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31 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
32 working with Pavel Curtis' original work, pcurses, in 1992.
34 Changes through 1.9.9e are recorded by Zeyd M Ben-Halim.
35 Changes since 1.9.9e are recorded by Thomas E Dickey.
37 Contributors include those who have provided patches (even small ones), as well
38 as those who provide useful information (bug reports, analyses). Changes with
39 no cited author are the work of Thomas E Dickey (TD).
41 A few contributors are given in this file by their initials.
42 They each account for one percent or more of the changes since 1.9.9e.
43 See the AUTHORS file for the corresponding full names.
45 Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
46 it is not possible to add this information.
49 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
50 + old gnatmake (3.15) does not produce libraries using project-file;
51 work around by adding script to generate alternate makefile.
54 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
55 + add configure --with-ada-sharedlib option, for the test_make rule.
56 + move Ada95-related logic into aclocal.m4, since additional checks
57 will be needed to distinguish old/new implementations of gnat.
60 + start integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95 tree
61 + add test_make / test_clean / test_install rules in Ada95/src
62 + change install-path for adainclude directory to /usr/share/ada (was
64 + update Ada95/configure.
65 + add mlterm+256color entry, for mlterm 3.0.0 -TD
66 + modify test/configure to use macros to ensure consistent order
67 of updating LIBS variable.
70 + change search order of options for Solaris in CF_SHARED_OPTS, to
71 work with 64-bit compiles.
72 + correct quoting of assignment in CF_SHARED_OPTS case for aix
76 + regenerated html documentation.
77 + modify test/configure to support pkg-config for checking X libraries
79 + add/use configure macro CF_ADD_LIB to force consistency of
80 assignments to $LIBS, etc.
81 + fix configure script for combining --with-pthread
82 and --enable-weak-symbols options.
85 + correct cross-compiling configure check for CF_MKSTEMP macro, by
86 adding a check cache variable set by AC_CHECK_FUNC (report by
88 + simplify include-dependencies of make_hash and make_keys, to reduce
89 the need for setting BUILD_CPPFLAGS in cross-compiling when the
90 build- and target-machines differ.
91 + repair broken-linker configuration by restoring a definition of SP
92 variable to curses.priv.h, and adjusting for cases where sp-funcs
94 + improve configure macro CF_AR_FLAGS, allowing ARFLAGS environment
95 variable to override (prompted by report by Pablo Cazallas).
98 + add configure option --enable-pthreads-eintr to control whether the
99 new EINTR feature is enabled.
100 + modify logic in pthread configuration to allow EINTR to interrupt
101 a read operation in wgetch() (Novell #540571, patch by Werner Fink).
102 + drop mkdirs.sh, use "mkdir -p".
103 + add configure option --disable-libtool-version, to use the
104 "-version-number" feature which was added in libtool 1.5 (report by
105 Peter Haering). The default value for the option uses the newer
106 feature, which makes libraries generated using libtool compatible
107 with the standard builds of ncurses.
108 + updated test/configure to match configure script macros.
109 + fixes for configure script from lynx changes:
110 + improve CF_FIND_LINKAGE logic for the case where a function is
111 found in predefined libraries.
112 + revert part of change to CF_HEADER (cf: 20100424)
115 + correct limit-check in wredrawln, accounting for begy/begx values
116 (patch by David Benjamin).
117 + fix most compiler warnings from clang.
118 + amend build-fix for OpenSolaris, to ensure that a system header is
119 included in curses.h before testing feature symbols, since they
120 may be defined by that route.
123 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
124 + modify configure macro CF_HEADER_PATH to not look for variations in
125 the predefined include directories.
126 + improve configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GCC_WARNINGS to work
127 with gcc 4.x's c89 alias, which gives warning messages for cases
128 where older versions would produce an error.
131 + modify _nc_capcmp() to work with cancelled strings.
132 + correct translation of "^" in _nc_infotocap(), used to transform
133 terminfo to termcap strings
134 + add configure --disable-rpath-hack, to allow disabling the feature
135 which adds rpath options for libraries in unusual places.
136 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by checking if the rpath option for a given
137 directory was already added.
138 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by using ldd to provide a standard list of
139 directories (which will be ignored).
142 + improve win_driver.c handling of mouse:
143 + discard motion events
144 + avoid calling _nc_timed_wait when there is a mouse event
145 + handle 4th and "rightmost" buttons.
146 + quote substitutions in CF_RPATH_HACK_2 configure macro, needed for
147 cases where there are embedded blanks in the rpath option.
150 + add configure check for exctags vs ctags, to work around pkgsrc.
151 + simplify logic in _nc_get_screensize() to make it easier to see how
152 environment variables may override system- and terminfo-values
153 (prompted by discussion with Igor Bujna).
154 + make debug-traces for COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER less verbose.
155 + improve handling of color-pairs embedded in attributes for the
156 extended-colors configuration.
157 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to build link_test with sp-funcs.
158 + build-fixes for OpenSolaris aka Solaris 11, for wide-character
159 configuration as well as for rpath feature in *-config scripts.
162 + refactor CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro, making CF_RPATH_HACK more
164 + improve configure CF_REGEX, similar fixes.
165 + improve configure CF_FIND_LINKAGE, adding add check between system
166 (default) and explicit paths, where we can find the entrypoint in the
168 + add check if Gpm_Open() returns a -2, e.g., for "xterm". This is
169 normally suppressed but can be overridden using $NCURSES_GPM_TERMS.
170 Ensure that Gpm_Close() is called in this case.
173 + rename atari and st52 terminfo entries to atari-old, st52-old, use
174 newer entries from FreeMiNT by Guido Flohr (from patch/report by Alan
178 + modify install-rule for manpages so that *-config manpages will
179 install when building with --srcdir (report by Sven Joachim).
180 + modify CF_DISABLE_LEAKS configure macro so that the --enable-leaks
181 option is not the same as --disable-leaks (GenToo #305889).
182 + modify #define's for build-compiler to suppress cchar_t symbol from
183 compile of make_hash and make_keys, improving cross-compilation of
184 ncursesw (report by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
185 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to replace all occurrences of
186 TPUT in tput.1's manpage (Debian #573597, report/analysis by Anders
190 + generate manpages for the *-config scripts, adapted from help2man
191 (suggested by Sven Joachim).
192 + use va_copy() in _nc_printf_string() to avoid conflicting use of
193 va_list value in _nc_printf_length() (report by Wim Lewis).
196 + add Ada95/configure script, to use in tar-file created by
198 + fix typo in wresize.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
199 + modify screen-bce.XXX entries to exclude ech, since screen's color
200 model does not clear with color for that feature -TD
203 + add make-tar.sh scripts to Ada95 and test subdirectories to help with
204 making those separately distributable.
205 + build-fix for static libraries without dlsym (Debian #556378).
206 + fix a syntax error in man/form_field_opts.3x (patch by Ingo
210 + add several screen-bce.XXX entries -TD
213 + update mrxvt terminfo entry -TD
214 + modify win_driver.c to support mouse single-clicks.
215 + correct name for termlib in ncurses*-config, e.g., if it is renamed
216 to provide a single file for ncurses/ncursesw libraries (patch by
220 + use vfork in test/ditto.c if available (request by Mike Frysinger).
221 + miscellaneous cleanup of manpages.
222 + fix typo in curs_bkgd.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
223 + build-fix for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
226 + for term-driver configuration, ensure that the driver pointer is
227 initialized in setupterm so that terminfo/termcap programs work.
228 + amend fix for Debian #542031 to ensure that wattrset() returns only
229 OK or ERR, rather than the attribute value (report by Miroslav
231 + reorder WINDOWLIST to put WINDOW data after SCREEN pointer, making
232 _nc_screen_of() compatible between normal/wide libraries again (patch
234 + review/fix include-dependencies in modules files (report by Miroslav
238 + modify win_driver.c to initialize acs_map for win32 console, so
239 that line-drawing works.
240 + modify win_driver.c to initialize TERMINAL struct so that programs
241 such as test/lrtest.c and test/ncurses.c which test string
242 capabilities can run.
243 + modify term-driver modules to eliminate forward-reference
247 + modify configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., to use CF_ADD_CFLAGS
248 consistently to add new -D's while removing duplicates.
249 + modify a few configure macros to consistently put new options
250 before older in the list.
251 + add tiparm(), based on review of X/Open Curses Issue 7.
252 + minor documentation cleanup.
253 + update config.guess, config.sub from
254 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
255 (caveat - its maintainer put 2010 copyright date on files dated 2009)
258 + minor improvement to tic's checking of similar SGR's to allow for the
259 most common case of SGR 0.
260 + modify getmouse() to act as its documentation implied, returning on
261 each call the preceding event until none are left. When no more
262 events remain, it will return ERR.
265 + change order of lookup in progs/tput.c, looking for terminfo data
266 first. This fixes a confusion between termcap "sg" and terminfo
267 "sgr" or "sgr0", originally from 990123 changes, but exposed by
268 20091114 fixes for hashing. With this change, only "dl" and "ed" are
269 ambiguous (Mandriva #56272).
272 + add bterm terminfo entry, based on bogl 0.1.18 -TD
273 + minor fix to rxvt+pcfkeys terminfo entry -TD
274 + build-fixes for Ada95 tree for gnat 4.4 "style".
277 + remove old check in mvderwin() which prevented moving a derived
278 window whose origin happened to coincide with its parent's origin
279 (report by Katarina Machalkova).
280 + improve test/ncurses.c to put mouse droppings in the proper window.
281 + update minix terminfo entry -TD
282 + add bw (auto-left-margin) to nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler)
285 + correct transfer of multicolumn characters in multirow
286 field_buffer(), which stopped at the end of the first row due to
287 filling of unused entries in a cchar_t array with nulls.
288 + updated nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler, Emanuele Giaquinta)
289 + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to show wide-character
291 + use strdup() in set_menu_mark(), restore .marklen struct member on
293 + eliminate clause 3 from the UCB copyrights in read_termcap.c and
295 ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change
296 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
297 + replace a malloc in tic.c with strdup, checking for failure (patch by
299 + update config.guess, config.sub from
300 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
303 + correct layout of working window used to extract data in
304 wide-character configured by set_field_buffer (patch by Rafael
306 + improve some limit-checks related to filename length in reading and
307 writing terminfo entries.
308 + ensure that filename is always filled in when attempting to read
309 a terminfo entry, so that infocmp can report the filename (patch
310 by Nicholas Marriott).
313 + modify mk-1st.awk to allow tinfo library to be built when term-driver
315 + add error-check to configure script to ensure that sp-funcs is
316 enabled if term-driver is, since some internal interfaces rely upon
320 + fix case where progs/tput is used while sp-funcs is configure; this
321 requires save/restore of out-character function from _nc_prescreen
322 rather than the SCREEN structure (report by Charles Wilson).
323 + fix typo in man/curs_trace.3x which caused incorrect symbolic links
324 + improved configure macros CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES, CF_PROG_LINT.
328 + updated man/curs_trace.3x
329 + limit hashing for termcap-names to 2-characters (Ubuntu #481740).
330 + change a variable name in lib_newwin.c to make it clearer which
331 value is being freed on error (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
334 + improve test/ncurses.c color-cycling test by reusing attribute-
335 and color-cycling logic from the video-attributes screen.
336 + add ifdef'd with NCURSES_INTEROP_FUNCS experimental bindings in form
337 library which help make it compatible with interop applications
338 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
339 + add configure option --enable-interop, for integrating changes
340 for generic/interop support to form-library by Juergen Pfeifer
343 + modify use of $CC environment variable which is defined by X/Open
344 as a curses feature, to ignore it if it is not a single character
345 (prompted by discussion with Benjamin C W Sittler).
346 + add START_TRACE in slk_init
347 + fix a regression in _nc_ripoffline which made test/ncurses.c not show
348 soft-keys, broken in 20090927 merging.
349 + change initialization of "hidden" flag for soft-keys from true to
350 false, broken in 20090704 merging (Ubuntu #464274).
351 + update nsterm entries (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler, prompted by
352 discussion with Fabian Groffen in GenToo #206201).
353 + add test/xterm-256color.dat
356 + quiet some pedantic gcc warnings.
357 + modify _nc_wgetch() to check for a -1 in the fifo, e.g., after a
358 SIGWINCH, and discard that value, to avoid confusing application
359 (patch by Eygene Ryabinkin, FreeBSD bin/136223).
362 + modify handling of $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR to use only the first item in
363 a possibly colon-separated list (Debian #550716).
366 + supply a null-terminator to buffer in _nc_viswibuf().
367 + fix a sign-extension bug in unget_wch() (report by Mike Gran).
368 + minor fixes to error-returns in default function for tputs, as well
372 + add WACS_xxx definitions to wide-character configuration for thick-
373 and double-lines (discussion with Slava Zanko).
374 + remove unnecessary kcan assignment to ^C from putty (Sven Joachim)
375 + add ccc and initc capabilities to xterm-16color -TD
376 > patch by Benjamin C W Sittler:
378 + correct initc capability of linux-c-nc end-of-range
379 + similar change for dg+ccc and dgunix+ccc
382 + move leak-checking for comp_captab.c into _nc_leaks_tinfo() since
383 that module since 20090711 is in libtinfo.
384 + add configure option --enable-term-driver, to allow compiling with
385 terminal-driver. That is used in mingw port, and (being somewhat
386 more complicated) is an experimental alternative to the conventional
387 termlib internals. Currently, it requires the sp-funcs feature to
389 + completed integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer in ncurses
390 library (some work remains for forms library).
393 + document return code from define_key (report by Mike Gran).
394 + make some symbolic links in the terminfo directory-tree shorter
395 (patch by Daniel Jacobowitz, forwarded by Sven Joachim).).
396 + fix some groff warnings in terminfo.5, etc., from recent Debian
398 + change ncv and op capabilities in sun-color terminfo entry to match
399 Sun's entry for this (report by Laszlo Peter).
400 + improve interix smso terminfo capability by using reverse rather than
401 bold (report by Kristof Zelechovski).
404 + add some test programs (and make these use the same special keys
405 by sharing linedata.h functions):
409 test/test_add_wchstr.c
410 + correct internal _nc_insert_ch() to use _nc_insert_wch() when
411 inserting wide characters, since the wins_wch() function that it used
412 did not update the cursor position (report by Ciprian Craciun).
415 + fix typo s/is_timeout/is_notimeout/ which made "man is_notimeout" not
417 + add null-pointer checks to other opaque-functions.
418 + add is_pad() and is_subwin() functions for opaque access to WINDOW
419 (discussion with Mark Dickinson).
420 + correct merge to lib_newterm.c, which broke when sp-funcs was
424 + build-fix for building outside source-tree (report by Sven Joachim).
425 + fix Debian lintian warning for man/tabs.1 by making section number
426 agree with file-suffix (report by Sven Joachim).
427 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
430 + workaround for bug in g++ 4.1-4.4 warnings for wattrset() macro on
431 amd64 (Debian #542031).
432 + fix typo in curs_mouse.3x (Debian #429198).
435 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
438 + correct use of terminfo capabilities for initializing soft-keys,
439 broken in 20090509 merging.
440 + modify wgetch() to ensure it checks SIGWINCH when it gets an error
441 in non-blocking mode (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
442 + use PATH_SEPARATOR symbol when substituting into run_tic.sh, to
443 help with builds on non-Unix platforms such as OS/2 EMX.
444 + modify scripting for misc/run_tic.sh to test configure script's
445 $cross_compiling variable directly rather than comparing host/build
446 compiler names (prompted by comment in GenToo #249363).
447 + fix configure script option --with-database, which was coded as an
449 + build-fixes for --srcdir (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
452 + separate _nc_find_entry() and _nc_find_type_entry() from
453 implementation details of hash function.
456 + add tabs.1 to man/man_db.renames
457 + modify lib_addch.c to compensate for removal of wide-character test
458 from unctrl() in 20090704 (Debian #539735).
461 + improve discussion in INSTALL for use of system's tic/infocmp for
462 cross-compiling and building fallbacks.
463 + modify test/demo_termcap.c to correspond better to options in
465 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
466 + fix logic for 'V' in test/ncurses.c tests f/F.
469 + correct logic in tigetnum(), which caused tput program to treat all
470 string capabilities as numeric (report by Rajeev V Pillai,
474 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
477 + fix a null-pointer check in _nc_format_slks() in lib_slk.c, from
479 + modify _nc_find_type_entry() to use hashing.
480 + make CCHARW_MAX value configurable, noting that changing this would
481 change the size of cchar_t, and would be ABI-incompatible.
482 + modify test-programs, e.g,. test/view.c, to address subtle
483 differences between Tru64/Solaris and HPUX/AIX getcchar() return
485 + modify length returned by getcchar() to count the trailing null
486 which is documented in X/Open (cf: 20020427).
487 + fixes for test programs to build/work on HPUX and AIX, etc.
490 + improve performance of tigetstr, etc., by using hashing code from tic.
491 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking.
492 + add test/demo_terminfo, for comparison with demo_termcap
495 + remove wide-character checks from unctrl() (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
496 + revise wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to eliminate dependency on
498 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
501 + update llib-lncurses[wt] to use sp-funcs.
502 + various code-fixes to build/work with --disable-macros configure
504 + add several new files from Juergen Pfeifer which will be used when
505 integration of "sp-funcs" is complete. This includes a port to
509 + move definition for NCURSES_WRAPPED_VAR back to ncurses_dll.h, to
510 make includes of term.h without curses.h work (report by "Nix").
511 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
514 + fix a regression in lib_tputs.c, from ongoing merges.
517 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
520 + fix an infinite recursion when adding a legacy-coding 8-bit value
521 using insch() (report by Clemens Ladisch).
522 + free home-terminfo string in del_curterm() (patch by Dan Weber).
523 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
526 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
529 + work around antique BSD game's manipulation of stdscr, etc., versus
530 SCREEN's copy of the pointer (Debian #528411).
531 + add a cast to wattrset macro to avoid compiler warning when comparing
532 its result against ERR (adapted from patch by Matt Kraii, Debian
536 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
539 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
540 + add vwmterm terminfo entry (patch by Bryan Christ).
543 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
546 + build fix for _nc_free_and_exit() change in 20090418 (report by
550 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
553 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
554 This change finishes merging for menu and panel libraries, does
555 part of the form library.
558 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
559 Darwin (report by Nelson Beebe).
562 + extend ansi.sys pfkey capability from kf1-kf10 to kf1-kf48, moving
563 function key definitions from emx-base for consistency -TD
564 + correct missing final 'p' in pfkey capability of ansi.sys-old (report
565 by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo).
566 + improve test/ncurses.c 'F' test, show combining characters in color.
567 + quiet a false report by cppcheck in c++/cursesw.cc by eliminating
568 a temporary variable.
569 + use _nc_doalloc() rather than realloc() in a few places in ncurses
570 library to avoid leak in out-of-memory condition (reports by William
571 Egert and Martin Ettl based on cppcheck tool).
572 + add --with-ncurses-wrap-prefix option to test/configure (discussion
573 with Charles Wilson).
574 + use ncurses*-config scripts if available for test/configure.
575 + update test/aclocal.m4 and test/configure
576 > patches by Charles Wilson:
577 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL configure check to allow unreleased libtool
578 version numbers (e.g. which include alphabetic chars, as well as
579 digits, after the final '.').
580 + improve use of -no-undefined option for libtool by setting an
581 intermediate variable LT_UNDEF in the configure script, and then
582 using that in the libtool link-commands.
583 + fix an missing use of NCURSES_PUBLIC_VAR() in tinfo/MKcodes.awk
584 from 2009031 changes.
585 + improve mk-1st.awk script by writing separate cases for the
586 LIBTOOL_LINK command, depending on which library (ncurses, ticlib,
587 termlib) is to be linked.
588 + modify configure.in to allow broken-linker configurations, not just
589 enable-reentrant, to set public wrap prefix.
592 + add TICS_LIST and SHLIB_LIST to allow libtool 2.2.6 on Cygwin to
593 build with tic and term libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
594 + add -no-undefined option to libtool for Cygwin, MinGW, U/Win and AIX
595 (report by Charles Wilson).
596 + fix definition for c++/Makefile.in's SHLIB_LIST, which did not list
597 the form, menu or panel libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
598 + add configure option --with-wrap-prefix to allow setting the prefix
599 for functions used to wrap global variables to something other than
600 "_nc_" (discussion with Charles Wilson).
603 + modify scripts to generate ncurses*-config and pc-files to add
604 dependency for tinfo library (patch by Charles Wilson).
605 + improve comparison of program-names when checking for linked flavors
606 such as "reset" by ignoring the executable suffix (reports by Charles
607 Wilson, Samuel Thibault and Cedric Bretaudeau on Cygwin mailing
609 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
610 Solaris 10, since gcc is confused by absence of static libc, and
611 does not switch back to dynamic mode before finishing the libraries
612 (reports by Joel Bertrand, Alan Pae).
613 + minor fixes to Intel compiler warning checks in configure script.
614 + modify _nc_leaks_tinfo() so leak-checking in test/railroad.c works.
615 + modify set_curterm() to make broken-linker configuration work with
616 changes from 20090228 (report by Charles Wilson).
619 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
620 + modify declaration of cur_term when broken-linker is used, but
621 enable-reentrant is not, to match pre-5.7 (report by Charles Wilson).
624 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
627 + add configure script --enable-sp-funcs to enable the new set of
629 + start integrating patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
630 + add extended functions which specify the SCREEN pointer for several
631 curses functions which use the global SP (these are incomplete;
632 some internals work is needed to complete these).
633 + add special cases to configure script for MinGW port.
636 + update several configure macros from lynx changes
637 + append (not prepend) to CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS
638 + change variable from PATHSEP to PATH_SEPARATOR
639 + improve install-rules for pc-files (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
640 + make it work with $DESTDIR
641 + create the pkg-config library directory if needed.
644 + modify init_pair() to allow caller to create extra color pairs beyond
645 the color_pairs limit, which use default colors (request by Emanuele
647 + add misc/terminfo.tmp and misc/*.pc to "sources" rule.
648 + fix typo "==" where "=" is needed in ncurses-config.in and
649 gen-pkgconfig.in files (Debian #512161).
652 + add -shared option to MK_SHARED_LIB when -Bsharable is used, for
653 *BSD's, without which "main" might be one of the shared library's
654 dependencies (report/analysis by Ken Dickey).
655 + modify waddch_literal(), updating line-pointer after a multicolumn
656 character is found to not fit on the current row, and wrapping is
657 done. Since the line-pointer was not updated, the wrapped
658 multicolumn character was written to the beginning of the current row
659 (cf: 20041023, reported by "Nick" regarding problem with ncmpc
660 http://musicpd.org/mantis/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1930).
663 + add screen.Eterm terminfo entry (GenToo #124887) -TD
664 + modify adacurses-config to look for ".ali" files in the adalib
666 + correct install for Ada95, which omitted libAdaCurses.a used in
668 + change install for adacurses-config to provide additional flavors
669 such as adacursesw-config, for ncursesw (GenToo #167849).
672 + remove undeveloped feature in ncurses-config.in for setting
674 + recent change to ncurses-config.in did not take into account the
675 --disable-overwrite option, which sets $includedir to the
676 subdirectory and using just that for a -I option does not work - fix
677 (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
680 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to eliminate a dependency on rpath when
681 deciding whether to add $LIBS to --libs output; that should be shown
682 for the ncurses and tinfo libraries without taking rpath into
684 + fix an overlooked change from $AR_OPTS to $ARFLAGS in mk-1st.awk,
685 used in static libraries (report by Marty Jack).
688 + add a configure-time check to pick a suitable value for
689 CC_SHARED_OPTS for Solaris (report by Dagobert Michelsen).
690 + add configure --with-pkg-config and --enable-pc-files options, along
691 with misc/gen-pkgconfig.in which can be used to generate ".pc" files
692 for pkg-config (request by Jan Engelhardt).
693 + use $includedir symbol in misc/ncurses-config.in, add --includedir
695 + change makefiles to use $ARFLAGS rather than $AR_OPTS, provide a
696 configure check to detect whether a "-" is needed before "ar"
698 + update config.guess, config.sub from
699 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
702 + modify mk-1st.awk to work with extra categories for tinfo library.
703 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries with gcc
704 on AIX 5 or 6 (adapted from patch by Lital Natan).
707 + modify to omit the opaque-functions from lib_gen.o when
708 --disable-ext-funcs is used.
709 + add test/clip_printw.c to illustrate how to use printw without
711 + modify ncurses 'F' test to demo wborder_set() with colored lines.
712 + modify ncurses 'f' test to demo wborder() with colored lines.
715 + add check for failure to open hashed-database needed for db4.6
717 + corrected --without-manpages option; previous change only suppressed
718 the auxiliary rules install.man and uninstall.man
719 + add case for FreeMINT to configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE (patch from
721 + fixes from NetBSD port at
722 http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/devel/ncurses/patches
723 patch-ac (build-fix for DragonFly)
724 patch-ae (use INSTALL_SCRIPT for installing misc/ncurses*-config).
725 + improve configure script macros CF_HEADER_PATH and CF_LIBRARY_PATH
726 by adding CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS, LIBS values to the
728 + correct title string for keybound manpage (patch by Frederic Culot,
729 OpenBSD documentation/6019),
732 + move del_curterm() call from _nc_freeall() to _nc_leaks_tinfo() to
733 work for progs/clear, progs/tabs, etc.
734 + correct buffer-size after internal resizing of wide-character
735 set_field_buffer(), broken in 20081018 changes (report by Mike Gran).
736 + add "-i" option to test/filter.c to tell it to use initscr() rather
737 than newterm(), to investigate report on comp.unix.programmer that
738 ncurses would clear the screen in that case (it does not - the issue
739 was xterm's alternate screen feature).
740 + add check in mouse-driver to disable connection if GPM returns a
741 zero, indicating that the connection is closed (Debian #506717,
742 adapted from patch by Samuel Thibault).
745 + improve a workaround in adding wide-characters, when a control
746 character is found. The library (cf: 20040207) uses unctrl() to
747 obtain a printable version of the control character, but was not
748 passing color or video attributes.
749 + improve test/ncurses.c 'a' test, using unctrl() more consistently to
750 display meta-characters.
751 + turn on _XOPEN_CURSES definition in curses.h
752 + add eterm-color entry (report by Vincent Lefevre) -TD
753 + correct use of key_name() in test/ncurses.c 'A' test, which only
754 displays wide-characters, not key-codes since 20070612 (report by
758 + change _nc_has_mouse() to has_mouse(), reflect its use in C++ and
759 Ada95 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
760 + document in TO-DO an issue with Cygwin's package for GNAT (report
762 + improve error-checking of command-line options in "tabs" program.
765 + change several terminfo entries to make consistent use of ANSI
767 + add "tabs" program (prompted by Debian #502260).
768 + add configure --without-manpages option (request by Mike Frysinger).
770 20081102 5.7 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
773 + add a manpage to discuss memory leaks.
774 + add support for shared libraries for QNX (other than libtool, which
775 does not work well on that platform).
776 + build-fix for QNX C++ binding.
779 + build-fixes for OS/2 EMX.
780 + modify form library to accept control characters such as newline
781 in set_field_buffer(), which is compatible with Solaris (report by
783 + modify configure script to assume --without-hashed-db when
784 --disable-database is used.
785 + add "-e" option in ncurses/Makefile.in when generating source-files
786 to force earlier exit if the build environment fails unexpectedly
787 (prompted by patch by Adrian Bunk).
788 + change configure script to use CF_UTF8_LIB, improved variant of
792 + add teraterm4.59 terminfo entry, use that as primary teraterm entry, rename
793 original to teraterm2.3 -TD
794 + update "gnome" terminfo to 2.22.3 -TD
795 + update "konsole" terminfo to 1.6.6, needs today's fix for tic -TD
796 + add "aterm" terminfo -TD
797 + add "linux2.6.26" terminfo -TD
798 + add logic to tic for cancelling strings in user-defined capabilities,
802 + regenerated html documentation.
803 + add -m and -s options to test/keynames.c and test/key_names.c to test
804 the meta() function with keyname() or key_name(), respectively.
805 + correct return value of key_name() on error; it is null.
806 + document some unresolved issues for rpath and pthreads in TO-DO.
807 + fix a missing prototype for ioctl() on OpenBSD in tset.c
808 + add configure option --disable-tic-depends to make explicit whether
809 tic library depends on ncurses/ncursesw library, amends change from
810 20080823 (prompted by Debian #501421).
813 + some build-fixes for configure --disable-ext-funcs (incomplete, but
814 works for C/C++ parts).
815 + improve configure-check for awks unable to handle large strings, e.g.
816 AIX 5.1 whose awk silently gives up on large printf's.
819 + fix build for --with-dmalloc by workaround for redefinition of
820 strndup between string.h and dmalloc.h
821 + fix build for --disable-sigwinch
822 + add environment variable NCURSES_GPM_TERMS to allow override to use
823 GPM on terminals other than "linux", etc.
824 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM does not happen to contain
825 "linux", since Gpm_Open() no longer limits its assertion to terminals
826 that it might handle, e.g., within "screen" in xterm.
827 + reset mouse file-descriptor when unloading GPM library (report by
829 + fix build for --disable-leaks --enable-widec --with-termlib
830 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
831 + use improved initialization for soft-label keys in Ada95 sample code.
832 + discard internal symbol _nc_slk_format (unused since 20080112).
833 + move call of slk_paint_info() from _nc_slk_initialize() to
834 slk_intern_refresh(), improving initialization.
837 + fix bug in mouse code for GPM from 20080920 changes (reported in
838 Debian #500103, also Miroslav Lichvar).
841 + fix shared-library rules for cygwin with tic- and tinfo-libraries.
842 + fix a memory leak when failure to connect to GPM.
843 + correct check for notimeout() in wgetch() (report on linux.redhat
844 newsgroup by FurtiveBertie).
845 + add an example warning-suppression file for valgrind,
846 misc/ncurses.supp (based on example from Reuben Thomas)
849 + change shared-library configuration for OpenBSD, make rpath work.
850 + build-fixes for using libutf8, e.g., on OpenBSD 3.7
853 + corrected fix for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
857 + corrected gcc options for building shared libraries on IRIX64.
858 + add configure check for awk programs unable to handle big-strings,
859 use that to improve the default for --enable-big-strings option.
860 + makefile-fixes for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
862 + update test/configure script.
863 + adapt ifdef's from library to make test/view.c build when mbrtowc()
864 is unavailable, e.g., with HPUX 10.20.
865 + add configure check for wcsrtombs, mbsrtowcs, which are used in
866 test/ncurses.c, and use wcstombs, mbstowcs instead if available,
867 fixing build of ncursew for HPUX 11.00
870 + fixes to make Ada95 demo_panels() example work.
871 + modify Ada95 'rain' test program to accept keyboard commands like the
873 + modify BeOS-specific ifdef's to build on Haiku (patch by Scott
875 + add configure-check to see if the std namespace is legal for cerr
876 and endl, to fix a build issue with Tru64.
877 + consistently use NCURSES_BOOL in lib_gen.c
878 + filter #line's from lib_gen.c
879 + change delimiter in MKlib_gen.sh from '%' to '@', to avoid
880 substitution by IBM xlc to '#' as part of its extensions to digraphs.
881 + update config.guess, config.sub from
882 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
883 (caveat - its maintainer removed support for older Linux systems).
886 + modify configure check for pthread library to work with OSF/1 5.1,
887 which uses #define's to associate its header and library.
888 + use pthread_mutexattr_init() for initializing pthread_mutexattr_t,
889 makes threaded code work on HPUX 11.23
890 + fix a bug in demo_menus in freeing menus (cf: 20080804).
891 + modify configure script for the case where tic library is used (and
892 possibly renamed) to remove its dependency upon ncurses/ncursew
893 library (patch by Dr Werner Fink).
894 + correct manpage for menu_fore() which gave wrong default for
895 the attribute used to display a selected entry (report by Mike Gran).
896 + add Eterm-256color, Eterm-88color and rxvt-88color (prompted by
900 + add configure option --enable-weak-symbols to turn on new feature.
901 + add configure-check for availability of weak symbols.
902 + modify linkage with pthread library to use weak symbols so that
903 applications not linked to that library will not use the mutexes,
904 etc. This relies on gcc, and may be platform-specific (patch by Dr
906 + add note to INSTALL to document limitation of renaming of tic library
907 using the --with-ticlib configure option (report by Dr Werner Fink).
908 + document (in manpage) why tputs does not detect I/O errors (prompted
909 by comments by Samuel Thibault).
910 + fix remaining warnings from Klocwork report.
913 + modify _nc_panelhook() data to account for a permanent memory leak.
914 + fix memory leaks in test/demo_menus
915 + fix most warnings from Klocwork tool (report by Larry Zhou).
916 + modify configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to add case for
917 "dragonfly" from xterm #236 changes.
918 + modify configure script --with-hashed-db to let $LIBS override the
919 search for the db library (prompted by report by Samson Pierre).
922 + build-fixes for gcc 4.3.1 (changes to gnat "warnings", and C inlining
926 + build-fix (reports by Christian Ebert, Funda Wang).
929 + compiler-warning fixes for Solaris.
932 + use NCURSES_MOUSE_MASK() in definition of BUTTON_RELEASE(), etc., to
933 make those work properly with the "--enable-ext-mouse" configuration
935 + improve documentation of build-cc options in INSTALL.
936 + work-around a bug in gcc 4.2.4 on AIX, which does not pass the
937 -static/-dynamic flags properly to linker, causing test/bs to
941 + correct some ifdef's needed for the broken-linker configuration.
942 + make debugging library's $BAUDRATE feature work for termcap
944 + make $NCURSES_NO_PADDING feature work for termcap interface (prompted
945 by comment on FreeBSD mailing list).
946 + add screen.mlterm terminfo entry -TD
947 + improve mlterm and mlterm+pcfkeys terminfo entries -TD
950 + regenerated html documentation.
951 + expand manpage description of parameters for form_driver() and
952 menu_driver() (prompted by discussion with Adam Spragg).
953 + add null-pointer checks for cur_term in baudrate() and
954 def_shell_mode(), def_prog_mode()
955 + fix some memory leaks in delscreen() and wide acs.
958 + modify test/ditto.c to illustrate multi-threaded use_screen().
959 + change CC_SHARED_OPTS from -KPIC to -xcode=pic32 for Solaris.
960 + add "-shared" option to MK_SHARED_LIB for gcc on Solaris (report
964 + finish changes to wgetch(), making it switch as needed to the
965 window's actual screen when calling wrefresh() and wgetnstr(). That
966 allows wgetch() to get used concurrently in different threads with
967 some minor restrictions, e.g., the application should not delete a
968 window which is being used in a wgetch().
969 + simplify mutex's, combining the window- and screen-mutex's.
972 + modify wgetch() to use the screen which corresponds to its window
973 parameter rather than relying on SP; some dependent functions still
975 + factor out most use of SP in lib_mouse.c, using parameter.
976 + add internal _nc_keyname(), replacing keyname() to associate with a
977 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
978 + add internal _nc_unctrl(), replacing unctrl() to associate with a
979 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
980 + add internal _nc_tracemouse(), replacing _tracemouse() to eliminate
981 its associated global buffer _nc_globals.tracemse_buf now in SCREEN.
982 + add internal _nc_tracechar(), replacing _tracechar() to use SCREEN in
983 preference to the global _nc_globals.tracechr_buf buffer.
986 + modify _nc_keypad() to make it switch temporarily as needed to the
987 screen which must be updated.
988 + wrap cur_term variable to help make _nc_keymap() thread-safe, and
989 always set the screen's copy of this variable in set_curterm().
990 + restore curs_set() state after endwin()/refresh() (report/patch
994 + modify configure script to note that --enable-ext-colors and
995 --enable-ext-mouse are not experimental, but extensions from
997 + corrected manpage description of setcchar() (discussion with
999 + fix for adding a non-spacing character at the beginning of a line
1000 (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
1003 + modify screen.* terminfo entries using new screen+fkeys to fix
1004 overridden keys in screen.rxvt (Debian #478094) -TD
1005 + modify internal interfaces to reduce wgetch()'s dependency on the
1007 + simplify some loops with macros each_screen(), each_window() and
1011 + continue modifying test/ditto.c toward making it demonstrate
1012 multithreaded use_screen(), using fifos to pass data between screens.
1013 + fix typo in form.3x (report by Mike Gran).
1016 + add screen.rxvt terminfo entry -TD
1017 + modify tic -f option to format spaces as \s to prevent them from
1018 being lost when that is read back in unformatted strings.
1019 + improve test/ditto.c, using a "talk"-style layout.
1022 + change test/ditto.c to use openpty() and xterm.
1023 + add locks for copywin(), dupwin(), overlap(), overlay() on their
1025 + add locks for initscr() and newterm() on updates to the SCREEN
1027 + finish table in curs_thread.3x manpage.
1030 + begin table in curs_thread.3x manpage describing the scope of data
1031 used by each function (or symbol) for threading analysis.
1032 + add null-pointer checks to setsyx() and getsyx() (prompted by
1033 discussion by Martin v. Lowis and Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven on
1034 python-dev2 mailing list).
1037 + add null-pointer checks in set_term() and delscreen().
1038 + move _nc_windows into _nc_globals, since windows can be pads, which
1039 are not associated with a particular screen.
1040 + change use_screen() to pass the SCREEN* parameter rather than
1041 stdscr to the callback function.
1042 + force libtool to use tag for 'CC' in case it does not detect this,
1043 e.g., on aix when using CC=powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0-gcc
1044 (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
1045 + override OBJEXT to "lo" when building with libtool, to work on
1046 platforms such as AIX where libtool may use a different suffix for
1047 the object files than ".o" (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
1048 + add configure --with-pthread option, for building with the POSIX
1052 + fill in extended-color pair two more places in wbkgrndset() and
1053 waddch_nosync() (prompted by Sedeno's patch).
1054 + fill in extended-color pair in _nc_build_wch() to make colors work
1055 for wide-characters using extended-colors (patch by Alejandro R
1057 + add x/X toggles to ncurses.c C color test to test/demo
1058 wide-characters with extended-colors.
1059 + add a/A toggles to ncurses.c c/C color tests.
1060 + modify test/ditto.c to use use_screen().
1061 + finish modifying test/rain.c to demonstrate threads.
1064 + start modifying test/rain.c for threading demo.
1065 + modify test/ncurses.c to make 'f' test accept the f/F/b/F/</> toggles
1066 that the 'F' accepts.
1067 + modify test/worm.c to show trail in reverse-video when other threads
1068 are working concurrently.
1069 + fix a deadlock from improper nesting of mutexes for windowlist and
1073 + fixes from 20080223 resolved issue with mutexes; change to use
1074 recursive mutexes to fix memory leak in delwin() as called from
1075 _nc_free_and_exit().
1078 + fix a size-difference in _nc_globals which caused hanging of mutex
1079 lock/unlock when termlib was built separately.
1082 + avoid using nanosleep() in threaded configuration since that often
1083 is implemented to suspend the entire process.
1086 + update test programs to build/work with various UNIX curses for
1087 comparisons. This was to reinvestigate statement in X/Open curses
1088 that insnstr and winsnstr perform wrapping. None of the Unix-branded
1089 implementations do this, as noted in manpage (cf: 20040228).
1092 + modify _nc_setupscreen() to set the legacy-coding value the same
1093 for both narrow/wide models. It had been set only for wide model,
1094 but is needed to make unctrl() work with locale in the narrow model.
1095 + improve waddch() and winsch() handling of EILSEQ from mbrtowc() by
1096 using unctrl() to display illegal bytes rather than trying to append
1097 further bytes to make up a valid sequence (reported by Andrey A
1099 + modify unctrl() to check codes in 128-255 range versus isprint().
1100 If they are not printable, and locale was set, use a "M-" or "~"
1104 + improve threading in test/worm.c (wrap refresh calls, and KEY_RESIZE
1105 handling). Now it hangs in napms(), no matter whether nanosleep()
1106 or poll() or select() are used on Linux.
1109 + fixes to build with --disable-ext-funcs
1110 + add manpage for use_window and use_screen.
1111 + add set_tabsize() and set_escdelay() functions.
1114 + remove recursive-mutex definitions, finish threading demo for worm.c
1115 + remove a redundant adjustment of lines in resizeterm.c's
1116 adjust_window() which caused occasional misadjustment of stdscr when
1120 + several improvements to terminfo entries based on xterm #230 -TD
1121 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle keyname/key_name prototypes, so the
1122 "link_test" builds properly.
1123 + fix for toe command-line options -u/-U to ensure filename is given.
1124 + fix allocation-size for command-line parsing in infocmp from 20070728
1125 (report by Miroslav Lichvar)
1126 + improve resizeterm() by moving ripped-off lines, and repainting the
1127 soft-keys (report by Katarina Machalkova)
1128 + add clarification in wclear's manpage noting that the screen will be
1129 cleared even if a subwindow is cleared (prompted by Christer Enfors
1131 + change test/ncurses.c soft-key tests to work with KEY_RESIZE.
1134 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
1138 + add several functions to C++ binding which wrap C functions that
1139 pass a WINDOW* parameter (request by Chris Lee).
1142 + add note about configure options needed for Berkeley database to the
1144 + improve checks for version of Berkeley database libraries.
1145 + amend fix for rpath to not modify LDFLAGS if the platform has no
1146 applicable transformation (report by Christian Ebert, cf: 20071124).
1149 + modify configure option --with-hashed-db to accept a parameter which
1150 is the install-prefix of a given Berkeley Database (prompted by
1151 pierre4d2 comments).
1152 + rewrite wrapper for wcrtomb(), making it work on Solaris. This is
1153 used in the form library to determine the length of the buffer needed
1154 by field_buffer (report by Alfred Fung).
1155 + remove unneeded window-parameter from C++ binding for wresize (report
1159 + modify the support for filesystems which do not support mixed-case to
1160 generate 2-character (hexadecimal) codes for the lower-level of the
1161 filesystem terminfo database (request by Michail Vidiassov).
1162 + add configure option --enable-mixed-case, to allow overriding the
1163 configure script's check if the filesystem supports mixed-case
1165 + add wresize() to C++ binding (request by Chris Lee).
1166 + define NCURSES_EXT_FUNCS and NCURSES_EXT_COLORS in curses.h to make
1167 it simpler to tell if the extended functions and/or colors are
1171 + update memory-leak checks for changes to names.c and codes.c
1172 + correct acsc strings in h19, z100 (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler).
1175 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
1177 + add mrxvt terminfo entry, add/fix xterm building blocks for modified
1179 + compile with FreeBSD "contemporary" TTY interface (patch by
1183 + modify makefile rules to allow clear, tput and tset to be built
1184 without libtic. The other programs (infocmp, tic and toe) rely on
1186 + add/modify null-pointer checks in several functions for SP and/or
1187 the WINDOW* parameter (report by Thorben Krueger).
1188 + fixes for field_buffer() in formw library (see Redhat Bugzilla
1189 #310071, patches by Miroslav Lichvar).
1190 + improve performance of NCURSES_CHAR_EQ code (patch by Miroslav
1192 + update/improve mlterm and rxvt terminfo entries, e.g., for
1193 the modified cursor- and keypad-keys -TD
1196 + add code to curses.priv.h ifdef'd with NCURSES_CHAR_EQ, which
1197 changes the CharEq() macro to an inline function to allow comparing
1198 cchar_t struct's without comparing gaps in a possibly unpacked
1199 memory layout (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
1202 + add new functions to lib_trace.c to setup mutex's for the _tracef()
1203 calls within the ncurses library.
1204 + for the reentrant model, move _nc_tputs_trace and _nc_outchars into
1206 + start modifying test/worm.c to provide threading demo (incomplete).
1207 + separated ifdef's for some BSD-related symbols in tset.c, to make
1208 it compile on LynxOS (report by Greg Gemmer).
1210 + modify Ada95/gen/Makefile to use shlib script, to simplify building
1211 shared-library configuration on platforms lacking rpath support.
1212 + build-fix for Ada95/src/Makefile to reflect changed dependency for
1213 the terminal-interface-curses-aux.adb file which is now generated.
1214 + restructuring test/worm.c, for use_window() example.
1217 + add use_window() and use_screen() functions, to develop into support
1218 for threaded library (incomplete).
1219 + fix typos in man/curs_opaque.3x which kept the install script from
1220 creating symbolic links to two aliases created in 20070818 (report by
1224 + remove a spurious newline from output of html.m4, which caused links
1225 for Ada95 html to be incorrect for the files generated using m4.
1226 + start investigating mutex's for SCREEN manipulation (incomplete).
1227 + minor cleanup of codes.c/names.c for --enable-const
1228 + expand/revise "Routine and Argument Names" section of ncurses manpage
1229 to address report by David Givens in newsgroup discussion.
1230 + fix interaction between --without-progs/--with-termcap configure
1231 options (report by Michail Vidiassov).
1232 + fix typo in "--disable-relink" option (report by Michail Vidiassov).
1235 + fix a sign-extension bug in infocmp's repair_acsc() function
1237 + fix old configure script bug which prevented "--disable-warnings"
1238 option from working (patch by Mike Frysinger).
1241 + add 9term terminal description (request by Juhapekka Tolvanen) -TD
1242 + modify comp_hash.c's string output to avoid misinterpreting a null
1243 "\0" followed by a digit.
1244 + modify MKnames.awk and MKcodes.awk to support big-strings.
1245 This only applies to the cases (broken linker, reentrant) where
1246 the corresponding arrays are accessed via wrapper functions.
1247 + split MKnames.awk into two scripts, eliminating the shell redirection
1248 which complicated the make process and also the bogus timestamp file
1249 which was introduced to fix "make -j".
1250 + add test/test_opaque.c, test/test_arrays.c
1251 + add wgetscrreg() and wgetparent() for applications that may need it
1252 when NCURSES_OPAQUE is defined (prompted by Bryan Christ).
1255 + amend treatment of infocmp "-r" option to retain the 1023-byte limit
1256 unless "-T" is given (cf: 981017).
1257 + modify comp_captab.c generation to use big-strings.
1258 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private accessed via
1259 _nc_get_alias_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
1261 + modify configure script to skip Intel compiler in CF_C_INLINE.
1262 + make _nc_info_hash_table and _nc_cap_hash_table private accessed via
1263 _nc_get_hash_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
1267 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private, accessed via
1268 _nc_get_alias_table() since they are used only by parse_entry.c
1269 + make _nc_key_names private since it is used only by lib_keyname.c
1270 + add --disable-big-strings configure option to control whether
1271 unctrl.c is generated using the big-string optimization - which may
1272 use strings longer than supported by a given compiler.
1273 + reduce relocation tables for tic, infocmp by changing type of
1274 internal hash tables to short, and make those private symbols.
1275 + eliminate large fixed arrays from progs/infocmp.c
1278 + change winnstr() to stop at the end of the line (cf: 970315).
1279 + add test/test_get_wstr.c
1280 + add test/test_getstr.c
1281 + add test/test_inwstr.c
1282 + add test/test_instr.c
1285 + restore a call to obtain screen-size in _nc_setupterm(), which
1286 is used in tput and other non-screen applications via setupterm()
1287 (Debian #433357, reported by Florent Bayle, Christian Ohm,
1291 + add test/savescreen.c test-program
1292 + add check to trace-file open, if the given name is a directory, add
1293 ".log" to the name and try again.
1294 + add konsole-256color entry -TD
1295 + add extra gcc warning options from xterm.
1296 + minor fixes for ncurses/hashmap test-program.
1297 + modify configure script to quiet c++ build with libtool when the
1298 --disable-echo option is used.
1299 + modify configure script to disable ada95 if libtool is selected,
1300 writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD ports/114493).
1301 + update config.guess, config.sub
1304 + add continuous-move "M" to demo_panels to help test refresh changes.
1305 + improve fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters,
1306 taking into account some split characters on left/right window
1310 + add "widec" row to _tracedump() output to help diagnose remaining
1311 problems with multi-column characters.
1312 + partial fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters
1313 which are partly overwritten (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
1314 + ignore A_CHARTEXT bits in vidattr() and vid_attr(), in case
1315 multi-column extension bits are passed there.
1316 + add setlocale() call to demo_panels.c, needed for wide-characters.
1317 + add some output flags to _nc_trace_ttymode to help diagnose a bug
1318 report by Larry Virden, i.e., ONLCR, OCRNL, ONOCR and ONLRET,
1321 + add test/demo_panels.c
1322 + implement opaque version of setsyx() and getsyx().
1325 + corrected xterm+pcf2 terminfo modifiers for F1-F4, to match xterm
1327 + split-out key_name() from MKkeyname.awk since it now depends upon
1328 wunctrl() which is not in libtinfo (report by Rong-En Fan).
1331 + add test/key_name.c
1332 + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test/inch_wide.c
1333 + update test/configure
1334 + correct formatting of DEL (0x7f) in _nc_vischar().
1335 + null-terminate result of wunctrl().
1336 + add null-pointer check in key_name() (report by Andreas Krennmair,
1340 + adapt mouse-handling code from menu library in form-library
1341 (discussion with Clive Nicolson).
1342 + add a modification of test/dots.c, i.e., test/dots_mvcur.c to
1343 illustrate how to use mvcur().
1344 + modify wide-character flavor of SetAttr() to preserve the
1345 WidecExt() value stored in the .attr field, e.g., in case it
1346 is overwritten by chgat (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
1347 + correct buffer-size for _nc_viswbuf2n() (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
1348 + build-fixes for Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 (patch by Peter O'Gorman).
1351 + modify keyname() to use "^X" form only if meta() has been called, or
1352 if keyname() is called without initializing curses, e.g., via
1353 initscr() or newterm() (prompted by LinuxBase #1604).
1354 + document some portability issues in man/curs_util.3x
1355 + add a shadow copy of TTY buffer to _nc_prescreen to fix applications
1356 broken by moving that data into SCREEN (cf: 20061230).
1359 + add 'O' (wide-character panel test) in ncurses.c to demonstrate a
1360 problem reported by Sadrul H Chowdhury with repainting parts of
1362 + modify slk_init() so that if there are preceding calls to
1363 ripoffline(), those affect the available lines for soft-keys (adapted
1364 from patch by Clive Nicolson).
1365 + document some portability issues in man/curs_getyx.3x
1368 + fix a bug in Ada95/samples/ncurses which caused a variable to
1369 become uninitialized in the "b" test.
1370 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in adahtml rule to account for recent
1371 movement of files, fix a few incorrect manpage references in the
1373 + add Ada95 binding to _nc_freeall() as Curses_Free_All to help with
1375 + correct some functions in Ada95 binding which were using return value
1376 from C where none was returned: idcok(), immedok() and wtimeout().
1377 + amend recent changes for Ada95 binding to make it build with
1378 Cygwin's linker, e.g., with configure options
1379 --enable-broken-linker --with-ticlib
1382 + add a configure check for gcc's options for inlining, use that to
1383 quiet a warning message where gcc's default behavior changed from
1385 + improve warning message when checking if GPM is linked to curses
1386 library by not warning if its use of "wgetch" is via a weak symbol.
1387 + add loader options when building with static libraries to ensure that
1388 an installed shared library for ncurses does not conflict. This is
1389 reported as problem with Tru64, but could affect other platforms
1390 (report Martin Mokrejs, analysis by Tim Mooney).
1391 + fix build on cygwin after recent ticlib/termlib changes, i.e.,
1392 + adjust TINFO_SUFFIX value to work with cygwin's dll naming
1393 + revert a change from 20070303 which commented out dependency of
1394 SHLIB_LIST in form/menu/panel/c++ libraries.
1395 + fix initialization of ripoff stack pointer (cf: 20070421).
1398 + move most static variables into structures _nc_globals and
1399 _nc_prescreen, to simplify storage.
1400 + add/use configure script macro CF_SIG_ATOMIC_T, use the corresponding
1401 type for data manipulated by signal handlers (prompted by comments
1402 in mailing.openbsd.bugs newsgroup).
1403 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to allow one to pass options such as -static
1404 to the libtool create- and link-operations.
1407 + fix whitespace in curs_opaque.3x which caused a spurious ';' in
1408 the installed aliases (report by Peter Santoro).
1409 + fix configure script to not try to generate adacurses-config when
1410 Ada95 tree is not built.
1413 + add man/curs_legacy.3x, man/curs_opaque.3x
1414 + fix acs_map binding for Ada95 when --enable-reentrant is used.
1415 + add adacurses-config to the Ada95 install, based on version from
1416 FreeBSD port, in turn by Juergen Pfeifer in 2000 (prompted by
1417 comment on comp.lang.ada newsgroup).
1418 + fix includes in c++ binding to build with Intel compiler
1420 + update install rule in Ada95 to use mkdirs.sh
1421 > other fixes prompted by inspection for Coverity report:
1422 + modify ifdef's for c++ binding to use try/catch/throw statements
1423 + add a null-pointer check in tack/ansi.c request_cfss()
1424 + fix a memory leak in ncurses/base/wresize.c
1425 + corrected check for valid memu/meml capabilities in
1426 progs/dump_entry.c when handling V_HPUX case.
