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31 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
32 working with Pavel Curtis' original work, pcurses, in 1992.
34 Changes through 1.9.9e are recorded by Zeyd M Ben-Halim.
35 Changes since 1.9.9e are recorded by Thomas E Dickey.
37 Contributors include those who have provided patches (even small ones), as well
38 as those who provide useful information (bug reports, analyses). Changes with
39 no cited author are the work of Thomas E Dickey (TD).
41 A few contributors are given in this file by their initials.
42 They each account for one percent or more of the changes since 1.9.9e.
43 See the AUTHORS file for the corresponding full names.
45 Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
46 it is not possible to add this information.
49 + add configure check to determine if "local: _*;" can be used in the
50 ".map" files to selectively omit symbols beginning with "_". On at
51 least recent FreeBSD, the wildcard applies to all "_" symbols.
52 + remove obsolete/conflicting rule for ncurses.map from
53 ncurses/Makefile.in (cf: 20130706).
56 + improve description in INSTALL of the --with-versioned-syms option.
57 + add combination of --with-hashed-db and --with-ticlib to
58 configurations for ".map" files (report by Werner Fink).
61 + add a step to generating ".map" files, to declare any remaining
62 symbols beginning with "_" as local, at the last version node.
63 + improve configure checks for pkg-config, addressing a variant found
65 + modify win_driver.c to provide characters for special keys, like
66 ansi.sys, when keypad mode is off, rather than returning nothing at
67 all (discussion with Eli Zaretskii).
68 + add "broken_linker" and "hashed-db" configure options to combinations
69 use for generating the ".map" and ".sym" files.
70 + avoid using "ld" directly when creating shared library, to simplify
71 cross-compiles. Also drop "-Bsharable" option from shared-library
72 rules for FreeBSD and DragonFly (FreeBSD #196592).
73 + fix a memory leak in form library Free_RegularExpression_Type()
74 (report by Pavel Balaev).
77 + modify_nc_flush() to retry if interrupted (patch by Stian Skjelstad).
78 + change map files to make _nc_freeall a global, since it may be used
79 via the Ada95 binding when checking for memory leaks.
80 + improve sed script used in 20141220 to account for wide-, threaded-
84 + regenerate ".map" files, using step overlooked in 20141213 to use
85 the same patch-dates across each file to match ncurses.map (report by
89 + fix an incorrect variable assignment in 20141220 changes (report by
93 + updated Ada95/configure with macro changes from 20141213
94 + tie configure options --with-abi-version and --with-versioned-syms
95 together, so that ABI 6 libraries have distinct symbol versions from
97 + replace obsolete/nonworking link to man2html with current one,
98 regenerate html-manpages.
101 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to add -I option for include-directory
102 when using both --prefix and --disable-overwrite (report by Misty
104 + add configure option --with-pc-suffix to allow minor renaming of
105 ".pc" files and the corresponding library. Use this in the test
106 package for ncurses6.
107 + modify configure script so that if pkg-config is not installed, it
108 is still possible to install ".pc" files (report by Misty De Meo).
109 + updated ".sym" files, removing symbols which are marked as "local"
110 in the corresponding ".map" files.
111 + updated ".map" files to reflect move of comp_captab and comp_hash
112 from tic-library to tinfo-library in 20090711 (report by Sven
116 + updated ".map" files so that each symbol that may be shared across
117 the different library configurations has the same label. Some
118 review is needed to ensure these are really compatible.
119 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to work around change in development version of
121 https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-06/msg02185.html
122 https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-07/msg00236.html
123 (reports by Marcus Shawcroft, Maohui Lei).
124 + improved configure macro CF_SUBDIR_PATH, from lynx changes.
127 + improved ".map" files by generating them with a script that builds
128 ncurses with several related configurations and merges the results.
129 A further refinement is planned, to make the tic- and tinfo-library
130 symbols use the same versions across each of the four configurations
131 which are represented (reports by Sven Joachim, Werner Fink).
134 + improve description of limits for color values and color pairs in
135 curs_color.3x (prompted by patch by Tim van der Molen).
136 + add VERSION file, using first field in that to record the ABI version
137 used for configure --with-libtool --disable-libtool-version
138 + add configure options for applying the ".map" and ".sym" files to
139 the ncurses, form, menu and panel libraries.
140 + add ".map" and ".sym" files to show exported symbols, e.g., for
144 + improve strict compiler-warnings by adding a cast in TRACE_RETURN
145 and making a new TRACE_RETURN1 macro for cases where the cast does
149 + in-progress changes to integrate the win32 console driver with the
153 + reviewed terminology 0.6.1, add function key definitions. None of
154 the vt100-compatibility issues were improved -TD
155 + improve infocmp conversion of extended capabilities to termcap by
156 correcting the limit check against parametrized[], as well as filling
157 in a check if the string happens to have parameters, e.g., "xm"
159 + add check for zero/negative dimensions for resizeterm and resize_term
160 (report by Mike Gran).
163 + add experimental support for xterm's 1005 mouse mode, to use in a
164 demonstration of its limitations.
165 + add experimental support for "%u" format to terminfo.
166 + modify test/ncurses.c to also show position reports in 'a' test.
167 + minor formatting fixes to _nc_trace_mmask_t, make this function
168 exported to help with debugging mouse changes.
169 + improve behavior of wheel-mice for xterm protocol, noting that there
170 are only button-presses for buttons "4" and "5", so there is no need
171 to wait to combine events into double-clicks (report/analysis by
173 + provide examples xterm-1005 and xterm-1006 terminfo entries -TD
174 + implement decoder for xterm SGR 1006 mouse mode.
177 + implement curs_set in win_driver.c
178 + implement flash in win_driver.c
179 + fix an infinite loop in win_driver.c if the command-window loses
181 + improve the non-buffered mode, i.e., NCURSES_CONSOLE2, of
182 win_driver.c by temporarily changing the buffer-size to match the
183 window-size to eliminate the scrollback. Also enforce a minimum
184 screen-size of 24x80 in the non-buffered mode.
185 + modify generated misc/Makefile to suppress install.data from the
186 dependencies if the --disable-db-install option is used, compensating
187 for the top-level makefile changes used to add ncurses*-config in the
188 20140920 changes (report by Steven Honeyman).
191 + add ncurses*-config to bin-directory of sample package-scripts.
192 + add check to ensure that getopt is available; this is a problem in
193 some older cross-compiler environments.
194 + expanded on the description of --disable-overwrite in INSTALL
195 (prompted by reports by Joakim Tjernlund, Thomas Klausner).
196 See Gentoo #522586 and NetBSD #49200 for examples.
197 which relates to the clarified guidelines.
198 + remove special logic from CF_INCLUDE_DIRS which adds the directory
199 for the --includedir from the build (report by Joakim Tjernlund).
200 + add case for Unixware to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, from lynx changes.
201 + update config.sub from
202 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
205 + add a configure check to ignore some of the plethora of non-working
207 + build-fixes for Ada95 with gnat 4.9
210 + build-fix and other improvements for port of ncurses-examples to
212 + minor compiler-warning fixes.
215 + modify test/demo_termcap.c and test/demo_terminfo.c to make their
216 options more directly comparable, and add "-i" option to specify
217 a terminal description filename to parse for names to lookup.
220 + fix special case where double-width character overwrites a single-
221 width character in the first column (report by Egmont Koblinger,
225 + fix colors in ncurses 'b' test which did not work after changing
226 it to put the test-strings in subwindows (cf: 20140705).
227 + merge redundant SEE-ALSO sections in form and menu manpages.
230 + modify declarations for user-data pointers in C++ binding to use
231 reinterpret_cast to facilitate converting typed pointers to void*
232 in user's application (patch by Adam Jiang).
233 + regenerated html manpages.
234 + add note regarding cause and effect for TERM in ncurses manpage,
235 having noted clueless verbiage in Terminal.app's "help" file
236 which reverses cause/effect.
237 + remove special fallback definition for NCURSES_ATTR_T, since macros
238 have resolved type-mismatches using casts (cf: 970412).
239 + fixes for win_driver.c:
240 + handle repainting on endwin/refresh combination.
245 + minor portability fixes for MinGW:
246 + ensure WINVER is defined in makefiles rather than using headers
247 + add check for gnatprep "-T" option
248 + work around bug introduced by gcc 4.8.1 in MinGW which breaks
250 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20877689/gcc-4-8-1-minggw-d-option-does-not-work-as-usual
251 + fix most compiler warnings for Cygwin ncurses-examples.
252 + restore "redundant" -I options in test/Makefile.in, since they are
253 typically needed when building the derived ncurses-examples package
257 + eliminate some redundant -I options used for building libraries, and
258 ensure that ${srcdir} is added to the include-options (prompted by
259 discussion with Paul Gilmartin).
260 + modify configure script to work with Minix3.2
261 + add form library extension O_DYNAMIC_JUSTIFY option which can be
262 used to override the different treatment of justification for static
263 versus dynamic fields (adapted from patch by Leon Winter).
264 + add a null pointer check in test/edit_field.c (report/analysis by
265 Leon Winter, cf: 20130608).
268 + make workarounds for compiling test-programs with NetBSD curses.
269 + improve configure macro CF_ADD_LIBS, to eliminate repeated -l/-L
270 options, from xterm changes.
273 + correct Charable() macro check for A_ALTCHARSET in wide-characters.
274 + build-fix for position-debug code in tty_update.c, to work with or
278 + add w/W toggle to ncurses.c 'B' test, to demonstrate permutation of
279 video-attributes and colors with double-width character strings.
282 + correct check in win_driver.c for saving screen contents, e.g., when
283 NCURSES_CONSOLE2 is set (cf: 20140503).
284 + reorganize b/B menu items in ncurses.c, putting the test-strings into
285 subwindows. This is needed for a planned change to use Unicode
286 fullwidth characters in the test-screens.
287 + correct update to form status for _NEWTOP, broken by fixes for
288 compiler warnings (patch by Leon Winter, cf: 20120616).
291 + change shared-library suffix for AIX 5 and 6 to ".so", avoiding
292 conflict with the static library (report by Ben Lentz).
293 + document RPATH_LIST in INSTALLATION file, as part of workarounds for
294 upgrading an ncurses library using the "--with-shared" option.
295 + modify test/ncurses.c c/C tests to cycle through subsets of the
296 total number of colors, to better illustrate 8/16/88/256-colors by
297 providing directly comparable screens.
298 + add test/dots_curses.c, for comparison with the low-level examples.
301 + fix dereference before null check found by Coverity in tic.c
303 + fix sign-extension bug in read_entry.c which prevented "toe" from
304 reading empty "screen+italics" entry.
305 + modify sgr for screen.xterm-new to support dim capability -TD
306 + add dim capability to nsterm+7 -TD
307 + cancel dim capability for iterm -TD
308 + add dim, invis capabilities to vte-2012 -TD
309 + add sitm/ritm to konsole-base and mlterm3 -TD
312 > fix regression in screen terminfo entries (reports by Christian
313 Ebert, Gabriele Balducci) -TD
314 + revert the change to screen; see notes for why this did not work -TD
315 + cancel sitm/ritm for entries which extend "screen", to work around
316 screen's hardcoded behavior for SGR 3 -TD
319 + separate masking for sgr in vidputs from sitm/ritm, which do not
320 overlap with sgr functionality.
321 + remove unneeded -i option from adacurses-config; put -a in the -I
322 option for consistency (patch by Pascal Pignard).
323 + update xterm-new terminfo entry to xterm patch #305 -TD
324 + change format of test-scripts for Debian Ada95 and ncurses-examples
325 packages to quilted to work around Debian #700177 (cf: 20130907).
326 + build fix for form_driver_w.c as part of ncurses-examples package for
327 older ncurses than 20131207.
328 + add Hello World example to adacurses-config manpage.
329 + remove unused --enable-pc-files option from Ada95/configure.
330 + add --disable-gnat-projects option for testing.
331 + revert changes to Ada95 project-files configuration (cf: 20140524).
332 + corrected usage message in adacurses-config.
335 + fix typo in ncurses manpage for the NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE
336 environment variable.
337 + improve discussion of input-echoing in curs_getch.3x
338 + clarify discussion in curs_addch.3x of wrapping.
339 + modify parametrized.h to make fln non-padded.
340 + correct several entries which had termcap-style padding used in
341 terminfo: adm21, aj510, alto-h19, att605-pc, x820 -TD
342 + correct syntax for padding in some entries: dg211, h19 -TD
343 + correct ti924-8 which had confused padding versus octal escapes -TD
344 + correct padding in sbi entry -TD
345 + fix an old bug in the termcap emulation; "%i" was ignored in tparm()
346 because the parameters to be incremented were already on the internal
347 stack (report by Corinna Vinschen).
348 + modify tic's "-c" option to take into account the "-C" option to
349 activate additional checks which compare the results from running
350 tparm() on the terminfo expressions versus the translated termcap
352 + modify tic to allow it to read from FIFOs (report by Matthieu Fronton,
354 > patches by Nicolas Boulenguez:
355 + explicit dereferences to suppress some style warnings.
356 + when c_varargs_to_ada.c includes its header, use double quotes
358 + samples/ncurses2-util.adb: removed unused with clause. The warning
359 was removed by an obsolete pragma.
360 + replaced Unreferenced pragmas with Warnings (Off). The latter,
361 available with older GNATs, needs no configure test. This also
362 replaces 3 untested Unreferenced pragmas.
363 + simplified To_C usage in trace handling. Using two parameters allows
364 some basic formatting, and avoids a warning about security with some
366 + for generated Ada sources, replace many snippets with one pure
368 + removed C_Chtype and its conversions.
369 + removed C_AttrType and its conversions.
370 + removed conversions between int, Item_Option_Set, Menu_Option_Set.
371 + removed int, Field_Option_Set, Item_Option_Set conversions.
372 + removed C_TraceType, Attribute_Option_Set conversions.
373 + replaced C.int with direct use of Eti_Error, now enumerated. As it
374 was used in a case statement, values were tested by the Ada compiler
375 to be consecutive anyway.
376 + src/Makefile.in: remove duplicate stanza
377 + only consider using a project for shared libraries.
378 + style. Silent gnat-4.9 warning about misplaced "then".
379 + generate shared library project to honor ADAFLAGS, LDFLAGS.
382 + cleanup recently introduced compiler warnings for MingW port.
383 + workaround for ${MAKEFLAGS} configure check versus GNU make 4.0,
384 which introduces more than one gratuitous incompatibility.
387 + add vt520ansi terminfo entry (patch by Mike Gran)
388 + further improve MinGW support for the scenario where there is an
389 ANSI-escapes handler such as ansicon running in the console window
390 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
393 + add --disable-lib-suffixes option (adapted from patch by Juergen
395 + merge some changes from Juergen Pfeifer's work with MSYS2, to
396 simplify later merging:
397 + use NC_ISATTY() macro for isatty() in library
398 + add _nc_mingw_isatty() and related functions to windows-driver
399 + rename terminal driver entrypoints to simplify grep's
400 + remove a check in the sp-funcs flavor of newterm() which allowed only
401 the first call to newterm() to succeed (report by Thomas Beierlein,
405 + update config.guess, config.sub from
406 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
409 + modify configure script:
410 + drop the -no-gcc option from Intel compiler, from lynx changes.
411 + extend the --with-hashed-db configure option to simplify building
412 with different versions of Berkeley database using FreeBSD ports.
413 + improve initialization for MinGW port (Juergen Pfeifer):
414 + enforce Windows-style path-separator if cross-compiling,
415 + add a driver-name method to each of the drivers,
416 + allow the Windows driver name to match "unknown", ignoring case,
417 + lengthen the built-in name for the Windows console driver to
419 + move the comparison of driver-names allowing abbreviation, e.g.,
420 to "#win32con" into the Windows console driver.
423 + add check in tic for mismatch between ccc and initp/initc
424 + cancel ccc in putty-256color and konsole-256color for consistency
425 with the cancelled initc capability (patch by Sven Zuhlsdorf).
426 + add xterm+256setaf building block for various terminals which only
427 get the 256-color feature half-implemented -TD
428 + updated "st" entry (leaving the 0.1.1 version as "simpleterm") to
432 + fix typo in "mlterm" entry (report by Gabriele Balducci) -TD
435 + use types from <stdint.h> in sample build-scripts for chtype, etc.
436 + modify configure script and curses.h.in to allow the types specified
437 using --with-chtype and related options to be defined in <stdint.h>
438 + add terminology entry -TD
439 + add mlterm3 entry, use that as "mlterm" -TD
440 + inherit mlterm-256color from mlterm -TD
443 + modify _nc_New_TopRow_and_CurrentItem() to ensure that the menu's
444 top-row is adjusted as needed to ensure that the current item is
445 on the screen (patch by Johann Klammer).
446 + add wgetdelay() to retrieve _delay member of WINDOW if it happens to
447 be opaque, e.g., in the pthread configuration (prompted by patch by
451 + modify ifdef in read_entry.c to handle the case where
452 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE is not defined (patch by Xin Li).
453 + add cast in form_driver_w() to fix ARM build (patch by Xin Li).
454 + add logic to win_driver.c to save/restore screen contents when not
455 allocating a console-buffer (cf: 20140215).
458 + clarify error-returns from newwin (report by Ruslan Nabioullin).
461 + fix some compiler warnings in win_driver.c
462 + updated notes for wsvt25 based on tack and vttest -TD
463 + add teken entry to show actual properties of FreeBSD's "xterm"
467 + in-progress changes to win_driver.c to implement output without
468 allocating a console-buffer. This uses a pre-existing environment
469 variable NCGDB used by Juergen Pfeifer for debugging (prompted by
470 discussion with Erwin Waterlander regarding Console2, which hangs
471 when reading in an allocated console-buffer).
472 + add -t option to gdc.c, and modify to accept "S" to step through the
474 + regenerate NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html to fix some of the broken
475 html emitted by docbook.
478 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to omit followup check to determine if
479 _XOPEN_SOURCE can/should be defined. g++ 4.7.2 built on Solaris 10
480 has some header breakage due to its own predefinition of this symbol
481 (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15796).
484 + add/use symbol NCURSES_PAIRS_T like NCURSES_COLOR_T, to illustrate
485 which "short" types are for color pairs and which are color values.
486 + fix build for s390x, by correcting field bit offsets in generated
487 representation clauses when int=32 long=64 and endian=big, or at
488 least on s390x (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
489 + minor cleanup change to test/form_driver_w.c (patch by Gaute Hope).
492 + remove unnecessary ifdef's in Ada95/gen/gen.c, which reportedly do
493 not work as is with gcc 4.8 due to fixes using chtype cast made for
494 new compiler warnings by gcc 4.8 in 20130824 (Debian #735753, patch
495 by Nicolas Boulenguez).
498 + apply includesubdir variable which was introduced in 20130805 to
499 gen-pkgconfig.in (Debian #735782).
502 + further improved man2html, used this to fix broken links in html
504 ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/man2html
507 + modify configure-script/ifdef's to allow OLD_TTY feature to be
508 suppressed if the type of ospeed is configured using the option
509 --with-ospeed to not be a short. By default, it is a short for
510 termcap-compatibility (adapted from suggestion by Christian
512 + correct a typo in _nc_baudrate() (patch by Christian Weisgerber,
514 + fix a few -Wlogical-op warnings.
515 + updated llib-l* files.
518 + add form_driver_w() entrypoint to wide-character forms library, as
519 well as test program form_driver_w (adapted from patch by Gaute
523 + minor fix for CF_GCC_WARNINGS to special-case options which are not
527 + add special case to configure script to move _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
528 definition from CPPFLAGS to CFLAGS if it happens to be needed for
529 Solaris, because g++ errors with that definition (report by
530 Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15268).
531 + correct logic in infocmp's -i option which was intended to ignore
532 strings which correspond to function-keys as candidates for piecing
533 together initialization- or reset-strings. The problem dates to
534 1.9.7a, but was overlooked until changes in -Wlogical-op warnings for
535 gcc 4.8 (report by David Binderman).
536 + updated CF_GCC_WARNINGS to documented options for gcc 4.9.0, adding
537 checks for -Wextra, -Wignored-qualifiers and -Wlogical-op
538 + updated CF_GCC_WARNINGS to documented options for gcc 4.9.0, moving
539 checks for -Wextra and -Wdeclaration-after-statement into the macro,
540 and adding checks for -Wignored-qualifiers, -Wlogical-op and
542 + updated CF_CURSES_UNCTRL_H and CF_SHARED_OPTS macros from ongoing
544 + update config.sub from
545 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
548 + minor cleanup of terminfo.tail
551 + use TS extension to describe xterm's title-escapes -TD
552 + modify terminator and nsterm-s to use xterm+sl-twm building block -TD
553 + update hurd.ti, add xenl to reflect 2011-03-06 change in
554 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/hurd.git/log/console/display.c
556 + simplify pfkey expression in ansi.sys -TD
559 + correct/simplify ifdef's for cur_term versus broken-linker and
560 reentrant options (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, cf: 20090530).
561 + modify release/version combinations in test build-scripts to make
562 them more consistent with other packages.
565 + add nc_mingw.h to installed headers for MinGW port; needed for
566 compiling ncurses-examples.
567 + add rpm-script for testing cross-compile of ncurses-examples.
570 + fix new typo in CF_ADA_INCLUDE_DIRS macro (report by Roumen Petrov).
573 + fix a few compiler warnings in progs and test.
574 + minor fix to package/debian-mingw/rules, do not strip dll's.
575 + minor fixes to configure script for empty $prefix, e.g., when doing
576 cross-compiles to MinGW.
577 + add script for building test-packages of binaries cross-compiled to
581 + minor fixes for ncurses-example package and makefile.
582 + add scripts for test-builds of cross-compiler packages for ncurses6
586 + some build-fixes for ncurses-examples with NetBSD-6.0 curses, though
587 it lacks some common functions such as use_env() which is not yet
589 + build-fix and some compiler warning fixes for ncurses-examples with
591 + fix a possible null-pointer reference in a trace message from newterm.
592 + quiet a few warnings from NetBSD 6.0 namespace pollution by
593 nonstandard popcount() function in standard strings.h header.
594 + ignore g++ 4.2.1 warnings for "-Weffc++" in c++/cursesmain.cc
595 + fix a few overlooked places for --enable-string-hacks option.
598 + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130831).
599 + build-fix for --with-shared option for DragonFly and FreeBSD (report
600 by Rong-En Fan, cf: 20130727).
603 + build-fixes for MSYS for two test-programs (patches by Ray Donnelly,
605 + revert change to two of the dpkg format files, to work with dpkg
606 before/after Debian #700177.
607 + fix gcc -Wconversion warning in wattr_get() macro.
608 + add msys and msysdll to known host/configuration types (patch by
610 + modify CF_RPATH_HACK configure macro to not rely upon "-u" option
611 of sort, improving portability.
612 + minor improvements for test-programs from reviewing Solaris port.
613 + update config.guess, config.sub from
614 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
617 + modify test/ncurses.c b/B tests to display lines only for the
618 attributes which a given terminal supports, to make room for an
620 + completed ncv table in terminfo.tail; it did not list the wide
621 character codes listed in X/Open Curses issue 7.
622 + add A_ITALIC extension (prompted by discussion with Egmont Koblinger).
625 + fix some gcc 4.8 -Wconversion warnings.
626 + change format of dpkg test-scripts to quilted to work around bug
627 introduced by Debian #700177.
628 + discard cached keyname() values if meta() is changed after a value
629 was cached using (report by Kurban Mallachiev).
632 + add checks in tic to warn about terminals which lack cursor
633 addressing, capabilities or having those, are marked as hard_copy or
635 + use --without-progs in mingw-ncurses rpm.
636 + split out _nc_init_termtype() from alloc_entry.c to use in MinGW
637 port when tic and other programs are not needed.
640 + minor fixes to the --disable-overwrite logic, to ensure that the
641 configured $(includedir) is not cancelled by the mingwxx-filesystem
643 + add --disable-db-install configure option, to simplify building
644 cross-compile support packages.
645 + add mingw-ncurses.spec file, for testing cross-compiles.
648 + improve configure macros from ongoing work on cdk, dialog, xterm:
649 + CF_ADD_LIB_AFTER - fix a problem with -Wl options
650 + CF_RPATH_HACK - add missing result-message
651 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify to use $rel_builddir in cygwin and mingw
652 dll symbols (which can be overridden) rather than explicit "../".
653 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify NetBSD and DragonFly symbols to use ${CC}
654 rather than ${LD} to improve rpath support.
655 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - add a symbol to denote the temporary files that
656 are created by the macro, to simplify clean-rules.
657 + CF_X_ATHENA - trim extra libraries to work with -Wl,--as-needed
658 + fix a regression in hashed-database support for NetBSD, which uses
659 the key-size differently from other implementations (cf: 20121229).
662 + further improvements for setupterm manpage, clarifying the
663 initialization of cur_term.
666 + improve manpages for initscr and setupterm.
667 + minor compiler-warning fixes
670 + add fallback defs for <inttypes.h> and <stdint.h> (cf: 20120225).
671 + add check for size of wchar_t, use that to suppress a chunk of
672 wcwidth.h in MinGW port.
673 + quiet linker warnings for MinGW cross-compile with dll's using the
674 --enable-auto-import flag.
675 + add ncurses.map rule to ncurses/Makefile to help diagnose symbol
679 + modify the clear program to take into account the E3 extended
680 capability to clear the terminal's scrollback buffer (patch by
681 Miroslav Lichvar, Redhat #815790).
682 + clarify in resizeterm manpage that LINES and COLS are updated.
683 + updated ansi example in terminfo.tail, correct misordered example
685 + fix other doclifter warnings for manpages
686 + remove unnecessary ".ta" in terminfo.tail, add missing ".fi"
687 (patch by Eric Raymond).
690 + minor changes to some configure macros to make them more reusable.
691 + fixes for tabs program (prompted by report by Nick Andrik).
692 + corrected logic in command-line parsing of -a and -c predefined
694 + allow "-0" and "-8" options to be combined with others, e.g.,"-0d".
695 + make warning messages more consistent with the other utilities by
696 not printing the full pathname of the program.
697 + add -V option for consistency with other utilities.
698 + fix off-by-one in columns for tabs program when processing an option
699 such as "-5" (patch by Nick Andrik).
702 + add to test/demo_forms.c examples of using the menu-hooks as well
703 as showing how the menu item user-data can be used to pass a callback
705 + add test/dots_termcap.c
706 + remove setupterm call from test/demo_termcap.c
707 + build-fix if --disable-ext-funcs configure option is used.
708 + modified test/edit_field.c and test/demo_forms.c to move the lengths
709 into a user-data structure, keeping the original string for later
710 expansion to free-format input/out demo.
711 + modified test/demo_forms.c to load data from file.
712 + added note to clarify Terminal.app's non-emulation of the various
713 terminal types listed in the preferences dialog -TD
714 + fix regression in error-reporting in lib_setup.c (Debian #711134,
716 + build-fix for a case where --enable-broken_linker and
717 --enable-reentrant options are combined (report by George R Goffe).
720 + modify mvcur() to distinguish between internal use by the ncurses
721 library, and external callers, preventing it from reading the content
722 of the screen which is only nonblank when curses calls have updated
723 it. This makes test/dots_mvcur.c avoid painting colored cells in
724 the left margin of the display.
725 + minor fix to test/dots_mvcur.c
726 + move configured symbols USE_DATABASE and USE_TERMCAP to term.h as
727 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE and NCURSES_USE_TERMCAP to allow consistent
728 use of these symbols in term_entry.h
731 + corrected ifdefs in test/testcurs.c to allow comparison of mouse
732 interface versus pdcurses (cf: 20130316).
733 + add pow() to configure-check for math library, needed since
734 20121208 for test/hanoi (Debian #708056).
735 + regenerated html manpages.
736 + update doctype used for html documentation.
739 + move nsterm-related entries out of "obsolete" section to more
740 plausible "ansi consoles" -TD
741 + additional cleanup of table-of-contents by reordering -TD
742 + revise fix for check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch(); prior fix
743 prevented inserts when video attributes were attached to the data
744 (cf: 20121215) (Redhat #959534).
747 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
748 + correct FNKEY() macro in progs/dump_entry.c, allowing kf11-kf63 to
749 display when infocmp's -R option is used for HP or AIX subsets.
750 + fix dead-code issue with test/movewindow.c
751 + improve limited-checking in _nc_read_termtype().
754 + fix clang 3.2 warning in progs/dump_entry.c
755 + drop AC_TYPE_SIGNAL check; ncurses relies on c89 and later.
758 + add MinGW to cases where ncurses installs by default into /usr
759 (prompted by discussion with Daniel Silva Ferreira).
760 + add -D option to infocmp's usage-message (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
761 + add a missing 'int' type for main function in configure check for
762 type of bool variable, to work with clang 3.2 (report by Dmitri
764 + improve configure check for static_cast, to work with clang 3.2
765 (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
766 + re-order rule for demo.o and macros defining header dependencies in
767 c++/Makefile.in to accommodate gmake (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
770 + improve parameter checking in copywin().
771 + modify configure script to work around OS X's "libtool" program, to
772 choose glibtool instead. At the same time, chance the autoconf macro
773 to look for a "tool" rather than a "prog", to help with potential use
775 + separate the rpath usage for c++ library from demo program
777 + update/correct header-dependencies in c++ makefile (report by Werner
779 + add --with-cxx-shared to dpkg-script, as done for rpm-script.
782 + build-fix for libtool configuration (reports by Daniel Silva Ferreira
786 + build-fix for OS X, to handle changes for --with-cxx-shared feature
787 (report by Christian Ebert).
788 + change initialization for vt220, similar entries for consistency
789 with cursor-key strings (NetBSD #47674) -TD
790 + further improvements to linux-16color (Benjamin Sittler)
793 + additional fix for tic.c, to allocate missing buffer space.
794 + eliminate configure-script warnings for gen-pkgconfig.in
795 + correct typo in sgr string for sun-color,
796 add bold for consistency with sgr,
797 change smso for consistency with sgr -TD
798 + correct typo in sgr string for terminator -TD
799 + add blink to the attributes masked by ncv in linux-16color (report
801 + improve warning message from post-load checking for missing "%?"
802 operator by tic/infocmp by showing the entry name and capability.
803 + minor formatting improvement to tic/infocmp -f option to ensure
804 line split after "%;".
805 + amend scripting for --with-cxx-shared option to handle the debug
806 library "libncurses++_g.a" (report by Sven Joachim).
809 + amend change to toe.c for reading from /dev/zero, to ensure that
810 there is a buffer for the temporary filename (cf: 20120324).
811 + regenerated html manpages.
812 + fix typo in terminfo.head (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130302).
813 + updated some autoconf macros:
814 + CF_ACVERSION_CHECK, from byacc 1.9 20130304
815 + CF_INTEL_COMPILER, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE from luit 2.0-20130217
816 + add configure option --with-cxx-shared to permit building
817 libncurses++ as a shared library when using g++, e.g., the same
818 limitations as libtool but better integrated with the usual build
819 configuration (Redhat #911540).
820 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to filter out build-path which was unnecessarily
821 shown in curses.h (Debian #689131).
824 + add section to terminfo manpage discussing user-defined capabilities.
825 + update manpage description of NCURSES_NO_SETBUF, explaining why it
827 + add a check in waddch_nosync() to ensure that tab characters are
828 treated as control characters; some broken locales claim they are
830 + add some traces to the Windows console driver.
831 + initialize a temporary array in _nc_mbtowc, needed for some cases
832 of raw input in MinGW port.
835 + correct ifdef on change to lib_twait.c (report by Werner Fink).
836 + update config.guess, config.sub
839 + modify test/testcurs.c to work with mouse for ncurses as it does for
841 + modify test/knight.c to work with mouse for pdcurses as it does for
843 + modify internal recursion in wgetch() which handles cooked mode to
844 check if the call to wgetnstr() returned an error. This can happen
845 when both nocbreak() and nodelay() are set, for instance (report by
846 Nils Christopher Brause) (cf: 960418).
847 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
848 + add a check for valid position in ClearToEOS()
849 + fix in lib_twait.c when --enable-wgetch-events is used, pointer
851 + improve a limit-check in make_hash.c
852 + fix a memory leak in hashed_db.c
855 + modify test/configure script to make it simpler to override names
856 of curses-related libraries, to help with linking with pdcurses in
858 + if the --with-terminfo-dirs configure option is not used, there is
859 no corresponding compiled-in value for that. Fill in "no default
860 value" for that part of the manpage substitution.
863 + correct initialization in knight.c which let it occasionally make
864 an incorrect move (cf: 20001028).
865 + improve documentation of the terminfo/termcap search path.
868 + further fixes to mvcur to pass callback function (cf: 20130112),
869 needed to make test/dots_mvcur work.
870 + reduce calls to SetConsoleActiveScreenBuffer in win_driver.c, to
872 + modify configure script to omit "+b" from linker options for very
873 old HP-UX systems (report by Dennis Grevenstein)
874 + add HP-UX workaround for missing EILSEQ on old HP-UX systems (patch
875 by Dennis Grevenstein).
876 + restore memmove/strdup support for antique systems (request by
878 + change %l behavior in tparm to push the string length onto the stack
879 rather than saving the formatted length into the output buffer
880 (report by Roy Marples, cf: 980620).
883 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
884 + fix memory leak in safe_sprintf.c
885 + add check for return-value in tty_update.c
886 + correct initialization for -s option in test/view.c
887 + add check for numeric overflow in lib_instr.c
888 + improve error-checking in copywin
889 + add advice in infocmp manpage for termcap users (Debian #698469).
890 + add "-y" option to test/demo_termcap and test/demo_terminfo to
891 demonstrate behavior with/without extended capabilities.
892 + updated termcap manpage to document legacy termcap behavior for
893 matching capability names.
894 + modify name-comparison for tgetstr, etc., to accommodate legacy
895 applications as well as to improve compatbility with BSD 4.2
896 termcap implementations (Debian #698299) (cf: 980725).
899 + correct prototype in manpage for vid_puts.
900 + drop ncurses/tty/tty_display.h, ncurses/tty/tty_input.h, since they
901 are unused in the current driver model.
902 + modify mvcur to use stdout except when called within the ncurses
904 + modify vidattr and vid_attr to use stdout as documented in manpage.
905 + amend changes made to buffering in 20120825 so that the low-level
906 putp() call uses stdout rather than ncurses' internal buffering.
907 The putp_sp() call does the same, for consistency (Redhat #892674).
910 + add "-s" option to test/view.c to allow it to start in single-step
911 mode, reducing size of trace files when it is used for debugging
913 + revert part of 20121222 change to tinfo_driver.c
914 + add experimental logic in win_driver.c to improve optimization of
915 screen updates. This does not yet work with double-width characters,
916 so it is ifdef'd out for the moment (prompted by report by Erwin
917 Waterlander regarding screen flicker).
920 + fix coverity warnings regarding copying into fixed-size buffers.
921 + add throw-declarations in the c++ binding per Coverity warning.
922 + minor changes to new-items for consistent reference to bug-report
926 + add *.dSYM directories to clean-rule in ncurses directory makefile,
928 + add a configure check for gcc option -no-cpp-precomp, which is not
929 available in all Mac OS X configurations (report by Andras Salamon,
931 + improve 20021221 workaround for broken acs, handling a case where
932 that ACS_xxx character is not in the acsc string but there is a known
933 wide-character which can be used.
936 + fix several warnings from clang 3.1 --analyze, includes correcting
937 a null-pointer check in _nc_mvcur_resume.
938 + correct display of double-width characters with MinGW port (report
939 by Erwin Waterlander).
940 + replace MinGW's wcrtomb(), fixing a problem with _nc_viscbuf
941 > fixes based on Coverity report:
942 + correct coloring in test/bs.c
943 + correct check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch().
944 + remove dead code in progs/tset.c, test/linedata.h
945 + add null-pointer checks in lib_tracemse.c, panel.priv.h, and some
949 + modify test/knight.c to show the number of choices possible for
950 each position in automove option, e.g., to allow user to follow
951 Warnsdorff's rule to solve the puzzle.
952 + modify test/hanoi.c to show the minimum number of moves possible for
953 the given number of tiles (prompted by patch by Lucas Gioia).
954 > fixes based on Coverity report:
955 + remove a few redundant checks.
956 + correct logic in test/bs.c, when randomly placing a specific type of
958 + check return value from remove/unlink in tic.
959 + check return value from sscanf in test/ncurses.c
960 + fix a null dereference in c++/cursesw.cc
961 + fix two instances of uninitialized variables when configuring for the
963 + correct scope of variable used in SetSafeOutcWrapper macro.
964 + set umask when calling mkstemp in tic.
965 + initialize wbkgrndset() temporary variable when extended-colors are
969 + also replace MinGW's wctomb(), fixing a problem with setcchar().
970 + modify test/view.c to load UTF-8 when built with MinGW by using
971 regular win32 API because the MinGW functions mblen() and mbtowc()
975 + correct order of color initialization versus display in some of the
976 test-programs, e.g., test_addstr.c
977 > fixes based on Coverity report:
978 + delete windows on exit from some of the test-programs.
981 > fixes based on Coverity report:
982 + add missing braces around FreeAndNull in two places.
983 + various fixes in test/ncurses.c
984 + improve limit-checks in tinfo/make_hash.c, tinfo/read_entry.c
985 + correct malloc size in progs/infocmp.c
986 + guard against negative array indices in test/knight.c
987 + fix off-by-one limit check in test/color_name.h
988 + add null-pointer check in progs/tabs.c, test/bs.c, test/demo_forms.c,
990 + fix memory-leak in tinfo/lib_setup.c, progs/toe.c,
991 test/clip_printw.c, test/demo_menus.c
992 + delete unused windows in test/chgat.c, test/clip_printw.c,
993 test/insdelln.c, test/newdemo.c on error-return.
996 + modify configure macro CF_INCLUDE_DIRS to put $CPPFLAGS after the
997 local -I include options in case someone has set conflicting -I
998 options in $CPPFLAGS (prompted by patch for ncurses/Makefile.in by
1000 + modify the ncurses*-config scripts to eliminate relative paths from
1001 the RPATH_LIST variable, e.g., "../lib" as used in installing shared
1002 libraries or executables.
1005 + realign these related pages:
1010 and fix a long-ago error in curs_addstr.3x which said that a -1
1011 length parameter would only write as much as fit onto one line
1012 (report by Reuben Thomas).
1013 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_memmove() for memmove()/bcopy().
1014 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_strdup() for strdup().
1015 + cancel any debug-rpm in package/ncurses.spec
1016 + reviewed vte-2012, reverted most of the change since it was incorrect
1017 based on testing with tack -TD
1018 + un-cancel the initc in vte-256color, since this was implemented
1019 starting with version 0.20 in 2009 -TD
1022 + improve malloc/realloc checking (prompted by discussion in Redhat
1024 + add ncurses test-program as "ncurses6" to the rpm- and dpkg-scripts.
1025 + updated configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_WITH_PATHLIST. The
1026 first corrects pattern used for Mac OS X's customization of gcc.
1029 + fix change to _nc_scroll_optimize(), which incorrectly freed memory
1033 + add vte-2012, gnome-2012, making these the defaults for vte/gnome
1034 (patch by Christian Persch).
1037 + improve CF_GCC_VERSION to work around Debian's customization of gcc
1039 + improve configure macros as done in byacc:
1040 + drop 2.13 compatibility; use 2.52.xxxx version only since EMX port
1041 has used that for a while.
1042 + add 3rd parameter to AC_DEFINE's to allow autoheader to run, i.e.,
1043 for experimental use.
1044 + remove unused configure macros.
1045 + modify configure script and makefiles to quiet new autoconf warning
1046 for LIBS_TO_MAKE variable.
1047 + modify configure script to show $PATH_SEPARATOR variable.
1048 + update config.guess, config.sub
1051 + modify setupterm to set its copy of TERM to "unknown" if configured
1052 for the terminal driver and TERM was null or empty.
1053 + modify treatment of TERM variable for MinGW port to allow explicit
1054 use of the windows console driver by checking if $TERM is set to
1055 "#win32con" or an abbreviation of that.
1056 + undo recent change to fallback definition of vsscanf() to build with
1057 older Solaris compilers (cf: 20120728).
1060 + add test-screens to test/ncurses to show 256-characters at a time,
1061 to help with MinGW port.
1064 + simplify varargs logic in lib_printw.c; va_copy is no longer needed
1066 + modifications for MinGW port to make wide-character display usable.
1069 + regenerate configure script (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20120901).
1072 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_flush (cf: 20120825).
1073 + fix a case in _nc_scroll_optimize() where the _oldnums_list array
1074 might not be allocated.
1075 + improve comparisons in configure.in for unset shell variables.
1078 + increase size of ncurses' output-buffer, in case of very small
1079 initial screen-sizes.
1080 + fix evaluation of TERMINFO and TERMINFO_DIRS default values as needed
1081 after changes to use --datarootdir (reports by Gabriele Balducci,
1085 + change output buffering scheme, using buffer maintained by ncurses
1086 rather than stdio, to avoid problems with SIGTSTP handling (report
1090 + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20120811, adding --datarootdir
1091 (prompted by discussion with Erwin Waterlander).
1092 + improve description of --enable-reentrant option in README and the
1094 + add nsterm-256color, make this the default nsterm -TD
1095 + remove bw from nsterm-bce, per testing with tack -TD
1098 + update test/configure, adding check for tinfo library.
1099 + improve limit-checks for the getch fifo (report by Werner Fink).
1100 + fix a remaining mismatch between $with_echo and the symbols updated
1101 for CF_DISABLE_ECHO affecting parameters for mk-2nd.awk (report by
1102 Sven Joachim, cf: 20120317).
1103 + modify followup check for pkg-config's library directory in the
1104 --enable-pc-files option to validate syntax (report by Sven Joachim,
1108 + correct path for ncurses_mingw.h in include/headers, in case build
1109 is done outside source-tree (patch by Roumen Petrov).
1110 + modify some older xterm entries to align with xterm source -TD
1111 + separate "xterm-old" alias from "xterm-r6" -TD
1112 + add E3 extended capability to xterm-basic and putty -TD
1113 + parenthesize parameters of other macros in curses.h -TD
1114 + parenthesize parameter of COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER in curses.h
1115 in case it happens to be a comma-expression, etc. (patch by Nick
1119 + improved form_request_by_name() and menu_request_by_name().
1120 + eliminate two fixed-size buffers in toe.c
1121 + extend use_tioctl() to have expected behavior when use_env(FALSE) and
1122 use_tioctl(TRUE) are called.
1123 + modify ncurses test-program, adding -E and -T options to demonstrate
1124 use_env() versus use_tioctl().
1127 + add use_tioctl() function (adapted from patch by Werner Fink,
1131 + add ncurses_mingw.h to installed headers (prompted by patch by
1133 + clarify return-codes from wgetch() in response to SIGWINCH (prompted
1135 + modify resizeterm() to always push a KEY_RESIZE onto the fifo, even
1136 if screensize is unchanged. Modify _nc_update_screensize() to push a
1137 KEY_RESIZE if there was a SIGWINCH, even if it does not call
1138 resizeterm(). These changes eliminate the case where a SIGWINCH is
1139 received, but ERR returned from wgetch or wgetnstr because the screen
1140 dimensions did not change (Novell #769788).
1143 + add --enable-interop to sample package scripts (suggested by Juergen
1145 + update CF_PATH_SYNTAX macro, from mawk changes.
1146 + modify mk-0th.awk to allow for generating llib-ltic, etc., though
1147 some work is needed on cproto to work with lib_gen.c to update
1149 + remove redundant getenv() cal in database-iterator leftover from
1150 cleanup in 20120622 changes (report by Sven Joachim).
1153 + add -d, -e and -q options to test/demo_terminfo and test/demo_termcap
1154 + fix caching of environment variables in database-iterator (patch by
1155 Philippe Troin, Redhat #831366).
1158 + add configure check to distinguish clang from gcc to eliminate
1159 warnings about unused command-line parameters when compiler warnings
1161 + improve behavior when updating terminfo entries which are hardlinked
1162 by allowing for the possibility that an alias has been repurposed to
1164 + fix some strict compiler warnings based on package scripts.
1165 + further fixes for configure check for working poll (Debian #676461).
1168 + fix an uninitialized variable in -c/-n logic for infocmp changes
1170 + corrected fix for building c++ binding with clang 3.0 (report/patch
1171 by Richard Yao, Gentoo #417613, cf: 20110409)
1172 + correct configure check for working poll, fixing the case where stdin
1173 is redirected, e.g., in rpm/dpkg builds (Debian #676461).
1174 + add rpm- and dpkg-scripts, to test those build-environments.
1175 The resulting packages are used only for testing.
1178 + add kdch1 aka "Remove" to vt220 and vt220-8 entries -TD
1179 + add kdch1, etc., to qvt108 -TD
1180 + add dl1/il1 to some entries based on dl/il values -TD
1181 + add dl to simpleterm -TD
1182 + add consistency-checks in tic for insert-line vs delete-line
1183 controls, and insert/delete-char keys
1184 + correct no-leaks logic in infocmp when doing comparisons, fixing
1185 duplicate free of entries given via the command-line, and freeing
1186 entries loaded from the last-but-one of files specified on the
1188 + add kdch1 to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (reported by David Lord,
1189 analysis by Martin Husemann).
1190 + add cnorm/civis to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (report/analysis by
1191 Onno van der Linden).
1194 + extend -c and -n options of infocmp to allow comparing more than two
1196 + correct check in infocmp for number of terminal names when more than
1198 + correct typo in curs_threads.3x (report by Yanhui Shen on
1199 freebsd-hackers mailing list).
1202 + corrected 'op' for bterm (report by Samuel Thibault) -TD
1203 + modify test/background.c to demonstrate a background character
1204 holding a colored ACS_HLINE. The behavior differs from SVr4 due to
1205 the thick- and double-line extension (cf: 20091003).
1206 + modify handling of acs characters in PutAttrChar to avoid mapping an
1207 unmapped character to a space with A_ALTCHARSET set.
1208 + rewrite vt520 entry based on vt420 -TD
1211 + remove p6 (bold) from opus3n1+ for consistency -TD
1212 + remove acs stuff from env230 per clues in Ingres termcap -TD
1213 + modify env230 sgr/sgr0 to match other capabilities -TD
1214 + modify smacs/rmacs in bq300-8 to match sgr/sgr0 -TD
1215 + make sgr for dku7202 agree with other caps -TD
1216 + make sgr for ibmpc agree with other caps -TD
1217 + make sgr for tek4107 agree with other caps -TD
1218 + make sgr for ndr9500 agree with other caps -TD
1219 + make sgr for sco-ansi agree with other caps -TD
1220 + make sgr for d410 agree with other caps -TD
1221 + make sgr for d210 agree with other caps -TD
1222 + make sgr for d470c, d470c-7b agree with other caps -TD
1223 + remove redundant AC_DEFINE for NDEBUG versus Makefile definition.
1224 + fix a back-link in _nc_delink_entry(), which is needed if ncurses is
1225 configured with --enable-termcap and --disable-getcap.
1228 + fix some inconsistencies between vt320/vt420, e.g., cnorm/civis -TD
1229 + add eslok flag to dec+sl -TD
1230 + dec+sl applies to vt320 and up -TD
1231 + drop wsl width from xterm+sl -TD
1232 + reuse xterm+sl in putty and nsca-m -TD
1233 + add ansi+tabs to vt520 -TD
1234 + add ansi+enq to vt220-vt520 -TD
1235 + fix a compiler warning in example in ncurses-intro.doc (Paul Waring).
1236 + added paragraph in keyname manpage telling how extended capabilities
1237 are interpreted as key definitions.
1238 + modify tic's check of conflicting key definitions to include extended
1239 capability strings in addition to the existing check on predefined
1243 + improve cleanup of temporary files in tic using atexit().
1244 + add msgr to vt420, similar DEC vtXXX entries -TD
1245 + add several missing vt420 capabilities from vt220 -TD
1246 + factor out ansi+pp from several entries -TD
1247 + change xterm+sl and xterm+sl-twm to include only the status-line
1248 capabilities and not "use=xterm", making them more generally useful
1249 as building-blocks -TD
1250 + add dec+sl building block, as example -TD
1253 + add XT to some terminfo entries to improve usefulness for other
1254 applications than screen, which would like to pretend that xterm's
1255 title is a status-line. -TD
1256 + change use-clauses in ansi-mtabs, hp2626, and hp2622 based on review
1257 of ordering and overrides -TD
1258 + add consistency check in tic for screen's "XT" capability.
1259 + add section in terminfo.src summarizing the user-defined capabilities
1260 used in that file -TD
1263 + fix an inconsistency between tic/infocmp "-x" option; tic omits all
1264 non-standard capabilities, while infocmp was ignoring only the user
1265 definable capabilities.
1266 + improve special case in tic parsing of description to allow it to be
1267 followed by terminfo capabilities. Previously the description had to
1268 be the last field on an input line to allow tic to distinguish
1269 between termcap and terminfo format while still allowing commas to be
1270 embedded in the description.
1271 + correct variable name in gen_edit.sh which broke configurability of
1272 the --with-xterm-kbs option.
1273 + revert 2011-07-16 change to "linux" alias, return to "linux2.2" -TD
1274 + further amend 20110910 change, providing for configure-script
1275 override of the "linux" terminfo entry to install and changing the
1276 default for that to "linux2.2" (Debian #665959).
1279 + update Ada95/configure to use CF_DISABLE_ECHO (cf: 20120317).
1280 + correct order of use-clauses in st-256color -TD
1281 + modify configure script to look for gnatgcc if the Ada95 binding
1282 is built, in preference to the default gcc/cc (suggested by
1283 Nicolas Boulenguez).
1284 + modify configure script to ensure that the same -On option used for
1285 the C compiler in CFLAGS is used for ADAFLAGS rather than simply
1286 using "-O3" (suggested by Nicolas Boulenguez)
1289 + amend an old fix so that next_char() exits properly for empty files,
1290 e.g., from reading /dev/null (cf: 20080804).
1291 + modify tic so that it can read from the standard input, or from
1292 a character device. Because tic uses seek's, this requires writing
1293 the data to a temporary file first (prompted by remark by Sven
1294 Joachim) (cf: 20000923).
1297 + correct a check made in lib_napms.c, so that terminfo applications
1298 can again use napms() (cf: 20110604).
1299 + add a note in tic.h regarding required casts for ABSENT_BOOLEAN
1301 + correct scripting for --disable-echo option in test/configure.
1302 + amend check for missing c++ compiler to work when no error is
1303 reported, and no variables set (cf: 20021206).
1304 + add/use configure macro CF_DISABLE_ECHO.
1307 + fix some strict compiler warnings for abi6 and 64-bits.
1308 + use begin_va_copy/end_va_copy macros in lib_printw.c (cf: 20120303).
1309 + improve a limit-check in infocmp.c (Werner Fink):
1312 + minor tidying of terminfo.tail, clarify reason for limitation
1313 regarding mapping of \0 to \200
1314 + minor improvement to _nc_copy_termtype(), using memcpy to replace
1316 + fix no-leaks checking in test/demo_termcap.c to account for multiple
1317 calls to setupterm().
1318 + modified the libgpm change to show previous load as a problem in the
1320 > merge some patches from OpenSUSE rpm (Werner Fink):
1321 + ncurses-5.7-printw.dif, fixes for varargs handling in lib_printw.c
1322 + ncurses-5.7-gpm.dif, do not dlopen libgpm if already loaded by
1324 + ncurses-5.6-fallback.dif, do not free arrays and strings from static
1328 + fix breakage in tic/infocmp from 20120225 (report by Werner Fink).
1331 + modify configure script to allow creating dll's for MinGW when
1333 + add --enable-string-hacks option to control whether strlcat and
1334 strlcpy may be used. The same issue applies to OpenBSD's warnings
1335 about snprintf, noting that this function is weakly standardized.
1336 + add configure checks for strlcat, strlcpy and snprintf, to help
1337 reduce bogus warnings with OpenBSD builds.
1338 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 to supply consistent intptr_t declaration
1340 + update config.guess, config.sub
1343 + correct CF_ETIP_DEFINES configure macro, making it exit properly on
1344 the first success (patch by Pierre Labastie).
1345 + improve configure macro CF_MKSTEMP by moving existence-check for
1346 mkstemp out of the AC_TRY_RUN, to help with cross-compiles.
1347 + improve configure macro CF_FUNC_POLL from luit changes to detect
1348 broken implementations, e.g., with Mac OS X.
1349 + add configure option --with-tparm-arg
1350 + build-fix for MinGW cross-compiling, so that make_hash does not
1351 depend on TTY definition (cf: 20111008).
1354 + make sgr for xterm-pcolor agree with other caps -TD
1355 + make sgr for att5425 agree with other caps -TD
1356 + make sgr for att630 agree with other caps -TD
1357 + make sgr for linux entries agree with other caps -TD
1358 + make sgr for tvi9065 agree with other caps -TD
1359 + make sgr for ncr260vt200an agree with other caps -TD
1360 + make sgr for ncr160vt100pp agree with other caps -TD
1361 + make sgr for ncr260vt300an agree with other caps -TD
1362 + make sgr for aaa-60-dec-rv, aaa+dec agree with other caps -TD
1363 + make sgr for cygwin, cygwinDBG agree with other caps -TD
1364 + add configure option --with-xterm-kbs to simplify configuration for
1365 Linux versus most other systems.
1368 + improved tic -D option, avoid making target directory and provide
1372 + add mach-gnu (Debian #614316, patch by Samuel Thibault)
1373 + add mach-gnu-color, tweaks to mach-gnu terminfo -TD
1374 + make sgr for sun-color agree with smso -TD
1375 + make sgr for prism9 agree with other caps -TD
1376 + make sgr for icl6404 agree with other caps -TD
1377 + make sgr for ofcons agree with other caps -TD
1378 + make sgr for att5410v1, att4415, att620 agree with other caps -TD
1379 + make sgr for aaa-unk, aaa-rv agree with other caps -TD
1380 + make sgr for avt-ns agree with other caps -TD
1381 + amend fix intended to separate fixups for acsc to allow "tic -cv" to
1382 give verbose warnings (cf: 20110730).
1383 + modify misc/gen-edit.sh to make the location of the tabset directory
1384 consistent with misc/Makefile.in, i.e., using ${datadir}/tabset
1385 (Debian #653435, patch by Sven Joachim).
1388 + add --with-lib-prefix option to allow configuring for old/new flavors
1390 + modify check for gnat version to allow for year, as used in FreeBSD
1392 + modify check_existence() in db_iterator.c to simply check if the
1393 path is a directory or file, according to the need. Checking for
1394 directory size also gives no usable result with OS/2 (cf: 20120107).
1395 + support OS/2 kLIBC (patch by KO Myung-Han).
1398 + several improvements to test/movewindow.c (prompted by discussion on
1400 + modify movement commands to make them continuous
1401 + rewrote the test for mvderwin
1402 + rewrote the test for recursive mvwin
1403 + split-out reusable CF_WITH_NCURSES_ETC macro in test/configure.in
1404 + updated configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, build-fixes for Mac OS X
1406 + regenerated html manpages.
1409 + various improvments for MinGW (Juergen Pfeifer):
1410 + modify stat() calls to ignore the st_size member
1411 + drop mk-dlls.sh script.
1412 + change recommended regular expression library.
1413 + modify rain.c to allow for threaded configuraton.
1414 + modify tset.c to allow for case when size-change logic is not used.
1417 + modify toe's report when -a and -s options are combined, to add
1418 a column showing which entries belong to a given database.
1419 + add -s option to toe, to sort its output.
1420 + modify progs/toe.c, simplifying use of db-iterator results to use
1421 caching improvements from 20111001 and 20111126.
1422 + correct generation of pc-files when ticlib or termlib options are
1423 given to rename the corresponding tic- or tinfo-libraries (report
1427 + document a portability issue with tput, i.e., that scripts which work
1428 with ncurses may fail in other implementations that do no parameter
1430 + add putty-sco entry -TD
1433 + review/fix places in manpages where --program-prefix configure option
1435 + add -D option to infocmp, to show the database locations that it
1437 + fix build for the special case where term-driver, ticlib and termlib
1438 are all enabled. The terminal driver depends on a few features in
1439 the base ncurses library, so tic's dependencies include both ncurses
1441 + fix build work for term-driver when --enable-wgetch-events option is
1443 + use <stdint.h> types to fix some questionable casts to void*.
1446 + modify configure script to check if thread library provides
1447 pthread_mutexattr_settype(), e.g., not provided by Solaris 2.6
1448 + modify configure script to suppress check to define _XOPEN_SOURCE
1449 for IRIX64, since its header files have a conflict versus
1451 + modify configure script to add ".pc" files for tic- and
1452 tinfo-libraries, which were omitted in recent change (cf: 20111126).
1453 + fix inconsistent checks on $PKG_CONFIG variable in configure script.
1456 + modify configure-check for etip.h dependencies, supplying a temporary
1457 copy of ncurses_dll.h since it is a generated file (prompted by
1459 + modify CF_CPP_PARAM_INIT "main" function to work with current C++.
1462 + correct database iterator's check for duplicate entries
1464 + modify database iterator to ignore $TERMCAP when it is not an
1466 + add -D option to tic, to show the database locations that it could
1468 + improve description of database locations in tic manpage.
1469 + modify the configure script to generate a list of the ".pc" files to
1470 generate, rather than deriving the list from the libraries which have
1471 been built (patch by Mike Frysinger).
1472 + use AC_CHECK_TOOLS in preference to AC_PATH_PROGS when searching for
1473 ncurses*-config, e.g., in Ada95/configure and test/configure (adapted
1474 from patch by Mike Frysinger).
1477 + remove obsolete/conflicting fallback definition for _POSIX_SOURCE
1478 from curses.priv.h, fixing a regression with IRIX64 and Tru64
1480 + modify _nc_tic_dir() to ensure that its return-value is nonnull,
1481 i.e., the database iterator was not initialized. This case is needed
1482 to when tic is translating to termcap, rather than loading the
1483 database (cf: 20111001).
1486 + add pccon entries for OpenBSD console (Alexei Malinin).
1487 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 with gcc 4.2.1, setting _XOPEN_SOURCE to
1488 600 to work around inconsistent ifdef'ing of wcstof between C and
1490 + modify capconvert script to accept more than exact match on "xterm",
1491 e.g., the "xterm-*" variants, to exclude from the conversion (patch
1493 + add -lc_r as alternative for -lpthread, allows build of threaded code
1494 in older FreeBSD machines.
1495 + build-fix for MirBSD, which fails when either _XOPEN_SOURCE or
1496 _POSIX_SOURCE are defined.
1497 + fix a typo misc/Makefile.in, used in uninstalling pc-files.
1500 + modify make_db_path() to allow creating "terminfo.db" in the same
1501 directory as an existing "terminfo" directory. This fixes a case
1502 where switching between hashed/filesystem databases would cause the
1503 new hashed database to be installed in the next best location -
1504 root's home directory.
1505 + add variable cf_cv_prog_gnat_correct to those passed to
1506 config.status, fixing a problem with Ada95 builds (cf: 20111022).
1507 + change feature test from _XPG5 to _XOPEN_SOURCE in two places, to
1508 accommodate broken implementations for _XPG6.
1509 + eliminate usage of NULL symbol from etip.h, to reduce header
1511 + add configure check to decide when to add _XOPEN_SOURCE define to
1512 compiler options, i.e., for Solaris 10 and later (cf: 20100403).
1513 This is a workaround for gcc 4.6, which fails to build the c++
1514 binding if that symbol is defined by the application, due to
1515 incorrectly combining the corresponding feature test macros
1516 (report by Peter Kruse).
1519 + correct logic for discarding mouse events, retaining the partial
1520 events used to build up click, double-click, etc, until needed
1522 + fix configure script to avoid creating unused Ada95 makefile when
1524 + cleanup width-related gcc 3.4.3 warnings for 64-bit platform, for the
1525 internal functions of libncurses. The external interface of courses
1526 uses bool, which still produces these warnings.
1529 + improve description of --disable-tic-depends option to make it
1530 clear that it may be useful whether or not the --with-termlib
1531 option is also given (report by Sven Joachim).
1532 + amend termcap equivalent for set_pglen_inch to use the X/Open
1533 "YI" rather than the obsolete Solaris 2.5 "sL" (cf: 990109).
1534 + improve manpage for tgetent differences from termcap library.
1537 + moved static data from db_iterator.c to lib_data.c
1538 + modify db_iterator.c for memory-leak checking, fix one leak.
1539 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to use Requires.private for the parts
1540 of ncurses rather than Requires, as well as Libs.private for the
1541 other library dependencies (prompted by Debian #644728).
1544 + modify tic "-K" option to only set the strict-flag rather than force
1545 source-output. That allows the same flag to control the parser for
1546 input and output of termcap source.
1547 + modify _nc_getent() to ignore backslash at the end of a comment line,
1548 making it consistent with ncurses' parser.
1549 + restore a special-case check for directory needed to make termcap
1550 text files load as if they were databases (cf: 20110924).
1551 + modify tic's resolution/collision checking to attempt to remove the
1552 conflicting alias from the second entry in the pair, which is
1553 normally following in the source file. Also improved the warning
1554 message to make it simpler to see which alias is the problem.
1555 + improve performance of the database iterator by caching search-list.
1558 + add a missing "else" in changes to _nc_read_tic_entry().
1561 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() so that hashed-database is checked before
1563 + updated CF_CURSES_LIBS check in test/configure script.
1564 + modify configure script and makefiles to split TIC_ARGS and
1565 TINFO_ARGS into pieces corresponding to LDFLAGS and LIBS variables,
1566 to help separate searches for tic- and tinfo-libraries (patch by Nick
1568 + build-fix for lib_mouse.c changes (cf: 20110917).
1571 + fix compiler warning for clang 2.9
1572 + improve merging of mouse events (integrated patch by Damien
1574 + correct mask-check used in lib_mouse for wheel mouse buttons 4/5
1575 (patch by Damien Guibouret).
1578 + modify misc/gen_edit.sh to select a "linux" entry which works with
1579 the current kernel rather than assuming it is always "linux3.0"
1581 + revert a change to getmouse() which had the undesirable side-effect
1582 of suppressing button-release events (report by Damien Guibouret,
1584 + add xterm+kbs fragment from xterm #272 -TD
1585 + add configure option --with-pkg-config-libdir to provide control over
1586 the actual directory into which pc-files are installed, do not use
1587 the pkg-config environment variables (discussion with Frederic L W
1589 + add link to mailing-list archive in announce.html.in, as done in
1590 FAQ (prompted by question by Andrius Bentkus).
1591 + improve manpage install by adjusting the "#include" examples to
1592 show the ncurses-subdirectory used when --disable-overwrite option
1594 + install an alias for "curses" to the ncurses manpage, tied to the
1595 --with-curses-h configure option (suggested by Reuben Thomas).
1598 + propagate error-returns from wresize, i.e., the internal
1599 increase_size and decrease_size functions through resize_term (report
1600 by Tim van der Molen, cf: 20020713).
1601 + fix typo in tset manpage (patch by Sven Joachim).
1604 + add a check to ensure that termcap files which might have "^?" do
1605 not use the terminfo interpretation as "\177".
1606 + minor cleanup of X-terminal emulator section of terminfo.src -TD
1607 + add terminator entry -TD
1608 + add simpleterm entry -TD
1609 + improve wattr_get macros by ensuring that if the window pointer is
1610 null, then the attribute and color values returned will be zero
1614 + add substitution for $RPATH_LIST to misc/ncurses-config.in
1615 + improve performance of tic with hashed-database by caching the
1616 database connection, using atexit() to cleanup.
1617 + modify treatment of 2-character aliases at the beginning of termcap
1618 entries so they are not counted in use-resolution, since these are
1619 guaranteed to be unique. Also ignore these aliases when reporting
1620 the primary name of the entry (cf: 20040501)
1621 + double-check gn (generic) flag in terminal descriptions to
1622 accommodate old/buggy termcap databases which misused that feature.
1623 + minor fixes to _nc_tgetent(), ensure buffer is initialized even on
1627 + improve rpath fix from 20110730 by ensuring that the new $RPATH_LIST
1628 variable is defined in the makefiles which use it.
