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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 + correct logic in tigetnum(), which caused tput program to treat all
50 string capabilities as numeric (report by Rajeev V Pillai,
54 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
57 + fix a null-pointer check in _nc_format_slks() in lib_slk.c, from
59 + modify _nc_find_type_entry() to use hashing.
60 + make CCHARW_MAX value configurable, noting that changing this would
61 change the size of cchar_t, and would be ABI-incompatible.
62 + modify test-programs, e.g,. test/view.c, to address subtle
63 differences between Tru64/Solaris and HPUX/AIX getcchar() return
65 + modify length returned by getcchar() to count the trailing null
66 which is documented in X/Open (cf: 20020427).
67 + fixes for test programs to build/work on HPUX and AIX, etc.
70 + improve performance of tigetstr, etc., by using hashing code from tic.
71 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking.
72 + add test/demo_terminfo, for comparison with demo_termcap
75 + remove wide-character checks from unctrl() (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
76 + revise wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to eliminate dependency on
78 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
81 + update llib-lncurses[wt] to use sp-funcs.
82 + various code-fixes to build/work with --disable-macros configure
84 + add several new files from Juergen Pfeifer which will be used when
85 integration of "sp-funcs" is complete. This includes a port to
89 + move definition for NCURSES_WRAPPED_VAR back to ncurses_dll.h, to
90 make includes of term.h without curses.h work (report by "Nix").
91 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
94 + fix a regression in lib_tputs.c, from ongoing merges.
97 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
100 + fix an infinite recursion when adding a legacy-coding 8-bit value
101 using insch() (report by Clemens Ladisch).
102 + free home-terminfo string in del_curterm() (patch by Dan Weber).
103 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
106 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
109 + work around antique BSD game's manipulation of stdscr, etc., versus
110 SCREEN's copy of the pointer (Debian #528411).
111 + add a cast to wattrset macro to avoid compiler warning when comparing
112 its result against ERR (adapted from patch by Matt Kraii, Debian
116 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
119 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
120 + add vwmterm terminfo entry (patch by Bryan Christ).
123 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
126 + build fix for _nc_free_and_exit() change in 20090418 (report by
130 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
133 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
134 This change finishes merging for menu and panel libraries, does
135 part of the form library.
138 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
139 Darwin (report by Nelson Beebe).
142 + extend ansi.sys pfkey capability from kf1-kf10 to kf1-kf48, moving
143 function key definitions from emx-base for consistency -TD
144 + correct missing final 'p' in pfkey capability of ansi.sys-old (report
145 by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo).
146 + improve test/ncurses.c 'F' test, show combining characters in color.
147 + quiet a false report by cppcheck in c++/cursesw.cc by eliminating
148 a temporary variable.
149 + use _nc_doalloc() rather than realloc() in a few places in ncurses
150 library to avoid leak in out-of-memory condition (reports by William
151 Egert and Martin Ettl based on cppcheck tool).
152 + add --with-ncurses-wrap-prefix option to test/configure (discussion
153 with Charles Wilson).
154 + use ncurses*-config scripts if available for test/configure.
155 + update test/aclocal.m4 and test/configure
156 > patches by Charles Wilson:
157 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL configure check to allow unreleased libtool
158 version numbers (e.g. which include alphabetic chars, as well as
159 digits, after the final '.').
160 + improve use of -no-undefined option for libtool by setting an
161 intermediate variable LT_UNDEF in the configure script, and then
162 using that in the libtool link-commands.
163 + fix an missing use of NCURSES_PUBLIC_VAR() in tinfo/MKcodes.awk
164 from 2009031 changes.
165 + improve mk-1st.awk script by writing separate cases for the
166 LIBTOOL_LINK command, depending on which library (ncurses, ticlib,
167 termlib) is to be linked.
168 + modify configure.in to allow broken-linker configurations, not just
169 enable-reentrant, to set public wrap prefix.
172 + add TICS_LIST and SHLIB_LIST to allow libtool 2.2.6 on Cygwin to
173 build with tic and term libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
174 + add -no-undefined option to libtool for Cygwin, MinGW, U/Win and AIX
175 (report by Charles Wilson).
176 + fix definition for c++/Makefile.in's SHLIB_LIST, which did not list
177 the form, menu or panel libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
178 + add configure option --with-wrap-prefix to allow setting the prefix
179 for functions used to wrap global variables to something other than
180 "_nc_" (discussion with Charles Wilson).
183 + modify scripts to generate ncurses*-config and pc-files to add
184 dependency for tinfo library (patch by Charles Wilson).
185 + improve comparison of program-names when checking for linked flavors
186 such as "reset" by ignoring the executable suffix (reports by Charles
187 Wilson, Samuel Thibault and Cedric Bretaudeau on Cygwin mailing
189 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
190 Solaris 10, since gcc is confused by absence of static libc, and
191 does not switch back to dynamic mode before finishing the libraries
192 (reports by Joel Bertrand, Alan Pae).
193 + minor fixes to Intel compiler warning checks in configure script.
194 + modify _nc_leaks_tinfo() so leak-checking in test/railroad.c works.
195 + modify set_curterm() to make broken-linker configuration work with
196 changes from 20090228 (report by Charles Wilson).
199 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
200 + modify declaration of cur_term when broken-linker is used, but
201 enable-reentrant is not, to match pre-5.7 (report by Charles Wilson).
204 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
207 + add configure script --enable-sp-funcs to enable the new set of
209 + start integrating patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
210 + add extended functions which specify the SCREEN pointer for several
211 curses functions which use the global SP (these are incomplete;
212 some internals work is needed to complete these).
213 + add special cases to configure script for MinGW port.
216 + update several configure macros from lynx changes
217 + append (not prepend) to CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS
218 + change variable from PATHSEP to PATH_SEPARATOR
219 + improve install-rules for pc-files (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
220 + make it work with $DESTDIR
221 + create the pkg-config library directory if needed.
224 + modify init_pair() to allow caller to create extra color pairs beyond
225 the color_pairs limit, which use default colors (request by Emanuele
227 + add misc/terminfo.tmp and misc/*.pc to "sources" rule.
228 + fix typo "==" where "=" is needed in ncurses-config.in and
229 gen-pkgconfig.in files (Debian #512161).
232 + add -shared option to MK_SHARED_LIB when -Bsharable is used, for
233 *BSD's, without which "main" might be one of the shared library's
234 dependencies (report/analysis by Ken Dickey).
235 + modify waddch_literal(), updating line-pointer after a multicolumn
236 character is found to not fit on the current row, and wrapping is
237 done. Since the line-pointer was not updated, the wrapped
238 multicolumn character was written to the beginning of the current row
239 (cf: 20041023, reported by "Nick" regarding problem with ncmpc
240 http://musicpd.org/mantis/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1930).
243 + add screen.Eterm terminfo entry (GenToo #124887) -TD
244 + modify adacurses-config to look for ".ali" files in the adalib
246 + correct install for Ada95, which omitted libAdaCurses.a used in
248 + change install for adacurses-config to provide additional flavors
249 such as adacursesw-config, for ncursesw (GenToo #167849).
252 + remove undeveloped feature in ncurses-config.in for setting
254 + recent change to ncurses-config.in did not take into account the
255 --disable-overwrite option, which sets $includedir to the
256 subdirectory and using just that for a -I option does not work - fix
257 (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
260 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to eliminate a dependency on rpath when
261 deciding whether to add $LIBS to --libs output; that should be shown
262 for the ncurses and tinfo libraries without taking rpath into
264 + fix an overlooked change from $AR_OPTS to $ARFLAGS in mk-1st.awk,
265 used in static libraries (report by Marty Jack).
268 + add a configure-time check to pick a suitable value for
269 CC_SHARED_OPTS for Solaris (report by Dagobert Michelsen).
270 + add configure --with-pkg-config and --enable-pc-files options, along
271 with misc/gen-pkgconfig.in which can be used to generate ".pc" files
272 for pkg-config (request by Jan Engelhardt).
273 + use $includedir symbol in misc/ncurses-config.in, add --includedir
275 + change makefiles to use $ARFLAGS rather than $AR_OPTS, provide a
276 configure check to detect whether a "-" is needed before "ar"
278 + update config.guess, config.sub from
279 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
282 + modify mk-1st.awk to work with extra categories for tinfo library.
283 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries with gcc
284 on AIX 5 or 6 (adapted from patch by Lital Natan).
287 + modify to omit the opaque-functions from lib_gen.o when
288 --disable-ext-funcs is used.
289 + add test/clip_printw.c to illustrate how to use printw without
291 + modify ncurses 'F' test to demo wborder_set() with colored lines.
292 + modify ncurses 'f' test to demo wborder() with colored lines.
295 + add check for failure to open hashed-database needed for db4.6
297 + corrected --without-manpages option; previous change only suppressed
298 the auxiliary rules install.man and uninstall.man
299 + add case for FreeMINT to configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE (patch from
301 + fixes from NetBSD port at
302 http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/devel/ncurses/patches
303 patch-ac (build-fix for DragonFly)
304 patch-ae (use INSTALL_SCRIPT for installing misc/ncurses*-config).
305 + improve configure script macros CF_HEADER_PATH and CF_LIBRARY_PATH
306 by adding CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS, LIBS values to the
308 + correct title string for keybound manpage (patch by Frederic Culot,
309 OpenBSD documentation/6019),
312 + move del_curterm() call from _nc_freeall() to _nc_leaks_tinfo() to
313 work for progs/clear, progs/tabs, etc.
314 + correct buffer-size after internal resizing of wide-character
315 set_field_buffer(), broken in 20081018 changes (report by Mike Gran).
316 + add "-i" option to test/filter.c to tell it to use initscr() rather
317 than newterm(), to investigate report on comp.unix.programmer that
318 ncurses would clear the screen in that case (it does not - the issue
319 was xterm's alternate screen feature).
320 + add check in mouse-driver to disable connection if GPM returns a
321 zero, indicating that the connection is closed (Debian #506717,
322 adapted from patch by Samuel Thibault).
325 + improve a workaround in adding wide-characters, when a control
326 character is found. The library (cf: 20040207) uses unctrl() to
327 obtain a printable version of the control character, but was not
328 passing color or video attributes.
329 + improve test/ncurses.c 'a' test, using unctrl() more consistently to
330 display meta-characters.
331 + turn on _XOPEN_CURSES definition in curses.h
332 + add eterm-color entry (report by Vincent Lefevre) -TD
333 + correct use of key_name() in test/ncurses.c 'A' test, which only
334 displays wide-characters, not key-codes since 20070612 (report by
338 + change _nc_has_mouse() to has_mouse(), reflect its use in C++ and
339 Ada95 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
340 + document in TO-DO an issue with Cygwin's package for GNAT (report
342 + improve error-checking of command-line options in "tabs" program.
345 + change several terminfo entries to make consistent use of ANSI
347 + add "tabs" program (prompted by Debian #502260).
348 + add configure --without-manpages option (request by Mike Frysinger).
350 20081102 5.7 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
353 + add a manpage to discuss memory leaks.
354 + add support for shared libraries for QNX (other than libtool, which
355 does not work well on that platform).
356 + build-fix for QNX C++ binding.
359 + build-fixes for OS/2 EMX.
360 + modify form library to accept control characters such as newline
361 in set_field_buffer(), which is compatible with Solaris (report by
363 + modify configure script to assume --without-hashed-db when
364 --disable-database is used.
365 + add "-e" option in ncurses/Makefile.in when generating source-files
366 to force earlier exit if the build environment fails unexpectedly
367 (prompted by patch by Adrian Bunk).
368 + change configure script to use CF_UTF8_LIB, improved variant of
372 + add teraterm4.59 terminfo entry, use that as primary teraterm entry, rename
373 original to teraterm2.3 -TD
374 + update "gnome" terminfo to 2.22.3 -TD
375 + update "konsole" terminfo to 1.6.6, needs today's fix for tic -TD
376 + add "aterm" terminfo -TD
377 + add "linux2.6.26" terminfo -TD
378 + add logic to tic for cancelling strings in user-defined capabilities,
382 + update html documentation.
383 + add -m and -s options to test/keynames.c and test/key_names.c to test
384 the meta() function with keyname() or key_name(), respectively.
385 + correct return value of key_name() on error; it is null.
386 + document some unresolved issues for rpath and pthreads in TO-DO.
387 + fix a missing prototype for ioctl() on OpenBSD in tset.c
388 + add configure option --disable-tic-depends to make explicit whether
389 tic library depends on ncurses/ncursesw library, amends change from
390 20080823 (prompted by Debian #501421).
393 + some build-fixes for configure --disable-ext-funcs (incomplete, but
394 works for C/C++ parts).
395 + improve configure-check for awks unable to handle large strings, e.g.
396 AIX 5.1 whose awk silently gives up on large printf's.
399 + fix build for --with-dmalloc by workaround for redefinition of
400 strndup between string.h and dmalloc.h
401 + fix build for --disable-sigwinch
402 + add environment variable NCURSES_GPM_TERMS to allow override to use
403 GPM on terminals other than "linux", etc.
404 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM does not happen to contain
405 "linux", since Gpm_Open() no longer limits its assertion to terminals
406 that it might handle, e.g., within "screen" in xterm.
407 + reset mouse file-descriptor when unloading GPM library (report by
409 + fix build for --disable-leaks --enable-widec --with-termlib
410 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
411 + use improved initialization for soft-label keys in Ada95 sample code.
412 + discard internal symbol _nc_slk_format (unused since 20080112).
413 + move call of slk_paint_info() from _nc_slk_initialize() to
414 slk_intern_refresh(), improving initialization.
417 + fix bug in mouse code for GPM from 20080920 changes (reported in
418 Debian #500103, also Miroslav Lichvar).
421 + fix shared-library rules for cygwin with tic- and tinfo-libraries.
422 + fix a memory leak when failure to connect to GPM.
423 + correct check for notimeout() in wgetch() (report on linux.redhat
424 newsgroup by FurtiveBertie).
425 + add an example warning-suppression file for valgrind,
426 misc/ncurses.supp (based on example from Reuben Thomas)
429 + change shared-library configuration for OpenBSD, make rpath work.
430 + build-fixes for using libutf8, e.g., on OpenBSD 3.7
433 + corrected fix for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
437 + corrected gcc options for building shared libraries on IRIX64.
438 + add configure check for awk programs unable to handle big-strings,
439 use that to improve the default for --enable-big-strings option.
440 + makefile-fixes for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
442 + update test/configure script.
443 + adapt ifdef's from library to make test/view.c build when mbrtowc()
444 is unavailable, e.g., with HPUX 10.20.
445 + add configure check for wcsrtombs, mbsrtowcs, which are used in
446 test/ncurses.c, and use wcstombs, mbstowcs instead if available,
447 fixing build of ncursew for HPUX 11.00
450 + fixes to make Ada95 demo_panels() example work.
451 + modify Ada95 'rain' test program to accept keyboard commands like the
453 + modify BeOS-specific ifdef's to build on Haiku (patch by Scott
455 + add configure-check to see if the std namespace is legal for cerr
456 and endl, to fix a build issue with Tru64.
457 + consistently use NCURSES_BOOL in lib_gen.c
458 + filter #line's from lib_gen.c
459 + change delimiter in MKlib_gen.sh from '%' to '@', to avoid
460 substitution by IBM xlc to '#' as part of its extensions to digraphs.
461 + update config.guess, config.sub from
462 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
463 (caveat - its maintainer removed support for older Linux systems).
466 + modify configure check for pthread library to work with OSF/1 5.1,
467 which uses #define's to associate its header and library.
468 + use pthread_mutexattr_init() for initializing pthread_mutexattr_t,
469 makes threaded code work on HPUX 11.23
470 + fix a bug in demo_menus in freeing menus (cf: 20080804).
471 + modify configure script for the case where tic library is used (and
472 possibly renamed) to remove its dependency upon ncurses/ncursew
473 library (patch by Dr Werner Fink).
474 + correct manpage for menu_fore() which gave wrong default for
475 the attribute used to display a selected entry (report by Mike Gran).
476 + add Eterm-256color, Eterm-88color and rxvt-88color (prompted by
480 + add configure option --enable-weak-symbols to turn on new feature.
481 + add configure-check for availability of weak symbols.
482 + modify linkage with pthread library to use weak symbols so that
483 applications not linked to that library will not use the mutexes,
484 etc. This relies on gcc, and may be platform-specific (patch by Dr
486 + add note to INSTALL to document limitation of renaming of tic library
487 using the --with-ticlib configure option (report by Dr Werner Fink).
488 + document (in manpage) why tputs does not detect I/O errors (prompted
489 by comments by Samuel Thibault).
490 + fix remaining warnings from Klocwork report.
493 + modify _nc_panelhook() data to account for a permanent memory leak.
494 + fix memory leaks in test/demo_menus
495 + fix most warnings from Klocwork tool (report by Larry Zhou).
496 + modify configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to add case for
497 "dragonfly" from xterm #236 changes.
498 + modify configure script --with-hashed-db to let $LIBS override the
499 search for the db library (prompted by report by Samson Pierre).
502 + build-fixes for gcc 4.3.1 (changes to gnat "warnings", and C inlining
506 + build-fix (reports by Christian Ebert, Funda Wang).
509 + compiler-warning fixes for Solaris.
512 + use NCURSES_MOUSE_MASK() in definition of BUTTON_RELEASE(), etc., to
513 make those work properly with the "--enable-ext-mouse" configuration
515 + improve documentation of build-cc options in INSTALL.
516 + work-around a bug in gcc 4.2.4 on AIX, which does not pass the
517 -static/-dynamic flags properly to linker, causing test/bs to
521 + correct some ifdef's needed for the broken-linker configuration.
522 + make debugging library's $BAUDRATE feature work for termcap
524 + make $NCURSES_NO_PADDING feature work for termcap interface (prompted
525 by comment on FreeBSD mailing list).
526 + add screen.mlterm terminfo entry -TD
527 + improve mlterm and mlterm+pcfkeys terminfo entries -TD
530 + regenerated html documentation.
531 + expand manpage description of parameters for form_driver() and
532 menu_driver() (prompted by discussion with Adam Spragg).
533 + add null-pointer checks for cur_term in baudrate() and
534 def_shell_mode(), def_prog_mode()
535 + fix some memory leaks in delscreen() and wide acs.
538 + modify test/ditto.c to illustrate multi-threaded use_screen().
539 + change CC_SHARED_OPTS from -KPIC to -xcode=pic32 for Solaris.
540 + add "-shared" option to MK_SHARED_LIB for gcc on Solaris (report
544 + finish changes to wgetch(), making it switch as needed to the
545 window's actual screen when calling wrefresh() and wgetnstr(). That
546 allows wgetch() to get used concurrently in different threads with
547 some minor restrictions, e.g., the application should not delete a
548 window which is being used in a wgetch().
549 + simplify mutex's, combining the window- and screen-mutex's.
552 + modify wgetch() to use the screen which corresponds to its window
553 parameter rather than relying on SP; some dependent functions still
555 + factor out most use of SP in lib_mouse.c, using parameter.
556 + add internal _nc_keyname(), replacing keyname() to associate with a
557 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
558 + add internal _nc_unctrl(), replacing unctrl() to associate with a
559 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
560 + add internal _nc_tracemouse(), replacing _tracemouse() to eliminate
561 its associated global buffer _nc_globals.tracemse_buf now in SCREEN.
562 + add internal _nc_tracechar(), replacing _tracechar() to use SCREEN in
563 preference to the global _nc_globals.tracechr_buf buffer.
566 + modify _nc_keypad() to make it switch temporarily as needed to the
567 screen which must be updated.
568 + wrap cur_term variable to help make _nc_keymap() thread-safe, and
569 always set the screen's copy of this variable in set_curterm().
570 + restore curs_set() state after endwin()/refresh() (report/patch
574 + modify configure script to note that --enable-ext-colors and
575 --enable-ext-mouse are not experimental, but extensions from
577 + corrected manpage description of setcchar() (discussion with
579 + fix for adding a non-spacing character at the beginning of a line
580 (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
583 + modify screen.* terminfo entries using new screen+fkeys to fix
584 overridden keys in screen.rxvt (Debian #478094) -TD
585 + modify internal interfaces to reduce wgetch()'s dependency on the
587 + simplify some loops with macros each_screen(), each_window() and
591 + continue modifying test/ditto.c toward making it demonstrate
592 multithreaded use_screen(), using fifos to pass data between screens.
593 + fix typo in form.3x (report by Mike Gran).
596 + add screen.rxvt terminfo entry -TD
597 + modify tic -f option to format spaces as \s to prevent them from
598 being lost when that is read back in unformatted strings.
