X-Git-Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=ANNOUNCE;h=269bd2bca2a8726faa8fbdb8603d6c3de1da8507;hp=5a2a139850d892ffa8efa3b34501cbf10710a5f0;hb=9817912d803dae0223ada5ab28c6df521800d4bb;hpb=55ccd2b959766810cf7db8d1c4462f338ce0afc8 diff --git a/ANNOUNCE b/ANNOUNCE index 5a2a1398..269bd2bc 100644 --- a/ANNOUNCE +++ b/ANNOUNCE @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ - Announcing ncurses 5.5 + Announcing ncurses 5.8 The ncurses (new curses) library is a free software emulation of curses in System V Release 4.0, and more. It uses terminfo format, @@ -27,192 +27,393 @@ Release Notes This release is designed to be upward compatible from ncurses 5.0 - through 5.4; very few applications will require recompilation, + through 5.7; very few applications will require recompilation, depending on the platform. These are the highlights from the - change-log since ncurses 5.4 release. - - Interface changes: - * terminfo installs "xterm-new" as "xterm" entry rather than - "xterm-old" (aka xterm-r6). - * terminfo data is installed using the tic -x option (few systems - still use ncurses 4.2). - * modify C++ binding to work with newer C++ compilers by providing - initializers and using modern casts. Old-style header names are - still used in this release to allow compiling with not-so-old - compilers. - * modify parameter type in c++ binding for insch() and mvwinsch() to - be consistent with underlying ncurses library (was char, is - chtype). - * change NCursesWindow::err_handler() to a virtual function. - * form and menu libraries now work with wide-character data. - Applications which bypassed the form library and manipulated the - FIELD.buf data directly will not work properly with libformw, - since that no longer points to an array of char. The - set_field_buffer() and field_buffer() functions translate to/from - the actual field data. - * add symbol to curses.h which can be used to suppress include of - stdbool.h, e.g., - #define NCURSES_ENABLE_STDBOOL_H 0 - #include - - * change SP->_current_attr to a pointer, adjust ifdef's to ensure - that libtinfo.so and libtinfow.so have the same ABI. The reason - for this is that the corresponding data which belongs to the - upper-level ncurses library has a different size in each model. - * winnstr() now returns multibyte character strings for the - wide-character configuration. - * assume_default_colors() no longer requires that - use_default_colors() be called first. - * data_ahead() now works with wide-characters. - * slk_set() and slk_wset() now accept and store multibyte or - multicolumn characters. - * start_color() now returns OK if colors have already been started. - start_color() also returns ERR if it cannot allocate memory. - * pair_content() now returns -1 for consistency with init_pair() if - it corresponds to the default-color. - * unctrl() now returns null if its parameter does not correspond to - an unsigned char. - - New features and improvements: - * library - + environment variable NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS supports - miscellaneous terminal emulators which ignore alternate - character set escape sequences when in UTF-8 mode. - + modify initialization of key lookup table so that if an - extended capability (tic -x) string is defined, and its name - begins with 'k', ncurses will automatically treat it as a - key. - + change GPM initialization, using dl library to load it - dynamically at runtime. - + form, menu and panel libraries support debug-tracing. - * add NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html by Pradeep Padala (see - http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/). - * programs: - * infocmp: - + The -i option now matches 8-bit controls against its table - entries, e.g., so it can analyze the xterm-8bit entry. - + add "-x" option to infocmp like tic's "-x", for use in "-F" - comparisons. This modifies infocmp to only report extended - capabilities if the -x option is given, making this more - consistent with tic. Some scripts may break, since infocmp - previous gave this information without an option. - * tic: - + modify termcap-parsing to retain 2-character aliases at the - beginning of an entry if the "-x" option is used in tic. - + filter out long extended names when translating to termcap - format. Only two characters are permissible for termcap - capability names. - + correct translation of "%%" in terminfo format to termcap, - e.g., using "tic -C". - + modify the "-c -v" options to ignore delays when comparing - strings. Also modify it to ignore a canceled sgr string, - e.g., for terminals which cannot properly combine