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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 + build-fix for building outside source-tree (report by Sven Joachim).
50 + fix Debian lintian warning for man/tabs.1 by making section number
51 agree with file-suffix (report by Sven Joachim).
52 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
55 + workaround for bug in g++ 4.1-4.4 warnings for wattrset() macro on
56 amd64 (Debian #542031).
57 + fix typo in curs_mouse.3x (Debian #429198).
60 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
63 + correct use of terminfo capabilities for initializing soft-keys,
64 broken in 20090509 merging.
65 + modify wgetch() to ensure it checks SIGWINCH when it gets an error
66 in non-blocking mode (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
67 + use PATH_SEPARATOR symbol when substituting into run_tic.sh, to
68 help with builds on non-Unix platforms such as OS/2 EMX.
69 + modify scripting for misc/run_tic.sh to test configure script's
70 $cross_compiling variable directly rather than comparing host/build
71 compiler names (prompted by comment in GenToo #249363).
72 + fix configure script option --with-database, which was coded as an
74 + build-fixes for --srcdir (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
77 + separate _nc_find_entry() and _nc_find_type_entry() from
78 implementation details of hash function.
81 + add tabs.1 to man/man_db.renames
82 + modify lib_addch.c to compensate for removal of wide-character test
83 from unctrl() in 20090704 (Debian #539735).
86 + improve discussion in INSTALL for use of system's tic/infocmp for
87 cross-compiling and building fallbacks.
88 + modify test/demo_termcap.c to correspond better to options in
90 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
91 + fix logic for 'V' in test/ncurses.c tests f/F.
94 + correct logic in tigetnum(), which caused tput program to treat all
95 string capabilities as numeric (report by Rajeev V Pillai,
99 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
102 + fix a null-pointer check in _nc_format_slks() in lib_slk.c, from
104 + modify _nc_find_type_entry() to use hashing.
105 + make CCHARW_MAX value configurable, noting that changing this would
106 change the size of cchar_t, and would be ABI-incompatible.
107 + modify test-programs, e.g,. test/view.c, to address subtle
108 differences between Tru64/Solaris and HPUX/AIX getcchar() return
110 + modify length returned by getcchar() to count the trailing null
111 which is documented in X/Open (cf: 20020427).
112 + fixes for test programs to build/work on HPUX and AIX, etc.
115 + improve performance of tigetstr, etc., by using hashing code from tic.
116 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking.
117 + add test/demo_terminfo, for comparison with demo_termcap
120 + remove wide-character checks from unctrl() (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
121 + revise wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to eliminate dependency on
123 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
126 + update llib-lncurses[wt] to use sp-funcs.
127 + various code-fixes to build/work with --disable-macros configure
129 + add several new files from Juergen Pfeifer which will be used when
130 integration of "sp-funcs" is complete. This includes a port to
134 + move definition for NCURSES_WRAPPED_VAR back to ncurses_dll.h, to
135 make includes of term.h without curses.h work (report by "Nix").
136 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
139 + fix a regression in lib_tputs.c, from ongoing merges.
142 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
145 + fix an infinite recursion when adding a legacy-coding 8-bit value
146 using insch() (report by Clemens Ladisch).
147 + free home-terminfo string in del_curterm() (patch by Dan Weber).
148 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
151 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
154 + work around antique BSD game's manipulation of stdscr, etc., versus
155 SCREEN's copy of the pointer (Debian #528411).
156 + add a cast to wattrset macro to avoid compiler warning when comparing
157 its result against ERR (adapted from patch by Matt Kraii, Debian
161 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
164 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
165 + add vwmterm terminfo entry (patch by Bryan Christ).
168 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
171 + build fix for _nc_free_and_exit() change in 20090418 (report by
175 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
178 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
179 This change finishes merging for menu and panel libraries, does
180 part of the form library.
183 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
184 Darwin (report by Nelson Beebe).
187 + extend ansi.sys pfkey capability from kf1-kf10 to kf1-kf48, moving
188 function key definitions from emx-base for consistency -TD
189 + correct missing final 'p' in pfkey capability of ansi.sys-old (report
190 by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo).
191 + improve test/ncurses.c 'F' test, show combining characters in color.
192 + quiet a false report by cppcheck in c++/cursesw.cc by eliminating
193 a temporary variable.
194 + use _nc_doalloc() rather than realloc() in a few places in ncurses
195 library to avoid leak in out-of-memory condition (reports by William
196 Egert and Martin Ettl based on cppcheck tool).
197 + add --with-ncurses-wrap-prefix option to test/configure (discussion
198 with Charles Wilson).
199 + use ncurses*-config scripts if available for test/configure.
200 + update test/aclocal.m4 and test/configure
201 > patches by Charles Wilson:
202 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL configure check to allow unreleased libtool
203 version numbers (e.g. which include alphabetic chars, as well as
204 digits, after the final '.').
205 + improve use of -no-undefined option for libtool by setting an
206 intermediate variable LT_UNDEF in the configure script, and then
207 using that in the libtool link-commands.
208 + fix an missing use of NCURSES_PUBLIC_VAR() in tinfo/MKcodes.awk
209 from 2009031 changes.
210 + improve mk-1st.awk script by writing separate cases for the
211 LIBTOOL_LINK command, depending on which library (ncurses, ticlib,
212 termlib) is to be linked.
213 + modify configure.in to allow broken-linker configurations, not just
214 enable-reentrant, to set public wrap prefix.
217 + add TICS_LIST and SHLIB_LIST to allow libtool 2.2.6 on Cygwin to
218 build with tic and term libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
219 + add -no-undefined option to libtool for Cygwin, MinGW, U/Win and AIX
220 (report by Charles Wilson).
221 + fix definition for c++/Makefile.in's SHLIB_LIST, which did not list
222 the form, menu or panel libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
223 + add configure option --with-wrap-prefix to allow setting the prefix
224 for functions used to wrap global variables to something other than
225 "_nc_" (discussion with Charles Wilson).
228 + modify scripts to generate ncurses*-config and pc-files to add
229 dependency for tinfo library (patch by Charles Wilson).
230 + improve comparison of program-names when checking for linked flavors
231 such as "reset" by ignoring the executable suffix (reports by Charles
232 Wilson, Samuel Thibault and Cedric Bretaudeau on Cygwin mailing
234 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
235 Solaris 10, since gcc is confused by absence of static libc, and
236 does not switch back to dynamic mode before finishing the libraries
237 (reports by Joel Bertrand, Alan Pae).
238 + minor fixes to Intel compiler warning checks in configure script.
239 + modify _nc_leaks_tinfo() so leak-checking in test/railroad.c works.
240 + modify set_curterm() to make broken-linker configuration work with
241 changes from 20090228 (report by Charles Wilson).
244 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
245 + modify declaration of cur_term when broken-linker is used, but
246 enable-reentrant is not, to match pre-5.7 (report by Charles Wilson).
249 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
252 + add configure script --enable-sp-funcs to enable the new set of
254 + start integrating patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
255 + add extended functions which specify the SCREEN pointer for several
256 curses functions which use the global SP (these are incomplete;
257 some internals work is needed to complete these).
258 + add special cases to configure script for MinGW port.
261 + update several configure macros from lynx changes
262 + append (not prepend) to CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS
263 + change variable from PATHSEP to PATH_SEPARATOR
264 + improve install-rules for pc-files (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
265 + make it work with $DESTDIR
266 + create the pkg-config library directory if needed.
269 + modify init_pair() to allow caller to create extra color pairs beyond
270 the color_pairs limit, which use default colors (request by Emanuele
272 + add misc/terminfo.tmp and misc/*.pc to "sources" rule.
273 + fix typo "==" where "=" is needed in ncurses-config.in and
274 gen-pkgconfig.in files (Debian #512161).
277 + add -shared option to MK_SHARED_LIB when -Bsharable is used, for
278 *BSD's, without which "main" might be one of the shared library's
279 dependencies (report/analysis by Ken Dickey).
280 + modify waddch_literal(), updating line-pointer after a multicolumn
281 character is found to not fit on the current row, and wrapping is
282 done. Since the line-pointer was not updated, the wrapped
283 multicolumn character was written to the beginning of the current row
284 (cf: 20041023, reported by "Nick" regarding problem with ncmpc
285 http://musicpd.org/mantis/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1930).
288 + add screen.Eterm terminfo entry (GenToo #124887) -TD
289 + modify adacurses-config to look for ".ali" files in the adalib
291 + correct install for Ada95, which omitted libAdaCurses.a used in
293 + change install for adacurses-config to provide additional flavors
294 such as adacursesw-config, for ncursesw (GenToo #167849).
297 + remove undeveloped feature in ncurses-config.in for setting
299 + recent change to ncurses-config.in did not take into account the
300 --disable-overwrite option, which sets $includedir to the
301 subdirectory and using just that for a -I option does not work - fix
302 (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
305 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to eliminate a dependency on rpath when
306 deciding whether to add $LIBS to --libs output; that should be shown
307 for the ncurses and tinfo libraries without taking rpath into
309 + fix an overlooked change from $AR_OPTS to $ARFLAGS in mk-1st.awk,
310 used in static libraries (report by Marty Jack).
313 + add a configure-time check to pick a suitable value for
314 CC_SHARED_OPTS for Solaris (report by Dagobert Michelsen).
315 + add configure --with-pkg-config and --enable-pc-files options, along
316 with misc/gen-pkgconfig.in which can be used to generate ".pc" files
317 for pkg-config (request by Jan Engelhardt).
318 + use $includedir symbol in misc/ncurses-config.in, add --includedir
320 + change makefiles to use $ARFLAGS rather than $AR_OPTS, provide a
321 configure check to detect whether a "-" is needed before "ar"
323 + update config.guess, config.sub from
324 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
327 + modify mk-1st.awk to work with extra categories for tinfo library.
328 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries with gcc
329 on AIX 5 or 6 (adapted from patch by Lital Natan).
332 + modify to omit the opaque-functions from lib_gen.o when
333 --disable-ext-funcs is used.
334 + add test/clip_printw.c to illustrate how to use printw without
336 + modify ncurses 'F' test to demo wborder_set() with colored lines.
337 + modify ncurses 'f' test to demo wborder() with colored lines.
340 + add check for failure to open hashed-database needed for db4.6
342 + corrected --without-manpages option; previous change only suppressed
343 the auxiliary rules install.man and uninstall.man
344 + add case for FreeMINT to configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE (patch from
346 + fixes from NetBSD port at
347 http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/devel/ncurses/patches
348 patch-ac (build-fix for DragonFly)
349 patch-ae (use INSTALL_SCRIPT for installing misc/ncurses*-config).
350 + improve configure script macros CF_HEADER_PATH and CF_LIBRARY_PATH
351 by adding CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS, LIBS values to the
353 + correct title string for keybound manpage (patch by Frederic Culot,
354 OpenBSD documentation/6019),
357 + move del_curterm() call from _nc_freeall() to _nc_leaks_tinfo() to
358 work for progs/clear, progs/tabs, etc.
359 + correct buffer-size after internal resizing of wide-character
360 set_field_buffer(), broken in 20081018 changes (report by Mike Gran).
361 + add "-i" option to test/filter.c to tell it to use initscr() rather
362 than newterm(), to investigate report on comp.unix.programmer that
363 ncurses would clear the screen in that case (it does not - the issue
364 was xterm's alternate screen feature).
365 + add check in mouse-driver to disable connection if GPM returns a
366 zero, indicating that the connection is closed (Debian #506717,
367 adapted from patch by Samuel Thibault).
370 + improve a workaround in adding wide-characters, when a control
371 character is found. The library (cf: 20040207) uses unctrl() to
372 obtain a printable version of the control character, but was not
373 passing color or video attributes.
374 + improve test/ncurses.c 'a' test, using unctrl() more consistently to
375 display meta-characters.
376 + turn on _XOPEN_CURSES definition in curses.h
377 + add eterm-color entry (report by Vincent Lefevre) -TD
378 + correct use of key_name() in test/ncurses.c 'A' test, which only
379 displays wide-characters, not key-codes since 20070612 (report by
383 + change _nc_has_mouse() to has_mouse(), reflect its use in C++ and
384 Ada95 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
385 + document in TO-DO an issue with Cygwin's package for GNAT (report
387 + improve error-checking of command-line options in "tabs" program.
390 + change several terminfo entries to make consistent use of ANSI
392 + add "tabs" program (prompted by Debian #502260).
393 + add configure --without-manpages option (request by Mike Frysinger).
395 20081102 5.7 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
398 + add a manpage to discuss memory leaks.
399 + add support for shared libraries for QNX (other than libtool, which
400 does not work well on that platform).
401 + build-fix for QNX C++ binding.
404 + build-fixes for OS/2 EMX.
405 + modify form library to accept control characters such as newline
406 in set_field_buffer(), which is compatible with Solaris (report by
408 + modify configure script to assume --without-hashed-db when
409 --disable-database is used.
410 + add "-e" option in ncurses/Makefile.in when generating source-files
411 to force earlier exit if the build environment fails unexpectedly
412 (prompted by patch by Adrian Bunk).
413 + change configure script to use CF_UTF8_LIB, improved variant of
417 + add teraterm4.59 terminfo entry, use that as primary teraterm entry, rename
418 original to teraterm2.3 -TD
419 + update "gnome" terminfo to 2.22.3 -TD
420 + update "konsole" terminfo to 1.6.6, needs today's fix for tic -TD
421 + add "aterm" terminfo -TD
422 + add "linux2.6.26" terminfo -TD
423 + add logic to tic for cancelling strings in user-defined capabilities,
427 + update html documentation.
428 + add -m and -s options to test/keynames.c and test/key_names.c to test
429 the meta() function with keyname() or key_name(), respectively.
430 + correct return value of key_name() on error; it is null.
431 + document some unresolved issues for rpath and pthreads in TO-DO.
432 + fix a missing prototype for ioctl() on OpenBSD in tset.c
433 + add configure option --disable-tic-depends to make explicit whether
434 tic library depends on ncurses/ncursesw library, amends change from
435 20080823 (prompted by Debian #501421).
438 + some build-fixes for configure --disable-ext-funcs (incomplete, but
439 works for C/C++ parts).
440 + improve configure-check for awks unable to handle large strings, e.g.
441 AIX 5.1 whose awk silently gives up on large printf's.
444 + fix build for --with-dmalloc by workaround for redefinition of
445 strndup between string.h and dmalloc.h
446 + fix build for --disable-sigwinch
447 + add environment variable NCURSES_GPM_TERMS to allow override to use
448 GPM on terminals other than "linux", etc.
449 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM does not happen to contain
450 "linux", since Gpm_Open() no longer limits its assertion to terminals
451 that it might handle, e.g., within "screen" in xterm.
452 + reset mouse file-descriptor when unloading GPM library (report by
454 + fix build for --disable-leaks --enable-widec --with-termlib
455 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
456 + use improved initialization for soft-label keys in Ada95 sample code.
457 + discard internal symbol _nc_slk_format (unused since 20080112).
458 + move call of slk_paint_info() from _nc_slk_initialize() to
459 slk_intern_refresh(), improving initialization.
462 + fix bug in mouse code for GPM from 20080920 changes (reported in
463 Debian #500103, also Miroslav Lichvar).
466 + fix shared-library rules for cygwin with tic- and tinfo-libraries.
467 + fix a memory leak when failure to connect to GPM.
468 + correct check for notimeout() in wgetch() (report on linux.redhat
469 newsgroup by FurtiveBertie).
470 + add an example warning-suppression file for valgrind,
471 misc/ncurses.supp (based on example from Reuben Thomas)
474 + change shared-library configuration for OpenBSD, make rpath work.
475 + build-fixes for using libutf8, e.g., on OpenBSD 3.7
478 + corrected fix for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
482 + corrected gcc options for building shared libraries on IRIX64.
483 + add configure check for awk programs unable to handle big-strings,
484 use that to improve the default for --enable-big-strings option.
485 + makefile-fixes for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
487 + update test/configure script.
488 + adapt ifdef's from library to make test/view.c build when mbrtowc()
489 is unavailable, e.g., with HPUX 10.20.
490 + add configure check for wcsrtombs, mbsrtowcs, which are used in
491 test/ncurses.c, and use wcstombs, mbstowcs instead if available,
492 fixing build of ncursew for HPUX 11.00
495 + fixes to make Ada95 demo_panels() example work.
496 + modify Ada95 'rain' test program to accept keyboard commands like the
498 + modify BeOS-specific ifdef's to build on Haiku (patch by Scott
500 + add configure-check to see if the std namespace is legal for cerr
501 and endl, to fix a build issue with Tru64.
502 + consistently use NCURSES_BOOL in lib_gen.c
503 + filter #line's from lib_gen.c
504 + change delimiter in MKlib_gen.sh from '%' to '@', to avoid
505 substitution by IBM xlc to '#' as part of its extensions to digraphs.
506 + update config.guess, config.sub from
507 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
508 (caveat - its maintainer removed support for older Linux systems).
511 + modify configure check for pthread library to work with OSF/1 5.1,
512 which uses #define's to associate its header and library.
513 + use pthread_mutexattr_init() for initializing pthread_mutexattr_t,
514 makes threaded code work on HPUX 11.23
515 + fix a bug in demo_menus in freeing menus (cf: 20080804).
516 + modify configure script for the case where tic library is used (and
517 possibly renamed) to remove its dependency upon ncurses/ncursew
518 library (patch by Dr Werner Fink).
519 + correct manpage for menu_fore() which gave wrong default for
520 the attribute used to display a selected entry (report by Mike Gran).
521 + add Eterm-256color, Eterm-88color and rxvt-88color (prompted by
525 + add configure option --enable-weak-symbols to turn on new feature.
526 + add configure-check for availability of weak symbols.
527 + modify linkage with pthread library to use weak symbols so that
528 applications not linked to that library will not use the mutexes,
529 etc. This relies on gcc, and may be platform-specific (patch by Dr
531 + add note to INSTALL to document limitation of renaming of tic library
532 using the --with-ticlib configure option (report by Dr Werner Fink).
533 + document (in manpage) why tputs does not detect I/O errors (prompted
534 by comments by Samuel Thibault).
535 + fix remaining warnings from Klocwork report.
538 + modify _nc_panelhook() data to account for a permanent memory leak.
539 + fix memory leaks in test/demo_menus
540 + fix most warnings from Klocwork tool (report by Larry Zhou).
541 + modify configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to add case for
542 "dragonfly" from xterm #236 changes.
543 + modify configure script --with-hashed-db to let $LIBS override the
544 search for the db library (prompted by report by Samson Pierre).
547 + build-fixes for gcc 4.3.1 (changes to gnat "warnings", and C inlining
551 + build-fix (reports by Christian Ebert, Funda Wang).
554 + compiler-warning fixes for Solaris.
557 + use NCURSES_MOUSE_MASK() in definition of BUTTON_RELEASE(), etc., to
558 make those work properly with the "--enable-ext-mouse" configuration
560 + improve documentation of build-cc options in INSTALL.
561 + work-around a bug in gcc 4.2.4 on AIX, which does not pass the
562 -static/-dynamic flags properly to linker, causing test/bs to
566 + correct some ifdef's needed for the broken-linker configuration.
567 + make debugging library's $BAUDRATE feature work for termcap
569 + make $NCURSES_NO_PADDING feature work for termcap interface (prompted
570 by comment on FreeBSD mailing list).
571 + add screen.mlterm terminfo entry -TD
572 + improve mlterm and mlterm+pcfkeys terminfo entries -TD
575 + regenerated html documentation.
576 + expand manpage description of parameters for form_driver() and
577 menu_driver() (prompted by discussion with Adam Spragg).
578 + add null-pointer checks for cur_term in baudrate() and
579 def_shell_mode(), def_prog_mode()
580 + fix some memory leaks in delscreen() and wide acs.
583 + modify test/ditto.c to illustrate multi-threaded use_screen().
584 + change CC_SHARED_OPTS from -KPIC to -xcode=pic32 for Solaris.
585 + add "-shared" option to MK_SHARED_LIB for gcc on Solaris (report
589 + finish changes to wgetch(), making it switch as needed to the
590 window's actual screen when calling wrefresh() and wgetnstr(). That
591 allows wgetch() to get used concurrently in different threads with
592 some minor restrictions, e.g., the application should not delete a
593 window which is being used in a wgetch().
594 + simplify mutex's, combining the window- and screen-mutex's.
597 + modify wgetch() to use the screen which corresponds to its window
598 parameter rather than relying on SP; some dependent functions still
600 + factor out most use of SP in lib_mouse.c, using parameter.
