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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 + add new functions to lib_trace.c to setup mutex's for the _tracef()
50 calls within the ncurses library.
51 + for the reentrant model, move _nc_tputs_trace and _nc_outchars into
53 + start modifying test/worm.c to provide threading demo (incomplete).
54 + separated ifdef's for some BSD-related symbols in tset.c, to make
55 it compile on LynxOS (report by Greg Gemmer).
57 + modify Ada95/gen/Makefile to use shlib script, to simplify building
58 shared-library configuration on platforms lacking rpath support.
59 + build-fix for Ada95/src/Makefile to reflect changed dependency for
60 the terminal-interface-curses-aux.adb file which is now generated.
61 + restructuring test/worm.c, for use_window() example.
64 + add use_window() and use_screen() functions, to develop into support
65 for threaded library (incomplete).
66 + fix typos in man/curs_opaque.3x which kept the install script from
67 creating symbolic links to two aliases created in 20070818 (report by
71 + remove a spurious newline from output of html.m4, which caused links
72 for Ada95 html to be incorrect for the files generated using m4.
73 + start investigating mutex's for SCREEN manipulation (incomplete).
74 + minor cleanup of codes.c/names.c for --enable-const
75 + expand/revise "Routine and Argument Names" section of ncurses manpage
76 to address report by David Givens in newsgroup discussion.
77 + fix interaction between --without-progs/--with-termcap configure
78 options (report by Michail Vidiassov).
79 + fix typo in "--disable-relink" option (report by Michail Vidiassov).
82 + fix a sign-extension bug in infocmp's repair_acsc() function
84 + fix old configure script bug which prevented "--disable-warnings"
85 option from working (patch by Mike Frysinger).
88 + add 9term terminal description (request by Juhapekka Tolvanen) -TD
89 + modify comp_hash.c's string output to avoid misinterpreting a null
90 "\0" followed by a digit.
91 + modify MKnames.awk and MKcodes.awk to support big-strings.
92 This only applies to the cases (broken linker, reentrant) where
93 the corresponding arrays are accessed via wrapper functions.
94 + split MKnames.awk into two scripts, eliminating the shell redirection
95 which complicated the make process and also the bogus timestamp file
96 which was introduced to fix "make -j".
97 + add test/test_opaque.c, test/test_arrays.c
98 + add wgetscrreg() and wgetparent() for applications that may need it
99 when NCURSES_OPAQUE is defined (prompted by Bryan Christ).
102 + amend treatment of infocmp "-r" option to retain the 1023-byte limit
103 unless "-T" is given (cf: 981017).
104 + modify comp_captab.c generation to use big-strings.
105 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private accessed via
106 _nc_get_alias_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
108 + modify configure script to skip Intel compiler in CF_C_INLINE.
109 + make _nc_info_hash_table and _nc_cap_hash_table private accessed via
110 _nc_get_hash_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
114 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private, accessed via
115 _nc_get_alias_table() since they are used only by parse_entry.c
116 + make _nc_key_names private since it is used only by lib_keyname.c
117 + add --disable-big-strings configure option to control whether
118 unctrl.c is generated using the big-string optimization - which may
119 use strings longer than supported by a given compiler.
120 + reduce relocation tables for tic, infocmp by changing type of
121 internal hash tables to short, and make those private symbols.
122 + eliminate large fixed arrays from progs/infocmp.c
125 + change winnstr() to stop at the end of the line (cf: 970315).
126 + add test/test_get_wstr.c
127 + add test/test_getstr.c
128 + add test/test_inwstr.c
129 + add test/test_instr.c
132 + restore a call to obtain screen-size in _nc_setupterm(), which
133 is used in tput and other non-screen applications via setupterm()
134 (Debian #433357, reported by Florent Bayle, Christian Ohm,
138 + add test/savescreen.c test-program
139 + add check to trace-file open, if the given name is a directory, add
140 ".log" to the name and try again.
141 + add konsole-256color entry -TD
142 + add extra gcc warning options from xterm.
143 + minor fixes for ncurses/hashmap test-program.
144 + modify configure script to quiet c++ build with libtool when the
145 --disable-echo option is used.
146 + modify configure script to disable ada95 if libtool is selected,
147 writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD ports/114493).
148 + update config.guess, config.sub
151 + add continuous-move "M" to demo_panels to help test refresh changes.
152 + improve fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters,
153 taking into account some split characters on left/right window
157 + add "widec" row to _tracedump() output to help diagnose remaining
158 problems with multi-column characters.
159 + partial fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters
160 which are partly overwritten (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
161 + ignore A_CHARTEXT bits in vidattr() and vid_attr(), in case
162 multi-column extension bits are passed there.
163 + add setlocale() call to demo_panels.c, needed for wide-characters.
164 + add some output flags to _nc_trace_ttymode to help diagnose a bug
165 report by Larry Virden, i.e., ONLCR, OCRNL, ONOCR and ONLRET,
168 + add test/demo_panels.c
169 + implement opaque version of setsyx() and getsyx().
172 + corrected xterm+pcf2 terminfo modifiers for F1-F4, to match xterm
174 + split-out key_name() from MKkeyname.awk since it now depends upon
175 wunctrl() which is not in libtinfo (report by Rong-En Fan).
178 + add test/key_name.c
179 + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test_inch_wide.c
180 + update test/configure
181 + correct formatting of DEL (0x7f) in _nc_vischar().
182 + null-terminate result of wunctrl().
183 + add null-pointer check in key_name() (report by Andreas Krennmair,
187 + adapt mouse-handling code from menu library in form-library
188 (discussion with Clive Nicolson).
189 + add a modification of test/dots.c, i.e., test/dots_mvcur.c to
190 illustrate how to use mvcur().
191 + modify wide-character flavor of SetAttr() to preserve the
192 WidecExt() value stored in the .attr field, e.g., in case it
193 is overwritten by chgat (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
194 + correct buffer-size for _nc_viswbuf2n() (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
195 + build-fixes for Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 (patch by Peter O'Gorman).
198 + modify keyname() to use "^X" form only if meta() has been called, or
199 if keyname() is called without initializing curses, e.g., via
200 initscr() or newterm() (prompted by LinuxBase #1604).
201 + document some portability issues in man/curs_util.3x
202 + add a shadow copy of TTY buffer to _nc_prescreen to fix applications
203 broken by moving that data into SCREEN (cf: 20061230).
206 + add 'O' (wide-character panel test) in ncurses.c to demonstrate a
207 problem reported by Sadrul H Chowdhury with repainting parts of
209 + modify slk_init() so that if there are preceding calls to
210 ripoffline(), those affect the available lines for soft-keys (adapted
211 from patch by Clive Nicolson).
212 + document some portability issues in man/curs_getyx.3x
215 + fix a bug in Ada95/samples/ncurses which caused a variable to
216 become uninitialized in the "b" test.
217 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in adahtml rule to account for recent
218 movement of files, fix a few incorrect manpage references in the
220 + add Ada95 binding to _nc_freeall() as Curses_Free_All to help with
222 + correct some functions in Ada95 binding which were using return value
223 from C where none was returned: idcok(), immedok() and wtimeout().
224 + amend recent changes for Ada95 binding to make it build with
225 Cygwin's linker, e.g., with configure options
226 --enable-broken-linker --with-ticlib
229 + add a configure check for gcc's options for inlining, use that to
230 quiet a warning message where gcc's default behavior changed from
232 + improve warning message when checking if GPM is linked to curses
233 library by not warning if its use of "wgetch" is via a weak symbol.
234 + add loader options when building with static libraries to ensure that
235 an installed shared library for ncurses does not conflict. This is
236 reported as problem with Tru64, but could affect other platforms
237 (report Martin Mokrejs, analysis by Tim Mooney).
238 + fix build on cygwin after recent ticlib/termlib changes, i.e.,
239 + adjust TINFO_SUFFIX value to work with cygwin's dll naming
240 + revert a change from 20070303 which commented out dependency of
241 SHLIB_LIST in form/menu/panel/c++ libraries.
242 + fix initialization of ripoff stack pointer (cf: 20070421).
245 + move most static variables into structures _nc_globals and
246 _nc_prescreen, to simplify storage.
247 + add/use configure script macro CF_SIG_ATOMIC_T, use the corresponding
248 type for data manipulated by signal handlers (prompted by comments
249 in mailing.openbsd.bugs newsgroup).
250 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to allow one to pass options such as -static
251 to the libtool create- and link-operations.
254 + fix whitespace in curs_opaque.3x which caused a spurious ';' in
255 the installed aliases (report by Peter Santoro).
256 + fix configure script to not try to generate adacurses-config when
257 Ada95 tree is not built.
260 + add man/curs_legacy.3x, man/curs_opaque.3x
261 + fix acs_map binding for Ada95 when --enable-reentrant is used.
262 + add adacurses-config to the Ada95 install, based on version from
263 FreeBSD port, in turn by Juergen Pfeifer in 2000 (prompted by
264 comment on comp.lang.ada newsgroup).
265 + fix includes in c++ binding to build with Intel compiler
267 + update install rule in Ada95 to use mkdirs.sh
268 > other fixes prompted by inspection for Coverity report:
269 + modify ifdef's for c++ binding to use try/catch/throw statements
270 + add a null-pointer check in tack/ansi.c request_cfss()
271 + fix a memory leak in ncurses/base/wresize.c
272 + corrected check for valid memu/meml capabilities in
273 progs/dump_entry.c when handling V_HPUX case.
274 > fixes based on Coverity report:
275 + remove dead code in test/bs.c
276 + remove dead code in test/demo_defkey.c
277 + remove an unused assignment in progs/infocmp.c
278 + fix a limit check in tack/ansi.c tools_charset()
279 + fix tack/ansi.c tools_status() to perform the VT320/VT420
280 tests in request_cfss(). The function had exited too soon.
281 + fix a memory leak in tic.c's make_namelist()
282 + fix a couple of places in tack/output.c which did not check for EOF.
283 + fix a loop-condition in test/bs.c
284 + add index checks in lib_color.c for color palettes
285 + add index checks in progs/dump_entry.c for version_filter() handling
287 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in copywin()
288 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in waddchnstr()
289 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
290 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c's make_namelist()
291 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
292 + add null-pointer checks in test/cardfile.c
293 + fix a double-free in ncurses/tinfo/trim_sgr0.c
294 + fix a double-free in ncurses/base/wresize.c
295 + add try/catch block to c++/cursesmain.cc
298 + modify Ada95 binding to build with --enable-reentrant by wrapping
299 global variables (bug: acs_map does not yet work).
300 + modify Ada95 binding to use the new access-functions, allowing it
301 to build/run when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
302 + add access-functions and macros to return properties of the WINDOW
303 structure, e.g., when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
304 + improved install-sh's quoting.
305 + use mkdirs.sh rather than mkinstalldirs, e.g., to use fixes from
309 + eliminate part of the direct use of WINDOW data from Ada95 interface.
310 + fix substitutions for termlib filename to make configure option
311 --enable-reentrant work with --with-termlib.
312 + change a constructor for NCursesWindow to allow compiling with
313 NCURSES_OPAQUE set, since we cannot pass a reference to
317 + ignore --with-chtype=unsigned since unsigned is always added to
318 the type in curses.h; do the same for --with-mmask-t.
319 + change warning regarding --enable-ext-colors and wide-character
320 in the configure script to an error.
321 + tweak error message in CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to distinguish other programs
322 such as Darwin's libtool program (report by Michail Vidiassov)
323 + modify edit_man.sh to allow for multiple substitutions per line.
324 + set locale in misc/ncurses-config.in since it uses a range
325 + change permissions libncurses++.a install (report by Michail
327 + corrected length of temporary buffer in wide-character version
328 of set_field_buffer() (related to report by Bryan Christ).
331 + fix mk-1st.awk script install_shlib() function, broken in 20070224
332 changes for cygwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
335 + increase size of array in _nc_visbuf2n() to make "tic -v" work
336 properly in its similar_sgr() function (report/analysis by Peter
338 + add --enable-reentrant configure option for ongoing changes to
339 implement a reentrant version of ncurses:
340 + libraries are suffixed with "t"
341 + wrap several global variables (curscr, newscr, stdscr, ttytype,
342 COLORS, COLOR_PAIRS, COLS, ESCDELAY, LINES and TABSIZE) as
343 functions returning values stored in SCREEN or cur_term.
344 + move some initialization (LINES, COLS) from lib_setup.c,
345 i.e., setupterm() to _nc_setupscreen(), i.e., newterm().
348 + regenerated html documentation.
349 + add NCURSES_OPAQUE symbol to curses.h, will use to make structs
350 opaque in selected configurations.
351 + move the chunk in lib_acs.c which resets acs capabilities when
352 running on a terminal whose locale interferes with those into
353 _nc_setupscreen(), so the libtinfo/libtinfow files can be made
354 identical (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
355 + do not use configure variable SHLIB_LIBS for building libraries
356 outside the ncurses directory, since that symbol is customized
357 only for that directory, and using it introduces an unneeded
358 dependency on libdl (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
359 + modify mk-1st.awk so the generated makefile rules for linking or
360 installing shared libraries do not first remove the library, in
361 case it is in use, e.g., libncurses.so by /bin/sh (report by Jeff
363 + revised section "Using NCURSES under XTERM" in ncurses-intro.html
364 (prompted by newsgroup comment by Nick Guenther).
367 + change internal return codes of _nc_wgetch() to check for cases
368 where KEY_CODE_YES should be returned, e.g., if a KEY_RESIZE was
369 ungetch'd, and read by wget_wch().
370 + fix static-library build broken in 20070217 changes to remove "-ldl"
371 (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
372 + change makefile/scripts for cygwin to allow building termlib.
373 + use Form_Hook in manpages to match form.h
374 + use Menu_Hook in manpages, as well as a few places in menu.h
375 + correct form- and menu-manpages to use specific Field_Options,
376 Menu_Options and Item_Options types.
377 + correct prototype for _tracechar() in manpage (cf: 20011229).
378 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
381 + fixes for $(TICS_LIST) in ncurses/Makefile (report by Miroslav
383 + modify relinking of shared libraries to apply only when rpath is
384 enabled, and add --disable-relink option which can be used to
385 disable the feature altogether (reports by Michail Vidiassov,
387 + fix --with-termlib option for wide-character configuration, stripping
388 the "w" suffix in one place (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
389 + remove "-ldl" from some library lists to reduce dependencies in
390 programs (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
391 + correct description of --enable-signed-char in configure --help
392 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
393 + add pattern for GNU/kFreeBSD configuration to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE,
394 which matches an earlier change to CF_SHARED_OPTS, from xterm #224
396 + remove "${DESTDIR}" from -install_name option used for linking
397 shared libraries on Darwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
400 + add test/inchs.c, test_inch_wide.c, to test win_wchnstr().
401 + remove libdl from library list for termlib (report by Miroslav
403 + fix configure.in to allow --without-progs --with-termlib (patch by
405 + modify win_wchnstr() to ensure that only a base cell is returned
406 for each multi-column character (prompted by report by Wei Kong
407 regarding change in mvwin_wch() cf: 20041023).
410 + modify fix_wchnstr() in form library to strip attributes (and color)
411 from the cchar_t array (field cells) read from a field's window.
412 Otherwise, when copying the field cells back to the window, the
413 associated color overrides the field's background color (report by
415 + improve tracing for form library, showing created forms, fields, etc.
416 + ignore --enable-rpath configure option if --with-shared was omitted.
417 + add _nc_leaks_tinfo(), _nc_free_tic(), _nc_free_tinfo() entrypoints
418 to allow leak-checking when both tic- and tinfo-libraries are built.
419 + drop CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC macro from configure script, since C++ binding
420 no longer relies on it.
421 + disallow combining configure script options --with-ticlib and
422 --enable-termcap (report by Rong-En Fan).
423 + remove tack from ncurses tree.
426 + fix typo in configure script that broke --with-termlib option
427 (report by Rong-En Fan).
430 + improve fix for FreeBSD gnu/98975, to allow for null pointer passed
431 to tgetent() (report by Rong-en Fan).
432 + update tack/HISTORY and tack/README to tell how to build it after
433 it is removed from the ncurses tree.
434 + fix configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
435 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
436 + review/eliminate other original-file artifacts in cursesw.cc, making
437 its license consistent with ncurses.
438 + use ncurses vw_scanw() rather than reading into a fixed buffer in
439 the c++ binding for scanw() methods (prompted by report by Nuno Dias).
440 + eliminate fixed-buffer vsprintf() calls in c++ binding.
443 + add _nc_leaks_tic() to separate leak-checking of tic library from
444 term/ncurses libraries, and thereby eliminate a library dependency.
445 + fix test/mk-test.awk to ignore blank lines.
446 + correct paths in include/headers, for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav
450 + add a break-statement in misc/shlib to ensure that it exits on the
451 _first_ matched directory (report by Paul Novak).
452 + add tack/configure, which can be used to build tack outside the
454 + add --with-ticlib option, to build/install the tic-support functions
455 in a separate library (suggested by Miroslav Lichvar).
458 + change MKunctrl.awk to reduce relocation table for unctrl.o
459 + change MKkeyname.awk to reduce relocation table for keyname.o
460 (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
463 + modify configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
464 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
465 + modify some modules to allow them to be reentrant if _REENTRANT is
466 defined: lib_baudrate.c, resizeterm.c (local data only)
467 + eliminate static data from some modules: add_tries.c, hardscroll.c,
468 lib_ttyflags.c, lib_twait.c
469 + improve manpage install to add aliases for the transformed program
470 names, e.g., from --program-prefix.
471 + used linklint to verify links in the HTML documentation, made fixes
472 to manpages as needed.
473 + fix a typo in curs_mouse.3x (report by William McBrine).
474 + fix install-rule for ncurses5-config to make the bin-directory.
477 + modify configure script to omit the tic (terminfo compiler) support
478 from ncurses library if --without-progs option is given.
479 + modify install rule for ncurses5-config to do this via "install.libs"
480 + modify shared-library rules to allow FreeBSD 3.x to use rpath.
481 + update config.guess, config.sub
483 20061217 5.6 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
486 + add ifdef's for <wctype.h> for HPUX, which has the corresponding
487 definitions in <wchar.h>.
488 + revert the va_copy() change from 20061202, since it was neither
489 correct nor portable.
490 + add $(LOCAL_LIBS) definition to progs/Makefile.in, needed for
492 + ignore wide-acs line-drawing characters that wcwidth() claims are
493 not one-column. This is a workaround for Solaris' broken locale
497 + modify configure --with-gpm option to allow it to accept a parameter,
498 i.e., the name of the dynamic GPM library to load via dlopen()
499 (requested by Bryan Henderson).
500 + add configure option --with-valgrind, changes from vile.
501 + modify configure script AC_TRY_RUN and AC_TRY_LINK checks to use
502 'return' in preference to 'exit()'.
505 + change default for --with-develop back to "no".
506 + add XTABS to tracing of TTY bits.
507 + updated autoconf patch to ifdef-out the misfeature which declares
508 exit() for configure tests. This fixes a redefinition warning on
510 + use ${CC} rather than ${LD} in shared library rules for IRIX64,
511 Solaris to help ensure that initialization sections are provided for
512 extra linkage requirements, e.g., of C++ applications (prompted by
513 comment by Casper Dik in newsgroup).
514 + rename "$target" in CF_MAN_PAGES to make it easier to distinguish
515 from the autoconf predefined symbol. There was no conflict,
516 since "$target" was used only in the generated edit_man.sh file,
517 but SuSE's rpm package contains a patch.
520 + update man/term.5 to reflect extended terminfo support and hashed
521 database configuration.
522 + updates for test/configure script.
523 + adapted from SuSE rpm package:
524 + remove long-obsolete workaround for broken-linker which declared
526 + improve error recovery in PUTC() macro when wcrtomb() does not
527 return usable results for an 8-bit character.
528 + patches from rpm package (SuSE):
529 + use va_copy() in extra varargs manipulation for tracing version
531 + use a va_list rather than a null in _nc_freeall()'s call to
533 + add some see-also references in manpages to show related
534 wide-character functions (suggested by Claus Fischer).
537 + add a check in lib_color.c to ensure caller does not increase COLORS
538 above max_colors, which is used as an array index (discussion with
540 + add ifdef's allowing ncurses to be built with tparm() using either
541 varargs (the existing status), or using a fixed-parameter list (to
545 + fix redrawing of windows other than stdscr using wredrawln() by
546 touching the corresponding rows in curscr (discussion with Dan
549 + add test/echochar.c
550 + review/cleanup manpage descriptions of error-returns for form- and
551 menu-libraries (prompted by FreeBSD docs/46196).
554 + add AUTHORS file -TD
555 + omit the -D options from output of the new config script --cflags
556 option (suggested by Ralf S Engelschall).
557 + make NCURSES_INLINE unconditionally defined in curses.h
560 + revert change to accommodate bash 3.2, since that breaks other
561 platforms, e.g., Solaris.
562 + minor fixes to NEWS file to simplify scripting to obtain list of
564 + improve some shared-library configure scripting for Linux, FreeBSD
565 and NetBSD to make "--with-shlib-version" work.