attributes - in one control sequence. - + add a check for improperly ended strings, i.e., where a - following line begins in column 1. - + add a check in tic for terminfo entries having an sgr0 but no - sgr string. This confuses Tru64 and HPUX curses when combined - with color, e.g., making them leave line-drawing characters - in odd places. - + add check (with debug configuration) that provides about the - runtime changes that would be made to sgr0 for termcap - applications. - * tset: - + add -c and -w options to allow user to suppress ncurses' - resizing of the terminal emulator window in the special case - where it is not able to detect the true size. - - Major bug fixes: - * improve logic in tgetent() which adjusts the termcap "me" string - to work with ISO-2022 string used in xterm-new. This is a feature - that was incompletely implemented in ncurses 5.3. ncurses attempts - to provide termcap clients with the portion of the sgr0 (termcap - "me") string that does not reset line-drawing. - * cells in the WINDOW which are continuations of a multicolumn - character are encoded differently, making repainting more - reliable. - * amend change to setupterm() in ncurses 5.4 (20030405) which would - reuse the value of cur_term if the same output was selected. This - now reuses it only when setupterm() is called from tgetent(), - which has no notion of separate SCREENs. Note that tgetent() must - be called after initscr() or newterm() to use this feature. - * make setcchar() now works when its wchar_t* parameter is pointing - to a string which contains more data than can be converted. - * win_wchnstr() now works for more than one cell. - * resizeterm() now processes all levels of window hierarchy. - * disable GPM mouse support when $TERM happens to be prefixed with - "xterm". Gpm_Open() would otherwise assert that it can deal with - mouse events in this case. - * add SP->_screen_acs_map[], used to ensure that mapping of missing - line-drawing characters is handled properly. For example, - ACS_DARROW is absent from xterm-new, and it was coincidentally - displayed the same as ACS_BTEE. - - Portability: + change-log since ncurses 5.7 release. + +Interface changes + + * turn on _XOPEN_CURSES definition in curses.h. + * change _nc_has_mouse to has_mouse, reflect its use in C++ and + Ada95. + * add is_pad and is_subwin functions for opaque access to the WINDOW + structure. + * add tiparm, based on review of X/Open Curses Issue 7. + +New features and improvements + + Library Improvements + + * add a terminal driver for Windows console, which supports a MinGW + port to Windows. + * add extended functions which specify the SCREEN pointer for + several curses functions which use the global SP. + * improve the NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS feature by adding a check for an + extended terminfo capability U8. + * improve performance of tigetstr, etc., by using hashing code from + tic. + * add WACS_xxx definitions to wide-character configuration for + thick- and double-lines. + * modify init_pair to allow caller to create extra color pairs + beyond the color_pairs limit, which use default colors. + + Improvements to Programs + + * add tabs program. + * modify tic's -I/-C dump to reformat acsc strings into canonical + form (sorted, unique mapping). + * add checks in tic for inconsistent cursor-movement controls, and + for inconsistent printer-controls. + * add special case to _nc_infotocap (used by tic and infocmp) to + recognize the setaf/setab strings from xterm+256color and + xterm+88color, and provide a reduced version which works with + termcap. + + Terminal Database + + * added entries: + + bterm terminfo entry, based on bogl 0.1.18 + + cons25-debian entry + + eterm-color entry + + linux-16color + + mlterm+256color entry, for mlterm 3.0.0 + + several screen-bce.xxx entries + + screen.Eterm terminfo entry + + vwmterm entry + + xterm-utf8 entry as a demo of the U8 feature + * updated/improved entries: + + use extended capabilities: + o add U8 feature to denote entries for terminal emulators + which do not support VT100 SI/SO when processing UTF-8 + encoding + o add XT capability to entries for terminals that support + both xterm-style mouse- and title-controls, for screen + which special-cases TERM beginning with xterm or rxvt + + improvements based on new checks in tic: + + + o fill in no-parameter forms of cursor-movement where a + parameterized form is available + o fill in missing cursor controls where the form of the + controls is ANSI + o add parameterized cursor-controls to linux-basic + o modify nsterm, xnuppc and tek4115 to make sgr/sgr0 + consistent + o change several terminfo entries to make consistent use + of ANSI clear-all-tabs + + extend ansi.sys pfkey capability from kf1-kf10 to kf1-kf48, + moving function key definitions from emx-base for + consistency. + + correct missing final 'p' in pfkey capability of + ansi.sys-old. + + rename atari and st52 terminfo entries to atari-old, + st52-old, use newer entries from FreeMiNT. + + repurpose gnome terminfo entries as vte, retaining gnome + variants for compatibility, but generally deprecating those + since the VTE library is what actually defines the behavior + of "gnome", etc., since 2003. + + improve interix smso terminfo capability by using reverse + rather than bold. + + correct initc capability of linux-c-nc end-of-range, make + similar change for dg+ccc and dgunix+ccc. + + update minix terminfo entry. + + updated nsterm* entries. + + remove unnecessary kcan assignment to ^C from putty. + + suppress ncv in screen and konsole-base entries, allowing + underline. + + change ncv and op capabilities in sun-color terminfo entry to + match Sun's entry for this. + + fix typo in rmso for tek4106 entry. + + improve acsc string for vt52, show arrow keys. + + add hard-reset for rs2 to wsvt25 to help ensure that reset + ends the alternate character set. + + add ccc and initc capabilities to xterm-16color. + +Major bug fixes + + * ncurses library + + wide character support + o modify length returned by getcchar to count the trailing + null which is documented in X/Open. + o fix an infinite recursion when adding a legacy-coding + 8-bit value using insch. + o improve a workaround in adding wide-characters, when a + control character is found. The library uses unctrl to + obtain a printable version of the control character, but + was not passing color or video attributes. + o modify waddch_literal, updating line-pointer after a + multicolumn character is found to not fit on the current + row, and wrapping is done. Since the line-pointer was + not updated, the wrapped multicolumn character was + written to the beginning of the current row. + o fixes in wins_nwstr and related functions to ensure that + special characters, i.e., control characters are handled + properly with the wide-character configuration. + o correct internal _nc_insert_ch to use _nc_insert_wch + when inserting wide characters, since the wins_wch + function that it used did not update the cursor + position. + + mouse + o add check if Gpm_Open returns a -2, e.g., for "xterm". + This is normally suppressed but can be overridden using + $NCURSES_GPM_TERMS. Ensure that Gpm_Close is called in + this case. + o add check in mouse-driver to disable connection if GPM + returns a zero, indicating that the connection is + closed. + o modify getmouse to act as its documentation implied, + returning on each call the preceding event until none + are left. When no more events remain, it will return + ERR. + + miscellaneous + o improve handling of color-pairs embedded in attributes + for the extended-colors configuration. + o add check for failure to open hashed-database needed for + db4.6. + o modify use of $CC environment variable which is defined + by X/Open as a curses feature, to ignore it if it is not + a single character. + o modify declaration of cur_term when broken-linker is + used, but enable-reentrant is not, to match pre-5.7. + o correct limit-checks in derwin. + o remove old check in mvderwin which prevented moving a + derived window whose origin happened to coincide with + its parent's origin. + o correct limit-checks in newwin, to ensure that windows + have nonzero size. + o modify set_curterm to make broken-linker configuration + work with changes from 20090228. + o modify wgetch to ensure it checks SIGWINCH when it gets + an error in non-blocking mode. + o correct limit-check in wredrawln, accounting for + begy/begx values. + o fix a null-pointer check in _nc_format_slks in + lib_slk.c, from 20070704 changes. + o correct translation of "^" in _nc_infotocap, used to + transform terminfo to termcap strings. + o modify _nc_wgetch to check for a -1 in the fifo, e.g., + after a SIGWINCH, and discard that value, to avoid + confusing application. + * other libraries + + correct transfer of multicolumn characters in multirow + field_buffer, which stopped at the end of the first row due + to filling of unused entries in a cchar_t array with nulls. + + correct buffer-size after internal resizing of wide-character + set_field_buffer, broken in 20081018 changes. + + correct layout of working window used to extract data in + wide-character configured by set_field_buffer + +Portability + * configure