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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.
+Changes through 1.9.9e are recorded by Zeyd M Ben-Halim.
+Changes since 1.9.9e are recorded by Thomas E Dickey.
+
+Contributors include those who have provided patches (even small ones), as well
+as those who provide useful information (bug reports, analyses). Changes with
+no cited author are the work of Thomas E Dickey (TD).
+
+A few contributors are given in this file by their initials.
+They each account for one percent or more of the changes since 1.9.9e.
+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.
+
+20080705
+ + use NCURSES_MOUSE_MASK() in definition of BUTTON_RELEASE(), etc., to
+ make those work properly with the "--enable-ext-mouse" configuration
+ (cf: 20050205).
+ + improve documentation of build-cc options in INSTALL.
+ + work-around a bug in gcc 4.2.4 on AIX, which does not pass the
+ -static/-dynamic flags properly to linker, causing test/bs to
+ not link.
+
+20080628
+ + correct some ifdef's needed for the broken-linker configuration.
+ + make debugging library's $BAUDRATE feature work for termcap
+ interface.
+ + make $NCURSES_NO_PADDING feature work for termcap interface (prompted
+ by comment on FreeBSD mailing list).
+ + add screen.mlterm terminfo entry -TD
+ + improve mlterm and mlterm+pcfkeys terminfo entries -TD
+
+20080621
+ + regenerated html documentation.
+ + expand manpage description of parameters for form_driver() and
+ menu_driver() (prompted by discussion with Adam Spragg).
+ + add null-pointer checks for cur_term in baudrate() and
+ def_shell_mode(), def_prog_mode()
+ + fix some memory leaks in delscreen() and wide acs.
+
+20080614
+ + modify test/ditto.c to illustrate multi-threaded use_screen().
+ + change CC_SHARED_OPTS from -KPIC to -xcode=pic32 for Solaris.
+ + add "-shared" option to MK_SHARED_LIB for gcc on Solaris (report
+ by Poor Yorick).
+
+20080607
+ + finish changes to wgetch(), making it switch as needed to the
+ window's actual screen when calling wrefresh() and wgetnstr(). That
+ allows wgetch() to get used concurrently in different threads with
+ some minor restrictions, e.g., the application should not delete a
+ window which is being used in a wgetch().
+ + simplify mutex's, combining the window- and screen-mutex's.
+
+20080531
+ + modify wgetch() to use the screen which corresponds to its window
+ parameter rather than relying on SP; some dependent functions still
+ use SP internally.
+ + factor out most use of SP in lib_mouse.c, using parameter.
+ + add internal _nc_keyname(), replacing keyname() to associate with a
+ particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
+ + add internal _nc_unctrl(), replacing unctrl() to associate with a
+ particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
+ + add internal _nc_tracemouse(), replacing _tracemouse() to eliminate
+ its associated global buffer _nc_globals.tracemse_buf now in SCREEN.
+ + add internal _nc_tracechar(), replacing _tracechar() to use SCREEN in
+ preference to the global _nc_globals.tracechr_buf buffer.
+
+20080524
+ + modify _nc_keypad() to make it switch temporarily as needed to the
+ screen which must be updated.
+ + wrap cur_term variable to help make _nc_keymap() thread-safe, and
+ always set the screen's copy of this variable in set_curterm().
+ + restore curs_set() state after endwin()/refresh() (report/patch
+ Miroslav Lichvar)
+
+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
+ window parameters.
+ + add locks for initscr() and newterm() on updates to the SCREEN
+ pointer.
+ + finish table in curs_thread.3x manpage.
+
+20080405
+ + begin table in curs_thread.3x manpage describing the scope of data
+ used by each function (or symbol) for threading analysis.
+ + add null-pointer checks to setsyx() and getsyx() (prompted by
+ discussion by Martin v. Lowis and Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven on
+ python-dev2 mailing list).
+
+20080329
+ + add null-pointer checks in set_term() and delscreen().
+ + move _nc_windows into _nc_globals, since windows can be pads, which
+ are not associated with a particular screen.
+ + change use_screen() to pass the SCREEN* parameter rather than
+ stdscr to the callback function.
+ + force libtool to use tag for 'CC' in case it does not detect this,
+ 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 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.
+
+20080322
+ + fill in extended-color pair two more places in wbkgrndset() and
+ waddch_nosync() (prompted by Sedeno's patch).
+ + fill in extended-color pair in _nc_build_wch() to make colors work
+ for wide-characters using extended-colors (patch by Alejandro R
+ Sedeno).
+ + add x/X toggles to ncurses.c C color test to test/demo
+ wide-characters with extended-colors.
+ + add a/A toggles to ncurses.c c/C color tests.
+ + modify test/ditto.c to use use_screen().
+ + finish modifying test/rain.c to demonstrate threads.
+
+20080308
+ + start modifying test/rain.c for threading demo.
+ + modify test/ncurses.c to make 'f' test accept the f/F/b/F/</> toggles
+ that the 'F' accepts.
+ + modify test/worm.c to show trail in reverse-video when other threads
+ are working concurrently.
+ + fix a deadlock from improper nesting of mutexes for windowlist and
+ window.
+
+20080301
+ + fixes from 20080223 resolved issue with mutexes; change to use
+ recursive mutexes to fix memory leak in delwin() as called from
+ _nc_free_and_exit().
+
+20080223
+ + fix a size-difference in _nc_globals which caused hanging of mutex
+ lock/unlock when termlib was built separately.
+
+20080216
+ + avoid using nanosleep() in threaded configuration since that often
+ is implemented to suspend the entire process.
+
+20080209
+ + update test programs to build/work with various UNIX curses for
+ comparisons. This was to reinvestigate statement in X/Open curses
+ that insnstr and winsnstr perform wrapping. None of the Unix-branded
+ implementations do this, as noted in manpage (cf: 20040228).
+
+20080203
+ + modify _nc_setupscreen() to set the legacy-coding value the same
+ for both narrow/wide models. It had been set only for wide model,
+ but is needed to make unctrl() work with locale in the narrow model.
+ + improve waddch() and winsch() handling of EILSEQ from mbrtowc() by
+ using unctrl() to display illegal bytes rather than trying to append
+ further bytes to make up a valid sequence (reported by Andrey A
+ Chernov).
+ + modify unctrl() to check codes in 128-255 range versus isprint().
+ If they are not printable, and locale was set, use a "M-" or "~"
+ sequence.
+
+20080126
+ + improve threading in test/worm.c (wrap refresh calls, and KEY_RESIZE
+ handling). Now it hangs in napms(), no matter whether nanosleep()
+ or poll() or select() are used on Linux.
+
+20080119
+ + fixes to build with --disable-ext-funcs
+ + add manpage for use_window and use_screen.
+ + add set_tabsize() and set_escdelay() functions.
+
+20080112
+ + remove recursive-mutex definitions, finish threading demo for worm.c
+ + remove a redundant adjustment of lines in resizeterm.c's
+ adjust_window() which caused occasional misadjustment of stdscr when
+ softkeys were used.
+
+20080105
+ + several improvements to terminfo entries based on xterm #230 -TD
+ + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle keyname/key_name prototypes, so the
+ "link_test" builds properly.
+ + fix for toe command-line options -u/-U to ensure filename is given.
+ + fix allocation-size for command-line parsing in infocmp from 20070728
+ (report by Miroslav Lichvar)
+ + improve resizeterm() by moving ripped-off lines, and repainting the
+ soft-keys (report by Katarina Machalkova)
+ + add clarification in wclear's manpage noting that the screen will be
+ cleared even if a subwindow is cleared (prompted by Christer Enfors
+ question).
+ + change test/ncurses.c soft-key tests to work with KEY_RESIZE.
+
+20071222
+ + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
+ for delwin().
+
+20071215
+ + add several functions to C++ binding which wrap C functions that
+ pass a WINDOW* parameter (request by Chris Lee).
+
+20071201
+ + add note about configure options needed for Berkeley database to the
+ INSTALL file.
+ + improve checks for version of Berkeley database libraries.
+ + amend fix for rpath to not modify LDFLAGS if the platform has no
+ applicable transformation (report by Christian Ebert, cf: 20071124).
+
+20071124
+ + modify configure option --with-hashed-db to accept a parameter which
+ is the install-prefix of a given Berkeley Database (prompted by
+ pierre4d2 comments).
+ + rewrite wrapper for wcrtomb(), making it work on Solaris. This is
+ used in the form library to determine the length of the buffer needed
+ by field_buffer (report by Alfred Fung).
+ + remove unneeded window-parameter from C++ binding for wresize (report
+ by Chris Lee).
+
+20071117
+ + modify the support for filesystems which do not support mixed-case to
+ generate 2-character (hexadecimal) codes for the lower-level of the
+ filesystem terminfo database (request by Michail Vidiassov).
+ + add configure option --enable-mixed-case, to allow overriding the
+ configure script's check if the filesystem supports mixed-case
+ filenames.
+ + add wresize() to C++ binding (request by Chris Lee).
+ + define NCURSES_EXT_FUNCS and NCURSES_EXT_COLORS in curses.h to make
+ it simpler to tell if the extended functions and/or colors are
+ declared.
+
+20071103
+ + update memory-leak checks for changes to names.c and codes.c
+ + correct acsc strings in h19, z100 (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler).
+
+20071020
+ + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
+ for use_window().
+ + add mrxvt terminfo entry, add/fix xterm building blocks for modified
+ cursor keys -TD
+ + compile with FreeBSD "contemporary" TTY interface (patch by
+ Rong-En Fan).
+
+20071013
+ + modify makefile rules to allow clear, tput and tset to be built
+ without libtic. The other programs (infocmp, tic and toe) rely on
+ that library.
+ + add/modify null-pointer checks in several functions for SP and/or
+ the WINDOW* parameter (report by Thorben Krueger).
+ + fixes for field_buffer() in formw library (see Redhat Bugzilla
+ #310071, patches by Miroslav Lichvar).
+ + improve performance of NCURSES_CHAR_EQ code (patch by Miroslav
+ Lichvar).
+ + update/improve mlterm and rxvt terminfo entries, e.g., for
+ the modified cursor- and keypad-keys -TD
+
+20071006
+ + add code to curses.priv.h ifdef'd with NCURSES_CHAR_EQ, which
+ changes the CharEq() macro to an inline function to allow comparing
+ cchar_t struct's without comparing gaps in a possibly unpacked
+ memory layout (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
+
+20070929
+ + add new functions to lib_trace.c to setup mutex's for the _tracef()
+ calls within the ncurses library.
+ + for the reentrant model, move _nc_tputs_trace and _nc_outchars into
+ the SCREEN.
+ + start modifying test/worm.c to provide threading demo (incomplete).
+ + separated ifdef's for some BSD-related symbols in tset.c, to make
+ it compile on LynxOS (report by Greg Gemmer).
+20070915
+ + modify Ada95/gen/Makefile to use shlib script, to simplify building
+ shared-library configuration on platforms lacking rpath support.
+ + build-fix for Ada95/src/Makefile to reflect changed dependency for
+ the terminal-interface-curses-aux.adb file which is now generated.
+ + restructuring test/worm.c, for use_window() example.
+
+20070908
+ + add use_window() and use_screen() functions, to develop into support
+ for threaded library (incomplete).
+ + fix typos in man/curs_opaque.3x which kept the install script from
+ creating symbolic links to two aliases created in 20070818 (report by
+ Rong-En Fan).
+
+20070901
+ + remove a spurious newline from output of html.m4, which caused links
+ for Ada95 html to be incorrect for the files generated using m4.
+ + start investigating mutex's for SCREEN manipulation (incomplete).
+ + minor cleanup of codes.c/names.c for --enable-const
+ + expand/revise "Routine and Argument Names" section of ncurses manpage
+ to address report by David Givens in newsgroup discussion.
+ + fix interaction between --without-progs/--with-termcap configure
+ options (report by Michail Vidiassov).
+ + fix typo in "--disable-relink" option (report by Michail Vidiassov).
+
+20070825
+ + fix a sign-extension bug in infocmp's repair_acsc() function
+ (cf: 971004).
+ + fix old configure script bug which prevented "--disable-warnings"
+ option from working (patch by Mike Frysinger).
+
+20070818
+ + add 9term terminal description (request by Juhapekka Tolvanen) -TD
+ + modify comp_hash.c's string output to avoid misinterpreting a null
+ "\0" followed by a digit.