599 + improve test/ditto.c, using a "talk"-style layout.
602 + change test/ditto.c to use openpty() and xterm.
603 + add locks for copywin(), dupwin(), overlap(), overlay() on their
605 + add locks for initscr() and newterm() on updates to the SCREEN
607 + finish table in curs_thread.3x manpage.
610 + begin table in curs_thread.3x manpage describing the scope of data
611 used by each function (or symbol) for threading analysis.
612 + add null-pointer checks to setsyx() and getsyx() (prompted by
613 discussion by Martin v. Lowis and Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven on
614 python-dev2 mailing list).
617 + add null-pointer checks in set_term() and delscreen().
618 + move _nc_windows into _nc_globals, since windows can be pads, which
619 are not associated with a particular screen.
620 + change use_screen() to pass the SCREEN* parameter rather than
621 stdscr to the callback function.
622 + force libtool to use tag for 'CC' in case it does not detect this,
623 e.g., on aix when using CC=powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0-gcc
624 (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
625 + override OBJEXT to "lo" when building with libtool, to work on
626 platforms such as AIX where libtool may use a different suffix for
627 the object files than ".o" (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
628 + add configure --with-pthread option, for building with the POSIX
632 + fill in extended-color pair two more places in wbkgrndset() and
633 waddch_nosync() (prompted by Sedeno's patch).
634 + fill in extended-color pair in _nc_build_wch() to make colors work
635 for wide-characters using extended-colors (patch by Alejandro R
637 + add x/X toggles to ncurses.c C color test to test/demo
638 wide-characters with extended-colors.
639 + add a/A toggles to ncurses.c c/C color tests.
640 + modify test/ditto.c to use use_screen().
641 + finish modifying test/rain.c to demonstrate threads.
644 + start modifying test/rain.c for threading demo.
645 + modify test/ncurses.c to make 'f' test accept the f/F/b/F/</> toggles
646 that the 'F' accepts.
647 + modify test/worm.c to show trail in reverse-video when other threads
648 are working concurrently.
649 + fix a deadlock from improper nesting of mutexes for windowlist and
653 + fixes from 20080223 resolved issue with mutexes; change to use
654 recursive mutexes to fix memory leak in delwin() as called from
658 + fix a size-difference in _nc_globals which caused hanging of mutex
659 lock/unlock when termlib was built separately.
662 + avoid using nanosleep() in threaded configuration since that often
663 is implemented to suspend the entire process.
666 + update test programs to build/work with various UNIX curses for
667 comparisons. This was to reinvestigate statement in X/Open curses
668 that insnstr and winsnstr perform wrapping. None of the Unix-branded
669 implementations do this, as noted in manpage (cf: 20040228).
672 + modify _nc_setupscreen() to set the legacy-coding value the same
673 for both narrow/wide models. It had been set only for wide model,
674 but is needed to make unctrl() work with locale in the narrow model.
675 + improve waddch() and winsch() handling of EILSEQ from mbrtowc() by
676 using unctrl() to display illegal bytes rather than trying to append
677 further bytes to make up a valid sequence (reported by Andrey A
679 + modify unctrl() to check codes in 128-255 range versus isprint().
680 If they are not printable, and locale was set, use a "M-" or "~"
684 + improve threading in test/worm.c (wrap refresh calls, and KEY_RESIZE
685 handling). Now it hangs in napms(), no matter whether nanosleep()
686 or poll() or select() are used on Linux.
689 + fixes to build with --disable-ext-funcs
690 + add manpage for use_window and use_screen.
691 + add set_tabsize() and set_escdelay() functions.
694 + remove recursive-mutex definitions, finish threading demo for worm.c
695 + remove a redundant adjustment of lines in resizeterm.c's
696 adjust_window() which caused occasional misadjustment of stdscr when
700 + several improvements to terminfo entries based on xterm #230 -TD
701 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle keyname/key_name prototypes, so the
702 "link_test" builds properly.
703 + fix for toe command-line options -u/-U to ensure filename is given.
704 + fix allocation-size for command-line parsing in infocmp from 20070728
705 (report by Miroslav Lichvar)
706 + improve resizeterm() by moving ripped-off lines, and repainting the
707 soft-keys (report by Katarina Machalkova)
708 + add clarification in wclear's manpage noting that the screen will be
709 cleared even if a subwindow is cleared (prompted by Christer Enfors
711 + change test/ncurses.c soft-key tests to work with KEY_RESIZE.
714 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
718 + add several functions to C++ binding which wrap C functions that
719 pass a WINDOW* parameter (request by Chris Lee).
722 + add note about configure options needed for Berkeley database to the
724 + improve checks for version of Berkeley database libraries.
725 + amend fix for rpath to not modify LDFLAGS if the platform has no
726 applicable transformation (report by Christian Ebert, cf: 20071124).
729 + modify configure option --with-hashed-db to accept a parameter which
730 is the install-prefix of a given Berkeley Database (prompted by
732 + rewrite wrapper for wcrtomb(), making it work on Solaris. This is
733 used in the form library to determine the length of the buffer needed
734 by field_buffer (report by Alfred Fung).
735 + remove unneeded window-parameter from C++ binding for wresize (report
739 + modify the support for filesystems which do not support mixed-case to
740 generate 2-character (hexadecimal) codes for the lower-level of the
741 filesystem terminfo database (request by Michail Vidiassov).
742 + add configure option --enable-mixed-case, to allow overriding the
743 configure script's check if the filesystem supports mixed-case
745 + add wresize() to C++ binding (request by Chris Lee).
746 + define NCURSES_EXT_FUNCS and NCURSES_EXT_COLORS in curses.h to make
747 it simpler to tell if the extended functions and/or colors are
751 + update memory-leak checks for changes to names.c and codes.c
752 + correct acsc strings in h19, z100 (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler).
755 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
757 + add mrxvt terminfo entry, add/fix xterm building blocks for modified
759 + compile with FreeBSD "contemporary" TTY interface (patch by
763 + modify makefile rules to allow clear, tput and tset to be built
764 without libtic. The other programs (infocmp, tic and toe) rely on
766 + add/modify null-pointer checks in several functions for SP and/or
767 the WINDOW* parameter (report by Thorben Krueger).
768 + fixes for field_buffer() in formw library (see Redhat Bugzilla
769 #310071, patches by Miroslav Lichvar).
770 + improve performance of NCURSES_CHAR_EQ code (patch by Miroslav
772 + update/improve mlterm and rxvt terminfo entries, e.g., for
773 the modified cursor- and keypad-keys -TD
776 + add code to curses.priv.h ifdef'd with NCURSES_CHAR_EQ, which
777 changes the CharEq() macro to an inline function to allow comparing
778 cchar_t struct's without comparing gaps in a possibly unpacked
779 memory layout (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
782 + add new functions to lib_trace.c to setup mutex's for the _tracef()
783 calls within the ncurses library.
784 + for the reentrant model, move _nc_tputs_trace and _nc_outchars into
786 + start modifying test/worm.c to provide threading demo (incomplete).
787 + separated ifdef's for some BSD-related symbols in tset.c, to make
788 it compile on LynxOS (report by Greg Gemmer).
790 + modify Ada95/gen/Makefile to use shlib script, to simplify building
791 shared-library configuration on platforms lacking rpath support.
792 + build-fix for Ada95/src/Makefile to reflect changed dependency for
793 the terminal-interface-curses-aux.adb file which is now generated.
794 + restructuring test/worm.c, for use_window() example.
797 + add use_window() and use_screen() functions, to develop into support
798 for threaded library (incomplete).
799 + fix typos in man/curs_opaque.3x which kept the install script from
800 creating symbolic links to two aliases created in 20070818 (report by
804 + remove a spurious newline from output of html.m4, which caused links
805 for Ada95 html to be incorrect for the files generated using m4.
806 + start investigating mutex's for SCREEN manipulation (incomplete).
807 + minor cleanup of codes.c/names.c for --enable-const
808 + expand/revise "Routine and Argument Names" section of ncurses manpage
809 to address report by David Givens in newsgroup discussion.
810 + fix interaction between --without-progs/--with-termcap configure
811 options (report by Michail Vidiassov).
812 + fix typo in "--disable-relink" option (report by Michail Vidiassov).
815 + fix a sign-extension bug in infocmp's repair_acsc() function
817 + fix old configure script bug which prevented "--disable-warnings"
818 option from working (patch by Mike Frysinger).
821 + add 9term terminal description (request by Juhapekka Tolvanen) -TD
822 + modify comp_hash.c's string output to avoid misinterpreting a null
823 "\0" followed by a digit.
824 + modify MKnames.awk and MKcodes.awk to support big-strings.
825 This only applies to the cases (broken linker, reentrant) where
826 the corresponding arrays are accessed via wrapper functions.
827 + split MKnames.awk into two scripts, eliminating the shell redirection
828 which complicated the make process and also the bogus timestamp file
829 which was introduced to fix "make -j".
830 + add test/test_opaque.c, test/test_arrays.c
831 + add wgetscrreg() and wgetparent() for applications that may need it
832 when NCURSES_OPAQUE is defined (prompted by Bryan Christ).
835 + amend treatment of infocmp "-r" option to retain the 1023-byte limit
836 unless "-T" is given (cf: 981017).
837 + modify comp_captab.c generation to use big-strings.
838 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private accessed via
839 _nc_get_alias_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
841 + modify configure script to skip Intel compiler in CF_C_INLINE.
842 + make _nc_info_hash_table and _nc_cap_hash_table private accessed via
843 _nc_get_hash_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
847 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private, accessed via
848 _nc_get_alias_table() since they are used only by parse_entry.c
849 + make _nc_key_names private since it is used only by lib_keyname.c
850 + add --disable-big-strings configure option to control whether
851 unctrl.c is generated using the big-string optimization - which may
852 use strings longer than supported by a given compiler.
853 + reduce relocation tables for tic, infocmp by changing type of
854 internal hash tables to short, and make those private symbols.
855 + eliminate large fixed arrays from progs/infocmp.c
858 + change winnstr() to stop at the end of the line (cf: 970315).
859 + add test/test_get_wstr.c
860 + add test/test_getstr.c
861 + add test/test_inwstr.c
862 + add test/test_instr.c
865 + restore a call to obtain screen-size in _nc_setupterm(), which
866 is used in tput and other non-screen applications via setupterm()
867 (Debian #433357, reported by Florent Bayle, Christian Ohm,
871 + add test/savescreen.c test-program
872 + add check to trace-file open, if the given name is a directory, add
873 ".log" to the name and try again.
874 + add konsole-256color entry -TD
875 + add extra gcc warning options from xterm.
876 + minor fixes for ncurses/hashmap test-program.
877 + modify configure script to quiet c++ build with libtool when the
878 --disable-echo option is used.
879 + modify configure script to disable ada95 if libtool is selected,
880 writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD ports/114493).
881 + update config.guess, config.sub
884 + add continuous-move "M" to demo_panels to help test refresh changes.
885 + improve fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters,
886 taking into account some split characters on left/right window
890 + add "widec" row to _tracedump() output to help diagnose remaining
891 problems with multi-column characters.
892 + partial fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters
893 which are partly overwritten (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
894 + ignore A_CHARTEXT bits in vidattr() and vid_attr(), in case
895 multi-column extension bits are passed there.
896 + add setlocale() call to demo_panels.c, needed for wide-characters.
897 + add some output flags to _nc_trace_ttymode to help diagnose a bug
898 report by Larry Virden, i.e., ONLCR, OCRNL, ONOCR and ONLRET,
901 + add test/demo_panels.c
902 + implement opaque version of setsyx() and getsyx().
905 + corrected xterm+pcf2 terminfo modifiers for F1-F4, to match xterm
907 + split-out key_name() from MKkeyname.awk since it now depends upon
908 wunctrl() which is not in libtinfo (report by Rong-En Fan).
911 + add test/key_name.c
912 + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test/inch_wide.c
913 + update test/configure
914 + correct formatting of DEL (0x7f) in _nc_vischar().
915 + null-terminate result of wunctrl().
916 + add null-pointer check in key_name() (report by Andreas Krennmair,
920 + adapt mouse-handling code from menu library in form-library
921 (discussion with Clive Nicolson).
922 + add a modification of test/dots.c, i.e., test/dots_mvcur.c to
923 illustrate how to use mvcur().
924 + modify wide-character flavor of SetAttr() to preserve the
925 WidecExt() value stored in the .attr field, e.g., in case it
926 is overwritten by chgat (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
927 + correct buffer-size for _nc_viswbuf2n() (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
928 + build-fixes for Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 (patch by Peter O'Gorman).
931 + modify keyname() to use "^X" form only if meta() has been called, or
932 if keyname() is called without initializing curses, e.g., via
933 initscr() or newterm() (prompted by LinuxBase #1604).
934 + document some portability issues in man/curs_util.3x
935 + add a shadow copy of TTY buffer to _nc_prescreen to fix applications
936 broken by moving that data into SCREEN (cf: 20061230).
939 + add 'O' (wide-character panel test) in ncurses.c to demonstrate a
940 problem reported by Sadrul H Chowdhury with repainting parts of
942 + modify slk_init() so that if there are preceding calls to
943 ripoffline(), those affect the available lines for soft-keys (adapted
944 from patch by Clive Nicolson).
945 + document some portability issues in man/curs_getyx.3x
948 + fix a bug in Ada95/samples/ncurses which caused a variable to
949 become uninitialized in the "b" test.
950 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in adahtml rule to account for recent
951 movement of files, fix a few incorrect manpage references in the
953 + add Ada95 binding to _nc_freeall() as Curses_Free_All to help with
955 + correct some functions in Ada95 binding which were using return value
956 from C where none was returned: idcok(), immedok() and wtimeout().
957 + amend recent changes for Ada95 binding to make it build with
958 Cygwin's linker, e.g., with configure options
959 --enable-broken-linker --with-ticlib
962 + add a configure check for gcc's options for inlining, use that to
963 quiet a warning message where gcc's default behavior changed from
965 + improve warning message when checking if GPM is linked to curses
966 library by not warning if its use of "wgetch" is via a weak symbol.
967 + add loader options when building with static libraries to ensure that
968 an installed shared library for ncurses does not conflict. This is
969 reported as problem with Tru64, but could affect other platforms
970 (report Martin Mokrejs, analysis by Tim Mooney).
971 + fix build on cygwin after recent ticlib/termlib changes, i.e.,
972 + adjust TINFO_SUFFIX value to work with cygwin's dll naming
973 + revert a change from 20070303 which commented out dependency of
974 SHLIB_LIST in form/menu/panel/c++ libraries.
975 + fix initialization of ripoff stack pointer (cf: 20070421).
978 + move most static variables into structures _nc_globals and
979 _nc_prescreen, to simplify storage.
980 + add/use configure script macro CF_SIG_ATOMIC_T, use the corresponding
981 type for data manipulated by signal handlers (prompted by comments
982 in mailing.openbsd.bugs newsgroup).
983 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to allow one to pass options such as -static
984 to the libtool create- and link-operations.
987 + fix whitespace in curs_opaque.3x which caused a spurious ';' in
988 the installed aliases (report by Peter Santoro).
989 + fix configure script to not try to generate adacurses-config when
990 Ada95 tree is not built.
993 + add man/curs_legacy.3x, man/curs_opaque.3x
994 + fix acs_map binding for Ada95 when --enable-reentrant is used.
995 + add adacurses-config to the Ada95 install, based on version from
996 FreeBSD port, in turn by Juergen Pfeifer in 2000 (prompted by
997 comment on comp.lang.ada newsgroup).
998 + fix includes in c++ binding to build with Intel compiler
1000 + update install rule in Ada95 to use mkdirs.sh
1001 > other fixes prompted by inspection for Coverity report:
1002 + modify ifdef's for c++ binding to use try/catch/throw statements
1003 + add a null-pointer check in tack/ansi.c request_cfss()
1004 + fix a memory leak in ncurses/base/wresize.c
1005 + corrected check for valid memu/meml capabilities in
1006 progs/dump_entry.c when handling V_HPUX case.
1007 > fixes based on Coverity report:
1008 + remove dead code in test/bs.c
1009 + remove dead code in test/demo_defkey.c
1010 + remove an unused assignment in progs/infocmp.c
1011 + fix a limit check in tack/ansi.c tools_charset()
1012 + fix tack/ansi.c tools_status() to perform the VT320/VT420
1013 tests in request_cfss(). The function had exited too soon.
1014 + fix a memory leak in tic.c's make_namelist()
1015 + fix a couple of places in tack/output.c which did not check for EOF.
1016 + fix a loop-condition in test/bs.c
1017 + add index checks in lib_color.c for color palettes
1018 + add index checks in progs/dump_entry.c for version_filter() handling
1020 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in copywin()
1021 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in waddchnstr()
1022 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
1023 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c's make_namelist()
1024 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
1025 + add null-pointer checks in test/cardfile.c
1026 + fix a double-free in ncurses/tinfo/trim_sgr0.c
1027 + fix a double-free in ncurses/base/wresize.c
1028 + add try/catch block to c++/cursesmain.cc
1031 + modify Ada95 binding to build with --enable-reentrant by wrapping
1032 global variables (bug: acs_map does not yet work).
1033 + modify Ada95 binding to use the new access-functions, allowing it
1034 to build/run when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
1035 + add access-functions and macros to return properties of the WINDOW
1036 structure, e.g., when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
1037 + improved install-sh's quoting.
1038 + use mkdirs.sh rather than mkinstalldirs, e.g., to use fixes from
1042 + eliminate part of the direct use of WINDOW data from Ada95 interface.
1043 + fix substitutions for termlib filename to make configure option
1044 --enable-reentrant work with --with-termlib.
1045 + change a constructor for NCursesWindow to allow compiling with
1046 NCURSES_OPAQUE set, since we cannot pass a reference to
1050 + ignore --with-chtype=unsigned since unsigned is always added to
1051 the type in curses.h; do the same for --with-mmask-t.
1052 + change warning regarding --enable-ext-colors and wide-character
1053 in the configure script to an error.
1054 + tweak error message in CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to distinguish other programs
1055 such as Darwin's libtool program (report by Michail Vidiassov)
1056 + modify edit_man.sh to allow for multiple substitutions per line.
1057 + set locale in misc/ncurses-config.in since it uses a range
1058 + change permissions libncurses++.a install (report by Michail
1060 + corrected length of temporary buffer in wide-character version
1061 of set_field_buffer() (related to report by Bryan Christ).
1064 + fix mk-1st.awk script install_shlib() function, broken in 20070224
1065 changes for cygwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
1068 + increase size of array in _nc_visbuf2n() to make "tic -v" work
1069 properly in its similar_sgr() function (report/analysis by Peter
1071 + add --enable-reentrant configure option for ongoing changes to
1072 implement a reentrant version of ncurses:
1073 + libraries are suffixed with "t"
1074 + wrap several global variables (curscr, newscr, stdscr, ttytype,
1075 COLORS, COLOR_PAIRS, COLS, ESCDELAY, LINES and TABSIZE) as
1076 functions returning values stored in SCREEN or cur_term.
1077 + move some initialization (LINES, COLS) from lib_setup.c,
1078 i.e., setupterm() to _nc_setupscreen(), i.e., newterm().
1081 + regenerated html documentation.
1082 + add NCURSES_OPAQUE symbol to curses.h, will use to make structs
1083 opaque in selected configurations.
1084 + move the chunk in lib_acs.c which resets acs capabilities when
1085 running on a terminal whose locale interferes with those into
1086 _nc_setupscreen(), so the libtinfo/libtinfow files can be made
1087 identical (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
1088 + do not use configure variable SHLIB_LIBS for building libraries
1089 outside the ncurses directory, since that symbol is customized
1090 only for that directory, and using it introduces an unneeded
1091 dependency on libdl (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
1092 + modify mk-1st.awk so the generated makefile rules for linking or
1093 installing shared libraries do not first remove the library, in
1094 case it is in use, e.g., libncurses.so by /bin/sh (report by Jeff
1096 + revised section "Using NCURSES under XTERM" in ncurses-intro.html
1097 (prompted by newsgroup comment by Nick Guenther).
1100 + change internal return codes of _nc_wgetch() to check for cases
1101 where KEY_CODE_YES should be returned, e.g., if a KEY_RESIZE was
1102 ungetch'd, and read by wget_wch().
1103 + fix static-library build broken in 20070217 changes to remove "-ldl"
1104 (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
1105 + change makefile/scripts for cygwin to allow building termlib.
1106 + use Form_Hook in manpages to match form.h
1107 + use Menu_Hook in manpages, as well as a few places in menu.h
1108 + correct form- and menu-manpages to use specific Field_Options,
1109 Menu_Options and Item_Options types.
1110 + correct prototype for _tracechar() in manpage (cf: 20011229).
