD
2191 > fix regression in screen terminfo entries (reports by Christian
2192 Ebert, Gabriele Balducci) -TD
2193 + revert the change to screen; see notes for why this did not work -TD
2194 + cancel sitm/ritm for entries which extend "screen", to work around
2195 screen's hardcoded behavior for SGR 3 -TD
2198 + separate masking for sgr in vidputs from sitm/ritm, which do not
2199 overlap with sgr functionality.
2200 + remove unneeded -i option from adacurses-config; put -a in the -I
2201 option for consistency (patch by Pascal Pignard).
2202 + update xterm-new terminfo entry to xterm patch #305 -TD
2203 + change format of test-scripts for Debian Ada95 and ncurses-examples
2204 packages to quilted to work around Debian #700177 (cf: 20130907).
2205 + build fix for form_driver_w.c as part of ncurses-examples package for
2206 older ncurses than 20131207.
2207 + add Hello World example to adacurses-config manpage.
2208 + remove unused --enable-pc-files option from Ada95/configure.
2209 + add --disable-gnat-projects option for testing.
2210 + revert changes to Ada95 project-files configuration (cf: 20140524).
2211 + corrected usage message in adacurses-config.
2214 + fix typo in ncurses manpage for the NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE
2215 environment variable.
2216 + improve discussion of input-echoing in curs_getch.3x
2217 + clarify discussion in curs_addch.3x of wrapping.
2218 + modify parametrized.h to make fln non-padded.
2219 + correct several entries which had termcap-style padding used in
2220 terminfo: adm21, aj510, alto-h19, att605-pc, x820 -TD
2221 + correct syntax for padding in some entries: dg211, h19 -TD
2222 + correct ti924-8 which had confused padding versus octal escapes -TD
2223 + correct padding in sbi entry -TD
2224 + fix an old bug in the termcap emulation; "%i" was ignored in tparm()
2225 because the parameters to be incremented were already on the internal
2226 stack (report by Corinna Vinschen).
2227 + modify tic's "-c" option to take into account the "-C" option to
2228 activate additional checks which compare the results from running
2229 tparm() on the terminfo expressions versus the translated termcap
2231 + modify tic to allow it to read from FIFOs (report by Matthieu Fronton,
2233 > patches by Nicolas Boulenguez:
2234 + explicit dereferences to suppress some style warnings.
2235 + when c_varargs_to_ada.c includes its header, use double quotes
2237 + samples/ncurses2-util.adb: removed unused with clause. The warning
2238 was removed by an obsolete pragma.
2239 + replaced Unreferenced pragmas with Warnings (Off). The latter,
2240 available with older GNATs, needs no configure test. This also
2241 replaces 3 untested Unreferenced pragmas.
2242 + simplified To_C usage in trace handling. Using two parameters allows
2243 some basic formatting, and avoids a warning about security with some
2245 + for generated Ada sources, replace many snippets with one pure
2247 + removed C_Chtype and its conversions.
2248 + removed C_AttrType and its conversions.
2249 + removed conversions between int, Item_Option_Set, Menu_Option_Set.
2250 + removed int, Field_Option_Set, Item_Option_Set conversions.
2251 + removed C_TraceType, Attribute_Option_Set conversions.
2252 + replaced C.int with direct use of Eti_Error, now enumerated. As it
2253 was used in a case statement, values were tested by the Ada compiler
2254 to be consecutive anyway.
2255 + src/Makefile.in: remove duplicate stanza
2256 + only consider using a project for shared libraries.
2257 + style. Silent gnat-4.9 warning about misplaced "then".
2258 + generate shared library project to honor ADAFLAGS, LDFLAGS.
2261 + cleanup recently introduced compiler warnings for MingW port.
2262 + workaround for ${MAKEFLAGS} configure check versus GNU make 4.0,
2263 which introduces more than one gratuitous incompatibility.
2266 + add vt520ansi terminfo entry (patch by Mike Gran)
2267 + further improve MinGW support for the scenario where there is an
2268 ANSI-escapes handler such as ansicon running in the console window
2269 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
2272 + add --disable-lib-suffixes option (adapted from patch by Juergen
2274 + merge some changes from Juergen Pfeifer's work with MSYS2, to
2275 simplify later merging:
2276 + use NC_ISATTY() macro for isatty() in library
2277 + add _nc_mingw_isatty() and related functions to windows-driver
2278 + rename terminal driver entrypoints to simplify grep's
2279 + remove a check in the sp-funcs flavor of newterm() which allowed only
2280 the first call to newterm() to succeed (report by Thomas Beierlein,
2284 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2285 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
2288 + modify configure script:
2289 + drop the -no-gcc option from Intel compiler, from lynx changes.
2290 + extend the --with-hashed-db configure option to simplify building
2291 with different versions of Berkeley database using FreeBSD ports.
2292 + improve initialization for MinGW port (Juergen Pfeifer):
2293 + enforce Windows-style path-separator if cross-compiling,
2294 + add a driver-name method to each of the drivers,
2295 + allow the Windows driver name to match "unknown", ignoring case,
2296 + lengthen the built-in name for the Windows console driver to
2297 "#win32console", and
2298 + move the comparison of driver-names allowing abbreviation, e.g.,
2299 to "#win32con" into the Windows console driver.
2302 + add check in tic for mismatch between ccc and initp/initc
2303 + cancel ccc in putty-256color and konsole-256color for consistency
2304 with the cancelled initc capability (patch by Sven Zuhlsdorf).
2305 + add xterm+256setaf building block for various terminals which only
2306 get the 256-color feature half-implemented -TD
2307 + updated "st" entry (leaving the 0.1.1 version as "simpleterm") to
2311 + fix typo in "mlterm" entry (report by Gabriele Balducci) -TD
2314 + use types from <stdint.h> in sample build-scripts for chtype, etc.
2315 + modify configure script and curses.h.in to allow the types specified
2316 using --with-chtype and related options to be defined in <stdint.h>
2317 + add terminology entry -TD
2318 + add mlterm3 entry, use that as "mlterm" -TD
2319 + inherit mlterm-256color from mlterm -TD
2322 + modify _nc_New_TopRow_and_CurrentItem() to ensure that the menu's
2323 top-row is adjusted as needed to ensure that the current item is
2324 on the screen (patch by Johann Klammer).
2325 + add wgetdelay() to retrieve _delay member of WINDOW if it happens to
2326 be opaque, e.g., in the pthread configuration (prompted by patch by
2330 + modify ifdef in read_entry.c to handle the case where
2331 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE is not defined (patch by Xin Li).
2332 + add cast in form_driver_w() to fix ARM build (patch by Xin Li).
2333 + add logic to win_driver.c to save/restore screen contents when not
2334 allocating a console-buffer (cf: 20140215).
2337 + clarify error-returns from newwin (report by Ruslan Nabioullin).
2340 + fix some compiler warnings in win_driver.c
2341 + updated notes for wsvt25 based on tack and vttest -TD
2342 + add teken entry to show actual properties of FreeBSD's "xterm"
2346 + in-progress changes to win_driver.c to implement output without
2347 allocating a console-buffer. This uses a pre-existing environment
2348 variable NCGDB used by Juergen Pfeifer for debugging (prompted by
2349 discussion with Erwin Waterlander regarding Console2, which hangs
2350 when reading in an allocated console-buffer).
2351 + add -t option to gdc.c, and modify to accept "S" to step through the
2353 + regenerate NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html to fix some of the broken
2354 html emitted by docbook.
2357 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to omit followup check to determine if
2358 _XOPEN_SOURCE can/should be defined. g++ 4.7.2 built on Solaris 10
2359 has some header breakage due to its own predefinition of this symbol
2360 (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15796).
2363 + add/use symbol NCURSES_PAIRS_T like NCURSES_COLOR_T, to illustrate
2364 which "short" types are for color pairs and which are color values.
2365 + fix build for s390x, by correcting field bit offsets in generated
2366 representation clauses when int=32 long=64 and endian=big, or at
2367 least on s390x (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
2368 + minor cleanup change to test/form_driver_w.c (patch by Gaute Hope).
2371 + remove unnecessary ifdef's in Ada95/gen/gen.c, which reportedly do
2372 not work as is with gcc 4.8 due to fixes using chtype cast made for
2373 new compiler warnings by gcc 4.8 in 20130824 (Debian #735753, patch
2374 by Nicolas Boulenguez).
2377 + apply includesubdir variable which was introduced in 20130805 to
2378 gen-pkgconfig.in (Debian #735782).
2381 + further improved man2html, used this to fix broken links in html
2383 ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/man2html
2386 + modify configure-script/ifdef's to allow OLD_TTY feature to be
2387 suppressed if the type of ospeed is configured using the option
2388 --with-ospeed to not be a short. By default, it is a short for
2389 termcap-compatibility (adapted from suggestion by Christian
2391 + correct a typo in _nc_baudrate() (patch by Christian Weisgerber,
2393 + fix a few -Wlogical-op warnings.
2394 + updated llib-l* files.
2397 + add form_driver_w() entrypoint to wide-character forms library, as
2398 well as test program form_driver_w (adapted from patch by Gaute
2402 + minor fix for CF_GCC_WARNINGS to special-case options which are not
2403 recognized by clang.
2406 + add special case to configure script to move _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
2407 definition from CPPFLAGS to CFLAGS if it happens to be needed for
2408 Solaris, because g++ errors with that definition (report by
2409 Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15268).