+ + modify MKnames.awk and MKcodes.awk to support big-strings.
+ This only applies to the cases (broken linker, reentrant) where
+ the corresponding arrays are accessed via wrapper functions.
+ + split MKnames.awk into two scripts, eliminating the shell redirection
+ which complicated the make process and also the bogus timestamp file
+ which was introduced to fix "make -j".
+ + add test/test_opaque.c, test/test_arrays.c
+ + add wgetscrreg() and wgetparent() for applications that may need it
+ when NCURSES_OPAQUE is defined (prompted by Bryan Christ).
+
+20070812
+ + amend treatment of infocmp "-r" option to retain the 1023-byte limit
+ unless "-T" is given (cf: 981017).
+ + modify comp_captab.c generation to use big-strings.
+ + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private accessed via
+ _nc_get_alias_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
+ library.
+ + modify configure script to skip Intel compiler in CF_C_INLINE.
+ + make _nc_info_hash_table and _nc_cap_hash_table private accessed via
+ _nc_get_hash_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
+ library.
+
+20070728
+ + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private, accessed via
+ _nc_get_alias_table() since they are used only by parse_entry.c
+ + make _nc_key_names private since it is used only by lib_keyname.c
+ + add --disable-big-strings configure option to control whether
+ unctrl.c is generated using the big-string optimization - which may
+ use strings longer than supported by a given compiler.
+ + reduce relocation tables for tic, infocmp by changing type of
+ internal hash tables to short, and make those private symbols.
+ + eliminate large fixed arrays from progs/infocmp.c
+
+20070721
+ + change winnstr() to stop at the end of the line (cf: 970315).
+ + add test/test_get_wstr.c
+ + add test/test_getstr.c
+ + add test/test_inwstr.c
+ + add test/test_instr.c
+
+20070716
+ + restore a call to obtain screen-size in _nc_setupterm(), which
+ is used in tput and other non-screen applications via setupterm()
+ (Debian #433357, reported by Florent Bayle, Christian Ohm,
+ cf: 20070310).
+
+20070714
+ + add test/savescreen.c test-program
+ + add check to trace-file open, if the given name is a directory, add
+ ".log" to the name and try again.
+ + add konsole-256color entry -TD
+ + add extra gcc warning options from xterm.
+ + minor fixes for ncurses/hashmap test-program.
+ + modify configure script to quiet c++ build with libtool when the
+ --disable-echo option is used.
+ + modify configure script to disable ada95 if libtool is selected,
+ writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD ports/114493).
+ + update config.guess, config.sub
+
+20070707
+ + add continuous-move "M" to demo_panels to help test refresh changes.
+ + improve fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters,
+ taking into account some split characters on left/right window
+ boundaries.
+
+20070630
+ + add "widec" row to _tracedump() output to help diagnose remaining
+ problems with multi-column characters.
+ + partial fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters
+ which are partly overwritten (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
+ + ignore A_CHARTEXT bits in vidattr() and vid_attr(), in case
+ multi-column extension bits are passed there.
+ + add setlocale() call to demo_panels.c, needed for wide-characters.
+ + add some output flags to _nc_trace_ttymode to help diagnose a bug
+ report by Larry Virden, i.e., ONLCR, OCRNL, ONOCR and ONLRET,
+
+20070623
+ + add test/demo_panels.c
+ + implement opaque version of setsyx() and getsyx().
+
+20070612
+ + corrected xterm+pcf2 terminfo modifiers for F1-F4, to match xterm
+ #226 -TD
+ + split-out key_name() from MKkeyname.awk since it now depends upon
+ wunctrl() which is not in libtinfo (report by Rong-En Fan).
+
+20070609
+ + add test/key_name.c
+ + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test_inch_wide.c
+ + update test/configure
+ + correct formatting of DEL (0x7f) in _nc_vischar().
+ + null-terminate result of wunctrl().
+ + add null-pointer check in key_name() (report by Andreas Krennmair,
+ cf: 20020901).
+
+20070602
+ + adapt mouse-handling code from menu library in form-library
+ (discussion with Clive Nicolson).
+ + add a modification of test/dots.c, i.e., test/dots_mvcur.c to
+ illustrate how to use mvcur().
+ + modify wide-character flavor of SetAttr() to preserve the
+ WidecExt() value stored in the .attr field, e.g., in case it
+ is overwritten by chgat (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
+ + correct buffer-size for _nc_viswbuf2n() (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
+ + build-fixes for Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 (patch by Peter O'Gorman).
+
+20070526
+ + modify keyname() to use "^X" form only if meta() has been called, or
+ if keyname() is called without initializing curses, e.g., via
+ initscr() or newterm() (prompted by LinuxBase #1604).
+ + document some portability issues in man/curs_util.3x
+ + add a shadow copy of TTY buffer to _nc_prescreen to fix applications
+ broken by moving that data into SCREEN (cf: 20061230).
+
+20070512
+ + add 'O' (wide-character panel test) in ncurses.c to demonstrate a
+ problem reported by Sadrul H Chowdhury with repainting parts of
+ a fullwidth cell.
+ + modify slk_init() so that if there are preceding calls to
+ ripoffline(), those affect the available lines for soft-keys (adapted
+ from patch by Clive Nicolson).
+ + document some portability issues in man/curs_getyx.3x
+
+20070505
+ + fix a bug in Ada95/samples/ncurses which caused a variable to
+ become uninitialized in the "b" test.
+ + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in adahtml rule to account for recent
+ movement of files, fix a few incorrect manpage references in the
+ generated html.
+ + add Ada95 binding to _nc_freeall() as Curses_Free_All to help with
+ memory-checking.
+ + correct some functions in Ada95 binding which were using return value
+ from C where none was returned: idcok(), immedok() and wtimeout().
+ + amend recent changes for Ada95 binding to make it build with
+ Cygwin's linker, e.g., with configure options
+ --enable-broken-linker --with-ticlib
+
+20070428
+ + add a configure check for gcc's options for inlining, use that to
+ quiet a warning message where gcc's default behavior changed from
+ 3.x to 4.x.
+ + improve warning message when checking if GPM is linked to curses
+ library by not warning if its use of "wgetch" is via a weak symbol.
+ + add loader options when building with static libraries to ensure that
+ an installed shared library for ncurses does not conflict. This is
+ reported as problem with Tru64, but could affect other platforms
+ (report Martin Mokrejs, analysis by Tim Mooney).
+ + fix build on cygwin after recent ticlib/termlib changes, i.e.,
+ + adjust TINFO_SUFFIX value to work with cygwin's dll naming
+ + revert a change from 20070303 which commented out dependency of
+ SHLIB_LIST in form/menu/panel/c++ libraries.
+ + fix initialization of ripoff stack pointer (cf: 20070421).
+
+20070421
+ + move most static variables into structures _nc_globals and
+ _nc_prescreen, to simplify storage.
+ + add/use configure script macro CF_SIG_ATOMIC_T, use the corresponding
+ type for data manipulated by signal handlers (prompted by comments
+ in mailing.openbsd.bugs newsgroup).
+ + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to allow one to pass options such as -static
+ to the libtool create- and link-operations.
+
+20070414
+ + fix whitespace in curs_opaque.3x which caused a spurious ';' in
+ the installed aliases (report by Peter Santoro).
+ + fix configure script to not try to generate adacurses-config when
+ Ada95 tree is not built.
+
+20070407
+ + add man/curs_legacy.3x, man/curs_opaque.3x
+ + fix acs_map binding for Ada95 when --enable-reentrant is used.
+ + add adacurses-config to the Ada95 install, based on version from
+ FreeBSD port, in turn by Juergen Pfeifer in 2000 (prompted by
+ comment on comp.lang.ada newsgroup).
+ + fix includes in c++ binding to build with Intel compiler
+ (cf: 20061209).
+ + update install rule in Ada95 to use mkdirs.sh
+ > other fixes prompted by inspection for Coverity report:
+ + modify ifdef's for c++ binding to use try/catch/throw statements
+ + add a null-pointer check in tack/ansi.c request_cfss()
+ + fix a memory leak in ncurses/base/wresize.c
+ + corrected check for valid memu/meml capabilities in
+ progs/dump_entry.c when handling V_HPUX case.
+ > fixes based on Coverity report:
+ + remove dead code in test/bs.c
+ + remove dead code in test/demo_defkey.c
+ + remove an unused assignment in progs/infocmp.c
+ + fix a limit check in tack/ansi.c tools_charset()
+ + fix tack/ansi.c tools_status() to perform the VT320/VT420
+ tests in request_cfss(). The function had exited too soon.
+ + fix a memory leak in tic.c's make_namelist()
+ + fix a couple of places in tack/output.c which did not check for EOF.
+ + fix a loop-condition in test/bs.c
+ + add index checks in lib_color.c for color palettes
+ + add index checks in progs/dump_entry.c for version_filter() handling
+ of V_BSD case.
+ + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in copywin()
+ + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in waddchnstr()
+ + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
+ + add a null-pointer check in tic.c's make_namelist()
+ + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
+ + add null-pointer checks in test/cardfile.c
+ + fix a double-free in ncurses/tinfo/trim_sgr0.c
+ + fix a double-free in ncurses/base/wresize.c
+ + add try/catch block to c++/cursesmain.cc
+
+20070331
+ + modify Ada95 binding to build with --enable-reentrant by wrapping
+ global variables (bug: acs_map does not yet work).
+ + modify Ada95 binding to use the new access-functions, allowing it
+ to build/run when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
+ + add access-functions and macros to return properties of the WINDOW
+ structure, e.g., when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
+ + improved install-sh's quoting.
+ + use mkdirs.sh rather than mkinstalldirs, e.g., to use fixes from
+ other programs.
+
+20070324
+ + eliminate part of the direct use of WINDOW data from Ada95 interface.
+ + fix substitutions for termlib filename to make configure option
+ --enable-reentrant work with --with-termlib.
+ + change a constructor for NCursesWindow to allow compiling with
+ NCURSES_OPAQUE set, since we cannot pass a reference to
+ an opaque pointer.
+
+20070317
+ + ignore --with-chtype=unsigned since unsigned is always added to
+ the type in curses.h; do the same for --with-mmask-t.
+ + change warning regarding --enable-ext-colors and wide-character
+ in the configure script to an error.
+ + tweak error message in CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to distinguish other programs
+ such as Darwin's libtool program (report by Michail Vidiassov)
+ + modify edit_man.sh to allow for multiple substitutions per line.
+ + set locale in misc/ncurses-config.in since it uses a range
+ + change permissions libncurses++.a install (report by Michail
+ Vidiassov).
+ + corrected length of temporary buffer in wide-character version
+ of set_field_buffer() (related to report by Bryan Christ).
+
+20070311
+ + fix mk-1st.awk script install_shlib() function, broken in 20070224
+ changes for cygwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
+
+20070310
+ + increase size of array in _nc_visbuf2n() to make "tic -v" work
+ properly in its similar_sgr() function (report/analysis by Peter
+ Santoro).
+ + add --enable-reentrant configure option for ongoing changes to
+ implement a reentrant version of ncurses:
+ + libraries are suffixed with "t"
+ + wrap several global variables (curscr, newscr, stdscr, ttytype,
+ COLORS, COLOR_PAIRS, COLS, ESCDELAY, LINES and TABSIZE) as
+ functions returning values stored in SCREEN or cur_term.
+ + move some initialization (LINES, COLS) from lib_setup.c,
+ i.e., setupterm() to _nc_setupscreen(), i.e., newterm().
+
+20070303
+ + regenerated html documentation.
+ + add NCURSES_OPAQUE symbol to curses.h, will use to make structs
+ opaque in selected configurations.
+ + move the chunk in lib_acs.c which resets acs capabilities when
+ running on a terminal whose locale interferes with those into
+ _nc_setupscreen(), so the libtinfo/libtinfow files can be made
+ identical (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
+ + do not use configure variable SHLIB_LIBS for building libraries
+ outside the ncurses directory, since that symbol is customized
+ only for that directory, and using it introduces an unneeded
+ dependency on libdl (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
+ + modify mk-1st.awk so the generated makefile rules for linking or
+ installing shared libraries do not first remove the library, in
+ case it is in use, e.g., libncurses.so by /bin/sh (report by Jeff
+ Chua).
