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31 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
32 working with Pavel Curtis' original work, pcurses, in 1992.
34 Changes through 1.9.9e are recorded by Zeyd M Ben-Halim.
35 Changes since 1.9.9e are recorded by Thomas E Dickey.
37 Contributors include those who have provided patches (even small ones), as well
38 as those who provide useful information (bug reports, analyses). Changes with
39 no cited author are the work of Thomas E Dickey (TD).
41 A few contributors are given in this file by their initials.
42 They each account for one percent or more of the changes since 1.9.9e.
43 See the AUTHORS file for the corresponding full names.
45 Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
46 it is not possible to add this information.
49 + change MKunctrl.awk to reduce relocation table for unctrl.o
50 + change MKkeyname.awk to reduce relocation table for keyname.o
51 (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
54 + modify configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
55 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
56 + modify some modules to allow them to be reentrant if _REENTRANT is
57 defined: lib_baudrate.c, resizeterm.c (local data only)
58 + eliminate static data from some modules: add_tries.c, hardscroll.c,
59 lib_ttyflags.c, lib_twait.c
60 + improve manpage install to add aliases for the transformed program
61 names, e.g., from --program-prefix.
62 + used linklint to verify links in the HTML documentation, made fixes
63 to manpages as needed.
64 + fix a typo in curs_mouse.3x (report by William McBrine).
65 + fix install-rule for ncurses5-config to make the bin-directory.
68 + modify configure script to omit the tic (terminfo compiler) support
69 from ncurses library if --without-progs option is given.
70 + modify install rule for ncurses5-config to do this via "install.libs"
71 + modify shared-library rules to allow FreeBSD 3.x to use rpath.
72 + update config.guess, config.sub
74 20061217 5.6 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
77 + add ifdef's for <wctype.h> for HPUX, which has the corresponding
78 definitions in <wchar.h>.
79 + revert the va_copy() change from 20061202, since it was neither
81 + add $(LOCAL_LIBS) definition to progs/Makefile.in, needed for
83 + ignore wide-acs line-drawing characters that wcwidth() claims are
84 not one-column. This is a workaround for Solaris' broken locale
88 + modify configure --with-gpm option to allow it to accept a parameter,
89 i.e., the name of the dynamic GPM library to load via dlopen()
90 (requested by Bryan Henderson).
91 + add configure option --with-valgrind (from vile).
92 + modify configure script AC_TRY_RUN and AC_TRY_LINK checks to use
93 'return' in preference to 'exit()'.
96 + change default for --with-develop back to "no".
97 + add XTABS to tracing of TTY bits.
98 + updated autoconf patch to ifdef-out the misfeature which declares
99 exit() for configure tests. This fixes a redefinition warning on
101 + use ${CC} rather than ${LD} in shared library rules for IRIX64,
102 Solaris to help ensure that initialization sections are provided for
103 extra linkage requirements, e.g., of C++ applications (prompted by
104 comment by Casper Dik in newsgroup).
105 + rename "$target" in CF_MAN_PAGES to make it easier to distinguish
106 from the autoconf predefined symbol. There was no conflict,
107 since "$target" was used only in the generated edit_man.sh file,
108 but SuSE's rpm package contains a patch.
111 + update man/term.5 to reflect extended terminfo support and hashed
112 database configuration.
113 + updates for test/configure script.
114 + adapted from SuSE rpm package:
115 + remove long-obsolete workaround for broken-linker which declared
117 + improve error recovery in PUTC() macro when wcrtomb() does not
118 return usable results for an 8-bit character.
119 + patches from rpm package (SuSE):
120 + use va_copy() in extra varargs manipulation for tracing version
122 + use a va_list rather than a null in _nc_freeall()'s call to
124 + add some see-also references in manpages to show related
125 wide-character functions (suggested by Claus Fischer).
128 + add a check in lib_color.c to ensure caller does not increase COLORS
129 above max_colors, which is used as an array index (discussion with
131 + add ifdef's allowing ncurses to be built with tparm() using either
132 varargs (the existing status), or using a fixed-parameter list (to
136 + fix redrawing of windows other than stdscr using wredrawln() by
137 touching the corresponding rows in curscr (discussion with Dan
140 + add test/echochar.c
141 + review/cleanup manpage descriptions of error-returns for form- and
142 menu-libraries (prompted by FreeBSD docs/46196).
145 + add AUTHORS file -TD
146 + omit the -D options from output of the new config script --cflags
147 option (suggested by Ralf S Engelschall).
148 + make NCURSES_INLINE unconditionally defined in curses.h
151 + revert change to accommodate bash 3.2, since that breaks other
152 platforms, e.g., Solaris.
153 + minor fixes to NEWS file to simplify scripting to obtain list of
155 + improve some shared-library configure scripting for Linux, FreeBSD
156 and NetBSD to make "--with-shlib-version" work.
157 + change configure-script rules for FreeBSD shared libraries to allow
158 for rpath support in versions past 3.
159 + use $(DESTDIR) in makefile rules for installing/uninstalling the
160 package config script (reports/patches by Christian Wiese,
162 + fix a warning in the configure script for NetBSD 2.0, working around
163 spurious blanks embedded in its ${MAKEFLAGS} symbol.
164 + change test/Makefile to simplify installing test programs in a
165 different directory when --enable-rpath is used.
168 + work around bug in bash 3.2 by adding extra quotes (Jim Gifford).
169 + add/install a package config script, e.g., "ncurses5-config" or
170 "ncursesw5-config", according to configuration options.
173 + add several GNU Screen terminfo variations with 16- and 256-colors,
174 and status line (Alain Bench).
175 + change the way shared libraries (other than libtool) are installed.
176 Rather than copying the build-tree's libraries, link the shared
177 objects into the install directory. This makes the --with-rpath
178 option work except with $(DESTDIR) (cf: 20000930).
181 + fix ifdef in c++/internal.h for QNX 6.1
182 + test-compiled with (old) egcs-1.1.2, modified configure script to
183 not unset the $CXX and related variables which would prevent this.
184 + fix a few terminfo.src typos exposed by improvments to "-f" option.
185 + improve infocmp/tic "-f" option formatting.
188 + make --disable-largefile option work (report by Thomas M Ott).
189 + updated html documentation.
190 + add ka2, kb1, kb3, kc2 to vt220-keypad as an extension -TD
191 + minor improvements to rxvt+pcfkeys -TD
194 + move static data from lib_mouse.c into SCREEN struct.
195 + improve ifdef's for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset to work with Mac OS X
196 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
197 + modify CF_PATH_SYNTAX to ensure it uses the result from --prefix
198 option (from lynx changes) -TD
199 + adapt AC_PROG_EGREP check, noting that this is likely to be another
200 place aggravated by POSIXLY_CORRECT.
201 + modify configure check for awk to ensure that it is found (prompted
202 by report by Christopher Parker).
206 + add kon, kon2 and jfbterm terminfo entry (request by Till Maas) -TD
207 + remove invis capability from klone+sgr, mainly used by linux entry,
208 since it does not really do this -TD
211 + correct logic in wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not guard
212 against passing the multi-column attribute into a call on waddch(),
213 e.g., using data returned by win_wch() (cf: 20041023)
214 (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
217 + fix kterm's acsc string -TD
218 + fix for change to tic/infocmp in 20060819 to ensure no blank is
219 embedded into a termcap description.
220 + workaround for 20050806 ifdef's change to allow visbuf.c to compile
221 when using --with-termlib --with-trace options.
222 + improve tgetstr() by making the return value point into the user's
223 buffer, if provided (patch by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat Bugzilla
225 + correct libraries needed for foldkeys (report by Stanislav Ievlev)
228 + add terminfo entries for xfce terminal (xfce) and multi gnome
230 + add test/foldkeys.c
233 + modify tic and infocmp to avoid writing trailing blanks on terminfo
234 source output (Debian #378783).
235 + modify configure script to ensure that if the C compiler is used
236 rather than the loader in making shared libraries, the $(CFLAGS)
237 variable is also used (Redhat Bugzilla #199369).
238 + port hashed-db code to db2 and db3.
239 + fix a bug in tgetent() from 20060625 and 20060715 changes
240 (patch/analysis by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat Bugzilla #202480)).
243 + updated xterm function-keys terminfo to match xterm #216 -TD
244 + add configure --with-hashed-db option (tested only with FreeBSD 6.0,
245 e.g., the db 1.8.5 interface).
248 + modify toe to access termcap data, e.g., via cgetent() functions,
249 or as a text file if those are not available.
250 + use _nc_basename() in tset to improve $SHELL check for csh/sh.
251 + modify _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_termcap_entry() so infocmp,
252 can access termcap data when the terminfo database is disabled.
255 + widen the test for xterm kmous a little to allow for other strings
256 than \E[M, e.g., for xterm-sco functionality in xterm.
257 + update xterm-related terminfo entries to match xterm patch #216 -TD
258 + update config.guess, config.sub
261 + fix for install-rule in Ada95 to add terminal_interface.ads
262 and terminal_interface.ali (anonymous posting in comp.lang.ada).
263 + correction to manpage for getcchar() (report by William McBrine).
265 + modify wchgat() to mark updated cells as changed so a refresh will
266 repaint those cells (comments by Sadrul H Chowdhury and William
268 + split up dependency of names.c and codes.c in ncurses/Makefile to
269 work with parallel make (report/analysis by Joseph S Myers).
270 + suppress a warning message (which is ignored) for systems without
271 an ldconfig program (patch by Justin Hibbits).
272 + modify configure script --disable-symlinks option to allow one to
273 disable symlink() in tic even when link() does not work (report by
275 + modify MKfallback.sh to use tic -x when constructing fallback tables
276 to allow extended capabilities to be retrieved from a fallback entry.
277 + improve leak-checking logic in tgetent() from 20060625 to ensure that
278 it does not free the current screen (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
281 + add a check for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset (NetBSD #33916).
282 + correct _nc_free_entries() and related functions used for memory leak
286 + revert a minor change for magic-cookie support from 20060513, which
287 caused unexpected reset of attributes, e.g., when resizing test/view
289 + note in clear manpage that the program ignores command-line
290 parameters (prompted by Debian #371855).
291 + fixes to make lib_gen.c build properly with changes to the configure
292 --disable-macros option and NCURSES_NOMACROS (cf: 20060527)
293 + update/correct several terminfo entries -TD
294 + add some notes regarding copyright to terminfo.src -TD
297 + fixes to build Ada95 binding with gnat-4.1.0
298 + modify read_termtype() so the term_names data is always allocated as
299 part of the str_table, a better fix for a memory leak (cf: 20030809).
300 + reduce memory leaks in repeated calls to tgetent() by remembering the
301 last TERMINAL* value allocated to hold the corresponding data and
302 freeing that if the tgetent() result buffer is the same as the
303 previous call (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
304 + modify tack to test extended capability function-key strings.
305 + improved gnome terminfo entry (GenToo #122566).
306 + improved xterm-256color terminfo entry (patch by Alain Bench).
309 + fix two small memory leaks related to repeated tgetent() calls
310 with TERM=screen (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
311 + add --enable-signed-char to simplify Debian package.
312 + reduce name-pollution in term.h by removing #define's for HAVE_xxx
314 + correct typo in curs_terminfo.3x (Debian #369168).
317 + enable the mouse in test/movewindow.c
318 + improve a limit-check in frm_def.c (John Heasley).
319 + minor copyright fixes.
320 + change configure script to produce test/Makefile from data file.
323 + add a configure option --enable-wgetch-events to enable
324 NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS, and correct the associated loop-logic in
325 lib_twait.c (report by Bernd Jendrissek).
326 + remove include/nomacros.h from build, since the ifdef for
327 NCURSES_NOMACROS makes that obsolete.
328 + add entrypoints for some functions which were only provided as macros
329 to make NCURSES_NOMACROS ifdef work properly: getcurx(), getcury(),
330 getbegx(), getbegy(), getmaxx(), getmaxy(), getparx() and getpary(),
332 + provide ifdef for NCURSES_NOMACROS which suppresses most macro
333 definitions from curses.h, i.e., where a macro is defined to override
334 a function to improve performance. Allowing a developer to suppress
335 these definitions can simplify some application (discussion with
337 + improve description of memu/meml in terminfo manpage.
340 + if msgr is false, reset video attributes when doing an automargin
341 wrap to the next line. This makes the ncurses 'k' test work properly
343 + correct caching of keyname(), which was using only half of its table.
344 + minor fixes to memory-leak checking.
345 + make SCREEN._acs_map and SCREEN._screen_acs_map pointers rather than
346 arrays, making ACS_LEN less visible to applications (suggested by
348 + move chunk in SCREEN ifdef'd for USE_WIDEC_SUPPORT to the end, so
349 _screen_acs_map will have the same offset in both ncurses/ncursesw,
350 making the corresponding tinfo/tinfow libraries binary-compatible
351 (cf: 20041016, report by Stanislav Ievlev).
354 + improve debug-tracing for EmitRange().
355 + change default for --with-develop to "yes". Add NCURSES_NO_HARD_TABS
356 and NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE environment variables to allow runtime
357 suppression of the related hard-tabs and xmc-glitch features.
358 + add ncurses version number to top-level manpages, e.g., ncurses, tic,
359 infocmp, terminfo as well as form, menu, panel.
360 + update config.guess, config.sub
361 + modify ncurses.c to work around a bug in NetBSD 3.0 curses
362 (field_buffer returning null for a valid field). The 'r' test
363 appears to not work with that configuration since the new_fieldtype()
364 function is broken in that implementation.
367 + add hpterm-color terminfo entry -TD
368 + fixes to compile test-programs with HPUX 11.23
371 + add copyright notices to files other than those that are generated,
372 data or adapted from pdcurses (reports by William McBrine, David
374 + improve rendering on hpterm by not resetting attributes at the end
375 of doupdate() if the terminal has the magic-cookie feature (report
377 + add 256color variants of terminfo entries for programs which are
378 reported to implement this feature -TD
381 + fix typo in change to NewChar() macro from 20060311 changes, which
382 broke tab-expansion (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
385 + document -U option of tic and infocmp.
386 + modify tic/infocmp to suppress smacs/rmacs when acsc is suppressed
387 due to size limit, e.g., converting to termcap format. Also
388 suppress them if the output format does not contain acsc and it
389 was not VT100-like, i.e., a one-one mapping (Novell #163715).
390 + add configure check to ensure that SIGWINCH is defined on platforms
391 such as OS X which exclude that when _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., are
392 defined (report by Nicholas Cole)
395 + modify write_object() to not write coincidental extensions of an
396 entry made due to it being referenced in a use= clause (report by
398 + another fix for infocmp -i option, which did not ensure that some
399 escape sequences had comparable prefixes (report by Alain Bench).
402 + improve discussion of init/reset in terminfo and tput manpages
403 (report by Alain Bench).
404 + use is3 string for a fallback of rs3 in the reset program; it was
405 using is2 (report by Alain Bench).
406 + correct logic for infocmp -i option, which did not account for
407 multiple digits in a parameter (cf: 20040828) (report by Alain
409 + move _nc_handle_sigwinch() to lib_setup.c to make --with-termlib
410 option work after 20060114 changes (report by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz).
411 + add copyright notices to test-programs as needed (report by William
415 + modify ncurses.c 'F' test to combine the wide-characters with color
416 and/or video attributes.
417 + modify test/ncurses to use CTL/Q or ESC consistently for exiting
418 a test-screen (some commands used 'x' or 'q').
421 + fix an off-by-one in the scrolling-region change (cf_ 20060311).
424 + add checks in waddchnstr() and wadd_wchnstr() to stop copying when
425 a null character is found (report by Igor Bogomazov).
426 + modify progs/Makefile.in to make "tput init" work properly with
427 cygwin, i.e., do not pass a ".exe" in the reference string used
428 in check_aliases (report by Samuel Thibault).
429 + add some checks to ensure current position is within scrolling
430 region before scrolling on a new line (report by Dan Gookin).
431 + change some NewChar() usage to static variables to work around
432 stack garbage introduced when cchar_t is not packed (Redhat #182024).
435 + workarounds to build test/movewindow with PDcurses 2.7.
436 + fix for nsterm-16color entry (patch by Alain Bench).
437 + correct a typo in infocmp manpage (Debian #354281).
440 + add nsterm-16color entry -TD
441 + updated mlterm terminfo entry -TD
442 + remove 970913 feature for copying subwindows as they are moved in
443 mvwin() (discussion with Bryan Christ).
444 + modify test/demo_menus.c to demonstrate moving a menu (both the
445 window and subwindow) using shifted cursor-keys.
446 + start implementing recursive mvwin() in movewindow.c (incomplete).
447 + add a fallback definition for GCC_PRINTFLIKE() in test.priv.h,
448 for movewindow.c (report by William McBrine).
449 + add help-message to test/movewindow.c
452 + add test/movewindow.c, to test mvderwin().
453 + fix ncurses soft-key test so color changes are shown immediately
455 + modify ncurses soft-key test to hide the keys when exiting the test
457 + fixes to build test programs with PDCurses 2.7, e.g., its headers
458 rely on autoconf symbols, and it declares stubs for nonfunctional
459 terminfo and termcap entrypoints.
462 + improved test/configure to build test/ncurses on HPUX 11 using the
464 + documented ALTERNATE CONFIGURATIONS in the ncurses manpage, for the
465 benefit of developers who do not read INSTALL.
468 + correct form library Window_To_Buffer() change (cf: 20040516), which
469 should ignore the video attributes (report by Ricardo Cantu).
472 + minor fixes to xmc-glitch experimental code:
473 + suppress line-drawing
474 + implement max_attributes
476 + minor fixes for the database iterator.
477 + fix some buffer limits in c++ demo (comment by Falk Hueffner in
481 + add toe -a option, to show all databases. This uses new private
482 interfaces in the ncurses library for iterating through the list of
484 + fix toe from 20000909 changes which made it not look at
486 + make toe's -v option parameter optional as per manpage.
487 + improve SIGWINCH handling by postponing its effect during newterm(),
488 etc., when allocating screens.
491 + modify wgetnstr() to return KEY_RESIZE if a sigwinch occurs. Use
492 this in test/filter.c
493 + fix an error in filter() modification which caused some applications
497 + check if filter() was called when getting the screensize. Keep it
498 at 1 if so (based on Redhat #174498).
499 + add extension nofilter().
500 + refined the workaround for ACS mapping.
501 + make ifdef's consistent in curses.h for the extended colors so the
502 header file can be used for the normal curses library. The header
503 file installed for extended colors is a variation of the
504 wide-character configuration (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
507 + add a workaround to ACS mapping to allow applications such as
508 test/blue.c to use the "PC ROM" characters by masking them with
509 A_ALTCHARSET. This worked up til 5.5, but was lost in the revision
510 of legacy coding (report by Michael Deutschmann).
511 + add a null-pointer check in the wide-character version of
512 calculate_actual_width() (report by Victor Julien).
513 + improve test/ncurses 'd' (color-edit) test by allowing the RGB
514 values to be set independently (patch by William McBrine).
515 + modify test/configure script to allow building test programs with
517 + modified test programs to allow some to work with NetBSD curses.
518 Several do not because NetBSD curses implements a subset of X/Open
519 curses, and also lacks much of SVr4 additions. But it's enough for
521 + update config.guess and config.sub
524 + use BSD-specific fix for return-value from cgetent() from CVS where
525 an unknown terminal type would be reportd as "database not found".
526 + make tgetent() return code more readable using new symbols
528 + remove references to non-existent "tctest" program.
529 + remove TESTPROGS from progs/Makefile.in (it was referring to code
530 that was never built in that directory).
531 + typos in curs_addchstr.3x, some doc files (noticed in OpenBSD CVS).
534 + add use_legacy_coding() function to support lynx's font-switching
536 + fix formatting in curs_termcap.3x (report by Mike Frysinger).
537 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to change preprocessor-expanded _Bool back to
541 + extend test/ncurses.c 's' (overlay window) test to exercise overlay(),
542 overwrite() and copywin() with different combinations of colors and
543 attributes (including background color) to make it easy to see the
544 effect of the different functions.
545 + corrections to menu/m_global.c for wide-characters (report by
549 + add configure option --without-dlsym, allowing developers to
550 configure GPM support without using dlsym() (discussion with Michael
552 + fix wins_nwstr(), which did not handle single-column non-8bit codes
556 + move prototypes for wide-character trace functions from curses.tail
557 to curses.wide to avoid accidental reference to those if
558 _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined without ensuring that <wchar.h> is
560 + add/use NCURSES_INLINE definition.
561 + change some internal functions to use int/unsigned rather than the
565 + remove a redundant check in lib_color.c (Debian #335655).
566 + use ld's -search_paths_first option on Darwin to work around odd
567 search rules on that platform (report by Christian Gennerat, analysis
569 + remove special case for Darwin in CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro.
570 + ignore EINTR in tcgetattr/tcsetattr calls (Debian #339518).
571 + fix several bugs in test/bs.c (patch by Stephen Lindholm).
574 + other minor fixes to cygwin based on tack -TD
575 + correct smacs in cygwin (Debian #338234, report by Baurzhan
576 Ismagulov, who noted that it was fixed in Cygwin).
579 + add shifted up/down arrow codes to xterm-new as kind/kri strings -TD
580 + modify wbkgrnd() to avoid clearing the A_CHARTEXT attribute bits
581 since those record the state of multicolumn characters (Debian
583 + modify werase to clear multicolumn characters that extend into
584 a derived window (Debian #316663).