script: + new options: - --enable-largefile - set compiler and linker flags to use largefile - support. - - --enable-ext-colors - Allow encoding of 256 foreground and background - colors, e.g., with the xterm-256color or - xterm-88color terminfo entries. This requires ABI 6 - because it changes the size of cchar_t. - - --enable-ext-mouse - This defines NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2, and modifies - the encoding of mouse events to support wheel mice, - which may transmit buttons 4 and 5. This works with - xterm and similar terminal emulators. This requires - ABI 6 because it changes the encoding of mouse - events. - - --with-chtype - overriding of the non-LP64 model's use of chtype - - --with-mmask-t - overriding of the non-LP64 model's use of mmask_t - - --without-xterm-new - Installs "xterm-old" as the "xterm" entry of the - terminfo database. - - + The --with-termlib option now accepts a value which sets the - name of the terminfo library. This would allow a packager to - build libtinfow.so renamed to coincide with libtinfo.so - + fixes/improvements for cross-compiling: - o suppress $suffix in misc/run_tic.sh when - cross-compiling. This allows cross-compiles to use the - host's tic program to handle the "make install.data" - step. - o correct BUILD_CPPFLAGS substitution in - ncurses/Makefile.in, to allow cross-compiling from a - separate directory tree. - * library: - + add ifdef's for _LP64 in curses.h to avoid using wasteful - 64-bits for chtype and mmask_t, but add configure option - --disable-lp64 in case anyone used that configuration. - + modify C++ binding to use some C internal functions to make - it compile properly on Solaris (and other platforms). - + remove check in newwin() that prevents allocating windows - that extend beyond the screen (Solaris does this). - + check for nl_langinfo(CODESET), use it if available. This - replaces ad hoc tests of environment variables to check if - the terminal is setup for UTF-8 encoding. Applications which - do not call setlocale() should be corrected, to make them - work properly with UTF-8 encoding. - In particular, applications which assume (and do not call - setlocale()) that Latin-1 codes are printable will no longer - work in a UTF-8 locale since the ad hoc check of environment - variables to see if the locale was UTF-8 is not used when - nl_langinfo(CODESET) is available. - + use setlocale() to query the program's current locale rather - than using getenv(). This supports applications which rely - upon legacy treatment of 8-bit characters when the locale is - not initialized. + --disable-libtool-version + use the "-version-number" feature which was added + in libtool 1.5. The default value for the option + uses the newer feature, which makes libraries + generated using libtool compatible with the + standard builds of ncurses. + + --disable-rpath-hack + disable a feature which adds rpath options for + libraries in unusual places. + + --enable-interop + integrate changes for generic/interop support to + form-library. + + --enable-pc-files + generate ".pc" files for each of the libraries, and + install them in pkg-config's library directory. + + --enable-pthreads-eintr + control whether to allow EINTR to interrupt a read + operation in wgetch. This applies only to the + pthread configuration + + --enable-sp-funcs + compile-in support for extended functions which + accept a SCREEN pointer, reducing the need for + juggling the global SP value with set_term and + delscreen. + + --enable-term-driver + compile with terminal-driver. That is used in the + MinGW port, and (being somewhat more complicated) + is an experimental alternative to the conventional + termlib internals. Currently, it requires the + sp-funcs feature to be enabled. + + --with-ncurses-wrap-prefix + allows setting the prefix for functions used to + wrap global variables to something other than + "_nc_". + + --with-pkg-config=[DIR] + check for pkg-config, optionally specifying its + path. + + --without-manpages + tells the configure script to suppress the install + of ncurses' manpages. + + --without-tests + suppress building test programs. + + + improved options: + o correct logic for --with-database, which was coded as an + enable-type switch. + o omit the opaque-functions from lib_gen.o when + --disable-ext-funcs is used. + * packaging: + + *-config scripts: + o modify adacurses-config to look for ".ali" files in the + adalib directory. + o correct install for the Ada95 tree, which omitted + libAdaCurses.a used in adacurses-config. + o change install for adacurses-config to provide + additional flavors such as