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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 + modify Ada95/gen/Makefile to use shlib script, to simplify building
50 shared-library configuration on platforms lacking rpath support.
51 + build-fix for Ada95/src/Makefile to reflect changed dependency for
52 the terminal-interface-curses-aux.adb file which is now generated.
53 + restructuring test/worm.c, for use_window() example.
56 + add use_window() and use_screen() functions, to develop into support
57 for threaded library (incomplete).
58 + fix typos in man/curs_opaque.3x which kept the install script from
59 creating symbolic links to two aliases created in 20070818 (report by
63 + remove a spurious newline from output of html.m4, which caused links
64 for Ada95 html to be incorrect for the files generated using m4.
65 + start investigating mutex's for SCREEN manipulation (incomplete).
66 + minor cleanup of codes.c/names.c for --enable-const
67 + expand/revise "Routine and Argument Names" section of ncurses manpage
68 to address report by David Givens in newsgroup discussion.
69 + fix interaction between --without-progs/--with-termcap configure
70 options (report by Michail Vidiassov).
71 + fix typo in "--disable-relink" option (report by Michail Vidiassov).
74 + fix a sign-extension bug in infocmp's repair_acsc() function
76 + fix old configure script bug which prevented "--disable-warnings"
77 option from working (patch by Mike Frysinger).
80 + add 9term terminal description (request by Juhapekka Tolvanen) -TD
81 + modify comp_hash.c's string output to avoid misinterpreting a null
82 "\0" followed by a digit.
83 + modify MKnames.awk and MKcodes.awk to support big-strings.
84 This only applies to the cases (broken linker, reentrant) where
85 the corresponding arrays are accessed via wrapper functions.
86 + split MKnames.awk into two scripts, eliminating the shell redirection
87 which complicated the make process and also the bogus timestamp file
88 which was introduced to fix "make -j".
89 + add test/test_opaque.c, test/test_arrays.c
90 + add wgetscrreg() and wgetparent() for applications that may need it
91 when NCURSES_OPAQUE is defined (prompted by Bryan Christ).
94 + amend treatment of infocmp "-r" option to retain the 1023-byte limit
95 unless "-T" is given (cf: 981017).
96 + modify comp_captab.c generation to use big-strings.
97 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private accessed via
98 _nc_get_alias_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
100 + modify configure script to skip Intel compiler in CF_C_INLINE.
101 + make _nc_info_hash_table and _nc_cap_hash_table private accessed via
102 _nc_get_hash_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
106 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private, accessed via
107 _nc_get_alias_table() since they are used only by parse_entry.c
108 + make _nc_key_names private since it is used only by lib_keyname.c
109 + add --disable-big-strings configure option to control whether
110 unctrl.c is generated using the big-string optimization - which may
111 use strings longer than supported by a given compiler.
112 + reduce relocation tables for tic, infocmp by changing type of
113 internal hash tables to short, and make those private symbols.
114 + eliminate large fixed arrays from progs/infocmp.c
117 + change winnstr() to stop at the end of the line (cf: 970315).
118 + add test/test_get_wstr.c
119 + add test/test_getstr.c
120 + add test/test_inwstr.c
121 + add test/test_instr.c
124 + restore a call to obtain screen-size in _nc_setupterm(), which
125 is used in tput and other non-screen applications via setupterm()
126 (Debian #433357, reported by Florent Bayle, Christian Ohm,
130 + add test/savescreen.c test-program
131 + add check to trace-file open, if the given name is a directory, add
132 ".log" to the name and try again.
133 + add konsole-256color entry -TD
134 + add extra gcc warning options from xterm.
135 + minor fixes for ncurses/hashmap test-program.
136 + modify configure script to quiet c++ build with libtool when the
137 --disable-echo option is used.
138 + modify configure script to disable ada95 if libtool is selected,
139 writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD ports/114493).
140 + update config.guess, config.sub
143 + add continuous-move "M" to demo_panels to help test refresh changes.
144 + improve fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters,
145 taking into account some split characters on left/right window
149 + add "widec" row to _tracedump() output to help diagnose remaining
150 problems with multi-column characters.
151 + partial fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters
152 which are partly overwritten (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
153 + ignore A_CHARTEXT bits in vidattr() and vid_attr(), in case
154 multi-column extension bits are passed there.
155 + add setlocale() call to demo_panels.c, needed for wide-characters.
156 + add some output flags to _nc_trace_ttymode to help diagnose a bug
157 report by Larry Virden, i.e., ONLCR, OCRNL, ONOCR and ONLRET,
160 + add test/demo_panels.c
161 + implement opaque version of setsyx() and getsyx().
164 + corrected xterm+pcf2 terminfo modifiers for F1-F4, to match xterm
166 + split-out key_name() from MKkeyname.awk since it now depends upon
167 wunctrl() which is not in libtinfo (report by Rong-En Fan).
170 + add test/key_name.c
171 + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test_inch_wide.c
172 + update test/configure
173 + correct formatting of DEL (0x7f) in _nc_vischar().
174 + null-terminate result of wunctrl().
175 + add null-pointer check in key_name() (report by Andreas Krennmair,
179 + adapt mouse-handling code from menu library in form-library
180 (discussion with Clive Nicolson).
181 + add a modification of test/dots.c, i.e., test/dots_mvcur.c to
182 illustrate how to use mvcur().
183 + modify wide-character flavor of SetAttr() to preserve the
184 WidecExt() value stored in the .attr field, e.g., in case it
185 is overwritten by chgat (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
186 + correct buffer-size for _nc_viswbuf2n() (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
187 + build-fixes for Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 (patch by Peter O'Gorman).
190 + modify keyname() to use "^X" form only if meta() has been called, or
191 if keyname() is called without initializing curses, e.g., via
192 initscr() or newterm() (prompted by LinuxBase #1604).
193 + document some portability issues in man/curs_util.3x
194 + add a shadow copy of TTY buffer to _nc_prescreen to fix applications
195 broken by moving that data into SCREEN (cf: 20061230).
198 + add 'O' (wide-character panel test) in ncurses.c to demonstrate a
199 problem reported by Sadrul H Chowdhury with repainting parts of
201 + modify slk_init() so that if there are preceding calls to
202 ripoffline(), those affect the available lines for soft-keys (adapted
203 from patch by Clive Nicolson).
204 + document some portability issues in man/curs_getyx.3x
207 + fix a bug in Ada95/samples/ncurses which caused a variable to
208 become uninitialized in the "b" test.
209 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in adahtml rule to account for recent
210 movement of files, fix a few incorrect manpage references in the
212 + add Ada95 binding to _nc_freeall() as Curses_Free_All to help with
214 + correct some functions in Ada95 binding which were using return value
215 from C where none was returned: idcok(), immedok() and wtimeout().
216 + amend recent changes for Ada95 binding to make it build with
217 Cygwin's linker, e.g., with configure options
218 --enable-broken-linker --with-ticlib
221 + add a configure check for gcc's options for inlining, use that to
222 quiet a warning message where gcc's default behavior changed from
224 + improve warning message when checking if GPM is linked to curses
225 library by not warning if its use of "wgetch" is via a weak symbol.
226 + add loader options when building with static libraries to ensure that
227 an installed shared library for ncurses does not conflict. This is
228 reported as problem with Tru64, but could affect other platforms
229 (report Martin Mokrejs, analysis by Tim Mooney).
230 + fix build on cygwin after recent ticlib/termlib changes, i.e.,
231 + adjust TINFO_SUFFIX value to work with cygwin's dll naming
232 + revert a change from 20070303 which commented out dependency of
233 SHLIB_LIST in form/menu/panel/c++ libraries.
234 + fix initialization of ripoff stack pointer (cf: 20070421).
237 + move most static variables into structures _nc_globals and
238 _nc_prescreen, to simplify storage.
239 + add/use configure script macro CF_SIG_ATOMIC_T, use the corresponding
240 type for data manipulated by signal handlers (prompted by comments
241 in mailing.openbsd.bugs newsgroup).
242 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to allow one to pass options such as -static
243 to the libtool create- and link-operations.
246 + fix whitespace in curs_opaque.3x which caused a spurious ';' in
247 the installed aliases (report by Peter Santoro).
248 + fix configure script to not try to generate adacurses-config when
249 Ada95 tree is not built.
252 + add man/curs_legacy.3x, man/curs_opaque.3x
253 + fix acs_map binding for Ada95 when --enable-reentrant is used.
254 + add adacurses-config to the Ada95 install, based on version from
255 FreeBSD port, in turn by Juergen Pfeifer in 2000 (prompted by
256 comment on comp.lang.ada newsgroup).
257 + fix includes in c++ binding to build with Intel compiler
259 + update install rule in Ada95 to use mkdirs.sh
260 > other fixes prompted by inspection for Coverity report:
261 + modify ifdef's for c++ binding to use try/catch/throw statements
262 + add a null-pointer check in tack/ansi.c request_cfss()
263 + fix a memory leak in ncurses/base/wresize.c
264 + corrected check for valid memu/meml capabilities in
265 progs/dump_entry.c when handling V_HPUX case.
266 > fixes based on Coverity report:
267 + remove dead code in test/bs.c
268 + remove dead code in test/demo_defkey.c
269 + remove an unused assignment in progs/infocmp.c
270 + fix a limit check in tack/ansi.c tools_charset()
271 + fix tack/ansi.c tools_status() to perform the VT320/VT420
272 tests in request_cfss(). The function had exited too soon.
273 + fix a memory leak in tic.c's make_namelist()
274 + fix a couple of places in tack/output.c which did not check for EOF.
275 + fix a loop-condition in test/bs.c
276 + add index checks in lib_color.c for color palettes
277 + add index checks in progs/dump_entry.c for version_filter() handling
279 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in copywin()
280 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in waddchnstr()
281 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
282 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c's make_namelist()
283 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
284 + add null-pointer checks in test/cardfile.c
285 + fix a double-free in ncurses/tinfo/trim_sgr0.c
286 + fix a double-free in ncurses/base/wresize.c
287 + add try/catch block to c++/cursesmain.cc
290 + modify Ada95 binding to build with --enable-reentrant by wrapping
291 global variables (bug: acs_map does not yet work).
292 + modify Ada95 binding to use the new access-functions, allowing it
293 to build/run when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
294 + add access-functions and macros to return properties of the WINDOW
295 structure, e.g., when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
296 + improved install-sh's quoting.
297 + use mkdirs.sh rather than mkinstalldirs, e.g., to use fixes from
301 + eliminate part of the direct use of WINDOW data from Ada95 interface.
302 + fix substitutions for termlib filename to make configure option
303 --enable-reentrant work with --with-termlib.
304 + change a constructor for NCursesWindow to allow compiling with
305 NCURSES_OPAQUE set, since we cannot pass a reference to
309 + ignore --with-chtype=unsigned since unsigned is always added to
310 the type in curses.h; do the same for --with-mmask-t.
311 + change warning regarding --enable-ext-colors and wide-character
312 in the configure script to an error.
313 + tweak error message in CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to distinguish other programs
314 such as Darwin's libtool program (report by Michail Vidiassov)
315 + modify edit_man.sh to allow for multiple substitutions per line.
316 + set locale in misc/ncurses-config.in since it uses a range
317 + change permissions libncurses++.a install (report by Michail
319 + corrected length of temporary buffer in wide-character version
320 of set_field_buffer() (related to report by Bryan Christ).
323 + fix mk-1st.awk script install_shlib() function, broken in 20070224
324 changes for cygwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
327 + increase size of array in _nc_visbuf2n() to make "tic -v" work
328 properly in its similar_sgr() function (report/analysis by Peter
330 + add --enable-reentrant configure option for ongoing changes to
331 implement a reentrant version of ncurses:
332 + libraries are suffixed with "t"
333 + wrap several global variables (curscr, newscr, stdscr, ttytype,
334 COLORS, COLOR_PAIRS, COLS, ESCDELAY, LINES and TABSIZE) as
335 functions returning values stored in SCREEN or cur_term.
336 + move some initialization (LINES, COLS) from lib_setup.c,
337 i.e., setupterm() to _nc_setupscreen(), i.e., newterm().
340 + regenerated html documentation.
341 + add NCURSES_OPAQUE symbol to curses.h, will use to make structs
342 opaque in selected configurations.
343 + move the chunk in lib_acs.c which resets acs capabilities when
344 running on a terminal whose locale interferes with those into
345 _nc_setupscreen(), so the libtinfo/libtinfow files can be made
346 identical (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
347 + do not use configure variable SHLIB_LIBS for building libraries
348 outside the ncurses directory, since that symbol is customized
349 only for that directory, and using it introduces an unneeded
350 dependency on libdl (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
351 + modify mk-1st.awk so the generated makefile rules for linking or
352 installing shared libraries do not first remove the library, in
353 case it is in use, e.g., libncurses.so by /bin/sh (report by Jeff
355 + revised section "Using NCURSES under XTERM" in ncurses-intro.html
356 (prompted by newsgroup comment by Nick Guenther).
359 + change internal return codes of _nc_wgetch() to check for cases
360 where KEY_CODE_YES should be returned, e.g., if a KEY_RESIZE was
361 ungetch'd, and read by wget_wch().
362 + fix static-library build broken in 20070217 changes to remove "-ldl"
363 (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
364 + change makefile/scripts for cygwin to allow building termlib.
365 + use Form_Hook in manpages to match form.h
366 + use Menu_Hook in manpages, as well as a few places in menu.h
367 + correct form- and menu-manpages to use specific Field_Options,
368 Menu_Options and Item_Options types.
369 + correct prototype for _tracechar() in manpage (cf: 20011229).
370 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
373 + fixes for $(TICS_LIST) in ncurses/Makefile (report by Miroslav
375 + modify relinking of shared libraries to apply only when rpath is
376 enabled, and add --disable-relink option which can be used to
377 disable the feature altogether (reports by Michail Vidiassov,
379 + fix --with-termlib option for wide-character configuration, stripping
380 the "w" suffix in one place (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
381 + remove "-ldl" from some library lists to reduce dependencies in
382 programs (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
383 + correct description of --enable-signed-char in configure --help
384 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
385 + add pattern for GNU/kFreeBSD configuration to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE,
386 which matches an earlier change to CF_SHARED_OPTS, from xterm #224
388 + remove "${DESTDIR}" from -install_name option used for linking
389 shared libraries on Darwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
392 + add test/inchs.c, test_inch_wide.c, to test win_wchnstr().
393 + remove libdl from library list for termlib (report by Miroslav
395 + fix configure.in to allow --without-progs --with-termlib (patch by
397 + modify win_wchnstr() to ensure that only a base cell is returned
398 for each multi-column character (prompted by report by Wei Kong
399 regarding change in mvwin_wch() cf: 20041023).
402 + modify fix_wchnstr() in form library to strip attributes (and color)
403 from the cchar_t array (field cells) read from a field's window.
404 Otherwise, when copying the field cells back to the window, the
405 associated color overrides the field's background color (report by
407 + improve tracing for form library, showing created forms, fields, etc.
408 + ignore --enable-rpath configure option if --with-shared was omitted.
409 + add _nc_leaks_tinfo(), _nc_free_tic(), _nc_free_tinfo() entrypoints
410 to allow leak-checking when both tic- and tinfo-libraries are built.
411 + drop CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC macro from configure script, since C++ binding
412 no longer relies on it.
413 + disallow combining configure script options --with-ticlib and
414 --enable-termcap (report by Rong-En Fan).
415 + remove tack from ncurses tree.
418 + fix typo in configure script that broke --with-termlib option
419 (report by Rong-En Fan).
422 + improve fix for FreeBSD gnu/98975, to allow for null pointer passed
423 to tgetent() (report by Rong-en Fan).
424 + update tack/HISTORY and tack/README to tell how to build it after
425 it is removed from the ncurses tree.
426 + fix configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
427 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
428 + review/eliminate other original-file artifacts in cursesw.cc, making
429 its license consistent with ncurses.
430 + use ncurses vw_scanw() rather than reading into a fixed buffer in
431 the c++ binding for scanw() methods (prompted by report by Nuno Dias).
432 + eliminate fixed-buffer vsprintf() calls in c++ binding.
435 + add _nc_leaks_tic() to separate leak-checking of tic library from
436 term/ncurses libraries, and thereby eliminate a library dependency.
437 + fix test/mk-test.awk to ignore blank lines.
438 + correct paths in include/headers, for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav
442 + add a break-statement in misc/shlib to ensure that it exits on the
443 _first_ matched directory (report by Paul Novak).
444 + add tack/configure, which can be used to build tack outside the
446 + add --with-ticlib option, to build/install the tic-support functions
447 in a separate library (suggested by Miroslav Lichvar).
450 + change MKunctrl.awk to reduce relocation table for unctrl.o
451 + change MKkeyname.awk to reduce relocation table for keyname.o
452 (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
455 + modify configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
456 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
457 + modify some modules to allow them to be reentrant if _REENTRANT is
458 defined: lib_baudrate.c, resizeterm.c (local data only)
459 + eliminate static data from some modules: add_tries.c, hardscroll.c,
460 lib_ttyflags.c, lib_twait.c
461 + improve manpage install to add aliases for the transformed program
462 names, e.g., from --program-prefix.
463 + used linklint to verify links in the HTML documentation, made fixes
464 to manpages as needed.
465 + fix a typo in curs_mouse.3x (report by William McBrine).
466 + fix install-rule for ncurses5-config to make the bin-directory.
469 + modify configure script to omit the tic (terminfo compiler) support
470 from ncurses library if --without-progs option is given.
471 + modify install rule for ncurses5-config to do this via "install.libs"
472 + modify shared-library rules to allow FreeBSD 3.x to use rpath.
473 + update config.guess, config.sub
475 20061217 5.6 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
478 + add ifdef's for <wctype.h> for HPUX, which has the corresponding
479 definitions in <wchar.h>.
480 + revert the va_copy() change from 20061202, since it was neither
481 correct nor portable.
482 + add $(LOCAL_LIBS) definition to progs/Makefile.in, needed for
484 + ignore wide-acs line-drawing characters that wcwidth() claims are
485 not one-column. This is a workaround for Solaris' broken locale
489 + modify configure --with-gpm option to allow it to accept a parameter,
490 i.e., the name of the dynamic GPM library to load via dlopen()
491 (requested by Bryan Henderson).
492 + add configure option --with-valgrind, changes from vile.
493 + modify configure script AC_TRY_RUN and AC_TRY_LINK checks to use
494 'return' in preference to 'exit()'.
497 + change default for --with-develop back to "no".
498 + add XTABS to tracing of TTY bits.
499 + updated autoconf patch to ifdef-out the misfeature which declares
500 exit() for configure tests. This fixes a redefinition warning on
502 + use ${CC} rather than ${LD} in shared library rules for IRIX64,
503 Solaris to help ensure that initialization sections are provided for
504 extra linkage requirements, e.g., of C++ applications (prompted by
505 comment by Casper Dik in newsgroup).
506 + rename "$target" in CF_MAN_PAGES to make it easier to distinguish
507 from the autoconf predefined symbol. There was no conflict,
508 since "$target" was used only in the generated edit_man.sh file,
509 but SuSE's rpm package contains a patch.
512 + update man/term.5 to reflect extended terminfo support and hashed
513 database configuration.
514 + updates for test/configure script.
515 + adapted from SuSE rpm package:
516 + remove long-obsolete workaround for broken-linker which declared
518 + improve error recovery in PUTC() macro when wcrtomb() does not
519 return usable results for an 8-bit character.
520 + patches from rpm package (SuSE):
521 + use va_copy() in extra varargs manipulation for tracing version
523 + use a va_list rather than a null in _nc_freeall()'s call to
525 + add some see-also references in manpages to show related
526 wide-character functions (suggested by Claus Fischer).
529 + add a check in lib_color.c to ensure caller does not increase COLORS
530 above max_colors, which is used as an array index (discussion with
532 + add ifdef's allowing ncurses to be built with tparm() using either
533 varargs (the existing status), or using a fixed-parameter list (to
537 + fix redrawing of windows other than stdscr using wredrawln() by
538 touching the corresponding rows in curscr (discussion with Dan
541 + add test/echochar.c
542 + review/cleanup manpage descriptions of error-returns for form- and
543 menu-libraries (prompted by FreeBSD docs/46196).
546 + add AUTHORS file -TD
547 + omit the -D options from output of the new config script --cflags
548 option (suggested by Ralf S Engelschall).
549 + make NCURSES_INLINE unconditionally defined in curses.h
552 + revert change to accommodate bash 3.2, since that breaks other
553 platforms, e.g., Solaris.
554 + minor fixes to NEWS file to simplify scripting to obtain list of
556 + improve some shared-library configure scripting for Linux, FreeBSD
557 and NetBSD to make "--with-shlib-version" work.
558 + change configure-script rules for FreeBSD shared libraries to allow
559 for rpath support in versions past 3.
560 + use $(DESTDIR) in makefile rules for installing/uninstalling the
561 package config script (reports/patches by Christian Wiese,
563 + fix a warning in the configure script for NetBSD 2.0, working around
564 spurious blanks embedded in its ${MAKEFLAGS} symbol.
