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31 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
32 working with Pavel Curtis' original work, pcurses, in 1992.
34 Changes through 1.9.9e are recorded by Zeyd M Ben-Halim.
35 Changes since 1.9.9e are recorded by Thomas E Dickey.
37 Contributors include those who have provided patches (even small ones), as well
38 as those who provide useful information (bug reports, analyses). Changes with
39 no cited author are the work of Thomas E Dickey (TD).
41 A few contributors are given in this file by their initials.
42 They each account for one percent or more of the changes since 1.9.9e.
43 See the AUTHORS file for the corresponding full names.
45 Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
46 it is not possible to add this information.
49 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
53 + add several functions to C++ binding which wrap C functions that
54 pass a WINDOW* parameter (request by Chris Lee).
57 + add note about configure options needed for Berkeley database to the
59 + improve checks for version of Berkeley database libraries.
60 + amend fix for rpath to not modify LDFLAGS if the platform has no
61 applicable transformation (report by Christian Ebert, cf: 20071124).
64 + modify configure option --with-hashed-db to accept a parameter which
65 is the install-prefix of a given Berkeley Database (prompted by
67 + rewrite wrapper for wcrtomb(), making it work on Solaris. This is
68 used in the form library to determine the length of the buffer needed
69 by field_buffer (report by Alfred Fung).
70 + remove unneeded window-parameter from C++ binding for wresize (report
74 + modify the support for filesystems which do not support mixed-case to
75 generate 2-character (hexadecimal) codes for the lower-level of the
76 filesystem terminfo database (request by Michail Vidiassov).
77 + add configure option --enable-mixed-case, to allow overriding the
78 configure script's check if the filesystem supports mixed-case
80 + add wresize() to C++ binding (request by Chris Lee).
81 + define NCURSES_EXT_FUNCS and NCURSES_EXT_COLORS in curses.h to make
82 it simpler to tell if the extended functions and/or colors are
86 + update memory-leak checks for changes to names.c and codes.c
87 + correct acsc strings in h19, z100 (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler).
90 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
92 + add mrxvt terminfo entry, add/fix xterm building blocks for modified
94 + compile with FreeBSD "contemporary" TTY interface (patch by
98 + modify makefile rules to allow clear, tput and tset to be built
99 without libtic. The other programs (infocmp, tic and toe) rely on
101 + add/modify null-pointer checks in several functions for SP and/or
102 the WINDOW* parameter (report by Thorben Krueger).
103 + fixes for field_buffer() in formw library (see Redhat Bugzilla
104 #310071, patches by Miroslav Lichvar).
105 + improve performance of NCURSES_CHAR_EQ code (patch by Miroslav
107 + update/improve mlterm and rxvt terminfo entries, e.g., for
108 the modified cursor- and keypad-keys -TD
111 + add code to curses.priv.h ifdef'd with NCURSES_CHAR_EQ, which
112 changes the CharEq() macro to an inline function to allow comparing
113 cchar_t struct's without comparing gaps in a possibly unpacked
114 memory layout (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
117 + add new functions to lib_trace.c to setup mutex's for the _tracef()
118 calls within the ncurses library.
119 + for the reentrant model, move _nc_tputs_trace and _nc_outchars into
121 + start modifying test/worm.c to provide threading demo (incomplete).
122 + separated ifdef's for some BSD-related symbols in tset.c, to make
123 it compile on LynxOS (report by Greg Gemmer).
125 + modify Ada95/gen/Makefile to use shlib script, to simplify building
126 shared-library configuration on platforms lacking rpath support.
127 + build-fix for Ada95/src/Makefile to reflect changed dependency for
128 the terminal-interface-curses-aux.adb file which is now generated.
129 + restructuring test/worm.c, for use_window() example.
132 + add use_window() and use_screen() functions, to develop into support
133 for threaded library (incomplete).
134 + fix typos in man/curs_opaque.3x which kept the install script from
135 creating symbolic links to two aliases created in 20070818 (report by
139 + remove a spurious newline from output of html.m4, which caused links
140 for Ada95 html to be incorrect for the files generated using m4.
141 + start investigating mutex's for SCREEN manipulation (incomplete).
142 + minor cleanup of codes.c/names.c for --enable-const
143 + expand/revise "Routine and Argument Names" section of ncurses manpage
144 to address report by David Givens in newsgroup discussion.
145 + fix interaction between --without-progs/--with-termcap configure
146 options (report by Michail Vidiassov).
147 + fix typo in "--disable-relink" option (report by Michail Vidiassov).
150 + fix a sign-extension bug in infocmp's repair_acsc() function
152 + fix old configure script bug which prevented "--disable-warnings"
153 option from working (patch by Mike Frysinger).
156 + add 9term terminal description (request by Juhapekka Tolvanen) -TD
157 + modify comp_hash.c's string output to avoid misinterpreting a null
158 "\0" followed by a digit.
159 + modify MKnames.awk and MKcodes.awk to support big-strings.
160 This only applies to the cases (broken linker, reentrant) where
161 the corresponding arrays are accessed via wrapper functions.
162 + split MKnames.awk into two scripts, eliminating the shell redirection
163 which complicated the make process and also the bogus timestamp file
164 which was introduced to fix "make -j".
165 + add test/test_opaque.c, test/test_arrays.c
166 + add wgetscrreg() and wgetparent() for applications that may need it
167 when NCURSES_OPAQUE is defined (prompted by Bryan Christ).
170 + amend treatment of infocmp "-r" option to retain the 1023-byte limit
171 unless "-T" is given (cf: 981017).
172 + modify comp_captab.c generation to use big-strings.
173 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private accessed via
174 _nc_get_alias_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
176 + modify configure script to skip Intel compiler in CF_C_INLINE.
177 + make _nc_info_hash_table and _nc_cap_hash_table private accessed via
178 _nc_get_hash_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
182 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private, accessed via
183 _nc_get_alias_table() since they are used only by parse_entry.c
184 + make _nc_key_names private since it is used only by lib_keyname.c
185 + add --disable-big-strings configure option to control whether
186 unctrl.c is generated using the big-string optimization - which may
187 use strings longer than supported by a given compiler.
188 + reduce relocation tables for tic, infocmp by changing type of
189 internal hash tables to short, and make those private symbols.
190 + eliminate large fixed arrays from progs/infocmp.c
193 + change winnstr() to stop at the end of the line (cf: 970315).
194 + add test/test_get_wstr.c
195 + add test/test_getstr.c
196 + add test/test_inwstr.c
197 + add test/test_instr.c
200 + restore a call to obtain screen-size in _nc_setupterm(), which
201 is used in tput and other non-screen applications via setupterm()
202 (Debian #433357, reported by Florent Bayle, Christian Ohm,
206 + add test/savescreen.c test-program
207 + add check to trace-file open, if the given name is a directory, add
208 ".log" to the name and try again.
209 + add konsole-256color entry -TD
210 + add extra gcc warning options from xterm.
211 + minor fixes for ncurses/hashmap test-program.
212 + modify configure script to quiet c++ build with libtool when the
213 --disable-echo option is used.
214 + modify configure script to disable ada95 if libtool is selected,
215 writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD ports/114493).
216 + update config.guess, config.sub
219 + add continuous-move "M" to demo_panels to help test refresh changes.
220 + improve fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters,
221 taking into account some split characters on left/right window
225 + add "widec" row to _tracedump() output to help diagnose remaining
226 problems with multi-column characters.
227 + partial fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters
228 which are partly overwritten (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
229 + ignore A_CHARTEXT bits in vidattr() and vid_attr(), in case
230 multi-column extension bits are passed there.
231 + add setlocale() call to demo_panels.c, needed for wide-characters.
232 + add some output flags to _nc_trace_ttymode to help diagnose a bug
233 report by Larry Virden, i.e., ONLCR, OCRNL, ONOCR and ONLRET,
236 + add test/demo_panels.c
237 + implement opaque version of setsyx() and getsyx().
240 + corrected xterm+pcf2 terminfo modifiers for F1-F4, to match xterm
242 + split-out key_name() from MKkeyname.awk since it now depends upon
243 wunctrl() which is not in libtinfo (report by Rong-En Fan).
246 + add test/key_name.c
247 + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test_inch_wide.c
248 + update test/configure
249 + correct formatting of DEL (0x7f) in _nc_vischar().
250 + null-terminate result of wunctrl().
251 + add null-pointer check in key_name() (report by Andreas Krennmair,
255 + adapt mouse-handling code from menu library in form-library
256 (discussion with Clive Nicolson).
257 + add a modification of test/dots.c, i.e., test/dots_mvcur.c to
258 illustrate how to use mvcur().
259 + modify wide-character flavor of SetAttr() to preserve the
260 WidecExt() value stored in the .attr field, e.g., in case it
261 is overwritten by chgat (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
262 + correct buffer-size for _nc_viswbuf2n() (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
263 + build-fixes for Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 (patch by Peter O'Gorman).
266 + modify keyname() to use "^X" form only if meta() has been called, or
267 if keyname() is called without initializing curses, e.g., via
268 initscr() or newterm() (prompted by LinuxBase #1604).
269 + document some portability issues in man/curs_util.3x
270 + add a shadow copy of TTY buffer to _nc_prescreen to fix applications
271 broken by moving that data into SCREEN (cf: 20061230).
274 + add 'O' (wide-character panel test) in ncurses.c to demonstrate a
275 problem reported by Sadrul H Chowdhury with repainting parts of
277 + modify slk_init() so that if there are preceding calls to
278 ripoffline(), those affect the available lines for soft-keys (adapted
279 from patch by Clive Nicolson).
280 + document some portability issues in man/curs_getyx.3x
283 + fix a bug in Ada95/samples/ncurses which caused a variable to
284 become uninitialized in the "b" test.
285 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in adahtml rule to account for recent
286 movement of files, fix a few incorrect manpage references in the
288 + add Ada95 binding to _nc_freeall() as Curses_Free_All to help with
290 + correct some functions in Ada95 binding which were using return value
291 from C where none was returned: idcok(), immedok() and wtimeout().
292 + amend recent changes for Ada95 binding to make it build with
293 Cygwin's linker, e.g., with configure options
294 --enable-broken-linker --with-ticlib
297 + add a configure check for gcc's options for inlining, use that to
298 quiet a warning message where gcc's default behavior changed from
300 + improve warning message when checking if GPM is linked to curses
301 library by not warning if its use of "wgetch" is via a weak symbol.
302 + add loader options when building with static libraries to ensure that
303 an installed shared library for ncurses does not conflict. This is
304 reported as problem with Tru64, but could affect other platforms
305 (report Martin Mokrejs, analysis by Tim Mooney).
306 + fix build on cygwin after recent ticlib/termlib changes, i.e.,
307 + adjust TINFO_SUFFIX value to work with cygwin's dll naming
308 + revert a change from 20070303 which commented out dependency of
309 SHLIB_LIST in form/menu/panel/c++ libraries.
310 + fix initialization of ripoff stack pointer (cf: 20070421).
313 + move most static variables into structures _nc_globals and
314 _nc_prescreen, to simplify storage.
315 + add/use configure script macro CF_SIG_ATOMIC_T, use the corresponding
316 type for data manipulated by signal handlers (prompted by comments
317 in mailing.openbsd.bugs newsgroup).
318 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to allow one to pass options such as -static
319 to the libtool create- and link-operations.
322 + fix whitespace in curs_opaque.3x which caused a spurious ';' in
323 the installed aliases (report by Peter Santoro).
324 + fix configure script to not try to generate adacurses-config when
325 Ada95 tree is not built.
328 + add man/curs_legacy.3x, man/curs_opaque.3x
329 + fix acs_map binding for Ada95 when --enable-reentrant is used.
330 + add adacurses-config to the Ada95 install, based on version from
331 FreeBSD port, in turn by Juergen Pfeifer in 2000 (prompted by
332 comment on comp.lang.ada newsgroup).
333 + fix includes in c++ binding to build with Intel compiler
335 + update install rule in Ada95 to use mkdirs.sh
336 > other fixes prompted by inspection for Coverity report:
337 + modify ifdef's for c++ binding to use try/catch/throw statements
338 + add a null-pointer check in tack/ansi.c request_cfss()
339 + fix a memory leak in ncurses/base/wresize.c
340 + corrected check for valid memu/meml capabilities in
341 progs/dump_entry.c when handling V_HPUX case.
342 > fixes based on Coverity report:
343 + remove dead code in test/bs.c
344 + remove dead code in test/demo_defkey.c
345 + remove an unused assignment in progs/infocmp.c
346 + fix a limit check in tack/ansi.c tools_charset()
347 + fix tack/ansi.c tools_status() to perform the VT320/VT420
348 tests in request_cfss(). The function had exited too soon.
349 + fix a memory leak in tic.c's make_namelist()
350 + fix a couple of places in tack/output.c which did not check for EOF.
351 + fix a loop-condition in test/bs.c
352 + add index checks in lib_color.c for color palettes
353 + add index checks in progs/dump_entry.c for version_filter() handling
355 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in copywin()
356 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in waddchnstr()
357 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
358 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c's make_namelist()
359 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
360 + add null-pointer checks in test/cardfile.c
361 + fix a double-free in ncurses/tinfo/trim_sgr0.c
362 + fix a double-free in ncurses/base/wresize.c
363 + add try/catch block to c++/cursesmain.cc
366 + modify Ada95 binding to build with --enable-reentrant by wrapping
367 global variables (bug: acs_map does not yet work).
368 + modify Ada95 binding to use the new access-functions, allowing it
369 to build/run when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
370 + add access-functions and macros to return properties of the WINDOW
371 structure, e.g., when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
372 + improved install-sh's quoting.
373 + use mkdirs.sh rather than mkinstalldirs, e.g., to use fixes from
377 + eliminate part of the direct use of WINDOW data from Ada95 interface.
378 + fix substitutions for termlib filename to make configure option
379 --enable-reentrant work with --with-termlib.
380 + change a constructor for NCursesWindow to allow compiling with
381 NCURSES_OPAQUE set, since we cannot pass a reference to
385 + ignore --with-chtype=unsigned since unsigned is always added to
386 the type in curses.h; do the same for --with-mmask-t.
387 + change warning regarding --enable-ext-colors and wide-character
388 in the configure script to an error.
389 + tweak error message in CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to distinguish other programs
390 such as Darwin's libtool program (report by Michail Vidiassov)
391 + modify edit_man.sh to allow for multiple substitutions per line.
392 + set locale in misc/ncurses-config.in since it uses a range
393 + change permissions libncurses++.a install (report by Michail
395 + corrected length of temporary buffer in wide-character version
396 of set_field_buffer() (related to report by Bryan Christ).
399 + fix mk-1st.awk script install_shlib() function, broken in 20070224
400 changes for cygwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
403 + increase size of array in _nc_visbuf2n() to make "tic -v" work
404 properly in its similar_sgr() function (report/analysis by Peter
406 + add --enable-reentrant configure option for ongoing changes to
407 implement a reentrant version of ncurses:
408 + libraries are suffixed with "t"
409 + wrap several global variables (curscr, newscr, stdscr, ttytype,
410 COLORS, COLOR_PAIRS, COLS, ESCDELAY, LINES and TABSIZE) as
411 functions returning values stored in SCREEN or cur_term.
412 + move some initialization (LINES, COLS) from lib_setup.c,
413 i.e., setupterm() to _nc_setupscreen(), i.e., newterm().
416 + regenerated html documentation.
417 + add NCURSES_OPAQUE symbol to curses.h, will use to make structs
418 opaque in selected configurations.
419 + move the chunk in lib_acs.c which resets acs capabilities when
420 running on a terminal whose locale interferes with those into
421 _nc_setupscreen(), so the libtinfo/libtinfow files can be made
422 identical (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
423 + do not use configure variable SHLIB_LIBS for building libraries
424 outside the ncurses directory, since that symbol is customized
425 only for that directory, and using it introduces an unneeded
426 dependency on libdl (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
427 + modify mk-1st.awk so the generated makefile rules for linking or
428 installing shared libraries do not first remove the library, in
429 case it is in use, e.g., libncurses.so by /bin/sh (report by Jeff
431 + revised section "Using NCURSES under XTERM" in ncurses-intro.html
432 (prompted by newsgroup comment by Nick Guenther).
435 + change internal return codes of _nc_wgetch() to check for cases
436 where KEY_CODE_YES should be returned, e.g., if a KEY_RESIZE was
437 ungetch'd, and read by wget_wch().
438 + fix static-library build broken in 20070217 changes to remove "-ldl"
439 (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
440 + change makefile/scripts for cygwin to allow building termlib.
441 + use Form_Hook in manpages to match form.h
442 + use Menu_Hook in manpages, as well as a few places in menu.h
443 + correct form- and menu-manpages to use specific Field_Options,
444 Menu_Options and Item_Options types.
445 + correct prototype for _tracechar() in manpage (cf: 20011229).
446 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
449 + fixes for $(TICS_LIST) in ncurses/Makefile (report by Miroslav
451 + modify relinking of shared libraries to apply only when rpath is
452 enabled, and add --disable-relink option which can be used to
453 disable the feature altogether (reports by Michail Vidiassov,
455 + fix --with-termlib option for wide-character configuration, stripping
456 the "w" suffix in one place (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
457 + remove "-ldl" from some library lists to reduce dependencies in
458 programs (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
459 + correct description of --enable-signed-char in configure --help
460 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
461 + add pattern for GNU/kFreeBSD configuration to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE,
462 which matches an earlier change to CF_SHARED_OPTS, from xterm #224
464 + remove "${DESTDIR}" from -install_name option used for linking
465 shared libraries on Darwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
468 + add test/inchs.c, test_inch_wide.c, to test win_wchnstr().
469 + remove libdl from library list for termlib (report by Miroslav
471 + fix configure.in to allow --without-progs --with-termlib (patch by
473 + modify win_wchnstr() to ensure that only a base cell is returned
474 for each multi-column character (prompted by report by Wei Kong
475 regarding change in mvwin_wch() cf: 20041023).
478 + modify fix_wchnstr() in form library to strip attributes (and color)
479 from the cchar_t array (field cells) read from a field's window.
480 Otherwise, when copying the field cells back to the window, the
481 associated color overrides the field's background color (report by
483 + improve tracing for form library, showing created forms, fields, etc.
484 + ignore --enable-rpath configure option if --with-shared was omitted.
485 + add _nc_leaks_tinfo(), _nc_free_tic(), _nc_free_tinfo() entrypoints
486 to allow leak-checking when both tic- and tinfo-libraries are built.
487 + drop CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC macro from configure script, since C++ binding
488 no longer relies on it.
489 + disallow combining configure script options --with-ticlib and
490 --enable-termcap (report by Rong-En Fan).
491 + remove tack from ncurses tree.
494 + fix typo in configure script that broke --with-termlib option
495 (report by Rong-En Fan).
498 + improve fix for FreeBSD gnu/98975, to allow for null pointer passed
499 to tgetent() (report by Rong-en Fan).
500 + update tack/HISTORY and tack/README to tell how to build it after
501 it is removed from the ncurses tree.
502 + fix configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
503 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
504 + review/eliminate other original-file artifacts in cursesw.cc, making
505 its license consistent with ncurses.
506 + use ncurses vw_scanw() rather than reading into a fixed buffer in
507 the c++ binding for scanw() methods (prompted by report by Nuno Dias).
508 + eliminate fixed-buffer vsprintf() calls in c++ binding.
511 + add _nc_leaks_tic() to separate leak-checking of tic library from
512 term/ncurses libraries, and thereby eliminate a library dependency.
513 + fix test/mk-test.awk to ignore blank lines.
514 + correct paths in include/headers, for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav
518 + add a break-statement in misc/shlib to ensure that it exits on the
519 _first_ matched directory (report by Paul Novak).
520 + add tack/configure, which can be used to build tack outside the
522 + add --with-ticlib option, to build/install the tic-support functions
523 in a separate library (suggested by Miroslav Lichvar).
526 + change MKunctrl.awk to reduce relocation table for unctrl.o
527 + change MKkeyname.awk to reduce relocation table for keyname.o
528 (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
531 + modify configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
532 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
533 + modify some modules to allow them to be reentrant if _REENTRANT is
534 defined: lib_baudrate.c, resizeterm.c (local data only)
535 + eliminate static data from some modules: add_tries.c, hardscroll.c,
536 lib_ttyflags.c, lib_twait.c
537 + improve manpage install to add aliases for the transformed program
538 names, e.g., from --program-prefix.
539 + used linklint to verify links in the HTML documentation, made fixes
540 to manpages as needed.
541 + fix a typo in curs_mouse.3x (report by William McBrine).
542 + fix install-rule for ncurses5-config to make the bin-directory.
545 + modify configure script to omit the tic (terminfo compiler) support
546 from ncurses library if --without-progs option is given.
547 + modify install rule for ncurses5-config to do this via "install.libs"
548 + modify shared-library rules to allow FreeBSD 3.x to use rpath.
549 + update config.guess, config.sub
551 20061217 5.6 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
554 + add ifdef's for <wctype.h> for HPUX, which has the corresponding
555 definitions in <wchar.h>.
