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31 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
32 working with Pavel Curtis' original work, pcurses, in 1992.
34 Changes through 1.9.9e are recorded by Zeyd M Ben-Halim.
35 Changes since 1.9.9e are recorded by Thomas E Dickey.
37 Contributors include those who have provided patches (even small ones), as well
38 as those who provide useful information (bug reports, analyses). Changes with
39 no cited author are the work of Thomas E Dickey (TD).
41 A few contributors may be cited in this file by their initials.
42 Each accounts for half of one percent or more of the changes since 1.9.9e.
43 See the AUTHORS file for the corresponding full names.
45 Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
46 it is not possible to add this information.
49 + modify test/view.c to expand tabs using the ncurses library rather
50 than in the test-program.
51 + remove very old SIGWINCH example in test/view.c, just use KEY_RESIZE.
52 + add -T, -e, -f -m options to "dots" test-programs.
53 + fix a few typos in usage-messages for test-programs.
56 + minor cleanup to test/view.c:
57 + eliminate "-n" option by simply reading the whole file.
58 + implement page up/down commands.
59 + add check in tput for init/reset operands to ensure those use a
61 + improve manual pages which discuss chtype, cchar_t types and the
62 attribute values which can be stored in those types.
63 + correct array-index when parsing "-T" command-line option in tabs
65 + modify demo_new_pair.c to pass extended pairs to setcchar().
66 + add test/dots_xcurses.c to illustrate a different approach used for
67 extended colors which can be contrasted with dots_curses.c.
68 + add a check in tic to note when a description uses non-mandatory
69 delays without xon_xoff. This is not an error, but some descriptions
70 for a terminal emulator may use the combination incorrectly.
73 + modify "-T" option of clear and tput to call use_tioctl() to obtain
74 the operating system's notion of the screensize if possible.
75 + review/repair some exit-codes for tput, making usage-message exit
76 with 2 rather than 1, and a failure to open terminal 4+errno.
77 + amend check in tput, tabs and clear to allow those to use the
78 database-only features in cron if a -T option gives a suitable
79 terminal name (report by Lauri Tirkkonen).
80 + correct an ifdef in test/ncurses.c for systems with soft-keys but
82 + regenerate man-html documentation.
85 + fix a symbol conflict that made ncurses.c C/c menu not work with
87 + add refresh() call to dots_mvcur.c, needed to use mvcur() with
88 Solaris xpg4 curses after calling newterm().
89 + minor fixes for configure script from work on ncurses-examples and
91 + improve animation in test/xmas.c by adding a time-delay in blinkit().
92 + modify several test programs to reflect that ncurses honors existing
93 signal handlers in initscr(), while other implementations do not.
94 + modify bs.c to make it easier to quit.
95 + change ncurses-examples to use attr_t vs chtype to follow X/Open
96 documentation more closely since Solaris xpg4-curses uses different
97 values for WA_xxx vs A_xxx that rely on attr_t being an unsigned
98 short. Tru64 aka OSF1, HPUX, AIX did as ncurses does, equating the
102 + modify menu for test/ncurses.c to fit on 24-line screen.
103 + build-fix for configure --with-caps=uwin
104 + add options to test_arrays.c, for selecting termcap vs terminfo, etc.
107 + minor fix to test/filter.c to avoid clearing the command in one case.
108 + modify filter() to discard clr_eos if back_color_erase is set.
111 + improve wide-character implementation of myADDNSTR() in frm_driver.c,
112 which was inconsistent with the normal implementation.
113 + save/restore cursor position in Undo_Justification(), matching
114 behavior of Buffer_To_Window() (report by Leon Winter).
115 + modify test/knight to provide the "slow" solution for small screens
116 using "R", noting that Warnsdorf's method is easily done with "a".
117 + modify several test-programs which call use_default_colors() to
118 consistently do this only if "-d" option is given.
119 + additional changes to test with non-standard variants of curses:
120 + modify a loop limit in firework.c to work around absense of limit
121 checks in some libraries.
122 + fill the last row of a window with "?" in firstlast if waddch does
123 not return ERR on the lower-right corner.
124 + add checks in test/configure for some functions not in 4.3BSD curses.
125 + fix a regression in test/configure (cf: 20170826).
128 + amend change for endwin-state for better consistency with the older
129 logic (report/patch by Jeb Rosen, cf: 20170722).
130 + modify check in fmt_entry() to handle a cancelled reset string
131 (Debian #873746). Make similar fixes in other parts of dump_entry.c
135 + fix a bug in repeat_char logic (cf: 20170729, report by Chris Clayton).
138 + fixes for "iterm2" (report by Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD
139 + corrected a warning from tic about keys which are the same, to skip
140 over missing/cancelled values.
141 + add check in tic for unnecessary use of "2" to denote a shifted
143 + improve checks in trim_sgr0, comp_parse.c and parse_entry.c, for
144 cancelled string capabilities.
145 + add check in _nc_parse_entry() for invalid entry name, setting the
146 name to "invalid" to avoid problems storing entries.
147 + add/improve checks in tic's parser to address invalid input
148 + add a check in comp_scan.c to handle the special case where a
149 nontext file ending with a NUL rather than newline is given to tic
150 as input (Redhat #1484274).
151 + allow for cancelled capabilities in _nc_save_str (Redhat #1484276).
152 + add validity checks for "use=" target in _nc_parse_entry (Redhat
154 + check for invalid strings in postprocess_termcap (Redhat #1484285)
155 + reset secondary pointers on EOF in next_char() (Redhat #1484287).
156 + guard _nc_safe_strcpy() and _nc_safe_strcat() against calls using
157 cancelled strings (Redhat #1484291).
158 + correct typo in curs_memleaks.3x (Sven Joachim).
159 + improve test/configure checks for some curses variants not based on
161 + add options for test/configure to disable checks for form, menu and
165 + update "iterm" entry -TD
166 + add "iterm2" entry (report by Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD
167 + regenerate llib-* files.
168 + regenerate HTML manpages.
169 + improve picsmap test-program:
170 + reduce memory used for tsearch
171 + add report in log file showing cumulative color coverage.
172 + add -x option to clear/tput to make the E3 extension optional
174 + add options -T and -V to clear command for compatibility with tput.
175 + add usage message to clear command (Debian #371855).
176 + improve usage messages for tset and tput.
177 + minor fixes to "RDGB" extension and reset_color_pairs().
180 + improve description of -R option in infocmp manual page (report by
182 + add reset_color_pairs() function.
183 + add user_caps.5 manual page to document the terminfo extensions used
185 + improve build scripts, using SIGQUIT vs SIGTRAP; add other configure
186 script fixes from work on xterm, lynx and tack.
187 + modify install-rule for ncurses-examples to put the data files in
188 /usr/share/ncurses-examples
189 + improve tracemunch, by changing address-parameters of add_wch(),
190 color_content() and pair_content() to dummy parameters.
191 + minor optimization to _nc_change_pair, to return quickly when the
192 current screen is marked for clearing.
193 + in-progress changes to improve performance of test/picsmap.c for
195 + modify allocation for SCREEN's color-pair table to start small, grow
196 on demand up to the existing limit.
197 + add "RGB" extension capability for direct-color support, use this to
198 improve color_content().
199 + improve picsmap test-program:
200 + if no palette file is needed, attempt to load one based on $TERM,
201 checking first in the current directory, then by adding ".dat"
202 suffix, and finally in the data-directory, e.g.,
203 /usr/share/ncurses-examples
204 + add "-l" option for logging
205 + add "-d" option for debugging
206 + add "-s" option for stepping automatically through list of images,
208 + use tsearch to improve time for loading color table for images.
209 + update config.guess, config.sub from
210 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
213 + update interix entry using tack and SFU on Windows 7 Ultimate -TD
214 + use ^? for kdch1 in interix (reported by Jonathan de Boyne Pollard)
215 + add "rep" to xterm-new, available since 1997/01/26 -TD
216 + move SGR 24 and 27 from vte-2014 to vte-2012 (request by Alain
218 + add a check in newline_forces_scroll() in case a program moves the
219 cursor outside scrolling margins (report by Robert King).
220 + improve _nc_tparm_analyze, using that to extend the checks made by
221 tic for reporting inconsistencies between the expected number of
222 parameters for a capability and the actual.
223 + amend handling of repeat_char capability in EmitRange (adapted from
224 report/patch by Dick Wesseling):
225 + translate the character to the alternate character set when the
226 alternate character set is enabled.
227 + do not use repeat_char for characters past 255.
228 + document "_nc_free_tinfo" in manual page, because it could be used in
229 tack for memory-leak checking.
230 + add "--without-tack" configure option to refine "--with-progs"
231 configure option. Normally tack is no longer built in-tree, but
232 a few packagers combine it during the build. If term_entry.h is
233 installed, there is no advantage to in-tree builds.
234 + adjust configure-script to define HAVE_CURSES_DATA_BOOLNAMES symbol
235 needed for tack 1.08 when built in-tree. Rather than relying upon
236 internal "_nc_" functions, tack now uses the boolean, number and
237 string capability name-arrays provided by ncurses and SVr4 Unix
238 curses. It still uses term_entry.h for the definitions of the
239 extended capability arrays.
240 + add an overlooked null-pointer check in mvcur changes from 20170722
243 + improve test-packages for ncurses-examples and AdaCurses for lintian
244 + modify logic for endwin-state to be able to detect the case where
245 the screen was never initialized, using that to trigger a flush of
246 ncurses' buffer for mvcur, e.g., in test/dots_mvcur.c for the
247 term-driver configuration.
248 + add dependency upon ncurses_cfg.h to a few other internal header
249 files to allow each to be compiled separately.
250 + add dependency upon ncurses_cfg.h to tic's header-files; any program
251 using tic-library will have to supply this file. Legacy tack
252 versions supply this file; ongoing tack development has dropped the
253 dependency upon tic-library and new releases will not be affected.
256 + modify command-line parameters for "convert" used in picsmap to work
257 with ImageMagick 6.8 and newer.
258 + fix build-problem with tack and ABI-5 (Debian #868328).
259 + repair termcap-format from tic/infocmp broken in 20170701 fixes
261 + reformat terminfo.src with 20170513 updates.
262 + improve test-packages to address lintian warnings.
265 + add a note to tic manual page about -W versus -f options.
266 + correct a limit-check in fixes from 20170701 (report by Sven Joachim).
269 + modify update_getenv() in db_iterator.c to ensure that environment
270 variables which are not initially set will be checked later if an
271 application happens to set them (patch by Guillaume Maudoux).
272 + remove initialization-check for calling napms() in the term-driver
273 configuration; none is needed.
274 + add help-screen to test/test_getstr.c and test/test_get_wstr.c
275 + improve compatibility between different configurations of new_prescr,
276 fixing a case with threaded code and term-driver where c++/demo did
277 not work (cf: 20160213).
278 + the fixes for Redhat #1464685 obscured a problem subsequently
279 reported in Redhat #1464687; the given test-case was no longer
280 reproducible. Testing without the fixes for the earlier reports
281 showed a problem with buffer overflow in dump_entry.c, which is
282 addressed by reducing the use of a fixed-size buffer.
283 + add/improve checks in tic's parser to address invalid input
284 (Redhat #1464684, #1464685, #1464686, #1464691).
285 + alloc_entry.c, add a check for a null-pointer.
286 + parse_entry.c, add several checks for valid pointers as well as
287 one check to ensure that a single character on a line is not
288 treated as the 2-character termcap short-name.
289 + fix a memory leak in delscreen() (report by Bai Junq).
290 + improve tracemunch, showing thread identifiers as names.
291 + fix a use-after-free in NCursesMenu::~NCursesMenu()
292 + further amend incorrect calls for memory-leaks from 20170617 changes
293 (report by Allen Hewes).
296 + modify c++/etip.h.in to accommodate deprecation of throw() and
297 throws() in c++17 (prompted by patch by Romain Geissler).
298 + remove some incorrect calls for memory-leaks from 20170617 changes
299 (report by Allen Hewes).
300 + add test-programs for termattrs and term_attrs.
301 + modify _nc_outc_wrapper to use the standard output if the screen was
302 not initialized, rather than returning an error.
303 + improve checks for low-level terminfo functions when the terminal
304 has not been initialized (Redhat #1345963).
305 + modify make_hash to allow building with address-sanitizer,
306 assuming that --disable-leaks is configured.
307 + amend changes for number_format() in 20170506 to avoid undefined
308 behavior when shifting (patch by Emanuele Giaquinta).
311 + fill in some places where TERMTYPE2 vs TERMTYPE was not used
312 (report by Allen Hewes).
313 + use ExitTerminfo() internally in error-exits for ncurses' setupterm
314 to help with leak checking.
315 + use ExitProgram() in error-exit from initscr() to help with leak
317 + review test-programs, adding checks for cases where the terminal
318 cannot be initialized.
321 + add option "-xp" to picsmap.c, to use init_extended_pair().
322 + make simple performance fixes for picsmap.c
323 + improve aspect ratio of images read from "convert" in picsmap.c
326 + add option to picsmap to use color-palette files, e.g., for mapping
328 + move the data in SCREEN used for the alloc_pair() function to the
329 end, to restore compatibility between ncurses/ncursesw libtinfo
330 (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
331 + add build-time utility "report_offsets" to help show when the various
332 configurations of tinfo library are compatible or not.
335 + improved test/picsmap.c:
336 + lookup named colors for xpm files in rgb.txt
337 + accept blanks in color-keys for xpm files.
338 + if neither xbm/xpm work, try "convert", which may be available.
341 + modify test/picsmap.c to read xpm files.
342 + modify package/debian/* to create documentation packages, so the
343 related files can be checked with lintian.
344 + fix some typos in manpages (report/patch by Sven Joachim).
347 + add test/picsmap.c to fill in some testing issues not met by dots.
348 The initial version reads X bitmap (".xbm") files.
349 + repair logic which forces a repaint where a color-pair's content is
350 changed (cf: 20170311).
351 + improve tracemunch, showing screenXX pointers as names.
354 + modify tic/infocmp display of numeric values to use hexadecimal when
355 they are "close" to a power of two, making the result more readable.
356 + improve discussion of portability in curs_mouse.3x
357 + change line-length for generated html/manpages to 78 columns from 65.
358 + improve discussion of line-drawing characters in curs_add_wch.3x
359 (prompted by discussion with Lorinczy Zsigmond).
360 + cleanup formatting of hackguide.html and ncurses-intro.html
361 + add examples for WACS_D_PLUS and WACS_T_PLUS to test/ncurses.c
364 + corrected a case where $with_gpm was set to "maybe" after CF_WITH_GPM,
365 overlooked in 20160528 fixes (report by Alexandre Bury).
366 + improve a couple of test-program's help-messages.
367 + corrected loop in rain.c from 20170415 changes.
368 + modify winnstr and winchnstr to return error if the output pointer is
369 null, as well as adding a null pointer check of the window pointer
370 for better compatibility with other implementations.
371 + improve discussion of NetBSD curses in scr_dump.5
372 + modify LIMIT_TYPED macro in new_pair.h to avoid changing sign of the
373 value to be limited (reports by Darby Payne, Rob Boudreau).
374 + update config.guess, config.sub from
375 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
378 + build-fix for termcap-configuration (report by Chi-Hsuan Yen).
379 + improve terminfo manual page discussion of control- and graphics-
381 + remove tic warning about "^?" in string capabilities, which was
382 marked as an extension (cf: 20000610, 20110820); however all Unix
383 implementations support this and X/Open Curses does not address it.
384 On the other hand, termcap never did support this feature.
385 + correct missing comma-separator between string capabilities in
386 icl6402 and m2-nam -TD
387 + restore rmir/smir in ansi+idc to better match original ansiterm+idc,
388 add alias ansiterm (report by Robert King).
389 + amend an old check for ambiguous use of "ma" in terminfo versus
390 a termcap use, if the capability is cancelled to treat it as number.
391 + correct a case in _nc_captoinfo() which read "%%" and emitted "%".
392 + modify sscanf calls in _nc_infotocap() for patterns "%{number}%+%c"
393 and "%'char'%+%c" to check that the final character is really 'c',
394 avoiding a case in icl6404 which cannot be converted to termcap.
395 + in _nc_infotocap(), add a check to ensure that terminfo "^?" is not
396 written to termcap, because the BSDs did not implement that.
397 + in _nc_tic_expand() and _nc_infotocap(), improve string-length check
398 when deciding whether to use "^X" or "\xxx" format for control
399 characters, to make the output of tic/infocmp more predictable.
400 + limit termcap "%d" width to 2 digits on input, and use "%2" in
401 preference to "%02" on output.
402 + correct terminfo/termcap conversion of "%02" and "%03" into "%2" and
403 "%3"; the result repeated the last character.
404 + add man/scr_dump.5 to document screen-dump format.
407 + modify several test programs to use new popup_msgs, adapted from
408 help-screen used in test/edit_field.c
409 + drop two symbols obsoleted in 2004: _nc_check_termtype, and
411 + fix some old copyright dates (cf: 20031025).
412 + build-fixes for test/savescreen.c to work with AIX and HPUX.
413 + minor fix to configure script, adding a backslash/continuation.
414 + extend TERMINAL structure for ABI 6 to store numbers internally as
415 integers rather than short, by adding new data for this purpose.
416 + more fixes for minor memory-leaks in test-programs.
419 + change logic in wins_nwstr() to avoid addressing data past the output
421 + correct a call to setcchar() in Data_Entry_w() from 20131207 changes.
422 + fix minor memory-leaks in test-programs.
423 + further improve ifdef in term_entry.h for internal definitions not
427 + minor fixes for vt100+4bsd, e.g., delay in sgr for consistency -TD
428 + add smso for env230, to match sgr -TD
429 + remove p7/protect from sgr in fbterm -TD
430 + drop setf/setb from fbterm; setaf/setab are enough -TD
431 + make xterm-pcolor sgr consistent with other capabilities -TD
432 + add rmxx/smxx ECMA-48 strikeout extension to tmux and xterm-basic
433 (discussion with Nicholas Marriott)
434 + add test-programs sp_tinfo and extended_color
435 + modify no-leaks code for lib_cur_term.c to account for the tgetent()
437 + modify setupterm() to save original tty-modes so that erasechar()
438 works as expected. Also modify _nc_setupscreen() to avoid redundant
439 calls to get original tty-modes.
440 + modify set_curterm() to update ttytype[] data used by longname().
441 + modify wattr_set() and wattr_get() to return ERR if win-parameter is
443 + improve cast used for null-pointer checks in header macros, to
444 reduce compiler warnings.
445 + modify several functions, using the reserved "opts" parameter to pass
446 color- and pair-values larger than 16-bits:
447 + getcchar(), setcchar(), slk_attr_set(), vid_puts(), wattr_get(),
448 wattr_set(), wchgat(), wcolor_set().
449 + Other functions call these with the corresponding altered behavior,
450 including chgat(), mvchgat(), mvwchgat(), slk_color_on(),
451 slk_color_off(), vid_attr().
452 + add new functions for manipulating color- and pair-values larger
453 than 16-bits. These are extended_color_content(),
454 extended_pair_content(), extended_slk_color(), init_extended_color(),
455 init_extended_pair(), and the corresponding sp-funcs.
458 + fix a memory leak in the window-list when creating multiple screens
459 (reports by Andres Martinelli, Debian #783486).
460 + reviewed calls from link_test.c, added a few more null-pointer
462 + add a null-pointer check in ungetmouse, in case mousemask was not
463 called (report by "Kau").
464 + updated curs_sp_funcs.3x for new functions.
467 + change TERMINAL structure in term.h to make it opaque. Some
468 applications misuse its members, e.g., directly modifying it
469 rather than using def_prog_mode().
470 + modify utility headers such as tic.h to make it clearer which are
471 externals that are used by tack.
472 + improve curs_slk.3x in particular its discussion of portability.
473 + fix cut/paste in legacy_encoding.3x
474 + add prototype for find_pair() to new_pair.3x (report by Branden
476 + fix a couple of broken links in generated man-html documentation.
477 + regenerate man-html documentation.
480 + modify vt100 rs2 string to reset vt52 mode and scrolling regions
481 (report/analysis by Robert King) -TD
482 + add vt100+4bsd building block, use that for older terminals rather
483 than "vt100" which is now mostly used as a building block for
484 terminal emulators -TD
485 + correct a few spelling errors in terminfo.src comments -TD
487 + fix a typo in ncurses.c test_attr legend (patch by Petr Vanek).