565 + change test/Makefile to simplify installing test programs in a
566 different directory when --enable-rpath is used.
569 + work around bug in bash 3.2 by adding extra quotes (Jim Gifford).
570 + add/install a package config script, e.g., "ncurses5-config" or
571 "ncursesw5-config", according to configuration options.
574 + add several GNU Screen terminfo variations with 16- and 256-colors,
575 and status line (Alain Bench).
576 + change the way shared libraries (other than libtool) are installed.
577 Rather than copying the build-tree's libraries, link the shared
578 objects into the install directory. This makes the --with-rpath
579 option work except with $(DESTDIR) (cf: 20000930).
582 + fix ifdef in c++/internal.h for QNX 6.1
583 + test-compiled with (old) egcs-1.1.2, modified configure script to
584 not unset the $CXX and related variables which would prevent this.
585 + fix a few terminfo.src typos exposed by improvments to "-f" option.
586 + improve infocmp/tic "-f" option formatting.
589 + make --disable-largefile option work (report by Thomas M Ott).
590 + updated html documentation.
591 + add ka2, kb1, kb3, kc2 to vt220-keypad as an extension -TD
592 + minor improvements to rxvt+pcfkeys -TD
595 + move static data from lib_mouse.c into SCREEN struct.
596 + improve ifdef's for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset to work with Mac OS X
597 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
598 + modify CF_PATH_SYNTAX to ensure it uses the result from --prefix
599 option (from lynx changes) -TD
600 + adapt AC_PROG_EGREP check, noting that this is likely to be another
601 place aggravated by POSIXLY_CORRECT.
602 + modify configure check for awk to ensure that it is found (prompted
603 by report by Christopher Parker).
607 + add kon, kon2 and jfbterm terminfo entry (request by Till Maas) -TD
608 + remove invis capability from klone+sgr, mainly used by linux entry,
609 since it does not really do this -TD
612 + correct logic in wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not guard
613 against passing the multi-column attribute into a call on waddch(),
614 e.g., using data returned by win_wch() (cf: 20041023)
615 (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
618 + fix kterm's acsc string -TD
619 + fix for change to tic/infocmp in 20060819 to ensure no blank is
620 embedded into a termcap description.
621 + workaround for 20050806 ifdef's change to allow visbuf.c to compile
622 when using --with-termlib --with-trace options.
623 + improve tgetstr() by making the return value point into the user's
624 buffer, if provided (patch by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat Bugzilla
626 + correct libraries needed for foldkeys (report by Stanislav Ievlev)
629 + add terminfo entries for xfce terminal (xfce) and multi gnome
631 + add test/foldkeys.c
634 + modify tic and infocmp to avoid writing trailing blanks on terminfo
635 source output (Debian #378783).
636 + modify configure script to ensure that if the C compiler is used
637 rather than the loader in making shared libraries, the $(CFLAGS)
638 variable is also used (Redhat Bugzilla #199369).
639 + port hashed-db code to db2 and db3.
640 + fix a bug in tgetent() from 20060625 and 20060715 changes
641 (patch/analysis by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat Bugzilla #202480)).
644 + updated xterm function-keys terminfo to match xterm #216 -TD
645 + add configure --with-hashed-db option (tested only with FreeBSD 6.0,
646 e.g., the db 1.8.5 interface).
649 + modify toe to access termcap data, e.g., via cgetent() functions,
650 or as a text file if those are not available.
651 + use _nc_basename() in tset to improve $SHELL check for csh/sh.
652 + modify _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_termcap_entry() so infocmp,
653 can access termcap data when the terminfo database is disabled.
656 + widen the test for xterm kmous a little to allow for other strings
657 than \E[M, e.g., for xterm-sco functionality in xterm.
658 + update xterm-related terminfo entries to match xterm patch #216 -TD
659 + update config.guess, config.sub
662 + fix for install-rule in Ada95 to add terminal_interface.ads
663 and terminal_interface.ali (anonymous posting in comp.lang.ada).
664 + correction to manpage for getcchar() (report by William McBrine).
666 + modify wchgat() to mark updated cells as changed so a refresh will
667 repaint those cells (comments by Sadrul H Chowdhury and William
669 + split up dependency of names.c and codes.c in ncurses/Makefile to
670 work with parallel make (report/analysis by Joseph S Myers).
671 + suppress a warning message (which is ignored) for systems without
672 an ldconfig program (patch by Justin Hibbits).
673 + modify configure script --disable-symlinks option to allow one to
674 disable symlink() in tic even when link() does not work (report by
676 + modify MKfallback.sh to use tic -x when constructing fallback tables
677 to allow extended capabilities to be retrieved from a fallback entry.
678 + improve leak-checking logic in tgetent() from 20060625 to ensure that
679 it does not free the current screen (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
682 + add a check for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset (NetBSD #33916).
683 + correct _nc_free_entries() and related functions used for memory leak
687 + revert a minor change for magic-cookie support from 20060513, which
688 caused unexpected reset of attributes, e.g., when resizing test/view
690 + note in clear manpage that the program ignores command-line
691 parameters (prompted by Debian #371855).
692 + fixes to make lib_gen.c build properly with changes to the configure
693 --disable-macros option and NCURSES_NOMACROS (cf: 20060527)
694 + update/correct several terminfo entries -TD
695 + add some notes regarding copyright to terminfo.src -TD
698 + fixes to build Ada95 binding with gnat-4.1.0
699 + modify read_termtype() so the term_names data is always allocated as
700 part of the str_table, a better fix for a memory leak (cf: 20030809).
701 + reduce memory leaks in repeated calls to tgetent() by remembering the
702 last TERMINAL* value allocated to hold the corresponding data and
703 freeing that if the tgetent() result buffer is the same as the
704 previous call (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
705 + modify tack to test extended capability function-key strings.
706 + improved gnome terminfo entry (GenToo #122566).
707 + improved xterm-256color terminfo entry (patch by Alain Bench).
710 + fix two small memory leaks related to repeated tgetent() calls
711 with TERM=screen (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
712 + add --enable-signed-char to simplify Debian package.
713 + reduce name-pollution in term.h by removing #define's for HAVE_xxx
715 + correct typo in curs_terminfo.3x (Debian #369168).
718 + enable the mouse in test/movewindow.c
719 + improve a limit-check in frm_def.c (John Heasley).
720 + minor copyright fixes.
721 + change configure script to produce test/Makefile from data file.
724 + add a configure option --enable-wgetch-events to enable
725 NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS, and correct the associated loop-logic in
726 lib_twait.c (report by Bernd Jendrissek).
727 + remove include/nomacros.h from build, since the ifdef for
728 NCURSES_NOMACROS makes that obsolete.
729 + add entrypoints for some functions which were only provided as macros
730 to make NCURSES_NOMACROS ifdef work properly: getcurx(), getcury(),
731 getbegx(), getbegy(), getmaxx(), getmaxy(), getparx() and getpary(),
733 + provide ifdef for NCURSES_NOMACROS which suppresses most macro
734 definitions from curses.h, i.e., where a macro is defined to override
735 a function to improve performance. Allowing a developer to suppress
736 these definitions can simplify some application (discussion with
738 + improve description of memu/meml in terminfo manpage.
741 + if msgr is false, reset video attributes when doing an automargin
742 wrap to the next line. This makes the ncurses 'k' test work properly
744 + correct caching of keyname(), which was using only half of its table.
745 + minor fixes to memory-leak checking.
746 + make SCREEN._acs_map and SCREEN._screen_acs_map pointers rather than
747 arrays, making ACS_LEN less visible to applications (suggested by
749 + move chunk in SCREEN ifdef'd for USE_WIDEC_SUPPORT to the end, so
750 _screen_acs_map will have the same offset in both ncurses/ncursesw,
751 making the corresponding tinfo/tinfow libraries binary-compatible
752 (cf: 20041016, report by Stanislav Ievlev).
755 + improve debug-tracing for EmitRange().
756 + change default for --with-develop to "yes". Add NCURSES_NO_HARD_TABS
757 and NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE environment variables to allow runtime
758 suppression of the related hard-tabs and xmc-glitch features.
759 + add ncurses version number to top-level manpages, e.g., ncurses, tic,
760 infocmp, terminfo as well as form, menu, panel.
761 + update config.guess, config.sub
762 + modify ncurses.c to work around a bug in NetBSD 3.0 curses
763 (field_buffer returning null for a valid field). The 'r' test
764 appears to not work with that configuration since the new_fieldtype()
765 function is broken in that implementation.
768 + add hpterm-color terminfo entry -TD
769 + fixes to compile test-programs with HPUX 11.23
772 + add copyright notices to files other than those that are generated,
773 data or adapted from pdcurses (reports by William McBrine, David
775 + improve rendering on hpterm by not resetting attributes at the end
776 of doupdate() if the terminal has the magic-cookie feature (report
778 + add 256color variants of terminfo entries for programs which are
779 reported to implement this feature -TD
782 + fix typo in change to NewChar() macro from 20060311 changes, which
783 broke tab-expansion (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
786 + document -U option of tic and infocmp.
787 + modify tic/infocmp to suppress smacs/rmacs when acsc is suppressed
788 due to size limit, e.g., converting to termcap format. Also
789 suppress them if the output format does not contain acsc and it
790 was not VT100-like, i.e., a one-one mapping (Novell #163715).
791 + add configure check to ensure that SIGWINCH is defined on platforms
792 such as OS X which exclude that when _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., are
793 defined (report by Nicholas Cole)
796 + modify write_object() to not write coincidental extensions of an
797 entry made due to it being referenced in a use= clause (report by
799 + another fix for infocmp -i option, which did not ensure that some
800 escape sequences had comparable prefixes (report by Alain Bench).
803 + improve discussion of init/reset in terminfo and tput manpages
804 (report by Alain Bench).
805 + use is3 string for a fallback of rs3 in the reset program; it was
806 using is2 (report by Alain Bench).
807 + correct logic for infocmp -i option, which did not account for
808 multiple digits in a parameter (cf: 20040828) (report by Alain
810 + move _nc_handle_sigwinch() to lib_setup.c to make --with-termlib
811 option work after 20060114 changes (report by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz).
812 + add copyright notices to test-programs as needed (report by William
816 + modify ncurses.c 'F' test to combine the wide-characters with color
817 and/or video attributes.
818 + modify test/ncurses to use CTL/Q or ESC consistently for exiting
819 a test-screen (some commands used 'x' or 'q').
822 + fix an off-by-one in the scrolling-region change (cf_ 20060311).
825 + add checks in waddchnstr() and wadd_wchnstr() to stop copying when
826 a null character is found (report by Igor Bogomazov).
827 + modify progs/Makefile.in to make "tput init" work properly with
828 cygwin, i.e., do not pass a ".exe" in the reference string used
829 in check_aliases (report by Samuel Thibault).
830 + add some checks to ensure current position is within scrolling
831 region before scrolling on a new line (report by Dan Gookin).
832 + change some NewChar() usage to static variables to work around
833 stack garbage introduced when cchar_t is not packed (Redhat #182024).
836 + workarounds to build test/movewindow with PDcurses 2.7.
837 + fix for nsterm-16color entry (patch by Alain Bench).
838 + correct a typo in infocmp manpage (Debian #354281).
841 + add nsterm-16color entry -TD
842 + updated mlterm terminfo entry -TD
843 + remove 970913 feature for copying subwindows as they are moved in
844 mvwin() (discussion with Bryan Christ).
845 + modify test/demo_menus.c to demonstrate moving a menu (both the
846 window and subwindow) using shifted cursor-keys.
847 + start implementing recursive mvwin() in movewindow.c (incomplete).
848 + add a fallback definition for GCC_PRINTFLIKE() in test.priv.h,
849 for movewindow.c (report by William McBrine).
850 + add help-message to test/movewindow.c
853 + add test/movewindow.c, to test mvderwin().
854 + fix ncurses soft-key test so color changes are shown immediately
856 + modify ncurses soft-key test to hide the keys when exiting the test
858 + fixes to build test programs with PDCurses 2.7, e.g., its headers
859 rely on autoconf symbols, and it declares stubs for nonfunctional
860 terminfo and termcap entrypoints.
863 + improved test/configure to build test/ncurses on HPUX 11 using the
865 + documented ALTERNATE CONFIGURATIONS in the ncurses manpage, for the
866 benefit of developers who do not read INSTALL.
869 + correct form library Window_To_Buffer() change (cf: 20040516), which
870 should ignore the video attributes (report by Ricardo Cantu).
873 + minor fixes to xmc-glitch experimental code:
874 + suppress line-drawing
875 + implement max_attributes
877 + minor fixes for the database iterator.
878 + fix some buffer limits in c++ demo (comment by Falk Hueffner in
882 + add toe -a option, to show all databases. This uses new private
883 interfaces in the ncurses library for iterating through the list of
885 + fix toe from 20000909 changes which made it not look at
887 + make toe's -v option parameter optional as per manpage.
888 + improve SIGWINCH handling by postponing its effect during newterm(),
889 etc., when allocating screens.
892 + modify wgetnstr() to return KEY_RESIZE if a sigwinch occurs. Use
893 this in test/filter.c
894 + fix an error in filter() modification which caused some applications
898 + check if filter() was called when getting the screensize. Keep it
899 at 1 if so (based on Redhat #174498).
900 + add extension nofilter().
901 + refined the workaround for ACS mapping.
902 + make ifdef's consistent in curses.h for the extended colors so the
903 header file can be used for the normal curses library. The header
904 file installed for extended colors is a variation of the
905 wide-character configuration (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
908 + add a workaround to ACS mapping to allow applications such as
909 test/blue.c to use the "PC ROM" characters by masking them with
910 A_ALTCHARSET. This worked up til 5.5, but was lost in the revision
911 of legacy coding (report by Michael Deutschmann).
912 + add a null-pointer check in the wide-character version of
913 calculate_actual_width() (report by Victor Julien).
914 + improve test/ncurses 'd' (color-edit) test by allowing the RGB
915 values to be set independently (patch by William McBrine).
916 + modify test/configure script to allow building test programs with
918 + modified test programs to allow some to work with NetBSD curses.
919 Several do not because NetBSD curses implements a subset of X/Open
920 curses, and also lacks much of SVr4 additions. But it's enough for
922 + update config.guess and config.sub
925 + use BSD-specific fix for return-value from cgetent() from CVS where
926 an unknown terminal type would be reportd as "database not found".
927 + make tgetent() return code more readable using new symbols
929 + remove references to non-existent "tctest" program.
930 + remove TESTPROGS from progs/Makefile.in (it was referring to code
931 that was never built in that directory).
932 + typos in curs_addchstr.3x, some doc files (noticed in OpenBSD CVS).
935 + add use_legacy_coding() function to support lynx's font-switching
937 + fix formatting in curs_termcap.3x (report by Mike Frysinger).
938 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to change preprocessor-expanded _Bool back to
942 + extend test/ncurses.c 's' (overlay window) test to exercise overlay(),
943 overwrite() and copywin() with different combinations of colors and
944 attributes (including background color) to make it easy to see the
945 effect of the different functions.
946 + corrections to menu/m_global.c for wide-characters (report by
950 + add configure option --without-dlsym, allowing developers to
951 configure GPM support without using dlsym() (discussion with Michael
953 + fix wins_nwstr(), which did not handle single-column non-8bit codes
957 + move prototypes for wide-character trace functions from curses.tail
958 to curses.wide to avoid accidental reference to those if
959 _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined without ensuring that <wchar.h> is
961 + add/use NCURSES_INLINE definition.
962 + change some internal functions to use int/unsigned rather than the
966 + remove a redundant check in lib_color.c (Debian #335655).
967 + use ld's -search_paths_first option on Darwin to work around odd
968 search rules on that platform (report by Christian Gennerat, analysis
970 + remove special case for Darwin in CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro.
971 + ignore EINTR in tcgetattr/tcsetattr calls (Debian #339518).
972 + fix several bugs in test/bs.c (patch by Stephen Lindholm).
975 + other minor fixes to cygwin based on tack -TD
976 + correct smacs in cygwin (Debian #338234, report by Baurzhan
977 Ismagulov, who noted that it was fixed in Cygwin).
980 + add shifted up/down arrow codes to xterm-new as kind/kri strings -TD
981 + modify wbkgrnd() to avoid clearing the A_CHARTEXT attribute bits
982 since those record the state of multicolumn characters (Debian
984 + modify werase to clear multicolumn characters that extend into
985 a derived window (Debian #316663).
988 + move assignment from environment variable ESCDELAY from initscr()
989 down to newterm() so the environment variable affects timeouts for
990 terminals opened with newterm() as well.
991 + fix a memory leak in keyname().
992 + add test/demo_altkeys.c
993 + modify test/demo_defkey.c to exit from loop via 'q' to allow
994 leak-checking, as well as fix a buffer size in winnstr() call.
997 + correct order of use-clauses in rxvt-basic entry which made codes for
998 f1-f4 vt100-style rather than vt220-style (report by Gabor Z Papp).
999 + suppress configure check for gnatmake if Ada95/Makefile.in is not
1001 + correct a typo in configure --with-bool option for the case where
1002 --without-cxx is used (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1003 + add a note to INSTALL's discussion of --with-normal, pointing out
1004 that one may wish to use --without-gpm to ensure a completely
1005 static link (prompted by report by Felix von Leitner).
1007 20051010 5.5 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1010 + document in demo_forms.c some portability issues.
1013 + document side-effect of werase() which sets the cursor position.
1014 + save/restore the current position in form field editing to make
1018 + correct header dependencies in progs, allowing parallel make (report
1019 by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1020 + modify CF_BUILD_CC to ensure that pre-setting $BUILD_CC overrides
1021 the configure check for --with-build-cc (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1022 + modify CF_CFG_DEFAULTS to not use /usr as the default prefix for
1024 + update config.guess and config.sub from
1025 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
1028 + modify sed expression which computes path for /usr/lib/terminfo
1029 symbolic link in install to ensure that it does not change unexpected
1030 levels of the path (Gentoo #42336).
1031 + modify default for --disable-lp64 configure option to reduce impact
1032 on existing 64-bit builds. Enabling the _LP64 option may change the
1033 size of chtype and mmask_t. However, for ABI 6, it is enabled by
1034 default (report by Mike Frysinger).
1035 + add configure script check for --enable-ext-mouse, bump ABI to 6 by
1036 default if it is used.
1037 + improve configure script logic for bumping ABI to omit this if the
1038 --with-abi-version option was used.
1039 + update address for Free Software Foundation in tack's source.
1040 + correct wins_wch(), which was not marking the filler-cells of
1041 multi-column characters (cf: 20041023).
1044 + modify mouse initialization to ensure that Gpm_Open() is called only
1045 once. Otherwise GPM gets confused in its initialization of signal
1046 handlers (Debian #326709).
1049 + modify logic for backspacing in a multiline form field to ensure that
1050 it works even when the preceding line is full (report by Frank van
1052 + remove comment about BUGS section of ncurses manpage (Debian #325481)
1055 + document some workarounds for shared and libtool library
1056 configurations in INSTALL (see --with-shared and --with-libtool).
1057 + modify CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GXX_VERSION macros to accommodate
1058 cross-compilers which emit the platform name in their version
1060 arm-sa1100-linux-gnu-g++ (GCC) 4.0.1
1061 (report by Frank van Vugt).
1064 + start updating documentation for upcoming 5.5 release.
1065 + fix to make libtool and libtinfo work together again (cf: 20050122).
1066 + fixes to allow building traces into libtinfo
1067 + add debug trace to tic that shows if/how ncurses will write to the
1068 lower corner of a terminal's screen.
1069 + update llib-l* files.
1072 + modify initializers in c++ binding to build with old versions of g++.
1073 + improve special case for 20050115 repainting fix, ensuring that if
1074 the first changed cell is not a character that the range to be
1075 repainted is adjusted to start at a character's beginning (Debian
1079 + fixes to build on QNX 6.1
1080 + improve configure script checks for Intel 9.0 compiler.
1081 + remove #include's for libc.h (obsolete).
1082 + adjust ifdef's in curses.priv.h so that when cross-compiling to
1083 produce comp_hash and make_keys, no dependency on wchar.h is needed.
1084 That simplifies the build-cppflags (report by Frank van Vugt).
1085 + move modules related to key-binding into libtinfo to fix linkage
1086 problem caused by 20050430 changes to MKkeyname.sh (report by
1087 Konstantin Andreev).
1090 + updates/fixes for configure script macros from vile -TD
1091 + make prism9's sgr string agree with the rest of the terminfo -TD
1092 + make vt220's sgr0 string consistent with sgr string, do this for
1093 several related cases -TD
1094 + improve translation to termcap by filtering the 'me' (sgr0) strings
1095 as in the runtime call to tgetent() (prompted by a discussion with
1097 + improve tic check for sgr0 versus sgr(0), to help ensure that sgr0
1098 resets line-drawing.
1101 + fix special cases for trimming sgr0 for hurd and vt220 (Debian
1103 + split-out _nc_trim_sgr0() from modifications made to tgetent(), to
1104 allow it to be used by tic to provide information about the runtime
1105 changes that would be made to sgr0 for termcap applications.