1111 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
1114 + fixes for $(TICS_LIST) in ncurses/Makefile (report by Miroslav
1116 + modify relinking of shared libraries to apply only when rpath is
1117 enabled, and add --disable-relink option which can be used to
1118 disable the feature altogether (reports by Michail Vidiassov,
1120 + fix --with-termlib option for wide-character configuration, stripping
1121 the "w" suffix in one place (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
1122 + remove "-ldl" from some library lists to reduce dependencies in
1123 programs (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
1124 + correct description of --enable-signed-char in configure --help
1125 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
1126 + add pattern for GNU/kFreeBSD configuration to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE,
1127 which matches an earlier change to CF_SHARED_OPTS, from xterm #224
1129 + remove "${DESTDIR}" from -install_name option used for linking
1130 shared libraries on Darwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
1133 + add test/inchs.c, test/inch_wide.c, to test win_wchnstr().
1134 + remove libdl from library list for termlib (report by Miroslav
1136 + fix configure.in to allow --without-progs --with-termlib (patch by
1138 + modify win_wchnstr() to ensure that only a base cell is returned
1139 for each multi-column character (prompted by report by Wei Kong
1140 regarding change in mvwin_wch() cf: 20041023).
1143 + modify fix_wchnstr() in form library to strip attributes (and color)
1144 from the cchar_t array (field cells) read from a field's window.
1145 Otherwise, when copying the field cells back to the window, the
1146 associated color overrides the field's background color (report by
1148 + improve tracing for form library, showing created forms, fields, etc.
1149 + ignore --enable-rpath configure option if --with-shared was omitted.
1150 + add _nc_leaks_tinfo(), _nc_free_tic(), _nc_free_tinfo() entrypoints
1151 to allow leak-checking when both tic- and tinfo-libraries are built.
1152 + drop CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC macro from configure script, since C++ binding
1153 no longer relies on it.
1154 + disallow combining configure script options --with-ticlib and
1155 --enable-termcap (report by Rong-En Fan).
1156 + remove tack from ncurses tree.
1159 + fix typo in configure script that broke --with-termlib option
1160 (report by Rong-En Fan).
1163 + improve fix for FreeBSD gnu/98975, to allow for null pointer passed
1164 to tgetent() (report by Rong-en Fan).
1165 + update tack/HISTORY and tack/README to tell how to build it after
1166 it is removed from the ncurses tree.
1167 + fix configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
1168 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
1169 + review/eliminate other original-file artifacts in cursesw.cc, making
1170 its license consistent with ncurses.
1171 + use ncurses vw_scanw() rather than reading into a fixed buffer in
1172 the c++ binding for scanw() methods (prompted by report by Nuno Dias).
1173 + eliminate fixed-buffer vsprintf() calls in c++ binding.
1176 + add _nc_leaks_tic() to separate leak-checking of tic library from
1177 term/ncurses libraries, and thereby eliminate a library dependency.
1178 + fix test/mk-test.awk to ignore blank lines.
1179 + correct paths in include/headers, for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav
1183 + add a break-statement in misc/shlib to ensure that it exits on the
1184 _first_ matched directory (report by Paul Novak).
1185 + add tack/configure, which can be used to build tack outside the
1187 + add --with-ticlib option, to build/install the tic-support functions
1188 in a separate library (suggested by Miroslav Lichvar).
1191 + change MKunctrl.awk to reduce relocation table for unctrl.o
1192 + change MKkeyname.awk to reduce relocation table for keyname.o
1193 (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
1196 + modify configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
1197 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
1198 + modify some modules to allow them to be reentrant if _REENTRANT is
1199 defined: lib_baudrate.c, resizeterm.c (local data only)
1200 + eliminate static data from some modules: add_tries.c, hardscroll.c,
1201 lib_ttyflags.c, lib_twait.c
1202 + improve manpage install to add aliases for the transformed program
1203 names, e.g., from --program-prefix.
1204 + used linklint to verify links in the HTML documentation, made fixes
1205 to manpages as needed.
1206 + fix a typo in curs_mouse.3x (report by William McBrine).
1207 + fix install-rule for ncurses5-config to make the bin-directory.
1210 + modify configure script to omit the tic (terminfo compiler) support
1211 from ncurses library if --without-progs option is given.
1212 + modify install rule for ncurses5-config to do this via "install.libs"
1213 + modify shared-library rules to allow FreeBSD 3.x to use rpath.
1214 + update config.guess, config.sub
1216 20061217 5.6 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1219 + add ifdef's for <wctype.h> for HPUX, which has the corresponding
1220 definitions in <wchar.h>.
1221 + revert the va_copy() change from 20061202, since it was neither
1222 correct nor portable.
1223 + add $(LOCAL_LIBS) definition to progs/Makefile.in, needed for
1225 + ignore wide-acs line-drawing characters that wcwidth() claims are
1226 not one-column. This is a workaround for Solaris' broken locale
1230 + modify configure --with-gpm option to allow it to accept a parameter,
1231 i.e., the name of the dynamic GPM library to load via dlopen()
1232 (requested by Bryan Henderson).
1233 + add configure option --with-valgrind, changes from vile.
1234 + modify configure script AC_TRY_RUN and AC_TRY_LINK checks to use
1235 'return' in preference to 'exit()'.
1238 + change default for --with-develop back to "no".
1239 + add XTABS to tracing of TTY bits.
1240 + updated autoconf patch to ifdef-out the misfeature which declares
1241 exit() for configure tests. This fixes a redefinition warning on
1243 + use ${CC} rather than ${LD} in shared library rules for IRIX64,
1244 Solaris to help ensure that initialization sections are provided for
1245 extra linkage requirements, e.g., of C++ applications (prompted by
1246 comment by Casper Dik in newsgroup).
1247 + rename "$target" in CF_MAN_PAGES to make it easier to distinguish
1248 from the autoconf predefined symbol. There was no conflict,
1249 since "$target" was used only in the generated edit_man.sh file,
1250 but SuSE's rpm package contains a patch.
1253 + update man/term.5 to reflect extended terminfo support and hashed
1254 database configuration.
1255 + updates for test/configure script.
1256 + adapted from SuSE rpm package:
1257 + remove long-obsolete workaround for broken-linker which declared
1259 + improve error recovery in PUTC() macro when wcrtomb() does not
1260 return usable results for an 8-bit character.
1261 + patches from rpm package (SuSE):
1262 + use va_copy() in extra varargs manipulation for tracing version
1264 + use a va_list rather than a null in _nc_freeall()'s call to
1265 _nc_printf_string().
1266 + add some see-also references in manpages to show related
1267 wide-character functions (suggested by Claus Fischer).
1270 + add a check in lib_color.c to ensure caller does not increase COLORS
1271 above max_colors, which is used as an array index (discussion with
1273 + add ifdef's allowing ncurses to be built with tparm() using either
1274 varargs (the existing status), or using a fixed-parameter list (to
1278 + fix redrawing of windows other than stdscr using wredrawln() by
1279 touching the corresponding rows in curscr (discussion with Dan
1282 + add test/echochar.c
1283 + review/cleanup manpage descriptions of error-returns for form- and
1284 menu-libraries (prompted by FreeBSD docs/46196).
1287 + add AUTHORS file -TD
1288 + omit the -D options from output of the new config script --cflags
1289 option (suggested by Ralf S Engelschall).
1290 + make NCURSES_INLINE unconditionally defined in curses.h
1293 + revert change to accommodate bash 3.2, since that breaks other
1294 platforms, e.g., Solaris.
1295 + minor fixes to NEWS file to simplify scripting to obtain list of
1297 + improve some shared-library configure scripting for Linux, FreeBSD
1298 and NetBSD to make "--with-shlib-version" work.
1299 + change configure-script rules for FreeBSD shared libraries to allow
1300 for rpath support in versions past 3.
1301 + use $(DESTDIR) in makefile rules for installing/uninstalling the
1302 package config script (reports/patches by Christian Wiese,
1303 Ralf S Engelschall).
1304 + fix a warning in the configure script for NetBSD 2.0, working around
1305 spurious blanks embedded in its ${MAKEFLAGS} symbol.
1306 + change test/Makefile to simplify installing test programs in a
1307 different directory when --enable-rpath is used.
1310 + work around bug in bash 3.2 by adding extra quotes (Jim Gifford).
1311 + add/install a package config script, e.g., "ncurses5-config" or
1312 "ncursesw5-config", according to configuration options.
1315 + add several GNU Screen terminfo variations with 16- and 256-colors,
1316 and status line (Alain Bench).
1317 + change the way shared libraries (other than libtool) are installed.
1318 Rather than copying the build-tree's libraries, link the shared
1319 objects into the install directory. This makes the --with-rpath
1320 option work except with $(DESTDIR) (cf: 20000930).
1323 + fix ifdef in c++/internal.h for QNX 6.1
1324 + test-compiled with (old) egcs-1.1.2, modified configure script to
1325 not unset the $CXX and related variables which would prevent this.
1326 + fix a few terminfo.src typos exposed by improvments to "-f" option.
1327 + improve infocmp/tic "-f" option formatting.
1330 + make --disable-largefile option work (report by Thomas M Ott).
1331 + updated html documentation.
1332 + add ka2, kb1, kb3, kc2 to vt220-keypad as an extension -TD
1333 + minor improvements to rxvt+pcfkeys -TD
1336 + move static data from lib_mouse.c into SCREEN struct.
1337 + improve ifdef's for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset to work with Mac OS X
1338 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
1339 + modify CF_PATH_SYNTAX to ensure it uses the result from --prefix
1340 option (from lynx changes) -TD
1341 + adapt AC_PROG_EGREP check, noting that this is likely to be another
1342 place aggravated by POSIXLY_CORRECT.
1343 + modify configure check for awk to ensure that it is found (prompted
1344 by report by Christopher Parker).
1348 + add kon, kon2 and jfbterm terminfo entry (request by Till Maas) -TD
1349 + remove invis capability from klone+sgr, mainly used by linux entry,
1350 since it does not really do this -TD
1353 + correct logic in wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not guard
1354 against passing the multi-column attribute into a call on waddch(),
1355 e.g., using data returned by win_wch() (cf: 20041023)
1356 (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
1359 + fix kterm's acsc string -TD
1360 + fix for change to tic/infocmp in 20060819 to ensure no blank is
1361 embedded into a termcap description.
1362 + workaround for 20050806 ifdef's change to allow visbuf.c to compile
1363 when using --with-termlib --with-trace options.
1364 + improve tgetstr() by making the return value point into the user's
1365 buffer, if provided (patch by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat Bugzilla
1367 + correct libraries needed for foldkeys (report by Stanislav Ievlev)
1370 + add terminfo entries for xfce terminal (xfce) and multi gnome
1372 + add test/foldkeys.c
1375 + modify tic and infocmp to avoid writing trailing blanks on terminfo
1376 source output (Debian #378783).
1377 + modify configure script to ensure that if the C compiler is used
1378 rather than the loader in making shared libraries, the $(CFLAGS)
1379 variable is also used (Redhat Bugzilla #199369).
1380 + port hashed-db code to db2 and db3.
1381 + fix a bug in tgetent() from 20060625 and 20060715 changes
1382 (patch/analysis by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat Bugzilla #202480)).
1385 + updated xterm function-keys terminfo to match xterm #216 -TD
1386 + add configure --with-hashed-db option (tested only with FreeBSD 6.0,
1387 e.g., the db 1.8.5 interface).
1390 + modify toe to access termcap data, e.g., via cgetent() functions,
1391 or as a text file if those are not available.
1392 + use _nc_basename() in tset to improve $SHELL check for csh/sh.
1393 + modify _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_termcap_entry() so infocmp,
1394 can access termcap data when the terminfo database is disabled.
1397 + widen the test for xterm kmous a little to allow for other strings
1398 than \E[M, e.g., for xterm-sco functionality in xterm.
1399 + update xterm-related terminfo entries to match xterm patch #216 -TD
1400 + update config.guess, config.sub
1403 + fix for install-rule in Ada95 to add terminal_interface.ads
1404 and terminal_interface.ali (anonymous posting in comp.lang.ada).
1405 + correction to manpage for getcchar() (report by William McBrine).
1407 + modify wchgat() to mark updated cells as changed so a refresh will
1408 repaint those cells (comments by Sadrul H Chowdhury and William
1410 + split up dependency of names.c and codes.c in ncurses/Makefile to
1411 work with parallel make (report/analysis by Joseph S Myers).
1412 + suppress a warning message (which is ignored) for systems without
1413 an ldconfig program (patch by Justin Hibbits).
1414 + modify configure script --disable-symlinks option to allow one to
1415 disable symlink() in tic even when link() does not work (report by
1417 + modify MKfallback.sh to use tic -x when constructing fallback tables
1418 to allow extended capabilities to be retrieved from a fallback entry.
1419 + improve leak-checking logic in tgetent() from 20060625 to ensure that
1420 it does not free the current screen (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
1423 + add a check for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset (NetBSD #33916).
1424 + correct _nc_free_entries() and related functions used for memory leak
1428 + revert a minor change for magic-cookie support from 20060513, which
1429 caused unexpected reset of attributes, e.g., when resizing test/view
1431 + note in clear manpage that the program ignores command-line
1432 parameters (prompted by Debian #371855).
1433 + fixes to make lib_gen.c build properly with changes to the configure
1434 --disable-macros option and NCURSES_NOMACROS (cf: 20060527)
1435 + update/correct several terminfo entries -TD
1436 + add some notes regarding copyright to terminfo.src -TD
1439 + fixes to build Ada95 binding with gnat-4.1.0
1440 + modify read_termtype() so the term_names data is always allocated as
1441 part of the str_table, a better fix for a memory leak (cf: 20030809).
1442 + reduce memory leaks in repeated calls to tgetent() by remembering the
1443 last TERMINAL* value allocated to hold the corresponding data and
1444 freeing that if the tgetent() result buffer is the same as the
1445 previous call (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
1446 + modify tack to test extended capability function-key strings.
1447 + improved gnome terminfo entry (GenToo #122566).
1448 + improved xterm-256color terminfo entry (patch by Alain Bench).
1451 + fix two small memory leaks related to repeated tgetent() calls
1452 with TERM=screen (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
1453 + add --enable-signed-char to simplify Debian package.
1454 + reduce name-pollution in term.h by removing #define's for HAVE_xxx
1456 + correct typo in curs_terminfo.3x (Debian #369168).
1459 + enable the mouse in test/movewindow.c
1460 + improve a limit-check in frm_def.c (John Heasley).
1461 + minor copyright fixes.
1462 + change configure script to produce test/Makefile from data file.
1465 + add a configure option --enable-wgetch-events to enable
1466 NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS, and correct the associated loop-logic in
1467 lib_twait.c (report by Bernd Jendrissek).
1468 + remove include/nomacros.h from build, since the ifdef for
1469 NCURSES_NOMACROS makes that obsolete.
1470 + add entrypoints for some functions which were only provided as macros
1471 to make NCURSES_NOMACROS ifdef work properly: getcurx(), getcury(),
1472 getbegx(), getbegy(), getmaxx(), getmaxy(), getparx() and getpary(),
1474 + provide ifdef for NCURSES_NOMACROS which suppresses most macro
1475 definitions from curses.h, i.e., where a macro is defined to override
1476 a function to improve performance. Allowing a developer to suppress
1477 these definitions can simplify some application (discussion with
1479 + improve description of memu/meml in terminfo manpage.
1482 + if msgr is false, reset video attributes when doing an automargin
1483 wrap to the next line. This makes the ncurses 'k' test work properly
1485 + correct caching of keyname(), which was using only half of its table.
1486 + minor fixes to memory-leak checking.
1487 + make SCREEN._acs_map and SCREEN._screen_acs_map pointers rather than
1488 arrays, making ACS_LEN less visible to applications (suggested by
1490 + move chunk in SCREEN ifdef'd for USE_WIDEC_SUPPORT to the end, so
1491 _screen_acs_map will have the same offset in both ncurses/ncursesw,
1492 making the corresponding tinfo/tinfow libraries binary-compatible
1493 (cf: 20041016, report by Stanislav Ievlev).
1496 + improve debug-tracing for EmitRange().
1497 + change default for --with-develop to "yes". Add NCURSES_NO_HARD_TABS
1498 and NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE environment variables to allow runtime
1499 suppression of the related hard-tabs and xmc-glitch features.
1500 + add ncurses version number to top-level manpages, e.g., ncurses, tic,
1501 infocmp, terminfo as well as form, menu, panel.
1502 + update config.guess, config.sub
1503 + modify ncurses.c to work around a bug in NetBSD 3.0 curses
1504 (field_buffer returning null for a valid field). The 'r' test
1505 appears to not work with that configuration since the new_fieldtype()
1506 function is broken in that implementation.
1509 + add hpterm-color terminfo entry -TD
1510 + fixes to compile test-programs with HPUX 11.23
1513 + add copyright notices to files other than those that are generated,
1514 data or adapted from pdcurses (reports by William McBrine, David
1516 + improve rendering on hpterm by not resetting attributes at the end
1517 of doupdate() if the terminal has the magic-cookie feature (report
1519 + add 256color variants of terminfo entries for programs which are
1520 reported to implement this feature -TD
1523 + fix typo in change to NewChar() macro from 20060311 changes, which
1524 broke tab-expansion (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
1527 + document -U option of tic and infocmp.
1528 + modify tic/infocmp to suppress smacs/rmacs when acsc is suppressed
1529 due to size limit, e.g., converting to termcap format. Also
1530 suppress them if the output format does not contain acsc and it
1531 was not VT100-like, i.e., a one-one mapping (Novell #163715).
1532 + add configure check to ensure that SIGWINCH is defined on platforms
1533 such as OS X which exclude that when _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., are
1534 defined (report by Nicholas Cole)
1537 + modify write_object() to not write coincidental extensions of an
1538 entry made due to it being referenced in a use= clause (report by
1540 + another fix for infocmp -i option, which did not ensure that some
1541 escape sequences had comparable prefixes (report by Alain Bench).
1544 + improve discussion of init/reset in terminfo and tput manpages
1545 (report by Alain Bench).
1546 + use is3 string for a fallback of rs3 in the reset program; it was
1547 using is2 (report by Alain Bench).
1548 + correct logic for infocmp -i option, which did not account for
1549 multiple digits in a parameter (cf: 20040828) (report by Alain
1551 + move _nc_handle_sigwinch() to lib_setup.c to make --with-termlib
1552 option work after 20060114 changes (report by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz).
1553 + add copyright notices to test-programs as needed (report by William
1557 + modify ncurses.c 'F' test to combine the wide-characters with color
1558 and/or video attributes.
1559 + modify test/ncurses to use CTL/Q or ESC consistently for exiting
1560 a test-screen (some commands used 'x' or 'q').
1563 + fix an off-by-one in the scrolling-region change (cf_ 20060311).
1566 + add checks in waddchnstr() and wadd_wchnstr() to stop copying when
1567 a null character is found (report by Igor Bogomazov).
1568 + modify progs/Makefile.in to make "tput init" work properly with
1569 cygwin, i.e., do not pass a ".exe" in the reference string used
1570 in check_aliases (report by Samuel Thibault).
1571 + add some checks to ensure current position is within scrolling
1572 region before scrolling on a new line (report by Dan Gookin).
1573 + change some NewChar() usage to static variables to work around
1574 stack garbage introduced when cchar_t is not packed (Redhat #182024).
1577 + workarounds to build test/movewindow with PDcurses 2.7.
1578 + fix for nsterm-16color entry (patch by Alain Bench).
1579 + correct a typo in infocmp manpage (Debian #354281).
1582 + add nsterm-16color entry -TD
1583 + updated mlterm terminfo entry -TD
1584 + remove 970913 feature for copying subwindows as they are moved in
1585 mvwin() (discussion with Bryan Christ).
1586 + modify test/demo_menus.c to demonstrate moving a menu (both the
1587 window and subwindow) using shifted cursor-keys.
1588 + start implementing recursive mvwin() in movewindow.c (incomplete).
1589 + add a fallback definition for GCC_PRINTFLIKE() in test.priv.h,
1590 for movewindow.c (report by William McBrine).
1591 + add help-message to test/movewindow.c
1594 + add test/movewindow.c, to test mvderwin().
1595 + fix ncurses soft-key test so color changes are shown immediately
1596 rather than delayed.
1597 + modify ncurses soft-key test to hide the keys when exiting the test
1599 + fixes to build test programs with PDCurses 2.7, e.g., its headers
1600 rely on autoconf symbols, and it declares stubs for nonfunctional
1601 terminfo and termcap entrypoints.