488 + changed internal colorpair_t to a struct, eliminating an internal
489 8-bit limit on colors
490 + add ncurses/new_pair.h
491 + add ncurses/base/new_pair.c with alloc_pair(), find_pair() and
492 free_pair() functions
493 + add test/demo_new_pair.c
496 + improve terminfo manual description of terminfo syntax.
497 + clarify the use of wint_t vs wchar_t in curs_get_wstr.3x
498 + improve description of endwin() in manual.
499 + modify setcchar() and getcchar() to treat negative color-pair as an
501 + fix a typo in include/hashed_db.h (Andre Sa).
504 + fixes for CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS (report by Ross Burton).
507 + fix several formatting issues with manual pages.
508 + correct read of terminfo entry in which all strings are absent or
509 explicitly cancelled. Before this fix, the result was that all were
510 treated as only absent.
511 + modify infocmp to suppress mixture of absent/cancelled capabilities
512 that would only show as "NULL, NULL", unless the -q option is used,
513 e.g., to show "-, @" or "@, -".
516 + build-fixes for PGI compilers (report by Adam J. Stewart)
517 + accept whitespace in sed expression for generating expanded.c
518 + modify configure check that g++ compiler warnings are not used.
519 + add configure check for -fPIC option needed for shared libraries.
520 + let configure --disable-ext-funcs override the default for the
521 --enable-sp-funcs option.
522 + mark some structs in form/menu/panel libraries as potentially opaque
523 without modifying API/ABI.
524 + add configure option --enable-opaque-curses for ncurses library and
525 similar options for the other libraries.
528 + trim newlines, tabs and escaped newlines from terminfo "paths" passed
530 + ignore zero-length files in db-iterator; these are useful for
531 instance to suppress "$HOME/.terminfo" when not wanted.
532 + amended "b64:" encoder to work with the terminfo reader.
533 + modify terminfo reader to accept "b64:" format using RFC-3548 in
534 as well as RFC-4648 url/filename-safe format.
535 + modify terminfo reader to accept "hex:" format as generated by
536 "infocmp -0qQ1" (cf: 20150905).
537 + adjust authors comment to reflect drop below 1% for SV.
540 + minor comment-fixes to help automate links to bug-urls -TD
541 + add dvtm, dvtm-256color -TD
542 + add settings corresponding to xterm-keys option to tmux entry to
543 reflect upcoming change to make that option "on" by default
544 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
545 + uncancel Ms in tmux entry (Harry Gindi, Nicholas Marriott).
546 + add dumb-emacs-ansi -TD
549 + improve discussion of early history of tput program.
550 + incorporate A_COLOR mask into COLOR_PAIR(), in case user application
551 provides an out-of-range pair number (report by Elijah Stone).
552 + clarify description in tput manual page regarding support for
553 termcap names (prompted by FreeBSD #214709).
554 + remove a restriction in tput's support for termcap names which
555 omitted capabilities normally not shown in termcap translations
557 + modify configure script for clang as used on FreeBSD, to work around
558 clang's differences in exit codes vs gcc.
561 + improve discussion of early history of tset/reset programs.
562 + clarify in manual pages that the optional verbose option level is
563 available only when ncurses is configured for tracing.
564 + amend change from 20161231 to avoid writing traces to the standard
565 error after initializing the trace feature using the environment
569 + amend changes for tput to reset tty modes to "sane" if the program
570 is run as "reset", like tset. Likewise, ensure that tset sends
571 either reset- or init-strings.
572 + improve manual page descriptions of tput init/reset and tset/reset,
573 to make it easier to see how they are similar and different.
574 + move a static result from key_name() to _nc_globals
575 + modify _nc_get_screensize to allow for use_env() and use_tioctl()
576 state to be per-screen when sp-funcs are configured, better matching
577 the behavior when using the term-driver configuration.
578 + improve cross-references in manual pages for often used functions
579 + move SCREEN field for use_tioctl() data before the ncursesw fields,
580 and limit that to the sp-funcs configuration to improve termlib
581 compatibility (cf: 20120714).
582 + correct order of initialization for traces in use_env() and
583 use_tioctl() versus first trace calls.
586 + fix errata for ncurses-howto (report by Damien Ruscoe).
587 + fix a few places in configure/build scripts where DESTDIR and rpath
588 were combined (report by Thomas Klausner).
589 + merge current st description (report by Harry Gindi) -TD
590 + modify flash capability for linux and wyse entries to put the delay
591 between the reverse/normal escapes rather than after -TD
592 + modify program tabs to pass the actual tty file descriptor to
593 setupterm rather than the standard output, making padding work
595 + explain in clear's manual page that it writes to stdout.
596 + add special case for verbose debugging traces of command-line
597 utilities which write to stderr (cf: 20161126).
598 + remove a trace with literal escapes from skip_DECSCNM(), added in
600 + update config.guess, config.sub from
601 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
604 + correct parmeters for copywin call in _nc_Synchronize_Attributes()
605 (patch by Leon Winter).
606 + improve color-handling section in terminfo manual page (prompted by
607 patch by Mihail Konev).
608 + modify programs clear, tput and tset to pass the actual tty file
609 descriptor to setupterm rather than the standard output, making
613 + add tput-colorcube demo script.
614 + add -r and -s options to tput-initc demo, to match usage in xterm.
615 + flush the standard output in _nc_flush for the case where SP is zero,
616 e.g., when called via putp. This fixes a scenario where "tput flash"
617 did not work after changes in 20130112.
620 + add configure script option --disable-wattr-macros for use in cases
621 where one wants to use the same headers for ncurses5/ncurses6
622 development, by suppressing the wattr* macros which differ due to
623 the introduction of extended colors (prompted by comments in
624 Debian #230990, Redhat #1270534).
625 + add test/tput-initc to demonstrate tput used to initialize palette
627 + modify test/xterm*.dat to use the newer color4/color12 values.
630 + improve discussion of field validation in form_driver.3x manual page.
631 + update curs_trace.3x manual page.
634 + modify linux-16color to not mask dim, standout or reverse with the
636 + add 0.1sec mandatory delay to flash capabilities using the VT100
637 reverse-video control -TD
638 + omit selection of ISO-8859-1 for G0 in enacs capability from linux2.6
639 entry, to avoid conflict with the user-defined mapping. The reset
640 feature will use ISO-8859-1 in any case (Mikulas Patocka).
641 + improve check in tic for delays by also warning about beep/flash
642 when a delay is not embedded, or if those use the VT100 reverse
643 video escape without using a delay.
644 + minor fix for syntax-check of delays from 20161119 changes.
645 + modify trace() to avoid overwriting existing file (report by Maor
649 + add check in tic for some syntax errors of delays, as well as use of
650 proportional delays for non-line capabilities.
651 + document history of the clear program and the E3 extension, prompted
652 by various discussions including
653 http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/87469/clearing-the-old-scrollback-buffer
656 + improve -W option in tic/infocmp:
657 + correct order of size-adjustments in wrapped lines
658 + if -f option splits line, do not further split it with -W
659 + begin a new line when adding "use=" after a wrapped line
662 + fix typo in man/terminfo.tail (Alain Williams).
663 + correct program-name in adacurses6-config.1 manual page.
666 + add new function "unfocus_current_field" (Leon Winter)
669 + modify tset -w (and tput reset) to update the program's copy of the
670 screensize if it was already set in the system, to improve tabstop
671 setting which relies upon knowing the actual screensize.
672 + add functionality of tset -w to tput, like the "-c" feature this is
673 not optional in tput.
674 + add "clear" as a possible link/alias to tput.
675 + improve tput's check for being called as "init" or "reset" to allow
676 for transformed names.
677 + split-out the "clear" function from progs/clear.c, share with
678 tput to get the same behavior, e.g., the E3 extension.
681 + amend internal use of tputs to consistently use the number of lines
682 affected, e.g., for insert/delete character operations. While
683 merging terminfo source early in 1995, several descriptions used the
684 "*" proportional delay for these operations, prompting a change in
686 + regenerate llib-* files.
687 + regenerate HTML manpages.
688 + fix several formatting issues with manual pages.
691 + adjust size in infocmp/tic to work with strlcpy.
692 + fix configure script to record when strlcat is found on OpenBSD.
693 + build-fix for "recent" OpenBSD vs baudrate.
696 + add -W option to tic/infocmp to force long strings to wrap. This is
697 in addition to the -w option which attempts to fit capabilities into
699 + add linux-m1 minitel entries (patch by Alexandre Montaron).
700 + correct rs2 string for vt100-nam -TD
703 + modify _nc_tic_expand to escape comma if it immediately follows a
704 percent sign, to work with minitel change.
705 + updated minitel and viewdata descriptions (Alexandre Montaron).
708 + build-fix for gnat6, which unhelpfully attempts to compile C files.
709 + fix typo in 20160910 changes (Debian #837892, patch by Sven Joachim).
712 + trim dead code ifdef'd with HIDE_EINTR since 970830 (discussion with
714 + trim some obsolete/incorrect wording about EINTR from wgetch manual
715 page (patch by Leon Winter).
716 + really correct 20100515 change (patch by Rich Coe).
717 + add "--enable-string-hacks" option to test/configure
718 + completed string-hacks for "sprintf", etc., including test-programs.
719 + make "--enable-string-hacks" work with Debian by checking for the
720 "bsd" library and its associated "<bsd/string.h>" header.
723 + correct 20100515 change for weak signals versus sigprocmask (report
725 + modify misc/Makefile.in to work around OpenBSD "make" which unlike
726 all other versions of "make" does not recognize continuation lines
728 + amend the last change to CF_C_ENV_FLAGS to move only the
729 preprocessor, optimization and warning flags to CPPFLAGS and CFLAGS,
730 leaving the residue in CC. That happens to work for gcc's various
731 "model" options, but may require tuning for other compilers (report
735 + add "v" menu entry to test/ncurses.c to show baudrate and other
737 + add "newer" baudrate symbols from Linux and FreeBSD to progs/tset.c,
739 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro:
740 + add "uclinux" to case for "linux" (patch by Yann E. Morin)
741 + modify _GNU_SOURCE for cygwin headers, tested with cygwin 2.3, 2.5
742 (patch by Corinna Vinschen, from changes to tin).
743 + improve CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS macro to allow for compiler wrappers such
744 as "ccache" (report by Enrico Scholz).
745 + update config.guess, config.sub from
746 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
749 + update tput manual page to reflect changes to manipulate terminal
750 modes by sharing functions with tset.
751 + add the terminal-mode parts of "reset" (aka tset) to the "tput reset"
752 command, making the two almost the same except for window-size.
753 + adapt logic used in dialog "--keep-tite" option for test/filter.c as
754 "-a" option. When set, test/filter attempts to suppress the
756 + correct a typo in interix entry -TD
759 + add a dependency upon generated-sources in Ada95/src/Makefile.in to
760 handle a case of "configure && make install".
761 + trim trailing blanks from include/Caps*, to work around a problem
762 in sed (Debian #818067).
765 + improve CF_GNU_SOURCE configure macro to optionally define
766 _DEFAULT_SOURCE work around a nuisance in recent glibc releases.
767 + move the terminfo-specific parts of tput's "reset" function into
768 the shared reset_cmd.c, making the two forms of reset use the same
770 + split-out the terminal initialization functions from tset as
771 progs/reset_cmd.c, as part of changes to merge the reset-feature
775 + change tset's initialization to allow it to get settings from the
776 standard input as well as /dev/tty, to be more effective when
777 output or error are redirected.
778 + improve discussion of history and portability for tset/reset/tput
782 + improve error message from tset/reset when both stderr/stdout are
783 redirected to a file or pipe.
784 + improve organization of curs_attr.3x, curs_color.3x
787 + work around Debian's antique/unmaintained version of mawk when
789 + improve test/list_keys.c, showing ncurses's convention of modifiers
790 for special keys, based on xterm.
793 + improve test/list_keys.c, using $TERM if no parameters areg given.
796 + build-fixes for ncurses "test_progs" rule.
797 + amend change to CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS in 20160521 to make multilib build
798 work (report by Sven Joachim).
801 + build-fixes for ncurses-examples with NetBSD curses.
802 + improve test/list_keys.c, fixing column-widths and sorting the list
803 to make it more readable.
806 + revise fix for Debian #805618 (report by Vlado Potisk, cf: 20151128).
807 + modify test/ncurses.c a/A screens to make exiting on an escape
808 character depend on the start of keypad and timeout modes, to allow
809 better testing of function-keys.
810 + modify rs1 for xterm-16color, xterm-88color and xterm-256color to
811 reset palette using "oc" string as in linux -TD
812 + use ANSI reply for u8 in xterm-new, to reflect vt220-style responses
813 that could be returned -TD
814 + added a few capabilities fixed in recent vte -TD
817 + correct logic for -f option in test/demo_terminfo.c
818 + add test/list_keys.c
821 + further workaround for PIE/PIC breakage which causes gpm to not link.
822 + fix most cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses library.
825 + improved manual page description of tset/reset versus window-size.
826 + fixes to work with a slightly broken compiler configuration which
827 cannot compile "Hello World!" without adding compiler options
828 (report by Ola x Nilsson):
829 + pass appropriate compiler options to the CF_PROG_CC_C_O macro.
830 + when separating compiler and options in CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS, ensure
831 that all options are split-off into CFLAGS or CPPFLAGS
832 + restore some -I options removed in 20140726 because they appeared
833 to be redundant. In fact, they are needed for a compiler that
834 cannot combine -c and -o options.
837 + regenerate HTML manpages.
838 + improve manual pages for wgetch and wget_wch to point out that they
839 might return values without names in curses.h (Debian #822426).
840 + make linux3.0 entry the default linux entry (Debian #823658) -TD
841 + modify linux2.6 entry to improve line-drawing so that the linux3.0
842 entry can be used in non-UTF-8 mode -TD
843 + document return value of use_extended_names (report by Mike Gran).
846 + amend change to _nc_do_color to restore the early return for the
847 special case used in _nc_screen_wrap (report by Dick Streefland,
849 + modify test/ncurses.c:
850 + check return-value of putwin
851 + correct ifdef which made the 'g' test's legend not reflect changes
852 to keypad- and scroll-modes.
853 + correct return-value of extended putwin (report by Mike Gran).
856 + modify test/ncurses.c 'd' edit-color menu to optionally read xterm
857 color palette directly from terminal, as well as handling KEY_RESIZE
858 and screen-repainting with control/L and control/R.
859 + add 'oc' capability to xterm+256color, allowing palette reset for
863 + add workaround in configure script for inept transition to PIE vs
864 PIC builds documented in
865 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Harden_All_Packages
866 + add "reset" to list of programs whose names might change in manpages
867 due to program-transformation configure options.
868 + drop long-obsolete "-n" option from tset.
871 + modify test/blue.c to use Unicode values for card-glyphs when
872 available, as well as improving the check for CP437 and CP850.
875 + regenerate HTML manpages.
876 + improve manual pages for utilities with respect to POSIX versus
880 + regenerate HTML manpages.
881 + improve test/demo_menus.c, allowing mouse-click on the menu-headers
882 to switch the active menu. This requires a new extension option
883 O_MOUSE_MENU to tell the menu driver to put mouse events which do not
884 apply to the active menu back into the queue so that the application
885 can handle the event.
888 + improve description of tgoto parameters (report by Steffen Nurpmeso).
889 + amend workaround for Solaris line-drawing to restore a special case
890 that maps Unicode line-drawing characters into the acsc string for
891 non-Unicode locales (Debian #816888).
894 + modified test/filter.c to illustrate an alternative to getnstr, that
895 polls for input while updating a clock on the right margin as well
896 as responding to window size-changes.
899 + omit a redefinition of "inline" when traces are enabled, since this
900 does not work with gcc 5.3.x MinGW cross-compiling (cf: 20150912).
903 + modify test/configure script to check for pthread dependency of
904 ncursest or ncursestw library when building ncurses examples, e.g.,
905 in case weak symbols are used.
906 + modify configure macro for shared-library rules to use -Wl,-rpath
907 rather than -rpath to work around a bug in scons (FreeBSD #178732,
909 + double-width multibyte characters were not counted properly in
910 winsnstr and wins_nwstr (report/example by Eric Pruitt).
911 + update config.guess, config.sub from
912 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
915 + amend fix for _nc_ripoffline from 20091031 to make test/ditto.c work
916 in threaded configuration.
917 + move _nc_tracebits, _tracedump and _tracemouse to curses.priv.h,
918 since they are not part of the suggested ABI6.
921 + define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN for MinGW port, making builds faster.
922 + modify test/ditto.c to allow $XTERM_PROG environment variable to
923 override "xterm" as the name of the program to run in the threaded
927 + improve formatting of man/curs_refresh.3x and man/tset.1 manpages
928 + regenerate HTML manpages using newer man2html to eliminate some
929 unwanted blank lines.
932 + ifdef'd header-file definition of mouse_trafo() with NCURSES_NOMACROS
933 (report by Corey Minyard).
934 + fix some strict compiler-warnings in traces.
937 + tidy up comments about hardcoded 256color palette (report by
938 Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD
939 + add putty-noapp entry, and amend putty entry to use application mode
940 for better consistency with xterm (report by Leonardo Brondani
942 + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to trace wide-characters
943 as a whole rather than their multibyte equivalents.
944 + minor fix in wadd_wchnstr() to ensure that each cell has nonzero
946 + move PUTC_INIT calls next to wcrtomb calls, to avoid carry-over of
947 error status when processing Unicode values which are not mapped.
950 + modify ncurses c/C color test-screens to take advantage of wide
951 screens, reducing the number of lines used for 88- and 256-colors.
952 + minor refinement to check versus ncv to ignore two parameters of
953 SGR 38 and 48 when those come from color-capabilities.
956 + add check in tic for use of bold, etc., video attributes in the
957 color capabilities, accounting whether the feature is listed in ncv.
958 + add check in tic for conflict between ritm, rmso, rmul versus sgr0.
961 + add a paragraph to curs_getch.3x discussing key naming (discussion
963 + amend workaround for Solaris vs line-drawing to take the configure
965 + add a configure check for wcwidth() versus the ncurses line-drawing
966 characters, to use in special-casing systems such as Solaris.
969 + improve CF_XOPEN_CURSES macro used in test/configure, to define as
970 needed NCURSES_WIDECHAR for platforms where _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
971 does not work. Also modified the test program to ensure that if
972 building with ncurses, that the cchar_t type is checked, since that
973 normally is since 20111030 ifdef'd depending on this test.
974 + improve 20121222 workaround for broken acs, letting Solaris "work"
975 in spite of its misconfigured wcwidth which marks all of the line
976 drawing characters as double-width.
979 + update form_cursor.3x, form_post.3x, menu_attributes.3x to list
980 function names in NAME section (patch by Jason McIntyre).
981 + minor fixes to manpage NAME/SYNOPSIS sections to consistently use
982 rule that either all functions which are prototyped in SYNOPSIS are
983 listed in the NAME section, or the manual-page name is the sole item
984 listed in the NAME section. The latter is used to reduce clutter,
985 e.g., for the top-level library manual pages as well as for certain
986 feature-pages such as SP-funcs and threading (prompted by patches by
990 + add option to preserve leading whitespace in form fields (patch by
992 + add missing assignment in lib_getch.c to make notimeout() work
994 + add 't' toggle for notimeout() function in test/ncurses.c a/A screens
995 + add viewdata terminal description (Alexandre Montaron).
996 + fix a case in tic/infocmp for formatting capabilities where a
997 backslash at the end of a string was mishandled.
998 + fix some typos in curs_inopts.3x (Benno Schulenberg).
1001 + fix some inconsistencies in the pccon* entries -TD
1002 + add bold to pccon+sgr+acs and pccon-base (Tati Chevron).
1003 + add keys f12-f124 to pccon+keys (Tati Chevron).
1004 + add test/test_sgr.c program to exercise all combinations of sgr.
1007 + modify tset's assignment to TERM in its output to reflect the name by
1008 which the terminal description is found, rather than the primary
1009 name. That was an unnecessary part from the initial conversion of
1010 tset from termcap to terminfo. The termcap program in 4.3BSD did
1011 this to avoid using the short 2-character name (report by Rich
1013 + minor fix to configure script to ensure that rules for resulting.map
1014 are only generated when needed (cf: 20151101).
1015 + modify configure script to handle the case where tic-library is
1016 renamed, but the --with-debug option is used by itself without
1017 normal or shared libraries (prompted by comment in Debian #803482).