556 + revert the va_copy() change from 20061202, since it was neither
557 correct nor portable.
558 + add $(LOCAL_LIBS) definition to progs/Makefile.in, needed for
560 + ignore wide-acs line-drawing characters that wcwidth() claims are
561 not one-column. This is a workaround for Solaris' broken locale
565 + modify configure --with-gpm option to allow it to accept a parameter,
566 i.e., the name of the dynamic GPM library to load via dlopen()
567 (requested by Bryan Henderson).
568 + add configure option --with-valgrind, changes from vile.
569 + modify configure script AC_TRY_RUN and AC_TRY_LINK checks to use
570 'return' in preference to 'exit()'.
573 + change default for --with-develop back to "no".
574 + add XTABS to tracing of TTY bits.
575 + updated autoconf patch to ifdef-out the misfeature which declares
576 exit() for configure tests. This fixes a redefinition warning on
578 + use ${CC} rather than ${LD} in shared library rules for IRIX64,
579 Solaris to help ensure that initialization sections are provided for
580 extra linkage requirements, e.g., of C++ applications (prompted by
581 comment by Casper Dik in newsgroup).
582 + rename "$target" in CF_MAN_PAGES to make it easier to distinguish
583 from the autoconf predefined symbol. There was no conflict,
584 since "$target" was used only in the generated edit_man.sh file,
585 but SuSE's rpm package contains a patch.
588 + update man/term.5 to reflect extended terminfo support and hashed
589 database configuration.
590 + updates for test/configure script.
591 + adapted from SuSE rpm package:
592 + remove long-obsolete workaround for broken-linker which declared
594 + improve error recovery in PUTC() macro when wcrtomb() does not
595 return usable results for an 8-bit character.
596 + patches from rpm package (SuSE):
597 + use va_copy() in extra varargs manipulation for tracing version
599 + use a va_list rather than a null in _nc_freeall()'s call to
601 + add some see-also references in manpages to show related
602 wide-character functions (suggested by Claus Fischer).
605 + add a check in lib_color.c to ensure caller does not increase COLORS
606 above max_colors, which is used as an array index (discussion with
608 + add ifdef's allowing ncurses to be built with tparm() using either
609 varargs (the existing status), or using a fixed-parameter list (to
613 + fix redrawing of windows other than stdscr using wredrawln() by
614 touching the corresponding rows in curscr (discussion with Dan
617 + add test/echochar.c
618 + review/cleanup manpage descriptions of error-returns for form- and
619 menu-libraries (prompted by FreeBSD docs/46196).
622 + add AUTHORS file -TD
623 + omit the -D options from output of the new config script --cflags
624 option (suggested by Ralf S Engelschall).
625 + make NCURSES_INLINE unconditionally defined in curses.h
628 + revert change to accommodate bash 3.2, since that breaks other
629 platforms, e.g., Solaris.
630 + minor fixes to NEWS file to simplify scripting to obtain list of
632 + improve some shared-library configure scripting for Linux, FreeBSD
633 and NetBSD to make "--with-shlib-version" work.
634 + change configure-script rules for FreeBSD shared libraries to allow
635 for rpath support in versions past 3.
636 + use $(DESTDIR) in makefile rules for installing/uninstalling the
637 package config script (reports/patches by Christian Wiese,
639 + fix a warning in the configure script for NetBSD 2.0, working around
640 spurious blanks embedded in its ${MAKEFLAGS} symbol.
641 + change test/Makefile to simplify installing test programs in a
642 different directory when --enable-rpath is used.
645 + work around bug in bash 3.2 by adding extra quotes (Jim Gifford).
646 + add/install a package config script, e.g., "ncurses5-config" or
647 "ncursesw5-config", according to configuration options.
650 + add several GNU Screen terminfo variations with 16- and 256-colors,
651 and status line (Alain Bench).
652 + change the way shared libraries (other than libtool) are installed.
653 Rather than copying the build-tree's libraries, link the shared
654 objects into the install directory. This makes the --with-rpath
655 option work except with $(DESTDIR) (cf: 20000930).
658 + fix ifdef in c++/internal.h for QNX 6.1
659 + test-compiled with (old) egcs-1.1.2, modified configure script to
660 not unset the $CXX and related variables which would prevent this.
661 + fix a few terminfo.src typos exposed by improvments to "-f" option.
662 + improve infocmp/tic "-f" option formatting.
665 + make --disable-largefile option work (report by Thomas M Ott).
666 + updated html documentation.
667 + add ka2, kb1, kb3, kc2 to vt220-keypad as an extension -TD
668 + minor improvements to rxvt+pcfkeys -TD
671 + move static data from lib_mouse.c into SCREEN struct.
672 + improve ifdef's for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset to work with Mac OS X
673 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
674 + modify CF_PATH_SYNTAX to ensure it uses the result from --prefix
675 option (from lynx changes) -TD
676 + adapt AC_PROG_EGREP check, noting that this is likely to be another
677 place aggravated by POSIXLY_CORRECT.
678 + modify configure check for awk to ensure that it is found (prompted
679 by report by Christopher Parker).
683 + add kon, kon2 and jfbterm terminfo entry (request by Till Maas) -TD
684 + remove invis capability from klone+sgr, mainly used by linux entry,
685 since it does not really do this -TD
688 + correct logic in wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not guard
689 against passing the multi-column attribute into a call on waddch(),
690 e.g., using data returned by win_wch() (cf: 20041023)
691 (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
694 + fix kterm's acsc string -TD
695 + fix for change to tic/infocmp in 20060819 to ensure no blank is
696 embedded into a termcap description.
697 + workaround for 20050806 ifdef's change to allow visbuf.c to compile
698 when using --with-termlib --with-trace options.
699 + improve tgetstr() by making the return value point into the user's
700 buffer, if provided (patch by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat Bugzilla
702 + correct libraries needed for foldkeys (report by Stanislav Ievlev)
705 + add terminfo entries for xfce terminal (xfce) and multi gnome
707 + add test/foldkeys.c
710 + modify tic and infocmp to avoid writing trailing blanks on terminfo
711 source output (Debian #378783).
712 + modify configure script to ensure that if the C compiler is used
713 rather than the loader in making shared libraries, the $(CFLAGS)
714 variable is also used (Redhat Bugzilla #199369).
715 + port hashed-db code to db2 and db3.
716 + fix a bug in tgetent() from 20060625 and 20060715 changes
717 (patch/analysis by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat Bugzilla #202480)).
720 + updated xterm function-keys terminfo to match xterm #216 -TD
721 + add configure --with-hashed-db option (tested only with FreeBSD 6.0,
722 e.g., the db 1.8.5 interface).
725 + modify toe to access termcap data, e.g., via cgetent() functions,
726 or as a text file if those are not available.
727 + use _nc_basename() in tset to improve $SHELL check for csh/sh.
728 + modify _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_termcap_entry() so infocmp,
729 can access termcap data when the terminfo database is disabled.
732 + widen the test for xterm kmous a little to allow for other strings
733 than \E[M, e.g., for xterm-sco functionality in xterm.
734 + update xterm-related terminfo entries to match xterm patch #216 -TD
735 + update config.guess, config.sub
738 + fix for install-rule in Ada95 to add terminal_interface.ads
739 and terminal_interface.ali (anonymous posting in comp.lang.ada).
740 + correction to manpage for getcchar() (report by William McBrine).
742 + modify wchgat() to mark updated cells as changed so a refresh will
743 repaint those cells (comments by Sadrul H Chowdhury and William
745 + split up dependency of names.c and codes.c in ncurses/Makefile to
746 work with parallel make (report/analysis by Joseph S Myers).
747 + suppress a warning message (which is ignored) for systems without
748 an ldconfig program (patch by Justin Hibbits).
749 + modify configure script --disable-symlinks option to allow one to
750 disable symlink() in tic even when link() does not work (report by
752 + modify MKfallback.sh to use tic -x when constructing fallback tables
753 to allow extended capabilities to be retrieved from a fallback entry.
754 + improve leak-checking logic in tgetent() from 20060625 to ensure that
755 it does not free the current screen (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
758 + add a check for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset (NetBSD #33916).
759 + correct _nc_free_entries() and related functions used for memory leak
763 + revert a minor change for magic-cookie support from 20060513, which
764 caused unexpected reset of attributes, e.g., when resizing test/view
766 + note in clear manpage that the program ignores command-line
767 parameters (prompted by Debian #371855).
768 + fixes to make lib_gen.c build properly with changes to the configure
769 --disable-macros option and NCURSES_NOMACROS (cf: 20060527)
770 + update/correct several terminfo entries -TD
771 + add some notes regarding copyright to terminfo.src -TD
774 + fixes to build Ada95 binding with gnat-4.1.0
775 + modify read_termtype() so the term_names data is always allocated as
776 part of the str_table, a better fix for a memory leak (cf: 20030809).
777 + reduce memory leaks in repeated calls to tgetent() by remembering the
778 last TERMINAL* value allocated to hold the corresponding data and
779 freeing that if the tgetent() result buffer is the same as the
780 previous call (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
781 + modify tack to test extended capability function-key strings.
782 + improved gnome terminfo entry (GenToo #122566).
783 + improved xterm-256color terminfo entry (patch by Alain Bench).
786 + fix two small memory leaks related to repeated tgetent() calls
787 with TERM=screen (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
788 + add --enable-signed-char to simplify Debian package.
789 + reduce name-pollution in term.h by removing #define's for HAVE_xxx
791 + correct typo in curs_terminfo.3x (Debian #369168).
794 + enable the mouse in test/movewindow.c
795 + improve a limit-check in frm_def.c (John Heasley).
796 + minor copyright fixes.
797 + change configure script to produce test/Makefile from data file.
800 + add a configure option --enable-wgetch-events to enable
801 NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS, and correct the associated loop-logic in
802 lib_twait.c (report by Bernd Jendrissek).
803 + remove include/nomacros.h from build, since the ifdef for
804 NCURSES_NOMACROS makes that obsolete.
805 + add entrypoints for some functions which were only provided as macros
806 to make NCURSES_NOMACROS ifdef work properly: getcurx(), getcury(),
807 getbegx(), getbegy(), getmaxx(), getmaxy(), getparx() and getpary(),
809 + provide ifdef for NCURSES_NOMACROS which suppresses most macro
810 definitions from curses.h, i.e., where a macro is defined to override
811 a function to improve performance. Allowing a developer to suppress
812 these definitions can simplify some application (discussion with
814 + improve description of memu/meml in terminfo manpage.
817 + if msgr is false, reset video attributes when doing an automargin
818 wrap to the next line. This makes the ncurses 'k' test work properly
820 + correct caching of keyname(), which was using only half of its table.
821 + minor fixes to memory-leak checking.
822 + make SCREEN._acs_map and SCREEN._screen_acs_map pointers rather than
823 arrays, making ACS_LEN less visible to applications (suggested by
825 + move chunk in SCREEN ifdef'd for USE_WIDEC_SUPPORT to the end, so
826 _screen_acs_map will have the same offset in both ncurses/ncursesw,
827 making the corresponding tinfo/tinfow libraries binary-compatible
828 (cf: 20041016, report by Stanislav Ievlev).
831 + improve debug-tracing for EmitRange().
832 + change default for --with-develop to "yes". Add NCURSES_NO_HARD_TABS
833 and NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE environment variables to allow runtime
834 suppression of the related hard-tabs and xmc-glitch features.
835 + add ncurses version number to top-level manpages, e.g., ncurses, tic,
836 infocmp, terminfo as well as form, menu, panel.
837 + update config.guess, config.sub
838 + modify ncurses.c to work around a bug in NetBSD 3.0 curses
839 (field_buffer returning null for a valid field). The 'r' test
840 appears to not work with that configuration since the new_fieldtype()
841 function is broken in that implementation.
844 + add hpterm-color terminfo entry -TD
845 + fixes to compile test-programs with HPUX 11.23
848 + add copyright notices to files other than those that are generated,
849 data or adapted from pdcurses (reports by William McBrine, David
851 + improve rendering on hpterm by not resetting attributes at the end
852 of doupdate() if the terminal has the magic-cookie feature (report
854 + add 256color variants of terminfo entries for programs which are
855 reported to implement this feature -TD
858 + fix typo in change to NewChar() macro from 20060311 changes, which
859 broke tab-expansion (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
862 + document -U option of tic and infocmp.
863 + modify tic/infocmp to suppress smacs/rmacs when acsc is suppressed
864 due to size limit, e.g., converting to termcap format. Also
865 suppress them if the output format does not contain acsc and it
866 was not VT100-like, i.e., a one-one mapping (Novell #163715).
867 + add configure check to ensure that SIGWINCH is defined on platforms
868 such as OS X which exclude that when _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., are
869 defined (report by Nicholas Cole)
872 + modify write_object() to not write coincidental extensions of an
873 entry made due to it being referenced in a use= clause (report by
875 + another fix for infocmp -i option, which did not ensure that some
876 escape sequences had comparable prefixes (report by Alain Bench).
879 + improve discussion of init/reset in terminfo and tput manpages
880 (report by Alain Bench).
881 + use is3 string for a fallback of rs3 in the reset program; it was
882 using is2 (report by Alain Bench).
883 + correct logic for infocmp -i option, which did not account for
884 multiple digits in a parameter (cf: 20040828) (report by Alain
886 + move _nc_handle_sigwinch() to lib_setup.c to make --with-termlib
887 option work after 20060114 changes (report by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz).
888 + add copyright notices to test-programs as needed (report by William
892 + modify ncurses.c 'F' test to combine the wide-characters with color
893 and/or video attributes.
894 + modify test/ncurses to use CTL/Q or ESC consistently for exiting
895 a test-screen (some commands used 'x' or 'q').
898 + fix an off-by-one in the scrolling-region change (cf_ 20060311).
901 + add checks in waddchnstr() and wadd_wchnstr() to stop copying when
902 a null character is found (report by Igor Bogomazov).
903 + modify progs/Makefile.in to make "tput init" work properly with
904 cygwin, i.e., do not pass a ".exe" in the reference string used
905 in check_aliases (report by Samuel Thibault).
906 + add some checks to ensure current position is within scrolling
907 region before scrolling on a new line (report by Dan Gookin).
908 + change some NewChar() usage to static variables to work around
909 stack garbage introduced when cchar_t is not packed (Redhat #182024).
912 + workarounds to build test/movewindow with PDcurses 2.7.
913 + fix for nsterm-16color entry (patch by Alain Bench).
914 + correct a typo in infocmp manpage (Debian #354281).
917 + add nsterm-16color entry -TD
918 + updated mlterm terminfo entry -TD
919 + remove 970913 feature for copying subwindows as they are moved in
920 mvwin() (discussion with Bryan Christ).
921 + modify test/demo_menus.c to demonstrate moving a menu (both the
922 window and subwindow) using shifted cursor-keys.
923 + start implementing recursive mvwin() in movewindow.c (incomplete).
924 + add a fallback definition for GCC_PRINTFLIKE() in test.priv.h,
925 for movewindow.c (report by William McBrine).
926 + add help-message to test/movewindow.c
929 + add test/movewindow.c, to test mvderwin().
930 + fix ncurses soft-key test so color changes are shown immediately
932 + modify ncurses soft-key test to hide the keys when exiting the test
934 + fixes to build test programs with PDCurses 2.7, e.g., its headers
935 rely on autoconf symbols, and it declares stubs for nonfunctional
936 terminfo and termcap entrypoints.
939 + improved test/configure to build test/ncurses on HPUX 11 using the
941 + documented ALTERNATE CONFIGURATIONS in the ncurses manpage, for the
942 benefit of developers who do not read INSTALL.
945 + correct form library Window_To_Buffer() change (cf: 20040516), which
946 should ignore the video attributes (report by Ricardo Cantu).
949 + minor fixes to xmc-glitch experimental code:
950 + suppress line-drawing
951 + implement max_attributes
953 + minor fixes for the database iterator.
954 + fix some buffer limits in c++ demo (comment by Falk Hueffner in
958 + add toe -a option, to show all databases. This uses new private
959 interfaces in the ncurses library for iterating through the list of
961 + fix toe from 20000909 changes which made it not look at
963 + make toe's -v option parameter optional as per manpage.
964 + improve SIGWINCH handling by postponing its effect during newterm(),
965 etc., when allocating screens.
968 + modify wgetnstr() to return KEY_RESIZE if a sigwinch occurs. Use
969 this in test/filter.c
970 + fix an error in filter() modification which caused some applications
974 + check if filter() was called when getting the screensize. Keep it
975 at 1 if so (based on Redhat #174498).
976 + add extension nofilter().
977 + refined the workaround for ACS mapping.
978 + make ifdef's consistent in curses.h for the extended colors so the
979 header file can be used for the normal curses library. The header
980 file installed for extended colors is a variation of the
981 wide-character configuration (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
984 + add a workaround to ACS mapping to allow applications such as
985 test/blue.c to use the "PC ROM" characters by masking them with
986 A_ALTCHARSET. This worked up til 5.5, but was lost in the revision
987 of legacy coding (report by Michael Deutschmann).
988 + add a null-pointer check in the wide-character version of
989 calculate_actual_width() (report by Victor Julien).
990 + improve test/ncurses 'd' (color-edit) test by allowing the RGB
991 values to be set independently (patch by William McBrine).
992 + modify test/configure script to allow building test programs with
994 + modified test programs to allow some to work with NetBSD curses.
995 Several do not because NetBSD curses implements a subset of X/Open
996 curses, and also lacks much of SVr4 additions. But it's enough for
998 + update config.guess and config.sub
1001 + use BSD-specific fix for return-value from cgetent() from CVS where
1002 an unknown terminal type would be reportd as "database not found".
1003 + make tgetent() return code more readable using new symbols
1005 + remove references to non-existent "tctest" program.
1006 + remove TESTPROGS from progs/Makefile.in (it was referring to code
1007 that was never built in that directory).
1008 + typos in curs_addchstr.3x, some doc files (noticed in OpenBSD CVS).
1011 + add use_legacy_coding() function to support lynx's font-switching
1013 + fix formatting in curs_termcap.3x (report by Mike Frysinger).
1014 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to change preprocessor-expanded _Bool back to
1018 + extend test/ncurses.c 's' (overlay window) test to exercise overlay(),
1019 overwrite() and copywin() with different combinations of colors and
1020 attributes (including background color) to make it easy to see the
1021 effect of the different functions.
1022 + corrections to menu/m_global.c for wide-characters (report by
1026 + add configure option --without-dlsym, allowing developers to
1027 configure GPM support without using dlsym() (discussion with Michael
1029 + fix wins_nwstr(), which did not handle single-column non-8bit codes
1033 + move prototypes for wide-character trace functions from curses.tail
1034 to curses.wide to avoid accidental reference to those if
1035 _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined without ensuring that <wchar.h> is
1037 + add/use NCURSES_INLINE definition.
1038 + change some internal functions to use int/unsigned rather than the
1042 + remove a redundant check in lib_color.c (Debian #335655).
1043 + use ld's -search_paths_first option on Darwin to work around odd
1044 search rules on that platform (report by Christian Gennerat, analysis
1046 + remove special case for Darwin in CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro.
1047 + ignore EINTR in tcgetattr/tcsetattr calls (Debian #339518).
1048 + fix several bugs in test/bs.c (patch by Stephen Lindholm).
1051 + other minor fixes to cygwin based on tack -TD
1052 + correct smacs in cygwin (Debian #338234, report by Baurzhan
1053 Ismagulov, who noted that it was fixed in Cygwin).
1056 + add shifted up/down arrow codes to xterm-new as kind/kri strings -TD
1057 + modify wbkgrnd() to avoid clearing the A_CHARTEXT attribute bits
1058 since those record the state of multicolumn characters (Debian
1060 + modify werase to clear multicolumn characters that extend into
1061 a derived window (Debian #316663).
1064 + move assignment from environment variable ESCDELAY from initscr()
1065 down to newterm() so the environment variable affects timeouts for
1066 terminals opened with newterm() as well.
1067 + fix a memory leak in keyname().
1068 + add test/demo_altkeys.c
1069 + modify test/demo_defkey.c to exit from loop via 'q' to allow
1070 leak-checking, as well as fix a buffer size in winnstr() call.
1073 + correct order of use-clauses in rxvt-basic entry which made codes for
1074 f1-f4 vt100-style rather than vt220-style (report by Gabor Z Papp).
1075 + suppress configure check for gnatmake if Ada95/Makefile.in is not
1077 + correct a typo in configure --with-bool option for the case where
1078 --without-cxx is used (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1079 + add a note to INSTALL's discussion of --with-normal, pointing out
1080 that one may wish to use --without-gpm to ensure a completely
1081 static link (prompted by report by Felix von Leitner).
1083 20051010 5.5 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1086 + document in demo_forms.c some portability issues.
1089 + document side-effect of werase() which sets the cursor position.