601 + add internal _nc_keyname(), replacing keyname() to associate with a
602 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
603 + add internal _nc_unctrl(), replacing unctrl() to associate with a
604 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
605 + add internal _nc_tracemouse(), replacing _tracemouse() to eliminate
606 its associated global buffer _nc_globals.tracemse_buf now in SCREEN.
607 + add internal _nc_tracechar(), replacing _tracechar() to use SCREEN in
608 preference to the global _nc_globals.tracechr_buf buffer.
611 + modify _nc_keypad() to make it switch temporarily as needed to the
612 screen which must be updated.
613 + wrap cur_term variable to help make _nc_keymap() thread-safe, and
614 always set the screen's copy of this variable in set_curterm().
615 + restore curs_set() state after endwin()/refresh() (report/patch
619 + modify configure script to note that --enable-ext-colors and
620 --enable-ext-mouse are not experimental, but extensions from
622 + corrected manpage description of setcchar() (discussion with
624 + fix for adding a non-spacing character at the beginning of a line
625 (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
628 + modify screen.* terminfo entries using new screen+fkeys to fix
629 overridden keys in screen.rxvt (Debian #478094) -TD
630 + modify internal interfaces to reduce wgetch()'s dependency on the
632 + simplify some loops with macros each_screen(), each_window() and
636 + continue modifying test/ditto.c toward making it demonstrate
637 multithreaded use_screen(), using fifos to pass data between screens.
638 + fix typo in form.3x (report by Mike Gran).
641 + add screen.rxvt terminfo entry -TD
642 + modify tic -f option to format spaces as \s to prevent them from
643 being lost when that is read back in unformatted strings.
644 + improve test/ditto.c, using a "talk"-style layout.
647 + change test/ditto.c to use openpty() and xterm.
648 + add locks for copywin(), dupwin(), overlap(), overlay() on their
650 + add locks for initscr() and newterm() on updates to the SCREEN
652 + finish table in curs_thread.3x manpage.
655 + begin table in curs_thread.3x manpage describing the scope of data
656 used by each function (or symbol) for threading analysis.
657 + add null-pointer checks to setsyx() and getsyx() (prompted by
658 discussion by Martin v. Lowis and Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven on
659 python-dev2 mailing list).
662 + add null-pointer checks in set_term() and delscreen().
663 + move _nc_windows into _nc_globals, since windows can be pads, which
664 are not associated with a particular screen.
665 + change use_screen() to pass the SCREEN* parameter rather than
666 stdscr to the callback function.
667 + force libtool to use tag for 'CC' in case it does not detect this,
668 e.g., on aix when using CC=powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0-gcc
669 (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
670 + override OBJEXT to "lo" when building with libtool, to work on
671 platforms such as AIX where libtool may use a different suffix for
672 the object files than ".o" (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
673 + add configure --with-pthread option, for building with the POSIX
677 + fill in extended-color pair two more places in wbkgrndset() and
678 waddch_nosync() (prompted by Sedeno's patch).
679 + fill in extended-color pair in _nc_build_wch() to make colors work
680 for wide-characters using extended-colors (patch by Alejandro R
682 + add x/X toggles to ncurses.c C color test to test/demo
683 wide-characters with extended-colors.
684 + add a/A toggles to ncurses.c c/C color tests.
685 + modify test/ditto.c to use use_screen().
686 + finish modifying test/rain.c to demonstrate threads.
689 + start modifying test/rain.c for threading demo.
690 + modify test/ncurses.c to make 'f' test accept the f/F/b/F/</> toggles
691 that the 'F' accepts.
692 + modify test/worm.c to show trail in reverse-video when other threads
693 are working concurrently.
694 + fix a deadlock from improper nesting of mutexes for windowlist and
698 + fixes from 20080223 resolved issue with mutexes; change to use
699 recursive mutexes to fix memory leak in delwin() as called from
703 + fix a size-difference in _nc_globals which caused hanging of mutex
704 lock/unlock when termlib was built separately.
707 + avoid using nanosleep() in threaded configuration since that often
708 is implemented to suspend the entire process.
711 + update test programs to build/work with various UNIX curses for
712 comparisons. This was to reinvestigate statement in X/Open curses
713 that insnstr and winsnstr perform wrapping. None of the Unix-branded
714 implementations do this, as noted in manpage (cf: 20040228).
717 + modify _nc_setupscreen() to set the legacy-coding value the same
718 for both narrow/wide models. It had been set only for wide model,
719 but is needed to make unctrl() work with locale in the narrow model.
720 + improve waddch() and winsch() handling of EILSEQ from mbrtowc() by
721 using unctrl() to display illegal bytes rather than trying to append
722 further bytes to make up a valid sequence (reported by Andrey A
724 + modify unctrl() to check codes in 128-255 range versus isprint().
725 If they are not printable, and locale was set, use a "M-" or "~"
729 + improve threading in test/worm.c (wrap refresh calls, and KEY_RESIZE
730 handling). Now it hangs in napms(), no matter whether nanosleep()
731 or poll() or select() are used on Linux.
734 + fixes to build with --disable-ext-funcs
735 + add manpage for use_window and use_screen.
736 + add set_tabsize() and set_escdelay() functions.
739 + remove recursive-mutex definitions, finish threading demo for worm.c
740 + remove a redundant adjustment of lines in resizeterm.c's
741 adjust_window() which caused occasional misadjustment of stdscr when
745 + several improvements to terminfo entries based on xterm #230 -TD
746 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle keyname/key_name prototypes, so the
747 "link_test" builds properly.
748 + fix for toe command-line options -u/-U to ensure filename is given.
749 + fix allocation-size for command-line parsing in infocmp from 20070728
750 (report by Miroslav Lichvar)
751 + improve resizeterm() by moving ripped-off lines, and repainting the
752 soft-keys (report by Katarina Machalkova)
753 + add clarification in wclear's manpage noting that the screen will be
754 cleared even if a subwindow is cleared (prompted by Christer Enfors
756 + change test/ncurses.c soft-key tests to work with KEY_RESIZE.
759 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
763 + add several functions to C++ binding which wrap C functions that
764 pass a WINDOW* parameter (request by Chris Lee).
767 + add note about configure options needed for Berkeley database to the
769 + improve checks for version of Berkeley database libraries.
770 + amend fix for rpath to not modify LDFLAGS if the platform has no
771 applicable transformation (report by Christian Ebert, cf: 20071124).
774 + modify configure option --with-hashed-db to accept a parameter which
775 is the install-prefix of a given Berkeley Database (prompted by
777 + rewrite wrapper for wcrtomb(), making it work on Solaris. This is
778 used in the form library to determine the length of the buffer needed
779 by field_buffer (report by Alfred Fung).
780 + remove unneeded window-parameter from C++ binding for wresize (report
784 + modify the support for filesystems which do not support mixed-case to
785 generate 2-character (hexadecimal) codes for the lower-level of the
786 filesystem terminfo database (request by Michail Vidiassov).
787 + add configure option --enable-mixed-case, to allow overriding the
788 configure script's check if the filesystem supports mixed-case
790 + add wresize() to C++ binding (request by Chris Lee).
791 + define NCURSES_EXT_FUNCS and NCURSES_EXT_COLORS in curses.h to make
792 it simpler to tell if the extended functions and/or colors are
796 + update memory-leak checks for changes to names.c and codes.c
797 + correct acsc strings in h19, z100 (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler).
800 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
802 + add mrxvt terminfo entry, add/fix xterm building blocks for modified
804 + compile with FreeBSD "contemporary" TTY interface (patch by
808 + modify makefile rules to allow clear, tput and tset to be built
809 without libtic. The other programs (infocmp, tic and toe) rely on
811 + add/modify null-pointer checks in several functions for SP and/or
812 the WINDOW* parameter (report by Thorben Krueger).
813 + fixes for field_buffer() in formw library (see Redhat Bugzilla
814 #310071, patches by Miroslav Lichvar).
815 + improve performance of NCURSES_CHAR_EQ code (patch by Miroslav
817 + update/improve mlterm and rxvt terminfo entries, e.g., for
818 the modified cursor- and keypad-keys -TD
821 + add code to curses.priv.h ifdef'd with NCURSES_CHAR_EQ, which
822 changes the CharEq() macro to an inline function to allow comparing
823 cchar_t struct's without comparing gaps in a possibly unpacked
824 memory layout (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
827 + add new functions to lib_trace.c to setup mutex's for the _tracef()
828 calls within the ncurses library.
829 + for the reentrant model, move _nc_tputs_trace and _nc_outchars into
831 + start modifying test/worm.c to provide threading demo (incomplete).
832 + separated ifdef's for some BSD-related symbols in tset.c, to make
833 it compile on LynxOS (report by Greg Gemmer).
835 + modify Ada95/gen/Makefile to use shlib script, to simplify building
836 shared-library configuration on platforms lacking rpath support.
837 + build-fix for Ada95/src/Makefile to reflect changed dependency for
838 the terminal-interface-curses-aux.adb file which is now generated.
839 + restructuring test/worm.c, for use_window() example.
842 + add use_window() and use_screen() functions, to develop into support
843 for threaded library (incomplete).
844 + fix typos in man/curs_opaque.3x which kept the install script from
845 creating symbolic links to two aliases created in 20070818 (report by
849 + remove a spurious newline from output of html.m4, which caused links
850 for Ada95 html to be incorrect for the files generated using m4.
851 + start investigating mutex's for SCREEN manipulation (incomplete).
852 + minor cleanup of codes.c/names.c for --enable-const
853 + expand/revise "Routine and Argument Names" section of ncurses manpage
854 to address report by David Givens in newsgroup discussion.
855 + fix interaction between --without-progs/--with-termcap configure
856 options (report by Michail Vidiassov).
857 + fix typo in "--disable-relink" option (report by Michail Vidiassov).
860 + fix a sign-extension bug in infocmp's repair_acsc() function
862 + fix old configure script bug which prevented "--disable-warnings"
863 option from working (patch by Mike Frysinger).
866 + add 9term terminal description (request by Juhapekka Tolvanen) -TD
867 + modify comp_hash.c's string output to avoid misinterpreting a null
868 "\0" followed by a digit.
869 + modify MKnames.awk and MKcodes.awk to support big-strings.
870 This only applies to the cases (broken linker, reentrant) where
871 the corresponding arrays are accessed via wrapper functions.
872 + split MKnames.awk into two scripts, eliminating the shell redirection
873 which complicated the make process and also the bogus timestamp file
874 which was introduced to fix "make -j".
875 + add test/test_opaque.c, test/test_arrays.c
876 + add wgetscrreg() and wgetparent() for applications that may need it
877 when NCURSES_OPAQUE is defined (prompted by Bryan Christ).
880 + amend treatment of infocmp "-r" option to retain the 1023-byte limit
881 unless "-T" is given (cf: 981017).
882 + modify comp_captab.c generation to use big-strings.
883 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private accessed via
884 _nc_get_alias_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
886 + modify configure script to skip Intel compiler in CF_C_INLINE.
887 + make _nc_info_hash_table and _nc_cap_hash_table private accessed via
888 _nc_get_hash_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
892 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private, accessed via
893 _nc_get_alias_table() since they are used only by parse_entry.c
894 + make _nc_key_names private since it is used only by lib_keyname.c
895 + add --disable-big-strings configure option to control whether
896 unctrl.c is generated using the big-string optimization - which may
897 use strings longer than supported by a given compiler.
898 + reduce relocation tables for tic, infocmp by changing type of
899 internal hash tables to short, and make those private symbols.
900 + eliminate large fixed arrays from progs/infocmp.c
903 + change winnstr() to stop at the end of the line (cf: 970315).
904 + add test/test_get_wstr.c
905 + add test/test_getstr.c
906 + add test/test_inwstr.c
907 + add test/test_instr.c
910 + restore a call to obtain screen-size in _nc_setupterm(), which
911 is used in tput and other non-screen applications via setupterm()
912 (Debian #433357, reported by Florent Bayle, Christian Ohm,
916 + add test/savescreen.c test-program
917 + add check to trace-file open, if the given name is a directory, add
918 ".log" to the name and try again.
919 + add konsole-256color entry -TD
920 + add extra gcc warning options from xterm.
921 + minor fixes for ncurses/hashmap test-program.
922 + modify configure script to quiet c++ build with libtool when the
923 --disable-echo option is used.
924 + modify configure script to disable ada95 if libtool is selected,
925 writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD ports/114493).
926 + update config.guess, config.sub
929 + add continuous-move "M" to demo_panels to help test refresh changes.
930 + improve fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters,
931 taking into account some split characters on left/right window
935 + add "widec" row to _tracedump() output to help diagnose remaining
936 problems with multi-column characters.
937 + partial fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters
938 which are partly overwritten (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
939 + ignore A_CHARTEXT bits in vidattr() and vid_attr(), in case
940 multi-column extension bits are passed there.
941 + add setlocale() call to demo_panels.c, needed for wide-characters.
942 + add some output flags to _nc_trace_ttymode to help diagnose a bug
943 report by Larry Virden, i.e., ONLCR, OCRNL, ONOCR and ONLRET,
946 + add test/demo_panels.c
947 + implement opaque version of setsyx() and getsyx().
950 + corrected xterm+pcf2 terminfo modifiers for F1-F4, to match xterm
952 + split-out key_name() from MKkeyname.awk since it now depends upon
953 wunctrl() which is not in libtinfo (report by Rong-En Fan).
956 + add test/key_name.c
957 + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test/inch_wide.c
958 + update test/configure
959 + correct formatting of DEL (0x7f) in _nc_vischar().
960 + null-terminate result of wunctrl().
961 + add null-pointer check in key_name() (report by Andreas Krennmair,
965 + adapt mouse-handling code from menu library in form-library
966 (discussion with Clive Nicolson).
967 + add a modification of test/dots.c, i.e., test/dots_mvcur.c to
968 illustrate how to use mvcur().
969 + modify wide-character flavor of SetAttr() to preserve the
970 WidecExt() value stored in the .attr field, e.g., in case it
971 is overwritten by chgat (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
972 + correct buffer-size for _nc_viswbuf2n() (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
973 + build-fixes for Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 (patch by Peter O'Gorman).
976 + modify keyname() to use "^X" form only if meta() has been called, or
977 if keyname() is called without initializing curses, e.g., via
978 initscr() or newterm() (prompted by LinuxBase #1604).
979 + document some portability issues in man/curs_util.3x
980 + add a shadow copy of TTY buffer to _nc_prescreen to fix applications
981 broken by moving that data into SCREEN (cf: 20061230).
984 + add 'O' (wide-character panel test) in ncurses.c to demonstrate a
985 problem reported by Sadrul H Chowdhury with repainting parts of
987 + modify slk_init() so that if there are preceding calls to
988 ripoffline(), those affect the available lines for soft-keys (adapted
989 from patch by Clive Nicolson).
990 + document some portability issues in man/curs_getyx.3x
993 + fix a bug in Ada95/samples/ncurses which caused a variable to
994 become uninitialized in the "b" test.
995 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in adahtml rule to account for recent
996 movement of files, fix a few incorrect manpage references in the
998 + add Ada95 binding to _nc_freeall() as Curses_Free_All to help with
1000 + correct some functions in Ada95 binding which were using return value
1001 from C where none was returned: idcok(), immedok() and wtimeout().
1002 + amend recent changes for Ada95 binding to make it build with
1003 Cygwin's linker, e.g., with configure options
1004 --enable-broken-linker --with-ticlib
1007 + add a configure check for gcc's options for inlining, use that to
1008 quiet a warning message where gcc's default behavior changed from
1010 + improve warning message when checking if GPM is linked to curses
1011 library by not warning if its use of "wgetch" is via a weak symbol.
1012 + add loader options when building with static libraries to ensure that
1013 an installed shared library for ncurses does not conflict. This is
1014 reported as problem with Tru64, but could affect other platforms
1015 (report Martin Mokrejs, analysis by Tim Mooney).
1016 + fix build on cygwin after recent ticlib/termlib changes, i.e.,
1017 + adjust TINFO_SUFFIX value to work with cygwin's dll naming
1018 + revert a change from 20070303 which commented out dependency of
1019 SHLIB_LIST in form/menu/panel/c++ libraries.
1020 + fix initialization of ripoff stack pointer (cf: 20070421).
1023 + move most static variables into structures _nc_globals and
1024 _nc_prescreen, to simplify storage.
1025 + add/use configure script macro CF_SIG_ATOMIC_T, use the corresponding
1026 type for data manipulated by signal handlers (prompted by comments
1027 in mailing.openbsd.bugs newsgroup).
1028 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to allow one to pass options such as -static
1029 to the libtool create- and link-operations.
1032 + fix whitespace in curs_opaque.3x which caused a spurious ';' in
1033 the installed aliases (report by Peter Santoro).
1034 + fix configure script to not try to generate adacurses-config when
1035 Ada95 tree is not built.
1038 + add man/curs_legacy.3x, man/curs_opaque.3x
1039 + fix acs_map binding for Ada95 when --enable-reentrant is used.
1040 + add adacurses-config to the Ada95 install, based on version from
1041 FreeBSD port, in turn by Juergen Pfeifer in 2000 (prompted by
1042 comment on comp.lang.ada newsgroup).
1043 + fix includes in c++ binding to build with Intel compiler
1045 + update install rule in Ada95 to use mkdirs.sh
1046 > other fixes prompted by inspection for Coverity report:
1047 + modify ifdef's for c++ binding to use try/catch/throw statements
1048 + add a null-pointer check in tack/ansi.c request_cfss()
1049 + fix a memory leak in ncurses/base/wresize.c
1050 + corrected check for valid memu/meml capabilities in
1051 progs/dump_entry.c when handling V_HPUX case.
1052 > fixes based on Coverity report:
1053 + remove dead code in test/bs.c
1054 + remove dead code in test/demo_defkey.c
1055 + remove an unused assignment in progs/infocmp.c
1056 + fix a limit check in tack/ansi.c tools_charset()
1057 + fix tack/ansi.c tools_status() to perform the VT320/VT420
1058 tests in request_cfss(). The function had exited too soon.
1059 + fix a memory leak in tic.c's make_namelist()
1060 + fix a couple of places in tack/output.c which did not check for EOF.
1061 + fix a loop-condition in test/bs.c
1062 + add index checks in lib_color.c for color palettes
1063 + add index checks in progs/dump_entry.c for version_filter() handling
1065 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in copywin()
1066 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in waddchnstr()
1067 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
1068 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c's make_namelist()
1069 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
1070 + add null-pointer checks in test/cardfile.c
1071 + fix a double-free in ncurses/tinfo/trim_sgr0.c
1072 + fix a double-free in ncurses/base/wresize.c
1073 + add try/catch block to c++/cursesmain.cc
1076 + modify Ada95 binding to build with --enable-reentrant by wrapping
1077 global variables (bug: acs_map does not yet work).
1078 + modify Ada95 binding to use the new access-functions, allowing it
1079 to build/run when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
1080 + add access-functions and macros to return properties of the WINDOW
1081 structure, e.g., when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
1082 + improved install-sh's quoting.
1083 + use mkdirs.sh rather than mkinstalldirs, e.g., to use fixes from
1087 + eliminate part of the direct use of WINDOW data from Ada95 interface.
1088 + fix substitutions for termlib filename to make configure option
1089 --enable-reentrant work with --with-termlib.
1090 + change a constructor for NCursesWindow to allow compiling with
1091 NCURSES_OPAQUE set, since we cannot pass a reference to
1095 + ignore --with-chtype=unsigned since unsigned is always added to
1096 the type in curses.h; do the same for --with-mmask-t.
1097 + change warning regarding --enable-ext-colors and wide-character
1098 in the configure script to an error.
1099 + tweak error message in CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to distinguish other programs
1100 such as Darwin's libtool program (report by Michail Vidiassov)
1101 + modify edit_man.sh to allow for multiple substitutions per line.
1102 + set locale in misc/ncurses-config.in since it uses a range
1103 + change permissions libncurses++.a install (report by Michail
1105 + corrected length of temporary buffer in wide-character version
1106 of set_field_buffer() (related to report by Bryan Christ).
1109 + fix mk-1st.awk script install_shlib() function, broken in 20070224
1110 changes for cygwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
1113 + increase size of array in _nc_visbuf2n() to make "tic -v" work
1114 properly in its similar_sgr() function (report/analysis by Peter
1116 + add --enable-reentrant configure option for ongoing changes to
1117 implement a reentrant version of ncurses:
1118 + libraries are suffixed with "t"
1119 + wrap several global variables (curscr, newscr, stdscr, ttytype,
1120 COLORS, COLOR_PAIRS, COLS, ESCDELAY, LINES and TABSIZE) as
1121 functions returning values stored in SCREEN or cur_term.
