--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.504 1999/10/24 00:31:05 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.929 2005/10/09 14:17:59 tom Exp $
This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
working with Pavel Curtis' original work, pcurses, in 1992.
Changes through 1.9.9e are recorded by Zeyd M. Ben-Halim.
Changes since 1.9.9e are recorded by Thomas Dickey.
+20051010 5.5 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
+
+20051008
+ + document in demo_forms.c some portability issues.
+
+20051001
+ + document side-effect of werase() which sets the cursor position.
+ + save/restore the current position in form field editing to make
+ overlay mode work.
+
+20050924
+ + correct header dependencies in progs, allowing parallel make (report
+ by Daniel Jacobowitz).
+ + modify CF_BUILD_CC to ensure that pre-setting $BUILD_CC overrides
+ the configure check for --with-build-cc (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
+ + modify CF_CFG_DEFAULTS to not use /usr as the default prefix for
+ NetBSD.
+ + update config.guess and config.sub from
+ http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
+
+20050917
+ + modify sed expression which computes path for /usr/lib/terminfo
+ symbolic link in install to ensure that it does not change unexpected
+ levels of the path (Gentoo #42336).
+ + modify default for --disable-lp64 configure option to reduce impact
+ on existing 64-bit builds. Enabling the _LP64 option may change the
+ size of chtype and mmask_t. However, for ABI 6, it is enabled by
+ default (report by Mike Frysinger).
+ + add configure script check for --enable-ext-mouse, bump ABI to 6 by
+ default if it is used.
+ + improve configure script logic for bumping ABI to omit this if the
+ --with-abi-version option was used.
+ + update address for Free Software Foundation in tack's source.
+ + correct wins_wch(), which was not marking the filler-cells of
+ multi-column characters (cf: 20041023).
+
+20050910
+ + modify mouse initialization to ensure that Gpm_Open() is called only
+ once. Otherwise GPM gets confused in its initialization of signal
+ handlers (Debian #326709).
+
+20050903
+ + modify logic for backspacing in a multiline form field to ensure that
+ it works even when the preceding line is full (report by Frank van
+ Vugt).
+ + remove comment about BUGS section of ncurses manpage (Debian #325481)
+
+20050827
+ + document some workarounds for shared and libtool library
+ configurations in INSTALL (see --with-shared and --with-libtool).
+ + modify CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GXX_VERSION macros to accommodate
+ cross-compilers which emit the platform name in their version
+ message, e.g.,
+ arm-sa1100-linux-gnu-g++ (GCC) 4.0.1
+ (report by Frank van Vugt).
+
+20050820
+ + start updating documentation for upcoming 5.5 release.
+ + fix to make libtool and libtinfo work together again (cf: 20050122).
+ + fixes to allow building traces into libtinfo
+ + add debug trace to tic that shows if/how ncurses will write to the
+ lower corner of a terminal's screen.
+ + update llib-l* files.
+
+20050813
+ + modify initializers in c++ binding to build with old versions of g++.
+ + improve special case for 20050115 repainting fix, ensuring that if
+ the first changed cell is not a character that the range to be
+ repainted is adjusted to start at a character's beginning (Debian
+ #316663).
+
+20050806
+ + fixes to build on QNX 6.1
+ + improve configure script checks for Intel 9.0 compiler.
+ + remove #include's for libc.h (obsolete).
+ + adjust ifdef's in curses.priv.h so that when cross-compiling to
+ produce comp_hash and make_keys, no dependency on wchar.h is needed.
+ That simplifies the build-cppflags (report by Frank van Vugt).
+ + move modules related to key-binding into libtinfo to fix linkage
+ problem caused by 20050430 changes to MKkeyname.sh (report by
+ Konstantin Andreev).
+
+20050723
+ + updates/fixes for configure script macros from vile.
+ + make prism9's sgr string agree with the rest of the terminfo -TD
+ + make vt220's sgr0 string consistent with sgr string, do this for
+ several related cases -TD
+ + improve translation to termcap by filtering the 'me' (sgr0) strings
+ as in the runtime call to tgetent() (prompted by a discussion with
+ Thomas Klausner).
+ + improve tic check for sgr0 versus sgr(0), to help ensure that sgr0
+ resets line-drawing.
+
+20050716
+ + fix special cases for trimming sgr0 for hurd and vt220 (Debian
+ #318621).
+ + split-out _nc_trim_sgr0() from modifications made to tgetent(), to
+ allow it to be used by tic to provide information about the runtime
+ changes that would be made to sgr0 for termcap applications.
+ + modify make_sed.sh to make the group-name in the NAME section of
+ form/menu library manpage agree with the TITLE string when renaming
+ is done for Debian (Debian #78866).
+
+20050702
+ + modify parameter type in c++ binding for insch() and mvwinsch() to
+ be consistent with underlying ncurses library (was char, is chtype).
+ + modify treatment of Intel compiler to allow _GNU_SOURCE to be defined
+ on Linux.
+ + improve configure check for nanosleep(), checking that it works since
+ some older systems such as AIX 4.3 have a nonworking version.
+
+20050625
+ + update config.guess and config.sub from
+ http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
+ + modify misc/shlib to work in test-directory.
+ + suppress $suffix in misc/run_tic.sh when cross-compiling. This
+ allows cross-compiles to use the host's tic program to handle the
+ "make install.data" step.
+ + improve description of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables in manpages
+ (prompted by report by Dave Ulrick).
+ + improve description of cross-compiling in INSTALL
+ + add NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html by Pradeep Padala
+ (see http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/).
+ + modify configure script to obtain soname for GPM library (discussion
+ with Daniel Jacobowitz).
+ + modify configure script so that --with-chtype option will still
+ compute the unsigned literals suffix for constants in curses.h
+ (report by Daniel Jacobowitz:
+ + patches from Daniel Jacobowitz:
+ + the man_db.renames entry for tack.1 was backwards.
+ + tack.1 had some 1m's that should have been 1M's.
+ + the section for curs_inwstr.3 was wrong.
+
+20050619
+ + correction to --with-chtype option (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
+
+20050618
+ + move build-time edit_man.sh and edit_man.sed scripts to top directory
+ to simplify reusing them for renaming tack's manpage (prompted by a
+ review of Debian package).
+ + revert minor optimization from 20041030 (Debian #313609).
+ + libtool-specific fixes, tested with libtool 1.4.3, 1.5.0, 1.5.6,
+ 1.5.10 and 1.5.18 (all work except as noted previously for the c++
+ install using libtool 1.5.0):
+ + modify the clean-rule in c++/Makefile.in to work with IRIX64 make
+ program.
+ + use $(LIBTOOL_UNINSTALL) symbol, overlooked in 20030830
+ + add configure options --with-chtype and --with-mmask-t, to allow
+ overriding of the non-LP64 model's use of the corresponding types.
+ + revise test for size of chtype (and mmask_t), which always returned
+ "long" due to an uninitialized variable (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
+
+20050611
+ + change _tracef's that used "%p" format for va_list values to ignore
+ that, since on some platforms those are not pointers.
+ + fixes for long-formats in printf's due to largefile support.
+
+20050604
+ + fixes for termcap support:
+ + reset pointer to _nc_curr_token.tk_name when the input stream is
+ closed, which could point to free memory (cf: 20030215).
+ + delink TERMTYPE data which is used by the termcap reader, so that
+ extended names data will be freed consistently.
+ + free pointer to TERMTYPE data in _nc_free_termtype() rather than
+ its callers.
+ + add some entrypoints for freeing permanently allocated data via
+ _nc_freeall() when NO_LEAKS is defined.
+ + amend 20041030 change to _nc_do_color to ensure that optimization is
+ applied only when the terminal supports back_color_erase (bce).
+
+20050528
+ + add sun-color terminfo entry -TD
+ + correct a missing assignment in c++ binding's method
+ NCursesPanel::UserPointer() from 20050409 changes.
+ + improve configure check for large-files, adding check for dirent64
+ from vile.
+ + minor change to configure script to improve linker options for the
+ Ada95 tree.
+
+20050515
+ + document error conditions for ncurses library functions (report by
+ Stanislav Ievlev).
+ + regenerated html documentation for ada binding.
+ see ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/gnathtml
+
+20050507
+ + regenerated html documentation for manpages.
+ + add $(BUILD_EXEEXT) suffix to invocation of make_keys in
+ ncurses/Makefile (Gentoo #89772).
+ + modify c++/demo.cc to build with g++ -fno-implicit-templates option
+ (patch by Mike Frysinger).
+ + modify tic to filter out long extended names when translating to
+ termcap format. Only two characters are permissible for termcap
+ capability names.
+
+20050430
+ + modify terminfo entries xterm-new and rxvt to add strings for
+ shift-, control-cursor keys.
+ + workaround to allow c++ binding to compile with g++ 2.95.3, which
+ has a broken implementation of static_cast<> (patch by Jeff Chua).
+ + modify initialization of key lookup table so that if an extended
+ capability (tic -x) string is defined, and its name begins with 'k',
+ it will automatically be treated as a key.
+ + modify test/keynames.c to allow for the possibility of extended
+ key names, e.g., via define_key(), or via "tic -x".
+ + add test/demo_termcap.c to show the contents of given entry via the
+ termcap interface.
+
+20050423
+ + minor fixes for vt100/vt52 entries -TD
+ + add configure option --enable-largefile
+ + corrected libraries used to build Ada95/gen/gen, found in testing
+ gcc 4.0.0.
+
+20050416
+ + update config.guess, config.sub
+ + modify configure script check for _XOPEN_SOURCE, disable that on
+ Darwin whose header files have problems (patch by Chris Zubrzycki).
+ + modify form library Is_Printable_String() to use iswprint() rather
+ than wcwidth() for determining if a character is printable. The
+ latter caused it to reject menu items containing non-spacing
+ characters.
+ + modify ncurses test program's F-test to handle non-spacing characters
+ by combining them with a reverse-video blank.
+ + review/fix several gcc -Wconversion warnings.
+
+20050409
+ + correct an off-by-one error in m_driver() for mouse-clicks used to
+ position the mouse to a particular item.
+ + implement test/demo_menus.c
+ + add some checks in lib_mouse to ensure SP is set.
+ + modify C++ binding to make 20050403 changes work with the configure
+ --enable-const option.
+
+20050403
+ + modify start_color() to return ERR if it cannot allocate memory.
+ + address g++ compiler warnings in C++ binding by adding explicit
+ member initialization, assignment operators and copy constructors.
+ Most of the changes simply preserve the existing semantics of the
+ binding, which can leak memory, etc., but by making these features
+ visible, it provides a framework for improving the binding.
+ + improve C++ binding using static_cast, etc.
+ + modify configure script --enable-warnings to add options to g++ to
+ correspond to the gcc --enable-warnings.
+ + modify C++ binding to use some C internal functions to make it
+ compile properly on Solaris (and other platforms).
+
+20050327
+ + amend change from 20050320 to limit it to configurations with a
+ valid locale.
+ + fix a bug introduced in 20050320 which broke the translation of
+ nonprinting characters to uparrow form (report by TAKAHASHI Tamotsu).
+
+20050326
+ + add ifdef's for _LP64 in curses.h to avoid using wasteful 64-bits for
+ chtype and mmask_t, but add configure option --disable-lp64 in case
+ anyone used that configuration.
+ + update misc/shlib script to account for Mac OS X (report by Michail
+ Vidiassov).
+ + correct comparison for wrapping multibyte characters in
+ waddch_literal() (report by TAKAHASHI Tamotsu).
+
+20050320
+ + add -c and -w options to tset to allow user to suppress ncurses'
+ resizing of the terminal emulator window in the special case where it
+ is not able to detect the true size (report by Win Delvaux, Debian
+ #300419).
+ + modify waddch_nosync() to account for locale zn_CH.GBK, which uses
+ codes 128-159 as part of multibyte characters (report by WANG
+ WenRui, Debian #300512).
+
+20050319
+ + modify ncurses.c 'd' test to make it work with 88-color
+ configuration, i.e., by implementing scrolling.
+ + improve scrolling in ncurses.c 'c' and 'C' tests, e.g., for 88-color
+ configuration.
+
+20050312
+ + change tracemunch to use strict checking.
+ + modify ncurses.c 'p' test to test line-drawing within a pad.
+ + implement environment variable NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS to support
+ miscellaneous terminal emulators which ignore alternate character
+ set escape sequences when in UTF-8 mode.
+
+20050305
+ + change NCursesWindow::err_handler() to a virtual function (request by
+ Steve Beal).
+ + modify fty_int.c and fty_num.c to handle wide characters (report by
+ Wolfgang Gutjahr).
+ + adapt fix for fty_alpha.c to fty_alnum.c, which also handled normal
+ and wide characters inconsistently (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
+ + update llib-* files to reflect internal interface additions/changes.
+
+20050226
+ + improve test/configure script, adding tests for _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc.,
+ from lynx.
+ + add aixterm-16color terminfo entry -TD
+ + modified xterm-new terminfo entry to work with tgetent() changes -TD
+ + extended changes in tgetent() from 20040710 to allow the substring of
+ sgr0 which matches rmacs to be at the beginning of the sgr0 string
+ (request by Thomas Wolff, who says the visual effect in combination
+ with pre-20040710 ncurses is improved).
+ + fix off-by-one in winnstr() call which caused form field validation
+ of multibyte characters to ignore the last character in a field.
+ + correct logic in winsch() for inserting multibyte strings; the code
+ would clear cells after the insertion rather than push them to the
+ right (cf: 20040228).
+ + fix an inconsistency in Check_Alpha_Field() between normal and wide
+ character logic (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
+
+20050219
+ + fix a bug in editing wide-characters in form library: deleting a
+ nonwide character modified the previous wide-character.
+ + update manpage to describe NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2.
+ + correct manpage description of mouseinterval() (Debian #280687).
+ + add a note to default_colors.3x explaining why this extension was
+ added (Debian #295083).
+ + add traces to panel library.
+
+20050212
+ + improve editing of wide-characters in form library: left/right
+ cursor movement, and single-character deletions work properly.
+ + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM happens to be prefixed with
+ "xterm". Gpm_Open() would otherwise assert that it can deal with
+ mouse events in this case.
+ + modify GPM mouse support so it closes the server connection when
+ the caller disables the mouse (report by Stanislav Ievlev).
+
+20050205
+ + add traces for callback functions in form library.
+ + add experimental configure option --enable-ext-mouse, which defines
+ NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2, and modifies the encoding of mouse events to
+ support wheel mice, which may transmit buttons 4 and 5. This works
+ with xterm and similar X terminal emulators (prompted by question by
+ Andreas Henningsson, this is also related to Debian #230990).
+ + improve configure macros CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE to
+ avoid redefinition warnings on cygwin.
+
+20050129
+ + merge remaining development changes for extended colors (mostly
+ complete, does not appear to break other configurations).
+ + add xterm-88color.dat (part of extended colors testing).
+ + improve _tracedump() handling of color pairs past 96.
+ + modify return-value from start_color() to return OK if colors have
+ already been started.
+ + modify curs_color.3x list error conditions for init_pair(),
+ pair_content() and color_content().
+ + modify pair_content() to return -1 for consistency with init_pair()
+ if it corresponds to the default-color.
+ + change internal representation of default-color to allow application
+ to use color number 255. This does not affect the total number of
+ color pairs which are allowed.
+ + add a top-level tags rule.
+
+20050122
+ + add a null-pointer check in wgetch() in case it is called without
+ first calling initscr().
+ + add some null-pointer checks for SP, which is not set by libtinfo.
+ + modify misc/shlib to ensure that absolute pathnames are used.
+ + modify test/Makefile.in, etc., to link test programs only against the
+ libraries needed, e.g., omit form/menu/panel library for the ones
+ that are curses-specific.
+ + change SP->_current_attr to a pointer, adjust ifdef's to ensure that
+ libtinfo.so and libtinfow.so have the same ABI. The reason for this
+ is that the corresponding data which belongs to the upper-level
+ ncurses library has a different size in each model (report by
+ Stanislav Ievlev).
+
+20050115
+ + minor fixes to allow test-compiles with g++.
+ + correct column value shown in tic's warnings, which did not account
+ for leading whitespace.
+ + add a check in _nc_trans_string() for improperly ended strings, i.e.,
+ where a following line begins in column 1.
+ + modify _nc_save_str() to return a null pointer on buffer overflow.
+ + improve repainting while scrolling wide-character data (Eungkyu Song).
+
+20050108
+ + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
+
+20050101
+ + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
+ + fix manpage typo (FreeBSD report docs/75544).
+ + update config.guess, config.sub
+ > patches by Albert Chin-A-Young (for configure script):
+ + improved fix to make mbstate_t recognized on HPUX 11i (cf:
+ 20030705), making vsscanf() prototype visible on IRIX64. Tested for
+ on HP-UX 11i, Solaris 7, 8, 9, AIX 4.3.3, 5.2, Tru64 UNIX 4.0D, 5.1,
+ IRIX64 6.5, Redhat Linux 7.1, 9, and RHEL 2.1, 3.0.
+ + print the result of the --disable-home-terminfo option.
+ + use -rpath when compiling with SGI C compiler.
+
+20041225
+ + add trace calls to remaining public functions in form and menu
+ libraries.
+ + fix check for numeric digits in test/ncurses.c 'b' and 'B' tests.
+ + fix typo in test/ncurses.c 'c' test from 20041218.
+
+20041218
+ + revise test/ncurses.c 'c' color test to improve use for xterm-88color
+ and xterm-256color, added 'C' test using the wide-character color_set
+ and attr_set functions.
+
+20041211
+ + modify configure script to work with Intel compiler.
+ + fix an limit-check in wadd_wchnstr() which caused labels in the
+ forms-demo to be one character short.
+ + fix typo in curs_addchstr.3x (Jared Yanovich).
+ + add trace calls to most functions in form and menu libraries.
+ + update working-position for adding wide-characters when window is
+ scrolled (prompted by related report by Eungkyu Song).
+
+20041204
+ + replace some references on Linux to wcrtomb() which use it to obtain
+ the length of a multibyte string with _nc_wcrtomb, since wcrtomb() is
+ broken in glibc (see Debian #284260).
+ + corrected length-computation in wide-character support for
+ field_buffer().
+ + some fixes to frm_driver.c to allow it to accept multibyte input.
+ + modify configure script to work with Intel 8.0 compiler.
+
+20041127
+ + amend change to setupterm() in 20030405 which would reuse the value
+ of cur_term if the same output was selected. This now reuses it only
+ when setupterm() is called from tgetent(), which has no notion of
+ separate SCREENs. Note that tgetent() must be called after initscr()
+ or newterm() to use this feature (Redhat Bugzilla #140326).
+ + add a check in CF_BUILD_CC macro to ensure that developer has given
+ the --with-build-cc option when cross-compiling (report by Alexandre
+ Campo).
+ + improved configure script checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE and
+ _POSIX_C_SOURCE (fix for IRIX 5.3 from Georg Schwarz, _POSIX_C_SOURCE
+ updates from lynx).
+ + cosmetic fix to test/gdc.c to recolor the bottom edge of the box
+ for consistency (comment by Dan Nelson).
+
+20041120
+ + update wsvt25 terminfo entry -TD
+ + modify test/ins_wide.c to test all flavors of ins_wstr().
+ + ignore filler-cells in wadd_wchnstr() when adding a cchar_t array
+ which consists of multi-column characters, since this function
+ constructs them (cf: 20041023).
+ + modify winnstr() to return multibyte character strings for the
+ wide-character configuration.
+
+20041106
+ + fixes to make slk_set() and slk_wset() accept and store multibyte
+ or multicolumn characters.
+
+20041030
+ + improve color optimization a little by making _nc_do_color() check
+ if the old/new pairs are equivalent to the default pair 0.
+ + modify assume_default_colors() to not require that
+ use_default_colors() be called first.
+
+20041023
+ + modify term_attrs() to use termattrs(), add the extended attributes
+ such as enter_horizontal_hl_mode for WA_HORIZONTAL to term_attrs().
+ + add logic in waddch_literal() to clear orphaned cells when one
+ multi-column character partly overwrites another.
+ + improved logic for clearing cells when a multi-column character
+ must be wrapped to a new line.
+ + revise storage of cells for multi-column characters to correct a
+ problem with repainting. In the old scheme, it was possible for
+ doupdate() to decide that only part of a multi-column character
+ should be repainted since the filler cells stored only an attribute
+ to denote them as fillers, rather than the character value and the
+ attribute.
+
+20041016
+ + minor fixes for traces.
+ + add SP->_screen_acs_map[], used to ensure that mapping of missing
+ line-drawing characters is handled properly. For example, ACS_DARROW
+ is absent from xterm-new, and it was coincidentally displayed the
+ same as ACS_BTEE.
+
+20041009
+ + amend 20021221 workaround for broken acs to reset the sgr, rmacs
+ and smacs strings as well. Also modify the check for screen's
+ limitations in that area to allow the multi-character shift-in
+ and shift-out which seem to work.
+ + change GPM initialization, using dl library to load it dynamically
+ at runtime (Debian #110586).
+
+20041002
+ + correct logic for color pair in setcchar() and getcchar() (patch by
+ Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
+ + add t/T commands to ncurses b/B tests to allow a different color to
+ be tested for the attrset part of the test than is used in the
+ background color.
+
+20040925
+ + fix to make setcchar() to work when its wchar_t* parameter is
+ pointing to a string which contains more data than can be converted.
+ + modify wget_wstr() and example in ncurses.c to work if wchar_t and
+ wint_t are different sizes (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
+
+20040918
+ + remove check in wget_wch() added to fix an infinite loop, appears to
+ have been working around a transitory glibc bug, and interferes
+ with normal operation (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
+ + correct wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not pass the rendition
+ information (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
+ + fix aclocal.m4 so that the wide-character version of ncurses gets
+ compiled as libncursesw.5.dylib, instead of libncurses.5w.dylib
+ (adapted from patch by James J Ramsey).
+ + change configure script for --with-caps option to indicate that it
+ is no longer experimental.
+ + change configure script to reflect the fact that --enable-widec has
+ not been "experimental" since 5.3 (report by Bruno Lustosa).
+
+20040911
+ + add 'B' test to ncurses.c, to exercise some wide-character functions.
+
+20040828
+ + modify infocmp -i option to match 8-bit controls against its table
+ entries, e.g., so it can analyze the xterm-8bit entry.
+ + add morphos terminfo entry, improve amiga-8bit entry (Pavel Fedin).
+ + correct translation of "%%" in terminfo format to termcap, e.g.,
+ using "tic -C" (Redhat Bugzilla #130921).
+ + modified configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to ensure that if
+ it defines _POSIX_C_SOURCE, that it defines it to a specific value
+ (comp.os.stratus newsgroup comment).
+
+20040821
+ + fixes to build with Ada95 binding with gnat 3.4 (all warnings are
+ fatal, and gnat does not follow the guidelines for pragmas).
+ However that did find a coding error in Assume_Default_Colors().
+ + modify several terminfo entries to ensure xterm mouse and cursor
+ visibility are reset in rs2 string: hurd, putty, gnome,
+ konsole-base, mlterm, Eterm, screen (Debian #265784, #55637). The
+ xterm entries are left alone - old ones for compatibility, and the
+ new ones do not require this change. -TD
+
+20040814
+ + fake a SIGWINCH in newterm() to accommodate buggy terminal emulators
+ and window managers (Debian #265631).
