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31 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
32 working with Pavel Curtis' original work, pcurses, in 1992.
34 Changes through 1.9.9e are recorded by Zeyd M Ben-Halim.
35 Changes since 1.9.9e are recorded by Thomas E Dickey.
37 Contributors include those who have provided patches (even small ones), as well
38 as those who provide useful information (bug reports, analyses). Changes with
39 no cited author are the work of Thomas E Dickey (TD).
41 A few contributors may be cited in this file by their initials.
42 Each accounts for half of one percent or more of the changes since 1.9.9e.
43 See the AUTHORS file for the corresponding full names.
45 Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
46 it is not possible to add this information.
49 + add "op" to xterm+256setaf -TD
50 + reviewed terminology 1.0.0 -TD
52 + suppress debug-package for ncurses-examples rpm build.
55 + check for interrupt in color-pair initialization of dots_curses.c,
57 + add z/Z zoom feature to test/ncurses.c C/c screens.
58 + add '<' and '>' commands to test/ncurses.c S/s screens, to better
59 test off-by-ones in the overlap/copywin functions.
62 + improve man/curs_inwstr.3x, correct end-logic for lib_inwstr.c
63 (report by Midolikawa H).
64 + fix typo in a few places for "improvements" (patch by Sven Joachim).
65 + clear the other half of a double-width character on which a line
66 drawing character is drawn.
67 + make test/ncurses.c "s" test easier to understand which subtests are
68 available; add a "S" wide-character overlap test-screen.
69 + modify test/ncurses.c C/c tests to allow for extended color pairs.
70 + add endwin() call in error-returns from test/ncurses.c omitted in
71 recent redesign of its menu (cf: 20170923).
72 + improve install of hashed-db by removing the ".db" file as done for
73 directory-tree terminal databases.
74 + repair a few overlooked items in include/ncurses_defs from recent
75 port/refactoring of test-programs (cf: 20170909).
76 + add test/padview.c, to compare pads with direct updates in view.c
79 + modify test/view.c to expand tabs using the ncurses library rather
80 than in the test-program.
81 + remove very old SIGWINCH example in test/view.c, just use KEY_RESIZE.
82 + add -T, -e, -f -m options to "dots" test-programs.
83 + fix a few typos in usage-messages for test-programs.
86 + minor cleanup to test/view.c:
87 + eliminate "-n" option by simply reading the whole file.
88 + implement page up/down commands.
89 + add check in tput for init/reset operands to ensure those use a
91 + improve manual pages which discuss chtype, cchar_t types and the
92 attribute values which can be stored in those types.
93 + correct array-index when parsing "-T" command-line option in tabs
95 + modify demo_new_pair.c to pass extended pairs to setcchar().
96 + add test/dots_xcurses.c to illustrate a different approach used for
97 extended colors which can be contrasted with dots_curses.c.
98 + add a check in tic to note when a description uses non-mandatory
99 delays without xon_xoff. This is not an error, but some descriptions
100 for a terminal emulator may use the combination incorrectly.
103 + modify "-T" option of clear and tput to call use_tioctl() to obtain
104 the operating system's notion of the screensize if possible.
105 + review/repair some exit-codes for tput, making usage-message exit
106 with 2 rather than 1, and a failure to open terminal 4+errno.
107 + amend check in tput, tabs and clear to allow those to use the
108 database-only features in cron if a -T option gives a suitable
109 terminal name (report by Lauri Tirkkonen).
110 + correct an ifdef in test/ncurses.c for systems with soft-keys but
112 + regenerate man-html documentation.
115 + fix a symbol conflict that made ncurses.c C/c menu not work with
117 + add refresh() call to dots_mvcur.c, needed to use mvcur() with
118 Solaris xpg4 curses after calling newterm().
119 + minor fixes for configure script from work on ncurses-examples and
121 + improve animation in test/xmas.c by adding a time-delay in blinkit().
122 + modify several test programs to reflect that ncurses honors existing
123 signal handlers in initscr(), while other implementations do not.
124 + modify bs.c to make it easier to quit.
125 + change ncurses-examples to use attr_t vs chtype to follow X/Open
126 documentation more closely since Solaris xpg4-curses uses different
127 values for WA_xxx vs A_xxx that rely on attr_t being an unsigned
128 short. Tru64 aka OSF1, HPUX, AIX did as ncurses does, equating the
132 + modify menu for test/ncurses.c to fit on 24-line screen.
133 + build-fix for configure --with-caps=uwin
134 + add options to test_arrays.c, for selecting termcap vs terminfo, etc.
137 + minor fix to test/filter.c to avoid clearing the command in one case.
138 + modify filter() to discard clr_eos if back_color_erase is set.
141 + improve wide-character implementation of myADDNSTR() in frm_driver.c,
142 which was inconsistent with the normal implementation.
143 + save/restore cursor position in Undo_Justification(), matching
144 behavior of Buffer_To_Window() (report by Leon Winter).
145 + modify test/knight to provide the "slow" solution for small screens
146 using "R", noting that Warnsdorf's method is easily done with "a".
147 + modify several test-programs which call use_default_colors() to
148 consistently do this only if "-d" option is given.
149 + additional changes to test with non-standard variants of curses:
150 + modify a loop limit in firework.c to work around absense of limit
151 checks in some libraries.
152 + fill the last row of a window with "?" in firstlast if waddch does
153 not return ERR on the lower-right corner.
154 + add checks in test/configure for some functions not in 4.3BSD curses.
155 + fix a regression in test/configure (cf: 20170826).
158 + amend change for endwin-state for better consistency with the older
159 logic (report/patch by Jeb Rosen, cf: 20170722).
160 + modify check in fmt_entry() to handle a cancelled reset string
161 (Debian #873746). Make similar fixes in other parts of dump_entry.c
165 + fix a bug in repeat_char logic (cf: 20170729, report by Chris Clayton).
168 + fixes for "iterm2" (report by Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD
169 + corrected a warning from tic about keys which are the same, to skip
170 over missing/cancelled values.
171 + add check in tic for unnecessary use of "2" to denote a shifted
173 + improve checks in trim_sgr0, comp_parse.c and parse_entry.c, for
174 cancelled string capabilities.
175 + add check in _nc_parse_entry() for invalid entry name, setting the
176 name to "invalid" to avoid problems storing entries.
177 + add/improve checks in tic's parser to address invalid input
178 + add a check in comp_scan.c to handle the special case where a
179 nontext file ending with a NUL rather than newline is given to tic
180 as input (Redhat #1484274).
181 + allow for cancelled capabilities in _nc_save_str (Redhat #1484276).
182 + add validity checks for "use=" target in _nc_parse_entry (Redhat
184 + check for invalid strings in postprocess_termcap (Redhat #1484285)
185 + reset secondary pointers on EOF in next_char() (Redhat #1484287).
186 + guard _nc_safe_strcpy() and _nc_safe_strcat() against calls using
187 cancelled strings (Redhat #1484291).
188 + correct typo in curs_memleaks.3x (Sven Joachim).
189 + improve test/configure checks for some curses variants not based on
191 + add options for test/configure to disable checks for form, menu and
195 + update "iterm" entry -TD
196 + add "iterm2" entry (report by Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD
197 + regenerate llib-* files.
198 + regenerate HTML manpages.
199 + improve picsmap test-program:
200 + reduce memory used for tsearch
201 + add report in log file showing cumulative color coverage.
202 + add -x option to clear/tput to make the E3 extension optional
204 + add options -T and -V to clear command for compatibility with tput.
205 + add usage message to clear command (Debian #371855).
206 + improve usage messages for tset and tput.
207 + minor fixes to "RDGB" extension and reset_color_pairs().
210 + improve description of -R option in infocmp manual page (report by
212 + add reset_color_pairs() function.
213 + add user_caps.5 manual page to document the terminfo extensions used
215 + improve build scripts, using SIGQUIT vs SIGTRAP; add other configure
216 script fixes from work on xterm, lynx and tack.
217 + modify install-rule for ncurses-examples to put the data files in
218 /usr/share/ncurses-examples
219 + improve tracemunch, by changing address-parameters of add_wch(),
220 color_content() and pair_content() to dummy parameters.
221 + minor optimization to _nc_change_pair, to return quickly when the
222 current screen is marked for clearing.
223 + in-progress changes to improve performance of test/picsmap.c for
225 + modify allocation for SCREEN's color-pair table to start small, grow
226 on demand up to the existing limit.
227 + add "RGB" extension capability for direct-color support, use this to
228 improve color_content().
229 + improve picsmap test-program:
230 + if no palette file is needed, attempt to load one based on $TERM,
231 checking first in the current directory, then by adding ".dat"
232 suffix, and finally in the data-directory, e.g.,
233 /usr/share/ncurses-examples
234 + add "-l" option for logging
235 + add "-d" option for debugging
236 + add "-s" option for stepping automatically through list of images,
238 + use tsearch to improve time for loading color table for images.
239 + update config.guess, config.sub from
240 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
243 + update interix entry using tack and SFU on Windows 7 Ultimate -TD
244 + use ^? for kdch1 in interix (reported by Jonathan de Boyne Pollard)
245 + add "rep" to xterm-new, available since 1997/01/26 -TD
246 + move SGR 24 and 27 from vte-2014 to vte-2012 (request by Alain
248 + add a check in newline_forces_scroll() in case a program moves the
249 cursor outside scrolling margins (report by Robert King).
250 + improve _nc_tparm_analyze, using that to extend the checks made by
251 tic for reporting inconsistencies between the expected number of
252 parameters for a capability and the actual.
253 + amend handling of repeat_char capability in EmitRange (adapted from
254 report/patch by Dick Wesseling):
255 + translate the character to the alternate character set when the
256 alternate character set is enabled.
257 + do not use repeat_char for characters past 255.
258 + document "_nc_free_tinfo" in manual page, because it could be used in
259 tack for memory-leak checking.
260 + add "--without-tack" configure option to refine "--with-progs"
261 configure option. Normally tack is no longer built in-tree, but
262 a few packagers combine it during the build. If term_entry.h is
263 installed, there is no advantage to in-tree builds.
264 + adjust configure-script to define HAVE_CURSES_DATA_BOOLNAMES symbol
265 needed for tack 1.08 when built in-tree. Rather than relying upon
266 internal "_nc_" functions, tack now uses the boolean, number and
267 string capability name-arrays provided by ncurses and SVr4 Unix
268 curses. It still uses term_entry.h for the definitions of the
269 extended capability arrays.
270 + add an overlooked null-pointer check in mvcur changes from 20170722
273 + improve test-packages for ncurses-examples and AdaCurses for lintian
274 + modify logic for endwin-state to be able to detect the case where
275 the screen was never initialized, using that to trigger a flush of
276 ncurses' buffer for mvcur, e.g., in test/dots_mvcur.c for the
277 term-driver configuration.
278 + add dependency upon ncurses_cfg.h to a few other internal header
279 files to allow each to be compiled separately.
280 + add dependency upon ncurses_cfg.h to tic's header-files; any program
281 using tic-library will have to supply this file. Legacy tack
282 versions supply this file; ongoing tack development has dropped the
283 dependency upon tic-library and new releases will not be affected.
286 + modify command-line parameters for "convert" used in picsmap to work
287 with ImageMagick 6.8 and newer.
288 + fix build-problem with tack and ABI-5 (Debian #868328).
289 + repair termcap-format from tic/infocmp broken in 20170701 fixes
291 + reformat terminfo.src with 20170513 updates.
292 + improve test-packages to address lintian warnings.
295 + add a note to tic manual page about -W versus -f options.
296 + correct a limit-check in fixes from 20170701 (report by Sven Joachim).
299 + modify update_getenv() in db_iterator.c to ensure that environment
300 variables which are not initially set will be checked later if an
301 application happens to set them (patch by Guillaume Maudoux).
302 + remove initialization-check for calling napms() in the term-driver
303 configuration; none is needed.
304 + add help-screen to test/test_getstr.c and test/test_get_wstr.c
305 + improve compatibility between different configurations of new_prescr,
306 fixing a case with threaded code and term-driver where c++/demo did
307 not work (cf: 20160213).
308 + the fixes for Redhat #1464685 obscured a problem subsequently
309 reported in Redhat #1464687; the given test-case was no longer
310 reproducible. Testing without the fixes for the earlier reports
311 showed a problem with buffer overflow in dump_entry.c, which is
312 addressed by reducing the use of a fixed-size buffer.
313 + add/improve checks in tic's parser to address invalid input
314 (Redhat #1464684, #1464685, #1464686, #1464691).
315 + alloc_entry.c, add a check for a null-pointer.
316 + parse_entry.c, add several checks for valid pointers as well as
317 one check to ensure that a single character on a line is not
318 treated as the 2-character termcap short-name.
319 + fix a memory leak in delscreen() (report by Bai Junq).
320 + improve tracemunch, showing thread identifiers as names.
321 + fix a use-after-free in NCursesMenu::~NCursesMenu()
322 + further amend incorrect calls for memory-leaks from 20170617 changes
323 (report by Allen Hewes).
326 + modify c++/etip.h.in to accommodate deprecation of throw() and
327 throws() in c++17 (prompted by patch by Romain Geissler).
328 + remove some incorrect calls for memory-leaks from 20170617 changes
329 (report by Allen Hewes).
330 + add test-programs for termattrs and term_attrs.
331 + modify _nc_outc_wrapper to use the standard output if the screen was
332 not initialized, rather than returning an error.
333 + improve checks for low-level terminfo functions when the terminal
334 has not been initialized (Redhat #1345963).
335 + modify make_hash to allow building with address-sanitizer,
336 assuming that --disable-leaks is configured.
337 + amend changes for number_format() in 20170506 to avoid undefined
338 behavior when shifting (patch by Emanuele Giaquinta).
341 + fill in some places where TERMTYPE2 vs TERMTYPE was not used
342 (report by Allen Hewes).
343 + use ExitTerminfo() internally in error-exits for ncurses' setupterm
344 to help with leak checking.
345 + use ExitProgram() in error-exit from initscr() to help with leak
347 + review test-programs, adding checks for cases where the terminal
348 cannot be initialized.
351 + add option "-xp" to picsmap.c, to use init_extended_pair().
352 + make simple performance fixes for picsmap.c
353 + improve aspect ratio of images read from "convert" in picsmap.c
356 + add option to picsmap to use color-palette files, e.g., for mapping
358 + move the data in SCREEN used for the alloc_pair() function to the
359 end, to restore compatibility between ncurses/ncursesw libtinfo
360 (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
361 + add build-time utility "report_offsets" to help show when the various
362 configurations of tinfo library are compatible or not.
365 + improved test/picsmap.c:
366 + lookup named colors for xpm files in rgb.txt
367 + accept blanks in color-keys for xpm files.
368 + if neither xbm/xpm work, try "convert", which may be available.
371 + modify test/picsmap.c to read xpm files.
372 + modify package/debian/* to create documentation packages, so the
373 related files can be checked with lintian.
374 + fix some typos in manpages (report/patch by Sven Joachim).
377 + add test/picsmap.c to fill in some testing issues not met by dots.
378 The initial version reads X bitmap (".xbm") files.
379 + repair logic which forces a repaint where a color-pair's content is
380 changed (cf: 20170311).
381 + improve tracemunch, showing screenXX pointers as names.
384 + modify tic/infocmp display of numeric values to use hexadecimal when
385 they are "close" to a power of two, making the result more readable.
386 + improve discussion of portability in curs_mouse.3x
387 + change line-length for generated html/manpages to 78 columns from 65.
388 + improve discussion of line-drawing characters in curs_add_wch.3x
389 (prompted by discussion with Lorinczy Zsigmond).
390 + cleanup formatting of hackguide.html and ncurses-intro.html
391 + add examples for WACS_D_PLUS and WACS_T_PLUS to test/ncurses.c
394 + corrected a case where $with_gpm was set to "maybe" after CF_WITH_GPM,
395 overlooked in 20160528 fixes (report by Alexandre Bury).
396 + improve a couple of test-program's help-messages.
397 + corrected loop in rain.c from 20170415 changes.
398 + modify winnstr and winchnstr to return error if the output pointer is
399 null, as well as adding a null pointer check of the window pointer
400 for better compatibility with other implementations.
401 + improve discussion of NetBSD curses in scr_dump.5
402 + modify LIMIT_TYPED macro in new_pair.h to avoid changing sign of the
403 value to be limited (reports by Darby Payne, Rob Boudreau).
404 + update config.guess, config.sub from
405 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
408 + build-fix for termcap-configuration (report by Chi-Hsuan Yen).
409 + improve terminfo manual page discussion of control- and graphics-
411 + remove tic warning about "^?" in string capabilities, which was
412 marked as an extension (cf: 20000610, 20110820); however all Unix
413 implementations support this and X/Open Curses does not address it.
414 On the other hand, termcap never did support this feature.
415 + correct missing comma-separator between string capabilities in
416 icl6402 and m2-nam -TD
417 + restore rmir/smir in ansi+idc to better match original ansiterm+idc,
418 add alias ansiterm (report by Robert King).
419 + amend an old check for ambiguous use of "ma" in terminfo versus
420 a termcap use, if the capability is cancelled to treat it as number.
421 + correct a case in _nc_captoinfo() which read "%%" and emitted "%".
422 + modify sscanf calls in _nc_infotocap() for patterns "%{number}%+%c"
423 and "%'char'%+%c" to check that the final character is really 'c',
424 avoiding a case in icl6404 which cannot be converted to termcap.
425 + in _nc_infotocap(), add a check to ensure that terminfo "^?" is not
426 written to termcap, because the BSDs did not implement that.
427 + in _nc_tic_expand() and _nc_infotocap(), improve string-length check
428 when deciding whether to use "^X" or "\xxx" format for control
429 characters, to make the output of tic/infocmp more predictable.
430 + limit termcap "%d" width to 2 digits on input, and use "%2" in
431 preference to "%02" on output.
432 + correct terminfo/termcap conversion of "%02" and "%03" into "%2" and
433 "%3"; the result repeated the last character.
434 + add man/scr_dump.5 to document screen-dump format.
437 + modify several test programs to use new popup_msgs, adapted from
438 help-screen used in test/edit_field.c
439 + drop two symbols obsoleted in 2004: _nc_check_termtype, and
441 + fix some old copyright dates (cf: 20031025).
442 + build-fixes for test/savescreen.c to work with AIX and HPUX.
443 + minor fix to configure script, adding a backslash/continuation.
444 + extend TERMINAL structure for ABI 6 to store numbers internally as
445 integers rather than short, by adding new data for this purpose.
446 + more fixes for minor memory-leaks in test-programs.
449 + change logic in wins_nwstr() to avoid addressing data past the output
451 + correct a call to setcchar() in Data_Entry_w() from 20131207 changes.
452 + fix minor memory-leaks in test-programs.
453 + further improve ifdef in term_entry.h for internal definitions not
457 + minor fixes for vt100+4bsd, e.g., delay in sgr for consistency -TD
458 + add smso for env230, to match sgr -TD
459 + remove p7/protect from sgr in fbterm -TD
460 + drop setf/setb from fbterm; setaf/setab are enough -TD
461 + make xterm-pcolor sgr consistent with other capabilities -TD
462 + add rmxx/smxx ECMA-48 strikeout extension to tmux and xterm-basic
463 (discussion with Nicholas Marriott)
464 + add test-programs sp_tinfo and extended_color
465 + modify no-leaks code for lib_cur_term.c to account for the tgetent()
467 + modify setupterm() to save original tty-modes so that erasechar()
468 works as expected. Also modify _nc_setupscreen() to avoid redundant
469 calls to get original tty-modes.
470 + modify set_curterm() to update ttytype[] data used by longname().
471 + modify wattr_set() and wattr_get() to return ERR if win-parameter is
473 + improve cast used for null-pointer checks in header macros, to
474 reduce compiler warnings.
475 + modify several functions, using the reserved "opts" parameter to pass
476 color- and pair-values larger than 16-bits:
477 + getcchar(), setcchar(), slk_attr_set(), vid_puts(), wattr_get(),
478 wattr_set(), wchgat(), wcolor_set().
479 + Other functions call these with the corresponding altered behavior,
480 including chgat(), mvchgat(), mvwchgat(), slk_color_on(),
481 slk_color_off(), vid_attr().
482 + add new functions for manipulating color- and pair-values larger
483 than 16-bits. These are extended_color_content(),
484 extended_pair_content(), extended_slk_color(), init_extended_color(),
485 init_extended_pair(), and the corresponding sp-funcs.
