Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 10 Jan 2021 01:43:07 +0000 (01:43 +0000)]
ncurses 6.2 - patch
20210109
+ fix errata in man/ncurses.3x from recent updates.
+ improve quoting/escaping in configure script, uses some features of
autoconf 2.52.
20210105
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 3 Jan 2021 02:22:25 +0000 (02:22 +0000)]
ncurses 6.2 - patch
20210102
+ update man/curs_memleaks.3x, to include <term.h> which declares
exit_terminfo.
+ clarify man/curs_terminfo.3x, to mention why the macro setterm is
defined in <curses.h>, and remove it from the list of prototypes
(prompted by patch by Graeme McCutcheon).
+ amend man/curs_terminfo.3x, to note that <curses.h> is required
for certain functions, e.g., those using chtype or attr_t for
types, as well as mvcur (cf:
20201031).
+ use parameter-names in prototypes in curs_sp_funcs.3x, for
consistency with other manpages.
Thomas E. Dickey [Mon, 28 Dec 2020 01:11:44 +0000 (01:11 +0000)]
ncurses 6.2 - patch
20201227
+ update terminology entry to 1.8.1 -TD
+ fix some compiler-warnings which gcc8 reports incorrectly.
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 20 Dec 2020 01:12:40 +0000 (01:12 +0000)]
ncurses 6.2 - patch
20201219
+ suppress hyphenation in generated html for manpages, to address
regression in upgrade of groff 1.22.2 to 1.22.3.
+ fix inconsistent sort-order in see-also sections of manpages (report
by Chris Bennett).
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 13 Dec 2020 01:01:12 +0000 (01:01 +0000)]
ncurses 6.2 - patch
20201212
+ improve manual pages for form field-types.
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 6 Dec 2020 01:15:52 +0000 (01:15 +0000)]
ncurses 6.2 - patch
20201205
+ amend build-fixes for gnat 10 to work with certain systems lacking
gprbuild (cf:
20200627).
+ eliminate an additional strlen and wsclen.
+ eliminate an unnecessary strlen in waddnstr() (suggested by Benjamin
Abendroth).
+ modify inopts manpage, separating the items for nodelay and notimeout
(patch by Benno Schulenberg).
+ correct mlterm3 kf1-kf4 (Debian #975322) -TD
+ add flash to mlterm3 -TD
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 29 Nov 2020 01:11:38 +0000 (01:11 +0000)]
ncurses 6.2 - patch
20201128
+ add Smulx to alacritty (Christian Duerr).
+ add rep to PuTTY -TD
+ add putty+keypad -TD
+ add another fflush(stdout) in _nc_flush() to handle time-delays in
the middle of strings such as flash when the application uses
low-level calls rather than curses (cf:
20161217).
+ modify configure check for c89/c99 aliases of clang to use its
-std option instead, because some platforms, in particular macOS,
do not provide workable c89/c99 aliases.
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 22 Nov 2020 00:48:48 +0000 (00:48 +0000)]
ncurses 6.2 - patch
20201121
+ fix some compiler-warnings in experimental Windows-10 driver.
+ add the definitions needed in recent configure-check for clang
(report by Steven Pitman).
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 15 Nov 2020 01:01:04 +0000 (01:01 +0000)]
ncurses 6.2 - patch
20201114
+ fix some compiler-warnings in experimental Windows-10 driver.
+ modify a check for parameters in terminfo capabilities to handle the
special case where short extended capability strings were not
converted from terminfo to termcap format.
+ modify CF_MIXEDCASE_FILENAMES macro, adding darwin as special case
when cross-compiling (report by Eli Rykoff).
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 8 Nov 2020 00:48:44 +0000 (00:48 +0000)]
ncurses 6.2 - patch
20201107
+ update kitty+common -TD
+ add putty+screen and putty-screen (suggested by Alexandre Montaron).
+ explain in ncurses.3x that functions in the tinfo library do not rely
upon wide-characters (prompted by discussion with Reuben Thomas).
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 1 Nov 2020 01:33:01 +0000 (01:33 +0000)]
ncurses 6.2 - patch
20201031
+ modify MKterm.h.in so that it is not necessary to include <curses.h>
before <term.h> (prompted by discussion with Reuben Thomas).
+ review/improve synopsis for curs_sp_funcs.3x (prompted by discussion
with Reuben Thomas).
+ improve format of output in tic's check_infotocap() function, to
ensure that the messages contain only printable text.
+ modify configure-check for clang to verify that -Qunused-arguments
is supported. IBM's xlclang does not support it (report by Steven
Pitman).
needed in to tic's use-resolution when pad_char is cancelled
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 25 Oct 2020 01:07:10 +0000 (01:07 +0000)]
ncurses 6.2 - patch
20201024
+ provide workaround configure-check for bool when cross-compiling.
+ fix a potential indexing error in _nc_parse_entry(), seen with
Herlim's test data using address-sanitizer.