1427 > fixes based on Coverity report:
1428 + remove dead code in test/bs.c
1429 + remove dead code in test/demo_defkey.c
1430 + remove an unused assignment in progs/infocmp.c
1431 + fix a limit check in tack/ansi.c tools_charset()
1432 + fix tack/ansi.c tools_status() to perform the VT320/VT420
1433 tests in request_cfss(). The function had exited too soon.
1434 + fix a memory leak in tic.c's make_namelist()
1435 + fix a couple of places in tack/output.c which did not check for EOF.
1436 + fix a loop-condition in test/bs.c
1437 + add index checks in lib_color.c for color palettes
1438 + add index checks in progs/dump_entry.c for version_filter() handling
1440 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in copywin()
1441 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in waddchnstr()
1442 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
1443 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c's make_namelist()
1444 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
1445 + add null-pointer checks in test/cardfile.c
1446 + fix a double-free in ncurses/tinfo/trim_sgr0.c
1447 + fix a double-free in ncurses/base/wresize.c
1448 + add try/catch block to c++/cursesmain.cc
1451 + modify Ada95 binding to build with --enable-reentrant by wrapping
1452 global variables (bug: acs_map does not yet work).
1453 + modify Ada95 binding to use the new access-functions, allowing it
1454 to build/run when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
1455 + add access-functions and macros to return properties of the WINDOW
1456 structure, e.g., when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
1457 + improved install-sh's quoting.
1458 + use mkdirs.sh rather than mkinstalldirs, e.g., to use fixes from
1462 + eliminate part of the direct use of WINDOW data from Ada95 interface.
1463 + fix substitutions for termlib filename to make configure option
1464 --enable-reentrant work with --with-termlib.
1465 + change a constructor for NCursesWindow to allow compiling with
1466 NCURSES_OPAQUE set, since we cannot pass a reference to
1470 + ignore --with-chtype=unsigned since unsigned is always added to
1471 the type in curses.h; do the same for --with-mmask-t.
1472 + change warning regarding --enable-ext-colors and wide-character
1473 in the configure script to an error.
1474 + tweak error message in CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to distinguish other programs
1475 such as Darwin's libtool program (report by Michail Vidiassov)
1476 + modify edit_man.sh to allow for multiple substitutions per line.
1477 + set locale in misc/ncurses-config.in since it uses a range
1478 + change permissions libncurses++.a install (report by Michail
1480 + corrected length of temporary buffer in wide-character version
1481 of set_field_buffer() (related to report by Bryan Christ).
1484 + fix mk-1st.awk script install_shlib() function, broken in 20070224
1485 changes for cygwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
1488 + increase size of array in _nc_visbuf2n() to make "tic -v" work
1489 properly in its similar_sgr() function (report/analysis by Peter
1491 + add --enable-reentrant configure option for ongoing changes to
1492 implement a reentrant version of ncurses:
1493 + libraries are suffixed with "t"
1494 + wrap several global variables (curscr, newscr, stdscr, ttytype,
1495 COLORS, COLOR_PAIRS, COLS, ESCDELAY, LINES and TABSIZE) as
1496 functions returning values stored in SCREEN or cur_term.
1497 + move some initialization (LINES, COLS) from lib_setup.c,
1498 i.e., setupterm() to _nc_setupscreen(), i.e., newterm().
1501 + regenerated html documentation.
1502 + add NCURSES_OPAQUE symbol to curses.h, will use to make structs
1503 opaque in selected configurations.
1504 + move the chunk in lib_acs.c which resets acs capabilities when
1505 running on a terminal whose locale interferes with those into
1506 _nc_setupscreen(), so the libtinfo/libtinfow files can be made
1507 identical (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
1508 + do not use configure variable SHLIB_LIBS for building libraries
1509 outside the ncurses directory, since that symbol is customized
1510 only for that directory, and using it introduces an unneeded
1511 dependency on libdl (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
1512 + modify mk-1st.awk so the generated makefile rules for linking or
1513 installing shared libraries do not first remove the library, in
1514 case it is in use, e.g., libncurses.so by /bin/sh (report by Jeff
1516 + revised section "Using NCURSES under XTERM" in ncurses-intro.html
1517 (prompted by newsgroup comment by Nick Guenther).
1520 + change internal return codes of _nc_wgetch() to check for cases
1521 where KEY_CODE_YES should be returned, e.g., if a KEY_RESIZE was
1522 ungetch'd, and read by wget_wch().
1523 + fix static-library build broken in 20070217 changes to remove "-ldl"
1524 (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
1525 + change makefile/scripts for cygwin to allow building termlib.
1526 + use Form_Hook in manpages to match form.h
1527 + use Menu_Hook in manpages, as well as a few places in menu.h
1528 + correct form- and menu-manpages to use specific Field_Options,
1529 Menu_Options and Item_Options types.
1530 + correct prototype for _tracechar() in manpage (cf: 20011229).
1531 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
1534 + fixes for $(TICS_LIST) in ncurses/Makefile (report by Miroslav
1536 + modify relinking of shared libraries to apply only when rpath is
1537 enabled, and add --disable-relink option which can be used to
1538 disable the feature altogether (reports by Michail Vidiassov,
1540 + fix --with-termlib option for wide-character configuration, stripping
1541 the "w" suffix in one place (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
1542 + remove "-ldl" from some library lists to reduce dependencies in
1543 programs (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
1544 + correct description of --enable-signed-char in configure --help
1545 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
1546 + add pattern for GNU/kFreeBSD configuration to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE,
1547 which matches an earlier change to CF_SHARED_OPTS, from xterm #224
1549 + remove "${DESTDIR}" from -install_name option used for linking
1550 shared libraries on Darwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
1553 + add test/inchs.c, test/inch_wide.c, to test win_wchnstr().
1554 + remove libdl from library list for termlib (report by Miroslav
1556 + fix configure.in to allow --without-progs --with-termlib (patch by
1558 + modify win_wchnstr() to ensure that only a base cell is returned
1559 for each multi-column character (prompted by report by Wei Kong
1560 regarding change in mvwin_wch() cf: 20041023).
1563 + modify fix_wchnstr() in form library to strip attributes (and color)
1564 from the cchar_t array (field cells) read from a field's window.
1565 Otherwise, when copying the field cells back to the window, the
1566 associated color overrides the field's background color (report by
1568 + improve tracing for form library, showing created forms, fields, etc.
1569 + ignore --enable-rpath configure option if --with-shared was omitted.
1570 + add _nc_leaks_tinfo(), _nc_free_tic(), _nc_free_tinfo() entrypoints
1571 to allow leak-checking when both tic- and tinfo-libraries are built.
1572 + drop CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC macro from configure script, since C++ binding
1573 no longer relies on it.
1574 + disallow combining configure script options --with-ticlib and
1575 --enable-termcap (report by Rong-En Fan).
1576 + remove tack from ncurses tree.
1579 + fix typo in configure script that broke --with-termlib option
1580 (report by Rong-En Fan).
1583 + improve fix for FreeBSD gnu/98975, to allow for null pointer passed
1584 to tgetent() (report by Rong-en Fan).
1585 + update tack/HISTORY and tack/README to tell how to build it after
1586 it is removed from the ncurses tree.
1587 + fix configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
1588 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
1589 + review/eliminate other original-file artifacts in cursesw.cc, making
1590 its license consistent with ncurses.
1591 + use ncurses vw_scanw() rather than reading into a fixed buffer in
1592 the c++ binding for scanw() methods (prompted by report by Nuno Dias).
1593 + eliminate fixed-buffer vsprintf() calls in c++ binding.
1596 + add _nc_leaks_tic() to separate leak-checking of tic library from
1597 term/ncurses libraries, and thereby eliminate a library dependency.
1598 + fix test/mk-test.awk to ignore blank lines.
1599 + correct paths in include/headers, for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav
1603 + add a break-statement in misc/shlib to ensure that it exits on the
1604 _first_ matched directory (report by Paul Novak).
1605 + add tack/configure, which can be used to build tack outside the
1607 + add --with-ticlib option, to build/install the tic-support functions
1608 in a separate library (suggested by Miroslav Lichvar).
1611 + change MKunctrl.awk to reduce relocation table for unctrl.o
1612 + change MKkeyname.awk to reduce relocation table for keyname.o
1613 (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
1616 + modify configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
1617 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
1618 + modify some modules to allow them to be reentrant if _REENTRANT is
1619 defined: lib_baudrate.c, resizeterm.c (local data only)
1620 + eliminate static data from some modules: add_tries.c, hardscroll.c,
1621 lib_ttyflags.c, lib_twait.c
1622 + improve manpage install to add aliases for the transformed program
1623 names, e.g., from --program-prefix.
1624 + used linklint to verify links in the HTML documentation, made fixes
1625 to manpages as needed.
1626 + fix a typo in curs_mouse.3x (report by William McBrine).
1627 + fix install-rule for ncurses5-config to make the bin-directory.
1630 + modify configure script to omit the tic (terminfo compiler) support
1631 from ncurses library if --without-progs option is given.
1632 + modify install rule for ncurses5-config to do this via "install.libs"
1633 + modify shared-library rules to allow FreeBSD 3.x to use rpath.
1634 + update config.guess, config.sub
1636 20061217 5.6 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1639 + add ifdef's for <wctype.h> for HPUX, which has the corresponding
1640 definitions in <wchar.h>.
1641 + revert the va_copy() change from 20061202, since it was neither
1642 correct nor portable.
1643 + add $(LOCAL_LIBS) definition to progs/Makefile.in, needed for
1645 + ignore wide-acs line-drawing characters that wcwidth() claims are
1646 not one-column. This is a workaround for Solaris' broken locale
1650 + modify configure --with-gpm option to allow it to accept a parameter,
1651 i.e., the name of the dynamic GPM library to load via dlopen()
1652 (requested by Bryan Henderson).
1653 + add configure option --with-valgrind, changes from vile.
1654 + modify configure script AC_TRY_RUN and AC_TRY_LINK checks to use
1655 'return' in preference to 'exit()'.
1658 + change default for --with-develop back to "no".
1659 + add XTABS to tracing of TTY bits.
1660 + updated autoconf patch to ifdef-out the misfeature which declares
1661 exit() for configure tests. This fixes a redefinition warning on
1663 + use ${CC} rather than ${LD} in shared library rules for IRIX64,
1664 Solaris to help ensure that initialization sections are provided for
1665 extra linkage requirements, e.g., of C++ applications (prompted by
1666 comment by Casper Dik in newsgroup).
1667 + rename "$target" in CF_MAN_PAGES to make it easier to distinguish
1668 from the autoconf predefined symbol. There was no conflict,
1669 since "$target" was used only in the generated edit_man.sh file,
1670 but SuSE's rpm package contains a patch.
1673 + update man/term.5 to reflect extended terminfo support and hashed
1674 database configuration.
1675 + updates for test/configure script.
1676 + adapted from SuSE rpm package:
1677 + remove long-obsolete workaround for broken-linker which declared
1679 + improve error recovery in PUTC() macro when wcrtomb() does not
1680 return usable results for an 8-bit character.
1681 + patches from rpm package (SuSE):
1682 + use va_copy() in extra varargs manipulation for tracing version
1684 + use a va_list rather than a null in _nc_freeall()'s call to
1685 _nc_printf_string().
1686 + add some see-also references in manpages to show related
1687 wide-character functions (suggested by Claus Fischer).
1690 + add a check in lib_color.c to ensure caller does not increase COLORS
1691 above max_colors, which is used as an array index (discussion with
1693 + add ifdef's allowing ncurses to be built with tparm() using either
1694 varargs (the existing status), or using a fixed-parameter list (to
1698 + fix redrawing of windows other than stdscr using wredrawln() by
1699 touching the corresponding rows in curscr (discussion with Dan
1702 + add test/echochar.c
1703 + review/cleanup manpage descriptions of error-returns for form- and
1704 menu-libraries (prompted by FreeBSD docs/46196).
1707 + add AUTHORS file -TD
1708 + omit the -D options from output of the new config script --cflags
1709 option (suggested by Ralf S Engelschall).
1710 + make NCURSES_INLINE unconditionally defined in curses.h
1713 + revert change to accommodate bash 3.2, since that breaks other
1714 platforms, e.g., Solaris.
1715 + minor fixes to NEWS file to simplify scripting to obtain list of
1717 + improve some shared-library configure scripting for Linux, FreeBSD
1718 and NetBSD to make "--with-shlib-version" work.
1719 + change configure-script rules for FreeBSD shared libraries to allow
1720 for rpath support in versions past 3.
1721 + use $(DESTDIR) in makefile rules for installing/uninstalling the
1722 package config script (reports/patches by Christian Wiese,
1723 Ralf S Engelschall).
1724 + fix a warning in the configure script for NetBSD 2.0, working around
1725 spurious blanks embedded in its ${MAKEFLAGS} symbol.
1726 + change test/Makefile to simplify installing test programs in a
1727 different directory when --enable-rpath is used.
1730 + work around bug in bash 3.2 by adding extra quotes (Jim Gifford).
1731 + add/install a package config script, e.g., "ncurses5-config" or
1732 "ncursesw5-config", according to configuration options.
1735 + add several GNU Screen terminfo variations with 16- and 256-colors,
1736 and status line (Alain Bench).
1737 + change the way shared libraries (other than libtool) are installed.
1738 Rather than copying the build-tree's libraries, link the shared
1739 objects into the install directory. This makes the --with-rpath
1740 option work except with $(DESTDIR) (cf: 20000930).
1743 + fix ifdef in c++/internal.h for QNX 6.1
1744 + test-compiled with (old) egcs-1.1.2, modified configure script to
1745 not unset the $CXX and related variables which would prevent this.
1746 + fix a few terminfo.src typos exposed by improvments to "-f" option.
1747 + improve infocmp/tic "-f" option formatting.
1750 + make --disable-largefile option work (report by Thomas M Ott).
1751 + updated html documentation.
1752 + add ka2, kb1, kb3, kc2 to vt220-keypad as an extension -TD
1753 + minor improvements to rxvt+pcfkeys -TD
1756 + move static data from lib_mouse.c into SCREEN struct.
1757 + improve ifdef's for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset to work with Mac OS X
1758 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
1759 + modify CF_PATH_SYNTAX to ensure it uses the result from --prefix
1760 option (from lynx changes) -TD
1761 + adapt AC_PROG_EGREP check, noting that this is likely to be another
1762 place aggravated by POSIXLY_CORRECT.
1763 + modify configure check for awk to ensure that it is found (prompted
1764 by report by Christopher Parker).
1768 + add kon, kon2 and jfbterm terminfo entry (request by Till Maas) -TD
1769 + remove invis capability from klone+sgr, mainly used by linux entry,
1770 since it does not really do this -TD
1773 + correct logic in wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not guard
1774 against passing the multi-column attribute into a call on waddch(),
1775 e.g., using data returned by win_wch() (cf: 20041023)
1776 (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
1779 + fix kterm's acsc string -TD
1780 + fix for change to tic/infocmp in 20060819 to ensure no blank is
1781 embedded into a termcap description.
1782 + workaround for 20050806 ifdef's change to allow visbuf.c to compile
1783 when using --with-termlib --with-trace options.
1784 + improve tgetstr() by making the return value point into the user's
1785 buffer, if provided (patch by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat Bugzilla
1787 + correct libraries needed for foldkeys (report by Stanislav Ievlev)
1790 + add terminfo entries for xfce terminal (xfce) and multi gnome
1792 + add test/foldkeys.c
1795 + modify tic and infocmp to avoid writing trailing blanks on terminfo
1796 source output (Debian #378783).
1797 + modify configure script to ensure that if the C compiler is used
1798 rather than the loader in making shared libraries, the $(CFLAGS)
1799 variable is also used (Redhat Bugzilla #199369).
1800 + port hashed-db code to db2 and db3.
1801 + fix a bug in tgetent() from 20060625 and 20060715 changes
1802 (patch/analysis by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat Bugzilla #202480)).
1805 + updated xterm function-keys terminfo to match xterm #216 -TD
1806 + add configure --with-hashed-db option (tested only with FreeBSD 6.0,
1807 e.g., the db 1.8.5 interface).
1810 + modify toe to access termcap data, e.g., via cgetent() functions,
1811 or as a text file if those are not available.
1812 + use _nc_basename() in tset to improve $SHELL check for csh/sh.
1813 + modify _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_termcap_entry() so infocmp,
1814 can access termcap data when the terminfo database is disabled.
1817 + widen the test for xterm kmous a little to allow for other strings
1818 than \E[M, e.g., for xterm-sco functionality in xterm.
1819 + update xterm-related terminfo entries to match xterm patch #216 -TD
1820 + update config.guess, config.sub
1823 + fix for install-rule in Ada95 to add terminal_interface.ads
1824 and terminal_interface.ali (anonymous posting in comp.lang.ada).
1825 + correction to manpage for getcchar() (report by William McBrine).
1827 + modify wchgat() to mark updated cells as changed so a refresh will
1828 repaint those cells (comments by Sadrul H Chowdhury and William
1830 + split up dependency of names.c and codes.c in ncurses/Makefile to
1831 work with parallel make (report/analysis by Joseph S Myers).
1832 + suppress a warning message (which is ignored) for systems without
1833 an ldconfig program (patch by Justin Hibbits).
1834 + modify configure script --disable-symlinks option to allow one to
1835 disable symlink() in tic even when link() does not work (report by
1837 + modify MKfallback.sh to use tic -x when constructing fallback tables
1838 to allow extended capabilities to be retrieved from a fallback entry.
1839 + improve leak-checking logic in tgetent() from 20060625 to ensure that
1840 it does not free the current screen (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
1843 + add a check for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset (NetBSD #33916).
1844 + correct _nc_free_entries() and related functions used for memory leak
1848 + revert a minor change for magic-cookie support from 20060513, which
1849 caused unexpected reset of attributes, e.g., when resizing test/view
1851 + note in clear manpage that the program ignores command-line
1852 parameters (prompted by Debian #371855).
1853 + fixes to make lib_gen.c build properly with changes to the configure
1854 --disable-macros option and NCURSES_NOMACROS (cf: 20060527)
1855 + update/correct several terminfo entries -TD
1856 + add some notes regarding copyright to terminfo.src -TD
1859 + fixes to build Ada95 binding with gnat-4.1.0
1860 + modify read_termtype() so the term_names data is always allocated as
1861 part of the str_table, a better fix for a memory leak (cf: 20030809).
1862 + reduce memory leaks in repeated calls to tgetent() by remembering the
1863 last TERMINAL* value allocated to hold the corresponding data and
1864 freeing that if the tgetent() result buffer is the same as the
1865 previous call (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
1866 + modify tack to test extended capability function-key strings.
1867 + improved gnome terminfo entry (GenToo #122566).
1868 + improved xterm-256color terminfo entry (patch by Alain Bench).
1871 + fix two small memory leaks related to repeated tgetent() calls
1872 with TERM=screen (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
1873 + add --enable-signed-char to simplify Debian package.
1874 + reduce name-pollution in term.h by removing #define's for HAVE_xxx
1876 + correct typo in curs_terminfo.3x (Debian #369168).
1879 + enable the mouse in test/movewindow.c
1880 + improve a limit-check in frm_def.c (John Heasley).
1881 + minor copyright fixes.
1882 + change configure script to produce test/Makefile from data file.
1885 + add a configure option --enable-wgetch-events to enable
1886 NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS, and correct the associated loop-logic in
1887 lib_twait.c (report by Bernd Jendrissek).
1888 + remove include/nomacros.h from build, since the ifdef for
1889 NCURSES_NOMACROS makes that obsolete.
1890 + add entrypoints for some functions which were only provided as macros
1891 to make NCURSES_NOMACROS ifdef work properly: getcurx(), getcury(),
1892 getbegx(), getbegy(), getmaxx(), getmaxy(), getparx() and getpary(),
1894 + provide ifdef for NCURSES_NOMACROS which suppresses most macro
1895 definitions from curses.h, i.e., where a macro is defined to override
1896 a function to improve performance. Allowing a developer to suppress
1897 these definitions can simplify some application (discussion with
1899 + improve description of memu/meml in terminfo manpage.
1902 + if msgr is false, reset video attributes when doing an automargin
1903 wrap to the next line. This makes the ncurses 'k' test work properly
1905 + correct caching of keyname(), which was using only half of its table.
1906 + minor fixes to memory-leak checking.
1907 + make SCREEN._acs_map and SCREEN._screen_acs_map pointers rather than
1908 arrays, making ACS_LEN less visible to applications (suggested by
1910 + move chunk in SCREEN ifdef'd for USE_WIDEC_SUPPORT to the end, so
1911 _screen_acs_map will have the same offset in both ncurses/ncursesw,
1912 making the corresponding tinfo/tinfow libraries binary-compatible
1913 (cf: 20041016, report by Stanislav Ievlev).
1916 + improve debug-tracing for EmitRange().
1917 + change default for --with-develop to "yes". Add NCURSES_NO_HARD_TABS
1918 and NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE environment variables to allow runtime
1919 suppression of the related hard-tabs and xmc-glitch features.
1920 + add ncurses version number to top-level manpages, e.g., ncurses, tic,
1921 infocmp, terminfo as well as form, menu, panel.
1922 + update config.guess, config.sub
1923 + modify ncurses.c to work around a bug in NetBSD 3.0 curses
1924 (field_buffer returning null for a valid field). The 'r' test
1925 appears to not work with that configuration since the new_fieldtype()
1926 function is broken in that implementation.
1929 + add hpterm-color terminfo entry -TD
1930 + fixes to compile test-programs with HPUX 11.23
1933 + add copyright notices to files other than those that are generated,
1934 data or adapted from pdcurses (reports by William McBrine, David
1936 + improve rendering on hpterm by not resetting attributes at the end
1937 of doupdate() if the terminal has the magic-cookie feature (report
1939 + add 256color variants of terminfo entries for programs which are
1940 reported to implement this feature -TD
1943 + fix typo in change to NewChar() macro from 20060311 changes, which
1944 broke tab-expansion (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
1947 + document -U option of tic and infocmp.
1948 + modify tic/infocmp to suppress smacs/rmacs when acsc is suppressed
1949 due to size limit, e.g., converting to termcap format. Also
1950 suppress them if the output format does not contain acsc and it
1951 was not VT100-like, i.e., a one-one mapping (Novell #163715).
1952 + add configure check to ensure that SIGWINCH is defined on platforms
1953 such as OS X which exclude that when _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., are
1954 defined (report by Nicholas Cole)
1957 + modify write_object() to not write coincidental extensions of an
1958 entry made due to it being referenced in a use= clause (report by
1960 + another fix for infocmp -i option, which did not ensure that some
1961 escape sequences had comparable prefixes (report by Alain Bench).
1964 + improve discussion of init/reset in terminfo and tput manpages
1965 (report by Alain Bench).
1966 + use is3 string for a fallback of rs3 in the reset program; it was
1967 using is2 (report by Alain Bench).
1968 + correct logic for infocmp -i option, which did not account for
1969 multiple digits in a parameter (cf: 20040828) (report by Alain
1971 + move _nc_handle_sigwinch() to lib_setup.c to make --with-termlib
1972 option work after 20060114 changes (report by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz).
1973 + add copyright notices to test-programs as needed (report by William
1977 + modify ncurses.c 'F' test to combine the wide-characters with color
1978 and/or video attributes.
1979 + modify test/ncurses to use CTL/Q or ESC consistently for exiting
1980 a test-screen (some commands used 'x' or 'q').
1983 + fix an off-by-one in the scrolling-region change (cf_ 20060311).
1986 + add checks in waddchnstr() and wadd_wchnstr() to stop copying when
1987 a null character is found (report by Igor Bogomazov).
1988 + modify progs/Makefile.in to make "tput init" work properly with
1989 cygwin, i.e., do not pass a ".exe" in the reference string used
1990 in check_aliases (report by Samuel Thibault).
1991 + add some checks to ensure current position is within scrolling
1992 region before scrolling on a new line (report by Dan Gookin).
1993 + change some NewChar() usage to static variables to work around
1994 stack garbage introduced when cchar_t is not packed (Redhat #182024).
1997 + workarounds to build test/movewindow with PDcurses 2.7.
1998 + fix for nsterm-16color entry (patch by Alain Bench).
1999 + correct a typo in infocmp manpage (Debian #354281).
2002 + add nsterm-16color entry -TD
2003 + updated mlterm terminfo entry -TD
2004 + remove 970913 feature for copying subwindows as they are moved in
2005 mvwin() (discussion with Bryan Christ).
2006 + modify test/demo_menus.c to demonstrate moving a menu (both the
2007 window and subwindow) using shifted cursor-keys.
2008 + start implementing recursive mvwin() in movewindow.c (incomplete).
2009 + add a fallback definition for GCC_PRINTFLIKE() in test.priv.h,
2010 for movewindow.c (report by William McBrine).
2011 + add help-message to test/movewindow.c
2014 + add test/movewindow.c, to test mvderwin().
2015 + fix ncurses soft-key test so color changes are shown immediately
2016 rather than delayed.
2017 + modify ncurses soft-key test to hide the keys when exiting the test
2019 + fixes to build test programs with PDCurses 2.7, e.g., its headers
2020 rely on autoconf symbols, and it declares stubs for nonfunctional
2021 terminfo and termcap entrypoints.
2024 + improved test/configure to build test/ncurses on HPUX 11 using the
2026 + documented ALTERNATE CONFIGURATIONS in the ncurses manpage, for the
2027 benefit of developers who do not read INSTALL.
2030 + correct form library Window_To_Buffer() change (cf: 20040516), which
2031 should ignore the video attributes (report by Ricardo Cantu).
2034 + minor fixes to xmc-glitch experimental code:
2035 + suppress line-drawing
2036 + implement max_attributes
2038 + minor fixes for the database iterator.
2039 + fix some buffer limits in c++ demo (comment by Falk Hueffner in
2043 + add toe -a option, to show all databases. This uses new private
2044 interfaces in the ncurses library for iterating through the list of
2046 + fix toe from 20000909 changes which made it not look at
2048 + make toe's -v option parameter optional as per manpage.
2049 + improve SIGWINCH handling by postponing its effect during newterm(),
2050 etc., when allocating screens.
2053 + modify wgetnstr() to return KEY_RESIZE if a sigwinch occurs. Use
2054 this in test/filter.c
2055 + fix an error in filter() modification which caused some applications
2059 + check if filter() was called when getting the screensize. Keep it
2060 at 1 if so (based on Redhat #174498).
2061 + add extension nofilter().
2062 + refined the workaround for ACS mapping.
2063 + make ifdef's consistent in curses.h for the extended colors so the
2064 header file can be used for the normal curses library. The header
2065 file installed for extended colors is a variation of the
2066 wide-character configuration (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
2069 + add a workaround to ACS mapping to allow applications such as
2070 test/blue.c to use the "PC ROM" characters by masking them with
2071 A_ALTCHARSET. This worked up til 5.5, but was lost in the revision
2072 of legacy coding (report by Michael Deutschmann).
2073 + add a null-pointer check in the wide-character version of
2074 calculate_actual_width() (report by Victor Julien).
2075 + improve test/ncurses 'd' (color-edit) test by allowing the RGB
2076 values to be set independently (patch by William McBrine).
2077 + modify test/configure script to allow building test programs with
2079 + modified test programs to allow some to work with NetBSD curses.
2080 Several do not because NetBSD curses implements a subset of X/Open
2081 curses, and also lacks much of SVr4 additions. But it's enough for
2083 + update config.guess and config.sub
2086 + use BSD-specific fix for return-value from cgetent() from CVS where
2087 an unknown terminal type would be reportd as "database not found".
2088 + make tgetent() return code more readable using new symbols
2090 + remove references to non-existent "tctest" program.
2091 + remove TESTPROGS from progs/Makefile.in (it was referring to code
2092 that was never built in that directory).
2093 + typos in curs_addchstr.3x, some doc files (noticed in OpenBSD CVS).
2096 + add use_legacy_coding() function to support lynx's font-switching
2098 + fix formatting in curs_termcap.3x (report by Mike Frysinger).
2099 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to change preprocessor-expanded _Bool back to
2103 + extend test/ncurses.c 's' (overlay window) test to exercise overlay(),
2104 overwrite() and copywin() with different combinations of colors and
2105 attributes (including background color) to make it easy to see the
2106 effect of the different functions.
2107 + corrections to menu/m_global.c for wide-characters (report by
2111 + add configure option --without-dlsym, allowing developers to
2112 configure GPM support without using dlsym() (discussion with Michael
2114 + fix wins_nwstr(), which did not handle single-column non-8bit codes
2118 + move prototypes for wide-character trace functions from curses.tail
2119 to curses.wide to avoid accidental reference to those if
2120 _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined without ensuring that <wchar.h> is
2122 + add/use NCURSES_INLINE definition.
2123 + change some internal functions to use int/unsigned rather than the
2127 + remove a redundant check in lib_color.c (Debian #335655).
2128 + use ld's -search_paths_first option on Darwin to work around odd
2129 search rules on that platform (report by Christian Gennerat, analysis
2131 + remove special case for Darwin in CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro.
2132 + ignore EINTR in tcgetattr/tcsetattr calls (Debian #339518).
2133 + fix several bugs in test/bs.c (patch by Stephen Lindholm).
2136 + other minor fixes to cygwin based on tack -TD
2137 + correct smacs in cygwin (Debian #338234, report by Baurzhan
2138 Ismagulov, who noted that it was fixed in Cygwin).
2141 + add shifted up/down arrow codes to xterm-new as kind/kri strings -TD
2142 + modify wbkgrnd() to avoid clearing the A_CHARTEXT attribute bits
2143 since those record the state of multicolumn characters (Debian
2145 + modify werase to clear multicolumn characters that extend into
2146 a derived window (Debian #316663).
2149 + move assignment from environment variable ESCDELAY from initscr()
2150 down to newterm() so the environment variable affects timeouts for
2151 terminals opened with newterm() as well.
2152 + fix a memory leak in keyname().
2153 + add test/demo_altkeys.c
2154 + modify test/demo_defkey.c to exit from loop via 'q' to allow
2155 leak-checking, as well as fix a buffer size in winnstr() call.
2158 + correct order of use-clauses in rxvt-basic entry which made codes for
2159 f1-f4 vt100-style rather than vt220-style (report by Gabor Z Papp).
2160 + suppress configure check for gnatmake if Ada95/Makefile.in is not
2162 + correct a typo in configure --with-bool option for the case where
2163 --without-cxx is used (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
2164 + add a note to INSTALL's discussion of --with-normal, pointing out
2165 that one may wish to use --without-gpm to ensure a completely
2166 static link (prompted by report by Felix von Leitner).
2168 20051010 5.5 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2171 + document in demo_forms.c some portability issues.
2174 + document side-effect of werase() which sets the cursor position.
2175 + save/restore the current position in form field editing to make
2179 + correct header dependencies in progs, allowing parallel make (report
2180 by Daniel Jacobowitz).
2181 + modify CF_BUILD_CC to ensure that pre-setting $BUILD_CC overrides
2182 the configure check for --with-build-cc (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
2183 + modify CF_CFG_DEFAULTS to not use /usr as the default prefix for
2185 + update config.guess and config.sub from
2186 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
2189 + modify sed expression which computes path for /usr/lib/terminfo
2190 symbolic link in install to ensure that it does not change unexpected
2191 levels of the path (Gentoo #42336).
2192 + modify default for --disable-lp64 configure option to reduce impact
2193 on existing 64-bit builds. Enabling the _LP64 option may change the
2194 size of chtype and mmask_t. However, for ABI 6, it is enabled by
2195 default (report by Mike Frysinger).
2196 + add configure script check for --enable-ext-mouse, bump ABI to 6 by
2197 default if it is used.
2198 + improve configure script logic for bumping ABI to omit this if the
2199 --with-abi-version option was used.
2200 + update address for Free Software Foundation in tack's source.
2201 + correct wins_wch(), which was not marking the filler-cells of
2202 multi-column characters (cf: 20041023).
2205 + modify mouse initialization to ensure that Gpm_Open() is called only
2206 once. Otherwise GPM gets confused in its initialization of signal
2207 handlers (Debian #326709).
2210 + modify logic for backspacing in a multiline form field to ensure that
2211 it works even when the preceding line is full (report by Frank van
2213 + remove comment about BUGS section of ncurses manpage (Debian #325481)
2216 + document some workarounds for shared and libtool library
2217 configurations in INSTALL (see --with-shared and --with-libtool).
2218 + modify CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GXX_VERSION macros to accommodate
2219 cross-compilers which emit the platform name in their version
2221 arm-sa1100-linux-gnu-g++ (GCC) 4.0.1
2222 (report by Frank van Vugt).
2225 + start updating documentation for upcoming 5.5 release.
2226 + fix to make libtool and libtinfo work together again (cf: 20050122).
2227 + fixes to allow building traces into libtinfo
2228 + add debug trace to tic that shows if/how ncurses will write to the
2229 lower corner of a terminal's screen.
2230 + update llib-l* files.
2233 + modify initializers in c++ binding to build with old versions of g++.
2234 + improve special case for 20050115 repainting fix, ensuring that if
2235 the first changed cell is not a character that the range to be
2236 repainted is adjusted to start at a character's beginning (Debian
2240 + fixes to build on QNX 6.1
2241 + improve configure script checks for Intel 9.0 compiler.
2242 + remove #include's for libc.h (obsolete).
2243 + adjust ifdef's in curses.priv.h so that when cross-compiling to
2244 produce comp_hash and make_keys, no dependency on wchar.h is needed.
2245 That simplifies the build-cppflags (report by Frank van Vugt).
2246 + move modules related to key-binding into libtinfo to fix linkage
2247 problem caused by 20050430 changes to MKkeyname.sh (report by
2248 Konstantin Andreev).
2251 + updates/fixes for configure script macros from vile -TD
2252 + make prism9's sgr string agree with the rest of the terminfo -TD
2253 + make vt220's sgr0 string consistent with sgr string, do this for
2254 several related cases -TD
2255 + improve translation to termcap by filtering the 'me' (sgr0) strings
2256 as in the runtime call to tgetent() (prompted by a discussion with
2258 + improve tic check for sgr0 versus sgr(0), to help ensure that sgr0
2259 resets line-drawing.
2262 + fix special cases for trimming sgr0 for hurd and vt220 (Debian
2264 + split-out _nc_trim_sgr0() from modifications made to tgetent(), to
2265 allow it to be used by tic to provide information about the runtime
2266 changes that would be made to sgr0 for termcap applications.
2267 + modify make_sed.sh to make the group-name in the NAME section of
2268 form/menu library manpage agree with the TITLE string when renaming
2269 is done for Debian (Debian #78866).
2272 + modify parameter type in c++ binding for insch() and mvwinsch() to
2273 be consistent with underlying ncurses library (was char, is chtype).
2274 + modify treatment of Intel compiler to allow _GNU_SOURCE to be defined
2276 + improve configure check for nanosleep(), checking that it works since
2277 some older systems such as AIX 4.3 have a nonworking version.
2280 + update config.guess and config.sub from
2281 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
2282 + modify misc/shlib to work in test-directory.
2283 + suppress $suffix in misc/run_tic.sh when cross-compiling. This
2284 allows cross-compiles to use the host's tic program to handle the
2285 "make install.data" step.
2286 + improve description of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables in manpages
2287 (prompted by report by Dave Ulrick).
2288 + improve description of cross-compiling in INSTALL
2289 + add NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html by Pradeep Padala
2290 (see http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/).
2291 + modify configure script to obtain soname for GPM library (discussion
2292 with Daniel Jacobowitz).
2293 + modify configure script so that --with-chtype option will still
2294 compute the unsigned literals suffix for constants in curses.h
2295 (report by Daniel Jacobowitz:
2296 + patches from Daniel Jacobowitz:
2297 + the man_db.renames entry for tack.1 was backwards.
2298 + tack.1 had some 1m's that should have been 1M's.
2299 + the section for curs_inwstr.3 was wrong.
2302 + correction to --with-chtype option (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
2305 + move build-time edit_man.sh and edit_man.sed scripts to top directory
2306 to simplify reusing them for renaming tack's manpage (prompted by a
2307 review of Debian package).
2308 + revert minor optimization from 20041030 (Debian #313609).
2309 + libtool-specific fixes, tested with libtool 1.4.3, 1.5.0, 1.5.6,
2310 1.5.10 and 1.5.18 (all work except as noted previously for the c++
2311 install using libtool 1.5.0):
2312 + modify the clean-rule in c++/Makefile.in to work with IRIX64 make
2314 + use $(LIBTOOL_UNINSTALL) symbol, overlooked in 20030830
2315 + add configure options --with-chtype and --with-mmask-t, to allow
2316 overriding of the non-LP64 model's use of the corresponding types.
2317 + revise test for size of chtype (and mmask_t), which always returned
2318 "long" due to an uninitialized variable (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
2321 + change _tracef's that used "%p" format for va_list values to ignore
2322 that, since on some platforms those are not pointers.
2323 + fixes for long-formats in printf's due to largefile support.
2326 + fixes for termcap support:
2327 + reset pointer to _nc_curr_token.tk_name when the input stream is
2328 closed, which could point to free memory (cf: 20030215).
2329 + delink TERMTYPE data which is used by the termcap reader, so that
2330 extended names data will be freed consistently.
2331 + free pointer to TERMTYPE data in _nc_free_termtype() rather than
2333 + add some entrypoints for freeing permanently allocated data via
2334 _nc_freeall() when NO_LEAKS is defined.
2335 + amend 20041030 change to _nc_do_color to ensure that optimization is
2336 applied only when the terminal supports back_color_erase (bce).
2339 + add sun-color terminfo entry -TD
2340 + correct a missing assignment in c++ binding's method
2341 NCursesPanel::UserPointer() from 20050409 changes.
2342 + improve configure check for large-files, adding check for dirent64
2344 + minor change to configure script to improve linker options for the
2348 + document error conditions for ncurses library functions (report by
2350 + regenerated html documentation for ada binding.
2351 see ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/gnathtml
2354 + regenerated html documentation for manpages.
2355 + add $(BUILD_EXEEXT) suffix to invocation of make_keys in
2356 ncurses/Makefile (Gentoo #89772).
2357 + modify c++/demo.cc to build with g++ -fno-implicit-templates option
2358 (patch by Mike Frysinger).
2359 + modify tic to filter out long extended names when translating to
2360 termcap format. Only two characters are permissible for termcap
2364 + modify terminfo entries xterm-new and rxvt to add strings for
2365 shift-, control-cursor keys.
2366 + workaround to allow c++ binding to compile with g++ 2.95.3, which
2367 has a broken implementation of static_cast<> (patch by Jeff Chua).
2368 + modify initialization of key lookup table so that if an extended
2369 capability (tic -x) string is defined, and its name begins with 'k',
2370 it will automatically be treated as a key.
2371 + modify test/keynames.c to allow for the possibility of extended
2372 key names, e.g., via define_key(), or via "tic -x".
2373 + add test/demo_termcap.c to show the contents of given entry via the
2377 + minor fixes for vt100/vt52 entries -TD
2378 + add configure option --enable-largefile
2379 + corrected libraries used to build Ada95/gen/gen, found in testing
2383 + update config.guess, config.sub
2384 + modify configure script check for _XOPEN_SOURCE, disable that on
2385 Darwin whose header files have problems (patch by Chris Zubrzycki).
2386 + modify form library Is_Printable_String() to use iswprint() rather
2387 than wcwidth() for determining if a character is printable. The
2388 latter caused it to reject menu items containing non-spacing
2390 + modify ncurses test program's F-test to handle non-spacing characters
2391 by combining them with a reverse-video blank.
2392 + review/fix several gcc -Wconversion warnings.
2395 + correct an off-by-one error in m_driver() for mouse-clicks used to
2396 position the mouse to a particular item.
2397 + implement test/demo_menus.c
2398 + add some checks in lib_mouse to ensure SP is set.
2399 + modify C++ binding to make 20050403 changes work with the configure
2400 --enable-const option.
2403 + modify start_color() to return ERR if it cannot allocate memory.
2404 + address g++ compiler warnings in C++ binding by adding explicit
2405 member initialization, assignment operators and copy constructors.
2406 Most of the changes simply preserve the existing semantics of the
2407 binding, which can leak memory, etc., but by making these features
2408 visible, it provides a framework for improving the binding.
2409 + improve C++ binding using static_cast, etc.
2410 + modify configure script --enable-warnings to add options to g++ to
2411 correspond to the gcc --enable-warnings.
2412 + modify C++ binding to use some C internal functions to make it
2413 compile properly on Solaris (and other platforms).
2416 + amend change from 20050320 to limit it to configurations with a
2418 + fix a bug introduced in 20050320 which broke the translation of
2419 nonprinting characters to uparrow form (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
2422 + add ifdef's for _LP64 in curses.h to avoid using wasteful 64-bits for
2423 chtype and mmask_t, but add configure option --disable-lp64 in case
2424 anyone used that configuration.
2425 + update misc/shlib script to account for Mac OS X (report by Michail
2427 + correct comparison for wrapping multibyte characters in
2428 waddch_literal() (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
2431 + add -c and -w options to tset to allow user to suppress ncurses'
2432 resizing of the terminal emulator window in the special case where it
2433 is not able to detect the true size (report by Win Delvaux, Debian
2435 + modify waddch_nosync() to account for locale zn_CH.GBK, which uses
2436 codes 128-159 as part of multibyte characters (report by Wang
2437 WenRui, Debian #300512).
2440 + modify ncurses.c 'd' test to make it work with 88-color
2441 configuration, i.e., by implementing scrolling.
2442 + improve scrolling in ncurses.c 'c' and 'C' tests, e.g., for 88-color
2446 + change tracemunch to use strict checking.
2447 + modify ncurses.c 'p' test to test line-drawing within a pad.
2448 + implement environment variable NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS to support
2449 miscellaneous terminal emulators which ignore alternate character
2450 set escape sequences when in UTF-8 mode.
2453 + change NCursesWindow::err_handler() to a virtual function (request by
2455 + modify fty_int.c and fty_num.c to handle wide characters (report by
2457 + adapt fix for fty_alpha.c to fty_alnum.c, which also handled normal
2458 and wide characters inconsistently (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
2459 + update llib-* files to reflect internal interface additions/changes.
2462 + improve test/configure script, adding tests for _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc.,
2464 + add aixterm-16color terminfo entry -TD
2465 + modified xterm-new terminfo entry to work with tgetent() changes -TD
2466 + extended changes in tgetent() from 20040710 to allow the substring of
2467 sgr0 which matches rmacs to be at the beginning of the sgr0 string
2468 (request by Thomas Wolff). Wolff says the visual effect in
2469 combination with pre-20040710 ncurses is improved.
2470 + fix off-by-one in winnstr() call which caused form field validation
2471 of multibyte characters to ignore the last character in a field.
2472 + correct logic in winsch() for inserting multibyte strings; the code
2473 would clear cells after the insertion rather than push them to the
2474 right (cf: 20040228).
2475 + fix an inconsistency in Check_Alpha_Field() between normal and wide
2476 character logic (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
2479 + fix a bug in editing wide-characters in form library: deleting a
2480 nonwide character modified the previous wide-character.
2481 + update manpage to describe NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2.
2482 + correct manpage description of mouseinterval() (Debian #280687).
2483 + add a note to default_colors.3x explaining why this extension was
2484 added (Debian #295083).
2485 + add traces to panel library.
2488 + improve editing of wide-characters in form library: left/right
2489 cursor movement, and single-character deletions work properly.
2490 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM happens to be prefixed with
2491 "xterm". Gpm_Open() would otherwise assert that it can deal with
2492 mouse events in this case.
2493 + modify GPM mouse support so it closes the server connection when
2494 the caller disables the mouse (report by Stanislav Ievlev).
2497 + add traces for callback functions in form library.
2498 + add experimental configure option --enable-ext-mouse, which defines
2499 NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2, and modifies the encoding of mouse events to
2500 support wheel mice, which may transmit buttons 4 and 5. This works
2501 with xterm and similar X terminal emulators (prompted by question by
2502 Andreas Henningsson, this is also related to Debian #230990).
2503 + improve configure macros CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE to
2504 avoid redefinition warnings on cygwin.
2507 + merge remaining development changes for extended colors (mostly
2508 complete, does not appear to break other configurations).
2509 + add xterm-88color.dat (part of extended colors testing).
2510 + improve _tracedump() handling of color pairs past 96.
2511 + modify return-value from start_color() to return OK if colors have
2512 already been started.
2513 + modify curs_color.3x list error conditions for init_pair(),
2514 pair_content() and color_content().
2515 + modify pair_content() to return -1 for consistency with init_pair()
2516 if it corresponds to the default-color.
2517 + change internal representation of default-color to allow application
2518 to use color number 255. This does not affect the total number of
2519 color pairs which are allowed.
2520 + add a top-level tags rule.
2523 + add a null-pointer check in wgetch() in case it is called without
2524 first calling initscr().
2525 + add some null-pointer checks for SP, which is not set by libtinfo.
2526 + modify misc/shlib to ensure that absolute pathnames are used.
2527 + modify test/Makefile.in, etc., to link test programs only against the
2528 libraries needed, e.g., omit form/menu/panel library for the ones
2529 that are curses-specific.
2530 + change SP->_current_attr to a pointer, adjust ifdef's to ensure that
2531 libtinfo.so and libtinfow.so have the same ABI. The reason for this
2532 is that the corresponding data which belongs to the upper-level
2533 ncurses library has a different size in each model (report by
2537 + minor fixes to allow test-compiles with g++.
2538 + correct column value shown in tic's warnings, which did not account
2539 for leading whitespace.
2540 + add a check in _nc_trans_string() for improperly ended strings, i.e.,
2541 where a following line begins in column 1.
2542 + modify _nc_save_str() to return a null pointer on buffer overflow.
2543 + improve repainting while scrolling wide-character data (Eungkyu Song).
2546 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
2549 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
2550 + fix manpage typo (FreeBSD report docs/75544).
2551 + update config.guess, config.sub
2552 > patches for configure script (Albert Chin-A-Young):
2553 + improved fix to make mbstate_t recognized on HPUX 11i (cf:
2554 20030705), making vsscanf() prototype visible on IRIX64. Tested for
2555 on HP-UX 11i, Solaris 7, 8, 9, AIX 4.3.3, 5.2, Tru64 UNIX 4.0D, 5.1,
2556 IRIX64 6.5, Redhat Linux 7.1, 9, and RHEL 2.1, 3.0.
2557 + print the result of the --disable-home-terminfo option.
2558 + use -rpath when compiling with SGI C compiler.
2561 + add trace calls to remaining public functions in form and menu
2563 + fix check for numeric digits in test/ncurses.c 'b' and 'B' tests.
2564 + fix typo in test/ncurses.c 'c' test from 20041218.
2567 + revise test/ncurses.c 'c' color test to improve use for xterm-88color
2568 and xterm-256color, added 'C' test using the wide-character color_set
2569 and attr_set functions.
2572 + modify configure script to work with Intel compiler.
2573 + fix an limit-check in wadd_wchnstr() which caused labels in the
2574 forms-demo to be one character short.
2575 + fix typo in curs_addchstr.3x (Jared Yanovich).
2576 + add trace calls to most functions in form and menu libraries.
2577 + update working-position for adding wide-characters when window is
2578 scrolled (prompted by related report by Eungkyu Song).
2581 + replace some references on Linux to wcrtomb() which use it to obtain
2582 the length of a multibyte string with _nc_wcrtomb, since wcrtomb() is
2583 broken in glibc (see Debian #284260).
2584 + corrected length-computation in wide-character support for
2586 + some fixes to frm_driver.c to allow it to accept multibyte input.
2587 + modify configure script to work with Intel 8.0 compiler.
2590 + amend change to setupterm() in 20030405 which would reuse the value
2591 of cur_term if the same output was selected. This now reuses it only
2592 when setupterm() is called from tgetent(), which has no notion of
2593 separate SCREENs. Note that tgetent() must be called after initscr()
2594 or newterm() to use this feature (Redhat Bugzilla #140326).
2595 + add a check in CF_BUILD_CC macro to ensure that developer has given
2596 the --with-build-cc option when cross-compiling (report by Alexandre
2598 + improved configure script checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE and
2599 _POSIX_C_SOURCE (fix for IRIX 5.3 from Georg Schwarz, _POSIX_C_SOURCE
2601 + cosmetic fix to test/gdc.c to recolor the bottom edge of the box
2602 for consistency (comment by Dan Nelson).
2605 + update wsvt25 terminfo entry -TD
2606 + modify test/ins_wide.c to test all flavors of ins_wstr().
2607 + ignore filler-cells in wadd_wchnstr() when adding a cchar_t array
2608 which consists of multi-column characters, since this function
2609 constructs them (cf: 20041023).
2610 + modify winnstr() to return multibyte character strings for the
2611 wide-character configuration.
2614 + fixes to make slk_set() and slk_wset() accept and store multibyte
2615 or multicolumn characters.
2618 + improve color optimization a little by making _nc_do_color() check
2619 if the old/new pairs are equivalent to the default pair 0.
2620 + modify assume_default_colors() to not require that
2621 use_default_colors() be called first.
2624 + modify term_attrs() to use termattrs(), add the extended attributes
2625 such as enter_horizontal_hl_mode for WA_HORIZONTAL to term_attrs().
2626 + add logic in waddch_literal() to clear orphaned cells when one
2627 multi-column character partly overwrites another.
2628 + improved logic for clearing cells when a multi-column character
2629 must be wrapped to a new line.
2630 + revise storage of cells for multi-column characters to correct a
2631 problem with repainting. In the old scheme, it was possible for
2632 doupdate() to decide that only part of a multi-column character
2633 should be repainted since the filler cells stored only an attribute
2634 to denote them as fillers, rather than the character value and the
2638 + minor fixes for traces.
2639 + add SP->_screen_acs_map[], used to ensure that mapping of missing
2640 line-drawing characters is handled properly. For example, ACS_DARROW
2641 is absent from xterm-new, and it was coincidentally displayed the
2645 + amend 20021221 workaround for broken acs to reset the sgr, rmacs
2646 and smacs strings as well. Also modify the check for screen's
2647 limitations in that area to allow the multi-character shift-in
2648 and shift-out which seem to work.
2649 + change GPM initialization, using dl library to load it dynamically
2650 at runtime (Debian #110586).
2653 + correct logic for color pair in setcchar() and getcchar() (patch by
2654 Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
2655 + add t/T commands to ncurses b/B tests to allow a different color to
2656 be tested for the attrset part of the test than is used in the
2660 + fix to make setcchar() to work when its wchar_t* parameter is
2661 pointing to a string which contains more data than can be converted.
2662 + modify wget_wstr() and example in ncurses.c to work if wchar_t and
2663 wint_t are different sizes (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
2666 + remove check in wget_wch() added to fix an infinite loop, appears to
2667 have been working around a transitory glibc bug, and interferes
2668 with normal operation (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
2669 + correct wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not pass the rendition
2670 information (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
2671 + fix aclocal.m4 so that the wide-character version of ncurses gets
2672 compiled as libncursesw.5.dylib, instead of libncurses.5w.dylib
2673 (adapted from patch by James J Ramsey).
2674 + change configure script for --with-caps option to indicate that it
2675 is no longer experimental.
2676 + change configure script to reflect the fact that --enable-widec has
2677 not been "experimental" since 5.3 (report by Bruno Lustosa).
2680 + add 'B' test to ncurses.c, to exercise some wide-character functions.
2683 + modify infocmp -i option to match 8-bit controls against its table
2684 entries, e.g., so it can analyze the xterm-8bit entry.
2685 + add morphos terminfo entry, improve amiga-8bit entry (Pavel Fedin).
2686 + correct translation of "%%" in terminfo format to termcap, e.g.,
2687 using "tic -C" (Redhat Bugzilla #130921).
2688 + modified configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to ensure that if
2689 it defines _POSIX_C_SOURCE, that it defines it to a specific value
2690 (comp.os.stratus newsgroup comment).
2693 + fixes to build with Ada95 binding with gnat 3.4 (all warnings are
2694 fatal, and gnat does not follow the guidelines for pragmas).
2695 However that did find a coding error in Assume_Default_Colors().
2696 + modify several terminfo entries to ensure xterm mouse and cursor
2697 visibility are reset in rs2 string: hurd, putty, gnome,
2698 konsole-base, mlterm, Eterm, screen (Debian #265784, #55637). The
2699 xterm entries are left alone - old ones for compatibility, and the
2700 new ones do not require this change. -TD
2703 + fake a SIGWINCH in newterm() to accommodate buggy terminal emulators
2704 and window managers (Debian #265631).