1122 + move some initialization (LINES, COLS) from lib_setup.c,
1123 i.e., setupterm() to _nc_setupscreen(), i.e., newterm().
1126 + regenerated html documentation.
1127 + add NCURSES_OPAQUE symbol to curses.h, will use to make structs
1128 opaque in selected configurations.
1129 + move the chunk in lib_acs.c which resets acs capabilities when
1130 running on a terminal whose locale interferes with those into
1131 _nc_setupscreen(), so the libtinfo/libtinfow files can be made
1132 identical (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
1133 + do not use configure variable SHLIB_LIBS for building libraries
1134 outside the ncurses directory, since that symbol is customized
1135 only for that directory, and using it introduces an unneeded
1136 dependency on libdl (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
1137 + modify mk-1st.awk so the generated makefile rules for linking or
1138 installing shared libraries do not first remove the library, in
1139 case it is in use, e.g., libncurses.so by /bin/sh (report by Jeff
1141 + revised section "Using NCURSES under XTERM" in ncurses-intro.html
1142 (prompted by newsgroup comment by Nick Guenther).
1145 + change internal return codes of _nc_wgetch() to check for cases
1146 where KEY_CODE_YES should be returned, e.g., if a KEY_RESIZE was
1147 ungetch'd, and read by wget_wch().
1148 + fix static-library build broken in 20070217 changes to remove "-ldl"
1149 (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
1150 + change makefile/scripts for cygwin to allow building termlib.
1151 + use Form_Hook in manpages to match form.h
1152 + use Menu_Hook in manpages, as well as a few places in menu.h
1153 + correct form- and menu-manpages to use specific Field_Options,
1154 Menu_Options and Item_Options types.
1155 + correct prototype for _tracechar() in manpage (cf: 20011229).
1156 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
1159 + fixes for $(TICS_LIST) in ncurses/Makefile (report by Miroslav
1161 + modify relinking of shared libraries to apply only when rpath is
1162 enabled, and add --disable-relink option which can be used to
1163 disable the feature altogether (reports by Michail Vidiassov,
1165 + fix --with-termlib option for wide-character configuration, stripping
1166 the "w" suffix in one place (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
1167 + remove "-ldl" from some library lists to reduce dependencies in
1168 programs (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
1169 + correct description of --enable-signed-char in configure --help
1170 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
1171 + add pattern for GNU/kFreeBSD configuration to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE,
1172 which matches an earlier change to CF_SHARED_OPTS, from xterm #224
1174 + remove "${DESTDIR}" from -install_name option used for linking
1175 shared libraries on Darwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
1178 + add test/inchs.c, test/inch_wide.c, to test win_wchnstr().
1179 + remove libdl from library list for termlib (report by Miroslav
1181 + fix configure.in to allow --without-progs --with-termlib (patch by
1183 + modify win_wchnstr() to ensure that only a base cell is returned
1184 for each multi-column character (prompted by report by Wei Kong
1185 regarding change in mvwin_wch() cf: 20041023).
1188 + modify fix_wchnstr() in form library to strip attributes (and color)
1189 from the cchar_t array (field cells) read from a field's window.
1190 Otherwise, when copying the field cells back to the window, the
1191 associated color overrides the field's background color (report by
1193 + improve tracing for form library, showing created forms, fields, etc.
1194 + ignore --enable-rpath configure option if --with-shared was omitted.
1195 + add _nc_leaks_tinfo(), _nc_free_tic(), _nc_free_tinfo() entrypoints
1196 to allow leak-checking when both tic- and tinfo-libraries are built.
1197 + drop CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC macro from configure script, since C++ binding
1198 no longer relies on it.
1199 + disallow combining configure script options --with-ticlib and
1200 --enable-termcap (report by Rong-En Fan).
1201 + remove tack from ncurses tree.
1204 + fix typo in configure script that broke --with-termlib option
1205 (report by Rong-En Fan).
1208 + improve fix for FreeBSD gnu/98975, to allow for null pointer passed
1209 to tgetent() (report by Rong-en Fan).
1210 + update tack/HISTORY and tack/README to tell how to build it after
1211 it is removed from the ncurses tree.
1212 + fix configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
1213 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
1214 + review/eliminate other original-file artifacts in cursesw.cc, making
1215 its license consistent with ncurses.
1216 + use ncurses vw_scanw() rather than reading into a fixed buffer in
1217 the c++ binding for scanw() methods (prompted by report by Nuno Dias).
1218 + eliminate fixed-buffer vsprintf() calls in c++ binding.
1221 + add _nc_leaks_tic() to separate leak-checking of tic library from
1222 term/ncurses libraries, and thereby eliminate a library dependency.
1223 + fix test/mk-test.awk to ignore blank lines.
1224 + correct paths in include/headers, for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav
1228 + add a break-statement in misc/shlib to ensure that it exits on the
1229 _first_ matched directory (report by Paul Novak).
1230 + add tack/configure, which can be used to build tack outside the
1232 + add --with-ticlib option, to build/install the tic-support functions
1233 in a separate library (suggested by Miroslav Lichvar).
1236 + change MKunctrl.awk to reduce relocation table for unctrl.o
1237 + change MKkeyname.awk to reduce relocation table for keyname.o
1238 (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
1241 + modify configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
1242 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
1243 + modify some modules to allow them to be reentrant if _REENTRANT is
1244 defined: lib_baudrate.c, resizeterm.c (local data only)
1245 + eliminate static data from some modules: add_tries.c, hardscroll.c,
1246 lib_ttyflags.c, lib_twait.c
1247 + improve manpage install to add aliases for the transformed program
1248 names, e.g., from --program-prefix.
1249 + used linklint to verify links in the HTML documentation, made fixes
1250 to manpages as needed.
1251 + fix a typo in curs_mouse.3x (report by William McBrine).
1252 + fix install-rule for ncurses5-config to make the bin-directory.
1255 + modify configure script to omit the tic (terminfo compiler) support
1256 from ncurses library if --without-progs option is given.
1257 + modify install rule for ncurses5-config to do this via "install.libs"
1258 + modify shared-library rules to allow FreeBSD 3.x to use rpath.
1259 + update config.guess, config.sub
1261 20061217 5.6 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1264 + add ifdef's for <wctype.h> for HPUX, which has the corresponding
1265 definitions in <wchar.h>.
1266 + revert the va_copy() change from 20061202, since it was neither
1267 correct nor portable.
1268 + add $(LOCAL_LIBS) definition to progs/Makefile.in, needed for
1270 + ignore wide-acs line-drawing characters that wcwidth() claims are
1271 not one-column. This is a workaround for Solaris' broken locale
1275 + modify configure --with-gpm option to allow it to accept a parameter,
1276 i.e., the name of the dynamic GPM library to load via dlopen()
1277 (requested by Bryan Henderson).
1278 + add configure option --with-valgrind, changes from vile.
1279 + modify configure script AC_TRY_RUN and AC_TRY_LINK checks to use
1280 'return' in preference to 'exit()'.
1283 + change default for --with-develop back to "no".
1284 + add XTABS to tracing of TTY bits.
1285 + updated autoconf patch to ifdef-out the misfeature which declares
1286 exit() for configure tests. This fixes a redefinition warning on
1288 + use ${CC} rather than ${LD} in shared library rules for IRIX64,
1289 Solaris to help ensure that initialization sections are provided for
1290 extra linkage requirements, e.g., of C++ applications (prompted by
1291 comment by Casper Dik in newsgroup).
1292 + rename "$target" in CF_MAN_PAGES to make it easier to distinguish
1293 from the autoconf predefined symbol. There was no conflict,
1294 since "$target" was used only in the generated edit_man.sh file,
1295 but SuSE's rpm package contains a patch.
1298 + update man/term.5 to reflect extended terminfo support and hashed
1299 database configuration.
1300 + updates for test/configure script.
1301 + adapted from SuSE rpm package:
1302 + remove long-obsolete workaround for broken-linker which declared
1304 + improve error recovery in PUTC() macro when wcrtomb() does not
1305 return usable results for an 8-bit character.
1306 + patches from rpm package (SuSE):
1307 + use va_copy() in extra varargs manipulation for tracing version
1309 + use a va_list rather than a null in _nc_freeall()'s call to
1310 _nc_printf_string().
1311 + add some see-also references in manpages to show related
1312 wide-character functions (suggested by Claus Fischer).
1315 + add a check in lib_color.c to ensure caller does not increase COLORS
1316 above max_colors, which is used as an array index (discussion with
1318 + add ifdef's allowing ncurses to be built with tparm() using either
1319 varargs (the existing status), or using a fixed-parameter list (to
1323 + fix redrawing of windows other than stdscr using wredrawln() by
1324 touching the corresponding rows in curscr (discussion with Dan
1327 + add test/echochar.c
1328 + review/cleanup manpage descriptions of error-returns for form- and
1329 menu-libraries (prompted by FreeBSD docs/46196).
1332 + add AUTHORS file -TD
1333 + omit the -D options from output of the new config script --cflags
1334 option (suggested by Ralf S Engelschall).
1335 + make NCURSES_INLINE unconditionally defined in curses.h
1338 + revert change to accommodate bash 3.2, since that breaks other
1339 platforms, e.g., Solaris.
1340 + minor fixes to NEWS file to simplify scripting to obtain list of
1342 + improve some shared-library configure scripting for Linux, FreeBSD
1343 and NetBSD to make "--with-shlib-version" work.
1344 + change configure-script rules for FreeBSD shared libraries to allow
1345 for rpath support in versions past 3.
1346 + use $(DESTDIR) in makefile rules for installing/uninstalling the
1347 package config script (reports/patches by Christian Wiese,
1348 Ralf S Engelschall).
1349 + fix a warning in the configure script for NetBSD 2.0, working around
1350 spurious blanks embedded in its ${MAKEFLAGS} symbol.
1351 + change test/Makefile to simplify installing test programs in a
1352 different directory when --enable-rpath is used.
1355 + work around bug in bash 3.2 by adding extra quotes (Jim Gifford).
1356 + add/install a package config script, e.g., "ncurses5-config" or
1357 "ncursesw5-config", according to configuration options.
1360 + add several GNU Screen terminfo variations with 16- and 256-colors,
1361 and status line (Alain Bench).
1362 + change the way shared libraries (other than libtool) are installed.
1363 Rather than copying the build-tree's libraries, link the shared
1364 objects into the install directory. This makes the --with-rpath
1365 option work except with $(DESTDIR) (cf: 20000930).
1368 + fix ifdef in c++/internal.h for QNX 6.1
1369 + test-compiled with (old) egcs-1.1.2, modified configure script to
1370 not unset the $CXX and related variables which would prevent this.
1371 + fix a few terminfo.src typos exposed by improvments to "-f" option.
1372 + improve infocmp/tic "-f" option formatting.
1375 + make --disable-largefile option work (report by Thomas M Ott).
1376 + updated html documentation.
1377 + add ka2, kb1, kb3, kc2 to vt220-keypad as an extension -TD
1378 + minor improvements to rxvt+pcfkeys -TD
1381 + move static data from lib_mouse.c into SCREEN struct.
1382 + improve ifdef's for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset to work with Mac OS X
1383 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
1384 + modify CF_PATH_SYNTAX to ensure it uses the result from --prefix
1385 option (from lynx changes) -TD
1386 + adapt AC_PROG_EGREP check, noting that this is likely to be another
1387 place aggravated by POSIXLY_CORRECT.
1388 + modify configure check for awk to ensure that it is found (prompted
1389 by report by Christopher Parker).
1393 + add kon, kon2 and jfbterm terminfo entry (request by Till Maas) -TD
1394 + remove invis capability from klone+sgr, mainly used by linux entry,
1395 since it does not really do this -TD
1398 + correct logic in wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not guard
1399 against passing the multi-column attribute into a call on waddch(),
1400 e.g., using data returned by win_wch() (cf: 20041023)
1401 (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
1404 + fix kterm's acsc string -TD
1405 + fix for change to tic/infocmp in 20060819 to ensure no blank is
1406 embedded into a termcap description.
1407 + workaround for 20050806 ifdef's change to allow visbuf.c to compile
1408 when using --with-termlib --with-trace options.
1409 + improve tgetstr() by making the return value point into the user's
1410 buffer, if provided (patch by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat Bugzilla
1412 + correct libraries needed for foldkeys (report by Stanislav Ievlev)
1415 + add terminfo entries for xfce terminal (xfce) and multi gnome
1417 + add test/foldkeys.c
1420 + modify tic and infocmp to avoid writing trailing blanks on terminfo
1421 source output (Debian #378783).
1422 + modify configure script to ensure that if the C compiler is used
1423 rather than the loader in making shared libraries, the $(CFLAGS)
1424 variable is also used (Redhat Bugzilla #199369).
1425 + port hashed-db code to db2 and db3.
1426 + fix a bug in tgetent() from 20060625 and 20060715 changes
1427 (patch/analysis by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat Bugzilla #202480)).
1430 + updated xterm function-keys terminfo to match xterm #216 -TD
1431 + add configure --with-hashed-db option (tested only with FreeBSD 6.0,
1432 e.g., the db 1.8.5 interface).
1435 + modify toe to access termcap data, e.g., via cgetent() functions,
1436 or as a text file if those are not available.
1437 + use _nc_basename() in tset to improve $SHELL check for csh/sh.
1438 + modify _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_termcap_entry() so infocmp,
1439 can access termcap data when the terminfo database is disabled.
1442 + widen the test for xterm kmous a little to allow for other strings
1443 than \E[M, e.g., for xterm-sco functionality in xterm.
1444 + update xterm-related terminfo entries to match xterm patch #216 -TD
1445 + update config.guess, config.sub
1448 + fix for install-rule in Ada95 to add terminal_interface.ads
1449 and terminal_interface.ali (anonymous posting in comp.lang.ada).
1450 + correction to manpage for getcchar() (report by William McBrine).
1452 + modify wchgat() to mark updated cells as changed so a refresh will
1453 repaint those cells (comments by Sadrul H Chowdhury and William
1455 + split up dependency of names.c and codes.c in ncurses/Makefile to
1456 work with parallel make (report/analysis by Joseph S Myers).
1457 + suppress a warning message (which is ignored) for systems without
1458 an ldconfig program (patch by Justin Hibbits).
1459 + modify configure script --disable-symlinks option to allow one to
1460 disable symlink() in tic even when link() does not work (report by
1462 + modify MKfallback.sh to use tic -x when constructing fallback tables
1463 to allow extended capabilities to be retrieved from a fallback entry.
1464 + improve leak-checking logic in tgetent() from 20060625 to ensure that
1465 it does not free the current screen (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
1468 + add a check for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset (NetBSD #33916).
1469 + correct _nc_free_entries() and related functions used for memory leak
1473 + revert a minor change for magic-cookie support from 20060513, which
1474 caused unexpected reset of attributes, e.g., when resizing test/view
1476 + note in clear manpage that the program ignores command-line
1477 parameters (prompted by Debian #371855).
1478 + fixes to make lib_gen.c build properly with changes to the configure
1479 --disable-macros option and NCURSES_NOMACROS (cf: 20060527)
1480 + update/correct several terminfo entries -TD
1481 + add some notes regarding copyright to terminfo.src -TD
1484 + fixes to build Ada95 binding with gnat-4.1.0
1485 + modify read_termtype() so the term_names data is always allocated as
1486 part of the str_table, a better fix for a memory leak (cf: 20030809).
1487 + reduce memory leaks in repeated calls to tgetent() by remembering the
1488 last TERMINAL* value allocated to hold the corresponding data and
1489 freeing that if the tgetent() result buffer is the same as the
1490 previous call (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
1491 + modify tack to test extended capability function-key strings.
1492 + improved gnome terminfo entry (GenToo #122566).
1493 + improved xterm-256color terminfo entry (patch by Alain Bench).
1496 + fix two small memory leaks related to repeated tgetent() calls
1497 with TERM=screen (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
1498 + add --enable-signed-char to simplify Debian package.
1499 + reduce name-pollution in term.h by removing #define's for HAVE_xxx
1501 + correct typo in curs_terminfo.3x (Debian #369168).
1504 + enable the mouse in test/movewindow.c
1505 + improve a limit-check in frm_def.c (John Heasley).
1506 + minor copyright fixes.
1507 + change configure script to produce test/Makefile from data file.
1510 + add a configure option --enable-wgetch-events to enable
1511 NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS, and correct the associated loop-logic in
1512 lib_twait.c (report by Bernd Jendrissek).
1513 + remove include/nomacros.h from build, since the ifdef for
1514 NCURSES_NOMACROS makes that obsolete.
1515 + add entrypoints for some functions which were only provided as macros
1516 to make NCURSES_NOMACROS ifdef work properly: getcurx(), getcury(),
1517 getbegx(), getbegy(), getmaxx(), getmaxy(), getparx() and getpary(),
1519 + provide ifdef for NCURSES_NOMACROS which suppresses most macro
1520 definitions from curses.h, i.e., where a macro is defined to override
1521 a function to improve performance. Allowing a developer to suppress
1522 these definitions can simplify some application (discussion with
1524 + improve description of memu/meml in terminfo manpage.
1527 + if msgr is false, reset video attributes when doing an automargin
1528 wrap to the next line. This makes the ncurses 'k' test work properly
1530 + correct caching of keyname(), which was using only half of its table.
1531 + minor fixes to memory-leak checking.
1532 + make SCREEN._acs_map and SCREEN._screen_acs_map pointers rather than
1533 arrays, making ACS_LEN less visible to applications (suggested by
1535 + move chunk in SCREEN ifdef'd for USE_WIDEC_SUPPORT to the end, so
1536 _screen_acs_map will have the same offset in both ncurses/ncursesw,
1537 making the corresponding tinfo/tinfow libraries binary-compatible
1538 (cf: 20041016, report by Stanislav Ievlev).
1541 + improve debug-tracing for EmitRange().
1542 + change default for --with-develop to "yes". Add NCURSES_NO_HARD_TABS
1543 and NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE environment variables to allow runtime
1544 suppression of the related hard-tabs and xmc-glitch features.
1545 + add ncurses version number to top-level manpages, e.g., ncurses, tic,
1546 infocmp, terminfo as well as form, menu, panel.
1547 + update config.guess, config.sub
1548 + modify ncurses.c to work around a bug in NetBSD 3.0 curses
1549 (field_buffer returning null for a valid field). The 'r' test
1550 appears to not work with that configuration since the new_fieldtype()
1551 function is broken in that implementation.
1554 + add hpterm-color terminfo entry -TD
1555 + fixes to compile test-programs with HPUX 11.23
1558 + add copyright notices to files other than those that are generated,
1559 data or adapted from pdcurses (reports by William McBrine, David
1561 + improve rendering on hpterm by not resetting attributes at the end
1562 of doupdate() if the terminal has the magic-cookie feature (report
1564 + add 256color variants of terminfo entries for programs which are
1565 reported to implement this feature -TD
1568 + fix typo in change to NewChar() macro from 20060311 changes, which
1569 broke tab-expansion (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
1572 + document -U option of tic and infocmp.
1573 + modify tic/infocmp to suppress smacs/rmacs when acsc is suppressed
1574 due to size limit, e.g., converting to termcap format. Also
1575 suppress them if the output format does not contain acsc and it
1576 was not VT100-like, i.e., a one-one mapping (Novell #163715).
1577 + add configure check to ensure that SIGWINCH is defined on platforms
1578 such as OS X which exclude that when _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., are
1579 defined (report by Nicholas Cole)
1582 + modify write_object() to not write coincidental extensions of an
1583 entry made due to it being referenced in a use= clause (report by
1585 + another fix for infocmp -i option, which did not ensure that some
1586 escape sequences had comparable prefixes (report by Alain Bench).
1589 + improve discussion of init/reset in terminfo and tput manpages
1590 (report by Alain Bench).
1591 + use is3 string for a fallback of rs3 in the reset program; it was
1592 using is2 (report by Alain Bench).
1593 + correct logic for infocmp -i option, which did not account for
1594 multiple digits in a parameter (cf: 20040828) (report by Alain
1596 + move _nc_handle_sigwinch() to lib_setup.c to make --with-termlib
1597 option work after 20060114 changes (report by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz).
1598 + add copyright notices to test-programs as needed (report by William
1602 + modify ncurses.c 'F' test to combine the wide-characters with color
1603 and/or video attributes.
1604 + modify test/ncurses to use CTL/Q or ESC consistently for exiting
1605 a test-screen (some commands used 'x' or 'q').
1608 + fix an off-by-one in the scrolling-region change (cf_ 20060311).