1629 + build-fix for DragonFlyBSD's pkgsrc in test/configure script.
1630 + build-fixes for NetBSD 5.1 with termcap support enabled.
1631 + corrected k9 in dg460-ansi, add other features based on manuals -TD
1632 + improve trimming of whitespace at the end of terminfo/termcap output
1634 + when writing termcap source, ensure that colons in the description
1635 field are translated to a non-delimiter, i.e., "=".
1636 + add "-0" option to tic/infocmp, to make the termcap/terminfo source
1638 + add a null-pointer check when handling the $CC variable.
1641 + modify configure script and makefiles in c++ and progs to allow the
1642 directory used for rpath option to be overridden, e.g., to work
1643 around updates to the variables used by tic during an install.
1644 + add -K option to tic/infocmp, to provide stricter BSD-compatibility
1646 + add _nc_strict_bsd variable in tic library which controls the
1647 "strict" BSD termcap compatibility from 20110723, plus these
1649 + allow escapes such as "\8" and "\9" when reading termcap
1650 + disallow "\a", "\e", "\l", "\s" and "\:" escapes when reading
1651 termcap files, passing through "a", "e", etc.
1652 + expand "\:" as "\072" on output.
1653 + modify _nc_get_token() to reset the token's string value in case
1654 there is a string-typed token lacking the "=" marker.
1655 + fix a few memory leaks in _nc_tgetent.
1656 + fix a few places where reading from a termcap file could refer to
1658 + add an overflow check when converting terminfo/termcap numeric
1659 values, since terminfo stores those in a short, and they must be
1661 + correct internal variables used for translating to termcap "%>"
1662 feature, and translating from termcap %B to terminfo, needed by
1663 tctest (cf: 19991211).
1664 + amend a minor fix to acsc when loading a termcap file to separate it
1665 from warnings needed for tic (cf: 20040710)
1666 + modify logic in _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_tic_entry() to allow
1667 a termcap file to be handled via TERMINFO_DIRS.
1668 + modify _nc_infotocap() to include non-mandatory padding when
1669 translating to termcap.
1670 + modify _nc_read_termcap_entry(), passing a flag in the case where
1671 getcap is used, to reduce interactive warning messages.
1674 + add a check in start_color() to limit color-pairs to 256 when
1675 extended colors are not supported (patch by David Benjamin).
1676 + modify setcchar to omit no-longer-needed OR'ing of color pair in
1677 the SetAttr() macro (patch by David Benjamin).
1678 + add kich1 to sun terminfo entry (Yuri Pankov)
1679 + use bold rather than reverse for smso in sun-color terminfo entry
1681 + improve generation of termcap using tic/infocmp -C option, e.g.,
1682 to correspond with 4.2BSD (prompted by discussion with Yuri Pankov
1683 regarding Schilling's test program):
1684 + translate %02 and %03 to %2 and %3 respectively.
1685 + suppress string capabilities which use %s, not supported by tgoto
1686 + use \040 rather than \s
1687 + expand null characters as \200 rather than \0
1688 + modify configure script to support shared libraries for DragonFlyBSD.
1691 + replace an assert() in _nc_Free_Argument() with a regular null
1692 pointer check (report/analysis by Franjo Ivancic).
1693 + modify configure --enable-pc-files option to take into account the
1694 PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
1695 + add/use xterm+tmux chunk from xterm #271 -TD
1696 + resync xterm-new entry from xterm #271 -TD
1697 + add E3 extended capability to linux-basic (Miroslav Lichvar)
1698 + add linux2.2, linux2.6, linux3.0 entries to give context for E3 -TD
1699 + add SI/SO change to linux2.6 entry (Debian #515609) -TD
1700 + fix inconsistent tabset path in pcmw (Todd C. Miller).
1701 + remove a backslash which continued comment, obscuring altos3
1702 definition with OpenBSD toolset (Nicholas Marriott).
1705 + add workaround from xterm #271 changes to ensure that compiler flags
1706 are not used in the $CC variable.
1707 + improve support for shared libraries, tested with AIX 5.3, 6.1 and
1708 7.1 with both gcc 4.2.4 and cc.
1709 + modify configure checks for AIX to include release 7.x
1710 + add loader flags/libraries to libtool options so that dynamic loading
1711 works properly, adapted from ncurses-5.7-ldflags-with-libtool.patch
1712 at gentoo prefix repository (patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
1715 + move include of nc_termios.h out of term_entry.h, since the latter
1716 is installed, e.g., for tack while the former is not (report by
1720 + improve cleanup() function in lib_tstp.c, using _exit() rather than
1721 exit() and checking for SIGTERM rather than SIGQUIT (prompted by
1722 comments forwarded by Nicholas Marriott).
1723 + reduce name pollution from term.h, moving fallback #define's for
1724 tcgetattr(), etc., to new private header nc_termios.h (report by
1726 + two minor fixes for tracing (patch by Vassili Courzakis).
1727 + improve trace initialization by starting it in use_env() and
1729 + review old email, add details for some changelog entries.
1732 + update minix entry to minix 3.2 (Thomas Cort).
1733 + fix a strict compiler warning in change to wattr_get (cf: 20110528).
1736 + fixes for MirBSD port:
1737 + set default prefix to /usr.
1738 + add support for shared libraries in configure script.
1739 + use S_ISREG and S_ISDIR consistently, with fallback definitions.
1740 + add a few more checks based on ncurses/link_test.
1741 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle sp-funcs renaming of NCURSES_OUTC type.
1744 + add case to CF_SHARED_OPTS for Interix (patch by Markus Duft).
1745 + used ncurses/link_test to check for behavior when the terminal has
1746 not been initialized and when an application passes null pointers
1747 to the library. Added checks to cover this (prompted by Redhat
1749 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to make its main() function call each function
1750 with zero parameters, to help find inconsistent checking for null
1754 + fix warnings from clang 2.7 "--analyze"
1757 + compiler-warning fixes in panel and progs.
1758 + modify CF_PKG_CONFIG macro, from changes to tin -TD
1759 + modify CF_CURSES_FUNCS configure macro, used in test directory
1761 + work around (non-optimizer) bug in gcc 4.2.1 which caused
1762 test-expression to be omitted from executable.
1763 + force the linker to see a link-time expression of a symbol, to
1764 help work around weak-symbol issues.
1767 + update discussion of MKfallback.sh script in INSTALL; normally the
1768 script is used automatically via the configured makefiles. However
1769 there are still occasions when it might be used directly by packagers
1770 (report by Gunter Schaffler).
1771 + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to omit the "-L" option from the
1772 "--libs" output if the library directory is /usr/lib.
1773 + change order of tests for curses.h versus ncurses.h headers in the
1774 configure scripts for Ada95 and test-directories, to look for
1775 ncurses.h, from fixes to tin -TD
1776 + modify ncurses/tinfo/access.c to account for Tandem's root uid
1777 (report by Joachim Schmitz).
1780 + modify rules in Ada95/src/Makefile.in to ensure that the PIC option
1781 is not used when building a static library (report by Nicolas
1783 + Ada95 build-fix for big-endian architectures such as sparc. This
1784 undoes one of the fixes from 20110319, which added an "Unused" member
1785 to representation clauses, replacing that with pragmas to suppress
1786 warnings about unused bits (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
1789 + add check in test/configure for use_window, use_screen.
1790 + add configure-checks for getopt's variables, which may be declared
1791 as different types on some Unix systems.
1792 + add check in test/configure for some legacy curses types of the
1793 function pointer passed to tputs().
1794 + modify init_pair() to accept -1's for color value after
1795 assume_default_colors() has been called (Debian #337095).
1796 + modify test/background.c, adding commmand-line options to demonstrate
1797 assume_default_colors() and use_default_colors().
1800 + modify configure script/source-code to only define _POSIX_SOURCE if
1801 the checks for sigaction and/or termios fail, and if _POSIX_C_SOURCE
1802 and _XOPEN_SOURCE are undefined (report by Valentin Ochs).
1803 + update config.guess, config.sub
1806 + fixes to build c++ binding with clang 3.0 (patch by Alexander
1808 + add check for unctrl.h in test/configure, to work around breakage in
1809 some ncurses packages.
1810 + add "--disable-widec" option to test/configure script.
1811 + add "--with-curses-colr" and "--with-curses-5lib" options to the
1812 test/configure script to address testing with very old machines.
1814 20110404 5.9 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1817 + various build-fixes for the rpm/dpkg scripts.
1818 + add "--enable-rpath-link" option to Ada95/configure, to allow
1819 packages to suppress the rpath feature which is normally used for
1820 the in-tree build of sample programs.
1821 + corrected definition of libdir variable in Ada95/src/Makefile.in,
1822 needed for rpm script.
1823 + add "--with-shared" option to Ada95/configure script, to allow
1824 making the C-language parts of the binding use appropriate compiler
1825 options if building a shared library with gnat.
1828 > portability fixes for Ada95 binding:
1829 + add configure check to ensure that SIGINT works with gnat. This is
1830 needed for the "rain" sample program. If SIGINT does not work, omit
1831 that sample program.
1832 + correct typo in check of $PKG_CONFIG variable in Ada95/configure
1833 + add ncurses_compat.c, to supply functions used in the Ada95 binding
1834 which were added in 5.7 and later.
1835 + modify sed expression in CF_NCURSES_ADDON to eliminate a dependency
1839 + add special check in Ada95/configure script for ncurses6 reentrant
1841 + regen Ada html documentation.
1842 + build-fix for Ada shared libraries versus the varargs workaround.
1843 + add rpm and dpkg scripts for Ada95 and test directories, for test
1845 + update test/configure macros CF_CURSES_LIBS, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and
1847 + add configure check to determine if gnat's project feature supports
1848 libraries, i.e., collections of .ali files.
1849 + make all dereferences in Ada95 samples explicit.
1850 + fix typo in comment in lib_add_wch.c (patch by Petr Pavlu).
1851 + add configure check for, ifdef's for math.h which is in a separate
1852 package on Solaris and potentially not installed (report by Petr
1854 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
1855 + improve type-checking in Ada95 by eliminating a few warning-suppress
1857 + suppress unreferenced warnings.
1858 + make all dereferences in binding explicit.
1861 + regen Ada html documentation.
1862 + change order of -I options from ncurses*-config script when the
1863 --disable-overwrite option was used, so that the subdirectory include
1865 + modify the make-tar.sh scripts to add a MANIFEST and NEWS file.
1866 + modify configure script to provide value for HTML_DIR in
1867 Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, which depends on whether the Ada95 binding is
1868 distributed separately (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
1869 + modify configure script to add "-g" and/or "-O3" to ADAFLAGS if the
1870 CFLAGS for the build has these options.
1871 + amend change from 20070324, to not add 1 to the result of getmaxx
1872 and getmaxy in the Ada binding (report by Nicolas Boulenguez for
1873 thread in comp.lang.ada).
1874 + build-fix Ada95/samples for gnat 4.5
1875 + spelling fixes for Ada95/samples/explain.txt
1876 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
1877 + add item in Trace_Attribute_Set corresponding to TRACE_ATTRS.
1878 + add workaround for binding to set_field_type(), which uses varargs.
1879 The original binding from 990220 relied on the prevalent
1880 implementation of varargs which did not support or need va_copy().
1881 + add dependency on gen/Makefile.in needed for *-panels.ads
1882 + add Library_Options to library.gpr
1883 + add Languages to library.gpr, for gprbuild
1886 + revert changes to limit-checks from 20110122 (Debian #616711).
1887 > minor type-cleanup of Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
1888 + corrected a minor sign error in a field of Low_Level_Field_Type, to
1890 + replaced C_Int by Curses_Bool as return type for some callbacks, see
1892 + modify samples/sample-explain.adb to provide explicit message when
1893 explain.txt is not found.
1896 + improve makefiles for Ada95 tree (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
1897 + fix an off-by-one error in _nc_slk_initialize() from 20100605 fixes
1898 for compiler warnings (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
1899 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to declare unused bits in generated layouts,
1900 needed to compile when chtype is 64-bits using gnat 4.4.5
1902 20110226 5.8 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1905 + update release notes, for 5.8.
1906 + regenerated html manpages.
1907 + change open() in _nc_read_file_entry() to fopen() for consistency
1909 + modify misc/run_tic.in to create parent directory, in case this is
1910 a new install of hashed database.
1911 + fix typo in Ada95/mk-1st.awk which causes error with original awk.
1914 + configure script rpath fixes from xterm #269.
1915 + workaround for cygwin's non-functional features.h, to force ncurses'
1916 configure script to define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED when building
1917 wide-character configuration.
1918 + build-fix in run_tic.sh for OS/2 EMX install
1919 + add cons25-debian entry (patch by Brian M Carlson, Debian #607662).
1922 + regenerated html manpages.
1923 + use _tracef() in show_where() function of tic, to work correctly with
1924 special case of trace configuration.
1927 + add xterm-utf8 entry as a demo of the U8 feature -TD
1928 + add U8 feature to denote entries for terminal emulators which do not
1929 support VT100 SI/SO when processing UTF-8 encoding -TD
1930 + improve the NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS feature by adding a check for an
1931 extended terminfo capability U8 (prompted by mailing list
1935 + start documenting interface changes for upcoming 5.8 release.
1936 + correct limit-checks in derwin().
1937 + correct limit-checks in newwin(), to ensure that windows have nonzero
1938 size (report by Garrett Cooper).
1939 + fix a missing "weak" declaration for pthread_kill (patch by Nicholas
1941 + improve documentation of KEY_ENTER in curs_getch.3x manpage (prompted
1942 by discussion with Kevin Martin).
1945 + modify Ada95/configure script to make the --with-curses-dir option
1946 work without requiring the --with-ncurses option.
1947 + modify test programs to allow them to be built with NetBSD curses.
1948 + document thick- and double-line symbols in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
1949 + document WACS_xxx constants in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
1950 + fix some warnings for clang 2.6 "--analyze"
1951 + modify Ada95 makefiles to make html-documentation with the project
1952 file configuration if that is used.
1953 + update config.guess, config.sub
1956 + regenerated html manpages.
1957 + minor fixes to enable lint when trace is not enabled, e.g., with
1959 + fix typo in man/default_colors.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
1960 + update ncurses/llib-lncurses*
1963 + fix remaining strict compiler warnings in ncurses library ABI=5,
1964 except those dealing with function pointers, etc.
1967 + modify nc_tparm.h, adding guards against repeated inclusion, and
1968 allowing TPARM_ARG to be overridden.
1969 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
1972 + suppress ncv in screen entry, allowing underline (patch by Alejandro
1974 + also suppress ncv in konsole-base -TD
1975 + fixes in wins_nwstr() and related functions to ensure that special
1976 characters, i.e., control characters are handled properly with the
1977 wide-character configuration.
1978 + correct a comparison in wins_nwstr() (Redhat #661506).
1979 + correct help-messages in some of the test-programs, which still
1980 referred to quitting with 'q'.
1983 + add special case to _nc_infotocap() to recognize the setaf/setab
1984 strings from xterm+256color and xterm+88color, and provide a reduced
1985 version which works with termcap.
1986 + remove obsolete emacs "Local Variables" section from documentation
1987 (request by Sven Joachim).
1988 + update doc/html/index.html to include NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html
1989 (report by Sven Joachim).
1992 + modify test/configure and test/Makefile.in to handle this special
1993 case of building within a build-tree (Debian #34182):
1994 mkdir -p build && cd build && ../test/configure && make
1997 + miscellaneous build-fixes for Ada95 and test-directories when built
1999 + use VPATH in makefiles to simplify out-of-tree builds (Debian #34182).
2000 + fix typo in rmso for tek4106 entry -Goran Weinholt
2003 + improve checks in test/configure for X libraries, from xterm #267
2005 + modify test/configure to allow it to use the build-tree's libraries
2006 e.g., when using that to configure the test-programs without the
2007 rpath feature (request by Sven Joachim).
2008 + repurpose "gnome" terminfo entries as "vte", retaining "gnome" items
2009 for compatibility, but generally deprecating those since the VTE
2010 library is what actually defines the behavior of "gnome", etc.,
2014 + compiler warning fixes for test programs.
2015 + various build-fixes for test-programs with pdcurses.
2016 + updated configure checks for X packages in test/configure from xterm
2018 + add configure check to gnatmake, to accommodate cygwin.
2021 + correct list of sub-directories needed in Ada95 tree for building as
2023 + modify scripts in test-directory to improve builds as a separate
2027 + correct parsing of relative tab-stops in tabs program (report by
2029 + adjust configure script so that "t" is not added to library suffix
2030 when weak-symbols are used, allowing the pthread configuration to
2031 more closely match the non-thread naming (report by Werner Fink).
2032 + modify configure check for tic program, used for fallbacks, to a
2033 warning if not found. This makes it simpler to use additonal
2034 scripts to bootstrap the fallbacks code using tic from the build
2035 tree (report by Werner Fink).
2036 + fix several places in configure script using ${variable-value} form.
2037 + modify configure macro CF_LDFLAGS_STATIC to accommodate some loaders
2038 which do not support selectively linking against static libraries
2039 (report by John P. Hartmann)
2040 + fix an unescaped dash in man/tset.1 (report by Sven Joachim).
2043 + correct comparison used for setting 16-colors in linux-16color
2044 entry (Novell #644831) -TD
2045 + improve linux-16color entry, using "dim" for color-8 which makes it
2046 gray rather than black like color-0 -TD
2047 + drop misc/ncu-indent and misc/jpf-indent; they are provided by an
2048 external package "cindent".
2051 + improve linkages in html manpages, adding references to the newer
2052 pages, e.g., *_variables, curs_sp_funcs, curs_threads.
2053 + add checks in tic for inconsistent cursor-movement controls, and for
2054 inconsistent printer-controls.
2055 + fill in no-parameter forms of cursor-movement where a parameterized
2056 form is available -TD
2057 + fill in missing cursor controls where the form of the controls is
2059 + fix inconsistent punctuation in form_variables manpage (patch by
2061 + add parameterized cursor-controls to linux-basic (report by Dae) -TD
2062 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
2063 + document how to build 32-bit libraries in README.MinGW
2064 + fixes to filename computation in mk-dlls.sh.in
2065 + use POSIX locale in mk-dlls.sh.in rather than en_US (report by Sven
2067 + add a check in mk-dlls.sh.in to obtain the size of a pointer to
2068 distinguish between 32-bit and 64-bit hosts. The result is stored
2072 + add "XT" capability to entries for terminals that support both
2073 xterm-style mouse- and title-controls, for "screen" which
2074 special-cases TERM beginning with "xterm" or "rxvt" -TD
2075 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
2076 + use 64-Bit MinGW toolchain (recommended package from TDM, see
2078 + support pthreads when using the TDM MinGW toolchain
2081 + regenerated html manpages.
2082 + minor fixes for symlinks to curs_legacy.3x and curs_slk.3x manpages.
2083 + add manpage for sp-funcs.
2084 + add sp-funcs to test/listused.sh, for documentation aids.
2087 + add manpages for summarizing public variables of curses-, terminfo-
2089 + minor fixes to manpages for consistency (patch by Jason McIntyre).
2090 + modify tic's -I/-C dump to reformat acsc strings into canonical form
2091 (sorted, unique mapping) (cf: 971004).
2092 + add configure check for pthread_kill(), needed for some old
2096 + add configure option --without-tests, to suppress building test
2097 programs (request by Frederic L W Meunier).
2100 + modify nsterm, xnuppc and tek4115 to make sgr/sgr0 consistent -TD
2101 + add check in terminfo source-reader to provide more informative
2102 message when someone attempts to run tic on a compiled terminal
2103 description (prompted by Debian #593920).
2104 + note in infotocap and captoinfo manpages that they read terminal
2105 descriptions from text-files (Debian #593920).
2106 + improve acsc string for vt52, show arrow keys (patch by Benjamin
2110 + document in manpages that "mv" functions first use wmove() to check
2111 the window pointer and whether the position lies within the window
2112 (suggested by Poul-Henning Kamp).
2113 + fixes to curs_color.3x, curs_kernel.3x and wresize.3x manpages (patch
2114 by Tim van der Molen).
2115 + modify configure script to transform library names for tic- and
2116 tinfo-libraries so that those build properly with Mac OS X shared
2117 library configuration.
2118 + modify configure script to ensure that it removes conftest.dSYM
2119 directory leftover on checks with Mac OS X.
2120 + modify configure script to cleanup after check for symbolic links.
2123 + correct a typo in mk-1st.awk (patch by Gabriele Balducci)
2125 + improve configure checks for location of tic and infocmp programs
2126 used for installing database and for generating fallback data,
2127 e.g., for cross-compiling.
2128 + add Markus Kuhn's wcwidth function for compiling MinGW
2129 + add special case to CF_REGEX for cross-compiling to MinGW target.
2132 + modify initialization check for win32con driver to eliminate need for
2133 special case for TERM "unknown", using terminal database if available
2134 (prompted by discussion with Roumen Petrov).
2135 + for MinGW port, ensure that terminal driver is setup if tgetent()
2136 is called (patch by Roumen Petrov).
2137 + document tabs "-0" and "-8" options in manpage.
2138 + fix Debian "lintian" issues with manpages reported in
2139 http://lintian.debian.org/full/csmall@debian.org.html#ncurses
2142 + add a check in tic for missing set_tab if clear_all_tabs given.
2143 + improve use of symbolic links in makefiles by using "-f" option if
2144 it is supported, to eliminate temporary removal of the target
2145 (prompted by http://www.t2-project.org/packages/ncurses.html)
2146 + minor improvement to test/ncurses.c, reset color pairs in 'd' test
2147 after exit from 'm' main-menu command.
2148 + improved ncu-indent, from mawk changes, allows more than one of
2149 GCC_NORETURN, GCC_PRINTFLIKE and GCC_SCANFLIKE on a single line.
2152 + add hard-reset for rs2 to wsvt25 to help ensure that reset ends
2153 the alternate character set (patch by Nicholas Marriott)
2154 + remove tar-copy.sh and related configure/Makefile chunks, since the
2155 Ada95 binding is now installed using rules in Ada95/src.
2158 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
2159 + add/use configure check to turn on project rules for Ada95/src.
2160 + revert the vfork change from 20100130, since it does not work.
2163 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
2164 + old gnatmake (3.15) does not produce libraries using project-file;
2165 work around by adding script to generate alternate makefile.
2168 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
2169 + add configure --with-ada-sharedlib option, for the test_make rule.
2170 + move Ada95-related logic into aclocal.m4, since additional checks
2171 will be needed to distinguish old/new implementations of gnat.
2174 + start integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95 tree
2175 + add test_make / test_clean / test_install rules in Ada95/src
2176 + change install-path for adainclude directory to /usr/share/ada (was
2178 + update Ada95/configure.
2179 + add mlterm+256color entry, for mlterm 3.0.0 -TD
2180 + modify test/configure to use macros to ensure consistent order
2181 of updating LIBS variable.
2184 + change search order of options for Solaris in CF_SHARED_OPTS, to
2185 work with 64-bit compiles.
2186 + correct quoting of assignment in CF_SHARED_OPTS case for aix
2190 + regenerated html documentation.
2191 + modify test/configure to support pkg-config for checking X libraries
2193 + add/use configure macro CF_ADD_LIB to force consistency of
2194 assignments to $LIBS, etc.
2195 + fix configure script for combining --with-pthread
2196 and --enable-weak-symbols options.
2199 + correct cross-compiling configure check for CF_MKSTEMP macro, by
2200 adding a check cache variable set by AC_CHECK_FUNC (report by
2202 + simplify include-dependencies of make_hash and make_keys, to reduce
2203 the need for setting BUILD_CPPFLAGS in cross-compiling when the
2204 build- and target-machines differ.
2205 + repair broken-linker configuration by restoring a definition of SP
2206 variable to curses.priv.h, and adjusting for cases where sp-funcs
2208 + improve configure macro CF_AR_FLAGS, allowing ARFLAGS environment
2209 variable to override (prompted by report by Pablo Cazallas).
2212 + add configure option --enable-pthreads-eintr to control whether the
2213 new EINTR feature is enabled.
2214 + modify logic in pthread configuration to allow EINTR to interrupt
2215 a read operation in wgetch() (Novell #540571, patch by Werner Fink).
2216 + drop mkdirs.sh, use "mkdir -p".
2217 + add configure option --disable-libtool-version, to use the
2218 "-version-number" feature which was added in libtool 1.5 (report by
2219 Peter Haering). The default value for the option uses the newer
2220 feature, which makes libraries generated using libtool compatible
2221 with the standard builds of ncurses.
2222 + updated test/configure to match configure script macros.
2223 + fixes for configure script from lynx changes:
2224 + improve CF_FIND_LINKAGE logic for the case where a function is
2225 found in predefined libraries.
2226 + revert part of change to CF_HEADER (cf: 20100424)
2229 + correct limit-check in wredrawln, accounting for begy/begx values
2230 (patch by David Benjamin).
2231 + fix most compiler warnings from clang.
2232 + amend build-fix for OpenSolaris, to ensure that a system header is
2233 included in curses.h before testing feature symbols, since they
2234 may be defined by that route.
2237 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
2238 + modify configure macro CF_HEADER_PATH to not look for variations in
2239 the predefined include directories.
2240 + improve configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GCC_WARNINGS to work
2241 with gcc 4.x's c89 alias, which gives warning messages for cases
2242 where older versions would produce an error.
2245 + modify _nc_capcmp() to work with cancelled strings.
2246 + correct translation of "^" in _nc_infotocap(), used to transform
2247 terminfo to termcap strings
2248 + add configure --disable-rpath-hack, to allow disabling the feature
2249 which adds rpath options for libraries in unusual places.
2250 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by checking if the rpath option for a given
2251 directory was already added.
2252 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by using ldd to provide a standard list of
2253 directories (which will be ignored).
2256 + improve win_driver.c handling of mouse:
2257 + discard motion events
2258 + avoid calling _nc_timed_wait when there is a mouse event
2259 + handle 4th and "rightmost" buttons.
2260 + quote substitutions in CF_RPATH_HACK_2 configure macro, needed for
2261 cases where there are embedded blanks in the rpath option.
2264 + add configure check for exctags vs ctags, to work around pkgsrc.
2265 + simplify logic in _nc_get_screensize() to make it easier to see how
2266 environment variables may override system- and terminfo-values
2267 (prompted by discussion with Igor Bujna).
2268 + make debug-traces for COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER less verbose.
2269 + improve handling of color-pairs embedded in attributes for the
2270 extended-colors configuration.
2271 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to build link_test with sp-funcs.
2272 + build-fixes for OpenSolaris aka Solaris 11, for wide-character
2273 configuration as well as for rpath feature in *-config scripts.
2276 + refactor CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro, making CF_RPATH_HACK more
2278 + improve configure CF_REGEX, similar fixes.
2279 + improve configure CF_FIND_LINKAGE, adding add check between system
2280 (default) and explicit paths, where we can find the entrypoint in the
2282 + add check if Gpm_Open() returns a -2, e.g., for "xterm". This is
2283 normally suppressed but can be overridden using $NCURSES_GPM_TERMS.
2284 Ensure that Gpm_Close() is called in this case.
2287 + rename atari and st52 terminfo entries to atari-old, st52-old, use
2288 newer entries from FreeMiNT by Guido Flohr (from patch/report by Alan
2292 + modify install-rule for manpages so that *-config manpages will
2293 install when building with --srcdir (report by Sven Joachim).
2294 + modify CF_DISABLE_LEAKS configure macro so that the --enable-leaks
2295 option is not the same as --disable-leaks (GenToo #305889).
2296 + modify #define's for build-compiler to suppress cchar_t symbol from
2297 compile of make_hash and make_keys, improving cross-compilation of
2298 ncursesw (report by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
2299 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to replace all occurrences of
2300 TPUT in tput.1's manpage (Debian #573597, report/analysis by Anders
2304 + generate manpages for the *-config scripts, adapted from help2man
2305 (suggested by Sven Joachim).
2306 + use va_copy() in _nc_printf_string() to avoid conflicting use of
2307 va_list value in _nc_printf_length() (report by Wim Lewis).
2310 + add Ada95/configure script, to use in tar-file created by
2312 + fix typo in wresize.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
2313 + modify screen-bce.XXX entries to exclude ech, since screen's color
2314 model does not clear with color for that feature -TD
2317 + add make-tar.sh scripts to Ada95 and test subdirectories to help with
2318 making those separately distributable.
2319 + build-fix for static libraries without dlsym (Debian #556378).
2320 + fix a syntax error in man/form_field_opts.3x (patch by Ingo
2324 + add several screen-bce.XXX entries -TD
2327 + update mrxvt terminfo entry -TD
2328 + modify win_driver.c to support mouse single-clicks.
2329 + correct name for termlib in ncurses*-config, e.g., if it is renamed
2330 to provide a single file for ncurses/ncursesw libraries (patch by
2334 + use vfork in test/ditto.c if available (request by Mike Frysinger).
2335 + miscellaneous cleanup of manpages.
2336 + fix typo in curs_bkgd.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
2337 + build-fix for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
2340 + for term-driver configuration, ensure that the driver pointer is
2341 initialized in setupterm so that terminfo/termcap programs work.
2342 + amend fix for Debian #542031 to ensure that wattrset() returns only
2343 OK or ERR, rather than the attribute value (report by Miroslav
2345 + reorder WINDOWLIST to put WINDOW data after SCREEN pointer, making
2346 _nc_screen_of() compatible between normal/wide libraries again (patch
2347 by Miroslav Lichvar)
2348 + review/fix include-dependencies in modules files (report by Miroslav
2352 + modify win_driver.c to initialize acs_map for win32 console, so
2353 that line-drawing works.
2354 + modify win_driver.c to initialize TERMINAL struct so that programs
2355 such as test/lrtest.c and test/ncurses.c which test string
2356 capabilities can run.
2357 + modify term-driver modules to eliminate forward-reference
2361 + modify configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., to use CF_ADD_CFLAGS
2362 consistently to add new -D's while removing duplicates.
2363 + modify a few configure macros to consistently put new options
2364 before older in the list.
2365 + add tiparm(), based on review of X/Open Curses Issue 7.
2366 + minor documentation cleanup.
2367 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2368 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
2369 (caveat - its maintainer put 2010 copyright date on files dated 2009)
2372 + minor improvement to tic's checking of similar SGR's to allow for the
2373 most common case of SGR 0.
2374 + modify getmouse() to act as its documentation implied, returning on
2375 each call the preceding event until none are left. When no more
2376 events remain, it will return ERR.
2379 + change order of lookup in progs/tput.c, looking for terminfo data
2380 first. This fixes a confusion between termcap "sg" and terminfo
2381 "sgr" or "sgr0", originally from 990123 changes, but exposed by
2382 20091114 fixes for hashing. With this change, only "dl" and "ed" are
2383 ambiguous (Mandriva #56272).
2386 + add bterm terminfo entry, based on bogl 0.1.18 -TD
2387 + minor fix to rxvt+pcfkeys terminfo entry -TD
2388 + build-fixes for Ada95 tree for gnat 4.4 "style".
2391 + remove old check in mvderwin() which prevented moving a derived
2392 window whose origin happened to coincide with its parent's origin
2393 (report by Katarina Machalkova).
2394 + improve test/ncurses.c to put mouse droppings in the proper window.
2395 + update minix terminfo entry -TD
2396 + add bw (auto-left-margin) to nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler)
2399 + correct transfer of multicolumn characters in multirow
2400 field_buffer(), which stopped at the end of the first row due to
2401 filling of unused entries in a cchar_t array with nulls.
2402 + updated nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler, Emanuele Giaquinta)
2403 + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to show wide-character
2405 + use strdup() in set_menu_mark(), restore .marklen struct member on
2407 + eliminate clause 3 from the UCB copyrights in read_termcap.c and
2409 ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change
2410 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
2411 + replace a malloc in tic.c with strdup, checking for failure (patch by
2413 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2414 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
2417 + correct layout of working window used to extract data in
2418 wide-character configured by set_field_buffer (patch by Rafael
2420 + improve some limit-checks related to filename length in reading and
2421 writing terminfo entries.
2422 + ensure that filename is always filled in when attempting to read
2423 a terminfo entry, so that infocmp can report the filename (patch
2424 by Nicholas Marriott).
2427 + modify mk-1st.awk to allow tinfo library to be built when term-driver
2429 + add error-check to configure script to ensure that sp-funcs is
2430 enabled if term-driver is, since some internal interfaces rely upon
2434 + fix case where progs/tput is used while sp-funcs is configure; this
2435 requires save/restore of out-character function from _nc_prescreen
2436 rather than the SCREEN structure (report by Charles Wilson).
2437 + fix typo in man/curs_trace.3x which caused incorrect symbolic links
2438 + improved configure macros CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES, CF_PROG_LINT.
2442 + updated man/curs_trace.3x
2443 + limit hashing for termcap-names to 2-characters (Ubuntu #481740).
2444 + change a variable name in lib_newwin.c to make it clearer which
2445 value is being freed on error (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
2448 + improve test/ncurses.c color-cycling test by reusing attribute-
2449 and color-cycling logic from the video-attributes screen.
2450 + add ifdef'd with NCURSES_INTEROP_FUNCS experimental bindings in form
2451 library which help make it compatible with interop applications
2452 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
2453 + add configure option --enable-interop, for integrating changes
2454 for generic/interop support to form-library by Juergen Pfeifer
2457 + modify use of $CC environment variable which is defined by X/Open
2458 as a curses feature, to ignore it if it is not a single character
2459 (prompted by discussion with Benjamin C W Sittler).
2460 + add START_TRACE in slk_init
2461 + fix a regression in _nc_ripoffline which made test/ncurses.c not show
2462 soft-keys, broken in 20090927 merging.
2463 + change initialization of "hidden" flag for soft-keys from true to
2464 false, broken in 20090704 merging (Ubuntu #464274).
2465 + update nsterm entries (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler, prompted by
2466 discussion with Fabian Groffen in GenToo #206201).
2467 + add test/xterm-256color.dat
2470 + quiet some pedantic gcc warnings.
2471 + modify _nc_wgetch() to check for a -1 in the fifo, e.g., after a
2472 SIGWINCH, and discard that value, to avoid confusing application
2473 (patch by Eygene Ryabinkin, FreeBSD #136223).
2476 + modify handling of $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR to use only the first item in
2477 a possibly colon-separated list (Debian #550716).
2480 + supply a null-terminator to buffer in _nc_viswibuf().
2481 + fix a sign-extension bug in unget_wch() (report by Mike Gran).
2482 + minor fixes to error-returns in default function for tputs, as well
2486 + add WACS_xxx definitions to wide-character configuration for thick-
2487 and double-lines (discussion with Slava Zanko).
2488 + remove unnecessary kcan assignment to ^C from putty (Sven Joachim)
2489 + add ccc and initc capabilities to xterm-16color -TD
2490 > patch by Benjamin C W Sittler:
2492 + correct initc capability of linux-c-nc end-of-range
2493 + similar change for dg+ccc and dgunix+ccc
2496 + move leak-checking for comp_captab.c into _nc_leaks_tinfo() since
2497 that module since 20090711 is in libtinfo.
2498 + add configure option --enable-term-driver, to allow compiling with
2499 terminal-driver. That is used in MinGW port, and (being somewhat
2500 more complicated) is an experimental alternative to the conventional
2501 termlib internals. Currently, it requires the sp-funcs feature to
2503 + completed integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer in ncurses
2504 library (some work remains for forms library).
2507 + document return code from define_key (report by Mike Gran).
2508 + make some symbolic links in the terminfo directory-tree shorter
2509 (patch by Daniel Jacobowitz, forwarded by Sven Joachim).).
2510 + fix some groff warnings in terminfo.5, etc., from recent Debian
2512 + change ncv and op capabilities in sun-color terminfo entry to match
2513 Sun's entry for this (report by Laszlo Peter).
2514 + improve interix smso terminfo capability by using reverse rather than
2515 bold (report by Kristof Zelechovski).
2518 + add some test programs (and make these use the same special keys
2519 by sharing linedata.h functions):
2522 test/test_addchstr.c
2523 test/test_add_wchstr.c
2524 + correct internal _nc_insert_ch() to use _nc_insert_wch() when
2525 inserting wide characters, since the wins_wch() function that it used
2526 did not update the cursor position (report by Ciprian Craciun).
2529 + fix typo s/is_timeout/is_notimeout/ which made "man is_notimeout" not
2531 + add null-pointer checks to other opaque-functions.
2532 + add is_pad() and is_subwin() functions for opaque access to WINDOW
2533 (discussion with Mark Dickinson).
2534 + correct merge to lib_newterm.c, which broke when sp-funcs was
2538 + build-fix for building outside source-tree (report by Sven Joachim).
2539 + fix Debian lintian warning for man/tabs.1 by making section number
2540 agree with file-suffix (report by Sven Joachim).
2541 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2544 + workaround for bug in g++ 4.1-4.4 warnings for wattrset() macro on
2545 amd64 (Debian #542031).
2546 + fix typo in curs_mouse.3x (Debian #429198).
2549 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2552 + correct use of terminfo capabilities for initializing soft-keys,
2553 broken in 20090510 merging.
2554 + modify wgetch() to ensure it checks SIGWINCH when it gets an error
2555 in non-blocking mode (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
2556 + use PATH_SEPARATOR symbol when substituting into run_tic.sh, to
2557 help with builds on non-Unix platforms such as OS/2 EMX.
2558 + modify scripting for misc/run_tic.sh to test configure script's
2559 $cross_compiling variable directly rather than comparing host/build
2560 compiler names (prompted by comment in GenToo #249363).
2561 + fix configure script option --with-database, which was coded as an
2563 + build-fixes for --srcdir (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
2566 + separate _nc_find_entry() and _nc_find_type_entry() from
2567 implementation details of hash function.
2570 + add tabs.1 to man/man_db.renames
2571 + modify lib_addch.c to compensate for removal of wide-character test
2572 from unctrl() in 20090704 (Debian #539735).
2575 + improve discussion in INSTALL for use of system's tic/infocmp for
2576 cross-compiling and building fallbacks.
2577 + modify test/demo_termcap.c to correspond better to options in
2578 test/demo_terminfo.c
2579 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2580 + fix logic for 'V' in test/ncurses.c tests f/F.
2583 + correct logic in tigetnum(), which caused tput program to treat all
2584 string capabilities as numeric (report by Rajeev V Pillai,
2588 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2591 + fix a null-pointer check in _nc_format_slks() in lib_slk.c, from
2593 + modify _nc_find_type_entry() to use hashing.
2594 + make CCHARW_MAX value configurable, noting that changing this would
2595 change the size of cchar_t, and would be ABI-incompatible.
2596 + modify test-programs, e.g,. test/view.c, to address subtle
2597 differences between Tru64/Solaris and HPUX/AIX getcchar() return
2599 + modify length returned by getcchar() to count the trailing null
2600 which is documented in X/Open (cf: 20020427).
2601 + fixes for test programs to build/work on HPUX and AIX, etc.
2604 + improve performance of tigetstr, etc., by using hashing code from tic.
2605 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking.
2606 + add test/demo_terminfo, for comparison with demo_termcap
2609 + remove wide-character checks from unctrl() (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
2610 + revise wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to eliminate dependency on
2612 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2615 + update llib-lncurses[wt] to use sp-funcs.
2616 + various code-fixes to build/work with --disable-macros configure
2618 + add several new files from Juergen Pfeifer which will be used when
2619 integration of "sp-funcs" is complete. This includes a port to
2623 + move definition for NCURSES_WRAPPED_VAR back to ncurses_dll.h, to
2624 make includes of term.h without curses.h work (report by "Nix").
2625 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2628 + fix a regression in lib_tputs.c, from ongoing merges.
2631 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2634 + fix an infinite recursion when adding a legacy-coding 8-bit value
2635 using insch() (report by Clemens Ladisch).
2636 + free home-terminfo string in del_curterm() (patch by Dan Weber).
2637 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2640 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2643 + work around antique BSD game's manipulation of stdscr, etc., versus
2644 SCREEN's copy of the pointer (Debian #528411).
2645 + add a cast to wattrset macro to avoid compiler warning when comparing
2646 its result against ERR (adapted from patch by Matt Kraii, Debian
2650 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2653 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2654 + add vwmterm terminfo entry (patch by Bryan Christ).
2657 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2660 + build fix for _nc_free_and_exit() change in 20090418 (report by
2664 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2667 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2668 This change finishes merging for menu and panel libraries, does
2669 part of the form library.
2672 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
2673 Darwin (report by Nelson Beebe).
2676 + extend ansi.sys pfkey capability from kf1-kf10 to kf1-kf48, moving
2677 function key definitions from emx-base for consistency -TD
2678 + correct missing final 'p' in pfkey capability of ansi.sys-old (report
2679 by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo).
2680 + improve test/ncurses.c 'F' test, show combining characters in color.
2681 + quiet a false report by cppcheck in c++/cursesw.cc by eliminating
2682 a temporary variable.
2683 + use _nc_doalloc() rather than realloc() in a few places in ncurses
2684 library to avoid leak in out-of-memory condition (reports by William
2685 Egert and Martin Ettl based on cppcheck tool).
2686 + add --with-ncurses-wrap-prefix option to test/configure (discussion
2687 with Charles Wilson).
2688 + use ncurses*-config scripts if available for test/configure.
2689 + update test/aclocal.m4 and test/configure
2690 > patches by Charles Wilson:
2691 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL configure check to allow unreleased libtool
2692 version numbers (e.g. which include alphabetic chars, as well as
2693 digits, after the final '.').
2694 + improve use of -no-undefined option for libtool by setting an
2695 intermediate variable LT_UNDEF in the configure script, and then
2696 using that in the libtool link-commands.
2697 + fix an missing use of NCURSES_PUBLIC_VAR() in tinfo/MKcodes.awk
2698 from 20090321 changes.
2699 + improve mk-1st.awk script by writing separate cases for the
2700 LIBTOOL_LINK command, depending on which library (ncurses, ticlib,
2701 termlib) is to be linked.
2702 + modify configure.in to allow broken-linker configurations, not just
2703 enable-reentrant, to set public wrap prefix.
2706 + add TICS_LIST and SHLIB_LIST to allow libtool 2.2.6 on Cygwin to
2707 build with tic and term libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
2708 + add -no-undefined option to libtool for Cygwin, MinGW, U/Win and AIX
2709 (report by Charles Wilson).
2710 + fix definition for c++/Makefile.in's SHLIB_LIST, which did not list
2711 the form, menu or panel libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
2712 + add configure option --with-wrap-prefix to allow setting the prefix
2713 for functions used to wrap global variables to something other than
2714 "_nc_" (discussion with Charles Wilson).
2717 + modify scripts to generate ncurses*-config and pc-files to add
2718 dependency for tinfo library (patch by Charles Wilson).
2719 + improve comparison of program-names when checking for linked flavors
2720 such as "reset" by ignoring the executable suffix (reports by Charles
2721 Wilson, Samuel Thibault and Cedric Bretaudeau on Cygwin mailing
2723 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
2724 Solaris 10, since gcc is confused by absence of static libc, and
2725 does not switch back to dynamic mode before finishing the libraries
2726 (reports by Joel Bertrand, Alan Pae).
2727 + minor fixes to Intel compiler warning checks in configure script.
2728 + modify _nc_leaks_tinfo() so leak-checking in test/railroad.c works.
2729 + modify set_curterm() to make broken-linker configuration work with
2730 changes from 20090228 (report by Charles Wilson).
2733 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2734 + modify declaration of cur_term when broken-linker is used, but
2735 enable-reentrant is not, to match pre-5.7 (report by Charles Wilson).
2738 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
2741 + add configure script --enable-sp-funcs to enable the new set of
2743 + start integrating patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
2744 + add extended functions which specify the SCREEN pointer for several
2745 curses functions which use the global SP (these are incomplete;
2746 some internals work is needed to complete these).
2747 + add special cases to configure script for MinGW port.
2750 + update several configure macros from lynx changes
2751 + append (not prepend) to CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS
2752 + change variable from PATHSEP to PATH_SEPARATOR
2753 + improve install-rules for pc-files (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
2754 + make it work with $DESTDIR
2755 + create the pkg-config library directory if needed.
2758 + modify init_pair() to allow caller to create extra color pairs beyond
2759 the color_pairs limit, which use default colors (request by Emanuele
2761 + add misc/terminfo.tmp and misc/*.pc to "sources" rule.
2762 + fix typo "==" where "=" is needed in ncurses-config.in and
2763 gen-pkgconfig.in files (Debian #512161).
2766 + add -shared option to MK_SHARED_LIB when -Bsharable is used, for
2767 *BSD's, without which "main" might be one of the shared library's
2768 dependencies (report/analysis by Ken Dickey).
2769 + modify waddch_literal(), updating line-pointer after a multicolumn
2770 character is found to not fit on the current row, and wrapping is
2771 done. Since the line-pointer was not updated, the wrapped
2772 multicolumn character was written to the beginning of the current row
2773 (cf: 20041023, reported by "Nick" regarding problem with ncmpc
2774 http://musicpd.org/mantis/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1930).
2777 + add screen.Eterm terminfo entry (GenToo #124887) -TD
2778 + modify adacurses-config to look for ".ali" files in the adalib
2780 + correct install for Ada95, which omitted libAdaCurses.a used in
2782 + change install for adacurses-config to provide additional flavors
2783 such as adacursesw-config, for ncursesw (GenToo #167849).
2786 + remove undeveloped feature in ncurses-config.in for setting
2788 + recent change to ncurses-config.in did not take into account the
2789 --disable-overwrite option, which sets $includedir to the
2790 subdirectory and using just that for a -I option does not work - fix
2791 (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
2794 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to eliminate a dependency on rpath when
2795 deciding whether to add $LIBS to --libs output; that should be shown
2796 for the ncurses and tinfo libraries without taking rpath into
2798 + fix an overlooked change from $AR_OPTS to $ARFLAGS in mk-1st.awk,
2799 used in static libraries (report by Marty Jack).
2802 + add a configure-time check to pick a suitable value for
2803 CC_SHARED_OPTS for Solaris (report by Dagobert Michelsen).
2804 + add configure --with-pkg-config and --enable-pc-files options, along
2805 with misc/gen-pkgconfig.in which can be used to generate ".pc" files
2806 for pkg-config (request by Jan Engelhardt).
2807 + use $includedir symbol in misc/ncurses-config.in, add --includedir
2809 + change makefiles to use $ARFLAGS rather than $AR_OPTS, provide a
2810 configure check to detect whether a "-" is needed before "ar"
2812 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2813 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
2816 + modify mk-1st.awk to work with extra categories for tinfo library.
2817 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries with gcc
2818 on AIX 5 or 6 (adapted from patch by Lital Natan).
2821 + modify to omit the opaque-functions from lib_gen.o when
2822 --disable-ext-funcs is used.
2823 + add test/clip_printw.c to illustrate how to use printw without
2825 + modify ncurses 'F' test to demo wborder_set() with colored lines.
2826 + modify ncurses 'f' test to demo wborder() with colored lines.
2829 + add check for failure to open hashed-database needed for db4.6
2831 + corrected --without-manpages option; previous change only suppressed
2832 the auxiliary rules install.man and uninstall.man
2833 + add case for FreeMINT to configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE (patch from
2835 + fixes from NetBSD port at
2836 http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/devel/ncurses/patches
2837 patch-ac (build-fix for DragonFly)
2838 patch-ae (use INSTALL_SCRIPT for installing misc/ncurses*-config).
2839 + improve configure script macros CF_HEADER_PATH and CF_LIBRARY_PATH
2840 by adding CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS, LIBS values to the
2842 + correct title string for keybound manpage (patch by Frederic Culot,
2843 OpenBSD documentation/6019),
2846 + move del_curterm() call from _nc_freeall() to _nc_leaks_tinfo() to
2847 work for progs/clear, progs/tabs, etc.
2848 + correct buffer-size after internal resizing of wide-character
2849 set_field_buffer(), broken in 20081018 changes (report by Mike Gran).
2850 + add "-i" option to test/filter.c to tell it to use initscr() rather
2851 than newterm(), to investigate report on comp.unix.programmer that
2852 ncurses would clear the screen in that case (it does not - the issue
2853 was xterm's alternate screen feature).
2854 + add check in mouse-driver to disable connection if GPM returns a
2855 zero, indicating that the connection is closed (Debian #506717,
2856 adapted from patch by Samuel Thibault).
2859 + improve a workaround in adding wide-characters, when a control
2860 character is found. The library (cf: 20040207) uses unctrl() to
2861 obtain a printable version of the control character, but was not
2862 passing color or video attributes.
2863 + improve test/ncurses.c 'a' test, using unctrl() more consistently to
2864 display meta-characters.
2865 + turn on _XOPEN_CURSES definition in curses.h
2866 + add eterm-color entry (report by Vincent Lefevre) -TD
2867 + correct use of key_name() in test/ncurses.c 'A' test, which only
2868 displays wide-characters, not key-codes since 20070612 (report by
2872 + change _nc_has_mouse() to has_mouse(), reflect its use in C++ and
2873 Ada95 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
2874 + document in TO-DO an issue with Cygwin's package for GNAT (report
2876 + improve error-checking of command-line options in "tabs" program.
2879 + change several terminfo entries to make consistent use of ANSI
2881 + add "tabs" program (prompted by Debian #502260).
2882 + add configure --without-manpages option (request by Mike Frysinger).
2884 20081102 5.7 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2887 + add a manpage to discuss memory leaks.
2888 + add support for shared libraries for QNX (other than libtool, which
2889 does not work well on that platform).
2890 + build-fix for QNX C++ binding.
2893 + build-fixes for OS/2 EMX.
2894 + modify form library to accept control characters such as newline
2895 in set_field_buffer(), which is compatible with Solaris (report by
2897 + modify configure script to assume --without-hashed-db when
2898 --disable-database is used.
2899 + add "-e" option in ncurses/Makefile.in when generating source-files
2900 to force earlier exit if the build environment fails unexpectedly
2901 (prompted by patch by Adrian Bunk).
2902 + change configure script to use CF_UTF8_LIB, improved variant of
2906 + add teraterm4.59 terminfo entry, use that as primary teraterm entry, rename
2907 original to teraterm2.3 -TD
2908 + update "gnome" terminfo to 2.22.3 -TD
2909 + update "konsole" terminfo to 1.6.6, needs today's fix for tic -TD
2910 + add "aterm" terminfo -TD
2911 + add "linux2.6.26" terminfo -TD
2912 + add logic to tic for cancelling strings in user-defined capabilities,
2916 + regenerated html documentation.
2917 + add -m and -s options to test/keynames.c and test/key_names.c to test
2918 the meta() function with keyname() or key_name(), respectively.
2919 + correct return value of key_name() on error; it is null.
2920 + document some unresolved issues for rpath and pthreads in TO-DO.
2921 + fix a missing prototype for ioctl() on OpenBSD in tset.c
2922 + add configure option --disable-tic-depends to make explicit whether
2923 tic library depends on ncurses/ncursesw library, amends change from
2924 20080823 (prompted by Debian #501421).
2927 + some build-fixes for configure --disable-ext-funcs (incomplete, but
2928 works for C/C++ parts).
2929 + improve configure-check for awks unable to handle large strings, e.g.
2930 AIX 5.1 whose awk silently gives up on large printf's.
2933 + fix build for --with-dmalloc by workaround for redefinition of
2934 strndup between string.h and dmalloc.h
2935 + fix build for --disable-sigwinch
2936 + add environment variable NCURSES_GPM_TERMS to allow override to use
2937 GPM on terminals other than "linux", etc.
2938 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM does not happen to contain
2939 "linux", since Gpm_Open() no longer limits its assertion to terminals
2940 that it might handle, e.g., within "screen" in xterm.
2941 + reset mouse file-descriptor when unloading GPM library (report by
2943 + fix build for --disable-leaks --enable-widec --with-termlib
2944 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
2945 + use improved initialization for soft-label keys in Ada95 sample code.
2946 + discard internal symbol _nc_slk_format (unused since 20080112).
2947 + move call of slk_paint_info() from _nc_slk_initialize() to
2948 slk_intern_refresh(), improving initialization.
2951 + fix bug in mouse code for GPM from 20080920 changes (reported in
2952 Debian #500103, also Miroslav Lichvar).
2955 + fix shared-library rules for cygwin with tic- and tinfo-libraries.
2956 + fix a memory leak when failure to connect to GPM.
2957 + correct check for notimeout() in wgetch() (report on linux.redhat
2958 newsgroup by FurtiveBertie).
2959 + add an example warning-suppression file for valgrind,
2960 misc/ncurses.supp (based on example from Reuben Thomas)
2963 + change shared-library configuration for OpenBSD, make rpath work.
2964 + build-fixes for using libutf8, e.g., on OpenBSD 3.7
2967 + corrected fix for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
2971 + corrected gcc options for building shared libraries on IRIX64.
2972 + add configure check for awk programs unable to handle big-strings,
2973 use that to improve the default for --enable-big-strings option.
2974 + makefile-fixes for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
2976 + update test/configure script.
2977 + adapt ifdef's from library to make test/view.c build when mbrtowc()
2978 is unavailable, e.g., with HPUX 10.20.
2979 + add configure check for wcsrtombs, mbsrtowcs, which are used in
2980 test/ncurses.c, and use wcstombs, mbstowcs instead if available,
2981 fixing build of ncursew for HPUX 11.00
2984 + fixes to make Ada95 demo_panels() example work.
2985 + modify Ada95 'rain' test program to accept keyboard commands like the
2987 + modify BeOS-specific ifdef's to build on Haiku (patch by Scott
2989 + add configure-check to see if the std namespace is legal for cerr
2990 and endl, to fix a build issue with Tru64.
2991 + consistently use NCURSES_BOOL in lib_gen.c
2992 + filter #line's from lib_gen.c
2993 + change delimiter in MKlib_gen.sh from '%' to '@', to avoid
2994 substitution by IBM xlc to '#' as part of its extensions to digraphs.
2995 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2996 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
2997 (caveat - its maintainer removed support for older Linux systems).
3000 + modify configure check for pthread library to work with OSF/1 5.1,
3001 which uses #define's to associate its header and library.
3002 + use pthread_mutexattr_init() for initializing pthread_mutexattr_t,
3003 makes threaded code work on HPUX 11.23
3004 + fix a bug in demo_menus in freeing menus (cf: 20080804).
3005 + modify configure script for the case where tic library is used (and
3006 possibly renamed) to remove its dependency upon ncurses/ncursew
3007 library (patch by Dr Werner Fink).
3008 + correct manpage for menu_fore() which gave wrong default for
3009 the attribute used to display a selected entry (report by Mike Gran).
3010 + add Eterm-256color, Eterm-88color and rxvt-88color (prompted by
3014 + add configure option --enable-weak-symbols to turn on new feature.
3015 + add configure-check for availability of weak symbols.
3016 + modify linkage with pthread library to use weak symbols so that
3017 applications not linked to that library will not use the mutexes,
3018 etc. This relies on gcc, and may be platform-specific (patch by Dr
3020 + add note to INSTALL to document limitation of renaming of tic library
3021 using the --with-ticlib configure option (report by Dr Werner Fink).
3022 + document (in manpage) why tputs does not detect I/O errors (prompted
3023 by comments by Samuel Thibault).
3024 + fix remaining warnings from Klocwork report.
3027 + modify _nc_panelhook() data to account for a permanent memory leak.
3028 + fix memory leaks in test/demo_menus
3029 + fix most warnings from Klocwork tool (report by Larry Zhou).
3030 + modify configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to add case for
3031 "dragonfly" from xterm #236 changes.
3032 + modify configure script --with-hashed-db to let $LIBS override the
3033 search for the db library (prompted by report by Samson Pierre).
3036 + build-fixes for gcc 4.3.1 (changes to gnat "warnings", and C inlining
3040 + build-fix (reports by Christian Ebert, Funda Wang).
3043 + compiler-warning fixes for Solaris.
3046 + use NCURSES_MOUSE_MASK() in definition of BUTTON_RELEASE(), etc., to
3047 make those work properly with the "--enable-ext-mouse" configuration
3049 + improve documentation of build-cc options in INSTALL.
3050 + work-around a bug in gcc 4.2.4 on AIX, which does not pass the
3051 -static/-dynamic flags properly to linker, causing test/bs to
3055 + correct some ifdef's needed for the broken-linker configuration.
3056 + make debugging library's $BAUDRATE feature work for termcap
3058 + make $NCURSES_NO_PADDING feature work for termcap interface (prompted
3059 by comment on FreeBSD mailing list).
3060 + add screen.mlterm terminfo entry -TD
3061 + improve mlterm and mlterm+pcfkeys terminfo entries -TD
3064 + regenerated html documentation.
3065 + expand manpage description of parameters for form_driver() and
3066 menu_driver() (prompted by discussion with Adam Spragg).
3067 + add null-pointer checks for cur_term in baudrate() and
3068 def_shell_mode(), def_prog_mode()
3069 + fix some memory leaks in delscreen() and wide acs.
3072 + modify test/ditto.c to illustrate multi-threaded use_screen().
3073 + change CC_SHARED_OPTS from -KPIC to -xcode=pic32 for Solaris.
3074 + add "-shared" option to MK_SHARED_LIB for gcc on Solaris (report
3078 + finish changes to wgetch(), making it switch as needed to the
3079 window's actual screen when calling wrefresh() and wgetnstr(). That
3080 allows wgetch() to get used concurrently in different threads with
3081 some minor restrictions, e.g., the application should not delete a
3082 window which is being used in a wgetch().
3083 + simplify mutex's, combining the window- and screen-mutex's.
3086 + modify wgetch() to use the screen which corresponds to its window
3087 parameter rather than relying on SP; some dependent functions still
3089 + factor out most use of SP in lib_mouse.c, using parameter.
3090 + add internal _nc_keyname(), replacing keyname() to associate with a
3091 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
3092 + add internal _nc_unctrl(), replacing unctrl() to associate with a
3093 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
3094 + add internal _nc_tracemouse(), replacing _tracemouse() to eliminate
3095 its associated global buffer _nc_globals.tracemse_buf now in SCREEN.
3096 + add internal _nc_tracechar(), replacing _tracechar() to use SCREEN in
3097 preference to the global _nc_globals.tracechr_buf buffer.
3100 + modify _nc_keypad() to make it switch temporarily as needed to the
3101 screen which must be updated.
3102 + wrap cur_term variable to help make _nc_keymap() thread-safe, and
3103 always set the screen's copy of this variable in set_curterm().
3104 + restore curs_set() state after endwin()/refresh() (report/patch
3108 + modify configure script to note that --enable-ext-colors and
3109 --enable-ext-mouse are not experimental, but extensions from
3111 + corrected manpage description of setcchar() (discussion with
3112 Emanuele Giaquinta).
3113 + fix for adding a non-spacing character at the beginning of a line
3114 (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
3117 + modify screen.* terminfo entries using new screen+fkeys to fix
3118 overridden keys in screen.rxvt (Debian #478094) -TD
3119 + modify internal interfaces to reduce wgetch()'s dependency on the
3121 + simplify some loops with macros each_screen(), each_window() and
3125 + continue modifying test/ditto.c toward making it demonstrate
3126 multithreaded use_screen(), using fifos to pass data between screens.
3127 + fix typo in form.3x (report by Mike Gran).
3130 + add screen.rxvt terminfo entry -TD
3131 + modify tic -f option to format spaces as \s to prevent them from
3132 being lost when that is read back in unformatted strings.
3133 + improve test/ditto.c, using a "talk"-style layout.
3136 + change test/ditto.c to use openpty() and xterm.
3137 + add locks for copywin(), dupwin(), overlap(), overlay() on their
3139 + add locks for initscr() and newterm() on updates to the SCREEN
3141 + finish table in curs_thread.3x manpage.
3144 + begin table in curs_thread.3x manpage describing the scope of data
3145 used by each function (or symbol) for threading analysis.
3146 + add null-pointer checks to setsyx() and getsyx() (prompted by
3147 discussion by Martin v. Lowis and Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven on
3148 python-dev2 mailing list).
3151 + add null-pointer checks in set_term() and delscreen().
3152 + move _nc_windows into _nc_globals, since windows can be pads, which
3153 are not associated with a particular screen.
3154 + change use_screen() to pass the SCREEN* parameter rather than
3155 stdscr to the callback function.
3156 + force libtool to use tag for 'CC' in case it does not detect this,
3157 e.g., on aix when using CC=powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0-gcc
3158 (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
3159 + override OBJEXT to "lo" when building with libtool, to work on
3160 platforms such as AIX where libtool may use a different suffix for
3161 the object files than ".o" (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
3162 + add configure --with-pthread option, for building with the POSIX
3166 + fill in extended-color pair two more places in wbkgrndset() and
3167 waddch_nosync() (prompted by Sedeno's patch).
3168 + fill in extended-color pair in _nc_build_wch() to make colors work
3169 for wide-characters using extended-colors (patch by Alejandro R
3171 + add x/X toggles to ncurses.c C color test to test/demo
3172 wide-characters with extended-colors.
3173 + add a/A toggles to ncurses.c c/C color tests.
3174 + modify test/ditto.c to use use_screen().
3175 + finish modifying test/rain.c to demonstrate threads.
3178 + start modifying test/rain.c for threading demo.
3179 + modify test/ncurses.c to make 'f' test accept the f/F/b/F/</> toggles
3180 that the 'F' accepts.
3181 + modify test/worm.c to show trail in reverse-video when other threads
3182 are working concurrently.
3183 + fix a deadlock from improper nesting of mutexes for windowlist and
3187 + fixes from 20080223 resolved issue with mutexes; change to use
3188 recursive mutexes to fix memory leak in delwin() as called from
3189 _nc_free_and_exit().
3192 + fix a size-difference in _nc_globals which caused hanging of mutex
3193 lock/unlock when termlib was built separately.
3196 + avoid using nanosleep() in threaded configuration since that often
3197 is implemented to suspend the entire process.
3200 + update test programs to build/work with various UNIX curses for
3201 comparisons. This was to reinvestigate statement in X/Open curses
3202 that insnstr and winsnstr perform wrapping. None of the Unix-branded
3203 implementations do this, as noted in manpage (cf: 20040228).
3206 + modify _nc_setupscreen() to set the legacy-coding value the same
3207 for both narrow/wide models. It had been set only for wide model,
3208 but is needed to make unctrl() work with locale in the narrow model.
3209 + improve waddch() and winsch() handling of EILSEQ from mbrtowc() by
3210 using unctrl() to display illegal bytes rather than trying to append
3211 further bytes to make up a valid sequence (reported by Andrey A
3213 + modify unctrl() to check codes in 128-255 range versus isprint().
3214 If they are not printable, and locale was set, use a "M-" or "~"
3218 + improve threading in test/worm.c (wrap refresh calls, and KEY_RESIZE
3219 handling). Now it hangs in napms(), no matter whether nanosleep()
3220 or poll() or select() are used on Linux.
3223 + fixes to build with --disable-ext-funcs
3224 + add manpage for use_window and use_screen.
3225 + add set_tabsize() and set_escdelay() functions.
3228 + remove recursive-mutex definitions, finish threading demo for worm.c
3229 + remove a redundant adjustment of lines in resizeterm.c's
3230 adjust_window() which caused occasional misadjustment of stdscr when
3234 + several improvements to terminfo entries based on xterm #230 -TD
3235 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle keyname/key_name prototypes, so the
3236 "link_test" builds properly.
3237 + fix for toe command-line options -u/-U to ensure filename is given.
3238 + fix allocation-size for command-line parsing in infocmp from 20070728
3239 (report by Miroslav Lichvar)
3240 + improve resizeterm() by moving ripped-off lines, and repainting the
3241 soft-keys (report by Katarina Machalkova)
3242 + add clarification in wclear's manpage noting that the screen will be
3243 cleared even if a subwindow is cleared (prompted by Christer Enfors
3245 + change test/ncurses.c soft-key tests to work with KEY_RESIZE.
3248 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
3252 + add several functions to C++ binding which wrap C functions that
3253 pass a WINDOW* parameter (request by Chris Lee).
3256 + add note about configure options needed for Berkeley database to the
3258 + improve checks for version of Berkeley database libraries.