+ change a null-pointer check in set_curterm to a valid-string check,
needed in to tic's use-resolution work pad_char is cancelled
(report/testcase by Robert Sebastian Herlim)
+ improve tic's -c option to validate the number and type of parameters
and compare against expected number/type before deciding which set of
parameter-lists to use in tparm calls (report/testcase by Robert
Sebastian Herlim).
+ fix a link for tabs.1 manpage in announce.html.in (report by Nick
Black), as well as some fixes via linklint.
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 18 Oct 2020 01:25:54 +0000 (01:25 +0000)]
ncurses 6.2 - patch
20201017
+ improve manpage typography.
+ improve discussion in curs_addch.3x of the use of unctrl to display
nonprintable characters.
+ add a note in terminfo.5 explaining that no-parameter strings such
as sgr0 or cnorm should not be used with tparm.
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 11 Oct 2020 00:40:41 +0000 (00:40 +0000)]
ncurses 6.2 - patch
20201010
+ correct sgr in aaa+rv (report by Florian Weimer) -TD
+ fix some sgr inconsistencies in d230c, ibm6153, ibm6154,
ncrvt100an -TD
+ improve tic's check for errors detected in tparm (prompted by
discussion with Florian Weimer).
+ set output-mode to binary in experimental Windows-10 driver (Juergen
Pfeifer).
+ add tmux-direct (tmux #2370, Debian #895754)
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 4 Oct 2020 01:30:03 +0000 (01:30 +0000)]
ncurses 6.2 - patch
20201003
+ remove output-related checks for nl/nonl (report by Leon Winter).
+ change tmux's kbs to ^? (report by Premysl Eric Janouch)
+ simplify mlterm initialization with DECSTR -TD
+ fix a typo in man/curs_terminfo.3 (Reuben Thomas).
+ add tmux-direct (tmux #2370)
+ add user-defined capabilities from mintty to Caps-ncurses, for
checking consistency with tic.
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 27 Sep 2020 01:45:57 +0000 (01:45 +0000)]
ncurses 6.2 - patch
20200926
+ correct configure-check for gnurx library.
+ regenerate llib-* files.
+ modify tracemunch and the panel library to show readable traces for
panel- and user-pointers.
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 20 Sep 2020 01:13:28 +0000 (01:13 +0000)]
ncurses 6.2 - patch
20200919
+ update mlterm3 for 3.9.0 (report by Premysl Eric Janouch) -TD
Thomas E. Dickey [Sat, 19 Sep 2020 00:28:02 +0000 (00:28 +0000)]
ncurses 6.2 - patch
20200918
+ corrected condition for appending curses.events to the generated
curses.h (report by Sven Joachim, Debian #970545).
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 13 Sep 2020 01:31:37 +0000 (01:31 +0000)]
ncurses 6.2 - patch
20200912
+ add configure-check for systre/tre with mingw configuration, to get
the library-dependencies as seen in msys2 configuration for mingw64.
+ build-fixes for the win32-driver configuration.
+ use more defensive binary mode setting for Win32 (Juergen Pfeifer).
Thomas E. Dickey [Mon, 7 Sep 2020 23:37:37 +0000 (23:37 +0000)]
ncurses 6.2 - patch
20200907
+ fix regression in setupterm validating non-empty $TERM (report by
Soren Tempel).
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 6 Sep 2020 23:50:45 +0000 (23:50 +0000)]
ncurses 6.2 - patch
20200906
+ merge/adapt in-progress work by Juergen Pfeifer for new version of
win32-driver.
+ correct description of vt330/vt340 (Ross Combs).
Thomas E. Dickey [Tue, 1 Sep 2020 00:23:25 +0000 (00:23 +0000)]
ncurses 6.2 - patch
20200831
+ build-fix for awk-scripts modified for win32-driver (report by Werner
Fink).
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 30 Aug 2020 01:38:16 +0000 (01:38 +0000)]
ncurses 6.2 - patch
20200829
+ remove a redundant NCURSES_EXPORT as a build-fix for "Maarten
Anonymous".
+ merge/adapt in-progress work by Juergen Pfeifer for new version of
win32-driver.
+ modify configure script, moving gcc -Werror options to EXTRA_CFLAGS
to avoid breaking configure-checks (adapted from ongoing work on
mawk and lynx).
> errate for terminfo.src (report by Florian Weimer):
+ correct icl6404 csr
+ correct ti916 cup
+ improve ndr9500
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 23 Aug 2020 01:24:28 +0000 (01:24 +0000)]
ncurses 6.2 - patch
20200822
+ improve version-number extraction in MKlib_gen.sh
+ make the test-package for manpages installable by adjusting the
man_db.renames file.
+ correct an off-by-one loop-limit in convert_strings function
(report by Yue Tai).
+ add CF_SHARED_OPTS cases for HPE NonStop systems (Randall S Becker).
+ modify CF_SHARED_OPTS case for NetBSD to use the same "-shared"
option for the non-rpath case as for the rpath case, to allow gcc to
provide suitable runtime initialization (report by Rajeev V Pillai).
