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31 This is a log of changes that ncurses has gone through since Zeyd started
32 working with Pavel Curtis' original work, pcurses, in 1992.
34 Changes through 1.9.9e are recorded by Zeyd M Ben-Halim.
35 Changes since 1.9.9e are recorded by Thomas E Dickey.
37 Contributors include those who have provided patches (even small ones), as well
38 as those who provide useful information (bug reports, analyses). Changes with
39 no cited author are the work of Thomas E Dickey (TD).
41 A few contributors are given in this file by their initials.
42 They each account for one percent or more of the changes since 1.9.9e.
43 See the AUTHORS file for the corresponding full names.
45 Changes through 1.9.9e did not credit all contributions;
46 it is not possible to add this information.
49 + modify use of $CC environment variable which is defined by X/Open
50 as a curses feature, to ignore it if it is not a single character
51 (prompted by discussion with Benjamin C W Sittler).
52 + add START_TRACE in slk_init
53 + fix a regression in _nc_ripoffline which made test/ncurses.c not show
54 soft-keys, broken in 20090927 merging.
55 + change initialization of "hidden" flag for soft-keys from true to
56 false, broken in 20090704 merging (Ubuntu #464274).
57 + update nsterm entries (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler, prompted by
58 discussion with Fabian Groffen in GenToo #206201).
59 + add test/xterm-256color.dat
62 + quiet some pedantic gcc warnings.
63 + modify _nc_wgetch() to check for a -1 in the fifo, e.g., after a
64 SIGWINCH, and discard that value, to avoid confusing application
65 (patch by Eygene Ryabinkin, FreeBSD bin/136223).
68 + modify handling of $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR to use only the first item in
69 a possibly colon-separated list (Debian #550716).
72 + supply a null-terminator to buffer in _nc_viswibuf().
73 + fix a sign-extension bug in unget_wch() (report by Mike Gran).
74 + minor fixes to error-returns in default function for tputs, as well
78 + add WACS_xxx definitions to wide-character configuration for thick-
79 and double-lines (discussion with Slava Zanko).
80 + remove unnecessary kcan assignment to ^C from putty (Sven Joachim)
81 + add ccc and initc capabilities to xterm-16color -TD
82 > patch by Benjamin C W Sittler:
84 + correct initc capability of linux-c-nc end-of-range
85 + similar change for dg+ccc and dgunix+ccc
88 + move leak-checking for comp_captab.c into _nc_leaks_tinfo() since
89 that module since 20090711 is in libtinfo.
90 + add configure option --enable-term-driver, to allow compiling with
91 terminal-driver. That is used in mingw port, and (being somewhat
92 more complicated) is an experimental alternative to the conventional
93 termlib internals. Currently, it requires the sp-funcs feature to
95 + completed integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer in ncurses
96 library (some work remains for forms library).
99 + document return code from define_key (report by Mike Gran).
100 + make some symbolic links in the terminfo directory-tree shorter
101 (patch by Daniel Jacobowitz, forwarded by Sven Joachim).).
102 + fix some groff warnings in terminfo.5, etc., from recent Debian
104 + change ncv and op capabilities in sun-color terminfo entry to match
105 Sun's entry for this (report by Laszlo Peter).
106 + improve interix smso terminfo capability by using reverse rather than
107 bold (report by Kristof Zelechovski).
110 + add some test programs (and make these use the same special keys
111 by sharing linedata.h functions):
115 test/test_add_wchstr.c
116 + correct internal _nc_insert_ch() to use _nc_insert_wch() when
117 inserting wide characters, since the wins_wch() function that it used
118 did not update the cursor position (report by Ciprian Craciun).
121 + fix typo s/is_timeout/is_notimeout/ which made "man is_notimeout" not
123 + add null-pointer checks to other opaque-functions.
124 + add is_pad() and is_subwin() functions for opaque access to WINDOW
125 (discussion with Mark Dickinson).
126 + correct merge to lib_newterm.c, which broke when sp-funcs was
130 + build-fix for building outside source-tree (report by Sven Joachim).
131 + fix Debian lintian warning for man/tabs.1 by making section number
132 agree with file-suffix (report by Sven Joachim).
133 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
136 + workaround for bug in g++ 4.1-4.4 warnings for wattrset() macro on
137 amd64 (Debian #542031).
138 + fix typo in curs_mouse.3x (Debian #429198).
141 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
144 + correct use of terminfo capabilities for initializing soft-keys,
145 broken in 20090509 merging.
146 + modify wgetch() to ensure it checks SIGWINCH when it gets an error
147 in non-blocking mode (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
148 + use PATH_SEPARATOR symbol when substituting into run_tic.sh, to
149 help with builds on non-Unix platforms such as OS/2 EMX.
150 + modify scripting for misc/run_tic.sh to test configure script's
151 $cross_compiling variable directly rather than comparing host/build
152 compiler names (prompted by comment in GenToo #249363).
153 + fix configure script option --with-database, which was coded as an
155 + build-fixes for --srcdir (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
158 + separate _nc_find_entry() and _nc_find_type_entry() from
159 implementation details of hash function.
162 + add tabs.1 to man/man_db.renames
163 + modify lib_addch.c to compensate for removal of wide-character test
164 from unctrl() in 20090704 (Debian #539735).
167 + improve discussion in INSTALL for use of system's tic/infocmp for
168 cross-compiling and building fallbacks.
169 + modify test/demo_termcap.c to correspond better to options in
171 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
172 + fix logic for 'V' in test/ncurses.c tests f/F.
175 + correct logic in tigetnum(), which caused tput program to treat all
176 string capabilities as numeric (report by Rajeev V Pillai,
180 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
183 + fix a null-pointer check in _nc_format_slks() in lib_slk.c, from
185 + modify _nc_find_type_entry() to use hashing.
186 + make CCHARW_MAX value configurable, noting that changing this would
187 change the size of cchar_t, and would be ABI-incompatible.
188 + modify test-programs, e.g,. test/view.c, to address subtle
189 differences between Tru64/Solaris and HPUX/AIX getcchar() return
191 + modify length returned by getcchar() to count the trailing null
192 which is documented in X/Open (cf: 20020427).
193 + fixes for test programs to build/work on HPUX and AIX, etc.
196 + improve performance of tigetstr, etc., by using hashing code from tic.
197 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking.
198 + add test/demo_terminfo, for comparison with demo_termcap
201 + remove wide-character checks from unctrl() (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
202 + revise wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to eliminate dependency on
204 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
207 + update llib-lncurses[wt] to use sp-funcs.
208 + various code-fixes to build/work with --disable-macros configure
210 + add several new files from Juergen Pfeifer which will be used when
211 integration of "sp-funcs" is complete. This includes a port to
215 + move definition for NCURSES_WRAPPED_VAR back to ncurses_dll.h, to
216 make includes of term.h without curses.h work (report by "Nix").
217 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
220 + fix a regression in lib_tputs.c, from ongoing merges.
223 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
226 + fix an infinite recursion when adding a legacy-coding 8-bit value
227 using insch() (report by Clemens Ladisch).
228 + free home-terminfo string in del_curterm() (patch by Dan Weber).
229 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
232 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
235 + work around antique BSD game's manipulation of stdscr, etc., versus
236 SCREEN's copy of the pointer (Debian #528411).
237 + add a cast to wattrset macro to avoid compiler warning when comparing
238 its result against ERR (adapted from patch by Matt Kraii, Debian
242 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
245 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
246 + add vwmterm terminfo entry (patch by Bryan Christ).
249 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
252 + build fix for _nc_free_and_exit() change in 20090418 (report by
256 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
259 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
260 This change finishes merging for menu and panel libraries, does
261 part of the form library.
264 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
265 Darwin (report by Nelson Beebe).
268 + extend ansi.sys pfkey capability from kf1-kf10 to kf1-kf48, moving
269 function key definitions from emx-base for consistency -TD
270 + correct missing final 'p' in pfkey capability of ansi.sys-old (report
271 by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo).
272 + improve test/ncurses.c 'F' test, show combining characters in color.
273 + quiet a false report by cppcheck in c++/cursesw.cc by eliminating
274 a temporary variable.
275 + use _nc_doalloc() rather than realloc() in a few places in ncurses
276 library to avoid leak in out-of-memory condition (reports by William
277 Egert and Martin Ettl based on cppcheck tool).
278 + add --with-ncurses-wrap-prefix option to test/configure (discussion
279 with Charles Wilson).
280 + use ncurses*-config scripts if available for test/configure.
281 + update test/aclocal.m4 and test/configure
282 > patches by Charles Wilson:
283 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL configure check to allow unreleased libtool
284 version numbers (e.g. which include alphabetic chars, as well as
285 digits, after the final '.').
286 + improve use of -no-undefined option for libtool by setting an
287 intermediate variable LT_UNDEF in the configure script, and then
288 using that in the libtool link-commands.
289 + fix an missing use of NCURSES_PUBLIC_VAR() in tinfo/MKcodes.awk
290 from 2009031 changes.
291 + improve mk-1st.awk script by writing separate cases for the
292 LIBTOOL_LINK command, depending on which library (ncurses, ticlib,
293 termlib) is to be linked.
294 + modify configure.in to allow broken-linker configurations, not just
295 enable-reentrant, to set public wrap prefix.
298 + add TICS_LIST and SHLIB_LIST to allow libtool 2.2.6 on Cygwin to
299 build with tic and term libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
300 + add -no-undefined option to libtool for Cygwin, MinGW, U/Win and AIX
301 (report by Charles Wilson).
302 + fix definition for c++/Makefile.in's SHLIB_LIST, which did not list
303 the form, menu or panel libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
304 + add configure option --with-wrap-prefix to allow setting the prefix
305 for functions used to wrap global variables to something other than
306 "_nc_" (discussion with Charles Wilson).
309 + modify scripts to generate ncurses*-config and pc-files to add
310 dependency for tinfo library (patch by Charles Wilson).
311 + improve comparison of program-names when checking for linked flavors
312 such as "reset" by ignoring the executable suffix (reports by Charles
313 Wilson, Samuel Thibault and Cedric Bretaudeau on Cygwin mailing
315 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
316 Solaris 10, since gcc is confused by absence of static libc, and
317 does not switch back to dynamic mode before finishing the libraries
318 (reports by Joel Bertrand, Alan Pae).
319 + minor fixes to Intel compiler warning checks in configure script.
320 + modify _nc_leaks_tinfo() so leak-checking in test/railroad.c works.
321 + modify set_curterm() to make broken-linker configuration work with
322 changes from 20090228 (report by Charles Wilson).
325 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
326 + modify declaration of cur_term when broken-linker is used, but
327 enable-reentrant is not, to match pre-5.7 (report by Charles Wilson).
330 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
333 + add configure script --enable-sp-funcs to enable the new set of
335 + start integrating patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
336 + add extended functions which specify the SCREEN pointer for several
337 curses functions which use the global SP (these are incomplete;
338 some internals work is needed to complete these).
339 + add special cases to configure script for MinGW port.
342 + update several configure macros from lynx changes
343 + append (not prepend) to CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS
344 + change variable from PATHSEP to PATH_SEPARATOR
345 + improve install-rules for pc-files (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
346 + make it work with $DESTDIR
347 + create the pkg-config library directory if needed.
350 + modify init_pair() to allow caller to create extra color pairs beyond
351 the color_pairs limit, which use default colors (request by Emanuele
353 + add misc/terminfo.tmp and misc/*.pc to "sources" rule.
354 + fix typo "==" where "=" is needed in ncurses-config.in and
355 gen-pkgconfig.in files (Debian #512161).
358 + add -shared option to MK_SHARED_LIB when -Bsharable is used, for
359 *BSD's, without which "main" might be one of the shared library's
360 dependencies (report/analysis by Ken Dickey).
361 + modify waddch_literal(), updating line-pointer after a multicolumn
362 character is found to not fit on the current row, and wrapping is
363 done. Since the line-pointer was not updated, the wrapped
364 multicolumn character was written to the beginning of the current row
365 (cf: 20041023, reported by "Nick" regarding problem with ncmpc
366 http://musicpd.org/mantis/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1930).
369 + add screen.Eterm terminfo entry (GenToo #124887) -TD
370 + modify adacurses-config to look for ".ali" files in the adalib
372 + correct install for Ada95, which omitted libAdaCurses.a used in
374 + change install for adacurses-config to provide additional flavors
375 such as adacursesw-config, for ncursesw (GenToo #167849).
378 + remove undeveloped feature in ncurses-config.in for setting
380 + recent change to ncurses-config.in did not take into account the
381 --disable-overwrite option, which sets $includedir to the
382 subdirectory and using just that for a -I option does not work - fix
383 (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
386 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to eliminate a dependency on rpath when
387 deciding whether to add $LIBS to --libs output; that should be shown
388 for the ncurses and tinfo libraries without taking rpath into
390 + fix an overlooked change from $AR_OPTS to $ARFLAGS in mk-1st.awk,
391 used in static libraries (report by Marty Jack).
394 + add a configure-time check to pick a suitable value for
395 CC_SHARED_OPTS for Solaris (report by Dagobert Michelsen).
396 + add configure --with-pkg-config and --enable-pc-files options, along
397 with misc/gen-pkgconfig.in which can be used to generate ".pc" files
398 for pkg-config (request by Jan Engelhardt).
399 + use $includedir symbol in misc/ncurses-config.in, add --includedir
401 + change makefiles to use $ARFLAGS rather than $AR_OPTS, provide a
402 configure check to detect whether a "-" is needed before "ar"
404 + update config.guess, config.sub from
405 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
408 + modify mk-1st.awk to work with extra categories for tinfo library.
409 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries with gcc
410 on AIX 5 or 6 (adapted from patch by Lital Natan).
413 + modify to omit the opaque-functions from lib_gen.o when
414 --disable-ext-funcs is used.
415 + add test/clip_printw.c to illustrate how to use printw without
417 + modify ncurses 'F' test to demo wborder_set() with colored lines.
418 + modify ncurses 'f' test to demo wborder() with colored lines.
421 + add check for failure to open hashed-database needed for db4.6
423 + corrected --without-manpages option; previous change only suppressed
424 the auxiliary rules install.man and uninstall.man
425 + add case for FreeMINT to configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE (patch from
427 + fixes from NetBSD port at
428 http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/devel/ncurses/patches
429 patch-ac (build-fix for DragonFly)
430 patch-ae (use INSTALL_SCRIPT for installing misc/ncurses*-config).
431 + improve configure script macros CF_HEADER_PATH and CF_LIBRARY_PATH
432 by adding CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS, LIBS values to the
434 + correct title string for keybound manpage (patch by Frederic Culot,
435 OpenBSD documentation/6019),
438 + move del_curterm() call from _nc_freeall() to _nc_leaks_tinfo() to
439 work for progs/clear, progs/tabs, etc.
440 + correct buffer-size after internal resizing of wide-character
441 set_field_buffer(), broken in 20081018 changes (report by Mike Gran).
442 + add "-i" option to test/filter.c to tell it to use initscr() rather
443 than newterm(), to investigate report on comp.unix.programmer that
444 ncurses would clear the screen in that case (it does not - the issue
445 was xterm's alternate screen feature).
446 + add check in mouse-driver to disable connection if GPM returns a
447 zero, indicating that the connection is closed (Debian #506717,
448 adapted from patch by Samuel Thibault).
451 + improve a workaround in adding wide-characters, when a control
452 character is found. The library (cf: 20040207) uses unctrl() to
453 obtain a printable version of the control character, but was not
454 passing color or video attributes.
455 + improve test/ncurses.c 'a' test, using unctrl() more consistently to
456 display meta-characters.
457 + turn on _XOPEN_CURSES definition in curses.h
458 + add eterm-color entry (report by Vincent Lefevre) -TD
459 + correct use of key_name() in test/ncurses.c 'A' test, which only
460 displays wide-characters, not key-codes since 20070612 (report by
464 + change _nc_has_mouse() to has_mouse(), reflect its use in C++ and
465 Ada95 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
466 + document in TO-DO an issue with Cygwin's package for GNAT (report
468 + improve error-checking of command-line options in "tabs" program.
471 + change several terminfo entries to make consistent use of ANSI
473 + add "tabs" program (prompted by Debian #502260).
474 + add configure --without-manpages option (request by Mike Frysinger).
476 20081102 5.7 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
479 + add a manpage to discuss memory leaks.
480 + add support for shared libraries for QNX (other than libtool, which
481 does not work well on that platform).
482 + build-fix for QNX C++ binding.
485 + build-fixes for OS/2 EMX.
486 + modify form library to accept control characters such as newline
487 in set_field_buffer(), which is compatible with Solaris (report by
489 + modify configure script to assume --without-hashed-db when
490 --disable-database is used.
491 + add "-e" option in ncurses/Makefile.in when generating source-files
492 to force earlier exit if the build environment fails unexpectedly
493 (prompted by patch by Adrian Bunk).
494 + change configure script to use CF_UTF8_LIB, improved variant of
498 + add teraterm4.59 terminfo entry, use that as primary teraterm entry, rename
499 original to teraterm2.3 -TD
500 + update "gnome" terminfo to 2.22.3 -TD
501 + update "konsole" terminfo to 1.6.6, needs today's fix for tic -TD
502 + add "aterm" terminfo -TD
503 + add "linux2.6.26" terminfo -TD
504 + add logic to tic for cancelling strings in user-defined capabilities,
508 + update html documentation.
509 + add -m and -s options to test/keynames.c and test/key_names.c to test
510 the meta() function with keyname() or key_name(), respectively.
511 + correct return value of key_name() on error; it is null.
512 + document some unresolved issues for rpath and pthreads in TO-DO.
513 + fix a missing prototype for ioctl() on OpenBSD in tset.c
514 + add configure option --disable-tic-depends to make explicit whether
515 tic library depends on ncurses/ncursesw library, amends change from
516 20080823 (prompted by Debian #501421).
519 + some build-fixes for configure --disable-ext-funcs (incomplete, but
520 works for C/C++ parts).
521 + improve configure-check for awks unable to handle large strings, e.g.
522 AIX 5.1 whose awk silently gives up on large printf's.
525 + fix build for --with-dmalloc by workaround for redefinition of
526 strndup between string.h and dmalloc.h
527 + fix build for --disable-sigwinch
528 + add environment variable NCURSES_GPM_TERMS to allow override to use
529 GPM on terminals other than "linux", etc.
530 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM does not happen to contain
531 "linux", since Gpm_Open() no longer limits its assertion to terminals
532 that it might handle, e.g., within "screen" in xterm.
533 + reset mouse file-descriptor when unloading GPM library (report by
535 + fix build for --disable-leaks --enable-widec --with-termlib
536 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
537 + use improved initialization for soft-label keys in Ada95 sample code.
538 + discard internal symbol _nc_slk_format (unused since 20080112).
539 + move call of slk_paint_info() from _nc_slk_initialize() to
540 slk_intern_refresh(), improving initialization.
543 + fix bug in mouse code for GPM from 20080920 changes (reported in
544 Debian #500103, also Miroslav Lichvar).
547 + fix shared-library rules for cygwin with tic- and tinfo-libraries.
548 + fix a memory leak when failure to connect to GPM.
549 + correct check for notimeout() in wgetch() (report on linux.redhat
550 newsgroup by FurtiveBertie).
551 + add an example warning-suppression file for valgrind,
552 misc/ncurses.supp (based on example from Reuben Thomas)
555 + change shared-library configuration for OpenBSD, make rpath work.
556 + build-fixes for using libutf8, e.g., on OpenBSD 3.7
559 + corrected fix for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
563 + corrected gcc options for building shared libraries on IRIX64.
564 + add configure check for awk programs unable to handle big-strings,
565 use that to improve the default for --enable-big-strings option.
566 + makefile-fixes for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
568 + update test/configure script.
569 + adapt ifdef's from library to make test/view.c build when mbrtowc()
570 is unavailable, e.g., with HPUX 10.20.
571 + add configure check for wcsrtombs, mbsrtowcs, which are used in
572 test/ncurses.c, and use wcstombs, mbstowcs instead if available,
573 fixing build of ncursew for HPUX 11.00
576 + fixes to make Ada95 demo_panels() example work.
577 + modify Ada95 'rain' test program to accept keyboard commands like the
579 + modify BeOS-specific ifdef's to build on Haiku (patch by Scott
581 + add configure-check to see if the std namespace is legal for cerr
582 and endl, to fix a build issue with Tru64.
583 + consistently use NCURSES_BOOL in lib_gen.c
584 + filter #line's from lib_gen.c
585 + change delimiter in MKlib_gen.sh from '%' to '@', to avoid
586 substitution by IBM xlc to '#' as part of its extensions to digraphs.
587 + update config.guess, config.sub from
588 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
589 (caveat - its maintainer removed support for older Linux systems).
592 + modify configure check for pthread library to work with OSF/1 5.1,
593 which uses #define's to associate its header and library.
594 + use pthread_mutexattr_init() for initializing pthread_mutexattr_t,
595 makes threaded code work on HPUX 11.23
596 + fix a bug in demo_menus in freeing menus (cf: 20080804).
597 + modify configure script for the case where tic library is used (and
598 possibly renamed) to remove its dependency upon ncurses/ncursew
599 library (patch by Dr Werner Fink).
600 + correct manpage for menu_fore() which gave wrong default for
601 the attribute used to display a selected entry (report by Mike Gran).
602 + add Eterm-256color, Eterm-88color and rxvt-88color (prompted by
606 + add configure option --enable-weak-symbols to turn on new feature.
607 + add configure-check for availability of weak symbols.
608 + modify linkage with pthread library to use weak symbols so that
609 applications not linked to that library will not use the mutexes,
610 etc. This relies on gcc, and may be platform-specific (patch by Dr
612 + add note to INSTALL to document limitation of renaming of tic library
613 using the --with-ticlib configure option (report by Dr Werner Fink).
614 + document (in manpage) why tputs does not detect I/O errors (prompted
615 by comments by Samuel Thibault).
616 + fix remaining warnings from Klocwork report.
619 + modify _nc_panelhook() data to account for a permanent memory leak.
620 + fix memory leaks in test/demo_menus
621 + fix most warnings from Klocwork tool (report by Larry Zhou).
622 + modify configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to add case for
623 "dragonfly" from xterm #236 changes.
624 + modify configure script --with-hashed-db to let $LIBS override the
625 search for the db library (prompted by report by Samson Pierre).
628 + build-fixes for gcc 4.3.1 (changes to gnat "warnings", and C inlining
632 + build-fix (reports by Christian Ebert, Funda Wang).
635 + compiler-warning fixes for Solaris.
638 + use NCURSES_MOUSE_MASK() in definition of BUTTON_RELEASE(), etc., to
639 make those work properly with the "--enable-ext-mouse" configuration
641 + improve documentation of build-cc options in INSTALL.
642 + work-around a bug in gcc 4.2.4 on AIX, which does not pass the
643 -static/-dynamic flags properly to linker, causing test/bs to
647 + correct some ifdef's needed for the broken-linker configuration.
648 + make debugging library's $BAUDRATE feature work for termcap
650 + make $NCURSES_NO_PADDING feature work for termcap interface (prompted
651 by comment on FreeBSD mailing list).
652 + add screen.mlterm terminfo entry -TD
653 + improve mlterm and mlterm+pcfkeys terminfo entries -TD
656 + regenerated html documentation.
657 + expand manpage description of parameters for form_driver() and
658 menu_driver() (prompted by discussion with Adam Spragg).
659 + add null-pointer checks for cur_term in baudrate() and
660 def_shell_mode(), def_prog_mode()
661 + fix some memory leaks in delscreen() and wide acs.
664 + modify test/ditto.c to illustrate multi-threaded use_screen().
665 + change CC_SHARED_OPTS from -KPIC to -xcode=pic32 for Solaris.
666 + add "-shared" option to MK_SHARED_LIB for gcc on Solaris (report
670 + finish changes to wgetch(), making it switch as needed to the
671 window's actual screen when calling wrefresh() and wgetnstr(). That
672 allows wgetch() to get used concurrently in different threads with
673 some minor restrictions, e.g., the application should not delete a
674 window which is being used in a wgetch().
675 + simplify mutex's, combining the window- and screen-mutex's.
678 + modify wgetch() to use the screen which corresponds to its window
679 parameter rather than relying on SP; some dependent functions still
681 + factor out most use of SP in lib_mouse.c, using parameter.
682 + add internal _nc_keyname(), replacing keyname() to associate with a
683 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
684 + add internal _nc_unctrl(), replacing unctrl() to associate with a
685 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
686 + add internal _nc_tracemouse(), replacing _tracemouse() to eliminate
687 its associated global buffer _nc_globals.tracemse_buf now in SCREEN.
688 + add internal _nc_tracechar(), replacing _tracechar() to use SCREEN in
689 preference to the global _nc_globals.tracechr_buf buffer.
692 + modify _nc_keypad() to make it switch temporarily as needed to the
693 screen which must be updated.
694 + wrap cur_term variable to help make _nc_keymap() thread-safe, and
695 always set the screen's copy of this variable in set_curterm().
696 + restore curs_set() state after endwin()/refresh() (report/patch
700 + modify configure script to note that --enable-ext-colors and
701 --enable-ext-mouse are not experimental, but extensions from
703 + corrected manpage description of setcchar() (discussion with
705 + fix for adding a non-spacing character at the beginning of a line
706 (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
709 + modify screen.* terminfo entries using new screen+fkeys to fix
710 overridden keys in screen.rxvt (Debian #478094) -TD
711 + modify internal interfaces to reduce wgetch()'s dependency on the
713 + simplify some loops with macros each_screen(), each_window() and
717 + continue modifying test/ditto.c toward making it demonstrate
718 multithreaded use_screen(), using fifos to pass data between screens.
719 + fix typo in form.3x (report by Mike Gran).
722 + add screen.rxvt terminfo entry -TD
723 + modify tic -f option to format spaces as \s to prevent them from
724 being lost when that is read back in unformatted strings.
725 + improve test/ditto.c, using a "talk"-style layout.
728 + change test/ditto.c to use openpty() and xterm.
729 + add locks for copywin(), dupwin(), overlap(), overlay() on their
731 + add locks for initscr() and newterm() on updates to the SCREEN
733 + finish table in curs_thread.3x manpage.
736 + begin table in curs_thread.3x manpage describing the scope of data
737 used by each function (or symbol) for threading analysis.
738 + add null-pointer checks to setsyx() and getsyx() (prompted by
739 discussion by Martin v. Lowis and Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven on
740 python-dev2 mailing list).
743 + add null-pointer checks in set_term() and delscreen().
744 + move _nc_windows into _nc_globals, since windows can be pads, which
745 are not associated with a particular screen.
746 + change use_screen() to pass the SCREEN* parameter rather than
747 stdscr to the callback function.
748 + force libtool to use tag for 'CC' in case it does not detect this,
749 e.g., on aix when using CC=powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0-gcc
750 (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
751 + override OBJEXT to "lo" when building with libtool, to work on
752 platforms such as AIX where libtool may use a different suffix for
753 the object files than ".o" (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
754 + add configure --with-pthread option, for building with the POSIX
758 + fill in extended-color pair two more places in wbkgrndset() and
759 waddch_nosync() (prompted by Sedeno's patch).
760 + fill in extended-color pair in _nc_build_wch() to make colors work
761 for wide-characters using extended-colors (patch by Alejandro R
763 + add x/X toggles to ncurses.c C color test to test/demo
764 wide-characters with extended-colors.
765 + add a/A toggles to ncurses.c c/C color tests.
766 + modify test/ditto.c to use use_screen().
767 + finish modifying test/rain.c to demonstrate threads.
770 + start modifying test/rain.c for threading demo.
771 + modify test/ncurses.c to make 'f' test accept the f/F/b/F/</> toggles
772 that the 'F' accepts.
773 + modify test/worm.c to show trail in reverse-video when other threads
774 are working concurrently.
775 + fix a deadlock from improper nesting of mutexes for windowlist and
779 + fixes from 20080223 resolved issue with mutexes; change to use
780 recursive mutexes to fix memory leak in delwin() as called from
784 + fix a size-difference in _nc_globals which caused hanging of mutex
785 lock/unlock when termlib was built separately.
788 + avoid using nanosleep() in threaded configuration since that often
789 is implemented to suspend the entire process.
792 + update test programs to build/work with various UNIX curses for
793 comparisons. This was to reinvestigate statement in X/Open curses
794 that insnstr and winsnstr perform wrapping. None of the Unix-branded
795 implementations do this, as noted in manpage (cf: 20040228).
798 + modify _nc_setupscreen() to set the legacy-coding value the same
799 for both narrow/wide models. It had been set only for wide model,
800 but is needed to make unctrl() work with locale in the narrow model.
801 + improve waddch() and winsch() handling of EILSEQ from mbrtowc() by
802 using unctrl() to display illegal bytes rather than trying to append
803 further bytes to make up a valid sequence (reported by Andrey A
805 + modify unctrl() to check codes in 128-255 range versus isprint().
806 If they are not printable, and locale was set, use a "M-" or "~"
810 + improve threading in test/worm.c (wrap refresh calls, and KEY_RESIZE
811 handling). Now it hangs in napms(), no matter whether nanosleep()
812 or poll() or select() are used on Linux.
815 + fixes to build with --disable-ext-funcs
816 + add manpage for use_window and use_screen.
817 + add set_tabsize() and set_escdelay() functions.
820 + remove recursive-mutex definitions, finish threading demo for worm.c
821 + remove a redundant adjustment of lines in resizeterm.c's
822 adjust_window() which caused occasional misadjustment of stdscr when
826 + several improvements to terminfo entries based on xterm #230 -TD
827 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle keyname/key_name prototypes, so the
828 "link_test" builds properly.
829 + fix for toe command-line options -u/-U to ensure filename is given.
830 + fix allocation-size for command-line parsing in infocmp from 20070728
831 (report by Miroslav Lichvar)
832 + improve resizeterm() by moving ripped-off lines, and repainting the
833 soft-keys (report by Katarina Machalkova)
834 + add clarification in wclear's manpage noting that the screen will be
835 cleared even if a subwindow is cleared (prompted by Christer Enfors
837 + change test/ncurses.c soft-key tests to work with KEY_RESIZE.
840 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
844 + add several functions to C++ binding which wrap C functions that
845 pass a WINDOW* parameter (request by Chris Lee).
848 + add note about configure options needed for Berkeley database to the
850 + improve checks for version of Berkeley database libraries.
851 + amend fix for rpath to not modify LDFLAGS if the platform has no
852 applicable transformation (report by Christian Ebert, cf: 20071124).
855 + modify configure option --with-hashed-db to accept a parameter which
856 is the install-prefix of a given Berkeley Database (prompted by
858 + rewrite wrapper for wcrtomb(), making it work on Solaris. This is
859 used in the form library to determine the length of the buffer needed
860 by field_buffer (report by Alfred Fung).
861 + remove unneeded window-parameter from C++ binding for wresize (report
865 + modify the support for filesystems which do not support mixed-case to
866 generate 2-character (hexadecimal) codes for the lower-level of the
867 filesystem terminfo database (request by Michail Vidiassov).
868 + add configure option --enable-mixed-case, to allow overriding the
869 configure script's check if the filesystem supports mixed-case
871 + add wresize() to C++ binding (request by Chris Lee).
872 + define NCURSES_EXT_FUNCS and NCURSES_EXT_COLORS in curses.h to make
873 it simpler to tell if the extended functions and/or colors are
877 + update memory-leak checks for changes to names.c and codes.c
878 + correct acsc strings in h19, z100 (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler).
881 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
883 + add mrxvt terminfo entry, add/fix xterm building blocks for modified
885 + compile with FreeBSD "contemporary" TTY interface (patch by
889 + modify makefile rules to allow clear, tput and tset to be built
890 without libtic. The other programs (infocmp, tic and toe) rely on
892 + add/modify null-pointer checks in several functions for SP and/or
893 the WINDOW* parameter (report by Thorben Krueger).
894 + fixes for field_buffer() in formw library (see Redhat Bugzilla
895 #310071, patches by Miroslav Lichvar).
896 + improve performance of NCURSES_CHAR_EQ code (patch by Miroslav
898 + update/improve mlterm and rxvt terminfo entries, e.g., for
899 the modified cursor- and keypad-keys -TD
902 + add code to curses.priv.h ifdef'd with NCURSES_CHAR_EQ, which
903 changes the CharEq() macro to an inline function to allow comparing
904 cchar_t struct's without comparing gaps in a possibly unpacked
905 memory layout (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
908 + add new functions to lib_trace.c to setup mutex's for the _tracef()
909 calls within the ncurses library.
910 + for the reentrant model, move _nc_tputs_trace and _nc_outchars into
912 + start modifying test/worm.c to provide threading demo (incomplete).
913 + separated ifdef's for some BSD-related symbols in tset.c, to make
914 it compile on LynxOS (report by Greg Gemmer).
916 + modify Ada95/gen/Makefile to use shlib script, to simplify building
917 shared-library configuration on platforms lacking rpath support.
918 + build-fix for Ada95/src/Makefile to reflect changed dependency for
919 the terminal-interface-curses-aux.adb file which is now generated.
920 + restructuring test/worm.c, for use_window() example.
923 + add use_window() and use_screen() functions, to develop into support
924 for threaded library (incomplete).
925 + fix typos in man/curs_opaque.3x which kept the install script from
926 creating symbolic links to two aliases created in 20070818 (report by
930 + remove a spurious newline from output of html.m4, which caused links
931 for Ada95 html to be incorrect for the files generated using m4.
932 + start investigating mutex's for SCREEN manipulation (incomplete).
933 + minor cleanup of codes.c/names.c for --enable-const
934 + expand/revise "Routine and Argument Names" section of ncurses manpage
935 to address report by David Givens in newsgroup discussion.
936 + fix interaction between --without-progs/--with-termcap configure
937 options (report by Michail Vidiassov).
938 + fix typo in "--disable-relink" option (report by Michail Vidiassov).
941 + fix a sign-extension bug in infocmp's repair_acsc() function
943 + fix old configure script bug which prevented "--disable-warnings"
944 option from working (patch by Mike Frysinger).
947 + add 9term terminal description (request by Juhapekka Tolvanen) -TD
948 + modify comp_hash.c's string output to avoid misinterpreting a null
949 "\0" followed by a digit.
950 + modify MKnames.awk and MKcodes.awk to support big-strings.
951 This only applies to the cases (broken linker, reentrant) where
952 the corresponding arrays are accessed via wrapper functions.
953 + split MKnames.awk into two scripts, eliminating the shell redirection
954 which complicated the make process and also the bogus timestamp file
955 which was introduced to fix "make -j".
956 + add test/test_opaque.c, test/test_arrays.c
957 + add wgetscrreg() and wgetparent() for applications that may need it
958 when NCURSES_OPAQUE is defined (prompted by Bryan Christ).
961 + amend treatment of infocmp "-r" option to retain the 1023-byte limit
962 unless "-T" is given (cf: 981017).
963 + modify comp_captab.c generation to use big-strings.
964 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private accessed via
965 _nc_get_alias_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
967 + modify configure script to skip Intel compiler in CF_C_INLINE.
968 + make _nc_info_hash_table and _nc_cap_hash_table private accessed via
969 _nc_get_hash_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
973 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private, accessed via
974 _nc_get_alias_table() since they are used only by parse_entry.c
975 + make _nc_key_names private since it is used only by lib_keyname.c
976 + add --disable-big-strings configure option to control whether
977 unctrl.c is generated using the big-string optimization - which may
978 use strings longer than supported by a given compiler.
979 + reduce relocation tables for tic, infocmp by changing type of
980 internal hash tables to short, and make those private symbols.
981 + eliminate large fixed arrays from progs/infocmp.c
984 + change winnstr() to stop at the end of the line (cf: 970315).
985 + add test/test_get_wstr.c
986 + add test/test_getstr.c
987 + add test/test_inwstr.c
988 + add test/test_instr.c
991 + restore a call to obtain screen-size in _nc_setupterm(), which
992 is used in tput and other non-screen applications via setupterm()
993 (Debian #433357, reported by Florent Bayle, Christian Ohm,
997 + add test/savescreen.c test-program
998 + add check to trace-file open, if the given name is a directory, add
999 ".log" to the name and try again.
1000 + add konsole-256color entry -TD
1001 + add extra gcc warning options from xterm.
1002 + minor fixes for ncurses/hashmap test-program.
1003 + modify configure script to quiet c++ build with libtool when the
1004 --disable-echo option is used.
1005 + modify configure script to disable ada95 if libtool is selected,
1006 writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD ports/114493).
1007 + update config.guess, config.sub
1010 + add continuous-move "M" to demo_panels to help test refresh changes.