1611 + add checks in waddchnstr() and wadd_wchnstr() to stop copying when
1612 a null character is found (report by Igor Bogomazov).
1613 + modify progs/Makefile.in to make "tput init" work properly with
1614 cygwin, i.e., do not pass a ".exe" in the reference string used
1615 in check_aliases (report by Samuel Thibault).
1616 + add some checks to ensure current position is within scrolling
1617 region before scrolling on a new line (report by Dan Gookin).
1618 + change some NewChar() usage to static variables to work around
1619 stack garbage introduced when cchar_t is not packed (Redhat #182024).
1622 + workarounds to build test/movewindow with PDcurses 2.7.
1623 + fix for nsterm-16color entry (patch by Alain Bench).
1624 + correct a typo in infocmp manpage (Debian #354281).
1627 + add nsterm-16color entry -TD
1628 + updated mlterm terminfo entry -TD
1629 + remove 970913 feature for copying subwindows as they are moved in
1630 mvwin() (discussion with Bryan Christ).
1631 + modify test/demo_menus.c to demonstrate moving a menu (both the
1632 window and subwindow) using shifted cursor-keys.
1633 + start implementing recursive mvwin() in movewindow.c (incomplete).
1634 + add a fallback definition for GCC_PRINTFLIKE() in test.priv.h,
1635 for movewindow.c (report by William McBrine).
1636 + add help-message to test/movewindow.c
1639 + add test/movewindow.c, to test mvderwin().
1640 + fix ncurses soft-key test so color changes are shown immediately
1641 rather than delayed.
1642 + modify ncurses soft-key test to hide the keys when exiting the test
1644 + fixes to build test programs with PDCurses 2.7, e.g., its headers
1645 rely on autoconf symbols, and it declares stubs for nonfunctional
1646 terminfo and termcap entrypoints.
1649 + improved test/configure to build test/ncurses on HPUX 11 using the
1651 + documented ALTERNATE CONFIGURATIONS in the ncurses manpage, for the
1652 benefit of developers who do not read INSTALL.
1655 + correct form library Window_To_Buffer() change (cf: 20040516), which
1656 should ignore the video attributes (report by Ricardo Cantu).
1659 + minor fixes to xmc-glitch experimental code:
1660 + suppress line-drawing
1661 + implement max_attributes
1663 + minor fixes for the database iterator.
1664 + fix some buffer limits in c++ demo (comment by Falk Hueffner in
1668 + add toe -a option, to show all databases. This uses new private
1669 interfaces in the ncurses library for iterating through the list of
1671 + fix toe from 20000909 changes which made it not look at
1673 + make toe's -v option parameter optional as per manpage.
1674 + improve SIGWINCH handling by postponing its effect during newterm(),
1675 etc., when allocating screens.
1678 + modify wgetnstr() to return KEY_RESIZE if a sigwinch occurs. Use
1679 this in test/filter.c
1680 + fix an error in filter() modification which caused some applications
1684 + check if filter() was called when getting the screensize. Keep it
1685 at 1 if so (based on Redhat #174498).
1686 + add extension nofilter().
1687 + refined the workaround for ACS mapping.
1688 + make ifdef's consistent in curses.h for the extended colors so the
1689 header file can be used for the normal curses library. The header
1690 file installed for extended colors is a variation of the
1691 wide-character configuration (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
1694 + add a workaround to ACS mapping to allow applications such as
1695 test/blue.c to use the "PC ROM" characters by masking them with
1696 A_ALTCHARSET. This worked up til 5.5, but was lost in the revision
1697 of legacy coding (report by Michael Deutschmann).
1698 + add a null-pointer check in the wide-character version of
1699 calculate_actual_width() (report by Victor Julien).
1700 + improve test/ncurses 'd' (color-edit) test by allowing the RGB
1701 values to be set independently (patch by William McBrine).
1702 + modify test/configure script to allow building test programs with
1704 + modified test programs to allow some to work with NetBSD curses.
1705 Several do not because NetBSD curses implements a subset of X/Open
1706 curses, and also lacks much of SVr4 additions. But it's enough for
1708 + update config.guess and config.sub
1711 + use BSD-specific fix for return-value from cgetent() from CVS where
1712 an unknown terminal type would be reportd as "database not found".
1713 + make tgetent() return code more readable using new symbols
1715 + remove references to non-existent "tctest" program.
1716 + remove TESTPROGS from progs/Makefile.in (it was referring to code
1717 that was never built in that directory).
1718 + typos in curs_addchstr.3x, some doc files (noticed in OpenBSD CVS).
1721 + add use_legacy_coding() function to support lynx's font-switching
1723 + fix formatting in curs_termcap.3x (report by Mike Frysinger).
1724 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to change preprocessor-expanded _Bool back to
1728 + extend test/ncurses.c 's' (overlay window) test to exercise overlay(),
1729 overwrite() and copywin() with different combinations of colors and
1730 attributes (including background color) to make it easy to see the
1731 effect of the different functions.
1732 + corrections to menu/m_global.c for wide-characters (report by
1736 + add configure option --without-dlsym, allowing developers to
1737 configure GPM support without using dlsym() (discussion with Michael
1739 + fix wins_nwstr(), which did not handle single-column non-8bit codes
1743 + move prototypes for wide-character trace functions from curses.tail
1744 to curses.wide to avoid accidental reference to those if
1745 _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined without ensuring that <wchar.h> is
1747 + add/use NCURSES_INLINE definition.
1748 + change some internal functions to use int/unsigned rather than the
1752 + remove a redundant check in lib_color.c (Debian #335655).
1753 + use ld's -search_paths_first option on Darwin to work around odd
1754 search rules on that platform (report by Christian Gennerat, analysis
1756 + remove special case for Darwin in CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro.
1757 + ignore EINTR in tcgetattr/tcsetattr calls (Debian #339518).
1758 + fix several bugs in test/bs.c (patch by Stephen Lindholm).
1761 + other minor fixes to cygwin based on tack -TD
1762 + correct smacs in cygwin (Debian #338234, report by Baurzhan
1763 Ismagulov, who noted that it was fixed in Cygwin).
1766 + add shifted up/down arrow codes to xterm-new as kind/kri strings -TD
1767 + modify wbkgrnd() to avoid clearing the A_CHARTEXT attribute bits
1768 since those record the state of multicolumn characters (Debian
1770 + modify werase to clear multicolumn characters that extend into
1771 a derived window (Debian #316663).
1774 + move assignment from environment variable ESCDELAY from initscr()
1775 down to newterm() so the environment variable affects timeouts for
1776 terminals opened with newterm() as well.
1777 + fix a memory leak in keyname().
1778 + add test/demo_altkeys.c
1779 + modify test/demo_defkey.c to exit from loop via 'q' to allow
1780 leak-checking, as well as fix a buffer size in winnstr() call.
1783 + correct order of use-clauses in rxvt-basic entry which made codes for
1784 f1-f4 vt100-style rather than vt220-style (report by Gabor Z Papp).
1785 + suppress configure check for gnatmake if Ada95/Makefile.in is not
1787 + correct a typo in configure --with-bool option for the case where
1788 --without-cxx is used (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1789 + add a note to INSTALL's discussion of --with-normal, pointing out
1790 that one may wish to use --without-gpm to ensure a completely
1791 static link (prompted by report by Felix von Leitner).
1793 20051010 5.5 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1796 + document in demo_forms.c some portability issues.
1799 + document side-effect of werase() which sets the cursor position.
1800 + save/restore the current position in form field editing to make
1804 + correct header dependencies in progs, allowing parallel make (report
1805 by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1806 + modify CF_BUILD_CC to ensure that pre-setting $BUILD_CC overrides
1807 the configure check for --with-build-cc (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1808 + modify CF_CFG_DEFAULTS to not use /usr as the default prefix for
1810 + update config.guess and config.sub from
1811 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
1814 + modify sed expression which computes path for /usr/lib/terminfo
1815 symbolic link in install to ensure that it does not change unexpected
1816 levels of the path (Gentoo #42336).
1817 + modify default for --disable-lp64 configure option to reduce impact
1818 on existing 64-bit builds. Enabling the _LP64 option may change the
1819 size of chtype and mmask_t. However, for ABI 6, it is enabled by
1820 default (report by Mike Frysinger).
1821 + add configure script check for --enable-ext-mouse, bump ABI to 6 by
1822 default if it is used.
1823 + improve configure script logic for bumping ABI to omit this if the
1824 --with-abi-version option was used.
1825 + update address for Free Software Foundation in tack's source.
1826 + correct wins_wch(), which was not marking the filler-cells of
1827 multi-column characters (cf: 20041023).
1830 + modify mouse initialization to ensure that Gpm_Open() is called only
1831 once. Otherwise GPM gets confused in its initialization of signal
1832 handlers (Debian #326709).
1835 + modify logic for backspacing in a multiline form field to ensure that
1836 it works even when the preceding line is full (report by Frank van
1838 + remove comment about BUGS section of ncurses manpage (Debian #325481)
1841 + document some workarounds for shared and libtool library
1842 configurations in INSTALL (see --with-shared and --with-libtool).
1843 + modify CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GXX_VERSION macros to accommodate
1844 cross-compilers which emit the platform name in their version
1846 arm-sa1100-linux-gnu-g++ (GCC) 4.0.1
1847 (report by Frank van Vugt).
1850 + start updating documentation for upcoming 5.5 release.
1851 + fix to make libtool and libtinfo work together again (cf: 20050122).
1852 + fixes to allow building traces into libtinfo
1853 + add debug trace to tic that shows if/how ncurses will write to the
1854 lower corner of a terminal's screen.
1855 + update llib-l* files.
1858 + modify initializers in c++ binding to build with old versions of g++.
1859 + improve special case for 20050115 repainting fix, ensuring that if
1860 the first changed cell is not a character that the range to be
1861 repainted is adjusted to start at a character's beginning (Debian
1865 + fixes to build on QNX 6.1
1866 + improve configure script checks for Intel 9.0 compiler.
1867 + remove #include's for libc.h (obsolete).
1868 + adjust ifdef's in curses.priv.h so that when cross-compiling to
1869 produce comp_hash and make_keys, no dependency on wchar.h is needed.
1870 That simplifies the build-cppflags (report by Frank van Vugt).
1871 + move modules related to key-binding into libtinfo to fix linkage
1872 problem caused by 20050430 changes to MKkeyname.sh (report by
1873 Konstantin Andreev).
1876 + updates/fixes for configure script macros from vile -TD
1877 + make prism9's sgr string agree with the rest of the terminfo -TD
1878 + make vt220's sgr0 string consistent with sgr string, do this for
1879 several related cases -TD
1880 + improve translation to termcap by filtering the 'me' (sgr0) strings
1881 as in the runtime call to tgetent() (prompted by a discussion with
1883 + improve tic check for sgr0 versus sgr(0), to help ensure that sgr0
1884 resets line-drawing.
1887 + fix special cases for trimming sgr0 for hurd and vt220 (Debian
1889 + split-out _nc_trim_sgr0() from modifications made to tgetent(), to
1890 allow it to be used by tic to provide information about the runtime
1891 changes that would be made to sgr0 for termcap applications.
1892 + modify make_sed.sh to make the group-name in the NAME section of
1893 form/menu library manpage agree with the TITLE string when renaming
1894 is done for Debian (Debian #78866).
1897 + modify parameter type in c++ binding for insch() and mvwinsch() to
1898 be consistent with underlying ncurses library (was char, is chtype).
1899 + modify treatment of Intel compiler to allow _GNU_SOURCE to be defined
1901 + improve configure check for nanosleep(), checking that it works since
1902 some older systems such as AIX 4.3 have a nonworking version.
1905 + update config.guess and config.sub from
1906 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
1907 + modify misc/shlib to work in test-directory.
1908 + suppress $suffix in misc/run_tic.sh when cross-compiling. This
1909 allows cross-compiles to use the host's tic program to handle the
1910 "make install.data" step.
1911 + improve description of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables in manpages
1912 (prompted by report by Dave Ulrick).
1913 + improve description of cross-compiling in INSTALL
1914 + add NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html by Pradeep Padala
1915 (see http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/).
1916 + modify configure script to obtain soname for GPM library (discussion
1917 with Daniel Jacobowitz).
1918 + modify configure script so that --with-chtype option will still
1919 compute the unsigned literals suffix for constants in curses.h
1920 (report by Daniel Jacobowitz:
1921 + patches from Daniel Jacobowitz:
1922 + the man_db.renames entry for tack.1 was backwards.
1923 + tack.1 had some 1m's that should have been 1M's.
1924 + the section for curs_inwstr.3 was wrong.
1927 + correction to --with-chtype option (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1930 + move build-time edit_man.sh and edit_man.sed scripts to top directory
1931 to simplify reusing them for renaming tack's manpage (prompted by a
1932 review of Debian package).
1933 + revert minor optimization from 20041030 (Debian #313609).
1934 + libtool-specific fixes, tested with libtool 1.4.3, 1.5.0, 1.5.6,
1935 1.5.10 and 1.5.18 (all work except as noted previously for the c++
1936 install using libtool 1.5.0):
1937 + modify the clean-rule in c++/Makefile.in to work with IRIX64 make
1939 + use $(LIBTOOL_UNINSTALL) symbol, overlooked in 20030830
1940 + add configure options --with-chtype and --with-mmask-t, to allow
1941 overriding of the non-LP64 model's use of the corresponding types.
1942 + revise test for size of chtype (and mmask_t), which always returned
1943 "long" due to an uninitialized variable (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1946 + change _tracef's that used "%p" format for va_list values to ignore
1947 that, since on some platforms those are not pointers.
1948 + fixes for long-formats in printf's due to largefile support.
1951 + fixes for termcap support:
1952 + reset pointer to _nc_curr_token.tk_name when the input stream is
1953 closed, which could point to free memory (cf: 20030215).
1954 + delink TERMTYPE data which is used by the termcap reader, so that
1955 extended names data will be freed consistently.
1956 + free pointer to TERMTYPE data in _nc_free_termtype() rather than
1958 + add some entrypoints for freeing permanently allocated data via
1959 _nc_freeall() when NO_LEAKS is defined.
1960 + amend 20041030 change to _nc_do_color to ensure that optimization is
1961 applied only when the terminal supports back_color_erase (bce).
1964 + add sun-color terminfo entry -TD
1965 + correct a missing assignment in c++ binding's method
1966 NCursesPanel::UserPointer() from 20050409 changes.
1967 + improve configure check for large-files, adding check for dirent64
1969 + minor change to configure script to improve linker options for the
1973 + document error conditions for ncurses library functions (report by
1975 + regenerated html documentation for ada binding.
1976 see ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/gnathtml
1979 + regenerated html documentation for manpages.
1980 + add $(BUILD_EXEEXT) suffix to invocation of make_keys in
1981 ncurses/Makefile (Gentoo #89772).
1982 + modify c++/demo.cc to build with g++ -fno-implicit-templates option
1983 (patch by Mike Frysinger).
1984 + modify tic to filter out long extended names when translating to
1985 termcap format. Only two characters are permissible for termcap
1989 + modify terminfo entries xterm-new and rxvt to add strings for
1990 shift-, control-cursor keys.
1991 + workaround to allow c++ binding to compile with g++ 2.95.3, which
1992 has a broken implementation of static_cast<> (patch by Jeff Chua).
1993 + modify initialization of key lookup table so that if an extended
1994 capability (tic -x) string is defined, and its name begins with 'k',
1995 it will automatically be treated as a key.
1996 + modify test/keynames.c to allow for the possibility of extended
1997 key names, e.g., via define_key(), or via "tic -x".
1998 + add test/demo_termcap.c to show the contents of given entry via the
2002 + minor fixes for vt100/vt52 entries -TD
2003 + add configure option --enable-largefile
2004 + corrected libraries used to build Ada95/gen/gen, found in testing
2008 + update config.guess, config.sub
2009 + modify configure script check for _XOPEN_SOURCE, disable that on
2010 Darwin whose header files have problems (patch by Chris Zubrzycki).
2011 + modify form library Is_Printable_String() to use iswprint() rather
2012 than wcwidth() for determining if a character is printable. The
2013 latter caused it to reject menu items containing non-spacing
2015 + modify ncurses test program's F-test to handle non-spacing characters
2016 by combining them with a reverse-video blank.
2017 + review/fix several gcc -Wconversion warnings.
2020 + correct an off-by-one error in m_driver() for mouse-clicks used to
2021 position the mouse to a particular item.
2022 + implement test/demo_menus.c
2023 + add some checks in lib_mouse to ensure SP is set.
2024 + modify C++ binding to make 20050403 changes work with the configure
2025 --enable-const option.
2028 + modify start_color() to return ERR if it cannot allocate memory.
2029 + address g++ compiler warnings in C++ binding by adding explicit
2030 member initialization, assignment operators and copy constructors.
2031 Most of the changes simply preserve the existing semantics of the
2032 binding, which can leak memory, etc., but by making these features
2033 visible, it provides a framework for improving the binding.
2034 + improve C++ binding using static_cast, etc.
2035 + modify configure script --enable-warnings to add options to g++ to
2036 correspond to the gcc --enable-warnings.
2037 + modify C++ binding to use some C internal functions to make it
2038 compile properly on Solaris (and other platforms).
2041 + amend change from 20050320 to limit it to configurations with a
2043 + fix a bug introduced in 20050320 which broke the translation of
2044 nonprinting characters to uparrow form (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
2047 + add ifdef's for _LP64 in curses.h to avoid using wasteful 64-bits for
2048 chtype and mmask_t, but add configure option --disable-lp64 in case
2049 anyone used that configuration.
2050 + update misc/shlib script to account for Mac OS X (report by Michail
2052 + correct comparison for wrapping multibyte characters in
2053 waddch_literal() (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
2056 + add -c and -w options to tset to allow user to suppress ncurses'
2057 resizing of the terminal emulator window in the special case where it
2058 is not able to detect the true size (report by Win Delvaux, Debian
2060 + modify waddch_nosync() to account for locale zn_CH.GBK, which uses
2061 codes 128-159 as part of multibyte characters (report by Wang
2062 WenRui, Debian #300512).
2065 + modify ncurses.c 'd' test to make it work with 88-color
2066 configuration, i.e., by implementing scrolling.
2067 + improve scrolling in ncurses.c 'c' and 'C' tests, e.g., for 88-color
2071 + change tracemunch to use strict checking.
2072 + modify ncurses.c 'p' test to test line-drawing within a pad.
2073 + implement environment variable NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS to support
2074 miscellaneous terminal emulators which ignore alternate character
2075 set escape sequences when in UTF-8 mode.
2078 + change NCursesWindow::err_handler() to a virtual function (request by
2080 + modify fty_int.c and fty_num.c to handle wide characters (report by
2082 + adapt fix for fty_alpha.c to fty_alnum.c, which also handled normal
2083 and wide characters inconsistently (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
2084 + update llib-* files to reflect internal interface additions/changes.
2087 + improve test/configure script, adding tests for _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc.,
2089 + add aixterm-16color terminfo entry -TD
2090 + modified xterm-new terminfo entry to work with tgetent() changes -TD
2091 + extended changes in tgetent() from 20040710 to allow the substring of
2092 sgr0 which matches rmacs to be at the beginning of the sgr0 string
2093 (request by Thomas Wolff). Wolff says the visual effect in
2094 combination with pre-20040710 ncurses is improved.
2095 + fix off-by-one in winnstr() call which caused form field validation
2096 of multibyte characters to ignore the last character in a field.
2097 + correct logic in winsch() for inserting multibyte strings; the code
2098 would clear cells after the insertion rather than push them to the
2099 right (cf: 20040228).
2100 + fix an inconsistency in Check_Alpha_Field() between normal and wide
2101 character logic (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
2104 + fix a bug in editing wide-characters in form library: deleting a
2105 nonwide character modified the previous wide-character.
2106 + update manpage to describe NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2.
2107 + correct manpage description of mouseinterval() (Debian #280687).
2108 + add a note to default_colors.3x explaining why this extension was
2109 added (Debian #295083).
2110 + add traces to panel library.
2113 + improve editing of wide-characters in form library: left/right
2114 cursor movement, and single-character deletions work properly.
2115 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM happens to be prefixed with
2116 "xterm". Gpm_Open() would otherwise assert that it can deal with
2117 mouse events in this case.
2118 + modify GPM mouse support so it closes the server connection when
2119 the caller disables the mouse (report by Stanislav Ievlev).
2122 + add traces for callback functions in form library.