adacursesw-config, for + ncursesw. + o modify scripts to generate ncurses*-config and pc-files + to add dependency for tinfo library. + o use ncurses*-config scripts if available for + test/configure. + o correct name for termlib in ncurses*-config, e.g., if it + is renamed to provide a single file for ncurses/ncursesw + libraries. + o generate manpages for the *-config scripts, adapted from + help2man. + o modify install-rule for manpages so that *-config + manpages will install when building with --srcdir. + o build-fixes for OpenSolaris aka Solaris 11, for + wide-character configuration as well as for rpath + feature in *-config scripts. + o use $includedir symbol in misc/ncurses-config.in, add + --includedir option. + o improve install-rules for pc-files. + o create the pkg-config library directory if needed. + o fix typo "==" where "=" is needed in ncurses-config.in + and gen-pkgconfig.in files. + o modify gen-pkgconfig.in to eliminate a dependency on + rpath when deciding whether to add $LIBS to --libs + output; that should be shown for the ncurses and tinfo + libraries without taking rpath into account. + o modify handling of $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR to use only the + first item in a possibly colon-separated list. + + other packaging issues + o add make-tar.sh scripts to Ada95 and test subdirectories + to help with making those separately distributable. + o add Ada95/configure script, to use in tar-file created + by Ada95/make-tar.sh. + o remove tar-copy.sh and related configure/Makefile + chunks, since the Ada95 binding is now installed using + rules in Ada95/src. + * cross-compiling: + + improve configure checks for location of tic and infocmp + programs used for installing database and for generating + fallback data, e.g., for cross-compiling. + + modify #define's for build-compiler to suppress cchar_t + symbol from compile of make_hash and make_keys, improving + cross-compilation of ncursesw. + + simplify include-dependencies of make_hash and make_keys, to + reduce the need for setting BUILD_CPPFLAGS in cross-compiling + when the build- and target-machines differ. + + correct cross-compiling configure check for CF_MKSTEMP macro, + by adding a check cache variable set by AC_CHECK_FUNC. + * library dependencies: + + revise wadd_wch and wecho_wchar to eliminate dependency on + unctrl. + + adjust configure script so that "t" is not added to library + suffix when weak-symbols are used, allowing the pthread + configuration to more closely match the non-thread naming. + * building the Ada95 tree: + + changes to use gnatmake project files in the Ada95 tree. + + add/use configure check to turn on project rules for + Ada95/src. + + old gnatmake (3.15) does not produce libraries using + project-file; work around by adding script to generate + alternate makefile. + + add configure --with-ada-sharedlib option, for the test_make + rule. + + move Ada95-related logic into aclocal.m4, since additional + checks will be needed to distinguish old/new implementations + of gnat. + + add test_make / test_clean / test_install rules in Ada95/src + + change install-path for adainclude directory to + /usr/share/ada (was /usr/lib/ada). + * other configure/build issues: + + make CCHARW_MAX value configurable, noting that changing this + would change the size of cchar_t, and would be + ABI-incompatible. + + improve comparison of program-names when checking for linked + flavors such as "reset" by ignoring the executable suffix. + + drop mkdirs.sh, use "mkdir -p". + + drop misc/ncu-indent and misc/jpf-indent; they are provided + by an external package [3]cindent. + + change makefiles to use $ARFLAGS rather than $AR_OPTS, + provide a configure check to detect whether a "-" is needed + before "ar" options. + + modify CF_DISABLE_LEAKS configure macro so that the + --enable-leaks option is not the same as --disable-leaks. + + improve configure script macros CF_HEADER_PATH and + CF_LIBRARY_PATH by adding CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS, LIBS + values to the search-lists. + + improve configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GCC_WARNINGS + to work with gcc 4.x's c89 alias, which gives warning + messages for cases where older versions would produce an + error. + + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL configure check to allow unreleased + libtool version numbers (e.g. which include alphabetic chars, + as well as digits, after the final '.'). + + improve use of symbolic links in makefiles by using "-f" + option if it is supported, to eliminate temporary removal of + the target + + add a configure-time check