2705 > terminfo updates -TD
2706 + remove dch/dch1 from rxvt because they are implemented inconsistently
2707 with the common usage of bce/ech
2708 + remove khome from vt220 (vt220's have no home key)
2712 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test, adding v/V toggles to cycle through
2713 combinations of video attributes so that for instance bold and
2714 underline can be tested. This made the legend too crowded, added
2715 a help window as well.
2716 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test to cycle through default colors if
2717 the -d option is set.
2718 + update putty terminfo entry (Robert de Bath).
2721 + modify test/cardfile.c to allow it to read more data than can be
2723 + correct logic in resizeterm.c which kept it from processing all
2724 levels of window hierarchy (reports by Folkert van Heusden,
2728 + modify "tic -cv" to ignore delays when comparing strings. Also
2729 modify it to ignore a canceled sgr string, e.g., for terminals which
2730 cannot properly combine attributes in one control sequence.
2731 + corrections for gnome and konsole entries (Redhat Bugzilla #122815,
2732 patch by Hans de Goede)
2733 > terminfo updates -TD
2734 + make ncsa-m rmacs/smacs consistent with sgr
2735 + add sgr, rc/sc and ech to syscons entries
2736 + add function-keys to decansi
2737 + add sgr to mterm-ansi
2738 + add sgr, civis, cnorm to emu
2739 + correct/simplify cup in addrinfo
2742 > terminfo updates -TD
2743 + add xterm-pc-fkeys
2744 + review/update gnome and gnome-rh90 entries (prompted by Redhat
2746 + review/update konsole entries
2747 + add sgr, correct sgr0 for kterm and mlterm
2748 + correct tsl string in kterm
2751 + add configure option --without-xterm-new
2754 + add check in wget_wch() for printable bytes that are not part of a
2755 multibyte character.
2756 + modify wadd_wchnstr() to render text using window's background
2758 + improve tic's check to compare sgr and sgr0.
2759 + fix c++ directory's .cc.i rule.
2760 + modify logic in tgetent() which adjusts the termcap "me" string
2761 to work with ISO-2022 string used in xterm-new (cf: 20010908).
2762 + modify tic's check for conflicting function keys to omit that if
2763 converting termcap to termcap format.
2764 + add -U option to tic and infocmp.
2765 + add rmam/smam to linux terminfo entry (Trevor Van Bremen)
2766 > terminfo updates -TD
2767 + minor fixes for emu
2769 + change wyse acsc strings to use 'i' map rather than 'I'
2774 + use tic -x to install terminfo database -TD
2775 + add -x to infocmp's usage message.
2776 + correct field used for comparing O_ROWMAJOR in set_menu_format()
2777 (report/patch by Tony Li).
2778 + fix a missing nul check in set_field_buffer() from 20040508 changes.
2779 > terminfo updates -TD
2780 + make xterm-xf86-v43 derived from xterm-xf86-v40 rather than
2782 + align with xterm patch #192's use of xterm-new -TD
2783 + update xterm-new and xterm-8bit for cvvis/cnorm strings -TD
2784 + make xterm-new the default "xterm" entry -TD
2787 + correct BUILD_CPPFLAGS substitution in ncurses/Makefile.in, to allow
2788 cross-compiling from a separate directory tree (report/patch by
2790 + modify is_term_resized() to ensure that window sizes are nonzero,
2791 as documented in the manpage (report by Ian Collier).
2792 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro to make Hurd port build
2793 (Debian #249214, report/patch by Jeff Bailey).
2794 + configure-script mods from xterm, e.g., updates to CF_ADD_CFLAGS
2795 + update config.guess, config.sub
2796 > terminfo updates -TD
2798 + add xterm-xf86-v44
2799 + modify xterm-new aka xterm-xfree86 to accommodate luit, which
2800 relies on G1 being used via an ISO-2022 escape sequence (report by
2805 + reconsidered winsnstr(), decided after comparing other
2806 implementations that wrapping is an X/Open documentation error.
2807 + modify test/inserts.c to test all flavors of insstr().
2810 + add setlocale() calls to a few test programs which may require it:
2811 demo_forms.c, filter.c, ins_wide.c, inserts.c
2812 + correct a few misspelled function names in ncurses-intro.html (report
2814 + correct internal name of key_defined() manpage, which conflicted with
2818 + correct size of internal pad used for holding wide-character
2819 field_buffer() results.
2820 + modify data_ahead() to work with wide-characters.
2823 + improve description of terminfo if-then-else expressions (suggested
2825 + improve test/ncurses.c 'd' test, allow it to use external file for
2826 initial palette (added xterm-16color.dat and linux-color.dat), and
2827 reset colors to the initial palette when starting/ending the test.
2828 + change limit-check in init_color() to allow r/g/b component to
2829 reach 1000 (cf: 20020928).
2832 + modify form library to use cchar_t's rather than char's in the
2833 wide-character configuration for storing data for field buffers.
2834 + correct logic of win_wchnstr(), which did not work for more than
2838 + replace memset/memcpy usage in form library with for-loops to
2839 simplify changing the datatype of FIELD.buf, part of wide-character
2841 + fix some inconsistent use of #if/#ifdef (report by Alain Guibert).
2844 + modify menu library to account for actual number of columns used by
2845 multibyte character strings, in the wide-character configuration
2846 (adapted from patch by Philipp Tomsich).
2847 + add "-x" option to infocmp like tic's "-x", for use in "-F"
2848 comparisons. This modifies infocmp to only report extended
2849 capabilities if the -x option is given, making this more consistent
2850 with tic. Some scripts may break, since infocmp previous gave this
2851 information without an option.
2852 + modify termcap-parsing to retain 2-character aliases at the beginning
2853 of an entry if the "-x" option is used in tic.
2856 + minor compiler-warning and test-program fixes.
2859 + modify tic's missing-sgr warning to apply to terminfo only.
2860 + free some memory leaks in tic.
2861 + remove check in post_menu() that prevented menus from extending
2862 beyond the screen (request by Max J. Werner).
2863 + remove check in newwin() that prevents allocating windows
2864 that extend beyond the screen. Solaris curses does this.
2865 + add ifdef in test/color_set.c to allow it to compile with older
2867 + add napms() calls to test/dots.c to make it not be a CPU hog.
2870 + modify unctrl() to return null if its parameter does not correspond
2871 to an unsigned char.
2872 + add some limit-checks to guard isprint(), etc., from being used on
2873 values that do not fit into an unsigned char (report by Sami Farin).
2876 + fix a typo in the _nc_get_locale() change.
2879 + modify _nc_get_locale() to use setlocale() to query the program's
2880 current locale rather than using getenv(). This fixes a case in tin
2881 which relies on legacy treatment of 8-bit characters when the locale
2882 is not initialized (reported by Urs Jansen).
2883 + add sgr string to screen's and rxvt's terminfo entries -TD.
2884 + add a check in tic for terminfo entries having an sgr0 but no sgr
2885 string. This confuses Tru64 and HPUX curses when combined with
2886 color, e.g., making them leave line-drawing characters in odd places.
2887 + correct casts used in ABSENT_BOOLEAN, CANCELLED_BOOLEAN, matches the
2888 original definitions used in Debian package to fix PowerPC bug before
2889 20030802 (Debian #237629).
2892 + modify PutAttrChar() and PUTC() macro to improve use of
2893 A_ALTCHARSET attribute to prevent line-drawing characters from
2894 being lost in situations where the locale would otherwise treat the
2895 raw data as nonprintable (Debian #227879).
2898 + fix a redefinition of CTRL() macro in test/view.c for AIX 5.2 (report
2900 + remove ".PP" after ".SH NAME" in a few manpages; this confuses
2901 some apropos script (Debian #237831).
2904 + modify ncurses.c 'r' test so editing commands, like inserted text,
2905 set the field background, and the state of insert/overlay editing
2906 mode is shown in that test.
2907 + change syntax of dummy targets in Ada95 makefiles to work with pmake.
2908 + correct logic in test/ncurses.c 'b' for noncolor terminals which
2909 did not recognize a quit-command (cf: 20030419).
2912 + modify _nc_insert_ch() to allow for its input to be part of a
2914 + split out lib_insnstr.c, to prepare to rewrite it. X/Open states
2915 that this function performs wrapping, unlike all of the other
2916 insert-functions. Currently it does not wrap.
2917 + check for nl_langinfo(CODESET), use it if available (report by
2919 + split-out CF_BUILD_CC macro, actually did this for lynx first.
2920 + fixes for configure script CF_WITH_DBMALLOC and CF_WITH_DMALLOC,
2921 which happened to work with bash, but not with Bourne shell (report
2922 by Marco d'Itri via tin-dev).
2925 + some changes to adapt the form library to wide characters, incomplete
2926 (request by Mike Aubury).
2927 + add symbol to curses.h which can be used to suppress include of
2929 #define NCURSES_ENABLE_STDBOOL_H 0
2931 (discussion on XFree86 mailing list).
2934 + modify configure --with-termlib option to accept a value which sets
2935 the name of the terminfo library. This would allow a packager to
2936 build libtinfow.so renamed to coincide with libtinfo.so (discussion
2937 with Stanislav Ievlev).
2938 + improve documentation of --with-install-prefix, --prefix and
2939 $(DESTDIR) in INSTALL (prompted by discussion with Paul Lew).
2940 + add configure check if the compiler can use -c -o options to rename
2941 its output file, use that to omit the 'cd' command which was used to
2942 ensure object files are created in a separate staging directory
2943 (prompted by comments by Johnny Wezel, Martin Mokrejs).
2945 20040208 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2948 20040207 pre-release
2949 + minor fixes to _nc_tparm_analyze(), i.e., do not count %i as a param,
2950 and do not count %d if it follows a %p.
2951 + correct an inconsistency between handling of codes in the 128-255
2952 range, e.g., as illustrated by test/ncurses.c f/F tests. In POSIX
2953 locale, the latter did not show printable results, while the former
2955 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to compensate for broken C preprocessor on Mac
2956 OS X, which alters "%%" to "% % " (report by Robert Simms, fix
2957 verified by Scott Corscadden).
2959 20040131 pre-release
2960 + modify SCREEN struct to align it between normal/wide curses flavors
2961 to simplify future changes to build a single version of libtinfo
2962 (patch by Stanislav Ievlev).
2963 + document handling of carriage return by addch() in manpage.
2964 + document special features of unctrl() in manpage.
2965 + documented interface changes in INSTALL.
2966 + corrected control-char test in lib_addch.c to account for locale
2967 (Debian #230335, cf: 971206).
2968 + updated test/configure.in to use AC_EXEEXT and AC_OBJEXT.
2969 + fixes to compile Ada95 binding with Debian gnat 3.15p-4 package.
2970 + minor configure-script fixes for older ports, e.g., BeOS R4.5.
2972 20040125 pre-release
2973 + amend change to PutAttrChar() from 20030614 which computed the number
2974 of cells for a possibly multi-cell character. The 20030614 change
2975 forced the cell to a blank if the result from wcwidth() was not
2976 greater than zero. However, wcwidth() called for parameters in the
2977 range 128-255 can give this return value. The logic now simply
2978 ensures that the number of cells is greater than zero without
2979 modifying the displayed value.
2981 20040124 pre-release
2982 + looked good for 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org (but see above)
2983 + modify configure script check for ranlib to use AC_CHECK_TOOL, since
2984 that works better for cross-compiling.
2986 20040117 pre-release
2987 + modify lib_get_wch.c to prefer mblen/mbtowc over mbrlen/mbrtowc to
2988 work around core dump in Solaris 8's locale support, e.g., for
2989 zh_CN.GB18030 (report by Saravanan Bellan).
2990 + add includes for <stdarg.h> and <stdio.h> in configure script macro
2991 to make <wchar.h> check work with Tru64 4.0d.
2992 + add terminfo entry for U/Win -TD
2993 + add terminfo entries for SFU aka Interix aka OpenNT (Federico
2995 + modify tput's error messages to prefix them with the program name
2996 (report by Vincent Lefevre, patch by Daniel Jacobowitz (see Debian
2998 + correct a place in tack where exit_standout_mode was used instead of
2999 exit_attribute_mode (patch by Jochen Voss (see Debian #224443)).
3000 + modify c++/cursesf.h to use const in the Enumeration_Field method.
3001 + remove an ambiguous (actually redundant) method from c++/cursesf.h
3002 + make $HOME/.terminfo update optional (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
3003 + improve sed script which extracts libtool's version in the
3004 CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro.
3005 + add ifdef'd call to AC_PROG_LIBTOOL to CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro (to
3006 simplify local patch for Albert Chin-A-Young)..
3007 + add $(CXXFLAGS) to link command in c++/Makefile.in (adapted from
3008 patch by Albert Chin-A-Young)..
3009 + fix a missing substitution in configure.in for "$target" needed for
3011 + resync CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro with lynx; fixes IRIX64 and
3012 NetBSD 1.6 conflicts with _XOPEN_SOURCE.
3013 + make check for stdbool.h more specific, to ensure that including it
3014 will actually define/declare bool for the configured compiler.
3015 + rewrite ifdef's in curses.h relating NCURSES_BOOL and bool. The
3016 intention of that is to #define NCURSES_BOOL as bool when the
3017 compiler declares bool, and to #define bool as NCURSES_BOOL when it
3018 does not (reported by Jim Gifford, Sam Varshavchik, cf: 20031213).
3020 20040110 pre-release
3021 + change minor version to 4, i.e., ncurses 5.4
3022 + revised/improved terminfo entries for tvi912b, tvi920b (Benjamin C W
3024 + simplified ncurses/base/version.c by defining the result from the
3025 configure script rather than using sprintf (suggested by Stanislav
3027 + remove obsolete casts from c++/cursesw.h (reported by Stanislav
3029 + modify configure script so that when configuring for termlib, programs
3030 such as tic are not linked with the upper-level ncurses library
3031 (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
3032 + move version.c from ncurses/base to ncurses/tinfo to allow linking
3033 of tic, etc., using libtinfo (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
3036 + adjust -D's to build ncursesw on OpenBSD.
3037 + modify CF_PROG_EXT to make OS/2 build with EXEEXT.
3038 + add pecho_wchar().
3039 + remove <wctype.h> include from lib_slk_wset.c which is not needed (or
3040 available) on older platforms.
3043 + add -D's to build ncursew on FreeBSD 5.1.
3044 + modify shared library configuration for FreeBSD 4.x/5.x to add the
3045 soname information (request by Marc Glisse).
3046 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() to not use MAX_ALIAS, but PATH_MAX only
3047 for limiting the length of a filename in the terminfo database.
3048 + modify termname() to return the terminal name used by setupterm()
3049 rather than $TERM, without truncating to 14 characters as documented
3050 by X/Open (report by Stanislav Ievlev, cf: 970719).
3051 + re-add definition for _BSD_TYPES, lost in merge (cf: 20031206).
3054 + add configure option --with-manpage-format=catonly to address
3055 behavior of BSDI, allow install of man+cat files on NetBSD, whose
3056 behavior has diverged by requiring both to be present.
3057 + remove leading blanks from comment-lines in manlinks.sed script to
3058 work with Tru64 4.0d.
3059 + add screen.linux terminfo entry (discussion on mutt-users mailing
3063 + add a check for tic to flag missing backslashes for termcap
3064 continuation lines. ncurses reads the whole entry, but termcap
3065 applications do not.
3066 + add configure option "--with-manpage-aliases" extending
3067 "--with-manpage-aliases" to provide the option of generating ".so"
3068 files rather than symbolic links for manpage aliases.
3069 + add bool definition in include/curses.h.in for configurations with no
3070 usable C++ compiler (cf: 20030607).
3071 + fix pathname of SigAction.h for building with --srcdir (reported by
3075 + folded ncurses/base/sigaction.c into includes of ncurses/SigAction.h,
3076 since that header is used only within ncurses/tty/lib_tstp.c, for
3077 non-POSIX systems (discussion with Stanislav Ievlev).
3078 + remove obsolete _nc_outstr() function (report by Stanislav Ievlev
3079 <inger@altlinux.org>).
3080 + add test/background.c and test/color_set.c
3081 + modify color_set() function to work with color pair 0 (report by
3082 George Andreou <gbandreo@tem.uoc.gr>).
3083 + add configure option --with-trace, since defining TRACE seems too
3084 awkward for some cases.
3085 + remove a call to _nc_free_termtype() from read_termtype(), since the
3086 corresponding buffer contents were already zeroed by a memset (cf:
3088 + improve configure check for _XOPEN_SOURCE and related definitions,
3089 adding special cases for Solaris' __EXTENSIONS__ and FreeBSD's
3090 __BSD_TYPES (reports by Marc Glisse <marc.glisse@normalesup.org>).
3091 + small fixes to compile on Solaris and IRIX64 using cc.
3092 + correct typo in check for pre-POSIX sort options in MKkey_defs.sh
3096 + modify _nc_gettime() to avoid a problem with arithmetic on unsigned
3097 values (Philippe Blain).
3098 + improve the nanosleep() logic in napms() by checking for EINTR and
3099 restarting (Philippe Blain).
3100 + correct expression for "%D" in lib_tgoto.c (Juha Jarvi
3104 + add linux-vt terminfo entry (Andrey V Lukyanov <land@long.yar.ru>).
3105 + allow "\|" escape in terminfo; tic should not warn about this.
3106 + save the full pathname of the trace-file the first time it is opened,
3107 to avoid creating it in different directories if the application
3108 opens and closes it while changing its working directory.
3109 + modify configure script to provide a non-empty default for
3113 + add DJGPP to special case of DOS-style drive letters potentially
3114 appearing in TERMCAP environment variable.
3115 + fix some spelling in comments (reports by Jason McIntyre, Jonathon
3117 + update config.guess, config.sub
3120 + fix a memory leak in error-return from setupterm() (report by
3121 Stanislav Ievlev <inger@altlinux.org>).
3122 + use EXEEXT and OBJEXT consistently in makefiles.
3123 + amend fixes for cross-compiling to use separate executable-suffix
3124 BUILD_EXEEXT (cf: 20031018).
3125 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for sort utility that does not
3126 recognize key options, e.g., busybox (report by Peter S Mazinger
3128 + fix potential out-of-bounds indexing in _nc_infotocap() (found by
3129 David Krause using some of the new malloc debugging features
3130 under OpenBSD, patch by Ted Unangst).
3131 + modify CF_LIB_SUFFIX for Itanium releases of HP-UX, which use a
3132 ".so" suffix (patch by Jonathan Ward <Jonathan.Ward@hp.com>).
3135 + update terminfo for xterm-xfree86 -TD
3136 + add check for multiple "tc=" clauses in a termcap to tic.
3137 + check for missing op/oc in tic.
3138 + correct _nc_resolve_uses() and _nc_merge_entry() to allow infocmp and
3139 tic to show cancelled capabilities. These functions were ignoring
3140 the state of the target entry, which should be untouched if cancelled.
3141 + correct comment in tack/output.c (Debian #215806).
3142 + add some null-pointer checks to lib_options.c (report by Michael
3144 + regenerated html documentation.
3145 + correction to tar-copy.sh, remove a trap command that resulted in
3146 leaving temporary files (cf: 20030510).
3147 + remove contact/maintainer addresses for Juergen Pfeifer (his request).
3150 + updated test/configure to reflect changes for libtool (cf: 20030830).
3151 + fix several places in tack/pad.c which tested and used the parameter-
3152 and parameterless strings inconsistently, i.e., in pad_rin(),
3153 pad_il(), pad_indn() and pad_dl() (Debian #215805).
3154 + minor fixes for configure script and makefiles to cleanup executables
3155 generated when cross-compiling for DJGPP.
3156 + modify infocmp to omit check for $TERM for operations that do not
3157 require it, e.g., "infocmp -e" used to build fallback list (report by
3161 + add terminfo entries for DJGPP.
3162 + updated note about maintainer in ncurses-intro.html
3165 + update terminfo entries for gnome terminal.
3166 + modify tack to reset colors after each color test, correct a place
3167 where exit_standout_mode was used instead of exit_attribute_mode.
3168 + improve tack's bce test by making it set colors other than black
3170 + plug a potential recursion between napms() and _nc_timed_wait()
3171 (report by Philippe Blain).
3174 + add --with-rel-version option to allow workaround to allow making
3175 libtool on Darwin generate the "same" library names as with the
3176 --with-shared option. The Darwin ld program does not work well
3177 with a zero as the minor-version value (request by Chris Zubrzycki).
3178 + modify CF_MIXEDCASE_FILENAMES macro to work with cross-compiling.
3179 + modify tack to allow it to run from fallback terminfo data.
3180 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3181 + improve PutRange() by adjusting call to EmitRange() and corresponding
3182 return-value to not emit unchanged characters on the end of the
3184 + improve a check for changed-attribute by exiting a loop when the
3186 + improve logic in TransformLine(), eliminating a duplicated comparison
3187 in the clr_bol logic.
3190 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3191 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
3192 move the label 'nonlocal' just before the second gettimeofday() to
3193 be able to compute the diff time when 'goto nonlocal' used.
3194 Rename 'msec' to 'microsec' in the debug-message.
3195 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
3196 Use _nc_outch() in carriage return/newline movement instead of
3197 putchar() which goes to stdout. Move test for xold>0 out of loop.
3198 + in ncurses/tinfo/setbuf.c,
3199 Set the flag SP->_buffered at the end of operations when all has been
3200 successful (typeMalloc can fail).
3201 + simplify NC_BUFFERED macro by moving check inside _nc_setbuf().
3204 + modify configure script to avoid using "head -1", which does not
3205 work if POSIXLY_CORRECT (sic) is set.
3206 + modify run_tic.in to avoid using wrong shared libraries when
3207 cross-compiling (Dan Kegel).
3210 + alter configure script help message to make it clearer that
3211 --with-build-cc does not specify a cross-compiler (suggested by Dan
3212 Kegel <dank@kegel.com>).
3213 + modify configure script to accommodate libtool 1.5, as well as add an
3214 parameter to the "--with-libtool" option which can specify the
3215 pathname of libtool (report by Chris Zubrzycki). We note that
3216 libtool 1.5 has more than one bug in its C++ support, so it is not
3217 able to install libncurses++, for instance, if $DESTDIR or the option
3218 --with-install-prefix is used.
3221 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3222 + move assignments to SP->_cursrow, SP->_curscol into online_mvcur().
3223 + make baudrate computation in delay_output() consistent with the
3224 assumption in _nc_mvcur_init(), i.e., a byte is 9 bits.
3227 + modify logic in waddch_literal() to take into account zh_TW.Big5
3228 whose multibyte sequences may contain "printable" characters, e.g.,
3229 a "g" in the sequence "\247g" (Debian #204889, cf: 20030621).
3230 + improve storage used by _nc_safe_strcpy() by ensuring that the size
3231 is reset based on the initialization call, in case it were called
3232 after other strcpy/strcat calls (report by Philippe Blain).
3233 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3234 + remove an unused ifdef for REAL_ATTR & WANT_CHAR
3235 + correct a place where _cup_cost was used rather than _cuu_cost
3238 + fix a small memory leak in _nc_free_termtype().
3239 + close trace-file if trace() is called with a zero parameter.
3240 + free memory allocated for soft-key strings, in delscreen().
3241 + fix an allocation size in safe_sprintf.c for the "*" format code.
3242 + correct safe_sprintf.c to not return a null pointer if the format
3243 happens to be an empty string. This applies to the "configure
3244 --enable-safe-sprintf" option (Redhat #101486).
3247 + modify casts used for ABSENT_BOOLEAN and CANCELLED_BOOLEAN (report by
3249 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3250 + change padding for change_scroll_region to not be proportional to
3251 the size of the scroll-region.
3252 + correct error-return in _nc_safe_strcat().
3255 + correct limit-checks in _nc_scroll_window() (report and test-case by
3256 Thomas Graf <graf@dms.at> cf: 20011020).
3257 + re-order configure checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE to avoid conflict with
3261 + use clr_eol in preference to blanks for bce terminals, so select and
3262 paste will have fewer trailing blanks, e.g., when using xterm
3263 (request by Vincent Lefevre).
3264 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
3265 + add configure --with-abi-version option (discussion with Charles
3267 > cygwin changes from Charles Wilson:
3268 + aclocal.m4: on cygwin, use autodetected prefix for import
3269 and static lib, but use "cyg" for DLL.
3270 + include/ncurses_dll.h: correct the comments to reflect current
3271 status of cygwin/mingw port. Fix compiler warning.
3272 + misc/run_tic.in: ensure that tic.exe can find the uninstalled
3273 DLL, by adding the lib-directory to the PATH variable.
3274 + misc/terminfo.src (nxterm|xterm-color): make xterm-color
3275 primary instead of nxterm, to match XFree86's xterm.terminfo
3276 usage and to prevent circular links.
3277 (rxvt): add additional codes from rxvt.org.
3278 (rxvt-color): new alias
3279 (rxvt-xpm): new alias
3280 (rxvt-cygwin): like rxvt, but with special acsc codes.
3281 (rxvt-cygwin-native): ditto. rxvt may be run under XWindows, or
3282 with a "native" MSWin GUI. Each takes different acsc codes,
3283 which are both different from the "normal" rxvt's acsc.
3284 (cygwin): cygwin-in-cmd.exe window. Lots of fixes.
3286 + mk-1st.awk: use "cyg" for the DLL prefix, but "lib" for import
3290 + update config.guess, config.sub
3291 + add triples for configuring shared libraries with the Debian
3292 GNU/FreeBSD packages (patch by Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es>).
3295 + modify CF_GCC_WARNINGS so it only applies to gcc, not g++. Some
3296 platforms have installed g++ along with the native C compiler, which
3297 would not accept gcc warning options.
3298 + add -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 when configuring with --enable-widec, to
3299 get mbstate_t declaration on HPUX 11.11 (report by David Ellement).
3300 + add _nc_pathlast() to get rid of casts in _nc_basename() calls.
3301 + correct a sign-extension in wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() from
3302 20030628 (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
3303 + work around omission of btowc() and wctob() from wide-character
3304 support (sic) in NetBSD 1.6 using mbtowc() and wctomb() (report by
3306 + add portability note to curs_get_wstr.3x (Debian #199957).
3309 + rewrite wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to call waddch() and wechochar()
3310 respectively, to avoid calling waddch_noecho() with wide-character
3311 data, since that function assumes its input is 8-bit data.
3312 Similarly, modify waddnwstr() to call wadd_wch().
3313 + remove logic from waddnstr() which transformed multibyte character
3314 strings into wide-characters. Rewrite of waddch_literal() from
3315 20030621 assumes its input is raw multibyte data rather than wide
3316 characters (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
3319 + write getyx() and related 2-return macros in terms of getcury(),
3321 + modify waddch_literal() in case an application passes bytes of a
3322 multibyte character directly to waddch(). In this case, waddch()
3323 must reassemble the bytes into a wide-character (report by Tomohiro
3324 Kubota <kubota@debian.org>).
3327 + modify waddch_literal() in case a multibyte value occupies more than
3329 + modify PutAttrChar() to compute the number of character cells that
3330 are used in multibyte values. This fixes a problem displaying
3331 double-width characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen
3332 <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
3333 + add a null-pointer check for result of keyname() in _tracechar()
3334 + modify _tracechar() to work around glibc sprintf bug.
3337 + add a call to setlocale() in cursesmain.cc, making demo display
3338 properly in a UTF-8 locale.
3339 + add a fallback definition in curses.priv.h for MB_LEN_MAX (prompted
3340 by discussion with Gabor Z Papp).
3341 + use macros NCURSES_ACS() and NCURSES_WACS() to hide cast needed to
3342 appease -Wchar-subscript with g++ 3.3 (Debian #195732).
3343 + fix a redefinition of $RANLIB in the configure script when libtool
3344 is used, which broke configure on Mac OS X (report by Chris Zubrzycki
3346 + simplify ifdef for bool declaration in curses.h.in (suggested by
3347 Albert Chin-A-Young).
3348 + remove configure script check to allow -Wconversion for older
3349 versions of gcc (suggested by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3352 + regenerated html manpages.
3353 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in that disabled use of __attribute__()
3354 for g++, since recent versions implement the cases which ncurses uses
3356 + modify _nc_get_token() to handle a case where an entry has no
3357 description, and capabilities begin on the same line as the entry
3359 + fix a typo in ncurses_dll.h reported by gcc 3.3.
3360 + add an entry for key_defined.3x to man_db.renames.
3363 + modify setcchar() to allow converting control characters to complex
3364 characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
3365 + add tkterm entry -TD
3366 + modify parse_entry.c to allow a terminfo entry with a leading
3367 2-character name (report by Don Libes).
3368 + corrected acsc in screen.teraterm, which requires a PC-style mapping.
3369 + fix trace statements in read_entry.c to use lseek() rather than
3371 + fix signed/unsigned warnings from Sun's compiler (gcc should give
3372 these warnings, but it is unpredictable).
3373 + modify configure script to omit -Winline for gcc 3.3, since that
3375 + modify manlinks.sed to add a few functions that were overlooked since
3376 they return function pointers: field_init, field_term, form_init,
3377 form_term, item_init, item_term, menu_init and menu_term.
3380 + prevent recursion in wgetch() via wgetnstr() if the connection cannot
3381 be switched between cooked/raw modes because it is not a TTY (report
3382 by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.com>).
3383 + change parameter of define_key() and key_defined() to const (prompted
3385 + add a check in test/configure for ncurses extensions, since there
3386 are some older versions, etc., which would not compile with the
3387 current test programs.
3388 + corrected demo in test/ncurses.c of wgetn_wstr(), which did not
3389 convert wchar_t string to multibyte form before printing it.
3390 + corrections to lib_get_wstr.c:
3391 + null-terminate buffer passed to setcchar(), which occasionally
3393 + map special characters such as erase- and kill-characters into
3394 key-codes so those will work as expected even if they are not
3395 mentioned in the terminfo.
3396 + modify PUTC() and Charable() macros to make wide-character line
3397 drawing work for POSIX locale on Linux console (cf: 20021221).
3400 + make typography for program options in manpages consistent (report
3401 by Miloslav Trmac <mitr@volny.cz>).
3402 + correct dependencies in Ada95/src/Makefile.in, so the builds with
3403 "--srcdir" work (report by Warren L Dodge).
3404 + correct missing definition of $(CC) in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in
3405 (reported by Warren L Dodge <warrend@mdhost.cse.tek.com>).
3406 + fix typos and whitespace in manpages (patch by Jason McIntyre
3407 <jmc@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl>).
3410 + fix form_driver() cases for REQ_CLR_EOF, REQ_CLR_EOL, REQ_DEL_CHAR,
3411 REQ_DEL_PREV and REQ_NEW_LINE, which did not ensure the cursor was at
3412 the editing position before making modifications.
3413 + add test/demo_forms and associated test/edit_field.c demos.
3414 + modify test/configure.in to use test/modules for the list of objects
3415 to compile rather than using the list of programs.
3418 + modify logic of acsc to use the original character if no mapping is
3419 defined, noting that Solaris does this.
3420 + modify ncurses 'b' test to avoid using the acs_map[] array since
3421 20021231 changes it to no longer contain information from the acsc
3423 + modify makefile rules in c++, progs, tack and test to ensure that
3424 the compiler flags (e.g., $CFLAGS or $CCFLAGS) are used in the link
3425 command (report by Jose Luis Rico Botella <informatica@serpis.com>).
3426 + modify soft-key initialization to use A_REVERSE if A_STANDOUT would
3427 not be shown when colors are used, i.e., if ncv#1 is set in the
3428 terminfo as is done in "screen".
3431 + add a test for slk_color(), in ncurses.c
3432 + fix some issues reported by valgrind in the slk_set() and slk_wset()
3433 code, from recent rewrite.
3434 + modify ncurses 'E' test to use show previous label via slk_label(),
3436 + modify wide-character versions of NewChar(), NewChar2() macros to
3437 ensure that the whole struct is initialized.
3440 + modify setupterm() to check if the terminfo and terminal-modes have
3441 already been read. This ensures that it does not reinvoke
3442 def_prog_mode() when an application calls more than one function,
3443 such as tgetent() and initscr() (report by Olaf Buddenhagen).
3446 + add 'E' test to ncurses.c, to exercise slk_wset().
3447 + correct handling of carriage-return in wgetn_wstr(), used in demo of
3449 + first draft of slk_wset() function.
3452 + improved warnings in tic when suppressing items to fit in termcap's
3454 + built a list in test/README showing which externals are being used
3455 by either programs in the test-directory or via internal library
3457 + adjust include-options in CF_ETIP_DEFINES to avoid missing
3458 ncurses_dll.h, fixing special definitions that may be needed for
3459 etip.h (reported by Greg Schafer <gschafer@zip.com.au>).
3462 + minor fixes for cardfile.c, to make it write the updated fields to
3463 a file when ^W is given.
3464 + add/use _nc_trace_bufcat() to eliminate some fixed buffer limits in
3468 + correct a case in _nc_remove_string(), used by define_key(), to avoid
3469 infinite loop if the given string happens to be a substring of other
3470 strings which are assigned to keys (report by John McCutchan).
3471 + add key_defined() function, to tell which keycode a string is bound
3472 to (discussion with John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>).
3473 + correct keybound(), which reported definitions in the wrong table,
3474 i.e., the list of definitions which are disabled by keyok().
3475 + modify demo_keydef.c to show the details it changes, and to check
3479 + restructured test/configure script, make it work for libncursesw.
3480 + add description of link_fieldtype() to manpage (report by
3481 L Dee Holtsclaw <dee@sunbeltsoft.com>).
3484 + corrected ifdef's relating to configure check for wchar_t, etc.
3485 + if the output is a socket or other non-tty device, use 1 millisecond
3486 for the cost in mvcur; previously it was 9 milliseconds because the
3487 baudrate was not known.
3488 + in _nc_get_tty_mode(), initialize the TTY buffer on error, since
3489 glibc copies uninitialized data in that case, as noted by valgrind.
3490 + modify tput to use the same parameter analysis as tparm() does, to
3491 provide for user-defined strings, e.g., for xterm title, a
3492 corresponding capability might be
3494 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to avoid passing "#" tokens through the C
3495 preprocessor. This works around Mac OS X's preprocessor, which
3496 insists on adding a blank on each side of the token (report/analysis
3497 by Kevin Murphy <murphy@genome.chop.edu>).
3500 + add configure check for wchar_t and wint_t types, rather than rely
3501 on preprocessor definitions. Also work around for gcc fixinclude
3502 bug which creates a shadow copy of curses.h if it sees these symbols
3503 apparently typedef'd.
3504 + if database is disabled, do not generate run_tic.sh
3505 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking when termcap is read.
3508 + add checking in tic for incomplete line-drawing character mapping.
3509 + update configure script to reflect fix for AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL,
3510 which is broken in autoconf 2.5x for Mac OS X 10.2.3 (report by
3511 Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl>).
3512 + make return value from _nc_printf_string() consistent. Before,
3513 depending on whether --enable-safe-sprintf was used, it might not be
3514 cached for reallocating.
3517 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking in lib_tparm.c, hardscroll.c
3518 + correct a potentially-uninitialized value if _read_termtype() does
3519 not read as much data as expected (report by Wolfgang Rohdewald
3521 + correct several places where the aclocal.m4 macros relied on cache
3522 variable names which were incompatible (as usual) between autoconf
3523 2.13 and 2.5x, causing the test for broken-linker to give incorrect
3524 results (reports by Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl> and Thomas Esser
3525 <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de>).
3526 + do not try to open gpm mouse driver if standard output is not a tty;
3527 the gpm library does not make this check (bug report for dialog
3528 by David Oliveira <davidoliveira@develop.prozone.ws>).
3531 + modified emx.src to correspond more closely to terminfo.src, added
3532 emx-base to the latter -TD
3533 + add configure option for FreeBSD sysmouse, --with-sysmouse, and
3534 implement support for that in lib_mouse.c, lib_getch.c
3537 + revert 20030105 change to can_clear_with(), does not work for the
3538 case where the update is made on cells which are blanks with
3539 attributes, e.g., reverse.
3540 + improve ifdef's to guard against redefinition of wchar_t and wint_t
3541 in curses.h (report by Urs Jansen).
3544 + improve mvcur() by checking if it is safe to move when video
3545 attributes are set (msgr), and if not, reset/restore attributes
3546 within that function rather than doing it separately in the GoTo()
3547 function in tty_update.c (suggested by Philippe Blain).
3548 + add a message in run_tic.in to explain more clearly what does not
3549 work when attempting to create a symbolic link for /usr/lib/terminfo
3550 on OS/2 and other platforms with no symbolic links (report by John
3552 + change several sed scripts to avoid using "\+" since it is not a BRE
3553 (basic regular expression). One instance caused terminfo.5 to be
3554 misformatted on FreeBSD (report by Kazuo Horikawa
3555 <horikawa@FreeBSD.org> (see FreeBSD docs/46709)).
3556 + correct misspelled 'wint_t' in curs_get_wch.3x (Michael Elkins).
3559 + improve description of terminfo operators, especially static/dynamic
3560 variables (comments by Mark I Manning IV <mark4th@earthlink.net>).
3561 + demonstrate use of FIELDTYPE by modifying test/ncurses 'r' test to
3562 use the predefined TYPE_ALPHA field-type, and by defining a
3563 specialized type for the middle initial/name.
3564 + fix MKterminfo.sh, another workaround for POSIXLY_CORRECT misfeature
3566 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3567 + optimize can_clear_with() a little by testing first if the parameter
3568 is indeed a "blank".
3569 + simplify ClrBottom() a little by allowing it to use clr_eos to clear
3570 sections as small as one line.
3571 + improve ClrToEOL() by checking if clr_eos is available before trying
3573 + use tputs() rather than putp() in a few cases in tty_update.c since
3574 the corresponding delays are proportional to the number of lines
3575 affected: repeat_char, clr_eos, change_scroll_region.
3578 + rewrite of lib_acs.c conflicts with copying of SCREEN acs_map to/from
3579 global acs_map[] array; removed the lines that did the copying.
3582 + change some overlooked tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp()
3583 (report by Philippe Blain).
3584 + modify lib_getch.c to avoid recursion via wgetnstr() when the input
3585 is not a tty and consequently mode-changes do not work (report by
3586 <R.Chamberlin@querix.com>).
3587 + rewrote lib_acs.c to allow PutAttrChar() to decide how to render
3588 alternate-characters, i.e., to work with Linux console and UTF-8
3590 + correct line/column reference in adjust_window(), needed to make
3591 special windows such as curscr track properly when resizing (report
3592 by Lucas Gonze <lgonze@panix.com>).
3593 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3594 + correct the value used for blank in ClrBottom() (broken in 20000708).
3595 + correct an off-by-one in GoTo() parameter in _nc_scrolln().
3598 + change several tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp(), to
3599 enable padding which may be needed for some terminals (patch by
3601 + use '%' as sed substitute delimiter in run_tic script to avoid
3602 problems with pathname delimiters such as ':' and '@' (report by John
3604 + implement a workaround so that line-drawing works with screen's
3605 crippled UTF-8 support (tested with 3.9.13). This only works with
3606 the wide-character support (--enable-widec); the normal library will
3607 simply suppress line-drawing when running in a UTF-8 locale in screen.
3610 + allow BUILD_CC and related configure script variables to be
3611 overridden from the environment.
3612 + make build-tools variables in ncurses/Makefile.in consistent with
3613 the configure script variables (report by Maciej W Rozycki).
3614 + modify ncurses/modules to allow
3615 configure --disable-leaks --disable-ext-funcs
3616 to build (report by Gary Samuelson).
3617 + fix a few places in configure.in which lacked quotes (report by
3618 Gary Samuelson <gary.samuelson@verizon.com>).
3619 + correct handling of multibyte characters in waddch_literal() which
3620 force wrapping because they are started too late on the line (report
3621 by Sam Varshavchik).
3622 + small fix for CF_GNAT_VERSION to ignore the help-message which
3623 gnatmake adds to its version-message.
3624 > Maciej W Rozycki <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>:
3625 + use AC_CHECK_TOOL to get proper values for AR and LD for cross
3627 + use $cross_compiling variable in configure script rather than
3628 comparing $host_alias and $target alias, since "host" is
3629 traditionally misused in autoconf to refer to the target platform.
3630 + change configure --help message to use "build" rather than "host"
3631 when referring to the --with-build-XXX options.
3634 + modify CF_GNAT_VERSION to print gnatmake's version, and to allow for
3635 possible gnat versions such as 3.2 (report by Chris Lingard
3636 <chris@stockwith.co.uk>).
3637 + modify #define's for CKILL and other default control characters in
3638 tset to use the system's default values if they are defined.
3639 + correct interchanged defaults for kill and interrupt characters
3640 in tset, which caused it to report unnecessarily (Debian #171583).
3641 + repair check for missing C++ compiler, which is broken in autoconf
3642 2.5x by hardcoding it to g++ (report by Martin Mokrejs).
3643 + update config.guess, config.sub (2002-11-30)
3644 + modify configure script to skip --with-shared, etc., when the
3645 --with-libtool option is given, since they would be ignored anyway.
3646 + fix to allow "configure --with-libtool --with-termlib" to build.
3647 + modify configure script to show version number of libtool, to help
3648 with bug reports. libtool still gets confused if the installed
3649 ncurses libraries are old, since it ignores the -L options at some
3650 point (tested with libtool 1.3.3 and 1.4.3).
3651 + reorder configure script's updating of $CPPFLAGS and $CFLAGS to
3652 prevent -I options in the user's environment from introducing
3653 conflicts with the build -I options (may be related to reports by
3654 Patrick Ash and George Goffe).
3655 + rename test/define_key.c to test/demo_defkey.c, test/keyok.c to
3656 test/demo_keyok.c to allow building these with libtool.
3659 + add example program test/define_key.c for define_key().
3660 + add example program test/keyok.c for keyok().
3661 + add example program test/ins_wide.c for wins_wch() and wins_wstr().
3662 + modify wins_wch() and wins_wstr() to interpret tabs by using the
3663 winsch() internal function.
3664 + modify setcchar() to allow for wchar_t input strings that have
3665 more than one spacing character.
3668 + fix a boundary check in lib_insch.c (patch by Philippe Blain).
3669 + change type for *printw functions from NCURSES_CONST to const
3670 (prompted by comment by Pedro Palhoto Matos <plpm@mega.ist.utl.pt>,
3671 but really from a note on X/Open's website stating that either is
3672 acceptable, and the latter will be used in a future revision).
3673 + add xterm-1002, xterm-1003 terminfo entries to demonstrate changes in
3674 lib_mouse.c (20021026) -TD
3675 + add screen-bce, screen-s entries from screen 3.9.13 (report by
3676 Adam Lazur <zal@debian.org>) -TD
3677 + add mterm terminfo entries -TD
3680 + split-out useful fragments in terminfo for vt100 and vt220 numeric
3681 keypad, i.e., vt100+keypad, vt100+pfkeys, vt100+fnkeys and
3682 vt220+keypad. The last as embedded in various entries had ka3 and
3683 kb2 interchanged (report/discussion with Leonard den Ottolander
3684 <leonardjo@hetnet.nl>).
3685 + add check in tic for keypads consistent with vt100 layout.
3686 + improve checks in tic for color capabilities
3689 + check for missing/empty/illegal terminfo name in _nc_read_entry()
3690 (report by Martin Mokrejs, where $TERM was set to an empty string).
3691 + rewrote lib_insch.c, combining it with lib_insstr.c so both handle
3692 tab and other control characters consistently (report by Philippe
3694 + remove an #undef for KEY_EVENT from curses.tail used in the
3695 experimental NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS feature. The #undef confuses
3696 dpkg's build script (Debian #165897).
3697 + fix MKlib_gen.sh, working around the ironically named POSIXLY_CORRECT
3698 feature of GNU sed 4.0 (reported by Ervin Nemeth <airwin@inf.bme.hu>).
3701 + implement logic in lib_mouse.c to handle position reports which are
3702 generated when XFree86 xterm is initialized with private modes 1002
3703 or 1003. These are returned to the application as the
3704 REPORT_MOUSE_POSITION mask, which was not implemented. Tested both
3705 with ncurses 'a' menu (prompted by discussion with Larry Riedel
3706 <Larry@Riedel.org>).
3707 + modify lib_mouse.c to look for "XM" terminfo string, which allows
3708 one to override the escape sequence used to enable/disable mouse
3709 mode. In particular this works for XFree86 xterm private modes
3710 1002 and 1003. If "XM" is missing (note that this is an extended
3711 name), lib_mouse uses the conventional private mode 1000.
3712 + correct NOT_LOCAL() macro in lib_mvcur.c to refer to screen_columns
3713 where it used screen_lines (report by Philippe Blain).
3714 + correct makefile rules for the case when both --with-libtool and
3715 --with-gpm are given (report by Mr E_T <troll@logi.net.au>).
3716 + add note to terminfo manpage regarding the differences between
3717 setaf/setab and setf/setb capabilities (report by Pavel Roskin).
3720 + remove redundant initialization of TABSIZE in newterm(), since it is
3721 already done in setupterm() (report by Philippe Blain).
3722 + add test/inserts.c, to test winnstr() and winsch().
3723 + replace 'sort' in dist.mk with script that sets locale to POSIX.
3724 + update URLs in announce.html.in (patch by Frederic L W Meunier).
3725 + remove glibc add-on files, which are no longer needed (report by
3726 Frederic L W Meunier).
3728 20021012 5.3 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3729 + modify ifdef's in etip.h.in to allow the etip.h header to compile
3730 with gcc 3.2 (patch by Dimitar Zhekov <jimmy@is-vn.bg>).
3731 + add logic to setupterm() to make it like initscr() and newterm(),
3732 by checking for $NCURSES_TRACE environment variable and enabling
3733 the debug trace in that case.
3734 + modify setupterm() to ensure that it initializes the baudrate, for
3735 applications such as tput (report by Frank Henigman).
3736 + modify definition of bits used for command-line and library debug
3737 traces to avoid overlap, using new definition TRACE_SHIFT to relate
3739 + document tput's interpretation of parameterized strings according to
3740 whether parameters are given, etc. (discussion with Robert De Bath).
3742 20021005 pre-release
3743 + correct winnwstr() to account for non-character cells generated when
3744 a double-width character is added (report by Michael Bienia
3745 <michael@vorlon.ping.de>).
3746 + modify _nc_viswbuf2n() to provide better results using wctomb().
3747 + correct logic in _nc_varargs() which broke tracing of parameters for
3748 formats such as "%.*s".
3749 + correct scale factor in linux-c and linux-c-nc terminfo entries
3750 (report Floyd Davidson).
3751 + change tic -A option to -t, add the same option to infocmp for
3753 + correct "%c" implementation in lib_tparm.c, which did not map a null
3754 character to a 128 (cf: 980620) (patch by Frank Henigman
3755 <fjhenigman@mud.cgl.uwaterloo.ca>).
3757 20020928 pre-release
3758 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for POSIX sort -k option, use that if
3759 it is found, to accommodate newer utility which dropped the
3760 compatibility support for +number options (reported by Andrey A
3762 + modify linux terminfo entry to use color palette feature from
3763 linux-c-nc entry (comments by Tomasz Wasiak and Floyd Davidson).
3764 + restore original color definitions in endwin() if init_color() was
3765 used, and resume those colors on the next doupdate() or refresh()
3766 (report by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@komputom.com.pl>).
3767 + improve debug-traces by modifying MKlib_gen.sh to generate calls
3768 to returnBool() and returnAttr().
3769 + add/use _nc_visbufn() and _nc_viswbufn() to limit the debug trace
3770 of waddnstr() and similar functions to match the parameters as used.
3771 + add/use _nc_retrace_bool() and _nc_retrace_unsigned().
3772 + correct type used by _nc_retrace_chtype().
3773 + add debug traces to some functions in lib_mouse.c
3774 + modify lib_addch.c to handle non-spacing characters.
3775 + correct parameter of RemAttr() in lib_bkgd.c, which caused the c++
3776 demo's boxes to lose the A_ALTCHARSET flag (broken in 20020629).
3777 + correct width computed in _tracedump(), which did not account for
3778 the attributes (broken in 20010602).
3779 + modify test/tracemunch to replace addresses for windows other than
3780 curscr, newscr and stdscr with window0, window1, etc.
3782 20020921 pre-release
3783 + redid fix for edit_man.sed path.
3784 + workaround for Cygwin bug which makes subprocess writes to stdout
3785 result in core dump.
3786 + documented getbegx(), etc.
3787 + minor fixes to configure script to use '%' consistently as a sed
3788 delimiter rather than '@'.
3789 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3790 + add check in lib_overlay.c to ensure that the windows to be merged
3791 actually overlap, and in copywin(), limit the area to be touched
3792 to the lines given for the destination window.
3794 20020914 pre-release
3795 + modified curses.h so that if the wide-character version is installed
3796 overwriting /usr/include/curses.h, and if it relied on libutf8.h,
3797 then applications that use that header for wide-character support
3798 must define HAVE_LIBUTF8_H.
3799 + modify putwin(), getwin() and dupwin() to allow them to operate on
3800 pads (request by Philippe Blain).
3801 + correct attribute-merging in wborder(), broken in 20020216 (report
3802 by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@grubasek.komputom.com.pl>).
3803 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3804 + corrected pop-counts in tparam_internal() to '!' and '~' cases.
3805 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in one place that used sizeof(chtype).
3806 + remove some unused variables from mvcur test-driver.
3808 20020907 pre-release
3809 + change configure script to allow install of widec-character
3810 (ncursesw) headers to overwrite normal (ncurses) headers, since the
3811 latter is a compatible subset of the former.
3812 + fix path of edit_man.sed in configure script, needed to regenerate
3813 html manpages on Debian.
3814 + fix mismatched enums in vsscanf.c, which caused warning on Solaris.
3815 + update README.emx to reflect current patch used for autoconf.
3816 + change web- and ftp-site to invisible-island.net
3817 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3818 + change case for 'P' in tparam_internal() to indicate that it pops
3819 a variable from the stack.
3820 + correct sense of precision and width in parse_format(), to avoid
3822 + modify lib_tparm.c, absorb really_get_space() into get_space().
3823 + modify getwin() and dupwin() to copy the _notimeout, _idlok and
3824 _idcok window fields.
3825 + better fix for _nc_set_type(), using typeMalloc().
3827 20020901 pre-release
3828 + change minor version to 3, i.e., ncurses 5.3
3829 + update config.guess, config.sub
3830 + retest build with each configure option; minor ifdef fixes.
3831 + make keyname() return a null pointer rather than "UNKNOWN STRING" to
3833 + modify handling of wide line-drawing character functions to use the
3834 normal line-drawing characters when not in UTF-8 locale.
3835 + add check/fix to comp_parse.c to suppress warning about missing acsc
3836 string. This happens in configurations where raw termcap information
3837 is processed; tic already does this and other checks.
3838 + modify tic's check for ich/ich1 versus rmir/smir to only warn about
3839 ich1, to match xterm patch #70 notes.
3840 + moved information for ripped-off lines into SCREEN struct to allow
3841 use in resizeterm().
3842 + add experimental wgetch_events(), ifdef'd with NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS
3843 (adapted from patch by Ilya Zakharevich - see ncurses/README.IZ).
3844 + amend check in kgetch() from 20020824 to look only for function-keys,
3845 otherwise escape sequences are not resolved properly.
3846 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3847 + removed redundant assignment to SP->_checkfd from newterm().
3848 + check return-value of setupterm() in restartterm().
3849 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in a few places that used sizeof(chtype).
3850 + prevent dupwin() from duplicating a pad.
3851 + prevent putwin() from writing a pad.
3852 + use typeRealloc() or typeMalloc() in preference to direct calls on
3856 + add a check in kgetch() for cooked characters in the fifo to avoid
3857 calling fifo_push() when a KEY_RESIZE is available (report/analysis
3858 by Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>).
3859 + fix an overlooked case for bugzilla #68199 (Philippe Blain).
3860 + ensure clearerr() is called before using ferror() e.g., in
3861 lib_screen.c (report by Philippe Blain).
3864 + modify lib_screen.c and lib_newwin.c to maintain the SCREEN-specific
3865 pointers for curscr/stdscr/newscr when scr_save() and scr_restore()
3866 modify the global curscr/stdscr/newscr variables. Fixes Redhat
3867 bugzilla #68199 dated 2002-07-07.
3868 + add checks for null pointer in calls to tparm() and tgoto() based on
3869 FreeBSD bug report. If ncurses were built with termcap support, and
3870 the first call to tgoto() were a zero-length string, the result would
3871 be a null pointer, which was not handled properly.
3872 + correct a typo in terminfo.head, which gave the octal code for colon
3874 + remove the "tic -u" option from 20020810, since it did not account
3875 for nested "tc=" clauses, and when that was addressed, was still
3879 + add tic -A option to suppress capabilities which are commented out
3880 when translating to termcap.
3881 + add tic -u option to provide older behavior of "tc=" clauses.