3259 + amend fix for rpath to not modify LDFLAGS if the platform has no
3260 applicable transformation (report by Christian Ebert, cf: 20071124).
3263 + modify configure option --with-hashed-db to accept a parameter which
3264 is the install-prefix of a given Berkeley Database (prompted by
3265 pierre4d2 comments).
3266 + rewrite wrapper for wcrtomb(), making it work on Solaris. This is
3267 used in the form library to determine the length of the buffer needed
3268 by field_buffer (report by Alfred Fung).
3269 + remove unneeded window-parameter from C++ binding for wresize (report
3273 + modify the support for filesystems which do not support mixed-case to
3274 generate 2-character (hexadecimal) codes for the lower-level of the
3275 filesystem terminfo database (request by Michail Vidiassov).
3276 + add configure option --enable-mixed-case, to allow overriding the
3277 configure script's check if the filesystem supports mixed-case
3279 + add wresize() to C++ binding (request by Chris Lee).
3280 + define NCURSES_EXT_FUNCS and NCURSES_EXT_COLORS in curses.h to make
3281 it simpler to tell if the extended functions and/or colors are
3285 + update memory-leak checks for changes to names.c and codes.c
3286 + correct acsc strings in h19, z100 (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler).
3289 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
3291 + add mrxvt terminfo entry, add/fix xterm building blocks for modified
3293 + compile with FreeBSD "contemporary" TTY interface (patch by
3297 + modify makefile rules to allow clear, tput and tset to be built
3298 without libtic. The other programs (infocmp, tic and toe) rely on
3300 + add/modify null-pointer checks in several functions for SP and/or
3301 the WINDOW* parameter (report by Thorben Krueger).
3302 + fixes for field_buffer() in formw library (see Redhat #310071,
3303 patches by Miroslav Lichvar).
3304 + improve performance of NCURSES_CHAR_EQ code (patch by Miroslav
3306 + update/improve mlterm and rxvt terminfo entries, e.g., for
3307 the modified cursor- and keypad-keys -TD
3310 + add code to curses.priv.h ifdef'd with NCURSES_CHAR_EQ, which
3311 changes the CharEq() macro to an inline function to allow comparing
3312 cchar_t struct's without comparing gaps in a possibly unpacked
3313 memory layout (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
3316 + add new functions to lib_trace.c to setup mutex's for the _tracef()
3317 calls within the ncurses library.
3318 + for the reentrant model, move _nc_tputs_trace and _nc_outchars into
3320 + start modifying test/worm.c to provide threading demo (incomplete).
3321 + separated ifdef's for some BSD-related symbols in tset.c, to make
3322 it compile on LynxOS (report by Greg Gemmer).
3324 + modify Ada95/gen/Makefile to use shlib script, to simplify building
3325 shared-library configuration on platforms lacking rpath support.
3326 + build-fix for Ada95/src/Makefile to reflect changed dependency for
3327 the terminal-interface-curses-aux.adb file which is now generated.
3328 + restructuring test/worm.c, for use_window() example.
3331 + add use_window() and use_screen() functions, to develop into support
3332 for threaded library (incomplete).
3333 + fix typos in man/curs_opaque.3x which kept the install script from
3334 creating symbolic links to two aliases created in 20070818 (report by
3338 + remove a spurious newline from output of html.m4, which caused links
3339 for Ada95 html to be incorrect for the files generated using m4.
3340 + start investigating mutex's for SCREEN manipulation (incomplete).
3341 + minor cleanup of codes.c/names.c for --enable-const
3342 + expand/revise "Routine and Argument Names" section of ncurses manpage
3343 to address report by David Givens in newsgroup discussion.
3344 + fix interaction between --without-progs/--with-termcap configure
3345 options (report by Michail Vidiassov).
3346 + fix typo in "--disable-relink" option (report by Michail Vidiassov).
3349 + fix a sign-extension bug in infocmp's repair_acsc() function
3351 + fix old configure script bug which prevented "--disable-warnings"
3352 option from working (patch by Mike Frysinger).
3355 + add 9term terminal description (request by Juhapekka Tolvanen) -TD
3356 + modify comp_hash.c's string output to avoid misinterpreting a null
3357 "\0" followed by a digit.
3358 + modify MKnames.awk and MKcodes.awk to support big-strings.
3359 This only applies to the cases (broken linker, reentrant) where
3360 the corresponding arrays are accessed via wrapper functions.
3361 + split MKnames.awk into two scripts, eliminating the shell redirection
3362 which complicated the make process and also the bogus timestamp file
3363 which was introduced to fix "make -j".
3364 + add test/test_opaque.c, test/test_arrays.c
3365 + add wgetscrreg() and wgetparent() for applications that may need it
3366 when NCURSES_OPAQUE is defined (prompted by Bryan Christ).
3369 + amend treatment of infocmp "-r" option to retain the 1023-byte limit
3370 unless "-T" is given (cf: 981017).
3371 + modify comp_captab.c generation to use big-strings.
3372 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private accessed via
3373 _nc_get_alias_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
3375 + modify configure script to skip Intel compiler in CF_C_INLINE.
3376 + make _nc_info_hash_table and _nc_cap_hash_table private accessed via
3377 _nc_get_hash_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
3381 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private, accessed via
3382 _nc_get_alias_table() since they are used only by parse_entry.c
3383 + make _nc_key_names private since it is used only by lib_keyname.c
3384 + add --disable-big-strings configure option to control whether
3385 unctrl.c is generated using the big-string optimization - which may
3386 use strings longer than supported by a given compiler.
3387 + reduce relocation tables for tic, infocmp by changing type of
3388 internal hash tables to short, and make those private symbols.
3389 + eliminate large fixed arrays from progs/infocmp.c
3392 + change winnstr() to stop at the end of the line (cf: 970315).
3393 + add test/test_get_wstr.c
3394 + add test/test_getstr.c
3395 + add test/test_inwstr.c
3396 + add test/test_instr.c
3399 + restore a call to obtain screen-size in _nc_setupterm(), which
3400 is used in tput and other non-screen applications via setupterm()
3401 (Debian #433357, reported by Florent Bayle, Christian Ohm,
3405 + add test/savescreen.c test-program
3406 + add check to trace-file open, if the given name is a directory, add
3407 ".log" to the name and try again.
3408 + add konsole-256color entry -TD
3409 + add extra gcc warning options from xterm.
3410 + minor fixes for ncurses/hashmap test-program.
3411 + modify configure script to quiet c++ build with libtool when the
3412 --disable-echo option is used.
3413 + modify configure script to disable ada95 if libtool is selected,
3414 writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD #114493).
3415 + update config.guess, config.sub
3418 + add continuous-move "M" to demo_panels to help test refresh changes.
3419 + improve fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters,
3420 taking into account some split characters on left/right window
3424 + add "widec" row to _tracedump() output to help diagnose remaining
3425 problems with multi-column characters.
3426 + partial fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters
3427 which are partly overwritten (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
3428 + ignore A_CHARTEXT bits in vidattr() and vid_attr(), in case
3429 multi-column extension bits are passed there.
3430 + add setlocale() call to demo_panels.c, needed for wide-characters.
3431 + add some output flags to _nc_trace_ttymode to help diagnose a bug
3432 report by Larry Virden, i.e., ONLCR, OCRNL, ONOCR and ONLRET,
3435 + add test/demo_panels.c
3436 + implement opaque version of setsyx() and getsyx().
3439 + corrected xterm+pcf2 terminfo modifiers for F1-F4, to match xterm
3441 + split-out key_name() from MKkeyname.awk since it now depends upon
3442 wunctrl() which is not in libtinfo (report by Rong-En Fan).
3445 + add test/key_name.c
3446 + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test/inch_wide.c
3447 + update test/configure
3448 + correct formatting of DEL (0x7f) in _nc_vischar().
3449 + null-terminate result of wunctrl().
3450 + add null-pointer check in key_name() (report by Andreas Krennmair,
3454 + adapt mouse-handling code from menu library in form-library
3455 (discussion with Clive Nicolson).
3456 + add a modification of test/dots.c, i.e., test/dots_mvcur.c to
3457 illustrate how to use mvcur().
3458 + modify wide-character flavor of SetAttr() to preserve the
3459 WidecExt() value stored in the .attr field, e.g., in case it
3460 is overwritten by chgat (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
3461 + correct buffer-size for _nc_viswbuf2n() (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
3462 + build-fixes for Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 (patch by Peter O'Gorman).
3465 + modify keyname() to use "^X" form only if meta() has been called, or
3466 if keyname() is called without initializing curses, e.g., via
3467 initscr() or newterm() (prompted by LinuxBase #1604).
3468 + document some portability issues in man/curs_util.3x
3469 + add a shadow copy of TTY buffer to _nc_prescreen to fix applications
3470 broken by moving that data into SCREEN (cf: 20061230).
3473 + add 'O' (wide-character panel test) in ncurses.c to demonstrate a
3474 problem reported by Sadrul H Chowdhury with repainting parts of
3476 + modify slk_init() so that if there are preceding calls to
3477 ripoffline(), those affect the available lines for soft-keys (adapted
3478 from patch by Clive Nicolson).
3479 + document some portability issues in man/curs_getyx.3x
3482 + fix a bug in Ada95/samples/ncurses which caused a variable to
3483 become uninitialized in the "b" test.
3484 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in adahtml rule to account for recent
3485 movement of files, fix a few incorrect manpage references in the
3487 + add Ada95 binding to _nc_freeall() as Curses_Free_All to help with
3489 + correct some functions in Ada95 binding which were using return value
3490 from C where none was returned: idcok(), immedok() and wtimeout().
3491 + amend recent changes for Ada95 binding to make it build with
3492 Cygwin's linker, e.g., with configure options
3493 --enable-broken-linker --with-ticlib
3496 + add a configure check for gcc's options for inlining, use that to
3497 quiet a warning message where gcc's default behavior changed from
3499 + improve warning message when checking if GPM is linked to curses
3500 library by not warning if its use of "wgetch" is via a weak symbol.
3501 + add loader options when building with static libraries to ensure that
3502 an installed shared library for ncurses does not conflict. This is
3503 reported as problem with Tru64, but could affect other platforms
3504 (report Martin Mokrejs, analysis by Tim Mooney).
3505 + fix build on cygwin after recent ticlib/termlib changes, i.e.,
3506 + adjust TINFO_SUFFIX value to work with cygwin's dll naming
3507 + revert a change from 20070303 which commented out dependency of
3508 SHLIB_LIST in form/menu/panel/c++ libraries.
3509 + fix initialization of ripoff stack pointer (cf: 20070421).
3512 + move most static variables into structures _nc_globals and
3513 _nc_prescreen, to simplify storage.
3514 + add/use configure script macro CF_SIG_ATOMIC_T, use the corresponding
3515 type for data manipulated by signal handlers (prompted by comments
3516 in mailing.openbsd.bugs newsgroup).
3517 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to allow one to pass options such as -static
3518 to the libtool create- and link-operations.
3521 + fix whitespace in curs_opaque.3x which caused a spurious ';' in
3522 the installed aliases (report by Peter Santoro).
3523 + fix configure script to not try to generate adacurses-config when
3524 Ada95 tree is not built.
3527 + add man/curs_legacy.3x, man/curs_opaque.3x
3528 + fix acs_map binding for Ada95 when --enable-reentrant is used.
3529 + add adacurses-config to the Ada95 install, based on version from
3530 FreeBSD port, in turn by Juergen Pfeifer in 2000 (prompted by
3531 comment on comp.lang.ada newsgroup).
3532 + fix includes in c++ binding to build with Intel compiler
3534 + update install rule in Ada95 to use mkdirs.sh
3535 > other fixes prompted by inspection for Coverity report:
3536 + modify ifdef's for c++ binding to use try/catch/throw statements
3537 + add a null-pointer check in tack/ansi.c request_cfss()
3538 + fix a memory leak in ncurses/base/wresize.c
3539 + corrected check for valid memu/meml capabilities in
3540 progs/dump_entry.c when handling V_HPUX case.
3541 > fixes based on Coverity report:
3542 + remove dead code in test/bs.c
3543 + remove dead code in test/demo_defkey.c
3544 + remove an unused assignment in progs/infocmp.c
3545 + fix a limit check in tack/ansi.c tools_charset()
3546 + fix tack/ansi.c tools_status() to perform the VT320/VT420
3547 tests in request_cfss(). The function had exited too soon.
3548 + fix a memory leak in tic.c's make_namelist()
3549 + fix a couple of places in tack/output.c which did not check for EOF.
3550 + fix a loop-condition in test/bs.c
3551 + add index checks in lib_color.c for color palettes
3552 + add index checks in progs/dump_entry.c for version_filter() handling
3554 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in copywin()
3555 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in waddchnstr()
3556 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
3557 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c's make_namelist()
3558 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
3559 + add null-pointer checks in test/cardfile.c
3560 + fix a double-free in ncurses/tinfo/trim_sgr0.c
3561 + fix a double-free in ncurses/base/wresize.c
3562 + add try/catch block to c++/cursesmain.cc
3565 + modify Ada95 binding to build with --enable-reentrant by wrapping
3566 global variables (bug: acs_map does not yet work).
3567 + modify Ada95 binding to use the new access-functions, allowing it
3568 to build/run when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
3569 + add access-functions and macros to return properties of the WINDOW
3570 structure, e.g., when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
3571 + improved install-sh's quoting.
3572 + use mkdirs.sh rather than mkinstalldirs, e.g., to use fixes from
3576 + eliminate part of the direct use of WINDOW data from Ada95 interface.
3577 + fix substitutions for termlib filename to make configure option
3578 --enable-reentrant work with --with-termlib.
3579 + change a constructor for NCursesWindow to allow compiling with
3580 NCURSES_OPAQUE set, since we cannot pass a reference to
3584 + ignore --with-chtype=unsigned since unsigned is always added to
3585 the type in curses.h; do the same for --with-mmask-t.
3586 + change warning regarding --enable-ext-colors and wide-character
3587 in the configure script to an error.
3588 + tweak error message in CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to distinguish other programs
3589 such as Darwin's libtool program (report by Michail Vidiassov)
3590 + modify edit_man.sh to allow for multiple substitutions per line.
3591 + set locale in misc/ncurses-config.in since it uses a range
3592 + change permissions libncurses++.a install (report by Michail
3594 + corrected length of temporary buffer in wide-character version
3595 of set_field_buffer() (related to report by Bryan Christ).
3598 + fix mk-1st.awk script install_shlib() function, broken in 20070224
3599 changes for cygwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
3602 + increase size of array in _nc_visbuf2n() to make "tic -v" work
3603 properly in its similar_sgr() function (report/analysis by Peter
3605 + add --enable-reentrant configure option for ongoing changes to
3606 implement a reentrant version of ncurses:
3607 + libraries are suffixed with "t"
3608 + wrap several global variables (curscr, newscr, stdscr, ttytype,
3609 COLORS, COLOR_PAIRS, COLS, ESCDELAY, LINES and TABSIZE) as
3610 functions returning values stored in SCREEN or cur_term.
3611 + move some initialization (LINES, COLS) from lib_setup.c,
3612 i.e., setupterm() to _nc_setupscreen(), i.e., newterm().
3615 + regenerated html documentation.
3616 + add NCURSES_OPAQUE symbol to curses.h, will use to make structs
3617 opaque in selected configurations.
3618 + move the chunk in lib_acs.c which resets acs capabilities when
3619 running on a terminal whose locale interferes with those into
3620 _nc_setupscreen(), so the libtinfo/libtinfow files can be made
3621 identical (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
3622 + do not use configure variable SHLIB_LIBS for building libraries
3623 outside the ncurses directory, since that symbol is customized
3624 only for that directory, and using it introduces an unneeded
3625 dependency on libdl (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
3626 + modify mk-1st.awk so the generated makefile rules for linking or
3627 installing shared libraries do not first remove the library, in
3628 case it is in use, e.g., libncurses.so by /bin/sh (report by Jeff
3630 + revised section "Using NCURSES under XTERM" in ncurses-intro.html
3631 (prompted by newsgroup comment by Nick Guenther).
3634 + change internal return codes of _nc_wgetch() to check for cases
3635 where KEY_CODE_YES should be returned, e.g., if a KEY_RESIZE was
3636 ungetch'd, and read by wget_wch().
3637 + fix static-library build broken in 20070217 changes to remove "-ldl"
3638 (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
3639 + change makefile/scripts for cygwin to allow building termlib.
3640 + use Form_Hook in manpages to match form.h
3641 + use Menu_Hook in manpages, as well as a few places in menu.h
3642 + correct form- and menu-manpages to use specific Field_Options,
3643 Menu_Options and Item_Options types.
3644 + correct prototype for _tracechar() in manpage (cf: 20011229).
3645 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
3648 + fixes for $(TICS_LIST) in ncurses/Makefile (report by Miroslav
3650 + modify relinking of shared libraries to apply only when rpath is
3651 enabled, and add --disable-relink option which can be used to
3652 disable the feature altogether (reports by Michail Vidiassov,
3654 + fix --with-termlib option for wide-character configuration, stripping
3655 the "w" suffix in one place (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
3656 + remove "-ldl" from some library lists to reduce dependencies in
3657 programs (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
3658 + correct description of --enable-signed-char in configure --help
3659 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
3660 + add pattern for GNU/kFreeBSD configuration to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE,
3661 which matches an earlier change to CF_SHARED_OPTS, from xterm #224
3663 + remove "${DESTDIR}" from -install_name option used for linking
3664 shared libraries on Darwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
3667 + add test/inchs.c, test/inch_wide.c, to test win_wchnstr().
3668 + remove libdl from library list for termlib (report by Miroslav
3670 + fix configure.in to allow --without-progs --with-termlib (patch by
3672 + modify win_wchnstr() to ensure that only a base cell is returned
3673 for each multi-column character (prompted by report by Wei Kong
3674 regarding change in mvwin_wch() cf: 20041023).
3677 + modify fix_wchnstr() in form library to strip attributes (and color)
3678 from the cchar_t array (field cells) read from a field's window.
3679 Otherwise, when copying the field cells back to the window, the
3680 associated color overrides the field's background color (report by
3682 + improve tracing for form library, showing created forms, fields, etc.
3683 + ignore --enable-rpath configure option if --with-shared was omitted.
3684 + add _nc_leaks_tinfo(), _nc_free_tic(), _nc_free_tinfo() entrypoints
3685 to allow leak-checking when both tic- and tinfo-libraries are built.
3686 + drop CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC macro from configure script, since C++ binding
3687 no longer relies on it.
3688 + disallow combining configure script options --with-ticlib and
3689 --enable-termcap (report by Rong-En Fan).
3690 + remove tack from ncurses tree.
3693 + fix typo in configure script that broke --with-termlib option
3694 (report by Rong-En Fan).
3697 + improve fix for FreeBSD gnu/98975, to allow for null pointer passed
3698 to tgetent() (report by Rong-en Fan).
3699 + update tack/HISTORY and tack/README to tell how to build it after
3700 it is removed from the ncurses tree.
3701 + fix configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
3702 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
3703 + review/eliminate other original-file artifacts in cursesw.cc, making
3704 its license consistent with ncurses.
3705 + use ncurses vw_scanw() rather than reading into a fixed buffer in
3706 the c++ binding for scanw() methods (prompted by report by Nuno Dias).
3707 + eliminate fixed-buffer vsprintf() calls in c++ binding.
3710 + add _nc_leaks_tic() to separate leak-checking of tic library from
3711 term/ncurses libraries, and thereby eliminate a library dependency.
3712 + fix test/mk-test.awk to ignore blank lines.
3713 + correct paths in include/headers, for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav
3717 + add a break-statement in misc/shlib to ensure that it exits on the
3718 _first_ matched directory (report by Paul Novak).
3719 + add tack/configure, which can be used to build tack outside the
3721 + add --with-ticlib option, to build/install the tic-support functions
3722 in a separate library (suggested by Miroslav Lichvar).
3725 + change MKunctrl.awk to reduce relocation table for unctrl.o
3726 + change MKkeyname.awk to reduce relocation table for keyname.o
3727 (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
3730 + modify configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
3731 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
3732 + modify some modules to allow them to be reentrant if _REENTRANT is
3733 defined: lib_baudrate.c, resizeterm.c (local data only)
3734 + eliminate static data from some modules: add_tries.c, hardscroll.c,
3735 lib_ttyflags.c, lib_twait.c
3736 + improve manpage install to add aliases for the transformed program
3737 names, e.g., from --program-prefix.
3738 + used linklint to verify links in the HTML documentation, made fixes
3739 to manpages as needed.
3740 + fix a typo in curs_mouse.3x (report by William McBrine).
3741 + fix install-rule for ncurses5-config to make the bin-directory.
3744 + modify configure script to omit the tic (terminfo compiler) support
3745 from ncurses library if --without-progs option is given.
3746 + modify install rule for ncurses5-config to do this via "install.libs"
3747 + modify shared-library rules to allow FreeBSD 3.x to use rpath.
3748 + update config.guess, config.sub
3750 20061217 5.6 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3753 + add ifdef's for <wctype.h> for HPUX, which has the corresponding
3754 definitions in <wchar.h>.
3755 + revert the va_copy() change from 20061202, since it was neither
3756 correct nor portable.
3757 + add $(LOCAL_LIBS) definition to progs/Makefile.in, needed for
3759 + ignore wide-acs line-drawing characters that wcwidth() claims are
3760 not one-column. This is a workaround for Solaris' broken locale
3764 + modify configure --with-gpm option to allow it to accept a parameter,
3765 i.e., the name of the dynamic GPM library to load via dlopen()
3766 (requested by Bryan Henderson).
3767 + add configure option --with-valgrind, changes from vile.
3768 + modify configure script AC_TRY_RUN and AC_TRY_LINK checks to use
3769 'return' in preference to 'exit()'.
3772 + change default for --with-develop back to "no".
3773 + add XTABS to tracing of TTY bits.
3774 + updated autoconf patch to ifdef-out the misfeature which declares
3775 exit() for configure tests. This fixes a redefinition warning on
3777 + use ${CC} rather than ${LD} in shared library rules for IRIX64,
3778 Solaris to help ensure that initialization sections are provided for
3779 extra linkage requirements, e.g., of C++ applications (prompted by
3780 comment by Casper Dik in newsgroup).
3781 + rename "$target" in CF_MAN_PAGES to make it easier to distinguish
3782 from the autoconf predefined symbol. There was no conflict,
3783 since "$target" was used only in the generated edit_man.sh file,
3784 but SuSE's rpm package contains a patch.
3787 + update man/term.5 to reflect extended terminfo support and hashed
3788 database configuration.
3789 + updates for test/configure script.
3790 + adapted from SuSE rpm package:
3791 + remove long-obsolete workaround for broken-linker which declared
3793 + improve error recovery in PUTC() macro when wcrtomb() does not
3794 return usable results for an 8-bit character.
3795 + patches from rpm package (SuSE):
3796 + use va_copy() in extra varargs manipulation for tracing version
3798 + use a va_list rather than a null in _nc_freeall()'s call to
3799 _nc_printf_string().
3800 + add some see-also references in manpages to show related
3801 wide-character functions (suggested by Claus Fischer).
3804 + add a check in lib_color.c to ensure caller does not increase COLORS
3805 above max_colors, which is used as an array index (discussion with
3807 + add ifdef's allowing ncurses to be built with tparm() using either
3808 varargs (the existing status), or using a fixed-parameter list (to
3812 + fix redrawing of windows other than stdscr using wredrawln() by
3813 touching the corresponding rows in curscr (discussion with Dan
3816 + add test/echochar.c
3817 + review/cleanup manpage descriptions of error-returns for form- and
3818 menu-libraries (prompted by FreeBSD docs/46196).
3821 + add AUTHORS file -TD
3822 + omit the -D options from output of the new config script --cflags
3823 option (suggested by Ralf S Engelschall).
3824 + make NCURSES_INLINE unconditionally defined in curses.h
3827 + revert change to accommodate bash 3.2, since that breaks other
3828 platforms, e.g., Solaris.
3829 + minor fixes to NEWS file to simplify scripting to obtain list of
3831 + improve some shared-library configure scripting for Linux, FreeBSD
3832 and NetBSD to make "--with-shlib-version" work.
3833 + change configure-script rules for FreeBSD shared libraries to allow
3834 for rpath support in versions past 3.
3835 + use $(DESTDIR) in makefile rules for installing/uninstalling the
3836 package config script (reports/patches by Christian Wiese,
3837 Ralf S Engelschall).
3838 + fix a warning in the configure script for NetBSD 2.0, working around
3839 spurious blanks embedded in its ${MAKEFLAGS} symbol.
3840 + change test/Makefile to simplify installing test programs in a
3841 different directory when --enable-rpath is used.
3844 + work around bug in bash 3.2 by adding extra quotes (Jim Gifford).
3845 + add/install a package config script, e.g., "ncurses5-config" or
3846 "ncursesw5-config", according to configuration options.
3849 + add several GNU Screen terminfo variations with 16- and 256-colors,
3850 and status line (Alain Bench).
3851 + change the way shared libraries (other than libtool) are installed.
3852 Rather than copying the build-tree's libraries, link the shared
3853 objects into the install directory. This makes the --with-rpath
3854 option work except with $(DESTDIR) (cf: 20000930).
3857 + fix ifdef in c++/internal.h for QNX 6.1
3858 + test-compiled with (old) egcs-1.1.2, modified configure script to
3859 not unset the $CXX and related variables which would prevent this.
3860 + fix a few terminfo.src typos exposed by improvments to "-f" option.
3861 + improve infocmp/tic "-f" option formatting.
3864 + make --disable-largefile option work (report by Thomas M Ott).
3865 + updated html documentation.
3866 + add ka2, kb1, kb3, kc2 to vt220-keypad as an extension -TD
3867 + minor improvements to rxvt+pcfkeys -TD
3870 + move static data from lib_mouse.c into SCREEN struct.
3871 + improve ifdef's for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset to work with Mac OS X
3872 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
3873 + modify CF_PATH_SYNTAX to ensure it uses the result from --prefix
3874 option (from lynx changes) -TD
3875 + adapt AC_PROG_EGREP check, noting that this is likely to be another
3876 place aggravated by POSIXLY_CORRECT.
3877 + modify configure check for awk to ensure that it is found (prompted
3878 by report by Christopher Parker).
3882 + add kon, kon2 and jfbterm terminfo entry (request by Till Maas) -TD
3883 + remove invis capability from klone+sgr, mainly used by linux entry,
3884 since it does not really do this -TD
3887 + correct logic in wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not guard
3888 against passing the multi-column attribute into a call on waddch(),
3889 e.g., using data returned by win_wch() (cf: 20041023)
3890 (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
3893 + fix kterm's acsc string -TD
3894 + fix for change to tic/infocmp in 20060819 to ensure no blank is
3895 embedded into a termcap description.
3896 + workaround for 20050806 ifdef's change to allow visbuf.c to compile
3897 when using --with-termlib --with-trace options.
3898 + improve tgetstr() by making the return value point into the user's
3899 buffer, if provided (patch by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat #202480)).
3900 + correct libraries needed for foldkeys (report by Stanislav Ievlev)
3903 + add terminfo entries for xfce terminal (xfce) and multi gnome
3905 + add test/foldkeys.c
3908 + modify tic and infocmp to avoid writing trailing blanks on terminfo
3909 source output (Debian #378783).
3910 + modify configure script to ensure that if the C compiler is used
3911 rather than the loader in making shared libraries, the $(CFLAGS)
3912 variable is also used (Redhat #199369).
3913 + port hashed-db code to db2 and db3.
3914 + fix a bug in tgetent() from 20060625 and 20060715 changes
3915 (patch/analysis by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat #202480)).
3918 + updated xterm function-keys terminfo to match xterm #216 -TD
3919 + add configure --with-hashed-db option (tested only with FreeBSD 6.0,
3920 e.g., the db 1.8.5 interface).
3923 + modify toe to access termcap data, e.g., via cgetent() functions,
3924 or as a text file if those are not available.
3925 + use _nc_basename() in tset to improve $SHELL check for csh/sh.
3926 + modify _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_termcap_entry() so infocmp,
3927 can access termcap data when the terminfo database is disabled.
3930 + widen the test for xterm kmous a little to allow for other strings
3931 than \E[M, e.g., for xterm-sco functionality in xterm.
3932 + update xterm-related terminfo entries to match xterm patch #216 -TD
3933 + update config.guess, config.sub
3936 + fix for install-rule in Ada95 to add terminal_interface.ads
3937 and terminal_interface.ali (anonymous posting in comp.lang.ada).
3938 + correction to manpage for getcchar() (report by William McBrine).
3940 + modify wchgat() to mark updated cells as changed so a refresh will
3941 repaint those cells (comments by Sadrul H Chowdhury and William
3943 + split up dependency of names.c and codes.c in ncurses/Makefile to
3944 work with parallel make (report/analysis by Joseph S Myers).
3945 + suppress a warning message (which is ignored) for systems without
3946 an ldconfig program (patch by Justin Hibbits).
3947 + modify configure script --disable-symlinks option to allow one to
3948 disable symlink() in tic even when link() does not work (report by
3950 + modify MKfallback.sh to use tic -x when constructing fallback tables
3951 to allow extended capabilities to be retrieved from a fallback entry.
3952 + improve leak-checking logic in tgetent() from 20060625 to ensure that
3953 it does not free the current screen (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
3956 + add a check for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset (NetBSD #33916).
3957 + correct _nc_free_entries() and related functions used for memory leak
3961 + revert a minor change for magic-cookie support from 20060513, which
3962 caused unexpected reset of attributes, e.g., when resizing test/view
3964 + note in clear manpage that the program ignores command-line
3965 parameters (prompted by Debian #371855).
3966 + fixes to make lib_gen.c build properly with changes to the configure
3967 --disable-macros option and NCURSES_NOMACROS (cf: 20060527)
3968 + update/correct several terminfo entries -TD
3969 + add some notes regarding copyright to terminfo.src -TD
3972 + fixes to build Ada95 binding with gnat-4.1.0
3973 + modify read_termtype() so the term_names data is always allocated as
3974 part of the str_table, a better fix for a memory leak (cf: 20030809).
3975 + reduce memory leaks in repeated calls to tgetent() by remembering the
3976 last TERMINAL* value allocated to hold the corresponding data and
3977 freeing that if the tgetent() result buffer is the same as the
3978 previous call (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
3979 + modify tack to test extended capability function-key strings.
3980 + improved gnome terminfo entry (GenToo #122566).
3981 + improved xterm-256color terminfo entry (patch by Alain Bench).
3984 + fix two small memory leaks related to repeated tgetent() calls
3985 with TERM=screen (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
3986 + add --enable-signed-char to simplify Debian package.
3987 + reduce name-pollution in term.h by removing #define's for HAVE_xxx
3989 + correct typo in curs_terminfo.3x (Debian #369168).
3992 + enable the mouse in test/movewindow.c
3993 + improve a limit-check in frm_def.c (John Heasley).
3994 + minor copyright fixes.
3995 + change configure script to produce test/Makefile from data file.
3998 + add a configure option --enable-wgetch-events to enable
3999 NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS, and correct the associated loop-logic in
4000 lib_twait.c (report by Bernd Jendrissek).
4001 + remove include/nomacros.h from build, since the ifdef for
4002 NCURSES_NOMACROS makes that obsolete.
4003 + add entrypoints for some functions which were only provided as macros
4004 to make NCURSES_NOMACROS ifdef work properly: getcurx(), getcury(),
4005 getbegx(), getbegy(), getmaxx(), getmaxy(), getparx() and getpary(),
4007 + provide ifdef for NCURSES_NOMACROS which suppresses most macro
4008 definitions from curses.h, i.e., where a macro is defined to override
4009 a function to improve performance. Allowing a developer to suppress
4010 these definitions can simplify some application (discussion with
4012 + improve description of memu/meml in terminfo manpage.
4015 + if msgr is false, reset video attributes when doing an automargin
4016 wrap to the next line. This makes the ncurses 'k' test work properly
4018 + correct caching of keyname(), which was using only half of its table.
4019 + minor fixes to memory-leak checking.
4020 + make SCREEN._acs_map and SCREEN._screen_acs_map pointers rather than
4021 arrays, making ACS_LEN less visible to applications (suggested by
4023 + move chunk in SCREEN ifdef'd for USE_WIDEC_SUPPORT to the end, so
4024 _screen_acs_map will have the same offset in both ncurses/ncursesw,
4025 making the corresponding tinfo/tinfow libraries binary-compatible
4026 (cf: 20041016, report by Stanislav Ievlev).
4029 + improve debug-tracing for EmitRange().
4030 + change default for --with-develop to "yes". Add NCURSES_NO_HARD_TABS
4031 and NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE environment variables to allow runtime
4032 suppression of the related hard-tabs and xmc-glitch features.
4033 + add ncurses version number to top-level manpages, e.g., ncurses, tic,
4034 infocmp, terminfo as well as form, menu, panel.
4035 + update config.guess, config.sub
4036 + modify ncurses.c to work around a bug in NetBSD 3.0 curses
4037 (field_buffer returning null for a valid field). The 'r' test
4038 appears to not work with that configuration since the new_fieldtype()
4039 function is broken in that implementation.
4042 + add hpterm-color terminfo entry -TD
4043 + fixes to compile test-programs with HPUX 11.23
4046 + add copyright notices to files other than those that are generated,
4047 data or adapted from pdcurses (reports by William McBrine, David
4049 + improve rendering on hpterm by not resetting attributes at the end
4050 of doupdate() if the terminal has the magic-cookie feature (report
4052 + add 256color variants of terminfo entries for programs which are
4053 reported to implement this feature -TD
4056 + fix typo in change to NewChar() macro from 20060311 changes, which
4057 broke tab-expansion (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
4060 + document -U option of tic and infocmp.
4061 + modify tic/infocmp to suppress smacs/rmacs when acsc is suppressed
4062 due to size limit, e.g., converting to termcap format. Also
4063 suppress them if the output format does not contain acsc and it
4064 was not VT100-like, i.e., a one-one mapping (Novell #163715).
4065 + add configure check to ensure that SIGWINCH is defined on platforms
4066 such as OS X which exclude that when _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., are
4067 defined (report by Nicholas Cole)
4070 + modify write_object() to not write coincidental extensions of an
4071 entry made due to it being referenced in a use= clause (report by
4073 + another fix for infocmp -i option, which did not ensure that some
4074 escape sequences had comparable prefixes (report by Alain Bench).
4077 + improve discussion of init/reset in terminfo and tput manpages
4078 (report by Alain Bench).
4079 + use is3 string for a fallback of rs3 in the reset program; it was
4080 using is2 (report by Alain Bench).
4081 + correct logic for infocmp -i option, which did not account for
4082 multiple digits in a parameter (cf: 20040828) (report by Alain
4084 + move _nc_handle_sigwinch() to lib_setup.c to make --with-termlib
4085 option work after 20060114 changes (report by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz).
4086 + add copyright notices to test-programs as needed (report by William
4090 + modify ncurses.c 'F' test to combine the wide-characters with color
4091 and/or video attributes.
4092 + modify test/ncurses to use CTL/Q or ESC consistently for exiting
4093 a test-screen (some commands used 'x' or 'q').
4096 + fix an off-by-one in the scrolling-region change (cf_ 20060311).
4099 + add checks in waddchnstr() and wadd_wchnstr() to stop copying when
4100 a null character is found (report by Igor Bogomazov).
4101 + modify progs/Makefile.in to make "tput init" work properly with
4102 cygwin, i.e., do not pass a ".exe" in the reference string used
4103 in check_aliases (report by Samuel Thibault).
4104 + add some checks to ensure current position is within scrolling
4105 region before scrolling on a new line (report by Dan Gookin).
4106 + change some NewChar() usage to static variables to work around
4107 stack garbage introduced when cchar_t is not packed (Redhat #182024).
4110 + workarounds to build test/movewindow with PDcurses 2.7.
4111 + fix for nsterm-16color entry (patch by Alain Bench).
4112 + correct a typo in infocmp manpage (Debian #354281).
4115 + add nsterm-16color entry -TD
4116 + updated mlterm terminfo entry -TD
4117 + remove 970913 feature for copying subwindows as they are moved in
4118 mvwin() (discussion with Bryan Christ).
4119 + modify test/demo_menus.c to demonstrate moving a menu (both the
4120 window and subwindow) using shifted cursor-keys.
4121 + start implementing recursive mvwin() in movewindow.c (incomplete).
4122 + add a fallback definition for GCC_PRINTFLIKE() in test.priv.h,
4123 for movewindow.c (report by William McBrine).
4124 + add help-message to test/movewindow.c
4127 + add test/movewindow.c, to test mvderwin().
4128 + fix ncurses soft-key test so color changes are shown immediately
4129 rather than delayed.
4130 + modify ncurses soft-key test to hide the keys when exiting the test
4132 + fixes to build test programs with PDCurses 2.7, e.g., its headers
4133 rely on autoconf symbols, and it declares stubs for nonfunctional
4134 terminfo and termcap entrypoints.
4137 + improved test/configure to build test/ncurses on HPUX 11 using the
4139 + documented ALTERNATE CONFIGURATIONS in the ncurses manpage, for the
4140 benefit of developers who do not read INSTALL.
4143 + correct form library Window_To_Buffer() change (cf: 20040516), which
4144 should ignore the video attributes (report by Ricardo Cantu).
4147 + minor fixes to xmc-glitch experimental code:
4148 + suppress line-drawing
4149 + implement max_attributes
4151 + minor fixes for the database iterator.
4152 + fix some buffer limits in c++ demo (comment by Falk Hueffner in
4156 + add toe -a option, to show all databases. This uses new private
4157 interfaces in the ncurses library for iterating through the list of
4159 + fix toe from 20000909 changes which made it not look at
4161 + make toe's -v option parameter optional as per manpage.
4162 + improve SIGWINCH handling by postponing its effect during newterm(),
4163 etc., when allocating screens.
4166 + modify wgetnstr() to return KEY_RESIZE if a sigwinch occurs. Use
4167 this in test/filter.c
4168 + fix an error in filter() modification which caused some applications
4172 + check if filter() was called when getting the screensize. Keep it
4173 at 1 if so (based on Redhat #174498).
4174 + add extension nofilter().
4175 + refined the workaround for ACS mapping.
4176 + make ifdef's consistent in curses.h for the extended colors so the
4177 header file can be used for the normal curses library. The header
4178 file installed for extended colors is a variation of the
4179 wide-character configuration (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
4182 + add a workaround to ACS mapping to allow applications such as
4183 test/blue.c to use the "PC ROM" characters by masking them with
4184 A_ALTCHARSET. This worked up til 5.5, but was lost in the revision
4185 of legacy coding (report by Michael Deutschmann).
4186 + add a null-pointer check in the wide-character version of
4187 calculate_actual_width() (report by Victor Julien).
4188 + improve test/ncurses 'd' (color-edit) test by allowing the RGB
4189 values to be set independently (patch by William McBrine).
4190 + modify test/configure script to allow building test programs with
4192 + modified test programs to allow some to work with NetBSD curses.
4193 Several do not because NetBSD curses implements a subset of X/Open
4194 curses, and also lacks much of SVr4 additions. But it's enough for
4196 + update config.guess and config.sub
4199 + use BSD-specific fix for return-value from cgetent() from CVS where
4200 an unknown terminal type would be reportd as "database not found".
4201 + make tgetent() return code more readable using new symbols
4203 + remove references to non-existent "tctest" program.
4204 + remove TESTPROGS from progs/Makefile.in (it was referring to code
4205 that was never built in that directory).
4206 + typos in curs_addchstr.3x, some doc files (noticed in OpenBSD CVS).
4209 + add use_legacy_coding() function to support lynx's font-switching
4211 + fix formatting in curs_termcap.3x (report by Mike Frysinger).
4212 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to change preprocessor-expanded _Bool back to
4216 + extend test/ncurses.c 's' (overlay window) test to exercise overlay(),
4217 overwrite() and copywin() with different combinations of colors and
4218 attributes (including background color) to make it easy to see the
4219 effect of the different functions.
4220 + corrections to menu/m_global.c for wide-characters (report by
4224 + add configure option --without-dlsym, allowing developers to
4225 configure GPM support without using dlsym() (discussion with Michael
4227 + fix wins_nwstr(), which did not handle single-column non-8bit codes
4231 + move prototypes for wide-character trace functions from curses.tail
4232 to curses.wide to avoid accidental reference to those if
4233 _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined without ensuring that <wchar.h> is
4235 + add/use NCURSES_INLINE definition.
4236 + change some internal functions to use int/unsigned rather than the
4240 + remove a redundant check in lib_color.c (Debian #335655).
4241 + use ld's -search_paths_first option on Darwin to work around odd
4242 search rules on that platform (report by Christian Gennerat, analysis
4244 + remove special case for Darwin in CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro.
4245 + ignore EINTR in tcgetattr/tcsetattr calls (Debian #339518).
4246 + fix several bugs in test/bs.c (patch by Stephen Lindholm).
4249 + other minor fixes to cygwin based on tack -TD
4250 + correct smacs in cygwin (Debian #338234, report by Baurzhan
4251 Ismagulov, who noted that it was fixed in Cygwin).
4254 + add shifted up/down arrow codes to xterm-new as kind/kri strings -TD
4255 + modify wbkgrnd() to avoid clearing the A_CHARTEXT attribute bits
4256 since those record the state of multicolumn characters (Debian
4258 + modify werase to clear multicolumn characters that extend into
4259 a derived window (Debian #316663).
4262 + move assignment from environment variable ESCDELAY from initscr()
4263 down to newterm() so the environment variable affects timeouts for
4264 terminals opened with newterm() as well.
4265 + fix a memory leak in keyname().
4266 + add test/demo_altkeys.c
4267 + modify test/demo_defkey.c to exit from loop via 'q' to allow
4268 leak-checking, as well as fix a buffer size in winnstr() call.
4271 + correct order of use-clauses in rxvt-basic entry which made codes for
4272 f1-f4 vt100-style rather than vt220-style (report by Gabor Z Papp).
4273 + suppress configure check for gnatmake if Ada95/Makefile.in is not
4275 + correct a typo in configure --with-bool option for the case where
4276 --without-cxx is used (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
4277 + add a note to INSTALL's discussion of --with-normal, pointing out
4278 that one may wish to use --without-gpm to ensure a completely
4279 static link (prompted by report by Felix von Leitner).
4281 20051010 5.5 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
4284 + document in demo_forms.c some portability issues.
4287 + document side-effect of werase() which sets the cursor position.
4288 + save/restore the current position in form field editing to make
4292 + correct header dependencies in progs, allowing parallel make (report
4293 by Daniel Jacobowitz).
4294 + modify CF_BUILD_CC to ensure that pre-setting $BUILD_CC overrides
4295 the configure check for --with-build-cc (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
4296 + modify CF_CFG_DEFAULTS to not use /usr as the default prefix for
4298 + update config.guess and config.sub from
4299 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
4302 + modify sed expression which computes path for /usr/lib/terminfo
4303 symbolic link in install to ensure that it does not change unexpected
4304 levels of the path (Gentoo #42336).
4305 + modify default for --disable-lp64 configure option to reduce impact
4306 on existing 64-bit builds. Enabling the _LP64 option may change the
4307 size of chtype and mmask_t. However, for ABI 6, it is enabled by
4308 default (report by Mike Frysinger).
4309 + add configure script check for --enable-ext-mouse, bump ABI to 6 by
4310 default if it is used.
4311 + improve configure script logic for bumping ABI to omit this if the
4312 --with-abi-version option was used.
4313 + update address for Free Software Foundation in tack's source.
4314 + correct wins_wch(), which was not marking the filler-cells of
4315 multi-column characters (cf: 20041023).
4318 + modify mouse initialization to ensure that Gpm_Open() is called only
4319 once. Otherwise GPM gets confused in its initialization of signal
4320 handlers (Debian #326709).
4323 + modify logic for backspacing in a multiline form field to ensure that
4324 it works even when the preceding line is full (report by Frank van
4326 + remove comment about BUGS section of ncurses manpage (Debian #325481)
4329 + document some workarounds for shared and libtool library
4330 configurations in INSTALL (see --with-shared and --with-libtool).
4331 + modify CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GXX_VERSION macros to accommodate
4332 cross-compilers which emit the platform name in their version
4334 arm-sa1100-linux-gnu-g++ (GCC) 4.0.1
4335 (report by Frank van Vugt).
4338 + start updating documentation for upcoming 5.5 release.
4339 + fix to make libtool and libtinfo work together again (cf: 20050122).
4340 + fixes to allow building traces into libtinfo
4341 + add debug trace to tic that shows if/how ncurses will write to the
4342 lower corner of a terminal's screen.
4343 + update llib-l* files.
4346 + modify initializers in c++ binding to build with old versions of g++.
4347 + improve special case for 20050115 repainting fix, ensuring that if
4348 the first changed cell is not a character that the range to be
4349 repainted is adjusted to start at a character's beginning (Debian
4353 + fixes to build on QNX 6.1
4354 + improve configure script checks for Intel 9.0 compiler.
4355 + remove #include's for libc.h (obsolete).
4356 + adjust ifdef's in curses.priv.h so that when cross-compiling to
4357 produce comp_hash and make_keys, no dependency on wchar.h is needed.
4358 That simplifies the build-cppflags (report by Frank van Vugt).
4359 + move modules related to key-binding into libtinfo to fix linkage
4360 problem caused by 20050430 changes to MKkeyname.sh (report by
4361 Konstantin Andreev).
4364 + updates/fixes for configure script macros from vile -TD
4365 + make prism9's sgr string agree with the rest of the terminfo -TD
4366 + make vt220's sgr0 string consistent with sgr string, do this for
4367 several related cases -TD
4368 + improve translation to termcap by filtering the 'me' (sgr0) strings
4369 as in the runtime call to tgetent() (prompted by a discussion with
4371 + improve tic check for sgr0 versus sgr(0), to help ensure that sgr0
4372 resets line-drawing.
4375 + fix special cases for trimming sgr0 for hurd and vt220 (Debian
4377 + split-out _nc_trim_sgr0() from modifications made to tgetent(), to
4378 allow it to be used by tic to provide information about the runtime
4379 changes that would be made to sgr0 for termcap applications.
4380 + modify make_sed.sh to make the group-name in the NAME section of
4381 form/menu library manpage agree with the TITLE string when renaming
4382 is done for Debian (Debian #78866).
4385 + modify parameter type in c++ binding for insch() and mvwinsch() to
4386 be consistent with underlying ncurses library (was char, is chtype).
4387 + modify treatment of Intel compiler to allow _GNU_SOURCE to be defined
4389 + improve configure check for nanosleep(), checking that it works since
4390 some older systems such as AIX 4.3 have a nonworking version.
4393 + update config.guess and config.sub from
4394 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
4395 + modify misc/shlib to work in test-directory.
4396 + suppress $suffix in misc/run_tic.sh when cross-compiling. This
4397 allows cross-compiles to use the host's tic program to handle the
4398 "make install.data" step.
4399 + improve description of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables in manpages
4400 (prompted by report by Dave Ulrick).
4401 + improve description of cross-compiling in INSTALL
4402 + add NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html by Pradeep Padala
4403 (see http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/).
4404 + modify configure script to obtain soname for GPM library (discussion
4405 with Daniel Jacobowitz).
4406 + modify configure script so that --with-chtype option will still
4407 compute the unsigned literals suffix for constants in curses.h
4408 (report by Daniel Jacobowitz:
4409 + patches from Daniel Jacobowitz:
4410 + the man_db.renames entry for tack.1 was backwards.
4411 + tack.1 had some 1m's that should have been 1M's.
4412 + the section for curs_inwstr.3 was wrong.
4415 + correction to --with-chtype option (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
4418 + move build-time edit_man.sh and edit_man.sed scripts to top directory
4419 to simplify reusing them for renaming tack's manpage (prompted by a
4420 review of Debian package).
4421 + revert minor optimization from 20041030 (Debian #313609).
4422 + libtool-specific fixes, tested with libtool 1.4.3, 1.5.0, 1.5.6,
4423 1.5.10 and 1.5.18 (all work except as noted previously for the c++
4424 install using libtool 1.5.0):
4425 + modify the clean-rule in c++/Makefile.in to work with IRIX64 make
4427 + use $(LIBTOOL_UNINSTALL) symbol, overlooked in 20030830
4428 + add configure options --with-chtype and --with-mmask-t, to allow
4429 overriding of the non-LP64 model's use of the corresponding types.
4430 + revise test for size of chtype (and mmask_t), which always returned
4431 "long" due to an uninitialized variable (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
4434 + change _tracef's that used "%p" format for va_list values to ignore
4435 that, since on some platforms those are not pointers.
4436 + fixes for long-formats in printf's due to largefile support.
4439 + fixes for termcap support:
4440 + reset pointer to _nc_curr_token.tk_name when the input stream is
4441 closed, which could point to free memory (cf: 20030215).
4442 + delink TERMTYPE data which is used by the termcap reader, so that
4443 extended names data will be freed consistently.
4444 + free pointer to TERMTYPE data in _nc_free_termtype() rather than
4446 + add some entrypoints for freeing permanently allocated data via
4447 _nc_freeall() when NO_LEAKS is defined.
4448 + amend 20041030 change to _nc_do_color to ensure that optimization is
4449 applied only when the terminal supports back_color_erase (bce).
4452 + add sun-color terminfo entry -TD
4453 + correct a missing assignment in c++ binding's method
4454 NCursesPanel::UserPointer() from 20050409 changes.
4455 + improve configure check for large-files, adding check for dirent64
4457 + minor change to configure script to improve linker options for the
4461 + document error conditions for ncurses library functions (report by
4463 + regenerated html documentation for ada binding.
4464 see ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/gnathtml
4467 + regenerated html documentation for manpages.
4468 + add $(BUILD_EXEEXT) suffix to invocation of make_keys in
4469 ncurses/Makefile (Gentoo #89772).
4470 + modify c++/demo.cc to build with g++ -fno-implicit-templates option
4471 (patch by Mike Frysinger).
4472 + modify tic to filter out long extended names when translating to
4473 termcap format. Only two characters are permissible for termcap
4477 + modify terminfo entries xterm-new and rxvt to add strings for
4478 shift-, control-cursor keys.
4479 + workaround to allow c++ binding to compile with g++ 2.95.3, which
4480 has a broken implementation of static_cast<> (patch by Jeff Chua).
4481 + modify initialization of key lookup table so that if an extended
4482 capability (tic -x) string is defined, and its name begins with 'k',
4483 it will automatically be treated as a key.
4484 + modify test/keynames.c to allow for the possibility of extended
4485 key names, e.g., via define_key(), or via "tic -x".
4486 + add test/demo_termcap.c to show the contents of given entry via the
4490 + minor fixes for vt100/vt52 entries -TD
4491 + add configure option --enable-largefile
4492 + corrected libraries used to build Ada95/gen/gen, found in testing
4496 + update config.guess, config.sub
4497 + modify configure script check for _XOPEN_SOURCE, disable that on
4498 Darwin whose header files have problems (patch by Chris Zubrzycki).
4499 + modify form library Is_Printable_String() to use iswprint() rather
4500 than wcwidth() for determining if a character is printable. The
4501 latter caused it to reject menu items containing non-spacing
4503 + modify ncurses test program's F-test to handle non-spacing characters
4504 by combining them with a reverse-video blank.
4505 + review/fix several gcc -Wconversion warnings.
4508 + correct an off-by-one error in m_driver() for mouse-clicks used to
4509 position the mouse to a particular item.
4510 + implement test/demo_menus.c
4511 + add some checks in lib_mouse to ensure SP is set.
4512 + modify C++ binding to make 20050403 changes work with the configure
4513 --enable-const option.
4516 + modify start_color() to return ERR if it cannot allocate memory.
4517 + address g++ compiler warnings in C++ binding by adding explicit
4518 member initialization, assignment operators and copy constructors.
4519 Most of the changes simply preserve the existing semantics of the
4520 binding, which can leak memory, etc., but by making these features
4521 visible, it provides a framework for improving the binding.
4522 + improve C++ binding using static_cast, etc.
4523 + modify configure script --enable-warnings to add options to g++ to
4524 correspond to the gcc --enable-warnings.
4525 + modify C++ binding to use some C internal functions to make it
4526 compile properly on Solaris (and other platforms).
4529 + amend change from 20050320 to limit it to configurations with a
4531 + fix a bug introduced in 20050320 which broke the translation of
4532 nonprinting characters to uparrow form (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
4535 + add ifdef's for _LP64 in curses.h to avoid using wasteful 64-bits for
4536 chtype and mmask_t, but add configure option --disable-lp64 in case
4537 anyone used that configuration.
4538 + update misc/shlib script to account for Mac OS X (report by Michail
4540 + correct comparison for wrapping multibyte characters in
4541 waddch_literal() (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
4544 + add -c and -w options to tset to allow user to suppress ncurses'
4545 resizing of the terminal emulator window in the special case where it
4546 is not able to detect the true size (report by Win Delvaux, Debian
4548 + modify waddch_nosync() to account for locale zn_CH.GBK, which uses
4549 codes 128-159 as part of multibyte characters (report by Wang
4550 WenRui, Debian #300512).
4553 + modify ncurses.c 'd' test to make it work with 88-color
4554 configuration, i.e., by implementing scrolling.
4555 + improve scrolling in ncurses.c 'c' and 'C' tests, e.g., for 88-color
4559 + change tracemunch to use strict checking.
4560 + modify ncurses.c 'p' test to test line-drawing within a pad.
4561 + implement environment variable NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS to support
4562 miscellaneous terminal emulators which ignore alternate character
4563 set escape sequences when in UTF-8 mode.
4566 + change NCursesWindow::err_handler() to a virtual function (request by
4568 + modify fty_int.c and fty_num.c to handle wide characters (report by
4570 + adapt fix for fty_alpha.c to fty_alnum.c, which also handled normal
4571 and wide characters inconsistently (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
4572 + update llib-* files to reflect internal interface additions/changes.
4575 + improve test/configure script, adding tests for _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc.,
4577 + add aixterm-16color terminfo entry -TD
4578 + modified xterm-new terminfo entry to work with tgetent() changes -TD
4579 + extended changes in tgetent() from 20040710 to allow the substring of
4580 sgr0 which matches rmacs to be at the beginning of the sgr0 string
4581 (request by Thomas Wolff). Wolff says the visual effect in
4582 combination with pre-20040710 ncurses is improved.
4583 + fix off-by-one in winnstr() call which caused form field validation
4584 of multibyte characters to ignore the last character in a field.
4585 + correct logic in winsch() for inserting multibyte strings; the code
4586 would clear cells after the insertion rather than push them to the
4587 right (cf: 20040228).
4588 + fix an inconsistency in Check_Alpha_Field() between normal and wide
4589 character logic (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
4592 + fix a bug in editing wide-characters in form library: deleting a
4593 nonwide character modified the previous wide-character.
4594 + update manpage to describe NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2.
4595 + correct manpage description of mouseinterval() (Debian #280687).
4596 + add a note to default_colors.3x explaining why this extension was
4597 added (Debian #295083).
4598 + add traces to panel library.
4601 + improve editing of wide-characters in form library: left/right
4602 cursor movement, and single-character deletions work properly.
4603 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM happens to be prefixed with
4604 "xterm". Gpm_Open() would otherwise assert that it can deal with
4605 mouse events in this case.
4606 + modify GPM mouse support so it closes the server connection when
4607 the caller disables the mouse (report by Stanislav Ievlev).
4610 + add traces for callback functions in form library.
4611 + add experimental configure option --enable-ext-mouse, which defines
4612 NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2, and modifies the encoding of mouse events to
4613 support wheel mice, which may transmit buttons 4 and 5. This works
4614 with xterm and similar X terminal emulators (prompted by question by
4615 Andreas Henningsson, this is also related to Debian #230990).
4616 + improve configure macros CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE to
4617 avoid redefinition warnings on cygwin.
4620 + merge remaining development changes for extended colors (mostly
4621 complete, does not appear to break other configurations).
4622 + add xterm-88color.dat (part of extended colors testing).
4623 + improve _tracedump() handling of color pairs past 96.
4624 + modify return-value from start_color() to return OK if colors have
4625 already been started.
4626 + modify curs_color.3x list error conditions for init_pair(),
4627 pair_content() and color_content().
4628 + modify pair_content() to return -1 for consistency with init_pair()
4629 if it corresponds to the default-color.
4630 + change internal representation of default-color to allow application
4631 to use color number 255. This does not affect the total number of
4632 color pairs which are allowed.
4633 + add a top-level tags rule.
4636 + add a null-pointer check in wgetch() in case it is called without
4637 first calling initscr().
4638 + add some null-pointer checks for SP, which is not set by libtinfo.
4639 + modify misc/shlib to ensure that absolute pathnames are used.
4640 + modify test/Makefile.in, etc., to link test programs only against the
4641 libraries needed, e.g., omit form/menu/panel library for the ones
4642 that are curses-specific.
4643 + change SP->_current_attr to a pointer, adjust ifdef's to ensure that
4644 libtinfo.so and libtinfow.so have the same ABI. The reason for this
4645 is that the corresponding data which belongs to the upper-level
4646 ncurses library has a different size in each model (report by
4650 + minor fixes to allow test-compiles with g++.
4651 + correct column value shown in tic's warnings, which did not account
4652 for leading whitespace.
4653 + add a check in _nc_trans_string() for improperly ended strings, i.e.,
4654 where a following line begins in column 1.
4655 + modify _nc_save_str() to return a null pointer on buffer overflow.
4656 + improve repainting while scrolling wide-character data (Eungkyu Song).
4659 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
4662 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
4663 + fix manpage typo (FreeBSD report docs/75544).
4664 + update config.guess, config.sub
4665 > patches for configure script (Albert Chin-A-Young):
4666 + improved fix to make mbstate_t recognized on HPUX 11i (cf:
4667 20030705), making vsscanf() prototype visible on IRIX64. Tested for
4668 on HP-UX 11i, Solaris 7, 8, 9, AIX 4.3.3, 5.2, Tru64 UNIX 4.0D, 5.1,
4669 IRIX64 6.5, Redhat Linux 7.1, 9, and RHEL 2.1, 3.0.
4670 + print the result of the --disable-home-terminfo option.
4671 + use -rpath when compiling with SGI C compiler.
4674 + add trace calls to remaining public functions in form and menu
4676 + fix check for numeric digits in test/ncurses.c 'b' and 'B' tests.
4677 + fix typo in test/ncurses.c 'c' test from 20041218.
4680 + revise test/ncurses.c 'c' color test to improve use for xterm-88color
4681 and xterm-256color, added 'C' test using the wide-character color_set
4682 and attr_set functions.
4685 + modify configure script to work with Intel compiler.
4686 + fix an limit-check in wadd_wchnstr() which caused labels in the
4687 forms-demo to be one character short.
4688 + fix typo in curs_addchstr.3x (Jared Yanovich).
4689 + add trace calls to most functions in form and menu libraries.
4690 + update working-position for adding wide-characters when window is
4691 scrolled (prompted by related report by Eungkyu Song).
4694 + replace some references on Linux to wcrtomb() which use it to obtain
4695 the length of a multibyte string with _nc_wcrtomb, since wcrtomb() is
4696 broken in glibc (see Debian #284260).
4697 + corrected length-computation in wide-character support for
4699 + some fixes to frm_driver.c to allow it to accept multibyte input.
4700 + modify configure script to work with Intel 8.0 compiler.
4703 + amend change to setupterm() in 20030405 which would reuse the value
4704 of cur_term if the same output was selected. This now reuses it only
4705 when setupterm() is called from tgetent(), which has no notion of
4706 separate SCREENs. Note that tgetent() must be called after initscr()
4707 or newterm() to use this feature (Redhat #140326).
4708 + add a check in CF_BUILD_CC macro to ensure that developer has given
4709 the --with-build-cc option when cross-compiling (report by Alexandre
4711 + improved configure script checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE and
4712 _POSIX_C_SOURCE (fix for IRIX 5.3 from Georg Schwarz, _POSIX_C_SOURCE
4714 + cosmetic fix to test/gdc.c to recolor the bottom edge of the box
4715 for consistency (comment by Dan Nelson).
4718 + update wsvt25 terminfo entry -TD
4719 + modify test/ins_wide.c to test all flavors of ins_wstr().
4720 + ignore filler-cells in wadd_wchnstr() when adding a cchar_t array
4721 which consists of multi-column characters, since this function
4722 constructs them (cf: 20041023).
4723 + modify winnstr() to return multibyte character strings for the
4724 wide-character configuration.
4727 + fixes to make slk_set() and slk_wset() accept and store multibyte
4728 or multicolumn characters.
4731 + improve color optimization a little by making _nc_do_color() check
4732 if the old/new pairs are equivalent to the default pair 0.
4733 + modify assume_default_colors() to not require that
4734 use_default_colors() be called first.
4737 + modify term_attrs() to use termattrs(), add the extended attributes
4738 such as enter_horizontal_hl_mode for WA_HORIZONTAL to term_attrs().
4739 + add logic in waddch_literal() to clear orphaned cells when one
4740 multi-column character partly overwrites another.
4741 + improved logic for clearing cells when a multi-column character
4742 must be wrapped to a new line.
4743 + revise storage of cells for multi-column characters to correct a
4744 problem with repainting. In the old scheme, it was possible for
4745 doupdate() to decide that only part of a multi-column character
4746 should be repainted since the filler cells stored only an attribute
4747 to denote them as fillers, rather than the character value and the
4751 + minor fixes for traces.
4752 + add SP->_screen_acs_map[], used to ensure that mapping of missing
4753 line-drawing characters is handled properly. For example, ACS_DARROW
4754 is absent from xterm-new, and it was coincidentally displayed the
4758 + amend 20021221 workaround for broken acs to reset the sgr, rmacs
4759 and smacs strings as well. Also modify the check for screen's
4760 limitations in that area to allow the multi-character shift-in
4761 and shift-out which seem to work.
4762 + change GPM initialization, using dl library to load it dynamically
4763 at runtime (Debian #110586).
4766 + correct logic for color pair in setcchar() and getcchar() (patch by
4767 Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
4768 + add t/T commands to ncurses b/B tests to allow a different color to
4769 be tested for the attrset part of the test than is used in the
4773 + fix to make setcchar() to work when its wchar_t* parameter is
4774 pointing to a string which contains more data than can be converted.
4775 + modify wget_wstr() and example in ncurses.c to work if wchar_t and
4776 wint_t are different sizes (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
4779 + remove check in wget_wch() added to fix an infinite loop, appears to
4780 have been working around a transitory glibc bug, and interferes
4781 with normal operation (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
4782 + correct wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not pass the rendition
4783 information (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
4784 + fix aclocal.m4 so that the wide-character version of ncurses gets
4785 compiled as libncursesw.5.dylib, instead of libncurses.5w.dylib
4786 (adapted from patch by James J Ramsey).
4787 + change configure script for --with-caps option to indicate that it
4788 is no longer experimental.
4789 + change configure script to reflect the fact that --enable-widec has
4790 not been "experimental" since 5.3 (report by Bruno Lustosa).
4793 + add 'B' test to ncurses.c, to exercise some wide-character functions.
4796 + modify infocmp -i option to match 8-bit controls against its table
4797 entries, e.g., so it can analyze the xterm-8bit entry.
4798 + add morphos terminfo entry, improve amiga-8bit entry (Pavel Fedin).
4799 + correct translation of "%%" in terminfo format to termcap, e.g.,
4800 using "tic -C" (Redhat #130921).
4801 + modified configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to ensure that if
4802 it defines _POSIX_C_SOURCE, that it defines it to a specific value
4803 (comp.os.stratus newsgroup comment).
4806 + fixes to build with Ada95 binding with gnat 3.4 (all warnings are
4807 fatal, and gnat does not follow the guidelines for pragmas).
4808 However that did find a coding error in Assume_Default_Colors().
4809 + modify several terminfo entries to ensure xterm mouse and cursor
4810 visibility are reset in rs2 string: hurd, putty, gnome,
4811 konsole-base, mlterm, Eterm, screen (Debian #265784, Debian #55637).
4812 The xterm entries are left alone - old ones for compatibility, and
4813 the new ones do not require this change. -TD
4816 + fake a SIGWINCH in newterm() to accommodate buggy terminal emulators
4817 and window managers (Debian #265631).