+ > terminfo updates -TD
+ + remove dch/dch1 from rxvt because they are implemented inconsistently
+ with the common usage of bce/ech
+ + remove khome from vt220 (vt220's have no home key)
+ + add rxvt+pcfkeys
+
+20040807
+ + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test, adding v/V toggles to cycle through
+ combinations of video attributes so that for instance bold and
+ underline can be tested. This made the legend too crowded, added
+ a help window as well.
+ + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test to cycle through default colors if
+ the -d option is set.
+ + update putty terminfo entry (Robert de Bath).
+
+20040731
+ + modify test/cardfile.c to allow it to read more data than can be
+ displayed.
+ + correct logic in resizeterm.c which kept it from processing all
+ levels of window hierarchy (reports by Folkert van Heusden,
+ Chris Share).
+
+20040724
+ + modify "tic -cv" to ignore delays when comparing strings. Also
+ modify it to ignore a canceled sgr string, e.g., for terminals which
+ cannot properly combine attributes in one control sequence.
+ + corrections for gnome and konsole entries (Redhat Bugzilla #122815,
+ patch by Hans de Goede)
+ > terminfo updates -TD
+ + make ncsa-m rmacs/smacs consistent with sgr
+ + add sgr, rc/sc and ech to syscons entries
+ + add function-keys to decansi
+ + add sgr to mterm-ansi
+ + add sgr, civis, cnorm to emu
+ + correct/simplify cup in addrinfo
+
+20040717
+ > terminfo updates -TD
+ + add xterm-pc-fkeys
+ + review/update gnome and gnome-rh90 entries (prompted by Redhat
+ Bugzilla #122815).
+ + review/update konsole entries
+ + add sgr, correct sgr0 for kterm and mlterm
+ + correct tsl string in kterm
+
+20040711
+ + add configure option --without-xterm-new
+
+20040710
+ + add check in wget_wch() for printable bytes that are not part of a
+ multibyte character.
+ + modify wadd_wchnstr() to render text using window's background
+ attributes.
+ + improve tic's check to compare sgr and sgr0.
+ + fix c++ directory's .cc.i rule.
+ + modify logic in tgetent() which adjusts the termcap "me" string
+ to work with ISO-2022 string used in xterm-new (cf: 20010908).
+ + modify tic's check for conflicting function keys to omit that if
+ converting termcap to termcap format.
+ + add -U option to tic and infocmp.
+ + add rmam/smam to linux terminfo entry (Trevor Van Bremen)
+ > terminfo updates -TD
+ + minor fixes for emu
+ + add emu-220
+ + change wyse acsc strings to use 'i' map rather than 'I'
+ + fixes for avatar0
+ + fixes for vp3a+
+
+20040703
+ + use tic -x to install terminfo database -TD
+ + add -x to infocmp's usage message.
+ + correct field used for comparing O_ROWMAJOR in set_menu_format()
+ (report/patch by Tony Li).
+ + fix a missing nul check in set_field_buffer() from 20040508 changes.
+ > terminfo updates -TD
+ + make xterm-xf86-v43 derived from xterm-xf86-v40 rather than
+ xterm-basic -TD
+ + align with xterm patch #192's use of xterm-new -TD
+ + update xterm-new and xterm-8bit for cvvis/cnorm strings -TD
+ + make xterm-new the default "xterm" entry -TD
+
+20040626
+ + correct BUILD_CPPFLAGS substitution in ncurses/Makefile.in, to allow
+ cross-compiling from a separate directory tree (report/patch by
+ Dan Engel).
+ + modify is_term_resized() to ensure that window sizes are nonzero,
+ as documented in the manpage (report by Ian Collier).
+ + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro to make Hurd port build
+ (Debian #249214, report/patch by Jeff Bailey).
+ + configure-script mods from xterm, e.g., updates to CF_ADD_CFLAGS
+ + update config.guess, config.sub
+ > terminfo updates -TD
+ + add mlterm
+ + add xterm-xf86-v44
+ + modify xterm-new aka xterm-xfree86 to accommodate luit, which
+ relies on G1 being used via an ISO-2022 escape sequence (report by
+ Juliusz Chroboczek)
+ + add 'hurd' entry
+
+20040619
+ + reconsidered winsnstr(), decided after comparing other
+ implementations that wrapping is an X/Open documentation error.
+ + modify test/inserts.c to test all flavors of insstr().
+
+20040605
+ + add setlocale() calls to a few test programs which may require it:
+ demo_forms.c, filter.c, ins_wide.c, inserts.c
+ + correct a few misspelled function names in ncurses-intro.html (report
+ by Tony Li).
+ + correct internal name of key_defined() manpage, which conflicted with
+ define_key().
+
+20040529
+ + correct size of internal pad used for holding wide-character
+ field_buffer() results.
+ + modify data_ahead() to work with wide-characters.
+
+20040522
+ + improve description of terminfo if-then-else expressions (suggested
+ by Arne Thomassen).
+ + improve test/ncurses.c 'd' test, allow it to use external file for
+ initial palette (added xterm-16color.dat and linux-color.dat), and
+ reset colors to the initial palette when starting/ending the test.
+ + change limit-check in init_color() to allow r/g/b component to
+ reach 1000 (cf: 20020928).
+
+20040516
+ + modify form library to use cchar_t's rather than char's in the
+ wide-character configuration for storing data for field buffers.
+ + correct logic of win_wchnstr(), which did not work for more than
+ one cell.
+
+20040508
+ + replace memset/memcpy usage in form library with for-loops to
+ simplify changing the datatype of FIELD.buf, part of wide-character
+ changes.
+ + fix some inconsistent use of #if/#ifdef (report by Alain Guibert).
+
+20040501
+ + modify menu library to account for actual number of columns used by
+ multibyte character strings, in the wide-character configuration
+ (adapted from patch by Philipp Tomsich).
+ + add "-x" option to infocmp like tic's "-x", for use in "-F"
+ comparisons. This modifies infocmp to only report extended
+ capabilities if the -x option is given, making this more consistent
+ with tic. Some scripts may break, since infocmp previous gave this
+ information without an option.
+ + modify termcap-parsing to retain 2-character aliases at the beginning
+ of an entry if the "-x" option is used in tic.
+
+20040424
+ + minor compiler-warning and test-program fixes.
+
+20040417
+ + modify tic's missing-sgr warning to apply to terminfo only.
+ + free some memory leaks in tic.
+ + remove check in post_menu() that prevented menus from extending
+ beyond the screen (request by Max J. Werner).
+ + remove check in newwin() that prevents allocating windows
+ that extend beyond the screen. Solaris curses does this.
+ + add ifdef in test/color_set.c to allow it to compile with older
+ curses.
+ + add napms() calls to test/dots.c to make it not be a CPU hog.
+
+20040403
+ + modify unctrl() to return null if its parameter does not correspond
+ to an unsigned char.
+ + add some limit-checks to guard isprint(), etc., from being used on
+ values that do not fit into an unsigned char (report by Sami Farin).
+
+20040328
+ + fix a typo in the _nc_get_locale() change.
+
+20040327
+ + modify _nc_get_locale() to use setlocale() to query the program's
+ current locale rather than using getenv(). This fixes a case in tin
+ which relies on legacy treatment of 8-bit characters when the locale
+ is not initialized (reported by Urs Jansen).
+ + add sgr string to screen's and rxvt's terminfo entries -TD.
+ + add a check in tic for terminfo entries having an sgr0 but no sgr
+ string. This confuses Tru64 and HPUX curses when combined with
+ color, e.g., making them leave line-drawing characters in odd places.
+ + correct casts used in ABSENT_BOOLEAN, CANCELLED_BOOLEAN, matches the
+ original definitions used in Debian package to fix PowerPC bug before
+ 20030802 (Debian #237629).
+
+20040320
+ + modify PutAttrChar() and PUTC() macro to improve use of
+ A_ALTCHARSET attribute to prevent line-drawing characters from
+ being lost in situations where the locale would otherwise treat the
+ raw data as nonprintable (Debian #227879).
+
+20040313
+ + fix a redefinition of CTRL() macro in test/view.c for AIX 5.2 (report
+ by Jim Idle).
+ + remove ".PP" after ".SH NAME" in a few manpages; this confuses
+ some apropos script (Debian #237831).
+
+20040306
+ + modify ncurses.c 'r' test so editing commands, like inserted text,
+ set the field background, and the state of insert/overlay editing
+ mode is shown in that test.
+ + change syntax of dummy targets in Ada95 makefiles to work with pmake.
+ + correct logic in test/ncurses.c 'b' for noncolor terminals which
+ did not recognize a quit-command (cf: 20030419).
+
+20040228
+ + modify _nc_insert_ch() to allow for its input to be part of a
+ multibyte string.
+ + split out lib_insnstr.c, to prepare to rewrite it. X/Open states
+ that this function performs wrapping, unlike all of the other
+ insert-functions. Currently it does not wrap.
+ + check for nl_langinfo(CODESET), use it if available (report by
+ Stanislav Ievlev).
+ + split-out CF_BUILD_CC macro, actually did this for lynx first.
+ + fixes for configure script CF_WITH_DBMALLOC and CF_WITH_DMALLOC,
+ which happened to work with bash, but not with Bourne shell (report
+ by Marco d'Itri via tin-dev).
+
+20040221
+ + some changes to adapt the form library to wide characters, incomplete
+ (request by Mike Aubury).
+ + add symbol to curses.h which can be used to suppress include of
+ stdbool.h, e.g.,
+ #define NCURSES_ENABLE_STDBOOL_H 0
+ #include <curses.h>
+ (discussion on XFree86 mailing list).
+
+20040214
+ + modify configure --with-termlib option to accept a value which sets
+ the name of the terminfo library. This would allow a packager to
+ build libtinfow.so renamed to coincide with libtinfo.so (discussion
+ with Stanislav Ievlev).
+ + improve documentation of --with-install-prefix, --prefix and
+ $(DESTDIR) in INSTALL (prompted by discussion with Paul Lew).
+ + add configure check if the compiler can use -c -o options to rename
+ its output file, use that to omit the 'cd' command which was used to
+ ensure object files are created in a separate staging directory
+ (prompted by comments by Johnny Wezel, Martin Mokrejs).
+
+20040208 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
+ + update TO-DO.
+
+20040207 pre-release
+ + minor fixes to _nc_tparm_analyze(), i.e., do not count %i as a param,
+ and do not count %d if it follows a %p.
+ + correct an inconsistency between handling of codes in the 128-255
+ range, e.g., as illustrated by test/ncurses.c f/F tests. In POSIX
+ locale, the latter did not show printable results, while the former
+ did.
+ + modify MKlib_gen.sh to compensate for broken C preprocessor on Mac
+ OS X, which alters "%%" to "% % " (report by Robert Simms, fix
+ verified by Scott Corscadden).
+
+20040131 pre-release
+ + modify SCREEN struct to align it between normal/wide curses flavors
+ to simplify future changes to build a single version of libtinfo
+ (patch by Stanislav Ievlev).
+ + document handling of carriage return by addch() in manpage.
+ + document special features of unctrl() in manpage.
+ + documented interface changes in INSTALL.
+ + corrected control-char test in lib_addch.c to account for locale
+ (Debian #230335, cf: 971206).
+ + updated test/configure.in to use AC_EXEEXT and AC_OBJEXT.
+ + fixes to compile Ada95 binding with Debian gnat 3.15p-4 package.
+ + minor configure-script fixes for older ports, e.g., BeOS R4.5.
+
+20040125 pre-release
+ + amend change to PutAttrChar() from 20030614 which computed the number
+ of cells for a possibly multi-cell character. The 20030614 change
+ forced the cell to a blank if the result from wcwidth() was not
+ greater than zero. However, wcwidth() called for parameters in the
+ range 128-255 can give this return value. The logic now simply
+ ensures that the number of cells is greater than zero without
+ modifying the displayed value.
+
+20040124 pre-release
+ + looked good for 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org (but see above)
+ + modify configure script check for ranlib to use AC_CHECK_TOOL, since
+ that works better for cross-compiling.
+
+20040117 pre-release
+ + modify lib_get_wch.c to prefer mblen/mbtowc over mbrlen/mbrtowc to
+ work around core dump in Solaris 8's locale support, e.g., for
+ zh_CN.GB18030 (report by Saravanan Bellan).
+ + add includes for <stdarg.h> and <stdio.h> in configure script macro
+ to make <wchar.h> check work with Tru64 4.0d.
+ + add terminfo entry for U/Win -TD
+ + add terminfo entries for SFU aka Interix aka OpenNT (Federico
+ Bianchi).
+ + modify tput's error messages to prefix them with the program name
+ (report by Vincent Lefevre, patch by Daniel Jacobowitz, Debian
+ #227586).
+ + correct a place in tack where exit_standout_mode was used instead of
+ exit_attribute_mode (patch by Jochen Voss, Debian #224443).
+ + modify c++/cursesf.h to use const in the Enumeration_Field method.
+ + remove an ambiguous (actually redundant) method from c++/cursesf.h
+ + make $HOME/.terminfo update optional (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
+ + improve sed script which extracts libtool's version in the
+ CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro.
+ + add ifdef'd call to AC_PROG_LIBTOOL to CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro (to
+ simplify local patch for Albert Chin-A-Young)..
+ + add $(CXXFLAGS) to link command in c++/Makefile.in (adapted from
+ patch by Albert Chin-A-Young)..
+ + fix a missing substitution in configure.in for "$target" needed for
+ HPUX .so/.sl case.
+ + resync CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro with lynx; fixes IRIX64 and
+ NetBSD 1.6 conflicts with _XOPEN_SOURCE.
+ + make check for stdbool.h more specific, to ensure that including it
+ will actually define/declare bool for the configured compiler.
+ + rewrite ifdef's in curses.h relating NCURSES_BOOL and bool. The
+ intention of that is to #define NCURSES_BOOL as bool when the
+ compiler declares bool, and to #define bool as NCURSES_BOOL when it
+ does not (reported by Jim Gifford, Sam Varshavchik, cf: 20031213).
+
+20040110 pre-release
+ + change minor version to 4, i.e., ncurses 5.4
+ + revised/improved terminfo entries for tvi912b, tvi920b (Benjamin C W
+ Sittler).
+ + simplified ncurses/base/version.c by defining the result from the
+ configure script rather than using sprintf (suggested by Stanislav
+ Ievlev).
+ + remove obsolete casts from c++/cursesw.h (reported by Stanislav
+ Ievlev).
+ + modify configure script so that when configuring for termlib, programs
+ such as tic are not linked with the upper-level ncurses library
+ (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
+ + move version.c from ncurses/base to ncurses/tinfo to allow linking
+ of tic, etc., using libtinfo (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
+
+20040103
+ + adjust -D's to build ncursesw on OpenBSD.
+ + modify CF_PROG_EXT to make OS/2 build with EXEEXT.
+ + add pecho_wchar().
+ + remove <wctype.h> include from lib_slk_wset.c which is not needed (or
+ available) on older platforms.
+
+20031227
+ + add -D's to build ncursew on FreeBSD 5.1.
+ + modify shared library configuration for FreeBSD 4.x/5.x to add the
+ soname information (request by Marc Glisse).
+ + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() to not use MAX_ALIAS, but PATH_MAX only
+ for limiting the length of a filename in the terminfo database.
+ + modify termname() to return the terminal name used by setupterm()
+ rather than $TERM, without truncating to 14 characters as documented
+ by X/Open (report by Stanislav Ievlev, cf: 970719).
+ + re-add definition for _BSD_TYPES, lost in merge (cf: 20031206).
+
+20031220
+ + add configure option --with-manpage-format=catonly to address
+ behavior of BSDI, allow install of man+cat files on NetBSD, whose
+ behavior has diverged by requiring both to be present.
+ + remove leading blanks from comment-lines in manlinks.sed script to
+ work with Tru64 4.0d.
+ + add screen.linux terminfo entry (discussion on mutt-users mailing
+ list).
+
+20031213
+ + add a check for tic to flag missing backslashes for termcap
+ continuation lines. ncurses reads the whole entry, but termcap
+ applications do not.
+ + add configure option "--with-manpage-aliases" extending
+ "--with-manpage-aliases" to provide the option of generating ".so"
+ files rather than symbolic links for manpage aliases.
+ + add bool definition in include/curses.h.in for configurations with no
+ usable C++ compiler (cf: 20030607).
+ + fix pathname of SigAction.h for building with --srcdir (reported by
+ Mike Castle).
+
+20031206
+ + folded ncurses/base/sigaction.c into includes of ncurses/SigAction.h,
+ since that header is used only within ncurses/tty/lib_tstp.c, for
+ non-POSIX systems (discussion with Stanislav Ievlev).
+ + remove obsolete _nc_outstr() function (report by Stanislav Ievlev
+ <inger@altlinux.org>).
+ + add test/background.c and test/color_set.c
+ + modify color_set() function to work with color pair 0 (report by
+ George Andreou <gbandreo@tem.uoc.gr>).
+ + add configure option --with-trace, since defining TRACE seems too
+ awkward for some cases.
+ + remove a call to _nc_free_termtype() from read_termtype(), since the
+ corresponding buffer contents were already zeroed by a memset (cf:
+ 20000101).
+ + improve configure check for _XOPEN_SOURCE and related definitions,
+ adding special cases for Solaris' __EXTENSIONS__ and FreeBSD's
+ __BSD_TYPES (reports by Marc Glisse <marc.glisse@normalesup.org>).
+ + small fixes to compile on Solaris and IRIX64 using cc.
+ + correct typo in check for pre-POSIX sort options in MKkey_defs.sh
+ (cf: 20031101).
+
+20031129
+ + modify _nc_gettime() to avoid a problem with arithmetic on unsigned
+ values (Philippe Blain).
+ + improve the nanosleep() logic in napms() by checking for EINTR and
+ restarting (Philippe Blain).
+ + correct expression for "%D" in lib_tgoto.c (Juha Jarvi
+ <mooz@welho.com>).
+
+20031122
+ + add linux-vt terminfo entry (Andrey V Lukyanov <land@long.yar.ru>).
+ + allow "\|" escape in terminfo; tic should not warn about this.
+ + save the full pathname of the trace-file the first time it is opened,
+ to avoid creating it in different directories if the application
+ opens and closes it while changing its working directory.
+ + modify configure script to provide a non-empty default for
+ $BROKEN_LINKER
+
+20031108
+ + add DJGPP to special case of DOS-style drive letters potentially
+ appearing in TERMCAP environment variable.
+ + fix some spelling in comments (reports by jmc, Jonathon Gray).
+ + update config.guess, config.sub
+
+20031101
+ + fix a memory leak in error-return from setupterm() (report by
+ Stanislav Ievlev <inger@altlinux.org>).
+ + use EXEEXT and OBJEXT consistently in makefiles.
+ + amend fixes for cross-compiling to use separate executable-suffix
+ BUILD_EXEEXT (cf: 20031018).
+ + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for sort utility that does not
+ recognize key options, e.g., busybox (report by Peter S Mazinger
+ <ps.m@gmx.net>).
+ + fix potential out-of-bounds indexing in _nc_infotocap() (found by
+ David Krause using some of the new malloc debugging features
+ under OpenBSD, patch by Ted Unangst).
+ + modify CF_LIB_SUFFIX for Itanium releases of HP-UX, which use a
+ ".so" suffix (patch by Jonathan Ward <Jonathan.Ward@hp.com>).
+
+20031025
+ + update terminfo for xterm-xfree86 -TD
+ + add check for multiple "tc=" clauses in a termcap to tic.
+ + check for missing op/oc in tic.
+ + correct _nc_resolve_uses() and _nc_merge_entry() to allow infocmp and
+ tic to show cancelled capabilities. These functions were ignoring
+ the state of the target entry, which should be untouched if cancelled.
+ + correct comment in tack/output.c (Debian #215806).
+ + add some null-pointer checks to lib_options.c (report by Michael
+ Bienia).
+ + regenerated html documentation.
+ + correction to tar-copy.sh, remove a trap command that resulted in
+ leaving temporary files (cf: 20030510).
+ + remove contact/maintainer addresses for Juergen Pfeifer (his request).
+
+20031018
+ + updated test/configure to reflect changes for libtool (cf: 20030830).
+ + fix several places in tack/pad.c which tested and used the parameter-
+ and parameterless strings inconsistently, i.e., in pad_rin(),
+ pad_il(), pad_indn() and pad_dl() (Debian #215805).
+ + minor fixes for configure script and makefiles to cleanup executables
+ generated when cross-compiling for DJGPP.
+ + modify infocmp to omit check for $TERM for operations that do not
+ require it, e.g., "infocmp -e" used to build fallback list (report by
+ Koblinger Egmont).
+
+20031004
+ + add terminfo entries for DJGPP.
+ + updated note about maintainer in ncurses-intro.html
+
+20030927
+ + update terminfo entries for gnome terminal.
+ + modify tack to reset colors after each color test, correct a place
+ where exit_standout_mode was used instead of exit_attribute_mode.
+ + improve tack's bce test by making it set colors other than black
+ on white.
+ + plug a potential recursion between napms() and _nc_timed_wait()
+ (report by Philippe Blain).
+
+20030920
+ + add --with-rel-version option to allow workaround to allow making
+ libtool on Darwin generate the "same" library names as with the
+ --with-shared option. The Darwin ld program does not work well
+ with a zero as the minor-version value (request by Chris Zubrzycki).
+ + modify CF_MIXEDCASE_FILENAMES macro to work with cross-compiling.
+ + modify tack to allow it to run from fallback terminfo data.
+ > Philippe Blain:
+ + improve PutRange() by adjusting call to EmitRange() and corresponding
+ return-value to not emit unchanged characters on the end of the
+ range.
+ + improve a check for changed-attribute by exiting a loop when the
+ change is found.
+ + improve logic in TransformLine(), eliminating a duplicated comparison
+ in the clr_bol logic.
+
+20030913
+ > Philippe Blain:
+ + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
+ move the label 'nonlocal' just before the second gettimeofday() to
+ be able to compute the diff time when 'goto nonlocal' used.
+ Rename 'msec' to 'microsec' in the debug-message.
+ + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
+ Use _nc_outch() in carriage return/newline movement instead of
+ putchar() which goes to stdout. Move test for xold>0 out of loop.
+ + in ncurses/tinfo/setbuf.c,
+ Set the flag SP->_buffered at the end of operations when all has been
+ successful (typeMalloc can fail).
+ + simplify NC_BUFFERED macro by moving check inside _nc_setbuf().
+
+20030906
+ + modify configure script to avoid using "head -1", which does not
+ work if POSIXLY_CORRECT (sic) is set.
+ + modify run_tic.in to avoid using wrong shared libraries when
+ cross-compiling (Dan Kegel).
+
+20030830
+ + alter configure script help message to make it clearer that
+ --with-build-cc does not specify a cross-compiler (suggested by Dan
+ Kegel <dank@kegel.com>).
+ + modify configure script to accommodate libtool 1.5, as well as add an
+ parameter to the "--with-libtool" option which can specify the
+ pathname of libtool (report by Chris Zubrzycki). We note that
+ libtool 1.5 has more than one bug in its C++ support, so it is not
+ able to install libncurses++, for instance, if $DESTDIR or the option
+ --with-install-prefix is used.
+
+20030823
+ > Philippe Blain:
+ + move assignments to SP->_cursrow, SP->_curscol into online_mvcur().
+ + make baudrate computation in delay_output() consistent with the
+ assumption in _nc_mvcur_init(), i.e., a byte is 9 bits.
+
+20030816
+ + modify logic in waddch_literal() to take into account zh_TW.Big5
+ whose multibyte sequences may contain "printable" characters, e.g.,
+ a "g" in the sequence "\247g" (Debian #204889, cf: 20030621).