488 + fix a memory leak in the window-list when creating multiple screens
489 (reports by Andres Martinelli, Debian #783486).
490 + reviewed calls from link_test.c, added a few more null-pointer
492 + add a null-pointer check in ungetmouse, in case mousemask was not
493 called (report by "Kau").
494 + updated curs_sp_funcs.3x for new functions.
497 + change TERMINAL structure in term.h to make it opaque. Some
498 applications misuse its members, e.g., directly modifying it
499 rather than using def_prog_mode().
500 + modify utility headers such as tic.h to make it clearer which are
501 externals that are used by tack.
502 + improve curs_slk.3x in particular its discussion of portability.
503 + fix cut/paste in legacy_encoding.3x
504 + add prototype for find_pair() to new_pair.3x (report by Branden
506 + fix a couple of broken links in generated man-html documentation.
507 + regenerate man-html documentation.
510 + modify vt100 rs2 string to reset vt52 mode and scrolling regions
511 (report/analysis by Robert King) -TD
512 + add vt100+4bsd building block, use that for older terminals rather
513 than "vt100" which is now mostly used as a building block for
514 terminal emulators -TD
515 + correct a few spelling errors in terminfo.src comments -TD
517 + fix a typo in ncurses.c test_attr legend (patch by Petr Vanek).
518 + changed internal colorpair_t to a struct, eliminating an internal
519 8-bit limit on colors
520 + add ncurses/new_pair.h
521 + add ncurses/base/new_pair.c with alloc_pair(), find_pair() and
522 free_pair() functions
523 + add test/demo_new_pair.c
526 + improve terminfo manual description of terminfo syntax.
527 + clarify the use of wint_t vs wchar_t in curs_get_wstr.3x
528 + improve description of endwin() in manual.
529 + modify setcchar() and getcchar() to treat negative color-pair as an
531 + fix a typo in include/hashed_db.h (Andre Sa).
534 + fixes for CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS (report by Ross Burton).
537 + fix several formatting issues with manual pages.
538 + correct read of terminfo entry in which all strings are absent or
539 explicitly cancelled. Before this fix, the result was that all were
540 treated as only absent.
541 + modify infocmp to suppress mixture of absent/cancelled capabilities
542 that would only show as "NULL, NULL", unless the -q option is used,
543 e.g., to show "-, @" or "@, -".
546 + build-fixes for PGI compilers (report by Adam J. Stewart)
547 + accept whitespace in sed expression for generating expanded.c
548 + modify configure check that g++ compiler warnings are not used.
549 + add configure check for -fPIC option needed for shared libraries.
550 + let configure --disable-ext-funcs override the default for the
551 --enable-sp-funcs option.
552 + mark some structs in form/menu/panel libraries as potentially opaque
553 without modifying API/ABI.
554 + add configure option --enable-opaque-curses for ncurses library and
555 similar options for the other libraries.
558 + trim newlines, tabs and escaped newlines from terminfo "paths" passed
560 + ignore zero-length files in db-iterator; these are useful for
561 instance to suppress "$HOME/.terminfo" when not wanted.
562 + amended "b64:" encoder to work with the terminfo reader.
563 + modify terminfo reader to accept "b64:" format using RFC-3548 in
564 as well as RFC-4648 url/filename-safe format.
565 + modify terminfo reader to accept "hex:" format as generated by
566 "infocmp -0qQ1" (cf: 20150905).
567 + adjust authors comment to reflect drop below 1% for SV.
570 + minor comment-fixes to help automate links to bug-urls -TD
571 + add dvtm, dvtm-256color -TD
572 + add settings corresponding to xterm-keys option to tmux entry to
573 reflect upcoming change to make that option "on" by default
574 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
575 + uncancel Ms in tmux entry (Harry Gindi, Nicholas Marriott).
576 + add dumb-emacs-ansi -TD
579 + improve discussion of early history of tput program.
580 + incorporate A_COLOR mask into COLOR_PAIR(), in case user application
581 provides an out-of-range pair number (report by Elijah Stone).
582 + clarify description in tput manual page regarding support for
583 termcap names (prompted by FreeBSD #214709).
584 + remove a restriction in tput's support for termcap names which
585 omitted capabilities normally not shown in termcap translations
587 + modify configure script for clang as used on FreeBSD, to work around
588 clang's differences in exit codes vs gcc.
591 + improve discussion of early history of tset/reset programs.
592 + clarify in manual pages that the optional verbose option level is
593 available only when ncurses is configured for tracing.
594 + amend change from 20161231 to avoid writing traces to the standard
595 error after initializing the trace feature using the environment
599 + amend changes for tput to reset tty modes to "sane" if the program
600 is run as "reset", like tset. Likewise, ensure that tset sends
601 either reset- or init-strings.
602 + improve manual page descriptions of tput init/reset and tset/reset,
603 to make it easier to see how they are similar and different.
604 + move a static result from key_name() to _nc_globals
605 + modify _nc_get_screensize to allow for use_env() and use_tioctl()
606 state to be per-screen when sp-funcs are configured, better matching
607 the behavior when using the term-driver configuration.
608 + improve cross-references in manual pages for often used functions
609 + move SCREEN field for use_tioctl() data before the ncursesw fields,
610 and limit that to the sp-funcs configuration to improve termlib
611 compatibility (cf: 20120714).
612 + correct order of initialization for traces in use_env() and
613 use_tioctl() versus first trace calls.
616 + fix errata for ncurses-howto (report by Damien Ruscoe).
617 + fix a few places in configure/build scripts where DESTDIR and rpath
618 were combined (report by Thomas Klausner).
619 + merge current st description (report by Harry Gindi) -TD
620 + modify flash capability for linux and wyse entries to put the delay
621 between the reverse/normal escapes rather than after -TD
622 + modify program tabs to pass the actual tty file descriptor to
623 setupterm rather than the standard output, making padding work
625 + explain in clear's manual page that it writes to stdout.
626 + add special case for verbose debugging traces of command-line
627 utilities which write to stderr (cf: 20161126).
628 + remove a trace with literal escapes from skip_DECSCNM(), added in
630 + update config.guess, config.sub from
631 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
634 + correct parmeters for copywin call in _nc_Synchronize_Attributes()
635 (patch by Leon Winter).
636 + improve color-handling section in terminfo manual page (prompted by
637 patch by Mihail Konev).
638 + modify programs clear, tput and tset to pass the actual tty file
639 descriptor to setupterm rather than the standard output, making
643 + add tput-colorcube demo script.
644 + add -r and -s options to tput-initc demo, to match usage in xterm.
645 + flush the standard output in _nc_flush for the case where SP is zero,
646 e.g., when called via putp. This fixes a scenario where "tput flash"
647 did not work after changes in 20130112.
650 + add configure script option --disable-wattr-macros for use in cases
651 where one wants to use the same headers for ncurses5/ncurses6
652 development, by suppressing the wattr* macros which differ due to
653 the introduction of extended colors (prompted by comments in
654 Debian #230990, Redhat #1270534).
655 + add test/tput-initc to demonstrate tput used to initialize palette
657 + modify test/xterm*.dat to use the newer color4/color12 values.
660 + improve discussion of field validation in form_driver.3x manual page.
661 + update curs_trace.3x manual page.
664 + modify linux-16color to not mask dim, standout or reverse with the
666 + add 0.1sec mandatory delay to flash capabilities using the VT100
667 reverse-video control -TD
668 + omit selection of ISO-8859-1 for G0 in enacs capability from linux2.6
669 entry, to avoid conflict with the user-defined mapping. The reset
670 feature will use ISO-8859-1 in any case (Mikulas Patocka).
671 + improve check in tic for delays by also warning about beep/flash
672 when a delay is not embedded, or if those use the VT100 reverse
673 video escape without using a delay.
674 + minor fix for syntax-check of delays from 20161119 changes.
675 + modify trace() to avoid overwriting existing file (report by Maor
679 + add check in tic for some syntax errors of delays, as well as use of
680 proportional delays for non-line capabilities.
681 + document history of the clear program and the E3 extension, prompted
682 by various discussions including
683 http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/87469/clearing-the-old-scrollback-buffer
686 + improve -W option in tic/infocmp:
687 + correct order of size-adjustments in wrapped lines
688 + if -f option splits line, do not further split it with -W
689 + begin a new line when adding "use=" after a wrapped line
692 + fix typo in man/terminfo.tail (Alain Williams).
693 + correct program-name in adacurses6-config.1 manual page.
696 + add new function "unfocus_current_field" (Leon Winter)
699 + modify tset -w (and tput reset) to update the program's copy of the
700 screensize if it was already set in the system, to improve tabstop
701 setting which relies upon knowing the actual screensize.
702 + add functionality of tset -w to tput, like the "-c" feature this is
703 not optional in tput.
704 + add "clear" as a possible link/alias to tput.
705 + improve tput's check for being called as "init" or "reset" to allow
706 for transformed names.
707 + split-out the "clear" function from progs/clear.c, share with
708 tput to get the same behavior, e.g., the E3 extension.
711 + amend internal use of tputs to consistently use the number of lines
712 affected, e.g., for insert/delete character operations. While
713 merging terminfo source early in 1995, several descriptions used the
714 "*" proportional delay for these operations, prompting a change in
716 + regenerate llib-* files.
717 + regenerate HTML manpages.
718 + fix several formatting issues with manual pages.
721 + adjust size in infocmp/tic to work with strlcpy.
722 + fix configure script to record when strlcat is found on OpenBSD.
723 + build-fix for "recent" OpenBSD vs baudrate.
726 + add -W option to tic/infocmp to force long strings to wrap. This is
727 in addition to the -w option which attempts to fit capabilities into
729 + add linux-m1 minitel entries (patch by Alexandre Montaron).
730 + correct rs2 string for vt100-nam -TD
733 + modify _nc_tic_expand to escape comma if it immediately follows a
734 percent sign, to work with minitel change.
735 + updated minitel and viewdata descriptions (Alexandre Montaron).
738 + build-fix for gnat6, which unhelpfully attempts to compile C files.
739 + fix typo in 20160910 changes (Debian #837892, patch by Sven Joachim).
742 + trim dead code ifdef'd with HIDE_EINTR since 970830 (discussion with
744 + trim some obsolete/incorrect wording about EINTR from wgetch manual
745 page (patch by Leon Winter).
746 + really correct 20100515 change (patch by Rich Coe).
747 + add "--enable-string-hacks" option to test/configure
748 + completed string-hacks for "sprintf", etc., including test-programs.
749 + make "--enable-string-hacks" work with Debian by checking for the
750 "bsd" library and its associated "<bsd/string.h>" header.
753 + correct 20100515 change for weak signals versus sigprocmask (report
755 + modify misc/Makefile.in to work around OpenBSD "make" which unlike
756 all other versions of "make" does not recognize continuation lines
758 + amend the last change to CF_C_ENV_FLAGS to move only the
759 preprocessor, optimization and warning flags to CPPFLAGS and CFLAGS,
760 leaving the residue in CC. That happens to work for gcc's various
761 "model" options, but may require tuning for other compilers (report
765 + add "v" menu entry to test/ncurses.c to show baudrate and other
767 + add "newer" baudrate symbols from Linux and FreeBSD to progs/tset.c,
769 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro:
770 + add "uclinux" to case for "linux" (patch by Yann E. Morin)
771 + modify _GNU_SOURCE for cygwin headers, tested with cygwin 2.3, 2.5
772 (patch by Corinna Vinschen, from changes to tin).
773 + improve CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS macro to allow for compiler wrappers such
774 as "ccache" (report by Enrico Scholz).
775 + update config.guess, config.sub from
776 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
779 + update tput manual page to reflect changes to manipulate terminal
780 modes by sharing functions with tset.
781 + add the terminal-mode parts of "reset" (aka tset) to the "tput reset"
782 command, making the two almost the same except for window-size.
783 + adapt logic used in dialog "--keep-tite" option for test/filter.c as
784 "-a" option. When set, test/filter attempts to suppress the
786 + correct a typo in interix entry -TD
789 + add a dependency upon generated-sources in Ada95/src/Makefile.in to
790 handle a case of "configure && make install".
791 + trim trailing blanks from include/Caps*, to work around a problem
792 in sed (Debian #818067).
795 + improve CF_GNU_SOURCE configure macro to optionally define
796 _DEFAULT_SOURCE work around a nuisance in recent glibc releases.
797 + move the terminfo-specific parts of tput's "reset" function into
798 the shared reset_cmd.c, making the two forms of reset use the same
800 + split-out the terminal initialization functions from tset as
801 progs/reset_cmd.c, as part of changes to merge the reset-feature
805 + change tset's initialization to allow it to get settings from the
806 standard input as well as /dev/tty, to be more effective when
807 output or error are redirected.
808 + improve discussion of history and portability for tset/reset/tput
812 + improve error message from tset/reset when both stderr/stdout are
813 redirected to a file or pipe.
814 + improve organization of curs_attr.3x, curs_color.3x
817 + work around Debian's antique/unmaintained version of mawk when
819 + improve test/list_keys.c, showing ncurses's convention of modifiers
820 for special keys, based on xterm.
823 + improve test/list_keys.c, using $TERM if no parameters areg given.
826 + build-fixes for ncurses "test_progs" rule.
827 + amend change to CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS in 20160521 to make multilib build
828 work (report by Sven Joachim).
831 + build-fixes for ncurses-examples with NetBSD curses.
832 + improve test/list_keys.c, fixing column-widths and sorting the list
833 to make it more readable.
836 + revise fix for Debian #805618 (report by Vlado Potisk, cf: 20151128).
837 + modify test/ncurses.c a/A screens to make exiting on an escape
838 character depend on the start of keypad and timeout modes, to allow
839 better testing of function-keys.
840 + modify rs1 for xterm-16color, xterm-88color and xterm-256color to
841 reset palette using "oc" string as in linux -TD
842 + use ANSI reply for u8 in xterm-new, to reflect vt220-style responses
843 that could be returned -TD
844 + added a few capabilities fixed in recent vte -TD
847 + correct logic for -f option in test/demo_terminfo.c
848 + add test/list_keys.c
851 + further workaround for PIE/PIC breakage which causes gpm to not link.
852 + fix most cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses library.
855 + improved manual page description of tset/reset versus window-size.
856 + fixes to work with a slightly broken compiler configuration which
857 cannot compile "Hello World!" without adding compiler options
858 (report by Ola x Nilsson):
859 + pass appropriate compiler options to the CF_PROG_CC_C_O macro.
860 + when separating compiler and options in CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS, ensure
861 that all options are split-off into CFLAGS or CPPFLAGS
862 + restore some -I options removed in 20140726 because they appeared
863 to be redundant. In fact, they are needed for a compiler that
864 cannot combine -c and -o options.
867 + regenerate HTML manpages.
868 + improve manual pages for wgetch and wget_wch to point out that they
869 might return values without names in curses.h (Debian #822426).
870 + make linux3.0 entry the default linux entry (Debian #823658) -TD
871 + modify linux2.6 entry to improve line-drawing so that the linux3.0
872 entry can be used in non-UTF-8 mode -TD
873 + document return value of use_extended_names (report by Mike Gran).
876 + amend change to _nc_do_color to restore the early return for the
877 special case used in _nc_screen_wrap (report by Dick Streefland,
879 + modify test/ncurses.c:
880 + check return-value of putwin
881 + correct ifdef which made the 'g' test's legend not reflect changes
882 to keypad- and scroll-modes.
883 + correct return-value of extended putwin (report by Mike Gran).
886 + modify test/ncurses.c 'd' edit-color menu to optionally read xterm
887 color palette directly from terminal, as well as handling KEY_RESIZE
888 and screen-repainting with control/L and control/R.
889 + add 'oc' capability to xterm+256color, allowing palette reset for
893 + add workaround in configure script for inept transition to PIE vs
894 PIC builds documented in
895 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Harden_All_Packages
896 + add "reset" to list of programs whose names might change in manpages
897 due to program-transformation configure options.
898 + drop long-obsolete "-n" option from tset.
901 + modify test/blue.c to use Unicode values for card-glyphs when
902 available, as well as improving the check for CP437 and CP850.
905 + regenerate HTML manpages.
906 + improve manual pages for utilities with respect to POSIX versus
910 + regenerate HTML manpages.
911 + improve test/demo_menus.c, allowing mouse-click on the menu-headers
912 to switch the active menu. This requires a new extension option
913 O_MOUSE_MENU to tell the menu driver to put mouse events which do not
914 apply to the active menu back into the queue so that the application
915 can handle the event.
918 + improve description of tgoto parameters (report by Steffen Nurpmeso).
919 + amend workaround for Solaris line-drawing to restore a special case
920 that maps Unicode line-drawing characters into the acsc string for
921 non-Unicode locales (Debian #816888).
924 + modified test/filter.c to illustrate an alternative to getnstr, that
925 polls for input while updating a clock on the right margin as well
926 as responding to window size-changes.
929 + omit a redefinition of "inline" when traces are enabled, since this
930 does not work with gcc 5.3.x MinGW cross-compiling (cf: 20150912).
933 + modify test/configure script to check for pthread dependency of
934 ncursest or ncursestw library when building ncurses examples, e.g.,
935 in case weak symbols are used.
936 + modify configure macro for shared-library rules to use -Wl,-rpath
937 rather than -rpath to work around a bug in scons (FreeBSD #178732,
939 + double-width multibyte characters were not counted properly in
940 winsnstr and wins_nwstr (report/example by Eric Pruitt).
941 + update config.guess, config.sub from
942 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
945 + amend fix for _nc_ripoffline from 20091031 to make test/ditto.c work
946 in threaded configuration.
947 + move _nc_tracebits, _tracedump and _tracemouse to curses.priv.h,
948 since they are not part of the suggested ABI6.
951 + define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN for MinGW port, making builds faster.
952 + modify test/ditto.c to allow $XTERM_PROG environment variable to
953 override "xterm" as the name of the program to run in the threaded
957 + improve formatting of man/curs_refresh.3x and man/tset.1 manpages
958 + regenerate HTML manpages using newer man2html to eliminate some
959 unwanted blank lines.
962 + ifdef'd header-file definition of mouse_trafo() with NCURSES_NOMACROS
963 (report by Corey Minyard).
964 + fix some strict compiler-warnings in traces.
967 + tidy up comments about hardcoded 256color palette (report by
968 Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD
969 + add putty-noapp entry, and amend putty entry to use application mode
970 for better consistency with xterm (report by Leonardo Brondani
972 + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to trace wide-characters
973 as a whole rather than their multibyte equivalents.
974 + minor fix in wadd_wchnstr() to ensure that each cell has nonzero
976 + move PUTC_INIT calls next to wcrtomb calls, to avoid carry-over of
977 error status when processing Unicode values which are not mapped.
980 + modify ncurses c/C color test-screens to take advantage of wide
981 screens, reducing the number of lines used for 88- and 256-colors.
982 + minor refinement to check versus ncv to ignore two parameters of
983 SGR 38 and 48 when those come from color-capabilities.
986 + add check in tic for use of bold, etc., video attributes in the
987 color capabilities, accounting whether the feature is listed in ncv.
988 + add check in tic for conflict between ritm, rmso, rmul versus sgr0.
991 + add a paragraph to curs_getch.3x discussing key naming (discussion
993 + amend workaround for Solaris vs line-drawing to take the configure
995 + add a configure check for wcwidth() versus the ncurses line-drawing
996 characters, to use in special-casing systems such as Solaris.
999 + improve CF_XOPEN_CURSES macro used in test/configure, to define as
1000 needed NCURSES_WIDECHAR for platforms where _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
1001 does not work. Also modified the test program to ensure that if
1002 building with ncurses, that the cchar_t type is checked, since that
1003 normally is since 20111030 ifdef'd depending on this test.
1004 + improve 20121222 workaround for broken acs, letting Solaris "work"
1005 in spite of its misconfigured wcwidth which marks all of the line
1006 drawing characters as double-width.
1009 + update form_cursor.3x, form_post.3x, menu_attributes.3x to list
1010 function names in NAME section (patch by Jason McIntyre).
1011 + minor fixes to manpage NAME/SYNOPSIS sections to consistently use
1012 rule that either all functions which are prototyped in SYNOPSIS are
1013 listed in the NAME section, or the manual-page name is the sole item
1014 listed in the NAME section. The latter is used to reduce clutter,
1015 e.g., for the top-level library manual pages as well as for certain
1016 feature-pages such as SP-funcs and threading (prompted by patches by
1020 + add option to preserve leading whitespace in form fields (patch by
1022 + add missing assignment in lib_getch.c to make notimeout() work
1024 + add 't' toggle for notimeout() function in test/ncurses.c a/A screens
1025 + add viewdata terminal description (Alexandre Montaron).