4818 > terminfo updates -TD
4819 + remove dch/dch1 from rxvt because they are implemented inconsistently
4820 with the common usage of bce/ech
4821 + remove khome from vt220 (vt220's have no home key)
4825 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test, adding v/V toggles to cycle through
4826 combinations of video attributes so that for instance bold and
4827 underline can be tested. This made the legend too crowded, added
4828 a help window as well.
4829 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test to cycle through default colors if
4830 the -d option is set.
4831 + update putty terminfo entry (Robert de Bath).
4834 + modify test/cardfile.c to allow it to read more data than can be
4836 + correct logic in resizeterm.c which kept it from processing all
4837 levels of window hierarchy (reports by Folkert van Heusden,
4841 + modify "tic -cv" to ignore delays when comparing strings. Also
4842 modify it to ignore a canceled sgr string, e.g., for terminals which
4843 cannot properly combine attributes in one control sequence.
4844 + corrections for gnome and konsole entries (Redhat #122815, patch by
4846 > terminfo updates -TD
4847 + make ncsa-m rmacs/smacs consistent with sgr
4848 + add sgr, rc/sc and ech to syscons entries
4849 + add function-keys to decansi
4850 + add sgr to mterm-ansi
4851 + add sgr, civis, cnorm to emu
4852 + correct/simplify cup in addrinfo
4855 > terminfo updates -TD
4856 + add xterm-pc-fkeys
4857 + review/update gnome and gnome-rh90 entries (prompted by Redhat
4859 + review/update konsole entries
4860 + add sgr, correct sgr0 for kterm and mlterm
4861 + correct tsl string in kterm
4864 + add configure option --without-xterm-new
4867 + add check in wget_wch() for printable bytes that are not part of a
4868 multibyte character.
4869 + modify wadd_wchnstr() to render text using window's background
4871 + improve tic's check to compare sgr and sgr0.
4872 + fix c++ directory's .cc.i rule.
4873 + modify logic in tgetent() which adjusts the termcap "me" string
4874 to work with ISO-2022 string used in xterm-new (cf: 20010908).
4875 + modify tic's check for conflicting function keys to omit that if
4876 converting termcap to termcap format.
4877 + add -U option to tic and infocmp.
4878 + add rmam/smam to linux terminfo entry (Trevor Van Bremen)
4879 > terminfo updates -TD
4880 + minor fixes for emu
4882 + change wyse acsc strings to use 'i' map rather than 'I'
4887 + use tic -x to install terminfo database -TD
4888 + add -x to infocmp's usage message.
4889 + correct field used for comparing O_ROWMAJOR in set_menu_format()
4890 (report/patch by Tony Li).
4891 + fix a missing nul check in set_field_buffer() from 20040508 changes.
4892 > terminfo updates -TD
4893 + make xterm-xf86-v43 derived from xterm-xf86-v40 rather than
4895 + align with xterm patch #192's use of xterm-new -TD
4896 + update xterm-new and xterm-8bit for cvvis/cnorm strings -TD
4897 + make xterm-new the default "xterm" entry -TD
4900 + correct BUILD_CPPFLAGS substitution in ncurses/Makefile.in, to allow
4901 cross-compiling from a separate directory tree (report/patch by
4903 + modify is_term_resized() to ensure that window sizes are nonzero,
4904 as documented in the manpage (report by Ian Collier).
4905 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro to make Hurd port build
4906 (Debian #249214, report/patch by Jeff Bailey).
4907 + configure-script mods from xterm, e.g., updates to CF_ADD_CFLAGS
4908 + update config.guess, config.sub
4909 > terminfo updates -TD
4911 + add xterm-xf86-v44
4912 + modify xterm-new aka xterm-xfree86 to accommodate luit, which
4913 relies on G1 being used via an ISO-2022 escape sequence (report by
4918 + reconsidered winsnstr(), decided after comparing other
4919 implementations that wrapping is an X/Open documentation error.
4920 + modify test/inserts.c to test all flavors of insstr().
4923 + add setlocale() calls to a few test programs which may require it:
4924 demo_forms.c, filter.c, ins_wide.c, inserts.c
4925 + correct a few misspelled function names in ncurses-intro.html (report
4927 + correct internal name of key_defined() manpage, which conflicted with
4931 + correct size of internal pad used for holding wide-character
4932 field_buffer() results.
4933 + modify data_ahead() to work with wide-characters.
4936 + improve description of terminfo if-then-else expressions (suggested
4938 + improve test/ncurses.c 'd' test, allow it to use external file for
4939 initial palette (added xterm-16color.dat and linux-color.dat), and
4940 reset colors to the initial palette when starting/ending the test.
4941 + change limit-check in init_color() to allow r/g/b component to
4942 reach 1000 (cf: 20020928).
4945 + modify form library to use cchar_t's rather than char's in the
4946 wide-character configuration for storing data for field buffers.
4947 + correct logic of win_wchnstr(), which did not work for more than
4951 + replace memset/memcpy usage in form library with for-loops to
4952 simplify changing the datatype of FIELD.buf, part of wide-character
4954 + fix some inconsistent use of #if/#ifdef (report by Alain Guibert).
4957 + modify menu library to account for actual number of columns used by
4958 multibyte character strings, in the wide-character configuration
4959 (adapted from patch by Philipp Tomsich).
4960 + add "-x" option to infocmp like tic's "-x", for use in "-F"
4961 comparisons. This modifies infocmp to only report extended
4962 capabilities if the -x option is given, making this more consistent
4963 with tic. Some scripts may break, since infocmp previous gave this
4964 information without an option.
4965 + modify termcap-parsing to retain 2-character aliases at the beginning
4966 of an entry if the "-x" option is used in tic.
4969 + minor compiler-warning and test-program fixes.
4972 + modify tic's missing-sgr warning to apply to terminfo only.
4973 + free some memory leaks in tic.
4974 + remove check in post_menu() that prevented menus from extending
4975 beyond the screen (request by Max J. Werner).
4976 + remove check in newwin() that prevents allocating windows
4977 that extend beyond the screen. Solaris curses does this.
4978 + add ifdef in test/color_set.c to allow it to compile with older
4980 + add napms() calls to test/dots.c to make it not be a CPU hog.
4983 + modify unctrl() to return null if its parameter does not correspond
4984 to an unsigned char.
4985 + add some limit-checks to guard isprint(), etc., from being used on
4986 values that do not fit into an unsigned char (report by Sami Farin).
4989 + fix a typo in the _nc_get_locale() change.
4992 + modify _nc_get_locale() to use setlocale() to query the program's
4993 current locale rather than using getenv(). This fixes a case in tin
4994 which relies on legacy treatment of 8-bit characters when the locale
4995 is not initialized (reported by Urs Jansen).
4996 + add sgr string to screen's and rxvt's terminfo entries -TD.
4997 + add a check in tic for terminfo entries having an sgr0 but no sgr
4998 string. This confuses Tru64 and HPUX curses when combined with
4999 color, e.g., making them leave line-drawing characters in odd places.
5000 + correct casts used in ABSENT_BOOLEAN, CANCELLED_BOOLEAN, matches the
5001 original definitions used in Debian package to fix PowerPC bug before
5002 20030802 (Debian #237629).
5005 + modify PutAttrChar() and PUTC() macro to improve use of
5006 A_ALTCHARSET attribute to prevent line-drawing characters from
5007 being lost in situations where the locale would otherwise treat the
5008 raw data as nonprintable (Debian #227879).
5011 + fix a redefinition of CTRL() macro in test/view.c for AIX 5.2 (report
5013 + remove ".PP" after ".SH NAME" in a few manpages; this confuses
5014 some apropos script (Debian #237831).
5017 + modify ncurses.c 'r' test so editing commands, like inserted text,
5018 set the field background, and the state of insert/overlay editing
5019 mode is shown in that test.
5020 + change syntax of dummy targets in Ada95 makefiles to work with pmake.
5021 + correct logic in test/ncurses.c 'b' for noncolor terminals which
5022 did not recognize a quit-command (cf: 20030419).
5025 + modify _nc_insert_ch() to allow for its input to be part of a
5027 + split out lib_insnstr.c, to prepare to rewrite it. X/Open states
5028 that this function performs wrapping, unlike all of the other
5029 insert-functions. Currently it does not wrap.
5030 + check for nl_langinfo(CODESET), use it if available (report by
5032 + split-out CF_BUILD_CC macro, actually did this for lynx first.
5033 + fixes for configure script CF_WITH_DBMALLOC and CF_WITH_DMALLOC,
5034 which happened to work with bash, but not with Bourne shell (report
5035 by Marco d'Itri via tin-dev).
5038 + some changes to adapt the form library to wide characters, incomplete
5039 (request by Mike Aubury).
5040 + add symbol to curses.h which can be used to suppress include of
5042 #define NCURSES_ENABLE_STDBOOL_H 0
5044 (discussion on XFree86 mailing list).
5047 + modify configure --with-termlib option to accept a value which sets
5048 the name of the terminfo library. This would allow a packager to
5049 build libtinfow.so renamed to coincide with libtinfo.so (discussion
5050 with Stanislav Ievlev).
5051 + improve documentation of --with-install-prefix, --prefix and
5052 $(DESTDIR) in INSTALL (prompted by discussion with Paul Lew).
5053 + add configure check if the compiler can use -c -o options to rename
5054 its output file, use that to omit the 'cd' command which was used to
5055 ensure object files are created in a separate staging directory
5056 (prompted by comments by Johnny Wezel, Martin Mokrejs).
5058 20040208 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
5061 20040207 pre-release
5062 + minor fixes to _nc_tparm_analyze(), i.e., do not count %i as a param,
5063 and do not count %d if it follows a %p.
5064 + correct an inconsistency between handling of codes in the 128-255
5065 range, e.g., as illustrated by test/ncurses.c f/F tests. In POSIX
5066 locale, the latter did not show printable results, while the former
5068 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to compensate for broken C preprocessor on Mac
5069 OS X, which alters "%%" to "% % " (report by Robert Simms, fix
5070 verified by Scott Corscadden).
5072 20040131 pre-release
5073 + modify SCREEN struct to align it between normal/wide curses flavors
5074 to simplify future changes to build a single version of libtinfo
5075 (patch by Stanislav Ievlev).
5076 + document handling of carriage return by addch() in manpage.
5077 + document special features of unctrl() in manpage.
5078 + documented interface changes in INSTALL.
5079 + corrected control-char test in lib_addch.c to account for locale
5080 (Debian #230335, cf: 971206).
5081 + updated test/configure.in to use AC_EXEEXT and AC_OBJEXT.
5082 + fixes to compile Ada95 binding with Debian gnat 3.15p-4 package.
5083 + minor configure-script fixes for older ports, e.g., BeOS R4.5.
5085 20040125 pre-release
5086 + amend change to PutAttrChar() from 20030614 which computed the number
5087 of cells for a possibly multi-cell character. The 20030614 change
5088 forced the cell to a blank if the result from wcwidth() was not
5089 greater than zero. However, wcwidth() called for parameters in the
5090 range 128-255 can give this return value. The logic now simply
5091 ensures that the number of cells is greater than zero without
5092 modifying the displayed value.
5094 20040124 pre-release
5095 + looked good for 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org (but see above)
5096 + modify configure script check for ranlib to use AC_CHECK_TOOL, since
5097 that works better for cross-compiling.
5099 20040117 pre-release
5100 + modify lib_get_wch.c to prefer mblen/mbtowc over mbrlen/mbrtowc to
5101 work around core dump in Solaris 8's locale support, e.g., for
5102 zh_CN.GB18030 (report by Saravanan Bellan).
5103 + add includes for <stdarg.h> and <stdio.h> in configure script macro
5104 to make <wchar.h> check work with Tru64 4.0d.
5105 + add terminfo entry for U/Win -TD
5106 + add terminfo entries for SFU aka Interix aka OpenNT (Federico
5108 + modify tput's error messages to prefix them with the program name
5109 (report by Vincent Lefevre, patch by Daniel Jacobowitz (see Debian
5111 + correct a place in tack where exit_standout_mode was used instead of
5112 exit_attribute_mode (patch by Jochen Voss (see Debian #224443)).
5113 + modify c++/cursesf.h to use const in the Enumeration_Field method.
5114 + remove an ambiguous (actually redundant) method from c++/cursesf.h
5115 + make $HOME/.terminfo update optional (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
5116 + improve sed script which extracts libtool's version in the
5117 CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro.
5118 + add ifdef'd call to AC_PROG_LIBTOOL to CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro (to
5119 simplify local patch for Albert Chin-A-Young)..
5120 + add $(CXXFLAGS) to link command in c++/Makefile.in (adapted from
5121 patch by Albert Chin-A-Young)..
5122 + fix a missing substitution in configure.in for "$target" needed for
5124 + resync CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro with lynx; fixes IRIX64 and
5125 NetBSD 1.6 conflicts with _XOPEN_SOURCE.
5126 + make check for stdbool.h more specific, to ensure that including it
5127 will actually define/declare bool for the configured compiler.
5128 + rewrite ifdef's in curses.h relating NCURSES_BOOL and bool. The
5129 intention of that is to #define NCURSES_BOOL as bool when the
5130 compiler declares bool, and to #define bool as NCURSES_BOOL when it
5131 does not (reported by Jim Gifford, Sam Varshavchik, cf: 20031213).
5133 20040110 pre-release
5134 + change minor version to 4, i.e., ncurses 5.4
5135 + revised/improved terminfo entries for tvi912b, tvi920b (Benjamin C W
5137 + simplified ncurses/base/version.c by defining the result from the
5138 configure script rather than using sprintf (suggested by Stanislav
5140 + remove obsolete casts from c++/cursesw.h (reported by Stanislav
5142 + modify configure script so that when configuring for termlib, programs
5143 such as tic are not linked with the upper-level ncurses library
5144 (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
5145 + move version.c from ncurses/base to ncurses/tinfo to allow linking
5146 of tic, etc., using libtinfo (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
5149 + adjust -D's to build ncursesw on OpenBSD.
5150 + modify CF_PROG_EXT to make OS/2 build with EXEEXT.
5151 + add pecho_wchar().
5152 + remove <wctype.h> include from lib_slk_wset.c which is not needed (or
5153 available) on older platforms.
5156 + add -D's to build ncursew on FreeBSD 5.1.
5157 + modify shared library configuration for FreeBSD 4.x/5.x to add the
5158 soname information (request by Marc Glisse).
5159 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() to not use MAX_ALIAS, but PATH_MAX only
5160 for limiting the length of a filename in the terminfo database.
5161 + modify termname() to return the terminal name used by setupterm()
5162 rather than $TERM, without truncating to 14 characters as documented
5163 by X/Open (report by Stanislav Ievlev, cf: 970719).
5164 + re-add definition for _BSD_TYPES, lost in merge (cf: 20031206).
5167 + add configure option --with-manpage-format=catonly to address
5168 behavior of BSDI, allow install of man+cat files on NetBSD, whose
5169 behavior has diverged by requiring both to be present.
5170 + remove leading blanks from comment-lines in manlinks.sed script to
5171 work with Tru64 4.0d.
5172 + add screen.linux terminfo entry (discussion on mutt-users mailing
5176 + add a check for tic to flag missing backslashes for termcap
5177 continuation lines. ncurses reads the whole entry, but termcap
5178 applications do not.
5179 + add configure option "--with-manpage-aliases" extending
5180 "--with-manpage-aliases" to provide the option of generating ".so"
5181 files rather than symbolic links for manpage aliases.
5182 + add bool definition in include/curses.h.in for configurations with no
5183 usable C++ compiler (cf: 20030607).
5184 + fix pathname of SigAction.h for building with --srcdir (reported by
5188 + folded ncurses/base/sigaction.c into includes of ncurses/SigAction.h,
5189 since that header is used only within ncurses/tty/lib_tstp.c, for
5190 non-POSIX systems (discussion with Stanislav Ievlev).
5191 + remove obsolete _nc_outstr() function (report by Stanislav Ievlev
5192 <inger@altlinux.org>).
5193 + add test/background.c and test/color_set.c
5194 + modify color_set() function to work with color pair 0 (report by
5195 George Andreou <gbandreo@tem.uoc.gr>).
5196 + add configure option --with-trace, since defining TRACE seems too
5197 awkward for some cases.
5198 + remove a call to _nc_free_termtype() from read_termtype(), since the
5199 corresponding buffer contents were already zeroed by a memset (cf:
5201 + improve configure check for _XOPEN_SOURCE and related definitions,
5202 adding special cases for Solaris' __EXTENSIONS__ and FreeBSD's
5203 __BSD_TYPES (reports by Marc Glisse <marc.glisse@normalesup.org>).
5204 + small fixes to compile on Solaris and IRIX64 using cc.
5205 + correct typo in check for pre-POSIX sort options in MKkey_defs.sh
5209 + modify _nc_gettime() to avoid a problem with arithmetic on unsigned
5210 values (Philippe Blain).
5211 + improve the nanosleep() logic in napms() by checking for EINTR and
5212 restarting (Philippe Blain).
5213 + correct expression for "%D" in lib_tgoto.c (Juha Jarvi
5217 + add linux-vt terminfo entry (Andrey V Lukyanov <land@long.yar.ru>).
5218 + allow "\|" escape in terminfo; tic should not warn about this.
5219 + save the full pathname of the trace-file the first time it is opened,
5220 to avoid creating it in different directories if the application
5221 opens and closes it while changing its working directory.
5222 + modify configure script to provide a non-empty default for
5226 + add DJGPP to special case of DOS-style drive letters potentially
5227 appearing in TERMCAP environment variable.
5228 + fix some spelling in comments (reports by Jason McIntyre, Jonathon
5230 + update config.guess, config.sub
5233 + fix a memory leak in error-return from setupterm() (report by
5234 Stanislav Ievlev <inger@altlinux.org>).
5235 + use EXEEXT and OBJEXT consistently in makefiles.
5236 + amend fixes for cross-compiling to use separate executable-suffix
5237 BUILD_EXEEXT (cf: 20031018).
5238 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for sort utility that does not
5239 recognize key options, e.g., busybox (report by Peter S Mazinger
5241 + fix potential out-of-bounds indexing in _nc_infotocap() (found by
5242 David Krause using some of the new malloc debugging features
5243 under OpenBSD, patch by Ted Unangst).
5244 + modify CF_LIB_SUFFIX for Itanium releases of HP-UX, which use a
5245 ".so" suffix (patch by Jonathan Ward <Jonathan.Ward@hp.com>).
5248 + update terminfo for xterm-xfree86 -TD
5249 + add check for multiple "tc=" clauses in a termcap to tic.
5250 + check for missing op/oc in tic.
5251 + correct _nc_resolve_uses() and _nc_merge_entry() to allow infocmp and
5252 tic to show cancelled capabilities. These functions were ignoring
5253 the state of the target entry, which should be untouched if cancelled.
5254 + correct comment in tack/output.c (Debian #215806).
5255 + add some null-pointer checks to lib_options.c (report by Michael
5257 + regenerated html documentation.
5258 + correction to tar-copy.sh, remove a trap command that resulted in
5259 leaving temporary files (cf: 20030510).
5260 + remove contact/maintainer addresses for Juergen Pfeifer (his request).
5263 + updated test/configure to reflect changes for libtool (cf: 20030830).
5264 + fix several places in tack/pad.c which tested and used the parameter-
5265 and parameterless strings inconsistently, i.e., in pad_rin(),
5266 pad_il(), pad_indn() and pad_dl() (Debian #215805).
5267 + minor fixes for configure script and makefiles to cleanup executables
5268 generated when cross-compiling for DJGPP.
5269 + modify infocmp to omit check for $TERM for operations that do not
5270 require it, e.g., "infocmp -e" used to build fallback list (report by
5274 + add terminfo entries for DJGPP.
5275 + updated note about maintainer in ncurses-intro.html
5278 + update terminfo entries for gnome terminal.
5279 + modify tack to reset colors after each color test, correct a place
5280 where exit_standout_mode was used instead of exit_attribute_mode.
5281 + improve tack's bce test by making it set colors other than black
5283 + plug a potential recursion between napms() and _nc_timed_wait()
5284 (report by Philippe Blain).
5287 + add --with-rel-version option to allow workaround to allow making
5288 libtool on Darwin generate the "same" library names as with the
5289 --with-shared option. The Darwin ld program does not work well
5290 with a zero as the minor-version value (request by Chris Zubrzycki).
5291 + modify CF_MIXEDCASE_FILENAMES macro to work with cross-compiling.
5292 + modify tack to allow it to run from fallback terminfo data.
5293 > patch by Philippe Blain:
5294 + improve PutRange() by adjusting call to EmitRange() and corresponding
5295 return-value to not emit unchanged characters on the end of the
5297 + improve a check for changed-attribute by exiting a loop when the
5299 + improve logic in TransformLine(), eliminating a duplicated comparison
5300 in the clr_bol logic.
5303 > patch by Philippe Blain:
5304 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
5305 move the label 'nonlocal' just before the second gettimeofday() to
5306 be able to compute the diff time when 'goto nonlocal' used.
5307 Rename 'msec' to 'microsec' in the debug-message.
5308 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
5309 Use _nc_outch() in carriage return/newline movement instead of
5310 putchar() which goes to stdout. Move test for xold>0 out of loop.
5311 + in ncurses/tinfo/setbuf.c,
5312 Set the flag SP->_buffered at the end of operations when all has been
5313 successful (typeMalloc can fail).
5314 + simplify NC_BUFFERED macro by moving check inside _nc_setbuf().
5317 + modify configure script to avoid using "head -1", which does not
5318 work if POSIXLY_CORRECT (sic) is set.
5319 + modify run_tic.in to avoid using wrong shared libraries when
5320 cross-compiling (Dan Kegel).
5323 + alter configure script help message to make it clearer that
5324 --with-build-cc does not specify a cross-compiler (suggested by Dan
5325 Kegel <dank@kegel.com>).
5326 + modify configure script to accommodate libtool 1.5, as well as add an
5327 parameter to the "--with-libtool" option which can specify the
5328 pathname of libtool (report by Chris Zubrzycki). We note that
5329 libtool 1.5 has more than one bug in its C++ support, so it is not
5330 able to install libncurses++, for instance, if $DESTDIR or the option
5331 --with-install-prefix is used.
5334 > patch by Philippe Blain:
5335 + move assignments to SP->_cursrow, SP->_curscol into online_mvcur().
5336 + make baudrate computation in delay_output() consistent with the
5337 assumption in _nc_mvcur_init(), i.e., a byte is 9 bits.
5340 + modify logic in waddch_literal() to take into account zh_TW.Big5
5341 whose multibyte sequences may contain "printable" characters, e.g.,
5342 a "g" in the sequence "\247g" (Debian #204889, cf: 20030621).
5343 + improve storage used by _nc_safe_strcpy() by ensuring that the size
5344 is reset based on the initialization call, in case it were called
5345 after other strcpy/strcat calls (report by Philippe Blain).
5346 > patch by Philippe Blain:
5347 + remove an unused ifdef for REAL_ATTR & WANT_CHAR
5348 + correct a place where _cup_cost was used rather than _cuu_cost
5351 + fix a small memory leak in _nc_free_termtype().
5352 + close trace-file if trace() is called with a zero parameter.
5353 + free memory allocated for soft-key strings, in delscreen().
5354 + fix an allocation size in safe_sprintf.c for the "*" format code.
5355 + correct safe_sprintf.c to not return a null pointer if the format
5356 happens to be an empty string. This applies to the "configure
5357 --enable-safe-sprintf" option (Redhat #101486).
5360 + modify casts used for ABSENT_BOOLEAN and CANCELLED_BOOLEAN (report by
5362 > patch by Philippe Blain:
5363 + change padding for change_scroll_region to not be proportional to
5364 the size of the scroll-region.
5365 + correct error-return in _nc_safe_strcat().
5368 + correct limit-checks in _nc_scroll_window() (report and test-case by
5369 Thomas Graf <graf@dms.at> cf: 20011020).
5370 + re-order configure checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE to avoid conflict with
5374 + use clr_eol in preference to blanks for bce terminals, so select and
5375 paste will have fewer trailing blanks, e.g., when using xterm
5376 (request by Vincent Lefevre).
5377 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
5378 + add configure --with-abi-version option (discussion with Charles
5380 > cygwin changes from Charles Wilson:
5381 + aclocal.m4: on cygwin, use autodetected prefix for import
5382 and static lib, but use "cyg" for DLL.
5383 + include/ncurses_dll.h: correct the comments to reflect current
5384 status of cygwin/mingw port. Fix compiler warning.
5385 + misc/run_tic.in: ensure that tic.exe can find the uninstalled
5386 DLL, by adding the lib-directory to the PATH variable.
5387 + misc/terminfo.src (nxterm|xterm-color): make xterm-color
5388 primary instead of nxterm, to match XFree86's xterm.terminfo
5389 usage and to prevent circular links.
5390 (rxvt): add additional codes from rxvt.org.
5391 (rxvt-color): new alias
5392 (rxvt-xpm): new alias
5393 (rxvt-cygwin): like rxvt, but with special acsc codes.
5394 (rxvt-cygwin-native): ditto. rxvt may be run under XWindows, or
5395 with a "native" MSWin GUI. Each takes different acsc codes,
5396 which are both different from the "normal" rxvt's acsc.
5397 (cygwin): cygwin-in-cmd.exe window. Lots of fixes.
5399 + mk-1st.awk: use "cyg" for the DLL prefix, but "lib" for import
5403 + update config.guess, config.sub
5404 + add triples for configuring shared libraries with the Debian
5405 GNU/FreeBSD packages (patch by Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es>).
5408 + modify CF_GCC_WARNINGS so it only applies to gcc, not g++. Some
5409 platforms have installed g++ along with the native C compiler, which
5410 would not accept gcc warning options.
5411 + add -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 when configuring with --enable-widec, to
5412 get mbstate_t declaration on HPUX 11.11 (report by David Ellement).
5413 + add _nc_pathlast() to get rid of casts in _nc_basename() calls.
5414 + correct a sign-extension in wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() from
5415 20030628 (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
5416 + work around omission of btowc() and wctob() from wide-character
5417 support (sic) in NetBSD 1.6 using mbtowc() and wctomb() (report by
5419 + add portability note to curs_get_wstr.3x (Debian #199957).
5422 + rewrite wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to call waddch() and wechochar()
5423 respectively, to avoid calling waddch_noecho() with wide-character
5424 data, since that function assumes its input is 8-bit data.
5425 Similarly, modify waddnwstr() to call wadd_wch().
5426 + remove logic from waddnstr() which transformed multibyte character
5427 strings into wide-characters. Rewrite of waddch_literal() from
5428 20030621 assumes its input is raw multibyte data rather than wide
5429 characters (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
5432 + write getyx() and related 2-return macros in terms of getcury(),
5434 + modify waddch_literal() in case an application passes bytes of a
5435 multibyte character directly to waddch(). In this case, waddch()
5436 must reassemble the bytes into a wide-character (report by Tomohiro
5437 Kubota <kubota@debian.org>).
5440 + modify waddch_literal() in case a multibyte value occupies more than
5442 + modify PutAttrChar() to compute the number of character cells that
5443 are used in multibyte values. This fixes a problem displaying
5444 double-width characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen
5445 <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
5446 + add a null-pointer check for result of keyname() in _tracechar()
5447 + modify _tracechar() to work around glibc sprintf bug.
5450 + add a call to setlocale() in cursesmain.cc, making demo display
5451 properly in a UTF-8 locale.
5452 + add a fallback definition in curses.priv.h for MB_LEN_MAX (prompted
5453 by discussion with Gabor Z Papp).
5454 + use macros NCURSES_ACS() and NCURSES_WACS() to hide cast needed to
5455 appease -Wchar-subscript with g++ 3.3 (Debian #195732).
5456 + fix a redefinition of $RANLIB in the configure script when libtool
5457 is used, which broke configure on Mac OS X (report by Chris Zubrzycki
5459 + simplify ifdef for bool declaration in curses.h.in (suggested by
5460 Albert Chin-A-Young).
5461 + remove configure script check to allow -Wconversion for older
5462 versions of gcc (suggested by Albert Chin-A-Young).
5465 + regenerated html manpages.
5466 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in that disabled use of __attribute__()
5467 for g++, since recent versions implement the cases which ncurses uses
5469 + modify _nc_get_token() to handle a case where an entry has no
5470 description, and capabilities begin on the same line as the entry
5472 + fix a typo in ncurses_dll.h reported by gcc 3.3.
5473 + add an entry for key_defined.3x to man_db.renames.
5476 + modify setcchar() to allow converting control characters to complex
5477 characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
5478 + add tkterm entry -TD
5479 + modify parse_entry.c to allow a terminfo entry with a leading
5480 2-character name (report by Don Libes).
5481 + corrected acsc in screen.teraterm, which requires a PC-style mapping.
5482 + fix trace statements in read_entry.c to use lseek() rather than
5484 + fix signed/unsigned warnings from Sun's compiler (gcc should give
5485 these warnings, but it is unpredictable).
5486 + modify configure script to omit -Winline for gcc 3.3, since that
5488 + modify manlinks.sed to add a few functions that were overlooked since
5489 they return function pointers: field_init, field_term, form_init,
5490 form_term, item_init, item_term, menu_init and menu_term.
5493 + prevent recursion in wgetch() via wgetnstr() if the connection cannot
5494 be switched between cooked/raw modes because it is not a TTY (report
5495 by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.com>).
5496 + change parameter of define_key() and key_defined() to const (prompted
5498 + add a check in test/configure for ncurses extensions, since there
5499 are some older versions, etc., which would not compile with the
5500 current test programs.
5501 + corrected demo in test/ncurses.c of wgetn_wstr(), which did not
5502 convert wchar_t string to multibyte form before printing it.
5503 + corrections to lib_get_wstr.c:
5504 + null-terminate buffer passed to setcchar(), which occasionally
5506 + map special characters such as erase- and kill-characters into
5507 key-codes so those will work as expected even if they are not
5508 mentioned in the terminfo.
5509 + modify PUTC() and Charable() macros to make wide-character line
5510 drawing work for POSIX locale on Linux console (cf: 20021221).
5513 + make typography for program options in manpages consistent (report
5514 by Miloslav Trmac <mitr@volny.cz>).
5515 + correct dependencies in Ada95/src/Makefile.in, so the builds with
5516 "--srcdir" work (report by Warren L Dodge).
5517 + correct missing definition of $(CC) in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in
5518 (reported by Warren L Dodge <warrend@mdhost.cse.tek.com>).
5519 + fix typos and whitespace in manpages (patch by Jason McIntyre
5520 <jmc@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl>).
5523 + fix form_driver() cases for REQ_CLR_EOF, REQ_CLR_EOL, REQ_DEL_CHAR,
5524 REQ_DEL_PREV and REQ_NEW_LINE, which did not ensure the cursor was at
5525 the editing position before making modifications.
5526 + add test/demo_forms and associated test/edit_field.c demos.
5527 + modify test/configure.in to use test/modules for the list of objects
5528 to compile rather than using the list of programs.
5531 + modify logic of acsc to use the original character if no mapping is
5532 defined, noting that Solaris does this.
5533 + modify ncurses 'b' test to avoid using the acs_map[] array since
5534 20021231 changes it to no longer contain information from the acsc
5536 + modify makefile rules in c++, progs, tack and test to ensure that
5537 the compiler flags (e.g., $CFLAGS or $CCFLAGS) are used in the link
5538 command (report by Jose Luis Rico Botella <informatica@serpis.com>).
5539 + modify soft-key initialization to use A_REVERSE if A_STANDOUT would
5540 not be shown when colors are used, i.e., if ncv#1 is set in the
5541 terminfo as is done in "screen".
5544 + add a test for slk_color(), in ncurses.c
5545 + fix some issues reported by valgrind in the slk_set() and slk_wset()
5546 code, from recent rewrite.
5547 + modify ncurses 'E' test to use show previous label via slk_label(),
5549 + modify wide-character versions of NewChar(), NewChar2() macros to
5550 ensure that the whole struct is initialized.
5553 + modify setupterm() to check if the terminfo and terminal-modes have
5554 already been read. This ensures that it does not reinvoke
5555 def_prog_mode() when an application calls more than one function,
5556 such as tgetent() and initscr() (report by Olaf Buddenhagen).
5559 + add 'E' test to ncurses.c, to exercise slk_wset().
5560 + correct handling of carriage-return in wgetn_wstr(), used in demo of
5562 + first draft of slk_wset() function.
5565 + improved warnings in tic when suppressing items to fit in termcap's
5567 + built a list in test/README showing which externals are being used
5568 by either programs in the test-directory or via internal library
5570 + adjust include-options in CF_ETIP_DEFINES to avoid missing
5571 ncurses_dll.h, fixing special definitions that may be needed for
5572 etip.h (reported by Greg Schafer <gschafer@zip.com.au>).
5575 + minor fixes for cardfile.c, to make it write the updated fields to
5576 a file when ^W is given.
5577 + add/use _nc_trace_bufcat() to eliminate some fixed buffer limits in
5581 + correct a case in _nc_remove_string(), used by define_key(), to avoid
5582 infinite loop if the given string happens to be a substring of other
5583 strings which are assigned to keys (report by John McCutchan).
5584 + add key_defined() function, to tell which keycode a string is bound
5585 to (discussion with John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>).
5586 + correct keybound(), which reported definitions in the wrong table,
5587 i.e., the list of definitions which are disabled by keyok().
5588 + modify demo_keydef.c to show the details it changes, and to check
5592 + restructured test/configure script, make it work for libncursesw.
5593 + add description of link_fieldtype() to manpage (report by
5594 L Dee Holtsclaw <dee@sunbeltsoft.com>).
5597 + corrected ifdef's relating to configure check for wchar_t, etc.
5598 + if the output is a socket or other non-tty device, use 1 millisecond
5599 for the cost in mvcur; previously it was 9 milliseconds because the
5600 baudrate was not known.
5601 + in _nc_get_tty_mode(), initialize the TTY buffer on error, since
5602 glibc copies uninitialized data in that case, as noted by valgrind.
5603 + modify tput to use the same parameter analysis as tparm() does, to
5604 provide for user-defined strings, e.g., for xterm title, a
5605 corresponding capability might be
5607 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to avoid passing "#" tokens through the C
5608 preprocessor. This works around Mac OS X's preprocessor, which
5609 insists on adding a blank on each side of the token (report/analysis
5610 by Kevin Murphy <murphy@genome.chop.edu>).
5613 + add configure check for wchar_t and wint_t types, rather than rely
5614 on preprocessor definitions. Also work around for gcc fixinclude
5615 bug which creates a shadow copy of curses.h if it sees these symbols
5616 apparently typedef'd.
5617 + if database is disabled, do not generate run_tic.sh
5618 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking when termcap is read.
5621 + add checking in tic for incomplete line-drawing character mapping.
5622 + updated configure script to reflect fix for AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL,
5623 which is broken in autoconf 2.5x for Mac OS X 10.2.3 (report by
5624 Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl>).
5625 + make return value from _nc_printf_string() consistent. Before,
5626 depending on whether --enable-safe-sprintf was used, it might not be
5627 cached for reallocating.
5630 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking in lib_tparm.c, hardscroll.c
5631 + correct a potentially-uninitialized value if _read_termtype() does
5632 not read as much data as expected (report by Wolfgang Rohdewald
5634 + correct several places where the aclocal.m4 macros relied on cache
5635 variable names which were incompatible (as usual) between autoconf
5636 2.13 and 2.5x, causing the test for broken-linker to give incorrect
5637 results (reports by Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl> and Thomas Esser
5638 <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de>).
5639 + do not try to open gpm mouse driver if standard output is not a tty;
5640 the gpm library does not make this check (bug report for dialog
5641 by David Oliveira <davidoliveira@develop.prozone.ws>).
5644 + modified emx.src to correspond more closely to terminfo.src, added
5645 emx-base to the latter -TD
5646 + add configure option for FreeBSD sysmouse, --with-sysmouse, and
5647 implement support for that in lib_mouse.c, lib_getch.c
5650 + revert 20030105 change to can_clear_with(), does not work for the
5651 case where the update is made on cells which are blanks with
5652 attributes, e.g., reverse.
5653 + improve ifdef's to guard against redefinition of wchar_t and wint_t
5654 in curses.h (report by Urs Jansen).
5657 + improve mvcur() by checking if it is safe to move when video
5658 attributes are set (msgr), and if not, reset/restore attributes
5659 within that function rather than doing it separately in the GoTo()
5660 function in tty_update.c (suggested by Philippe Blain).
5661 + add a message in run_tic.in to explain more clearly what does not
5662 work when attempting to create a symbolic link for /usr/lib/terminfo
5663 on OS/2 and other platforms with no symbolic links (report by John
5665 + change several sed scripts to avoid using "\+" since it is not a BRE
5666 (basic regular expression). One instance caused terminfo.5 to be
5667 misformatted on FreeBSD (report by Kazuo Horikawa
5668 <horikawa@FreeBSD.org> (see FreeBSD docs/46709)).
5669 + correct misspelled 'wint_t' in curs_get_wch.3x (Michael Elkins).
5672 + improve description of terminfo operators, especially static/dynamic
5673 variables (comments by Mark I Manning IV <mark4th@earthlink.net>).
5674 + demonstrate use of FIELDTYPE by modifying test/ncurses 'r' test to
5675 use the predefined TYPE_ALPHA field-type, and by defining a
5676 specialized type for the middle initial/name.
5677 + fix MKterminfo.sh, another workaround for POSIXLY_CORRECT misfeature
5679 > patch by Philippe Blain:
5680 + optimize can_clear_with() a little by testing first if the parameter
5681 is indeed a "blank".
5682 + simplify ClrBottom() a little by allowing it to use clr_eos to clear
5683 sections as small as one line.
5684 + improve ClrToEOL() by checking if clr_eos is available before trying
5686 + use tputs() rather than putp() in a few cases in tty_update.c since
5687 the corresponding delays are proportional to the number of lines
5688 affected: repeat_char, clr_eos, change_scroll_region.
5691 + rewrite of lib_acs.c conflicts with copying of SCREEN acs_map to/from
5692 global acs_map[] array; removed the lines that did the copying.
5695 + change some overlooked tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp()
5696 (report by Philippe Blain).
5697 + modify lib_getch.c to avoid recursion via wgetnstr() when the input
5698 is not a tty and consequently mode-changes do not work (report by
5699 <R.Chamberlin@querix.com>).
5700 + rewrote lib_acs.c to allow PutAttrChar() to decide how to render
5701 alternate-characters, i.e., to work with Linux console and UTF-8
5703 + correct line/column reference in adjust_window(), needed to make
5704 special windows such as curscr track properly when resizing (report
5705 by Lucas Gonze <lgonze@panix.com>).
5706 > patch by Philippe Blain:
5707 + correct the value used for blank in ClrBottom() (broken in 20000708).
5708 + correct an off-by-one in GoTo() parameter in _nc_scrolln().
5711 + change several tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp(), to
5712 enable padding which may be needed for some terminals (patch by
5714 + use '%' as sed substitute delimiter in run_tic script to avoid
5715 problems with pathname delimiters such as ':' and '@' (report by John
5717 + implement a workaround so that line-drawing works with screen's
5718 crippled UTF-8 support (tested with 3.9.13). This only works with
5719 the wide-character support (--enable-widec); the normal library will
5720 simply suppress line-drawing when running in a UTF-8 locale in screen.
5723 + allow BUILD_CC and related configure script variables to be
5724 overridden from the environment.
5725 + make build-tools variables in ncurses/Makefile.in consistent with
5726 the configure script variables (report by Maciej W Rozycki).
5727 + modify ncurses/modules to allow
5728 configure --disable-leaks --disable-ext-funcs
5729 to build (report by Gary Samuelson).
5730 + fix a few places in configure.in which lacked quotes (report by
5731 Gary Samuelson <gary.samuelson@verizon.com>).
5732 + correct handling of multibyte characters in waddch_literal() which
5733 force wrapping because they are started too late on the line (report
5734 by Sam Varshavchik).
5735 + small fix for CF_GNAT_VERSION to ignore the help-message which
5736 gnatmake adds to its version-message.
5737 > Maciej W Rozycki <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>:
5738 + use AC_CHECK_TOOL to get proper values for AR and LD for cross
5740 + use $cross_compiling variable in configure script rather than
5741 comparing $host_alias and $target alias, since "host" is
5742 traditionally misused in autoconf to refer to the target platform.
5743 + change configure --help message to use "build" rather than "host"
5744 when referring to the --with-build-XXX options.
5747 + modify CF_GNAT_VERSION to print gnatmake's version, and to allow for
5748 possible gnat versions such as 3.2 (report by Chris Lingard
5749 <chris@stockwith.co.uk>).
5750 + modify #define's for CKILL and other default control characters in
5751 tset to use the system's default values if they are defined.
5752 + correct interchanged defaults for kill and interrupt characters
5753 in tset, which caused it to report unnecessarily (Debian #171583).
5754 + repair check for missing C++ compiler, which is broken in autoconf
5755 2.5x by hardcoding it to g++ (report by Martin Mokrejs).
5756 + update config.guess, config.sub (2002-11-30)
5757 + modify configure script to skip --with-shared, etc., when the
5758 --with-libtool option is given, since they would be ignored anyway.
5759 + fix to allow "configure --with-libtool --with-termlib" to build.
5760 + modify configure script to show version number of libtool, to help
5761 with bug reports. libtool still gets confused if the installed
5762 ncurses libraries are old, since it ignores the -L options at some
5763 point (tested with libtool 1.3.3 and 1.4.3).
5764 + reorder configure script's updating of $CPPFLAGS and $CFLAGS to
5765 prevent -I options in the user's environment from introducing
5766 conflicts with the build -I options (may be related to reports by
5767 Patrick Ash and George Goffe).
5768 + rename test/define_key.c to test/demo_defkey.c, test/keyok.c to
5769 test/demo_keyok.c to allow building these with libtool.
5772 + add example program test/define_key.c for define_key().
5773 + add example program test/keyok.c for keyok().
5774 + add example program test/ins_wide.c for wins_wch() and wins_wstr().
5775 + modify wins_wch() and wins_wstr() to interpret tabs by using the
5776 winsch() internal function.
5777 + modify setcchar() to allow for wchar_t input strings that have
5778 more than one spacing character.
5781 + fix a boundary check in lib_insch.c (patch by Philippe Blain).
5782 + change type for *printw functions from NCURSES_CONST to const
5783 (prompted by comment by Pedro Palhoto Matos <plpm@mega.ist.utl.pt>,
5784 but really from a note on X/Open's website stating that either is
5785 acceptable, and the latter will be used in a future revision).
5786 + add xterm-1002, xterm-1003 terminfo entries to demonstrate changes in
5787 lib_mouse.c (20021026) -TD
5788 + add screen-bce, screen-s entries from screen 3.9.13 (report by
5789 Adam Lazur <zal@debian.org>) -TD
5790 + add mterm terminfo entries -TD
5793 + split-out useful fragments in terminfo for vt100 and vt220 numeric
5794 keypad, i.e., vt100+keypad, vt100+pfkeys, vt100+fnkeys and
5795 vt220+keypad. The last as embedded in various entries had ka3 and
5796 kb2 interchanged (report/discussion with Leonard den Ottolander
5797 <leonardjo@hetnet.nl>).
5798 + add check in tic for keypads consistent with vt100 layout.
5799 + improve checks in tic for color capabilities
5802 + check for missing/empty/illegal terminfo name in _nc_read_entry()
5803 (report by Martin Mokrejs, where $TERM was set to an empty string).
5804 + rewrote lib_insch.c, combining it with lib_insstr.c so both handle
5805 tab and other control characters consistently (report by Philippe
5807 + remove an #undef for KEY_EVENT from curses.tail used in the
5808 experimental NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS feature. The #undef confuses
5809 dpkg's build script (Debian #165897).
5810 + fix MKlib_gen.sh, working around the ironically named POSIXLY_CORRECT
5811 feature of GNU sed 4.0 (reported by Ervin Nemeth <airwin@inf.bme.hu>).
5814 + implement logic in lib_mouse.c to handle position reports which are
5815 generated when XFree86 xterm is initialized with private modes 1002
5816 or 1003. These are returned to the application as the
5817 REPORT_MOUSE_POSITION mask, which was not implemented. Tested both
5818 with ncurses 'a' menu (prompted by discussion with Larry Riedel
5819 <Larry@Riedel.org>).
5820 + modify lib_mouse.c to look for "XM" terminfo string, which allows
5821 one to override the escape sequence used to enable/disable mouse
5822 mode. In particular this works for XFree86 xterm private modes
5823 1002 and 1003. If "XM" is missing (note that this is an extended
5824 name), lib_mouse uses the conventional private mode 1000.
5825 + correct NOT_LOCAL() macro in lib_mvcur.c to refer to screen_columns
5826 where it used screen_lines (report by Philippe Blain).
5827 + correct makefile rules for the case when both --with-libtool and
5828 --with-gpm are given (report by Mr E_T <troll@logi.net.au>).
5829 + add note to terminfo manpage regarding the differences between
5830 setaf/setab and setf/setb capabilities (report by Pavel Roskin).
5833 + remove redundant initialization of TABSIZE in newterm(), since it is
5834 already done in setupterm() (report by Philippe Blain).
5835 + add test/inserts.c, to test winnstr() and winsch().
5836 + replace 'sort' in dist.mk with script that sets locale to POSIX.
5837 + update URLs in announce.html.in (patch by Frederic L W Meunier).
5838 + remove glibc add-on files, which are no longer needed (report by
5839 Frederic L W Meunier).
5841 20021012 5.3 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
5842 + modify ifdef's in etip.h.in to allow the etip.h header to compile
5843 with gcc 3.2 (patch by Dimitar Zhekov <jimmy@is-vn.bg>).
5844 + add logic to setupterm() to make it like initscr() and newterm(),
5845 by checking for $NCURSES_TRACE environment variable and enabling
5846 the debug trace in that case.
5847 + modify setupterm() to ensure that it initializes the baudrate, for
5848 applications such as tput (report by Frank Henigman).
5849 + modify definition of bits used for command-line and library debug
5850 traces to avoid overlap, using new definition TRACE_SHIFT to relate
5852 + document tput's interpretation of parameterized strings according to
5853 whether parameters are given, etc. (discussion with Robert De Bath).
5855 20021005 pre-release
5856 + correct winnwstr() to account for non-character cells generated when
5857 a double-width character is added (report by Michael Bienia
5858 <michael@vorlon.ping.de>).
5859 + modify _nc_viswbuf2n() to provide better results using wctomb().
5860 + correct logic in _nc_varargs() which broke tracing of parameters for
5861 formats such as "%.*s".
5862 + correct scale factor in linux-c and linux-c-nc terminfo entries
5863 (report Floyd Davidson).
5864 + change tic -A option to -t, add the same option to infocmp for
5866 + correct "%c" implementation in lib_tparm.c, which did not map a null
5867 character to a 128 (cf: 980620) (patch by Frank Henigman
5868 <fjhenigman@mud.cgl.uwaterloo.ca>).
5870 20020928 pre-release
5871 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for POSIX sort -k option, use that if
5872 it is found, to accommodate newer utility which dropped the
5873 compatibility support for +number options (reported by Andrey A
5875 + modify linux terminfo entry to use color palette feature from
5876 linux-c-nc entry (comments by Tomasz Wasiak and Floyd Davidson).
5877 + restore original color definitions in endwin() if init_color() was
5878 used, and resume those colors on the next doupdate() or refresh()
5879 (report by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@komputom.com.pl>).
5880 + improve debug-traces by modifying MKlib_gen.sh to generate calls
5881 to returnBool() and returnAttr().
5882 + add/use _nc_visbufn() and _nc_viswbufn() to limit the debug trace
5883 of waddnstr() and similar functions to match the parameters as used.
5884 + add/use _nc_retrace_bool() and _nc_retrace_unsigned().
5885 + correct type used by _nc_retrace_chtype().
5886 + add debug traces to some functions in lib_mouse.c
5887 + modify lib_addch.c to handle non-spacing characters.
5888 + correct parameter of RemAttr() in lib_bkgd.c, which caused the c++
5889 demo's boxes to lose the A_ALTCHARSET flag (broken in 20020629).
5890 + correct width computed in _tracedump(), which did not account for
5891 the attributes (broken in 20010602).
5892 + modify test/tracemunch to replace addresses for windows other than
5893 curscr, newscr and stdscr with window0, window1, etc.
5895 20020921 pre-release
5896 + redid fix for edit_man.sed path.
5897 + workaround for Cygwin bug which makes subprocess writes to stdout
5898 result in core dump.
5899 + documented getbegx(), etc.
5900 + minor fixes to configure script to use '%' consistently as a sed
5901 delimiter rather than '@'.
5902 > patch by Philippe Blain:
5903 + add check in lib_overlay.c to ensure that the windows to be merged
5904 actually overlap, and in copywin(), limit the area to be touched
5905 to the lines given for the destination window.
5907 20020914 pre-release
5908 + modified curses.h so that if the wide-character version is installed
5909 overwriting /usr/include/curses.h, and if it relied on libutf8.h,
5910 then applications that use that header for wide-character support
5911 must define HAVE_LIBUTF8_H.
5912 + modify putwin(), getwin() and dupwin() to allow them to operate on
5913 pads (request by Philippe Blain).
5914 + correct attribute-merging in wborder(), broken in 20020216 (report
5915 by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@grubasek.komputom.com.pl>).
5916 > patch by Philippe Blain:
5917 + corrected pop-counts in tparam_internal() to '!' and '~' cases.
5918 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in one place that used sizeof(chtype).
5919 + remove some unused variables from mvcur test-driver.
5921 20020907 pre-release
5922 + change configure script to allow install of widec-character
5923 (ncursesw) headers to overwrite normal (ncurses) headers, since the
5924 latter is a compatible subset of the former.
5925 + fix path of edit_man.sed in configure script, needed to regenerate
5926 html manpages on Debian.
5927 + fix mismatched enums in vsscanf.c, which caused warning on Solaris.
5928 + update README.emx to reflect current patch used for autoconf.
5929 + change web- and ftp-site to invisible-island.net
5930 > patch by Philippe Blain:
5931 + change case for 'P' in tparam_internal() to indicate that it pops
5932 a variable from the stack.
5933 + correct sense of precision and width in parse_format(), to avoid
5935 + modify lib_tparm.c, absorb really_get_space() into get_space().
5936 + modify getwin() and dupwin() to copy the _notimeout, _idlok and
5937 _idcok window fields.
5938 + better fix for _nc_set_type(), using typeMalloc().
5940 20020901 pre-release
5941 + change minor version to 3, i.e., ncurses 5.3
5942 + update config.guess, config.sub
5943 + retest build with each configure option; minor ifdef fixes.
5944 + make keyname() return a null pointer rather than "UNKNOWN STRING" to
5946 + modify handling of wide line-drawing character functions to use the
5947 normal line-drawing characters when not in UTF-8 locale.
5948 + add check/fix to comp_parse.c to suppress warning about missing acsc
5949 string. This happens in configurations where raw termcap information
5950 is processed; tic already does this and other checks.
5951 + modify tic's check for ich/ich1 versus rmir/smir to only warn about
5952 ich1, to match xterm patch #70 notes.
5953 + moved information for ripped-off lines into SCREEN struct to allow
5954 use in resizeterm().
5955 + add experimental wgetch_events(), ifdef'd with NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS
5956 (adapted from patch by Ilya Zakharevich - see ncurses/README.IZ).
5957 + amend check in kgetch() from 20020824 to look only for function-keys,
5958 otherwise escape sequences are not resolved properly.
5959 > patch by Philippe Blain:
5960 + removed redundant assignment to SP->_checkfd from newterm().
5961 + check return-value of setupterm() in restartterm().
5962 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in a few places that used sizeof(chtype).
5963 + prevent dupwin() from duplicating a pad.
5964 + prevent putwin() from writing a pad.
5965 + use typeRealloc() or typeMalloc() in preference to direct calls on
5969 + add a check in kgetch() for cooked characters in the fifo to avoid
5970 calling fifo_push() when a KEY_RESIZE is available (report/analysis
5971 by Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>).
5972 + fix an overlooked case for Redhat #68199 (Philippe Blain).
5973 + ensure clearerr() is called before using ferror() e.g., in
5974 lib_screen.c (report by Philippe Blain).
5977 + modify lib_screen.c and lib_newwin.c to maintain the SCREEN-specific
5978 pointers for curscr/stdscr/newscr when scr_save() and scr_restore()
5979 modify the global curscr/stdscr/newscr variables. Fixes Redhat
5981 + add checks for null pointer in calls to tparm() and tgoto() based on
5982 FreeBSD bug report. If ncurses were built with termcap support, and
5983 the first call to tgoto() were a zero-length string, the result would
5984 be a null pointer, which was not handled properly.
5985 + correct a typo in terminfo.head, which gave the octal code for colon
5987 + remove the "tic -u" option from 20020810, since it did not account
5988 for nested "tc=" clauses, and when that was addressed, was still
5992 + add tic -A option to suppress capabilities which are commented out
5993 when translating to termcap.
5994 + add tic -u option to provide older behavior of "tc=" clauses.
5995 + modified tic to expand all but the final "tc=" clause in a termcap
5996 entry, to accommodate termcap libraries which do not handle multiple
5998 + correct typo in curs_inopts.3x regarding CS8/CS7 usage (report by
6000 + remove a couple of redundant uses of A_ATTRIBUTES in expressions
6001 using AttrOf(), which already incorporates that mask (report by
6003 + document TABSIZE variable.
6004 + add NCURSES_ASSUMED_COLORS environment variable, to allow users to
6005 override compiled-in default black-on-white assumption used in
6006 assume_default_colors().
6007 + correct an off-by-one comparison against max_colors in COLORFGBG
6009 + correct a use of uninitialized memory found by valgrind (reported by
6010 Olaf Buddenhagen <olafBuddenhagen@web.de>).
6011 + modified wresize() to ensure that a failed realloc will not corrupt
6012 the window structure, and to make subwindows fit within the resized
6013 window (completes Debian #87678, Debian #101699)
6016 + fix an off-by-one in lib_pad.c check for limits of pad (patch by
6018 + revise logic for BeOS in lib_twait.c altered in 20011013 to restore
6019 logic used by lib_getch.c's support for GPM or EMX mouse (report by
6021 + remove NCURSES_CONST from several prototypes in curses.wide, to make
6022 the --enable-const --enable-widec configure options to work together
6023 (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@yahoo.com>).
6026 + finish no-leak checking in cardfile.c, using this for testing changes
6028 + simplify _nc_freeall() using delscreen().
6031 + check error-return from _nc_set_tty_mode() in _nc_initscr() and
6032 reset_prog_mode() (report/patch by Philippe Blain).
6033 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52, to address
6034 problem with identifying C++ bool type.
6035 + correct/improve logic to produce an exit status for errors in tput,
6036 which did not exit with an error when told to put a string not in the
6037 current terminfo entry (report by David Gomez <david@pleyades.net>).
6038 + modify configure script AC_OUTPUT() call to work around defect in
6039 autoconf 2.52 which adds an ifdef'd include to the generated
6040 configure definitions.
6041 + remove fstat() check from scr_init(), which also fixes a missing
6042 include for <sys/stat.h> from 20020713 (reported by David Ellement,
6043 fix suggested by Philippe Blain).
6044 + update curs_scanw.3x manpage to note that XSI curses differs from
6045 SVr4 curses: return-values are incompatible.
6046 + correct several prototypes in manpages which used const
6047 inconsistently with the curses.h file, and removed spurious const's
6048 in a few places from curses.h, e.g., for wbkgd() (report by Glenn
6049 Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>).
6050 + change internal type used by tparm() to long, to work with LP64 model.
6051 + modify nc_alloc.h to allow building with g++, for testing.
6054 + add resize-handling to cardfile.c test program.
6055 + altered resizeterm() to avoid having it fail when a child window
6056 cannot be resized because it would be larger than its parent. (More
6057 work must be done on this, but it works well enough to integrate).
6058 + improve a limit-check in lib_refresh.c
6059 + remove check in lib_screen.c relating dumptime to file's modification
6060 times, since that would not necessarily work for remotely mounted
6062 + modify lrtest to simplify debugging changes to resizeterm, e.g.,
6063 t/T commands to enable/disable tracing.
6064 + updated status of multibyte support in TO-DO.
6065 + update contact info in source-files (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
6068 + add Caps.hpux11, as an example.
6069 + modify version_filter(), used to implement -R option for tic and
6070 infocmp, to use computed array offsets based on the Caps.* file which
6071 is actually configured, rather than constants which correspond to
6073 + reorganized lib_raw.c to avoid updating SP and cur_term state if the
6074 functions fail (reported by Philippe Blain).
6075 + add -Wundef to gcc warnings, adjust a few ifdef's to accommodate gcc.
6078 + correct parameters to setcchar() in ncurses.c (cf: 20020406).
6079 + set locale in most test programs (view.c and ncurses.c were the
6081 + add configure option --with-build-cppflags (report by Maksim A
6082 Nikulin <M.A.Nikulin@inp.nsk.su>).
6083 + correct a typo in wide-character logic for lib_bkgnd.c (Philippe
6085 + modify lib_wacs.c to not cancel the acsc, smacs, rmacs strings when
6086 in UTF-8 locale. Wide-character functions use Unicode values, while
6087 narrow-character functions use the terminfo data.
6088 + fix a couple of places in Ada95/samples which did not compile with
6090 + modify mkinstalldirs so the DOS-pathname case is locale-independent.
6091 + fix locale problem in MKlib_gen.sh by forcing related variables to
6092 POSIX (C), using same approach as autoconf (set variables only if
6093 they were set before). Update MKterminfo.sh and MKtermsort.sh to
6097 + add charset to generated html.
6098 + add mvterm entry, adapted from a FreeBSD bug-report by Daniel Rudy
6099 <dcrudy@pacbell.net> -TD
6100 + add rxvt-16color, ibm+16color entries -TD
6101 + modify check in --disable-overwrite option so that it is used by
6102 default unless the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr, in attempt to
6103 work around packagers, e.g., for Sun's freeware, who do not read the
6107 + modify wgetch() to allow returning ungetch'd KEY_RESIZE as a function
6108 key code in get_wch().
6109 + extended resize-handling in test/ncurses 'a' menu to the entire
6110 stack of windows created with 'w' commands.
6111 + improve $COLORFGBG feature by interpreting an out-of-range color
6112 value as an SGR 39 or 49, for foreground/background respectively.
6113 + correct a typo in configure --enable-colorfgbg option, and move it
6114 to the experimental section (cf: 20011208).
6117 + add logic to dump_entry.c to remove function-key definitions that do
6118 not fit into the 1023-byte limit for generated termcaps. This makes
6120 + more improvements to tic's warnings, including logic to ignore
6121 differences between delay values in sgr strings.
6122 + move definition of KEY_RESIZE into MKkeydefs.sh script, to
6123 accommodate Caps.osf1r5 which introduced a conflicting definition.
6126 + add simple resize-handling in test/ncurses.c 'a' menu.
6127 + fixes in keyname() and _tracechar() to handle negative values.
6128 + make tic's warnings about mismatches in sgr strings easier to follow.
6129 + correct tic checks for number of parameters in smgbp and smglp.
6130 + improve scoansi terminfo entry, and add scoansi-new entry -TD
6131 + add pcvt25-color terminfo entry -TD
6132 + add kf13-kf48 strings to cons25w terminfo entry (reported by Stephen
6133 Hurd <deuce@lordlegacy.org> in newsgroup lucky.freebsd.bugs) -TD
6134 + add entrypoint _nc_trace_ttymode(), use this to distinguish the
6135 Ottyb and Nttyb members of terminal (aka cur_term), for tracing.
6138 + correct and simplify logic for lib_pad.c change in 20020518 (reported
6142 + fix lib_pad.c for case of drawing a double-width character which
6143 falls off the left margin of the pad (patch by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij
6144 <lerdsuwa@users.sourceforge.net>)
6145 + modify configure script to work around broken gcc 3.1 "--version"
6146 option, which adds unnecessary trash to the requested information.
6147 + adjust ifdef's in case SIGWINCH is not defined, e.g., with DJGPP
6148 (reported by Ben Decker <deckerben@freenet.de>).
6151 + implement vid_puts(), vid_attr(), term_attrs() based on the narrow-
6152 character versions as well.
6153 + implement erasewchar(), killwchar() based on erasechar() and
6155 + modify erasechar() and killchar() to return ERR if the value was
6157 + correct a bug in wresize() in handling subwindows (based on patch by
6158 Roger Gammans <rgammans@computer-surgery.co.uk>, report by Scott Beck
6159 <scott@gossamer-threads.com>).
6160 + improve test/tclock.c by making the second-hand update more often
6161 if gettimeofday() is available.
6164 + workaround for Solaris sed with MKlib_gen.sh (reported by Andy
6165 Tsouladze <andyt@mypoints.com>).
6168 + correct return-value from getcchar(), making it consistent with
6170 + reorder loops that generate makefile rules for different models vs
6171 subsets so configure --with-termlib works again. This was broken by
6172 logic added to avoid duplicate rules in changes to accommodate cygwin
6173 dll's (reported by George.R.Goffe@seagate.com).
6174 + update config.guess, config.sub
6177 + modify ifdef's in write_entry.c to allow use of symbolic links on
6178 platforms with no hard links, e.g., BeOS.
6179 + modify a few includes to allow compile with BeOS, which has stdbool.h
6180 with a conflicting definition for 'bool' versus its OS.h definition.
6181 + amend MKlib_gen.sh to work with gawk, which defines 'func' as an
6182 alias for 'function'.
6185 + correct form of prototype for ripoffline().
6186 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to test that all functions marked as implemented
6190 + add manpages: curs_get_wstr.3x, curs_in_wchstr.3x
6191 + implement wgetn_wstr().
6192 + implement win_wchnstr().
6193 + remove redefinition of unget_wch() in lib_gen.c (reported by
6194 Jungshik Shin <jshin@jtan.com>).
6197 + modified several of the test programs to allow them to compile with
6198 vendor curses implementations, e.g., Solaris, AIX -TD
6201 + modified test/configure to allow configuring against ncursesw.
6202 + change WACS_xxx definition to use address, to work like Tru64 curses.
6205 + add 'e' and 'm' toggles to 'a', 'A' tests in ncurses.c to demonstrate
6206 effect of echo/noecho and meta modes.
6207 + add 'A' test to ncurses.c to demonstrate wget_wch() and related
6209 + add manpage: curs_get_wch.3x
6210 + implement unget_wch().
6211 + implement wget_wch().
6214 + regenerated html manpages.
6215 + add manpages: curs_in_wch.3x, curs_ins_wch.3x, curs_ins_wstr.3x
6216 + implement wins_wch().
6217 + implement win_wch().
6218 + implement wins_nwstr(), wins_wstr().
6221 + add manpages: curs_addwstr.3x, curs_winwstr.3x
6222 + implement winnwstr(), winwstr().
6225 + add manpages: curs_add_wchstr.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x
6226 + document wunctrl, key_name.
6227 + implement key_name().
6228 + remove const's in lib_box.c incorrectly leftover after splitting off
6230 + update llib-lncurses, llib-ncursesw, fix configure script related to
6234 + remove quotes on "SYNOPSIS" in man/curs_box_set.3x, which resulted
6235 in spurious symlinks on install.
6238 + implement whline_set(), wvline_set(), add manpage curs_border_set.
6239 + add subtest 'b' to 'F' and 'f' in ncurses.c to demonstrate use of
6240 box() and box_set() functions.
6241 + add subtest 'u' to 'F' in ncurses.c, to demonstrate use of addstr()
6242 given UTF-8 string equivalents of WACS_xxx symbols.
6243 + minor fixes to several manpages based on groff -ww output.
6244 + add descriptions of external variables of termcap interface to
6245 the manpage (report by Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>).