2410 + correct logic in infocmp's -i option which was intended to ignore
2411 strings which correspond to function-keys as candidates for piecing
2412 together initialization- or reset-strings. The problem dates to
2413 1.9.7a, but was overlooked until changes in -Wlogical-op warnings for
2414 gcc 4.8 (report by David Binderman).
2415 + updated CF_GCC_WARNINGS to documented options for gcc 4.9.0, moving
2416 checks for -Wextra and -Wdeclaration-after-statement into the macro,
2417 and adding checks for -Wignored-qualifiers, -Wlogical-op and
2419 + updated CF_CURSES_UNCTRL_H and CF_SHARED_OPTS macros from ongoing
2421 + update config.sub from
2422 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
2425 + minor cleanup of terminfo.tail
2428 + use TS extension to describe xterm's title-escapes -TD
2429 + modify terminator and nsterm-s to use xterm+sl-twm building block -TD
2430 + update hurd.ti, add xenl to reflect 2011-03-06 change in
2431 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/hurd.git/log/console/display.c
2433 + simplify pfkey expression in ansi.sys -TD
2436 + correct/simplify ifdef's for cur_term versus broken-linker and
2437 reentrant options (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, cf: 20090530).
2438 + modify release/version combinations in test build-scripts to make
2439 them more consistent with other packages.
2442 + add nc_mingw.h to installed headers for MinGW port; needed for
2443 compiling ncurses-examples.
2444 + add rpm-script for testing cross-compile of ncurses-examples.
2447 + fix new typo in CF_ADA_INCLUDE_DIRS macro (report by Roumen Petrov).
2450 + fix a few compiler warnings in progs and test.
2451 + minor fix to package/debian-mingw/rules, do not strip dll's.
2452 + minor fixes to configure script for empty $prefix, e.g., when doing
2453 cross-compiles to MinGW.
2454 + add script for building test-packages of binaries cross-compiled to
2458 + minor fixes for ncurses-example package and makefile.
2459 + add scripts for test-builds of cross-compiler packages for ncurses6
2463 + some build-fixes for ncurses-examples with NetBSD-6.0 curses, though
2464 it lacks some common functions such as use_env() which is not yet
2466 + build-fix and some compiler warning fixes for ncurses-examples with
2468 + fix a possible null-pointer reference in a trace message from newterm.
2469 + quiet a few warnings from NetBSD 6.0 namespace pollution by
2470 nonstandard popcount() function in standard strings.h header.
2471 + ignore g++ 4.2.1 warnings for "-Weffc++" in c++/cursesmain.cc
2472 + fix a few overlooked places for --enable-string-hacks option.
2475 + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130831).
2476 + build-fix for --with-shared option for DragonFly and FreeBSD (report
2477 by Rong-En Fan, cf: 20130727).
2480 + build-fixes for MSYS for two test-programs (patches by Ray Donnelly,
2482 + revert change to two of the dpkg format files, to work with dpkg
2483 before/after Debian #700177.
2484 + fix gcc -Wconversion warning in wattr_get() macro.
2485 + add msys and msysdll to known host/configuration types (patch by
2487 + modify CF_RPATH_HACK configure macro to not rely upon "-u" option
2488 of sort, improving portability.
2489 + minor improvements for test-programs from reviewing Solaris port.
2490 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2491 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
2494 + modify test/ncurses.c b/B tests to display lines only for the
2495 attributes which a given terminal supports, to make room for an
2497 + completed ncv table in terminfo.tail; it did not list the wide
2498 character codes listed in X/Open Curses issue 7.
2499 + add A_ITALIC extension (prompted by discussion with Egmont Koblinger).
2502 + fix some gcc 4.8 -Wconversion warnings.
2503 + change format of dpkg test-scripts to quilted to work around bug
2504 introduced by Debian #700177.
2505 + discard cached keyname() values if meta() is changed after a value
2506 was cached using (report by Kurban Mallachiev).
2509 + add checks in tic to warn about terminals which lack cursor
2510 addressing, capabilities or having those, are marked as hard_copy or
2512 + use --without-progs in mingw-ncurses rpm.
2513 + split out _nc_init_termtype() from alloc_entry.c to use in MinGW
2514 port when tic and other programs are not needed.
2517 + minor fixes to the --disable-overwrite logic, to ensure that the
2518 configured $(includedir) is not cancelled by the mingwxx-filesystem
2520 + add --disable-db-install configure option, to simplify building
2521 cross-compile support packages.
2522 + add mingw-ncurses.spec file, for testing cross-compiles.
2525 + improve configure macros from ongoing work on cdk, dialog, xterm:
2526 + CF_ADD_LIB_AFTER - fix a problem with -Wl options
2527 + CF_RPATH_HACK - add missing result-message
2528 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify to use $rel_builddir in cygwin and mingw
2529 dll symbols (which can be overridden) rather than explicit "../".
2530 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify NetBSD and DragonFly symbols to use ${CC}
2531 rather than ${LD} to improve rpath support.
2532 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - add a symbol to denote the temporary files that
2533 are created by the macro, to simplify clean-rules.
2534 + CF_X_ATHENA - trim extra libraries to work with -Wl,--as-needed
2535 + fix a regression in hashed-database support for NetBSD, which uses
2536 the key-size differently from other implementations (cf: 20121229).
2539 + further improvements for setupterm manpage, clarifying the
2540 initialization of cur_term.
2543 + improve manpages for initscr and setupterm.
2544 + minor compiler-warning fixes
2547 + add fallback defs for <inttypes.h> and <stdint.h> (cf: 20120225).
2548 + add check for size of wchar_t, use that to suppress a chunk of
2549 wcwidth.h in MinGW port.
2550 + quiet linker warnings for MinGW cross-compile with dll's using the
2551 --enable-auto-import flag.
2552 + add ncurses.map rule to ncurses/Makefile to help diagnose symbol
2556 + modify the clear program to take into account the E3 extended
2557 capability to clear the terminal's scrollback buffer (patch by
2558 Miroslav Lichvar, Redhat #815790).
2559 + clarify in resizeterm manpage that LINES and COLS are updated.
2560 + updated ansi example in terminfo.tail, correct misordered example
2562 + fix other doclifter warnings for manpages
2563 + remove unnecessary ".ta" in terminfo.tail, add missing ".fi"
2564 (patch by Eric Raymond).
2567 + minor changes to some configure macros to make them more reusable.
2568 + fixes for tabs program (prompted by report by Nick Andrik).
2569 + corrected logic in command-line parsing of -a and -c predefined
2571 + allow "-0" and "-8" options to be combined with others, e.g.,"-0d".
2572 + make warning messages more consistent with the other utilities by
2573 not printing the full pathname of the program.
2574 + add -V option for consistency with other utilities.
2575 + fix off-by-one in columns for tabs program when processing an option
2576 such as "-5" (patch by Nick Andrik).
2579 + add to test/demo_forms.c examples of using the menu-hooks as well
2580 as showing how the menu item user-data can be used to pass a callback
2582 + add test/dots_termcap.c
2583 + remove setupterm call from test/demo_termcap.c
2584 + build-fix if --disable-ext-funcs configure option is used.
2585 + modified test/edit_field.c and test/demo_forms.c to move the lengths
2586 into a user-data structure, keeping the original string for later
2587 expansion to free-format input/out demo.
2588 + modified test/demo_forms.c to load data from file.
2589 + added note to clarify Terminal.app's non-emulation of the various
2590 terminal types listed in the preferences dialog -TD
2591 + fix regression in error-reporting in lib_setup.c (Debian #711134,
2593 + build-fix for a case where --enable-broken_linker and
2594 --enable-reentrant options are combined (report by George R Goffe).
2597 + modify mvcur() to distinguish between internal use by the ncurses
2598 library, and external callers, preventing it from reading the content
2599 of the screen which is only nonblank when curses calls have updated
2600 it. This makes test/dots_mvcur.c avoid painting colored cells in
2601 the left margin of the display.
2602 + minor fix to test/dots_mvcur.c
2603 + move configured symbols USE_DATABASE and USE_TERMCAP to term.h as
2604 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE and NCURSES_USE_TERMCAP to allow consistent
2605 use of these symbols in term_entry.h
2608 + corrected ifdefs in test/testcurs.c to allow comparison of mouse
2609 interface versus pdcurses (cf: 20130316).
2610 + add pow() to configure-check for math library, needed since
2611 20121208 for test/hanoi (Debian #708056).
2612 + regenerated html manpages.
2613 + update doctype used for html documentation.
2616 + move nsterm-related entries out of "obsolete" section to more
2617 plausible "ansi consoles" -TD
2618 + additional cleanup of table-of-contents by reordering -TD
2619 + revise fix for check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch(); prior fix
2620 prevented inserts when video attributes were attached to the data
2621 (cf: 20121215) (Redhat #959534).
2624 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
2625 + correct FNKEY() macro in progs/dump_entry.c, allowing kf11-kf63 to
2626 display when infocmp's -R option is used for HP or AIX subsets.
2627 + fix dead-code issue with test/movewindow.c
2628 + improve limited-checking in _nc_read_termtype().
2631 + fix clang 3.2 warning in progs/dump_entry.c
2632 + drop AC_TYPE_SIGNAL check; ncurses relies on c89 and later.
2635 + add MinGW to cases where ncurses installs by default into /usr
2636 (prompted by discussion with Daniel Silva Ferreira).