1090 + save/restore the current position in form field editing to make
1094 + correct header dependencies in progs, allowing parallel make (report
1095 by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1096 + modify CF_BUILD_CC to ensure that pre-setting $BUILD_CC overrides
1097 the configure check for --with-build-cc (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1098 + modify CF_CFG_DEFAULTS to not use /usr as the default prefix for
1100 + update config.guess and config.sub from
1101 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
1104 + modify sed expression which computes path for /usr/lib/terminfo
1105 symbolic link in install to ensure that it does not change unexpected
1106 levels of the path (Gentoo #42336).
1107 + modify default for --disable-lp64 configure option to reduce impact
1108 on existing 64-bit builds. Enabling the _LP64 option may change the
1109 size of chtype and mmask_t. However, for ABI 6, it is enabled by
1110 default (report by Mike Frysinger).
1111 + add configure script check for --enable-ext-mouse, bump ABI to 6 by
1112 default if it is used.
1113 + improve configure script logic for bumping ABI to omit this if the
1114 --with-abi-version option was used.
1115 + update address for Free Software Foundation in tack's source.
1116 + correct wins_wch(), which was not marking the filler-cells of
1117 multi-column characters (cf: 20041023).
1120 + modify mouse initialization to ensure that Gpm_Open() is called only
1121 once. Otherwise GPM gets confused in its initialization of signal
1122 handlers (Debian #326709).
1125 + modify logic for backspacing in a multiline form field to ensure that
1126 it works even when the preceding line is full (report by Frank van
1128 + remove comment about BUGS section of ncurses manpage (Debian #325481)
1131 + document some workarounds for shared and libtool library
1132 configurations in INSTALL (see --with-shared and --with-libtool).
1133 + modify CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GXX_VERSION macros to accommodate
1134 cross-compilers which emit the platform name in their version
1136 arm-sa1100-linux-gnu-g++ (GCC) 4.0.1
1137 (report by Frank van Vugt).
1140 + start updating documentation for upcoming 5.5 release.
1141 + fix to make libtool and libtinfo work together again (cf: 20050122).
1142 + fixes to allow building traces into libtinfo
1143 + add debug trace to tic that shows if/how ncurses will write to the
1144 lower corner of a terminal's screen.
1145 + update llib-l* files.
1148 + modify initializers in c++ binding to build with old versions of g++.
1149 + improve special case for 20050115 repainting fix, ensuring that if
1150 the first changed cell is not a character that the range to be
1151 repainted is adjusted to start at a character's beginning (Debian
1155 + fixes to build on QNX 6.1
1156 + improve configure script checks for Intel 9.0 compiler.
1157 + remove #include's for libc.h (obsolete).
1158 + adjust ifdef's in curses.priv.h so that when cross-compiling to
1159 produce comp_hash and make_keys, no dependency on wchar.h is needed.
1160 That simplifies the build-cppflags (report by Frank van Vugt).
1161 + move modules related to key-binding into libtinfo to fix linkage
1162 problem caused by 20050430 changes to MKkeyname.sh (report by
1163 Konstantin Andreev).
1166 + updates/fixes for configure script macros from vile -TD
1167 + make prism9's sgr string agree with the rest of the terminfo -TD
1168 + make vt220's sgr0 string consistent with sgr string, do this for
1169 several related cases -TD
1170 + improve translation to termcap by filtering the 'me' (sgr0) strings
1171 as in the runtime call to tgetent() (prompted by a discussion with
1173 + improve tic check for sgr0 versus sgr(0), to help ensure that sgr0
1174 resets line-drawing.
1177 + fix special cases for trimming sgr0 for hurd and vt220 (Debian
1179 + split-out _nc_trim_sgr0() from modifications made to tgetent(), to
1180 allow it to be used by tic to provide information about the runtime
1181 changes that would be made to sgr0 for termcap applications.
1182 + modify make_sed.sh to make the group-name in the NAME section of
1183 form/menu library manpage agree with the TITLE string when renaming
1184 is done for Debian (Debian #78866).
1187 + modify parameter type in c++ binding for insch() and mvwinsch() to
1188 be consistent with underlying ncurses library (was char, is chtype).
1189 + modify treatment of Intel compiler to allow _GNU_SOURCE to be defined
1191 + improve configure check for nanosleep(), checking that it works since
1192 some older systems such as AIX 4.3 have a nonworking version.
1195 + update config.guess and config.sub from
1196 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
1197 + modify misc/shlib to work in test-directory.
1198 + suppress $suffix in misc/run_tic.sh when cross-compiling. This
1199 allows cross-compiles to use the host's tic program to handle the
1200 "make install.data" step.
1201 + improve description of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables in manpages
1202 (prompted by report by Dave Ulrick).
1203 + improve description of cross-compiling in INSTALL
1204 + add NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html by Pradeep Padala
1205 (see http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/).
1206 + modify configure script to obtain soname for GPM library (discussion
1207 with Daniel Jacobowitz).
1208 + modify configure script so that --with-chtype option will still
1209 compute the unsigned literals suffix for constants in curses.h
1210 (report by Daniel Jacobowitz:
1211 + patches from Daniel Jacobowitz:
1212 + the man_db.renames entry for tack.1 was backwards.
1213 + tack.1 had some 1m's that should have been 1M's.
1214 + the section for curs_inwstr.3 was wrong.
1217 + correction to --with-chtype option (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1220 + move build-time edit_man.sh and edit_man.sed scripts to top directory
1221 to simplify reusing them for renaming tack's manpage (prompted by a
1222 review of Debian package).
1223 + revert minor optimization from 20041030 (Debian #313609).
1224 + libtool-specific fixes, tested with libtool 1.4.3, 1.5.0, 1.5.6,
1225 1.5.10 and 1.5.18 (all work except as noted previously for the c++
1226 install using libtool 1.5.0):
1227 + modify the clean-rule in c++/Makefile.in to work with IRIX64 make
1229 + use $(LIBTOOL_UNINSTALL) symbol, overlooked in 20030830
1230 + add configure options --with-chtype and --with-mmask-t, to allow
1231 overriding of the non-LP64 model's use of the corresponding types.
1232 + revise test for size of chtype (and mmask_t), which always returned
1233 "long" due to an uninitialized variable (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1236 + change _tracef's that used "%p" format for va_list values to ignore
1237 that, since on some platforms those are not pointers.
1238 + fixes for long-formats in printf's due to largefile support.
1241 + fixes for termcap support:
1242 + reset pointer to _nc_curr_token.tk_name when the input stream is
1243 closed, which could point to free memory (cf: 20030215).
1244 + delink TERMTYPE data which is used by the termcap reader, so that
1245 extended names data will be freed consistently.
1246 + free pointer to TERMTYPE data in _nc_free_termtype() rather than
1248 + add some entrypoints for freeing permanently allocated data via
1249 _nc_freeall() when NO_LEAKS is defined.
1250 + amend 20041030 change to _nc_do_color to ensure that optimization is
1251 applied only when the terminal supports back_color_erase (bce).
1254 + add sun-color terminfo entry -TD
1255 + correct a missing assignment in c++ binding's method
1256 NCursesPanel::UserPointer() from 20050409 changes.
1257 + improve configure check for large-files, adding check for dirent64
1259 + minor change to configure script to improve linker options for the
1263 + document error conditions for ncurses library functions (report by
1265 + regenerated html documentation for ada binding.
1266 see ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/gnathtml
1269 + regenerated html documentation for manpages.
1270 + add $(BUILD_EXEEXT) suffix to invocation of make_keys in
1271 ncurses/Makefile (Gentoo #89772).
1272 + modify c++/demo.cc to build with g++ -fno-implicit-templates option
1273 (patch by Mike Frysinger).
1274 + modify tic to filter out long extended names when translating to
1275 termcap format. Only two characters are permissible for termcap
1279 + modify terminfo entries xterm-new and rxvt to add strings for
1280 shift-, control-cursor keys.
1281 + workaround to allow c++ binding to compile with g++ 2.95.3, which
1282 has a broken implementation of static_cast<> (patch by Jeff Chua).
1283 + modify initialization of key lookup table so that if an extended
1284 capability (tic -x) string is defined, and its name begins with 'k',
1285 it will automatically be treated as a key.
1286 + modify test/keynames.c to allow for the possibility of extended
1287 key names, e.g., via define_key(), or via "tic -x".
1288 + add test/demo_termcap.c to show the contents of given entry via the
1292 + minor fixes for vt100/vt52 entries -TD
1293 + add configure option --enable-largefile
1294 + corrected libraries used to build Ada95/gen/gen, found in testing
1298 + update config.guess, config.sub
1299 + modify configure script check for _XOPEN_SOURCE, disable that on
1300 Darwin whose header files have problems (patch by Chris Zubrzycki).
1301 + modify form library Is_Printable_String() to use iswprint() rather
1302 than wcwidth() for determining if a character is printable. The
1303 latter caused it to reject menu items containing non-spacing
1305 + modify ncurses test program's F-test to handle non-spacing characters
1306 by combining them with a reverse-video blank.
1307 + review/fix several gcc -Wconversion warnings.
1310 + correct an off-by-one error in m_driver() for mouse-clicks used to
1311 position the mouse to a particular item.
1312 + implement test/demo_menus.c
1313 + add some checks in lib_mouse to ensure SP is set.
1314 + modify C++ binding to make 20050403 changes work with the configure
1315 --enable-const option.
1318 + modify start_color() to return ERR if it cannot allocate memory.
1319 + address g++ compiler warnings in C++ binding by adding explicit
1320 member initialization, assignment operators and copy constructors.
1321 Most of the changes simply preserve the existing semantics of the
1322 binding, which can leak memory, etc., but by making these features
1323 visible, it provides a framework for improving the binding.
1324 + improve C++ binding using static_cast, etc.
1325 + modify configure script --enable-warnings to add options to g++ to
1326 correspond to the gcc --enable-warnings.
1327 + modify C++ binding to use some C internal functions to make it
1328 compile properly on Solaris (and other platforms).
1331 + amend change from 20050320 to limit it to configurations with a
1333 + fix a bug introduced in 20050320 which broke the translation of
1334 nonprinting characters to uparrow form (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
1337 + add ifdef's for _LP64 in curses.h to avoid using wasteful 64-bits for
1338 chtype and mmask_t, but add configure option --disable-lp64 in case
1339 anyone used that configuration.
1340 + update misc/shlib script to account for Mac OS X (report by Michail
1342 + correct comparison for wrapping multibyte characters in
1343 waddch_literal() (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
1346 + add -c and -w options to tset to allow user to suppress ncurses'
1347 resizing of the terminal emulator window in the special case where it
1348 is not able to detect the true size (report by Win Delvaux, Debian
1350 + modify waddch_nosync() to account for locale zn_CH.GBK, which uses
1351 codes 128-159 as part of multibyte characters (report by Wang
1352 WenRui, Debian #300512).
1355 + modify ncurses.c 'd' test to make it work with 88-color
1356 configuration, i.e., by implementing scrolling.
1357 + improve scrolling in ncurses.c 'c' and 'C' tests, e.g., for 88-color
1361 + change tracemunch to use strict checking.
1362 + modify ncurses.c 'p' test to test line-drawing within a pad.
1363 + implement environment variable NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS to support
1364 miscellaneous terminal emulators which ignore alternate character
1365 set escape sequences when in UTF-8 mode.
1368 + change NCursesWindow::err_handler() to a virtual function (request by
1370 + modify fty_int.c and fty_num.c to handle wide characters (report by
1372 + adapt fix for fty_alpha.c to fty_alnum.c, which also handled normal
1373 and wide characters inconsistently (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
1374 + update llib-* files to reflect internal interface additions/changes.
1377 + improve test/configure script, adding tests for _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc.,
1379 + add aixterm-16color terminfo entry -TD
1380 + modified xterm-new terminfo entry to work with tgetent() changes -TD
1381 + extended changes in tgetent() from 20040710 to allow the substring of
1382 sgr0 which matches rmacs to be at the beginning of the sgr0 string
1383 (request by Thomas Wolff). Wolff says the visual effect in
1384 combination with pre-20040710 ncurses is improved.
1385 + fix off-by-one in winnstr() call which caused form field validation
1386 of multibyte characters to ignore the last character in a field.
1387 + correct logic in winsch() for inserting multibyte strings; the code
1388 would clear cells after the insertion rather than push them to the
1389 right (cf: 20040228).
1390 + fix an inconsistency in Check_Alpha_Field() between normal and wide
1391 character logic (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
1394 + fix a bug in editing wide-characters in form library: deleting a
1395 nonwide character modified the previous wide-character.
1396 + update manpage to describe NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2.
1397 + correct manpage description of mouseinterval() (Debian #280687).
1398 + add a note to default_colors.3x explaining why this extension was
1399 added (Debian #295083).
1400 + add traces to panel library.
1403 + improve editing of wide-characters in form library: left/right
1404 cursor movement, and single-character deletions work properly.
1405 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM happens to be prefixed with
1406 "xterm". Gpm_Open() would otherwise assert that it can deal with
1407 mouse events in this case.
1408 + modify GPM mouse support so it closes the server connection when
1409 the caller disables the mouse (report by Stanislav Ievlev).
1412 + add traces for callback functions in form library.
1413 + add experimental configure option --enable-ext-mouse, which defines
1414 NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2, and modifies the encoding of mouse events to
1415 support wheel mice, which may transmit buttons 4 and 5. This works
1416 with xterm and similar X terminal emulators (prompted by question by
1417 Andreas Henningsson, this is also related to Debian #230990).
1418 + improve configure macros CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE to
1419 avoid redefinition warnings on cygwin.
1422 + merge remaining development changes for extended colors (mostly
1423 complete, does not appear to break other configurations).
1424 + add xterm-88color.dat (part of extended colors testing).
1425 + improve _tracedump() handling of color pairs past 96.
1426 + modify return-value from start_color() to return OK if colors have
1427 already been started.
1428 + modify curs_color.3x list error conditions for init_pair(),
1429 pair_content() and color_content().
1430 + modify pair_content() to return -1 for consistency with init_pair()
1431 if it corresponds to the default-color.
1432 + change internal representation of default-color to allow application
1433 to use color number 255. This does not affect the total number of
1434 color pairs which are allowed.
1435 + add a top-level tags rule.
1438 + add a null-pointer check in wgetch() in case it is called without
1439 first calling initscr().
1440 + add some null-pointer checks for SP, which is not set by libtinfo.
1441 + modify misc/shlib to ensure that absolute pathnames are used.
1442 + modify test/Makefile.in, etc., to link test programs only against the
1443 libraries needed, e.g., omit form/menu/panel library for the ones
1444 that are curses-specific.
1445 + change SP->_current_attr to a pointer, adjust ifdef's to ensure that
1446 libtinfo.so and libtinfow.so have the same ABI. The reason for this
1447 is that the corresponding data which belongs to the upper-level
1448 ncurses library has a different size in each model (report by
1452 + minor fixes to allow test-compiles with g++.
1453 + correct column value shown in tic's warnings, which did not account
1454 for leading whitespace.
1455 + add a check in _nc_trans_string() for improperly ended strings, i.e.,
1456 where a following line begins in column 1.
1457 + modify _nc_save_str() to return a null pointer on buffer overflow.
1458 + improve repainting while scrolling wide-character data (Eungkyu Song).
1461 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
1464 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
1465 + fix manpage typo (FreeBSD report docs/75544).
1466 + update config.guess, config.sub
1467 > patches for configure script (Albert Chin-A-Young):
1468 + improved fix to make mbstate_t recognized on HPUX 11i (cf:
1469 20030705), making vsscanf() prototype visible on IRIX64. Tested for
1470 on HP-UX 11i, Solaris 7, 8, 9, AIX 4.3.3, 5.2, Tru64 UNIX 4.0D, 5.1,
1471 IRIX64 6.5, Redhat Linux 7.1, 9, and RHEL 2.1, 3.0.
1472 + print the result of the --disable-home-terminfo option.
1473 + use -rpath when compiling with SGI C compiler.
1476 + add trace calls to remaining public functions in form and menu
1478 + fix check for numeric digits in test/ncurses.c 'b' and 'B' tests.
1479 + fix typo in test/ncurses.c 'c' test from 20041218.
1482 + revise test/ncurses.c 'c' color test to improve use for xterm-88color
1483 and xterm-256color, added 'C' test using the wide-character color_set
1484 and attr_set functions.
1487 + modify configure script to work with Intel compiler.
1488 + fix an limit-check in wadd_wchnstr() which caused labels in the
1489 forms-demo to be one character short.
1490 + fix typo in curs_addchstr.3x (Jared Yanovich).
1491 + add trace calls to most functions in form and menu libraries.
1492 + update working-position for adding wide-characters when window is
1493 scrolled (prompted by related report by Eungkyu Song).
1496 + replace some references on Linux to wcrtomb() which use it to obtain
1497 the length of a multibyte string with _nc_wcrtomb, since wcrtomb() is
1498 broken in glibc (see Debian #284260).
1499 + corrected length-computation in wide-character support for
1501 + some fixes to frm_driver.c to allow it to accept multibyte input.
1502 + modify configure script to work with Intel 8.0 compiler.
1505 + amend change to setupterm() in 20030405 which would reuse the value
1506 of cur_term if the same output was selected. This now reuses it only
1507 when setupterm() is called from tgetent(), which has no notion of
1508 separate SCREENs. Note that tgetent() must be called after initscr()
1509 or newterm() to use this feature (Redhat Bugzilla #140326).
1510 + add a check in CF_BUILD_CC macro to ensure that developer has given
1511 the --with-build-cc option when cross-compiling (report by Alexandre
1513 + improved configure script checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE and
1514 _POSIX_C_SOURCE (fix for IRIX 5.3 from Georg Schwarz, _POSIX_C_SOURCE
1516 + cosmetic fix to test/gdc.c to recolor the bottom edge of the box
1517 for consistency (comment by Dan Nelson).
1520 + update wsvt25 terminfo entry -TD
1521 + modify test/ins_wide.c to test all flavors of ins_wstr().
1522 + ignore filler-cells in wadd_wchnstr() when adding a cchar_t array
1523 which consists of multi-column characters, since this function
1524 constructs them (cf: 20041023).
1525 + modify winnstr() to return multibyte character strings for the
1526 wide-character configuration.
1529 + fixes to make slk_set() and slk_wset() accept and store multibyte
1530 or multicolumn characters.
1533 + improve color optimization a little by making _nc_do_color() check
1534 if the old/new pairs are equivalent to the default pair 0.
1535 + modify assume_default_colors() to not require that
1536 use_default_colors() be called first.
1539 + modify term_attrs() to use termattrs(), add the extended attributes
1540 such as enter_horizontal_hl_mode for WA_HORIZONTAL to term_attrs().
1541 + add logic in waddch_literal() to clear orphaned cells when one
1542 multi-column character partly overwrites another.
1543 + improved logic for clearing cells when a multi-column character
1544 must be wrapped to a new line.
1545 + revise storage of cells for multi-column characters to correct a
1546 problem with repainting. In the old scheme, it was possible for
1547 doupdate() to decide that only part of a multi-column character
1548 should be repainted since the filler cells stored only an attribute
1549 to denote them as fillers, rather than the character value and the
1553 + minor fixes for traces.
1554 + add SP->_screen_acs_map[], used to ensure that mapping of missing
1555 line-drawing characters is handled properly. For example, ACS_DARROW
1556 is absent from xterm-new, and it was coincidentally displayed the
1560 + amend 20021221 workaround for broken acs to reset the sgr, rmacs
1561 and smacs strings as well. Also modify the check for screen's
1562 limitations in that area to allow the multi-character shift-in
1563 and shift-out which seem to work.
1564 + change GPM initialization, using dl library to load it dynamically
1565 at runtime (Debian #110586).
1568 + correct logic for color pair in setcchar() and getcchar() (patch by
1569 Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
1570 + add t/T commands to ncurses b/B tests to allow a different color to
1571 be tested for the attrset part of the test than is used in the
1575 + fix to make setcchar() to work when its wchar_t* parameter is
1576 pointing to a string which contains more data than can be converted.
1577 + modify wget_wstr() and example in ncurses.c to work if wchar_t and
1578 wint_t are different sizes (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
1581 + remove check in wget_wch() added to fix an infinite loop, appears to
1582 have been working around a transitory glibc bug, and interferes
1583 with normal operation (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
1584 + correct wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not pass the rendition
1585 information (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
1586 + fix aclocal.m4 so that the wide-character version of ncurses gets
1587 compiled as libncursesw.5.dylib, instead of libncurses.5w.dylib
1588 (adapted from patch by James J Ramsey).
1589 + change configure script for --with-caps option to indicate that it
1590 is no longer experimental.
1591 + change configure script to reflect the fact that --enable-widec has
1592 not been "experimental" since 5.3 (report by Bruno Lustosa).
1595 + add 'B' test to ncurses.c, to exercise some wide-character functions.
1598 + modify infocmp -i option to match 8-bit controls against its table
1599 entries, e.g., so it can analyze the xterm-8bit entry.
1600 + add morphos terminfo entry, improve amiga-8bit entry (Pavel Fedin).
1601 + correct translation of "%%" in terminfo format to termcap, e.g.,
1602 using "tic -C" (Redhat Bugzilla #130921).
1603 + modified configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to ensure that if
1604 it defines _POSIX_C_SOURCE, that it defines it to a specific value
1605 (comp.os.stratus newsgroup comment).