1604 + improved test/configure to build test/ncurses on HPUX 11 using the
1606 + documented ALTERNATE CONFIGURATIONS in the ncurses manpage, for the
1607 benefit of developers who do not read INSTALL.
1610 + correct form library Window_To_Buffer() change (cf: 20040516), which
1611 should ignore the video attributes (report by Ricardo Cantu).
1614 + minor fixes to xmc-glitch experimental code:
1615 + suppress line-drawing
1616 + implement max_attributes
1618 + minor fixes for the database iterator.
1619 + fix some buffer limits in c++ demo (comment by Falk Hueffner in
1623 + add toe -a option, to show all databases. This uses new private
1624 interfaces in the ncurses library for iterating through the list of
1626 + fix toe from 20000909 changes which made it not look at
1628 + make toe's -v option parameter optional as per manpage.
1629 + improve SIGWINCH handling by postponing its effect during newterm(),
1630 etc., when allocating screens.
1633 + modify wgetnstr() to return KEY_RESIZE if a sigwinch occurs. Use
1634 this in test/filter.c
1635 + fix an error in filter() modification which caused some applications
1639 + check if filter() was called when getting the screensize. Keep it
1640 at 1 if so (based on Redhat #174498).
1641 + add extension nofilter().
1642 + refined the workaround for ACS mapping.
1643 + make ifdef's consistent in curses.h for the extended colors so the
1644 header file can be used for the normal curses library. The header
1645 file installed for extended colors is a variation of the
1646 wide-character configuration (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
1649 + add a workaround to ACS mapping to allow applications such as
1650 test/blue.c to use the "PC ROM" characters by masking them with
1651 A_ALTCHARSET. This worked up til 5.5, but was lost in the revision
1652 of legacy coding (report by Michael Deutschmann).
1653 + add a null-pointer check in the wide-character version of
1654 calculate_actual_width() (report by Victor Julien).
1655 + improve test/ncurses 'd' (color-edit) test by allowing the RGB
1656 values to be set independently (patch by William McBrine).
1657 + modify test/configure script to allow building test programs with
1659 + modified test programs to allow some to work with NetBSD curses.
1660 Several do not because NetBSD curses implements a subset of X/Open
1661 curses, and also lacks much of SVr4 additions. But it's enough for
1663 + update config.guess and config.sub
1666 + use BSD-specific fix for return-value from cgetent() from CVS where
1667 an unknown terminal type would be reportd as "database not found".
1668 + make tgetent() return code more readable using new symbols
1670 + remove references to non-existent "tctest" program.
1671 + remove TESTPROGS from progs/Makefile.in (it was referring to code
1672 that was never built in that directory).
1673 + typos in curs_addchstr.3x, some doc files (noticed in OpenBSD CVS).
1676 + add use_legacy_coding() function to support lynx's font-switching
1678 + fix formatting in curs_termcap.3x (report by Mike Frysinger).
1679 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to change preprocessor-expanded _Bool back to
1683 + extend test/ncurses.c 's' (overlay window) test to exercise overlay(),
1684 overwrite() and copywin() with different combinations of colors and
1685 attributes (including background color) to make it easy to see the
1686 effect of the different functions.
1687 + corrections to menu/m_global.c for wide-characters (report by
1691 + add configure option --without-dlsym, allowing developers to
1692 configure GPM support without using dlsym() (discussion with Michael
1694 + fix wins_nwstr(), which did not handle single-column non-8bit codes
1698 + move prototypes for wide-character trace functions from curses.tail
1699 to curses.wide to avoid accidental reference to those if
1700 _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined without ensuring that <wchar.h> is
1702 + add/use NCURSES_INLINE definition.
1703 + change some internal functions to use int/unsigned rather than the
1707 + remove a redundant check in lib_color.c (Debian #335655).
1708 + use ld's -search_paths_first option on Darwin to work around odd
1709 search rules on that platform (report by Christian Gennerat, analysis
1711 + remove special case for Darwin in CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro.
1712 + ignore EINTR in tcgetattr/tcsetattr calls (Debian #339518).
1713 + fix several bugs in test/bs.c (patch by Stephen Lindholm).
1716 + other minor fixes to cygwin based on tack -TD
1717 + correct smacs in cygwin (Debian #338234, report by Baurzhan
1718 Ismagulov, who noted that it was fixed in Cygwin).
1721 + add shifted up/down arrow codes to xterm-new as kind/kri strings -TD
1722 + modify wbkgrnd() to avoid clearing the A_CHARTEXT attribute bits
1723 since those record the state of multicolumn characters (Debian
1725 + modify werase to clear multicolumn characters that extend into
1726 a derived window (Debian #316663).
1729 + move assignment from environment variable ESCDELAY from initscr()
1730 down to newterm() so the environment variable affects timeouts for
1731 terminals opened with newterm() as well.
1732 + fix a memory leak in keyname().
1733 + add test/demo_altkeys.c
1734 + modify test/demo_defkey.c to exit from loop via 'q' to allow
1735 leak-checking, as well as fix a buffer size in winnstr() call.
1738 + correct order of use-clauses in rxvt-basic entry which made codes for
1739 f1-f4 vt100-style rather than vt220-style (report by Gabor Z Papp).
1740 + suppress configure check for gnatmake if Ada95/Makefile.in is not
1742 + correct a typo in configure --with-bool option for the case where
1743 --without-cxx is used (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1744 + add a note to INSTALL's discussion of --with-normal, pointing out
1745 that one may wish to use --without-gpm to ensure a completely
1746 static link (prompted by report by Felix von Leitner).
1748 20051010 5.5 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1751 + document in demo_forms.c some portability issues.
1754 + document side-effect of werase() which sets the cursor position.
1755 + save/restore the current position in form field editing to make
1759 + correct header dependencies in progs, allowing parallel make (report
1760 by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1761 + modify CF_BUILD_CC to ensure that pre-setting $BUILD_CC overrides
1762 the configure check for --with-build-cc (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1763 + modify CF_CFG_DEFAULTS to not use /usr as the default prefix for
1765 + update config.guess and config.sub from
1766 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
1769 + modify sed expression which computes path for /usr/lib/terminfo
1770 symbolic link in install to ensure that it does not change unexpected
1771 levels of the path (Gentoo #42336).
1772 + modify default for --disable-lp64 configure option to reduce impact
1773 on existing 64-bit builds. Enabling the _LP64 option may change the
1774 size of chtype and mmask_t. However, for ABI 6, it is enabled by
1775 default (report by Mike Frysinger).
1776 + add configure script check for --enable-ext-mouse, bump ABI to 6 by
1777 default if it is used.
1778 + improve configure script logic for bumping ABI to omit this if the
1779 --with-abi-version option was used.
1780 + update address for Free Software Foundation in tack's source.
1781 + correct wins_wch(), which was not marking the filler-cells of
1782 multi-column characters (cf: 20041023).
1785 + modify mouse initialization to ensure that Gpm_Open() is called only
1786 once. Otherwise GPM gets confused in its initialization of signal
1787 handlers (Debian #326709).
1790 + modify logic for backspacing in a multiline form field to ensure that
1791 it works even when the preceding line is full (report by Frank van
1793 + remove comment about BUGS section of ncurses manpage (Debian #325481)
1796 + document some workarounds for shared and libtool library
1797 configurations in INSTALL (see --with-shared and --with-libtool).
1798 + modify CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GXX_VERSION macros to accommodate
1799 cross-compilers which emit the platform name in their version
1801 arm-sa1100-linux-gnu-g++ (GCC) 4.0.1
1802 (report by Frank van Vugt).
1805 + start updating documentation for upcoming 5.5 release.
1806 + fix to make libtool and libtinfo work together again (cf: 20050122).
1807 + fixes to allow building traces into libtinfo
1808 + add debug trace to tic that shows if/how ncurses will write to the
1809 lower corner of a terminal's screen.
1810 + update llib-l* files.
1813 + modify initializers in c++ binding to build with old versions of g++.
1814 + improve special case for 20050115 repainting fix, ensuring that if
1815 the first changed cell is not a character that the range to be
1816 repainted is adjusted to start at a character's beginning (Debian
1820 + fixes to build on QNX 6.1
1821 + improve configure script checks for Intel 9.0 compiler.
1822 + remove #include's for libc.h (obsolete).
1823 + adjust ifdef's in curses.priv.h so that when cross-compiling to
1824 produce comp_hash and make_keys, no dependency on wchar.h is needed.
1825 That simplifies the build-cppflags (report by Frank van Vugt).
1826 + move modules related to key-binding into libtinfo to fix linkage
1827 problem caused by 20050430 changes to MKkeyname.sh (report by
1828 Konstantin Andreev).
1831 + updates/fixes for configure script macros from vile -TD
1832 + make prism9's sgr string agree with the rest of the terminfo -TD
1833 + make vt220's sgr0 string consistent with sgr string, do this for
1834 several related cases -TD
1835 + improve translation to termcap by filtering the 'me' (sgr0) strings
1836 as in the runtime call to tgetent() (prompted by a discussion with
1838 + improve tic check for sgr0 versus sgr(0), to help ensure that sgr0
1839 resets line-drawing.
1842 + fix special cases for trimming sgr0 for hurd and vt220 (Debian
1844 + split-out _nc_trim_sgr0() from modifications made to tgetent(), to
1845 allow it to be used by tic to provide information about the runtime
1846 changes that would be made to sgr0 for termcap applications.
1847 + modify make_sed.sh to make the group-name in the NAME section of
1848 form/menu library manpage agree with the TITLE string when renaming
1849 is done for Debian (Debian #78866).
1852 + modify parameter type in c++ binding for insch() and mvwinsch() to
1853 be consistent with underlying ncurses library (was char, is chtype).
1854 + modify treatment of Intel compiler to allow _GNU_SOURCE to be defined
1856 + improve configure check for nanosleep(), checking that it works since
1857 some older systems such as AIX 4.3 have a nonworking version.
1860 + update config.guess and config.sub from
1861 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
1862 + modify misc/shlib to work in test-directory.
1863 + suppress $suffix in misc/run_tic.sh when cross-compiling. This
1864 allows cross-compiles to use the host's tic program to handle the
1865 "make install.data" step.
1866 + improve description of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables in manpages
1867 (prompted by report by Dave Ulrick).
1868 + improve description of cross-compiling in INSTALL
1869 + add NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html by Pradeep Padala
1870 (see http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/).
1871 + modify configure script to obtain soname for GPM library (discussion
1872 with Daniel Jacobowitz).
1873 + modify configure script so that --with-chtype option will still
1874 compute the unsigned literals suffix for constants in curses.h
1875 (report by Daniel Jacobowitz:
1876 + patches from Daniel Jacobowitz:
1877 + the man_db.renames entry for tack.1 was backwards.
1878 + tack.1 had some 1m's that should have been 1M's.
1879 + the section for curs_inwstr.3 was wrong.
1882 + correction to --with-chtype option (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1885 + move build-time edit_man.sh and edit_man.sed scripts to top directory
1886 to simplify reusing them for renaming tack's manpage (prompted by a
1887 review of Debian package).
1888 + revert minor optimization from 20041030 (Debian #313609).
1889 + libtool-specific fixes, tested with libtool 1.4.3, 1.5.0, 1.5.6,
1890 1.5.10 and 1.5.18 (all work except as noted previously for the c++
1891 install using libtool 1.5.0):
1892 + modify the clean-rule in c++/Makefile.in to work with IRIX64 make
1894 + use $(LIBTOOL_UNINSTALL) symbol, overlooked in 20030830
1895 + add configure options --with-chtype and --with-mmask-t, to allow
1896 overriding of the non-LP64 model's use of the corresponding types.
1897 + revise test for size of chtype (and mmask_t), which always returned
1898 "long" due to an uninitialized variable (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1901 + change _tracef's that used "%p" format for va_list values to ignore
1902 that, since on some platforms those are not pointers.
1903 + fixes for long-formats in printf's due to largefile support.
1906 + fixes for termcap support:
1907 + reset pointer to _nc_curr_token.tk_name when the input stream is
1908 closed, which could point to free memory (cf: 20030215).
1909 + delink TERMTYPE data which is used by the termcap reader, so that
1910 extended names data will be freed consistently.
1911 + free pointer to TERMTYPE data in _nc_free_termtype() rather than
1913 + add some entrypoints for freeing permanently allocated data via
1914 _nc_freeall() when NO_LEAKS is defined.
1915 + amend 20041030 change to _nc_do_color to ensure that optimization is
1916 applied only when the terminal supports back_color_erase (bce).
1919 + add sun-color terminfo entry -TD
1920 + correct a missing assignment in c++ binding's method
1921 NCursesPanel::UserPointer() from 20050409 changes.
1922 + improve configure check for large-files, adding check for dirent64
1924 + minor change to configure script to improve linker options for the
1928 + document error conditions for ncurses library functions (report by
1930 + regenerated html documentation for ada binding.
1931 see ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/gnathtml
1934 + regenerated html documentation for manpages.
1935 + add $(BUILD_EXEEXT) suffix to invocation of make_keys in
1936 ncurses/Makefile (Gentoo #89772).
1937 + modify c++/demo.cc to build with g++ -fno-implicit-templates option
1938 (patch by Mike Frysinger).
1939 + modify tic to filter out long extended names when translating to
1940 termcap format. Only two characters are permissible for termcap
1944 + modify terminfo entries xterm-new and rxvt to add strings for
1945 shift-, control-cursor keys.
1946 + workaround to allow c++ binding to compile with g++ 2.95.3, which
1947 has a broken implementation of static_cast<> (patch by Jeff Chua).
1948 + modify initialization of key lookup table so that if an extended
1949 capability (tic -x) string is defined, and its name begins with 'k',
1950 it will automatically be treated as a key.
1951 + modify test/keynames.c to allow for the possibility of extended
1952 key names, e.g., via define_key(), or via "tic -x".
1953 + add test/demo_termcap.c to show the contents of given entry via the
1957 + minor fixes for vt100/vt52 entries -TD
1958 + add configure option --enable-largefile
1959 + corrected libraries used to build Ada95/gen/gen, found in testing
1963 + update config.guess, config.sub
1964 + modify configure script check for _XOPEN_SOURCE, disable that on
1965 Darwin whose header files have problems (patch by Chris Zubrzycki).
1966 + modify form library Is_Printable_String() to use iswprint() rather
1967 than wcwidth() for determining if a character is printable. The
1968 latter caused it to reject menu items containing non-spacing
1970 + modify ncurses test program's F-test to handle non-spacing characters
1971 by combining them with a reverse-video blank.
1972 + review/fix several gcc -Wconversion warnings.
1975 + correct an off-by-one error in m_driver() for mouse-clicks used to
1976 position the mouse to a particular item.
1977 + implement test/demo_menus.c
1978 + add some checks in lib_mouse to ensure SP is set.
1979 + modify C++ binding to make 20050403 changes work with the configure
1980 --enable-const option.
1983 + modify start_color() to return ERR if it cannot allocate memory.
1984 + address g++ compiler warnings in C++ binding by adding explicit
1985 member initialization, assignment operators and copy constructors.
1986 Most of the changes simply preserve the existing semantics of the
1987 binding, which can leak memory, etc., but by making these features
1988 visible, it provides a framework for improving the binding.
1989 + improve C++ binding using static_cast, etc.
1990 + modify configure script --enable-warnings to add options to g++ to
1991 correspond to the gcc --enable-warnings.
1992 + modify C++ binding to use some C internal functions to make it
1993 compile properly on Solaris (and other platforms).
1996 + amend change from 20050320 to limit it to configurations with a
1998 + fix a bug introduced in 20050320 which broke the translation of
1999 nonprinting characters to uparrow form (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
2002 + add ifdef's for _LP64 in curses.h to avoid using wasteful 64-bits for
2003 chtype and mmask_t, but add configure option --disable-lp64 in case
2004 anyone used that configuration.
2005 + update misc/shlib script to account for Mac OS X (report by Michail
2007 + correct comparison for wrapping multibyte characters in
2008 waddch_literal() (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
2011 + add -c and -w options to tset to allow user to suppress ncurses'
2012 resizing of the terminal emulator window in the special case where it
2013 is not able to detect the true size (report by Win Delvaux, Debian
2015 + modify waddch_nosync() to account for locale zn_CH.GBK, which uses
2016 codes 128-159 as part of multibyte characters (report by Wang
2017 WenRui, Debian #300512).
2020 + modify ncurses.c 'd' test to make it work with 88-color
2021 configuration, i.e., by implementing scrolling.
2022 + improve scrolling in ncurses.c 'c' and 'C' tests, e.g., for 88-color
2026 + change tracemunch to use strict checking.
2027 + modify ncurses.c 'p' test to test line-drawing within a pad.
2028 + implement environment variable NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS to support
2029 miscellaneous terminal emulators which ignore alternate character
2030 set escape sequences when in UTF-8 mode.
2033 + change NCursesWindow::err_handler() to a virtual function (request by
2035 + modify fty_int.c and fty_num.c to handle wide characters (report by
2037 + adapt fix for fty_alpha.c to fty_alnum.c, which also handled normal
2038 and wide characters inconsistently (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
2039 + update llib-* files to reflect internal interface additions/changes.
2042 + improve test/configure script, adding tests for _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc.,
2044 + add aixterm-16color terminfo entry -TD
2045 + modified xterm-new terminfo entry to work with tgetent() changes -TD
2046 + extended changes in tgetent() from 20040710 to allow the substring of
2047 sgr0 which matches rmacs to be at the beginning of the sgr0 string
2048 (request by Thomas Wolff). Wolff says the visual effect in
2049 combination with pre-20040710 ncurses is improved.
2050 + fix off-by-one in winnstr() call which caused form field validation
2051 of multibyte characters to ignore the last character in a field.
2052 + correct logic in winsch() for inserting multibyte strings; the code
2053 would clear cells after the insertion rather than push them to the
2054 right (cf: 20040228).
2055 + fix an inconsistency in Check_Alpha_Field() between normal and wide
2056 character logic (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
2059 + fix a bug in editing wide-characters in form library: deleting a
2060 nonwide character modified the previous wide-character.
2061 + update manpage to describe NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2.
2062 + correct manpage description of mouseinterval() (Debian #280687).
2063 + add a note to default_colors.3x explaining why this extension was
2064 added (Debian #295083).
2065 + add traces to panel library.
2068 + improve editing of wide-characters in form library: left/right
2069 cursor movement, and single-character deletions work properly.
2070 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM happens to be prefixed with
2071 "xterm". Gpm_Open() would otherwise assert that it can deal with
2072 mouse events in this case.
2073 + modify GPM mouse support so it closes the server connection when
2074 the caller disables the mouse (report by Stanislav Ievlev).
2077 + add traces for callback functions in form library.
2078 + add experimental configure option --enable-ext-mouse, which defines
2079 NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2, and modifies the encoding of mouse events to
2080 support wheel mice, which may transmit buttons 4 and 5. This works
2081 with xterm and similar X terminal emulators (prompted by question by
2082 Andreas Henningsson, this is also related to Debian #230990).
2083 + improve configure macros CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE to
2084 avoid redefinition warnings on cygwin.
2087 + merge remaining development changes for extended colors (mostly
2088 complete, does not appear to break other configurations).
2089 + add xterm-88color.dat (part of extended colors testing).
2090 + improve _tracedump() handling of color pairs past 96.
2091 + modify return-value from start_color() to return OK if colors have
2092 already been started.
2093 + modify curs_color.3x list error conditions for init_pair(),
2094 pair_content() and color_content().
2095 + modify pair_content() to return -1 for consistency with init_pair()
2096 if it corresponds to the default-color.
2097 + change internal representation of default-color to allow application
2098 to use color number 255. This does not affect the total number of
2099 color pairs which are allowed.
2100 + add a top-level tags rule.
2103 + add a null-pointer check in wgetch() in case it is called without
2104 first calling initscr().
2105 + add some null-pointer checks for SP, which is not set by libtinfo.
2106 + modify misc/shlib to ensure that absolute pathnames are used.
2107 + modify test/Makefile.in, etc., to link test programs only against the
2108 libraries needed, e.g., omit form/menu/panel library for the ones
2109 that are curses-specific.
2110 + change SP->_current_attr to a pointer, adjust ifdef's to ensure that
2111 libtinfo.so and libtinfow.so have the same ABI. The reason for this
2112 is that the corresponding data which belongs to the upper-level
2113 ncurses library has a different size in each model (report by
2117 + minor fixes to allow test-compiles with g++.
2118 + correct column value shown in tic's warnings, which did not account
2119 for leading whitespace.
2120 + add a check in _nc_trans_string() for improperly ended strings, i.e.,
2121 where a following line begins in column 1.