2123 + add experimental configure option --enable-ext-mouse, which defines
2124 NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2, and modifies the encoding of mouse events to
2125 support wheel mice, which may transmit buttons 4 and 5. This works
2126 with xterm and similar X terminal emulators (prompted by question by
2127 Andreas Henningsson, this is also related to Debian #230990).
2128 + improve configure macros CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE to
2129 avoid redefinition warnings on cygwin.
2132 + merge remaining development changes for extended colors (mostly
2133 complete, does not appear to break other configurations).
2134 + add xterm-88color.dat (part of extended colors testing).
2135 + improve _tracedump() handling of color pairs past 96.
2136 + modify return-value from start_color() to return OK if colors have
2137 already been started.
2138 + modify curs_color.3x list error conditions for init_pair(),
2139 pair_content() and color_content().
2140 + modify pair_content() to return -1 for consistency with init_pair()
2141 if it corresponds to the default-color.
2142 + change internal representation of default-color to allow application
2143 to use color number 255. This does not affect the total number of
2144 color pairs which are allowed.
2145 + add a top-level tags rule.
2148 + add a null-pointer check in wgetch() in case it is called without
2149 first calling initscr().
2150 + add some null-pointer checks for SP, which is not set by libtinfo.
2151 + modify misc/shlib to ensure that absolute pathnames are used.
2152 + modify test/Makefile.in, etc., to link test programs only against the
2153 libraries needed, e.g., omit form/menu/panel library for the ones
2154 that are curses-specific.
2155 + change SP->_current_attr to a pointer, adjust ifdef's to ensure that
2156 libtinfo.so and libtinfow.so have the same ABI. The reason for this
2157 is that the corresponding data which belongs to the upper-level
2158 ncurses library has a different size in each model (report by
2162 + minor fixes to allow test-compiles with g++.
2163 + correct column value shown in tic's warnings, which did not account
2164 for leading whitespace.
2165 + add a check in _nc_trans_string() for improperly ended strings, i.e.,
2166 where a following line begins in column 1.
2167 + modify _nc_save_str() to return a null pointer on buffer overflow.
2168 + improve repainting while scrolling wide-character data (Eungkyu Song).
2171 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
2174 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
2175 + fix manpage typo (FreeBSD report docs/75544).
2176 + update config.guess, config.sub
2177 > patches for configure script (Albert Chin-A-Young):
2178 + improved fix to make mbstate_t recognized on HPUX 11i (cf:
2179 20030705), making vsscanf() prototype visible on IRIX64. Tested for
2180 on HP-UX 11i, Solaris 7, 8, 9, AIX 4.3.3, 5.2, Tru64 UNIX 4.0D, 5.1,
2181 IRIX64 6.5, Redhat Linux 7.1, 9, and RHEL 2.1, 3.0.
2182 + print the result of the --disable-home-terminfo option.
2183 + use -rpath when compiling with SGI C compiler.
2186 + add trace calls to remaining public functions in form and menu
2188 + fix check for numeric digits in test/ncurses.c 'b' and 'B' tests.
2189 + fix typo in test/ncurses.c 'c' test from 20041218.
2192 + revise test/ncurses.c 'c' color test to improve use for xterm-88color
2193 and xterm-256color, added 'C' test using the wide-character color_set
2194 and attr_set functions.
2197 + modify configure script to work with Intel compiler.
2198 + fix an limit-check in wadd_wchnstr() which caused labels in the
2199 forms-demo to be one character short.
2200 + fix typo in curs_addchstr.3x (Jared Yanovich).
2201 + add trace calls to most functions in form and menu libraries.
2202 + update working-position for adding wide-characters when window is
2203 scrolled (prompted by related report by Eungkyu Song).
2206 + replace some references on Linux to wcrtomb() which use it to obtain
2207 the length of a multibyte string with _nc_wcrtomb, since wcrtomb() is
2208 broken in glibc (see Debian #284260).
2209 + corrected length-computation in wide-character support for
2211 + some fixes to frm_driver.c to allow it to accept multibyte input.
2212 + modify configure script to work with Intel 8.0 compiler.
2215 + amend change to setupterm() in 20030405 which would reuse the value
2216 of cur_term if the same output was selected. This now reuses it only
2217 when setupterm() is called from tgetent(), which has no notion of
2218 separate SCREENs. Note that tgetent() must be called after initscr()
2219 or newterm() to use this feature (Redhat Bugzilla #140326).
2220 + add a check in CF_BUILD_CC macro to ensure that developer has given
2221 the --with-build-cc option when cross-compiling (report by Alexandre
2223 + improved configure script checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE and
2224 _POSIX_C_SOURCE (fix for IRIX 5.3 from Georg Schwarz, _POSIX_C_SOURCE
2226 + cosmetic fix to test/gdc.c to recolor the bottom edge of the box
2227 for consistency (comment by Dan Nelson).
2230 + update wsvt25 terminfo entry -TD
2231 + modify test/ins_wide.c to test all flavors of ins_wstr().
2232 + ignore filler-cells in wadd_wchnstr() when adding a cchar_t array
2233 which consists of multi-column characters, since this function
2234 constructs them (cf: 20041023).
2235 + modify winnstr() to return multibyte character strings for the
2236 wide-character configuration.
2239 + fixes to make slk_set() and slk_wset() accept and store multibyte
2240 or multicolumn characters.
2243 + improve color optimization a little by making _nc_do_color() check
2244 if the old/new pairs are equivalent to the default pair 0.
2245 + modify assume_default_colors() to not require that
2246 use_default_colors() be called first.
2249 + modify term_attrs() to use termattrs(), add the extended attributes
2250 such as enter_horizontal_hl_mode for WA_HORIZONTAL to term_attrs().
2251 + add logic in waddch_literal() to clear orphaned cells when one
2252 multi-column character partly overwrites another.
2253 + improved logic for clearing cells when a multi-column character
2254 must be wrapped to a new line.
2255 + revise storage of cells for multi-column characters to correct a
2256 problem with repainting. In the old scheme, it was possible for
2257 doupdate() to decide that only part of a multi-column character
2258 should be repainted since the filler cells stored only an attribute
2259 to denote them as fillers, rather than the character value and the
2263 + minor fixes for traces.
2264 + add SP->_screen_acs_map[], used to ensure that mapping of missing
2265 line-drawing characters is handled properly. For example, ACS_DARROW
2266 is absent from xterm-new, and it was coincidentally displayed the
2270 + amend 20021221 workaround for broken acs to reset the sgr, rmacs
2271 and smacs strings as well. Also modify the check for screen's
2272 limitations in that area to allow the multi-character shift-in
2273 and shift-out which seem to work.
2274 + change GPM initialization, using dl library to load it dynamically
2275 at runtime (Debian #110586).
2278 + correct logic for color pair in setcchar() and getcchar() (patch by
2279 Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
2280 + add t/T commands to ncurses b/B tests to allow a different color to
2281 be tested for the attrset part of the test than is used in the
2285 + fix to make setcchar() to work when its wchar_t* parameter is
2286 pointing to a string which contains more data than can be converted.
2287 + modify wget_wstr() and example in ncurses.c to work if wchar_t and
2288 wint_t are different sizes (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
2291 + remove check in wget_wch() added to fix an infinite loop, appears to
2292 have been working around a transitory glibc bug, and interferes
2293 with normal operation (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
2294 + correct wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not pass the rendition
2295 information (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
2296 + fix aclocal.m4 so that the wide-character version of ncurses gets
2297 compiled as libncursesw.5.dylib, instead of libncurses.5w.dylib
2298 (adapted from patch by James J Ramsey).
2299 + change configure script for --with-caps option to indicate that it
2300 is no longer experimental.
2301 + change configure script to reflect the fact that --enable-widec has
2302 not been "experimental" since 5.3 (report by Bruno Lustosa).
2305 + add 'B' test to ncurses.c, to exercise some wide-character functions.
2308 + modify infocmp -i option to match 8-bit controls against its table
2309 entries, e.g., so it can analyze the xterm-8bit entry.
2310 + add morphos terminfo entry, improve amiga-8bit entry (Pavel Fedin).
2311 + correct translation of "%%" in terminfo format to termcap, e.g.,
2312 using "tic -C" (Redhat Bugzilla #130921).
2313 + modified configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to ensure that if
2314 it defines _POSIX_C_SOURCE, that it defines it to a specific value
2315 (comp.os.stratus newsgroup comment).
2318 + fixes to build with Ada95 binding with gnat 3.4 (all warnings are
2319 fatal, and gnat does not follow the guidelines for pragmas).
2320 However that did find a coding error in Assume_Default_Colors().
2321 + modify several terminfo entries to ensure xterm mouse and cursor
2322 visibility are reset in rs2 string: hurd, putty, gnome,
2323 konsole-base, mlterm, Eterm, screen (Debian #265784, #55637). The
2324 xterm entries are left alone - old ones for compatibility, and the
2325 new ones do not require this change. -TD
2328 + fake a SIGWINCH in newterm() to accommodate buggy terminal emulators
2329 and window managers (Debian #265631).
2330 > terminfo updates -TD
2331 + remove dch/dch1 from rxvt because they are implemented inconsistently
2332 with the common usage of bce/ech
2333 + remove khome from vt220 (vt220's have no home key)
2337 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test, adding v/V toggles to cycle through
2338 combinations of video attributes so that for instance bold and
2339 underline can be tested. This made the legend too crowded, added
2340 a help window as well.
2341 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test to cycle through default colors if
2342 the -d option is set.
2343 + update putty terminfo entry (Robert de Bath).
2346 + modify test/cardfile.c to allow it to read more data than can be
2348 + correct logic in resizeterm.c which kept it from processing all
2349 levels of window hierarchy (reports by Folkert van Heusden,
2353 + modify "tic -cv" to ignore delays when comparing strings. Also
2354 modify it to ignore a canceled sgr string, e.g., for terminals which
2355 cannot properly combine attributes in one control sequence.
2356 + corrections for gnome and konsole entries (Redhat Bugzilla #122815,
2357 patch by Hans de Goede)
2358 > terminfo updates -TD
2359 + make ncsa-m rmacs/smacs consistent with sgr
2360 + add sgr, rc/sc and ech to syscons entries
2361 + add function-keys to decansi
2362 + add sgr to mterm-ansi
2363 + add sgr, civis, cnorm to emu
2364 + correct/simplify cup in addrinfo
2367 > terminfo updates -TD
2368 + add xterm-pc-fkeys
2369 + review/update gnome and gnome-rh90 entries (prompted by Redhat
2371 + review/update konsole entries
2372 + add sgr, correct sgr0 for kterm and mlterm
2373 + correct tsl string in kterm
2376 + add configure option --without-xterm-new
2379 + add check in wget_wch() for printable bytes that are not part of a
2380 multibyte character.
2381 + modify wadd_wchnstr() to render text using window's background
2383 + improve tic's check to compare sgr and sgr0.
2384 + fix c++ directory's .cc.i rule.
2385 + modify logic in tgetent() which adjusts the termcap "me" string
2386 to work with ISO-2022 string used in xterm-new (cf: 20010908).
2387 + modify tic's check for conflicting function keys to omit that if
2388 converting termcap to termcap format.
2389 + add -U option to tic and infocmp.
2390 + add rmam/smam to linux terminfo entry (Trevor Van Bremen)
2391 > terminfo updates -TD
2392 + minor fixes for emu
2394 + change wyse acsc strings to use 'i' map rather than 'I'
2399 + use tic -x to install terminfo database -TD
2400 + add -x to infocmp's usage message.
2401 + correct field used for comparing O_ROWMAJOR in set_menu_format()
2402 (report/patch by Tony Li).
2403 + fix a missing nul check in set_field_buffer() from 20040508 changes.
2404 > terminfo updates -TD
2405 + make xterm-xf86-v43 derived from xterm-xf86-v40 rather than
2407 + align with xterm patch #192's use of xterm-new -TD
2408 + update xterm-new and xterm-8bit for cvvis/cnorm strings -TD
2409 + make xterm-new the default "xterm" entry -TD
2412 + correct BUILD_CPPFLAGS substitution in ncurses/Makefile.in, to allow
2413 cross-compiling from a separate directory tree (report/patch by
2415 + modify is_term_resized() to ensure that window sizes are nonzero,
2416 as documented in the manpage (report by Ian Collier).
2417 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro to make Hurd port build
2418 (Debian #249214, report/patch by Jeff Bailey).
2419 + configure-script mods from xterm, e.g., updates to CF_ADD_CFLAGS
2420 + update config.guess, config.sub
2421 > terminfo updates -TD
2423 + add xterm-xf86-v44
2424 + modify xterm-new aka xterm-xfree86 to accommodate luit, which
2425 relies on G1 being used via an ISO-2022 escape sequence (report by
2430 + reconsidered winsnstr(), decided after comparing other
2431 implementations that wrapping is an X/Open documentation error.
2432 + modify test/inserts.c to test all flavors of insstr().
2435 + add setlocale() calls to a few test programs which may require it:
2436 demo_forms.c, filter.c, ins_wide.c, inserts.c
2437 + correct a few misspelled function names in ncurses-intro.html (report
2439 + correct internal name of key_defined() manpage, which conflicted with
2443 + correct size of internal pad used for holding wide-character
2444 field_buffer() results.
2445 + modify data_ahead() to work with wide-characters.
2448 + improve description of terminfo if-then-else expressions (suggested
2450 + improve test/ncurses.c 'd' test, allow it to use external file for
2451 initial palette (added xterm-16color.dat and linux-color.dat), and
2452 reset colors to the initial palette when starting/ending the test.
2453 + change limit-check in init_color() to allow r/g/b component to
2454 reach 1000 (cf: 20020928).
2457 + modify form library to use cchar_t's rather than char's in the
2458 wide-character configuration for storing data for field buffers.
2459 + correct logic of win_wchnstr(), which did not work for more than
2463 + replace memset/memcpy usage in form library with for-loops to
2464 simplify changing the datatype of FIELD.buf, part of wide-character
2466 + fix some inconsistent use of #if/#ifdef (report by Alain Guibert).
2469 + modify menu library to account for actual number of columns used by
2470 multibyte character strings, in the wide-character configuration
2471 (adapted from patch by Philipp Tomsich).
2472 + add "-x" option to infocmp like tic's "-x", for use in "-F"
2473 comparisons. This modifies infocmp to only report extended
2474 capabilities if the -x option is given, making this more consistent
2475 with tic. Some scripts may break, since infocmp previous gave this
2476 information without an option.
2477 + modify termcap-parsing to retain 2-character aliases at the beginning
2478 of an entry if the "-x" option is used in tic.
2481 + minor compiler-warning and test-program fixes.
2484 + modify tic's missing-sgr warning to apply to terminfo only.
2485 + free some memory leaks in tic.
2486 + remove check in post_menu() that prevented menus from extending
2487 beyond the screen (request by Max J. Werner).
2488 + remove check in newwin() that prevents allocating windows
2489 that extend beyond the screen. Solaris curses does this.
2490 + add ifdef in test/color_set.c to allow it to compile with older
2492 + add napms() calls to test/dots.c to make it not be a CPU hog.
2495 + modify unctrl() to return null if its parameter does not correspond
2496 to an unsigned char.
2497 + add some limit-checks to guard isprint(), etc., from being used on
2498 values that do not fit into an unsigned char (report by Sami Farin).
2501 + fix a typo in the _nc_get_locale() change.
2504 + modify _nc_get_locale() to use setlocale() to query the program's
2505 current locale rather than using getenv(). This fixes a case in tin
2506 which relies on legacy treatment of 8-bit characters when the locale
2507 is not initialized (reported by Urs Jansen).
2508 + add sgr string to screen's and rxvt's terminfo entries -TD.
2509 + add a check in tic for terminfo entries having an sgr0 but no sgr
2510 string. This confuses Tru64 and HPUX curses when combined with
2511 color, e.g., making them leave line-drawing characters in odd places.
2512 + correct casts used in ABSENT_BOOLEAN, CANCELLED_BOOLEAN, matches the
2513 original definitions used in Debian package to fix PowerPC bug before
2514 20030802 (Debian #237629).
2517 + modify PutAttrChar() and PUTC() macro to improve use of
2518 A_ALTCHARSET attribute to prevent line-drawing characters from
2519 being lost in situations where the locale would otherwise treat the
2520 raw data as nonprintable (Debian #227879).
2523 + fix a redefinition of CTRL() macro in test/view.c for AIX 5.2 (report
2525 + remove ".PP" after ".SH NAME" in a few manpages; this confuses
2526 some apropos script (Debian #237831).
2529 + modify ncurses.c 'r' test so editing commands, like inserted text,
2530 set the field background, and the state of insert/overlay editing
2531 mode is shown in that test.
2532 + change syntax of dummy targets in Ada95 makefiles to work with pmake.
2533 + correct logic in test/ncurses.c 'b' for noncolor terminals which
2534 did not recognize a quit-command (cf: 20030419).
2537 + modify _nc_insert_ch() to allow for its input to be part of a
2539 + split out lib_insnstr.c, to prepare to rewrite it. X/Open states
2540 that this function performs wrapping, unlike all of the other
2541 insert-functions. Currently it does not wrap.
2542 + check for nl_langinfo(CODESET), use it if available (report by
2544 + split-out CF_BUILD_CC macro, actually did this for lynx first.
2545 + fixes for configure script CF_WITH_DBMALLOC and CF_WITH_DMALLOC,
2546 which happened to work with bash, but not with Bourne shell (report
2547 by Marco d'Itri via tin-dev).
2550 + some changes to adapt the form library to wide characters, incomplete
2551 (request by Mike Aubury).
2552 + add symbol to curses.h which can be used to suppress include of
2554 #define NCURSES_ENABLE_STDBOOL_H 0
2556 (discussion on XFree86 mailing list).
2559 + modify configure --with-termlib option to accept a value which sets
2560 the name of the terminfo library. This would allow a packager to
2561 build libtinfow.so renamed to coincide with libtinfo.so (discussion
2562 with Stanislav Ievlev).
2563 + improve documentation of --with-install-prefix, --prefix and
2564 $(DESTDIR) in INSTALL (prompted by discussion with Paul Lew).
2565 + add configure check if the compiler can use -c -o options to rename
2566 its output file, use that to omit the 'cd' command which was used to
2567 ensure object files are created in a separate staging directory
2568 (prompted by comments by Johnny Wezel, Martin Mokrejs).
2570 20040208 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2573 20040207 pre-release
2574 + minor fixes to _nc_tparm_analyze(), i.e., do not count %i as a param,
2575 and do not count %d if it follows a %p.
2576 + correct an inconsistency between handling of codes in the 128-255
2577 range, e.g., as illustrated by test/ncurses.c f/F tests. In POSIX
2578 locale, the latter did not show printable results, while the former
2580 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to compensate for broken C preprocessor on Mac
2581 OS X, which alters "%%" to "% % " (report by Robert Simms, fix
2582 verified by Scott Corscadden).
2584 20040131 pre-release
2585 + modify SCREEN struct to align it between normal/wide curses flavors
2586 to simplify future changes to build a single version of libtinfo
2587 (patch by Stanislav Ievlev).
2588 + document handling of carriage return by addch() in manpage.
2589 + document special features of unctrl() in manpage.
2590 + documented interface changes in INSTALL.
2591 + corrected control-char test in lib_addch.c to account for locale
2592 (Debian #230335, cf: 971206).
2593 + updated test/configure.in to use AC_EXEEXT and AC_OBJEXT.
2594 + fixes to compile Ada95 binding with Debian gnat 3.15p-4 package.
2595 + minor configure-script fixes for older ports, e.g., BeOS R4.5.
2597 20040125 pre-release
2598 + amend change to PutAttrChar() from 20030614 which computed the number
2599 of cells for a possibly multi-cell character. The 20030614 change
2600 forced the cell to a blank if the result from wcwidth() was not
2601 greater than zero. However, wcwidth() called for parameters in the
2602 range 128-255 can give this return value. The logic now simply
2603 ensures that the number of cells is greater than zero without
2604 modifying the displayed value.
2606 20040124 pre-release
2607 + looked good for 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org (but see above)
2608 + modify configure script check for ranlib to use AC_CHECK_TOOL, since
2609 that works better for cross-compiling.
2611 20040117 pre-release
2612 + modify lib_get_wch.c to prefer mblen/mbtowc over mbrlen/mbrtowc to
2613 work around core dump in Solaris 8's locale support, e.g., for
2614 zh_CN.GB18030 (report by Saravanan Bellan).
2615 + add includes for <stdarg.h> and <stdio.h> in configure script macro
2616 to make <wchar.h> check work with Tru64 4.0d.