1020 + amend change for pkg-config which allows build of pc-files when no
1021 valid pkg-config library directory was configured to suppress the
1022 actual install if it is not overridden to a valid directory at
1023 install time (cf: 20150822).
1024 + modify editing script which generates resulting.map to work with the
1025 clang configuration on recent FreeBSD, which gives an error on an
1026 empty "local" section.
1027 + fix a spurious "(Part)" message in test/ncurses.c b/B tests due
1028 to incorrect attribute-masking.
1031 + modify MKexpanded.c to update the expansion of a temporary filename
1032 to "expanded.c", for use in trace statements.
1033 + modify layout of b/B tests in test/ncurses.c to allow for additional
1034 annotation on the right margin; some terminals with partial support
1035 did not display well.
1036 + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim).
1037 + fix typo in INSTALL (patch by Tomas Cech).
1038 + improve configure check for setting WILDCARD_SYMS variable; on ppc64
1039 the variable is in the Data section rather than Text (patch by Michel
1040 Normand, Novell #946048).
1041 + using configure option "--without-fallbacks" incorrectly caused
1042 FALLBACK_LIST to be set to "no" (patch by Tomas Cech).
1043 + updated minitel entries to fix kel problem with emacs, and add
1044 minitel1b-nb (Alexandre Montaron).
1045 + reviewed/updated nsterm entry Terminal.app in OSX -TD
1046 + replace some dead URLs in comments with equivalents from the
1047 Internet Archive -TD
1048 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1049 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1052 + modify ncurses/Makefile.in to sort keys.list in POSIX locale
1053 (Debian #801864, patch by Esa Peuha).
1054 + remove an early-return from _nc_do_color, which can interfere with
1055 data needed by bkgd when ncurses is configured with extended colors
1056 (patch by Denis Tikhomirov).
1057 > fixes for OS/2 (patches by KO Myung-Hun)
1058 + use button instead of kbuf[0] in EMX-specific part of lib_mouse.c
1059 + support building with libtool on OS/2
1060 + use stdc++ on OS/2 kLIBC
1061 + clear cf_XOPEN_SOURCE on OS/2
1064 + add configure check for openpty to test/configure script, for ditto.
1065 + minor fixes to test/view.c in investigating Debian #790847.
1066 + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20150926, incorporates a fix for Cdk.
1067 + add workaround for breakage of POSIX makefiles by recent binutils
1069 + improve check for working poll() by using posix_openpt() as a
1070 fallback in case there is no valid terminal on the standard input
1071 (prompted by discussion on bug-ncurses mailing list, Debian #676461).
1074 + change makefile rule for removing resulting.map to distclean rather
1076 + add /lib/terminfo to terminfo-dirs in ".deb" test-package.
1077 + add note on portability of resizeterm and wresize to manual pages.
1080 + clarify in resizeterm.3x how KEY_RESIZE is pushed onto the input
1082 + clarify in curs_getch.3x that the keypad mode affects ability to
1083 read KEY_MOUSE codes, but does not affect KEY_RESIZE.
1084 + add overlooked build-fix needed with Cygwin for separate Ada95
1085 configure script, cf: 20150606 (report by Nicolas Boulenguez)
1088 + fixes for configure/build using clang on OSX (prompted by report by
1090 + do not redefine "inline" in ncurses_cfg.h; this was originally to
1091 solve a problem with gcc/g++, but is aggravated by clang's misuse
1092 of symbols to pretend it is gcc.
1093 + add braces to configure script to prevent unwanted add of
1094 "-lstdc++" to the CXXLIBS symbol.
1095 + improve/update test-program used for checking existence of stdc++
1097 + if $CXXLIBS is set, the linkage test uses that in addition to $LIBS
1100 + add note in curs_addch.3x about line-drawing when it depends upon
1102 + add tic -q option for consistency with infocmp, use it to suppress
1103 all comments from the "tic -I" output.
1104 + modify infocmp -q option to suppress the "Reconstructed from"
1106 + add infocmp/tic -Q option, which allows one to dump the compiled
1107 form of the terminal entry, in hexadecimal or base64.
1110 + sort options in usage message for infocmp, to make it simpler to
1112 + update usage message for tic, adding "-0" option.
1113 + documented differences in ESCDELAY versus AIX's implementation.
1114 + fix some compiler warnings from ports.
1115 + modify --with-pkg-config-libdir option to make it possible to install
1116 ".pc" files even if pkg-config is not found (adapted from patch by
1120 + disallow "no" as a possible value for "--with-shlib-version" option,
1121 overlooked in cleanup-changes for 20000708 (report by Tommy Alex).
1122 + update release notes in INSTALL.
1123 + regenerate llib-* files to help with review for release notes.
1126 + workaround for Debian #65617, which was fixed in mawk's upstream
1127 releases in 2009 (report by Sven Joachim). See
1128 http://invisible-island.net/mawk/CHANGES.html#t20090727
1130 20150808 6.0 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1133 + build-fix for Ada95 on older platforms without stdint.h
1134 + build-fix for Solaris, whose /bin/sh and /usr/bin/sed are non-POSIX.
1135 + update release announcement, summarizing more than 800 changes across
1136 more than 200 snapshots.
1137 + minor fixes to manpages, etc., to simplify linking from announcement
1141 + updated llib-* files.
1142 + build-fixes for ncurses library "test_progs" rule.
1143 + use alternate workaround for gcc 5.x feature (adapted from patch by
1145 + add status line to tmux via xterm+sl (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
1146 + fixes for st 0.5 from testing with tack -TD
1147 + review/improve several manual pages to break up wall-of-text:
1148 curs_add_wch.3x, curs_attr.3x, curs_bkgd.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x,
1149 curs_getcchar.3x, curs_getch.3x, curs_kernel.3x, curs_mouse.3x,
1150 curs_outopts.3x, curs_overlay.3x, curs_pad.3x, curs_termattrs.3x
1151 curs_trace.3x, and curs_window.3x
1154 + correct an old logic error for %A and %O in tparm (report by "zreed").
1155 + improve documentation for signal handlers by adding section in the
1156 curs_initscr.3x page.
1157 + modify logic in make_keys.c to not assume anything about the size
1158 of strnames and strfnames variables, since those may be functions
1159 in the thread- or broken-linker configurations (problem found by
1161 + modify test/configure script to check for pthreads configuration,
1162 e.g., ncursestw library.
1165 + modify scripts to build/use test-packages for the pthreads
1166 configuration of ncurses6.
1167 + add references to ttytype and termcap symbols in demo_terminfo.c and
1168 demo_termcap.c to ensure that when building ncursest.map, etc., that
1169 the corresponding names such as _nc_ttytype are added to the list of
1170 versioned symbols (report by Werner Fink)
1171 + fix regression from 20150704 (report/patch by Werner Fink).
1174 + fix a few problems reported by Coverity.
1175 + fix comparison against "/usr/include" in misc/gen-pkgconfig.in
1176 (report by Daiki Ueno, Debian #790548, cf: 20141213).
1179 + modify configure script to remove deprecated ABI 5 symbols when
1181 + add symbols _nc_Default_Field, _nc_Default_Form, _nc_has_mouse to
1182 map-files, but marked as deprecated so that they can easily be
1183 suppressed from ABI 6 builds (Debian #788610).
1184 + comment-out "screen.xterm" entry, and inherit screen.xterm-256color
1185 from xterm-new (report by Richard Birkett) -TD
1186 + modify read_entry.c to set the error-return to -1 if no terminal
1187 databases were found, as documented for setupterm.
1188 + add test_setupterm.c to demonstrate normal/error returns from the
1189 setupterm and restartterm functions.
1190 + amend cleanup change from 20110813 which removed redundant definition
1191 of ret_error, etc., from tinfo_driver.c, to account for the fact that
1192 it should return a bool rather than int (report/analysis by Johannes
1196 + fix overflow warning for OSX with lib_baudrate.c (cf: 20010630).
1197 + modify script used to generate map/sym files to mark 5.9.20150530 as
1198 the last "5.9" version, and regenerated the files. That makes the
1199 files not use ".current" for the post-5.9 symbols. This also
1200 corrects the label for _nc_sigprocmask used in when weak symbols are
1201 configured for the ncursest/ncursestw libraries (prompted by
1202 discussion with Sven Joachim).
1203 + fix typo in NEWS (report by Sven Joachim).
1205 20150606 pre-release
1206 + make ABI 6 the default by updates to dist.mk and VERSION, with the
1207 intention that the existing ABI 5 should build as before using the
1208 "--with-abi-version=5" option.
1209 + regenerate ada- and man-html documentation.
1210 + minor fixes to color- and util-manpages.
1211 + fix a regression in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, to handle special case of
1212 Cygwin, which uses the broken-linker feature.
1213 + amend fix for CF_NCURSES_CONFIG used in test/configure to assume that
1214 ncurses package scripts work when present for cross-compiling, as the
1215 lessor of two evils (cf: 20150530).
1216 + add check in configure script to disallow conflicting options
1217 "--with-termlib" and "--enable-term-driver".
1218 + move defaults for "--disable-lp64" and "--with-versioned-syms" into
1219 CF_ABI_DEFAULTS macro.
1222 + change private type for Event_Mask in Ada95 binding to work when
1223 mmask_t is set to 32-bits.
1224 + remove spurious "%;" from st entry (report by Daniel Pitts) -TD
1225 + add vte-2014, update vte to use that -TD
1226 + modify tic and infocmp to "move" a diagnostic for tparm strings that
1227 have a syntax error to tic's "-c" option (report by Daniel Pitts).
1228 + fix two problems with configure script macros (Debian #786436,
1229 cf: 20150425, cf: 20100529).
1232 + add 'P' menu item to test/ncurses.c, to show pad in color.
1233 + improve discussion in curs_color.3x about color rendering (prompted
1234 by comment on Stack Overflow forum):
1235 + remove screen-bce.mlterm, since mlterm does not do "bce" -TD
1236 + add several screen.XXX entries to support the respective variations
1238 + add putty+fnkeys* building-block entries -TD
1239 + add smkx/rmkx to capabilities analyzed with infocmp "-i" option.
1242 + amend change to ".pc" files to only use the extra loader flags which
1243 may have rpath options (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20150502).
1244 + change versioning for dpkg's in test-packages for Ada95 and
1245 ncurses-examples for consistency with Debian, to work with package
1247 + regenerate html manpages.
1248 + clarify handling of carriage return in waddch manual page; it was
1249 discussed only in the portability section (prompted by comment on
1250 Stack Overflow forum):
1253 + add test-packages for cross-compiling ncurses-examples using the
1254 MinGW test-packages. These are only the Debian packages; RPM later.
1255 + cleanup format of debian/copyright files
1256 + add pc-files to the MinGW cross-compiling test-packages.
1257 + correct a couple of places in gen-pkgconfig.in to handle renaming of
1261 + modify the configure script to allow different default values
1262 for ABI 5 versus ABI 6.
1263 + add wgetch-events to test-packages.
1264 + add a note on how to build ncurses-examples to test/README.
1265 + fix a memory leak in delscreen (report by Daniel Kahn Gillmor,
1267 + remove unnecessary ';' from E3 capabilities -TD
1268 + add tmux entry, derived from screen (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
1269 + split-out recent change to nsterm-bce as nsterm-build326, and add
1270 nsterm-build342 to reflect changes with successive releases of OSX
1271 (discussion with Leonardo B Schenkel)
1272 + add xon, ich1, il1 to ibm3161 (patch by Stephen Powell, Debian
1274 + add sample "magic" file, to document ext-putwin.
1275 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to add explicit -ltinfo, etc., to the
1276 generated ".pc" file when ld option "--as-needed" is used, or when
1277 ncurses and tinfo are installed without using rpath (prompted by
1278 discussion with Sylvain Bertrand).
1279 + modify test-package for ncurses6 to omit rpath feature when installed
1281 + add OSX's "*.dSYM" to clean-rules in makefiles.
1282 + make extra-suffix work for OSX configuration, e.g., for shared
1284 + modify Ada95/configure script to work with pkg-config
1285 + move test-package for ncurses6 to /usr, since filename-conflicts have
1287 + corrected build rules for Ada95/gen/generate; it does not depend on
1288 the ncurses library aside from headers.
1289 + reviewed man pages, fixed a few other spelling errors.
1290 + fix a typo in curs_util.3x (Sven Joachim).
1291 + use extra-suffix in some overlooked shared library dependencies
1292 found by 20150425 changes for test-packages.
1293 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1294 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1297 + expanded description of tgetstr's area pointer in manual page
1298 (report by Todd M Lewis).
1299 + in-progress changes to modify test-packages to use ncursesw6 rather
1300 than ncursesw, with updated configure scripts.
1301 + modify CF_NCURSES_CONFIG in Ada95- and test-configure scripts to
1302 check for ".pc" files via pkg-config, but add a linkage check since
1303 frequently pkg-config configurations are broken.
1304 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to include EXTRA_LDFLAGS, e.g., for the
1306 + add 'dim' capability to screen entry (report by Leonardo B Schenkel)
1307 + add several key definitions to nsterm-bce to match preconfigured
1308 keys, e.g., with OSX 10.9 and 10.10 (report by Leonardo B Schenkel)
1309 + fix repeated "extra-suffix" in ncurses-config.in (cf: 20150418).
1310 + improve term_variables manual page, adding section on the terminfo
1311 long-name symbols which are defined in the term.h header.
1312 + fix bug in lib_tracebits.c introduced in const-fixes (cf: 20150404).
1315 + avoid a blank line in output from tabs program by ending it with
1316 a carriage return as done in FreeBSD (patch by James Clarke).
1317 + build-fix for the "--enable-ext-putwin" feature when not using
1318 wide characters (report by Werner Fink).
1319 + modify autoconf macros to use scripting improvement from xterm.
1320 + add -brtl option to compiler options on AIX 5-7, needed to link
1321 with the shared libraries.
1322 + add --with-extra-suffix option to help with installing nonconflicting
1323 ncurses6 packages, e.g., avoiding header- and library-conflicts.
1324 NOTE: as a side-effect, this renames
1325 adacurses-config to adacurses5-config and
1326 adacursesw-config to adacursesw5-config
1327 + modify debian/rules test package to suffix programs with "6".
1328 + clarify in curs_inopts.3x that window-specific settings do not
1329 inherit into new windows.
1332 + improve description of start_color() in the manual.
1333 + modify several files in ncurses- and progs-directories to allow
1334 const data used in internal tables to be put by the linker into the
1335 readonly text segment.
1338 + correct cut/paste error for "--enable-ext-putwin" that made it the
1339 same as "--enable-ext-colors" (report by Roumen Petrov)
1342 + add "-f" option to test/savescreen.c to help with testing/debugging
1343 the extended putwin/getwin.
1344 + add logic for writing/reading combining characters in the extended
1346 + add "--enable-ext-putwin" configure option to turn on the extended
1350 + in-progress changes to provide an extended version of putwin and
1351 getwin which will be capable of reading screen-dumps between the
1352 wide/normal ncurses configurations. These are text files, except
1353 for a magic code at the beginning:
1354 0 string \210\210 Screen-dump (ncurses)
1357 + document limitations of getwin in manual page (prompted by discussion
1359 + extend test/savescreen.c to demonstrate that color pair values
1360 and graphic characters can be restored using getwin.
1363 + modify win_driver.c to eliminate the constructor, to make it more
1364 usable in an application which may/may not need the console window
1365 (report by Grady Martin).
1368 + capture define's related to -D_XOPEN_SOURCE from the configure check
1369 and add those to the *-config and *.pc files, to simplify use for
1370 the wide-character libraries.
1371 + modify ncurses.spec to accommodate Fedora21's location of pkg-config
1373 + correct sense of "--disable-lib-suffixes" configure option (report
1374 by Nicolas Boos, cf: 20140426).
1377 + regenerate html manpages using improved man2html from work on xterm.
1378 + regenerated ".map" and ".sym" files using improved script, accounting
1379 for the "--enable-weak-symbols" configure option (report by Werner
1383 + regenerated ".map" and ".sym" files using improved script, showing
1384 the combinations of configure options used at each stage.
1387 + add configure check to determine if "local: _*;" can be used in the
1388 ".map" files to selectively omit symbols beginning with "_". On at
1389 least recent FreeBSD, the wildcard applies to all "_" symbols.
1390 + remove obsolete/conflicting rule for ncurses.map from
1391 ncurses/Makefile.in (cf: 20130706).
1394 + improve description in INSTALL of the --with-versioned-syms option.
1395 + add combination of --with-hashed-db and --with-ticlib to
1396 configurations for ".map" files (report by Werner Fink).
1399 + add a step to generating ".map" files, to declare any remaining
1400 symbols beginning with "_" as local, at the last version node.
1401 + improve configure checks for pkg-config, addressing a variant found
1403 + modify win_driver.c to provide characters for special keys, like
1404 ansi.sys, when keypad mode is off, rather than returning nothing at
1405 all (discussion with Eli Zaretskii).
1406 + add "broken_linker" and "hashed-db" configure options to combinations
1407 use for generating the ".map" and ".sym" files.
1408 + avoid using "ld" directly when creating shared library, to simplify
1409 cross-compiles. Also drop "-Bsharable" option from shared-library
1410 rules for FreeBSD and DragonFly (FreeBSD #196592).
1411 + fix a memory leak in form library Free_RegularExpression_Type()
1412 (report by Pavel Balaev).
1415 + modify_nc_flush() to retry if interrupted (patch by Stian Skjelstad).
1416 + change map files to make _nc_freeall a global, since it may be used
1417 via the Ada95 binding when checking for memory leaks.
1418 + improve sed script used in 20141220 to account for wide-, threaded-
1419 variations in ABI 6.
1422 + regenerate ".map" files, using step overlooked in 20141213 to use
1423 the same patch-dates across each file to match ncurses.map (report by
1427 + fix an incorrect variable assignment in 20141220 changes (report by
1431 + updated Ada95/configure with macro changes from 20141213
1432 + tie configure options --with-abi-version and --with-versioned-syms
1433 together, so that ABI 6 libraries have distinct symbol versions from
1434 the ABI 5 libraries.
1435 + replace obsolete/nonworking link to man2html with current one,
1436 regenerate html-manpages.
1439 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to add -I option for include-directory
1440 when using both --prefix and --disable-overwrite (report by Misty
1442 + add configure option --with-pc-suffix to allow minor renaming of
1443 ".pc" files and the corresponding library. Use this in the test
1444 package for ncurses6.
1445 + modify configure script so that if pkg-config is not installed, it
1446 is still possible to install ".pc" files (report by Misty De Meo).
1447 + updated ".sym" files, removing symbols which are marked as "local"
1448 in the corresponding ".map" files.
1449 + updated ".map" files to reflect move of comp_captab and comp_hash
1450 from tic-library to tinfo-library in 20090711 (report by Sven
1454 + updated ".map" files so that each symbol that may be shared across
1455 the different library configurations has the same label. Some
1456 review is needed to ensure these are really compatible.
1457 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to work around change in development version of
1458 gcc introduced here:
1459 https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-06/msg02185.html
1460 https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-07/msg00236.html
1461 (reports by Marcus Shawcroft, Maohui Lei).
1462 + improved configure macro CF_SUBDIR_PATH, from lynx changes.
1465 + improved ".map" files by generating them with a script that builds
1466 ncurses with several related configurations and merges the results.
1467 A further refinement is planned, to make the tic- and tinfo-library
1468 symbols use the same versions across each of the four configurations
1469 which are represented (reports by Sven Joachim, Werner Fink).
1472 + improve description of limits for color values and color pairs in
1473 curs_color.3x (prompted by patch by Tim van der Molen).
1474 + add VERSION file, using first field in that to record the ABI version
1475 used for configure --with-libtool --disable-libtool-version
1476 + add configure options for applying the ".map" and ".sym" files to
1477 the ncurses, form, menu and panel libraries.
1478 + add ".map" and ".sym" files to show exported symbols, e.g., for
1482 + improve strict compiler-warnings by adding a cast in TRACE_RETURN
1483 and making a new TRACE_RETURN1 macro for cases where the cast does
1487 + in-progress changes to integrate the win32 console driver with the
1488 msys2 configuration.