3882 + modified tic to expand all but the final "tc=" clause in a termcap
3883 entry, to accommodate termcap libraries which do not handle multiple
3885 + correct typo in curs_inopts.3x regarding CS8/CS7 usage (report by
3887 + remove a couple of redundant uses of A_ATTRIBUTES in expressions
3888 using AttrOf(), which already incorporates that mask (report by
3890 + document TABSIZE variable.
3891 + add NCURSES_ASSUMED_COLORS environment variable, to allow users to
3892 override compiled-in default black-on-white assumption used in
3893 assume_default_colors().
3894 + correct an off-by-one comparison against max_colors in COLORFGBG
3896 + correct a use of uninitialized memory found by valgrind (reported by
3897 Olaf Buddenhagen <olafBuddenhagen@web.de>).
3898 + modified wresize() to ensure that a failed realloc will not corrupt
3899 the window structure, and to make subwindows fit within the resized
3900 window (completes Debian #87678, #101699)
3903 + fix an off-by-one in lib_pad.c check for limits of pad (patch by
3905 + revise logic for BeOS in lib_twait.c altered in 20011013 to restore
3906 logic used by lib_getch.c's support for GPM or EMX mouse (report by
3908 + remove NCURSES_CONST from several prototypes in curses.wide, to make
3909 the --enable-const --enable-widec configure options to work together
3910 (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@yahoo.com>).
3913 + finish no-leak checking in cardfile.c, using this for testing changes
3915 + simplify _nc_freeall() using delscreen().
3918 + check error-return from _nc_set_tty_mode() in _nc_initscr() and
3919 reset_prog_mode() (report/patch by Philippe Blain).
3920 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52, to address
3921 problem with identifying C++ bool type.
3922 + correct/improve logic to produce an exit status for errors in tput,
3923 which did not exit with an error when told to put a string not in the
3924 current terminfo entry (report by David Gomez <david@pleyades.net>).
3925 + modify configure script AC_OUTPUT() call to work around defect in
3926 autoconf 2.52 which adds an ifdef'd include to the generated
3927 configure definitions.
3928 + remove fstat() check from scr_init(), which also fixes a missing
3929 include for <sys/stat.h> from 20020713 (reported by David Ellement,
3930 fix suggested by Philippe Blain).
3931 + update curs_scanw.3x manpage to note that XSI curses differs from
3932 SVr4 curses: return-values are incompatible.
3933 + correct several prototypes in manpages which used const
3934 inconsistently with the curses.h file, and removed spurious const's
3935 in a few places from curses.h, e.g., for wbkgd() (report by Glenn
3936 Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>).
3937 + change internal type used by tparm() to long, to work with LP64 model.
3938 + modify nc_alloc.h to allow building with g++, for testing.
3941 + add resize-handling to cardfile.c test program.
3942 + altered resizeterm() to avoid having it fail when a child window
3943 cannot be resized because it would be larger than its parent. (More
3944 work must be done on this, but it works well enough to integrate).
3945 + improve a limit-check in lib_refresh.c
3946 + remove check in lib_screen.c relating dumptime to file's modification
3947 times, since that would not necessarily work for remotely mounted
3949 + modify lrtest to simplify debugging changes to resizeterm, e.g.,
3950 t/T commands to enable/disable tracing.
3951 + updated status of multibyte support in TO-DO.
3952 + update contact info in source-files (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3955 + add Caps.hpux11, as an example.
3956 + modify version_filter(), used to implement -R option for tic and
3957 infocmp, to use computed array offsets based on the Caps.* file which
3958 is actually configured, rather than constants which correspond to
3960 + reorganized lib_raw.c to avoid updating SP and cur_term state if the
3961 functions fail (reported by Philippe Blain).
3962 + add -Wundef to gcc warnings, adjust a few ifdef's to accommodate gcc.
3965 + correct parameters to setcchar() in ncurses.c (cf: 20020406).
3966 + set locale in most test programs (view.c and ncurses.c were the
3968 + add configure option --with-build-cppflags (report by Maksim A
3969 Nikulin <M.A.Nikulin@inp.nsk.su>).
3970 + correct a typo in wide-character logic for lib_bkgnd.c (Philippe
3972 + modify lib_wacs.c to not cancel the acsc, smacs, rmacs strings when
3973 in UTF-8 locale. Wide-character functions use Unicode values, while
3974 narrow-character functions use the terminfo data.
3975 + fix a couple of places in Ada95/samples which did not compile with
3977 + modify mkinstalldirs so the DOS-pathname case is locale-independent.
3978 + fix locale problem in MKlib_gen.sh by forcing related variables to
3979 POSIX (C), using same approach as autoconf (set variables only if
3980 they were set before). Update MKterminfo.sh and MKtermsort.sh to
3984 + add charset to generated html.
3985 + add mvterm entry, adapted from a FreeBSD bug-report by Daniel Rudy
3986 <dcrudy@pacbell.net> -TD
3987 + add rxvt-16color, ibm+16color entries -TD
3988 + modify check in --disable-overwrite option so that it is used by
3989 default unless the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr, in attempt to
3990 work around packagers, e.g., for Sun's freeware, who do not read the
3994 + modify wgetch() to allow returning ungetch'd KEY_RESIZE as a function
3995 key code in get_wch().
3996 + extended resize-handling in test/ncurses 'a' menu to the entire
3997 stack of windows created with 'w' commands.
3998 + improve $COLORFGBG feature by interpreting an out-of-range color
3999 value as an SGR 39 or 49, for foreground/background respectively.
4000 + correct a typo in configure --enable-colorfgbg option, and move it
4001 to the experimental section (cf: 20011208).
4004 + add logic to dump_entry.c to remove function-key definitions that do
4005 not fit into the 1023-byte limit for generated termcaps. This makes
4007 + more improvements to tic's warnings, including logic to ignore
4008 differences between delay values in sgr strings.
4009 + move definition of KEY_RESIZE into MKkeydefs.sh script, to
4010 accommodate Caps.osf1r5 which introduced a conflicting definition.
4013 + add simple resize-handling in test/ncurses.c 'a' menu.
4014 + fixes in keyname() and _tracechar() to handle negative values.
4015 + make tic's warnings about mismatches in sgr strings easier to follow.
4016 + correct tic checks for number of parameters in smgbp and smglp.
4017 + improve scoansi terminfo entry, and add scoansi-new entry -TD
4018 + add pcvt25-color terminfo entry -TD
4019 + add kf13-kf48 strings to cons25w terminfo entry (reported by Stephen
4020 Hurd <deuce@lordlegacy.org> in newsgroup lucky.freebsd.bugs) -TD
4021 + add entrypoint _nc_trace_ttymode(), use this to distinguish the
4022 Ottyb and Nttyb members of terminal (aka cur_term), for tracing.
4025 + correct and simplify logic for lib_pad.c change in 20020518 (reported
4029 + fix lib_pad.c for case of drawing a double-width character which
4030 falls off the left margin of the pad (patch by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij
4031 <lerdsuwa@users.sourceforge.net>)
4032 + modify configure script to work around broken gcc 3.1 "--version"
4033 option, which adds unnecessary trash to the requested information.
4034 + adjust ifdef's in case SIGWINCH is not defined, e.g., with DJGPP
4035 (reported by Ben Decker <deckerben@freenet.de>).
4038 + implement vid_puts(), vid_attr(), term_attrs() based on the narrow-
4039 character versions as well.
4040 + implement erasewchar(), killwchar() based on erasechar() and
4042 + modify erasechar() and killchar() to return ERR if the value was
4044 + correct a bug in wresize() in handling subwindows (based on patch by
4045 Roger Gammans <rgammans@computer-surgery.co.uk>, report by Scott Beck
4046 <scott@gossamer-threads.com>).
4047 + improve test/tclock.c by making the second-hand update more often
4048 if gettimeofday() is available.
4051 + workaround for Solaris sed with MKlib_gen.sh (reported by Andy
4052 Tsouladze <andyt@mypoints.com>).
4055 + correct return-value from getcchar(), making it consistent with
4057 + reorder loops that generate makefile rules for different models vs
4058 subsets so configure --with-termlib works again. This was broken by
4059 logic added to avoid duplicate rules in changes to accommodate cygwin
4060 dll's (reported by George.R.Goffe@seagate.com).
4061 + update config.guess, config.sub
4064 + modify ifdef's in write_entry.c to allow use of symbolic links on
4065 platforms with no hard links, e.g., BeOS.
4066 + modify a few includes to allow compile with BeOS, which has stdbool.h
4067 with a conflicting definition for 'bool' versus its OS.h definition.
4068 + amend MKlib_gen.sh to work with gawk, which defines 'func' as an
4069 alias for 'function'.
4072 + correct form of prototype for ripoffline().
4073 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to test that all functions marked as implemented
4077 + add manpages: curs_get_wstr.3x, curs_in_wchstr.3x
4078 + implement wgetn_wstr().
4079 + implement win_wchnstr().
4080 + remove redefinition of unget_wch() in lib_gen.c (reported by
4081 Jungshik Shin <jshin@jtan.com>).
4084 + modified several of the test programs to allow them to compile with
4085 vendor curses implementations, e.g., Solaris, AIX -TD
4088 + modified test/configure to allow configuring against ncursesw.
4089 + change WACS_xxx definition to use address, to work like Tru64 curses.
4092 + add 'e' and 'm' toggles to 'a', 'A' tests in ncurses.c to demonstrate
4093 effect of echo/noecho and meta modes.
4094 + add 'A' test to ncurses.c to demonstrate wget_wch() and related
4096 + add manpage: curs_get_wch.3x
4097 + implement unget_wch().
4098 + implement wget_wch().
4101 + regenerated html manpages.
4102 + add manpages: curs_in_wch.3x, curs_ins_wch.3x, curs_ins_wstr.3x
4103 + implement wins_wch().
4104 + implement win_wch().
4105 + implement wins_nwstr(), wins_wstr().
4108 + add manpages: curs_addwstr.3x, curs_winwstr.3x
4109 + implement winnwstr(), winwstr().
4112 + add manpages: curs_add_wchstr.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x
4113 + document wunctrl, key_name.
4114 + implement key_name().
4115 + remove const's in lib_box.c incorrectly leftover after splitting off
4117 + update llib-lncurses, llib-ncursesw, fix configure script related to
4121 + remove quotes on "SYNOPSIS" in man/curs_box_set.3x, which resulted
4122 in spurious symlinks on install.
4125 + implement whline_set(), wvline_set(), add manpage curs_border_set.
4126 + add subtest 'b' to 'F' and 'f' in ncurses.c to demonstrate use of
4127 box() and box_set() functions.
4128 + add subtest 'u' to 'F' in ncurses.c, to demonstrate use of addstr()
4129 given UTF-8 string equivalents of WACS_xxx symbols.
4130 + minor fixes to several manpages based on groff -ww output.
4131 + add descriptions of external variables of termcap interface to
4132 the manpage (report by Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>).
4133 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
4134 + correct configure option --with-bool, which was executed as
4136 + add quotes for parameters of --with-bool and --with-ospeed configure
4138 > patch by Sven Verdoolaege (report by Gerhard Haering
4139 <haering_linux@gmx.de>):
4140 + correct typos in definitions of several wide-character macros:
4141 waddwstr, wgetbkgrnd, mvaddwstr, mvwadd_wchnstr, mvwadd_wchnstr,
4143 + pass $(CPPFLAGS) to MKlib_gen.sh, thereby fixing a missing definition
4144 of _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, e.g., on Solaris
4147 + implement wide-acs characters for UTF-8 locales. When in UTF-8
4148 locale, ignore narrow version of acs. Add 'F' test to test/ncurses.c
4150 + correct prototype in keybound manpage (noted from a Debian mailing
4154 + add several cases to the wscanw() example in testcurs.c, showing the
4156 + implement a simple vsscanf() fallback function which uses the %n
4157 conversion to help parse the input data (prompted by discussion with
4158 Albert Chin-A-Young).
4159 + modify mk-1st.awk and test/Makefile.in to add $(LDFLAGS) when making
4160 shared libraries, and to use $(CFLAGS) when linking test programs
4161 (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
4162 + add a call to _nc_keypad() in keypad() to accommodate applications
4163 such as nvi, which use curses for output but not for input (fixes
4164 Debian #131263, cf: 20011215).
4165 + add entrypoints to resizeterm.c which provide better control over the
4166 process: is_term_resized() and resize_term(). The latter restores
4167 the original design of resizeterm() before KEY_RESIZE was added in
4168 970906. Do this to accommodate 20010922 changes to view.c, but allow
4169 for programs with their own sigwinch handler, such as lynx (reported
4170 by Russell Ruby <russ@math.orst.edu>).
4173 + fix a typo in change to mk-1st.awk, which broke the shared-library
4174 makefile rules (reported by Martin Mokrejs).
4177 + update config.guess, config.sub
4178 + finish changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
4179 + fix a typo in mvwchat() macro (reported by Cy <yam@homerow.net).
4182 + add case in lib_baudrate.c for B921600 (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
4183 + correct missing sed-editing stage in manpage installs which is used
4184 to rename manpages, broken in 20010324 fix for Debian #89939 (Debian
4186 + remove -L$(libdir) from linker flags, probably not needed any more
4187 since HPUX is handled properly (reported by Niibe Yutaka
4189 + add configure check for mbstate_t, needed for wide-character
4190 configuration. On some platforms we must include <wchar.h> to
4191 define this (reported by Daniel Jacobowitz).
4192 + incorporate some of the changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
4195 + workaround for awk did not work with mawk, adjusted shell script.
4198 + add Caps.osf1r5, as an example.
4199 + modify behavior of can_clear_with() so that if an application is
4200 running in a non-bce terminals with default colors enabled, it
4201 returns true, allowing the user to select/paste text without picking
4202 up extraneous trailing blanks (adapted from patch by Daniel
4203 Jacobowitz <dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu>).
4204 + modify generated curses.h to ifdef-out prototypes for extensions if
4205 they are disabled, and to define curses_version() as a string in that
4206 case. This is needed to make the programs such as tic build in that
4208 + modified generated headers.sh to remove a gzip'd version of the
4209 target file if it exists, in case non-gzip'd manpages are installed
4210 into a directory where gzip'd ones exist. In that case, the latter
4212 + corrected a redundant initialization of signal handlers from 20010922
4214 + clarified bug-reporting address in terminfo.src (report by John H
4215 DuBois III <spcecdt@armory.com>).
4216 > several fixes from Robert Joop:
4217 + do not use "-v" option of awk in MKkey_defs.sh because it does not
4218 work with SunOS nawk.
4219 + modify definitions for libutf8 in curses.h to avoid redefinition
4221 + quoted references to compiler in shell command in misc/Makefile, in
4222 case it uses multiple tokens.
4225 + restore special case from 20010922 changes to omit SA_RESTART when
4226 setting up SIGWINCH handler, which is needed to allow wgetch() to be
4227 interrupted by that signal.
4228 + update configure macro CF_WITH_PATHLIST, to omit some double quotes
4229 not needed with autoconf 2.52
4230 + revert configure script to autoconf 2.13 patched with
4231 autoconf-2.13-19990117.patch.gz (or later)
4233 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
4234 because autoconf 2.52 macro AC_PROG_AWK does not work on HPUX 11.0
4235 (report by David Ellement <ellement@sdd.hp.com>). This also fixes a
4236 different problem configuring with Mac OS X (reported by Marc Smith
4237 <marc.a.smith@home.com>).
4240 + modify include/edit_cfg.h to eliminate BROKEN_LINKER symbol from
4242 + move prototype for _nc_vsscanf() into curses.h.in to omit
4243 HAVE_VSSCANF symbol from curses.h, which was dependent upon the
4244 ncurses_cfg.h file which is not installed.
4245 + use ACS_LEN rather than SIZEOF(acs_map) in trace code of lib_acs.c,
4246 to work with broken linker configuration, e.g., cygwin (report by
4247 Robert Joop <rj@rainbow.in-berlin.de>).
4248 + make napms() call _nc_timed_wait() rather than poll() or select(),
4249 to work around broken implementations of these on cygwin.
4252 + drop configure macro CF_WIDEC_SHIFT, since that was rendered obsolete
4253 by Sven Verdoolaege's rewrite of wide-character support. This makes
4254 libncursesw incompatible again, but makes the header files almost the
4255 same as in the narrow-character configuration.
4256 + simplify definitions that combine wide/narrow versions of bkgd, etc.,
4257 to eliminate differences between the wide/narrow versions of curses.h
4258 + correct typo in configure macro CF_FUNC_VSSCANF
4259 + correct location of call to _nc_keypad() from 20011215 changes which
4260 prevented keypad() from being disabled (reported by Lars Hecking).
4263 + rewrote ncurses 'a' test to exercise wgetch() and keypad() functions
4264 better, e.g., by adding a 'w' command to create new windows which
4265 may have different keypad() settings.
4266 + corrected logic of keypad() by adding internal screen state to track
4267 whether the terminal's keypad-mode has been set. Use this in
4268 wgetch() to update the keypad-mode according to whether the
4269 associated window's keypad-mode has been set with keypad(). This
4270 corrects a related problem restoring terminal state after handling
4271 SIGTSTP (reported by Mike Castle).
4272 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52
4273 autoconf-2.52-patch.gz
4275 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
4276 + update config.guess, config.sub from
4277 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
4278 + minor changes to quoting in configure script to allow it to work
4282 + modify final checks in lib_setup.c for line and col values, making
4284 + modify acs_map[] if configure --broken-linker is specified, to make
4285 it use a function rather than an array (prompted by an incorrect
4286 implementation in cygwin package).
4287 + correct spelling of configure option --enable-colorfgbg, which
4288 happened to work if --with-develop was set (noted in cygwin package
4290 + modify ifdef for genericerror() to compile with SUNWspro Sun WorkShop
4291 6 update 1 C++ 5.2 (patch by Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu>).
4292 + add configure checks to see if ncurses' fallback vsscanf() will
4293 compile either of the special cases for FILE structs, and if not,
4294 force it to the case which simply returns an error (report by
4295 Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu> indicates that Solaris 8 with
4296 64-bits does not allow access to FILE's fields).
4297 + modify ifdef's for c++/cursesw.cc to use the fallback vsscanf() in
4298 the ncurses library if no better substitute for this can be found
4300 + modify the build to name dynamic libraries according to the
4301 convention used on OS X and Darwin. Rather than something like
4302 libncurses.dylib.5.2, Darwin would name it libncurses. 5.dylib.
4303 There are a few additional minor fixes, such as setting the library
4304 version and compatibility version numbers (patch by Jason Evans
4305 <jevans@apple.com>).
4306 + use 'sh' to run mkinstalldirs, to work around problems with buggy
4307 versions of 'make' on OS/2 (report by John Polterak <jp@eyup.org>).
4308 + correct typo in manpage description of curs_set() (Debian #121548).
4309 + replace the configure script existence-check for mkstemp() by one
4310 that checks if the function works, needed for older glibc and
4314 + modify script that generates fallbacks.c to compile a temporary
4315 copy of the terminfo source in case the host does not contain all of
4316 the entries requested for fallbacks (request by Greg Roelofs).
4317 + modify configure script to accommodate systems such as Mac OS X whose
4318 <stdbool.h> header defines a 'bool' type inconsistent with ncurses,
4319 which normally makes 'bool' consistent with C++. Include <stdbool.h>
4320 from curses.h to force consistent usage, define a new type
4321 NCURSES_BOOL and related that to the exported 'bool' as either a
4322 typedef or definition, according to whether <stdbool.h> is present
4323 (based on a bug report for tin 1.5.9 by Aaron Adams <adamsa@mac.com>).
4326 + added/updated terminfo entries for M$ telnet and KDE konsole -TD
4329 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
4330 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
4331 + add putty terminfo entry -TD
4332 + if configuring for wide-curses, define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, since
4333 this may not otherwise be defined to make test/view.c compile.
4336 + review/correct several missing/generated items in curses.wide, sorted
4337 the lists to make subsequent diff's easier to track.
4340 + add manual pages for add_wch(), echo_wchar(), getcchar(),
4341 mvadd_wch(), mvwadd_wch(), setcchar(), wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar().
4342 + implement wecho_wchar()
4343 + modify _tracedump() to handle wide-characters by mapping them to '?'
4344 and control-characters to '.', to make the trace file readable. Also
4345 dynamically allocate the buffer used by _tracedump() for formatting
4347 + modify T_CALLED/T_RETURN macros to ease balancing call/return lines
4348 in a trace by using curly braces.
4349 + implement _nc_viscbuf(), for tracing cchar_t arrays.
4350 + correct trace-calls in setcchar() and getcchar() functions, which
4351 traced the return values but not the entry to each function.
4352 + correct usage message in test/view.c, which still mentioned -u flag.
4355 + modify configure script to allow building with termcap only, or with
4356 fallbacks only. In this case, we do not build tic and toe.
4357 + add configure --with-termpath option, to override default TERMPATH
4358 value of /etc/termcap:/usr/share/misc/termcap.
4359 + cosmetic change to tack: make menu descriptions agree with menu
4363 + rewrote limit-checks in wscrl() and associated _nc_scroll_window(),
4364 to ensure that if the parameter of wscrl() is larger than the size of
4365 the scrolling region, then the scrolling region will be cleared
4366 (report by Ben Kohlen <bckohlen@yahoo.com>).
4367 + add trace/varargs.c, using this to trace parameters in lib_printw.c
4368 + implement _tracecchar_t2() and _tracecchar_t().
4369 + split-out trace/visbuf.c
4370 + correct typo in lib_printw.c changes from 20010922 (report by Mike
4374 + modify run_tic.sh to check if the build is a cross-compile. In that
4375 case, do not use the build's tic to install the terminfo database
4376 (report by Rafael Rodriguez Velilla <rrv@tid.es>).
4377 + modify mouse click resolution so that mouseinterval(-1) will disable
4378 it, e.g., to handle touchscreens via a slow connection (request by
4379 Byron Stanoszek <gandalf@winds.org>).
4380 + correct mouseinterval() default value shown in curs_mouse.3x
4381 + remove conflicting definition of mouse_trafo() (reported by Lars
4382 Hecking, using gcc 2.95.3).
4385 + simpler fix for signal_name(), to replace the one overlooked in
4386 20010929 (reported by Larry Virden).
4389 + add -i option to view.c, to test ncurses' check for non-default
4390 signal handler for SIGINT, etc.
4391 + add cases for shared-libraries on Darwin/OS X (patch by Rob Braun
4392 <bbraun@synack.net>).
4393 + modify tset to restore original I/O modes if an error is encountered.
4394 Also modify to use buffered stderr consistently rather than mixing
4396 + change signal_name() function to use if-then-else rather than case
4397 statement, since signal-values aren't really integers (reported by
4399 + add limit checks in wredrawln(), fixing a problem where lynx was
4400 repainting a pad which was much larger than the screen.
4403 + fix: PutRange() was counting the second part of a wide character as
4404 part of a run, resulting in a cursor position that was one too far
4405 (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
4406 + modify resizeterm() to not queue a KEY_RESIZE if there was no
4407 SIGWINCH, thereby separating the two styles of SIGWINCH handling
4409 + simplified lib_tstp.c, modify it to use SA_RESTART flag for SIGWINCH.
4410 + eliminate several static buffers in the terminfo compiler, using
4412 + modify MKkeyname.awk so that keyname() does not store its result into
4413 a static buffer that is overwritten by the next call.
4414 + reorganize the output of infocmp -E and -e options to compile cleanly
4415 with gcc -Wwrite-strings warnings.
4416 + remove redefinition of chgat/wchgat/mvwchgat from curses.wide
4419 + add label to test/view.c, showing the name of the last key or signal
4420 that made the screen repaint, to make it clearer when a sigwinch
4422 + use ExitProgram() consistently in the test-programs to make it
4423 simpler to test leaks with dmalloc, etc.
4424 + move hashtab static data out of hashmap.c into SCREEN struct.
4425 + make NO_LEAK code compile with revised WINDOWLIST structs.
4428 + modify tgetent() to check if exit_attribute_mode resets the alternate
4429 character set, and if so, attempt to adjust the copy of the termcap
4430 "me" string which it will return to eliminate that part. In
4431 particular, 'screen' would lose track of line-drawing characters
4432 (report by Frederic L W Meunier <0@pervalidus.net>, analysis by
4436 + specify DOCTYPE in html manpages.
4437 + add missing macros for several "generated" functions: attr_get(),
4438 attr_off(), attr_on(), attr_set(), chgat(), mvchgat(), mvwchgat() and
4440 + modify view.c to agree with non-experimental status of ncurses'
4442 + change the sense of the -r option, making it default to ncurses'
4444 + add a note explaining what functions are unsafe in a signal
4446 + add a -c option, to set color display, for testing.
4447 + unset $data variable in MKterminfo.sh script, to address potential
4448 infinite loop if shell malfunction (report by Samuel Mikes
4449 <smikes@cubane.com>, for bash 2.05.0 on a Linux 2.0.36 system).
4450 + change kbs in mach terminfo entries to ^? (Marcus Brinkmann
4451 <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>).
4452 + correct logic for COLORFGBG environment variable: if rxvt is compiled
4453 with xpm support, the variable has three fields, making it slightly
4454 incompatible with itself. In either case, the background color is
4458 + move calls to def_shell_mode() and def_prog_mode() before loop with
4459 callbacks in lib_set_term.c, since the c++ demo otherwise initialized
4460 the tty modes before saving them (patch by John David Anglin
4461 <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>).
4462 + duplicate logic used to initialize trace in newterm(), in initscr()
4463 to avoid confusing trace of initscr().
4464 + simplify allocation of WINDOW and WINDOWLIST structs by making the
4465 first a part of the second rather than storing a pointer. This saves
4466 a call to malloc for each window (discussion with Philippe Blain).
4467 + remove unused variable 'used_ncv' from lib_vidattr.c (Philippe
4469 + modify c++/Makefile.in to accommodate archive programs that are
4470 different for C++ than for C, and add cases for vendor's C++
4471 compilers on Solaris and IRIX (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
4472 + correct manpage description of criteria for deciding if the terminal
4473 supports xterm mouse controls.
4474 + add several configure script options to aid with cross-compiling:
4475 --with-build-cc, --with-build-cflags, --with-build-ldflags, and
4476 --with-build-libs (request by Greg Roelofs).
4477 + change criteria for deciding if configure is cross-compiling from
4478 host/build mismatch to host/target mismatch (request by Greg Roelofs
4479 <greg.roelofs@philips.com>).
4480 + correct logic for infocmp -e and -E options which writes the data for
4481 the ext_Names[] array. This is needed if one constructs a fallback
4482 table for a terminfo entry which uses extended termcap names, e.g.,
4483 AX in a color xterm.
4484 + fix undefined NCURSES_PATHSEP when configure --disable-database
4488 + fix for VALID_BOOLEAN() macro when char is not signed.
4489 + modify 'clean' rule for C++ binding to work with Sun compiler, which
4490 caches additional information in a subdirectory of the objects.
4491 + added llib-ncursesw.
4494 + add Caps.keys example for experimental extended function keys
4495 (adapted from a patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
4496 + correct parameter types of vidputs() and vidattr() to agree with
4497 header files (report by William P Setzer).
4498 + fix typos in several man-pages (patch by William P Setzer).
4499 + remove unneeded ifdef for __GNUG__ in CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC configure
4500 macro, which made ncurses C++ binding fail to build with other
4501 C++ compilers such as HPUX 11.x (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
4502 + workaround for bug in HPUX 11.x C compiler: add a blank after
4503 NCURSES_EXPORT macro in form.h (report by Albert Chin-A-Young)
4504 + ignore blank lines in Caps* files in MKkey_defs.sh script (report by
4505 Albert Chin-A-Young).
4506 + correct definition of key_end in Caps.aix4, which left KEY_END
4507 undefined (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
4508 + remove a QNX-specific fallback prototype for vsscanf(), which is
4509 obsolete with QNX RTP.
4510 + review/fix some of the T() and TR() macro calls, having noticed that
4511 there was no data for delwin() in a trace of dialog because there was
4512 no returnVoid call for wtimeout(). Also, traces in lib_twait.c are
4513 now selected under TRACE_IEVENT rather than TRACE_CALLS.
4516 + add a _nc_access() check before opening files listed via $TERMPATH.
4517 + using modified man2html, regenerate some of the html manpages to fix
4518 broken HREF's where the link was hyphenated.
4521 + add some limit/pointer checks to -S option of tputs.
4522 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
4523 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
4524 + add a note in curs_termcap.3x regarding a defect in the XSI
4525 description of tgetent (based on a discussion with Urs Jansen
4526 regarding the HPUX 11.x implementation, whose termcap interface is
4527 not compatible with existing termcap programs).
4528 + modify manhtml rule in dist.mk to preserve copyright notice on the
4529 generated files, as well as to address HTML style issues reported by
4530 tidy and weblint. Regenerated/updated corresponding html files.
4531 + comment out use of Protected_Character and related rarely used
4532 attributes in ncurses Ada95 test/demo to compile with wide-character
4536 + implement a simple example in C++ demo to test scanw().
4537 + corrected stdio function used to implement scanw() in cursesw.cc
4538 + correct definition of RemAttr() macro from 20010602 changes, which
4539 caused C++ SillyDemo to not show line-drawing characters.
4540 + modify C++ binding, adding getKey() which can be overridden by user
4541 to substitute functions other than getch() for keyboard processing
4542 of forms and menus (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
4545 + fix some of the trace calls which needed modification to work with
4546 new wide-character structures.
4547 + modify magic-cookie code in tty_update.c to compile with new
4548 wide-character structures (report by <George.R.Goffe@seagate.com>).
4549 + ensure that _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined in curses.priv.h if
4550 compiling for wide-character configuration.
4551 + make addwnstr() handle non-spacing characters (patch by Sven
4555 + add configure check to define _GNU_SOURCE, needed to prop up glibc
4557 + split-out include/curses.wide to solve spurious redefinitions caused
4558 by defining _GNU_SOURCE, and move includes for <signal.h> before
4559 <curses.h> to work around misdefinition of ERR in glibc 2.1.3 header
4561 + extended ospeed change to NetBSD and OpenBSD -TD
4562 + modify logic in lib_baudrate.c for ospeed, for FreeBSD to make it
4563 work properly for termcap applications (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
4566 + correct an overlooked CharOf/UChar instance (reports by Eugene Lee
4567 <eugene@anime.net>, Sven Verdoolaege).
4568 + correct unneeded ifdef for wunctrl() (reported by Sven Verdoolaege)
4571 + change overlooked several CharOf/UChar instances.
4572 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
4573 + correct a typo in wunctrl(), which made it appear that botwc() was
4574 needed (no such function: use btowc()).
4575 + reimplement wide-character demo in test/view.c, using new functions.
4576 + implement getcchar(), setcchar(), wadd_wchnstr() and related macros.
4577 + fix a syntax problem with do/if/while in PUTC macro (curses.priv.h).
4580 + add parentheses in macros for malloc in test.priv.h, fixes an
4581 expression in view.c (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.co.at>).
4582 + add Caps.uwin, as an example.
4583 + change the way curses.h is generated, making the list of function
4584 key definitions extracted from the Caps file.
4585 + add #undef's before possible redefinition of ERR and OK in curses.h
4586 + modify logic in tic, toe, tput and tset which checks for basename of
4587 argv[0] to work properly on systems such as OS/2 which have
4588 case-independent filenames and/or program suffixes, e.g., ".ext".
4591 + add a configure check, if --enable-widec is specified, for putwc(),
4592 which may be in libutf8.
4593 + remove some unnecessary text from curs_extend.3x and
4594 default_colors.3x which caused man-db to make incorrect symbolic
4595 links (Debian bug report #99550).
4596 + add configure check if cast for _IO_va_list is needed to compile
4597 C++ vscan code (Debian bug report #97945).
4598 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
4599 + correct code that used non-standard auto-initialization of a struct,
4600 which gcc allows (report by Larry Virden).
4601 + use putwc() in PUTC() macro.
4602 + make addstr() work for the special case where the codeset is
4603 non-stateful (eg. UTF-8), as well as stateful codesets.
4606 + correct loop expression in NEXT_CHAR macro for lib_addstr.c changes
4607 from 20010602 (report by Mike Castle).
4610 + modify mvcur() to avoid emitting newline characters when nonl() mode
4611 is set. Normally this is not a problem since the actual terminal
4612 mode is set to suppress nl/crlf translations, however it is useful to
4613 allow the caller to manipulate the terminal mode to avoid staircasing
4614 effects after spawning a process which writes messages (for lynx
4616 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>:
4617 + remove redundant type-conversion in fifo_push()
4618 + correct definition of addwstr() macro in curses.h.in
4619 + remove _nc_utf8_outch()
4620 + rename most existing uses of CharOf() to UChar(), e.g., where it is
4621 used to prevent sign-extension in ctype macros.
4622 + change some chtype's to attr_t's where the corresponding variables
4623 are used to manipulate attributes.
4624 + UpdateAttr() was applied to both attributes (attr_t) and characters
4625 (chtype). Modify macro and calls to it to make these distinct.
4626 + add CharEq() macro, use in places where wide-character configuration
4627 implementation uses a struct for cchar_t.
4628 + moved struct ldat into curses.priv.h, to hide implementation details.
4629 + change CharOf() macro to use it for masking A_CHARTEXT data from
4631 + add L() macro to curses.priv.h, for long-character literals.
4632 + replace several assignments from struct ldat entries to chtype or
4633 char values with combinations of CharOf() and AttrOf() macros.
4634 + add/use intermediate ChAttrOf() and ChCharOf() macros where we know
4635 we are using chtype data.
4636 + add/use lowlevel attribute manipulation macros AddAttr(), RemAttr()
4638 + add/use SetChar() macro, to change a cchar_t based on a character and
4640 + convert most internal use of chtype to NCURSES_CH_T, to simplify use
4641 of cchar_t for wide-character configuration. Similarly, use ARG_CH_T
4642 where a pointer would be more useful.
4643 + add stubs for tracing cchar_t values.
4644 + add/use macro ISBLANK()
4645 + add/use constructors for cchar_t's: NewChar(), NewChar2().
4646 + add/use macros CHREF(), CHDEREF(), AttrOfD(), CharOfD() to facilitate
4647 passing cchar_t's by address.
4648 + add/use PUTC_DATA, PUTC() macros.
4649 + for wide-character configuration, move the window background data to
4650 the end of the WINDOW struct so that whether _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
4651 is defined or not, the offsets in the struct will not change.
4652 + modify addch() to work with wide-characters.
4653 + mark several wide-character functions as generated in curses.h.in
4654 + implement wunctrl(), wadd_wch(), wbkgrndset(), wbkgrnd(),
4655 wborder_set() and waddnwstr().
4658 + add experimental --with-caps=XXX option to customize to similar
4659 terminfo database formats such as AIX 4.x
4660 + add Caps.aix4 as an example.
4661 + modify Caps to add columns for the the KEY_xxx symbols.
4662 + modify configure --with-widec to suppress overwrite of libcurses.so
4664 + add checks to toe.c to avoid being confused by files and directories
4665 where we would expect the reverse, e.g., source-files in the
4666 top-level terminfo levels as is the case for AIX.
4669 + add top-level 'depend' rule for the C sources, assuming that the
4670 makedepend program is available. As a side-effect, this makes
4671 the generated sources, as in "make sources" (prompted by a report
4672 by Mike Castle that "make -j" fails because the resulting parallel
4673 processes race to generate ncurses/names.c).
4674 + modify configure script so that --disable-overwrite option's action
4675 to add a symbolic link for libcurses applies to the static library as
4676 well as the shared library when both are configured (report by Felix
4677 Natter <f.natter@ndh.net>).
4678 + add ELKS terminfo entries (Federico Bianchi
4679 <bianchi@www.arte.unipi.it>)
4680 + add u6 (CSR) to Eterm (Michael Jennings).
4683 + modify test/ncurses.c to work with xterm-256color, which has fewer
4684 color pairs than colors*colors (report by David Ellement
4685 <ellement@sdd.hp.com>).
4688 + corrected screen.xterm-xfree86 entry.
4689 + update comment in Caps regarding IBM (AIX) function-key definitions.
4692 + modify c++/Makefile.in to link with libncurses++w.a when configured
4693 for wide-characters (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
4694 + add check in _nc_trace_buf() to refrain from freeing a null pointer.
4695 + improve CF_PROG_INSTALL macro using CF_DIRNAME.
4696 + update config.guess, config.sub from autoconf 2.49e (alpha).
4699 + add secondary check in tic.c, similar_sgr() to see if the reason
4700 for mismatch was that the individual capabilities used a time-delay
4701 while sgr did not. Used this to cleanup mismatches, e.g., in vt100,
4702 and remove time-delay from Apple_Terminal entries.
4703 + add Apple_Terminal terminfo entries (Benjamin C W Sittler
4704 <bsittler@iname.com>).
4705 + correct definitions of shifted editing keys for xterm-xfree86 -TD
4706 + fix a bug in test/bs.c from 20010407 (patch by Erik Sigra).
4707 + prevent relative_move() from doing an overwrite if it detects 8-bit
4708 characters when configured for UTF-8 (reported by Sven Verdoolaege
4709 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
4712 + add configure checks for strstream.h vscan function, and similar
4713 stdio-based function which may be used in C++ binding for gcc 3.0
4714 (reports by George Goffe, Lars Hecking, Mike Castle).
4715 + rewrite parts of configure.in which used changequote(). That feature
4716 is broken in the latest autoconf alphas (e.g., 2.49d).
4717 + add a missing pathname for ncurses_dll.h, needed when building in
4718 a directory outside the source tree (patch by Sven Verdoolaege
4719 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
4720 > fix 2 bugs in test/bs.c Erik Sigra <sigra@home.se>:
4721 + no ships were ever placed in the last row or in the last column.
4722 This made the game very easy to win, because you never had to waste
4723 any shots there, but the computer did.
4724 + the squares around a sunken ship that belonged to the player were not
4725 displayed as already hit by the computer, like it does for the
4729 + add some examples of customizing screen's terminfo:
4730 screen.xterm-xfree86, screen.xterm-r6, screen.teraterm -TD
4731 + modify screen's terminfo entry to match the khome/kend in screen
4732 3.09.08 (Debian bug report #92215).
4733 + correct a memory leak in forms library (report by Stefan Vogtner
4734 <stefan@vogtner.de>) (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
4737 + change symbols used to guard against repeated includes to begin
4738 consistently with "NCURSES_" rather than a leading underscore. There
4739 are other symbols defined in the header files which begin with a
4740 leading underscore, but they are part of the legacy interface.
4741 + reorder includes in c++ binding so that rcs identifiers can be
4743 + add .cc.ii rule to c++ makefile, to get preprocessor output for
4745 + correct configure script handling of @keyword@ substitutions when the
4746 --with-manpage-renames option is given (cf: 20000715, fixes Debian
4748 + report stack underflow/overflow in tparm() when tic -cv option is
4750 + remove spurious "%|" operator from xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry,
4751 (reported by Adam Costello <amc@cs.berkeley.edu>, Debian bug #89222).
4754 + cleanup of newdemo.c, fixing some ambiguous expressions noted by gcc
4755 2.95.2, and correcting some conflicting color pair initializations.
4756 + add missing copyright notice for cursesw.h
4757 + review, make minor fixes for use of '::' for referring to C-language
4758 interface from C++ binding.
4759 + modify configure check for g++ library slightly to accommodate
4760 nonstandard version number, e.g., <vendor>-2.7 (report by Ronald Ho
4761 <rho@mipos2.intel.com>).
4762 + add configure check for c++ <sstream> header, replace hardcoded
4764 + workaround for pre-release of gcc 3.0 libstdc++, which has dropped
4765 vscan from strstreambuf to follow standard, use wrapper for C vscanf
4766 instead (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@excite.com> and Matt Taggart
4767 <taggart@carmen.fc.hp.com>, fixes Debian .
4770 + modify interface of _nc_get_token() to pass 'silent' parameter to it,
4771 to make quieter loading of /etc/termcap (patch by Todd C Miller).
4772 + correct a few typos in curs_slk.3x and curs_outopts.3x manpages
4773 (patch by Todd C Miller).
4776 + compiler-warning fixes (reported by Nelson Beebe).
4779 + modify screen terminfo entry to use new 3.9.8 feature allowing xterm
4783 + broaden patterns used to match OS/2 EMX in configure script to cover
4784 variant used in newer config.guess/config.sub
4785 + remove changequote() calls from configure script, since this feature
4786 is broken in the autoconf 2.49c alpha, maintainers decline to fix.
4787 + remove macro callPutChar() from tty_update.c, since this is no longer
4788 needed (reported by Philippe Blain).
4789 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c to handle the case when the input
4790 file is really empty. Modify the next_char() function in comp_scan.c
4791 to allow arbitrarily long lines, and incidentally supply a newline to
4792 files that do not end in a newline. These changes improve tic's
4793 recovery from attempts to read binary files, e.g., its output from
4794 the terminfo database (reported by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
4797 + revert change to c++/demo.cc from 20001209, which changed definition
4798 of main() apparently to accommodate cygwin linker, but broke the demo
4800 + workaround for broken egcs 2.91.66 which calls member functions
4801 (i.e., lines() and colors() of NCursesWindow before calling its
4802 constructor. Add calls to initialize() in a few constructors which
4803 did not do this already.
4804 + use the GNAT preprocessor to make the necessary switch between TRACE
4805 and NO_TRACE configurations (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
4806 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
4807 + modify kterm terminfo entry to use SCS sequence to support alternate
4808 character set (it does not work with SI/SO).
4809 + --with-ospeed=something didn't work. configure.in checked for a
4810 $enableval where it should check for $withval. Also,
4811 ncurses/llib-lncurses still had a hardcoded short.
4814 + correction to my merge of Tom Riddle's patch that broke tic in some
4815 conditions (reported by Enoch Wexler <enoch@wexler.co.il>) -TD
4818 + modify view.c to test halfdelay(). Like other tests, this recognizes
4819 the 's' and space commands for stopping/starting polled input, shows
4820 a freerunning clock in the header. If given a parameter to 's', that
4821 makes view.c use halfdelay() with that parameter rather than
4823 + fix to allow compile with the experimental configure option
4825 + modify postprocess_termcap() to avoid overwriting key_backspace,
4826 key_left, key_down when processing a non-base entry (report/patch by
4828 + modify _nc_wrap_entry(), adding option to reallocate the string
4829 table, needed in _nc_merge_entry() when merging termcap entries.
4830 (adapted from report/patch by Tom Riddle <ftr@oracom.com>).
4831 + modify a few configure script macros to keep $CFLAGS used only for
4832 compiler options, preprocessor options in $CPPFLAGS.
4835 + correct marker positions in lrtest.c after receiving a sigwinch.
4836 + fix ifdef's in ncurses.c to build against pre-5.2 for testing.
4837 + fixes to tclock for resizing behavior, redundant computation (report
4838 and patch by A M Kuchling <akuchlin@mems-exchange.org>).
4841 + improved scoansi terminfo entry -TD
4842 + modify configure script and makefile in Ada95/src to compile a stub
4843 for the trace functions when ncurses does not provide those.
4846 + add ncurses_dll.h and related definitions to support generating DLL's
4847 with cygwin (adapted from a patch by Charles Wilson
4848 <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>, changed NCURSES_EXPORT macro to make it
4849 work with 'indent') -TD
4852 + correct prototypes for some functions in curs_termcap.3x, matching
4853 termcap.h, which matches X/Open.
4854 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
4855 + a revised version of the Ada enhancements sent in by "H.
4856 Nanosecond", aka Eugene V Melaragno <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>. This
4858 - small fixes to the existing ncurses binding
4859 - addition of some more low-level functions to the binding, including
4860 termcap and terminfo functions
4861 - An Ada implementation of the "ncurses" test application originally
4865 + modify logic in lib_setup.c to allow either lines or columns value
4866 from terminfo to be used if the screen size cannot be determined
4867 dynamically rather than requiring both (patch by Ehud Karni
4868 <ehud@unix.simonwiesel.co.il>).
4869 + add check in lib_tgoto.c's is_termcap() function to reject null or
4870 empty strings (reported by Valentin Nechayev <netch@netch.kiev.ua> to
4872 + add definition from configure script that denotes the path-separator,
4873 which is normally a colon. The path-separator is a semicolon on
4874 OS/2 EMX and similar systems which may use a colon within pathnames.
4875 + alter logic to set default for --disable-overwrite option to set it
4876 to 'yes' if the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr/local, thereby
4877 accommodating the most common cause of problems: gcc's nonstandard
4878 search rules. Other locations such as /usr/local/ncurses will
4879 default to overwriting (report by Lars Hecking <lhecking@nmrc.ie>).
4882 + modify default for --disable-overwrite configure option to disable
4883 if the --prefix or $prefix value is not /usr.
4884 + add cygwin to systems for which ncurses is installed by default into
4885 /usr rather than /usr/local.
4888 + minor optimization in comp_error.c and lib_termname.c, using
4889 strncat() to replace strncpy() (patch by Solar Designer).
4890 + add a use_terminfo_vars() check for $HOME/.termcap, and check for
4891 geteuid() to use_terminfo_vars() (patch by Solar Designer
4893 + improved cygwin terminfo entry, based on patch by
4894 <ernie_boyd@yahoo.com>.
4895 + modify _nc_write_entry() to allow for the possibility that linking
4896 aliases on a filesystem that ignores case would not succeed because
4897 the source and destination differ only by case, e.g., NCR260VT300WPP0
4898 on cygwin (report by Neil Zanella).
4899 + fix a typo in the curs_deleteln.3x man page (patch by Bernhard
4900 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
4903 + add configure option --with-ospeed to assist packagers in transition
4904 to 5.3 change to ospeed type.
4905 + add/use CharOf() macro to suppress sign-extension of char type on
4906 platforms where this is a problem in ctype macros, e.g., Solaris.
4907 + change trace output to binary format.
4908 + correct a missing quote adjustment in CF_PATH_SYNTAX autoconf
4909 macro, for OS/2 EMX configuration.
4910 + rearrange a few configure macros, moving preprocessor options to
4911 $CPPFLAGS (a now-obsolete version of autoconf did not consistently
4912 use $CPPFLAGS in both the compile and preprocessor checks).
4913 + add a check in relative_move() to guard against buffer overflow in
4914 the overwrite logic.
4917 + add message to configure script showing g++ version.
4918 + resync config.guess, config.sub
4919 + modify lib_delwin.c, making it return ERR if the window did not exist
4920 (suggested by Neil Zanella).
4921 + add cases for FreeBSD 3.1 to tdlint and makellib scripts, used this
4922 to test/review ncurses library. (Would use lclint, but it doesn't
4924 + reorganized knight.c to avoid forward references. Correct screen
4925 updates when backtracking, especially to the first cell. Add F/B/a
4928 20001021 5.2 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
4929 + update generated html files from manpages.
4930 + modify dist.mk to use edit_man.sh to substitute autoconf'd variables
4932 + fix an uninitialized pointer in read_termcap.c (report by Todd C
4933 Miller, from report/patch by Philip Guenther <guenther@gac.edu>).
4934 + correct help-message and array limit in knight.c (patch by Brian
4935 Raiter <breadbox@muppetlabs.com>).
4936 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
4937 + fix to avoid warning by GNAT-3.13p about use of inconsistent casing
4938 for some identifiers defined in the standard package.
4939 + cosmetic change to forms/fty_enum.c
4942 + correct an off-by-one position in test/railroad.c which could cause
4943 wrapping at the right margin.
4944 + test/repair some issues with libtool configuration. Make
4945 --disable-echo force libtool --silent. (Libtool does not work for
4946 OS/2 EMX, works partly for SCO - libtool is still very specific to
4948 + change default of --with-manpage-tbl to "no", since for most of the
4949 platforms which do have tbl installed, the system "man" program
4950 understands how to run tbl automatically.
4951 + minor improvement to force_bar() in comp_parse.c (Bernhard
4952 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
4953 + modify lib_tparm.c to use get_space() before writing terminating
4954 null character, both for consistency as well as to ensure that if
4955 save_char() was called immediately before, that the allocated memory
4956 is enough (patch by Sergei Ivanov).
4957 + add note about termcap ML capability which is duplicated between two
4958 different capabilities: smgl and smglr (reported by Sergei Ivanov
4959 <svivanov@pdmi.ras.ru>).
4960 + correct parameter counts in include/Caps for dclk as well as some
4961 printer-specific capabilities: csnm, defc, scs, scsd, smgtp, smglp.
4962 > patch by Johnny C Lam <lamj@stat.cmu.edu>:
4963 + add support for building with libtool (apparently version 1.3.5,
4964 since old versions do not handle -L../lib), using new configure
4965 option --with-libtool.
4966 + add configure option --with-manpage-tbl, which causes the manpages to
4967 be preprocessed by tbl(1) prior to installation,
4968 + add configure option --without-curses-h, which causes the
4969 installation process to install curses.h as ncurses.h and make
4970 appropriate changes to headers and manpages.
4973 + correct order of options/parameters in run_tic.in invocation of tic,
4974 which did not work with standard getopt() (reported by Ethan
4975 Butterfield <primus@veris.org>).
4976 + correct logic for 'reverse' variable in lib_vidattr.c, which was
4977 setting it true without checking if newmode had A_REVERSE set, e.g.,
4978 using $TERM=ansi on OS/2 EMX (see 20000917).
4979 > patch by Todd C Miller:
4980 + add a few missing use_terminfo_vars() and fixes up _nc_tgetent().
4981 Previously, _nc_cgetset() would still get called on cp so the
4982 simplest thing is to set cp to NULL if !use_terminfo_vars().
4983 + added checks for an empty $HOME environment variable.
4984 > patches for OS/2 EMX (Ilya Zakharevich):
4985 + modify convert_configure.pl to support INSTALL. Change compiler
4986 options in that script to use multithreading, needed for the mouse.
4987 + modify OS/2 mouse support, retrying as a 2-button mouse if code fails
4988 to set up a 3-button mouse.
4989 + improve code for OS/2 mouse support, using _nc_timed_wait() to
4990 replace select() call.
4993 + change type of ospeed variable back to short to match its use in
4994 legacy applications (reported by Andrey A Chernov).
4995 + add case to configure script for --enable-rpath on IRIX (patch by
4996 Albert Chin-A-Young).
4997 + minor fix to position_check() function, to ensure it gets the whole
4998 cursor report before decoding.
4999 + add configure option --disable-assumed-color, to allow pre-5.1
5000 convention of default colors used for color-pair 0 to be configured
5001 (see assume_default_colors()).
5002 + rename configure option --enable-hashmap --disable-hashmap, and
5003 reorder the configure options, splitting the experimental and
5005 + add configure option --disable-root-environ, which tells ncurses to
5006 disregard $TERMINFO and similar environment variables if the current
5007 user is root, or running setuid/setgid (based on discussion with
5009 + modified misc/run_tic.in to use tic -o, to eliminate dependency on
5010 $TERMINFO variable for installs.
5011 + add table entry for plab_norm to tput, so it passes in strings
5012 for that capability.
5013 + modify parse_format() in lib_tparm.c to ignore precision if it is
5014 longer than 10000 (report by Jouko Pynnonen).
5015 + rewrote limit checks in lib_mvcur.c using new functions
5016 _nc_safe_strcat(), etc. Made other related changes to check lengths
5017 used for strcat/strcpy (report by Jouko Pynnonen
5018 <jouko@solutions.fi>).
5021 + modify several descriptions, including those for setaf, setab, in
5022 include/Caps to indicate that the entries are parameterized. This
5023 information is used to tell which strings are translated when
5024 converting to termcap. Fixes a problem where the generated termcap
5025 would contain a spurious "%p1" for the terminfo "%p1%d".
5026 + modify ld -rpath options (e.g., Linux, and Solaris) to use an
5027 absolute pathname for the build tree's lib directory (prompted by
5028 discussion with Albert Chin-A-Young).
5029 + modify "make install.man" and "make uninstall.man" to include tack's
5031 + various fixes for install scripts used to support configure --srcdir
5032 and --with-install-prefix (reported by Matthew Clarke
5033 <Matthew_Clarke@mindlink.bc.ca>).
5034 + make configure script checks on variables $GCC and $GXX consistently
5035 compare against 'yes' rather than test if they are nonnull, since
5036 either may be set to the corresponding name of the C or C++ compiler
5037 (report/patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
5040 + modify rs2 capability in xterm-r6 and similar where cursor
5041 save/restore bracketed the sequence for resetting video attributes.
5042 The cursor restore would undo that (report by John Hawkinson
5043 <jhawk@MIT.EDU> (see NetBSD misc/11052)).
5044 + using parameter check added to tic, corrected 27 typos in
5046 + modify tic to verify that its inputs are really files, in case
5047 someone tries to read a directory (or /dev/zero).
5048 + add a check for empty buffers returned by fgets() in comp_scan.c
5049 next_char() function, in case tic is run on a non-text file (fixes
5050 a core dump reported by Aaron Campbell <aaron@cs.dal.ca>).
5051 + add to railroad.c some code exercising tgoto(), providing an
5052 alternate form of display if the terminal supports cursor addressing.