2637 + add -D option to infocmp's usage-message (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
2638 + add a missing 'int' type for main function in configure check for
2639 type of bool variable, to work with clang 3.2 (report by Dmitri
2641 + improve configure check for static_cast, to work with clang 3.2
2642 (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
2643 + re-order rule for demo.o and macros defining header dependencies in
2644 c++/Makefile.in to accommodate gmake (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
2647 + improve parameter checking in copywin().
2648 + modify configure script to work around OS X's "libtool" program, to
2649 choose glibtool instead. At the same time, chance the autoconf macro
2650 to look for a "tool" rather than a "prog", to help with potential use
2652 + separate the rpath usage for c++ library from demo program
2654 + update/correct header-dependencies in c++ makefile (report by Werner
2656 + add --with-cxx-shared to dpkg-script, as done for rpm-script.
2659 + build-fix for libtool configuration (reports by Daniel Silva Ferreira
2663 + build-fix for OS X, to handle changes for --with-cxx-shared feature
2664 (report by Christian Ebert).
2665 + change initialization for vt220, similar entries for consistency
2666 with cursor-key strings (NetBSD #47674) -TD
2667 + further improvements to linux-16color (Benjamin Sittler)
2670 + additional fix for tic.c, to allocate missing buffer space.
2671 + eliminate configure-script warnings for gen-pkgconfig.in
2672 + correct typo in sgr string for sun-color,
2673 add bold for consistency with sgr,
2674 change smso for consistency with sgr -TD
2675 + correct typo in sgr string for terminator -TD
2676 + add blink to the attributes masked by ncv in linux-16color (report
2677 by Benjamin Sittler)
2678 + improve warning message from post-load checking for missing "%?"
2679 operator by tic/infocmp by showing the entry name and capability.
2680 + minor formatting improvement to tic/infocmp -f option to ensure
2681 line split after "%;".
2682 + amend scripting for --with-cxx-shared option to handle the debug
2683 library "libncurses++_g.a" (report by Sven Joachim).
2686 + amend change to toe.c for reading from /dev/zero, to ensure that
2687 there is a buffer for the temporary filename (cf: 20120324).
2688 + regenerated html manpages.
2689 + fix typo in terminfo.head (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130302).
2690 + updated some autoconf macros:
2691 + CF_ACVERSION_CHECK, from byacc 1.9 20130304
2692 + CF_INTEL_COMPILER, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE from luit 2.0-20130217
2693 + add configure option --with-cxx-shared to permit building
2694 libncurses++ as a shared library when using g++, e.g., the same
2695 limitations as libtool but better integrated with the usual build
2696 configuration (Redhat #911540).
2697 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to filter out build-path which was unnecessarily
2698 shown in curses.h (Debian #689131).
2701 + add section to terminfo manpage discussing user-defined capabilities.
2702 + update manpage description of NCURSES_NO_SETBUF, explaining why it
2704 + add a check in waddch_nosync() to ensure that tab characters are
2705 treated as control characters; some broken locales claim they are
2707 + add some traces to the Windows console driver.
2708 + initialize a temporary array in _nc_mbtowc, needed for some cases
2709 of raw input in MinGW port.
2712 + correct ifdef on change to lib_twait.c (report by Werner Fink).
2713 + update config.guess, config.sub
2716 + modify test/testcurs.c to work with mouse for ncurses as it does for
2718 + modify test/knight.c to work with mouse for pdcurses as it does for
2720 + modify internal recursion in wgetch() which handles cooked mode to
2721 check if the call to wgetnstr() returned an error. This can happen
2722 when both nocbreak() and nodelay() are set, for instance (report by
2723 Nils Christopher Brause) (cf: 960418).
2724 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
2725 + add a check for valid position in ClearToEOS()
2726 + fix in lib_twait.c when --enable-wgetch-events is used, pointer
2728 + improve a limit-check in make_hash.c
2729 + fix a memory leak in hashed_db.c
2732 + modify test/configure script to make it simpler to override names
2733 of curses-related libraries, to help with linking with pdcurses in
2735 + if the --with-terminfo-dirs configure option is not used, there is
2736 no corresponding compiled-in value for that. Fill in "no default
2737 value" for that part of the manpage substitution.
2740 + correct initialization in knight.c which let it occasionally make
2741 an incorrect move (cf: 20001028).
2742 + improve documentation of the terminfo/termcap search path.
2745 + further fixes to mvcur to pass callback function (cf: 20130112),
2746 needed to make test/dots_mvcur work.
2747 + reduce calls to SetConsoleActiveScreenBuffer in win_driver.c, to
2748 help reduce flicker.
2749 + modify configure script to omit "+b" from linker options for very
2750 old HP-UX systems (report by Dennis Grevenstein)
2751 + add HP-UX workaround for missing EILSEQ on old HP-UX systems (patch
2752 by Dennis Grevenstein).
2753 + restore memmove/strdup support for antique systems (request by
2754 Dennis Grevenstein).
2755 + change %l behavior in tparm to push the string length onto the stack
2756 rather than saving the formatted length into the output buffer
2757 (report by Roy Marples, cf: 980620).
2760 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
2761 + fix memory leak in safe_sprintf.c
2762 + add check for return-value in tty_update.c
2763 + correct initialization for -s option in test/view.c
2764 + add check for numeric overflow in lib_instr.c
2765 + improve error-checking in copywin
2766 + add advice in infocmp manpage for termcap users (Debian #698469).
2767 + add "-y" option to test/demo_termcap and test/demo_terminfo to
2768 demonstrate behavior with/without extended capabilities.
2769 + updated termcap manpage to document legacy termcap behavior for
2770 matching capability names.
2771 + modify name-comparison for tgetstr, etc., to accommodate legacy
2772 applications as well as to improve compatbility with BSD 4.2
2773 termcap implementations (Debian #698299) (cf: 980725).
2776 + correct prototype in manpage for vid_puts.
2777 + drop ncurses/tty/tty_display.h, ncurses/tty/tty_input.h, since they
2778 are unused in the current driver model.
2779 + modify mvcur to use stdout except when called within the ncurses
2781 + modify vidattr and vid_attr to use stdout as documented in manpage.
2782 + amend changes made to buffering in 20120825 so that the low-level
2783 putp() call uses stdout rather than ncurses' internal buffering.
2784 The putp_sp() call does the same, for consistency (Redhat #892674).
2787 + add "-s" option to test/view.c to allow it to start in single-step
2788 mode, reducing size of trace files when it is used for debugging
2790 + revert part of 20121222 change to tinfo_driver.c
2791 + add experimental logic in win_driver.c to improve optimization of
2792 screen updates. This does not yet work with double-width characters,
2793 so it is ifdef'd out for the moment (prompted by report by Erwin
2794 Waterlander regarding screen flicker).
2797 + fix Coverity warnings regarding copying into fixed-size buffers.
2798 + add throw-declarations in the c++ binding per Coverity warning.
2799 + minor changes to new-items for consistent reference to bug-report
2803 + add *.dSYM directories to clean-rule in ncurses directory makefile,
2805 + add a configure check for gcc option -no-cpp-precomp, which is not
2806 available in all Mac OS X configurations (report by Andras Salamon,
2808 + improve 20021221 workaround for broken acs, handling a case where
2809 that ACS_xxx character is not in the acsc string but there is a known
2810 wide-character which can be used.
2813 + fix several warnings from clang 3.1 --analyze, includes correcting
2814 a null-pointer check in _nc_mvcur_resume.
2815 + correct display of double-width characters with MinGW port (report
2816 by Erwin Waterlander).
2817 + replace MinGW's wcrtomb(), fixing a problem with _nc_viscbuf
2818 > fixes based on Coverity report:
2819 + correct coloring in test/bs.c
2820 + correct check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch().
2821 + remove dead code in progs/tset.c, test/linedata.h
2822 + add null-pointer checks in lib_tracemse.c, panel.priv.h, and some
2826 + modify test/knight.c to show the number of choices possible for
2827 each position in automove option, e.g., to allow user to follow
2828 Warnsdorff's rule to solve the puzzle.
2829 + modify test/hanoi.c to show the minimum number of moves possible for
2830 the given number of tiles (prompted by patch by Lucas Gioia).
2831 > fixes based on Coverity report:
2832 + remove a few redundant checks.
2833 + correct logic in test/bs.c, when randomly placing a specific type of
2835 + check return value from remove/unlink in tic.
2836 + check return value from sscanf in test/ncurses.c
2837 + fix a null dereference in c++/cursesw.cc
2838 + fix two instances of uninitialized variables when configuring for the
2840 + correct scope of variable used in SetSafeOutcWrapper macro.
2841 + set umask when calling mkstemp in tic.
2842 + initialize wbkgrndset() temporary variable when extended-colors are
2846 + also replace MinGW's wctomb(), fixing a problem with setcchar().
2847 + modify test/view.c to load UTF-8 when built with MinGW by using
2848 regular win32 API because the MinGW functions mblen() and mbtowc()
2852 + correct order of color initialization versus display in some of the
2853 test-programs, e.g., test_addstr.c
2854 > fixes based on Coverity report:
2855 + delete windows on exit from some of the test-programs.
2858 > fixes based on Coverity report:
2859 + add missing braces around FreeAndNull in two places.