1491 + reviewed terminology 0.6.1, add function key definitions. None of
1492 the vt100-compatibility issues were improved -TD
1493 + improve infocmp conversion of extended capabilities to termcap by
1494 correcting the limit check against parametrized[], as well as filling
1495 in a check if the string happens to have parameters, e.g., "xm"
1497 + add check for zero/negative dimensions for resizeterm and resize_term
1498 (report by Mike Gran).
1501 + add experimental support for xterm's 1005 mouse mode, to use in a
1502 demonstration of its limitations.
1503 + add experimental support for "%u" format to terminfo.
1504 + modify test/ncurses.c to also show position reports in 'a' test.
1505 + minor formatting fixes to _nc_trace_mmask_t, make this function
1506 exported to help with debugging mouse changes.
1507 + improve behavior of wheel-mice for xterm protocol, noting that there
1508 are only button-presses for buttons "4" and "5", so there is no need
1509 to wait to combine events into double-clicks (report/analysis by
1511 + provide examples xterm-1005 and xterm-1006 terminfo entries -TD
1512 + implement decoder for xterm SGR 1006 mouse mode.
1515 + implement curs_set in win_driver.c
1516 + implement flash in win_driver.c
1517 + fix an infinite loop in win_driver.c if the command-window loses
1519 + improve the non-buffered mode, i.e., NCURSES_CONSOLE2, of
1520 win_driver.c by temporarily changing the buffer-size to match the
1521 window-size to eliminate the scrollback. Also enforce a minimum
1522 screen-size of 24x80 in the non-buffered mode.
1523 + modify generated misc/Makefile to suppress install.data from the
1524 dependencies if the --disable-db-install option is used, compensating
1525 for the top-level makefile changes used to add ncurses*-config in the
1526 20140920 changes (report by Steven Honeyman).
1529 + add ncurses*-config to bin-directory of sample package-scripts.
1530 + add check to ensure that getopt is available; this is a problem in
1531 some older cross-compiler environments.
1532 + expanded on the description of --disable-overwrite in INSTALL
1533 (prompted by reports by Joakim Tjernlund, Thomas Klausner).
1534 See Gentoo #522586 and NetBSD #49200 for examples.
1535 which relates to the clarified guidelines.
1536 + remove special logic from CF_INCLUDE_DIRS which adds the directory
1537 for the --includedir from the build (report by Joakim Tjernlund).
1538 + add case for Unixware to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, from lynx changes.
1539 + update config.sub from
1540 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1543 + add a configure check to ignore some of the plethora of non-working
1544 C++ cross-compilers.
1545 + build-fixes for Ada95 with gnat 4.9
1548 + build-fix and other improvements for port of ncurses-examples to
1550 + minor compiler-warning fixes.
1553 + modify test/demo_termcap.c and test/demo_terminfo.c to make their
1554 options more directly comparable, and add "-i" option to specify
1555 a terminal description filename to parse for names to lookup.
1558 + fix special case where double-width character overwrites a single-
1559 width character in the first column (report by Egmont Koblinger,
1563 + fix colors in ncurses 'b' test which did not work after changing
1564 it to put the test-strings in subwindows (cf: 20140705).
1565 + merge redundant SEE-ALSO sections in form and menu manpages.
1568 + modify declarations for user-data pointers in C++ binding to use
1569 reinterpret_cast to facilitate converting typed pointers to void*
1570 in user's application (patch by Adam Jiang).
1571 + regenerated html manpages.
1572 + add note regarding cause and effect for TERM in ncurses manpage,
1573 having noted clueless verbiage in Terminal.app's "help" file
1574 which reverses cause/effect.
1575 + remove special fallback definition for NCURSES_ATTR_T, since macros
1576 have resolved type-mismatches using casts (cf: 970412).
1577 + fixes for win_driver.c:
1578 + handle repainting on endwin/refresh combination.
1583 + minor portability fixes for MinGW:
1584 + ensure WINVER is defined in makefiles rather than using headers
1585 + add check for gnatprep "-T" option
1586 + work around bug introduced by gcc 4.8.1 in MinGW which breaks
1588 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20877689/gcc-4-8-1-minggw-d-option-does-not-work-as-usual
1589 + fix most compiler warnings for Cygwin ncurses-examples.
1590 + restore "redundant" -I options in test/Makefile.in, since they are
1591 typically needed when building the derived ncurses-examples package
1595 + eliminate some redundant -I options used for building libraries, and
1596 ensure that ${srcdir} is added to the include-options (prompted by
1597 discussion with Paul Gilmartin).
1598 + modify configure script to work with Minix3.2
1599 + add form library extension O_DYNAMIC_JUSTIFY option which can be
1600 used to override the different treatment of justification for static
1601 versus dynamic fields (adapted from patch by Leon Winter).
1602 + add a null pointer check in test/edit_field.c (report/analysis by
1603 Leon Winter, cf: 20130608).
1606 + make workarounds for compiling test-programs with NetBSD curses.
1607 + improve configure macro CF_ADD_LIBS, to eliminate repeated -l/-L
1608 options, from xterm changes.
1611 + correct Charable() macro check for A_ALTCHARSET in wide-characters.
1612 + build-fix for position-debug code in tty_update.c, to work with or
1616 + add w/W toggle to ncurses.c 'B' test, to demonstrate permutation of
1617 video-attributes and colors with double-width character strings.
1620 + correct check in win_driver.c for saving screen contents, e.g., when
1621 NCURSES_CONSOLE2 is set (cf: 20140503).
1622 + reorganize b/B menu items in ncurses.c, putting the test-strings into
1623 subwindows. This is needed for a planned change to use Unicode
1624 fullwidth characters in the test-screens.
1625 + correct update to form status for _NEWTOP, broken by fixes for
1626 compiler warnings (patch by Leon Winter, cf: 20120616).
1629 + change shared-library suffix for AIX 5 and 6 to ".so", avoiding
1630 conflict with the static library (report by Ben Lentz).
1631 + document RPATH_LIST in INSTALLATION file, as part of workarounds for
1632 upgrading an ncurses library using the "--with-shared" option.
1633 + modify test/ncurses.c c/C tests to cycle through subsets of the
1634 total number of colors, to better illustrate 8/16/88/256-colors by
1635 providing directly comparable screens.
1636 + add test/dots_curses.c, for comparison with the low-level examples.
1639 + fix dereference before null check found by Coverity in tic.c
1641 + fix sign-extension bug in read_entry.c which prevented "toe" from
1642 reading empty "screen+italics" entry.
1643 + modify sgr for screen.xterm-new to support dim capability -TD
1644 + add dim capability to nsterm+7 -TD
1645 + cancel dim capability for iterm -TD
1646 + add dim, invis capabilities to vte-2012 -TD
1647 + add sitm/ritm to konsole-base and mlterm3 -TD
1650 > fix regression in screen terminfo entries (reports by Christian
1651 Ebert, Gabriele Balducci) -TD
1652 + revert the change to screen; see notes for why this did not work -TD
1653 + cancel sitm/ritm for entries which extend "screen", to work around
1654 screen's hardcoded behavior for SGR 3 -TD
1657 + separate masking for sgr in vidputs from sitm/ritm, which do not
1658 overlap with sgr functionality.
1659 + remove unneeded -i option from adacurses-config; put -a in the -I
1660 option for consistency (patch by Pascal Pignard).
1661 + update xterm-new terminfo entry to xterm patch #305 -TD
1662 + change format of test-scripts for Debian Ada95 and ncurses-examples
1663 packages to quilted to work around Debian #700177 (cf: 20130907).
1664 + build fix for form_driver_w.c as part of ncurses-examples package for
1665 older ncurses than 20131207.
1666 + add Hello World example to adacurses-config manpage.
1667 + remove unused --enable-pc-files option from Ada95/configure.
1668 + add --disable-gnat-projects option for testing.
1669 + revert changes to Ada95 project-files configuration (cf: 20140524).
1670 + corrected usage message in adacurses-config.
1673 + fix typo in ncurses manpage for the NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE
1674 environment variable.
1675 + improve discussion of input-echoing in curs_getch.3x
1676 + clarify discussion in curs_addch.3x of wrapping.
1677 + modify parametrized.h to make fln non-padded.
1678 + correct several entries which had termcap-style padding used in
1679 terminfo: adm21, aj510, alto-h19, att605-pc, x820 -TD
1680 + correct syntax for padding in some entries: dg211, h19 -TD
1681 + correct ti924-8 which had confused padding versus octal escapes -TD
1682 + correct padding in sbi entry -TD
1683 + fix an old bug in the termcap emulation; "%i" was ignored in tparm()
1684 because the parameters to be incremented were already on the internal
1685 stack (report by Corinna Vinschen).
1686 + modify tic's "-c" option to take into account the "-C" option to
1687 activate additional checks which compare the results from running
1688 tparm() on the terminfo expressions versus the translated termcap
1690 + modify tic to allow it to read from FIFOs (report by Matthieu Fronton,
1692 > patches by Nicolas Boulenguez:
1693 + explicit dereferences to suppress some style warnings.
1694 + when c_varargs_to_ada.c includes its header, use double quotes
1696 + samples/ncurses2-util.adb: removed unused with clause. The warning
1697 was removed by an obsolete pragma.
1698 + replaced Unreferenced pragmas with Warnings (Off). The latter,
1699 available with older GNATs, needs no configure test. This also
1700 replaces 3 untested Unreferenced pragmas.
1701 + simplified To_C usage in trace handling. Using two parameters allows
1702 some basic formatting, and avoids a warning about security with some
1704 + for generated Ada sources, replace many snippets with one pure
1706 + removed C_Chtype and its conversions.
1707 + removed C_AttrType and its conversions.
1708 + removed conversions between int, Item_Option_Set, Menu_Option_Set.
1709 + removed int, Field_Option_Set, Item_Option_Set conversions.
1710 + removed C_TraceType, Attribute_Option_Set conversions.
1711 + replaced C.int with direct use of Eti_Error, now enumerated. As it
1712 was used in a case statement, values were tested by the Ada compiler
1713 to be consecutive anyway.
1714 + src/Makefile.in: remove duplicate stanza
1715 + only consider using a project for shared libraries.
1716 + style. Silent gnat-4.9 warning about misplaced "then".
1717 + generate shared library project to honor ADAFLAGS, LDFLAGS.
1720 + cleanup recently introduced compiler warnings for MingW port.
1721 + workaround for ${MAKEFLAGS} configure check versus GNU make 4.0,
1722 which introduces more than one gratuitous incompatibility.
1725 + add vt520ansi terminfo entry (patch by Mike Gran)
1726 + further improve MinGW support for the scenario where there is an
1727 ANSI-escapes handler such as ansicon running in the console window
1728 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
1731 + add --disable-lib-suffixes option (adapted from patch by Juergen
1733 + merge some changes from Juergen Pfeifer's work with MSYS2, to
1734 simplify later merging:
1735 + use NC_ISATTY() macro for isatty() in library
1736 + add _nc_mingw_isatty() and related functions to windows-driver
1737 + rename terminal driver entrypoints to simplify grep's
1738 + remove a check in the sp-funcs flavor of newterm() which allowed only
1739 the first call to newterm() to succeed (report by Thomas Beierlein,
1743 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1744 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1747 + modify configure script:
1748 + drop the -no-gcc option from Intel compiler, from lynx changes.
1749 + extend the --with-hashed-db configure option to simplify building
1750 with different versions of Berkeley database using FreeBSD ports.
1751 + improve initialization for MinGW port (Juergen Pfeifer):
1752 + enforce Windows-style path-separator if cross-compiling,
1753 + add a driver-name method to each of the drivers,
1754 + allow the Windows driver name to match "unknown", ignoring case,
1755 + lengthen the built-in name for the Windows console driver to
1756 "#win32console", and
1757 + move the comparison of driver-names allowing abbreviation, e.g.,
1758 to "#win32con" into the Windows console driver.
1761 + add check in tic for mismatch between ccc and initp/initc
1762 + cancel ccc in putty-256color and konsole-256color for consistency
1763 with the cancelled initc capability (patch by Sven Zuhlsdorf).
1764 + add xterm+256setaf building block for various terminals which only
1765 get the 256-color feature half-implemented -TD
1766 + updated "st" entry (leaving the 0.1.1 version as "simpleterm") to
1770 + fix typo in "mlterm" entry (report by Gabriele Balducci) -TD
1773 + use types from <stdint.h> in sample build-scripts for chtype, etc.
1774 + modify configure script and curses.h.in to allow the types specified
1775 using --with-chtype and related options to be defined in <stdint.h>
1776 + add terminology entry -TD
1777 + add mlterm3 entry, use that as "mlterm" -TD
1778 + inherit mlterm-256color from mlterm -TD
1781 + modify _nc_New_TopRow_and_CurrentItem() to ensure that the menu's
1782 top-row is adjusted as needed to ensure that the current item is
1783 on the screen (patch by Johann Klammer).
1784 + add wgetdelay() to retrieve _delay member of WINDOW if it happens to
1785 be opaque, e.g., in the pthread configuration (prompted by patch by
1789 + modify ifdef in read_entry.c to handle the case where
1790 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE is not defined (patch by Xin Li).
1791 + add cast in form_driver_w() to fix ARM build (patch by Xin Li).
1792 + add logic to win_driver.c to save/restore screen contents when not
1793 allocating a console-buffer (cf: 20140215).
1796 + clarify error-returns from newwin (report by Ruslan Nabioullin).
1799 + fix some compiler warnings in win_driver.c
1800 + updated notes for wsvt25 based on tack and vttest -TD
1801 + add teken entry to show actual properties of FreeBSD's "xterm"
1805 + in-progress changes to win_driver.c to implement output without
1806 allocating a console-buffer. This uses a pre-existing environment
1807 variable NCGDB used by Juergen Pfeifer for debugging (prompted by
1808 discussion with Erwin Waterlander regarding Console2, which hangs
1809 when reading in an allocated console-buffer).
1810 + add -t option to gdc.c, and modify to accept "S" to step through the
1812 + regenerate NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html to fix some of the broken
1813 html emitted by docbook.
1816 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to omit followup check to determine if
1817 _XOPEN_SOURCE can/should be defined. g++ 4.7.2 built on Solaris 10
1818 has some header breakage due to its own predefinition of this symbol
1819 (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15796).
1822 + add/use symbol NCURSES_PAIRS_T like NCURSES_COLOR_T, to illustrate
1823 which "short" types are for color pairs and which are color values.
1824 + fix build for s390x, by correcting field bit offsets in generated
1825 representation clauses when int=32 long=64 and endian=big, or at
1826 least on s390x (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
1827 + minor cleanup change to test/form_driver_w.c (patch by Gaute Hope).
1830 + remove unnecessary ifdef's in Ada95/gen/gen.c, which reportedly do
1831 not work as is with gcc 4.8 due to fixes using chtype cast made for
1832 new compiler warnings by gcc 4.8 in 20130824 (Debian #735753, patch
1833 by Nicolas Boulenguez).
1836 + apply includesubdir variable which was introduced in 20130805 to
1837 gen-pkgconfig.in (Debian #735782).
1840 + further improved man2html, used this to fix broken links in html
1842 ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/man2html
1845 + modify configure-script/ifdef's to allow OLD_TTY feature to be
1846 suppressed if the type of ospeed is configured using the option
1847 --with-ospeed to not be a short. By default, it is a short for
1848 termcap-compatibility (adapted from suggestion by Christian
1850 + correct a typo in _nc_baudrate() (patch by Christian Weisgerber,
1852 + fix a few -Wlogical-op warnings.
1853 + updated llib-l* files.
1856 + add form_driver_w() entrypoint to wide-character forms library, as
1857 well as test program form_driver_w (adapted from patch by Gaute
1861 + minor fix for CF_GCC_WARNINGS to special-case options which are not
1862 recognized by clang.
1865 + add special case to configure script to move _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
1866 definition from CPPFLAGS to CFLAGS if it happens to be needed for
1867 Solaris, because g++ errors with that definition (report by
1868 Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15268).
1869 + correct logic in infocmp's -i option which was intended to ignore
1870 strings which correspond to function-keys as candidates for piecing
1871 together initialization- or reset-strings. The problem dates to
1872 1.9.7a, but was overlooked until changes in -Wlogical-op warnings for
1873 gcc 4.8 (report by David Binderman).
1874 + updated CF_GCC_WARNINGS to documented options for gcc 4.9.0, moving
1875 checks for -Wextra and -Wdeclaration-after-statement into the macro,
1876 and adding checks for -Wignored-qualifiers, -Wlogical-op and
1878 + updated CF_CURSES_UNCTRL_H and CF_SHARED_OPTS macros from ongoing
1880 + update config.sub from
1881 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1884 + minor cleanup of terminfo.tail
1887 + use TS extension to describe xterm's title-escapes -TD
1888 + modify terminator and nsterm-s to use xterm+sl-twm building block -TD
1889 + update hurd.ti, add xenl to reflect 2011-03-06 change in
1890 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/hurd.git/log/console/display.c
1892 + simplify pfkey expression in ansi.sys -TD
1895 + correct/simplify ifdef's for cur_term versus broken-linker and
1896 reentrant options (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, cf: 20090530).
1897 + modify release/version combinations in test build-scripts to make
1898 them more consistent with other packages.
1901 + add nc_mingw.h to installed headers for MinGW port; needed for
1902 compiling ncurses-examples.
1903 + add rpm-script for testing cross-compile of ncurses-examples.
1906 + fix new typo in CF_ADA_INCLUDE_DIRS macro (report by Roumen Petrov).
1909 + fix a few compiler warnings in progs and test.
1910 + minor fix to package/debian-mingw/rules, do not strip dll's.
1911 + minor fixes to configure script for empty $prefix, e.g., when doing
1912 cross-compiles to MinGW.
1913 + add script for building test-packages of binaries cross-compiled to
1917 + minor fixes for ncurses-example package and makefile.
1918 + add scripts for test-builds of cross-compiler packages for ncurses6
1922 + some build-fixes for ncurses-examples with NetBSD-6.0 curses, though
1923 it lacks some common functions such as use_env() which is not yet
1925 + build-fix and some compiler warning fixes for ncurses-examples with
1927 + fix a possible null-pointer reference in a trace message from newterm.
1928 + quiet a few warnings from NetBSD 6.0 namespace pollution by
1929 nonstandard popcount() function in standard strings.h header.
1930 + ignore g++ 4.2.1 warnings for "-Weffc++" in c++/cursesmain.cc
1931 + fix a few overlooked places for --enable-string-hacks option.
1934 + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130831).
1935 + build-fix for --with-shared option for DragonFly and FreeBSD (report
1936 by Rong-En Fan, cf: 20130727).
1939 + build-fixes for MSYS for two test-programs (patches by Ray Donnelly,
1941 + revert change to two of the dpkg format files, to work with dpkg
1942 before/after Debian #700177.
1943 + fix gcc -Wconversion warning in wattr_get() macro.
1944 + add msys and msysdll to known host/configuration types (patch by
1946 + modify CF_RPATH_HACK configure macro to not rely upon "-u" option
1947 of sort, improving portability.
1948 + minor improvements for test-programs from reviewing Solaris port.
1949 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1950 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1953 + modify test/ncurses.c b/B tests to display lines only for the
1954 attributes which a given terminal supports, to make room for an
1956 + completed ncv table in terminfo.tail; it did not list the wide
1957 character codes listed in X/Open Curses issue 7.
1958 + add A_ITALIC extension (prompted by discussion with Egmont Koblinger).
1961 + fix some gcc 4.8 -Wconversion warnings.
1962 + change format of dpkg test-scripts to quilted to work around bug
1963 introduced by Debian #700177.
1964 + discard cached keyname() values if meta() is changed after a value
1965 was cached using (report by Kurban Mallachiev).
1968 + add checks in tic to warn about terminals which lack cursor
1969 addressing, capabilities or having those, are marked as hard_copy or
1971 + use --without-progs in mingw-ncurses rpm.
1972 + split out _nc_init_termtype() from alloc_entry.c to use in MinGW
1973 port when tic and other programs are not needed.
1976 + minor fixes to the --disable-overwrite logic, to ensure that the
1977 configured $(includedir) is not cancelled by the mingwxx-filesystem
1979 + add --disable-db-install configure option, to simplify building
1980 cross-compile support packages.
1981 + add mingw-ncurses.spec file, for testing cross-compiles.
1984 + improve configure macros from ongoing work on cdk, dialog, xterm:
1985 + CF_ADD_LIB_AFTER - fix a problem with -Wl options
1986 + CF_RPATH_HACK - add missing result-message
1987 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify to use $rel_builddir in cygwin and mingw
1988 dll symbols (which can be overridden) rather than explicit "../".