587 + move assignment from environment variable ESCDELAY from initscr()
588 down to newterm() so the environment variable affects timeouts for
589 terminals opened with newterm() as well.
590 + fix a memory leak in keyname().
591 + add test/demo_altkeys.c
592 + modify test/demo_defkey.c to exit from loop via 'q' to allow
593 leak-checking, as well as fix a buffer size in winnstr() call.
596 + correct order of use-clauses in rxvt-basic entry which made codes for
597 f1-f4 vt100-style rather than vt220-style (report by Gabor Z Papp).
598 + suppress configure check for gnatmake if Ada95/Makefile.in is not
600 + correct a typo in configure --with-bool option for the case where
601 --without-cxx is used (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
602 + add a note to INSTALL's discussion of --with-normal, pointing out
603 that one may wish to use --without-gpm to ensure a completely
604 static link (prompted by report by Felix von Leitner).
606 20051010 5.5 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
609 + document in demo_forms.c some portability issues.
612 + document side-effect of werase() which sets the cursor position.
613 + save/restore the current position in form field editing to make
617 + correct header dependencies in progs, allowing parallel make (report
618 by Daniel Jacobowitz).
619 + modify CF_BUILD_CC to ensure that pre-setting $BUILD_CC overrides
620 the configure check for --with-build-cc (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
621 + modify CF_CFG_DEFAULTS to not use /usr as the default prefix for
623 + update config.guess and config.sub from
624 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
627 + modify sed expression which computes path for /usr/lib/terminfo
628 symbolic link in install to ensure that it does not change unexpected
629 levels of the path (Gentoo #42336).
630 + modify default for --disable-lp64 configure option to reduce impact
631 on existing 64-bit builds. Enabling the _LP64 option may change the
632 size of chtype and mmask_t. However, for ABI 6, it is enabled by
633 default (report by Mike Frysinger).
634 + add configure script check for --enable-ext-mouse, bump ABI to 6 by
635 default if it is used.
636 + improve configure script logic for bumping ABI to omit this if the
637 --with-abi-version option was used.
638 + update address for Free Software Foundation in tack's source.
639 + correct wins_wch(), which was not marking the filler-cells of
640 multi-column characters (cf: 20041023).
643 + modify mouse initialization to ensure that Gpm_Open() is called only
644 once. Otherwise GPM gets confused in its initialization of signal
645 handlers (Debian #326709).
648 + modify logic for backspacing in a multiline form field to ensure that
649 it works even when the preceding line is full (report by Frank van
651 + remove comment about BUGS section of ncurses manpage (Debian #325481)
654 + document some workarounds for shared and libtool library
655 configurations in INSTALL (see --with-shared and --with-libtool).
656 + modify CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GXX_VERSION macros to accommodate
657 cross-compilers which emit the platform name in their version
659 arm-sa1100-linux-gnu-g++ (GCC) 4.0.1
660 (report by Frank van Vugt).
663 + start updating documentation for upcoming 5.5 release.
664 + fix to make libtool and libtinfo work together again (cf: 20050122).
665 + fixes to allow building traces into libtinfo
666 + add debug trace to tic that shows if/how ncurses will write to the
667 lower corner of a terminal's screen.
668 + update llib-l* files.
671 + modify initializers in c++ binding to build with old versions of g++.
672 + improve special case for 20050115 repainting fix, ensuring that if
673 the first changed cell is not a character that the range to be
674 repainted is adjusted to start at a character's beginning (Debian
678 + fixes to build on QNX 6.1
679 + improve configure script checks for Intel 9.0 compiler.
680 + remove #include's for libc.h (obsolete).
681 + adjust ifdef's in curses.priv.h so that when cross-compiling to
682 produce comp_hash and make_keys, no dependency on wchar.h is needed.
683 That simplifies the build-cppflags (report by Frank van Vugt).
684 + move modules related to key-binding into libtinfo to fix linkage
685 problem caused by 20050430 changes to MKkeyname.sh (report by
689 + updates/fixes for configure script macros from vile -TD
690 + make prism9's sgr string agree with the rest of the terminfo -TD
691 + make vt220's sgr0 string consistent with sgr string, do this for
692 several related cases -TD
693 + improve translation to termcap by filtering the 'me' (sgr0) strings
694 as in the runtime call to tgetent() (prompted by a discussion with
696 + improve tic check for sgr0 versus sgr(0), to help ensure that sgr0
700 + fix special cases for trimming sgr0 for hurd and vt220 (Debian
702 + split-out _nc_trim_sgr0() from modifications made to tgetent(), to
703 allow it to be used by tic to provide information about the runtime
704 changes that would be made to sgr0 for termcap applications.
705 + modify make_sed.sh to make the group-name in the NAME section of
706 form/menu library manpage agree with the TITLE string when renaming
707 is done for Debian (Debian #78866).
710 + modify parameter type in c++ binding for insch() and mvwinsch() to
711 be consistent with underlying ncurses library (was char, is chtype).
712 + modify treatment of Intel compiler to allow _GNU_SOURCE to be defined
714 + improve configure check for nanosleep(), checking that it works since
715 some older systems such as AIX 4.3 have a nonworking version.
718 + update config.guess and config.sub from
719 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
720 + modify misc/shlib to work in test-directory.
721 + suppress $suffix in misc/run_tic.sh when cross-compiling. This
722 allows cross-compiles to use the host's tic program to handle the
723 "make install.data" step.
724 + improve description of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables in manpages
725 (prompted by report by Dave Ulrick).
726 + improve description of cross-compiling in INSTALL
727 + add NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html by Pradeep Padala
728 (see http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/).
729 + modify configure script to obtain soname for GPM library (discussion
730 with Daniel Jacobowitz).
731 + modify configure script so that --with-chtype option will still
732 compute the unsigned literals suffix for constants in curses.h
733 (report by Daniel Jacobowitz:
734 + patches from Daniel Jacobowitz:
735 + the man_db.renames entry for tack.1 was backwards.
736 + tack.1 had some 1m's that should have been 1M's.
737 + the section for curs_inwstr.3 was wrong.
740 + correction to --with-chtype option (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
743 + move build-time edit_man.sh and edit_man.sed scripts to top directory
744 to simplify reusing them for renaming tack's manpage (prompted by a
745 review of Debian package).
746 + revert minor optimization from 20041030 (Debian #313609).
747 + libtool-specific fixes, tested with libtool 1.4.3, 1.5.0, 1.5.6,
748 1.5.10 and 1.5.18 (all work except as noted previously for the c++
749 install using libtool 1.5.0):
750 + modify the clean-rule in c++/Makefile.in to work with IRIX64 make
752 + use $(LIBTOOL_UNINSTALL) symbol, overlooked in 20030830
753 + add configure options --with-chtype and --with-mmask-t, to allow
754 overriding of the non-LP64 model's use of the corresponding types.
755 + revise test for size of chtype (and mmask_t), which always returned
756 "long" due to an uninitialized variable (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
759 + change _tracef's that used "%p" format for va_list values to ignore
760 that, since on some platforms those are not pointers.
761 + fixes for long-formats in printf's due to largefile support.
764 + fixes for termcap support:
765 + reset pointer to _nc_curr_token.tk_name when the input stream is
766 closed, which could point to free memory (cf: 20030215).
767 + delink TERMTYPE data which is used by the termcap reader, so that
768 extended names data will be freed consistently.
769 + free pointer to TERMTYPE data in _nc_free_termtype() rather than
771 + add some entrypoints for freeing permanently allocated data via
772 _nc_freeall() when NO_LEAKS is defined.
773 + amend 20041030 change to _nc_do_color to ensure that optimization is
774 applied only when the terminal supports back_color_erase (bce).
777 + add sun-color terminfo entry -TD
778 + correct a missing assignment in c++ binding's method
779 NCursesPanel::UserPointer() from 20050409 changes.
780 + improve configure check for large-files, adding check for dirent64
782 + minor change to configure script to improve linker options for the
786 + document error conditions for ncurses library functions (report by
788 + regenerated html documentation for ada binding.
789 see ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/gnathtml
792 + regenerated html documentation for manpages.
793 + add $(BUILD_EXEEXT) suffix to invocation of make_keys in
794 ncurses/Makefile (Gentoo #89772).
795 + modify c++/demo.cc to build with g++ -fno-implicit-templates option
796 (patch by Mike Frysinger).
797 + modify tic to filter out long extended names when translating to
798 termcap format. Only two characters are permissible for termcap
802 + modify terminfo entries xterm-new and rxvt to add strings for
803 shift-, control-cursor keys.
804 + workaround to allow c++ binding to compile with g++ 2.95.3, which
805 has a broken implementation of static_cast<> (patch by Jeff Chua).
806 + modify initialization of key lookup table so that if an extended
807 capability (tic -x) string is defined, and its name begins with 'k',
808 it will automatically be treated as a key.
809 + modify test/keynames.c to allow for the possibility of extended
810 key names, e.g., via define_key(), or via "tic -x".
811 + add test/demo_termcap.c to show the contents of given entry via the
815 + minor fixes for vt100/vt52 entries -TD
816 + add configure option --enable-largefile
817 + corrected libraries used to build Ada95/gen/gen, found in testing
821 + update config.guess, config.sub
822 + modify configure script check for _XOPEN_SOURCE, disable that on
823 Darwin whose header files have problems (patch by Chris Zubrzycki).
824 + modify form library Is_Printable_String() to use iswprint() rather
825 than wcwidth() for determining if a character is printable. The
826 latter caused it to reject menu items containing non-spacing
828 + modify ncurses test program's F-test to handle non-spacing characters
829 by combining them with a reverse-video blank.
830 + review/fix several gcc -Wconversion warnings.
833 + correct an off-by-one error in m_driver() for mouse-clicks used to
834 position the mouse to a particular item.
835 + implement test/demo_menus.c
836 + add some checks in lib_mouse to ensure SP is set.
837 + modify C++ binding to make 20050403 changes work with the configure
838 --enable-const option.
841 + modify start_color() to return ERR if it cannot allocate memory.
842 + address g++ compiler warnings in C++ binding by adding explicit
843 member initialization, assignment operators and copy constructors.
844 Most of the changes simply preserve the existing semantics of the
845 binding, which can leak memory, etc., but by making these features
846 visible, it provides a framework for improving the binding.
847 + improve C++ binding using static_cast, etc.
848 + modify configure script --enable-warnings to add options to g++ to
849 correspond to the gcc --enable-warnings.
850 + modify C++ binding to use some C internal functions to make it
851 compile properly on Solaris (and other platforms).
854 + amend change from 20050320 to limit it to configurations with a
856 + fix a bug introduced in 20050320 which broke the translation of
857 nonprinting characters to uparrow form (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
860 + add ifdef's for _LP64 in curses.h to avoid using wasteful 64-bits for
861 chtype and mmask_t, but add configure option --disable-lp64 in case
862 anyone used that configuration.
863 + update misc/shlib script to account for Mac OS X (report by Michail
865 + correct comparison for wrapping multibyte characters in
866 waddch_literal() (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
869 + add -c and -w options to tset to allow user to suppress ncurses'
870 resizing of the terminal emulator window in the special case where it
871 is not able to detect the true size (report by Win Delvaux, Debian
873 + modify waddch_nosync() to account for locale zn_CH.GBK, which uses
874 codes 128-159 as part of multibyte characters (report by Wang
875 WenRui, Debian #300512).
878 + modify ncurses.c 'd' test to make it work with 88-color
879 configuration, i.e., by implementing scrolling.
880 + improve scrolling in ncurses.c 'c' and 'C' tests, e.g., for 88-color
884 + change tracemunch to use strict checking.
885 + modify ncurses.c 'p' test to test line-drawing within a pad.
886 + implement environment variable NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS to support
887 miscellaneous terminal emulators which ignore alternate character
888 set escape sequences when in UTF-8 mode.
891 + change NCursesWindow::err_handler() to a virtual function (request by
893 + modify fty_int.c and fty_num.c to handle wide characters (report by
895 + adapt fix for fty_alpha.c to fty_alnum.c, which also handled normal
896 and wide characters inconsistently (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
897 + update llib-* files to reflect internal interface additions/changes.
900 + improve test/configure script, adding tests for _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc.,
902 + add aixterm-16color terminfo entry -TD
903 + modified xterm-new terminfo entry to work with tgetent() changes -TD
904 + extended changes in tgetent() from 20040710 to allow the substring of
905 sgr0 which matches rmacs to be at the beginning of the sgr0 string
906 (request by Thomas Wolff). Wolff says the visual effect in
907 combination with pre-20040710 ncurses is improved.
908 + fix off-by-one in winnstr() call which caused form field validation
909 of multibyte characters to ignore the last character in a field.
910 + correct logic in winsch() for inserting multibyte strings; the code
911 would clear cells after the insertion rather than push them to the
912 right (cf: 20040228).
913 + fix an inconsistency in Check_Alpha_Field() between normal and wide
914 character logic (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
917 + fix a bug in editing wide-characters in form library: deleting a
918 nonwide character modified the previous wide-character.
919 + update manpage to describe NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2.
920 + correct manpage description of mouseinterval() (Debian #280687).
921 + add a note to default_colors.3x explaining why this extension was
922 added (Debian #295083).
923 + add traces to panel library.
926 + improve editing of wide-characters in form library: left/right
927 cursor movement, and single-character deletions work properly.
928 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM happens to be prefixed with
929 "xterm". Gpm_Open() would otherwise assert that it can deal with
930 mouse events in this case.
931 + modify GPM mouse support so it closes the server connection when
932 the caller disables the mouse (report by Stanislav Ievlev).
935 + add traces for callback functions in form library.
936 + add experimental configure option --enable-ext-mouse, which defines
937 NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2, and modifies the encoding of mouse events to
938 support wheel mice, which may transmit buttons 4 and 5. This works
939 with xterm and similar X terminal emulators (prompted by question by
940 Andreas Henningsson, this is also related to Debian #230990).
941 + improve configure macros CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE to
942 avoid redefinition warnings on cygwin.
945 + merge remaining development changes for extended colors (mostly
946 complete, does not appear to break other configurations).
947 + add xterm-88color.dat (part of extended colors testing).
948 + improve _tracedump() handling of color pairs past 96.
949 + modify return-value from start_color() to return OK if colors have
950 already been started.
951 + modify curs_color.3x list error conditions for init_pair(),
952 pair_content() and color_content().
953 + modify pair_content() to return -1 for consistency with init_pair()
954 if it corresponds to the default-color.
955 + change internal representation of default-color to allow application
956 to use color number 255. This does not affect the total number of
957 color pairs which are allowed.
958 + add a top-level tags rule.
961 + add a null-pointer check in wgetch() in case it is called without
962 first calling initscr().
963 + add some null-pointer checks for SP, which is not set by libtinfo.
964 + modify misc/shlib to ensure that absolute pathnames are used.
965 + modify test/Makefile.in, etc., to link test programs only against the
966 libraries needed, e.g., omit form/menu/panel library for the ones
967 that are curses-specific.
968 + change SP->_current_attr to a pointer, adjust ifdef's to ensure that
969 libtinfo.so and libtinfow.so have the same ABI. The reason for this
970 is that the corresponding data which belongs to the upper-level
971 ncurses library has a different size in each model (report by
975 + minor fixes to allow test-compiles with g++.
976 + correct column value shown in tic's warnings, which did not account
977 for leading whitespace.
978 + add a check in _nc_trans_string() for improperly ended strings, i.e.,
979 where a following line begins in column 1.
980 + modify _nc_save_str() to return a null pointer on buffer overflow.
981 + improve repainting while scrolling wide-character data (Eungkyu Song).
984 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
987 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
988 + fix manpage typo (FreeBSD report docs/75544).
989 + update config.guess, config.sub
990 > patches for configure script (Albert Chin-A-Young):
991 + improved fix to make mbstate_t recognized on HPUX 11i (cf:
992 20030705), making vsscanf() prototype visible on IRIX64. Tested for
993 on HP-UX 11i, Solaris 7, 8, 9, AIX 4.3.3, 5.2, Tru64 UNIX 4.0D, 5.1,
994 IRIX64 6.5, Redhat Linux 7.1, 9, and RHEL 2.1, 3.0.
995 + print the result of the --disable-home-terminfo option.
996 + use -rpath when compiling with SGI C compiler.
999 + add trace calls to remaining public functions in form and menu
1001 + fix check for numeric digits in test/ncurses.c 'b' and 'B' tests.
1002 + fix typo in test/ncurses.c 'c' test from 20041218.
1005 + revise test/ncurses.c 'c' color test to improve use for xterm-88color
1006 and xterm-256color, added 'C' test using the wide-character color_set
1007 and attr_set functions.
1010 + modify configure script to work with Intel compiler.
1011 + fix an limit-check in wadd_wchnstr() which caused labels in the
1012 forms-demo to be one character short.
1013 + fix typo in curs_addchstr.3x (Jared Yanovich).
1014 + add trace calls to most functions in form and menu libraries.
1015 + update working-position for adding wide-characters when window is
1016 scrolled (prompted by related report by Eungkyu Song).
1019 + replace some references on Linux to wcrtomb() which use it to obtain
1020 the length of a multibyte string with _nc_wcrtomb, since wcrtomb() is
1021 broken in glibc (see Debian #284260).
1022 + corrected length-computation in wide-character support for
1024 + some fixes to frm_driver.c to allow it to accept multibyte input.
1025 + modify configure script to work with Intel 8.0 compiler.
1028 + amend change to setupterm() in 20030405 which would reuse the value
1029 of cur_term if the same output was selected. This now reuses it only
1030 when setupterm() is called from tgetent(), which has no notion of
1031 separate SCREENs. Note that tgetent() must be called after initscr()
1032 or newterm() to use this feature (Redhat Bugzilla #140326).
1033 + add a check in CF_BUILD_CC macro to ensure that developer has given
1034 the --with-build-cc option when cross-compiling (report by Alexandre
1036 + improved configure script checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE and
1037 _POSIX_C_SOURCE (fix for IRIX 5.3 from Georg Schwarz, _POSIX_C_SOURCE
1039 + cosmetic fix to test/gdc.c to recolor the bottom edge of the box
1040 for consistency (comment by Dan Nelson).
1043 + update wsvt25 terminfo entry -TD
1044 + modify test/ins_wide.c to test all flavors of ins_wstr().
1045 + ignore filler-cells in wadd_wchnstr() when adding a cchar_t array
1046 which consists of multi-column characters, since this function
1047 constructs them (cf: 20041023).
1048 + modify winnstr() to return multibyte character strings for the
1049 wide-character configuration.
1052 + fixes to make slk_set() and slk_wset() accept and store multibyte
1053 or multicolumn characters.
1056 + improve color optimization a little by making _nc_do_color() check
1057 if the old/new pairs are equivalent to the default pair 0.
1058 + modify assume_default_colors() to not require that
1059 use_default_colors() be called first.
1062 + modify term_attrs() to use termattrs(), add the extended attributes
1063 such as enter_horizontal_hl_mode for WA_HORIZONTAL to term_attrs().
1064 + add logic in waddch_literal() to clear orphaned cells when one
1065 multi-column character partly overwrites another.
1066 + improved logic for clearing cells when a multi-column character
1067 must be wrapped to a new line.
1068 + revise storage of cells for multi-column characters to correct a
1069 problem with repainting. In the old scheme, it was possible for
1070 doupdate() to decide that only part of a multi-column character
1071 should be repainted since the filler cells stored only an attribute
1072 to denote them as fillers, rather than the character value and the
1076 + minor fixes for traces.
1077 + add SP->_screen_acs_map[], used to ensure that mapping of missing
1078 line-drawing characters is handled properly. For example, ACS_DARROW
1079 is absent from xterm-new, and it was coincidentally displayed the
1083 + amend 20021221 workaround for broken acs to reset the sgr, rmacs
1084 and smacs strings as well. Also modify the check for screen's
1085 limitations in that area to allow the multi-character shift-in
1086 and shift-out which seem to work.
1087 + change GPM initialization, using dl library to load it dynamically
1088 at runtime (Debian #110586).
1091 + correct logic for color pair in setcchar() and getcchar() (patch by
1092 Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
1093 + add t/T commands to ncurses b/B tests to allow a different color to
1094 be tested for the attrset part of the test than is used in the
1098 + fix to make setcchar() to work when its wchar_t* parameter is
1099 pointing to a string which contains more data than can be converted.
1100 + modify wget_wstr() and example in ncurses.c to work if wchar_t and
1101 wint_t are different sizes (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
1104 + remove check in wget_wch() added to fix an infinite loop, appears to
1105 have been working around a transitory glibc bug, and interferes
1106 with normal operation (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
1107 + correct wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not pass the rendition
1108 information (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
1109 + fix aclocal.m4 so that the wide-character version of ncurses gets
1110 compiled as libncursesw.5.dylib, instead of libncurses.5w.dylib
1111 (adapted from patch by James J Ramsey).
1112 + change configure script for --with-caps option to indicate that it
1113 is no longer experimental.
1114 + change configure script to reflect the fact that --enable-widec has
1115 not been "experimental" since 5.3 (report by Bruno Lustosa).
1118 + add 'B' test to ncurses.c, to exercise some wide-character functions.
1121 + modify infocmp -i option to match 8-bit controls against its table
1122 entries, e.g., so it can analyze the xterm-8bit entry.
1123 + add morphos terminfo entry, improve amiga-8bit entry (Pavel Fedin).