Thomas E. Dickey [Mon, 17 Aug 2020 22:29:28 +0000 (22:29 +0000)]
ncurses 6.2 - patch
20200817
+ reduce build-warnings by excluding ncurses-internals from deprecation
warnings.
+ mark wgetch-events feature as deprecated.
+ add definition for $(LIBS) to ncurses/Makefile.in, to simplify builds
using the string-hacks option.
+ prevent KEY_EVENT from appearing in curses.h unless the configure
option --enable-wgetch-events is used (report by Werner Fink).
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 16 Aug 2020 23:51:45 +0000 (23:51 +0000)]
ncurses 6.2 - patch
20200816
+ amend tic/infocmp check to allow for the respective tool's absence
(report by Steve Wills, cf:
20200808).
+ improved some of the build-scripts with shellcheck
+ filter out -MT/-MD/-MTd/-MDd options in script for Visual Studio C++
(discussion with "Maarten Anonymous").
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 9 Aug 2020 01:35:32 +0000 (01:35 +0000)]
ncurses 6.2 - patch
20200808
+ improve discussion of the system's tic utility when used as part
of cross-compiling (discussion with Keith Marshall).
+ modify configuration checks for build-time tic/infocmp to use
AC_CHECK_TOOL. That can still be overridden by --with-tic-path and
--with-infocmp-path when fallbacks are used, but even if not using
fallbacks, the improved check may help with cross-compiling
(discussion with Keith Marshall).
+ other build-fixes for Ada95 with MinGW.
+ modify Ada95 source-generation utility to write to a file given as
parameter rather than to the standard output, allowing builds with
MinGW.
Thomas E. Dickey [Sat, 1 Aug 2020 23:44:17 +0000 (23:44 +0000)]
ncurses 6.2 - patch
20200801
+ remove remaining parts of checks for ISC Unix (cf:
20121006).
+ add user32.lib to LDFLAGS for Visual Studio C++ configuration
(discussion with "Maarten Anonymous").
+ modify MKkey_defs.sh to hide ncurses' definition of KEY_EVENTS to
reduce Visual Studio C++ redefinition warnings.
+ improve/update checks for external functions in test/configure
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 26 Jul 2020 00:15:40 +0000 (00:15 +0000)]
ncurses 6.2 - patch
20200725
+ set LINK_TESTS in CF_SHARED_OPTS for msvc (patch by
"Maarten Anonymous")
+ improved workaround for redefinition-warnings for KEY_EVENT.
+ improve man/term.5 section on legacy storage format (report by
Florian Weimer).
Thomas E. Dickey [Sat, 18 Jul 2020 23:07:05 +0000 (23:07 +0000)]
ncurses 6.2 - patch
20200718
+ reduce redefinition-warnings for KEY_EVENT when building with Visual
Studio C++.
+ define NCURSES_STATIC when compiling programs to link with static
libraries, to work with MinGW vs Visual Studio C++.
> additional changes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2
(reports/patches by "Maarten Anonymous")
+ modify c++/Makefile.in to set the current directory while compiling
the main program, so the linker can find related objects.
+ several changes to allow the c++/demo program to compile/link.
+ change an ifdef in test-directory, to use VC++ wide-character funcs.
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 12 Jul 2020 00:25:08 +0000 (00:25 +0000)]
ncurses 6.2 - patch
20200711
+ fix pound-sign mapping in acsc of linux2.6 entry (report by Ingo
Bruckl).
+ additional changes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2
(reports/patches by "Maarten Anonymous")
+ build-improvements for Windows 10 and MinGW (patch by Juergen
Pfeifer).
+ fix a typo in curs_printw.3x (patch by William Pursell).
+ fix two errors in infotocap which allowed indexing outside the
buffer (report/testcases by Zhang Gan).
+ update length of strings in infocmp's usage function to restore a
trailing null on the longest string (report/testcase by Zhang Gen).
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 5 Jul 2020 01:11:37 +0000 (01:11 +0000)]
ncurses 6.2 - patch
20200704
+ modify version-check with Ada generics to use the same pattern as in
the check for supported gnat versions (report by Pascal Pignard).
> additional changes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2
(patches by "Maarten Anonymous"):
+ adjust headers/declarations to provide for "dllimport" vs "dllexport"
declarations when constructing DLLs, to worko with Visual Studio C++.
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 28 Jun 2020 01:38:12 +0000 (01:38 +0000)]
ncurses 6.2 - patch
20200627
+ build-fixes for gnat 10.1.1, whose gnatmake drops integration with
gprbuild.
+ correct buffer-length in test/color_name.h
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 14 Jun 2020 01:26:43 +0000 (01:26 +0000)]
ncurses 6.2 - patch
20200613
+ update list of functions in ncurses.3x
+ move dlclose() call from lib_mouse.c to delscreen() to avoid a case
in the former which could be called from SIGTSTP handler (Debian
#961097).