1989 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify NetBSD and DragonFly symbols to use ${CC}
1990 rather than ${LD} to improve rpath support.
1991 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - add a symbol to denote the temporary files that
1992 are created by the macro, to simplify clean-rules.
1993 + CF_X_ATHENA - trim extra libraries to work with -Wl,--as-needed
1994 + fix a regression in hashed-database support for NetBSD, which uses
1995 the key-size differently from other implementations (cf: 20121229).
1998 + further improvements for setupterm manpage, clarifying the
1999 initialization of cur_term.
2002 + improve manpages for initscr and setupterm.
2003 + minor compiler-warning fixes
2006 + add fallback defs for <inttypes.h> and <stdint.h> (cf: 20120225).
2007 + add check for size of wchar_t, use that to suppress a chunk of
2008 wcwidth.h in MinGW port.
2009 + quiet linker warnings for MinGW cross-compile with dll's using the
2010 --enable-auto-import flag.
2011 + add ncurses.map rule to ncurses/Makefile to help diagnose symbol
2015 + modify the clear program to take into account the E3 extended
2016 capability to clear the terminal's scrollback buffer (patch by
2017 Miroslav Lichvar, Redhat #815790).
2018 + clarify in resizeterm manpage that LINES and COLS are updated.
2019 + updated ansi example in terminfo.tail, correct misordered example
2021 + fix other doclifter warnings for manpages
2022 + remove unnecessary ".ta" in terminfo.tail, add missing ".fi"
2023 (patch by Eric Raymond).
2026 + minor changes to some configure macros to make them more reusable.
2027 + fixes for tabs program (prompted by report by Nick Andrik).
2028 + corrected logic in command-line parsing of -a and -c predefined
2030 + allow "-0" and "-8" options to be combined with others, e.g.,"-0d".
2031 + make warning messages more consistent with the other utilities by
2032 not printing the full pathname of the program.
2033 + add -V option for consistency with other utilities.
2034 + fix off-by-one in columns for tabs program when processing an option
2035 such as "-5" (patch by Nick Andrik).
2038 + add to test/demo_forms.c examples of using the menu-hooks as well
2039 as showing how the menu item user-data can be used to pass a callback
2041 + add test/dots_termcap.c
2042 + remove setupterm call from test/demo_termcap.c
2043 + build-fix if --disable-ext-funcs configure option is used.
2044 + modified test/edit_field.c and test/demo_forms.c to move the lengths
2045 into a user-data structure, keeping the original string for later
2046 expansion to free-format input/out demo.
2047 + modified test/demo_forms.c to load data from file.
2048 + added note to clarify Terminal.app's non-emulation of the various
2049 terminal types listed in the preferences dialog -TD
2050 + fix regression in error-reporting in lib_setup.c (Debian #711134,
2052 + build-fix for a case where --enable-broken_linker and
2053 --enable-reentrant options are combined (report by George R Goffe).
2056 + modify mvcur() to distinguish between internal use by the ncurses
2057 library, and external callers, preventing it from reading the content
2058 of the screen which is only nonblank when curses calls have updated
2059 it. This makes test/dots_mvcur.c avoid painting colored cells in
2060 the left margin of the display.
2061 + minor fix to test/dots_mvcur.c
2062 + move configured symbols USE_DATABASE and USE_TERMCAP to term.h as
2063 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE and NCURSES_USE_TERMCAP to allow consistent
2064 use of these symbols in term_entry.h
2067 + corrected ifdefs in test/testcurs.c to allow comparison of mouse
2068 interface versus pdcurses (cf: 20130316).
2069 + add pow() to configure-check for math library, needed since
2070 20121208 for test/hanoi (Debian #708056).
2071 + regenerated html manpages.
2072 + update doctype used for html documentation.
2075 + move nsterm-related entries out of "obsolete" section to more
2076 plausible "ansi consoles" -TD
2077 + additional cleanup of table-of-contents by reordering -TD
2078 + revise fix for check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch(); prior fix
2079 prevented inserts when video attributes were attached to the data
2080 (cf: 20121215) (Redhat #959534).
2083 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
2084 + correct FNKEY() macro in progs/dump_entry.c, allowing kf11-kf63 to
2085 display when infocmp's -R option is used for HP or AIX subsets.
2086 + fix dead-code issue with test/movewindow.c
2087 + improve limited-checking in _nc_read_termtype().
2090 + fix clang 3.2 warning in progs/dump_entry.c
2091 + drop AC_TYPE_SIGNAL check; ncurses relies on c89 and later.
2094 + add MinGW to cases where ncurses installs by default into /usr
2095 (prompted by discussion with Daniel Silva Ferreira).
2096 + add -D option to infocmp's usage-message (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
2097 + add a missing 'int' type for main function in configure check for
2098 type of bool variable, to work with clang 3.2 (report by Dmitri
2100 + improve configure check for static_cast, to work with clang 3.2
2101 (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
2102 + re-order rule for demo.o and macros defining header dependencies in
2103 c++/Makefile.in to accommodate gmake (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
2106 + improve parameter checking in copywin().
2107 + modify configure script to work around OS X's "libtool" program, to
2108 choose glibtool instead. At the same time, chance the autoconf macro
2109 to look for a "tool" rather than a "prog", to help with potential use
2111 + separate the rpath usage for c++ library from demo program
2113 + update/correct header-dependencies in c++ makefile (report by Werner
2115 + add --with-cxx-shared to dpkg-script, as done for rpm-script.
2118 + build-fix for libtool configuration (reports by Daniel Silva Ferreira
2122 + build-fix for OS X, to handle changes for --with-cxx-shared feature
2123 (report by Christian Ebert).
2124 + change initialization for vt220, similar entries for consistency
2125 with cursor-key strings (NetBSD #47674) -TD
2126 + further improvements to linux-16color (Benjamin Sittler)
2129 + additional fix for tic.c, to allocate missing buffer space.
2130 + eliminate configure-script warnings for gen-pkgconfig.in
2131 + correct typo in sgr string for sun-color,
2132 add bold for consistency with sgr,
2133 change smso for consistency with sgr -TD
2134 + correct typo in sgr string for terminator -TD
2135 + add blink to the attributes masked by ncv in linux-16color (report
2136 by Benjamin Sittler)
2137 + improve warning message from post-load checking for missing "%?"
2138 operator by tic/infocmp by showing the entry name and capability.
2139 + minor formatting improvement to tic/infocmp -f option to ensure
2140 line split after "%;".
2141 + amend scripting for --with-cxx-shared option to handle the debug
2142 library "libncurses++_g.a" (report by Sven Joachim).
2145 + amend change to toe.c for reading from /dev/zero, to ensure that
2146 there is a buffer for the temporary filename (cf: 20120324).
2147 + regenerated html manpages.
2148 + fix typo in terminfo.head (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130302).
2149 + updated some autoconf macros:
2150 + CF_ACVERSION_CHECK, from byacc 1.9 20130304
2151 + CF_INTEL_COMPILER, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE from luit 2.0-20130217
2152 + add configure option --with-cxx-shared to permit building
2153 libncurses++ as a shared library when using g++, e.g., the same
2154 limitations as libtool but better integrated with the usual build
2155 configuration (Redhat #911540).
2156 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to filter out build-path which was unnecessarily
2157 shown in curses.h (Debian #689131).
2160 + add section to terminfo manpage discussing user-defined capabilities.
2161 + update manpage description of NCURSES_NO_SETBUF, explaining why it
2163 + add a check in waddch_nosync() to ensure that tab characters are
2164 treated as control characters; some broken locales claim they are
2166 + add some traces to the Windows console driver.
2167 + initialize a temporary array in _nc_mbtowc, needed for some cases
2168 of raw input in MinGW port.
2171 + correct ifdef on change to lib_twait.c (report by Werner Fink).
2172 + update config.guess, config.sub
2175 + modify test/testcurs.c to work with mouse for ncurses as it does for
2177 + modify test/knight.c to work with mouse for pdcurses as it does for
2179 + modify internal recursion in wgetch() which handles cooked mode to
2180 check if the call to wgetnstr() returned an error. This can happen
2181 when both nocbreak() and nodelay() are set, for instance (report by
2182 Nils Christopher Brause) (cf: 960418).
2183 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
2184 + add a check for valid position in ClearToEOS()
2185 + fix in lib_twait.c when --enable-wgetch-events is used, pointer
2187 + improve a limit-check in make_hash.c
2188 + fix a memory leak in hashed_db.c
2191 + modify test/configure script to make it simpler to override names
2192 of curses-related libraries, to help with linking with pdcurses in
2194 + if the --with-terminfo-dirs configure option is not used, there is
2195 no corresponding compiled-in value for that. Fill in "no default
2196 value" for that part of the manpage substitution.
2199 + correct initialization in knight.c which let it occasionally make
2200 an incorrect move (cf: 20001028).
2201 + improve documentation of the terminfo/termcap search path.
2204 + further fixes to mvcur to pass callback function (cf: 20130112),
2205 needed to make test/dots_mvcur work.
2206 + reduce calls to SetConsoleActiveScreenBuffer in win_driver.c, to
2207 help reduce flicker.
2208 + modify configure script to omit "+b" from linker options for very
2209 old HP-UX systems (report by Dennis Grevenstein)
2210 + add HP-UX workaround for missing EILSEQ on old HP-UX systems (patch
2211 by Dennis Grevenstein).
2212 + restore memmove/strdup support for antique systems (request by
2213 Dennis Grevenstein).
2214 + change %l behavior in tparm to push the string length onto the stack
2215 rather than saving the formatted length into the output buffer
2216 (report by Roy Marples, cf: 980620).
2219 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
2220 + fix memory leak in safe_sprintf.c
2221 + add check for return-value in tty_update.c
2222 + correct initialization for -s option in test/view.c
2223 + add check for numeric overflow in lib_instr.c
2224 + improve error-checking in copywin
2225 + add advice in infocmp manpage for termcap users (Debian #698469).
2226 + add "-y" option to test/demo_termcap and test/demo_terminfo to
2227 demonstrate behavior with/without extended capabilities.
2228 + updated termcap manpage to document legacy termcap behavior for
2229 matching capability names.
2230 + modify name-comparison for tgetstr, etc., to accommodate legacy
2231 applications as well as to improve compatbility with BSD 4.2
2232 termcap implementations (Debian #698299) (cf: 980725).
2235 + correct prototype in manpage for vid_puts.
2236 + drop ncurses/tty/tty_display.h, ncurses/tty/tty_input.h, since they
2237 are unused in the current driver model.
2238 + modify mvcur to use stdout except when called within the ncurses
2240 + modify vidattr and vid_attr to use stdout as documented in manpage.
2241 + amend changes made to buffering in 20120825 so that the low-level
2242 putp() call uses stdout rather than ncurses' internal buffering.
2243 The putp_sp() call does the same, for consistency (Redhat #892674).
2246 + add "-s" option to test/view.c to allow it to start in single-step
2247 mode, reducing size of trace files when it is used for debugging
2249 + revert part of 20121222 change to tinfo_driver.c
2250 + add experimental logic in win_driver.c to improve optimization of
2251 screen updates. This does not yet work with double-width characters,
2252 so it is ifdef'd out for the moment (prompted by report by Erwin
2253 Waterlander regarding screen flicker).
2256 + fix coverity warnings regarding copying into fixed-size buffers.
2257 + add throw-declarations in the c++ binding per Coverity warning.
2258 + minor changes to new-items for consistent reference to bug-report
2262 + add *.dSYM directories to clean-rule in ncurses directory makefile,
2264 + add a configure check for gcc option -no-cpp-precomp, which is not
2265 available in all Mac OS X configurations (report by Andras Salamon,
2267 + improve 20021221 workaround for broken acs, handling a case where
2268 that ACS_xxx character is not in the acsc string but there is a known
2269 wide-character which can be used.
2272 + fix several warnings from clang 3.1 --analyze, includes correcting
2273 a null-pointer check in _nc_mvcur_resume.
2274 + correct display of double-width characters with MinGW port (report
2275 by Erwin Waterlander).
2276 + replace MinGW's wcrtomb(), fixing a problem with _nc_viscbuf
2277 > fixes based on Coverity report:
2278 + correct coloring in test/bs.c
2279 + correct check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch().
2280 + remove dead code in progs/tset.c, test/linedata.h
2281 + add null-pointer checks in lib_tracemse.c, panel.priv.h, and some
2285 + modify test/knight.c to show the number of choices possible for
2286 each position in automove option, e.g., to allow user to follow
2287 Warnsdorff's rule to solve the puzzle.
2288 + modify test/hanoi.c to show the minimum number of moves possible for
2289 the given number of tiles (prompted by patch by Lucas Gioia).
2290 > fixes based on Coverity report:
2291 + remove a few redundant checks.
2292 + correct logic in test/bs.c, when randomly placing a specific type of
2294 + check return value from remove/unlink in tic.
2295 + check return value from sscanf in test/ncurses.c
2296 + fix a null dereference in c++/cursesw.cc
2297 + fix two instances of uninitialized variables when configuring for the
2299 + correct scope of variable used in SetSafeOutcWrapper macro.
2300 + set umask when calling mkstemp in tic.
2301 + initialize wbkgrndset() temporary variable when extended-colors are
2305 + also replace MinGW's wctomb(), fixing a problem with setcchar().
2306 + modify test/view.c to load UTF-8 when built with MinGW by using
2307 regular win32 API because the MinGW functions mblen() and mbtowc()
2311 + correct order of color initialization versus display in some of the
2312 test-programs, e.g., test_addstr.c
2313 > fixes based on Coverity report:
2314 + delete windows on exit from some of the test-programs.
2317 > fixes based on Coverity report:
2318 + add missing braces around FreeAndNull in two places.
2319 + various fixes in test/ncurses.c
2320 + improve limit-checks in tinfo/make_hash.c, tinfo/read_entry.c
2321 + correct malloc size in progs/infocmp.c
2322 + guard against negative array indices in test/knight.c
2323 + fix off-by-one limit check in test/color_name.h
2324 + add null-pointer check in progs/tabs.c, test/bs.c, test/demo_forms.c,
2326 + fix memory-leak in tinfo/lib_setup.c, progs/toe.c,
2327 test/clip_printw.c, test/demo_menus.c
2328 + delete unused windows in test/chgat.c, test/clip_printw.c,
2329 test/insdelln.c, test/newdemo.c on error-return.
2332 + modify configure macro CF_INCLUDE_DIRS to put $CPPFLAGS after the
2333 local -I include options in case someone has set conflicting -I
2334 options in $CPPFLAGS (prompted by patch for ncurses/Makefile.in by
2336 + modify the ncurses*-config scripts to eliminate relative paths from
2337 the RPATH_LIST variable, e.g., "../lib" as used in installing shared
2338 libraries or executables.
2341 + realign these related pages:
2346 and fix a long-ago error in curs_addstr.3x which said that a -1
2347 length parameter would only write as much as fit onto one line
2348 (report by Reuben Thomas).
2349 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_memmove() for memmove()/bcopy().
2350 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_strdup() for strdup().
2351 + cancel any debug-rpm in package/ncurses.spec
2352 + reviewed vte-2012, reverted most of the change since it was incorrect
2353 based on testing with tack -TD
2354 + un-cancel the initc in vte-256color, since this was implemented
2355 starting with version 0.20 in 2009 -TD
2358 + improve malloc/realloc checking (prompted by discussion in Redhat
2360 + add ncurses test-program as "ncurses6" to the rpm- and dpkg-scripts.
2361 + updated configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_WITH_PATHLIST. The
2362 first corrects pattern used for Mac OS X's customization of gcc.
2365 + fix change to _nc_scroll_optimize(), which incorrectly freed memory
2369 + add vte-2012, gnome-2012, making these the defaults for vte/gnome
2370 (patch by Christian Persch).
2373 + improve CF_GCC_VERSION to work around Debian's customization of gcc
2375 + improve configure macros as done in byacc:
2376 + drop 2.13 compatibility; use 2.52.xxxx version only since EMX port
2377 has used that for a while.
2378 + add 3rd parameter to AC_DEFINE's to allow autoheader to run, i.e.,
2379 for experimental use.
2380 + remove unused configure macros.
2381 + modify configure script and makefiles to quiet new autoconf warning
2382 for LIBS_TO_MAKE variable.
2383 + modify configure script to show $PATH_SEPARATOR variable.
2384 + update config.guess, config.sub
2387 + modify setupterm to set its copy of TERM to "unknown" if configured
2388 for the terminal driver and TERM was null or empty.
2389 + modify treatment of TERM variable for MinGW port to allow explicit
2390 use of the windows console driver by checking if $TERM is set to
2391 "#win32con" or an abbreviation of that.
2392 + undo recent change to fallback definition of vsscanf() to build with
2393 older Solaris compilers (cf: 20120728).
2396 + add test-screens to test/ncurses to show 256-characters at a time,
2397 to help with MinGW port.
2400 + simplify varargs logic in lib_printw.c; va_copy is no longer needed
2402 + modifications for MinGW port to make wide-character display usable.
2405 + regenerate configure script (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20120901).
2408 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_flush (cf: 20120825).
2409 + fix a case in _nc_scroll_optimize() where the _oldnums_list array
2410 might not be allocated.
2411 + improve comparisons in configure.in for unset shell variables.
2414 + increase size of ncurses' output-buffer, in case of very small
2415 initial screen-sizes.
2416 + fix evaluation of TERMINFO and TERMINFO_DIRS default values as needed
2417 after changes to use --datarootdir (reports by Gabriele Balducci,
2421 + change output buffering scheme, using buffer maintained by ncurses
2422 rather than stdio, to avoid problems with SIGTSTP handling (report
2426 + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20120811, adding --datarootdir
2427 (prompted by discussion with Erwin Waterlander).
2428 + improve description of --enable-reentrant option in README and the
2430 + add nsterm-256color, make this the default nsterm -TD
2431 + remove bw from nsterm-bce, per testing with tack -TD
2434 + update test/configure, adding check for tinfo library.
2435 + improve limit-checks for the getch fifo (report by Werner Fink).
2436 + fix a remaining mismatch between $with_echo and the symbols updated
2437 for CF_DISABLE_ECHO affecting parameters for mk-2nd.awk (report by
2438 Sven Joachim, cf: 20120317).
2439 + modify followup check for pkg-config's library directory in the
2440 --enable-pc-files option to validate syntax (report by Sven Joachim,
2444 + correct path for ncurses_mingw.h in include/headers, in case build
2445 is done outside source-tree (patch by Roumen Petrov).
2446 + modify some older xterm entries to align with xterm source -TD
2447 + separate "xterm-old" alias from "xterm-r6" -TD
2448 + add E3 extended capability to xterm-basic and putty -TD
2449 + parenthesize parameters of other macros in curses.h -TD
2450 + parenthesize parameter of COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER in curses.h
2451 in case it happens to be a comma-expression, etc. (patch by Nick
2455 + improved form_request_by_name() and menu_request_by_name().
2456 + eliminate two fixed-size buffers in toe.c
2457 + extend use_tioctl() to have expected behavior when use_env(FALSE) and
2458 use_tioctl(TRUE) are called.
2459 + modify ncurses test-program, adding -E and -T options to demonstrate
2460 use_env() versus use_tioctl().
2463 + add use_tioctl() function (adapted from patch by Werner Fink,
2467 + add ncurses_mingw.h to installed headers (prompted by patch by
2469 + clarify return-codes from wgetch() in response to SIGWINCH (prompted
2471 + modify resizeterm() to always push a KEY_RESIZE onto the fifo, even
2472 if screensize is unchanged. Modify _nc_update_screensize() to push a
2473 KEY_RESIZE if there was a SIGWINCH, even if it does not call
2474 resizeterm(). These changes eliminate the case where a SIGWINCH is
2475 received, but ERR returned from wgetch or wgetnstr because the screen
2476 dimensions did not change (Novell #769788).
2479 + add --enable-interop to sample package scripts (suggested by Juergen
2481 + update CF_PATH_SYNTAX macro, from mawk changes.
2482 + modify mk-0th.awk to allow for generating llib-ltic, etc., though
2483 some work is needed on cproto to work with lib_gen.c to update
2485 + remove redundant getenv() cal in database-iterator leftover from
2486 cleanup in 20120622 changes (report by Sven Joachim).