1106 + modify make_sed.sh to make the group-name in the NAME section of
1107 form/menu library manpage agree with the TITLE string when renaming
1108 is done for Debian (Debian #78866).
1111 + modify parameter type in c++ binding for insch() and mvwinsch() to
1112 be consistent with underlying ncurses library (was char, is chtype).
1113 + modify treatment of Intel compiler to allow _GNU_SOURCE to be defined
1115 + improve configure check for nanosleep(), checking that it works since
1116 some older systems such as AIX 4.3 have a nonworking version.
1119 + update config.guess and config.sub from
1120 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
1121 + modify misc/shlib to work in test-directory.
1122 + suppress $suffix in misc/run_tic.sh when cross-compiling. This
1123 allows cross-compiles to use the host's tic program to handle the
1124 "make install.data" step.
1125 + improve description of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables in manpages
1126 (prompted by report by Dave Ulrick).
1127 + improve description of cross-compiling in INSTALL
1128 + add NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html by Pradeep Padala
1129 (see http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/).
1130 + modify configure script to obtain soname for GPM library (discussion
1131 with Daniel Jacobowitz).
1132 + modify configure script so that --with-chtype option will still
1133 compute the unsigned literals suffix for constants in curses.h
1134 (report by Daniel Jacobowitz:
1135 + patches from Daniel Jacobowitz:
1136 + the man_db.renames entry for tack.1 was backwards.
1137 + tack.1 had some 1m's that should have been 1M's.
1138 + the section for curs_inwstr.3 was wrong.
1141 + correction to --with-chtype option (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1144 + move build-time edit_man.sh and edit_man.sed scripts to top directory
1145 to simplify reusing them for renaming tack's manpage (prompted by a
1146 review of Debian package).
1147 + revert minor optimization from 20041030 (Debian #313609).
1148 + libtool-specific fixes, tested with libtool 1.4.3, 1.5.0, 1.5.6,
1149 1.5.10 and 1.5.18 (all work except as noted previously for the c++
1150 install using libtool 1.5.0):
1151 + modify the clean-rule in c++/Makefile.in to work with IRIX64 make
1153 + use $(LIBTOOL_UNINSTALL) symbol, overlooked in 20030830
1154 + add configure options --with-chtype and --with-mmask-t, to allow
1155 overriding of the non-LP64 model's use of the corresponding types.
1156 + revise test for size of chtype (and mmask_t), which always returned
1157 "long" due to an uninitialized variable (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1160 + change _tracef's that used "%p" format for va_list values to ignore
1161 that, since on some platforms those are not pointers.
1162 + fixes for long-formats in printf's due to largefile support.
1165 + fixes for termcap support:
1166 + reset pointer to _nc_curr_token.tk_name when the input stream is
1167 closed, which could point to free memory (cf: 20030215).
1168 + delink TERMTYPE data which is used by the termcap reader, so that
1169 extended names data will be freed consistently.
1170 + free pointer to TERMTYPE data in _nc_free_termtype() rather than
1172 + add some entrypoints for freeing permanently allocated data via
1173 _nc_freeall() when NO_LEAKS is defined.
1174 + amend 20041030 change to _nc_do_color to ensure that optimization is
1175 applied only when the terminal supports back_color_erase (bce).
1178 + add sun-color terminfo entry -TD
1179 + correct a missing assignment in c++ binding's method
1180 NCursesPanel::UserPointer() from 20050409 changes.
1181 + improve configure check for large-files, adding check for dirent64
1183 + minor change to configure script to improve linker options for the
1187 + document error conditions for ncurses library functions (report by
1189 + regenerated html documentation for ada binding.
1190 see ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/gnathtml
1193 + regenerated html documentation for manpages.
1194 + add $(BUILD_EXEEXT) suffix to invocation of make_keys in
1195 ncurses/Makefile (Gentoo #89772).
1196 + modify c++/demo.cc to build with g++ -fno-implicit-templates option
1197 (patch by Mike Frysinger).
1198 + modify tic to filter out long extended names when translating to
1199 termcap format. Only two characters are permissible for termcap
1203 + modify terminfo entries xterm-new and rxvt to add strings for
1204 shift-, control-cursor keys.
1205 + workaround to allow c++ binding to compile with g++ 2.95.3, which
1206 has a broken implementation of static_cast<> (patch by Jeff Chua).
1207 + modify initialization of key lookup table so that if an extended
1208 capability (tic -x) string is defined, and its name begins with 'k',
1209 it will automatically be treated as a key.
1210 + modify test/keynames.c to allow for the possibility of extended
1211 key names, e.g., via define_key(), or via "tic -x".
1212 + add test/demo_termcap.c to show the contents of given entry via the
1216 + minor fixes for vt100/vt52 entries -TD
1217 + add configure option --enable-largefile
1218 + corrected libraries used to build Ada95/gen/gen, found in testing
1222 + update config.guess, config.sub
1223 + modify configure script check for _XOPEN_SOURCE, disable that on
1224 Darwin whose header files have problems (patch by Chris Zubrzycki).
1225 + modify form library Is_Printable_String() to use iswprint() rather
1226 than wcwidth() for determining if a character is printable. The
1227 latter caused it to reject menu items containing non-spacing
1229 + modify ncurses test program's F-test to handle non-spacing characters
1230 by combining them with a reverse-video blank.
1231 + review/fix several gcc -Wconversion warnings.
1234 + correct an off-by-one error in m_driver() for mouse-clicks used to
1235 position the mouse to a particular item.
1236 + implement test/demo_menus.c
1237 + add some checks in lib_mouse to ensure SP is set.
1238 + modify C++ binding to make 20050403 changes work with the configure
1239 --enable-const option.
1242 + modify start_color() to return ERR if it cannot allocate memory.
1243 + address g++ compiler warnings in C++ binding by adding explicit
1244 member initialization, assignment operators and copy constructors.
1245 Most of the changes simply preserve the existing semantics of the
1246 binding, which can leak memory, etc., but by making these features
1247 visible, it provides a framework for improving the binding.
1248 + improve C++ binding using static_cast, etc.
1249 + modify configure script --enable-warnings to add options to g++ to
1250 correspond to the gcc --enable-warnings.
1251 + modify C++ binding to use some C internal functions to make it
1252 compile properly on Solaris (and other platforms).
1255 + amend change from 20050320 to limit it to configurations with a
1257 + fix a bug introduced in 20050320 which broke the translation of
1258 nonprinting characters to uparrow form (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
1261 + add ifdef's for _LP64 in curses.h to avoid using wasteful 64-bits for
1262 chtype and mmask_t, but add configure option --disable-lp64 in case
1263 anyone used that configuration.
1264 + update misc/shlib script to account for Mac OS X (report by Michail
1266 + correct comparison for wrapping multibyte characters in
1267 waddch_literal() (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
1270 + add -c and -w options to tset to allow user to suppress ncurses'
1271 resizing of the terminal emulator window in the special case where it
1272 is not able to detect the true size (report by Win Delvaux, Debian
1274 + modify waddch_nosync() to account for locale zn_CH.GBK, which uses
1275 codes 128-159 as part of multibyte characters (report by Wang
1276 WenRui, Debian #300512).
1279 + modify ncurses.c 'd' test to make it work with 88-color
1280 configuration, i.e., by implementing scrolling.
1281 + improve scrolling in ncurses.c 'c' and 'C' tests, e.g., for 88-color
1285 + change tracemunch to use strict checking.
1286 + modify ncurses.c 'p' test to test line-drawing within a pad.
1287 + implement environment variable NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS to support
1288 miscellaneous terminal emulators which ignore alternate character
1289 set escape sequences when in UTF-8 mode.
1292 + change NCursesWindow::err_handler() to a virtual function (request by
1294 + modify fty_int.c and fty_num.c to handle wide characters (report by
1296 + adapt fix for fty_alpha.c to fty_alnum.c, which also handled normal
1297 and wide characters inconsistently (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
1298 + update llib-* files to reflect internal interface additions/changes.
1301 + improve test/configure script, adding tests for _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc.,
1303 + add aixterm-16color terminfo entry -TD
1304 + modified xterm-new terminfo entry to work with tgetent() changes -TD
1305 + extended changes in tgetent() from 20040710 to allow the substring of
1306 sgr0 which matches rmacs to be at the beginning of the sgr0 string
1307 (request by Thomas Wolff). Wolff says the visual effect in
1308 combination with pre-20040710 ncurses is improved.
1309 + fix off-by-one in winnstr() call which caused form field validation
1310 of multibyte characters to ignore the last character in a field.
1311 + correct logic in winsch() for inserting multibyte strings; the code
1312 would clear cells after the insertion rather than push them to the
1313 right (cf: 20040228).
1314 + fix an inconsistency in Check_Alpha_Field() between normal and wide
1315 character logic (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
1318 + fix a bug in editing wide-characters in form library: deleting a
1319 nonwide character modified the previous wide-character.
1320 + update manpage to describe NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2.
1321 + correct manpage description of mouseinterval() (Debian #280687).
1322 + add a note to default_colors.3x explaining why this extension was
1323 added (Debian #295083).
1324 + add traces to panel library.
1327 + improve editing of wide-characters in form library: left/right
1328 cursor movement, and single-character deletions work properly.
1329 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM happens to be prefixed with
1330 "xterm". Gpm_Open() would otherwise assert that it can deal with
1331 mouse events in this case.
1332 + modify GPM mouse support so it closes the server connection when
1333 the caller disables the mouse (report by Stanislav Ievlev).
1336 + add traces for callback functions in form library.
1337 + add experimental configure option --enable-ext-mouse, which defines
1338 NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2, and modifies the encoding of mouse events to
1339 support wheel mice, which may transmit buttons 4 and 5. This works
1340 with xterm and similar X terminal emulators (prompted by question by
1341 Andreas Henningsson, this is also related to Debian #230990).
1342 + improve configure macros CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE to
1343 avoid redefinition warnings on cygwin.
1346 + merge remaining development changes for extended colors (mostly
1347 complete, does not appear to break other configurations).
1348 + add xterm-88color.dat (part of extended colors testing).
1349 + improve _tracedump() handling of color pairs past 96.
1350 + modify return-value from start_color() to return OK if colors have
1351 already been started.
1352 + modify curs_color.3x list error conditions for init_pair(),
1353 pair_content() and color_content().
1354 + modify pair_content() to return -1 for consistency with init_pair()
1355 if it corresponds to the default-color.
1356 + change internal representation of default-color to allow application
1357 to use color number 255. This does not affect the total number of
1358 color pairs which are allowed.
1359 + add a top-level tags rule.
1362 + add a null-pointer check in wgetch() in case it is called without
1363 first calling initscr().
1364 + add some null-pointer checks for SP, which is not set by libtinfo.
1365 + modify misc/shlib to ensure that absolute pathnames are used.
1366 + modify test/Makefile.in, etc., to link test programs only against the
1367 libraries needed, e.g., omit form/menu/panel library for the ones
1368 that are curses-specific.
1369 + change SP->_current_attr to a pointer, adjust ifdef's to ensure that
1370 libtinfo.so and libtinfow.so have the same ABI. The reason for this
1371 is that the corresponding data which belongs to the upper-level
1372 ncurses library has a different size in each model (report by
1376 + minor fixes to allow test-compiles with g++.
1377 + correct column value shown in tic's warnings, which did not account
1378 for leading whitespace.
1379 + add a check in _nc_trans_string() for improperly ended strings, i.e.,
1380 where a following line begins in column 1.
1381 + modify _nc_save_str() to return a null pointer on buffer overflow.
1382 + improve repainting while scrolling wide-character data (Eungkyu Song).
1385 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
1388 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
1389 + fix manpage typo (FreeBSD report docs/75544).
1390 + update config.guess, config.sub
1391 > patches for configure script (Albert Chin-A-Young):
1392 + improved fix to make mbstate_t recognized on HPUX 11i (cf:
1393 20030705), making vsscanf() prototype visible on IRIX64. Tested for
1394 on HP-UX 11i, Solaris 7, 8, 9, AIX 4.3.3, 5.2, Tru64 UNIX 4.0D, 5.1,
1395 IRIX64 6.5, Redhat Linux 7.1, 9, and RHEL 2.1, 3.0.
1396 + print the result of the --disable-home-terminfo option.
1397 + use -rpath when compiling with SGI C compiler.
1400 + add trace calls to remaining public functions in form and menu
1402 + fix check for numeric digits in test/ncurses.c 'b' and 'B' tests.
1403 + fix typo in test/ncurses.c 'c' test from 20041218.
1406 + revise test/ncurses.c 'c' color test to improve use for xterm-88color
1407 and xterm-256color, added 'C' test using the wide-character color_set
1408 and attr_set functions.
1411 + modify configure script to work with Intel compiler.
1412 + fix an limit-check in wadd_wchnstr() which caused labels in the
1413 forms-demo to be one character short.
1414 + fix typo in curs_addchstr.3x (Jared Yanovich).
1415 + add trace calls to most functions in form and menu libraries.
1416 + update working-position for adding wide-characters when window is
1417 scrolled (prompted by related report by Eungkyu Song).
1420 + replace some references on Linux to wcrtomb() which use it to obtain
1421 the length of a multibyte string with _nc_wcrtomb, since wcrtomb() is
1422 broken in glibc (see Debian #284260).
1423 + corrected length-computation in wide-character support for
1425 + some fixes to frm_driver.c to allow it to accept multibyte input.
1426 + modify configure script to work with Intel 8.0 compiler.
1429 + amend change to setupterm() in 20030405 which would reuse the value
1430 of cur_term if the same output was selected. This now reuses it only
1431 when setupterm() is called from tgetent(), which has no notion of
1432 separate SCREENs. Note that tgetent() must be called after initscr()
1433 or newterm() to use this feature (Redhat Bugzilla #140326).
1434 + add a check in CF_BUILD_CC macro to ensure that developer has given
1435 the --with-build-cc option when cross-compiling (report by Alexandre
1437 + improved configure script checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE and
1438 _POSIX_C_SOURCE (fix for IRIX 5.3 from Georg Schwarz, _POSIX_C_SOURCE
1440 + cosmetic fix to test/gdc.c to recolor the bottom edge of the box
1441 for consistency (comment by Dan Nelson).
1444 + update wsvt25 terminfo entry -TD
1445 + modify test/ins_wide.c to test all flavors of ins_wstr().
1446 + ignore filler-cells in wadd_wchnstr() when adding a cchar_t array
1447 which consists of multi-column characters, since this function
1448 constructs them (cf: 20041023).
1449 + modify winnstr() to return multibyte character strings for the
1450 wide-character configuration.
1453 + fixes to make slk_set() and slk_wset() accept and store multibyte
1454 or multicolumn characters.
1457 + improve color optimization a little by making _nc_do_color() check
1458 if the old/new pairs are equivalent to the default pair 0.
1459 + modify assume_default_colors() to not require that
1460 use_default_colors() be called first.
1463 + modify term_attrs() to use termattrs(), add the extended attributes
1464 such as enter_horizontal_hl_mode for WA_HORIZONTAL to term_attrs().
1465 + add logic in waddch_literal() to clear orphaned cells when one
1466 multi-column character partly overwrites another.
1467 + improved logic for clearing cells when a multi-column character
1468 must be wrapped to a new line.
1469 + revise storage of cells for multi-column characters to correct a
1470 problem with repainting. In the old scheme, it was possible for
1471 doupdate() to decide that only part of a multi-column character
1472 should be repainted since the filler cells stored only an attribute
1473 to denote them as fillers, rather than the character value and the
1477 + minor fixes for traces.
1478 + add SP->_screen_acs_map[], used to ensure that mapping of missing
1479 line-drawing characters is handled properly. For example, ACS_DARROW
1480 is absent from xterm-new, and it was coincidentally displayed the
1484 + amend 20021221 workaround for broken acs to reset the sgr, rmacs
1485 and smacs strings as well. Also modify the check for screen's
1486 limitations in that area to allow the multi-character shift-in
1487 and shift-out which seem to work.
1488 + change GPM initialization, using dl library to load it dynamically
1489 at runtime (Debian #110586).
1492 + correct logic for color pair in setcchar() and getcchar() (patch by
1493 Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
1494 + add t/T commands to ncurses b/B tests to allow a different color to
1495 be tested for the attrset part of the test than is used in the
1499 + fix to make setcchar() to work when its wchar_t* parameter is
1500 pointing to a string which contains more data than can be converted.
1501 + modify wget_wstr() and example in ncurses.c to work if wchar_t and
1502 wint_t are different sizes (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
1505 + remove check in wget_wch() added to fix an infinite loop, appears to
1506 have been working around a transitory glibc bug, and interferes
1507 with normal operation (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
1508 + correct wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not pass the rendition
1509 information (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
1510 + fix aclocal.m4 so that the wide-character version of ncurses gets
1511 compiled as libncursesw.5.dylib, instead of libncurses.5w.dylib
1512 (adapted from patch by James J Ramsey).
1513 + change configure script for --with-caps option to indicate that it
1514 is no longer experimental.
1515 + change configure script to reflect the fact that --enable-widec has
1516 not been "experimental" since 5.3 (report by Bruno Lustosa).
1519 + add 'B' test to ncurses.c, to exercise some wide-character functions.
1522 + modify infocmp -i option to match 8-bit controls against its table
1523 entries, e.g., so it can analyze the xterm-8bit entry.
1524 + add morphos terminfo entry, improve amiga-8bit entry (Pavel Fedin).
1525 + correct translation of "%%" in terminfo format to termcap, e.g.,
1526 using "tic -C" (Redhat Bugzilla #130921).
1527 + modified configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to ensure that if
1528 it defines _POSIX_C_SOURCE, that it defines it to a specific value
1529 (comp.os.stratus newsgroup comment).
1532 + fixes to build with Ada95 binding with gnat 3.4 (all warnings are
1533 fatal, and gnat does not follow the guidelines for pragmas).
1534 However that did find a coding error in Assume_Default_Colors().
1535 + modify several terminfo entries to ensure xterm mouse and cursor
1536 visibility are reset in rs2 string: hurd, putty, gnome,
1537 konsole-base, mlterm, Eterm, screen (Debian #265784, #55637). The
1538 xterm entries are left alone - old ones for compatibility, and the
1539 new ones do not require this change. -TD
1542 + fake a SIGWINCH in newterm() to accommodate buggy terminal emulators
1543 and window managers (Debian #265631).
1544 > terminfo updates -TD
1545 + remove dch/dch1 from rxvt because they are implemented inconsistently
1546 with the common usage of bce/ech
1547 + remove khome from vt220 (vt220's have no home key)
1551 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test, adding v/V toggles to cycle through
1552 combinations of video attributes so that for instance bold and
1553 underline can be tested. This made the legend too crowded, added
1554 a help window as well.
1555 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test to cycle through default colors if
1556 the -d option is set.
1557 + update putty terminfo entry (Robert de Bath).
1560 + modify test/cardfile.c to allow it to read more data than can be
1562 + correct logic in resizeterm.c which kept it from processing all
1563 levels of window hierarchy (reports by Folkert van Heusden,
1567 + modify "tic -cv" to ignore delays when comparing strings. Also
1568 modify it to ignore a canceled sgr string, e.g., for terminals which
1569 cannot properly combine attributes in one control sequence.
1570 + corrections for gnome and konsole entries (Redhat Bugzilla #122815,
1571 patch by Hans de Goede)
1572 > terminfo updates -TD
1573 + make ncsa-m rmacs/smacs consistent with sgr
1574 + add sgr, rc/sc and ech to syscons entries
1575 + add function-keys to decansi
1576 + add sgr to mterm-ansi
1577 + add sgr, civis, cnorm to emu
1578 + correct/simplify cup in addrinfo
1581 > terminfo updates -TD
1582 + add xterm-pc-fkeys
1583 + review/update gnome and gnome-rh90 entries (prompted by Redhat
1585 + review/update konsole entries
1586 + add sgr, correct sgr0 for kterm and mlterm
1587 + correct tsl string in kterm
1590 + add configure option --without-xterm-new
1593 + add check in wget_wch() for printable bytes that are not part of a
1594 multibyte character.
1595 + modify wadd_wchnstr() to render text using window's background
1597 + improve tic's check to compare sgr and sgr0.
1598 + fix c++ directory's .cc.i rule.
1599 + modify logic in tgetent() which adjusts the termcap "me" string
1600 to work with ISO-2022 string used in xterm-new (cf: 20010908).
1601 + modify tic's check for conflicting function keys to omit that if
1602 converting termcap to termcap format.
1603 + add -U option to tic and infocmp.
1604 + add rmam/smam to linux terminfo entry (Trevor Van Bremen)
1605 > terminfo updates -TD
1606 + minor fixes for emu
1608 + change wyse acsc strings to use 'i' map rather than 'I'
1613 + use tic -x to install terminfo database -TD
1614 + add -x to infocmp's usage message.
1615 + correct field used for comparing O_ROWMAJOR in set_menu_format()
1616 (report/patch by Tony Li).
1617 + fix a missing nul check in set_field_buffer() from 20040508 changes.