566 + change configure-script rules for FreeBSD shared libraries to allow
567 for rpath support in versions past 3.
568 + use $(DESTDIR) in makefile rules for installing/uninstalling the
569 package config script (reports/patches by Christian Wiese,
571 + fix a warning in the configure script for NetBSD 2.0, working around
572 spurious blanks embedded in its ${MAKEFLAGS} symbol.
573 + change test/Makefile to simplify installing test programs in a
574 different directory when --enable-rpath is used.
577 + work around bug in bash 3.2 by adding extra quotes (Jim Gifford).
578 + add/install a package config script, e.g., "ncurses5-config" or
579 "ncursesw5-config", according to configuration options.
582 + add several GNU Screen terminfo variations with 16- and 256-colors,
583 and status line (Alain Bench).
584 + change the way shared libraries (other than libtool) are installed.
585 Rather than copying the build-tree's libraries, link the shared
586 objects into the install directory. This makes the --with-rpath
587 option work except with $(DESTDIR) (cf: 20000930).
590 + fix ifdef in c++/internal.h for QNX 6.1
591 + test-compiled with (old) egcs-1.1.2, modified configure script to
592 not unset the $CXX and related variables which would prevent this.
593 + fix a few terminfo.src typos exposed by improvments to "-f" option.
594 + improve infocmp/tic "-f" option formatting.
597 + make --disable-largefile option work (report by Thomas M Ott).
598 + updated html documentation.
599 + add ka2, kb1, kb3, kc2 to vt220-keypad as an extension -TD
600 + minor improvements to rxvt+pcfkeys -TD
603 + move static data from lib_mouse.c into SCREEN struct.
604 + improve ifdef's for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset to work with Mac OS X
605 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
606 + modify CF_PATH_SYNTAX to ensure it uses the result from --prefix
607 option (from lynx changes) -TD
608 + adapt AC_PROG_EGREP check, noting that this is likely to be another
609 place aggravated by POSIXLY_CORRECT.
610 + modify configure check for awk to ensure that it is found (prompted
611 by report by Christopher Parker).
615 + add kon, kon2 and jfbterm terminfo entry (request by Till Maas) -TD
616 + remove invis capability from klone+sgr, mainly used by linux entry,
617 since it does not really do this -TD
620 + correct logic in wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not guard
621 against passing the multi-column attribute into a call on waddch(),
622 e.g., using data returned by win_wch() (cf: 20041023)
623 (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
626 + fix kterm's acsc string -TD
627 + fix for change to tic/infocmp in 20060819 to ensure no blank is
628 embedded into a termcap description.
629 + workaround for 20050806 ifdef's change to allow visbuf.c to compile
630 when using --with-termlib --with-trace options.
631 + improve tgetstr() by making the return value point into the user's
632 buffer, if provided (patch by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat Bugzilla
634 + correct libraries needed for foldkeys (report by Stanislav Ievlev)
637 + add terminfo entries for xfce terminal (xfce) and multi gnome
639 + add test/foldkeys.c
642 + modify tic and infocmp to avoid writing trailing blanks on terminfo
643 source output (Debian #378783).
644 + modify configure script to ensure that if the C compiler is used
645 rather than the loader in making shared libraries, the $(CFLAGS)
646 variable is also used (Redhat Bugzilla #199369).
647 + port hashed-db code to db2 and db3.
648 + fix a bug in tgetent() from 20060625 and 20060715 changes
649 (patch/analysis by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat Bugzilla #202480)).
652 + updated xterm function-keys terminfo to match xterm #216 -TD
653 + add configure --with-hashed-db option (tested only with FreeBSD 6.0,
654 e.g., the db 1.8.5 interface).
657 + modify toe to access termcap data, e.g., via cgetent() functions,
658 or as a text file if those are not available.
659 + use _nc_basename() in tset to improve $SHELL check for csh/sh.
660 + modify _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_termcap_entry() so infocmp,
661 can access termcap data when the terminfo database is disabled.
664 + widen the test for xterm kmous a little to allow for other strings
665 than \E[M, e.g., for xterm-sco functionality in xterm.
666 + update xterm-related terminfo entries to match xterm patch #216 -TD
667 + update config.guess, config.sub
670 + fix for install-rule in Ada95 to add terminal_interface.ads
671 and terminal_interface.ali (anonymous posting in comp.lang.ada).
672 + correction to manpage for getcchar() (report by William McBrine).
674 + modify wchgat() to mark updated cells as changed so a refresh will
675 repaint those cells (comments by Sadrul H Chowdhury and William
677 + split up dependency of names.c and codes.c in ncurses/Makefile to
678 work with parallel make (report/analysis by Joseph S Myers).
679 + suppress a warning message (which is ignored) for systems without
680 an ldconfig program (patch by Justin Hibbits).
681 + modify configure script --disable-symlinks option to allow one to
682 disable symlink() in tic even when link() does not work (report by
684 + modify MKfallback.sh to use tic -x when constructing fallback tables
685 to allow extended capabilities to be retrieved from a fallback entry.
686 + improve leak-checking logic in tgetent() from 20060625 to ensure that
687 it does not free the current screen (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
690 + add a check for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset (NetBSD #33916).
691 + correct _nc_free_entries() and related functions used for memory leak
695 + revert a minor change for magic-cookie support from 20060513, which
696 caused unexpected reset of attributes, e.g., when resizing test/view
698 + note in clear manpage that the program ignores command-line
699 parameters (prompted by Debian #371855).
700 + fixes to make lib_gen.c build properly with changes to the configure
701 --disable-macros option and NCURSES_NOMACROS (cf: 20060527)
702 + update/correct several terminfo entries -TD
703 + add some notes regarding copyright to terminfo.src -TD
706 + fixes to build Ada95 binding with gnat-4.1.0
707 + modify read_termtype() so the term_names data is always allocated as
708 part of the str_table, a better fix for a memory leak (cf: 20030809).
709 + reduce memory leaks in repeated calls to tgetent() by remembering the
710 last TERMINAL* value allocated to hold the corresponding data and
711 freeing that if the tgetent() result buffer is the same as the
712 previous call (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
713 + modify tack to test extended capability function-key strings.
714 + improved gnome terminfo entry (GenToo #122566).
715 + improved xterm-256color terminfo entry (patch by Alain Bench).
718 + fix two small memory leaks related to repeated tgetent() calls
719 with TERM=screen (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
720 + add --enable-signed-char to simplify Debian package.
721 + reduce name-pollution in term.h by removing #define's for HAVE_xxx
723 + correct typo in curs_terminfo.3x (Debian #369168).
726 + enable the mouse in test/movewindow.c
727 + improve a limit-check in frm_def.c (John Heasley).
728 + minor copyright fixes.
729 + change configure script to produce test/Makefile from data file.
732 + add a configure option --enable-wgetch-events to enable
733 NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS, and correct the associated loop-logic in
734 lib_twait.c (report by Bernd Jendrissek).
735 + remove include/nomacros.h from build, since the ifdef for
736 NCURSES_NOMACROS makes that obsolete.
737 + add entrypoints for some functions which were only provided as macros
738 to make NCURSES_NOMACROS ifdef work properly: getcurx(), getcury(),
739 getbegx(), getbegy(), getmaxx(), getmaxy(), getparx() and getpary(),
741 + provide ifdef for NCURSES_NOMACROS which suppresses most macro
742 definitions from curses.h, i.e., where a macro is defined to override
743 a function to improve performance. Allowing a developer to suppress
744 these definitions can simplify some application (discussion with
746 + improve description of memu/meml in terminfo manpage.
749 + if msgr is false, reset video attributes when doing an automargin
750 wrap to the next line. This makes the ncurses 'k' test work properly
752 + correct caching of keyname(), which was using only half of its table.
753 + minor fixes to memory-leak checking.
754 + make SCREEN._acs_map and SCREEN._screen_acs_map pointers rather than
755 arrays, making ACS_LEN less visible to applications (suggested by
757 + move chunk in SCREEN ifdef'd for USE_WIDEC_SUPPORT to the end, so
758 _screen_acs_map will have the same offset in both ncurses/ncursesw,
759 making the corresponding tinfo/tinfow libraries binary-compatible
760 (cf: 20041016, report by Stanislav Ievlev).
763 + improve debug-tracing for EmitRange().
764 + change default for --with-develop to "yes". Add NCURSES_NO_HARD_TABS
765 and NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE environment variables to allow runtime
766 suppression of the related hard-tabs and xmc-glitch features.
767 + add ncurses version number to top-level manpages, e.g., ncurses, tic,
768 infocmp, terminfo as well as form, menu, panel.
769 + update config.guess, config.sub
770 + modify ncurses.c to work around a bug in NetBSD 3.0 curses
771 (field_buffer returning null for a valid field). The 'r' test
772 appears to not work with that configuration since the new_fieldtype()
773 function is broken in that implementation.
776 + add hpterm-color terminfo entry -TD
777 + fixes to compile test-programs with HPUX 11.23
780 + add copyright notices to files other than those that are generated,
781 data or adapted from pdcurses (reports by William McBrine, David
783 + improve rendering on hpterm by not resetting attributes at the end
784 of doupdate() if the terminal has the magic-cookie feature (report
786 + add 256color variants of terminfo entries for programs which are
787 reported to implement this feature -TD
790 + fix typo in change to NewChar() macro from 20060311 changes, which
791 broke tab-expansion (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
794 + document -U option of tic and infocmp.
795 + modify tic/infocmp to suppress smacs/rmacs when acsc is suppressed
796 due to size limit, e.g., converting to termcap format. Also
797 suppress them if the output format does not contain acsc and it
798 was not VT100-like, i.e., a one-one mapping (Novell #163715).
799 + add configure check to ensure that SIGWINCH is defined on platforms
800 such as OS X which exclude that when _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., are
801 defined (report by Nicholas Cole)
804 + modify write_object() to not write coincidental extensions of an
805 entry made due to it being referenced in a use= clause (report by
807 + another fix for infocmp -i option, which did not ensure that some
808 escape sequences had comparable prefixes (report by Alain Bench).
811 + improve discussion of init/reset in terminfo and tput manpages
812 (report by Alain Bench).
813 + use is3 string for a fallback of rs3 in the reset program; it was
814 using is2 (report by Alain Bench).
815 + correct logic for infocmp -i option, which did not account for
816 multiple digits in a parameter (cf: 20040828) (report by Alain
818 + move _nc_handle_sigwinch() to lib_setup.c to make --with-termlib
819 option work after 20060114 changes (report by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz).
820 + add copyright notices to test-programs as needed (report by William
824 + modify ncurses.c 'F' test to combine the wide-characters with color
825 and/or video attributes.
826 + modify test/ncurses to use CTL/Q or ESC consistently for exiting
827 a test-screen (some commands used 'x' or 'q').
830 + fix an off-by-one in the scrolling-region change (cf_ 20060311).
833 + add checks in waddchnstr() and wadd_wchnstr() to stop copying when
834 a null character is found (report by Igor Bogomazov).
835 + modify progs/Makefile.in to make "tput init" work properly with
836 cygwin, i.e., do not pass a ".exe" in the reference string used
837 in check_aliases (report by Samuel Thibault).
838 + add some checks to ensure current position is within scrolling
839 region before scrolling on a new line (report by Dan Gookin).
840 + change some NewChar() usage to static variables to work around
841 stack garbage introduced when cchar_t is not packed (Redhat #182024).
844 + workarounds to build test/movewindow with PDcurses 2.7.
845 + fix for nsterm-16color entry (patch by Alain Bench).
846 + correct a typo in infocmp manpage (Debian #354281).
849 + add nsterm-16color entry -TD
850 + updated mlterm terminfo entry -TD
851 + remove 970913 feature for copying subwindows as they are moved in
852 mvwin() (discussion with Bryan Christ).
853 + modify test/demo_menus.c to demonstrate moving a menu (both the
854 window and subwindow) using shifted cursor-keys.
855 + start implementing recursive mvwin() in movewindow.c (incomplete).
856 + add a fallback definition for GCC_PRINTFLIKE() in test.priv.h,
857 for movewindow.c (report by William McBrine).
858 + add help-message to test/movewindow.c
861 + add test/movewindow.c, to test mvderwin().
862 + fix ncurses soft-key test so color changes are shown immediately
864 + modify ncurses soft-key test to hide the keys when exiting the test
866 + fixes to build test programs with PDCurses 2.7, e.g., its headers
867 rely on autoconf symbols, and it declares stubs for nonfunctional
868 terminfo and termcap entrypoints.
871 + improved test/configure to build test/ncurses on HPUX 11 using the
873 + documented ALTERNATE CONFIGURATIONS in the ncurses manpage, for the
874 benefit of developers who do not read INSTALL.
877 + correct form library Window_To_Buffer() change (cf: 20040516), which
878 should ignore the video attributes (report by Ricardo Cantu).
881 + minor fixes to xmc-glitch experimental code:
882 + suppress line-drawing
883 + implement max_attributes
885 + minor fixes for the database iterator.
886 + fix some buffer limits in c++ demo (comment by Falk Hueffner in
890 + add toe -a option, to show all databases. This uses new private
891 interfaces in the ncurses library for iterating through the list of
893 + fix toe from 20000909 changes which made it not look at
895 + make toe's -v option parameter optional as per manpage.
896 + improve SIGWINCH handling by postponing its effect during newterm(),
897 etc., when allocating screens.
900 + modify wgetnstr() to return KEY_RESIZE if a sigwinch occurs. Use
901 this in test/filter.c
902 + fix an error in filter() modification which caused some applications
906 + check if filter() was called when getting the screensize. Keep it
907 at 1 if so (based on Redhat #174498).
908 + add extension nofilter().
909 + refined the workaround for ACS mapping.
910 + make ifdef's consistent in curses.h for the extended colors so the
911 header file can be used for the normal curses library. The header
912 file installed for extended colors is a variation of the
913 wide-character configuration (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
916 + add a workaround to ACS mapping to allow applications such as
917 test/blue.c to use the "PC ROM" characters by masking them with
918 A_ALTCHARSET. This worked up til 5.5, but was lost in the revision
919 of legacy coding (report by Michael Deutschmann).
920 + add a null-pointer check in the wide-character version of
921 calculate_actual_width() (report by Victor Julien).
922 + improve test/ncurses 'd' (color-edit) test by allowing the RGB
923 values to be set independently (patch by William McBrine).
924 + modify test/configure script to allow building test programs with
926 + modified test programs to allow some to work with NetBSD curses.
927 Several do not because NetBSD curses implements a subset of X/Open
928 curses, and also lacks much of SVr4 additions. But it's enough for
930 + update config.guess and config.sub
933 + use BSD-specific fix for return-value from cgetent() from CVS where
934 an unknown terminal type would be reportd as "database not found".
935 + make tgetent() return code more readable using new symbols
937 + remove references to non-existent "tctest" program.
938 + remove TESTPROGS from progs/Makefile.in (it was referring to code
939 that was never built in that directory).
940 + typos in curs_addchstr.3x, some doc files (noticed in OpenBSD CVS).
943 + add use_legacy_coding() function to support lynx's font-switching
945 + fix formatting in curs_termcap.3x (report by Mike Frysinger).
946 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to change preprocessor-expanded _Bool back to
950 + extend test/ncurses.c 's' (overlay window) test to exercise overlay(),
951 overwrite() and copywin() with different combinations of colors and
952 attributes (including background color) to make it easy to see the
953 effect of the different functions.
954 + corrections to menu/m_global.c for wide-characters (report by
958 + add configure option --without-dlsym, allowing developers to
959 configure GPM support without using dlsym() (discussion with Michael
961 + fix wins_nwstr(), which did not handle single-column non-8bit codes
965 + move prototypes for wide-character trace functions from curses.tail
966 to curses.wide to avoid accidental reference to those if
967 _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined without ensuring that <wchar.h> is
969 + add/use NCURSES_INLINE definition.
970 + change some internal functions to use int/unsigned rather than the
974 + remove a redundant check in lib_color.c (Debian #335655).
975 + use ld's -search_paths_first option on Darwin to work around odd
976 search rules on that platform (report by Christian Gennerat, analysis
978 + remove special case for Darwin in CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro.
979 + ignore EINTR in tcgetattr/tcsetattr calls (Debian #339518).
980 + fix several bugs in test/bs.c (patch by Stephen Lindholm).
983 + other minor fixes to cygwin based on tack -TD
984 + correct smacs in cygwin (Debian #338234, report by Baurzhan
985 Ismagulov, who noted that it was fixed in Cygwin).
988 + add shifted up/down arrow codes to xterm-new as kind/kri strings -TD
989 + modify wbkgrnd() to avoid clearing the A_CHARTEXT attribute bits
990 since those record the state of multicolumn characters (Debian
992 + modify werase to clear multicolumn characters that extend into
993 a derived window (Debian #316663).
996 + move assignment from environment variable ESCDELAY from initscr()
997 down to newterm() so the environment variable affects timeouts for
998 terminals opened with newterm() as well.
999 + fix a memory leak in keyname().
1000 + add test/demo_altkeys.c
1001 + modify test/demo_defkey.c to exit from loop via 'q' to allow
1002 leak-checking, as well as fix a buffer size in winnstr() call.
1005 + correct order of use-clauses in rxvt-basic entry which made codes for
1006 f1-f4 vt100-style rather than vt220-style (report by Gabor Z Papp).
1007 + suppress configure check for gnatmake if Ada95/Makefile.in is not
1009 + correct a typo in configure --with-bool option for the case where
1010 --without-cxx is used (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1011 + add a note to INSTALL's discussion of --with-normal, pointing out
1012 that one may wish to use --without-gpm to ensure a completely
1013 static link (prompted by report by Felix von Leitner).
1015 20051010 5.5 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1018 + document in demo_forms.c some portability issues.
1021 + document side-effect of werase() which sets the cursor position.
1022 + save/restore the current position in form field editing to make
1026 + correct header dependencies in progs, allowing parallel make (report
1027 by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1028 + modify CF_BUILD_CC to ensure that pre-setting $BUILD_CC overrides
1029 the configure check for --with-build-cc (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1030 + modify CF_CFG_DEFAULTS to not use /usr as the default prefix for
1032 + update config.guess and config.sub from
1033 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
1036 + modify sed expression which computes path for /usr/lib/terminfo
1037 symbolic link in install to ensure that it does not change unexpected
1038 levels of the path (Gentoo #42336).
1039 + modify default for --disable-lp64 configure option to reduce impact
1040 on existing 64-bit builds. Enabling the _LP64 option may change the
1041 size of chtype and mmask_t. However, for ABI 6, it is enabled by
1042 default (report by Mike Frysinger).
1043 + add configure script check for --enable-ext-mouse, bump ABI to 6 by
1044 default if it is used.
1045 + improve configure script logic for bumping ABI to omit this if the
1046 --with-abi-version option was used.
1047 + update address for Free Software Foundation in tack's source.
1048 + correct wins_wch(), which was not marking the filler-cells of
1049 multi-column characters (cf: 20041023).
1052 + modify mouse initialization to ensure that Gpm_Open() is called only
1053 once. Otherwise GPM gets confused in its initialization of signal
1054 handlers (Debian #326709).
1057 + modify logic for backspacing in a multiline form field to ensure that
1058 it works even when the preceding line is full (report by Frank van
1060 + remove comment about BUGS section of ncurses manpage (Debian #325481)
1063 + document some workarounds for shared and libtool library
1064 configurations in INSTALL (see --with-shared and --with-libtool).
1065 + modify CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GXX_VERSION macros to accommodate
1066 cross-compilers which emit the platform name in their version
1068 arm-sa1100-linux-gnu-g++ (GCC) 4.0.1
1069 (report by Frank van Vugt).
1072 + start updating documentation for upcoming 5.5 release.
1073 + fix to make libtool and libtinfo work together again (cf: 20050122).
1074 + fixes to allow building traces into libtinfo
1075 + add debug trace to tic that shows if/how ncurses will write to the
1076 lower corner of a terminal's screen.
1077 + update llib-l* files.
1080 + modify initializers in c++ binding to build with old versions of g++.
1081 + improve special case for 20050115 repainting fix, ensuring that if
1082 the first changed cell is not a character that the range to be
1083 repainted is adjusted to start at a character's beginning (Debian
1087 + fixes to build on QNX 6.1
1088 + improve configure script checks for Intel 9.0 compiler.
1089 + remove #include's for libc.h (obsolete).
1090 + adjust ifdef's in curses.priv.h so that when cross-compiling to
1091 produce comp_hash and make_keys, no dependency on wchar.h is needed.
1092 That simplifies the build-cppflags (report by Frank van Vugt).
1093 + move modules related to key-binding into libtinfo to fix linkage
1094 problem caused by 20050430 changes to MKkeyname.sh (report by
1095 Konstantin Andreev).
1098 + updates/fixes for configure script macros from vile -TD
1099 + make prism9's sgr string agree with the rest of the terminfo -TD
1100 + make vt220's sgr0 string consistent with sgr string, do this for
1101 several related cases -TD
1102 + improve translation to termcap by filtering the 'me' (sgr0) strings
1103 as in the runtime call to tgetent() (prompted by a discussion with
1105 + improve tic check for sgr0 versus sgr(0), to help ensure that sgr0
1106 resets line-drawing.