6246 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
6247 + correct configure option --with-bool, which was executed as
6249 + add quotes for parameters of --with-bool and --with-ospeed configure
6251 > patch by Sven Verdoolaege (report by Gerhard Haering
6252 <haering_linux@gmx.de>):
6253 + correct typos in definitions of several wide-character macros:
6254 waddwstr, wgetbkgrnd, mvaddwstr, mvwadd_wchnstr, mvwadd_wchnstr,
6256 + pass $(CPPFLAGS) to MKlib_gen.sh, thereby fixing a missing definition
6257 of _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, e.g., on Solaris
6260 + implement wide-acs characters for UTF-8 locales. When in UTF-8
6261 locale, ignore narrow version of acs. Add 'F' test to test/ncurses.c
6263 + correct prototype in keybound manpage (noted from a Debian mailing
6267 + add several cases to the wscanw() example in testcurs.c, showing the
6269 + implement a simple vsscanf() fallback function which uses the %n
6270 conversion to help parse the input data (prompted by discussion with
6271 Albert Chin-A-Young).
6272 + modify mk-1st.awk and test/Makefile.in to add $(LDFLAGS) when making
6273 shared libraries, and to use $(CFLAGS) when linking test programs
6274 (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
6275 + add a call to _nc_keypad() in keypad() to accommodate applications
6276 such as nvi, which use curses for output but not for input (fixes
6277 Debian #131263, cf: 20011215).
6278 + add entrypoints to resizeterm.c which provide better control over the
6279 process: is_term_resized() and resize_term(). The latter restores
6280 the original design of resizeterm() before KEY_RESIZE was added in
6281 970906. Do this to accommodate 20010922 changes to view.c, but allow
6282 for programs with their own sigwinch handler, such as lynx (reported
6283 by Russell Ruby <russ@math.orst.edu>).
6286 + fix a typo in change to mk-1st.awk, which broke the shared-library
6287 makefile rules (reported by Martin Mokrejs).
6290 + update config.guess, config.sub
6291 + finish changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
6292 + fix a typo in mvwchat() macro (reported by Cy <yam@homerow.net).
6295 + add case in lib_baudrate.c for B921600 (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
6296 + correct missing sed-editing stage in manpage installs which is used
6297 to rename manpages, broken in 20010324 fix for Debian #89939 (Debian
6299 + remove -L$(libdir) from linker flags, probably not needed any more
6300 since HPUX is handled properly (reported by Niibe Yutaka
6302 + add configure check for mbstate_t, needed for wide-character
6303 configuration. On some platforms we must include <wchar.h> to
6304 define this (reported by Daniel Jacobowitz).
6305 + incorporate some of the changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
6308 + workaround for awk did not work with mawk, adjusted shell script.
6311 + add Caps.osf1r5, as an example.
6312 + modify behavior of can_clear_with() so that if an application is
6313 running in a non-bce terminals with default colors enabled, it
6314 returns true, allowing the user to select/paste text without picking
6315 up extraneous trailing blanks (adapted from patch by Daniel
6316 Jacobowitz <dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu>).
6317 + modify generated curses.h to ifdef-out prototypes for extensions if
6318 they are disabled, and to define curses_version() as a string in that
6319 case. This is needed to make the programs such as tic build in that
6321 + modified generated headers.sh to remove a gzip'd version of the
6322 target file if it exists, in case non-gzip'd manpages are installed
6323 into a directory where gzip'd ones exist. In that case, the latter
6325 + corrected a redundant initialization of signal handlers from 20010922
6327 + clarified bug-reporting address in terminfo.src (report by John H
6328 DuBois III <spcecdt@armory.com>).
6329 > several fixes from Robert Joop:
6330 + do not use "-v" option of awk in MKkey_defs.sh because it does not
6331 work with SunOS nawk.
6332 + modify definitions for libutf8 in curses.h to avoid redefinition
6334 + quoted references to compiler in shell command in misc/Makefile, in
6335 case it uses multiple tokens.
6338 + restore special case from 20010922 changes to omit SA_RESTART when
6339 setting up SIGWINCH handler, which is needed to allow wgetch() to be
6340 interrupted by that signal.
6341 + updated configure macro CF_WITH_PATHLIST, to omit some double quotes
6342 not needed with autoconf 2.52
6343 + revert configure script to autoconf 2.13 patched with
6344 autoconf-2.13-19990117.patch.gz (or later)
6346 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
6347 because autoconf 2.52 macro AC_PROG_AWK does not work on HPUX 11.0
6348 (report by David Ellement <ellement@sdd.hp.com>). This also fixes a
6349 different problem configuring with Mac OS X (reported by Marc Smith
6350 <marc.a.smith@home.com>).
6353 + modify include/edit_cfg.h to eliminate BROKEN_LINKER symbol from
6355 + move prototype for _nc_vsscanf() into curses.h.in to omit
6356 HAVE_VSSCANF symbol from curses.h, which was dependent upon the
6357 ncurses_cfg.h file which is not installed.
6358 + use ACS_LEN rather than SIZEOF(acs_map) in trace code of lib_acs.c,
6359 to work with broken linker configuration, e.g., cygwin (report by
6360 Robert Joop <rj@rainbow.in-berlin.de>).
6361 + make napms() call _nc_timed_wait() rather than poll() or select(),
6362 to work around broken implementations of these on cygwin.
6365 + drop configure macro CF_WIDEC_SHIFT, since that was rendered obsolete
6366 by Sven Verdoolaege's rewrite of wide-character support. This makes
6367 libncursesw incompatible again, but makes the header files almost the
6368 same as in the narrow-character configuration.
6369 + simplify definitions that combine wide/narrow versions of bkgd, etc.,
6370 to eliminate differences between the wide/narrow versions of curses.h
6371 + correct typo in configure macro CF_FUNC_VSSCANF
6372 + correct location of call to _nc_keypad() from 20011215 changes which
6373 prevented keypad() from being disabled (reported by Lars Hecking).
6376 + rewrote ncurses 'a' test to exercise wgetch() and keypad() functions
6377 better, e.g., by adding a 'w' command to create new windows which
6378 may have different keypad() settings.
6379 + corrected logic of keypad() by adding internal screen state to track
6380 whether the terminal's keypad-mode has been set. Use this in
6381 wgetch() to update the keypad-mode according to whether the
6382 associated window's keypad-mode has been set with keypad(). This
6383 corrects a related problem restoring terminal state after handling
6384 SIGTSTP (reported by Mike Castle).
6385 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52
6386 autoconf-2.52-patch.gz
6388 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
6389 + update config.guess, config.sub from
6390 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
6391 + minor changes to quoting in configure script to allow it to work
6395 + modify final checks in lib_setup.c for line and col values, making
6397 + modify acs_map[] if configure --broken-linker is specified, to make
6398 it use a function rather than an array (prompted by an incorrect
6399 implementation in cygwin package).
6400 + correct spelling of configure option --enable-colorfgbg, which
6401 happened to work if --with-develop was set (noted in cygwin package
6403 + modify ifdef for genericerror() to compile with SUNWspro Sun WorkShop
6404 6 update 1 C++ 5.2 (patch by Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu>).
6405 + add configure checks to see if ncurses' fallback vsscanf() will
6406 compile either of the special cases for FILE structs, and if not,
6407 force it to the case which simply returns an error (report by
6408 Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu> indicates that Solaris 8 with
6409 64-bits does not allow access to FILE's fields).
6410 + modify ifdef's for c++/cursesw.cc to use the fallback vsscanf() in
6411 the ncurses library if no better substitute for this can be found
6413 + modify the build to name dynamic libraries according to the
6414 convention used on OS X and Darwin. Rather than something like
6415 libncurses.dylib.5.2, Darwin would name it libncurses. 5.dylib.
6416 There are a few additional minor fixes, such as setting the library
6417 version and compatibility version numbers (patch by Jason Evans
6418 <jevans@apple.com>).
6419 + use 'sh' to run mkinstalldirs, to work around problems with buggy
6420 versions of 'make' on OS/2 (report by John Polterak <jp@eyup.org>).
6421 + correct typo in manpage description of curs_set() (Debian #121548).
6422 + replace the configure script existence-check for mkstemp() by one
6423 that checks if the function works, needed for older glibc and
6427 + modify script that generates fallbacks.c to compile a temporary
6428 copy of the terminfo source in case the host does not contain all of
6429 the entries requested for fallbacks (request by Greg Roelofs).
6430 + modify configure script to accommodate systems such as Mac OS X whose
6431 <stdbool.h> header defines a 'bool' type inconsistent with ncurses,
6432 which normally makes 'bool' consistent with C++. Include <stdbool.h>
6433 from curses.h to force consistent usage, define a new type
6434 NCURSES_BOOL and related that to the exported 'bool' as either a
6435 typedef or definition, according to whether <stdbool.h> is present
6436 (based on a bug report for tin 1.5.9 by Aaron Adams <adamsa@mac.com>).
6439 + added/updated terminfo entries for M$ telnet and KDE konsole -TD
6442 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
6443 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
6444 + add putty terminfo entry -TD
6445 + if configuring for wide-curses, define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, since
6446 this may not otherwise be defined to make test/view.c compile.
6449 + review/correct several missing/generated items in curses.wide, sorted
6450 the lists to make subsequent diff's easier to track.
6453 + add manual pages for add_wch(), echo_wchar(), getcchar(),
6454 mvadd_wch(), mvwadd_wch(), setcchar(), wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar().
6455 + implement wecho_wchar()
6456 + modify _tracedump() to handle wide-characters by mapping them to '?'
6457 and control-characters to '.', to make the trace file readable. Also
6458 dynamically allocate the buffer used by _tracedump() for formatting
6460 + modify T_CALLED/T_RETURN macros to ease balancing call/return lines
6461 in a trace by using curly braces.
6462 + implement _nc_viscbuf(), for tracing cchar_t arrays.
6463 + correct trace-calls in setcchar() and getcchar() functions, which
6464 traced the return values but not the entry to each function.
6465 + correct usage message in test/view.c, which still mentioned -u flag.
6468 + modify configure script to allow building with termcap only, or with
6469 fallbacks only. In this case, we do not build tic and toe.
6470 + add configure --with-termpath option, to override default TERMPATH
6471 value of /etc/termcap:/usr/share/misc/termcap.
6472 + cosmetic change to tack: make menu descriptions agree with menu
6476 + rewrote limit-checks in wscrl() and associated _nc_scroll_window(),
6477 to ensure that if the parameter of wscrl() is larger than the size of
6478 the scrolling region, then the scrolling region will be cleared
6479 (report by Ben Kohlen <bckohlen@yahoo.com>).
6480 + add trace/varargs.c, using this to trace parameters in lib_printw.c
6481 + implement _tracecchar_t2() and _tracecchar_t().
6482 + split-out trace/visbuf.c
6483 + correct typo in lib_printw.c changes from 20010922 (report by Mike
6487 + modify run_tic.sh to check if the build is a cross-compile. In that
6488 case, do not use the build's tic to install the terminfo database
6489 (report by Rafael Rodriguez Velilla <rrv@tid.es>).
6490 + modify mouse click resolution so that mouseinterval(-1) will disable
6491 it, e.g., to handle touchscreens via a slow connection (request by
6492 Byron Stanoszek <gandalf@winds.org>).
6493 + correct mouseinterval() default value shown in curs_mouse.3x
6494 + remove conflicting definition of mouse_trafo() (reported by Lars
6495 Hecking, using gcc 2.95.3).
6498 + simpler fix for signal_name(), to replace the one overlooked in
6499 20010929 (reported by Larry Virden).
6502 + add -i option to view.c, to test ncurses' check for non-default
6503 signal handler for SIGINT, etc.
6504 + add cases for shared-libraries on Darwin/OS X (patch by Rob Braun
6505 <bbraun@synack.net>).
6506 + modify tset to restore original I/O modes if an error is encountered.
6507 Also modify to use buffered stderr consistently rather than mixing
6509 + change signal_name() function to use if-then-else rather than case
6510 statement, since signal-values aren't really integers (reported by
6512 + add limit checks in wredrawln(), fixing a problem where lynx was
6513 repainting a pad which was much larger than the screen.
6516 + fix: PutRange() was counting the second part of a wide character as
6517 part of a run, resulting in a cursor position that was one too far
6518 (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
6519 + modify resizeterm() to not queue a KEY_RESIZE if there was no
6520 SIGWINCH, thereby separating the two styles of SIGWINCH handling
6522 + simplified lib_tstp.c, modify it to use SA_RESTART flag for SIGWINCH.
6523 + eliminate several static buffers in the terminfo compiler, using
6525 + modify MKkeyname.awk so that keyname() does not store its result into
6526 a static buffer that is overwritten by the next call.
6527 + reorganize the output of infocmp -E and -e options to compile cleanly
6528 with gcc -Wwrite-strings warnings.
6529 + remove redefinition of chgat/wchgat/mvwchgat from curses.wide
6532 + add label to test/view.c, showing the name of the last key or signal
6533 that made the screen repaint, to make it clearer when a sigwinch
6535 + use ExitProgram() consistently in the test-programs to make it
6536 simpler to test leaks with dmalloc, etc.
6537 + move hashtab static data out of hashmap.c into SCREEN struct.
6538 + make NO_LEAK code compile with revised WINDOWLIST structs.
6541 + modify tgetent() to check if exit_attribute_mode resets the alternate
6542 character set, and if so, attempt to adjust the copy of the termcap
6543 "me" string which it will return to eliminate that part. In
6544 particular, 'screen' would lose track of line-drawing characters
6545 (report by Frederic L W Meunier <0@pervalidus.net>, analysis by
6549 + specify DOCTYPE in html manpages.
6550 + add missing macros for several "generated" functions: attr_get(),
6551 attr_off(), attr_on(), attr_set(), chgat(), mvchgat(), mvwchgat() and
6553 + modify view.c to agree with non-experimental status of ncurses'
6555 + change the sense of the -r option, making it default to ncurses'
6557 + add a note explaining what functions are unsafe in a signal
6559 + add a -c option, to set color display, for testing.
6560 + unset $data variable in MKterminfo.sh script, to address potential
6561 infinite loop if shell malfunction (report by Samuel Mikes
6562 <smikes@cubane.com>, for bash 2.05.0 on a Linux 2.0.36 system).
6563 + change kbs in mach terminfo entries to ^? (Marcus Brinkmann
6564 <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>).
6565 + correct logic for COLORFGBG environment variable: if rxvt is compiled
6566 with xpm support, the variable has three fields, making it slightly
6567 incompatible with itself. In either case, the background color is
6571 + move calls to def_shell_mode() and def_prog_mode() before loop with
6572 callbacks in lib_set_term.c, since the c++ demo otherwise initialized
6573 the tty modes before saving them (patch by John David Anglin
6574 <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>).
6575 + duplicate logic used to initialize trace in newterm(), in initscr()
6576 to avoid confusing trace of initscr().
6577 + simplify allocation of WINDOW and WINDOWLIST structs by making the
6578 first a part of the second rather than storing a pointer. This saves
6579 a call to malloc for each window (discussion with Philippe Blain).
6580 + remove unused variable 'used_ncv' from lib_vidattr.c (Philippe
6582 + modify c++/Makefile.in to accommodate archive programs that are
6583 different for C++ than for C, and add cases for vendor's C++
6584 compilers on Solaris and IRIX (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
6585 + correct manpage description of criteria for deciding if the terminal
6586 supports xterm mouse controls.
6587 + add several configure script options to aid with cross-compiling:
6588 --with-build-cc, --with-build-cflags, --with-build-ldflags, and
6589 --with-build-libs (request by Greg Roelofs).
6590 + change criteria for deciding if configure is cross-compiling from
6591 host/build mismatch to host/target mismatch (request by Greg Roelofs
6592 <greg.roelofs@philips.com>).
6593 + correct logic for infocmp -e and -E options which writes the data for
6594 the ext_Names[] array. This is needed if one constructs a fallback
6595 table for a terminfo entry which uses extended termcap names, e.g.,
6596 AX in a color xterm.
6597 + fix undefined NCURSES_PATHSEP when configure --disable-database
6601 + fix for VALID_BOOLEAN() macro when char is not signed.
6602 + modify 'clean' rule for C++ binding to work with Sun compiler, which
6603 caches additional information in a subdirectory of the objects.
6604 + added llib-ncursesw.
6607 + add Caps.keys example for experimental extended function keys
6608 (adapted from a patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
6609 + correct parameter types of vidputs() and vidattr() to agree with
6610 header files (report by William P Setzer).
6611 + fix typos in several man-pages (patch by William P Setzer).
6612 + remove unneeded ifdef for __GNUG__ in CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC configure
6613 macro, which made ncurses C++ binding fail to build with other
6614 C++ compilers such as HPUX 11.x (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
6615 + workaround for bug in HPUX 11.x C compiler: add a blank after
6616 NCURSES_EXPORT macro in form.h (report by Albert Chin-A-Young)
6617 + ignore blank lines in Caps* files in MKkey_defs.sh script (report by
6618 Albert Chin-A-Young).
6619 + correct definition of key_end in Caps.aix4, which left KEY_END
6620 undefined (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
6621 + remove a QNX-specific fallback prototype for vsscanf(), which is
6622 obsolete with QNX RTP.
6623 + review/fix some of the T() and TR() macro calls, having noticed that
6624 there was no data for delwin() in a trace of dialog because there was
6625 no returnVoid call for wtimeout(). Also, traces in lib_twait.c are
6626 now selected under TRACE_IEVENT rather than TRACE_CALLS.
6629 + add a _nc_access() check before opening files listed via $TERMPATH.
6630 + using modified man2html, regenerate some of the html manpages to fix
6631 broken HREF's where the link was hyphenated.
6634 + add some limit/pointer checks to -S option of tputs.
6635 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
6636 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
6637 + add a note in curs_termcap.3x regarding a defect in the XSI
6638 description of tgetent (based on a discussion with Urs Jansen
6639 regarding the HPUX 11.x implementation, whose termcap interface is
6640 not compatible with existing termcap programs).
6641 + modify manhtml rule in dist.mk to preserve copyright notice on the
6642 generated files, as well as to address HTML style issues reported by
6643 tidy and weblint. Regenerated/updated corresponding html files.
6644 + comment out use of Protected_Character and related rarely used
6645 attributes in ncurses Ada95 test/demo to compile with wide-character
6649 + implement a simple example in C++ demo to test scanw().
6650 + corrected stdio function used to implement scanw() in cursesw.cc
6651 + correct definition of RemAttr() macro from 20010602 changes, which
6652 caused C++ SillyDemo to not show line-drawing characters.
6653 + modify C++ binding, adding getKey() which can be overridden by user
6654 to substitute functions other than getch() for keyboard processing
6655 of forms and menus (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
6658 + fix some of the trace calls which needed modification to work with
6659 new wide-character structures.
6660 + modify magic-cookie code in tty_update.c to compile with new
6661 wide-character structures (report by <George.R.Goffe@seagate.com>).
6662 + ensure that _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined in curses.priv.h if
6663 compiling for wide-character configuration.
6664 + make addwnstr() handle non-spacing characters (patch by Sven
6668 + add configure check to define _GNU_SOURCE, needed to prop up glibc
6670 + split-out include/curses.wide to solve spurious redefinitions caused
6671 by defining _GNU_SOURCE, and move includes for <signal.h> before
6672 <curses.h> to work around misdefinition of ERR in glibc 2.1.3 header
6674 + extended ospeed change to NetBSD and OpenBSD -TD
6675 + modify logic in lib_baudrate.c for ospeed, for FreeBSD to make it
6676 work properly for termcap applications (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
6679 + correct an overlooked CharOf/UChar instance (reports by Eugene Lee
6680 <eugene@anime.net>, Sven Verdoolaege).
6681 + correct unneeded ifdef for wunctrl() (reported by Sven Verdoolaege)
6684 + change overlooked several CharOf/UChar instances.
6685 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
6686 + correct a typo in wunctrl(), which made it appear that botwc() was
6687 needed (no such function: use btowc()).
6688 + reimplement wide-character demo in test/view.c, using new functions.
6689 + implement getcchar(), setcchar(), wadd_wchnstr() and related macros.
6690 + fix a syntax problem with do/if/while in PUTC macro (curses.priv.h).
6693 + add parentheses in macros for malloc in test.priv.h, fixes an
6694 expression in view.c (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.co.at>).
6695 + add Caps.uwin, as an example.
6696 + change the way curses.h is generated, making the list of function
6697 key definitions extracted from the Caps file.
6698 + add #undef's before possible redefinition of ERR and OK in curses.h
6699 + modify logic in tic, toe, tput and tset which checks for basename of
6700 argv[0] to work properly on systems such as OS/2 which have
6701 case-independent filenames and/or program suffixes, e.g., ".ext".
6704 + add a configure check, if --enable-widec is specified, for putwc(),
6705 which may be in libutf8.
6706 + remove some unnecessary text from curs_extend.3x and
6707 default_colors.3x which caused man-db to make incorrect symbolic
6708 links (Debian #99550).
6709 + add configure check if cast for _IO_va_list is needed to compile
6710 C++ vscan code (Debian #97945).
6711 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
6712 + correct code that used non-standard auto-initialization of a struct,
6713 which gcc allows (report by Larry Virden).
6714 + use putwc() in PUTC() macro.
6715 + make addstr() work for the special case where the codeset is
6716 non-stateful (eg. UTF-8), as well as stateful codesets.
6719 + correct loop expression in NEXT_CHAR macro for lib_addstr.c changes
6720 from 20010602 (report by Mike Castle).
6723 + modify mvcur() to avoid emitting newline characters when nonl() mode
6724 is set. Normally this is not a problem since the actual terminal
6725 mode is set to suppress nl/crlf translations, however it is useful to
6726 allow the caller to manipulate the terminal mode to avoid staircasing
6727 effects after spawning a process which writes messages (for lynx
6729 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>:
6730 + remove redundant type-conversion in fifo_push()
6731 + correct definition of addwstr() macro in curses.h.in
6732 + remove _nc_utf8_outch()
6733 + rename most existing uses of CharOf() to UChar(), e.g., where it is
6734 used to prevent sign-extension in ctype macros.
6735 + change some chtype's to attr_t's where the corresponding variables
6736 are used to manipulate attributes.
6737 + UpdateAttr() was applied to both attributes (attr_t) and characters
6738 (chtype). Modify macro and calls to it to make these distinct.
6739 + add CharEq() macro, use in places where wide-character configuration
6740 implementation uses a struct for cchar_t.
6741 + moved struct ldat into curses.priv.h, to hide implementation details.
6742 + change CharOf() macro to use it for masking A_CHARTEXT data from
6744 + add L() macro to curses.priv.h, for long-character literals.
6745 + replace several assignments from struct ldat entries to chtype or
6746 char values with combinations of CharOf() and AttrOf() macros.
6747 + add/use intermediate ChAttrOf() and ChCharOf() macros where we know
6748 we are using chtype data.
6749 + add/use lowlevel attribute manipulation macros AddAttr(), RemAttr()
6751 + add/use SetChar() macro, to change a cchar_t based on a character and
6753 + convert most internal use of chtype to NCURSES_CH_T, to simplify use
6754 of cchar_t for wide-character configuration. Similarly, use ARG_CH_T
6755 where a pointer would be more useful.
6756 + add stubs for tracing cchar_t values.
6757 + add/use macro ISBLANK()
6758 + add/use constructors for cchar_t's: NewChar(), NewChar2().
6759 + add/use macros CHREF(), CHDEREF(), AttrOfD(), CharOfD() to facilitate
6760 passing cchar_t's by address.
6761 + add/use PUTC_DATA, PUTC() macros.
6762 + for wide-character configuration, move the window background data to
6763 the end of the WINDOW struct so that whether _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
6764 is defined or not, the offsets in the struct will not change.
6765 + modify addch() to work with wide-characters.
6766 + mark several wide-character functions as generated in curses.h.in
6767 + implement wunctrl(), wadd_wch(), wbkgrndset(), wbkgrnd(),
6768 wborder_set() and waddnwstr().
6771 + add experimental --with-caps=XXX option to customize to similar
6772 terminfo database formats such as AIX 4.x
6773 + add Caps.aix4 as an example.
6774 + modify Caps to add columns for the the KEY_xxx symbols.
6775 + modify configure --with-widec to suppress overwrite of libcurses.so
6777 + add checks to toe.c to avoid being confused by files and directories
6778 where we would expect the reverse, e.g., source-files in the
6779 top-level terminfo levels as is the case for AIX.
6782 + add top-level 'depend' rule for the C sources, assuming that the
6783 makedepend program is available. As a side-effect, this makes
6784 the generated sources, as in "make sources" (prompted by a report
6785 by Mike Castle that "make -j" fails because the resulting parallel
6786 processes race to generate ncurses/names.c).
6787 + modify configure script so that --disable-overwrite option's action
6788 to add a symbolic link for libcurses applies to the static library as
6789 well as the shared library when both are configured (report by Felix
6790 Natter <f.natter@ndh.net>).
6791 + add ELKS terminfo entries (Federico Bianchi
6792 <bianchi@www.arte.unipi.it>)
6793 + add u6 (CSR) to Eterm (Michael Jennings).
6796 + modify test/ncurses.c to work with xterm-256color, which has fewer
6797 color pairs than colors*colors (report by David Ellement
6798 <ellement@sdd.hp.com>).
6801 + corrected screen.xterm-xfree86 entry.
6802 + update comment in Caps regarding IBM (AIX) function-key definitions.
6805 + modify c++/Makefile.in to link with libncurses++w.a when configured
6806 for wide-characters (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
6807 + add check in _nc_trace_buf() to refrain from freeing a null pointer.
6808 + improve CF_PROG_INSTALL macro using CF_DIRNAME.
6809 + update config.guess, config.sub from autoconf 2.49e (alpha).
6812 + add secondary check in tic.c, similar_sgr() to see if the reason
6813 for mismatch was that the individual capabilities used a time-delay
6814 while sgr did not. Used this to cleanup mismatches, e.g., in vt100,
6815 and remove time-delay from Apple_Terminal entries.
6816 + add Apple_Terminal terminfo entries (Benjamin C W Sittler
6817 <bsittler@iname.com>).
6818 + correct definitions of shifted editing keys for xterm-xfree86 -TD
6819 + fix a bug in test/bs.c from 20010407 (patch by Erik Sigra).
6820 + prevent relative_move() from doing an overwrite if it detects 8-bit
6821 characters when configured for UTF-8 (reported by Sven Verdoolaege
6822 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
6825 + add configure checks for strstream.h vscan function, and similar
6826 stdio-based function which may be used in C++ binding for gcc 3.0
6827 (reports by George Goffe, Lars Hecking, Mike Castle).
6828 + rewrite parts of configure.in which used changequote(). That feature
6829 is broken in the latest autoconf alphas (e.g., 2.49d).
6830 + add a missing pathname for ncurses_dll.h, needed when building in
6831 a directory outside the source tree (patch by Sven Verdoolaege
6832 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
6833 > fix 2 bugs in test/bs.c Erik Sigra <sigra@home.se>:
6834 + no ships were ever placed in the last row or in the last column.
6835 This made the game very easy to win, because you never had to waste
6836 any shots there, but the computer did.
6837 + the squares around a sunken ship that belonged to the player were not
6838 displayed as already hit by the computer, like it does for the
6842 + add some examples of customizing screen's terminfo:
6843 screen.xterm-xfree86, screen.xterm-r6, screen.teraterm -TD
6844 + modify screen's terminfo entry to match the khome/kend in screen
6845 3.09.08 (Debian #92215).
6846 + correct a memory leak in forms library (report by Stefan Vogtner
6847 <stefan@vogtner.de>) (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
6850 + change symbols used to guard against repeated includes to begin
6851 consistently with "NCURSES_" rather than a leading underscore. There
6852 are other symbols defined in the header files which begin with a
6853 leading underscore, but they are part of the legacy interface.
6854 + reorder includes in c++ binding so that rcs identifiers can be
6856 + add .cc.ii rule to c++ makefile, to get preprocessor output for
6858 + correct configure script handling of @keyword@ substitutions when the
6859 --with-manpage-renames option is given (cf: 20000715, fixes Debian
6861 + report stack underflow/overflow in tparm() when tic -cv option is
6863 + remove spurious "%|" operator from xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry,
6864 (reported by Adam Costello <amc@cs.berkeley.edu>, Debian #89222).
6867 + cleanup of newdemo.c, fixing some ambiguous expressions noted by gcc
6868 2.95.2, and correcting some conflicting color pair initializations.
6869 + add missing copyright notice for cursesw.h
6870 + review, make minor fixes for use of '::' for referring to C-language
6871 interface from C++ binding.
6872 + modify configure check for g++ library slightly to accommodate
6873 nonstandard version number, e.g., <vendor>-2.7 (report by Ronald Ho
6874 <rho@mipos2.intel.com>).
6875 + add configure check for c++ <sstream> header, replace hardcoded
6877 + workaround for pre-release of gcc 3.0 libstdc++, which has dropped
6878 vscan from strstreambuf to follow standard, use wrapper for C vscanf
6879 instead (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@excite.com> and Matt Taggart
6880 <taggart@carmen.fc.hp.com>, fixes Debian .
6883 + modify interface of _nc_get_token() to pass 'silent' parameter to it,
6884 to make quieter loading of /etc/termcap (patch by Todd C Miller).
6885 + correct a few typos in curs_slk.3x and curs_outopts.3x manpages
6886 (patch by Todd C Miller).
6889 + compiler-warning fixes (reported by Nelson Beebe).
6892 + modify screen terminfo entry to use new 3.9.8 feature allowing xterm
6896 + broaden patterns used to match OS/2 EMX in configure script to cover
6897 variant used in newer config.guess/config.sub
6898 + remove changequote() calls from configure script, since this feature
6899 is broken in the autoconf 2.49c alpha, maintainers decline to fix.
6900 + remove macro callPutChar() from tty_update.c, since this is no longer
6901 needed (reported by Philippe Blain).
6902 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c to handle the case when the input
6903 file is really empty. Modify the next_char() function in comp_scan.c
6904 to allow arbitrarily long lines, and incidentally supply a newline to
6905 files that do not end in a newline. These changes improve tic's
6906 recovery from attempts to read binary files, e.g., its output from
6907 the terminfo database (reported by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
6910 + revert change to c++/demo.cc from 20001209, which changed definition
6911 of main() apparently to accommodate cygwin linker, but broke the demo
6913 + workaround for broken egcs 2.91.66 which calls member functions
6914 (i.e., lines() and colors() of NCursesWindow before calling its
6915 constructor. Add calls to initialize() in a few constructors which
6916 did not do this already.
6917 + use the GNAT preprocessor to make the necessary switch between TRACE
6918 and NO_TRACE configurations (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
6919 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
6920 + modify kterm terminfo entry to use SCS sequence to support alternate
6921 character set (it does not work with SI/SO).
6922 + --with-ospeed=something didn't work. configure.in checked for a
6923 $enableval where it should check for $withval. Also,
6924 ncurses/llib-lncurses still had a hardcoded short.
6927 + correction to my merge of Tom Riddle's patch that broke tic in some
6928 conditions (reported by Enoch Wexler <enoch@wexler.co.il>) -TD
6931 + modify view.c to test halfdelay(). Like other tests, this recognizes
6932 the 's' and space commands for stopping/starting polled input, shows
6933 a freerunning clock in the header. If given a parameter to 's', that
6934 makes view.c use halfdelay() with that parameter rather than
6936 + fix to allow compile with the experimental configure option
6938 + modify postprocess_termcap() to avoid overwriting key_backspace,
6939 key_left, key_down when processing a non-base entry (report/patch by
6941 + modify _nc_wrap_entry(), adding option to reallocate the string
6942 table, needed in _nc_merge_entry() when merging termcap entries.
6943 (adapted from report/patch by Tom Riddle <ftr@oracom.com>).
6944 + modify a few configure script macros to keep $CFLAGS used only for
6945 compiler options, preprocessor options in $CPPFLAGS.
6948 + correct marker positions in lrtest.c after receiving a sigwinch.
6949 + fix ifdef's in ncurses.c to build against pre-5.2 for testing.
6950 + fixes to tclock for resizing behavior, redundant computation (report
6951 and patch by A M Kuchling <akuchlin@mems-exchange.org>).
6954 + improved scoansi terminfo entry -TD
6955 + modify configure script and makefile in Ada95/src to compile a stub
6956 for the trace functions when ncurses does not provide those.
6959 + add ncurses_dll.h and related definitions to support generating DLL's
6960 with cygwin (adapted from a patch by Charles Wilson
6961 <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>, changed NCURSES_EXPORT macro to make it
6962 work with 'indent') -TD
6965 + correct prototypes for some functions in curs_termcap.3x, matching
6966 termcap.h, which matches X/Open.
6967 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
6968 + a revised version of the Ada enhancements sent in by "H.
6969 Nanosecond", aka Eugene V Melaragno <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>. This
6971 - small fixes to the existing ncurses binding
6972 - addition of some more low-level functions to the binding, including
6973 termcap and terminfo functions
6974 - An Ada implementation of the "ncurses" test application originally
6978 + modify logic in lib_setup.c to allow either lines or columns value
6979 from terminfo to be used if the screen size cannot be determined
6980 dynamically rather than requiring both (patch by Ehud Karni
6981 <ehud@unix.simonwiesel.co.il>).
6982 + add check in lib_tgoto.c's is_termcap() function to reject null or
6983 empty strings (reported by Valentin Nechayev <netch@netch.kiev.ua> to
6985 + add definition from configure script that denotes the path-separator,
6986 which is normally a colon. The path-separator is a semicolon on
6987 OS/2 EMX and similar systems which may use a colon within pathnames.
6988 + alter logic to set default for --disable-overwrite option to set it
6989 to 'yes' if the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr/local, thereby
6990 accommodating the most common cause of problems: gcc's nonstandard
6991 search rules. Other locations such as /usr/local/ncurses will
6992 default to overwriting (report by Lars Hecking <lhecking@nmrc.ie>).
6995 + modify default for --disable-overwrite configure option to disable
6996 if the --prefix or $prefix value is not /usr.
6997 + add cygwin to systems for which ncurses is installed by default into
6998 /usr rather than /usr/local.
7001 + minor optimization in comp_error.c and lib_termname.c, using
7002 strncat() to replace strncpy() (patch by Solar Designer).
7003 + add a use_terminfo_vars() check for $HOME/.termcap, and check for
7004 geteuid() to use_terminfo_vars() (patch by Solar Designer
7006 + improved cygwin terminfo entry, based on patch by
7007 <ernie_boyd@yahoo.com>.
7008 + modify _nc_write_entry() to allow for the possibility that linking
7009 aliases on a filesystem that ignores case would not succeed because
7010 the source and destination differ only by case, e.g., NCR260VT300WPP0
7011 on cygwin (report by Neil Zanella).
7012 + fix a typo in the curs_deleteln.3x man page (patch by Bernhard
7013 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
7016 + add configure option --with-ospeed to assist packagers in transition
7017 to 5.3 change to ospeed type.
7018 + add/use CharOf() macro to suppress sign-extension of char type on
7019 platforms where this is a problem in ctype macros, e.g., Solaris.
7020 + change trace output to binary format.
7021 + correct a missing quote adjustment in CF_PATH_SYNTAX autoconf
7022 macro, for OS/2 EMX configuration.
7023 + rearrange a few configure macros, moving preprocessor options to
7024 $CPPFLAGS (a now-obsolete version of autoconf did not consistently
7025 use $CPPFLAGS in both the compile and preprocessor checks).
7026 + add a check in relative_move() to guard against buffer overflow in
7027 the overwrite logic.
7030 + add message to configure script showing g++ version.
7031 + resync config.guess, config.sub
7032 + modify lib_delwin.c, making it return ERR if the window did not exist
7033 (suggested by Neil Zanella).
7034 + add cases for FreeBSD 3.1 to tdlint and makellib scripts, used this
7035 to test/review ncurses library. (Would use lclint, but it doesn't
7037 + reorganized knight.c to avoid forward references. Correct screen
7038 updates when backtracking, especially to the first cell. Add F/B/a
7041 20001021 5.2 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
7042 + update generated html files from manpages.
7043 + modify dist.mk to use edit_man.sh to substitute autoconf'd variables
7045 + fix an uninitialized pointer in read_termcap.c (report by Todd C
7046 Miller, from report/patch by Philip Guenther <guenther@gac.edu>).
7047 + correct help-message and array limit in knight.c (patch by Brian
7048 Raiter <breadbox@muppetlabs.com>).
7049 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7050 + fix to avoid warning by GNAT-3.13p about use of inconsistent casing
7051 for some identifiers defined in the standard package.
7052 + cosmetic change to forms/fty_enum.c
7055 + correct an off-by-one position in test/railroad.c which could cause
7056 wrapping at the right margin.
7057 + test/repair some issues with libtool configuration. Make
7058 --disable-echo force libtool --silent. (Libtool does not work for
7059 OS/2 EMX, works partly for SCO - libtool is still very specific to
7061 + change default of --with-manpage-tbl to "no", since for most of the
7062 platforms which do have tbl installed, the system "man" program
7063 understands how to run tbl automatically.
7064 + minor improvement to force_bar() in comp_parse.c (Bernhard
7065 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
7066 + modify lib_tparm.c to use get_space() before writing terminating
7067 null character, both for consistency as well as to ensure that if
7068 save_char() was called immediately before, that the allocated memory
7069 is enough (patch by Sergei Ivanov).
7070 + add note about termcap ML capability which is duplicated between two
7071 different capabilities: smgl and smglr (reported by Sergei Ivanov
7072 <svivanov@pdmi.ras.ru>).
7073 + correct parameter counts in include/Caps for dclk as well as some
7074 printer-specific capabilities: csnm, defc, scs, scsd, smgtp, smglp.
7075 > patch by Johnny C Lam <lamj@stat.cmu.edu>:
7076 + add support for building with libtool (apparently version 1.3.5,
7077 since old versions do not handle -L../lib), using new configure
7078 option --with-libtool.
7079 + add configure option --with-manpage-tbl, which causes the manpages to
7080 be preprocessed by tbl(1) prior to installation,
7081 + add configure option --without-curses-h, which causes the
7082 installation process to install curses.h as ncurses.h and make
7083 appropriate changes to headers and manpages.
7086 + correct order of options/parameters in run_tic.in invocation of tic,
7087 which did not work with standard getopt() (reported by Ethan
7088 Butterfield <primus@veris.org>).
7089 + correct logic for 'reverse' variable in lib_vidattr.c, which was
7090 setting it true without checking if newmode had A_REVERSE set, e.g.,
7091 using $TERM=ansi on OS/2 EMX (see 20000917).
7092 > patch by Todd C Miller:
7093 + add a few missing use_terminfo_vars() and fixes up _nc_tgetent().
7094 Previously, _nc_cgetset() would still get called on cp so the
7095 simplest thing is to set cp to NULL if !use_terminfo_vars().
7096 + added checks for an empty $HOME environment variable.
7097 > patches for OS/2 EMX (Ilya Zakharevich):
7098 + modify convert_configure.pl to support INSTALL. Change compiler
7099 options in that script to use multithreading, needed for the mouse.
7100 + modify OS/2 mouse support, retrying as a 2-button mouse if code fails
7101 to set up a 3-button mouse.
7102 + improve code for OS/2 mouse support, using _nc_timed_wait() to
7103 replace select() call.
7106 + change type of ospeed variable back to short to match its use in
7107 legacy applications (reported by Andrey A Chernov).
7108 + add case to configure script for --enable-rpath on IRIX (patch by
7109 Albert Chin-A-Young).
7110 + minor fix to position_check() function, to ensure it gets the whole
7111 cursor report before decoding.
7112 + add configure option --disable-assumed-color, to allow pre-5.1
7113 convention of default colors used for color-pair 0 to be configured
7114 (see assume_default_colors()).
7115 + rename configure option --enable-hashmap --disable-hashmap, and
7116 reorder the configure options, splitting the experimental and
7118 + add configure option --disable-root-environ, which tells ncurses to
7119 disregard $TERMINFO and similar environment variables if the current
7120 user is root, or running setuid/setgid (based on discussion with
7122 + modified misc/run_tic.in to use tic -o, to eliminate dependency on
7123 $TERMINFO variable for installs.
7124 + add table entry for plab_norm to tput, so it passes in strings
7125 for that capability.
7126 + modify parse_format() in lib_tparm.c to ignore precision if it is
7127 longer than 10000 (report by Jouko Pynnonen).
7128 + rewrote limit checks in lib_mvcur.c using new functions
7129 _nc_safe_strcat(), etc. Made other related changes to check lengths
7130 used for strcat/strcpy (report by Jouko Pynnonen
7131 <jouko@solutions.fi>).
7134 + modify several descriptions, including those for setaf, setab, in
7135 include/Caps to indicate that the entries are parameterized. This
7136 information is used to tell which strings are translated when
7137 converting to termcap. Fixes a problem where the generated termcap
7138 would contain a spurious "%p1" for the terminfo "%p1%d".
7139 + modify ld -rpath options (e.g., Linux, and Solaris) to use an
7140 absolute pathname for the build tree's lib directory (prompted by
7141 discussion with Albert Chin-A-Young).
7142 + modify "make install.man" and "make uninstall.man" to include tack's
7144 + various fixes for install scripts used to support configure --srcdir
7145 and --with-install-prefix (reported by Matthew Clarke
7146 <Matthew_Clarke@mindlink.bc.ca>).
7147 + make configure script checks on variables $GCC and $GXX consistently
7148 compare against 'yes' rather than test if they are nonnull, since
7149 either may be set to the corresponding name of the C or C++ compiler
7150 (report/patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
7153 + modify rs2 capability in xterm-r6 and similar where cursor
7154 save/restore bracketed the sequence for resetting video attributes.
7155 The cursor restore would undo that (report by John Hawkinson
7156 <jhawk@MIT.EDU> (see NetBSD misc/11052)).
7157 + using parameter check added to tic, corrected 27 typos in
7159 + modify tic to verify that its inputs are really files, in case
7160 someone tries to read a directory (or /dev/zero).
7161 + add a check for empty buffers returned by fgets() in comp_scan.c
7162 next_char() function, in case tic is run on a non-text file (fixes
7163 a core dump reported by Aaron Campbell <aaron@cs.dal.ca>).
7164 + add to railroad.c some code exercising tgoto(), providing an
7165 alternate form of display if the terminal supports cursor addressing.
7166 + split-out tgoto() again, this time into new file lib_tgoto.c, and
7167 implement a conventional BSD-style tgoto() which is used if the
7168 capability string does not contain terminfo-style padding or
7169 parameters (requested by Andrey A Chernov).
7170 + add check to tic which reports capabilities that do not reference
7171 the expected number of parameters.
7172 + add error checking to infocmp's -v and -m options to ensure that
7173 the option value is indeed a number.
7174 + some cleanup of logic in _nc_signal_handler() to verify if SIGWINCH
7175 handler is setup. Separated the old/new sigaction data for SIGTSTP
7176 from the other signals.
7179 + add S0, E0 extensions to screen's terminfo entry, which is another
7180 way to solve the misconfiguration issue -TD
7181 + completed special case for tgoto from 20000916
7184 + update xterm terminfo entries to match XFree86 xterm patch #146 -TD
7185 + add Matrix Orbital terminfo entries (from Eric Z Ayers
7187 + add special case to lib_tparm.c to allow 'screen' program to use a
7188 termcap-style parameter "%." to tgoto() for switching character sets.
7189 + use LN_S substitution in run_tic.in, to work on OS/2 EMX which has
7191 + updated notes in README.emx regarding autoconf patches.
7192 + replace a lookup table in lib_vidattr.c used to decode no_color_video
7193 with a logic expression (suggested by Philippe Blain).
7194 + add a/A toggle to ncurses.c 'b' test, which clears/sets alternate
7195 character set attribute from the displayed text.
7196 + correct inequality in parameter analysis of rewritten lib_tparm.c
7197 which had the effect of ignoring p9 in set_attributes (sgr), breaking
7198 alternate character set (reported by Piotr Majka <charvel@link.pl>).
7199 + correct ifdef'ing for GCC_PRINTF, GCC_SCANF which would not compile
7200 with Sun WorkShop compilers since these tokens were empty (cf:
7201 20000902, reported by Albert Chin-A-Young).
7204 + correct an uninitialized parameter to open_tempfile() in tic.c which
7205 made "tic -I" give an ambiguous error message about tmpnam.
7206 + add special case in lib_vidattr.c to reset underline and standout for
7207 devices that have no sgr0 defined (patch by Don Lewis
7208 <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>). Note that this will not work for bold
7209 mode, since there is no exit-bold-mode capability.
7210 + improved patch for Make_Enum_Type (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7211 + modify tparm to disallow arithmetic on strings, analyze the varargs
7212 list to read strings as strings and numbers as numbers.
7213 + modify tparm's internal function spop() to treat a null pointer as
7215 + modify tput program so it can be renamed or invoked via a link as
7216 'reset' or 'init', producing the same effect as 'tput reset' or 'tput
7218 + add private entrypoint _nc_basename(), use to consolidate related
7219 code in progs, as well as accommodating OS/2 EMX pathnames.
7220 + remove NCURSES_CONST line from edit_cfg.sh to compensate for its
7221 removal (except via AC_SUBST) from configure.in, making
7222 --enable-const work again (reported by Juergen Pfeifer).
7223 + regen'd configure to pick up "hpux*" change from 20000902.
7226 + modify tset.c to check for transformed "reset" program name, if any.
7227 + add a check for null pointer in Make_Enum_Type() (reported by Steven
7228 W Orr <steveo@world.std.com>).
7229 + change functions _nc_parse_entry() and postprocess_termcap() to avoid
7230 using strtok(), because it is non-reentrant (reported by Andrey A
7231 Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>).
7232 + remove "hpux10.*" case from CF_SHARED_OPTS configure script macro.
7233 This differed from the "hpux*" case by using reversed symbolic
7234 links, which made the 5.1 version not match the configuration of
7235 5.0 shared libraries (reported by Albert Chin-A-Young).
7236 + correct a dependency in Ada95/src/Makefile.in which prevented
7237 building with configure --srcdir (patch by H Nanosecond
7238 <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>).
7239 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in to avoid warning if GCC_PRINTF or
7240 GCC_SCANF was not previously defined (reported by Pavel Roskin
7242 + add MKncurses_def.sh to generate fallback definitions for
7243 ncurses_cfg.h, to quiet gcc -Wundef warnings, modified ifdef's in
7244 code to consistently use "#if" rather than "#ifdef".
7247 + add QNX qansi entries to terminfo -TD
7248 + add os2 entry to misc/emx.src (<jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>).
7249 + add configure option --with-database to allow specifying a different
7250 terminfo source-file to install. On OS/2 EMX, this defaults to
7252 + change misc/run_tic.sh to derive it from misc/run_tic.in, to simplify
7253 setting .exe extension on OS/2 EMX.
7254 + add .exe extension in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in,
7255 Ada95/samples/Makefile.in, for OS/2 EMX (reported by
7256 <jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>).
7257 + add configure check for filesystems (such as OS/2 EMX) which do not
7258 distinguish between upper/lowercase filenames, use this to fix tags
7260 + initialize fds[] array to 0's in _nc_timed_wait(); apparently poll()
7261 only sets the revents members of that array when there is activity
7262 corresponding to the related file (report by Glenn Cooper
7263 <gcooper@qantas.com.au>, using Purify on Solaris 5.6).
7264 + change configure script to use AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM rather than
7265 AC_CANONICAL_HOST, which means that configure --target will set
7266 a default program-prefix.
7267 + add note on cross-compiling to INSTALL (which does not rely on the
7268 AC_CANONICAL_* macros).
7271 + add cases for EMX OS/2 to config.guess, config.sub
7272 + new version of config.guess, config.sub from lynx 2.8.4dev.7
7273 + add definitions via transform.h to allow tic and tput to check for
7274 the transformed aliases rather than the original infotocap, etc.
7275 + simplify transform-expressions in progs/Makefile.in, make the
7276 uninstall rule work for transformed program names.
7277 + change symbol used by --install-prefix configure option from
7278 INSTALL_PREFIX to DESTDIR (the latter has become common usage
7279 although the name is misleading).
7280 + modify programs to use curses_version() string to report the version
7281 of ncurses with which they are compiled rather than the
7282 NCURSES_VERSION string. The function returns the patch level in
7283 addition to the major and minor version numbers.
7286 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to make transformed program names
7287 a parameter to that macro rather than embedding them in the macro.
7288 + newer config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in lynx
7290 + add configure option --with-default-terminfo-dir=DIR to allow
7291 specifying the default terminfo database directory (request by Albert
7293 + minor updates for terminfo.src from FreeBSD termcap change-history.
7294 + correct notes in README and INSTALL regarding documentation files
7295 that were moved from misc directory to doc (report by Rich Kulawiec
7297 + change most remaining unquoted parameters of 'test' in configure
7298 script to use quotes, for instance fixing a problem in the
7299 --disable-database option (reported by Christian Mondrup
7300 <scancm@biobase.dk>).
7301 + minor adjustments to work around some of the incompatibilities/bugs
7302 in autoconf 2.29a alpha.
7303 + add -I/usr/local/include when --with-ncurses option is used in
7304 test/configure script.
7305 + correct logic in adjust_cancels(), which did not check both
7306 alternatives when reclassifying an extended name between boolean,
7307 number and string, causing an infinite loop in tic.
7310 + correct a missing backslash in curses.priv.h
7313 + change handling of non_dest_scroll_region in tty_update.c to clear
7314 text after it is shifted in rather than before shifting out. Also
7315 correct row computation (reported by Ruediger Kuhlmann
7316 <uck4@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>).
7317 + add/use new trace function to display chtype values from winch() and
7319 + add trace mask TRACE_ATTRS, alter several existing _tracef calls that
7320 trace attribute changes under TRACE_CALLS to use this.
7321 + modify MKlib_gen.sh so that functions returning chtype will call
7323 + add returnChar() trace, for functions returning chtype.
7324 + change indent.pro to line up parenthesis.
7327 + fix a heap problem with the c++ binding (report by
7328 <alexander_liberson@ninewest.com>, patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7329 + minor adjustment to ClrToEOL() to handle an out-of-bounds parameter.
7330 + modify the check for big-core to force a couple of memory accesses,
7331 which may work as needed for older/less-capable machines (if not,
7332 there's still the explicit configure option).
7333 > fixes based on diff's for Amiga and BeOS found at
7334 http://www.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de/~kuhlmann/cross/ncurses/
7335 + alter definition of NCURSES_CONST to make it non-empty.
7336 + add amiga-vnc terminfo entry.
7337 + redefine 'TEXT' in menu.h for AMIGA, since it is reported to have
7338 an (unspecified) symbol conflict.
7339 + replaced case-statement in _nc_tracebits() for CSIZE with a table to
7340 simplify working around implementations that define random
7341 combinations of the related macros to zero.
7342 + modify configure test for tcgetattr() to allow for old
7343 implementations, e.g., on BeOS, which only defined it as a macro.
7344 > patches by Bruno Haible:
7345 + when checking LC_ALL/LC_CTYPE/LANG environment variables for UTF-8
7346 locale, ignore those which are set to an empty value, as per SUSV2.
7347 + encode 0xFFFD in UTF-8 with 3 bytes, not 2.
7348 + modify _nc_utf8_outch() to avoid sign-extension when checking for
7352 + correct manlinks.sed script to avoid using ERE "\+", which is not
7353 understood by older versions of sed (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
7354 + implement configure script options that transform installed program
7355 names, e.g., --program-prefix, including the manpage names and cross
7356 references (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com>).
7357 + correct several mismatches between manpage filename and ".TH"
7358 directives, renaming dft_fgbg.3x to default_colors.3x and
7359 menu_attribs.3x to menu_attributes.3x (report by Todd C Miller).
7360 + correct missing includes for <string.h> in several places, including
7361 the C++ binding. This is not noted by gcc unless we use the
7362 -fno-builtin option (reported by Igor Schein <igor@txc.com>).
7363 + modified progs/tset.c and tack/sysdep.c to build with sgttyb
7364 interface if neither termio or termios is available. Tested this
7365 with FreeBSD 2.1.5 (which does have termios - but the sgttyb does
7368 20000708 5.1 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
7369 + document configure options in INSTALL.
7370 + add man-page for ncurses trace functions.
7371 + correct return value shown in curs_touch.3x for is_linetouched() and
7372 is_wintouched(), in curs_initscr.3x for isendwin(), and in
7373 curs_termattr.3x for has_ic() and has_il().
7374 + add prototypes for touchline() and touchwin(), adding them to the
7375 list of generated functions.
7376 + modify fifo_push() to put ERR into the fifo just like other values to
7377 return from wgetch(). It was returning without doing that, making
7378 end-of-file condition incorrectly return a 0 (reported by Todd C
7380 + uncomment CC_SHARED_OPTS for progs and tack (see 971115), since they
7381 are needed for SCO OpenServer.
7382 + move _nc_disable_period from free_ttype.c to comp_scan.c to appease
7383 dynamic loaders on SCO and IRIX64.
7384 + add "-a" option to test/ncurses.c to invoke assume_default_colors()
7386 + correct assignment in assume_default_colors() which tells ncurses
7387 whether to use default colors, or the assumed ones (reported by Gary
7388 Funck <gary@Intrepid.Com>).
7389 + review/correct logic in mk-1st.awk for making symbolic links for
7390 shared libraries, in particular for FreeBSD, etc.
7391 + regenerate misc/*.def files for OS/2 EMX dll's.
7392 + correct quoting of values for CC_SHARED_OPTS in aclocal.m4 for
7393 cases openbsd2*, openbsd*, freebsd* and netbsd* (patch by Peter
7394 Wemm) (err in 20000610).
7395 + minor updates to release notes, as well as adding/updating URLs for
7396 examples cited in announce.html
7397 > several fixes from Philippe Blain <philippe.blain2@freesbee.fr>:
7398 + correct placement of ifdef for NCURSES_XNAMES in function
7399 _nc_free_termtype(), fixes a memory leak.
7400 + add a call to _nc_synchook() to the end of function whline() like
7401 that in wvline() (difference was in 1.9.4).
7402 + make ClearScreen() a little faster by moving two instances of
7403 UpdateAttr() out of for-loops.
7404 + simplify ClrBottom() by eliminating the tstLine data, using for-loops
7407 20000701 pre-release
7408 + change minor version to 1, i.e., ncurses 5.1
7409 + add experimental configure option --enable-colorfgbg to check for
7410 $COLORTERM variable as set by rxvt/aterm/Eterm.
7411 + add Eterm terminfo entry (Michael Jennings <mej@valinux.com>).
7412 + modify manlinks.sed to pick aliases from the SYNOPSIS section, and
7413 several manpages so manlinks.sed can find aliases for creating
7415 + add explanation to run_tic.sh regarding extended terminal
7417 + change message format for edit_cfg.sh, since some people interpret
7419 + correct unescaped '$' in sysv5uw7*|unix_sv* rule for CF_SHARED_OPTS
7420 configure macro (report by Thanh Ma <Thanh.Ma@casi-rusco.com>).
7421 + correct logic in lib_twait.c as used by lib_mouse.c for GPM mouse
7422 support when poll() is used rather than select() (prompted by
7423 discussion with David Allen <DAllen24@aol.com>).
7425 20000624 pre-release
7426 + modify TransformLine() to check for cells with different color pairs
7427 that happen to render the same display colors.
7428 + apply $NCURSES_NO_PADDING to cost-computation in mvcur().
7429 + improve cost computation in PutRange() by accounting for the use
7430 of parm_right_cursor in mvcur().
7431 + correct cost computation in EmitRange(), which was not using the
7432 normalized value for cursor_address.
7433 + newer config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in TIN 1.5.6).
7436 + update config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in PCRE 3.2).
7437 + resync changes to gnathtml against version 1.22, regenerated html
7438 files under doc/html/ada using this (1.22.1.1).
7439 + regenerated html files under doc/html/man after correcting top and
7440 bottom margin options for man2html in dist.mk
7441 + minor fixes to test programs ncurses 'i' and testcurs program to make
7442 the subwindow's background color cover the subwindow.
7443 + modify configure script so AC_MSG_ERROR is temporarily defined to a
7444 warning in AC_PROG_CXX to make it recover from a missing C++ compiler
7445 without requiring user to add --without-cxx option (adapted from
7446 comment by Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr> to autoconf mailing list).
7447 + modify headers.sh to avoid creating temporary files in the build
7448 directory when installing headers (reported by Sergei Pokrovsky
7452 + regenerated the html files under doc/html/ada/files and
7453 doc/html/ada/funcs with a slightly-improved gnathtml.
7454 + add kmous capability to linux terminfo entry to allow it to use
7455 xterm-style events provided by gpm patch by Joerg Schoen.
7456 + make the configure macro CF_SHARED_OPTS a little smarter by testing
7457 if -fPIC is supported by gcc rather than -fpic. The former option
7458 allows larger symbol tables.
7459 + update config.guess and config.sub (patches by
7460 Kevin Buettner <kev@primenet.com> (for elf64_ia64),
7461 Bernd Kuemmerlen <bkuemmer@mevis.de> (for MacOS X)).
7462 + add warning for 'tic -cv' about use of '^?' in terminfo source, which
7466 + modify echo() behavior of getch() to match Solaris curses for
7467 carriage return and backspace (reported by Neil Zanella).
7468 + change _nc_flush() to a function.
7469 + modify delscreen() to check if the output stream has been closed, and
7470 if so, free the buffer allocated for setbuf (this provides an
7471 ncurses-specific way to avoid a memory leak when repeatedly calling
7472 newterm reported by Chipp C <at_1@zdnetonebox.com>).
7473 + correct typo in curs_getch.3x manpage regarding noecho (reported by
7474 David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>).
7475 + add a "make libs" rule.
7476 + make the Ada95 interface build with configure --enable-widec.
7477 + if the configure --enable-widec option is given, append 'w' to names
7478 of the generated libraries (e.g., libncursesw.so) to avoid conflict
7479 with existing ncurses libraries.
7482 + modify view.c to make a rudimentary viewer of UTF-8 text if ncurses
7483 is configured with the experimental wide-character support.
7484 + add a simple UTF-8 output driver to the experimental wide-character
7485 support. If any of the environment variables LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE or
7486 LANG contain the string "UTF-8", this driver will be used to
7487 translate the output to UTF-8. This works with XFree86 xterm.
7488 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries on BeOS
7489 (from a patch by Valeriy E Ushakov).
7490 + modify lib_addch.c to allow repeated update to the lower-right
7491 corner, rather than displaying only the first character written until
7492 the cursor is moved. Recent versions of SVr4 curses can update the
7493 lower-right corner, and behave this way (reported by Neil Zanella).
7494 + add a limit-check in _nc_do_color(), to avoid using invalid color
7495 pair value (report by Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>).
7498 + the tack program knows how to use smcup and rmcup but the "show caps
7499 that can be tested" feature did not reflect this knowledge. Correct
7500 the display in the menu tack/test/edit/c (patch by Daniel Weaver).
7501 + xterm-16color does allow bold+colors, removed ncv#32 from that
7505 + correct assignment to SP->_has_sgr_39_49 in lib_dft_fgbg.c, which
7506 broke check for screen's AX capability (reported by Valeriy E Ushakov
7508 + change man2html rule in dist.mk to workaround bug in some
7509 man-programs that ignores locale when rendering hyphenation.
7510 + change web- and ftp-site to dickey.his.com
7513 + move _nc_curr_token from parse_entry.c to comp_scan.c, to work around
7514 problem linking tack on MacOS X DP3.
7515 + include <sys/time.h> in lib_napms.c to compile on MacOS X DP3
7516 (reported by Gerben Wierda <wierda@holmes.nl>).
7517 + modify lib_vidattr.c to check for ncv fixes when pair-0 is not
7519 + add -d option to ncurses.c, to turn on default-colors for testing.
7520 + add a check to _nc_makenew() to ensure that newwin() and newpad()
7521 calls do not silently fail by passing too-large limits.
7522 + add symbol NCURSES_SIZE_T to use rather than explicit 'short' for
7523 internal window and pad sizes. Note that since this is visible in
7524 the WINDOW struct, it would be an ABI change to make this an 'int'
7525 (prompted by a question by Bastian Trompetter
7526 <btrompetter@firemail.de>, who attempted to create a 96000-line pad).
7529 + add mgterm terminfo entry from NetBSD, minor adjustments to sun-ss5,
7531 + modify tack/ansi.c to make it more tolerant of bad ANSI replies. An
7532 example of an illegal ANSI resonse can be found using Microsoft's
7533 Telnet client. A correct display can be found using a VT-4xx
7534 terminal or XFree86 xterm with:
7535 XTerm*VT100*decTerminalID: 450
7536 (patch by Daniel Weaver).
7537 + modify gdc.c to recognize 'q' for quit, 's' for single-step and ' '
7538 for resume. Add '-n' option to force gdc's standard input to
7539 /dev/null, to both illustrate the use of newterm() for specifying
7540 alternate inputs as well as for testing signal handling.
7541 + minor fix for configure option --with-manpage-symlinks, for target
7542 directories that contain a period ('.') (reported by Larry Virden).
7545 + minor additions to beterm entry (feedback from Rico Tudor) -TD
7546 + corrections/updates for some IBM terminfo entries -TD
7547 + modify _nc_screen_wrap() so that when exiting curses mode with
7548 non-default colors, the last line on the screen will be cleared to
7549 the screen's default colors (request by Alexander V Lukyanov).
7550 + modify ncurses.c 'r' example to set nonl(), allowing control/M to be
7551 read for demonstrating the REQ_NEW_LINE operation (prompted by a
7552 question by Tony L Keith <tlkeith@keithconsulting.com>).
7553 + modify ncurses.c 'r' example of field_info() to work on Solaris 2.7,
7554 documented extension of ncurses which allows a zero pointer.
7555 + modify fmt_complex() to avoid buffer overflow in case of excess
7556 recursion, and to recognize "%e%?" as a synonym for else-if, which
7557 means that it will not recur for that special case.
7558 + add logic to support $TERMCAP variable in case the USE_GETCAP symbol
7559 is defined (patch by Todd C Miller).
7560 + modify one of the m4 files used to generate the Ada95 sources,
7561 to avoid using the token "symbols" (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7564 + add terminfo entries bsdos-pc-m, bsdos-pc-mono (Jeffrey C Honig)
7565 + correct spelling error in terminfo entry name: bq300-rv was given as
7566 bg300-rv in esr's version.
7567 + modify redrawwin() macro so its parameter is fully parenthesized
7568 (fixes Debian #61088).
7569 + correct formatting error in dump_entry() which set incorrect column
7570 value when no newline trimming was needed at the end of an entry,
7571 before appending "use=" clauses (cf: 960406).
7574 + add configure option --with-manpage-symlinks
7575 + change unctrl() to render C1 characters (128-159) as ~@, ~A, etc.
7576 + change makefiles so trace() function is provided only if TRACE is
7577 defined, e.g., in the debug library. Modify related calls to
7578 _tracechar() to use unctrl() instead.
7581 + add screen's AX capability (for ECMA SGR 39 and 49) to applicable
7582 terminfo entries, use presence of this as a check for a small
7583 improvement in setting default colors.
7584 + improve logic in _nc_do_color() implementing assume_default_colors()
7585 by passing in previous color pair info to eliminate redundant call to
7586 set_original_colors(). (Part of this is from a patch by Alexander
7588 + modify warning in _nc_trans_string() about a possibly too-long string
7589 to do this once only rather than for each character past the
7590 threshold (600). Change interface of _nc_trans_string() to allow
7591 check for buffer overflow.
7592 + correct use of memset in _nc_read_entry_source() to initialize ENTRY
7593 struct each time before reading new data into it, rather than once
7594 per loop (cf: 990301). This affects multi-entry in-core operations
7595 such as "infocmp -Fa".
7598 + remove a spurious pointer increment in _nc_infotocap() changes from
7599 20000311. Add check for '.' in format of number, since that also
7600 is not permitted in termcap.
7601 + correct typo in rxvt-basic terminfo from temporary change made while
7602 integrating 20000318.
7605 + revert part of the vt220 change (request by Todd C Miller).
7606 + add ansi-* terminfo entries from ESR's version.
7607 + add -a option to tic and infocmp, which retains commented-out
7608 capabilities during source translation/comparison, e.g., captoinfo
7610 + modify cardfile.c to display an empty card if no input data file is
7611 found, fixes a core dump in that case (reported by Bruno Haible).