2617 + add terminfo entry for U/Win -TD
2618 + add terminfo entries for SFU aka Interix aka OpenNT (Federico
2620 + modify tput's error messages to prefix them with the program name
2621 (report by Vincent Lefevre, patch by Daniel Jacobowitz (see Debian
2623 + correct a place in tack where exit_standout_mode was used instead of
2624 exit_attribute_mode (patch by Jochen Voss (see Debian #224443)).
2625 + modify c++/cursesf.h to use const in the Enumeration_Field method.
2626 + remove an ambiguous (actually redundant) method from c++/cursesf.h
2627 + make $HOME/.terminfo update optional (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
2628 + improve sed script which extracts libtool's version in the
2629 CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro.
2630 + add ifdef'd call to AC_PROG_LIBTOOL to CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro (to
2631 simplify local patch for Albert Chin-A-Young)..
2632 + add $(CXXFLAGS) to link command in c++/Makefile.in (adapted from
2633 patch by Albert Chin-A-Young)..
2634 + fix a missing substitution in configure.in for "$target" needed for
2636 + resync CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro with lynx; fixes IRIX64 and
2637 NetBSD 1.6 conflicts with _XOPEN_SOURCE.
2638 + make check for stdbool.h more specific, to ensure that including it
2639 will actually define/declare bool for the configured compiler.
2640 + rewrite ifdef's in curses.h relating NCURSES_BOOL and bool. The
2641 intention of that is to #define NCURSES_BOOL as bool when the
2642 compiler declares bool, and to #define bool as NCURSES_BOOL when it
2643 does not (reported by Jim Gifford, Sam Varshavchik, cf: 20031213).
2645 20040110 pre-release
2646 + change minor version to 4, i.e., ncurses 5.4
2647 + revised/improved terminfo entries for tvi912b, tvi920b (Benjamin C W
2649 + simplified ncurses/base/version.c by defining the result from the
2650 configure script rather than using sprintf (suggested by Stanislav
2652 + remove obsolete casts from c++/cursesw.h (reported by Stanislav
2654 + modify configure script so that when configuring for termlib, programs
2655 such as tic are not linked with the upper-level ncurses library
2656 (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
2657 + move version.c from ncurses/base to ncurses/tinfo to allow linking
2658 of tic, etc., using libtinfo (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
2661 + adjust -D's to build ncursesw on OpenBSD.
2662 + modify CF_PROG_EXT to make OS/2 build with EXEEXT.
2663 + add pecho_wchar().
2664 + remove <wctype.h> include from lib_slk_wset.c which is not needed (or
2665 available) on older platforms.
2668 + add -D's to build ncursew on FreeBSD 5.1.
2669 + modify shared library configuration for FreeBSD 4.x/5.x to add the
2670 soname information (request by Marc Glisse).
2671 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() to not use MAX_ALIAS, but PATH_MAX only
2672 for limiting the length of a filename in the terminfo database.
2673 + modify termname() to return the terminal name used by setupterm()
2674 rather than $TERM, without truncating to 14 characters as documented
2675 by X/Open (report by Stanislav Ievlev, cf: 970719).
2676 + re-add definition for _BSD_TYPES, lost in merge (cf: 20031206).
2679 + add configure option --with-manpage-format=catonly to address
2680 behavior of BSDI, allow install of man+cat files on NetBSD, whose
2681 behavior has diverged by requiring both to be present.
2682 + remove leading blanks from comment-lines in manlinks.sed script to
2683 work with Tru64 4.0d.
2684 + add screen.linux terminfo entry (discussion on mutt-users mailing
2688 + add a check for tic to flag missing backslashes for termcap
2689 continuation lines. ncurses reads the whole entry, but termcap
2690 applications do not.
2691 + add configure option "--with-manpage-aliases" extending
2692 "--with-manpage-aliases" to provide the option of generating ".so"
2693 files rather than symbolic links for manpage aliases.
2694 + add bool definition in include/curses.h.in for configurations with no
2695 usable C++ compiler (cf: 20030607).
2696 + fix pathname of SigAction.h for building with --srcdir (reported by
2700 + folded ncurses/base/sigaction.c into includes of ncurses/SigAction.h,
2701 since that header is used only within ncurses/tty/lib_tstp.c, for
2702 non-POSIX systems (discussion with Stanislav Ievlev).
2703 + remove obsolete _nc_outstr() function (report by Stanislav Ievlev
2704 <inger@altlinux.org>).
2705 + add test/background.c and test/color_set.c
2706 + modify color_set() function to work with color pair 0 (report by
2707 George Andreou <gbandreo@tem.uoc.gr>).
2708 + add configure option --with-trace, since defining TRACE seems too
2709 awkward for some cases.
2710 + remove a call to _nc_free_termtype() from read_termtype(), since the
2711 corresponding buffer contents were already zeroed by a memset (cf:
2713 + improve configure check for _XOPEN_SOURCE and related definitions,
2714 adding special cases for Solaris' __EXTENSIONS__ and FreeBSD's
2715 __BSD_TYPES (reports by Marc Glisse <marc.glisse@normalesup.org>).
2716 + small fixes to compile on Solaris and IRIX64 using cc.
2717 + correct typo in check for pre-POSIX sort options in MKkey_defs.sh
2721 + modify _nc_gettime() to avoid a problem with arithmetic on unsigned
2722 values (Philippe Blain).
2723 + improve the nanosleep() logic in napms() by checking for EINTR and
2724 restarting (Philippe Blain).
2725 + correct expression for "%D" in lib_tgoto.c (Juha Jarvi
2729 + add linux-vt terminfo entry (Andrey V Lukyanov <land@long.yar.ru>).
2730 + allow "\|" escape in terminfo; tic should not warn about this.
2731 + save the full pathname of the trace-file the first time it is opened,
2732 to avoid creating it in different directories if the application
2733 opens and closes it while changing its working directory.
2734 + modify configure script to provide a non-empty default for
2738 + add DJGPP to special case of DOS-style drive letters potentially
2739 appearing in TERMCAP environment variable.
2740 + fix some spelling in comments (reports by Jason McIntyre, Jonathon
2742 + update config.guess, config.sub
2745 + fix a memory leak in error-return from setupterm() (report by
2746 Stanislav Ievlev <inger@altlinux.org>).
2747 + use EXEEXT and OBJEXT consistently in makefiles.
2748 + amend fixes for cross-compiling to use separate executable-suffix
2749 BUILD_EXEEXT (cf: 20031018).
2750 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for sort utility that does not
2751 recognize key options, e.g., busybox (report by Peter S Mazinger
2753 + fix potential out-of-bounds indexing in _nc_infotocap() (found by
2754 David Krause using some of the new malloc debugging features
2755 under OpenBSD, patch by Ted Unangst).
2756 + modify CF_LIB_SUFFIX for Itanium releases of HP-UX, which use a
2757 ".so" suffix (patch by Jonathan Ward <Jonathan.Ward@hp.com>).
2760 + update terminfo for xterm-xfree86 -TD
2761 + add check for multiple "tc=" clauses in a termcap to tic.
2762 + check for missing op/oc in tic.
2763 + correct _nc_resolve_uses() and _nc_merge_entry() to allow infocmp and
2764 tic to show cancelled capabilities. These functions were ignoring
2765 the state of the target entry, which should be untouched if cancelled.
2766 + correct comment in tack/output.c (Debian #215806).
2767 + add some null-pointer checks to lib_options.c (report by Michael
2769 + regenerated html documentation.
2770 + correction to tar-copy.sh, remove a trap command that resulted in
2771 leaving temporary files (cf: 20030510).
2772 + remove contact/maintainer addresses for Juergen Pfeifer (his request).
2775 + updated test/configure to reflect changes for libtool (cf: 20030830).
2776 + fix several places in tack/pad.c which tested and used the parameter-
2777 and parameterless strings inconsistently, i.e., in pad_rin(),
2778 pad_il(), pad_indn() and pad_dl() (Debian #215805).
2779 + minor fixes for configure script and makefiles to cleanup executables
2780 generated when cross-compiling for DJGPP.
2781 + modify infocmp to omit check for $TERM for operations that do not
2782 require it, e.g., "infocmp -e" used to build fallback list (report by
2786 + add terminfo entries for DJGPP.
2787 + updated note about maintainer in ncurses-intro.html
2790 + update terminfo entries for gnome terminal.
2791 + modify tack to reset colors after each color test, correct a place
2792 where exit_standout_mode was used instead of exit_attribute_mode.
2793 + improve tack's bce test by making it set colors other than black
2795 + plug a potential recursion between napms() and _nc_timed_wait()
2796 (report by Philippe Blain).
2799 + add --with-rel-version option to allow workaround to allow making
2800 libtool on Darwin generate the "same" library names as with the
2801 --with-shared option. The Darwin ld program does not work well
2802 with a zero as the minor-version value (request by Chris Zubrzycki).
2803 + modify CF_MIXEDCASE_FILENAMES macro to work with cross-compiling.
2804 + modify tack to allow it to run from fallback terminfo data.
2805 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2806 + improve PutRange() by adjusting call to EmitRange() and corresponding
2807 return-value to not emit unchanged characters on the end of the
2809 + improve a check for changed-attribute by exiting a loop when the
2811 + improve logic in TransformLine(), eliminating a duplicated comparison
2812 in the clr_bol logic.
2815 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2816 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
2817 move the label 'nonlocal' just before the second gettimeofday() to
2818 be able to compute the diff time when 'goto nonlocal' used.
2819 Rename 'msec' to 'microsec' in the debug-message.
2820 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
2821 Use _nc_outch() in carriage return/newline movement instead of
2822 putchar() which goes to stdout. Move test for xold>0 out of loop.
2823 + in ncurses/tinfo/setbuf.c,
2824 Set the flag SP->_buffered at the end of operations when all has been
2825 successful (typeMalloc can fail).
2826 + simplify NC_BUFFERED macro by moving check inside _nc_setbuf().
2829 + modify configure script to avoid using "head -1", which does not
2830 work if POSIXLY_CORRECT (sic) is set.
2831 + modify run_tic.in to avoid using wrong shared libraries when
2832 cross-compiling (Dan Kegel).
2835 + alter configure script help message to make it clearer that
2836 --with-build-cc does not specify a cross-compiler (suggested by Dan
2837 Kegel <dank@kegel.com>).
2838 + modify configure script to accommodate libtool 1.5, as well as add an
2839 parameter to the "--with-libtool" option which can specify the
2840 pathname of libtool (report by Chris Zubrzycki). We note that
2841 libtool 1.5 has more than one bug in its C++ support, so it is not
2842 able to install libncurses++, for instance, if $DESTDIR or the option
2843 --with-install-prefix is used.
2846 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2847 + move assignments to SP->_cursrow, SP->_curscol into online_mvcur().
2848 + make baudrate computation in delay_output() consistent with the
2849 assumption in _nc_mvcur_init(), i.e., a byte is 9 bits.
2852 + modify logic in waddch_literal() to take into account zh_TW.Big5
2853 whose multibyte sequences may contain "printable" characters, e.g.,
2854 a "g" in the sequence "\247g" (Debian #204889, cf: 20030621).
2855 + improve storage used by _nc_safe_strcpy() by ensuring that the size
2856 is reset based on the initialization call, in case it were called
2857 after other strcpy/strcat calls (report by Philippe Blain).
2858 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2859 + remove an unused ifdef for REAL_ATTR & WANT_CHAR
2860 + correct a place where _cup_cost was used rather than _cuu_cost
2863 + fix a small memory leak in _nc_free_termtype().
2864 + close trace-file if trace() is called with a zero parameter.
2865 + free memory allocated for soft-key strings, in delscreen().
2866 + fix an allocation size in safe_sprintf.c for the "*" format code.
2867 + correct safe_sprintf.c to not return a null pointer if the format
2868 happens to be an empty string. This applies to the "configure
2869 --enable-safe-sprintf" option (Redhat #101486).
2872 + modify casts used for ABSENT_BOOLEAN and CANCELLED_BOOLEAN (report by
2874 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2875 + change padding for change_scroll_region to not be proportional to
2876 the size of the scroll-region.
2877 + correct error-return in _nc_safe_strcat().
2880 + correct limit-checks in _nc_scroll_window() (report and test-case by
2881 Thomas Graf <graf@dms.at> cf: 20011020).
2882 + re-order configure checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE to avoid conflict with
2886 + use clr_eol in preference to blanks for bce terminals, so select and
2887 paste will have fewer trailing blanks, e.g., when using xterm
2888 (request by Vincent Lefevre).
2889 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
2890 + add configure --with-abi-version option (discussion with Charles
2892 > cygwin changes from Charles Wilson:
2893 + aclocal.m4: on cygwin, use autodetected prefix for import
2894 and static lib, but use "cyg" for DLL.
2895 + include/ncurses_dll.h: correct the comments to reflect current
2896 status of cygwin/mingw port. Fix compiler warning.
2897 + misc/run_tic.in: ensure that tic.exe can find the uninstalled
2898 DLL, by adding the lib-directory to the PATH variable.
2899 + misc/terminfo.src (nxterm|xterm-color): make xterm-color
2900 primary instead of nxterm, to match XFree86's xterm.terminfo
2901 usage and to prevent circular links.
2902 (rxvt): add additional codes from rxvt.org.
2903 (rxvt-color): new alias
2904 (rxvt-xpm): new alias
2905 (rxvt-cygwin): like rxvt, but with special acsc codes.
2906 (rxvt-cygwin-native): ditto. rxvt may be run under XWindows, or
2907 with a "native" MSWin GUI. Each takes different acsc codes,
2908 which are both different from the "normal" rxvt's acsc.
2909 (cygwin): cygwin-in-cmd.exe window. Lots of fixes.
2911 + mk-1st.awk: use "cyg" for the DLL prefix, but "lib" for import
2915 + update config.guess, config.sub
2916 + add triples for configuring shared libraries with the Debian
2917 GNU/FreeBSD packages (patch by Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es>).
2920 + modify CF_GCC_WARNINGS so it only applies to gcc, not g++. Some
2921 platforms have installed g++ along with the native C compiler, which
2922 would not accept gcc warning options.
2923 + add -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 when configuring with --enable-widec, to
2924 get mbstate_t declaration on HPUX 11.11 (report by David Ellement).
2925 + add _nc_pathlast() to get rid of casts in _nc_basename() calls.
2926 + correct a sign-extension in wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() from
2927 20030628 (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
2928 + work around omission of btowc() and wctob() from wide-character
2929 support (sic) in NetBSD 1.6 using mbtowc() and wctomb() (report by
2931 + add portability note to curs_get_wstr.3x (Debian #199957).
2934 + rewrite wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to call waddch() and wechochar()
2935 respectively, to avoid calling waddch_noecho() with wide-character
2936 data, since that function assumes its input is 8-bit data.
2937 Similarly, modify waddnwstr() to call wadd_wch().
2938 + remove logic from waddnstr() which transformed multibyte character
2939 strings into wide-characters. Rewrite of waddch_literal() from
2940 20030621 assumes its input is raw multibyte data rather than wide
2941 characters (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
2944 + write getyx() and related 2-return macros in terms of getcury(),
2946 + modify waddch_literal() in case an application passes bytes of a
2947 multibyte character directly to waddch(). In this case, waddch()
2948 must reassemble the bytes into a wide-character (report by Tomohiro
2949 Kubota <kubota@debian.org>).
2952 + modify waddch_literal() in case a multibyte value occupies more than
2954 + modify PutAttrChar() to compute the number of character cells that
2955 are used in multibyte values. This fixes a problem displaying
2956 double-width characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen
2957 <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
2958 + add a null-pointer check for result of keyname() in _tracechar()
2959 + modify _tracechar() to work around glibc sprintf bug.
2962 + add a call to setlocale() in cursesmain.cc, making demo display
2963 properly in a UTF-8 locale.
2964 + add a fallback definition in curses.priv.h for MB_LEN_MAX (prompted
2965 by discussion with Gabor Z Papp).
2966 + use macros NCURSES_ACS() and NCURSES_WACS() to hide cast needed to
2967 appease -Wchar-subscript with g++ 3.3 (Debian #195732).
2968 + fix a redefinition of $RANLIB in the configure script when libtool
2969 is used, which broke configure on Mac OS X (report by Chris Zubrzycki
2971 + simplify ifdef for bool declaration in curses.h.in (suggested by
2972 Albert Chin-A-Young).
2973 + remove configure script check to allow -Wconversion for older
2974 versions of gcc (suggested by Albert Chin-A-Young).
2977 + regenerated html manpages.
2978 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in that disabled use of __attribute__()
2979 for g++, since recent versions implement the cases which ncurses uses
2981 + modify _nc_get_token() to handle a case where an entry has no
2982 description, and capabilities begin on the same line as the entry
2984 + fix a typo in ncurses_dll.h reported by gcc 3.3.
2985 + add an entry for key_defined.3x to man_db.renames.
2988 + modify setcchar() to allow converting control characters to complex
2989 characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
2990 + add tkterm entry -TD
2991 + modify parse_entry.c to allow a terminfo entry with a leading
2992 2-character name (report by Don Libes).
2993 + corrected acsc in screen.teraterm, which requires a PC-style mapping.
2994 + fix trace statements in read_entry.c to use lseek() rather than
2996 + fix signed/unsigned warnings from Sun's compiler (gcc should give
2997 these warnings, but it is unpredictable).
2998 + modify configure script to omit -Winline for gcc 3.3, since that
3000 + modify manlinks.sed to add a few functions that were overlooked since
3001 they return function pointers: field_init, field_term, form_init,
3002 form_term, item_init, item_term, menu_init and menu_term.
3005 + prevent recursion in wgetch() via wgetnstr() if the connection cannot
3006 be switched between cooked/raw modes because it is not a TTY (report
3007 by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.com>).
3008 + change parameter of define_key() and key_defined() to const (prompted
3010 + add a check in test/configure for ncurses extensions, since there
3011 are some older versions, etc., which would not compile with the
3012 current test programs.
3013 + corrected demo in test/ncurses.c of wgetn_wstr(), which did not
3014 convert wchar_t string to multibyte form before printing it.
3015 + corrections to lib_get_wstr.c:
3016 + null-terminate buffer passed to setcchar(), which occasionally
3018 + map special characters such as erase- and kill-characters into
3019 key-codes so those will work as expected even if they are not
3020 mentioned in the terminfo.
3021 + modify PUTC() and Charable() macros to make wide-character line
3022 drawing work for POSIX locale on Linux console (cf: 20021221).
3025 + make typography for program options in manpages consistent (report
3026 by Miloslav Trmac <mitr@volny.cz>).
3027 + correct dependencies in Ada95/src/Makefile.in, so the builds with
3028 "--srcdir" work (report by Warren L Dodge).
3029 + correct missing definition of $(CC) in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in
3030 (reported by Warren L Dodge <warrend@mdhost.cse.tek.com>).
3031 + fix typos and whitespace in manpages (patch by Jason McIntyre
3032 <jmc@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl>).
3035 + fix form_driver() cases for REQ_CLR_EOF, REQ_CLR_EOL, REQ_DEL_CHAR,
3036 REQ_DEL_PREV and REQ_NEW_LINE, which did not ensure the cursor was at
3037 the editing position before making modifications.
3038 + add test/demo_forms and associated test/edit_field.c demos.
3039 + modify test/configure.in to use test/modules for the list of objects
3040 to compile rather than using the list of programs.
3043 + modify logic of acsc to use the original character if no mapping is
3044 defined, noting that Solaris does this.
3045 + modify ncurses 'b' test to avoid using the acs_map[] array since
3046 20021231 changes it to no longer contain information from the acsc
3048 + modify makefile rules in c++, progs, tack and test to ensure that
3049 the compiler flags (e.g., $CFLAGS or $CCFLAGS) are used in the link
3050 command (report by Jose Luis Rico Botella <informatica@serpis.com>).
3051 + modify soft-key initialization to use A_REVERSE if A_STANDOUT would
3052 not be shown when colors are used, i.e., if ncv#1 is set in the
3053 terminfo as is done in "screen".
3056 + add a test for slk_color(), in ncurses.c
3057 + fix some issues reported by valgrind in the slk_set() and slk_wset()
3058 code, from recent rewrite.
3059 + modify ncurses 'E' test to use show previous label via slk_label(),
3061 + modify wide-character versions of NewChar(), NewChar2() macros to
3062 ensure that the whole struct is initialized.
3065 + modify setupterm() to check if the terminfo and terminal-modes have
3066 already been read. This ensures that it does not reinvoke
3067 def_prog_mode() when an application calls more than one function,
3068 such as tgetent() and initscr() (report by Olaf Buddenhagen).
3071 + add 'E' test to ncurses.c, to exercise slk_wset().
3072 + correct handling of carriage-return in wgetn_wstr(), used in demo of
3074 + first draft of slk_wset() function.