+ + revised section "Using NCURSES under XTERM" in ncurses-intro.html
+ (prompted by newsgroup comment by Nick Guenther).
+
+20070224
+ + change internal return codes of _nc_wgetch() to check for cases
+ where KEY_CODE_YES should be returned, e.g., if a KEY_RESIZE was
+ ungetch'd, and read by wget_wch().
+ + fix static-library build broken in 20070217 changes to remove "-ldl"
+ (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
+ + change makefile/scripts for cygwin to allow building termlib.
+ + use Form_Hook in manpages to match form.h
+ + use Menu_Hook in manpages, as well as a few places in menu.h
+ + correct form- and menu-manpages to use specific Field_Options,
+ Menu_Options and Item_Options types.
+ + correct prototype for _tracechar() in manpage (cf: 20011229).
+ + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
+
+20070217
+ + fixes for $(TICS_LIST) in ncurses/Makefile (report by Miroslav
+ Lichvar).
+ + modify relinking of shared libraries to apply only when rpath is
+ enabled, and add --disable-relink option which can be used to
+ disable the feature altogether (reports by Michail Vidiassov,
+ Adam J Richter).
+ + fix --with-termlib option for wide-character configuration, stripping
+ the "w" suffix in one place (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
+ + remove "-ldl" from some library lists to reduce dependencies in
+ programs (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
+ + correct description of --enable-signed-char in configure --help
+ (report by Michail Vidiassov).
+ + add pattern for GNU/kFreeBSD configuration to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE,
+ which matches an earlier change to CF_SHARED_OPTS, from xterm #224
+ fixes.
+ + remove "${DESTDIR}" from -install_name option used for linking
+ shared libraries on Darwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
+
+20070210
+ + add test/inchs.c, test_inch_wide.c, to test win_wchnstr().
+ + remove libdl from library list for termlib (report by Miroslav
+ Lichvar).
+ + fix configure.in to allow --without-progs --with-termlib (patch by
+ Miroslav Lichvar).
+ + modify win_wchnstr() to ensure that only a base cell is returned
+ for each multi-column character (prompted by report by Wei Kong
+ regarding change in mvwin_wch() cf: 20041023).
+
+20070203
+ + modify fix_wchnstr() in form library to strip attributes (and color)
+ from the cchar_t array (field cells) read from a field's window.
+ Otherwise, when copying the field cells back to the window, the
+ associated color overrides the field's background color (report by
+ Ricardo Cantu).
+ + improve tracing for form library, showing created forms, fields, etc.
+ + ignore --enable-rpath configure option if --with-shared was omitted.
+ + add _nc_leaks_tinfo(), _nc_free_tic(), _nc_free_tinfo() entrypoints
+ to allow leak-checking when both tic- and tinfo-libraries are built.
+ + drop CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC macro from configure script, since C++ binding
+ no longer relies on it.
+ + disallow combining configure script options --with-ticlib and
+ --enable-termcap (report by Rong-En Fan).
+ + remove tack from ncurses tree.
+
+20070128
+ + fix typo in configure script that broke --with-termlib option
+ (report by Rong-En Fan).
+
+20070127
+ + improve fix for FreeBSD gnu/98975, to allow for null pointer passed
+ to tgetent() (report by Rong-en Fan).
+ + update tack/HISTORY and tack/README to tell how to build it after
+ it is removed from the ncurses tree.
+ + fix configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
+ (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
+ + review/eliminate other original-file artifacts in cursesw.cc, making
+ its license consistent with ncurses.
+ + use ncurses vw_scanw() rather than reading into a fixed buffer in
+ the c++ binding for scanw() methods (prompted by report by Nuno Dias).
+ + eliminate fixed-buffer vsprintf() calls in c++ binding.
+
+20070120
+ + add _nc_leaks_tic() to separate leak-checking of tic library from
+ term/ncurses libraries, and thereby eliminate a library dependency.
+ + fix test/mk-test.awk to ignore blank lines.
+ + correct paths in include/headers, for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav
+ Lichvar).
+
+20070113
+ + add a break-statement in misc/shlib to ensure that it exits on the
+ _first_ matched directory (report by Paul Novak).
+ + add tack/configure, which can be used to build tack outside the
+ ncurses build-tree.
+ + add --with-ticlib option, to build/install the tic-support functions
+ in a separate library (suggested by Miroslav Lichvar).
+
+20070106
+ + change MKunctrl.awk to reduce relocation table for unctrl.o
+ + change MKkeyname.awk to reduce relocation table for keyname.o
+ (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
+
+20061230
+ + modify configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
+ (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
+ + modify some modules to allow them to be reentrant if _REENTRANT is
+ defined: lib_baudrate.c, resizeterm.c (local data only)
+ + eliminate static data from some modules: add_tries.c, hardscroll.c,
+ lib_ttyflags.c, lib_twait.c
+ + improve manpage install to add aliases for the transformed program
+ names, e.g., from --program-prefix.
+ + used linklint to verify links in the HTML documentation, made fixes
+ to manpages as needed.
+ + fix a typo in curs_mouse.3x (report by William McBrine).
+ + fix install-rule for ncurses5-config to make the bin-directory.
+
+20061223
+ + modify configure script to omit the tic (terminfo compiler) support
+ from ncurses library if --without-progs option is given.
+ + modify install rule for ncurses5-config to do this via "install.libs"
+ + modify shared-library rules to allow FreeBSD 3.x to use rpath.
+ + update config.guess, config.sub
+
+20061217 5.6 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
+
+20061217
+ + add ifdef's for <wctype.h> for HPUX, which has the corresponding
+ definitions in <wchar.h>.
+ + revert the va_copy() change from 20061202, since it was neither
+ correct nor portable.
+ + add $(LOCAL_LIBS) definition to progs/Makefile.in, needed for
+ rpath on Solaris.
+ + ignore wide-acs line-drawing characters that wcwidth() claims are
+ not one-column. This is a workaround for Solaris' broken locale
+ support.
+
+20061216
+ + modify configure --with-gpm option to allow it to accept a parameter,
+ i.e., the name of the dynamic GPM library to load via dlopen()
+ (requested by Bryan Henderson).
+ + add configure option --with-valgrind, changes from vile.
+ + modify configure script AC_TRY_RUN and AC_TRY_LINK checks to use
+ 'return' in preference to 'exit()'.
+
+20061209
+ + change default for --with-develop back to "no".
+ + add XTABS to tracing of TTY bits.
+ + updated autoconf patch to ifdef-out the misfeature which declares
+ exit() for configure tests. This fixes a redefinition warning on
+ Solaris.
+ + use ${CC} rather than ${LD} in shared library rules for IRIX64,
+ Solaris to help ensure that initialization sections are provided for
+ extra linkage requirements, e.g., of C++ applications (prompted by
+ comment by Casper Dik in newsgroup).
+ + rename "$target" in CF_MAN_PAGES to make it easier to distinguish
+ from the autoconf predefined symbol. There was no conflict,
+ since "$target" was used only in the generated edit_man.sh file,
+ but SuSE's rpm package contains a patch.
+
+20061202
+ + update man/term.5 to reflect extended terminfo support and hashed
+ database configuration.
+ + updates for test/configure script.
+ + adapted from SuSE rpm package:
+ + remove long-obsolete workaround for broken-linker which declared
+ cur_term in tic.c
+ + improve error recovery in PUTC() macro when wcrtomb() does not
+ return usable results for an 8-bit character.
+ + patches from rpm package (SuSE):
+ + use va_copy() in extra varargs manipulation for tracing version
+ of printw, etc.
+ + use a va_list rather than a null in _nc_freeall()'s call to
+ _nc_printf_string().
+ + add some see-also references in manpages to show related
+ wide-character functions (suggested by Claus Fischer).
+
+20061125
+ + add a check in lib_color.c to ensure caller does not increase COLORS
+ above max_colors, which is used as an array index (discussion with
+ Simon Sasburg).
+ + add ifdef's allowing ncurses to be built with tparm() using either
+ varargs (the existing status), or using a fixed-parameter list (to
+ match X/Open).
+
+20061104
+ + fix redrawing of windows other than stdscr using wredrawln() by
+ touching the corresponding rows in curscr (discussion with Dan
+ Gookin).
+ + add test/redraw.c
+ + add test/echochar.c
+ + review/cleanup manpage descriptions of error-returns for form- and
+ menu-libraries (prompted by FreeBSD docs/46196).
+
+20061028
+ + add AUTHORS file -TD
+ + omit the -D options from output of the new config script --cflags
+ option (suggested by Ralf S Engelschall).
+ + make NCURSES_INLINE unconditionally defined in curses.h
+
+20061021
+ + revert change to accommodate bash 3.2, since that breaks other
+ platforms, e.g., Solaris.
+ + minor fixes to NEWS file to simplify scripting to obtain list of
+ contributors.
+ + improve some shared-library configure scripting for Linux, FreeBSD
+ and NetBSD to make "--with-shlib-version" work.
+ + change configure-script rules for FreeBSD shared libraries to allow
+ for rpath support in versions past 3.
+ + use $(DESTDIR) in makefile rules for installing/uninstalling the
+ package config script (reports/patches by Christian Wiese,
+ Ralf S Engelschall).
+ + fix a warning in the configure script for NetBSD 2.0, working around
+ spurious blanks embedded in its ${MAKEFLAGS} symbol.
+ + change test/Makefile to simplify installing test programs in a
+ different directory when --enable-rpath is used.
+
+20061014
+ + work around bug in bash 3.2 by adding extra quotes (Jim Gifford).
+ + add/install a package config script, e.g., "ncurses5-config" or
+ "ncursesw5-config", according to configuration options.
+
+20061007
+ + add several GNU Screen terminfo variations with 16- and 256-colors,
+ and status line (Alain Bench).
+ + change the way shared libraries (other than libtool) are installed.
+ Rather than copying the build-tree's libraries, link the shared
+ objects into the install directory. This makes the --with-rpath
+ option work except with $(DESTDIR) (cf: 20000930).
+
+20060930
+ + fix ifdef in c++/internal.h for QNX 6.1
+ + test-compiled with (old) egcs-1.1.2, modified configure script to
+ not unset the $CXX and related variables which would prevent this.
+ + fix a few terminfo.src typos exposed by improvments to "-f" option.
+ + improve infocmp/tic "-f" option formatting.
+
+20060923
+ + make --disable-largefile option work (report by Thomas M Ott).
+ + updated html documentation.
+ + add ka2, kb1, kb3, kc2 to vt220-keypad as an extension -TD
+ + minor improvements to rxvt+pcfkeys -TD
+
+20060916
+ + move static data from lib_mouse.c into SCREEN struct.
+ + improve ifdef's for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset to work with Mac OS X
+ (report by Michail Vidiassov).
+ + modify CF_PATH_SYNTAX to ensure it uses the result from --prefix
+ option (from lynx changes) -TD
+ + adapt AC_PROG_EGREP check, noting that this is likely to be another
+ place aggravated by POSIXLY_CORRECT.
+ + modify configure check for awk to ensure that it is found (prompted
+ by report by Christopher Parker).
+ + update config.sub
+
+20060909
+ + add kon, kon2 and jfbterm terminfo entry (request by Till Maas) -TD
+ + remove invis capability from klone+sgr, mainly used by linux entry,
+ since it does not really do this -TD
+
+20060903
+ + correct logic in wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not guard
+ against passing the multi-column attribute into a call on waddch(),
+ e.g., using data returned by win_wch() (cf: 20041023)
+ (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
+
+20060902
+ + fix kterm's acsc string -TD
+ + fix for change to tic/infocmp in 20060819 to ensure no blank is
+ embedded into a termcap description.
+ + workaround for 20050806 ifdef's change to allow visbuf.c to compile
+ when using --with-termlib --with-trace options.
+ + improve tgetstr() by making the return value point into the user's
+ buffer, if provided (patch by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat Bugzilla
+ #202480)).
+ + correct libraries needed for foldkeys (report by Stanislav Ievlev)
+
+20060826
+ + add terminfo entries for xfce terminal (xfce) and multi gnome
+ terminal (mgt) -TD
+ + add test/foldkeys.c
+
+20060819
+ + modify tic and infocmp to avoid writing trailing blanks on terminfo
+ source output (Debian #378783).
+ + modify configure script to ensure that if the C compiler is used
+ rather than the loader in making shared libraries, the $(CFLAGS)
+ variable is also used (Redhat Bugzilla #199369).