2860 + various fixes in test/ncurses.c
2861 + improve limit-checks in tinfo/make_hash.c, tinfo/read_entry.c
2862 + correct malloc size in progs/infocmp.c
2863 + guard against negative array indices in test/knight.c
2864 + fix off-by-one limit check in test/color_name.h
2865 + add null-pointer check in progs/tabs.c, test/bs.c, test/demo_forms.c,
2867 + fix memory-leak in tinfo/lib_setup.c, progs/toe.c,
2868 test/clip_printw.c, test/demo_menus.c
2869 + delete unused windows in test/chgat.c, test/clip_printw.c,
2870 test/insdelln.c, test/newdemo.c on error-return.
2873 + modify configure macro CF_INCLUDE_DIRS to put $CPPFLAGS after the
2874 local -I include options in case someone has set conflicting -I
2875 options in $CPPFLAGS (prompted by patch for ncurses/Makefile.in by
2877 + modify the ncurses*-config scripts to eliminate relative paths from
2878 the RPATH_LIST variable, e.g., "../lib" as used in installing shared
2879 libraries or executables.
2882 + realign these related pages:
2887 and fix a long-ago error in curs_addstr.3x which said that a -1
2888 length parameter would only write as much as fit onto one line
2889 (report by Reuben Thomas).
2890 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_memmove() for memmove()/bcopy().
2891 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_strdup() for strdup().
2892 + cancel any debug-rpm in package/ncurses.spec
2893 + reviewed vte-2012, reverted most of the change since it was incorrect
2894 based on testing with tack -TD
2895 + un-cancel the initc in vte-256color, since this was implemented
2896 starting with version 0.20 in 2009 -TD
2899 + improve malloc/realloc checking (prompted by discussion in Redhat
2901 + add ncurses test-program as "ncurses6" to the rpm- and dpkg-scripts.
2902 + updated configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_WITH_PATHLIST. The
2903 first corrects pattern used for Mac OS X's customization of gcc.
2906 + fix change to _nc_scroll_optimize(), which incorrectly freed memory
2910 + add vte-2012, gnome-2012, making these the defaults for vte/gnome
2911 (patch by Christian Persch).
2914 + improve CF_GCC_VERSION to work around Debian's customization of gcc
2916 + improve configure macros as done in byacc:
2917 + drop 2.13 compatibility; use 2.52.xxxx version only since EMX port
2918 has used that for a while.
2919 + add 3rd parameter to AC_DEFINE's to allow autoheader to run, i.e.,
2920 for experimental use.
2921 + remove unused configure macros.
2922 + modify configure script and makefiles to quiet new autoconf warning
2923 for LIBS_TO_MAKE variable.
2924 + modify configure script to show $PATH_SEPARATOR variable.
2925 + update config.guess, config.sub
2928 + modify setupterm to set its copy of TERM to "unknown" if configured
2929 for the terminal driver and TERM was null or empty.
2930 + modify treatment of TERM variable for MinGW port to allow explicit
2931 use of the windows console driver by checking if $TERM is set to
2932 "#win32con" or an abbreviation of that.
2933 + undo recent change to fallback definition of vsscanf() to build with
2934 older Solaris compilers (cf: 20120728).
2937 + add test-screens to test/ncurses to show 256-characters at a time,
2938 to help with MinGW port.
2941 + simplify varargs logic in lib_printw.c; va_copy is no longer needed
2943 + modifications for MinGW port to make wide-character display usable.
2946 + regenerate configure script (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20120901).
2949 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_flush (cf: 20120825).
2950 + fix a case in _nc_scroll_optimize() where the _oldnums_list array
2951 might not be allocated.
2952 + improve comparisons in configure.in for unset shell variables.
2955 + increase size of ncurses' output-buffer, in case of very small
2956 initial screen-sizes.
2957 + fix evaluation of TERMINFO and TERMINFO_DIRS default values as needed
2958 after changes to use --datarootdir (reports by Gabriele Balducci,
2962 + change output buffering scheme, using buffer maintained by ncurses
2963 rather than stdio, to avoid problems with SIGTSTP handling (report
2967 + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20120811, adding --datarootdir
2968 (prompted by discussion with Erwin Waterlander).
2969 + improve description of --enable-reentrant option in README and the
2971 + add nsterm-256color, make this the default nsterm -TD
2972 + remove bw from nsterm-bce, per testing with tack -TD
2975 + update test/configure, adding check for tinfo library.
2976 + improve limit-checks for the getch fifo (report by Werner Fink).
2977 + fix a remaining mismatch between $with_echo and the symbols updated
2978 for CF_DISABLE_ECHO affecting parameters for mk-2nd.awk (report by
2979 Sven Joachim, cf: 20120317).
2980 + modify followup check for pkg-config's library directory in the
2981 --enable-pc-files option to validate syntax (report by Sven Joachim,
2985 + correct path for ncurses_mingw.h in include/headers, in case build
2986 is done outside source-tree (patch by Roumen Petrov).
2987 + modify some older xterm entries to align with xterm source -TD
2988 + separate "xterm-old" alias from "xterm-r6" -TD
2989 + add E3 extended capability to xterm-basic and putty -TD
2990 + parenthesize parameters of other macros in curses.h -TD
2991 + parenthesize parameter of COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER in curses.h
2992 in case it happens to be a comma-expression, etc. (patch by Nick
2996 + improved form_request_by_name() and menu_request_by_name().
2997 + eliminate two fixed-size buffers in toe.c
2998 + extend use_tioctl() to have expected behavior when use_env(FALSE) and
2999 use_tioctl(TRUE) are called.
3000 + modify ncurses test-program, adding -E and -T options to demonstrate
3001 use_env() versus use_tioctl().
3004 + add use_tioctl() function (adapted from patch by Werner Fink,
3008 + add ncurses_mingw.h to installed headers (prompted by patch by
3010 + clarify return-codes from wgetch() in response to SIGWINCH (prompted
3012 + modify resizeterm() to always push a KEY_RESIZE onto the fifo, even
3013 if screensize is unchanged. Modify _nc_update_screensize() to push a
3014 KEY_RESIZE if there was a SIGWINCH, even if it does not call
3015 resizeterm(). These changes eliminate the case where a SIGWINCH is
3016 received, but ERR returned from wgetch or wgetnstr because the screen
3017 dimensions did not change (Novell #769788).
3020 + add --enable-interop to sample package scripts (suggested by Juergen
3022 + update CF_PATH_SYNTAX macro, from mawk changes.
3023 + modify mk-0th.awk to allow for generating llib-ltic, etc., though
3024 some work is needed on cproto to work with lib_gen.c to update
3026 + remove redundant getenv() cal in database-iterator leftover from
3027 cleanup in 20120622 changes (report by Sven Joachim).
3030 + add -d, -e and -q options to test/demo_terminfo and test/demo_termcap
3031 + fix caching of environment variables in database-iterator (patch by
3032 Philippe Troin, Redhat #831366).
3035 + add configure check to distinguish clang from gcc to eliminate
3036 warnings about unused command-line parameters when compiler warnings
3038 + improve behavior when updating terminfo entries which are hardlinked
3039 by allowing for the possibility that an alias has been repurposed to
3041 + fix some strict compiler warnings based on package scripts.
3042 + further fixes for configure check for working poll (Debian #676461).
3045 + fix an uninitialized variable in -c/-n logic for infocmp changes
3047 + corrected fix for building c++ binding with clang 3.0 (report/patch
3048 by Richard Yao, Gentoo #417613, cf: 20110409)
3049 + correct configure check for working poll, fixing the case where stdin
3050 is redirected, e.g., in rpm/dpkg builds (Debian #676461).
3051 + add rpm- and dpkg-scripts, to test those build-environments.
3052 The resulting packages are used only for testing.
3055 + add kdch1 aka "Remove" to vt220 and vt220-8 entries -TD
3056 + add kdch1, etc., to qvt108 -TD
3057 + add dl1/il1 to some entries based on dl/il values -TD
3058 + add dl to simpleterm -TD
3059 + add consistency-checks in tic for insert-line vs delete-line
3060 controls, and insert/delete-char keys
3061 + correct no-leaks logic in infocmp when doing comparisons, fixing
3062 duplicate free of entries given via the command-line, and freeing
3063 entries loaded from the last-but-one of files specified on the
3065 + add kdch1 to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (reported by David Lord,
3066 analysis by Martin Husemann).
3067 + add cnorm/civis to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (report/analysis by
3068 Onno van der Linden).
3071 + extend -c and -n options of infocmp to allow comparing more than two
3073 + correct check in infocmp for number of terminal names when more than
3075 + correct typo in curs_threads.3x (report by Yanhui Shen on
3076 freebsd-hackers mailing list).
3079 + corrected 'op' for bterm (report by Samuel Thibault) -TD
3080 + modify test/background.c to demonstrate a background character
3081 holding a colored ACS_HLINE. The behavior differs from SVr4 due to
3082 the thick- and double-line extension (cf: 20091003).
3083 + modify handling of acs characters in PutAttrChar to avoid mapping an
3084 unmapped character to a space with A_ALTCHARSET set.
3085 + rewrite vt520 entry based on vt420 -TD
3088 + remove p6 (bold) from opus3n1+ for consistency -TD
3089 + remove acs stuff from env230 per clues in Ingres termcap -TD
3090 + modify env230 sgr/sgr0 to match other capabilities -TD
3091 + modify smacs/rmacs in bq300-8 to match sgr/sgr0 -TD
3092 + make sgr for dku7202 agree with other caps -TD
3093 + make sgr for ibmpc agree with other caps -TD
3094 + make sgr for tek4107 agree with other caps -TD
3095 + make sgr for ndr9500 agree with other caps -TD
3096 + make sgr for sco-ansi agree with other caps -TD
3097 + make sgr for d410 agree with other caps -TD
3098 + make sgr for d210 agree with other caps -TD
3099 + make sgr for d470c, d470c-7b agree with other caps -TD
3100 + remove redundant AC_DEFINE for NDEBUG versus Makefile definition.