3077 + improved warnings in tic when suppressing items to fit in termcap's
3079 + built a list in test/README showing which externals are being used
3080 by either programs in the test-directory or via internal library
3082 + adjust include-options in CF_ETIP_DEFINES to avoid missing
3083 ncurses_dll.h, fixing special definitions that may be needed for
3084 etip.h (reported by Greg Schafer <gschafer@zip.com.au>).
3087 + minor fixes for cardfile.c, to make it write the updated fields to
3088 a file when ^W is given.
3089 + add/use _nc_trace_bufcat() to eliminate some fixed buffer limits in
3093 + correct a case in _nc_remove_string(), used by define_key(), to avoid
3094 infinite loop if the given string happens to be a substring of other
3095 strings which are assigned to keys (report by John McCutchan).
3096 + add key_defined() function, to tell which keycode a string is bound
3097 to (discussion with John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>).
3098 + correct keybound(), which reported definitions in the wrong table,
3099 i.e., the list of definitions which are disabled by keyok().
3100 + modify demo_keydef.c to show the details it changes, and to check
3104 + restructured test/configure script, make it work for libncursesw.
3105 + add description of link_fieldtype() to manpage (report by
3106 L Dee Holtsclaw <dee@sunbeltsoft.com>).
3109 + corrected ifdef's relating to configure check for wchar_t, etc.
3110 + if the output is a socket or other non-tty device, use 1 millisecond
3111 for the cost in mvcur; previously it was 9 milliseconds because the
3112 baudrate was not known.
3113 + in _nc_get_tty_mode(), initialize the TTY buffer on error, since
3114 glibc copies uninitialized data in that case, as noted by valgrind.
3115 + modify tput to use the same parameter analysis as tparm() does, to
3116 provide for user-defined strings, e.g., for xterm title, a
3117 corresponding capability might be
3119 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to avoid passing "#" tokens through the C
3120 preprocessor. This works around Mac OS X's preprocessor, which
3121 insists on adding a blank on each side of the token (report/analysis
3122 by Kevin Murphy <murphy@genome.chop.edu>).
3125 + add configure check for wchar_t and wint_t types, rather than rely
3126 on preprocessor definitions. Also work around for gcc fixinclude
3127 bug which creates a shadow copy of curses.h if it sees these symbols
3128 apparently typedef'd.
3129 + if database is disabled, do not generate run_tic.sh
3130 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking when termcap is read.
3133 + add checking in tic for incomplete line-drawing character mapping.
3134 + update configure script to reflect fix for AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL,
3135 which is broken in autoconf 2.5x for Mac OS X 10.2.3 (report by
3136 Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl>).
3137 + make return value from _nc_printf_string() consistent. Before,
3138 depending on whether --enable-safe-sprintf was used, it might not be
3139 cached for reallocating.
3142 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking in lib_tparm.c, hardscroll.c
3143 + correct a potentially-uninitialized value if _read_termtype() does
3144 not read as much data as expected (report by Wolfgang Rohdewald
3146 + correct several places where the aclocal.m4 macros relied on cache
3147 variable names which were incompatible (as usual) between autoconf
3148 2.13 and 2.5x, causing the test for broken-linker to give incorrect
3149 results (reports by Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl> and Thomas Esser
3150 <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de>).
3151 + do not try to open gpm mouse driver if standard output is not a tty;
3152 the gpm library does not make this check (bug report for dialog
3153 by David Oliveira <davidoliveira@develop.prozone.ws>).
3156 + modified emx.src to correspond more closely to terminfo.src, added
3157 emx-base to the latter -TD
3158 + add configure option for FreeBSD sysmouse, --with-sysmouse, and
3159 implement support for that in lib_mouse.c, lib_getch.c
3162 + revert 20030105 change to can_clear_with(), does not work for the
3163 case where the update is made on cells which are blanks with
3164 attributes, e.g., reverse.
3165 + improve ifdef's to guard against redefinition of wchar_t and wint_t
3166 in curses.h (report by Urs Jansen).
3169 + improve mvcur() by checking if it is safe to move when video
3170 attributes are set (msgr), and if not, reset/restore attributes
3171 within that function rather than doing it separately in the GoTo()
3172 function in tty_update.c (suggested by Philippe Blain).
3173 + add a message in run_tic.in to explain more clearly what does not
3174 work when attempting to create a symbolic link for /usr/lib/terminfo
3175 on OS/2 and other platforms with no symbolic links (report by John
3177 + change several sed scripts to avoid using "\+" since it is not a BRE
3178 (basic regular expression). One instance caused terminfo.5 to be
3179 misformatted on FreeBSD (report by Kazuo Horikawa
3180 <horikawa@FreeBSD.org> (see FreeBSD docs/46709)).
3181 + correct misspelled 'wint_t' in curs_get_wch.3x (Michael Elkins).
3184 + improve description of terminfo operators, especially static/dynamic
3185 variables (comments by Mark I Manning IV <mark4th@earthlink.net>).
3186 + demonstrate use of FIELDTYPE by modifying test/ncurses 'r' test to
3187 use the predefined TYPE_ALPHA field-type, and by defining a
3188 specialized type for the middle initial/name.
3189 + fix MKterminfo.sh, another workaround for POSIXLY_CORRECT misfeature
3191 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3192 + optimize can_clear_with() a little by testing first if the parameter
3193 is indeed a "blank".
3194 + simplify ClrBottom() a little by allowing it to use clr_eos to clear
3195 sections as small as one line.
3196 + improve ClrToEOL() by checking if clr_eos is available before trying
3198 + use tputs() rather than putp() in a few cases in tty_update.c since
3199 the corresponding delays are proportional to the number of lines
3200 affected: repeat_char, clr_eos, change_scroll_region.
3203 + rewrite of lib_acs.c conflicts with copying of SCREEN acs_map to/from
3204 global acs_map[] array; removed the lines that did the copying.
3207 + change some overlooked tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp()
3208 (report by Philippe Blain).
3209 + modify lib_getch.c to avoid recursion via wgetnstr() when the input
3210 is not a tty and consequently mode-changes do not work (report by
3211 <R.Chamberlin@querix.com>).
3212 + rewrote lib_acs.c to allow PutAttrChar() to decide how to render
3213 alternate-characters, i.e., to work with Linux console and UTF-8
3215 + correct line/column reference in adjust_window(), needed to make
3216 special windows such as curscr track properly when resizing (report
3217 by Lucas Gonze <lgonze@panix.com>).
3218 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3219 + correct the value used for blank in ClrBottom() (broken in 20000708).
3220 + correct an off-by-one in GoTo() parameter in _nc_scrolln().
3223 + change several tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp(), to
3224 enable padding which may be needed for some terminals (patch by
3226 + use '%' as sed substitute delimiter in run_tic script to avoid
3227 problems with pathname delimiters such as ':' and '@' (report by John
3229 + implement a workaround so that line-drawing works with screen's
3230 crippled UTF-8 support (tested with 3.9.13). This only works with
3231 the wide-character support (--enable-widec); the normal library will
3232 simply suppress line-drawing when running in a UTF-8 locale in screen.
3235 + allow BUILD_CC and related configure script variables to be
3236 overridden from the environment.
3237 + make build-tools variables in ncurses/Makefile.in consistent with
3238 the configure script variables (report by Maciej W Rozycki).
3239 + modify ncurses/modules to allow
3240 configure --disable-leaks --disable-ext-funcs
3241 to build (report by Gary Samuelson).
3242 + fix a few places in configure.in which lacked quotes (report by
3243 Gary Samuelson <gary.samuelson@verizon.com>).
3244 + correct handling of multibyte characters in waddch_literal() which
3245 force wrapping because they are started too late on the line (report
3246 by Sam Varshavchik).
3247 + small fix for CF_GNAT_VERSION to ignore the help-message which
3248 gnatmake adds to its version-message.
3249 > Maciej W Rozycki <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>:
3250 + use AC_CHECK_TOOL to get proper values for AR and LD for cross
3252 + use $cross_compiling variable in configure script rather than
3253 comparing $host_alias and $target alias, since "host" is
3254 traditionally misused in autoconf to refer to the target platform.
3255 + change configure --help message to use "build" rather than "host"
3256 when referring to the --with-build-XXX options.
3259 + modify CF_GNAT_VERSION to print gnatmake's version, and to allow for
3260 possible gnat versions such as 3.2 (report by Chris Lingard
3261 <chris@stockwith.co.uk>).
3262 + modify #define's for CKILL and other default control characters in
3263 tset to use the system's default values if they are defined.
3264 + correct interchanged defaults for kill and interrupt characters
3265 in tset, which caused it to report unnecessarily (Debian #171583).
3266 + repair check for missing C++ compiler, which is broken in autoconf
3267 2.5x by hardcoding it to g++ (report by Martin Mokrejs).
3268 + update config.guess, config.sub (2002-11-30)
3269 + modify configure script to skip --with-shared, etc., when the
3270 --with-libtool option is given, since they would be ignored anyway.
3271 + fix to allow "configure --with-libtool --with-termlib" to build.
3272 + modify configure script to show version number of libtool, to help
3273 with bug reports. libtool still gets confused if the installed
3274 ncurses libraries are old, since it ignores the -L options at some
3275 point (tested with libtool 1.3.3 and 1.4.3).
3276 + reorder configure script's updating of $CPPFLAGS and $CFLAGS to
3277 prevent -I options in the user's environment from introducing
3278 conflicts with the build -I options (may be related to reports by
3279 Patrick Ash and George Goffe).
3280 + rename test/define_key.c to test/demo_defkey.c, test/keyok.c to
3281 test/demo_keyok.c to allow building these with libtool.
3284 + add example program test/define_key.c for define_key().
3285 + add example program test/keyok.c for keyok().
3286 + add example program test/ins_wide.c for wins_wch() and wins_wstr().
3287 + modify wins_wch() and wins_wstr() to interpret tabs by using the
3288 winsch() internal function.
3289 + modify setcchar() to allow for wchar_t input strings that have
3290 more than one spacing character.
3293 + fix a boundary check in lib_insch.c (patch by Philippe Blain).
3294 + change type for *printw functions from NCURSES_CONST to const
3295 (prompted by comment by Pedro Palhoto Matos <plpm@mega.ist.utl.pt>,
3296 but really from a note on X/Open's website stating that either is
3297 acceptable, and the latter will be used in a future revision).
3298 + add xterm-1002, xterm-1003 terminfo entries to demonstrate changes in
3299 lib_mouse.c (20021026) -TD
3300 + add screen-bce, screen-s entries from screen 3.9.13 (report by
3301 Adam Lazur <zal@debian.org>) -TD
3302 + add mterm terminfo entries -TD
3305 + split-out useful fragments in terminfo for vt100 and vt220 numeric
3306 keypad, i.e., vt100+keypad, vt100+pfkeys, vt100+fnkeys and
3307 vt220+keypad. The last as embedded in various entries had ka3 and
3308 kb2 interchanged (report/discussion with Leonard den Ottolander
3309 <leonardjo@hetnet.nl>).
3310 + add check in tic for keypads consistent with vt100 layout.
3311 + improve checks in tic for color capabilities
3314 + check for missing/empty/illegal terminfo name in _nc_read_entry()
3315 (report by Martin Mokrejs, where $TERM was set to an empty string).
3316 + rewrote lib_insch.c, combining it with lib_insstr.c so both handle
3317 tab and other control characters consistently (report by Philippe
3319 + remove an #undef for KEY_EVENT from curses.tail used in the
3320 experimental NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS feature. The #undef confuses
3321 dpkg's build script (Debian #165897).
3322 + fix MKlib_gen.sh, working around the ironically named POSIXLY_CORRECT
3323 feature of GNU sed 4.0 (reported by Ervin Nemeth <airwin@inf.bme.hu>).
3326 + implement logic in lib_mouse.c to handle position reports which are
3327 generated when XFree86 xterm is initialized with private modes 1002
3328 or 1003. These are returned to the application as the
3329 REPORT_MOUSE_POSITION mask, which was not implemented. Tested both
3330 with ncurses 'a' menu (prompted by discussion with Larry Riedel
3331 <Larry@Riedel.org>).
3332 + modify lib_mouse.c to look for "XM" terminfo string, which allows
3333 one to override the escape sequence used to enable/disable mouse
3334 mode. In particular this works for XFree86 xterm private modes
3335 1002 and 1003. If "XM" is missing (note that this is an extended
3336 name), lib_mouse uses the conventional private mode 1000.
3337 + correct NOT_LOCAL() macro in lib_mvcur.c to refer to screen_columns
3338 where it used screen_lines (report by Philippe Blain).
3339 + correct makefile rules for the case when both --with-libtool and
3340 --with-gpm are given (report by Mr E_T <troll@logi.net.au>).
3341 + add note to terminfo manpage regarding the differences between
3342 setaf/setab and setf/setb capabilities (report by Pavel Roskin).
3345 + remove redundant initialization of TABSIZE in newterm(), since it is
3346 already done in setupterm() (report by Philippe Blain).
3347 + add test/inserts.c, to test winnstr() and winsch().
3348 + replace 'sort' in dist.mk with script that sets locale to POSIX.
3349 + update URLs in announce.html.in (patch by Frederic L W Meunier).
3350 + remove glibc add-on files, which are no longer needed (report by
3351 Frederic L W Meunier).
3353 20021012 5.3 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3354 + modify ifdef's in etip.h.in to allow the etip.h header to compile
3355 with gcc 3.2 (patch by Dimitar Zhekov <jimmy@is-vn.bg>).
3356 + add logic to setupterm() to make it like initscr() and newterm(),
3357 by checking for $NCURSES_TRACE environment variable and enabling
3358 the debug trace in that case.
3359 + modify setupterm() to ensure that it initializes the baudrate, for
3360 applications such as tput (report by Frank Henigman).
3361 + modify definition of bits used for command-line and library debug
3362 traces to avoid overlap, using new definition TRACE_SHIFT to relate
3364 + document tput's interpretation of parameterized strings according to
3365 whether parameters are given, etc. (discussion with Robert De Bath).
3367 20021005 pre-release
3368 + correct winnwstr() to account for non-character cells generated when
3369 a double-width character is added (report by Michael Bienia
3370 <michael@vorlon.ping.de>).
3371 + modify _nc_viswbuf2n() to provide better results using wctomb().
3372 + correct logic in _nc_varargs() which broke tracing of parameters for
3373 formats such as "%.*s".
3374 + correct scale factor in linux-c and linux-c-nc terminfo entries
3375 (report Floyd Davidson).
3376 + change tic -A option to -t, add the same option to infocmp for
3378 + correct "%c" implementation in lib_tparm.c, which did not map a null
3379 character to a 128 (cf: 980620) (patch by Frank Henigman
3380 <fjhenigman@mud.cgl.uwaterloo.ca>).
3382 20020928 pre-release
3383 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for POSIX sort -k option, use that if
3384 it is found, to accommodate newer utility which dropped the
3385 compatibility support for +number options (reported by Andrey A
3387 + modify linux terminfo entry to use color palette feature from
3388 linux-c-nc entry (comments by Tomasz Wasiak and Floyd Davidson).
3389 + restore original color definitions in endwin() if init_color() was
3390 used, and resume those colors on the next doupdate() or refresh()
3391 (report by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@komputom.com.pl>).
3392 + improve debug-traces by modifying MKlib_gen.sh to generate calls
3393 to returnBool() and returnAttr().
3394 + add/use _nc_visbufn() and _nc_viswbufn() to limit the debug trace
3395 of waddnstr() and similar functions to match the parameters as used.
3396 + add/use _nc_retrace_bool() and _nc_retrace_unsigned().
3397 + correct type used by _nc_retrace_chtype().
3398 + add debug traces to some functions in lib_mouse.c
3399 + modify lib_addch.c to handle non-spacing characters.
3400 + correct parameter of RemAttr() in lib_bkgd.c, which caused the c++
3401 demo's boxes to lose the A_ALTCHARSET flag (broken in 20020629).
3402 + correct width computed in _tracedump(), which did not account for
3403 the attributes (broken in 20010602).
3404 + modify test/tracemunch to replace addresses for windows other than
3405 curscr, newscr and stdscr with window0, window1, etc.
3407 20020921 pre-release
3408 + redid fix for edit_man.sed path.
3409 + workaround for Cygwin bug which makes subprocess writes to stdout
3410 result in core dump.
3411 + documented getbegx(), etc.
3412 + minor fixes to configure script to use '%' consistently as a sed
3413 delimiter rather than '@'.
3414 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3415 + add check in lib_overlay.c to ensure that the windows to be merged
3416 actually overlap, and in copywin(), limit the area to be touched
3417 to the lines given for the destination window.
3419 20020914 pre-release
3420 + modified curses.h so that if the wide-character version is installed
3421 overwriting /usr/include/curses.h, and if it relied on libutf8.h,
3422 then applications that use that header for wide-character support
3423 must define HAVE_LIBUTF8_H.
3424 + modify putwin(), getwin() and dupwin() to allow them to operate on
3425 pads (request by Philippe Blain).
3426 + correct attribute-merging in wborder(), broken in 20020216 (report
3427 by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@grubasek.komputom.com.pl>).
3428 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3429 + corrected pop-counts in tparam_internal() to '!' and '~' cases.
3430 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in one place that used sizeof(chtype).
3431 + remove some unused variables from mvcur test-driver.
3433 20020907 pre-release
3434 + change configure script to allow install of widec-character
3435 (ncursesw) headers to overwrite normal (ncurses) headers, since the
3436 latter is a compatible subset of the former.
3437 + fix path of edit_man.sed in configure script, needed to regenerate
3438 html manpages on Debian.
3439 + fix mismatched enums in vsscanf.c, which caused warning on Solaris.
3440 + update README.emx to reflect current patch used for autoconf.
3441 + change web- and ftp-site to invisible-island.net
3442 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3443 + change case for 'P' in tparam_internal() to indicate that it pops
3444 a variable from the stack.
3445 + correct sense of precision and width in parse_format(), to avoid
3447 + modify lib_tparm.c, absorb really_get_space() into get_space().
3448 + modify getwin() and dupwin() to copy the _notimeout, _idlok and
3449 _idcok window fields.
3450 + better fix for _nc_set_type(), using typeMalloc().
3452 20020901 pre-release
3453 + change minor version to 3, i.e., ncurses 5.3
3454 + update config.guess, config.sub
3455 + retest build with each configure option; minor ifdef fixes.
3456 + make keyname() return a null pointer rather than "UNKNOWN STRING" to
3458 + modify handling of wide line-drawing character functions to use the
3459 normal line-drawing characters when not in UTF-8 locale.
3460 + add check/fix to comp_parse.c to suppress warning about missing acsc
3461 string. This happens in configurations where raw termcap information
3462 is processed; tic already does this and other checks.
3463 + modify tic's check for ich/ich1 versus rmir/smir to only warn about
3464 ich1, to match xterm patch #70 notes.
3465 + moved information for ripped-off lines into SCREEN struct to allow
3466 use in resizeterm().
3467 + add experimental wgetch_events(), ifdef'd with NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS
3468 (adapted from patch by Ilya Zakharevich - see ncurses/README.IZ).
3469 + amend check in kgetch() from 20020824 to look only for function-keys,
3470 otherwise escape sequences are not resolved properly.
3471 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3472 + removed redundant assignment to SP->_checkfd from newterm().
3473 + check return-value of setupterm() in restartterm().
3474 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in a few places that used sizeof(chtype).
3475 + prevent dupwin() from duplicating a pad.
3476 + prevent putwin() from writing a pad.
3477 + use typeRealloc() or typeMalloc() in preference to direct calls on
3481 + add a check in kgetch() for cooked characters in the fifo to avoid
3482 calling fifo_push() when a KEY_RESIZE is available (report/analysis
3483 by Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>).
3484 + fix an overlooked case for bugzilla #68199 (Philippe Blain).
3485 + ensure clearerr() is called before using ferror() e.g., in
3486 lib_screen.c (report by Philippe Blain).
3489 + modify lib_screen.c and lib_newwin.c to maintain the SCREEN-specific
3490 pointers for curscr/stdscr/newscr when scr_save() and scr_restore()
3491 modify the global curscr/stdscr/newscr variables. Fixes Redhat
3492 bugzilla #68199 dated 2002-07-07.
3493 + add checks for null pointer in calls to tparm() and tgoto() based on
3494 FreeBSD bug report. If ncurses were built with termcap support, and
3495 the first call to tgoto() were a zero-length string, the result would
3496 be a null pointer, which was not handled properly.