+ + port hashed-db code to db2 and db3.
+ + fix a bug in tgetent() from 20060625 and 20060715 changes
+ (patch/analysis by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat Bugzilla #202480)).
+
+20060805
+ + updated xterm function-keys terminfo to match xterm #216 -TD
+ + add configure --with-hashed-db option (tested only with FreeBSD 6.0,
+ e.g., the db 1.8.5 interface).
+
+20060729
+ + modify toe to access termcap data, e.g., via cgetent() functions,
+ or as a text file if those are not available.
+ + use _nc_basename() in tset to improve $SHELL check for csh/sh.
+ + modify _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_termcap_entry() so infocmp,
+ can access termcap data when the terminfo database is disabled.
+
+20060722
+ + widen the test for xterm kmous a little to allow for other strings
+ than \E[M, e.g., for xterm-sco functionality in xterm.
+ + update xterm-related terminfo entries to match xterm patch #216 -TD
+ + update config.guess, config.sub
+
+20060715
+ + fix for install-rule in Ada95 to add terminal_interface.ads
+ and terminal_interface.ali (anonymous posting in comp.lang.ada).
+ + correction to manpage for getcchar() (report by William McBrine).
+ + add test/chgat.c
+ + modify wchgat() to mark updated cells as changed so a refresh will
+ repaint those cells (comments by Sadrul H Chowdhury and William
+ McBrine).
+ + split up dependency of names.c and codes.c in ncurses/Makefile to
+ work with parallel make (report/analysis by Joseph S Myers).
+ + suppress a warning message (which is ignored) for systems without
+ an ldconfig program (patch by Justin Hibbits).
+ + modify configure script --disable-symlinks option to allow one to
+ disable symlink() in tic even when link() does not work (report by
+ Nigel Horne).
+ + modify MKfallback.sh to use tic -x when constructing fallback tables
+ to allow extended capabilities to be retrieved from a fallback entry.
+ + improve leak-checking logic in tgetent() from 20060625 to ensure that
+ it does not free the current screen (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
+
+20060708
+ + add a check for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset (NetBSD #33916).
+ + correct _nc_free_entries() and related functions used for memory leak
+ checking of tic.
+
+20060701
+ + revert a minor change for magic-cookie support from 20060513, which
+ caused unexpected reset of attributes, e.g., when resizing test/view
+ in color mode.
+ + note in clear manpage that the program ignores command-line
+ parameters (prompted by Debian #371855).
+ + fixes to make lib_gen.c build properly with changes to the configure
+ --disable-macros option and NCURSES_NOMACROS (cf: 20060527)
+ + update/correct several terminfo entries -TD
+ + add some notes regarding copyright to terminfo.src -TD
+
+20060625
+ + fixes to build Ada95 binding with gnat-4.1.0
+ + modify read_termtype() so the term_names data is always allocated as
+ part of the str_table, a better fix for a memory leak (cf: 20030809).
+ + reduce memory leaks in repeated calls to tgetent() by remembering the
+ last TERMINAL* value allocated to hold the corresponding data and
+ freeing that if the tgetent() result buffer is the same as the
+ previous call (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
+ + modify tack to test extended capability function-key strings.
+ + improved gnome terminfo entry (GenToo #122566).
+ + improved xterm-256color terminfo entry (patch by Alain Bench).
+
+20060617
+ + fix two small memory leaks related to repeated tgetent() calls
+ with TERM=screen (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
+ + add --enable-signed-char to simplify Debian package.
+ + reduce name-pollution in term.h by removing #define's for HAVE_xxx
+ symbols.
+ + correct typo in curs_terminfo.3x (Debian #369168).
+
+20060603
+ + enable the mouse in test/movewindow.c
+ + improve a limit-check in frm_def.c (John Heasley).
+ + minor copyright fixes.
+ + change configure script to produce test/Makefile from data file.
+
+20060527
+ + add a configure option --enable-wgetch-events to enable
+ NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS, and correct the associated loop-logic in
+ lib_twait.c (report by Bernd Jendrissek).
+ + remove include/nomacros.h from build, since the ifdef for
+ NCURSES_NOMACROS makes that obsolete.
+ + add entrypoints for some functions which were only provided as macros
+ to make NCURSES_NOMACROS ifdef work properly: getcurx(), getcury(),
+ getbegx(), getbegy(), getmaxx(), getmaxy(), getparx() and getpary(),
+ wgetbkgrnd().
+ + provide ifdef for NCURSES_NOMACROS which suppresses most macro
+ definitions from curses.h, i.e., where a macro is defined to override
+ a function to improve performance. Allowing a developer to suppress
+ these definitions can simplify some application (discussion with
+ Stanislav Ievlev).
+ + improve description of memu/meml in terminfo manpage.
+
+20060520
+ + if msgr is false, reset video attributes when doing an automargin
+ wrap to the next line. This makes the ncurses 'k' test work properly
+ for hpterm.
+ + correct caching of keyname(), which was using only half of its table.
+ + minor fixes to memory-leak checking.
+ + make SCREEN._acs_map and SCREEN._screen_acs_map pointers rather than
+ arrays, making ACS_LEN less visible to applications (suggested by
+ Stanislav Ievlev).
+ + move chunk in SCREEN ifdef'd for USE_WIDEC_SUPPORT to the end, so
+ _screen_acs_map will have the same offset in both ncurses/ncursesw,
+ making the corresponding tinfo/tinfow libraries binary-compatible
+ (cf: 20041016, report by Stanislav Ievlev).
+
+20060513
+ + improve debug-tracing for EmitRange().
+ + change default for --with-develop to "yes". Add NCURSES_NO_HARD_TABS
+ and NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE environment variables to allow runtime
+ suppression of the related hard-tabs and xmc-glitch features.
+ + add ncurses version number to top-level manpages, e.g., ncurses, tic,
+ infocmp, terminfo as well as form, menu, panel.
+ + update config.guess, config.sub
+ + modify ncurses.c to work around a bug in NetBSD 3.0 curses
+ (field_buffer returning null for a valid field). The 'r' test
+ appears to not work with that configuration since the new_fieldtype()
+ function is broken in that implementation.
+
+20060506
+ + add hpterm-color terminfo entry -TD
+ + fixes to compile test-programs with HPUX 11.23
+
+20060422
+ + add copyright notices to files other than those that are generated,
+ data or adapted from pdcurses (reports by William McBrine, David
+ Taylor).
+ + improve rendering on hpterm by not resetting attributes at the end
+ of doupdate() if the terminal has the magic-cookie feature (report
+ by Bernd Rieke).
+ + add 256color variants of terminfo entries for programs which are
+ reported to implement this feature -TD
+
+20060416
+ + fix typo in change to NewChar() macro from 20060311 changes, which
+ broke tab-expansion (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
+
+20060415
+ + document -U option of tic and infocmp.
+ + modify tic/infocmp to suppress smacs/rmacs when acsc is suppressed
+ due to size limit, e.g., converting to termcap format. Also
+ suppress them if the output format does not contain acsc and it
+ was not VT100-like, i.e., a one-one mapping (Novell #163715).
+ + add configure check to ensure that SIGWINCH is defined on platforms
+ such as OS X which exclude that when _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., are
+ defined (report by Nicholas Cole)
+
+20060408
+ + modify write_object() to not write coincidental extensions of an
+ entry made due to it being referenced in a use= clause (report by
+ Alain Bench).
+ + another fix for infocmp -i option, which did not ensure that some
+ escape sequences had comparable prefixes (report by Alain Bench).
+
+20060401
+ + improve discussion of init/reset in terminfo and tput manpages
+ (report by Alain Bench).
+ + use is3 string for a fallback of rs3 in the reset program; it was
+ using is2 (report by Alain Bench).
+ + correct logic for infocmp -i option, which did not account for
+ multiple digits in a parameter (cf: 20040828) (report by Alain
+ Bench).
+ + move _nc_handle_sigwinch() to lib_setup.c to make --with-termlib
+ option work after 20060114 changes (report by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz).
+ + add copyright notices to test-programs as needed (report by William
+ McBrine).
+
+20060318
+ + modify ncurses.c 'F' test to combine the wide-characters with color
+ and/or video attributes.
+ + modify test/ncurses to use CTL/Q or ESC consistently for exiting
+ a test-screen (some commands used 'x' or 'q').
+
+20060312
+ + fix an off-by-one in the scrolling-region change (cf_ 20060311).
+
+20060311
+ + add checks in waddchnstr() and wadd_wchnstr() to stop copying when
+ a null character is found (report by Igor Bogomazov).
+ + modify progs/Makefile.in to make "tput init" work properly with
+ cygwin, i.e., do not pass a ".exe" in the reference string used
+ in check_aliases (report by Samuel Thibault).
+ + add some checks to ensure current position is within scrolling
+ region before scrolling on a new line (report by Dan Gookin).
+ + change some NewChar() usage to static variables to work around
+ stack garbage introduced when cchar_t is not packed (Redhat #182024).
+
+20060225
+ + workarounds to build test/movewindow with PDcurses 2.7.
+ + fix for nsterm-16color entry (patch by Alain Bench).
+ + correct a typo in infocmp manpage (Debian #354281).
+
+20060218
+ + add nsterm-16color entry -TD
+ + updated mlterm terminfo entry -TD
+ + remove 970913 feature for copying subwindows as they are moved in
+ mvwin() (discussion with Bryan Christ).
+ + modify test/demo_menus.c to demonstrate moving a menu (both the
+ window and subwindow) using shifted cursor-keys.
+ + start implementing recursive mvwin() in movewindow.c (incomplete).
+ + add a fallback definition for GCC_PRINTFLIKE() in test.priv.h,
+ for movewindow.c (report by William McBrine).
+ + add help-message to test/movewindow.c
+
+20060211
+ + add test/movewindow.c, to test mvderwin().
+ + fix ncurses soft-key test so color changes are shown immediately
+ rather than delayed.
+ + modify ncurses soft-key test to hide the keys when exiting the test
+ screen.
+ + fixes to build test programs with PDCurses 2.7, e.g., its headers
+ rely on autoconf symbols, and it declares stubs for nonfunctional
+ terminfo and termcap entrypoints.
+
+20060204
+ + improved test/configure to build test/ncurses on HPUX 11 using the
+ vendor curses.
+ + documented ALTERNATE CONFIGURATIONS in the ncurses manpage, for the
+ benefit of developers who do not read INSTALL.
+
+20060128
+ + correct form library Window_To_Buffer() change (cf: 20040516), which
+ should ignore the video attributes (report by Ricardo Cantu).
+
+20060121
+ + minor fixes to xmc-glitch experimental code:
+ + suppress line-drawing
+ + implement max_attributes
+ tested with xterm.
+ + minor fixes for the database iterator.
+ + fix some buffer limits in c++ demo (comment by Falk Hueffner in
+ Debian #348117).
+
+20060114
+ + add toe -a option, to show all databases. This uses new private
+ interfaces in the ncurses library for iterating through the list of
+ databases.
+ + fix toe from 20000909 changes which made it not look at
+ $HOME/.terminfo
+ + make toe's -v option parameter optional as per manpage.
+ + improve SIGWINCH handling by postponing its effect during newterm(),
+ etc., when allocating screens.
+
+20060111
+ + modify wgetnstr() to return KEY_RESIZE if a sigwinch occurs. Use
+ this in test/filter.c
+ + fix an error in filter() modification which caused some applications
+ to fail.
+
+20060107
+ + check if filter() was called when getting the screensize. Keep it
+ at 1 if so (based on Redhat #174498).
+ + add extension nofilter().
+ + refined the workaround for ACS mapping.
+ + make ifdef's consistent in curses.h for the extended colors so the
+ header file can be used for the normal curses library. The header
+ file installed for extended colors is a variation of the
+ wide-character configuration (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
+
+20051231
+ + add a workaround to ACS mapping to allow applications such as
+ test/blue.c to use the "PC ROM" characters by masking them with
+ A_ALTCHARSET. This worked up til 5.5, but was lost in the revision
+ of legacy coding (report by Michael Deutschmann).
+ + add a null-pointer check in the wide-character version of
+ calculate_actual_width() (report by Victor Julien).
+ + improve test/ncurses 'd' (color-edit) test by allowing the RGB
+ values to be set independently (patch by William McBrine).