1608 + fixes to build with Ada95 binding with gnat 3.4 (all warnings are
1609 fatal, and gnat does not follow the guidelines for pragmas).
1610 However that did find a coding error in Assume_Default_Colors().
1611 + modify several terminfo entries to ensure xterm mouse and cursor
1612 visibility are reset in rs2 string: hurd, putty, gnome,
1613 konsole-base, mlterm, Eterm, screen (Debian #265784, #55637). The
1614 xterm entries are left alone - old ones for compatibility, and the
1615 new ones do not require this change. -TD
1618 + fake a SIGWINCH in newterm() to accommodate buggy terminal emulators
1619 and window managers (Debian #265631).
1620 > terminfo updates -TD
1621 + remove dch/dch1 from rxvt because they are implemented inconsistently
1622 with the common usage of bce/ech
1623 + remove khome from vt220 (vt220's have no home key)
1627 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test, adding v/V toggles to cycle through
1628 combinations of video attributes so that for instance bold and
1629 underline can be tested. This made the legend too crowded, added
1630 a help window as well.
1631 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test to cycle through default colors if
1632 the -d option is set.
1633 + update putty terminfo entry (Robert de Bath).
1636 + modify test/cardfile.c to allow it to read more data than can be
1638 + correct logic in resizeterm.c which kept it from processing all
1639 levels of window hierarchy (reports by Folkert van Heusden,
1643 + modify "tic -cv" to ignore delays when comparing strings. Also
1644 modify it to ignore a canceled sgr string, e.g., for terminals which
1645 cannot properly combine attributes in one control sequence.
1646 + corrections for gnome and konsole entries (Redhat Bugzilla #122815,
1647 patch by Hans de Goede)
1648 > terminfo updates -TD
1649 + make ncsa-m rmacs/smacs consistent with sgr
1650 + add sgr, rc/sc and ech to syscons entries
1651 + add function-keys to decansi
1652 + add sgr to mterm-ansi
1653 + add sgr, civis, cnorm to emu
1654 + correct/simplify cup in addrinfo
1657 > terminfo updates -TD
1658 + add xterm-pc-fkeys
1659 + review/update gnome and gnome-rh90 entries (prompted by Redhat
1661 + review/update konsole entries
1662 + add sgr, correct sgr0 for kterm and mlterm
1663 + correct tsl string in kterm
1666 + add configure option --without-xterm-new
1669 + add check in wget_wch() for printable bytes that are not part of a
1670 multibyte character.
1671 + modify wadd_wchnstr() to render text using window's background
1673 + improve tic's check to compare sgr and sgr0.
1674 + fix c++ directory's .cc.i rule.
1675 + modify logic in tgetent() which adjusts the termcap "me" string
1676 to work with ISO-2022 string used in xterm-new (cf: 20010908).
1677 + modify tic's check for conflicting function keys to omit that if
1678 converting termcap to termcap format.
1679 + add -U option to tic and infocmp.
1680 + add rmam/smam to linux terminfo entry (Trevor Van Bremen)
1681 > terminfo updates -TD
1682 + minor fixes for emu
1684 + change wyse acsc strings to use 'i' map rather than 'I'
1689 + use tic -x to install terminfo database -TD
1690 + add -x to infocmp's usage message.
1691 + correct field used for comparing O_ROWMAJOR in set_menu_format()
1692 (report/patch by Tony Li).
1693 + fix a missing nul check in set_field_buffer() from 20040508 changes.
1694 > terminfo updates -TD
1695 + make xterm-xf86-v43 derived from xterm-xf86-v40 rather than
1697 + align with xterm patch #192's use of xterm-new -TD
1698 + update xterm-new and xterm-8bit for cvvis/cnorm strings -TD
1699 + make xterm-new the default "xterm" entry -TD
1702 + correct BUILD_CPPFLAGS substitution in ncurses/Makefile.in, to allow
1703 cross-compiling from a separate directory tree (report/patch by
1705 + modify is_term_resized() to ensure that window sizes are nonzero,
1706 as documented in the manpage (report by Ian Collier).
1707 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro to make Hurd port build
1708 (Debian #249214, report/patch by Jeff Bailey).
1709 + configure-script mods from xterm, e.g., updates to CF_ADD_CFLAGS
1710 + update config.guess, config.sub
1711 > terminfo updates -TD
1713 + add xterm-xf86-v44
1714 + modify xterm-new aka xterm-xfree86 to accommodate luit, which
1715 relies on G1 being used via an ISO-2022 escape sequence (report by
1720 + reconsidered winsnstr(), decided after comparing other
1721 implementations that wrapping is an X/Open documentation error.
1722 + modify test/inserts.c to test all flavors of insstr().
1725 + add setlocale() calls to a few test programs which may require it:
1726 demo_forms.c, filter.c, ins_wide.c, inserts.c
1727 + correct a few misspelled function names in ncurses-intro.html (report
1729 + correct internal name of key_defined() manpage, which conflicted with
1733 + correct size of internal pad used for holding wide-character
1734 field_buffer() results.
1735 + modify data_ahead() to work with wide-characters.
1738 + improve description of terminfo if-then-else expressions (suggested
1740 + improve test/ncurses.c 'd' test, allow it to use external file for
1741 initial palette (added xterm-16color.dat and linux-color.dat), and
1742 reset colors to the initial palette when starting/ending the test.
1743 + change limit-check in init_color() to allow r/g/b component to
1744 reach 1000 (cf: 20020928).
1747 + modify form library to use cchar_t's rather than char's in the
1748 wide-character configuration for storing data for field buffers.
1749 + correct logic of win_wchnstr(), which did not work for more than
1753 + replace memset/memcpy usage in form library with for-loops to
1754 simplify changing the datatype of FIELD.buf, part of wide-character
1756 + fix some inconsistent use of #if/#ifdef (report by Alain Guibert).
1759 + modify menu library to account for actual number of columns used by
1760 multibyte character strings, in the wide-character configuration
1761 (adapted from patch by Philipp Tomsich).
1762 + add "-x" option to infocmp like tic's "-x", for use in "-F"
1763 comparisons. This modifies infocmp to only report extended
1764 capabilities if the -x option is given, making this more consistent
1765 with tic. Some scripts may break, since infocmp previous gave this
1766 information without an option.
1767 + modify termcap-parsing to retain 2-character aliases at the beginning
1768 of an entry if the "-x" option is used in tic.
1771 + minor compiler-warning and test-program fixes.
1774 + modify tic's missing-sgr warning to apply to terminfo only.
1775 + free some memory leaks in tic.
1776 + remove check in post_menu() that prevented menus from extending
1777 beyond the screen (request by Max J. Werner).
1778 + remove check in newwin() that prevents allocating windows
1779 that extend beyond the screen. Solaris curses does this.
1780 + add ifdef in test/color_set.c to allow it to compile with older
1782 + add napms() calls to test/dots.c to make it not be a CPU hog.
1785 + modify unctrl() to return null if its parameter does not correspond
1786 to an unsigned char.
1787 + add some limit-checks to guard isprint(), etc., from being used on
1788 values that do not fit into an unsigned char (report by Sami Farin).
1791 + fix a typo in the _nc_get_locale() change.
1794 + modify _nc_get_locale() to use setlocale() to query the program's
1795 current locale rather than using getenv(). This fixes a case in tin
1796 which relies on legacy treatment of 8-bit characters when the locale
1797 is not initialized (reported by Urs Jansen).
1798 + add sgr string to screen's and rxvt's terminfo entries -TD.
1799 + add a check in tic for terminfo entries having an sgr0 but no sgr
1800 string. This confuses Tru64 and HPUX curses when combined with
1801 color, e.g., making them leave line-drawing characters in odd places.
1802 + correct casts used in ABSENT_BOOLEAN, CANCELLED_BOOLEAN, matches the
1803 original definitions used in Debian package to fix PowerPC bug before
1804 20030802 (Debian #237629).
1807 + modify PutAttrChar() and PUTC() macro to improve use of
1808 A_ALTCHARSET attribute to prevent line-drawing characters from
1809 being lost in situations where the locale would otherwise treat the
1810 raw data as nonprintable (Debian #227879).
1813 + fix a redefinition of CTRL() macro in test/view.c for AIX 5.2 (report
1815 + remove ".PP" after ".SH NAME" in a few manpages; this confuses
1816 some apropos script (Debian #237831).
1819 + modify ncurses.c 'r' test so editing commands, like inserted text,
1820 set the field background, and the state of insert/overlay editing
1821 mode is shown in that test.
1822 + change syntax of dummy targets in Ada95 makefiles to work with pmake.
1823 + correct logic in test/ncurses.c 'b' for noncolor terminals which
1824 did not recognize a quit-command (cf: 20030419).
1827 + modify _nc_insert_ch() to allow for its input to be part of a
1829 + split out lib_insnstr.c, to prepare to rewrite it. X/Open states
1830 that this function performs wrapping, unlike all of the other
1831 insert-functions. Currently it does not wrap.
1832 + check for nl_langinfo(CODESET), use it if available (report by
1834 + split-out CF_BUILD_CC macro, actually did this for lynx first.
1835 + fixes for configure script CF_WITH_DBMALLOC and CF_WITH_DMALLOC,
1836 which happened to work with bash, but not with Bourne shell (report
1837 by Marco d'Itri via tin-dev).
1840 + some changes to adapt the form library to wide characters, incomplete
1841 (request by Mike Aubury).
1842 + add symbol to curses.h which can be used to suppress include of
1844 #define NCURSES_ENABLE_STDBOOL_H 0
1846 (discussion on XFree86 mailing list).
1849 + modify configure --with-termlib option to accept a value which sets
1850 the name of the terminfo library. This would allow a packager to
1851 build libtinfow.so renamed to coincide with libtinfo.so (discussion
1852 with Stanislav Ievlev).
1853 + improve documentation of --with-install-prefix, --prefix and
1854 $(DESTDIR) in INSTALL (prompted by discussion with Paul Lew).
1855 + add configure check if the compiler can use -c -o options to rename
1856 its output file, use that to omit the 'cd' command which was used to
1857 ensure object files are created in a separate staging directory
1858 (prompted by comments by Johnny Wezel, Martin Mokrejs).
1860 20040208 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1863 20040207 pre-release
1864 + minor fixes to _nc_tparm_analyze(), i.e., do not count %i as a param,
1865 and do not count %d if it follows a %p.
1866 + correct an inconsistency between handling of codes in the 128-255
1867 range, e.g., as illustrated by test/ncurses.c f/F tests. In POSIX
1868 locale, the latter did not show printable results, while the former
1870 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to compensate for broken C preprocessor on Mac
1871 OS X, which alters "%%" to "% % " (report by Robert Simms, fix
1872 verified by Scott Corscadden).
1874 20040131 pre-release
1875 + modify SCREEN struct to align it between normal/wide curses flavors
1876 to simplify future changes to build a single version of libtinfo
1877 (patch by Stanislav Ievlev).
1878 + document handling of carriage return by addch() in manpage.
1879 + document special features of unctrl() in manpage.
1880 + documented interface changes in INSTALL.
1881 + corrected control-char test in lib_addch.c to account for locale
1882 (Debian #230335, cf: 971206).
1883 + updated test/configure.in to use AC_EXEEXT and AC_OBJEXT.
1884 + fixes to compile Ada95 binding with Debian gnat 3.15p-4 package.
1885 + minor configure-script fixes for older ports, e.g., BeOS R4.5.
1887 20040125 pre-release
1888 + amend change to PutAttrChar() from 20030614 which computed the number
1889 of cells for a possibly multi-cell character. The 20030614 change
1890 forced the cell to a blank if the result from wcwidth() was not
1891 greater than zero. However, wcwidth() called for parameters in the
1892 range 128-255 can give this return value. The logic now simply
1893 ensures that the number of cells is greater than zero without
1894 modifying the displayed value.
1896 20040124 pre-release
1897 + looked good for 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org (but see above)
1898 + modify configure script check for ranlib to use AC_CHECK_TOOL, since
1899 that works better for cross-compiling.
1901 20040117 pre-release
1902 + modify lib_get_wch.c to prefer mblen/mbtowc over mbrlen/mbrtowc to
1903 work around core dump in Solaris 8's locale support, e.g., for
1904 zh_CN.GB18030 (report by Saravanan Bellan).
1905 + add includes for <stdarg.h> and <stdio.h> in configure script macro
1906 to make <wchar.h> check work with Tru64 4.0d.
1907 + add terminfo entry for U/Win -TD
1908 + add terminfo entries for SFU aka Interix aka OpenNT (Federico
1910 + modify tput's error messages to prefix them with the program name
1911 (report by Vincent Lefevre, patch by Daniel Jacobowitz (see Debian
1913 + correct a place in tack where exit_standout_mode was used instead of
1914 exit_attribute_mode (patch by Jochen Voss (see Debian #224443)).
1915 + modify c++/cursesf.h to use const in the Enumeration_Field method.
1916 + remove an ambiguous (actually redundant) method from c++/cursesf.h
1917 + make $HOME/.terminfo update optional (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
1918 + improve sed script which extracts libtool's version in the
1919 CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro.
1920 + add ifdef'd call to AC_PROG_LIBTOOL to CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro (to
1921 simplify local patch for Albert Chin-A-Young)..
1922 + add $(CXXFLAGS) to link command in c++/Makefile.in (adapted from
1923 patch by Albert Chin-A-Young)..
1924 + fix a missing substitution in configure.in for "$target" needed for
1926 + resync CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro with lynx; fixes IRIX64 and
1927 NetBSD 1.6 conflicts with _XOPEN_SOURCE.
1928 + make check for stdbool.h more specific, to ensure that including it
1929 will actually define/declare bool for the configured compiler.
1930 + rewrite ifdef's in curses.h relating NCURSES_BOOL and bool. The
1931 intention of that is to #define NCURSES_BOOL as bool when the
1932 compiler declares bool, and to #define bool as NCURSES_BOOL when it
1933 does not (reported by Jim Gifford, Sam Varshavchik, cf: 20031213).
1935 20040110 pre-release
1936 + change minor version to 4, i.e., ncurses 5.4
1937 + revised/improved terminfo entries for tvi912b, tvi920b (Benjamin C W
1939 + simplified ncurses/base/version.c by defining the result from the
1940 configure script rather than using sprintf (suggested by Stanislav
1942 + remove obsolete casts from c++/cursesw.h (reported by Stanislav
1944 + modify configure script so that when configuring for termlib, programs
1945 such as tic are not linked with the upper-level ncurses library
1946 (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
1947 + move version.c from ncurses/base to ncurses/tinfo to allow linking
1948 of tic, etc., using libtinfo (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
1951 + adjust -D's to build ncursesw on OpenBSD.
1952 + modify CF_PROG_EXT to make OS/2 build with EXEEXT.
1953 + add pecho_wchar().
1954 + remove <wctype.h> include from lib_slk_wset.c which is not needed (or
1955 available) on older platforms.
1958 + add -D's to build ncursew on FreeBSD 5.1.
1959 + modify shared library configuration for FreeBSD 4.x/5.x to add the
1960 soname information (request by Marc Glisse).
1961 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() to not use MAX_ALIAS, but PATH_MAX only
1962 for limiting the length of a filename in the terminfo database.
1963 + modify termname() to return the terminal name used by setupterm()
1964 rather than $TERM, without truncating to 14 characters as documented
1965 by X/Open (report by Stanislav Ievlev, cf: 970719).
1966 + re-add definition for _BSD_TYPES, lost in merge (cf: 20031206).
1969 + add configure option --with-manpage-format=catonly to address
1970 behavior of BSDI, allow install of man+cat files on NetBSD, whose
1971 behavior has diverged by requiring both to be present.
1972 + remove leading blanks from comment-lines in manlinks.sed script to
1973 work with Tru64 4.0d.
1974 + add screen.linux terminfo entry (discussion on mutt-users mailing
1978 + add a check for tic to flag missing backslashes for termcap
1979 continuation lines. ncurses reads the whole entry, but termcap
1980 applications do not.
1981 + add configure option "--with-manpage-aliases" extending
1982 "--with-manpage-aliases" to provide the option of generating ".so"
1983 files rather than symbolic links for manpage aliases.
1984 + add bool definition in include/curses.h.in for configurations with no
1985 usable C++ compiler (cf: 20030607).
1986 + fix pathname of SigAction.h for building with --srcdir (reported by
1990 + folded ncurses/base/sigaction.c into includes of ncurses/SigAction.h,
1991 since that header is used only within ncurses/tty/lib_tstp.c, for
1992 non-POSIX systems (discussion with Stanislav Ievlev).
1993 + remove obsolete _nc_outstr() function (report by Stanislav Ievlev
1994 <inger@altlinux.org>).
1995 + add test/background.c and test/color_set.c
1996 + modify color_set() function to work with color pair 0 (report by
1997 George Andreou <gbandreo@tem.uoc.gr>).
1998 + add configure option --with-trace, since defining TRACE seems too
1999 awkward for some cases.
2000 + remove a call to _nc_free_termtype() from read_termtype(), since the
2001 corresponding buffer contents were already zeroed by a memset (cf:
2003 + improve configure check for _XOPEN_SOURCE and related definitions,
2004 adding special cases for Solaris' __EXTENSIONS__ and FreeBSD's
2005 __BSD_TYPES (reports by Marc Glisse <marc.glisse@normalesup.org>).
2006 + small fixes to compile on Solaris and IRIX64 using cc.
2007 + correct typo in check for pre-POSIX sort options in MKkey_defs.sh
2011 + modify _nc_gettime() to avoid a problem with arithmetic on unsigned
2012 values (Philippe Blain).
2013 + improve the nanosleep() logic in napms() by checking for EINTR and
2014 restarting (Philippe Blain).
2015 + correct expression for "%D" in lib_tgoto.c (Juha Jarvi
2019 + add linux-vt terminfo entry (Andrey V Lukyanov <land@long.yar.ru>).
2020 + allow "\|" escape in terminfo; tic should not warn about this.
2021 + save the full pathname of the trace-file the first time it is opened,
2022 to avoid creating it in different directories if the application
2023 opens and closes it while changing its working directory.
2024 + modify configure script to provide a non-empty default for
2028 + add DJGPP to special case of DOS-style drive letters potentially
2029 appearing in TERMCAP environment variable.
2030 + fix some spelling in comments (reports by Jason McIntyre, Jonathon
2032 + update config.guess, config.sub
2035 + fix a memory leak in error-return from setupterm() (report by
2036 Stanislav Ievlev <inger@altlinux.org>).
2037 + use EXEEXT and OBJEXT consistently in makefiles.
2038 + amend fixes for cross-compiling to use separate executable-suffix
2039 BUILD_EXEEXT (cf: 20031018).
2040 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for sort utility that does not
2041 recognize key options, e.g., busybox (report by Peter S Mazinger
2043 + fix potential out-of-bounds indexing in _nc_infotocap() (found by
2044 David Krause using some of the new malloc debugging features
2045 under OpenBSD, patch by Ted Unangst).
2046 + modify CF_LIB_SUFFIX for Itanium releases of HP-UX, which use a
2047 ".so" suffix (patch by Jonathan Ward <Jonathan.Ward@hp.com>).
2050 + update terminfo for xterm-xfree86 -TD
2051 + add check for multiple "tc=" clauses in a termcap to tic.
2052 + check for missing op/oc in tic.
2053 + correct _nc_resolve_uses() and _nc_merge_entry() to allow infocmp and
2054 tic to show cancelled capabilities. These functions were ignoring
2055 the state of the target entry, which should be untouched if cancelled.
2056 + correct comment in tack/output.c (Debian #215806).
2057 + add some null-pointer checks to lib_options.c (report by Michael
2059 + regenerated html documentation.
2060 + correction to tar-copy.sh, remove a trap command that resulted in
2061 leaving temporary files (cf: 20030510).
2062 + remove contact/maintainer addresses for Juergen Pfeifer (his request).
2065 + updated test/configure to reflect changes for libtool (cf: 20030830).
2066 + fix several places in tack/pad.c which tested and used the parameter-
2067 and parameterless strings inconsistently, i.e., in pad_rin(),
2068 pad_il(), pad_indn() and pad_dl() (Debian #215805).
2069 + minor fixes for configure script and makefiles to cleanup executables
2070 generated when cross-compiling for DJGPP.
2071 + modify infocmp to omit check for $TERM for operations that do not
2072 require it, e.g., "infocmp -e" used to build fallback list (report by
2076 + add terminfo entries for DJGPP.
2077 + updated note about maintainer in ncurses-intro.html
2080 + update terminfo entries for gnome terminal.
2081 + modify tack to reset colors after each color test, correct a place
2082 where exit_standout_mode was used instead of exit_attribute_mode.
2083 + improve tack's bce test by making it set colors other than black
2085 + plug a potential recursion between napms() and _nc_timed_wait()
2086 (report by Philippe Blain).
2089 + add --with-rel-version option to allow workaround to allow making
2090 libtool on Darwin generate the "same" library names as with the
2091 --with-shared option. The Darwin ld program does not work well
2092 with a zero as the minor-version value (request by Chris Zubrzycki).