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 7 Jun 2020 01:06:32 +0000 (01:06 +0000)]
ncurses 6.2 - patch
20200606
+ add xterm+256color2, xterm+88color2, to deprecate nonstandard usage
in xterm+256color, xterm+88color -TD
+ add shifted Linux console keys in linux+sfkeys entry for
screen.linux (report by Alexandre Montaron).
+ use vt100+enq in screen (report by Alexandre Montaron).
+ add screen.linux-s alias (suggested by Alexandre Montaron).
Thomas E. Dickey [Mon, 1 Jun 2020 00:02:30 +0000 (00:02 +0000)]
ncurses 6.2 - patch
20200531
+ correct configure version-check/warnng for g++ to allow for 10.x
+ re-enable "bel" in konsole-base (report by Nia Huang)
+ add linux-s entry (patch by Alexandre Montaron).
+ drop long-obsolete convert_configure.pl
+ add test/test_parm.c, for checking tparm changes.
+ improve parameter-checking for tparm, adding function _nc_tiparm() to
handle the most-used case, which accepts only numeric parameters
(report/testcase by "puppet-meteor").
+ use a more conservative estimate of the buffer-size in lib_tparm.c's
save_text() and save_number(), in case the sprintf() function
passes-through unexpected characters from a format specifier
(report/testcase by "puppet-meteor").
+ add a check for end-of-string in cvtchar to handle a malformed
string in infotocap (report/testcase by "puppet-meteor").
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 24 May 2020 01:57:50 +0000 (01:57 +0000)]
ncurses 6.2 - patch
20200523
+ update version-check for gnat to allow for gnat 10.x to 99.x
+ fix an uninitialized variable in lib_mouse.c changes (cf:
20200502)
+ add a check in EmitRange to guard against repeat_char emitting digits
which could be interpreted as BSD-style padding when --enable-bsdpad
is configured (report/patch by Hiltjo Posthuma).
+ add --disable-pkg-ldflags to suppress EXTRA_LDFLAGS from the
generated pkg-config and ncurses*-config files, to simplify
configuring in the case where rpath is used but the packager wants
to hide the feature (report by Michael Stapelberg).
> fixes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 (patches by
"Maarten Anonymous"):
+ modify CF_SHARED_OPTS to generate a script which translates linker
options into Visual Studio's dialect.
+ omit parentheses around function-names in generated lib_gen.c to
work around a Visual Studio C++ limitation.
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 17 May 2020 01:51:36 +0000 (01:51 +0000)]
ncurses 6.2 - patch
20200516
+ add notes on termcap.h header in curs_termcap.3x
+ update notes on vscode / xterm.js -TD
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 10 May 2020 21:22:09 +0000 (21:22 +0000)]
ncurses 6.2 - patch
20200509
+ add "-r" option to the dots test-programs, to help with scripting
a performance comparison.
+ build-fix test/move_field.c for NetBSD curses, whose form headers
use different names than SVr4 or ncurses.
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 3 May 2020 02:00:56 +0000 (02:00 +0000)]
ncurses 6.2 - patch
20200502
+ add details on the change to Linux SGR 21 in 2018 -TD
+ add xterm-direct16 and xterm-direct256 -TD
+ modify lib_mouse.c to check for out-of-range button numbers, convert
those to position reports.
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 26 Apr 2020 01:15:23 +0000 (01:15 +0000)]
ncurses 6.2 - patch
20200425
+ use vt100+fnkeys in putty -TD
+ fix a typo in tput.1; "columns" should be "cols".
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 19 Apr 2020 02:02:25 +0000 (02:02 +0000)]
ncurses 6.2 - patch
20200418
+ improve tracemunch logic for "RUN" compaction.
+ fix a special case in wresize() where copying the old text did not
check if the last cell on a row was the beginning of a fullwidth
character (adapted from patch by Benno Schulenberg).
+ use vt52+keypad in xterm-vt52, from xterm #354 -TD
+ improve see-also section of user_caps.5
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 12 Apr 2020 01:22:49 +0000 (01:22 +0000)]
ncurses 6.2 - patch
20200411
+ fix find_pair(), overlooked when refactoring for _nc_reserve_pairs()
(report/testcase by Brad Town, cf:
20170812).
+ add a trailing null for magic-string in putwin, flagged by gcc 10
+ update check for gcc version versus gnat to work with gcc 10.x
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 5 Apr 2020 00:59:09 +0000 (00:59 +0000)]
ncurses 6.2 - patch
20200404
+ modify -fvisibility check to work with g++
> fixes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 (patches by
"Maarten Anonymous"):
+ add configure option and check for gcc -fvisibility=hidden feature
+ define NCURSES_NOMACROS in lib_gen.c to work around Visual Studio
C++ preprocessor limitations.
+ modify some of the configure-macros, as well as mk-1st.awk to work
with Visual Studio C++ default filenaming.
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 29 Mar 2020 01:03:54 +0000 (01:03 +0000)]
ncurses 6.2 - patch
20200328
+ correct length of buffer copied in dup_field().