+ + improve storage used by _nc_safe_strcpy() by ensuring that the size
+ is reset based on the initialization call, in case it were called
+ after other strcpy/strcat calls (report by Philippe Blain).
+ > Philippe Blain:
+ + remove an unused ifdef for REAL_ATTR & WANT_CHAR
+ + correct a place where _cup_cost was used rather than _cuu_cost
+
+20030809
+ + fix a small memory leak in _nc_free_termtype().
+ + close trace-file if trace() is called with a zero parameter.
+ + free memory allocated for soft-key strings, in delscreen().
+ + fix an allocation size in safe_sprintf.c for the "*" format code.
+ + correct safe_sprintf.c to not return a null pointer if the format
+ happens to be an empty string. This applies to the "configure
+ --enable-safe-sprintf" option (Redhat #101486).
+
+20030802
+ + modify casts used for ABSENT_BOOLEAN and CANCELLED_BOOLEAN (report by
+ Daniel Jacobowitz).
+ > Philippe Blain:
+ + change padding for change_scroll_region to not be proportional to
+ the size of the scroll-region.
+ + correct error-return in _nc_safe_strcat().
+
+20030726
+ + correct limit-checks in _nc_scroll_window() (report and test-case by
+ Thomas Graf <graf@dms.at> cf: 20011020).
+ + re-order configure checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE to avoid conflict with
+ _GNU_SOURCE check.
+
+20030719
+ + use clr_eol in preference to blanks for bce terminals, so select and
+ paste will have fewer trailing blanks, e.g., when using xterm
+ (request by Vincent Lefevre).
+ + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
+ + add configure --with-abi-version option (discussion with Charles
+ Wilson).
+ > cygwin changes from Charles Wilson:
+ + aclocal.m4: on cygwin, use autodetected prefix for import
+ and static lib, but use "cyg" for DLL.
+ + include/ncurses_dll.h: correct the comments to reflect current
+ status of cygwin/mingw port. Fix compiler warning.
+ + misc/run_tic.in: ensure that tic.exe can find the uninstalled
+ DLL, by adding the lib-directory to the PATH variable.
+ + misc/terminfo.src (nxterm|xterm-color): make xterm-color
+ primary instead of nxterm, to match XFree86's xterm.terminfo
+ usage and to prevent circular links.
+ (rxvt): add additional codes from rxvt.org.
+ (rxvt-color): new alias
+ (rxvt-xpm): new alias
+ (rxvt-cygwin): like rxvt, but with special acsc codes.
+ (rxvt-cygwin-native): ditto. rxvt may be run under XWindows, or
+ with a "native" MSWin GUI. Each takes different acsc codes,
+ which are both different from the "normal" rxvt's acsc.
+ (cygwin): cygwin-in-cmd.exe window. Lots of fixes.
+ (cygwinDBG): ditto.
+ + mk-1st.awk: use "cyg" for the DLL prefix, but "lib" for import
+ and static libs.
+
+20030712
+ + update config.guess, config.sub
+ + add triples for configuring shared libraries with the Debian
+ GNU/FreeBSD packages (patch by Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es>).
+
+20030705
+ + modify CF_GCC_WARNINGS so it only applies to gcc, not g++. Some
+ platforms have installed g++ along with the native C compiler, which
+ would not accept gcc warning options.
+ + add -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 when configuring with --enable-widec, to
+ get mbstate_t declaration on HPUX 11.11 (report by David Ellement).
+ + add _nc_pathlast() to get rid of casts in _nc_basename() calls.
+ + correct a sign-extension in wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() from
+ 20030628 (report by Tomohiro KUBOTA).
+ + work around omission of btowc() and wctob() from wide-character
+ support (sic) in NetBSD 1.6 using mbtowc() and wctomb() (report by
+ Gabor Z Papp).
+ + add portability note to curs_get_wstr.3x (Debian #199957).
+
+20030628
+ + rewrite wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to call waddch() and wechochar()
+ respectively, to avoid calling waddch_noecho() with wide-character
+ data, since that function assumes its input is 8-bit data.
+ Similarly, modify waddnwstr() to call wadd_wch().
+ + remove logic from waddnstr() which transformed multibyte character
+ strings into wide-characters. Rewrite of waddch_literal() from
+ 20030621 assumes its input is raw multibyte data rather than wide
+ characters (report by Tomohiro KUBOTA).
+
+20030621
+ + write getyx() and related 2-return macros in terms of getcury(),
+ getcurx(), etc.
+ + modify waddch_literal() in case an application passes bytes of a
+ multibyte character directly to waddch(). In this case, waddch()
+ must reassemble the bytes into a wide-character (report by Tomohiro
+ KUBOTA <kubota@debian.org>).
+
+20030614
+ + modify waddch_literal() in case a multibyte value occupies more than
+ two cells.
+ + modify PutAttrChar() to compute the number of character cells that
+ are used in multibyte values. This fixes a problem displaying
+ double-width characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen
+ <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
+ + add a null-pointer check for result of keyname() in _tracechar()
+ + modify _tracechar() to work around glibc sprintf bug.
+
+20030607
+ + add a call to setlocale() in cursesmain.cc, making demo display
+ properly in a UTF-8 locale.
+ + add a fallback definition in curses.priv.h for MB_LEN_MAX (prompted
+ by discussion with Gabor Z Papp).
+ + use macros NCURSES_ACS() and NCURSES_WACS() to hide cast needed to
+ appease -Wchar-subscript with g++ 3.3 (Debian #195732).
+ + fix a redefinition of $RANLIB in the configure script when libtool
+ is used, which broke configure on Mac OS X (report by Chris Zubrzycki
+ <beren@mac.com>).
+ + simplify ifdef for bool declaration in curses.h.in (suggested by
+ Albert Chin-A-Young).
+ + remove configure script check to allow -Wconversion for older
+ versions of gcc (suggested by Albert Chin-A-Young).
+
+20030531
+ + regenerated html manpages.
+ + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in that disabled use of __attribute__()
+ for g++, since recent versions implement the cases which ncurses uses
+ (Debian #195230).
+ + modify _nc_get_token() to handle a case where an entry has no
+ description, and capabilities begin on the same line as the entry
+ name.
+ + fix a typo in ncurses_dll.h reported by gcc 3.3.
+ + add an entry for key_defined.3x to man_db.renames.
+
+20030524
+ + modify setcchar() to allow converting control characters to complex
+ characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
+ + add tkterm entry -TD
+ + modify parse_entry.c to allow a terminfo entry with a leading
+ 2-character name (report by Don Libes).
+ + corrected acsc in screen.teraterm, which requires a PC-style mapping.
+ + fix trace statements in read_entry.c to use lseek() rather than
+ tell().
+ + fix signed/unsigned warnings from Sun's compiler (gcc should give
+ these warnings, but it is unpredictable).
+ + modify configure script to omit -Winline for gcc 3.3, since that
+ feature is broken.
+ + modify manlinks.sed to add a few functions that were overlooked since
+ they return function pointers: field_init, field_term, form_init,
+ form_term, item_init, item_term, menu_init and menu_term.
+
+20030517
+ + prevent recursion in wgetch() via wgetnstr() if the connection cannot
+ be switched between cooked/raw modes because it is not a TTY (report
+ by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.com>).
+ + change parameter of define_key() and key_defined() to const (prompted
+ by Debian #192860).
+ + add a check in test/configure for ncurses extensions, since there
+ are some older versions, etc., which would not compile with the
+ current test programs.
+ + corrected demo in test/ncurses.c of wgetn_wstr(), which did not
+ convert wchar_t string to multibyte form before printing it.
+ + corrections to lib_get_wstr.c:
+ + null-terminate buffer passed to setcchar(), which occasionally
+ failed.
+ + map special characters such as erase- and kill-characters into
+ key-codes so those will work as expected even if they are not
+ mentioned in the terminfo.
+ + modify PUTC() and Charable() macros to make wide-character line
+ drawing work for POSIX locale on Linux console (cf: 20021221).
+
+20030510
+ + make typography for program options in manpages consistent (report
+ by Miloslav Trmac <mitr@volny.cz>).
+ + correct dependencies in Ada95/src/Makefile.in, so the builds with
+ "--srcdir" work (report by Warren L Dodge).
+ + correct missing definition of $(CC) in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in
+ (reported by Warren L Dodge <warrend@mdhost.cse.tek.com>).
+ + fix typos and whitespace in manpages (patch by jmc
+ <jmc@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl>).
+
+20030503
+ + fix form_driver() cases for REQ_CLR_EOF, REQ_CLR_EOL, REQ_DEL_CHAR,
+ REQ_DEL_PREV and REQ_NEW_LINE, which did not ensure the cursor was at
+ the editing position before making modifications.
+ + add test/demo_forms and associated test/edit_field.c demos.
+ + modify test/configure.in to use test/modules for the list of objects
+ to compile rather than using the list of programs.
+
+20030419
+ + modify logic of acsc to use the original character if no mapping is
+ defined, noting that Solaris does this.
+ + modify ncurses 'b' test to avoid using the acs_map[] array since
+ 20021231 changes it to no longer contain information from the acsc
+ string.
+ + modify makefile rules in c++, progs, tack and test to ensure that
+ the compiler flags (e.g., $CFLAGS or $CCFLAGS) are used in the link
+ command (report by Jose Luis Rico Botella <informatica@serpis.com>).
+ + modify soft-key initialization to use A_REVERSE if A_STANDOUT would
+ not be shown when colors are used, i.e., if ncv#1 is set in the
+ terminfo as is done in "screen".
+
+20030412
+ + add a test for slk_color(), in ncurses.c
+ + fix some issues reported by valgrind in the slk_set() and slk_wset()
+ code, from recent rewrite.
+ + modify ncurses 'E' test to use show previous label via slk_label(),
+ as in 'e' test.
+ + modify wide-character versions of NewChar(), NewChar2() macros to
+ ensure that the whole struct is initialized.
+
+20030405
+ + modify setupterm() to check if the terminfo and terminal-modes have
+ already been read. This ensures that it does not reinvoke
+ def_prog_mode() when an application calls more than one function,
+ such as tgetent() and initscr() (report by Olaf Buddenhagen).
+
+20030329
+ + add 'E' test to ncurses.c, to exercise slk_wset().
+ + correct handling of carriage-return in wgetn_wstr(), used in demo of
+ slk_wset().
+ + first draft of slk_wset() function.
+
+20030322
+ + improved warnings in tic when suppressing items to fit in termcap's
+ 1023-byte limit.
+ + built a list in test/README showing which externals are being used
+ by either programs in the test-directory or via internal library
+ calls.
+ + adjust include-options in CF_ETIP_DEFINES to avoid missing
+ ncurses_dll.h, fixing special definitions that may be needed for
+ etip.h (reported by Greg Schafer <gschafer@zip.com.au>).
+
+20030315
+ + minor fixes for cardfile.c, to make it write the updated fields to
+ a file when ^W is given.
+ + add/use _nc_trace_bufcat() to eliminate some fixed buffer limits in
+ trace code.
+
+20030308
+ + correct a case in _nc_remove_string(), used by define_key(), to avoid
+ infinite loop if the given string happens to be a substring of other
+ strings which are assigned to keys (report by John McCutchan).
+ + add key_defined() function, to tell which keycode a string is bound
+ to (discussion with John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>).
+ + correct keybound(), which reported definitions in the wrong table,
+ i.e., the list of definitions which are disabled by keyok().
+ + modify demo_keydef.c to show the details it changes, and to check
+ for errors.
+
+20030301
+ + restructured test/configure script, make it work for libncursesw.
+ + add description of link_fieldtype() to manpage (report by
+ L Dee Holtsclaw <dee@sunbeltsoft.com>).
+
+20030222
+ + corrected ifdef's relating to configure check for wchar_t, etc.
+ + if the output is a socket or other non-tty device, use 1 millisecond
+ for the cost in mvcur; previously it was 9 milliseconds because the
+ baudrate was not known.
+ + in _nc_get_tty_mode(), initialize the TTY buffer on error, since
+ glibc copies uninitialized data in that case, as noted by valgrind.
+ + modify tput to use the same parameter analysis as tparm() does, to
+ provide for user-defined strings, e.g., for xterm title, a
+ corresponding capability might be
+ title=\E]2;%p1%s^G,
+ + modify MKlib_gen.sh to avoid passing "#" tokens through the C
+ preprocessor. This works around Mac OS X's preprocessor, which
+ insists on adding a blank on each side of the token (report/analysis
+ by Kevin Murphy <murphy@genome.chop.edu>).
+
+20030215
+ + add configure check for wchar_t and wint_t types, rather than rely
+ on preprocessor definitions. Also work around for gcc fixinclude
+ bug which creates a shadow copy of curses.h if it sees these symbols
+ apparently typedef'd.
+ + if database is disabled, do not generate run_tic.sh
+ + minor fixes for memory-leak checking when termcap is read.
+
+20030208
+ + add checking in tic for incomplete line-drawing character mapping.
+ + update configure script to reflect fix for AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL,
+ which is broken in autoconf 2.5x for Mac OS X 10.2.3 (report by
+ Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl>).
+ + make return value from _nc_printf_string() consistent. Before,
+ depending on whether --enable-safe-sprintf was used, it might not be
+ cached for reallocating.
+
+20030201
+ + minor fixes for memory-leak checking in lib_tparm.c, hardscroll.c
+ + correct a potentially-uninitialized value if _read_termtype() does
+ not read as much data as expected (report by Wolfgang Rohdewald
+ <wr6@uni.de>).
+ + correct several places where the aclocal.m4 macros relied on cache
+ variable names which were incompatible (as usual) between autoconf
+ 2.13 and 2.5x, causing the test for broken-linker to give incorrect
+ results (reports by Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl> and Thomas Esser
+ <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de>).
+ + do not try to open gpm mouse driver if standard output is not a tty;
+ the gpm library does not make this check (from bug report for dialog
+ by David Oliveira <davidoliveira@develop.prozone.ws>).
+
+20030125
+ + modified emx.src to correspond more closely to terminfo.src, added
+ emx-base to the latter -TD
+ + add configure option for FreeBSD sysmouse, --with-sysmouse, and
+ implement support for that in lib_mouse.c, lib_getch.c
+
+20030118
+ + revert 20030105 change to can_clear_with(), does not work for the
+ case where the update is made on cells which are blanks with
+ attributes, e.g., reverse.
+ + improve ifdef's to guard against redefinition of wchar_t and wint_t
+ in curses.h (report by Urs Jansen).
+
+20030111
+ + improve mvcur() by checking if it is safe to move when video
+ attributes are set (msgr), and if not, reset/restore attributes
+ within that function rather than doing it separately in the GoTo()
+ function in tty_update.c (suggested by Philippe Blain).
+ + add a message in run_tic.in to explain more clearly what does not
+ work when attempting to create a symbolic link for /usr/lib/terminfo
+ on OS/2 and other platforms with no symbolic links (report by John
+ Polterak).
+ + change several sed scripts to avoid using "\+" since it is not a BRE
+ (basic regular expression). One instance caused terminfo.5 to be
+ misformatted on FreeBSD (from a FreeBSD bug report by Kazuo Horikawa
+ <horikawa@FreeBSD.org>).
+ + correct misspelled 'wint_t' in curs_get_wch.3x (Michael Elkins).
+
+20030105
+ + improve description of terminfo operators, especially static/dynamic
+ variables (comments by Mark I Manning IV <mark4th@earthlink.net>).
+ + demonstrate use of FIELDTYPE by modifying test/ncurses 'r' test to
+ use the predefined TYPE_ALPHA field-type, and by defining a
+ specialized type for the middle initial/name.
+ + fix MKterminfo.sh, another workaround for POSIXLY_CORRECT misfeature
+ of sed 4.0
+ > Philippe Blain:
+ + optimize can_clear_with() a little by testing first if the parameter
+ is indeed a "blank".
+ + simplify ClrBottom() a little by allowing it to use clr_eos to clear
+ sections as small as one line.
+ + improve ClrToEOL() by checking if clr_eos is available before trying
+ to use it.
+ + use tputs() rather than putp() in a few cases in tty_update.c since
+ the corresponding delays are proportional to the number of lines
+ affected: repeat_char, clr_eos, change_scroll_region.
+
+20021231
+ + rewrite of lib_acs.c conflicts with copying of SCREEN acs_map to/from
+ global acs_map[] array; removed the lines that did the copying.
+
+20021228
+ + change some overlooked tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp()
+ (report by Philippe Blain).
+ + modify lib_getch.c to avoid recursion via wgetnstr() when the input
+ is not a tty and consequently mode-changes do not work (report by
+ <R.Chamberlin@querix.com>).
+ + rewrote lib_acs.c to allow PutAttrChar() to decide how to render
+ alternate-characters, i.e., to work with Linux console and UTF-8
+ locale.
+ + correct line/column reference in adjust_window(), needed to make
+ special windows such as curscr track properly when resizing (report
+ by Lucas Gonze <lgonze@panix.com>).
+ > Philippe Blain:
+ + correct the value used for blank in ClrBottom() (broken in 20000708).
+ + correct an off-by-one in GoTo() parameter in _nc_scrolln().
+
+20021221
+ + change several tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp(), to
+ enable padding which may be needed for some terminals (patch by
+ by Philippe Blain).
+ + use '%' as sed substitute delimiter in run_tic script to avoid
+ problems with pathname delimiters such as ':' and '@' (report by John
+ Polterak).
+ + implement a workaround so that line-drawing works with screen's
+ crippled UTF-8 support (tested with 3.9.13). This only works with
+ the wide-character support (--enable-widec); the normal library will
+ simply suppress line-drawing when running in a UTF-8 locale in screen.
+
+20021214
+ + allow BUILD_CC and related configure script variables to be
+ overridden from the environment.
+ + make build-tools variables in ncurses/Makefile.in consistent with
+ the configure script variables (report by Maciej W Rozycki).
+ + modify ncurses/modules to allow
+ configure --disable-leaks --disable-ext-funcs
+ to build (report by Gary Samuelson).
+ + fix a few places in configure.in which lacked quotes (report by
+ Gary Samuelson <gary.samuelson@verizon.com>).
+ + correct handling of multibyte characters in waddch_literal() which
+ force wrapping because they are started too late on the line (report
+ by Sam Varshavchik).
+ + small fix for CF_GNAT_VERSION to ignore the help-message which
+ gnatmake adds to its version-message.
+ > Maciej W Rozycki <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>:
+ + use AC_CHECK_TOOL to get proper values for AR and LD for cross
+ compiling.
+ + use $cross_compiling variable in configure script rather than
+ comparing $host_alias and $target alias, since "host" is
+ traditionally misused in autoconf to refer to the target platform.
+ + change configure --help message to use "build" rather than "host"
+ when referring to the --with-build-XXX options.
+
+20021206
+ + modify CF_GNAT_VERSION to print gnatmake's version, and to allow for
+ possible gnat versions such as 3.2 (report by Chris Lingard
+ <chris@stockwith.co.uk>).
+ + modify #define's for CKILL and other default control characters in
+ tset to use the system's default values if they are defined.
+ + correct interchanged defaults for kill and interrupt characters
+ in tset, which caused it to report unnecessarily (Debian #171583).
+ + repair check for missing C++ compiler, which is broken in autoconf
+ 2.5x by hardcoding it to g++ (report by Martin Mokrejs).
+ + update config.guess, config.sub (2002-11-30)
+ + modify configure script to skip --with-shared, etc., when the
+ --with-libtool option is given, since they would be ignored anyway.
+ + fix to allow "configure --with-libtool --with-termlib" to build.
+ + modify configure script to show version number of libtool, to help
+ with bug reports. libtool still gets confused if the installed
+ ncurses libraries are old, since it ignores the -L options at some
+ point (tested with libtool 1.3.3 and 1.4.3).
+ + reorder configure script's updating of $CPPFLAGS and $CFLAGS to
+ prevent -I options in the user's environment from introducing
+ conflicts with the build -I options (may be related to reports by
+ Patrick Ash and George Goffe).
+ + rename test/define_key.c to test/demo_defkey.c, test/keyok.c to
+ test/demo_keyok.c to allow building these with libtool.
+
+20021123
+ + add example program test/define_key.c for define_key().
+ + add example program test/keyok.c for keyok().
+ + add example program test/ins_wide.c for wins_wch() and wins_wstr().
+ + modify wins_wch() and wins_wstr() to interpret tabs by using the
+ winsch() internal function.
+ + modify setcchar() to allow for wchar_t input strings that have
+ more than one spacing character.
+
+20021116
+ + fix a boundary check in lib_insch.c (patch by Philippe Blain).
+ + change type for *printw functions from NCURSES_CONST to const
+ (prompted by comment by Pedro Palhoto Matos <plpm@mega.ist.utl.pt>,
+ but really from a note on X/Open's website stating that either is
+ acceptable, and the latter will be used in a future revision).
+ + add xterm-1002, xterm-1003 terminfo entries to demonstrate changes in
+ lib_mouse.c (20021026) -TD
+ + add screen-bce, screen-s entries from screen 3.9.13 (report by
+ Adam Lazur <zal@debian.org>) -TD
+ + add mterm terminfo entries -TD
+
+20021109
+ + split-out useful fragments in terminfo for vt100 and vt220 numeric
+ keypad, i.e., vt100+keypad, vt100+pfkeys, vt100+fnkeys and
+ vt220+keypad. The last as embedded in various entries had ka3 and
+ kb2 interchanged (report/discussion with Leonard den Ottolander
+ <leonardjo@hetnet.nl>).
+ + add check in tic for keypads consistent with vt100 layout.
+ + improve checks in tic for color capabilities
+
+20021102
+ + check for missing/empty/illegal terminfo name in _nc_read_entry()
+ (report by Martin Mokrejs, where $TERM was set to an empty string).
+ + rewrote lib_insch.c, combining it with lib_insstr.c so both handle
+ tab and other control characters consistently (report by Philippe
+ Blain).
+ + remove an #undef for KEY_EVENT from curses.tail used in the
+ experimental NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS feature. The #undef confuses
+ dpkg's build script (Debian #165897).
+ + fix MKlib_gen.sh, working around the ironically named POSIXLY_CORRECT
+ feature of GNU sed 4.0 (reported by Ervin Nemeth <airwin@inf.bme.hu>).
+
+20021026
+ + implement logic in lib_mouse.c to handle position reports which are
+ generated when XFree86 xterm is initialized with private modes 1002
+ or 1003. These are returned to the application as the
+ REPORT_MOUSE_POSITION mask, which was not implemented. Tested both
+ with ncurses 'a' menu (prompted by discussion with Larry Riedel
+ <Larry@Riedel.org>).
+ + modify lib_mouse.c to look for "XM" terminfo string, which allows
+ one to override the escape sequence used to enable/disable mouse
+ mode. In particular this works for XFree86 xterm private modes
+ 1002 and 1003. If "XM" is missing (note that this is an extended
+ name), lib_mouse uses the conventional private mode 1000.
+ + correct NOT_LOCAL() macro in lib_mvcur.c to refer to screen_columns
+ where it used screen_lines (report by Philippe Blain).
+ + correct makefile rules for the case when both --with-libtool and
+ --with-gpm are given (report by Mr E_T <troll@logi.net.au>).
+ + add note to terminfo manpage regarding the differences between
+ setaf/setab and setf/setb capabilities (report by Pavel Roskin).
+
+20021019
+ + remove redundant initialization of TABSIZE in newterm(), since it is
+ already done in setupterm() (report by Philippe Blain).
+ + add test/inserts.c, to test winnstr() and winsch().
+ + replace 'sort' in dist.mk with script that sets locale to POSIX.
