--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.797 2004/02/08 21:15:26 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.
+ 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.
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