2489 + add -d, -e and -q options to test/demo_terminfo and test/demo_termcap
2490 + fix caching of environment variables in database-iterator (patch by
2491 Philippe Troin, Redhat #831366).
2494 + add configure check to distinguish clang from gcc to eliminate
2495 warnings about unused command-line parameters when compiler warnings
2497 + improve behavior when updating terminfo entries which are hardlinked
2498 by allowing for the possibility that an alias has been repurposed to
2500 + fix some strict compiler warnings based on package scripts.
2501 + further fixes for configure check for working poll (Debian #676461).
2504 + fix an uninitialized variable in -c/-n logic for infocmp changes
2506 + corrected fix for building c++ binding with clang 3.0 (report/patch
2507 by Richard Yao, Gentoo #417613, cf: 20110409)
2508 + correct configure check for working poll, fixing the case where stdin
2509 is redirected, e.g., in rpm/dpkg builds (Debian #676461).
2510 + add rpm- and dpkg-scripts, to test those build-environments.
2511 The resulting packages are used only for testing.
2514 + add kdch1 aka "Remove" to vt220 and vt220-8 entries -TD
2515 + add kdch1, etc., to qvt108 -TD
2516 + add dl1/il1 to some entries based on dl/il values -TD
2517 + add dl to simpleterm -TD
2518 + add consistency-checks in tic for insert-line vs delete-line
2519 controls, and insert/delete-char keys
2520 + correct no-leaks logic in infocmp when doing comparisons, fixing
2521 duplicate free of entries given via the command-line, and freeing
2522 entries loaded from the last-but-one of files specified on the
2524 + add kdch1 to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (reported by David Lord,
2525 analysis by Martin Husemann).
2526 + add cnorm/civis to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (report/analysis by
2527 Onno van der Linden).
2530 + extend -c and -n options of infocmp to allow comparing more than two
2532 + correct check in infocmp for number of terminal names when more than
2534 + correct typo in curs_threads.3x (report by Yanhui Shen on
2535 freebsd-hackers mailing list).
2538 + corrected 'op' for bterm (report by Samuel Thibault) -TD
2539 + modify test/background.c to demonstrate a background character
2540 holding a colored ACS_HLINE. The behavior differs from SVr4 due to
2541 the thick- and double-line extension (cf: 20091003).
2542 + modify handling of acs characters in PutAttrChar to avoid mapping an
2543 unmapped character to a space with A_ALTCHARSET set.
2544 + rewrite vt520 entry based on vt420 -TD
2547 + remove p6 (bold) from opus3n1+ for consistency -TD
2548 + remove acs stuff from env230 per clues in Ingres termcap -TD
2549 + modify env230 sgr/sgr0 to match other capabilities -TD
2550 + modify smacs/rmacs in bq300-8 to match sgr/sgr0 -TD
2551 + make sgr for dku7202 agree with other caps -TD
2552 + make sgr for ibmpc agree with other caps -TD
2553 + make sgr for tek4107 agree with other caps -TD
2554 + make sgr for ndr9500 agree with other caps -TD
2555 + make sgr for sco-ansi agree with other caps -TD
2556 + make sgr for d410 agree with other caps -TD
2557 + make sgr for d210 agree with other caps -TD
2558 + make sgr for d470c, d470c-7b agree with other caps -TD
2559 + remove redundant AC_DEFINE for NDEBUG versus Makefile definition.
2560 + fix a back-link in _nc_delink_entry(), which is needed if ncurses is
2561 configured with --enable-termcap and --disable-getcap.
2564 + fix some inconsistencies between vt320/vt420, e.g., cnorm/civis -TD
2565 + add eslok flag to dec+sl -TD
2566 + dec+sl applies to vt320 and up -TD
2567 + drop wsl width from xterm+sl -TD
2568 + reuse xterm+sl in putty and nsca-m -TD
2569 + add ansi+tabs to vt520 -TD
2570 + add ansi+enq to vt220-vt520 -TD
2571 + fix a compiler warning in example in ncurses-intro.doc (Paul Waring).
2572 + added paragraph in keyname manpage telling how extended capabilities
2573 are interpreted as key definitions.
2574 + modify tic's check of conflicting key definitions to include extended
2575 capability strings in addition to the existing check on predefined
2579 + improve cleanup of temporary files in tic using atexit().
2580 + add msgr to vt420, similar DEC vtXXX entries -TD
2581 + add several missing vt420 capabilities from vt220 -TD
2582 + factor out ansi+pp from several entries -TD
2583 + change xterm+sl and xterm+sl-twm to include only the status-line
2584 capabilities and not "use=xterm", making them more generally useful
2585 as building-blocks -TD
2586 + add dec+sl building block, as example -TD
2589 + add XT to some terminfo entries to improve usefulness for other
2590 applications than screen, which would like to pretend that xterm's
2591 title is a status-line. -TD
2592 + change use-clauses in ansi-mtabs, hp2626, and hp2622 based on review
2593 of ordering and overrides -TD
2594 + add consistency check in tic for screen's "XT" capability.
2595 + add section in terminfo.src summarizing the user-defined capabilities
2596 used in that file -TD
2599 + fix an inconsistency between tic/infocmp "-x" option; tic omits all
2600 non-standard capabilities, while infocmp was ignoring only the user
2601 definable capabilities.
2602 + improve special case in tic parsing of description to allow it to be
2603 followed by terminfo capabilities. Previously the description had to
2604 be the last field on an input line to allow tic to distinguish
2605 between termcap and terminfo format while still allowing commas to be
2606 embedded in the description.
2607 + correct variable name in gen_edit.sh which broke configurability of
2608 the --with-xterm-kbs option.
2609 + revert 2011-07-16 change to "linux" alias, return to "linux2.2" -TD
2610 + further amend 20110910 change, providing for configure-script
2611 override of the "linux" terminfo entry to install and changing the
2612 default for that to "linux2.2" (Debian #665959).
2615 + update Ada95/configure to use CF_DISABLE_ECHO (cf: 20120317).
2616 + correct order of use-clauses in st-256color -TD
2617 + modify configure script to look for gnatgcc if the Ada95 binding
2618 is built, in preference to the default gcc/cc (suggested by
2619 Nicolas Boulenguez).
2620 + modify configure script to ensure that the same -On option used for
2621 the C compiler in CFLAGS is used for ADAFLAGS rather than simply
2622 using "-O3" (suggested by Nicolas Boulenguez)
2625 + amend an old fix so that next_char() exits properly for empty files,
2626 e.g., from reading /dev/null (cf: 20080804).
2627 + modify tic so that it can read from the standard input, or from
2628 a character device. Because tic uses seek's, this requires writing
2629 the data to a temporary file first (prompted by remark by Sven
2630 Joachim) (cf: 20000923).
2633 + correct a check made in lib_napms.c, so that terminfo applications
2634 can again use napms() (cf: 20110604).
2635 + add a note in tic.h regarding required casts for ABSENT_BOOLEAN
2637 + correct scripting for --disable-echo option in test/configure.
2638 + amend check for missing c++ compiler to work when no error is
2639 reported, and no variables set (cf: 20021206).
2640 + add/use configure macro CF_DISABLE_ECHO.
2643 + fix some strict compiler warnings for abi6 and 64-bits.
2644 + use begin_va_copy/end_va_copy macros in lib_printw.c (cf: 20120303).
2645 + improve a limit-check in infocmp.c (Werner Fink):
2648 + minor tidying of terminfo.tail, clarify reason for limitation
2649 regarding mapping of \0 to \200
2650 + minor improvement to _nc_copy_termtype(), using memcpy to replace
2652 + fix no-leaks checking in test/demo_termcap.c to account for multiple
2653 calls to setupterm().
2654 + modified the libgpm change to show previous load as a problem in the
2656 > merge some patches from OpenSUSE rpm (Werner Fink):
2657 + ncurses-5.7-printw.dif, fixes for varargs handling in lib_printw.c
2658 + ncurses-5.7-gpm.dif, do not dlopen libgpm if already loaded by
2660 + ncurses-5.6-fallback.dif, do not free arrays and strings from static
2664 + fix breakage in tic/infocmp from 20120225 (report by Werner Fink).
2667 + modify configure script to allow creating dll's for MinGW when
2669 + add --enable-string-hacks option to control whether strlcat and
2670 strlcpy may be used. The same issue applies to OpenBSD's warnings
2671 about snprintf, noting that this function is weakly standardized.
2672 + add configure checks for strlcat, strlcpy and snprintf, to help
2673 reduce bogus warnings with OpenBSD builds.
2674 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 to supply consistent intptr_t declaration
2676 + update config.guess, config.sub
2679 + correct CF_ETIP_DEFINES configure macro, making it exit properly on
2680 the first success (patch by Pierre Labastie).
2681 + improve configure macro CF_MKSTEMP by moving existence-check for
2682 mkstemp out of the AC_TRY_RUN, to help with cross-compiles.
2683 + improve configure macro CF_FUNC_POLL from luit changes to detect
2684 broken implementations, e.g., with Mac OS X.
2685 + add configure option --with-tparm-arg
2686 + build-fix for MinGW cross-compiling, so that make_hash does not
2687 depend on TTY definition (cf: 20111008).
2690 + make sgr for xterm-pcolor agree with other caps -TD
2691 + make sgr for att5425 agree with other caps -TD
2692 + make sgr for att630 agree with other caps -TD
2693 + make sgr for linux entries agree with other caps -TD
2694 + make sgr for tvi9065 agree with other caps -TD
2695 + make sgr for ncr260vt200an agree with other caps -TD
2696 + make sgr for ncr160vt100pp agree with other caps -TD
2697 + make sgr for ncr260vt300an agree with other caps -TD
2698 + make sgr for aaa-60-dec-rv, aaa+dec agree with other caps -TD
2699 + make sgr for cygwin, cygwinDBG agree with other caps -TD
2700 + add configure option --with-xterm-kbs to simplify configuration for
2701 Linux versus most other systems.
2704 + improved tic -D option, avoid making target directory and provide
2708 + add mach-gnu (Debian #614316, patch by Samuel Thibault)
2709 + add mach-gnu-color, tweaks to mach-gnu terminfo -TD
2710 + make sgr for sun-color agree with smso -TD
2711 + make sgr for prism9 agree with other caps -TD
2712 + make sgr for icl6404 agree with other caps -TD
2713 + make sgr for ofcons agree with other caps -TD
2714 + make sgr for att5410v1, att4415, att620 agree with other caps -TD
2715 + make sgr for aaa-unk, aaa-rv agree with other caps -TD
2716 + make sgr for avt-ns agree with other caps -TD
2717 + amend fix intended to separate fixups for acsc to allow "tic -cv" to
2718 give verbose warnings (cf: 20110730).
2719 + modify misc/gen-edit.sh to make the location of the tabset directory
2720 consistent with misc/Makefile.in, i.e., using ${datadir}/tabset
2721 (Debian #653435, patch by Sven Joachim).
2724 + add --with-lib-prefix option to allow configuring for old/new flavors
2726 + modify check for gnat version to allow for year, as used in FreeBSD
2728 + modify check_existence() in db_iterator.c to simply check if the
2729 path is a directory or file, according to the need. Checking for
2730 directory size also gives no usable result with OS/2 (cf: 20120107).
2731 + support OS/2 kLIBC (patch by KO Myung-Hun).
2734 + several improvements to test/movewindow.c (prompted by discussion on
2736 + modify movement commands to make them continuous
2737 + rewrote the test for mvderwin
2738 + rewrote the test for recursive mvwin
2739 + split-out reusable CF_WITH_NCURSES_ETC macro in test/configure.in
2740 + updated configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, build-fixes for Mac OS X
2742 + regenerated html manpages.
2745 + various improvments for MinGW (Juergen Pfeifer):
2746 + modify stat() calls to ignore the st_size member
2747 + drop mk-dlls.sh script.
2748 + change recommended regular expression library.
2749 + modify rain.c to allow for threaded configuraton.
2750 + modify tset.c to allow for case when size-change logic is not used.
2753 + modify toe's report when -a and -s options are combined, to add
2754 a column showing which entries belong to a given database.
2755 + add -s option to toe, to sort its output.
2756 + modify progs/toe.c, simplifying use of db-iterator results to use
2757 caching improvements from 20111001 and 20111126.
2758 + correct generation of pc-files when ticlib or termlib options are
2759 given to rename the corresponding tic- or tinfo-libraries (report
2763 + document a portability issue with tput, i.e., that scripts which work
2764 with ncurses may fail in other implementations that do no parameter
2766 + add putty-sco entry -TD
2769 + review/fix places in manpages where --program-prefix configure option
2771 + add -D option to infocmp, to show the database locations that it
2773 + fix build for the special case where term-driver, ticlib and termlib
2774 are all enabled. The terminal driver depends on a few features in
2775 the base ncurses library, so tic's dependencies include both ncurses
2777 + fix build work for term-driver when --enable-wgetch-events option is
2779 + use <stdint.h> types to fix some questionable casts to void*.
2782 + modify configure script to check if thread library provides
2783 pthread_mutexattr_settype(), e.g., not provided by Solaris 2.6
2784 + modify configure script to suppress check to define _XOPEN_SOURCE
2785 for IRIX64, since its header files have a conflict versus
2787 + modify configure script to add ".pc" files for tic- and
2788 tinfo-libraries, which were omitted in recent change (cf: 20111126).
2789 + fix inconsistent checks on $PKG_CONFIG variable in configure script.
2792 + modify configure-check for etip.h dependencies, supplying a temporary
2793 copy of ncurses_dll.h since it is a generated file (prompted by
2795 + modify CF_CPP_PARAM_INIT "main" function to work with current C++.
2798 + correct database iterator's check for duplicate entries
2800 + modify database iterator to ignore $TERMCAP when it is not an
2802 + add -D option to tic, to show the database locations that it could
2804 + improve description of database locations in tic manpage.
2805 + modify the configure script to generate a list of the ".pc" files to
2806 generate, rather than deriving the list from the libraries which have
2807 been built (patch by Mike Frysinger).
2808 + use AC_CHECK_TOOLS in preference to AC_PATH_PROGS when searching for
2809 ncurses*-config, e.g., in Ada95/configure and test/configure (adapted
2810 from patch by Mike Frysinger).
2813 + remove obsolete/conflicting fallback definition for _POSIX_SOURCE
2814 from curses.priv.h, fixing a regression with IRIX64 and Tru64
2816 + modify _nc_tic_dir() to ensure that its return-value is nonnull,
2817 i.e., the database iterator was not initialized. This case is needed
2818 to when tic is translating to termcap, rather than loading the
2819 database (cf: 20111001).
2822 + add pccon entries for OpenBSD console (Alexei Malinin).
2823 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 with gcc 4.2.1, setting _XOPEN_SOURCE to
2824 600 to work around inconsistent ifdef'ing of wcstof between C and
2826 + modify capconvert script to accept more than exact match on "xterm",
2827 e.g., the "xterm-*" variants, to exclude from the conversion (patch
2829 + add -lc_r as alternative for -lpthread, allows build of threaded code
2830 in older FreeBSD machines.
2831 + build-fix for MirBSD, which fails when either _XOPEN_SOURCE or
2832 _POSIX_SOURCE are defined.
2833 + fix a typo misc/Makefile.in, used in uninstalling pc-files.
2836 + modify make_db_path() to allow creating "terminfo.db" in the same
2837 directory as an existing "terminfo" directory. This fixes a case
2838 where switching between hashed/filesystem databases would cause the
2839 new hashed database to be installed in the next best location -
2840 root's home directory.
2841 + add variable cf_cv_prog_gnat_correct to those passed to
2842 config.status, fixing a problem with Ada95 builds (cf: 20111022).
2843 + change feature test from _XPG5 to _XOPEN_SOURCE in two places, to
2844 accommodate broken implementations for _XPG6.
2845 + eliminate usage of NULL symbol from etip.h, to reduce header
2847 + add configure check to decide when to add _XOPEN_SOURCE define to
2848 compiler options, i.e., for Solaris 10 and later (cf: 20100403).
2849 This is a workaround for gcc 4.6, which fails to build the c++
2850 binding if that symbol is defined by the application, due to
2851 incorrectly combining the corresponding feature test macros
2852 (report by Peter Kruse).
2855 + correct logic for discarding mouse events, retaining the partial
2856 events used to build up click, double-click, etc, until needed
2858 + fix configure script to avoid creating unused Ada95 makefile when
2860 + cleanup width-related gcc 3.4.3 warnings for 64-bit platform, for the
2861 internal functions of libncurses. The external interface of courses
2862 uses bool, which still produces these warnings.
2865 + improve description of --disable-tic-depends option to make it
2866 clear that it may be useful whether or not the --with-termlib
2867 option is also given (report by Sven Joachim).
2868 + amend termcap equivalent for set_pglen_inch to use the X/Open
2869 "YI" rather than the obsolete Solaris 2.5 "sL" (cf: 990109).
2870 + improve manpage for tgetent differences from termcap library.
2873 + moved static data from db_iterator.c to lib_data.c
2874 + modify db_iterator.c for memory-leak checking, fix one leak.
2875 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to use Requires.private for the parts
2876 of ncurses rather than Requires, as well as Libs.private for the
2877 other library dependencies (prompted by Debian #644728).
2880 + modify tic "-K" option to only set the strict-flag rather than force
2881 source-output. That allows the same flag to control the parser for
2882 input and output of termcap source.
2883 + modify _nc_getent() to ignore backslash at the end of a comment line,
2884 making it consistent with ncurses' parser.
2885 + restore a special-case check for directory needed to make termcap
2886 text files load as if they were databases (cf: 20110924).
2887 + modify tic's resolution/collision checking to attempt to remove the
2888 conflicting alias from the second entry in the pair, which is
2889 normally following in the source file. Also improved the warning
2890 message to make it simpler to see which alias is the problem.
2891 + improve performance of the database iterator by caching search-list.
2894 + add a missing "else" in changes to _nc_read_tic_entry().
2897 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() so that hashed-database is checked before
2899 + updated CF_CURSES_LIBS check in test/configure script.
2900 + modify configure script and makefiles to split TIC_ARGS and
2901 TINFO_ARGS into pieces corresponding to LDFLAGS and LIBS variables,
2902 to help separate searches for tic- and tinfo-libraries (patch by Nick
2904 + build-fix for lib_mouse.c changes (cf: 20110917).
2907 + fix compiler warning for clang 2.9
2908 + improve merging of mouse events (integrated patch by Damien
2910 + correct mask-check used in lib_mouse for wheel mouse buttons 4/5
2911 (patch by Damien Guibouret).
2914 + modify misc/gen_edit.sh to select a "linux" entry which works with
2915 the current kernel rather than assuming it is always "linux3.0"
2917 + revert a change to getmouse() which had the undesirable side-effect
2918 of suppressing button-release events (report by Damien Guibouret,
2920 + add xterm+kbs fragment from xterm #272 -TD
2921 + add configure option --with-pkg-config-libdir to provide control over
2922 the actual directory into which pc-files are installed, do not use
2923 the pkg-config environment variables (discussion with Frederic L W
2925 + add link to mailing-list archive in announce.html.in, as done in
2926 FAQ (prompted by question by Andrius Bentkus).
2927 + improve manpage install by adjusting the "#include" examples to
2928 show the ncurses-subdirectory used when --disable-overwrite option
2930 + install an alias for "curses" to the ncurses manpage, tied to the
2931 --with-curses-h configure option (suggested by Reuben Thomas).
2934 + propagate error-returns from wresize, i.e., the internal
2935 increase_size and decrease_size functions through resize_term (report
2936 by Tim van der Molen, cf: 20020713).
2937 + fix typo in tset manpage (patch by Sven Joachim).
2940 + add a check to ensure that termcap files which might have "^?" do
2941 not use the terminfo interpretation as "\177".
2942 + minor cleanup of X-terminal emulator section of terminfo.src -TD
2943 + add terminator entry -TD
2944 + add simpleterm entry -TD
2945 + improve wattr_get macros by ensuring that if the window pointer is
2946 null, then the attribute and color values returned will be zero
2950 + add substitution for $RPATH_LIST to misc/ncurses-config.in
2951 + improve performance of tic with hashed-database by caching the
2952 database connection, using atexit() to cleanup.
2953 + modify treatment of 2-character aliases at the beginning of termcap
2954 entries so they are not counted in use-resolution, since these are
2955 guaranteed to be unique. Also ignore these aliases when reporting
2956 the primary name of the entry (cf: 20040501)
2957 + double-check gn (generic) flag in terminal descriptions to
2958 accommodate old/buggy termcap databases which misused that feature.