1011 + improve fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters,
1012 taking into account some split characters on left/right window
1016 + add "widec" row to _tracedump() output to help diagnose remaining
1017 problems with multi-column characters.
1018 + partial fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters
1019 which are partly overwritten (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
1020 + ignore A_CHARTEXT bits in vidattr() and vid_attr(), in case
1021 multi-column extension bits are passed there.
1022 + add setlocale() call to demo_panels.c, needed for wide-characters.
1023 + add some output flags to _nc_trace_ttymode to help diagnose a bug
1024 report by Larry Virden, i.e., ONLCR, OCRNL, ONOCR and ONLRET,
1027 + add test/demo_panels.c
1028 + implement opaque version of setsyx() and getsyx().
1031 + corrected xterm+pcf2 terminfo modifiers for F1-F4, to match xterm
1033 + split-out key_name() from MKkeyname.awk since it now depends upon
1034 wunctrl() which is not in libtinfo (report by Rong-En Fan).
1037 + add test/key_name.c
1038 + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test/inch_wide.c
1039 + update test/configure
1040 + correct formatting of DEL (0x7f) in _nc_vischar().
1041 + null-terminate result of wunctrl().
1042 + add null-pointer check in key_name() (report by Andreas Krennmair,
1046 + adapt mouse-handling code from menu library in form-library
1047 (discussion with Clive Nicolson).
1048 + add a modification of test/dots.c, i.e., test/dots_mvcur.c to
1049 illustrate how to use mvcur().
1050 + modify wide-character flavor of SetAttr() to preserve the
1051 WidecExt() value stored in the .attr field, e.g., in case it
1052 is overwritten by chgat (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
1053 + correct buffer-size for _nc_viswbuf2n() (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
1054 + build-fixes for Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 (patch by Peter O'Gorman).
1057 + modify keyname() to use "^X" form only if meta() has been called, or
1058 if keyname() is called without initializing curses, e.g., via
1059 initscr() or newterm() (prompted by LinuxBase #1604).
1060 + document some portability issues in man/curs_util.3x
1061 + add a shadow copy of TTY buffer to _nc_prescreen to fix applications
1062 broken by moving that data into SCREEN (cf: 20061230).
1065 + add 'O' (wide-character panel test) in ncurses.c to demonstrate a
1066 problem reported by Sadrul H Chowdhury with repainting parts of
1068 + modify slk_init() so that if there are preceding calls to
1069 ripoffline(), those affect the available lines for soft-keys (adapted
1070 from patch by Clive Nicolson).
1071 + document some portability issues in man/curs_getyx.3x
1074 + fix a bug in Ada95/samples/ncurses which caused a variable to
1075 become uninitialized in the "b" test.
1076 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in adahtml rule to account for recent
1077 movement of files, fix a few incorrect manpage references in the
1079 + add Ada95 binding to _nc_freeall() as Curses_Free_All to help with
1081 + correct some functions in Ada95 binding which were using return value
1082 from C where none was returned: idcok(), immedok() and wtimeout().
1083 + amend recent changes for Ada95 binding to make it build with
1084 Cygwin's linker, e.g., with configure options
1085 --enable-broken-linker --with-ticlib
1088 + add a configure check for gcc's options for inlining, use that to
1089 quiet a warning message where gcc's default behavior changed from
1091 + improve warning message when checking if GPM is linked to curses
1092 library by not warning if its use of "wgetch" is via a weak symbol.
1093 + add loader options when building with static libraries to ensure that
1094 an installed shared library for ncurses does not conflict. This is
1095 reported as problem with Tru64, but could affect other platforms
1096 (report Martin Mokrejs, analysis by Tim Mooney).
1097 + fix build on cygwin after recent ticlib/termlib changes, i.e.,
1098 + adjust TINFO_SUFFIX value to work with cygwin's dll naming
1099 + revert a change from 20070303 which commented out dependency of
1100 SHLIB_LIST in form/menu/panel/c++ libraries.
1101 + fix initialization of ripoff stack pointer (cf: 20070421).
1104 + move most static variables into structures _nc_globals and
1105 _nc_prescreen, to simplify storage.
1106 + add/use configure script macro CF_SIG_ATOMIC_T, use the corresponding
1107 type for data manipulated by signal handlers (prompted by comments
1108 in mailing.openbsd.bugs newsgroup).
1109 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to allow one to pass options such as -static
1110 to the libtool create- and link-operations.
1113 + fix whitespace in curs_opaque.3x which caused a spurious ';' in
1114 the installed aliases (report by Peter Santoro).
1115 + fix configure script to not try to generate adacurses-config when
1116 Ada95 tree is not built.
1119 + add man/curs_legacy.3x, man/curs_opaque.3x
1120 + fix acs_map binding for Ada95 when --enable-reentrant is used.
1121 + add adacurses-config to the Ada95 install, based on version from
1122 FreeBSD port, in turn by Juergen Pfeifer in 2000 (prompted by
1123 comment on comp.lang.ada newsgroup).
1124 + fix includes in c++ binding to build with Intel compiler
1126 + update install rule in Ada95 to use mkdirs.sh
1127 > other fixes prompted by inspection for Coverity report:
1128 + modify ifdef's for c++ binding to use try/catch/throw statements
1129 + add a null-pointer check in tack/ansi.c request_cfss()
1130 + fix a memory leak in ncurses/base/wresize.c
1131 + corrected check for valid memu/meml capabilities in
1132 progs/dump_entry.c when handling V_HPUX case.
1133 > fixes based on Coverity report:
1134 + remove dead code in test/bs.c
1135 + remove dead code in test/demo_defkey.c
1136 + remove an unused assignment in progs/infocmp.c
1137 + fix a limit check in tack/ansi.c tools_charset()
1138 + fix tack/ansi.c tools_status() to perform the VT320/VT420
1139 tests in request_cfss(). The function had exited too soon.
1140 + fix a memory leak in tic.c's make_namelist()
1141 + fix a couple of places in tack/output.c which did not check for EOF.
1142 + fix a loop-condition in test/bs.c
1143 + add index checks in lib_color.c for color palettes
1144 + add index checks in progs/dump_entry.c for version_filter() handling
1146 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in copywin()
1147 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in waddchnstr()
1148 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
1149 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c's make_namelist()
1150 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
1151 + add null-pointer checks in test/cardfile.c
1152 + fix a double-free in ncurses/tinfo/trim_sgr0.c
1153 + fix a double-free in ncurses/base/wresize.c
1154 + add try/catch block to c++/cursesmain.cc
1157 + modify Ada95 binding to build with --enable-reentrant by wrapping
1158 global variables (bug: acs_map does not yet work).
1159 + modify Ada95 binding to use the new access-functions, allowing it
1160 to build/run when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
1161 + add access-functions and macros to return properties of the WINDOW
1162 structure, e.g., when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
1163 + improved install-sh's quoting.
1164 + use mkdirs.sh rather than mkinstalldirs, e.g., to use fixes from
1168 + eliminate part of the direct use of WINDOW data from Ada95 interface.
1169 + fix substitutions for termlib filename to make configure option
1170 --enable-reentrant work with --with-termlib.
1171 + change a constructor for NCursesWindow to allow compiling with
1172 NCURSES_OPAQUE set, since we cannot pass a reference to
1176 + ignore --with-chtype=unsigned since unsigned is always added to
1177 the type in curses.h; do the same for --with-mmask-t.
1178 + change warning regarding --enable-ext-colors and wide-character
1179 in the configure script to an error.
1180 + tweak error message in CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to distinguish other programs
1181 such as Darwin's libtool program (report by Michail Vidiassov)
1182 + modify edit_man.sh to allow for multiple substitutions per line.
1183 + set locale in misc/ncurses-config.in since it uses a range
1184 + change permissions libncurses++.a install (report by Michail
1186 + corrected length of temporary buffer in wide-character version
1187 of set_field_buffer() (related to report by Bryan Christ).
1190 + fix mk-1st.awk script install_shlib() function, broken in 20070224
1191 changes for cygwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
1194 + increase size of array in _nc_visbuf2n() to make "tic -v" work
1195 properly in its similar_sgr() function (report/analysis by Peter
1197 + add --enable-reentrant configure option for ongoing changes to
1198 implement a reentrant version of ncurses:
1199 + libraries are suffixed with "t"
1200 + wrap several global variables (curscr, newscr, stdscr, ttytype,
1201 COLORS, COLOR_PAIRS, COLS, ESCDELAY, LINES and TABSIZE) as
1202 functions returning values stored in SCREEN or cur_term.
1203 + move some initialization (LINES, COLS) from lib_setup.c,
1204 i.e., setupterm() to _nc_setupscreen(), i.e., newterm().
1207 + regenerated html documentation.
1208 + add NCURSES_OPAQUE symbol to curses.h, will use to make structs
1209 opaque in selected configurations.
1210 + move the chunk in lib_acs.c which resets acs capabilities when
1211 running on a terminal whose locale interferes with those into
1212 _nc_setupscreen(), so the libtinfo/libtinfow files can be made
1213 identical (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
1214 + do not use configure variable SHLIB_LIBS for building libraries
1215 outside the ncurses directory, since that symbol is customized
1216 only for that directory, and using it introduces an unneeded
1217 dependency on libdl (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
1218 + modify mk-1st.awk so the generated makefile rules for linking or
1219 installing shared libraries do not first remove the library, in
1220 case it is in use, e.g., libncurses.so by /bin/sh (report by Jeff
1222 + revised section "Using NCURSES under XTERM" in ncurses-intro.html
1223 (prompted by newsgroup comment by Nick Guenther).
1226 + change internal return codes of _nc_wgetch() to check for cases
1227 where KEY_CODE_YES should be returned, e.g., if a KEY_RESIZE was
1228 ungetch'd, and read by wget_wch().
1229 + fix static-library build broken in 20070217 changes to remove "-ldl"
1230 (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
1231 + change makefile/scripts for cygwin to allow building termlib.
1232 + use Form_Hook in manpages to match form.h
1233 + use Menu_Hook in manpages, as well as a few places in menu.h
1234 + correct form- and menu-manpages to use specific Field_Options,
1235 Menu_Options and Item_Options types.
1236 + correct prototype for _tracechar() in manpage (cf: 20011229).
1237 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
1240 + fixes for $(TICS_LIST) in ncurses/Makefile (report by Miroslav
1242 + modify relinking of shared libraries to apply only when rpath is
1243 enabled, and add --disable-relink option which can be used to
1244 disable the feature altogether (reports by Michail Vidiassov,
1246 + fix --with-termlib option for wide-character configuration, stripping
1247 the "w" suffix in one place (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
1248 + remove "-ldl" from some library lists to reduce dependencies in
1249 programs (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
1250 + correct description of --enable-signed-char in configure --help
1251 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
1252 + add pattern for GNU/kFreeBSD configuration to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE,
1253 which matches an earlier change to CF_SHARED_OPTS, from xterm #224
1255 + remove "${DESTDIR}" from -install_name option used for linking
1256 shared libraries on Darwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
1259 + add test/inchs.c, test/inch_wide.c, to test win_wchnstr().
1260 + remove libdl from library list for termlib (report by Miroslav
1262 + fix configure.in to allow --without-progs --with-termlib (patch by
1264 + modify win_wchnstr() to ensure that only a base cell is returned
1265 for each multi-column character (prompted by report by Wei Kong
1266 regarding change in mvwin_wch() cf: 20041023).
1269 + modify fix_wchnstr() in form library to strip attributes (and color)
1270 from the cchar_t array (field cells) read from a field's window.
1271 Otherwise, when copying the field cells back to the window, the
1272 associated color overrides the field's background color (report by
1274 + improve tracing for form library, showing created forms, fields, etc.
1275 + ignore --enable-rpath configure option if --with-shared was omitted.
1276 + add _nc_leaks_tinfo(), _nc_free_tic(), _nc_free_tinfo() entrypoints
1277 to allow leak-checking when both tic- and tinfo-libraries are built.
1278 + drop CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC macro from configure script, since C++ binding
1279 no longer relies on it.
1280 + disallow combining configure script options --with-ticlib and
1281 --enable-termcap (report by Rong-En Fan).
1282 + remove tack from ncurses tree.
1285 + fix typo in configure script that broke --with-termlib option
1286 (report by Rong-En Fan).
1289 + improve fix for FreeBSD gnu/98975, to allow for null pointer passed
1290 to tgetent() (report by Rong-en Fan).
1291 + update tack/HISTORY and tack/README to tell how to build it after
1292 it is removed from the ncurses tree.
1293 + fix configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
1294 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
1295 + review/eliminate other original-file artifacts in cursesw.cc, making
1296 its license consistent with ncurses.
1297 + use ncurses vw_scanw() rather than reading into a fixed buffer in
1298 the c++ binding for scanw() methods (prompted by report by Nuno Dias).
1299 + eliminate fixed-buffer vsprintf() calls in c++ binding.
1302 + add _nc_leaks_tic() to separate leak-checking of tic library from
1303 term/ncurses libraries, and thereby eliminate a library dependency.
1304 + fix test/mk-test.awk to ignore blank lines.
1305 + correct paths in include/headers, for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav
1309 + add a break-statement in misc/shlib to ensure that it exits on the
1310 _first_ matched directory (report by Paul Novak).
1311 + add tack/configure, which can be used to build tack outside the
1313 + add --with-ticlib option, to build/install the tic-support functions
1314 in a separate library (suggested by Miroslav Lichvar).
1317 + change MKunctrl.awk to reduce relocation table for unctrl.o
1318 + change MKkeyname.awk to reduce relocation table for keyname.o
1319 (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
1322 + modify configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
1323 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
1324 + modify some modules to allow them to be reentrant if _REENTRANT is
1325 defined: lib_baudrate.c, resizeterm.c (local data only)
1326 + eliminate static data from some modules: add_tries.c, hardscroll.c,
1327 lib_ttyflags.c, lib_twait.c
1328 + improve manpage install to add aliases for the transformed program
1329 names, e.g., from --program-prefix.
1330 + used linklint to verify links in the HTML documentation, made fixes
1331 to manpages as needed.
1332 + fix a typo in curs_mouse.3x (report by William McBrine).
1333 + fix install-rule for ncurses5-config to make the bin-directory.
1336 + modify configure script to omit the tic (terminfo compiler) support
1337 from ncurses library if --without-progs option is given.
1338 + modify install rule for ncurses5-config to do this via "install.libs"
1339 + modify shared-library rules to allow FreeBSD 3.x to use rpath.
1340 + update config.guess, config.sub
1342 20061217 5.6 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1345 + add ifdef's for <wctype.h> for HPUX, which has the corresponding
1346 definitions in <wchar.h>.
1347 + revert the va_copy() change from 20061202, since it was neither
1348 correct nor portable.
1349 + add $(LOCAL_LIBS) definition to progs/Makefile.in, needed for
1351 + ignore wide-acs line-drawing characters that wcwidth() claims are
1352 not one-column. This is a workaround for Solaris' broken locale
1356 + modify configure --with-gpm option to allow it to accept a parameter,
1357 i.e., the name of the dynamic GPM library to load via dlopen()
1358 (requested by Bryan Henderson).
1359 + add configure option --with-valgrind, changes from vile.
1360 + modify configure script AC_TRY_RUN and AC_TRY_LINK checks to use
1361 'return' in preference to 'exit()'.
1364 + change default for --with-develop back to "no".
1365 + add XTABS to tracing of TTY bits.
1366 + updated autoconf patch to ifdef-out the misfeature which declares
1367 exit() for configure tests. This fixes a redefinition warning on
1369 + use ${CC} rather than ${LD} in shared library rules for IRIX64,
1370 Solaris to help ensure that initialization sections are provided for
1371 extra linkage requirements, e.g., of C++ applications (prompted by
1372 comment by Casper Dik in newsgroup).
1373 + rename "$target" in CF_MAN_PAGES to make it easier to distinguish
1374 from the autoconf predefined symbol. There was no conflict,
1375 since "$target" was used only in the generated edit_man.sh file,
1376 but SuSE's rpm package contains a patch.
1379 + update man/term.5 to reflect extended terminfo support and hashed
1380 database configuration.
1381 + updates for test/configure script.
1382 + adapted from SuSE rpm package:
1383 + remove long-obsolete workaround for broken-linker which declared
1385 + improve error recovery in PUTC() macro when wcrtomb() does not
1386 return usable results for an 8-bit character.
1387 + patches from rpm package (SuSE):
1388 + use va_copy() in extra varargs manipulation for tracing version
1390 + use a va_list rather than a null in _nc_freeall()'s call to
1391 _nc_printf_string().
1392 + add some see-also references in manpages to show related
1393 wide-character functions (suggested by Claus Fischer).
1396 + add a check in lib_color.c to ensure caller does not increase COLORS
1397 above max_colors, which is used as an array index (discussion with
1399 + add ifdef's allowing ncurses to be built with tparm() using either
1400 varargs (the existing status), or using a fixed-parameter list (to
1404 + fix redrawing of windows other than stdscr using wredrawln() by
1405 touching the corresponding rows in curscr (discussion with Dan
1408 + add test/echochar.c
1409 + review/cleanup manpage descriptions of error-returns for form- and
1410 menu-libraries (prompted by FreeBSD docs/46196).
1413 + add AUTHORS file -TD
1414 + omit the -D options from output of the new config script --cflags
1415 option (suggested by Ralf S Engelschall).
1416 + make NCURSES_INLINE unconditionally defined in curses.h
1419 + revert change to accommodate bash 3.2, since that breaks other
1420 platforms, e.g., Solaris.
1421 + minor fixes to NEWS file to simplify scripting to obtain list of
1423 + improve some shared-library configure scripting for Linux, FreeBSD
1424 and NetBSD to make "--with-shlib-version" work.
1425 + change configure-script rules for FreeBSD shared libraries to allow
1426 for rpath support in versions past 3.
1427 + use $(DESTDIR) in makefile rules for installing/uninstalling the
1428 package config script (reports/patches by Christian Wiese,
1429 Ralf S Engelschall).
1430 + fix a warning in the configure script for NetBSD 2.0, working around
1431 spurious blanks embedded in its ${MAKEFLAGS} symbol.
1432 + change test/Makefile to simplify installing test programs in a
1433 different directory when --enable-rpath is used.
1436 + work around bug in bash 3.2 by adding extra quotes (Jim Gifford).
1437 + add/install a package config script, e.g., "ncurses5-config" or
1438 "ncursesw5-config", according to configuration options.
1441 + add several GNU Screen terminfo variations with 16- and 256-colors,
1442 and status line (Alain Bench).
1443 + change the way shared libraries (other than libtool) are installed.
1444 Rather than copying the build-tree's libraries, link the shared
1445 objects into the install directory. This makes the --with-rpath
1446 option work except with $(DESTDIR) (cf: 20000930).
1449 + fix ifdef in c++/internal.h for QNX 6.1
1450 + test-compiled with (old) egcs-1.1.2, modified configure script to
1451 not unset the $CXX and related variables which would prevent this.
1452 + fix a few terminfo.src typos exposed by improvments to "-f" option.
1453 + improve infocmp/tic "-f" option formatting.
1456 + make --disable-largefile option work (report by Thomas M Ott).
1457 + updated html documentation.
1458 + add ka2, kb1, kb3, kc2 to vt220-keypad as an extension -TD
1459 + minor improvements to rxvt+pcfkeys -TD
1462 + move static data from lib_mouse.c into SCREEN struct.
1463 + improve ifdef's for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset to work with Mac OS X
1464 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
1465 + modify CF_PATH_SYNTAX to ensure it uses the result from --prefix
1466 option (from lynx changes) -TD
1467 + adapt AC_PROG_EGREP check, noting that this is likely to be another
1468 place aggravated by POSIXLY_CORRECT.
1469 + modify configure check for awk to ensure that it is found (prompted
1470 by report by Christopher Parker).
1474 + add kon, kon2 and jfbterm terminfo entry (request by Till Maas) -TD
1475 + remove invis capability from klone+sgr, mainly used by linux entry,
1476 since it does not really do this -TD
1479 + correct logic in wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not guard
1480 against passing the multi-column attribute into a call on waddch(),
1481 e.g., using data returned by win_wch() (cf: 20041023)
1482 (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
1485 + fix kterm's acsc string -TD
1486 + fix for change to tic/infocmp in 20060819 to ensure no blank is
1487 embedded into a termcap description.
1488 + workaround for 20050806 ifdef's change to allow visbuf.c to compile
1489 when using --with-termlib --with-trace options.
1490 + improve tgetstr() by making the return value point into the user's
1491 buffer, if provided (patch by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat Bugzilla
1493 + correct libraries needed for foldkeys (report by Stanislav Ievlev)
1496 + add terminfo entries for xfce terminal (xfce) and multi gnome
1498 + add test/foldkeys.c
1501 + modify tic and infocmp to avoid writing trailing blanks on terminfo
1502 source output (Debian #378783).
1503 + modify configure script to ensure that if the C compiler is used
1504 rather than the loader in making shared libraries, the $(CFLAGS)
1505 variable is also used (Redhat Bugzilla #199369).
1506 + port hashed-db code to db2 and db3.
1507 + fix a bug in tgetent() from 20060625 and 20060715 changes
1508 (patch/analysis by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat Bugzilla #202480)).
1511 + updated xterm function-keys terminfo to match xterm #216 -TD
1512 + add configure --with-hashed-db option (tested only with FreeBSD 6.0,
1513 e.g., the db 1.8.5 interface).
1516 + modify toe to access termcap data, e.g., via cgetent() functions,
1517 or as a text file if those are not available.
1518 + use _nc_basename() in tset to improve $SHELL check for csh/sh.
1519 + modify _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_termcap_entry() so infocmp,
1520 can access termcap data when the terminfo database is disabled.
1523 + widen the test for xterm kmous a little to allow for other strings
1524 than \E[M, e.g., for xterm-sco functionality in xterm.
1525 + update xterm-related terminfo entries to match xterm patch #216 -TD
1526 + update config.guess, config.sub
1529 + fix for install-rule in Ada95 to add terminal_interface.ads
1530 and terminal_interface.ali (anonymous posting in comp.lang.ada).
1531 + correction to manpage for getcchar() (report by William McBrine).
1533 + modify wchgat() to mark updated cells as changed so a refresh will
1534 repaint those cells (comments by Sadrul H Chowdhury and William
1536 + split up dependency of names.c and codes.c in ncurses/Makefile to
1537 work with parallel make (report/analysis by Joseph S Myers).
1538 + suppress a warning message (which is ignored) for systems without
1539 an ldconfig program (patch by Justin Hibbits).
1540 + modify configure script --disable-symlinks option to allow one to
1541 disable symlink() in tic even when link() does not work (report by
1543 + modify MKfallback.sh to use tic -x when constructing fallback tables
1544 to allow extended capabilities to be retrieved from a fallback entry.
1545 + improve leak-checking logic in tgetent() from 20060625 to ensure that
1546 it does not free the current screen (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
1549 + add a check for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset (NetBSD #33916).
1550 + correct _nc_free_entries() and related functions used for memory leak
1554 + revert a minor change for magic-cookie support from 20060513, which
1555 caused unexpected reset of attributes, e.g., when resizing test/view
1557 + note in clear manpage that the program ignores command-line
1558 parameters (prompted by Debian #371855).
1559 + fixes to make lib_gen.c build properly with changes to the configure
1560 --disable-macros option and NCURSES_NOMACROS (cf: 20060527)
1561 + update/correct several terminfo entries -TD
1562 + add some notes regarding copyright to terminfo.src -TD
1565 + fixes to build Ada95 binding with gnat-4.1.0
1566 + modify read_termtype() so the term_names data is always allocated as
1567 part of the str_table, a better fix for a memory leak (cf: 20030809).
1568 + reduce memory leaks in repeated calls to tgetent() by remembering the
1569 last TERMINAL* value allocated to hold the corresponding data and
1570 freeing that if the tgetent() result buffer is the same as the
1571 previous call (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
1572 + modify tack to test extended capability function-key strings.
1573 + improved gnome terminfo entry (GenToo #122566).
1574 + improved xterm-256color terminfo entry (patch by Alain Bench).
1577 + fix two small memory leaks related to repeated tgetent() calls
1578 with TERM=screen (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
1579 + add --enable-signed-char to simplify Debian package.
1580 + reduce name-pollution in term.h by removing #define's for HAVE_xxx
1582 + correct typo in curs_terminfo.3x (Debian #369168).
1585 + enable the mouse in test/movewindow.c
1586 + improve a limit-check in frm_def.c (John Heasley).
1587 + minor copyright fixes.
1588 + change configure script to produce test/Makefile from data file.
1591 + add a configure option --enable-wgetch-events to enable
1592 NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS, and correct the associated loop-logic in
1593 lib_twait.c (report by Bernd Jendrissek).
1594 + remove include/nomacros.h from build, since the ifdef for
1595 NCURSES_NOMACROS makes that obsolete.
1596 + add entrypoints for some functions which were only provided as macros
1597 to make NCURSES_NOMACROS ifdef work properly: getcurx(), getcury(),
1598 getbegx(), getbegy(), getmaxx(), getmaxy(), getparx() and getpary(),
1600 + provide ifdef for NCURSES_NOMACROS which suppresses most macro
1601 definitions from curses.h, i.e., where a macro is defined to override
1602 a function to improve performance. Allowing a developer to suppress
1603 these definitions can simplify some application (discussion with
1605 + improve description of memu/meml in terminfo manpage.
1608 + if msgr is false, reset video attributes when doing an automargin
1609 wrap to the next line. This makes the ncurses 'k' test work properly
1611 + correct caching of keyname(), which was using only half of its table.
1612 + minor fixes to memory-leak checking.
1613 + make SCREEN._acs_map and SCREEN._screen_acs_map pointers rather than
1614 arrays, making ACS_LEN less visible to applications (suggested by
1616 + move chunk in SCREEN ifdef'd for USE_WIDEC_SUPPORT to the end, so
1617 _screen_acs_map will have the same offset in both ncurses/ncursesw,
1618 making the corresponding tinfo/tinfow libraries binary-compatible
1619 (cf: 20041016, report by Stanislav Ievlev).
1622 + improve debug-tracing for EmitRange().
1623 + change default for --with-develop to "yes". Add NCURSES_NO_HARD_TABS
1624 and NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE environment variables to allow runtime
1625 suppression of the related hard-tabs and xmc-glitch features.
1626 + add ncurses version number to top-level manpages, e.g., ncurses, tic,
1627 infocmp, terminfo as well as form, menu, panel.
1628 + update config.guess, config.sub
1629 + modify ncurses.c to work around a bug in NetBSD 3.0 curses
1630 (field_buffer returning null for a valid field). The 'r' test
1631 appears to not work with that configuration since the new_fieldtype()
1632 function is broken in that implementation.
1635 + add hpterm-color terminfo entry -TD
1636 + fixes to compile test-programs with HPUX 11.23
1639 + add copyright notices to files other than those that are generated,
1640 data or adapted from pdcurses (reports by William McBrine, David
1642 + improve rendering on hpterm by not resetting attributes at the end
1643 of doupdate() if the terminal has the magic-cookie feature (report
1645 + add 256color variants of terminfo entries for programs which are
1646 reported to implement this feature -TD
1649 + fix typo in change to NewChar() macro from 20060311 changes, which
1650 broke tab-expansion (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
1653 + document -U option of tic and infocmp.
1654 + modify tic/infocmp to suppress smacs/rmacs when acsc is suppressed
1655 due to size limit, e.g., converting to termcap format. Also
1656 suppress them if the output format does not contain acsc and it
1657 was not VT100-like, i.e., a one-one mapping (Novell #163715).
1658 + add configure check to ensure that SIGWINCH is defined on platforms
1659 such as OS X which exclude that when _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., are
1660 defined (report by Nicholas Cole)
1663 + modify write_object() to not write coincidental extensions of an
1664 entry made due to it being referenced in a use= clause (report by
1666 + another fix for infocmp -i option, which did not ensure that some
1667 escape sequences had comparable prefixes (report by Alain Bench).
1670 + improve discussion of init/reset in terminfo and tput manpages
1671 (report by Alain Bench).
1672 + use is3 string for a fallback of rs3 in the reset program; it was
1673 using is2 (report by Alain Bench).
1674 + correct logic for infocmp -i option, which did not account for
1675 multiple digits in a parameter (cf: 20040828) (report by Alain
1677 + move _nc_handle_sigwinch() to lib_setup.c to make --with-termlib
1678 option work after 20060114 changes (report by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz).
1679 + add copyright notices to test-programs as needed (report by William
1683 + modify ncurses.c 'F' test to combine the wide-characters with color
1684 and/or video attributes.
1685 + modify test/ncurses to use CTL/Q or ESC consistently for exiting
1686 a test-screen (some commands used 'x' or 'q').
1689 + fix an off-by-one in the scrolling-region change (cf_ 20060311).
1692 + add checks in waddchnstr() and wadd_wchnstr() to stop copying when
1693 a null character is found (report by Igor Bogomazov).
1694 + modify progs/Makefile.in to make "tput init" work properly with
1695 cygwin, i.e., do not pass a ".exe" in the reference string used
1696 in check_aliases (report by Samuel Thibault).
1697 + add some checks to ensure current position is within scrolling
1698 region before scrolling on a new line (report by Dan Gookin).
1699 + change some NewChar() usage to static variables to work around
1700 stack garbage introduced when cchar_t is not packed (Redhat #182024).
1703 + workarounds to build test/movewindow with PDcurses 2.7.
1704 + fix for nsterm-16color entry (patch by Alain Bench).
1705 + correct a typo in infocmp manpage (Debian #354281).
1708 + add nsterm-16color entry -TD
1709 + updated mlterm terminfo entry -TD
1710 + remove 970913 feature for copying subwindows as they are moved in
1711 mvwin() (discussion with Bryan Christ).
1712 + modify test/demo_menus.c to demonstrate moving a menu (both the
1713 window and subwindow) using shifted cursor-keys.
1714 + start implementing recursive mvwin() in movewindow.c (incomplete).
1715 + add a fallback definition for GCC_PRINTFLIKE() in test.priv.h,
1716 for movewindow.c (report by William McBrine).
1717 + add help-message to test/movewindow.c
1720 + add test/movewindow.c, to test mvderwin().
1721 + fix ncurses soft-key test so color changes are shown immediately
1722 rather than delayed.
1723 + modify ncurses soft-key test to hide the keys when exiting the test
1725 + fixes to build test programs with PDCurses 2.7, e.g., its headers
1726 rely on autoconf symbols, and it declares stubs for nonfunctional
1727 terminfo and termcap entrypoints.
1730 + improved test/configure to build test/ncurses on HPUX 11 using the
1732 + documented ALTERNATE CONFIGURATIONS in the ncurses manpage, for the
1733 benefit of developers who do not read INSTALL.
1736 + correct form library Window_To_Buffer() change (cf: 20040516), which
1737 should ignore the video attributes (report by Ricardo Cantu).
1740 + minor fixes to xmc-glitch experimental code:
1741 + suppress line-drawing
1742 + implement max_attributes
1744 + minor fixes for the database iterator.
1745 + fix some buffer limits in c++ demo (comment by Falk Hueffner in
1749 + add toe -a option, to show all databases. This uses new private
1750 interfaces in the ncurses library for iterating through the list of
1752 + fix toe from 20000909 changes which made it not look at
1754 + make toe's -v option parameter optional as per manpage.
1755 + improve SIGWINCH handling by postponing its effect during newterm(),
1756 etc., when allocating screens.
1759 + modify wgetnstr() to return KEY_RESIZE if a sigwinch occurs. Use
1760 this in test/filter.c
1761 + fix an error in filter() modification which caused some applications
1765 + check if filter() was called when getting the screensize. Keep it
1766 at 1 if so (based on Redhat #174498).
1767 + add extension nofilter().
1768 + refined the workaround for ACS mapping.
1769 + make ifdef's consistent in curses.h for the extended colors so the
1770 header file can be used for the normal curses library. The header
1771 file installed for extended colors is a variation of the
1772 wide-character configuration (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
1775 + add a workaround to ACS mapping to allow applications such as
1776 test/blue.c to use the "PC ROM" characters by masking them with
1777 A_ALTCHARSET. This worked up til 5.5, but was lost in the revision
1778 of legacy coding (report by Michael Deutschmann).
1779 + add a null-pointer check in the wide-character version of
1780 calculate_actual_width() (report by Victor Julien).
1781 + improve test/ncurses 'd' (color-edit) test by allowing the RGB
1782 values to be set independently (patch by William McBrine).
1783 + modify test/configure script to allow building test programs with
1785 + modified test programs to allow some to work with NetBSD curses.
1786 Several do not because NetBSD curses implements a subset of X/Open
1787 curses, and also lacks much of SVr4 additions. But it's enough for
1789 + update config.guess and config.sub
1792 + use BSD-specific fix for return-value from cgetent() from CVS where
1793 an unknown terminal type would be reportd as "database not found".
1794 + make tgetent() return code more readable using new symbols
1796 + remove references to non-existent "tctest" program.
1797 + remove TESTPROGS from progs/Makefile.in (it was referring to code
1798 that was never built in that directory).
1799 + typos in curs_addchstr.3x, some doc files (noticed in OpenBSD CVS).
1802 + add use_legacy_coding() function to support lynx's font-switching
1804 + fix formatting in curs_termcap.3x (report by Mike Frysinger).
1805 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to change preprocessor-expanded _Bool back to
1809 + extend test/ncurses.c 's' (overlay window) test to exercise overlay(),
1810 overwrite() and copywin() with different combinations of colors and
1811 attributes (including background color) to make it easy to see the
1812 effect of the different functions.
1813 + corrections to menu/m_global.c for wide-characters (report by
1817 + add configure option --without-dlsym, allowing developers to
1818 configure GPM support without using dlsym() (discussion with Michael
1820 + fix wins_nwstr(), which did not handle single-column non-8bit codes
1824 + move prototypes for wide-character trace functions from curses.tail
1825 to curses.wide to avoid accidental reference to those if
1826 _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined without ensuring that <wchar.h> is
1828 + add/use NCURSES_INLINE definition.
1829 + change some internal functions to use int/unsigned rather than the
1833 + remove a redundant check in lib_color.c (Debian #335655).
1834 + use ld's -search_paths_first option on Darwin to work around odd
1835 search rules on that platform (report by Christian Gennerat, analysis
1837 + remove special case for Darwin in CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro.
1838 + ignore EINTR in tcgetattr/tcsetattr calls (Debian #339518).
1839 + fix several bugs in test/bs.c (patch by Stephen Lindholm).
1842 + other minor fixes to cygwin based on tack -TD
1843 + correct smacs in cygwin (Debian #338234, report by Baurzhan
1844 Ismagulov, who noted that it was fixed in Cygwin).
1847 + add shifted up/down arrow codes to xterm-new as kind/kri strings -TD
1848 + modify wbkgrnd() to avoid clearing the A_CHARTEXT attribute bits
1849 since those record the state of multicolumn characters (Debian
1851 + modify werase to clear multicolumn characters that extend into
1852 a derived window (Debian #316663).
1855 + move assignment from environment variable ESCDELAY from initscr()
1856 down to newterm() so the environment variable affects timeouts for
1857 terminals opened with newterm() as well.
1858 + fix a memory leak in keyname().
1859 + add test/demo_altkeys.c
1860 + modify test/demo_defkey.c to exit from loop via 'q' to allow
1861 leak-checking, as well as fix a buffer size in winnstr() call.
1864 + correct order of use-clauses in rxvt-basic entry which made codes for
1865 f1-f4 vt100-style rather than vt220-style (report by Gabor Z Papp).
1866 + suppress configure check for gnatmake if Ada95/Makefile.in is not
1868 + correct a typo in configure --with-bool option for the case where
1869 --without-cxx is used (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1870 + add a note to INSTALL's discussion of --with-normal, pointing out
1871 that one may wish to use --without-gpm to ensure a completely
1872 static link (prompted by report by Felix von Leitner).
1874 20051010 5.5 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1877 + document in demo_forms.c some portability issues.
1880 + document side-effect of werase() which sets the cursor position.
1881 + save/restore the current position in form field editing to make
1885 + correct header dependencies in progs, allowing parallel make (report
1886 by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1887 + modify CF_BUILD_CC to ensure that pre-setting $BUILD_CC overrides
1888 the configure check for --with-build-cc (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
1889 + modify CF_CFG_DEFAULTS to not use /usr as the default prefix for
1891 + update config.guess and config.sub from
1892 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
1895 + modify sed expression which computes path for /usr/lib/terminfo
1896 symbolic link in install to ensure that it does not change unexpected
1897 levels of the path (Gentoo #42336).