+ + modify test/configure script to allow building test programs with
+ PDCurses/X11.
+ + modified test programs to allow some to work with NetBSD curses.
+ Several do not because NetBSD curses implements a subset of X/Open
+ curses, and also lacks much of SVr4 additions. But it's enough for
+ comparison.
+ + update config.guess and config.sub
+
+20051224
+ + use BSD-specific fix for return-value from cgetent() from CVS where
+ an unknown terminal type would be reportd as "database not found".
+ + make tgetent() return code more readable using new symbols
+ TGETENT_YES, etc.
+ + remove references to non-existent "tctest" program.
+ + remove TESTPROGS from progs/Makefile.in (it was referring to code
+ that was never built in that directory).
+ + typos in curs_addchstr.3x, some doc files (noticed in OpenBSD CVS).
+
+20051217
+ + add use_legacy_coding() function to support lynx's font-switching
+ feature.
+ + fix formatting in curs_termcap.3x (report by Mike Frysinger).
+ + modify MKlib_gen.sh to change preprocessor-expanded _Bool back to
+ bool.
+
+20051210
+ + extend test/ncurses.c 's' (overlay window) test to exercise overlay(),
+ overwrite() and copywin() with different combinations of colors and
+ attributes (including background color) to make it easy to see the
+ effect of the different functions.
+ + corrections to menu/m_global.c for wide-characters (report by
+ Victor Julien).
+
+20051203
+ + add configure option --without-dlsym, allowing developers to
+ configure GPM support without using dlsym() (discussion with Michael
+ Setzer).
+ + fix wins_nwstr(), which did not handle single-column non-8bit codes
+ (Debian #341661).
+
+20051126
+ + move prototypes for wide-character trace functions from curses.tail
+ to curses.wide to avoid accidental reference to those if
+ _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined without ensuring that <wchar.h> is
+ included.
+ + add/use NCURSES_INLINE definition.
+ + change some internal functions to use int/unsigned rather than the
+ short equivalents.
+
+20051119
+ + remove a redundant check in lib_color.c (Debian #335655).
+ + use ld's -search_paths_first option on Darwin to work around odd
+ search rules on that platform (report by Christian Gennerat, analysis
+ by Andrea Govoni).
+ + remove special case for Darwin in CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro.
+ + ignore EINTR in tcgetattr/tcsetattr calls (Debian #339518).
+ + fix several bugs in test/bs.c (patch by Stephen Lindholm).
+
+20051112
+ + other minor fixes to cygwin based on tack -TD
+ + correct smacs in cygwin (Debian #338234, report by Baurzhan
+ Ismagulov, who noted that it was fixed in Cygwin).
+
+20051029
+ + add shifted up/down arrow codes to xterm-new as kind/kri strings -TD
+ + modify wbkgrnd() to avoid clearing the A_CHARTEXT attribute bits
+ since those record the state of multicolumn characters (Debian
+ #316663).
+ + modify werase to clear multicolumn characters that extend into
+ a derived window (Debian #316663).
+
+20051022
+ + move assignment from environment variable ESCDELAY from initscr()
+ down to newterm() so the environment variable affects timeouts for
+ terminals opened with newterm() as well.
+ + fix a memory leak in keyname().
+ + add test/demo_altkeys.c
+ + modify test/demo_defkey.c to exit from loop via 'q' to allow
+ leak-checking, as well as fix a buffer size in winnstr() call.
+
+20051015
+ + correct order of use-clauses in rxvt-basic entry which made codes for
+ f1-f4 vt100-style rather than vt220-style (report by Gabor Z Papp).
+ + suppress configure check for gnatmake if Ada95/Makefile.in is not
+ found.
+ + correct a typo in configure --with-bool option for the case where
+ --without-cxx is used (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
+ + add a note to INSTALL's discussion of --with-normal, pointing out
+ that one may wish to use --without-gpm to ensure a completely
+ static link (prompted by report by Felix von Leitner).
20051010 5.5 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
+ 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.
+ + updates/fixes for configure script macros from vile -TD
+ 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
+ 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.
+ from vile -TD
+ minor change to configure script to improve linker options for the
Ada95 tree.
+ 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
+ see ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/gnathtml
20050507
+ regenerated html documentation for manpages.
+ 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).
+ 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
+ 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).
+ waddch_literal() (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
20050320
+ add -c and -w options to tset to allow user to suppress ncurses'
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
+ codes 128-159 as part of multibyte characters (report by Wang
WenRui, Debian #300512).
20050319
+ 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).
+ (request by Thomas Wolff). Wolff 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
+ 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.
+ + 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(),
+ 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:
+ > patches for configure script (Albert Chin-A-Young):
+ + 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.
+ 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).
+ (report by Vincent Lefevre, patch by Daniel Jacobowitz (see Debian
+ #227586)).
+ correct a place in tack where exit_standout_mode was used instead of
- exit_attribute_mode (patch by Jochen Voss, Debian #224443).
+ exit_attribute_mode (patch by Jochen Voss (see 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).
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).
+ + fix some spelling in comments (reports by Jason McIntyre, Jonathon
+ Gray).
+ update config.guess, config.sub
20031101
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:
+ > patch by Philippe Blain:
+ improve PutRange() by adjusting call to EmitRange() and corresponding
return-value to not emit unchanged characters on the end of the
range.
in the clr_bol logic.
20030913
- > Philippe Blain:
+ > patch by 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.
--with-install-prefix is used.
20030823
- > Philippe Blain:
+ > patch by 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.
+ 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:
+ > patch by Philippe Blain:
+ remove an unused ifdef for REAL_ATTR & WANT_CHAR
+ correct a place where _cup_cost was used rather than _cuu_cost
20030802
+ modify casts used for ABSENT_BOOLEAN and CANCELLED_BOOLEAN (report by
Daniel Jacobowitz).
- > Philippe Blain:
+ > patch by 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().
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).
+ 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).
+ 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).
+ characters (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
20030621
+ write getyx() and related 2-return macros in terms of getcury(),
+ 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>).
+ Kubota <kubota@debian.org>).
20030614
+ modify waddch_literal() in case a multibyte value occupies more than
"--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
+ + fix typos and whitespace in manpages (patch by Jason McIntyre
<jmc@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl>).
20030503
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
+ the gpm library does not make this check (bug report for dialog
by David Oliveira <davidoliveira@develop.prozone.ws>).
20030125
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>).
+ misformatted on FreeBSD (report by Kazuo Horikawa
+ <horikawa@FreeBSD.org> (see FreeBSD docs/46709)).
+ correct misspelled 'wint_t' in curs_get_wch.3x (Michael Elkins).
20030105
specialized type for the middle initial/name.
+ fix MKterminfo.sh, another workaround for POSIXLY_CORRECT misfeature
of sed 4.0
- > Philippe Blain:
+ > patch by 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
+ 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:
+ > patch by 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).
+ Philippe Blain).
+ use '%' as sed substitute delimiter in run_tic script to avoid
problems with pathname delimiters such as ':' and '@' (report by John
Polterak).
+ documented getbegx(), etc.
+ minor fixes to configure script to use '%' consistently as a sed
delimiter rather than '@'.
- > Philippe Blain:
+ > patch by 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.
pads (request by Philippe Blain).
+ correct attribute-merging in wborder(), broken in 20020216 (report
by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@grubasek.komputom.com.pl>).
- > Philippe Blain:
+ > patch by 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.
+ 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:
+ > patch by 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
(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:
+ > patch by 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).
20020406
+ modified several of the test programs to allow them to compile with
- vendor curses implementations (Solaris, AIX).
+ vendor curses implementations, e.g., Solaris, AIX -TD
20020323
+ modified test/configure to allow configuring against ncursesw.
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
+ 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
+ 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>):
+ > fix 2 bugs in test/bs.c 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.
+ 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).
+ <stefan@vogtner.de>) (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
20010324
+ change symbols used to guard against repeated includes to begin
+ 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').
+ work with 'indent') -TD
20001202
+ correct prototypes for some functions in curs_termcap.3x, matching
+ 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:
+ > patch by Todd C 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:
+ > patches for OS/2 EMX (Ilya Zakharevich):
+ 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
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>).
+ The cursor restore would undo that (report by John Hawkinson
+ <jhawk@MIT.EDU> (see NetBSD misc/11052)).
+ 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
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).
+ without requiring user to add --without-cxx option (adapted 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>)
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).
+ Kevin Buettner <kev@primenet.com> (for elf64_ia64),
+ Bernd Kuemmerlen <bkuemmer@mevis.de> (for MacOS X)).
+ add warning for 'tic -cv' about use of '^?' in terminfo source, which
is an extension.
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).
+ (from a patch 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>).
+ pair value (report by Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>).
20000513
+ the tack program knows how to use smcup and rmcup but the "show caps
+ 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).
+ the screen's default colors (request by Alexander V 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>).
+ 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
+ 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).
+ V 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
20000318
+ revert part of the vt220 change (request by Todd C Miller).
- + add ansi-* terminfo entries from Eric's version.
+ + add ansi-* terminfo entries from ESR's version.
+ add -a option to tic and infocmp, which retains commented-out
capabilities during source translation/comparison, e.g., captoinfo
and infotocap.
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
+ + adapted patch by ESR to make infocmp -F less verbose -TD
(the submitted patch was unusable because it did not compile
- properly):
+ 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
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:
+ -1 for convenience (adapted from patches by Alexander V Lukyanov).
+ > patches by Alexander V 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
20000212
+ corrected form of recent copyright dates.
+ minor corrections to xterm-xf86-v333 terminfo entry -TD
- > patches by Alexander Lukyanov:
+ > patches by Alexander V 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
+ 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.
+ + resync CF_CHECK_ERRNO and CF_LIB_PREFIX macros from tin and xterm -TD
+ 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
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).
+ needed for i386 but some ports (from Debian diffs for 5.0) -TD
+ 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).
+ tin) -TD
19991218
+ reorder tests during mouse initialization to allow for gpm to run in
991002 pre-release
+ minor fixes for _nc_msec_cost(), color_content(), pair_content(),
_nc_freewin(), ClrBottom() and onscreen_mvcur() (analysis by Philippe
- Blain, comments by Alexander Lukyanov).
+ Blain, comments by Alexander V Lukyanov).
+ simplify definition of PANEL and eliminate internal functions
_nc_calculate_obscure(), _nc_free_obscure() and _nc_override(),
- (patch by Juergen Pfeifer, based on analysis by Philippe Blain
+ (patch by Juergen Pfeifer, analysis by Philippe Blain
<bledp@voila.fr>)).
+ change renaming of dft_fgbg.3x to use_default_colors.3ncurses in
man_db.renames, since Debian is not concerned with 14-character
- filename limitation (from Debian bug report by Josip Rodin
+ filename limitation (Debian bug report by Josip Rodin
<joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr>).
+ corrected scoansi terminfo entry by testing with scoterm and console.
+ revert change from 990614 to terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4,
+ add top-level uninstall.data and uninstall.man makefile rules.
+ correct logic of CF_LINK_FUNCS configure script, from BeOS changes so
that hard-links work on Unix again.
- + change default value of cf_cv_builtin_bool to 1 as suggested by
- Jeremy Buhler, making it less likely that a conflicting declaration
+ + change default value of cf_cv_builtin_bool to 1 (suggested by
+ Jeremy Buhler), making it less likely that a conflicting declaration
of bool will be seen when compiling with C++.
990911 pre-release
for libg++, since qt uses the same filename incompatibly.
+ correct logic of lib_termcap.c tgetstr function, which did not copy
the result to the buffer parameter. Testing shows Solaris does
- update this, though of course tgetent's buffer is untouched (from
- mpc.lists.freebsd.current newsgroup item by Peter Edwards
- <peter.edwards@ireland.com>).
+ update this, though of course tgetent's buffer is untouched (reported
+ in Peter Edwards <peter.edwards@ireland.com> in
+ mpc.lists.freebsd.current newsgroup.
+ corrected beterm terminfo entry, which lists some capabilities which
are not actually provided by the BeOS Terminal.
+ add special logic to replace select() calls on BeOS, whose select()
+ fix some compiler warnings in tack.
+ add a check for predefined bool type in CC, based on report that
BeOS predefines a bool type.
- + correct logic for infocmp -e option (i.e., the configure
- --with-fallbacks option), which I'd not updated when implementing
- extended names (cf: 990301). The new implementation adds a -E
- option to infocmp.