2959 + minor fixes to _nc_tgetent(), ensure buffer is initialized even on
2963 + improve rpath fix from 20110730 by ensuring that the new $RPATH_LIST
2964 variable is defined in the makefiles which use it.
2965 + build-fix for DragonFlyBSD's pkgsrc in test/configure script.
2966 + build-fixes for NetBSD 5.1 with termcap support enabled.
2967 + corrected k9 in dg460-ansi, add other features based on manuals -TD
2968 + improve trimming of whitespace at the end of terminfo/termcap output
2970 + when writing termcap source, ensure that colons in the description
2971 field are translated to a non-delimiter, i.e., "=".
2972 + add "-0" option to tic/infocmp, to make the termcap/terminfo source
2974 + add a null-pointer check when handling the $CC variable.
2977 + modify configure script and makefiles in c++ and progs to allow the
2978 directory used for rpath option to be overridden, e.g., to work
2979 around updates to the variables used by tic during an install.
2980 + add -K option to tic/infocmp, to provide stricter BSD-compatibility
2982 + add _nc_strict_bsd variable in tic library which controls the
2983 "strict" BSD termcap compatibility from 20110723, plus these
2985 + allow escapes such as "\8" and "\9" when reading termcap
2986 + disallow "\a", "\e", "\l", "\s" and "\:" escapes when reading
2987 termcap files, passing through "a", "e", etc.
2988 + expand "\:" as "\072" on output.
2989 + modify _nc_get_token() to reset the token's string value in case
2990 there is a string-typed token lacking the "=" marker.
2991 + fix a few memory leaks in _nc_tgetent.
2992 + fix a few places where reading from a termcap file could refer to
2994 + add an overflow check when converting terminfo/termcap numeric
2995 values, since terminfo stores those in a short, and they must be
2997 + correct internal variables used for translating to termcap "%>"
2998 feature, and translating from termcap %B to terminfo, needed by
2999 tctest (cf: 19991211).
3000 + amend a minor fix to acsc when loading a termcap file to separate it
3001 from warnings needed for tic (cf: 20040710)
3002 + modify logic in _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_tic_entry() to allow
3003 a termcap file to be handled via TERMINFO_DIRS.
3004 + modify _nc_infotocap() to include non-mandatory padding when
3005 translating to termcap.
3006 + modify _nc_read_termcap_entry(), passing a flag in the case where
3007 getcap is used, to reduce interactive warning messages.
3010 + add a check in start_color() to limit color-pairs to 256 when
3011 extended colors are not supported (patch by David Benjamin).
3012 + modify setcchar to omit no-longer-needed OR'ing of color pair in
3013 the SetAttr() macro (patch by David Benjamin).
3014 + add kich1 to sun terminfo entry (Yuri Pankov)
3015 + use bold rather than reverse for smso in sun-color terminfo entry
3017 + improve generation of termcap using tic/infocmp -C option, e.g.,
3018 to correspond with 4.2BSD (prompted by discussion with Yuri Pankov
3019 regarding Schilling's test program):
3020 + translate %02 and %03 to %2 and %3 respectively.
3021 + suppress string capabilities which use %s, not supported by tgoto
3022 + use \040 rather than \s
3023 + expand null characters as \200 rather than \0
3024 + modify configure script to support shared libraries for DragonFlyBSD.
3027 + replace an assert() in _nc_Free_Argument() with a regular null
3028 pointer check (report/analysis by Franjo Ivancic).
3029 + modify configure --enable-pc-files option to take into account the
3030 PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
3031 + add/use xterm+tmux chunk from xterm #271 -TD
3032 + resync xterm-new entry from xterm #271 -TD
3033 + add E3 extended capability to linux-basic (Miroslav Lichvar)
3034 + add linux2.2, linux2.6, linux3.0 entries to give context for E3 -TD
3035 + add SI/SO change to linux2.6 entry (Debian #515609) -TD
3036 + fix inconsistent tabset path in pcmw (Todd C. Miller).
3037 + remove a backslash which continued comment, obscuring altos3
3038 definition with OpenBSD toolset (Nicholas Marriott).
3041 + add workaround from xterm #271 changes to ensure that compiler flags
3042 are not used in the $CC variable.
3043 + improve support for shared libraries, tested with AIX 5.3, 6.1 and
3044 7.1 with both gcc 4.2.4 and cc.
3045 + modify configure checks for AIX to include release 7.x
3046 + add loader flags/libraries to libtool options so that dynamic loading
3047 works properly, adapted from ncurses-5.7-ldflags-with-libtool.patch
3048 at gentoo prefix repository (patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
3051 + move include of nc_termios.h out of term_entry.h, since the latter
3052 is installed, e.g., for tack while the former is not (report by
3056 + improve cleanup() function in lib_tstp.c, using _exit() rather than
3057 exit() and checking for SIGTERM rather than SIGQUIT (prompted by
3058 comments forwarded by Nicholas Marriott).
3059 + reduce name pollution from term.h, moving fallback #define's for
3060 tcgetattr(), etc., to new private header nc_termios.h (report by
3062 + two minor fixes for tracing (patch by Vassili Courzakis).
3063 + improve trace initialization by starting it in use_env() and
3065 + review old email, add details for some changelog entries.
3068 + update minix entry to minix 3.2 (Thomas Cort).
3069 + fix a strict compiler warning in change to wattr_get (cf: 20110528).
3072 + fixes for MirBSD port:
3073 + set default prefix to /usr.
3074 + add support for shared libraries in configure script.
3075 + use S_ISREG and S_ISDIR consistently, with fallback definitions.
3076 + add a few more checks based on ncurses/link_test.
3077 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle sp-funcs renaming of NCURSES_OUTC type.
3080 + add case to CF_SHARED_OPTS for Interix (patch by Markus Duft).
3081 + used ncurses/link_test to check for behavior when the terminal has
3082 not been initialized and when an application passes null pointers
3083 to the library. Added checks to cover this (prompted by Redhat
3085 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to make its main() function call each function
3086 with zero parameters, to help find inconsistent checking for null
3090 + fix warnings from clang 2.7 "--analyze"
3093 + compiler-warning fixes in panel and progs.
3094 + modify CF_PKG_CONFIG macro, from changes to tin -TD
3095 + modify CF_CURSES_FUNCS configure macro, used in test directory
3097 + work around (non-optimizer) bug in gcc 4.2.1 which caused
3098 test-expression to be omitted from executable.
3099 + force the linker to see a link-time expression of a symbol, to
3100 help work around weak-symbol issues.
3103 + update discussion of MKfallback.sh script in INSTALL; normally the
3104 script is used automatically via the configured makefiles. However
3105 there are still occasions when it might be used directly by packagers
3106 (report by Gunter Schaffler).
3107 + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to omit the "-L" option from the
3108 "--libs" output if the library directory is /usr/lib.
3109 + change order of tests for curses.h versus ncurses.h headers in the
3110 configure scripts for Ada95 and test-directories, to look for
3111 ncurses.h, from fixes to tin -TD
3112 + modify ncurses/tinfo/access.c to account for Tandem's root uid
3113 (report by Joachim Schmitz).
3116 + modify rules in Ada95/src/Makefile.in to ensure that the PIC option
3117 is not used when building a static library (report by Nicolas
3119 + Ada95 build-fix for big-endian architectures such as sparc. This
3120 undoes one of the fixes from 20110319, which added an "Unused" member
3121 to representation clauses, replacing that with pragmas to suppress
3122 warnings about unused bits (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
3125 + add check in test/configure for use_window, use_screen.
3126 + add configure-checks for getopt's variables, which may be declared
3127 as different types on some Unix systems.
3128 + add check in test/configure for some legacy curses types of the
3129 function pointer passed to tputs().
3130 + modify init_pair() to accept -1's for color value after
3131 assume_default_colors() has been called (Debian #337095).
3132 + modify test/background.c, adding commmand-line options to demonstrate
3133 assume_default_colors() and use_default_colors().
3136 + modify configure script/source-code to only define _POSIX_SOURCE if
3137 the checks for sigaction and/or termios fail, and if _POSIX_C_SOURCE
3138 and _XOPEN_SOURCE are undefined (report by Valentin Ochs).
3139 + update config.guess, config.sub
3142 + fixes to build c++ binding with clang 3.0 (patch by Alexander
3144 + add check for unctrl.h in test/configure, to work around breakage in
3145 some ncurses packages.
3146 + add "--disable-widec" option to test/configure script.
3147 + add "--with-curses-colr" and "--with-curses-5lib" options to the
3148 test/configure script to address testing with very old machines.
3150 20110404 5.9 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3153 + various build-fixes for the rpm/dpkg scripts.
3154 + add "--enable-rpath-link" option to Ada95/configure, to allow
3155 packages to suppress the rpath feature which is normally used for
3156 the in-tree build of sample programs.
3157 + corrected definition of libdir variable in Ada95/src/Makefile.in,
3158 needed for rpm script.
3159 + add "--with-shared" option to Ada95/configure script, to allow
3160 making the C-language parts of the binding use appropriate compiler
3161 options if building a shared library with gnat.
3164 > portability fixes for Ada95 binding:
3165 + add configure check to ensure that SIGINT works with gnat. This is
3166 needed for the "rain" sample program. If SIGINT does not work, omit
3167 that sample program.
3168 + correct typo in check of $PKG_CONFIG variable in Ada95/configure
3169 + add ncurses_compat.c, to supply functions used in the Ada95 binding
3170 which were added in 5.7 and later.
3171 + modify sed expression in CF_NCURSES_ADDON to eliminate a dependency
3175 + add special check in Ada95/configure script for ncurses6 reentrant
3177 + regen Ada html documentation.
3178 + build-fix for Ada shared libraries versus the varargs workaround.
3179 + add rpm and dpkg scripts for Ada95 and test directories, for test
3181 + update test/configure macros CF_CURSES_LIBS, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and
3183 + add configure check to determine if gnat's project feature supports
3184 libraries, i.e., collections of .ali files.
3185 + make all dereferences in Ada95 samples explicit.
3186 + fix typo in comment in lib_add_wch.c (patch by Petr Pavlu).
3187 + add configure check for, ifdef's for math.h which is in a separate
3188 package on Solaris and potentially not installed (report by Petr
3190 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
3191 + improve type-checking in Ada95 by eliminating a few warning-suppress
3193 + suppress unreferenced warnings.
3194 + make all dereferences in binding explicit.
3197 + regen Ada html documentation.
3198 + change order of -I options from ncurses*-config script when the
3199 --disable-overwrite option was used, so that the subdirectory include
3201 + modify the make-tar.sh scripts to add a MANIFEST and NEWS file.
3202 + modify configure script to provide value for HTML_DIR in
3203 Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, which depends on whether the Ada95 binding is
3204 distributed separately (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
3205 + modify configure script to add "-g" and/or "-O3" to ADAFLAGS if the
3206 CFLAGS for the build has these options.
3207 + amend change from 20070324, to not add 1 to the result of getmaxx
3208 and getmaxy in the Ada binding (report by Nicolas Boulenguez for
3209 thread in comp.lang.ada).
3210 + build-fix Ada95/samples for gnat 4.5
3211 + spelling fixes for Ada95/samples/explain.txt
3212 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
3213 + add item in Trace_Attribute_Set corresponding to TRACE_ATTRS.
3214 + add workaround for binding to set_field_type(), which uses varargs.
3215 The original binding from 990220 relied on the prevalent
3216 implementation of varargs which did not support or need va_copy().
3217 + add dependency on gen/Makefile.in needed for *-panels.ads
3218 + add Library_Options to library.gpr
3219 + add Languages to library.gpr, for gprbuild
3222 + revert changes to limit-checks from 20110122 (Debian #616711).
3223 > minor type-cleanup of Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
3224 + corrected a minor sign error in a field of Low_Level_Field_Type, to
3226 + replaced C_Int by Curses_Bool as return type for some callbacks, see
3228 + modify samples/sample-explain.adb to provide explicit message when
3229 explain.txt is not found.
3232 + improve makefiles for Ada95 tree (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
3233 + fix an off-by-one error in _nc_slk_initialize() from 20100605 fixes
3234 for compiler warnings (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
3235 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to declare unused bits in generated layouts,
3236 needed to compile when chtype is 64-bits using gnat 4.4.5
3238 20110226 5.8 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3241 + update release notes, for 5.8.
3242 + regenerated html manpages.
3243 + change open() in _nc_read_file_entry() to fopen() for consistency
3245 + modify misc/run_tic.in to create parent directory, in case this is
3246 a new install of hashed database.
3247 + fix typo in Ada95/mk-1st.awk which causes error with original awk.
3250 + configure script rpath fixes from xterm #269.
3251 + workaround for cygwin's non-functional features.h, to force ncurses'
3252 configure script to define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED when building
3253 wide-character configuration.
3254 + build-fix in run_tic.sh for OS/2 EMX install
3255 + add cons25-debian entry (patch by Brian M Carlson, Debian #607662).
3258 + regenerated html manpages.
3259 + use _tracef() in show_where() function of tic, to work correctly with
3260 special case of trace configuration.
3263 + add xterm-utf8 entry as a demo of the U8 feature -TD
3264 + add U8 feature to denote entries for terminal emulators which do not
3265 support VT100 SI/SO when processing UTF-8 encoding -TD
3266 + improve the NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS feature by adding a check for an
3267 extended terminfo capability U8 (prompted by mailing list
3271 + start documenting interface changes for upcoming 5.8 release.
3272 + correct limit-checks in derwin().
3273 + correct limit-checks in newwin(), to ensure that windows have nonzero
3274 size (report by Garrett Cooper).
3275 + fix a missing "weak" declaration for pthread_kill (patch by Nicholas
3277 + improve documentation of KEY_ENTER in curs_getch.3x manpage (prompted
3278 by discussion with Kevin Martin).
3281 + modify Ada95/configure script to make the --with-curses-dir option
3282 work without requiring the --with-ncurses option.
3283 + modify test programs to allow them to be built with NetBSD curses.
3284 + document thick- and double-line symbols in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
3285 + document WACS_xxx constants in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
3286 + fix some warnings for clang 2.6 "--analyze"
3287 + modify Ada95 makefiles to make html-documentation with the project
3288 file configuration if that is used.
3289 + update config.guess, config.sub
3292 + regenerated html manpages.
3293 + minor fixes to enable lint when trace is not enabled, e.g., with
3295 + fix typo in man/default_colors.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
3296 + update ncurses/llib-lncurses*
3299 + fix remaining strict compiler warnings in ncurses library ABI=5,
3300 except those dealing with function pointers, etc.
3303 + modify nc_tparm.h, adding guards against repeated inclusion, and
3304 allowing TPARM_ARG to be overridden.
3305 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
3308 + suppress ncv in screen entry, allowing underline (patch by Alejandro
3310 + also suppress ncv in konsole-base -TD
3311 + fixes in wins_nwstr() and related functions to ensure that special
3312 characters, i.e., control characters are handled properly with the
3313 wide-character configuration.
3314 + correct a comparison in wins_nwstr() (Redhat #661506).
3315 + correct help-messages in some of the test-programs, which still
3316 referred to quitting with 'q'.
3319 + add special case to _nc_infotocap() to recognize the setaf/setab
3320 strings from xterm+256color and xterm+88color, and provide a reduced
3321 version which works with termcap.
3322 + remove obsolete emacs "Local Variables" section from documentation
3323 (request by Sven Joachim).
3324 + update doc/html/index.html to include NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html
3325 (report by Sven Joachim).
3328 + modify test/configure and test/Makefile.in to handle this special
3329 case of building within a build-tree (Debian #34182):
3330 mkdir -p build && cd build && ../test/configure && make
3333 + miscellaneous build-fixes for Ada95 and test-directories when built
3335 + use VPATH in makefiles to simplify out-of-tree builds (Debian #34182).
3336 + fix typo in rmso for tek4106 entry -Goran Weinholt
3339 + improve checks in test/configure for X libraries, from xterm #267
3341 + modify test/configure to allow it to use the build-tree's libraries
3342 e.g., when using that to configure the test-programs without the
3343 rpath feature (request by Sven Joachim).
3344 + repurpose "gnome" terminfo entries as "vte", retaining "gnome" items
3345 for compatibility, but generally deprecating those since the VTE
3346 library is what actually defines the behavior of "gnome", etc.,
3350 + compiler warning fixes for test programs.
3351 + various build-fixes for test-programs with pdcurses.
3352 + updated configure checks for X packages in test/configure from xterm
3354 + add configure check to gnatmake, to accommodate cygwin.
3357 + correct list of sub-directories needed in Ada95 tree for building as
3359 + modify scripts in test-directory to improve builds as a separate
3363 + correct parsing of relative tab-stops in tabs program (report by
3365 + adjust configure script so that "t" is not added to library suffix
3366 when weak-symbols are used, allowing the pthread configuration to
3367 more closely match the non-thread naming (report by Werner Fink).
3368 + modify configure check for tic program, used for fallbacks, to a
3369 warning if not found. This makes it simpler to use additonal
3370 scripts to bootstrap the fallbacks code using tic from the build
3371 tree (report by Werner Fink).
3372 + fix several places in configure script using ${variable-value} form.
3373 + modify configure macro CF_LDFLAGS_STATIC to accommodate some loaders
3374 which do not support selectively linking against static libraries
3375 (report by John P. Hartmann)
3376 + fix an unescaped dash in man/tset.1 (report by Sven Joachim).
3379 + correct comparison used for setting 16-colors in linux-16color
3380 entry (Novell #644831) -TD
3381 + improve linux-16color entry, using "dim" for color-8 which makes it
3382 gray rather than black like color-0 -TD
3383 + drop misc/ncu-indent and misc/jpf-indent; they are provided by an
3384 external package "cindent".
3387 + improve linkages in html manpages, adding references to the newer
3388 pages, e.g., *_variables, curs_sp_funcs, curs_threads.
3389 + add checks in tic for inconsistent cursor-movement controls, and for
3390 inconsistent printer-controls.
3391 + fill in no-parameter forms of cursor-movement where a parameterized
3392 form is available -TD
3393 + fill in missing cursor controls where the form of the controls is
3395 + fix inconsistent punctuation in form_variables manpage (patch by
3397 + add parameterized cursor-controls to linux-basic (report by Dae) -TD
3398 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
3399 + document how to build 32-bit libraries in README.MinGW
3400 + fixes to filename computation in mk-dlls.sh.in
3401 + use POSIX locale in mk-dlls.sh.in rather than en_US (report by Sven
3403 + add a check in mk-dlls.sh.in to obtain the size of a pointer to
3404 distinguish between 32-bit and 64-bit hosts. The result is stored
3408 + add "XT" capability to entries for terminals that support both
3409 xterm-style mouse- and title-controls, for "screen" which
3410 special-cases TERM beginning with "xterm" or "rxvt" -TD
3411 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
3412 + use 64-Bit MinGW toolchain (recommended package from TDM, see
3414 + support pthreads when using the TDM MinGW toolchain
3417 + regenerated html manpages.
3418 + minor fixes for symlinks to curs_legacy.3x and curs_slk.3x manpages.
3419 + add manpage for sp-funcs.
3420 + add sp-funcs to test/listused.sh, for documentation aids.
3423 + add manpages for summarizing public variables of curses-, terminfo-
3425 + minor fixes to manpages for consistency (patch by Jason McIntyre).
3426 + modify tic's -I/-C dump to reformat acsc strings into canonical form
3427 (sorted, unique mapping) (cf: 971004).
3428 + add configure check for pthread_kill(), needed for some old
3432 + add configure option --without-tests, to suppress building test
3433 programs (request by Frederic L W Meunier).
3436 + modify nsterm, xnuppc and tek4115 to make sgr/sgr0 consistent -TD
3437 + add check in terminfo source-reader to provide more informative
3438 message when someone attempts to run tic on a compiled terminal
3439 description (prompted by Debian #593920).
3440 + note in infotocap and captoinfo manpages that they read terminal
3441 descriptions from text-files (Debian #593920).
3442 + improve acsc string for vt52, show arrow keys (patch by Benjamin
3446 + document in manpages that "mv" functions first use wmove() to check
3447 the window pointer and whether the position lies within the window
3448 (suggested by Poul-Henning Kamp).
3449 + fixes to curs_color.3x, curs_kernel.3x and wresize.3x manpages (patch
3450 by Tim van der Molen).