1898 + modify default for --disable-lp64 configure option to reduce impact
1899 on existing 64-bit builds. Enabling the _LP64 option may change the
1900 size of chtype and mmask_t. However, for ABI 6, it is enabled by
1901 default (report by Mike Frysinger).
1902 + add configure script check for --enable-ext-mouse, bump ABI to 6 by
1903 default if it is used.
1904 + improve configure script logic for bumping ABI to omit this if the
1905 --with-abi-version option was used.
1906 + update address for Free Software Foundation in tack's source.
1907 + correct wins_wch(), which was not marking the filler-cells of
1908 multi-column characters (cf: 20041023).
1911 + modify mouse initialization to ensure that Gpm_Open() is called only
1912 once. Otherwise GPM gets confused in its initialization of signal
1913 handlers (Debian #326709).
1916 + modify logic for backspacing in a multiline form field to ensure that
1917 it works even when the preceding line is full (report by Frank van
1919 + remove comment about BUGS section of ncurses manpage (Debian #325481)
1922 + document some workarounds for shared and libtool library
1923 configurations in INSTALL (see --with-shared and --with-libtool).
1924 + modify CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GXX_VERSION macros to accommodate
1925 cross-compilers which emit the platform name in their version
1927 arm-sa1100-linux-gnu-g++ (GCC) 4.0.1
1928 (report by Frank van Vugt).
1931 + start updating documentation for upcoming 5.5 release.
1932 + fix to make libtool and libtinfo work together again (cf: 20050122).
1933 + fixes to allow building traces into libtinfo
1934 + add debug trace to tic that shows if/how ncurses will write to the
1935 lower corner of a terminal's screen.
1936 + update llib-l* files.
1939 + modify initializers in c++ binding to build with old versions of g++.
1940 + improve special case for 20050115 repainting fix, ensuring that if
1941 the first changed cell is not a character that the range to be
1942 repainted is adjusted to start at a character's beginning (Debian
1946 + fixes to build on QNX 6.1
1947 + improve configure script checks for Intel 9.0 compiler.
1948 + remove #include's for libc.h (obsolete).
1949 + adjust ifdef's in curses.priv.h so that when cross-compiling to
1950 produce comp_hash and make_keys, no dependency on wchar.h is needed.
1951 That simplifies the build-cppflags (report by Frank van Vugt).
1952 + move modules related to key-binding into libtinfo to fix linkage
1953 problem caused by 20050430 changes to MKkeyname.sh (report by
1954 Konstantin Andreev).
1957 + updates/fixes for configure script macros from vile -TD
1958 + make prism9's sgr string agree with the rest of the terminfo -TD
1959 + make vt220's sgr0 string consistent with sgr string, do this for
1960 several related cases -TD
1961 + improve translation to termcap by filtering the 'me' (sgr0) strings
1962 as in the runtime call to tgetent() (prompted by a discussion with
1964 + improve tic check for sgr0 versus sgr(0), to help ensure that sgr0
1965 resets line-drawing.
1968 + fix special cases for trimming sgr0 for hurd and vt220 (Debian
1970 + split-out _nc_trim_sgr0() from modifications made to tgetent(), to
1971 allow it to be used by tic to provide information about the runtime
1972 changes that would be made to sgr0 for termcap applications.
1973 + modify make_sed.sh to make the group-name in the NAME section of
1974 form/menu library manpage agree with the TITLE string when renaming
1975 is done for Debian (Debian #78866).
1978 + modify parameter type in c++ binding for insch() and mvwinsch() to
1979 be consistent with underlying ncurses library (was char, is chtype).
1980 + modify treatment of Intel compiler to allow _GNU_SOURCE to be defined
1982 + improve configure check for nanosleep(), checking that it works since
1983 some older systems such as AIX 4.3 have a nonworking version.
1986 + update config.guess and config.sub from
1987 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
1988 + modify misc/shlib to work in test-directory.
1989 + suppress $suffix in misc/run_tic.sh when cross-compiling. This
1990 allows cross-compiles to use the host's tic program to handle the
1991 "make install.data" step.
1992 + improve description of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables in manpages
1993 (prompted by report by Dave Ulrick).
1994 + improve description of cross-compiling in INSTALL
1995 + add NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html by Pradeep Padala
1996 (see http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/).
1997 + modify configure script to obtain soname for GPM library (discussion
1998 with Daniel Jacobowitz).
1999 + modify configure script so that --with-chtype option will still
2000 compute the unsigned literals suffix for constants in curses.h
2001 (report by Daniel Jacobowitz:
2002 + patches from Daniel Jacobowitz:
2003 + the man_db.renames entry for tack.1 was backwards.
2004 + tack.1 had some 1m's that should have been 1M's.
2005 + the section for curs_inwstr.3 was wrong.
2008 + correction to --with-chtype option (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
2011 + move build-time edit_man.sh and edit_man.sed scripts to top directory
2012 to simplify reusing them for renaming tack's manpage (prompted by a
2013 review of Debian package).
2014 + revert minor optimization from 20041030 (Debian #313609).
2015 + libtool-specific fixes, tested with libtool 1.4.3, 1.5.0, 1.5.6,
2016 1.5.10 and 1.5.18 (all work except as noted previously for the c++
2017 install using libtool 1.5.0):
2018 + modify the clean-rule in c++/Makefile.in to work with IRIX64 make
2020 + use $(LIBTOOL_UNINSTALL) symbol, overlooked in 20030830
2021 + add configure options --with-chtype and --with-mmask-t, to allow
2022 overriding of the non-LP64 model's use of the corresponding types.
2023 + revise test for size of chtype (and mmask_t), which always returned
2024 "long" due to an uninitialized variable (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
2027 + change _tracef's that used "%p" format for va_list values to ignore
2028 that, since on some platforms those are not pointers.
2029 + fixes for long-formats in printf's due to largefile support.
2032 + fixes for termcap support:
2033 + reset pointer to _nc_curr_token.tk_name when the input stream is
2034 closed, which could point to free memory (cf: 20030215).
2035 + delink TERMTYPE data which is used by the termcap reader, so that
2036 extended names data will be freed consistently.
2037 + free pointer to TERMTYPE data in _nc_free_termtype() rather than
2039 + add some entrypoints for freeing permanently allocated data via
2040 _nc_freeall() when NO_LEAKS is defined.
2041 + amend 20041030 change to _nc_do_color to ensure that optimization is
2042 applied only when the terminal supports back_color_erase (bce).
2045 + add sun-color terminfo entry -TD
2046 + correct a missing assignment in c++ binding's method
2047 NCursesPanel::UserPointer() from 20050409 changes.
2048 + improve configure check for large-files, adding check for dirent64
2050 + minor change to configure script to improve linker options for the
2054 + document error conditions for ncurses library functions (report by
2056 + regenerated html documentation for ada binding.
2057 see ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/gnathtml
2060 + regenerated html documentation for manpages.
2061 + add $(BUILD_EXEEXT) suffix to invocation of make_keys in
2062 ncurses/Makefile (Gentoo #89772).
2063 + modify c++/demo.cc to build with g++ -fno-implicit-templates option
2064 (patch by Mike Frysinger).
2065 + modify tic to filter out long extended names when translating to
2066 termcap format. Only two characters are permissible for termcap
2070 + modify terminfo entries xterm-new and rxvt to add strings for
2071 shift-, control-cursor keys.
2072 + workaround to allow c++ binding to compile with g++ 2.95.3, which
2073 has a broken implementation of static_cast<> (patch by Jeff Chua).
2074 + modify initialization of key lookup table so that if an extended
2075 capability (tic -x) string is defined, and its name begins with 'k',
2076 it will automatically be treated as a key.
2077 + modify test/keynames.c to allow for the possibility of extended
2078 key names, e.g., via define_key(), or via "tic -x".
2079 + add test/demo_termcap.c to show the contents of given entry via the
2083 + minor fixes for vt100/vt52 entries -TD
2084 + add configure option --enable-largefile
2085 + corrected libraries used to build Ada95/gen/gen, found in testing
2089 + update config.guess, config.sub
2090 + modify configure script check for _XOPEN_SOURCE, disable that on
2091 Darwin whose header files have problems (patch by Chris Zubrzycki).
2092 + modify form library Is_Printable_String() to use iswprint() rather
2093 than wcwidth() for determining if a character is printable. The
2094 latter caused it to reject menu items containing non-spacing
2096 + modify ncurses test program's F-test to handle non-spacing characters
2097 by combining them with a reverse-video blank.
2098 + review/fix several gcc -Wconversion warnings.
2101 + correct an off-by-one error in m_driver() for mouse-clicks used to
2102 position the mouse to a particular item.
2103 + implement test/demo_menus.c
2104 + add some checks in lib_mouse to ensure SP is set.
2105 + modify C++ binding to make 20050403 changes work with the configure
2106 --enable-const option.
2109 + modify start_color() to return ERR if it cannot allocate memory.
2110 + address g++ compiler warnings in C++ binding by adding explicit
2111 member initialization, assignment operators and copy constructors.
2112 Most of the changes simply preserve the existing semantics of the
2113 binding, which can leak memory, etc., but by making these features
2114 visible, it provides a framework for improving the binding.
2115 + improve C++ binding using static_cast, etc.
2116 + modify configure script --enable-warnings to add options to g++ to
2117 correspond to the gcc --enable-warnings.
2118 + modify C++ binding to use some C internal functions to make it
2119 compile properly on Solaris (and other platforms).
2122 + amend change from 20050320 to limit it to configurations with a
2124 + fix a bug introduced in 20050320 which broke the translation of
2125 nonprinting characters to uparrow form (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
2128 + add ifdef's for _LP64 in curses.h to avoid using wasteful 64-bits for
2129 chtype and mmask_t, but add configure option --disable-lp64 in case
2130 anyone used that configuration.
2131 + update misc/shlib script to account for Mac OS X (report by Michail
2133 + correct comparison for wrapping multibyte characters in
2134 waddch_literal() (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
2137 + add -c and -w options to tset to allow user to suppress ncurses'
2138 resizing of the terminal emulator window in the special case where it
2139 is not able to detect the true size (report by Win Delvaux, Debian
2141 + modify waddch_nosync() to account for locale zn_CH.GBK, which uses
2142 codes 128-159 as part of multibyte characters (report by Wang
2143 WenRui, Debian #300512).
2146 + modify ncurses.c 'd' test to make it work with 88-color
2147 configuration, i.e., by implementing scrolling.
2148 + improve scrolling in ncurses.c 'c' and 'C' tests, e.g., for 88-color
2152 + change tracemunch to use strict checking.
2153 + modify ncurses.c 'p' test to test line-drawing within a pad.
2154 + implement environment variable NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS to support
2155 miscellaneous terminal emulators which ignore alternate character
2156 set escape sequences when in UTF-8 mode.
2159 + change NCursesWindow::err_handler() to a virtual function (request by
2161 + modify fty_int.c and fty_num.c to handle wide characters (report by
2163 + adapt fix for fty_alpha.c to fty_alnum.c, which also handled normal
2164 and wide characters inconsistently (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
2165 + update llib-* files to reflect internal interface additions/changes.
2168 + improve test/configure script, adding tests for _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc.,
2170 + add aixterm-16color terminfo entry -TD
2171 + modified xterm-new terminfo entry to work with tgetent() changes -TD
2172 + extended changes in tgetent() from 20040710 to allow the substring of
2173 sgr0 which matches rmacs to be at the beginning of the sgr0 string
2174 (request by Thomas Wolff). Wolff says the visual effect in
2175 combination with pre-20040710 ncurses is improved.
2176 + fix off-by-one in winnstr() call which caused form field validation
2177 of multibyte characters to ignore the last character in a field.
2178 + correct logic in winsch() for inserting multibyte strings; the code
2179 would clear cells after the insertion rather than push them to the
2180 right (cf: 20040228).
2181 + fix an inconsistency in Check_Alpha_Field() between normal and wide
2182 character logic (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
2185 + fix a bug in editing wide-characters in form library: deleting a
2186 nonwide character modified the previous wide-character.
2187 + update manpage to describe NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2.
2188 + correct manpage description of mouseinterval() (Debian #280687).
2189 + add a note to default_colors.3x explaining why this extension was
2190 added (Debian #295083).
2191 + add traces to panel library.
2194 + improve editing of wide-characters in form library: left/right
2195 cursor movement, and single-character deletions work properly.
2196 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM happens to be prefixed with
2197 "xterm". Gpm_Open() would otherwise assert that it can deal with
2198 mouse events in this case.
2199 + modify GPM mouse support so it closes the server connection when
2200 the caller disables the mouse (report by Stanislav Ievlev).
2203 + add traces for callback functions in form library.
2204 + add experimental configure option --enable-ext-mouse, which defines
2205 NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2, and modifies the encoding of mouse events to
2206 support wheel mice, which may transmit buttons 4 and 5. This works
2207 with xterm and similar X terminal emulators (prompted by question by
2208 Andreas Henningsson, this is also related to Debian #230990).
2209 + improve configure macros CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE to
2210 avoid redefinition warnings on cygwin.
2213 + merge remaining development changes for extended colors (mostly
2214 complete, does not appear to break other configurations).
2215 + add xterm-88color.dat (part of extended colors testing).
2216 + improve _tracedump() handling of color pairs past 96.
2217 + modify return-value from start_color() to return OK if colors have
2218 already been started.
2219 + modify curs_color.3x list error conditions for init_pair(),
2220 pair_content() and color_content().
2221 + modify pair_content() to return -1 for consistency with init_pair()
2222 if it corresponds to the default-color.
2223 + change internal representation of default-color to allow application
2224 to use color number 255. This does not affect the total number of
2225 color pairs which are allowed.
2226 + add a top-level tags rule.
2229 + add a null-pointer check in wgetch() in case it is called without
2230 first calling initscr().
2231 + add some null-pointer checks for SP, which is not set by libtinfo.
2232 + modify misc/shlib to ensure that absolute pathnames are used.
2233 + modify test/Makefile.in, etc., to link test programs only against the
2234 libraries needed, e.g., omit form/menu/panel library for the ones
2235 that are curses-specific.
2236 + change SP->_current_attr to a pointer, adjust ifdef's to ensure that
2237 libtinfo.so and libtinfow.so have the same ABI. The reason for this
2238 is that the corresponding data which belongs to the upper-level
2239 ncurses library has a different size in each model (report by
2243 + minor fixes to allow test-compiles with g++.
2244 + correct column value shown in tic's warnings, which did not account
2245 for leading whitespace.
2246 + add a check in _nc_trans_string() for improperly ended strings, i.e.,
2247 where a following line begins in column 1.
2248 + modify _nc_save_str() to return a null pointer on buffer overflow.
2249 + improve repainting while scrolling wide-character data (Eungkyu Song).
2252 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
2255 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
2256 + fix manpage typo (FreeBSD report docs/75544).
2257 + update config.guess, config.sub
2258 > patches for configure script (Albert Chin-A-Young):
2259 + improved fix to make mbstate_t recognized on HPUX 11i (cf:
2260 20030705), making vsscanf() prototype visible on IRIX64. Tested for
2261 on HP-UX 11i, Solaris 7, 8, 9, AIX 4.3.3, 5.2, Tru64 UNIX 4.0D, 5.1,
2262 IRIX64 6.5, Redhat Linux 7.1, 9, and RHEL 2.1, 3.0.
2263 + print the result of the --disable-home-terminfo option.
2264 + use -rpath when compiling with SGI C compiler.
2267 + add trace calls to remaining public functions in form and menu
2269 + fix check for numeric digits in test/ncurses.c 'b' and 'B' tests.
2270 + fix typo in test/ncurses.c 'c' test from 20041218.
2273 + revise test/ncurses.c 'c' color test to improve use for xterm-88color
2274 and xterm-256color, added 'C' test using the wide-character color_set
2275 and attr_set functions.
2278 + modify configure script to work with Intel compiler.
2279 + fix an limit-check in wadd_wchnstr() which caused labels in the
2280 forms-demo to be one character short.
2281 + fix typo in curs_addchstr.3x (Jared Yanovich).
2282 + add trace calls to most functions in form and menu libraries.
2283 + update working-position for adding wide-characters when window is
2284 scrolled (prompted by related report by Eungkyu Song).
2287 + replace some references on Linux to wcrtomb() which use it to obtain
2288 the length of a multibyte string with _nc_wcrtomb, since wcrtomb() is
2289 broken in glibc (see Debian #284260).
2290 + corrected length-computation in wide-character support for
2292 + some fixes to frm_driver.c to allow it to accept multibyte input.
2293 + modify configure script to work with Intel 8.0 compiler.
2296 + amend change to setupterm() in 20030405 which would reuse the value
2297 of cur_term if the same output was selected. This now reuses it only
2298 when setupterm() is called from tgetent(), which has no notion of
2299 separate SCREENs. Note that tgetent() must be called after initscr()
2300 or newterm() to use this feature (Redhat Bugzilla #140326).
2301 + add a check in CF_BUILD_CC macro to ensure that developer has given
2302 the --with-build-cc option when cross-compiling (report by Alexandre
2304 + improved configure script checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE and
2305 _POSIX_C_SOURCE (fix for IRIX 5.3 from Georg Schwarz, _POSIX_C_SOURCE
2307 + cosmetic fix to test/gdc.c to recolor the bottom edge of the box
2308 for consistency (comment by Dan Nelson).
2311 + update wsvt25 terminfo entry -TD
2312 + modify test/ins_wide.c to test all flavors of ins_wstr().
2313 + ignore filler-cells in wadd_wchnstr() when adding a cchar_t array
2314 which consists of multi-column characters, since this function
2315 constructs them (cf: 20041023).
2316 + modify winnstr() to return multibyte character strings for the
2317 wide-character configuration.
2320 + fixes to make slk_set() and slk_wset() accept and store multibyte
2321 or multicolumn characters.
2324 + improve color optimization a little by making _nc_do_color() check
2325 if the old/new pairs are equivalent to the default pair 0.
2326 + modify assume_default_colors() to not require that
2327 use_default_colors() be called first.
2330 + modify term_attrs() to use termattrs(), add the extended attributes
2331 such as enter_horizontal_hl_mode for WA_HORIZONTAL to term_attrs().
2332 + add logic in waddch_literal() to clear orphaned cells when one
2333 multi-column character partly overwrites another.
2334 + improved logic for clearing cells when a multi-column character
2335 must be wrapped to a new line.
2336 + revise storage of cells for multi-column characters to correct a
2337 problem with repainting. In the old scheme, it was possible for
2338 doupdate() to decide that only part of a multi-column character
2339 should be repainted since the filler cells stored only an attribute
2340 to denote them as fillers, rather than the character value and the
2344 + minor fixes for traces.
2345 + add SP->_screen_acs_map[], used to ensure that mapping of missing
2346 line-drawing characters is handled properly. For example, ACS_DARROW
2347 is absent from xterm-new, and it was coincidentally displayed the
2351 + amend 20021221 workaround for broken acs to reset the sgr, rmacs
2352 and smacs strings as well. Also modify the check for screen's
2353 limitations in that area to allow the multi-character shift-in
2354 and shift-out which seem to work.
2355 + change GPM initialization, using dl library to load it dynamically
2356 at runtime (Debian #110586).
2359 + correct logic for color pair in setcchar() and getcchar() (patch by
2360 Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
2361 + add t/T commands to ncurses b/B tests to allow a different color to
2362 be tested for the attrset part of the test than is used in the
2366 + fix to make setcchar() to work when its wchar_t* parameter is
2367 pointing to a string which contains more data than can be converted.
2368 + modify wget_wstr() and example in ncurses.c to work if wchar_t and
2369 wint_t are different sizes (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
2372 + remove check in wget_wch() added to fix an infinite loop, appears to
2373 have been working around a transitory glibc bug, and interferes
2374 with normal operation (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
2375 + correct wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not pass the rendition
2376 information (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
2377 + fix aclocal.m4 so that the wide-character version of ncurses gets
2378 compiled as libncursesw.5.dylib, instead of libncurses.5w.dylib
2379 (adapted from patch by James J Ramsey).
2380 + change configure script for --with-caps option to indicate that it
2381 is no longer experimental.
2382 + change configure script to reflect the fact that --enable-widec has
2383 not been "experimental" since 5.3 (report by Bruno Lustosa).
2386 + add 'B' test to ncurses.c, to exercise some wide-character functions.
2389 + modify infocmp -i option to match 8-bit controls against its table
2390 entries, e.g., so it can analyze the xterm-8bit entry.
2391 + add morphos terminfo entry, improve amiga-8bit entry (Pavel Fedin).
2392 + correct translation of "%%" in terminfo format to termcap, e.g.,
2393 using "tic -C" (Redhat Bugzilla #130921).
2394 + modified configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to ensure that if
2395 it defines _POSIX_C_SOURCE, that it defines it to a specific value
2396 (comp.os.stratus newsgroup comment).
2399 + fixes to build with Ada95 binding with gnat 3.4 (all warnings are
2400 fatal, and gnat does not follow the guidelines for pragmas).
2401 However that did find a coding error in Assume_Default_Colors().
2402 + modify several terminfo entries to ensure xterm mouse and cursor
2403 visibility are reset in rs2 string: hurd, putty, gnome,
2404 konsole-base, mlterm, Eterm, screen (Debian #265784, #55637). The
2405 xterm entries are left alone - old ones for compatibility, and the
2406 new ones do not require this change. -TD
2409 + fake a SIGWINCH in newterm() to accommodate buggy terminal emulators
2410 and window managers (Debian #265631).
2411 > terminfo updates -TD
2412 + remove dch/dch1 from rxvt because they are implemented inconsistently
2413 with the common usage of bce/ech
2414 + remove khome from vt220 (vt220's have no home key)
2418 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test, adding v/V toggles to cycle through
2419 combinations of video attributes so that for instance bold and
2420 underline can be tested. This made the legend too crowded, added
2421 a help window as well.
2422 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test to cycle through default colors if
2423 the -d option is set.
2424 + update putty terminfo entry (Robert de Bath).
2427 + modify test/cardfile.c to allow it to read more data than can be
2429 + correct logic in resizeterm.c which kept it from processing all
2430 levels of window hierarchy (reports by Folkert van Heusden,
2434 + modify "tic -cv" to ignore delays when comparing strings. Also
2435 modify it to ignore a canceled sgr string, e.g., for terminals which
2436 cannot properly combine attributes in one control sequence.
2437 + corrections for gnome and konsole entries (Redhat Bugzilla #122815,
2438 patch by Hans de Goede)
2439 > terminfo updates -TD
2440 + make ncsa-m rmacs/smacs consistent with sgr
2441 + add sgr, rc/sc and ech to syscons entries
2442 + add function-keys to decansi
2443 + add sgr to mterm-ansi
2444 + add sgr, civis, cnorm to emu
2445 + correct/simplify cup in addrinfo
2448 > terminfo updates -TD
2449 + add xterm-pc-fkeys
2450 + review/update gnome and gnome-rh90 entries (prompted by Redhat
2452 + review/update konsole entries
2453 + add sgr, correct sgr0 for kterm and mlterm
2454 + correct tsl string in kterm
2457 + add configure option --without-xterm-new
2460 + add check in wget_wch() for printable bytes that are not part of a
2461 multibyte character.
2462 + modify wadd_wchnstr() to render text using window's background
2464 + improve tic's check to compare sgr and sgr0.
2465 + fix c++ directory's .cc.i rule.
2466 + modify logic in tgetent() which adjusts the termcap "me" string
2467 to work with ISO-2022 string used in xterm-new (cf: 20010908).
2468 + modify tic's check for conflicting function keys to omit that if
2469 converting termcap to termcap format.
2470 + add -U option to tic and infocmp.
2471 + add rmam/smam to linux terminfo entry (Trevor Van Bremen)
2472 > terminfo updates -TD
2473 + minor fixes for emu
2475 + change wyse acsc strings to use 'i' map rather than 'I'
2480 + use tic -x to install terminfo database -TD
2481 + add -x to infocmp's usage message.
2482 + correct field used for comparing O_ROWMAJOR in set_menu_format()
2483 (report/patch by Tony Li).
2484 + fix a missing nul check in set_field_buffer() from 20040508 changes.
2485 > terminfo updates -TD
2486 + make xterm-xf86-v43 derived from xterm-xf86-v40 rather than
2488 + align with xterm patch #192's use of xterm-new -TD
2489 + update xterm-new and xterm-8bit for cvvis/cnorm strings -TD
2490 + make xterm-new the default "xterm" entry -TD
2493 + correct BUILD_CPPFLAGS substitution in ncurses/Makefile.in, to allow
2494 cross-compiling from a separate directory tree (report/patch by
2496 + modify is_term_resized() to ensure that window sizes are nonzero,
2497 as documented in the manpage (report by Ian Collier).
2498 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro to make Hurd port build
2499 (Debian #249214, report/patch by Jeff Bailey).
2500 + configure-script mods from xterm, e.g., updates to CF_ADD_CFLAGS
2501 + update config.guess, config.sub
2502 > terminfo updates -TD
2504 + add xterm-xf86-v44
2505 + modify xterm-new aka xterm-xfree86 to accommodate luit, which
2506 relies on G1 being used via an ISO-2022 escape sequence (report by
2511 + reconsidered winsnstr(), decided after comparing other
2512 implementations that wrapping is an X/Open documentation error.
2513 + modify test/inserts.c to test all flavors of insstr().
2516 + add setlocale() calls to a few test programs which may require it:
2517 demo_forms.c, filter.c, ins_wide.c, inserts.c
2518 + correct a few misspelled function names in ncurses-intro.html (report
2520 + correct internal name of key_defined() manpage, which conflicted with
2524 + correct size of internal pad used for holding wide-character
2525 field_buffer() results.
2526 + modify data_ahead() to work with wide-characters.
2529 + improve description of terminfo if-then-else expressions (suggested
2531 + improve test/ncurses.c 'd' test, allow it to use external file for
2532 initial palette (added xterm-16color.dat and linux-color.dat), and
2533 reset colors to the initial palette when starting/ending the test.
2534 + change limit-check in init_color() to allow r/g/b component to
2535 reach 1000 (cf: 20020928).
2538 + modify form library to use cchar_t's rather than char's in the
2539 wide-character configuration for storing data for field buffers.
2540 + correct logic of win_wchnstr(), which did not work for more than
2544 + replace memset/memcpy usage in form library with for-loops to
2545 simplify changing the datatype of FIELD.buf, part of wide-character
2547 + fix some inconsistent use of #if/#ifdef (report by Alain Guibert).
2550 + modify menu library to account for actual number of columns used by
2551 multibyte character strings, in the wide-character configuration
2552 (adapted from patch by Philipp Tomsich).
2553 + add "-x" option to infocmp like tic's "-x", for use in "-F"
2554 comparisons. This modifies infocmp to only report extended
2555 capabilities if the -x option is given, making this more consistent
2556 with tic. Some scripts may break, since infocmp previous gave this
2557 information without an option.
2558 + modify termcap-parsing to retain 2-character aliases at the beginning
2559 of an entry if the "-x" option is used in tic.
2562 + minor compiler-warning and test-program fixes.
2565 + modify tic's missing-sgr warning to apply to terminfo only.
2566 + free some memory leaks in tic.
2567 + remove check in post_menu() that prevented menus from extending
2568 beyond the screen (request by Max J. Werner).
2569 + remove check in newwin() that prevents allocating windows
2570 that extend beyond the screen. Solaris curses does this.
2571 + add ifdef in test/color_set.c to allow it to compile with older
2573 + add napms() calls to test/dots.c to make it not be a CPU hog.
2576 + modify unctrl() to return null if its parameter does not correspond
2577 to an unsigned char.
2578 + add some limit-checks to guard isprint(), etc., from being used on
2579 values that do not fit into an unsigned char (report by Sami Farin).
2582 + fix a typo in the _nc_get_locale() change.
2585 + modify _nc_get_locale() to use setlocale() to query the program's
2586 current locale rather than using getenv(). This fixes a case in tin
2587 which relies on legacy treatment of 8-bit characters when the locale
2588 is not initialized (reported by Urs Jansen).
2589 + add sgr string to screen's and rxvt's terminfo entries -TD.
2590 + add a check in tic for terminfo entries having an sgr0 but no sgr
2591 string. This confuses Tru64 and HPUX curses when combined with
2592 color, e.g., making them leave line-drawing characters in odd places.
2593 + correct casts used in ABSENT_BOOLEAN, CANCELLED_BOOLEAN, matches the
2594 original definitions used in Debian package to fix PowerPC bug before
2595 20030802 (Debian #237629).
2598 + modify PutAttrChar() and PUTC() macro to improve use of
2599 A_ALTCHARSET attribute to prevent line-drawing characters from
2600 being lost in situations where the locale would otherwise treat the
2601 raw data as nonprintable (Debian #227879).
2604 + fix a redefinition of CTRL() macro in test/view.c for AIX 5.2 (report
2606 + remove ".PP" after ".SH NAME" in a few manpages; this confuses
2607 some apropos script (Debian #237831).
2610 + modify ncurses.c 'r' test so editing commands, like inserted text,
2611 set the field background, and the state of insert/overlay editing
2612 mode is shown in that test.
2613 + change syntax of dummy targets in Ada95 makefiles to work with pmake.
2614 + correct logic in test/ncurses.c 'b' for noncolor terminals which
2615 did not recognize a quit-command (cf: 20030419).
2618 + modify _nc_insert_ch() to allow for its input to be part of a
2620 + split out lib_insnstr.c, to prepare to rewrite it. X/Open states
2621 that this function performs wrapping, unlike all of the other
2622 insert-functions. Currently it does not wrap.
2623 + check for nl_langinfo(CODESET), use it if available (report by
2625 + split-out CF_BUILD_CC macro, actually did this for lynx first.
2626 + fixes for configure script CF_WITH_DBMALLOC and CF_WITH_DMALLOC,
2627 which happened to work with bash, but not with Bourne shell (report
2628 by Marco d'Itri via tin-dev).
2631 + some changes to adapt the form library to wide characters, incomplete
2632 (request by Mike Aubury).
2633 + add symbol to curses.h which can be used to suppress include of
2635 #define NCURSES_ENABLE_STDBOOL_H 0
2637 (discussion on XFree86 mailing list).
2640 + modify configure --with-termlib option to accept a value which sets
2641 the name of the terminfo library. This would allow a packager to
2642 build libtinfow.so renamed to coincide with libtinfo.so (discussion
2643 with Stanislav Ievlev).
2644 + improve documentation of --with-install-prefix, --prefix and
2645 $(DESTDIR) in INSTALL (prompted by discussion with Paul Lew).
2646 + add configure check if the compiler can use -c -o options to rename
2647 its output file, use that to omit the 'cd' command which was used to
2648 ensure object files are created in a separate staging directory
2649 (prompted by comments by Johnny Wezel, Martin Mokrejs).
2651 20040208 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2654 20040207 pre-release
2655 + minor fixes to _nc_tparm_analyze(), i.e., do not count %i as a param,
2656 and do not count %d if it follows a %p.
2657 + correct an inconsistency between handling of codes in the 128-255
2658 range, e.g., as illustrated by test/ncurses.c f/F tests. In POSIX
2659 locale, the latter did not show printable results, while the former
2661 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to compensate for broken C preprocessor on Mac
2662 OS X, which alters "%%" to "% % " (report by Robert Simms, fix
2663 verified by Scott Corscadden).
2665 20040131 pre-release
2666 + modify SCREEN struct to align it between normal/wide curses flavors
2667 to simplify future changes to build a single version of libtinfo
2668 (patch by Stanislav Ievlev).
2669 + document handling of carriage return by addch() in manpage.
2670 + document special features of unctrl() in manpage.
2671 + documented interface changes in INSTALL.
2672 + corrected control-char test in lib_addch.c to account for locale
2673 (Debian #230335, cf: 971206).
2674 + updated test/configure.in to use AC_EXEEXT and AC_OBJEXT.
2675 + fixes to compile Ada95 binding with Debian gnat 3.15p-4 package.
2676 + minor configure-script fixes for older ports, e.g., BeOS R4.5.
2678 20040125 pre-release
2679 + amend change to PutAttrChar() from 20030614 which computed the number
2680 of cells for a possibly multi-cell character. The 20030614 change
2681 forced the cell to a blank if the result from wcwidth() was not
2682 greater than zero. However, wcwidth() called for parameters in the
2683 range 128-255 can give this return value. The logic now simply
2684 ensures that the number of cells is greater than zero without
2685 modifying the displayed value.
2687 20040124 pre-release
2688 + looked good for 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org (but see above)
2689 + modify configure script check for ranlib to use AC_CHECK_TOOL, since
2690 that works better for cross-compiling.
2692 20040117 pre-release
2693 + modify lib_get_wch.c to prefer mblen/mbtowc over mbrlen/mbrtowc to
2694 work around core dump in Solaris 8's locale support, e.g., for
2695 zh_CN.GB18030 (report by Saravanan Bellan).
2696 + add includes for <stdarg.h> and <stdio.h> in configure script macro
2697 to make <wchar.h> check work with Tru64 4.0d.
2698 + add terminfo entry for U/Win -TD
2699 + add terminfo entries for SFU aka Interix aka OpenNT (Federico
2701 + modify tput's error messages to prefix them with the program name
2702 (report by Vincent Lefevre, patch by Daniel Jacobowitz (see Debian
2704 + correct a place in tack where exit_standout_mode was used instead of
2705 exit_attribute_mode (patch by Jochen Voss (see Debian #224443)).
2706 + modify c++/cursesf.h to use const in the Enumeration_Field method.
2707 + remove an ambiguous (actually redundant) method from c++/cursesf.h
2708 + make $HOME/.terminfo update optional (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
2709 + improve sed script which extracts libtool's version in the
2710 CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro.
2711 + add ifdef'd call to AC_PROG_LIBTOOL to CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro (to
2712 simplify local patch for Albert Chin-A-Young)..
2713 + add $(CXXFLAGS) to link command in c++/Makefile.in (adapted from
2714 patch by Albert Chin-A-Young)..
2715 + fix a missing substitution in configure.in for "$target" needed for
2717 + resync CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro with lynx; fixes IRIX64 and
2718 NetBSD 1.6 conflicts with _XOPEN_SOURCE.
2719 + make check for stdbool.h more specific, to ensure that including it
2720 will actually define/declare bool for the configured compiler.
2721 + rewrite ifdef's in curses.h relating NCURSES_BOOL and bool. The
2722 intention of that is to #define NCURSES_BOOL as bool when the
2723 compiler declares bool, and to #define bool as NCURSES_BOOL when it
2724 does not (reported by Jim Gifford, Sam Varshavchik, cf: 20031213).
2726 20040110 pre-release
2727 + change minor version to 4, i.e., ncurses 5.4
2728 + revised/improved terminfo entries for tvi912b, tvi920b (Benjamin C W
2730 + simplified ncurses/base/version.c by defining the result from the
2731 configure script rather than using sprintf (suggested by Stanislav
2733 + remove obsolete casts from c++/cursesw.h (reported by Stanislav
2735 + modify configure script so that when configuring for termlib, programs
2736 such as tic are not linked with the upper-level ncurses library
2737 (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
2738 + move version.c from ncurses/base to ncurses/tinfo to allow linking
2739 of tic, etc., using libtinfo (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
2742 + adjust -D's to build ncursesw on OpenBSD.
2743 + modify CF_PROG_EXT to make OS/2 build with EXEEXT.
2744 + add pecho_wchar().
2745 + remove <wctype.h> include from lib_slk_wset.c which is not needed (or
2746 available) on older platforms.
2749 + add -D's to build ncursew on FreeBSD 5.1.
2750 + modify shared library configuration for FreeBSD 4.x/5.x to add the
2751 soname information (request by Marc Glisse).
2752 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() to not use MAX_ALIAS, but PATH_MAX only
2753 for limiting the length of a filename in the terminfo database.
2754 + modify termname() to return the terminal name used by setupterm()
2755 rather than $TERM, without truncating to 14 characters as documented
2756 by X/Open (report by Stanislav Ievlev, cf: 970719).
2757 + re-add definition for _BSD_TYPES, lost in merge (cf: 20031206).
2760 + add configure option --with-manpage-format=catonly to address
2761 behavior of BSDI, allow install of man+cat files on NetBSD, whose
2762 behavior has diverged by requiring both to be present.
2763 + remove leading blanks from comment-lines in manlinks.sed script to
2764 work with Tru64 4.0d.
2765 + add screen.linux terminfo entry (discussion on mutt-users mailing
2769 + add a check for tic to flag missing backslashes for termcap
2770 continuation lines. ncurses reads the whole entry, but termcap
2771 applications do not.