1109 + fix special cases for trimming sgr0 for hurd and vt220 (Debian
1111 + split-out _nc_trim_sgr0() from modifications made to tgetent(), to
1112 allow it to be used by tic to provide information about the runtime
1113 changes that would be made to sgr0 for termcap applications.
1114 + modify make_sed.sh to make the group-name in the NAME section of
1115 form/menu library manpage agree with the TITLE string when renaming
1116 is done for Debian (Debian #78866).
1119 + modify parameter type in c++ binding for insch() and mvwinsch() to
1120 be consistent with underlying ncurses library (was char, is chtype).
1121 + modify treatment of Intel compiler to allow _GNU_SOURCE to be defined
1123 + improve configure check for nanosleep(), checking that it works since
1124 some older systems such as AIX 4.3 have a nonworking version.
1127 + update config.guess and config.sub from
1128 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
1129 + modify misc/shlib to work in test-directory.
1130 + suppress $suffix in misc/run_tic.sh when cross-compiling. This
1131 allows cross-compiles to use the host's tic program to handle the
1132 "make install.data" step.
1133 + improve description of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables in manpages
1134 (prompted by report by Dave Ulrick).
1135 + improve description of cross-compiling in INSTALL
1136 + add NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html by Pradeep Padala
1137 (see http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/).
1138 + modify configure script to obtain soname for GPM library (discussion
1139 with Daniel Jacobowitz).
1140 + modify configure script so that --with-chtype option will still
1141 compute the unsigned literals suffix for constants in curses.h
1142 (report by Daniel Jacobowitz:
1143 + patches from Daniel Jacobowitz:
1144 + the man_db.renames entry for tack.1 was backwards.
1145 + tack.1 had some 1m's that should have been 1M's.
1146 + the section for curs_inwstr.3 was wrong.
1149 + correction to --with-chtype option (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1152 + move build-time edit_man.sh and edit_man.sed scripts to top directory
1153 to simplify reusing them for renaming tack's manpage (prompted by a
1154 review of Debian package).
1155 + revert minor optimization from 20041030 (Debian #313609).
1156 + libtool-specific fixes, tested with libtool 1.4.3, 1.5.0, 1.5.6,
1157 1.5.10 and 1.5.18 (all work except as noted previously for the c++
1158 install using libtool 1.5.0):
1159 + modify the clean-rule in c++/Makefile.in to work with IRIX64 make
1161 + use $(LIBTOOL_UNINSTALL) symbol, overlooked in 20030830
1162 + add configure options --with-chtype and --with-mmask-t, to allow
1163 overriding of the non-LP64 model's use of the corresponding types.
1164 + revise test for size of chtype (and mmask_t), which always returned
1165 "long" due to an uninitialized variable (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1168 + change _tracef's that used "%p" format for va_list values to ignore
1169 that, since on some platforms those are not pointers.
1170 + fixes for long-formats in printf's due to largefile support.
1173 + fixes for termcap support:
1174 + reset pointer to _nc_curr_token.tk_name when the input stream is
1175 closed, which could point to free memory (cf: 20030215).
1176 + delink TERMTYPE data which is used by the termcap reader, so that
1177 extended names data will be freed consistently.
1178 + free pointer to TERMTYPE data in _nc_free_termtype() rather than
1180 + add some entrypoints for freeing permanently allocated data via
1181 _nc_freeall() when NO_LEAKS is defined.
1182 + amend 20041030 change to _nc_do_color to ensure that optimization is
1183 applied only when the terminal supports back_color_erase (bce).
1186 + add sun-color terminfo entry -TD
1187 + correct a missing assignment in c++ binding's method
1188 NCursesPanel::UserPointer() from 20050409 changes.
1189 + improve configure check for large-files, adding check for dirent64
1191 + minor change to configure script to improve linker options for the
1195 + document error conditions for ncurses library functions (report by
1197 + regenerated html documentation for ada binding.
1198 see ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/gnathtml
1201 + regenerated html documentation for manpages.
1202 + add $(BUILD_EXEEXT) suffix to invocation of make_keys in
1203 ncurses/Makefile (Gentoo #89772).
1204 + modify c++/demo.cc to build with g++ -fno-implicit-templates option
1205 (patch by Mike Frysinger).
1206 + modify tic to filter out long extended names when translating to
1207 termcap format. Only two characters are permissible for termcap
1211 + modify terminfo entries xterm-new and rxvt to add strings for
1212 shift-, control-cursor keys.
1213 + workaround to allow c++ binding to compile with g++ 2.95.3, which
1214 has a broken implementation of static_cast<> (patch by Jeff Chua).
1215 + modify initialization of key lookup table so that if an extended
1216 capability (tic -x) string is defined, and its name begins with 'k',
1217 it will automatically be treated as a key.
1218 + modify test/keynames.c to allow for the possibility of extended
1219 key names, e.g., via define_key(), or via "tic -x".
1220 + add test/demo_termcap.c to show the contents of given entry via the
1224 + minor fixes for vt100/vt52 entries -TD
1225 + add configure option --enable-largefile
1226 + corrected libraries used to build Ada95/gen/gen, found in testing
1230 + update config.guess, config.sub
1231 + modify configure script check for _XOPEN_SOURCE, disable that on
1232 Darwin whose header files have problems (patch by Chris Zubrzycki).
1233 + modify form library Is_Printable_String() to use iswprint() rather
1234 than wcwidth() for determining if a character is printable. The
1235 latter caused it to reject menu items containing non-spacing
1237 + modify ncurses test program's F-test to handle non-spacing characters
1238 by combining them with a reverse-video blank.
1239 + review/fix several gcc -Wconversion warnings.
1242 + correct an off-by-one error in m_driver() for mouse-clicks used to
1243 position the mouse to a particular item.
1244 + implement test/demo_menus.c
1245 + add some checks in lib_mouse to ensure SP is set.
1246 + modify C++ binding to make 20050403 changes work with the configure
1247 --enable-const option.
1250 + modify start_color() to return ERR if it cannot allocate memory.
1251 + address g++ compiler warnings in C++ binding by adding explicit
1252 member initialization, assignment operators and copy constructors.
1253 Most of the changes simply preserve the existing semantics of the
1254 binding, which can leak memory, etc., but by making these features
1255 visible, it provides a framework for improving the binding.
1256 + improve C++ binding using static_cast, etc.
1257 + modify configure script --enable-warnings to add options to g++ to
1258 correspond to the gcc --enable-warnings.
1259 + modify C++ binding to use some C internal functions to make it
1260 compile properly on Solaris (and other platforms).
1263 + amend change from 20050320 to limit it to configurations with a
1265 + fix a bug introduced in 20050320 which broke the translation of
1266 nonprinting characters to uparrow form (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
1269 + add ifdef's for _LP64 in curses.h to avoid using wasteful 64-bits for
1270 chtype and mmask_t, but add configure option --disable-lp64 in case
1271 anyone used that configuration.
1272 + update misc/shlib script to account for Mac OS X (report by Michail
1274 + correct comparison for wrapping multibyte characters in
1275 waddch_literal() (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
1278 + add -c and -w options to tset to allow user to suppress ncurses'
1279 resizing of the terminal emulator window in the special case where it
1280 is not able to detect the true size (report by Win Delvaux, Debian
1282 + modify waddch_nosync() to account for locale zn_CH.GBK, which uses
1283 codes 128-159 as part of multibyte characters (report by Wang
1284 WenRui, Debian #300512).
1287 + modify ncurses.c 'd' test to make it work with 88-color
1288 configuration, i.e., by implementing scrolling.
1289 + improve scrolling in ncurses.c 'c' and 'C' tests, e.g., for 88-color
1293 + change tracemunch to use strict checking.
1294 + modify ncurses.c 'p' test to test line-drawing within a pad.
1295 + implement environment variable NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS to support
1296 miscellaneous terminal emulators which ignore alternate character
1297 set escape sequences when in UTF-8 mode.
1300 + change NCursesWindow::err_handler() to a virtual function (request by
1302 + modify fty_int.c and fty_num.c to handle wide characters (report by
1304 + adapt fix for fty_alpha.c to fty_alnum.c, which also handled normal
1305 and wide characters inconsistently (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
1306 + update llib-* files to reflect internal interface additions/changes.
1309 + improve test/configure script, adding tests for _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc.,
1311 + add aixterm-16color terminfo entry -TD
1312 + modified xterm-new terminfo entry to work with tgetent() changes -TD
1313 + extended changes in tgetent() from 20040710 to allow the substring of
1314 sgr0 which matches rmacs to be at the beginning of the sgr0 string
1315 (request by Thomas Wolff). Wolff says the visual effect in
1316 combination with pre-20040710 ncurses is improved.
1317 + fix off-by-one in winnstr() call which caused form field validation
1318 of multibyte characters to ignore the last character in a field.
1319 + correct logic in winsch() for inserting multibyte strings; the code
1320 would clear cells after the insertion rather than push them to the
1321 right (cf: 20040228).
1322 + fix an inconsistency in Check_Alpha_Field() between normal and wide
1323 character logic (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
1326 + fix a bug in editing wide-characters in form library: deleting a
1327 nonwide character modified the previous wide-character.
1328 + update manpage to describe NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2.
1329 + correct manpage description of mouseinterval() (Debian #280687).
1330 + add a note to default_colors.3x explaining why this extension was
1331 added (Debian #295083).
1332 + add traces to panel library.
1335 + improve editing of wide-characters in form library: left/right
1336 cursor movement, and single-character deletions work properly.
1337 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM happens to be prefixed with
1338 "xterm". Gpm_Open() would otherwise assert that it can deal with
1339 mouse events in this case.
1340 + modify GPM mouse support so it closes the server connection when
1341 the caller disables the mouse (report by Stanislav Ievlev).
1344 + add traces for callback functions in form library.
1345 + add experimental configure option --enable-ext-mouse, which defines
1346 NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2, and modifies the encoding of mouse events to
1347 support wheel mice, which may transmit buttons 4 and 5. This works
1348 with xterm and similar X terminal emulators (prompted by question by
1349 Andreas Henningsson, this is also related to Debian #230990).
1350 + improve configure macros CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE to
1351 avoid redefinition warnings on cygwin.
1354 + merge remaining development changes for extended colors (mostly
1355 complete, does not appear to break other configurations).
1356 + add xterm-88color.dat (part of extended colors testing).
1357 + improve _tracedump() handling of color pairs past 96.
1358 + modify return-value from start_color() to return OK if colors have
1359 already been started.
1360 + modify curs_color.3x list error conditions for init_pair(),
1361 pair_content() and color_content().
1362 + modify pair_content() to return -1 for consistency with init_pair()
1363 if it corresponds to the default-color.
1364 + change internal representation of default-color to allow application
1365 to use color number 255. This does not affect the total number of
1366 color pairs which are allowed.
1367 + add a top-level tags rule.
1370 + add a null-pointer check in wgetch() in case it is called without
1371 first calling initscr().
1372 + add some null-pointer checks for SP, which is not set by libtinfo.
1373 + modify misc/shlib to ensure that absolute pathnames are used.
1374 + modify test/Makefile.in, etc., to link test programs only against the
1375 libraries needed, e.g., omit form/menu/panel library for the ones
1376 that are curses-specific.
1377 + change SP->_current_attr to a pointer, adjust ifdef's to ensure that
1378 libtinfo.so and libtinfow.so have the same ABI. The reason for this
1379 is that the corresponding data which belongs to the upper-level
1380 ncurses library has a different size in each model (report by
1384 + minor fixes to allow test-compiles with g++.
1385 + correct column value shown in tic's warnings, which did not account
1386 for leading whitespace.
1387 + add a check in _nc_trans_string() for improperly ended strings, i.e.,
1388 where a following line begins in column 1.
1389 + modify _nc_save_str() to return a null pointer on buffer overflow.
1390 + improve repainting while scrolling wide-character data (Eungkyu Song).
1393 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
1396 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
1397 + fix manpage typo (FreeBSD report docs/75544).
1398 + update config.guess, config.sub
1399 > patches for configure script (Albert Chin-A-Young):
1400 + improved fix to make mbstate_t recognized on HPUX 11i (cf:
1401 20030705), making vsscanf() prototype visible on IRIX64. Tested for
1402 on HP-UX 11i, Solaris 7, 8, 9, AIX 4.3.3, 5.2, Tru64 UNIX 4.0D, 5.1,
1403 IRIX64 6.5, Redhat Linux 7.1, 9, and RHEL 2.1, 3.0.
1404 + print the result of the --disable-home-terminfo option.
1405 + use -rpath when compiling with SGI C compiler.
1408 + add trace calls to remaining public functions in form and menu
1410 + fix check for numeric digits in test/ncurses.c 'b' and 'B' tests.
1411 + fix typo in test/ncurses.c 'c' test from 20041218.
1414 + revise test/ncurses.c 'c' color test to improve use for xterm-88color
1415 and xterm-256color, added 'C' test using the wide-character color_set
1416 and attr_set functions.
1419 + modify configure script to work with Intel compiler.
1420 + fix an limit-check in wadd_wchnstr() which caused labels in the
1421 forms-demo to be one character short.
1422 + fix typo in curs_addchstr.3x (Jared Yanovich).
1423 + add trace calls to most functions in form and menu libraries.
1424 + update working-position for adding wide-characters when window is
1425 scrolled (prompted by related report by Eungkyu Song).
1428 + replace some references on Linux to wcrtomb() which use it to obtain
1429 the length of a multibyte string with _nc_wcrtomb, since wcrtomb() is
1430 broken in glibc (see Debian #284260).
1431 + corrected length-computation in wide-character support for
1433 + some fixes to frm_driver.c to allow it to accept multibyte input.
1434 + modify configure script to work with Intel 8.0 compiler.
1437 + amend change to setupterm() in 20030405 which would reuse the value
1438 of cur_term if the same output was selected. This now reuses it only
1439 when setupterm() is called from tgetent(), which has no notion of
1440 separate SCREENs. Note that tgetent() must be called after initscr()
1441 or newterm() to use this feature (Redhat Bugzilla #140326).
1442 + add a check in CF_BUILD_CC macro to ensure that developer has given
1443 the --with-build-cc option when cross-compiling (report by Alexandre
1445 + improved configure script checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE and
1446 _POSIX_C_SOURCE (fix for IRIX 5.3 from Georg Schwarz, _POSIX_C_SOURCE
1448 + cosmetic fix to test/gdc.c to recolor the bottom edge of the box
1449 for consistency (comment by Dan Nelson).
1452 + update wsvt25 terminfo entry -TD
1453 + modify test/ins_wide.c to test all flavors of ins_wstr().
1454 + ignore filler-cells in wadd_wchnstr() when adding a cchar_t array
1455 which consists of multi-column characters, since this function
1456 constructs them (cf: 20041023).
1457 + modify winnstr() to return multibyte character strings for the
1458 wide-character configuration.
1461 + fixes to make slk_set() and slk_wset() accept and store multibyte
1462 or multicolumn characters.
1465 + improve color optimization a little by making _nc_do_color() check
1466 if the old/new pairs are equivalent to the default pair 0.
1467 + modify assume_default_colors() to not require that
1468 use_default_colors() be called first.
1471 + modify term_attrs() to use termattrs(), add the extended attributes
1472 such as enter_horizontal_hl_mode for WA_HORIZONTAL to term_attrs().
1473 + add logic in waddch_literal() to clear orphaned cells when one
1474 multi-column character partly overwrites another.
1475 + improved logic for clearing cells when a multi-column character
1476 must be wrapped to a new line.
1477 + revise storage of cells for multi-column characters to correct a
1478 problem with repainting. In the old scheme, it was possible for
1479 doupdate() to decide that only part of a multi-column character
1480 should be repainted since the filler cells stored only an attribute
1481 to denote them as fillers, rather than the character value and the
1485 + minor fixes for traces.
1486 + add SP->_screen_acs_map[], used to ensure that mapping of missing
1487 line-drawing characters is handled properly. For example, ACS_DARROW
1488 is absent from xterm-new, and it was coincidentally displayed the
1492 + amend 20021221 workaround for broken acs to reset the sgr, rmacs
1493 and smacs strings as well. Also modify the check for screen's
1494 limitations in that area to allow the multi-character shift-in
1495 and shift-out which seem to work.
1496 + change GPM initialization, using dl library to load it dynamically
1497 at runtime (Debian #110586).
1500 + correct logic for color pair in setcchar() and getcchar() (patch by
1501 Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
1502 + add t/T commands to ncurses b/B tests to allow a different color to
1503 be tested for the attrset part of the test than is used in the
1507 + fix to make setcchar() to work when its wchar_t* parameter is
1508 pointing to a string which contains more data than can be converted.
1509 + modify wget_wstr() and example in ncurses.c to work if wchar_t and
1510 wint_t are different sizes (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
1513 + remove check in wget_wch() added to fix an infinite loop, appears to
1514 have been working around a transitory glibc bug, and interferes
1515 with normal operation (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
1516 + correct wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not pass the rendition
1517 information (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
1518 + fix aclocal.m4 so that the wide-character version of ncurses gets
1519 compiled as libncursesw.5.dylib, instead of libncurses.5w.dylib
1520 (adapted from patch by James J Ramsey).
1521 + change configure script for --with-caps option to indicate that it
1522 is no longer experimental.
1523 + change configure script to reflect the fact that --enable-widec has
1524 not been "experimental" since 5.3 (report by Bruno Lustosa).
1527 + add 'B' test to ncurses.c, to exercise some wide-character functions.
1530 + modify infocmp -i option to match 8-bit controls against its table
1531 entries, e.g., so it can analyze the xterm-8bit entry.
1532 + add morphos terminfo entry, improve amiga-8bit entry (Pavel Fedin).
1533 + correct translation of "%%" in terminfo format to termcap, e.g.,
1534 using "tic -C" (Redhat Bugzilla #130921).
1535 + modified configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to ensure that if
1536 it defines _POSIX_C_SOURCE, that it defines it to a specific value
1537 (comp.os.stratus newsgroup comment).
1540 + fixes to build with Ada95 binding with gnat 3.4 (all warnings are
1541 fatal, and gnat does not follow the guidelines for pragmas).
1542 However that did find a coding error in Assume_Default_Colors().
1543 + modify several terminfo entries to ensure xterm mouse and cursor
1544 visibility are reset in rs2 string: hurd, putty, gnome,
1545 konsole-base, mlterm, Eterm, screen (Debian #265784, #55637). The
1546 xterm entries are left alone - old ones for compatibility, and the
1547 new ones do not require this change. -TD
1550 + fake a SIGWINCH in newterm() to accommodate buggy terminal emulators
1551 and window managers (Debian #265631).
1552 > terminfo updates -TD
1553 + remove dch/dch1 from rxvt because they are implemented inconsistently
1554 with the common usage of bce/ech
1555 + remove khome from vt220 (vt220's have no home key)
1559 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test, adding v/V toggles to cycle through
1560 combinations of video attributes so that for instance bold and
1561 underline can be tested. This made the legend too crowded, added
1562 a help window as well.
1563 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test to cycle through default colors if
1564 the -d option is set.
1565 + update putty terminfo entry (Robert de Bath).
1568 + modify test/cardfile.c to allow it to read more data than can be
1570 + correct logic in resizeterm.c which kept it from processing all
1571 levels of window hierarchy (reports by Folkert van Heusden,
1575 + modify "tic -cv" to ignore delays when comparing strings. Also
1576 modify it to ignore a canceled sgr string, e.g., for terminals which
1577 cannot properly combine attributes in one control sequence.
1578 + corrections for gnome and konsole entries (Redhat Bugzilla #122815,
1579 patch by Hans de Goede)
1580 > terminfo updates -TD
1581 + make ncsa-m rmacs/smacs consistent with sgr
1582 + add sgr, rc/sc and ech to syscons entries
1583 + add function-keys to decansi
1584 + add sgr to mterm-ansi
1585 + add sgr, civis, cnorm to emu
1586 + correct/simplify cup in addrinfo
1589 > terminfo updates -TD
1590 + add xterm-pc-fkeys
1591 + review/update gnome and gnome-rh90 entries (prompted by Redhat
1593 + review/update konsole entries
1594 + add sgr, correct sgr0 for kterm and mlterm
1595 + correct tsl string in kterm
1598 + add configure option --without-xterm-new
1601 + add check in wget_wch() for printable bytes that are not part of a
1602 multibyte character.
1603 + modify wadd_wchnstr() to render text using window's background
1605 + improve tic's check to compare sgr and sgr0.
1606 + fix c++ directory's .cc.i rule.
1607 + modify logic in tgetent() which adjusts the termcap "me" string
1608 to work with ISO-2022 string used in xterm-new (cf: 20010908).
1609 + modify tic's check for conflicting function keys to omit that if
1610 converting termcap to termcap format.
1611 + add -U option to tic and infocmp.
1612 + add rmam/smam to linux terminfo entry (Trevor Van Bremen)
1613 > terminfo updates -TD
1614 + minor fixes for emu
1616 + change wyse acsc strings to use 'i' map rather than 'I'
1621 + use tic -x to install terminfo database -TD
1622 + add -x to infocmp's usage message.