5053 + split-out tgoto() again, this time into new file lib_tgoto.c, and
5054 implement a conventional BSD-style tgoto() which is used if the
5055 capability string does not contain terminfo-style padding or
5056 parameters (requested by Andrey A Chernov).
5057 + add check to tic which reports capabilities that do not reference
5058 the expected number of parameters.
5059 + add error checking to infocmp's -v and -m options to ensure that
5060 the option value is indeed a number.
5061 + some cleanup of logic in _nc_signal_handler() to verify if SIGWINCH
5062 handler is setup. Separated the old/new sigaction data for SIGTSTP
5063 from the other signals.
5066 + add S0, E0 extensions to screen's terminfo entry, which is another
5067 way to solve the misconfiguration issue -TD
5068 + completed special case for tgoto from 20000916
5071 + update xterm terminfo entries to match XFree86 xterm patch #146 -TD
5072 + add Matrix Orbital terminfo entries (from Eric Z Ayers
5074 + add special case to lib_tparm.c to allow 'screen' program to use a
5075 termcap-style parameter "%." to tgoto() for switching character sets.
5076 + use LN_S substitution in run_tic.in, to work on OS/2 EMX which has
5078 + updated notes in README.emx regarding autoconf patches.
5079 + replace a lookup table in lib_vidattr.c used to decode no_color_video
5080 with a logic expression (suggested by Philippe Blain).
5081 + add a/A toggle to ncurses.c 'b' test, which clears/sets alternate
5082 character set attribute from the displayed text.
5083 + correct inequality in parameter analysis of rewritten lib_tparm.c
5084 which had the effect of ignoring p9 in set_attributes (sgr), breaking
5085 alternate character set (reported by Piotr Majka <charvel@link.pl>).
5086 + correct ifdef'ing for GCC_PRINTF, GCC_SCANF which would not compile
5087 with Sun WorkShop compilers since these tokens were empty (cf:
5088 20000902, reported by Albert Chin-A-Young).
5091 + correct an uninitialized parameter to open_tempfile() in tic.c which
5092 made "tic -I" give an ambiguous error message about tmpnam.
5093 + add special case in lib_vidattr.c to reset underline and standout for
5094 devices that have no sgr0 defined (patch by Don Lewis
5095 <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>). Note that this will not work for bold
5096 mode, since there is no exit-bold-mode capability.
5097 + improved patch for Make_Enum_Type (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
5098 + modify tparm to disallow arithmetic on strings, analyze the varargs
5099 list to read strings as strings and numbers as numbers.
5100 + modify tparm's internal function spop() to treat a null pointer as
5102 + modify tput program so it can be renamed or invoked via a link as
5103 'reset' or 'init', producing the same effect as 'tput reset' or 'tput
5105 + add private entrypoint _nc_basename(), use to consolidate related
5106 code in progs, as well as accommodating OS/2 EMX pathnames.
5107 + remove NCURSES_CONST line from edit_cfg.sh to compensate for its
5108 removal (except via AC_SUBST) from configure.in, making
5109 --enable-const work again (reported by Juergen Pfeifer).
5110 + regen'd configure to pick up "hpux*" change from 20000902.
5113 + modify tset.c to check for transformed "reset" program name, if any.
5114 + add a check for null pointer in Make_Enum_Type() (reported by Steven
5115 W Orr <steveo@world.std.com>).
5116 + change functions _nc_parse_entry() and postprocess_termcap() to avoid
5117 using strtok(), because it is non-reentrant (reported by Andrey A
5118 Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>).
5119 + remove "hpux10.*" case from CF_SHARED_OPTS configure script macro.
5120 This differed from the "hpux*" case by using reversed symbolic
5121 links, which made the 5.1 version not match the configuration of
5122 5.0 shared libraries (reported by Albert Chin-A-Young).
5123 + correct a dependency in Ada95/src/Makefile.in which prevented
5124 building with configure --srcdir (patch by H Nanosecond
5125 <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>).
5126 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in to avoid warning if GCC_PRINTF or
5127 GCC_SCANF was not previously defined (reported by Pavel Roskin
5129 + add MKncurses_def.sh to generate fallback definitions for
5130 ncurses_cfg.h, to quiet gcc -Wundef warnings, modified ifdef's in
5131 code to consistently use "#if" rather than "#ifdef".
5134 + add QNX qansi entries to terminfo -TD
5135 + add os2 entry to misc/emx.src (<jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>).
5136 + add configure option --with-database to allow specifying a different
5137 terminfo source-file to install. On OS/2 EMX, this defaults to
5139 + change misc/run_tic.sh to derive it from misc/run_tic.in, to simplify
5140 setting .exe extension on OS/2 EMX.
5141 + add .exe extension in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in,
5142 Ada95/samples/Makefile.in, for OS/2 EMX (reported by
5143 <jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>).
5144 + add configure check for filesystems (such as OS/2 EMX) which do not
5145 distinguish between upper/lowercase filenames, use this to fix tags
5147 + initialize fds[] array to 0's in _nc_timed_wait(); apparently poll()
5148 only sets the revents members of that array when there is activity
5149 corresponding to the related file (report by Glenn Cooper
5150 <gcooper@qantas.com.au>, using Purify on Solaris 5.6).
5151 + change configure script to use AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM rather than
5152 AC_CANONICAL_HOST, which means that configure --target will set
5153 a default program-prefix.
5154 + add note on cross-compiling to INSTALL (which does not rely on the
5155 AC_CANONICAL_* macros).
5158 + add cases for EMX OS/2 to config.guess, config.sub
5159 + new version of config.guess, config.sub from lynx 2.8.4dev.7
5160 + add definitions via transform.h to allow tic and tput to check for
5161 the transformed aliases rather than the original infotocap, etc.
5162 + simplify transform-expressions in progs/Makefile.in, make the
5163 uninstall rule work for transformed program names.
5164 + change symbol used by --install-prefix configure option from
5165 INSTALL_PREFIX to DESTDIR (the latter has become common usage
5166 although the name is misleading).
5167 + modify programs to use curses_version() string to report the version
5168 of ncurses with which they are compiled rather than the
5169 NCURSES_VERSION string. The function returns the patch level in
5170 addition to the major and minor version numbers.
5173 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to make transformed program names
5174 a parameter to that macro rather than embedding them in the macro.
5175 + newer config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in lynx
5177 + add configure option --with-default-terminfo-dir=DIR to allow
5178 specifying the default terminfo database directory (request by Albert
5180 + minor updates for terminfo.src from FreeBSD termcap change-history.
5181 + correct notes in README and INSTALL regarding documentation files
5182 that were moved from misc directory to doc (report by Rich Kulawiec
5184 + change most remaining unquoted parameters of 'test' in configure
5185 script to use quotes, for instance fixing a problem in the
5186 --disable-database option (reported by Christian Mondrup
5187 <scancm@biobase.dk>).
5188 + minor adjustments to work around some of the incompatibilities/bugs
5189 in autoconf 2.29a alpha.
5190 + add -I/usr/local/include when --with-ncurses option is used in
5191 test/configure script.
5192 + correct logic in adjust_cancels(), which did not check both
5193 alternatives when reclassifying an extended name between boolean,
5194 number and string, causing an infinite loop in tic.
5197 + correct a missing backslash in curses.priv.h
5200 + change handling of non_dest_scroll_region in tty_update.c to clear
5201 text after it is shifted in rather than before shifting out. Also
5202 correct row computation (reported by Ruediger Kuhlmann
5203 <uck4@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>).
5204 + add/use new trace function to display chtype values from winch() and
5206 + add trace mask TRACE_ATTRS, alter several existing _tracef calls that
5207 trace attribute changes under TRACE_CALLS to use this.
5208 + modify MKlib_gen.sh so that functions returning chtype will call
5210 + add returnChar() trace, for functions returning chtype.
5211 + change indent.pro to line up parenthesis.
5214 + fix a heap problem with the c++ binding (report by
5215 <alexander_liberson@ninewest.com>, patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
5216 + minor adjustment to ClrToEOL() to handle an out-of-bounds parameter.
5217 + modify the check for big-core to force a couple of memory accesses,
5218 which may work as needed for older/less-capable machines (if not,
5219 there's still the explicit configure option).
5220 > fixes based on diff's for Amiga and BeOS found at
5221 http://www.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de/~kuhlmann/cross/ncurses/
5222 + alter definition of NCURSES_CONST to make it non-empty.
5223 + add amiga-vnc terminfo entry.
5224 + redefine 'TEXT' in menu.h for AMIGA, since it is reported to have
5225 an (unspecified) symbol conflict.
5226 + replaced case-statement in _nc_tracebits() for CSIZE with a table to
5227 simplify working around implementations that define random
5228 combinations of the related macros to zero.
5229 + modify configure test for tcgetattr() to allow for old
5230 implementations, e.g., on BeOS, which only defined it as a macro.
5231 > patches by Bruno Haible:
5232 + when checking LC_ALL/LC_CTYPE/LANG environment variables for UTF-8
5233 locale, ignore those which are set to an empty value, as per SUSV2.
5234 + encode 0xFFFD in UTF-8 with 3 bytes, not 2.
5235 + modify _nc_utf8_outch() to avoid sign-extension when checking for
5239 + correct manlinks.sed script to avoid using ERE "\+", which is not
5240 understood by older versions of sed (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
5241 + implement configure script options that transform installed program
5242 names, e.g., --program-prefix, including the manpage names and cross
5243 references (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com>).
5244 + correct several mismatches between manpage filename and ".TH"
5245 directives, renaming dft_fgbg.3x to default_colors.3x and
5246 menu_attribs.3x to menu_attributes.3x (report by Todd C Miller).
5247 + correct missing includes for <string.h> in several places, including
5248 the C++ binding. This is not noted by gcc unless we use the
5249 -fno-builtin option (reported by Igor Schein <igor@txc.com>).
5250 + modified progs/tset.c and tack/sysdep.c to build with sgttyb
5251 interface if neither termio or termios is available. Tested this
5252 with FreeBSD 2.1.5 (which does have termios - but the sgttyb does
5255 20000708 5.1 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
5256 + document configure options in INSTALL.
5257 + add man-page for ncurses trace functions.
5258 + correct return value shown in curs_touch.3x for is_linetouched() and
5259 is_wintouched(), in curs_initscr.3x for isendwin(), and in
5260 curs_termattr.3x for has_ic() and has_il().
5261 + add prototypes for touchline() and touchwin(), adding them to the
5262 list of generated functions.
5263 + modify fifo_push() to put ERR into the fifo just like other values to
5264 return from wgetch(). It was returning without doing that, making
5265 end-of-file condition incorrectly return a 0 (reported by Todd C
5267 + uncomment CC_SHARED_OPTS for progs and tack (see 971115), since they
5268 are needed for SCO OpenServer.
5269 + move _nc_disable_period from free_ttype.c to comp_scan.c to appease
5270 dynamic loaders on SCO and IRIX64.
5271 + add "-a" option to test/ncurses.c to invoke assume_default_colors()
5273 + correct assignment in assume_default_colors() which tells ncurses
5274 whether to use default colors, or the assumed ones (reported by Gary
5275 Funck <gary@Intrepid.Com>).
5276 + review/correct logic in mk-1st.awk for making symbolic links for
5277 shared libraries, in particular for FreeBSD, etc.
5278 + regenerate misc/*.def files for OS/2 EMX dll's.
5279 + correct quoting of values for CC_SHARED_OPTS in aclocal.m4 for
5280 cases openbsd2*, openbsd*, freebsd* and netbsd* (patch by Peter
5281 Wemm) (err in 20000610).
5282 + minor updates to release notes, as well as adding/updating URLs for
5283 examples cited in announce.html
5284 > several fixes from Philippe Blain <philippe.blain2@freesbee.fr>:
5285 + correct placement of ifdef for NCURSES_XNAMES in function
5286 _nc_free_termtype(), fixes a memory leak.
5287 + add a call to _nc_synchook() to the end of function whline() like
5288 that in wvline() (difference was in 1.9.4).
5289 + make ClearScreen() a little faster by moving two instances of
5290 UpdateAttr() out of for-loops.
5291 + simplify ClrBottom() by eliminating the tstLine data, using for-loops
5294 20000701 pre-release
5295 + change minor version to 1, i.e., ncurses 5.1
5296 + add experimental configure option --enable-colorfgbg to check for
5297 $COLORTERM variable as set by rxvt/aterm/Eterm.
5298 + add Eterm terminfo entry (Michael Jennings <mej@valinux.com>).
5299 + modify manlinks.sed to pick aliases from the SYNOPSIS section, and
5300 several manpages so manlinks.sed can find aliases for creating
5302 + add explanation to run_tic.sh regarding extended terminal
5304 + change message format for edit_cfg.sh, since some people interpret
5306 + correct unescaped '$' in sysv5uw7*|unix_sv* rule for CF_SHARED_OPTS
5307 configure macro (report by Thanh Ma <Thanh.Ma@casi-rusco.com>).
5308 + correct logic in lib_twait.c as used by lib_mouse.c for GPM mouse
5309 support when poll() is used rather than select() (prompted by
5310 discussion with David Allen <DAllen24@aol.com>).
5312 20000624 pre-release
5313 + modify TransformLine() to check for cells with different color pairs
5314 that happen to render the same display colors.
5315 + apply $NCURSES_NO_PADDING to cost-computation in mvcur().
5316 + improve cost computation in PutRange() by accounting for the use
5317 of parm_right_cursor in mvcur().
5318 + correct cost computation in EmitRange(), which was not using the
5319 normalized value for cursor_address.
5320 + newer config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in TIN 1.5.6).
5323 + update config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in PCRE 3.2).
5324 + resync changes to gnathtml against version 1.22, regenerated html
5325 files under doc/html/ada using this (1.22.1.1).
5326 + regenerated html files under doc/html/man after correcting top and
5327 bottom margin options for man2html in dist.mk
5328 + minor fixes to test programs ncurses 'i' and testcurs program to make
5329 the subwindow's background color cover the subwindow.
5330 + modify configure script so AC_MSG_ERROR is temporarily defined to a
5331 warning in AC_PROG_CXX to make it recover from a missing C++ compiler
5332 without requiring user to add --without-cxx option (adapted from
5333 comment by Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr> to autoconf mailing list).
5334 + modify headers.sh to avoid creating temporary files in the build
5335 directory when installing headers (reported by Sergei Pokrovsky
5339 + regenerated the html files under doc/html/ada/files and
5340 doc/html/ada/funcs with a slightly-improved gnathtml.
5341 + add kmous capability to linux terminfo entry to allow it to use
5342 xterm-style events provided by gpm patch by Joerg Schoen.
5343 + make the configure macro CF_SHARED_OPTS a little smarter by testing
5344 if -fPIC is supported by gcc rather than -fpic. The former option
5345 allows larger symbol tables.
5346 + update config.guess and config.sub (patches by
5347 Kevin Buettner <kev@primenet.com> (for elf64_ia64),
5348 Bernd Kuemmerlen <bkuemmer@mevis.de> (for MacOS X)).
5349 + add warning for 'tic -cv' about use of '^?' in terminfo source, which
5353 + modify echo() behavior of getch() to match Solaris curses for
5354 carriage return and backspace (reported by Neil Zanella).
5355 + change _nc_flush() to a function.
5356 + modify delscreen() to check if the output stream has been closed, and
5357 if so, free the buffer allocated for setbuf (this provides an
5358 ncurses-specific way to avoid a memory leak when repeatedly calling
5359 newterm reported by Chipp C <at_1@zdnetonebox.com>).
5360 + correct typo in curs_getch.3x manpage regarding noecho (reported by
5361 David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>).
5362 + add a "make libs" rule.
5363 + make the Ada95 interface build with configure --enable-widec.
5364 + if the configure --enable-widec option is given, append 'w' to names
5365 of the generated libraries (e.g., libncursesw.so) to avoid conflict
5366 with existing ncurses libraries.
5369 + modify view.c to make a rudimentary viewer of UTF-8 text if ncurses
5370 is configured with the experimental wide-character support.
5371 + add a simple UTF-8 output driver to the experimental wide-character
5372 support. If any of the environment variables LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE or
5373 LANG contain the string "UTF-8", this driver will be used to
5374 translate the output to UTF-8. This works with XFree86 xterm.
5375 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries on BeOS
5376 (from a patch by Valeriy E Ushakov).
5377 + modify lib_addch.c to allow repeated update to the lower-right
5378 corner, rather than displaying only the first character written until
5379 the cursor is moved. Recent versions of SVr4 curses can update the
5380 lower-right corner, and behave this way (reported by Neil Zanella).
5381 + add a limit-check in _nc_do_color(), to avoid using invalid color
5382 pair value (report by Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>).
5385 + the tack program knows how to use smcup and rmcup but the "show caps
5386 that can be tested" feature did not reflect this knowledge. Correct
5387 the display in the menu tack/test/edit/c (patch by Daniel Weaver).
5388 + xterm-16color does allow bold+colors, removed ncv#32 from that
5392 + correct assignment to SP->_has_sgr_39_49 in lib_dft_fgbg.c, which
5393 broke check for screen's AX capability (reported by Valeriy E Ushakov
5395 + change man2html rule in dist.mk to workaround bug in some
5396 man-programs that ignores locale when rendering hyphenation.
5397 + change web- and ftp-site to dickey.his.com
5400 + move _nc_curr_token from parse_entry.c to comp_scan.c, to work around
5401 problem linking tack on MacOS X DP3.
5402 + include <sys/time.h> in lib_napms.c to compile on MacOS X DP3
5403 (reported by Gerben Wierda <wierda@holmes.nl>).
5404 + modify lib_vidattr.c to check for ncv fixes when pair-0 is not
5406 + add -d option to ncurses.c, to turn on default-colors for testing.
5407 + add a check to _nc_makenew() to ensure that newwin() and newpad()
5408 calls do not silently fail by passing too-large limits.
5409 + add symbol NCURSES_SIZE_T to use rather than explicit 'short' for
5410 internal window and pad sizes. Note that since this is visible in
5411 the WINDOW struct, it would be an ABI change to make this an 'int'
5412 (prompted by a question by Bastian Trompetter
5413 <btrompetter@firemail.de>, who attempted to create a 96000-line pad).
5416 + add mgterm terminfo entry from NetBSD, minor adjustments to sun-ss5,
5418 + modify tack/ansi.c to make it more tolerant of bad ANSI replies. An
5419 example of an illegal ANSI resonse can be found using Microsoft's
5420 Telnet client. A correct display can be found using a VT-4xx
5421 terminal or XFree86 xterm with:
5422 XTerm*VT100*decTerminalID: 450
5423 (patch by Daniel Weaver).
5424 + modify gdc.c to recognize 'q' for quit, 's' for single-step and ' '
5425 for resume. Add '-n' option to force gdc's standard input to
5426 /dev/null, to both illustrate the use of newterm() for specifying
5427 alternate inputs as well as for testing signal handling.
5428 + minor fix for configure option --with-manpage-symlinks, for target
5429 directories that contain a period ('.') (reported by Larry Virden).
5432 + minor additions to beterm entry (feedback from Rico Tudor) -TD
5433 + corrections/updates for some IBM terminfo entries -TD
5434 + modify _nc_screen_wrap() so that when exiting curses mode with
5435 non-default colors, the last line on the screen will be cleared to
5436 the screen's default colors (request by Alexander V Lukyanov).
5437 + modify ncurses.c 'r' example to set nonl(), allowing control/M to be
5438 read for demonstrating the REQ_NEW_LINE operation (prompted by a
5439 question by Tony L Keith <tlkeith@keithconsulting.com>).
5440 + modify ncurses.c 'r' example of field_info() to work on Solaris 2.7,
5441 documented extension of ncurses which allows a zero pointer.
5442 + modify fmt_complex() to avoid buffer overflow in case of excess
5443 recursion, and to recognize "%e%?" as a synonym for else-if, which
5444 means that it will not recur for that special case.
5445 + add logic to support $TERMCAP variable in case the USE_GETCAP symbol
5446 is defined (patch by Todd C Miller).
5447 + modify one of the m4 files used to generate the Ada95 sources,
5448 to avoid using the token "symbols" (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
5451 + add terminfo entries bsdos-pc-m, bsdos-pc-mono (Jeffrey C Honig)
5452 + correct spelling error in terminfo entry name: bq300-rv was given as
5453 bg300-rv in esr's version.
5454 + modify redrawwin() macro so its parameter is fully parenthesized
5455 (fixes Debian bug report #61088).
5456 + correct formatting error in dump_entry() which set incorrect column
5457 value when no newline trimming was needed at the end of an entry,
5458 before appending "use=" clauses (cf: 960406).
5461 + add configure option --with-manpage-symlinks
5462 + change unctrl() to render C1 characters (128-159) as ~@, ~A, etc.
5463 + change makefiles so trace() function is provided only if TRACE is
5464 defined, e.g., in the debug library. Modify related calls to
5465 _tracechar() to use unctrl() instead.
5468 + add screen's AX capability (for ECMA SGR 39 and 49) to applicable
5469 terminfo entries, use presence of this as a check for a small
5470 improvement in setting default colors.
5471 + improve logic in _nc_do_color() implementing assume_default_colors()
5472 by passing in previous color pair info to eliminate redundant call to
5473 set_original_colors(). (Part of this is from a patch by Alexander
5475 + modify warning in _nc_trans_string() about a possibly too-long string
5476 to do this once only rather than for each character past the
5477 threshold (600). Change interface of _nc_trans_string() to allow
5478 check for buffer overflow.
5479 + correct use of memset in _nc_read_entry_source() to initialize ENTRY
5480 struct each time before reading new data into it, rather than once
5481 per loop (cf: 990301). This affects multi-entry in-core operations
5482 such as "infocmp -Fa".
5485 + remove a spurious pointer increment in _nc_infotocap() changes from
5486 20000311. Add check for '.' in format of number, since that also
5487 is not permitted in termcap.
5488 + correct typo in rxvt-basic terminfo from temporary change made while
5489 integrating 20000318.
5492 + revert part of the vt220 change (request by Todd C Miller).
5493 + add ansi-* terminfo entries from ESR's version.
5494 + add -a option to tic and infocmp, which retains commented-out
5495 capabilities during source translation/comparison, e.g., captoinfo
5497 + modify cardfile.c to display an empty card if no input data file is
5498 found, fixes a core dump in that case (reported by Bruno Haible).
5499 + correct bracketing in CF_MATH_LIB configure macro, which gave wrong
5500 result for OS/2 EMX.
5501 + supply required parameter for _nc_resolve_uses() call in
5502 read_termcap.c, overlooked in 20000311 (reported by Todd C Miller).
5503 > patches by Bruno Haible <haible@ilog.fr>:
5504 + fix a compiler warning in fty_enum.c
5505 + correct LIB_PREFIX expression for DEPS_CURSES in progs, tack
5506 makefiles, which resulted in redundant linking (cf: 20000122).
5509 + make ifdef's for BROKEN_LINKER consistent (patch by Todd C Miller).
5510 + improved tack/README (patch by Daniel Weaver).
5511 + modify tput.c to ensure that unspecified parameters are passed to
5513 + add a few checks in infocmp to guard against buffer overflow when
5514 displaying string capabilities.
5515 + add check for zero-uses in infocmp's file_comparison() function
5516 before calling _nc_align_termtype(). Otherwise one parameter is
5517 indexed past the end of the uses-array.
5518 + add an option -q to infocmp to specify the less verbose output,
5519 keeping the existing format as the default, though not retaining the
5520 previous behavior that made the -F option compare each entry to
5522 + adapted patch by ESR to make infocmp -F less verbose -TD
5523 (the submitted patch was unusable because it did not compile
5525 + modify write_entry.c to ensure that absent or cancelled booleans
5526 are written as FALSE, for consistency with infocmp which now
5527 assumes this. Note that for the small-core configuration, tic
5528 may not produce the same result as before.
5529 + change some private library interfaces used by infocmp, e.g.,
5531 + add a check in _nc_infotocap() to ensure that cm-style capabilities
5532 accept only %d codes when converting the format from terminfo to
5534 + modify ENTRY struct to separate the data in 'parent' into the name
5535 and link values (the original idea to merge both into 'parent' was
5537 + discard repair_acsc(tterm);
5538 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
5539 + drop support for gnat 3.10
5540 + move generated documentation and html files under ./doc directory,
5541 adding makefile rules for this to dist.mk
5544 + correct conflicting use of tparm() in 20000226 change to tic, which
5545 made it check only one entry at a time.
5546 + fix errors in ncurses-intro.html and hackguide.html shown by Dave
5548 + make the example in ncurses-intro.html do something plausible, and
5549 corrected misleading comment (reported by Neil Zanella).
5550 + modify pnoutrefresh() to set newscr->_leaveok as wnoutrefresh() does,
5551 to fix a case where the cursor position was not updated as in
5552 Solaris (patch by David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>).
5553 + add a limit-check for wresize() to ensure that a subwindow does not
5554 address out of bounds.
5555 + correct offsets used for subwindows in wresize() (patch by Michael
5556 Andres <ma@suse.de>).
5557 + regenerate html'ized manual pages with man2html 3.0.1 (patch by
5558 Juergen Pfeifer). This generated a file with a space in its name,
5560 + fix a few spelling errors in tack.
5561 + modify tack/Makefile.in to match linker options of progs/Makefile.in;
5562 otherwise it does not build properly for older HPUX shared library
5564 + add several terminfo entries from esr's "11.0".
5567 + make 'tput flash' work properly for xterm by flushing output in
5568 delay_output() when using napms(), and modifying xterm's terminfo to
5569 specify no padding character. Otherwise, xterm's reported baud rate
5570 can mislead ncurses into producing too few padding characters
5572 + add a check to tic for consistency between sgr and the separate
5573 capabilities such as smso, use this to check/correct several
5574 terminfo entries (Debian #58530).
5575 + add a check to tic if cvvis is the same as cnorm, adjusted several
5576 terminfo entries to remove the conflict (Debian #58530).
5577 + correct prototype shown in attr_set()/wattr_set() manpages (fixes
5579 + minor clarification for curs_set() and leaveok() manpages.
5580 + use mkstemp() for creating temporary file for tic's processing of
5581 $TERMCAP contents (fixes Debian #56465).
5582 + correct two errors from integrating Alexander's changes: did not
5583 handle the non-bce case properly in can_erase_with() (noted by
5584 Alexander), and left fg/bg uninitialized in the pair-zero case of
5585 _nc_do_color() (reported by Dr Werner Fink <werner@suse.de> and
5586 Ismael Cordeiro <ismael@cordeiro.com>).
5589 + store default-color code consistently as C_MASK, even if given as
5590 -1 for convenience (adapted from patches by Alexander V Lukyanov).
5591 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
5592 + change can_clear_with() macro to accommodate logic for
5593 assume_default_colors(), making most of the FILL_BCE logic
5594 unnecessary. Made can_clear_with() an inline function to make it
5598 + corrected form of recent copyright dates.
5599 + minor corrections to xterm-xf86-v333 terminfo entry -TD
5600 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
5601 + reworded dft_fgbg.3x to avoid assuming that the terminal's default
5602 colors are white on black.
5603 + fix initialization of tstLine so that it is filled with current blank
5604 character in any case. Previously it was possible to have it filled
5605 with old blank. The wrong over-optimization was introduced in 991002
5606 patch. (it is not very critical as the only bad effect is not using
5607 clr_eos for clearing if blank has changed).
5610 + minor corrections/updates to several terminfo entries: rxvt-basic,
5611 vt520, vt525, ibm5151, xterm-xf86-v40 -TD
5612 + modify ifdef's for poll() to allow it to use <sys/poll.h>, thereby
5613 allowing poll() to be used on Linux.
5614 + add CF_FUNC_POLL macro to check if poll() is able to select from
5615 standard input. If not we will not use it, preferring select()
5616 (adapted from patch by Michael Pakovic <mpakovic@fdn.com>).
5617 + update CF_SHARED_OPTS macro for SCO Unixware 7.1 to allow building
5618 shared libraries (reported/tested by Thanh <thanhma@mediaone.net>).
5619 + override $LANGUAGE in build to avoid incorrect ordering of keynames.
5620 + correct CF_MATH_LIB parameter, must be sin(x), not sqrt(x).
5623 + resync CF_CHECK_ERRNO and CF_LIB_PREFIX macros from tin and xterm -TD
5624 + modify CF_MATH_LIB configure macro to parameterize the test function
5625 used, for reuse in dialog and similar packages.
5626 + correct tests for file-descriptors in OS/2 EMX mouse support. A
5627 negative value could be used by FD_SET, causing the select() call
5628 to wait indefinitely.
5631 + additional fixes for non-bce terminals (handling of delete_character)
5632 to work when assume_default_colors() is not specified.
5633 + modify warning message from _nc_parse_entry() regarding extended
5634 capability names to print only if tic/infocmp/toe have the -v flag
5635 set, and not at all in ordinary user applications. Otherwise, this
5636 warning would be shown for screen's extended capabilities in programs
5637 that use the termcap interface (reported by Todd C Miller).
5638 + modify use of _nc_tracing from programs such as tic so their debug
5639 level is not in the same range as values set by trace() function.
5640 + small panel header cleanup (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
5641 + add 'railroad' demo for termcap interface.
5642 + modify 'tic' to write its usage message to stderr (patch by Todd C
5646 + add prototype for erase() to curses.h.in, needed to make test
5647 programs build with c++/g++.
5648 + add .c.i and .c.h suffix rules to generated makefiles, for debugging.
5649 + correct install rule for tack.1; it assumed that file was in the
5650 current directory (reported by Mike Castle <dalgoda@ix.netcom.com>).
5651 + modify terminfo/termcap translation to suppress acsc before trying
5652 sgr if the entry would be too large (patch by Todd C Miller).
5653 + document a special case of incompatiblity between ncurses 4.2 and
5654 5.0, add a section for this in INSTALL.
5655 + add TRACE_DATABASE flag for trace().
5658 + update mach, add mach-color terminfo entries based on Debian diffs
5660 + add entries for xterm-hp, xterm-vt220, xterm-vt52 and xterm-noapp
5661 terminfo entries -TD
5662 + change OTrs capabilities to rs2 in terminfo.src -TD
5663 + add obsolete and extended capabilities to 'screen' terminfo -TD
5664 + corrected conversion from terminfo rs2 to termcap rs (cf: 980704)
5665 + make conversion to termcap ug (underline glitch) more consistently
5667 + fix out-of-scope use of 'personal[]' buffer in 'toe' (this error
5668 was in the original pre-1.9.7 version, when $HOME/.terminfo was
5670 + modify 'toe' to ignore terminfo directories to which it has no
5672 + modify read_termtype(), fixing 'toe', which could dump core when it
5673 found an incomplete entry such as "dumb" because it did not
5674 initialize its buffer for _nc_read_file_entry().
5675 + use -fPIC rather than -fpic for shared libraries on Linux, not
5676 needed for i386 but some ports (from Debian diffs for 5.0) -TD
5677 + use explicit VALID_NUMERIC() checks in a few places that had been
5678 overlooked, and add a check to ensure that init_tabs is nonzero,
5679 to avoid divide-by-zero (reported by Todd C Miller).
5680 + minor fix for CF_ANSI_CC_CHECK configure macro, for HPUX 10.x (from
5684 + reorder tests during mouse initialization to allow for gpm to run in
5685 xterm, or for xterm to be used under OS/2 EMX. Also drop test for
5686 $DISPLAY in favor of kmous=\E[M or $TERM containing "xterm" (report
5687 by Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de>).
5688 + modify raw() and noraw() to clear/restore IEXTEN flag which affects
5689 stty lnext on systems such as FreeBSD (report by Bruce Evans
5690 <bde@zeta.org.au>, via Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>).
5691 + fix a potential (but unlikely) buffer overflow in failed() function
5692 of tset.c (reported by Todd C Miller).
5693 + add manual-page for ncurses extensions, documented curses_version(),
5694 use_extended_names().
5697 + treat as untranslatable to termcap those terminfo strings which
5698 contain non-decimal formatting, e.g., hexadecimal or octal.
5699 + correct commented-out capabilities that cannot be translated to
5700 termcap, which did not check if a colon must be escaped.
5701 + correct termcap translation for "%>" and "%+", which did not check
5702 if a colon must be escaped, for instance.
5703 + use save_string/save_char for _nc_captoinfo() to eliminate fixed
5704 buffer (originally for _nc_infotocap() in 960301 -TD).
5705 + correct expression used for terminfo equivalent of termcap %B,
5706 adjust regent100 entry which uses this.
5707 + some cleanup and commenting of ad hoc cases in _nc_infotocap().
5708 + eliminate a fixed-buffer in tic, used for translating comments.
5709 + add manpage for infotocap
5712 + add kvt and gnome terminfo entries -TD
5713 + correct translation of "%%" by infotocap, which was emitted as "%".
5714 + add "obsolete" termcap strings to terminfo.src
5715 + modify infocmp to default to showing obsolete capabilities rather
5717 + modify write_entry.c so that if extended names (i.e., configure
5718 --enable-tcap-names) are active, then tic will also write "obsolete"
5719 capabilities that are present in the terminfo source.
5720 + modify tic so that when running as captoinfo or infotocap, it
5721 initializes the output format as in -C and -I options, respectively.
5722 + improve infocmp and tic -f option by splitting long strings that do
5723 not have if-then-else construct, but do have parameters, e.g., the
5724 initc for xterm-88color.
5725 + refine MKtermsort.sh slightly by using bool for the *_from_termcap
5729 + additional fixes for non-bce terminals (handling of clear_screen,
5730 clr_eol, clr_eos, scrolling) to work when assume_default_colors() is
5732 + several small changes to xterm terminfo entries -TD.
5733 + move logic for _nc_windows in lib_freeall.c inside check for nonnull
5734 SP, since it is part of that struct.
5735 + remove obsolete shlib-versions, which was unintentionally re-added
5737 + modify infocmp -e, -E options to ensure that generated fallback.c
5738 type for Booleans agrees with term.h (reported by Eric Norum
5739 <eric@cls.usask.ca>).
5740 + correct configure script's use of $LIB_PREFIX, which did not work
5741 for installing the c++ directory if $libdir did not end with "/lib"
5742 (reported by Huy Le <huyle@ugcs.caltech.edu>).
5743 + modify infocmp so -L and -f options work together.
5744 + modify the initialization of SP->_color_table[] in start_color() so
5745 that color_content() will return usable values for COLORS greater
5747 + modify ncurses 'd' test in case COLORS is greater than 16, e.g., for
5748 xterm-88color, to limit the displayed/computed colors to 16.
5749 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
5750 + simplify coding of the panel library according to suggestions by
5752 + improve macro coding for a few macros in curses.priv.h
5755 + modify treatment of color pair 0 so that if ncurses is configured
5756 to support default colors, and they are not active, then ncurses
5757 will set that explicitly, not relying on orig_colors or orig_pair.
5758 + add new extension, assume_default_colors() to provide better control
5759 over the use of default colors.
5760 + modify test programs to use more-specific ifdef's for existence of
5761 wresize(), resizeterm() and use_default_colors().
5762 + modify configure script to add specific ifdef's for some functions
5763 that are included when --enable-ext-funcs is in effect, so their
5764 existence can be ifdef'd in the test programs.
5765 + reorder some configure options, moving those extensions that have
5766 evolved from experimental status into a new section.
5767 + change configure --enable-tcap-names to enable this by default.
5770 + install tack's manpage (reported by Robert Weiner
5771 <robert@progplus.com>)
5772 + correct worm.c's handling of KEY_RESIZE (patch by Frank Heckenbach).
5773 + modify curses.h.in, undef'ing some symbols to avoid conflict with C++
5774 STL (reported by Matt Gerassimoff <mgeras@ticon.net>)
5777 + modify linux terminfo entry to indicate that dim does not mix with
5778 color (reported by Klaus Weide <kweide@enteract.com>).
5779 + correct several typos in terminfo entries related to missing '['
5781 + fix several compiler warnings in c++ binding (reported by Tim
5782 Mooney for alphaev56-dec-osf4.0f
5783 + rename parameter of _nc_free_entries() to accommodate lint.
5784 + correct lint rule for tack, used incorrect list of source files.
5785 + add case to config.guess, config.sub for Rhapsody.
5786 + improve configure tests for libg++ and libstdc++ by omitting the
5787 math library (which is missing on Rhapsody), and improved test for
5788 the math library itself (adapted from path by Nelson H. F. Beebe).
5789 + explicitly initialize to zero several data items which were
5790 implicitly initialized, e.g., cur_term. If not explicitly
5791 initialized, their storage type is C (common), and causes problems
5792 linking on Rhapsody 5.5 using gcc 2.7.2.1 (reported by Nelson H. F.
5794 + modify Ada95 binding to not include the linker option for Ada
5795 bindings in the Ada headers, but in the Makefiles instead (patch by
5798 19991023 5.0 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
5799 + effective with release of 5.0, change NCURSES_VERSION_PATCH to
5801 + add function curses_version(), to return ncurses library version
5802 (request by Bob van der Poel).
5803 + remove rmam, smam from cygwin terminfo entry.
5804 + modify FreeBSD cons25 terminfo entry to add cnorm and cvvis, as well
5805 as update ncv to indicate that 'dim' conflicts with colors.
5806 + modify configure script to use symbolic links for FreeBSD shared
5807 libraries by default.
5808 + correct ranf() function in rain and worm programs to ensure it does
5810 + hide the cursor in hanoi.c if it is running automatically.
5811 + amend lrtest.c to account for optimizations that exploit margin
5813 + add a simple terminfo demo, dots.c
5814 + modify SIGINT/SIGQUIT handler to set a flag used in _nc_outch() to
5815 tell it to use write() rather than putc(), since the latter is not
5816 safe in a signal handler according to POSIX.
5817 + add/use internal macros _nc_flush() and NC_OUTPUT to hide details
5818 of output-file pointer in ncurses library.
5819 + uncomment CC_SHARED_OPTS (see 971115), since they are needed for SCO
5821 + correct CC_SHARED_OPTS for building shared libraries for SCO
5823 + remove usleep() from alternatives in napms(), since it may interact
5824 with alarm(), causing a process to be interrupted by SIGALRM (with
5825 advice from Bela Lubkin).
5826 + modify terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4 to build/work with
5827 GNAT 3.10 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
5828 + remove part of CF_GPP_LIBRARY configure-script macro, which did not
5829 work with gcc 2.7.2.3
5830 + minor fix to test/tclock.c to avoid beeping more than once per second
5831 + add 's' and ' ' decoding to test/rain.c
5834 + corrected BeOS code for lib_twait.c, making nodelay() function work.
5837 + correct ncurses' value for cursor-column in PutCharLR(), which was
5838 off-by-one in one case (patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
5839 + fix some minor errors in position_check() debugging code, found while
5840 using this to validate the PutCharLR() patch.
5841 + modify firework, lrtest, worm examples to be resizable, and to
5842 recognize 'q' for quit, 's' for single-step and ' ' for resume.
5843 + restore reverted change to terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4,
5844 add a note on building with gnat 3.10p to Ada95/TODO.
5845 + add a copy of the standalone configure script for the test-directory
5846 to simplify testing on SCO and Solaris.
5849 + minor fixes for _nc_msec_cost(), color_content(), pair_content(),
5850 _nc_freewin(), ClrBottom() and onscreen_mvcur() (analysis by Philippe
5851 Blain, comments by Alexander V Lukyanov).
5852 + simplify definition of PANEL and eliminate internal functions
5853 _nc_calculate_obscure(), _nc_free_obscure() and _nc_override(),
5854 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer, analysis by Philippe Blain
5856 + change renaming of dft_fgbg.3x to use_default_colors.3ncurses in
5857 man_db.renames, since Debian is not concerned with 14-character
5858 filename limitation (Debian bug report by Josip Rodin
5859 <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr>).
5860 + corrected scoansi terminfo entry by testing with scoterm and console.
5861 + revert change from 990614 to terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4,
5862 since this does not work for gnat 3.10p
5863 + modify tclock example to be resizable (if ncurses' sigwinch handler
5864 is used), and in color.
5865 + use $(CC) rather than 'gcc' in MK_SHARED_LIB symbols, used for Linux
5866 shared library rules.
5869 + add newer NetBSD console terminfo entries
5870 + add amiga-8bit terminfo entry (from Henning 'Faroul' Peters
5871 <Faroul@beyond.kn-bremen.de>)
5872 + remove -lcurses -ltermcap from configure script's check for the gpm
5873 library, since they are not really necessary (a properly configured
5874 gpm library has no dependency on any curses library), and if the
5875 curses library is not installed, this would cause the test to fail.
5876 + modify tic's -C option so that terminfo "use=" clauses are translated
5877 to "tc=" clauses even when running it as captoinfo.
5878 + modify CF_STDCPP_LIBRARY configure macro to perform its check only
5879 for GNU C++, since that library conflicts with SGI's libC on IRIX-6.2
5880 + modify CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro to support build on NetBSD with
5881 ELF libraries (patch by Bernd Ernesti <bernd@arresum.inka.de>).
5882 + correct a problem in libpanel, where the _nc_top_panel variable was
5883 not set properly when bottom_panel() is called to hide a panel which
5884 is the only one on the stack (report/analysis by Michael Andres
5885 <ma@suse.de>, patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
5888 + add acsc string to HP 70092 terminfo entry (patch by Joerg Wunsch
5889 <j@interface-business.de>).
5890 + add top-level uninstall.data and uninstall.man makefile rules.
5891 + correct logic of CF_LINK_FUNCS configure script, from BeOS changes so
5892 that hard-links work on Unix again.
5893 + change default value of cf_cv_builtin_bool to 1 (suggested by
5894 Jeremy Buhler), making it less likely that a conflicting declaration
5895 of bool will be seen when compiling with C++.
5898 + improved configure checks for builtin.h
5899 + minor changes to C++ binding (remove static initializations, and make
5900 configure-test for parameter initializations) for features not
5901 allowed by vendor's C++ compilers (reported by Martin Mokrejs, this
5902 applies to SGI, though I found SCO has the same characteristics).
5903 + corrected quoting of ETIP_xxx definitions which support old versions
5904 of g++, e.g., those using -lg++
5905 + remove 'L' code from safe_sprintf.c, since 'long double' is not
5906 widely portable. safe_sprintf.c is experimental, however, and
5907 exists mainly as a fallback for systems without snprintf (reported
5908 by Martin Mokrejs <mmokrejs@natur.cuni.cz>, for IRIX 6.2)
5909 + modify definition of _nc_tinfo_fkeys in broken-linker configuration
5910 so that it is not unnecessarily made extern (Jeffrey C Honig).
5913 + move definition for builtin.h in configure tests to specific check
5914 for libg++, since qt uses the same filename incompatibly.
5915 + correct logic of lib_termcap.c tgetstr function, which did not copy
5916 the result to the buffer parameter. Testing shows Solaris does
5917 update this, though of course tgetent's buffer is untouched (reported
5918 in Peter Edwards <peter.edwards@ireland.com> in
5919 mpc.lists.freebsd.current newsgroup.
5920 + corrected beterm terminfo entry, which lists some capabilities which
5921 are not actually provided by the BeOS Terminal.
5922 + add special logic to replace select() calls on BeOS, whose select()
5923 function works only for sockets.
5924 + correct missing escape in mkterm.h.awk.in, which caused part
5925 of the copyright noticed to be omitted (reported by Peter
5926 Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>).
5927 > several small changes to make the c++ binding and demo work on OS/2
5928 EMX (related to a clean reinstall of EMX):
5929 + correct library-prefix for c++ binding; none is needed.
5930 + add $x suffix to make_hash and make_keys so 'make distclean' works.
5931 + correct missing $x suffix for tack, c++ demo executables.
5932 + split CF_CXX_LIBRARY into CF_GPP_LIBRARY (for -lg++) and
5933 CF_STDCPP_LIBRARY (for -lstdc++)
5936 + add cygwin terminfo entry -TD
5937 + modify CF_PROG_EXT configure macro to set .exe extension for cygwin.
5938 + add configure option --without-cxx-binding, modifying the existing
5939 --without-cxx option to check only for the C++ compiler
5940 characteristics. Whether or not the C++ binding is needed, the
5941 configure script checks for the size/type of bool, to make ncurses
5942 match. Otherwise C++ applications cannot use ncurses.
5945 + updated configure macros CF_MAKEFLAGS, CF_CHECK_ERRNO
5946 + minor corrections to beterm terminfo entry.
5947 + modify lib_setup.c to reject values of $TERM which have a '/' in
5949 + add ifdef's to guard against CS5, CS6, CS7, CS8 being zero, as more
5950 than one is on BeOS. That would break a switch statement.
5951 + add configure macro CF_LINK_FUNCS to detect and work around BeOS's
5952 nonfunctional link().
5953 + improved configure macros CF_BOOL_DECL and CF_BOOL_SIZE to detect
5954 BeOS's bool, which is declared as an unsigned char.
5957 + add ms-vt100 terminfo entry -TD
5958 + minor fixes for misc/emx.src, based on testing with tack.
5959 + minor fix for test/ncurses.c, test 'a', in case ncv is not set.
5962 + minor correction for 'screen' terminfo entry.
5963 + clarify description of errret values for setupterm in manpage.
5964 + modify tput to allow it to emit capabilities for hardcopy terminals
5965 (patch by Goran Uddeborg <goeran@uddeborg.pp.se>).
5966 + modify the 'o' (panel) test in ncurses.c to show the panels in color
5967 or at least in bold, to test Juergen's change to wrefresh().
5968 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
5969 + Fixes a problem using wbkgdset() with panels. It has actually
5970 nothing to with panels but is a problem in the implementation of
5971 wrefresh(). Whenever a window changes its background attribute to
5972 something different than newscr's background attribute, the whole
5973 window is touched to force a copy to newscr. This is an unwanted
5974 side-effect of wrefresh() and it is actually not necessary. A
5975 changed background attribute affects only further outputs of
5976 background it doesn't mean anything to the current content of the
5977 window. So there is no need to force a copy. (reported by Frank
5978 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>).
5979 + an upward compatible enhancement of the NCursesPad class in the C++
5980 binding. It allows one to add a "viewport" window to a pad and then
5981 to use panning to view the pad through the viewport window.
5984 + suppress a call to def_prog_mode() in the SIGTSTP handler if the
5985 signal was received while not in curses mode, e.g., endwin() was
5986 called in preparation for spawning a shell command (reported by Frank
5987 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>)
5988 + corrected/enhanced xterm-r5, xterm+sl, xterm+sl-twm terminfo entries.
5989 + change test for xterm mouse capability: it now checks only if the
5990 user's $DISPLAY variable is set in conjunction with the kmous
5991 capability being present in the terminfo. Before, it checked if any
5992 of "xterm", "rxvt" or "kterm" were substrings of the terminal name.
5993 However, some emulators which are incompatible with xterm in other
5994 ways do support the xterm mouse capability.
5995 + reviewed and made minor changes in ncurses to quiet g++ warnings
5996 about shadowed or uninitialized variables. g++ incorrectly warns
5997 about uninitialized variables because it does not take into account
5998 short-circuit expression evaluation.
5999 + change ncurses 'b' test to start in color pair 0 and to show in the
6000 right margin those attributes which are suppressed by no_color_video,
6002 + modify ifdef's in curses.h so that __attribute__ is not redefined
6003 when compiling with g++, but instead disabled the macros derived for
6004 __attribute__ since g++ does not consistently recognize the same
6005 keywords as gcc (reported by Stephan K Zitz <zitz@erf.net>).
6006 + update dependencies for term.h in ncurses/modules (reported by
6010 + modify the form demo in ncurses.c to illustrate how to manipulate the
6011 field appearance, e.g, for highlighting or translating the field
6013 + correct logic in write_entry from split-out of home_terminfo in
6014 980919, which prevented update of $HOME/.terminfo (reported by Philip
6015 Spencer <pspencer@fields.utoronto.ca>).
6018 + modify linux terminfo description to make use of kernel 2.2.x mods
6019 that support cursor style, e.g., to implement cvvis (patch by Frank
6020 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>)
6021 + add special-case in setupterm to retain previously-saved terminal
6022 settings in cur_term, which happens when curses and termcap calls are
6023 mixed (from report by Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@dhc.net>).
6024 + suppress initialization of key-tries in _nc_keypad() if we are only
6025 disabling keypad mode, e.g., in endwin() called when keypad() was
6027 + modify the Ada95 makefile to ensure that always the Ada files from
6028 the development tree are used for building and not the eventually
6029 installed ones (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
6032 + use TTY definition in tack/sysdep.c rather than struct termios
6033 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
6034 + add a fallback for strstr, used in lib_mvcur.c and tack/edit.c,
6035 not present on sysV68 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
6036 + correct definition in comp_hash.c to build with configure
6037 --with-rcs-ids option.
6040 + modified ifdef's for sigaction and sigvec to ensure we do not try to
6041 handle SIGTSTP if neither is available (from report by Philippe De
6043 > patch by Philippe De Muyter:
6044 + in tic.c, use `unlink' if `remove' is not available.
6045 + use only `unsigned' as fallback value for `speed_t'. Some files used
6049 + fix some compiler warnings in tack.
6050 + add a check for predefined bool type in CC, based on report that
6051 BeOS predefines a bool type.
6052 + correct logic for infocmp -e option, i.e., the configure
6053 --with-fallbacks option, which I'd not updated when implementing
6054 extended names (cf: 990301). The new implementation adds a "-E"
6055 option to infocmp -TD
6056 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
6057 + introduce the private type Curses_Bool in the Ada95 binding
6058 implementation. This is to clearly represent the use of "bool" also
6059 in the binding. It should have no effect on the generated code.
6060 + improve the man page for field_buffer() to tell the people, that the
6061 whole buffer including leading/trailing spaces is returned. This is
6062 a common source of confusion, so it's better to document it clearly.
6065 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
6066 + use pragma PreElaborate in several places.
6067 + change a few System.Address uses to more specific types.
6068 + change interface version-number to 1.0
6069 + regenerate Ada95 HTML files.
6072 + modify lib_endwin.c to avoid calling reset_shell_mode(), return ERR
6073 if it appears that curses was never initialized, e.g., by initscr().
6074 For instance, this guards against setting the terminal modes to
6075 strange values if endwin() is called after setupterm(). In the same
6076 context, Solaris curses will dump core.
6077 + modify logic that avoids a conflict in lib_vidattr.c between sgr0 and
6078 equivalent values in rmso or rmul by ensuring we do not modify the
6079 data which would be returned by the terminfo or termcap interfaces
6080 (reported by Brad Pepers <brad@linuxcanada.com>, cf: 960706).
6081 + add a null-pointer check for SP in lib_vidattr.c to logic that checks
6083 + improve fallback declaration of 'bool' when the --without-cxx option
6084 is given, by using a 'char' on i386 and related hosts (prompted by
6085 discussion with Alexander V Lukyanov).
6088 + include time.h in lib_napms.c if nanosleep is used (patch by
6089 R Lindsay Todd <toddr@rpi.edu>).
6090 + add an "#undef bool" to curses.h, in case someone tries to define it,
6092 + add check to tparm to guard against divide by zero (reported by Aaron
6093 Campbell <aaron@ug.cs.dal.ca>).
6096 + minor fix to build tack on CLIX (mismatched const).
6097 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
6098 + change Juergen's old email address with new one in the files where it
6099 is referenced. The Ada95 HTML pages are regenerated.
6100 + update MANIFEST to list the tack files.
6103 + minor fixes to make 'tack' build/link on NeXT (reported by Francisco
6107 + add 'tack' program (which is GPL'd), updating it to work with the
6108 modified TERMTYPE struct and making a fix to support setaf/setab
6109 capabilities. Note that the tack program is not part of the
6110 ncurses libraries, but an application which can be distributed with
6111 ncurses. The configure script will ignore the directory if it is
6113 + modify gpm mouse support so that buttons 2 and 3 are used for
6114 select/paste only when shift key is pressed, making them available
6115 for use by an application (patch by Klaus Weide).
6116 + add complete list of function keys to scoansi terminfo entry - TD
6119 + add a simple test program cardfile.c to illustrate how to read form
6120 fields, and showing forms within panels.
6121 + change shared-library versioning for the Hurd to be like Linux rather
6122 than *BSD (patch by Mark Kettenis <kettenis@wins.uva.nl>).
6123 + add linux-lat terminfo entry.
6124 + back-out _nc_access check in read_termcap.c (both incorrect and
6125 unnecessary, except to guard against a small window where the file's
6126 ownership may change).
6129 + remove conflicting _nc_free_termtype() function from test module
6131 + use _nc_access check in read_termcap.c for termpaths[] array (noted
6132 by Jeremy Buhler, indicating that Alan Cox made a similar patch).
6133 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
6134 + modify menu creation to not inherit status flag from the default menu
6135 which says that the associated marker string has been allocated and
6136 should be freed (bug reported by Marek Paliwoda"
6137 <paliwoda@kki.net.pl>)
6139 990327 pre-release (alpha.gnu.org:/gnu/ncurses-5.0-beta1.tar.gz)
6140 + minor fixes to xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry - TD.