1026 + fix a case in tic/infocmp for formatting capabilities where a
1027 backslash at the end of a string was mishandled.
1028 + fix some typos in curs_inopts.3x (Benno Schulenberg).
1031 + fix some inconsistencies in the pccon* entries -TD
1032 + add bold to pccon+sgr+acs and pccon-base (Tati Chevron).
1033 + add keys f12-f124 to pccon+keys (Tati Chevron).
1034 + add test/test_sgr.c program to exercise all combinations of sgr.
1037 + modify tset's assignment to TERM in its output to reflect the name by
1038 which the terminal description is found, rather than the primary
1039 name. That was an unnecessary part from the initial conversion of
1040 tset from termcap to terminfo. The termcap program in 4.3BSD did
1041 this to avoid using the short 2-character name (report by Rich
1043 + minor fix to configure script to ensure that rules for resulting.map
1044 are only generated when needed (cf: 20151101).
1045 + modify configure script to handle the case where tic-library is
1046 renamed, but the --with-debug option is used by itself without
1047 normal or shared libraries (prompted by comment in Debian #803482).
1050 + amend change for pkg-config which allows build of pc-files when no
1051 valid pkg-config library directory was configured to suppress the
1052 actual install if it is not overridden to a valid directory at
1053 install time (cf: 20150822).
1054 + modify editing script which generates resulting.map to work with the
1055 clang configuration on recent FreeBSD, which gives an error on an
1056 empty "local" section.
1057 + fix a spurious "(Part)" message in test/ncurses.c b/B tests due
1058 to incorrect attribute-masking.
1061 + modify MKexpanded.c to update the expansion of a temporary filename
1062 to "expanded.c", for use in trace statements.
1063 + modify layout of b/B tests in test/ncurses.c to allow for additional
1064 annotation on the right margin; some terminals with partial support
1065 did not display well.
1066 + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim).
1067 + fix typo in INSTALL (patch by Tomas Cech).
1068 + improve configure check for setting WILDCARD_SYMS variable; on ppc64
1069 the variable is in the Data section rather than Text (patch by Michel
1070 Normand, Novell #946048).
1071 + using configure option "--without-fallbacks" incorrectly caused
1072 FALLBACK_LIST to be set to "no" (patch by Tomas Cech).
1073 + updated minitel entries to fix kel problem with emacs, and add
1074 minitel1b-nb (Alexandre Montaron).
1075 + reviewed/updated nsterm entry Terminal.app in OSX -TD
1076 + replace some dead URLs in comments with equivalents from the
1077 Internet Archive -TD
1078 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1079 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1082 + modify ncurses/Makefile.in to sort keys.list in POSIX locale
1083 (Debian #801864, patch by Esa Peuha).
1084 + remove an early-return from _nc_do_color, which can interfere with
1085 data needed by bkgd when ncurses is configured with extended colors
1086 (patch by Denis Tikhomirov).
1087 > fixes for OS/2 (patches by KO Myung-Hun)
1088 + use button instead of kbuf[0] in EMX-specific part of lib_mouse.c
1089 + support building with libtool on OS/2
1090 + use stdc++ on OS/2 kLIBC
1091 + clear cf_XOPEN_SOURCE on OS/2
1094 + add configure check for openpty to test/configure script, for ditto.
1095 + minor fixes to test/view.c in investigating Debian #790847.
1096 + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20150926, incorporates a fix for Cdk.
1097 + add workaround for breakage of POSIX makefiles by recent binutils
1099 + improve check for working poll() by using posix_openpt() as a
1100 fallback in case there is no valid terminal on the standard input
1101 (prompted by discussion on bug-ncurses mailing list, Debian #676461).
1104 + change makefile rule for removing resulting.map to distclean rather
1106 + add /lib/terminfo to terminfo-dirs in ".deb" test-package.
1107 + add note on portability of resizeterm and wresize to manual pages.
1110 + clarify in resizeterm.3x how KEY_RESIZE is pushed onto the input
1112 + clarify in curs_getch.3x that the keypad mode affects ability to
1113 read KEY_MOUSE codes, but does not affect KEY_RESIZE.
1114 + add overlooked build-fix needed with Cygwin for separate Ada95
1115 configure script, cf: 20150606 (report by Nicolas Boulenguez)
1118 + fixes for configure/build using clang on OSX (prompted by report by
1120 + do not redefine "inline" in ncurses_cfg.h; this was originally to
1121 solve a problem with gcc/g++, but is aggravated by clang's misuse
1122 of symbols to pretend it is gcc.
1123 + add braces to configure script to prevent unwanted add of
1124 "-lstdc++" to the CXXLIBS symbol.
1125 + improve/update test-program used for checking existence of stdc++
1127 + if $CXXLIBS is set, the linkage test uses that in addition to $LIBS
1130 + add note in curs_addch.3x about line-drawing when it depends upon
1132 + add tic -q option for consistency with infocmp, use it to suppress
1133 all comments from the "tic -I" output.
1134 + modify infocmp -q option to suppress the "Reconstructed from"
1136 + add infocmp/tic -Q option, which allows one to dump the compiled
1137 form of the terminal entry, in hexadecimal or base64.
1140 + sort options in usage message for infocmp, to make it simpler to
1142 + update usage message for tic, adding "-0" option.
1143 + documented differences in ESCDELAY versus AIX's implementation.
1144 + fix some compiler warnings from ports.
1145 + modify --with-pkg-config-libdir option to make it possible to install
1146 ".pc" files even if pkg-config is not found (adapted from patch by
1150 + disallow "no" as a possible value for "--with-shlib-version" option,
1151 overlooked in cleanup-changes for 20000708 (report by Tommy Alex).
1152 + update release notes in INSTALL.
1153 + regenerate llib-* files to help with review for release notes.
1156 + workaround for Debian #65617, which was fixed in mawk's upstream
1157 releases in 2009 (report by Sven Joachim). See
1158 http://invisible-island.net/mawk/CHANGES.html#t20090727
1160 20150808 6.0 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1163 + build-fix for Ada95 on older platforms without stdint.h
1164 + build-fix for Solaris, whose /bin/sh and /usr/bin/sed are non-POSIX.
1165 + update release announcement, summarizing more than 800 changes across
1166 more than 200 snapshots.
1167 + minor fixes to manpages, etc., to simplify linking from announcement
1171 + updated llib-* files.
1172 + build-fixes for ncurses library "test_progs" rule.
1173 + use alternate workaround for gcc 5.x feature (adapted from patch by
1175 + add status line to tmux via xterm+sl (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
1176 + fixes for st 0.5 from testing with tack -TD
1177 + review/improve several manual pages to break up wall-of-text:
1178 curs_add_wch.3x, curs_attr.3x, curs_bkgd.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x,
1179 curs_getcchar.3x, curs_getch.3x, curs_kernel.3x, curs_mouse.3x,
1180 curs_outopts.3x, curs_overlay.3x, curs_pad.3x, curs_termattrs.3x
1181 curs_trace.3x, and curs_window.3x
1184 + correct an old logic error for %A and %O in tparm (report by "zreed").
1185 + improve documentation for signal handlers by adding section in the
1186 curs_initscr.3x page.
1187 + modify logic in make_keys.c to not assume anything about the size
1188 of strnames and strfnames variables, since those may be functions
1189 in the thread- or broken-linker configurations (problem found by
1191 + modify test/configure script to check for pthreads configuration,
1192 e.g., ncursestw library.
1195 + modify scripts to build/use test-packages for the pthreads
1196 configuration of ncurses6.
1197 + add references to ttytype and termcap symbols in demo_terminfo.c and
1198 demo_termcap.c to ensure that when building ncursest.map, etc., that
1199 the corresponding names such as _nc_ttytype are added to the list of
1200 versioned symbols (report by Werner Fink)
1201 + fix regression from 20150704 (report/patch by Werner Fink).
1204 + fix a few problems reported by Coverity.
1205 + fix comparison against "/usr/include" in misc/gen-pkgconfig.in
1206 (report by Daiki Ueno, Debian #790548, cf: 20141213).
1209 + modify configure script to remove deprecated ABI 5 symbols when
1211 + add symbols _nc_Default_Field, _nc_Default_Form, _nc_has_mouse to
1212 map-files, but marked as deprecated so that they can easily be
1213 suppressed from ABI 6 builds (Debian #788610).
1214 + comment-out "screen.xterm" entry, and inherit screen.xterm-256color
1215 from xterm-new (report by Richard Birkett) -TD
1216 + modify read_entry.c to set the error-return to -1 if no terminal
1217 databases were found, as documented for setupterm.
1218 + add test_setupterm.c to demonstrate normal/error returns from the
1219 setupterm and restartterm functions.
1220 + amend cleanup change from 20110813 which removed redundant definition
1221 of ret_error, etc., from tinfo_driver.c, to account for the fact that
1222 it should return a bool rather than int (report/analysis by Johannes
1226 + fix overflow warning for OSX with lib_baudrate.c (cf: 20010630).
1227 + modify script used to generate map/sym files to mark 5.9.20150530 as
1228 the last "5.9" version, and regenerated the files. That makes the
1229 files not use ".current" for the post-5.9 symbols. This also
1230 corrects the label for _nc_sigprocmask used in when weak symbols are
1231 configured for the ncursest/ncursestw libraries (prompted by
1232 discussion with Sven Joachim).
1233 + fix typo in NEWS (report by Sven Joachim).
1235 20150606 pre-release
1236 + make ABI 6 the default by updates to dist.mk and VERSION, with the
1237 intention that the existing ABI 5 should build as before using the
1238 "--with-abi-version=5" option.
1239 + regenerate ada- and man-html documentation.
1240 + minor fixes to color- and util-manpages.
1241 + fix a regression in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, to handle special case of
1242 Cygwin, which uses the broken-linker feature.
1243 + amend fix for CF_NCURSES_CONFIG used in test/configure to assume that
1244 ncurses package scripts work when present for cross-compiling, as the
1245 lessor of two evils (cf: 20150530).
1246 + add check in configure script to disallow conflicting options
1247 "--with-termlib" and "--enable-term-driver".
1248 + move defaults for "--disable-lp64" and "--with-versioned-syms" into
1249 CF_ABI_DEFAULTS macro.
1252 + change private type for Event_Mask in Ada95 binding to work when
1253 mmask_t is set to 32-bits.
1254 + remove spurious "%;" from st entry (report by Daniel Pitts) -TD
1255 + add vte-2014, update vte to use that -TD
1256 + modify tic and infocmp to "move" a diagnostic for tparm strings that
1257 have a syntax error to tic's "-c" option (report by Daniel Pitts).
1258 + fix two problems with configure script macros (Debian #786436,
1259 cf: 20150425, cf: 20100529).
1262 + add 'P' menu item to test/ncurses.c, to show pad in color.
1263 + improve discussion in curs_color.3x about color rendering (prompted
1264 by comment on Stack Overflow forum):
1265 + remove screen-bce.mlterm, since mlterm does not do "bce" -TD
1266 + add several screen.XXX entries to support the respective variations
1268 + add putty+fnkeys* building-block entries -TD
1269 + add smkx/rmkx to capabilities analyzed with infocmp "-i" option.
1272 + amend change to ".pc" files to only use the extra loader flags which
1273 may have rpath options (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20150502).
1274 + change versioning for dpkg's in test-packages for Ada95 and
1275 ncurses-examples for consistency with Debian, to work with package
1277 + regenerate html manpages.
1278 + clarify handling of carriage return in waddch manual page; it was
1279 discussed only in the portability section (prompted by comment on
1280 Stack Overflow forum):
1283 + add test-packages for cross-compiling ncurses-examples using the
1284 MinGW test-packages. These are only the Debian packages; RPM later.
1285 + cleanup format of debian/copyright files
1286 + add pc-files to the MinGW cross-compiling test-packages.
1287 + correct a couple of places in gen-pkgconfig.in to handle renaming of
1291 + modify the configure script to allow different default values
1292 for ABI 5 versus ABI 6.
1293 + add wgetch-events to test-packages.
1294 + add a note on how to build ncurses-examples to test/README.
1295 + fix a memory leak in delscreen (report by Daniel Kahn Gillmor,
1297 + remove unnecessary ';' from E3 capabilities -TD
1298 + add tmux entry, derived from screen (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
1299 + split-out recent change to nsterm-bce as nsterm-build326, and add
1300 nsterm-build342 to reflect changes with successive releases of OSX
1301 (discussion with Leonardo B Schenkel)
1302 + add xon, ich1, il1 to ibm3161 (patch by Stephen Powell, Debian
1304 + add sample "magic" file, to document ext-putwin.
1305 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to add explicit -ltinfo, etc., to the
1306 generated ".pc" file when ld option "--as-needed" is used, or when
1307 ncurses and tinfo are installed without using rpath (prompted by
1308 discussion with Sylvain Bertrand).
1309 + modify test-package for ncurses6 to omit rpath feature when installed
1311 + add OSX's "*.dSYM" to clean-rules in makefiles.
1312 + make extra-suffix work for OSX configuration, e.g., for shared
1314 + modify Ada95/configure script to work with pkg-config
1315 + move test-package for ncurses6 to /usr, since filename-conflicts have
1317 + corrected build rules for Ada95/gen/generate; it does not depend on
1318 the ncurses library aside from headers.
1319 + reviewed man pages, fixed a few other spelling errors.
1320 + fix a typo in curs_util.3x (Sven Joachim).
1321 + use extra-suffix in some overlooked shared library dependencies
1322 found by 20150425 changes for test-packages.
1323 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1324 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1327 + expanded description of tgetstr's area pointer in manual page
1328 (report by Todd M Lewis).
1329 + in-progress changes to modify test-packages to use ncursesw6 rather
1330 than ncursesw, with updated configure scripts.
1331 + modify CF_NCURSES_CONFIG in Ada95- and test-configure scripts to
1332 check for ".pc" files via pkg-config, but add a linkage check since
1333 frequently pkg-config configurations are broken.
1334 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to include EXTRA_LDFLAGS, e.g., for the
1336 + add 'dim' capability to screen entry (report by Leonardo B Schenkel)
1337 + add several key definitions to nsterm-bce to match preconfigured
1338 keys, e.g., with OSX 10.9 and 10.10 (report by Leonardo B Schenkel)
1339 + fix repeated "extra-suffix" in ncurses-config.in (cf: 20150418).
1340 + improve term_variables manual page, adding section on the terminfo
1341 long-name symbols which are defined in the term.h header.
1342 + fix bug in lib_tracebits.c introduced in const-fixes (cf: 20150404).
1345 + avoid a blank line in output from tabs program by ending it with
1346 a carriage return as done in FreeBSD (patch by James Clarke).
1347 + build-fix for the "--enable-ext-putwin" feature when not using
1348 wide characters (report by Werner Fink).
1349 + modify autoconf macros to use scripting improvement from xterm.
1350 + add -brtl option to compiler options on AIX 5-7, needed to link
1351 with the shared libraries.
1352 + add --with-extra-suffix option to help with installing nonconflicting
1353 ncurses6 packages, e.g., avoiding header- and library-conflicts.
1354 NOTE: as a side-effect, this renames
1355 adacurses-config to adacurses5-config and
1356 adacursesw-config to adacursesw5-config
1357 + modify debian/rules test package to suffix programs with "6".
1358 + clarify in curs_inopts.3x that window-specific settings do not
1359 inherit into new windows.
1362 + improve description of start_color() in the manual.
1363 + modify several files in ncurses- and progs-directories to allow
1364 const data used in internal tables to be put by the linker into the
1365 readonly text segment.
1368 + correct cut/paste error for "--enable-ext-putwin" that made it the
1369 same as "--enable-ext-colors" (report by Roumen Petrov)
1372 + add "-f" option to test/savescreen.c to help with testing/debugging
1373 the extended putwin/getwin.
1374 + add logic for writing/reading combining characters in the extended
1376 + add "--enable-ext-putwin" configure option to turn on the extended
1380 + in-progress changes to provide an extended version of putwin and
1381 getwin which will be capable of reading screen-dumps between the
1382 wide/normal ncurses configurations. These are text files, except
1383 for a magic code at the beginning:
1384 0 string \210\210 Screen-dump (ncurses)
1387 + document limitations of getwin in manual page (prompted by discussion
1389 + extend test/savescreen.c to demonstrate that color pair values
1390 and graphic characters can be restored using getwin.
1393 + modify win_driver.c to eliminate the constructor, to make it more
1394 usable in an application which may/may not need the console window
1395 (report by Grady Martin).
1398 + capture define's related to -D_XOPEN_SOURCE from the configure check
1399 and add those to the *-config and *.pc files, to simplify use for
1400 the wide-character libraries.
1401 + modify ncurses.spec to accommodate Fedora21's location of pkg-config
1403 + correct sense of "--disable-lib-suffixes" configure option (report
1404 by Nicolas Boos, cf: 20140426).
1407 + regenerate html manpages using improved man2html from work on xterm.
1408 + regenerated ".map" and ".sym" files using improved script, accounting
1409 for the "--enable-weak-symbols" configure option (report by Werner
1413 + regenerated ".map" and ".sym" files using improved script, showing
1414 the combinations of configure options used at each stage.
1417 + add configure check to determine if "local: _*;" can be used in the
1418 ".map" files to selectively omit symbols beginning with "_". On at
1419 least recent FreeBSD, the wildcard applies to all "_" symbols.
1420 + remove obsolete/conflicting rule for ncurses.map from
1421 ncurses/Makefile.in (cf: 20130706).
1424 + improve description in INSTALL of the --with-versioned-syms option.
1425 + add combination of --with-hashed-db and --with-ticlib to
1426 configurations for ".map" files (report by Werner Fink).
1429 + add a step to generating ".map" files, to declare any remaining
1430 symbols beginning with "_" as local, at the last version node.
1431 + improve configure checks for pkg-config, addressing a variant found
1433 + modify win_driver.c to provide characters for special keys, like
1434 ansi.sys, when keypad mode is off, rather than returning nothing at
1435 all (discussion with Eli Zaretskii).
1436 + add "broken_linker" and "hashed-db" configure options to combinations
1437 use for generating the ".map" and ".sym" files.
1438 + avoid using "ld" directly when creating shared library, to simplify
1439 cross-compiles. Also drop "-Bsharable" option from shared-library
1440 rules for FreeBSD and DragonFly (FreeBSD #196592).
1441 + fix a memory leak in form library Free_RegularExpression_Type()
1442 (report by Pavel Balaev).
1445 + modify_nc_flush() to retry if interrupted (patch by Stian Skjelstad).
1446 + change map files to make _nc_freeall a global, since it may be used
1447 via the Ada95 binding when checking for memory leaks.
1448 + improve sed script used in 20141220 to account for wide-, threaded-
1449 variations in ABI 6.
1452 + regenerate ".map" files, using step overlooked in 20141213 to use
1453 the same patch-dates across each file to match ncurses.map (report by
1457 + fix an incorrect variable assignment in 20141220 changes (report by
1461 + updated Ada95/configure with macro changes from 20141213
1462 + tie configure options --with-abi-version and --with-versioned-syms
1463 together, so that ABI 6 libraries have distinct symbol versions from
1464 the ABI 5 libraries.
1465 + replace obsolete/nonworking link to man2html with current one,
1466 regenerate html-manpages.
1469 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to add -I option for include-directory
1470 when using both --prefix and --disable-overwrite (report by Misty
1472 + add configure option --with-pc-suffix to allow minor renaming of
1473 ".pc" files and the corresponding library. Use this in the test
1474 package for ncurses6.
1475 + modify configure script so that if pkg-config is not installed, it
1476 is still possible to install ".pc" files (report by Misty De Meo).
1477 + updated ".sym" files, removing symbols which are marked as "local"
1478 in the corresponding ".map" files.
1479 + updated ".map" files to reflect move of comp_captab and comp_hash
1480 from tic-library to tinfo-library in 20090711 (report by Sven
1484 + updated ".map" files so that each symbol that may be shared across
1485 the different library configurations has the same label. Some
1486 review is needed to ensure these are really compatible.
1487 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to work around change in development version of
1488 gcc introduced here:
1489 https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-06/msg02185.html
1490 https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-07/msg00236.html
1491 (reports by Marcus Shawcroft, Maohui Lei).