1618 > terminfo updates -TD
1619 + make xterm-xf86-v43 derived from xterm-xf86-v40 rather than
1621 + align with xterm patch #192's use of xterm-new -TD
1622 + update xterm-new and xterm-8bit for cvvis/cnorm strings -TD
1623 + make xterm-new the default "xterm" entry -TD
1626 + correct BUILD_CPPFLAGS substitution in ncurses/Makefile.in, to allow
1627 cross-compiling from a separate directory tree (report/patch by
1629 + modify is_term_resized() to ensure that window sizes are nonzero,
1630 as documented in the manpage (report by Ian Collier).
1631 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro to make Hurd port build
1632 (Debian #249214, report/patch by Jeff Bailey).
1633 + configure-script mods from xterm, e.g., updates to CF_ADD_CFLAGS
1634 + update config.guess, config.sub
1635 > terminfo updates -TD
1637 + add xterm-xf86-v44
1638 + modify xterm-new aka xterm-xfree86 to accommodate luit, which
1639 relies on G1 being used via an ISO-2022 escape sequence (report by
1644 + reconsidered winsnstr(), decided after comparing other
1645 implementations that wrapping is an X/Open documentation error.
1646 + modify test/inserts.c to test all flavors of insstr().
1649 + add setlocale() calls to a few test programs which may require it:
1650 demo_forms.c, filter.c, ins_wide.c, inserts.c
1651 + correct a few misspelled function names in ncurses-intro.html (report
1653 + correct internal name of key_defined() manpage, which conflicted with
1657 + correct size of internal pad used for holding wide-character
1658 field_buffer() results.
1659 + modify data_ahead() to work with wide-characters.
1662 + improve description of terminfo if-then-else expressions (suggested
1664 + improve test/ncurses.c 'd' test, allow it to use external file for
1665 initial palette (added xterm-16color.dat and linux-color.dat), and
1666 reset colors to the initial palette when starting/ending the test.
1667 + change limit-check in init_color() to allow r/g/b component to
1668 reach 1000 (cf: 20020928).
1671 + modify form library to use cchar_t's rather than char's in the
1672 wide-character configuration for storing data for field buffers.
1673 + correct logic of win_wchnstr(), which did not work for more than
1677 + replace memset/memcpy usage in form library with for-loops to
1678 simplify changing the datatype of FIELD.buf, part of wide-character
1680 + fix some inconsistent use of #if/#ifdef (report by Alain Guibert).
1683 + modify menu library to account for actual number of columns used by
1684 multibyte character strings, in the wide-character configuration
1685 (adapted from patch by Philipp Tomsich).
1686 + add "-x" option to infocmp like tic's "-x", for use in "-F"
1687 comparisons. This modifies infocmp to only report extended
1688 capabilities if the -x option is given, making this more consistent
1689 with tic. Some scripts may break, since infocmp previous gave this
1690 information without an option.
1691 + modify termcap-parsing to retain 2-character aliases at the beginning
1692 of an entry if the "-x" option is used in tic.
1695 + minor compiler-warning and test-program fixes.
1698 + modify tic's missing-sgr warning to apply to terminfo only.
1699 + free some memory leaks in tic.
1700 + remove check in post_menu() that prevented menus from extending
1701 beyond the screen (request by Max J. Werner).
1702 + remove check in newwin() that prevents allocating windows
1703 that extend beyond the screen. Solaris curses does this.
1704 + add ifdef in test/color_set.c to allow it to compile with older
1706 + add napms() calls to test/dots.c to make it not be a CPU hog.
1709 + modify unctrl() to return null if its parameter does not correspond
1710 to an unsigned char.
1711 + add some limit-checks to guard isprint(), etc., from being used on
1712 values that do not fit into an unsigned char (report by Sami Farin).
1715 + fix a typo in the _nc_get_locale() change.
1718 + modify _nc_get_locale() to use setlocale() to query the program's
1719 current locale rather than using getenv(). This fixes a case in tin
1720 which relies on legacy treatment of 8-bit characters when the locale
1721 is not initialized (reported by Urs Jansen).
1722 + add sgr string to screen's and rxvt's terminfo entries -TD.
1723 + add a check in tic for terminfo entries having an sgr0 but no sgr
1724 string. This confuses Tru64 and HPUX curses when combined with
1725 color, e.g., making them leave line-drawing characters in odd places.
1726 + correct casts used in ABSENT_BOOLEAN, CANCELLED_BOOLEAN, matches the
1727 original definitions used in Debian package to fix PowerPC bug before
1728 20030802 (Debian #237629).
1731 + modify PutAttrChar() and PUTC() macro to improve use of
1732 A_ALTCHARSET attribute to prevent line-drawing characters from
1733 being lost in situations where the locale would otherwise treat the
1734 raw data as nonprintable (Debian #227879).
1737 + fix a redefinition of CTRL() macro in test/view.c for AIX 5.2 (report
1739 + remove ".PP" after ".SH NAME" in a few manpages; this confuses
1740 some apropos script (Debian #237831).
1743 + modify ncurses.c 'r' test so editing commands, like inserted text,
1744 set the field background, and the state of insert/overlay editing
1745 mode is shown in that test.
1746 + change syntax of dummy targets in Ada95 makefiles to work with pmake.
1747 + correct logic in test/ncurses.c 'b' for noncolor terminals which
1748 did not recognize a quit-command (cf: 20030419).
1751 + modify _nc_insert_ch() to allow for its input to be part of a
1753 + split out lib_insnstr.c, to prepare to rewrite it. X/Open states
1754 that this function performs wrapping, unlike all of the other
1755 insert-functions. Currently it does not wrap.
1756 + check for nl_langinfo(CODESET), use it if available (report by
1758 + split-out CF_BUILD_CC macro, actually did this for lynx first.
1759 + fixes for configure script CF_WITH_DBMALLOC and CF_WITH_DMALLOC,
1760 which happened to work with bash, but not with Bourne shell (report
1761 by Marco d'Itri via tin-dev).
1764 + some changes to adapt the form library to wide characters, incomplete
1765 (request by Mike Aubury).
1766 + add symbol to curses.h which can be used to suppress include of
1768 #define NCURSES_ENABLE_STDBOOL_H 0
1770 (discussion on XFree86 mailing list).
1773 + modify configure --with-termlib option to accept a value which sets
1774 the name of the terminfo library. This would allow a packager to
1775 build libtinfow.so renamed to coincide with libtinfo.so (discussion
1776 with Stanislav Ievlev).
1777 + improve documentation of --with-install-prefix, --prefix and
1778 $(DESTDIR) in INSTALL (prompted by discussion with Paul Lew).
1779 + add configure check if the compiler can use -c -o options to rename
1780 its output file, use that to omit the 'cd' command which was used to
1781 ensure object files are created in a separate staging directory
1782 (prompted by comments by Johnny Wezel, Martin Mokrejs).
1784 20040208 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1787 20040207 pre-release
1788 + minor fixes to _nc_tparm_analyze(), i.e., do not count %i as a param,
1789 and do not count %d if it follows a %p.
1790 + correct an inconsistency between handling of codes in the 128-255
1791 range, e.g., as illustrated by test/ncurses.c f/F tests. In POSIX
1792 locale, the latter did not show printable results, while the former
1794 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to compensate for broken C preprocessor on Mac
1795 OS X, which alters "%%" to "% % " (report by Robert Simms, fix
1796 verified by Scott Corscadden).
1798 20040131 pre-release
1799 + modify SCREEN struct to align it between normal/wide curses flavors
1800 to simplify future changes to build a single version of libtinfo
1801 (patch by Stanislav Ievlev).
1802 + document handling of carriage return by addch() in manpage.
1803 + document special features of unctrl() in manpage.
1804 + documented interface changes in INSTALL.
1805 + corrected control-char test in lib_addch.c to account for locale
1806 (Debian #230335, cf: 971206).
1807 + updated test/configure.in to use AC_EXEEXT and AC_OBJEXT.
1808 + fixes to compile Ada95 binding with Debian gnat 3.15p-4 package.
1809 + minor configure-script fixes for older ports, e.g., BeOS R4.5.
1811 20040125 pre-release
1812 + amend change to PutAttrChar() from 20030614 which computed the number
1813 of cells for a possibly multi-cell character. The 20030614 change
1814 forced the cell to a blank if the result from wcwidth() was not
1815 greater than zero. However, wcwidth() called for parameters in the
1816 range 128-255 can give this return value. The logic now simply
1817 ensures that the number of cells is greater than zero without
1818 modifying the displayed value.
1820 20040124 pre-release
1821 + looked good for 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org (but see above)
1822 + modify configure script check for ranlib to use AC_CHECK_TOOL, since
1823 that works better for cross-compiling.
1825 20040117 pre-release
1826 + modify lib_get_wch.c to prefer mblen/mbtowc over mbrlen/mbrtowc to
1827 work around core dump in Solaris 8's locale support, e.g., for
1828 zh_CN.GB18030 (report by Saravanan Bellan).
1829 + add includes for <stdarg.h> and <stdio.h> in configure script macro
1830 to make <wchar.h> check work with Tru64 4.0d.
1831 + add terminfo entry for U/Win -TD
1832 + add terminfo entries for SFU aka Interix aka OpenNT (Federico
1834 + modify tput's error messages to prefix them with the program name
1835 (report by Vincent Lefevre, patch by Daniel Jacobowitz (see Debian
1837 + correct a place in tack where exit_standout_mode was used instead of
1838 exit_attribute_mode (patch by Jochen Voss (see Debian #224443)).
1839 + modify c++/cursesf.h to use const in the Enumeration_Field method.
1840 + remove an ambiguous (actually redundant) method from c++/cursesf.h
1841 + make $HOME/.terminfo update optional (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
1842 + improve sed script which extracts libtool's version in the
1843 CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro.
1844 + add ifdef'd call to AC_PROG_LIBTOOL to CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro (to
1845 simplify local patch for Albert Chin-A-Young)..
1846 + add $(CXXFLAGS) to link command in c++/Makefile.in (adapted from
1847 patch by Albert Chin-A-Young)..
1848 + fix a missing substitution in configure.in for "$target" needed for
1850 + resync CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro with lynx; fixes IRIX64 and
1851 NetBSD 1.6 conflicts with _XOPEN_SOURCE.
1852 + make check for stdbool.h more specific, to ensure that including it
1853 will actually define/declare bool for the configured compiler.
1854 + rewrite ifdef's in curses.h relating NCURSES_BOOL and bool. The
1855 intention of that is to #define NCURSES_BOOL as bool when the
1856 compiler declares bool, and to #define bool as NCURSES_BOOL when it
1857 does not (reported by Jim Gifford, Sam Varshavchik, cf: 20031213).
1859 20040110 pre-release
1860 + change minor version to 4, i.e., ncurses 5.4
1861 + revised/improved terminfo entries for tvi912b, tvi920b (Benjamin C W
1863 + simplified ncurses/base/version.c by defining the result from the
1864 configure script rather than using sprintf (suggested by Stanislav
1866 + remove obsolete casts from c++/cursesw.h (reported by Stanislav
1868 + modify configure script so that when configuring for termlib, programs
1869 such as tic are not linked with the upper-level ncurses library
1870 (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
1871 + move version.c from ncurses/base to ncurses/tinfo to allow linking
1872 of tic, etc., using libtinfo (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
1875 + adjust -D's to build ncursesw on OpenBSD.
1876 + modify CF_PROG_EXT to make OS/2 build with EXEEXT.
1877 + add pecho_wchar().
1878 + remove <wctype.h> include from lib_slk_wset.c which is not needed (or
1879 available) on older platforms.
1882 + add -D's to build ncursew on FreeBSD 5.1.
1883 + modify shared library configuration for FreeBSD 4.x/5.x to add the
1884 soname information (request by Marc Glisse).
1885 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() to not use MAX_ALIAS, but PATH_MAX only
1886 for limiting the length of a filename in the terminfo database.
1887 + modify termname() to return the terminal name used by setupterm()
1888 rather than $TERM, without truncating to 14 characters as documented
1889 by X/Open (report by Stanislav Ievlev, cf: 970719).
1890 + re-add definition for _BSD_TYPES, lost in merge (cf: 20031206).
1893 + add configure option --with-manpage-format=catonly to address
1894 behavior of BSDI, allow install of man+cat files on NetBSD, whose
1895 behavior has diverged by requiring both to be present.
1896 + remove leading blanks from comment-lines in manlinks.sed script to
1897 work with Tru64 4.0d.
1898 + add screen.linux terminfo entry (discussion on mutt-users mailing
1902 + add a check for tic to flag missing backslashes for termcap
1903 continuation lines. ncurses reads the whole entry, but termcap
1904 applications do not.
1905 + add configure option "--with-manpage-aliases" extending
1906 "--with-manpage-aliases" to provide the option of generating ".so"
1907 files rather than symbolic links for manpage aliases.
1908 + add bool definition in include/curses.h.in for configurations with no
1909 usable C++ compiler (cf: 20030607).
1910 + fix pathname of SigAction.h for building with --srcdir (reported by
1914 + folded ncurses/base/sigaction.c into includes of ncurses/SigAction.h,
1915 since that header is used only within ncurses/tty/lib_tstp.c, for
1916 non-POSIX systems (discussion with Stanislav Ievlev).
1917 + remove obsolete _nc_outstr() function (report by Stanislav Ievlev
1918 <inger@altlinux.org>).
1919 + add test/background.c and test/color_set.c
1920 + modify color_set() function to work with color pair 0 (report by
1921 George Andreou <gbandreo@tem.uoc.gr>).
1922 + add configure option --with-trace, since defining TRACE seems too
1923 awkward for some cases.
1924 + remove a call to _nc_free_termtype() from read_termtype(), since the
1925 corresponding buffer contents were already zeroed by a memset (cf:
1927 + improve configure check for _XOPEN_SOURCE and related definitions,
1928 adding special cases for Solaris' __EXTENSIONS__ and FreeBSD's
1929 __BSD_TYPES (reports by Marc Glisse <marc.glisse@normalesup.org>).
1930 + small fixes to compile on Solaris and IRIX64 using cc.
1931 + correct typo in check for pre-POSIX sort options in MKkey_defs.sh
1935 + modify _nc_gettime() to avoid a problem with arithmetic on unsigned
1936 values (Philippe Blain).
1937 + improve the nanosleep() logic in napms() by checking for EINTR and
1938 restarting (Philippe Blain).
1939 + correct expression for "%D" in lib_tgoto.c (Juha Jarvi
1943 + add linux-vt terminfo entry (Andrey V Lukyanov <land@long.yar.ru>).
1944 + allow "\|" escape in terminfo; tic should not warn about this.
1945 + save the full pathname of the trace-file the first time it is opened,
1946 to avoid creating it in different directories if the application
1947 opens and closes it while changing its working directory.
1948 + modify configure script to provide a non-empty default for
1952 + add DJGPP to special case of DOS-style drive letters potentially
1953 appearing in TERMCAP environment variable.
1954 + fix some spelling in comments (reports by Jason McIntyre, Jonathon
1956 + update config.guess, config.sub
1959 + fix a memory leak in error-return from setupterm() (report by
1960 Stanislav Ievlev <inger@altlinux.org>).
1961 + use EXEEXT and OBJEXT consistently in makefiles.
1962 + amend fixes for cross-compiling to use separate executable-suffix
1963 BUILD_EXEEXT (cf: 20031018).
1964 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for sort utility that does not
1965 recognize key options, e.g., busybox (report by Peter S Mazinger
1967 + fix potential out-of-bounds indexing in _nc_infotocap() (found by
1968 David Krause using some of the new malloc debugging features
1969 under OpenBSD, patch by Ted Unangst).
1970 + modify CF_LIB_SUFFIX for Itanium releases of HP-UX, which use a
1971 ".so" suffix (patch by Jonathan Ward <Jonathan.Ward@hp.com>).
1974 + update terminfo for xterm-xfree86 -TD
1975 + add check for multiple "tc=" clauses in a termcap to tic.
1976 + check for missing op/oc in tic.
1977 + correct _nc_resolve_uses() and _nc_merge_entry() to allow infocmp and
1978 tic to show cancelled capabilities. These functions were ignoring
1979 the state of the target entry, which should be untouched if cancelled.
1980 + correct comment in tack/output.c (Debian #215806).
1981 + add some null-pointer checks to lib_options.c (report by Michael
1983 + regenerated html documentation.
1984 + correction to tar-copy.sh, remove a trap command that resulted in
1985 leaving temporary files (cf: 20030510).
1986 + remove contact/maintainer addresses for Juergen Pfeifer (his request).
1989 + updated test/configure to reflect changes for libtool (cf: 20030830).
1990 + fix several places in tack/pad.c which tested and used the parameter-
1991 and parameterless strings inconsistently, i.e., in pad_rin(),
1992 pad_il(), pad_indn() and pad_dl() (Debian #215805).
1993 + minor fixes for configure script and makefiles to cleanup executables
1994 generated when cross-compiling for DJGPP.
1995 + modify infocmp to omit check for $TERM for operations that do not
1996 require it, e.g., "infocmp -e" used to build fallback list (report by
2000 + add terminfo entries for DJGPP.
2001 + updated note about maintainer in ncurses-intro.html
2004 + update terminfo entries for gnome terminal.
2005 + modify tack to reset colors after each color test, correct a place
2006 where exit_standout_mode was used instead of exit_attribute_mode.
2007 + improve tack's bce test by making it set colors other than black
2009 + plug a potential recursion between napms() and _nc_timed_wait()
2010 (report by Philippe Blain).
2013 + add --with-rel-version option to allow workaround to allow making
2014 libtool on Darwin generate the "same" library names as with the
2015 --with-shared option. The Darwin ld program does not work well
2016 with a zero as the minor-version value (request by Chris Zubrzycki).
2017 + modify CF_MIXEDCASE_FILENAMES macro to work with cross-compiling.
2018 + modify tack to allow it to run from fallback terminfo data.
2019 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2020 + improve PutRange() by adjusting call to EmitRange() and corresponding
2021 return-value to not emit unchanged characters on the end of the
2023 + improve a check for changed-attribute by exiting a loop when the
2025 + improve logic in TransformLine(), eliminating a duplicated comparison
2026 in the clr_bol logic.
2029 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2030 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
2031 move the label 'nonlocal' just before the second gettimeofday() to
2032 be able to compute the diff time when 'goto nonlocal' used.
2033 Rename 'msec' to 'microsec' in the debug-message.
2034 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
2035 Use _nc_outch() in carriage return/newline movement instead of
2036 putchar() which goes to stdout. Move test for xold>0 out of loop.
2037 + in ncurses/tinfo/setbuf.c,
2038 Set the flag SP->_buffered at the end of operations when all has been
2039 successful (typeMalloc can fail).
2040 + simplify NC_BUFFERED macro by moving check inside _nc_setbuf().
2043 + modify configure script to avoid using "head -1", which does not
2044 work if POSIXLY_CORRECT (sic) is set.
2045 + modify run_tic.in to avoid using wrong shared libraries when
2046 cross-compiling (Dan Kegel).
2049 + alter configure script help message to make it clearer that
2050 --with-build-cc does not specify a cross-compiler (suggested by Dan
2051 Kegel <dank@kegel.com>).
2052 + modify configure script to accommodate libtool 1.5, as well as add an
2053 parameter to the "--with-libtool" option which can specify the
2054 pathname of libtool (report by Chris Zubrzycki). We note that
2055 libtool 1.5 has more than one bug in its C++ support, so it is not
2056 able to install libncurses++, for instance, if $DESTDIR or the option
2057 --with-install-prefix is used.
2060 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2061 + move assignments to SP->_cursrow, SP->_curscol into online_mvcur().
2062 + make baudrate computation in delay_output() consistent with the
2063 assumption in _nc_mvcur_init(), i.e., a byte is 9 bits.
2066 + modify logic in waddch_literal() to take into account zh_TW.Big5
2067 whose multibyte sequences may contain "printable" characters, e.g.,
2068 a "g" in the sequence "\247g" (Debian #204889, cf: 20030621).
2069 + improve storage used by _nc_safe_strcpy() by ensuring that the size
2070 is reset based on the initialization call, in case it were called
2071 after other strcpy/strcat calls (report by Philippe Blain).
2072 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2073 + remove an unused ifdef for REAL_ATTR & WANT_CHAR
2074 + correct a place where _cup_cost was used rather than _cuu_cost
2077 + fix a small memory leak in _nc_free_termtype().
2078 + close trace-file if trace() is called with a zero parameter.
2079 + free memory allocated for soft-key strings, in delscreen().
2080 + fix an allocation size in safe_sprintf.c for the "*" format code.
2081 + correct safe_sprintf.c to not return a null pointer if the format
2082 happens to be an empty string. This applies to the "configure
2083 --enable-safe-sprintf" option (Redhat #101486).
2086 + modify casts used for ABSENT_BOOLEAN and CANCELLED_BOOLEAN (report by
2088 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2089 + change padding for change_scroll_region to not be proportional to
2090 the size of the scroll-region.
2091 + correct error-return in _nc_safe_strcat().