3101 + fix a back-link in _nc_delink_entry(), which is needed if ncurses is
3102 configured with --enable-termcap and --disable-getcap.
3105 + fix some inconsistencies between vt320/vt420, e.g., cnorm/civis -TD
3106 + add eslok flag to dec+sl -TD
3107 + dec+sl applies to vt320 and up -TD
3108 + drop wsl width from xterm+sl -TD
3109 + reuse xterm+sl in putty and nsca-m -TD
3110 + add ansi+tabs to vt520 -TD
3111 + add ansi+enq to vt220-vt520 -TD
3112 + fix a compiler warning in example in ncurses-intro.doc (Paul Waring).
3113 + added paragraph in keyname manpage telling how extended capabilities
3114 are interpreted as key definitions.
3115 + modify tic's check of conflicting key definitions to include extended
3116 capability strings in addition to the existing check on predefined
3120 + improve cleanup of temporary files in tic using atexit().
3121 + add msgr to vt420, similar DEC vtXXX entries -TD
3122 + add several missing vt420 capabilities from vt220 -TD
3123 + factor out ansi+pp from several entries -TD
3124 + change xterm+sl and xterm+sl-twm to include only the status-line
3125 capabilities and not "use=xterm", making them more generally useful
3126 as building-blocks -TD
3127 + add dec+sl building block, as example -TD
3130 + add XT to some terminfo entries to improve usefulness for other
3131 applications than screen, which would like to pretend that xterm's
3132 title is a status-line. -TD
3133 + change use-clauses in ansi-mtabs, hp2626, and hp2622 based on review
3134 of ordering and overrides -TD
3135 + add consistency check in tic for screen's "XT" capability.
3136 + add section in terminfo.src summarizing the user-defined capabilities
3137 used in that file -TD
3140 + fix an inconsistency between tic/infocmp "-x" option; tic omits all
3141 non-standard capabilities, while infocmp was ignoring only the user
3142 definable capabilities.
3143 + improve special case in tic parsing of description to allow it to be
3144 followed by terminfo capabilities. Previously the description had to
3145 be the last field on an input line to allow tic to distinguish
3146 between termcap and terminfo format while still allowing commas to be
3147 embedded in the description.
3148 + correct variable name in gen_edit.sh which broke configurability of
3149 the --with-xterm-kbs option.
3150 + revert 2011-07-16 change to "linux" alias, return to "linux2.2" -TD
3151 + further amend 20110910 change, providing for configure-script
3152 override of the "linux" terminfo entry to install and changing the
3153 default for that to "linux2.2" (Debian #665959).
3156 + update Ada95/configure to use CF_DISABLE_ECHO (cf: 20120317).
3157 + correct order of use-clauses in st-256color -TD
3158 + modify configure script to look for gnatgcc if the Ada95 binding
3159 is built, in preference to the default gcc/cc (suggested by
3160 Nicolas Boulenguez).
3161 + modify configure script to ensure that the same -On option used for
3162 the C compiler in CFLAGS is used for ADAFLAGS rather than simply
3163 using "-O3" (suggested by Nicolas Boulenguez)
3166 + amend an old fix so that next_char() exits properly for empty files,
3167 e.g., from reading /dev/null (cf: 20080804).
3168 + modify tic so that it can read from the standard input, or from
3169 a character device. Because tic uses seek's, this requires writing
3170 the data to a temporary file first (prompted by remark by Sven
3171 Joachim) (cf: 20000923).
3174 + correct a check made in lib_napms.c, so that terminfo applications
3175 can again use napms() (cf: 20110604).
3176 + add a note in tic.h regarding required casts for ABSENT_BOOLEAN
3178 + correct scripting for --disable-echo option in test/configure.
3179 + amend check for missing c++ compiler to work when no error is
3180 reported, and no variables set (cf: 20021206).
3181 + add/use configure macro CF_DISABLE_ECHO.
3184 + fix some strict compiler warnings for abi6 and 64-bits.
3185 + use begin_va_copy/end_va_copy macros in lib_printw.c (cf: 20120303).
3186 + improve a limit-check in infocmp.c (Werner Fink):
3189 + minor tidying of terminfo.tail, clarify reason for limitation
3190 regarding mapping of \0 to \200
3191 + minor improvement to _nc_copy_termtype(), using memcpy to replace
3193 + fix no-leaks checking in test/demo_termcap.c to account for multiple
3194 calls to setupterm().
3195 + modified the libgpm change to show previous load as a problem in the
3197 > merge some patches from OpenSUSE rpm (Werner Fink):
3198 + ncurses-5.7-printw.dif, fixes for varargs handling in lib_printw.c
3199 + ncurses-5.7-gpm.dif, do not dlopen libgpm if already loaded by
3201 + ncurses-5.6-fallback.dif, do not free arrays and strings from static
3205 + fix breakage in tic/infocmp from 20120225 (report by Werner Fink).
3208 + modify configure script to allow creating dll's for MinGW when
3210 + add --enable-string-hacks option to control whether strlcat and
3211 strlcpy may be used. The same issue applies to OpenBSD's warnings
3212 about snprintf, noting that this function is weakly standardized.
3213 + add configure checks for strlcat, strlcpy and snprintf, to help
3214 reduce bogus warnings with OpenBSD builds.
3215 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 to supply consistent intptr_t declaration
3217 + update config.guess, config.sub
3220 + correct CF_ETIP_DEFINES configure macro, making it exit properly on
3221 the first success (patch by Pierre Labastie).
3222 + improve configure macro CF_MKSTEMP by moving existence-check for
3223 mkstemp out of the AC_TRY_RUN, to help with cross-compiles.
3224 + improve configure macro CF_FUNC_POLL from luit changes to detect
3225 broken implementations, e.g., with Mac OS X.
3226 + add configure option --with-tparm-arg
3227 + build-fix for MinGW cross-compiling, so that make_hash does not
3228 depend on TTY definition (cf: 20111008).
3231 + make sgr for xterm-pcolor agree with other caps -TD
3232 + make sgr for att5425 agree with other caps -TD
3233 + make sgr for att630 agree with other caps -TD
3234 + make sgr for linux entries agree with other caps -TD
3235 + make sgr for tvi9065 agree with other caps -TD
3236 + make sgr for ncr260vt200an agree with other caps -TD
3237 + make sgr for ncr160vt100pp agree with other caps -TD
3238 + make sgr for ncr260vt300an agree with other caps -TD
3239 + make sgr for aaa-60-dec-rv, aaa+dec agree with other caps -TD
3240 + make sgr for cygwin, cygwinDBG agree with other caps -TD
3241 + add configure option --with-xterm-kbs to simplify configuration for
3242 Linux versus most other systems.
3245 + improved tic -D option, avoid making target directory and provide
3249 + add mach-gnu (Debian #614316, patch by Samuel Thibault)
3250 + add mach-gnu-color, tweaks to mach-gnu terminfo -TD
3251 + make sgr for sun-color agree with smso -TD
3252 + make sgr for prism9 agree with other caps -TD
3253 + make sgr for icl6404 agree with other caps -TD
3254 + make sgr for ofcons agree with other caps -TD
3255 + make sgr for att5410v1, att4415, att620 agree with other caps -TD
3256 + make sgr for aaa-unk, aaa-rv agree with other caps -TD
3257 + make sgr for avt-ns agree with other caps -TD
3258 + amend fix intended to separate fixups for acsc to allow "tic -cv" to
3259 give verbose warnings (cf: 20110730).
3260 + modify misc/gen-edit.sh to make the location of the tabset directory
3261 consistent with misc/Makefile.in, i.e., using ${datadir}/tabset
3262 (Debian #653435, patch by Sven Joachim).
3265 + add --with-lib-prefix option to allow configuring for old/new flavors
3267 + modify check for gnat version to allow for year, as used in FreeBSD
3269 + modify check_existence() in db_iterator.c to simply check if the
3270 path is a directory or file, according to the need. Checking for
3271 directory size also gives no usable result with OS/2 (cf: 20120107).
3272 + support OS/2 kLIBC (patch by KO Myung-Hun).
3275 + several improvements to test/movewindow.c (prompted by discussion on
3277 + modify movement commands to make them continuous
3278 + rewrote the test for mvderwin
3279 + rewrote the test for recursive mvwin
3280 + split-out reusable CF_WITH_NCURSES_ETC macro in test/configure.in
3281 + updated configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, build-fixes for Mac OS X
3283 + regenerated html manpages.
3286 + various improvements for MinGW (Juergen Pfeifer):
3287 + modify stat() calls to ignore the st_size member
3288 + drop mk-dlls.sh script.
3289 + change recommended regular expression library.
3290 + modify rain.c to allow for threaded configuraton.
3291 + modify tset.c to allow for case when size-change logic is not used.
3294 + modify toe's report when -a and -s options are combined, to add
3295 a column showing which entries belong to a given database.
3296 + add -s option to toe, to sort its output.
3297 + modify progs/toe.c, simplifying use of db-iterator results to use
3298 caching improvements from 20111001 and 20111126.