+ + update URLs in announce.html.in (patch by Frederic L W Meunier).
+ + remove glibc add-on files, which are no longer needed (report by
+ Frederic L W Meunier).
+
+20021012 5.3 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
+ + modify ifdef's in etip.h.in to allow the etip.h header to compile
+ with gcc 3.2 (patch by Dimitar Zhekov <jimmy@is-vn.bg>).
+ + add logic to setupterm() to make it like initscr() and newterm(),
+ by checking for $NCURSES_TRACE environment variable and enabling
+ the debug trace in that case.
+ + modify setupterm() to ensure that it initializes the baudrate, for
+ applications such as tput (report by Frank Henigman).
+ + modify definition of bits used for command-line and library debug
+ traces to avoid overlap, using new definition TRACE_SHIFT to relate
+ the two.
+ + document tput's interpretation of parameterized strings according to
+ whether parameters are given, etc. (discussion with Robert De Bath).
+
+20021005 pre-release
+ + correct winnwstr() to account for non-character cells generated when
+ a double-width character is added (report by Michael Bienia
+ <michael@vorlon.ping.de>).
+ + modify _nc_viswbuf2n() to provide better results using wctomb().
+ + correct logic in _nc_varargs() which broke tracing of parameters for
+ formats such as "%.*s".
+ + correct scale factor in linux-c and linux-c-nc terminfo entries
+ (report Floyd Davidson).
+ + change tic -A option to -t, add the same option to infocmp for
+ consistency.
+ + correct "%c" implementation in lib_tparm.c, which did not map a null
+ character to a 128 (cf: 980620) (patch by Frank Henigman
+ <fjhenigman@mud.cgl.uwaterloo.ca>).
+
+20020928 pre-release
+ + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for POSIX sort -k option, use that if
+ it is found, to accommodate newer utility which dropped the
+ compatibility support for +number options (reported by Andrey A
+ Chernov).
+ + modify linux terminfo entry to use color palette feature from
+ linux-c-nc entry (comments by Tomasz Wasiak and Floyd Davidson).
+ + restore original color definitions in endwin() if init_color() was
+ used, and resume those colors on the next doupdate() or refresh()
+ (report by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@komputom.com.pl>).
+ + improve debug-traces by modifying MKlib_gen.sh to generate calls
+ to returnBool() and returnAttr().
+ + add/use _nc_visbufn() and _nc_viswbufn() to limit the debug trace
+ of waddnstr() and similar functions to match the parameters as used.
+ + add/use _nc_retrace_bool() and _nc_retrace_unsigned().
+ + correct type used by _nc_retrace_chtype().
+ + add debug traces to some functions in lib_mouse.c
+ + modify lib_addch.c to handle non-spacing characters.
+ + correct parameter of RemAttr() in lib_bkgd.c, which caused the c++
+ demo's boxes to lose the A_ALTCHARSET flag (broken in 20020629).
+ + correct width computed in _tracedump(), which did not account for
+ the attributes (broken in 20010602).
+ + modify test/tracemunch to replace addresses for windows other than
+ curscr, newscr and stdscr with window0, window1, etc.
+
+20020921 pre-release
+ + redid fix for edit_man.sed path.
+ + workaround for Cygwin bug which makes subprocess writes to stdout
+ result in core dump.
+ + documented getbegx(), etc.
+ + minor fixes to configure script to use '%' consistently as a sed
+ delimiter rather than '@'.
+ > Philippe Blain:
+ + add check in lib_overlay.c to ensure that the windows to be merged
+ actually overlap, and in copywin(), limit the area to be touched
+ to the lines given for the destination window.
+
+20020914 pre-release
+ + modified curses.h so that if the wide-character version is installed
+ overwriting /usr/include/curses.h, and if it relied on libutf8.h,
+ then applications that use that header for wide-character support
+ must define HAVE_LIBUTF8_H.
+ + modify putwin(), getwin() and dupwin() to allow them to operate on
+ pads (request by Philippe Blain).
+ + correct attribute-merging in wborder(), broken in 20020216 (report
+ by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@grubasek.komputom.com.pl>).
+ > Philippe Blain:
+ + corrected pop-counts in tparam_internal() to '!' and '~' cases.
+ + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in one place that used sizeof(chtype).
+ + remove some unused variables from mvcur test-driver.
+
+20020907 pre-release
+ + change configure script to allow install of widec-character
+ (ncursesw) headers to overwrite normal (ncurses) headers, since the
+ latter is a compatible subset of the former.
+ + fix path of edit_man.sed in configure script, needed to regenerate
+ html manpages on Debian.
+ + fix mismatched enums in vsscanf.c, which caused warning on Solaris.
+ + update README.emx to reflect current patch used for autoconf.
+ + change web- and ftp-site to invisible-island.net
+ > Philippe Blain:
+ + change case for 'P' in tparam_internal() to indicate that it pops
+ a variable from the stack.
+ + correct sense of precision and width in parse_format(), to avoid
+ confusion.
+ + modify lib_tparm.c, absorb really_get_space() into get_space().
+ + modify getwin() and dupwin() to copy the _notimeout, _idlok and
+ _idcok window fields.
+ + better fix for _nc_set_type(), using typeMalloc().
+
+20020901 pre-release
+ + change minor version to 3, i.e., ncurses 5.3
+ + update config.guess, config.sub
+ + retest build with each configure option; minor ifdef fixes.
+ + make keyname() return a null pointer rather than "UNKNOWN STRING" to
+ match XSI.
+ + modify handling of wide line-drawing character functions to use the
+ normal line-drawing characters when not in UTF-8 locale.
+ + add check/fix to comp_parse.c to suppress warning about missing acsc
+ string. This happens in configurations where raw termcap information
+ is processed; tic already does this and other checks.
+ + modify tic's check for ich/ich1 versus rmir/smir to only warn about
+ ich1, to match xterm patch #70 notes.
+ + moved information for ripped-off lines into SCREEN struct to allow
+ use in resizeterm().
+ + add experimental wgetch_events(), ifdef'd with NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS
+ (adapted from patch by Ilya Zakharevich - see ncurses/README.IZ).
+ + amend check in kgetch() from 20020824 to look only for function-keys,
+ otherwise escape sequences are not resolved properly.
+ > Philippe Blain:
+ + removed redundant assignment to SP->_checkfd from newterm().
+ + check return-value of setupterm() in restartterm().
+ + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in a few places that used sizeof(chtype).
+ + prevent dupwin() from duplicating a pad.
+ + prevent putwin() from writing a pad.
+ + use typeRealloc() or typeMalloc() in preference to direct calls on
+ _nc_doalloc().
+
+20020824
+ + add a check in kgetch() for cooked characters in the fifo to avoid
+ calling fifo_push() when a KEY_RESIZE is available (report/analysis
+ by Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>).
+ + fix an overlooked case for bugzilla #68199 (Philippe Blain).
+ + ensure clearerr() is called before using ferror() e.g., in
+ lib_screen.c (report by Philippe Blain).
+
+20020817
+ + modify lib_screen.c and lib_newwin.c to maintain the SCREEN-specific
+ pointers for curscr/stdscr/newscr when scr_save() and scr_restore()
+ modify the global curscr/stdscr/newscr variables. Fixes Redhat
+ bugzilla #68199 dated 2002-07-07.
+ + add checks for null pointer in calls to tparm() and tgoto() based on
+ FreeBSD bug report. If ncurses were built with termcap support, and
+ the first call to tgoto() were a zero-length string, the result would
+ be a null pointer, which was not handled properly.
+ + correct a typo in terminfo.head, which gave the octal code for colon
+ rather than comma.
+ + remove the "tic -u" option from 20020810, since it did not account
+ for nested "tc=" clauses, and when that was addressed, was still
+ unsatisfactory.
+
+20020810
+ + add tic -A option to suppress capabilities which are commented out
+ when translating to termcap.
+ + add tic -u option to provide older behavior of "tc=" clauses.
+ + modified tic to expand all but the final "tc=" clause in a termcap
+ entry, to accommodate termcap libraries which do not handle multiple
+ tc clauses.
+ + correct typo in curs_inopts.3x regarding CS8/CS7 usage (report by
+ Philippe Blain).
+ + remove a couple of redundant uses of A_ATTRIBUTES in expressions
+ using AttrOf(), which already incorporates that mask (report by
+ Philippe Blain).
+ + document TABSIZE variable.
+ + add NCURSES_ASSUMED_COLORS environment variable, to allow users to
+ override compiled-in default black-on-white assumption used in
+ assume_default_colors().
+ + correct an off-by-one comparison against max_colors in COLORFGBG
+ logic.
+ + correct a use of uninitialized memory found by valgrind (reported by
+ Olaf Buddenhagen <olafBuddenhagen@web.de>).
+ + modified wresize() to ensure that a failed realloc will not corrupt
+ the window structure, and to make subwindows fit within the resized
+ window (completes Debian #87678, #101699)
+
+20020803
+ + fix an off-by-one in lib_pad.c check for limits of pad (patch by
+ Philippe Blain).
+ + revise logic for BeOS in lib_twait.c altered in 20011013 to restore
+ logic used by lib_getch.c's support for GPM or EMX mouse (report by
+ Philippe Blain)
+ + remove NCURSES_CONST from several prototypes in curses.wide, to make
+ the --enable-const --enable-widec configure options to work together
+ (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@yahoo.com>).
+
+20020727
+ + finish no-leak checking in cardfile.c, using this for testing changes
+ to resizeterm().
+ + simplify _nc_freeall() using delscreen().
+
+20020720
+ + check error-return from _nc_set_tty_mode() in _nc_initscr() and
+ reset_prog_mode() (report/patch by Philippe Blain).
+ + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52, to address
+ problem with identifying C++ bool type.
+ + correct/improve logic to produce an exit status for errors in tput,
+ which did not exit with an error when told to put a string not in the
+ current terminfo entry (report by David Gomez <david@pleyades.net>).
+ + modify configure script AC_OUTPUT() call to work around defect in
+ autoconf 2.52 which adds an ifdef'd include to the generated
+ configure definitions.
+ + remove fstat() check from scr_init(), which also fixes a missing
+ include for <sys/stat.h> from 20020713 (reported by David Ellement,
+ fix suggested by Philippe Blain).
+ + update curs_scanw.3x manpage to note that XSI curses differs from
+ SVr4 curses: return-values are incompatible.
+ + correct several prototypes in manpages which used const
+ inconsistently with the curses.h file, and removed spurious const's
+ in a few places from curses.h, e.g., for wbkgd() (report by Glenn
+ Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>).
+ + change internal type used by tparm() to long, to work with LP64 model.
+ + modify nc_alloc.h to allow building with g++, for testing.
+
+20020713
+ + add resize-handling to cardfile.c test program.
+ + altered resizeterm() to avoid having it fail when a child window
+ cannot be resized because it would be larger than its parent. (More
+ work must be done on this, but it works well enough to integrate).
+ + improve a limit-check in lib_refresh.c
+ + remove check in lib_screen.c relating dumptime to file's modification
+ times, since that would not necessarily work for remotely mounted
+ filesystems.
+ + modify lrtest to simplify debugging changes to resizeterm, e.g.,
+ t/T commands to enable/disable tracing.
+ + updated status of multibyte support in TO-DO.
+ + update contact info in source-files (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
+
+20020706
+ + add Caps.hpux11, as an example.
+ + modify version_filter(), used to implement -R option for tic and
+ infocmp, to use computed array offsets based on the Caps.* file which
+ is actually configured, rather than constants which correspond to
+ the Caps file.
+ + reorganized lib_raw.c to avoid updating SP and cur_term state if the
+ functions fail (reported by Philippe Blain).
+ + add -Wundef to gcc warnings, adjust a few ifdef's to accommodate gcc.
+
+20020629
+ + correct parameters to setcchar() in ncurses.c (cf: 20020406).
+ + set locale in most test programs (view.c and ncurses.c were the
+ only ones).
+ + add configure option --with-build-cppflags (report by Maksim A
+ Nikulin <M.A.Nikulin@inp.nsk.su>).
+ + correct a typo in wide-character logic for lib_bkgnd.c (Philippe
+ Blain).
+ + modify lib_wacs.c to not cancel the acsc, smacs, rmacs strings when
+ in UTF-8 locale. Wide-character functions use Unicode values, while
+ narrow-character functions use the terminfo data.
+ + fix a couple of places in Ada95/samples which did not compile with
+ gnat 3.14
+ + modify mkinstalldirs so the DOS-pathname case is locale-independent.
+ + fix locale problem in MKlib_gen.sh by forcing related variables to
+ POSIX (C), using same approach as autoconf (set variables only if
+ they were set before). Update MKterminfo.sh and MKtermsort.sh to
+ match.
+
+20020622
+ + add charset to generated html.
+ + add mvterm entry, adapted from a FreeBSD bug-report by Daniel Rudy
+ <dcrudy@pacbell.net> -TD
+ + add rxvt-16color, ibm+16color entries -TD
+ + modify check in --disable-overwrite option so that it is used by
+ default unless the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr, in attempt to
+ work around packagers, e.g., for Sun's freeware, who do not read the
+ INSTALL notes.
+
+20020615
+ + modify wgetch() to allow returning ungetch'd KEY_RESIZE as a function
+ key code in get_wch().
+ + extended resize-handling in test/ncurses 'a' menu to the entire
+ stack of windows created with 'w' commands.
+ + improve $COLORFGBG feature by interpreting an out-of-range color
+ value as an SGR 39 or 49, for foreground/background respectively.
+ + correct a typo in configure --enable-colorfgbg option, and move it
+ to the experimental section (cf: 20011208).
+
+20020601
+ + add logic to dump_entry.c to remove function-key definitions that do
+ not fit into the 1023-byte limit for generated termcaps. This makes
+ hds200 fit.
+ + more improvements to tic's warnings, including logic to ignore
+ differences between delay values in sgr strings.
+ + move definition of KEY_RESIZE into MKkeydefs.sh script, to
+ accommodate Caps.osf1r5 which introduced a conflicting definition.
+
+20020525
+ + add simple resize-handling in test/ncurses.c 'a' menu.
+ + fixes in keyname() and _tracechar() to handle negative values.
+ + make tic's warnings about mismatches in sgr strings easier to follow.
+ + correct tic checks for number of parameters in smgbp and smglp.
+ + improve scoansi terminfo entry, and add scoansi-new entry -TD
+ + add pcvt25-color terminfo entry -TD
+ + add kf13-kf48 strings to cons25w terminfo entry (reported by Stephen
+ Hurd <deuce@lordlegacy.org> in newsgroup lucky.freebsd.bugs) -TD
+ + add entrypoint _nc_trace_ttymode(), use this to distinguish the
+ Ottyb and Nttyb members of terminal (aka cur_term), for tracing.
+
+20020523
+ + correct and simplify logic for lib_pad.c change in 20020518 (reported
+ by Mike Castle).
+
+20020518
+ + fix lib_pad.c for case of drawing a double-width character which
+ falls off the left margin of the pad (patch by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij
+ <lerdsuwa@users.sourceforge.net>)
+ + modify configure script to work around broken gcc 3.1 "--version"
+ option, which adds unnecessary trash to the requested information.
+ + adjust ifdef's in case SIGWINCH is not defined, e.g., with DJGPP
+ (reported by Ben Decker <deckerben@freenet.de>).
+
+20020511
+ + implement vid_puts(), vid_attr(), term_attrs() based on the narrow-
+ character versions as well.
+ + implement erasewchar(), killwchar() based on erasechar() and
+ killchar().
+ + modify erasechar() and killchar() to return ERR if the value was
+ VDISABLE.
+ + correct a bug in wresize() in handling subwindows (based on patch by
+ Roger Gammans <rgammans@computer-surgery.co.uk>, report by Scott Beck
+ <scott@gossamer-threads.com>).
+ + improve test/tclock.c by making the second-hand update more often
+ if gettimeofday() is available.
+
+20020429
+ + workaround for Solaris sed with MKlib_gen.sh (reported by Andy
+ Tsouladze <andyt@mypoints.com>).
+
+20020427
+ + correct return-value from getcchar(), making it consistent with
+ Solaris and Tru64.
+ + reorder loops that generate makefile rules for different models vs
+ subsets so configure --with-termlib works again. This was broken by
+ logic added to avoid duplicate rules in changes to accommodate cygwin
+ dll's (reported by George.R.Goffe@seagate.com).
+ + update config.guess, config.sub
+
+20020421
+ + modify ifdef's in write_entry.c to allow use of symbolic links on
+ platforms with no hard links, e.g., BeOS.
+ + modify a few includes to allow compile with BeOS, which has stdbool.h
+ with a conflicting definition for 'bool' versus its OS.h definition.
+ + amend MKlib_gen.sh to work with gawk, which defines 'func' as an
+ alias for 'function'.
+
+20020420
+ + correct form of prototype for ripoffline().
+ + modify MKlib_gen.sh to test that all functions marked as implemented
+ can be linked.
+
+20020413
+ + add manpages: curs_get_wstr.3x, curs_in_wchstr.3x
+ + implement wgetn_wstr().
+ + implement win_wchnstr().
+ + remove redefinition of unget_wch() in lib_gen.c (reported by
+ Jungshik Shin <jshin@jtan.com>).
+
+20020406
+ + modified several of the test programs to allow them to compile with
+ vendor curses implementations (Solaris, AIX).
+
+20020323
+ + modified test/configure to allow configuring against ncursesw.
+ + change WACS_xxx definition to use address, to work like Tru64 curses.
+
+20020317
+ + add 'e' and 'm' toggles to 'a', 'A' tests in ncurses.c to demonstrate
+ effect of echo/noecho and meta modes.
+ + add 'A' test to ncurses.c to demonstrate wget_wch() and related
+ functions.
+ + add manpage: curs_get_wch.3x
+ + implement unget_wch().
+ + implement wget_wch().
+
+20020310
+ + regenerated html manpages.
+ + add manpages: curs_in_wch.3x, curs_ins_wch.3x, curs_ins_wstr.3x
+ + implement wins_wch().
+ + implement win_wch().
+ + implement wins_nwstr(), wins_wstr().
+
+20020309
+ + add manpages: curs_addwstr.3x, curs_winwstr.3x
+ + implement winnwstr(), winwstr().
+
+20020223
+ + add manpages: curs_add_wchstr.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x
+ + document wunctrl, key_name.
+ + implement key_name().
+ + remove const's in lib_box.c incorrectly leftover after splitting off
+ lib_box_set.c
+ + update llib-lncurses, llib-ncursesw, fix configure script related to
+ these.
+
+20020218
+ + remove quotes on "SYNOPSIS" in man/curs_box_set.3x, which resulted
+ in spurious symlinks on install.
+
+20020216
+ + implement whline_set(), wvline_set(), add manpage curs_border_set.
+ + add subtest 'b' to 'F' and 'f' in ncurses.c to demonstrate use of
+ box() and box_set() functions.
+ + add subtest 'u' to 'F' in ncurses.c, to demonstrate use of addstr()
+ given UTF-8 string equivalents of WACS_xxx symbols.
+ + minor fixes to several manpages based on groff -ww output.
+ + add descriptions of external variables of termcap interface to
+ the manpage (report by Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>).
+ > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
+ + correct configure option --with-bool, which was executed as
+ --with-ospeed.
+ + add quotes for parameters of --with-bool and --with-ospeed configure
+ options.
+ > patch by Sven Verdoolaege (report by Gerhard Haering
+ <haering_linux@gmx.de>):
+ + correct typos in definitions of several wide-character macros:
+ waddwstr, wgetbkgrnd, mvaddwstr, mvwadd_wchnstr, mvwadd_wchnstr,
+ mvwaddwstr.
+ + pass $(CPPFLAGS) to MKlib_gen.sh, thereby fixing a missing definition
+ of _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, e.g., on Solaris
+
+20020209
+ + implement wide-acs characters for UTF-8 locales. When in UTF-8
+ locale, ignore narrow version of acs. Add 'F' test to test/ncurses.c
+ to demonstrate.
+ + correct prototype in keybound manpage (noted from a Debian mailing
+ list item).
+
+20020202
+ + add several cases to the wscanw() example in testcurs.c, showing the
+ format.
+ + implement a simple vsscanf() fallback function which uses the %n
+ conversion to help parse the input data (prompted by discussion with
+ Albert Chin-A-Young).
+ + modify mk-1st.awk and test/Makefile.in to add $(LDFLAGS) when making
+ shared libraries, and to use $(CFLAGS) when linking test programs
+ (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
+ + add a call to _nc_keypad() in keypad() to accommodate applications
+ such as nvi, which use curses for output but not for input (fixes
+ Debian #131263, cf: 20011215).
+ + add entrypoints to resizeterm.c which provide better control over the
+ process: is_term_resized() and resize_term(). The latter restores
+ the original design of resizeterm() before KEY_RESIZE was added in
+ 970906. Do this to accommodate 20010922 changes to view.c, but allow
+ for programs with their own sigwinch handler, such as lynx (reported
+ by Russell Ruby <russ@math.orst.edu>).
+
+20020127
+ + fix a typo in change to mk-1st.awk, which broke the shared-library
+ makefile rules (reported by Martin Mokrejs).
+
+20020126
+ + update config.guess, config.sub
+ + finish changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
+ + fix a typo in mvwchat() macro (reported by Cy <yam@homerow.net).
+
+20020119
+ + add case in lib_baudrate.c for B921600 (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
+ + correct missing sed-editing stage in manpage installs which is used
+ to rename manpages, broken in 20010324 fix for Debian #89939 (Debian
+ #78866).
+ + remove -L$(libdir) from linker flags, probably not needed any more
+ since HPUX is handled properly (reported by NIIBE Yutaka
+ <gniibe@m17n.org>).
+ + add configure check for mbstate_t, needed for wide-character
+ configuration. On some platforms we must include <wchar.h> to
+ define this (reported by Daniel Jacobowitz).
+ + incorporate some of the changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
+
+20020112a
+ + workaround for awk did not work with mawk, adjusted shell script.
+
+20020112
+ + add Caps.osf1r5, as an example.
+ + modify behavior of can_clear_with() so that if an application is
+ running in a non-bce terminals with default colors enabled, it
+ returns true, allowing the user to select/paste text without picking
+ up extraneous trailing blanks (adapted from patch by Daniel
+ Jacobowitz <dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu>).
+ + modify generated curses.h to ifdef-out prototypes for extensions if
+ they are disabled, and to define curses_version() as a string in that
+ case. This is needed to make the programs such as tic build in that
+ configuration.
+ + modified generated headers.sh to remove a gzip'd version of the
+ target file if it exists, in case non-gzip'd manpages are installed
+ into a directory where gzip'd ones exist. In that case, the latter
+ would be found.
+ + corrected a redundant initialization of signal handlers from 20010922
+ changes.
+ + clarified bug-reporting address in terminfo.src (report by John H
+ DuBois III <spcecdt@armory.com>).
+ > several fixes from Robert Joop:
+ + do not use "-v" option of awk in MKkey_defs.sh because it does not
+ work with SunOS nawk.
+ + modify definitions for libutf8 in curses.h to avoid redefinition
+ warnings for mblen
+ + quoted references to compiler in shell command in misc/Makefile, in
+ case it uses multiple tokens.
+
+20011229
+ + restore special case from 20010922 changes to omit SA_RESTART when
+ setting up SIGWINCH handler, which is needed to allow wgetch() to be
+ interrupted by that signal.