1623 + correct field used for comparing O_ROWMAJOR in set_menu_format()
1624 (report/patch by Tony Li).
1625 + fix a missing nul check in set_field_buffer() from 20040508 changes.
1626 > terminfo updates -TD
1627 + make xterm-xf86-v43 derived from xterm-xf86-v40 rather than
1629 + align with xterm patch #192's use of xterm-new -TD
1630 + update xterm-new and xterm-8bit for cvvis/cnorm strings -TD
1631 + make xterm-new the default "xterm" entry -TD
1634 + correct BUILD_CPPFLAGS substitution in ncurses/Makefile.in, to allow
1635 cross-compiling from a separate directory tree (report/patch by
1637 + modify is_term_resized() to ensure that window sizes are nonzero,
1638 as documented in the manpage (report by Ian Collier).
1639 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro to make Hurd port build
1640 (Debian #249214, report/patch by Jeff Bailey).
1641 + configure-script mods from xterm, e.g., updates to CF_ADD_CFLAGS
1642 + update config.guess, config.sub
1643 > terminfo updates -TD
1645 + add xterm-xf86-v44
1646 + modify xterm-new aka xterm-xfree86 to accommodate luit, which
1647 relies on G1 being used via an ISO-2022 escape sequence (report by
1652 + reconsidered winsnstr(), decided after comparing other
1653 implementations that wrapping is an X/Open documentation error.
1654 + modify test/inserts.c to test all flavors of insstr().
1657 + add setlocale() calls to a few test programs which may require it:
1658 demo_forms.c, filter.c, ins_wide.c, inserts.c
1659 + correct a few misspelled function names in ncurses-intro.html (report
1661 + correct internal name of key_defined() manpage, which conflicted with
1665 + correct size of internal pad used for holding wide-character
1666 field_buffer() results.
1667 + modify data_ahead() to work with wide-characters.
1670 + improve description of terminfo if-then-else expressions (suggested
1672 + improve test/ncurses.c 'd' test, allow it to use external file for
1673 initial palette (added xterm-16color.dat and linux-color.dat), and
1674 reset colors to the initial palette when starting/ending the test.
1675 + change limit-check in init_color() to allow r/g/b component to
1676 reach 1000 (cf: 20020928).
1679 + modify form library to use cchar_t's rather than char's in the
1680 wide-character configuration for storing data for field buffers.
1681 + correct logic of win_wchnstr(), which did not work for more than
1685 + replace memset/memcpy usage in form library with for-loops to
1686 simplify changing the datatype of FIELD.buf, part of wide-character
1688 + fix some inconsistent use of #if/#ifdef (report by Alain Guibert).
1691 + modify menu library to account for actual number of columns used by
1692 multibyte character strings, in the wide-character configuration
1693 (adapted from patch by Philipp Tomsich).
1694 + add "-x" option to infocmp like tic's "-x", for use in "-F"
1695 comparisons. This modifies infocmp to only report extended
1696 capabilities if the -x option is given, making this more consistent
1697 with tic. Some scripts may break, since infocmp previous gave this
1698 information without an option.
1699 + modify termcap-parsing to retain 2-character aliases at the beginning
1700 of an entry if the "-x" option is used in tic.
1703 + minor compiler-warning and test-program fixes.
1706 + modify tic's missing-sgr warning to apply to terminfo only.
1707 + free some memory leaks in tic.
1708 + remove check in post_menu() that prevented menus from extending
1709 beyond the screen (request by Max J. Werner).
1710 + remove check in newwin() that prevents allocating windows
1711 that extend beyond the screen. Solaris curses does this.
1712 + add ifdef in test/color_set.c to allow it to compile with older
1714 + add napms() calls to test/dots.c to make it not be a CPU hog.
1717 + modify unctrl() to return null if its parameter does not correspond
1718 to an unsigned char.
1719 + add some limit-checks to guard isprint(), etc., from being used on
1720 values that do not fit into an unsigned char (report by Sami Farin).
1723 + fix a typo in the _nc_get_locale() change.
1726 + modify _nc_get_locale() to use setlocale() to query the program's
1727 current locale rather than using getenv(). This fixes a case in tin
1728 which relies on legacy treatment of 8-bit characters when the locale
1729 is not initialized (reported by Urs Jansen).
1730 + add sgr string to screen's and rxvt's terminfo entries -TD.
1731 + add a check in tic for terminfo entries having an sgr0 but no sgr
1732 string. This confuses Tru64 and HPUX curses when combined with
1733 color, e.g., making them leave line-drawing characters in odd places.
1734 + correct casts used in ABSENT_BOOLEAN, CANCELLED_BOOLEAN, matches the
1735 original definitions used in Debian package to fix PowerPC bug before
1736 20030802 (Debian #237629).
1739 + modify PutAttrChar() and PUTC() macro to improve use of
1740 A_ALTCHARSET attribute to prevent line-drawing characters from
1741 being lost in situations where the locale would otherwise treat the
1742 raw data as nonprintable (Debian #227879).
1745 + fix a redefinition of CTRL() macro in test/view.c for AIX 5.2 (report
1747 + remove ".PP" after ".SH NAME" in a few manpages; this confuses
1748 some apropos script (Debian #237831).
1751 + modify ncurses.c 'r' test so editing commands, like inserted text,
1752 set the field background, and the state of insert/overlay editing
1753 mode is shown in that test.
1754 + change syntax of dummy targets in Ada95 makefiles to work with pmake.
1755 + correct logic in test/ncurses.c 'b' for noncolor terminals which
1756 did not recognize a quit-command (cf: 20030419).
1759 + modify _nc_insert_ch() to allow for its input to be part of a
1761 + split out lib_insnstr.c, to prepare to rewrite it. X/Open states
1762 that this function performs wrapping, unlike all of the other
1763 insert-functions. Currently it does not wrap.
1764 + check for nl_langinfo(CODESET), use it if available (report by
1766 + split-out CF_BUILD_CC macro, actually did this for lynx first.
1767 + fixes for configure script CF_WITH_DBMALLOC and CF_WITH_DMALLOC,
1768 which happened to work with bash, but not with Bourne shell (report
1769 by Marco d'Itri via tin-dev).
1772 + some changes to adapt the form library to wide characters, incomplete
1773 (request by Mike Aubury).
1774 + add symbol to curses.h which can be used to suppress include of
1776 #define NCURSES_ENABLE_STDBOOL_H 0
1778 (discussion on XFree86 mailing list).
1781 + modify configure --with-termlib option to accept a value which sets
1782 the name of the terminfo library. This would allow a packager to
1783 build libtinfow.so renamed to coincide with libtinfo.so (discussion
1784 with Stanislav Ievlev).
1785 + improve documentation of --with-install-prefix, --prefix and
1786 $(DESTDIR) in INSTALL (prompted by discussion with Paul Lew).
1787 + add configure check if the compiler can use -c -o options to rename
1788 its output file, use that to omit the 'cd' command which was used to
1789 ensure object files are created in a separate staging directory
1790 (prompted by comments by Johnny Wezel, Martin Mokrejs).
1792 20040208 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1795 20040207 pre-release
1796 + minor fixes to _nc_tparm_analyze(), i.e., do not count %i as a param,
1797 and do not count %d if it follows a %p.
1798 + correct an inconsistency between handling of codes in the 128-255
1799 range, e.g., as illustrated by test/ncurses.c f/F tests. In POSIX
1800 locale, the latter did not show printable results, while the former
1802 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to compensate for broken C preprocessor on Mac
1803 OS X, which alters "%%" to "% % " (report by Robert Simms, fix
1804 verified by Scott Corscadden).
1806 20040131 pre-release
1807 + modify SCREEN struct to align it between normal/wide curses flavors
1808 to simplify future changes to build a single version of libtinfo
1809 (patch by Stanislav Ievlev).
1810 + document handling of carriage return by addch() in manpage.
1811 + document special features of unctrl() in manpage.
1812 + documented interface changes in INSTALL.
1813 + corrected control-char test in lib_addch.c to account for locale
1814 (Debian #230335, cf: 971206).
1815 + updated test/configure.in to use AC_EXEEXT and AC_OBJEXT.
1816 + fixes to compile Ada95 binding with Debian gnat 3.15p-4 package.
1817 + minor configure-script fixes for older ports, e.g., BeOS R4.5.
1819 20040125 pre-release
1820 + amend change to PutAttrChar() from 20030614 which computed the number
1821 of cells for a possibly multi-cell character. The 20030614 change
1822 forced the cell to a blank if the result from wcwidth() was not
1823 greater than zero. However, wcwidth() called for parameters in the
1824 range 128-255 can give this return value. The logic now simply
1825 ensures that the number of cells is greater than zero without
1826 modifying the displayed value.
1828 20040124 pre-release
1829 + looked good for 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org (but see above)
1830 + modify configure script check for ranlib to use AC_CHECK_TOOL, since
1831 that works better for cross-compiling.
1833 20040117 pre-release
1834 + modify lib_get_wch.c to prefer mblen/mbtowc over mbrlen/mbrtowc to
1835 work around core dump in Solaris 8's locale support, e.g., for
1836 zh_CN.GB18030 (report by Saravanan Bellan).
1837 + add includes for <stdarg.h> and <stdio.h> in configure script macro
1838 to make <wchar.h> check work with Tru64 4.0d.
1839 + add terminfo entry for U/Win -TD
1840 + add terminfo entries for SFU aka Interix aka OpenNT (Federico
1842 + modify tput's error messages to prefix them with the program name
1843 (report by Vincent Lefevre, patch by Daniel Jacobowitz (see Debian
1845 + correct a place in tack where exit_standout_mode was used instead of
1846 exit_attribute_mode (patch by Jochen Voss (see Debian #224443)).
1847 + modify c++/cursesf.h to use const in the Enumeration_Field method.
1848 + remove an ambiguous (actually redundant) method from c++/cursesf.h
1849 + make $HOME/.terminfo update optional (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
1850 + improve sed script which extracts libtool's version in the
1851 CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro.
1852 + add ifdef'd call to AC_PROG_LIBTOOL to CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro (to
1853 simplify local patch for Albert Chin-A-Young)..
1854 + add $(CXXFLAGS) to link command in c++/Makefile.in (adapted from
1855 patch by Albert Chin-A-Young)..
1856 + fix a missing substitution in configure.in for "$target" needed for
1858 + resync CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro with lynx; fixes IRIX64 and
1859 NetBSD 1.6 conflicts with _XOPEN_SOURCE.
1860 + make check for stdbool.h more specific, to ensure that including it
1861 will actually define/declare bool for the configured compiler.
1862 + rewrite ifdef's in curses.h relating NCURSES_BOOL and bool. The
1863 intention of that is to #define NCURSES_BOOL as bool when the
1864 compiler declares bool, and to #define bool as NCURSES_BOOL when it
1865 does not (reported by Jim Gifford, Sam Varshavchik, cf: 20031213).
1867 20040110 pre-release
1868 + change minor version to 4, i.e., ncurses 5.4
1869 + revised/improved terminfo entries for tvi912b, tvi920b (Benjamin C W
1871 + simplified ncurses/base/version.c by defining the result from the
1872 configure script rather than using sprintf (suggested by Stanislav
1874 + remove obsolete casts from c++/cursesw.h (reported by Stanislav
1876 + modify configure script so that when configuring for termlib, programs
1877 such as tic are not linked with the upper-level ncurses library
1878 (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
1879 + move version.c from ncurses/base to ncurses/tinfo to allow linking
1880 of tic, etc., using libtinfo (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
1883 + adjust -D's to build ncursesw on OpenBSD.
1884 + modify CF_PROG_EXT to make OS/2 build with EXEEXT.
1885 + add pecho_wchar().
1886 + remove <wctype.h> include from lib_slk_wset.c which is not needed (or
1887 available) on older platforms.
1890 + add -D's to build ncursew on FreeBSD 5.1.
1891 + modify shared library configuration for FreeBSD 4.x/5.x to add the
1892 soname information (request by Marc Glisse).
1893 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() to not use MAX_ALIAS, but PATH_MAX only
1894 for limiting the length of a filename in the terminfo database.
1895 + modify termname() to return the terminal name used by setupterm()
1896 rather than $TERM, without truncating to 14 characters as documented
1897 by X/Open (report by Stanislav Ievlev, cf: 970719).
1898 + re-add definition for _BSD_TYPES, lost in merge (cf: 20031206).
1901 + add configure option --with-manpage-format=catonly to address
1902 behavior of BSDI, allow install of man+cat files on NetBSD, whose
1903 behavior has diverged by requiring both to be present.
1904 + remove leading blanks from comment-lines in manlinks.sed script to
1905 work with Tru64 4.0d.
1906 + add screen.linux terminfo entry (discussion on mutt-users mailing
1910 + add a check for tic to flag missing backslashes for termcap
1911 continuation lines. ncurses reads the whole entry, but termcap
1912 applications do not.
1913 + add configure option "--with-manpage-aliases" extending
1914 "--with-manpage-aliases" to provide the option of generating ".so"
1915 files rather than symbolic links for manpage aliases.
1916 + add bool definition in include/curses.h.in for configurations with no
1917 usable C++ compiler (cf: 20030607).
1918 + fix pathname of SigAction.h for building with --srcdir (reported by
1922 + folded ncurses/base/sigaction.c into includes of ncurses/SigAction.h,
1923 since that header is used only within ncurses/tty/lib_tstp.c, for
1924 non-POSIX systems (discussion with Stanislav Ievlev).
1925 + remove obsolete _nc_outstr() function (report by Stanislav Ievlev
1926 <inger@altlinux.org>).
1927 + add test/background.c and test/color_set.c
1928 + modify color_set() function to work with color pair 0 (report by
1929 George Andreou <gbandreo@tem.uoc.gr>).
1930 + add configure option --with-trace, since defining TRACE seems too
1931 awkward for some cases.
1932 + remove a call to _nc_free_termtype() from read_termtype(), since the
1933 corresponding buffer contents were already zeroed by a memset (cf:
1935 + improve configure check for _XOPEN_SOURCE and related definitions,
1936 adding special cases for Solaris' __EXTENSIONS__ and FreeBSD's
1937 __BSD_TYPES (reports by Marc Glisse <marc.glisse@normalesup.org>).
1938 + small fixes to compile on Solaris and IRIX64 using cc.
1939 + correct typo in check for pre-POSIX sort options in MKkey_defs.sh
1943 + modify _nc_gettime() to avoid a problem with arithmetic on unsigned
1944 values (Philippe Blain).
1945 + improve the nanosleep() logic in napms() by checking for EINTR and
1946 restarting (Philippe Blain).
1947 + correct expression for "%D" in lib_tgoto.c (Juha Jarvi
1951 + add linux-vt terminfo entry (Andrey V Lukyanov <land@long.yar.ru>).
1952 + allow "\|" escape in terminfo; tic should not warn about this.
1953 + save the full pathname of the trace-file the first time it is opened,
1954 to avoid creating it in different directories if the application
1955 opens and closes it while changing its working directory.
1956 + modify configure script to provide a non-empty default for
1960 + add DJGPP to special case of DOS-style drive letters potentially
1961 appearing in TERMCAP environment variable.
1962 + fix some spelling in comments (reports by Jason McIntyre, Jonathon
1964 + update config.guess, config.sub
1967 + fix a memory leak in error-return from setupterm() (report by
1968 Stanislav Ievlev <inger@altlinux.org>).
1969 + use EXEEXT and OBJEXT consistently in makefiles.
1970 + amend fixes for cross-compiling to use separate executable-suffix
1971 BUILD_EXEEXT (cf: 20031018).
1972 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for sort utility that does not
1973 recognize key options, e.g., busybox (report by Peter S Mazinger
1975 + fix potential out-of-bounds indexing in _nc_infotocap() (found by
1976 David Krause using some of the new malloc debugging features
1977 under OpenBSD, patch by Ted Unangst).
1978 + modify CF_LIB_SUFFIX for Itanium releases of HP-UX, which use a
1979 ".so" suffix (patch by Jonathan Ward <Jonathan.Ward@hp.com>).
1982 + update terminfo for xterm-xfree86 -TD
1983 + add check for multiple "tc=" clauses in a termcap to tic.
1984 + check for missing op/oc in tic.
1985 + correct _nc_resolve_uses() and _nc_merge_entry() to allow infocmp and
1986 tic to show cancelled capabilities. These functions were ignoring
1987 the state of the target entry, which should be untouched if cancelled.
1988 + correct comment in tack/output.c (Debian #215806).
1989 + add some null-pointer checks to lib_options.c (report by Michael
1991 + regenerated html documentation.
1992 + correction to tar-copy.sh, remove a trap command that resulted in
1993 leaving temporary files (cf: 20030510).
1994 + remove contact/maintainer addresses for Juergen Pfeifer (his request).
1997 + updated test/configure to reflect changes for libtool (cf: 20030830).
1998 + fix several places in tack/pad.c which tested and used the parameter-
1999 and parameterless strings inconsistently, i.e., in pad_rin(),
2000 pad_il(), pad_indn() and pad_dl() (Debian #215805).
2001 + minor fixes for configure script and makefiles to cleanup executables
2002 generated when cross-compiling for DJGPP.
2003 + modify infocmp to omit check for $TERM for operations that do not
2004 require it, e.g., "infocmp -e" used to build fallback list (report by
2008 + add terminfo entries for DJGPP.
2009 + updated note about maintainer in ncurses-intro.html
2012 + update terminfo entries for gnome terminal.
2013 + modify tack to reset colors after each color test, correct a place
2014 where exit_standout_mode was used instead of exit_attribute_mode.
2015 + improve tack's bce test by making it set colors other than black
2017 + plug a potential recursion between napms() and _nc_timed_wait()
2018 (report by Philippe Blain).
2021 + add --with-rel-version option to allow workaround to allow making
2022 libtool on Darwin generate the "same" library names as with the
2023 --with-shared option. The Darwin ld program does not work well
2024 with a zero as the minor-version value (request by Chris Zubrzycki).
2025 + modify CF_MIXEDCASE_FILENAMES macro to work with cross-compiling.
2026 + modify tack to allow it to run from fallback terminfo data.
2027 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2028 + improve PutRange() by adjusting call to EmitRange() and corresponding
2029 return-value to not emit unchanged characters on the end of the
2031 + improve a check for changed-attribute by exiting a loop when the
2033 + improve logic in TransformLine(), eliminating a duplicated comparison
2034 in the clr_bol logic.
2037 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2038 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
2039 move the label 'nonlocal' just before the second gettimeofday() to
2040 be able to compute the diff time when 'goto nonlocal' used.
2041 Rename 'msec' to 'microsec' in the debug-message.
2042 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
2043 Use _nc_outch() in carriage return/newline movement instead of
2044 putchar() which goes to stdout. Move test for xold>0 out of loop.
2045 + in ncurses/tinfo/setbuf.c,
2046 Set the flag SP->_buffered at the end of operations when all has been
2047 successful (typeMalloc can fail).
2048 + simplify NC_BUFFERED macro by moving check inside _nc_setbuf().
2051 + modify configure script to avoid using "head -1", which does not
2052 work if POSIXLY_CORRECT (sic) is set.
2053 + modify run_tic.in to avoid using wrong shared libraries when
2054 cross-compiling (Dan Kegel).
2057 + alter configure script help message to make it clearer that
2058 --with-build-cc does not specify a cross-compiler (suggested by Dan
2059 Kegel <dank@kegel.com>).
2060 + modify configure script to accommodate libtool 1.5, as well as add an
2061 parameter to the "--with-libtool" option which can specify the
2062 pathname of libtool (report by Chris Zubrzycki). We note that
2063 libtool 1.5 has more than one bug in its C++ support, so it is not
2064 able to install libncurses++, for instance, if $DESTDIR or the option
2065 --with-install-prefix is used.
2068 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2069 + move assignments to SP->_cursrow, SP->_curscol into online_mvcur().
2070 + make baudrate computation in delay_output() consistent with the
2071 assumption in _nc_mvcur_init(), i.e., a byte is 9 bits.
2074 + modify logic in waddch_literal() to take into account zh_TW.Big5
2075 whose multibyte sequences may contain "printable" characters, e.g.,
2076 a "g" in the sequence "\247g" (Debian #204889, cf: 20030621).
2077 + improve storage used by _nc_safe_strcpy() by ensuring that the size
2078 is reset based on the initialization call, in case it were called
2079 after other strcpy/strcat calls (report by Philippe Blain).
2080 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2081 + remove an unused ifdef for REAL_ATTR & WANT_CHAR
2082 + correct a place where _cup_cost was used rather than _cuu_cost
2085 + fix a small memory leak in _nc_free_termtype().
2086 + close trace-file if trace() is called with a zero parameter.
2087 + free memory allocated for soft-key strings, in delscreen().
2088 + fix an allocation size in safe_sprintf.c for the "*" format code.
2089 + correct safe_sprintf.c to not return a null pointer if the format
2090 happens to be an empty string. This applies to the "configure
2091 --enable-safe-sprintf" option (Redhat #101486).