3299 + correct generation of pc-files when ticlib or termlib options are
3300 given to rename the corresponding tic- or tinfo-libraries (report
3304 + document a portability issue with tput, i.e., that scripts which work
3305 with ncurses may fail in other implementations that do no parameter
3307 + add putty-sco entry -TD
3310 + review/fix places in manpages where --program-prefix configure option
3312 + add -D option to infocmp, to show the database locations that it
3314 + fix build for the special case where term-driver, ticlib and termlib
3315 are all enabled. The terminal driver depends on a few features in
3316 the base ncurses library, so tic's dependencies include both ncurses
3318 + fix build work for term-driver when --enable-wgetch-events option is
3320 + use <stdint.h> types to fix some questionable casts to void*.
3323 + modify configure script to check if thread library provides
3324 pthread_mutexattr_settype(), e.g., not provided by Solaris 2.6
3325 + modify configure script to suppress check to define _XOPEN_SOURCE
3326 for IRIX64, since its header files have a conflict versus
3328 + modify configure script to add ".pc" files for tic- and
3329 tinfo-libraries, which were omitted in recent change (cf: 20111126).
3330 + fix inconsistent checks on $PKG_CONFIG variable in configure script.
3333 + modify configure-check for etip.h dependencies, supplying a temporary
3334 copy of ncurses_dll.h since it is a generated file (prompted by
3336 + modify CF_CPP_PARAM_INIT "main" function to work with current C++.
3339 + correct database iterator's check for duplicate entries
3341 + modify database iterator to ignore $TERMCAP when it is not an
3343 + add -D option to tic, to show the database locations that it could
3345 + improve description of database locations in tic manpage.
3346 + modify the configure script to generate a list of the ".pc" files to
3347 generate, rather than deriving the list from the libraries which have
3348 been built (patch by Mike Frysinger).
3349 + use AC_CHECK_TOOLS in preference to AC_PATH_PROGS when searching for
3350 ncurses*-config, e.g., in Ada95/configure and test/configure (adapted
3351 from patch by Mike Frysinger).
3354 + remove obsolete/conflicting fallback definition for _POSIX_SOURCE
3355 from curses.priv.h, fixing a regression with IRIX64 and Tru64
3357 + modify _nc_tic_dir() to ensure that its return-value is nonnull,
3358 i.e., the database iterator was not initialized. This case is needed
3359 to when tic is translating to termcap, rather than loading the
3360 database (cf: 20111001).
3363 + add pccon entries for OpenBSD console (Alexei Malinin).
3364 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 with gcc 4.2.1, setting _XOPEN_SOURCE to
3365 600 to work around inconsistent ifdef'ing of wcstof between C and
3367 + modify capconvert script to accept more than exact match on "xterm",
3368 e.g., the "xterm-*" variants, to exclude from the conversion (patch
3370 + add -lc_r as alternative for -lpthread, allows build of threaded code
3371 in older FreeBSD machines.
3372 + build-fix for MirBSD, which fails when either _XOPEN_SOURCE or
3373 _POSIX_SOURCE are defined.
3374 + fix a typo misc/Makefile.in, used in uninstalling pc-files.
3377 + modify make_db_path() to allow creating "terminfo.db" in the same
3378 directory as an existing "terminfo" directory. This fixes a case
3379 where switching between hashed/filesystem databases would cause the
3380 new hashed database to be installed in the next best location -
3381 root's home directory.
3382 + add variable cf_cv_prog_gnat_correct to those passed to
3383 config.status, fixing a problem with Ada95 builds (cf: 20111022).
3384 + change feature test from _XPG5 to _XOPEN_SOURCE in two places, to
3385 accommodate broken implementations for _XPG6.
3386 + eliminate usage of NULL symbol from etip.h, to reduce header
3388 + add configure check to decide when to add _XOPEN_SOURCE define to
3389 compiler options, i.e., for Solaris 10 and later (cf: 20100403).
3390 This is a workaround for gcc 4.6, which fails to build the c++
3391 binding if that symbol is defined by the application, due to
3392 incorrectly combining the corresponding feature test macros
3393 (report by Peter Kruse).
3396 + correct logic for discarding mouse events, retaining the partial
3397 events used to build up click, double-click, etc, until needed
3399 + fix configure script to avoid creating unused Ada95 makefile when
3401 + cleanup width-related gcc 3.4.3 warnings for 64-bit platform, for the
3402 internal functions of libncurses. The external interface of courses
3403 uses bool, which still produces these warnings.
3406 + improve description of --disable-tic-depends option to make it
3407 clear that it may be useful whether or not the --with-termlib
3408 option is also given (report by Sven Joachim).
3409 + amend termcap equivalent for set_pglen_inch to use the X/Open
3410 "YI" rather than the obsolete Solaris 2.5 "sL" (cf: 990109).
3411 + improve manpage for tgetent differences from termcap library.
3414 + moved static data from db_iterator.c to lib_data.c
3415 + modify db_iterator.c for memory-leak checking, fix one leak.
3416 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to use Requires.private for the parts
3417 of ncurses rather than Requires, as well as Libs.private for the
3418 other library dependencies (prompted by Debian #644728).
3421 + modify tic "-K" option to only set the strict-flag rather than force
3422 source-output. That allows the same flag to control the parser for
3423 input and output of termcap source.
3424 + modify _nc_getent() to ignore backslash at the end of a comment line,
3425 making it consistent with ncurses' parser.
3426 + restore a special-case check for directory needed to make termcap
3427 text files load as if they were databases (cf: 20110924).
3428 + modify tic's resolution/collision checking to attempt to remove the
3429 conflicting alias from the second entry in the pair, which is
3430 normally following in the source file. Also improved the warning
3431 message to make it simpler to see which alias is the problem.
3432 + improve performance of the database iterator by caching search-list.
3435 + add a missing "else" in changes to _nc_read_tic_entry().
3438 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() so that hashed-database is checked before
3440 + updated CF_CURSES_LIBS check in test/configure script.
3441 + modify configure script and makefiles to split TIC_ARGS and
3442 TINFO_ARGS into pieces corresponding to LDFLAGS and LIBS variables,
3443 to help separate searches for tic- and tinfo-libraries (patch by Nick
3445 + build-fix for lib_mouse.c changes (cf: 20110917).
3448 + fix compiler warning for clang 2.9
3449 + improve merging of mouse events (integrated patch by Damien
3451 + correct mask-check used in lib_mouse for wheel mouse buttons 4/5
3452 (patch by Damien Guibouret).
3455 + modify misc/gen_edit.sh to select a "linux" entry which works with
3456 the current kernel rather than assuming it is always "linux3.0"
3458 + revert a change to getmouse() which had the undesirable side-effect
3459 of suppressing button-release events (report by Damien Guibouret,
3461 + add xterm+kbs fragment from xterm #272 -TD
3462 + add configure option --with-pkg-config-libdir to provide control over
3463 the actual directory into which pc-files are installed, do not use
3464 the pkg-config environment variables (discussion with Frederic L W
3466 + add link to mailing-list archive in announce.html.in, as done in
3467 FAQ (prompted by question by Andrius Bentkus).
3468 + improve manpage install by adjusting the "#include" examples to
3469 show the ncurses-subdirectory used when --disable-overwrite option
3471 + install an alias for "curses" to the ncurses manpage, tied to the
3472 --with-curses-h configure option (suggested by Reuben Thomas).
3475 + propagate error-returns from wresize, i.e., the internal
3476 increase_size and decrease_size functions through resize_term (report
3477 by Tim van der Molen, cf: 20020713).
3478 + fix typo in tset manpage (patch by Sven Joachim).
3481 + add a check to ensure that termcap files which might have "^?" do
3482 not use the terminfo interpretation as "\177".
3483 + minor cleanup of X-terminal emulator section of terminfo.src -TD
3484 + add terminator entry -TD
3485 + add simpleterm entry -TD
3486 + improve wattr_get macros by ensuring that if the window pointer is
3487 null, then the attribute and color values returned will be zero
3491 + add substitution for $RPATH_LIST to misc/ncurses-config.in
3492 + improve performance of tic with hashed-database by caching the
3493 database connection, using atexit() to cleanup.
3494 + modify treatment of 2-character aliases at the beginning of termcap
3495 entries so they are not counted in use-resolution, since these are
3496 guaranteed to be unique. Also ignore these aliases when reporting
3497 the primary name of the entry (cf: 20040501)
3498 + double-check gn (generic) flag in terminal descriptions to
3499 accommodate old/buggy termcap databases which misused that feature.
3500 + minor fixes to _nc_tgetent(), ensure buffer is initialized even on
3504 + improve rpath fix from 20110730 by ensuring that the new $RPATH_LIST
3505 variable is defined in the makefiles which use it.
3506 + build-fix for DragonFlyBSD's pkgsrc in test/configure script.
3507 + build-fixes for NetBSD 5.1 with termcap support enabled.
3508 + corrected k9 in dg460-ansi, add other features based on manuals -TD
3509 + improve trimming of whitespace at the end of terminfo/termcap output
3511 + when writing termcap source, ensure that colons in the description
3512 field are translated to a non-delimiter, i.e., "=".
3513 + add "-0" option to tic/infocmp, to make the termcap/terminfo source
3515 + add a null-pointer check when handling the $CC variable.
3518 + modify configure script and makefiles in c++ and progs to allow the
3519 directory used for rpath option to be overridden, e.g., to work
3520 around updates to the variables used by tic during an install.