6141 + split up an expression in configure script check for ldconfig to
6142 workaround limitation of BSD/OS sh (reported by Jeff Haas
6143 <jmh@mail.msen.com>).
6144 + correct a typo in man/form_hook.3x (Todd C Miller).
6147 + parenthesize and undef 'index' symbol in c++ binding and demo, to
6148 accommodate its definition on NeXT (reported by Francisco A. Tomei
6150 + add sigismember() to base/sigaction.c compatibility to link on NeXT
6151 (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
6152 + further refinements to inequality in hashmap.c to cover a case with
6153 ^U in nvi (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
6156 + add fallback definition for getcwd, to link on NeXT.
6157 + add a copy of cur_term to tic.c to make it link properly on NeXT
6158 (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
6159 + change inequality in hashmap.c which checks the distance traveled by
6160 a chunk so that ^D command in nvi (scrolls 1/2 screen) will use
6161 scrolling logic (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov, reported by Jeffrey
6165 + modify lib_color.c to handle a special case where the curscr
6166 attributes have been made obsolete (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
6167 + update BSD/OS console terminfo entries to use klone+sgr and
6168 klone+color (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
6169 + update glibc addon configure script for extended capabilities.
6170 + correct a couple of warnings in the --enable-const configuration.
6171 + make comp_hash build properly with _nc_strdup(), on NeXT (reported by
6172 Francisco A. Tomei Torres <francisco.tomei@cwix.com>).
6175 + correct typos in linux-c initc string - TD
6176 + add 'crt' terminfo entry, update xterm-xfree86 entry - TD
6177 + remove a spurious argument to tparm() in lib_sklrefr.c (patch by
6178 Alexander V Lukyanov).
6181 + back-out change to wgetch because it causes a problem with ^Z
6182 handling in lynx (reported by Kim DeVaughn).
6185 + add -G option to tic and infocmp, to reverse the -g option.
6186 + recode functions in name_match.c to avoid use of strncpy, which
6187 caused a 4-fold slowdown in tic (cf: 980530).
6188 + correct a few warnings about sign-extension in recent changes.
6189 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
6190 + fixes suggested by Jeff Bradbury <jibradbury@lucent.com>:
6191 + improved parameter checking in new_fieldtype().
6192 + fixed a typo in wgetch() timeout handling.
6193 + allow slk_init() to be called per newterm call. The internal SLK
6194 state is stored in the SCREEN struct after every newterm() and then
6195 reset for the next newterm.
6196 + fix the problem that a slk_refresh() refreshes stdscr if the
6197 terminal has true SLKs.
6198 + update HTML documentation for Ada binding.
6201 + remove 'bool' casts from definitions of TRUE/FALSE so that statements
6202 such as "#if TRUE" work. This was originally done to allow for a C++
6203 compiler which would warn of implicit conversions between enum and
6204 int, but is not needed for g++ (reported by Kim DeVaughn).
6205 + add use_extended_names() function to allow applications to suppress
6206 read of the extended capabilities.
6207 + add configure option --enable-tcap-names to support logic which
6208 allows ncurses' tic to define new (i.e., extended) terminal
6209 capabilities. This is activated by the tic -x switch. The infocmp
6210 program automatically shows or compares extended capabilities.
6211 Note: This changes the Strings and similar arrays in the TERMTYPE
6212 struct so that applications which manipulate it must be recompiled.
6213 + use macros typeMalloc, typeCalloc and typeRealloc consistently
6214 throughout ncurses library.
6215 + add _nc_strdup() to doalloc.c.
6216 + modify define_key() to allow multiple strings to be bound to the
6218 + correct logic error in _nc_remove_string, from 990220.
6219 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
6220 + regenerate some of the html documentation
6221 + minor cleanup in terminal_interface-curses.adb
6224 + resolve ambiguity of kend/kll/kslt and khome/kfnd/kich1 strings in
6225 xterm and ncsa terminfo entries by removing the unneeded ones. Note
6226 that some entries will return kend & khome versus kslt and kfnd, for
6227 PC-style keyboards versus strict vt220 compatiblity - TD
6228 + add function keybound(), which returns the definition associated with
6230 + modify define_key() to undefine the given string when no keycode is
6232 + modify keyok() so it works properly if there is more than one string
6233 defined for a keycode.
6234 + add check to tic to warn about terminfo descriptions that contain
6235 more than one key assigned to the same string. This is shown only if
6236 the verbose (-v) option is given. Moved related logic (tic -v) from
6237 comp_parse.c into the tic program.
6238 + add/use _nc_trace_tries() to show the function keys that will be
6240 + rename init_acs to _nc_init_acs (request by Alexander V Lukyanov).
6241 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
6242 + remove all the *_adabind.c from ncurses, menu and form projects.
6243 Those little helper routines have all been implemented in Ada and are
6245 + The option handling routines in menu and form have been made more
6246 save. They now make sure that the unused bits in options are always
6248 + modify configuration scripts to
6249 + use gnatmake as default compiler name. This is a safer choice than
6250 gcc, because some GNAT implementations use other names for the
6251 compilerdriver to avoid conflicts.
6252 + use new default installation locations for the Ada files according
6253 to the proposed GNU Ada filesystem standard (for Linux).
6254 + simplify the Makefiles for the Ada binding
6255 + rename ada_include directory to src.
6258 + enable sigwinch handler by default.
6259 + disable logic that allows setbuf to be turned off/on, because some
6260 implementations will overrun the buffer after it has been disabled
6264 + suppress sc/rc capabilities from terminal description if they appear
6265 in smcup/rmcup. This affects only scrolling optimization, to fix a
6266 problem reported by several people with xterm's alternate screen,
6267 though the problem is more general.
6268 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
6269 + removed all pragma Preelaborate() stuff, because the just released
6270 gnat-3.11p complains on some constructs.
6271 + fixed some upper/lower case notations because gnat-3.11p found
6273 + used a new method to generate the HTML documentation of the Ada95
6274 binding. This invalidates nearly the whole ./Ada95/html subtree.
6275 Nearly all current files in this subtree are removed
6278 + cache last result from _nc_baudrate, for performance (suggested by
6279 Alexander V Lukyanov).
6280 + modify ClrUpdate() function to workaround a problem in nvi, which
6281 uses redrawwin in SIGTSTP handling. Jeffrey C Honig reported that
6282 ncurses repainted the screen with nulls before resuming normal
6283 operation (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
6284 + generalize is_xterm() function a little by letting xterm/rxvt/kterm
6285 be any substring rather than the prefix.
6286 + modify lib_data.c to initialize SP. Some linkers, e.g., IBM's, will
6287 not link a module if the only symbols exported from the module are
6288 uninitialized ones (patch by Ilya Zakharevich). Ilya says that he
6289 has seen messages claiming this behavior conforms to the standard.)
6290 + move call on _nc_signal_handler past _nc_initscr, to avoid a small
6291 window where Nttyb hasn't yet been filled (reported by Klaus Weide).
6292 + modify lib_tstp.c to block SIGTTOU when handling SIGTSTP, fixes a
6293 problem where ncurses applications which were run via a shell script
6294 would hang when given a ^Z. Also, check if the terminal's process
6295 group is consistent, i.e., a shell has not taken ownership of it,
6296 before deciding to save the current terminal settings in the SIGTSTP
6297 handler (patch by Klaus Weide).
6298 + correct spelling of ACS_ names in curs_border.3x (reported by Bob van
6299 der Poel <bvdpoel@kootenay.com>).
6300 + correct a couple of typos in the macros supporting the configure
6301 --with-shlib-version option.
6304 + modify fty_regex.c to compile on HAVE_REGEXPR_H_FUNCS machine (patch
6305 by Kimio Ishii <ishii@csl.sony.co.jp>).
6306 + rename BSDI console terminfo entries: bsdos to bsdos-pc-nobold, and
6307 bsdos-bold to bsdos-pc (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
6308 + modify tput to accept termcap names as an alternative to terminfo
6309 names (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
6310 + correct a typo in term.7 (Todd C Miller).
6311 + add configure --with-shlib-version option to allow installing shared
6312 libraries named according to release or ABI versions. This
6313 parameterizes some existing logic in the configure script, and is
6314 intended for compatiblity upgrades on Digital Unix, which used
6315 versioned libraries in ncurses 4.2, but no longer does (cf: 980425).
6316 + resync configure script against autoconf 2.13 + patches
6317 + minor improvements for teraterm terminfo entry based on the program's
6318 source distribution.
6321 + change default for configure --enable-big-core to assume machines do
6322 have enough memory to resolve terminfo.src in-memory.
6323 + correct name of ncurses library in TEST_ARGS when configuring with
6325 + minor fixes to compile ncurses library with broken-linker with g++.
6326 + add --enable-broken-linker configure option, default to environment
6327 variable $BROKEN_LINKER (request by Jeffrey C Honig).
6328 + change key_names[] array to static since it is not part of the curses
6329 interface (reported by Jeffrey C Honig <jch@bsdi.com>).
6332 + add Tera Term terminfo entry - TD
6335 + reviewed/corrected macros in curses.h as per XSI document.
6336 + provide support for termcap PC variable by copying it from terminfo
6337 data and using it as the padding character in tputs (reported by
6338 Alexander V Lukyanov).
6339 + corrected iris-ansi and iris-ansi-ap terminfo entries for kent and
6340 kf9-kf12 capabilities, as well as adding kcbt.
6341 + document the mouse handling mechanism in menu_driver and make a small
6342 change in menu_driver's return codes to provide more consistency
6343 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
6344 + add fallback definition for NCURSES_CONST to termcap.h.in (reported
6345 by Uchiyama Yasushi <uch@nop.or.jp>).
6346 + move lib_restart.c to ncurses/base, since it uses curses functions
6347 directly, and therefore cannot be used in libtinfo.so
6348 + rename micro_char_size to micro_col_size, adding #define to retain
6350 + add set_a_attributes and set_pglen_inch to terminfo structure, as per
6351 XSI and Solaris 2.5.
6352 + minor makefile files to build ncurses test_progs
6353 + update html files in misc directory to reflect changes since 4.2
6356 + disable scroll hints when hashmap is enabled (patch by Alexander
6358 + move logic for tic's verify of -e option versus -I and -C so that the
6359 terminfo data is not processed if we cannot handle -e (reported by
6360 Steven Schwartz <steves@unitrends.com>.
6361 + add test-driver traces to terminfo and termcap functions.
6362 + provide support for termcap ospeed variable by copying it from the
6363 internal cur_term member, and using ospeed as the baudrate reference
6364 for the delay_output and tputs functions. If an application does not
6365 set ospeed, the library behaves as before, except that _nc_timed_wait
6366 is no longer used, or needed, since ospeed always has a value. But
6367 the application can modify ospeed to adjust the output of padding
6368 characters (prompted by a bug report for screen 3.7.6 and email from
6369 Michael Schroeder <Michael.Schroeder@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>).
6370 + removed some unused ifdef's as part of Alexander's restructuring.
6371 + reviewed/updated curses.h, term.h against X/Open Curses Issue 4
6372 Version 2. This includes making some parameters NCURSES_CONST
6373 rather than const, e.g., in termcap.h.
6374 + change linux terminfo entry to use ncv#2, since underline does not
6378 + miscellaneous corrections for curses.h to match XSI.
6379 + change --enable-no-padding configure option to be normally enabled.
6380 + add section to ncurses manpage for environment variables.
6381 + investigated Debian bug report that pertains to screen 3.7.4/3.7.6
6382 changes, found no sign of problems on Linux (or on SunOS, Solaris)
6383 running screen built with ncurses.
6384 + check if tmp_fp is opened in tic.c before closing it (patch by Pavel
6385 Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>).
6386 + correct several font specification typos in man-pages.
6389 + correct default value for BUILD_CC (reported by Larry Virden).
6392 + modify _nc_set_writedir() to set a flag in _nc_tic_dir() to prevent
6393 it from changing the terminfo directory after chdir'ing to it.
6394 Otherwise, a relative path in $TERMINFO would confuse tic (prompted
6395 by a Debian bug report).
6396 + correct/update ncsa terminfo entry (report by Larry Virden).
6397 + update xterm-xfree86 terminfo to current (patch 90), smcur/rmcur
6399 + add Mathew Vernon's mach console entries to terminfo.src
6400 + more changes, moving functions, as part of Alexander's restructuring.
6401 + modify configure script for GNU/Hurd share-library support, introduce
6402 BUILD_CC variable for cross compiling (patch by Uchiyama Yasushi
6406 + add environment variable NCURSES_NO_SETBUF to allow disabling the
6407 setbuf feature, for testing purposes.
6408 + correct ifdef's for termcap.h versus term.h that suppress redundant
6409 declarations of prototypes (reported by H.J.Lu).
6410 + modify Makefile.os2 to add linker flags which allow multiple copies
6411 of an application to coexist (reported by Ilya Zakharevich).
6412 + update Makefile.glibc and associated configure script so that ncurses
6413 builds as a glibc add-on with the new directory configuration
6414 (reported by H.J.Lu).
6417 + modify gen_reps() function in gen.c to work properly on SunOS
6418 (sparc), which is a left-to-right architecture.
6419 + modify relative_move and tputs to avoid an interaction with the
6420 BSD-style padding. The relative_move function could produce a string
6421 to replace on the screen which began with a numeric character, which
6422 was then interpreted by tputs as padding. Now relative_move will not
6423 generate a string with a leading digit in that case (overwrite).
6424 Also, tputs will only interpret padding if the string begins with a
6425 digit; as coded it permitted a string to begin with a decimal point
6426 or asterisk (reported by Larry Virden).
6427 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
6428 + fix a typo in m_driver.c mouse handling and improves the error
6430 + fix broken mouse handling in the Ada95 binding
6431 + make the Ada95 sample application menus work with the new menu mouse
6433 + improve the mouse handling introduced by Ilya; it now handles menus
6435 + repair a minor bug in the menu_driver code discovered during this
6437 + add new function wmouse_trafo() to hide implementation details of
6438 _yoffset member of WINDOW struct needed for mouse coordinate
6442 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to avoid using return-value of sprintf, since
6443 some older implementations (e.g., SunOS 4.x) return the buffer
6444 address rather than its length.
6445 > patch by Rick Ohnemus:
6446 + modify demo.cc to get it to compile with newer versions of egcs.
6447 + trim a space that appears at the end of the table preprocessor lines
6448 ('\" t). This space prevents some versions of man from displaying
6449 the pages - changed to remove all trailing whitespace (TD)
6450 + finally, 'make clean' does not remove panel objects.
6451 > patches by Ilya Zakharevich:
6452 + allow remapping of OS/2 mouse buttons using environment variable
6453 MOUSE_BUTTONS_123 with the default value 132.
6454 + add mouse support to ncurses menus.
6457 + modify misc/makedef.cmd to report old-style .def file symbols, and to
6458 generate the .def files sorted by increasing names rather than the
6460 + add misc/*.ref which are J.J.G.Ripoll's dll definition files (renamed
6461 from misc/*.old), and updated based on the entrypoint coding he used
6462 for an older version of ncurses.
6463 + add README.emx, to document how to build on OS/2 EMX.
6464 + updates for config.guess, config.sub from Lynx
6465 > patches by Ilya Zakharevich:
6466 + minor fixes for mouse handling mode:
6467 a) Do not initialize mouse if the request is to have no mouse;
6468 b) Allow switching of OS/2 VIO mouse on and off.
6469 + modify Makefile.os2 to support alternative means of generating
6470 configure script, by translating Unix script with Perl.
6471 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
6472 + Updates MANIFEST to reflect changes in source structure
6473 + Eliminates a problem introduced with my last patch for the C++
6474 binding in the panels code. It removes the update() call done in the
6476 + Changes in the Ada95 binding to better support systems where
6477 sizeof(chtype)!=sizeof(int) (e.g. DEC Alpha).
6480 + modify install-script for manpages to skip over .orig and .rej files
6481 (request by Larry Virden).
6482 > patches/discussion by Alexander V Lukyanov:
6483 + move base-library sources into ncurses/base and tty (serial terminal)
6484 sources into ncurses/tty, as part of Alexander V Lukyanov's proposed
6485 changes to ncurses library.
6486 + copy _tracemouse() into ncurses.c so that lib_tracemse.c need not
6487 be linked into the normal ncurses library.
6488 + move macro winch to a function, to hide details of struct ldat
6489 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
6490 + fix a potential compile problem in cursesw.cc
6491 + some Ada95 cosmetics
6492 + fix a gen.c problem when compiling on 64-Bit machines
6493 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in "-L" linker switch
6494 + modify Ada95 makefiles to use the INSTALL_PREFIX setting.
6497 + ifdef'd out lib_freeall.c when not configured.
6498 + rename _tracebits() to _nc_tracebits().
6499 + move terminfo-library sources into ncurses/tinfo, and trace-support
6500 functions into ncurses/trace as part of Alexander V Lukyanov's
6501 proposed changes to ncurses library.
6502 + modify generated term.h to always specify its own definitions for
6503 HAVE_TERMIOS_H, etc., to guard against inclusion by programs with
6504 broken configure scripts.
6507 + modify terminfo parsing to accept octal and hexadecimal constants,
6509 + remove an autoconf 2.10 artifact from the configure script's check
6510 for "-g" compiler options. (Though harmless, this confused someone
6511 at Debian, who recently issued a patch that results in the opposite
6513 + add configure option --with-ada-compiler to accommodate installations
6514 that do not use gcc as the driver for GNAT (patch by Juergen
6518 + ensure ./man exists in configure script, needed when configuring
6519 with --srcdir option.
6520 + modify infocmp "-r" option to remove limit on formatted termcap
6521 output, which makes it more like Solaris' version.
6522 + modify captoinfo to treat no-argument case more like Solaris'
6523 version, which uses the contents of $TERMCAP as the entry to format.
6524 + modify mk-2nd.awk to handle subdirectories, e.g., ncurses/tty
6525 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
6528 + modify --with-terminfo-dirs option so that the default value is the
6529 ${datadir} value, unless $TERMINFO_DIRS is already set. This gets
6530 rid of a hardcoded list of candidate directories in the configure
6532 + add some error-checking to _nc_read_file_entry() to ensure that
6533 strings are properly terminated (Todd C Miller).
6534 + rename manpage file curs_scr_dmp.3x to curs_scr_dump.3x, to
6535 correspond with contents (reported by Neil Zanella
6536 <nzanella@cs.mun.ca>).
6537 + remove redundant configure check for C++ which did not work when $CXX
6538 was specified with a full pathname (reported by Andreas Jaeger).
6539 + corrected bcopy/memmove check; the macro was not standalone.
6542 + remove unnecessary portion of OS/2 EMX mouse change from
6543 check_pending() (reported by Alexander V Lukyanov).
6546 + implement mouse support for OS/2 EMX (adapted from patch against
6547 4.2(?) by Ilya Zakharevich).
6548 + add configure-check for bcopy/memmove, for 980919 changes to hashmap.
6549 + merge Data General terminfo from Hasufin <hasufin@vidnet.net> - TD
6550 + merge AIX 3.2.5 terminfo descriptions for IBM terminals, replaces
6551 some older entries - TD
6552 + modify tic to compile into %'char' form in preference to %{number},
6553 since that is a little more efficient.
6554 + minor correction to infocmp to avoid displaying "difference" between
6555 two capabilities that are rendered in equivalent forms.
6556 + add -g option to tic/infocmp to force character constants to be
6557 displayed in quoted form. Otherwise their decimal values are shown.
6558 + modify setupterm so that cancelled strings are treated the same as
6559 absent strings, cancelled and absent booleans false (does not affect
6561 + modify tic, infocmp to discard redundant i3, r3 strings when output
6563 > patch by Alexander V Lukyanov:
6564 + improve performance of tparm, now it takes 19% instead of 25% when
6566 + rename maxlen/minlen to prec/width for better readability.
6567 + use format string for printing strings.
6568 + use len argument correctly in save_text, and pass it to save_number.
6571 + make test_progs compile (but hashmap does not function).
6572 + correct NC_BUFFERED macro, used in lib_mvcur test-driver, modify
6573 associated logic to avoid freeing the SP->_setbuf data.
6574 + add modules home_terminfo and getenv_num to libtinfo.
6575 + move write_entry to libtinfo, to work with termcap caching.
6576 + minor fixes to blue.c to build with atac.
6577 + remove softscroll.c module; no longer needed for testing.
6578 > patches by Todd C Miller:
6579 + use strtol(3) instead of atoi(3) when parsing env variables so we can
6580 detect a bogus (non-numeric) value.
6581 + check for terminal names > MAX_NAME_SIZE in a few more places when
6582 dealing with env variables again.
6583 + fix a MAX_NAME_SIZE that should be MAX_NAME_SIZE+1
6584 + use sizeof instead of strlen(3) on PRIVATE_INFO since it is a fixed
6585 string #define (compile time vs runtime).
6586 + when setting errno to ENOMEM, set it right before the return, not
6587 before code that could, possibly, set errno to a different value.
6588 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
6589 + use default background in update_cost_from_blank()
6590 + disable scroll-hints when hashmap is configured.
6591 + improve integration of hashmap scrolling code, by adding oldhash and
6592 newhash data to SP struct.
6593 + invoke del_curterm from delscreen.
6594 + modify del_curterm to set cur_term to null if it matches the
6595 function's parameter which is deleted.
6596 + modify lib_doupdate to prefer parm_ich to the enter_insert_mode and
6597 exit_insert_mode combination, adjusting InsCharCost to check
6598 enter_insert_mode, exit_insert_mode and insert_padding. Add
6599 insert_padding in insert mode after each char. This adds new costs
6603 + modify test-driver in lib_mvcur.s to use _nc_setbuffer, for
6604 consistent treatment.
6605 + modify ncurses to restore output to unbuffered on endwin, and resume
6606 buffering in refresh (see lib_set_term.c and NC_BUFFERED macro).
6607 + corrected HTML version numbers (according to the W3C validator, they
6608 never were HTML 2.0-compliant, but are acceptable 3.0).
6611 + modify MKterminfo.sh to generate terminfo.5 with tables sorted by
6612 capability name, as in SVr4.
6613 + modified term.h, termcap.h headers to avoid redundant declarations.
6614 + change 'u_int' type in tset.c to unsigned, making this compile on
6615 Sequent PRX 4.1 (reported by Michael Sterrett <msterret@coat.com>).
6618 + corrections to mailing addresses, and moving the magic line that
6619 causes the man program to invoke tbl to the first line of each
6620 manpage (patch by Rick Ohnemus <rick@ecompcon.com>).
6621 + add Makefile.os2 and supporting scripts to generate dll's on OS/2 EMX
6622 (from J.J.G.Ripoll, with further integration by TD).
6623 + correct a typo in icl6404 terminfo entry.
6624 + add xtermm and xtermc terminfo entries.
6625 > from esr's terminfo version:
6626 + Added Francesco Potorti's tuned Wyse 99 entries.
6627 + dtterm enacs (from Alexander V Lukyanov).
6628 + Add ncsa-ns, ncsa-m-ns and ncsa-m entries from esr version.
6631 + document AT&T acs characters in terminfo.5 manpage.
6632 + use EMX _scrsize() function if terminfo and environment do not
6633 declare the screen size (reported by Ilya Zakharevich
6634 <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>).
6635 + remove spurious '\' characters from eterm and osborne terminfo
6636 entries (prompted by an old Debian bug report).
6637 + correct reversed malloc/realloc calls in _nc_doalloc (reported by
6638 Hans-Joachim Widmaier <hjwidmai@foxboro.com>).
6639 + correct misplaced parenthesis which caused file-descriptor from
6640 opening termcap to be lost, from 980725 changes (reported by Andreas
6644 + modify lib_setup.c to eliminate unneeded include of <sys/ioctl.h>
6645 when termios is not used (patch by Todd C Miller).
6646 + add function _nc_doalloc, to ensure that failed realloc calls do not
6647 leak memory (reported by Todd C Miller).
6648 + improved ncsa-telnet terminfo entry.
6651 + correct missing braces around a trace statement in read_entry.c,
6652 from 980808 (reported by Kim DeVaughn <kimdv@best.com> and Liviu
6656 + fix missing include <errno.h> in ditto.c (reported by Bernhard
6657 Rosenkraenzer <bero@k5.sucks.eu.org>)
6658 + add NCSA telnet terminfo entries from Francesco Potorti
6659 <F.Potorti@cnuce.cnr.it>, from Debian bug reports.
6660 + make handling of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables more compatible with
6661 Solaris by allowing them to individually override the window size
6662 as obtained via ioctl.
6665 + modify lib_vidattr.c to allow for terminal types (e.g., xterm-color)
6666 which may reset all attributes in the 'op' capability, so that colors
6667 are set before turning on bold and other attributes, but still after
6668 turning attributes off.
6669 + add 'ditto.c' to test directory to illustrate use of newterm for
6670 initializing multiple screens.
6671 + modify _nc_write_entry() to recover from failed attempt to link alias
6672 for a terminfo on a filesystem which does not preserve character case
6673 (reported by Peter L Jordan <PJordan@chla.usc.edu>).
6676 + updated versions of config.guess and config.sub based on automake 1.3
6677 + change name-comparisons in lib_termcap to compare no more than 2
6678 characters (gleaned from Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-8.8, verified
6679 with Solaris curses).
6680 + fix typo in curs_insstr.3x (patch by Todd C Miller)
6681 + use 'access()' to check if ncurses library should be permitted to
6682 open or modify files with fopen/open/link/unlink/remove calls, in
6683 case the calling application is running in setuid mode (request by
6684 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>, responding to Duncan Simpson
6685 <dps@io.stargate.co.uk>).
6686 + arm100 terminfo entries from Dave Millen <dmill@globalnet.co.uk>).
6687 + qnxt2 and minitel terminfo entries from esr's version.
6690 + use -R option with ldconfig on FreeBSD because otherwise it resets
6691 the search path to /usr/lib (reported by Dan Nelson).
6692 + add -soname option when building shared libraries on OpenBSD 2.x
6693 (request by QingLong).
6694 + add configure options --with-manpage-format and
6695 --with-manpage-renames (request by QingLong).
6696 + correct conversion of CANCELLED_NUMERIC in write_object(), which was
6697 omitting the high-order byte, producing a 254 in the compiled
6699 + modify return-values of tgetflag, tgetnum, tgetstr, tigetflag,
6700 tigetnum and tigetstr to be compatible with Solaris (gleaned from
6701 Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-8.8).
6702 + modify _nc_syserr_abort to abort only when compiled for debugging,
6703 otherwise simply exit with an error.
6706 + modify Ada95 'gen' program to use appropriate library suffix (e.g.,
6707 "_g" for a debug build).
6708 + update Ada95 'make clean' rule to include generics .ali files
6709 + add a configure test to ensure that if GNAT is found, that it can
6710 compile/link working Ada95 program.
6711 + flush output in beep and flash functions, fixing a problem with
6712 getstr (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov)
6713 + fix egcs 1.0.2 warning for etip.h (patch by Chris Johns).
6714 + correct ifdef/brace nesting in lib_sprintf.c (patch by Bernhard
6715 Rosenkraenzer <bero@Pool.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>).
6716 + correct typo in wattr_get macro from 980509 fixes (patch by Dan
6720 + merge changes from current XFree86 xterm terminfo descriptions.
6721 + add configure option '--without-ada'.
6722 + add a smart-default for termcap 'ac' to terminfo 'acs_chars' which
6723 corresponds to vt100.
6724 + change translation for termcap 'rs' to terminfo 'rs2', which is
6725 the documented equivalent, rather than 'rs1'.
6728 + slow 'worm' down a little, for very fast machines.
6729 + corrected firstchar/lastchar computation in lib_hline.c
6730 + simplify some expressions with CHANGED_CELL, CHANGED_RANGE and
6731 CHANGED_TO_EOL macros.
6732 + modify init_pair so that if a color-pair is reinitialized, we will
6733 repaint the areas of the screen whose color changes, like SVr4 curses
6734 (reported by Christian Maurer <maurer@inf.fu-berlin.de>).
6735 + modify getsyx/setsyx macros to comply with SVr4 man-page which
6736 says that leaveok() affects their behavior (report by Darryl Miles,
6737 patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
6740 + review terminfo.5 against Solaris 2.6 curses version, corrected
6741 several minor errors/omissions.
6742 + implement tparm %l format.
6743 + implement tparm printf-style width and precision for %s, %d, %x, %o
6745 + implement tparm dynamic variables (reported by Xiaodan Tang).
6748 + update man-page for for wattr_set, wattr_get (cf: 980509)
6749 + correct limits in hashtest, which would cause nonprinting characters
6750 to be written to large screens.
6751 + correct configure script, when --without-cxx was specified: the
6752 wrong variable was used for cf_cv_type_of_bool. Compilers up to gcc
6753 2.8 tolerated the missing 'int'.
6754 + remove the hardcoded name "gcc" for the GNU Ada compiler. The
6755 compiler's name might be something like "egcs" (patch by Juergen
6757 + correct curs_addch.3x, which implied that echochar could directly
6758 display control characters (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
6759 + fix typos in ncurses-intro.html (patch by Sidik Isani
6760 <isani@cfht.hawaii.edu>)
6763 + add configure test for conflicting use of exception in math.h and
6765 + minor optimization to 'hash()' function in hashmap.c, reduces its
6767 + correct form of LD_SHARED_OPTS for HP-UX 10.x (patch by Tim Mooney).
6768 + fix missing quotes for 'print' in MKunctrl.awk script (reported by
6769 Mihai Budiu <mihaib@gs41.sp.cs.cmu.edu>).
6770 > patch by Alexander V Lukyanov:
6771 + correct problem on Solaris (with poll() function) where getch could
6772 hang indefinitely even if timeout(x) was called. This turned out to
6773 be because milliseconds was not updated before 'goto retry' in
6775 + simplified the function _nc_timed_wait and fixed another bug, which
6776 was the assumption of !GOOD_SELECT && HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY in *timeleft
6778 + removed the cycle on EINTR, as it seems to be useless.
6781 + add makefile-rule for test/keynames
6782 + modify run_tic.sh and shlib to ensure that user's .profile does not
6783 override the $PATH used to run tic (patch by Tim Mooney).
6784 + restore LD_SHARED_OPTS to $(LD_SHARED_FLAGS) when linking programs,
6785 needed for HP-UX shared-library path (recommended by Tim Mooney).
6786 + remove special case of HP-UX -L options, use +b options to embed
6787 $(libdir) in the shared libraries (recommended by Tim Mooney).
6788 + add checks for some possible buffer overflows and unchecked
6789 malloc/realloc/calloc/strdup return values (patch by Todd C Miller
6790 <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>)
6793 + correct maxx/maxy expression for num_columns/num_lines in derwin
6794 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
6795 + add /usr/share/lib/terminfo and /usr/lib/terminfo as compatibilty
6796 fallbacks to _nc_read_entry(), along with --with-terminfo-dirs
6797 configure option (suggested by Mike Hopkirk).
6798 + modify config.guess to recognize Unixware 2.1 and 7 (patch by Mike
6799 Hopkirk <hops@sco.com>).
6800 + suppress definition of CC_SHARED_OPTS in LDFLAGS_SHARED in c++
6801 Makefile.in, since this conflicts when g++ is used with HP-UX
6802 compiler (reported by Tim Mooney).
6803 + parenthesize 'strcpy' calls in c++ binding to workaround redefinition
6804 in some C++ implementations (reported by several people running
6805 egcs with glibc 2.0.93, analysis by Andreas Jaeger.
6808 + modify write_entry.c so that it will not attempt to link aliases
6809 with embedded '/', but give only a warning.
6810 + put -L$(libdir) first when linking programs, except for HP-UX.
6811 + modify comp_scan.c to handle SVr4 terminfo description for att477,
6812 which contains a colon in the description field.
6813 + modify configure script to support SCO osr5.0.5 shared libraries,
6814 from comp.unix.sco.programmer newsgroup item (Mike Hopkirk).
6815 + eliminate extra GoTo call in lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V.
6817 + minor adjustments of const/NCURSES_CONST from IRIX compile.
6818 + add updates based on esr's 980509 version of terminfo.src.
6821 + correct macros for wattr_set, wattr_get, separate wattrset macro from
6822 these to preserve behavior that allows attributes to be combined with
6824 + add configure option --enable-no-padding, to allow environment
6825 variable $NCURSES_NO_PADDING to eliminate non-mandatory padding,
6826 thereby making terminal emulators (e.g., for vt100) a little more
6827 efficient (request by Daniel Eisenbud <eisenbud@cs.swarthmore.edu>).
6828 + modify configure script to embed ABI in shared libraries for HP-UX
6829 10.x (detailed request by Tim Mooney).
6830 + add test/example of the 'filter()' function.
6831 + add nxterm and xterm-color terminfo description (request by Cristian
6832 Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>).
6833 + modify rxvt terminfo description to clear alternate screen before
6834 switching back to normal screen, for compatibility with applications
6835 which use xterm (reported by Manoj Kasichainula <manojk@io.com>).
6836 + modify linux terminfo description to reset color palette (reported
6837 by Telford Tendys <telford@eng.uts.edu.au>).
6838 + correction to doupdate, for case where terminal does not support
6839 insert/delete character. The logic did not check that there was a
6840 difference in alignment of changes to old/new screens before
6841 repainting the whole non-blank portion of the line. Modified to fall
6842 through into logic that reduces by the portion which does not differ
6843 (reported by Daniel Eisenbud <eisenbud@cs.swarthmore.edu>).
6844 + minor performance improvement to wnoutrefresh by moving some
6845 comparisons out of inner loop.
6848 + modify configure script to substitute NCURSES_CONST in curses.h
6849 + updated terminfo entries for xterm-xf86-v40, xterm-16color,
6850 xterm-8bit to correspond to XFree86 3.9Ag.
6851 + remove restriction that forces ncurses to use setaf/setab if the
6852 number of colors is greater than 8. (see 970524 for xterm-16color).
6853 + change order of -L options (so that $(libdir) is searched first) when
6854 linking tic and other programs, to workaround HP's linker.
6855 Otherwise, the -L../lib is embedded when linking against shared
6856 libraries and the installed program does not run (reported by Ralf
6858 + modify configuration of shared libraries on Digital Unix so that
6859 versioning is embedded in the library, rather than implied by
6860 links (patch by Tim Mooney).
6863 + modify etip.h to avoid conflict with math.h on HP-UX 9.03 with gcc
6864 2.8.1 which redefines 'exception' (reported by Ralf Hildebrandt
6865 <R.Hildebrandt@tu-bs.de>).
6866 + correct configure tests in CF_SHARED_OPTS which used $CC value to
6867 check for gcc, rather than autoconf's $GCC value. This did not
6868 work properly if the full pathname of the compiler were given
6869 (reported by Michael Yount <yount@csf.Colorado.edu>).
6870 + revise check for compiler options to force ANSI mode since repeating
6871 an option such as -Aa causes HP's compiler to fail on its own headers
6872 (reported by Clint Olsen <olsenc@ichips.intel.com>).
6875 + ifdef'd has_key() and mcprint() as extended functions.
6876 + modified several prototypes to correspond with 1997 version of
6877 X/Open Curses (affects ABI since developers have used attr_get).
6878 + remove spurious trailing blanks in glibc addon-scripts (patch by
6880 + insert a few braces at locations where gcc-2.8.x asks to use them to
6881 avoid ambigous else's, use -fpic rather than -fPIC for Linux (patch
6882 by Juergen Pfeifer).
6885 + split SHLIB_LIST into SHLIB_DIRS/SHLIB_LIST to keep -L options
6886 before -l to accommodate Solaris' linker (reported by Larry Virden).
6889 + modify lib_color.c to eliminate dependency on orig_colors and
6890 orig_pair, since SVr4 curses does not require these either, but
6891 uses them when they are available.
6892 + add detailed usage-message to infocmp.
6893 + correct a typo in att6386 entry (a "%?" which was "?").
6894 + add -f option to infocmp and tic, which formats the terminfo
6895 if/then/else/endif so that they are readable (with newlines and
6897 + fixes for glibc addon scripts (patch by H.J.Lu).
6900 + revise configure macro CF_SPEED_TYPE so that termcap.h has speed_t
6901 declared (from Adam J Richter <adam@yggdrasil.com>)
6902 + remove spurious curs_set() call from leaveok() (J T Conklin).
6903 + corrected handling leaveok() in doupdate() (patch by Alexander V.
6905 + improved version of wredrawln (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
6906 + correct c++/Makefile.in so install target do not have embedded ../lib
6907 to confuse it (patch by Thomas Graf <graf@essi.fr>).
6908 + add warning to preinstall rule which checks if the installer would
6909 overwrite a curses.h or termcap.h that is not derived from ncurses.
6910 (The recommended configuration for developers who need both is to
6911 use --disable-overwrite).
6912 + modify preinstall rule in top-level Makefile to avoid implicit
6913 use of 'sh', to accommodate Ultrix 4.4 (reported by Joao Palhoto
6914 Matos <jmatos@math.ist.utl.pt>, patch by Thomas Esser
6915 <te@informatik.uni-hannover.de>)
6916 + refine ifdef's for TRACE so that libncurses has fewer dependencies
6917 on libtinfo when TRACE is disabled.
6918 + modify configure script so that if the --with-termlib option is used
6919 to generate a separate terminfo library, we chain it to the ncurses
6920 library with a "-l" option (reported by Darryl Miles and Ian T.
6924 + correct limits and window in wredrawln function (reported/analysis by
6925 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
6926 + correct sed expression in configure script for --with-fallback
6927 option (patch by Jesse Thilo).
6928 + correct some places in configure script where $enableval was used
6929 rather than $withval (patch by Darryl Miles <dlm@g7led.demon.co.uk>).
6930 + modify some man-pages so no '.' or '..' falls between TH and SH
6931 macros, to accommodate man_db program (reported by Ian T. Zimmerman
6933 + terminfo.src 10.2.1 downloaded from ESR's webpage (ESR).
6934 > several changes by Juergen Pfeifer:
6935 + add copyright notices (and rcs id's) on remaining man-pages.
6936 + corrected prototypes for slk_* functions, using chtype rather than
6938 + implemented the wcolor_set() and slk_color() functions
6939 + the slk_attr_{set,off,on} functions need an additional void*
6940 parameter according to XSI.
6941 + fix the C++ and Ada95 binding as well as the man pages to
6942 reflect above enhancements.
6945 + use 'stat()' rather than 'access()' in toe.c to check for the
6946 existence of $HOME/.terminfo, since it may be a file.
6947 + suppress configure CF_CXX_LIBRARY check if we are not using g++
6948 2.7.x, since this is not needed with g++ 2.8 or egcs (patch by
6950 + turn on hashmap scrolling code by default, intend to remedy defects
6952 + minor corrections to terminfo.src changelog.
6954 980302 4.2 release for upload to prep.ai.mit.edu
6955 + correct Florian's email address in ncurses-intro.html
6956 + terminfo.src 10.2.0 (ESR).
6959 + add linux-koi8r replace linux-koi8, which is not KOI8 (patch by
6960 QingLong <qinglong@Bolizm.ihep.su>).
6961 + minor documentation fixes (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
6962 + add setlocale() call to ncurses.c (reported by Claes G. Lindblad
6963 <claesg@algonet.se>).
6964 + correct sign-extension in lib_insstr.c (reported by Sotiris
6965 Vassilopoulos <svas@leon.nrcps.ariadne-t.gr>)
6968 + regenerated some documentation overlooked in 980214 patch
6969 (ncurses-intro.doc, curs_outopts.3x.html)
6970 + minor ifdef change to C++ binding to work with gcc 2.8.0 (patch by
6972 + change maintainer's mailing address to florian@gnu.org, change
6973 tentative mailing list address to bug-ncurses-request@gnu.org (patch
6974 by Florian La Roche).
6975 + add definition of $(REL_VERSION) to c++/Makefile.in (reported by Gran
6976 Hasse <gh@raditex.se>).
6977 + restore version numbers to Ada95 binding, accidentally deleted by
6978 copyright patch (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
6981 + remove ncurses.lsm from MANIFEST so that it won't be used in FSF
6982 distributions, though it is retained in development.
6983 + correct scaling of milliseconds to nanoseconds in lib_napms.c (patch
6985 + update mailing-list information (bug-ncurses@gnu.org).
6986 + update announcement for upcoming 4.2 release.
6987 + modify -lm test to check for 'sin()' rather than 'floor()'
6988 + remove spurious commas from terminfo.src descriptions.
6989 + change copyright notices to Free Software Foundation
6992 + minor fixes for autoconf macros CF_ERRNO, CF_HELP_MESSAGE and
6994 + modify Makefile.glibc so that $(objpfx) is defined (H.J.Lu).
6995 + ifdef-out true-return from _nc_mouse_inline() which depends on
6996 merge of QNX patch (pending 4.2 release).
6997 > patch to split off seldom-used modules in ncurses (J T Conklin):
6998 This reduces size by up to 2.6kb.
6999 + move functionality of _nc_usleep into napms, add configuration case
7001 + moved wchgat() from lib_addch.c to lib_chgat.c
7002 + moved clearok(), immedok(), leaveok(), and scrollok() from
7003 lib_options.c to lib_clearok.c, lib_immedok.c, lib_leaveok.c and
7005 + moved napms() from lib_kernel.c to lib_napms.c
7006 + moved echo() and noecho() from lib_raw.c to lib_echo.c
7007 + moved nl() and nonl() from lib_raw.c to lib_nl.c
7010 + corrected conversion in tclock.c (cf: 971018).
7011 + updates to Makefile.glibc and associated Linux configure script
7013 + workaround a quoting problem on SunOS with tar-copy.sh
7014 + correct init_pair() calls in worm.c to work when use_default_colors()
7016 + include <sys/types.h> in CF_SYS_TIME_SELECT to work with FreeBSD
7018 + add ncv capability to FreeBSD console (cons25w), making reverse
7020 + correct sense of configure-test for sys/time.h inclusion with
7022 + fixes for Ada95/ada_include/Makefile.in to work with --srcdir option.
7023 + remove unused/obsolete test-program rules from progs/Makefile.in
7024 (the rules in ncurses/Makefile.in work).
7025 + remove shared-library loader flags from test/Makefile.in, etc.
7026 + simplify test/configure.in using new version of autoconf to create
7028 + suppress suffix rules in test/Makefile.in, provide explicit
7029 dependency to work with --srcdir option and less capable 'make'
7031 > adapted from patch for QNX by Xiaodan Tang:
7032 + initialize %P and %g variables set/used in tparm, and also ensure
7033 that empty strings don't return a null result from tparam_internal
7034 + add QNX-specific prototype for vsscanf()
7035 + move initialization of SP->_keytry from init_keytry() to newterm() to
7036 avoid resetting it via a keyok() call by mouse_activate().
7037 + reorganized some functions in lib_mouse() to use case-statements.
7038 + remove sgr string from qnx terminfo entry since it is reported to
7039 turn off attributes inconsistently.
7042 + add f/F/b/B commands to ncurses 'b' test to toggle colors, providing
7043 test for no_color_video.
7044 + adjusted emx.src to use no_color_video, now works with ncurses 'b'
7046 + implement no_color_video attribute, and as a special case, reverse
7047 colors when the reverse attribute cannot be combined with color.
7048 + check for empty string in $TERM variable (reported by Brett Michaels
7050 > from reports by Fred Fish:
7051 + add configure-test for isascii
7052 + add configure-test for -lm library.
7053 + modify CF_BOOL_SIZE to check if C++ bool types are unsigned.
7054 > patches by J.J.G.Ripoll
7055 + add configure/makefile variables to support .exe extension on
7056 OS/2 EMX (requires additional autoconf patches).
7057 + explicitly initialize variables in lib_data.c to appease OS/2 linker
7058 > patches by Fred Fish <fnf@ninemoons.com>
7059 + misc/Makefile.in (install.data): Avoid trying to install the CVS
7061 + aclocal.m4 (install.includes): Remove files in the include directory
7062 where we are going to install new ones, not the original source
7064 + misc/terminfo.src: Add entry for "beterm", derived from termcap
7065 distributed with BeOS PR2 using captoinfo.
7066 + aclocal.m4: Wrap $cf_cv_type_of_bool with quotes (contains space)
7067 + aclocal.m4: Assume bool types are unsigned.
7068 + progs/infocmp.c: workaround mwcc 32k function data limit
7071 + correct initialization of color-pair (cf: 970524) in xmas.c, which
7072 was using only one color-pair for all colors (reported by
7074 + add multithread options for objects build on EMX, for compatibility
7076 + split up an expression in MKlib_gen.sh to work around a problem on
7077 OS/2 EMX, with 'ash' (patch by J.J.G.Ripoll).
7078 + change terminfo entries xterm (xterm-xf86-v40), xterm-8bit rs1 to use
7080 + rename terminfo entry xterm-xf86-v39t to xterm-xf86-v40
7081 + remove bold/underline from sun console entries since they're not
7083 + correct _tracef calls in _tracedump(), which did not separate format
7085 + correct getopt string for tic "-o" option, and add it to man-page
7086 synopsis (reported by Darren Hiebert <darren@hmi.com>).
7087 + correct typo in panel/Makefile.in, reversed if-statement in scrolling
7088 optimization (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7089 + test for 'remove()', use 'unlink() if not found (patch by Philippe De
7090 Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>).
7091 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
7092 + Improve a feature of the forms driver. For invisible fields
7093 (O_VISIBLE off) only the contents but not the attributes are cleared.
7094 We now clear both. (Reported by Javier Kohan
7095 <jkohan@adan.fceia.unr.edu.ar>)
7096 + The man page form_field_opts.3x makes now clear, that invisible
7097 fields are also always inactive.
7098 + adjust ifdef's to compile the C++ binding with the just released
7099 gcc-2.8.0 c++ and the corresponding new C++ libraries.
7102 + correct "?" command in ncurses.c; it was performing non-screen writes
7103 while the program was in screen mode. (It "worked" in 1.9.9e because
7104 that version sets OPOST and OCRNL incorrectly).
7105 + return error from functions in lib_kernel, lib_raw and lib_ti if
7106 cur_term is null, or if underlying I/O fails.
7107 + amend change to tputs() so that it does not return an error if
7108 cur_term is null, since some applications depend on being able to use
7109 tputs without initializing the terminal (reported by Christian J.
7110 Robinson <infynity@cyberhighway.net>).
7113 + add a copy of emx.src from J.J.G.Ripoll's OS/2 EMX version of ncurses
7114 1.9.9e, together with fixes/additions for the "ansi" terminal type.
7115 + add tic check for save/restore cursor if change_scroll_region is
7116 defined (reference: O'Reilly book).
7117 + modify read_termcap.c to handle EMX-style pathnames (reported by
7119 + modify lib_raw.c to use EMX's setmode (patch from J.J.G.Ripoll).
7120 Ripoll says EMX's curses does this.
7121 + modify _nc_tic_expand() to generate \0 rather than \200.
7122 + move/revise 'expand()' from dump_entry.c to ncurses library as
7123 _nc_tic_expand(), for use by tack.
7124 + decode \a as \007 for terminfo, as per XSI.
7125 + correct translation of terminfo "^@", to \200, like \0.
7126 + modify next_char() to treat <cr><lf> the same as <newline>, for
7127 cross-platform compatibility.
7128 + use new version of autoconf (971230) to work around limited
7129 environment on CLIX, due to the way autoconf builds --help message.
7130 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7131 + check that the Ada95 binding runs against the correct version of
7133 + insert constants about the library version into the main spec-file of
7137 + modify open/fopen calls to use binary mode, needed for EMX.
7138 + modify configure script to work with autoconf 2.10 mods for OS/2
7139 EMX (from J.J.G.Ripoll).
7140 + generated ncurses_cfg.h with patch (971222) to autoconf 2.12 which
7141 bypasses limited sed buffer length.
7142 > several changes from Juan Jose Garcia Ripoll <worm@arrakis.es>
7143 (J.J.G.Ripoll) to support OS/2 EMX:
7144 + add a _scrolling flag to SP, to set when we encounter a terminal
7145 that simply cannot scroll.
7146 + corrected logic in _nc_add_to_try(), by ensuring that strings with
7147 embedded \200 characters are matched.
7148 + don't assume the host has 'link()' function, for linking terminfo
7152 + if there's no ioctl's to support sigwinch handler, disable it.
7153 + add configure option --disable-ext-funcs to remove the extended
7154 functions from the build.
7155 + add configure option --with-termlib to generate the terminfo
7156 functions as a separate library.
7157 + add 'sources' rule to facilitate cross-compiling.
7158 + review/fix order of mostlyclean/clean/distclean rules.
7159 + modify install-rule for headers to first remove old header, in
7160 case there was a symbolic link that confuses the install script.
7161 + corrected substitution for NCURSES_CONST in term.h (cf: 971108)
7162 + add null pointer checks in wnoutrefresh(), overlap() (patch by
7163 Xiaodan Tang <xtang@qnx.com>)
7164 + correct tputs(), which could dereference a null cur_term if invoked
7165 before terminal is initialized (patch by Christopher Seawood
7167 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7168 + makes better use of "pragma Inline" in the Ada95 binding
7169 + resynchronizes the generated html manpages
7172 + additional fixes for man-pages section-references
7173 + add (for debugging) a check for ich/ich1 conflict with smir/rmir
7175 + remove hpa/vpa from rxvt terminal description because they are not
7176 implemented correctly, added sgr0.
7177 + change ncurses 's' to use raw mode, so ^Q works (reported by Rudolf
7178 Leitgeb <leitgeb@leland.stanford.edu>)
7181 + modify protection when installing libraries to (normally) not
7182 executable. HP-UX shared libraries are an exception.
7183 + add configure check for 'tack'.
7184 + implement script for renaming section-references in man-page install,
7185 for Debian configuration.
7186 + add validity-check for SP in trace code in baudrate() (reported by
7188 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov (fixes to match sol25 curses)
7189 + modify 'overlay()' so that copy applies target window background to
7191 + correct 'mvwin()' so that it does not clear the previous locations.
7192 + correct lib_acs.c so that 8-bit character is not sign expanded in
7193 case of wide characters in chtype.
7194 + correct control-char test in lib_addch.c for use with wide chars
7195 + use attribute in the chtype when adding a control character in
7196 lib_addch.c control char was added with current attribute
7199 + save/restore errno in _tracef() function
7200 + change treatment of initialize_color to use a range of 0..1000
7201 (recommended by Daniel Weaver).
7202 + set umask in mkinstalldirs, fixing problems reported by users who
7203 have set root's umask to 077.
7204 + correct bug in tic that caused capabilities to be reprinted at the
7205 end of output when they had embedded comments.
7206 + rewrote wredrawln to correspond to XSI, and split-out since it is
7207 not often used (from report by Alexander V. Lukyanov, 970825)
7208 + rewrote Dan Nelson's change to make it portable, as well as to
7209 correct logic for handling backslashes.
7210 + add code to _nc_tgetent() to make it work more like a real tgetent().
7211 It removes all empty fields, and removes all but the first in a group
7212 of duplicate caps. The code was pulled from the BSD libtermcap code
7213 in termcap.c (patch by Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
7214 + don't include --enable-widec in the --with-develop configure option,
7215 since it is not binary-compatible with 4.1 (noted by Alexander V.
7217 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7218 + further improvements of the usage of elaboration pragmas in the Ada95
7220 + enhanced Ada95 sample to use the user_data mechanism for panels.
7221 + a fix for the configuration script to make gnat-3.10 the required
7223 + resync of the html version of the manpages
7226 > fixes/updates for terminfo.src:
7227 + add vt220-js, pilot, rbcomm, datapoint entries from esr's 27-jun-97
7229 + add hds200 description (Walter Skorski)
7230 + add EMX 0.9b descriptions
7231 + correct rmso/smso capabilities in wy30-mc and wy50-mc (Daniel Weaver)
7232 + rename xhpterm back to hpterm.
7233 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7234 + Improves the usage of elaboration pragmas for the Ada95 binding.
7235 + Adds a translation of the test/rain.c into Ada95 to the samples.
7236 This has been contributed to the project by Laurent Pautet
7240 + increase MAX_NAME_SIZE to 512 to handle extremely long alias list
7242 + correction & simplification of delay computation in tputs, based on
7243 comments from Daniel Weaver.
7244 + replace test for SCO with more precise header tests.
7245 + add configure test for unsigned literals, use in NCURSES_BITS macro.
7246 + comment-out the -PIC, etc., flags from c++, progs and test makefiles
7247 since they probably are not needed, and are less efficient (noted by
7249 + add -L$(libdir) to loader options, after -L../lib so that loaders
7250 that record this information will tend to do the right thing if
7251 the programs are moved around after installing them (suggested by
7253 + add -R option to loader options for programs for Solaris if the
7254 --enable-rpath option is specified for the libraries.