1124 + correct translation of "%%" in terminfo format to termcap, e.g.,
1125 using "tic -C" (Redhat Bugzilla #130921).
1126 + modified configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to ensure that if
1127 it defines _POSIX_C_SOURCE, that it defines it to a specific value
1128 (comp.os.stratus newsgroup comment).
1131 + fixes to build with Ada95 binding with gnat 3.4 (all warnings are
1132 fatal, and gnat does not follow the guidelines for pragmas).
1133 However that did find a coding error in Assume_Default_Colors().
1134 + modify several terminfo entries to ensure xterm mouse and cursor
1135 visibility are reset in rs2 string: hurd, putty, gnome,
1136 konsole-base, mlterm, Eterm, screen (Debian #265784, #55637). The
1137 xterm entries are left alone - old ones for compatibility, and the
1138 new ones do not require this change. -TD
1141 + fake a SIGWINCH in newterm() to accommodate buggy terminal emulators
1142 and window managers (Debian #265631).
1143 > terminfo updates -TD
1144 + remove dch/dch1 from rxvt because they are implemented inconsistently
1145 with the common usage of bce/ech
1146 + remove khome from vt220 (vt220's have no home key)
1150 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test, adding v/V toggles to cycle through
1151 combinations of video attributes so that for instance bold and
1152 underline can be tested. This made the legend too crowded, added
1153 a help window as well.
1154 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test to cycle through default colors if
1155 the -d option is set.
1156 + update putty terminfo entry (Robert de Bath).
1159 + modify test/cardfile.c to allow it to read more data than can be
1161 + correct logic in resizeterm.c which kept it from processing all
1162 levels of window hierarchy (reports by Folkert van Heusden,
1166 + modify "tic -cv" to ignore delays when comparing strings. Also
1167 modify it to ignore a canceled sgr string, e.g., for terminals which
1168 cannot properly combine attributes in one control sequence.
1169 + corrections for gnome and konsole entries (Redhat Bugzilla #122815,
1170 patch by Hans de Goede)
1171 > terminfo updates -TD
1172 + make ncsa-m rmacs/smacs consistent with sgr
1173 + add sgr, rc/sc and ech to syscons entries
1174 + add function-keys to decansi
1175 + add sgr to mterm-ansi
1176 + add sgr, civis, cnorm to emu
1177 + correct/simplify cup in addrinfo
1180 > terminfo updates -TD
1181 + add xterm-pc-fkeys
1182 + review/update gnome and gnome-rh90 entries (prompted by Redhat
1184 + review/update konsole entries
1185 + add sgr, correct sgr0 for kterm and mlterm
1186 + correct tsl string in kterm
1189 + add configure option --without-xterm-new
1192 + add check in wget_wch() for printable bytes that are not part of a
1193 multibyte character.
1194 + modify wadd_wchnstr() to render text using window's background
1196 + improve tic's check to compare sgr and sgr0.
1197 + fix c++ directory's .cc.i rule.
1198 + modify logic in tgetent() which adjusts the termcap "me" string
1199 to work with ISO-2022 string used in xterm-new (cf: 20010908).
1200 + modify tic's check for conflicting function keys to omit that if
1201 converting termcap to termcap format.
1202 + add -U option to tic and infocmp.
1203 + add rmam/smam to linux terminfo entry (Trevor Van Bremen)
1204 > terminfo updates -TD
1205 + minor fixes for emu
1207 + change wyse acsc strings to use 'i' map rather than 'I'
1212 + use tic -x to install terminfo database -TD
1213 + add -x to infocmp's usage message.
1214 + correct field used for comparing O_ROWMAJOR in set_menu_format()
1215 (report/patch by Tony Li).
1216 + fix a missing nul check in set_field_buffer() from 20040508 changes.
1217 > terminfo updates -TD
1218 + make xterm-xf86-v43 derived from xterm-xf86-v40 rather than
1220 + align with xterm patch #192's use of xterm-new -TD
1221 + update xterm-new and xterm-8bit for cvvis/cnorm strings -TD
1222 + make xterm-new the default "xterm" entry -TD
1225 + correct BUILD_CPPFLAGS substitution in ncurses/Makefile.in, to allow
1226 cross-compiling from a separate directory tree (report/patch by
1228 + modify is_term_resized() to ensure that window sizes are nonzero,
1229 as documented in the manpage (report by Ian Collier).
1230 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro to make Hurd port build
1231 (Debian #249214, report/patch by Jeff Bailey).
1232 + configure-script mods from xterm, e.g., updates to CF_ADD_CFLAGS
1233 + update config.guess, config.sub
1234 > terminfo updates -TD
1236 + add xterm-xf86-v44
1237 + modify xterm-new aka xterm-xfree86 to accommodate luit, which
1238 relies on G1 being used via an ISO-2022 escape sequence (report by
1243 + reconsidered winsnstr(), decided after comparing other
1244 implementations that wrapping is an X/Open documentation error.
1245 + modify test/inserts.c to test all flavors of insstr().
1248 + add setlocale() calls to a few test programs which may require it:
1249 demo_forms.c, filter.c, ins_wide.c, inserts.c
1250 + correct a few misspelled function names in ncurses-intro.html (report
1252 + correct internal name of key_defined() manpage, which conflicted with
1256 + correct size of internal pad used for holding wide-character
1257 field_buffer() results.
1258 + modify data_ahead() to work with wide-characters.
1261 + improve description of terminfo if-then-else expressions (suggested
1263 + improve test/ncurses.c 'd' test, allow it to use external file for
1264 initial palette (added xterm-16color.dat and linux-color.dat), and
1265 reset colors to the initial palette when starting/ending the test.
1266 + change limit-check in init_color() to allow r/g/b component to
1267 reach 1000 (cf: 20020928).
1270 + modify form library to use cchar_t's rather than char's in the
1271 wide-character configuration for storing data for field buffers.
1272 + correct logic of win_wchnstr(), which did not work for more than
1276 + replace memset/memcpy usage in form library with for-loops to
1277 simplify changing the datatype of FIELD.buf, part of wide-character
1279 + fix some inconsistent use of #if/#ifdef (report by Alain Guibert).
1282 + modify menu library to account for actual number of columns used by
1283 multibyte character strings, in the wide-character configuration
1284 (adapted from patch by Philipp Tomsich).
1285 + add "-x" option to infocmp like tic's "-x", for use in "-F"
1286 comparisons. This modifies infocmp to only report extended
1287 capabilities if the -x option is given, making this more consistent
1288 with tic. Some scripts may break, since infocmp previous gave this
1289 information without an option.
1290 + modify termcap-parsing to retain 2-character aliases at the beginning
1291 of an entry if the "-x" option is used in tic.
1294 + minor compiler-warning and test-program fixes.
1297 + modify tic's missing-sgr warning to apply to terminfo only.
1298 + free some memory leaks in tic.
1299 + remove check in post_menu() that prevented menus from extending
1300 beyond the screen (request by Max J. Werner).
1301 + remove check in newwin() that prevents allocating windows
1302 that extend beyond the screen. Solaris curses does this.
1303 + add ifdef in test/color_set.c to allow it to compile with older
1305 + add napms() calls to test/dots.c to make it not be a CPU hog.
1308 + modify unctrl() to return null if its parameter does not correspond
1309 to an unsigned char.
1310 + add some limit-checks to guard isprint(), etc., from being used on
1311 values that do not fit into an unsigned char (report by Sami Farin).
1314 + fix a typo in the _nc_get_locale() change.
1317 + modify _nc_get_locale() to use setlocale() to query the program's
1318 current locale rather than using getenv(). This fixes a case in tin
1319 which relies on legacy treatment of 8-bit characters when the locale
1320 is not initialized (reported by Urs Jansen).
1321 + add sgr string to screen's and rxvt's terminfo entries -TD.
1322 + add a check in tic for terminfo entries having an sgr0 but no sgr
1323 string. This confuses Tru64 and HPUX curses when combined with
1324 color, e.g., making them leave line-drawing characters in odd places.
1325 + correct casts used in ABSENT_BOOLEAN, CANCELLED_BOOLEAN, matches the
1326 original definitions used in Debian package to fix PowerPC bug before
1327 20030802 (Debian #237629).
1330 + modify PutAttrChar() and PUTC() macro to improve use of
1331 A_ALTCHARSET attribute to prevent line-drawing characters from
1332 being lost in situations where the locale would otherwise treat the
1333 raw data as nonprintable (Debian #227879).
1336 + fix a redefinition of CTRL() macro in test/view.c for AIX 5.2 (report
1338 + remove ".PP" after ".SH NAME" in a few manpages; this confuses
1339 some apropos script (Debian #237831).
1342 + modify ncurses.c 'r' test so editing commands, like inserted text,
1343 set the field background, and the state of insert/overlay editing
1344 mode is shown in that test.
1345 + change syntax of dummy targets in Ada95 makefiles to work with pmake.
1346 + correct logic in test/ncurses.c 'b' for noncolor terminals which
1347 did not recognize a quit-command (cf: 20030419).
1350 + modify _nc_insert_ch() to allow for its input to be part of a
1352 + split out lib_insnstr.c, to prepare to rewrite it. X/Open states
1353 that this function performs wrapping, unlike all of the other
1354 insert-functions. Currently it does not wrap.
1355 + check for nl_langinfo(CODESET), use it if available (report by
1357 + split-out CF_BUILD_CC macro, actually did this for lynx first.
1358 + fixes for configure script CF_WITH_DBMALLOC and CF_WITH_DMALLOC,
1359 which happened to work with bash, but not with Bourne shell (report
1360 by Marco d'Itri via tin-dev).
1363 + some changes to adapt the form library to wide characters, incomplete
1364 (request by Mike Aubury).
1365 + add symbol to curses.h which can be used to suppress include of
1367 #define NCURSES_ENABLE_STDBOOL_H 0
1369 (discussion on XFree86 mailing list).
1372 + modify configure --with-termlib option to accept a value which sets
1373 the name of the terminfo library. This would allow a packager to
1374 build libtinfow.so renamed to coincide with libtinfo.so (discussion
1375 with Stanislav Ievlev).
1376 + improve documentation of --with-install-prefix, --prefix and
1377 $(DESTDIR) in INSTALL (prompted by discussion with Paul Lew).
1378 + add configure check if the compiler can use -c -o options to rename
1379 its output file, use that to omit the 'cd' command which was used to
1380 ensure object files are created in a separate staging directory
1381 (prompted by comments by Johnny Wezel, Martin Mokrejs).
1383 20040208 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1386 20040207 pre-release
1387 + minor fixes to _nc_tparm_analyze(), i.e., do not count %i as a param,
1388 and do not count %d if it follows a %p.
1389 + correct an inconsistency between handling of codes in the 128-255
1390 range, e.g., as illustrated by test/ncurses.c f/F tests. In POSIX
1391 locale, the latter did not show printable results, while the former
1393 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to compensate for broken C preprocessor on Mac
1394 OS X, which alters "%%" to "% % " (report by Robert Simms, fix
1395 verified by Scott Corscadden).
1397 20040131 pre-release
1398 + modify SCREEN struct to align it between normal/wide curses flavors
1399 to simplify future changes to build a single version of libtinfo
1400 (patch by Stanislav Ievlev).
1401 + document handling of carriage return by addch() in manpage.
1402 + document special features of unctrl() in manpage.
1403 + documented interface changes in INSTALL.
1404 + corrected control-char test in lib_addch.c to account for locale
1405 (Debian #230335, cf: 971206).
1406 + updated test/configure.in to use AC_EXEEXT and AC_OBJEXT.
1407 + fixes to compile Ada95 binding with Debian gnat 3.15p-4 package.
1408 + minor configure-script fixes for older ports, e.g., BeOS R4.5.
1410 20040125 pre-release
1411 + amend change to PutAttrChar() from 20030614 which computed the number
1412 of cells for a possibly multi-cell character. The 20030614 change
1413 forced the cell to a blank if the result from wcwidth() was not
1414 greater than zero. However, wcwidth() called for parameters in the
1415 range 128-255 can give this return value. The logic now simply
1416 ensures that the number of cells is greater than zero without
1417 modifying the displayed value.
1419 20040124 pre-release
1420 + looked good for 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org (but see above)
1421 + modify configure script check for ranlib to use AC_CHECK_TOOL, since
1422 that works better for cross-compiling.
1424 20040117 pre-release
1425 + modify lib_get_wch.c to prefer mblen/mbtowc over mbrlen/mbrtowc to
1426 work around core dump in Solaris 8's locale support, e.g., for
1427 zh_CN.GB18030 (report by Saravanan Bellan).
1428 + add includes for <stdarg.h> and <stdio.h> in configure script macro
1429 to make <wchar.h> check work with Tru64 4.0d.
1430 + add terminfo entry for U/Win -TD
1431 + add terminfo entries for SFU aka Interix aka OpenNT (Federico
1433 + modify tput's error messages to prefix them with the program name
1434 (report by Vincent Lefevre, patch by Daniel Jacobowitz (see Debian
1436 + correct a place in tack where exit_standout_mode was used instead of
1437 exit_attribute_mode (patch by Jochen Voss (see Debian #224443)).
1438 + modify c++/cursesf.h to use const in the Enumeration_Field method.
1439 + remove an ambiguous (actually redundant) method from c++/cursesf.h
1440 + make $HOME/.terminfo update optional (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
1441 + improve sed script which extracts libtool's version in the
1442 CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro.
1443 + add ifdef'd call to AC_PROG_LIBTOOL to CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro (to
1444 simplify local patch for Albert Chin-A-Young)..
1445 + add $(CXXFLAGS) to link command in c++/Makefile.in (adapted from
1446 patch by Albert Chin-A-Young)..
1447 + fix a missing substitution in configure.in for "$target" needed for
1449 + resync CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro with lynx; fixes IRIX64 and
1450 NetBSD 1.6 conflicts with _XOPEN_SOURCE.
1451 + make check for stdbool.h more specific, to ensure that including it
1452 will actually define/declare bool for the configured compiler.
1453 + rewrite ifdef's in curses.h relating NCURSES_BOOL and bool. The
1454 intention of that is to #define NCURSES_BOOL as bool when the
1455 compiler declares bool, and to #define bool as NCURSES_BOOL when it
1456 does not (reported by Jim Gifford, Sam Varshavchik, cf: 20031213).
1458 20040110 pre-release
1459 + change minor version to 4, i.e., ncurses 5.4
1460 + revised/improved terminfo entries for tvi912b, tvi920b (Benjamin C W
1462 + simplified ncurses/base/version.c by defining the result from the
1463 configure script rather than using sprintf (suggested by Stanislav
1465 + remove obsolete casts from c++/cursesw.h (reported by Stanislav
1467 + modify configure script so that when configuring for termlib, programs
1468 such as tic are not linked with the upper-level ncurses library
1469 (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
1470 + move version.c from ncurses/base to ncurses/tinfo to allow linking
1471 of tic, etc., using libtinfo (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
1474 + adjust -D's to build ncursesw on OpenBSD.
1475 + modify CF_PROG_EXT to make OS/2 build with EXEEXT.
1476 + add pecho_wchar().
1477 + remove <wctype.h> include from lib_slk_wset.c which is not needed (or
1478 available) on older platforms.
1481 + add -D's to build ncursew on FreeBSD 5.1.
1482 + modify shared library configuration for FreeBSD 4.x/5.x to add the
1483 soname information (request by Marc Glisse).
1484 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() to not use MAX_ALIAS, but PATH_MAX only
1485 for limiting the length of a filename in the terminfo database.
1486 + modify termname() to return the terminal name used by setupterm()
1487 rather than $TERM, without truncating to 14 characters as documented
1488 by X/Open (report by Stanislav Ievlev, cf: 970719).
1489 + re-add definition for _BSD_TYPES, lost in merge (cf: 20031206).
1492 + add configure option --with-manpage-format=catonly to address
1493 behavior of BSDI, allow install of man+cat files on NetBSD, whose
1494 behavior has diverged by requiring both to be present.
1495 + remove leading blanks from comment-lines in manlinks.sed script to
1496 work with Tru64 4.0d.
1497 + add screen.linux terminfo entry (discussion on mutt-users mailing
1501 + add a check for tic to flag missing backslashes for termcap
1502 continuation lines. ncurses reads the whole entry, but termcap
1503 applications do not.
1504 + add configure option "--with-manpage-aliases" extending
1505 "--with-manpage-aliases" to provide the option of generating ".so"
1506 files rather than symbolic links for manpage aliases.
1507 + add bool definition in include/curses.h.in for configurations with no
1508 usable C++ compiler (cf: 20030607).
1509 + fix pathname of SigAction.h for building with --srcdir (reported by
1513 + folded ncurses/base/sigaction.c into includes of ncurses/SigAction.h,
1514 since that header is used only within ncurses/tty/lib_tstp.c, for
1515 non-POSIX systems (discussion with Stanislav Ievlev).
1516 + remove obsolete _nc_outstr() function (report by Stanislav Ievlev
1517 <inger@altlinux.org>).
1518 + add test/background.c and test/color_set.c
1519 + modify color_set() function to work with color pair 0 (report by
1520 George Andreou <gbandreo@tem.uoc.gr>).
1521 + add configure option --with-trace, since defining TRACE seems too
1522 awkward for some cases.
1523 + remove a call to _nc_free_termtype() from read_termtype(), since the
1524 corresponding buffer contents were already zeroed by a memset (cf:
1526 + improve configure check for _XOPEN_SOURCE and related definitions,
1527 adding special cases for Solaris' __EXTENSIONS__ and FreeBSD's
1528 __BSD_TYPES (reports by Marc Glisse <marc.glisse@normalesup.org>).
1529 + small fixes to compile on Solaris and IRIX64 using cc.
1530 + correct typo in check for pre-POSIX sort options in MKkey_defs.sh
1534 + modify _nc_gettime() to avoid a problem with arithmetic on unsigned
1535 values (Philippe Blain).
1536 + improve the nanosleep() logic in napms() by checking for EINTR and
1537 restarting (Philippe Blain).
1538 + correct expression for "%D" in lib_tgoto.c (Juha Jarvi
1542 + add linux-vt terminfo entry (Andrey V Lukyanov <land@long.yar.ru>).
1543 + allow "\|" escape in terminfo; tic should not warn about this.
1544 + save the full pathname of the trace-file the first time it is opened,
1545 to avoid creating it in different directories if the application
1546 opens and closes it while changing its working directory.
1547 + modify configure script to provide a non-empty default for
1551 + add DJGPP to special case of DOS-style drive letters potentially
1552 appearing in TERMCAP environment variable.
1553 + fix some spelling in comments (reports by jmc, Jonathon Gray).
1554 + update config.guess, config.sub
1557 + fix a memory leak in error-return from setupterm() (report by
1558 Stanislav Ievlev <inger@altlinux.org>).
1559 + use EXEEXT and OBJEXT consistently in makefiles.
1560 + amend fixes for cross-compiling to use separate executable-suffix
1561 BUILD_EXEEXT (cf: 20031018).
1562 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for sort utility that does not
1563 recognize key options, e.g., busybox (report by Peter S Mazinger
1565 + fix potential out-of-bounds indexing in _nc_infotocap() (found by
1566 David Krause using some of the new malloc debugging features
1567 under OpenBSD, patch by Ted Unangst).
1568 + modify CF_LIB_SUFFIX for Itanium releases of HP-UX, which use a
1569 ".so" suffix (patch by Jonathan Ward <Jonathan.Ward@hp.com>).
1572 + update terminfo for xterm-xfree86 -TD
1573 + add check for multiple "tc=" clauses in a termcap to tic.
1574 + check for missing op/oc in tic.
1575 + correct _nc_resolve_uses() and _nc_merge_entry() to allow infocmp and
1576 tic to show cancelled capabilities. These functions were ignoring
1577 the state of the target entry, which should be untouched if cancelled.
1578 + correct comment in tack/output.c (Debian #215806).
1579 + add some null-pointer checks to lib_options.c (report by Michael
1581 + regenerated html documentation.
1582 + correction to tar-copy.sh, remove a trap command that resulted in
1583 leaving temporary files (cf: 20030510).
1584 + remove contact/maintainer addresses for Juergen Pfeifer (his request).
1587 + updated test/configure to reflect changes for libtool (cf: 20030830).
1588 + fix several places in tack/pad.c which tested and used the parameter-
1589 and parameterless strings inconsistently, i.e., in pad_rin(),
1590 pad_il(), pad_indn() and pad_dl() (Debian #215805).
1591 + minor fixes for configure script and makefiles to cleanup executables
1592 generated when cross-compiling for DJGPP.
1593 + modify infocmp to omit check for $TERM for operations that do not
1594 require it, e.g., "infocmp -e" used to build fallback list (report by
1598 + add terminfo entries for DJGPP.
1599 + updated note about maintainer in ncurses-intro.html
1602 + update terminfo entries for gnome terminal.
1603 + modify tack to reset colors after each color test, correct a place
1604 where exit_standout_mode was used instead of exit_attribute_mode.
1605 + improve tack's bce test by making it set colors other than black
1607 + plug a potential recursion between napms() and _nc_timed_wait()
1608 (report by Philippe Blain).
1611 + add --with-rel-version option to allow workaround to allow making
1612 libtool on Darwin generate the "same" library names as with the
1613 --with-shared option. The Darwin ld program does not work well
1614 with a zero as the minor-version value (request by Chris Zubrzycki).
1615 + modify CF_MIXEDCASE_FILENAMES macro to work with cross-compiling.