+ + correct logic for infocmp -e option, i.e., the configure
+ --with-fallbacks option, which I'd not updated when implementing
+ extended names (cf: 990301). The new implementation adds a "-E"
+ option to infocmp -TD
> patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
+ introduce the private type Curses_Bool in the Ada95 binding
implementation. This is to clearly represent the use of "bool" also
+ 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 (prompted by
+ discussion with Alexander V Lukyanov).
990605 pre-release
+ include time.h in lib_napms.c if nanosleep is used (patch by
+ add sigismember() to base/sigaction.c compatibility to link on NeXT
(reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
+ further refinements to inequality in hashmap.c to cover a case with
- ^U in nvi (patch by Alexander Lukyanov).
+ ^U in nvi (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
990316 pre-release
+ add fallback definition for getcwd, to link on NeXT.
(reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
+ change inequality in hashmap.c which checks the distance traveled by
a chunk so that ^D command in nvi (scrolls 1/2 screen) will use
- scrolling logic (patch by Alexander Lukyanov, reported by Jeffrey
+ scrolling logic (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov, reported by Jeffrey
C Honig).
990314 pre-release
+ modify lib_color.c to handle a special case where the curscr
- attributes have been made obsolete (patch by Alexander Lukyanov).
+ attributes have been made obsolete (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
+ update BSD/OS console terminfo entries to use klone+sgr and
klone+color (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
+ update glibc addon configure script for extended capabilities.
+ correct typos in linux-c initc string - TD
+ add 'crt' terminfo entry, update xterm-xfree86 entry - TD
+ remove a spurious argument to tparm() in lib_sklrefr.c (patch by
- Alexander Lukyanov).
+ Alexander V Lukyanov).
990307 pre-release
+ back-out change to wgetch because it causes a problem with ^Z
+ modify define_key() to allow multiple strings to be bound to the
same keycode.
+ correct logic error in _nc_remove_string, from 990220.
- > patch by Juergen Pfeifer, for Ada95 binding:
+ > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
+ regenerate some of the html documentation
+ minor cleanup in terminal_interface-curses.adb
comp_parse.c into the tic program.
+ add/use _nc_trace_tries() to show the function keys that will be
recognized.
- + rename init_acs to _nc_init_acs (request by Alexander Lukyanov).
- > patch by Juergen Pfeifer, for Ada95 binding:
+ + rename init_acs to _nc_init_acs (request by Alexander V Lukyanov).
+ > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
+ remove all the *_adabind.c from ncurses, menu and form projects.
Those little helper routines have all been implemented in Ada and are
no longer required.
in smcup/rmcup. This affects only scrolling optimization, to fix a
problem reported by several people with xterm's alternate screen,
though the problem is more general.
- > patch by Juergen Pfeifer, for Ada95 binding:
+ > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
+ removed all pragma Preelaborate() stuff, because the just released
gnat-3.11p complains on some constructs.
+ fixed some upper/lower case notations because gnat-3.11p found
990130
+ cache last result from _nc_baudrate, for performance (suggested by
- Alexander Lukyanov).
+ Alexander V Lukyanov).
+ modify ClrUpdate() function to workaround a problem in nvi, which
uses redrawwin in SIGTSTP handling. Jeffrey C Honig reported that
ncurses repainted the screen with nulls before resuming normal
- operation (patch by Alexander Lukyanov).
+ operation (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
+ generalize is_xterm() function a little by letting xterm/rxvt/kterm
be any substring rather than the prefix.
+ modify lib_data.c to initialize SP. Some linkers, e.g., IBM's, will
not link a module if the only symbols exported from the module are
- uninitialized ones (patch by Ilya Zakharevich, who says that he has
- seen messages claiming this behaviour conforms to the standard.)
+ uninitialized ones (patch by Ilya Zakharevich). Ilya says that he
+ has seen messages claiming this behavior conforms to the standard.)
+ move call on _nc_signal_handler past _nc_initscr, to avoid a small
window where Nttyb hasn't yet been filled (reported by Klaus Weide).
+ modify lib_tstp.c to block SIGTTOU when handling SIGTSTP, fixes a
+ reviewed/corrected macros in curses.h as per XSI document.
+ provide support for termcap PC variable by copying it from terminfo
data and using it as the padding character in tputs (reported by
- Alexander Lukyanov).
+ Alexander V Lukyanov).
+ corrected iris-ansi and iris-ansi-ap terminfo entries for kent and
kf9-kf12 capabilities, as well as adding kcbt.
+ document the mouse handling mechanism in menu_driver and make a small
990102
+ disable scroll hints when hashmap is enabled (patch by Alexander
- Lukyanov).
+ V Lukyanov).
+ move logic for tic's verify of -e option versus -I and -C so that the
terminfo data is not processed if we cannot handle -e (reported by
Steven Schwartz <steves@unitrends.com>.
set ospeed, the library behaves as before, except that _nc_timed_wait
is no longer used, or needed, since ospeed always has a value. But
the application can modify ospeed to adjust the output of padding
- characters (from a bug report for screen 3.7.6 and email from Michael
- Schroeder <Michael.Schroeder@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>).
+ characters (prompted by a bug report for screen 3.7.6 and email from
+ Michael Schroeder <Michael.Schroeder@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>).
+ removed some unused ifdef's as part of Alexander's restructuring.
+ reviewed/updated curses.h, term.h against X/Open Curses Issue 4
Version 2. This includes making some parameters NCURSES_CONST
981219
+ modify _nc_set_writedir() to set a flag in _nc_tic_dir() to prevent
it from changing the terminfo directory after chdir'ing to it.
- Otherwise, a relative path in $TERMINFO would confuse tic (from a
- Debian bug report).
+ Otherwise, a relative path in $TERMINFO would confuse tic (prompted
+ by a Debian bug report).
+ correct/update ncsa terminfo entry (report by Larry Virden).
+ update xterm-xfree86 terminfo to current (patch 90), smcur/rmcur
changes
981114
+ modify install-script for manpages to skip over .orig and .rej files
(request by Larry Virden).
- > patches/discussion by Alexander Lukyanov:
+ > patches/discussion by Alexander V Lukyanov:
+ move base-library sources into ncurses/base and tty (serial terminal)
- sources into ncurses/tty, as part of Alexander Lukyanov's proposed
+ sources into ncurses/tty, as part of Alexander V Lukyanov's proposed
changes to ncurses library.
+ copy _tracemouse() into ncurses.c so that lib_tracemse.c need not
be linked into the normal ncurses library.
+ ifdef'd out lib_freeall.c when not configured.
+ rename _tracebits() to _nc_tracebits().
+ move terminfo-library sources into ncurses/tinfo, and trace-support
- functions into ncurses/trace as part of Alexander Lukyanov's proposed
- changes to ncurses library.
+ functions into ncurses/trace as part of Alexander V Lukyanov's
+ proposed changes to ncurses library.
+ modify generated term.h to always specify its own definitions for
HAVE_TERMIOS_H, etc., to guard against inclusion by programs with
broken configure scripts.
+ add xtermm and xtermc terminfo entries.
> from esr's terminfo version:
+ Added Francesco Potorti's tuned Wyse 99 entries.
- + dtterm enacs correction from Alexander V Lukyanov.
+ + dtterm enacs (from Alexander V Lukyanov).
+ Add ncsa-ns, ncsa-m-ns and ncsa-m entries from esr version.
980822
+ put -L$(libdir) first when linking programs, except for HP-UX.
+ modify comp_scan.c to handle SVr4 terminfo description for att477,
which contains a colon in the description field.
- + modify configure script to support SCO osr5.0.5 shared libraries
- (from comp.unix.sco.programmer newsgroup item by Mike Hopkirk
- <hops@sco.com>).
+ + modify configure script to support SCO osr5.0.5 shared libraries,
+ from comp.unix.sco.programmer newsgroup item (Mike Hopkirk).
+ eliminate extra GoTo call in lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V.
Lukyanov).
+ minor adjustments of const/NCURSES_CONST from IRIX compile.
980321
+ revise configure macro CF_SPEED_TYPE so that termcap.h has speed_t
- declared (from Adam J
. Richter <adam@yggdrasil.com>)
- + remove spurious curs_set() call from leaveok() (J.T.Conklin).
+ declared (from Adam J Richter <adam@yggdrasil.com>)
+ + remove spurious curs_set() call from leaveok() (J T Conklin).
+ corrected handling leaveok() in doupdate() (patch by Alexander V.
Lukyanov).
+ improved version of wredrawln (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
+ modify some man-pages so no '.' or '..' falls between TH and SH
macros, to accommodate man_db program (reported by Ian T. Zimmerman
<itz@rahul.net>).
- + terminfo.src 10.2.1 from Eric's webpage.
+ + terminfo.src 10.2.1 downloaded from ESR's webpage (ESR).
> several changes by Juergen Pfeifer:
+ add copyright notices (and rcs id's) on remaining man-pages.
+ corrected prototypes for slk_* functions, using chtype rather than
980302 4.2 release for upload to prep.ai.mit.edu
+ correct Florian's email address in ncurses-intro.html
- + terminfo.src 10.2.0 from Eric.
+ + terminfo.src 10.2.0 (ESR).
980228 pre-release
+ add linux-koi8r replace linux-koi8, which is not KOI8 (patch by
+ modify Makefile.glibc so that $(objpfx) is defined (H.J.Lu).
+ ifdef-out true-return from _nc_mouse_inline() which depends on
merge of QNX patch (pending 4.2 release).
- > patch by J.T.Conklin, to split off seldom-used modules in ncurses
- (reduces size by up to 2.6kb):
+ > patch to split off seldom-used modules in ncurses (J T Conklin):
+ This reduces size by up to 2.6kb.
+ move functionality of _nc_usleep into napms, add configuration case
for nanosleep().
+ moved wchgat() from lib_addch.c to lib_chgat.c
+ progs/infocmp.c: workaround mwcc 32k function data limit
980117
- + correct initialization of color-pair (from 970524) in xmas.c, which
+ + correct initialization of color-pair (cf: 970524) in xmas.c, which
was using only one color-pair for all colors (reported by
J.J.G.Ripoll).
+ add multithread options for objects build on EMX, for compatibility
+ add a copy of emx.src from J.J.G.Ripoll's OS/2 EMX version of ncurses
1.9.9e, together with fixes/additions for the "ansi" terminal type.
+ add tic check for save/restore cursor if change_scroll_region is
- defined (from O'Reilly book).
+ defined (reference: O'Reilly book).
+ modify read_termcap.c to handle EMX-style pathnames (reported by
J.J.G.Ripoll).
- + modify lib_raw.c to use EMX's setmode (from J.J.G.Ripoll, who says
- EMX's curses does this).
+ + modify lib_raw.c to use EMX's setmode (patch from J.J.G.Ripoll).
+ Ripoll says EMX's curses does this.
+ modify _nc_tic_expand() to generate \0 rather than \200.
+ move/revise 'expand()' from dump_entry.c to ncurses library as
_nc_tic_expand(), for use by tack.
971227
+ modify open/fopen calls to use binary mode, needed for EMX.
+ modify configure script to work with autoconf 2.10 mods for OS/2
- EMX from J.J.G.Ripoll.
+ EMX (from J.J.G.Ripoll).
+ generated ncurses_cfg.h with patch (971222) to autoconf 2.12 which
bypasses limited sed buffer length.
> several changes from Juan Jose Garcia Ripoll <worm@arrakis.es>
+ replace test for SCO with more precise header tests.
+ add configure test for unsigned literals, use in NCURSES_BITS macro.
+ comment-out the -PIC, etc., flags from c++, progs and test makefiles
- since they probably are not needed, and are less efficient (noted by.
- Ju"rgen Fluk)
+ since they probably are not needed, and are less efficient (noted by
+ Juergen Fluk)
+ add -L$(libdir) to loader options, after -L../lib so that loaders
that record this information will tend to do the right thing if
- the programs are moved around after installing them (suggested by.
- Ju"rgen Fluk).
+ the programs are moved around after installing them (suggested by
+ Juergen Fluk).
+ add -R option to loader options for programs for Solaris if the
--enable-rpath option is specified for the libraries.
971112
+ correct installed filename for shared libraries on *BSD (reported by
- Ju"rgen Fluk).
+ Juergen Fluk).