1492 + improved configure macro CF_SUBDIR_PATH, from lynx changes.
1495 + improved ".map" files by generating them with a script that builds
1496 ncurses with several related configurations and merges the results.
1497 A further refinement is planned, to make the tic- and tinfo-library
1498 symbols use the same versions across each of the four configurations
1499 which are represented (reports by Sven Joachim, Werner Fink).
1502 + improve description of limits for color values and color pairs in
1503 curs_color.3x (prompted by patch by Tim van der Molen).
1504 + add VERSION file, using first field in that to record the ABI version
1505 used for configure --with-libtool --disable-libtool-version
1506 + add configure options for applying the ".map" and ".sym" files to
1507 the ncurses, form, menu and panel libraries.
1508 + add ".map" and ".sym" files to show exported symbols, e.g., for
1512 + improve strict compiler-warnings by adding a cast in TRACE_RETURN
1513 and making a new TRACE_RETURN1 macro for cases where the cast does
1517 + in-progress changes to integrate the win32 console driver with the
1518 msys2 configuration.
1521 + reviewed terminology 0.6.1, add function key definitions. None of
1522 the vt100-compatibility issues were improved -TD
1523 + improve infocmp conversion of extended capabilities to termcap by
1524 correcting the limit check against parametrized[], as well as filling
1525 in a check if the string happens to have parameters, e.g., "xm"
1527 + add check for zero/negative dimensions for resizeterm and resize_term
1528 (report by Mike Gran).
1531 + add experimental support for xterm's 1005 mouse mode, to use in a
1532 demonstration of its limitations.
1533 + add experimental support for "%u" format to terminfo.
1534 + modify test/ncurses.c to also show position reports in 'a' test.
1535 + minor formatting fixes to _nc_trace_mmask_t, make this function
1536 exported to help with debugging mouse changes.
1537 + improve behavior of wheel-mice for xterm protocol, noting that there
1538 are only button-presses for buttons "4" and "5", so there is no need
1539 to wait to combine events into double-clicks (report/analysis by
1541 + provide examples xterm-1005 and xterm-1006 terminfo entries -TD
1542 + implement decoder for xterm SGR 1006 mouse mode.
1545 + implement curs_set in win_driver.c
1546 + implement flash in win_driver.c
1547 + fix an infinite loop in win_driver.c if the command-window loses
1549 + improve the non-buffered mode, i.e., NCURSES_CONSOLE2, of
1550 win_driver.c by temporarily changing the buffer-size to match the
1551 window-size to eliminate the scrollback. Also enforce a minimum
1552 screen-size of 24x80 in the non-buffered mode.
1553 + modify generated misc/Makefile to suppress install.data from the
1554 dependencies if the --disable-db-install option is used, compensating
1555 for the top-level makefile changes used to add ncurses*-config in the
1556 20140920 changes (report by Steven Honeyman).
1559 + add ncurses*-config to bin-directory of sample package-scripts.
1560 + add check to ensure that getopt is available; this is a problem in
1561 some older cross-compiler environments.
1562 + expanded on the description of --disable-overwrite in INSTALL
1563 (prompted by reports by Joakim Tjernlund, Thomas Klausner).
1564 See Gentoo #522586 and NetBSD #49200 for examples.
1565 which relates to the clarified guidelines.
1566 + remove special logic from CF_INCLUDE_DIRS which adds the directory
1567 for the --includedir from the build (report by Joakim Tjernlund).
1568 + add case for Unixware to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, from lynx changes.
1569 + update config.sub from
1570 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1573 + add a configure check to ignore some of the plethora of non-working
1574 C++ cross-compilers.
1575 + build-fixes for Ada95 with gnat 4.9
1578 + build-fix and other improvements for port of ncurses-examples to
1580 + minor compiler-warning fixes.
1583 + modify test/demo_termcap.c and test/demo_terminfo.c to make their
1584 options more directly comparable, and add "-i" option to specify
1585 a terminal description filename to parse for names to lookup.
1588 + fix special case where double-width character overwrites a single-
1589 width character in the first column (report by Egmont Koblinger,
1593 + fix colors in ncurses 'b' test which did not work after changing
1594 it to put the test-strings in subwindows (cf: 20140705).
1595 + merge redundant SEE-ALSO sections in form and menu manpages.
1598 + modify declarations for user-data pointers in C++ binding to use
1599 reinterpret_cast to facilitate converting typed pointers to void*
1600 in user's application (patch by Adam Jiang).
1601 + regenerated html manpages.
1602 + add note regarding cause and effect for TERM in ncurses manpage,
1603 having noted clueless verbiage in Terminal.app's "help" file
1604 which reverses cause/effect.
1605 + remove special fallback definition for NCURSES_ATTR_T, since macros
1606 have resolved type-mismatches using casts (cf: 970412).
1607 + fixes for win_driver.c:
1608 + handle repainting on endwin/refresh combination.
1613 + minor portability fixes for MinGW:
1614 + ensure WINVER is defined in makefiles rather than using headers
1615 + add check for gnatprep "-T" option
1616 + work around bug introduced by gcc 4.8.1 in MinGW which breaks
1618 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20877689/gcc-4-8-1-minggw-d-option-does-not-work-as-usual
1619 + fix most compiler warnings for Cygwin ncurses-examples.
1620 + restore "redundant" -I options in test/Makefile.in, since they are
1621 typically needed when building the derived ncurses-examples package
1625 + eliminate some redundant -I options used for building libraries, and
1626 ensure that ${srcdir} is added to the include-options (prompted by
1627 discussion with Paul Gilmartin).
1628 + modify configure script to work with Minix3.2
1629 + add form library extension O_DYNAMIC_JUSTIFY option which can be
1630 used to override the different treatment of justification for static
1631 versus dynamic fields (adapted from patch by Leon Winter).
1632 + add a null pointer check in test/edit_field.c (report/analysis by
1633 Leon Winter, cf: 20130608).
1636 + make workarounds for compiling test-programs with NetBSD curses.
1637 + improve configure macro CF_ADD_LIBS, to eliminate repeated -l/-L
1638 options, from xterm changes.
1641 + correct Charable() macro check for A_ALTCHARSET in wide-characters.
1642 + build-fix for position-debug code in tty_update.c, to work with or
1646 + add w/W toggle to ncurses.c 'B' test, to demonstrate permutation of
1647 video-attributes and colors with double-width character strings.
1650 + correct check in win_driver.c for saving screen contents, e.g., when
1651 NCURSES_CONSOLE2 is set (cf: 20140503).
1652 + reorganize b/B menu items in ncurses.c, putting the test-strings into
1653 subwindows. This is needed for a planned change to use Unicode
1654 fullwidth characters in the test-screens.
1655 + correct update to form status for _NEWTOP, broken by fixes for
1656 compiler warnings (patch by Leon Winter, cf: 20120616).
1659 + change shared-library suffix for AIX 5 and 6 to ".so", avoiding
1660 conflict with the static library (report by Ben Lentz).
1661 + document RPATH_LIST in INSTALLATION file, as part of workarounds for
1662 upgrading an ncurses library using the "--with-shared" option.
1663 + modify test/ncurses.c c/C tests to cycle through subsets of the
1664 total number of colors, to better illustrate 8/16/88/256-colors by
1665 providing directly comparable screens.
1666 + add test/dots_curses.c, for comparison with the low-level examples.
1669 + fix dereference before null check found by Coverity in tic.c
1671 + fix sign-extension bug in read_entry.c which prevented "toe" from
1672 reading empty "screen+italics" entry.
1673 + modify sgr for screen.xterm-new to support dim capability -TD
1674 + add dim capability to nsterm+7 -TD
1675 + cancel dim capability for iterm -TD
1676 + add dim, invis capabilities to vte-2012 -TD
1677 + add sitm/ritm to konsole-base and mlterm3 -TD
1680 > fix regression in screen terminfo entries (reports by Christian
1681 Ebert, Gabriele Balducci) -TD
1682 + revert the change to screen; see notes for why this did not work -TD
1683 + cancel sitm/ritm for entries which extend "screen", to work around
1684 screen's hardcoded behavior for SGR 3 -TD
1687 + separate masking for sgr in vidputs from sitm/ritm, which do not
1688 overlap with sgr functionality.
1689 + remove unneeded -i option from adacurses-config; put -a in the -I
1690 option for consistency (patch by Pascal Pignard).
1691 + update xterm-new terminfo entry to xterm patch #305 -TD
1692 + change format of test-scripts for Debian Ada95 and ncurses-examples
1693 packages to quilted to work around Debian #700177 (cf: 20130907).
1694 + build fix for form_driver_w.c as part of ncurses-examples package for
1695 older ncurses than 20131207.
1696 + add Hello World example to adacurses-config manpage.
1697 + remove unused --enable-pc-files option from Ada95/configure.
1698 + add --disable-gnat-projects option for testing.
1699 + revert changes to Ada95 project-files configuration (cf: 20140524).
1700 + corrected usage message in adacurses-config.
1703 + fix typo in ncurses manpage for the NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE
1704 environment variable.
1705 + improve discussion of input-echoing in curs_getch.3x
1706 + clarify discussion in curs_addch.3x of wrapping.
1707 + modify parametrized.h to make fln non-padded.
1708 + correct several entries which had termcap-style padding used in
1709 terminfo: adm21, aj510, alto-h19, att605-pc, x820 -TD
1710 + correct syntax for padding in some entries: dg211, h19 -TD
1711 + correct ti924-8 which had confused padding versus octal escapes -TD
1712 + correct padding in sbi entry -TD
1713 + fix an old bug in the termcap emulation; "%i" was ignored in tparm()
1714 because the parameters to be incremented were already on the internal
1715 stack (report by Corinna Vinschen).
1716 + modify tic's "-c" option to take into account the "-C" option to
1717 activate additional checks which compare the results from running
1718 tparm() on the terminfo expressions versus the translated termcap
1720 + modify tic to allow it to read from FIFOs (report by Matthieu Fronton,
1722 > patches by Nicolas Boulenguez:
1723 + explicit dereferences to suppress some style warnings.
1724 + when c_varargs_to_ada.c includes its header, use double quotes
1726 + samples/ncurses2-util.adb: removed unused with clause. The warning
1727 was removed by an obsolete pragma.
1728 + replaced Unreferenced pragmas with Warnings (Off). The latter,
1729 available with older GNATs, needs no configure test. This also
1730 replaces 3 untested Unreferenced pragmas.
1731 + simplified To_C usage in trace handling. Using two parameters allows
1732 some basic formatting, and avoids a warning about security with some
1734 + for generated Ada sources, replace many snippets with one pure
1736 + removed C_Chtype and its conversions.
1737 + removed C_AttrType and its conversions.
1738 + removed conversions between int, Item_Option_Set, Menu_Option_Set.
1739 + removed int, Field_Option_Set, Item_Option_Set conversions.
1740 + removed C_TraceType, Attribute_Option_Set conversions.
1741 + replaced C.int with direct use of Eti_Error, now enumerated. As it
1742 was used in a case statement, values were tested by the Ada compiler
1743 to be consecutive anyway.
1744 + src/Makefile.in: remove duplicate stanza
1745 + only consider using a project for shared libraries.
1746 + style. Silent gnat-4.9 warning about misplaced "then".
1747 + generate shared library project to honor ADAFLAGS, LDFLAGS.
1750 + cleanup recently introduced compiler warnings for MingW port.
1751 + workaround for ${MAKEFLAGS} configure check versus GNU make 4.0,
1752 which introduces more than one gratuitous incompatibility.
1755 + add vt520ansi terminfo entry (patch by Mike Gran)
1756 + further improve MinGW support for the scenario where there is an
1757 ANSI-escapes handler such as ansicon running in the console window
1758 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
1761 + add --disable-lib-suffixes option (adapted from patch by Juergen
1763 + merge some changes from Juergen Pfeifer's work with MSYS2, to
1764 simplify later merging:
1765 + use NC_ISATTY() macro for isatty() in library
1766 + add _nc_mingw_isatty() and related functions to windows-driver
1767 + rename terminal driver entrypoints to simplify grep's
1768 + remove a check in the sp-funcs flavor of newterm() which allowed only
1769 the first call to newterm() to succeed (report by Thomas Beierlein,
1773 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1774 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1777 + modify configure script:
1778 + drop the -no-gcc option from Intel compiler, from lynx changes.
1779 + extend the --with-hashed-db configure option to simplify building
1780 with different versions of Berkeley database using FreeBSD ports.
1781 + improve initialization for MinGW port (Juergen Pfeifer):
1782 + enforce Windows-style path-separator if cross-compiling,
1783 + add a driver-name method to each of the drivers,
1784 + allow the Windows driver name to match "unknown", ignoring case,
1785 + lengthen the built-in name for the Windows console driver to
1786 "#win32console", and
1787 + move the comparison of driver-names allowing abbreviation, e.g.,
1788 to "#win32con" into the Windows console driver.
1791 + add check in tic for mismatch between ccc and initp/initc
1792 + cancel ccc in putty-256color and konsole-256color for consistency
1793 with the cancelled initc capability (patch by Sven Zuhlsdorf).
1794 + add xterm+256setaf building block for various terminals which only
1795 get the 256-color feature half-implemented -TD
1796 + updated "st" entry (leaving the 0.1.1 version as "simpleterm") to
1800 + fix typo in "mlterm" entry (report by Gabriele Balducci) -TD
1803 + use types from <stdint.h> in sample build-scripts for chtype, etc.
1804 + modify configure script and curses.h.in to allow the types specified
1805 using --with-chtype and related options to be defined in <stdint.h>
1806 + add terminology entry -TD
1807 + add mlterm3 entry, use that as "mlterm" -TD
1808 + inherit mlterm-256color from mlterm -TD
1811 + modify _nc_New_TopRow_and_CurrentItem() to ensure that the menu's
1812 top-row is adjusted as needed to ensure that the current item is
1813 on the screen (patch by Johann Klammer).
1814 + add wgetdelay() to retrieve _delay member of WINDOW if it happens to
1815 be opaque, e.g., in the pthread configuration (prompted by patch by
1819 + modify ifdef in read_entry.c to handle the case where
1820 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE is not defined (patch by Xin Li).
1821 + add cast in form_driver_w() to fix ARM build (patch by Xin Li).
1822 + add logic to win_driver.c to save/restore screen contents when not
1823 allocating a console-buffer (cf: 20140215).
1826 + clarify error-returns from newwin (report by Ruslan Nabioullin).
1829 + fix some compiler warnings in win_driver.c
1830 + updated notes for wsvt25 based on tack and vttest -TD
1831 + add teken entry to show actual properties of FreeBSD's "xterm"
1835 + in-progress changes to win_driver.c to implement output without
1836 allocating a console-buffer. This uses a pre-existing environment
1837 variable NCGDB used by Juergen Pfeifer for debugging (prompted by
1838 discussion with Erwin Waterlander regarding Console2, which hangs
1839 when reading in an allocated console-buffer).
1840 + add -t option to gdc.c, and modify to accept "S" to step through the
1842 + regenerate NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html to fix some of the broken
1843 html emitted by docbook.
1846 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to omit followup check to determine if
1847 _XOPEN_SOURCE can/should be defined. g++ 4.7.2 built on Solaris 10
1848 has some header breakage due to its own predefinition of this symbol
1849 (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15796).
1852 + add/use symbol NCURSES_PAIRS_T like NCURSES_COLOR_T, to illustrate
1853 which "short" types are for color pairs and which are color values.
1854 + fix build for s390x, by correcting field bit offsets in generated
1855 representation clauses when int=32 long=64 and endian=big, or at
1856 least on s390x (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
1857 + minor cleanup change to test/form_driver_w.c (patch by Gaute Hope).
1860 + remove unnecessary ifdef's in Ada95/gen/gen.c, which reportedly do
1861 not work as is with gcc 4.8 due to fixes using chtype cast made for
1862 new compiler warnings by gcc 4.8 in 20130824 (Debian #735753, patch
1863 by Nicolas Boulenguez).
1866 + apply includesubdir variable which was introduced in 20130805 to
1867 gen-pkgconfig.in (Debian #735782).
1870 + further improved man2html, used this to fix broken links in html
1872 ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/man2html
1875 + modify configure-script/ifdef's to allow OLD_TTY feature to be
1876 suppressed if the type of ospeed is configured using the option
1877 --with-ospeed to not be a short. By default, it is a short for
1878 termcap-compatibility (adapted from suggestion by Christian
1880 + correct a typo in _nc_baudrate() (patch by Christian Weisgerber,
1882 + fix a few -Wlogical-op warnings.
1883 + updated llib-l* files.
1886 + add form_driver_w() entrypoint to wide-character forms library, as
1887 well as test program form_driver_w (adapted from patch by Gaute
1891 + minor fix for CF_GCC_WARNINGS to special-case options which are not
1892 recognized by clang.
1895 + add special case to configure script to move _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
1896 definition from CPPFLAGS to CFLAGS if it happens to be needed for
1897 Solaris, because g++ errors with that definition (report by
1898 Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15268).
1899 + correct logic in infocmp's -i option which was intended to ignore
1900 strings which correspond to function-keys as candidates for piecing
1901 together initialization- or reset-strings. The problem dates to
1902 1.9.7a, but was overlooked until changes in -Wlogical-op warnings for
1903 gcc 4.8 (report by David Binderman).
1904 + updated CF_GCC_WARNINGS to documented options for gcc 4.9.0, moving
1905 checks for -Wextra and -Wdeclaration-after-statement into the macro,
1906 and adding checks for -Wignored-qualifiers, -Wlogical-op and
1908 + updated CF_CURSES_UNCTRL_H and CF_SHARED_OPTS macros from ongoing
1910 + update config.sub from
1911 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1914 + minor cleanup of terminfo.tail
1917 + use TS extension to describe xterm's title-escapes -TD
1918 + modify terminator and nsterm-s to use xterm+sl-twm building block -TD
1919 + update hurd.ti, add xenl to reflect 2011-03-06 change in
1920 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/hurd.git/log/console/display.c
1922 + simplify pfkey expression in ansi.sys -TD
1925 + correct/simplify ifdef's for cur_term versus broken-linker and
1926 reentrant options (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, cf: 20090530).
1927 + modify release/version combinations in test build-scripts to make
1928 them more consistent with other packages.
1931 + add nc_mingw.h to installed headers for MinGW port; needed for
1932 compiling ncurses-examples.
1933 + add rpm-script for testing cross-compile of ncurses-examples.
1936 + fix new typo in CF_ADA_INCLUDE_DIRS macro (report by Roumen Petrov).
1939 + fix a few compiler warnings in progs and test.
1940 + minor fix to package/debian-mingw/rules, do not strip dll's.
1941 + minor fixes to configure script for empty $prefix, e.g., when doing
1942 cross-compiles to MinGW.
1943 + add script for building test-packages of binaries cross-compiled to
1947 + minor fixes for ncurses-example package and makefile.
1948 + add scripts for test-builds of cross-compiler packages for ncurses6
1952 + some build-fixes for ncurses-examples with NetBSD-6.0 curses, though
1953 it lacks some common functions such as use_env() which is not yet
1955 + build-fix and some compiler warning fixes for ncurses-examples with
1957 + fix a possible null-pointer reference in a trace message from newterm.
1958 + quiet a few warnings from NetBSD 6.0 namespace pollution by
1959 nonstandard popcount() function in standard strings.h header.
1960 + ignore g++ 4.2.1 warnings for "-Weffc++" in c++/cursesmain.cc
1961 + fix a few overlooked places for --enable-string-hacks option.
1964 + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130831).
1965 + build-fix for --with-shared option for DragonFly and FreeBSD (report
1966 by Rong-En Fan, cf: 20130727).
1969 + build-fixes for MSYS for two test-programs (patches by Ray Donnelly,
1971 + revert change to two of the dpkg format files, to work with dpkg
1972 before/after Debian #700177.
1973 + fix gcc -Wconversion warning in wattr_get() macro.
1974 + add msys and msysdll to known host/configuration types (patch by
1976 + modify CF_RPATH_HACK configure macro to not rely upon "-u" option
1977 of sort, improving portability.
1978 + minor improvements for test-programs from reviewing Solaris port.
1979 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1980 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1983 + modify test/ncurses.c b/B tests to display lines only for the
1984 attributes which a given terminal supports, to make room for an
1986 + completed ncv table in terminfo.tail; it did not list the wide
1987 character codes listed in X/Open Curses issue 7.
1988 + add A_ITALIC extension (prompted by discussion with Egmont Koblinger).