2772 + add configure option "--with-manpage-aliases" extending
2773 "--with-manpage-aliases" to provide the option of generating ".so"
2774 files rather than symbolic links for manpage aliases.
2775 + add bool definition in include/curses.h.in for configurations with no
2776 usable C++ compiler (cf: 20030607).
2777 + fix pathname of SigAction.h for building with --srcdir (reported by
2781 + folded ncurses/base/sigaction.c into includes of ncurses/SigAction.h,
2782 since that header is used only within ncurses/tty/lib_tstp.c, for
2783 non-POSIX systems (discussion with Stanislav Ievlev).
2784 + remove obsolete _nc_outstr() function (report by Stanislav Ievlev
2785 <inger@altlinux.org>).
2786 + add test/background.c and test/color_set.c
2787 + modify color_set() function to work with color pair 0 (report by
2788 George Andreou <gbandreo@tem.uoc.gr>).
2789 + add configure option --with-trace, since defining TRACE seems too
2790 awkward for some cases.
2791 + remove a call to _nc_free_termtype() from read_termtype(), since the
2792 corresponding buffer contents were already zeroed by a memset (cf:
2794 + improve configure check for _XOPEN_SOURCE and related definitions,
2795 adding special cases for Solaris' __EXTENSIONS__ and FreeBSD's
2796 __BSD_TYPES (reports by Marc Glisse <marc.glisse@normalesup.org>).
2797 + small fixes to compile on Solaris and IRIX64 using cc.
2798 + correct typo in check for pre-POSIX sort options in MKkey_defs.sh
2802 + modify _nc_gettime() to avoid a problem with arithmetic on unsigned
2803 values (Philippe Blain).
2804 + improve the nanosleep() logic in napms() by checking for EINTR and
2805 restarting (Philippe Blain).
2806 + correct expression for "%D" in lib_tgoto.c (Juha Jarvi
2810 + add linux-vt terminfo entry (Andrey V Lukyanov <land@long.yar.ru>).
2811 + allow "\|" escape in terminfo; tic should not warn about this.
2812 + save the full pathname of the trace-file the first time it is opened,
2813 to avoid creating it in different directories if the application
2814 opens and closes it while changing its working directory.
2815 + modify configure script to provide a non-empty default for
2819 + add DJGPP to special case of DOS-style drive letters potentially
2820 appearing in TERMCAP environment variable.
2821 + fix some spelling in comments (reports by Jason McIntyre, Jonathon
2823 + update config.guess, config.sub
2826 + fix a memory leak in error-return from setupterm() (report by
2827 Stanislav Ievlev <inger@altlinux.org>).
2828 + use EXEEXT and OBJEXT consistently in makefiles.
2829 + amend fixes for cross-compiling to use separate executable-suffix
2830 BUILD_EXEEXT (cf: 20031018).
2831 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for sort utility that does not
2832 recognize key options, e.g., busybox (report by Peter S Mazinger
2834 + fix potential out-of-bounds indexing in _nc_infotocap() (found by
2835 David Krause using some of the new malloc debugging features
2836 under OpenBSD, patch by Ted Unangst).
2837 + modify CF_LIB_SUFFIX for Itanium releases of HP-UX, which use a
2838 ".so" suffix (patch by Jonathan Ward <Jonathan.Ward@hp.com>).
2841 + update terminfo for xterm-xfree86 -TD
2842 + add check for multiple "tc=" clauses in a termcap to tic.
2843 + check for missing op/oc in tic.
2844 + correct _nc_resolve_uses() and _nc_merge_entry() to allow infocmp and
2845 tic to show cancelled capabilities. These functions were ignoring
2846 the state of the target entry, which should be untouched if cancelled.
2847 + correct comment in tack/output.c (Debian #215806).
2848 + add some null-pointer checks to lib_options.c (report by Michael
2850 + regenerated html documentation.
2851 + correction to tar-copy.sh, remove a trap command that resulted in
2852 leaving temporary files (cf: 20030510).
2853 + remove contact/maintainer addresses for Juergen Pfeifer (his request).
2856 + updated test/configure to reflect changes for libtool (cf: 20030830).
2857 + fix several places in tack/pad.c which tested and used the parameter-
2858 and parameterless strings inconsistently, i.e., in pad_rin(),
2859 pad_il(), pad_indn() and pad_dl() (Debian #215805).
2860 + minor fixes for configure script and makefiles to cleanup executables
2861 generated when cross-compiling for DJGPP.
2862 + modify infocmp to omit check for $TERM for operations that do not
2863 require it, e.g., "infocmp -e" used to build fallback list (report by
2867 + add terminfo entries for DJGPP.
2868 + updated note about maintainer in ncurses-intro.html
2871 + update terminfo entries for gnome terminal.
2872 + modify tack to reset colors after each color test, correct a place
2873 where exit_standout_mode was used instead of exit_attribute_mode.
2874 + improve tack's bce test by making it set colors other than black
2876 + plug a potential recursion between napms() and _nc_timed_wait()
2877 (report by Philippe Blain).
2880 + add --with-rel-version option to allow workaround to allow making
2881 libtool on Darwin generate the "same" library names as with the
2882 --with-shared option. The Darwin ld program does not work well
2883 with a zero as the minor-version value (request by Chris Zubrzycki).
2884 + modify CF_MIXEDCASE_FILENAMES macro to work with cross-compiling.
2885 + modify tack to allow it to run from fallback terminfo data.
2886 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2887 + improve PutRange() by adjusting call to EmitRange() and corresponding
2888 return-value to not emit unchanged characters on the end of the
2890 + improve a check for changed-attribute by exiting a loop when the
2892 + improve logic in TransformLine(), eliminating a duplicated comparison
2893 in the clr_bol logic.
2896 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2897 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
2898 move the label 'nonlocal' just before the second gettimeofday() to
2899 be able to compute the diff time when 'goto nonlocal' used.
2900 Rename 'msec' to 'microsec' in the debug-message.
2901 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
2902 Use _nc_outch() in carriage return/newline movement instead of
2903 putchar() which goes to stdout. Move test for xold>0 out of loop.
2904 + in ncurses/tinfo/setbuf.c,
2905 Set the flag SP->_buffered at the end of operations when all has been
2906 successful (typeMalloc can fail).
2907 + simplify NC_BUFFERED macro by moving check inside _nc_setbuf().
2910 + modify configure script to avoid using "head -1", which does not
2911 work if POSIXLY_CORRECT (sic) is set.
2912 + modify run_tic.in to avoid using wrong shared libraries when
2913 cross-compiling (Dan Kegel).
2916 + alter configure script help message to make it clearer that
2917 --with-build-cc does not specify a cross-compiler (suggested by Dan
2918 Kegel <dank@kegel.com>).
2919 + modify configure script to accommodate libtool 1.5, as well as add an
2920 parameter to the "--with-libtool" option which can specify the
2921 pathname of libtool (report by Chris Zubrzycki). We note that
2922 libtool 1.5 has more than one bug in its C++ support, so it is not
2923 able to install libncurses++, for instance, if $DESTDIR or the option
2924 --with-install-prefix is used.
2927 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2928 + move assignments to SP->_cursrow, SP->_curscol into online_mvcur().
2929 + make baudrate computation in delay_output() consistent with the
2930 assumption in _nc_mvcur_init(), i.e., a byte is 9 bits.
2933 + modify logic in waddch_literal() to take into account zh_TW.Big5
2934 whose multibyte sequences may contain "printable" characters, e.g.,
2935 a "g" in the sequence "\247g" (Debian #204889, cf: 20030621).
2936 + improve storage used by _nc_safe_strcpy() by ensuring that the size
2937 is reset based on the initialization call, in case it were called
2938 after other strcpy/strcat calls (report by Philippe Blain).
2939 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2940 + remove an unused ifdef for REAL_ATTR & WANT_CHAR
2941 + correct a place where _cup_cost was used rather than _cuu_cost
2944 + fix a small memory leak in _nc_free_termtype().
2945 + close trace-file if trace() is called with a zero parameter.
2946 + free memory allocated for soft-key strings, in delscreen().
2947 + fix an allocation size in safe_sprintf.c for the "*" format code.
2948 + correct safe_sprintf.c to not return a null pointer if the format
2949 happens to be an empty string. This applies to the "configure
2950 --enable-safe-sprintf" option (Redhat #101486).
2953 + modify casts used for ABSENT_BOOLEAN and CANCELLED_BOOLEAN (report by
2955 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2956 + change padding for change_scroll_region to not be proportional to
2957 the size of the scroll-region.
2958 + correct error-return in _nc_safe_strcat().
2961 + correct limit-checks in _nc_scroll_window() (report and test-case by
2962 Thomas Graf <graf@dms.at> cf: 20011020).
2963 + re-order configure checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE to avoid conflict with
2967 + use clr_eol in preference to blanks for bce terminals, so select and
2968 paste will have fewer trailing blanks, e.g., when using xterm
2969 (request by Vincent Lefevre).
2970 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
2971 + add configure --with-abi-version option (discussion with Charles
2973 > cygwin changes from Charles Wilson:
2974 + aclocal.m4: on cygwin, use autodetected prefix for import
2975 and static lib, but use "cyg" for DLL.
2976 + include/ncurses_dll.h: correct the comments to reflect current
2977 status of cygwin/mingw port. Fix compiler warning.
2978 + misc/run_tic.in: ensure that tic.exe can find the uninstalled
2979 DLL, by adding the lib-directory to the PATH variable.
2980 + misc/terminfo.src (nxterm|xterm-color): make xterm-color
2981 primary instead of nxterm, to match XFree86's xterm.terminfo
2982 usage and to prevent circular links.
2983 (rxvt): add additional codes from rxvt.org.
2984 (rxvt-color): new alias
2985 (rxvt-xpm): new alias
2986 (rxvt-cygwin): like rxvt, but with special acsc codes.
2987 (rxvt-cygwin-native): ditto. rxvt may be run under XWindows, or
2988 with a "native" MSWin GUI. Each takes different acsc codes,
2989 which are both different from the "normal" rxvt's acsc.
2990 (cygwin): cygwin-in-cmd.exe window. Lots of fixes.
2992 + mk-1st.awk: use "cyg" for the DLL prefix, but "lib" for import
2996 + update config.guess, config.sub
2997 + add triples for configuring shared libraries with the Debian
2998 GNU/FreeBSD packages (patch by Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es>).
3001 + modify CF_GCC_WARNINGS so it only applies to gcc, not g++. Some
3002 platforms have installed g++ along with the native C compiler, which
3003 would not accept gcc warning options.
3004 + add -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 when configuring with --enable-widec, to
3005 get mbstate_t declaration on HPUX 11.11 (report by David Ellement).
3006 + add _nc_pathlast() to get rid of casts in _nc_basename() calls.
3007 + correct a sign-extension in wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() from
3008 20030628 (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
3009 + work around omission of btowc() and wctob() from wide-character
3010 support (sic) in NetBSD 1.6 using mbtowc() and wctomb() (report by
3012 + add portability note to curs_get_wstr.3x (Debian #199957).
3015 + rewrite wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to call waddch() and wechochar()
3016 respectively, to avoid calling waddch_noecho() with wide-character
3017 data, since that function assumes its input is 8-bit data.
3018 Similarly, modify waddnwstr() to call wadd_wch().
3019 + remove logic from waddnstr() which transformed multibyte character
3020 strings into wide-characters. Rewrite of waddch_literal() from
3021 20030621 assumes its input is raw multibyte data rather than wide
3022 characters (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
3025 + write getyx() and related 2-return macros in terms of getcury(),
3027 + modify waddch_literal() in case an application passes bytes of a
3028 multibyte character directly to waddch(). In this case, waddch()
3029 must reassemble the bytes into a wide-character (report by Tomohiro
3030 Kubota <kubota@debian.org>).
3033 + modify waddch_literal() in case a multibyte value occupies more than
3035 + modify PutAttrChar() to compute the number of character cells that
3036 are used in multibyte values. This fixes a problem displaying
3037 double-width characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen
3038 <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
3039 + add a null-pointer check for result of keyname() in _tracechar()
3040 + modify _tracechar() to work around glibc sprintf bug.
3043 + add a call to setlocale() in cursesmain.cc, making demo display
3044 properly in a UTF-8 locale.
3045 + add a fallback definition in curses.priv.h for MB_LEN_MAX (prompted
3046 by discussion with Gabor Z Papp).
3047 + use macros NCURSES_ACS() and NCURSES_WACS() to hide cast needed to
3048 appease -Wchar-subscript with g++ 3.3 (Debian #195732).
3049 + fix a redefinition of $RANLIB in the configure script when libtool
3050 is used, which broke configure on Mac OS X (report by Chris Zubrzycki
3052 + simplify ifdef for bool declaration in curses.h.in (suggested by
3053 Albert Chin-A-Young).
3054 + remove configure script check to allow -Wconversion for older
3055 versions of gcc (suggested by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3058 + regenerated html manpages.
3059 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in that disabled use of __attribute__()
3060 for g++, since recent versions implement the cases which ncurses uses
3062 + modify _nc_get_token() to handle a case where an entry has no
3063 description, and capabilities begin on the same line as the entry
3065 + fix a typo in ncurses_dll.h reported by gcc 3.3.
3066 + add an entry for key_defined.3x to man_db.renames.
3069 + modify setcchar() to allow converting control characters to complex
3070 characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
3071 + add tkterm entry -TD
3072 + modify parse_entry.c to allow a terminfo entry with a leading
3073 2-character name (report by Don Libes).
3074 + corrected acsc in screen.teraterm, which requires a PC-style mapping.
3075 + fix trace statements in read_entry.c to use lseek() rather than
3077 + fix signed/unsigned warnings from Sun's compiler (gcc should give
3078 these warnings, but it is unpredictable).
3079 + modify configure script to omit -Winline for gcc 3.3, since that
3081 + modify manlinks.sed to add a few functions that were overlooked since
3082 they return function pointers: field_init, field_term, form_init,
3083 form_term, item_init, item_term, menu_init and menu_term.
3086 + prevent recursion in wgetch() via wgetnstr() if the connection cannot
3087 be switched between cooked/raw modes because it is not a TTY (report
3088 by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.com>).
3089 + change parameter of define_key() and key_defined() to const (prompted
3091 + add a check in test/configure for ncurses extensions, since there
3092 are some older versions, etc., which would not compile with the
3093 current test programs.
3094 + corrected demo in test/ncurses.c of wgetn_wstr(), which did not
3095 convert wchar_t string to multibyte form before printing it.
3096 + corrections to lib_get_wstr.c:
3097 + null-terminate buffer passed to setcchar(), which occasionally
3099 + map special characters such as erase- and kill-characters into
3100 key-codes so those will work as expected even if they are not
3101 mentioned in the terminfo.
3102 + modify PUTC() and Charable() macros to make wide-character line
3103 drawing work for POSIX locale on Linux console (cf: 20021221).
3106 + make typography for program options in manpages consistent (report
3107 by Miloslav Trmac <mitr@volny.cz>).
3108 + correct dependencies in Ada95/src/Makefile.in, so the builds with
3109 "--srcdir" work (report by Warren L Dodge).
3110 + correct missing definition of $(CC) in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in
3111 (reported by Warren L Dodge <warrend@mdhost.cse.tek.com>).
3112 + fix typos and whitespace in manpages (patch by Jason McIntyre
3113 <jmc@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl>).
3116 + fix form_driver() cases for REQ_CLR_EOF, REQ_CLR_EOL, REQ_DEL_CHAR,
3117 REQ_DEL_PREV and REQ_NEW_LINE, which did not ensure the cursor was at
3118 the editing position before making modifications.
3119 + add test/demo_forms and associated test/edit_field.c demos.
3120 + modify test/configure.in to use test/modules for the list of objects
3121 to compile rather than using the list of programs.
3124 + modify logic of acsc to use the original character if no mapping is
3125 defined, noting that Solaris does this.
3126 + modify ncurses 'b' test to avoid using the acs_map[] array since
3127 20021231 changes it to no longer contain information from the acsc
3129 + modify makefile rules in c++, progs, tack and test to ensure that
3130 the compiler flags (e.g., $CFLAGS or $CCFLAGS) are used in the link
3131 command (report by Jose Luis Rico Botella <informatica@serpis.com>).
3132 + modify soft-key initialization to use A_REVERSE if A_STANDOUT would
3133 not be shown when colors are used, i.e., if ncv#1 is set in the
3134 terminfo as is done in "screen".
3137 + add a test for slk_color(), in ncurses.c
3138 + fix some issues reported by valgrind in the slk_set() and slk_wset()
3139 code, from recent rewrite.
3140 + modify ncurses 'E' test to use show previous label via slk_label(),
3142 + modify wide-character versions of NewChar(), NewChar2() macros to
3143 ensure that the whole struct is initialized.
3146 + modify setupterm() to check if the terminfo and terminal-modes have
3147 already been read. This ensures that it does not reinvoke
3148 def_prog_mode() when an application calls more than one function,
3149 such as tgetent() and initscr() (report by Olaf Buddenhagen).
3152 + add 'E' test to ncurses.c, to exercise slk_wset().
3153 + correct handling of carriage-return in wgetn_wstr(), used in demo of
3155 + first draft of slk_wset() function.
3158 + improved warnings in tic when suppressing items to fit in termcap's
3160 + built a list in test/README showing which externals are being used
3161 by either programs in the test-directory or via internal library
3163 + adjust include-options in CF_ETIP_DEFINES to avoid missing
3164 ncurses_dll.h, fixing special definitions that may be needed for
3165 etip.h (reported by Greg Schafer <gschafer@zip.com.au>).
3168 + minor fixes for cardfile.c, to make it write the updated fields to
3169 a file when ^W is given.
3170 + add/use _nc_trace_bufcat() to eliminate some fixed buffer limits in
3174 + correct a case in _nc_remove_string(), used by define_key(), to avoid
3175 infinite loop if the given string happens to be a substring of other
3176 strings which are assigned to keys (report by John McCutchan).
3177 + add key_defined() function, to tell which keycode a string is bound
3178 to (discussion with John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>).
3179 + correct keybound(), which reported definitions in the wrong table,
3180 i.e., the list of definitions which are disabled by keyok().
3181 + modify demo_keydef.c to show the details it changes, and to check
3185 + restructured test/configure script, make it work for libncursesw.
3186 + add description of link_fieldtype() to manpage (report by
3187 L Dee Holtsclaw <dee@sunbeltsoft.com>).
3190 + corrected ifdef's relating to configure check for wchar_t, etc.
3191 + if the output is a socket or other non-tty device, use 1 millisecond
3192 for the cost in mvcur; previously it was 9 milliseconds because the
3193 baudrate was not known.
3194 + in _nc_get_tty_mode(), initialize the TTY buffer on error, since
3195 glibc copies uninitialized data in that case, as noted by valgrind.
3196 + modify tput to use the same parameter analysis as tparm() does, to
3197 provide for user-defined strings, e.g., for xterm title, a
3198 corresponding capability might be
3200 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to avoid passing "#" tokens through the C
3201 preprocessor. This works around Mac OS X's preprocessor, which
3202 insists on adding a blank on each side of the token (report/analysis
3203 by Kevin Murphy <murphy@genome.chop.edu>).
3206 + add configure check for wchar_t and wint_t types, rather than rely
3207 on preprocessor definitions. Also work around for gcc fixinclude
3208 bug which creates a shadow copy of curses.h if it sees these symbols
3209 apparently typedef'd.
3210 + if database is disabled, do not generate run_tic.sh
3211 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking when termcap is read.
3214 + add checking in tic for incomplete line-drawing character mapping.
3215 + update configure script to reflect fix for AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL,
3216 which is broken in autoconf 2.5x for Mac OS X 10.2.3 (report by
3217 Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl>).
3218 + make return value from _nc_printf_string() consistent. Before,
3219 depending on whether --enable-safe-sprintf was used, it might not be
3220 cached for reallocating.
3223 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking in lib_tparm.c, hardscroll.c
3224 + correct a potentially-uninitialized value if _read_termtype() does
3225 not read as much data as expected (report by Wolfgang Rohdewald
3227 + correct several places where the aclocal.m4 macros relied on cache
3228 variable names which were incompatible (as usual) between autoconf
3229 2.13 and 2.5x, causing the test for broken-linker to give incorrect
3230 results (reports by Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl> and Thomas Esser
3231 <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de>).
3232 + do not try to open gpm mouse driver if standard output is not a tty;
3233 the gpm library does not make this check (bug report for dialog
3234 by David Oliveira <davidoliveira@develop.prozone.ws>).
3237 + modified emx.src to correspond more closely to terminfo.src, added
3238 emx-base to the latter -TD
3239 + add configure option for FreeBSD sysmouse, --with-sysmouse, and
3240 implement support for that in lib_mouse.c, lib_getch.c
3243 + revert 20030105 change to can_clear_with(), does not work for the
3244 case where the update is made on cells which are blanks with
3245 attributes, e.g., reverse.
3246 + improve ifdef's to guard against redefinition of wchar_t and wint_t
3247 in curses.h (report by Urs Jansen).
3250 + improve mvcur() by checking if it is safe to move when video
3251 attributes are set (msgr), and if not, reset/restore attributes
3252 within that function rather than doing it separately in the GoTo()
3253 function in tty_update.c (suggested by Philippe Blain).
3254 + add a message in run_tic.in to explain more clearly what does not
3255 work when attempting to create a symbolic link for /usr/lib/terminfo
3256 on OS/2 and other platforms with no symbolic links (report by John
3258 + change several sed scripts to avoid using "\+" since it is not a BRE
3259 (basic regular expression). One instance caused terminfo.5 to be
3260 misformatted on FreeBSD (report by Kazuo Horikawa
3261 <horikawa@FreeBSD.org> (see FreeBSD docs/46709)).
3262 + correct misspelled 'wint_t' in curs_get_wch.3x (Michael Elkins).
3265 + improve description of terminfo operators, especially static/dynamic
3266 variables (comments by Mark I Manning IV <mark4th@earthlink.net>).
3267 + demonstrate use of FIELDTYPE by modifying test/ncurses 'r' test to
3268 use the predefined TYPE_ALPHA field-type, and by defining a
3269 specialized type for the middle initial/name.
3270 + fix MKterminfo.sh, another workaround for POSIXLY_CORRECT misfeature
3272 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3273 + optimize can_clear_with() a little by testing first if the parameter
3274 is indeed a "blank".
3275 + simplify ClrBottom() a little by allowing it to use clr_eos to clear
3276 sections as small as one line.
3277 + improve ClrToEOL() by checking if clr_eos is available before trying
3279 + use tputs() rather than putp() in a few cases in tty_update.c since
3280 the corresponding delays are proportional to the number of lines
3281 affected: repeat_char, clr_eos, change_scroll_region.
3284 + rewrite of lib_acs.c conflicts with copying of SCREEN acs_map to/from
3285 global acs_map[] array; removed the lines that did the copying.
3288 + change some overlooked tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp()
3289 (report by Philippe Blain).
3290 + modify lib_getch.c to avoid recursion via wgetnstr() when the input
3291 is not a tty and consequently mode-changes do not work (report by
3292 <R.Chamberlin@querix.com>).
3293 + rewrote lib_acs.c to allow PutAttrChar() to decide how to render
3294 alternate-characters, i.e., to work with Linux console and UTF-8
3296 + correct line/column reference in adjust_window(), needed to make
3297 special windows such as curscr track properly when resizing (report
3298 by Lucas Gonze <lgonze@panix.com>).
3299 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3300 + correct the value used for blank in ClrBottom() (broken in 20000708).
3301 + correct an off-by-one in GoTo() parameter in _nc_scrolln().
3304 + change several tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp(), to
3305 enable padding which may be needed for some terminals (patch by
3307 + use '%' as sed substitute delimiter in run_tic script to avoid
3308 problems with pathname delimiters such as ':' and '@' (report by John
3310 + implement a workaround so that line-drawing works with screen's
3311 crippled UTF-8 support (tested with 3.9.13). This only works with
3312 the wide-character support (--enable-widec); the normal library will
3313 simply suppress line-drawing when running in a UTF-8 locale in screen.
3316 + allow BUILD_CC and related configure script variables to be
3317 overridden from the environment.
3318 + make build-tools variables in ncurses/Makefile.in consistent with
3319 the configure script variables (report by Maciej W Rozycki).
3320 + modify ncurses/modules to allow
3321 configure --disable-leaks --disable-ext-funcs
3322 to build (report by Gary Samuelson).
3323 + fix a few places in configure.in which lacked quotes (report by
3324 Gary Samuelson <gary.samuelson@verizon.com>).
3325 + correct handling of multibyte characters in waddch_literal() which
3326 force wrapping because they are started too late on the line (report
3327 by Sam Varshavchik).
3328 + small fix for CF_GNAT_VERSION to ignore the help-message which
3329 gnatmake adds to its version-message.
3330 > Maciej W Rozycki <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>:
3331 + use AC_CHECK_TOOL to get proper values for AR and LD for cross
3333 + use $cross_compiling variable in configure script rather than
3334 comparing $host_alias and $target alias, since "host" is
3335 traditionally misused in autoconf to refer to the target platform.
3336 + change configure --help message to use "build" rather than "host"
3337 when referring to the --with-build-XXX options.
3340 + modify CF_GNAT_VERSION to print gnatmake's version, and to allow for
3341 possible gnat versions such as 3.2 (report by Chris Lingard
3342 <chris@stockwith.co.uk>).
3343 + modify #define's for CKILL and other default control characters in
3344 tset to use the system's default values if they are defined.
3345 + correct interchanged defaults for kill and interrupt characters
3346 in tset, which caused it to report unnecessarily (Debian #171583).
3347 + repair check for missing C++ compiler, which is broken in autoconf
3348 2.5x by hardcoding it to g++ (report by Martin Mokrejs).
3349 + update config.guess, config.sub (2002-11-30)
3350 + modify configure script to skip --with-shared, etc., when the
3351 --with-libtool option is given, since they would be ignored anyway.
3352 + fix to allow "configure --with-libtool --with-termlib" to build.
3353 + modify configure script to show version number of libtool, to help
3354 with bug reports. libtool still gets confused if the installed
3355 ncurses libraries are old, since it ignores the -L options at some
3356 point (tested with libtool 1.3.3 and 1.4.3).
3357 + reorder configure script's updating of $CPPFLAGS and $CFLAGS to
3358 prevent -I options in the user's environment from introducing
3359 conflicts with the build -I options (may be related to reports by
3360 Patrick Ash and George Goffe).
3361 + rename test/define_key.c to test/demo_defkey.c, test/keyok.c to
3362 test/demo_keyok.c to allow building these with libtool.
3365 + add example program test/define_key.c for define_key().
3366 + add example program test/keyok.c for keyok().
3367 + add example program test/ins_wide.c for wins_wch() and wins_wstr().
3368 + modify wins_wch() and wins_wstr() to interpret tabs by using the
3369 winsch() internal function.
3370 + modify setcchar() to allow for wchar_t input strings that have
3371 more than one spacing character.
3374 + fix a boundary check in lib_insch.c (patch by Philippe Blain).
3375 + change type for *printw functions from NCURSES_CONST to const
3376 (prompted by comment by Pedro Palhoto Matos <plpm@mega.ist.utl.pt>,
3377 but really from a note on X/Open's website stating that either is
3378 acceptable, and the latter will be used in a future revision).
3379 + add xterm-1002, xterm-1003 terminfo entries to demonstrate changes in
3380 lib_mouse.c (20021026) -TD
3381 + add screen-bce, screen-s entries from screen 3.9.13 (report by
3382 Adam Lazur <zal@debian.org>) -TD
3383 + add mterm terminfo entries -TD
3386 + split-out useful fragments in terminfo for vt100 and vt220 numeric
3387 keypad, i.e., vt100+keypad, vt100+pfkeys, vt100+fnkeys and
3388 vt220+keypad. The last as embedded in various entries had ka3 and
3389 kb2 interchanged (report/discussion with Leonard den Ottolander
3390 <leonardjo@hetnet.nl>).
3391 + add check in tic for keypads consistent with vt100 layout.
3392 + improve checks in tic for color capabilities
3395 + check for missing/empty/illegal terminfo name in _nc_read_entry()
3396 (report by Martin Mokrejs, where $TERM was set to an empty string).
3397 + rewrote lib_insch.c, combining it with lib_insstr.c so both handle
3398 tab and other control characters consistently (report by Philippe
3400 + remove an #undef for KEY_EVENT from curses.tail used in the
3401 experimental NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS feature. The #undef confuses
3402 dpkg's build script (Debian #165897).
3403 + fix MKlib_gen.sh, working around the ironically named POSIXLY_CORRECT
3404 feature of GNU sed 4.0 (reported by Ervin Nemeth <airwin@inf.bme.hu>).
3407 + implement logic in lib_mouse.c to handle position reports which are
3408 generated when XFree86 xterm is initialized with private modes 1002
3409 or 1003. These are returned to the application as the
3410 REPORT_MOUSE_POSITION mask, which was not implemented. Tested both
3411 with ncurses 'a' menu (prompted by discussion with Larry Riedel
3412 <Larry@Riedel.org>).
3413 + modify lib_mouse.c to look for "XM" terminfo string, which allows
3414 one to override the escape sequence used to enable/disable mouse
3415 mode. In particular this works for XFree86 xterm private modes
3416 1002 and 1003. If "XM" is missing (note that this is an extended
3417 name), lib_mouse uses the conventional private mode 1000.
3418 + correct NOT_LOCAL() macro in lib_mvcur.c to refer to screen_columns
3419 where it used screen_lines (report by Philippe Blain).
3420 + correct makefile rules for the case when both --with-libtool and
3421 --with-gpm are given (report by Mr E_T <troll@logi.net.au>).
3422 + add note to terminfo manpage regarding the differences between
3423 setaf/setab and setf/setb capabilities (report by Pavel Roskin).
3426 + remove redundant initialization of TABSIZE in newterm(), since it is
3427 already done in setupterm() (report by Philippe Blain).
3428 + add test/inserts.c, to test winnstr() and winsch().
3429 + replace 'sort' in dist.mk with script that sets locale to POSIX.
3430 + update URLs in announce.html.in (patch by Frederic L W Meunier).
3431 + remove glibc add-on files, which are no longer needed (report by
3432 Frederic L W Meunier).
3434 20021012 5.3 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3435 + modify ifdef's in etip.h.in to allow the etip.h header to compile
3436 with gcc 3.2 (patch by Dimitar Zhekov <jimmy@is-vn.bg>).
3437 + add logic to setupterm() to make it like initscr() and newterm(),
3438 by checking for $NCURSES_TRACE environment variable and enabling
3439 the debug trace in that case.
3440 + modify setupterm() to ensure that it initializes the baudrate, for
3441 applications such as tput (report by Frank Henigman).
3442 + modify definition of bits used for command-line and library debug
3443 traces to avoid overlap, using new definition TRACE_SHIFT to relate
3445 + document tput's interpretation of parameterized strings according to
3446 whether parameters are given, etc. (discussion with Robert De Bath).
3448 20021005 pre-release
3449 + correct winnwstr() to account for non-character cells generated when
3450 a double-width character is added (report by Michael Bienia
3451 <michael@vorlon.ping.de>).
3452 + modify _nc_viswbuf2n() to provide better results using wctomb().
3453 + correct logic in _nc_varargs() which broke tracing of parameters for
3454 formats such as "%.*s".
3455 + correct scale factor in linux-c and linux-c-nc terminfo entries
3456 (report Floyd Davidson).
3457 + change tic -A option to -t, add the same option to infocmp for
3459 + correct "%c" implementation in lib_tparm.c, which did not map a null
3460 character to a 128 (cf: 980620) (patch by Frank Henigman
3461 <fjhenigman@mud.cgl.uwaterloo.ca>).
3463 20020928 pre-release
3464 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for POSIX sort -k option, use that if
3465 it is found, to accommodate newer utility which dropped the
3466 compatibility support for +number options (reported by Andrey A
3468 + modify linux terminfo entry to use color palette feature from
3469 linux-c-nc entry (comments by Tomasz Wasiak and Floyd Davidson).
3470 + restore original color definitions in endwin() if init_color() was
3471 used, and resume those colors on the next doupdate() or refresh()
3472 (report by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@komputom.com.pl>).
3473 + improve debug-traces by modifying MKlib_gen.sh to generate calls
3474 to returnBool() and returnAttr().
3475 + add/use _nc_visbufn() and _nc_viswbufn() to limit the debug trace
3476 of waddnstr() and similar functions to match the parameters as used.
3477 + add/use _nc_retrace_bool() and _nc_retrace_unsigned().
3478 + correct type used by _nc_retrace_chtype().
3479 + add debug traces to some functions in lib_mouse.c
3480 + modify lib_addch.c to handle non-spacing characters.
3481 + correct parameter of RemAttr() in lib_bkgd.c, which caused the c++
3482 demo's boxes to lose the A_ALTCHARSET flag (broken in 20020629).
3483 + correct width computed in _tracedump(), which did not account for
3484 the attributes (broken in 20010602).
3485 + modify test/tracemunch to replace addresses for windows other than
3486 curscr, newscr and stdscr with window0, window1, etc.
3488 20020921 pre-release
3489 + redid fix for edit_man.sed path.
3490 + workaround for Cygwin bug which makes subprocess writes to stdout
3491 result in core dump.
3492 + documented getbegx(), etc.
3493 + minor fixes to configure script to use '%' consistently as a sed
3494 delimiter rather than '@'.
3495 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3496 + add check in lib_overlay.c to ensure that the windows to be merged
3497 actually overlap, and in copywin(), limit the area to be touched
3498 to the lines given for the destination window.
3500 20020914 pre-release
3501 + modified curses.h so that if the wide-character version is installed
3502 overwriting /usr/include/curses.h, and if it relied on libutf8.h,
3503 then applications that use that header for wide-character support
3504 must define HAVE_LIBUTF8_H.
3505 + modify putwin(), getwin() and dupwin() to allow them to operate on
3506 pads (request by Philippe Blain).
3507 + correct attribute-merging in wborder(), broken in 20020216 (report
3508 by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@grubasek.komputom.com.pl>).
3509 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3510 + corrected pop-counts in tparam_internal() to '!' and '~' cases.
3511 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in one place that used sizeof(chtype).
3512 + remove some unused variables from mvcur test-driver.
3514 20020907 pre-release
3515 + change configure script to allow install of widec-character
3516 (ncursesw) headers to overwrite normal (ncurses) headers, since the
3517 latter is a compatible subset of the former.
3518 + fix path of edit_man.sed in configure script, needed to regenerate
3519 html manpages on Debian.
3520 + fix mismatched enums in vsscanf.c, which caused warning on Solaris.
3521 + update README.emx to reflect current patch used for autoconf.
3522 + change web- and ftp-site to invisible-island.net
3523 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3524 + change case for 'P' in tparam_internal() to indicate that it pops
3525 a variable from the stack.
3526 + correct sense of precision and width in parse_format(), to avoid
3528 + modify lib_tparm.c, absorb really_get_space() into get_space().
3529 + modify getwin() and dupwin() to copy the _notimeout, _idlok and
3530 _idcok window fields.
3531 + better fix for _nc_set_type(), using typeMalloc().
3533 20020901 pre-release
3534 + change minor version to 3, i.e., ncurses 5.3
3535 + update config.guess, config.sub
3536 + retest build with each configure option; minor ifdef fixes.
3537 + make keyname() return a null pointer rather than "UNKNOWN STRING" to
3539 + modify handling of wide line-drawing character functions to use the
3540 normal line-drawing characters when not in UTF-8 locale.
3541 + add check/fix to comp_parse.c to suppress warning about missing acsc
3542 string. This happens in configurations where raw termcap information
3543 is processed; tic already does this and other checks.
3544 + modify tic's check for ich/ich1 versus rmir/smir to only warn about
3545 ich1, to match xterm patch #70 notes.
3546 + moved information for ripped-off lines into SCREEN struct to allow
3547 use in resizeterm().
3548 + add experimental wgetch_events(), ifdef'd with NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS
3549 (adapted from patch by Ilya Zakharevich - see ncurses/README.IZ).
3550 + amend check in kgetch() from 20020824 to look only for function-keys,
3551 otherwise escape sequences are not resolved properly.
3552 > patch by Philippe Blain:
3553 + removed redundant assignment to SP->_checkfd from newterm().
3554 + check return-value of setupterm() in restartterm().
3555 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in a few places that used sizeof(chtype).
3556 + prevent dupwin() from duplicating a pad.
3557 + prevent putwin() from writing a pad.
3558 + use typeRealloc() or typeMalloc() in preference to direct calls on
3562 + add a check in kgetch() for cooked characters in the fifo to avoid
3563 calling fifo_push() when a KEY_RESIZE is available (report/analysis
3564 by Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>).