2094 + modify casts used for ABSENT_BOOLEAN and CANCELLED_BOOLEAN (report by
2096 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2097 + change padding for change_scroll_region to not be proportional to
2098 the size of the scroll-region.
2099 + correct error-return in _nc_safe_strcat().
2102 + correct limit-checks in _nc_scroll_window() (report and test-case by
2103 Thomas Graf <graf@dms.at> cf: 20011020).
2104 + re-order configure checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE to avoid conflict with
2108 + use clr_eol in preference to blanks for bce terminals, so select and
2109 paste will have fewer trailing blanks, e.g., when using xterm
2110 (request by Vincent Lefevre).
2111 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
2112 + add configure --with-abi-version option (discussion with Charles
2114 > cygwin changes from Charles Wilson:
2115 + aclocal.m4: on cygwin, use autodetected prefix for import
2116 and static lib, but use "cyg" for DLL.
2117 + include/ncurses_dll.h: correct the comments to reflect current
2118 status of cygwin/mingw port. Fix compiler warning.
2119 + misc/run_tic.in: ensure that tic.exe can find the uninstalled
2120 DLL, by adding the lib-directory to the PATH variable.
2121 + misc/terminfo.src (nxterm|xterm-color): make xterm-color
2122 primary instead of nxterm, to match XFree86's xterm.terminfo
2123 usage and to prevent circular links.
2124 (rxvt): add additional codes from rxvt.org.
2125 (rxvt-color): new alias
2126 (rxvt-xpm): new alias
2127 (rxvt-cygwin): like rxvt, but with special acsc codes.
2128 (rxvt-cygwin-native): ditto. rxvt may be run under XWindows, or
2129 with a "native" MSWin GUI. Each takes different acsc codes,
2130 which are both different from the "normal" rxvt's acsc.
2131 (cygwin): cygwin-in-cmd.exe window. Lots of fixes.
2133 + mk-1st.awk: use "cyg" for the DLL prefix, but "lib" for import
2137 + update config.guess, config.sub
2138 + add triples for configuring shared libraries with the Debian
2139 GNU/FreeBSD packages (patch by Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es>).
2142 + modify CF_GCC_WARNINGS so it only applies to gcc, not g++. Some
2143 platforms have installed g++ along with the native C compiler, which
2144 would not accept gcc warning options.
2145 + add -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 when configuring with --enable-widec, to
2146 get mbstate_t declaration on HPUX 11.11 (report by David Ellement).
2147 + add _nc_pathlast() to get rid of casts in _nc_basename() calls.
2148 + correct a sign-extension in wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() from
2149 20030628 (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
2150 + work around omission of btowc() and wctob() from wide-character
2151 support (sic) in NetBSD 1.6 using mbtowc() and wctomb() (report by
2153 + add portability note to curs_get_wstr.3x (Debian #199957).
2156 + rewrite wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to call waddch() and wechochar()
2157 respectively, to avoid calling waddch_noecho() with wide-character
2158 data, since that function assumes its input is 8-bit data.
2159 Similarly, modify waddnwstr() to call wadd_wch().
2160 + remove logic from waddnstr() which transformed multibyte character
2161 strings into wide-characters. Rewrite of waddch_literal() from
2162 20030621 assumes its input is raw multibyte data rather than wide
2163 characters (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
2166 + write getyx() and related 2-return macros in terms of getcury(),
2168 + modify waddch_literal() in case an application passes bytes of a
2169 multibyte character directly to waddch(). In this case, waddch()
2170 must reassemble the bytes into a wide-character (report by Tomohiro
2171 Kubota <kubota@debian.org>).
2174 + modify waddch_literal() in case a multibyte value occupies more than
2176 + modify PutAttrChar() to compute the number of character cells that
2177 are used in multibyte values. This fixes a problem displaying
2178 double-width characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen
2179 <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
2180 + add a null-pointer check for result of keyname() in _tracechar()
2181 + modify _tracechar() to work around glibc sprintf bug.
2184 + add a call to setlocale() in cursesmain.cc, making demo display
2185 properly in a UTF-8 locale.
2186 + add a fallback definition in curses.priv.h for MB_LEN_MAX (prompted
2187 by discussion with Gabor Z Papp).
2188 + use macros NCURSES_ACS() and NCURSES_WACS() to hide cast needed to
2189 appease -Wchar-subscript with g++ 3.3 (Debian #195732).
2190 + fix a redefinition of $RANLIB in the configure script when libtool
2191 is used, which broke configure on Mac OS X (report by Chris Zubrzycki
2193 + simplify ifdef for bool declaration in curses.h.in (suggested by
2194 Albert Chin-A-Young).
2195 + remove configure script check to allow -Wconversion for older
2196 versions of gcc (suggested by Albert Chin-A-Young).
2199 + regenerated html manpages.
2200 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in that disabled use of __attribute__()
2201 for g++, since recent versions implement the cases which ncurses uses
2203 + modify _nc_get_token() to handle a case where an entry has no
2204 description, and capabilities begin on the same line as the entry
2206 + fix a typo in ncurses_dll.h reported by gcc 3.3.
2207 + add an entry for key_defined.3x to man_db.renames.
2210 + modify setcchar() to allow converting control characters to complex
2211 characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
2212 + add tkterm entry -TD
2213 + modify parse_entry.c to allow a terminfo entry with a leading
2214 2-character name (report by Don Libes).
2215 + corrected acsc in screen.teraterm, which requires a PC-style mapping.
2216 + fix trace statements in read_entry.c to use lseek() rather than
2218 + fix signed/unsigned warnings from Sun's compiler (gcc should give
2219 these warnings, but it is unpredictable).
2220 + modify configure script to omit -Winline for gcc 3.3, since that
2222 + modify manlinks.sed to add a few functions that were overlooked since
2223 they return function pointers: field_init, field_term, form_init,
2224 form_term, item_init, item_term, menu_init and menu_term.
2227 + prevent recursion in wgetch() via wgetnstr() if the connection cannot
2228 be switched between cooked/raw modes because it is not a TTY (report
2229 by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.com>).
2230 + change parameter of define_key() and key_defined() to const (prompted
2232 + add a check in test/configure for ncurses extensions, since there
2233 are some older versions, etc., which would not compile with the
2234 current test programs.
2235 + corrected demo in test/ncurses.c of wgetn_wstr(), which did not
2236 convert wchar_t string to multibyte form before printing it.
2237 + corrections to lib_get_wstr.c:
2238 + null-terminate buffer passed to setcchar(), which occasionally
2240 + map special characters such as erase- and kill-characters into
2241 key-codes so those will work as expected even if they are not
2242 mentioned in the terminfo.
2243 + modify PUTC() and Charable() macros to make wide-character line
2244 drawing work for POSIX locale on Linux console (cf: 20021221).
2247 + make typography for program options in manpages consistent (report
2248 by Miloslav Trmac <mitr@volny.cz>).
2249 + correct dependencies in Ada95/src/Makefile.in, so the builds with
2250 "--srcdir" work (report by Warren L Dodge).
2251 + correct missing definition of $(CC) in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in
2252 (reported by Warren L Dodge <warrend@mdhost.cse.tek.com>).
2253 + fix typos and whitespace in manpages (patch by Jason McIntyre
2254 <jmc@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl>).
2257 + fix form_driver() cases for REQ_CLR_EOF, REQ_CLR_EOL, REQ_DEL_CHAR,
2258 REQ_DEL_PREV and REQ_NEW_LINE, which did not ensure the cursor was at
2259 the editing position before making modifications.
2260 + add test/demo_forms and associated test/edit_field.c demos.
2261 + modify test/configure.in to use test/modules for the list of objects
2262 to compile rather than using the list of programs.
2265 + modify logic of acsc to use the original character if no mapping is
2266 defined, noting that Solaris does this.
2267 + modify ncurses 'b' test to avoid using the acs_map[] array since
2268 20021231 changes it to no longer contain information from the acsc
2270 + modify makefile rules in c++, progs, tack and test to ensure that
2271 the compiler flags (e.g., $CFLAGS or $CCFLAGS) are used in the link
2272 command (report by Jose Luis Rico Botella <informatica@serpis.com>).
2273 + modify soft-key initialization to use A_REVERSE if A_STANDOUT would
2274 not be shown when colors are used, i.e., if ncv#1 is set in the
2275 terminfo as is done in "screen".
2278 + add a test for slk_color(), in ncurses.c
2279 + fix some issues reported by valgrind in the slk_set() and slk_wset()
2280 code, from recent rewrite.
2281 + modify ncurses 'E' test to use show previous label via slk_label(),
2283 + modify wide-character versions of NewChar(), NewChar2() macros to
2284 ensure that the whole struct is initialized.
2287 + modify setupterm() to check if the terminfo and terminal-modes have
2288 already been read. This ensures that it does not reinvoke
2289 def_prog_mode() when an application calls more than one function,
2290 such as tgetent() and initscr() (report by Olaf Buddenhagen).
2293 + add 'E' test to ncurses.c, to exercise slk_wset().
2294 + correct handling of carriage-return in wgetn_wstr(), used in demo of
2296 + first draft of slk_wset() function.
2299 + improved warnings in tic when suppressing items to fit in termcap's
2301 + built a list in test/README showing which externals are being used
2302 by either programs in the test-directory or via internal library
2304 + adjust include-options in CF_ETIP_DEFINES to avoid missing
2305 ncurses_dll.h, fixing special definitions that may be needed for
2306 etip.h (reported by Greg Schafer <gschafer@zip.com.au>).
2309 + minor fixes for cardfile.c, to make it write the updated fields to
2310 a file when ^W is given.
2311 + add/use _nc_trace_bufcat() to eliminate some fixed buffer limits in
2315 + correct a case in _nc_remove_string(), used by define_key(), to avoid
2316 infinite loop if the given string happens to be a substring of other
2317 strings which are assigned to keys (report by John McCutchan).
2318 + add key_defined() function, to tell which keycode a string is bound
2319 to (discussion with John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>).
2320 + correct keybound(), which reported definitions in the wrong table,
2321 i.e., the list of definitions which are disabled by keyok().
2322 + modify demo_keydef.c to show the details it changes, and to check
2326 + restructured test/configure script, make it work for libncursesw.
2327 + add description of link_fieldtype() to manpage (report by
2328 L Dee Holtsclaw <dee@sunbeltsoft.com>).
2331 + corrected ifdef's relating to configure check for wchar_t, etc.
2332 + if the output is a socket or other non-tty device, use 1 millisecond
2333 for the cost in mvcur; previously it was 9 milliseconds because the
2334 baudrate was not known.
2335 + in _nc_get_tty_mode(), initialize the TTY buffer on error, since
2336 glibc copies uninitialized data in that case, as noted by valgrind.
2337 + modify tput to use the same parameter analysis as tparm() does, to
2338 provide for user-defined strings, e.g., for xterm title, a
2339 corresponding capability might be
2341 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to avoid passing "#" tokens through the C
2342 preprocessor. This works around Mac OS X's preprocessor, which
2343 insists on adding a blank on each side of the token (report/analysis
2344 by Kevin Murphy <murphy@genome.chop.edu>).
2347 + add configure check for wchar_t and wint_t types, rather than rely
2348 on preprocessor definitions. Also work around for gcc fixinclude
2349 bug which creates a shadow copy of curses.h if it sees these symbols
2350 apparently typedef'd.
2351 + if database is disabled, do not generate run_tic.sh
2352 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking when termcap is read.
2355 + add checking in tic for incomplete line-drawing character mapping.
2356 + update configure script to reflect fix for AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL,
2357 which is broken in autoconf 2.5x for Mac OS X 10.2.3 (report by
2358 Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl>).
2359 + make return value from _nc_printf_string() consistent. Before,
2360 depending on whether --enable-safe-sprintf was used, it might not be
2361 cached for reallocating.
2364 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking in lib_tparm.c, hardscroll.c
2365 + correct a potentially-uninitialized value if _read_termtype() does
2366 not read as much data as expected (report by Wolfgang Rohdewald
2368 + correct several places where the aclocal.m4 macros relied on cache
2369 variable names which were incompatible (as usual) between autoconf
2370 2.13 and 2.5x, causing the test for broken-linker to give incorrect
2371 results (reports by Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl> and Thomas Esser
2372 <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de>).
2373 + do not try to open gpm mouse driver if standard output is not a tty;
2374 the gpm library does not make this check (bug report for dialog
2375 by David Oliveira <davidoliveira@develop.prozone.ws>).
2378 + modified emx.src to correspond more closely to terminfo.src, added
2379 emx-base to the latter -TD
2380 + add configure option for FreeBSD sysmouse, --with-sysmouse, and
2381 implement support for that in lib_mouse.c, lib_getch.c
2384 + revert 20030105 change to can_clear_with(), does not work for the
2385 case where the update is made on cells which are blanks with
2386 attributes, e.g., reverse.
2387 + improve ifdef's to guard against redefinition of wchar_t and wint_t
2388 in curses.h (report by Urs Jansen).
2391 + improve mvcur() by checking if it is safe to move when video
2392 attributes are set (msgr), and if not, reset/restore attributes
2393 within that function rather than doing it separately in the GoTo()
2394 function in tty_update.c (suggested by Philippe Blain).
2395 + add a message in run_tic.in to explain more clearly what does not
2396 work when attempting to create a symbolic link for /usr/lib/terminfo
2397 on OS/2 and other platforms with no symbolic links (report by John
2399 + change several sed scripts to avoid using "\+" since it is not a BRE
2400 (basic regular expression). One instance caused terminfo.5 to be
2401 misformatted on FreeBSD (report by Kazuo Horikawa
2402 <horikawa@FreeBSD.org> (see FreeBSD docs/46709)).
2403 + correct misspelled 'wint_t' in curs_get_wch.3x (Michael Elkins).
2406 + improve description of terminfo operators, especially static/dynamic
2407 variables (comments by Mark I Manning IV <mark4th@earthlink.net>).
2408 + demonstrate use of FIELDTYPE by modifying test/ncurses 'r' test to
2409 use the predefined TYPE_ALPHA field-type, and by defining a
2410 specialized type for the middle initial/name.
2411 + fix MKterminfo.sh, another workaround for POSIXLY_CORRECT misfeature
2413 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2414 + optimize can_clear_with() a little by testing first if the parameter
2415 is indeed a "blank".
2416 + simplify ClrBottom() a little by allowing it to use clr_eos to clear
2417 sections as small as one line.
2418 + improve ClrToEOL() by checking if clr_eos is available before trying
2420 + use tputs() rather than putp() in a few cases in tty_update.c since
2421 the corresponding delays are proportional to the number of lines
2422 affected: repeat_char, clr_eos, change_scroll_region.
2425 + rewrite of lib_acs.c conflicts with copying of SCREEN acs_map to/from
2426 global acs_map[] array; removed the lines that did the copying.
2429 + change some overlooked tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp()
2430 (report by Philippe Blain).
2431 + modify lib_getch.c to avoid recursion via wgetnstr() when the input
2432 is not a tty and consequently mode-changes do not work (report by
2433 <R.Chamberlin@querix.com>).
2434 + rewrote lib_acs.c to allow PutAttrChar() to decide how to render
2435 alternate-characters, i.e., to work with Linux console and UTF-8
2437 + correct line/column reference in adjust_window(), needed to make
2438 special windows such as curscr track properly when resizing (report
2439 by Lucas Gonze <lgonze@panix.com>).
2440 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2441 + correct the value used for blank in ClrBottom() (broken in 20000708).
2442 + correct an off-by-one in GoTo() parameter in _nc_scrolln().
2445 + change several tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp(), to
2446 enable padding which may be needed for some terminals (patch by
2448 + use '%' as sed substitute delimiter in run_tic script to avoid
2449 problems with pathname delimiters such as ':' and '@' (report by John
2451 + implement a workaround so that line-drawing works with screen's
2452 crippled UTF-8 support (tested with 3.9.13). This only works with
2453 the wide-character support (--enable-widec); the normal library will
2454 simply suppress line-drawing when running in a UTF-8 locale in screen.
2457 + allow BUILD_CC and related configure script variables to be
2458 overridden from the environment.
2459 + make build-tools variables in ncurses/Makefile.in consistent with
2460 the configure script variables (report by Maciej W Rozycki).
2461 + modify ncurses/modules to allow
2462 configure --disable-leaks --disable-ext-funcs
2463 to build (report by Gary Samuelson).
2464 + fix a few places in configure.in which lacked quotes (report by
2465 Gary Samuelson <gary.samuelson@verizon.com>).
2466 + correct handling of multibyte characters in waddch_literal() which
2467 force wrapping because they are started too late on the line (report
2468 by Sam Varshavchik).
2469 + small fix for CF_GNAT_VERSION to ignore the help-message which
2470 gnatmake adds to its version-message.
2471 > Maciej W Rozycki <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>:
2472 + use AC_CHECK_TOOL to get proper values for AR and LD for cross
2474 + use $cross_compiling variable in configure script rather than
2475 comparing $host_alias and $target alias, since "host" is
2476 traditionally misused in autoconf to refer to the target platform.
2477 + change configure --help message to use "build" rather than "host"
2478 when referring to the --with-build-XXX options.
2481 + modify CF_GNAT_VERSION to print gnatmake's version, and to allow for
2482 possible gnat versions such as 3.2 (report by Chris Lingard
2483 <chris@stockwith.co.uk>).
2484 + modify #define's for CKILL and other default control characters in
2485 tset to use the system's default values if they are defined.
2486 + correct interchanged defaults for kill and interrupt characters
2487 in tset, which caused it to report unnecessarily (Debian #171583).
2488 + repair check for missing C++ compiler, which is broken in autoconf
2489 2.5x by hardcoding it to g++ (report by Martin Mokrejs).
2490 + update config.guess, config.sub (2002-11-30)
2491 + modify configure script to skip --with-shared, etc., when the
2492 --with-libtool option is given, since they would be ignored anyway.
2493 + fix to allow "configure --with-libtool --with-termlib" to build.
2494 + modify configure script to show version number of libtool, to help
2495 with bug reports. libtool still gets confused if the installed
2496 ncurses libraries are old, since it ignores the -L options at some
2497 point (tested with libtool 1.3.3 and 1.4.3).
2498 + reorder configure script's updating of $CPPFLAGS and $CFLAGS to
2499 prevent -I options in the user's environment from introducing
2500 conflicts with the build -I options (may be related to reports by
2501 Patrick Ash and George Goffe).
2502 + rename test/define_key.c to test/demo_defkey.c, test/keyok.c to
2503 test/demo_keyok.c to allow building these with libtool.
2506 + add example program test/define_key.c for define_key().
2507 + add example program test/keyok.c for keyok().
2508 + add example program test/ins_wide.c for wins_wch() and wins_wstr().
2509 + modify wins_wch() and wins_wstr() to interpret tabs by using the
2510 winsch() internal function.
2511 + modify setcchar() to allow for wchar_t input strings that have
2512 more than one spacing character.
2515 + fix a boundary check in lib_insch.c (patch by Philippe Blain).
2516 + change type for *printw functions from NCURSES_CONST to const
2517 (prompted by comment by Pedro Palhoto Matos <plpm@mega.ist.utl.pt>,
2518 but really from a note on X/Open's website stating that either is
2519 acceptable, and the latter will be used in a future revision).
2520 + add xterm-1002, xterm-1003 terminfo entries to demonstrate changes in
2521 lib_mouse.c (20021026) -TD
2522 + add screen-bce, screen-s entries from screen 3.9.13 (report by
2523 Adam Lazur <zal@debian.org>) -TD
2524 + add mterm terminfo entries -TD
2527 + split-out useful fragments in terminfo for vt100 and vt220 numeric
2528 keypad, i.e., vt100+keypad, vt100+pfkeys, vt100+fnkeys and
2529 vt220+keypad. The last as embedded in various entries had ka3 and
2530 kb2 interchanged (report/discussion with Leonard den Ottolander
2531 <leonardjo@hetnet.nl>).
2532 + add check in tic for keypads consistent with vt100 layout.
2533 + improve checks in tic for color capabilities
2536 + check for missing/empty/illegal terminfo name in _nc_read_entry()
2537 (report by Martin Mokrejs, where $TERM was set to an empty string).
2538 + rewrote lib_insch.c, combining it with lib_insstr.c so both handle
2539 tab and other control characters consistently (report by Philippe
2541 + remove an #undef for KEY_EVENT from curses.tail used in the
2542 experimental NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS feature. The #undef confuses
2543 dpkg's build script (Debian #165897).
2544 + fix MKlib_gen.sh, working around the ironically named POSIXLY_CORRECT
2545 feature of GNU sed 4.0 (reported by Ervin Nemeth <airwin@inf.bme.hu>).
2548 + implement logic in lib_mouse.c to handle position reports which are
2549 generated when XFree86 xterm is initialized with private modes 1002
2550 or 1003. These are returned to the application as the
2551 REPORT_MOUSE_POSITION mask, which was not implemented. Tested both
2552 with ncurses 'a' menu (prompted by discussion with Larry Riedel
2553 <Larry@Riedel.org>).