1991 + fix some gcc 4.8 -Wconversion warnings.
1992 + change format of dpkg test-scripts to quilted to work around bug
1993 introduced by Debian #700177.
1994 + discard cached keyname() values if meta() is changed after a value
1995 was cached using (report by Kurban Mallachiev).
1998 + add checks in tic to warn about terminals which lack cursor
1999 addressing, capabilities or having those, are marked as hard_copy or
2001 + use --without-progs in mingw-ncurses rpm.
2002 + split out _nc_init_termtype() from alloc_entry.c to use in MinGW
2003 port when tic and other programs are not needed.
2006 + minor fixes to the --disable-overwrite logic, to ensure that the
2007 configured $(includedir) is not cancelled by the mingwxx-filesystem
2009 + add --disable-db-install configure option, to simplify building
2010 cross-compile support packages.
2011 + add mingw-ncurses.spec file, for testing cross-compiles.
2014 + improve configure macros from ongoing work on cdk, dialog, xterm:
2015 + CF_ADD_LIB_AFTER - fix a problem with -Wl options
2016 + CF_RPATH_HACK - add missing result-message
2017 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify to use $rel_builddir in cygwin and mingw
2018 dll symbols (which can be overridden) rather than explicit "../".
2019 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify NetBSD and DragonFly symbols to use ${CC}
2020 rather than ${LD} to improve rpath support.
2021 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - add a symbol to denote the temporary files that
2022 are created by the macro, to simplify clean-rules.
2023 + CF_X_ATHENA - trim extra libraries to work with -Wl,--as-needed
2024 + fix a regression in hashed-database support for NetBSD, which uses
2025 the key-size differently from other implementations (cf: 20121229).
2028 + further improvements for setupterm manpage, clarifying the
2029 initialization of cur_term.
2032 + improve manpages for initscr and setupterm.
2033 + minor compiler-warning fixes
2036 + add fallback defs for <inttypes.h> and <stdint.h> (cf: 20120225).
2037 + add check for size of wchar_t, use that to suppress a chunk of
2038 wcwidth.h in MinGW port.
2039 + quiet linker warnings for MinGW cross-compile with dll's using the
2040 --enable-auto-import flag.
2041 + add ncurses.map rule to ncurses/Makefile to help diagnose symbol
2045 + modify the clear program to take into account the E3 extended
2046 capability to clear the terminal's scrollback buffer (patch by
2047 Miroslav Lichvar, Redhat #815790).
2048 + clarify in resizeterm manpage that LINES and COLS are updated.
2049 + updated ansi example in terminfo.tail, correct misordered example
2051 + fix other doclifter warnings for manpages
2052 + remove unnecessary ".ta" in terminfo.tail, add missing ".fi"
2053 (patch by Eric Raymond).
2056 + minor changes to some configure macros to make them more reusable.
2057 + fixes for tabs program (prompted by report by Nick Andrik).
2058 + corrected logic in command-line parsing of -a and -c predefined
2060 + allow "-0" and "-8" options to be combined with others, e.g.,"-0d".
2061 + make warning messages more consistent with the other utilities by
2062 not printing the full pathname of the program.
2063 + add -V option for consistency with other utilities.
2064 + fix off-by-one in columns for tabs program when processing an option
2065 such as "-5" (patch by Nick Andrik).
2068 + add to test/demo_forms.c examples of using the menu-hooks as well
2069 as showing how the menu item user-data can be used to pass a callback
2071 + add test/dots_termcap.c
2072 + remove setupterm call from test/demo_termcap.c
2073 + build-fix if --disable-ext-funcs configure option is used.
2074 + modified test/edit_field.c and test/demo_forms.c to move the lengths
2075 into a user-data structure, keeping the original string for later
2076 expansion to free-format input/out demo.
2077 + modified test/demo_forms.c to load data from file.
2078 + added note to clarify Terminal.app's non-emulation of the various
2079 terminal types listed in the preferences dialog -TD
2080 + fix regression in error-reporting in lib_setup.c (Debian #711134,
2082 + build-fix for a case where --enable-broken_linker and
2083 --enable-reentrant options are combined (report by George R Goffe).
2086 + modify mvcur() to distinguish between internal use by the ncurses
2087 library, and external callers, preventing it from reading the content
2088 of the screen which is only nonblank when curses calls have updated
2089 it. This makes test/dots_mvcur.c avoid painting colored cells in
2090 the left margin of the display.
2091 + minor fix to test/dots_mvcur.c
2092 + move configured symbols USE_DATABASE and USE_TERMCAP to term.h as
2093 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE and NCURSES_USE_TERMCAP to allow consistent
2094 use of these symbols in term_entry.h
2097 + corrected ifdefs in test/testcurs.c to allow comparison of mouse
2098 interface versus pdcurses (cf: 20130316).
2099 + add pow() to configure-check for math library, needed since
2100 20121208 for test/hanoi (Debian #708056).
2101 + regenerated html manpages.
2102 + update doctype used for html documentation.
2105 + move nsterm-related entries out of "obsolete" section to more
2106 plausible "ansi consoles" -TD
2107 + additional cleanup of table-of-contents by reordering -TD
2108 + revise fix for check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch(); prior fix
2109 prevented inserts when video attributes were attached to the data
2110 (cf: 20121215) (Redhat #959534).
2113 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
2114 + correct FNKEY() macro in progs/dump_entry.c, allowing kf11-kf63 to
2115 display when infocmp's -R option is used for HP or AIX subsets.
2116 + fix dead-code issue with test/movewindow.c
2117 + improve limited-checking in _nc_read_termtype().
2120 + fix clang 3.2 warning in progs/dump_entry.c
2121 + drop AC_TYPE_SIGNAL check; ncurses relies on c89 and later.
2124 + add MinGW to cases where ncurses installs by default into /usr
2125 (prompted by discussion with Daniel Silva Ferreira).
2126 + add -D option to infocmp's usage-message (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
2127 + add a missing 'int' type for main function in configure check for
2128 type of bool variable, to work with clang 3.2 (report by Dmitri
2130 + improve configure check for static_cast, to work with clang 3.2
2131 (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
2132 + re-order rule for demo.o and macros defining header dependencies in
2133 c++/Makefile.in to accommodate gmake (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
2136 + improve parameter checking in copywin().
2137 + modify configure script to work around OS X's "libtool" program, to
2138 choose glibtool instead. At the same time, chance the autoconf macro
2139 to look for a "tool" rather than a "prog", to help with potential use
2141 + separate the rpath usage for c++ library from demo program
2143 + update/correct header-dependencies in c++ makefile (report by Werner
2145 + add --with-cxx-shared to dpkg-script, as done for rpm-script.
2148 + build-fix for libtool configuration (reports by Daniel Silva Ferreira
2152 + build-fix for OS X, to handle changes for --with-cxx-shared feature
2153 (report by Christian Ebert).
2154 + change initialization for vt220, similar entries for consistency
2155 with cursor-key strings (NetBSD #47674) -TD
2156 + further improvements to linux-16color (Benjamin Sittler)
2159 + additional fix for tic.c, to allocate missing buffer space.
2160 + eliminate configure-script warnings for gen-pkgconfig.in
2161 + correct typo in sgr string for sun-color,
2162 add bold for consistency with sgr,
2163 change smso for consistency with sgr -TD
2164 + correct typo in sgr string for terminator -TD
2165 + add blink to the attributes masked by ncv in linux-16color (report
2166 by Benjamin Sittler)
2167 + improve warning message from post-load checking for missing "%?"
2168 operator by tic/infocmp by showing the entry name and capability.
2169 + minor formatting improvement to tic/infocmp -f option to ensure
2170 line split after "%;".
2171 + amend scripting for --with-cxx-shared option to handle the debug
2172 library "libncurses++_g.a" (report by Sven Joachim).
2175 + amend change to toe.c for reading from /dev/zero, to ensure that
2176 there is a buffer for the temporary filename (cf: 20120324).
2177 + regenerated html manpages.
2178 + fix typo in terminfo.head (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130302).
2179 + updated some autoconf macros:
2180 + CF_ACVERSION_CHECK, from byacc 1.9 20130304
2181 + CF_INTEL_COMPILER, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE from luit 2.0-20130217
2182 + add configure option --with-cxx-shared to permit building
2183 libncurses++ as a shared library when using g++, e.g., the same
2184 limitations as libtool but better integrated with the usual build
2185 configuration (Redhat #911540).
2186 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to filter out build-path which was unnecessarily
2187 shown in curses.h (Debian #689131).
2190 + add section to terminfo manpage discussing user-defined capabilities.
2191 + update manpage description of NCURSES_NO_SETBUF, explaining why it
2193 + add a check in waddch_nosync() to ensure that tab characters are
2194 treated as control characters; some broken locales claim they are
2196 + add some traces to the Windows console driver.
2197 + initialize a temporary array in _nc_mbtowc, needed for some cases
2198 of raw input in MinGW port.
2201 + correct ifdef on change to lib_twait.c (report by Werner Fink).
2202 + update config.guess, config.sub
2205 + modify test/testcurs.c to work with mouse for ncurses as it does for
2207 + modify test/knight.c to work with mouse for pdcurses as it does for
2209 + modify internal recursion in wgetch() which handles cooked mode to
2210 check if the call to wgetnstr() returned an error. This can happen
2211 when both nocbreak() and nodelay() are set, for instance (report by
2212 Nils Christopher Brause) (cf: 960418).
2213 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
2214 + add a check for valid position in ClearToEOS()
2215 + fix in lib_twait.c when --enable-wgetch-events is used, pointer
2217 + improve a limit-check in make_hash.c
2218 + fix a memory leak in hashed_db.c
2221 + modify test/configure script to make it simpler to override names
2222 of curses-related libraries, to help with linking with pdcurses in
2224 + if the --with-terminfo-dirs configure option is not used, there is
2225 no corresponding compiled-in value for that. Fill in "no default
2226 value" for that part of the manpage substitution.
2229 + correct initialization in knight.c which let it occasionally make
2230 an incorrect move (cf: 20001028).
2231 + improve documentation of the terminfo/termcap search path.
2234 + further fixes to mvcur to pass callback function (cf: 20130112),
2235 needed to make test/dots_mvcur work.
2236 + reduce calls to SetConsoleActiveScreenBuffer in win_driver.c, to
2237 help reduce flicker.
2238 + modify configure script to omit "+b" from linker options for very
2239 old HP-UX systems (report by Dennis Grevenstein)
2240 + add HP-UX workaround for missing EILSEQ on old HP-UX systems (patch
2241 by Dennis Grevenstein).
2242 + restore memmove/strdup support for antique systems (request by
2243 Dennis Grevenstein).
2244 + change %l behavior in tparm to push the string length onto the stack
2245 rather than saving the formatted length into the output buffer
2246 (report by Roy Marples, cf: 980620).
2249 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
2250 + fix memory leak in safe_sprintf.c
2251 + add check for return-value in tty_update.c
2252 + correct initialization for -s option in test/view.c
2253 + add check for numeric overflow in lib_instr.c
2254 + improve error-checking in copywin
2255 + add advice in infocmp manpage for termcap users (Debian #698469).
2256 + add "-y" option to test/demo_termcap and test/demo_terminfo to
2257 demonstrate behavior with/without extended capabilities.
2258 + updated termcap manpage to document legacy termcap behavior for
2259 matching capability names.
2260 + modify name-comparison for tgetstr, etc., to accommodate legacy
2261 applications as well as to improve compatbility with BSD 4.2
2262 termcap implementations (Debian #698299) (cf: 980725).
2265 + correct prototype in manpage for vid_puts.
2266 + drop ncurses/tty/tty_display.h, ncurses/tty/tty_input.h, since they
2267 are unused in the current driver model.
2268 + modify mvcur to use stdout except when called within the ncurses
2270 + modify vidattr and vid_attr to use stdout as documented in manpage.
2271 + amend changes made to buffering in 20120825 so that the low-level
2272 putp() call uses stdout rather than ncurses' internal buffering.
2273 The putp_sp() call does the same, for consistency (Redhat #892674).
2276 + add "-s" option to test/view.c to allow it to start in single-step
2277 mode, reducing size of trace files when it is used for debugging
2279 + revert part of 20121222 change to tinfo_driver.c
2280 + add experimental logic in win_driver.c to improve optimization of
2281 screen updates. This does not yet work with double-width characters,
2282 so it is ifdef'd out for the moment (prompted by report by Erwin
2283 Waterlander regarding screen flicker).
2286 + fix coverity warnings regarding copying into fixed-size buffers.
2287 + add throw-declarations in the c++ binding per Coverity warning.
2288 + minor changes to new-items for consistent reference to bug-report
2292 + add *.dSYM directories to clean-rule in ncurses directory makefile,
2294 + add a configure check for gcc option -no-cpp-precomp, which is not
2295 available in all Mac OS X configurations (report by Andras Salamon,
2297 + improve 20021221 workaround for broken acs, handling a case where
2298 that ACS_xxx character is not in the acsc string but there is a known
2299 wide-character which can be used.
2302 + fix several warnings from clang 3.1 --analyze, includes correcting
2303 a null-pointer check in _nc_mvcur_resume.
2304 + correct display of double-width characters with MinGW port (report
2305 by Erwin Waterlander).
2306 + replace MinGW's wcrtomb(), fixing a problem with _nc_viscbuf
2307 > fixes based on Coverity report:
2308 + correct coloring in test/bs.c
2309 + correct check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch().
2310 + remove dead code in progs/tset.c, test/linedata.h
2311 + add null-pointer checks in lib_tracemse.c, panel.priv.h, and some
2315 + modify test/knight.c to show the number of choices possible for
2316 each position in automove option, e.g., to allow user to follow
2317 Warnsdorff's rule to solve the puzzle.
2318 + modify test/hanoi.c to show the minimum number of moves possible for
2319 the given number of tiles (prompted by patch by Lucas Gioia).
2320 > fixes based on Coverity report:
2321 + remove a few redundant checks.
2322 + correct logic in test/bs.c, when randomly placing a specific type of
2324 + check return value from remove/unlink in tic.
2325 + check return value from sscanf in test/ncurses.c
2326 + fix a null dereference in c++/cursesw.cc
2327 + fix two instances of uninitialized variables when configuring for the
2329 + correct scope of variable used in SetSafeOutcWrapper macro.
2330 + set umask when calling mkstemp in tic.
2331 + initialize wbkgrndset() temporary variable when extended-colors are
2335 + also replace MinGW's wctomb(), fixing a problem with setcchar().
2336 + modify test/view.c to load UTF-8 when built with MinGW by using
2337 regular win32 API because the MinGW functions mblen() and mbtowc()
2341 + correct order of color initialization versus display in some of the
2342 test-programs, e.g., test_addstr.c
2343 > fixes based on Coverity report:
2344 + delete windows on exit from some of the test-programs.
2347 > fixes based on Coverity report:
2348 + add missing braces around FreeAndNull in two places.
2349 + various fixes in test/ncurses.c
2350 + improve limit-checks in tinfo/make_hash.c, tinfo/read_entry.c
2351 + correct malloc size in progs/infocmp.c
2352 + guard against negative array indices in test/knight.c
2353 + fix off-by-one limit check in test/color_name.h
2354 + add null-pointer check in progs/tabs.c, test/bs.c, test/demo_forms.c,
2356 + fix memory-leak in tinfo/lib_setup.c, progs/toe.c,
2357 test/clip_printw.c, test/demo_menus.c
2358 + delete unused windows in test/chgat.c, test/clip_printw.c,
2359 test/insdelln.c, test/newdemo.c on error-return.
2362 + modify configure macro CF_INCLUDE_DIRS to put $CPPFLAGS after the
2363 local -I include options in case someone has set conflicting -I
2364 options in $CPPFLAGS (prompted by patch for ncurses/Makefile.in by
2366 + modify the ncurses*-config scripts to eliminate relative paths from
2367 the RPATH_LIST variable, e.g., "../lib" as used in installing shared
2368 libraries or executables.
2371 + realign these related pages:
2376 and fix a long-ago error in curs_addstr.3x which said that a -1
2377 length parameter would only write as much as fit onto one line
2378 (report by Reuben Thomas).
2379 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_memmove() for memmove()/bcopy().
2380 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_strdup() for strdup().
2381 + cancel any debug-rpm in package/ncurses.spec
2382 + reviewed vte-2012, reverted most of the change since it was incorrect
2383 based on testing with tack -TD
2384 + un-cancel the initc in vte-256color, since this was implemented
2385 starting with version 0.20 in 2009 -TD
2388 + improve malloc/realloc checking (prompted by discussion in Redhat
2390 + add ncurses test-program as "ncurses6" to the rpm- and dpkg-scripts.
2391 + updated configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_WITH_PATHLIST. The
2392 first corrects pattern used for Mac OS X's customization of gcc.
2395 + fix change to _nc_scroll_optimize(), which incorrectly freed memory
2399 + add vte-2012, gnome-2012, making these the defaults for vte/gnome
2400 (patch by Christian Persch).
2403 + improve CF_GCC_VERSION to work around Debian's customization of gcc
2405 + improve configure macros as done in byacc:
2406 + drop 2.13 compatibility; use 2.52.xxxx version only since EMX port
2407 has used that for a while.
2408 + add 3rd parameter to AC_DEFINE's to allow autoheader to run, i.e.,
2409 for experimental use.
2410 + remove unused configure macros.
2411 + modify configure script and makefiles to quiet new autoconf warning
2412 for LIBS_TO_MAKE variable.
2413 + modify configure script to show $PATH_SEPARATOR variable.
2414 + update config.guess, config.sub
2417 + modify setupterm to set its copy of TERM to "unknown" if configured
2418 for the terminal driver and TERM was null or empty.
2419 + modify treatment of TERM variable for MinGW port to allow explicit
2420 use of the windows console driver by checking if $TERM is set to
2421 "#win32con" or an abbreviation of that.
2422 + undo recent change to fallback definition of vsscanf() to build with
2423 older Solaris compilers (cf: 20120728).
2426 + add test-screens to test/ncurses to show 256-characters at a time,
2427 to help with MinGW port.
2430 + simplify varargs logic in lib_printw.c; va_copy is no longer needed
2432 + modifications for MinGW port to make wide-character display usable.
2435 + regenerate configure script (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20120901).
2438 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_flush (cf: 20120825).
2439 + fix a case in _nc_scroll_optimize() where the _oldnums_list array
2440 might not be allocated.
2441 + improve comparisons in configure.in for unset shell variables.
2444 + increase size of ncurses' output-buffer, in case of very small
2445 initial screen-sizes.
2446 + fix evaluation of TERMINFO and TERMINFO_DIRS default values as needed
2447 after changes to use --datarootdir (reports by Gabriele Balducci,
2451 + change output buffering scheme, using buffer maintained by ncurses
2452 rather than stdio, to avoid problems with SIGTSTP handling (report
2456 + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20120811, adding --datarootdir
2457 (prompted by discussion with Erwin Waterlander).
2458 + improve description of --enable-reentrant option in README and the
2460 + add nsterm-256color, make this the default nsterm -TD
2461 + remove bw from nsterm-bce, per testing with tack -TD
2464 + update test/configure, adding check for tinfo library.
2465 + improve limit-checks for the getch fifo (report by Werner Fink).
2466 + fix a remaining mismatch between $with_echo and the symbols updated
2467 for CF_DISABLE_ECHO affecting parameters for mk-2nd.awk (report by
2468 Sven Joachim, cf: 20120317).
2469 + modify followup check for pkg-config's library directory in the
2470 --enable-pc-files option to validate syntax (report by Sven Joachim,
2474 + correct path for ncurses_mingw.h in include/headers, in case build
2475 is done outside source-tree (patch by Roumen Petrov).
2476 + modify some older xterm entries to align with xterm source -TD
2477 + separate "xterm-old" alias from "xterm-r6" -TD
2478 + add E3 extended capability to xterm-basic and putty -TD
2479 + parenthesize parameters of other macros in curses.h -TD
2480 + parenthesize parameter of COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER in curses.h
2481 in case it happens to be a comma-expression, etc. (patch by Nick
2485 + improved form_request_by_name() and menu_request_by_name().
2486 + eliminate two fixed-size buffers in toe.c
2487 + extend use_tioctl() to have expected behavior when use_env(FALSE) and
2488 use_tioctl(TRUE) are called.
2489 + modify ncurses test-program, adding -E and -T options to demonstrate
2490 use_env() versus use_tioctl().