2094 + correct limit-checks in _nc_scroll_window() (report and test-case by
2095 Thomas Graf <graf@dms.at> cf: 20011020).
2096 + re-order configure checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE to avoid conflict with
2100 + use clr_eol in preference to blanks for bce terminals, so select and
2101 paste will have fewer trailing blanks, e.g., when using xterm
2102 (request by Vincent Lefevre).
2103 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
2104 + add configure --with-abi-version option (discussion with Charles
2106 > cygwin changes from Charles Wilson:
2107 + aclocal.m4: on cygwin, use autodetected prefix for import
2108 and static lib, but use "cyg" for DLL.
2109 + include/ncurses_dll.h: correct the comments to reflect current
2110 status of cygwin/mingw port. Fix compiler warning.
2111 + misc/run_tic.in: ensure that tic.exe can find the uninstalled
2112 DLL, by adding the lib-directory to the PATH variable.
2113 + misc/terminfo.src (nxterm|xterm-color): make xterm-color
2114 primary instead of nxterm, to match XFree86's xterm.terminfo
2115 usage and to prevent circular links.
2116 (rxvt): add additional codes from rxvt.org.
2117 (rxvt-color): new alias
2118 (rxvt-xpm): new alias
2119 (rxvt-cygwin): like rxvt, but with special acsc codes.
2120 (rxvt-cygwin-native): ditto. rxvt may be run under XWindows, or
2121 with a "native" MSWin GUI. Each takes different acsc codes,
2122 which are both different from the "normal" rxvt's acsc.
2123 (cygwin): cygwin-in-cmd.exe window. Lots of fixes.
2125 + mk-1st.awk: use "cyg" for the DLL prefix, but "lib" for import
2129 + update config.guess, config.sub
2130 + add triples for configuring shared libraries with the Debian
2131 GNU/FreeBSD packages (patch by Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es>).
2134 + modify CF_GCC_WARNINGS so it only applies to gcc, not g++. Some
2135 platforms have installed g++ along with the native C compiler, which
2136 would not accept gcc warning options.
2137 + add -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 when configuring with --enable-widec, to
2138 get mbstate_t declaration on HPUX 11.11 (report by David Ellement).
2139 + add _nc_pathlast() to get rid of casts in _nc_basename() calls.
2140 + correct a sign-extension in wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() from
2141 20030628 (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
2142 + work around omission of btowc() and wctob() from wide-character
2143 support (sic) in NetBSD 1.6 using mbtowc() and wctomb() (report by
2145 + add portability note to curs_get_wstr.3x (Debian #199957).
2148 + rewrite wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to call waddch() and wechochar()
2149 respectively, to avoid calling waddch_noecho() with wide-character
2150 data, since that function assumes its input is 8-bit data.
2151 Similarly, modify waddnwstr() to call wadd_wch().
2152 + remove logic from waddnstr() which transformed multibyte character
2153 strings into wide-characters. Rewrite of waddch_literal() from
2154 20030621 assumes its input is raw multibyte data rather than wide
2155 characters (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
2158 + write getyx() and related 2-return macros in terms of getcury(),
2160 + modify waddch_literal() in case an application passes bytes of a
2161 multibyte character directly to waddch(). In this case, waddch()
2162 must reassemble the bytes into a wide-character (report by Tomohiro
2163 Kubota <kubota@debian.org>).
2166 + modify waddch_literal() in case a multibyte value occupies more than
2168 + modify PutAttrChar() to compute the number of character cells that
2169 are used in multibyte values. This fixes a problem displaying
2170 double-width characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen
2171 <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
2172 + add a null-pointer check for result of keyname() in _tracechar()
2173 + modify _tracechar() to work around glibc sprintf bug.
2176 + add a call to setlocale() in cursesmain.cc, making demo display
2177 properly in a UTF-8 locale.
2178 + add a fallback definition in curses.priv.h for MB_LEN_MAX (prompted
2179 by discussion with Gabor Z Papp).
2180 + use macros NCURSES_ACS() and NCURSES_WACS() to hide cast needed to
2181 appease -Wchar-subscript with g++ 3.3 (Debian #195732).
2182 + fix a redefinition of $RANLIB in the configure script when libtool
2183 is used, which broke configure on Mac OS X (report by Chris Zubrzycki
2185 + simplify ifdef for bool declaration in curses.h.in (suggested by
2186 Albert Chin-A-Young).
2187 + remove configure script check to allow -Wconversion for older
2188 versions of gcc (suggested by Albert Chin-A-Young).
2191 + regenerated html manpages.
2192 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in that disabled use of __attribute__()
2193 for g++, since recent versions implement the cases which ncurses uses
2195 + modify _nc_get_token() to handle a case where an entry has no
2196 description, and capabilities begin on the same line as the entry
2198 + fix a typo in ncurses_dll.h reported by gcc 3.3.
2199 + add an entry for key_defined.3x to man_db.renames.
2202 + modify setcchar() to allow converting control characters to complex
2203 characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
2204 + add tkterm entry -TD
2205 + modify parse_entry.c to allow a terminfo entry with a leading
2206 2-character name (report by Don Libes).
2207 + corrected acsc in screen.teraterm, which requires a PC-style mapping.
2208 + fix trace statements in read_entry.c to use lseek() rather than
2210 + fix signed/unsigned warnings from Sun's compiler (gcc should give
2211 these warnings, but it is unpredictable).
2212 + modify configure script to omit -Winline for gcc 3.3, since that
2214 + modify manlinks.sed to add a few functions that were overlooked since
2215 they return function pointers: field_init, field_term, form_init,
2216 form_term, item_init, item_term, menu_init and menu_term.
2219 + prevent recursion in wgetch() via wgetnstr() if the connection cannot
2220 be switched between cooked/raw modes because it is not a TTY (report
2221 by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.com>).
2222 + change parameter of define_key() and key_defined() to const (prompted
2224 + add a check in test/configure for ncurses extensions, since there
2225 are some older versions, etc., which would not compile with the
2226 current test programs.
2227 + corrected demo in test/ncurses.c of wgetn_wstr(), which did not
2228 convert wchar_t string to multibyte form before printing it.
2229 + corrections to lib_get_wstr.c:
2230 + null-terminate buffer passed to setcchar(), which occasionally
2232 + map special characters such as erase- and kill-characters into
2233 key-codes so those will work as expected even if they are not
2234 mentioned in the terminfo.
2235 + modify PUTC() and Charable() macros to make wide-character line
2236 drawing work for POSIX locale on Linux console (cf: 20021221).
2239 + make typography for program options in manpages consistent (report
2240 by Miloslav Trmac <mitr@volny.cz>).
2241 + correct dependencies in Ada95/src/Makefile.in, so the builds with
2242 "--srcdir" work (report by Warren L Dodge).
2243 + correct missing definition of $(CC) in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in
2244 (reported by Warren L Dodge <warrend@mdhost.cse.tek.com>).
2245 + fix typos and whitespace in manpages (patch by Jason McIntyre
2246 <jmc@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl>).
2249 + fix form_driver() cases for REQ_CLR_EOF, REQ_CLR_EOL, REQ_DEL_CHAR,
2250 REQ_DEL_PREV and REQ_NEW_LINE, which did not ensure the cursor was at
2251 the editing position before making modifications.
2252 + add test/demo_forms and associated test/edit_field.c demos.
2253 + modify test/configure.in to use test/modules for the list of objects
2254 to compile rather than using the list of programs.
2257 + modify logic of acsc to use the original character if no mapping is
2258 defined, noting that Solaris does this.
2259 + modify ncurses 'b' test to avoid using the acs_map[] array since
2260 20021231 changes it to no longer contain information from the acsc
2262 + modify makefile rules in c++, progs, tack and test to ensure that
2263 the compiler flags (e.g., $CFLAGS or $CCFLAGS) are used in the link
2264 command (report by Jose Luis Rico Botella <informatica@serpis.com>).
2265 + modify soft-key initialization to use A_REVERSE if A_STANDOUT would
2266 not be shown when colors are used, i.e., if ncv#1 is set in the
2267 terminfo as is done in "screen".
2270 + add a test for slk_color(), in ncurses.c
2271 + fix some issues reported by valgrind in the slk_set() and slk_wset()
2272 code, from recent rewrite.
2273 + modify ncurses 'E' test to use show previous label via slk_label(),
2275 + modify wide-character versions of NewChar(), NewChar2() macros to
2276 ensure that the whole struct is initialized.
2279 + modify setupterm() to check if the terminfo and terminal-modes have
2280 already been read. This ensures that it does not reinvoke
2281 def_prog_mode() when an application calls more than one function,
2282 such as tgetent() and initscr() (report by Olaf Buddenhagen).
2285 + add 'E' test to ncurses.c, to exercise slk_wset().
2286 + correct handling of carriage-return in wgetn_wstr(), used in demo of
2288 + first draft of slk_wset() function.
2291 + improved warnings in tic when suppressing items to fit in termcap's
2293 + built a list in test/README showing which externals are being used
2294 by either programs in the test-directory or via internal library
2296 + adjust include-options in CF_ETIP_DEFINES to avoid missing
2297 ncurses_dll.h, fixing special definitions that may be needed for
2298 etip.h (reported by Greg Schafer <gschafer@zip.com.au>).
2301 + minor fixes for cardfile.c, to make it write the updated fields to
2302 a file when ^W is given.
2303 + add/use _nc_trace_bufcat() to eliminate some fixed buffer limits in
2307 + correct a case in _nc_remove_string(), used by define_key(), to avoid
2308 infinite loop if the given string happens to be a substring of other
2309 strings which are assigned to keys (report by John McCutchan).
2310 + add key_defined() function, to tell which keycode a string is bound
2311 to (discussion with John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>).
2312 + correct keybound(), which reported definitions in the wrong table,
2313 i.e., the list of definitions which are disabled by keyok().
2314 + modify demo_keydef.c to show the details it changes, and to check
2318 + restructured test/configure script, make it work for libncursesw.
2319 + add description of link_fieldtype() to manpage (report by
2320 L Dee Holtsclaw <dee@sunbeltsoft.com>).
2323 + corrected ifdef's relating to configure check for wchar_t, etc.
2324 + if the output is a socket or other non-tty device, use 1 millisecond
2325 for the cost in mvcur; previously it was 9 milliseconds because the
2326 baudrate was not known.
2327 + in _nc_get_tty_mode(), initialize the TTY buffer on error, since
2328 glibc copies uninitialized data in that case, as noted by valgrind.
2329 + modify tput to use the same parameter analysis as tparm() does, to
2330 provide for user-defined strings, e.g., for xterm title, a
2331 corresponding capability might be
2333 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to avoid passing "#" tokens through the C
2334 preprocessor. This works around Mac OS X's preprocessor, which
2335 insists on adding a blank on each side of the token (report/analysis
2336 by Kevin Murphy <murphy@genome.chop.edu>).
2339 + add configure check for wchar_t and wint_t types, rather than rely
2340 on preprocessor definitions. Also work around for gcc fixinclude
2341 bug which creates a shadow copy of curses.h if it sees these symbols
2342 apparently typedef'd.
2343 + if database is disabled, do not generate run_tic.sh
2344 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking when termcap is read.
2347 + add checking in tic for incomplete line-drawing character mapping.
2348 + update configure script to reflect fix for AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL,
2349 which is broken in autoconf 2.5x for Mac OS X 10.2.3 (report by
2350 Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl>).
2351 + make return value from _nc_printf_string() consistent. Before,
2352 depending on whether --enable-safe-sprintf was used, it might not be
2353 cached for reallocating.
2356 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking in lib_tparm.c, hardscroll.c
2357 + correct a potentially-uninitialized value if _read_termtype() does
2358 not read as much data as expected (report by Wolfgang Rohdewald
2360 + correct several places where the aclocal.m4 macros relied on cache
2361 variable names which were incompatible (as usual) between autoconf
2362 2.13 and 2.5x, causing the test for broken-linker to give incorrect
2363 results (reports by Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl> and Thomas Esser
2364 <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de>).
2365 + do not try to open gpm mouse driver if standard output is not a tty;
2366 the gpm library does not make this check (bug report for dialog
2367 by David Oliveira <davidoliveira@develop.prozone.ws>).
2370 + modified emx.src to correspond more closely to terminfo.src, added
2371 emx-base to the latter -TD
2372 + add configure option for FreeBSD sysmouse, --with-sysmouse, and
2373 implement support for that in lib_mouse.c, lib_getch.c
2376 + revert 20030105 change to can_clear_with(), does not work for the
2377 case where the update is made on cells which are blanks with
2378 attributes, e.g., reverse.
2379 + improve ifdef's to guard against redefinition of wchar_t and wint_t
2380 in curses.h (report by Urs Jansen).
2383 + improve mvcur() by checking if it is safe to move when video
2384 attributes are set (msgr), and if not, reset/restore attributes
2385 within that function rather than doing it separately in the GoTo()
2386 function in tty_update.c (suggested by Philippe Blain).
2387 + add a message in run_tic.in to explain more clearly what does not
2388 work when attempting to create a symbolic link for /usr/lib/terminfo
2389 on OS/2 and other platforms with no symbolic links (report by John
2391 + change several sed scripts to avoid using "\+" since it is not a BRE
2392 (basic regular expression). One instance caused terminfo.5 to be
2393 misformatted on FreeBSD (report by Kazuo Horikawa
2394 <horikawa@FreeBSD.org> (see FreeBSD docs/46709)).
2395 + correct misspelled 'wint_t' in curs_get_wch.3x (Michael Elkins).
2398 + improve description of terminfo operators, especially static/dynamic
2399 variables (comments by Mark I Manning IV <mark4th@earthlink.net>).
2400 + demonstrate use of FIELDTYPE by modifying test/ncurses 'r' test to
2401 use the predefined TYPE_ALPHA field-type, and by defining a
2402 specialized type for the middle initial/name.
2403 + fix MKterminfo.sh, another workaround for POSIXLY_CORRECT misfeature
2405 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2406 + optimize can_clear_with() a little by testing first if the parameter
2407 is indeed a "blank".
2408 + simplify ClrBottom() a little by allowing it to use clr_eos to clear
2409 sections as small as one line.
2410 + improve ClrToEOL() by checking if clr_eos is available before trying
2412 + use tputs() rather than putp() in a few cases in tty_update.c since
2413 the corresponding delays are proportional to the number of lines
2414 affected: repeat_char, clr_eos, change_scroll_region.
2417 + rewrite of lib_acs.c conflicts with copying of SCREEN acs_map to/from
2418 global acs_map[] array; removed the lines that did the copying.
2421 + change some overlooked tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp()
2422 (report by Philippe Blain).
2423 + modify lib_getch.c to avoid recursion via wgetnstr() when the input
2424 is not a tty and consequently mode-changes do not work (report by
2425 <R.Chamberlin@querix.com>).
2426 + rewrote lib_acs.c to allow PutAttrChar() to decide how to render
2427 alternate-characters, i.e., to work with Linux console and UTF-8
2429 + correct line/column reference in adjust_window(), needed to make
2430 special windows such as curscr track properly when resizing (report
2431 by Lucas Gonze <lgonze@panix.com>).
2432 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2433 + correct the value used for blank in ClrBottom() (broken in 20000708).
2434 + correct an off-by-one in GoTo() parameter in _nc_scrolln().
2437 + change several tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp(), to
2438 enable padding which may be needed for some terminals (patch by
2440 + use '%' as sed substitute delimiter in run_tic script to avoid
2441 problems with pathname delimiters such as ':' and '@' (report by John
2443 + implement a workaround so that line-drawing works with screen's
2444 crippled UTF-8 support (tested with 3.9.13). This only works with
2445 the wide-character support (--enable-widec); the normal library will
2446 simply suppress line-drawing when running in a UTF-8 locale in screen.
2449 + allow BUILD_CC and related configure script variables to be
2450 overridden from the environment.
2451 + make build-tools variables in ncurses/Makefile.in consistent with
2452 the configure script variables (report by Maciej W Rozycki).
2453 + modify ncurses/modules to allow
2454 configure --disable-leaks --disable-ext-funcs
2455 to build (report by Gary Samuelson).
2456 + fix a few places in configure.in which lacked quotes (report by
2457 Gary Samuelson <gary.samuelson@verizon.com>).
2458 + correct handling of multibyte characters in waddch_literal() which
2459 force wrapping because they are started too late on the line (report
2460 by Sam Varshavchik).
2461 + small fix for CF_GNAT_VERSION to ignore the help-message which
2462 gnatmake adds to its version-message.
2463 > Maciej W Rozycki <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>:
2464 + use AC_CHECK_TOOL to get proper values for AR and LD for cross
2466 + use $cross_compiling variable in configure script rather than
2467 comparing $host_alias and $target alias, since "host" is
2468 traditionally misused in autoconf to refer to the target platform.
2469 + change configure --help message to use "build" rather than "host"
2470 when referring to the --with-build-XXX options.
2473 + modify CF_GNAT_VERSION to print gnatmake's version, and to allow for
2474 possible gnat versions such as 3.2 (report by Chris Lingard
2475 <chris@stockwith.co.uk>).
2476 + modify #define's for CKILL and other default control characters in
2477 tset to use the system's default values if they are defined.
2478 + correct interchanged defaults for kill and interrupt characters
2479 in tset, which caused it to report unnecessarily (Debian #171583).
2480 + repair check for missing C++ compiler, which is broken in autoconf
2481 2.5x by hardcoding it to g++ (report by Martin Mokrejs).
2482 + update config.guess, config.sub (2002-11-30)
2483 + modify configure script to skip --with-shared, etc., when the
2484 --with-libtool option is given, since they would be ignored anyway.
2485 + fix to allow "configure --with-libtool --with-termlib" to build.
2486 + modify configure script to show version number of libtool, to help
2487 with bug reports. libtool still gets confused if the installed
2488 ncurses libraries are old, since it ignores the -L options at some
2489 point (tested with libtool 1.3.3 and 1.4.3).
2490 + reorder configure script's updating of $CPPFLAGS and $CFLAGS to
2491 prevent -I options in the user's environment from introducing
2492 conflicts with the build -I options (may be related to reports by
2493 Patrick Ash and George Goffe).
2494 + rename test/define_key.c to test/demo_defkey.c, test/keyok.c to
2495 test/demo_keyok.c to allow building these with libtool.
2498 + add example program test/define_key.c for define_key().
2499 + add example program test/keyok.c for keyok().
2500 + add example program test/ins_wide.c for wins_wch() and wins_wstr().
2501 + modify wins_wch() and wins_wstr() to interpret tabs by using the
2502 winsch() internal function.
2503 + modify setcchar() to allow for wchar_t input strings that have
2504 more than one spacing character.
2507 + fix a boundary check in lib_insch.c (patch by Philippe Blain).
2508 + change type for *printw functions from NCURSES_CONST to const
2509 (prompted by comment by Pedro Palhoto Matos <plpm@mega.ist.utl.pt>,
2510 but really from a note on X/Open's website stating that either is
2511 acceptable, and the latter will be used in a future revision).
2512 + add xterm-1002, xterm-1003 terminfo entries to demonstrate changes in
2513 lib_mouse.c (20021026) -TD
2514 + add screen-bce, screen-s entries from screen 3.9.13 (report by
2515 Adam Lazur <zal@debian.org>) -TD
2516 + add mterm terminfo entries -TD
2519 + split-out useful fragments in terminfo for vt100 and vt220 numeric
2520 keypad, i.e., vt100+keypad, vt100+pfkeys, vt100+fnkeys and
2521 vt220+keypad. The last as embedded in various entries had ka3 and
2522 kb2 interchanged (report/discussion with Leonard den Ottolander
2523 <leonardjo@hetnet.nl>).
2524 + add check in tic for keypads consistent with vt100 layout.
2525 + improve checks in tic for color capabilities
2528 + check for missing/empty/illegal terminfo name in _nc_read_entry()
2529 (report by Martin Mokrejs, where $TERM was set to an empty string).
2530 + rewrote lib_insch.c, combining it with lib_insstr.c so both handle
2531 tab and other control characters consistently (report by Philippe
2533 + remove an #undef for KEY_EVENT from curses.tail used in the
2534 experimental NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS feature. The #undef confuses
2535 dpkg's build script (Debian #165897).
2536 + fix MKlib_gen.sh, working around the ironically named POSIXLY_CORRECT
2537 feature of GNU sed 4.0 (reported by Ervin Nemeth <airwin@inf.bme.hu>).
2540 + implement logic in lib_mouse.c to handle position reports which are
2541 generated when XFree86 xterm is initialized with private modes 1002
2542 or 1003. These are returned to the application as the
2543 REPORT_MOUSE_POSITION mask, which was not implemented. Tested both
2544 with ncurses 'a' menu (prompted by discussion with Larry Riedel
2545 <Larry@Riedel.org>).
2546 + modify lib_mouse.c to look for "XM" terminfo string, which allows
2547 one to override the escape sequence used to enable/disable mouse
2548 mode. In particular this works for XFree86 xterm private modes
2549 1002 and 1003. If "XM" is missing (note that this is an extended
2550 name), lib_mouse uses the conventional private mode 1000.
2551 + correct NOT_LOCAL() macro in lib_mvcur.c to refer to screen_columns
2552 where it used screen_lines (report by Philippe Blain).