+ remove "$(srcdir)/" from path of library.gpr, needed for out-of-tree
builds of Ada95 (patch by Adam Van Ymeren).
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 22 Mar 2020 01:09:36 +0000 (01:09 +0000)]
ncurses 6.2 - patch
20200321
+ improve configure-checks to reduce warnings about unused variables.
+ improve description of error-returns in waddch and waddnstr manual
pages (prompted by patch by Benno Schulenberg).
+ add test/move_field.c to demonstrate move_field(), and a stub for
a corresponding demo of dup_field().
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 15 Mar 2020 01:36:38 +0000 (01:36 +0000)]
ncurses 6.2 - patch
20200314
+ add history note to curs_scanw.3x for <stdarg.h> and <varargs.h>
+ add history note to curs_printw.3x for <stdarg.h> and <varargs.h>
+ add portability note to ncurses.3x regarding <stdarg.h>
Thomas E. Dickey [Mon, 9 Mar 2020 00:21:51 +0000 (00:21 +0000)]
ncurses 6.2 - patch
20200308
+ update copyright notices in test-packages.
+ modify tracemunch to guard against errors in its known_p1 table.
+ add several --with-xxx-libname options, to help with pkgsrc (prompted
by discussion with Thomas Klausner).
Thomas E. Dickey [Mon, 2 Mar 2020 23:18:56 +0000 (23:18 +0000)]
ncurses 6.2 - patch
20200301
+ modify wbkgd() and wbkgrnd() to avoid storing a null in the
background character, because it may be used in cases where the
corresponding 0x80 is not treated as a null (report by Marc Rechte,
cf:
20181208).
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 1 Mar 2020 01:58:39 +0000 (01:58 +0000)]
ncurses 6.2 - patch
20200229
+ modify CF_NCURSES_CONFIG to work around xcode's c99 "-W" option,
which conflicts with conventional use for passing linker options.
> fixes for building with Visual Studio C++ and msys2 (patches by
"Maarten Anonymous"):
+ check for pcre2posix.h instead of pcre2-posix.h
+ add case in CF_SHARED_OPTS for msys2 + msvc
+ add fallback definition for STDIN_FILENO in progs.priv.h
+ modify win_driver.c to use _alloca() rather than gcc's variable
length array feature.
+ add NCURSES_IMPEXP to ncurses wrapped-variable declarations
+ remove NCURSES_IMPEXP from class variables in c++/cursslk.h
+ remove fallback prototype for exit() from c++/etip.h.in
+ use configured check for <sys/time.h> in a couple of places
+ conditionally include winsock.h in ncurses/win32con/gettimeofday.c,
because Visual Studio needs this for the timestruct declaration.
+ adjust syntax in a couple of files using the NCURSES_API symbol.
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 23 Feb 2020 02:26:40 +0000 (02:26 +0000)]
ncurses 6.2 - patch
20200222
+ expanded note in ncurses.3x regarding automatically-included headers
+ improve vt50h and vt52 based on DECScope manual -TD
+ add/use vt52+keypad and vt52-basic -TD
+ check/workaround for line-too-long in Ada95 generate utility when
building out-of-tree.
+ improve/update HEADER_DEPS in */Makefile.in
+ add "check" rule to include/Makefile, to demonstrate that the headers
include all of the required headers for the types used.
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 16 Feb 2020 02:14:29 +0000 (02:14 +0000)]
ncurses 6.2 - patch
20200215
+ improve manual page for panel library, extending the portability
section as well as documenting error-returns.
+ show tic's version when installing terminal database in run_tic.sh
+ correct check for gcc vs other compilers used in ncurses 6.0, from
FreeBSD patch by Kyle Evans (cf:
20150725).
+ add notes for 6.2 to INSTALL.
Thomas E. Dickey [Wed, 12 Feb 2020 09:50:22 +0000 (09:50 +0000)]
ncurses 6.2 - patch
20200212
+ update release notes
+ minor build-fixes, mostly to test-package scripts
+ modify check for sizeof(wchar_t) to ensure it gives useful result
when cross-compiling.
+ drop assumption in configure script that Cygwin's linker is broken.
+ define NCURSES_BROKEN_LINKER if the broken-linker feature is used,
to simplify configure-checks for ncurses-examples.
+ reassert copyright on ncurses, per discussion in ncurses FAQ:
https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html#relicensed
+ modify comparison in make_hash.c to correct a special case in
collision handling for Caps-hpux11
+ add testing utility report_hashing to check hash-tables used for
terminfo and termcap names.
+ fix a missing prototype for _nc_free_and_exit().
+ update a few comments about tack 1.07
+ use an awk script to split too-long pathnames used in Ada95 sample
programs for explain.txt
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 19 Jan 2020 02:49:58 +0000 (02:49 +0000)]
ncurses 6.1 - patch
20200118
+ expanded description of XM in user_caps.5
+ improve xm example for xterm+x11mouse, xterm+sm+1006 -TD
+ add history section to curs_slk.3x and curs_terminfo.3x manpages.