2493 + add use_tioctl() function (adapted from patch by Werner Fink,
2497 + add ncurses_mingw.h to installed headers (prompted by patch by
2499 + clarify return-codes from wgetch() in response to SIGWINCH (prompted
2501 + modify resizeterm() to always push a KEY_RESIZE onto the fifo, even
2502 if screensize is unchanged. Modify _nc_update_screensize() to push a
2503 KEY_RESIZE if there was a SIGWINCH, even if it does not call
2504 resizeterm(). These changes eliminate the case where a SIGWINCH is
2505 received, but ERR returned from wgetch or wgetnstr because the screen
2506 dimensions did not change (Novell #769788).
2509 + add --enable-interop to sample package scripts (suggested by Juergen
2511 + update CF_PATH_SYNTAX macro, from mawk changes.
2512 + modify mk-0th.awk to allow for generating llib-ltic, etc., though
2513 some work is needed on cproto to work with lib_gen.c to update
2515 + remove redundant getenv() cal in database-iterator leftover from
2516 cleanup in 20120622 changes (report by Sven Joachim).
2519 + add -d, -e and -q options to test/demo_terminfo and test/demo_termcap
2520 + fix caching of environment variables in database-iterator (patch by
2521 Philippe Troin, Redhat #831366).
2524 + add configure check to distinguish clang from gcc to eliminate
2525 warnings about unused command-line parameters when compiler warnings
2527 + improve behavior when updating terminfo entries which are hardlinked
2528 by allowing for the possibility that an alias has been repurposed to
2530 + fix some strict compiler warnings based on package scripts.
2531 + further fixes for configure check for working poll (Debian #676461).
2534 + fix an uninitialized variable in -c/-n logic for infocmp changes
2536 + corrected fix for building c++ binding with clang 3.0 (report/patch
2537 by Richard Yao, Gentoo #417613, cf: 20110409)
2538 + correct configure check for working poll, fixing the case where stdin
2539 is redirected, e.g., in rpm/dpkg builds (Debian #676461).
2540 + add rpm- and dpkg-scripts, to test those build-environments.
2541 The resulting packages are used only for testing.
2544 + add kdch1 aka "Remove" to vt220 and vt220-8 entries -TD
2545 + add kdch1, etc., to qvt108 -TD
2546 + add dl1/il1 to some entries based on dl/il values -TD
2547 + add dl to simpleterm -TD
2548 + add consistency-checks in tic for insert-line vs delete-line
2549 controls, and insert/delete-char keys
2550 + correct no-leaks logic in infocmp when doing comparisons, fixing
2551 duplicate free of entries given via the command-line, and freeing
2552 entries loaded from the last-but-one of files specified on the
2554 + add kdch1 to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (reported by David Lord,
2555 analysis by Martin Husemann).
2556 + add cnorm/civis to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (report/analysis by
2557 Onno van der Linden).
2560 + extend -c and -n options of infocmp to allow comparing more than two
2562 + correct check in infocmp for number of terminal names when more than
2564 + correct typo in curs_threads.3x (report by Yanhui Shen on
2565 freebsd-hackers mailing list).
2568 + corrected 'op' for bterm (report by Samuel Thibault) -TD
2569 + modify test/background.c to demonstrate a background character
2570 holding a colored ACS_HLINE. The behavior differs from SVr4 due to
2571 the thick- and double-line extension (cf: 20091003).
2572 + modify handling of acs characters in PutAttrChar to avoid mapping an
2573 unmapped character to a space with A_ALTCHARSET set.
2574 + rewrite vt520 entry based on vt420 -TD
2577 + remove p6 (bold) from opus3n1+ for consistency -TD
2578 + remove acs stuff from env230 per clues in Ingres termcap -TD
2579 + modify env230 sgr/sgr0 to match other capabilities -TD
2580 + modify smacs/rmacs in bq300-8 to match sgr/sgr0 -TD
2581 + make sgr for dku7202 agree with other caps -TD
2582 + make sgr for ibmpc agree with other caps -TD
2583 + make sgr for tek4107 agree with other caps -TD
2584 + make sgr for ndr9500 agree with other caps -TD
2585 + make sgr for sco-ansi agree with other caps -TD
2586 + make sgr for d410 agree with other caps -TD
2587 + make sgr for d210 agree with other caps -TD
2588 + make sgr for d470c, d470c-7b agree with other caps -TD
2589 + remove redundant AC_DEFINE for NDEBUG versus Makefile definition.
2590 + fix a back-link in _nc_delink_entry(), which is needed if ncurses is
2591 configured with --enable-termcap and --disable-getcap.
2594 + fix some inconsistencies between vt320/vt420, e.g., cnorm/civis -TD
2595 + add eslok flag to dec+sl -TD
2596 + dec+sl applies to vt320 and up -TD
2597 + drop wsl width from xterm+sl -TD
2598 + reuse xterm+sl in putty and nsca-m -TD
2599 + add ansi+tabs to vt520 -TD
2600 + add ansi+enq to vt220-vt520 -TD
2601 + fix a compiler warning in example in ncurses-intro.doc (Paul Waring).
2602 + added paragraph in keyname manpage telling how extended capabilities
2603 are interpreted as key definitions.
2604 + modify tic's check of conflicting key definitions to include extended
2605 capability strings in addition to the existing check on predefined
2609 + improve cleanup of temporary files in tic using atexit().
2610 + add msgr to vt420, similar DEC vtXXX entries -TD
2611 + add several missing vt420 capabilities from vt220 -TD
2612 + factor out ansi+pp from several entries -TD
2613 + change xterm+sl and xterm+sl-twm to include only the status-line
2614 capabilities and not "use=xterm", making them more generally useful
2615 as building-blocks -TD
2616 + add dec+sl building block, as example -TD
2619 + add XT to some terminfo entries to improve usefulness for other
2620 applications than screen, which would like to pretend that xterm's
2621 title is a status-line. -TD
2622 + change use-clauses in ansi-mtabs, hp2626, and hp2622 based on review
2623 of ordering and overrides -TD
2624 + add consistency check in tic for screen's "XT" capability.
2625 + add section in terminfo.src summarizing the user-defined capabilities
2626 used in that file -TD
2629 + fix an inconsistency between tic/infocmp "-x" option; tic omits all
2630 non-standard capabilities, while infocmp was ignoring only the user
2631 definable capabilities.
2632 + improve special case in tic parsing of description to allow it to be
2633 followed by terminfo capabilities. Previously the description had to
2634 be the last field on an input line to allow tic to distinguish
2635 between termcap and terminfo format while still allowing commas to be
2636 embedded in the description.
2637 + correct variable name in gen_edit.sh which broke configurability of
2638 the --with-xterm-kbs option.
2639 + revert 2011-07-16 change to "linux" alias, return to "linux2.2" -TD
2640 + further amend 20110910 change, providing for configure-script
2641 override of the "linux" terminfo entry to install and changing the
2642 default for that to "linux2.2" (Debian #665959).
2645 + update Ada95/configure to use CF_DISABLE_ECHO (cf: 20120317).
2646 + correct order of use-clauses in st-256color -TD
2647 + modify configure script to look for gnatgcc if the Ada95 binding
2648 is built, in preference to the default gcc/cc (suggested by
2649 Nicolas Boulenguez).
2650 + modify configure script to ensure that the same -On option used for
2651 the C compiler in CFLAGS is used for ADAFLAGS rather than simply
2652 using "-O3" (suggested by Nicolas Boulenguez)
2655 + amend an old fix so that next_char() exits properly for empty files,
2656 e.g., from reading /dev/null (cf: 20080804).
2657 + modify tic so that it can read from the standard input, or from
2658 a character device. Because tic uses seek's, this requires writing
2659 the data to a temporary file first (prompted by remark by Sven
2660 Joachim) (cf: 20000923).
2663 + correct a check made in lib_napms.c, so that terminfo applications
2664 can again use napms() (cf: 20110604).
2665 + add a note in tic.h regarding required casts for ABSENT_BOOLEAN
2667 + correct scripting for --disable-echo option in test/configure.
2668 + amend check for missing c++ compiler to work when no error is
2669 reported, and no variables set (cf: 20021206).
2670 + add/use configure macro CF_DISABLE_ECHO.
2673 + fix some strict compiler warnings for abi6 and 64-bits.
2674 + use begin_va_copy/end_va_copy macros in lib_printw.c (cf: 20120303).
2675 + improve a limit-check in infocmp.c (Werner Fink):
2678 + minor tidying of terminfo.tail, clarify reason for limitation
2679 regarding mapping of \0 to \200
2680 + minor improvement to _nc_copy_termtype(), using memcpy to replace
2682 + fix no-leaks checking in test/demo_termcap.c to account for multiple
2683 calls to setupterm().
2684 + modified the libgpm change to show previous load as a problem in the
2686 > merge some patches from OpenSUSE rpm (Werner Fink):
2687 + ncurses-5.7-printw.dif, fixes for varargs handling in lib_printw.c
2688 + ncurses-5.7-gpm.dif, do not dlopen libgpm if already loaded by
2690 + ncurses-5.6-fallback.dif, do not free arrays and strings from static
2694 + fix breakage in tic/infocmp from 20120225 (report by Werner Fink).
2697 + modify configure script to allow creating dll's for MinGW when
2699 + add --enable-string-hacks option to control whether strlcat and
2700 strlcpy may be used. The same issue applies to OpenBSD's warnings
2701 about snprintf, noting that this function is weakly standardized.
2702 + add configure checks for strlcat, strlcpy and snprintf, to help
2703 reduce bogus warnings with OpenBSD builds.
2704 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 to supply consistent intptr_t declaration
2706 + update config.guess, config.sub
2709 + correct CF_ETIP_DEFINES configure macro, making it exit properly on
2710 the first success (patch by Pierre Labastie).
2711 + improve configure macro CF_MKSTEMP by moving existence-check for
2712 mkstemp out of the AC_TRY_RUN, to help with cross-compiles.
2713 + improve configure macro CF_FUNC_POLL from luit changes to detect
2714 broken implementations, e.g., with Mac OS X.
2715 + add configure option --with-tparm-arg
2716 + build-fix for MinGW cross-compiling, so that make_hash does not
2717 depend on TTY definition (cf: 20111008).
2720 + make sgr for xterm-pcolor agree with other caps -TD
2721 + make sgr for att5425 agree with other caps -TD
2722 + make sgr for att630 agree with other caps -TD
2723 + make sgr for linux entries agree with other caps -TD
2724 + make sgr for tvi9065 agree with other caps -TD
2725 + make sgr for ncr260vt200an agree with other caps -TD
2726 + make sgr for ncr160vt100pp agree with other caps -TD
2727 + make sgr for ncr260vt300an agree with other caps -TD
2728 + make sgr for aaa-60-dec-rv, aaa+dec agree with other caps -TD
2729 + make sgr for cygwin, cygwinDBG agree with other caps -TD
2730 + add configure option --with-xterm-kbs to simplify configuration for
2731 Linux versus most other systems.
2734 + improved tic -D option, avoid making target directory and provide
2738 + add mach-gnu (Debian #614316, patch by Samuel Thibault)
2739 + add mach-gnu-color, tweaks to mach-gnu terminfo -TD
2740 + make sgr for sun-color agree with smso -TD
2741 + make sgr for prism9 agree with other caps -TD
2742 + make sgr for icl6404 agree with other caps -TD
2743 + make sgr for ofcons agree with other caps -TD
2744 + make sgr for att5410v1, att4415, att620 agree with other caps -TD
2745 + make sgr for aaa-unk, aaa-rv agree with other caps -TD
2746 + make sgr for avt-ns agree with other caps -TD
2747 + amend fix intended to separate fixups for acsc to allow "tic -cv" to
2748 give verbose warnings (cf: 20110730).
2749 + modify misc/gen-edit.sh to make the location of the tabset directory
2750 consistent with misc/Makefile.in, i.e., using ${datadir}/tabset
2751 (Debian #653435, patch by Sven Joachim).
2754 + add --with-lib-prefix option to allow configuring for old/new flavors
2756 + modify check for gnat version to allow for year, as used in FreeBSD
2758 + modify check_existence() in db_iterator.c to simply check if the
2759 path is a directory or file, according to the need. Checking for
2760 directory size also gives no usable result with OS/2 (cf: 20120107).
2761 + support OS/2 kLIBC (patch by KO Myung-Hun).
2764 + several improvements to test/movewindow.c (prompted by discussion on
2766 + modify movement commands to make them continuous
2767 + rewrote the test for mvderwin
2768 + rewrote the test for recursive mvwin
2769 + split-out reusable CF_WITH_NCURSES_ETC macro in test/configure.in
2770 + updated configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, build-fixes for Mac OS X
2772 + regenerated html manpages.
2775 + various improvements for MinGW (Juergen Pfeifer):
2776 + modify stat() calls to ignore the st_size member
2777 + drop mk-dlls.sh script.
2778 + change recommended regular expression library.
2779 + modify rain.c to allow for threaded configuraton.
2780 + modify tset.c to allow for case when size-change logic is not used.
2783 + modify toe's report when -a and -s options are combined, to add
2784 a column showing which entries belong to a given database.
2785 + add -s option to toe, to sort its output.
2786 + modify progs/toe.c, simplifying use of db-iterator results to use
2787 caching improvements from 20111001 and 20111126.
2788 + correct generation of pc-files when ticlib or termlib options are
2789 given to rename the corresponding tic- or tinfo-libraries (report
2793 + document a portability issue with tput, i.e., that scripts which work
2794 with ncurses may fail in other implementations that do no parameter
2796 + add putty-sco entry -TD
2799 + review/fix places in manpages where --program-prefix configure option
2801 + add -D option to infocmp, to show the database locations that it
2803 + fix build for the special case where term-driver, ticlib and termlib
2804 are all enabled. The terminal driver depends on a few features in
2805 the base ncurses library, so tic's dependencies include both ncurses
2807 + fix build work for term-driver when --enable-wgetch-events option is
2809 + use <stdint.h> types to fix some questionable casts to void*.
2812 + modify configure script to check if thread library provides
2813 pthread_mutexattr_settype(), e.g., not provided by Solaris 2.6
2814 + modify configure script to suppress check to define _XOPEN_SOURCE
2815 for IRIX64, since its header files have a conflict versus
2817 + modify configure script to add ".pc" files for tic- and
2818 tinfo-libraries, which were omitted in recent change (cf: 20111126).
2819 + fix inconsistent checks on $PKG_CONFIG variable in configure script.
2822 + modify configure-check for etip.h dependencies, supplying a temporary
2823 copy of ncurses_dll.h since it is a generated file (prompted by
2825 + modify CF_CPP_PARAM_INIT "main" function to work with current C++.
2828 + correct database iterator's check for duplicate entries
2830 + modify database iterator to ignore $TERMCAP when it is not an
2832 + add -D option to tic, to show the database locations that it could
2834 + improve description of database locations in tic manpage.
2835 + modify the configure script to generate a list of the ".pc" files to
2836 generate, rather than deriving the list from the libraries which have
2837 been built (patch by Mike Frysinger).
2838 + use AC_CHECK_TOOLS in preference to AC_PATH_PROGS when searching for
2839 ncurses*-config, e.g., in Ada95/configure and test/configure (adapted
2840 from patch by Mike Frysinger).
2843 + remove obsolete/conflicting fallback definition for _POSIX_SOURCE
2844 from curses.priv.h, fixing a regression with IRIX64 and Tru64
2846 + modify _nc_tic_dir() to ensure that its return-value is nonnull,
2847 i.e., the database iterator was not initialized. This case is needed
2848 to when tic is translating to termcap, rather than loading the
2849 database (cf: 20111001).
2852 + add pccon entries for OpenBSD console (Alexei Malinin).
2853 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 with gcc 4.2.1, setting _XOPEN_SOURCE to
2854 600 to work around inconsistent ifdef'ing of wcstof between C and
2856 + modify capconvert script to accept more than exact match on "xterm",
2857 e.g., the "xterm-*" variants, to exclude from the conversion (patch
2859 + add -lc_r as alternative for -lpthread, allows build of threaded code
2860 in older FreeBSD machines.
2861 + build-fix for MirBSD, which fails when either _XOPEN_SOURCE or
2862 _POSIX_SOURCE are defined.
2863 + fix a typo misc/Makefile.in, used in uninstalling pc-files.
2866 + modify make_db_path() to allow creating "terminfo.db" in the same
2867 directory as an existing "terminfo" directory. This fixes a case
2868 where switching between hashed/filesystem databases would cause the
2869 new hashed database to be installed in the next best location -
2870 root's home directory.
2871 + add variable cf_cv_prog_gnat_correct to those passed to
2872 config.status, fixing a problem with Ada95 builds (cf: 20111022).
2873 + change feature test from _XPG5 to _XOPEN_SOURCE in two places, to
2874 accommodate broken implementations for _XPG6.
2875 + eliminate usage of NULL symbol from etip.h, to reduce header
2877 + add configure check to decide when to add _XOPEN_SOURCE define to
2878 compiler options, i.e., for Solaris 10 and later (cf: 20100403).
2879 This is a workaround for gcc 4.6, which fails to build the c++
2880 binding if that symbol is defined by the application, due to
2881 incorrectly combining the corresponding feature test macros
2882 (report by Peter Kruse).
2885 + correct logic for discarding mouse events, retaining the partial
2886 events used to build up click, double-click, etc, until needed
2888 + fix configure script to avoid creating unused Ada95 makefile when
2890 + cleanup width-related gcc 3.4.3 warnings for 64-bit platform, for the
2891 internal functions of libncurses. The external interface of courses
2892 uses bool, which still produces these warnings.
2895 + improve description of --disable-tic-depends option to make it
2896 clear that it may be useful whether or not the --with-termlib
2897 option is also given (report by Sven Joachim).
2898 + amend termcap equivalent for set_pglen_inch to use the X/Open
2899 "YI" rather than the obsolete Solaris 2.5 "sL" (cf: 990109).
2900 + improve manpage for tgetent differences from termcap library.
2903 + moved static data from db_iterator.c to lib_data.c
2904 + modify db_iterator.c for memory-leak checking, fix one leak.
2905 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to use Requires.private for the parts
2906 of ncurses rather than Requires, as well as Libs.private for the
2907 other library dependencies (prompted by Debian #644728).
2910 + modify tic "-K" option to only set the strict-flag rather than force
2911 source-output. That allows the same flag to control the parser for
2912 input and output of termcap source.
2913 + modify _nc_getent() to ignore backslash at the end of a comment line,
2914 making it consistent with ncurses' parser.
2915 + restore a special-case check for directory needed to make termcap
2916 text files load as if they were databases (cf: 20110924).
2917 + modify tic's resolution/collision checking to attempt to remove the
2918 conflicting alias from the second entry in the pair, which is
2919 normally following in the source file. Also improved the warning
2920 message to make it simpler to see which alias is the problem.
2921 + improve performance of the database iterator by caching search-list.
2924 + add a missing "else" in changes to _nc_read_tic_entry().
2927 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() so that hashed-database is checked before
2929 + updated CF_CURSES_LIBS check in test/configure script.
2930 + modify configure script and makefiles to split TIC_ARGS and
2931 TINFO_ARGS into pieces corresponding to LDFLAGS and LIBS variables,
2932 to help separate searches for tic- and tinfo-libraries (patch by Nick
2934 + build-fix for lib_mouse.c changes (cf: 20110917).
2937 + fix compiler warning for clang 2.9
2938 + improve merging of mouse events (integrated patch by Damien
2940 + correct mask-check used in lib_mouse for wheel mouse buttons 4/5
2941 (patch by Damien Guibouret).
2944 + modify misc/gen_edit.sh to select a "linux" entry which works with
2945 the current kernel rather than assuming it is always "linux3.0"
2947 + revert a change to getmouse() which had the undesirable side-effect
2948 of suppressing button-release events (report by Damien Guibouret,
2950 + add xterm+kbs fragment from xterm #272 -TD
2951 + add configure option --with-pkg-config-libdir to provide control over
2952 the actual directory into which pc-files are installed, do not use
2953 the pkg-config environment variables (discussion with Frederic L W
2955 + add link to mailing-list archive in announce.html.in, as done in
2956 FAQ (prompted by question by Andrius Bentkus).
2957 + improve manpage install by adjusting the "#include" examples to
2958 show the ncurses-subdirectory used when --disable-overwrite option
2960 + install an alias for "curses" to the ncurses manpage, tied to the
2961 --with-curses-h configure option (suggested by Reuben Thomas).