2553 + correct makefile rules for the case when both --with-libtool and
2554 --with-gpm are given (report by Mr E_T <troll@logi.net.au>).
2555 + add note to terminfo manpage regarding the differences between
2556 setaf/setab and setf/setb capabilities (report by Pavel Roskin).
2559 + remove redundant initialization of TABSIZE in newterm(), since it is
2560 already done in setupterm() (report by Philippe Blain).
2561 + add test/inserts.c, to test winnstr() and winsch().
2562 + replace 'sort' in dist.mk with script that sets locale to POSIX.
2563 + update URLs in announce.html.in (patch by Frederic L W Meunier).
2564 + remove glibc add-on files, which are no longer needed (report by
2565 Frederic L W Meunier).
2567 20021012 5.3 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2568 + modify ifdef's in etip.h.in to allow the etip.h header to compile
2569 with gcc 3.2 (patch by Dimitar Zhekov <jimmy@is-vn.bg>).
2570 + add logic to setupterm() to make it like initscr() and newterm(),
2571 by checking for $NCURSES_TRACE environment variable and enabling
2572 the debug trace in that case.
2573 + modify setupterm() to ensure that it initializes the baudrate, for
2574 applications such as tput (report by Frank Henigman).
2575 + modify definition of bits used for command-line and library debug
2576 traces to avoid overlap, using new definition TRACE_SHIFT to relate
2578 + document tput's interpretation of parameterized strings according to
2579 whether parameters are given, etc. (discussion with Robert De Bath).
2581 20021005 pre-release
2582 + correct winnwstr() to account for non-character cells generated when
2583 a double-width character is added (report by Michael Bienia
2584 <michael@vorlon.ping.de>).
2585 + modify _nc_viswbuf2n() to provide better results using wctomb().
2586 + correct logic in _nc_varargs() which broke tracing of parameters for
2587 formats such as "%.*s".
2588 + correct scale factor in linux-c and linux-c-nc terminfo entries
2589 (report Floyd Davidson).
2590 + change tic -A option to -t, add the same option to infocmp for
2592 + correct "%c" implementation in lib_tparm.c, which did not map a null
2593 character to a 128 (cf: 980620) (patch by Frank Henigman
2594 <fjhenigman@mud.cgl.uwaterloo.ca>).
2596 20020928 pre-release
2597 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for POSIX sort -k option, use that if
2598 it is found, to accommodate newer utility which dropped the
2599 compatibility support for +number options (reported by Andrey A
2601 + modify linux terminfo entry to use color palette feature from
2602 linux-c-nc entry (comments by Tomasz Wasiak and Floyd Davidson).
2603 + restore original color definitions in endwin() if init_color() was
2604 used, and resume those colors on the next doupdate() or refresh()
2605 (report by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@komputom.com.pl>).
2606 + improve debug-traces by modifying MKlib_gen.sh to generate calls
2607 to returnBool() and returnAttr().
2608 + add/use _nc_visbufn() and _nc_viswbufn() to limit the debug trace
2609 of waddnstr() and similar functions to match the parameters as used.
2610 + add/use _nc_retrace_bool() and _nc_retrace_unsigned().
2611 + correct type used by _nc_retrace_chtype().
2612 + add debug traces to some functions in lib_mouse.c
2613 + modify lib_addch.c to handle non-spacing characters.
2614 + correct parameter of RemAttr() in lib_bkgd.c, which caused the c++
2615 demo's boxes to lose the A_ALTCHARSET flag (broken in 20020629).
2616 + correct width computed in _tracedump(), which did not account for
2617 the attributes (broken in 20010602).
2618 + modify test/tracemunch to replace addresses for windows other than
2619 curscr, newscr and stdscr with window0, window1, etc.
2621 20020921 pre-release
2622 + redid fix for edit_man.sed path.
2623 + workaround for Cygwin bug which makes subprocess writes to stdout
2624 result in core dump.
2625 + documented getbegx(), etc.
2626 + minor fixes to configure script to use '%' consistently as a sed
2627 delimiter rather than '@'.
2628 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2629 + add check in lib_overlay.c to ensure that the windows to be merged
2630 actually overlap, and in copywin(), limit the area to be touched
2631 to the lines given for the destination window.
2633 20020914 pre-release
2634 + modified curses.h so that if the wide-character version is installed
2635 overwriting /usr/include/curses.h, and if it relied on libutf8.h,
2636 then applications that use that header for wide-character support
2637 must define HAVE_LIBUTF8_H.
2638 + modify putwin(), getwin() and dupwin() to allow them to operate on
2639 pads (request by Philippe Blain).
2640 + correct attribute-merging in wborder(), broken in 20020216 (report
2641 by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@grubasek.komputom.com.pl>).
2642 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2643 + corrected pop-counts in tparam_internal() to '!' and '~' cases.
2644 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in one place that used sizeof(chtype).
2645 + remove some unused variables from mvcur test-driver.
2647 20020907 pre-release
2648 + change configure script to allow install of widec-character
2649 (ncursesw) headers to overwrite normal (ncurses) headers, since the
2650 latter is a compatible subset of the former.
2651 + fix path of edit_man.sed in configure script, needed to regenerate
2652 html manpages on Debian.
2653 + fix mismatched enums in vsscanf.c, which caused warning on Solaris.
2654 + update README.emx to reflect current patch used for autoconf.
2655 + change web- and ftp-site to invisible-island.net
2656 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2657 + change case for 'P' in tparam_internal() to indicate that it pops
2658 a variable from the stack.
2659 + correct sense of precision and width in parse_format(), to avoid
2661 + modify lib_tparm.c, absorb really_get_space() into get_space().
2662 + modify getwin() and dupwin() to copy the _notimeout, _idlok and
2663 _idcok window fields.
2664 + better fix for _nc_set_type(), using typeMalloc().
2666 20020901 pre-release
2667 + change minor version to 3, i.e., ncurses 5.3
2668 + update config.guess, config.sub
2669 + retest build with each configure option; minor ifdef fixes.
2670 + make keyname() return a null pointer rather than "UNKNOWN STRING" to
2672 + modify handling of wide line-drawing character functions to use the
2673 normal line-drawing characters when not in UTF-8 locale.
2674 + add check/fix to comp_parse.c to suppress warning about missing acsc
2675 string. This happens in configurations where raw termcap information
2676 is processed; tic already does this and other checks.
2677 + modify tic's check for ich/ich1 versus rmir/smir to only warn about
2678 ich1, to match xterm patch #70 notes.
2679 + moved information for ripped-off lines into SCREEN struct to allow
2680 use in resizeterm().
2681 + add experimental wgetch_events(), ifdef'd with NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS
2682 (adapted from patch by Ilya Zakharevich - see ncurses/README.IZ).
2683 + amend check in kgetch() from 20020824 to look only for function-keys,
2684 otherwise escape sequences are not resolved properly.
2685 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2686 + removed redundant assignment to SP->_checkfd from newterm().
2687 + check return-value of setupterm() in restartterm().
2688 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in a few places that used sizeof(chtype).
2689 + prevent dupwin() from duplicating a pad.
2690 + prevent putwin() from writing a pad.
2691 + use typeRealloc() or typeMalloc() in preference to direct calls on
2695 + add a check in kgetch() for cooked characters in the fifo to avoid
2696 calling fifo_push() when a KEY_RESIZE is available (report/analysis
2697 by Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>).
2698 + fix an overlooked case for bugzilla #68199 (Philippe Blain).
2699 + ensure clearerr() is called before using ferror() e.g., in
2700 lib_screen.c (report by Philippe Blain).
2703 + modify lib_screen.c and lib_newwin.c to maintain the SCREEN-specific
2704 pointers for curscr/stdscr/newscr when scr_save() and scr_restore()
2705 modify the global curscr/stdscr/newscr variables. Fixes Redhat
2706 bugzilla #68199 dated 2002-07-07.
2707 + add checks for null pointer in calls to tparm() and tgoto() based on
2708 FreeBSD bug report. If ncurses were built with termcap support, and
2709 the first call to tgoto() were a zero-length string, the result would
2710 be a null pointer, which was not handled properly.
2711 + correct a typo in terminfo.head, which gave the octal code for colon
2713 + remove the "tic -u" option from 20020810, since it did not account
2714 for nested "tc=" clauses, and when that was addressed, was still
2718 + add tic -A option to suppress capabilities which are commented out
2719 when translating to termcap.
2720 + add tic -u option to provide older behavior of "tc=" clauses.
2721 + modified tic to expand all but the final "tc=" clause in a termcap
2722 entry, to accommodate termcap libraries which do not handle multiple
2724 + correct typo in curs_inopts.3x regarding CS8/CS7 usage (report by
2726 + remove a couple of redundant uses of A_ATTRIBUTES in expressions
2727 using AttrOf(), which already incorporates that mask (report by
2729 + document TABSIZE variable.
2730 + add NCURSES_ASSUMED_COLORS environment variable, to allow users to
2731 override compiled-in default black-on-white assumption used in
2732 assume_default_colors().
2733 + correct an off-by-one comparison against max_colors in COLORFGBG
2735 + correct a use of uninitialized memory found by valgrind (reported by
2736 Olaf Buddenhagen <olafBuddenhagen@web.de>).
2737 + modified wresize() to ensure that a failed realloc will not corrupt
2738 the window structure, and to make subwindows fit within the resized
2739 window (completes Debian #87678, #101699)
2742 + fix an off-by-one in lib_pad.c check for limits of pad (patch by
2744 + revise logic for BeOS in lib_twait.c altered in 20011013 to restore
2745 logic used by lib_getch.c's support for GPM or EMX mouse (report by
2747 + remove NCURSES_CONST from several prototypes in curses.wide, to make
2748 the --enable-const --enable-widec configure options to work together
2749 (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@yahoo.com>).
2752 + finish no-leak checking in cardfile.c, using this for testing changes
2754 + simplify _nc_freeall() using delscreen().
2757 + check error-return from _nc_set_tty_mode() in _nc_initscr() and
2758 reset_prog_mode() (report/patch by Philippe Blain).
2759 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52, to address
2760 problem with identifying C++ bool type.
2761 + correct/improve logic to produce an exit status for errors in tput,
2762 which did not exit with an error when told to put a string not in the
2763 current terminfo entry (report by David Gomez <david@pleyades.net>).
2764 + modify configure script AC_OUTPUT() call to work around defect in
2765 autoconf 2.52 which adds an ifdef'd include to the generated
2766 configure definitions.
2767 + remove fstat() check from scr_init(), which also fixes a missing
2768 include for <sys/stat.h> from 20020713 (reported by David Ellement,
2769 fix suggested by Philippe Blain).
2770 + update curs_scanw.3x manpage to note that XSI curses differs from
2771 SVr4 curses: return-values are incompatible.
2772 + correct several prototypes in manpages which used const
2773 inconsistently with the curses.h file, and removed spurious const's
2774 in a few places from curses.h, e.g., for wbkgd() (report by Glenn
2775 Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>).
2776 + change internal type used by tparm() to long, to work with LP64 model.
2777 + modify nc_alloc.h to allow building with g++, for testing.
2780 + add resize-handling to cardfile.c test program.
2781 + altered resizeterm() to avoid having it fail when a child window
2782 cannot be resized because it would be larger than its parent. (More
2783 work must be done on this, but it works well enough to integrate).
2784 + improve a limit-check in lib_refresh.c
2785 + remove check in lib_screen.c relating dumptime to file's modification
2786 times, since that would not necessarily work for remotely mounted
2788 + modify lrtest to simplify debugging changes to resizeterm, e.g.,
2789 t/T commands to enable/disable tracing.
2790 + updated status of multibyte support in TO-DO.
2791 + update contact info in source-files (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
2794 + add Caps.hpux11, as an example.
2795 + modify version_filter(), used to implement -R option for tic and
2796 infocmp, to use computed array offsets based on the Caps.* file which
2797 is actually configured, rather than constants which correspond to
2799 + reorganized lib_raw.c to avoid updating SP and cur_term state if the
2800 functions fail (reported by Philippe Blain).
2801 + add -Wundef to gcc warnings, adjust a few ifdef's to accommodate gcc.
2804 + correct parameters to setcchar() in ncurses.c (cf: 20020406).
2805 + set locale in most test programs (view.c and ncurses.c were the
2807 + add configure option --with-build-cppflags (report by Maksim A
2808 Nikulin <M.A.Nikulin@inp.nsk.su>).
2809 + correct a typo in wide-character logic for lib_bkgnd.c (Philippe
2811 + modify lib_wacs.c to not cancel the acsc, smacs, rmacs strings when
2812 in UTF-8 locale. Wide-character functions use Unicode values, while
2813 narrow-character functions use the terminfo data.
2814 + fix a couple of places in Ada95/samples which did not compile with
2816 + modify mkinstalldirs so the DOS-pathname case is locale-independent.
2817 + fix locale problem in MKlib_gen.sh by forcing related variables to
2818 POSIX (C), using same approach as autoconf (set variables only if
2819 they were set before). Update MKterminfo.sh and MKtermsort.sh to
2823 + add charset to generated html.
2824 + add mvterm entry, adapted from a FreeBSD bug-report by Daniel Rudy
2825 <dcrudy@pacbell.net> -TD
2826 + add rxvt-16color, ibm+16color entries -TD
2827 + modify check in --disable-overwrite option so that it is used by
2828 default unless the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr, in attempt to
2829 work around packagers, e.g., for Sun's freeware, who do not read the
2833 + modify wgetch() to allow returning ungetch'd KEY_RESIZE as a function
2834 key code in get_wch().
2835 + extended resize-handling in test/ncurses 'a' menu to the entire
2836 stack of windows created with 'w' commands.
2837 + improve $COLORFGBG feature by interpreting an out-of-range color
2838 value as an SGR 39 or 49, for foreground/background respectively.
2839 + correct a typo in configure --enable-colorfgbg option, and move it
2840 to the experimental section (cf: 20011208).
2843 + add logic to dump_entry.c to remove function-key definitions that do
2844 not fit into the 1023-byte limit for generated termcaps. This makes
2846 + more improvements to tic's warnings, including logic to ignore
2847 differences between delay values in sgr strings.
2848 + move definition of KEY_RESIZE into MKkeydefs.sh script, to
2849 accommodate Caps.osf1r5 which introduced a conflicting definition.
2852 + add simple resize-handling in test/ncurses.c 'a' menu.
2853 + fixes in keyname() and _tracechar() to handle negative values.
2854 + make tic's warnings about mismatches in sgr strings easier to follow.
2855 + correct tic checks for number of parameters in smgbp and smglp.
2856 + improve scoansi terminfo entry, and add scoansi-new entry -TD
2857 + add pcvt25-color terminfo entry -TD
2858 + add kf13-kf48 strings to cons25w terminfo entry (reported by Stephen
2859 Hurd <deuce@lordlegacy.org> in newsgroup lucky.freebsd.bugs) -TD
2860 + add entrypoint _nc_trace_ttymode(), use this to distinguish the
2861 Ottyb and Nttyb members of terminal (aka cur_term), for tracing.
2864 + correct and simplify logic for lib_pad.c change in 20020518 (reported
2868 + fix lib_pad.c for case of drawing a double-width character which
2869 falls off the left margin of the pad (patch by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij
2870 <lerdsuwa@users.sourceforge.net>)
2871 + modify configure script to work around broken gcc 3.1 "--version"
2872 option, which adds unnecessary trash to the requested information.
2873 + adjust ifdef's in case SIGWINCH is not defined, e.g., with DJGPP
2874 (reported by Ben Decker <deckerben@freenet.de>).
2877 + implement vid_puts(), vid_attr(), term_attrs() based on the narrow-
2878 character versions as well.
2879 + implement erasewchar(), killwchar() based on erasechar() and
2881 + modify erasechar() and killchar() to return ERR if the value was
2883 + correct a bug in wresize() in handling subwindows (based on patch by
2884 Roger Gammans <rgammans@computer-surgery.co.uk>, report by Scott Beck
2885 <scott@gossamer-threads.com>).
2886 + improve test/tclock.c by making the second-hand update more often
2887 if gettimeofday() is available.
2890 + workaround for Solaris sed with MKlib_gen.sh (reported by Andy
2891 Tsouladze <andyt@mypoints.com>).
2894 + correct return-value from getcchar(), making it consistent with
2896 + reorder loops that generate makefile rules for different models vs
2897 subsets so configure --with-termlib works again. This was broken by
2898 logic added to avoid duplicate rules in changes to accommodate cygwin
2899 dll's (reported by George.R.Goffe@seagate.com).
2900 + update config.guess, config.sub
2903 + modify ifdef's in write_entry.c to allow use of symbolic links on
2904 platforms with no hard links, e.g., BeOS.
2905 + modify a few includes to allow compile with BeOS, which has stdbool.h
2906 with a conflicting definition for 'bool' versus its OS.h definition.
2907 + amend MKlib_gen.sh to work with gawk, which defines 'func' as an
2908 alias for 'function'.
2911 + correct form of prototype for ripoffline().
2912 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to test that all functions marked as implemented
2916 + add manpages: curs_get_wstr.3x, curs_in_wchstr.3x
2917 + implement wgetn_wstr().
2918 + implement win_wchnstr().
2919 + remove redefinition of unget_wch() in lib_gen.c (reported by
2920 Jungshik Shin <jshin@jtan.com>).
2923 + modified several of the test programs to allow them to compile with
2924 vendor curses implementations, e.g., Solaris, AIX -TD
2927 + modified test/configure to allow configuring against ncursesw.
2928 + change WACS_xxx definition to use address, to work like Tru64 curses.
2931 + add 'e' and 'm' toggles to 'a', 'A' tests in ncurses.c to demonstrate
2932 effect of echo/noecho and meta modes.
2933 + add 'A' test to ncurses.c to demonstrate wget_wch() and related
2935 + add manpage: curs_get_wch.3x
2936 + implement unget_wch().
2937 + implement wget_wch().
2940 + regenerated html manpages.
2941 + add manpages: curs_in_wch.3x, curs_ins_wch.3x, curs_ins_wstr.3x
2942 + implement wins_wch().
2943 + implement win_wch().
2944 + implement wins_nwstr(), wins_wstr().
2947 + add manpages: curs_addwstr.3x, curs_winwstr.3x
2948 + implement winnwstr(), winwstr().
2951 + add manpages: curs_add_wchstr.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x
2952 + document wunctrl, key_name.
2953 + implement key_name().
2954 + remove const's in lib_box.c incorrectly leftover after splitting off
2956 + update llib-lncurses, llib-ncursesw, fix configure script related to
2960 + remove quotes on "SYNOPSIS" in man/curs_box_set.3x, which resulted
2961 in spurious symlinks on install.
2964 + implement whline_set(), wvline_set(), add manpage curs_border_set.
2965 + add subtest 'b' to 'F' and 'f' in ncurses.c to demonstrate use of
2966 box() and box_set() functions.
2967 + add subtest 'u' to 'F' in ncurses.c, to demonstrate use of addstr()
2968 given UTF-8 string equivalents of WACS_xxx symbols.
2969 + minor fixes to several manpages based on groff -ww output.
2970 + add descriptions of external variables of termcap interface to
2971 the manpage (report by Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>).
2972 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
2973 + correct configure option --with-bool, which was executed as
2975 + add quotes for parameters of --with-bool and --with-ospeed configure
2977 > patch by Sven Verdoolaege (report by Gerhard Haering
2978 <haering_linux@gmx.de>):
2979 + correct typos in definitions of several wide-character macros:
2980 waddwstr, wgetbkgrnd, mvaddwstr, mvwadd_wchnstr, mvwadd_wchnstr,
2982 + pass $(CPPFLAGS) to MKlib_gen.sh, thereby fixing a missing definition
2983 of _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, e.g., on Solaris
2986 + implement wide-acs characters for UTF-8 locales. When in UTF-8
2987 locale, ignore narrow version of acs. Add 'F' test to test/ncurses.c
2989 + correct prototype in keybound manpage (noted from a Debian mailing
2993 + add several cases to the wscanw() example in testcurs.c, showing the
2995 + implement a simple vsscanf() fallback function which uses the %n
2996 conversion to help parse the input data (prompted by discussion with
2997 Albert Chin-A-Young).
2998 + modify mk-1st.awk and test/Makefile.in to add $(LDFLAGS) when making
2999 shared libraries, and to use $(CFLAGS) when linking test programs
3000 (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3001 + add a call to _nc_keypad() in keypad() to accommodate applications
3002 such as nvi, which use curses for output but not for input (fixes
3003 Debian #131263, cf: 20011215).
3004 + add entrypoints to resizeterm.c which provide better control over the
3005 process: is_term_resized() and resize_term(). The latter restores
3006 the original design of resizeterm() before KEY_RESIZE was added in
3007 970906. Do this to accommodate 20010922 changes to view.c, but allow
3008 for programs with their own sigwinch handler, such as lynx (reported
3009 by Russell Ruby <russ@math.orst.edu>).
3012 + fix a typo in change to mk-1st.awk, which broke the shared-library
3013 makefile rules (reported by Martin Mokrejs).