2093 + modify CF_MIXEDCASE_FILENAMES macro to work with cross-compiling.
2094 + modify tack to allow it to run from fallback terminfo data.
2095 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2096 + improve PutRange() by adjusting call to EmitRange() and corresponding
2097 return-value to not emit unchanged characters on the end of the
2099 + improve a check for changed-attribute by exiting a loop when the
2101 + improve logic in TransformLine(), eliminating a duplicated comparison
2102 in the clr_bol logic.
2105 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2106 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
2107 move the label 'nonlocal' just before the second gettimeofday() to
2108 be able to compute the diff time when 'goto nonlocal' used.
2109 Rename 'msec' to 'microsec' in the debug-message.
2110 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
2111 Use _nc_outch() in carriage return/newline movement instead of
2112 putchar() which goes to stdout. Move test for xold>0 out of loop.
2113 + in ncurses/tinfo/setbuf.c,
2114 Set the flag SP->_buffered at the end of operations when all has been
2115 successful (typeMalloc can fail).
2116 + simplify NC_BUFFERED macro by moving check inside _nc_setbuf().
2119 + modify configure script to avoid using "head -1", which does not
2120 work if POSIXLY_CORRECT (sic) is set.
2121 + modify run_tic.in to avoid using wrong shared libraries when
2122 cross-compiling (Dan Kegel).
2125 + alter configure script help message to make it clearer that
2126 --with-build-cc does not specify a cross-compiler (suggested by Dan
2127 Kegel <dank@kegel.com>).
2128 + modify configure script to accommodate libtool 1.5, as well as add an
2129 parameter to the "--with-libtool" option which can specify the
2130 pathname of libtool (report by Chris Zubrzycki). We note that
2131 libtool 1.5 has more than one bug in its C++ support, so it is not
2132 able to install libncurses++, for instance, if $DESTDIR or the option
2133 --with-install-prefix is used.
2136 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2137 + move assignments to SP->_cursrow, SP->_curscol into online_mvcur().
2138 + make baudrate computation in delay_output() consistent with the
2139 assumption in _nc_mvcur_init(), i.e., a byte is 9 bits.
2142 + modify logic in waddch_literal() to take into account zh_TW.Big5
2143 whose multibyte sequences may contain "printable" characters, e.g.,
2144 a "g" in the sequence "\247g" (Debian #204889, cf: 20030621).
2145 + improve storage used by _nc_safe_strcpy() by ensuring that the size
2146 is reset based on the initialization call, in case it were called
2147 after other strcpy/strcat calls (report by Philippe Blain).
2148 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2149 + remove an unused ifdef for REAL_ATTR & WANT_CHAR
2150 + correct a place where _cup_cost was used rather than _cuu_cost
2153 + fix a small memory leak in _nc_free_termtype().
2154 + close trace-file if trace() is called with a zero parameter.
2155 + free memory allocated for soft-key strings, in delscreen().
2156 + fix an allocation size in safe_sprintf.c for the "*" format code.
2157 + correct safe_sprintf.c to not return a null pointer if the format
2158 happens to be an empty string. This applies to the "configure
2159 --enable-safe-sprintf" option (Redhat #101486).
2162 + modify casts used for ABSENT_BOOLEAN and CANCELLED_BOOLEAN (report by
2164 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2165 + change padding for change_scroll_region to not be proportional to
2166 the size of the scroll-region.
2167 + correct error-return in _nc_safe_strcat().
2170 + correct limit-checks in _nc_scroll_window() (report and test-case by
2171 Thomas Graf <graf@dms.at> cf: 20011020).
2172 + re-order configure checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE to avoid conflict with
2176 + use clr_eol in preference to blanks for bce terminals, so select and
2177 paste will have fewer trailing blanks, e.g., when using xterm
2178 (request by Vincent Lefevre).
2179 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
2180 + add configure --with-abi-version option (discussion with Charles
2182 > cygwin changes from Charles Wilson:
2183 + aclocal.m4: on cygwin, use autodetected prefix for import
2184 and static lib, but use "cyg" for DLL.
2185 + include/ncurses_dll.h: correct the comments to reflect current
2186 status of cygwin/mingw port. Fix compiler warning.
2187 + misc/run_tic.in: ensure that tic.exe can find the uninstalled
2188 DLL, by adding the lib-directory to the PATH variable.
2189 + misc/terminfo.src (nxterm|xterm-color): make xterm-color
2190 primary instead of nxterm, to match XFree86's xterm.terminfo
2191 usage and to prevent circular links.
2192 (rxvt): add additional codes from rxvt.org.
2193 (rxvt-color): new alias
2194 (rxvt-xpm): new alias
2195 (rxvt-cygwin): like rxvt, but with special acsc codes.
2196 (rxvt-cygwin-native): ditto. rxvt may be run under XWindows, or
2197 with a "native" MSWin GUI. Each takes different acsc codes,
2198 which are both different from the "normal" rxvt's acsc.
2199 (cygwin): cygwin-in-cmd.exe window. Lots of fixes.
2201 + mk-1st.awk: use "cyg" for the DLL prefix, but "lib" for import
2205 + update config.guess, config.sub
2206 + add triples for configuring shared libraries with the Debian
2207 GNU/FreeBSD packages (patch by Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es>).
2210 + modify CF_GCC_WARNINGS so it only applies to gcc, not g++. Some
2211 platforms have installed g++ along with the native C compiler, which
2212 would not accept gcc warning options.
2213 + add -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 when configuring with --enable-widec, to
2214 get mbstate_t declaration on HPUX 11.11 (report by David Ellement).
2215 + add _nc_pathlast() to get rid of casts in _nc_basename() calls.
2216 + correct a sign-extension in wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() from
2217 20030628 (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
2218 + work around omission of btowc() and wctob() from wide-character
2219 support (sic) in NetBSD 1.6 using mbtowc() and wctomb() (report by
2221 + add portability note to curs_get_wstr.3x (Debian #199957).
2224 + rewrite wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to call waddch() and wechochar()
2225 respectively, to avoid calling waddch_noecho() with wide-character
2226 data, since that function assumes its input is 8-bit data.
2227 Similarly, modify waddnwstr() to call wadd_wch().
2228 + remove logic from waddnstr() which transformed multibyte character
2229 strings into wide-characters. Rewrite of waddch_literal() from
2230 20030621 assumes its input is raw multibyte data rather than wide
2231 characters (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
2234 + write getyx() and related 2-return macros in terms of getcury(),
2236 + modify waddch_literal() in case an application passes bytes of a
2237 multibyte character directly to waddch(). In this case, waddch()
2238 must reassemble the bytes into a wide-character (report by Tomohiro
2239 Kubota <kubota@debian.org>).
2242 + modify waddch_literal() in case a multibyte value occupies more than
2244 + modify PutAttrChar() to compute the number of character cells that
2245 are used in multibyte values. This fixes a problem displaying
2246 double-width characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen
2247 <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
2248 + add a null-pointer check for result of keyname() in _tracechar()
2249 + modify _tracechar() to work around glibc sprintf bug.
2252 + add a call to setlocale() in cursesmain.cc, making demo display
2253 properly in a UTF-8 locale.
2254 + add a fallback definition in curses.priv.h for MB_LEN_MAX (prompted
2255 by discussion with Gabor Z Papp).
2256 + use macros NCURSES_ACS() and NCURSES_WACS() to hide cast needed to
2257 appease -Wchar-subscript with g++ 3.3 (Debian #195732).
2258 + fix a redefinition of $RANLIB in the configure script when libtool
2259 is used, which broke configure on Mac OS X (report by Chris Zubrzycki
2261 + simplify ifdef for bool declaration in curses.h.in (suggested by
2262 Albert Chin-A-Young).
2263 + remove configure script check to allow -Wconversion for older
2264 versions of gcc (suggested by Albert Chin-A-Young).
2267 + regenerated html manpages.
2268 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in that disabled use of __attribute__()
2269 for g++, since recent versions implement the cases which ncurses uses
2271 + modify _nc_get_token() to handle a case where an entry has no
2272 description, and capabilities begin on the same line as the entry
2274 + fix a typo in ncurses_dll.h reported by gcc 3.3.
2275 + add an entry for key_defined.3x to man_db.renames.
2278 + modify setcchar() to allow converting control characters to complex
2279 characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
2280 + add tkterm entry -TD
2281 + modify parse_entry.c to allow a terminfo entry with a leading
2282 2-character name (report by Don Libes).
2283 + corrected acsc in screen.teraterm, which requires a PC-style mapping.
2284 + fix trace statements in read_entry.c to use lseek() rather than
2286 + fix signed/unsigned warnings from Sun's compiler (gcc should give
2287 these warnings, but it is unpredictable).
2288 + modify configure script to omit -Winline for gcc 3.3, since that
2290 + modify manlinks.sed to add a few functions that were overlooked since
2291 they return function pointers: field_init, field_term, form_init,
2292 form_term, item_init, item_term, menu_init and menu_term.
2295 + prevent recursion in wgetch() via wgetnstr() if the connection cannot
2296 be switched between cooked/raw modes because it is not a TTY (report
2297 by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.com>).
2298 + change parameter of define_key() and key_defined() to const (prompted
2300 + add a check in test/configure for ncurses extensions, since there
2301 are some older versions, etc., which would not compile with the
2302 current test programs.
2303 + corrected demo in test/ncurses.c of wgetn_wstr(), which did not
2304 convert wchar_t string to multibyte form before printing it.
2305 + corrections to lib_get_wstr.c:
2306 + null-terminate buffer passed to setcchar(), which occasionally
2308 + map special characters such as erase- and kill-characters into
2309 key-codes so those will work as expected even if they are not
2310 mentioned in the terminfo.
2311 + modify PUTC() and Charable() macros to make wide-character line
2312 drawing work for POSIX locale on Linux console (cf: 20021221).
2315 + make typography for program options in manpages consistent (report
2316 by Miloslav Trmac <mitr@volny.cz>).
2317 + correct dependencies in Ada95/src/Makefile.in, so the builds with
2318 "--srcdir" work (report by Warren L Dodge).
2319 + correct missing definition of $(CC) in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in
2320 (reported by Warren L Dodge <warrend@mdhost.cse.tek.com>).
2321 + fix typos and whitespace in manpages (patch by Jason McIntyre
2322 <jmc@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl>).
2325 + fix form_driver() cases for REQ_CLR_EOF, REQ_CLR_EOL, REQ_DEL_CHAR,
2326 REQ_DEL_PREV and REQ_NEW_LINE, which did not ensure the cursor was at
2327 the editing position before making modifications.
2328 + add test/demo_forms and associated test/edit_field.c demos.
2329 + modify test/configure.in to use test/modules for the list of objects
2330 to compile rather than using the list of programs.
2333 + modify logic of acsc to use the original character if no mapping is
2334 defined, noting that Solaris does this.
2335 + modify ncurses 'b' test to avoid using the acs_map[] array since
2336 20021231 changes it to no longer contain information from the acsc
2338 + modify makefile rules in c++, progs, tack and test to ensure that
2339 the compiler flags (e.g., $CFLAGS or $CCFLAGS) are used in the link
2340 command (report by Jose Luis Rico Botella <informatica@serpis.com>).
2341 + modify soft-key initialization to use A_REVERSE if A_STANDOUT would
2342 not be shown when colors are used, i.e., if ncv#1 is set in the
2343 terminfo as is done in "screen".
2346 + add a test for slk_color(), in ncurses.c
2347 + fix some issues reported by valgrind in the slk_set() and slk_wset()
2348 code, from recent rewrite.
2349 + modify ncurses 'E' test to use show previous label via slk_label(),
2351 + modify wide-character versions of NewChar(), NewChar2() macros to
2352 ensure that the whole struct is initialized.
2355 + modify setupterm() to check if the terminfo and terminal-modes have
2356 already been read. This ensures that it does not reinvoke
2357 def_prog_mode() when an application calls more than one function,
2358 such as tgetent() and initscr() (report by Olaf Buddenhagen).
2361 + add 'E' test to ncurses.c, to exercise slk_wset().
2362 + correct handling of carriage-return in wgetn_wstr(), used in demo of
2364 + first draft of slk_wset() function.
2367 + improved warnings in tic when suppressing items to fit in termcap's
2369 + built a list in test/README showing which externals are being used
2370 by either programs in the test-directory or via internal library
2372 + adjust include-options in CF_ETIP_DEFINES to avoid missing
2373 ncurses_dll.h, fixing special definitions that may be needed for
2374 etip.h (reported by Greg Schafer <gschafer@zip.com.au>).
2377 + minor fixes for cardfile.c, to make it write the updated fields to
2378 a file when ^W is given.
2379 + add/use _nc_trace_bufcat() to eliminate some fixed buffer limits in
2383 + correct a case in _nc_remove_string(), used by define_key(), to avoid
2384 infinite loop if the given string happens to be a substring of other
2385 strings which are assigned to keys (report by John McCutchan).
2386 + add key_defined() function, to tell which keycode a string is bound
2387 to (discussion with John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>).
2388 + correct keybound(), which reported definitions in the wrong table,
2389 i.e., the list of definitions which are disabled by keyok().
2390 + modify demo_keydef.c to show the details it changes, and to check
2394 + restructured test/configure script, make it work for libncursesw.
2395 + add description of link_fieldtype() to manpage (report by
2396 L Dee Holtsclaw <dee@sunbeltsoft.com>).
2399 + corrected ifdef's relating to configure check for wchar_t, etc.
2400 + if the output is a socket or other non-tty device, use 1 millisecond
2401 for the cost in mvcur; previously it was 9 milliseconds because the
2402 baudrate was not known.
2403 + in _nc_get_tty_mode(), initialize the TTY buffer on error, since
2404 glibc copies uninitialized data in that case, as noted by valgrind.
2405 + modify tput to use the same parameter analysis as tparm() does, to
2406 provide for user-defined strings, e.g., for xterm title, a
2407 corresponding capability might be
2409 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to avoid passing "#" tokens through the C
2410 preprocessor. This works around Mac OS X's preprocessor, which
2411 insists on adding a blank on each side of the token (report/analysis
2412 by Kevin Murphy <murphy@genome.chop.edu>).
2415 + add configure check for wchar_t and wint_t types, rather than rely
2416 on preprocessor definitions. Also work around for gcc fixinclude
2417 bug which creates a shadow copy of curses.h if it sees these symbols
2418 apparently typedef'd.
2419 + if database is disabled, do not generate run_tic.sh
2420 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking when termcap is read.
2423 + add checking in tic for incomplete line-drawing character mapping.
2424 + update configure script to reflect fix for AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL,
2425 which is broken in autoconf 2.5x for Mac OS X 10.2.3 (report by
2426 Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl>).
2427 + make return value from _nc_printf_string() consistent. Before,
2428 depending on whether --enable-safe-sprintf was used, it might not be
2429 cached for reallocating.
2432 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking in lib_tparm.c, hardscroll.c
2433 + correct a potentially-uninitialized value if _read_termtype() does
2434 not read as much data as expected (report by Wolfgang Rohdewald
2436 + correct several places where the aclocal.m4 macros relied on cache
2437 variable names which were incompatible (as usual) between autoconf
2438 2.13 and 2.5x, causing the test for broken-linker to give incorrect
2439 results (reports by Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl> and Thomas Esser
2440 <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de>).
2441 + do not try to open gpm mouse driver if standard output is not a tty;
2442 the gpm library does not make this check (bug report for dialog
2443 by David Oliveira <davidoliveira@develop.prozone.ws>).
2446 + modified emx.src to correspond more closely to terminfo.src, added
2447 emx-base to the latter -TD
2448 + add configure option for FreeBSD sysmouse, --with-sysmouse, and
2449 implement support for that in lib_mouse.c, lib_getch.c
2452 + revert 20030105 change to can_clear_with(), does not work for the
2453 case where the update is made on cells which are blanks with
2454 attributes, e.g., reverse.
2455 + improve ifdef's to guard against redefinition of wchar_t and wint_t
2456 in curses.h (report by Urs Jansen).
2459 + improve mvcur() by checking if it is safe to move when video
2460 attributes are set (msgr), and if not, reset/restore attributes
2461 within that function rather than doing it separately in the GoTo()
2462 function in tty_update.c (suggested by Philippe Blain).
2463 + add a message in run_tic.in to explain more clearly what does not
2464 work when attempting to create a symbolic link for /usr/lib/terminfo
2465 on OS/2 and other platforms with no symbolic links (report by John
2467 + change several sed scripts to avoid using "\+" since it is not a BRE
2468 (basic regular expression). One instance caused terminfo.5 to be
2469 misformatted on FreeBSD (report by Kazuo Horikawa
2470 <horikawa@FreeBSD.org> (see FreeBSD docs/46709)).
2471 + correct misspelled 'wint_t' in curs_get_wch.3x (Michael Elkins).
2474 + improve description of terminfo operators, especially static/dynamic
2475 variables (comments by Mark I Manning IV <mark4th@earthlink.net>).
2476 + demonstrate use of FIELDTYPE by modifying test/ncurses 'r' test to
2477 use the predefined TYPE_ALPHA field-type, and by defining a
2478 specialized type for the middle initial/name.
2479 + fix MKterminfo.sh, another workaround for POSIXLY_CORRECT misfeature
2481 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2482 + optimize can_clear_with() a little by testing first if the parameter
2483 is indeed a "blank".
2484 + simplify ClrBottom() a little by allowing it to use clr_eos to clear
2485 sections as small as one line.
2486 + improve ClrToEOL() by checking if clr_eos is available before trying
2488 + use tputs() rather than putp() in a few cases in tty_update.c since
2489 the corresponding delays are proportional to the number of lines
2490 affected: repeat_char, clr_eos, change_scroll_region.
2493 + rewrite of lib_acs.c conflicts with copying of SCREEN acs_map to/from
2494 global acs_map[] array; removed the lines that did the copying.
2497 + change some overlooked tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp()
2498 (report by Philippe Blain).
2499 + modify lib_getch.c to avoid recursion via wgetnstr() when the input
2500 is not a tty and consequently mode-changes do not work (report by
2501 <R.Chamberlin@querix.com>).
2502 + rewrote lib_acs.c to allow PutAttrChar() to decide how to render
2503 alternate-characters, i.e., to work with Linux console and UTF-8
2505 + correct line/column reference in adjust_window(), needed to make
2506 special windows such as curscr track properly when resizing (report
2507 by Lucas Gonze <lgonze@panix.com>).
2508 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2509 + correct the value used for blank in ClrBottom() (broken in 20000708).
2510 + correct an off-by-one in GoTo() parameter in _nc_scrolln().
2513 + change several tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp(), to
2514 enable padding which may be needed for some terminals (patch by
2516 + use '%' as sed substitute delimiter in run_tic script to avoid
2517 problems with pathname delimiters such as ':' and '@' (report by John
2519 + implement a workaround so that line-drawing works with screen's
2520 crippled UTF-8 support (tested with 3.9.13). This only works with
2521 the wide-character support (--enable-widec); the normal library will
2522 simply suppress line-drawing when running in a UTF-8 locale in screen.
2525 + allow BUILD_CC and related configure script variables to be
2526 overridden from the environment.
2527 + make build-tools variables in ncurses/Makefile.in consistent with
2528 the configure script variables (report by Maciej W Rozycki).
2529 + modify ncurses/modules to allow
2530 configure --disable-leaks --disable-ext-funcs
2531 to build (report by Gary Samuelson).
2532 + fix a few places in configure.in which lacked quotes (report by
2533 Gary Samuelson <gary.samuelson@verizon.com>).
2534 + correct handling of multibyte characters in waddch_literal() which
2535 force wrapping because they are started too late on the line (report
2536 by Sam Varshavchik).
2537 + small fix for CF_GNAT_VERSION to ignore the help-message which
2538 gnatmake adds to its version-message.
2539 > Maciej W Rozycki <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>:
2540 + use AC_CHECK_TOOL to get proper values for AR and LD for cross
2542 + use $cross_compiling variable in configure script rather than
2543 comparing $host_alias and $target alias, since "host" is
2544 traditionally misused in autoconf to refer to the target platform.
2545 + change configure --help message to use "build" rather than "host"
2546 when referring to the --with-build-XXX options.
2549 + modify CF_GNAT_VERSION to print gnatmake's version, and to allow for
2550 possible gnat versions such as 3.2 (report by Chris Lingard
2551 <chris@stockwith.co.uk>).
2552 + modify #define's for CKILL and other default control characters in
2553 tset to use the system's default values if they are defined.
2554 + correct interchanged defaults for kill and interrupt characters
2555 in tset, which caused it to report unnecessarily (Debian #171583).
2556 + repair check for missing C++ compiler, which is broken in autoconf
2557 2.5x by hardcoding it to g++ (report by Martin Mokrejs).
2558 + update config.guess, config.sub (2002-11-30)
2559 + modify configure script to skip --with-shared, etc., when the
2560 --with-libtool option is given, since they would be ignored anyway.
2561 + fix to allow "configure --with-libtool --with-termlib" to build.