2122 + modify _nc_save_str() to return a null pointer on buffer overflow.
2123 + improve repainting while scrolling wide-character data (Eungkyu Song).
2126 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
2129 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
2130 + fix manpage typo (FreeBSD report docs/75544).
2131 + update config.guess, config.sub
2132 > patches for configure script (Albert Chin-A-Young):
2133 + improved fix to make mbstate_t recognized on HPUX 11i (cf:
2134 20030705), making vsscanf() prototype visible on IRIX64. Tested for
2135 on HP-UX 11i, Solaris 7, 8, 9, AIX 4.3.3, 5.2, Tru64 UNIX 4.0D, 5.1,
2136 IRIX64 6.5, Redhat Linux 7.1, 9, and RHEL 2.1, 3.0.
2137 + print the result of the --disable-home-terminfo option.
2138 + use -rpath when compiling with SGI C compiler.
2141 + add trace calls to remaining public functions in form and menu
2143 + fix check for numeric digits in test/ncurses.c 'b' and 'B' tests.
2144 + fix typo in test/ncurses.c 'c' test from 20041218.
2147 + revise test/ncurses.c 'c' color test to improve use for xterm-88color
2148 and xterm-256color, added 'C' test using the wide-character color_set
2149 and attr_set functions.
2152 + modify configure script to work with Intel compiler.
2153 + fix an limit-check in wadd_wchnstr() which caused labels in the
2154 forms-demo to be one character short.
2155 + fix typo in curs_addchstr.3x (Jared Yanovich).
2156 + add trace calls to most functions in form and menu libraries.
2157 + update working-position for adding wide-characters when window is
2158 scrolled (prompted by related report by Eungkyu Song).
2161 + replace some references on Linux to wcrtomb() which use it to obtain
2162 the length of a multibyte string with _nc_wcrtomb, since wcrtomb() is
2163 broken in glibc (see Debian #284260).
2164 + corrected length-computation in wide-character support for
2166 + some fixes to frm_driver.c to allow it to accept multibyte input.
2167 + modify configure script to work with Intel 8.0 compiler.
2170 + amend change to setupterm() in 20030405 which would reuse the value
2171 of cur_term if the same output was selected. This now reuses it only
2172 when setupterm() is called from tgetent(), which has no notion of
2173 separate SCREENs. Note that tgetent() must be called after initscr()
2174 or newterm() to use this feature (Redhat Bugzilla #140326).
2175 + add a check in CF_BUILD_CC macro to ensure that developer has given
2176 the --with-build-cc option when cross-compiling (report by Alexandre
2178 + improved configure script checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE and
2179 _POSIX_C_SOURCE (fix for IRIX 5.3 from Georg Schwarz, _POSIX_C_SOURCE
2181 + cosmetic fix to test/gdc.c to recolor the bottom edge of the box
2182 for consistency (comment by Dan Nelson).
2185 + update wsvt25 terminfo entry -TD
2186 + modify test/ins_wide.c to test all flavors of ins_wstr().
2187 + ignore filler-cells in wadd_wchnstr() when adding a cchar_t array
2188 which consists of multi-column characters, since this function
2189 constructs them (cf: 20041023).
2190 + modify winnstr() to return multibyte character strings for the
2191 wide-character configuration.
2194 + fixes to make slk_set() and slk_wset() accept and store multibyte
2195 or multicolumn characters.
2198 + improve color optimization a little by making _nc_do_color() check
2199 if the old/new pairs are equivalent to the default pair 0.
2200 + modify assume_default_colors() to not require that
2201 use_default_colors() be called first.
2204 + modify term_attrs() to use termattrs(), add the extended attributes
2205 such as enter_horizontal_hl_mode for WA_HORIZONTAL to term_attrs().
2206 + add logic in waddch_literal() to clear orphaned cells when one
2207 multi-column character partly overwrites another.
2208 + improved logic for clearing cells when a multi-column character
2209 must be wrapped to a new line.
2210 + revise storage of cells for multi-column characters to correct a
2211 problem with repainting. In the old scheme, it was possible for
2212 doupdate() to decide that only part of a multi-column character
2213 should be repainted since the filler cells stored only an attribute
2214 to denote them as fillers, rather than the character value and the
2218 + minor fixes for traces.
2219 + add SP->_screen_acs_map[], used to ensure that mapping of missing
2220 line-drawing characters is handled properly. For example, ACS_DARROW
2221 is absent from xterm-new, and it was coincidentally displayed the
2225 + amend 20021221 workaround for broken acs to reset the sgr, rmacs
2226 and smacs strings as well. Also modify the check for screen's
2227 limitations in that area to allow the multi-character shift-in
2228 and shift-out which seem to work.
2229 + change GPM initialization, using dl library to load it dynamically
2230 at runtime (Debian #110586).
2233 + correct logic for color pair in setcchar() and getcchar() (patch by
2234 Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
2235 + add t/T commands to ncurses b/B tests to allow a different color to
2236 be tested for the attrset part of the test than is used in the
2240 + fix to make setcchar() to work when its wchar_t* parameter is
2241 pointing to a string which contains more data than can be converted.
2242 + modify wget_wstr() and example in ncurses.c to work if wchar_t and
2243 wint_t are different sizes (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
2246 + remove check in wget_wch() added to fix an infinite loop, appears to
2247 have been working around a transitory glibc bug, and interferes
2248 with normal operation (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
2249 + correct wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not pass the rendition
2250 information (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
2251 + fix aclocal.m4 so that the wide-character version of ncurses gets
2252 compiled as libncursesw.5.dylib, instead of libncurses.5w.dylib
2253 (adapted from patch by James J Ramsey).
2254 + change configure script for --with-caps option to indicate that it
2255 is no longer experimental.
2256 + change configure script to reflect the fact that --enable-widec has
2257 not been "experimental" since 5.3 (report by Bruno Lustosa).
2260 + add 'B' test to ncurses.c, to exercise some wide-character functions.
2263 + modify infocmp -i option to match 8-bit controls against its table
2264 entries, e.g., so it can analyze the xterm-8bit entry.
2265 + add morphos terminfo entry, improve amiga-8bit entry (Pavel Fedin).
2266 + correct translation of "%%" in terminfo format to termcap, e.g.,
2267 using "tic -C" (Redhat Bugzilla #130921).
2268 + modified configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to ensure that if
2269 it defines _POSIX_C_SOURCE, that it defines it to a specific value
2270 (comp.os.stratus newsgroup comment).
2273 + fixes to build with Ada95 binding with gnat 3.4 (all warnings are
2274 fatal, and gnat does not follow the guidelines for pragmas).
2275 However that did find a coding error in Assume_Default_Colors().
2276 + modify several terminfo entries to ensure xterm mouse and cursor
2277 visibility are reset in rs2 string: hurd, putty, gnome,
2278 konsole-base, mlterm, Eterm, screen (Debian #265784, #55637). The
2279 xterm entries are left alone - old ones for compatibility, and the
2280 new ones do not require this change. -TD
2283 + fake a SIGWINCH in newterm() to accommodate buggy terminal emulators
2284 and window managers (Debian #265631).
2285 > terminfo updates -TD
2286 + remove dch/dch1 from rxvt because they are implemented inconsistently
2287 with the common usage of bce/ech
2288 + remove khome from vt220 (vt220's have no home key)
2292 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test, adding v/V toggles to cycle through
2293 combinations of video attributes so that for instance bold and
2294 underline can be tested. This made the legend too crowded, added
2295 a help window as well.
2296 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test to cycle through default colors if
2297 the -d option is set.
2298 + update putty terminfo entry (Robert de Bath).
2301 + modify test/cardfile.c to allow it to read more data than can be
2303 + correct logic in resizeterm.c which kept it from processing all
2304 levels of window hierarchy (reports by Folkert van Heusden,
2308 + modify "tic -cv" to ignore delays when comparing strings. Also
2309 modify it to ignore a canceled sgr string, e.g., for terminals which
2310 cannot properly combine attributes in one control sequence.
2311 + corrections for gnome and konsole entries (Redhat Bugzilla #122815,
2312 patch by Hans de Goede)
2313 > terminfo updates -TD
2314 + make ncsa-m rmacs/smacs consistent with sgr
2315 + add sgr, rc/sc and ech to syscons entries
2316 + add function-keys to decansi
2317 + add sgr to mterm-ansi
2318 + add sgr, civis, cnorm to emu
2319 + correct/simplify cup in addrinfo
2322 > terminfo updates -TD
2323 + add xterm-pc-fkeys
2324 + review/update gnome and gnome-rh90 entries (prompted by Redhat
2326 + review/update konsole entries
2327 + add sgr, correct sgr0 for kterm and mlterm
2328 + correct tsl string in kterm
2331 + add configure option --without-xterm-new
2334 + add check in wget_wch() for printable bytes that are not part of a
2335 multibyte character.
2336 + modify wadd_wchnstr() to render text using window's background
2338 + improve tic's check to compare sgr and sgr0.
2339 + fix c++ directory's .cc.i rule.
2340 + modify logic in tgetent() which adjusts the termcap "me" string
2341 to work with ISO-2022 string used in xterm-new (cf: 20010908).
2342 + modify tic's check for conflicting function keys to omit that if
2343 converting termcap to termcap format.
2344 + add -U option to tic and infocmp.
2345 + add rmam/smam to linux terminfo entry (Trevor Van Bremen)
2346 > terminfo updates -TD
2347 + minor fixes for emu
2349 + change wyse acsc strings to use 'i' map rather than 'I'
2354 + use tic -x to install terminfo database -TD
2355 + add -x to infocmp's usage message.
2356 + correct field used for comparing O_ROWMAJOR in set_menu_format()
2357 (report/patch by Tony Li).
2358 + fix a missing nul check in set_field_buffer() from 20040508 changes.
2359 > terminfo updates -TD
2360 + make xterm-xf86-v43 derived from xterm-xf86-v40 rather than
2362 + align with xterm patch #192's use of xterm-new -TD
2363 + update xterm-new and xterm-8bit for cvvis/cnorm strings -TD
2364 + make xterm-new the default "xterm" entry -TD
2367 + correct BUILD_CPPFLAGS substitution in ncurses/Makefile.in, to allow
2368 cross-compiling from a separate directory tree (report/patch by
2370 + modify is_term_resized() to ensure that window sizes are nonzero,
2371 as documented in the manpage (report by Ian Collier).
2372 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro to make Hurd port build
2373 (Debian #249214, report/patch by Jeff Bailey).
2374 + configure-script mods from xterm, e.g., updates to CF_ADD_CFLAGS
2375 + update config.guess, config.sub
2376 > terminfo updates -TD
2378 + add xterm-xf86-v44
2379 + modify xterm-new aka xterm-xfree86 to accommodate luit, which
2380 relies on G1 being used via an ISO-2022 escape sequence (report by
2385 + reconsidered winsnstr(), decided after comparing other
2386 implementations that wrapping is an X/Open documentation error.
2387 + modify test/inserts.c to test all flavors of insstr().
2390 + add setlocale() calls to a few test programs which may require it:
2391 demo_forms.c, filter.c, ins_wide.c, inserts.c
2392 + correct a few misspelled function names in ncurses-intro.html (report
2394 + correct internal name of key_defined() manpage, which conflicted with
2398 + correct size of internal pad used for holding wide-character
2399 field_buffer() results.
2400 + modify data_ahead() to work with wide-characters.
2403 + improve description of terminfo if-then-else expressions (suggested
2405 + improve test/ncurses.c 'd' test, allow it to use external file for
2406 initial palette (added xterm-16color.dat and linux-color.dat), and
2407 reset colors to the initial palette when starting/ending the test.
2408 + change limit-check in init_color() to allow r/g/b component to
2409 reach 1000 (cf: 20020928).
2412 + modify form library to use cchar_t's rather than char's in the
2413 wide-character configuration for storing data for field buffers.
2414 + correct logic of win_wchnstr(), which did not work for more than
2418 + replace memset/memcpy usage in form library with for-loops to
2419 simplify changing the datatype of FIELD.buf, part of wide-character
2421 + fix some inconsistent use of #if/#ifdef (report by Alain Guibert).
2424 + modify menu library to account for actual number of columns used by
2425 multibyte character strings, in the wide-character configuration
2426 (adapted from patch by Philipp Tomsich).
2427 + add "-x" option to infocmp like tic's "-x", for use in "-F"
2428 comparisons. This modifies infocmp to only report extended
2429 capabilities if the -x option is given, making this more consistent
2430 with tic. Some scripts may break, since infocmp previous gave this
2431 information without an option.
2432 + modify termcap-parsing to retain 2-character aliases at the beginning
2433 of an entry if the "-x" option is used in tic.
2436 + minor compiler-warning and test-program fixes.
2439 + modify tic's missing-sgr warning to apply to terminfo only.
2440 + free some memory leaks in tic.
2441 + remove check in post_menu() that prevented menus from extending
2442 beyond the screen (request by Max J. Werner).
2443 + remove check in newwin() that prevents allocating windows
2444 that extend beyond the screen. Solaris curses does this.
2445 + add ifdef in test/color_set.c to allow it to compile with older
2447 + add napms() calls to test/dots.c to make it not be a CPU hog.
2450 + modify unctrl() to return null if its parameter does not correspond
2451 to an unsigned char.
2452 + add some limit-checks to guard isprint(), etc., from being used on
2453 values that do not fit into an unsigned char (report by Sami Farin).
2456 + fix a typo in the _nc_get_locale() change.
2459 + modify _nc_get_locale() to use setlocale() to query the program's
2460 current locale rather than using getenv(). This fixes a case in tin
2461 which relies on legacy treatment of 8-bit characters when the locale
2462 is not initialized (reported by Urs Jansen).
2463 + add sgr string to screen's and rxvt's terminfo entries -TD.
2464 + add a check in tic for terminfo entries having an sgr0 but no sgr
2465 string. This confuses Tru64 and HPUX curses when combined with
2466 color, e.g., making them leave line-drawing characters in odd places.
2467 + correct casts used in ABSENT_BOOLEAN, CANCELLED_BOOLEAN, matches the
2468 original definitions used in Debian package to fix PowerPC bug before
2469 20030802 (Debian #237629).
2472 + modify PutAttrChar() and PUTC() macro to improve use of
2473 A_ALTCHARSET attribute to prevent line-drawing characters from
2474 being lost in situations where the locale would otherwise treat the
2475 raw data as nonprintable (Debian #227879).
2478 + fix a redefinition of CTRL() macro in test/view.c for AIX 5.2 (report
2480 + remove ".PP" after ".SH NAME" in a few manpages; this confuses
2481 some apropos script (Debian #237831).
2484 + modify ncurses.c 'r' test so editing commands, like inserted text,
2485 set the field background, and the state of insert/overlay editing
2486 mode is shown in that test.
2487 + change syntax of dummy targets in Ada95 makefiles to work with pmake.
2488 + correct logic in test/ncurses.c 'b' for noncolor terminals which
2489 did not recognize a quit-command (cf: 20030419).
2492 + modify _nc_insert_ch() to allow for its input to be part of a
2494 + split out lib_insnstr.c, to prepare to rewrite it. X/Open states
2495 that this function performs wrapping, unlike all of the other
2496 insert-functions. Currently it does not wrap.
2497 + check for nl_langinfo(CODESET), use it if available (report by
2499 + split-out CF_BUILD_CC macro, actually did this for lynx first.
2500 + fixes for configure script CF_WITH_DBMALLOC and CF_WITH_DMALLOC,
2501 which happened to work with bash, but not with Bourne shell (report
2502 by Marco d'Itri via tin-dev).
2505 + some changes to adapt the form library to wide characters, incomplete
2506 (request by Mike Aubury).
2507 + add symbol to curses.h which can be used to suppress include of
2509 #define NCURSES_ENABLE_STDBOOL_H 0
2511 (discussion on XFree86 mailing list).
2514 + modify configure --with-termlib option to accept a value which sets
2515 the name of the terminfo library. This would allow a packager to
2516 build libtinfow.so renamed to coincide with libtinfo.so (discussion
2517 with Stanislav Ievlev).
2518 + improve documentation of --with-install-prefix, --prefix and
2519 $(DESTDIR) in INSTALL (prompted by discussion with Paul Lew).
2520 + add configure check if the compiler can use -c -o options to rename
2521 its output file, use that to omit the 'cd' command which was used to
2522 ensure object files are created in a separate staging directory
2523 (prompted by comments by Johnny Wezel, Martin Mokrejs).
2525 20040208 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2528 20040207 pre-release
2529 + minor fixes to _nc_tparm_analyze(), i.e., do not count %i as a param,
2530 and do not count %d if it follows a %p.
2531 + correct an inconsistency between handling of codes in the 128-255
2532 range, e.g., as illustrated by test/ncurses.c f/F tests. In POSIX
2533 locale, the latter did not show printable results, while the former
2535 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to compensate for broken C preprocessor on Mac
2536 OS X, which alters "%%" to "% % " (report by Robert Simms, fix
2537 verified by Scott Corscadden).
2539 20040131 pre-release
2540 + modify SCREEN struct to align it between normal/wide curses flavors
2541 to simplify future changes to build a single version of libtinfo
2542 (patch by Stanislav Ievlev).
2543 + document handling of carriage return by addch() in manpage.
2544 + document special features of unctrl() in manpage.
2545 + documented interface changes in INSTALL.
2546 + corrected control-char test in lib_addch.c to account for locale
2547 (Debian #230335, cf: 971206).
2548 + updated test/configure.in to use AC_EXEEXT and AC_OBJEXT.
2549 + fixes to compile Ada95 binding with Debian gnat 3.15p-4 package.
2550 + minor configure-script fixes for older ports, e.g., BeOS R4.5.
2552 20040125 pre-release
2553 + amend change to PutAttrChar() from 20030614 which computed the number
2554 of cells for a possibly multi-cell character. The 20030614 change
2555 forced the cell to a blank if the result from wcwidth() was not
2556 greater than zero. However, wcwidth() called for parameters in the
2557 range 128-255 can give this return value. The logic now simply
2558 ensures that the number of cells is greater than zero without
2559 modifying the displayed value.
2561 20040124 pre-release
2562 + looked good for 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org (but see above)
2563 + modify configure script check for ranlib to use AC_CHECK_TOOL, since
2564 that works better for cross-compiling.
2566 20040117 pre-release
2567 + modify lib_get_wch.c to prefer mblen/mbtowc over mbrlen/mbrtowc to
2568 work around core dump in Solaris 8's locale support, e.g., for
2569 zh_CN.GB18030 (report by Saravanan Bellan).
2570 + add includes for <stdarg.h> and <stdio.h> in configure script macro
2571 to make <wchar.h> check work with Tru64 4.0d.
2572 + add terminfo entry for U/Win -TD
2573 + add terminfo entries for SFU aka Interix aka OpenNT (Federico
2575 + modify tput's error messages to prefix them with the program name
2576 (report by Vincent Lefevre, patch by Daniel Jacobowitz (see Debian
2578 + correct a place in tack where exit_standout_mode was used instead of
2579 exit_attribute_mode (patch by Jochen Voss (see Debian #224443)).
2580 + modify c++/cursesf.h to use const in the Enumeration_Field method.
2581 + remove an ambiguous (actually redundant) method from c++/cursesf.h
2582 + make $HOME/.terminfo update optional (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
2583 + improve sed script which extracts libtool's version in the
2584 CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro.
2585 + add ifdef'd call to AC_PROG_LIBTOOL to CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro (to
2586 simplify local patch for Albert Chin-A-Young)..
2587 + add $(CXXFLAGS) to link command in c++/Makefile.in (adapted from
2588 patch by Albert Chin-A-Young)..
2589 + fix a missing substitution in configure.in for "$target" needed for
2591 + resync CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro with lynx; fixes IRIX64 and
2592 NetBSD 1.6 conflicts with _XOPEN_SOURCE.
2593 + make check for stdbool.h more specific, to ensure that including it
2594 will actually define/declare bool for the configured compiler.
2595 + rewrite ifdef's in curses.h relating NCURSES_BOOL and bool. The
2596 intention of that is to #define NCURSES_BOOL as bool when the
2597 compiler declares bool, and to #define bool as NCURSES_BOOL when it
2598 does not (reported by Jim Gifford, Sam Varshavchik, cf: 20031213).
2600 20040110 pre-release
2601 + change minor version to 4, i.e., ncurses 5.4
2602 + revised/improved terminfo entries for tvi912b, tvi920b (Benjamin C W
2604 + simplified ncurses/base/version.c by defining the result from the
2605 configure script rather than using sprintf (suggested by Stanislav
2607 + remove obsolete casts from c++/cursesw.h (reported by Stanislav
2609 + modify configure script so that when configuring for termlib, programs
2610 such as tic are not linked with the upper-level ncurses library
2611 (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
2612 + move version.c from ncurses/base to ncurses/tinfo to allow linking
2613 of tic, etc., using libtinfo (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
2616 + adjust -D's to build ncursesw on OpenBSD.