1616 + modify tack to allow it to run from fallback terminfo data.
1617 > patch by Philippe Blain:
1618 + improve PutRange() by adjusting call to EmitRange() and corresponding
1619 return-value to not emit unchanged characters on the end of the
1621 + improve a check for changed-attribute by exiting a loop when the
1623 + improve logic in TransformLine(), eliminating a duplicated comparison
1624 in the clr_bol logic.
1627 > patch by Philippe Blain:
1628 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
1629 move the label 'nonlocal' just before the second gettimeofday() to
1630 be able to compute the diff time when 'goto nonlocal' used.
1631 Rename 'msec' to 'microsec' in the debug-message.
1632 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
1633 Use _nc_outch() in carriage return/newline movement instead of
1634 putchar() which goes to stdout. Move test for xold>0 out of loop.
1635 + in ncurses/tinfo/setbuf.c,
1636 Set the flag SP->_buffered at the end of operations when all has been
1637 successful (typeMalloc can fail).
1638 + simplify NC_BUFFERED macro by moving check inside _nc_setbuf().
1641 + modify configure script to avoid using "head -1", which does not
1642 work if POSIXLY_CORRECT (sic) is set.
1643 + modify run_tic.in to avoid using wrong shared libraries when
1644 cross-compiling (Dan Kegel).
1647 + alter configure script help message to make it clearer that
1648 --with-build-cc does not specify a cross-compiler (suggested by Dan
1649 Kegel <dank@kegel.com>).
1650 + modify configure script to accommodate libtool 1.5, as well as add an
1651 parameter to the "--with-libtool" option which can specify the
1652 pathname of libtool (report by Chris Zubrzycki). We note that
1653 libtool 1.5 has more than one bug in its C++ support, so it is not
1654 able to install libncurses++, for instance, if $DESTDIR or the option
1655 --with-install-prefix is used.
1658 > patch by Philippe Blain:
1659 + move assignments to SP->_cursrow, SP->_curscol into online_mvcur().
1660 + make baudrate computation in delay_output() consistent with the
1661 assumption in _nc_mvcur_init(), i.e., a byte is 9 bits.
1664 + modify logic in waddch_literal() to take into account zh_TW.Big5
1665 whose multibyte sequences may contain "printable" characters, e.g.,
1666 a "g" in the sequence "\247g" (Debian #204889, cf: 20030621).
1667 + improve storage used by _nc_safe_strcpy() by ensuring that the size
1668 is reset based on the initialization call, in case it were called
1669 after other strcpy/strcat calls (report by Philippe Blain).
1670 > patch by Philippe Blain:
1671 + remove an unused ifdef for REAL_ATTR & WANT_CHAR
1672 + correct a place where _cup_cost was used rather than _cuu_cost
1675 + fix a small memory leak in _nc_free_termtype().
1676 + close trace-file if trace() is called with a zero parameter.
1677 + free memory allocated for soft-key strings, in delscreen().
1678 + fix an allocation size in safe_sprintf.c for the "*" format code.
1679 + correct safe_sprintf.c to not return a null pointer if the format
1680 happens to be an empty string. This applies to the "configure
1681 --enable-safe-sprintf" option (Redhat #101486).
1684 + modify casts used for ABSENT_BOOLEAN and CANCELLED_BOOLEAN (report by
1686 > patch by Philippe Blain:
1687 + change padding for change_scroll_region to not be proportional to
1688 the size of the scroll-region.
1689 + correct error-return in _nc_safe_strcat().
1692 + correct limit-checks in _nc_scroll_window() (report and test-case by
1693 Thomas Graf <graf@dms.at> cf: 20011020).
1694 + re-order configure checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE to avoid conflict with
1698 + use clr_eol in preference to blanks for bce terminals, so select and
1699 paste will have fewer trailing blanks, e.g., when using xterm
1700 (request by Vincent Lefevre).
1701 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
1702 + add configure --with-abi-version option (discussion with Charles
1704 > cygwin changes from Charles Wilson:
1705 + aclocal.m4: on cygwin, use autodetected prefix for import
1706 and static lib, but use "cyg" for DLL.
1707 + include/ncurses_dll.h: correct the comments to reflect current
1708 status of cygwin/mingw port. Fix compiler warning.
1709 + misc/run_tic.in: ensure that tic.exe can find the uninstalled
1710 DLL, by adding the lib-directory to the PATH variable.
1711 + misc/terminfo.src (nxterm|xterm-color): make xterm-color
1712 primary instead of nxterm, to match XFree86's xterm.terminfo
1713 usage and to prevent circular links.
1714 (rxvt): add additional codes from rxvt.org.
1715 (rxvt-color): new alias
1716 (rxvt-xpm): new alias
1717 (rxvt-cygwin): like rxvt, but with special acsc codes.
1718 (rxvt-cygwin-native): ditto. rxvt may be run under XWindows, or
1719 with a "native" MSWin GUI. Each takes different acsc codes,
1720 which are both different from the "normal" rxvt's acsc.
1721 (cygwin): cygwin-in-cmd.exe window. Lots of fixes.
1723 + mk-1st.awk: use "cyg" for the DLL prefix, but "lib" for import
1727 + update config.guess, config.sub
1728 + add triples for configuring shared libraries with the Debian
1729 GNU/FreeBSD packages (patch by Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es>).
1732 + modify CF_GCC_WARNINGS so it only applies to gcc, not g++. Some
1733 platforms have installed g++ along with the native C compiler, which
1734 would not accept gcc warning options.
1735 + add -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 when configuring with --enable-widec, to
1736 get mbstate_t declaration on HPUX 11.11 (report by David Ellement).
1737 + add _nc_pathlast() to get rid of casts in _nc_basename() calls.
1738 + correct a sign-extension in wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() from
1739 20030628 (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
1740 + work around omission of btowc() and wctob() from wide-character
1741 support (sic) in NetBSD 1.6 using mbtowc() and wctomb() (report by
1743 + add portability note to curs_get_wstr.3x (Debian #199957).
1746 + rewrite wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to call waddch() and wechochar()
1747 respectively, to avoid calling waddch_noecho() with wide-character
1748 data, since that function assumes its input is 8-bit data.
1749 Similarly, modify waddnwstr() to call wadd_wch().
1750 + remove logic from waddnstr() which transformed multibyte character
1751 strings into wide-characters. Rewrite of waddch_literal() from
1752 20030621 assumes its input is raw multibyte data rather than wide
1753 characters (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
1756 + write getyx() and related 2-return macros in terms of getcury(),
1758 + modify waddch_literal() in case an application passes bytes of a
1759 multibyte character directly to waddch(). In this case, waddch()
1760 must reassemble the bytes into a wide-character (report by Tomohiro
1761 Kubota <kubota@debian.org>).
1764 + modify waddch_literal() in case a multibyte value occupies more than
1766 + modify PutAttrChar() to compute the number of character cells that
1767 are used in multibyte values. This fixes a problem displaying
1768 double-width characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen
1769 <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
1770 + add a null-pointer check for result of keyname() in _tracechar()
1771 + modify _tracechar() to work around glibc sprintf bug.
1774 + add a call to setlocale() in cursesmain.cc, making demo display
1775 properly in a UTF-8 locale.
1776 + add a fallback definition in curses.priv.h for MB_LEN_MAX (prompted
1777 by discussion with Gabor Z Papp).
1778 + use macros NCURSES_ACS() and NCURSES_WACS() to hide cast needed to
1779 appease -Wchar-subscript with g++ 3.3 (Debian #195732).
1780 + fix a redefinition of $RANLIB in the configure script when libtool
1781 is used, which broke configure on Mac OS X (report by Chris Zubrzycki
1783 + simplify ifdef for bool declaration in curses.h.in (suggested by
1784 Albert Chin-A-Young).
1785 + remove configure script check to allow -Wconversion for older
1786 versions of gcc (suggested by Albert Chin-A-Young).
1789 + regenerated html manpages.
1790 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in that disabled use of __attribute__()
1791 for g++, since recent versions implement the cases which ncurses uses
1793 + modify _nc_get_token() to handle a case where an entry has no
1794 description, and capabilities begin on the same line as the entry
1796 + fix a typo in ncurses_dll.h reported by gcc 3.3.
1797 + add an entry for key_defined.3x to man_db.renames.
1800 + modify setcchar() to allow converting control characters to complex
1801 characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
1802 + add tkterm entry -TD
1803 + modify parse_entry.c to allow a terminfo entry with a leading
1804 2-character name (report by Don Libes).
1805 + corrected acsc in screen.teraterm, which requires a PC-style mapping.
1806 + fix trace statements in read_entry.c to use lseek() rather than
1808 + fix signed/unsigned warnings from Sun's compiler (gcc should give
1809 these warnings, but it is unpredictable).
1810 + modify configure script to omit -Winline for gcc 3.3, since that
1812 + modify manlinks.sed to add a few functions that were overlooked since
1813 they return function pointers: field_init, field_term, form_init,
1814 form_term, item_init, item_term, menu_init and menu_term.
1817 + prevent recursion in wgetch() via wgetnstr() if the connection cannot
1818 be switched between cooked/raw modes because it is not a TTY (report
1819 by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.com>).
1820 + change parameter of define_key() and key_defined() to const (prompted
1822 + add a check in test/configure for ncurses extensions, since there
1823 are some older versions, etc., which would not compile with the
1824 current test programs.
1825 + corrected demo in test/ncurses.c of wgetn_wstr(), which did not
1826 convert wchar_t string to multibyte form before printing it.
1827 + corrections to lib_get_wstr.c:
1828 + null-terminate buffer passed to setcchar(), which occasionally
1830 + map special characters such as erase- and kill-characters into
1831 key-codes so those will work as expected even if they are not
1832 mentioned in the terminfo.
1833 + modify PUTC() and Charable() macros to make wide-character line
1834 drawing work for POSIX locale on Linux console (cf: 20021221).
1837 + make typography for program options in manpages consistent (report
1838 by Miloslav Trmac <mitr@volny.cz>).
1839 + correct dependencies in Ada95/src/Makefile.in, so the builds with
1840 "--srcdir" work (report by Warren L Dodge).
1841 + correct missing definition of $(CC) in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in
1842 (reported by Warren L Dodge <warrend@mdhost.cse.tek.com>).
1843 + fix typos and whitespace in manpages (patch by jmc
1844 <jmc@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl>).
1847 + fix form_driver() cases for REQ_CLR_EOF, REQ_CLR_EOL, REQ_DEL_CHAR,
1848 REQ_DEL_PREV and REQ_NEW_LINE, which did not ensure the cursor was at
1849 the editing position before making modifications.
1850 + add test/demo_forms and associated test/edit_field.c demos.
1851 + modify test/configure.in to use test/modules for the list of objects
1852 to compile rather than using the list of programs.
1855 + modify logic of acsc to use the original character if no mapping is
1856 defined, noting that Solaris does this.
1857 + modify ncurses 'b' test to avoid using the acs_map[] array since
1858 20021231 changes it to no longer contain information from the acsc
1860 + modify makefile rules in c++, progs, tack and test to ensure that
1861 the compiler flags (e.g., $CFLAGS or $CCFLAGS) are used in the link
1862 command (report by Jose Luis Rico Botella <informatica@serpis.com>).
1863 + modify soft-key initialization to use A_REVERSE if A_STANDOUT would
1864 not be shown when colors are used, i.e., if ncv#1 is set in the
1865 terminfo as is done in "screen".
1868 + add a test for slk_color(), in ncurses.c
1869 + fix some issues reported by valgrind in the slk_set() and slk_wset()
1870 code, from recent rewrite.
1871 + modify ncurses 'E' test to use show previous label via slk_label(),
1873 + modify wide-character versions of NewChar(), NewChar2() macros to
1874 ensure that the whole struct is initialized.
1877 + modify setupterm() to check if the terminfo and terminal-modes have
1878 already been read. This ensures that it does not reinvoke
1879 def_prog_mode() when an application calls more than one function,
1880 such as tgetent() and initscr() (report by Olaf Buddenhagen).
1883 + add 'E' test to ncurses.c, to exercise slk_wset().
1884 + correct handling of carriage-return in wgetn_wstr(), used in demo of
1886 + first draft of slk_wset() function.
1889 + improved warnings in tic when suppressing items to fit in termcap's
1891 + built a list in test/README showing which externals are being used
1892 by either programs in the test-directory or via internal library
1894 + adjust include-options in CF_ETIP_DEFINES to avoid missing
1895 ncurses_dll.h, fixing special definitions that may be needed for
1896 etip.h (reported by Greg Schafer <gschafer@zip.com.au>).
1899 + minor fixes for cardfile.c, to make it write the updated fields to
1900 a file when ^W is given.
1901 + add/use _nc_trace_bufcat() to eliminate some fixed buffer limits in
1905 + correct a case in _nc_remove_string(), used by define_key(), to avoid
1906 infinite loop if the given string happens to be a substring of other
1907 strings which are assigned to keys (report by John McCutchan).
1908 + add key_defined() function, to tell which keycode a string is bound
1909 to (discussion with John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>).
1910 + correct keybound(), which reported definitions in the wrong table,
1911 i.e., the list of definitions which are disabled by keyok().
1912 + modify demo_keydef.c to show the details it changes, and to check
1916 + restructured test/configure script, make it work for libncursesw.
1917 + add description of link_fieldtype() to manpage (report by
1918 L Dee Holtsclaw <dee@sunbeltsoft.com>).
1921 + corrected ifdef's relating to configure check for wchar_t, etc.
1922 + if the output is a socket or other non-tty device, use 1 millisecond
1923 for the cost in mvcur; previously it was 9 milliseconds because the
1924 baudrate was not known.
1925 + in _nc_get_tty_mode(), initialize the TTY buffer on error, since
1926 glibc copies uninitialized data in that case, as noted by valgrind.
1927 + modify tput to use the same parameter analysis as tparm() does, to
1928 provide for user-defined strings, e.g., for xterm title, a
1929 corresponding capability might be
1931 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to avoid passing "#" tokens through the C
1932 preprocessor. This works around Mac OS X's preprocessor, which
1933 insists on adding a blank on each side of the token (report/analysis
1934 by Kevin Murphy <murphy@genome.chop.edu>).
1937 + add configure check for wchar_t and wint_t types, rather than rely
1938 on preprocessor definitions. Also work around for gcc fixinclude
1939 bug which creates a shadow copy of curses.h if it sees these symbols
1940 apparently typedef'd.
1941 + if database is disabled, do not generate run_tic.sh
1942 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking when termcap is read.
1945 + add checking in tic for incomplete line-drawing character mapping.
1946 + update configure script to reflect fix for AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL,
1947 which is broken in autoconf 2.5x for Mac OS X 10.2.3 (report by
1948 Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl>).
1949 + make return value from _nc_printf_string() consistent. Before,
1950 depending on whether --enable-safe-sprintf was used, it might not be
1951 cached for reallocating.
1954 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking in lib_tparm.c, hardscroll.c
1955 + correct a potentially-uninitialized value if _read_termtype() does
1956 not read as much data as expected (report by Wolfgang Rohdewald
1958 + correct several places where the aclocal.m4 macros relied on cache
1959 variable names which were incompatible (as usual) between autoconf
1960 2.13 and 2.5x, causing the test for broken-linker to give incorrect
1961 results (reports by Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl> and Thomas Esser
1962 <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de>).
1963 + do not try to open gpm mouse driver if standard output is not a tty;
1964 the gpm library does not make this check (bug report for dialog
1965 by David Oliveira <davidoliveira@develop.prozone.ws>).
1968 + modified emx.src to correspond more closely to terminfo.src, added
1969 emx-base to the latter -TD
1970 + add configure option for FreeBSD sysmouse, --with-sysmouse, and
1971 implement support for that in lib_mouse.c, lib_getch.c
1974 + revert 20030105 change to can_clear_with(), does not work for the
1975 case where the update is made on cells which are blanks with
1976 attributes, e.g., reverse.
1977 + improve ifdef's to guard against redefinition of wchar_t and wint_t
1978 in curses.h (report by Urs Jansen).
1981 + improve mvcur() by checking if it is safe to move when video
1982 attributes are set (msgr), and if not, reset/restore attributes
1983 within that function rather than doing it separately in the GoTo()
1984 function in tty_update.c (suggested by Philippe Blain).
1985 + add a message in run_tic.in to explain more clearly what does not
1986 work when attempting to create a symbolic link for /usr/lib/terminfo
1987 on OS/2 and other platforms with no symbolic links (report by John
1989 + change several sed scripts to avoid using "\+" since it is not a BRE
1990 (basic regular expression). One instance caused terminfo.5 to be
1991 misformatted on FreeBSD (report by Kazuo Horikawa
1992 <horikawa@FreeBSD.org> (see FreeBSD docs/46709)).
1993 + correct misspelled 'wint_t' in curs_get_wch.3x (Michael Elkins).
1996 + improve description of terminfo operators, especially static/dynamic
1997 variables (comments by Mark I Manning IV <mark4th@earthlink.net>).
1998 + demonstrate use of FIELDTYPE by modifying test/ncurses 'r' test to
1999 use the predefined TYPE_ALPHA field-type, and by defining a
2000 specialized type for the middle initial/name.
2001 + fix MKterminfo.sh, another workaround for POSIXLY_CORRECT misfeature
2003 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2004 + optimize can_clear_with() a little by testing first if the parameter
2005 is indeed a "blank".
2006 + simplify ClrBottom() a little by allowing it to use clr_eos to clear
2007 sections as small as one line.
2008 + improve ClrToEOL() by checking if clr_eos is available before trying
2010 + use tputs() rather than putp() in a few cases in tty_update.c since
2011 the corresponding delays are proportional to the number of lines
2012 affected: repeat_char, clr_eos, change_scroll_region.
2015 + rewrite of lib_acs.c conflicts with copying of SCREEN acs_map to/from
2016 global acs_map[] array; removed the lines that did the copying.
2019 + change some overlooked tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp()
2020 (report by Philippe Blain).
2021 + modify lib_getch.c to avoid recursion via wgetnstr() when the input
2022 is not a tty and consequently mode-changes do not work (report by
2023 <R.Chamberlin@querix.com>).
2024 + rewrote lib_acs.c to allow PutAttrChar() to decide how to render
2025 alternate-characters, i.e., to work with Linux console and UTF-8
2027 + correct line/column reference in adjust_window(), needed to make
2028 special windows such as curscr track properly when resizing (report
2029 by Lucas Gonze <lgonze@panix.com>).
2030 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2031 + correct the value used for blank in ClrBottom() (broken in 20000708).
2032 + correct an off-by-one in GoTo() parameter in _nc_scrolln().
2035 + change several tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp(), to
2036 enable padding which may be needed for some terminals (patch by
2038 + use '%' as sed substitute delimiter in run_tic script to avoid
2039 problems with pathname delimiters such as ':' and '@' (report by John
2041 + implement a workaround so that line-drawing works with screen's
2042 crippled UTF-8 support (tested with 3.9.13). This only works with
2043 the wide-character support (--enable-widec); the normal library will
2044 simply suppress line-drawing when running in a UTF-8 locale in screen.
2047 + allow BUILD_CC and related configure script variables to be
2048 overridden from the environment.
2049 + make build-tools variables in ncurses/Makefile.in consistent with
2050 the configure script variables (report by Maciej W Rozycki).
2051 + modify ncurses/modules to allow
2052 configure --disable-leaks --disable-ext-funcs
2053 to build (report by Gary Samuelson).
2054 + fix a few places in configure.in which lacked quotes (report by
2055 Gary Samuelson <gary.samuelson@verizon.com>).
2056 + correct handling of multibyte characters in waddch_literal() which
2057 force wrapping because they are started too late on the line (report
2058 by Sam Varshavchik).
2059 + small fix for CF_GNAT_VERSION to ignore the help-message which
2060 gnatmake adds to its version-message.
2061 > Maciej W Rozycki <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>:
2062 + use AC_CHECK_TOOL to get proper values for AR and LD for cross
2064 + use $cross_compiling variable in configure script rather than
2065 comparing $host_alias and $target alias, since "host" is
2066 traditionally misused in autoconf to refer to the target platform.
2067 + change configure --help message to use "build" rather than "host"
2068 when referring to the --with-build-XXX options.
2071 + modify CF_GNAT_VERSION to print gnatmake's version, and to allow for
2072 possible gnat versions such as 3.2 (report by Chris Lingard
2073 <chris@stockwith.co.uk>).
2074 + modify #define's for CKILL and other default control characters in
2075 tset to use the system's default values if they are defined.
2076 + correct interchanged defaults for kill and interrupt characters
2077 in tset, which caused it to report unnecessarily (Debian #171583).
2078 + repair check for missing C++ compiler, which is broken in autoconf
2079 2.5x by hardcoding it to g++ (report by Martin Mokrejs).
2080 + update config.guess, config.sub (2002-11-30)
2081 + modify configure script to skip --with-shared, etc., when the
2082 --with-libtool option is given, since they would be ignored anyway.
2083 + fix to allow "configure --with-libtool --with-termlib" to build.
2084 + modify configure script to show version number of libtool, to help
2085 with bug reports. libtool still gets confused if the installed
2086 ncurses libraries are old, since it ignores the -L options at some
2087 point (tested with libtool 1.3.3 and 1.4.3).