2562 + modify configure script to show version number of libtool, to help
2563 with bug reports. libtool still gets confused if the installed
2564 ncurses libraries are old, since it ignores the -L options at some
2565 point (tested with libtool 1.3.3 and 1.4.3).
2566 + reorder configure script's updating of $CPPFLAGS and $CFLAGS to
2567 prevent -I options in the user's environment from introducing
2568 conflicts with the build -I options (may be related to reports by
2569 Patrick Ash and George Goffe).
2570 + rename test/define_key.c to test/demo_defkey.c, test/keyok.c to
2571 test/demo_keyok.c to allow building these with libtool.
2574 + add example program test/define_key.c for define_key().
2575 + add example program test/keyok.c for keyok().
2576 + add example program test/ins_wide.c for wins_wch() and wins_wstr().
2577 + modify wins_wch() and wins_wstr() to interpret tabs by using the
2578 winsch() internal function.
2579 + modify setcchar() to allow for wchar_t input strings that have
2580 more than one spacing character.
2583 + fix a boundary check in lib_insch.c (patch by Philippe Blain).
2584 + change type for *printw functions from NCURSES_CONST to const
2585 (prompted by comment by Pedro Palhoto Matos <plpm@mega.ist.utl.pt>,
2586 but really from a note on X/Open's website stating that either is
2587 acceptable, and the latter will be used in a future revision).
2588 + add xterm-1002, xterm-1003 terminfo entries to demonstrate changes in
2589 lib_mouse.c (20021026) -TD
2590 + add screen-bce, screen-s entries from screen 3.9.13 (report by
2591 Adam Lazur <zal@debian.org>) -TD
2592 + add mterm terminfo entries -TD
2595 + split-out useful fragments in terminfo for vt100 and vt220 numeric
2596 keypad, i.e., vt100+keypad, vt100+pfkeys, vt100+fnkeys and
2597 vt220+keypad. The last as embedded in various entries had ka3 and
2598 kb2 interchanged (report/discussion with Leonard den Ottolander
2599 <leonardjo@hetnet.nl>).
2600 + add check in tic for keypads consistent with vt100 layout.
2601 + improve checks in tic for color capabilities
2604 + check for missing/empty/illegal terminfo name in _nc_read_entry()
2605 (report by Martin Mokrejs, where $TERM was set to an empty string).
2606 + rewrote lib_insch.c, combining it with lib_insstr.c so both handle
2607 tab and other control characters consistently (report by Philippe
2609 + remove an #undef for KEY_EVENT from curses.tail used in the
2610 experimental NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS feature. The #undef confuses
2611 dpkg's build script (Debian #165897).
2612 + fix MKlib_gen.sh, working around the ironically named POSIXLY_CORRECT
2613 feature of GNU sed 4.0 (reported by Ervin Nemeth <airwin@inf.bme.hu>).
2616 + implement logic in lib_mouse.c to handle position reports which are
2617 generated when XFree86 xterm is initialized with private modes 1002
2618 or 1003. These are returned to the application as the
2619 REPORT_MOUSE_POSITION mask, which was not implemented. Tested both
2620 with ncurses 'a' menu (prompted by discussion with Larry Riedel
2621 <Larry@Riedel.org>).
2622 + modify lib_mouse.c to look for "XM" terminfo string, which allows
2623 one to override the escape sequence used to enable/disable mouse
2624 mode. In particular this works for XFree86 xterm private modes
2625 1002 and 1003. If "XM" is missing (note that this is an extended
2626 name), lib_mouse uses the conventional private mode 1000.
2627 + correct NOT_LOCAL() macro in lib_mvcur.c to refer to screen_columns
2628 where it used screen_lines (report by Philippe Blain).
2629 + correct makefile rules for the case when both --with-libtool and
2630 --with-gpm are given (report by Mr E_T <troll@logi.net.au>).
2631 + add note to terminfo manpage regarding the differences between
2632 setaf/setab and setf/setb capabilities (report by Pavel Roskin).
2635 + remove redundant initialization of TABSIZE in newterm(), since it is
2636 already done in setupterm() (report by Philippe Blain).
2637 + add test/inserts.c, to test winnstr() and winsch().
2638 + replace 'sort' in dist.mk with script that sets locale to POSIX.
2639 + update URLs in announce.html.in (patch by Frederic L W Meunier).
2640 + remove glibc add-on files, which are no longer needed (report by
2641 Frederic L W Meunier).
2643 20021012 5.3 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2644 + modify ifdef's in etip.h.in to allow the etip.h header to compile
2645 with gcc 3.2 (patch by Dimitar Zhekov <jimmy@is-vn.bg>).
2646 + add logic to setupterm() to make it like initscr() and newterm(),
2647 by checking for $NCURSES_TRACE environment variable and enabling
2648 the debug trace in that case.
2649 + modify setupterm() to ensure that it initializes the baudrate, for
2650 applications such as tput (report by Frank Henigman).
2651 + modify definition of bits used for command-line and library debug
2652 traces to avoid overlap, using new definition TRACE_SHIFT to relate
2654 + document tput's interpretation of parameterized strings according to
2655 whether parameters are given, etc. (discussion with Robert De Bath).
2657 20021005 pre-release
2658 + correct winnwstr() to account for non-character cells generated when
2659 a double-width character is added (report by Michael Bienia
2660 <michael@vorlon.ping.de>).
2661 + modify _nc_viswbuf2n() to provide better results using wctomb().
2662 + correct logic in _nc_varargs() which broke tracing of parameters for
2663 formats such as "%.*s".
2664 + correct scale factor in linux-c and linux-c-nc terminfo entries
2665 (report Floyd Davidson).
2666 + change tic -A option to -t, add the same option to infocmp for
2668 + correct "%c" implementation in lib_tparm.c, which did not map a null
2669 character to a 128 (cf: 980620) (patch by Frank Henigman
2670 <fjhenigman@mud.cgl.uwaterloo.ca>).
2672 20020928 pre-release
2673 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for POSIX sort -k option, use that if
2674 it is found, to accommodate newer utility which dropped the
2675 compatibility support for +number options (reported by Andrey A
2677 + modify linux terminfo entry to use color palette feature from
2678 linux-c-nc entry (comments by Tomasz Wasiak and Floyd Davidson).
2679 + restore original color definitions in endwin() if init_color() was
2680 used, and resume those colors on the next doupdate() or refresh()
2681 (report by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@komputom.com.pl>).
2682 + improve debug-traces by modifying MKlib_gen.sh to generate calls
2683 to returnBool() and returnAttr().
2684 + add/use _nc_visbufn() and _nc_viswbufn() to limit the debug trace
2685 of waddnstr() and similar functions to match the parameters as used.
2686 + add/use _nc_retrace_bool() and _nc_retrace_unsigned().
2687 + correct type used by _nc_retrace_chtype().
2688 + add debug traces to some functions in lib_mouse.c
2689 + modify lib_addch.c to handle non-spacing characters.
2690 + correct parameter of RemAttr() in lib_bkgd.c, which caused the c++
2691 demo's boxes to lose the A_ALTCHARSET flag (broken in 20020629).
2692 + correct width computed in _tracedump(), which did not account for
2693 the attributes (broken in 20010602).
2694 + modify test/tracemunch to replace addresses for windows other than
2695 curscr, newscr and stdscr with window0, window1, etc.
2697 20020921 pre-release
2698 + redid fix for edit_man.sed path.
2699 + workaround for Cygwin bug which makes subprocess writes to stdout
2700 result in core dump.
2701 + documented getbegx(), etc.
2702 + minor fixes to configure script to use '%' consistently as a sed
2703 delimiter rather than '@'.
2704 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2705 + add check in lib_overlay.c to ensure that the windows to be merged
2706 actually overlap, and in copywin(), limit the area to be touched
2707 to the lines given for the destination window.
2709 20020914 pre-release
2710 + modified curses.h so that if the wide-character version is installed
2711 overwriting /usr/include/curses.h, and if it relied on libutf8.h,
2712 then applications that use that header for wide-character support
2713 must define HAVE_LIBUTF8_H.
2714 + modify putwin(), getwin() and dupwin() to allow them to operate on
2715 pads (request by Philippe Blain).
2716 + correct attribute-merging in wborder(), broken in 20020216 (report
2717 by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@grubasek.komputom.com.pl>).
2718 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2719 + corrected pop-counts in tparam_internal() to '!' and '~' cases.
2720 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in one place that used sizeof(chtype).
2721 + remove some unused variables from mvcur test-driver.
2723 20020907 pre-release
2724 + change configure script to allow install of widec-character
2725 (ncursesw) headers to overwrite normal (ncurses) headers, since the
2726 latter is a compatible subset of the former.
2727 + fix path of edit_man.sed in configure script, needed to regenerate
2728 html manpages on Debian.
2729 + fix mismatched enums in vsscanf.c, which caused warning on Solaris.
2730 + update README.emx to reflect current patch used for autoconf.
2731 + change web- and ftp-site to invisible-island.net
2732 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2733 + change case for 'P' in tparam_internal() to indicate that it pops
2734 a variable from the stack.
2735 + correct sense of precision and width in parse_format(), to avoid
2737 + modify lib_tparm.c, absorb really_get_space() into get_space().
2738 + modify getwin() and dupwin() to copy the _notimeout, _idlok and
2739 _idcok window fields.
2740 + better fix for _nc_set_type(), using typeMalloc().
2742 20020901 pre-release
2743 + change minor version to 3, i.e., ncurses 5.3
2744 + update config.guess, config.sub
2745 + retest build with each configure option; minor ifdef fixes.
2746 + make keyname() return a null pointer rather than "UNKNOWN STRING" to
2748 + modify handling of wide line-drawing character functions to use the
2749 normal line-drawing characters when not in UTF-8 locale.
2750 + add check/fix to comp_parse.c to suppress warning about missing acsc
2751 string. This happens in configurations where raw termcap information
2752 is processed; tic already does this and other checks.
2753 + modify tic's check for ich/ich1 versus rmir/smir to only warn about
2754 ich1, to match xterm patch #70 notes.
2755 + moved information for ripped-off lines into SCREEN struct to allow
2756 use in resizeterm().
2757 + add experimental wgetch_events(), ifdef'd with NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS
2758 (adapted from patch by Ilya Zakharevich - see ncurses/README.IZ).
2759 + amend check in kgetch() from 20020824 to look only for function-keys,
2760 otherwise escape sequences are not resolved properly.
2761 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2762 + removed redundant assignment to SP->_checkfd from newterm().
2763 + check return-value of setupterm() in restartterm().
2764 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in a few places that used sizeof(chtype).
2765 + prevent dupwin() from duplicating a pad.
2766 + prevent putwin() from writing a pad.
2767 + use typeRealloc() or typeMalloc() in preference to direct calls on
2771 + add a check in kgetch() for cooked characters in the fifo to avoid
2772 calling fifo_push() when a KEY_RESIZE is available (report/analysis
2773 by Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>).
2774 + fix an overlooked case for bugzilla #68199 (Philippe Blain).
2775 + ensure clearerr() is called before using ferror() e.g., in
2776 lib_screen.c (report by Philippe Blain).
2779 + modify lib_screen.c and lib_newwin.c to maintain the SCREEN-specific
2780 pointers for curscr/stdscr/newscr when scr_save() and scr_restore()
2781 modify the global curscr/stdscr/newscr variables. Fixes Redhat
2782 bugzilla #68199 dated 2002-07-07.
2783 + add checks for null pointer in calls to tparm() and tgoto() based on
2784 FreeBSD bug report. If ncurses were built with termcap support, and
2785 the first call to tgoto() were a zero-length string, the result would
2786 be a null pointer, which was not handled properly.
2787 + correct a typo in terminfo.head, which gave the octal code for colon
2789 + remove the "tic -u" option from 20020810, since it did not account
2790 for nested "tc=" clauses, and when that was addressed, was still
2794 + add tic -A option to suppress capabilities which are commented out
2795 when translating to termcap.
2796 + add tic -u option to provide older behavior of "tc=" clauses.
2797 + modified tic to expand all but the final "tc=" clause in a termcap
2798 entry, to accommodate termcap libraries which do not handle multiple
2800 + correct typo in curs_inopts.3x regarding CS8/CS7 usage (report by
2802 + remove a couple of redundant uses of A_ATTRIBUTES in expressions
2803 using AttrOf(), which already incorporates that mask (report by
2805 + document TABSIZE variable.
2806 + add NCURSES_ASSUMED_COLORS environment variable, to allow users to
2807 override compiled-in default black-on-white assumption used in
2808 assume_default_colors().
2809 + correct an off-by-one comparison against max_colors in COLORFGBG
2811 + correct a use of uninitialized memory found by valgrind (reported by
2812 Olaf Buddenhagen <olafBuddenhagen@web.de>).
2813 + modified wresize() to ensure that a failed realloc will not corrupt
2814 the window structure, and to make subwindows fit within the resized
2815 window (completes Debian #87678, #101699)
2818 + fix an off-by-one in lib_pad.c check for limits of pad (patch by
2820 + revise logic for BeOS in lib_twait.c altered in 20011013 to restore
2821 logic used by lib_getch.c's support for GPM or EMX mouse (report by
2823 + remove NCURSES_CONST from several prototypes in curses.wide, to make
2824 the --enable-const --enable-widec configure options to work together
2825 (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@yahoo.com>).
2828 + finish no-leak checking in cardfile.c, using this for testing changes
2830 + simplify _nc_freeall() using delscreen().
2833 + check error-return from _nc_set_tty_mode() in _nc_initscr() and
2834 reset_prog_mode() (report/patch by Philippe Blain).
2835 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52, to address
2836 problem with identifying C++ bool type.
2837 + correct/improve logic to produce an exit status for errors in tput,
2838 which did not exit with an error when told to put a string not in the
2839 current terminfo entry (report by David Gomez <david@pleyades.net>).
2840 + modify configure script AC_OUTPUT() call to work around defect in
2841 autoconf 2.52 which adds an ifdef'd include to the generated
2842 configure definitions.
2843 + remove fstat() check from scr_init(), which also fixes a missing
2844 include for <sys/stat.h> from 20020713 (reported by David Ellement,
2845 fix suggested by Philippe Blain).
2846 + update curs_scanw.3x manpage to note that XSI curses differs from
2847 SVr4 curses: return-values are incompatible.
2848 + correct several prototypes in manpages which used const
2849 inconsistently with the curses.h file, and removed spurious const's
2850 in a few places from curses.h, e.g., for wbkgd() (report by Glenn
2851 Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>).
2852 + change internal type used by tparm() to long, to work with LP64 model.
2853 + modify nc_alloc.h to allow building with g++, for testing.
2856 + add resize-handling to cardfile.c test program.
2857 + altered resizeterm() to avoid having it fail when a child window
2858 cannot be resized because it would be larger than its parent. (More
2859 work must be done on this, but it works well enough to integrate).
2860 + improve a limit-check in lib_refresh.c
2861 + remove check in lib_screen.c relating dumptime to file's modification
2862 times, since that would not necessarily work for remotely mounted
2864 + modify lrtest to simplify debugging changes to resizeterm, e.g.,
2865 t/T commands to enable/disable tracing.
2866 + updated status of multibyte support in TO-DO.
2867 + update contact info in source-files (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
2870 + add Caps.hpux11, as an example.
2871 + modify version_filter(), used to implement -R option for tic and
2872 infocmp, to use computed array offsets based on the Caps.* file which
2873 is actually configured, rather than constants which correspond to
2875 + reorganized lib_raw.c to avoid updating SP and cur_term state if the
2876 functions fail (reported by Philippe Blain).
2877 + add -Wundef to gcc warnings, adjust a few ifdef's to accommodate gcc.
2880 + correct parameters to setcchar() in ncurses.c (cf: 20020406).
2881 + set locale in most test programs (view.c and ncurses.c were the
2883 + add configure option --with-build-cppflags (report by Maksim A
2884 Nikulin <M.A.Nikulin@inp.nsk.su>).
2885 + correct a typo in wide-character logic for lib_bkgnd.c (Philippe
2887 + modify lib_wacs.c to not cancel the acsc, smacs, rmacs strings when
2888 in UTF-8 locale. Wide-character functions use Unicode values, while
2889 narrow-character functions use the terminfo data.
2890 + fix a couple of places in Ada95/samples which did not compile with
2892 + modify mkinstalldirs so the DOS-pathname case is locale-independent.
2893 + fix locale problem in MKlib_gen.sh by forcing related variables to
2894 POSIX (C), using same approach as autoconf (set variables only if
2895 they were set before). Update MKterminfo.sh and MKtermsort.sh to
2899 + add charset to generated html.
2900 + add mvterm entry, adapted from a FreeBSD bug-report by Daniel Rudy
2901 <dcrudy@pacbell.net> -TD
2902 + add rxvt-16color, ibm+16color entries -TD
2903 + modify check in --disable-overwrite option so that it is used by
2904 default unless the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr, in attempt to
2905 work around packagers, e.g., for Sun's freeware, who do not read the
2909 + modify wgetch() to allow returning ungetch'd KEY_RESIZE as a function
2910 key code in get_wch().
2911 + extended resize-handling in test/ncurses 'a' menu to the entire
2912 stack of windows created with 'w' commands.
2913 + improve $COLORFGBG feature by interpreting an out-of-range color
2914 value as an SGR 39 or 49, for foreground/background respectively.
2915 + correct a typo in configure --enable-colorfgbg option, and move it
2916 to the experimental section (cf: 20011208).
2919 + add logic to dump_entry.c to remove function-key definitions that do
2920 not fit into the 1023-byte limit for generated termcaps. This makes
2922 + more improvements to tic's warnings, including logic to ignore
2923 differences between delay values in sgr strings.
2924 + move definition of KEY_RESIZE into MKkeydefs.sh script, to
2925 accommodate Caps.osf1r5 which introduced a conflicting definition.
2928 + add simple resize-handling in test/ncurses.c 'a' menu.
2929 + fixes in keyname() and _tracechar() to handle negative values.
2930 + make tic's warnings about mismatches in sgr strings easier to follow.
2931 + correct tic checks for number of parameters in smgbp and smglp.
2932 + improve scoansi terminfo entry, and add scoansi-new entry -TD
2933 + add pcvt25-color terminfo entry -TD
2934 + add kf13-kf48 strings to cons25w terminfo entry (reported by Stephen
2935 Hurd <deuce@lordlegacy.org> in newsgroup lucky.freebsd.bugs) -TD
2936 + add entrypoint _nc_trace_ttymode(), use this to distinguish the
2937 Ottyb and Nttyb members of terminal (aka cur_term), for tracing.
2940 + correct and simplify logic for lib_pad.c change in 20020518 (reported
2944 + fix lib_pad.c for case of drawing a double-width character which
2945 falls off the left margin of the pad (patch by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij
2946 <lerdsuwa@users.sourceforge.net>)
2947 + modify configure script to work around broken gcc 3.1 "--version"
2948 option, which adds unnecessary trash to the requested information.
2949 + adjust ifdef's in case SIGWINCH is not defined, e.g., with DJGPP
2950 (reported by Ben Decker <deckerben@freenet.de>).
2953 + implement vid_puts(), vid_attr(), term_attrs() based on the narrow-
2954 character versions as well.
2955 + implement erasewchar(), killwchar() based on erasechar() and
2957 + modify erasechar() and killchar() to return ERR if the value was
2959 + correct a bug in wresize() in handling subwindows (based on patch by
2960 Roger Gammans <rgammans@computer-surgery.co.uk>, report by Scott Beck
2961 <scott@gossamer-threads.com>).
2962 + improve test/tclock.c by making the second-hand update more often
2963 if gettimeofday() is available.
2966 + workaround for Solaris sed with MKlib_gen.sh (reported by Andy
2967 Tsouladze <andyt@mypoints.com>).
2970 + correct return-value from getcchar(), making it consistent with
2972 + reorder loops that generate makefile rules for different models vs
2973 subsets so configure --with-termlib works again. This was broken by
2974 logic added to avoid duplicate rules in changes to accommodate cygwin
2975 dll's (reported by George.R.Goffe@seagate.com).
2976 + update config.guess, config.sub
2979 + modify ifdef's in write_entry.c to allow use of symbolic links on
2980 platforms with no hard links, e.g., BeOS.
2981 + modify a few includes to allow compile with BeOS, which has stdbool.h
2982 with a conflicting definition for 'bool' versus its OS.h definition.
2983 + amend MKlib_gen.sh to work with gawk, which defines 'func' as an
2984 alias for 'function'.
2987 + correct form of prototype for ripoffline().
2988 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to test that all functions marked as implemented
2992 + add manpages: curs_get_wstr.3x, curs_in_wchstr.3x
2993 + implement wgetn_wstr().
2994 + implement win_wchnstr().
2995 + remove redefinition of unget_wch() in lib_gen.c (reported by
2996 Jungshik Shin <jshin@jtan.com>).
2999 + modified several of the test programs to allow them to compile with
3000 vendor curses implementations, e.g., Solaris, AIX -TD
3003 + modified test/configure to allow configuring against ncursesw.
3004 + change WACS_xxx definition to use address, to work like Tru64 curses.