+ + update configure macro CF_WITH_PATHLIST, to omit some double quotes
+ not needed with autoconf 2.52
+ + revert configure script to autoconf 2.13 patched with
+ autoconf-2.13-19990117.patch.gz (or later)
+ from
+ ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
+ because autoconf 2.52 macro AC_PROG_AWK does not work on HPUX 11.0
+ (report by David Ellement <ellement@sdd.hp.com>). This also fixes a
+ different problem configuring with Mac OS X (reported by Marc Smith
+ <marc.a.smith@home.com>).
+
+20011222
+ + modify include/edit_cfg.h to eliminate BROKEN_LINKER symbol from
+ term.h
+ + move prototype for _nc_vsscanf() into curses.h.in to omit
+ HAVE_VSSCANF symbol from curses.h, which was dependent upon the
+ ncurses_cfg.h file which is not installed.
+ + use ACS_LEN rather than SIZEOF(acs_map) in trace code of lib_acs.c,
+ to work with broken linker configuration, e.g., cygwin (report by
+ Robert Joop <rj@rainbow.in-berlin.de>).
+ + make napms() call _nc_timed_wait() rather than poll() or select(),
+ to work around broken implementations of these on cygwin.
+
+20011218
+ + drop configure macro CF_WIDEC_SHIFT, since that was rendered obsolete
+ by Sven Verdoolaege's rewrite of wide-character support. This makes
+ libncursesw incompatible again, but makes the header files almost the
+ same as in the narrow-character configuration.
+ + simplify definitions that combine wide/narrow versions of bkgd, etc.,
+ to eliminate differences between the wide/narrow versions of curses.h
+ + correct typo in configure macro CF_FUNC_VSSCANF
+ + correct location of call to _nc_keypad() from 20011215 changes which
+ prevented keypad() from being disabled (reported by Lars Hecking).
+
+20011215
+ + rewrote ncurses 'a' test to exercise wgetch() and keypad() functions
+ better, e.g., by adding a 'w' command to create new windows which
+ may have different keypad() settings.
+ + corrected logic of keypad() by adding internal screen state to track
+ whether the terminal's keypad-mode has been set. Use this in
+ wgetch() to update the keypad-mode according to whether the
+ associated window's keypad-mode has been set with keypad(). This
+ corrects a related problem restoring terminal state after handling
+ SIGTSTP (reported by Mike Castle).
+ + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52
+ autoconf-2.52-patch.gz
+ at
+ ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
+ + update config.guess, config.sub from
+ http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
+ + minor changes to quoting in configure script to allow it to work
+ with autoconf 2.52
+
+20011208
+ + modify final checks in lib_setup.c for line and col values, making
+ them independent.
+ + modify acs_map[] if configure --broken-linker is specified, to make
+ it use a function rather than an array (prompted by an incorrect
+ implementation in cygwin package).
+ + correct spelling of configure option --enable-colorfgbg, which
+ happened to work if --with-develop was set (noted in cygwin package
+ for ncurses).
+ + modify ifdef for genericerror() to compile with SUNWspro Sun WorkShop
+ 6 update 1 C++ 5.2 (patch by Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu>).
+ + add configure checks to see if ncurses' fallback vsscanf() will
+ compile either of the special cases for FILE structs, and if not,
+ force it to the case which simply returns an error (report by
+ Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu> indicates that Solaris 8 with
+ 64-bits does not allow access to FILE's fields).
+ + modify ifdef's for c++/cursesw.cc to use the fallback vsscanf() in
+ the ncurses library if no better substitute for this can be found
+ in the C++ runtime.
+ + modify the build to name dynamic libraries according to the
+ convention used on OS X and Darwin. Rather than something like
+ libncurses.dylib.5.2, Darwin would name it libncurses. 5.dylib.
+ There are a few additional minor fixes, such as setting the library
+ version and compatibility version numbers (patch by Jason Evans
+ <jevans@apple.com>).
+ + use 'sh' to run mkinstalldirs, to work around problems with buggy
+ versions of 'make' on OS/2 (report by John Polterak <jp@eyup.org>).
+ + correct typo in manpage description of curs_set() (Debian #121548).
+ + replace the configure script existence-check for mkstemp() by one
+ that checks if the function works, needed for older glibc and
+ AmigaOS.
+
+20011201
+ + modify script that generates fallbacks.c to compile a temporary
+ copy of the terminfo source in case the host does not contain all of
+ the entries requested for fallbacks (request by Greg Roelofs).
+ + modify configure script to accommodate systems such as Mac OS X whose
+ <stdbool.h> header defines a 'bool' type inconsistent with ncurses,
+ which normally makes 'bool' consistent with C++. Include <stdbool.h>
+ from curses.h to force consistent usage, define a new type
+ NCURSES_BOOL and related that to the exported 'bool' as either a
+ typedef or definition, according to whether <stdbool.h> is present
+ (based on a bug report for tin 1.5.9 by Aaron Adams <adamsa@mac.com>).
+
+20011124
+ + added/updated terminfo entries for M$ telnet and KDE konsole -TD
+
+20011117
+ + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
+ (Benjamin C W Sittler).
+ + add putty terminfo entry -TD
+ + if configuring for wide-curses, define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, since
+ this may not otherwise be defined to make test/view.c compile.
+
+20011110
+ + review/correct several missing/generated items in curses.wide, sorted
+ the lists to make subsequent diff's easier to track.
+
+20011103
+ + add manual pages for add_wch(), echo_wchar(), getcchar(),
+ mvadd_wch(), mvwadd_wch(), setcchar(), wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar().
+ + implement wecho_wchar()
+ + modify _tracedump() to handle wide-characters by mapping them to '?'
+ and control-characters to '.', to make the trace file readable. Also
+ dynamically allocate the buffer used by _tracedump() for formatting
+ the results.
+ + modify T_CALLED/T_RETURN macros to ease balancing call/return lines
+ in a trace by using curly braces.
+ + implement _nc_viscbuf(), for tracing cchar_t arrays.
+ + correct trace-calls in setcchar() and getcchar() functions, which
+ traced the return values but not the entry to each function.
+ + correct usage message in test/view.c, which still mentioned -u flag.
+
+20011027
+ + modify configure script to allow building with termcap only, or with
+ fallbacks only. In this case, we do not build tic and toe.
+ + add configure --with-termpath option, to override default TERMPATH
+ value of /etc/termcap:/usr/share/misc/termcap.
+ + cosmetic change to tack: make menu descriptions agree with menu
+ titles.
+
+20011020
+ + rewrote limit-checks in wscrl() and associated _nc_scroll_window(),
+ to ensure that if the parameter of wscrl() is larger than the size of
+ the scrolling region, then the scrolling region will be cleared
+ (report by Ben Kohlen <bckohlen@yahoo.com>).
+ + add trace/varargs.c, using this to trace parameters in lib_printw.c
+ + implement _tracecchar_t2() and _tracecchar_t().
+ + split-out trace/visbuf.c
+ + correct typo in lib_printw.c changes from 20010922 (report by Mike
+ Castle).
+
+20011013
+ + modify run_tic.sh to check if the build is a cross-compile. In that
+ case, do not use the build's tic to install the terminfo database
+ (report by Rafael Rodriguez Velilla <rrv@tid.es>).
+ + modify mouse click resolution so that mouseinterval(-1) will disable
+ it, e.g., to handle touchscreens via a slow connection (request by
+ Byron Stanoszek <gandalf@winds.org>).
+ + correct mouseinterval() default value shown in curs_mouse.3x
+ + remove conflicting definition of mouse_trafo() (reported by Lars
+ Hecking, using gcc 2.95.3).
+
+20011001
+ + simpler fix for signal_name(), to replace the one overlooked in
+ 20010929 (reported by Larry Virden).
+
+20010929
+ + add -i option to view.c, to test ncurses' check for non-default
+ signal handler for SIGINT, etc.
+ + add cases for shared-libraries on Darwin/OS X (patch by Rob Braun
+ <bbraun@synack.net>).
+ + modify tset to restore original I/O modes if an error is encountered.
+ Also modify to use buffered stderr consistently rather than mixing
+ with write().
+ + change signal_name() function to use if-then-else rather than case
+ statement, since signal-values aren't really integers (reported by
+ Larry Virden).
+ + add limit checks in wredrawln(), fixing a problem where lynx was
+ repainting a pad which was much larger than the screen.
+
+20010922
+ + fix: PutRange() was counting the second part of a wide character as
+ part of a run, resulting in a cursor position that was one too far
+ (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
+ + modify resizeterm() to not queue a KEY_RESIZE if there was no
+ SIGWINCH, thereby separating the two styles of SIGWINCH handling
+ in test/view.c
+ + simplified lib_tstp.c, modify it to use SA_RESTART flag for SIGWINCH.
+ + eliminate several static buffers in the terminfo compiler, using
+ allocated buffers.
+ + modify MKkeyname.awk so that keyname() does not store its result into
+ a static buffer that is overwritten by the next call.
+ + reorganize the output of infocmp -E and -e options to compile cleanly
+ with gcc -Wwrite-strings warnings.
+ + remove redefinition of chgat/wchgat/mvwchgat from curses.wide
+
+20010915
+ + add label to test/view.c, showing the name of the last key or signal
+ that made the screen repaint, to make it clearer when a sigwinch
+ does this.
+ + use ExitProgram() consistently in the test-programs to make it
+ simpler to test leaks with dmalloc, etc.
+ + move hashtab static data out of hashmap.c into SCREEN struct.
+ + make NO_LEAK code compile with revised WINDOWLIST structs.
+
+20010908
+ + modify tgetent() to check if exit_attribute_mode resets the alternate
+ character set, and if so, attempt to adjust the copy of the termcap
+ "me" string which it will return to eliminate that part. In
+ particular, 'screen' would lose track of line-drawing characters
+ (report by Frederic L W Meunier <0@pervalidus.net>, analysis by
+ Michael Schroeder).
+
+20010901
+ + specify DOCTYPE in html manpages.
+ + add missing macros for several "generated" functions: attr_get(),
+ attr_off(), attr_on(), attr_set(), chgat(), mvchgat(), mvwchgat() and
+ mouse_trafo().
+ + modify view.c to agree with non-experimental status of ncurses'
+ sigwinch handler:
+ + change the sense of the -r option, making it default to ncurses'
+ sigwinch handler.
+ + add a note explaining what functions are unsafe in a signal
+ handler.
+ + add a -c option, to set color display, for testing.
+ + unset $data variable in MKterminfo.sh script, to address potential
+ infinite loop if shell malfunction (report by Samuel Mikes
+ <smikes@cubane.com>, for bash 2.05.0 on a Linux 2.0.36 system).
+ + change kbs in mach terminfo entries to ^? (Marcus Brinkmann
+ <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>).
+ + correct logic for COLORFGBG environment variable: if rxvt is compiled
+ with xpm support, the variable has three fields, making it slightly
+ incompatible with itself. In either case, the background color is
+ the last field.
+
+20010825
+ + move calls to def_shell_mode() and def_prog_mode() before loop with
+ callbacks in lib_set_term.c, since the c++ demo otherwise initialized
+ the tty modes before saving them (patch by John David Anglin
+ <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>).
+ + duplicate logic used to initialize trace in newterm(), in initscr()
+ to avoid confusing trace of initscr().
+ + simplify allocation of WINDOW and WINDOWLIST structs by making the
+ first a part of the second rather than storing a pointer. This saves
+ a call to malloc for each window (discussion with Philippe Blain).
+ + remove unused variable 'used_ncv' from lib_vidattr.c (Philippe
+ Blain).
+ + modify c++/Makefile.in to accommodate archive programs that are
+ different for C++ than for C, and add cases for vendor's C++
+ compilers on Solaris and IRIX (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
+ + correct manpage description of criteria for deciding if the terminal
+ supports xterm mouse controls.
+ + add several configure script options to aid with cross-compiling:
+ --with-build-cc, --with-build-cflags, --with-build-ldflags, and
+ --with-build-libs (request by Greg Roelofs).
+ + change criteria for deciding if configure is cross-compiling from
+ host/build mismatch to host/target mismatch (request by Greg Roelofs
+ <greg.roelofs@philips.com>).
+ + correct logic for infocmp -e and -E options which writes the data for
+ the ext_Names[] array. This is needed if one constructs a fallback
+ table for a terminfo entry which uses extended termcap names, e.g.,
+ AX in a color xterm.
+ + fix undefined NCURSES_PATHSEP when configure --disable-database
+ option is given.
+
+20010811
+ + fix for VALID_BOOLEAN() macro when char is not signed.
+ + modify 'clean' rule for C++ binding to work with Sun compiler, which
+ caches additional information in a subdirectory of the objects.
+ + added llib-ncursesw.
+
+20010804
+ + add Caps.keys example for experimental extended function keys
+ (adapted from a patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
+ + correct parameter types of vidputs() and vidattr() to agree with
+ header files (report by William P Setzer).
+ + fix typos in several man-pages (patch by William P Setzer).
+ + remove unneeded ifdef for __GNUG__ in CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC configure
+ macro, which made ncurses C++ binding fail to build with other
+ C++ compilers such as HPUX 11.x (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
+ + workaround for bug in HPUX 11.x C compiler: add a blank after
+ NCURSES_EXPORT macro in form.h (report by Albert Chin-A-Young)
+ + ignore blank lines in Caps* files in MKkey_defs.sh script (report by
+ Albert Chin-A-Young).
+ + correct definition of key_end in Caps.aix4, which left KEY_END
+ undefined (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
+ + remove a QNX-specific fallback prototype for vsscanf(), which is
+ obsolete with QNX RTP.
+ + review/fix some of the T() and TR() macro calls, having noticed that
+ there was no data for delwin() in a trace of dialog because there was
+ no returnVoid call for wtimeout(). Also, traces in lib_twait.c are
+ now selected under TRACE_IEVENT rather than TRACE_CALLS.
+
+20010728
+ + add a _nc_access() check before opening files listed via $TERMPATH.
+ + using modified man2html, regenerate some of the html manpages to fix
+ broken HREF's where the link was hyphenated.
+
+20010721
+ + add some limit/pointer checks to -S option of tputs.
+ + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
+ (Benjamin C W Sittler).
+ + add a note in curs_termcap.3x regarding a defect in the XSI
+ description of tgetent (based on a discussion with Urs Jansen
+ regarding the HPUX 11.x implementation, whose termcap interface is
+ not compatible with existing termcap programs).
+ + modify manhtml rule in dist.mk to preserve copyright notice on the
+ generated files, as well as to address HTML style issues reported by
+ tidy and weblint. Regenerated/updated corresponding html files.
+ + comment out use of Protected_Character and related rarely used
+ attributes in ncurses Ada95 test/demo to compile with wide-character
+ configuration.
+
+20010714
+ + implement a simple example in C++ demo to test scanw().
+ + corrected stdio function used to implement scanw() in cursesw.cc
+ + correct definition of RemAttr() macro from 20010602 changes, which
+ caused C++ SillyDemo to not show line-drawing characters.
+ + modify C++ binding, adding getKey() which can be overridden by user
+ to substitute functions other than getch() for keyboard processing
+ of forms and menus (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
+
+20010707
+ + fix some of the trace calls which needed modification to work with
+ new wide-character structures.
+ + modify magic-cookie code in tty_update.c to compile with new
+ wide-character structures (report by <George.R.Goffe@seagate.com>).
+ + ensure that _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined in curses.priv.h if
+ compiling for wide-character configuration.
+ + make addwnstr() handle non-spacing characters (patch by Sven
+ Verdoolaege).
+
+20010630
+ + add configure check to define _GNU_SOURCE, needed to prop up glibc
+ header files.
+ + split-out include/curses.wide to solve spurious redefinitions caused
+ by defining _GNU_SOURCE, and move includes for <signal.h> before
+ <curses.h> to work around misdefinition of ERR in glibc 2.1.3 header
+ file.
+ + extended ospeed change to NetBSD and OpenBSD -TD
+ + modify logic in lib_baudrate.c for ospeed, for FreeBSD to make it
+ work properly for termcap applications (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
+
+20010623
+ + correct an overlooked CharOf/UChar instance (reports by Eugene Lee
+ <eugene@anime.net>, Sven Verdoolaege).
+ + correct unneeded ifdef for wunctrl() (reported by Sven Verdoolaege)
+
+20010618
+ + change overlooked several CharOf/UChar instances.
+ > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
+ + correct a typo in wunctrl(), which made it appear that botwc() was
+ needed (no such function: use btowc()).
+ + reimplement wide-character demo in test/view.c, using new functions.
+ + implement getcchar(), setcchar(), wadd_wchnstr() and related macros.
+ + fix a syntax problem with do/if/while in PUTC macro (curses.priv.h).
+
+20010616
+ + add parentheses in macros for malloc in test.priv.h, fixes an
+ expression in view.c (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.co.at>).
+ + add Caps.uwin, as an example.
+ + change the way curses.h is generated, making the list of function
+ key definitions extracted from the Caps file.
+ + add #undef's before possible redefinition of ERR and OK in curses.h
+ + modify logic in tic, toe, tput and tset which checks for basename of
+ argv[0] to work properly on systems such as OS/2 which have
+ case-independent filenames and/or program suffixes, e.g., ".ext".
+
+20010609
+ + add a configure check, if --enable-widec is specified, for putwc(),
+ which may be in libutf8.
+ + remove some unnecessary text from curs_extend.3x and
+ default_colors.3x which caused man-db to make incorrect symbolic
+ links (Debian bug report #99550).
+ + add configure check if cast for _IO_va_list is needed to compile
+ C++ vscan code (Debian bug report #97945).
+ > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
+ + correct code that used non-standard auto-initialization of a struct,
+ which gcc allows (report by Larry Virden).
+ + use putwc() in PUTC() macro.
+ + make addstr() work for the special case where the codeset is
+ non-stateful (eg. UTF-8), as well as stateful codesets.
+
+20010603
+ + correct loop expression in NEXT_CHAR macro for lib_addstr.c changes
+ from 20010602 (report by Mike Castle).
+
+20010602
+ + modify mvcur() to avoid emitting newline characters when nonl() mode
+ is set. Normally this is not a problem since the actual terminal
+ mode is set to suppress nl/crlf translations, however it is useful to
+ allow the caller to manipulate the terminal mode to avoid staircasing
+ effects after spawning a process which writes messages (for lynx
+ 2.8.4) -TD
+ > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>:
+ + remove redundant type-conversion in fifo_push()
+ + correct definition of addwstr() macro in curses.h.in
+ + remove _nc_utf8_outch()
+ + rename most existing uses of CharOf() to UChar(), e.g., where it is
+ used to prevent sign-extension in ctype macros.
+ + change some chtype's to attr_t's where the corresponding variables
+ are used to manipulate attributes.
+ + UpdateAttr() was applied to both attributes (attr_t) and characters
+ (chtype). Modify macro and calls to it to make these distinct.
+ + add CharEq() macro, use in places where wide-character configuration
+ implementation uses a struct for cchar_t.
+ + moved struct ldat into curses.priv.h, to hide implementation details.
+ + change CharOf() macro to use it for masking A_CHARTEXT data from
+ chtype's.
+ + add L() macro to curses.priv.h, for long-character literals.
+ + replace several assignments from struct ldat entries to chtype or
+ char values with combinations of CharOf() and AttrOf() macros.
+ + add/use intermediate ChAttrOf() and ChCharOf() macros where we know
+ we are using chtype data.
+ + add/use lowlevel attribute manipulation macros AddAttr(), RemAttr()
+ and SetAttr().
+ + add/use SetChar() macro, to change a cchar_t based on a character and
+ attributes.
+ + convert most internal use of chtype to NCURSES_CH_T, to simplify use
+ of cchar_t for wide-character configuration. Similarly, use ARG_CH_T
+ where a pointer would be more useful.
+ + add stubs for tracing cchar_t values.
+ + add/use macro ISBLANK()
+ + add/use constructors for cchar_t's: NewChar(), NewChar2().
+ + add/use macros CHREF(), CHDEREF(), AttrOfD(), CharOfD() to facilitate
+ passing cchar_t's by address.
+ + add/use PUTC_DATA, PUTC() macros.
+ + for wide-character configuration, move the window background data to
+ the end of the WINDOW struct so that whether _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
+ is defined or not, the offsets in the struct will not change.
+ + modify addch() to work with wide-characters.
+ + mark several wide-character functions as generated in curses.h.in
+ + implement wunctrl(), wadd_wch(), wbkgrndset(), wbkgrnd(),
+ wborder_set() and waddnwstr().
+
+20010526
+ + add experimental --with-caps=XXX option to customize to similar
+ terminfo database formats such as AIX 4.x
+ + add Caps.aix4 as an example.
+ + modify Caps to add columns for the the KEY_xxx symbols.
+ + modify configure --with-widec to suppress overwrite of libcurses.so
+ and curses.h
+ + add checks to toe.c to avoid being confused by files and directories
+ where we would expect the reverse, e.g., source-files in the
+ top-level terminfo levels as is the case for AIX.
+
+20010519
+ + add top-level 'depend' rule for the C sources, assuming that the
+ makedepend program is available. As a side-effect, this makes
+ the generated sources, as in "make sources" (prompted by a report
+ by Mike Castle that "make -j" fails because the resulting parallel
+ processes race to generate ncurses/names.c).
+ + modify configure script so that --disable-overwrite option's action
+ to add a symbolic link for libcurses applies to the static library as
+ well as the shared library when both are configured (report by Felix
+ Natter <f.natter@ndh.net>).
+ + add ELKS terminfo entries (Federico Bianchi
+ <bianchi@www.arte.unipi.it>)
+ + add u6 (CSR) to Eterm (Michael Jennings).
+
+20010512
+ + modify test/ncurses.c to work with xterm-256color, which has fewer
+ color pairs than colors*colors (report by David Ellement
+ <ellement@sdd.hp.com>).
+
+20010505
+ + corrected screen.xterm-xfree86 entry.
+ + update comment in Caps regarding IBM (AIX) function-key definitions.
+
+20010421
+ + modify c++/Makefile.in to link with libncurses++w.a when configured
+ for wide-characters (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
+ + add check in _nc_trace_buf() to refrain from freeing a null pointer.
+ + improve CF_PROG_INSTALL macro using CF_DIRNAME.
+ + update config.guess, config.sub from autoconf 2.49e (alpha).
+
+20010414
+ + add secondary check in tic.c, similar_sgr() to see if the reason
+ for mismatch was that the individual capabilities used a time-delay
+ while sgr did not. Used this to cleanup mismatches, e.g., in vt100,
+ and remove time-delay from Apple_Terminal entries.
+ + add Apple_Terminal terminfo entries (Benjamin C W Sittler
+ <bsittler@iname.com>).
+ + correct definitions of shifted editing keys for xterm-xfree86 -TD
+ + fix a bug in test/bs.c from 20010407 (patch by Erik Sigra).
+ + prevent relative_move() from doing an overwrite if it detects 8-bit
+ characters when configured for UTF-8 (reported by Sven Verdoolaege
+ <skimo@kotnet.org>).
+
+20010407
+ + add configure checks for strstream.h vscan function, and similar
+ stdio-based function which may be used in C++ binding for gcc 3.0
+ (reports by George Goffe, Lars Hecking, Mike Castle).
+ + rewrite parts of configure.in which used changequote(). That feature
+ is broken in the latest autoconf alphas (e.g., 2.49d).
+ + add a missing pathname for ncurses_dll.h, needed when building in
+ a directory outside the source tree (patch by Sven Verdoolaege
+ <skimo@kotnet.org>).
+ > fix 2 bugs in test/bs.c (patch by Erik Sigra <sigra@home.se>):
+ + no ships were ever placed in the last row or in the last column.
+ This made the game very easy to win, because you never had to waste
+ any shots there, but the computer did.