+ update alacritty entries for 0.4.0 (prompted by patch by
Christian Durr) -TD
+ correct spelling errors found with codespell.
+ fix for test/configure, from xterm #352.
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 12 Jan 2020 02:31:09 +0000 (02:31 +0000)]
ncurses 6.1 - patch
20200111
+ improve configure macros which check for the X11/Intrinsic.h header,
to accommodate recent MacOS changes.
+ suppress gcc's -Winline warning; it has not been useful for some time
+ update config.guess, config.sub
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 5 Jan 2020 03:01:45 +0000 (03:01 +0000)]
ncurses 6.1 - patch
20200104
+ modify a couple of macros in aclocal.m4 to allow autoconf 2.69 to
"work", to help illustrate discussion in
https://invisible-island.net/autoconf/my-autoconf.html
+ fix some warnings from autoheader-252
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 29 Dec 2019 02:31:23 +0000 (02:31 +0000)]
ncurses 6.1 - patch
20191228
+ in gen-pkgconfig.in, move the RPATH_LIST and PRIVATE_LIBS assignments
past the various prefix/libdir assignments, to allow for using those
symbols, e.g., as done via CF_SHARED_OPTS.
+ improve ncurses*-config and pc-files by filtering out linker-specs.
+ modify test-package to more closely match Fedora's configuration
for PIE/PIC feature and debug-packages.
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 22 Dec 2019 03:20:49 +0000 (03:20 +0000)]
ncurses 6.1 - patch
20191221
+ correct pathname used in Ada95 sample programs for explain.txt, to
work with test-packages.
+ improve tracemunch:
+ keep track of TERMINAL* values
+ if tracing was first turned on after initialization, attempt to
show distinct screen, window and terminal names anyway.
+ ensure that GCC_NORETURN is defined in term.h, because the prototype
for exit_terminfo() uses it (report by Werner Fink).
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 15 Dec 2019 02:10:35 +0000 (02:10 +0000)]
ncurses 6.1 - patch
20191214
+ add exit_curses() and exit_terminfo() to replace internal symbols for
leak-checking.
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 8 Dec 2019 02:13:02 +0000 (02:13 +0000)]
ncurses 6.1 - patch
20191207
+ fix a few warnings for test-package builds
+ add curses_trace(), to replace trace().
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 1 Dec 2019 01:27:53 +0000 (01:27 +0000)]
ncurses 6.1 - patch
20191130
+ add portability section to curs_getcchar manpage (prompted by
discussion with Nick Black).
+ improve portability discussion of ACS characters in curs_addch
manpage.
+ improve typography for double-quotes in manpages.
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 24 Nov 2019 02:39:05 +0000 (02:39 +0000)]
ncurses 6.1 - patch
20191123
+ fix typo for MinGW rpm test-package.
+ workaround in rpm specs for NFS problems in Fedora 31.
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 17 Nov 2019 01:23:05 +0000 (01:23 +0000)]
ncurses 6.1 - patch
20191116
+ modify ncurses/Makefile.in to fix a case where Debian/testing changes
to the ld --as-needed configuration broke ncurses-examples test
packages.
+ drop library-dependency on psapi for MinGW port, since win_driver.c
defines PSAPI_VERSION to 2, making it use GetProcessImageFileName
from kernel32.dll (prompted by patch by Simon Sobish, cf:
20140503).
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 10 Nov 2019 00:43:22 +0000 (00:43 +0000)]
ncurses 6.1 - patch
20191109
+ add warning-check in tic for terminals with parm_dch vs parm_ich.
+ drop ich1 from rxvt-basic, Eterm and mlterm to improve compatibility
with old non-curses programs -TD
+ reviewed st 0.8.2, updated some details -TD
+ use ansi+rep several places -TD
+ corrected tic's check for ich1 (report by Sebastian J. Bronner,
cf:
20020901).
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 3 Nov 2019 01:16:28 +0000 (01:16 +0000)]
ncurses 6.1 - patch
20191102
+ check parameter of set_escdelay, return ERR if negative.
+ check parameter of set_tabsize, return ERR if not greater than zero
(report/patch by Anthony Sottile).
+ revise CF_ADD_LIBS macro to prepend rather than append libraries.
+ add "xterm-mono" to help packagers (report by Sven Joachim) -TD
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 27 Oct 2019 01:34:14 +0000 (01:34 +0000)]
ncurses 6.1 - patch
20191026
+ add a note in man/curs_add_wch.3x about Unicode terminology for the
line-drawing characters (report by Nick Black).
+ improve comment in lib_tgoto.c regarding the use of \200 where a
\0 would be intended by the caller (report by "64 bit", cf:
20000923).
+ modify linux-16color to accommodate Linux console driver change in
early 2018 (report by Dino Petrucci).
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 20 Oct 2019 01:10:33 +0000 (01:10 +0000)]
ncurses 6.1 - patch
20191019
+ modify make_hash to not require --disable-leaks, to simplify building
with address-sanitizer.