7257 + correct installed filename for shared libraries on *BSD (reported by
7261 + cleanup logic for deciding when tputs() should call delay_output(),
7262 based on comments from Daniel Weaver.
7263 + modified tputs() to avoid use of float.
7264 + correct use of trailpad in tputs(), which used the wrong variable
7265 in call to delay_output().
7266 + correct inverted expression for null-count in delay_output()
7267 (analysis by Daniel Weaver).
7268 + apply --enable-rpath option to Solaris (requested by Larry Virden).
7269 + correct substitution of EXTRA_CFLAGS for gcc 2.6.3
7270 + correct check for error-return by _nc_tgetent(), which returns 0
7272 + add configure test for BSD 4.4 cgetent() function, modify
7273 read_termcap.c to use the host's version of that if found, using the
7274 terminal database on FreeBSD (reported by Peter Wemm).
7275 + add u8, u9 strings to sun-il description for Daniel Weaver.
7276 + use NCURSES_CONST in panel's user-pointer.
7277 + modify edit_cfg.sh and MKterm.h.awk.in to substitute NCURSES_CONST
7278 so that will work on NeXT.
7279 + use _nc_set_screen() rather than assignments to SP to fix port to
7280 NeXT (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
7283 + force mandatory padding in bell and flash_screen, as specified in
7285 + don't allow padding_baud_rate to override mandatory delays (reported
7287 + modify delay_output() to use _nc_timed_wait() if no baudrate has been
7288 defined, or if the cur_term pointer is not initialized. XSI treats
7289 this as unspecified. (requested by Daniel Weaver).
7290 + change getcap-cache ifdef's to eliminate unnecessary chdir/mkdir
7291 when that feature is not configured.
7292 + remove _nc_err_abort() calls when write_entry.c finds a directory but
7293 cannot write to it, e.g., when translating part/all of /etc/termcap
7294 (reported by Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>).
7295 (this dates back to 951102, in 1.9.7a).
7296 + minor ifdef fixes to compile with atac and glibc 2.0.5c
7297 + add check for -lgen when configuring regexpr.h
7298 + modify Solaris shared-library option "-d y" to "-dy" to workaround
7299 incompatibility of gcc 2.7.2 vs vendor's tools.
7302 + correct ifdef's for struct winsize vs struct ttysize in lib_setup.c
7304 + remove dangling backslash in panel/Makefile.in
7305 + modify MKkeyname.awk to work with SCO's nawk, which dumps core in the
7307 + correct length of allocation in _nc_add_to_try(), to allow for
7309 + correct logic in _nc_remove_key(), which was discarding too many
7310 nodes (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov)
7313 + add definition for $(REL_VERSION) to test/Makefile.in, so *BSD
7314 shared libraries link properly (see 970524).
7315 + modify Linux shared-library generation to include library
7316 dependencies (e.g., -lncurses and -lgpm) in the forms, menu and
7317 panel libraries (suggested by Juergen Pfeifer).
7318 + modify configure script to use config.guess and config.sub rather
7319 than uname, which is unreliable on some systems.
7320 + updated Makefile.glibc, test-built with glibc 2.0.5c
7321 + modify keyname() to return values consistent with SVr4 curses (patch
7323 > changes requested by Daniel Weaver:
7324 + modify delay_output() so that it uses the same output function as
7325 tputs() if called from that function.
7326 + move _baudrate from SCREEN to TERMINAL so that low-level use of
7327 tputs works when SP is not set.
7328 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7329 + factor lib_menu and lib_form into smaller modules
7330 + clean up the interface between panel and SCREEN
7331 + minor changes to the Ada95 mouse support implemenation
7332 + minor bugfix in C++ binding to ripoff windows
7333 + fix a few Ada95 html documentation pages
7336 + split-out lib_ungetch.c, make runtime link to resizeterm() to
7337 decouple those modules from lib_restart.c
7338 + add xterm-xf86-v39t description to terminfo.src
7339 + reset SP->_endwin in lib_tstp.c cleanup() function after calling
7340 endwin() to avoid unnecessary repainting if the application has
7341 established an atexit function, etc. Encountered this problem in
7342 the c++ demo, whose destructors repaint the screen.
7343 + combine _nc_get_screensize() and resizeterm() calls as new function
7344 _nc_update_screensize().
7345 + minor fixes to allow compile with g++ (suggested by Nelson H. F.
7347 + implement install-rules for Ada95 makefiles.
7348 + use screen_lines or MAXLINES as needed where LINES was coded,
7349 as well as screen_columns for COLS, in the ncurses library.
7350 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
7351 + modify logic for ripped-off lines to handle several SCREENs.
7352 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7353 + factors lib_slk.c into some smaller modules
7354 + factors panel.c into some smaller modules
7355 + puts the static information about the current panel stack into the
7356 SCREEN structure to allow different panel stacks on different
7358 + preliminary fix for an error adjusting LINES to account for
7362 + move _nc_max_click_interval and other mouse interface items to SCREEN
7363 struct so that they are associated with a single terminal, and also
7364 save memory when the application does not need a mouse (roughly 3k vs
7366 + modify mouseinterval() so that a negative parameter queries the
7367 click-interval without modifying it.
7368 + modify ncurses 'i' test to work with ncurses' apparent extension from
7369 SVr4, i.e., allows nocbreak+noecho (analysis by Alexander V.
7371 + add configure options --with-ada-includes and --with-ada-objects,
7372 to drive Ada95 binding install (not yet implemented).
7373 + install C++ binding as -lncurses++ and associated headers with the
7374 other ncurses headers.
7375 + fix header uninstall if configure --srcdir is used.
7376 > minor interface changes to support 'tack' program -TD
7377 (request by Daniel Weaver <danw@znyx.com>).
7378 + export functions _nc_trans_string() and _nc_msec_cost().
7379 + add variable _nc_nulls_sent, to record the number of padding
7380 characters output in delay_output().
7381 + move tests for generic_type and hard_copy terminals in setupterm()
7382 to the end of that function so that the library will still be
7383 initialized, though not generally useful for curses programs.
7384 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
7385 + modify ClrBottom() to avoid using clr_eos if there is only one line
7387 + typo in configure --help.
7388 > patch by J T Conklin (with minor resync against Juergen's changes)
7389 + split-out lib_flash.c from lib_beep.c
7390 + split-out lib_hline.c and lib_vline.c from lib_box.c
7391 + split-out lib_wattron.c, lib_wattroff.c from lib_addch.c
7394 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7395 + correct source/target of c++/edit_cfg.sh
7398 + add color, mouse support to kterm terminfo entry.
7399 + modify lib_mouse.c to recognize rxvt, kterm, color_xterm also as
7400 providing "xterm"-style mouse.
7401 + updated rxvt's terminfo description to correspond to 2.21b, with
7402 fixes for the acsc (the box1 capability is incorrect, ech1 does not
7404 + fix logic in parse_entry.c that discarded acsc when 'synthesizing'
7405 an entry from equivalents in XENIX or AIX. This lets ncurses handle
7406 the distribution copy of rxvt's terminfo.
7407 + modify acsc capability for linux and linux-koi8 terminfo descriptions
7408 (from Pavel Roskin <pavel@absolute.spb.su>).
7409 + corrected definition in curses.h for ACS_LANTERN, which was 'I'
7410 rather than 'i' (see 970802).
7411 + updated terminfo.src with reformatted acsc entries, and repaired the
7412 trashed entries with spurious '\' characters that this exposed.
7413 + add logic to dump_entry.c to reformat acsc entries into canonical
7414 form (sorted, unique mapping).
7415 + add configure script to generate c++/etip.h
7416 + add configure --with-develop option, to enable by default most of the
7417 experimental options (requested by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7418 + rename 'deinstall' to 'uninstall', following GNU convention
7419 (suggested by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7420 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
7421 + modify tactics 2 and 5 in onscreen_mvcur(), to allow them on the last
7422 line of the screen, since carriage return will not cause a newline.
7423 + remove clause from PutCharLR() that would try to use
7424 eat_newline_glitch since that apparently does not work on some
7425 terminals (e.g., M$ telnet).
7426 + correct a limit check in scroll_csr_backward()
7427 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
7428 + adds dummy implementations of methods above() and below() to the
7430 + fixes missing returncode in NCursesWindow::ripoffline()
7431 + fixes missing returncode in TestApplication::run() in demo.cc
7432 + We should at least give a comment in etip.h why it is currently a
7433 problem to install the C++ binding somewhere
7434 + makes the WINDOW* argument of wenclose() a const.
7435 + modifies several of the routines in lib_adabind.c to use a const
7439 + add 'deinstall' rules.
7440 + use explicit assignments in configure --without-progs option to
7441 work around autoconf bug which doesn't always set $withval.
7442 + check for ldconfig, don't try to run it if not found.
7443 + implement simple/unoptimized case in lib_doupdate.c to handle
7444 display with magic cookie glitch, tested with ncurses.c program.
7445 + correct missing _tracef in getmouse(), to balance the returnCode
7447 + simplify show_attr() in ncurses.c using termattrs().
7448 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
7449 + provides missing inlines for mvw[hv]line in cursesw.h of the C++
7451 + fixes a typo in a comment of frm_driver.c
7452 + Enhances Ada95 Makefiles to fulfill the requirement of GNAT-3.10 that
7453 generics should be compiled. Proper fixes to the configuration
7454 scripts are also provided.
7457 + several modifications to the configure script (requested by Ward
7459 + add configure options --without-progs, to suppress the build of the
7460 utility programs, e.g., for cross-compiling.
7461 + add $(HOSTCCFLAGS) and $(HOSTLDFLAGS) symbols to ncurses
7462 Makefile.in, to simplify setup for cross compiling.
7463 + add logic in configure script to recognize "--target=vxworks", and
7464 generate load/install actions for VxWorks objects.
7465 + move typedef for sigaction_t into SigAction.h to work around problem
7466 generating lint library.
7467 + modify fty_regex.c to reflect renaming of ifdef's for regular
7469 + simplify ifdef in lib_setup.c for TIOCGWINSZ since that symbol may
7470 reside in <sys/ioctl.h>.
7471 + merge testcurs.c with version from PDCurses 2.3, clarifying some of
7472 the more obscure tests, which rely upon color.
7473 + use macros getbegyx() and getmaxyx() in newdemo.c and testcurs.c
7474 + modify ncurses.c to use getbegyx() and getmaxyx() macros to cover up
7475 implementation difference wrt SVr4 curses, allow 's' test to work.
7476 + add missing endwin() to testscanw.c program (reported by Fausto
7477 Saporito <fausap@itb.it>).
7478 + fixes/updates for Makefile.glibc and related files under sysdeps
7480 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
7481 + add checks for null pointers, especially WINDOW's throughout the
7483 + solve a problem with wrong calculation of panel overlapping (reported
7485 + make sure that a panel's window isn't a pad.
7486 + do more error checking in module lib_touch.c
7487 + missing files for Ada95 binding from the last patch
7488 + synch. of generated html pages (RCS-Id's were wrong in html files)
7489 + support for Key_Resize in Ada binding
7490 + changed documentation style in ./c++/cursesm.h
7491 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
7492 + undo attempt to do recursive inlining for PutChar(), noting that it
7493 did not improve timing measurably, but inflated the size of
7497 + modify rain.c to use color.
7498 + correct scroll_csr_backward() to match scroll_csr_forward().
7499 + minor adjustment to llib-lncurses, to work with Solaris 2.5.1
7500 + minor fixes to sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/configure to reflect renaming
7501 of configure cache variables in 970906.
7502 + correct logic involving changes to O_VISIBLE option in
7503 Synchronize_Options function in frm_driver.c (Tony Hoffmann
7504 <Tony.Hoffmann@hia.nrc.ca>)
7505 + add $(HOSTCC) symbol to ncurses Makefile.in, to simplify setup for
7506 cross compiling (suggested by Chris Johns).
7507 + modify ifdef in lib_setup.c to only include <sys/ioctl.h> if we can
7508 use it to support screen-size calculation (reported by Chris Johns).
7509 + #undef unctrl to avoid symbol conflict in port to RTEMS (reported by
7510 Chris Johns <cjohns@plessey.com.au>)
7511 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
7512 + simplified, made minor corrections to Ada95 binding to form
7514 + The C++ binding has been enhanced:
7515 + Improve NCursesWindow class: added additional methods to cover
7516 more ncurses functionality. Make refresh() and noutrefresh()
7517 virtual members to allow different implementation in the
7519 + CAUTION: changed order of parameters in vline() and hline() of
7520 NCursesWindow class.
7521 + Make refresh() in NCursesPanel non-static, it is now a
7522 reimplementation of refresh() in the base class. Added
7523 noutrefresh() to NCursesPanel.
7524 + Added NCursesForm and related classes to support libform
7526 + Moved most of configuration related stuff from cursesw.h to etip.h
7527 + Added NCursesApplication class to support easy configuration of
7528 menu and forms related attributes as well as ripped of title lines
7529 and Soft-Label-Keys for an application.
7530 + Support of Auto-Cleanup for a menu's fieldlist.
7531 + Change of return type for current_item() and operator[] for menus.
7533 + Fixed a bug in form/fld_def.c: take into account that copyarg and
7534 freearg for a fieldtype may be NULL, makearg must not be NULL
7535 + Fixed a bug in form/fld_type.c: in set_fieldtype_arg() makearg must
7536 not be NULL, copyarg and freearg may be NULL.
7537 + Fixed a bug in form/frm_def.c: Allow Disconnect_Fields() if it is
7538 already disconnected.
7539 + Enhance form/frm_driver.c: Allow growth of dynamic fields also on
7540 navigation requests.
7541 + Fixed a bug in form/fty_enum.c: wrong position of postincrement in
7542 case-insensitiva comparision routine.
7543 + Enhanced form/lib_adabind.c with function _nc_get_field() to get a
7544 forms field by index.
7545 + Enhanced menu/m_adabind.c with function _nc_get_item() to get a menus
7547 + Fixed in curses.h.in: make chtype argument for pechochar() constant.
7548 Mark wbkgdset() as implemented, remove wbkgdset macro, because it was
7549 broken (didn't handle colors correctly).
7550 + Enhanced lib_mouse.c: added _nc_has_mouse() function
7551 + Added _nc_has_mouse() prototype to curses.priv.h
7552 + Modified lib_bkgd.c: hopefully correct implementation of wbkgdset();
7553 streamlined implementation of wbkgd()
7554 + Modified lib_mvwin.c: Disable move of a pad. Implement (costly)
7555 move of subwindows. Fixed update behavior of movements of regular
7557 + Fixed lib_pad.c: make chtype argument of pechochar() const.
7558 + Fixed lib_window.c: dupwin() is not(!) in every bit a really clone
7559 of the original. Subwindows become regular windows by doing a
7561 + Improved manpage form_fieldtype.3x
7562 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
7563 + simplify the PutChar() handling of exit_am_mode, because we already
7564 know that auto_right_margin is true.
7565 + add a check in PutChar() for ability to insert to the case of
7566 shifting character to LR corner.
7567 + in terminal initialization by _nc_screen_resume(), make sure that
7568 terminal right margin mode is known.
7569 + move logic that invokes touchline(), or does the equivalent, into
7570 _nc_scroll_window().
7571 + modify scrolling logic use of insert/delete line capability, assuming
7572 that they affect the screen contents only within the current
7574 + modify rain.c to demonstrate SIGWINCH handler.
7575 + remove logic from getch() that would return an ERR if the application
7576 called getch() when the cursor was at the lower-right corner of the
7577 physical screen, and the terminal does not have insert-character
7579 + change view.c so that it breaks out of getch() loop if a KEY_RESIZE
7580 is read, and modify logic in getch() so this fix will yield the
7581 desired behavior, i.e., the screen is repainted automatically when
7582 the terminal window is resized.
7585 + add configure option --enable-sigwinch
7586 + modify view.c to test KEY_RESIZE logic, with "-r" option.
7587 + modify testcurs.c to eliminate misleading display wrt cursor type
7588 by testing if the terminal supports cnorm, civis, cvvis.
7589 + several fixes for m68k/NeXT 4.0, to bring cur_term, _nc_curr_line and
7590 _nc_curr_col variables into linked programs: move these variables,
7591 making new modules lib_cur_term and trace_buf (reported by Francisco
7592 Alberto Tomei Torres <fatomei@sandburg.unm.edu>).
7593 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
7594 + add pseudo-functionkey KEY_RESIZE which is returned by getch() when
7595 the SIGWINCH handler has been called since the last call to
7597 + modify lib_twait.c to hide EINTR only if HIDE_EINTR is defined.
7598 + add SIGWINCH handler to ncurses library which is used if there is no
7599 application SIGWINCH handler in effect when the screen is
7601 + make linked list of all SCREEN structures.
7602 + move curses.h include before definition of SCREEN to use types in
7604 + correction to ensure that wgetstr uses only a newline to force a
7608 + add experimental configure option --enable-safe-sprintf; the normal
7609 mode now allocates a buffer as large as the screen for the
7610 lib_printw.c functions.
7611 + modify wgetch to refresh screen when reading ungetch'd characters,
7612 since the application may require this - SVr4 does this.
7613 + refine treatment of newline in wgetstr to echo only when this would
7614 force the screen to scroll.
7617 + remove override in wgetstr() that forces keypad(), since SVr4 does
7619 + correct y-reference for erasure in wgetstr() when a wrap forces a
7621 + correct x-position in waddch() after a wrap forces a scroll.
7622 + echo newline in wgetstr(), making testscanw.c scroll properly when
7624 + modify vwscanw() to avoid potential buffer overflow.
7625 + rewrote lib_printw.c to eliminate fixed-buffer limits.
7626 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
7627 + correct an error in handling cooked mode in wgetch(); processing
7628 was in the wrong order.
7629 + simplified logic in wgetch() that handles backspace, etc., by using
7631 + correct wechochar() so that it interprets the output character as
7633 + modify pechochar() to use prefresh() rather than doupdate(), since
7634 the latter does not guarantee immediate refresh of the pad.
7635 + modify pechochar() so that if called with a non-pad WINDOW, will
7636 invoke wechochar() instead.
7637 + modify fifo indices to allow fifo to be longer than 127 bytes.
7640 + add xterm-8bit to terminfo.src
7641 + moved logic for SP->_fifohold inside check_pending() to make it
7642 work properly when we add calls to that function.
7643 + ensure that bool functions return only TRUE or FALSE, and TRUE/FALSE
7644 are assigned to bool values (patch by H.J.Lu).
7645 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
7646 + several fixes to getch:
7647 1. Separate cooked and raw keys in fifo
7648 2. Fix the case of ungetch'ed KEY_MOUSE
7649 3. wrap the code for hiding EINTR with ifdef HIDE_EINTR
7650 4. correctly handle input errors (i.e., EINTR) without loss of raw
7652 5. recognize ESC KEY_LEFT and similar
7653 6. correctly handle the case of receiption of KEY_MOUSE from gpm
7654 + correct off-by-one indexing error in _nc_mouse_parse(), that caused
7655 single mouse events (press/release) to be ignored in favor of
7656 composed events (click). Improves on a fix from integrating gpm
7658 + add another call to check_pending, before scrolling, for
7659 line-breakout optimization
7660 + improve hashmap.c by
7661 1. fixed loop condition in grow_hunks()
7662 2. not marking lines with offset 0
7663 3. fixed condition of 'too far' criteria, thus one-line hunks are
7664 ignored and two lines interchanged won't pass.
7665 + rewrote/simplified _nc_scroll_optimize() by separating into two
7666 passes, forward/backward, looking for chunks moving only in the given
7668 + move logic that emits sgr0 when initializing the screen to
7669 _nc_screen_init(), now invoked from newterm.
7670 + move cursor-movement cleanup from endwin() into _nc_mvcur_wrap()
7671 function and screen cleanup (i.e., color) into _nc_screen_wrap()
7673 + add new functions _nc_screen_init(), _nc_screen_resume() and
7675 + rename _nc_mvcur_scrolln() to _nc_scrolln().
7676 + add a copy of acs_map[] to the SCREEN structure, where it can be
7677 stored/retrieved via set_term().
7678 + move variables _nc_idcok, _nc_idlok, _nc_windows into the SCREEN
7682 + implement experimental _nc_perform_scroll().
7683 + modify newterm (actually _nc_setupscreen()) to emit an sgr0 when
7684 initializing the screen, as does SVr4 (reported by Alexander V.
7686 + added test_progs rule to ncurses/Makefile.
7687 + modify test/configure.in to check if initscr is already in $LIBS
7688 before looking for (n)curses library.
7689 + correct version-number in configure script for OSF1 shared-library
7690 options (patch by Tim Mooney).
7691 + add -DNDEBUG to CPPFLAGS for --enable-assertions (as Juergen
7692 originally patched) since the c++ demo files do not necessarily
7693 include ncurses_cfg.h
7694 + supply default value for --enable-assertions option in configure
7695 script (reported by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf-fs.usc.edu>).
7696 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
7697 + correct/simplify logic of werase(), wclrtoeol() and wclrbot(). See
7699 + optimize waddch_literal() and waddch_nosync() by factoring out
7700 common subexpressions.
7701 + correct sense of NDEBUG ifdef for CHECK_POSITION macro.
7702 + corrections to render_char(), to make handling of colored blanks
7703 match SVr4 curses, as well as to correct a bug that xor'd space
7704 against the background character.
7705 + replaced hash function with a faster one (timed it)
7706 + rewrote the hashmap algorithm to be one-pass, this avoids multiple
7707 cost_effective() calls on the same lines.
7708 + modified cost_effective() so it is now slightly more precise.
7709 > patches for glibc integration (H.J.Lu):
7710 + add modules define_key, keyok, name_match, tries
7711 + add makefile rules for some of the unit tests in ncurses (mvcur,
7712 captoinfo, hardscroll, hashmap).
7713 + update Linux configure-script for wide-character definitions.
7716 + modify _tracebits() to show the character size (e.g., CS8).
7717 + modify tparm() to emit '\200' where the generated string would have a
7718 null (reported by From: Ian Dall <Ian.Dall@dsto.defence.gov.au> for
7719 terminal type ncr7900).
7720 + modify install process so that ldconfig is not invoked if the
7721 package is built with an install-prefix.
7722 + correct test program for chtype size (reported by Tim Mooney).
7723 + add configure option --disable-scroll-hints, using this to ifdef the
7724 logic that computes indices for _nc_scroll_optimize().
7725 + add module ncurses/softscroll.c, to perform single-stage computation
7726 of scroll indices used in _nc_scroll_optimize(). This is faster than
7727 the existing scrolling algorithm, but tends to make too-small hunks.
7728 + eliminate fixed buffer size in _nc_linedump().
7729 + minor fixes to lib_doupdate.c to add tradeoff between clr_eol (el)
7730 and clr_bol (el1), refine logic in ClrUpdate() and ClrBottom() (patch
7731 by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7732 + add test/testaddch.c, from a pending patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov.
7733 + correct processing of "configure --enable-assertions" option (patch
7734 by Juergen Pfeifer).
7737 + add '-s' (single-step) option too test/hashtest.c, correct an error
7738 in loop limit for '-f' (footer option), toggle scrollok() when
7739 writing footer to avoid wrap at lower-right corner.
7740 + correct behavior of clrtoeol() immediately after wrapping cursor,
7741 which was not clearing the line at the cursor position (reported by
7742 Liviu Daia <daia@stoilow.imar.ro>).
7743 + corrected mapping for ACS_LANTERN, which was 'I' rather than 'i'
7744 (reported by Klaus Weide <kweide@tezcat.com>).
7745 + many corrections to make progs/capconvert work, as well as make it
7746 reasonably portable and integrated with ncurses 4.1 (reported by Dave
7747 Furstenau <df@ravine.binary.net>).
7750 + add flag SP->_fifohold, corresponding logic to modify the behavior of
7751 the line breakout logic so that if the application does not read
7752 input, refreshes will not be stopped, but only slowed.
7753 + generate slk_attr_off(), slk_attr_on(), slk_attr_set(), vid_attr(),
7754 ifdef'd for wide-character support, since ncurses' WA_xxx attribute
7755 masks are identical with the A_xxx masks.
7756 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to generate ifdef'd functions to support optional
7757 configuration of wide-characters.
7758 + modify tset to behave more like SVr4's tset, which does not modify
7759 the settings of intr, quit or erase unless they are given as command
7760 options (reported by Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe@math.utah.edu>).
7761 + modify tset to look in /etc/ttys or /etc/ttytype if the configuration
7762 does not have getttynam().
7763 + extend baudrate table in tset.c to match baudrate() function.
7764 + add table entries for 230400 and 460800 bd to baudrate() function.
7765 + improve breakout logic by allowing it before the first line updated,
7766 which is what SVr4 curses does (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7767 + correct initialization of vcost in relative_move(), for cursor-down
7768 case (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7769 > nits gleaned from Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-3:
7770 + install symbolic link for intotocap.
7771 + reference libc directly when making shared libraries.
7772 + correct renaming of curs_scr_dmp.3x in man_db.renames.
7773 + guard tgetflag() and other termcap functions against null cur_term
7777 + corrected initial state of software echo (error in 970405, reported
7778 by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7779 + reviewed/added messages to configure script, so that all non-test
7780 options should be accompanied by a message.
7781 + add configure check for long filenames, using this to determine if
7782 it is safe to allow long aliases for terminal descriptions as does
7784 + add configure options for widec (wide character), hashmap (both
7786 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
7787 + hashmap.c - improved by heuristic, so that scroll test works much
7788 better when csr is not available.
7789 + hardscroll.c - patched so that it continues to scroll other chunks
7790 after failure to scroll one.
7791 + lib_doupdate.c - _nc_mvcur_scrolln extended to handle more cases; csr
7792 is avoided as it is relative costly. Fixed wrong coordinates in one
7793 case and wrong string in TRACE.
7794 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7795 + modify C++ binding to compile on AIX 4.x with the IBM C-SET++
7799 + remove alternate character set from kterm terminfo entry; it uses the
7800 shift-out control for a purpose incompatible with curses, i.e., font
7802 + disentangle 'xterm' terminfo entry from some derived entries that
7803 should be based on xterm-r6 instead.
7804 + add cbt to xterm-xf86-xv32 terminfo entry; I added the emulation for
7805 XFree86 3.1.2F, but overlooked its use in terminfo then - T.Dickey.
7806 + correct logic in lib_mvcur.c that uses back_tab.
7809 + correct change from 970628 to ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c so that
7810 contents of curscr are saved in newscr before clearing the screen.
7811 This is needed to make repainting work with the present logic of
7813 + use napms() rather than sleep() in tset.c to avoid interrupting I/O.
7816 + add limit checks to _nc_read_file_entry() to guard against overflow
7817 of buffer when reading incompatible terminfo format, e.g, from OSF/1.
7818 + correct some loop-variable errors in xmc support in lib_doupdate.c
7819 + modify ncurses 'b' test to add gaps, specified by user, to allow
7820 investigation of interaction with xmc (magic cookie) code.
7821 + correct typo in 970524 mods to xmas.c, had omitted empty parameter
7822 list from has_colors(), which gcc ignores, but SVr4 does not
7823 (reported by Larry Virden).
7824 + correct rmso capability in wy50-mc description.
7825 + add configure option "--enable-hard-tabs", renamed TABS_OK ifdef to
7827 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7828 + Add bindings for keyok() and define_key() to the Ada95 packages.
7829 + Improve man pages menu_post.3x and menu_format.3x
7830 + Fix the HTML pages in the Ada95/html directory to reflect the above
7834 + modify change from 970101 to ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c so that
7835 pending changes to both curscr and newscr are flushed properly.
7836 This fixes a case where the first scrolling operation in nvi would
7837 cause the screen to be cleared unnecessarily and repainted before
7838 doing the indexing, i.e., by repeatedly pressing 'j' (reported by
7840 + correct error in trans_string() which added embedded newlines in a
7841 terminfo description to the stored strings.
7842 + remove spurious newlines from sgr in wyse50 (and several other)
7843 terminfo descriptions.
7844 + add configure option for experimental xmc (magic cookie) code,
7845 "--enable-xmc-glitch". When disabled (the default), attributes that
7846 would store a magic cookie are suppressed in vidputs(). The magic
7847 cookie code is far from workable at this stage; the configuration
7848 option is a stopgap.
7849 + move _nc_initscr() from lib_initscr.c to lib_newterm.c
7850 + correct path for invoking make_keys (a missing "./").
7853 + correct sign-extension problem with "infocmp -e", which corrupted
7854 acsc values computed for linux fallback data.
7855 + correct dependency on ncurses/names.c (a missing "./").
7856 + modify configure script to use '&&' even for cd'ing to existing
7857 directories to work around broken shell interpreters.
7858 + correct a loop-limit in _nc_hash_map() (patch by Alexander V.
7862 + restore logic in _nc_scroll_optimize() which marks as touched the
7863 lines in curscr that are shifted.
7864 + add new utility 'make_keys' to compute keys.tries as a table rather
7865 than a series of function calls.
7866 + correct include-dependency for tic.h used by name_match
7867 + removed buffer-allocation for name and description from m_item_new.c,
7868 since this might result in incompatibilities with SVr4. Also fixed
7869 the corresponding Ada95 binding module (patch by Juergen Pfeifer,
7870 report by Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@foxnet.net>)
7871 + removed the mechanism to timestamp the generated Ada95 sources. This
7872 resulted always in generating patches for the HTML doc, even when
7873 nothing really changed (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7874 + improve man page mitem_new.3x (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7877 + remove ech capability from rxvt description because it does not work.
7878 + add missing case logic for infocmp -I option (reported by Lorenzo M.
7879 Catucci <lorenzo@argon.roma2.infn.it>)
7880 + correct old bug in pnoutrefresh() unmasked by fix in 970531; this
7881 caused glitches in the ncurses 'p' test since the area outside the
7882 pad was not compared when setting up indices for _nc_scroll_optimize.
7883 + rewrote tracebits() to workaround misdefinition of TOSTOP on Ultrix
7884 4.4, as well as to eliminate fixed-size buffer (reported by Chris
7885 Tanner <tannerc@aecl.ca>)
7886 + correct prototype for termattrs() as per XPG4 version 2.
7887 + add placeholder prototypes for color_set(), erasewchar(),
7888 term_attrs(), wcolor_set() as per XPG4 version 2.
7889 + correct attribution for progs/progs.priv.h and lib_twait.c
7890 + improve line-breakout logic by checking based on changed lines rather
7891 than total lines (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7892 + correct loop limits for table-lookup of enumerated value in form
7893 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7894 + improve threshhold computation for determining when to call ClrToEOL
7895 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7898 + add configure option --disable-database to force the library to
7899 use only the fallback data.
7900 + add configure option --with-fallbacks, to specify list of fallback
7901 terminal descriptions.
7902 + add a symbolic link for ncurses.h during install; too many programs
7903 still assume there's an ncurses.h
7904 + add new terminfo.src entry for xterm-xf86-v33.
7905 + restore terminfo.src entry for emu to using setf/setb, since it is
7906 not, after all, generating ANSI sequences. Corrected missing comma
7907 that caused setf/setb entries to merge.
7908 + modify mousemask() to use keyok() to enable/disable KEY_MOUSE, so
7909 that applications can disable ncurses' mouse and supply their own
7911 + add extensions keyok() and define_key(). These are designed to allow
7912 the user's application better control over the use of function keys,
7913 e.g., disabling the ncurses KEY_MOUSE. (The define_key idea was from
7914 a mailing-list thread started by Kenneth Albanowski
7915 <kjahds@kjahds.com> Nov'1995).
7916 + restore original behavior in ncurses 'g' test, i.e., explicitly
7917 set the keypad mode rather than use the default, since it confuses
7919 + rewrote the newdemo banner so it's readable (reported by Hugh
7921 + tidy up exit from hashtest (reported by Hugh Daniel).
7922 + restore check for ^Q in ncurses 'g' test broken in 970510 (reported
7924 + correct tput program, checking return-value of setupterm (patch by
7926 + correct logic in pnoutrefresh() and pechochar() functions (reported
7927 by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf.usc.edu>). The computation
7928 of 'wide' date to eric's #283 (1.9.9), and the pechochar bug to the
7929 original implementation (1.9.6).
7930 + correct typo in vt102-w terminfo.src entry (patch by Robert Wuest
7931 <rwuest@sire.vt.com>)
7932 + move calls of _nc_background() out of various loops, as its return
7933 value will be the same for the whole window being operated on (patch
7935 + add macros getcur[xy] getbeg[xy] getpar[xy], which are defined in
7936 SVr4 headers (patch by J T Conklin <jtc@NetBSD.ORG>)
7937 + modify glibc addon-configure scripts (patch by H.J.Lu).
7938 + correct a bug in hashmap.c: the size used for clearing the hashmap
7939 table was incorrect, causing stack corruption for large values of
7940 LINES, e.g., >MAXLINES/2 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7941 + eric's terminfo 9.13.23 & 9.13.24 changes: replaced minitel-2 entry,
7942 added MGR, ansi-nt (note: the changes described for 9.13.24 have not
7944 > several changes by Juergen Pfeifer:
7945 + correct a missing error-return in form_driver.c when wrapping of a
7946 field is not possible.
7947 + correct logic in form_driver.c for configurations that do not have
7948 memccpy() (reported by Sidik Isani <isani@cfht.hawaii.edu>)
7949 + change several c++ binding functions to inline.
7950 + modify c++ menu binding to inherit from panels, for proper
7952 + correct freeing of menu items in c++ binding.
7953 + modify c++ binding to reflect removal of const from user data pointer
7954 in forms/menus libraries.
7957 + add description of xterm-16color.
7958 + modify name of shared-library on *BSD to end with $(REL_VERSION)
7959 rather than $(ABI_VERSION) to match actual convention on FreeBSD
7961 + add OpenBSD to shared-library case, same as NetBSD and FreeBSD
7962 (reported by Hugh Daniel <hugh@rat.toad.com>).
7963 + corrected include-dependency in menu/Makefile so that "make install"
7964 works properly w/o first doing "make".
7965 + add fallback definition for isascii, used in infocmp.
7966 + modify xmas to use color, and to exit right away when a key is
7968 + modify gdc so that the scrolled digits function as described (there
7969 was no time delay between the stages, and the digits overwrote the
7970 bounding box without tidying up).
7971 + modify lib_color.c to use setaf/setab only for the ANSI color codes
7972 0 through 7. Using 16 colors requires setf/setb.
7973 + modify ncurses 'c' test to work with 16 colors, as well as the normal
7975 + remove const qualifier from user data pointer in forms and menus
7976 libraries (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7977 + rewrote 'waddchnstr()' to avoid using the _nc_waddch_nosync()
7978 function, thereby not interpreting tabs, etc., as per spec (patch by
7979 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7982 + suppress check for pre-existing ncurses header if the --prefix
7983 option is specified.
7984 + add configure options "--with-system-type" and
7985 "--with-system-release" to assist in checking the generated
7987 + add configure option "--enable-rpath" to allow installers to specify
7988 that programs linked against shared libraries will have their library
7989 path embedded, allowing installs into nonstandard locations.
7990 + add flags to OSF1 shared-library options to specify version and
7991 symbol file (patch by Tim Mooney <mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu>)
7992 + add missing definition for ABI_VERSION to c++/Makefile.in (reported
7993 by Satoshi Adachi <adachi@wisdom.aa.ap.titech.ac.jp>).
7994 + modify link flags to accommodate HP-UX linker which embeds absolute
7995 pathnames in executables linked against shared libraries (reported by
7996 Jason Evans <jasone@mrc.uidaho.edu>, solved by Alan Shutko
7997 <ats@hubert.wustl.edu>).
7998 + drop unnecessary check for attribute-change in onscreen_mvcur() since
7999 mvcur() is the only caller within the library, and that check in turn
8000 is exercised only from lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V.
8002 + add 'blank' parameter to _nc_scroll_window() so _nc_mvcur_scrolln()
8003 can use the background of stdscr as a parameter to that function
8004 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
8005 + moved _nc_mvcur_scrolln() from lib_mvcur.c to lib_doupdate.c, to use
8006 the latter's internal functions, as well as to eliminate unnecessary
8007 cursor save/restore operations (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
8008 + omit parameter of ClrUpdate(), since it is called only for newscr,
8009 further optimized/reduced by using ClearScreen() and TransformLine()
8010 to get rid of duplicate code (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
8011 + modify scrolling algorithm in _nc_scroll_optimize() to reject hunks
8012 that are smaller than the distance to be moved (patch by Alexander V.
8014 + correct a place where the panel library was not ifdef'd in ncurses.c
8016 + documentation fixes (Juergen Pfeifer)
8018 970515 4.1 release for upload to prep.ai.mit.edu
8019 + re-tag changes since 970505 as 4.1 release.
8022 + modify ncurses 'g' test to allow mouse input
8023 + modify default xterm description to include mouse.
8024 + modify configure script to add -Wwrite-strings if gcc warnings are
8025 enabled while configuring --enable-const (and fixed related
8027 + add toggle, status display for keypad mode to ncurses 'g' test to
8028 verify that keypad and scrollok are not inherited from parent window
8029 during a call to newwin.
8030 + correction to MKexpanded.sh to make it work when configure --srcdir
8031 is used (reported by H.J.Lu).
8032 + revise test for bool-type, ensuring that it checks if builtin.h is
8033 available before including it, adding test for sizeof(bool) equal
8034 to sizeof(short), and warning user if the size cannot be determined
8035 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
8036 + add files to support configuration of ncurses as an add-on library
8037 for GNU libc (patch by H.J.Lu <hjl@lucon.org>)
8040 + correct buffer overrun in lib_traceatr.c
8041 + modify change to lib_vidattr.c to avoid redundant orig_pair.
8042 + turn on 'echo()' in hanoi.c, since it is initially off.
8043 + rename local 'errno' variable in etip.h to avoid conflict with global
8045 + modify configure script to cache LD, AR, AR_OPTS (patch by H.J.Lu
8048 970505 4.1 pre-release
8049 + regenerate the misc directory html dumps without the link list, which
8051 + correct dependency in form directory makefile which caused
8052 unnecessary recompiles.
8053 + correct substitution for ABI_VERSION in test-makefile
8054 + modify install rules for shared-library targets to remove the target
8055 before installing, since some install programs do not properly handle
8056 overwrite of symbolic links.
8057 + change order of top-level targets so that 'include' immediate
8058 precedes the 'ncurses' directory, reducing the time between new
8059 headers and new libraries (requested by Larry Virden).
8060 + modify lib_vidattr.c so that colors are turned off only before
8061 modifying other attributes, turned on after others. This makes the
8062 hanoi.c program display correctly on FreeBSD console.
8063 + modify debug code in panel library to print user-data addresses
8064 rather than the strings which they (may) point to.
8065 + add check to ensure that C++ binding and demo are not built with g++
8066 versions below 2.7, since the binding uses templates.
8067 + modify c++ binding and demo to build and run with SGI's c++ compiler.
8068 (It also compiles with the Sun SparcWorks compiler, but the demo does
8069 not link, due to a vtbl problem).
8070 + corrections to demo.cc, to fix out-of-scope variables (Juergen
8074 + correct memory leak in _nc_trace_buf().
8075 + add configure test for regexpr.h, for Unixware 1.x.
8076 + correct missing "./" prefixing names of generated files in ncurses
8078 + use single-quotes in configure scripts assignments for MK_SHARED_LIB
8079 to workaround shell bug on FreeBSD 2.1.5
8080 + remove tabs from intermediate #define's for GCC_PRINTF, GCC_SCANF
8081 that caused incorrect result in ncurses_cfg.h
8082 + correct initialization in lib_trace.c, which omitted version info.
8083 + remove ech, el1 attributes from cons25w description; they appear to
8084 malfunction in FreeBSD 2.1.5
8085 + correct color attributes in terminfo.src and lib_color.c to match
8086 SVr4 behavior by interchanging codes 1,4, 3,6 in the setf/setb
8088 + use curs_set() rather than checks via tigetstr() for test programs
8089 that hide the cursor: firework, rain, worm.
8090 + ensure that if the terminal lacks change_scroll_region, parm_index
8091 and parm_rindex are used only to scroll the whole screen (patch by
8093 + correct curs_set() logic, which did not return ERR if the requested
8094 attributes did not exist, nor did it assume an unknown initial state
8095 for the cursor (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
8096 + combine IDcTransformLine and NoIDcTransformLine to new TransformLine
8097 function in lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
8098 + correct hashmap.c, which did not update index information (patch by
8099 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
8100 + fixes for C++ binding and demo (see c++/NEWS) (Juergen Pfeifer).
8101 + correct index in lib_instr.c (Juergen Pfeifer).
8102 + correct typo in 970426 patch from Tom's cleanup of lib_overlay.c
8103 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
8106 + corrected cost computation in PutRange(), which was using
8107 milliseconds compared to characters by adding two new members to the
8108 SCREEN struct, _hpa_ch_cost and _cup_ch_cost.
8109 + drop ncurses/lib_unctrl.c, add ncurses/MKunctrl.awk to generate a
8110 const array of strings (suggested by Alexander V. Lukyanov). The
8111 original suggestion in 970118 used a perl script.
8112 + rewrote ncurses 'b' test to better exercise magic-cookie (xmc), as
8113 well as noting the attributes that are not supported by a terminal.
8114 + trace the computation of cost values in lib_mvcur.c
8115 + modify _nc_visbuf() to use octal rather than hex, corrected sign
8116 extension bug in that function that caused buffer overflow.
8117 + modify trace in lib_acs.c to use _nc_visbuf().
8118 + suppress trace within _traceattr2().
8119 + correct logic of _tracechtype2(), which did not account for repeats
8120 or redefinition within an acsc string.
8121 + modify debug-library version baudrate() to use environment variable
8122 $BAUDRATE to override speed computation. This is needed for
8124 + correct problems shown by "weblint -pedantic".
8125 + update mailing-list information (now ncurses@bsdi.com).
8128 + Improve form_field_validation.3x manpage to better describe the
8129 precision parameter for TYPE_NUMERIC and TYPE_INTEGER. Provide more
8130 precise information how the range checking can be avoided. (patch by
8131 Juergen Pfeifer, reported by Bryan Henderson)
8132 + change type of min/max value of form types TYPE_INTEGER to long to
8133 match SVr4 documentation.
8134 + set the form window to stdscr in set_form_win() so that form_win()
8135 won't return null (patch by Juergen Pfeifer, reported by Bryan
8136 Henderson <bryanh@giraffe.netgate.net>).
8139 + corrected ifdef'ing of inline (cf: 970321) for TRACE vs C++.
8140 + corrected toggle_attr_off() macro (patch by Andries Brouwer).
8141 + modify treatment of empty token in $MANPATH to /usr/man (reported by
8142 <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>)
8143 + modify traces that record functions-called so that chtype and attr_t
8144 values are expressed symbolically, to simplify reuse of generated
8145 test-scripts on SVr4 regression testing.
8146 + add new trace functions _traceattr2() and _tracechtype2()
8149 + add configure option --enable-const, to support the use of 'const'
8150 where XSI should have, but did not, specify. This defines
8151 NCURSES_CONST, which is an empty token otherwise, for strict
8153 + make processing of configure options more verbose by echoing the
8154 --enable/--with values.
8155 + add configure option --enable-big-core
8156 + set initial state of software echo off as per XSI.
8157 + check for C++ builtin.h header
8158 + correct computation of absolute-path for $INSTALL that dropped "-c"
8159 parameter from the expression.
8160 + rename config.h to ncurses_cfg.h to avoid naming-conflict when
8161 ncurses is integrated into larger systems (adapted from diffs by
8163 + correct inequality in lib_doupdate.c that caused a single-char to not
8164 be updated when the char on the right-margin was not blank, idcok()
8165 was true (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov (in 970124), reported
8166 by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf-fs.usc.edu> in 970329).
8167 + modify 'clean' rule in include/Makefile so that files created by
8168 configure script are removed in 'distclean' rule instead.
8171 + correct array limit in tparam_internal(), add case to interpret "%x"
8172 (patch by Andreas Schwab)
8173 + rewrote number-parsing in ncurses.c 'd' test; it did not reset the
8174 value properly when non-numeric characters were given (reported by
8175 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>)
8178 + move definition of __INTERNAL_CAPS_VISIBLE before include for
8179 progs.priv.h (patch by David MacKenzie).
8180 + add configuration summary, reordered check for default include
8181 directory to better accommodate a case where installer is configuring
8182 a second copy of ncurses (reported by Klaus Weide
8183 <kweide@tezcat.com>)
8184 + moved the #define for 'inline' as an empty token from the
8185 $(CFLAGS_DEBUG) symbol into config.h, to avoid redefinition warning
8186 (reported by Ward Horner).
8187 + modify test for bool builtin type to use 'unsigned' rather than
8188 'unknown' when cross-compiling (reported by Ward Horner).
8191 + add header dependencies so that "make install.libs" will succeed
8192 even if "make all" is not done first.
8193 + moved some macros from lib_doupdate.c to curses.priv.h to use in
8194 expanded functions with ATAC.
8195 + correct implementation of lib_instr.c; both XSI and SVr4 agree that
8196 the winnstr functions can return more characters than will fit on one
8200 + modify script that generates lib_gen.c to support traces of called &
8202 + add new configure option "--disable-macros", for testing calls within
8204 + corrected logic that screens level-checking of called/return traces.
8207 + use new configure macro NC_SUBST to replace AC_PATH_PROG, better
8208 addressing request by Ward Horner.
8209 + check for cross-compiling before trying to invoke the autoconf
8210 AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED macro (reported by Ward Horner)
8211 + correct/simplify loop in _nc_visbuf(), 970201 changes omitted
8212 a pointer-increment.
8213 + eliminate obsolete symbol SHARED_ABI from dist.mk (noted by
8217 + add configure option --enable-expanded, together with code that
8218 implements an expanded form of certain complex macros, for testing
8220 + disable CHECK_POSITION unless --with-assertions is configured
8221 (Alexander V Lukyanov pointed out that this is redundant).
8222 + use keyname() to show traced chtype values where applicable rather
8223 than _tracechar(), which truncates the value to 8-bits.
8224 + minor fixes to TRACE_ICALLS, added T_CREATE, TRACE_CCALLS macros.
8225 + modify makefiles in progs and test directories to avoid using C
8226 preprocessor options on link commands (reported by Ward Horner)
8227 + correct ifdef/include-order for nc_alloc.h vs lib_freeall.c (reported
8229 + modify ifdef's to use configure-defined symbols consistently
8230 (reported by Ward Horner)
8231 + add/use new makefile symbols AR, AR_OPTS and LD to assist in non-UNIX
8232 ports (reported by Ward Horner <whorner@tsi-telsys.com>)
8233 + rename struct try to struct tries, to avoid name conflict with C++
8234 (reported by Gary Johnson).
8235 + modify worm.c to hide cursor while running.
8236 + add -Wcast-qual to gcc warnings, fix accordingly.
8237 + use PutChar rather than PutAttrChar in ClrToEOL to properly handle
8238 wrapping (Alexander V Lukyanov).
8239 + correct spurious echoing of input in hanoi.c from eric's #291 & #292
8240 patches (reported by Vernon C. Hoxie <vern@zebra.alphacdc.com>).
8241 + extend IRIX configuration to IRIX64
8242 + supply missing install.libs rule needed after restructuring
8246 + modify "make mostlyclean" to leave automatically-generated source
8247 in the ncurses directory, for use in cross-compiles.
8248 + autogenerated object-dependencies for test directory
8249 + add configure option --with-rcs-ids
8250 + modify configuration scripts to generate major/minor/patch versions
8251 (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
8252 + supply missing va_end's in lib_scanw.c
8253 + use stream I/O for trace-output, to eliminate fixed-size buffer
8254 + add TRACE_ICALLS definition/support to lib_trace.c
8255 + modify Ada95 binding to work with GNAT 3.09 (Juergen Pfeifer).
8258 + add/modify traces for called/return values to simplify extraction
8260 + changed _nc_visbuf to quote its result, and to dynamically allocate
8261 the returned buffer.
8262 + invoke ldconfig after installing shared library
8263 + modify install so that overwrite applies to shared library -lcurses
8264 in preference to static library (reported by Zeyd M Ben-Halim 960928).
8265 + correct missing ';' in 961221 mod to overwrite optional use of $(LN_S)
8267 + fixes to allow "make install" to work without first doing a "make
8268 all" (suggested by Larry Virden).
8271 + correct order of #ifdef for TABS_OK.
8272 + instrumented toe.c to test memory-leaks.
8273 + correct memory-deallocation in toe.c (patch by Jesse Thilo).
8274 + include <sys/types.h> in configuration test for regex.h (patch by
8276 + make infocmp recognize -I option, for SVr4 compatibility (reported by
8277 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>)
8280 + add extension 'use_default_colors()', modified test applications that
8281 use default background (firework, gdc, hanoi, knight, worm) to
8283 + correct some limit checks in lib_doupdate.c exposed while running
8285 + use typeCalloc macro for readability.
8286 + add/use definition for CONST to accommodate testing with Solaris
8287 (SVr4) curses, which doesn't use 'const' in its prototypes.
8288 + modify ifdef's in test/hashtest.c and test/view.c to compile with
8290 + modify _tracedump() to pad pad colors & attrs lines to match change
8291 in 970101 showing first/last changes.
8292 + corrected location of terminating null on dynamically allocated forms
8293 fields (patch by Per Foreby).
8296 + added headers to make view.c compile on SCO with the resizeterm()
8297 code (i.e., struct winsize) - though this compiles, I don't have a
8298 suitable test configuration since SIGWINCH doesn't pass my network to
8299 that machine - T.Dickey.
8300 + update test/configure.in to supply some default substitutions.
8301 + modify configure script to add -lncurses after -lgpm to fix problem
8302 linking against static libraries.
8303 + add a missing noraw() to test/ncurses.c (places noted by Jeremy
8305 + add a missing wclear() to test/testcurs.c (patch by Jeremy Buhler
8306 <jbuhler@cs.washington.edu>)
8307 + modify headers to accommodate compilers that don't allow duplicate
8308 "#define" lines for NCURSES_VERSION (reported by Larry W. Virden
8310 + fix formatting glitch in curs_getch.3x (patch by Jesse Thilo).
8311 + modify lib_doupdate to make el, el1 and ed optimization use the
8312 can_clear_with macro, and change EmitRange to allow leaving cursor at
8313 the middle of interval, rather than always at the end (patch by
8314 Alexander V Lukyanov). This was originally 960929, resync 970106.
8317 + workaround defect in autoconf 2.12 (which terminates configuration
8318 if no C++ compiler is found) by adding an option --without-cxx.
8319 + modify several man-pages to use tbl, where .nf/.fi was used (reported
8321 + correct font-codes in some man-pages (patch by Jesse Thilo
8322 <Jesse.Thilo@pobox.com>)
8323 + use configure script's knowledge of existence of g++ library for the
8324 c++ Makefile (reported by Paul Jackson).
8325 + correct misleading description of --datadir configuration option
8326 (reported by Paul Jackson <pj@sam.engr.sgi.com>)
8329 + several corrections to _nc_mvcur_scrolln(), prompted by a bug report
8331 > the logic for non_dest_scroll_region was interchanged between the
8332 forward & reverse scrolling cases.
8333 > multiple returns from the function allowed certain conditions to do
8334 part of an operation before discovering that it couldn't be
8335 completed, returning an error without restoring the cursor.
8336 > some returns were ERR, where the function had completed the
8337 operation, because the insert/delete line logic was improperly
8338 tested (this was probably the case Peter saw).
8339 > contrary to comments, some scrolling cases were tested after the
8340 insert/delete line method.
8341 + modify _tracedump() to show first/last changes.
8342 + modify param of ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c to 'newscr', fixes
8343 refresh problem (reported by Peter Wemm) that caused nvi to not show
8344 result of ":r !ls" until a ^L was typed.
8346 961229 (internal alpha)
8347 + correct some of the writable-strings warnings (reported by Gary
8348 Johnson <gjohnson@season.com>). Note that most of the remaining ones
8349 are part of the XSI specification, and can't be "fixed".
8350 + improve include-dependencies in form, menu, panel directories.
8351 + correct logic of delay_output(), which would return early if
8352 there is data on stdin.
8353 + modify interface & logic of _nc_timed_wait() to support 2 file
8354 descriptors, needed for GPM.
8355 + integrate patch by Andrew Kuchling <amk@magnet.com> for GPM (mouse)
8356 support, correcting logic in wgetch() and _nc_mouse_parse() which
8357 prevented patch from working properly -TD
8358 + improve performance of panel algorithm (Juergen Pfeifer 961203).
8359 + strip RCS id's from generated .html files in Ada95 subtree.
8360 + resync with generated .html files (Juergen Pfeifer 961223).
8361 + terminfo.src 10.1.0 (ESR).
8364 + release as 4.0 to accommodate Linux ld.so.1.8.5
8365 + correct syntax/spelling, regenerated .doc files from .html using
8367 + refined forms/menus makefiles (Juergen Pfeifer 961223).