+ + the squares around a sunken ship that belonged to the player were not
+ displayed as already hit by the computer, like it does for the
+ player.
+
+20010331
+ + add some examples of customizing screen's terminfo:
+ screen.xterm-xfree86, screen.xterm-r6, screen.teraterm -TD
+ + modify screen's terminfo entry to match the khome/kend in screen
+ 3.09.08 (Debian bug report #92215).
+ + correct a memory leak in forms library (report by Stefan Vogtner
+ <stefan@vogtner.de>, patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
+
+20010324
+ + change symbols used to guard against repeated includes to begin
+ consistently with "NCURSES_" rather than a leading underscore. There
+ are other symbols defined in the header files which begin with a
+ leading underscore, but they are part of the legacy interface.
+ + reorder includes in c++ binding so that rcs identifiers can be
+ compiled-in.
+ + add .cc.ii rule to c++ makefile, to get preprocessor output for
+ debugging.
+ + correct configure script handling of @keyword@ substitutions when the
+ --with-manpage-renames option is given (cf: 20000715, fixes Debian
+ bug #89939).
+ + report stack underflow/overflow in tparm() when tic -cv option is
+ given.
+ + remove spurious "%|" operator from xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry,
+ (reported by Adam Costello <amc@cs.berkeley.edu>, Debian bug #89222).
+
+20010310
+ + cleanup of newdemo.c, fixing some ambiguous expressions noted by gcc
+ 2.95.2, and correcting some conflicting color pair initializations.
+ + add missing copyright notice for cursesw.h
+ + review, make minor fixes for use of '::' for referring to C-language
+ interface from C++ binding.
+ + modify configure check for g++ library slightly to accommodate
+ nonstandard version number, e.g., <vendor>-2.7 (report by Ronald Ho
+ <rho@mipos2.intel.com>).
+ + add configure check for c++ <sstream> header, replace hardcoded
+ ifdef.
+ + workaround for pre-release of gcc 3.0 libstdc++, which has dropped
+ vscan from strstreambuf to follow standard, use wrapper for C vscanf
+ instead (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@excite.com> and Matt Taggart
+ <taggart@carmen.fc.hp.com>, fixes Debian .
+
+20010303
+ + modify interface of _nc_get_token() to pass 'silent' parameter to it,
+ to make quieter loading of /etc/termcap (patch by Todd C Miller).
+ + correct a few typos in curs_slk.3x and curs_outopts.3x manpages
+ (patch by Todd C Miller).
+
+20010224
+ + compiler-warning fixes (reported by Nelson Beebe).
+
+20010210
+ + modify screen terminfo entry to use new 3.9.8 feature allowing xterm
+ mouse controls -TD
+
+20010203
+ + broaden patterns used to match OS/2 EMX in configure script to cover
+ variant used in newer config.guess/config.sub
+ + remove changequote() calls from configure script, since this feature
+ is broken in the autoconf 2.49c alpha, maintainers decline to fix.
+ + remove macro callPutChar() from tty_update.c, since this is no longer
+ needed (reported by Philippe Blain).
+ + add a null-pointer check in tic.c to handle the case when the input
+ file is really empty. Modify the next_char() function in comp_scan.c
+ to allow arbitrarily long lines, and incidentally supply a newline to
+ files that do not end in a newline. These changes improve tic's
+ recovery from attempts to read binary files, e.g., its output from
+ the terminfo database (reported by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
+
+20010127
+ + revert change to c++/demo.cc from 20001209, which changed definition
+ of main() apparently to accommodate cygwin linker, but broke the demo
+ program.
+ + workaround for broken egcs 2.91.66 which calls member functions
+ (i.e., lines() and colors() of NCursesWindow before calling its
+ constructor. Add calls to initialize() in a few constructors which
+ did not do this already.
+ + use the GNAT preprocessor to make the necessary switch between TRACE
+ and NO_TRACE configurations (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
+ > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
+ + modify kterm terminfo entry to use SCS sequence to support alternate
+ character set (it does not work with SI/SO).
+ + --with-ospeed=something didn't work. configure.in checked for a
+ $enableval where it should check for $withval. Also,
+ ncurses/llib-lncurses still had a hardcoded short.
+
+20010114
+ + correction to my merge of Tom Riddle's patch that broke tic in some
+ conditions (reported by Enoch Wexler <enoch@wexler.co.il>) -TD
+
+20010113
+ + modify view.c to test halfdelay(). Like other tests, this recognizes
+ the 's' and space commands for stopping/starting polled input, shows
+ a freerunning clock in the header. If given a parameter to 's', that
+ makes view.c use halfdelay() with that parameter rather than
+ nodelay().
+ + fix to allow compile with the experimental configure option
+ --disable-hashmap.
+ + modify postprocess_termcap() to avoid overwriting key_backspace,
+ key_left, key_down when processing a non-base entry (report/patch by
+ Tom Riddle).
+ + modify _nc_wrap_entry(), adding option to reallocate the string
+ table, needed in _nc_merge_entry() when merging termcap entries.
+ (adapted from report/patch by Tom Riddle <ftr@oracom.com>).
+ + modify a few configure script macros to keep $CFLAGS used only for
+ compiler options, preprocessor options in $CPPFLAGS.
+
+20001230
+ + correct marker positions in lrtest.c after receiving a sigwinch.
+ + fix ifdef's in ncurses.c to build against pre-5.2 for testing.
+ + fixes to tclock for resizing behavior, redundant computation (report
+ and patch by A M Kuchling <akuchlin@mems-exchange.org>).
+
+20001216
+ + improved scoansi terminfo entry -TD
+ + modify configure script and makefile in Ada95/src to compile a stub
+ for the trace functions when ncurses does not provide those.
+
+20001209
+ + add ncurses_dll.h and related definitions to support generating DLL's
+ with cygwin (adapted from a patch by Charles Wilson
+ <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>, changed NCURSES_EXPORT macro to make it
+ work with 'indent').
+
+20001202
+ + correct prototypes for some functions in curs_termcap.3x, matching
+ termcap.h, which matches X/Open.
+ > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
+ + a revised version of the Ada enhancements sent in by "H.
+ Nanosecond", aka Eugene V Melaragno <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>. This
+ patch includes
+ - small fixes to the existing ncurses binding
+ - addition of some more low-level functions to the binding, including
+ termcap and terminfo functions
+ - An Ada implementation of the "ncurses" test application originally
+ written in C.
+
+20001125
+ + modify logic in lib_setup.c to allow either lines or columns value
+ from terminfo to be used if the screen size cannot be determined
+ dynamically rather than requiring both (patch by Ehud Karni
+ <ehud@unix.simonwiesel.co.il>).
+ + add check in lib_tgoto.c's is_termcap() function to reject null or
+ empty strings (reported by Valentin Nechayev <netch@netch.kiev.ua> to
+ freebsd-bugs).
+ + add definition from configure script that denotes the path-separator,
+ which is normally a colon. The path-separator is a semicolon on
+ OS/2 EMX and similar systems which may use a colon within pathnames.
+ + alter logic to set default for --disable-overwrite option to set it
+ to 'yes' if the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr/local, thereby
+ accommodating the most common cause of problems: gcc's nonstandard
+ search rules. Other locations such as /usr/local/ncurses will
+ default to overwriting (report by Lars Hecking <lhecking@nmrc.ie>).
+
+20001118
+ + modify default for --disable-overwrite configure option to disable
+ if the --prefix or $prefix value is not /usr.
+ + add cygwin to systems for which ncurses is installed by default into
+ /usr rather than /usr/local.
+
+20001111
+ + minor optimization in comp_error.c and lib_termname.c, using
+ strncat() to replace strncpy() (patch by Solar Designer).
+ + add a use_terminfo_vars() check for $HOME/.termcap, and check for
+ geteuid() to use_terminfo_vars() (patch by Solar Designer
+ <solar@false.com>).
+ + improved cygwin terminfo entry, based on patch by
+ <ernie_boyd@yahoo.com>.
+ + modify _nc_write_entry() to allow for the possibility that linking
+ aliases on a filesystem that ignores case would not succeed because
+ the source and destination differ only by case, e.g., NCR260VT300WPP0
+ on cygwin (report by Neil Zanella).
+ + fix a typo in the curs_deleteln.3x man page (patch by Bernhard
+ Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
+
+20001104
+ + add configure option --with-ospeed to assist packagers in transition
+ to 5.3 change to ospeed type.
+ + add/use CharOf() macro to suppress sign-extension of char type on
+ platforms where this is a problem in ctype macros, e.g., Solaris.
+ + change trace output to binary format.
+ + correct a missing quote adjustment in CF_PATH_SYNTAX autoconf
+ macro, for OS/2 EMX configuration.
+ + rearrange a few configure macros, moving preprocessor options to
+ $CPPFLAGS (a now-obsolete version of autoconf did not consistently
+ use $CPPFLAGS in both the compile and preprocessor checks).
+ + add a check in relative_move() to guard against buffer overflow in
+ the overwrite logic.
+
+20001028
+ + add message to configure script showing g++ version.
+ + resync config.guess, config.sub
+ + modify lib_delwin.c, making it return ERR if the window did not exist
+ (suggested by Neil Zanella).
+ + add cases for FreeBSD 3.1 to tdlint and makellib scripts, used this
+ to test/review ncurses library. (Would use lclint, but it doesn't
+ work).
+ + reorganized knight.c to avoid forward references. Correct screen
+ updates when backtracking, especially to the first cell. Add F/B/a
+ commands.
+
+20001021 5.2 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
+ + update generated html files from manpages.
+ + modify dist.mk to use edit_man.sh to substitute autoconf'd variables
+ in html manpages.
+ + fix an uninitialized pointer in read_termcap.c (report by Todd C
+ Miller, from report/patch by Philip Guenther <guenther@gac.edu>).
+ + correct help-message and array limit in knight.c (patch by Brian
+ Raiter <breadbox@muppetlabs.com>).
+ > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
+ + fix to avoid warning by GNAT-3.13p about use of inconsistent casing
+ for some identifiers defined in the standard package.
+ + cosmetic change to forms/fty_enum.c
+
+20001014
+ + correct an off-by-one position in test/railroad.c which could cause
+ wrapping at the right margin.
+ + test/repair some issues with libtool configuration. Make
+ --disable-echo force libtool --silent. (Libtool does not work for
+ OS/2 EMX, works partly for SCO - libtool is still very specific to
+ gcc).
+ + change default of --with-manpage-tbl to "no", since for most of the
+ platforms which do have tbl installed, the system "man" program
+ understands how to run tbl automatically.
+ + minor improvement to force_bar() in comp_parse.c (Bernhard
+ Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
+ + modify lib_tparm.c to use get_space() before writing terminating
+ null character, both for consistency as well as to ensure that if
+ save_char() was called immediately before, that the allocated memory
+ is enough (patch by Sergei Ivanov).
+ + add note about termcap ML capability which is duplicated between two
+ different capabilities: smgl and smglr (reported by Sergei Ivanov
+ <svivanov@pdmi.ras.ru>).
+ + correct parameter counts in include/Caps for dclk as well as some
+ printer-specific capabilities: csnm, defc, scs, scsd, smgtp, smglp.
+ > patch by Johnny C Lam <lamj@stat.cmu.edu>:
+ + add support for building with libtool (apparently version 1.3.5,
+ since old versions do not handle -L../lib), using new configure
+ option --with-libtool.
+ + add configure option --with-manpage-tbl, which causes the manpages to
+ be preprocessed by tbl(1) prior to installation,
+ + add configure option --without-curses-h, which causes the
+ installation process to install curses.h as ncurses.h and make
+ appropriate changes to headers and manpages.
+
+20001009
+ + correct order of options/parameters in run_tic.in invocation of tic,
+ which did not work with standard getopt() (reported by Ethan
+ Butterfield <primus@veris.org>).
+ + correct logic for 'reverse' variable in lib_vidattr.c, which was
+ setting it true without checking if newmode had A_REVERSE set, e.g.,
+ using $TERM=ansi on OS/2 EMX (see 20000917).
+ > patch by Todd Miller:
+ + add a few missing use_terminfo_vars() and fixes up _nc_tgetent().
+ Previously, _nc_cgetset() would still get called on cp so the
+ simplest thing is to set cp to NULL if !use_terminfo_vars().
+ + added checks for an empty $HOME environment variable.
+ > patches by Ilya Zakharevich for OS/2 EMX:
+ + modify convert_configure.pl to support INSTALL. Change compiler
+ options in that script to use multithreading, needed for the mouse.
+ + modify OS/2 mouse support, retrying as a 2-button mouse if code fails
+ to set up a 3-button mouse.
+ + improve code for OS/2 mouse support, using _nc_timed_wait() to
+ replace select() call.
+
+20001007
+ + change type of ospeed variable back to short to match its use in
+ legacy applications (reported by Andrey A Chernov).
+ + add case to configure script for --enable-rpath on IRIX (patch by
+ Albert Chin-A-Young).
+ + minor fix to position_check() function, to ensure it gets the whole
+ cursor report before decoding.
+ + add configure option --disable-assumed-color, to allow pre-5.1
+ convention of default colors used for color-pair 0 to be configured
+ (see assume_default_colors()).
+ + rename configure option --enable-hashmap --disable-hashmap, and
+ reorder the configure options, splitting the experimental and
+ development
+ + add configure option --disable-root-environ, which tells ncurses to
+ disregard $TERMINFO and similar environment variables if the current
+ user is root, or running setuid/setgid (based on discussion with
+ several people).
+ + modified misc/run_tic.in to use tic -o, to eliminate dependency on
+ $TERMINFO variable for installs.
+ + add table entry for plab_norm to tput, so it passes in strings
+ for that capability.
+ + modify parse_format() in lib_tparm.c to ignore precision if it is
+ longer than 10000 (report by Jouko Pynnonen).
+ + rewrote limit checks in lib_mvcur.c using new functions
+ _nc_safe_strcat(), etc. Made other related changes to check lengths
+ used for strcat/strcpy (report by Jouko Pynnonen
+ <jouko@solutions.fi>).
+
+20000930
+ + modify several descriptions, including those for setaf, setab, in
+ include/Caps to indicate that the entries are parameterized. This
+ information is used to tell which strings are translated when
+ converting to termcap. Fixes a problem where the generated termcap
+ would contain a spurious "%p1" for the terminfo "%p1%d".
+ + modify ld -rpath options (e.g., Linux, and Solaris) to use an
+ absolute pathname for the build tree's lib directory (prompted by
+ discussion with Albert Chin-A-Young).
+ + modify "make install.man" and "make uninstall.man" to include tack's
+ man-page.
+ + various fixes for install scripts used to support configure --srcdir
+ and --with-install-prefix (reported by Matthew Clarke
+ <Matthew_Clarke@mindlink.bc.ca>).
+ + make configure script checks on variables $GCC and $GXX consistently
+ compare against 'yes' rather than test if they are nonnull, since
+ either may be set to the corresponding name of the C or C++ compiler
+ (report/patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
+
+20000923
+ + modify rs2 capability in xterm-r6 and similar where cursor
+ save/restore bracketed the sequence for resetting video attributes.
+ The cursor restore would undo that (from a NetBSD bug report by John
+ Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>).
+ + using parameter check added to tic, corrected 27 typos in
+ terminfo.src -TD
+ + modify tic to verify that its inputs are really files, in case
+ someone tries to read a directory (or /dev/zero).
+ + add a check for empty buffers returned by fgets() in comp_scan.c
+ next_char() function, in case tic is run on a non-text file (fixes
+ a core dump reported by Aaron Campbell <aaron@cs.dal.ca>).
+ + add to railroad.c some code exercising tgoto(), providing an
+ alternate form of display if the terminal supports cursor addressing.
+ + split-out tgoto() again, this time into new file lib_tgoto.c, and
+ implement a conventional BSD-style tgoto() which is used if the
+ capability string does not contain terminfo-style padding or
+ parameters (requested by Andrey A Chernov).
+ + add check to tic which reports capabilities that do not reference
+ the expected number of parameters.
+ + add error checking to infocmp's -v and -m options to ensure that
+ the option value is indeed a number.
+ + some cleanup of logic in _nc_signal_handler() to verify if SIGWINCH
+ handler is setup. Separated the old/new sigaction data for SIGTSTP
+ from the other signals.
+
+20000917
+ + add S0, E0 extensions to screen's terminfo entry, which is another
+ way to solve the misconfiguration issue -TD
+ + completed special case for tgoto from 20000916
+
+20000916
+ + update xterm terminfo entries to match XFree86 xterm patch #146 -TD
+ + add Matrix Orbital terminfo entries (from Eric Z Ayers
+ <eric@ale.org>).
+ + add special case to lib_tparm.c to allow 'screen' program to use a
+ termcap-style parameter "%." to tgoto() for switching character sets.
+ + use LN_S substitution in run_tic.in, to work on OS/2 EMX which has
+ no symbolic links.
+ + updated notes in README.emx regarding autoconf patches.
+ + replace a lookup table in lib_vidattr.c used to decode no_color_video
+ with a logic expression (suggested by Philippe Blain).
+ + add a/A toggle to ncurses.c 'b' test, which clears/sets alternate
+ character set attribute from the displayed text.
+ + correct inequality in parameter analysis of rewritten lib_tparm.c
+ which had the effect of ignoring p9 in set_attributes (sgr), breaking
+ alternate character set (reported by Piotr Majka <charvel@link.pl>).
+ + correct ifdef'ing for GCC_PRINTF, GCC_SCANF which would not compile
+ with Sun WorkShop compilers since these tokens were empty (cf:
+ 20000902, reported by Albert Chin-A-Young).
+
+20000909
+ + correct an uninitialized parameter to open_tempfile() in tic.c which
+ made "tic -I" give an ambiguous error message about tmpnam.
+ + add special case in lib_vidattr.c to reset underline and standout for
+ devices that have no sgr0 defined (patch by Don Lewis
+ <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>). Note that this will not work for bold
+ mode, since there is no exit-bold-mode capability.
+ + improved patch for Make_Enum_Type (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
+ + modify tparm to disallow arithmetic on strings, analyze the varargs
+ list to read strings as strings and numbers as numbers.
+ + modify tparm's internal function spop() to treat a null pointer as
+ an empty string.
+ + modify tput program so it can be renamed or invoked via a link as
+ 'reset' or 'init', producing the same effect as 'tput reset' or 'tput
+ init'.
+ + add private entrypoint _nc_basename(), use to consolidate related
+ code in progs, as well as accommodating OS/2 EMX pathnames.
+ + remove NCURSES_CONST line from edit_cfg.sh to compensate for its
+ removal (except via AC_SUBST) from configure.in, making
+ --enable-const work again (reported by Juergen Pfeifer).
+ + regen'd configure to pick up "hpux*" change from 20000902.
+
+20000902
+ + modify tset.c to check for transformed "reset" program name, if any.
+ + add a check for null pointer in Make_Enum_Type() (reported by Steven
+ W Orr <steveo@world.std.com>).
+ + change functions _nc_parse_entry() and postprocess_termcap() to avoid
+ using strtok(), because it is non-reentrant (reported by Andrey A
+ Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>).
+ + remove "hpux10.*" case from CF_SHARED_OPTS configure script macro.
+ This differed from the "hpux*" case by using reversed symbolic
+ links, which made the 5.1 version not match the configuration of
+ 5.0 shared libraries (reported by Albert Chin-A-Young).
+ + correct a dependency in Ada95/src/Makefile.in which prevented
+ building with configure --srcdir (patch by H Nanosecond
+ <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>).
+ + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in to avoid warning if GCC_PRINTF or
+ GCC_SCANF was not previously defined (reported by Pavel Roskin
+ <proski@gnu.org>).
+ + add MKncurses_def.sh to generate fallback definitions for
+ ncurses_cfg.h, to quiet gcc -Wundef warnings, modified ifdef's in
+ code to consistently use "#if" rather than "#ifdef".
+
+20000826
+ + add QNX qansi entries to terminfo -TD
+ + add os2 entry to misc/emx.src (<jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>).
+ + add configure option --with-database to allow specifying a different
+ terminfo source-file to install. On OS/2 EMX, this defaults to
+ misc/emx.src
+ + change misc/run_tic.sh to derive it from misc/run_tic.in, to simplify
+ setting .exe extension on OS/2 EMX.
+ + add .exe extension in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in,
+ Ada95/samples/Makefile.in, for OS/2 EMX (reported by
+ <jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>).
+ + add configure check for filesystems (such as OS/2 EMX) which do not
+ distinguish between upper/lowercase filenames, use this to fix tags
+ rules in makefiles.
+ + initialize fds[] array to 0's in _nc_timed_wait(); apparently poll()
+ only sets the revents members of that array when there is activity
+ corresponding to the related file (report by Glenn Cooper
+ <gcooper@qantas.com.au>, using Purify on Solaris 5.6).
+ + change configure script to use AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM rather than
+ AC_CANONICAL_HOST, which means that configure --target will set
+ a default program-prefix.
+ + add note on cross-compiling to INSTALL (which does not rely on the
+ AC_CANONICAL_* macros).
+
+20000819
+ + add cases for EMX OS/2 to config.guess, config.sub
+ + new version of config.guess, config.sub from lynx 2.8.4dev.7
+ + add definitions via transform.h to allow tic and tput to check for
+ the transformed aliases rather than the original infotocap, etc.
+ + simplify transform-expressions in progs/Makefile.in, make the
+ uninstall rule work for transformed program names.
+ + change symbol used by --install-prefix configure option from
+ INSTALL_PREFIX to DESTDIR (the latter has become common usage
+ although the name is misleading).
+ + modify programs to use curses_version() string to report the version
+ of ncurses with which they are compiled rather than the
+ NCURSES_VERSION string. The function returns the patch level in
+ addition to the major and minor version numbers.
+
+20000812
+ + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to make transformed program names
+ a parameter to that macro rather than embedding them in the macro.
+ + newer config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in lynx
+ 2.8.4dev.7).
+ + add configure option --with-default-terminfo-dir=DIR to allow
+ specifying the default terminfo database directory (request by Albert
+ Chin-A-Young).
+ + minor updates for terminfo.src from FreeBSD termcap change-history.
+ + correct notes in README and INSTALL regarding documentation files
+ that were moved from misc directory to doc (report by Rich Kulawiec
+ <rsk@gsp.org>).
+ + change most remaining unquoted parameters of 'test' in configure
+ script to use quotes, for instance fixing a problem in the
+ --disable-database option (reported by Christian Mondrup
+ <scancm@biobase.dk>).
+ + minor adjustments to work around some of the incompatibilities/bugs
+ in autoconf 2.29a alpha.
+ + add -I/usr/local/include when --with-ncurses option is used in
+ test/configure script.
+ + correct logic in adjust_cancels(), which did not check both
+ alternatives when reclassifying an extended name between boolean,
+ number and string, causing an infinite loop in tic.
+
+20000730
+ + correct a missing backslash in curses.priv.h
+
+20000729
+ + change handling of non_dest_scroll_region in tty_update.c to clear
+ text after it is shifted in rather than before shifting out. Also
+ correct row computation (reported by Ruediger Kuhlmann
+ <uck4@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>).
+ + add/use new trace function to display chtype values from winch() and
+ getbkgd().
+ + add trace mask TRACE_ATTRS, alter several existing _tracef calls that
+ trace attribute changes under TRACE_CALLS to use this.
+ + modify MKlib_gen.sh so that functions returning chtype will call
+ returnChar().
+ + add returnChar() trace, for functions returning chtype.
+ + change indent.pro to line up parenthesis.