3497 + correct a typo in terminfo.head, which gave the octal code for colon
3499 + remove the "tic -u" option from 20020810, since it did not account
3500 for nested "tc=" clauses, and when that was addressed, was still
3504 + add tic -A option to suppress capabilities which are commented out
3505 when translating to termcap.
3506 + add tic -u option to provide older behavior of "tc=" clauses.
3507 + modified tic to expand all but the final "tc=" clause in a termcap
3508 entry, to accommodate termcap libraries which do not handle multiple
3510 + correct typo in curs_inopts.3x regarding CS8/CS7 usage (report by
3512 + remove a couple of redundant uses of A_ATTRIBUTES in expressions
3513 using AttrOf(), which already incorporates that mask (report by
3515 + document TABSIZE variable.
3516 + add NCURSES_ASSUMED_COLORS environment variable, to allow users to
3517 override compiled-in default black-on-white assumption used in
3518 assume_default_colors().
3519 + correct an off-by-one comparison against max_colors in COLORFGBG
3521 + correct a use of uninitialized memory found by valgrind (reported by
3522 Olaf Buddenhagen <olafBuddenhagen@web.de>).
3523 + modified wresize() to ensure that a failed realloc will not corrupt
3524 the window structure, and to make subwindows fit within the resized
3525 window (completes Debian #87678, #101699)
3528 + fix an off-by-one in lib_pad.c check for limits of pad (patch by
3530 + revise logic for BeOS in lib_twait.c altered in 20011013 to restore
3531 logic used by lib_getch.c's support for GPM or EMX mouse (report by
3533 + remove NCURSES_CONST from several prototypes in curses.wide, to make
3534 the --enable-const --enable-widec configure options to work together
3535 (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@yahoo.com>).
3538 + finish no-leak checking in cardfile.c, using this for testing changes
3540 + simplify _nc_freeall() using delscreen().
3543 + check error-return from _nc_set_tty_mode() in _nc_initscr() and
3544 reset_prog_mode() (report/patch by Philippe Blain).
3545 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52, to address
3546 problem with identifying C++ bool type.
3547 + correct/improve logic to produce an exit status for errors in tput,
3548 which did not exit with an error when told to put a string not in the
3549 current terminfo entry (report by David Gomez <david@pleyades.net>).
3550 + modify configure script AC_OUTPUT() call to work around defect in
3551 autoconf 2.52 which adds an ifdef'd include to the generated
3552 configure definitions.
3553 + remove fstat() check from scr_init(), which also fixes a missing
3554 include for <sys/stat.h> from 20020713 (reported by David Ellement,
3555 fix suggested by Philippe Blain).
3556 + update curs_scanw.3x manpage to note that XSI curses differs from
3557 SVr4 curses: return-values are incompatible.
3558 + correct several prototypes in manpages which used const
3559 inconsistently with the curses.h file, and removed spurious const's
3560 in a few places from curses.h, e.g., for wbkgd() (report by Glenn
3561 Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>).
3562 + change internal type used by tparm() to long, to work with LP64 model.
3563 + modify nc_alloc.h to allow building with g++, for testing.
3566 + add resize-handling to cardfile.c test program.
3567 + altered resizeterm() to avoid having it fail when a child window
3568 cannot be resized because it would be larger than its parent. (More
3569 work must be done on this, but it works well enough to integrate).
3570 + improve a limit-check in lib_refresh.c
3571 + remove check in lib_screen.c relating dumptime to file's modification
3572 times, since that would not necessarily work for remotely mounted
3574 + modify lrtest to simplify debugging changes to resizeterm, e.g.,
3575 t/T commands to enable/disable tracing.
3576 + updated status of multibyte support in TO-DO.
3577 + update contact info in source-files (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3580 + add Caps.hpux11, as an example.
3581 + modify version_filter(), used to implement -R option for tic and
3582 infocmp, to use computed array offsets based on the Caps.* file which
3583 is actually configured, rather than constants which correspond to
3585 + reorganized lib_raw.c to avoid updating SP and cur_term state if the
3586 functions fail (reported by Philippe Blain).
3587 + add -Wundef to gcc warnings, adjust a few ifdef's to accommodate gcc.
3590 + correct parameters to setcchar() in ncurses.c (cf: 20020406).
3591 + set locale in most test programs (view.c and ncurses.c were the
3593 + add configure option --with-build-cppflags (report by Maksim A
3594 Nikulin <M.A.Nikulin@inp.nsk.su>).
3595 + correct a typo in wide-character logic for lib_bkgnd.c (Philippe
3597 + modify lib_wacs.c to not cancel the acsc, smacs, rmacs strings when
3598 in UTF-8 locale. Wide-character functions use Unicode values, while
3599 narrow-character functions use the terminfo data.
3600 + fix a couple of places in Ada95/samples which did not compile with
3602 + modify mkinstalldirs so the DOS-pathname case is locale-independent.
3603 + fix locale problem in MKlib_gen.sh by forcing related variables to
3604 POSIX (C), using same approach as autoconf (set variables only if
3605 they were set before). Update MKterminfo.sh and MKtermsort.sh to
3609 + add charset to generated html.
3610 + add mvterm entry, adapted from a FreeBSD bug-report by Daniel Rudy
3611 <dcrudy@pacbell.net> -TD
3612 + add rxvt-16color, ibm+16color entries -TD
3613 + modify check in --disable-overwrite option so that it is used by
3614 default unless the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr, in attempt to
3615 work around packagers, e.g., for Sun's freeware, who do not read the
3619 + modify wgetch() to allow returning ungetch'd KEY_RESIZE as a function
3620 key code in get_wch().
3621 + extended resize-handling in test/ncurses 'a' menu to the entire
3622 stack of windows created with 'w' commands.
3623 + improve $COLORFGBG feature by interpreting an out-of-range color
3624 value as an SGR 39 or 49, for foreground/background respectively.
3625 + correct a typo in configure --enable-colorfgbg option, and move it
3626 to the experimental section (cf: 20011208).
3629 + add logic to dump_entry.c to remove function-key definitions that do
3630 not fit into the 1023-byte limit for generated termcaps. This makes
3632 + more improvements to tic's warnings, including logic to ignore
3633 differences between delay values in sgr strings.
3634 + move definition of KEY_RESIZE into MKkeydefs.sh script, to
3635 accommodate Caps.osf1r5 which introduced a conflicting definition.
3638 + add simple resize-handling in test/ncurses.c 'a' menu.
3639 + fixes in keyname() and _tracechar() to handle negative values.
3640 + make tic's warnings about mismatches in sgr strings easier to follow.
3641 + correct tic checks for number of parameters in smgbp and smglp.
3642 + improve scoansi terminfo entry, and add scoansi-new entry -TD
3643 + add pcvt25-color terminfo entry -TD
3644 + add kf13-kf48 strings to cons25w terminfo entry (reported by Stephen
3645 Hurd <deuce@lordlegacy.org> in newsgroup lucky.freebsd.bugs) -TD
3646 + add entrypoint _nc_trace_ttymode(), use this to distinguish the
3647 Ottyb and Nttyb members of terminal (aka cur_term), for tracing.
3650 + correct and simplify logic for lib_pad.c change in 20020518 (reported
3654 + fix lib_pad.c for case of drawing a double-width character which
3655 falls off the left margin of the pad (patch by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij
3656 <lerdsuwa@users.sourceforge.net>)
3657 + modify configure script to work around broken gcc 3.1 "--version"
3658 option, which adds unnecessary trash to the requested information.
3659 + adjust ifdef's in case SIGWINCH is not defined, e.g., with DJGPP
3660 (reported by Ben Decker <deckerben@freenet.de>).
3663 + implement vid_puts(), vid_attr(), term_attrs() based on the narrow-
3664 character versions as well.
3665 + implement erasewchar(), killwchar() based on erasechar() and
3667 + modify erasechar() and killchar() to return ERR if the value was
3669 + correct a bug in wresize() in handling subwindows (based on patch by
3670 Roger Gammans <rgammans@computer-surgery.co.uk>, report by Scott Beck
3671 <scott@gossamer-threads.com>).
3672 + improve test/tclock.c by making the second-hand update more often
3673 if gettimeofday() is available.
3676 + workaround for Solaris sed with MKlib_gen.sh (reported by Andy
3677 Tsouladze <andyt@mypoints.com>).
3680 + correct return-value from getcchar(), making it consistent with
3682 + reorder loops that generate makefile rules for different models vs
3683 subsets so configure --with-termlib works again. This was broken by
3684 logic added to avoid duplicate rules in changes to accommodate cygwin
3685 dll's (reported by George.R.Goffe@seagate.com).
3686 + update config.guess, config.sub
3689 + modify ifdef's in write_entry.c to allow use of symbolic links on
3690 platforms with no hard links, e.g., BeOS.
3691 + modify a few includes to allow compile with BeOS, which has stdbool.h
3692 with a conflicting definition for 'bool' versus its OS.h definition.
3693 + amend MKlib_gen.sh to work with gawk, which defines 'func' as an
3694 alias for 'function'.
3697 + correct form of prototype for ripoffline().
3698 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to test that all functions marked as implemented
3702 + add manpages: curs_get_wstr.3x, curs_in_wchstr.3x
3703 + implement wgetn_wstr().
3704 + implement win_wchnstr().
3705 + remove redefinition of unget_wch() in lib_gen.c (reported by
3706 Jungshik Shin <jshin@jtan.com>).
3709 + modified several of the test programs to allow them to compile with
3710 vendor curses implementations, e.g., Solaris, AIX -TD
3713 + modified test/configure to allow configuring against ncursesw.
3714 + change WACS_xxx definition to use address, to work like Tru64 curses.
3717 + add 'e' and 'm' toggles to 'a', 'A' tests in ncurses.c to demonstrate
3718 effect of echo/noecho and meta modes.
3719 + add 'A' test to ncurses.c to demonstrate wget_wch() and related
3721 + add manpage: curs_get_wch.3x
3722 + implement unget_wch().
3723 + implement wget_wch().
3726 + regenerated html manpages.
3727 + add manpages: curs_in_wch.3x, curs_ins_wch.3x, curs_ins_wstr.3x
3728 + implement wins_wch().
3729 + implement win_wch().
3730 + implement wins_nwstr(), wins_wstr().
3733 + add manpages: curs_addwstr.3x, curs_winwstr.3x
3734 + implement winnwstr(), winwstr().
3737 + add manpages: curs_add_wchstr.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x
3738 + document wunctrl, key_name.
3739 + implement key_name().
3740 + remove const's in lib_box.c incorrectly leftover after splitting off
3742 + update llib-lncurses, llib-ncursesw, fix configure script related to
3746 + remove quotes on "SYNOPSIS" in man/curs_box_set.3x, which resulted
3747 in spurious symlinks on install.
3750 + implement whline_set(), wvline_set(), add manpage curs_border_set.
3751 + add subtest 'b' to 'F' and 'f' in ncurses.c to demonstrate use of
3752 box() and box_set() functions.
3753 + add subtest 'u' to 'F' in ncurses.c, to demonstrate use of addstr()
3754 given UTF-8 string equivalents of WACS_xxx symbols.
3755 + minor fixes to several manpages based on groff -ww output.
3756 + add descriptions of external variables of termcap interface to
3757 the manpage (report by Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>).
3758 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
3759 + correct configure option --with-bool, which was executed as
3761 + add quotes for parameters of --with-bool and --with-ospeed configure
3763 > patch by Sven Verdoolaege (report by Gerhard Haering
3764 <haering_linux@gmx.de>):
3765 + correct typos in definitions of several wide-character macros:
3766 waddwstr, wgetbkgrnd, mvaddwstr, mvwadd_wchnstr, mvwadd_wchnstr,
3768 + pass $(CPPFLAGS) to MKlib_gen.sh, thereby fixing a missing definition
3769 of _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, e.g., on Solaris
3772 + implement wide-acs characters for UTF-8 locales. When in UTF-8
3773 locale, ignore narrow version of acs. Add 'F' test to test/ncurses.c
3775 + correct prototype in keybound manpage (noted from a Debian mailing
3779 + add several cases to the wscanw() example in testcurs.c, showing the
3781 + implement a simple vsscanf() fallback function which uses the %n
3782 conversion to help parse the input data (prompted by discussion with
3783 Albert Chin-A-Young).
3784 + modify mk-1st.awk and test/Makefile.in to add $(LDFLAGS) when making
3785 shared libraries, and to use $(CFLAGS) when linking test programs
3786 (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3787 + add a call to _nc_keypad() in keypad() to accommodate applications
3788 such as nvi, which use curses for output but not for input (fixes
3789 Debian #131263, cf: 20011215).
3790 + add entrypoints to resizeterm.c which provide better control over the
3791 process: is_term_resized() and resize_term(). The latter restores
3792 the original design of resizeterm() before KEY_RESIZE was added in
3793 970906. Do this to accommodate 20010922 changes to view.c, but allow
3794 for programs with their own sigwinch handler, such as lynx (reported
3795 by Russell Ruby <russ@math.orst.edu>).
3798 + fix a typo in change to mk-1st.awk, which broke the shared-library
3799 makefile rules (reported by Martin Mokrejs).
3802 + update config.guess, config.sub
3803 + finish changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
3804 + fix a typo in mvwchat() macro (reported by Cy <yam@homerow.net).
3807 + add case in lib_baudrate.c for B921600 (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
3808 + correct missing sed-editing stage in manpage installs which is used
3809 to rename manpages, broken in 20010324 fix for Debian #89939 (Debian
3811 + remove -L$(libdir) from linker flags, probably not needed any more
3812 since HPUX is handled properly (reported by Niibe Yutaka
3814 + add configure check for mbstate_t, needed for wide-character
3815 configuration. On some platforms we must include <wchar.h> to
3816 define this (reported by Daniel Jacobowitz).
3817 + incorporate some of the changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
3820 + workaround for awk did not work with mawk, adjusted shell script.
3823 + add Caps.osf1r5, as an example.
3824 + modify behavior of can_clear_with() so that if an application is
3825 running in a non-bce terminals with default colors enabled, it
3826 returns true, allowing the user to select/paste text without picking
3827 up extraneous trailing blanks (adapted from patch by Daniel
3828 Jacobowitz <dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu>).
3829 + modify generated curses.h to ifdef-out prototypes for extensions if
3830 they are disabled, and to define curses_version() as a string in that
3831 case. This is needed to make the programs such as tic build in that
3833 + modified generated headers.sh to remove a gzip'd version of the
3834 target file if it exists, in case non-gzip'd manpages are installed
3835 into a directory where gzip'd ones exist. In that case, the latter
3837 + corrected a redundant initialization of signal handlers from 20010922
3839 + clarified bug-reporting address in terminfo.src (report by John H
3840 DuBois III <spcecdt@armory.com>).
3841 > several fixes from Robert Joop:
3842 + do not use "-v" option of awk in MKkey_defs.sh because it does not
3843 work with SunOS nawk.
3844 + modify definitions for libutf8 in curses.h to avoid redefinition
3846 + quoted references to compiler in shell command in misc/Makefile, in
3847 case it uses multiple tokens.
3850 + restore special case from 20010922 changes to omit SA_RESTART when
3851 setting up SIGWINCH handler, which is needed to allow wgetch() to be
3852 interrupted by that signal.
3853 + update configure macro CF_WITH_PATHLIST, to omit some double quotes
3854 not needed with autoconf 2.52
3855 + revert configure script to autoconf 2.13 patched with
3856 autoconf-2.13-19990117.patch.gz (or later)
3858 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
3859 because autoconf 2.52 macro AC_PROG_AWK does not work on HPUX 11.0
3860 (report by David Ellement <ellement@sdd.hp.com>). This also fixes a
3861 different problem configuring with Mac OS X (reported by Marc Smith
3862 <marc.a.smith@home.com>).
3865 + modify include/edit_cfg.h to eliminate BROKEN_LINKER symbol from
3867 + move prototype for _nc_vsscanf() into curses.h.in to omit
3868 HAVE_VSSCANF symbol from curses.h, which was dependent upon the
3869 ncurses_cfg.h file which is not installed.
3870 + use ACS_LEN rather than SIZEOF(acs_map) in trace code of lib_acs.c,
3871 to work with broken linker configuration, e.g., cygwin (report by
3872 Robert Joop <rj@rainbow.in-berlin.de>).
3873 + make napms() call _nc_timed_wait() rather than poll() or select(),
3874 to work around broken implementations of these on cygwin.
3877 + drop configure macro CF_WIDEC_SHIFT, since that was rendered obsolete
3878 by Sven Verdoolaege's rewrite of wide-character support. This makes
3879 libncursesw incompatible again, but makes the header files almost the
3880 same as in the narrow-character configuration.
3881 + simplify definitions that combine wide/narrow versions of bkgd, etc.,
3882 to eliminate differences between the wide/narrow versions of curses.h
3883 + correct typo in configure macro CF_FUNC_VSSCANF
3884 + correct location of call to _nc_keypad() from 20011215 changes which
3885 prevented keypad() from being disabled (reported by Lars Hecking).
3888 + rewrote ncurses 'a' test to exercise wgetch() and keypad() functions
3889 better, e.g., by adding a 'w' command to create new windows which
3890 may have different keypad() settings.
3891 + corrected logic of keypad() by adding internal screen state to track
3892 whether the terminal's keypad-mode has been set. Use this in
3893 wgetch() to update the keypad-mode according to whether the
3894 associated window's keypad-mode has been set with keypad(). This
3895 corrects a related problem restoring terminal state after handling
3896 SIGTSTP (reported by Mike Castle).
3897 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52
3898 autoconf-2.52-patch.gz
3900 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
3901 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3902 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
3903 + minor changes to quoting in configure script to allow it to work
3907 + modify final checks in lib_setup.c for line and col values, making
3909 + modify acs_map[] if configure --broken-linker is specified, to make
3910 it use a function rather than an array (prompted by an incorrect
3911 implementation in cygwin package).
3912 + correct spelling of configure option --enable-colorfgbg, which
3913 happened to work if --with-develop was set (noted in cygwin package
3915 + modify ifdef for genericerror() to compile with SUNWspro Sun WorkShop
3916 6 update 1 C++ 5.2 (patch by Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu>).
3917 + add configure checks to see if ncurses' fallback vsscanf() will
3918 compile either of the special cases for FILE structs, and if not,
3919 force it to the case which simply returns an error (report by
3920 Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu> indicates that Solaris 8 with
3921 64-bits does not allow access to FILE's fields).
3922 + modify ifdef's for c++/cursesw.cc to use the fallback vsscanf() in
3923 the ncurses library if no better substitute for this can be found
3925 + modify the build to name dynamic libraries according to the
3926 convention used on OS X and Darwin. Rather than something like
3927 libncurses.dylib.5.2, Darwin would name it libncurses. 5.dylib.
3928 There are a few additional minor fixes, such as setting the library
3929 version and compatibility version numbers (patch by Jason Evans
3930 <jevans@apple.com>).
3931 + use 'sh' to run mkinstalldirs, to work around problems with buggy
3932 versions of 'make' on OS/2 (report by John Polterak <jp@eyup.org>).
3933 + correct typo in manpage description of curs_set() (Debian #121548).
3934 + replace the configure script existence-check for mkstemp() by one
3935 that checks if the function works, needed for older glibc and
3939 + modify script that generates fallbacks.c to compile a temporary
3940 copy of the terminfo source in case the host does not contain all of
3941 the entries requested for fallbacks (request by Greg Roelofs).
3942 + modify configure script to accommodate systems such as Mac OS X whose
3943 <stdbool.h> header defines a 'bool' type inconsistent with ncurses,
3944 which normally makes 'bool' consistent with C++. Include <stdbool.h>
3945 from curses.h to force consistent usage, define a new type
3946 NCURSES_BOOL and related that to the exported 'bool' as either a
3947 typedef or definition, according to whether <stdbool.h> is present
3948 (based on a bug report for tin 1.5.9 by Aaron Adams <adamsa@mac.com>).
3951 + added/updated terminfo entries for M$ telnet and KDE konsole -TD
3954 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
3955 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
3956 + add putty terminfo entry -TD
3957 + if configuring for wide-curses, define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, since
3958 this may not otherwise be defined to make test/view.c compile.
3961 + review/correct several missing/generated items in curses.wide, sorted
3962 the lists to make subsequent diff's easier to track.
3965 + add manual pages for add_wch(), echo_wchar(), getcchar(),
3966 mvadd_wch(), mvwadd_wch(), setcchar(), wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar().
3967 + implement wecho_wchar()
3968 + modify _tracedump() to handle wide-characters by mapping them to '?'
3969 and control-characters to '.', to make the trace file readable. Also
3970 dynamically allocate the buffer used by _tracedump() for formatting