8370 + remove logic in read_entry.c that attempts to refine errno by using
8371 'access()' for the directory (from patch by Florian La Roche).
8372 + correct configure test/substitution that inhibits generating
8373 include-path to /usr/include if gcc is used (reported by Florian La
8375 + modify setupterm() to allocate new TERMINAL for each call, just as
8376 solaris' curses does (Alexander V Lukyanov 960829).
8377 + corrected memory leaks in read_entry.c
8378 + add configure options --with-dbmalloc, --with-dmalloc, and
8379 --disable-leaks, tested by instrumenting infocmp, ncurses programs.
8380 + move #include's for stdlib.h and string.h to *.priv.h to accommodate
8382 + modify use of $(LN_S) to follow recommendation in autoconf 2.12,
8383 i.e., set current directory before linking.
8384 + split-out panel.priv.h, improve dependencies for forms, menus
8385 (Juergen Pfeifer 961204).
8386 + modify _nc_freewin() to reset globals curscr/newscr/stdscr when
8387 freeing the corresponding WINDOW (found using Purify).
8388 + modify delwin() to return ERR if the window to be deleted has
8389 subwindows, needed as a side-effect of resizeterm() (found using
8390 Purify). Tested and found that SVr4 curses behaves this way.
8391 + implement logic for _nc_freeall(), bringing stub up to date.
8394 + modify wbkgd() so that it doesn't set nulls in the rendered text,
8395 even if its argument doesn't specify a character (fixes test case by
8396 Juergen Pfeifer for bug-report).
8397 + set window-attributes in wbkgd(), to simplify comparison against
8398 Solaris curses, which does this.
8401 + replace most constants in ncurses 'o' test by expressions, making it
8402 work with wider range of screen sizes.
8403 + add options to ncurses.c to specify 'e' test softkey format, and the
8404 number of header/footer lines to rip-off.
8405 + add ^R (repaint after resize), ^L (refresh) commands to ncurses 'p'
8407 + add shell-out (!) command to ncurses 'p' test to allow test of
8408 resize between endwin/refresh.
8409 + correct line-wrap case in mvcur() by emitting carriage return,
8410 overlooked in 960928, but needed due to SVr4 compatibility changes to
8411 terminal modes in 960907.
8412 + correct logic in wresize that causes new lines to be allocated,
8413 broken for the special case of increasing rows only in 960907's fix
8415 + modify configure script to generate $(LDFLAGS) with -L and -l options
8416 in preference to explicit library filenames. (NOTE: this may
8417 require further amending, since I vaguely recall a dynamic loader
8418 that did not work properly without the full names, but it should be
8419 handled as an exception to the rule, since some linkers do bulk
8420 inclusion of libraries when given the full name - T.Dickey).
8421 + modify configure script to allow user-supplied $CFLAGS to set the
8422 debug-option in all libraries (requested by lots of people) -TD
8423 + use return consistently from main(), rather than exit (reported by
8425 + add --enable-getcap-cache option to configure, normally disabled
8426 (requested by Florian La Roche).
8427 + make configure test for gettimeofday() and possibly -lbsd more
8428 efficient (requested by Florian La Roche <florian@knorke.saar.de>)
8429 + minor adjustments to Ada95 binding (patches by Juergen Pfeifer)
8430 + correct attributes after emitting orig_pair in lib_vidattr.c (patch
8431 by Alexander V Lukyanov).
8434 + corrected README wrt Ada95 (Juergen Pfeifer)
8437 + integrate resizeterm() into doupdate(), so that if screen size
8438 changes between endwin/refresh, ncurses will resize windows to fit
8439 (this needs additional testing with pads and softkeys).
8440 + add, for memory-leak testing, _nc_freeall() entrypoint to free all
8441 data used in ncurses library.
8442 + initialize _nc_idcok, _nc_idlok statically to resolve discrepancy
8443 between initscr() and newwin() initialization (reported by
8444 Alexander V Lukyanov).
8445 + test built VERSION=4.0, SHARED_ABI=4 with Linux ld.so.1.8.5
8446 (set beta versions to those values -- NOTE that subsequent pre-4.0
8447 beta may not be interchangeable).
8448 + modify configure script to work with autoconf 2.12
8450 961130 1.9.9g release
8451 + add copyright notices to configuration scripts (written by Thomas
8455 > patch, mostly for panel (Juergen Pfeifer):
8456 + cosmetic improvement for a few routines in the ncurses core library
8457 to avoid warning messages.
8458 + the panel overlap detection was broken
8459 + the panel_window() function was not fool-proof.
8461 + Cosmetic changes (also to avoid warning messages when compiling with
8465 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
8466 + eliminates warning messages for the compile of libform.
8467 + inserts Per Foreby's new field type TYPE_IPV4 into libform.
8468 + Updates man page and the Ada95 binding to reflect this.
8469 + Improves inlining in libmenu and libform.
8472 + improve the use of the "const" qualifier in the
8473 panel library (Juergen Pfeifer)
8474 + change set_panel_userptr() and panel_userptr() to use void*
8479 + package with 961119 version of Ada95 binding (fixes for gnat-3.07).
8481 + correct initialization of the stdscr pseudo panel in panel library
8483 + use MODULE_ID (rcs keywords) in forms and menus libraries (Juergen
8486 + typo in curs_termcap man page (reported by Hendrik Reichel
8487 <106065.2344@compuserve.com>)
8488 + change default xterm entry to xterm-r6.
8489 + add entry for color_xterm
8492 + lint found several functions that had only #define implementations
8493 (e.g., attr_off), modified curses.h.in to generate them as per XSI
8494 Curses requirement that every macro be available as a function.
8495 + add check in infocmp.c to guard against string compare of
8496 CANCELLED_STRING values.
8497 + modify firework.c, rain.c to hide cursor while running.
8498 + correct missing va_end in lib_tparm.c
8499 + modify hanoi.c to work on non-color terminals, and to use timing
8500 delays when in autoplay mode.
8501 + correct 'echochar()' to refresh immediately (reported by Adrian
8502 Garside <94ajg2@eng.cam.ac.uk>)
8504 + reorganize terminfo.src entries for xterm.
8507 + corrected error in line-breakout logic (lib_doupdate.c)
8508 + modified newdemo to use wgetch(win) rather than getch() to eliminate
8509 a spurious clear-screen.
8510 + corrected ifdef's for 'poll()' configuration.
8511 + added modules to ncurses, form, menu for Ada95 binding (Juergen
8513 + modify set_field_buffer() to allow assignment of string longer than
8514 the initial buffer length, and to return the complete string rather
8515 than only the initial size (Juergen Pfeifer and Per Foreby
8519 + configure for 'poll()' in preference to 'select()', since older
8520 systems are more likely to have a broken 'select()'.
8521 + modified render_char() to avoid OR'ing colors.
8522 + minor fixes to testcurs.c, newdemo.c test programs: ifdef'd out the
8523 resize test, use wbkgd and corrected box() parameters.
8524 + make flushinp() test work in ncurses.c by using napms() instead of
8526 + undo ESR's changes to xterm-x11r6 (it no longer matched the X11R6.1
8527 distribution, as stated)
8528 + terminfo 9.13.18 resync (ESR)
8529 + check for getenv("HOME") returning null (ESR).
8530 + change buffer used to decode xterm-mouse commands to unsigned to
8531 handle displays wider than 128 chars (Juergen Pfeifer).
8532 + correct typo curs_outopts.3x (Juergen Pfeifer).
8533 + correct limit-checking in wenclose() (Juergen Pfeifer).
8534 + correction to Peter Wemm's newwin change (Thomas Fehr
8536 + corrections to logic that combines colors and attributes; they must
8537 not be OR'd (Juergen Pfeifer, extending from report/patch by Rick
8541 + reset flags in 'getwin()' that might cause refresh to attempt to
8542 manipulate the non-existent parent of a window that is read from a
8543 file (lib_screen.c).
8544 + restructure _nc_timed_wait() to log more information, and to try to
8545 recover from badly-behaved 'select()' calls (still testing this).
8546 + move define for GOOD_SELECT into configure script.
8547 + corrected extra '\' character inserted before ',' in comp_scan.c
8548 + corrected expansion of %-format characters in dump_entry.c; some were
8549 rendered as octal constants.
8550 + modify dump_entry.c to make terminfo output more readable and like
8551 SVr4, by using "\s" for spaces (leading/trailing only), "\," for
8552 comma, "\^" and "\:" as well.
8553 + corrected some memory leaks in ncurses.c, and a minor logic error
8554 in the top-level command-parser.
8555 + correction for label format 4 (PC style with info line), a
8556 slk_clear(), slk_restore() sequence didn't redraw the info line
8558 + modified the slk window (if simulated) to inherit the background and
8559 default character attributes from stdscr (Juergen Pfeifer).
8560 + corrected limit-check in set_top_row (Juergen Pfeifer).
8563 + correct loop-limit in wnoutrefresh(), bug exposed during pipe-testing
8564 had '.lastchar' entry one beyond '._maxx'.
8565 + modify ncurses test-program to work with data piped to it.
8566 + corrected pathname computation in run_tic.sh, removing extra "../"
8567 (reported by Tim Mooney).
8568 + modified configure script to use previous install's location for
8570 + added NetBSD and FreeBSD to platforms that use --prefix=/usr as
8574 + revised xterm terminfo descriptions to reflect the several versions
8576 + corrected a pointer reference in dump_entry.c that didn't test if
8580 + correct _nc_mvcur_scrolln for terminals w/o scrolling region.
8581 + add -x option to hashtest to control whether it allows writes to the
8583 + ifdef'd (NCURSES_TEST) the logic for _nc_optimize_enable to make it
8584 simpler to construct tests (for double-check of _nc_hash_map tests).
8585 + correct ifdef's for c++ in curses.h
8586 + change default xterm type to xterm-x11r6.
8587 + correct quoting in configure that made man-pages installed with
8588 $datadir instead of actual terminfo path.
8589 + correct whitespace in include/Caps, which caused kf11, clr_eol and
8590 clr_end to be omitted from terminfo.5
8591 + fix memory leaks in delscreen() (adapted from Alexander V Lukyanov).
8592 + improve appearance of marker in multi-selection menu (Juergen
8594 + fix behavior for forms with all fields inactive (Juergen Pfeifer)
8595 + document 'field_index()' (Juergen Pfeifer)
8597 + add some more XENIX keycap translations to include/Caps.
8598 + modify newwin to set initial state of each line to 'touched'
8599 (from patch by Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.dialix.com>)
8600 + in SET_TTY, replace TCSANOW with TCSADRAIN (Alexander V Lukyanov).
8603 + ifdef'd out _nc_hash_map (still slower)
8604 + add graphic characters to vt52 description.
8605 + use PutAttrChar in ClrToEOL to ensure proper background, position.
8606 + simplify/correct logic in 'mvcur()' that does wrapping; it was
8607 updating the position w/o actually moving the cursor, which broke
8609 + ensure that 'doupdate()' sets the .oldindex values back to a sane
8610 state; this was causing a spurious refresh in ncurses 'r'.
8611 + add logic to configure (from vile) to guard against builders who
8612 don't remove config.cache & config.status when doing new builds -TD
8613 + corrected logic for 'repeat_char' in EmitRange (cf: eric #317), which
8614 did not follow the 2-parameter scheme specified in XSI.
8615 + corrected logic of wrefresh, wnoutrefresh broken in #319, making
8616 clearok work properly (report by Michael Elkins).
8617 + corrected problem with endwin introduced by #314 (removing the
8618 scrolling-region reset) that broke ncurses.c tests.
8619 + corrected order of args in AC_CHECK_LIB (from report by Ami Fischman
8620 <fischman@math.ucla.edu>).
8621 + corrected formatting of terminfo.5 tables (Juergen Ehling)
8624 + emit a carriage-return in 'endwin()' to workaround a kernel bug in
8625 BSDI. (requested by Mike Karels <karels@redrock.bsdi.com>)
8626 + reverse the default o configure --enable-termcap (consensus).
8628 + modified logic for clearok and related functions (from report by
8629 Michael Elkins) - untested
8631 + correction to #317.
8633 + re-add _nc_hash_map
8634 + modify EmitRange to maintain position as per original design.
8635 + add hashtest.c, program to time the hashmap optimization.
8637 + add logic to deal with magic-cookie (how was this tested?)
8639 + add ncurses.c driver for magic-cookie, some fixes to ncurses.c
8641 + merged Alexander V Lukyanov's patch to use ech and rep - untested
8643 + modified handling of interrupted system calls - untested
8644 (lib_getch.c, lib_twait.c).
8645 + new function _nc_mvcur_resume()
8646 + fix return value for 'overlay()', 'overwrite()'
8649 + implement subwindow-logic in wresize, minor fixes to ncurses 'g'
8651 + corrected bracketing of fallback.c (reported/suggested fix by Juergen
8652 Ehling <eh@eclipse.aball.de>).
8653 + update xterm-color to reflect XFree86 3.1.3G release.
8654 + correct broken dtterm description from #314 patch (e.g., spurious
8655 newline. The 'pairs' change might work, but no one's tested it
8657 + clarify the documentation for the builtin form fieldtypes (Juergen
8660 + reset scroll region on startup rather than at wrapup time
8661 (enhancement suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
8662 + make storage of palette tables and their size counts per-screen for
8663 multi-terminal applications (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
8664 + Improved error reporting for infotocap translation errors.
8665 + Update terminfo.src to 9.13.14.
8668 + rewrote wgetstr to make it erase control chars and also fix bogus use
8669 of _nc_outstr which caused the display to not wrap properly (display
8670 problem reported by John M. Flinchbaugh <glynis@netrax.net>)
8671 + modify ncurses 'f' test to accommodate terminal responses to C1 codes
8672 (and split up this screen to accommodate non-ANSI terminals).
8673 + test enter_insert_mode and exit_insert_mode in has_ic().
8674 + removed bogus logic in mvcur that assumes nl/nonl set output modes
8675 (XSI says they are input modes; SVr4 implements this).
8676 + added macros SET_TTY, GET_TTY to term.h
8677 + correct getstr() logic that altered terminal modes w/o restoring.
8678 + disable ICRNL, etc., during initialization to match SVr4, removing
8679 the corresponding logic from raw, cbreak, etc.
8680 + disable ONLCR during initialization, to match SVr4 (this is needed
8681 for cursor optimization when the cursor-down is a newline).
8682 + replaced ESR's imitation of wresize with my original (his didn't
8686 + memory leaks (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
8687 + modified pnoutrefresh() to be more tolerant of too-large screen
8688 size (reported by Michael Elkins).
8689 + correct handling of terminfo files with no strings (Philippe De
8691 + correct "tic -s" to take into account -I, -C options.
8692 + modify ncurses 'f' test to not print codes 80 through 9F, since they
8693 are considered control codes by ANSI terminals.
8696 + correct speed variable-type in 'tgetent()' (reported by Peter Wemm)
8697 + make "--enable-getcap" configuration-option work (reported by
8698 Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.DIALix.COM>)
8701 + correct err in 960817 that changed return-value of tigetflag()
8702 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
8703 + modify infocmp to use library default search-path for terminfo
8704 directory (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
8707 + corrected an err in mvcur that broke resizing-behavior.
8708 + correct fall-thru behavior of _nc_read_entry(), which was not finding
8709 descriptions that existed in directories past the first one searched
8710 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov)
8711 + corrected typo in dtterm description.
8713 + add dtterm description
8714 + clarify ncurses 'i' test (drop vscanf subtest)
8717 + correct nl()/nonl() to work as per SVr4 & XSI.
8718 + minor fixes to ncurses.c (use 'noraw()', mvscanw return-code)
8719 + refine configure-test for -g option (Tim Mooney).
8720 + correct interaction between O_BLANK and NEW_LINE request in form
8721 library (Juergen Pfeifer)
8724 + revised fix to tparm; previous fix reversed parameter order.
8726 correct terminfo.src corrupted by #310
8728 + fix idlok() and idcok() and the default of the idlok switch.
8731 + corrected tparm to handle capability strings without explicit pop
8732 (reported by William P Setzer)
8733 + add fallback def for GCC_NORETURN, GCC_UNUSED for termcap users
8734 (reported by Tim Mooney).
8736 + documentation and prototyping errors for has_color, immedok and idcok
8737 (reported by William P Setzer <wsetzer@pams.ncsu.edu>)
8738 + updated qnx terminfo entry (by Michael Hunter)
8741 + eliminate quoted includes in ncurses subdirectory, ensure config.h
8743 + newterm initializes terminal settings the same as initscr (reported
8747 + call cbreak() in initscr(), as per XSI & SVr4.
8748 + turn off hardware echo in initscr() as per XSI & SVr4
8750 + terminfo changes (9.3.10), from BRL
8751 + add more checks to terminfo parser.
8752 + add more symbols to infocmp.
8755 + save previous-attribute in lib_vidattr.c if SP is null (reported by
8756 Juergen Fluk <louis@dachau.marco.de>)
8757 + corrected calls on _nc_render so that background character is set
8759 + corrected wbkgdset macro (XSI allows background character to be
8760 null), and tests that use it.
8761 + more corrections to terminfo (xterm & rxvt)
8762 + undid change to mcprint prototype (cannot use size_t in curses.h
8763 because not all systems declare it in the headers that we can safely
8765 + move the ifdefs for errno into curses.priv.h
8767 + terminfo changes (9.3.8)
8768 + modified logic of error-reporting in terminfo parser
8771 + always check for <sys/bsdtypes.h> since ISC needs it to declare
8772 fd_set (Juergen Pfeifer)
8773 + install shared-libraries on NetBSD/FreeBSD with ABI-version (reported
8774 by Juergen Pfeifer, Mike Long)
8775 + add LOCAL_LDFLAGS2 symbol (Juergen Pfeifer)
8776 + corrected prototype for delay_output() -- bump ABI to 3.2
8777 + terminfo patches #306/307 (ESR).
8778 + moved logic that filters out rmul and rmso from setupterm to newterm
8779 where it is less likely to interfere with termcap applications.
8782 + rollback ESR's #305 change to terminfo.src (it breaks existing
8783 applications, e.g., 'less 290').
8784 + correct path of edit_man.sh, and fix typo that made all man-pages
8786 + restore man/menu_requestname.3x omitted in Zeyd's resync (oops).
8787 + auto-configure the GCC_PRINTFLIKE/GCC_SCANFLIKE macros (reported by
8788 Philippe De Muyter).
8791 + make lib_vidattr.c more readable using macros.
8792 + filter out rmul, rmso that conflict with sgr0 when reading terminal
8794 + added sanity-checking of various paired string attributes (ESR).
8795 + work around autoconf bug, force $INSTALL to absolute path
8797 + modify man-page install for BSDI to install preformatted .0 files
8798 (reported by David MacKenzie).
8799 + add/use gcc __attribute__ for printf and scanf in curses.h
8800 + added SGR attributes test-case to ncurses
8801 + revised ncurses 't' logic to show trace-disable effect in the menu.
8802 + use getopt in ncurses program to process -s and -t options.
8803 + make ncurses 'p' legend toggle with '?'
8804 + disable scrollok during the ncurses 'p' test; if it is enabled the
8805 stdscr will scroll when putting the box-corners in the lower-right
8809 + check return code of _nc_mvcur_scrolln() in _nc_scroll_optimize() for
8810 terminals with no scrolling-support (reported by Nikolay Shadrin
8811 <queen@qh.mirea.ac.ru>)
8812 + added ^S scrollok-toggle to ncurses 'g' test.
8813 + added ^T trace-toggle to ncurses tests.
8814 + modified ncurses test program to use ^Q or ESC consistently for
8815 terminating tests (rather than ^D), and to use control keys rather
8816 than function keys in 'g' test.
8817 + corrected misplaced wclrtoeol calls in addch to accommodate wrapping
8818 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
8819 + modify lib_doupdate.c to use effective costs to tradeoff between
8820 delete-character/insert-character vs normal updating (reported by
8822 + compute effective costs for screen update operations (e.g., clr_eos,
8824 + corrected error in knight.c exposed by wrap fixes in 960622; the
8825 msgwin needed scrollok set.
8826 + corrected last change to IDcTransformLine logic to avoid conflict
8827 between PutRange and InsStr
8828 + modified run_tic.sh to not use /usr/tmp (reported by David
8829 MacKenzie), and further revised it and aclocal.m4 to use $TMPDIR if
8831 + corrected off-by-one in RoomFor call in read_entry.c
8834 + modified logic that wraps cursor in addch to follow the XSI spec,
8835 (implemented in SVr4) which states that the cursor position is
8836 updated when wrapping. Renamed _NEED_WRAP to _WRAPPED to reflect the
8838 + added -s option to tic, to provide better diagnostics in run_tic.sh
8839 + improved error-recovery for tabset install.
8840 + change ABI to 3.1 (dropped tparam, corrected getbkgd(), added
8841 _yoffset to WINDOW).
8842 + modified initialization of SP->_ofp so that init_acs() is called with
8843 the "right" file pointer (reported by Rick Marshall <rjm@nlc.net.au>
8844 + documentation fixes (Juergen Pfeifer).
8845 + corrected, using new SCREEN and WINDOW members, the behavior of
8846 ncurses if one uses ripoffline() to remove a line from the top of the
8847 screen (Juergen Pfeifer).
8848 + modified autoconf scripts to prepare for Ada95 (GNAT) binding to
8849 ncurses (Juergen Pfeifer).
8850 + incorrect buffer-size in _nc_read_entry, reported by ESR.
8853 + corrected two logic errors in read_entry.c, write_entry.c (called by
8854 tic, the write/read of terminfo entries used inconsistent rules for
8855 locating the entries; the $TERMINFO_DIRS code would find only the
8856 first entry in a list).
8857 + refined pathname computation in run_tic.sh and shlib.
8858 + corrected initialization of $IP in misc/run_tic.sh
8861 + ifdef'd out _nc_hash_map() call because it does not improve speed.
8862 + display version of gcc if configure script identifies it.
8863 + modify configure script to use /usr as Linux's default prefix.
8864 + modify run_tic.sh to use shlib script, fixes some problems installing
8865 with a shared-library configuration.
8866 + adjusted configure script so that it doesn't run tests with the
8867 warnings turned on, which makes config.log hard to read.
8868 + added 'lint' rule to top-level Makefile.
8869 + added configure option '--with-install-prefix' for use by system
8870 builders to install into staging locations (requested by
8871 Charles Levert <charles@comm.polymtl.ca>).
8872 + corrected autoconfigure for Debian man program; it's not installed
8874 + set noecho in 'worm'; it was ifdef'd for debug only
8875 + updated test/configure.in for timing-display in ncurses 'p' test
8876 + corrected misspelled 'getbkgd()'.
8877 + corrected wbkgdset to work like observed syvr4 (sets A_CHARTEXT part
8878 to blank if no character given, copies attributes to window's
8880 + modified lib_doupdate.c to use lower-level SP's current_attr state
8881 instead of curscr's state, since it is redundant.
8882 + correction to IDcTransformLine logic which controls where InsStr is
8883 invoked (refined by Alexander V Lukyanov).
8885 + conditionally include Chris Torek's hash function _nc_hash_map().
8886 + better fix for nvi refresh-bug (Rick Marshall)
8887 + fix for bug in handling of interrupted keystroke waits,
8891 + auto-configure man-page compression-format and renames for Debian.
8892 + corrected several typos in curses.h.in (i.e., the mvXXXX macros).
8893 + re-order curses.priv.h for lint.
8894 + added rules for lintlib, lint
8895 + corrected ifdef for BROKEN_LINKER in MKnames.awk.in
8896 + corrected missing INSTALL_DATA in misc/Makefile.in
8897 + flush output when changing cursor-visibility (Rick Marshall)
8898 + fix a minor bug in the _nc_ripoff() routine and improve error
8899 checking when creating the label window (Juergen Pfeifer).
8900 + enhancement to the control over the new PC-style soft key format.
8901 allow caller now to select whether or not one wants to have
8902 the index-line; see curs_slk.3x for documentation (Juergen Pfeifer).
8903 + typos, don't use inline with -g (Philippe De Muyter)
8904 + fixes for menus & wattr-, slk-functions (Juergen Pfeifer)
8907 + removed --with-ticdir option altogether, maintain compatibility with
8908 existing applications via symbolic link in run_tic.sh
8909 + patch for termio.h, signal (Philippe De Muyter)
8910 + auto-configure gcc warning options rather than infer from version.
8911 + auto-configure __attribute__ for different gcc versions.
8912 + corrected special use of clearok() in hardscroll.c by resetting flag
8914 + include stdlib.h before defs for EXIT_SUCCESS, for OSF/1.
8915 + include sys/types.h in case stdlib.h does not declare size_t.
8916 + fixes for makefile (Tim Mooney)
8917 + fixes for menus & forms (Juergen Pfeifer)
8920 + revised ncurses.c panner test, let pad abut all 4 sides of screen.
8921 + refined case in lib_doupdate.c for ClrToEOL().
8922 + corrected prior change for PutRange (Alexander V Lukyanov
8923 <lav@yars.free.net>).
8924 + autoconf mods (Tim Mooney <mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu>).
8925 + locale fix for forms (Philippe De Muyter <phdemuyt@ulb.ac.be>)
8926 + renamed "--with-datadir" option to "--with-ticdir" to avoid
8927 confusion, and made this check for the /usr/lib/terminfo pre-existing
8929 > patches 299-301 (ESR):
8931 + mods to tracing, especially for ACS chars.
8932 + corrected off-by-one in IDCtransform.
8933 + corrected intermittent mouse bug by using return-value from read().
8934 + mods to parse_entry.c, for smarter defaults.
8937 + use getopt in 'tic'; added -L option and modified -e option to allow
8941 + don't use fixed buffer-size in tparm().
8942 + modified tic to create terminfo directory if it doesn't exist.
8943 + added -T options to tic and infocmp (for testing/analysis)
8944 + refined the length criteria for termcap and terminfo
8945 + optimize lib_doupdate with memcpy, PutRange
8946 > patches 297, 298 (ESR):
8947 + implement TERMINFO_DIRS, and -o option of tic
8948 + added TRACE_IEVENT
8949 + removed boolean version of 'getm'
8950 + added lib_print.c (for Rick Marshall)
8952 + added 't' to ncurses.c test.
8953 + moved delay_output() to lib_tputs.c
8954 + removed tparam() (was added in 1.9.9, but conflicts with emacs and
8955 is not part of X/Open Curses).
8956 + misc cursor & optimization fixes.
8959 + modified ncurses 'p' test to allow full-screen range for panner size.
8960 + fixes for locale (Philippe De Muyter <phdm@labauto1.ulb.ac.be>)
8961 + don't use fixed buffer-size in fmt_entry().
8962 + added usage-message to 'infocmp'.
8963 + modified install.includes rules to prepend subdirectory-name to
8964 "#include" if needed.
8967 + protect wrefresh, wnoutrefresh from invocation with pad argument.
8968 + corrected default CCFLAGS in test/Makefile.
8971 + implemented logic to support terminals with background color erase
8972 (e.g., rxvt and the newer color xterm).
8973 + improved screen update logic (off-by-one logic error; use clr_eos if
8977 + change ncurses 'a' test to run in raw mode.
8978 + make TIOCGWINSZ configure test less stringent, in case user
8979 configures via terminal that cannot get screen size.
8980 > patches 295, 296 (ESR):
8981 + new "-e" option of tic.
8982 + fix for "infocmp -e".
8983 + restore working-directory in read_termcap.c
8984 + split lib_kernel.c, lib_setup.c and names.c in order to reduce
8985 overhead for programs that use only termcap features.
8989 + fix for AIX 3.2.5 (must define _POSIX_SOURCE to get termios struct
8990 definitions via <termios.h>, modified macros in lib_raw.c to avoid
8991 K&R-style substitution)
8992 > patches 293, 294 (ESR):
8993 + mods to wgetch() in cooked mode
8994 + corrected askuser() logic in tset
8995 + correct interaction of endwin() with mouse processing
8996 + added trace support for TTY flags
8999 + fixes for NeXT, ISC and HPUX auto-configure
9000 + autogenerate development header-dependencies (config.h, *.priv.h)
9001 + corrected single-column formatting of "use=" (e.g., in tic)
9002 + modify tic to read full terminfo-names
9003 + corrected divide-by-zero that caused hang (or worse) when redirecting
9005 + modify tic to generate directories only as-needed (and corrected
9006 instance of use of data from function that had already returned).
9008 ### ncurses-1.9.8a -> 1.9.9e
9010 * fixed broken wsyncup()/wysncdown(), as a result wnoutrefresh() now has
9011 copy-changed-lines behavior.
9012 * added and documented wresize() function.
9013 * more fixes to LOWER-RIGHT corner handling.
9014 * changed the line-breakout optimization code to allow some lines to be
9015 emitted before the first check.
9016 * added option for tic to use symbolic instead of hard links (for AFS)
9017 * fix to restore auto-wrap mode.
9018 * trace level can be controlled by environment variable.
9019 * better handling of NULs in terminal descriptions.
9020 * improved compatibility with observed SVR4 behavior.
9021 * the refresh behavior of over-lapping windows is now more efficient and
9023 * use autoconf 2.7, which results in a working setup for SCO 5.0.
9024 * support for ESCDELAY.
9025 * small fixes for menu/form code.
9026 * the test directory has its own configure.
9027 * fixes to pads when optimizing scrolling.
9028 * fixed several off-by-one bugs.
9029 * fixes for termcap->terminfo translation; less restrictions more correct
9032 ### ncurses-1.9.7 -> 1.9.8a
9034 * teach infocmp -i to recognize ECMA highlight sequences
9035 * infocmp now dumps all SVr4 termcaps (not just the SVr4 ones) on -C
9036 * support infocmp -RBSD.
9037 * satisfy XSI Curses requirement that every macro be available as a function.
9038 * This represents the last big change to the public interface of ncurses. The
9039 ABI_VERSION has now been set at 3.0 and should stay there barring any great
9040 catastrophies or acts of God.
9041 * The C++ has been cleaned up in reaction to the changes to satisfy XSI's
9043 * libncurses now gets linked to libcurses to help seamless emulation
9044 (replacement) of a vendor's curses. --disable-overwrite turns this behavior
9047 ### ncurses-1.9.6 -> 1.9.7
9049 * corrected return values of setupterm()
9050 * Fixed some bugs in tput (it does padding now)
9051 * fixed a bug in tic that made it do the wrong thing on entries with more than
9052 one `use' capability.
9053 * corrected the screen-size calculation at startup time to alter the
9054 numeric capabilities as per SVr4, not just LINES and COLS.
9055 * toe(1) introduced; does what infocmp -T used to.
9056 * tic(1) can now translate AIX box1 and font[0123] capabilities.
9057 * tic uses much less core, the dotic.sh kluge can go away now.
9058 * fix read_entry() and write_entry() to pass through cancelled capabilities OK.
9059 * Add $HOME/.terminfo as source/target directory for terminfo entries.
9060 * termcap compilation now automatically dumps an entry to $HOME/.terminfo.
9061 * added -h option to toe(1).
9062 * added -R option to tic(1) and infocmp(1).
9063 * added fallback-entry-list feature.
9064 * added -i option to infocmp(1).
9065 * do a better job at detecting if we're on SCO.
9067 ### ncurses-1.9.5 -> 1.9.6
9069 * handling of TERMCAP environment variables now works correctly.
9070 * various changes to shorten termcap translations to less that 1024 chars.
9072 * mouse support for xterm.
9073 * most data tables are now const and accordingly live in shareable text space.
9074 * Obey the XPG4/SVr4 practice that echo() is initally off.
9075 * tic is much better at translating XENIX and AIX termcap entries now.
9076 * tic can interpret ko capabilities now.
9077 * integrated Juergen Pfeifer's forms library.
9078 * taught write_entry() how not to write more than it needs to; this change
9079 reduces the size of the terminfo tree by a full 26%!
9080 * infocmp -T option added.
9081 * better warnings about historical tic quirks from tic.
9083 ### ncurses 1.9.4 -> 1.9.5
9085 * menus library is now included with documentation.
9086 * lib_mvcur has been carefully profiled and tuned.
9087 * Fixed a ^Z-handling bug that was tanking lynx(1).
9088 * HJ Lu's patches for ELF shared libraries under Linux
9089 * terminfo.src 9.8.2
9090 * tweaks for compiling in seperate directories.
9091 * Thomas Dickey's patches to support NeXT's brain-dead linker
9092 * Eric Raymond's patches to fix problems with long termcap entries.
9093 * more support for shared libraries under SunOS and IRIX.
9095 ### ncurses 1.9.3 -> 1.9.4
9097 * fixed an undefined-order-of-evaluation bug in lib_acs.c
9098 * systematically gave non-API public functions and data an _nc_ prefix.
9099 * integrated Juergen Pfeifer's menu code into the distribution.
9100 * totally rewrote the knight test game's interface
9102 ### ncurses 1.9.2c -> 1.9.3
9104 * fixed the TERMCAP_FILE Support.
9105 * fixed off-by-one errors in scrolling code
9106 * added tracemunch to the test tools
9107 * took steps to cut the running time of make install.data
9109 ### ncurses 1.9.2c -> 1.9.2d
9111 * revised 'configure' script to produce libraries for normal, debug,
9112 profile and shared object models.
9114 ### ncurses 1.9.1 -> 1.9.2
9116 * use 'autoconf' to implement 'configure' script.
9117 * panels support added
9118 * tic now checks for excessively long termcap entries when doing translation
9119 * first cut at eliminating namespace pollution.
9121 ### ncurses 1.8.9 -> 1.9
9123 * cleanup gcc warnings for the following: use size_t where 'int' is not
9124 appropriate, fixed some shadowed variables, change attr_t to compatible with
9125 chtype, use attr_t in some places where it was confused with 'int'.
9126 * use chtype/attr_t casts as appropriate to ensure portability of masking
9128 * added-back waddchnstr() to lib_addstr.c (it had been deleted).
9129 * supplied missing prototypes in curses.h
9130 * include <termcap.h> in lib_termcap.c to ensure that the prototypes
9131 are consistent (they weren't).
9132 * corrected prototype of tputs in <termcap.h>
9133 * rewrote varargs parsing in lib_tparm.c (to avoid referencing memory
9134 that may be out of bounds on the stack) -- Purify found this.
9135 * ensure that TRACE is defined in lib_trace.c (to solve prototype
9137 * corrected scrolling-region size in 'mvcur_wrap()'
9138 * more spelling fixes
9139 * use 'calloc()' to allocate WINDOW struct in lib_newwin.c (Purify).
9140 * set default value for SP->_ofp in lib_set_term.c (otherwise SunOS dumps
9141 core in init_acs()).
9142 * include <errno.h> in write_entry.c (most "braindead" includes declare errno
9145 ### ncurses 1.8.8 -> 1.8.9
9147 * compile (mostly) clean with gcc 2.5.8 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
9148 -Wmissing-prototypes -Wconversion and using __attribute__ to flush out
9149 non-portable use of "%x" for pointers, or for chtype data (which is declared
9151 * modified doupdate to ensure that typahead was turned on before attempting
9152 select-call (otherwise, some implementations hang).
9153 * added trace mask TRACE_FIFO, use this in lib_getch.c to allow finer
9154 resolution of traces.
9155 * improved bounds checking on several critical functions.
9156 * the data directory has been replaced by the new master terminfo file.
9157 * -F file-comparison option added to infocmp.
9158 * compatibility with XSI Curses is now documented in the man bages.
9159 * wsyncup/wsyncdown functions are reliable now; subwindow code in general
9161 * capabilities ~msgr, tilde_glitch, insert_padding, generic_type, no_pad_char,
9162 memory_above, memory_below, and hard_copy are now used properly.
9163 * cursor-movement optimization has been completely rewritten.
9164 * vertical-movement optimization now uses hardware scrolling, il, dl.
9166 ### ncurses 1.8.7 -> 1.8.8
9167 * untic no longer exists, infocmp replaces it.
9168 * tic can understand termcap now, especially if it is called captoinfo.
9169 * The Linux Standard Console terminfo entry is called linux insead of console.
9170 It also uses the kernel's new method of changing charsets.
9171 * initscr() will EXIT upon error (as the docs say) This wil mostly happen if
9172 you try to run on an undefined terminal.
9173 * I can get things running on AIX but tic can't compile terminfo. I have to
9174 compile entries on another machine. Volunteers to hunt this bug are welcome.
9175 * wbkgd() and wbkgdset() can be used to set a windows background to color.
9176 wclear()/werase() DO NOT use the current attribute to clear the screen.
9177 This is the way SVR4 curses works. PDCurses 2.1 is broken in this respect,
9178 though PDCurses 2.2 has been fixed.
9179 * cleaned up the test/ directory.
9180 * test/worm will segfault after quite a while.
9181 * many spelling corrections courtesy of Thomas E. Dickey
9183 ### ncurses 1.8.6 -> 1.8.7
9184 * cleaned up programs in test/ directory.
9185 * fixed wbkgdset() macro.
9186 * modified getstr() to stop it from advancing cursor in noecho mode.
9187 * modified linux terminfo entry to work with the latest kernel to get
9188 the correct alternate character set.
9189 * also added a linux-mono entry for those running on monochrome screens.
9190 * changed initscr() so that it behaves like the man page says it does.
9191 this fixes the problem with programs in test/ crashing with SIGSEV if
9192 a terminal is undefined.
9193 * modified addch() to avoid using any term.h #define's
9194 * removed duplicate tgoto() in lib_tparm.c
9195 * modified dump_entry.c so that infocmp deals correctly with ',' in acsc
9196 * modified delwin() to correctly handle deleting subwindows.
9197 * fixed Makefile.dist to stop installing an empty curses.h
9198 * fixed a couple of out-of-date notes in man pages.
9200 ### ncurses 1.8.5 -> 1.8.6
9201 * Implemented wbkgd(), bkgd(), bkgdset(), and wbkgdset().
9202 * The handling of attributes has been improved and now does not turn off color
9203 if other attributes are turned off.
9204 * scrolling code is improved. Scrolling in subwindows is still broken.
9205 * Fixes to several bugs that manifest them on platforms other than Linux.
9206 * The default to meta now depends on the status of the terminal when ncurses
9208 * The interface to the tracing facility has changed. Instead of the pair of
9209 functions traceon() and traceoff(), there is just one function trace() which
9210 takes a trace mask argument. The trace masks, defined in curses.h, are
9213 #define TRACE_DISABLE 0x00 /* turn off tracing */
9214 #define TRACE_ORDINARY 0x01 /* ordinary trace mode */
9215 #define TRACE_CHARPUT 0x02 /* also trace all character outputs */
9216 #define TRACE_MAXIMUM 0x0f /* maximum trace level */
9218 More trace masks may be added, or these may be changed, in future releases.
9219 * The pad code has been improved and the pad test code in test/ncurses.c has
9221 * The prototype ansi entry has been changed to work with a wider variety
9223 * Fix to the prototype ansi entry that enables it to work with PC emulators
9224 that treat trailing ";m" in a highlight sequence as ";0m"; this doesn't
9225 break operation with any emulators.
9226 * There are now working infocmp, captoinfo, tput, and tclear utilities.
9227 * tic can now compile entries in termcap syntax.
9228 * Core-dump bug in pnoutrefresh fixed.
9229 * We now recognize and compile all the nonstandard capabilities in Ross
9230 Ridge's mytinfo package (rendering it obsolete).
9231 * General cleanup and documentation improvements.
9232 * Fixes and additions to the installation-documentation files.
9233 * Take cursor to normal mode on endwin.
9235 ### ncurses 1.8.4 -> 1.8.5
9236 * serious bugs in updating screen which caused erratic non-display,
9238 * fixed initialization for getch() related variable which cause
9239 unpredictable results.
9240 * fixed another doupdate bug which only appeared if you have
9242 * implemented redrawln() and redrawwin().
9243 * implemented winsnstr() and related functions.
9244 * cleaned up insertln() and deleteln() and implemented (w)insdeln().
9245 * changed Makefile.dist so that installation of man pages will
9246 take note of the terminfo directory.
9247 * fixed Configure (removed the mysterious 'X').
9248 * Eric S. Raymond fixed the script.* files so that they work with
9251 #### ncurses 1.8.3 -> 1.8.4 #### ####
9252 * fixed bug in refreshing the screen after return from shell_mode.
9253 There are still problems but they don't manifest themselves on
9254 my machine (Linux 0.99.14f).
9255 * added wgetnstr() and modified things accordingly.
9256 * fixed the script.src script.test to work with awk not just gawk.
9257 * Configure can now take an argument of the target system.
9258 * added test/ncurses.c which replaces several other programs and
9259 performs more testing.
9260 [Thanks to Eric S Raymond for the last 4]
9261 * more fixes to lib_overlay.c and added test/over.c to illustrate
9263 * fixed ungetch() to take int instead of ch.
9264 * fixes to cure wgetch() if flushinp() is called.
9266 One note I forgot to mention in 1.8.3 is that tracing is off by
9267 default starting in the version. If you want tracing output, put
9268 traceon(); in your code and link with -ldcurses.
9270 #### ncurses 1.8.2 -> ncurses 1.8.3 #### ####
9272 1) The order of capabilities has been changed in order to achieve
9273 binary compatibility with SVR4 terminfo database. This has the
9274 unfortunate effect of breaking application currently linked with
9275 ncurses. To ensure correct behavior, recompile all such programs.
9276 Most programs using color or newer capabilities will break, others
9277 will probably continue to work ok.
9279 2) Pavel Curtis has renounced his copyright to the public domain.
9280 This means that his original sources (posted to comp.sources.unix,
9281 volume 1) are now in the public domain. The current sources are
9282 NOT in the public domain, they are copyrighted by me. I'm
9283 entertaining ideas on what the new terms ncurses is released under.
9285 3) Eric S. Raymond has supplied a complete set of man pages for
9286 ncurses in ?roff format. They will eventually replace most of the
9287 current docs. Both sets are included in this release.
9289 Other changes and notes from 1.8.2 include:
9290 * SIGSEGV during scrolling no longer occurs.
9291 * Other problems with scrolling and use of idl have been corrected.
9292 * lib_getch.c has been re-written and should perform flawlessly.
9293 please use test/getch.c and any other programs to test this.
9294 * ripoffline() is implemented (Thanks to Eric) and slk_ functions
9295 changed accordingly.
9296 * I've added support for terminals that scroll if you write in the
9297 bottom-right corner.
9298 * fixed more bugs in pads code. If anybody has a program that uses
9299 pads I'd love a copy.
9300 * correct handling for terminal with back_color_erase capability
9301 (such as Linux console, and most PC terminals)
9302 * ^Z handling apparently didn't work (I should never trust code
9303 sent me to me without extensive testing). It now seems to be
9304 fixed. Let me know if you have problems.
9305 * I've added support for Apollo and NeXT, but it may still be
9306 incomplete, especially when dealing with the lack of POSIX
9308 * scrolling should be more efficient on terminals with idl
9309 capabilities. Please see src/lib_scroll.c for more notes.
9310 * The line drawing routines were offset by 1 at both ends. This
9312 * added a few missing prototypes and macros (e.g. setterm())
9313 * fixed code in src/lib_overlay.c which used to crash.
9314 * added a few more programs in test/ The ones from the PDCurses
9315 package are useful, especially if you have SVR4 proper. I'm
9316 interested in the results you get on such a systems (Eric? ;-).
9317 They already exposed certain bugs in ncurses.
9318 * See src/README for porting notes.
9319 * The C++ code should really replace ncurses.h instead of working
9320 around it. It should avoid name-space clashes with nterm.h (use
9321 rows instead of lines, etc.)
9322 * The C++ should compile ok. I've added explicit rules to the
9323 Makefile because no C++ defaults are documented on the suns.
9324 * The docs say that echo() and nocbreak() are mutually exclusive.
9325 At the moment ncurses will switch to cbreak() if the case above
9326 occurs. Should it continue to do so? How about echo() and noraw()?
9327 * PDCurses seem to assume that wclear() will use current attribute
9328 when clearing the screen. According to Eric this is not the case
9330 * I have discovered, to my chagrin, SunOS 4.x (and probably other systems)
9331 * doesn't have vsscanf and God knows what else! I've will do a vsscanf().
9332 * I've also found out that the src/script.* rely on gawk and will not
9333 work with stock awk or even with nawk. Any changes are welcome.
9334 * Linux is more tolerant of NULL dereferences than most systems. This
9335 fact was exposed by hanoi.
9336 * ncurses still seems inefficient in drawing the screen on a serial
9337 link between Linux and suns. The padding may be the culprit.
9338 * There seems to be one lingering problem with doupdate() after shelling
9339 out. Despite the fact the it is sending out the correct information
9340 to the terminal, nothing takes effect until you press ^L or another
9341 refresh takes place. And yes, output does get flushed.
9343 #### ncurses 1.8.1 -> ncurses 1.8.2 #### Nov 28, 1993 ####
9345 * added support for SVR4 and BSDI's BSD/386.
9346 * major update and fix to scrolling routine.
9347 * MORE fixes to stuff in lib_getch.c.
9348 * cleaned-up configuration options and can now generate
9349 Config.* files through an awk script.
9350 * changed setupterm() so it can be called more than once,
9351 add added set_curterm(), del_curterm().
9352 * a few minor cleanups.
9353 * added more prototypes in curses.h
9355 #### ncurses 1.8 -> ncurses 1.8.1 #### Nov 4, 1993 ####
9357 * added support for NeXTStep 3.0
9358 * added termcap emulation (not well tested).
9359 * more complete C++ interface to ncurses.
9360 * fixed overlay(), overwrite(), and added copywin().
9361 * a couple of bug fixes.
9362 * a few code cleanups.
9364 #### ncurses 0.7.2/0.7.3 -> ncurses 1.8 #### Aug 31, 1993 ####
9366 * The annoying message "can't open file." was due to missing
9367 terminfo entry for the used terminal. It has now been
9368 replaced by a hopefully more helpful message.
9369 * Problems with running on serial lines are now fixed.
9370 * Added configuration files for SunOS, Linux, HP/UX, Ultrix,
9371 386bsd/BSDI (if you have others send'em to me)
9373 * The documentation in manual.doc is now more uptodate.
9374 * update optimization and support for hp terminals, and 386bsd
9376 * mvcur optimization for terminals without cursor addressing
9377 (doesn't work on Linux)
9378 * if cursor moved since last update, getch() will refresh the
9379 screen before working.
9380 * getch() & alarm() can now live together. in 0.7.3 a signal
9381 interrupted getch() (bug or feature?) now the getch is
9383 * scanw() et all were sick, now fixed.
9384 * support for 8-bit input (use meta()).
9385 * added default screen size to all terminfos.
9386 * added c++ Ncursesw class.
9387 * several minor bug fixes.
9389 #### ncurses 0.7.2 -> ncurses 0.7.3 #### May 27, 1993 ####
9391 * Config file to cope with different platforms (386BSD, BSDI, Ultrix, SunOS)
9392 * more fixes to lib_getch.c
9393 * changes related to Config
9395 #### ncurses 0.7 -> ncurses 0.7.2 #### May 22, 1993 ####
9397 * docs updated slightly (color usage is now documented).
9398 * yet another fix for getch(), this one fixes problems with ESC being swallowed
9399 if another character is typed before the 1 second timeout.
9400 * Hopefully, addstr() and addch() are 8-bit clean.
9401 * fixed lib_tparm.c to use stdarg.h (should run on suns now)
9402 * order of capabilities changed to reflect that specified in SYSV
9403 this will allow for binary-compatibility with existing terminfo dbs.
9405 * fixed problems with asc_init()
9406 * added A_PROTECT and A_INVIS
9407 * cleaned up vidputs()
9408 * general cleanup of the code
9409 * more attention to portability to other systems
9410 * added terminfos for hp70092 (wont work until changes to lib_update.c are
9411 made) and 386BSD pcvt drivers.
9413 Thanks to Hellmuth Michaelis for his help.
9414 optimization code is slated for the next major release, stay tuned!
9416 #### ncurses 0.6/0.61 -> ncurses 0.7 #### April 1, 1993
9417 Please note that the next release will be called 1.8. If you want to know about
9418 the rationale drop me a line.
9420 Included are several test programs in test/.
9421 I've split up the panels library, reversi, tetris, sokoban. They are now
9422 available separately from netcom.com:pub/zmbenhal/
9424 * color and ACS support is now fully compatible with SYSV at the terminfo
9426 * Capabilities now includes as many SYSV caps I could find.
9427 * tigetflag,tigetnum,tigetstr functions added.
9428 * boolnames, boolfnames, boolcodes numnames, numfnames, numcodes,
9429 strnames, strfnames, strcodes arrays are now added.
9430 * keyname() is added.
9431 * All function keys can be defined in terminfo entries.
9432 * fixed lin_tparm.c to behave properly.
9433 * terminfo entries for vt* and xterm are included (improvements are welcome)
9434 * more automation in handling caps and keys.
9435 * included fixes from 0.6.1
9436 * added a few more missing functions.
9437 * fixed a couple of minor bugs.
9438 * updated docs JUST a little (still miles behind in documenting the newer
9441 #### ncurses 0.6 -> ncurses 0.61 ####
9443 1) Included the missing data/console.
9445 2) allow attributes when drawing boxes.
9447 3) corrected usage of win->_delay value.
9449 4) fixed a bug in lib_getch.c. if it didn't recognize a sequence it would
9450 simply return the last character in the sequence. The correct
9451 behavior is to return the entire sequence one character at a time.
9453 #### ncurses0.5 -> ncurses0.6 #### March 1, 1993 ####
9454 * removed _numchngd from struct _win_st and made appropriate changes.
9455 * rewritten kgetch() to remove problems with interaction between alarm and
9456 read(). It caused SIGSEGV every now and then.
9457 * fixed a bug that miscounted the numbers of columns when updating.
9458 (in lib_doupdate.c(ClrUpdate() -- iterate to columns not columns-1)
9459 * fixed a bug that cause the lower-right corner to be incorrect.
9460 (in lib_doupdate.c(putChar() -- check against columns not columns-1)
9461 * made resize() and cleanup() static to lib_newterm.c
9462 * added notimeout().
9463 * added timeout() define in curses.h
9464 * added more function prototypes and fixed napms.
9466 * moved screen size detection to lib_setup.c.
9467 * fixed newterm() to confirm to prototype.
9468 * removed SIGWINCH support as SYSV does not define its semantics.
9469 * cleaned-up lib_touch.c
9470 * added waddnstr() and relatives.
9471 * added slk_* support.
9472 * fixed a bug in wdeleteln().
9473 * added PANEL library.
9474 * modified Makefile for smoother installation.
9475 * terminfo.h is really term.h
9477 #### ncurses 0.4 -> ncurses 0.5 #### Feb 14, 1993 ####
9478 * changed _win_st structure to allow support for missing functionality.
9479 * Addition of terminfo support for all KEY_*.
9480 * Support for nodelay(), timeout(), notimeout().
9481 * fixed a bug with the keypad char reading that did not return ESC until
9482 another key is pressed.
9483 * nl mapping no longer occur on output (as should be)
9484 fixed bug '\n' no causing a LF.
9485 * fixed bug that reset terminal colors regardless of whether we use color
9487 * Better support for ACS (not quite complete).
9488 * fixed bug in wvline().
9490 * changed from signal() to sigaction().
9491 * re-included the contents of important.patch into source.
9493 #### ncurses 0.3 -> ncurses 0.4 #### Feb 3, 1993 ####
9494 * Addition of more KEY_* definitions.
9495 * Addition of function prototypes.
9496 * Addition of several missing functions.
9497 * No more crashes if screen size is undefined (use SIGWINCH handler).
9498 * added a handler to cleanup after SIGSEGV (hopefully never needed).
9499 * changed SRCDIR from /etc/term to /usr/lib/terminfo.
9500 * renamed compile/dump to tic/untic.
9501 * New scrolling code.
9502 * fixed bug that reversed the sense of nl() and nonl().
9504 #### ncurses 0.2 -> ncurses 0.3 #### Jan 20, 1993 ####
9505 * more support for color and graphics see test/ for examples.
9506 * fixed various files to allow correct update after shelling out.
9507 * more fixes for updates.
9508 * no more core dumps if you don't have a terminfo entry.
9509 * support for LINES and COLUMNS environment variables.
9510 * support for SIGWINCH signal.
9511 * added a handler for SIGINT for clean exits.
9513 #### ncurses 0.1 -> ncurses 0.2 #### Aug 14, 1992 ####
9514 * support for color.
9515 * support for PC graphic characters.
9516 * lib_trace.c updated to use stdarg.h and vprintf routines.
9517 * added gdc.c (Great Digital Clock) as an example of using color.
9519 #### ncurses -> ncurses 0.1 #### Jul 31, 1992 ####
9520 * replacing sgtty stuff by termios stuff.
9521 * ANSIfication of some functions.
9522 * Disabling cost analysis 'cause it's incorrect.
9523 * A quick hack for a terminfo entry.
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