7612 + correct bracketing in CF_MATH_LIB configure macro, which gave wrong
7613 result for OS/2 EMX.
7614 + supply required parameter for _nc_resolve_uses() call in
7615 read_termcap.c, overlooked in 20000311 (reported by Todd C Miller).
7616 > patches by Bruno Haible <haible@ilog.fr>:
7617 + fix a compiler warning in fty_enum.c
7618 + correct LIB_PREFIX expression for DEPS_CURSES in progs, tack
7619 makefiles, which resulted in redundant linking (cf: 20000122).
7622 + make ifdef's for BROKEN_LINKER consistent (patch by Todd C Miller).
7623 + improved tack/README (patch by Daniel Weaver).
7624 + modify tput.c to ensure that unspecified parameters are passed to
7626 + add a few checks in infocmp to guard against buffer overflow when
7627 displaying string capabilities.
7628 + add check for zero-uses in infocmp's file_comparison() function
7629 before calling _nc_align_termtype(). Otherwise one parameter is
7630 indexed past the end of the uses-array.
7631 + add an option -q to infocmp to specify the less verbose output,
7632 keeping the existing format as the default, though not retaining the
7633 previous behavior that made the -F option compare each entry to
7635 + adapted patch by ESR to make infocmp -F less verbose -TD
7636 (the submitted patch was unusable because it did not compile
7638 + modify write_entry.c to ensure that absent or cancelled booleans
7639 are written as FALSE, for consistency with infocmp which now
7640 assumes this. Note that for the small-core configuration, tic
7641 may not produce the same result as before.
7642 + change some private library interfaces used by infocmp, e.g.,
7644 + add a check in _nc_infotocap() to ensure that cm-style capabilities
7645 accept only %d codes when converting the format from terminfo to
7647 + modify ENTRY struct to separate the data in 'parent' into the name
7648 and link values (the original idea to merge both into 'parent' was
7650 + discard repair_acsc(tterm);
7651 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7652 + drop support for gnat 3.10
7653 + move generated documentation and html files under ./doc directory,
7654 adding makefile rules for this to dist.mk
7657 + correct conflicting use of tparm() in 20000226 change to tic, which
7658 made it check only one entry at a time.
7659 + fix errors in ncurses-intro.html and hackguide.html shown by Dave
7661 + make the example in ncurses-intro.html do something plausible, and
7662 corrected misleading comment (reported by Neil Zanella).
7663 + modify pnoutrefresh() to set newscr->_leaveok as wnoutrefresh() does,
7664 to fix a case where the cursor position was not updated as in
7665 Solaris (patch by David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>).
7666 + add a limit-check for wresize() to ensure that a subwindow does not
7667 address out of bounds.
7668 + correct offsets used for subwindows in wresize() (patch by Michael
7669 Andres <ma@suse.de>).
7670 + regenerate html'ized manual pages with man2html 3.0.1 (patch by
7671 Juergen Pfeifer). This generated a file with a space in its name,
7673 + fix a few spelling errors in tack.
7674 + modify tack/Makefile.in to match linker options of progs/Makefile.in;
7675 otherwise it does not build properly for older HPUX shared library
7677 + add several terminfo entries from esr's "11.0".
7680 + make 'tput flash' work properly for xterm by flushing output in
7681 delay_output() when using napms(), and modifying xterm's terminfo to
7682 specify no padding character. Otherwise, xterm's reported baud rate
7683 can mislead ncurses into producing too few padding characters
7685 + add a check to tic for consistency between sgr and the separate
7686 capabilities such as smso, use this to check/correct several
7687 terminfo entries (Debian #58530).
7688 + add a check to tic if cvvis is the same as cnorm, adjusted several
7689 terminfo entries to remove the conflict (Debian #58530).
7690 + correct prototype shown in attr_set()/wattr_set() manpages (fixes
7692 + minor clarification for curs_set() and leaveok() manpages.
7693 + use mkstemp() for creating temporary file for tic's processing of
7694 $TERMCAP contents (fixes Debian #56465).
7695 + correct two errors from integrating Alexander's changes: did not
7696 handle the non-bce case properly in can_erase_with() (noted by
7697 Alexander), and left fg/bg uninitialized in the pair-zero case of
7698 _nc_do_color() (reported by Dr Werner Fink <werner@suse.de> and
7699 Ismael Cordeiro <ismael@cordeiro.com>).
7702 + store default-color code consistently as C_MASK, even if given as
7703 -1 for convenience (adapted from patches by Alexander V Lukyanov).
7704 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
7705 + change can_clear_with() macro to accommodate logic for
7706 assume_default_colors(), making most of the FILL_BCE logic
7707 unnecessary. Made can_clear_with() an inline function to make it
7711 + corrected form of recent copyright dates.
7712 + minor corrections to xterm-xf86-v333 terminfo entry -TD
7713 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
7714 + reworded dft_fgbg.3x to avoid assuming that the terminal's default
7715 colors are white on black.
7716 + fix initialization of tstLine so that it is filled with current blank
7717 character in any case. Previously it was possible to have it filled
7718 with old blank. The wrong over-optimization was introduced in 991002
7719 patch. (it is not very critical as the only bad effect is not using
7720 clr_eos for clearing if blank has changed).
7723 + minor corrections/updates to several terminfo entries: rxvt-basic,
7724 vt520, vt525, ibm5151, xterm-xf86-v40 -TD
7725 + modify ifdef's for poll() to allow it to use <sys/poll.h>, thereby
7726 allowing poll() to be used on Linux.
7727 + add CF_FUNC_POLL macro to check if poll() is able to select from
7728 standard input. If not we will not use it, preferring select()
7729 (adapted from patch by Michael Pakovic <mpakovic@fdn.com>).
7730 + update CF_SHARED_OPTS macro for SCO Unixware 7.1 to allow building
7731 shared libraries (reported/tested by Thanh <thanhma@mediaone.net>).
7732 + override $LANGUAGE in build to avoid incorrect ordering of keynames.
7733 + correct CF_MATH_LIB parameter, must be sin(x), not sqrt(x).
7736 + resync CF_CHECK_ERRNO and CF_LIB_PREFIX macros from tin and xterm -TD
7737 + modify CF_MATH_LIB configure macro to parameterize the test function
7738 used, for reuse in dialog and similar packages.
7739 + correct tests for file-descriptors in OS/2 EMX mouse support. A
7740 negative value could be used by FD_SET, causing the select() call
7741 to wait indefinitely.
7744 + additional fixes for non-bce terminals (handling of delete_character)
7745 to work when assume_default_colors() is not specified.
7746 + modify warning message from _nc_parse_entry() regarding extended
7747 capability names to print only if tic/infocmp/toe have the -v flag
7748 set, and not at all in ordinary user applications. Otherwise, this
7749 warning would be shown for screen's extended capabilities in programs
7750 that use the termcap interface (reported by Todd C Miller).
7751 + modify use of _nc_tracing from programs such as tic so their debug
7752 level is not in the same range as values set by trace() function.
7753 + small panel header cleanup (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7754 + add 'railroad' demo for termcap interface.
7755 + modify 'tic' to write its usage message to stderr (patch by Todd C
7759 + add prototype for erase() to curses.h.in, needed to make test
7760 programs build with c++/g++.
7761 + add .c.i and .c.h suffix rules to generated makefiles, for debugging.
7762 + correct install rule for tack.1; it assumed that file was in the
7763 current directory (reported by Mike Castle <dalgoda@ix.netcom.com>).
7764 + modify terminfo/termcap translation to suppress acsc before trying
7765 sgr if the entry would be too large (patch by Todd C Miller).
7766 + document a special case of incompatiblity between ncurses 4.2 and
7767 5.0, add a section for this in INSTALL.
7768 + add TRACE_DATABASE flag for trace().
7771 + update mach, add mach-color terminfo entries based on Debian diffs
7773 + add entries for xterm-hp, xterm-vt220, xterm-vt52 and xterm-noapp
7774 terminfo entries -TD
7775 + change OTrs capabilities to rs2 in terminfo.src -TD
7776 + add obsolete and extended capabilities to 'screen' terminfo -TD
7777 + corrected conversion from terminfo rs2 to termcap rs (cf: 980704)
7778 + make conversion to termcap ug (underline glitch) more consistently
7780 + fix out-of-scope use of 'personal[]' buffer in 'toe' (this error
7781 was in the original pre-1.9.7 version, when $HOME/.terminfo was
7783 + modify 'toe' to ignore terminfo directories to which it has no
7785 + modify read_termtype(), fixing 'toe', which could dump core when it
7786 found an incomplete entry such as "dumb" because it did not
7787 initialize its buffer for _nc_read_file_entry().
7788 + use -fPIC rather than -fpic for shared libraries on Linux, not
7789 needed for i386 but some ports (from Debian diffs for 5.0) -TD
7790 + use explicit VALID_NUMERIC() checks in a few places that had been
7791 overlooked, and add a check to ensure that init_tabs is nonzero,
7792 to avoid divide-by-zero (reported by Todd C Miller).
7793 + minor fix for CF_ANSI_CC_CHECK configure macro, for HPUX 10.x (from
7797 + reorder tests during mouse initialization to allow for gpm to run in
7798 xterm, or for xterm to be used under OS/2 EMX. Also drop test for
7799 $DISPLAY in favor of kmous=\E[M or $TERM containing "xterm" (report
7800 by Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de>).
7801 + modify raw() and noraw() to clear/restore IEXTEN flag which affects
7802 stty lnext on systems such as FreeBSD (report by Bruce Evans
7803 <bde@zeta.org.au>, via Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>).
7804 + fix a potential (but unlikely) buffer overflow in failed() function
7805 of tset.c (reported by Todd C Miller).
7806 + add manual-page for ncurses extensions, documented curses_version(),
7807 use_extended_names().
7810 + treat as untranslatable to termcap those terminfo strings which
7811 contain non-decimal formatting, e.g., hexadecimal or octal.
7812 + correct commented-out capabilities that cannot be translated to
7813 termcap, which did not check if a colon must be escaped.
7814 + correct termcap translation for "%>" and "%+", which did not check
7815 if a colon must be escaped, for instance.
7816 + use save_string/save_char for _nc_captoinfo() to eliminate fixed
7817 buffer (originally for _nc_infotocap() in 960301 -TD).
7818 + correct expression used for terminfo equivalent of termcap %B,
7819 adjust regent100 entry which uses this.
7820 + some cleanup and commenting of ad hoc cases in _nc_infotocap().
7821 + eliminate a fixed-buffer in tic, used for translating comments.
7822 + add manpage for infotocap
7825 + add kvt and gnome terminfo entries -TD
7826 + correct translation of "%%" by infotocap, which was emitted as "%".
7827 + add "obsolete" termcap strings to terminfo.src
7828 + modify infocmp to default to showing obsolete capabilities rather
7830 + modify write_entry.c so that if extended names (i.e., configure
7831 --enable-tcap-names) are active, then tic will also write "obsolete"
7832 capabilities that are present in the terminfo source.
7833 + modify tic so that when running as captoinfo or infotocap, it
7834 initializes the output format as in -C and -I options, respectively.
7835 + improve infocmp and tic -f option by splitting long strings that do
7836 not have if-then-else construct, but do have parameters, e.g., the
7837 initc for xterm-88color.
7838 + refine MKtermsort.sh slightly by using bool for the *_from_termcap
7842 + additional fixes for non-bce terminals (handling of clear_screen,
7843 clr_eol, clr_eos, scrolling) to work when assume_default_colors() is
7845 + several small changes to xterm terminfo entries -TD.
7846 + move logic for _nc_windows in lib_freeall.c inside check for nonnull
7847 SP, since it is part of that struct.
7848 + remove obsolete shlib-versions, which was unintentionally re-added
7850 + modify infocmp -e, -E options to ensure that generated fallback.c
7851 type for Booleans agrees with term.h (reported by Eric Norum
7852 <eric@cls.usask.ca>).
7853 + correct configure script's use of $LIB_PREFIX, which did not work
7854 for installing the c++ directory if $libdir did not end with "/lib"
7855 (reported by Huy Le <huyle@ugcs.caltech.edu>).
7856 + modify infocmp so -L and -f options work together.
7857 + modify the initialization of SP->_color_table[] in start_color() so
7858 that color_content() will return usable values for COLORS greater
7860 + modify ncurses 'd' test in case COLORS is greater than 16, e.g., for
7861 xterm-88color, to limit the displayed/computed colors to 16.
7862 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7863 + simplify coding of the panel library according to suggestions by
7865 + improve macro coding for a few macros in curses.priv.h
7868 + modify treatment of color pair 0 so that if ncurses is configured
7869 to support default colors, and they are not active, then ncurses
7870 will set that explicitly, not relying on orig_colors or orig_pair.
7871 + add new extension, assume_default_colors() to provide better control
7872 over the use of default colors.
7873 + modify test programs to use more-specific ifdef's for existence of
7874 wresize(), resizeterm() and use_default_colors().
7875 + modify configure script to add specific ifdef's for some functions
7876 that are included when --enable-ext-funcs is in effect, so their
7877 existence can be ifdef'd in the test programs.
7878 + reorder some configure options, moving those extensions that have
7879 evolved from experimental status into a new section.
7880 + change configure --enable-tcap-names to enable this by default.
7883 + install tack's manpage (reported by Robert Weiner
7884 <robert@progplus.com>)
7885 + correct worm.c's handling of KEY_RESIZE (patch by Frank Heckenbach).
7886 + modify curses.h.in, undef'ing some symbols to avoid conflict with C++
7887 STL (reported by Matt Gerassimoff <mgeras@ticon.net>)
7890 + modify linux terminfo entry to indicate that dim does not mix with
7891 color (reported by Klaus Weide <kweide@enteract.com>).
7892 + correct several typos in terminfo entries related to missing '['
7894 + fix several compiler warnings in c++ binding (reported by Tim
7895 Mooney for alphaev56-dec-osf4.0f
7896 + rename parameter of _nc_free_entries() to accommodate lint.
7897 + correct lint rule for tack, used incorrect list of source files.
7898 + add case to config.guess, config.sub for Rhapsody.
7899 + improve configure tests for libg++ and libstdc++ by omitting the
7900 math library (which is missing on Rhapsody), and improved test for
7901 the math library itself (adapted from path by Nelson H. F. Beebe).
7902 + explicitly initialize to zero several data items which were
7903 implicitly initialized, e.g., cur_term. If not explicitly
7904 initialized, their storage type is C (common), and causes problems
7905 linking on Rhapsody 5.5 using gcc 2.7.2.1 (reported by Nelson H. F.
7907 + modify Ada95 binding to not include the linker option for Ada
7908 bindings in the Ada headers, but in the Makefiles instead (patch by
7911 19991023 5.0 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
7912 + effective with release of 5.0, change NCURSES_VERSION_PATCH to
7914 + add function curses_version(), to return ncurses library version
7915 (request by Bob van der Poel).
7916 + remove rmam, smam from cygwin terminfo entry.
7917 + modify FreeBSD cons25 terminfo entry to add cnorm and cvvis, as well
7918 as update ncv to indicate that 'dim' conflicts with colors.
7919 + modify configure script to use symbolic links for FreeBSD shared
7920 libraries by default.
7921 + correct ranf() function in rain and worm programs to ensure it does
7923 + hide the cursor in hanoi.c if it is running automatically.
7924 + amend lrtest.c to account for optimizations that exploit margin
7926 + add a simple terminfo demo, dots.c
7927 + modify SIGINT/SIGQUIT handler to set a flag used in _nc_outch() to
7928 tell it to use write() rather than putc(), since the latter is not
7929 safe in a signal handler according to POSIX.
7930 + add/use internal macros _nc_flush() and NC_OUTPUT to hide details
7931 of output-file pointer in ncurses library.
7932 + uncomment CC_SHARED_OPTS (see 971115), since they are needed for SCO
7934 + correct CC_SHARED_OPTS for building shared libraries for SCO
7936 + remove usleep() from alternatives in napms(), since it may interact
7937 with alarm(), causing a process to be interrupted by SIGALRM (with
7938 advice from Bela Lubkin).
7939 + modify terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4 to build/work with
7940 GNAT 3.10 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7941 + remove part of CF_GPP_LIBRARY configure-script macro, which did not
7942 work with gcc 2.7.2.3
7943 + minor fix to test/tclock.c to avoid beeping more than once per second
7944 + add 's' and ' ' decoding to test/rain.c
7947 + corrected BeOS code for lib_twait.c, making nodelay() function work.
7950 + correct ncurses' value for cursor-column in PutCharLR(), which was
7951 off-by-one in one case (patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
7952 + fix some minor errors in position_check() debugging code, found while
7953 using this to validate the PutCharLR() patch.
7954 + modify firework, lrtest, worm examples to be resizable, and to
7955 recognize 'q' for quit, 's' for single-step and ' ' for resume.
7956 + restore reverted change to terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4,
7957 add a note on building with gnat 3.10p to Ada95/TODO.
7958 + add a copy of the standalone configure script for the test-directory
7959 to simplify testing on SCO and Solaris.
7962 + minor fixes for _nc_msec_cost(), color_content(), pair_content(),
7963 _nc_freewin(), ClrBottom() and onscreen_mvcur() (analysis by Philippe
7964 Blain, comments by Alexander V Lukyanov).
7965 + simplify definition of PANEL and eliminate internal functions
7966 _nc_calculate_obscure(), _nc_free_obscure() and _nc_override(),
7967 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer, analysis by Philippe Blain
7969 + change renaming of dft_fgbg.3x to use_default_colors.3ncurses in
7970 man_db.renames, since Debian is not concerned with 14-character
7971 filename limitation (Debian bug report by Josip Rodin
7972 <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr>).
7973 + corrected scoansi terminfo entry by testing with scoterm and console.
7974 + revert change from 990614 to terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4,
7975 since this does not work for gnat 3.10p
7976 + modify tclock example to be resizable (if ncurses' sigwinch handler
7977 is used), and in color.
7978 + use $(CC) rather than 'gcc' in MK_SHARED_LIB symbols, used for Linux
7979 shared library rules.
7982 + add newer NetBSD console terminfo entries
7983 + add amiga-8bit terminfo entry (from Henning 'Faroul' Peters
7984 <Faroul@beyond.kn-bremen.de>)
7985 + remove -lcurses -ltermcap from configure script's check for the gpm
7986 library, since they are not really necessary (a properly configured
7987 gpm library has no dependency on any curses library), and if the
7988 curses library is not installed, this would cause the test to fail.
7989 + modify tic's -C option so that terminfo "use=" clauses are translated
7990 to "tc=" clauses even when running it as captoinfo.
7991 + modify CF_STDCPP_LIBRARY configure macro to perform its check only
7992 for GNU C++, since that library conflicts with SGI's libC on IRIX-6.2
7993 + modify CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro to support build on NetBSD with
7994 ELF libraries (patch by Bernd Ernesti <bernd@arresum.inka.de>).
7995 + correct a problem in libpanel, where the _nc_top_panel variable was
7996 not set properly when bottom_panel() is called to hide a panel which
7997 is the only one on the stack (report/analysis by Michael Andres
7998 <ma@suse.de>, patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
8001 + add acsc string to HP 70092 terminfo entry (patch by Joerg Wunsch
8002 <j@interface-business.de>).
8003 + add top-level uninstall.data and uninstall.man makefile rules.
8004 + correct logic of CF_LINK_FUNCS configure script, from BeOS changes so
8005 that hard-links work on Unix again.
8006 + change default value of cf_cv_builtin_bool to 1 (suggested by
8007 Jeremy Buhler), making it less likely that a conflicting declaration
8008 of bool will be seen when compiling with C++.
8011 + improved configure checks for builtin.h
8012 + minor changes to C++ binding (remove static initializations, and make
8013 configure-test for parameter initializations) for features not
8014 allowed by vendor's C++ compilers (reported by Martin Mokrejs, this
8015 applies to SGI, though I found SCO has the same characteristics).
8016 + corrected quoting of ETIP_xxx definitions which support old versions
8017 of g++, e.g., those using -lg++
8018 + remove 'L' code from safe_sprintf.c, since 'long double' is not
8019 widely portable. safe_sprintf.c is experimental, however, and
8020 exists mainly as a fallback for systems without snprintf (reported
8021 by Martin Mokrejs <mmokrejs@natur.cuni.cz>, for IRIX 6.2)
8022 + modify definition of _nc_tinfo_fkeys in broken-linker configuration
8023 so that it is not unnecessarily made extern (Jeffrey C Honig).
8026 + move definition for builtin.h in configure tests to specific check
8027 for libg++, since qt uses the same filename incompatibly.
8028 + correct logic of lib_termcap.c tgetstr function, which did not copy
8029 the result to the buffer parameter. Testing shows Solaris does
8030 update this, though of course tgetent's buffer is untouched (reported
8031 in Peter Edwards <peter.edwards@ireland.com> in
8032 mpc.lists.freebsd.current newsgroup.
8033 + corrected beterm terminfo entry, which lists some capabilities which
8034 are not actually provided by the BeOS Terminal.
8035 + add special logic to replace select() calls on BeOS, whose select()
8036 function works only for sockets.
8037 + correct missing escape in mkterm.h.awk.in, which caused part
8038 of the copyright noticed to be omitted (reported by Peter
8039 Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>).
8040 > several small changes to make the c++ binding and demo work on OS/2
8041 EMX (related to a clean reinstall of EMX):
8042 + correct library-prefix for c++ binding; none is needed.
8043 + add $x suffix to make_hash and make_keys so 'make distclean' works.
8044 + correct missing $x suffix for tack, c++ demo executables.
8045 + split CF_CXX_LIBRARY into CF_GPP_LIBRARY (for -lg++) and
8046 CF_STDCPP_LIBRARY (for -lstdc++)
8049 + add cygwin terminfo entry -TD
8050 + modify CF_PROG_EXT configure macro to set .exe extension for cygwin.
8051 + add configure option --without-cxx-binding, modifying the existing
8052 --without-cxx option to check only for the C++ compiler
8053 characteristics. Whether or not the C++ binding is needed, the
8054 configure script checks for the size/type of bool, to make ncurses
8055 match. Otherwise C++ applications cannot use ncurses.
8058 + updated configure macros CF_MAKEFLAGS, CF_CHECK_ERRNO
8059 + minor corrections to beterm terminfo entry.
8060 + modify lib_setup.c to reject values of $TERM which have a '/' in
8062 + add ifdef's to guard against CS5, CS6, CS7, CS8 being zero, as more
8063 than one is on BeOS. That would break a switch statement.
8064 + add configure macro CF_LINK_FUNCS to detect and work around BeOS's
8065 nonfunctional link().
8066 + improved configure macros CF_BOOL_DECL and CF_BOOL_SIZE to detect
8067 BeOS's bool, which is declared as an unsigned char.
8070 + add ms-vt100 terminfo entry -TD
8071 + minor fixes for misc/emx.src, based on testing with tack.
8072 + minor fix for test/ncurses.c, test 'a', in case ncv is not set.
8075 + minor correction for 'screen' terminfo entry.
8076 + clarify description of errret values for setupterm in manpage.
8077 + modify tput to allow it to emit capabilities for hardcopy terminals
8078 (patch by Goran Uddeborg <goeran@uddeborg.pp.se>).
8079 + modify the 'o' (panel) test in ncurses.c to show the panels in color
8080 or at least in bold, to test Juergen's change to wrefresh().
8081 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
8082 + Fixes a problem using wbkgdset() with panels. It has actually
8083 nothing to with panels but is a problem in the implementation of
8084 wrefresh(). Whenever a window changes its background attribute to
8085 something different than newscr's background attribute, the whole
8086 window is touched to force a copy to newscr. This is an unwanted
8087 side-effect of wrefresh() and it is actually not necessary. A
8088 changed background attribute affects only further outputs of
8089 background it doesn't mean anything to the current content of the
8090 window. So there is no need to force a copy. (reported by Frank
8091 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>).
8092 + an upward compatible enhancement of the NCursesPad class in the C++
8093 binding. It allows one to add a "viewport" window to a pad and then
8094 to use panning to view the pad through the viewport window.
8097 + suppress a call to def_prog_mode() in the SIGTSTP handler if the
8098 signal was received while not in curses mode, e.g., endwin() was
8099 called in preparation for spawning a shell command (reported by Frank
8100 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>)
8101 + corrected/enhanced xterm-r5, xterm+sl, xterm+sl-twm terminfo entries.
8102 + change test for xterm mouse capability: it now checks only if the
8103 user's $DISPLAY variable is set in conjunction with the kmous
8104 capability being present in the terminfo. Before, it checked if any
8105 of "xterm", "rxvt" or "kterm" were substrings of the terminal name.
8106 However, some emulators which are incompatible with xterm in other
8107 ways do support the xterm mouse capability.
8108 + reviewed and made minor changes in ncurses to quiet g++ warnings
8109 about shadowed or uninitialized variables. g++ incorrectly warns
8110 about uninitialized variables because it does not take into account
8111 short-circuit expression evaluation.
8112 + change ncurses 'b' test to start in color pair 0 and to show in the
8113 right margin those attributes which are suppressed by no_color_video,
8115 + modify ifdef's in curses.h so that __attribute__ is not redefined
8116 when compiling with g++, but instead disabled the macros derived for
8117 __attribute__ since g++ does not consistently recognize the same
8118 keywords as gcc (reported by Stephan K Zitz <zitz@erf.net>).
8119 + update dependencies for term.h in ncurses/modules (reported by
8123 + modify the form demo in ncurses.c to illustrate how to manipulate the
8124 field appearance, e.g, for highlighting or translating the field
8126 + correct logic in write_entry from split-out of home_terminfo in
8127 980919, which prevented update of $HOME/.terminfo (reported by Philip
8128 Spencer <pspencer@fields.utoronto.ca>).
8131 + modify linux terminfo description to make use of kernel 2.2.x mods
8132 that support cursor style, e.g., to implement cvvis (patch by Frank
8133 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>)
8134 + add special-case in setupterm to retain previously-saved terminal
8135 settings in cur_term, which happens when curses and termcap calls are
8136 mixed (from report by Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@dhc.net>).
8137 + suppress initialization of key-tries in _nc_keypad() if we are only
8138 disabling keypad mode, e.g., in endwin() called when keypad() was
8140 + modify the Ada95 makefile to ensure that always the Ada files from
8141 the development tree are used for building and not the eventually
8142 installed ones (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
8145 + use TTY definition in tack/sysdep.c rather than struct termios
8146 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
8147 + add a fallback for strstr, used in lib_mvcur.c and tack/edit.c,
8148 not present on sysV68 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
8149 + correct definition in comp_hash.c to build with configure
8150 --with-rcs-ids option.
8153 + modified ifdef's for sigaction and sigvec to ensure we do not try to
8154 handle SIGTSTP if neither is available (from report by Philippe De
8156 > patch by Philippe De Muyter:
8157 + in tic.c, use `unlink' if `remove' is not available.
8158 + use only `unsigned' as fallback value for `speed_t'. Some files used
8162 + fix some compiler warnings in tack.
8163 + add a check for predefined bool type in CC, based on report that
8164 BeOS predefines a bool type.
8165 + correct logic for infocmp -e option, i.e., the configure
8166 --with-fallbacks option, which I'd not updated when implementing
8167 extended names (cf: 990301). The new implementation adds a "-E"
8168 option to infocmp -TD
8169 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
8170 + introduce the private type Curses_Bool in the Ada95 binding
8171 implementation. This is to clearly represent the use of "bool" also
8172 in the binding. It should have no effect on the generated code.
8173 + improve the man page for field_buffer() to tell the people, that the
8174 whole buffer including leading/trailing spaces is returned. This is
8175 a common source of confusion, so it's better to document it clearly.
8178 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
8179 + use pragma PreElaborate in several places.
8180 + change a few System.Address uses to more specific types.
8181 + change interface version-number to 1.0
8182 + regenerate Ada95 HTML files.
8185 + modify lib_endwin.c to avoid calling reset_shell_mode(), return ERR
8186 if it appears that curses was never initialized, e.g., by initscr().
8187 For instance, this guards against setting the terminal modes to
8188 strange values if endwin() is called after setupterm(). In the same
8189 context, Solaris curses will dump core.
8190 + modify logic that avoids a conflict in lib_vidattr.c between sgr0 and
8191 equivalent values in rmso or rmul by ensuring we do not modify the
8192 data which would be returned by the terminfo or termcap interfaces
8193 (reported by Brad Pepers <brad@linuxcanada.com>, cf: 960706).
8194 + add a null-pointer check for SP in lib_vidattr.c to logic that checks
8196 + improve fallback declaration of 'bool' when the --without-cxx option
8197 is given, by using a 'char' on i386 and related hosts (prompted by
8198 discussion with Alexander V Lukyanov).
8201 + include time.h in lib_napms.c if nanosleep is used (patch by
8202 R Lindsay Todd <toddr@rpi.edu>).
8203 + add an "#undef bool" to curses.h, in case someone tries to define it,
8205 + add check to tparm to guard against divide by zero (reported by Aaron
8206 Campbell <aaron@ug.cs.dal.ca>).
8209 + minor fix to build tack on CLIX (mismatched const).
8210 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
8211 + change Juergen's old email address with new one in the files where it
8212 is referenced. The Ada95 HTML pages are regenerated.
8213 + update MANIFEST to list the tack files.
8216 + minor fixes to make 'tack' build/link on NeXT (reported by Francisco
8220 + add 'tack' program (which is GPL'd), updating it to work with the
8221 modified TERMTYPE struct and making a fix to support setaf/setab
8222 capabilities. Note that the tack program is not part of the
8223 ncurses libraries, but an application which can be distributed with
8224 ncurses. The configure script will ignore the directory if it is
8226 + modify gpm mouse support so that buttons 2 and 3 are used for
8227 select/paste only when shift key is pressed, making them available
8228 for use by an application (patch by Klaus Weide).
8229 + add complete list of function keys to scoansi terminfo entry - TD
8232 + add a simple test program cardfile.c to illustrate how to read form
8233 fields, and showing forms within panels.
8234 + change shared-library versioning for the Hurd to be like Linux rather
8235 than *BSD (patch by Mark Kettenis <kettenis@wins.uva.nl>).
8236 + add linux-lat terminfo entry.
8237 + back-out _nc_access check in read_termcap.c (both incorrect and
8238 unnecessary, except to guard against a small window where the file's
8239 ownership may change).
8242 + remove conflicting _nc_free_termtype() function from test module
8244 + use _nc_access check in read_termcap.c for termpaths[] array (noted
8245 by Jeremy Buhler, indicating that Alan Cox made a similar patch).
8246 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
8247 + modify menu creation to not inherit status flag from the default menu
8248 which says that the associated marker string has been allocated and
8249 should be freed (bug reported by Marek Paliwoda"
8250 <paliwoda@kki.net.pl>)
8252 990327 pre-release (alpha.gnu.org:/gnu/ncurses-5.0-beta1.tar.gz)
8253 + minor fixes to xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry - TD.
8254 + split up an expression in configure script check for ldconfig to
8255 workaround limitation of BSD/OS sh (reported by Jeff Haas
8256 <jmh@mail.msen.com>).
8257 + correct a typo in man/form_hook.3x (Todd C Miller).
8260 + parenthesize and undef 'index' symbol in c++ binding and demo, to
8261 accommodate its definition on NeXT (reported by Francisco A. Tomei
8263 + add sigismember() to base/sigaction.c compatibility to link on NeXT
8264 (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
8265 + further refinements to inequality in hashmap.c to cover a case with
8266 ^U in nvi (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
8269 + add fallback definition for getcwd, to link on NeXT.
8270 + add a copy of cur_term to tic.c to make it link properly on NeXT
8271 (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
8272 + change inequality in hashmap.c which checks the distance traveled by
8273 a chunk so that ^D command in nvi (scrolls 1/2 screen) will use
8274 scrolling logic (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov, reported by Jeffrey
8278 + modify lib_color.c to handle a special case where the curscr
8279 attributes have been made obsolete (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
8280 + update BSD/OS console terminfo entries to use klone+sgr and
8281 klone+color (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
8282 + update glibc addon configure script for extended capabilities.
8283 + correct a couple of warnings in the --enable-const configuration.
8284 + make comp_hash build properly with _nc_strdup(), on NeXT (reported by
8285 Francisco A. Tomei Torres <francisco.tomei@cwix.com>).
8288 + correct typos in linux-c initc string - TD
8289 + add 'crt' terminfo entry, update xterm-xfree86 entry - TD
8290 + remove a spurious argument to tparm() in lib_sklrefr.c (patch by
8291 Alexander V Lukyanov).
8294 + back-out change to wgetch because it causes a problem with ^Z
8295 handling in lynx (reported by Kim DeVaughn).
8298 + add -G option to tic and infocmp, to reverse the "-g" option.
8299 + recode functions in name_match.c to avoid use of strncpy, which
8300 caused a 4-fold slowdown in tic (cf: 980530).
8301 + correct a few warnings about sign-extension in recent changes.
8302 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
8303 + fixes suggested by Jeff Bradbury <jibradbury@lucent.com>:
8304 + improved parameter checking in new_fieldtype().
8305 + fixed a typo in wgetch() timeout handling.
8306 + allow slk_init() to be called per newterm call. The internal SLK
8307 state is stored in the SCREEN struct after every newterm() and then
8308 reset for the next newterm.
8309 + fix the problem that a slk_refresh() refreshes stdscr if the
8310 terminal has true SLKs.
8311 + update HTML documentation for Ada binding.
8314 + remove 'bool' casts from definitions of TRUE/FALSE so that statements
8315 such as "#if TRUE" work. This was originally done to allow for a C++
8316 compiler which would warn of implicit conversions between enum and
8317 int, but is not needed for g++ (reported by Kim DeVaughn).
8318 + add use_extended_names() function to allow applications to suppress
8319 read of the extended capabilities.
8320 + add configure option --enable-tcap-names to support logic which
8321 allows ncurses' tic to define new (i.e., extended) terminal
8322 capabilities. This is activated by the tic -x switch. The infocmp
8323 program automatically shows or compares extended capabilities.
8324 Note: This changes the Strings and similar arrays in the TERMTYPE
8325 struct so that applications which manipulate it must be recompiled.
8326 + use macros typeMalloc, typeCalloc and typeRealloc consistently
8327 throughout ncurses library.
8328 + add _nc_strdup() to doalloc.c.
8329 + modify define_key() to allow multiple strings to be bound to the
8331 + correct logic error in _nc_remove_string, from 990220.
8332 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
8333 + regenerate some of the html documentation
8334 + minor cleanup in terminal_interface-curses.adb
8337 + resolve ambiguity of kend/kll/kslt and khome/kfnd/kich1 strings in
8338 xterm and ncsa terminfo entries by removing the unneeded ones. Note
8339 that some entries will return kend & khome versus kslt and kfnd, for
8340 PC-style keyboards versus strict vt220 compatiblity - TD
8341 + add function keybound(), which returns the definition associated with
8343 + modify define_key() to undefine the given string when no keycode is
8345 + modify keyok() so it works properly if there is more than one string
8346 defined for a keycode.
8347 + add check to tic to warn about terminfo descriptions that contain
8348 more than one key assigned to the same string. This is shown only if
8349 the verbose (-v) option is given. Moved related logic (tic -v) from
8350 comp_parse.c into the tic program.
8351 + add/use _nc_trace_tries() to show the function keys that will be
8353 + rename init_acs to _nc_init_acs (request by Alexander V Lukyanov).
8354 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
8355 + remove all the *_adabind.c from ncurses, menu and form projects.
8356 Those little helper routines have all been implemented in Ada and are
8358 + The option handling routines in menu and form have been made more
8359 save. They now make sure that the unused bits in options are always
8361 + modify configuration scripts to
8362 + use gnatmake as default compiler name. This is a safer choice than
8363 gcc, because some GNAT implementations use other names for the
8364 compilerdriver to avoid conflicts.
8365 + use new default installation locations for the Ada files according
8366 to the proposed GNU Ada filesystem standard (for Linux).
8367 + simplify the Makefiles for the Ada binding
8368 + rename ada_include directory to src.
8371 + enable sigwinch handler by default.
8372 + disable logic that allows setbuf to be turned off/on, because some
8373 implementations will overrun the buffer after it has been disabled
8377 + suppress sc/rc capabilities from terminal description if they appear
8378 in smcup/rmcup. This affects only scrolling optimization, to fix a
8379 problem reported by several people with xterm's alternate screen,
8380 though the problem is more general.
8381 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
8382 + removed all pragma Preelaborate() stuff, because the just released
8383 gnat-3.11p complains on some constructs.
8384 + fixed some upper/lower case notations because gnat-3.11p found
8386 + used a new method to generate the HTML documentation of the Ada95
8387 binding. This invalidates nearly the whole ./Ada95/html subtree.
8388 Nearly all current files in this subtree are removed
8391 + cache last result from _nc_baudrate, for performance (suggested by
8392 Alexander V Lukyanov).
8393 + modify ClrUpdate() function to workaround a problem in nvi, which
8394 uses redrawwin in SIGTSTP handling. Jeffrey C Honig reported that
8395 ncurses repainted the screen with nulls before resuming normal
8396 operation (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
8397 + generalize is_xterm() function a little by letting xterm/rxvt/kterm
8398 be any substring rather than the prefix.
8399 + modify lib_data.c to initialize SP. Some linkers, e.g., IBM's, will
8400 not link a module if the only symbols exported from the module are
8401 uninitialized ones (patch by Ilya Zakharevich). Ilya says that he
8402 has seen messages claiming this behavior conforms to the standard.)
8403 + move call on _nc_signal_handler past _nc_initscr, to avoid a small
8404 window where Nttyb hasn't yet been filled (reported by Klaus Weide).
8405 + modify lib_tstp.c to block SIGTTOU when handling SIGTSTP, fixes a
8406 problem where ncurses applications which were run via a shell script
8407 would hang when given a ^Z. Also, check if the terminal's process
8408 group is consistent, i.e., a shell has not taken ownership of it,
8409 before deciding to save the current terminal settings in the SIGTSTP
8410 handler (patch by Klaus Weide).
8411 + correct spelling of ACS_ names in curs_border.3x (reported by Bob van
8412 der Poel <bvdpoel@kootenay.com>).
8413 + correct a couple of typos in the macros supporting the configure
8414 --with-shlib-version option.
8417 + modify fty_regex.c to compile on HAVE_REGEXPR_H_FUNCS machine (patch
8418 by Kimio Ishii <ishii@csl.sony.co.jp>).
8419 + rename BSDI console terminfo entries: bsdos to bsdos-pc-nobold, and
8420 bsdos-bold to bsdos-pc (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
8421 + modify tput to accept termcap names as an alternative to terminfo
8422 names (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
8423 + correct a typo in term.7 (Todd C Miller).
8424 + add configure --with-shlib-version option to allow installing shared
8425 libraries named according to release or ABI versions. This
8426 parameterizes some existing logic in the configure script, and is
8427 intended for compatiblity upgrades on Digital Unix, which used
8428 versioned libraries in ncurses 4.2, but no longer does (cf: 980425).
8429 + resync configure script against autoconf 2.13 + patches
8430 + minor improvements for teraterm terminfo entry based on the program's
8431 source distribution.
8434 + change default for configure --enable-big-core to assume machines do
8435 have enough memory to resolve terminfo.src in-memory.
8436 + correct name of ncurses library in TEST_ARGS when configuring with
8438 + minor fixes to compile ncurses library with broken-linker with g++.
8439 + add --enable-broken-linker configure option, default to environment
8440 variable $BROKEN_LINKER (request by Jeffrey C Honig).
8441 + change key_names[] array to static since it is not part of the curses
8442 interface (reported by Jeffrey C Honig <jch@bsdi.com>).
8445 + add Tera Term terminfo entry - TD
8448 + reviewed/corrected macros in curses.h as per XSI document.
8449 + provide support for termcap PC variable by copying it from terminfo
8450 data and using it as the padding character in tputs (reported by
8451 Alexander V Lukyanov).
8452 + corrected iris-ansi and iris-ansi-ap terminfo entries for kent and
8453 kf9-kf12 capabilities, as well as adding kcbt.
8454 + document the mouse handling mechanism in menu_driver and make a small
8455 change in menu_driver's return codes to provide more consistency
8456 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
8457 + add fallback definition for NCURSES_CONST to termcap.h.in (reported
8458 by Uchiyama Yasushi <uch@nop.or.jp>).
8459 + move lib_restart.c to ncurses/base, since it uses curses functions
8460 directly, and therefore cannot be used in libtinfo.so
8461 + rename micro_char_size to micro_col_size, adding #define to retain
8463 + add set_a_attributes and set_pglen_inch to terminfo structure, as per
8464 XSI and Solaris 2.5.
8465 + minor makefile files to build ncurses test_progs
8466 + update html files in misc directory to reflect changes since 4.2
8469 + disable scroll hints when hashmap is enabled (patch by Alexander
8471 + move logic for tic's verify of -e option versus -I and -C so that the
8472 terminfo data is not processed if we cannot handle -e (reported by
8473 Steven Schwartz <steves@unitrends.com>.
8474 + add test-driver traces to terminfo and termcap functions.
8475 + provide support for termcap ospeed variable by copying it from the
8476 internal cur_term member, and using ospeed as the baudrate reference
8477 for the delay_output and tputs functions. If an application does not
8478 set ospeed, the library behaves as before, except that _nc_timed_wait
8479 is no longer used, or needed, since ospeed always has a value. But
8480 the application can modify ospeed to adjust the output of padding
8481 characters (prompted by a bug report for screen 3.7.6 and email from
8482 Michael Schroeder <Michael.Schroeder@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>).
8483 + removed some unused ifdef's as part of Alexander's restructuring.
8484 + reviewed/updated curses.h, term.h against X/Open Curses Issue 4
8485 Version 2. This includes making some parameters NCURSES_CONST
8486 rather than const, e.g., in termcap.h.
8487 + change linux terminfo entry to use ncv#2, since underline does not
8491 + miscellaneous corrections for curses.h to match XSI.
8492 + change --enable-no-padding configure option to be normally enabled.
8493 + add section to ncurses manpage for environment variables.
8494 + investigated Debian bug report that pertains to screen 3.7.4/3.7.6
8495 changes, found no sign of problems on Linux (or on SunOS, Solaris)
8496 running screen built with ncurses.
8497 + check if tmp_fp is opened in tic.c before closing it (patch by Pavel
8498 Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>).
8499 + correct several font specification typos in man-pages.
8502 + correct default value for BUILD_CC (reported by Larry Virden).
8505 + modify _nc_set_writedir() to set a flag in _nc_tic_dir() to prevent
8506 it from changing the terminfo directory after chdir'ing to it.
8507 Otherwise, a relative path in $TERMINFO would confuse tic (prompted
8508 by a Debian bug report).
8509 + correct/update ncsa terminfo entry (report by Larry Virden).
8510 + update xterm-xfree86 terminfo to current (patch 90), smcur/rmcur
8512 + add Mathew Vernon's mach console entries to terminfo.src
8513 + more changes, moving functions, as part of Alexander's restructuring.
8514 + modify configure script for GNU/Hurd share-library support, introduce
8515 BUILD_CC variable for cross compiling (patch by Uchiyama Yasushi
8519 + add environment variable NCURSES_NO_SETBUF to allow disabling the
8520 setbuf feature, for testing purposes.
8521 + correct ifdef's for termcap.h versus term.h that suppress redundant
8522 declarations of prototypes (reported by H.J.Lu).
8523 + modify Makefile.os2 to add linker flags which allow multiple copies
8524 of an application to coexist (reported by Ilya Zakharevich).
8525 + update Makefile.glibc and associated configure script so that ncurses
8526 builds as a glibc add-on with the new directory configuration
8527 (reported by H.J.Lu).
8530 + modify gen_reps() function in gen.c to work properly on SunOS
8531 (sparc), which is a left-to-right architecture.
8532 + modify relative_move and tputs to avoid an interaction with the
8533 BSD-style padding. The relative_move function could produce a string
8534 to replace on the screen which began with a numeric character, which
8535 was then interpreted by tputs as padding. Now relative_move will not
8536 generate a string with a leading digit in that case (overwrite).
8537 Also, tputs will only interpret padding if the string begins with a
8538 digit; as coded it permitted a string to begin with a decimal point
8539 or asterisk (reported by Larry Virden).
8540 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
8541 + fix a typo in m_driver.c mouse handling and improves the error
8543 + fix broken mouse handling in the Ada95 binding
8544 + make the Ada95 sample application menus work with the new menu mouse
8546 + improve the mouse handling introduced by Ilya; it now handles menus
8548 + repair a minor bug in the menu_driver code discovered during this
8550 + add new function wmouse_trafo() to hide implementation details of
8551 _yoffset member of WINDOW struct needed for mouse coordinate
8555 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to avoid using return-value of sprintf, since
8556 some older implementations (e.g., SunOS 4.x) return the buffer
8557 address rather than its length.
8558 > patch by Rick Ohnemus:
8559 + modify demo.cc to get it to compile with newer versions of egcs.
8560 + trim a space that appears at the end of the table preprocessor lines
8561 ('\" t). This space prevents some versions of man from displaying
8562 the pages - changed to remove all trailing whitespace (TD)
8563 + finally, 'make clean' does not remove panel objects.
8564 > patches by Ilya Zakharevich:
8565 + allow remapping of OS/2 mouse buttons using environment variable
8566 MOUSE_BUTTONS_123 with the default value 132.
8567 + add mouse support to ncurses menus.
8570 + modify misc/makedef.cmd to report old-style .def file symbols, and to
8571 generate the .def files sorted by increasing names rather than the
8573 + add misc/*.ref which are J.J.G.Ripoll's dll definition files (renamed
8574 from misc/*.old), and updated based on the entrypoint coding he used
8575 for an older version of ncurses.
8576 + add README.emx, to document how to build on OS/2 EMX.
8577 + updates for config.guess, config.sub from Lynx
8578 > patches by Ilya Zakharevich:
8579 + minor fixes for mouse handling mode:
8580 a) Do not initialize mouse if the request is to have no mouse;
8581 b) Allow switching of OS/2 VIO mouse on and off.
8582 + modify Makefile.os2 to support alternative means of generating
8583 configure script, by translating Unix script with Perl.
8584 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
8585 + Updates MANIFEST to reflect changes in source structure
8586 + Eliminates a problem introduced with my last patch for the C++
8587 binding in the panels code. It removes the update() call done in the
8589 + Changes in the Ada95 binding to better support systems where
8590 sizeof(chtype)!=sizeof(int) (e.g. DEC Alpha).
8593 + modify install-script for manpages to skip over .orig and .rej files
8594 (request by Larry Virden).
8595 > patches/discussion by Alexander V Lukyanov:
8596 + move base-library sources into ncurses/base and tty (serial terminal)
8597 sources into ncurses/tty, as part of Alexander V Lukyanov's proposed
8598 changes to ncurses library.
8599 + copy _tracemouse() into ncurses.c so that lib_tracemse.c need not
8600 be linked into the normal ncurses library.
8601 + move macro winch to a function, to hide details of struct ldat
8602 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
8603 + fix a potential compile problem in cursesw.cc
8604 + some Ada95 cosmetics
8605 + fix a gen.c problem when compiling on 64-Bit machines
8606 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in "-L" linker switch
8607 + modify Ada95 makefiles to use the INSTALL_PREFIX setting.
8610 + ifdef'd out lib_freeall.c when not configured.
8611 + rename _tracebits() to _nc_tracebits().
8612 + move terminfo-library sources into ncurses/tinfo, and trace-support
8613 functions into ncurses/trace as part of Alexander V Lukyanov's
8614 proposed changes to ncurses library.
8615 + modify generated term.h to always specify its own definitions for
8616 HAVE_TERMIOS_H, etc., to guard against inclusion by programs with
8617 broken configure scripts.
8620 + modify terminfo parsing to accept octal and hexadecimal constants,
8622 + remove an autoconf 2.10 artifact from the configure script's check
8623 for "-g" compiler options. (Though harmless, this confused someone
8624 at Debian, who recently issued a patch that results in the opposite
8626 + add configure option --with-ada-compiler to accommodate installations
8627 that do not use gcc as the driver for GNAT (patch by Juergen
8631 + ensure ./man exists in configure script, needed when configuring
8632 with --srcdir option.
8633 + modify infocmp "-r" option to remove limit on formatted termcap
8634 output, which makes it more like Solaris' version.
8635 + modify captoinfo to treat no-argument case more like Solaris'
8636 version, which uses the contents of $TERMCAP as the entry to format.
8637 + modify mk-2nd.awk to handle subdirectories, e.g., ncurses/tty
8638 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
8641 + modify --with-terminfo-dirs option so that the default value is the
8642 ${datadir} value, unless $TERMINFO_DIRS is already set. This gets
8643 rid of a hardcoded list of candidate directories in the configure
8645 + add some error-checking to _nc_read_file_entry() to ensure that
8646 strings are properly terminated (Todd C Miller).
8647 + rename manpage file curs_scr_dmp.3x to curs_scr_dump.3x, to
8648 correspond with contents (reported by Neil Zanella
8649 <nzanella@cs.mun.ca>).
8650 + remove redundant configure check for C++ which did not work when $CXX
8651 was specified with a full pathname (reported by Andreas Jaeger).
8652 + corrected bcopy/memmove check; the macro was not standalone.
8655 + remove unnecessary portion of OS/2 EMX mouse change from
8656 check_pending() (reported by Alexander V Lukyanov).
8659 + implement mouse support for OS/2 EMX (adapted from patch against
8660 4.2(?) by Ilya Zakharevich).
8661 + add configure-check for bcopy/memmove, for 980919 changes to hashmap.
8662 + merge Data General terminfo from Hasufin <hasufin@vidnet.net> - TD
8663 + merge AIX 3.2.5 terminfo descriptions for IBM terminals, replaces
8664 some older entries - TD
8665 + modify tic to compile into %'char' form in preference to %{number},
8666 since that is a little more efficient.
8667 + minor correction to infocmp to avoid displaying "difference" between
8668 two capabilities that are rendered in equivalent forms.
8669 + add "-g" option to tic/infocmp to force character constants to be
8670 displayed in quoted form. Otherwise their decimal values are shown.
8671 + modify setupterm so that cancelled strings are treated the same as
8672 absent strings, cancelled and absent booleans false (does not affect
8674 + modify tic, infocmp to discard redundant i3, r3 strings when output
8676 > patch by Alexander V Lukyanov:
8677 + improve performance of tparm, now it takes 19% instead of 25% when
8679 + rename maxlen/minlen to prec/width for better readability.
8680 + use format string for printing strings.
8681 + use len argument correctly in save_text, and pass it to save_number.
8684 + make test_progs compile (but hashmap does not function).
8685 + correct NC_BUFFERED macro, used in lib_mvcur test-driver, modify
8686 associated logic to avoid freeing the SP->_setbuf data.
8687 + add modules home_terminfo and getenv_num to libtinfo.
8688 + move write_entry to libtinfo, to work with termcap caching.
8689 + minor fixes to blue.c to build with atac.
8690 + remove softscroll.c module; no longer needed for testing.
8691 > patches by Todd C Miller:
8692 + use strtol(3) instead of atoi(3) when parsing env variables so we can
8693 detect a bogus (non-numeric) value.
8694 + check for terminal names > MAX_NAME_SIZE in a few more places when
8695 dealing with env variables again.
8696 + fix a MAX_NAME_SIZE that should be MAX_NAME_SIZE+1
8697 + use sizeof instead of strlen(3) on PRIVATE_INFO since it is a fixed
8698 string #define (compile time vs runtime).
8699 + when setting errno to ENOMEM, set it right before the return, not
8700 before code that could, possibly, set errno to a different value.
8701 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
8702 + use default background in update_cost_from_blank()
8703 + disable scroll-hints when hashmap is configured.
8704 + improve integration of hashmap scrolling code, by adding oldhash and
8705 newhash data to SP struct.
8706 + invoke del_curterm from delscreen.
8707 + modify del_curterm to set cur_term to null if it matches the
8708 function's parameter which is deleted.
8709 + modify lib_doupdate to prefer parm_ich to the enter_insert_mode and
8710 exit_insert_mode combination, adjusting InsCharCost to check
8711 enter_insert_mode, exit_insert_mode and insert_padding. Add
8712 insert_padding in insert mode after each char. This adds new costs
8716 + modify test-driver in lib_mvcur.s to use _nc_setbuffer, for
8717 consistent treatment.
8718 + modify ncurses to restore output to unbuffered on endwin, and resume
8719 buffering in refresh (see lib_set_term.c and NC_BUFFERED macro).
8720 + corrected HTML version numbers (according to the W3C validator, they
8721 never were HTML 2.0-compliant, but are acceptable 3.0).
8724 + modify MKterminfo.sh to generate terminfo.5 with tables sorted by
8725 capability name, as in SVr4.
8726 + modified term.h, termcap.h headers to avoid redundant declarations.
8727 + change 'u_int' type in tset.c to unsigned, making this compile on
8728 Sequent PRX 4.1 (reported by Michael Sterrett <msterret@coat.com>).
8731 + corrections to mailing addresses, and moving the magic line that
8732 causes the man program to invoke tbl to the first line of each
8733 manpage (patch by Rick Ohnemus <rick@ecompcon.com>).
8734 + add Makefile.os2 and supporting scripts to generate dll's on OS/2 EMX
8735 (from J.J.G.Ripoll, with further integration by TD).
8736 + correct a typo in icl6404 terminfo entry.
8737 + add xtermm and xtermc terminfo entries.
8738 > from esr's terminfo version:
8739 + Added Francesco Potorti's tuned Wyse 99 entries.
8740 + dtterm enacs (from Alexander V Lukyanov).
8741 + Add ncsa-ns, ncsa-m-ns and ncsa-m entries from esr version.
8744 + document AT&T acs characters in terminfo.5 manpage.
8745 + use EMX _scrsize() function if terminfo and environment do not
8746 declare the screen size (reported by Ilya Zakharevich
8747 <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>).
8748 + remove spurious '\' characters from eterm and osborne terminfo
8749 entries (prompted by an old Debian bug report).
8750 + correct reversed malloc/realloc calls in _nc_doalloc (reported by
8751 Hans-Joachim Widmaier <hjwidmai@foxboro.com>).
8752 + correct misplaced parenthesis which caused file-descriptor from
8753 opening termcap to be lost, from 980725 changes (reported by Andreas
8757 + modify lib_setup.c to eliminate unneeded include of <sys/ioctl.h>
8758 when termios is not used (patch by Todd C Miller).
8759 + add function _nc_doalloc, to ensure that failed realloc calls do not
8760 leak memory (reported by Todd C Miller).
8761 + improved ncsa-telnet terminfo entry.
8764 + correct missing braces around a trace statement in read_entry.c,
8765 from 980808 (reported by Kim DeVaughn <kimdv@best.com> and Liviu
8769 + fix missing include <errno.h> in ditto.c (reported by Bernhard
8770 Rosenkraenzer <bero@k5.sucks.eu.org>)
8771 + add NCSA telnet terminfo entries from Francesco Potorti
8772 <F.Potorti@cnuce.cnr.it>, from Debian bug reports.
8773 + make handling of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables more compatible with
8774 Solaris by allowing them to individually override the window size
8775 as obtained via ioctl.
8778 + modify lib_vidattr.c to allow for terminal types (e.g., xterm-color)
8779 which may reset all attributes in the 'op' capability, so that colors
8780 are set before turning on bold and other attributes, but still after
8781 turning attributes off.
8782 + add 'ditto.c' to test directory to illustrate use of newterm for
8783 initializing multiple screens.
8784 + modify _nc_write_entry() to recover from failed attempt to link alias
8785 for a terminfo on a filesystem which does not preserve character case
8786 (reported by Peter L Jordan <PJordan@chla.usc.edu>).
8789 + updated versions of config.guess and config.sub based on automake 1.3
8790 + change name-comparisons in lib_termcap to compare no more than 2
8791 characters (gleaned from Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-8.8, verified
8792 with Solaris curses).
8793 + fix typo in curs_insstr.3x (patch by Todd C Miller)
8794 + use 'access()' to check if ncurses library should be permitted to
8795 open or modify files with fopen/open/link/unlink/remove calls, in
8796 case the calling application is running in setuid mode (request by
8797 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>, responding to Duncan Simpson
8798 <dps@io.stargate.co.uk>).
8799 + arm100 terminfo entries from Dave Millen <dmill@globalnet.co.uk>).
8800 + qnxt2 and minitel terminfo entries from esr's version.
8803 + use -R option with ldconfig on FreeBSD because otherwise it resets
8804 the search path to /usr/lib (reported by Dan Nelson).
8805 + add -soname option when building shared libraries on OpenBSD 2.x
8806 (request by QingLong).
8807 + add configure options --with-manpage-format and
8808 --with-manpage-renames (request by QingLong).
8809 + correct conversion of CANCELLED_NUMERIC in write_object(), which was
8810 omitting the high-order byte, producing a 254 in the compiled
8812 + modify return-values of tgetflag, tgetnum, tgetstr, tigetflag,
8813 tigetnum and tigetstr to be compatible with Solaris (gleaned from
8814 Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-8.8).
8815 + modify _nc_syserr_abort to abort only when compiled for debugging,
8816 otherwise simply exit with an error.
8819 + modify Ada95 'gen' program to use appropriate library suffix (e.g.,
8820 "_g" for a debug build).
8821 + update Ada95 'make clean' rule to include generics .ali files
8822 + add a configure test to ensure that if GNAT is found, that it can
8823 compile/link working Ada95 program.
8824 + flush output in beep and flash functions, fixing a problem with
8825 getstr (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov)
8826 + fix egcs 1.0.2 warning for etip.h (patch by Chris Johns).
8827 + correct ifdef/brace nesting in lib_sprintf.c (patch by Bernhard
8828 Rosenkraenzer <bero@Pool.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>).
8829 + correct typo in wattr_get macro from 980509 fixes (patch by Dan
8833 + merge changes from current XFree86 xterm terminfo descriptions.
8834 + add configure option '--without-ada'.
8835 + add a smart-default for termcap 'ac' to terminfo 'acs_chars' which
8836 corresponds to vt100.
8837 + change translation for termcap 'rs' to terminfo 'rs2', which is
8838 the documented equivalent, rather than 'rs1'.
8841 + slow 'worm' down a little, for very fast machines.
8842 + corrected firstchar/lastchar computation in lib_hline.c
8843 + simplify some expressions with CHANGED_CELL, CHANGED_RANGE and
8844 CHANGED_TO_EOL macros.
8845 + modify init_pair so that if a color-pair is reinitialized, we will
8846 repaint the areas of the screen whose color changes, like SVr4 curses
8847 (reported by Christian Maurer <maurer@inf.fu-berlin.de>).
8848 + modify getsyx/setsyx macros to comply with SVr4 man-page which
8849 says that leaveok() affects their behavior (report by Darryl Miles,
8850 patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
8853 + review terminfo.5 against Solaris 2.6 curses version, corrected
8854 several minor errors/omissions.
8855 + implement tparm %l format.
8856 + implement tparm printf-style width and precision for %s, %d, %x, %o
8858 + implement tparm dynamic variables (reported by Xiaodan Tang).
8861 + update man-page for for wattr_set, wattr_get (cf: 980509)
8862 + correct limits in hashtest, which would cause nonprinting characters
8863 to be written to large screens.
8864 + correct configure script, when --without-cxx was specified: the
8865 wrong variable was used for cf_cv_type_of_bool. Compilers up to gcc
8866 2.8 tolerated the missing 'int'.
8867 + remove the hardcoded name "gcc" for the GNU Ada compiler. The
8868 compiler's name might be something like "egcs" (patch by Juergen
8870 + correct curs_addch.3x, which implied that echochar could directly
8871 display control characters (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
8872 + fix typos in ncurses-intro.html (patch by Sidik Isani
8873 <isani@cfht.hawaii.edu>)
8876 + add configure test for conflicting use of exception in math.h and
8878 + minor optimization to 'hash()' function in hashmap.c, reduces its
8880 + correct form of LD_SHARED_OPTS for HP-UX 10.x (patch by Tim Mooney).
8881 + fix missing quotes for 'print' in MKunctrl.awk script (reported by
8882 Mihai Budiu <mihaib@gs41.sp.cs.cmu.edu>).
8883 > patch by Alexander V Lukyanov:
8884 + correct problem on Solaris (with poll() function) where getch could
8885 hang indefinitely even if timeout(x) was called. This turned out to
8886 be because milliseconds was not updated before 'goto retry' in
8888 + simplified the function _nc_timed_wait and fixed another bug, which
8889 was the assumption of !GOOD_SELECT && HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY in *timeleft
8891 + removed the cycle on EINTR, as it seems to be useless.
8894 + add makefile-rule for test/keynames
8895 + modify run_tic.sh and shlib to ensure that user's .profile does not
8896 override the $PATH used to run tic (patch by Tim Mooney).
8897 + restore LD_SHARED_OPTS to $(LD_SHARED_FLAGS) when linking programs,
8898 needed for HP-UX shared-library path (recommended by Tim Mooney).
8899 + remove special case of HP-UX -L options, use +b options to embed
8900 $(libdir) in the shared libraries (recommended by Tim Mooney).
8901 + add checks for some possible buffer overflows and unchecked
8902 malloc/realloc/calloc/strdup return values (patch by Todd C Miller
8903 <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>)
8906 + correct maxx/maxy expression for num_columns/num_lines in derwin
8907 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
8908 + add /usr/share/lib/terminfo and /usr/lib/terminfo as compatibilty
8909 fallbacks to _nc_read_entry(), along with --with-terminfo-dirs
8910 configure option (suggested by Mike Hopkirk).
8911 + modify config.guess to recognize Unixware 2.1 and 7 (patch by Mike
8912 Hopkirk <hops@sco.com>).
8913 + suppress definition of CC_SHARED_OPTS in LDFLAGS_SHARED in c++
8914 Makefile.in, since this conflicts when g++ is used with HP-UX
8915 compiler (reported by Tim Mooney).
8916 + parenthesize 'strcpy' calls in c++ binding to workaround redefinition
8917 in some C++ implementations (reported by several people running
8918 egcs with glibc 2.0.93, analysis by Andreas Jaeger.
8921 + modify write_entry.c so that it will not attempt to link aliases
8922 with embedded '/', but give only a warning.
8923 + put -L$(libdir) first when linking programs, except for HP-UX.
8924 + modify comp_scan.c to handle SVr4 terminfo description for att477,
8925 which contains a colon in the description field.
8926 + modify configure script to support SCO osr5.0.5 shared libraries,
8927 from comp.unix.sco.programmer newsgroup item (Mike Hopkirk).
8928 + eliminate extra GoTo call in lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V.
8930 + minor adjustments of const/NCURSES_CONST from IRIX compile.
8931 + add updates based on esr's 980509 version of terminfo.src.
8934 + correct macros for wattr_set, wattr_get, separate wattrset macro from
8935 these to preserve behavior that allows attributes to be combined with
8937 + add configure option --enable-no-padding, to allow environment
8938 variable $NCURSES_NO_PADDING to eliminate non-mandatory padding,
8939 thereby making terminal emulators (e.g., for vt100) a little more
8940 efficient (request by Daniel Eisenbud <eisenbud@cs.swarthmore.edu>).
8941 + modify configure script to embed ABI in shared libraries for HP-UX
8942 10.x (detailed request by Tim Mooney).
8943 + add test/example of the 'filter()' function.
8944 + add nxterm and xterm-color terminfo description (request by Cristian
8945 Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>).
8946 + modify rxvt terminfo description to clear alternate screen before
8947 switching back to normal screen, for compatibility with applications
8948 which use xterm (reported by Manoj Kasichainula <manojk@io.com>).
8949 + modify linux terminfo description to reset color palette (reported
8950 by Telford Tendys <telford@eng.uts.edu.au>).
8951 + correction to doupdate, for case where terminal does not support
8952 insert/delete character. The logic did not check that there was a
8953 difference in alignment of changes to old/new screens before
8954 repainting the whole non-blank portion of the line. Modified to fall
8955 through into logic that reduces by the portion which does not differ
8956 (reported by Daniel Eisenbud <eisenbud@cs.swarthmore.edu>).