+ modify tic to exit if it cannot remove a conflicting name, because
treating that as a partial success can cause an infinite loop in
use-resolution (report/testcase by Hongxu Chen, cf:
20111001).
Thomas E. Dickey [Wed, 16 Oct 2019 00:42:21 +0000 (00:42 +0000)]
ncurses 6.1 - patch
20191015
+ improve buffer-checks in captoinfo.c, for some cases when the
input string is shorter than expected.
> fix two errata in tic (report/testcases by Hongxu Chen):
+ check for missing character after backslash in write_it
+ check for missing characters after "%>" when converting from termcap
syntax (cf: 980530).
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 13 Oct 2019 01:25:51 +0000 (01:25 +0000)]
ncurses 6.1 - patch
20191012
+ amend recent changes to ncurses*-config and pc-files to filter out
Debian linker-flags (report by Sven Joachim, cf:
20150516).
+ clarify relationship between tic, infocmp and captoinfo in manpage.
+ check for invalid hashcode in _nc_find_type_entry and
_nc_find_name_entry.
> fix several errata in tic (reports/testcases by "zjuchenyuan"):
+ check for invalid hashcode in _nc_find_entry.
+ check for missing character after backslash in fmt_entry
+ check for acsc with odd length in dump_entry in check for one-one
mapping (cf:
20060415);
+ check length when converting from old AIX box_chars_1 capability,
overlooked in changes to eliminate strcpy (cf:
20001007).
+ amend the ncurses*-config and pc-files to take into account the rpath
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 6 Oct 2019 00:58:27 +0000 (00:58 +0000)]
ncurses 6.1 - patch
20191005
+ modify the ncurse*-config and pc-files to more closely match for the
-I and -l options.
Thomas E. Dickey [Sat, 28 Sep 2019 15:09:31 +0000 (15:09 +0000)]
ncurses 6.1 - patch
20190928
+ amend the ncurse*-config and pc-files to take into account the rpath
hack which differed between those files.
+ improve -L option filtering in ncurses*-config
+ improve recovery from error when reading command-character in
test/ncurses.c, showing the relevant error message and not exiting on
EINTR (cf:
20180922)
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 22 Sep 2019 01:25:51 +0000 (01:25 +0000)]
ncurses 6.1 - patch
20190921
+ add a note in resizeterm manpage about top-level windows which touch
the screen's borders.
+ modify configure-checks for gnat to identify each of the tools path
and version.
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 15 Sep 2019 01:08:42 +0000 (01:08 +0000)]
ncurses 6.1 - patch
20190914
+ build-fixes for Ada95 configure-script and corresponding test package
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 8 Sep 2019 01:44:15 +0000 (01:44 +0000)]
ncurses 6.1 - patch
20190907
+ add --with-ada-libname option and modify Ada95 configuration to
allow renaming the "AdaCurses" library (prompted by proposed changes
by Pascal Pignard).
+ modify configure script to distinguish gcc from icc and clang when
the --enable-warnings option is not used, to avoid unnecessary
warnings about unrecognized inline options (report by Sven Joachim).
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 1 Sep 2019 00:58:56 +0000 (00:58 +0000)]
ncurses 6.1 - patch
20190831
+ build-fixes for configuration using --program-suffix with Ada95,
noticed with MacOS but applicable to other platforms without
libpanelw, etc.
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 25 Aug 2019 01:15:21 +0000 (01:15 +0000)]
ncurses 6.1 - patch
20190824
+ fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses test-programs.
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 18 Aug 2019 00:33:55 +0000 (00:33 +0000)]
ncurses 6.1 - patch
20190817
+ amend
20181208 changes for wbkgd() and wbkgrnd(), fixing a few
details where it still differed from SVr4.
+ fix some cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses test-programs.
Thomas E. Dickey [Sat, 10 Aug 2019 23:58:30 +0000 (23:58 +0000)]
ncurses 6.1 - patch
20190810
+ fix a few more coverity warnings.
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 4 Aug 2019 00:24:33 +0000 (00:24 +0000)]
ncurses 6.1 - patch
20190803
+ improve loop limits in _nc_scroll_window() to handle a case where
the scrolled data is a pad which is taller than the window (patch
by Rob King).
+ amend the change to screen, because tmux relies upon that entry
and does not support that feature (Debian #933572) -TD
+ updated ms-terminal entry & notes -TD
+ updated kitty entry & notes -TD
+ updated alacritty+common entry & notes -TD
+ use xterm+sl-twm for consistency -TD
Thomas E. Dickey [Mon, 29 Jul 2019 00:58:02 +0000 (00:58 +0000)]
ncurses 6.1 - patch
20190728
+ fix a few more coverity warnings.
+ more documentation updates based on tctest.
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 28 Jul 2019 00:01:44 +0000 (00:01 +0000)]
ncurses 6.1 - patch
20190727
+ fix a few coverity warnings.