3565 + fix an overlooked case for bugzilla #68199 (Philippe Blain).
3566 + ensure clearerr() is called before using ferror() e.g., in
3567 lib_screen.c (report by Philippe Blain).
3570 + modify lib_screen.c and lib_newwin.c to maintain the SCREEN-specific
3571 pointers for curscr/stdscr/newscr when scr_save() and scr_restore()
3572 modify the global curscr/stdscr/newscr variables. Fixes Redhat
3573 bugzilla #68199 dated 2002-07-07.
3574 + add checks for null pointer in calls to tparm() and tgoto() based on
3575 FreeBSD bug report. If ncurses were built with termcap support, and
3576 the first call to tgoto() were a zero-length string, the result would
3577 be a null pointer, which was not handled properly.
3578 + correct a typo in terminfo.head, which gave the octal code for colon
3580 + remove the "tic -u" option from 20020810, since it did not account
3581 for nested "tc=" clauses, and when that was addressed, was still
3585 + add tic -A option to suppress capabilities which are commented out
3586 when translating to termcap.
3587 + add tic -u option to provide older behavior of "tc=" clauses.
3588 + modified tic to expand all but the final "tc=" clause in a termcap
3589 entry, to accommodate termcap libraries which do not handle multiple
3591 + correct typo in curs_inopts.3x regarding CS8/CS7 usage (report by
3593 + remove a couple of redundant uses of A_ATTRIBUTES in expressions
3594 using AttrOf(), which already incorporates that mask (report by
3596 + document TABSIZE variable.
3597 + add NCURSES_ASSUMED_COLORS environment variable, to allow users to
3598 override compiled-in default black-on-white assumption used in
3599 assume_default_colors().
3600 + correct an off-by-one comparison against max_colors in COLORFGBG
3602 + correct a use of uninitialized memory found by valgrind (reported by
3603 Olaf Buddenhagen <olafBuddenhagen@web.de>).
3604 + modified wresize() to ensure that a failed realloc will not corrupt
3605 the window structure, and to make subwindows fit within the resized
3606 window (completes Debian #87678, #101699)
3609 + fix an off-by-one in lib_pad.c check for limits of pad (patch by
3611 + revise logic for BeOS in lib_twait.c altered in 20011013 to restore
3612 logic used by lib_getch.c's support for GPM or EMX mouse (report by
3614 + remove NCURSES_CONST from several prototypes in curses.wide, to make
3615 the --enable-const --enable-widec configure options to work together
3616 (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@yahoo.com>).
3619 + finish no-leak checking in cardfile.c, using this for testing changes
3621 + simplify _nc_freeall() using delscreen().
3624 + check error-return from _nc_set_tty_mode() in _nc_initscr() and
3625 reset_prog_mode() (report/patch by Philippe Blain).
3626 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52, to address
3627 problem with identifying C++ bool type.
3628 + correct/improve logic to produce an exit status for errors in tput,
3629 which did not exit with an error when told to put a string not in the
3630 current terminfo entry (report by David Gomez <david@pleyades.net>).
3631 + modify configure script AC_OUTPUT() call to work around defect in
3632 autoconf 2.52 which adds an ifdef'd include to the generated
3633 configure definitions.
3634 + remove fstat() check from scr_init(), which also fixes a missing
3635 include for <sys/stat.h> from 20020713 (reported by David Ellement,
3636 fix suggested by Philippe Blain).
3637 + update curs_scanw.3x manpage to note that XSI curses differs from
3638 SVr4 curses: return-values are incompatible.
3639 + correct several prototypes in manpages which used const
3640 inconsistently with the curses.h file, and removed spurious const's
3641 in a few places from curses.h, e.g., for wbkgd() (report by Glenn
3642 Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>).
3643 + change internal type used by tparm() to long, to work with LP64 model.
3644 + modify nc_alloc.h to allow building with g++, for testing.
3647 + add resize-handling to cardfile.c test program.
3648 + altered resizeterm() to avoid having it fail when a child window
3649 cannot be resized because it would be larger than its parent. (More
3650 work must be done on this, but it works well enough to integrate).
3651 + improve a limit-check in lib_refresh.c
3652 + remove check in lib_screen.c relating dumptime to file's modification
3653 times, since that would not necessarily work for remotely mounted
3655 + modify lrtest to simplify debugging changes to resizeterm, e.g.,
3656 t/T commands to enable/disable tracing.
3657 + updated status of multibyte support in TO-DO.
3658 + update contact info in source-files (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3661 + add Caps.hpux11, as an example.
3662 + modify version_filter(), used to implement -R option for tic and
3663 infocmp, to use computed array offsets based on the Caps.* file which
3664 is actually configured, rather than constants which correspond to
3666 + reorganized lib_raw.c to avoid updating SP and cur_term state if the
3667 functions fail (reported by Philippe Blain).
3668 + add -Wundef to gcc warnings, adjust a few ifdef's to accommodate gcc.
3671 + correct parameters to setcchar() in ncurses.c (cf: 20020406).
3672 + set locale in most test programs (view.c and ncurses.c were the
3674 + add configure option --with-build-cppflags (report by Maksim A
3675 Nikulin <M.A.Nikulin@inp.nsk.su>).
3676 + correct a typo in wide-character logic for lib_bkgnd.c (Philippe
3678 + modify lib_wacs.c to not cancel the acsc, smacs, rmacs strings when
3679 in UTF-8 locale. Wide-character functions use Unicode values, while
3680 narrow-character functions use the terminfo data.
3681 + fix a couple of places in Ada95/samples which did not compile with
3683 + modify mkinstalldirs so the DOS-pathname case is locale-independent.
3684 + fix locale problem in MKlib_gen.sh by forcing related variables to
3685 POSIX (C), using same approach as autoconf (set variables only if
3686 they were set before). Update MKterminfo.sh and MKtermsort.sh to
3690 + add charset to generated html.
3691 + add mvterm entry, adapted from a FreeBSD bug-report by Daniel Rudy
3692 <dcrudy@pacbell.net> -TD
3693 + add rxvt-16color, ibm+16color entries -TD
3694 + modify check in --disable-overwrite option so that it is used by
3695 default unless the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr, in attempt to
3696 work around packagers, e.g., for Sun's freeware, who do not read the
3700 + modify wgetch() to allow returning ungetch'd KEY_RESIZE as a function
3701 key code in get_wch().
3702 + extended resize-handling in test/ncurses 'a' menu to the entire
3703 stack of windows created with 'w' commands.
3704 + improve $COLORFGBG feature by interpreting an out-of-range color
3705 value as an SGR 39 or 49, for foreground/background respectively.
3706 + correct a typo in configure --enable-colorfgbg option, and move it
3707 to the experimental section (cf: 20011208).
3710 + add logic to dump_entry.c to remove function-key definitions that do
3711 not fit into the 1023-byte limit for generated termcaps. This makes
3713 + more improvements to tic's warnings, including logic to ignore
3714 differences between delay values in sgr strings.
3715 + move definition of KEY_RESIZE into MKkeydefs.sh script, to
3716 accommodate Caps.osf1r5 which introduced a conflicting definition.
3719 + add simple resize-handling in test/ncurses.c 'a' menu.
3720 + fixes in keyname() and _tracechar() to handle negative values.
3721 + make tic's warnings about mismatches in sgr strings easier to follow.
3722 + correct tic checks for number of parameters in smgbp and smglp.
3723 + improve scoansi terminfo entry, and add scoansi-new entry -TD
3724 + add pcvt25-color terminfo entry -TD
3725 + add kf13-kf48 strings to cons25w terminfo entry (reported by Stephen
3726 Hurd <deuce@lordlegacy.org> in newsgroup lucky.freebsd.bugs) -TD
3727 + add entrypoint _nc_trace_ttymode(), use this to distinguish the
3728 Ottyb and Nttyb members of terminal (aka cur_term), for tracing.
3731 + correct and simplify logic for lib_pad.c change in 20020518 (reported
3735 + fix lib_pad.c for case of drawing a double-width character which
3736 falls off the left margin of the pad (patch by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij
3737 <lerdsuwa@users.sourceforge.net>)
3738 + modify configure script to work around broken gcc 3.1 "--version"
3739 option, which adds unnecessary trash to the requested information.
3740 + adjust ifdef's in case SIGWINCH is not defined, e.g., with DJGPP
3741 (reported by Ben Decker <deckerben@freenet.de>).
3744 + implement vid_puts(), vid_attr(), term_attrs() based on the narrow-
3745 character versions as well.
3746 + implement erasewchar(), killwchar() based on erasechar() and
3748 + modify erasechar() and killchar() to return ERR if the value was
3750 + correct a bug in wresize() in handling subwindows (based on patch by
3751 Roger Gammans <rgammans@computer-surgery.co.uk>, report by Scott Beck
3752 <scott@gossamer-threads.com>).
3753 + improve test/tclock.c by making the second-hand update more often
3754 if gettimeofday() is available.
3757 + workaround for Solaris sed with MKlib_gen.sh (reported by Andy
3758 Tsouladze <andyt@mypoints.com>).
3761 + correct return-value from getcchar(), making it consistent with
3763 + reorder loops that generate makefile rules for different models vs
3764 subsets so configure --with-termlib works again. This was broken by
3765 logic added to avoid duplicate rules in changes to accommodate cygwin
3766 dll's (reported by George.R.Goffe@seagate.com).
3767 + update config.guess, config.sub
3770 + modify ifdef's in write_entry.c to allow use of symbolic links on
3771 platforms with no hard links, e.g., BeOS.
3772 + modify a few includes to allow compile with BeOS, which has stdbool.h
3773 with a conflicting definition for 'bool' versus its OS.h definition.
3774 + amend MKlib_gen.sh to work with gawk, which defines 'func' as an
3775 alias for 'function'.
3778 + correct form of prototype for ripoffline().
3779 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to test that all functions marked as implemented
3783 + add manpages: curs_get_wstr.3x, curs_in_wchstr.3x
3784 + implement wgetn_wstr().
3785 + implement win_wchnstr().
3786 + remove redefinition of unget_wch() in lib_gen.c (reported by
3787 Jungshik Shin <jshin@jtan.com>).
3790 + modified several of the test programs to allow them to compile with
3791 vendor curses implementations, e.g., Solaris, AIX -TD
3794 + modified test/configure to allow configuring against ncursesw.
3795 + change WACS_xxx definition to use address, to work like Tru64 curses.
3798 + add 'e' and 'm' toggles to 'a', 'A' tests in ncurses.c to demonstrate
3799 effect of echo/noecho and meta modes.
3800 + add 'A' test to ncurses.c to demonstrate wget_wch() and related
3802 + add manpage: curs_get_wch.3x
3803 + implement unget_wch().
3804 + implement wget_wch().
3807 + regenerated html manpages.
3808 + add manpages: curs_in_wch.3x, curs_ins_wch.3x, curs_ins_wstr.3x
3809 + implement wins_wch().
3810 + implement win_wch().
3811 + implement wins_nwstr(), wins_wstr().
3814 + add manpages: curs_addwstr.3x, curs_winwstr.3x
3815 + implement winnwstr(), winwstr().
3818 + add manpages: curs_add_wchstr.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x
3819 + document wunctrl, key_name.
3820 + implement key_name().
3821 + remove const's in lib_box.c incorrectly leftover after splitting off
3823 + update llib-lncurses, llib-ncursesw, fix configure script related to
3827 + remove quotes on "SYNOPSIS" in man/curs_box_set.3x, which resulted
3828 in spurious symlinks on install.
3831 + implement whline_set(), wvline_set(), add manpage curs_border_set.
3832 + add subtest 'b' to 'F' and 'f' in ncurses.c to demonstrate use of
3833 box() and box_set() functions.
3834 + add subtest 'u' to 'F' in ncurses.c, to demonstrate use of addstr()
3835 given UTF-8 string equivalents of WACS_xxx symbols.
3836 + minor fixes to several manpages based on groff -ww output.
3837 + add descriptions of external variables of termcap interface to
3838 the manpage (report by Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>).
3839 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
3840 + correct configure option --with-bool, which was executed as
3842 + add quotes for parameters of --with-bool and --with-ospeed configure
3844 > patch by Sven Verdoolaege (report by Gerhard Haering
3845 <haering_linux@gmx.de>):
3846 + correct typos in definitions of several wide-character macros:
3847 waddwstr, wgetbkgrnd, mvaddwstr, mvwadd_wchnstr, mvwadd_wchnstr,
3849 + pass $(CPPFLAGS) to MKlib_gen.sh, thereby fixing a missing definition
3850 of _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, e.g., on Solaris
3853 + implement wide-acs characters for UTF-8 locales. When in UTF-8
3854 locale, ignore narrow version of acs. Add 'F' test to test/ncurses.c
3856 + correct prototype in keybound manpage (noted from a Debian mailing
3860 + add several cases to the wscanw() example in testcurs.c, showing the
3862 + implement a simple vsscanf() fallback function which uses the %n
3863 conversion to help parse the input data (prompted by discussion with
3864 Albert Chin-A-Young).
3865 + modify mk-1st.awk and test/Makefile.in to add $(LDFLAGS) when making
3866 shared libraries, and to use $(CFLAGS) when linking test programs
3867 (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
3868 + add a call to _nc_keypad() in keypad() to accommodate applications
3869 such as nvi, which use curses for output but not for input (fixes
3870 Debian #131263, cf: 20011215).
3871 + add entrypoints to resizeterm.c which provide better control over the
3872 process: is_term_resized() and resize_term(). The latter restores
3873 the original design of resizeterm() before KEY_RESIZE was added in
3874 970906. Do this to accommodate 20010922 changes to view.c, but allow
3875 for programs with their own sigwinch handler, such as lynx (reported
3876 by Russell Ruby <russ@math.orst.edu>).
3879 + fix a typo in change to mk-1st.awk, which broke the shared-library
3880 makefile rules (reported by Martin Mokrejs).
3883 + update config.guess, config.sub
3884 + finish changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
3885 + fix a typo in mvwchat() macro (reported by Cy <yam@homerow.net).
3888 + add case in lib_baudrate.c for B921600 (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
3889 + correct missing sed-editing stage in manpage installs which is used
3890 to rename manpages, broken in 20010324 fix for Debian #89939 (Debian
3892 + remove -L$(libdir) from linker flags, probably not needed any more
3893 since HPUX is handled properly (reported by Niibe Yutaka
3895 + add configure check for mbstate_t, needed for wide-character
3896 configuration. On some platforms we must include <wchar.h> to
3897 define this (reported by Daniel Jacobowitz).
3898 + incorporate some of the changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
3901 + workaround for awk did not work with mawk, adjusted shell script.
3904 + add Caps.osf1r5, as an example.
3905 + modify behavior of can_clear_with() so that if an application is
3906 running in a non-bce terminals with default colors enabled, it
3907 returns true, allowing the user to select/paste text without picking
3908 up extraneous trailing blanks (adapted from patch by Daniel
3909 Jacobowitz <dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu>).
3910 + modify generated curses.h to ifdef-out prototypes for extensions if
3911 they are disabled, and to define curses_version() as a string in that
3912 case. This is needed to make the programs such as tic build in that
3914 + modified generated headers.sh to remove a gzip'd version of the
3915 target file if it exists, in case non-gzip'd manpages are installed
3916 into a directory where gzip'd ones exist. In that case, the latter
3918 + corrected a redundant initialization of signal handlers from 20010922
3920 + clarified bug-reporting address in terminfo.src (report by John H
3921 DuBois III <spcecdt@armory.com>).
3922 > several fixes from Robert Joop:
3923 + do not use "-v" option of awk in MKkey_defs.sh because it does not
3924 work with SunOS nawk.
3925 + modify definitions for libutf8 in curses.h to avoid redefinition
3927 + quoted references to compiler in shell command in misc/Makefile, in
3928 case it uses multiple tokens.
3931 + restore special case from 20010922 changes to omit SA_RESTART when
3932 setting up SIGWINCH handler, which is needed to allow wgetch() to be
3933 interrupted by that signal.
3934 + update configure macro CF_WITH_PATHLIST, to omit some double quotes
3935 not needed with autoconf 2.52
3936 + revert configure script to autoconf 2.13 patched with
3937 autoconf-2.13-19990117.patch.gz (or later)
3939 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
3940 because autoconf 2.52 macro AC_PROG_AWK does not work on HPUX 11.0
3941 (report by David Ellement <ellement@sdd.hp.com>). This also fixes a
3942 different problem configuring with Mac OS X (reported by Marc Smith
3943 <marc.a.smith@home.com>).
3946 + modify include/edit_cfg.h to eliminate BROKEN_LINKER symbol from
3948 + move prototype for _nc_vsscanf() into curses.h.in to omit
3949 HAVE_VSSCANF symbol from curses.h, which was dependent upon the
3950 ncurses_cfg.h file which is not installed.
3951 + use ACS_LEN rather than SIZEOF(acs_map) in trace code of lib_acs.c,
3952 to work with broken linker configuration, e.g., cygwin (report by
3953 Robert Joop <rj@rainbow.in-berlin.de>).
3954 + make napms() call _nc_timed_wait() rather than poll() or select(),
3955 to work around broken implementations of these on cygwin.
3958 + drop configure macro CF_WIDEC_SHIFT, since that was rendered obsolete
3959 by Sven Verdoolaege's rewrite of wide-character support. This makes
3960 libncursesw incompatible again, but makes the header files almost the
3961 same as in the narrow-character configuration.
3962 + simplify definitions that combine wide/narrow versions of bkgd, etc.,
3963 to eliminate differences between the wide/narrow versions of curses.h
3964 + correct typo in configure macro CF_FUNC_VSSCANF
3965 + correct location of call to _nc_keypad() from 20011215 changes which
3966 prevented keypad() from being disabled (reported by Lars Hecking).
3969 + rewrote ncurses 'a' test to exercise wgetch() and keypad() functions
3970 better, e.g., by adding a 'w' command to create new windows which
3971 may have different keypad() settings.
3972 + corrected logic of keypad() by adding internal screen state to track
3973 whether the terminal's keypad-mode has been set. Use this in
3974 wgetch() to update the keypad-mode according to whether the
3975 associated window's keypad-mode has been set with keypad(). This
3976 corrects a related problem restoring terminal state after handling
3977 SIGTSTP (reported by Mike Castle).
3978 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52
3979 autoconf-2.52-patch.gz
3981 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
3982 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3983 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
3984 + minor changes to quoting in configure script to allow it to work
3988 + modify final checks in lib_setup.c for line and col values, making
3990 + modify acs_map[] if configure --broken-linker is specified, to make
3991 it use a function rather than an array (prompted by an incorrect
3992 implementation in cygwin package).
3993 + correct spelling of configure option --enable-colorfgbg, which
3994 happened to work if --with-develop was set (noted in cygwin package
3996 + modify ifdef for genericerror() to compile with SUNWspro Sun WorkShop
3997 6 update 1 C++ 5.2 (patch by Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu>).
3998 + add configure checks to see if ncurses' fallback vsscanf() will
3999 compile either of the special cases for FILE structs, and if not,
4000 force it to the case which simply returns an error (report by
4001 Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu> indicates that Solaris 8 with
4002 64-bits does not allow access to FILE's fields).
4003 + modify ifdef's for c++/cursesw.cc to use the fallback vsscanf() in
4004 the ncurses library if no better substitute for this can be found
4006 + modify the build to name dynamic libraries according to the
4007 convention used on OS X and Darwin. Rather than something like
4008 libncurses.dylib.5.2, Darwin would name it libncurses. 5.dylib.
4009 There are a few additional minor fixes, such as setting the library
4010 version and compatibility version numbers (patch by Jason Evans
4011 <jevans@apple.com>).
4012 + use 'sh' to run mkinstalldirs, to work around problems with buggy
4013 versions of 'make' on OS/2 (report by John Polterak <jp@eyup.org>).
4014 + correct typo in manpage description of curs_set() (Debian #121548).
4015 + replace the configure script existence-check for mkstemp() by one
4016 that checks if the function works, needed for older glibc and
4020 + modify script that generates fallbacks.c to compile a temporary
4021 copy of the terminfo source in case the host does not contain all of
4022 the entries requested for fallbacks (request by Greg Roelofs).
4023 + modify configure script to accommodate systems such as Mac OS X whose
4024 <stdbool.h> header defines a 'bool' type inconsistent with ncurses,
4025 which normally makes 'bool' consistent with C++. Include <stdbool.h>
4026 from curses.h to force consistent usage, define a new type
4027 NCURSES_BOOL and related that to the exported 'bool' as either a
4028 typedef or definition, according to whether <stdbool.h> is present
4029 (based on a bug report for tin 1.5.9 by Aaron Adams <adamsa@mac.com>).
4032 + added/updated terminfo entries for M$ telnet and KDE konsole -TD
4035 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
4036 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
4037 + add putty terminfo entry -TD
4038 + if configuring for wide-curses, define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, since
4039 this may not otherwise be defined to make test/view.c compile.
4042 + review/correct several missing/generated items in curses.wide, sorted
4043 the lists to make subsequent diff's easier to track.
4046 + add manual pages for add_wch(), echo_wchar(), getcchar(),
4047 mvadd_wch(), mvwadd_wch(), setcchar(), wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar().
4048 + implement wecho_wchar()
4049 + modify _tracedump() to handle wide-characters by mapping them to '?'
4050 and control-characters to '.', to make the trace file readable. Also
4051 dynamically allocate the buffer used by _tracedump() for formatting
4053 + modify T_CALLED/T_RETURN macros to ease balancing call/return lines
4054 in a trace by using curly braces.
4055 + implement _nc_viscbuf(), for tracing cchar_t arrays.
4056 + correct trace-calls in setcchar() and getcchar() functions, which
4057 traced the return values but not the entry to each function.
4058 + correct usage message in test/view.c, which still mentioned -u flag.
4061 + modify configure script to allow building with termcap only, or with
4062 fallbacks only. In this case, we do not build tic and toe.
4063 + add configure --with-termpath option, to override default TERMPATH
4064 value of /etc/termcap:/usr/share/misc/termcap.
4065 + cosmetic change to tack: make menu descriptions agree with menu
4069 + rewrote limit-checks in wscrl() and associated _nc_scroll_window(),
4070 to ensure that if the parameter of wscrl() is larger than the size of
4071 the scrolling region, then the scrolling region will be cleared
4072 (report by Ben Kohlen <bckohlen@yahoo.com>).
4073 + add trace/varargs.c, using this to trace parameters in lib_printw.c
4074 + implement _tracecchar_t2() and _tracecchar_t().
4075 + split-out trace/visbuf.c
4076 + correct typo in lib_printw.c changes from 20010922 (report by Mike
4080 + modify run_tic.sh to check if the build is a cross-compile. In that
4081 case, do not use the build's tic to install the terminfo database
4082 (report by Rafael Rodriguez Velilla <rrv@tid.es>).
4083 + modify mouse click resolution so that mouseinterval(-1) will disable
4084 it, e.g., to handle touchscreens via a slow connection (request by
4085 Byron Stanoszek <gandalf@winds.org>).
4086 + correct mouseinterval() default value shown in curs_mouse.3x
4087 + remove conflicting definition of mouse_trafo() (reported by Lars
4088 Hecking, using gcc 2.95.3).
4091 + simpler fix for signal_name(), to replace the one overlooked in
4092 20010929 (reported by Larry Virden).
4095 + add -i option to view.c, to test ncurses' check for non-default
4096 signal handler for SIGINT, etc.
4097 + add cases for shared-libraries on Darwin/OS X (patch by Rob Braun
4098 <bbraun@synack.net>).
4099 + modify tset to restore original I/O modes if an error is encountered.
4100 Also modify to use buffered stderr consistently rather than mixing
4102 + change signal_name() function to use if-then-else rather than case
4103 statement, since signal-values aren't really integers (reported by
4105 + add limit checks in wredrawln(), fixing a problem where lynx was
4106 repainting a pad which was much larger than the screen.
4109 + fix: PutRange() was counting the second part of a wide character as
4110 part of a run, resulting in a cursor position that was one too far
4111 (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
4112 + modify resizeterm() to not queue a KEY_RESIZE if there was no
4113 SIGWINCH, thereby separating the two styles of SIGWINCH handling
4115 + simplified lib_tstp.c, modify it to use SA_RESTART flag for SIGWINCH.
4116 + eliminate several static buffers in the terminfo compiler, using
4118 + modify MKkeyname.awk so that keyname() does not store its result into
4119 a static buffer that is overwritten by the next call.
4120 + reorganize the output of infocmp -E and -e options to compile cleanly
4121 with gcc -Wwrite-strings warnings.
4122 + remove redefinition of chgat/wchgat/mvwchgat from curses.wide
4125 + add label to test/view.c, showing the name of the last key or signal
4126 that made the screen repaint, to make it clearer when a sigwinch
4128 + use ExitProgram() consistently in the test-programs to make it
4129 simpler to test leaks with dmalloc, etc.
4130 + move hashtab static data out of hashmap.c into SCREEN struct.
4131 + make NO_LEAK code compile with revised WINDOWLIST structs.
4134 + modify tgetent() to check if exit_attribute_mode resets the alternate
4135 character set, and if so, attempt to adjust the copy of the termcap
4136 "me" string which it will return to eliminate that part. In
4137 particular, 'screen' would lose track of line-drawing characters
4138 (report by Frederic L W Meunier <0@pervalidus.net>, analysis by
4142 + specify DOCTYPE in html manpages.
4143 + add missing macros for several "generated" functions: attr_get(),
4144 attr_off(), attr_on(), attr_set(), chgat(), mvchgat(), mvwchgat() and
4146 + modify view.c to agree with non-experimental status of ncurses'
4148 + change the sense of the -r option, making it default to ncurses'
4150 + add a note explaining what functions are unsafe in a signal
4152 + add a -c option, to set color display, for testing.
4153 + unset $data variable in MKterminfo.sh script, to address potential
4154 infinite loop if shell malfunction (report by Samuel Mikes
4155 <smikes@cubane.com>, for bash 2.05.0 on a Linux 2.0.36 system).
4156 + change kbs in mach terminfo entries to ^? (Marcus Brinkmann
4157 <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>).
4158 + correct logic for COLORFGBG environment variable: if rxvt is compiled
4159 with xpm support, the variable has three fields, making it slightly
4160 incompatible with itself. In either case, the background color is
4164 + move calls to def_shell_mode() and def_prog_mode() before loop with
4165 callbacks in lib_set_term.c, since the c++ demo otherwise initialized
4166 the tty modes before saving them (patch by John David Anglin
4167 <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>).
4168 + duplicate logic used to initialize trace in newterm(), in initscr()
4169 to avoid confusing trace of initscr().
4170 + simplify allocation of WINDOW and WINDOWLIST structs by making the
4171 first a part of the second rather than storing a pointer. This saves
4172 a call to malloc for each window (discussion with Philippe Blain).
4173 + remove unused variable 'used_ncv' from lib_vidattr.c (Philippe
4175 + modify c++/Makefile.in to accommodate archive programs that are
4176 different for C++ than for C, and add cases for vendor's C++
4177 compilers on Solaris and IRIX (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
4178 + correct manpage description of criteria for deciding if the terminal
4179 supports xterm mouse controls.
4180 + add several configure script options to aid with cross-compiling:
4181 --with-build-cc, --with-build-cflags, --with-build-ldflags, and
4182 --with-build-libs (request by Greg Roelofs).
4183 + change criteria for deciding if configure is cross-compiling from
4184 host/build mismatch to host/target mismatch (request by Greg Roelofs
4185 <greg.roelofs@philips.com>).
4186 + correct logic for infocmp -e and -E options which writes the data for
4187 the ext_Names[] array. This is needed if one constructs a fallback
4188 table for a terminfo entry which uses extended termcap names, e.g.,
4189 AX in a color xterm.
4190 + fix undefined NCURSES_PATHSEP when configure --disable-database
4194 + fix for VALID_BOOLEAN() macro when char is not signed.
4195 + modify 'clean' rule for C++ binding to work with Sun compiler, which
4196 caches additional information in a subdirectory of the objects.
4197 + added llib-ncursesw.
4200 + add Caps.keys example for experimental extended function keys
4201 (adapted from a patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
4202 + correct parameter types of vidputs() and vidattr() to agree with
4203 header files (report by William P Setzer).
4204 + fix typos in several man-pages (patch by William P Setzer).
4205 + remove unneeded ifdef for __GNUG__ in CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC configure
4206 macro, which made ncurses C++ binding fail to build with other
4207 C++ compilers such as HPUX 11.x (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
4208 + workaround for bug in HPUX 11.x C compiler: add a blank after
4209 NCURSES_EXPORT macro in form.h (report by Albert Chin-A-Young)
4210 + ignore blank lines in Caps* files in MKkey_defs.sh script (report by
4211 Albert Chin-A-Young).
4212 + correct definition of key_end in Caps.aix4, which left KEY_END
4213 undefined (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
4214 + remove a QNX-specific fallback prototype for vsscanf(), which is
4215 obsolete with QNX RTP.
4216 + review/fix some of the T() and TR() macro calls, having noticed that
4217 there was no data for delwin() in a trace of dialog because there was
4218 no returnVoid call for wtimeout(). Also, traces in lib_twait.c are
4219 now selected under TRACE_IEVENT rather than TRACE_CALLS.
4222 + add a _nc_access() check before opening files listed via $TERMPATH.
4223 + using modified man2html, regenerate some of the html manpages to fix
4224 broken HREF's where the link was hyphenated.
4227 + add some limit/pointer checks to -S option of tputs.
4228 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
4229 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
4230 + add a note in curs_termcap.3x regarding a defect in the XSI
4231 description of tgetent (based on a discussion with Urs Jansen
4232 regarding the HPUX 11.x implementation, whose termcap interface is
4233 not compatible with existing termcap programs).
4234 + modify manhtml rule in dist.mk to preserve copyright notice on the
4235 generated files, as well as to address HTML style issues reported by
4236 tidy and weblint. Regenerated/updated corresponding html files.
4237 + comment out use of Protected_Character and related rarely used
4238 attributes in ncurses Ada95 test/demo to compile with wide-character
4242 + implement a simple example in C++ demo to test scanw().
4243 + corrected stdio function used to implement scanw() in cursesw.cc
4244 + correct definition of RemAttr() macro from 20010602 changes, which
4245 caused C++ SillyDemo to not show line-drawing characters.
4246 + modify C++ binding, adding getKey() which can be overridden by user
4247 to substitute functions other than getch() for keyboard processing
4248 of forms and menus (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
4251 + fix some of the trace calls which needed modification to work with
4252 new wide-character structures.
4253 + modify magic-cookie code in tty_update.c to compile with new
4254 wide-character structures (report by <George.R.Goffe@seagate.com>).
4255 + ensure that _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined in curses.priv.h if
4256 compiling for wide-character configuration.
4257 + make addwnstr() handle non-spacing characters (patch by Sven
4261 + add configure check to define _GNU_SOURCE, needed to prop up glibc
4263 + split-out include/curses.wide to solve spurious redefinitions caused
4264 by defining _GNU_SOURCE, and move includes for <signal.h> before
4265 <curses.h> to work around misdefinition of ERR in glibc 2.1.3 header
4267 + extended ospeed change to NetBSD and OpenBSD -TD
4268 + modify logic in lib_baudrate.c for ospeed, for FreeBSD to make it
4269 work properly for termcap applications (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
4272 + correct an overlooked CharOf/UChar instance (reports by Eugene Lee
4273 <eugene@anime.net>, Sven Verdoolaege).
4274 + correct unneeded ifdef for wunctrl() (reported by Sven Verdoolaege)
4277 + change overlooked several CharOf/UChar instances.
4278 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
4279 + correct a typo in wunctrl(), which made it appear that botwc() was
4280 needed (no such function: use btowc()).
4281 + reimplement wide-character demo in test/view.c, using new functions.
4282 + implement getcchar(), setcchar(), wadd_wchnstr() and related macros.
4283 + fix a syntax problem with do/if/while in PUTC macro (curses.priv.h).
4286 + add parentheses in macros for malloc in test.priv.h, fixes an
4287 expression in view.c (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.co.at>).
4288 + add Caps.uwin, as an example.
4289 + change the way curses.h is generated, making the list of function
4290 key definitions extracted from the Caps file.
4291 + add #undef's before possible redefinition of ERR and OK in curses.h
4292 + modify logic in tic, toe, tput and tset which checks for basename of
4293 argv[0] to work properly on systems such as OS/2 which have
4294 case-independent filenames and/or program suffixes, e.g., ".ext".
4297 + add a configure check, if --enable-widec is specified, for putwc(),
4298 which may be in libutf8.
4299 + remove some unnecessary text from curs_extend.3x and
4300 default_colors.3x which caused man-db to make incorrect symbolic
4301 links (Debian bug report #99550).
4302 + add configure check if cast for _IO_va_list is needed to compile
4303 C++ vscan code (Debian bug report #97945).
4304 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
4305 + correct code that used non-standard auto-initialization of a struct,
4306 which gcc allows (report by Larry Virden).
4307 + use putwc() in PUTC() macro.
4308 + make addstr() work for the special case where the codeset is
4309 non-stateful (eg. UTF-8), as well as stateful codesets.
4312 + correct loop expression in NEXT_CHAR macro for lib_addstr.c changes
4313 from 20010602 (report by Mike Castle).
4316 + modify mvcur() to avoid emitting newline characters when nonl() mode
4317 is set. Normally this is not a problem since the actual terminal
4318 mode is set to suppress nl/crlf translations, however it is useful to
4319 allow the caller to manipulate the terminal mode to avoid staircasing
4320 effects after spawning a process which writes messages (for lynx
4322 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>:
4323 + remove redundant type-conversion in fifo_push()
4324 + correct definition of addwstr() macro in curses.h.in
4325 + remove _nc_utf8_outch()
4326 + rename most existing uses of CharOf() to UChar(), e.g., where it is
4327 used to prevent sign-extension in ctype macros.
4328 + change some chtype's to attr_t's where the corresponding variables
4329 are used to manipulate attributes.
4330 + UpdateAttr() was applied to both attributes (attr_t) and characters
4331 (chtype). Modify macro and calls to it to make these distinct.
4332 + add CharEq() macro, use in places where wide-character configuration
4333 implementation uses a struct for cchar_t.
4334 + moved struct ldat into curses.priv.h, to hide implementation details.
4335 + change CharOf() macro to use it for masking A_CHARTEXT data from
4337 + add L() macro to curses.priv.h, for long-character literals.
4338 + replace several assignments from struct ldat entries to chtype or
4339 char values with combinations of CharOf() and AttrOf() macros.
4340 + add/use intermediate ChAttrOf() and ChCharOf() macros where we know
4341 we are using chtype data.
4342 + add/use lowlevel attribute manipulation macros AddAttr(), RemAttr()
4344 + add/use SetChar() macro, to change a cchar_t based on a character and
4346 + convert most internal use of chtype to NCURSES_CH_T, to simplify use
4347 of cchar_t for wide-character configuration. Similarly, use ARG_CH_T
4348 where a pointer would be more useful.
4349 + add stubs for tracing cchar_t values.
4350 + add/use macro ISBLANK()
4351 + add/use constructors for cchar_t's: NewChar(), NewChar2().
4352 + add/use macros CHREF(), CHDEREF(), AttrOfD(), CharOfD() to facilitate
4353 passing cchar_t's by address.
4354 + add/use PUTC_DATA, PUTC() macros.
4355 + for wide-character configuration, move the window background data to
4356 the end of the WINDOW struct so that whether _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
4357 is defined or not, the offsets in the struct will not change.
4358 + modify addch() to work with wide-characters.
4359 + mark several wide-character functions as generated in curses.h.in
4360 + implement wunctrl(), wadd_wch(), wbkgrndset(), wbkgrnd(),
4361 wborder_set() and waddnwstr().
4364 + add experimental --with-caps=XXX option to customize to similar
4365 terminfo database formats such as AIX 4.x
4366 + add Caps.aix4 as an example.
4367 + modify Caps to add columns for the the KEY_xxx symbols.
4368 + modify configure --with-widec to suppress overwrite of libcurses.so
4370 + add checks to toe.c to avoid being confused by files and directories
4371 where we would expect the reverse, e.g., source-files in the
4372 top-level terminfo levels as is the case for AIX.
4375 + add top-level 'depend' rule for the C sources, assuming that the
4376 makedepend program is available. As a side-effect, this makes
4377 the generated sources, as in "make sources" (prompted by a report
4378 by Mike Castle that "make -j" fails because the resulting parallel
4379 processes race to generate ncurses/names.c).