2088 + reorder configure script's updating of $CPPFLAGS and $CFLAGS to
2089 prevent -I options in the user's environment from introducing
2090 conflicts with the build -I options (may be related to reports by
2091 Patrick Ash and George Goffe).
2092 + rename test/define_key.c to test/demo_defkey.c, test/keyok.c to
2093 test/demo_keyok.c to allow building these with libtool.
2096 + add example program test/define_key.c for define_key().
2097 + add example program test/keyok.c for keyok().
2098 + add example program test/ins_wide.c for wins_wch() and wins_wstr().
2099 + modify wins_wch() and wins_wstr() to interpret tabs by using the
2100 winsch() internal function.
2101 + modify setcchar() to allow for wchar_t input strings that have
2102 more than one spacing character.
2105 + fix a boundary check in lib_insch.c (patch by Philippe Blain).
2106 + change type for *printw functions from NCURSES_CONST to const
2107 (prompted by comment by Pedro Palhoto Matos <plpm@mega.ist.utl.pt>,
2108 but really from a note on X/Open's website stating that either is
2109 acceptable, and the latter will be used in a future revision).
2110 + add xterm-1002, xterm-1003 terminfo entries to demonstrate changes in
2111 lib_mouse.c (20021026) -TD
2112 + add screen-bce, screen-s entries from screen 3.9.13 (report by
2113 Adam Lazur <zal@debian.org>) -TD
2114 + add mterm terminfo entries -TD
2117 + split-out useful fragments in terminfo for vt100 and vt220 numeric
2118 keypad, i.e., vt100+keypad, vt100+pfkeys, vt100+fnkeys and
2119 vt220+keypad. The last as embedded in various entries had ka3 and
2120 kb2 interchanged (report/discussion with Leonard den Ottolander
2121 <leonardjo@hetnet.nl>).
2122 + add check in tic for keypads consistent with vt100 layout.
2123 + improve checks in tic for color capabilities
2126 + check for missing/empty/illegal terminfo name in _nc_read_entry()
2127 (report by Martin Mokrejs, where $TERM was set to an empty string).
2128 + rewrote lib_insch.c, combining it with lib_insstr.c so both handle
2129 tab and other control characters consistently (report by Philippe
2131 + remove an #undef for KEY_EVENT from curses.tail used in the
2132 experimental NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS feature. The #undef confuses
2133 dpkg's build script (Debian #165897).
2134 + fix MKlib_gen.sh, working around the ironically named POSIXLY_CORRECT
2135 feature of GNU sed 4.0 (reported by Ervin Nemeth <airwin@inf.bme.hu>).
2138 + implement logic in lib_mouse.c to handle position reports which are
2139 generated when XFree86 xterm is initialized with private modes 1002
2140 or 1003. These are returned to the application as the
2141 REPORT_MOUSE_POSITION mask, which was not implemented. Tested both
2142 with ncurses 'a' menu (prompted by discussion with Larry Riedel
2143 <Larry@Riedel.org>).
2144 + modify lib_mouse.c to look for "XM" terminfo string, which allows
2145 one to override the escape sequence used to enable/disable mouse
2146 mode. In particular this works for XFree86 xterm private modes
2147 1002 and 1003. If "XM" is missing (note that this is an extended
2148 name), lib_mouse uses the conventional private mode 1000.
2149 + correct NOT_LOCAL() macro in lib_mvcur.c to refer to screen_columns
2150 where it used screen_lines (report by Philippe Blain).
2151 + correct makefile rules for the case when both --with-libtool and
2152 --with-gpm are given (report by Mr E_T <troll@logi.net.au>).
2153 + add note to terminfo manpage regarding the differences between
2154 setaf/setab and setf/setb capabilities (report by Pavel Roskin).
2157 + remove redundant initialization of TABSIZE in newterm(), since it is
2158 already done in setupterm() (report by Philippe Blain).
2159 + add test/inserts.c, to test winnstr() and winsch().
2160 + replace 'sort' in dist.mk with script that sets locale to POSIX.
2161 + update URLs in announce.html.in (patch by Frederic L W Meunier).
2162 + remove glibc add-on files, which are no longer needed (report by
2163 Frederic L W Meunier).
2165 20021012 5.3 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2166 + modify ifdef's in etip.h.in to allow the etip.h header to compile
2167 with gcc 3.2 (patch by Dimitar Zhekov <jimmy@is-vn.bg>).
2168 + add logic to setupterm() to make it like initscr() and newterm(),
2169 by checking for $NCURSES_TRACE environment variable and enabling
2170 the debug trace in that case.
2171 + modify setupterm() to ensure that it initializes the baudrate, for
2172 applications such as tput (report by Frank Henigman).
2173 + modify definition of bits used for command-line and library debug
2174 traces to avoid overlap, using new definition TRACE_SHIFT to relate
2176 + document tput's interpretation of parameterized strings according to
2177 whether parameters are given, etc. (discussion with Robert De Bath).
2179 20021005 pre-release
2180 + correct winnwstr() to account for non-character cells generated when
2181 a double-width character is added (report by Michael Bienia
2182 <michael@vorlon.ping.de>).
2183 + modify _nc_viswbuf2n() to provide better results using wctomb().
2184 + correct logic in _nc_varargs() which broke tracing of parameters for
2185 formats such as "%.*s".
2186 + correct scale factor in linux-c and linux-c-nc terminfo entries
2187 (report Floyd Davidson).
2188 + change tic -A option to -t, add the same option to infocmp for
2190 + correct "%c" implementation in lib_tparm.c, which did not map a null
2191 character to a 128 (cf: 980620) (patch by Frank Henigman
2192 <fjhenigman@mud.cgl.uwaterloo.ca>).
2194 20020928 pre-release
2195 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for POSIX sort -k option, use that if
2196 it is found, to accommodate newer utility which dropped the
2197 compatibility support for +number options (reported by Andrey A
2199 + modify linux terminfo entry to use color palette feature from
2200 linux-c-nc entry (comments by Tomasz Wasiak and Floyd Davidson).
2201 + restore original color definitions in endwin() if init_color() was
2202 used, and resume those colors on the next doupdate() or refresh()
2203 (report by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@komputom.com.pl>).
2204 + improve debug-traces by modifying MKlib_gen.sh to generate calls
2205 to returnBool() and returnAttr().
2206 + add/use _nc_visbufn() and _nc_viswbufn() to limit the debug trace
2207 of waddnstr() and similar functions to match the parameters as used.
2208 + add/use _nc_retrace_bool() and _nc_retrace_unsigned().
2209 + correct type used by _nc_retrace_chtype().
2210 + add debug traces to some functions in lib_mouse.c
2211 + modify lib_addch.c to handle non-spacing characters.
2212 + correct parameter of RemAttr() in lib_bkgd.c, which caused the c++
2213 demo's boxes to lose the A_ALTCHARSET flag (broken in 20020629).
2214 + correct width computed in _tracedump(), which did not account for
2215 the attributes (broken in 20010602).
2216 + modify test/tracemunch to replace addresses for windows other than
2217 curscr, newscr and stdscr with window0, window1, etc.
2219 20020921 pre-release
2220 + redid fix for edit_man.sed path.
2221 + workaround for Cygwin bug which makes subprocess writes to stdout
2222 result in core dump.
2223 + documented getbegx(), etc.
2224 + minor fixes to configure script to use '%' consistently as a sed
2225 delimiter rather than '@'.
2226 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2227 + add check in lib_overlay.c to ensure that the windows to be merged
2228 actually overlap, and in copywin(), limit the area to be touched
2229 to the lines given for the destination window.
2231 20020914 pre-release
2232 + modified curses.h so that if the wide-character version is installed
2233 overwriting /usr/include/curses.h, and if it relied on libutf8.h,
2234 then applications that use that header for wide-character support
2235 must define HAVE_LIBUTF8_H.
2236 + modify putwin(), getwin() and dupwin() to allow them to operate on
2237 pads (request by Philippe Blain).
2238 + correct attribute-merging in wborder(), broken in 20020216 (report
2239 by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@grubasek.komputom.com.pl>).
2240 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2241 + corrected pop-counts in tparam_internal() to '!' and '~' cases.
2242 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in one place that used sizeof(chtype).
2243 + remove some unused variables from mvcur test-driver.
2245 20020907 pre-release
2246 + change configure script to allow install of widec-character
2247 (ncursesw) headers to overwrite normal (ncurses) headers, since the
2248 latter is a compatible subset of the former.
2249 + fix path of edit_man.sed in configure script, needed to regenerate
2250 html manpages on Debian.
2251 + fix mismatched enums in vsscanf.c, which caused warning on Solaris.
2252 + update README.emx to reflect current patch used for autoconf.
2253 + change web- and ftp-site to invisible-island.net
2254 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2255 + change case for 'P' in tparam_internal() to indicate that it pops
2256 a variable from the stack.
2257 + correct sense of precision and width in parse_format(), to avoid
2259 + modify lib_tparm.c, absorb really_get_space() into get_space().
2260 + modify getwin() and dupwin() to copy the _notimeout, _idlok and
2261 _idcok window fields.
2262 + better fix for _nc_set_type(), using typeMalloc().
2264 20020901 pre-release
2265 + change minor version to 3, i.e., ncurses 5.3
2266 + update config.guess, config.sub
2267 + retest build with each configure option; minor ifdef fixes.
2268 + make keyname() return a null pointer rather than "UNKNOWN STRING" to
2270 + modify handling of wide line-drawing character functions to use the
2271 normal line-drawing characters when not in UTF-8 locale.
2272 + add check/fix to comp_parse.c to suppress warning about missing acsc
2273 string. This happens in configurations where raw termcap information
2274 is processed; tic already does this and other checks.
2275 + modify tic's check for ich/ich1 versus rmir/smir to only warn about
2276 ich1, to match xterm patch #70 notes.
2277 + moved information for ripped-off lines into SCREEN struct to allow
2278 use in resizeterm().
2279 + add experimental wgetch_events(), ifdef'd with NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS
2280 (adapted from patch by Ilya Zakharevich - see ncurses/README.IZ).
2281 + amend check in kgetch() from 20020824 to look only for function-keys,
2282 otherwise escape sequences are not resolved properly.
2283 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2284 + removed redundant assignment to SP->_checkfd from newterm().
2285 + check return-value of setupterm() in restartterm().
2286 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in a few places that used sizeof(chtype).
2287 + prevent dupwin() from duplicating a pad.
2288 + prevent putwin() from writing a pad.
2289 + use typeRealloc() or typeMalloc() in preference to direct calls on
2293 + add a check in kgetch() for cooked characters in the fifo to avoid
2294 calling fifo_push() when a KEY_RESIZE is available (report/analysis
2295 by Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>).
2296 + fix an overlooked case for bugzilla #68199 (Philippe Blain).
2297 + ensure clearerr() is called before using ferror() e.g., in
2298 lib_screen.c (report by Philippe Blain).
2301 + modify lib_screen.c and lib_newwin.c to maintain the SCREEN-specific
2302 pointers for curscr/stdscr/newscr when scr_save() and scr_restore()
2303 modify the global curscr/stdscr/newscr variables. Fixes Redhat
2304 bugzilla #68199 dated 2002-07-07.
2305 + add checks for null pointer in calls to tparm() and tgoto() based on
2306 FreeBSD bug report. If ncurses were built with termcap support, and
2307 the first call to tgoto() were a zero-length string, the result would
2308 be a null pointer, which was not handled properly.
2309 + correct a typo in terminfo.head, which gave the octal code for colon
2311 + remove the "tic -u" option from 20020810, since it did not account
2312 for nested "tc=" clauses, and when that was addressed, was still
2316 + add tic -A option to suppress capabilities which are commented out
2317 when translating to termcap.
2318 + add tic -u option to provide older behavior of "tc=" clauses.
2319 + modified tic to expand all but the final "tc=" clause in a termcap
2320 entry, to accommodate termcap libraries which do not handle multiple
2322 + correct typo in curs_inopts.3x regarding CS8/CS7 usage (report by
2324 + remove a couple of redundant uses of A_ATTRIBUTES in expressions
2325 using AttrOf(), which already incorporates that mask (report by
2327 + document TABSIZE variable.
2328 + add NCURSES_ASSUMED_COLORS environment variable, to allow users to
2329 override compiled-in default black-on-white assumption used in
2330 assume_default_colors().
2331 + correct an off-by-one comparison against max_colors in COLORFGBG
2333 + correct a use of uninitialized memory found by valgrind (reported by
2334 Olaf Buddenhagen <olafBuddenhagen@web.de>).
2335 + modified wresize() to ensure that a failed realloc will not corrupt
2336 the window structure, and to make subwindows fit within the resized
2337 window (completes Debian #87678, #101699)
2340 + fix an off-by-one in lib_pad.c check for limits of pad (patch by
2342 + revise logic for BeOS in lib_twait.c altered in 20011013 to restore
2343 logic used by lib_getch.c's support for GPM or EMX mouse (report by
2345 + remove NCURSES_CONST from several prototypes in curses.wide, to make
2346 the --enable-const --enable-widec configure options to work together
2347 (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@yahoo.com>).
2350 + finish no-leak checking in cardfile.c, using this for testing changes
2352 + simplify _nc_freeall() using delscreen().
2355 + check error-return from _nc_set_tty_mode() in _nc_initscr() and
2356 reset_prog_mode() (report/patch by Philippe Blain).
2357 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52, to address
2358 problem with identifying C++ bool type.
2359 + correct/improve logic to produce an exit status for errors in tput,
2360 which did not exit with an error when told to put a string not in the
2361 current terminfo entry (report by David Gomez <david@pleyades.net>).
2362 + modify configure script AC_OUTPUT() call to work around defect in
2363 autoconf 2.52 which adds an ifdef'd include to the generated
2364 configure definitions.
2365 + remove fstat() check from scr_init(), which also fixes a missing
2366 include for <sys/stat.h> from 20020713 (reported by David Ellement,
2367 fix suggested by Philippe Blain).
2368 + update curs_scanw.3x manpage to note that XSI curses differs from
2369 SVr4 curses: return-values are incompatible.
2370 + correct several prototypes in manpages which used const
2371 inconsistently with the curses.h file, and removed spurious const's
2372 in a few places from curses.h, e.g., for wbkgd() (report by Glenn
2373 Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>).
2374 + change internal type used by tparm() to long, to work with LP64 model.
2375 + modify nc_alloc.h to allow building with g++, for testing.
2378 + add resize-handling to cardfile.c test program.
2379 + altered resizeterm() to avoid having it fail when a child window
2380 cannot be resized because it would be larger than its parent. (More
2381 work must be done on this, but it works well enough to integrate).
2382 + improve a limit-check in lib_refresh.c
2383 + remove check in lib_screen.c relating dumptime to file's modification
2384 times, since that would not necessarily work for remotely mounted
2386 + modify lrtest to simplify debugging changes to resizeterm, e.g.,
2387 t/T commands to enable/disable tracing.
2388 + updated status of multibyte support in TO-DO.
2389 + update contact info in source-files (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
2392 + add Caps.hpux11, as an example.
2393 + modify version_filter(), used to implement -R option for tic and
2394 infocmp, to use computed array offsets based on the Caps.* file which
2395 is actually configured, rather than constants which correspond to
2397 + reorganized lib_raw.c to avoid updating SP and cur_term state if the
2398 functions fail (reported by Philippe Blain).
2399 + add -Wundef to gcc warnings, adjust a few ifdef's to accommodate gcc.
2402 + correct parameters to setcchar() in ncurses.c (cf: 20020406).
2403 + set locale in most test programs (view.c and ncurses.c were the
2405 + add configure option --with-build-cppflags (report by Maksim A
2406 Nikulin <M.A.Nikulin@inp.nsk.su>).
2407 + correct a typo in wide-character logic for lib_bkgnd.c (Philippe
2409 + modify lib_wacs.c to not cancel the acsc, smacs, rmacs strings when
2410 in UTF-8 locale. Wide-character functions use Unicode values, while
2411 narrow-character functions use the terminfo data.
2412 + fix a couple of places in Ada95/samples which did not compile with
2414 + modify mkinstalldirs so the DOS-pathname case is locale-independent.
2415 + fix locale problem in MKlib_gen.sh by forcing related variables to
2416 POSIX (C), using same approach as autoconf (set variables only if
2417 they were set before). Update MKterminfo.sh and MKtermsort.sh to
2421 + add charset to generated html.
2422 + add mvterm entry, adapted from a FreeBSD bug-report by Daniel Rudy
2423 <dcrudy@pacbell.net> -TD
2424 + add rxvt-16color, ibm+16color entries -TD
2425 + modify check in --disable-overwrite option so that it is used by
2426 default unless the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr, in attempt to
2427 work around packagers, e.g., for Sun's freeware, who do not read the
2431 + modify wgetch() to allow returning ungetch'd KEY_RESIZE as a function
2432 key code in get_wch().
2433 + extended resize-handling in test/ncurses 'a' menu to the entire
2434 stack of windows created with 'w' commands.
2435 + improve $COLORFGBG feature by interpreting an out-of-range color
2436 value as an SGR 39 or 49, for foreground/background respectively.
2437 + correct a typo in configure --enable-colorfgbg option, and move it
2438 to the experimental section (cf: 20011208).
2441 + add logic to dump_entry.c to remove function-key definitions that do
2442 not fit into the 1023-byte limit for generated termcaps. This makes
2444 + more improvements to tic's warnings, including logic to ignore
2445 differences between delay values in sgr strings.
2446 + move definition of KEY_RESIZE into MKkeydefs.sh script, to
2447 accommodate Caps.osf1r5 which introduced a conflicting definition.
2450 + add simple resize-handling in test/ncurses.c 'a' menu.
2451 + fixes in keyname() and _tracechar() to handle negative values.
2452 + make tic's warnings about mismatches in sgr strings easier to follow.
2453 + correct tic checks for number of parameters in smgbp and smglp.
2454 + improve scoansi terminfo entry, and add scoansi-new entry -TD
2455 + add pcvt25-color terminfo entry -TD
2456 + add kf13-kf48 strings to cons25w terminfo entry (reported by Stephen
2457 Hurd <deuce@lordlegacy.org> in newsgroup lucky.freebsd.bugs) -TD
2458 + add entrypoint _nc_trace_ttymode(), use this to distinguish the
2459 Ottyb and Nttyb members of terminal (aka cur_term), for tracing.
2462 + correct and simplify logic for lib_pad.c change in 20020518 (reported
2466 + fix lib_pad.c for case of drawing a double-width character which
2467 falls off the left margin of the pad (patch by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij
2468 <lerdsuwa@users.sourceforge.net>)
2469 + modify configure script to work around broken gcc 3.1 "--version"
2470 option, which adds unnecessary trash to the requested information.
2471 + adjust ifdef's in case SIGWINCH is not defined, e.g., with DJGPP
2472 (reported by Ben Decker <deckerben@freenet.de>).
2475 + implement vid_puts(), vid_attr(), term_attrs() based on the narrow-
2476 character versions as well.
2477 + implement erasewchar(), killwchar() based on erasechar() and
2479 + modify erasechar() and killchar() to return ERR if the value was
2481 + correct a bug in wresize() in handling subwindows (based on patch by
2482 Roger Gammans <rgammans@computer-surgery.co.uk>, report by Scott Beck
2483 <scott@gossamer-threads.com>).
2484 + improve test/tclock.c by making the second-hand update more often
2485 if gettimeofday() is available.
2488 + workaround for Solaris sed with MKlib_gen.sh (reported by Andy
2489 Tsouladze <andyt@mypoints.com>).
2492 + correct return-value from getcchar(), making it consistent with
2494 + reorder loops that generate makefile rules for different models vs
2495 subsets so configure --with-termlib works again. This was broken by
2496 logic added to avoid duplicate rules in changes to accommodate cygwin
2497 dll's (reported by George.R.Goffe@seagate.com).
2498 + update config.guess, config.sub
2501 + modify ifdef's in write_entry.c to allow use of symbolic links on
2502 platforms with no hard links, e.g., BeOS.
2503 + modify a few includes to allow compile with BeOS, which has stdbool.h
2504 with a conflicting definition for 'bool' versus its OS.h definition.
2505 + amend MKlib_gen.sh to work with gawk, which defines 'func' as an
2506 alias for 'function'.
2509 + correct form of prototype for ripoffline().
2510 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to test that all functions marked as implemented
2514 + add manpages: curs_get_wstr.3x, curs_in_wchstr.3x
2515 + implement wgetn_wstr().
2516 + implement win_wchnstr().
2517 + remove redefinition of unget_wch() in lib_gen.c (reported by
2518 Jungshik Shin <jshin@jtan.com>).
2521 + modified several of the test programs to allow them to compile with
2522 vendor curses implementations, e.g., Solaris, AIX -TD
2525 + modified test/configure to allow configuring against ncursesw.
2526 + change WACS_xxx definition to use address, to work like Tru64 curses.
2529 + add 'e' and 'm' toggles to 'a', 'A' tests in ncurses.c to demonstrate
2530 effect of echo/noecho and meta modes.
2531 + add 'A' test to ncurses.c to demonstrate wget_wch() and related
2533 + add manpage: curs_get_wch.3x
2534 + implement unget_wch().
2535 + implement wget_wch().
2538 + regenerated html manpages.
2539 + add manpages: curs_in_wch.3x, curs_ins_wch.3x, curs_ins_wstr.3x
2540 + implement wins_wch().
2541 + implement win_wch().
2542 + implement wins_nwstr(), wins_wstr().
2545 + add manpages: curs_addwstr.3x, curs_winwstr.3x
2546 + implement winnwstr(), winwstr().