2964 + propagate error-returns from wresize, i.e., the internal
2965 increase_size and decrease_size functions through resize_term (report
2966 by Tim van der Molen, cf: 20020713).
2967 + fix typo in tset manpage (patch by Sven Joachim).
2970 + add a check to ensure that termcap files which might have "^?" do
2971 not use the terminfo interpretation as "\177".
2972 + minor cleanup of X-terminal emulator section of terminfo.src -TD
2973 + add terminator entry -TD
2974 + add simpleterm entry -TD
2975 + improve wattr_get macros by ensuring that if the window pointer is
2976 null, then the attribute and color values returned will be zero
2980 + add substitution for $RPATH_LIST to misc/ncurses-config.in
2981 + improve performance of tic with hashed-database by caching the
2982 database connection, using atexit() to cleanup.
2983 + modify treatment of 2-character aliases at the beginning of termcap
2984 entries so they are not counted in use-resolution, since these are
2985 guaranteed to be unique. Also ignore these aliases when reporting
2986 the primary name of the entry (cf: 20040501)
2987 + double-check gn (generic) flag in terminal descriptions to
2988 accommodate old/buggy termcap databases which misused that feature.
2989 + minor fixes to _nc_tgetent(), ensure buffer is initialized even on
2993 + improve rpath fix from 20110730 by ensuring that the new $RPATH_LIST
2994 variable is defined in the makefiles which use it.
2995 + build-fix for DragonFlyBSD's pkgsrc in test/configure script.
2996 + build-fixes for NetBSD 5.1 with termcap support enabled.
2997 + corrected k9 in dg460-ansi, add other features based on manuals -TD
2998 + improve trimming of whitespace at the end of terminfo/termcap output
3000 + when writing termcap source, ensure that colons in the description
3001 field are translated to a non-delimiter, i.e., "=".
3002 + add "-0" option to tic/infocmp, to make the termcap/terminfo source
3004 + add a null-pointer check when handling the $CC variable.
3007 + modify configure script and makefiles in c++ and progs to allow the
3008 directory used for rpath option to be overridden, e.g., to work
3009 around updates to the variables used by tic during an install.
3010 + add -K option to tic/infocmp, to provide stricter BSD-compatibility
3012 + add _nc_strict_bsd variable in tic library which controls the
3013 "strict" BSD termcap compatibility from 20110723, plus these
3015 + allow escapes such as "\8" and "\9" when reading termcap
3016 + disallow "\a", "\e", "\l", "\s" and "\:" escapes when reading
3017 termcap files, passing through "a", "e", etc.
3018 + expand "\:" as "\072" on output.
3019 + modify _nc_get_token() to reset the token's string value in case
3020 there is a string-typed token lacking the "=" marker.
3021 + fix a few memory leaks in _nc_tgetent.
3022 + fix a few places where reading from a termcap file could refer to
3024 + add an overflow check when converting terminfo/termcap numeric
3025 values, since terminfo stores those in a short, and they must be
3027 + correct internal variables used for translating to termcap "%>"
3028 feature, and translating from termcap %B to terminfo, needed by
3029 tctest (cf: 19991211).
3030 + amend a minor fix to acsc when loading a termcap file to separate it
3031 from warnings needed for tic (cf: 20040710)
3032 + modify logic in _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_tic_entry() to allow
3033 a termcap file to be handled via TERMINFO_DIRS.
3034 + modify _nc_infotocap() to include non-mandatory padding when
3035 translating to termcap.
3036 + modify _nc_read_termcap_entry(), passing a flag in the case where
3037 getcap is used, to reduce interactive warning messages.
3040 + add a check in start_color() to limit color-pairs to 256 when
3041 extended colors are not supported (patch by David Benjamin).
3042 + modify setcchar to omit no-longer-needed OR'ing of color pair in
3043 the SetAttr() macro (patch by David Benjamin).
3044 + add kich1 to sun terminfo entry (Yuri Pankov)
3045 + use bold rather than reverse for smso in sun-color terminfo entry
3047 + improve generation of termcap using tic/infocmp -C option, e.g.,
3048 to correspond with 4.2BSD (prompted by discussion with Yuri Pankov
3049 regarding Schilling's test program):
3050 + translate %02 and %03 to %2 and %3 respectively.
3051 + suppress string capabilities which use %s, not supported by tgoto
3052 + use \040 rather than \s
3053 + expand null characters as \200 rather than \0
3054 + modify configure script to support shared libraries for DragonFlyBSD.
3057 + replace an assert() in _nc_Free_Argument() with a regular null
3058 pointer check (report/analysis by Franjo Ivancic).
3059 + modify configure --enable-pc-files option to take into account the
3060 PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
3061 + add/use xterm+tmux chunk from xterm #271 -TD
3062 + resync xterm-new entry from xterm #271 -TD
3063 + add E3 extended capability to linux-basic (Miroslav Lichvar)
3064 + add linux2.2, linux2.6, linux3.0 entries to give context for E3 -TD
3065 + add SI/SO change to linux2.6 entry (Debian #515609) -TD
3066 + fix inconsistent tabset path in pcmw (Todd C. Miller).
3067 + remove a backslash which continued comment, obscuring altos3
3068 definition with OpenBSD toolset (Nicholas Marriott).
3071 + add workaround from xterm #271 changes to ensure that compiler flags
3072 are not used in the $CC variable.
3073 + improve support for shared libraries, tested with AIX 5.3, 6.1 and
3074 7.1 with both gcc 4.2.4 and cc.
3075 + modify configure checks for AIX to include release 7.x
3076 + add loader flags/libraries to libtool options so that dynamic loading
3077 works properly, adapted from ncurses-5.7-ldflags-with-libtool.patch
3078 at gentoo prefix repository (patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
3081 + move include of nc_termios.h out of term_entry.h, since the latter
3082 is installed, e.g., for tack while the former is not (report by
3086 + improve cleanup() function in lib_tstp.c, using _exit() rather than
3087 exit() and checking for SIGTERM rather than SIGQUIT (prompted by
3088 comments forwarded by Nicholas Marriott).
3089 + reduce name pollution from term.h, moving fallback #define's for
3090 tcgetattr(), etc., to new private header nc_termios.h (report by
3092 + two minor fixes for tracing (patch by Vassili Courzakis).
3093 + improve trace initialization by starting it in use_env() and
3095 + review old email, add details for some changelog entries.
3098 + update minix entry to minix 3.2 (Thomas Cort).
3099 + fix a strict compiler warning in change to wattr_get (cf: 20110528).
3102 + fixes for MirBSD port:
3103 + set default prefix to /usr.
3104 + add support for shared libraries in configure script.
3105 + use S_ISREG and S_ISDIR consistently, with fallback definitions.
3106 + add a few more checks based on ncurses/link_test.
3107 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle sp-funcs renaming of NCURSES_OUTC type.
3110 + add case to CF_SHARED_OPTS for Interix (patch by Markus Duft).
3111 + used ncurses/link_test to check for behavior when the terminal has
3112 not been initialized and when an application passes null pointers
3113 to the library. Added checks to cover this (prompted by Redhat
3115 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to make its main() function call each function
3116 with zero parameters, to help find inconsistent checking for null
3120 + fix warnings from clang 2.7 "--analyze"
3123 + compiler-warning fixes in panel and progs.
3124 + modify CF_PKG_CONFIG macro, from changes to tin -TD
3125 + modify CF_CURSES_FUNCS configure macro, used in test directory
3127 + work around (non-optimizer) bug in gcc 4.2.1 which caused
3128 test-expression to be omitted from executable.
3129 + force the linker to see a link-time expression of a symbol, to
3130 help work around weak-symbol issues.
3133 + update discussion of MKfallback.sh script in INSTALL; normally the
3134 script is used automatically via the configured makefiles. However
3135 there are still occasions when it might be used directly by packagers
3136 (report by Gunter Schaffler).
3137 + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to omit the "-L" option from the
3138 "--libs" output if the library directory is /usr/lib.
3139 + change order of tests for curses.h versus ncurses.h headers in the
3140 configure scripts for Ada95 and test-directories, to look for
3141 ncurses.h, from fixes to tin -TD
3142 + modify ncurses/tinfo/access.c to account for Tandem's root uid
3143 (report by Joachim Schmitz).
3146 + modify rules in Ada95/src/Makefile.in to ensure that the PIC option
3147 is not used when building a static library (report by Nicolas
3149 + Ada95 build-fix for big-endian architectures such as sparc. This
3150 undoes one of the fixes from 20110319, which added an "Unused" member
3151 to representation clauses, replacing that with pragmas to suppress
3152 warnings about unused bits (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
3155 + add check in test/configure for use_window, use_screen.
3156 + add configure-checks for getopt's variables, which may be declared
3157 as different types on some Unix systems.
3158 + add check in test/configure for some legacy curses types of the
3159 function pointer passed to tputs().
3160 + modify init_pair() to accept -1's for color value after
3161 assume_default_colors() has been called (Debian #337095).
3162 + modify test/background.c, adding commmand-line options to demonstrate
3163 assume_default_colors() and use_default_colors().
3166 + modify configure script/source-code to only define _POSIX_SOURCE if
3167 the checks for sigaction and/or termios fail, and if _POSIX_C_SOURCE
3168 and _XOPEN_SOURCE are undefined (report by Valentin Ochs).
3169 + update config.guess, config.sub
3172 + fixes to build c++ binding with clang 3.0 (patch by Alexander
3174 + add check for unctrl.h in test/configure, to work around breakage in
3175 some ncurses packages.
3176 + add "--disable-widec" option to test/configure script.
3177 + add "--with-curses-colr" and "--with-curses-5lib" options to the
3178 test/configure script to address testing with very old machines.
3180 20110404 5.9 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3183 + various build-fixes for the rpm/dpkg scripts.
3184 + add "--enable-rpath-link" option to Ada95/configure, to allow
3185 packages to suppress the rpath feature which is normally used for
3186 the in-tree build of sample programs.
3187 + corrected definition of libdir variable in Ada95/src/Makefile.in,
3188 needed for rpm script.
3189 + add "--with-shared" option to Ada95/configure script, to allow
3190 making the C-language parts of the binding use appropriate compiler
3191 options if building a shared library with gnat.
3194 > portability fixes for Ada95 binding:
3195 + add configure check to ensure that SIGINT works with gnat. This is
3196 needed for the "rain" sample program. If SIGINT does not work, omit
3197 that sample program.
3198 + correct typo in check of $PKG_CONFIG variable in Ada95/configure
3199 + add ncurses_compat.c, to supply functions used in the Ada95 binding
3200 which were added in 5.7 and later.
3201 + modify sed expression in CF_NCURSES_ADDON to eliminate a dependency
3205 + add special check in Ada95/configure script for ncurses6 reentrant
3207 + regen Ada html documentation.
3208 + build-fix for Ada shared libraries versus the varargs workaround.
3209 + add rpm and dpkg scripts for Ada95 and test directories, for test
3211 + update test/configure macros CF_CURSES_LIBS, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and
3213 + add configure check to determine if gnat's project feature supports
3214 libraries, i.e., collections of .ali files.
3215 + make all dereferences in Ada95 samples explicit.
3216 + fix typo in comment in lib_add_wch.c (patch by Petr Pavlu).
3217 + add configure check for, ifdef's for math.h which is in a separate
3218 package on Solaris and potentially not installed (report by Petr
3220 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
3221 + improve type-checking in Ada95 by eliminating a few warning-suppress
3223 + suppress unreferenced warnings.
3224 + make all dereferences in binding explicit.
3227 + regen Ada html documentation.
3228 + change order of -I options from ncurses*-config script when the
3229 --disable-overwrite option was used, so that the subdirectory include
3231 + modify the make-tar.sh scripts to add a MANIFEST and NEWS file.
3232 + modify configure script to provide value for HTML_DIR in
3233 Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, which depends on whether the Ada95 binding is
3234 distributed separately (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
3235 + modify configure script to add "-g" and/or "-O3" to ADAFLAGS if the
3236 CFLAGS for the build has these options.
3237 + amend change from 20070324, to not add 1 to the result of getmaxx
3238 and getmaxy in the Ada binding (report by Nicolas Boulenguez for
3239 thread in comp.lang.ada).
3240 + build-fix Ada95/samples for gnat 4.5
3241 + spelling fixes for Ada95/samples/explain.txt
3242 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
3243 + add item in Trace_Attribute_Set corresponding to TRACE_ATTRS.
3244 + add workaround for binding to set_field_type(), which uses varargs.
3245 The original binding from 990220 relied on the prevalent
3246 implementation of varargs which did not support or need va_copy().
3247 + add dependency on gen/Makefile.in needed for *-panels.ads
3248 + add Library_Options to library.gpr
3249 + add Languages to library.gpr, for gprbuild
3252 + revert changes to limit-checks from 20110122 (Debian #616711).
3253 > minor type-cleanup of Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
3254 + corrected a minor sign error in a field of Low_Level_Field_Type, to
3256 + replaced C_Int by Curses_Bool as return type for some callbacks, see
3258 + modify samples/sample-explain.adb to provide explicit message when
3259 explain.txt is not found.
3262 + improve makefiles for Ada95 tree (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
3263 + fix an off-by-one error in _nc_slk_initialize() from 20100605 fixes
3264 for compiler warnings (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
3265 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to declare unused bits in generated layouts,
3266 needed to compile when chtype is 64-bits using gnat 4.4.5
3268 20110226 5.8 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3271 + update release notes, for 5.8.
3272 + regenerated html manpages.
3273 + change open() in _nc_read_file_entry() to fopen() for consistency
3275 + modify misc/run_tic.in to create parent directory, in case this is
3276 a new install of hashed database.
3277 + fix typo in Ada95/mk-1st.awk which causes error with original awk.
3280 + configure script rpath fixes from xterm #269.
3281 + workaround for cygwin's non-functional features.h, to force ncurses'
3282 configure script to define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED when building
3283 wide-character configuration.
3284 + build-fix in run_tic.sh for OS/2 EMX install
3285 + add cons25-debian entry (patch by Brian M Carlson, Debian #607662).
3288 + regenerated html manpages.
3289 + use _tracef() in show_where() function of tic, to work correctly with
3290 special case of trace configuration.
3293 + add xterm-utf8 entry as a demo of the U8 feature -TD
3294 + add U8 feature to denote entries for terminal emulators which do not
3295 support VT100 SI/SO when processing UTF-8 encoding -TD
3296 + improve the NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS feature by adding a check for an
3297 extended terminfo capability U8 (prompted by mailing list
3301 + start documenting interface changes for upcoming 5.8 release.
3302 + correct limit-checks in derwin().
3303 + correct limit-checks in newwin(), to ensure that windows have nonzero
3304 size (report by Garrett Cooper).
3305 + fix a missing "weak" declaration for pthread_kill (patch by Nicholas
3307 + improve documentation of KEY_ENTER in curs_getch.3x manpage (prompted
3308 by discussion with Kevin Martin).
3311 + modify Ada95/configure script to make the --with-curses-dir option
3312 work without requiring the --with-ncurses option.
3313 + modify test programs to allow them to be built with NetBSD curses.
3314 + document thick- and double-line symbols in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
3315 + document WACS_xxx constants in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
3316 + fix some warnings for clang 2.6 "--analyze"
3317 + modify Ada95 makefiles to make html-documentation with the project
3318 file configuration if that is used.
3319 + update config.guess, config.sub
3322 + regenerated html manpages.
3323 + minor fixes to enable lint when trace is not enabled, e.g., with
3325 + fix typo in man/default_colors.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
3326 + update ncurses/llib-lncurses*
3329 + fix remaining strict compiler warnings in ncurses library ABI=5,
3330 except those dealing with function pointers, etc.
3333 + modify nc_tparm.h, adding guards against repeated inclusion, and
3334 allowing TPARM_ARG to be overridden.
3335 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
3338 + suppress ncv in screen entry, allowing underline (patch by Alejandro
3340 + also suppress ncv in konsole-base -TD
3341 + fixes in wins_nwstr() and related functions to ensure that special
3342 characters, i.e., control characters are handled properly with the
3343 wide-character configuration.
3344 + correct a comparison in wins_nwstr() (Redhat #661506).
3345 + correct help-messages in some of the test-programs, which still
3346 referred to quitting with 'q'.
3349 + add special case to _nc_infotocap() to recognize the setaf/setab
3350 strings from xterm+256color and xterm+88color, and provide a reduced
3351 version which works with termcap.
3352 + remove obsolete emacs "Local Variables" section from documentation
3353 (request by Sven Joachim).
3354 + update doc/html/index.html to include NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html
3355 (report by Sven Joachim).
3358 + modify test/configure and test/Makefile.in to handle this special
3359 case of building within a build-tree (Debian #34182):
3360 mkdir -p build && cd build && ../test/configure && make
3363 + miscellaneous build-fixes for Ada95 and test-directories when built
3365 + use VPATH in makefiles to simplify out-of-tree builds (Debian #34182).
3366 + fix typo in rmso for tek4106 entry -Goran Weinholt
3369 + improve checks in test/configure for X libraries, from xterm #267
3371 + modify test/configure to allow it to use the build-tree's libraries
3372 e.g., when using that to configure the test-programs without the
3373 rpath feature (request by Sven Joachim).
3374 + repurpose "gnome" terminfo entries as "vte", retaining "gnome" items
3375 for compatibility, but generally deprecating those since the VTE
3376 library is what actually defines the behavior of "gnome", etc.,
3380 + compiler warning fixes for test programs.
3381 + various build-fixes for test-programs with pdcurses.
3382 + updated configure checks for X packages in test/configure from xterm
3384 + add configure check to gnatmake, to accommodate cygwin.
3387 + correct list of sub-directories needed in Ada95 tree for building as
3389 + modify scripts in test-directory to improve builds as a separate
3393 + correct parsing of relative tab-stops in tabs program (report by
3395 + adjust configure script so that "t" is not added to library suffix
3396 when weak-symbols are used, allowing the pthread configuration to
3397 more closely match the non-thread naming (report by Werner Fink).
3398 + modify configure check for tic program, used for fallbacks, to a
3399 warning if not found. This makes it simpler to use additonal
3400 scripts to bootstrap the fallbacks code using tic from the build
3401 tree (report by Werner Fink).
3402 + fix several places in configure script using ${variable-value} form.
3403 + modify configure macro CF_LDFLAGS_STATIC to accommodate some loaders
3404 which do not support selectively linking against static libraries
3405 (report by John P. Hartmann)
3406 + fix an unescaped dash in man/tset.1 (report by Sven Joachim).
3409 + correct comparison used for setting 16-colors in linux-16color
3410 entry (Novell #644831) -TD
3411 + improve linux-16color entry, using "dim" for color-8 which makes it
3412 gray rather than black like color-0 -TD
3413 + drop misc/ncu-indent and misc/jpf-indent; they are provided by an
3414 external package "cindent".
3417 + improve linkages in html manpages, adding references to the newer
3418 pages, e.g., *_variables, curs_sp_funcs, curs_threads.
3419 + add checks in tic for inconsistent cursor-movement controls, and for
3420 inconsistent printer-controls.
3421 + fill in no-parameter forms of cursor-movement where a parameterized
3422 form is available -TD
3423 + fill in missing cursor controls where the form of the controls is
3425 + fix inconsistent punctuation in form_variables manpage (patch by
3427 + add parameterized cursor-controls to linux-basic (report by Dae) -TD
3428 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
3429 + document how to build 32-bit libraries in README.MinGW
3430 + fixes to filename computation in mk-dlls.sh.in
3431 + use POSIX locale in mk-dlls.sh.in rather than en_US (report by Sven
3433 + add a check in mk-dlls.sh.in to obtain the size of a pointer to
3434 distinguish between 32-bit and 64-bit hosts. The result is stored
3438 + add "XT" capability to entries for terminals that support both
3439 xterm-style mouse- and title-controls, for "screen" which
3440 special-cases TERM beginning with "xterm" or "rxvt" -TD
3441 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
3442 + use 64-Bit MinGW toolchain (recommended package from TDM, see
3444 + support pthreads when using the TDM MinGW toolchain
3447 + regenerated html manpages.
3448 + minor fixes for symlinks to curs_legacy.3x and curs_slk.3x manpages.
3449 + add manpage for sp-funcs.
3450 + add sp-funcs to test/listused.sh, for documentation aids.
3453 + add manpages for summarizing public variables of curses-, terminfo-
3455 + minor fixes to manpages for consistency (patch by Jason McIntyre).
3456 + modify tic's -I/-C dump to reformat acsc strings into canonical form
3457 (sorted, unique mapping) (cf: 971004).