4380 + modify configure script so that --disable-overwrite option's action
4381 to add a symbolic link for libcurses applies to the static library as
4382 well as the shared library when both are configured (report by Felix
4383 Natter <f.natter@ndh.net>).
4384 + add ELKS terminfo entries (Federico Bianchi
4385 <bianchi@www.arte.unipi.it>)
4386 + add u6 (CSR) to Eterm (Michael Jennings).
4389 + modify test/ncurses.c to work with xterm-256color, which has fewer
4390 color pairs than colors*colors (report by David Ellement
4391 <ellement@sdd.hp.com>).
4394 + corrected screen.xterm-xfree86 entry.
4395 + update comment in Caps regarding IBM (AIX) function-key definitions.
4398 + modify c++/Makefile.in to link with libncurses++w.a when configured
4399 for wide-characters (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
4400 + add check in _nc_trace_buf() to refrain from freeing a null pointer.
4401 + improve CF_PROG_INSTALL macro using CF_DIRNAME.
4402 + update config.guess, config.sub from autoconf 2.49e (alpha).
4405 + add secondary check in tic.c, similar_sgr() to see if the reason
4406 for mismatch was that the individual capabilities used a time-delay
4407 while sgr did not. Used this to cleanup mismatches, e.g., in vt100,
4408 and remove time-delay from Apple_Terminal entries.
4409 + add Apple_Terminal terminfo entries (Benjamin C W Sittler
4410 <bsittler@iname.com>).
4411 + correct definitions of shifted editing keys for xterm-xfree86 -TD
4412 + fix a bug in test/bs.c from 20010407 (patch by Erik Sigra).
4413 + prevent relative_move() from doing an overwrite if it detects 8-bit
4414 characters when configured for UTF-8 (reported by Sven Verdoolaege
4415 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
4418 + add configure checks for strstream.h vscan function, and similar
4419 stdio-based function which may be used in C++ binding for gcc 3.0
4420 (reports by George Goffe, Lars Hecking, Mike Castle).
4421 + rewrite parts of configure.in which used changequote(). That feature
4422 is broken in the latest autoconf alphas (e.g., 2.49d).
4423 + add a missing pathname for ncurses_dll.h, needed when building in
4424 a directory outside the source tree (patch by Sven Verdoolaege
4425 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
4426 > fix 2 bugs in test/bs.c Erik Sigra <sigra@home.se>:
4427 + no ships were ever placed in the last row or in the last column.
4428 This made the game very easy to win, because you never had to waste
4429 any shots there, but the computer did.
4430 + the squares around a sunken ship that belonged to the player were not
4431 displayed as already hit by the computer, like it does for the
4435 + add some examples of customizing screen's terminfo:
4436 screen.xterm-xfree86, screen.xterm-r6, screen.teraterm -TD
4437 + modify screen's terminfo entry to match the khome/kend in screen
4438 3.09.08 (Debian bug report #92215).
4439 + correct a memory leak in forms library (report by Stefan Vogtner
4440 <stefan@vogtner.de>) (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
4443 + change symbols used to guard against repeated includes to begin
4444 consistently with "NCURSES_" rather than a leading underscore. There
4445 are other symbols defined in the header files which begin with a
4446 leading underscore, but they are part of the legacy interface.
4447 + reorder includes in c++ binding so that rcs identifiers can be
4449 + add .cc.ii rule to c++ makefile, to get preprocessor output for
4451 + correct configure script handling of @keyword@ substitutions when the
4452 --with-manpage-renames option is given (cf: 20000715, fixes Debian
4454 + report stack underflow/overflow in tparm() when tic -cv option is
4456 + remove spurious "%|" operator from xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry,
4457 (reported by Adam Costello <amc@cs.berkeley.edu>, Debian bug #89222).
4460 + cleanup of newdemo.c, fixing some ambiguous expressions noted by gcc
4461 2.95.2, and correcting some conflicting color pair initializations.
4462 + add missing copyright notice for cursesw.h
4463 + review, make minor fixes for use of '::' for referring to C-language
4464 interface from C++ binding.
4465 + modify configure check for g++ library slightly to accommodate
4466 nonstandard version number, e.g., <vendor>-2.7 (report by Ronald Ho
4467 <rho@mipos2.intel.com>).
4468 + add configure check for c++ <sstream> header, replace hardcoded
4470 + workaround for pre-release of gcc 3.0 libstdc++, which has dropped
4471 vscan from strstreambuf to follow standard, use wrapper for C vscanf
4472 instead (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@excite.com> and Matt Taggart
4473 <taggart@carmen.fc.hp.com>, fixes Debian .
4476 + modify interface of _nc_get_token() to pass 'silent' parameter to it,
4477 to make quieter loading of /etc/termcap (patch by Todd C Miller).
4478 + correct a few typos in curs_slk.3x and curs_outopts.3x manpages
4479 (patch by Todd C Miller).
4482 + compiler-warning fixes (reported by Nelson Beebe).
4485 + modify screen terminfo entry to use new 3.9.8 feature allowing xterm
4489 + broaden patterns used to match OS/2 EMX in configure script to cover
4490 variant used in newer config.guess/config.sub
4491 + remove changequote() calls from configure script, since this feature
4492 is broken in the autoconf 2.49c alpha, maintainers decline to fix.
4493 + remove macro callPutChar() from tty_update.c, since this is no longer
4494 needed (reported by Philippe Blain).
4495 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c to handle the case when the input
4496 file is really empty. Modify the next_char() function in comp_scan.c
4497 to allow arbitrarily long lines, and incidentally supply a newline to
4498 files that do not end in a newline. These changes improve tic's
4499 recovery from attempts to read binary files, e.g., its output from
4500 the terminfo database (reported by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
4503 + revert change to c++/demo.cc from 20001209, which changed definition
4504 of main() apparently to accommodate cygwin linker, but broke the demo
4506 + workaround for broken egcs 2.91.66 which calls member functions
4507 (i.e., lines() and colors() of NCursesWindow before calling its
4508 constructor. Add calls to initialize() in a few constructors which
4509 did not do this already.
4510 + use the GNAT preprocessor to make the necessary switch between TRACE
4511 and NO_TRACE configurations (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
4512 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
4513 + modify kterm terminfo entry to use SCS sequence to support alternate
4514 character set (it does not work with SI/SO).
4515 + --with-ospeed=something didn't work. configure.in checked for a
4516 $enableval where it should check for $withval. Also,
4517 ncurses/llib-lncurses still had a hardcoded short.
4520 + correction to my merge of Tom Riddle's patch that broke tic in some
4521 conditions (reported by Enoch Wexler <enoch@wexler.co.il>) -TD
4524 + modify view.c to test halfdelay(). Like other tests, this recognizes
4525 the 's' and space commands for stopping/starting polled input, shows
4526 a freerunning clock in the header. If given a parameter to 's', that
4527 makes view.c use halfdelay() with that parameter rather than
4529 + fix to allow compile with the experimental configure option
4531 + modify postprocess_termcap() to avoid overwriting key_backspace,
4532 key_left, key_down when processing a non-base entry (report/patch by
4534 + modify _nc_wrap_entry(), adding option to reallocate the string
4535 table, needed in _nc_merge_entry() when merging termcap entries.
4536 (adapted from report/patch by Tom Riddle <ftr@oracom.com>).
4537 + modify a few configure script macros to keep $CFLAGS used only for
4538 compiler options, preprocessor options in $CPPFLAGS.
4541 + correct marker positions in lrtest.c after receiving a sigwinch.
4542 + fix ifdef's in ncurses.c to build against pre-5.2 for testing.
4543 + fixes to tclock for resizing behavior, redundant computation (report
4544 and patch by A M Kuchling <akuchlin@mems-exchange.org>).
4547 + improved scoansi terminfo entry -TD
4548 + modify configure script and makefile in Ada95/src to compile a stub
4549 for the trace functions when ncurses does not provide those.
4552 + add ncurses_dll.h and related definitions to support generating DLL's
4553 with cygwin (adapted from a patch by Charles Wilson
4554 <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>, changed NCURSES_EXPORT macro to make it
4555 work with 'indent') -TD
4558 + correct prototypes for some functions in curs_termcap.3x, matching
4559 termcap.h, which matches X/Open.
4560 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
4561 + a revised version of the Ada enhancements sent in by "H.
4562 Nanosecond", aka Eugene V Melaragno <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>. This
4564 - small fixes to the existing ncurses binding
4565 - addition of some more low-level functions to the binding, including
4566 termcap and terminfo functions
4567 - An Ada implementation of the "ncurses" test application originally
4571 + modify logic in lib_setup.c to allow either lines or columns value
4572 from terminfo to be used if the screen size cannot be determined
4573 dynamically rather than requiring both (patch by Ehud Karni
4574 <ehud@unix.simonwiesel.co.il>).
4575 + add check in lib_tgoto.c's is_termcap() function to reject null or
4576 empty strings (reported by Valentin Nechayev <netch@netch.kiev.ua> to
4578 + add definition from configure script that denotes the path-separator,
4579 which is normally a colon. The path-separator is a semicolon on
4580 OS/2 EMX and similar systems which may use a colon within pathnames.
4581 + alter logic to set default for --disable-overwrite option to set it
4582 to 'yes' if the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr/local, thereby
4583 accommodating the most common cause of problems: gcc's nonstandard
4584 search rules. Other locations such as /usr/local/ncurses will
4585 default to overwriting (report by Lars Hecking <lhecking@nmrc.ie>).
4588 + modify default for --disable-overwrite configure option to disable
4589 if the --prefix or $prefix value is not /usr.
4590 + add cygwin to systems for which ncurses is installed by default into
4591 /usr rather than /usr/local.
4594 + minor optimization in comp_error.c and lib_termname.c, using
4595 strncat() to replace strncpy() (patch by Solar Designer).
4596 + add a use_terminfo_vars() check for $HOME/.termcap, and check for
4597 geteuid() to use_terminfo_vars() (patch by Solar Designer
4599 + improved cygwin terminfo entry, based on patch by
4600 <ernie_boyd@yahoo.com>.
4601 + modify _nc_write_entry() to allow for the possibility that linking
4602 aliases on a filesystem that ignores case would not succeed because
4603 the source and destination differ only by case, e.g., NCR260VT300WPP0
4604 on cygwin (report by Neil Zanella).
4605 + fix a typo in the curs_deleteln.3x man page (patch by Bernhard
4606 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
4609 + add configure option --with-ospeed to assist packagers in transition
4610 to 5.3 change to ospeed type.
4611 + add/use CharOf() macro to suppress sign-extension of char type on
4612 platforms where this is a problem in ctype macros, e.g., Solaris.
4613 + change trace output to binary format.
4614 + correct a missing quote adjustment in CF_PATH_SYNTAX autoconf
4615 macro, for OS/2 EMX configuration.
4616 + rearrange a few configure macros, moving preprocessor options to
4617 $CPPFLAGS (a now-obsolete version of autoconf did not consistently
4618 use $CPPFLAGS in both the compile and preprocessor checks).
4619 + add a check in relative_move() to guard against buffer overflow in
4620 the overwrite logic.
4623 + add message to configure script showing g++ version.
4624 + resync config.guess, config.sub
4625 + modify lib_delwin.c, making it return ERR if the window did not exist
4626 (suggested by Neil Zanella).
4627 + add cases for FreeBSD 3.1 to tdlint and makellib scripts, used this
4628 to test/review ncurses library. (Would use lclint, but it doesn't
4630 + reorganized knight.c to avoid forward references. Correct screen
4631 updates when backtracking, especially to the first cell. Add F/B/a
4634 20001021 5.2 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
4635 + update generated html files from manpages.
4636 + modify dist.mk to use edit_man.sh to substitute autoconf'd variables
4638 + fix an uninitialized pointer in read_termcap.c (report by Todd C
4639 Miller, from report/patch by Philip Guenther <guenther@gac.edu>).
4640 + correct help-message and array limit in knight.c (patch by Brian
4641 Raiter <breadbox@muppetlabs.com>).
4642 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
4643 + fix to avoid warning by GNAT-3.13p about use of inconsistent casing
4644 for some identifiers defined in the standard package.
4645 + cosmetic change to forms/fty_enum.c
4648 + correct an off-by-one position in test/railroad.c which could cause
4649 wrapping at the right margin.
4650 + test/repair some issues with libtool configuration. Make
4651 --disable-echo force libtool --silent. (Libtool does not work for
4652 OS/2 EMX, works partly for SCO - libtool is still very specific to
4654 + change default of --with-manpage-tbl to "no", since for most of the
4655 platforms which do have tbl installed, the system "man" program
4656 understands how to run tbl automatically.
4657 + minor improvement to force_bar() in comp_parse.c (Bernhard
4658 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
4659 + modify lib_tparm.c to use get_space() before writing terminating
4660 null character, both for consistency as well as to ensure that if
4661 save_char() was called immediately before, that the allocated memory
4662 is enough (patch by Sergei Ivanov).
4663 + add note about termcap ML capability which is duplicated between two
4664 different capabilities: smgl and smglr (reported by Sergei Ivanov
4665 <svivanov@pdmi.ras.ru>).
4666 + correct parameter counts in include/Caps for dclk as well as some
4667 printer-specific capabilities: csnm, defc, scs, scsd, smgtp, smglp.
4668 > patch by Johnny C Lam <lamj@stat.cmu.edu>:
4669 + add support for building with libtool (apparently version 1.3.5,
4670 since old versions do not handle -L../lib), using new configure
4671 option --with-libtool.
4672 + add configure option --with-manpage-tbl, which causes the manpages to
4673 be preprocessed by tbl(1) prior to installation,
4674 + add configure option --without-curses-h, which causes the
4675 installation process to install curses.h as ncurses.h and make
4676 appropriate changes to headers and manpages.
4679 + correct order of options/parameters in run_tic.in invocation of tic,
4680 which did not work with standard getopt() (reported by Ethan
4681 Butterfield <primus@veris.org>).
4682 + correct logic for 'reverse' variable in lib_vidattr.c, which was
4683 setting it true without checking if newmode had A_REVERSE set, e.g.,
4684 using $TERM=ansi on OS/2 EMX (see 20000917).
4685 > patch by Todd C Miller:
4686 + add a few missing use_terminfo_vars() and fixes up _nc_tgetent().
4687 Previously, _nc_cgetset() would still get called on cp so the
4688 simplest thing is to set cp to NULL if !use_terminfo_vars().
4689 + added checks for an empty $HOME environment variable.
4690 > patches for OS/2 EMX (Ilya Zakharevich):
4691 + modify convert_configure.pl to support INSTALL. Change compiler
4692 options in that script to use multithreading, needed for the mouse.
4693 + modify OS/2 mouse support, retrying as a 2-button mouse if code fails
4694 to set up a 3-button mouse.
4695 + improve code for OS/2 mouse support, using _nc_timed_wait() to
4696 replace select() call.
4699 + change type of ospeed variable back to short to match its use in
4700 legacy applications (reported by Andrey A Chernov).
4701 + add case to configure script for --enable-rpath on IRIX (patch by
4702 Albert Chin-A-Young).
4703 + minor fix to position_check() function, to ensure it gets the whole
4704 cursor report before decoding.
4705 + add configure option --disable-assumed-color, to allow pre-5.1
4706 convention of default colors used for color-pair 0 to be configured
4707 (see assume_default_colors()).
4708 + rename configure option --enable-hashmap --disable-hashmap, and
4709 reorder the configure options, splitting the experimental and
4711 + add configure option --disable-root-environ, which tells ncurses to
4712 disregard $TERMINFO and similar environment variables if the current
4713 user is root, or running setuid/setgid (based on discussion with
4715 + modified misc/run_tic.in to use tic -o, to eliminate dependency on
4716 $TERMINFO variable for installs.
4717 + add table entry for plab_norm to tput, so it passes in strings
4718 for that capability.
4719 + modify parse_format() in lib_tparm.c to ignore precision if it is
4720 longer than 10000 (report by Jouko Pynnonen).
4721 + rewrote limit checks in lib_mvcur.c using new functions
4722 _nc_safe_strcat(), etc. Made other related changes to check lengths
4723 used for strcat/strcpy (report by Jouko Pynnonen
4724 <jouko@solutions.fi>).
4727 + modify several descriptions, including those for setaf, setab, in
4728 include/Caps to indicate that the entries are parameterized. This
4729 information is used to tell which strings are translated when
4730 converting to termcap. Fixes a problem where the generated termcap
4731 would contain a spurious "%p1" for the terminfo "%p1%d".
4732 + modify ld -rpath options (e.g., Linux, and Solaris) to use an
4733 absolute pathname for the build tree's lib directory (prompted by
4734 discussion with Albert Chin-A-Young).
4735 + modify "make install.man" and "make uninstall.man" to include tack's
4737 + various fixes for install scripts used to support configure --srcdir
4738 and --with-install-prefix (reported by Matthew Clarke
4739 <Matthew_Clarke@mindlink.bc.ca>).
4740 + make configure script checks on variables $GCC and $GXX consistently
4741 compare against 'yes' rather than test if they are nonnull, since
4742 either may be set to the corresponding name of the C or C++ compiler
4743 (report/patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
4746 + modify rs2 capability in xterm-r6 and similar where cursor
4747 save/restore bracketed the sequence for resetting video attributes.
4748 The cursor restore would undo that (report by John Hawkinson
4749 <jhawk@MIT.EDU> (see NetBSD misc/11052)).
4750 + using parameter check added to tic, corrected 27 typos in
4752 + modify tic to verify that its inputs are really files, in case
4753 someone tries to read a directory (or /dev/zero).
4754 + add a check for empty buffers returned by fgets() in comp_scan.c
4755 next_char() function, in case tic is run on a non-text file (fixes
4756 a core dump reported by Aaron Campbell <aaron@cs.dal.ca>).
4757 + add to railroad.c some code exercising tgoto(), providing an
4758 alternate form of display if the terminal supports cursor addressing.
4759 + split-out tgoto() again, this time into new file lib_tgoto.c, and
4760 implement a conventional BSD-style tgoto() which is used if the
4761 capability string does not contain terminfo-style padding or
4762 parameters (requested by Andrey A Chernov).
4763 + add check to tic which reports capabilities that do not reference
4764 the expected number of parameters.
4765 + add error checking to infocmp's -v and -m options to ensure that
4766 the option value is indeed a number.
4767 + some cleanup of logic in _nc_signal_handler() to verify if SIGWINCH
4768 handler is setup. Separated the old/new sigaction data for SIGTSTP
4769 from the other signals.
4772 + add S0, E0 extensions to screen's terminfo entry, which is another
4773 way to solve the misconfiguration issue -TD
4774 + completed special case for tgoto from 20000916
4777 + update xterm terminfo entries to match XFree86 xterm patch #146 -TD
4778 + add Matrix Orbital terminfo entries (from Eric Z Ayers
4780 + add special case to lib_tparm.c to allow 'screen' program to use a
4781 termcap-style parameter "%." to tgoto() for switching character sets.
4782 + use LN_S substitution in run_tic.in, to work on OS/2 EMX which has
4784 + updated notes in README.emx regarding autoconf patches.
4785 + replace a lookup table in lib_vidattr.c used to decode no_color_video
4786 with a logic expression (suggested by Philippe Blain).
4787 + add a/A toggle to ncurses.c 'b' test, which clears/sets alternate
4788 character set attribute from the displayed text.
4789 + correct inequality in parameter analysis of rewritten lib_tparm.c
4790 which had the effect of ignoring p9 in set_attributes (sgr), breaking
4791 alternate character set (reported by Piotr Majka <charvel@link.pl>).
4792 + correct ifdef'ing for GCC_PRINTF, GCC_SCANF which would not compile
4793 with Sun WorkShop compilers since these tokens were empty (cf:
4794 20000902, reported by Albert Chin-A-Young).
4797 + correct an uninitialized parameter to open_tempfile() in tic.c which
4798 made "tic -I" give an ambiguous error message about tmpnam.
4799 + add special case in lib_vidattr.c to reset underline and standout for
4800 devices that have no sgr0 defined (patch by Don Lewis
4801 <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>). Note that this will not work for bold
4802 mode, since there is no exit-bold-mode capability.
4803 + improved patch for Make_Enum_Type (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
4804 + modify tparm to disallow arithmetic on strings, analyze the varargs
4805 list to read strings as strings and numbers as numbers.
4806 + modify tparm's internal function spop() to treat a null pointer as
4808 + modify tput program so it can be renamed or invoked via a link as
4809 'reset' or 'init', producing the same effect as 'tput reset' or 'tput
4811 + add private entrypoint _nc_basename(), use to consolidate related
4812 code in progs, as well as accommodating OS/2 EMX pathnames.
4813 + remove NCURSES_CONST line from edit_cfg.sh to compensate for its
4814 removal (except via AC_SUBST) from configure.in, making
4815 --enable-const work again (reported by Juergen Pfeifer).
4816 + regen'd configure to pick up "hpux*" change from 20000902.
4819 + modify tset.c to check for transformed "reset" program name, if any.
4820 + add a check for null pointer in Make_Enum_Type() (reported by Steven
4821 W Orr <steveo@world.std.com>).
4822 + change functions _nc_parse_entry() and postprocess_termcap() to avoid
4823 using strtok(), because it is non-reentrant (reported by Andrey A
4824 Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>).
4825 + remove "hpux10.*" case from CF_SHARED_OPTS configure script macro.
4826 This differed from the "hpux*" case by using reversed symbolic
4827 links, which made the 5.1 version not match the configuration of
4828 5.0 shared libraries (reported by Albert Chin-A-Young).
4829 + correct a dependency in Ada95/src/Makefile.in which prevented
4830 building with configure --srcdir (patch by H Nanosecond
4831 <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>).
4832 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in to avoid warning if GCC_PRINTF or
4833 GCC_SCANF was not previously defined (reported by Pavel Roskin
4835 + add MKncurses_def.sh to generate fallback definitions for
4836 ncurses_cfg.h, to quiet gcc -Wundef warnings, modified ifdef's in
4837 code to consistently use "#if" rather than "#ifdef".
4840 + add QNX qansi entries to terminfo -TD
4841 + add os2 entry to misc/emx.src (<jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>).
4842 + add configure option --with-database to allow specifying a different
4843 terminfo source-file to install. On OS/2 EMX, this defaults to
4845 + change misc/run_tic.sh to derive it from misc/run_tic.in, to simplify
4846 setting .exe extension on OS/2 EMX.
4847 + add .exe extension in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in,
4848 Ada95/samples/Makefile.in, for OS/2 EMX (reported by
4849 <jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>).
4850 + add configure check for filesystems (such as OS/2 EMX) which do not
4851 distinguish between upper/lowercase filenames, use this to fix tags
4853 + initialize fds[] array to 0's in _nc_timed_wait(); apparently poll()
4854 only sets the revents members of that array when there is activity
4855 corresponding to the related file (report by Glenn Cooper
4856 <gcooper@qantas.com.au>, using Purify on Solaris 5.6).
4857 + change configure script to use AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM rather than
4858 AC_CANONICAL_HOST, which means that configure --target will set
4859 a default program-prefix.
4860 + add note on cross-compiling to INSTALL (which does not rely on the
4861 AC_CANONICAL_* macros).
4864 + add cases for EMX OS/2 to config.guess, config.sub
4865 + new version of config.guess, config.sub from lynx 2.8.4dev.7
4866 + add definitions via transform.h to allow tic and tput to check for
4867 the transformed aliases rather than the original infotocap, etc.
4868 + simplify transform-expressions in progs/Makefile.in, make the
4869 uninstall rule work for transformed program names.
4870 + change symbol used by --install-prefix configure option from
4871 INSTALL_PREFIX to DESTDIR (the latter has become common usage
4872 although the name is misleading).
4873 + modify programs to use curses_version() string to report the version
4874 of ncurses with which they are compiled rather than the
4875 NCURSES_VERSION string. The function returns the patch level in
4876 addition to the major and minor version numbers.
4879 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to make transformed program names
4880 a parameter to that macro rather than embedding them in the macro.
4881 + newer config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in lynx
4883 + add configure option --with-default-terminfo-dir=DIR to allow
4884 specifying the default terminfo database directory (request by Albert
4886 + minor updates for terminfo.src from FreeBSD termcap change-history.
4887 + correct notes in README and INSTALL regarding documentation files
4888 that were moved from misc directory to doc (report by Rich Kulawiec
4890 + change most remaining unquoted parameters of 'test' in configure
4891 script to use quotes, for instance fixing a problem in the
4892 --disable-database option (reported by Christian Mondrup
4893 <scancm@biobase.dk>).
4894 + minor adjustments to work around some of the incompatibilities/bugs
4895 in autoconf 2.29a alpha.
4896 + add -I/usr/local/include when --with-ncurses option is used in
4897 test/configure script.
4898 + correct logic in adjust_cancels(), which did not check both
4899 alternatives when reclassifying an extended name between boolean,
4900 number and string, causing an infinite loop in tic.
4903 + correct a missing backslash in curses.priv.h
4906 + change handling of non_dest_scroll_region in tty_update.c to clear
4907 text after it is shifted in rather than before shifting out. Also
4908 correct row computation (reported by Ruediger Kuhlmann
4909 <uck4@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>).
4910 + add/use new trace function to display chtype values from winch() and
4912 + add trace mask TRACE_ATTRS, alter several existing _tracef calls that
4913 trace attribute changes under TRACE_CALLS to use this.
4914 + modify MKlib_gen.sh so that functions returning chtype will call
4916 + add returnChar() trace, for functions returning chtype.
4917 + change indent.pro to line up parenthesis.
4920 + fix a heap problem with the c++ binding (report by
4921 <alexander_liberson@ninewest.com>, patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
4922 + minor adjustment to ClrToEOL() to handle an out-of-bounds parameter.
4923 + modify the check for big-core to force a couple of memory accesses,
4924 which may work as needed for older/less-capable machines (if not,
4925 there's still the explicit configure option).
4926 > fixes based on diff's for Amiga and BeOS found at
4927 http://www.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de/~kuhlmann/cross/ncurses/
4928 + alter definition of NCURSES_CONST to make it non-empty.
4929 + add amiga-vnc terminfo entry.
4930 + redefine 'TEXT' in menu.h for AMIGA, since it is reported to have
4931 an (unspecified) symbol conflict.
4932 + replaced case-statement in _nc_tracebits() for CSIZE with a table to
4933 simplify working around implementations that define random
4934 combinations of the related macros to zero.
4935 + modify configure test for tcgetattr() to allow for old
4936 implementations, e.g., on BeOS, which only defined it as a macro.
4937 > patches by Bruno Haible:
4938 + when checking LC_ALL/LC_CTYPE/LANG environment variables for UTF-8
4939 locale, ignore those which are set to an empty value, as per SUSV2.
4940 + encode 0xFFFD in UTF-8 with 3 bytes, not 2.
4941 + modify _nc_utf8_outch() to avoid sign-extension when checking for
4945 + correct manlinks.sed script to avoid using ERE "\+", which is not
4946 understood by older versions of sed (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
4947 + implement configure script options that transform installed program
4948 names, e.g., --program-prefix, including the manpage names and cross
4949 references (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com>).
4950 + correct several mismatches between manpage filename and ".TH"
4951 directives, renaming dft_fgbg.3x to default_colors.3x and
4952 menu_attribs.3x to menu_attributes.3x (report by Todd C Miller).
4953 + correct missing includes for <string.h> in several places, including
4954 the C++ binding. This is not noted by gcc unless we use the
4955 -fno-builtin option (reported by Igor Schein <igor@txc.com>).
4956 + modified progs/tset.c and tack/sysdep.c to build with sgttyb
4957 interface if neither termio or termios is available. Tested this
4958 with FreeBSD 2.1.5 (which does have termios - but the sgttyb does
4961 20000708 5.1 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
4962 + document configure options in INSTALL.
4963 + add man-page for ncurses trace functions.
4964 + correct return value shown in curs_touch.3x for is_linetouched() and
4965 is_wintouched(), in curs_initscr.3x for isendwin(), and in
4966 curs_termattr.3x for has_ic() and has_il().
4967 + add prototypes for touchline() and touchwin(), adding them to the
4968 list of generated functions.
4969 + modify fifo_push() to put ERR into the fifo just like other values to
4970 return from wgetch(). It was returning without doing that, making
4971 end-of-file condition incorrectly return a 0 (reported by Todd C
4973 + uncomment CC_SHARED_OPTS for progs and tack (see 971115), since they
4974 are needed for SCO OpenServer.
4975 + move _nc_disable_period from free_ttype.c to comp_scan.c to appease
4976 dynamic loaders on SCO and IRIX64.
4977 + add "-a" option to test/ncurses.c to invoke assume_default_colors()
4979 + correct assignment in assume_default_colors() which tells ncurses
4980 whether to use default colors, or the assumed ones (reported by Gary
4981 Funck <gary@Intrepid.Com>).
4982 + review/correct logic in mk-1st.awk for making symbolic links for
4983 shared libraries, in particular for FreeBSD, etc.
4984 + regenerate misc/*.def files for OS/2 EMX dll's.
4985 + correct quoting of values for CC_SHARED_OPTS in aclocal.m4 for
4986 cases openbsd2*, openbsd*, freebsd* and netbsd* (patch by Peter
4987 Wemm) (err in 20000610).
4988 + minor updates to release notes, as well as adding/updating URLs for
4989 examples cited in announce.html
4990 > several fixes from Philippe Blain <philippe.blain2@freesbee.fr>:
4991 + correct placement of ifdef for NCURSES_XNAMES in function
4992 _nc_free_termtype(), fixes a memory leak.
4993 + add a call to _nc_synchook() to the end of function whline() like
4994 that in wvline() (difference was in 1.9.4).
4995 + make ClearScreen() a little faster by moving two instances of
4996 UpdateAttr() out of for-loops.
4997 + simplify ClrBottom() by eliminating the tstLine data, using for-loops
5000 20000701 pre-release
5001 + change minor version to 1, i.e., ncurses 5.1
5002 + add experimental configure option --enable-colorfgbg to check for
5003 $COLORTERM variable as set by rxvt/aterm/Eterm.
5004 + add Eterm terminfo entry (Michael Jennings <mej@valinux.com>).
5005 + modify manlinks.sed to pick aliases from the SYNOPSIS section, and
5006 several manpages so manlinks.sed can find aliases for creating
5008 + add explanation to run_tic.sh regarding extended terminal
5010 + change message format for edit_cfg.sh, since some people interpret
5012 + correct unescaped '$' in sysv5uw7*|unix_sv* rule for CF_SHARED_OPTS
5013 configure macro (report by Thanh Ma <Thanh.Ma@casi-rusco.com>).
5014 + correct logic in lib_twait.c as used by lib_mouse.c for GPM mouse
5015 support when poll() is used rather than select() (prompted by
5016 discussion with David Allen <DAllen24@aol.com>).
5018 20000624 pre-release
5019 + modify TransformLine() to check for cells with different color pairs
5020 that happen to render the same display colors.
5021 + apply $NCURSES_NO_PADDING to cost-computation in mvcur().
5022 + improve cost computation in PutRange() by accounting for the use
5023 of parm_right_cursor in mvcur().
5024 + correct cost computation in EmitRange(), which was not using the
5025 normalized value for cursor_address.
5026 + newer config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in TIN 1.5.6).
5029 + update config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in PCRE 3.2).
5030 + resync changes to gnathtml against version 1.22, regenerated html
5031 files under doc/html/ada using this (1.22.1.1).
5032 + regenerated html files under doc/html/man after correcting top and
5033 bottom margin options for man2html in dist.mk
5034 + minor fixes to test programs ncurses 'i' and testcurs program to make
5035 the subwindow's background color cover the subwindow.
5036 + modify configure script so AC_MSG_ERROR is temporarily defined to a
5037 warning in AC_PROG_CXX to make it recover from a missing C++ compiler
5038 without requiring user to add --without-cxx option (adapted from
5039 comment by Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr> to autoconf mailing list).
5040 + modify headers.sh to avoid creating temporary files in the build
5041 directory when installing headers (reported by Sergei Pokrovsky
5045 + regenerated the html files under doc/html/ada/files and
5046 doc/html/ada/funcs with a slightly-improved gnathtml.
5047 + add kmous capability to linux terminfo entry to allow it to use
5048 xterm-style events provided by gpm patch by Joerg Schoen.
5049 + make the configure macro CF_SHARED_OPTS a little smarter by testing
5050 if -fPIC is supported by gcc rather than -fpic. The former option
5051 allows larger symbol tables.
5052 + update config.guess and config.sub (patches by
5053 Kevin Buettner <kev@primenet.com> (for elf64_ia64),
5054 Bernd Kuemmerlen <bkuemmer@mevis.de> (for MacOS X)).
5055 + add warning for 'tic -cv' about use of '^?' in terminfo source, which
5059 + modify echo() behavior of getch() to match Solaris curses for
5060 carriage return and backspace (reported by Neil Zanella).
5061 + change _nc_flush() to a function.
5062 + modify delscreen() to check if the output stream has been closed, and
5063 if so, free the buffer allocated for setbuf (this provides an
5064 ncurses-specific way to avoid a memory leak when repeatedly calling
5065 newterm reported by Chipp C <at_1@zdnetonebox.com>).
5066 + correct typo in curs_getch.3x manpage regarding noecho (reported by
5067 David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>).
5068 + add a "make libs" rule.
5069 + make the Ada95 interface build with configure --enable-widec.
5070 + if the configure --enable-widec option is given, append 'w' to names
5071 of the generated libraries (e.g., libncursesw.so) to avoid conflict
5072 with existing ncurses libraries.
5075 + modify view.c to make a rudimentary viewer of UTF-8 text if ncurses
5076 is configured with the experimental wide-character support.
5077 + add a simple UTF-8 output driver to the experimental wide-character
5078 support. If any of the environment variables LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE or
5079 LANG contain the string "UTF-8", this driver will be used to
5080 translate the output to UTF-8. This works with XFree86 xterm.
5081 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries on BeOS
5082 (from a patch by Valeriy E Ushakov).
5083 + modify lib_addch.c to allow repeated update to the lower-right
5084 corner, rather than displaying only the first character written until
5085 the cursor is moved. Recent versions of SVr4 curses can update the
5086 lower-right corner, and behave this way (reported by Neil Zanella).
5087 + add a limit-check in _nc_do_color(), to avoid using invalid color
5088 pair value (report by Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>).
5091 + the tack program knows how to use smcup and rmcup but the "show caps
5092 that can be tested" feature did not reflect this knowledge. Correct
5093 the display in the menu tack/test/edit/c (patch by Daniel Weaver).
5094 + xterm-16color does allow bold+colors, removed ncv#32 from that
5098 + correct assignment to SP->_has_sgr_39_49 in lib_dft_fgbg.c, which
5099 broke check for screen's AX capability (reported by Valeriy E Ushakov
5101 + change man2html rule in dist.mk to workaround bug in some
5102 man-programs that ignores locale when rendering hyphenation.
5103 + change web- and ftp-site to dickey.his.com
5106 + move _nc_curr_token from parse_entry.c to comp_scan.c, to work around
5107 problem linking tack on MacOS X DP3.
5108 + include <sys/time.h> in lib_napms.c to compile on MacOS X DP3
5109 (reported by Gerben Wierda <wierda@holmes.nl>).
5110 + modify lib_vidattr.c to check for ncv fixes when pair-0 is not
5112 + add -d option to ncurses.c, to turn on default-colors for testing.
5113 + add a check to _nc_makenew() to ensure that newwin() and newpad()
5114 calls do not silently fail by passing too-large limits.
5115 + add symbol NCURSES_SIZE_T to use rather than explicit 'short' for
5116 internal window and pad sizes. Note that since this is visible in
5117 the WINDOW struct, it would be an ABI change to make this an 'int'
5118 (prompted by a question by Bastian Trompetter
5119 <btrompetter@firemail.de>, who attempted to create a 96000-line pad).
5122 + add mgterm terminfo entry from NetBSD, minor adjustments to sun-ss5,
5124 + modify tack/ansi.c to make it more tolerant of bad ANSI replies. An
5125 example of an illegal ANSI resonse can be found using Microsoft's
5126 Telnet client. A correct display can be found using a VT-4xx
5127 terminal or XFree86 xterm with:
5128 XTerm*VT100*decTerminalID: 450
5129 (patch by Daniel Weaver).
5130 + modify gdc.c to recognize 'q' for quit, 's' for single-step and ' '
5131 for resume. Add '-n' option to force gdc's standard input to
5132 /dev/null, to both illustrate the use of newterm() for specifying
5133 alternate inputs as well as for testing signal handling.