2549 + add manpages: curs_add_wchstr.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x
2550 + document wunctrl, key_name.
2551 + implement key_name().
2552 + remove const's in lib_box.c incorrectly leftover after splitting off
2554 + update llib-lncurses, llib-ncursesw, fix configure script related to
2558 + remove quotes on "SYNOPSIS" in man/curs_box_set.3x, which resulted
2559 in spurious symlinks on install.
2562 + implement whline_set(), wvline_set(), add manpage curs_border_set.
2563 + add subtest 'b' to 'F' and 'f' in ncurses.c to demonstrate use of
2564 box() and box_set() functions.
2565 + add subtest 'u' to 'F' in ncurses.c, to demonstrate use of addstr()
2566 given UTF-8 string equivalents of WACS_xxx symbols.
2567 + minor fixes to several manpages based on groff -ww output.
2568 + add descriptions of external variables of termcap interface to
2569 the manpage (report by Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>).
2570 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
2571 + correct configure option --with-bool, which was executed as
2573 + add quotes for parameters of --with-bool and --with-ospeed configure
2575 > patch by Sven Verdoolaege (report by Gerhard Haering
2576 <haering_linux@gmx.de>):
2577 + correct typos in definitions of several wide-character macros:
2578 waddwstr, wgetbkgrnd, mvaddwstr, mvwadd_wchnstr, mvwadd_wchnstr,
2580 + pass $(CPPFLAGS) to MKlib_gen.sh, thereby fixing a missing definition
2581 of _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, e.g., on Solaris
2584 + implement wide-acs characters for UTF-8 locales. When in UTF-8
2585 locale, ignore narrow version of acs. Add 'F' test to test/ncurses.c
2587 + correct prototype in keybound manpage (noted from a Debian mailing
2591 + add several cases to the wscanw() example in testcurs.c, showing the
2593 + implement a simple vsscanf() fallback function which uses the %n
2594 conversion to help parse the input data (prompted by discussion with
2595 Albert Chin-A-Young).
2596 + modify mk-1st.awk and test/Makefile.in to add $(LDFLAGS) when making
2597 shared libraries, and to use $(CFLAGS) when linking test programs
2598 (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
2599 + add a call to _nc_keypad() in keypad() to accommodate applications
2600 such as nvi, which use curses for output but not for input (fixes
2601 Debian #131263, cf: 20011215).
2602 + add entrypoints to resizeterm.c which provide better control over the
2603 process: is_term_resized() and resize_term(). The latter restores
2604 the original design of resizeterm() before KEY_RESIZE was added in
2605 970906. Do this to accommodate 20010922 changes to view.c, but allow
2606 for programs with their own sigwinch handler, such as lynx (reported
2607 by Russell Ruby <russ@math.orst.edu>).
2610 + fix a typo in change to mk-1st.awk, which broke the shared-library
2611 makefile rules (reported by Martin Mokrejs).
2614 + update config.guess, config.sub
2615 + finish changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
2616 + fix a typo in mvwchat() macro (reported by Cy <yam@homerow.net).
2619 + add case in lib_baudrate.c for B921600 (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
2620 + correct missing sed-editing stage in manpage installs which is used
2621 to rename manpages, broken in 20010324 fix for Debian #89939 (Debian
2623 + remove -L$(libdir) from linker flags, probably not needed any more
2624 since HPUX is handled properly (reported by Niibe Yutaka
2626 + add configure check for mbstate_t, needed for wide-character
2627 configuration. On some platforms we must include <wchar.h> to
2628 define this (reported by Daniel Jacobowitz).
2629 + incorporate some of the changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
2632 + workaround for awk did not work with mawk, adjusted shell script.
2635 + add Caps.osf1r5, as an example.
2636 + modify behavior of can_clear_with() so that if an application is
2637 running in a non-bce terminals with default colors enabled, it
2638 returns true, allowing the user to select/paste text without picking
2639 up extraneous trailing blanks (adapted from patch by Daniel
2640 Jacobowitz <dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu>).
2641 + modify generated curses.h to ifdef-out prototypes for extensions if
2642 they are disabled, and to define curses_version() as a string in that
2643 case. This is needed to make the programs such as tic build in that
2645 + modified generated headers.sh to remove a gzip'd version of the
2646 target file if it exists, in case non-gzip'd manpages are installed
2647 into a directory where gzip'd ones exist. In that case, the latter
2649 + corrected a redundant initialization of signal handlers from 20010922
2651 + clarified bug-reporting address in terminfo.src (report by John H
2652 DuBois III <spcecdt@armory.com>).
2653 > several fixes from Robert Joop:
2654 + do not use "-v" option of awk in MKkey_defs.sh because it does not
2655 work with SunOS nawk.
2656 + modify definitions for libutf8 in curses.h to avoid redefinition
2658 + quoted references to compiler in shell command in misc/Makefile, in
2659 case it uses multiple tokens.
2662 + restore special case from 20010922 changes to omit SA_RESTART when
2663 setting up SIGWINCH handler, which is needed to allow wgetch() to be
2664 interrupted by that signal.
2665 + update configure macro CF_WITH_PATHLIST, to omit some double quotes
2666 not needed with autoconf 2.52
2667 + revert configure script to autoconf 2.13 patched with
2668 autoconf-2.13-19990117.patch.gz (or later)
2670 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
2671 because autoconf 2.52 macro AC_PROG_AWK does not work on HPUX 11.0
2672 (report by David Ellement <ellement@sdd.hp.com>). This also fixes a
2673 different problem configuring with Mac OS X (reported by Marc Smith
2674 <marc.a.smith@home.com>).
2677 + modify include/edit_cfg.h to eliminate BROKEN_LINKER symbol from
2679 + move prototype for _nc_vsscanf() into curses.h.in to omit
2680 HAVE_VSSCANF symbol from curses.h, which was dependent upon the
2681 ncurses_cfg.h file which is not installed.
2682 + use ACS_LEN rather than SIZEOF(acs_map) in trace code of lib_acs.c,
2683 to work with broken linker configuration, e.g., cygwin (report by
2684 Robert Joop <rj@rainbow.in-berlin.de>).
2685 + make napms() call _nc_timed_wait() rather than poll() or select(),
2686 to work around broken implementations of these on cygwin.
2689 + drop configure macro CF_WIDEC_SHIFT, since that was rendered obsolete
2690 by Sven Verdoolaege's rewrite of wide-character support. This makes
2691 libncursesw incompatible again, but makes the header files almost the
2692 same as in the narrow-character configuration.
2693 + simplify definitions that combine wide/narrow versions of bkgd, etc.,
2694 to eliminate differences between the wide/narrow versions of curses.h
2695 + correct typo in configure macro CF_FUNC_VSSCANF
2696 + correct location of call to _nc_keypad() from 20011215 changes which
2697 prevented keypad() from being disabled (reported by Lars Hecking).
2700 + rewrote ncurses 'a' test to exercise wgetch() and keypad() functions
2701 better, e.g., by adding a 'w' command to create new windows which
2702 may have different keypad() settings.
2703 + corrected logic of keypad() by adding internal screen state to track
2704 whether the terminal's keypad-mode has been set. Use this in
2705 wgetch() to update the keypad-mode according to whether the
2706 associated window's keypad-mode has been set with keypad(). This
2707 corrects a related problem restoring terminal state after handling
2708 SIGTSTP (reported by Mike Castle).
2709 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52
2710 autoconf-2.52-patch.gz
2712 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
2713 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2714 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
2715 + minor changes to quoting in configure script to allow it to work
2719 + modify final checks in lib_setup.c for line and col values, making
2721 + modify acs_map[] if configure --broken-linker is specified, to make
2722 it use a function rather than an array (prompted by an incorrect
2723 implementation in cygwin package).
2724 + correct spelling of configure option --enable-colorfgbg, which
2725 happened to work if --with-develop was set (noted in cygwin package
2727 + modify ifdef for genericerror() to compile with SUNWspro Sun WorkShop
2728 6 update 1 C++ 5.2 (patch by Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu>).
2729 + add configure checks to see if ncurses' fallback vsscanf() will
2730 compile either of the special cases for FILE structs, and if not,
2731 force it to the case which simply returns an error (report by
2732 Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu> indicates that Solaris 8 with
2733 64-bits does not allow access to FILE's fields).
2734 + modify ifdef's for c++/cursesw.cc to use the fallback vsscanf() in
2735 the ncurses library if no better substitute for this can be found
2737 + modify the build to name dynamic libraries according to the
2738 convention used on OS X and Darwin. Rather than something like
2739 libncurses.dylib.5.2, Darwin would name it libncurses. 5.dylib.
2740 There are a few additional minor fixes, such as setting the library
2741 version and compatibility version numbers (patch by Jason Evans
2742 <jevans@apple.com>).
2743 + use 'sh' to run mkinstalldirs, to work around problems with buggy
2744 versions of 'make' on OS/2 (report by John Polterak <jp@eyup.org>).
2745 + correct typo in manpage description of curs_set() (Debian #121548).
2746 + replace the configure script existence-check for mkstemp() by one
2747 that checks if the function works, needed for older glibc and
2751 + modify script that generates fallbacks.c to compile a temporary
2752 copy of the terminfo source in case the host does not contain all of
2753 the entries requested for fallbacks (request by Greg Roelofs).
2754 + modify configure script to accommodate systems such as Mac OS X whose
2755 <stdbool.h> header defines a 'bool' type inconsistent with ncurses,
2756 which normally makes 'bool' consistent with C++. Include <stdbool.h>
2757 from curses.h to force consistent usage, define a new type
2758 NCURSES_BOOL and related that to the exported 'bool' as either a
2759 typedef or definition, according to whether <stdbool.h> is present
2760 (based on a bug report for tin 1.5.9 by Aaron Adams <adamsa@mac.com>).
2763 + added/updated terminfo entries for M$ telnet and KDE konsole -TD
2766 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
2767 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
2768 + add putty terminfo entry -TD
2769 + if configuring for wide-curses, define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, since
2770 this may not otherwise be defined to make test/view.c compile.
2773 + review/correct several missing/generated items in curses.wide, sorted
2774 the lists to make subsequent diff's easier to track.
2777 + add manual pages for add_wch(), echo_wchar(), getcchar(),
2778 mvadd_wch(), mvwadd_wch(), setcchar(), wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar().
2779 + implement wecho_wchar()
2780 + modify _tracedump() to handle wide-characters by mapping them to '?'
2781 and control-characters to '.', to make the trace file readable. Also
2782 dynamically allocate the buffer used by _tracedump() for formatting
2784 + modify T_CALLED/T_RETURN macros to ease balancing call/return lines
2785 in a trace by using curly braces.
2786 + implement _nc_viscbuf(), for tracing cchar_t arrays.
2787 + correct trace-calls in setcchar() and getcchar() functions, which
2788 traced the return values but not the entry to each function.
2789 + correct usage message in test/view.c, which still mentioned -u flag.
2792 + modify configure script to allow building with termcap only, or with
2793 fallbacks only. In this case, we do not build tic and toe.
2794 + add configure --with-termpath option, to override default TERMPATH
2795 value of /etc/termcap:/usr/share/misc/termcap.
2796 + cosmetic change to tack: make menu descriptions agree with menu
2800 + rewrote limit-checks in wscrl() and associated _nc_scroll_window(),
2801 to ensure that if the parameter of wscrl() is larger than the size of
2802 the scrolling region, then the scrolling region will be cleared
2803 (report by Ben Kohlen <bckohlen@yahoo.com>).
2804 + add trace/varargs.c, using this to trace parameters in lib_printw.c
2805 + implement _tracecchar_t2() and _tracecchar_t().
2806 + split-out trace/visbuf.c
2807 + correct typo in lib_printw.c changes from 20010922 (report by Mike
2811 + modify run_tic.sh to check if the build is a cross-compile. In that
2812 case, do not use the build's tic to install the terminfo database
2813 (report by Rafael Rodriguez Velilla <rrv@tid.es>).
2814 + modify mouse click resolution so that mouseinterval(-1) will disable
2815 it, e.g., to handle touchscreens via a slow connection (request by
2816 Byron Stanoszek <gandalf@winds.org>).
2817 + correct mouseinterval() default value shown in curs_mouse.3x
2818 + remove conflicting definition of mouse_trafo() (reported by Lars
2819 Hecking, using gcc 2.95.3).
2822 + simpler fix for signal_name(), to replace the one overlooked in
2823 20010929 (reported by Larry Virden).
2826 + add -i option to view.c, to test ncurses' check for non-default
2827 signal handler for SIGINT, etc.
2828 + add cases for shared-libraries on Darwin/OS X (patch by Rob Braun
2829 <bbraun@synack.net>).
2830 + modify tset to restore original I/O modes if an error is encountered.
2831 Also modify to use buffered stderr consistently rather than mixing
2833 + change signal_name() function to use if-then-else rather than case
2834 statement, since signal-values aren't really integers (reported by
2836 + add limit checks in wredrawln(), fixing a problem where lynx was
2837 repainting a pad which was much larger than the screen.
2840 + fix: PutRange() was counting the second part of a wide character as
2841 part of a run, resulting in a cursor position that was one too far
2842 (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
2843 + modify resizeterm() to not queue a KEY_RESIZE if there was no
2844 SIGWINCH, thereby separating the two styles of SIGWINCH handling
2846 + simplified lib_tstp.c, modify it to use SA_RESTART flag for SIGWINCH.
2847 + eliminate several static buffers in the terminfo compiler, using
2849 + modify MKkeyname.awk so that keyname() does not store its result into
2850 a static buffer that is overwritten by the next call.
2851 + reorganize the output of infocmp -E and -e options to compile cleanly
2852 with gcc -Wwrite-strings warnings.
2853 + remove redefinition of chgat/wchgat/mvwchgat from curses.wide
2856 + add label to test/view.c, showing the name of the last key or signal
2857 that made the screen repaint, to make it clearer when a sigwinch
2859 + use ExitProgram() consistently in the test-programs to make it
2860 simpler to test leaks with dmalloc, etc.
2861 + move hashtab static data out of hashmap.c into SCREEN struct.
2862 + make NO_LEAK code compile with revised WINDOWLIST structs.
2865 + modify tgetent() to check if exit_attribute_mode resets the alternate
2866 character set, and if so, attempt to adjust the copy of the termcap
2867 "me" string which it will return to eliminate that part. In
2868 particular, 'screen' would lose track of line-drawing characters
2869 (report by Frederic L W Meunier <0@pervalidus.net>, analysis by
2873 + specify DOCTYPE in html manpages.
2874 + add missing macros for several "generated" functions: attr_get(),
2875 attr_off(), attr_on(), attr_set(), chgat(), mvchgat(), mvwchgat() and
2877 + modify view.c to agree with non-experimental status of ncurses'
2879 + change the sense of the -r option, making it default to ncurses'
2881 + add a note explaining what functions are unsafe in a signal
2883 + add a -c option, to set color display, for testing.
2884 + unset $data variable in MKterminfo.sh script, to address potential
2885 infinite loop if shell malfunction (report by Samuel Mikes
2886 <smikes@cubane.com>, for bash 2.05.0 on a Linux 2.0.36 system).
2887 + change kbs in mach terminfo entries to ^? (Marcus Brinkmann
2888 <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>).
2889 + correct logic for COLORFGBG environment variable: if rxvt is compiled
2890 with xpm support, the variable has three fields, making it slightly
2891 incompatible with itself. In either case, the background color is
2895 + move calls to def_shell_mode() and def_prog_mode() before loop with
2896 callbacks in lib_set_term.c, since the c++ demo otherwise initialized
2897 the tty modes before saving them (patch by John David Anglin
2898 <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>).
2899 + duplicate logic used to initialize trace in newterm(), in initscr()
2900 to avoid confusing trace of initscr().
2901 + simplify allocation of WINDOW and WINDOWLIST structs by making the
2902 first a part of the second rather than storing a pointer. This saves
2903 a call to malloc for each window (discussion with Philippe Blain).
2904 + remove unused variable 'used_ncv' from lib_vidattr.c (Philippe
2906 + modify c++/Makefile.in to accommodate archive programs that are
2907 different for C++ than for C, and add cases for vendor's C++
2908 compilers on Solaris and IRIX (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
2909 + correct manpage description of criteria for deciding if the terminal
2910 supports xterm mouse controls.
2911 + add several configure script options to aid with cross-compiling:
2912 --with-build-cc, --with-build-cflags, --with-build-ldflags, and
2913 --with-build-libs (request by Greg Roelofs).
2914 + change criteria for deciding if configure is cross-compiling from
2915 host/build mismatch to host/target mismatch (request by Greg Roelofs
2916 <greg.roelofs@philips.com>).
2917 + correct logic for infocmp -e and -E options which writes the data for
2918 the ext_Names[] array. This is needed if one constructs a fallback
2919 table for a terminfo entry which uses extended termcap names, e.g.,
2920 AX in a color xterm.
2921 + fix undefined NCURSES_PATHSEP when configure --disable-database
2925 + fix for VALID_BOOLEAN() macro when char is not signed.
2926 + modify 'clean' rule for C++ binding to work with Sun compiler, which
2927 caches additional information in a subdirectory of the objects.
2928 + added llib-ncursesw.
2931 + add Caps.keys example for experimental extended function keys
2932 (adapted from a patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
2933 + correct parameter types of vidputs() and vidattr() to agree with
2934 header files (report by William P Setzer).
2935 + fix typos in several man-pages (patch by William P Setzer).
2936 + remove unneeded ifdef for __GNUG__ in CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC configure
2937 macro, which made ncurses C++ binding fail to build with other
2938 C++ compilers such as HPUX 11.x (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
2939 + workaround for bug in HPUX 11.x C compiler: add a blank after
2940 NCURSES_EXPORT macro in form.h (report by Albert Chin-A-Young)
2941 + ignore blank lines in Caps* files in MKkey_defs.sh script (report by
2942 Albert Chin-A-Young).
2943 + correct definition of key_end in Caps.aix4, which left KEY_END
2944 undefined (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
2945 + remove a QNX-specific fallback prototype for vsscanf(), which is
2946 obsolete with QNX RTP.
2947 + review/fix some of the T() and TR() macro calls, having noticed that
2948 there was no data for delwin() in a trace of dialog because there was
2949 no returnVoid call for wtimeout(). Also, traces in lib_twait.c are
2950 now selected under TRACE_IEVENT rather than TRACE_CALLS.
2953 + add a _nc_access() check before opening files listed via $TERMPATH.
2954 + using modified man2html, regenerate some of the html manpages to fix
2955 broken HREF's where the link was hyphenated.
2958 + add some limit/pointer checks to -S option of tputs.
2959 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
2960 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
2961 + add a note in curs_termcap.3x regarding a defect in the XSI
2962 description of tgetent (based on a discussion with Urs Jansen
2963 regarding the HPUX 11.x implementation, whose termcap interface is
2964 not compatible with existing termcap programs).
2965 + modify manhtml rule in dist.mk to preserve copyright notice on the
2966 generated files, as well as to address HTML style issues reported by
2967 tidy and weblint. Regenerated/updated corresponding html files.
2968 + comment out use of Protected_Character and related rarely used
2969 attributes in ncurses Ada95 test/demo to compile with wide-character
2973 + implement a simple example in C++ demo to test scanw().
2974 + corrected stdio function used to implement scanw() in cursesw.cc
2975 + correct definition of RemAttr() macro from 20010602 changes, which
2976 caused C++ SillyDemo to not show line-drawing characters.
2977 + modify C++ binding, adding getKey() which can be overridden by user
2978 to substitute functions other than getch() for keyboard processing
2979 of forms and menus (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
2982 + fix some of the trace calls which needed modification to work with
2983 new wide-character structures.
2984 + modify magic-cookie code in tty_update.c to compile with new
2985 wide-character structures (report by <George.R.Goffe@seagate.com>).
2986 + ensure that _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined in curses.priv.h if
2987 compiling for wide-character configuration.
2988 + make addwnstr() handle non-spacing characters (patch by Sven
2992 + add configure check to define _GNU_SOURCE, needed to prop up glibc
2994 + split-out include/curses.wide to solve spurious redefinitions caused
2995 by defining _GNU_SOURCE, and move includes for <signal.h> before
2996 <curses.h> to work around misdefinition of ERR in glibc 2.1.3 header
2998 + extended ospeed change to NetBSD and OpenBSD -TD
2999 + modify logic in lib_baudrate.c for ospeed, for FreeBSD to make it
3000 work properly for termcap applications (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
3003 + correct an overlooked CharOf/UChar instance (reports by Eugene Lee
3004 <eugene@anime.net>, Sven Verdoolaege).
3005 + correct unneeded ifdef for wunctrl() (reported by Sven Verdoolaege)
3008 + change overlooked several CharOf/UChar instances.
3009 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
3010 + correct a typo in wunctrl(), which made it appear that botwc() was
3011 needed (no such function: use btowc()).
3012 + reimplement wide-character demo in test/view.c, using new functions.
3013 + implement getcchar(), setcchar(), wadd_wchnstr() and related macros.
3014 + fix a syntax problem with do/if/while in PUTC macro (curses.priv.h).
3017 + add parentheses in macros for malloc in test.priv.h, fixes an
3018 expression in view.c (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.co.at>).
3019 + add Caps.uwin, as an example.
3020 + change the way curses.h is generated, making the list of function
3021 key definitions extracted from the Caps file.