971108
+ cleanup logic for deciding when tputs() should call delay_output(),
than uname, which is unreliable on some systems.
+ updated Makefile.glibc, test-built with glibc 2.0.5c
+ modify keyname() to return values consistent with SVr4 curses (patch
- by Ju"rgen Fluk).
+ by Juergen Fluk).
> changes requested by Daniel Weaver:
+ modify delay_output() so that it uses the same output function as
tputs() if called from that function.
+ install C++ binding as -lncurses++ and associated headers with the
other ncurses headers.
+ fix header uninstall if configure --srcdir is used.
- > minor interface changes (request by Daniel Weaver <danw@znyx.com>,
- to support 'tack' program):
+ > minor interface changes to support 'tack' program -TD
+ (request by Daniel Weaver <danw@znyx.com>).
+ export functions _nc_trans_string() and _nc_msec_cost().
+ add variable _nc_nulls_sent, to record the number of padding
characters output in delay_output().
+ modify ClrBottom() to avoid using clr_eos if there is only one line
to erase.
+ typo in configure --help.
- > patch by J.T.Conklin (with minor resync against Juergen's changes)
+ > patch by J T Conklin (with minor resync against Juergen's changes)
+ split-out lib_flash.c from lib_beep.c
+ split-out lib_hline.c and lib_vline.c from lib_box.c
+ split-out lib_wattron.c, lib_wattroff.c from lib_addch.c
+ Modified lib_bkgd.c: hopefully correct implementation of wbkgdset();
streamlined implementation of wbkgd()
+ Modified lib_mvwin.c: Disable move of a pad. Implement (costly)
- move of subwindows. Fixed update behaviour of movements of regular
+ move of subwindows. Fixed update behavior of movements of regular
windows.
+ Fixed lib_pad.c: make chtype argument of pechochar() const.
+ Fixed lib_window.c: dupwin() is not(!) in every bit a really clone
+ rewrote the hashmap algorithm to be one-pass, this avoids multiple
cost_effective() calls on the same lines.
+ modified cost_effective() so it is now slightly more precise.
- > patches by H.J.Lu for glibc integration:
+ > patches for glibc integration (H.J.Lu):
+ add modules define_key, keyok, name_match, tries
+ add makefile rules for some of the unit tests in ncurses (mvcur,
captoinfo, hardscroll, hashmap).
+ removed buffer-allocation for name and description from m_item_new.c,
since this might result in incompatibilities with SVr4. Also fixed
the corresponding Ada95 binding module (patch by Juergen Pfeifer,
-
from report by Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@foxnet.net>)
+ report by Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@foxnet.net>)
+ removed the mechanism to timestamp the generated Ada95 sources. This
resulted always in generating patches for the HTML doc, even when
nothing really changed (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
+ add extensions keyok() and define_key(). These are designed to allow
the user's application better control over the use of function keys,
e.g., disabling the ncurses KEY_MOUSE. (The define_key idea was from
- a mailing-list thread started by kjahds@kjahds.com Nov'1995).
+ a mailing-list thread started by Kenneth Albanowski
+ <kjahds@kjahds.com> Nov'1995).
+ restore original behavior in ncurses 'g' test, i.e., explicitly
set the keypad mode rather than use the default, since it confuses
people.
<rwuest@sire.vt.com>)
+ move calls of _nc_background() out of various loops, as its return
value will be the same for the whole window being operated on (patch
- by J.T.Conklin).
+ by J T Conklin).
+ add macros getcur[xy] getbeg[xy] getpar[xy], which are defined in
- SVr4 headers (patch by J.T.Conklin <jtc@NetBSD.ORG>)
+ SVr4 headers (patch by J T Conklin <jtc@NetBSD.ORG>)
+ modify glibc addon-configure scripts (patch by H.J.Lu).
+ correct a bug in hashmap.c: the size used for clearing the hashmap
table was incorrect, causing stack corruption for large values of
function in lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
+ correct hashmap.c, which did not update index information (patch by
Alexander V. Lukyanov).
- + patch by Juergen Pfeifer for C++ binding and demo (see c++/NEWS)
+ + fixes for C++ binding and demo (see c++/NEWS) (Juergen Pfeifer).
+ correct index in lib_instr.c (Juergen Pfeifer).
+ correct typo in 970426 patch from Tom's cleanup of lib_overlay.c
- (Juergen Pfeifer).
+ (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
970426
+ corrected cost computation in PutRange(), which was using
milliseconds compared to characters by adding two new members to the
SCREEN struct, _hpa_ch_cost and _cup_ch_cost.
+ drop ncurses/lib_unctrl.c, add ncurses/MKunctrl.awk to generate a
- const array of strings (suggested by Alexander V. Lukyanov, though
- with a perl script 970118).
+ const array of strings (suggested by Alexander V. Lukyanov). The
+ original suggestion in 970118 used a perl script.
+ rewrote ncurses 'b' test to better exercise magic-cookie (xmc), as
well as noting the attributes that are not supported by a terminal.
+ trace the computation of cost values in lib_mvcur.c
Henderson <bryanh@giraffe.netgate.net>).
970412
- + corrected ifdef'ing of inline (from 970321) for TRACE vs C++.
- + corrected toggle_attr_off() macro (patch by Andries.Brouwer).
+ + corrected ifdef'ing of inline (cf: 970321) for TRACE vs C++.
+ + corrected toggle_attr_off() macro (patch by Andries Brouwer).
+ modify treatment of empty token in $MANPATH to /usr/man (reported by
<Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>)
+ modify traces that record functions-called so that chtype and attr_t
+ 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).
+ ncurses is integrated into larger systems (adapted 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
- Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf-fs.usc.edu> 970329).
+ was true (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov (in 970124), reported
+ by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf-fs.usc.edu> in 970329).
+ modify 'clean' rule in include/Makefile so that files created by
configure script are removed in 'distclean' rule instead.
implements an expanded form of certain complex macros, for testing
with ATAC.
+ disable CHECK_POSITION unless --with-assertions is configured
- (Alexander Lukyanov pointed out that this is redundant).
+ (Alexander V Lukyanov pointed out that this is redundant).
+ use keyname() to show traced chtype values where applicable rather
than _tracechar(), which truncates the value to 8-bits.
+ minor fixes to TRACE_ICALLS, added T_CREATE, TRACE_CCALLS macros.
+ modify worm.c to hide cursor while running.
+ add -Wcast-qual to gcc warnings, fix accordingly.
+ use PutChar rather than PutAttrChar in ClrToEOL to properly handle
- wrapping (Alexander Lukyanov).
+ wrapping (Alexander V Lukyanov).
+ correct spurious echoing of input in hanoi.c from eric's #291 & #292
patches (reported by Vernon C. Hoxie <vern@zebra.alphacdc.com>).
+ extend IRIX configuration to IRIX64
+ autogenerated object-dependencies for test directory
+ add configure option --with-rcs-ids
+ modify configuration scripts to generate major/minor/patch versions
- (suggested by Alexander Lukyanov).
+ (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
+ supply missing va_end's in lib_scanw.c
+ use stream I/O for trace-output, to eliminate fixed-size buffer
+ add TRACE_ICALLS definition/support to lib_trace.c
the returned buffer.
+ invoke ldconfig after installing shared library
+ modify install so that overwrite applies to shared library -lcurses
- in preference to static library (reported by Zeyd 960928).
- + correct missing ';' in 961221 mod to overwrite option use of $(LN_S).
+ in preference to static library (reported by Zeyd M Ben-Halim 960928).
+ + correct missing ';' in 961221 mod to overwrite optional use of $(LN_S)
+ symbol.
+ fixes to allow "make install" to work without first doing a "make
all" (suggested by Larry Virden).
+ modify lib_doupdate to make el, el1 and ed optimization use the
can_clear_with macro, and change EmitRange to allow leaving cursor at
the middle of interval, rather than always at the end (patch by
- Alexander Lukyanov originally 960929, resync 970106).
+ Alexander V Lukyanov). This was originally 960929, resync 970106.
970104
+ workaround defect in autoconf 2.12 (which terminates configuration
descriptors, needed for GPM.
+ integrate patch by Andrew Kuchling <amk@magnet.com> for GPM (mouse)
support, correcting logic in wgetch() and _nc_mouse_parse() which
- prevented patch from working properly.
+ prevented patch from working properly -TD
+ improve performance of panel algorithm (Juergen Pfeifer 961203).
+ strip RCS id's from generated .html files in Ada95 subtree.
+ resync with generated .html files (Juergen Pfeifer 961223).
- + terminfo.src 10.1.0 from Eric.
+ + terminfo.src 10.1.0 (ESR).
961224 4.0 release
+ release as 4.0 to accommodate Linux ld.so.1.8.5
include-path to /usr/include if gcc is used (reported by Florian La
Roche).
+ modify setupterm() to allocate new TERMINAL for each call, just as
- solaris' curses does (Alexander Lukyanov 960829).
+ solaris' curses does (Alexander V Lukyanov 960829).
+ corrected memory leaks in read_entry.c
+ add configure options --with-dbmalloc, --with-dmalloc, and
--disable-leaks, tested by instrumenting infocmp, ncurses programs.
+ split-out panel.priv.h, improve dependencies for forms, menus
(Juergen Pfeifer 961204).
+ modify _nc_freewin() to reset globals curscr/newscr/stdscr when
- freeing the corresponding WINDOW (Purify).
+ freeing the corresponding WINDOW (found using Purify).
+ modify delwin() to return ERR if the window to be deleted has
- subwindows, needed as a side-effect of resizeterm() (Purify). Tested
- and found that SVr4 curses behaves this way.
+ subwindows, needed as a side-effect of resizeterm() (found using
+ Purify). Tested and found that SVr4 curses behaves this way.
+ implement logic for _nc_freeall(), bringing stub up to date.
961215
handled as an exception to the rule, since some linkers do bulk
inclusion of libraries when given the full name - T.Dickey).
+ modify configure script to allow user-supplied $CFLAGS to set the
- debug-option in all libraries (requested by lots of people).
+ debug-option in all libraries (requested by lots of people) -TD
+ use return consistently from main(), rather than exit (reported by
Florian La Roche).
+ add --enable-getcap-cache option to configure, normally disabled
(requested by Florian La Roche).
+ make configure test for gettimeofday() and possibly -lbsd more
- efficient (requested by Florian La Roche florian@knorke.saar.de)
+ efficient (requested by Florian La Roche <florian@knorke.saar.de>)
+ minor adjustments to Ada95 binding (patches by Juergen Pfeifer)
+ correct attributes after emitting orig_pair in lib_vidattr.c (patch
- by lav@yars.free.net).
+ by Alexander V Lukyanov).
961208
+ corrected README wrt Ada95 (Juergen Pfeifer)
data used in ncurses library.
+ initialize _nc_idcok, _nc_idlok statically to resolve discrepancy
between initscr() and newwin() initialization (reported by
- lav@yars.free.net).
+ Alexander V Lukyanov).
+ test built VERSION=4.0, SHARED_ABI=4 with Linux ld.so.1.8.5
(set beta versions to those values -- NOTE that subsequent pre-4.0
beta may not be interchangeable).
Dickey).
961127
- > patch by Juergen Pfeifer (mostly for panel):
+ > patch, mostly for panel (Juergen Pfeifer):
+ cosmetic improvement for a few routines in the ncurses core library
to avoid warning messages.
+ the panel overlap detection was broken
(Juergen Pfeifer)
+ use MODULE_ID (rcs keywords) in forms and menus libraries (Juergen
Pfeifer).
- > patch #324 by Eric.
+ > patch #324 (ESR):
+ typo in curs_termcap man page (reported by Hendrik Reichel
<106065.2344@compuserve.com>)
+ change default xterm entry to xterm-r6.
+ modify hanoi.c to work on non-color terminals, and to use timing
delays when in autoplay mode.
+ correct 'echochar()' to refresh immediately (reported by Adrian
- Garside 94ajg2@eng.cam.ac.uk)
- > patch #322 by eric:
+ Garside <94ajg2@eng.cam.ac.uk>)
+ > patch #322 (ESR):
+ reorganize terminfo.src entries for xterm.
961109 - snapshot
resize test, use wbkgd and corrected box() parameters.
+ make flushinp() test work in ncurses.c by using napms() instead of
sleep().