5134 + minor fix for configure option --with-manpage-symlinks, for target
5135 directories that contain a period ('.') (reported by Larry Virden).
5138 + minor additions to beterm entry (feedback from Rico Tudor) -TD
5139 + corrections/updates for some IBM terminfo entries -TD
5140 + modify _nc_screen_wrap() so that when exiting curses mode with
5141 non-default colors, the last line on the screen will be cleared to
5142 the screen's default colors (request by Alexander V Lukyanov).
5143 + modify ncurses.c 'r' example to set nonl(), allowing control/M to be
5144 read for demonstrating the REQ_NEW_LINE operation (prompted by a
5145 question by Tony L Keith <tlkeith@keithconsulting.com>).
5146 + modify ncurses.c 'r' example of field_info() to work on Solaris 2.7,
5147 documented extension of ncurses which allows a zero pointer.
5148 + modify fmt_complex() to avoid buffer overflow in case of excess
5149 recursion, and to recognize "%e%?" as a synonym for else-if, which
5150 means that it will not recur for that special case.
5151 + add logic to support $TERMCAP variable in case the USE_GETCAP symbol
5152 is defined (patch by Todd C Miller).
5153 + modify one of the m4 files used to generate the Ada95 sources,
5154 to avoid using the token "symbols" (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
5157 + add terminfo entries bsdos-pc-m, bsdos-pc-mono (Jeffrey C Honig)
5158 + correct spelling error in terminfo entry name: bq300-rv was given as
5159 bg300-rv in esr's version.
5160 + modify redrawwin() macro so its parameter is fully parenthesized
5161 (fixes Debian bug report #61088).
5162 + correct formatting error in dump_entry() which set incorrect column
5163 value when no newline trimming was needed at the end of an entry,
5164 before appending "use=" clauses (cf: 960406).
5167 + add configure option --with-manpage-symlinks
5168 + change unctrl() to render C1 characters (128-159) as ~@, ~A, etc.
5169 + change makefiles so trace() function is provided only if TRACE is
5170 defined, e.g., in the debug library. Modify related calls to
5171 _tracechar() to use unctrl() instead.
5174 + add screen's AX capability (for ECMA SGR 39 and 49) to applicable
5175 terminfo entries, use presence of this as a check for a small
5176 improvement in setting default colors.
5177 + improve logic in _nc_do_color() implementing assume_default_colors()
5178 by passing in previous color pair info to eliminate redundant call to
5179 set_original_colors(). (Part of this is from a patch by Alexander
5181 + modify warning in _nc_trans_string() about a possibly too-long string
5182 to do this once only rather than for each character past the
5183 threshold (600). Change interface of _nc_trans_string() to allow
5184 check for buffer overflow.
5185 + correct use of memset in _nc_read_entry_source() to initialize ENTRY
5186 struct each time before reading new data into it, rather than once
5187 per loop (cf: 990301). This affects multi-entry in-core operations
5188 such as "infocmp -Fa".
5191 + remove a spurious pointer increment in _nc_infotocap() changes from
5192 20000311. Add check for '.' in format of number, since that also
5193 is not permitted in termcap.
5194 + correct typo in rxvt-basic terminfo from temporary change made while
5195 integrating 20000318.
5198 + revert part of the vt220 change (request by Todd C Miller).
5199 + add ansi-* terminfo entries from ESR's version.
5200 + add -a option to tic and infocmp, which retains commented-out
5201 capabilities during source translation/comparison, e.g., captoinfo
5203 + modify cardfile.c to display an empty card if no input data file is
5204 found, fixes a core dump in that case (reported by Bruno Haible).
5205 + correct bracketing in CF_MATH_LIB configure macro, which gave wrong
5206 result for OS/2 EMX.
5207 + supply required parameter for _nc_resolve_uses() call in
5208 read_termcap.c, overlooked in 20000311 (reported by Todd C Miller).
5209 > patches by Bruno Haible <haible@ilog.fr>:
5210 + fix a compiler warning in fty_enum.c
5211 + correct LIB_PREFIX expression for DEPS_CURSES in progs, tack
5212 makefiles, which resulted in redundant linking (cf: 20000122).
5215 + make ifdef's for BROKEN_LINKER consistent (patch by Todd C Miller).
5216 + improved tack/README (patch by Daniel Weaver).
5217 + modify tput.c to ensure that unspecified parameters are passed to
5219 + add a few checks in infocmp to guard against buffer overflow when
5220 displaying string capabilities.
5221 + add check for zero-uses in infocmp's file_comparison() function
5222 before calling _nc_align_termtype(). Otherwise one parameter is
5223 indexed past the end of the uses-array.
5224 + add an option -q to infocmp to specify the less verbose output,
5225 keeping the existing format as the default, though not retaining the
5226 previous behavior that made the -F option compare each entry to
5228 + adapted patch by ESR to make infocmp -F less verbose -TD
5229 (the submitted patch was unusable because it did not compile
5231 + modify write_entry.c to ensure that absent or cancelled booleans
5232 are written as FALSE, for consistency with infocmp which now
5233 assumes this. Note that for the small-core configuration, tic
5234 may not produce the same result as before.
5235 + change some private library interfaces used by infocmp, e.g.,
5237 + add a check in _nc_infotocap() to ensure that cm-style capabilities
5238 accept only %d codes when converting the format from terminfo to
5240 + modify ENTRY struct to separate the data in 'parent' into the name
5241 and link values (the original idea to merge both into 'parent' was
5243 + discard repair_acsc(tterm);
5244 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
5245 + drop support for gnat 3.10
5246 + move generated documentation and html files under ./doc directory,
5247 adding makefile rules for this to dist.mk
5250 + correct conflicting use of tparm() in 20000226 change to tic, which
5251 made it check only one entry at a time.
5252 + fix errors in ncurses-intro.html and hackguide.html shown by Dave
5254 + make the example in ncurses-intro.html do something plausible, and
5255 corrected misleading comment (reported by Neil Zanella).
5256 + modify pnoutrefresh() to set newscr->_leaveok as wnoutrefresh() does,
5257 to fix a case where the cursor position was not updated as in
5258 Solaris (patch by David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>).
5259 + add a limit-check for wresize() to ensure that a subwindow does not
5260 address out of bounds.
5261 + correct offsets used for subwindows in wresize() (patch by Michael
5262 Andres <ma@suse.de>).
5263 + regenerate html'ized manual pages with man2html 3.0.1 (patch by
5264 Juergen Pfeifer). This generated a file with a space in its name,
5266 + fix a few spelling errors in tack.
5267 + modify tack/Makefile.in to match linker options of progs/Makefile.in;
5268 otherwise it does not build properly for older HPUX shared library
5270 + add several terminfo entries from esr's "11.0".
5273 + make 'tput flash' work properly for xterm by flushing output in
5274 delay_output() when using napms(), and modifying xterm's terminfo to
5275 specify no padding character. Otherwise, xterm's reported baud rate
5276 can mislead ncurses into producing too few padding characters
5278 + add a check to tic for consistency between sgr and the separate
5279 capabilities such as smso, use this to check/correct several
5280 terminfo entries (Debian #58530).
5281 + add a check to tic if cvvis is the same as cnorm, adjusted several
5282 terminfo entries to remove the conflict (Debian #58530).
5283 + correct prototype shown in attr_set()/wattr_set() manpages (fixes
5285 + minor clarification for curs_set() and leaveok() manpages.
5286 + use mkstemp() for creating temporary file for tic's processing of
5287 $TERMCAP contents (fixes Debian #56465).
5288 + correct two errors from integrating Alexander's changes: did not
5289 handle the non-bce case properly in can_erase_with() (noted by
5290 Alexander), and left fg/bg uninitialized in the pair-zero case of
5291 _nc_do_color() (reported by Dr Werner Fink <werner@suse.de> and
5292 Ismael Cordeiro <ismael@cordeiro.com>).
5295 + store default-color code consistently as C_MASK, even if given as
5296 -1 for convenience (adapted from patches by Alexander V Lukyanov).
5297 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
5298 + change can_clear_with() macro to accommodate logic for
5299 assume_default_colors(), making most of the FILL_BCE logic
5300 unnecessary. Made can_clear_with() an inline function to make it
5304 + corrected form of recent copyright dates.
5305 + minor corrections to xterm-xf86-v333 terminfo entry -TD
5306 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
5307 + reworded dft_fgbg.3x to avoid assuming that the terminal's default
5308 colors are white on black.
5309 + fix initialization of tstLine so that it is filled with current blank
5310 character in any case. Previously it was possible to have it filled
5311 with old blank. The wrong over-optimization was introduced in 991002
5312 patch. (it is not very critical as the only bad effect is not using
5313 clr_eos for clearing if blank has changed).
5316 + minor corrections/updates to several terminfo entries: rxvt-basic,
5317 vt520, vt525, ibm5151, xterm-xf86-v40 -TD
5318 + modify ifdef's for poll() to allow it to use <sys/poll.h>, thereby
5319 allowing poll() to be used on Linux.
5320 + add CF_FUNC_POLL macro to check if poll() is able to select from
5321 standard input. If not we will not use it, preferring select()
5322 (adapted from patch by Michael Pakovic <mpakovic@fdn.com>).
5323 + update CF_SHARED_OPTS macro for SCO Unixware 7.1 to allow building
5324 shared libraries (reported/tested by Thanh <thanhma@mediaone.net>).
5325 + override $LANGUAGE in build to avoid incorrect ordering of keynames.
5326 + correct CF_MATH_LIB parameter, must be sin(x), not sqrt(x).
5329 + resync CF_CHECK_ERRNO and CF_LIB_PREFIX macros from tin and xterm -TD
5330 + modify CF_MATH_LIB configure macro to parameterize the test function
5331 used, for reuse in dialog and similar packages.
5332 + correct tests for file-descriptors in OS/2 EMX mouse support. A
5333 negative value could be used by FD_SET, causing the select() call
5334 to wait indefinitely.
5337 + additional fixes for non-bce terminals (handling of delete_character)
5338 to work when assume_default_colors() is not specified.
5339 + modify warning message from _nc_parse_entry() regarding extended
5340 capability names to print only if tic/infocmp/toe have the -v flag
5341 set, and not at all in ordinary user applications. Otherwise, this
5342 warning would be shown for screen's extended capabilities in programs
5343 that use the termcap interface (reported by Todd C Miller).
5344 + modify use of _nc_tracing from programs such as tic so their debug
5345 level is not in the same range as values set by trace() function.
5346 + small panel header cleanup (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
5347 + add 'railroad' demo for termcap interface.
5348 + modify 'tic' to write its usage message to stderr (patch by Todd C
5352 + add prototype for erase() to curses.h.in, needed to make test
5353 programs build with c++/g++.
5354 + add .c.i and .c.h suffix rules to generated makefiles, for debugging.
5355 + correct install rule for tack.1; it assumed that file was in the
5356 current directory (reported by Mike Castle <dalgoda@ix.netcom.com>).
5357 + modify terminfo/termcap translation to suppress acsc before trying
5358 sgr if the entry would be too large (patch by Todd C Miller).
5359 + document a special case of incompatiblity between ncurses 4.2 and
5360 5.0, add a section for this in INSTALL.
5361 + add TRACE_DATABASE flag for trace().
5364 + update mach, add mach-color terminfo entries based on Debian diffs
5366 + add entries for xterm-hp, xterm-vt220, xterm-vt52 and xterm-noapp
5367 terminfo entries -TD
5368 + change OTrs capabilities to rs2 in terminfo.src -TD
5369 + add obsolete and extended capabilities to 'screen' terminfo -TD
5370 + corrected conversion from terminfo rs2 to termcap rs (cf: 980704)
5371 + make conversion to termcap ug (underline glitch) more consistently
5373 + fix out-of-scope use of 'personal[]' buffer in 'toe' (this error
5374 was in the original pre-1.9.7 version, when $HOME/.terminfo was
5376 + modify 'toe' to ignore terminfo directories to which it has no
5378 + modify read_termtype(), fixing 'toe', which could dump core when it
5379 found an incomplete entry such as "dumb" because it did not
5380 initialize its buffer for _nc_read_file_entry().
5381 + use -fPIC rather than -fpic for shared libraries on Linux, not
5382 needed for i386 but some ports (from Debian diffs for 5.0) -TD
5383 + use explicit VALID_NUMERIC() checks in a few places that had been
5384 overlooked, and add a check to ensure that init_tabs is nonzero,
5385 to avoid divide-by-zero (reported by Todd C Miller).
5386 + minor fix for CF_ANSI_CC_CHECK configure macro, for HPUX 10.x (from
5390 + reorder tests during mouse initialization to allow for gpm to run in
5391 xterm, or for xterm to be used under OS/2 EMX. Also drop test for
5392 $DISPLAY in favor of kmous=\E[M or $TERM containing "xterm" (report
5393 by Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de>).
5394 + modify raw() and noraw() to clear/restore IEXTEN flag which affects
5395 stty lnext on systems such as FreeBSD (report by Bruce Evans
5396 <bde@zeta.org.au>, via Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>).
5397 + fix a potential (but unlikely) buffer overflow in failed() function
5398 of tset.c (reported by Todd C Miller).
5399 + add manual-page for ncurses extensions, documented curses_version(),
5400 use_extended_names().
5403 + treat as untranslatable to termcap those terminfo strings which
5404 contain non-decimal formatting, e.g., hexadecimal or octal.
5405 + correct commented-out capabilities that cannot be translated to
5406 termcap, which did not check if a colon must be escaped.
5407 + correct termcap translation for "%>" and "%+", which did not check
5408 if a colon must be escaped, for instance.
5409 + use save_string/save_char for _nc_captoinfo() to eliminate fixed
5410 buffer (originally for _nc_infotocap() in 960301 -TD).
5411 + correct expression used for terminfo equivalent of termcap %B,
5412 adjust regent100 entry which uses this.
5413 + some cleanup and commenting of ad hoc cases in _nc_infotocap().
5414 + eliminate a fixed-buffer in tic, used for translating comments.
5415 + add manpage for infotocap
5418 + add kvt and gnome terminfo entries -TD
5419 + correct translation of "%%" by infotocap, which was emitted as "%".
5420 + add "obsolete" termcap strings to terminfo.src
5421 + modify infocmp to default to showing obsolete capabilities rather
5423 + modify write_entry.c so that if extended names (i.e., configure
5424 --enable-tcap-names) are active, then tic will also write "obsolete"
5425 capabilities that are present in the terminfo source.
5426 + modify tic so that when running as captoinfo or infotocap, it
5427 initializes the output format as in -C and -I options, respectively.
5428 + improve infocmp and tic -f option by splitting long strings that do
5429 not have if-then-else construct, but do have parameters, e.g., the
5430 initc for xterm-88color.
5431 + refine MKtermsort.sh slightly by using bool for the *_from_termcap
5435 + additional fixes for non-bce terminals (handling of clear_screen,
5436 clr_eol, clr_eos, scrolling) to work when assume_default_colors() is
5438 + several small changes to xterm terminfo entries -TD.
5439 + move logic for _nc_windows in lib_freeall.c inside check for nonnull
5440 SP, since it is part of that struct.
5441 + remove obsolete shlib-versions, which was unintentionally re-added
5443 + modify infocmp -e, -E options to ensure that generated fallback.c
5444 type for Booleans agrees with term.h (reported by Eric Norum
5445 <eric@cls.usask.ca>).
5446 + correct configure script's use of $LIB_PREFIX, which did not work
5447 for installing the c++ directory if $libdir did not end with "/lib"
5448 (reported by Huy Le <huyle@ugcs.caltech.edu>).
5449 + modify infocmp so -L and -f options work together.
5450 + modify the initialization of SP->_color_table[] in start_color() so
5451 that color_content() will return usable values for COLORS greater
5453 + modify ncurses 'd' test in case COLORS is greater than 16, e.g., for
5454 xterm-88color, to limit the displayed/computed colors to 16.
5455 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
5456 + simplify coding of the panel library according to suggestions by
5458 + improve macro coding for a few macros in curses.priv.h
5461 + modify treatment of color pair 0 so that if ncurses is configured
5462 to support default colors, and they are not active, then ncurses
5463 will set that explicitly, not relying on orig_colors or orig_pair.
5464 + add new extension, assume_default_colors() to provide better control
5465 over the use of default colors.
5466 + modify test programs to use more-specific ifdef's for existence of
5467 wresize(), resizeterm() and use_default_colors().
5468 + modify configure script to add specific ifdef's for some functions
5469 that are included when --enable-ext-funcs is in effect, so their
5470 existence can be ifdef'd in the test programs.
5471 + reorder some configure options, moving those extensions that have
5472 evolved from experimental status into a new section.
5473 + change configure --enable-tcap-names to enable this by default.
5476 + install tack's manpage (reported by Robert Weiner
5477 <robert@progplus.com>)
5478 + correct worm.c's handling of KEY_RESIZE (patch by Frank Heckenbach).
5479 + modify curses.h.in, undef'ing some symbols to avoid conflict with C++
5480 STL (reported by Matt Gerassimoff <mgeras@ticon.net>)
5483 + modify linux terminfo entry to indicate that dim does not mix with
5484 color (reported by Klaus Weide <kweide@enteract.com>).
5485 + correct several typos in terminfo entries related to missing '['
5487 + fix several compiler warnings in c++ binding (reported by Tim
5488 Mooney for alphaev56-dec-osf4.0f
5489 + rename parameter of _nc_free_entries() to accommodate lint.
5490 + correct lint rule for tack, used incorrect list of source files.
5491 + add case to config.guess, config.sub for Rhapsody.
5492 + improve configure tests for libg++ and libstdc++ by omitting the
5493 math library (which is missing on Rhapsody), and improved test for
5494 the math library itself (adapted from path by Nelson H. F. Beebe).
5495 + explicitly initialize to zero several data items which were
5496 implicitly initialized, e.g., cur_term. If not explicitly
5497 initialized, their storage type is C (common), and causes problems
5498 linking on Rhapsody 5.5 using gcc 2.7.2.1 (reported by Nelson H. F.
5500 + modify Ada95 binding to not include the linker option for Ada
5501 bindings in the Ada headers, but in the Makefiles instead (patch by
5504 19991023 5.0 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
5505 + effective with release of 5.0, change NCURSES_VERSION_PATCH to
5507 + add function curses_version(), to return ncurses library version
5508 (request by Bob van der Poel).
5509 + remove rmam, smam from cygwin terminfo entry.
5510 + modify FreeBSD cons25 terminfo entry to add cnorm and cvvis, as well
5511 as update ncv to indicate that 'dim' conflicts with colors.
5512 + modify configure script to use symbolic links for FreeBSD shared
5513 libraries by default.
5514 + correct ranf() function in rain and worm programs to ensure it does
5516 + hide the cursor in hanoi.c if it is running automatically.
5517 + amend lrtest.c to account for optimizations that exploit margin
5519 + add a simple terminfo demo, dots.c
5520 + modify SIGINT/SIGQUIT handler to set a flag used in _nc_outch() to
5521 tell it to use write() rather than putc(), since the latter is not
5522 safe in a signal handler according to POSIX.
5523 + add/use internal macros _nc_flush() and NC_OUTPUT to hide details
5524 of output-file pointer in ncurses library.
5525 + uncomment CC_SHARED_OPTS (see 971115), since they are needed for SCO
5527 + correct CC_SHARED_OPTS for building shared libraries for SCO
5529 + remove usleep() from alternatives in napms(), since it may interact
5530 with alarm(), causing a process to be interrupted by SIGALRM (with
5531 advice from Bela Lubkin).
5532 + modify terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4 to build/work with
5533 GNAT 3.10 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
5534 + remove part of CF_GPP_LIBRARY configure-script macro, which did not
5535 work with gcc 2.7.2.3
5536 + minor fix to test/tclock.c to avoid beeping more than once per second
5537 + add 's' and ' ' decoding to test/rain.c
5540 + corrected BeOS code for lib_twait.c, making nodelay() function work.
5543 + correct ncurses' value for cursor-column in PutCharLR(), which was
5544 off-by-one in one case (patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
5545 + fix some minor errors in position_check() debugging code, found while
5546 using this to validate the PutCharLR() patch.
5547 + modify firework, lrtest, worm examples to be resizable, and to
5548 recognize 'q' for quit, 's' for single-step and ' ' for resume.
5549 + restore reverted change to terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4,
5550 add a note on building with gnat 3.10p to Ada95/TODO.
5551 + add a copy of the standalone configure script for the test-directory
5552 to simplify testing on SCO and Solaris.
5555 + minor fixes for _nc_msec_cost(), color_content(), pair_content(),
5556 _nc_freewin(), ClrBottom() and onscreen_mvcur() (analysis by Philippe
5557 Blain, comments by Alexander V Lukyanov).
5558 + simplify definition of PANEL and eliminate internal functions
5559 _nc_calculate_obscure(), _nc_free_obscure() and _nc_override(),
5560 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer, analysis by Philippe Blain
5562 + change renaming of dft_fgbg.3x to use_default_colors.3ncurses in
5563 man_db.renames, since Debian is not concerned with 14-character
5564 filename limitation (Debian bug report by Josip Rodin
5565 <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr>).
5566 + corrected scoansi terminfo entry by testing with scoterm and console.
5567 + revert change from 990614 to terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4,
5568 since this does not work for gnat 3.10p
5569 + modify tclock example to be resizable (if ncurses' sigwinch handler
5570 is used), and in color.
5571 + use $(CC) rather than 'gcc' in MK_SHARED_LIB symbols, used for Linux
5572 shared library rules.
5575 + add newer NetBSD console terminfo entries
5576 + add amiga-8bit terminfo entry (from Henning 'Faroul' Peters
5577 <Faroul@beyond.kn-bremen.de>)
5578 + remove -lcurses -ltermcap from configure script's check for the gpm
5579 library, since they are not really necessary (a properly configured
5580 gpm library has no dependency on any curses library), and if the
5581 curses library is not installed, this would cause the test to fail.
5582 + modify tic's -C option so that terminfo "use=" clauses are translated
5583 to "tc=" clauses even when running it as captoinfo.
5584 + modify CF_STDCPP_LIBRARY configure macro to perform its check only
5585 for GNU C++, since that library conflicts with SGI's libC on IRIX-6.2
5586 + modify CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro to support build on NetBSD with
5587 ELF libraries (patch by Bernd Ernesti <bernd@arresum.inka.de>).
5588 + correct a problem in libpanel, where the _nc_top_panel variable was
5589 not set properly when bottom_panel() is called to hide a panel which
5590 is the only one on the stack (report/analysis by Michael Andres
5591 <ma@suse.de>, patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
5594 + add acsc string to HP 70092 terminfo entry (patch by Joerg Wunsch
5595 <j@interface-business.de>).
5596 + add top-level uninstall.data and uninstall.man makefile rules.
5597 + correct logic of CF_LINK_FUNCS configure script, from BeOS changes so
5598 that hard-links work on Unix again.
5599 + change default value of cf_cv_builtin_bool to 1 (suggested by
5600 Jeremy Buhler), making it less likely that a conflicting declaration
5601 of bool will be seen when compiling with C++.
5604 + improved configure checks for builtin.h
5605 + minor changes to C++ binding (remove static initializations, and make
5606 configure-test for parameter initializations) for features not
5607 allowed by vendor's C++ compilers (reported by Martin Mokrejs, this
5608 applies to SGI, though I found SCO has the same characteristics).
5609 + corrected quoting of ETIP_xxx definitions which support old versions
5610 of g++, e.g., those using -lg++
5611 + remove 'L' code from safe_sprintf.c, since 'long double' is not
5612 widely portable. safe_sprintf.c is experimental, however, and
5613 exists mainly as a fallback for systems without snprintf (reported
5614 by Martin Mokrejs <mmokrejs@natur.cuni.cz>, for IRIX 6.2)
5615 + modify definition of _nc_tinfo_fkeys in broken-linker configuration
5616 so that it is not unnecessarily made extern (Jeffrey C Honig).
5619 + move definition for builtin.h in configure tests to specific check
5620 for libg++, since qt uses the same filename incompatibly.
5621 + correct logic of lib_termcap.c tgetstr function, which did not copy
5622 the result to the buffer parameter. Testing shows Solaris does
5623 update this, though of course tgetent's buffer is untouched (reported
5624 in Peter Edwards <peter.edwards@ireland.com> in
5625 mpc.lists.freebsd.current newsgroup.
5626 + corrected beterm terminfo entry, which lists some capabilities which
5627 are not actually provided by the BeOS Terminal.
5628 + add special logic to replace select() calls on BeOS, whose select()
5629 function works only for sockets.
5630 + correct missing escape in mkterm.h.awk.in, which caused part
5631 of the copyright noticed to be omitted (reported by Peter
5632 Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>).
5633 > several small changes to make the c++ binding and demo work on OS/2
5634 EMX (related to a clean reinstall of EMX):
5635 + correct library-prefix for c++ binding; none is needed.
5636 + add $x suffix to make_hash and make_keys so 'make distclean' works.
5637 + correct missing $x suffix for tack, c++ demo executables.
5638 + split CF_CXX_LIBRARY into CF_GPP_LIBRARY (for -lg++) and
5639 CF_STDCPP_LIBRARY (for -lstdc++)
5642 + add cygwin terminfo entry -TD
5643 + modify CF_PROG_EXT configure macro to set .exe extension for cygwin.
5644 + add configure option --without-cxx-binding, modifying the existing
5645 --without-cxx option to check only for the C++ compiler
5646 characteristics. Whether or not the C++ binding is needed, the
5647 configure script checks for the size/type of bool, to make ncurses
5648 match. Otherwise C++ applications cannot use ncurses.
5651 + updated configure macros CF_MAKEFLAGS, CF_CHECK_ERRNO
5652 + minor corrections to beterm terminfo entry.
5653 + modify lib_setup.c to reject values of $TERM which have a '/' in
5655 + add ifdef's to guard against CS5, CS6, CS7, CS8 being zero, as more
5656 than one is on BeOS. That would break a switch statement.
5657 + add configure macro CF_LINK_FUNCS to detect and work around BeOS's
5658 nonfunctional link().
5659 + improved configure macros CF_BOOL_DECL and CF_BOOL_SIZE to detect
5660 BeOS's bool, which is declared as an unsigned char.
5663 + add ms-vt100 terminfo entry -TD
5664 + minor fixes for misc/emx.src, based on testing with tack.
5665 + minor fix for test/ncurses.c, test 'a', in case ncv is not set.
5668 + minor correction for 'screen' terminfo entry.
5669 + clarify description of errret values for setupterm in manpage.
5670 + modify tput to allow it to emit capabilities for hardcopy terminals
5671 (patch by Goran Uddeborg <goeran@uddeborg.pp.se>).
5672 + modify the 'o' (panel) test in ncurses.c to show the panels in color
5673 or at least in bold, to test Juergen's change to wrefresh().
5674 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
5675 + Fixes a problem using wbkgdset() with panels. It has actually
5676 nothing to with panels but is a problem in the implementation of
5677 wrefresh(). Whenever a window changes its background attribute to
5678 something different than newscr's background attribute, the whole
5679 window is touched to force a copy to newscr. This is an unwanted
5680 side-effect of wrefresh() and it is actually not necessary. A
5681 changed background attribute affects only further outputs of
5682 background it doesn't mean anything to the current content of the
5683 window. So there is no need to force a copy. (reported by Frank
5684 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>).
5685 + an upward compatible enhancement of the NCursesPad class in the C++
5686 binding. It allows one to add a "viewport" window to a pad and then
5687 to use panning to view the pad through the viewport window.
5690 + suppress a call to def_prog_mode() in the SIGTSTP handler if the
5691 signal was received while not in curses mode, e.g., endwin() was
5692 called in preparation for spawning a shell command (reported by Frank
5693 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>)
5694 + corrected/enhanced xterm-r5, xterm+sl, xterm+sl-twm terminfo entries.
5695 + change test for xterm mouse capability: it now checks only if the
5696 user's $DISPLAY variable is set in conjunction with the kmous
5697 capability being present in the terminfo. Before, it checked if any
5698 of "xterm", "rxvt" or "kterm" were substrings of the terminal name.
5699 However, some emulators which are incompatible with xterm in other
5700 ways do support the xterm mouse capability.
5701 + reviewed and made minor changes in ncurses to quiet g++ warnings
5702 about shadowed or uninitialized variables. g++ incorrectly warns
5703 about uninitialized variables because it does not take into account
5704 short-circuit expression evaluation.
5705 + change ncurses 'b' test to start in color pair 0 and to show in the
5706 right margin those attributes which are suppressed by no_color_video,
5708 + modify ifdef's in curses.h so that __attribute__ is not redefined
5709 when compiling with g++, but instead disabled the macros derived for
5710 __attribute__ since g++ does not consistently recognize the same
5711 keywords as gcc (reported by Stephan K Zitz <zitz@erf.net>).
5712 + update dependencies for term.h in ncurses/modules (reported by
5716 + modify the form demo in ncurses.c to illustrate how to manipulate the
5717 field appearance, e.g, for highlighting or translating the field
5719 + correct logic in write_entry from split-out of home_terminfo in
5720 980919, which prevented update of $HOME/.terminfo (reported by Philip
5721 Spencer <pspencer@fields.utoronto.ca>).
5724 + modify linux terminfo description to make use of kernel 2.2.x mods
5725 that support cursor style, e.g., to implement cvvis (patch by Frank
5726 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>)
5727 + add special-case in setupterm to retain previously-saved terminal
5728 settings in cur_term, which happens when curses and termcap calls are
5729 mixed (from report by Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@dhc.net>).
5730 + suppress initialization of key-tries in _nc_keypad() if we are only
5731 disabling keypad mode, e.g., in endwin() called when keypad() was
5733 + modify the Ada95 makefile to ensure that always the Ada files from
5734 the development tree are used for building and not the eventually
5735 installed ones (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
5738 + use TTY definition in tack/sysdep.c rather than struct termios
5739 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
5740 + add a fallback for strstr, used in lib_mvcur.c and tack/edit.c,
5741 not present on sysV68 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
5742 + correct definition in comp_hash.c to build with configure
5743 --with-rcs-ids option.
5746 + modified ifdef's for sigaction and sigvec to ensure we do not try to
5747 handle SIGTSTP if neither is available (from report by Philippe De
5749 > patch by Philippe De Muyter:
5750 + in tic.c, use `unlink' if `remove' is not available.
5751 + use only `unsigned' as fallback value for `speed_t'. Some files used
5755 + fix some compiler warnings in tack.
5756 + add a check for predefined bool type in CC, based on report that
5757 BeOS predefines a bool type.
5758 + correct logic for infocmp -e option, i.e., the configure
5759 --with-fallbacks option, which I'd not updated when implementing
5760 extended names (cf: 990301). The new implementation adds a "-E"
5761 option to infocmp -TD
5762 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
5763 + introduce the private type Curses_Bool in the Ada95 binding
5764 implementation. This is to clearly represent the use of "bool" also
5765 in the binding. It should have no effect on the generated code.
5766 + improve the man page for field_buffer() to tell the people, that the
5767 whole buffer including leading/trailing spaces is returned. This is
5768 a common source of confusion, so it's better to document it clearly.
5771 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
5772 + use pragma PreElaborate in several places.
5773 + change a few System.Address uses to more specific types.
5774 + change interface version-number to 1.0
5775 + regenerate Ada95 HTML files.
5778 + modify lib_endwin.c to avoid calling reset_shell_mode(), return ERR
5779 if it appears that curses was never initialized, e.g., by initscr().
5780 For instance, this guards against setting the terminal modes to
5781 strange values if endwin() is called after setupterm(). In the same
5782 context, Solaris curses will dump core.
5783 + modify logic that avoids a conflict in lib_vidattr.c between sgr0 and
5784 equivalent values in rmso or rmul by ensuring we do not modify the
5785 data which would be returned by the terminfo or termcap interfaces
5786 (reported by Brad Pepers <brad@linuxcanada.com>, cf: 960706).
5787 + add a null-pointer check for SP in lib_vidattr.c to logic that checks
5789 + improve fallback declaration of 'bool' when the --without-cxx option
5790 is given, by using a 'char' on i386 and related hosts (prompted by
5791 discussion with Alexander V Lukyanov).
5794 + include time.h in lib_napms.c if nanosleep is used (patch by
5795 R Lindsay Todd <toddr@rpi.edu>).
5796 + add an "#undef bool" to curses.h, in case someone tries to define it,
5798 + add check to tparm to guard against divide by zero (reported by Aaron
5799 Campbell <aaron@ug.cs.dal.ca>).
5802 + minor fix to build tack on CLIX (mismatched const).
5803 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
5804 + change Juergen's old email address with new one in the files where it
5805 is referenced. The Ada95 HTML pages are regenerated.
5806 + update MANIFEST to list the tack files.
5809 + minor fixes to make 'tack' build/link on NeXT (reported by Francisco
5813 + add 'tack' program (which is GPL'd), updating it to work with the
5814 modified TERMTYPE struct and making a fix to support setaf/setab
5815 capabilities. Note that the tack program is not part of the
5816 ncurses libraries, but an application which can be distributed with
5817 ncurses. The configure script will ignore the directory if it is
5819 + modify gpm mouse support so that buttons 2 and 3 are used for
5820 select/paste only when shift key is pressed, making them available
5821 for use by an application (patch by Klaus Weide).
5822 + add complete list of function keys to scoansi terminfo entry - TD
5825 + add a simple test program cardfile.c to illustrate how to read form
5826 fields, and showing forms within panels.
5827 + change shared-library versioning for the Hurd to be like Linux rather
5828 than *BSD (patch by Mark Kettenis <kettenis@wins.uva.nl>).
5829 + add linux-lat terminfo entry.
5830 + back-out _nc_access check in read_termcap.c (both incorrect and
5831 unnecessary, except to guard against a small window where the file's
5832 ownership may change).
5835 + remove conflicting _nc_free_termtype() function from test module
5837 + use _nc_access check in read_termcap.c for termpaths[] array (noted
5838 by Jeremy Buhler, indicating that Alan Cox made a similar patch).
5839 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
5840 + modify menu creation to not inherit status flag from the default menu
5841 which says that the associated marker string has been allocated and
5842 should be freed (bug reported by Marek Paliwoda"
5843 <paliwoda@kki.net.pl>)
5845 990327 pre-release (alpha.gnu.org:/gnu/ncurses-5.0-beta1.tar.gz)
5846 + minor fixes to xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry - TD.
5847 + split up an expression in configure script check for ldconfig to
5848 workaround limitation of BSD/OS sh (reported by Jeff Haas
5849 <jmh@mail.msen.com>).
5850 + correct a typo in man/form_hook.3x (Todd C Miller).
5853 + parenthesize and undef 'index' symbol in c++ binding and demo, to
5854 accommodate its definition on NeXT (reported by Francisco A. Tomei
5856 + add sigismember() to base/sigaction.c compatibility to link on NeXT
5857 (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
5858 + further refinements to inequality in hashmap.c to cover a case with
5859 ^U in nvi (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
5862 + add fallback definition for getcwd, to link on NeXT.
5863 + add a copy of cur_term to tic.c to make it link properly on NeXT
5864 (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
5865 + change inequality in hashmap.c which checks the distance traveled by
5866 a chunk so that ^D command in nvi (scrolls 1/2 screen) will use
5867 scrolling logic (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov, reported by Jeffrey
5871 + modify lib_color.c to handle a special case where the curscr
5872 attributes have been made obsolete (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
5873 + update BSD/OS console terminfo entries to use klone+sgr and
5874 klone+color (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
5875 + update glibc addon configure script for extended capabilities.
5876 + correct a couple of warnings in the --enable-const configuration.
5877 + make comp_hash build properly with _nc_strdup(), on NeXT (reported by
5878 Francisco A. Tomei Torres <francisco.tomei@cwix.com>).
5881 + correct typos in linux-c initc string - TD
5882 + add 'crt' terminfo entry, update xterm-xfree86 entry - TD
5883 + remove a spurious argument to tparm() in lib_sklrefr.c (patch by
5884 Alexander V Lukyanov).
5887 + back-out change to wgetch because it causes a problem with ^Z
5888 handling in lynx (reported by Kim DeVaughn).
5891 + add -G option to tic and infocmp, to reverse the -g option.
5892 + recode functions in name_match.c to avoid use of strncpy, which
5893 caused a 4-fold slowdown in tic (cf: 980530).
5894 + correct a few warnings about sign-extension in recent changes.
5895 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
5896 + fixes suggested by Jeff Bradbury <jibradbury@lucent.com>:
5897 + improved parameter checking in new_fieldtype().
5898 + fixed a typo in wgetch() timeout handling.
5899 + allow slk_init() to be called per newterm call. The internal SLK
5900 state is stored in the SCREEN struct after every newterm() and then
5901 reset for the next newterm.