3521 + add -K option to tic/infocmp, to provide stricter BSD-compatibility
3523 + add _nc_strict_bsd variable in tic library which controls the
3524 "strict" BSD termcap compatibility from 20110723, plus these
3526 + allow escapes such as "\8" and "\9" when reading termcap
3527 + disallow "\a", "\e", "\l", "\s" and "\:" escapes when reading
3528 termcap files, passing through "a", "e", etc.
3529 + expand "\:" as "\072" on output.
3530 + modify _nc_get_token() to reset the token's string value in case
3531 there is a string-typed token lacking the "=" marker.
3532 + fix a few memory leaks in _nc_tgetent.
3533 + fix a few places where reading from a termcap file could refer to
3535 + add an overflow check when converting terminfo/termcap numeric
3536 values, since terminfo stores those in a short, and they must be
3538 + correct internal variables used for translating to termcap "%>"
3539 feature, and translating from termcap %B to terminfo, needed by
3540 tctest (cf: 19991211).
3541 + amend a minor fix to acsc when loading a termcap file to separate it
3542 from warnings needed for tic (cf: 20040710)
3543 + modify logic in _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_tic_entry() to allow
3544 a termcap file to be handled via TERMINFO_DIRS.
3545 + modify _nc_infotocap() to include non-mandatory padding when
3546 translating to termcap.
3547 + modify _nc_read_termcap_entry(), passing a flag in the case where
3548 getcap is used, to reduce interactive warning messages.
3551 + add a check in start_color() to limit color-pairs to 256 when
3552 extended colors are not supported (patch by David Benjamin).
3553 + modify setcchar to omit no-longer-needed OR'ing of color pair in
3554 the SetAttr() macro (patch by David Benjamin).
3555 + add kich1 to sun terminfo entry (Yuri Pankov)
3556 + use bold rather than reverse for smso in sun-color terminfo entry
3558 + improve generation of termcap using tic/infocmp -C option, e.g.,
3559 to correspond with 4.2BSD (prompted by discussion with Yuri Pankov
3560 regarding Schilling's test program):
3561 + translate %02 and %03 to %2 and %3 respectively.
3562 + suppress string capabilities which use %s, not supported by tgoto
3563 + use \040 rather than \s
3564 + expand null characters as \200 rather than \0
3565 + modify configure script to support shared libraries for DragonFlyBSD.
3568 + replace an assert() in _nc_Free_Argument() with a regular null
3569 pointer check (report/analysis by Franjo Ivancic).
3570 + modify configure --enable-pc-files option to take into account the
3571 PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
3572 + add/use xterm+tmux chunk from xterm #271 -TD
3573 + resync xterm-new entry from xterm #271 -TD
3574 + add E3 extended capability to linux-basic (Miroslav Lichvar)
3575 + add linux2.2, linux2.6, linux3.0 entries to give context for E3 -TD
3576 + add SI/SO change to linux2.6 entry (Debian #515609) -TD
3577 + fix inconsistent tabset path in pcmw (Todd C. Miller).
3578 + remove a backslash which continued comment, obscuring altos3
3579 definition with OpenBSD toolset (Nicholas Marriott).
3582 + add workaround from xterm #271 changes to ensure that compiler flags
3583 are not used in the $CC variable.
3584 + improve support for shared libraries, tested with AIX 5.3, 6.1 and
3585 7.1 with both gcc 4.2.4 and cc.
3586 + modify configure checks for AIX to include release 7.x
3587 + add loader flags/libraries to libtool options so that dynamic loading
3588 works properly, adapted from ncurses-5.7-ldflags-with-libtool.patch
3589 at gentoo prefix repository (patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
3592 + move include of nc_termios.h out of term_entry.h, since the latter
3593 is installed, e.g., for tack while the former is not (report by
3597 + improve cleanup() function in lib_tstp.c, using _exit() rather than
3598 exit() and checking for SIGTERM rather than SIGQUIT (prompted by
3599 comments forwarded by Nicholas Marriott).
3600 + reduce name pollution from term.h, moving fallback #define's for
3601 tcgetattr(), etc., to new private header nc_termios.h (report by
3603 + two minor fixes for tracing (patch by Vassili Courzakis).
3604 + improve trace initialization by starting it in use_env() and
3606 + review old email, add details for some changelog entries.
3609 + update minix entry to minix 3.2 (Thomas Cort).
3610 + fix a strict compiler warning in change to wattr_get (cf: 20110528).
3613 + fixes for MirBSD port:
3614 + set default prefix to /usr.
3615 + add support for shared libraries in configure script.
3616 + use S_ISREG and S_ISDIR consistently, with fallback definitions.
3617 + add a few more checks based on ncurses/link_test.
3618 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle sp-funcs renaming of NCURSES_OUTC type.
3621 + add case to CF_SHARED_OPTS for Interix (patch by Markus Duft).
3622 + used ncurses/link_test to check for behavior when the terminal has
3623 not been initialized and when an application passes null pointers
3624 to the library. Added checks to cover this (prompted by Redhat
3626 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to make its main() function call each function
3627 with zero parameters, to help find inconsistent checking for null
3631 + fix warnings from clang 2.7 "--analyze"
3634 + compiler-warning fixes in panel and progs.
3635 + modify CF_PKG_CONFIG macro, from changes to tin -TD
3636 + modify CF_CURSES_FUNCS configure macro, used in test directory
3638 + work around (non-optimizer) bug in gcc 4.2.1 which caused
3639 test-expression to be omitted from executable.
3640 + force the linker to see a link-time expression of a symbol, to
3641 help work around weak-symbol issues.
3644 + update discussion of MKfallback.sh script in INSTALL; normally the
3645 script is used automatically via the configured makefiles. However
3646 there are still occasions when it might be used directly by packagers
3647 (report by Gunter Schaffler).
3648 + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to omit the "-L" option from the
3649 "--libs" output if the library directory is /usr/lib.
3650 + change order of tests for curses.h versus ncurses.h headers in the
3651 configure scripts for Ada95 and test-directories, to look for
3652 ncurses.h, from fixes to tin -TD
3653 + modify ncurses/tinfo/access.c to account for Tandem's root uid
3654 (report by Joachim Schmitz).
3657 + modify rules in Ada95/src/Makefile.in to ensure that the PIC option
3658 is not used when building a static library (report by Nicolas
3660 + Ada95 build-fix for big-endian architectures such as sparc. This
3661 undoes one of the fixes from 20110319, which added an "Unused" member
3662 to representation clauses, replacing that with pragmas to suppress
3663 warnings about unused bits (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
3666 + add check in test/configure for use_window, use_screen.
3667 + add configure-checks for getopt's variables, which may be declared
3668 as different types on some Unix systems.
3669 + add check in test/configure for some legacy curses types of the
3670 function pointer passed to tputs().
3671 + modify init_pair() to accept -1's for color value after
3672 assume_default_colors() has been called (Debian #337095).
3673 + modify test/background.c, adding commmand-line options to demonstrate
3674 assume_default_colors() and use_default_colors().
3677 + modify configure script/source-code to only define _POSIX_SOURCE if
3678 the checks for sigaction and/or termios fail, and if _POSIX_C_SOURCE
3679 and _XOPEN_SOURCE are undefined (report by Valentin Ochs).
3680 + update config.guess, config.sub
3683 + fixes to build c++ binding with clang 3.0 (patch by Alexander
3685 + add check for unctrl.h in test/configure, to work around breakage in
3686 some ncurses packages.
3687 + add "--disable-widec" option to test/configure script.
3688 + add "--with-curses-colr" and "--with-curses-5lib" options to the
3689 test/configure script to address testing with very old machines.
3691 20110404 5.9 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3694 + various build-fixes for the rpm/dpkg scripts.
3695 + add "--enable-rpath-link" option to Ada95/configure, to allow
3696 packages to suppress the rpath feature which is normally used for
3697 the in-tree build of sample programs.
3698 + corrected definition of libdir variable in Ada95/src/Makefile.in,
3699 needed for rpm script.
3700 + add "--with-shared" option to Ada95/configure script, to allow
3701 making the C-language parts of the binding use appropriate compiler
3702 options if building a shared library with gnat.
3705 > portability fixes for Ada95 binding:
3706 + add configure check to ensure that SIGINT works with gnat. This is
3707 needed for the "rain" sample program. If SIGINT does not work, omit
3708 that sample program.
3709 + correct typo in check of $PKG_CONFIG variable in Ada95/configure
3710 + add ncurses_compat.c, to supply functions used in the Ada95 binding
3711 which were added in 5.7 and later.
3712 + modify sed expression in CF_NCURSES_ADDON to eliminate a dependency
3716 + add special check in Ada95/configure script for ncurses6 reentrant
3718 + regen Ada html documentation.
3719 + build-fix for Ada shared libraries versus the varargs workaround.
3720 + add rpm and dpkg scripts for Ada95 and test directories, for test
3722 + update test/configure macros CF_CURSES_LIBS, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and
3724 + add configure check to determine if gnat's project feature supports
3725 libraries, i.e., collections of .ali files.
3726 + make all dereferences in Ada95 samples explicit.
3727 + fix typo in comment in lib_add_wch.c (patch by Petr Pavlu).
3728 + add configure check for, ifdef's for math.h which is in a separate
3729 package on Solaris and potentially not installed (report by Petr
3731 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
3732 + improve type-checking in Ada95 by eliminating a few warning-suppress
3734 + suppress unreferenced warnings.