3458 + add configure check for pthread_kill(), needed for some old
3462 + add configure option --without-tests, to suppress building test
3463 programs (request by Frederic L W Meunier).
3466 + modify nsterm, xnuppc and tek4115 to make sgr/sgr0 consistent -TD
3467 + add check in terminfo source-reader to provide more informative
3468 message when someone attempts to run tic on a compiled terminal
3469 description (prompted by Debian #593920).
3470 + note in infotocap and captoinfo manpages that they read terminal
3471 descriptions from text-files (Debian #593920).
3472 + improve acsc string for vt52, show arrow keys (patch by Benjamin
3476 + document in manpages that "mv" functions first use wmove() to check
3477 the window pointer and whether the position lies within the window
3478 (suggested by Poul-Henning Kamp).
3479 + fixes to curs_color.3x, curs_kernel.3x and wresize.3x manpages (patch
3480 by Tim van der Molen).
3481 + modify configure script to transform library names for tic- and
3482 tinfo-libraries so that those build properly with Mac OS X shared
3483 library configuration.
3484 + modify configure script to ensure that it removes conftest.dSYM
3485 directory leftover on checks with Mac OS X.
3486 + modify configure script to cleanup after check for symbolic links.
3489 + correct a typo in mk-1st.awk (patch by Gabriele Balducci)
3491 + improve configure checks for location of tic and infocmp programs
3492 used for installing database and for generating fallback data,
3493 e.g., for cross-compiling.
3494 + add Markus Kuhn's wcwidth function for compiling MinGW
3495 + add special case to CF_REGEX for cross-compiling to MinGW target.
3498 + modify initialization check for win32con driver to eliminate need for
3499 special case for TERM "unknown", using terminal database if available
3500 (prompted by discussion with Roumen Petrov).
3501 + for MinGW port, ensure that terminal driver is setup if tgetent()
3502 is called (patch by Roumen Petrov).
3503 + document tabs "-0" and "-8" options in manpage.
3504 + fix Debian "lintian" issues with manpages reported in
3505 http://lintian.debian.org/full/csmall@debian.org.html#ncurses
3508 + add a check in tic for missing set_tab if clear_all_tabs given.
3509 + improve use of symbolic links in makefiles by using "-f" option if
3510 it is supported, to eliminate temporary removal of the target
3511 (prompted by http://www.t2-project.org/packages/ncurses.html)
3512 + minor improvement to test/ncurses.c, reset color pairs in 'd' test
3513 after exit from 'm' main-menu command.
3514 + improved ncu-indent, from mawk changes, allows more than one of
3515 GCC_NORETURN, GCC_PRINTFLIKE and GCC_SCANFLIKE on a single line.
3518 + add hard-reset for rs2 to wsvt25 to help ensure that reset ends
3519 the alternate character set (patch by Nicholas Marriott)
3520 + remove tar-copy.sh and related configure/Makefile chunks, since the
3521 Ada95 binding is now installed using rules in Ada95/src.
3524 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
3525 + add/use configure check to turn on project rules for Ada95/src.
3526 + revert the vfork change from 20100130, since it does not work.
3529 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
3530 + old gnatmake (3.15) does not produce libraries using project-file;
3531 work around by adding script to generate alternate makefile.
3534 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
3535 + add configure --with-ada-sharedlib option, for the test_make rule.
3536 + move Ada95-related logic into aclocal.m4, since additional checks
3537 will be needed to distinguish old/new implementations of gnat.
3540 + start integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95 tree
3541 + add test_make / test_clean / test_install rules in Ada95/src
3542 + change install-path for adainclude directory to /usr/share/ada (was
3544 + update Ada95/configure.
3545 + add mlterm+256color entry, for mlterm 3.0.0 -TD
3546 + modify test/configure to use macros to ensure consistent order
3547 of updating LIBS variable.
3550 + change search order of options for Solaris in CF_SHARED_OPTS, to
3551 work with 64-bit compiles.
3552 + correct quoting of assignment in CF_SHARED_OPTS case for aix
3556 + regenerated html documentation.
3557 + modify test/configure to support pkg-config for checking X libraries
3559 + add/use configure macro CF_ADD_LIB to force consistency of
3560 assignments to $LIBS, etc.
3561 + fix configure script for combining --with-pthread
3562 and --enable-weak-symbols options.
3565 + correct cross-compiling configure check for CF_MKSTEMP macro, by
3566 adding a check cache variable set by AC_CHECK_FUNC (report by
3568 + simplify include-dependencies of make_hash and make_keys, to reduce
3569 the need for setting BUILD_CPPFLAGS in cross-compiling when the
3570 build- and target-machines differ.
3571 + repair broken-linker configuration by restoring a definition of SP
3572 variable to curses.priv.h, and adjusting for cases where sp-funcs
3574 + improve configure macro CF_AR_FLAGS, allowing ARFLAGS environment
3575 variable to override (prompted by report by Pablo Cazallas).
3578 + add configure option --enable-pthreads-eintr to control whether the
3579 new EINTR feature is enabled.
3580 + modify logic in pthread configuration to allow EINTR to interrupt
3581 a read operation in wgetch() (Novell #540571, patch by Werner Fink).
3582 + drop mkdirs.sh, use "mkdir -p".
3583 + add configure option --disable-libtool-version, to use the
3584 "-version-number" feature which was added in libtool 1.5 (report by
3585 Peter Haering). The default value for the option uses the newer
3586 feature, which makes libraries generated using libtool compatible
3587 with the standard builds of ncurses.
3588 + updated test/configure to match configure script macros.
3589 + fixes for configure script from lynx changes:
3590 + improve CF_FIND_LINKAGE logic for the case where a function is
3591 found in predefined libraries.
3592 + revert part of change to CF_HEADER (cf: 20100424)
3595 + correct limit-check in wredrawln, accounting for begy/begx values
3596 (patch by David Benjamin).
3597 + fix most compiler warnings from clang.
3598 + amend build-fix for OpenSolaris, to ensure that a system header is
3599 included in curses.h before testing feature symbols, since they
3600 may be defined by that route.
3603 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
3604 + modify configure macro CF_HEADER_PATH to not look for variations in
3605 the predefined include directories.
3606 + improve configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GCC_WARNINGS to work
3607 with gcc 4.x's c89 alias, which gives warning messages for cases
3608 where older versions would produce an error.
3611 + modify _nc_capcmp() to work with cancelled strings.
3612 + correct translation of "^" in _nc_infotocap(), used to transform
3613 terminfo to termcap strings
3614 + add configure --disable-rpath-hack, to allow disabling the feature
3615 which adds rpath options for libraries in unusual places.
3616 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by checking if the rpath option for a given
3617 directory was already added.
3618 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by using ldd to provide a standard list of
3619 directories (which will be ignored).
3622 + improve win_driver.c handling of mouse:
3623 + discard motion events
3624 + avoid calling _nc_timed_wait when there is a mouse event
3625 + handle 4th and "rightmost" buttons.
3626 + quote substitutions in CF_RPATH_HACK_2 configure macro, needed for
3627 cases where there are embedded blanks in the rpath option.
3630 + add configure check for exctags vs ctags, to work around pkgsrc.
3631 + simplify logic in _nc_get_screensize() to make it easier to see how
3632 environment variables may override system- and terminfo-values
3633 (prompted by discussion with Igor Bujna).
3634 + make debug-traces for COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER less verbose.
3635 + improve handling of color-pairs embedded in attributes for the
3636 extended-colors configuration.
3637 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to build link_test with sp-funcs.
3638 + build-fixes for OpenSolaris aka Solaris 11, for wide-character
3639 configuration as well as for rpath feature in *-config scripts.
3642 + refactor CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro, making CF_RPATH_HACK more
3644 + improve configure CF_REGEX, similar fixes.
3645 + improve configure CF_FIND_LINKAGE, adding add check between system
3646 (default) and explicit paths, where we can find the entrypoint in the
3648 + add check if Gpm_Open() returns a -2, e.g., for "xterm". This is
3649 normally suppressed but can be overridden using $NCURSES_GPM_TERMS.
3650 Ensure that Gpm_Close() is called in this case.
3653 + rename atari and st52 terminfo entries to atari-old, st52-old, use
3654 newer entries from FreeMiNT by Guido Flohr (from patch/report by Alan
3658 + modify install-rule for manpages so that *-config manpages will
3659 install when building with --srcdir (report by Sven Joachim).
3660 + modify CF_DISABLE_LEAKS configure macro so that the --enable-leaks
3661 option is not the same as --disable-leaks (GenToo #305889).
3662 + modify #define's for build-compiler to suppress cchar_t symbol from
3663 compile of make_hash and make_keys, improving cross-compilation of
3664 ncursesw (report by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
3665 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to replace all occurrences of
3666 TPUT in tput.1's manpage (Debian #573597, report/analysis by Anders
3670 + generate manpages for the *-config scripts, adapted from help2man
3671 (suggested by Sven Joachim).
3672 + use va_copy() in _nc_printf_string() to avoid conflicting use of
3673 va_list value in _nc_printf_length() (report by Wim Lewis).
3676 + add Ada95/configure script, to use in tar-file created by
3678 + fix typo in wresize.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
3679 + modify screen-bce.XXX entries to exclude ech, since screen's color
3680 model does not clear with color for that feature -TD
3683 + add make-tar.sh scripts to Ada95 and test subdirectories to help with
3684 making those separately distributable.
3685 + build-fix for static libraries without dlsym (Debian #556378).
3686 + fix a syntax error in man/form_field_opts.3x (patch by Ingo
3690 + add several screen-bce.XXX entries -TD
3693 + update mrxvt terminfo entry -TD
3694 + modify win_driver.c to support mouse single-clicks.
3695 + correct name for termlib in ncurses*-config, e.g., if it is renamed
3696 to provide a single file for ncurses/ncursesw libraries (patch by
3700 + use vfork in test/ditto.c if available (request by Mike Frysinger).
3701 + miscellaneous cleanup of manpages.
3702 + fix typo in curs_bkgd.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
3703 + build-fix for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
3706 + for term-driver configuration, ensure that the driver pointer is
3707 initialized in setupterm so that terminfo/termcap programs work.
3708 + amend fix for Debian #542031 to ensure that wattrset() returns only
3709 OK or ERR, rather than the attribute value (report by Miroslav
3711 + reorder WINDOWLIST to put WINDOW data after SCREEN pointer, making
3712 _nc_screen_of() compatible between normal/wide libraries again (patch
3713 by Miroslav Lichvar)
3714 + review/fix include-dependencies in modules files (report by Miroslav
3718 + modify win_driver.c to initialize acs_map for win32 console, so
3719 that line-drawing works.
3720 + modify win_driver.c to initialize TERMINAL struct so that programs
3721 such as test/lrtest.c and test/ncurses.c which test string
3722 capabilities can run.
3723 + modify term-driver modules to eliminate forward-reference
3727 + modify configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., to use CF_ADD_CFLAGS
3728 consistently to add new -D's while removing duplicates.
3729 + modify a few configure macros to consistently put new options
3730 before older in the list.
3731 + add tiparm(), based on review of X/Open Curses Issue 7.
3732 + minor documentation cleanup.
3733 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3734 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
3735 (caveat - its maintainer put 2010 copyright date on files dated 2009)
3738 + minor improvement to tic's checking of similar SGR's to allow for the
3739 most common case of SGR 0.
3740 + modify getmouse() to act as its documentation implied, returning on
3741 each call the preceding event until none are left. When no more
3742 events remain, it will return ERR.
3745 + change order of lookup in progs/tput.c, looking for terminfo data
3746 first. This fixes a confusion between termcap "sg" and terminfo
3747 "sgr" or "sgr0", originally from 990123 changes, but exposed by
3748 20091114 fixes for hashing. With this change, only "dl" and "ed" are
3749 ambiguous (Mandriva #56272).
3752 + add bterm terminfo entry, based on bogl 0.1.18 -TD
3753 + minor fix to rxvt+pcfkeys terminfo entry -TD
3754 + build-fixes for Ada95 tree for gnat 4.4 "style".
3757 + remove old check in mvderwin() which prevented moving a derived
3758 window whose origin happened to coincide with its parent's origin
3759 (report by Katarina Machalkova).
3760 + improve test/ncurses.c to put mouse droppings in the proper window.
3761 + update minix terminfo entry -TD
3762 + add bw (auto-left-margin) to nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler)
3765 + correct transfer of multicolumn characters in multirow
3766 field_buffer(), which stopped at the end of the first row due to
3767 filling of unused entries in a cchar_t array with nulls.
3768 + updated nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler, Emanuele Giaquinta)
3769 + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to show wide-character
3771 + use strdup() in set_menu_mark(), restore .marklen struct member on
3773 + eliminate clause 3 from the UCB copyrights in read_termcap.c and
3775 ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change
3776 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
3777 + replace a malloc in tic.c with strdup, checking for failure (patch by
3779 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3780 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
3783 + correct layout of working window used to extract data in
3784 wide-character configured by set_field_buffer (patch by Rafael
3786 + improve some limit-checks related to filename length in reading and
3787 writing terminfo entries.
3788 + ensure that filename is always filled in when attempting to read
3789 a terminfo entry, so that infocmp can report the filename (patch
3790 by Nicholas Marriott).
3793 + modify mk-1st.awk to allow tinfo library to be built when term-driver
3795 + add error-check to configure script to ensure that sp-funcs is
3796 enabled if term-driver is, since some internal interfaces rely upon
3800 + fix case where progs/tput is used while sp-funcs is configure; this
3801 requires save/restore of out-character function from _nc_prescreen
3802 rather than the SCREEN structure (report by Charles Wilson).
3803 + fix typo in man/curs_trace.3x which caused incorrect symbolic links
3804 + improved configure macros CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES, CF_PROG_LINT.
3808 + updated man/curs_trace.3x
3809 + limit hashing for termcap-names to 2-characters (Ubuntu #481740).
3810 + change a variable name in lib_newwin.c to make it clearer which
3811 value is being freed on error (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
3814 + improve test/ncurses.c color-cycling test by reusing attribute-
3815 and color-cycling logic from the video-attributes screen.
3816 + add ifdef'd with NCURSES_INTEROP_FUNCS experimental bindings in form
3817 library which help make it compatible with interop applications
3818 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3819 + add configure option --enable-interop, for integrating changes
3820 for generic/interop support to form-library by Juergen Pfeifer
3823 + modify use of $CC environment variable which is defined by X/Open
3824 as a curses feature, to ignore it if it is not a single character
3825 (prompted by discussion with Benjamin C W Sittler).
3826 + add START_TRACE in slk_init
3827 + fix a regression in _nc_ripoffline which made test/ncurses.c not show
3828 soft-keys, broken in 20090927 merging.
3829 + change initialization of "hidden" flag for soft-keys from true to
3830 false, broken in 20090704 merging (Ubuntu #464274).
3831 + update nsterm entries (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler, prompted by
3832 discussion with Fabian Groffen in GenToo #206201).
3833 + add test/xterm-256color.dat
3836 + quiet some pedantic gcc warnings.
3837 + modify _nc_wgetch() to check for a -1 in the fifo, e.g., after a
3838 SIGWINCH, and discard that value, to avoid confusing application
3839 (patch by Eygene Ryabinkin, FreeBSD #136223).
3842 + modify handling of $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR to use only the first item in
3843 a possibly colon-separated list (Debian #550716).
3846 + supply a null-terminator to buffer in _nc_viswibuf().
3847 + fix a sign-extension bug in unget_wch() (report by Mike Gran).
3848 + minor fixes to error-returns in default function for tputs, as well
3852 + add WACS_xxx definitions to wide-character configuration for thick-
3853 and double-lines (discussion with Slava Zanko).
3854 + remove unnecessary kcan assignment to ^C from putty (Sven Joachim)
3855 + add ccc and initc capabilities to xterm-16color -TD
3856 > patch by Benjamin C W Sittler:
3858 + correct initc capability of linux-c-nc end-of-range
3859 + similar change for dg+ccc and dgunix+ccc
3862 + move leak-checking for comp_captab.c into _nc_leaks_tinfo() since
3863 that module since 20090711 is in libtinfo.
3864 + add configure option --enable-term-driver, to allow compiling with
3865 terminal-driver. That is used in MinGW port, and (being somewhat
3866 more complicated) is an experimental alternative to the conventional
3867 termlib internals. Currently, it requires the sp-funcs feature to
3869 + completed integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer in ncurses
3870 library (some work remains for forms library).
3873 + document return code from define_key (report by Mike Gran).
3874 + make some symbolic links in the terminfo directory-tree shorter
3875 (patch by Daniel Jacobowitz, forwarded by Sven Joachim).).
3876 + fix some groff warnings in terminfo.5, etc., from recent Debian
3878 + change ncv and op capabilities in sun-color terminfo entry to match
3879 Sun's entry for this (report by Laszlo Peter).
3880 + improve interix smso terminfo capability by using reverse rather than
3881 bold (report by Kristof Zelechovski).
3884 + add some test programs (and make these use the same special keys
3885 by sharing linedata.h functions):
3888 test/test_addchstr.c
3889 test/test_add_wchstr.c
3890 + correct internal _nc_insert_ch() to use _nc_insert_wch() when
3891 inserting wide characters, since the wins_wch() function that it used
3892 did not update the cursor position (report by Ciprian Craciun).
3895 + fix typo s/is_timeout/is_notimeout/ which made "man is_notimeout" not
3897 + add null-pointer checks to other opaque-functions.
3898 + add is_pad() and is_subwin() functions for opaque access to WINDOW
3899 (discussion with Mark Dickinson).
3900 + correct merge to lib_newterm.c, which broke when sp-funcs was
3904 + build-fix for building outside source-tree (report by Sven Joachim).
3905 + fix Debian lintian warning for man/tabs.1 by making section number
3906 agree with file-suffix (report by Sven Joachim).
3907 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3910 + workaround for bug in g++ 4.1-4.4 warnings for wattrset() macro on
3911 amd64 (Debian #542031).
3912 + fix typo in curs_mouse.3x (Debian #429198).
3915 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3918 + correct use of terminfo capabilities for initializing soft-keys,
3919 broken in 20090510 merging.
3920 + modify wgetch() to ensure it checks SIGWINCH when it gets an error
3921 in non-blocking mode (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
3922 + use PATH_SEPARATOR symbol when substituting into run_tic.sh, to
3923 help with builds on non-Unix platforms such as OS/2 EMX.
3924 + modify scripting for misc/run_tic.sh to test configure script's
3925 $cross_compiling variable directly rather than comparing host/build
3926 compiler names (prompted by comment in GenToo #249363).
3927 + fix configure script option --with-database, which was coded as an
3929 + build-fixes for --srcdir (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
3932 + separate _nc_find_entry() and _nc_find_type_entry() from
3933 implementation details of hash function.
3936 + add tabs.1 to man/man_db.renames
3937 + modify lib_addch.c to compensate for removal of wide-character test
3938 from unctrl() in 20090704 (Debian #539735).
3941 + improve discussion in INSTALL for use of system's tic/infocmp for
3942 cross-compiling and building fallbacks.
3943 + modify test/demo_termcap.c to correspond better to options in
3944 test/demo_terminfo.c
3945 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3946 + fix logic for 'V' in test/ncurses.c tests f/F.
3949 + correct logic in tigetnum(), which caused tput program to treat all
3950 string capabilities as numeric (report by Rajeev V Pillai,
3954 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3957 + fix a null-pointer check in _nc_format_slks() in lib_slk.c, from
3959 + modify _nc_find_type_entry() to use hashing.
3960 + make CCHARW_MAX value configurable, noting that changing this would
3961 change the size of cchar_t, and would be ABI-incompatible.
3962 + modify test-programs, e.g,. test/view.c, to address subtle
3963 differences between Tru64/Solaris and HPUX/AIX getcchar() return
3965 + modify length returned by getcchar() to count the trailing null
3966 which is documented in X/Open (cf: 20020427).
3967 + fixes for test programs to build/work on HPUX and AIX, etc.
3970 + improve performance of tigetstr, etc., by using hashing code from tic.
3971 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking.
3972 + add test/demo_terminfo, for comparison with demo_termcap
3975 + remove wide-character checks from unctrl() (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
3976 + revise wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to eliminate dependency on
3978 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
3981 + update llib-lncurses[wt] to use sp-funcs.
3982 + various code-fixes to build/work with --disable-macros configure
3984 + add several new files from Juergen Pfeifer