+ documentation updates based on tctest.
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 21 Jul 2019 01:22:45 +0000 (01:22 +0000)]
ncurses 6.1 - patch
20190720
+ fix a few warnings for gcc 4.x
+ add some portability/historical details to the tic, toe and infocmp
manual pages.
+ correct fix for broken link from terminfo(5) to tabs(1) manpage
(report by Sven Joachim).
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 14 Jul 2019 00:50:41 +0000 (00:50 +0000)]
ncurses 6.1 - patch
20190713
+ change reset's behavior for margins to simply clear soft-margins if
possible, rather than clearing and then setting them according to the
terminal's width (suggested by Thomas Wolff).
+ correct order of one wbkgd versus start_color call in test/padview.c
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 7 Jul 2019 00:14:47 +0000 (00:14 +0000)]
ncurses 6.1 - patch
20190706
+ add domterm -TD
+ improve comments for recent changes, add alias xterm.js -TD
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 30 Jun 2019 23:48:04 +0000 (23:48 +0000)]
ncurses 6.1 - patch
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
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 23 Jun 2019 23:43:23 +0000 (23:43 +0000)]
ncurses 6.1 - patch
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
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 16 Jun 2019 00:13:35 +0000 (00:13 +0000)]
ncurses 6.1 - patch
20190615
+ expand the portability section of the man/tabs.1 manual page.
+ regenerate HTML manpages.
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 9 Jun 2019 21:36:47 +0000 (21:36 +0000)]
ncurses 6.1 - patch
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.
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 2 Jun 2019 00:39:24 +0000 (00:39 +0000)]
ncurses 6.1 - patch
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.
Thomas E. Dickey [Sat, 25 May 2019 23:00:21 +0000 (23:00 +0000)]
ncurses 6.1 - patch
20190525
+ modify reset_cmd.c to allow for tabstops at intervals other than 8
(report by Vincent Huisman).
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 19 May 2019 00:40:25 +0000 (00:40 +0000)]
ncurses 6.1 - patch
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.
Thomas E. Dickey [Sat, 11 May 2019 22:31:51 +0000 (22:31 +0000)]
ncurses 6.1 - patch
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.
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 5 May 2019 00:42:44 +0000 (00:42 +0000)]
ncurses 6.1 - patch
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.
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 28 Apr 2019 01:27:21 +0000 (01:27 +0000)]
ncurses 6.1 - patch
20190427
+ corrected problem in terminfo load/realignment which prevented
infocmp from comparing extended capabilities with the same name
but different types.
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 21 Apr 2019 01:53:37 +0000 (01:53 +0000)]
ncurses 6.1 - patch
20190420
+ improve ifdef's for TABSIZE variable, to help with AIX/HPUX ports.
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 14 Apr 2019 01:30:08 +0000 (01:30 +0000)]
ncurses 6.1 - patch
20190413
+ check for TABSIZE variable in test/configure script.
+ used test/test_arrays.c to improve Caps.aix1 and Caps.hpux11
+ corrected filtering of comments in MKparametrized.sh
+ reduce duplication across Caps* files by moving some parts which do
not depend on order into Caps-ncurses.
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 7 Apr 2019 01:23:31 +0000 (01:23 +0000)]
ncurses 6.1 - patch
20190406
+ modify MKcaptab.sh, MKkey_defs.sh, and MKhashsize.sh to handle
split-up Caps-files.
+ build-fixes if extended-functions are disabled.
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 31 Mar 2019 01:31:05 +0000 (01:31 +0000)]
ncurses 6.1 - patch
20190330
+ add "screen5", to mention italics (report by Stefan Assmann)
+ modify description of xterm+x11hilite to eliminate unused p5 -TD
+ add configure script checks to help with a port to Ultrix 3.1
(report by Dennis Grevenstein).
+ check if "b" binary feature of fopen works
+ check for missing feature of locale.h
+ add fallback for strstr() in test-programs
+ add fallback for STDOUT_FILENO in test-programs
+ update config.guess, config.sub
Thomas E. Dickey [Sun, 24 Mar 2019 01:47:18 +0000 (01:47 +0000)]
ncurses 6.1 - patch
20190323
+ move macro for is_linetouched() inside NCURSES_NOMACROS ifndef.
+ corrected prototypes in several manpages using script to extract
those in compilable form.
+ use _nc_copy_termtype2() rather than direct assignment in setupterm,
in case it is called repeatedly using fallback terminfo descriptions
(report/patch by Werner Fink).
Thomas E. Dickey [Mon, 18 Mar 2019 00:04:50 +0000 (00:04 +0000)]
ncurses 6.1 - patch
20190317
+ regenerate llib-* files.
+ modify tic to also use new function for user-defined capability info.
+ modify _nc_parse_entry() to check if a user-defined capability has
an unexpected type; ignore it in that case.
+ fix a special case of link-anchors in generated Ada html files.
+ use newer rel=author tag in generated html rather than rev=made,
which did not become accepted.