- + undo Eric's changes to xterm-x11r6 (it no longer matched the X11R6.1
+ + undo ESR's changes to xterm-x11r6 (it no longer matched the X11R6.1
distribution, as stated)
- + terminfo 9.13.18 (resync by Eric)
- + check for getenv("HOME") returning null (Eric).
+ + terminfo 9.13.18 resync (ESR)
+ + check for getenv("HOME") returning null (ESR).
+ change buffer used to decode xterm-mouse commands to unsigned to
handle displays wider than 128 chars (Juergen Pfeifer).
+ correct typo curs_outopts.3x (Juergen Pfeifer).
$datadir instead of actual terminfo path.
+ correct whitespace in include/Caps, which caused kf11, clr_eol and
clr_end to be omitted from terminfo.5
- + fix memory leaks in delscreen() (adapted from Alexander Lukyanov).
+ + fix memory leaks in delscreen() (adapted from Alexander V Lukyanov).
+ improve appearance of marker in multi-selection menu (Juergen
Pfeifer)
- + fix behaviour for forms with all fields inactive (Juergen
- Pfeifer)
+ + fix behavior for forms with all fields inactive (Juergen Pfeifer)
+ document 'field_index()' (Juergen Pfeifer)
- > patch #321 by eric:
+ > patch #321 (ESR):
+ add some more XENIX keycap translations to include/Caps.
+ modify newwin to set initial state of each line to 'touched'
(from patch by Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.dialix.com>)
- + in SET_TTY, replace TCSANOW with TCSADRAIN (Alexander Lukyanov).
+ + in SET_TTY, replace TCSANOW with TCSADRAIN (Alexander V Lukyanov).
960928 - snapshot
+ ifdef'd out _nc_hash_map (still slower)
+ ensure that 'doupdate()' sets the .oldindex values back to a sane
state; this was causing a spurious refresh in ncurses 'r'.
+ add logic to configure (from vile) to guard against builders who
- don't remove config.cache & config.status when doing new builds.
- + corrected logic for 'repeat_char' in EmitRange (from #317), which
+ don't remove config.cache & config.status when doing new builds -TD
+ + corrected logic for 'repeat_char' in EmitRange (cf: eric #317), which
did not follow the 2-parameter scheme specified in XSI.
+ corrected logic of wrefresh, wnoutrefresh broken in #319, making
- clearok work properly (from report by Michael Elkins).
+ clearok work properly (report by Michael Elkins).
+ corrected problem with endwin introduced by #314 (removing the
scrolling-region reset) that broke ncurses.c tests.
+ corrected order of args in AC_CHECK_LIB (from report by Ami Fischman
<fischman@math.ucla.edu>).
+ corrected formatting of terminfo.5 tables (Juergen Ehling)
- > patch 320 by eric:
+ > patch 320 (ESR):
+ change ABI to 3.3
+ emit a carriage-return in 'endwin()' to workaround a kernel bug in
BSDI. (requested by Mike Karels <karels@redrock.bsdi.com>)
+ reverse the default o configure --enable-termcap (consensus).
- > patch 319 by eric:
+ > patch 319 (ESR):
+ modified logic for clearok and related functions (from report by
Michael Elkins) - untested
- > patch 318 by eric:
+ > patch 318 (ESR):
+ correction to #317.
- > patch 317 by eric:
+ > patch 317 (ESR):
+ re-add _nc_hash_map
+ modify EmitRange to maintain position as per original design.
+ add hashtest.c, program to time the hashmap optimization.
- > patch 316 by eric:
+ > patch 316 (ESR):
+ add logic to deal with magic-cookie (how was this tested?)
(lib_doupdate.c).
+ add ncurses.c driver for magic-cookie, some fixes to ncurses.c
- > patch 315 by eric:
- + merged A. Lukyanov's patch to use ech and rep - untested
+ > patch 315 (ESR):
+ + merged Alexander V Lukyanov's patch to use ech and rep - untested
(lib_doupdate.c).
+ modified handling of interrupted system calls - untested
(lib_getch.c, lib_twait.c).
either ;-)
+ clarify the documentation for the builtin form fieldtypes (Juergen
Pfeifer)
- > patch 314 by eric:
- + Enhancement suggested by A. Lukyanov -- reset scroll region on
- startup rather than at wrapup time.
- + Fix suggested by A. Lukyanov, make storage of palette tables
- and their size counts per-screen for multi-terminal applications.
+ > patch 314 (ESR):
+ + reset scroll region on startup rather than at wrapup time
+ (enhancement suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
+ + make storage of palette tables and their size counts per-screen for
+ multi-terminal applications (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
+ Improved error reporting for infotocap translation errors.
+ Update terminfo.src to 9.13.14.
the corresponding logic from raw, cbreak, etc.
+ disable ONLCR during initialization, to match SVr4 (this is needed
for cursor optimization when the cursor-down is a newline).
- + replaced Eric's imitation of wresize with my original (his didn't
+ + replaced ESR's imitation of wresize with my original (his didn't
work).
960831 - snapshot
descriptions that existed in directories past the first one searched
(reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov)
+ corrected typo in dtterm description.
- > patch 313 by eric:
+ > patch 313 (ESR):
+ add dtterm description
+ clarify ncurses 'i' test (drop vscanf subtest)
960804
+ revised fix to tparm; previous fix reversed parameter order.
- > patch 312 by eric:
+ > patch 312 (ESR):
correct terminfo.src corrupted by #310
- > patch 311 by eric:
+ > patch 311 (ESR):
+ fix idlok() and idcok() and the default of the idlok switch.
960803 - snapshot
(reported by William P Setzer)
+ add fallback def for GCC_NORETURN, GCC_UNUSED for termcap users
(reported by Tim Mooney).
- > patch 310 by eric:
+ > patch 310 (ESR):
+ documentation and prototyping errors for has_color, immedok and idcok
(reported by William P Setzer <wsetzer@pams.ncsu.edu>)
+ updated qnx terminfo entry (by Michael Hunter)
960727 - snapshot
+ call cbreak() in initscr(), as per XSI & SVr4.
+ turn off hardware echo in initscr() as per XSI & SVr4
- > patch 309 by eric:
+ > patch 309 (ESR):
+ terminfo changes (9.3.10), from BRL
+ add more checks to terminfo parser.
+ add more symbols to infocmp.
960720 - snapshot
+ save previous-attribute in lib_vidattr.c if SP is null (reported by
- Ju"rgen Fluk <louis@dachau.marco.de>)
+ Juergen 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
because not all systems declare it in the headers that we can safely
include therein).
+ move the ifdefs for errno into curses.priv.h
- > patch 308 by eric:
+ > patch 308 (ESR):
+ terminfo changes (9.3.8)
+ modified logic of error-reporting in terminfo parser
+ always check for <sys/bsdtypes.h> since ISC needs it to declare
fd_set (Juergen Pfeifer)
+ install shared-libraries on NetBSD/FreeBSD with ABI-version (reported
- by several people: Juergen Pfeifer, Mike Long)
+ by Juergen Pfeifer, Mike Long)
+ add LOCAL_LDFLAGS2 symbol (Juergen Pfeifer)
+ corrected prototype for delay_output() -- bump ABI to 3.2
- + terminfo patches #306/307 from Eric.
+ + terminfo patches #306/307 (ESR).
+ moved logic that filters out rmul and rmso from setupterm to newterm
where it is less likely to interfere with termcap applications.
960707
- + rollback Eric's #305 change to terminfo.src (it breaks existing
+ + rollback ESR's #305 change to terminfo.src (it breaks existing
applications, e.g., 'less 290').
+ correct path of edit_man.sh, and fix typo that made all man-pages
preformatted.
+ make lib_vidattr.c more readable using macros.
+ filter out rmul, rmso that conflict with sgr0 when reading terminal
descriptions.
- + added sanity-checking of various paired string attributes (Eric).
- + work around autoconf bug, force $INSTALL to absolute path.
+ + added sanity-checking of various paired string attributes (ESR).
+ + work around autoconf bug, force $INSTALL to absolute path
(reported by Zeyd).
+ modify man-page install for BSDI to install preformatted .0 files
(reported by David MacKenzie).
screen (Juergen Pfeifer).
+ modified autoconf scripts to prepare for Ada95 (GNAT) binding to
ncurses (Juergen Pfeifer).
- + incorrect buffer-size in _nc_read_entry, reported by Eric Raymond.
+ + incorrect buffer-size in _nc_read_entry, reported by ESR.
960617
+ corrected two logic errors in read_entry.c, write_entry.c (called by
warnings turned on, which makes config.log hard to read.
+ added 'lint' rule to top-level Makefile.
+ added configure option '--with-install-prefix' for use by system
- builders to install into staging locations (from request by
- charles@comm.polymtl.ca)
+ builders to install into staging locations (requested by
+ Charles Levert <charles@comm.polymtl.ca>).
+ corrected autoconfigure for Debian man program; it's not installed
as "man_db".
+ set noecho in 'worm'; it was ifdef'd for debug only
+ modified lib_doupdate.c to use lower-level SP's current_attr state
instead of curscr's state, since it is redundant.
+ correction to IDcTransformLine logic which controls where InsStr is
- invoked (refined by lav@yars.free.net).
- > patches 303 by eric
+ invoked (refined by Alexander V Lukyanov).
+ > patch 303 (ESR):
+ conditionally include Chris Torek's hash function _nc_hash_map().
+ better fix for nvi refresh-bug (Rick Marshall)
+ fix for bug in handling of interrupted keystroke waits,
+ include stdlib.h before defs for EXIT_SUCCESS, for OSF/1.
+ include sys/types.h in case stdlib.h does not declare size_t.
+ fixes for makefile (Tim Mooney)
- + fixes for menus & forms (Juergen.Pfeifer@T-Online.de)
+ + fixes for menus & forms (Juergen Pfeifer)
960518 - snapshot
+ revised ncurses.c panner test, let pad abut all 4 sides of screen.
+ refined case in lib_doupdate.c for ClrToEOL().
- + corrected prior change for PutRange (Alexander V. Lukyanov:
- lav@yars.free.net).
- + autoconf mods (Tim Mooney: mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu).
- + locale fix for forms (Philippe De Muyter: phdemuyt@ulb.ac.be)
+ + corrected prior change for PutRange (Alexander V Lukyanov
+ <lav@yars.free.net>).
+ + autoconf mods (Tim Mooney <mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu>).
+ + locale fix for forms (Philippe De Muyter <phdemuyt@ulb.ac.be>)
+ renamed "--with-datadir" option to "--with-ticdir" to avoid
confusion, and made this check for the /usr/lib/terminfo pre-existing
directory.
- > patches 299-301 by eric:
+ > patches 299-301 (ESR):
+ added hashmap.c
+ mods to tracing, especially for ACS chars.
+ corrected off-by-one in IDCtransform.
+ added -T options to tic and infocmp (for testing/analysis)
+ refined the length criteria for termcap and terminfo
+ optimize lib_doupdate with memcpy, PutRange
- > patches 297, 298 by eric
+ > patches 297, 298 (ESR):
+ implement TERMINFO_DIRS, and -o option of tic
+ added TRACE_IEVENT
+ removed boolean version of 'getm'
960504 - snapshot
+ modified ncurses 'p' test to allow full-screen range for panner size.
- + fixes for locale (phdm@labauto1.ulb.ac.be)
+ + fixes for locale (Philippe De Muyter <phdm@labauto1.ulb.ac.be>)
+ don't use fixed buffer-size in fmt_entry().
+ added usage-message to 'infocmp'.
+ modified install.includes rules to prepend subdirectory-name to
+ change ncurses 'a' test to run in raw mode.
+ make TIOCGWINSZ configure test less stringent, in case user
configures via terminal that cannot get screen size.
- > patches 295, 296 by eric:
+ > patches 295, 296 (ESR):
+ new "-e" option of tic.
+ fix for "infocmp -e".
+ restore working-directory in read_termcap.c
+ fix for AIX 3.2.5 (must define _POSIX_SOURCE to get termios struct
definitions via <termios.h>, modified macros in lib_raw.c to avoid
K&R-style substitution)
- > patches 293, 294 by eric:
+ > patches 293, 294 (ESR):
+ mods to wgetch() in cooked mode
+ corrected askuser() logic in tset
+ correct interaction of endwin() with mouse processing
* ANSIfication of some functions.
* Disabling cost analysis 'cause it's incorrect.
* A quick hack for a terminfo entry.
+
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