3451 + modify configure script to transform library names for tic- and
3452 tinfo-libraries so that those build properly with Mac OS X shared
3453 library configuration.
3454 + modify configure script to ensure that it removes conftest.dSYM
3455 directory leftover on checks with Mac OS X.
3456 + modify configure script to cleanup after check for symbolic links.
3459 + correct a typo in mk-1st.awk (patch by Gabriele Balducci)
3461 + improve configure checks for location of tic and infocmp programs
3462 used for installing database and for generating fallback data,
3463 e.g., for cross-compiling.
3464 + add Markus Kuhn's wcwidth function for compiling MinGW
3465 + add special case to CF_REGEX for cross-compiling to MinGW target.
3468 + modify initialization check for win32con driver to eliminate need for
3469 special case for TERM "unknown", using terminal database if available
3470 (prompted by discussion with Roumen Petrov).
3471 + for MinGW port, ensure that terminal driver is setup if tgetent()
3472 is called (patch by Roumen Petrov).
3473 + document tabs "-0" and "-8" options in manpage.
3474 + fix Debian "lintian" issues with manpages reported in
3475 http://lintian.debian.org/full/csmall@debian.org.html#ncurses
3478 + add a check in tic for missing set_tab if clear_all_tabs given.
3479 + improve use of symbolic links in makefiles by using "-f" option if
3480 it is supported, to eliminate temporary removal of the target
3481 (prompted by http://www.t2-project.org/packages/ncurses.html)
3482 + minor improvement to test/ncurses.c, reset color pairs in 'd' test
3483 after exit from 'm' main-menu command.
3484 + improved ncu-indent, from mawk changes, allows more than one of
3485 GCC_NORETURN, GCC_PRINTFLIKE and GCC_SCANFLIKE on a single line.
3488 + add hard-reset for rs2 to wsvt25 to help ensure that reset ends
3489 the alternate character set (patch by Nicholas Marriott)
3490 + remove tar-copy.sh and related configure/Makefile chunks, since the
3491 Ada95 binding is now installed using rules in Ada95/src.
3494 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
3495 + add/use configure check to turn on project rules for Ada95/src.
3496 + revert the vfork change from 20100130, since it does not work.
3499 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
3500 + old gnatmake (3.15) does not produce libraries using project-file;
3501 work around by adding script to generate alternate makefile.
3504 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
3505 + add configure --with-ada-sharedlib option, for the test_make rule.
3506 + move Ada95-related logic into aclocal.m4, since additional checks
3507 will be needed to distinguish old/new implementations of gnat.
3510 + start integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95 tree
3511 + add test_make / test_clean / test_install rules in Ada95/src
3512 + change install-path for adainclude directory to /usr/share/ada (was
3514 + update Ada95/configure.
3515 + add mlterm+256color entry, for mlterm 3.0.0 -TD
3516 + modify test/configure to use macros to ensure consistent order
3517 of updating LIBS variable.
3520 + change search order of options for Solaris in CF_SHARED_OPTS, to
3521 work with 64-bit compiles.
3522 + correct quoting of assignment in CF_SHARED_OPTS case for aix
3526 + regenerated html documentation.
3527 + modify test/configure to support pkg-config for checking X libraries
3529 + add/use configure macro CF_ADD_LIB to force consistency of
3530 assignments to $LIBS, etc.
3531 + fix configure script for combining --with-pthread
3532 and --enable-weak-symbols options.
3535 + correct cross-compiling configure check for CF_MKSTEMP macro, by
3536 adding a check cache variable set by AC_CHECK_FUNC (report by
3538 + simplify include-dependencies of make_hash and make_keys, to reduce
3539 the need for setting BUILD_CPPFLAGS in cross-compiling when the
3540 build- and target-machines differ.
3541 + repair broken-linker configuration by restoring a definition of SP
3542 variable to curses.priv.h, and adjusting for cases where sp-funcs
3544 + improve configure macro CF_AR_FLAGS, allowing ARFLAGS environment
3545 variable to override (prompted by report by Pablo Cazallas).
3548 + add configure option --enable-pthreads-eintr to control whether the
3549 new EINTR feature is enabled.
3550 + modify logic in pthread configuration to allow EINTR to interrupt
3551 a read operation in wgetch() (Novell #540571, patch by Werner Fink).
3552 + drop mkdirs.sh, use "mkdir -p".
3553 + add configure option --disable-libtool-version, to use the
3554 "-version-number" feature which was added in libtool 1.5 (report by
3555 Peter Haering). The default value for the option uses the newer
3556 feature, which makes libraries generated using libtool compatible
3557 with the standard builds of ncurses.
3558 + updated test/configure to match configure script macros.
3559 + fixes for configure script from lynx changes:
3560 + improve CF_FIND_LINKAGE logic for the case where a function is
3561 found in predefined libraries.
3562 + revert part of change to CF_HEADER (cf: 20100424)
3565 + correct limit-check in wredrawln, accounting for begy/begx values
3566 (patch by David Benjamin).
3567 + fix most compiler warnings from clang.
3568 + amend build-fix for OpenSolaris, to ensure that a system header is
3569 included in curses.h before testing feature symbols, since they
3570 may be defined by that route.
3573 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
3574 + modify configure macro CF_HEADER_PATH to not look for variations in
3575 the predefined include directories.
3576 + improve configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GCC_WARNINGS to work
3577 with gcc 4.x's c89 alias, which gives warning messages for cases
3578 where older versions would produce an error.
3581 + modify _nc_capcmp() to work with cancelled strings.
3582 + correct translation of "^" in _nc_infotocap(), used to transform
3583 terminfo to termcap strings
3584 + add configure --disable-rpath-hack, to allow disabling the feature
3585 which adds rpath options for libraries in unusual places.
3586 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by checking if the rpath option for a given
3587 directory was already added.
3588 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by using ldd to provide a standard list of
3589 directories (which will be ignored).
3592 + improve win_driver.c handling of mouse:
3593 + discard motion events
3594 + avoid calling _nc_timed_wait when there is a mouse event
3595 + handle 4th and "rightmost" buttons.
3596 + quote substitutions in CF_RPATH_HACK_2 configure macro, needed for
3597 cases where there are embedded blanks in the rpath option.
3600 + add configure check for exctags vs ctags, to work around pkgsrc.
3601 + simplify logic in _nc_get_screensize() to make it easier to see how
3602 environment variables may override system- and terminfo-values
3603 (prompted by discussion with Igor Bujna).
3604 + make debug-traces for COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER less verbose.
3605 + improve handling of color-pairs embedded in attributes for the
3606 extended-colors configuration.
3607 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to build link_test with sp-funcs.
3608 + build-fixes for OpenSolaris aka Solaris 11, for wide-character
3609 configuration as well as for rpath feature in *-config scripts.
3612 + refactor CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro, making CF_RPATH_HACK more
3614 + improve configure CF_REGEX, similar fixes.
3615 + improve configure CF_FIND_LINKAGE, adding add check between system
3616 (default) and explicit paths, where we can find the entrypoint in the
3618 + add check if Gpm_Open() returns a -2, e.g., for "xterm". This is
3619 normally suppressed but can be overridden using $NCURSES_GPM_TERMS.
3620 Ensure that Gpm_Close() is called in this case.
3623 + rename atari and st52 terminfo entries to atari-old, st52-old, use
3624 newer entries from FreeMiNT by Guido Flohr (from patch/report by Alan
3628 + modify install-rule for manpages so that *-config manpages will
3629 install when building with --srcdir (report by Sven Joachim).
3630 + modify CF_DISABLE_LEAKS configure macro so that the --enable-leaks
3631 option is not the same as --disable-leaks (GenToo #305889).
3632 + modify #define's for build-compiler to suppress cchar_t symbol from
3633 compile of make_hash and make_keys, improving cross-compilation of
3634 ncursesw (report by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
3635 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to replace all occurrences of
3636 TPUT in tput.1's manpage (Debian #573597, report/analysis by Anders
3640 + generate manpages for the *-config scripts, adapted from help2man
3641 (suggested by Sven Joachim).
3642 + use va_copy() in _nc_printf_string() to avoid conflicting use of
3643 va_list value in _nc_printf_length() (report by Wim Lewis).
3646 + add Ada95/configure script, to use in tar-file created by
3648 + fix typo in wresize.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
3649 + modify screen-bce.XXX entries to exclude ech, since screen's color
3650 model does not clear with color for that feature -TD
3653 + add make-tar.sh scripts to Ada95 and test subdirectories to help with
3654 making those separately distributable.
3655 + build-fix for static libraries without dlsym (Debian #556378).
3656 + fix a syntax error in man/form_field_opts.3x (patch by Ingo
3660 + add several screen-bce.XXX entries -TD
3663 + update mrxvt terminfo entry -TD
3664 + modify win_driver.c to support mouse single-clicks.
3665 + correct name for termlib in ncurses*-config, e.g., if it is renamed
3666 to provide a single file for ncurses/ncursesw libraries (patch by
3670 + use vfork in test/ditto.c if available (request by Mike Frysinger).
3671 + miscellaneous cleanup of manpages.
3672 + fix typo in curs_bkgd.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
3673 + build-fix for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
3676 + for term-driver configuration, ensure that the driver pointer is
3677 initialized in setupterm so that terminfo/termcap programs work.
3678 + amend fix for Debian #542031 to ensure that wattrset() returns only
3679 OK or ERR, rather than the attribute value (report by Miroslav
3681 + reorder WINDOWLIST to put WINDOW data after SCREEN pointer, making
3682 _nc_screen_of() compatible between normal/wide libraries again (patch
3683 by Miroslav Lichvar)
3684 + review/fix include-dependencies in modules files (report by Miroslav
3688 + modify win_driver.c to initialize acs_map for win32 console, so
3689 that line-drawing works.
3690 + modify win_driver.c to initialize TERMINAL struct so that programs
3691 such as test/lrtest.c and test/ncurses.c which test string
3692 capabilities can run.
3693 + modify term-driver modules to eliminate forward-reference
3697 + modify configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., to use CF_ADD_CFLAGS
3698 consistently to add new -D's while removing duplicates.
3699 + modify a few configure macros to consistently put new options
3700 before older in the list.
3701 + add tiparm(), based on review of X/Open Curses Issue 7.
3702 + minor documentation cleanup.
3703 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3704 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
3705 (caveat - its maintainer put 2010 copyright date on files dated 2009)
3708 + minor improvement to tic's checking of similar SGR's to allow for the
3709 most common case of SGR 0.
3710 + modify getmouse() to act as its documentation implied, returning on
3711 each call the preceding event until none are left. When no more
3712 events remain, it will return ERR.
3715 + change order of lookup in progs/tput.c, looking for terminfo data
3716 first. This fixes a confusion between termcap "sg" and terminfo
3717 "sgr" or "sgr0", originally from 990123 changes, but exposed by
3718 20091114 fixes for hashing. With this change, only "dl" and "ed" are
3719 ambiguous (Mandriva #56272).
3722 + add bterm terminfo entry, based on bogl 0.1.18 -TD
3723 + minor fix to rxvt+pcfkeys terminfo entry -TD
3724 + build-fixes for Ada95 tree for gnat 4.4 "style".
3727 + remove old check in mvderwin() which prevented moving a derived
3728 window whose origin happened to coincide with its parent's origin
3729 (report by Katarina Machalkova).
3730 + improve test/ncurses.c to put mouse droppings in the proper window.
3731 + update minix terminfo entry -TD
3732 + add bw (auto-left-margin) to nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler)
3735 + correct transfer of multicolumn characters in multirow
3736 field_buffer(), which stopped at the end of the first row due to
3737 filling of unused entries in a cchar_t array with nulls.
3738 + updated nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler, Emanuele Giaquinta)
3739 + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to show wide-character
3741 + use strdup() in set_menu_mark(), restore .marklen struct member on
3743 + eliminate clause 3 from the UCB copyrights in read_termcap.c and
3745 ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change
3746 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
3747 + replace a malloc in tic.c with strdup, checking for failure (patch by
3749 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3750 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
3753 + correct layout of working window used to extract data in
3754 wide-character configured by set_field_buffer (patch by Rafael
3756 + improve some limit-checks related to filename length in reading and
3757 writing terminfo entries.
3758 + ensure that filename is always filled in when attempting to read
3759 a terminfo entry, so that infocmp can report the filename (patch
3760 by Nicholas Marriott).
3763 + modify mk-1st.awk to allow tinfo library to be built when term-driver
3765 + add error-check to configure script to ensure that sp-funcs is
3766 enabled if term-driver is, since some internal interfaces rely upon
3770 + fix case where progs/tput is used while sp-funcs is configure; this
3771 requires save/restore of out-character function from _nc_prescreen
3772 rather than the SCREEN structure (report by Charles Wilson).
3773 + fix typo in man/curs_trace.3x which caused incorrect symbolic links
3774 + improved configure macros CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES, CF_PROG_LINT.
3778 + updated man/curs_trace.3x
3779 + limit hashing for termcap-names to 2-characters (Ubuntu #481740).
3780 + change a variable name in lib_newwin.c to make it clearer which
3781 value is being freed on error (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
3784 + improve test/ncurses.c color-cycling test by reusing attribute-
3785 and color-cycling logic from the video-attributes screen.
3786 + add ifdef'd with NCURSES_INTEROP_FUNCS experimental bindings in form
3787 library which help make it compatible with interop applications
3788 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3789 + add configure option --enable-interop, for integrating changes
3790 for generic/interop support to form-library by Juergen Pfeifer
3793 + modify use of $CC environment variable which is defined by X/Open
3794 as a curses feature, to ignore it if it is not a single character
3795 (prompted by discussion with Benjamin C W Sittler).
3796 + add START_TRACE in slk_init
3797 + fix a regression in _nc_ripoffline which made test/ncurses.c not show
3798 soft-keys, broken in 20090927 merging.
3799 + change initialization of "hidden" flag for soft-keys from true to
3800 false, broken in 20090704 merging (Ubuntu #464274).
3801 + update nsterm entries (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler, prompted by
3802 discussion with Fabian Groffen in GenToo #206201).
3803 + add test/xterm-256color.dat
3806 + quiet some pedantic gcc warnings.
3807 + modify _nc_wgetch() to check for a -1 in the fifo, e.g., after a
3808 SIGWINCH, and discard that value, to avoid confusing application
3809 (patch by Eygene Ryabinkin, FreeBSD #136223).
3812 + modify handling of $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR to use only the first item in
3813 a possibly colon-separated list (Debian #550716).
3816 + supply a null-terminator to buffer in _nc_viswibuf().
3817 + fix a sign-extension bug in unget_wch() (report by Mike Gran).
3818 + minor fixes to error-returns in default function for tputs, as well
3822 + add WACS_xxx definitions to wide-character configuration for thick-
3823 and double-lines (discussion with Slava Zanko).
3824 + remove unnecessary kcan assignment to ^C from putty (Sven Joachim)
3825 + add ccc and initc capabilities to xterm-16color -TD
3826 > patch by Benjamin C W Sittler:
3828 + correct initc capability of linux-c-nc end-of-range
3829 + similar change for dg+ccc and dgunix+ccc
3832 + move leak-checking for comp_captab.c into _nc_leaks_tinfo() since
3833 that module since 20090711 is in libtinfo.
3834 + add configure option --enable-term-driver, to allow compiling with
3835 terminal-driver. That is used in MinGW port, and (being somewhat
3836 more complicated) is an experimental alternative to the conventional
3837 termlib internals. Currently, it requires the sp-funcs feature to
3839 + completed integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer in ncurses
3840 library (some work remains for forms library).
3843 + document return code from define_key (report by Mike Gran).
3844 + make some symbolic links in the terminfo directory-tree shorter
3845 (patch by Daniel Jacobowitz, forwarded by Sven Joachim).).
3846 + fix some groff warnings in terminfo.5, etc., from recent Debian
3848 + change ncv and op capabilities in sun-color terminfo entry to match
3849 Sun's entry for this (report by Laszlo Peter).
3850 + improve interix smso terminfo capability by using reverse rather than
3851 bold (report by Kristof Zelechovski).
3854 + add some test programs (and make these use the same special keys
3855 by sharing linedata.h functions):
3858 test/test_addchstr.c
3859 test/test_add_wchstr.c
3860 + correct internal _nc_insert_ch() to use _nc_insert_wch() when
3861 inserting wide characters, since the wins_wch() function that it used
3862 did not update the cursor position (report by Ciprian Craciun).
3865 + fix typo s/is_timeout/is_notimeout/ which made "man is_notimeout" not
3867 + add null-pointer checks to other opaque-functions.
3868 + add is_pad() and is_subwin() functions for opaque access to WINDOW
3869 (discussion with Mark Dickinson).
3870 + correct merge to lib_newterm.c, which broke when sp-funcs was
3874 + build-fix for building outside source-tree (report by Sven Joachim).
3875 + fix Debian lintian warning for man/tabs.1 by making section number
3876 agree with file-suffix (report by Sven Joachim).
3877 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3880 + workaround for bug in g++ 4.1-4.4 warnings for wattrset() macro on
3881 amd64 (Debian #542031).
3882 + fix typo in curs_mouse.3x (Debian #429198).
3885 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3888 + correct use of terminfo capabilities for initializing soft-keys,
3889 broken in 20090510 merging.
3890 + modify wgetch() to ensure it checks SIGWINCH when it gets an error
3891 in non-blocking mode (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
3892 + use PATH_SEPARATOR symbol when substituting into run_tic.sh, to
3893 help with builds on non-Unix platforms such as OS/2 EMX.
3894 + modify scripting for misc/run_tic.sh to test configure script's
3895 $cross_compiling variable directly rather than comparing host/build
3896 compiler names (prompted by comment in GenToo #249363).
3897 + fix configure script option --with-database, which was coded as an
3899 + build-fixes for --srcdir (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
3902 + separate _nc_find_entry() and _nc_find_type_entry() from
3903 implementation details of hash function.
3906 + add tabs.1 to man/man_db.renames
3907 + modify lib_addch.c to compensate for removal of wide-character test
3908 from unctrl() in 20090704 (Debian #539735).
3911 + improve discussion in INSTALL for use of system's tic/infocmp for
3912 cross-compiling and building fallbacks.
3913 + modify test/demo_termcap.c to correspond better to options in
3914 test/demo_terminfo.c
3915 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3916 + fix logic for 'V' in test/ncurses.c tests f/F.
3919 + correct logic in tigetnum(), which caused tput program to treat all
3920 string capabilities as numeric (report by Rajeev V Pillai,
3924 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3927 + fix a null-pointer check in _nc_format_slks() in lib_slk.c, from
3929 + modify _nc_find_type_entry() to use hashing.
3930 + make CCHARW_MAX value configurable, noting that changing this would
3931 change the size of cchar_t, and would be ABI-incompatible.
3932 + modify test-programs, e.g,. test/view.c, to address subtle
3933 differences between Tru64/Solaris and HPUX/AIX getcchar() return
3935 + modify length returned by getcchar() to count the trailing null
3936 which is documented in X/Open (cf: 20020427).
3937 + fixes for test programs to build/work on HPUX and AIX, etc.
3940 + improve performance of tigetstr, etc., by using hashing code from tic.
3941 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking.
3942 + add test/demo_terminfo, for comparison with demo_termcap
3945 + remove wide-character checks from unctrl() (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
3946 + revise wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to eliminate dependency on
3948 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3951 + update llib-lncurses[wt] to use sp-funcs.
3952 + various code-fixes to build/work with --disable-macros configure
3954 + add several new files from Juergen Pfeifer which will be used when
3955 integration of "sp-funcs" is complete. This includes a port to
3959 + move definition for NCURSES_WRAPPED_VAR back to ncurses_dll.h, to
3960 make includes of term.h without curses.h work (report by "Nix").
3961 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3964 + fix a regression in lib_tputs.c, from ongoing merges.
3967 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3970 + fix an infinite recursion when adding a legacy-coding 8-bit value
3971 using insch() (report by Clemens Ladisch).
3972 + free home-terminfo string in del_curterm() (patch by Dan Weber).
3973 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3976 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3979 + work around antique BSD game's manipulation of stdscr, etc., versus
3980 SCREEN's copy of the pointer (Debian #528411).
3981 + add a cast to wattrset macro to avoid compiler warning when comparing
3982 its result against ERR (adapted from patch by Matt Kraii, Debian
3986 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).