2617 + modify CF_PROG_EXT to make OS/2 build with EXEEXT.
2618 + add pecho_wchar().
2619 + remove <wctype.h> include from lib_slk_wset.c which is not needed (or
2620 available) on older platforms.
2623 + add -D's to build ncursew on FreeBSD 5.1.
2624 + modify shared library configuration for FreeBSD 4.x/5.x to add the
2625 soname information (request by Marc Glisse).
2626 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() to not use MAX_ALIAS, but PATH_MAX only
2627 for limiting the length of a filename in the terminfo database.
2628 + modify termname() to return the terminal name used by setupterm()
2629 rather than $TERM, without truncating to 14 characters as documented
2630 by X/Open (report by Stanislav Ievlev, cf: 970719).
2631 + re-add definition for _BSD_TYPES, lost in merge (cf: 20031206).
2634 + add configure option --with-manpage-format=catonly to address
2635 behavior of BSDI, allow install of man+cat files on NetBSD, whose
2636 behavior has diverged by requiring both to be present.
2637 + remove leading blanks from comment-lines in manlinks.sed script to
2638 work with Tru64 4.0d.
2639 + add screen.linux terminfo entry (discussion on mutt-users mailing
2643 + add a check for tic to flag missing backslashes for termcap
2644 continuation lines. ncurses reads the whole entry, but termcap
2645 applications do not.
2646 + add configure option "--with-manpage-aliases" extending
2647 "--with-manpage-aliases" to provide the option of generating ".so"
2648 files rather than symbolic links for manpage aliases.
2649 + add bool definition in include/curses.h.in for configurations with no
2650 usable C++ compiler (cf: 20030607).
2651 + fix pathname of SigAction.h for building with --srcdir (reported by
2655 + folded ncurses/base/sigaction.c into includes of ncurses/SigAction.h,
2656 since that header is used only within ncurses/tty/lib_tstp.c, for
2657 non-POSIX systems (discussion with Stanislav Ievlev).
2658 + remove obsolete _nc_outstr() function (report by Stanislav Ievlev
2659 <inger@altlinux.org>).
2660 + add test/background.c and test/color_set.c
2661 + modify color_set() function to work with color pair 0 (report by
2662 George Andreou <gbandreo@tem.uoc.gr>).
2663 + add configure option --with-trace, since defining TRACE seems too
2664 awkward for some cases.
2665 + remove a call to _nc_free_termtype() from read_termtype(), since the
2666 corresponding buffer contents were already zeroed by a memset (cf:
2668 + improve configure check for _XOPEN_SOURCE and related definitions,
2669 adding special cases for Solaris' __EXTENSIONS__ and FreeBSD's
2670 __BSD_TYPES (reports by Marc Glisse <marc.glisse@normalesup.org>).
2671 + small fixes to compile on Solaris and IRIX64 using cc.
2672 + correct typo in check for pre-POSIX sort options in MKkey_defs.sh
2676 + modify _nc_gettime() to avoid a problem with arithmetic on unsigned
2677 values (Philippe Blain).
2678 + improve the nanosleep() logic in napms() by checking for EINTR and
2679 restarting (Philippe Blain).
2680 + correct expression for "%D" in lib_tgoto.c (Juha Jarvi
2684 + add linux-vt terminfo entry (Andrey V Lukyanov <land@long.yar.ru>).
2685 + allow "\|" escape in terminfo; tic should not warn about this.
2686 + save the full pathname of the trace-file the first time it is opened,
2687 to avoid creating it in different directories if the application
2688 opens and closes it while changing its working directory.
2689 + modify configure script to provide a non-empty default for
2693 + add DJGPP to special case of DOS-style drive letters potentially
2694 appearing in TERMCAP environment variable.
2695 + fix some spelling in comments (reports by Jason McIntyre, Jonathon
2697 + update config.guess, config.sub
2700 + fix a memory leak in error-return from setupterm() (report by
2701 Stanislav Ievlev <inger@altlinux.org>).
2702 + use EXEEXT and OBJEXT consistently in makefiles.
2703 + amend fixes for cross-compiling to use separate executable-suffix
2704 BUILD_EXEEXT (cf: 20031018).
2705 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for sort utility that does not
2706 recognize key options, e.g., busybox (report by Peter S Mazinger
2708 + fix potential out-of-bounds indexing in _nc_infotocap() (found by
2709 David Krause using some of the new malloc debugging features
2710 under OpenBSD, patch by Ted Unangst).
2711 + modify CF_LIB_SUFFIX for Itanium releases of HP-UX, which use a
2712 ".so" suffix (patch by Jonathan Ward <Jonathan.Ward@hp.com>).
2715 + update terminfo for xterm-xfree86 -TD
2716 + add check for multiple "tc=" clauses in a termcap to tic.
2717 + check for missing op/oc in tic.
2718 + correct _nc_resolve_uses() and _nc_merge_entry() to allow infocmp and
2719 tic to show cancelled capabilities. These functions were ignoring
2720 the state of the target entry, which should be untouched if cancelled.
2721 + correct comment in tack/output.c (Debian #215806).
2722 + add some null-pointer checks to lib_options.c (report by Michael
2724 + regenerated html documentation.
2725 + correction to tar-copy.sh, remove a trap command that resulted in
2726 leaving temporary files (cf: 20030510).
2727 + remove contact/maintainer addresses for Juergen Pfeifer (his request).
2730 + updated test/configure to reflect changes for libtool (cf: 20030830).
2731 + fix several places in tack/pad.c which tested and used the parameter-
2732 and parameterless strings inconsistently, i.e., in pad_rin(),
2733 pad_il(), pad_indn() and pad_dl() (Debian #215805).
2734 + minor fixes for configure script and makefiles to cleanup executables
2735 generated when cross-compiling for DJGPP.
2736 + modify infocmp to omit check for $TERM for operations that do not
2737 require it, e.g., "infocmp -e" used to build fallback list (report by
2741 + add terminfo entries for DJGPP.
2742 + updated note about maintainer in ncurses-intro.html
2745 + update terminfo entries for gnome terminal.
2746 + modify tack to reset colors after each color test, correct a place
2747 where exit_standout_mode was used instead of exit_attribute_mode.
2748 + improve tack's bce test by making it set colors other than black
2750 + plug a potential recursion between napms() and _nc_timed_wait()
2751 (report by Philippe Blain).
2754 + add --with-rel-version option to allow workaround to allow making
2755 libtool on Darwin generate the "same" library names as with the
2756 --with-shared option. The Darwin ld program does not work well
2757 with a zero as the minor-version value (request by Chris Zubrzycki).
2758 + modify CF_MIXEDCASE_FILENAMES macro to work with cross-compiling.
2759 + modify tack to allow it to run from fallback terminfo data.
2760 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2761 + improve PutRange() by adjusting call to EmitRange() and corresponding
2762 return-value to not emit unchanged characters on the end of the
2764 + improve a check for changed-attribute by exiting a loop when the
2766 + improve logic in TransformLine(), eliminating a duplicated comparison
2767 in the clr_bol logic.
2770 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2771 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
2772 move the label 'nonlocal' just before the second gettimeofday() to
2773 be able to compute the diff time when 'goto nonlocal' used.
2774 Rename 'msec' to 'microsec' in the debug-message.
2775 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
2776 Use _nc_outch() in carriage return/newline movement instead of
2777 putchar() which goes to stdout. Move test for xold>0 out of loop.
2778 + in ncurses/tinfo/setbuf.c,
2779 Set the flag SP->_buffered at the end of operations when all has been
2780 successful (typeMalloc can fail).
2781 + simplify NC_BUFFERED macro by moving check inside _nc_setbuf().
2784 + modify configure script to avoid using "head -1", which does not
2785 work if POSIXLY_CORRECT (sic) is set.
2786 + modify run_tic.in to avoid using wrong shared libraries when
2787 cross-compiling (Dan Kegel).
2790 + alter configure script help message to make it clearer that
2791 --with-build-cc does not specify a cross-compiler (suggested by Dan
2792 Kegel <dank@kegel.com>).
2793 + modify configure script to accommodate libtool 1.5, as well as add an
2794 parameter to the "--with-libtool" option which can specify the
2795 pathname of libtool (report by Chris Zubrzycki). We note that
2796 libtool 1.5 has more than one bug in its C++ support, so it is not
2797 able to install libncurses++, for instance, if $DESTDIR or the option
2798 --with-install-prefix is used.
2801 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2802 + move assignments to SP->_cursrow, SP->_curscol into online_mvcur().
2803 + make baudrate computation in delay_output() consistent with the
2804 assumption in _nc_mvcur_init(), i.e., a byte is 9 bits.
2807 + modify logic in waddch_literal() to take into account zh_TW.Big5
2808 whose multibyte sequences may contain "printable" characters, e.g.,
2809 a "g" in the sequence "\247g" (Debian #204889, cf: 20030621).
2810 + improve storage used by _nc_safe_strcpy() by ensuring that the size
2811 is reset based on the initialization call, in case it were called
2812 after other strcpy/strcat calls (report by Philippe Blain).
2813 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2814 + remove an unused ifdef for REAL_ATTR & WANT_CHAR
2815 + correct a place where _cup_cost was used rather than _cuu_cost
2818 + fix a small memory leak in _nc_free_termtype().
2819 + close trace-file if trace() is called with a zero parameter.
2820 + free memory allocated for soft-key strings, in delscreen().
2821 + fix an allocation size in safe_sprintf.c for the "*" format code.
2822 + correct safe_sprintf.c to not return a null pointer if the format
2823 happens to be an empty string. This applies to the "configure
2824 --enable-safe-sprintf" option (Redhat #101486).
2827 + modify casts used for ABSENT_BOOLEAN and CANCELLED_BOOLEAN (report by
2829 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2830 + change padding for change_scroll_region to not be proportional to
2831 the size of the scroll-region.
2832 + correct error-return in _nc_safe_strcat().
2835 + correct limit-checks in _nc_scroll_window() (report and test-case by
2836 Thomas Graf <graf@dms.at> cf: 20011020).
2837 + re-order configure checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE to avoid conflict with
2841 + use clr_eol in preference to blanks for bce terminals, so select and
2842 paste will have fewer trailing blanks, e.g., when using xterm
2843 (request by Vincent Lefevre).
2844 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
2845 + add configure --with-abi-version option (discussion with Charles
2847 > cygwin changes from Charles Wilson:
2848 + aclocal.m4: on cygwin, use autodetected prefix for import
2849 and static lib, but use "cyg" for DLL.
2850 + include/ncurses_dll.h: correct the comments to reflect current
2851 status of cygwin/mingw port. Fix compiler warning.
2852 + misc/run_tic.in: ensure that tic.exe can find the uninstalled
2853 DLL, by adding the lib-directory to the PATH variable.
2854 + misc/terminfo.src (nxterm|xterm-color): make xterm-color
2855 primary instead of nxterm, to match XFree86's xterm.terminfo
2856 usage and to prevent circular links.
2857 (rxvt): add additional codes from rxvt.org.
2858 (rxvt-color): new alias
2859 (rxvt-xpm): new alias
2860 (rxvt-cygwin): like rxvt, but with special acsc codes.
2861 (rxvt-cygwin-native): ditto. rxvt may be run under XWindows, or
2862 with a "native" MSWin GUI. Each takes different acsc codes,
2863 which are both different from the "normal" rxvt's acsc.
2864 (cygwin): cygwin-in-cmd.exe window. Lots of fixes.
2866 + mk-1st.awk: use "cyg" for the DLL prefix, but "lib" for import
2870 + update config.guess, config.sub
2871 + add triples for configuring shared libraries with the Debian
2872 GNU/FreeBSD packages (patch by Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es>).
2875 + modify CF_GCC_WARNINGS so it only applies to gcc, not g++. Some
2876 platforms have installed g++ along with the native C compiler, which
2877 would not accept gcc warning options.
2878 + add -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 when configuring with --enable-widec, to
2879 get mbstate_t declaration on HPUX 11.11 (report by David Ellement).
2880 + add _nc_pathlast() to get rid of casts in _nc_basename() calls.
2881 + correct a sign-extension in wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() from
2882 20030628 (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
2883 + work around omission of btowc() and wctob() from wide-character
2884 support (sic) in NetBSD 1.6 using mbtowc() and wctomb() (report by
2886 + add portability note to curs_get_wstr.3x (Debian #199957).
2889 + rewrite wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to call waddch() and wechochar()
2890 respectively, to avoid calling waddch_noecho() with wide-character
2891 data, since that function assumes its input is 8-bit data.
2892 Similarly, modify waddnwstr() to call wadd_wch().
2893 + remove logic from waddnstr() which transformed multibyte character
2894 strings into wide-characters. Rewrite of waddch_literal() from
2895 20030621 assumes its input is raw multibyte data rather than wide
2896 characters (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
2899 + write getyx() and related 2-return macros in terms of getcury(),
2901 + modify waddch_literal() in case an application passes bytes of a
2902 multibyte character directly to waddch(). In this case, waddch()
2903 must reassemble the bytes into a wide-character (report by Tomohiro
2904 Kubota <kubota@debian.org>).
2907 + modify waddch_literal() in case a multibyte value occupies more than
2909 + modify PutAttrChar() to compute the number of character cells that
2910 are used in multibyte values. This fixes a problem displaying
2911 double-width characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen
2912 <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
2913 + add a null-pointer check for result of keyname() in _tracechar()
2914 + modify _tracechar() to work around glibc sprintf bug.
2917 + add a call to setlocale() in cursesmain.cc, making demo display
2918 properly in a UTF-8 locale.
2919 + add a fallback definition in curses.priv.h for MB_LEN_MAX (prompted
2920 by discussion with Gabor Z Papp).
2921 + use macros NCURSES_ACS() and NCURSES_WACS() to hide cast needed to
2922 appease -Wchar-subscript with g++ 3.3 (Debian #195732).
2923 + fix a redefinition of $RANLIB in the configure script when libtool
2924 is used, which broke configure on Mac OS X (report by Chris Zubrzycki
2926 + simplify ifdef for bool declaration in curses.h.in (suggested by
2927 Albert Chin-A-Young).
2928 + remove configure script check to allow -Wconversion for older
2929 versions of gcc (suggested by Albert Chin-A-Young).
2932 + regenerated html manpages.
2933 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in that disabled use of __attribute__()
2934 for g++, since recent versions implement the cases which ncurses uses
2936 + modify _nc_get_token() to handle a case where an entry has no
2937 description, and capabilities begin on the same line as the entry
2939 + fix a typo in ncurses_dll.h reported by gcc 3.3.
2940 + add an entry for key_defined.3x to man_db.renames.
2943 + modify setcchar() to allow converting control characters to complex
2944 characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
2945 + add tkterm entry -TD
2946 + modify parse_entry.c to allow a terminfo entry with a leading
2947 2-character name (report by Don Libes).
2948 + corrected acsc in screen.teraterm, which requires a PC-style mapping.
2949 + fix trace statements in read_entry.c to use lseek() rather than
2951 + fix signed/unsigned warnings from Sun's compiler (gcc should give
2952 these warnings, but it is unpredictable).
2953 + modify configure script to omit -Winline for gcc 3.3, since that
2955 + modify manlinks.sed to add a few functions that were overlooked since
2956 they return function pointers: field_init, field_term, form_init,
2957 form_term, item_init, item_term, menu_init and menu_term.
2960 + prevent recursion in wgetch() via wgetnstr() if the connection cannot
2961 be switched between cooked/raw modes because it is not a TTY (report
2962 by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.com>).
2963 + change parameter of define_key() and key_defined() to const (prompted
2965 + add a check in test/configure for ncurses extensions, since there
2966 are some older versions, etc., which would not compile with the
2967 current test programs.
2968 + corrected demo in test/ncurses.c of wgetn_wstr(), which did not
2969 convert wchar_t string to multibyte form before printing it.
2970 + corrections to lib_get_wstr.c:
2971 + null-terminate buffer passed to setcchar(), which occasionally
2973 + map special characters such as erase- and kill-characters into
2974 key-codes so those will work as expected even if they are not
2975 mentioned in the terminfo.
2976 + modify PUTC() and Charable() macros to make wide-character line
2977 drawing work for POSIX locale on Linux console (cf: 20021221).
2980 + make typography for program options in manpages consistent (report
2981 by Miloslav Trmac <mitr@volny.cz>).
2982 + correct dependencies in Ada95/src/Makefile.in, so the builds with
2983 "--srcdir" work (report by Warren L Dodge).
2984 + correct missing definition of $(CC) in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in
2985 (reported by Warren L Dodge <warrend@mdhost.cse.tek.com>).
2986 + fix typos and whitespace in manpages (patch by Jason McIntyre
2987 <jmc@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl>).
2990 + fix form_driver() cases for REQ_CLR_EOF, REQ_CLR_EOL, REQ_DEL_CHAR,
2991 REQ_DEL_PREV and REQ_NEW_LINE, which did not ensure the cursor was at
2992 the editing position before making modifications.
2993 + add test/demo_forms and associated test/edit_field.c demos.
2994 + modify test/configure.in to use test/modules for the list of objects
2995 to compile rather than using the list of programs.
2998 + modify logic of acsc to use the original character if no mapping is
2999 defined, noting that Solaris does this.
3000 + modify ncurses 'b' test to avoid using the acs_map[] array since
3001 20021231 changes it to no longer contain information from the acsc
3003 + modify makefile rules in c++, progs, tack and test to ensure that
3004 the compiler flags (e.g., $CFLAGS or $CCFLAGS) are used in the link
3005 command (report by Jose Luis Rico Botella <informatica@serpis.com>).
3006 + modify soft-key initialization to use A_REVERSE if A_STANDOUT would
3007 not be shown when colors are used, i.e., if ncv#1 is set in the
3008 terminfo as is done in "screen".
3011 + add a test for slk_color(), in ncurses.c
3012 + fix some issues reported by valgrind in the slk_set() and slk_wset()
3013 code, from recent rewrite.
3014 + modify ncurses 'E' test to use show previous label via slk_label(),
3016 + modify wide-character versions of NewChar(), NewChar2() macros to
3017 ensure that the whole struct is initialized.
3020 + modify setupterm() to check if the terminfo and terminal-modes have
3021 already been read. This ensures that it does not reinvoke
3022 def_prog_mode() when an application calls more than one function,
3023 such as tgetent() and initscr() (report by Olaf Buddenhagen).
3026 + add 'E' test to ncurses.c, to exercise slk_wset().
3027 + correct handling of carriage-return in wgetn_wstr(), used in demo of
3029 + first draft of slk_wset() function.
3032 + improved warnings in tic when suppressing items to fit in termcap's
3034 + built a list in test/README showing which externals are being used
3035 by either programs in the test-directory or via internal library
3037 + adjust include-options in CF_ETIP_DEFINES to avoid missing
3038 ncurses_dll.h, fixing special definitions that may be needed for
3039 etip.h (reported by Greg Schafer <gschafer@zip.com.au>).
3042 + minor fixes for cardfile.c, to make it write the updated fields to
3043 a file when ^W is given.
3044 + add/use _nc_trace_bufcat() to eliminate some fixed buffer limits in
3048 + correct a case in _nc_remove_string(), used by define_key(), to avoid
3049 infinite loop if the given string happens to be a substring of other
3050 strings which are assigned to keys (report by John McCutchan).
3051 + add key_defined() function, to tell which keycode a string is bound
3052 to (discussion with John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>).
3053 + correct keybound(), which reported definitions in the wrong table,
3054 i.e., the list of definitions which are disabled by keyok().
3055 + modify demo_keydef.c to show the details it changes, and to check
3059 + restructured test/configure script, make it work for libncursesw.
3060 + add description of link_fieldtype() to manpage (report by
3061 L Dee Holtsclaw <dee@sunbeltsoft.com>).
3064 + corrected ifdef's relating to configure check for wchar_t, etc.
3065 + if the output is a socket or other non-tty device, use 1 millisecond
3066 for the cost in mvcur; previously it was 9 milliseconds because the
3067 baudrate was not known.
3068 + in _nc_get_tty_mode(), initialize the TTY buffer on error, since
3069 glibc copies uninitialized data in that case, as noted by valgrind.