3022 + add #undef's before possible redefinition of ERR and OK in curses.h
3023 + modify logic in tic, toe, tput and tset which checks for basename of
3024 argv[0] to work properly on systems such as OS/2 which have
3025 case-independent filenames and/or program suffixes, e.g., ".ext".
3028 + add a configure check, if --enable-widec is specified, for putwc(),
3029 which may be in libutf8.
3030 + remove some unnecessary text from curs_extend.3x and
3031 default_colors.3x which caused man-db to make incorrect symbolic
3032 links (Debian bug report #99550).
3033 + add configure check if cast for _IO_va_list is needed to compile
3034 C++ vscan code (Debian bug report #97945).
3035 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
3036 + correct code that used non-standard auto-initialization of a struct,
3037 which gcc allows (report by Larry Virden).
3038 + use putwc() in PUTC() macro.
3039 + make addstr() work for the special case where the codeset is
3040 non-stateful (eg. UTF-8), as well as stateful codesets.
3043 + correct loop expression in NEXT_CHAR macro for lib_addstr.c changes
3044 from 20010602 (report by Mike Castle).
3047 + modify mvcur() to avoid emitting newline characters when nonl() mode
3048 is set. Normally this is not a problem since the actual terminal
3049 mode is set to suppress nl/crlf translations, however it is useful to
3050 allow the caller to manipulate the terminal mode to avoid staircasing
3051 effects after spawning a process which writes messages (for lynx
3053 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>:
3054 + remove redundant type-conversion in fifo_push()
3055 + correct definition of addwstr() macro in curses.h.in
3056 + remove _nc_utf8_outch()
3057 + rename most existing uses of CharOf() to UChar(), e.g., where it is
3058 used to prevent sign-extension in ctype macros.
3059 + change some chtype's to attr_t's where the corresponding variables
3060 are used to manipulate attributes.
3061 + UpdateAttr() was applied to both attributes (attr_t) and characters
3062 (chtype). Modify macro and calls to it to make these distinct.
3063 + add CharEq() macro, use in places where wide-character configuration
3064 implementation uses a struct for cchar_t.
3065 + moved struct ldat into curses.priv.h, to hide implementation details.
3066 + change CharOf() macro to use it for masking A_CHARTEXT data from
3068 + add L() macro to curses.priv.h, for long-character literals.
3069 + replace several assignments from struct ldat entries to chtype or
3070 char values with combinations of CharOf() and AttrOf() macros.
3071 + add/use intermediate ChAttrOf() and ChCharOf() macros where we know
3072 we are using chtype data.
3073 + add/use lowlevel attribute manipulation macros AddAttr(), RemAttr()
3075 + add/use SetChar() macro, to change a cchar_t based on a character and
3077 + convert most internal use of chtype to NCURSES_CH_T, to simplify use
3078 of cchar_t for wide-character configuration. Similarly, use ARG_CH_T
3079 where a pointer would be more useful.
3080 + add stubs for tracing cchar_t values.
3081 + add/use macro ISBLANK()
3082 + add/use constructors for cchar_t's: NewChar(), NewChar2().
3083 + add/use macros CHREF(), CHDEREF(), AttrOfD(), CharOfD() to facilitate
3084 passing cchar_t's by address.
3085 + add/use PUTC_DATA, PUTC() macros.
3086 + for wide-character configuration, move the window background data to
3087 the end of the WINDOW struct so that whether _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
3088 is defined or not, the offsets in the struct will not change.
3089 + modify addch() to work with wide-characters.
3090 + mark several wide-character functions as generated in curses.h.in
3091 + implement wunctrl(), wadd_wch(), wbkgrndset(), wbkgrnd(),
3092 wborder_set() and waddnwstr().
3095 + add experimental --with-caps=XXX option to customize to similar
3096 terminfo database formats such as AIX 4.x
3097 + add Caps.aix4 as an example.
3098 + modify Caps to add columns for the the KEY_xxx symbols.
3099 + modify configure --with-widec to suppress overwrite of libcurses.so
3101 + add checks to toe.c to avoid being confused by files and directories
3102 where we would expect the reverse, e.g., source-files in the
3103 top-level terminfo levels as is the case for AIX.
3106 + add top-level 'depend' rule for the C sources, assuming that the
3107 makedepend program is available. As a side-effect, this makes
3108 the generated sources, as in "make sources" (prompted by a report
3109 by Mike Castle that "make -j" fails because the resulting parallel
3110 processes race to generate ncurses/names.c).
3111 + modify configure script so that --disable-overwrite option's action
3112 to add a symbolic link for libcurses applies to the static library as
3113 well as the shared library when both are configured (report by Felix
3114 Natter <f.natter@ndh.net>).
3115 + add ELKS terminfo entries (Federico Bianchi
3116 <bianchi@www.arte.unipi.it>)
3117 + add u6 (CSR) to Eterm (Michael Jennings).
3120 + modify test/ncurses.c to work with xterm-256color, which has fewer
3121 color pairs than colors*colors (report by David Ellement
3122 <ellement@sdd.hp.com>).
3125 + corrected screen.xterm-xfree86 entry.
3126 + update comment in Caps regarding IBM (AIX) function-key definitions.
3129 + modify c++/Makefile.in to link with libncurses++w.a when configured
3130 for wide-characters (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
3131 + add check in _nc_trace_buf() to refrain from freeing a null pointer.
3132 + improve CF_PROG_INSTALL macro using CF_DIRNAME.
3133 + update config.guess, config.sub from autoconf 2.49e (alpha).
3136 + add secondary check in tic.c, similar_sgr() to see if the reason
3137 for mismatch was that the individual capabilities used a time-delay
3138 while sgr did not. Used this to cleanup mismatches, e.g., in vt100,
3139 and remove time-delay from Apple_Terminal entries.
3140 + add Apple_Terminal terminfo entries (Benjamin C W Sittler
3141 <bsittler@iname.com>).
3142 + correct definitions of shifted editing keys for xterm-xfree86 -TD
3143 + fix a bug in test/bs.c from 20010407 (patch by Erik Sigra).
3144 + prevent relative_move() from doing an overwrite if it detects 8-bit
3145 characters when configured for UTF-8 (reported by Sven Verdoolaege
3146 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
3149 + add configure checks for strstream.h vscan function, and similar
3150 stdio-based function which may be used in C++ binding for gcc 3.0
3151 (reports by George Goffe, Lars Hecking, Mike Castle).
3152 + rewrite parts of configure.in which used changequote(). That feature
3153 is broken in the latest autoconf alphas (e.g., 2.49d).
3154 + add a missing pathname for ncurses_dll.h, needed when building in
3155 a directory outside the source tree (patch by Sven Verdoolaege
3156 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
3157 > fix 2 bugs in test/bs.c Erik Sigra <sigra@home.se>:
3158 + no ships were ever placed in the last row or in the last column.
3159 This made the game very easy to win, because you never had to waste
3160 any shots there, but the computer did.
3161 + the squares around a sunken ship that belonged to the player were not
3162 displayed as already hit by the computer, like it does for the
3166 + add some examples of customizing screen's terminfo:
3167 screen.xterm-xfree86, screen.xterm-r6, screen.teraterm -TD
3168 + modify screen's terminfo entry to match the khome/kend in screen
3169 3.09.08 (Debian bug report #92215).
3170 + correct a memory leak in forms library (report by Stefan Vogtner
3171 <stefan@vogtner.de>) (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3174 + change symbols used to guard against repeated includes to begin
3175 consistently with "NCURSES_" rather than a leading underscore. There
3176 are other symbols defined in the header files which begin with a
3177 leading underscore, but they are part of the legacy interface.
3178 + reorder includes in c++ binding so that rcs identifiers can be
3180 + add .cc.ii rule to c++ makefile, to get preprocessor output for
3182 + correct configure script handling of @keyword@ substitutions when the
3183 --with-manpage-renames option is given (cf: 20000715, fixes Debian
3185 + report stack underflow/overflow in tparm() when tic -cv option is
3187 + remove spurious "%|" operator from xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry,
3188 (reported by Adam Costello <amc@cs.berkeley.edu>, Debian bug #89222).
3191 + cleanup of newdemo.c, fixing some ambiguous expressions noted by gcc
3192 2.95.2, and correcting some conflicting color pair initializations.
3193 + add missing copyright notice for cursesw.h
3194 + review, make minor fixes for use of '::' for referring to C-language
3195 interface from C++ binding.
3196 + modify configure check for g++ library slightly to accommodate
3197 nonstandard version number, e.g., <vendor>-2.7 (report by Ronald Ho
3198 <rho@mipos2.intel.com>).
3199 + add configure check for c++ <sstream> header, replace hardcoded
3201 + workaround for pre-release of gcc 3.0 libstdc++, which has dropped
3202 vscan from strstreambuf to follow standard, use wrapper for C vscanf
3203 instead (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@excite.com> and Matt Taggart
3204 <taggart@carmen.fc.hp.com>, fixes Debian .
3207 + modify interface of _nc_get_token() to pass 'silent' parameter to it,
3208 to make quieter loading of /etc/termcap (patch by Todd C Miller).
3209 + correct a few typos in curs_slk.3x and curs_outopts.3x manpages
3210 (patch by Todd C Miller).
3213 + compiler-warning fixes (reported by Nelson Beebe).
3216 + modify screen terminfo entry to use new 3.9.8 feature allowing xterm
3220 + broaden patterns used to match OS/2 EMX in configure script to cover
3221 variant used in newer config.guess/config.sub
3222 + remove changequote() calls from configure script, since this feature
3223 is broken in the autoconf 2.49c alpha, maintainers decline to fix.
3224 + remove macro callPutChar() from tty_update.c, since this is no longer
3225 needed (reported by Philippe Blain).
3226 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c to handle the case when the input
3227 file is really empty. Modify the next_char() function in comp_scan.c
3228 to allow arbitrarily long lines, and incidentally supply a newline to
3229 files that do not end in a newline. These changes improve tic's
3230 recovery from attempts to read binary files, e.g., its output from
3231 the terminfo database (reported by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
3234 + revert change to c++/demo.cc from 20001209, which changed definition
3235 of main() apparently to accommodate cygwin linker, but broke the demo
3237 + workaround for broken egcs 2.91.66 which calls member functions
3238 (i.e., lines() and colors() of NCursesWindow before calling its
3239 constructor. Add calls to initialize() in a few constructors which
3240 did not do this already.
3241 + use the GNAT preprocessor to make the necessary switch between TRACE
3242 and NO_TRACE configurations (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3243 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
3244 + modify kterm terminfo entry to use SCS sequence to support alternate
3245 character set (it does not work with SI/SO).
3246 + --with-ospeed=something didn't work. configure.in checked for a
3247 $enableval where it should check for $withval. Also,
3248 ncurses/llib-lncurses still had a hardcoded short.
3251 + correction to my merge of Tom Riddle's patch that broke tic in some
3252 conditions (reported by Enoch Wexler <enoch@wexler.co.il>) -TD
3255 + modify view.c to test halfdelay(). Like other tests, this recognizes
3256 the 's' and space commands for stopping/starting polled input, shows
3257 a freerunning clock in the header. If given a parameter to 's', that
3258 makes view.c use halfdelay() with that parameter rather than
3260 + fix to allow compile with the experimental configure option
3262 + modify postprocess_termcap() to avoid overwriting key_backspace,
3263 key_left, key_down when processing a non-base entry (report/patch by
3265 + modify _nc_wrap_entry(), adding option to reallocate the string
3266 table, needed in _nc_merge_entry() when merging termcap entries.
3267 (adapted from report/patch by Tom Riddle <ftr@oracom.com>).
3268 + modify a few configure script macros to keep $CFLAGS used only for
3269 compiler options, preprocessor options in $CPPFLAGS.
3272 + correct marker positions in lrtest.c after receiving a sigwinch.
3273 + fix ifdef's in ncurses.c to build against pre-5.2 for testing.
3274 + fixes to tclock for resizing behavior, redundant computation (report
3275 and patch by A M Kuchling <akuchlin@mems-exchange.org>).
3278 + improved scoansi terminfo entry -TD
3279 + modify configure script and makefile in Ada95/src to compile a stub
3280 for the trace functions when ncurses does not provide those.
3283 + add ncurses_dll.h and related definitions to support generating DLL's
3284 with cygwin (adapted from a patch by Charles Wilson
3285 <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>, changed NCURSES_EXPORT macro to make it
3286 work with 'indent') -TD
3289 + correct prototypes for some functions in curs_termcap.3x, matching
3290 termcap.h, which matches X/Open.
3291 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
3292 + a revised version of the Ada enhancements sent in by "H.
3293 Nanosecond", aka Eugene V Melaragno <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>. This
3295 - small fixes to the existing ncurses binding
3296 - addition of some more low-level functions to the binding, including
3297 termcap and terminfo functions
3298 - An Ada implementation of the "ncurses" test application originally
3302 + modify logic in lib_setup.c to allow either lines or columns value
3303 from terminfo to be used if the screen size cannot be determined
3304 dynamically rather than requiring both (patch by Ehud Karni
3305 <ehud@unix.simonwiesel.co.il>).
3306 + add check in lib_tgoto.c's is_termcap() function to reject null or
3307 empty strings (reported by Valentin Nechayev <netch@netch.kiev.ua> to
3309 + add definition from configure script that denotes the path-separator,
3310 which is normally a colon. The path-separator is a semicolon on
3311 OS/2 EMX and similar systems which may use a colon within pathnames.
3312 + alter logic to set default for --disable-overwrite option to set it
3313 to 'yes' if the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr/local, thereby
3314 accommodating the most common cause of problems: gcc's nonstandard
3315 search rules. Other locations such as /usr/local/ncurses will
3316 default to overwriting (report by Lars Hecking <lhecking@nmrc.ie>).
3319 + modify default for --disable-overwrite configure option to disable
3320 if the --prefix or $prefix value is not /usr.
3321 + add cygwin to systems for which ncurses is installed by default into
3322 /usr rather than /usr/local.
3325 + minor optimization in comp_error.c and lib_termname.c, using
3326 strncat() to replace strncpy() (patch by Solar Designer).
3327 + add a use_terminfo_vars() check for $HOME/.termcap, and check for
3328 geteuid() to use_terminfo_vars() (patch by Solar Designer
3330 + improved cygwin terminfo entry, based on patch by
3331 <ernie_boyd@yahoo.com>.
3332 + modify _nc_write_entry() to allow for the possibility that linking
3333 aliases on a filesystem that ignores case would not succeed because
3334 the source and destination differ only by case, e.g., NCR260VT300WPP0
3335 on cygwin (report by Neil Zanella).
3336 + fix a typo in the curs_deleteln.3x man page (patch by Bernhard
3337 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
3340 + add configure option --with-ospeed to assist packagers in transition
3341 to 5.3 change to ospeed type.
3342 + add/use CharOf() macro to suppress sign-extension of char type on
3343 platforms where this is a problem in ctype macros, e.g., Solaris.
3344 + change trace output to binary format.
3345 + correct a missing quote adjustment in CF_PATH_SYNTAX autoconf
3346 macro, for OS/2 EMX configuration.
3347 + rearrange a few configure macros, moving preprocessor options to
3348 $CPPFLAGS (a now-obsolete version of autoconf did not consistently
3349 use $CPPFLAGS in both the compile and preprocessor checks).
3350 + add a check in relative_move() to guard against buffer overflow in
3351 the overwrite logic.
3354 + add message to configure script showing g++ version.
3355 + resync config.guess, config.sub
3356 + modify lib_delwin.c, making it return ERR if the window did not exist
3357 (suggested by Neil Zanella).
3358 + add cases for FreeBSD 3.1 to tdlint and makellib scripts, used this
3359 to test/review ncurses library. (Would use lclint, but it doesn't
3361 + reorganized knight.c to avoid forward references. Correct screen
3362 updates when backtracking, especially to the first cell. Add F/B/a
3365 20001021 5.2 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3366 + update generated html files from manpages.
3367 + modify dist.mk to use edit_man.sh to substitute autoconf'd variables
3369 + fix an uninitialized pointer in read_termcap.c (report by Todd C
3370 Miller, from report/patch by Philip Guenther <guenther@gac.edu>).
3371 + correct help-message and array limit in knight.c (patch by Brian
3372 Raiter <breadbox@muppetlabs.com>).
3373 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
3374 + fix to avoid warning by GNAT-3.13p about use of inconsistent casing
3375 for some identifiers defined in the standard package.
3376 + cosmetic change to forms/fty_enum.c
3379 + correct an off-by-one position in test/railroad.c which could cause
3380 wrapping at the right margin.
3381 + test/repair some issues with libtool configuration. Make
3382 --disable-echo force libtool --silent. (Libtool does not work for
3383 OS/2 EMX, works partly for SCO - libtool is still very specific to
3385 + change default of --with-manpage-tbl to "no", since for most of the
3386 platforms which do have tbl installed, the system "man" program
3387 understands how to run tbl automatically.
3388 + minor improvement to force_bar() in comp_parse.c (Bernhard
3389 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
3390 + modify lib_tparm.c to use get_space() before writing terminating
3391 null character, both for consistency as well as to ensure that if
3392 save_char() was called immediately before, that the allocated memory
3393 is enough (patch by Sergei Ivanov).
3394 + add note about termcap ML capability which is duplicated between two
3395 different capabilities: smgl and smglr (reported by Sergei Ivanov
3396 <svivanov@pdmi.ras.ru>).
3397 + correct parameter counts in include/Caps for dclk as well as some
3398 printer-specific capabilities: csnm, defc, scs, scsd, smgtp, smglp.
3399 > patch by Johnny C Lam <lamj@stat.cmu.edu>:
3400 + add support for building with libtool (apparently version 1.3.5,
3401 since old versions do not handle -L../lib), using new configure
3402 option --with-libtool.
3403 + add configure option --with-manpage-tbl, which causes the manpages to
3404 be preprocessed by tbl(1) prior to installation,
3405 + add configure option --without-curses-h, which causes the
3406 installation process to install curses.h as ncurses.h and make
3407 appropriate changes to headers and manpages.
3410 + correct order of options/parameters in run_tic.in invocation of tic,
3411 which did not work with standard getopt() (reported by Ethan
3412 Butterfield <primus@veris.org>).
3413 + correct logic for 'reverse' variable in lib_vidattr.c, which was
3414 setting it true without checking if newmode had A_REVERSE set, e.g.,
3415 using $TERM=ansi on OS/2 EMX (see 20000917).
3416 > patch by Todd C Miller:
3417 + add a few missing use_terminfo_vars() and fixes up _nc_tgetent().
3418 Previously, _nc_cgetset() would still get called on cp so the
3419 simplest thing is to set cp to NULL if !use_terminfo_vars().
3420 + added checks for an empty $HOME environment variable.
3421 > patches for OS/2 EMX (Ilya Zakharevich):
3422 + modify convert_configure.pl to support INSTALL. Change compiler
3423 options in that script to use multithreading, needed for the mouse.
3424 + modify OS/2 mouse support, retrying as a 2-button mouse if code fails
3425 to set up a 3-button mouse.
3426 + improve code for OS/2 mouse support, using _nc_timed_wait() to
3427 replace select() call.
3430 + change type of ospeed variable back to short to match its use in
3431 legacy applications (reported by Andrey A Chernov).
3432 + add case to configure script for --enable-rpath on IRIX (patch by
3433 Albert Chin-A-Young).
3434 + minor fix to position_check() function, to ensure it gets the whole
3435 cursor report before decoding.
3436 + add configure option --disable-assumed-color, to allow pre-5.1
3437 convention of default colors used for color-pair 0 to be configured
3438 (see assume_default_colors()).
3439 + rename configure option --enable-hashmap --disable-hashmap, and
3440 reorder the configure options, splitting the experimental and
3442 + add configure option --disable-root-environ, which tells ncurses to
3443 disregard $TERMINFO and similar environment variables if the current
3444 user is root, or running setuid/setgid (based on discussion with
3446 + modified misc/run_tic.in to use tic -o, to eliminate dependency on
3447 $TERMINFO variable for installs.
3448 + add table entry for plab_norm to tput, so it passes in strings
3449 for that capability.
3450 + modify parse_format() in lib_tparm.c to ignore precision if it is
3451 longer than 10000 (report by Jouko Pynnonen).
3452 + rewrote limit checks in lib_mvcur.c using new functions
3453 _nc_safe_strcat(), etc. Made other related changes to check lengths
3454 used for strcat/strcpy (report by Jouko Pynnonen
3455 <jouko@solutions.fi>).
3458 + modify several descriptions, including those for setaf, setab, in
3459 include/Caps to indicate that the entries are parameterized. This
3460 information is used to tell which strings are translated when
3461 converting to termcap. Fixes a problem where the generated termcap
3462 would contain a spurious "%p1" for the terminfo "%p1%d".
3463 + modify ld -rpath options (e.g., Linux, and Solaris) to use an
3464 absolute pathname for the build tree's lib directory (prompted by
3465 discussion with Albert Chin-A-Young).
3466 + modify "make install.man" and "make uninstall.man" to include tack's
3468 + various fixes for install scripts used to support configure --srcdir
3469 and --with-install-prefix (reported by Matthew Clarke
3470 <Matthew_Clarke@mindlink.bc.ca>).
3471 + make configure script checks on variables $GCC and $GXX consistently
3472 compare against 'yes' rather than test if they are nonnull, since
3473 either may be set to the corresponding name of the C or C++ compiler
3474 (report/patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3477 + modify rs2 capability in xterm-r6 and similar where cursor
3478 save/restore bracketed the sequence for resetting video attributes.