8957 + minor performance improvement to wnoutrefresh by moving some
8958 comparisons out of inner loop.
8961 + modify configure script to substitute NCURSES_CONST in curses.h
8962 + updated terminfo entries for xterm-xf86-v40, xterm-16color,
8963 xterm-8bit to correspond to XFree86 3.9Ag.
8964 + remove restriction that forces ncurses to use setaf/setab if the
8965 number of colors is greater than 8. (see 970524 for xterm-16color).
8966 + change order of -L options (so that $(libdir) is searched first) when
8967 linking tic and other programs, to workaround HP's linker.
8968 Otherwise, the -L../lib is embedded when linking against shared
8969 libraries and the installed program does not run (reported by Ralf
8971 + modify configuration of shared libraries on Digital Unix so that
8972 versioning is embedded in the library, rather than implied by
8973 links (patch by Tim Mooney).
8976 + modify etip.h to avoid conflict with math.h on HP-UX 9.03 with gcc
8977 2.8.1 which redefines 'exception' (reported by Ralf Hildebrandt
8978 <R.Hildebrandt@tu-bs.de>).
8979 + correct configure tests in CF_SHARED_OPTS which used $CC value to
8980 check for gcc, rather than autoconf's $GCC value. This did not
8981 work properly if the full pathname of the compiler were given
8982 (reported by Michael Yount <yount@csf.Colorado.edu>).
8983 + revise check for compiler options to force ANSI mode since repeating
8984 an option such as -Aa causes HP's compiler to fail on its own headers
8985 (reported by Clint Olsen <olsenc@ichips.intel.com>).
8988 + ifdef'd has_key() and mcprint() as extended functions.
8989 + modified several prototypes to correspond with 1997 version of
8990 X/Open Curses (affects ABI since developers have used attr_get).
8991 + remove spurious trailing blanks in glibc addon-scripts (patch by
8993 + insert a few braces at locations where gcc-2.8.x asks to use them to
8994 avoid ambigous else's, use -fpic rather than -fPIC for Linux (patch
8995 by Juergen Pfeifer).
8998 + split SHLIB_LIST into SHLIB_DIRS/SHLIB_LIST to keep -L options
8999 before -l to accommodate Solaris' linker (reported by Larry Virden).
9002 + modify lib_color.c to eliminate dependency on orig_colors and
9003 orig_pair, since SVr4 curses does not require these either, but
9004 uses them when they are available.
9005 + add detailed usage-message to infocmp.
9006 + correct a typo in att6386 entry (a "%?" which was "?").
9007 + add -f option to infocmp and tic, which formats the terminfo
9008 if/then/else/endif so that they are readable (with newlines and
9010 + fixes for glibc addon scripts (patch by H.J.Lu).
9013 + revise configure macro CF_SPEED_TYPE so that termcap.h has speed_t
9014 declared (from Adam J Richter <adam@yggdrasil.com>)
9015 + remove spurious curs_set() call from leaveok() (J T Conklin).
9016 + corrected handling leaveok() in doupdate() (patch by Alexander V.
9018 + improved version of wredrawln (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9019 + correct c++/Makefile.in so install target do not have embedded ../lib
9020 to confuse it (patch by Thomas Graf <graf@essi.fr>).
9021 + add warning to preinstall rule which checks if the installer would
9022 overwrite a curses.h or termcap.h that is not derived from ncurses.
9023 (The recommended configuration for developers who need both is to
9024 use --disable-overwrite).
9025 + modify preinstall rule in top-level Makefile to avoid implicit
9026 use of 'sh', to accommodate Ultrix 4.4 (reported by Joao Palhoto
9027 Matos <jmatos@math.ist.utl.pt>, patch by Thomas Esser
9028 <te@informatik.uni-hannover.de>)
9029 + refine ifdef's for TRACE so that libncurses has fewer dependencies
9030 on libtinfo when TRACE is disabled.
9031 + modify configure script so that if the --with-termlib option is used
9032 to generate a separate terminfo library, we chain it to the ncurses
9033 library with a "-l" option (reported by Darryl Miles and Ian T.
9037 + correct limits and window in wredrawln function (reported/analysis by
9038 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9039 + correct sed expression in configure script for --with-fallback
9040 option (patch by Jesse Thilo).
9041 + correct some places in configure script where $enableval was used
9042 rather than $withval (patch by Darryl Miles <dlm@g7led.demon.co.uk>).
9043 + modify some man-pages so no '.' or '..' falls between TH and SH
9044 macros, to accommodate man_db program (reported by Ian T. Zimmerman
9046 + terminfo.src 10.2.1 downloaded from ESR's webpage (ESR).
9047 > several changes by Juergen Pfeifer:
9048 + add copyright notices (and rcs id's) on remaining man-pages.
9049 + corrected prototypes for slk_* functions, using chtype rather than
9051 + implemented the wcolor_set() and slk_color() functions
9052 + the slk_attr_{set,off,on} functions need an additional void*
9053 parameter according to XSI.
9054 + fix the C++ and Ada95 binding as well as the man pages to
9055 reflect above enhancements.
9058 + use 'stat()' rather than 'access()' in toe.c to check for the
9059 existence of $HOME/.terminfo, since it may be a file.
9060 + suppress configure CF_CXX_LIBRARY check if we are not using g++
9061 2.7.x, since this is not needed with g++ 2.8 or egcs (patch by
9063 + turn on hashmap scrolling code by default, intend to remedy defects
9065 + minor corrections to terminfo.src changelog.
9067 980302 4.2 release for upload to prep.ai.mit.edu
9068 + correct Florian's email address in ncurses-intro.html
9069 + terminfo.src 10.2.0 (ESR).
9072 + add linux-koi8r replace linux-koi8, which is not KOI8 (patch by
9073 QingLong <qinglong@Bolizm.ihep.su>).
9074 + minor documentation fixes (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
9075 + add setlocale() call to ncurses.c (reported by Claes G. Lindblad
9076 <claesg@algonet.se>).
9077 + correct sign-extension in lib_insstr.c (reported by Sotiris
9078 Vassilopoulos <svas@leon.nrcps.ariadne-t.gr>)
9081 + regenerated some documentation overlooked in 980214 patch
9082 (ncurses-intro.doc, curs_outopts.3x.html)
9083 + minor ifdef change to C++ binding to work with gcc 2.8.0 (patch by
9085 + change maintainer's mailing address to florian@gnu.org, change
9086 tentative mailing list address to bug-ncurses-request@gnu.org (patch
9087 by Florian La Roche).
9088 + add definition of $(REL_VERSION) to c++/Makefile.in (reported by Gran
9089 Hasse <gh@raditex.se>).
9090 + restore version numbers to Ada95 binding, accidentally deleted by
9091 copyright patch (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
9094 + remove ncurses.lsm from MANIFEST so that it won't be used in FSF
9095 distributions, though it is retained in development.
9096 + correct scaling of milliseconds to nanoseconds in lib_napms.c (patch
9098 + update mailing-list information (bug-ncurses@gnu.org).
9099 + update announcement for upcoming 4.2 release.
9100 + modify -lm test to check for 'sin()' rather than 'floor()'
9101 + remove spurious commas from terminfo.src descriptions.
9102 + change copyright notices to Free Software Foundation
9105 + minor fixes for autoconf macros CF_ERRNO, CF_HELP_MESSAGE and
9107 + modify Makefile.glibc so that $(objpfx) is defined (H.J.Lu).
9108 + ifdef-out true-return from _nc_mouse_inline() which depends on
9109 merge of QNX patch (pending 4.2 release).
9110 > patch to split off seldom-used modules in ncurses (J T Conklin):
9111 This reduces size by up to 2.6kb.
9112 + move functionality of _nc_usleep into napms, add configuration case
9114 + moved wchgat() from lib_addch.c to lib_chgat.c
9115 + moved clearok(), immedok(), leaveok(), and scrollok() from
9116 lib_options.c to lib_clearok.c, lib_immedok.c, lib_leaveok.c and
9118 + moved napms() from lib_kernel.c to lib_napms.c
9119 + moved echo() and noecho() from lib_raw.c to lib_echo.c
9120 + moved nl() and nonl() from lib_raw.c to lib_nl.c
9123 + corrected conversion in tclock.c (cf: 971018).
9124 + updates to Makefile.glibc and associated Linux configure script
9126 + workaround a quoting problem on SunOS with tar-copy.sh
9127 + correct init_pair() calls in worm.c to work when use_default_colors()
9129 + include <sys/types.h> in CF_SYS_TIME_SELECT to work with FreeBSD
9131 + add ncv capability to FreeBSD console (cons25w), making reverse
9133 + correct sense of configure-test for sys/time.h inclusion with
9135 + fixes for Ada95/ada_include/Makefile.in to work with --srcdir option.
9136 + remove unused/obsolete test-program rules from progs/Makefile.in
9137 (the rules in ncurses/Makefile.in work).
9138 + remove shared-library loader flags from test/Makefile.in, etc.
9139 + simplify test/configure.in using new version of autoconf to create
9141 + suppress suffix rules in test/Makefile.in, provide explicit
9142 dependency to work with --srcdir option and less capable 'make'
9144 > adapted from patch for QNX by Xiaodan Tang:
9145 + initialize %P and %g variables set/used in tparm, and also ensure
9146 that empty strings don't return a null result from tparam_internal
9147 + add QNX-specific prototype for vsscanf()
9148 + move initialization of SP->_keytry from init_keytry() to newterm() to
9149 avoid resetting it via a keyok() call by mouse_activate().
9150 + reorganized some functions in lib_mouse() to use case-statements.
9151 + remove sgr string from qnx terminfo entry since it is reported to
9152 turn off attributes inconsistently.
9155 + add f/F/b/B commands to ncurses 'b' test to toggle colors, providing
9156 test for no_color_video.
9157 + adjusted emx.src to use no_color_video, now works with ncurses 'b'
9159 + implement no_color_video attribute, and as a special case, reverse
9160 colors when the reverse attribute cannot be combined with color.
9161 + check for empty string in $TERM variable (reported by Brett Michaels
9163 > from reports by Fred Fish:
9164 + add configure-test for isascii
9165 + add configure-test for -lm library.
9166 + modify CF_BOOL_SIZE to check if C++ bool types are unsigned.
9167 > patches by J.J.G.Ripoll
9168 + add configure/makefile variables to support .exe extension on
9169 OS/2 EMX (requires additional autoconf patches).
9170 + explicitly initialize variables in lib_data.c to appease OS/2 linker
9171 > patches by Fred Fish <fnf@ninemoons.com>
9172 + misc/Makefile.in (install.data): Avoid trying to install the CVS
9174 + aclocal.m4 (install.includes): Remove files in the include directory
9175 where we are going to install new ones, not the original source
9177 + misc/terminfo.src: Add entry for "beterm", derived from termcap
9178 distributed with BeOS PR2 using captoinfo.
9179 + aclocal.m4: Wrap $cf_cv_type_of_bool with quotes (contains space)
9180 + aclocal.m4: Assume bool types are unsigned.
9181 + progs/infocmp.c: workaround mwcc 32k function data limit
9184 + correct initialization of color-pair (cf: 970524) in xmas.c, which
9185 was using only one color-pair for all colors (reported by
9187 + add multithread options for objects build on EMX, for compatibility
9189 + split up an expression in MKlib_gen.sh to work around a problem on
9190 OS/2 EMX, with 'ash' (patch by J.J.G.Ripoll).
9191 + change terminfo entries xterm (xterm-xf86-v40), xterm-8bit rs1 to use
9193 + rename terminfo entry xterm-xf86-v39t to xterm-xf86-v40
9194 + remove bold/underline from sun console entries since they're not
9196 + correct _tracef calls in _tracedump(), which did not separate format
9198 + correct getopt string for tic "-o" option, and add it to man-page
9199 synopsis (reported by Darren Hiebert <darren@hmi.com>).
9200 + correct typo in panel/Makefile.in, reversed if-statement in scrolling
9201 optimization (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9202 + test for 'remove()', use 'unlink() if not found (patch by Philippe De
9203 Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>).
9204 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
9205 + Improve a feature of the forms driver. For invisible fields
9206 (O_VISIBLE off) only the contents but not the attributes are cleared.
9207 We now clear both. (Reported by Javier Kohan
9208 <jkohan@adan.fceia.unr.edu.ar>)
9209 + The man page form_field_opts.3x makes now clear, that invisible
9210 fields are also always inactive.
9211 + adjust ifdef's to compile the C++ binding with the just released
9212 gcc-2.8.0 c++ and the corresponding new C++ libraries.
9215 + correct "?" command in ncurses.c; it was performing non-screen writes
9216 while the program was in screen mode. (It "worked" in 1.9.9e because
9217 that version sets OPOST and OCRNL incorrectly).
9218 + return error from functions in lib_kernel, lib_raw and lib_ti if
9219 cur_term is null, or if underlying I/O fails.
9220 + amend change to tputs() so that it does not return an error if
9221 cur_term is null, since some applications depend on being able to use
9222 tputs without initializing the terminal (reported by Christian J.
9223 Robinson <infynity@cyberhighway.net>).
9226 + add a copy of emx.src from J.J.G.Ripoll's OS/2 EMX version of ncurses
9227 1.9.9e, together with fixes/additions for the "ansi" terminal type.
9228 + add tic check for save/restore cursor if change_scroll_region is
9229 defined (reference: O'Reilly book).
9230 + modify read_termcap.c to handle EMX-style pathnames (reported by
9232 + modify lib_raw.c to use EMX's setmode (patch from J.J.G.Ripoll).
9233 Ripoll says EMX's curses does this.
9234 + modify _nc_tic_expand() to generate \0 rather than \200.
9235 + move/revise 'expand()' from dump_entry.c to ncurses library as
9236 _nc_tic_expand(), for use by tack.
9237 + decode \a as \007 for terminfo, as per XSI.
9238 + correct translation of terminfo "^@", to \200, like \0.
9239 + modify next_char() to treat <cr><lf> the same as <newline>, for
9240 cross-platform compatibility.
9241 + use new version of autoconf (971230) to work around limited
9242 environment on CLIX, due to the way autoconf builds --help message.
9243 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9244 + check that the Ada95 binding runs against the correct version of
9246 + insert constants about the library version into the main spec-file of
9250 + modify open/fopen calls to use binary mode, needed for EMX.
9251 + modify configure script to work with autoconf 2.10 mods for OS/2
9252 EMX (from J.J.G.Ripoll).
9253 + generated ncurses_cfg.h with patch (971222) to autoconf 2.12 which
9254 bypasses limited sed buffer length.
9255 > several changes from Juan Jose Garcia Ripoll <worm@arrakis.es>
9256 (J.J.G.Ripoll) to support OS/2 EMX:
9257 + add a _scrolling flag to SP, to set when we encounter a terminal
9258 that simply cannot scroll.
9259 + corrected logic in _nc_add_to_try(), by ensuring that strings with
9260 embedded \200 characters are matched.
9261 + don't assume the host has 'link()' function, for linking terminfo
9265 + if there's no ioctl's to support sigwinch handler, disable it.
9266 + add configure option --disable-ext-funcs to remove the extended
9267 functions from the build.
9268 + add configure option --with-termlib to generate the terminfo
9269 functions as a separate library.
9270 + add 'sources' rule to facilitate cross-compiling.
9271 + review/fix order of mostlyclean/clean/distclean rules.
9272 + modify install-rule for headers to first remove old header, in
9273 case there was a symbolic link that confuses the install script.
9274 + corrected substitution for NCURSES_CONST in term.h (cf: 971108)
9275 + add null pointer checks in wnoutrefresh(), overlap() (patch by
9276 Xiaodan Tang <xtang@qnx.com>)
9277 + correct tputs(), which could dereference a null cur_term if invoked
9278 before terminal is initialized (patch by Christopher Seawood
9280 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9281 + makes better use of "pragma Inline" in the Ada95 binding
9282 + resynchronizes the generated html manpages
9285 + additional fixes for man-pages section-references
9286 + add (for debugging) a check for ich/ich1 conflict with smir/rmir
9288 + remove hpa/vpa from rxvt terminal description because they are not
9289 implemented correctly, added sgr0.
9290 + change ncurses 's' to use raw mode, so ^Q works (reported by Rudolf
9291 Leitgeb <leitgeb@leland.stanford.edu>)
9294 + modify protection when installing libraries to (normally) not
9295 executable. HP-UX shared libraries are an exception.
9296 + add configure check for 'tack'.
9297 + implement script for renaming section-references in man-page install,
9298 for Debian configuration.
9299 + add validity-check for SP in trace code in baudrate() (reported by
9301 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov (fixes to match sol25 curses)
9302 + modify 'overlay()' so that copy applies target window background to
9304 + correct 'mvwin()' so that it does not clear the previous locations.
9305 + correct lib_acs.c so that 8-bit character is not sign expanded in
9306 case of wide characters in chtype.
9307 + correct control-char test in lib_addch.c for use with wide chars
9308 + use attribute in the chtype when adding a control character in
9309 lib_addch.c control char was added with current attribute
9312 + save/restore errno in _tracef() function
9313 + change treatment of initialize_color to use a range of 0..1000
9314 (recommended by Daniel Weaver).
9315 + set umask in mkinstalldirs, fixing problems reported by users who
9316 have set root's umask to 077.
9317 + correct bug in tic that caused capabilities to be reprinted at the
9318 end of output when they had embedded comments.
9319 + rewrote wredrawln to correspond to XSI, and split-out since it is
9320 not often used (from report by Alexander V. Lukyanov, 970825)
9321 + rewrote Dan Nelson's change to make it portable, as well as to
9322 correct logic for handling backslashes.
9323 + add code to _nc_tgetent() to make it work more like a real tgetent().
9324 It removes all empty fields, and removes all but the first in a group
9325 of duplicate caps. The code was pulled from the BSD libtermcap code
9326 in termcap.c (patch by Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
9327 + don't include --enable-widec in the --with-develop configure option,
9328 since it is not binary-compatible with 4.1 (noted by Alexander V.
9330 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9331 + further improvements of the usage of elaboration pragmas in the Ada95
9333 + enhanced Ada95 sample to use the user_data mechanism for panels.
9334 + a fix for the configuration script to make gnat-3.10 the required
9336 + resync of the html version of the manpages
9339 > fixes/updates for terminfo.src:
9340 + add vt220-js, pilot, rbcomm, datapoint entries from esr's 27-jun-97
9342 + add hds200 description (Walter Skorski)
9343 + add EMX 0.9b descriptions
9344 + correct rmso/smso capabilities in wy30-mc and wy50-mc (Daniel Weaver)
9345 + rename xhpterm back to hpterm.
9346 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9347 + Improves the usage of elaboration pragmas for the Ada95 binding.
9348 + Adds a translation of the test/rain.c into Ada95 to the samples.
9349 This has been contributed to the project by Laurent Pautet
9353 + increase MAX_NAME_SIZE to 512 to handle extremely long alias list
9355 + correction & simplification of delay computation in tputs, based on
9356 comments from Daniel Weaver.
9357 + replace test for SCO with more precise header tests.
9358 + add configure test for unsigned literals, use in NCURSES_BITS macro.
9359 + comment-out the -PIC, etc., flags from c++, progs and test makefiles
9360 since they probably are not needed, and are less efficient (noted by
9362 + add -L$(libdir) to loader options, after -L../lib so that loaders
9363 that record this information will tend to do the right thing if
9364 the programs are moved around after installing them (suggested by
9366 + add -R option to loader options for programs for Solaris if the
9367 --enable-rpath option is specified for the libraries.
9370 + correct installed filename for shared libraries on *BSD (reported by
9374 + cleanup logic for deciding when tputs() should call delay_output(),
9375 based on comments from Daniel Weaver.
9376 + modified tputs() to avoid use of float.
9377 + correct use of trailpad in tputs(), which used the wrong variable
9378 in call to delay_output().
9379 + correct inverted expression for null-count in delay_output()
9380 (analysis by Daniel Weaver).
9381 + apply --enable-rpath option to Solaris (requested by Larry Virden).
9382 + correct substitution of EXTRA_CFLAGS for gcc 2.6.3
9383 + correct check for error-return by _nc_tgetent(), which returns 0
9385 + add configure test for BSD 4.4 cgetent() function, modify
9386 read_termcap.c to use the host's version of that if found, using the
9387 terminal database on FreeBSD (reported by Peter Wemm).
9388 + add u8, u9 strings to sun-il description for Daniel Weaver.
9389 + use NCURSES_CONST in panel's user-pointer.
9390 + modify edit_cfg.sh and MKterm.h.awk.in to substitute NCURSES_CONST
9391 so that will work on NeXT.
9392 + use _nc_set_screen() rather than assignments to SP to fix port to
9393 NeXT (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
9396 + force mandatory padding in bell and flash_screen, as specified in
9398 + don't allow padding_baud_rate to override mandatory delays (reported
9400 + modify delay_output() to use _nc_timed_wait() if no baudrate has been
9401 defined, or if the cur_term pointer is not initialized. XSI treats
9402 this as unspecified. (requested by Daniel Weaver).
9403 + change getcap-cache ifdef's to eliminate unnecessary chdir/mkdir
9404 when that feature is not configured.
9405 + remove _nc_err_abort() calls when write_entry.c finds a directory but
9406 cannot write to it, e.g., when translating part/all of /etc/termcap
9407 (reported by Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>).
9408 (this dates back to 951102 in 1.9.7a).
9409 + minor ifdef fixes to compile with atac and glibc 2.0.5c
9410 + add check for -lgen when configuring regexpr.h
9411 + modify Solaris shared-library option "-d y" to "-dy" to workaround
9412 incompatibility of gcc 2.7.2 vs vendor's tools.
9415 + correct ifdef's for struct winsize vs struct ttysize in lib_setup.c
9417 + remove dangling backslash in panel/Makefile.in
9418 + modify MKkeyname.awk to work with SCO's nawk, which dumps core in the
9420 + correct length of allocation in _nc_add_to_try(), to allow for
9422 + correct logic in _nc_remove_key(), which was discarding too many
9423 nodes (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov)
9426 + add definition for $(REL_VERSION) to test/Makefile.in, so *BSD
9427 shared libraries link properly (see 970524).
9428 + modify Linux shared-library generation to include library
9429 dependencies (e.g., -lncurses and -lgpm) in the forms, menu and
9430 panel libraries (suggested by Juergen Pfeifer).
9431 + modify configure script to use config.guess and config.sub rather
9432 than uname, which is unreliable on some systems.
9433 + updated Makefile.glibc, test-built with glibc 2.0.5c
9434 + modify keyname() to return values consistent with SVr4 curses (patch
9436 > changes requested by Daniel Weaver:
9437 + modify delay_output() so that it uses the same output function as
9438 tputs() if called from that function.
9439 + move _baudrate from SCREEN to TERMINAL so that low-level use of
9440 tputs works when SP is not set.
9441 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9442 + factor lib_menu and lib_form into smaller modules
9443 + clean up the interface between panel and SCREEN
9444 + minor changes to the Ada95 mouse support implemenation
9445 + minor bugfix in C++ binding to ripoff windows
9446 + fix a few Ada95 html documentation pages
9449 + split-out lib_ungetch.c, make runtime link to resizeterm() to
9450 decouple those modules from lib_restart.c
9451 + add xterm-xf86-v39t description to terminfo.src
9452 + reset SP->_endwin in lib_tstp.c cleanup() function after calling
9453 endwin() to avoid unnecessary repainting if the application has
9454 established an atexit function, etc. Encountered this problem in
9455 the c++ demo, whose destructors repaint the screen.
9456 + combine _nc_get_screensize() and resizeterm() calls as new function
9457 _nc_update_screensize().
9458 + minor fixes to allow compile with g++ (suggested by Nelson H. F.
9460 + implement install-rules for Ada95 makefiles.
9461 + use screen_lines or MAXLINES as needed where LINES was coded,
9462 as well as screen_columns for COLS, in the ncurses library.
9463 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
9464 + modify logic for ripped-off lines to handle several SCREENs.
9465 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9466 + factors lib_slk.c into some smaller modules
9467 + factors panel.c into some smaller modules
9468 + puts the static information about the current panel stack into the
9469 SCREEN structure to allow different panel stacks on different
9471 + preliminary fix for an error adjusting LINES to account for
9475 + move _nc_max_click_interval and other mouse interface items to SCREEN
9476 struct so that they are associated with a single terminal, and also
9477 save memory when the application does not need a mouse (roughly 3k vs
9479 + modify mouseinterval() so that a negative parameter queries the
9480 click-interval without modifying it.
9481 + modify ncurses 'i' test to work with ncurses' apparent extension from
9482 SVr4, i.e., allows nocbreak+noecho (analysis by Alexander V.
9484 + add configure options --with-ada-includes and --with-ada-objects,
9485 to drive Ada95 binding install (not yet implemented).
9486 + install C++ binding as -lncurses++ and associated headers with the
9487 other ncurses headers.
9488 + fix header uninstall if configure --srcdir is used.
9489 > minor interface changes to support 'tack' program -TD
9490 (request by Daniel Weaver <danw@znyx.com>).
9491 + export functions _nc_trans_string() and _nc_msec_cost().
9492 + add variable _nc_nulls_sent, to record the number of padding
9493 characters output in delay_output().
9494 + move tests for generic_type and hard_copy terminals in setupterm()
9495 to the end of that function so that the library will still be
9496 initialized, though not generally useful for curses programs.
9497 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
9498 + modify ClrBottom() to avoid using clr_eos if there is only one line
9500 + typo in configure --help.
9501 > patch by J T Conklin (with minor resync against Juergen's changes)
9502 + split-out lib_flash.c from lib_beep.c
9503 + split-out lib_hline.c and lib_vline.c from lib_box.c
9504 + split-out lib_wattron.c, lib_wattroff.c from lib_addch.c
9507 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9508 + correct source/target of c++/edit_cfg.sh
9511 + add color, mouse support to kterm terminfo entry.
9512 + modify lib_mouse.c to recognize rxvt, kterm, color_xterm also as
9513 providing "xterm"-style mouse.
9514 + updated rxvt's terminfo description to correspond to 2.21b, with
9515 fixes for the acsc (the box1 capability is incorrect, ech1 does not
9517 + fix logic in parse_entry.c that discarded acsc when 'synthesizing'
9518 an entry from equivalents in XENIX or AIX. This lets ncurses handle
9519 the distribution copy of rxvt's terminfo.
9520 + modify acsc capability for linux and linux-koi8 terminfo descriptions
9521 (from Pavel Roskin <pavel@absolute.spb.su>).
9522 + corrected definition in curses.h for ACS_LANTERN, which was 'I'
9523 rather than 'i' (see 970802).
9524 + updated terminfo.src with reformatted acsc entries, and repaired the
9525 trashed entries with spurious '\' characters that this exposed.
9526 + add logic to dump_entry.c to reformat acsc entries into canonical
9527 form (sorted, unique mapping).
9528 + add configure script to generate c++/etip.h
9529 + add configure --with-develop option, to enable by default most of the
9530 experimental options (requested by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9531 + rename 'deinstall' to 'uninstall', following GNU convention
9532 (suggested by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9533 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
9534 + modify tactics 2 and 5 in onscreen_mvcur(), to allow them on the last
9535 line of the screen, since carriage return will not cause a newline.
9536 + remove clause from PutCharLR() that would try to use
9537 eat_newline_glitch since that apparently does not work on some
9538 terminals (e.g., M$ telnet).
9539 + correct a limit check in scroll_csr_backward()
9540 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
9541 + adds dummy implementations of methods above() and below() to the
9543 + fixes missing returncode in NCursesWindow::ripoffline()
9544 + fixes missing returncode in TestApplication::run() in demo.cc
9545 + We should at least give a comment in etip.h why it is currently a
9546 problem to install the C++ binding somewhere
9547 + makes the WINDOW* argument of wenclose() a const.
9548 + modifies several of the routines in lib_adabind.c to use a const
9552 + add 'deinstall' rules.
9553 + use explicit assignments in configure --without-progs option to
9554 work around autoconf bug which doesn't always set $withval.
9555 + check for ldconfig, don't try to run it if not found.
9556 + implement simple/unoptimized case in lib_doupdate.c to handle
9557 display with magic cookie glitch, tested with ncurses.c program.
9558 + correct missing _tracef in getmouse(), to balance the returnCode
9560 + simplify show_attr() in ncurses.c using termattrs().
9561 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
9562 + provides missing inlines for mvw[hv]line in cursesw.h of the C++
9564 + fixes a typo in a comment of frm_driver.c
9565 + Enhances Ada95 Makefiles to fulfill the requirement of GNAT-3.10 that
9566 generics should be compiled. Proper fixes to the configuration
9567 scripts are also provided.
9570 + several modifications to the configure script (requested by Ward
9572 + add configure options --without-progs, to suppress the build of the
9573 utility programs, e.g., for cross-compiling.
9574 + add $(HOSTCCFLAGS) and $(HOSTLDFLAGS) symbols to ncurses
9575 Makefile.in, to simplify setup for cross compiling.
9576 + add logic in configure script to recognize "--target=vxworks", and
9577 generate load/install actions for VxWorks objects.
9578 + move typedef for sigaction_t into SigAction.h to work around problem
9579 generating lint library.
9580 + modify fty_regex.c to reflect renaming of ifdef's for regular
9582 + simplify ifdef in lib_setup.c for TIOCGWINSZ since that symbol may
9583 reside in <sys/ioctl.h>.
9584 + merge testcurs.c with version from PDCurses 2.3, clarifying some of
9585 the more obscure tests, which rely upon color.
9586 + use macros getbegyx() and getmaxyx() in newdemo.c and testcurs.c
9587 + modify ncurses.c to use getbegyx() and getmaxyx() macros to cover up
9588 implementation difference wrt SVr4 curses, allow 's' test to work.
9589 + add missing endwin() to testscanw.c program (reported by Fausto
9590 Saporito <fausap@itb.it>).
9591 + fixes/updates for Makefile.glibc and related files under sysdeps
9593 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
9594 + add checks for null pointers, especially WINDOW's throughout the
9596 + solve a problem with wrong calculation of panel overlapping (reported
9598 + make sure that a panel's window isn't a pad.
9599 + do more error checking in module lib_touch.c
9600 + missing files for Ada95 binding from the last patch
9601 + synch. of generated html pages (RCS-Id's were wrong in html files)
9602 + support for Key_Resize in Ada binding
9603 + changed documentation style in ./c++/cursesm.h
9604 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
9605 + undo attempt to do recursive inlining for PutChar(), noting that it
9606 did not improve timing measurably, but inflated the size of
9610 + modify rain.c to use color.
9611 + correct scroll_csr_backward() to match scroll_csr_forward().
9612 + minor adjustment to llib-lncurses, to work with Solaris 2.5.1
9613 + minor fixes to sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/configure to reflect renaming
9614 of configure cache variables in 970906.
9615 + correct logic involving changes to O_VISIBLE option in
9616 Synchronize_Options function in frm_driver.c (Tony Hoffmann
9617 <Tony.Hoffmann@hia.nrc.ca>)
9618 + add $(HOSTCC) symbol to ncurses Makefile.in, to simplify setup for
9619 cross compiling (suggested by Chris Johns).
9620 + modify ifdef in lib_setup.c to only include <sys/ioctl.h> if we can
9621 use it to support screen-size calculation (reported by Chris Johns).
9622 + #undef unctrl to avoid symbol conflict in port to RTEMS (reported by
9623 Chris Johns <cjohns@plessey.com.au>)
9624 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
9625 + simplified, made minor corrections to Ada95 binding to form
9627 + The C++ binding has been enhanced:
9628 + Improve NCursesWindow class: added additional methods to cover
9629 more ncurses functionality. Make refresh() and noutrefresh()
9630 virtual members to allow different implementation in the
9632 + CAUTION: changed order of parameters in vline() and hline() of
9633 NCursesWindow class.
9634 + Make refresh() in NCursesPanel non-static, it is now a
9635 reimplementation of refresh() in the base class. Added
9636 noutrefresh() to NCursesPanel.
9637 + Added NCursesForm and related classes to support libform
9639 + Moved most of configuration related stuff from cursesw.h to etip.h
9640 + Added NCursesApplication class to support easy configuration of
9641 menu and forms related attributes as well as ripped of title lines
9642 and Soft-Label-Keys for an application.
9643 + Support of Auto-Cleanup for a menu's fieldlist.
9644 + Change of return type for current_item() and operator[] for menus.
9646 + Fixed a bug in form/fld_def.c: take into account that copyarg and
9647 freearg for a fieldtype may be NULL, makearg must not be NULL
9648 + Fixed a bug in form/fld_type.c: in set_fieldtype_arg() makearg must
9649 not be NULL, copyarg and freearg may be NULL.
9650 + Fixed a bug in form/frm_def.c: Allow Disconnect_Fields() if it is
9651 already disconnected.
9652 + Enhance form/frm_driver.c: Allow growth of dynamic fields also on
9653 navigation requests.
9654 + Fixed a bug in form/fty_enum.c: wrong position of postincrement in
9655 case-insensitiva comparision routine.
9656 + Enhanced form/lib_adabind.c with function _nc_get_field() to get a
9657 forms field by index.
9658 + Enhanced menu/m_adabind.c with function _nc_get_item() to get a menus
9660 + Fixed in curses.h.in: make chtype argument for pechochar() constant.
9661 Mark wbkgdset() as implemented, remove wbkgdset macro, because it was
9662 broken (didn't handle colors correctly).
9663 + Enhanced lib_mouse.c: added _nc_has_mouse() function
9664 + Added _nc_has_mouse() prototype to curses.priv.h
9665 + Modified lib_bkgd.c: hopefully correct implementation of wbkgdset();
9666 streamlined implementation of wbkgd()
9667 + Modified lib_mvwin.c: Disable move of a pad. Implement (costly)
9668 move of subwindows. Fixed update behavior of movements of regular
9670 + Fixed lib_pad.c: make chtype argument of pechochar() const.
9671 + Fixed lib_window.c: dupwin() is not(!) in every bit a really clone
9672 of the original. Subwindows become regular windows by doing a
9674 + Improved manpage form_fieldtype.3x
9675 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
9676 + simplify the PutChar() handling of exit_am_mode, because we already
9677 know that auto_right_margin is true.
9678 + add a check in PutChar() for ability to insert to the case of
9679 shifting character to LR corner.
9680 + in terminal initialization by _nc_screen_resume(), make sure that
9681 terminal right margin mode is known.
9682 + move logic that invokes touchline(), or does the equivalent, into
9683 _nc_scroll_window().
9684 + modify scrolling logic use of insert/delete line capability, assuming
9685 that they affect the screen contents only within the current
9687 + modify rain.c to demonstrate SIGWINCH handler.
9688 + remove logic from getch() that would return an ERR if the application
9689 called getch() when the cursor was at the lower-right corner of the
9690 physical screen, and the terminal does not have insert-character
9692 + change view.c so that it breaks out of getch() loop if a KEY_RESIZE
9693 is read, and modify logic in getch() so this fix will yield the
9694 desired behavior, i.e., the screen is repainted automatically when
9695 the terminal window is resized.
9698 + add configure option --enable-sigwinch
9699 + modify view.c to test KEY_RESIZE logic, with "-r" option.
9700 + modify testcurs.c to eliminate misleading display wrt cursor type
9701 by testing if the terminal supports cnorm, civis, cvvis.
9702 + several fixes for m68k/NeXT 4.0, to bring cur_term, _nc_curr_line and
9703 _nc_curr_col variables into linked programs: move these variables,
9704 making new modules lib_cur_term and trace_buf (reported by Francisco
9705 Alberto Tomei Torres <fatomei@sandburg.unm.edu>).
9706 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
9707 + add pseudo-functionkey KEY_RESIZE which is returned by getch() when
9708 the SIGWINCH handler has been called since the last call to
9710 + modify lib_twait.c to hide EINTR only if HIDE_EINTR is defined.
9711 + add SIGWINCH handler to ncurses library which is used if there is no
9712 application SIGWINCH handler in effect when the screen is
9714 + make linked list of all SCREEN structures.
9715 + move curses.h include before definition of SCREEN to use types in
9717 + correction to ensure that wgetstr uses only a newline to force a
9721 + add experimental configure option --enable-safe-sprintf; the normal
9722 mode now allocates a buffer as large as the screen for the
9723 lib_printw.c functions.
9724 + modify wgetch to refresh screen when reading ungetch'd characters,
9725 since the application may require this - SVr4 does this.
9726 + refine treatment of newline in wgetstr to echo only when this would
9727 force the screen to scroll.
9730 + remove override in wgetstr() that forces keypad(), since SVr4 does
9732 + correct y-reference for erasure in wgetstr() when a wrap forces a
9734 + correct x-position in waddch() after a wrap forces a scroll.
9735 + echo newline in wgetstr(), making testscanw.c scroll properly when
9737 + modify vwscanw() to avoid potential buffer overflow.
9738 + rewrote lib_printw.c to eliminate fixed-buffer limits.
9739 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
9740 + correct an error in handling cooked mode in wgetch(); processing
9741 was in the wrong order.
9742 + simplified logic in wgetch() that handles backspace, etc., by using
9744 + correct wechochar() so that it interprets the output character as
9746 + modify pechochar() to use prefresh() rather than doupdate(), since
9747 the latter does not guarantee immediate refresh of the pad.
9748 + modify pechochar() so that if called with a non-pad WINDOW, will
9749 invoke wechochar() instead.
9750 + modify fifo indices to allow fifo to be longer than 127 bytes.
9753 + add xterm-8bit to terminfo.src
9754 + moved logic for SP->_fifohold inside check_pending() to make it
9755 work properly when we add calls to that function.
9756 + ensure that bool functions return only TRUE or FALSE, and TRUE/FALSE
9757 are assigned to bool values (patch by H.J.Lu).
9758 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
9759 + several fixes to getch:
9760 1. Separate cooked and raw keys in fifo
9761 2. Fix the case of ungetch'ed KEY_MOUSE
9762 3. wrap the code for hiding EINTR with ifdef HIDE_EINTR
9763 4. correctly handle input errors (i.e., EINTR) without loss of raw
9765 5. recognize ESC KEY_LEFT and similar
9766 6. correctly handle the case of receiption of KEY_MOUSE from gpm
9767 + correct off-by-one indexing error in _nc_mouse_parse(), that caused
9768 single mouse events (press/release) to be ignored in favor of
9769 composed events (click). Improves on a fix from integrating gpm
9771 + add another call to check_pending, before scrolling, for
9772 line-breakout optimization
9773 + improve hashmap.c by
9774 1. fixed loop condition in grow_hunks()
9775 2. not marking lines with offset 0
9776 3. fixed condition of 'too far' criteria, thus one-line hunks are
9777 ignored and two lines interchanged won't pass.
9778 + rewrote/simplified _nc_scroll_optimize() by separating into two
9779 passes, forward/backward, looking for chunks moving only in the given
9781 + move logic that emits sgr0 when initializing the screen to
9782 _nc_screen_init(), now invoked from newterm.
9783 + move cursor-movement cleanup from endwin() into _nc_mvcur_wrap()
9784 function and screen cleanup (i.e., color) into _nc_screen_wrap()
9786 + add new functions _nc_screen_init(), _nc_screen_resume() and
9788 + rename _nc_mvcur_scrolln() to _nc_scrolln().
9789 + add a copy of acs_map[] to the SCREEN structure, where it can be
9790 stored/retrieved via set_term().
9791 + move variables _nc_idcok, _nc_idlok, _nc_windows into the SCREEN
9795 + implement experimental _nc_perform_scroll().
9796 + modify newterm (actually _nc_setupscreen()) to emit an sgr0 when
9797 initializing the screen, as does SVr4 (reported by Alexander V.
9799 + added test_progs rule to ncurses/Makefile.
9800 + modify test/configure.in to check if initscr is already in $LIBS
9801 before looking for (n)curses library.
9802 + correct version-number in configure script for OSF1 shared-library
9803 options (patch by Tim Mooney).
9804 + add -DNDEBUG to CPPFLAGS for --enable-assertions (as Juergen
9805 originally patched) since the c++ demo files do not necessarily
9806 include ncurses_cfg.h
9807 + supply default value for --enable-assertions option in configure
9808 script (reported by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf-fs.usc.edu>).
9809 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
9810 + correct/simplify logic of werase(), wclrtoeol() and wclrbot(). See
9812 + optimize waddch_literal() and waddch_nosync() by factoring out
9813 common subexpressions.
9814 + correct sense of NDEBUG ifdef for CHECK_POSITION macro.
9815 + corrections to render_char(), to make handling of colored blanks
9816 match SVr4 curses, as well as to correct a bug that xor'd space
9817 against the background character.
9818 + replaced hash function with a faster one (timed it)
9819 + rewrote the hashmap algorithm to be one-pass, this avoids multiple
9820 cost_effective() calls on the same lines.
9821 + modified cost_effective() so it is now slightly more precise.
9822 > patches for glibc integration (H.J.Lu):
9823 + add modules define_key, keyok, name_match, tries
9824 + add makefile rules for some of the unit tests in ncurses (mvcur,
9825 captoinfo, hardscroll, hashmap).
9826 + update Linux configure-script for wide-character definitions.
9829 + modify _tracebits() to show the character size (e.g., CS8).
9830 + modify tparm() to emit '\200' where the generated string would have a
9831 null (reported by From: Ian Dall <Ian.Dall@dsto.defence.gov.au> for
9832 terminal type ncr7900).
9833 + modify install process so that ldconfig is not invoked if the
9834 package is built with an install-prefix.
9835 + correct test program for chtype size (reported by Tim Mooney).
9836 + add configure option --disable-scroll-hints, using this to ifdef the
9837 logic that computes indices for _nc_scroll_optimize().
9838 + add module ncurses/softscroll.c, to perform single-stage computation
9839 of scroll indices used in _nc_scroll_optimize(). This is faster than
9840 the existing scrolling algorithm, but tends to make too-small hunks.
9841 + eliminate fixed buffer size in _nc_linedump().
9842 + minor fixes to lib_doupdate.c to add tradeoff between clr_eol (el)
9843 and clr_bol (el1), refine logic in ClrUpdate() and ClrBottom() (patch
9844 by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9845 + add test/testaddch.c, from a pending patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov.
9846 + correct processing of "configure --enable-assertions" option (patch
9847 by Juergen Pfeifer).
9850 + add '-s' (single-step) option too test/hashtest.c, correct an error
9851 in loop limit for '-f' (footer option), toggle scrollok() when
9852 writing footer to avoid wrap at lower-right corner.
9853 + correct behavior of clrtoeol() immediately after wrapping cursor,
9854 which was not clearing the line at the cursor position (reported by
9855 Liviu Daia <daia@stoilow.imar.ro>).
9856 + corrected mapping for ACS_LANTERN, which was 'I' rather than 'i'
9857 (reported by Klaus Weide <kweide@tezcat.com>).
9858 + many corrections to make progs/capconvert work, as well as make it
9859 reasonably portable and integrated with ncurses 4.1 (reported by Dave
9860 Furstenau <df@ravine.binary.net>).
9863 + add flag SP->_fifohold, corresponding logic to modify the behavior of
9864 the line breakout logic so that if the application does not read
9865 input, refreshes will not be stopped, but only slowed.
9866 + generate slk_attr_off(), slk_attr_on(), slk_attr_set(), vid_attr(),
9867 ifdef'd for wide-character support, since ncurses' WA_xxx attribute
9868 masks are identical with the A_xxx masks.
9869 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to generate ifdef'd functions to support optional
9870 configuration of wide-characters.
9871 + modify tset to behave more like SVr4's tset, which does not modify
9872 the settings of intr, quit or erase unless they are given as command
9873 options (reported by Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe@math.utah.edu>).
9874 + modify tset to look in /etc/ttys or /etc/ttytype if the configuration
9875 does not have getttynam().
9876 + extend baudrate table in tset.c to match baudrate() function.
9877 + add table entries for B230400 and B460800 to baudrate() function.
9878 + improve breakout logic by allowing it before the first line updated,
9879 which is what SVr4 curses does (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9880 + correct initialization of vcost in relative_move(), for cursor-down
9881 case (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9882 > nits gleaned from Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-3:
9883 + install symbolic link for intotocap.
9884 + reference libc directly when making shared libraries.
9885 + correct renaming of curs_scr_dmp.3x in man_db.renames.
9886 + guard tgetflag() and other termcap functions against null cur_term
9890 + corrected initial state of software echo (error in 970405, reported
9891 by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
9892 + reviewed/added messages to configure script, so that all non-test
9893 options should be accompanied by a message.
9894 + add configure check for long filenames, using this to determine if
9895 it is safe to allow long aliases for terminal descriptions as does
9897 + add configure options for widec (wide character), hashmap (both
9899 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
9900 + hashmap.c - improved by heuristic, so that scroll test works much
9901 better when csr is not available.
9902 + hardscroll.c - patched so that it continues to scroll other chunks
9903 after failure to scroll one.
9904 + lib_doupdate.c - _nc_mvcur_scrolln extended to handle more cases; csr
9905 is avoided as it is relative costly. Fixed wrong coordinates in one
9906 case and wrong string in TRACE.
9907 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9908 + modify C++ binding to compile on AIX 4.x with the IBM C-SET++
9912 + remove alternate character set from kterm terminfo entry; it uses the
9913 shift-out control for a purpose incompatible with curses, i.e., font
9915 + disentangle 'xterm' terminfo entry from some derived entries that
9916 should be based on xterm-r6 instead.
9917 + add cbt to xterm-xf86-xv32 terminfo entry; I added the emulation for
9918 XFree86 3.1.2F, but overlooked its use in terminfo then - T.Dickey.
9919 + correct logic in lib_mvcur.c that uses back_tab.
9922 + correct change from 970628 to ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c so that
9923 contents of curscr are saved in newscr before clearing the screen.
9924 This is needed to make repainting work with the present logic of
9926 + use napms() rather than sleep() in tset.c to avoid interrupting I/O.
9929 + add limit checks to _nc_read_file_entry() to guard against overflow
9930 of buffer when reading incompatible terminfo format, e.g, from OSF/1.
9931 + correct some loop-variable errors in xmc support in lib_doupdate.c
9932 + modify ncurses 'b' test to add gaps, specified by user, to allow
9933 investigation of interaction with xmc (magic cookie) code.
9934 + correct typo in 970524 mods to xmas.c, had omitted empty parameter
9935 list from has_colors(), which gcc ignores, but SVr4 does not
9936 (reported by Larry Virden).
9937 + correct rmso capability in wy50-mc description.
9938 + add configure option "--enable-hard-tabs", renamed TABS_OK ifdef to
9940 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9941 + Add bindings for keyok() and define_key() to the Ada95 packages.
9942 + Improve man pages menu_post.3x and menu_format.3x
9943 + Fix the HTML pages in the Ada95/html directory to reflect the above
9947 + modify change from 970101 to ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c so that
9948 pending changes to both curscr and newscr are flushed properly.
9949 This fixes a case where the first scrolling operation in nvi would
9950 cause the screen to be cleared unnecessarily and repainted before
9951 doing the indexing, i.e., by repeatedly pressing 'j' (reported by
9953 + correct error in trans_string() which added embedded newlines in a
9954 terminfo description to the stored strings.
9955 + remove spurious newlines from sgr in wyse50 (and several other)
9956 terminfo descriptions.
9957 + add configure option for experimental xmc (magic cookie) code,
9958 "--enable-xmc-glitch". When disabled (the default), attributes that
9959 would store a magic cookie are suppressed in vidputs(). The magic
9960 cookie code is far from workable at this stage; the configuration
9961 option is a stopgap.
9962 + move _nc_initscr() from lib_initscr.c to lib_newterm.c
9963 + correct path for invoking make_keys (a missing "./").
9966 + correct sign-extension problem with "infocmp -e", which corrupted
9967 acsc values computed for linux fallback data.
9968 + correct dependency on ncurses/names.c (a missing "./").
9969 + modify configure script to use '&&' even for cd'ing to existing
9970 directories to work around broken shell interpreters.
9971 + correct a loop-limit in _nc_hash_map() (patch by Alexander V.
9975 + restore logic in _nc_scroll_optimize() which marks as touched the
9976 lines in curscr that are shifted.
9977 + add new utility 'make_keys' to compute keys.tries as a table rather
9978 than a series of function calls.
9979 + correct include-dependency for tic.h used by name_match
9980 + removed buffer-allocation for name and description from m_item_new.c,
9981 since this might result in incompatibilities with SVr4. Also fixed
9982 the corresponding Ada95 binding module (patch by Juergen Pfeifer,
9983 report by Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@foxnet.net>)
9984 + removed the mechanism to timestamp the generated Ada95 sources. This
9985 resulted always in generating patches for the HTML doc, even when
9986 nothing really changed (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
9987 + improve man page mitem_new.3x (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
9990 + remove ech capability from rxvt description because it does not work.
9991 + add missing case logic for infocmp -I option (reported by Lorenzo M.
9992 Catucci <lorenzo@argon.roma2.infn.it>)
9993 + correct old bug in pnoutrefresh() unmasked by fix in 970531; this
9994 caused glitches in the ncurses 'p' test since the area outside the
9995 pad was not compared when setting up indices for _nc_scroll_optimize.
9996 + rewrote tracebits() to workaround misdefinition of TOSTOP on Ultrix
9997 4.4, as well as to eliminate fixed-size buffer (reported by Chris
9998 Tanner <tannerc@aecl.ca>)
9999 + correct prototype for termattrs() as per XPG4 version 2.
10000 + add placeholder prototypes for color_set(), erasewchar(),
10001 term_attrs(), wcolor_set() as per XPG4 version 2.
10002 + correct attribution for progs/progs.priv.h and lib_twait.c
10003 + improve line-breakout logic by checking based on changed lines rather
10004 than total lines (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10005 + correct loop limits for table-lookup of enumerated value in form
10006 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
10007 + improve threshhold computation for determining when to call ClrToEOL
10008 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10011 + add configure option --disable-database to force the library to
10012 use only the fallback data.
10013 + add configure option --with-fallbacks, to specify list of fallback
10014 terminal descriptions.
10015 + add a symbolic link for ncurses.h during install; too many programs
10016 still assume there's an ncurses.h
10017 + add new terminfo.src entry for xterm-xf86-v33.
10018 + restore terminfo.src entry for emu to using setf/setb, since it is
10019 not, after all, generating ANSI sequences. Corrected missing comma
10020 that caused setf/setb entries to merge.
10021 + modify mousemask() to use keyok() to enable/disable KEY_MOUSE, so
10022 that applications can disable ncurses' mouse and supply their own
10024 + add extensions keyok() and define_key(). These are designed to allow
10025 the user's application better control over the use of function keys,
10026 e.g., disabling the ncurses KEY_MOUSE. (The define_key idea was from
10027 a mailing-list thread started by Kenneth Albanowski
10028 <kjahds@kjahds.com> Nov'1995).
10029 + restore original behavior in ncurses 'g' test, i.e., explicitly
10030 set the keypad mode rather than use the default, since it confuses
10032 + rewrote the newdemo banner so it's readable (reported by Hugh
10034 + tidy up exit from hashtest (reported by Hugh Daniel).
10035 + restore check for ^Q in ncurses 'g' test broken in 970510 (reported
10037 + correct tput program, checking return-value of setupterm (patch by
10039 + correct logic in pnoutrefresh() and pechochar() functions (reported
10040 by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf.usc.edu>). The computation
10041 of 'wide' date to eric's #283 (1.9.9), and the pechochar bug to the
10042 original implementation (1.9.6).
10043 + correct typo in vt102-w terminfo.src entry (patch by Robert Wuest
10044 <rwuest@sire.vt.com>)
10045 + move calls of _nc_background() out of various loops, as its return
10046 value will be the same for the whole window being operated on (patch
10048 + add macros getcur[xy] getbeg[xy] getpar[xy], which are defined in
10049 SVr4 headers (patch by J T Conklin <jtc@NetBSD.ORG>)
10050 + modify glibc addon-configure scripts (patch by H.J.Lu).
10051 + correct a bug in hashmap.c: the size used for clearing the hashmap
10052 table was incorrect, causing stack corruption for large values of
10053 LINES, e.g., >MAXLINES/2 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10054 + eric's terminfo 9.13.23 & 9.13.24 changes: replaced minitel-2 entry,
10055 added MGR, ansi-nt (note: the changes described for 9.13.24 have not
10057 > several changes by Juergen Pfeifer:
10058 + correct a missing error-return in form_driver.c when wrapping of a
10059 field is not possible.
10060 + correct logic in form_driver.c for configurations that do not have
10061 memccpy() (reported by Sidik Isani <isani@cfht.hawaii.edu>)
10062 + change several c++ binding functions to inline.
10063 + modify c++ menu binding to inherit from panels, for proper
10065 + correct freeing of menu items in c++ binding.
10066 + modify c++ binding to reflect removal of const from user data pointer
10067 in forms/menus libraries.
10070 + add description of xterm-16color.
10071 + modify name of shared-library on *BSD to end with $(REL_VERSION)
10072 rather than $(ABI_VERSION) to match actual convention on FreeBSD
10074 + add OpenBSD to shared-library case, same as NetBSD and FreeBSD
10075 (reported by Hugh Daniel <hugh@rat.toad.com>).
10076 + corrected include-dependency in menu/Makefile so that "make install"
10077 works properly w/o first doing "make".
10078 + add fallback definition for isascii, used in infocmp.
10079 + modify xmas to use color, and to exit right away when a key is
10081 + modify gdc so that the scrolled digits function as described (there
10082 was no time delay between the stages, and the digits overwrote the
10083 bounding box without tidying up).
10084 + modify lib_color.c to use setaf/setab only for the ANSI color codes
10085 0 through 7. Using 16 colors requires setf/setb.
10086 + modify ncurses 'c' test to work with 16 colors, as well as the normal
10088 + remove const qualifier from user data pointer in forms and menus
10089 libraries (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
10090 + rewrote 'waddchnstr()' to avoid using the _nc_waddch_nosync()
10091 function, thereby not interpreting tabs, etc., as per spec (patch by
10092 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10095 + suppress check for pre-existing ncurses header if the --prefix
10096 option is specified.
10097 + add configure options "--with-system-type" and
10098 "--with-system-release" to assist in checking the generated
10100 + add configure option "--enable-rpath" to allow installers to specify
10101 that programs linked against shared libraries will have their library
10102 path embedded, allowing installs into nonstandard locations.
10103 + add flags to OSF1 shared-library options to specify version and
10104 symbol file (patch by Tim Mooney <mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu>)
10105 + add missing definition for ABI_VERSION to c++/Makefile.in (reported
10106 by Satoshi Adachi <adachi@wisdom.aa.ap.titech.ac.jp>).
10107 + modify link flags to accommodate HP-UX linker which embeds absolute
10108 pathnames in executables linked against shared libraries (reported by
10109 Jason Evans <jasone@mrc.uidaho.edu>, solved by Alan Shutko
10110 <ats@hubert.wustl.edu>).
10111 + drop unnecessary check for attribute-change in onscreen_mvcur() since
10112 mvcur() is the only caller within the library, and that check in turn
10113 is exercised only from lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V.
10115 + add 'blank' parameter to _nc_scroll_window() so _nc_mvcur_scrolln()
10116 can use the background of stdscr as a parameter to that function
10117 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10118 + moved _nc_mvcur_scrolln() from lib_mvcur.c to lib_doupdate.c, to use
10119 the latter's internal functions, as well as to eliminate unnecessary
10120 cursor save/restore operations (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10121 + omit parameter of ClrUpdate(), since it is called only for newscr,
10122 further optimized/reduced by using ClearScreen() and TransformLine()
10123 to get rid of duplicate code (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10124 + modify scrolling algorithm in _nc_scroll_optimize() to reject hunks
10125 that are smaller than the distance to be moved (patch by Alexander V.
10127 + correct a place where the panel library was not ifdef'd in ncurses.c
10129 + documentation fixes (Juergen Pfeifer)
10131 970515 4.1 release for upload to prep.ai.mit.edu
10132 + re-tag changes since 970505 as 4.1 release.
10135 + modify ncurses 'g' test to allow mouse input
10136 + modify default xterm description to include mouse.
10137 + modify configure script to add -Wwrite-strings if gcc warnings are
10138 enabled while configuring --enable-const (and fixed related
10140 + add toggle, status display for keypad mode to ncurses 'g' test to
10141 verify that keypad and scrollok are not inherited from parent window
10142 during a call to newwin.
10143 + correction to MKexpanded.sh to make it work when configure --srcdir
10144 is used (reported by H.J.Lu).
10145 + revise test for bool-type, ensuring that it checks if builtin.h is
10146 available before including it, adding test for sizeof(bool) equal
10147 to sizeof(short), and warning user if the size cannot be determined
10148 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10149 + add files to support configuration of ncurses as an add-on library
10150 for GNU libc (patch by H.J.Lu <hjl@lucon.org>)
10153 + correct buffer overrun in lib_traceatr.c
10154 + modify change to lib_vidattr.c to avoid redundant orig_pair.
10155 + turn on 'echo()' in hanoi.c, since it is initially off.
10156 + rename local 'errno' variable in etip.h to avoid conflict with global
10158 + modify configure script to cache LD, AR, AR_OPTS (patch by H.J.Lu
10161 970505 4.1 pre-release
10162 + regenerate the misc directory html dumps without the link list, which
10164 + correct dependency in form directory makefile which caused
10165 unnecessary recompiles.
10166 + correct substitution for ABI_VERSION in test-makefile
10167 + modify install rules for shared-library targets to remove the target
10168 before installing, since some install programs do not properly handle
10169 overwrite of symbolic links.
10170 + change order of top-level targets so that 'include' immediate
10171 precedes the 'ncurses' directory, reducing the time between new
10172 headers and new libraries (requested by Larry Virden).
10173 + modify lib_vidattr.c so that colors are turned off only before
10174 modifying other attributes, turned on after others. This makes the
10175 hanoi.c program display correctly on FreeBSD console.
10176 + modify debug code in panel library to print user-data addresses
10177 rather than the strings which they (may) point to.
10178 + add check to ensure that C++ binding and demo are not built with g++
10179 versions below 2.7, since the binding uses templates.
10180 + modify c++ binding and demo to build and run with SGI's c++ compiler.
10181 (It also compiles with the Sun SparcWorks compiler, but the demo does
10182 not link, due to a vtbl problem).
10183 + corrections to demo.cc, to fix out-of-scope variables (Juergen
10187 + correct memory leak in _nc_trace_buf().
10188 + add configure test for regexpr.h, for Unixware 1.x.
10189 + correct missing "./" prefixing names of generated files in ncurses
10191 + use single-quotes in configure scripts assignments for MK_SHARED_LIB
10192 to workaround shell bug on FreeBSD 2.1.5
10193 + remove tabs from intermediate #define's for GCC_PRINTF, GCC_SCANF
10194 that caused incorrect result in ncurses_cfg.h
10195 + correct initialization in lib_trace.c, which omitted version info.
10196 + remove ech, el1 attributes from cons25w description; they appear to
10197 malfunction in FreeBSD 2.1.5
10198 + correct color attributes in terminfo.src and lib_color.c to match
10199 SVr4 behavior by interchanging codes 1,4, 3,6 in the setf/setb
10201 + use curs_set() rather than checks via tigetstr() for test programs
10202 that hide the cursor: firework, rain, worm.
10203 + ensure that if the terminal lacks change_scroll_region, parm_index
10204 and parm_rindex are used only to scroll the whole screen (patch by
10206 + correct curs_set() logic, which did not return ERR if the requested
10207 attributes did not exist, nor did it assume an unknown initial state
10208 for the cursor (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10209 + combine IDcTransformLine and NoIDcTransformLine to new TransformLine
10210 function in lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10211 + correct hashmap.c, which did not update index information (patch by
10212 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10213 + fixes for C++ binding and demo (see c++/NEWS) (Juergen Pfeifer).
10214 + correct index in lib_instr.c (Juergen Pfeifer).
10215 + correct typo in 970426 patch from Tom's cleanup of lib_overlay.c
10216 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
10219 + corrected cost computation in PutRange(), which was using
10220 milliseconds compared to characters by adding two new members to the
10221 SCREEN struct, _hpa_ch_cost and _cup_ch_cost.
10222 + drop ncurses/lib_unctrl.c, add ncurses/MKunctrl.awk to generate a
10223 const array of strings (suggested by Alexander V. Lukyanov). The
10224 original suggestion in 970118 used a perl script.
10225 + rewrote ncurses 'b' test to better exercise magic-cookie (xmc), as
10226 well as noting the attributes that are not supported by a terminal.
10227 + trace the computation of cost values in lib_mvcur.c
10228 + modify _nc_visbuf() to use octal rather than hex, corrected sign
10229 extension bug in that function that caused buffer overflow.
10230 + modify trace in lib_acs.c to use _nc_visbuf().
10231 + suppress trace within _traceattr2().
10232 + correct logic of _tracechtype2(), which did not account for repeats
10233 or redefinition within an acsc string.
10234 + modify debug-library version baudrate() to use environment variable
10235 $BAUDRATE to override speed computation. This is needed for
10236 regression testing.
10237 + correct problems shown by "weblint -pedantic".
10238 + update mailing-list information (now ncurses@bsdi.com).
10241 + Improve form_field_validation.3x manpage to better describe the
10242 precision parameter for TYPE_NUMERIC and TYPE_INTEGER. Provide more
10243 precise information how the range checking can be avoided. (patch by
10244 Juergen Pfeifer, reported by Bryan Henderson)
10245 + change type of min/max value of form types TYPE_INTEGER to long to
10246 match SVr4 documentation.
10247 + set the form window to stdscr in set_form_win() so that form_win()
10248 won't return null (patch by Juergen Pfeifer, reported by Bryan
10249 Henderson <bryanh@giraffe.netgate.net>).
10252 + corrected ifdef'ing of inline (cf: 970321) for TRACE vs C++.
10253 + corrected toggle_attr_off() macro (patch by Andries Brouwer).
10254 + modify treatment of empty token in $MANPATH to /usr/man (reported by
10255 <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>)
10256 + modify traces that record functions-called so that chtype and attr_t
10257 values are expressed symbolically, to simplify reuse of generated
10258 test-scripts on SVr4 regression testing.
10259 + add new trace functions _traceattr2() and _tracechtype2()
10262 + add configure option --enable-const, to support the use of 'const'
10263 where XSI should have, but did not, specify. This defines
10264 NCURSES_CONST, which is an empty token otherwise, for strict
10266 + make processing of configure options more verbose by echoing the
10267 --enable/--with values.
10268 + add configure option --enable-big-core
10269 + set initial state of software echo off as per XSI.
10270 + check for C++ builtin.h header
10271 + correct computation of absolute-path for $INSTALL that dropped "-c"
10272 parameter from the expression.
10273 + rename config.h to ncurses_cfg.h to avoid naming-conflict when
10274 ncurses is integrated into larger systems (adapted from diffs by
10276 + correct inequality in lib_doupdate.c that caused a single-char to not
10277 be updated when the char on the right-margin was not blank, idcok()
10278 was true (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov (in 970124), reported
10279 by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf-fs.usc.edu> in 970329).
10280 + modify 'clean' rule in include/Makefile so that files created by
10281 configure script are removed in 'distclean' rule instead.
10284 + correct array limit in tparam_internal(), add case to interpret "%x"
10285 (patch by Andreas Schwab)
10286 + rewrote number-parsing in ncurses.c 'd' test; it did not reset the
10287 value properly when non-numeric characters were given (reported by
10288 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>)
10291 + move definition of __INTERNAL_CAPS_VISIBLE before include for
10292 progs.priv.h (patch by David MacKenzie).
10293 + add configuration summary, reordered check for default include
10294 directory to better accommodate a case where installer is configuring
10295 a second copy of ncurses (reported by Klaus Weide
10296 <kweide@tezcat.com>)
10297 + moved the #define for 'inline' as an empty token from the
10298 $(CFLAGS_DEBUG) symbol into config.h, to avoid redefinition warning
10299 (reported by Ward Horner).
10300 + modify test for bool builtin type to use 'unsigned' rather than
10301 'unknown' when cross-compiling (reported by Ward Horner).
10304 + add header dependencies so that "make install.libs" will succeed
10305 even if "make all" is not done first.