2554 + modify lib_mouse.c to look for "XM" terminfo string, which allows
2555 one to override the escape sequence used to enable/disable mouse
2556 mode. In particular this works for XFree86 xterm private modes
2557 1002 and 1003. If "XM" is missing (note that this is an extended
2558 name), lib_mouse uses the conventional private mode 1000.
2559 + correct NOT_LOCAL() macro in lib_mvcur.c to refer to screen_columns
2560 where it used screen_lines (report by Philippe Blain).
2561 + correct makefile rules for the case when both --with-libtool and
2562 --with-gpm are given (report by Mr E_T <troll@logi.net.au>).
2563 + add note to terminfo manpage regarding the differences between
2564 setaf/setab and setf/setb capabilities (report by Pavel Roskin).
2567 + remove redundant initialization of TABSIZE in newterm(), since it is
2568 already done in setupterm() (report by Philippe Blain).
2569 + add test/inserts.c, to test winnstr() and winsch().
2570 + replace 'sort' in dist.mk with script that sets locale to POSIX.
2571 + update URLs in announce.html.in (patch by Frederic L W Meunier).
2572 + remove glibc add-on files, which are no longer needed (report by
2573 Frederic L W Meunier).
2575 20021012 5.3 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2576 + modify ifdef's in etip.h.in to allow the etip.h header to compile
2577 with gcc 3.2 (patch by Dimitar Zhekov <jimmy@is-vn.bg>).
2578 + add logic to setupterm() to make it like initscr() and newterm(),
2579 by checking for $NCURSES_TRACE environment variable and enabling
2580 the debug trace in that case.
2581 + modify setupterm() to ensure that it initializes the baudrate, for
2582 applications such as tput (report by Frank Henigman).
2583 + modify definition of bits used for command-line and library debug
2584 traces to avoid overlap, using new definition TRACE_SHIFT to relate
2586 + document tput's interpretation of parameterized strings according to
2587 whether parameters are given, etc. (discussion with Robert De Bath).
2589 20021005 pre-release
2590 + correct winnwstr() to account for non-character cells generated when
2591 a double-width character is added (report by Michael Bienia
2592 <michael@vorlon.ping.de>).
2593 + modify _nc_viswbuf2n() to provide better results using wctomb().
2594 + correct logic in _nc_varargs() which broke tracing of parameters for
2595 formats such as "%.*s".
2596 + correct scale factor in linux-c and linux-c-nc terminfo entries
2597 (report Floyd Davidson).
2598 + change tic -A option to -t, add the same option to infocmp for
2600 + correct "%c" implementation in lib_tparm.c, which did not map a null
2601 character to a 128 (cf: 980620) (patch by Frank Henigman
2602 <fjhenigman@mud.cgl.uwaterloo.ca>).
2604 20020928 pre-release
2605 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for POSIX sort -k option, use that if
2606 it is found, to accommodate newer utility which dropped the
2607 compatibility support for +number options (reported by Andrey A
2609 + modify linux terminfo entry to use color palette feature from
2610 linux-c-nc entry (comments by Tomasz Wasiak and Floyd Davidson).
2611 + restore original color definitions in endwin() if init_color() was
2612 used, and resume those colors on the next doupdate() or refresh()
2613 (report by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@komputom.com.pl>).
2614 + improve debug-traces by modifying MKlib_gen.sh to generate calls
2615 to returnBool() and returnAttr().
2616 + add/use _nc_visbufn() and _nc_viswbufn() to limit the debug trace
2617 of waddnstr() and similar functions to match the parameters as used.
2618 + add/use _nc_retrace_bool() and _nc_retrace_unsigned().
2619 + correct type used by _nc_retrace_chtype().
2620 + add debug traces to some functions in lib_mouse.c
2621 + modify lib_addch.c to handle non-spacing characters.
2622 + correct parameter of RemAttr() in lib_bkgd.c, which caused the c++
2623 demo's boxes to lose the A_ALTCHARSET flag (broken in 20020629).
2624 + correct width computed in _tracedump(), which did not account for
2625 the attributes (broken in 20010602).
2626 + modify test/tracemunch to replace addresses for windows other than
2627 curscr, newscr and stdscr with window0, window1, etc.
2629 20020921 pre-release
2630 + redid fix for edit_man.sed path.
2631 + workaround for Cygwin bug which makes subprocess writes to stdout
2632 result in core dump.
2633 + documented getbegx(), etc.
2634 + minor fixes to configure script to use '%' consistently as a sed
2635 delimiter rather than '@'.
2636 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2637 + add check in lib_overlay.c to ensure that the windows to be merged
2638 actually overlap, and in copywin(), limit the area to be touched
2639 to the lines given for the destination window.
2641 20020914 pre-release
2642 + modified curses.h so that if the wide-character version is installed
2643 overwriting /usr/include/curses.h, and if it relied on libutf8.h,
2644 then applications that use that header for wide-character support
2645 must define HAVE_LIBUTF8_H.
2646 + modify putwin(), getwin() and dupwin() to allow them to operate on
2647 pads (request by Philippe Blain).
2648 + correct attribute-merging in wborder(), broken in 20020216 (report
2649 by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@grubasek.komputom.com.pl>).
2650 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2651 + corrected pop-counts in tparam_internal() to '!' and '~' cases.
2652 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in one place that used sizeof(chtype).
2653 + remove some unused variables from mvcur test-driver.
2655 20020907 pre-release
2656 + change configure script to allow install of widec-character
2657 (ncursesw) headers to overwrite normal (ncurses) headers, since the
2658 latter is a compatible subset of the former.
2659 + fix path of edit_man.sed in configure script, needed to regenerate
2660 html manpages on Debian.
2661 + fix mismatched enums in vsscanf.c, which caused warning on Solaris.
2662 + update README.emx to reflect current patch used for autoconf.
2663 + change web- and ftp-site to invisible-island.net
2664 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2665 + change case for 'P' in tparam_internal() to indicate that it pops
2666 a variable from the stack.
2667 + correct sense of precision and width in parse_format(), to avoid
2669 + modify lib_tparm.c, absorb really_get_space() into get_space().
2670 + modify getwin() and dupwin() to copy the _notimeout, _idlok and
2671 _idcok window fields.
2672 + better fix for _nc_set_type(), using typeMalloc().
2674 20020901 pre-release
2675 + change minor version to 3, i.e., ncurses 5.3
2676 + update config.guess, config.sub
2677 + retest build with each configure option; minor ifdef fixes.
2678 + make keyname() return a null pointer rather than "UNKNOWN STRING" to
2680 + modify handling of wide line-drawing character functions to use the
2681 normal line-drawing characters when not in UTF-8 locale.
2682 + add check/fix to comp_parse.c to suppress warning about missing acsc
2683 string. This happens in configurations where raw termcap information
2684 is processed; tic already does this and other checks.
2685 + modify tic's check for ich/ich1 versus rmir/smir to only warn about
2686 ich1, to match xterm patch #70 notes.
2687 + moved information for ripped-off lines into SCREEN struct to allow
2688 use in resizeterm().
2689 + add experimental wgetch_events(), ifdef'd with NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS
2690 (adapted from patch by Ilya Zakharevich - see ncurses/README.IZ).
2691 + amend check in kgetch() from 20020824 to look only for function-keys,
2692 otherwise escape sequences are not resolved properly.
2693 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2694 + removed redundant assignment to SP->_checkfd from newterm().
2695 + check return-value of setupterm() in restartterm().
2696 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in a few places that used sizeof(chtype).
2697 + prevent dupwin() from duplicating a pad.
2698 + prevent putwin() from writing a pad.
2699 + use typeRealloc() or typeMalloc() in preference to direct calls on
2703 + add a check in kgetch() for cooked characters in the fifo to avoid
2704 calling fifo_push() when a KEY_RESIZE is available (report/analysis
2705 by Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>).
2706 + fix an overlooked case for bugzilla #68199 (Philippe Blain).
2707 + ensure clearerr() is called before using ferror() e.g., in
2708 lib_screen.c (report by Philippe Blain).
2711 + modify lib_screen.c and lib_newwin.c to maintain the SCREEN-specific
2712 pointers for curscr/stdscr/newscr when scr_save() and scr_restore()
2713 modify the global curscr/stdscr/newscr variables. Fixes Redhat
2714 bugzilla #68199 dated 2002-07-07.
2715 + add checks for null pointer in calls to tparm() and tgoto() based on
2716 FreeBSD bug report. If ncurses were built with termcap support, and
2717 the first call to tgoto() were a zero-length string, the result would
2718 be a null pointer, which was not handled properly.
2719 + correct a typo in terminfo.head, which gave the octal code for colon
2721 + remove the "tic -u" option from 20020810, since it did not account
2722 for nested "tc=" clauses, and when that was addressed, was still
2726 + add tic -A option to suppress capabilities which are commented out
2727 when translating to termcap.
2728 + add tic -u option to provide older behavior of "tc=" clauses.
2729 + modified tic to expand all but the final "tc=" clause in a termcap
2730 entry, to accommodate termcap libraries which do not handle multiple
2732 + correct typo in curs_inopts.3x regarding CS8/CS7 usage (report by
2734 + remove a couple of redundant uses of A_ATTRIBUTES in expressions
2735 using AttrOf(), which already incorporates that mask (report by
2737 + document TABSIZE variable.
2738 + add NCURSES_ASSUMED_COLORS environment variable, to allow users to
2739 override compiled-in default black-on-white assumption used in
2740 assume_default_colors().
2741 + correct an off-by-one comparison against max_colors in COLORFGBG
2743 + correct a use of uninitialized memory found by valgrind (reported by
2744 Olaf Buddenhagen <olafBuddenhagen@web.de>).
2745 + modified wresize() to ensure that a failed realloc will not corrupt
2746 the window structure, and to make subwindows fit within the resized
2747 window (completes Debian #87678, #101699)
2750 + fix an off-by-one in lib_pad.c check for limits of pad (patch by
2752 + revise logic for BeOS in lib_twait.c altered in 20011013 to restore
2753 logic used by lib_getch.c's support for GPM or EMX mouse (report by
2755 + remove NCURSES_CONST from several prototypes in curses.wide, to make
2756 the --enable-const --enable-widec configure options to work together
2757 (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@yahoo.com>).
2760 + finish no-leak checking in cardfile.c, using this for testing changes
2762 + simplify _nc_freeall() using delscreen().
2765 + check error-return from _nc_set_tty_mode() in _nc_initscr() and
2766 reset_prog_mode() (report/patch by Philippe Blain).
2767 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52, to address
2768 problem with identifying C++ bool type.
2769 + correct/improve logic to produce an exit status for errors in tput,
2770 which did not exit with an error when told to put a string not in the
2771 current terminfo entry (report by David Gomez <david@pleyades.net>).
2772 + modify configure script AC_OUTPUT() call to work around defect in
2773 autoconf 2.52 which adds an ifdef'd include to the generated
2774 configure definitions.
2775 + remove fstat() check from scr_init(), which also fixes a missing
2776 include for <sys/stat.h> from 20020713 (reported by David Ellement,
2777 fix suggested by Philippe Blain).
2778 + update curs_scanw.3x manpage to note that XSI curses differs from
2779 SVr4 curses: return-values are incompatible.
2780 + correct several prototypes in manpages which used const
2781 inconsistently with the curses.h file, and removed spurious const's
2782 in a few places from curses.h, e.g., for wbkgd() (report by Glenn
2783 Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>).
2784 + change internal type used by tparm() to long, to work with LP64 model.
2785 + modify nc_alloc.h to allow building with g++, for testing.
2788 + add resize-handling to cardfile.c test program.
2789 + altered resizeterm() to avoid having it fail when a child window
2790 cannot be resized because it would be larger than its parent. (More
2791 work must be done on this, but it works well enough to integrate).
2792 + improve a limit-check in lib_refresh.c
2793 + remove check in lib_screen.c relating dumptime to file's modification
2794 times, since that would not necessarily work for remotely mounted
2796 + modify lrtest to simplify debugging changes to resizeterm, e.g.,
2797 t/T commands to enable/disable tracing.
2798 + updated status of multibyte support in TO-DO.
2799 + update contact info in source-files (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
2802 + add Caps.hpux11, as an example.
2803 + modify version_filter(), used to implement -R option for tic and
2804 infocmp, to use computed array offsets based on the Caps.* file which
2805 is actually configured, rather than constants which correspond to
2807 + reorganized lib_raw.c to avoid updating SP and cur_term state if the
2808 functions fail (reported by Philippe Blain).
2809 + add -Wundef to gcc warnings, adjust a few ifdef's to accommodate gcc.
2812 + correct parameters to setcchar() in ncurses.c (cf: 20020406).
2813 + set locale in most test programs (view.c and ncurses.c were the
2815 + add configure option --with-build-cppflags (report by Maksim A
2816 Nikulin <M.A.Nikulin@inp.nsk.su>).
2817 + correct a typo in wide-character logic for lib_bkgnd.c (Philippe
2819 + modify lib_wacs.c to not cancel the acsc, smacs, rmacs strings when
2820 in UTF-8 locale. Wide-character functions use Unicode values, while
2821 narrow-character functions use the terminfo data.
2822 + fix a couple of places in Ada95/samples which did not compile with
2824 + modify mkinstalldirs so the DOS-pathname case is locale-independent.
2825 + fix locale problem in MKlib_gen.sh by forcing related variables to
2826 POSIX (C), using same approach as autoconf (set variables only if
2827 they were set before). Update MKterminfo.sh and MKtermsort.sh to
2831 + add charset to generated html.
2832 + add mvterm entry, adapted from a FreeBSD bug-report by Daniel Rudy
2833 <dcrudy@pacbell.net> -TD
2834 + add rxvt-16color, ibm+16color entries -TD
2835 + modify check in --disable-overwrite option so that it is used by
2836 default unless the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr, in attempt to
2837 work around packagers, e.g., for Sun's freeware, who do not read the
2841 + modify wgetch() to allow returning ungetch'd KEY_RESIZE as a function
2842 key code in get_wch().
2843 + extended resize-handling in test/ncurses 'a' menu to the entire
2844 stack of windows created with 'w' commands.
2845 + improve $COLORFGBG feature by interpreting an out-of-range color
2846 value as an SGR 39 or 49, for foreground/background respectively.
2847 + correct a typo in configure --enable-colorfgbg option, and move it
2848 to the experimental section (cf: 20011208).
2851 + add logic to dump_entry.c to remove function-key definitions that do
2852 not fit into the 1023-byte limit for generated termcaps. This makes
2854 + more improvements to tic's warnings, including logic to ignore
2855 differences between delay values in sgr strings.
2856 + move definition of KEY_RESIZE into MKkeydefs.sh script, to
2857 accommodate Caps.osf1r5 which introduced a conflicting definition.
2860 + add simple resize-handling in test/ncurses.c 'a' menu.
2861 + fixes in keyname() and _tracechar() to handle negative values.
2862 + make tic's warnings about mismatches in sgr strings easier to follow.
2863 + correct tic checks for number of parameters in smgbp and smglp.
2864 + improve scoansi terminfo entry, and add scoansi-new entry -TD
2865 + add pcvt25-color terminfo entry -TD
2866 + add kf13-kf48 strings to cons25w terminfo entry (reported by Stephen
2867 Hurd <deuce@lordlegacy.org> in newsgroup lucky.freebsd.bugs) -TD
2868 + add entrypoint _nc_trace_ttymode(), use this to distinguish the
2869 Ottyb and Nttyb members of terminal (aka cur_term), for tracing.
2872 + correct and simplify logic for lib_pad.c change in 20020518 (reported
2876 + fix lib_pad.c for case of drawing a double-width character which
2877 falls off the left margin of the pad (patch by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij
2878 <lerdsuwa@users.sourceforge.net>)
2879 + modify configure script to work around broken gcc 3.1 "--version"
2880 option, which adds unnecessary trash to the requested information.
2881 + adjust ifdef's in case SIGWINCH is not defined, e.g., with DJGPP
2882 (reported by Ben Decker <deckerben@freenet.de>).
2885 + implement vid_puts(), vid_attr(), term_attrs() based on the narrow-
2886 character versions as well.
2887 + implement erasewchar(), killwchar() based on erasechar() and
2889 + modify erasechar() and killchar() to return ERR if the value was
2891 + correct a bug in wresize() in handling subwindows (based on patch by
2892 Roger Gammans <rgammans@computer-surgery.co.uk>, report by Scott Beck
2893 <scott@gossamer-threads.com>).
2894 + improve test/tclock.c by making the second-hand update more often
2895 if gettimeofday() is available.
2898 + workaround for Solaris sed with MKlib_gen.sh (reported by Andy
2899 Tsouladze <andyt@mypoints.com>).
2902 + correct return-value from getcchar(), making it consistent with
2904 + reorder loops that generate makefile rules for different models vs
2905 subsets so configure --with-termlib works again. This was broken by
2906 logic added to avoid duplicate rules in changes to accommodate cygwin
2907 dll's (reported by George.R.Goffe@seagate.com).
2908 + update config.guess, config.sub
2911 + modify ifdef's in write_entry.c to allow use of symbolic links on
2912 platforms with no hard links, e.g., BeOS.
2913 + modify a few includes to allow compile with BeOS, which has stdbool.h
2914 with a conflicting definition for 'bool' versus its OS.h definition.
2915 + amend MKlib_gen.sh to work with gawk, which defines 'func' as an
2916 alias for 'function'.
2919 + correct form of prototype for ripoffline().
2920 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to test that all functions marked as implemented
2924 + add manpages: curs_get_wstr.3x, curs_in_wchstr.3x
2925 + implement wgetn_wstr().
2926 + implement win_wchnstr().
2927 + remove redefinition of unget_wch() in lib_gen.c (reported by
2928 Jungshik Shin <jshin@jtan.com>).
2931 + modified several of the test programs to allow them to compile with
2932 vendor curses implementations, e.g., Solaris, AIX -TD
2935 + modified test/configure to allow configuring against ncursesw.
2936 + change WACS_xxx definition to use address, to work like Tru64 curses.
2939 + add 'e' and 'm' toggles to 'a', 'A' tests in ncurses.c to demonstrate
2940 effect of echo/noecho and meta modes.
2941 + add 'A' test to ncurses.c to demonstrate wget_wch() and related
2943 + add manpage: curs_get_wch.3x
2944 + implement unget_wch().
2945 + implement wget_wch().
2948 + regenerated html manpages.
2949 + add manpages: curs_in_wch.3x, curs_ins_wch.3x, curs_ins_wstr.3x
2950 + implement wins_wch().
2951 + implement win_wch().
2952 + implement wins_nwstr(), wins_wstr().
2955 + add manpages: curs_addwstr.3x, curs_winwstr.3x
2956 + implement winnwstr(), winwstr().
2959 + add manpages: curs_add_wchstr.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x
2960 + document wunctrl, key_name.
2961 + implement key_name().
2962 + remove const's in lib_box.c incorrectly leftover after splitting off
2964 + update llib-lncurses, llib-ncursesw, fix configure script related to
2968 + remove quotes on "SYNOPSIS" in man/curs_box_set.3x, which resulted
2969 in spurious symlinks on install.
2972 + implement whline_set(), wvline_set(), add manpage curs_border_set.
2973 + add subtest 'b' to 'F' and 'f' in ncurses.c to demonstrate use of
2974 box() and box_set() functions.
2975 + add subtest 'u' to 'F' in ncurses.c, to demonstrate use of addstr()
2976 given UTF-8 string equivalents of WACS_xxx symbols.
2977 + minor fixes to several manpages based on groff -ww output.
2978 + add descriptions of external variables of termcap interface to
2979 the manpage (report by Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>).
2980 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
2981 + correct configure option --with-bool, which was executed as
2983 + add quotes for parameters of --with-bool and --with-ospeed configure
2985 > patch by Sven Verdoolaege (report by Gerhard Haering
2986 <haering_linux@gmx.de>):
2987 + correct typos in definitions of several wide-character macros:
2988 waddwstr, wgetbkgrnd, mvaddwstr, mvwadd_wchnstr, mvwadd_wchnstr,
2990 + pass $(CPPFLAGS) to MKlib_gen.sh, thereby fixing a missing definition
2991 of _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, e.g., on Solaris
2994 + implement wide-acs characters for UTF-8 locales. When in UTF-8
2995 locale, ignore narrow version of acs. Add 'F' test to test/ncurses.c
2997 + correct prototype in keybound manpage (noted from a Debian mailing
3001 + add several cases to the wscanw() example in testcurs.c, showing the
3003 + implement a simple vsscanf() fallback function which uses the %n
3004 conversion to help parse the input data (prompted by discussion with
3005 Albert Chin-A-Young).
3006 + modify mk-1st.awk and test/Makefile.in to add $(LDFLAGS) when making
3007 shared libraries, and to use $(CFLAGS) when linking test programs
3008 (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3009 + add a call to _nc_keypad() in keypad() to accommodate applications
3010 such as nvi, which use curses for output but not for input (fixes
3011 Debian #131263, cf: 20011215).
3012 + add entrypoints to resizeterm.c which provide better control over the
3013 process: is_term_resized() and resize_term(). The latter restores
3014 the original design of resizeterm() before KEY_RESIZE was added in
3015 970906. Do this to accommodate 20010922 changes to view.c, but allow
3016 for programs with their own sigwinch handler, such as lynx (reported
3017 by Russell Ruby <russ@math.orst.edu>).