3070 + modify tput to use the same parameter analysis as tparm() does, to
3071 provide for user-defined strings, e.g., for xterm title, a
3072 corresponding capability might be
3074 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to avoid passing "#" tokens through the C
3075 preprocessor. This works around Mac OS X's preprocessor, which
3076 insists on adding a blank on each side of the token (report/analysis
3077 by Kevin Murphy <murphy@genome.chop.edu>).
3080 + add configure check for wchar_t and wint_t types, rather than rely
3081 on preprocessor definitions. Also work around for gcc fixinclude
3082 bug which creates a shadow copy of curses.h if it sees these symbols
3083 apparently typedef'd.
3084 + if database is disabled, do not generate run_tic.sh
3085 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking when termcap is read.
3088 + add checking in tic for incomplete line-drawing character mapping.
3089 + update configure script to reflect fix for AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL,
3090 which is broken in autoconf 2.5x for Mac OS X 10.2.3 (report by
3091 Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl>).
3092 + make return value from _nc_printf_string() consistent. Before,
3093 depending on whether --enable-safe-sprintf was used, it might not be
3094 cached for reallocating.
3097 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking in lib_tparm.c, hardscroll.c
3098 + correct a potentially-uninitialized value if _read_termtype() does
3099 not read as much data as expected (report by Wolfgang Rohdewald
3101 + correct several places where the aclocal.m4 macros relied on cache
3102 variable names which were incompatible (as usual) between autoconf
3103 2.13 and 2.5x, causing the test for broken-linker to give incorrect
3104 results (reports by Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl> and Thomas Esser
3105 <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de>).
3106 + do not try to open gpm mouse driver if standard output is not a tty;
3107 the gpm library does not make this check (bug report for dialog
3108 by David Oliveira <davidoliveira@develop.prozone.ws>).
3111 + modified emx.src to correspond more closely to terminfo.src, added
3112 emx-base to the latter -TD
3113 + add configure option for FreeBSD sysmouse, --with-sysmouse, and
3114 implement support for that in lib_mouse.c, lib_getch.c
3117 + revert 20030105 change to can_clear_with(), does not work for the
3118 case where the update is made on cells which are blanks with
3119 attributes, e.g., reverse.
3120 + improve ifdef's to guard against redefinition of wchar_t and wint_t
3121 in curses.h (report by Urs Jansen).
3124 + improve mvcur() by checking if it is safe to move when video
3125 attributes are set (msgr), and if not, reset/restore attributes
3126 within that function rather than doing it separately in the GoTo()
3127 function in tty_update.c (suggested by Philippe Blain).
3128 + add a message in run_tic.in to explain more clearly what does not
3129 work when attempting to create a symbolic link for /usr/lib/terminfo
3130 on OS/2 and other platforms with no symbolic links (report by John
3132 + change several sed scripts to avoid using "\+" since it is not a BRE
3133 (basic regular expression). One instance caused terminfo.5 to be
3134 misformatted on FreeBSD (report by Kazuo Horikawa
3135 <horikawa@FreeBSD.org> (see FreeBSD docs/46709)).
3136 + correct misspelled 'wint_t' in curs_get_wch.3x (Michael Elkins).
3139 + improve description of terminfo operators, especially static/dynamic
3140 variables (comments by Mark I Manning IV <mark4th@earthlink.net>).
3141 + demonstrate use of FIELDTYPE by modifying test/ncurses 'r' test to
3142 use the predefined TYPE_ALPHA field-type, and by defining a
3143 specialized type for the middle initial/name.
3144 + fix MKterminfo.sh, another workaround for POSIXLY_CORRECT misfeature
3146 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3147 + optimize can_clear_with() a little by testing first if the parameter
3148 is indeed a "blank".
3149 + simplify ClrBottom() a little by allowing it to use clr_eos to clear
3150 sections as small as one line.
3151 + improve ClrToEOL() by checking if clr_eos is available before trying
3153 + use tputs() rather than putp() in a few cases in tty_update.c since
3154 the corresponding delays are proportional to the number of lines
3155 affected: repeat_char, clr_eos, change_scroll_region.
3158 + rewrite of lib_acs.c conflicts with copying of SCREEN acs_map to/from
3159 global acs_map[] array; removed the lines that did the copying.
3162 + change some overlooked tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp()
3163 (report by Philippe Blain).
3164 + modify lib_getch.c to avoid recursion via wgetnstr() when the input
3165 is not a tty and consequently mode-changes do not work (report by
3166 <R.Chamberlin@querix.com>).
3167 + rewrote lib_acs.c to allow PutAttrChar() to decide how to render
3168 alternate-characters, i.e., to work with Linux console and UTF-8
3170 + correct line/column reference in adjust_window(), needed to make
3171 special windows such as curscr track properly when resizing (report
3172 by Lucas Gonze <lgonze@panix.com>).
3173 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3174 + correct the value used for blank in ClrBottom() (broken in 20000708).
3175 + correct an off-by-one in GoTo() parameter in _nc_scrolln().
3178 + change several tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp(), to
3179 enable padding which may be needed for some terminals (patch by
3181 + use '%' as sed substitute delimiter in run_tic script to avoid
3182 problems with pathname delimiters such as ':' and '@' (report by John
3184 + implement a workaround so that line-drawing works with screen's
3185 crippled UTF-8 support (tested with 3.9.13). This only works with
3186 the wide-character support (--enable-widec); the normal library will
3187 simply suppress line-drawing when running in a UTF-8 locale in screen.
3190 + allow BUILD_CC and related configure script variables to be
3191 overridden from the environment.
3192 + make build-tools variables in ncurses/Makefile.in consistent with
3193 the configure script variables (report by Maciej W Rozycki).
3194 + modify ncurses/modules to allow
3195 configure --disable-leaks --disable-ext-funcs
3196 to build (report by Gary Samuelson).
3197 + fix a few places in configure.in which lacked quotes (report by
3198 Gary Samuelson <gary.samuelson@verizon.com>).
3199 + correct handling of multibyte characters in waddch_literal() which
3200 force wrapping because they are started too late on the line (report
3201 by Sam Varshavchik).
3202 + small fix for CF_GNAT_VERSION to ignore the help-message which
3203 gnatmake adds to its version-message.
3204 > Maciej W Rozycki <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>:
3205 + use AC_CHECK_TOOL to get proper values for AR and LD for cross
3207 + use $cross_compiling variable in configure script rather than
3208 comparing $host_alias and $target alias, since "host" is
3209 traditionally misused in autoconf to refer to the target platform.
3210 + change configure --help message to use "build" rather than "host"
3211 when referring to the --with-build-XXX options.
3214 + modify CF_GNAT_VERSION to print gnatmake's version, and to allow for
3215 possible gnat versions such as 3.2 (report by Chris Lingard
3216 <chris@stockwith.co.uk>).
3217 + modify #define's for CKILL and other default control characters in
3218 tset to use the system's default values if they are defined.
3219 + correct interchanged defaults for kill and interrupt characters
3220 in tset, which caused it to report unnecessarily (Debian #171583).
3221 + repair check for missing C++ compiler, which is broken in autoconf
3222 2.5x by hardcoding it to g++ (report by Martin Mokrejs).
3223 + update config.guess, config.sub (2002-11-30)
3224 + modify configure script to skip --with-shared, etc., when the
3225 --with-libtool option is given, since they would be ignored anyway.
3226 + fix to allow "configure --with-libtool --with-termlib" to build.
3227 + modify configure script to show version number of libtool, to help
3228 with bug reports. libtool still gets confused if the installed
3229 ncurses libraries are old, since it ignores the -L options at some
3230 point (tested with libtool 1.3.3 and 1.4.3).
3231 + reorder configure script's updating of $CPPFLAGS and $CFLAGS to
3232 prevent -I options in the user's environment from introducing
3233 conflicts with the build -I options (may be related to reports by
3234 Patrick Ash and George Goffe).
3235 + rename test/define_key.c to test/demo_defkey.c, test/keyok.c to
3236 test/demo_keyok.c to allow building these with libtool.
3239 + add example program test/define_key.c for define_key().
3240 + add example program test/keyok.c for keyok().
3241 + add example program test/ins_wide.c for wins_wch() and wins_wstr().
3242 + modify wins_wch() and wins_wstr() to interpret tabs by using the
3243 winsch() internal function.
3244 + modify setcchar() to allow for wchar_t input strings that have
3245 more than one spacing character.
3248 + fix a boundary check in lib_insch.c (patch by Philippe Blain).
3249 + change type for *printw functions from NCURSES_CONST to const
3250 (prompted by comment by Pedro Palhoto Matos <plpm@mega.ist.utl.pt>,
3251 but really from a note on X/Open's website stating that either is
3252 acceptable, and the latter will be used in a future revision).
3253 + add xterm-1002, xterm-1003 terminfo entries to demonstrate changes in
3254 lib_mouse.c (20021026) -TD
3255 + add screen-bce, screen-s entries from screen 3.9.13 (report by
3256 Adam Lazur <zal@debian.org>) -TD
3257 + add mterm terminfo entries -TD
3260 + split-out useful fragments in terminfo for vt100 and vt220 numeric
3261 keypad, i.e., vt100+keypad, vt100+pfkeys, vt100+fnkeys and
3262 vt220+keypad. The last as embedded in various entries had ka3 and
3263 kb2 interchanged (report/discussion with Leonard den Ottolander
3264 <leonardjo@hetnet.nl>).
3265 + add check in tic for keypads consistent with vt100 layout.
3266 + improve checks in tic for color capabilities
3269 + check for missing/empty/illegal terminfo name in _nc_read_entry()
3270 (report by Martin Mokrejs, where $TERM was set to an empty string).
3271 + rewrote lib_insch.c, combining it with lib_insstr.c so both handle
3272 tab and other control characters consistently (report by Philippe
3274 + remove an #undef for KEY_EVENT from curses.tail used in the
3275 experimental NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS feature. The #undef confuses
3276 dpkg's build script (Debian #165897).
3277 + fix MKlib_gen.sh, working around the ironically named POSIXLY_CORRECT
3278 feature of GNU sed 4.0 (reported by Ervin Nemeth <airwin@inf.bme.hu>).
3281 + implement logic in lib_mouse.c to handle position reports which are
3282 generated when XFree86 xterm is initialized with private modes 1002
3283 or 1003. These are returned to the application as the
3284 REPORT_MOUSE_POSITION mask, which was not implemented. Tested both
3285 with ncurses 'a' menu (prompted by discussion with Larry Riedel
3286 <Larry@Riedel.org>).
3287 + modify lib_mouse.c to look for "XM" terminfo string, which allows
3288 one to override the escape sequence used to enable/disable mouse
3289 mode. In particular this works for XFree86 xterm private modes
3290 1002 and 1003. If "XM" is missing (note that this is an extended
3291 name), lib_mouse uses the conventional private mode 1000.
3292 + correct NOT_LOCAL() macro in lib_mvcur.c to refer to screen_columns
3293 where it used screen_lines (report by Philippe Blain).
3294 + correct makefile rules for the case when both --with-libtool and
3295 --with-gpm are given (report by Mr E_T <troll@logi.net.au>).
3296 + add note to terminfo manpage regarding the differences between
3297 setaf/setab and setf/setb capabilities (report by Pavel Roskin).
3300 + remove redundant initialization of TABSIZE in newterm(), since it is
3301 already done in setupterm() (report by Philippe Blain).
3302 + add test/inserts.c, to test winnstr() and winsch().
3303 + replace 'sort' in dist.mk with script that sets locale to POSIX.
3304 + update URLs in announce.html.in (patch by Frederic L W Meunier).
3305 + remove glibc add-on files, which are no longer needed (report by
3306 Frederic L W Meunier).
3308 20021012 5.3 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3309 + modify ifdef's in etip.h.in to allow the etip.h header to compile
3310 with gcc 3.2 (patch by Dimitar Zhekov <jimmy@is-vn.bg>).
3311 + add logic to setupterm() to make it like initscr() and newterm(),
3312 by checking for $NCURSES_TRACE environment variable and enabling
3313 the debug trace in that case.
3314 + modify setupterm() to ensure that it initializes the baudrate, for
3315 applications such as tput (report by Frank Henigman).
3316 + modify definition of bits used for command-line and library debug
3317 traces to avoid overlap, using new definition TRACE_SHIFT to relate
3319 + document tput's interpretation of parameterized strings according to
3320 whether parameters are given, etc. (discussion with Robert De Bath).
3322 20021005 pre-release
3323 + correct winnwstr() to account for non-character cells generated when
3324 a double-width character is added (report by Michael Bienia
3325 <michael@vorlon.ping.de>).
3326 + modify _nc_viswbuf2n() to provide better results using wctomb().
3327 + correct logic in _nc_varargs() which broke tracing of parameters for
3328 formats such as "%.*s".
3329 + correct scale factor in linux-c and linux-c-nc terminfo entries
3330 (report Floyd Davidson).
3331 + change tic -A option to -t, add the same option to infocmp for
3333 + correct "%c" implementation in lib_tparm.c, which did not map a null
3334 character to a 128 (cf: 980620) (patch by Frank Henigman
3335 <fjhenigman@mud.cgl.uwaterloo.ca>).
3337 20020928 pre-release
3338 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for POSIX sort -k option, use that if
3339 it is found, to accommodate newer utility which dropped the
3340 compatibility support for +number options (reported by Andrey A
3342 + modify linux terminfo entry to use color palette feature from
3343 linux-c-nc entry (comments by Tomasz Wasiak and Floyd Davidson).
3344 + restore original color definitions in endwin() if init_color() was
3345 used, and resume those colors on the next doupdate() or refresh()
3346 (report by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@komputom.com.pl>).
3347 + improve debug-traces by modifying MKlib_gen.sh to generate calls
3348 to returnBool() and returnAttr().
3349 + add/use _nc_visbufn() and _nc_viswbufn() to limit the debug trace
3350 of waddnstr() and similar functions to match the parameters as used.
3351 + add/use _nc_retrace_bool() and _nc_retrace_unsigned().
3352 + correct type used by _nc_retrace_chtype().
3353 + add debug traces to some functions in lib_mouse.c
3354 + modify lib_addch.c to handle non-spacing characters.
3355 + correct parameter of RemAttr() in lib_bkgd.c, which caused the c++
3356 demo's boxes to lose the A_ALTCHARSET flag (broken in 20020629).
3357 + correct width computed in _tracedump(), which did not account for
3358 the attributes (broken in 20010602).
3359 + modify test/tracemunch to replace addresses for windows other than
3360 curscr, newscr and stdscr with window0, window1, etc.
3362 20020921 pre-release
3363 + redid fix for edit_man.sed path.
3364 + workaround for Cygwin bug which makes subprocess writes to stdout
3365 result in core dump.
3366 + documented getbegx(), etc.
3367 + minor fixes to configure script to use '%' consistently as a sed
3368 delimiter rather than '@'.
3369 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3370 + add check in lib_overlay.c to ensure that the windows to be merged
3371 actually overlap, and in copywin(), limit the area to be touched
3372 to the lines given for the destination window.
3374 20020914 pre-release
3375 + modified curses.h so that if the wide-character version is installed
3376 overwriting /usr/include/curses.h, and if it relied on libutf8.h,
3377 then applications that use that header for wide-character support
3378 must define HAVE_LIBUTF8_H.
3379 + modify putwin(), getwin() and dupwin() to allow them to operate on
3380 pads (request by Philippe Blain).
3381 + correct attribute-merging in wborder(), broken in 20020216 (report
3382 by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@grubasek.komputom.com.pl>).
3383 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3384 + corrected pop-counts in tparam_internal() to '!' and '~' cases.
3385 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in one place that used sizeof(chtype).
3386 + remove some unused variables from mvcur test-driver.
3388 20020907 pre-release
3389 + change configure script to allow install of widec-character
3390 (ncursesw) headers to overwrite normal (ncurses) headers, since the
3391 latter is a compatible subset of the former.
3392 + fix path of edit_man.sed in configure script, needed to regenerate
3393 html manpages on Debian.
3394 + fix mismatched enums in vsscanf.c, which caused warning on Solaris.
3395 + update README.emx to reflect current patch used for autoconf.
3396 + change web- and ftp-site to invisible-island.net
3397 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3398 + change case for 'P' in tparam_internal() to indicate that it pops
3399 a variable from the stack.
3400 + correct sense of precision and width in parse_format(), to avoid
3402 + modify lib_tparm.c, absorb really_get_space() into get_space().
3403 + modify getwin() and dupwin() to copy the _notimeout, _idlok and
3404 _idcok window fields.
3405 + better fix for _nc_set_type(), using typeMalloc().
3407 20020901 pre-release
3408 + change minor version to 3, i.e., ncurses 5.3
3409 + update config.guess, config.sub
3410 + retest build with each configure option; minor ifdef fixes.
3411 + make keyname() return a null pointer rather than "UNKNOWN STRING" to
3413 + modify handling of wide line-drawing character functions to use the
3414 normal line-drawing characters when not in UTF-8 locale.
3415 + add check/fix to comp_parse.c to suppress warning about missing acsc
3416 string. This happens in configurations where raw termcap information
3417 is processed; tic already does this and other checks.
3418 + modify tic's check for ich/ich1 versus rmir/smir to only warn about
3419 ich1, to match xterm patch #70 notes.
3420 + moved information for ripped-off lines into SCREEN struct to allow
3421 use in resizeterm().
3422 + add experimental wgetch_events(), ifdef'd with NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS
3423 (adapted from patch by Ilya Zakharevich - see ncurses/README.IZ).
3424 + amend check in kgetch() from 20020824 to look only for function-keys,
3425 otherwise escape sequences are not resolved properly.
3426 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3427 + removed redundant assignment to SP->_checkfd from newterm().
3428 + check return-value of setupterm() in restartterm().
3429 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in a few places that used sizeof(chtype).
3430 + prevent dupwin() from duplicating a pad.
3431 + prevent putwin() from writing a pad.
3432 + use typeRealloc() or typeMalloc() in preference to direct calls on
3436 + add a check in kgetch() for cooked characters in the fifo to avoid
3437 calling fifo_push() when a KEY_RESIZE is available (report/analysis
3438 by Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>).
3439 + fix an overlooked case for bugzilla #68199 (Philippe Blain).
3440 + ensure clearerr() is called before using ferror() e.g., in
3441 lib_screen.c (report by Philippe Blain).
3444 + modify lib_screen.c and lib_newwin.c to maintain the SCREEN-specific
3445 pointers for curscr/stdscr/newscr when scr_save() and scr_restore()
3446 modify the global curscr/stdscr/newscr variables. Fixes Redhat
3447 bugzilla #68199 dated 2002-07-07.
3448 + add checks for null pointer in calls to tparm() and tgoto() based on
3449 FreeBSD bug report. If ncurses were built with termcap support, and
3450 the first call to tgoto() were a zero-length string, the result would
3451 be a null pointer, which was not handled properly.
3452 + correct a typo in terminfo.head, which gave the octal code for colon
3454 + remove the "tic -u" option from 20020810, since it did not account
3455 for nested "tc=" clauses, and when that was addressed, was still
3459 + add tic -A option to suppress capabilities which are commented out
3460 when translating to termcap.
3461 + add tic -u option to provide older behavior of "tc=" clauses.
3462 + modified tic to expand all but the final "tc=" clause in a termcap
3463 entry, to accommodate termcap libraries which do not handle multiple
3465 + correct typo in curs_inopts.3x regarding CS8/CS7 usage (report by
3467 + remove a couple of redundant uses of A_ATTRIBUTES in expressions
3468 using AttrOf(), which already incorporates that mask (report by
3470 + document TABSIZE variable.
3471 + add NCURSES_ASSUMED_COLORS environment variable, to allow users to
3472 override compiled-in default black-on-white assumption used in
3473 assume_default_colors().
3474 + correct an off-by-one comparison against max_colors in COLORFGBG
3476 + correct a use of uninitialized memory found by valgrind (reported by
3477 Olaf Buddenhagen <olafBuddenhagen@web.de>).
3478 + modified wresize() to ensure that a failed realloc will not corrupt
3479 the window structure, and to make subwindows fit within the resized
3480 window (completes Debian #87678, #101699)
3483 + fix an off-by-one in lib_pad.c check for limits of pad (patch by
3485 + revise logic for BeOS in lib_twait.c altered in 20011013 to restore
3486 logic used by lib_getch.c's support for GPM or EMX mouse (report by
3488 + remove NCURSES_CONST from several prototypes in curses.wide, to make
3489 the --enable-const --enable-widec configure options to work together
3490 (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@yahoo.com>).
3493 + finish no-leak checking in cardfile.c, using this for testing changes
3495 + simplify _nc_freeall() using delscreen().
3498 + check error-return from _nc_set_tty_mode() in _nc_initscr() and
3499 reset_prog_mode() (report/patch by Philippe Blain).