3479 The cursor restore would undo that (report by John Hawkinson
3480 <jhawk@MIT.EDU> (see NetBSD misc/11052)).
3481 + using parameter check added to tic, corrected 27 typos in
3483 + modify tic to verify that its inputs are really files, in case
3484 someone tries to read a directory (or /dev/zero).
3485 + add a check for empty buffers returned by fgets() in comp_scan.c
3486 next_char() function, in case tic is run on a non-text file (fixes
3487 a core dump reported by Aaron Campbell <aaron@cs.dal.ca>).
3488 + add to railroad.c some code exercising tgoto(), providing an
3489 alternate form of display if the terminal supports cursor addressing.
3490 + split-out tgoto() again, this time into new file lib_tgoto.c, and
3491 implement a conventional BSD-style tgoto() which is used if the
3492 capability string does not contain terminfo-style padding or
3493 parameters (requested by Andrey A Chernov).
3494 + add check to tic which reports capabilities that do not reference
3495 the expected number of parameters.
3496 + add error checking to infocmp's -v and -m options to ensure that
3497 the option value is indeed a number.
3498 + some cleanup of logic in _nc_signal_handler() to verify if SIGWINCH
3499 handler is setup. Separated the old/new sigaction data for SIGTSTP
3500 from the other signals.
3503 + add S0, E0 extensions to screen's terminfo entry, which is another
3504 way to solve the misconfiguration issue -TD
3505 + completed special case for tgoto from 20000916
3508 + update xterm terminfo entries to match XFree86 xterm patch #146 -TD
3509 + add Matrix Orbital terminfo entries (from Eric Z Ayers
3511 + add special case to lib_tparm.c to allow 'screen' program to use a
3512 termcap-style parameter "%." to tgoto() for switching character sets.
3513 + use LN_S substitution in run_tic.in, to work on OS/2 EMX which has
3515 + updated notes in README.emx regarding autoconf patches.
3516 + replace a lookup table in lib_vidattr.c used to decode no_color_video
3517 with a logic expression (suggested by Philippe Blain).
3518 + add a/A toggle to ncurses.c 'b' test, which clears/sets alternate
3519 character set attribute from the displayed text.
3520 + correct inequality in parameter analysis of rewritten lib_tparm.c
3521 which had the effect of ignoring p9 in set_attributes (sgr), breaking
3522 alternate character set (reported by Piotr Majka <charvel@link.pl>).
3523 + correct ifdef'ing for GCC_PRINTF, GCC_SCANF which would not compile
3524 with Sun WorkShop compilers since these tokens were empty (cf:
3525 20000902, reported by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3528 + correct an uninitialized parameter to open_tempfile() in tic.c which
3529 made "tic -I" give an ambiguous error message about tmpnam.
3530 + add special case in lib_vidattr.c to reset underline and standout for
3531 devices that have no sgr0 defined (patch by Don Lewis
3532 <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>). Note that this will not work for bold
3533 mode, since there is no exit-bold-mode capability.
3534 + improved patch for Make_Enum_Type (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3535 + modify tparm to disallow arithmetic on strings, analyze the varargs
3536 list to read strings as strings and numbers as numbers.
3537 + modify tparm's internal function spop() to treat a null pointer as
3539 + modify tput program so it can be renamed or invoked via a link as
3540 'reset' or 'init', producing the same effect as 'tput reset' or 'tput
3542 + add private entrypoint _nc_basename(), use to consolidate related
3543 code in progs, as well as accommodating OS/2 EMX pathnames.
3544 + remove NCURSES_CONST line from edit_cfg.sh to compensate for its
3545 removal (except via AC_SUBST) from configure.in, making
3546 --enable-const work again (reported by Juergen Pfeifer).
3547 + regen'd configure to pick up "hpux*" change from 20000902.
3550 + modify tset.c to check for transformed "reset" program name, if any.
3551 + add a check for null pointer in Make_Enum_Type() (reported by Steven
3552 W Orr <steveo@world.std.com>).
3553 + change functions _nc_parse_entry() and postprocess_termcap() to avoid
3554 using strtok(), because it is non-reentrant (reported by Andrey A
3555 Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>).
3556 + remove "hpux10.*" case from CF_SHARED_OPTS configure script macro.
3557 This differed from the "hpux*" case by using reversed symbolic
3558 links, which made the 5.1 version not match the configuration of
3559 5.0 shared libraries (reported by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3560 + correct a dependency in Ada95/src/Makefile.in which prevented
3561 building with configure --srcdir (patch by H Nanosecond
3562 <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>).
3563 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in to avoid warning if GCC_PRINTF or
3564 GCC_SCANF was not previously defined (reported by Pavel Roskin
3566 + add MKncurses_def.sh to generate fallback definitions for
3567 ncurses_cfg.h, to quiet gcc -Wundef warnings, modified ifdef's in
3568 code to consistently use "#if" rather than "#ifdef".
3571 + add QNX qansi entries to terminfo -TD
3572 + add os2 entry to misc/emx.src (<jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>).
3573 + add configure option --with-database to allow specifying a different
3574 terminfo source-file to install. On OS/2 EMX, this defaults to
3576 + change misc/run_tic.sh to derive it from misc/run_tic.in, to simplify
3577 setting .exe extension on OS/2 EMX.
3578 + add .exe extension in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in,
3579 Ada95/samples/Makefile.in, for OS/2 EMX (reported by
3580 <jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>).
3581 + add configure check for filesystems (such as OS/2 EMX) which do not
3582 distinguish between upper/lowercase filenames, use this to fix tags
3584 + initialize fds[] array to 0's in _nc_timed_wait(); apparently poll()
3585 only sets the revents members of that array when there is activity
3586 corresponding to the related file (report by Glenn Cooper
3587 <gcooper@qantas.com.au>, using Purify on Solaris 5.6).
3588 + change configure script to use AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM rather than
3589 AC_CANONICAL_HOST, which means that configure --target will set
3590 a default program-prefix.
3591 + add note on cross-compiling to INSTALL (which does not rely on the
3592 AC_CANONICAL_* macros).
3595 + add cases for EMX OS/2 to config.guess, config.sub
3596 + new version of config.guess, config.sub from lynx 2.8.4dev.7
3597 + add definitions via transform.h to allow tic and tput to check for
3598 the transformed aliases rather than the original infotocap, etc.
3599 + simplify transform-expressions in progs/Makefile.in, make the
3600 uninstall rule work for transformed program names.
3601 + change symbol used by --install-prefix configure option from
3602 INSTALL_PREFIX to DESTDIR (the latter has become common usage
3603 although the name is misleading).
3604 + modify programs to use curses_version() string to report the version
3605 of ncurses with which they are compiled rather than the
3606 NCURSES_VERSION string. The function returns the patch level in
3607 addition to the major and minor version numbers.
3610 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to make transformed program names
3611 a parameter to that macro rather than embedding them in the macro.
3612 + newer config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in lynx
3614 + add configure option --with-default-terminfo-dir=DIR to allow
3615 specifying the default terminfo database directory (request by Albert
3617 + minor updates for terminfo.src from FreeBSD termcap change-history.
3618 + correct notes in README and INSTALL regarding documentation files
3619 that were moved from misc directory to doc (report by Rich Kulawiec
3621 + change most remaining unquoted parameters of 'test' in configure
3622 script to use quotes, for instance fixing a problem in the
3623 --disable-database option (reported by Christian Mondrup
3624 <scancm@biobase.dk>).
3625 + minor adjustments to work around some of the incompatibilities/bugs
3626 in autoconf 2.29a alpha.
3627 + add -I/usr/local/include when --with-ncurses option is used in
3628 test/configure script.
3629 + correct logic in adjust_cancels(), which did not check both
3630 alternatives when reclassifying an extended name between boolean,
3631 number and string, causing an infinite loop in tic.
3634 + correct a missing backslash in curses.priv.h
3637 + change handling of non_dest_scroll_region in tty_update.c to clear
3638 text after it is shifted in rather than before shifting out. Also
3639 correct row computation (reported by Ruediger Kuhlmann
3640 <uck4@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>).
3641 + add/use new trace function to display chtype values from winch() and
3643 + add trace mask TRACE_ATTRS, alter several existing _tracef calls that
3644 trace attribute changes under TRACE_CALLS to use this.
3645 + modify MKlib_gen.sh so that functions returning chtype will call
3647 + add returnChar() trace, for functions returning chtype.
3648 + change indent.pro to line up parenthesis.
3651 + fix a heap problem with the c++ binding (report by
3652 <alexander_liberson@ninewest.com>, patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3653 + minor adjustment to ClrToEOL() to handle an out-of-bounds parameter.
3654 + modify the check for big-core to force a couple of memory accesses,
3655 which may work as needed for older/less-capable machines (if not,
3656 there's still the explicit configure option).
3657 > fixes based on diff's for Amiga and BeOS found at
3658 http://www.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de/~kuhlmann/cross/ncurses/
3659 + alter definition of NCURSES_CONST to make it non-empty.
3660 + add amiga-vnc terminfo entry.
3661 + redefine 'TEXT' in menu.h for AMIGA, since it is reported to have
3662 an (unspecified) symbol conflict.
3663 + replaced case-statement in _nc_tracebits() for CSIZE with a table to
3664 simplify working around implementations that define random
3665 combinations of the related macros to zero.
3666 + modify configure test for tcgetattr() to allow for old
3667 implementations, e.g., on BeOS, which only defined it as a macro.
3668 > patches by Bruno Haible:
3669 + when checking LC_ALL/LC_CTYPE/LANG environment variables for UTF-8
3670 locale, ignore those which are set to an empty value, as per SUSV2.
3671 + encode 0xFFFD in UTF-8 with 3 bytes, not 2.
3672 + modify _nc_utf8_outch() to avoid sign-extension when checking for
3676 + correct manlinks.sed script to avoid using ERE "\+", which is not
3677 understood by older versions of sed (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3678 + implement configure script options that transform installed program
3679 names, e.g., --program-prefix, including the manpage names and cross
3680 references (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com>).
3681 + correct several mismatches between manpage filename and ".TH"
3682 directives, renaming dft_fgbg.3x to default_colors.3x and
3683 menu_attribs.3x to menu_attributes.3x (report by Todd C Miller).
3684 + correct missing includes for <string.h> in several places, including
3685 the C++ binding. This is not noted by gcc unless we use the
3686 -fno-builtin option (reported by Igor Schein <igor@txc.com>).
3687 + modified progs/tset.c and tack/sysdep.c to build with sgttyb
3688 interface if neither termio or termios is available. Tested this
3689 with FreeBSD 2.1.5 (which does have termios - but the sgttyb does
3692 20000708 5.1 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3693 + document configure options in INSTALL.
3694 + add man-page for ncurses trace functions.
3695 + correct return value shown in curs_touch.3x for is_linetouched() and
3696 is_wintouched(), in curs_initscr.3x for isendwin(), and in
3697 curs_termattr.3x for has_ic() and has_il().
3698 + add prototypes for touchline() and touchwin(), adding them to the
3699 list of generated functions.
3700 + modify fifo_push() to put ERR into the fifo just like other values to
3701 return from wgetch(). It was returning without doing that, making
3702 end-of-file condition incorrectly return a 0 (reported by Todd C
3704 + uncomment CC_SHARED_OPTS for progs and tack (see 971115), since they
3705 are needed for SCO OpenServer.
3706 + move _nc_disable_period from free_ttype.c to comp_scan.c to appease
3707 dynamic loaders on SCO and IRIX64.
3708 + add "-a" option to test/ncurses.c to invoke assume_default_colors()
3710 + correct assignment in assume_default_colors() which tells ncurses
3711 whether to use default colors, or the assumed ones (reported by Gary
3712 Funck <gary@Intrepid.Com>).
3713 + review/correct logic in mk-1st.awk for making symbolic links for
3714 shared libraries, in particular for FreeBSD, etc.
3715 + regenerate misc/*.def files for OS/2 EMX dll's.
3716 + correct quoting of values for CC_SHARED_OPTS in aclocal.m4 for
3717 cases openbsd2*, openbsd*, freebsd* and netbsd* (patch by Peter
3718 Wemm) (err in 20000610).
3719 + minor updates to release notes, as well as adding/updating URLs for
3720 examples cited in announce.html
3721 > several fixes from Philippe Blain <philippe.blain2@freesbee.fr>:
3722 + correct placement of ifdef for NCURSES_XNAMES in function
3723 _nc_free_termtype(), fixes a memory leak.
3724 + add a call to _nc_synchook() to the end of function whline() like
3725 that in wvline() (difference was in 1.9.4).
3726 + make ClearScreen() a little faster by moving two instances of
3727 UpdateAttr() out of for-loops.
3728 + simplify ClrBottom() by eliminating the tstLine data, using for-loops
3731 20000701 pre-release
3732 + change minor version to 1, i.e., ncurses 5.1
3733 + add experimental configure option --enable-colorfgbg to check for
3734 $COLORTERM variable as set by rxvt/aterm/Eterm.
3735 + add Eterm terminfo entry (Michael Jennings <mej@valinux.com>).
3736 + modify manlinks.sed to pick aliases from the SYNOPSIS section, and
3737 several manpages so manlinks.sed can find aliases for creating
3739 + add explanation to run_tic.sh regarding extended terminal
3741 + change message format for edit_cfg.sh, since some people interpret
3743 + correct unescaped '$' in sysv5uw7*|unix_sv* rule for CF_SHARED_OPTS
3744 configure macro (report by Thanh Ma <Thanh.Ma@casi-rusco.com>).
3745 + correct logic in lib_twait.c as used by lib_mouse.c for GPM mouse
3746 support when poll() is used rather than select() (prompted by
3747 discussion with David Allen <DAllen24@aol.com>).
3749 20000624 pre-release
3750 + modify TransformLine() to check for cells with different color pairs
3751 that happen to render the same display colors.
3752 + apply $NCURSES_NO_PADDING to cost-computation in mvcur().
3753 + improve cost computation in PutRange() by accounting for the use
3754 of parm_right_cursor in mvcur().
3755 + correct cost computation in EmitRange(), which was not using the
3756 normalized value for cursor_address.
3757 + newer config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in TIN 1.5.6).
3760 + update config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in PCRE 3.2).
3761 + resync changes to gnathtml against version 1.22, regenerated html
3762 files under doc/html/ada using this (1.22.1.1).
3763 + regenerated html files under doc/html/man after correcting top and
3764 bottom margin options for man2html in dist.mk
3765 + minor fixes to test programs ncurses 'i' and testcurs program to make
3766 the subwindow's background color cover the subwindow.
3767 + modify configure script so AC_MSG_ERROR is temporarily defined to a
3768 warning in AC_PROG_CXX to make it recover from a missing C++ compiler
3769 without requiring user to add --without-cxx option (adapted from
3770 comment by Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr> to autoconf mailing list).
3771 + modify headers.sh to avoid creating temporary files in the build
3772 directory when installing headers (reported by Sergei Pokrovsky
3776 + regenerated the html files under doc/html/ada/files and
3777 doc/html/ada/funcs with a slightly-improved gnathtml.
3778 + add kmous capability to linux terminfo entry to allow it to use
3779 xterm-style events provided by gpm patch by Joerg Schoen.
3780 + make the configure macro CF_SHARED_OPTS a little smarter by testing
3781 if -fPIC is supported by gcc rather than -fpic. The former option
3782 allows larger symbol tables.
3783 + update config.guess and config.sub (patches by
3784 Kevin Buettner <kev@primenet.com> (for elf64_ia64),
3785 Bernd Kuemmerlen <bkuemmer@mevis.de> (for MacOS X)).
3786 + add warning for 'tic -cv' about use of '^?' in terminfo source, which
3790 + modify echo() behavior of getch() to match Solaris curses for
3791 carriage return and backspace (reported by Neil Zanella).
3792 + change _nc_flush() to a function.
3793 + modify delscreen() to check if the output stream has been closed, and
3794 if so, free the buffer allocated for setbuf (this provides an
3795 ncurses-specific way to avoid a memory leak when repeatedly calling
3796 newterm reported by Chipp C <at_1@zdnetonebox.com>).
3797 + correct typo in curs_getch.3x manpage regarding noecho (reported by
3798 David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>).
3799 + add a "make libs" rule.
3800 + make the Ada95 interface build with configure --enable-widec.
3801 + if the configure --enable-widec option is given, append 'w' to names
3802 of the generated libraries (e.g., libncursesw.so) to avoid conflict
3803 with existing ncurses libraries.
3806 + modify view.c to make a rudimentary viewer of UTF-8 text if ncurses
3807 is configured with the experimental wide-character support.
3808 + add a simple UTF-8 output driver to the experimental wide-character
3809 support. If any of the environment variables LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE or
3810 LANG contain the string "UTF-8", this driver will be used to
3811 translate the output to UTF-8. This works with XFree86 xterm.
3812 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries on BeOS
3813 (from a patch by Valeriy E Ushakov).
3814 + modify lib_addch.c to allow repeated update to the lower-right
3815 corner, rather than displaying only the first character written until
3816 the cursor is moved. Recent versions of SVr4 curses can update the
3817 lower-right corner, and behave this way (reported by Neil Zanella).
3818 + add a limit-check in _nc_do_color(), to avoid using invalid color
3819 pair value (report by Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>).
3822 + the tack program knows how to use smcup and rmcup but the "show caps
3823 that can be tested" feature did not reflect this knowledge. Correct
3824 the display in the menu tack/test/edit/c (patch by Daniel Weaver).
3825 + xterm-16color does allow bold+colors, removed ncv#32 from that
3829 + correct assignment to SP->_has_sgr_39_49 in lib_dft_fgbg.c, which
3830 broke check for screen's AX capability (reported by Valeriy E Ushakov
3832 + change man2html rule in dist.mk to workaround bug in some
3833 man-programs that ignores locale when rendering hyphenation.
3834 + change web- and ftp-site to dickey.his.com
3837 + move _nc_curr_token from parse_entry.c to comp_scan.c, to work around
3838 problem linking tack on MacOS X DP3.
3839 + include <sys/time.h> in lib_napms.c to compile on MacOS X DP3
3840 (reported by Gerben Wierda <wierda@holmes.nl>).
3841 + modify lib_vidattr.c to check for ncv fixes when pair-0 is not
3843 + add -d option to ncurses.c, to turn on default-colors for testing.
3844 + add a check to _nc_makenew() to ensure that newwin() and newpad()
3845 calls do not silently fail by passing too-large limits.
3846 + add symbol NCURSES_SIZE_T to use rather than explicit 'short' for
3847 internal window and pad sizes. Note that since this is visible in
3848 the WINDOW struct, it would be an ABI change to make this an 'int'
3849 (prompted by a question by Bastian Trompetter
3850 <btrompetter@firemail.de>, who attempted to create a 96000-line pad).
3853 + add mgterm terminfo entry from NetBSD, minor adjustments to sun-ss5,
3855 + modify tack/ansi.c to make it more tolerant of bad ANSI replies. An
3856 example of an illegal ANSI resonse can be found using Microsoft's
3857 Telnet client. A correct display can be found using a VT-4xx
3858 terminal or XFree86 xterm with:
3859 XTerm*VT100*decTerminalID: 450
3860 (patch by Daniel Weaver).
3861 + modify gdc.c to recognize 'q' for quit, 's' for single-step and ' '
3862 for resume. Add '-n' option to force gdc's standard input to
3863 /dev/null, to both illustrate the use of newterm() for specifying
3864 alternate inputs as well as for testing signal handling.
3865 + minor fix for configure option --with-manpage-symlinks, for target
3866 directories that contain a period ('.') (reported by Larry Virden).
3869 + minor additions to beterm entry (feedback from Rico Tudor) -TD
3870 + corrections/updates for some IBM terminfo entries -TD
3871 + modify _nc_screen_wrap() so that when exiting curses mode with
3872 non-default colors, the last line on the screen will be cleared to
3873 the screen's default colors (request by Alexander V Lukyanov).
3874 + modify ncurses.c 'r' example to set nonl(), allowing control/M to be
3875 read for demonstrating the REQ_NEW_LINE operation (prompted by a
3876 question by Tony L Keith <tlkeith@keithconsulting.com>).
3877 + modify ncurses.c 'r' example of field_info() to work on Solaris 2.7,
3878 documented extension of ncurses which allows a zero pointer.
3879 + modify fmt_complex() to avoid buffer overflow in case of excess
3880 recursion, and to recognize "%e%?" as a synonym for else-if, which
3881 means that it will not recur for that special case.
3882 + add logic to support $TERMCAP variable in case the USE_GETCAP symbol
3883 is defined (patch by Todd C Miller).
3884 + modify one of the m4 files used to generate the Ada95 sources,
3885 to avoid using the token "symbols" (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3888 + add terminfo entries bsdos-pc-m, bsdos-pc-mono (Jeffrey C Honig)
3889 + correct spelling error in terminfo entry name: bq300-rv was given as
3890 bg300-rv in esr's version.
3891 + modify redrawwin() macro so its parameter is fully parenthesized
3892 (fixes Debian bug report #61088).
3893 + correct formatting error in dump_entry() which set incorrect column
3894 value when no newline trimming was needed at the end of an entry,
3895 before appending "use=" clauses (cf: 960406).
3898 + add configure option --with-manpage-symlinks
3899 + change unctrl() to render C1 characters (128-159) as ~@, ~A, etc.
3900 + change makefiles so trace() function is provided only if TRACE is