3020 + fix a typo in change to mk-1st.awk, which broke the shared-library
3021 makefile rules (reported by Martin Mokrejs).
3024 + update config.guess, config.sub
3025 + finish changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
3026 + fix a typo in mvwchat() macro (reported by Cy <yam@homerow.net).
3029 + add case in lib_baudrate.c for B921600 (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
3030 + correct missing sed-editing stage in manpage installs which is used
3031 to rename manpages, broken in 20010324 fix for Debian #89939 (Debian
3033 + remove -L$(libdir) from linker flags, probably not needed any more
3034 since HPUX is handled properly (reported by Niibe Yutaka
3036 + add configure check for mbstate_t, needed for wide-character
3037 configuration. On some platforms we must include <wchar.h> to
3038 define this (reported by Daniel Jacobowitz).
3039 + incorporate some of the changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
3042 + workaround for awk did not work with mawk, adjusted shell script.
3045 + add Caps.osf1r5, as an example.
3046 + modify behavior of can_clear_with() so that if an application is
3047 running in a non-bce terminals with default colors enabled, it
3048 returns true, allowing the user to select/paste text without picking
3049 up extraneous trailing blanks (adapted from patch by Daniel
3050 Jacobowitz <dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu>).
3051 + modify generated curses.h to ifdef-out prototypes for extensions if
3052 they are disabled, and to define curses_version() as a string in that
3053 case. This is needed to make the programs such as tic build in that
3055 + modified generated headers.sh to remove a gzip'd version of the
3056 target file if it exists, in case non-gzip'd manpages are installed
3057 into a directory where gzip'd ones exist. In that case, the latter
3059 + corrected a redundant initialization of signal handlers from 20010922
3061 + clarified bug-reporting address in terminfo.src (report by John H
3062 DuBois III <spcecdt@armory.com>).
3063 > several fixes from Robert Joop:
3064 + do not use "-v" option of awk in MKkey_defs.sh because it does not
3065 work with SunOS nawk.
3066 + modify definitions for libutf8 in curses.h to avoid redefinition
3068 + quoted references to compiler in shell command in misc/Makefile, in
3069 case it uses multiple tokens.
3072 + restore special case from 20010922 changes to omit SA_RESTART when
3073 setting up SIGWINCH handler, which is needed to allow wgetch() to be
3074 interrupted by that signal.
3075 + update configure macro CF_WITH_PATHLIST, to omit some double quotes
3076 not needed with autoconf 2.52
3077 + revert configure script to autoconf 2.13 patched with
3078 autoconf-2.13-19990117.patch.gz (or later)
3080 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
3081 because autoconf 2.52 macro AC_PROG_AWK does not work on HPUX 11.0
3082 (report by David Ellement <ellement@sdd.hp.com>). This also fixes a
3083 different problem configuring with Mac OS X (reported by Marc Smith
3084 <marc.a.smith@home.com>).
3087 + modify include/edit_cfg.h to eliminate BROKEN_LINKER symbol from
3089 + move prototype for _nc_vsscanf() into curses.h.in to omit
3090 HAVE_VSSCANF symbol from curses.h, which was dependent upon the
3091 ncurses_cfg.h file which is not installed.
3092 + use ACS_LEN rather than SIZEOF(acs_map) in trace code of lib_acs.c,
3093 to work with broken linker configuration, e.g., cygwin (report by
3094 Robert Joop <rj@rainbow.in-berlin.de>).
3095 + make napms() call _nc_timed_wait() rather than poll() or select(),
3096 to work around broken implementations of these on cygwin.
3099 + drop configure macro CF_WIDEC_SHIFT, since that was rendered obsolete
3100 by Sven Verdoolaege's rewrite of wide-character support. This makes
3101 libncursesw incompatible again, but makes the header files almost the
3102 same as in the narrow-character configuration.
3103 + simplify definitions that combine wide/narrow versions of bkgd, etc.,
3104 to eliminate differences between the wide/narrow versions of curses.h
3105 + correct typo in configure macro CF_FUNC_VSSCANF
3106 + correct location of call to _nc_keypad() from 20011215 changes which
3107 prevented keypad() from being disabled (reported by Lars Hecking).
3110 + rewrote ncurses 'a' test to exercise wgetch() and keypad() functions
3111 better, e.g., by adding a 'w' command to create new windows which
3112 may have different keypad() settings.
3113 + corrected logic of keypad() by adding internal screen state to track
3114 whether the terminal's keypad-mode has been set. Use this in
3115 wgetch() to update the keypad-mode according to whether the
3116 associated window's keypad-mode has been set with keypad(). This
3117 corrects a related problem restoring terminal state after handling
3118 SIGTSTP (reported by Mike Castle).
3119 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52
3120 autoconf-2.52-patch.gz
3122 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
3123 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3124 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
3125 + minor changes to quoting in configure script to allow it to work
3129 + modify final checks in lib_setup.c for line and col values, making
3131 + modify acs_map[] if configure --broken-linker is specified, to make
3132 it use a function rather than an array (prompted by an incorrect
3133 implementation in cygwin package).
3134 + correct spelling of configure option --enable-colorfgbg, which
3135 happened to work if --with-develop was set (noted in cygwin package
3137 + modify ifdef for genericerror() to compile with SUNWspro Sun WorkShop
3138 6 update 1 C++ 5.2 (patch by Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu>).
3139 + add configure checks to see if ncurses' fallback vsscanf() will
3140 compile either of the special cases for FILE structs, and if not,
3141 force it to the case which simply returns an error (report by
3142 Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu> indicates that Solaris 8 with
3143 64-bits does not allow access to FILE's fields).
3144 + modify ifdef's for c++/cursesw.cc to use the fallback vsscanf() in
3145 the ncurses library if no better substitute for this can be found
3147 + modify the build to name dynamic libraries according to the
3148 convention used on OS X and Darwin. Rather than something like
3149 libncurses.dylib.5.2, Darwin would name it libncurses. 5.dylib.
3150 There are a few additional minor fixes, such as setting the library
3151 version and compatibility version numbers (patch by Jason Evans
3152 <jevans@apple.com>).
3153 + use 'sh' to run mkinstalldirs, to work around problems with buggy
3154 versions of 'make' on OS/2 (report by John Polterak <jp@eyup.org>).
3155 + correct typo in manpage description of curs_set() (Debian #121548).
3156 + replace the configure script existence-check for mkstemp() by one
3157 that checks if the function works, needed for older glibc and
3161 + modify script that generates fallbacks.c to compile a temporary
3162 copy of the terminfo source in case the host does not contain all of
3163 the entries requested for fallbacks (request by Greg Roelofs).
3164 + modify configure script to accommodate systems such as Mac OS X whose
3165 <stdbool.h> header defines a 'bool' type inconsistent with ncurses,
3166 which normally makes 'bool' consistent with C++. Include <stdbool.h>
3167 from curses.h to force consistent usage, define a new type
3168 NCURSES_BOOL and related that to the exported 'bool' as either a
3169 typedef or definition, according to whether <stdbool.h> is present
3170 (based on a bug report for tin 1.5.9 by Aaron Adams <adamsa@mac.com>).
3173 + added/updated terminfo entries for M$ telnet and KDE konsole -TD
3176 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
3177 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
3178 + add putty terminfo entry -TD
3179 + if configuring for wide-curses, define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, since
3180 this may not otherwise be defined to make test/view.c compile.
3183 + review/correct several missing/generated items in curses.wide, sorted
3184 the lists to make subsequent diff's easier to track.
3187 + add manual pages for add_wch(), echo_wchar(), getcchar(),
3188 mvadd_wch(), mvwadd_wch(), setcchar(), wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar().
3189 + implement wecho_wchar()
3190 + modify _tracedump() to handle wide-characters by mapping them to '?'
3191 and control-characters to '.', to make the trace file readable. Also
3192 dynamically allocate the buffer used by _tracedump() for formatting
3194 + modify T_CALLED/T_RETURN macros to ease balancing call/return lines
3195 in a trace by using curly braces.
3196 + implement _nc_viscbuf(), for tracing cchar_t arrays.
3197 + correct trace-calls in setcchar() and getcchar() functions, which
3198 traced the return values but not the entry to each function.
3199 + correct usage message in test/view.c, which still mentioned -u flag.
3202 + modify configure script to allow building with termcap only, or with
3203 fallbacks only. In this case, we do not build tic and toe.
3204 + add configure --with-termpath option, to override default TERMPATH
3205 value of /etc/termcap:/usr/share/misc/termcap.
3206 + cosmetic change to tack: make menu descriptions agree with menu
3210 + rewrote limit-checks in wscrl() and associated _nc_scroll_window(),
3211 to ensure that if the parameter of wscrl() is larger than the size of
3212 the scrolling region, then the scrolling region will be cleared
3213 (report by Ben Kohlen <bckohlen@yahoo.com>).
3214 + add trace/varargs.c, using this to trace parameters in lib_printw.c
3215 + implement _tracecchar_t2() and _tracecchar_t().
3216 + split-out trace/visbuf.c
3217 + correct typo in lib_printw.c changes from 20010922 (report by Mike
3221 + modify run_tic.sh to check if the build is a cross-compile. In that
3222 case, do not use the build's tic to install the terminfo database
3223 (report by Rafael Rodriguez Velilla <rrv@tid.es>).
3224 + modify mouse click resolution so that mouseinterval(-1) will disable
3225 it, e.g., to handle touchscreens via a slow connection (request by
3226 Byron Stanoszek <gandalf@winds.org>).
3227 + correct mouseinterval() default value shown in curs_mouse.3x
3228 + remove conflicting definition of mouse_trafo() (reported by Lars
3229 Hecking, using gcc 2.95.3).
3232 + simpler fix for signal_name(), to replace the one overlooked in
3233 20010929 (reported by Larry Virden).
3236 + add -i option to view.c, to test ncurses' check for non-default
3237 signal handler for SIGINT, etc.
3238 + add cases for shared-libraries on Darwin/OS X (patch by Rob Braun
3239 <bbraun@synack.net>).
3240 + modify tset to restore original I/O modes if an error is encountered.
3241 Also modify to use buffered stderr consistently rather than mixing
3243 + change signal_name() function to use if-then-else rather than case
3244 statement, since signal-values aren't really integers (reported by
3246 + add limit checks in wredrawln(), fixing a problem where lynx was
3247 repainting a pad which was much larger than the screen.
3250 + fix: PutRange() was counting the second part of a wide character as
3251 part of a run, resulting in a cursor position that was one too far
3252 (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
3253 + modify resizeterm() to not queue a KEY_RESIZE if there was no
3254 SIGWINCH, thereby separating the two styles of SIGWINCH handling
3256 + simplified lib_tstp.c, modify it to use SA_RESTART flag for SIGWINCH.
3257 + eliminate several static buffers in the terminfo compiler, using
3259 + modify MKkeyname.awk so that keyname() does not store its result into
3260 a static buffer that is overwritten by the next call.
3261 + reorganize the output of infocmp -E and -e options to compile cleanly
3262 with gcc -Wwrite-strings warnings.
3263 + remove redefinition of chgat/wchgat/mvwchgat from curses.wide
3266 + add label to test/view.c, showing the name of the last key or signal
3267 that made the screen repaint, to make it clearer when a sigwinch
3269 + use ExitProgram() consistently in the test-programs to make it
3270 simpler to test leaks with dmalloc, etc.
3271 + move hashtab static data out of hashmap.c into SCREEN struct.
3272 + make NO_LEAK code compile with revised WINDOWLIST structs.
3275 + modify tgetent() to check if exit_attribute_mode resets the alternate
3276 character set, and if so, attempt to adjust the copy of the termcap
3277 "me" string which it will return to eliminate that part. In
3278 particular, 'screen' would lose track of line-drawing characters
3279 (report by Frederic L W Meunier <0@pervalidus.net>, analysis by
3283 + specify DOCTYPE in html manpages.
3284 + add missing macros for several "generated" functions: attr_get(),
3285 attr_off(), attr_on(), attr_set(), chgat(), mvchgat(), mvwchgat() and
3287 + modify view.c to agree with non-experimental status of ncurses'
3289 + change the sense of the -r option, making it default to ncurses'
3291 + add a note explaining what functions are unsafe in a signal
3293 + add a -c option, to set color display, for testing.
3294 + unset $data variable in MKterminfo.sh script, to address potential
3295 infinite loop if shell malfunction (report by Samuel Mikes
3296 <smikes@cubane.com>, for bash 2.05.0 on a Linux 2.0.36 system).
3297 + change kbs in mach terminfo entries to ^? (Marcus Brinkmann
3298 <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>).
3299 + correct logic for COLORFGBG environment variable: if rxvt is compiled
3300 with xpm support, the variable has three fields, making it slightly
3301 incompatible with itself. In either case, the background color is
3305 + move calls to def_shell_mode() and def_prog_mode() before loop with
3306 callbacks in lib_set_term.c, since the c++ demo otherwise initialized
3307 the tty modes before saving them (patch by John David Anglin
3308 <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>).
3309 + duplicate logic used to initialize trace in newterm(), in initscr()
3310 to avoid confusing trace of initscr().
3311 + simplify allocation of WINDOW and WINDOWLIST structs by making the
3312 first a part of the second rather than storing a pointer. This saves
3313 a call to malloc for each window (discussion with Philippe Blain).
3314 + remove unused variable 'used_ncv' from lib_vidattr.c (Philippe
3316 + modify c++/Makefile.in to accommodate archive programs that are
3317 different for C++ than for C, and add cases for vendor's C++
3318 compilers on Solaris and IRIX (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3319 + correct manpage description of criteria for deciding if the terminal
3320 supports xterm mouse controls.
3321 + add several configure script options to aid with cross-compiling:
3322 --with-build-cc, --with-build-cflags, --with-build-ldflags, and
3323 --with-build-libs (request by Greg Roelofs).
3324 + change criteria for deciding if configure is cross-compiling from
3325 host/build mismatch to host/target mismatch (request by Greg Roelofs
3326 <greg.roelofs@philips.com>).
3327 + correct logic for infocmp -e and -E options which writes the data for
3328 the ext_Names[] array. This is needed if one constructs a fallback
3329 table for a terminfo entry which uses extended termcap names, e.g.,
3330 AX in a color xterm.
3331 + fix undefined NCURSES_PATHSEP when configure --disable-database
3335 + fix for VALID_BOOLEAN() macro when char is not signed.
3336 + modify 'clean' rule for C++ binding to work with Sun compiler, which
3337 caches additional information in a subdirectory of the objects.
3338 + added llib-ncursesw.
3341 + add Caps.keys example for experimental extended function keys
3342 (adapted from a patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
3343 + correct parameter types of vidputs() and vidattr() to agree with
3344 header files (report by William P Setzer).
3345 + fix typos in several man-pages (patch by William P Setzer).
3346 + remove unneeded ifdef for __GNUG__ in CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC configure
3347 macro, which made ncurses C++ binding fail to build with other
3348 C++ compilers such as HPUX 11.x (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3349 + workaround for bug in HPUX 11.x C compiler: add a blank after
3350 NCURSES_EXPORT macro in form.h (report by Albert Chin-A-Young)
3351 + ignore blank lines in Caps* files in MKkey_defs.sh script (report by
3352 Albert Chin-A-Young).
3353 + correct definition of key_end in Caps.aix4, which left KEY_END
3354 undefined (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3355 + remove a QNX-specific fallback prototype for vsscanf(), which is
3356 obsolete with QNX RTP.
3357 + review/fix some of the T() and TR() macro calls, having noticed that
3358 there was no data for delwin() in a trace of dialog because there was
3359 no returnVoid call for wtimeout(). Also, traces in lib_twait.c are
3360 now selected under TRACE_IEVENT rather than TRACE_CALLS.
3363 + add a _nc_access() check before opening files listed via $TERMPATH.
3364 + using modified man2html, regenerate some of the html manpages to fix
3365 broken HREF's where the link was hyphenated.
3368 + add some limit/pointer checks to -S option of tputs.
3369 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
3370 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
3371 + add a note in curs_termcap.3x regarding a defect in the XSI
3372 description of tgetent (based on a discussion with Urs Jansen
3373 regarding the HPUX 11.x implementation, whose termcap interface is
3374 not compatible with existing termcap programs).
3375 + modify manhtml rule in dist.mk to preserve copyright notice on the
3376 generated files, as well as to address HTML style issues reported by
3377 tidy and weblint. Regenerated/updated corresponding html files.
3378 + comment out use of Protected_Character and related rarely used
3379 attributes in ncurses Ada95 test/demo to compile with wide-character
3383 + implement a simple example in C++ demo to test scanw().
3384 + corrected stdio function used to implement scanw() in cursesw.cc
3385 + correct definition of RemAttr() macro from 20010602 changes, which
3386 caused C++ SillyDemo to not show line-drawing characters.
3387 + modify C++ binding, adding getKey() which can be overridden by user
3388 to substitute functions other than getch() for keyboard processing
3389 of forms and menus (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3392 + fix some of the trace calls which needed modification to work with
3393 new wide-character structures.
3394 + modify magic-cookie code in tty_update.c to compile with new
3395 wide-character structures (report by <George.R.Goffe@seagate.com>).
3396 + ensure that _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined in curses.priv.h if
3397 compiling for wide-character configuration.
3398 + make addwnstr() handle non-spacing characters (patch by Sven
3402 + add configure check to define _GNU_SOURCE, needed to prop up glibc
3404 + split-out include/curses.wide to solve spurious redefinitions caused
3405 by defining _GNU_SOURCE, and move includes for <signal.h> before
3406 <curses.h> to work around misdefinition of ERR in glibc 2.1.3 header
3408 + extended ospeed change to NetBSD and OpenBSD -TD
3409 + modify logic in lib_baudrate.c for ospeed, for FreeBSD to make it
3410 work properly for termcap applications (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
3413 + correct an overlooked CharOf/UChar instance (reports by Eugene Lee
3414 <eugene@anime.net>, Sven Verdoolaege).
3415 + correct unneeded ifdef for wunctrl() (reported by Sven Verdoolaege)
3418 + change overlooked several CharOf/UChar instances.
3419 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
3420 + correct a typo in wunctrl(), which made it appear that botwc() was
3421 needed (no such function: use btowc()).
3422 + reimplement wide-character demo in test/view.c, using new functions.
3423 + implement getcchar(), setcchar(), wadd_wchnstr() and related macros.
3424 + fix a syntax problem with do/if/while in PUTC macro (curses.priv.h).
3427 + add parentheses in macros for malloc in test.priv.h, fixes an
3428 expression in view.c (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.co.at>).
3429 + add Caps.uwin, as an example.
3430 + change the way curses.h is generated, making the list of function
3431 key definitions extracted from the Caps file.
3432 + add #undef's before possible redefinition of ERR and OK in curses.h
3433 + modify logic in tic, toe, tput and tset which checks for basename of
3434 argv[0] to work properly on systems such as OS/2 which have
3435 case-independent filenames and/or program suffixes, e.g., ".ext".
3438 + add a configure check, if --enable-widec is specified, for putwc(),
3439 which may be in libutf8.
3440 + remove some unnecessary text from curs_extend.3x and
3441 default_colors.3x which caused man-db to make incorrect symbolic
3442 links (Debian bug report #99550).
3443 + add configure check if cast for _IO_va_list is needed to compile
3444 C++ vscan code (Debian bug report #97945).
3445 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
3446 + correct code that used non-standard auto-initialization of a struct,
3447 which gcc allows (report by Larry Virden).
3448 + use putwc() in PUTC() macro.
3449 + make addstr() work for the special case where the codeset is
3450 non-stateful (eg. UTF-8), as well as stateful codesets.
3453 + correct loop expression in NEXT_CHAR macro for lib_addstr.c changes
3454 from 20010602 (report by Mike Castle).
3457 + modify mvcur() to avoid emitting newline characters when nonl() mode
3458 is set. Normally this is not a problem since the actual terminal
3459 mode is set to suppress nl/crlf translations, however it is useful to
3460 allow the caller to manipulate the terminal mode to avoid staircasing
3461 effects after spawning a process which writes messages (for lynx
3463 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>:
3464 + remove redundant type-conversion in fifo_push()
3465 + correct definition of addwstr() macro in curses.h.in
3466 + remove _nc_utf8_outch()
3467 + rename most existing uses of CharOf() to UChar(), e.g., where it is
3468 used to prevent sign-extension in ctype macros.
3469 + change some chtype's to attr_t's where the corresponding variables
3470 are used to manipulate attributes.
3471 + UpdateAttr() was applied to both attributes (attr_t) and characters
3472 (chtype). Modify macro and calls to it to make these distinct.
3473 + add CharEq() macro, use in places where wide-character configuration
3474 implementation uses a struct for cchar_t.
3475 + moved struct ldat into curses.priv.h, to hide implementation details.