3016 + update config.guess, config.sub
3017 + finish changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
3018 + fix a typo in mvwchat() macro (reported by Cy <yam@homerow.net).
3021 + add case in lib_baudrate.c for B921600 (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
3022 + correct missing sed-editing stage in manpage installs which is used
3023 to rename manpages, broken in 20010324 fix for Debian #89939 (Debian
3025 + remove -L$(libdir) from linker flags, probably not needed any more
3026 since HPUX is handled properly (reported by Niibe Yutaka
3028 + add configure check for mbstate_t, needed for wide-character
3029 configuration. On some platforms we must include <wchar.h> to
3030 define this (reported by Daniel Jacobowitz).
3031 + incorporate some of the changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
3034 + workaround for awk did not work with mawk, adjusted shell script.
3037 + add Caps.osf1r5, as an example.
3038 + modify behavior of can_clear_with() so that if an application is
3039 running in a non-bce terminals with default colors enabled, it
3040 returns true, allowing the user to select/paste text without picking
3041 up extraneous trailing blanks (adapted from patch by Daniel
3042 Jacobowitz <dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu>).
3043 + modify generated curses.h to ifdef-out prototypes for extensions if
3044 they are disabled, and to define curses_version() as a string in that
3045 case. This is needed to make the programs such as tic build in that
3047 + modified generated headers.sh to remove a gzip'd version of the
3048 target file if it exists, in case non-gzip'd manpages are installed
3049 into a directory where gzip'd ones exist. In that case, the latter
3051 + corrected a redundant initialization of signal handlers from 20010922
3053 + clarified bug-reporting address in terminfo.src (report by John H
3054 DuBois III <spcecdt@armory.com>).
3055 > several fixes from Robert Joop:
3056 + do not use "-v" option of awk in MKkey_defs.sh because it does not
3057 work with SunOS nawk.
3058 + modify definitions for libutf8 in curses.h to avoid redefinition
3060 + quoted references to compiler in shell command in misc/Makefile, in
3061 case it uses multiple tokens.
3064 + restore special case from 20010922 changes to omit SA_RESTART when
3065 setting up SIGWINCH handler, which is needed to allow wgetch() to be
3066 interrupted by that signal.
3067 + update configure macro CF_WITH_PATHLIST, to omit some double quotes
3068 not needed with autoconf 2.52
3069 + revert configure script to autoconf 2.13 patched with
3070 autoconf-2.13-19990117.patch.gz (or later)
3072 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
3073 because autoconf 2.52 macro AC_PROG_AWK does not work on HPUX 11.0
3074 (report by David Ellement <ellement@sdd.hp.com>). This also fixes a
3075 different problem configuring with Mac OS X (reported by Marc Smith
3076 <marc.a.smith@home.com>).
3079 + modify include/edit_cfg.h to eliminate BROKEN_LINKER symbol from
3081 + move prototype for _nc_vsscanf() into curses.h.in to omit
3082 HAVE_VSSCANF symbol from curses.h, which was dependent upon the
3083 ncurses_cfg.h file which is not installed.
3084 + use ACS_LEN rather than SIZEOF(acs_map) in trace code of lib_acs.c,
3085 to work with broken linker configuration, e.g., cygwin (report by
3086 Robert Joop <rj@rainbow.in-berlin.de>).
3087 + make napms() call _nc_timed_wait() rather than poll() or select(),
3088 to work around broken implementations of these on cygwin.
3091 + drop configure macro CF_WIDEC_SHIFT, since that was rendered obsolete
3092 by Sven Verdoolaege's rewrite of wide-character support. This makes
3093 libncursesw incompatible again, but makes the header files almost the
3094 same as in the narrow-character configuration.
3095 + simplify definitions that combine wide/narrow versions of bkgd, etc.,
3096 to eliminate differences between the wide/narrow versions of curses.h
3097 + correct typo in configure macro CF_FUNC_VSSCANF
3098 + correct location of call to _nc_keypad() from 20011215 changes which
3099 prevented keypad() from being disabled (reported by Lars Hecking).
3102 + rewrote ncurses 'a' test to exercise wgetch() and keypad() functions
3103 better, e.g., by adding a 'w' command to create new windows which
3104 may have different keypad() settings.
3105 + corrected logic of keypad() by adding internal screen state to track
3106 whether the terminal's keypad-mode has been set. Use this in
3107 wgetch() to update the keypad-mode according to whether the
3108 associated window's keypad-mode has been set with keypad(). This
3109 corrects a related problem restoring terminal state after handling
3110 SIGTSTP (reported by Mike Castle).
3111 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52
3112 autoconf-2.52-patch.gz
3114 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
3115 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3116 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
3117 + minor changes to quoting in configure script to allow it to work
3121 + modify final checks in lib_setup.c for line and col values, making
3123 + modify acs_map[] if configure --broken-linker is specified, to make
3124 it use a function rather than an array (prompted by an incorrect
3125 implementation in cygwin package).
3126 + correct spelling of configure option --enable-colorfgbg, which
3127 happened to work if --with-develop was set (noted in cygwin package
3129 + modify ifdef for genericerror() to compile with SUNWspro Sun WorkShop
3130 6 update 1 C++ 5.2 (patch by Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu>).
3131 + add configure checks to see if ncurses' fallback vsscanf() will
3132 compile either of the special cases for FILE structs, and if not,
3133 force it to the case which simply returns an error (report by
3134 Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu> indicates that Solaris 8 with
3135 64-bits does not allow access to FILE's fields).
3136 + modify ifdef's for c++/cursesw.cc to use the fallback vsscanf() in
3137 the ncurses library if no better substitute for this can be found
3139 + modify the build to name dynamic libraries according to the
3140 convention used on OS X and Darwin. Rather than something like
3141 libncurses.dylib.5.2, Darwin would name it libncurses. 5.dylib.
3142 There are a few additional minor fixes, such as setting the library
3143 version and compatibility version numbers (patch by Jason Evans
3144 <jevans@apple.com>).
3145 + use 'sh' to run mkinstalldirs, to work around problems with buggy
3146 versions of 'make' on OS/2 (report by John Polterak <jp@eyup.org>).
3147 + correct typo in manpage description of curs_set() (Debian #121548).
3148 + replace the configure script existence-check for mkstemp() by one
3149 that checks if the function works, needed for older glibc and
3153 + modify script that generates fallbacks.c to compile a temporary
3154 copy of the terminfo source in case the host does not contain all of
3155 the entries requested for fallbacks (request by Greg Roelofs).
3156 + modify configure script to accommodate systems such as Mac OS X whose
3157 <stdbool.h> header defines a 'bool' type inconsistent with ncurses,
3158 which normally makes 'bool' consistent with C++. Include <stdbool.h>
3159 from curses.h to force consistent usage, define a new type
3160 NCURSES_BOOL and related that to the exported 'bool' as either a
3161 typedef or definition, according to whether <stdbool.h> is present
3162 (based on a bug report for tin 1.5.9 by Aaron Adams <adamsa@mac.com>).
3165 + added/updated terminfo entries for M$ telnet and KDE konsole -TD
3168 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
3169 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
3170 + add putty terminfo entry -TD
3171 + if configuring for wide-curses, define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, since
3172 this may not otherwise be defined to make test/view.c compile.
3175 + review/correct several missing/generated items in curses.wide, sorted
3176 the lists to make subsequent diff's easier to track.
3179 + add manual pages for add_wch(), echo_wchar(), getcchar(),
3180 mvadd_wch(), mvwadd_wch(), setcchar(), wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar().
3181 + implement wecho_wchar()
3182 + modify _tracedump() to handle wide-characters by mapping them to '?'
3183 and control-characters to '.', to make the trace file readable. Also
3184 dynamically allocate the buffer used by _tracedump() for formatting
3186 + modify T_CALLED/T_RETURN macros to ease balancing call/return lines
3187 in a trace by using curly braces.
3188 + implement _nc_viscbuf(), for tracing cchar_t arrays.
3189 + correct trace-calls in setcchar() and getcchar() functions, which
3190 traced the return values but not the entry to each function.
3191 + correct usage message in test/view.c, which still mentioned -u flag.
3194 + modify configure script to allow building with termcap only, or with
3195 fallbacks only. In this case, we do not build tic and toe.
3196 + add configure --with-termpath option, to override default TERMPATH
3197 value of /etc/termcap:/usr/share/misc/termcap.
3198 + cosmetic change to tack: make menu descriptions agree with menu
3202 + rewrote limit-checks in wscrl() and associated _nc_scroll_window(),
3203 to ensure that if the parameter of wscrl() is larger than the size of
3204 the scrolling region, then the scrolling region will be cleared
3205 (report by Ben Kohlen <bckohlen@yahoo.com>).
3206 + add trace/varargs.c, using this to trace parameters in lib_printw.c
3207 + implement _tracecchar_t2() and _tracecchar_t().
3208 + split-out trace/visbuf.c
3209 + correct typo in lib_printw.c changes from 20010922 (report by Mike
3213 + modify run_tic.sh to check if the build is a cross-compile. In that
3214 case, do not use the build's tic to install the terminfo database
3215 (report by Rafael Rodriguez Velilla <rrv@tid.es>).
3216 + modify mouse click resolution so that mouseinterval(-1) will disable
3217 it, e.g., to handle touchscreens via a slow connection (request by
3218 Byron Stanoszek <gandalf@winds.org>).
3219 + correct mouseinterval() default value shown in curs_mouse.3x
3220 + remove conflicting definition of mouse_trafo() (reported by Lars
3221 Hecking, using gcc 2.95.3).
3224 + simpler fix for signal_name(), to replace the one overlooked in
3225 20010929 (reported by Larry Virden).
3228 + add -i option to view.c, to test ncurses' check for non-default
3229 signal handler for SIGINT, etc.
3230 + add cases for shared-libraries on Darwin/OS X (patch by Rob Braun
3231 <bbraun@synack.net>).
3232 + modify tset to restore original I/O modes if an error is encountered.
3233 Also modify to use buffered stderr consistently rather than mixing
3235 + change signal_name() function to use if-then-else rather than case
3236 statement, since signal-values aren't really integers (reported by
3238 + add limit checks in wredrawln(), fixing a problem where lynx was
3239 repainting a pad which was much larger than the screen.
3242 + fix: PutRange() was counting the second part of a wide character as
3243 part of a run, resulting in a cursor position that was one too far
3244 (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
3245 + modify resizeterm() to not queue a KEY_RESIZE if there was no
3246 SIGWINCH, thereby separating the two styles of SIGWINCH handling
3248 + simplified lib_tstp.c, modify it to use SA_RESTART flag for SIGWINCH.
3249 + eliminate several static buffers in the terminfo compiler, using
3251 + modify MKkeyname.awk so that keyname() does not store its result into
3252 a static buffer that is overwritten by the next call.
3253 + reorganize the output of infocmp -E and -e options to compile cleanly
3254 with gcc -Wwrite-strings warnings.
3255 + remove redefinition of chgat/wchgat/mvwchgat from curses.wide
3258 + add label to test/view.c, showing the name of the last key or signal
3259 that made the screen repaint, to make it clearer when a sigwinch
3261 + use ExitProgram() consistently in the test-programs to make it
3262 simpler to test leaks with dmalloc, etc.
3263 + move hashtab static data out of hashmap.c into SCREEN struct.
3264 + make NO_LEAK code compile with revised WINDOWLIST structs.
3267 + modify tgetent() to check if exit_attribute_mode resets the alternate
3268 character set, and if so, attempt to adjust the copy of the termcap
3269 "me" string which it will return to eliminate that part. In
3270 particular, 'screen' would lose track of line-drawing characters
3271 (report by Frederic L W Meunier <0@pervalidus.net>, analysis by
3275 + specify DOCTYPE in html manpages.
3276 + add missing macros for several "generated" functions: attr_get(),
3277 attr_off(), attr_on(), attr_set(), chgat(), mvchgat(), mvwchgat() and
3279 + modify view.c to agree with non-experimental status of ncurses'
3281 + change the sense of the -r option, making it default to ncurses'
3283 + add a note explaining what functions are unsafe in a signal
3285 + add a -c option, to set color display, for testing.
3286 + unset $data variable in MKterminfo.sh script, to address potential
3287 infinite loop if shell malfunction (report by Samuel Mikes
3288 <smikes@cubane.com>, for bash 2.05.0 on a Linux 2.0.36 system).
3289 + change kbs in mach terminfo entries to ^? (Marcus Brinkmann
3290 <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>).
3291 + correct logic for COLORFGBG environment variable: if rxvt is compiled
3292 with xpm support, the variable has three fields, making it slightly
3293 incompatible with itself. In either case, the background color is
3297 + move calls to def_shell_mode() and def_prog_mode() before loop with
3298 callbacks in lib_set_term.c, since the c++ demo otherwise initialized
3299 the tty modes before saving them (patch by John David Anglin
3300 <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>).
3301 + duplicate logic used to initialize trace in newterm(), in initscr()
3302 to avoid confusing trace of initscr().
3303 + simplify allocation of WINDOW and WINDOWLIST structs by making the
3304 first a part of the second rather than storing a pointer. This saves
3305 a call to malloc for each window (discussion with Philippe Blain).
3306 + remove unused variable 'used_ncv' from lib_vidattr.c (Philippe
3308 + modify c++/Makefile.in to accommodate archive programs that are
3309 different for C++ than for C, and add cases for vendor's C++
3310 compilers on Solaris and IRIX (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3311 + correct manpage description of criteria for deciding if the terminal
3312 supports xterm mouse controls.
3313 + add several configure script options to aid with cross-compiling:
3314 --with-build-cc, --with-build-cflags, --with-build-ldflags, and
3315 --with-build-libs (request by Greg Roelofs).
3316 + change criteria for deciding if configure is cross-compiling from
3317 host/build mismatch to host/target mismatch (request by Greg Roelofs
3318 <greg.roelofs@philips.com>).
3319 + correct logic for infocmp -e and -E options which writes the data for
3320 the ext_Names[] array. This is needed if one constructs a fallback
3321 table for a terminfo entry which uses extended termcap names, e.g.,
3322 AX in a color xterm.
3323 + fix undefined NCURSES_PATHSEP when configure --disable-database
3327 + fix for VALID_BOOLEAN() macro when char is not signed.
3328 + modify 'clean' rule for C++ binding to work with Sun compiler, which
3329 caches additional information in a subdirectory of the objects.
3330 + added llib-ncursesw.
3333 + add Caps.keys example for experimental extended function keys
3334 (adapted from a patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
3335 + correct parameter types of vidputs() and vidattr() to agree with
3336 header files (report by William P Setzer).
3337 + fix typos in several man-pages (patch by William P Setzer).
3338 + remove unneeded ifdef for __GNUG__ in CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC configure
3339 macro, which made ncurses C++ binding fail to build with other
3340 C++ compilers such as HPUX 11.x (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3341 + workaround for bug in HPUX 11.x C compiler: add a blank after
3342 NCURSES_EXPORT macro in form.h (report by Albert Chin-A-Young)
3343 + ignore blank lines in Caps* files in MKkey_defs.sh script (report by
3344 Albert Chin-A-Young).
3345 + correct definition of key_end in Caps.aix4, which left KEY_END
3346 undefined (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3347 + remove a QNX-specific fallback prototype for vsscanf(), which is
3348 obsolete with QNX RTP.
3349 + review/fix some of the T() and TR() macro calls, having noticed that
3350 there was no data for delwin() in a trace of dialog because there was
3351 no returnVoid call for wtimeout(). Also, traces in lib_twait.c are
3352 now selected under TRACE_IEVENT rather than TRACE_CALLS.
3355 + add a _nc_access() check before opening files listed via $TERMPATH.
3356 + using modified man2html, regenerate some of the html manpages to fix
3357 broken HREF's where the link was hyphenated.
3360 + add some limit/pointer checks to -S option of tputs.
3361 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
3362 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
3363 + add a note in curs_termcap.3x regarding a defect in the XSI
3364 description of tgetent (based on a discussion with Urs Jansen
3365 regarding the HPUX 11.x implementation, whose termcap interface is
3366 not compatible with existing termcap programs).
3367 + modify manhtml rule in dist.mk to preserve copyright notice on the
3368 generated files, as well as to address HTML style issues reported by
3369 tidy and weblint. Regenerated/updated corresponding html files.
3370 + comment out use of Protected_Character and related rarely used
3371 attributes in ncurses Ada95 test/demo to compile with wide-character
3375 + implement a simple example in C++ demo to test scanw().
3376 + corrected stdio function used to implement scanw() in cursesw.cc
3377 + correct definition of RemAttr() macro from 20010602 changes, which
3378 caused C++ SillyDemo to not show line-drawing characters.
3379 + modify C++ binding, adding getKey() which can be overridden by user
3380 to substitute functions other than getch() for keyboard processing
3381 of forms and menus (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3384 + fix some of the trace calls which needed modification to work with
3385 new wide-character structures.
3386 + modify magic-cookie code in tty_update.c to compile with new
3387 wide-character structures (report by <George.R.Goffe@seagate.com>).
3388 + ensure that _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined in curses.priv.h if
3389 compiling for wide-character configuration.
3390 + make addwnstr() handle non-spacing characters (patch by Sven
3394 + add configure check to define _GNU_SOURCE, needed to prop up glibc
3396 + split-out include/curses.wide to solve spurious redefinitions caused
3397 by defining _GNU_SOURCE, and move includes for <signal.h> before
3398 <curses.h> to work around misdefinition of ERR in glibc 2.1.3 header
3400 + extended ospeed change to NetBSD and OpenBSD -TD
3401 + modify logic in lib_baudrate.c for ospeed, for FreeBSD to make it
3402 work properly for termcap applications (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
3405 + correct an overlooked CharOf/UChar instance (reports by Eugene Lee
3406 <eugene@anime.net>, Sven Verdoolaege).
3407 + correct unneeded ifdef for wunctrl() (reported by Sven Verdoolaege)
3410 + change overlooked several CharOf/UChar instances.
3411 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
3412 + correct a typo in wunctrl(), which made it appear that botwc() was
3413 needed (no such function: use btowc()).
3414 + reimplement wide-character demo in test/view.c, using new functions.
3415 + implement getcchar(), setcchar(), wadd_wchnstr() and related macros.
3416 + fix a syntax problem with do/if/while in PUTC macro (curses.priv.h).
3419 + add parentheses in macros for malloc in test.priv.h, fixes an
3420 expression in view.c (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.co.at>).
3421 + add Caps.uwin, as an example.
3422 + change the way curses.h is generated, making the list of function
3423 key definitions extracted from the Caps file.
3424 + add #undef's before possible redefinition of ERR and OK in curses.h
3425 + modify logic in tic, toe, tput and tset which checks for basename of
3426 argv[0] to work properly on systems such as OS/2 which have
3427 case-independent filenames and/or program suffixes, e.g., ".ext".
3430 + add a configure check, if --enable-widec is specified, for putwc(),
3431 which may be in libutf8.
3432 + remove some unnecessary text from curs_extend.3x and
3433 default_colors.3x which caused man-db to make incorrect symbolic
3434 links (Debian bug report #99550).
3435 + add configure check if cast for _IO_va_list is needed to compile
3436 C++ vscan code (Debian bug report #97945).
3437 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
3438 + correct code that used non-standard auto-initialization of a struct,
3439 which gcc allows (report by Larry Virden).
3440 + use putwc() in PUTC() macro.
3441 + make addstr() work for the special case where the codeset is
3442 non-stateful (eg. UTF-8), as well as stateful codesets.
3445 + correct loop expression in NEXT_CHAR macro for lib_addstr.c changes
3446 from 20010602 (report by Mike Castle).
3449 + modify mvcur() to avoid emitting newline characters when nonl() mode
3450 is set. Normally this is not a problem since the actual terminal
3451 mode is set to suppress nl/crlf translations, however it is useful to
3452 allow the caller to manipulate the terminal mode to avoid staircasing
3453 effects after spawning a process which writes messages (for lynx
3455 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>:
3456 + remove redundant type-conversion in fifo_push()
3457 + correct definition of addwstr() macro in curses.h.in
3458 + remove _nc_utf8_outch()
3459 + rename most existing uses of CharOf() to UChar(), e.g., where it is
3460 used to prevent sign-extension in ctype macros.
3461 + change some chtype's to attr_t's where the corresponding variables
3462 are used to manipulate attributes.
3463 + UpdateAttr() was applied to both attributes (attr_t) and characters
3464 (chtype). Modify macro and calls to it to make these distinct.
3465 + add CharEq() macro, use in places where wide-character configuration
3466 implementation uses a struct for cchar_t.
3467 + moved struct ldat into curses.priv.h, to hide implementation details.
3468 + change CharOf() macro to use it for masking A_CHARTEXT data from
3470 + add L() macro to curses.priv.h, for long-character literals.
3471 + replace several assignments from struct ldat entries to chtype or
3472 char values with combinations of CharOf() and AttrOf() macros.
3473 + add/use intermediate ChAttrOf() and ChCharOf() macros where we know
3474 we are using chtype data.