3735 + make all dereferences in binding explicit.
3738 + regen Ada html documentation.
3739 + change order of -I options from ncurses*-config script when the
3740 --disable-overwrite option was used, so that the subdirectory include
3742 + modify the make-tar.sh scripts to add a MANIFEST and NEWS file.
3743 + modify configure script to provide value for HTML_DIR in
3744 Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, which depends on whether the Ada95 binding is
3745 distributed separately (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
3746 + modify configure script to add "-g" and/or "-O3" to ADAFLAGS if the
3747 CFLAGS for the build has these options.
3748 + amend change from 20070324, to not add 1 to the result of getmaxx
3749 and getmaxy in the Ada binding (report by Nicolas Boulenguez for
3750 thread in comp.lang.ada).
3751 + build-fix Ada95/samples for gnat 4.5
3752 + spelling fixes for Ada95/samples/explain.txt
3753 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
3754 + add item in Trace_Attribute_Set corresponding to TRACE_ATTRS.
3755 + add workaround for binding to set_field_type(), which uses varargs.
3756 The original binding from 990220 relied on the prevalent
3757 implementation of varargs which did not support or need va_copy().
3758 + add dependency on gen/Makefile.in needed for *-panels.ads
3759 + add Library_Options to library.gpr
3760 + add Languages to library.gpr, for gprbuild
3763 + revert changes to limit-checks from 20110122 (Debian #616711).
3764 > minor type-cleanup of Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
3765 + corrected a minor sign error in a field of Low_Level_Field_Type, to
3767 + replaced C_Int by Curses_Bool as return type for some callbacks, see
3769 + modify samples/sample-explain.adb to provide explicit message when
3770 explain.txt is not found.
3773 + improve makefiles for Ada95 tree (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
3774 + fix an off-by-one error in _nc_slk_initialize() from 20100605 fixes
3775 for compiler warnings (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
3776 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to declare unused bits in generated layouts,
3777 needed to compile when chtype is 64-bits using gnat 4.4.5
3779 20110226 5.8 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3782 + update release notes, for 5.8.
3783 + regenerated html manpages.
3784 + change open() in _nc_read_file_entry() to fopen() for consistency
3786 + modify misc/run_tic.in to create parent directory, in case this is
3787 a new install of hashed database.
3788 + fix typo in Ada95/mk-1st.awk which causes error with original awk.
3791 + configure script rpath fixes from xterm #269.
3792 + workaround for cygwin's non-functional features.h, to force ncurses'
3793 configure script to define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED when building
3794 wide-character configuration.
3795 + build-fix in run_tic.sh for OS/2 EMX install
3796 + add cons25-debian entry (patch by Brian M Carlson, Debian #607662).
3799 + regenerated html manpages.
3800 + use _tracef() in show_where() function of tic, to work correctly with
3801 special case of trace configuration.
3804 + add xterm-utf8 entry as a demo of the U8 feature -TD
3805 + add U8 feature to denote entries for terminal emulators which do not
3806 support VT100 SI/SO when processing UTF-8 encoding -TD
3807 + improve the NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS feature by adding a check for an
3808 extended terminfo capability U8 (prompted by mailing list
3812 + start documenting interface changes for upcoming 5.8 release.
3813 + correct limit-checks in derwin().
3814 + correct limit-checks in newwin(), to ensure that windows have nonzero
3815 size (report by Garrett Cooper).
3816 + fix a missing "weak" declaration for pthread_kill (patch by Nicholas
3818 + improve documentation of KEY_ENTER in curs_getch.3x manpage (prompted
3819 by discussion with Kevin Martin).
3822 + modify Ada95/configure script to make the --with-curses-dir option
3823 work without requiring the --with-ncurses option.
3824 + modify test programs to allow them to be built with NetBSD curses.
3825 + document thick- and double-line symbols in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
3826 + document WACS_xxx constants in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
3827 + fix some warnings for clang 2.6 "--analyze"
3828 + modify Ada95 makefiles to make html-documentation with the project
3829 file configuration if that is used.
3830 + update config.guess, config.sub
3833 + regenerated html manpages.
3834 + minor fixes to enable lint when trace is not enabled, e.g., with
3836 + fix typo in man/default_colors.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
3837 + update ncurses/llib-lncurses*
3840 + fix remaining strict compiler warnings in ncurses library ABI=5,
3841 except those dealing with function pointers, etc.
3844 + modify nc_tparm.h, adding guards against repeated inclusion, and
3845 allowing TPARM_ARG to be overridden.
3846 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
3849 + suppress ncv in screen entry, allowing underline (patch by Alejandro
3851 + also suppress ncv in konsole-base -TD
3852 + fixes in wins_nwstr() and related functions to ensure that special
3853 characters, i.e., control characters are handled properly with the
3854 wide-character configuration.
3855 + correct a comparison in wins_nwstr() (Redhat #661506).
3856 + correct help-messages in some of the test-programs, which still
3857 referred to quitting with 'q'.
3860 + add special case to _nc_infotocap() to recognize the setaf/setab
3861 strings from xterm+256color and xterm+88color, and provide a reduced
3862 version which works with termcap.
3863 + remove obsolete emacs "Local Variables" section from documentation
3864 (request by Sven Joachim).
3865 + update doc/html/index.html to include NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html
3866 (report by Sven Joachim).
3869 + modify test/configure and test/Makefile.in to handle this special
3870 case of building within a build-tree (Debian #34182):
3871 mkdir -p build && cd build && ../test/configure && make
3874 + miscellaneous build-fixes for Ada95 and test-directories when built
3876 + use VPATH in makefiles to simplify out-of-tree builds (Debian #34182).
3877 + fix typo in rmso for tek4106 entry -Goran Weinholt
3880 + improve checks in test/configure for X libraries, from xterm #267
3882 + modify test/configure to allow it to use the build-tree's libraries
3883 e.g., when using that to configure the test-programs without the
3884 rpath feature (request by Sven Joachim).
3885 + repurpose "gnome" terminfo entries as "vte", retaining "gnome" items
3886 for compatibility, but generally deprecating those since the VTE
3887 library is what actually defines the behavior of "gnome", etc.,
3891 + compiler warning fixes for test programs.
3892 + various build-fixes for test-programs with pdcurses.
3893 + updated configure checks for X packages in test/configure from xterm
3895 + add configure check to gnatmake, to accommodate cygwin.
3898 + correct list of sub-directories needed in Ada95 tree for building as
3900 + modify scripts in test-directory to improve builds as a separate
3904 + correct parsing of relative tab-stops in tabs program (report by
3906 + adjust configure script so that "t" is not added to library suffix
3907 when weak-symbols are used, allowing the pthread configuration to
3908 more closely match the non-thread naming (report by Werner Fink).
3909 + modify configure check for tic program, used for fallbacks, to a
3910 warning if not found. This makes it simpler to use additonal
3911 scripts to bootstrap the fallbacks code using tic from the build
3912 tree (report by Werner Fink).
3913 + fix several places in configure script using ${variable-value} form.
3914 + modify configure macro CF_LDFLAGS_STATIC to accommodate some loaders
3915 which do not support selectively linking against static libraries
3916 (report by John P. Hartmann)
3917 + fix an unescaped dash in man/tset.1 (report by Sven Joachim).
3920 + correct comparison used for setting 16-colors in linux-16color
3921 entry (Novell #644831) -TD
3922 + improve linux-16color entry, using "dim" for color-8 which makes it
3923 gray rather than black like color-0 -TD
3924 + drop misc/ncu-indent and misc/jpf-indent; they are provided by an
3925 external package "cindent".
3928 + improve linkages in html manpages, adding references to the newer
3929 pages, e.g., *_variables, curs_sp_funcs, curs_threads.
3930 + add checks in tic for inconsistent cursor-movement controls, and for
3931 inconsistent printer-controls.
3932 + fill in no-parameter forms of cursor-movement where a parameterized
3933 form is available -TD
3934 + fill in missing cursor controls where the form of the controls is
3936 + fix inconsistent punctuation in form_variables manpage (patch by
3938 + add parameterized cursor-controls to linux-basic (report by Dae) -TD
3939 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
3940 + document how to build 32-bit libraries in README.MinGW
3941 + fixes to filename computation in mk-dlls.sh.in
3942 + use POSIX locale in mk-dlls.sh.in rather than en_US (report by Sven
3944 + add a check in mk-dlls.sh.in to obtain the size of a pointer to
3945 distinguish between 32-bit and 64-bit hosts. The result is stored
3949 + add "XT" capability to entries for terminals that support both
3950 xterm-style mouse- and title-controls, for "screen" which
3951 special-cases TERM beginning with "xterm" or "rxvt" -TD
3952 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
3953 + use 64-Bit MinGW toolchain (recommended package from TDM, see
3955 + support pthreads when using the TDM MinGW toolchain
3958 + regenerated html manpages.
3959 + minor fixes for symlinks to curs_legacy.3x and curs_slk.3x manpages.
3960 + add manpage for sp-funcs.
3961 + add sp-funcs to test/listused.sh, for documentation aids.
3964 + add manpages for summarizing public variables of curses-, terminfo-
3966 + minor fixes to manpages for consistency (patch by Jason McIntyre).
3967 + modify tic's -I/-C dump to reformat acsc strings into canonical form
3968 (sorted, unique mapping) (cf: 971004).
3969 + add configure check for pthread_kill(), needed for some old
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