+
+20000722
+ + fix a heap problem with the c++ binding (report by
+ <alexander_liberson@ninewest.com>, patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
+ + minor adjustment to ClrToEOL() to handle an out-of-bounds parameter.
+ + modify the check for big-core to force a couple of memory accesses,
+ which may work as needed for older/less-capable machines (if not,
+ there's still the explicit configure option).
+ > fixes based on diff's for Amiga and BeOS found at
+ http://www.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de/~kuhlmann/cross/ncurses/
+ + alter definition of NCURSES_CONST to make it non-empty.
+ + add amiga-vnc terminfo entry.
+ + redefine 'TEXT' in menu.h for AMIGA, since it is reported to have
+ an (unspecified) symbol conflict.
+ + replaced case-statement in _nc_tracebits() for CSIZE with a table to
+ simplify working around implementations that define random
+ combinations of the related macros to zero.
+ + modify configure test for tcgetattr() to allow for old
+ implementations, e.g., on BeOS, which only defined it as a macro.
+ > patches by Bruno Haible:
+ + when checking LC_ALL/LC_CTYPE/LANG environment variables for UTF-8
+ locale, ignore those which are set to an empty value, as per SUSV2.
+ + encode 0xFFFD in UTF-8 with 3 bytes, not 2.
+ + modify _nc_utf8_outch() to avoid sign-extension when checking for
+ out-of-range value.
+
+20000715
+ + correct manlinks.sed script to avoid using ERE "\+", which is not
+ understood by older versions of sed (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
+ + implement configure script options that transform installed program
+ names, e.g., --program-prefix, including the manpage names and cross
+ references (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com>).
+ + correct several mismatches between manpage filename and ".TH"
+ directives, renaming dft_fgbg.3x to default_colors.3x and
+ menu_attribs.3x to menu_attributes.3x (report by Todd C Miller).
+ + correct missing includes for <string.h> in several places, including
+ the C++ binding. This is not noted by gcc unless we use the
+ -fno-builtin option (reported by Igor Schein <igor@txc.com>).
+ + modified progs/tset.c and tack/sysdep.c to build with sgttyb
+ interface if neither termio or termios is available. Tested this
+ with FreeBSD 2.1.5 (which does have termios - but the sgttyb does
+ work).
+
+20000708 5.1 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
+ + document configure options in INSTALL.
+ + add man-page for ncurses trace functions.
+ + correct return value shown in curs_touch.3x for is_linetouched() and
+ is_wintouched(), in curs_initscr.3x for isendwin(), and in
+ curs_termattr.3x for has_ic() and has_il().
+ + add prototypes for touchline() and touchwin(), adding them to the
+ list of generated functions.
+ + modify fifo_push() to put ERR into the fifo just like other values to
+ return from wgetch(). It was returning without doing that, making
+ end-of-file condition incorrectly return a 0 (reported by Todd C
+ Miller).
+ + uncomment CC_SHARED_OPTS for progs and tack (see 971115), since they
+ are needed for SCO OpenServer.
+ + move _nc_disable_period from free_ttype.c to comp_scan.c to appease
+ dynamic loaders on SCO and IRIX64.
+ + add "-a" option to test/ncurses.c to invoke assume_default_colors()
+ for testing.
+ + correct assignment in assume_default_colors() which tells ncurses
+ whether to use default colors, or the assumed ones (reported by Gary
+ Funck <gary@Intrepid.Com>).
+ + review/correct logic in mk-1st.awk for making symbolic links for
+ shared libraries, in particular for FreeBSD, etc.
+ + regenerate misc/*.def files for OS/2 EMX dll's.
+ + correct quoting of values for CC_SHARED_OPTS in aclocal.m4 for
+ cases openbsd2*, openbsd*, freebsd* and netbsd* (patch by Peter
+ Wemm) (err in 20000610).
+ + minor updates to release notes, as well as adding/updating URLs for
+ examples cited in announce.html
+ > several fixes from Philippe Blain <philippe.blain2@freesbee.fr>:
+ + correct placement of ifdef for NCURSES_XNAMES in function
+ _nc_free_termtype(), fixes a memory leak.
+ + add a call to _nc_synchook() to the end of function whline() like
+ that in wvline() (difference was in 1.9.4).
+ + make ClearScreen() a little faster by moving two instances of
+ UpdateAttr() out of for-loops.
+ + simplify ClrBottom() by eliminating the tstLine data, using for-loops
+ (cf: 960428).
+
+20000701 pre-release
+ + change minor version to 1, i.e., ncurses 5.1
+ + add experimental configure option --enable-colorfgbg to check for
+ $COLORTERM variable as set by rxvt/aterm/Eterm.
+ + add Eterm terminfo entry (Michael Jennings <mej@valinux.com>).
+ + modify manlinks.sed to pick aliases from the SYNOPSIS section, and
+ several manpages so manlinks.sed can find aliases for creating
+ symbolic links.
+ + add explanation to run_tic.sh regarding extended terminal
+ capabilities.
+ + change message format for edit_cfg.sh, since some people interpret
+ it as a warning.
+ + correct unescaped '$' in sysv5uw7*|unix_sv* rule for CF_SHARED_OPTS
+ configure macro (report by Thanh Ma <Thanh.Ma@casi-rusco.com>).
+ + correct logic in lib_twait.c as used by lib_mouse.c for GPM mouse
+ support when poll() is used rather than select() (prompted by
+ discussion with David Allen <DAllen24@aol.com>).
+
+20000624 pre-release
+ + modify TransformLine() to check for cells with different color pairs
+ that happen to render the same display colors.
+ + apply $NCURSES_NO_PADDING to cost-computation in mvcur().
+ + improve cost computation in PutRange() by accounting for the use
+ of parm_right_cursor in mvcur().
+ + correct cost computation in EmitRange(), which was not using the
+ normalized value for cursor_address.
+ + newer config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in TIN 1.5.6).
+
+20000617
+ + update config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in PCRE 3.2).
+ + resync changes to gnathtml against version 1.22, regenerated html
+ files under doc/html/ada using this (1.22.1.1).
+ + regenerated html files under doc/html/man after correcting top and
+ bottom margin options for man2html in dist.mk
+ + minor fixes to test programs ncurses 'i' and testcurs program to make
+ the subwindow's background color cover the subwindow.
+ + modify configure script so AC_MSG_ERROR is temporarily defined to a
+ warning in AC_PROG_CXX to make it recover from a missing C++ compiler
+ without requiring user to add --without-cxx option (from comment by
+ Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr> to autoconf mailing list).
+ + modify headers.sh to avoid creating temporary files in the build
+ directory when installing headers (reported by Sergei Pokrovsky
+ <pok@nbsp.nsk.su>)
+
+20000610
+ + regenerated the html files under doc/html/ada/files and
+ doc/html/ada/funcs with a slightly-improved gnathtml.
+ + add kmous capability to linux terminfo entry to allow it to use
+ xterm-style events provided by gpm patch by Joerg Schoen.
+ + make the configure macro CF_SHARED_OPTS a little smarter by testing
+ if -fPIC is supported by gcc rather than -fpic. The former option
+ allows larger symbol tables.
+ + update config.guess and config.sub (patches by
+ Kevin Buettner <kev@primenet.com> for elf64_ia64
+ Bernd Kuemmerlen <bkuemmer@mevis.de> and MacOS X).
+ + add warning for 'tic -cv' about use of '^?' in terminfo source, which
+ is an extension.
+
+20000527
+ + modify echo() behavior of getch() to match Solaris curses for
+ carriage return and backspace (reported by Neil Zanella).
+ + change _nc_flush() to a function.
+ + modify delscreen() to check if the output stream has been closed, and
+ if so, free the buffer allocated for setbuf (this provides an
+ ncurses-specific way to avoid a memory leak when repeatedly calling
+ newterm reported by Chipp C <at_1@zdnetonebox.com>).
+ + correct typo in curs_getch.3x manpage regarding noecho (reported by
+ David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>).
+ + add a "make libs" rule.
+ + make the Ada95 interface build with configure --enable-widec.
+ + if the configure --enable-widec option is given, append 'w' to names
+ of the generated libraries (e.g., libncursesw.so) to avoid conflict
+ with existing ncurses libraries.
+
+20000520
+ + modify view.c to make a rudimentary viewer of UTF-8 text if ncurses
+ is configured with the experimental wide-character support.
+ + add a simple UTF-8 output driver to the experimental wide-character
+ support. If any of the environment variables LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE or
+ LANG contain the string "UTF-8", this driver will be used to
+ translate the output to UTF-8. This works with XFree86 xterm.
+ + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries on BeOS
+ (from a patch by by Valeriy E Ushakov).
+ + modify lib_addch.c to allow repeated update to the lower-right
+ corner, rather than displaying only the first character written until
+ the cursor is moved. Recent versions of SVr4 curses can update the
+ lower-right corner, and behave this way (reported by Neil Zanella).
+ + add a limit-check in _nc_do_color(), to avoid using invalid color
+ pair value (from bug report by Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>).
+
+20000513
+ + the tack program knows how to use smcup and rmcup but the "show caps
+ that can be tested" feature did not reflect this knowledge. Correct
+ the display in the menu tack/test/edit/c (patch by Daniel Weaver).
+ + xterm-16color does allow bold+colors, removed ncv#32 from that
+ terminfo entry.
+
+20000506
+ + correct assignment to SP->_has_sgr_39_49 in lib_dft_fgbg.c, which
+ broke check for screen's AX capability (reported by Valeriy E Ushakov
+ <uwe@ptc.spbu.ru>).
+ + change man2html rule in dist.mk to workaround bug in some
+ man-programs that ignores locale when rendering hyphenation.
+ + change web- and ftp-site to dickey.his.com
+
+20000429
+ + move _nc_curr_token from parse_entry.c to comp_scan.c, to work around
+ problem linking tack on MacOS X DP3.
+ + include <sys/time.h> in lib_napms.c to compile on MacOS X DP3
+ (reported by Gerben Wierda <wierda@holmes.nl>).
+ + modify lib_vidattr.c to check for ncv fixes when pair-0 is not
+ default colors.
+ + add -d option to ncurses.c, to turn on default-colors for testing.
+ + add a check to _nc_makenew() to ensure that newwin() and newpad()
+ calls do not silently fail by passing too-large limits.
+ + add symbol NCURSES_SIZE_T to use rather than explicit 'short' for
+ internal window and pad sizes. Note that since this is visible in
+ the WINDOW struct, it would be an ABI change to make this an 'int'
+ (prompted by a question by Bastian Trompetter
+ <btrompetter@firemail.de>, who attempted to create a 96000-line pad).
+
+20000422
+ + add mgterm terminfo entry from NetBSD, minor adjustments to sun-ss5,
+ aixterm entries -TD
+ + modify tack/ansi.c to make it more tolerant of bad ANSI replies. An
+ example of an illegal ANSI resonse can be found using Microsoft's
+ Telnet client. A correct display can be found using a VT-4xx
+ terminal or XFree86 xterm with:
+ XTerm*VT100*decTerminalID: 450
+ (patch by Daniel Weaver).
+ + modify gdc.c to recognize 'q' for quit, 's' for single-step and ' '
+ for resume. Add '-n' option to force gdc's standard input to
+ /dev/null, to both illustrate the use of newterm() for specifying
+ alternate inputs as well as for testing signal handling.
+ + minor fix for configure option --with-manpage-symlinks, for target
+ directories that contain a period ('.') (reported by Larry Virden).
+
+20000415
+ + minor additions to beterm entry (feedback from Rico Tudor) -TD
+ + corrections/updates for some IBM terminfo entries -TD
+ + modify _nc_screen_wrap() so that when exiting curses mode with
+ non-default colors, the last line on the screen will be cleared to
+ the screen's default colors (request by Alexander Lukyanov).
+ + modify ncurses.c 'r' example to set nonl(), allowing control/M to be
+ read for demonstrating the REQ_NEW_LINE operation (prompted by a
+ question by Tony L Keith" <tlkeith@keithconsulting.com>).
+ + modify ncurses.c 'r' example of field_info() to work on Solaris 2.7,
+ documented extension of ncurses which allows a zero pointer.
+ + modify fmt_complex() to avoid buffer overflow in case of excess
+ recursion, and to recognize "%e%?" as a synonym for else-if, which
+ means that it will not recur for that special case.
+ + add logic to support $TERMCAP variable in case the USE_GETCAP symbol
+ is defined (patch by Todd C Miller).
+ + modify one of the m4 files used to generate the Ada95 sources,
+ to avoid using the token "symbols" (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
+
+20000408
+ + add terminfo entries bsdos-pc-m, bsdos-pc-mono (Jeffrey C Honig)
+ + correct spelling error in terminfo entry name: bq300-rv was given as
+ bg300-rv in esr's version.
+ + modify redrawwin() macro so its parameter is fully parenthesized
+ (fixes Debian bug report #61088).
+ + correct formatting error in dump_entry() which set incorrect column
+ value when no newline trimming was needed at the end of an entry,
+ before appending "use=" clauses (cf: 960406).
+
+20000401
+ + add configure option --with-manpage-symlinks
+ + change unctrl() to render C1 characters (128-159) as ~@, ~A, etc.
+ + change makefiles so trace() function is provided only if TRACE is
+ defined, e.g., in the debug library. Modify related calls to
+ _tracechar() to use unctrl() instead.
+
+20000325
+ + add screen's AX capability (for ECMA SGR 39 and 49) to applicable
+ terminfo entries, use presence of this as a check for a small
+ improvement in setting default colors.
+ + improve logic in _nc_do_color() implementing assume_default_colors()
+ by passing in previous color pair info to eliminate redundant call to
+ set_original_colors(). (Part of this is from a patch by Alexander
+ Lukyanov).
+ + modify warning in _nc_trans_string() about a possibly too-long string
+ to do this once only rather than for each character past the
+ threshold (600). Change interface of _nc_trans_string() to allow
+ check for buffer overflow.
+ + correct use of memset in _nc_read_entry_source() to initialize ENTRY
+ struct each time before reading new data into it, rather than once
+ per loop (cf: 990301). This affects multi-entry in-core operations
+ such as "infocmp -Fa".
+
+20000319
+ + remove a spurious pointer increment in _nc_infotocap() changes from
+ 20000311. Add check for '.' in format of number, since that also
+ is not permitted in termcap.
+ + correct typo in rxvt-basic terminfo from temporary change made while
+ integrating 20000318.
+
+20000318
+ + revert part of the vt220 change (request by Todd C Miller).
+ + add ansi-* terminfo entries from Eric's version.
+ + add -a option to tic and infocmp, which retains commented-out
+ capabilities during source translation/comparison, e.g., captoinfo
+ and infotocap.
+ + modify cardfile.c to display an empty card if no input data file is
+ found, fixes a core dump in that case (reported by Bruno Haible).
+ + correct bracketing in CF_MATH_LIB configure macro, which gave wrong
+ result for OS/2 EMX.
+ + supply required parameter for _nc_resolve_uses() call in
+ read_termcap.c, overlooked in 20000311 (reported by Todd C Miller).
+ > patches by Bruno Haible <haible@ilog.fr>:
+ + fix a compiler warning in fty_enum.c
+ + correct LIB_PREFIX expression for DEPS_CURSES in progs, tack
+ makefiles, which resulted in redundant linking (cf: 20000122).
+
+20000311
+ + make ifdef's for BROKEN_LINKER consistent (patch by Todd C Miller).
+ + improved tack/README (patch by Daniel Weaver).
+ + modify tput.c to ensure that unspecified parameters are passed to
+ tparm() as 0's.
+ + add a few checks in infocmp to guard against buffer overflow when
+ displaying string capabilities.
+ + add check for zero-uses in infocmp's file_comparison() function
+ before calling _nc_align_termtype(). Otherwise one parameter is
+ indexed past the end of the uses-array.
+ + add an option -q to infocmp to specify the less verbose output,
+ keeping the existing format as the default, though not retaining the
+ previous behavior that made the -F option compare each entry to
+ itself.
+ + adapted patch by Eric Raymond to make infocmp -F less verbose
+ (the submitted patch was unusable because it did not compile
+ properly):
+ + modify write_entry.c to ensure that absent or cancelled booleans
+ are written as FALSE, for consistency with infocmp which now
+ assumes this. Note that for the small-core configuration, tic
+ may not produce the same result as before.
+ + change some private library interfaces used by infocmp, e.g.,
+ _nc_resolve_uses().
+ + add a check in _nc_infotocap() to ensure that cm-style capabilities
+ accept only %d codes when converting the format from terminfo to
+ termcap.
+ + modify ENTRY struct to separate the data in 'parent' into the name
+ and link values (the original idea to merge both into 'parent' was
+ not good).
+ + discard repair_acsc(tterm);
+ > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
+ + drop support for gnat 3.10
+ + move generated documentation and html files under ./doc directory,
+ adding makefile rules for this to dist.mk
+
+20000304
+ + correct conflicting use of tparm() in 20000226 change to tic, which
+ made it check only one entry at a time.
+ + fix errors in ncurses-intro.html and hackguide.html shown by Dave
+ Raggett's tidy.
+ + make the example in ncurses-intro.html do something plausible, and
+ corrected misleading comment (reported by Neil Zanella).
+ + modify pnoutrefresh() to set newscr->_leaveok as wnoutrefresh() does,
+ to fix a case where the cursor position was not updated as in
+ Solaris (patch by David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>).
+ + add a limit-check for wresize() to ensure that a subwindow does not
+ address out of bounds.
+ + correct offsets used for subwindows in wresize() (patch by Michael
+ Andres <ma@suse.de>).
+ + regenerate html'ized manual pages with man2html 3.0.1 (patch by
+ Juergen Pfeifer). This generated a file with a space in its name,
+ which I removed.
+ + fix a few spelling errors in tack.
+ + modify tack/Makefile.in to match linker options of progs/Makefile.in;
+ otherwise it does not build properly for older HPUX shared library
+ configurations.
+ + add several terminfo entries from esr's "11.0".
+
+20000226
+ + make 'tput flash' work properly for xterm by flushing output in
+ delay_output() when using napms(), and modifying xterm's terminfo to
+ specify no padding character. Otherwise, xterm's reported baud rate
+ can mislead ncurses into producing too few padding characters
+ (Debian #58530).
+ + add a check to tic for consistency between sgr and the separate
+ capabilities such as smso, use this to check/correct several
+ terminfo entries (Debian #58530).
+ + add a check to tic if cvvis is the same as cnorm, adjusted several
+ terminfo entries to remove the conflict (Debian #58530).
+ + correct prototype shown in attr_set()/wattr_set() manpages (fixes
+ Debian #53962).
+ + minor clarification for curs_set() and leaveok() manpages.
+ + use mkstemp() for creating temporary file for tic's processing of
+ $TERMCAP contents (fixes Debian #56465).
+ + correct two errors from integrating Alexander's changes: did not
+ handle the non-bce case properly in can_erase_with() (noted by
+ Alexander), and left fg/bg uninitialized in the pair-zero case of
+ _nc_do_color() (reported by Dr Werner Fink <werner@suse.de> and
+ Ismael Cordeiro <ismael@cordeiro.com>).
+
+20000219
+ + store default-color code consistently as C_MASK, even if given as
+ -1 for convenience (adapted from patches by Alexander Lukyanov).
+ > patches by Alexander Lukyanov:
+ + change can_clear_with() macro to accommodate logic for
+ assume_default_colors(), making most of the FILL_BCE logic
+ unnecessary. Made can_clear_with() an inline function to make it
+ simpler to read.
+
+20000212
+ + corrected form of recent copyright dates.
+ + minor corrections to xterm-xf86-v333 terminfo entry -TD
+ > patches by Alexander Lukyanov:
+ + reworded dft_fgbg.3x to avoid assuming that the terminal's default
+ colors are white on black.
+ + fix initialization of tstLine so that it is filled with current blank
+ character in any case. Previously it was possible to have it filled
+ with old blank. The wrong over-optimization was introduced in 991002
+ patch. (it is not very critical as the only bad effect is not using
+ clr_eos for clearing if blank has changed).
+
+20000205
+ + minor corrections/updates to several terminfo entries: rxvt-basic,
+ vt520, vt525, ibm5151, xterm-xf86-v40 -TD
+ + modify ifdef's for poll() to allow it to use <sys/poll.h>, thereby
+ allowing poll() to be used on Linux.
+ + add CF_FUNC_POLL macro to check if poll() is able to select from
+ standard input. If not we will not use it, preferring select()
+ (adapted from patch by Michael Pakovic <mpakovic@fdn.com>).
+ + update CF_SHARED_OPTS macro for SCO Unixware 7.1 to allow building
+ shared libraries (reported/tested by Thanh <thanhma@mediaone.net>).
+ + override $LANGUAGE in build to avoid incorrect ordering of keynames.
+ + correct CF_MATH_LIB parameter, must be sin(x), not sqrt(x).
+
+20000122
+ + resync CF_CHECK_ERRNO and CF_LIB_PREFIX macros from tin and xterm.
+ + modify CF_MATH_LIB configure macro to parameterize the test function
+ used, for reuse in dialog and similar packages.
+ + correct tests for file-descriptors in OS/2 EMX mouse support. A
+ negative value could be used by FD_SET, causing the select() call
+ to wait indefinitely.
+
+20000115
+ + additional fixes for non-bce terminals (handling of delete_character)
+ to work when assume_default_colors() is not specified.
+ + modify warning message from _nc_parse_entry() regarding extended
+ capability names to print only if tic/infocmp/toe have the -v flag
+ set, and not at all in ordinary user applications. Otherwise, this
+ warning would be shown for screen's extended capabilities in programs
+ that use the termcap interface (reported by Todd C Miller).
+ + modify use of _nc_tracing from programs such as tic so their debug
+ level is not in the same range as values set by trace() function.
+ + small panel header cleanup (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
+ + add 'railroad' demo for termcap interface.
+ + modify 'tic' to write its usage message to stderr (patch by Todd C
+ Miller).
+
+20000108
+ + add prototype for erase() to curses.h.in, needed to make test
+ programs build with c++/g++.
+ + add .c.i and .c.h suffix rules to generated makefiles, for debugging.
+ + correct install rule for tack.1; it assumed that file was in the
+ current directory (reported by Mike Castle <dalgoda@ix.netcom.com>).
+ + modify terminfo/termcap translation to suppress acsc before trying
+ sgr if the entry would be too large (patch by Todd C Miller).
+ + document a special case of incompatiblity between ncurses 4.2 and
+ 5.0, add a section for this in INSTALL.
+ + add TRACE_DATABASE flag for trace().
+
+20000101
+ + update mach, add mach-color terminfo entries based on Debian diffs
+ for ncurses 5.0 -TD
+ + add entries for xterm-hp, xterm-vt220, xterm-vt52 and xterm-noapp
+ terminfo entries -TD
+ + change OTrs capabilities to rs2 in terminfo.src -TD
+ + add obsolete and extended capabilities to 'screen' terminfo -TD
+ + corrected conversion from terminfo rs2 to termcap rs (cf: 980704)
+ + make conversion to termcap ug (underline glitch) more consistently
+ applied.
+ + fix out-of-scope use of 'personal[]' buffer in 'toe' (this error
+ was in the original pre-1.9.7 version, when $HOME/.terminfo was
+ introduced).
+ + modify 'toe' to ignore terminfo directories to which it has no
+ permissions.
+ + modify read_termtype(), fixing 'toe', which could dump core when it
+ found an incomplete entry such as "dumb" because it did not
+ initialize its buffer for _nc_read_file_entry().
+ + use -fPIC rather than -fpic for shared libraries on Linux, not
+ needed for i386 but some ports (from Debian diffs for 5.0).