3476 + change CharOf() macro to use it for masking A_CHARTEXT data from
3478 + add L() macro to curses.priv.h, for long-character literals.
3479 + replace several assignments from struct ldat entries to chtype or
3480 char values with combinations of CharOf() and AttrOf() macros.
3481 + add/use intermediate ChAttrOf() and ChCharOf() macros where we know
3482 we are using chtype data.
3483 + add/use lowlevel attribute manipulation macros AddAttr(), RemAttr()
3485 + add/use SetChar() macro, to change a cchar_t based on a character and
3487 + convert most internal use of chtype to NCURSES_CH_T, to simplify use
3488 of cchar_t for wide-character configuration. Similarly, use ARG_CH_T
3489 where a pointer would be more useful.
3490 + add stubs for tracing cchar_t values.
3491 + add/use macro ISBLANK()
3492 + add/use constructors for cchar_t's: NewChar(), NewChar2().
3493 + add/use macros CHREF(), CHDEREF(), AttrOfD(), CharOfD() to facilitate
3494 passing cchar_t's by address.
3495 + add/use PUTC_DATA, PUTC() macros.
3496 + for wide-character configuration, move the window background data to
3497 the end of the WINDOW struct so that whether _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
3498 is defined or not, the offsets in the struct will not change.
3499 + modify addch() to work with wide-characters.
3500 + mark several wide-character functions as generated in curses.h.in
3501 + implement wunctrl(), wadd_wch(), wbkgrndset(), wbkgrnd(),
3502 wborder_set() and waddnwstr().
3505 + add experimental --with-caps=XXX option to customize to similar
3506 terminfo database formats such as AIX 4.x
3507 + add Caps.aix4 as an example.
3508 + modify Caps to add columns for the the KEY_xxx symbols.
3509 + modify configure --with-widec to suppress overwrite of libcurses.so
3511 + add checks to toe.c to avoid being confused by files and directories
3512 where we would expect the reverse, e.g., source-files in the
3513 top-level terminfo levels as is the case for AIX.
3516 + add top-level 'depend' rule for the C sources, assuming that the
3517 makedepend program is available. As a side-effect, this makes
3518 the generated sources, as in "make sources" (prompted by a report
3519 by Mike Castle that "make -j" fails because the resulting parallel
3520 processes race to generate ncurses/names.c).
3521 + modify configure script so that --disable-overwrite option's action
3522 to add a symbolic link for libcurses applies to the static library as
3523 well as the shared library when both are configured (report by Felix
3524 Natter <f.natter@ndh.net>).
3525 + add ELKS terminfo entries (Federico Bianchi
3526 <bianchi@www.arte.unipi.it>)
3527 + add u6 (CSR) to Eterm (Michael Jennings).
3530 + modify test/ncurses.c to work with xterm-256color, which has fewer
3531 color pairs than colors*colors (report by David Ellement
3532 <ellement@sdd.hp.com>).
3535 + corrected screen.xterm-xfree86 entry.
3536 + update comment in Caps regarding IBM (AIX) function-key definitions.
3539 + modify c++/Makefile.in to link with libncurses++w.a when configured
3540 for wide-characters (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
3541 + add check in _nc_trace_buf() to refrain from freeing a null pointer.
3542 + improve CF_PROG_INSTALL macro using CF_DIRNAME.
3543 + update config.guess, config.sub from autoconf 2.49e (alpha).
3546 + add secondary check in tic.c, similar_sgr() to see if the reason
3547 for mismatch was that the individual capabilities used a time-delay
3548 while sgr did not. Used this to cleanup mismatches, e.g., in vt100,
3549 and remove time-delay from Apple_Terminal entries.
3550 + add Apple_Terminal terminfo entries (Benjamin C W Sittler
3551 <bsittler@iname.com>).
3552 + correct definitions of shifted editing keys for xterm-xfree86 -TD
3553 + fix a bug in test/bs.c from 20010407 (patch by Erik Sigra).
3554 + prevent relative_move() from doing an overwrite if it detects 8-bit
3555 characters when configured for UTF-8 (reported by Sven Verdoolaege
3556 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
3559 + add configure checks for strstream.h vscan function, and similar
3560 stdio-based function which may be used in C++ binding for gcc 3.0
3561 (reports by George Goffe, Lars Hecking, Mike Castle).
3562 + rewrite parts of configure.in which used changequote(). That feature
3563 is broken in the latest autoconf alphas (e.g., 2.49d).
3564 + add a missing pathname for ncurses_dll.h, needed when building in
3565 a directory outside the source tree (patch by Sven Verdoolaege
3566 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
3567 > fix 2 bugs in test/bs.c Erik Sigra <sigra@home.se>:
3568 + no ships were ever placed in the last row or in the last column.
3569 This made the game very easy to win, because you never had to waste
3570 any shots there, but the computer did.
3571 + the squares around a sunken ship that belonged to the player were not
3572 displayed as already hit by the computer, like it does for the
3576 + add some examples of customizing screen's terminfo:
3577 screen.xterm-xfree86, screen.xterm-r6, screen.teraterm -TD
3578 + modify screen's terminfo entry to match the khome/kend in screen
3579 3.09.08 (Debian bug report #92215).
3580 + correct a memory leak in forms library (report by Stefan Vogtner
3581 <stefan@vogtner.de>) (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3584 + change symbols used to guard against repeated includes to begin
3585 consistently with "NCURSES_" rather than a leading underscore. There
3586 are other symbols defined in the header files which begin with a
3587 leading underscore, but they are part of the legacy interface.
3588 + reorder includes in c++ binding so that rcs identifiers can be
3590 + add .cc.ii rule to c++ makefile, to get preprocessor output for
3592 + correct configure script handling of @keyword@ substitutions when the
3593 --with-manpage-renames option is given (cf: 20000715, fixes Debian
3595 + report stack underflow/overflow in tparm() when tic -cv option is
3597 + remove spurious "%|" operator from xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry,
3598 (reported by Adam Costello <amc@cs.berkeley.edu>, Debian bug #89222).
3601 + cleanup of newdemo.c, fixing some ambiguous expressions noted by gcc
3602 2.95.2, and correcting some conflicting color pair initializations.
3603 + add missing copyright notice for cursesw.h
3604 + review, make minor fixes for use of '::' for referring to C-language
3605 interface from C++ binding.
3606 + modify configure check for g++ library slightly to accommodate
3607 nonstandard version number, e.g., <vendor>-2.7 (report by Ronald Ho
3608 <rho@mipos2.intel.com>).
3609 + add configure check for c++ <sstream> header, replace hardcoded
3611 + workaround for pre-release of gcc 3.0 libstdc++, which has dropped
3612 vscan from strstreambuf to follow standard, use wrapper for C vscanf
3613 instead (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@excite.com> and Matt Taggart
3614 <taggart@carmen.fc.hp.com>, fixes Debian .
3617 + modify interface of _nc_get_token() to pass 'silent' parameter to it,
3618 to make quieter loading of /etc/termcap (patch by Todd C Miller).
3619 + correct a few typos in curs_slk.3x and curs_outopts.3x manpages
3620 (patch by Todd C Miller).
3623 + compiler-warning fixes (reported by Nelson Beebe).
3626 + modify screen terminfo entry to use new 3.9.8 feature allowing xterm
3630 + broaden patterns used to match OS/2 EMX in configure script to cover
3631 variant used in newer config.guess/config.sub
3632 + remove changequote() calls from configure script, since this feature
3633 is broken in the autoconf 2.49c alpha, maintainers decline to fix.
3634 + remove macro callPutChar() from tty_update.c, since this is no longer
3635 needed (reported by Philippe Blain).
3636 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c to handle the case when the input
3637 file is really empty. Modify the next_char() function in comp_scan.c
3638 to allow arbitrarily long lines, and incidentally supply a newline to
3639 files that do not end in a newline. These changes improve tic's
3640 recovery from attempts to read binary files, e.g., its output from
3641 the terminfo database (reported by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
3644 + revert change to c++/demo.cc from 20001209, which changed definition
3645 of main() apparently to accommodate cygwin linker, but broke the demo
3647 + workaround for broken egcs 2.91.66 which calls member functions
3648 (i.e., lines() and colors() of NCursesWindow before calling its
3649 constructor. Add calls to initialize() in a few constructors which
3650 did not do this already.
3651 + use the GNAT preprocessor to make the necessary switch between TRACE
3652 and NO_TRACE configurations (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3653 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
3654 + modify kterm terminfo entry to use SCS sequence to support alternate
3655 character set (it does not work with SI/SO).
3656 + --with-ospeed=something didn't work. configure.in checked for a
3657 $enableval where it should check for $withval. Also,
3658 ncurses/llib-lncurses still had a hardcoded short.
3661 + correction to my merge of Tom Riddle's patch that broke tic in some
3662 conditions (reported by Enoch Wexler <enoch@wexler.co.il>) -TD
3665 + modify view.c to test halfdelay(). Like other tests, this recognizes
3666 the 's' and space commands for stopping/starting polled input, shows
3667 a freerunning clock in the header. If given a parameter to 's', that
3668 makes view.c use halfdelay() with that parameter rather than
3670 + fix to allow compile with the experimental configure option
3672 + modify postprocess_termcap() to avoid overwriting key_backspace,
3673 key_left, key_down when processing a non-base entry (report/patch by
3675 + modify _nc_wrap_entry(), adding option to reallocate the string
3676 table, needed in _nc_merge_entry() when merging termcap entries.
3677 (adapted from report/patch by Tom Riddle <ftr@oracom.com>).
3678 + modify a few configure script macros to keep $CFLAGS used only for
3679 compiler options, preprocessor options in $CPPFLAGS.
3682 + correct marker positions in lrtest.c after receiving a sigwinch.
3683 + fix ifdef's in ncurses.c to build against pre-5.2 for testing.
3684 + fixes to tclock for resizing behavior, redundant computation (report
3685 and patch by A M Kuchling <akuchlin@mems-exchange.org>).
3688 + improved scoansi terminfo entry -TD
3689 + modify configure script and makefile in Ada95/src to compile a stub
3690 for the trace functions when ncurses does not provide those.
3693 + add ncurses_dll.h and related definitions to support generating DLL's
3694 with cygwin (adapted from a patch by Charles Wilson
3695 <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>, changed NCURSES_EXPORT macro to make it
3696 work with 'indent') -TD
3699 + correct prototypes for some functions in curs_termcap.3x, matching
3700 termcap.h, which matches X/Open.
3701 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
3702 + a revised version of the Ada enhancements sent in by "H.
3703 Nanosecond", aka Eugene V Melaragno <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>. This
3705 - small fixes to the existing ncurses binding
3706 - addition of some more low-level functions to the binding, including
3707 termcap and terminfo functions
3708 - An Ada implementation of the "ncurses" test application originally
3712 + modify logic in lib_setup.c to allow either lines or columns value
3713 from terminfo to be used if the screen size cannot be determined
3714 dynamically rather than requiring both (patch by Ehud Karni
3715 <ehud@unix.simonwiesel.co.il>).
3716 + add check in lib_tgoto.c's is_termcap() function to reject null or
3717 empty strings (reported by Valentin Nechayev <netch@netch.kiev.ua> to
3719 + add definition from configure script that denotes the path-separator,
3720 which is normally a colon. The path-separator is a semicolon on
3721 OS/2 EMX and similar systems which may use a colon within pathnames.
3722 + alter logic to set default for --disable-overwrite option to set it
3723 to 'yes' if the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr/local, thereby
3724 accommodating the most common cause of problems: gcc's nonstandard
3725 search rules. Other locations such as /usr/local/ncurses will
3726 default to overwriting (report by Lars Hecking <lhecking@nmrc.ie>).
3729 + modify default for --disable-overwrite configure option to disable
3730 if the --prefix or $prefix value is not /usr.
3731 + add cygwin to systems for which ncurses is installed by default into
3732 /usr rather than /usr/local.
3735 + minor optimization in comp_error.c and lib_termname.c, using
3736 strncat() to replace strncpy() (patch by Solar Designer).
3737 + add a use_terminfo_vars() check for $HOME/.termcap, and check for
3738 geteuid() to use_terminfo_vars() (patch by Solar Designer
3740 + improved cygwin terminfo entry, based on patch by
3741 <ernie_boyd@yahoo.com>.
3742 + modify _nc_write_entry() to allow for the possibility that linking
3743 aliases on a filesystem that ignores case would not succeed because
3744 the source and destination differ only by case, e.g., NCR260VT300WPP0
3745 on cygwin (report by Neil Zanella).
3746 + fix a typo in the curs_deleteln.3x man page (patch by Bernhard
3747 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
3750 + add configure option --with-ospeed to assist packagers in transition
3751 to 5.3 change to ospeed type.
3752 + add/use CharOf() macro to suppress sign-extension of char type on
3753 platforms where this is a problem in ctype macros, e.g., Solaris.
3754 + change trace output to binary format.
3755 + correct a missing quote adjustment in CF_PATH_SYNTAX autoconf
3756 macro, for OS/2 EMX configuration.
3757 + rearrange a few configure macros, moving preprocessor options to
3758 $CPPFLAGS (a now-obsolete version of autoconf did not consistently
3759 use $CPPFLAGS in both the compile and preprocessor checks).
3760 + add a check in relative_move() to guard against buffer overflow in
3761 the overwrite logic.
3764 + add message to configure script showing g++ version.
3765 + resync config.guess, config.sub
3766 + modify lib_delwin.c, making it return ERR if the window did not exist
3767 (suggested by Neil Zanella).
3768 + add cases for FreeBSD 3.1 to tdlint and makellib scripts, used this
3769 to test/review ncurses library. (Would use lclint, but it doesn't
3771 + reorganized knight.c to avoid forward references. Correct screen
3772 updates when backtracking, especially to the first cell. Add F/B/a
3775 20001021 5.2 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3776 + update generated html files from manpages.
3777 + modify dist.mk to use edit_man.sh to substitute autoconf'd variables
3779 + fix an uninitialized pointer in read_termcap.c (report by Todd C
3780 Miller, from report/patch by Philip Guenther <guenther@gac.edu>).
3781 + correct help-message and array limit in knight.c (patch by Brian
3782 Raiter <breadbox@muppetlabs.com>).
3783 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
3784 + fix to avoid warning by GNAT-3.13p about use of inconsistent casing
3785 for some identifiers defined in the standard package.
3786 + cosmetic change to forms/fty_enum.c
3789 + correct an off-by-one position in test/railroad.c which could cause
3790 wrapping at the right margin.
3791 + test/repair some issues with libtool configuration. Make
3792 --disable-echo force libtool --silent. (Libtool does not work for
3793 OS/2 EMX, works partly for SCO - libtool is still very specific to
3795 + change default of --with-manpage-tbl to "no", since for most of the
3796 platforms which do have tbl installed, the system "man" program
3797 understands how to run tbl automatically.
3798 + minor improvement to force_bar() in comp_parse.c (Bernhard
3799 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
3800 + modify lib_tparm.c to use get_space() before writing terminating
3801 null character, both for consistency as well as to ensure that if
3802 save_char() was called immediately before, that the allocated memory
3803 is enough (patch by Sergei Ivanov).
3804 + add note about termcap ML capability which is duplicated between two
3805 different capabilities: smgl and smglr (reported by Sergei Ivanov
3806 <svivanov@pdmi.ras.ru>).
3807 + correct parameter counts in include/Caps for dclk as well as some
3808 printer-specific capabilities: csnm, defc, scs, scsd, smgtp, smglp.
3809 > patch by Johnny C Lam <lamj@stat.cmu.edu>:
3810 + add support for building with libtool (apparently version 1.3.5,
3811 since old versions do not handle -L../lib), using new configure
3812 option --with-libtool.
3813 + add configure option --with-manpage-tbl, which causes the manpages to
3814 be preprocessed by tbl(1) prior to installation,
3815 + add configure option --without-curses-h, which causes the
3816 installation process to install curses.h as ncurses.h and make
3817 appropriate changes to headers and manpages.
3820 + correct order of options/parameters in run_tic.in invocation of tic,
3821 which did not work with standard getopt() (reported by Ethan
3822 Butterfield <primus@veris.org>).
3823 + correct logic for 'reverse' variable in lib_vidattr.c, which was
3824 setting it true without checking if newmode had A_REVERSE set, e.g.,
3825 using $TERM=ansi on OS/2 EMX (see 20000917).
3826 > patch by Todd C Miller:
3827 + add a few missing use_terminfo_vars() and fixes up _nc_tgetent().
3828 Previously, _nc_cgetset() would still get called on cp so the
3829 simplest thing is to set cp to NULL if !use_terminfo_vars().
3830 + added checks for an empty $HOME environment variable.
3831 > patches for OS/2 EMX (Ilya Zakharevich):
3832 + modify convert_configure.pl to support INSTALL. Change compiler
3833 options in that script to use multithreading, needed for the mouse.
3834 + modify OS/2 mouse support, retrying as a 2-button mouse if code fails
3835 to set up a 3-button mouse.
3836 + improve code for OS/2 mouse support, using _nc_timed_wait() to
3837 replace select() call.
3840 + change type of ospeed variable back to short to match its use in
3841 legacy applications (reported by Andrey A Chernov).
3842 + add case to configure script for --enable-rpath on IRIX (patch by
3843 Albert Chin-A-Young).
3844 + minor fix to position_check() function, to ensure it gets the whole
3845 cursor report before decoding.
3846 + add configure option --disable-assumed-color, to allow pre-5.1
3847 convention of default colors used for color-pair 0 to be configured
3848 (see assume_default_colors()).
3849 + rename configure option --enable-hashmap --disable-hashmap, and
3850 reorder the configure options, splitting the experimental and
3852 + add configure option --disable-root-environ, which tells ncurses to
3853 disregard $TERMINFO and similar environment variables if the current
3854 user is root, or running setuid/setgid (based on discussion with
3856 + modified misc/run_tic.in to use tic -o, to eliminate dependency on
3857 $TERMINFO variable for installs.
3858 + add table entry for plab_norm to tput, so it passes in strings
3859 for that capability.
3860 + modify parse_format() in lib_tparm.c to ignore precision if it is
3861 longer than 10000 (report by Jouko Pynnonen).
3862 + rewrote limit checks in lib_mvcur.c using new functions
3863 _nc_safe_strcat(), etc. Made other related changes to check lengths
3864 used for strcat/strcpy (report by Jouko Pynnonen
3865 <jouko@solutions.fi>).
3868 + modify several descriptions, including those for setaf, setab, in
3869 include/Caps to indicate that the entries are parameterized. This
3870 information is used to tell which strings are translated when
3871 converting to termcap. Fixes a problem where the generated termcap
3872 would contain a spurious "%p1" for the terminfo "%p1%d".
3873 + modify ld -rpath options (e.g., Linux, and Solaris) to use an
3874 absolute pathname for the build tree's lib directory (prompted by
3875 discussion with Albert Chin-A-Young).
3876 + modify "make install.man" and "make uninstall.man" to include tack's
3878 + various fixes for install scripts used to support configure --srcdir
3879 and --with-install-prefix (reported by Matthew Clarke
3880 <Matthew_Clarke@mindlink.bc.ca>).
3881 + make configure script checks on variables $GCC and $GXX consistently
3882 compare against 'yes' rather than test if they are nonnull, since
3883 either may be set to the corresponding name of the C or C++ compiler
3884 (report/patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3887 + modify rs2 capability in xterm-r6 and similar where cursor
3888 save/restore bracketed the sequence for resetting video attributes.
3889 The cursor restore would undo that (report by John Hawkinson
3890 <jhawk@MIT.EDU> (see NetBSD misc/11052)).
3891 + using parameter check added to tic, corrected 27 typos in
3893 + modify tic to verify that its inputs are really files, in case
3894 someone tries to read a directory (or /dev/zero).
3895 + add a check for empty buffers returned by fgets() in comp_scan.c
3896 next_char() function, in case tic is run on a non-text file (fixes
3897 a core dump reported by Aaron Campbell <aaron@cs.dal.ca>).
3898 + add to railroad.c some code exercising tgoto(), providing an
3899 alternate form of display if the terminal supports cursor addressing.
3900 + split-out tgoto() again, this time into new file lib_tgoto.c, and
3901 implement a conventional BSD-style tgoto() which is used if the
3902 capability string does not contain terminfo-style padding or
3903 parameters (requested by Andrey A Chernov).
3904 + add check to tic which reports capabilities that do not reference
3905 the expected number of parameters.
3906 + add error checking to infocmp's -v and -m options to ensure that
3907 the option value is indeed a number.
3908 + some cleanup of logic in _nc_signal_handler() to verify if SIGWINCH
3909 handler is setup. Separated the old/new sigaction data for SIGTSTP
3910 from the other signals.
3913 + add S0, E0 extensions to screen's terminfo entry, which is another
3914 way to solve the misconfiguration issue -TD
3915 + completed special case for tgoto from 20000916
3918 + update xterm terminfo entries to match XFree86 xterm patch #146 -TD
3919 + add Matrix Orbital terminfo entries (from Eric Z Ayers
3921 + add special case to lib_tparm.c to allow 'screen' program to use a
3922 termcap-style parameter "%."
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