3475 + add/use lowlevel attribute manipulation macros AddAttr(), RemAttr()
3477 + add/use SetChar() macro, to change a cchar_t based on a character and
3479 + convert most internal use of chtype to NCURSES_CH_T, to simplify use
3480 of cchar_t for wide-character configuration. Similarly, use ARG_CH_T
3481 where a pointer would be more useful.
3482 + add stubs for tracing cchar_t values.
3483 + add/use macro ISBLANK()
3484 + add/use constructors for cchar_t's: NewChar(), NewChar2().
3485 + add/use macros CHREF(), CHDEREF(), AttrOfD(), CharOfD() to facilitate
3486 passing cchar_t's by address.
3487 + add/use PUTC_DATA, PUTC() macros.
3488 + for wide-character configuration, move the window background data to
3489 the end of the WINDOW struct so that whether _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
3490 is defined or not, the offsets in the struct will not change.
3491 + modify addch() to work with wide-characters.
3492 + mark several wide-character functions as generated in curses.h.in
3493 + implement wunctrl(), wadd_wch(), wbkgrndset(), wbkgrnd(),
3494 wborder_set() and waddnwstr().
3497 + add experimental --with-caps=XXX option to customize to similar
3498 terminfo database formats such as AIX 4.x
3499 + add Caps.aix4 as an example.
3500 + modify Caps to add columns for the the KEY_xxx symbols.
3501 + modify configure --with-widec to suppress overwrite of libcurses.so
3503 + add checks to toe.c to avoid being confused by files and directories
3504 where we would expect the reverse, e.g., source-files in the
3505 top-level terminfo levels as is the case for AIX.
3508 + add top-level 'depend' rule for the C sources, assuming that the
3509 makedepend program is available. As a side-effect, this makes
3510 the generated sources, as in "make sources" (prompted by a report
3511 by Mike Castle that "make -j" fails because the resulting parallel
3512 processes race to generate ncurses/names.c).
3513 + modify configure script so that --disable-overwrite option's action
3514 to add a symbolic link for libcurses applies to the static library as
3515 well as the shared library when both are configured (report by Felix
3516 Natter <f.natter@ndh.net>).
3517 + add ELKS terminfo entries (Federico Bianchi
3518 <bianchi@www.arte.unipi.it>)
3519 + add u6 (CSR) to Eterm (Michael Jennings).
3522 + modify test/ncurses.c to work with xterm-256color, which has fewer
3523 color pairs than colors*colors (report by David Ellement
3524 <ellement@sdd.hp.com>).
3527 + corrected screen.xterm-xfree86 entry.
3528 + update comment in Caps regarding IBM (AIX) function-key definitions.
3531 + modify c++/Makefile.in to link with libncurses++w.a when configured
3532 for wide-characters (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
3533 + add check in _nc_trace_buf() to refrain from freeing a null pointer.
3534 + improve CF_PROG_INSTALL macro using CF_DIRNAME.
3535 + update config.guess, config.sub from autoconf 2.49e (alpha).
3538 + add secondary check in tic.c, similar_sgr() to see if the reason
3539 for mismatch was that the individual capabilities used a time-delay
3540 while sgr did not. Used this to cleanup mismatches, e.g., in vt100,
3541 and remove time-delay from Apple_Terminal entries.
3542 + add Apple_Terminal terminfo entries (Benjamin C W Sittler
3543 <bsittler@iname.com>).
3544 + correct definitions of shifted editing keys for xterm-xfree86 -TD
3545 + fix a bug in test/bs.c from 20010407 (patch by Erik Sigra).
3546 + prevent relative_move() from doing an overwrite if it detects 8-bit
3547 characters when configured for UTF-8 (reported by Sven Verdoolaege
3548 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
3551 + add configure checks for strstream.h vscan function, and similar
3552 stdio-based function which may be used in C++ binding for gcc 3.0
3553 (reports by George Goffe, Lars Hecking, Mike Castle).
3554 + rewrite parts of configure.in which used changequote(). That feature
3555 is broken in the latest autoconf alphas (e.g., 2.49d).
3556 + add a missing pathname for ncurses_dll.h, needed when building in
3557 a directory outside the source tree (patch by Sven Verdoolaege
3558 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
3559 > fix 2 bugs in test/bs.c Erik Sigra <sigra@home.se>:
3560 + no ships were ever placed in the last row or in the last column.
3561 This made the game very easy to win, because you never had to waste
3562 any shots there, but the computer did.
3563 + the squares around a sunken ship that belonged to the player were not
3564 displayed as already hit by the computer, like it does for the
3568 + add some examples of customizing screen's terminfo:
3569 screen.xterm-xfree86, screen.xterm-r6, screen.teraterm -TD
3570 + modify screen's terminfo entry to match the khome/kend in screen
3571 3.09.08 (Debian bug report #92215).
3572 + correct a memory leak in forms library (report by Stefan Vogtner
3573 <stefan@vogtner.de>) (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3576 + change symbols used to guard against repeated includes to begin
3577 consistently with "NCURSES_" rather than a leading underscore. There
3578 are other symbols defined in the header files which begin with a
3579 leading underscore, but they are part of the legacy interface.
3580 + reorder includes in c++ binding so that rcs identifiers can be
3582 + add .cc.ii rule to c++ makefile, to get preprocessor output for
3584 + correct configure script handling of @keyword@ substitutions when the
3585 --with-manpage-renames option is given (cf: 20000715, fixes Debian
3587 + report stack underflow/overflow in tparm() when tic -cv option is
3589 + remove spurious "%|" operator from xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry,
3590 (reported by Adam Costello <amc@cs.berkeley.edu>, Debian bug #89222).
3593 + cleanup of newdemo.c, fixing some ambiguous expressions noted by gcc
3594 2.95.2, and correcting some conflicting color pair initializations.
3595 + add missing copyright notice for cursesw.h
3596 + review, make minor fixes for use of '::' for referring to C-language
3597 interface from C++ binding.
3598 + modify configure check for g++ library slightly to accommodate
3599 nonstandard version number, e.g., <vendor>-2.7 (report by Ronald Ho
3600 <rho@mipos2.intel.com>).
3601 + add configure check for c++ <sstream> header, replace hardcoded
3603 + workaround for pre-release of gcc 3.0 libstdc++, which has dropped
3604 vscan from strstreambuf to follow standard, use wrapper for C vscanf
3605 instead (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@excite.com> and Matt Taggart
3606 <taggart@carmen.fc.hp.com>, fixes Debian .
3609 + modify interface of _nc_get_token() to pass 'silent' parameter to it,
3610 to make quieter loading of /etc/termcap (patch by Todd C Miller).
3611 + correct a few typos in curs_slk.3x and curs_outopts.3x manpages
3612 (patch by Todd C Miller).
3615 + compiler-warning fixes (reported by Nelson Beebe).
3618 + modify screen terminfo entry to use new 3.9.8 feature allowing xterm
3622 + broaden patterns used to match OS/2 EMX in configure script to cover
3623 variant used in newer config.guess/config.sub
3624 + remove changequote() calls from configure script, since this feature
3625 is broken in the autoconf 2.49c alpha, maintainers decline to fix.
3626 + remove macro callPutChar() from tty_update.c, since this is no longer
3627 needed (reported by Philippe Blain).
3628 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c to handle the case when the input
3629 file is really empty. Modify the next_char() function in comp_scan.c
3630 to allow arbitrarily long lines, and incidentally supply a newline to
3631 files that do not end in a newline. These changes improve tic's
3632 recovery from attempts to read binary files, e.g., its output from
3633 the terminfo database (reported by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
3636 + revert change to c++/demo.cc from 20001209, which changed definition
3637 of main() apparently to accommodate cygwin linker, but broke the demo
3639 + workaround for broken egcs 2.91.66 which calls member functions
3640 (i.e., lines() and colors() of NCursesWindow before calling its
3641 constructor. Add calls to initialize() in a few constructors which
3642 did not do this already.
3643 + use the GNAT preprocessor to make the necessary switch between TRACE
3644 and NO_TRACE configurations (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3645 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
3646 + modify kterm terminfo entry to use SCS sequence to support alternate
3647 character set (it does not work with SI/SO).
3648 + --with-ospeed=something didn't work. configure.in checked for a
3649 $enableval where it should check for $withval. Also,
3650 ncurses/llib-lncurses still had a hardcoded short.
3653 + correction to my merge of Tom Riddle's patch that broke tic in some
3654 conditions (reported by Enoch Wexler <enoch@wexler.co.il>) -TD
3657 + modify view.c to test halfdelay(). Like other tests, this recognizes
3658 the 's' and space commands for stopping/starting polled input, shows
3659 a freerunning clock in the header. If given a parameter to 's', that
3660 makes view.c use halfdelay() with that parameter rather than
3662 + fix to allow compile with the experimental configure option
3664 + modify postprocess_termcap() to avoid overwriting key_backspace,
3665 key_left, key_down when processing a non-base entry (report/patch by
3667 + modify _nc_wrap_entry(), adding option to reallocate the string
3668 table, needed in _nc_merge_entry() when merging termcap entries.
3669 (adapted from report/patch by Tom Riddle <ftr@oracom.com>).
3670 + modify a few configure script macros to keep $CFLAGS used only for
3671 compiler options, preprocessor options in $CPPFLAGS.
3674 + correct marker positions in lrtest.c after receiving a sigwinch.
3675 + fix ifdef's in ncurses.c to build against pre-5.2 for testing.
3676 + fixes to tclock for resizing behavior, redundant computation (report
3677 and patch by A M Kuchling <akuchlin@mems-exchange.org>).
3680 + improved scoansi terminfo entry -TD
3681 + modify configure script and makefile in Ada95/src to compile a stub
3682 for the trace functions when ncurses does not provide those.
3685 + add ncurses_dll.h and related definitions to support generating DLL's
3686 with cygwin (adapted from a patch by Charles Wilson
3687 <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>, changed NCURSES_EXPORT macro to make it
3688 work with 'indent') -TD
3691 + correct prototypes for some functions in curs_termcap.3x, matching
3692 termcap.h, which matches X/Open.
3693 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
3694 + a revised version of the Ada enhancements sent in by "H.
3695 Nanosecond", aka Eugene V Melaragno <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>. This
3697 - small fixes to the existing ncurses binding
3698 - addition of some more low-level functions to the binding, including
3699 termcap and terminfo functions
3700 - An Ada implementation of the "ncurses" test application originally
3704 + modify logic in lib_setup.c to allow either lines or columns value
3705 from terminfo to be used if the screen size cannot be determined
3706 dynamically rather than requiring both (patch by Ehud Karni
3707 <ehud@unix.simonwiesel.co.il>).
3708 + add check in lib_tgoto.c's is_termcap() function to reject null or
3709 empty strings (reported by Valentin Nechayev <netch@netch.kiev.ua> to
3711 + add definition from configure script that denotes the path-separator,
3712 which is normally a colon. The path-separator is a semicolon on
3713 OS/2 EMX and similar systems which may use a colon within pathnames.
3714 + alter logic to set default for --disable-overwrite option to set it
3715 to 'yes' if the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr/local, thereby
3716 accommodating the most common cause of problems: gcc's nonstandard
3717 search rules. Other locations such as /usr/local/ncurses will
3718 default to overwriting (report by Lars Hecking <lhecking@nmrc.ie>).
3721 + modify default for --disable-overwrite configure option to disable
3722 if the --prefix or $prefix value is not /usr.
3723 + add cygwin to systems for which ncurses is installed by default into
3724 /usr rather than /usr/local.
3727 + minor optimization in comp_error.c and lib_termname.c, using
3728 strncat() to replace strncpy() (patch by Solar Designer).
3729 + add a use_terminfo_vars() check for $HOME/.termcap, and check for
3730 geteuid() to use_terminfo_vars() (patch by Solar Designer
3732 + improved cygwin terminfo entry, based on patch by
3733 <ernie_boyd@yahoo.com>.
3734 + modify _nc_write_entry() to allow for the possibility that linking
3735 aliases on a filesystem that ignores case would not succeed because
3736 the source and destination differ only by case, e.g., NCR260VT300WPP0
3737 on cygwin (report by Neil Zanella).
3738 + fix a typo in the curs_deleteln.3x man page (patch by Bernhard
3739 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
3742 + add configure option --with-ospeed to assist packagers in transition
3743 to 5.3 change to ospeed type.
3744 + add/use CharOf() macro to suppress sign-extension of char type on
3745 platforms where this is a problem in ctype macros, e.g., Solaris.
3746 + change trace output to binary format.
3747 + correct a missing quote adjustment in CF_PATH_SYNTAX autoconf
3748 macro, for OS/2 EMX configuration.
3749 + rearrange a few configure macros, moving preprocessor options to
3750 $CPPFLAGS (a now-obsolete version of autoconf did not consistently
3751 use $CPPFLAGS in both the compile and preprocessor checks).
3752 + add a check in relative_move() to guard against buffer overflow in
3753 the overwrite logic.
3756 + add message to configure script showing g++ version.
3757 + resync config.guess, config.sub
3758 + modify lib_delwin.c, making it return ERR if the window did not exist
3759 (suggested by Neil Zanella).
3760 + add cases for FreeBSD 3.1 to tdlint and makellib scripts, used this
3761 to test/review ncurses library. (Would use lclint, but it doesn't
3763 + reorganized knight.c to avoid forward references. Correct screen
3764 updates when backtracking, especially to the first cell. Add F/B/a
3767 20001021 5.2 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3768 + update generated html files from manpages.
3769 + modify dist.mk to use edit_man.sh to substitute autoconf'd variables
3771 + fix an uninitialized pointer in read_termcap.c (report by Todd C
3772 Miller, from report/patch by Philip Guenther <guenther@gac.edu>).
3773 + correct help-message and array limit in knight.c (patch by Brian
3774 Raiter <breadbox@muppetlabs.com>).
3775 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
3776 + fix to avoid warning by GNAT-3.13p about use of inconsistent casing
3777 for some identifiers defined in the standard package.
3778 + cosmetic change to forms/fty_enum.c
3781 + correct an off-by-one position in test/railroad.c which could cause
3782 wrapping at the right margin.
3783 + test/repair some issues with libtool configuration. Make
3784 --disable-echo force libtool --silent. (Libtool does not work for
3785 OS/2 EMX, works partly for SCO - libtool is still very specific to
3787 + change default of --with-manpage-tbl to "no", since for most of the
3788 platforms which do have tbl installed, the system "man" program
3789 understands how to run tbl automatically.
3790 + minor improvement to force_bar() in comp_parse.c (Bernhard
3791 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
3792 + modify lib_tparm.c to use get_space() before writing terminating
3793 null character, both for consistency as well as to ensure that if
3794 save_char() was called immediately before, that the allocated memory
3795 is enough (patch by Sergei Ivanov).
3796 + add note about termcap ML capability which is duplicated between two
3797 different capabilities: smgl and smglr (reported by Sergei Ivanov
3798 <svivanov@pdmi.ras.ru>).
3799 + correct parameter counts in include/Caps for dclk as well as some
3800 printer-specific capabilities: csnm, defc, scs, scsd, smgtp, smglp.
3801 > patch by Johnny C Lam <lamj@stat.cmu.edu>:
3802 + add support for building with libtool (apparently version 1.3.5,
3803 since old versions do not handle -L../lib), using new configure
3804 option --with-libtool.
3805 + add configure option --with-manpage-tbl, which causes the manpages to
3806 be preprocessed by tbl(1) prior to installation,
3807 + add configure option --without-curses-h, which causes the
3808 installation process to install curses.h as ncurses.h and make
3809 appropriate changes to headers and manpages.
3812 + correct order of options/parameters in run_tic.in invocation of tic,
3813 which did not work with standard getopt() (reported by Ethan
3814 Butterfield <primus@veris.org>).
3815 + correct logic for 'reverse' variable in lib_vidattr.c, which was
3816 setting it true without checking if newmode had A_REVERSE set, e.g.,
3817 using $TERM=ansi on OS/2 EMX (see 20000917).
3818 > patch by Todd C Miller:
3819 + add a few missing use_terminfo_vars() and fixes up _nc_tgetent().
3820 Previously, _nc_cgetset() would still get called on cp so the
3821 simplest thing is to set cp to NULL if !use_terminfo_vars().
3822 + added checks for an empty $HOME environment variable.
3823 > patches for OS/2 EMX (Ilya Zakharevich):
3824 + modify convert_configure.pl to support INSTALL. Change compiler
3825 options in that script to use multithreading, needed for the mouse.
3826 + modify OS/2 mouse support, retrying as a 2-button mouse if code fails
3827 to set up a 3-button mouse.
3828 + improve code for OS/2 mouse support, using _nc_timed_wait() to
3829 replace select() call.
3832 + change type of ospeed variable back to short to match its use in
3833 legacy applications (reported by Andrey A Chernov).
3834 + add case to configure script for --enable-rpath on IRIX (patch by
3835 Albert Chin-A-Young).
3836 + minor fix to position_check() function, to ensure it gets the whole
3837 cursor report before decoding.
3838 + add configure option --disable-assumed-color, to allow pre-5.1
3839 convention of default colors used for color-pair 0 to be configured
3840 (see assume_default_colors()).
3841 + rename configure option --enable-hashmap --disable-hashmap, and
3842 reorder the configure options, splitting the experimental and
3844 + add configure option --disable-root-environ, which tells ncurses to
3845 disregard $TERMINFO and similar environment variables if the current
3846 user is root, or running setuid/setgid (based on discussion with
3848 + modified misc/run_tic.in to use tic -o, to eliminate dependency on
3849 $TERMINFO variable for installs.
3850 + add table entry for plab_norm to tput, so it passes in strings
3851 for that capability.
3852 + modify parse_format() in lib_tparm.c to ignore precision if it is
3853 longer than 10000 (report by Jouko Pynnonen).
3854 + rewrote limit checks in lib_mvcur.c using new functions
3855 _nc_safe_strcat(), etc. Made other related changes to check lengths
3856 used for strcat/strcpy (report by Jouko Pynnonen
3857 <jouko@solutions.fi>).
3860 + modify several descriptions, including those for setaf, setab, in
3861 include/Caps to indicate that the entries are parameterized. This
3862 information is used to tell which strings are translated when
3863 converting to termcap. Fixes a problem where the generated termcap
3864 would contain a spurious "%p1" for the terminfo "%p1%d".
3865 + modify ld -rpath options (e.g., Linux, and Solaris) to use an
3866 absolute pathname for the build tree's lib directory (prompted by
3867 discussion with Albert Chin-A-Young).
3868 + modify "make install.man" and "make uninstall.man" to include tack's
3870 + various fixes for install scripts used to support configure --srcdir
3871 and --with-install-prefix (reported by Matthew Clarke
3872 <Matthew_Clarke@mindlink.bc.ca>).
3873 + make configure script checks on variables $GCC and $GXX consistently
3874 compare against 'yes' rather than test if they are nonnull, since
3875 either may be set to the corresponding name of the C or C++ compiler
3876 (report/patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3879 + modify rs2 capability in xterm-r6 and similar where cursor
3880 save/restore bracketed the sequence for resetting video attributes.
3881 The cursor restore would undo that (report by John Hawkinson
3882 <jhawk@MIT.EDU> (see NetBSD misc/11052)).
3883 + using parameter check added to tic, corrected 27 typos in
3885 + modify tic to verify that its inputs are really files, in case
3886 someone tries to read a directory (or /dev/zero).
3887 + add a check for empty buffers returned by fgets() in comp_scan.c
3888 next_char() function, in case tic is run on a non-text file (fixes
3889 a core dump reported by Aaron Campbell <aaron@cs.dal.ca>).
3890 + add to railroad.c some code exercising tgoto(), providing an
3891 alternate form of display if the terminal supports cursor addressing.
3892 + split-out tgoto() again, this time into new file lib_tgoto.c, and
3893 implement a conventional BSD-style tgoto() which is used if the
3894 capability string does not contain terminfo-style padding or
3895 parameters (requested by Andrey A Chernov).
3896 + add check to tic which reports capabilities that do not reference
3897 the expected number of parameters.
3898 + add error checking to infocmp's -v and -m options to ensure that
3899 the option value is indeed a number.
3900 + some cleanup of logic in _nc_signal_handler() to verify if SIGWINCH
3901 handler is setup. Separated the old/new sigaction data for SIGTSTP
3902 from the other signals.
3905 + add S0, E0 extensions to screen's terminfo entry, which is another
3906 way to solve the misconfiguration issue -TD
3907 + completed special case for tgoto from 20000916
3910 + update xterm terminfo entries to match XFree86 xterm patch #146 -TD
3911 + add Matrix Orbital terminfo entries (from Eric Z Ayers
3913 + add special case to lib_tparm.c to allow 'screen' program to use a
3914 termcap-style parameter "%." to tgoto() for switching character sets.
3915 + use LN_S substitution in run_tic.in, to work on OS/2 EMX which has
3917 + updated notes in README.emx regarding autoconf patches.
3918 + replace a lookup table in lib_vidattr.c used to decode no_color_video
3919 with a logic expression (suggested by Philippe Blain).
3920 + add a/A toggle to ncurses.c 'b' test, which clears/sets alternate
3921 character set attribute from the displayed text.
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