+ + use explicit VALID_NUMERIC() checks in a few places that had been
+ overlooked, and add a check to ensure that init_tabs is nonzero,
+ to avoid divide-by-zero (reported by Todd C Miller).
+ + minor fix for CF_ANSI_CC_CHECK configure macro, for HPUX 10.x (from
+ tin).
+
+19991218
+ + reorder tests during mouse initialization to allow for gpm to run in
+ xterm, or for xterm to be used under OS/2 EMX. Also drop test for
+ $DISPLAY in favor of kmous=\E[M or $TERM containing "xterm" (report
+ by Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de>).
+ + modify raw() and noraw() to clear/restore IEXTEN flag which affects
+ stty lnext on systems such as FreeBSD (report by Bruce Evans
+ <bde@zeta.org.au>, via Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>).
+ + fix a potential (but unlikely) buffer overflow in failed() function
+ of tset.c (reported by Todd C Miller).
+ + add manual-page for ncurses extensions, documented curses_version(),
+ use_extended_names().
+
+19991211
+ + treat as untranslatable to termcap those terminfo strings which
+ contain non-decimal formatting, e.g., hexadecimal or octal.
+ + correct commented-out capabilities that cannot be translated to
+ termcap, which did not check if a colon must be escaped.
+ + correct termcap translation for "%>" and "%+", which did not check
+ if a colon must be escaped, for instance.
+ + use save_string/save_char for _nc_captoinfo() to eliminate fixed
+ buffer (originally for _nc_infotocap() in 960301 -TD).
+ + correct expression used for terminfo equivalent of termcap %B,
+ adjust regent100 entry which uses this.
+ + some cleanup and commenting of ad hoc cases in _nc_infotocap().
+ + eliminate a fixed-buffer in tic, used for translating comments.
+ + add manpage for infotocap
+
+19991204
+ + add kvt and gnome terminfo entries -TD
+ + correct translation of "%%" by infotocap, which was emitted as "%".
+ + add "obsolete" termcap strings to terminfo.src
+ + modify infocmp to default to showing obsolete capabilities rather
+ than terminfo only.
+ + modify write_entry.c so that if extended names (i.e., configure
+ --enable-tcap-names) are active, then tic will also write "obsolete"
+ capabilities that are present in the terminfo source.
+ + modify tic so that when running as captoinfo or infotocap, it
+ initializes the output format as in -C and -I options, respectively.
+ + improve infocmp and tic -f option by splitting long strings that do
+ not have if-then-else construct, but do have parameters, e.g., the
+ initc for xterm-88color.
+ + refine MKtermsort.sh slightly by using bool for the *_from_termcap
+ arrays.
+
+19991127
+ + additional fixes for non-bce terminals (handling of clear_screen,
+ clr_eol, clr_eos, scrolling) to work when assume_default_colors() is
+ not specified.
+ + several small changes to xterm terminfo entries -TD.
+ + move logic for _nc_windows in lib_freeall.c inside check for nonnull
+ SP, since it is part of that struct.
+ + remove obsolete shlib-versions, which was unintentionally re-added
+ in 970927.
+ + modify infocmp -e, -E options to ensure that generated fallback.c
+ type for Booleans agrees with term.h (reported by Eric Norum
+ <eric@cls.usask.ca>).
+ + correct configure script's use of $LIB_PREFIX, which did not work
+ for installing the c++ directory if $libdir did not end with "/lib"
+ (reported by Huy Le <huyle@ugcs.caltech.edu>).
+ + modify infocmp so -L and -f options work together.
+ + modify the initialization of SP->_color_table[] in start_color() so
+ that color_content() will return usable values for COLORS greater
+ than 8.
+ + modify ncurses 'd' test in case COLORS is greater than 16, e.g., for
+ xterm-88color, to limit the displayed/computed colors to 16.
+ > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
+ + simplify coding of the panel library according to suggestions by
+ Philippe Blain.
+ + improve macro coding for a few macros in curses.priv.h
+
+19991113
+ + modify treatment of color pair 0 so that if ncurses is configured
+ to support default colors, and they are not active, then ncurses
+ will set that explicitly, not relying on orig_colors or orig_pair.
+ + add new extension, assume_default_colors() to provide better control
+ over the use of default colors.
+ + modify test programs to use more-specific ifdef's for existence of
+ wresize(), resizeterm() and use_default_colors().
+ + modify configure script to add specific ifdef's for some functions
+ that are included when --enable-ext-funcs is in effect, so their
+ existence can be ifdef'd in the test programs.
+ + reorder some configure options, moving those extensions that have
+ evolved from experimental status into a new section.
+ + change configure --enable-tcap-names to enable this by default.
+
+19991106
+ + install tack's manpage (reported by Robert Weiner
+ <robert@progplus.com>)
+ + correct worm.c's handling of KEY_RESIZE (patch by Frank Heckenbach).
+ + modify curses.h.in, undef'ing some symbols to avoid conflict with C++
+ STL (reported by Matt Gerassimoff <mgeras@ticon.net>)
+
+19991030
+ + modify linux terminfo entry to indicate that dim does not mix with
+ color (reported by Klaus Weide <kweide@enteract.com>).
+ + correct several typos in terminfo entries related to missing '['
+ in CSI's -TD
+ + fix several compiler warnings in c++ binding (reported by Tim
+ Mooney for alphaev56-dec-osf4.0f
+ + rename parameter of _nc_free_entries() to accommodate lint.
+ + correct lint rule for tack, used incorrect list of source files.
+ + add case to config.guess, config.sub for Rhapsody.
+ + improve configure tests for libg++ and libstdc++ by omitting the
+ math library (which is missing on Rhapsody), and improved test for
+ the math library itself (adapted from path by Nelson H. F. Beebe).
+ + explicitly initialize to zero several data items which were
+ implicitly initialized, e.g., cur_term. If not explicitly
+ initialized, their storage type is C (common), and causes problems
+ linking on Rhapsody 5.5 using gcc 2.7.2.1 (reported by Nelson H. F.
+ Beebe).
+ + modify Ada95 binding to not include the linker option for Ada
+ bindings in the Ada headers, but in the Makefiles instead (patch by
+ Juergen Pfeifer).
+
19991023 5.0 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
+ effective with release of 5.0, change NCURSES_VERSION_PATCH to
4-digit year.
990821 pre-release
+ updated configure macros CF_MAKEFLAGS, CF_CHECK_ERRNO
+ minor corrections to beterm terminfo entry.
- + modify lib_setup.c to reject values of $TERM which have a '/' in them.
+ + modify lib_setup.c to reject values of $TERM which have a '/' in
+ them.
+ add ifdef's to guard against CS5, CS6, CS7, CS8 being zero, as more
than one is on BeOS. That would break a switch statement.
+ add configure macro CF_LINK_FUNCS to detect and work around BeOS's
wrefresh(). Whenever a window changes its background attribute to
something different than newscr's background attribute, the whole
window is touched to force a copy to newscr. This is an unwanted
- side-effect of wrefresh() and it is actually not necessary. A changed
- background attribute affects only further outputs of background it
- doesn't mean anything to the current content of the window. So there
- is no need to force a copy. (reported by Frank Heckenbach
- <frank@g-n-u.de>).
+ side-effect of wrefresh() and it is actually not necessary. A
+ changed background attribute affects only further outputs of
+ background it doesn't mean anything to the current content of the
+ window. So there is no need to force a copy. (reported by Frank
+ Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>).
+ an upward compatible enhancement of the NCursesPad class in the C++
binding. It allows one to add a "viewport" window to a pad and then
to use panning to view the pad through the viewport window.
settings in cur_term, which happens when curses and termcap calls are
mixed (from report by Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@dhc.net>).
+ suppress initialization of key-tries in _nc_keypad() if we are only
- disabling keypad mode, e.g., in endwin() called when keypad() was not.
+ disabling keypad mode, e.g., in endwin() called when keypad() was
+ not.
+ modify the Ada95 makefile to ensure that always the Ada files from
the development tree are used for building and not the eventually
installed ones (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
+ add a null-pointer check for SP in lib_vidattr.c to logic that checks
for magic cookies.
+ improve fallback declaration of 'bool' when the --without-cxx option
- is given, by using a 'char' on i386 and related hosts (from discussion
- with Alexander Lukyanov).
+ is given, by using a 'char' on i386 and related hosts (from
+ discussion with Alexander Lukyanov).
990605 pre-release
+ include time.h in lib_napms.c if nanosleep is used (patch by
> patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
+ modify menu creation to not inherit status flag from the default menu
which says that the associated marker string has been allocated and
- should be freed (bug reported by Marek Paliwoda" <paliwoda@kki.net.pl>)
+ should be freed (bug reported by Marek Paliwoda"
+ <paliwoda@kki.net.pl>)
990327 pre-release (alpha.gnu.org:/gnu/ncurses-5.0-beta1.tar.gz)
+ minor fixes to xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry - TD.
+ split up an expression in configure script check for ldconfig to
workaround limitation of BSD/OS sh (reported by Jeff Haas
<jmh@mail.msen.com>).
- + correct a typo in man/form_hook.3x (Todd Miller).
+ + correct a typo in man/form_hook.3x (Todd C Miller).
990318 pre-release
+ parenthesize and undef 'index' symbol in c++ binding and demo, to
bsdos-bold to bsdos-pc (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
+ modify tput to accept termcap names as an alternative to terminfo
names (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
- + correct a typo in term.7 (Todd Miller).
+ + correct a typo in term.7 (Todd C Miller).
+ add configure --with-shlib-version option to allow installing shared
libraries named according to release or ABI versions. This
parameterizes some existing logic in the configure script, and is
Otherwise, a relative path in $TERMINFO would confuse tic (from a
Debian bug report).
+ correct/update ncsa terminfo entry (report by Larry Virden).
- + update xterm-xfree86 terminfo to current (patch 90), smcur/rmcur changes
+ + update xterm-xfree86 terminfo to current (patch 90), smcur/rmcur
+ changes
+ add Mathew Vernon's mach console entries to terminfo.src
+ more changes, moving functions, as part of Alexander's restructuring.
+ modify configure script for GNU/Hurd share-library support, introduce
with --srcdir option.
+ modify infocmp "-r" option to remove limit on formatted termcap
output, which makes it more like Solaris' version.
- + modify captoinfo to treat no-argument case more like Solaris' version,
- which uses the contents of $TERMCAP as the entry to format.
+ + modify captoinfo to treat no-argument case more like Solaris'
+ version, which uses the contents of $TERMCAP as the entry to format.
+ modify mk-2nd.awk to handle subdirectories, e.g., ncurses/tty
(patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
rid of a hardcoded list of candidate directories in the configure
script.
+ add some error-checking to _nc_read_file_entry() to ensure that
- strings are properly terminated (Todd Miller).
+ strings are properly terminated (Todd C Miller).
+ rename manpage file curs_scr_dmp.3x to curs_scr_dump.3x, to
correspond with contents (reported by Neil Zanella
<nzanella@cs.mun.ca>).
tic, infocmp).
+ modify tic, infocmp to discard redundant i3, r3 strings when output
to termcap format.
- > patch by Alexander V Lukyanov:
+ > patch by Alexander V Lukyanov:
+ improve performance of tparm, now it takes 19% instead of 25% when
profiling worm.
+ rename maxlen/minlen to prec/width for better readability.
string #define (compile time vs runtime).
+ when setting errno to ENOMEM, set it right before the return, not
before code that could, possibly, set errno to a different value.
- > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
+ > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
+ use default background in update_cost_from_blank()
+ disable scroll-hints when hashmap is configured.
+ improve integration of hashmap scrolling code, by adding oldhash and
newhash data to SP struct.
+ invoke del_curterm from delscreen.
- + modify del_curterm to set cur_term to null if it matches the function's
- parameter which is deleted.
+ + modify del_curterm to set cur_term to null if it matches the
+ function's parameter which is deleted.
+ modify lib_doupdate to prefer parm_ich to the enter_insert_mode and
exit_insert_mode combination, adjusting InsCharCost to check
enter_insert_mode, exit_insert_mode and insert_padding. Add
to the SP struct.
980912
- + modify test-driver in lib_mvcur.s to use _nc_setbuffer, for consistent
- treatment.
+ + modify test-driver in lib_mvcur.s to use _nc_setbuffer, for
+ consistent treatment.
+ modify ncurses to restore output to unbuffered on endwin, and resume
buffering in refresh (see lib_set_term.c and NC_BUFFERED macro).
+ corrected HTML version numbers (according to the W3C validator, they
manpage (patch by Rick Ohnemus <rick@ecompcon.com>).
+ add Makefile.os2 and supporting scripts to generate dll's on OS/2 EMX
(from J.J.G.Ripoll, with further integration by TD).
- + correct a typo in icl6404 terminfo entry.
- + add xtermm and xtermc terminfo entries.
+ + correct a typo in icl6404 terminfo entry.
+ + add xtermm and xtermc terminfo entries.
> from esr's terminfo version:
- + Added Francesco Potorti's tuned Wyse 99 entries.
- + dtterm enacs correction from Alexander V Lukyanov.
- + Add ncsa-ns, ncsa-m-ns and ncsa-m entries from esr version.
+ + Added Francesco Potorti's tuned Wyse 99 entries.
+ + dtterm enacs correction from Alexander V Lukyanov.
+ + Add ncsa-ns, ncsa-m-ns and ncsa-m entries from esr version.
980822
+ document AT&T acs characters in terminfo.5 manpage.
Jaeger).
980815
- + modify lib_setup.c to eliminate unneeded include of <sys/ioctl.h> when
- termios is not used (patch by Todd C Miller).
+ + modify lib_setup.c to eliminate unneeded include of <sys/ioctl.h>
+ when termios is not used (patch by Todd C Miller).
+ add function _nc_doalloc, to ensure that failed realloc calls do not
leak memory (reported by Todd C Miller).
+ improved ncsa-telnet terminfo entry.
the search path to /usr/lib (reported by Dan Nelson).
+ add -soname option when building shared libraries on OpenBSD 2.x
(request by QingLong).
- + add configure options --with-manpage-format and --with-manpage-renames
- (request by QingLong).
+ + add configure options --with-manpage-format and
+ --with-manpage-renames (request by QingLong).
+ correct conversion of CANCELLED_NUMERIC in write_object(), which was
omitting the high-order byte, producing a 254 in the compiled
terminfo.
+ the slk_attr_{set,off,on} functions need an additional void*
parameter according to XSI.
+ fix the C++ and Ada95 binding as well as the man pages to
- reflect above enhancements.
+ reflect above enhancements.
980307
+ use 'stat()' rather than 'access()' in toe.c to check for the
+ workaround a quoting problem on SunOS with tar-copy.sh
+ correct init_pair() calls in worm.c to work when use_default_colors()
is not available.
- + include <sys/types.h> in CF_SYS_TIME_SELECT to work with FreeBSD 2.1.5
+ + include <sys/types.h> in CF_SYS_TIME_SELECT to work with FreeBSD
+ 2.1.5
+ add ncv capability to FreeBSD console (cons25w), making reverse
work with color.
+ correct sense of configure-test for sys/time.h inclusion with
+ remove shared-library loader flags from test/Makefile.in, etc.
+ simplify test/configure.in using new version of autoconf to create
test/ncurses_cfg.h
- + suppress suffix rules in test/Makefile.in, provide explicit dependency
- to work with --srcdir option and less capable 'make' programs.
+ + suppress suffix rules in test/Makefile.in, provide explicit
+ dependency to work with --srcdir option and less capable 'make'
+ programs.
> adapted from patch for QNX by Xiaodan Tang:
+ initialize %P and %g variables set/used in tparm, and also ensure
that empty strings don't return a null result from tparam_internal
NeXT (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
971101
- + force mandatory padding in bell and flash_screen, as specified in XSI.
+ + force mandatory padding in bell and flash_screen, as specified in
+ XSI.
+ don't allow padding_baud_rate to override mandatory delays (reported
by Daniel Weaver).
+ modify delay_output() to use _nc_timed_wait() if no baudrate has been
+ add configure script to generate c++/etip.h
+ add configure --with-develop option, to enable by default most of the
experimental options (requested by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
- + rename 'deinstall' to 'uninstall', following GNU convention (suggested
- by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
+ + rename 'deinstall' to 'uninstall', following GNU convention
+ (suggested by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
> patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
+ modify tactics 2 and 5 in onscreen_mvcur(), to allow them on the last
line of the screen, since carriage return will not cause a newline.
+ #undef unctrl to avoid symbol conflict in port to RTEMS (reported by
Chris Johns <cjohns@plessey.com.au>)
> patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
- + simplified, made minor corrections to Ada95 binding to form fieldtype.
+ + simplified, made minor corrections to Ada95 binding to form
+ fieldtype.
+ The C++ binding has been enhanced:
+ Improve NCursesWindow class: added additional methods to cover
more ncurses functionality. Make refresh() and noutrefresh()
+ restore original behavior in ncurses 'g' test, i.e., explicitly
set the keypad mode rather than use the default, since it confuses
people.
- + rewrote the newdemo banner so it's readable (reported by Hugh Daniel).
+ + rewrote the newdemo banner so it's readable (reported by Hugh
+ Daniel).
+ tidy up exit from hashtest (reported by Hugh Daniel).
+ restore check for ^Q in ncurses 'g' test broken in 970510 (reported
by Hugh Daniel)
970517
+ suppress check for pre-existing ncurses header if the --prefix
option is specified.
- + add configure options "--with-system-type" and "--with-system-release"
- to assist in checking the generated makefiles.
+ + add configure options "--with-system-type" and
+ "--with-system-release" to assist in checking the generated
+ makefiles.
+ add configure option "--enable-rpath" to allow installers to specify
that programs linked against shared libraries will have their library
path embedded, allowing installs into nonstandard locations.
+ modify ncurses 'g' test to allow mouse input
+ modify default xterm description to include mouse.
+ modify configure script to add -Wwrite-strings if gcc warnings are
- enabled while configuring --enable-const (and fixed related warnings).
+ enabled while configuring --enable-const (and fixed related
+ warnings).
+ add toggle, status display for keypad mode to ncurses 'g' test to
verify that keypad and scrollok are not inherited from parent window
during a call to newwin.
- + correction to MKexpanded.sh to make it work when configure --srcdir is
- used (reported by H.J.Lu).
+ + correction to MKexpanded.sh to make it work when configure --srcdir
+ is used (reported by H.J.Lu).
+ revise test for bool-type, ensuring that it checks if builtin.h is
available before including it, adding test for sizeof(bool) equal
to sizeof(short), and warning user if the size cannot be determined
970505 4.1 pre-release
+ regenerate the misc directory html dumps without the link list, which
is not useful.
- + correct dependency in form directory makefile which caused unnecessary
- recompiles.
+ + correct dependency in form directory makefile which caused
+ unnecessary recompiles.
+ correct substitution for ABI_VERSION in test-makefile
+ modify install rules for shared-library targets to remove the target
before installing, since some install programs do not properly handle
+ check for C++ builtin.h header
+ correct computation of absolute-path for $INSTALL that dropped "-c"
parameter from the expression.
- + rename config.h to ncurses_cfg.h to avoid naming-conflict when ncurses
- is integrated into larger systems (from diffs by H.J.Lu for libc).
+ + rename config.h to ncurses_cfg.h to avoid naming-conflict when
+ ncurses is integrated into larger systems (from diffs by H.J.Lu for
+ libc).
+ correct inequality in lib_doupdate.c that caused a single-char to not
be updated when the char on the right-margin was not blank, idcok()
was true (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov 970124, also reported by
handle displays wider than 128 chars (Juergen Pfeifer).
+ correct typo curs_outopts.3x (Juergen Pfeifer).
+ correct limit-checking in wenclose() (Juergen Pfeifer).
- + correction to Peter Wemm's newwin change (Thomas Fehr <fehr@suse.de>).
+ + correction to Peter Wemm's newwin change (Thomas Fehr
+ <fehr@suse.de>).
+ corrections to logic that combines colors and attributes; they must
not be OR'd (Juergen Pfeifer, extending from report/patch by Rick
Marshall).
Ju"rgen Fluk <louis@dachau.marco.de>)
+ corrected calls on _nc_render so that background character is set
as per XSI.
- + corrected wbkgdset macro (XSI allows background character to be null),
- and tests that use it.
+ + corrected wbkgdset macro (XSI allows background character to be
+ null), and tests that use it.
+ more corrections to terminfo (xterm & rxvt)
+ undid change to mcprint prototype (cannot use size_t in curses.h
because not all systems declare it in the headers that we can safely
msgwin needed scrollok set.
+ corrected last change to IDcTransformLine logic to avoid conflict
between PutRange and InsStr
- + modified run_tic.sh to not use /usr/tmp (reported by David MacKenzie),
- and further revised it and aclocal.m4 to use $TMPDIR if set.
+ + modified run_tic.sh to not use /usr/tmp (reported by David
+ MacKenzie), and further revised it and aclocal.m4 to use $TMPDIR if
+ set.
+ corrected off-by-one in RoomFor call in read_entry.c
960622 - snapshot
+ corrected ifdef for BROKEN_LINKER in MKnames.awk.in
+ corrected missing INSTALL_DATA in misc/Makefile.in
+ flush output when changing cursor-visibility (Rick Marshall)
- + fix a minor bug in the _nc_ripoff() routine and improve error checking
- when creating the label window (Juergen Pfeifer).
+ + fix a minor bug in the _nc_ripoff() routine and improve error
+ checking when creating the label window (Juergen Pfeifer).
+ enhancement to the control over the new PC-style soft key format.
allow caller now to select whether or not one wants to have
the index-line; see curs_slk.3x for documentation (Juergen Pfeifer).
+ added has_key()
+ added 't' to ncurses.c test.
+ moved delay_output() to lib_tputs.c
- + removed tparam().
+ + removed tparam() (was added in 1.9.9, but conflicts with emacs and
+ is not part of X/Open Curses).
+ misc cursor & optimization fixes.
960504 - snapshot
+ autogenerate development header-dependencies (config.h, *.priv.h)
+ corrected single-column formatting of "use=" (e.g., in tic)
+ modify tic to read full terminfo-names
- + corrected divide-by-zero that caused hang (or worse) when redirecting output
+ + corrected divide-by-zero that caused hang (or worse) when redirecting
+ output
+ modify tic to generate directories only as-needed (and corrected
instance of use of data from function that had already returned).
takes a trace mask argument. The trace masks, defined in curses.h, are
as follows:
- #define TRACE_DISABLE 0x00 /* turn off tracing */
- #define TRACE_ORDINARY 0x01 /* ordinary trace mode */
- #define TRACE_CHARPUT 0x02 /* also trace all character outputs */
- #define TRACE_MAXIMUM 0x0f /* maximum trace level */
+ #define TRACE_DISABLE 0x00 /* turn off tracing */
+ #define TRACE_ORDINARY 0x01 /* ordinary trace mode */
+ #define TRACE_CHARPUT 0x02 /* also trace all character outputs */
+ #define TRACE_MAXIMUM 0x0f /* maximum trace level */
More trace masks may be added, or these may be changed, in future releases.
* The pad code has been improved and the pad test code in test/ncurses.c has
* New scrolling code.
* fixed bug that reversed the sense of nl() and nonl().
-#### ncurses 0.2 -> ncurses 0.3 #### Jan 20, 1993 ####
+#### ncurses 0.2 -> ncurses 0.3 #### Jan 20, 1993 ####
* more support for color and graphics see test/ for examples.
* fixed various files to allow correct update after shelling out.
* more fixes for updates.
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