3007 + add 'e' and 'm' toggles to 'a', 'A' tests in ncurses.c to demonstrate
3008 effect of echo/noecho and meta modes.
3009 + add 'A' test to ncurses.c to demonstrate wget_wch() and related
3011 + add manpage: curs_get_wch.3x
3012 + implement unget_wch().
3013 + implement wget_wch().
3016 + regenerated html manpages.
3017 + add manpages: curs_in_wch.3x, curs_ins_wch.3x, curs_ins_wstr.3x
3018 + implement wins_wch().
3019 + implement win_wch().
3020 + implement wins_nwstr(), wins_wstr().
3023 + add manpages: curs_addwstr.3x, curs_winwstr.3x
3024 + implement winnwstr(), winwstr().
3027 + add manpages: curs_add_wchstr.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x
3028 + document wunctrl, key_name.
3029 + implement key_name().
3030 + remove const's in lib_box.c incorrectly leftover after splitting off
3032 + update llib-lncurses, llib-ncursesw, fix configure script related to
3036 + remove quotes on "SYNOPSIS" in man/curs_box_set.3x, which resulted
3037 in spurious symlinks on install.
3040 + implement whline_set(), wvline_set(), add manpage curs_border_set.
3041 + add subtest 'b' to 'F' and 'f' in ncurses.c to demonstrate use of
3042 box() and box_set() functions.
3043 + add subtest 'u' to 'F' in ncurses.c, to demonstrate use of addstr()
3044 given UTF-8 string equivalents of WACS_xxx symbols.
3045 + minor fixes to several manpages based on groff -ww output.
3046 + add descriptions of external variables of termcap interface to
3047 the manpage (report by Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>).
3048 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
3049 + correct configure option --with-bool, which was executed as
3051 + add quotes for parameters of --with-bool and --with-ospeed configure
3053 > patch by Sven Verdoolaege (report by Gerhard Haering
3054 <haering_linux@gmx.de>):
3055 + correct typos in definitions of several wide-character macros:
3056 waddwstr, wgetbkgrnd, mvaddwstr, mvwadd_wchnstr, mvwadd_wchnstr,
3058 + pass $(CPPFLAGS) to MKlib_gen.sh, thereby fixing a missing definition
3059 of _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, e.g., on Solaris
3062 + implement wide-acs characters for UTF-8 locales. When in UTF-8
3063 locale, ignore narrow version of acs. Add 'F' test to test/ncurses.c
3065 + correct prototype in keybound manpage (noted from a Debian mailing
3069 + add several cases to the wscanw() example in testcurs.c, showing the
3071 + implement a simple vsscanf() fallback function which uses the %n
3072 conversion to help parse the input data (prompted by discussion with
3073 Albert Chin-A-Young).
3074 + modify mk-1st.awk and test/Makefile.in to add $(LDFLAGS) when making
3075 shared libraries, and to use $(CFLAGS) when linking test programs
3076 (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3077 + add a call to _nc_keypad() in keypad() to accommodate applications
3078 such as nvi, which use curses for output but not for input (fixes
3079 Debian #131263, cf: 20011215).
3080 + add entrypoints to resizeterm.c which provide better control over the
3081 process: is_term_resized() and resize_term(). The latter restores
3082 the original design of resizeterm() before KEY_RESIZE was added in
3083 970906. Do this to accommodate 20010922 changes to view.c, but allow
3084 for programs with their own sigwinch handler, such as lynx (reported
3085 by Russell Ruby <russ@math.orst.edu>).
3088 + fix a typo in change to mk-1st.awk, which broke the shared-library
3089 makefile rules (reported by Martin Mokrejs).
3092 + update config.guess, config.sub
3093 + finish changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
3094 + fix a typo in mvwchat() macro (reported by Cy <yam@homerow.net).
3097 + add case in lib_baudrate.c for B921600 (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
3098 + correct missing sed-editing stage in manpage installs which is used
3099 to rename manpages, broken in 20010324 fix for Debian #89939 (Debian
3101 + remove -L$(libdir) from linker flags, probably not needed any more
3102 since HPUX is handled properly (reported by Niibe Yutaka
3104 + add configure check for mbstate_t, needed for wide-character
3105 configuration. On some platforms we must include <wchar.h> to
3106 define this (reported by Daniel Jacobowitz).
3107 + incorporate some of the changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
3110 + workaround for awk did not work with mawk, adjusted shell script.
3113 + add Caps.osf1r5, as an example.
3114 + modify behavior of can_clear_with() so that if an application is
3115 running in a non-bce terminals with default colors enabled, it
3116 returns true, allowing the user to select/paste text without picking
3117 up extraneous trailing blanks (adapted from patch by Daniel
3118 Jacobowitz <dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu>).
3119 + modify generated curses.h to ifdef-out prototypes for extensions if
3120 they are disabled, and to define curses_version() as a string in that
3121 case. This is needed to make the programs such as tic build in that
3123 + modified generated headers.sh to remove a gzip'd version of the
3124 target file if it exists, in case non-gzip'd manpages are installed
3125 into a directory where gzip'd ones exist. In that case, the latter
3127 + corrected a redundant initialization of signal handlers from 20010922
3129 + clarified bug-reporting address in terminfo.src (report by John H
3130 DuBois III <spcecdt@armory.com>).
3131 > several fixes from Robert Joop:
3132 + do not use "-v" option of awk in MKkey_defs.sh because it does not
3133 work with SunOS nawk.
3134 + modify definitions for libutf8 in curses.h to avoid redefinition
3136 + quoted references to compiler in shell command in misc/Makefile, in
3137 case it uses multiple tokens.
3140 + restore special case from 20010922 changes to omit SA_RESTART when
3141 setting up SIGWINCH handler, which is needed to allow wgetch() to be
3142 interrupted by that signal.
3143 + update configure macro CF_WITH_PATHLIST, to omit some double quotes
3144 not needed with autoconf 2.52
3145 + revert configure script to autoconf 2.13 patched with
3146 autoconf-2.13-19990117.patch.gz (or later)
3148 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
3149 because autoconf 2.52 macro AC_PROG_AWK does not work on HPUX 11.0
3150 (report by David Ellement <ellement@sdd.hp.com>). This also fixes a
3151 different problem configuring with Mac OS X (reported by Marc Smith
3152 <marc.a.smith@home.com>).
3155 + modify include/edit_cfg.h to eliminate BROKEN_LINKER symbol from
3157 + move prototype for _nc_vsscanf() into curses.h.in to omit
3158 HAVE_VSSCANF symbol from curses.h, which was dependent upon the
3159 ncurses_cfg.h file which is not installed.
3160 + use ACS_LEN rather than SIZEOF(acs_map) in trace code of lib_acs.c,
3161 to work with broken linker configuration, e.g., cygwin (report by
3162 Robert Joop <rj@rainbow.in-berlin.de>).
3163 + make napms() call _nc_timed_wait() rather than poll() or select(),
3164 to work around broken implementations of these on cygwin.
3167 + drop configure macro CF_WIDEC_SHIFT, since that was rendered obsolete
3168 by Sven Verdoolaege's rewrite of wide-character support. This makes
3169 libncursesw incompatible again, but makes the header files almost the
3170 same as in the narrow-character configuration.
3171 + simplify definitions that combine wide/narrow versions of bkgd, etc.,
3172 to eliminate differences between the wide/narrow versions of curses.h
3173 + correct typo in configure macro CF_FUNC_VSSCANF
3174 + correct location of call to _nc_keypad() from 20011215 changes which
3175 prevented keypad() from being disabled (reported by Lars Hecking).
3178 + rewrote ncurses 'a' test to exercise wgetch() and keypad() functions
3179 better, e.g., by adding a 'w' command to create new windows which
3180 may have different keypad() settings.
3181 + corrected logic of keypad() by adding internal screen state to track
3182 whether the terminal's keypad-mode has been set. Use this in
3183 wgetch() to update the keypad-mode according to whether the
3184 associated window's keypad-mode has been set with keypad(). This
3185 corrects a related problem restoring terminal state after handling
3186 SIGTSTP (reported by Mike Castle).
3187 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52
3188 autoconf-2.52-patch.gz
3190 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
3191 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3192 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
3193 + minor changes to quoting in configure script to allow it to work
3197 + modify final checks in lib_setup.c for line and col values, making
3199 + modify acs_map[] if configure --broken-linker is specified, to make
3200 it use a function rather than an array (prompted by an incorrect
3201 implementation in cygwin package).
3202 + correct spelling of configure option --enable-colorfgbg, which
3203 happened to work if --with-develop was set (noted in cygwin package
3205 + modify ifdef for genericerror() to compile with SUNWspro Sun WorkShop
3206 6 update 1 C++ 5.2 (patch by Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu>).
3207 + add configure checks to see if ncurses' fallback vsscanf() will
3208 compile either of the special cases for FILE structs, and if not,
3209 force it to the case which simply returns an error (report by
3210 Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu> indicates that Solaris 8 with
3211 64-bits does not allow access to FILE's fields).
3212 + modify ifdef's for c++/cursesw.cc to use the fallback vsscanf() in
3213 the ncurses library if no better substitute for this can be found
3215 + modify the build to name dynamic libraries according to the
3216 convention used on OS X and Darwin. Rather than something like
3217 libncurses.dylib.5.2, Darwin would name it libncurses. 5.dylib.
3218 There are a few additional minor fixes, such as setting the library
3219 version and compatibility version numbers (patch by Jason Evans
3220 <jevans@apple.com>).
3221 + use 'sh' to run mkinstalldirs, to work around problems with buggy
3222 versions of 'make' on OS/2 (report by John Polterak <jp@eyup.org>).
3223 + correct typo in manpage description of curs_set() (Debian #121548).
3224 + replace the configure script existence-check for mkstemp() by one
3225 that checks if the function works, needed for older glibc and
3229 + modify script that generates fallbacks.c to compile a temporary
3230 copy of the terminfo source in case the host does not contain all of
3231 the entries requested for fallbacks (request by Greg Roelofs).
3232 + modify configure script to accommodate systems such as Mac OS X whose
3233 <stdbool.h> header defines a 'bool' type inconsistent with ncurses,
3234 which normally makes 'bool' consistent with C++. Include <stdbool.h>
3235 from curses.h to force consistent usage, define a new type
3236 NCURSES_BOOL and related that to the exported 'bool' as either a
3237 typedef or definition, according to whether <stdbool.h> is present
3238 (based on a bug report for tin 1.5.9 by Aaron Adams <adamsa@mac.com>).
3241 + added/updated terminfo entries for M$ telnet and KDE konsole -TD
3244 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
3245 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
3246 + add putty terminfo entry -TD
3247 + if configuring for wide-curses, define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, since
3248 this may not otherwise be defined to make test/view.c compile.
3251 + review/correct several missing/generated items in curses.wide, sorted
3252 the lists to make subsequent diff's easier to track.
3255 + add manual pages for add_wch(), echo_wchar(), getcchar(),
3256 mvadd_wch(), mvwadd_wch(), setcchar(), wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar().
3257 + implement wecho_wchar()
3258 + modify _tracedump() to handle wide-characters by mapping them to '?'
3259 and control-characters to '.', to make the trace file readable. Also
3260 dynamically allocate the buffer used by _tracedump() for formatting
3262 + modify T_CALLED/T_RETURN macros to ease balancing call/return lines
3263 in a trace by using curly braces.
3264 + implement _nc_viscbuf(), for tracing cchar_t arrays.
3265 + correct trace-calls in setcchar() and getcchar() functions, which
3266 traced the return values but not the entry to each function.
3267 + correct usage message in test/view.c, which still mentioned -u flag.
3270 + modify configure script to allow building with termcap only, or with
3271 fallbacks only. In this case, we do not build tic and toe.
3272 + add configure --with-termpath option, to override default TERMPATH
3273 value of /etc/termcap:/usr/share/misc/termcap.
3274 + cosmetic change to tack: make menu descriptions agree with menu
3278 + rewrote limit-checks in wscrl() and associated _nc_scroll_window(),
3279 to ensure that if the parameter of wscrl() is larger than the size of
3280 the scrolling region, then the scrolling region will be cleared
3281 (report by Ben Kohlen <bckohlen@yahoo.com>).
3282 + add trace/varargs.c, using this to trace parameters in lib_printw.c
3283 + implement _tracecchar_t2() and _tracecchar_t().
3284 + split-out trace/visbuf.c
3285 + correct typo in lib_printw.c changes from 20010922 (report by Mike
3289 + modify run_tic.sh to check if the build is a cross-compile. In that
3290 case, do not use the build's tic to install the terminfo database
3291 (report by Rafael Rodriguez Velilla <rrv@tid.es>).
3292 + modify mouse click resolution so that mouseinterval(-1) will disable
3293 it, e.g., to handle touchscreens via a slow connection (request by
3294 Byron Stanoszek <gandalf@winds.org>).
3295 + correct mouseinterval() default value shown in curs_mouse.3x
3296 + remove conflicting definition of mouse_trafo() (reported by Lars
3297 Hecking, using gcc 2.95.3).
3300 + simpler fix for signal_name(), to replace the one overlooked in
3301 20010929 (reported by Larry Virden).
3304 + add -i option to view.c, to test ncurses' check for non-default
3305 signal handler for SIGINT, etc.
3306 + add cases for shared-libraries on Darwin/OS X (patch by Rob Braun
3307 <bbraun@synack.net>).
3308 + modify tset to restore original I/O modes if an error is encountered.
3309 Also modify to use buffered stderr consistently rather than mixing
3311 + change signal_name() function to use if-then-else rather than case
3312 statement, since signal-values aren't really integers (reported by
3314 + add limit checks in wredrawln(), fixing a problem where lynx was
3315 repainting a pad which was much larger than the screen.
3318 + fix: PutRange() was counting the second part of a wide character as
3319 part of a run, resulting in a cursor position that was one too far
3320 (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
3321 + modify resizeterm() to not queue a KEY_RESIZE if there was no
3322 SIGWINCH, thereby separating the two styles of SIGWINCH handling
3324 + simplified lib_tstp.c, modify it to use SA_RESTART flag for SIGWINCH.
3325 + eliminate several static buffers in the terminfo compiler, using
3327 + modify MKkeyname.awk so that keyname() does not store its result into
3328 a static buffer that is overwritten by the next call.
3329 + reorganize the output of infocmp -E and -e options to compile cleanly
3330 with gcc -Wwrite-strings warnings.
3331 + remove redefinition of chgat/wchgat/mvwchgat from curses.wide
3334 + add label to test/view.c, showing the name of the last key or signal
3335 that made the screen repaint, to make it clearer when a sigwinch
3337 + use ExitProgram() consistently in the test-programs to make it
3338 simpler to test leaks with dmalloc, etc.
3339 + move hashtab static data out of hashmap.c into SCREEN struct.
3340 + make NO_LEAK code compile with revised WINDOWLIST structs.
3343 + modify tgetent() to check if exit_attribute_mode resets the alternate
3344 character set, and if so, attempt to adjust the copy of the termcap
3345 "me" string which it will return to eliminate that part. In
3346 particular, 'screen' would lose track of line-drawing characters
3347 (report by Frederic L W Meunier <0@pervalidus.net>, analysis by
3351 + specify DOCTYPE in html manpages.
3352 + add missing macros for several "generated" functions: attr_get(),
3353 attr_off(), attr_on(), attr_set(), chgat(), mvchgat(), mvwchgat() and
3355 + modify view.c to agree with non-experimental status of ncurses'
3357 + change the sense of the -r option, making it default to ncurses'
3359 + add a note explaining what functions are unsafe in a signal
3361 + add a -c option, to set color display, for testing.
3362 + unset $data variable in MKterminfo.sh script, to address potential
3363 infinite loop if shell malfunction (report by Samuel Mikes
3364 <smikes@cubane.com>, for bash 2.05.0 on a Linux 2.0.36 system).
3365 + change kbs in mach terminfo entries to ^? (Marcus Brinkmann
3366 <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>).
3367 + correct logic for COLORFGBG environment variable: if rxvt is compiled
3368 with xpm support, the variable has three fields, making it slightly
3369 incompatible with itself. In either case, the background color is
3373 + move calls to def_shell_mode() and def_prog_mode() before loop with
3374 callbacks in lib_set_term.c, since the c++ demo otherwise initialized
3375 the tty modes before saving them (patch by John David Anglin
3376 <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>).
3377 + duplicate logic used to initialize trace in newterm(), in initscr()
3378 to avoid confusing trace of initscr().
3379 + simplify allocation of WINDOW and WINDOWLIST structs by making the
3380 first a part of the second rather than storing a pointer. This saves
3381 a call to malloc for each window (discussion with Philippe Blain).
3382 + remove unused variable 'used_ncv' from lib_vidattr.c (Philippe
3384 + modify c++/Makefile.in to accommodate archive programs that are
3385 different for C++ than for C, and add cases for vendor's C++
3386 compilers on Solaris and IRIX (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3387 + correct manpage description of criteria for deciding if the terminal
3388 supports xterm mouse controls.
3389 + add several configure script options to aid with cross-compiling:
3390 --with-build-cc, --with-build-cflags, --with-build-ldflags, and
3391 --with-build-libs (request by Greg Roelofs).
3392 + change criteria for deciding if configure is cross-compiling from
3393 host/build mismatch to host/target mismatch (request by Greg Roelofs
3394 <greg.roelofs@philips.com>).
3395 + correct logic for infocmp -e and -E options which writes the data for
3396 the ext_Names[] array. This is needed if one constructs a fallback
3397 table for a terminfo entry which uses extended termcap names, e.g.,
3398 AX in a color xterm.
3399 + fix undefined NCURSES_PATHSEP when configure --disable-database
3403 + fix for VALID_BOOLEAN() macro when char is not signed.
3404 + modify 'clean' rule for C++ binding to work with Sun compiler, which
3405 caches additional information in a subdirectory of the objects.
3406 + added llib-ncursesw.
3409 + add Caps.keys example for experimental extended function keys
3410 (adapted from a patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
3411 + correct parameter types of vidputs() and vidattr() to agree with
3412 header files (report by William P Setzer).
3413 + fix typos in several man-pages (patch by William P Setzer).
3414 + remove unneeded ifdef for __GNUG__ in CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC configure
3415 macro, which made ncurses C++ binding fail to build with other
3416 C++ compilers such as HPUX 11.x (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3417 + workaround for bug in HPUX 11.x C compiler: add a blank after
3418 NCURSES_EXPORT macro in form.h (report by Albert Chin-A-Young)
3419 + ignore blank lines in Caps* files in MKkey_defs.sh script (report by
3420 Albert Chin-A-Young).
3421 + correct definition of key_end in Caps.aix4, which left KEY_END
3422 undefined (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3423 + remove a QNX-specific fallback prototype for vsscanf(), which is
3424 obsolete with QNX RTP.
3425 + review/fix some of the T() and TR() macro calls, having noticed that
3426 there was no data for delwin() in a trace of dialog because there was
3427 no returnVoid call for wtimeout(). Also, traces in lib_twait.c are
3428 now selected under TRACE_IEVENT rather than TRACE_CALLS.
3431 + add a _nc_access() check before opening files listed via $TERMPATH.
3432 + using modified man2html, regenerate some of the html manpages to fix
3433 broken HREF's where the link was hyphenated.
3436 + add some limit/pointer checks to -S option of tputs.
3437 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
3438 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
3439 + add a note in curs_termcap.3x regarding a defect in the XSI
3440 description of tgetent (based on a discussion with Urs Jansen
3441 regarding the HPUX 11.x implementation, whose termcap interface is
3442 not compatible with existing termcap programs).
3443 + modify manhtml rule in dist.mk to preserve copyright notice on the
3444 generated files, as well as to address HTML style issues reported by
3445 tidy and weblint. Regenerated/updated corresponding html files.
3446 + comment out use of Protected_Character and related rarely used
3447 attributes in ncurses Ada95 test/demo to compile with wide-character
3451 + implement a simple example in C++ demo to test scanw().
3452 + corrected stdio function used to implement scanw() in cursesw.cc
3453 + correct definition of RemAttr() macro from 20010602 changes, which
3454 caused C++ SillyDemo to not show line-drawing characters.
3455 + modify C++ binding, adding getKey() which can be overridden by user
3456 to substitute functions other than getch() for keyboard processing
3457 of forms and menus (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3460 + fix some of the trace calls which needed modification to work with
3461 new wide-character structures.
3462 + modify magic-cookie code in tty_update.c to compile with new
3463 wide-character structures (report by <George.R.Goffe@seagate.com>).
3464 + ensure that _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined in curses.priv.h if
3465 compiling for wide-character configuration.
3466 + make addwnstr() handle non-spacing characters (patch by Sven
3470 + add configure check to define _GNU_SOURCE, needed to prop up glibc
3472 + split-out include/curses.wide to solve spurious redefinitions caused
3473 by defining _GNU_SOURCE, and move includes for <signal.h> before
3474 <curses.h> to work around misdefinition of ERR in glibc 2.1.3 header
3476 + extended ospeed change to NetBSD and OpenBSD -TD
3477 + modify logic in lib_baudrate.c for ospeed, for FreeBSD to make it
3478 work properly for termcap applications (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
3481 + correct an overlooked CharOf/UChar instance (reports by Eugene Lee
3482 <eugene@anime.net>, Sven Verdoolaege).
