ncurses 5.6 - patch 20080517

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 -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written        --
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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1225 2008/04/12 19:41:26 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.1235 2008/05/17 19:51:30 tom Exp $
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -45,6 +45,34 @@ See the AUTHORS file for the corresponding full names.
 Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
 it is not possible to add this information.
 
+20080517
+       + modify configure script to note that --enable-ext-colors and
+         --enable-ext-mouse are not experimental, but extensions from
+         the ncurses ABI 5.
+       + corrected manpage description of setcchar() (discussion with
+         Emanuele Giaquinta).
+       + fix for adding a non-spacing character at the beginning of a line
+         (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
+
+20080503
+       + modify screen.* terminfo entries using new screen+fkeys to fix
+         overridden keys in screen.rxvt (Debian #478094) -TD
+       + modify internal interfaces to reduce wgetch()'s dependency on the
+         global SP.
+       + simplify some loops with macros each_screen(), each_window() and
+         each_ripoff().
+
+20080426
+       + continue modifying test/ditto.c toward making it demonstrate
+         multithreaded use_screen(), using fifos to pass data between screens.
+       + fix typo in form.3x (report by Mike Gran).
+
+20080419
+       + add screen.rxvt terminfo entry -TD
+       + modify tic -f option to format spaces as \s to prevent them from
+         being lost when that is read back in unformatted strings.
+       + improve test/ditto.c, using a "talk"-style layout.
+
 20080412
        + change test/ditto.c to use openpty() and xterm.
        + add locks for copywin(), dupwin(), overlap(), overlay() on their
@@ -70,8 +98,8 @@ it is not possible to add this information.
          e.g., on aix when using CC=powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0-gcc
          (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
        + override OBJEXT to "lo" when building with libtool, to work on
-         platforms such as AIX where libtool supports only static libraries
-         (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
+         platforms such as AIX where libtool may use a different suffix for
+         the object files than ".o" (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
        + add configure --with-pthread option, for building with the POSIX
          thread library.