ncurses 6.1 - patch 20190630

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 -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written        --
 -- authorization.                                                            --
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--- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3310 2019/04/20 20:23:58 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: NEWS,v 1.3342 2019/06/30 10:45:10 tom Exp $
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 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
@@ -45,6 +45,78 @@ 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.
 
+20190630
+       + add --with-tic-path and --with-infocmp-path to work around problems
+         building fallback source using pre-6.0 tic/infocmp.
+       + add a check in tic for paired indn/rin
+       + correct a buffer-limit in write_entry.c for systems that use caseless
+         filenames.
+       + add ms-terminal -TD
+       + add vscode, vscode-direct -TD
+
+20190623
+       + improve the tabs.1 manual page to distinguish the PWB/Unix and 7th
+         Edition versions of the tabs utility.
+       + add configure check for getenv() to work around implementation shown
+         in Emscripten #6766, use that to optionally suppress START_TRACE
+         macro, whose call to getenv() may not work properly (report by Ilya
+         Ig Petrov).
+       + modify initialization functions to avoid relying upon persistent
+         data for the result from getenv().
+       + update config.guess, config.sub
+
+20190615
+       + expand the portability section of the man/tabs.1 manual page.
+       + regenerate HTML manpages.
+
+20190609
+       + add mintty, mintty-direct (adapted from patch by Thomas Wolff).
+         Some of the suggested user-defined capabilities are commented-out,
+         to allow builds with ncurses 5.9 and 6.0
+       + add Smol/Rmol for tmux, vte-2018 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
+       + add rs1 to konsole, mlterm -TD
+       + modify _nc_merge_entry() to make a copy of the data which it merges,
+         to avoid modifying the source-data when aligning extended names.
+
+20190601
+       + modify an internal call to vid_puts to pass extended color pairs
+         e.g., from tty_update.c and lib_mvcur.c (report by Niegodziwy Beru).
+       + improve manual page description of init_tabs capability and TABSIZE
+         variable.
+
+20190525
+       + modify reset_cmd.c to allow for tabstops at intervals other than 8
+         (report by Vincent Huisman).
+
+20190518
+       + update xterm-new to xterm patch #345 -TD
+       + add/use xterm+keypad in xterm-new (report by Alain D D Williams) -TD
+       + update terminator entry -TD
+       + remove hard-tabs from ti703 (report by Robert Clausecker)
+       + mention meml/memu/box1 in user_caps manual page.
+       + mention user_caps.5 in tic and infocmp manual pages.
+
+20190511
+       + fix a spurious blank line seen with "infocmp -1fx xterm+x11mouse"
+       + add checks in repair_subwindows() to keep the current position and
+         scroll-margins inside the resized subwindow.
+       + add a limit check in newline_forces_scroll() for the case where the
+         row is inside scroll-margins, but not at the end (report by Toshio
+         Kuratomi, cf: 20170729).
+       + corrected a warning message in tic for extended capabilities versus
+         number of parameters.
+
+20190504
+       + improve workaround for Solaris wcwidth versus line-drawing characters
+         (report by Pavel Stehule).
+       + add special case in tic to validate RGB string-capability extension.
+       + corrected string/parameter-field for RGB in Caps-ncurses.
+
+20190427
+       + corrected problem in terminfo load/realignment which prevented
+         infocmp from comparing extended capabilities with the same name
+         but different types.
+
 20190420
        + improve ifdef's for TABSIZE variable, to help with AIX/HPUX ports.
 
@@ -150,7 +222,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information.
        + add -p option to test/pair_content, test/color_content to show the
          return values from the tested functions.
        + improve manual page curs_color.3x discussion of error returns and
-         extensions. 
+         extensions.
        + add O_INPUT_FIELD extension to form library (patch by Leon Winter).
        + override/suppress --enable-db-install if --disable-database configure
          option was given.
@@ -168,7 +240,7 @@ it is not possible to add this information.
 20190105
        + add dummy "check" rule in top-level and test-Makefile to simply
          building test-packages for Arch.
-       + modify configure script to avoid conflict with a non-POSIX feature 
+       + modify configure script to avoid conflict with a non-POSIX feature
          that enables all parts of the system headers by default.  Some
          packagers have come to rely upon this behavior (FreeBSD #234049).
        + update config.guess, config.sub