3483 + correct unneeded ifdef for wunctrl() (reported by Sven Verdoolaege)
3486 + change overlooked several CharOf/UChar instances.
3487 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
3488 + correct a typo in wunctrl(), which made it appear that botwc() was
3489 needed (no such function: use btowc()).
3490 + reimplement wide-character demo in test/view.c, using new functions.
3491 + implement getcchar(), setcchar(), wadd_wchnstr() and related macros.
3492 + fix a syntax problem with do/if/while in PUTC macro (curses.priv.h).
3495 + add parentheses in macros for malloc in test.priv.h, fixes an
3496 expression in view.c (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.co.at>).
3497 + add Caps.uwin, as an example.
3498 + change the way curses.h is generated, making the list of function
3499 key definitions extracted from the Caps file.
3500 + add #undef's before possible redefinition of ERR and OK in curses.h
3501 + modify logic in tic, toe, tput and tset which checks for basename of
3502 argv[0] to work properly on systems such as OS/2 which have
3503 case-independent filenames and/or program suffixes, e.g., ".ext".
3506 + add a configure check, if --enable-widec is specified, for putwc(),
3507 which may be in libutf8.
3508 + remove some unnecessary text from curs_extend.3x and
3509 default_colors.3x which caused man-db to make incorrect symbolic
3510 links (Debian bug report #99550).
3511 + add configure check if cast for _IO_va_list is needed to compile
3512 C++ vscan code (Debian bug report #97945).
3513 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
3514 + correct code that used non-standard auto-initialization of a struct,
3515 which gcc allows (report by Larry Virden).
3516 + use putwc() in PUTC() macro.
3517 + make addstr() work for the special case where the codeset is
3518 non-stateful (eg. UTF-8), as well as stateful codesets.
3521 + correct loop expression in NEXT_CHAR macro for lib_addstr.c changes
3522 from 20010602 (report by Mike Castle).
3525 + modify mvcur() to avoid emitting newline characters when nonl() mode
3526 is set. Normally this is not a problem since the actual terminal
3527 mode is set to suppress nl/crlf translations, however it is useful to
3528 allow the caller to manipulate the terminal mode to avoid staircasing
3529 effects after spawning a process which writes messages (for lynx
3531 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>:
3532 + remove redundant type-conversion in fifo_push()
3533 + correct definition of addwstr() macro in curses.h.in
3534 + remove _nc_utf8_outch()
3535 + rename most existing uses of CharOf() to UChar(), e.g., where it is
3536 used to prevent sign-extension in ctype macros.
3537 + change some chtype's to attr_t's where the corresponding variables
3538 are used to manipulate attributes.
3539 + UpdateAttr() was applied to both attributes (attr_t) and characters
3540 (chtype). Modify macro and calls to it to make these distinct.
3541 + add CharEq() macro, use in places where wide-character configuration
3542 implementation uses a struct for cchar_t.
3543 + moved struct ldat into curses.priv.h, to hide implementation details.
3544 + change CharOf() macro to use it for masking A_CHARTEXT data from
3546 + add L() macro to curses.priv.h, for long-character literals.
3547 + replace several assignments from struct ldat entries to chtype or
3548 char values with combinations of CharOf() and AttrOf() macros.
3549 + add/use intermediate ChAttrOf() and ChCharOf() macros where we know
3550 we are using chtype data.
3551 + add/use lowlevel attribute manipulation macros AddAttr(), RemAttr()
3553 + add/use SetChar() macro, to change a cchar_t based on a character and
3555 + convert most internal use of chtype to NCURSES_CH_T, to simplify use
3556 of cchar_t for wide-character configuration. Similarly, use ARG_CH_T
3557 where a pointer would be more useful.
3558 + add stubs for tracing cchar_t values.
3559 + add/use macro ISBLANK()
3560 + add/use constructors for cchar_t's: NewChar(), NewChar2().
3561 + add/use macros CHREF(), CHDEREF(), AttrOfD(), CharOfD() to facilitate
3562 passing cchar_t's by address.
3563 + add/use PUTC_DATA, PUTC() macros.
3564 + for wide-character configuration, move the window background data to
3565 the end of the WINDOW struct so that whether _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
3566 is defined or not, the offsets in the struct will not change.
3567 + modify addch() to work with wide-characters.
3568 + mark several wide-character functions as generated in curses.h.in
3569 + implement wunctrl(), wadd_wch(), wbkgrndset(), wbkgrnd(),
3570 wborder_set() and waddnwstr().
3573 + add experimental --with-caps=XXX option to customize to similar
3574 terminfo database formats such as AIX 4.x
3575 + add Caps.aix4 as an example.
3576 + modify Caps to add columns for the the KEY_xxx symbols.
3577 + modify configure --with-widec to suppress overwrite of libcurses.so
3579 + add checks to toe.c to avoid being confused by files and directories
3580 where we would expect the reverse, e.g., source-files in the
3581 top-level terminfo levels as is the case for AIX.
3584 + add top-level 'depend' rule for the C sources, assuming that the
3585 makedepend program is available. As a side-effect, this makes
3586 the generated sources, as in "make sources" (prompted by a report
3587 by Mike Castle that "make -j" fails because the resulting parallel
3588 processes race to generate ncurses/names.c).
3589 + modify configure script so that --disable-overwrite option's action
3590 to add a symbolic link for libcurses applies to the static library as
3591 well as the shared library when both are configured (report by Felix
3592 Natter <f.natter@ndh.net>).
3593 + add ELKS terminfo entries (Federico Bianchi
3594 <bianchi@www.arte.unipi.it>)
3595 + add u6 (CSR) to Eterm (Michael Jennings).
3598 + modify test/ncurses.c to work with xterm-256color, which has fewer
3599 color pairs than colors*colors (report by David Ellement
3600 <ellement@sdd.hp.com>).
3603 + corrected screen.xterm-xfree86 entry.
3604 + update comment in Caps regarding IBM (AIX) function-key definitions.
3607 + modify c++/Makefile.in to link with libncurses++w.a when configured
3608 for wide-characters (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
3609 + add check in _nc_trace_buf() to refrain from freeing a null pointer.
3610 + improve CF_PROG_INSTALL macro using CF_DIRNAME.
3611 + update config.guess, config.sub from autoconf 2.49e (alpha).
3614 + add secondary check in tic.c, similar_sgr() to see if the reason
3615 for mismatch was that the individual capabilities used a time-delay
3616 while sgr did not. Used this to cleanup mismatches, e.g., in vt100,
3617 and remove time-delay from Apple_Terminal entries.
3618 + add Apple_Terminal terminfo entries (Benjamin C W Sittler
3619 <bsittler@iname.com>).
3620 + correct definitions of shifted editing keys for xterm-xfree86 -TD
3621 + fix a bug in test/bs.c from 20010407 (patch by Erik Sigra).
3622 + prevent relative_move() from doing an overwrite if it detects 8-bit
3623 characters when configured for UTF-8 (reported by Sven Verdoolaege
3624 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
3627 + add configure checks for strstream.h vscan function, and similar
3628 stdio-based function which may be used in C++ binding for gcc 3.0
3629 (reports by George Goffe, Lars Hecking, Mike Castle).
3630 + rewrite parts of configure.in which used changequote(). That feature
3631 is broken in the latest autoconf alphas (e.g., 2.49d).
3632 + add a missing pathname for ncurses_dll.h, needed when building in
3633 a directory outside the source tree (patch by Sven Verdoolaege
3634 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
3635 > fix 2 bugs in test/bs.c Erik Sigra <sigra@home.se>:
3636 + no ships were ever placed in the last row or in the last column.
3637 This made the game very easy to win, because you never had to waste
3638 any shots there, but the computer did.
3639 + the squares around a sunken ship that belonged to the player were not
3640 displayed as already hit by the computer, like it does for the
3644 + add some examples of customizing screen's terminfo:
3645 screen.xterm-xfree86, screen.xterm-r6, screen.teraterm -TD
3646 + modify screen's terminfo entry to match the khome/kend in screen
3647 3.09.08 (Debian bug report #92215).
3648 + correct a memory leak in forms library (report by Stefan Vogtner
3649 <stefan@vogtner.de>) (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3652 + change symbols used to guard against repeated includes to begin
3653 consistently with "NCURSES_" rather than a leading underscore. There
3654 are other symbols defined in the header files which begin with a
3655 leading underscore, but they are part of the legacy interface.
3656 + reorder includes in c++ binding so that rcs identifiers can be
3658 + add .cc.ii rule to c++ makefile, to get preprocessor output for
3660 + correct configure script handling of @keyword@ substitutions when the
3661 --with-manpage-renames option is given (cf: 20000715, fixes Debian
3663 + report stack underflow/overflow in tparm() when tic -cv option is
3665 + remove spurious "%|" operator from xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry,
3666 (reported by Adam Costello <amc@cs.berkeley.edu>, Debian bug #89222).
3669 + cleanup of newdemo.c, fixing some ambiguous expressions noted by gcc
3670 2.95.2, and correcting some conflicting color pair initializations.
3671 + add missing copyright notice for cursesw.h
3672 + review, make minor fixes for use of '::' for referring to C-language
3673 interface from C++ binding.
3674 + modify configure check for g++ library slightly to accommodate
3675 nonstandard version number, e.g., <vendor>-2.7 (report by Ronald Ho
3676 <rho@mipos2.intel.com>).
3677 + add configure check for c++ <sstream> header, replace hardcoded
3679 + workaround for pre-release of gcc 3.0 libstdc++, which has dropped
3680 vscan from strstreambuf to follow standard, use wrapper for C vscanf
3681 instead (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@excite.com> and Matt Taggart
3682 <taggart@carmen.fc.hp.com>, fixes Debian .
3685 + modify interface of _nc_get_token() to pass 'silent' parameter to it,
3686 to make quieter loading of /etc/termcap (patch by Todd C Miller).
3687 + correct a few typos in curs_slk.3x and curs_outopts.3x manpages
3688 (patch by Todd C Miller).
3691 + compiler-warning fixes (reported by Nelson Beebe).
3694 + modify screen terminfo entry to use new 3.9.8 feature allowing xterm
3698 + broaden patterns used to match OS/2 EMX in configure script to cover
3699 variant used in newer config.guess/config.sub
3700 + remove changequote() calls from configure script, since this feature
3701 is broken in the autoconf 2.49c alpha, maintainers decline to fix.
3702 + remove macro callPutChar() from tty_update.c, since this is no longer
3703 needed (reported by Philippe Blain).
3704 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c to handle the case when the input
3705 file is really empty. Modify the next_char() function in comp_scan.c
3706 to allow arbitrarily long lines, and incidentally supply a newline to
3707 files that do not end in a newline. These changes improve tic's
3708 recovery from attempts to read binary files, e.g., its output from
3709 the terminfo database (reported by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
3712 + revert change to c++/demo.cc from 20001209, which changed definition
3713 of main() apparently to accommodate cygwin linker, but broke the demo
3715 + workaround for broken egcs 2.91.66 which calls member functions
3716 (i.e., lines() and colors() of NCursesWindow before calling its
3717 constructor. Add calls to initialize() in a few constructors which
3718 did not do this already.
3719 + use the GNAT preprocessor to make the necessary switch between TRACE
3720 and NO_TRACE configurations (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3721 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
3722 + modify kterm terminfo entry to use SCS sequence to support alternate
3723 character set (it does not work with SI/SO).
3724 + --with-ospeed=something didn't work. configure.in checked for a
3725 $enableval where it should check for $withval. Also,
3726 ncurses/llib-lncurses still had a hardcoded short.
3729 + correction to my merge of Tom Riddle's patch that broke tic in some
3730 conditions (reported by Enoch Wexler <enoch@wexler.co.il>) -TD
3733 + modify view.c to test halfdelay(). Like other tests, this recognizes
3734 the 's' and space commands for stopping/starting polled input, shows
3735 a freerunning clock in the header. If given a parameter to 's', that
3736 makes view.c use halfdelay() with that parameter rather than
3738 + fix to allow compile with the experimental configure option
3740 + modify postprocess_termcap() to avoid overwriting key_backspace,
3741 key_left, key_down when processing a non-base entry (report/patch by
3743 + modify _nc_wrap_entry(), adding option to reallocate the string
3744 table, needed in _nc_merge_entry() when merging termcap entries.
3745 (adapted from report/patch by Tom Riddle <ftr@oracom.com>).
3746 + modify a few configure script macros to keep $CFLAGS used only for
3747 compiler options, preprocessor options in $CPPFLAGS.
3750 + correct marker positions in lrtest.c after receiving a sigwinch.
3751 + fix ifdef's in ncurses.c to build against pre-5.2 for testing.
3752 + fixes to tclock for resizing behavior, redundant computation (report
3753 and patch by A M Kuchling <akuchlin@mems-exchange.org>).
3756 + improved scoansi terminfo entry -TD
3757 + modify configure script and makefile in Ada95/src to compile a stub
3758 for the trace functions when ncurses does not provide those.
3761 + add ncurses_dll.h and related definitions to support generating DLL's
3762 with cygwin (adapted from a patch by Charles Wilson
3763 <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>, changed NCURSES_EXPORT macro to make it
3764 work with 'indent') -TD
3767 + correct prototypes for some functions in curs_termcap.3x, matching
3768 termcap.h, which matches X/Open.
3769 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
3770 + a revised version of the Ada enhancements sent in by "H.
3771 Nanosecond", aka Eugene V Melaragno <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>. This
3773 - small fixes to the existing ncurses binding
3774 - addition of some more low-level functions to the binding, including
3775 termcap and terminfo functions
3776 - An Ada implementation of the "ncurses" test application originally
3780 + modify logic in lib_setup.c to allow either lines or columns value
3781 from terminfo to be used if the screen size cannot be determined
3782 dynamically rather than requiring both (patch by Ehud Karni
3783 <ehud@unix.simonwiesel.co.il>).
3784 + add check in lib_tgoto.c's is_termcap() function to reject null or
3785 empty strings (reported by Valentin Nechayev <netch@netch.kiev.ua> to
3787 + add definition from configure script that denotes the path-separator,
3788 which is normally a colon. The path-separator is a semicolon on
3789 OS/2 EMX and similar systems which may use a colon within pathnames.
3790 + alter logic to set default for --disable-overwrite option to set it
3791 to 'yes' if the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr/local, thereby
3792 accommodating the most common cause of problems: gcc's nonstandard
3793 search rules. Other locations such as /usr/local/ncurses will
3794 default to overwriting (report by Lars Hecking <lhecking@nmrc.ie>).
3797 + modify default for --disable-overwrite configure option to disable
3798 if the --prefix or $prefix value is not /usr.
3799 + add cygwin to systems for which ncurses is installed by default into
3800 /usr rather than /usr/local.
3803 + minor optimization in comp_error.c and lib_termname.c, using
3804 strncat() to replace strncpy() (patch by Solar Designer).
3805 + add a use_terminfo_vars() check for $HOME/.termcap, and check for
3806 geteuid() to use_terminfo_vars() (patch by Solar Designer
3808 + improved cygwin terminfo entry, based on patch by
3809 <ernie_boyd@yahoo.com>.
3810 + modify _nc_write_entry() to allow for the possibility that linking
3811 aliases on a filesystem that ignores case would not succeed because
3812 the source and destination differ only by case, e.g., NCR260VT300WPP0
3813 on cygwin (report by Neil Zanella).
3814 + fix a typo in the curs_deleteln.3x man page (patch by Bernhard
3815 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
3818 + add configure option --with-ospeed to assist packagers in transition
3819 to 5.3 change to ospeed type.
3820 + add/use CharOf() macro to suppress sign-extension of char type on
3821 platforms where this is a problem in ctype macros, e.g., Solaris.
3822 + change trace output to binary format.
3823 + correct a missing quote adjustment in CF_PATH_SYNTAX autoconf
3824 macro, for OS/2 EMX configuration.
3825 + rearrange a few configure macros, moving preprocessor options to
3826 $CPPFLAGS (a now-obsolete version of autoconf did not consistently
3827 use $CPPFLAGS in both the compile and preprocessor checks).
3828 + add a check in relative_move() to guard against buffer overflow in
3829 the overwrite logic.
3832 + add message to configure script showing g++ version.
3833 + resync config.guess, config.sub
3834 + modify lib_delwin.c, making it return ERR if the window did not exist
3835 (suggested by Neil Zanella).
3836 + add cases for FreeBSD 3.1 to tdlint and makellib scripts, used this
3837 to test/review ncurses library. (Would use lclint, but it doesn't
3839 + reorganized knight.c to avoid forward references. Correct screen
3840 updates when backtracking, especially to the first cell. Add F/B/a
3843 20001021 5.2 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3844 + update generated html files from manpages.
3845 + modify dist.mk to use edit_man.sh to substitute autoconf'd variables
3847 + fix an uninitialized pointer in read_termcap.c (report by Todd C
3848 Miller, from report/patch by Philip Guenther <guenther@gac.edu>).
3849 + correct help-message and array limit in knight.c (patch by Brian
3850 Raiter <breadbox@muppetlabs.com>).
3851 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
3852 + fix to avoid warning by GNAT-3.13p about use of inconsistent casing
3853 for some identifiers defined in the standard package.
3854 + cosmetic change to forms/fty_enum.c
3857 + correct an off-by-one position in test/railroad.c which could cause
3858 wrapping at the right margin.
3859 + test/repair some issues with libtool configuration. Make
3860 --disable-echo force libtool --silent. (Libtool does not work for
3861 OS/2 EMX, works partly for SCO - libtool is still very specific to
3863 + change default of --with-manpage-tbl to "no", since for most of the
3864 platforms which do have tbl installed, the system "man" program
3865 understands how to run tbl automatically.
3866 + minor improvement to force_bar() in comp_parse.c (Bernhard
3867 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
3868 + modify lib_tparm.c to use get_space() before writing terminating
3869 null character, both for consistency as well as to ensure that if
3870 save_char() was called immediately before, that the allocated memory
3871 is enough (patch by Sergei Ivanov).
3872 + add note about termcap ML capability which is duplicated between two
3873 different capabilities: smgl and smglr (reported by Sergei Ivanov
3874 <svivanov@pdmi.ras.ru>).
3875 + correct parameter counts in include/Caps for dclk as well as some
3876 printer-specific capabilities: csnm, defc, scs, scsd, smgtp, smglp.
3877 > patch by Johnny C Lam <lamj@stat.cmu.edu>:
3878 + add support for building with libtool (apparently version 1.3.5,
3879 since old versions do not handle -L../lib), using new configure
3880 option --with-libtool.
3881 + add configure option --with-manpage-tbl, which causes the manpages to
3882 be preprocessed by tbl(1) prior to installation,
3883 + add configure option --without-curses-h, which causes the
3884 installation process to install curses.h as ncurses.h and make
3885 appropriate changes to headers and manpages.
3888 + correct order of options/parameters in run_tic.in invocation of tic,
3889 which did not work with standard getopt() (reported by Ethan
3890 Butterfield <primus@veris.org>).
3891 + correct logic for 'reverse' variable in lib_vidattr.c, which was
3892 setting it true without checking if newmode had A_REVERSE set, e.g.,
3893 using $TERM=ansi on OS/2 EMX (see 20000917).
3894 > patch by Todd C Miller:
3895 + add a few missing use_terminfo_vars() and fixes up _nc_tgetent().
3896 Previously, _nc_cgetset() would still get called on cp so the
3897 simplest thing is to set cp to NULL if !use_terminfo_vars().
3898 + added checks for an empty $HOME environment variable.
3899 > patches for OS/2 EMX (Ilya Zakharevich):
3900 + modify convert_configure.pl to support INSTALL. Change compiler
3901 options in that script to use multithreading, needed for the mouse.
3902 + modify OS/2 mouse support, retrying as a 2-button mouse if code fails
3903 to set up a 3-button mouse.
3904 + improve code for OS/2 mouse support, using _nc_timed_wait() to
3905 replace select() call.
3908 + change type of ospeed variable back to short to match its use in
3909 legacy applications (reported by Andrey A Chernov).
3910 + add case to configure script for --enable-rpath on IRIX (patch by
3911 Albert Chin-A-Young).
3912 + minor fix to position_check() function, to ensure it gets the whole
3913 cursor report before decoding.
3914 + add configure option --disable-assumed-color, to allow pre-5.1
3915 convention of default colors used for color-pair 0 to be configured
3916 (see assume_default_colors()).
3917 + rename configure option --enable-hashmap --disable-hashmap, and
3918 reorder the configure options, splitting the experimental and
3920 + add configure option --disable-root-environ, which tells ncurses to
3921 disregard $TERMINFO and similar environment variables if the current
3922 user is root, or running setuid/setgid (based on discussion with
3924 + modified misc/run_tic.in to use tic -o, to eliminate dependency on
3925 $TERMINFO variable for installs.
3926 + add table entry for plab_norm to tput, so it passes in strings
3927 for that capability.
3928 + modify parse_format() in lib_tparm.c to ignore precision if it
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