10306 + moved some macros from lib_doupdate.c to curses.priv.h to use in
10307 expanded functions with ATAC.
10308 + correct implementation of lib_instr.c; both XSI and SVr4 agree that
10309 the winnstr functions can return more characters than will fit on one
10313 + modify script that generates lib_gen.c to support traces of called &
10315 + add new configure option "--disable-macros", for testing calls within
10317 + corrected logic that screens level-checking of called/return traces.
10320 + use new configure macro NC_SUBST to replace AC_PATH_PROG, better
10321 addressing request by Ward Horner.
10322 + check for cross-compiling before trying to invoke the autoconf
10323 AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED macro (reported by Ward Horner)
10324 + correct/simplify loop in _nc_visbuf(), 970201 changes omitted
10325 a pointer-increment.
10326 + eliminate obsolete symbol SHARED_ABI from dist.mk (noted by
10330 + add configure option --enable-expanded, together with code that
10331 implements an expanded form of certain complex macros, for testing
10333 + disable CHECK_POSITION unless --with-assertions is configured
10334 (Alexander V Lukyanov pointed out that this is redundant).
10335 + use keyname() to show traced chtype values where applicable rather
10336 than _tracechar(), which truncates the value to 8-bits.
10337 + minor fixes to TRACE_ICALLS, added T_CREATE, TRACE_CCALLS macros.
10338 + modify makefiles in progs and test directories to avoid using C
10339 preprocessor options on link commands (reported by Ward Horner)
10340 + correct ifdef/include-order for nc_alloc.h vs lib_freeall.c (reported
10342 + modify ifdef's to use configure-defined symbols consistently
10343 (reported by Ward Horner)
10344 + add/use new makefile symbols AR, AR_OPTS and LD to assist in non-UNIX
10345 ports (reported by Ward Horner <whorner@tsi-telsys.com>)
10346 + rename struct try to struct tries, to avoid name conflict with C++
10347 (reported by Gary Johnson).
10348 + modify worm.c to hide cursor while running.
10349 + add -Wcast-qual to gcc warnings, fix accordingly.
10350 + use PutChar rather than PutAttrChar in ClrToEOL to properly handle
10351 wrapping (Alexander V Lukyanov).
10352 + correct spurious echoing of input in hanoi.c from eric's #291 & #292
10353 patches (reported by Vernon C. Hoxie <vern@zebra.alphacdc.com>).
10354 + extend IRIX configuration to IRIX64
10355 + supply missing install.libs rule needed after restructuring
10359 + modify "make mostlyclean" to leave automatically-generated source
10360 in the ncurses directory, for use in cross-compiles.
10361 + autogenerated object-dependencies for test directory
10362 + add configure option --with-rcs-ids
10363 + modify configuration scripts to generate major/minor/patch versions
10364 (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
10365 + supply missing va_end's in lib_scanw.c
10366 + use stream I/O for trace-output, to eliminate fixed-size buffer
10367 + add TRACE_ICALLS definition/support to lib_trace.c
10368 + modify Ada95 binding to work with GNAT 3.09 (Juergen Pfeifer).
10371 + add/modify traces for called/return values to simplify extraction
10373 + changed _nc_visbuf to quote its result, and to dynamically allocate
10374 the returned buffer.
10375 + invoke ldconfig after installing shared library
10376 + modify install so that overwrite applies to shared library -lcurses
10377 in preference to static library (reported by Zeyd M Ben-Halim 960928).
10378 + correct missing ';' in 961221 mod to overwrite optional use of $(LN_S)
10380 + fixes to allow "make install" to work without first doing a "make
10381 all" (suggested by Larry Virden).
10384 + correct order of #ifdef for TABS_OK.
10385 + instrumented toe.c to test memory-leaks.
10386 + correct memory-deallocation in toe.c (patch by Jesse Thilo).
10387 + include <sys/types.h> in configuration test for regex.h (patch by
10389 + make infocmp recognize -I option, for SVr4 compatibility (reported by
10390 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>)
10393 + add extension 'use_default_colors()', modified test applications that
10394 use default background (firework, gdc, hanoi, knight, worm) to
10396 + correct some limit checks in lib_doupdate.c exposed while running
10398 + use typeCalloc macro for readability.
10399 + add/use definition for CONST to accommodate testing with Solaris
10400 (SVr4) curses, which doesn't use 'const' in its prototypes.
10401 + modify ifdef's in test/hashtest.c and test/view.c to compile with
10403 + modify _tracedump() to pad pad colors & attrs lines to match change
10404 in 970101 showing first/last changes.
10405 + corrected location of terminating null on dynamically allocated forms
10406 fields (patch by Per Foreby).
10409 + added headers to make view.c compile on SCO with the resizeterm()
10410 code (i.e., struct winsize) - though this compiles, I don't have a
10411 suitable test configuration since SIGWINCH doesn't pass my network to
10412 that machine - T.Dickey.
10413 + update test/configure.in to supply some default substitutions.
10414 + modify configure script to add -lncurses after -lgpm to fix problem
10415 linking against static libraries.
10416 + add a missing noraw() to test/ncurses.c (places noted by Jeremy
10418 + add a missing wclear() to test/testcurs.c (patch by Jeremy Buhler
10419 <jbuhler@cs.washington.edu>)
10420 + modify headers to accommodate compilers that don't allow duplicate
10421 "#define" lines for NCURSES_VERSION (reported by Larry W. Virden
10423 + fix formatting glitch in curs_getch.3x (patch by Jesse Thilo).
10424 + modify lib_doupdate to make el, el1 and ed optimization use the
10425 can_clear_with macro, and change EmitRange to allow leaving cursor at
10426 the middle of interval, rather than always at the end (patch by
10427 Alexander V Lukyanov). This was originally 960929, resync 970106.
10430 + workaround defect in autoconf 2.12 (which terminates configuration
10431 if no C++ compiler is found) by adding an option --without-cxx.
10432 + modify several man-pages to use tbl, where .nf/.fi was used (reported
10434 + correct font-codes in some man-pages (patch by Jesse Thilo
10435 <Jesse.Thilo@pobox.com>)
10436 + use configure script's knowledge of existence of g++ library for the
10437 c++ Makefile (reported by Paul Jackson).
10438 + correct misleading description of --datadir configuration option
10439 (reported by Paul Jackson <pj@sam.engr.sgi.com>)
10442 + several corrections to _nc_mvcur_scrolln(), prompted by a bug report
10444 > the logic for non_dest_scroll_region was interchanged between the
10445 forward & reverse scrolling cases.
10446 > multiple returns from the function allowed certain conditions to do
10447 part of an operation before discovering that it couldn't be
10448 completed, returning an error without restoring the cursor.
10449 > some returns were ERR, where the function had completed the
10450 operation, because the insert/delete line logic was improperly
10451 tested (this was probably the case Peter saw).
10452 > contrary to comments, some scrolling cases were tested after the
10453 insert/delete line method.
10454 + modify _tracedump() to show first/last changes.
10455 + modify param of ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c to 'newscr', fixes
10456 refresh problem (reported by Peter Wemm) that caused nvi to not show
10457 result of ":r !ls" until a ^L was typed.
10459 961229 (internal alpha)
10460 + correct some of the writable-strings warnings (reported by Gary
10461 Johnson <gjohnson@season.com>). Note that most of the remaining ones
10462 are part of the XSI specification, and can't be "fixed".
10463 + improve include-dependencies in form, menu, panel directories.
10464 + correct logic of delay_output(), which would return early if
10465 there is data on stdin.
10466 + modify interface & logic of _nc_timed_wait() to support 2 file
10467 descriptors, needed for GPM.
10468 + integrate patch by Andrew Kuchling <amk@magnet.com> for GPM (mouse)
10469 support, correcting logic in wgetch() and _nc_mouse_parse() which
10470 prevented patch from working properly -TD
10471 + improve performance of panel algorithm (Juergen Pfeifer 961203).
10472 + strip RCS id's from generated .html files in Ada95 subtree.
10473 + resync with generated .html files (Juergen Pfeifer 961223).
10474 + terminfo.src 10.1.0 (ESR).
10477 + release as 4.0 to accommodate Linux ld.so.1.8.5
10478 + correct syntax/spelling, regenerated .doc files from .html using
10480 + refined forms/menus makefiles (Juergen Pfeifer 961223).
10483 + remove logic in read_entry.c that attempts to refine errno by using
10484 'access()' for the directory (from patch by Florian La Roche).
10485 + correct configure test/substitution that inhibits generating
10486 include-path to /usr/include if gcc is used (reported by Florian La
10488 + modify setupterm() to allocate new TERMINAL for each call, just as
10489 solaris' curses does (Alexander V Lukyanov 960829).
10490 + corrected memory leaks in read_entry.c
10491 + add configure options --with-dbmalloc, --with-dmalloc, and
10492 --disable-leaks, tested by instrumenting infocmp, ncurses programs.
10493 + move #include's for stdlib.h and string.h to *.priv.h to accommodate
10495 + modify use of $(LN_S) to follow recommendation in autoconf 2.12,
10496 i.e., set current directory before linking.
10497 + split-out panel.priv.h, improve dependencies for forms, menus
10498 (Juergen Pfeifer 961204).
10499 + modify _nc_freewin() to reset globals curscr/newscr/stdscr when
10500 freeing the corresponding WINDOW (found using Purify).
10501 + modify delwin() to return ERR if the window to be deleted has
10502 subwindows, needed as a side-effect of resizeterm() (found using
10503 Purify). Tested and found that SVr4 curses behaves this way.
10504 + implement logic for _nc_freeall(), bringing stub up to date.
10507 + modify wbkgd() so that it doesn't set nulls in the rendered text,
10508 even if its argument doesn't specify a character (fixes test case by
10509 Juergen Pfeifer for bug-report).
10510 + set window-attributes in wbkgd(), to simplify comparison against
10511 Solaris curses, which does this.
10514 + replace most constants in ncurses 'o' test by expressions, making it
10515 work with wider range of screen sizes.
10516 + add options to ncurses.c to specify 'e' test softkey format, and the
10517 number of header/footer lines to rip-off.
10518 + add ^R (repaint after resize), ^L (refresh) commands to ncurses 'p'
10520 + add shell-out (!) command to ncurses 'p' test to allow test of
10521 resize between endwin/refresh.
10522 + correct line-wrap case in mvcur() by emitting carriage return,
10523 overlooked in 960928, but needed due to SVr4 compatibility changes to
10524 terminal modes in 960907.
10525 + correct logic in wresize that causes new lines to be allocated,
10526 broken for the special case of increasing rows only in 960907's fix
10528 + modify configure script to generate $(LDFLAGS) with -L and -l options
10529 in preference to explicit library filenames. (NOTE: this may
10530 require further amending, since I vaguely recall a dynamic loader
10531 that did not work properly without the full names, but it should be
10532 handled as an exception to the rule, since some linkers do bulk
10533 inclusion of libraries when given the full name - T.Dickey).
10534 + modify configure script to allow user-supplied $CFLAGS to set the
10535 debug-option in all libraries (requested by lots of people) -TD
10536 + use return consistently from main(), rather than exit (reported by
10538 + add --enable-getcap-cache option to configure, normally disabled
10539 (requested by Florian La Roche).
10540 + make configure test for gettimeofday() and possibly -lbsd more
10541 efficient (requested by Florian La Roche <florian@knorke.saar.de>)
10542 + minor adjustments to Ada95 binding (patches by Juergen Pfeifer)
10543 + correct attributes after emitting orig_pair in lib_vidattr.c (patch
10544 by Alexander V Lukyanov).
10547 + corrected README wrt Ada95 (Juergen Pfeifer)
10550 + integrate resizeterm() into doupdate(), so that if screen size
10551 changes between endwin/refresh, ncurses will resize windows to fit
10552 (this needs additional testing with pads and softkeys).
10553 + add, for memory-leak testing, _nc_freeall() entrypoint to free all
10554 data used in ncurses library.
10555 + initialize _nc_idcok, _nc_idlok statically to resolve discrepancy
10556 between initscr() and newwin() initialization (reported by
10557 Alexander V Lukyanov).
10558 + test built VERSION=4.0, SHARED_ABI=4 with Linux ld.so.1.8.5
10559 (set beta versions to those values -- NOTE that subsequent pre-4.0
10560 beta may not be interchangeable).
10561 + modify configure script to work with autoconf 2.12
10563 961130 1.9.9g release
10564 + add copyright notices to configuration scripts (written by Thomas
10568 > patch, mostly for panel (Juergen Pfeifer):
10569 + cosmetic improvement for a few routines in the ncurses core library
10570 to avoid warning messages.
10571 + the panel overlap detection was broken
10572 + the panel_window() function was not fool-proof.
10574 + Cosmetic changes (also to avoid warning messages when compiling with
10578 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
10579 + eliminates warning messages for the compile of libform.
10580 + inserts Per Foreby's new field type TYPE_IPV4 into libform.
10581 + Updates man page and the Ada95 binding to reflect this.
10582 + Improves inlining in libmenu and libform.
10585 + improve the use of the "const" qualifier in the
10586 panel library (Juergen Pfeifer)
10587 + change set_panel_userptr() and panel_userptr() to use void*
10591 + change ABI to 3.4
10592 + package with 961119 version of Ada95 binding (fixes for gnat-3.07).
10594 + correct initialization of the stdscr pseudo panel in panel library
10596 + use MODULE_ID (rcs keywords) in forms and menus libraries (Juergen
10598 > patch #324 (ESR):
10599 + typo in curs_termcap man page (reported by Hendrik Reichel
10600 <106065.2344@compuserve.com>)
10601 + change default xterm entry to xterm-r6.
10602 + add entry for color_xterm
10605 + lint found several functions that had only #define implementations
10606 (e.g., attr_off), modified curses.h.in to generate them as per XSI
10607 Curses requirement that every macro be available as a function.
10608 + add check in infocmp.c to guard against string compare of
10609 CANCELLED_STRING values.
10610 + modify firework.c, rain.c to hide cursor while running.
10611 + correct missing va_end in lib_tparm.c
10612 + modify hanoi.c to work on non-color terminals, and to use timing
10613 delays when in autoplay mode.
10614 + correct 'echochar()' to refresh immediately (reported by Adrian
10615 Garside <94ajg2@eng.cam.ac.uk>)
10616 > patch #322 (ESR):
10617 + reorganize terminfo.src entries for xterm.
10620 + corrected error in line-breakout logic (lib_doupdate.c)
10621 + modified newdemo to use wgetch(win) rather than getch() to eliminate
10622 a spurious clear-screen.
10623 + corrected ifdef's for 'poll()' configuration.
10624 + added modules to ncurses, form, menu for Ada95 binding (Juergen
10626 + modify set_field_buffer() to allow assignment of string longer than
10627 the initial buffer length, and to return the complete string rather
10628 than only the initial size (Juergen Pfeifer and Per Foreby
10629 <perf@efd.lth.se>).
10632 + configure for 'poll()' in preference to 'select()', since older
10633 systems are more likely to have a broken 'select()'.
10634 + modified render_char() to avoid OR'ing colors.
10635 + minor fixes to testcurs.c, newdemo.c test programs: ifdef'd out the
10636 resize test, use wbkgd and corrected box() parameters.
10637 + make flushinp() test work in ncurses.c by using napms() instead of
10639 + undo ESR's changes to xterm-x11r6 (it no longer matched the X11R6.1
10640 distribution, as stated)
10641 + terminfo 9.13.18 resync (ESR)
10642 + check for getenv("HOME") returning null (ESR).
10643 + change buffer used to decode xterm-mouse commands to unsigned to
10644 handle displays wider than 128 chars (Juergen Pfeifer).
10645 + correct typo curs_outopts.3x (Juergen Pfeifer).
10646 + correct limit-checking in wenclose() (Juergen Pfeifer).
10647 + correction to Peter Wemm's newwin change (Thomas Fehr
10649 + corrections to logic that combines colors and attributes; they must
10650 not be OR'd (Juergen Pfeifer, extending from report/patch by Rick
10654 + reset flags in 'getwin()' that might cause refresh to attempt to
10655 manipulate the non-existent parent of a window that is read from a
10656 file (lib_screen.c).
10657 + restructure _nc_timed_wait() to log more information, and to try to
10658 recover from badly-behaved 'select()' calls (still testing this).
10659 + move define for GOOD_SELECT into configure script.
10660 + corrected extra '\' character inserted before ',' in comp_scan.c
10661 + corrected expansion of %-format characters in dump_entry.c; some were
10662 rendered as octal constants.
10663 + modify dump_entry.c to make terminfo output more readable and like
10664 SVr4, by using "\s" for spaces (leading/trailing only), "\," for
10665 comma, "\^" and "\:" as well.
10666 + corrected some memory leaks in ncurses.c, and a minor logic error
10667 in the top-level command-parser.
10668 + correction for label format 4 (PC style with info line), a
10669 slk_clear(), slk_restore() sequence didn't redraw the info line
10671 + modified the slk window (if simulated) to inherit the background and
10672 default character attributes from stdscr (Juergen Pfeifer).
10673 + corrected limit-check in set_top_row (Juergen Pfeifer).
10676 + correct loop-limit in wnoutrefresh(), bug exposed during pipe-testing
10677 had '.lastchar' entry one beyond '._maxx'.
10678 + modify ncurses test-program to work with data piped to it.
10679 + corrected pathname computation in run_tic.sh, removing extra "../"
10680 (reported by Tim Mooney).
10681 + modified configure script to use previous install's location for
10683 + added NetBSD and FreeBSD to platforms that use --prefix=/usr as
10687 + revised xterm terminfo descriptions to reflect the several versions
10688 that are available.
10689 + corrected a pointer reference in dump_entry.c that didn't test if
10690 the pointer was -1.
10693 + correct _nc_mvcur_scrolln for terminals w/o scrolling region.
10694 + add -x option to hashtest to control whether it allows writes to the
10695 lower-right corner.
10696 + ifdef'd (NCURSES_TEST) the logic for _nc_optimize_enable to make it
10697 simpler to construct tests (for double-check of _nc_hash_map tests).
10698 + correct ifdef's for c++ in curses.h
10699 + change default xterm type to xterm-x11r6.
10700 + correct quoting in configure that made man-pages installed with
10701 $datadir instead of actual terminfo path.
10702 + correct whitespace in include/Caps, which caused kf11, clr_eol and
10703 clr_end to be omitted from terminfo.5
10704 + fix memory leaks in delscreen() (adapted from Alexander V Lukyanov).
10705 + improve appearance of marker in multi-selection menu (Juergen
10707 + fix behavior for forms with all fields inactive (Juergen Pfeifer)
10708 + document 'field_index()' (Juergen Pfeifer)
10709 > patch #321 (ESR):
10710 + add some more XENIX keycap translations to include/Caps.
10711 + modify newwin to set initial state of each line to 'touched'
10712 (from patch by Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.dialix.com>)
10713 + in SET_TTY, replace TCSANOW with TCSADRAIN (Alexander V Lukyanov).
10716 + ifdef'd out _nc_hash_map (still slower)
10717 + add graphic characters to vt52 description.
10718 + use PutAttrChar in ClrToEOL to ensure proper background, position.
10719 + simplify/correct logic in 'mvcur()' that does wrapping; it was
10720 updating the position w/o actually moving the cursor, which broke
10722 + ensure that 'doupdate()' sets the .oldindex values back to a sane
10723 state; this was causing a spurious refresh in ncurses 'r'.
10724 + add logic to configure (from vile) to guard against builders who
10725 don't remove config.cache & config.status when doing new builds -TD
10726 + corrected logic for 'repeat_char' in EmitRange (cf: eric #317), which
10727 did not follow the 2-parameter scheme specified in XSI.
10728 + corrected logic of wrefresh, wnoutrefresh broken in #319, making
10729 clearok work properly (report by Michael Elkins).
10730 + corrected problem with endwin introduced by #314 (removing the
10731 scrolling-region reset) that broke ncurses.c tests.
10732 + corrected order of args in AC_CHECK_LIB (from report by Ami Fischman
10733 <fischman@math.ucla.edu>).
10734 + corrected formatting of terminfo.5 tables (Juergen Ehling)
10736 + change ABI to 3.3
10737 + emit a carriage-return in 'endwin()' to workaround a kernel bug in
10738 BSDI. (requested by Mike Karels <karels@redrock.bsdi.com>)
10739 + reverse the default o configure --enable-termcap (consensus).
10741 + modified logic for clearok and related functions (from report by
10742 Michael Elkins) - untested
10744 + correction to #317.
10746 + re-add _nc_hash_map
10747 + modify EmitRange to maintain position as per original design
10748 (patch by A. Lukyanov).
10749 + modify test/ncurses.c and tputs, etc., to allow trace counting
10751 + add hashtest.c program to time the hashmap optimization.
10753 + add logic to deal with magic-cookie (how was this tested?)
10755 + add ncurses.c driver for magic-cookie, some fixes to ncurses.c
10757 + merge changes to lib_doupdate.c to use ech and rep - untested
10758 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
10759 + modified handling of interrupted system calls - untested
10760 (lib_getch.c, lib_twait.c).
10761 + new function _nc_mvcur_resume()
10762 + fix return value for 'overlay()', 'overwrite()'
10765 + implement subwindow-logic in wresize, minor fixes to ncurses 'g'
10767 + corrected bracketing of fallback.c (reported/suggested fix by Juergen
10768 Ehling <eh@eclipse.aball.de>).
10769 + update xterm-color to reflect XFree86 3.1.3G release.
10770 + correct broken dtterm description from #314 patch (e.g., spurious
10771 newline. The 'pairs' change might work, but no one's tested it
10773 + clarify the documentation for the builtin form fieldtypes (Juergen
10776 + reset scroll region on startup rather than at wrapup time
10777 (enhancement suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
10778 + make storage of palette tables and their size counts per-screen for
10779 multi-terminal applications (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
10780 + Improved error reporting for infotocap translation errors.
10781 + Update terminfo.src to 9.13.14.
10784 + rewrote wgetstr to make it erase control chars and also fix bogus use
10785 of _nc_outstr which caused the display to not wrap properly (display
10786 problem reported by John M. Flinchbaugh <glynis@netrax.net>)
10787 + modify ncurses 'f' test to accommodate terminal responses to C1 codes
10788 (and split up this screen to accommodate non-ANSI terminals).
10789 + test enter_insert_mode and exit_insert_mode in has_ic().
10790 + removed bogus logic in mvcur that assumes nl/nonl set output modes
10791 (XSI says they are input modes; SVr4 implements this).
10792 + added macros SET_TTY, GET_TTY to term.h
10793 + correct getstr() logic that altered terminal modes w/o restoring.
10794 + disable ICRNL, etc., during initialization to match SVr4, removing
10795 the corresponding logic from raw, cbreak, etc.
10796 + disable ONLCR during initialization, to match SVr4 (this is needed
10797 for cursor optimization when the cursor-down is a newline).
10798 + replaced ESR's imitation of wresize with my original (his didn't
10802 + memory leaks (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10803 + modified pnoutrefresh() to be more tolerant of too-large screen
10804 size (reported by Michael Elkins).
10805 + correct handling of terminfo files with no strings (Philippe De
10807 + correct "tic -s" to take into account -I, -C options.
10808 + modify ncurses 'f' test to not print codes 80 through 9F, since they
10809 are considered control codes by ANSI terminals.
10812 + correct speed variable-type in 'tgetent()' (reported by Peter Wemm)
10813 + make "--enable-getcap" configuration-option work (reported by
10814 Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.DIALix.COM>)
10817 + correct err in 960817 that changed return-value of tigetflag()
10818 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10819 + modify infocmp to use library default search-path for terminfo
10820 directory (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10823 + corrected an err in mvcur that broke resizing-behavior.
10824 + correct fall-thru behavior of _nc_read_entry(), which was not finding
10825 descriptions that existed in directories past the first one searched
10826 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov)
10827 + corrected typo in dtterm description.
10829 + add dtterm description
10830 + clarify ncurses 'i' test (drop mvwscanw subtest)
10833 + correct nl()/nonl() to work as per SVr4 & XSI.
10834 + minor fixes to ncurses.c (use 'noraw()', mvscanw return-code)
10835 + refine configure-test for "-g" option (Tim Mooney).
10836 + correct interaction between O_BLANK and NEW_LINE request in form
10837 library (Juergen Pfeifer)
10840 + revised fix to tparm; previous fix reversed parameter order.
10842 correct terminfo.src corrupted by #310
10844 + fix idlok() and idcok() and the default of the idlok switch (report
10848 + corrected tparm to handle capability strings without explicit pop
10849 (reported by William P Setzer)
10850 + add fallback def for GCC_NORETURN, GCC_UNUSED for termcap users
10851 (reported by Tim Mooney).
10853 + documentation and prototyping errors for has_color, immedok and idcok
10854 (reported by William P Setzer <wsetzer@pams.ncsu.edu>)
10855 + updated qnx terminfo entry (patch by Michael Hunter)
10858 + eliminate quoted includes in ncurses subdirectory, ensure config.h
10860 + newterm initializes terminal settings the same as initscr (reported
10864 + call cbreak() in initscr(), as per XSI & SVr4.
10865 + turn off hardware echo in initscr() as per XSI & SVr4
10867 + terminfo changes (9.3.9), from BRL
10868 + add more checks to terminfo parser.
10869 + add more symbols to infocmp.
10872 + save previous-attribute in lib_vidattr.c if SP is null (reported by
10873 Juergen Fluk <louis@dachau.marco.de>)
10874 + corrected calls on _nc_render so that background character is set
10876 + corrected wbkgdset macro (XSI allows background character to be
10877 null), and tests that use it.
10878 + more corrections to terminfo (xterm & rxvt)
10879 + undid change to mcprint prototype (cannot use size_t in curses.h
10880 because not all systems declare it in the headers that we can safely
10882 + move the ifdefs for errno into curses.priv.h
10884 + terminfo changes (9.3.8)
10885 + modified logic of error-reporting in terminfo parser
10886 + fix option-processing bug in toe.
10889 + always check for <sys/bsdtypes.h> since ISC needs it to declare
10890 fd_set (Juergen Pfeifer)
10891 + install shared-libraries on NetBSD/FreeBSD with ABI-version (reported
10892 by Juergen Pfeifer, Mike Long)
10893 + add LOCAL_LDFLAGS2 symbol (Juergen Pfeifer)
10894 + corrected prototype for delay_output() -- bump ABI to 3.2
10896 + enable more translations of nonstandard caps, and document them.
10897 + misc/terminfo.src update to 9.13.8
10899 + moved logic that filters out rmul and rmso from setupterm to newterm
10900 where it is less likely to interfere with termcap applications.
10901 + cosmetic fixes to test/ncurses.c
10902 + modify open() call in ncurses/read_entry.c to use O_RDONLY symbol
10903 rather than constant (report by mib).
10904 + misc/terminfo.src sgr0 and acsc changes (report by Philippe De
10906 + modify ncurses/comp_parse.c so that entries containing a "+" can
10907 have missing rmcup vs smcup.
10910 + rollback ESR's #305 change to terminfo.src (it breaks existing
10911 applications, e.g., 'less 290').
10912 + correct path of edit_man.sh, and fix typo that made all man-pages
10914 + restore man/menu_requestname.3x omitted in Zeyd's resync (oops).
10915 + auto-configure the GCC_PRINTFLIKE/GCC_SCANFLIKE macros (reported by
10916 Philippe De Muyter).
10919 + make lib_vidattr.c more readable using macros.
10920 + filter out rmul, rmso that conflict with sgr0 when reading terminal
10922 + work around autoconf bug, force $INSTALL to absolute path
10923 (reported by Zeyd).
10924 + modify man-page install for BSDI to install preformatted .0 files
10925 (reported by David MacKenzie).
10926 + add/use gcc __attribute__ for printf and scanf in curses.h
10927 + added SGR attributes test-case to ncurses
10928 + revised ncurses 't' logic to show trace-disable effect in the menu.
10929 + use getopt in ncurses program to process -s and -t options.
10930 + make ncurses 'p' legend toggle with '?'
10931 + disable scrollok during the ncurses 'p' test; if it is enabled the
10932 stdscr will scroll when putting the box-corners in the lower-right
10935 + added sanity-checking of various paired string attributes.
10936 + misc/terminfo.src update to 9.13.7 (report by A. Lukyanov).
10937 + modify man/Makefile.in to make terminfo.5 during normal build.
10939 + corrected allocation-length for $HOME/.terminfo path.
10942 + check return code of _nc_mvcur_scrolln() in _nc_scroll_optimize() for
10943 terminals with no scrolling-support (reported by Nikolay Shadrin
10944 <queen@qh.mirea.ac.ru>)
10945 + added ^S scrollok-toggle to ncurses 'g' test.
10946 + added ^T trace-toggle to ncurses tests.
10947 + modified ncurses test program to use ^Q or ESC consistently for
10948 terminating tests (rather than ^D), and to use control keys rather
10949 than function keys in 'g' test.
10950 + corrected misplaced wclrtoeol calls in addch to accommodate wrapping
10951 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
10952 + modify lib_doupdate.c to use effective costs to tradeoff between
10953 delete-character/insert-character vs normal updating (reported by
10955 + compute effective costs for screen update operations (e.g., clr_eos,
10957 + corrected error in knight.c exposed by wrap fixes in 960622; the
10958 msgwin needed scrollok set.
10959 + corrected last change to IDcTransformLine logic to avoid conflict
10960 between PutRange and InsStr
10961 + modified run_tic.sh to not use /usr/tmp (reported by David
10962 MacKenzie), and further revised it and aclocal.m4 to use $TMPDIR if
10964 + corrected off-by-one in RoomFor call in read_entry.c
10967 + modified logic that wraps cursor in addch to follow the XSI spec,
10968 (implemented in SVr4) which states that the cursor position is
10969 updated when wrapping. Renamed _NEED_WRAP to _WRAPPED to reflect the
10971 + added -s option to tic, to provide better diagnostics in run_tic.sh
10972 + improved error-recovery for tabset install.
10973 + change ABI to 3.1 (dropped tparam, corrected getbkgd(), added
10974 _yoffset to WINDOW).
10975 + modified initialization of SP->_ofp so that init_acs() is called with
10976 the "right" file pointer (reported by Rick Marshall <rjm@nlc.net.au>
10977 + documentation fixes (Juergen Pfeifer).
10978 + corrected, using new SCREEN and WINDOW members, the behavior of
10979 ncurses if one uses ripoffline() to remove a line from the top of the
10980 screen (Juergen Pfeifer).
10981 + modified autoconf scripts to prepare for Ada95 (GNAT) binding to
10982 ncurses (Juergen Pfeifer).
10983 + incorrect buffer-size in _nc_read_entry, reported by ESR.
10986 + corrected two logic errors in read_entry.c, write_entry.c (called by
10987 tic, the write/read of terminfo entries used inconsistent rules for
10988 locating the entries; the $TERMINFO_DIRS code would find only the
10989 first entry in a list).
10990 + refined pathname computation in run_tic.sh and shlib.
10991 + corrected initialization of $IP in misc/run_tic.sh
10994 + ifdef'd out _nc_hash_map() call because it does not improve speed.
10995 + display version of gcc if configure script identifies it.
10996 + modify configure script to use /usr as Linux's default prefix.
10997 + modify run_tic.sh to use shlib script, fixes some problems installing
10998 with a shared-library configuration.
10999 + adjusted configure script so that it doesn't run tests with the
11000 warnings turned on, which makes config.log hard to read.
11001 + added 'lint' rule to top-level Makefile.
11002 + added configure option '--with-install-prefix' for use by system
11003 builders to install into staging locations (requested by
11004 Charles Levert <charles@comm.polymtl.ca>).
11005 + corrected autoconfigure for Debian man program; it's not installed
11007 + set noecho in 'worm'; it was ifdef'd for debug only
11008 + updated test/configure.in for timing-display in ncurses 'p' test
11009 + corrected misspelled 'getbkgd()'.
11010 + corrected wbkgdset to work like observed syvr4 (sets A_CHARTEXT part
11011 to blank if no character given, copies attributes to window's
11013 + modified lib_doupdate.c to use lower-level SP's current_attr state
11014 instead of curscr's state, since it is redundant.
11015 + correction to IDcTransformLine logic which controls where InsStr is
11016 invoked (refined by Alexander V Lukyanov).
11018 + conditionally include Chris Torek's hash function _nc_hash_map().
11019 + better fix for nvi refresh-bug (Rick Marshall)
11020 + fix for bug in handling of interrupted keystroke waits,
11022 + misc/ncurses-intro.html syntax fix (Kajiyama Tamito).
11025 + auto-configure man-page compression-format and renames for Debian.
11026 + corrected several typos in curses.h.in (i.e., the mvXXXX macros).
11027 + re-order curses.priv.h for lint.
11028 + added rules for lintlib, lint
11029 + corrected ifdef for BROKEN_LINKER in MKnames.awk.in
11030 + corrected missing INSTALL_DATA in misc/Makefile.in
11031 + flush output when changing cursor-visibility (Rick Marshall)
11032 + fix a minor bug in the _nc_ripoff() routine and improve error
11033 checking when creating the label window (Juergen Pfeifer).
11034 + enhancement to the control over the new PC-style soft key format.
11035 allow caller now to select whether or not one wants to have
11036 the index-line; see curs_slk.3x for documentation (Juergen Pfeifer).
11037 + typos, don't use inline with "-g" (Philippe De Muyter)
11038 + fixes for menus & wattr-, slk-functions (Juergen Pfeifer)
11041 + removed --with-ticdir option altogether, maintain compatibility with
11042 existing applications via symbolic link in run_tic.sh
11043 + patch for termio.h, signal (Philippe De Muyter)
11044 + auto-configure gcc warning options rather than infer from version.
11045 + auto-configure __attribute__ for different gcc versions.
11046 + corrected special use of clearok() in hardscroll.c by resetting flag
11048 + include stdlib.h before defs for EXIT_SUCCESS, for OSF/1.
11049 + include sys/types.h in case stdlib.h does not declare size_t.
11050 + fixes for makefile (Tim Mooney)
11051 + fixes for menus & forms (Juergen Pfeifer)
11053 + improve hash function (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
11054 + 9.13.4 update for terminfo.src
11057 + revised ncurses.c panner test, let pad abut all 4 sides of screen.
11058 + refined case in lib_doupdate.c for ClrToEOL().
11059 + corrected prior change for PutRange (Alexander V Lukyanov
11060 <lav@yars.free.net>).
11061 + autoconf mods (Tim Mooney <mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu>).
11062 + locale fix for forms (Philippe De Muyter <phdemuyt@ulb.ac.be>)
11063 + renamed "--with-datadir" option to "--with-ticdir" to avoid
11064 confusion, and made this check for the /usr/lib/terminfo pre-existing
11066 > patches 299-301 (ESR):
11067 + html fixes (Phillippe de Muyter).
11068 + fix typo in ncurses-intro.html (report by Fabrizio Polacco).
11070 + mods to tracing, especially for ACS chars.
11071 + corrected off-by-one in IDCtransform.
11072 + corrected intermittent mouse bug by using return-value from read().
11073 + mods to parse_entry.c, for smarter defaults.
11076 + use getopt in 'tic'; added -L option and modified -e option to allow
11080 + don't use fixed buffer-size in tparm().
11081 + modified tic to create terminfo directory if it doesn't exist.
11082 + added -T options to tic and infocmp (for testing/analysis)
11083 + refined the length criteria for termcap and terminfo
11084 + optimize lib_doupdate with memcpy, PutRange
11085 > patches 297, 298 (ESR):
11086 + implement TERMINFO_DIRS, and -o option of tic
11087 + added TRACE_IEVENT
11088 + fix REQ_TOGGLE_ITEM in menu/menu_driver.c; it could select but not
11090 + added lib_print.c (request by Rick Marshall).
11091 + added has_key() (request by Juergen Pfeifer).
11092 + do not issue clrtoeol or clrtobot if the relevant portion of the line
11093 is already blank (analysis by Keith Bostic).
11094 + add parentheses for parameters of COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER macros
11095 (analysis by Jurgen Eidt).
11096 + update screen's notion of cursor position in endwin() (analysis by
11097 Alexander Lukyanov).
11098 + added 't' to ncurses.c test.
11099 + moved delay_output() to lib_tputs.c
11100 + removed tparam() (was added in 1.9.9, but conflicts with emacs and
11101 is not part of X/Open Curses).
11102 + removed boolean version of 'getm'.
11103 + misc cursor & optimization fixes.
11106 + modified ncurses 'p' test to allow full-screen range for panner size.
11107 + fixes for locale (Philippe De Muyter <phdm@labauto1.ulb.ac.be>)
11108 + don't use fixed buffer-size in fmt_entry().
11109 + added usage-message to 'infocmp'.
11110 + modified install.includes rules to prepend subdirectory-name to
11111 "#include" if needed.
11114 + protect wrefresh, wnoutrefresh from invocation with pad argument.
11115 + corrected default CCFLAGS in test/Makefile.
11118 + implemented logic to support terminals with background color erase
11119 (e.g., rxvt and the newer color xterm).
11120 + improved screen update logic (off-by-one logic error; use clr_eos if
11124 + change ncurses 'a' test to run in raw mode.
11125 + make TIOCGWINSZ configure test less stringent, in case user
11126 configures via terminal that cannot get screen size.
11127 > patches 295, 296 (ESR):
11128 + split lib_kernel.c, lib_setup.c and names.c in order to reduce
11129 overhead for programs that use only termcap features.
11130 + new "-e" and "-h" options of tic (request by Tony Nugent).
11131 + fix bug in mandatory-delay logic in lib_tputs.c (report by Sven
11133 + fix for "infocmp -e" to emit correct initializers (reported by Manual
11135 + restore working-directory in read_termcap.c (report by Kayvan
11137 + use "-h" option on Solaris when generating shared libraries on
11138 Solaris 2.5 to record the library name in the file, for assisting
11139 the loader (patch by Scott Kramer).
11140 + undo patch #294 changes to form and menu libraries (request by
11145 + fix for AIX 3.2.5 (must define _POSIX_SOURCE to get termios struct
11146 definitions via <termios.h>, modified macros in lib_raw.c to avoid
11147 K&R-style substitution)
11148 > patches 293, 294 (ESR):
11149 + rewrite wsyncup(), wsyncdown(), as well as small fixes to form and
11150 menu libraries to fix echo-breakage introduced by 1.8.9, 1.9.9e
11151 changes (patches by Juergen Pfeifer).
11152 + fix compile under QNX 4.2 by defining ONLCR in lib_raw.c when
11153 __QNX__ is defined (patch by Michael Hunter).
11154 + modify setupterm() to match documentation for its return value, fix
11155 newterm to work with this change (report by Emmet Lazich).
11156 + add checks in getch() for error, return ERR as appropriate (report by
11158 + mods to wgetch() in cooked mode (report by Pete Seebach).
11159 + corrected askuser() logic in tset (patch by Remco Treffkorn).
11160 + correct interaction of endwin() with mouse processing (report by
11162 + added trace support for TTY flags
11163 + update terminfo.src to 9.13.1
11164 + FreeBSD console entries (patch by Andrew Chernov).
11167 + fixes for NeXT, ISC and HPUX auto-configure
11168 + autogenerate development header-dependencies (config.h, *.priv.h)
11169 + corrected single-column formatting of "use=" (e.g., in tic)
11170 + modify tic to read full terminfo-names
11171 + corrected divide-by-zero that caused hang (or worse) when redirecting
11173 + modify tic to generate directories only as-needed (and corrected
11174 instance of use of data from function that had already returned).
11176 ### ncurses-1.9.8a -> 1.9.9e
11178 * fixed broken wsyncup()/wysncdown(), as a result wnoutrefresh() now has
11179 copy-changed-lines behavior.
11180 * added and documented wresize() function.
11181 * more fixes to LOWER-RIGHT corner handling.
11182 * changed the line-breakout optimization code to allow some lines to be
11183 emitted before the first check.
11184 * added option for tic to use symbolic instead of hard links (for AFS)
11185 * fix to restore auto-wrap mode.
11186 * trace level can be controlled by environment variable.
11187 * better handling of NULs in terminal descriptions.
11188 * improved compatibility with observed SVR4 behavior.
11189 * the refresh behavior of over-lapping windows is now more efficient and
11191 * use autoconf 2.7, which results in a working setup for SCO 5.0.
11192 * support for ESCDELAY.
11193 * small fixes for menu/form code.
11194 * the test directory has its own configure.
11195 * fixes to pads when optimizing scrolling.
11196 * fixed several off-by-one bugs.
11197 * fixes for termcap->terminfo translation; less restrictions more correct
11200 ### ncurses-1.9.7 -> 1.9.8a
11202 * teach infocmp -i to recognize ECMA highlight sequences
11203 * infocmp now dumps all SVr4 termcaps (not just the SVr4 ones) on -C
11204 * support infocmp -RBSD.
11205 * satisfy XSI Curses requirement that every macro be available as a function.
11206 * This represents the last big change to the public interface of ncurses. The
11207 ABI_VERSION has now been set at 3.0 and should stay there barring any great
11208 catastrophies or acts of God.
11209 * The C++ has been cleaned up in reaction to the changes to satisfy XSI's
11211 * libncurses now gets linked to libcurses to help seamless emulation
11212 (replacement) of a vendor's curses. --disable-overwrite turns this behavior
11215 ### ncurses-1.9.6 -> 1.9.7
11217 * corrected return values of setupterm()
11218 * Fixed some bugs in tput (it does padding now)
11219 * fixed a bug in tic that made it do the wrong thing on entries with more than
11220 one `use' capability.
11221 * corrected the screen-size calculation at startup time to alter the
11222 numeric capabilities as per SVr4, not just LINES and COLS.
11223 * toe(1) introduced; does what infocmp -T used to.
11224 * tic(1) can now translate AIX box1 and font[0123] capabilities.
11225 * tic uses much less core, the dotic.sh kluge can go away now.
11226 * fix read_entry() and write_entry() to pass through cancelled capabilities OK.
11227 * Add $HOME/.terminfo as source/target directory for terminfo entries.
11228 * termcap compilation now automatically dumps an entry to $HOME/.terminfo.
11229 * added -h option to toe(1).
11230 * added -R option to tic(1) and infocmp(1).
11231 * added fallback-entry-list feature.
11232 * added -i option to infocmp(1).
11233 * do a better job at detecting if we're on SCO.
11235 ### ncurses-1.9.5 -> 1.9.6
11237 * handling of TERMCAP environment variables now works correctly.
11238 * various changes to shorten termcap translations to less that 1024 chars.
11240 * mouse support for xterm.
11241 * most data tables are now const and accordingly live in shareable text space.
11242 * Obey the XPG4/SVr4 practice that echo() is initally off.
11243 * tic is much better at translating XENIX and AIX termcap entries now.
11244 * tic can interpret ko capabilities now.
11245 * integrated Juergen Pfeifer's forms library.
11246 * taught write_entry() how not to write more than it needs to; this change
11247 reduces the size of the terminfo tree by a full 26%!
11248 * infocmp -T option added.
11249 * better warnings about historical tic quirks from tic.
11251 ### ncurses 1.9.4 -> 1.9.5
11253 * menus library is now included with documentation.
11254 * lib_mvcur has been carefully profiled and tuned.
11255 * Fixed a ^Z-handling bug that was tanking lynx(1).
11256 * HJ Lu's patches for ELF shared libraries under Linux
11257 * terminfo.src 9.8.2
11258 * tweaks for compiling in seperate directories.
11259 * Thomas Dickey's patches to support NeXT's brain-dead linker
11260 * Eric Raymond's patches to fix problems with long termcap entries.
11261 * more support for shared libraries under SunOS and IRIX.
11263 ### ncurses 1.9.3 -> 1.9.4
11265 * fixed an undefined-order-of-evaluation bug in lib_acs.c
11266 * systematically gave non-API public functions and data an _nc_ prefix.
11267 * integrated Juergen Pfeifer's menu code into the distribution.
11268 * totally rewrote the knight test game's interface
11270 ### ncurses 1.9.2c -> 1.9.3
11272 * fixed the TERMCAP_FILE Support.
11273 * fixed off-by-one errors in scrolling code
11274 * added tracemunch to the test tools
11275 * took steps to cut the running time of make install.data
11277 ### ncurses 1.9.2c -> 1.9.2d
11279 * revised 'configure' script to produce libraries for normal, debug,
11280 profile and shared object models.
11282 ### ncurses 1.9.1 -> 1.9.2
11284 * use 'autoconf' to implement 'configure' script.
11285 * panels support added
11286 * tic now checks for excessively long termcap entries when doing translation
11287 * first cut at eliminating namespace pollution.
11289 ### ncurses 1.8.9 -> 1.9
11291 * cleanup gcc warnings for the following: use size_t where 'int' is not
11292 appropriate, fixed some shadowed variables, change attr_t to compatible with
11293 chtype, use attr_t in some places where it was confused with 'int'.
11294 * use chtype/attr_t casts as appropriate to ensure portability of masking
11296 * added-back waddchnstr() to lib_addstr.c (it had been deleted).
11297 * supplied missing prototypes in curses.h
11298 * include <termcap.h> in lib_termcap.c to ensure that the prototypes
11299 are consistent (they weren't).
11300 * corrected prototype of tputs in <termcap.h>
11301 * rewrote varargs parsing in lib_tparm.c (to avoid referencing memory
11302 that may be out of bounds on the stack) -- Purify found this.
11303 * ensure that TRACE is defined in lib_trace.c (to solve prototype
11304 warnings from gcc).
11305 * corrected scrolling-region size in 'mvcur_wrap()'
11306 * more spelling fixes
11307 * use 'calloc()' to allocate WINDOW struct in lib_newwin.c (Purify).
11308 * set default value for SP->_ofp in lib_set_term.c (otherwise SunOS dumps
11309 core in init_acs()).
11310 * include <errno.h> in write_entry.c (most "braindead" includes declare errno
11313 ### ncurses 1.8.8 -> 1.8.9
11315 * compile (mostly) clean with gcc 2.5.8 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
11316 -Wmissing-prototypes -Wconversion and using __attribute__ to flush out
11317 non-portable use of "%x" for pointers, or for chtype data (which is declared
11319 * modified doupdate to ensure that typahead was turned on before attempting
11320 select-call (otherwise, some implementations hang).
11321 * added trace mask TRACE_FIFO, use this in lib_getch.c to allow finer
11322 resolution of traces.
11323 * improved bounds checking on several critical functions.
11324 * the data directory has been replaced by the new master terminfo file.
11325 * -F file-comparison option added to infocmp.
11326 * compatibility with XSI Curses is now documented in the man bages.
11327 * wsyncup/wsyncdown functions are reliable now; subwindow code in general
11328 is much less flaky.
11329 * capabilities ~msgr, tilde_glitch, insert_padding, generic_type, no_pad_char,
11330 memory_above, memory_below, and hard_copy are now used properly.
11331 * cursor-movement optimization has been completely rewritten.
11332 * vertical-movement optimization now uses hardware scrolling, il, dl.
11334 ### ncurses 1.8.7 -> 1.8.8
11335 * untic no longer exists, infocmp replaces it.
11336 * tic can understand termcap now, especially if it is called captoinfo.
11337 * The Linux Standard Console terminfo entry is called linux insead of console.
11338 It also uses the kernel's new method of changing charsets.
11339 * initscr() will EXIT upon error (as the docs say) This wil mostly happen if
11340 you try to run on an undefined terminal.
11341 * I can get things running on AIX but tic can't compile terminfo. I have to
11342 compile entries on another machine. Volunteers to hunt this bug are welcome.
11343 * wbkgd() and wbkgdset() can be used to set a windows background to color.
11344 wclear()/werase() DO NOT use the current attribute to clear the screen.
11345 This is the way SVR4 curses works. PDCurses 2.1 is broken in this respect,
11346 though PDCurses 2.2 has been fixed.
11347 * cleaned up the test/ directory.
11348 * test/worm will segfault after quite a while.
11349 * many spelling corrections courtesy of Thomas E. Dickey
11351 ### ncurses 1.8.6 -> 1.8.7
11352 * cleaned up programs in test/ directory.
11353 * fixed wbkgdset() macro.
11354 * modified getstr() to stop it from advancing cursor in noecho mode.
11355 * modified linux terminfo entry to work with the latest kernel to get
11356 the correct alternate character set.
11357 * also added a linux-mono entry for those running on monochrome screens.
11358 * changed initscr() so that it behaves like the man page says it does.
11359 this fixes the problem with programs in test/ crashing with SIGSEV if
11360 a terminal is undefined.
11361 * modified addch() to avoid using any term.h #define's
11362 * removed duplicate tgoto() in lib_tparm.c
11363 * modified dump_entry.c so that infocmp deals correctly with ',' in acsc
11364 * modified delwin() to correctly handle deleting subwindows.
11365 * fixed Makefile.dist to stop installing an empty curses.h
11366 * fixed a couple of out-of-date notes in man pages.
11368 ### ncurses 1.8.5 -> 1.8.6
11369 * Implemented wbkgd(), bkgd(), bkgdset(), and wbkgdset().
11370 * The handling of attributes has been improved and now does not turn off color
11371 if other attributes are turned off.
11372 * scrolling code is improved. Scrolling in subwindows is still broken.
11373 * Fixes to several bugs that manifest them on platforms other than Linux.
11374 * The default to meta now depends on the status of the terminal when ncurses
11376 * The interface to the tracing facility has changed. Instead of the pair of
11377 functions traceon() and traceoff(), there is just one function trace() which
11378 takes a trace mask argument. The trace masks, defined in curses.h, are
11381 #define TRACE_DISABLE 0x00 /* turn off tracing */
11382 #define TRACE_ORDINARY 0x01 /* ordinary trace mode */
11383 #define TRACE_CHARPUT 0x02 /* also trace all character outputs */
11384 #define TRACE_MAXIMUM 0x0f /* maximum trace level */
11386 More trace masks may be added, or these may be changed, in future releases.
11387 * The pad code has been improved and the pad test code in test/ncurses.c has
11389 * The prototype ansi entry has been changed to work with a wider variety
11391 * Fix to the prototype ansi entry that enables it to work with PC emulators
11392 that treat trailing ";m" in a highlight sequence as ";0m"; this doesn't
11393 break operation with any emulators.
11394 * There are now working infocmp, captoinfo, tput, and tclear utilities.
11395 * tic can now compile entries in termcap syntax.
11396 * Core-dump bug in pnoutrefresh fixed.
11397 * We now recognize and compile all the nonstandard capabilities in Ross
11398 Ridge's mytinfo package (rendering it obsolete).
11399 * General cleanup and documentation improvements.
11400 * Fixes and additions to the installation-documentation files.
11401 * Take cursor to normal mode on endwin.
11403 ### ncurses 1.8.4 -> 1.8.5
11404 * serious bugs in updating screen which caused erratic non-display,
11406 * fixed initialization for getch() related variable which cause
11407 unpredictable results.
11408 * fixed another doupdate bug which only appeared if you have
11410 * implemented redrawln() and redrawwin().
11411 * implemented winsnstr() and related functions.
11412 * cleaned up insertln() and deleteln() and implemented (w)insdeln().
11413 * changed Makefile.dist so that installation of man pages will
11414 take note of the terminfo directory.
11415 * fixed Configure (removed the mysterious 'X').
11416 * Eric S. Raymond fixed the script.* files so that they work with
11419 #### ncurses 1.8.3 -> 1.8.4 #### ####
11420 * fixed bug in refreshing the screen after return from shell_mode.
11421 There are still problems but they don't manifest themselves on
11422 my machine (Linux 0.99.14f).
11423 * added wgetnstr() and modified things accordingly.
11424 * fixed the script.src script.test to work with awk not just gawk.
11425 * Configure can now take an argument of the target system.
11426 * added test/ncurses.c which replaces several other programs and
11427 performs more testing.
11428 [Thanks to Eric S Raymond for the last 4]
11429 * more fixes to lib_overlay.c and added test/over.c to illustrate
11431 * fixed ungetch() to take int instead of ch.
11432 * fixes to cure wgetch() if flushinp() is called.
11434 One note I forgot to mention in 1.8.3 is that tracing is off by
11435 default starting in the version. If you want tracing output, put
11436 traceon(); in your code and link with -ldcurses.
11438 #### ncurses 1.8.2 -> ncurses 1.8.3 #### ####
11440 1) The order of capabilities has been changed in order to achieve
11441 binary compatibility with SVR4 terminfo database. This has the
11442 unfortunate effect of breaking application currently linked with
11443 ncurses. To ensure correct behavior, recompile all such programs.
11444 Most programs using color or newer capabilities will break, others
11445 will probably continue to work ok.
11447 2) Pavel Curtis has renounced his copyright to the public domain.
11448 This means that his original sources (posted to comp.sources.unix,
11449 volume 1) are now in the public domain. The current sources are
11450 NOT in the public domain, they are copyrighted by me. I'm
11451 entertaining ideas on what the new terms ncurses is released under.
11453 3) Eric S. Raymond has supplied a complete set of man pages for
11454 ncurses in ?roff format. They will eventually replace most of the
11455 current docs. Both sets are included in this release.
11457 Other changes and notes from 1.8.2 include:
11458 * SIGSEGV during scrolling no longer occurs.
11459 * Other problems with scrolling and use of idl have been corrected.
11460 * lib_getch.c has been re-written and should perform flawlessly.
11461 please use test/getch.c and any other programs to test this.
11462 * ripoffline() is implemented (Thanks to Eric) and slk_ functions
11463 changed accordingly.
11464 * I've added support for terminals that scroll if you write in the
11465 bottom-right corner.
11466 * fixed more bugs in pads code. If anybody has a program that uses
11467 pads I'd love a copy.
11468 * correct handling for terminal with back_color_erase capability
11469 (such as Linux console, and most PC terminals)
11470 * ^Z handling apparently didn't work (I should never trust code
11471 sent me to me without extensive testing). It now seems to be
11472 fixed. Let me know if you have problems.
11473 * I've added support for Apollo and NeXT, but it may still be
11474 incomplete, especially when dealing with the lack of POSIX
11476 * scrolling should be more efficient on terminals with idl
11477 capabilities. Please see src/lib_scroll.c for more notes.
11478 * The line drawing routines were offset by 1 at both ends. This
11480 * added a few missing prototypes and macros (e.g. setterm())
11481 * fixed code in src/lib_overlay.c which used to crash.
11482 * added a few more programs in test/ The ones from the PDCurses
11483 package are useful, especially if you have SVR4 proper. I'm
11484 interested in the results you get on such a systems (Eric? ;-).
11485 They already exposed certain bugs in ncurses.
11486 * See src/README for porting notes.
11487 * The C++ code should really replace ncurses.h instead of working
11488 around it. It should avoid name-space clashes with nterm.h (use
11489 rows instead of lines, etc.)
11490 * The C++ should compile ok. I've added explicit rules to the
11491 Makefile because no C++ defaults are documented on the suns.
11492 * The docs say that echo() and nocbreak() are mutually exclusive.
11493 At the moment ncurses will switch to cbreak() if the case above
11494 occurs. Should it continue to do so? How about echo() and noraw()?
11495 * PDCurses seem to assume that wclear() will use current attribute
11496 when clearing the screen. According to Eric this is not the case
11498 * I have discovered, to my chagrin, SunOS 4.x (and probably other systems)
11499 * doesn't have vsscanf and God knows what else! I've will do a vsscanf().
11500 * I've also found out that the src/script.* rely on gawk and will not
11501 work with stock awk or even with nawk. Any changes are welcome.
11502 * Linux is more tolerant of NULL dereferences than most systems. This
11503 fact was exposed by hanoi.
11504 * ncurses still seems inefficient in drawing the screen on a serial
11505 link between Linux and suns. The padding may be the culprit.
11506 * There seems to be one lingering problem with doupdate() after shelling
11507 out. Despite the fact the it is sending out the correct information
11508 to the terminal, nothing takes effect until you press ^L or another
11509 refresh takes place. And yes, output does get flushed.
11511 #### ncurses 1.8.1 -> ncurses 1.8.2 #### Nov 28, 1993 ####
11513 * added support for SVR4 and BSDI's BSD/386.
11514 * major update and fix to scrolling routine.
11515 * MORE fixes to stuff in lib_getch.c.
11516 * cleaned-up configuration options and can now generate
11517 Config.* files through an awk script.
11518 * changed setupterm() so it can be called more than once,
11519 add added set_curterm(), del_curterm().
11520 * a few minor cleanups.
11521 * added more prototypes in curses.h
11523 #### ncurses 1.8 -> ncurses 1.8.1 #### Nov 4, 1993 ####
11525 * added support for NeXTStep 3.0
11526 * added termcap emulation (not well tested).
11527 * more complete C++ interface to ncurses.
11528 * fixed overlay(), overwrite(), and added copywin().
11529 * a couple of bug fixes.
11530 * a few code cleanups.
11532 #### ncurses 0.7.2/0.7.3 -> ncurses 1.8 #### Aug 31, 1993 ####
11534 * The annoying message "can't open file." was due to missing
11535 terminfo entry for the used terminal. It has now been
11536 replaced by a hopefully more helpful message.
11537 * Problems with running on serial lines are now fixed.
11538 * Added configuration files for SunOS, Linux, HP/UX, Ultrix,
11539 386bsd/BSDI (if you have others send'em to me)
11540 * Cleaner Makefile.
11541 * The documentation in manual.doc is now more uptodate.
11542 * update optimization and support for hp terminals, and 386bsd
11544 * mvcur optimization for terminals without cursor addressing
11545 (doesn't work on Linux)
11546 * if cursor moved since last update, getch() will refresh the
11547 screen before working.
11548 * getch() & alarm() can now live together. in 0.7.3 a signal
11549 interrupted getch() (bug or feature?) now the getch is
11551 * scanw() et all were sick, now fixed.
11552 * support for 8-bit input (use meta()).
11553 * added default screen size to all terminfos.
11554 * added c++ Ncursesw class.
11555 * several minor bug fixes.
11557 #### ncurses 0.7.2 -> ncurses 0.7.3 #### May 27, 1993 ####
11559 * Config file to cope with different platforms (386BSD, BSDI, Ultrix, SunOS)
11560 * more fixes to lib_getch.c
11561 * changes related to Config
11563 #### ncurses 0.7 -> ncurses 0.7.2 #### May 22, 1993 ####
11565 * docs updated slightly (color usage is now documented).
11566 * yet another fix for getch(), this one fixes problems with ESC being swallowed
11567 if another character is typed before the 1 second timeout.
11568 * Hopefully, addstr() and addch() are 8-bit clean.
11569 * fixed lib_tparm.c to use stdarg.h (should run on suns now)
11570 * order of capabilities changed to reflect that specified in SYSV
11571 this will allow for binary-compatibility with existing terminfo dbs.
11572 * added halfdelay()
11573 * fixed problems with asc_init()
11574 * added A_PROTECT and A_INVIS
11575 * cleaned up vidputs()
11576 * general cleanup of the code
11577 * more attention to portability to other systems
11578 * added terminfos for hp70092 (wont work until changes to lib_update.c are
11579 made) and 386BSD pcvt drivers.
11581 Thanks to Hellmuth Michaelis for his help.
11582 optimization code is slated for the next major release, stay tuned!
11584 #### ncurses 0.6/0.61 -> ncurses 0.7 #### April 1, 1993
11585 Please note that the next release will be called 1.8. If you want to know about
11586 the rationale drop me a line.
11588 Included are several test programs in test/.
11589 I've split up the panels library, reversi, tetris, sokoban. They are now
11590 available separately from netcom.com:pub/zmbenhal/
11592 * color and ACS support is now fully compatible with SYSV at the terminfo
11594 * Capabilities now includes as many SYSV caps I could find.
11595 * tigetflag,tigetnum,tigetstr functions added.
11596 * boolnames, boolfnames, boolcodes numnames, numfnames, numcodes,
11597 strnames, strfnames, strcodes arrays are now added.
11598 * keyname() is added.
11599 * All function keys can be defined in terminfo entries.
11600 * fixed lin_tparm.c to behave properly.
11601 * terminfo entries for vt* and xterm are included (improvements are welcome)
11602 * more automation in handling caps and keys.
11603 * included fixes from 0.6.1
11604 * added a few more missing functions.
11605 * fixed a couple of minor bugs.
11606 * updated docs JUST a little (still miles behind in documenting the newer
11609 #### ncurses 0.6 -> ncurses 0.61 ####
11611 1) Included the missing data/console.
11613 2) allow attributes when drawing boxes.
11615 3) corrected usage of win->_delay value.
11617 4) fixed a bug in lib_getch.c. if it didn't recognize a sequence it would
11618 simply return the last character in the sequence. The correct
11619 behavior is to return the entire sequence one character at a time.
11621 #### ncurses0.5 -> ncurses0.6 #### March 1, 1993 ####
11622 * removed _numchngd from struct _win_st and made appropriate changes.
11623 * rewritten kgetch() to remove problems with interaction between alarm and
11624 read(). It caused SIGSEGV every now and then.
11625 * fixed a bug that miscounted the numbers of columns when updating.
11626 (in lib_doupdate.c(ClrUpdate() -- iterate to columns not columns-1)
11627 * fixed a bug that cause the lower-right corner to be incorrect.
11628 (in lib_doupdate.c(putChar() -- check against columns not columns-1)
11629 * made resize() and cleanup() static to lib_newterm.c
11630 * added notimeout().
11631 * added timeout() define in curses.h
11632 * added more function prototypes and fixed napms.
11634 * moved screen size detection to lib_setup.c.
11635 * fixed newterm() to confirm to prototype.
11636 * removed SIGWINCH support as SYSV does not define its semantics.
11637 * cleaned-up lib_touch.c
11638 * added waddnstr() and relatives.
11639 * added slk_* support.
11640 * fixed a bug in wdeleteln().
11641 * added PANEL library.
11642 * modified Makefile for smoother installation.
11643 * terminfo.h is really term.h
11645 #### ncurses 0.4 -> ncurses 0.5 #### Feb 14, 1993 ####
11646 * changed _win_st structure to allow support for missing functionality.
11647 * Addition of terminfo support for all KEY_*.
11648 * Support for nodelay(), timeout(), notimeout().
11649 * fixed a bug with the keypad char reading that did not return ESC until
11650 another key is pressed.
11651 * nl mapping no longer occur on output (as should be)
11652 fixed bug '\n' no causing a LF.
11653 * fixed bug that reset terminal colors regardless of whether we use color
11655 * Better support for ACS (not quite complete).
11656 * fixed bug in wvline().
11657 * added curs_set().
11658 * changed from signal() to sigaction().
11659 * re-included the contents of important.patch into source.
11661 #### ncurses 0.3 -> ncurses 0.4 #### Feb 3, 1993 ####
11662 * Addition of more KEY_* definitions.
11663 * Addition of function prototypes.
11664 * Addition of several missing functions.
11665 * No more crashes if screen size is undefined (use SIGWINCH handler).
11666 * added a handler to cleanup after SIGSEGV (hopefully never needed).
11667 * changed SRCDIR from /etc/term to /usr/lib/terminfo.
11668 * renamed compile/dump to tic/untic.
11669 * New scrolling code.
11670 * fixed bug that reversed the sense of nl() and nonl().
11672 #### ncurses 0.2 -> ncurses 0.3 #### Jan 20, 1993 ####
11673 * more support for color and graphics see test/ for examples.
11674 * fixed various files to allow correct update after shelling out.
11675 * more fixes for updates.
11676 * no more core dumps if you don't have a terminfo entry.
11677 * support for LINES and COLUMNS environment variables.
11678 * support for SIGWINCH signal.
11679 * added a handler for SIGINT for clean exits.
11681 #### ncurses 0.1 -> ncurses 0.2 #### Aug 14, 1992 ####
11682 * support for color.
11683 * support for PC graphic characters.
11684 * lib_trace.c updated to use stdarg.h and vprintf routines.
11685 * added gdc.c (Great Digital Clock) as an example of using color.
11687 #### ncurses -> ncurses 0.1 #### Jul 31, 1992 ####
11688 * replacing sgtty stuff by termios stuff.
11689 * ANSIfication of some functions.
11690 * Disabling cost analysis 'cause it's incorrect.
11691 * A quick hack for a terminfo entry.
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