to pick a suitable value for + CC_SHARED_OPTS for Solaris. + + add -shared option to MK_SHARED_LIB when -Bsharable is used, + for *BSD's, without which "main" might be one of the shared + library's dependencies. + + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries + with gcc on AIX 5 or 6. + + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for + gcc on Solaris 10, since gcc is confused by absence of static + libc, and does not switch back to dynamic mode before + finishing the libraries. + + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for + gcc on Darwin. + + modify misc/run_tic.in to create parent directory, in case + this is a new install of hashed database. + + modify configure check for tic program, used for fallbacks, + to a warning if not found. This makes it simpler to use + additonal scripts to bootstrap the fallbacks code using tic + from the build tree. + * test programs: + + add test/demo_terminfo, for comparison with demo_termcap. + + improve test/ncurses.c 'F' test, show combining characters in + color. + + fix logic for 'V' in test/ncurses.c tests f/F. + + improve test/ncurses.c 'a test to put mouse droppings in the + proper window. + + modify ncurses 'F' test to demo wborder_set with colored + lines. + + modify ncurses 'f' test to demo wborder with colored lines. + + improve test/ncurses.c 'a' test, using unctrl more + consistently to display meta-characters. + + correct use of key_name in test/ncurses.c 'A' test, which + only displays wide-characters, not key-codes since 20070612. + + add test/clip_printw.c to illustrate how to use printw + without wrapping. + + modify test-programs, e.g,. test/view.c, to address subtle + differences between Tru64/Solaris and HPUX/AIX getcchar + return values. + + add some test programs (and make these use the same special + keys by sharing linedata.h functions): test/test_addstr.c + test/test_addwstr.c test/test_addchstr.c + test/test_add_wchstr.c + + add test/xterm-256color.dat + + modify test programs to allow them to be built with NetBSD + curses. + + fixes for test programs to build/work on HPUX and AIX, etc. Features of Ncurses @@ -239,28 +440,28 @@ The ncurses package also has many useful extensions over SVr4: * The API is 8-bit clean and base-level conformant with the X/OPEN curses specification, XSI curses (that is, it implements all BASE - level features, but not all EXTENDED features). Most - EXTENDED-level features not directly concerned with wide-character - support are implemented, including many function calls not - supported under SVr4 curses (but portability of all calls is - documented so you can use the SVr4 subset only). + level features, and most EXTENDED features). It includes many + function calls not supported under SVr4 curses (but portability of + all calls is documented so you can use the SVr4 subset only). * Unlike SVr3 curses, ncurses can write to the rightmost-bottommost corner of the screen if your terminal has an insert-character capability. * Ada95 and C++ bindings. - * Support for mouse event reporting with X Window xterm and OS/2 - console windows. + * Support for mouse event reporting with X Window xterm and FreeBSD + and OS/2 console windows. * Extended mouse support via Alessandro Rubini's gpm package. - * The function wresize() allows you to resize windows, preserving + * The function wresize allows you to resize windows, preserving their data. - * The function use_default_colors() allows you to use the terminal's + * The function use_default_colors allows you to use the terminal's default colors for the default color pair, achieving the effect of transparent colors. - * The functions keyok() and define_key() allow you to better control - the use of function keys, e.g., disabling the ncurses KEY_MOUSE, - or by defining more than one control sequence to map to a given - key code. - * Support for 16-color terminals, such as aixterm and XFree86 xterm. + * The functions keyok and define_key allow you to better control the + use of function keys, e.g., disabling the ncurses KEY_MOUSE, or by + defining more than one control sequence to map to a given key + code. + * Support for 256-color terminals, such as modern xterm, when + configured using the --enable-ext-colors option. + * Support for 16-color terminals, such as aixterm and modern xterm. * Better cursor-movement optimization. The package now features a cursor-local-movement computation more efficient than either BSD's or System V's. @@ -268,7 +469,7 @@ incorporates a novel, simple, and cheap algorithm that enables it to make optimal use of hardware scrolling, line-insertion, and line-deletion for