3500 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52, to address
3501 problem with identifying C++ bool type.
3502 + correct/improve logic to produce an exit status for errors in tput,
3503 which did not exit with an error when told to put a string not in the
3504 current terminfo entry (report by David Gomez <david@pleyades.net>).
3505 + modify configure script AC_OUTPUT() call to work around defect in
3506 autoconf 2.52 which adds an ifdef'd include to the generated
3507 configure definitions.
3508 + remove fstat() check from scr_init(), which also fixes a missing
3509 include for <sys/stat.h> from 20020713 (reported by David Ellement,
3510 fix suggested by Philippe Blain).
3511 + update curs_scanw.3x manpage to note that XSI curses differs from
3512 SVr4 curses: return-values are incompatible.
3513 + correct several prototypes in manpages which used const
3514 inconsistently with the curses.h file, and removed spurious const's
3515 in a few places from curses.h, e.g., for wbkgd() (report by Glenn
3516 Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>).
3517 + change internal type used by tparm() to long, to work with LP64 model.
3518 + modify nc_alloc.h to allow building with g++, for testing.
3521 + add resize-handling to cardfile.c test program.
3522 + altered resizeterm() to avoid having it fail when a child window
3523 cannot be resized because it would be larger than its parent. (More
3524 work must be done on this, but it works well enough to integrate).
3525 + improve a limit-check in lib_refresh.c
3526 + remove check in lib_screen.c relating dumptime to file's modification
3527 times, since that would not necessarily work for remotely mounted
3529 + modify lrtest to simplify debugging changes to resizeterm, e.g.,
3530 t/T commands to enable/disable tracing.
3531 + updated status of multibyte support in TO-DO.
3532 + update contact info in source-files (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3535 + add Caps.hpux11, as an example.
3536 + modify version_filter(), used to implement -R option for tic and
3537 infocmp, to use computed array offsets based on the Caps.* file which
3538 is actually configured, rather than constants which correspond to
3540 + reorganized lib_raw.c to avoid updating SP and cur_term state if the
3541 functions fail (reported by Philippe Blain).
3542 + add -Wundef to gcc warnings, adjust a few ifdef's to accommodate gcc.
3545 + correct parameters to setcchar() in ncurses.c (cf: 20020406).
3546 + set locale in most test programs (view.c and ncurses.c were the
3548 + add configure option --with-build-cppflags (report by Maksim A
3549 Nikulin <M.A.Nikulin@inp.nsk.su>).
3550 + correct a typo in wide-character logic for lib_bkgnd.c (Philippe
3552 + modify lib_wacs.c to not cancel the acsc, smacs, rmacs strings when
3553 in UTF-8 locale. Wide-character functions use Unicode values, while
3554 narrow-character functions use the terminfo data.
3555 + fix a couple of places in Ada95/samples which did not compile with
3557 + modify mkinstalldirs so the DOS-pathname case is locale-independent.
3558 + fix locale problem in MKlib_gen.sh by forcing related variables to
3559 POSIX (C), using same approach as autoconf (set variables only if
3560 they were set before). Update MKterminfo.sh and MKtermsort.sh to
3564 + add charset to generated html.
3565 + add mvterm entry, adapted from a FreeBSD bug-report by Daniel Rudy
3566 <dcrudy@pacbell.net> -TD
3567 + add rxvt-16color, ibm+16color entries -TD
3568 + modify check in --disable-overwrite option so that it is used by
3569 default unless the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr, in attempt to
3570 work around packagers, e.g., for Sun's freeware, who do not read the
3574 + modify wgetch() to allow returning ungetch'd KEY_RESIZE as a function
3575 key code in get_wch().
3576 + extended resize-handling in test/ncurses 'a' menu to the entire
3577 stack of windows created with 'w' commands.
3578 + improve $COLORFGBG feature by interpreting an out-of-range color
3579 value as an SGR 39 or 49, for foreground/background respectively.
3580 + correct a typo in configure --enable-colorfgbg option, and move it
3581 to the experimental section (cf: 20011208).
3584 + add logic to dump_entry.c to remove function-key definitions that do
3585 not fit into the 1023-byte limit for generated termcaps. This makes
3587 + more improvements to tic's warnings, including logic to ignore
3588 differences between delay values in sgr strings.
3589 + move definition of KEY_RESIZE into MKkeydefs.sh script, to
3590 accommodate Caps.osf1r5 which introduced a conflicting definition.
3593 + add simple resize-handling in test/ncurses.c 'a' menu.
3594 + fixes in keyname() and _tracechar() to handle negative values.
3595 + make tic's warnings about mismatches in sgr strings easier to follow.
3596 + correct tic checks for number of parameters in smgbp and smglp.
3597 + improve scoansi terminfo entry, and add scoansi-new entry -TD
3598 + add pcvt25-color terminfo entry -TD
3599 + add kf13-kf48 strings to cons25w terminfo entry (reported by Stephen
3600 Hurd <deuce@lordlegacy.org> in newsgroup lucky.freebsd.bugs) -TD
3601 + add entrypoint _nc_trace_ttymode(), use this to distinguish the
3602 Ottyb and Nttyb members of terminal (aka cur_term), for tracing.
3605 + correct and simplify logic for lib_pad.c change in 20020518 (reported
3609 + fix lib_pad.c for case of drawing a double-width character which
3610 falls off the left margin of the pad (patch by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij
3611 <lerdsuwa@users.sourceforge.net>)
3612 + modify configure script to work around broken gcc 3.1 "--version"
3613 option, which adds unnecessary trash to the requested information.
3614 + adjust ifdef's in case SIGWINCH is not defined, e.g., with DJGPP
3615 (reported by Ben Decker <deckerben@freenet.de>).
3618 + implement vid_puts(), vid_attr(), term_attrs() based on the narrow-
3619 character versions as well.
3620 + implement erasewchar(), killwchar() based on erasechar() and
3622 + modify erasechar() and killchar() to return ERR if the value was
3624 + correct a bug in wresize() in handling subwindows (based on patch by
3625 Roger Gammans <rgammans@computer-surgery.co.uk>, report by Scott Beck
3626 <scott@gossamer-threads.com>).
3627 + improve test/tclock.c by making the second-hand update more often
3628 if gettimeofday() is available.
3631 + workaround for Solaris sed with MKlib_gen.sh (reported by Andy
3632 Tsouladze <andyt@mypoints.com>).
3635 + correct return-value from getcchar(), making it consistent with
3637 + reorder loops that generate makefile rules for different models vs
3638 subsets so configure --with-termlib works again. This was broken by
3639 logic added to avoid duplicate rules in changes to accommodate cygwin
3640 dll's (reported by George.R.Goffe@seagate.com).
3641 + update config.guess, config.sub
3644 + modify ifdef's in write_entry.c to allow use of symbolic links on
3645 platforms with no hard links, e.g., BeOS.
3646 + modify a few includes to allow compile with BeOS, which has stdbool.h
3647 with a conflicting definition for 'bool' versus its OS.h definition.
3648 + amend MKlib_gen.sh to work with gawk, which defines 'func' as an
3649 alias for 'function'.
3652 + correct form of prototype for ripoffline().
3653 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to test that all functions marked as implemented
3657 + add manpages: curs_get_wstr.3x, curs_in_wchstr.3x
3658 + implement wgetn_wstr().
3659 + implement win_wchnstr().
3660 + remove redefinition of unget_wch() in lib_gen.c (reported by
3661 Jungshik Shin <jshin@jtan.com>).
3664 + modified several of the test programs to allow them to compile with
3665 vendor curses implementations, e.g., Solaris, AIX -TD
3668 + modified test/configure to allow configuring against ncursesw.
3669 + change WACS_xxx definition to use address, to work like Tru64 curses.
3672 + add 'e' and 'm' toggles to 'a', 'A' tests in ncurses.c to demonstrate
3673 effect of echo/noecho and meta modes.
3674 + add 'A' test to ncurses.c to demonstrate wget_wch() and related
3676 + add manpage: curs_get_wch.3x
3677 + implement unget_wch().
3678 + implement wget_wch().
3681 + regenerated html manpages.
3682 + add manpages: curs_in_wch.3x, curs_ins_wch.3x, curs_ins_wstr.3x
3683 + implement wins_wch().
3684 + implement win_wch().
3685 + implement wins_nwstr(), wins_wstr().
3688 + add manpages: curs_addwstr.3x, curs_winwstr.3x
3689 + implement winnwstr(), winwstr().
3692 + add manpages: curs_add_wchstr.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x
3693 + document wunctrl, key_name.
3694 + implement key_name().
3695 + remove const's in lib_box.c incorrectly leftover after splitting off
3697 + update llib-lncurses, llib-ncursesw, fix configure script related to
3701 + remove quotes on "SYNOPSIS" in man/curs_box_set.3x, which resulted
3702 in spurious symlinks on install.
3705 + implement whline_set(), wvline_set(), add manpage curs_border_set.
3706 + add subtest 'b' to 'F' and 'f' in ncurses.c to demonstrate use of
3707 box() and box_set() functions.
3708 + add subtest 'u' to 'F' in ncurses.c, to demonstrate use of addstr()
3709 given UTF-8 string equivalents of WACS_xxx symbols.
3710 + minor fixes to several manpages based on groff -ww output.
3711 + add descriptions of external variables of termcap interface to
3712 the manpage (report by Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>).
3713 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
3714 + correct configure option --with-bool, which was executed as
3716 + add quotes for parameters of --with-bool and --with-ospeed configure
3718 > patch by Sven Verdoolaege (report by Gerhard Haering
3719 <haering_linux@gmx.de>):
3720 + correct typos in definitions of several wide-character macros:
3721 waddwstr, wgetbkgrnd, mvaddwstr, mvwadd_wchnstr, mvwadd_wchnstr,
3723 + pass $(CPPFLAGS) to MKlib_gen.sh, thereby fixing a missing definition
3724 of _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, e.g., on Solaris
3727 + implement wide-acs characters for UTF-8 locales. When in UTF-8
3728 locale, ignore narrow version of acs. Add 'F' test to test/ncurses.c
3730 + correct prototype in keybound manpage (noted from a Debian mailing
3734 + add several cases to the wscanw() example in testcurs.c, showing the
3736 + implement a simple vsscanf() fallback function which uses the %n
3737 conversion to help parse the input data (prompted by discussion with
3738 Albert Chin-A-Young).
3739 + modify mk-1st.awk and test/Makefile.in to add $(LDFLAGS) when making
3740 shared libraries, and to use $(CFLAGS) when linking test programs
3741 (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3742 + add a call to _nc_keypad() in keypad() to accommodate applications
3743 such as nvi, which use curses for output but not for input (fixes
3744 Debian #131263, cf: 20011215).
3745 + add entrypoints to resizeterm.c which provide better control over the
3746 process: is_term_resized() and resize_term(). The latter restores
3747 the original design of resizeterm() before KEY_RESIZE was added in
3748 970906. Do this to accommodate 20010922 changes to view.c, but allow
3749 for programs with their own sigwinch handler, such as lynx (reported
3750 by Russell Ruby <russ@math.orst.edu>).
3753 + fix a typo in change to mk-1st.awk, which broke the shared-library
3754 makefile rules (reported by Martin Mokrejs).
3757 + update config.guess, config.sub
3758 + finish changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
3759 + fix a typo in mvwchat() macro (reported by Cy <yam@homerow.net).
3762 + add case in lib_baudrate.c for B921600 (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
3763 + correct missing sed-editing stage in manpage installs which is used
3764 to rename manpages, broken in 20010324 fix for Debian #89939 (Debian
3766 + remove -L$(libdir) from linker flags, probably not needed any more
3767 since HPUX is handled properly (reported by Niibe Yutaka
3769 + add configure check for mbstate_t, needed for wide-character
3770 configuration. On some platforms we must include <wchar.h> to
3771 define this (reported by Daniel Jacobowitz).
3772 + incorporate some of the changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
3775 + workaround for awk did not work with mawk, adjusted shell script.
3778 + add Caps.osf1r5, as an example.
3779 + modify behavior of can_clear_with() so that if an application is
3780 running in a non-bce terminals with default colors enabled, it
3781 returns true, allowing the user to select/paste text without picking
3782 up extraneous trailing blanks (adapted from patch by Daniel
3783 Jacobowitz <dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu>).
3784 + modify generated curses.h to ifdef-out prototypes for extensions if
3785 they are disabled, and to define curses_version() as a string in that
3786 case. This is needed to make the programs such as tic build in that
3788 + modified generated headers.sh to remove a gzip'd version of the
3789 target file if it exists, in case non-gzip'd manpages are installed
3790 into a directory where gzip'd ones exist. In that case, the latter
3792 + corrected a redundant initialization of signal handlers from 20010922
3794 + clarified bug-reporting address in terminfo.src (report by John H
3795 DuBois III <spcecdt@armory.com>).
3796 > several fixes from Robert Joop:
3797 + do not use "-v" option of awk in MKkey_defs.sh because it does not
3798 work with SunOS nawk.
3799 + modify definitions for libutf8 in curses.h to avoid redefinition
3801 + quoted references to compiler in shell command in misc/Makefile, in
3802 case it uses multiple tokens.
3805 + restore special case from 20010922 changes to omit SA_RESTART when
3806 setting up SIGWINCH handler, which is needed to allow wgetch() to be
3807 interrupted by that signal.
3808 + update configure macro CF_WITH_PATHLIST, to omit some double quotes
3809 not needed with autoconf 2.52
3810 + revert configure script to autoconf 2.13 patched with
3811 autoconf-2.13-19990117.patch.gz (or later)
3813 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
3814 because autoconf 2.52 macro AC_PROG_AWK does not work on HPUX 11.0
3815 (report by David Ellement <ellement@sdd.hp.com>). This also fixes a
3816 different problem configuring with Mac OS X (reported by Marc Smith
3817 <marc.a.smith@home.com>).
3820 + modify include/edit_cfg.h to eliminate BROKEN_LINKER symbol from
3822 + move prototype for _nc_vsscanf() into curses.h.in to omit
3823 HAVE_VSSCANF symbol from curses.h, which was dependent upon the
3824 ncurses_cfg.h file which is not installed.
3825 + use ACS_LEN rather than SIZEOF(acs_map) in trace code of lib_acs.c,
3826 to work with broken linker configuration, e.g., cygwin (report by
3827 Robert Joop <rj@rainbow.in-berlin.de>).
3828 + make napms() call _nc_timed_wait() rather than poll() or select(),
3829 to work around broken implementations of these on cygwin.
3832 + drop configure macro CF_WIDEC_SHIFT, since that was rendered obsolete
3833 by Sven Verdoolaege's rewrite of wide-character support. This makes
3834 libncursesw incompatible again, but makes the header files almost the
3835 same as in the narrow-character configuration.
3836 + simplify definitions that combine wide/narrow versions of bkgd, etc.,
3837 to eliminate differences between the wide/narrow versions of curses.h
3838 + correct typo in configure macro CF_FUNC_VSSCANF
3839 + correct location of call to _nc_keypad() from 20011215 changes which
3840 prevented keypad() from being disabled (reported by Lars Hecking).
3843 + rewrote ncurses 'a' test to exercise wgetch() and keypad() functions
3844 better, e.g., by adding a 'w' command to create new windows which
3845 may have different keypad() settings.
3846 + corrected logic of keypad() by adding internal screen state to track
3847 whether the terminal's keypad-mode has been set. Use this in
3848 wgetch() to update the keypad-mode according to whether the
3849 associated window's keypad-mode has been set with keypad(). This
3850 corrects a related problem restoring terminal state after handling
3851 SIGTSTP (reported by Mike Castle).
3852 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52
3853 autoconf-2.52-patch.gz
3855 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
3856 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3857 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
3858 + minor changes to quoting in configure script to allow it to work
3862 + modify final checks in lib_setup.c for line and col values, making
3864 + modify acs_map[] if configure --broken-linker is specified, to make
3865 it use a function rather than an array (prompted by an incorrect
3866 implementation in cygwin package).
3867 + correct spelling of configure option --enable-colorfgbg, which
3868 happened to work if --with-develop was set (noted in cygwin package
3870 + modify ifdef for genericerror() to compile with SUNWspro Sun WorkShop
3871 6 update 1 C++ 5.2 (patch by Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu>).
3872 + add configure checks to see if ncurses' fallback vsscanf() will
3873 compile either of the special cases for FILE structs, and if not,
3874 force it to the case which simply returns an error (report by
3875 Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu> indicates that Solaris 8 with
3876 64-bits does not allow access to FILE's fields).
3877 + modify ifdef's for c++/cursesw.cc to use the fallback vsscanf() in
3878 the ncurses library if no better substitute for this can be found
3880 + modify the build to name dynamic libraries according to the
3881 convention used on OS X and Darwin. Rather than something like
3882 libncurses.dylib.5.2, Darwin would name it libncurses. 5.dylib.
3883 There are a few additional minor fixes, such as setting the library
3884 version and compatibility version numbers (patch by Jason Evans
3885 <jevans@apple.com>).
3886 + use 'sh' to run mkinstalldirs, to work around problems with buggy
3887 versions of 'make' on OS/2 (report by John Polterak <jp@eyup.org>).
3888 + correct typo in manpage description of curs_set() (Debian #121548).
3889 + replace the configure script existence-check for mkstemp() by one
3890 that checks if the function works, needed for older glibc and
3894 + modify script that generates fallbacks.c to compile a temporary
3895 copy of the terminfo source in case the host does not contain all of
3896 the entries requested for fallbacks (request by Greg Roelofs).
3897 + modify configure script to accommodate systems such as Mac OS X whose
3898 <stdbool.h> header defines a 'bool' type inconsistent with ncurses,
3899 which normally makes 'bool' consistent with C++. Include <stdbool.h>
3900 from curses.h to force consistent usage, define a new type
3901 NCURSES_BOOL and related that to the exported 'bool' as either a
3902 typedef or definition, according to whether <stdbool.h> is present
3903 (based on a bug report for tin 1.5.9 by Aaron Adams <adamsa@mac.com>).
3906 + added/updated terminfo entries for M$ telnet and KDE konsole -TD
3909 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
3910 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
3911 + add putty terminfo entry -TD
3912 + if configuring for wide-curses, define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, since
3913 this may not otherwise be defined to make test/view.c compile.
3916 + review/correct several missing/generated items in curses.wide, sorted
3917 the lists to make subsequent diff's easier to track.
3920 + add manual pages for add_wch(), echo_wchar(), getcchar(),
3921 mvadd_wch(), mvwadd_wch(), setcchar(), wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar().
3922 + implement wecho_wchar()
3923 + modify _tracedump() to handle wide-characters by mapping them to '?'
3924 and control-characters to '.', to make the trace file readable. Also
3925 dynamically allocate the buffer used by _tracedump() for formatting
3927 + modify T_CALLED/T_RETURN macros to ease balancing call/return lines
3928 in a trace by using curly braces.
3929 + implement _nc_viscbuf(), for tracing cchar_t arrays.
3930 + correct trace-calls in setcchar() and getcchar() functions, which
3931 traced the return values but not the entry to each function.
3932 + correct usage message in test/view.c, which still mentioned -u flag.
3935 + modify configure script to allow building with termcap only, or with
3936 fallbacks only. In this case, we do not build tic and toe.
3937 + add configure --with-termpath option, to override default TERMPATH
3938 value of /etc/termcap:/usr/share/misc/termcap.
3939 + cosmetic change to tack: make menu descriptions agree with menu
3943 + rewrote limit-checks in wscrl() and associated _nc_scroll_window(),
3944 to ensure that if the parameter of wscrl() is larger than the size of
3945 the scrolling region, then the scrolling region will be cleared
3946 (report by Ben Kohlen <bckohlen@yahoo.com>).
3947 + add trace/varargs.c, using this to trace parameters in lib_printw.c
3948 + implement _tracecchar_t2() and _tracecchar_t().
3949 + split-out trace/visbuf.c
3950 + correct typo in lib_printw.c changes from 20010922 (report by Mike
3954 + modify run_tic.sh to check if the build is a cross-compile. In that
3955 case, do not use the build's tic to install the terminfo database
3956 (report by Rafael Rodriguez Velilla <rrv@tid.es>).
3957 + modify mouse click resolution so that mouseinterval(-1) will disable
3958 it, e.g., to handle touchscreens via a slow connection (request by
3959 Byron Stanoszek <gandalf@winds.org>).
3960 + correct mouseinterval() default value shown in curs_mouse.3x
3961 + remove conflicting definition of mouse_trafo() (reported by Lars
3962 Hecking, using gcc 2.95.3).
3965 + simpler fix for signal_name(), to replace the one overlooked in
3966 20010929 (reported by Larry Virden).
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