screen-line movements. This algorithm is more - powerful than the 4.4BSD curses quickch() routine. + powerful than the 4.4BSD curses quickch routine. * Real support for terminals with the magic-cookie glitch. The screen-update code will refrain from drawing a highlight if the magic- cookie unattributed spaces required just before the @@ -331,55 +532,51 @@ cdk Curses Development Kit - [3]http://invisible-island.net/cdk/ - [4]http://www.vexus.ca/products/CDK/ + [4]http://invisible-island.net/cdk/ + [5]http://www.vexus.ca/products/CDK/ ded directory-editor - [5]http://invisible-island.net/ded/ + [6]http://invisible-island.net/ded/ dialog the underlying application used in Slackware's setup, and the basis for similar applications on GNU/Linux. - [6]http://invisible-island.net/dialog/ + [7]http://invisible-island.net/dialog/ lynx the character-screen WWW browser - [7]http://lynx.isc.org/release/ + [8]http://lynx.isc.org/release/ Midnight Commander file manager - [8]http://www.ibiblio.org/mc/ + [9]http://www.midnight-commander.org/ mutt mail utility - [9]http://www.mutt.org/ + [10]http://www.mutt.org/ ncftp file-transfer utility - [10]http://www.ncftp.com/ + [11]http://www.ncftp.com/ nvi New vi versions 1.50 are able to use ncurses versions 1.9.7 and later. - [11]http://www.bostic.com/vi/ + [12]https://sites.google.com/a/bostic.com/keithbostic/nvi pinfo Lynx-like info browser. - [12]http://dione.ids.pl/~pborys/software/pinfo/ + [13]https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pinfo/ tin - newsreader, supporting color, MIME [13]http://www.tin.org/ - - vh-1.6 - Volks-Hypertext browser for the Jargon File - [14]http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/text/vh.html + newsreader, supporting color, MIME [14]http://www.tin.org/ as well as some that use ncurses for the terminfo support alone: minicom terminal emulator - [15]http://www.netsonic.fi/~walker/minicom.html + [15]http://alioth.debian.org/projects/minicom/ vile vi-like-emacs @@ -391,7 +588,7 @@ Who's Who and What's What Zeyd Ben-Halim started it from a previous package pcurses, written by - Pavel Curtis. Eric S. Raymond continued development. Jürgen Pfeifer + Pavel Curtis. Eric S. Raymond continued development. Juergen Pfeifer wrote most of the form and menu libraries. Ongoing work is being done by [17]Thomas Dickey. Thomas Dickey acts as the maintainer for the Free Software Foundation, which holds the copyright on ncurses. @@ -419,9 +616,10 @@ Future Plans Other Related Resources The distribution provides a newer version of the terminfo-format - terminal description file maintained by [20]Eric Raymond . Unlike the - older version, the termcap and terminfo data are provided in the same - file. + terminal description file once maintained by [20]Eric Raymond . Unlike + the older version, the termcap and terminfo data are provided in the + same file, and provides several user-definable extensions beyond the + X/Open specification. You can find lots of information on terminal-related topics not covered in the terminfo file at [21]Richard Shuford's archive . @@ -430,22 +628,22 @@ References 1. ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ncurses/ 2. ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ - 3. http://invisible-island.net/cdk/ - 4. http://www.vexus.ca/products/CDK/ - 5. http://invisible-island.net/ded/ - 6. http://invisible-island.net/dialog/ - 7. http://lynx.isc.org/release/ - 8. http://www.ibiblio.org/mc/ - 9. http://www.mutt.org/ - 10. http://www.ncftp.com/ - 11. http://www.bostic.com/vi/ - 12. http://dione.ids.pl/~pborys/software/pinfo/ - 13. http://www.tin.org/ - 14. http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/text/vh.html - 15. http://www.netsonic.fi/~walker/minicom.html + 3. http://invisible-island.net/cindent/cindent.html + 4. http://invisible-island.net/cdk/ + 5. http://www.vexus.ca/products/CDK/ + 6. http://invisible-island.net/ded/ + 7. http://invisible-island.net/dialog/ + 8. http://lynx.isc.org/release/ + 9. http://www.midnight-commander.org/ + 10. http://www.mutt.org/ + 11. http://www.ncftp.com/ + 12. https://sites.google.com/a/bostic.com/keithbostic/nvi + 13. https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pinfo/ + 14. http://www.tin.org/ + 15. http://alioth.debian.org/projects/minicom/ 16. http://invisible-island.net/vile/ 17. mailto:dickey@invisible-island.net 18. mailto:bug-ncurses@gnu.org 19. ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ 20. http://www.catb.org/~esr/terminfo/ - 21. http://www.cs.utk.edu/~shuford/terminal_index.html + 21. http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.cs.utk.edu/~shuford/terminal