5902 + fix the problem that a slk_refresh() refreshes stdscr if the
5903 terminal has true SLKs.
5904 + update HTML documentation for Ada binding.
5907 + remove 'bool' casts from definitions of TRUE/FALSE so that statements
5908 such as "#if TRUE" work. This was originally done to allow for a C++
5909 compiler which would warn of implicit conversions between enum and
5910 int, but is not needed for g++ (reported by Kim DeVaughn).
5911 + add use_extended_names() function to allow applications to suppress
5912 read of the extended capabilities.
5913 + add configure option --enable-tcap-names to support logic which
5914 allows ncurses' tic to define new (i.e., extended) terminal
5915 capabilities. This is activated by the tic -x switch. The infocmp
5916 program automatically shows or compares extended capabilities.
5917 Note: This changes the Strings and similar arrays in the TERMTYPE
5918 struct so that applications which manipulate it must be recompiled.
5919 + use macros typeMalloc, typeCalloc and typeRealloc consistently
5920 throughout ncurses library.
5921 + add _nc_strdup() to doalloc.c.
5922 + modify define_key() to allow multiple strings to be bound to the
5924 + correct logic error in _nc_remove_string, from 990220.
5925 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
5926 + regenerate some of the html documentation
5927 + minor cleanup in terminal_interface-curses.adb
5930 + resolve ambiguity of kend/kll/kslt and khome/kfnd/kich1 strings in
5931 xterm and ncsa terminfo entries by removing the unneeded ones. Note
5932 that some entries will return kend & khome versus kslt and kfnd, for
5933 PC-style keyboards versus strict vt220 compatiblity - TD
5934 + add function keybound(), which returns the definition associated with
5936 + modify define_key() to undefine the given string when no keycode is
5938 + modify keyok() so it works properly if there is more than one string
5939 defined for a keycode.
5940 + add check to tic to warn about terminfo descriptions that contain
5941 more than one key assigned to the same string. This is shown only if
5942 the verbose (-v) option is given. Moved related logic (tic -v) from
5943 comp_parse.c into the tic program.
5944 + add/use _nc_trace_tries() to show the function keys that will be
5946 + rename init_acs to _nc_init_acs (request by Alexander V Lukyanov).
5947 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
5948 + remove all the *_adabind.c from ncurses, menu and form projects.
5949 Those little helper routines have all been implemented in Ada and are
5951 + The option handling routines in menu and form have been made more
5952 save. They now make sure that the unused bits in options are always
5954 + modify configuration scripts to
5955 + use gnatmake as default compiler name. This is a safer choice than
5956 gcc, because some GNAT implementations use other names for the
5957 compilerdriver to avoid conflicts.
5958 + use new default installation locations for the Ada files according
5959 to the proposed GNU Ada filesystem standard (for Linux).
5960 + simplify the Makefiles for the Ada binding
5961 + rename ada_include directory to src.
5964 + enable sigwinch handler by default.
5965 + disable logic that allows setbuf to be turned off/on, because some
5966 implementations will overrun the buffer after it has been disabled
5970 + suppress sc/rc capabilities from terminal description if they appear
5971 in smcup/rmcup. This affects only scrolling optimization, to fix a
5972 problem reported by several people with xterm's alternate screen,
5973 though the problem is more general.
5974 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
5975 + removed all pragma Preelaborate() stuff, because the just released
5976 gnat-3.11p complains on some constructs.
5977 + fixed some upper/lower case notations because gnat-3.11p found
5979 + used a new method to generate the HTML documentation of the Ada95
5980 binding. This invalidates nearly the whole ./Ada95/html subtree.
5981 Nearly all current files in this subtree are removed
5984 + cache last result from _nc_baudrate, for performance (suggested by
5985 Alexander V Lukyanov).
5986 + modify ClrUpdate() function to workaround a problem in nvi, which
5987 uses redrawwin in SIGTSTP handling. Jeffrey C Honig reported that
5988 ncurses repainted the screen with nulls before resuming normal
5989 operation (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
5990 + generalize is_xterm() function a little by letting xterm/rxvt/kterm
5991 be any substring rather than the prefix.
5992 + modify lib_data.c to initialize SP. Some linkers, e.g., IBM's, will
5993 not link a module if the only symbols exported from the module are
5994 uninitialized ones (patch by Ilya Zakharevich). Ilya says that he
5995 has seen messages claiming this behavior conforms to the standard.)
5996 + move call on _nc_signal_handler past _nc_initscr, to avoid a small
5997 window where Nttyb hasn't yet been filled (reported by Klaus Weide).
5998 + modify lib_tstp.c to block SIGTTOU when handling SIGTSTP, fixes a
5999 problem where ncurses applications which were run via a shell script
6000 would hang when given a ^Z. Also, check if the terminal's process
6001 group is consistent, i.e., a shell has not taken ownership of it,
6002 before deciding to save the current terminal settings in the SIGTSTP
6003 handler (patch by Klaus Weide).
6004 + correct spelling of ACS_ names in curs_border.3x (reported by Bob van
6005 der Poel <bvdpoel@kootenay.com>).
6006 + correct a couple of typos in the macros supporting the configure
6007 --with-shlib-version option.
6010 + modify fty_regex.c to compile on HAVE_REGEXPR_H_FUNCS machine (patch
6011 by Kimio Ishii <ishii@csl.sony.co.jp>).
6012 + rename BSDI console terminfo entries: bsdos to bsdos-pc-nobold, and
6013 bsdos-bold to bsdos-pc (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
6014 + modify tput to accept termcap names as an alternative to terminfo
6015 names (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
6016 + correct a typo in term.7 (Todd C Miller).
6017 + add configure --with-shlib-version option to allow installing shared
6018 libraries named according to release or ABI versions. This
6019 parameterizes some existing logic in the configure script, and is
6020 intended for compatiblity upgrades on Digital Unix, which used
6021 versioned libraries in ncurses 4.2, but no longer does (cf: 980425).
6022 + resync configure script against autoconf 2.13 + patches
6023 + minor improvements for teraterm terminfo entry based on the program's
6024 source distribution.
6027 + change default for configure --enable-big-core to assume machines do
6028 have enough memory to resolve terminfo.src in-memory.
6029 + correct name of ncurses library in TEST_ARGS when configuring with
6031 + minor fixes to compile ncurses library with broken-linker with g++.
6032 + add --enable-broken-linker configure option, default to environment
6033 variable $BROKEN_LINKER (request by Jeffrey C Honig).
6034 + change key_names[] array to static since it is not part of the curses
6035 interface (reported by Jeffrey C Honig <jch@bsdi.com>).
6038 + add Tera Term terminfo entry - TD
6041 + reviewed/corrected macros in curses.h as per XSI document.
6042 + provide support for termcap PC variable by copying it from terminfo
6043 data and using it as the padding character in tputs (reported by
6044 Alexander V Lukyanov).
6045 + corrected iris-ansi and iris-ansi-ap terminfo entries for kent and
6046 kf9-kf12 capabilities, as well as adding kcbt.
6047 + document the mouse handling mechanism in menu_driver and make a small
6048 change in menu_driver's return codes to provide more consistency
6049 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
6050 + add fallback definition for NCURSES_CONST to termcap.h.in (reported
6051 by Uchiyama Yasushi <uch@nop.or.jp>).
6052 + move lib_restart.c to ncurses/base, since it uses curses functions
6053 directly, and therefore cannot be used in libtinfo.so
6054 + rename micro_char_size to micro_col_size, adding #define to retain
6056 + add set_a_attributes and set_pglen_inch to terminfo structure, as per
6057 XSI and Solaris 2.5.
6058 + minor makefile files to build ncurses test_progs
6059 + update html files in misc directory to reflect changes since 4.2
6062 + disable scroll hints when hashmap is enabled (patch by Alexander
6064 + move logic for tic's verify of -e option versus -I and -C so that the
6065 terminfo data is not processed if we cannot handle -e (reported by
6066 Steven Schwartz <steves@unitrends.com>.
6067 + add test-driver traces to terminfo and termcap functions.
6068 + provide support for termcap ospeed variable by copying it from the
6069 internal cur_term member, and using ospeed as the baudrate reference
6070 for the delay_output and tputs functions. If an application does not
6071 set ospeed, the library behaves as before, except that _nc_timed_wait
6072 is no longer used, or needed, since ospeed always has a value. But
6073 the application can modify ospeed to adjust the output of padding
6074 characters (prompted by a bug report for screen 3.7.6 and email from
6075 Michael Schroeder <Michael.Schroeder@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>).
6076 + removed some unused ifdef's as part of Alexander's restructuring.
6077 + reviewed/updated curses.h, term.h against X/Open Curses Issue 4
6078 Version 2. This includes making some parameters NCURSES_CONST
6079 rather than const, e.g., in termcap.h.
6080 + change linux terminfo entry to use ncv#2, since underline does not
6084 + miscellaneous corrections for curses.h to match XSI.
6085 + change --enable-no-padding configure option to be normally enabled.
6086 + add section to ncurses manpage for environment variables.
6087 + investigated Debian bug report that pertains to screen 3.7.4/3.7.6
6088 changes, found no sign of problems on Linux (or on SunOS, Solaris)
6089 running screen built with ncurses.
6090 + check if tmp_fp is opened in tic.c before closing it (patch by Pavel
6091 Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>).
6092 + correct several font specification typos in man-pages.
6095 + correct default value for BUILD_CC (reported by Larry Virden).
6098 + modify _nc_set_writedir() to set a flag in _nc_tic_dir() to prevent
6099 it from changing the terminfo directory after chdir'ing to it.
6100 Otherwise, a relative path in $TERMINFO would confuse tic (prompted
6101 by a Debian bug report).
6102 + correct/update ncsa terminfo entry (report by Larry Virden).
6103 + update xterm-xfree86 terminfo to current (patch 90), smcur/rmcur
6105 + add Mathew Vernon's mach console entries to terminfo.src
6106 + more changes, moving functions, as part of Alexander's restructuring.
6107 + modify configure script for GNU/Hurd share-library support, introduce
6108 BUILD_CC variable for cross compiling (patch by Uchiyama Yasushi
6112 + add environment variable NCURSES_NO_SETBUF to allow disabling the
6113 setbuf feature, for testing purposes.
6114 + correct ifdef's for termcap.h versus term.h that suppress redundant
6115 declarations of prototypes (reported by H.J.Lu).
6116 + modify Makefile.os2 to add linker flags which allow multiple copies
6117 of an application to coexist (reported by Ilya Zakharevich).
6118 + update Makefile.glibc and associated configure script so that ncurses
6119 builds as a glibc add-on with the new directory configuration
6120 (reported by H.J.Lu).
6123 + modify gen_reps() function in gen.c to work properly on SunOS
6124 (sparc), which is a left-to-right architecture.
6125 + modify relative_move and tputs to avoid an interaction with the
6126 BSD-style padding. The relative_move function could produce a string
6127 to replace on the screen which began with a numeric character, which
6128 was then interpreted by tputs as padding. Now relative_move will not
6129 generate a string with a leading digit in that case (overwrite).
6130 Also, tputs will only interpret padding if the string begins with a
6131 digit; as coded it permitted a string to begin with a decimal point
6132 or asterisk (reported by Larry Virden).
6133 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
6134 + fix a typo in m_driver.c mouse handling and improves the error
6136 + fix broken mouse handling in the Ada95 binding
6137 + make the Ada95 sample application menus work with the new menu mouse
6139 + improve the mouse handling introduced by Ilya; it now handles menus
6141 + repair a minor bug in the menu_driver code discovered during this
6143 + add new function wmouse_trafo() to hide implementation details of
6144 _yoffset member of WINDOW struct needed for mouse coordinate
6148 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to avoid using return-value of sprintf, since
6149 some older implementations (e.g., SunOS 4.x) return the buffer
6150 address rather than its length.
6151 > patch by Rick Ohnemus:
6152 + modify demo.cc to get it to compile with newer versions of egcs.
6153 + trim a space that appears at the end of the table preprocessor lines
6154 ('\" t). This space prevents some versions of man from displaying
6155 the pages - changed to remove all trailing whitespace (TD)
6156 + finally, 'make clean' does not remove panel objects.
6157 > patches by Ilya Zakharevich:
6158 + allow remapping of OS/2 mouse buttons using environment variable
6159 MOUSE_BUTTONS_123 with the default value 132.
6160 + add mouse support to ncurses menus.
6163 + modify misc/makedef.cmd to report old-style .def file symbols, and to
6164 generate the .def files sorted by increasing names rather than the
6166 + add misc/*.ref which are J.J.G.Ripoll's dll definition files (renamed
6167 from misc/*.old), and updated based on the entrypoint coding he used
6168 for an older version of ncurses.
6169 + add README.emx, to document how to build on OS/2 EMX.
6170 + updates for config.guess, config.sub from Lynx
6171 > patches by Ilya Zakharevich:
6172 + minor fixes for mouse handling mode:
6173 a) Do not initialize mouse if the request is to have no mouse;
6174 b) Allow switching of OS/2 VIO mouse on and off.
6175 + modify Makefile.os2 to support alternative means of generating
6176 configure script, by translating Unix script with Perl.
6177 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
6178 + Updates MANIFEST to reflect changes in source structure
6179 + Eliminates a problem introduced with my last patch for the C++
6180 binding in the panels code. It removes the update() call done in the
6182 + Changes in the Ada95 binding to better support systems where
6183 sizeof(chtype)!=sizeof(int) (e.g. DEC Alpha).
6186 + modify install-script for manpages to skip over .orig and .rej files
6187 (request by Larry Virden).
6188 > patches/discussion by Alexander V Lukyanov:
6189 + move base-library sources into ncurses/base and tty (serial terminal)
6190 sources into ncurses/tty, as part of Alexander V Lukyanov's proposed
6191 changes to ncurses library.
6192 + copy _tracemouse() into ncurses.c so that lib_tracemse.c need not
6193 be linked into the normal ncurses library.
6194 + move macro winch to a function, to hide details of struct ldat
6195 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
6196 + fix a potential compile problem in cursesw.cc
6197 + some Ada95 cosmetics
6198 + fix a gen.c problem when compiling on 64-Bit machines
6199 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in "-L" linker switch
6200 + modify Ada95 makefiles to use the INSTALL_PREFIX setting.
6203 + ifdef'd out lib_freeall.c when not configured.
6204 + rename _tracebits() to _nc_tracebits().
6205 + move terminfo-library sources into ncurses/tinfo, and trace-support
6206 functions into ncurses/trace as part of Alexander V Lukyanov's
6207 proposed changes to ncurses library.
6208 + modify generated term.h to always specify its own definitions for
6209 HAVE_TERMIOS_H, etc., to guard against inclusion by programs with
6210 broken configure scripts.
6213 + modify terminfo parsing to accept octal and hexadecimal constants,
6215 + remove an autoconf 2.10 artifact from the configure script's check
6216 for "-g" compiler options. (Though harmless, this confused someone
6217 at Debian, who recently issued a patch that results in the opposite
6219 + add configure option --with-ada-compiler to accommodate installations
6220 that do not use gcc as the driver for GNAT (patch by Juergen
6224 + ensure ./man exists in configure script, needed when configuring
6225 with --srcdir option.
6226 + modify infocmp "-r" option to remove limit on formatted termcap
6227 output, which makes it more like Solaris' version.
6228 + modify captoinfo to treat no-argument case more like Solaris'
6229 version, which uses the contents of $TERMCAP as the entry to format.
6230 + modify mk-2nd.awk to handle subdirectories, e.g., ncurses/tty
6231 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
6234 + modify --with-terminfo-dirs option so that the default value is the
6235 ${datadir} value, unless $TERMINFO_DIRS is already set. This gets
6236 rid of a hardcoded list of candidate directories in the configure
6238 + add some error-checking to _nc_read_file_entry() to ensure that
6239 strings are properly terminated (Todd C Miller).
6240 + rename manpage file curs_scr_dmp.3x to curs_scr_dump.3x, to
6241 correspond with contents (reported by Neil Zanella
6242 <nzanella@cs.mun.ca>).
6243 + remove redundant configure check for C++ which did not work when $CXX
6244 was specified with a full pathname (reported by Andreas Jaeger).
6245 + corrected bcopy/memmove check; the macro was not standalone.
6248 + remove unnecessary portion of OS/2 EMX mouse change from
6249 check_pending() (reported by Alexander V Lukyanov).
6252 + implement mouse support for OS/2 EMX (adapted from patch against
6253 4.2(?) by Ilya Zakharevich).
6254 + add configure-check for bcopy/memmove, for 980919 changes to hashmap.
6255 + merge Data General terminfo from Hasufin <hasufin@vidnet.net> - TD
6256 + merge AIX 3.2.5 terminfo descriptions for IBM terminals, replaces
6257 some older entries - TD
6258 + modify tic to compile into %'char' form in preference to %{number},
6259 since that is a little more efficient.
6260 + minor correction to infocmp to avoid displaying "difference" between
6261 two capabilities that are rendered in equivalent forms.
6262 + add -g option to tic/infocmp to force character constants to be
6263 displayed in quoted form. Otherwise their decimal values are shown.
6264 + modify setupterm so that cancelled strings are treated the same as
6265 absent strings, cancelled and absent booleans false (does not affect
6267 + modify tic, infocmp to discard redundant i3, r3 strings when output
6269 > patch by Alexander V Lukyanov:
6270 + improve performance of tparm, now it takes 19% instead of 25% when
6272 + rename maxlen/minlen to prec/width for better readability.
6273 + use format string for printing strings.
6274 + use len argument correctly in save_text, and pass it to save_number.
6277 + make test_progs compile (but hashmap does not function).
6278 + correct NC_BUFFERED macro, used in lib_mvcur test-driver, modify
6279 associated logic to avoid freeing the SP->_setbuf data.
6280 + add modules home_terminfo and getenv_num to libtinfo.
6281 + move write_entry to libtinfo, to work with termcap caching.
6282 + minor fixes to blue.c to build with atac.
6283 + remove softscroll.c module; no longer needed for testing.
6284 > patches by Todd C Miller:
6285 + use strtol(3) instead of atoi(3) when parsing env variables so we can
6286 detect a bogus (non-numeric) value.
6287 + check for terminal names > MAX_NAME_SIZE in a few more places when
6288 dealing with env variables again.
6289 + fix a MAX_NAME_SIZE that should be MAX_NAME_SIZE+1
6290 + use sizeof instead of strlen(3) on PRIVATE_INFO since it is a fixed
6291 string #define (compile time vs runtime).
6292 + when setting errno to ENOMEM, set it right before the return, not
6293 before code that could, possibly, set errno to a different value.
6294 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
6295 + use default background in update_cost_from_blank()
6296 + disable scroll-hints when hashmap is configured.
6297 + improve integration of hashmap scrolling code, by adding oldhash and
6298 newhash data to SP struct.
6299 + invoke del_curterm from delscreen.
6300 + modify del_curterm to set cur_term to null if it matches the
6301 function's parameter which is deleted.
6302 + modify lib_doupdate to prefer parm_ich to the enter_insert_mode and
6303 exit_insert_mode combination, adjusting InsCharCost to check
6304 enter_insert_mode, exit_insert_mode and insert_padding. Add
6305 insert_padding in insert mode after each char. This adds new costs
6309 + modify test-driver in lib_mvcur.s to use _nc_setbuffer, for
6310 consistent treatment.
6311 + modify ncurses to restore output to unbuffered on endwin, and resume
6312 buffering in refresh (see lib_set_term.c and NC_BUFFERED macro).
6313 + corrected HTML version numbers (according to the W3C validator, they
6314 never were HTML 2.0-compliant, but are acceptable 3.0).
6317 + modify MKterminfo.sh to generate terminfo.5 with tables sorted by
6318 capability name, as in SVr4.
6319 + modified term.h, termcap.h headers to avoid redundant declarations.
6320 + change 'u_int' type in tset.c to unsigned, making this compile on
6321 Sequent PRX 4.1 (reported by Michael Sterrett <msterret@coat.com>).
6324 + corrections to mailing addresses, and moving the magic line that
6325 causes the man program to invoke tbl to the first line of each
6326 manpage (patch by Rick Ohnemus <rick@ecompcon.com>).
6327 + add Makefile.os2 and supporting scripts to generate dll's on OS/2 EMX
6328 (from J.J.G.Ripoll, with further integration by TD).
6329 + correct a typo in icl6404 terminfo entry.
6330 + add xtermm and xtermc terminfo entries.
6331 > from esr's terminfo version:
6332 + Added Francesco Potorti's tuned Wyse 99 entries.
6333 + dtterm enacs (from Alexander V Lukyanov).
6334 + Add ncsa-ns, ncsa-m-ns and ncsa-m entries from esr version.
6337 + document AT&T acs characters in terminfo.5 manpage.
6338 + use EMX _scrsize() function if terminfo and environment do not
6339 declare the screen size (reported by Ilya Zakharevich
6340 <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>).
6341 + remove spurious '\' characters from eterm and osborne terminfo
6342 entries (prompted by an old Debian bug report).
6343 + correct reversed malloc/realloc calls in _nc_doalloc (reported by
6344 Hans-Joachim Widmaier <hjwidmai@foxboro.com>).
6345 + correct misplaced parenthesis which caused file-descriptor from
6346 opening termcap to be lost, from 980725 changes (reported by Andreas
6350 + modify lib_setup.c to eliminate unneeded include of <sys/ioctl.h>
6351 when termios is not used (patch by Todd C Miller).
6352 + add function _nc_doalloc, to ensure that failed realloc calls do not
6353 leak memory (reported by Todd C Miller).
6354 + improved ncsa-telnet terminfo entry.
6357 + correct missing braces around a trace statement in read_entry.c,
6358 from 980808 (reported by Kim DeVaughn <kimdv@best.com> and Liviu
6362 + fix missing include <errno.h> in ditto.c (reported by Bernhard
6363 Rosenkraenzer <bero@k5.sucks.eu.org>)
6364 + add NCSA telnet terminfo entries from Francesco Potorti
6365 <F.Potorti@cnuce.cnr.it>, from Debian bug reports.
6366 + make handling of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables more compatible with
6367 Solaris by allowing them to individually override the window size
6368 as obtained via ioctl.
6371 + modify lib_vidattr.c to allow for terminal types (e.g., xterm-color)
6372 which may reset all attributes in the 'op' capability, so that colors
6373 are set before turning on bold and other attributes, but still after
6374 turning attributes off.
6375 + add 'ditto.c' to test directory to illustrate use of newterm for
6376 initializing multiple screens.
6377 + modify _nc_write_entry() to recover from failed attempt to link alias
6378 for a terminfo on a filesystem which does not preserve character case
6379 (reported by Peter L Jordan <PJordan@chla.usc.edu>).
6382 + updated versions of config.guess and config.sub based on automake 1.3
6383 + change name-comparisons in lib_termcap to compare no more than 2
6384 characters (gleaned from Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-8.8, verified
6385 with Solaris curses).
6386 + fix typo in curs_insstr.3x (patch by Todd C Miller)
6387 + use 'access()' to check if ncurses library should be permitted to
6388 open or modify files with fopen/open/link/unlink/remove calls, in
6389 case the calling application is running in setuid mode (request by
6390 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>, responding to Duncan Simpson
6391 <dps@io.stargate.co.uk>).
6392 + arm100 terminfo entries from Dave Millen <dmill@globalnet.co.uk>).
6393 + qnxt2 and minitel terminfo entries from esr's version.
6396 + use -R option with ldconfig on FreeBSD because otherwise it resets
6397 the search path to /usr/lib (reported by Dan Nelson).
6398 + add -soname option when building shared libraries on OpenBSD 2.x
6399 (request by QingLong).
6400 + add configure options --with-manpage-format and
6401 --with-manpage-renames (request by QingLong).
6402 + correct conversion of CANCELLED_NUMERIC in write_object(), which was
6403 omitting the high-order byte, producing a 254 in the compiled
6405 + modify return-values of tgetflag, tgetnum, tgetstr, tigetflag,
6406 tigetnum and tigetstr to be compatible with Solaris (gleaned from
6407 Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-8.8).
6408 + modify _nc_syserr_abort to abort only when compiled for debugging,
6409 otherwise simply exit with an error.
6412 + modify Ada95 'gen' program to use appropriate library suffix (e.g.,
6413 "_g" for a debug build).
6414 + update Ada95 'make clean' rule to include generics .ali files
6415 + add a configure test to ensure that if GNAT is found, that it can
6416 compile/link working Ada95 program.
6417 + flush output in beep and flash functions, fixing a problem with
6418 getstr (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov)
6419 + fix egcs 1.0.2 warning for etip.h (patch by Chris Johns).
6420 + correct ifdef/brace nesting in lib_sprintf.c (patch by Bernhard
6421 Rosenkraenzer <bero@Pool.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>).
6422 + correct typo in wattr_get macro from 980509 fixes (patch by Dan
6426 + merge changes from current XFree86 xterm terminfo descriptions.
6427 + add configure option '--without-ada'.
6428 + add a smart-default for termcap 'ac' to terminfo 'acs_chars' which
6429 corresponds to vt100.
6430 + change translation for termcap 'rs' to terminfo 'rs2', which is
6431 the documented equivalent, rather than 'rs1'.
6434 + slow 'worm' down a little, for very fast machines.
6435 + corrected firstchar/lastchar computation in lib_hline.c
6436 + simplify some expressions with CHANGED_CELL, CHANGED_RANGE and
6437 CHANGED_TO_EOL macros.
6438 + modify init_pair so that if a color-pair is reinitialized, we will
6439 repaint the areas of the screen whose color changes, like SVr4 curses
6440 (reported by Christian Maurer <maurer@inf.fu-berlin.de>).
6441 + modify getsyx/setsyx macros to comply with SVr4 man-page which
6442 says that leaveok() affects their behavior (report by Darryl Miles,
6443 patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
6446 + review terminfo.5 against Solaris 2.6 curses version, corrected
6447 several minor errors/omissions.
6448 + implement tparm %l format.
6449 + implement tparm printf-style width and precision for %s, %d, %x, %o
6451 + implement tparm dynamic variables (reported by Xiaodan Tang).
6454 + update man-page for for wattr_set, wattr_get (cf: 980509)
6455 + correct limits in hashtest, which would cause nonprinting characters
6456 to be written to large screens.
6457 + correct configure script, when --without-cxx was specified: the
6458 wrong variable was used for cf_cv_type_of_bool. Compilers up to gcc
6459 2.8 tolerated the missing 'int'.
6460 + remove the hardcoded name "gcc" for the GNU Ada compiler. The
6461 compiler's name might be something like "egcs" (patch by Juergen
6463 + correct curs_addch.3x, which implied that echochar could directly
6464 display control characters (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
6465 + fix typos in ncurses-intro.html (patch by Sidik Isani
6466 <isani@cfht.hawaii.edu>)
6469 + add configure test for conflicting use of exception in math.h and
6471 + minor optimization to 'hash()' function in hashmap.c, reduces its
6473 + correct form of LD_SHARED_OPTS for HP-UX 10.x (patch by Tim Mooney).
6474 + fix missing quotes for 'print' in MKunctrl.awk script (reported by
6475 Mihai Budiu <mihaib@gs41.sp.cs.cmu.edu>).
6476 > patch by Alexander V Lukyanov:
6477 + correct problem on Solaris (with poll() function) where getch could
6478 hang indefinitely even if timeout(x) was called. This turned out to
6479 be because milliseconds was not updated before 'goto retry' in
6481 + simplified the function _nc_timed_wait and fixed another bug, which
6482 was the assumption of !GOOD_SELECT && HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY in *timeleft
6484 + removed the cycle on EINTR, as it seems to be useless.
6487 + add makefile-rule for test/keynames
6488 + modify run_tic.sh and shlib to ensure that user's .profile does not
6489 override the $PATH used to run tic (patch by Tim Mooney).
6490 + restore LD_SHARED_OPTS to $(LD_SHARED_FLAGS) when linking programs,
6491 needed for HP-UX shared-library path (recommended by Tim Mooney).
6492 + remove special case of HP-UX -L options, use +b options to embed
6493 $(libdir) in the shared libraries (recommended by Tim Mooney).
6494 + add checks for some possible buffer overflows and unchecked
6495 malloc/realloc/calloc/strdup return values (patch by Todd C Miller
6496 <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>)
6499 + correct maxx/maxy expression for num_columns/num_lines in derwin
6500 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
6501 + add /usr/share/lib/terminfo and /usr/lib/terminfo as compatibilty
6502 fallbacks to _nc_read_entry(), along with --with-terminfo-dirs
6503 configure option (suggested by Mike Hopkirk).
6504 + modify config.guess to recognize Unixware 2.1 and 7 (patch by Mike
6505 Hopkirk <hops@sco.com>).
6506 + suppress definition of CC_SHARED_OPTS in LDFLAGS_SHARED in c++
6507 Makefile.in, since this conflicts when g++ is used with HP-UX
6508 compiler (reported by Tim Mooney).
6509 + parenthesize 'strcpy' calls in c++ binding to workaround redefinition
6510 in some C++ implementations (reported by several people running
6511 egcs with glibc 2.0.93, analysis by Andreas Jaeger.
6514 + modify write_entry.c so that it will not attempt to link aliases
6515 with embedded '/', but give only a warning.
6516 + put -L$(libdir) first when linking programs, except for HP-UX.
6517 + modify comp_scan.c to handle SVr4 terminfo description for att477,
6518 which contains a colon in the description field.
6519 + modify configure script to support SCO osr5.0.5 shared libraries,
6520 from comp.unix.sco.programmer newsgroup item (Mike Hopkirk).
6521 + eliminate extra GoTo call in lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V.
6523 + minor adjustments of const/NCURSES_CONST from IRIX compile.
6524 + add updates based on esr's 980509 version of terminfo.src.
6527 + correct macros for wattr_set, wattr_get, separate wattrset macro from
6528 these to preserve behavior that allows attributes to be combined with
6530 + add configure option --enable-no-padding, to allow environment
6531 variable $NCURSES_NO_PADDING to eliminate non-mandatory padding,
6532 thereby making terminal emulators (e.g., for vt100) a little more
6533 efficient (request by Daniel Eisenbud <eisenbud@cs.swarthmore.edu>).
6534 + modify configure script to embed ABI in shared libraries for HP-UX
6535 10.x (detailed request by Tim Mooney).
6536 + add test/example of the 'filter()' function.
6537 + add nxterm and xterm-color terminfo description (request by Cristian
6538 Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>).
6539 + modify rxvt terminfo description to clear alternate screen before
6540 switching back to normal screen, for compatibility with applications
6541 which use xterm (reported by Manoj Kasichainula <manojk@io.com>).
6542 + modify linux terminfo description to reset color palette (reported
6543 by Telford Tendys <telford@eng.uts.edu.au>).
6544 + correction to doupdate, for case where terminal does not support
6545 insert/delete character. The logic did not check that there was a
6546 difference in alignment of changes to old/new screens before
6547 repainting the whole non-blank portion of the line. Modified to fall
6548 through into logic that reduces by the portion which does not differ
6549 (reported by Daniel Eisenbud <eisenbud@cs.swarthmore.edu>).
6550 + minor performance improvement to wnoutrefresh by moving some
6551 comparisons out of inner loop.
6554 + modify configure script to substitute NCURSES_CONST in curses.h
6555 + updated terminfo entries for xterm-xf86-v40, xterm-16color,
6556 xterm-8bit to correspond to XFree86 3.9Ag.
6557 + remove restriction that forces ncurses to use setaf/setab if the
6558 number of colors is greater than 8. (see 970524 for xterm-16color).
6559 + change order of -L options (so that $(libdir) is searched first) when
6560 linking tic and other programs, to workaround HP's linker.
6561 Otherwise, the -L../lib is embedded when linking against shared
6562 libraries and the installed program does not run (reported by Ralf
6564 + modify configuration of shared libraries on Digital Unix so that
6565 versioning is embedded in the library, rather than implied by
6566 links (patch by Tim Mooney).
6569 + modify etip.h to avoid conflict with math.h on HP-UX 9.03 with gcc
6570 2.8.1 which redefines 'exception' (reported by Ralf Hildebrandt
6571 <R.Hildebrandt@tu-bs.de>).
6572 + correct configure tests in CF_SHARED_OPTS which used $CC value to
6573 check for gcc, rather than autoconf's $GCC value. This did not
6574 work properly if the full pathname of the compiler were given
6575 (reported by Michael Yount <yount@csf.Colorado.edu>).
6576 + revise check for compiler options to force ANSI mode since repeating
6577 an option such as -Aa causes HP's compiler to fail on its own headers
6578 (reported by Clint Olsen <olsenc@ichips.intel.com>).
6581 + ifdef'd has_key() and mcprint() as extended functions.
6582 + modified several prototypes to correspond with 1997 version of
6583 X/Open Curses (affects ABI since developers have used attr_get).
6584 + remove spurious trailing blanks in glibc addon-scripts (patch by
6586 + insert a few braces at locations where gcc-2.8.x asks to use them to
6587 avoid ambigous else's, use -fpic rather than -fPIC for Linux (patch
6588 by Juergen Pfeifer).
6591 + split SHLIB_LIST into SHLIB_DIRS/SHLIB_LIST to keep -L options
6592 before -l to accommodate Solaris' linker (reported by Larry Virden).
6595 + modify lib_color.c to eliminate dependency on orig_colors and
6596 orig_pair, since SVr4 curses does not require these either, but
6597 uses them when they are available.
6598 + add detailed usage-message to infocmp.
6599 + correct a typo in att6386 entry (a "%?" which was "?").
6600 + add -f option to infocmp and tic, which formats the terminfo
6601 if/then/else/endif so that they are readable (with newlines and
6603 + fixes for glibc addon scripts (patch by H.J.Lu).
6606 + revise configure macro CF_SPEED_TYPE so that termcap.h has speed_t
6607 declared (from Adam J Richter <adam@yggdrasil.com>)
6608 + remove spurious curs_set() call from leaveok() (J T Conklin).
6609 + corrected handling leaveok() in doupdate() (patch by Alexander V.
6611 + improved version of wredrawln (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
6612 + correct c++/Makefile.in so install target do not have embedded ../lib
6613 to confuse it (patch by Thomas Graf <graf@essi.fr>).
6614 + add warning to preinstall rule which checks if the installer would
6615 overwrite a curses.h or termcap.h that is not derived from ncurses.
6616 (The recommended configuration for developers who need both is to
6617 use --disable-overwrite).
6618 + modify preinstall rule in top-level Makefile to avoid implicit
6619 use of 'sh', to accommodate Ultrix 4.4 (reported by Joao Palhoto
6620 Matos <jmatos@math.ist.utl.pt>, patch by Thomas Esser
6621 <te@informatik.uni-hannover.de>)
6622 + refine ifdef's for TRACE so that libncurses has fewer dependencies
6623 on libtinfo when TRACE is disabled.
6624 + modify configure script so that if the --with-termlib option is used
6625 to generate a separate terminfo library, we chain it to the ncurses
6626 library with a "-l" option (reported by Darryl Miles and Ian T.
6630 + correct limits and window in wredrawln function (reported/analysis by
6631 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
6632 + correct sed expression in configure script for --with-fallback
6633 option (patch by Jesse Thilo).
6634 + correct some places in configure script where $enableval was used
6635 rather than $withval (patch by Darryl Miles <dlm@g7led.demon.co.uk>).
6636 + modify some man-pages so no '.' or '..' falls between TH and SH
6637 macros, to accommodate man_db program (reported by Ian T. Zimmerman
6639 + terminfo.src 10.2.1 downloaded from ESR's webpage (ESR).
6640 > several changes by Juergen Pfeifer:
6641 + add copyright notices (and rcs id's) on remaining man-pages.
6642 + corrected prototypes for slk_* functions, using chtype rather than
6644 + implemented the wcolor_set() and slk_color() functions
6645 + the slk_attr_{set,off,on} functions need an additional void*
6646 parameter according to XSI.
6647 + fix the C++ and Ada95 binding as well as the man pages to
6648 reflect above enhancements.
6651 + use 'stat()' rather than 'access()' in toe.c to check for the
6652 existence of $HOME/.terminfo, since it may be a file.
6653 + suppress configure CF_CXX_LIBRARY check if we are not using g++
6654 2.7.x, since this is not needed with g++ 2.8 or egcs (patch by
6656 + turn on hashmap scrolling code by default, intend to remedy defects
6658 + minor corrections to terminfo.src changelog.
6660 980302 4.2 release for upload to prep.ai.mit.edu
6661 + correct Florian's email address in ncurses-intro.html
6662 + terminfo.src 10.2.0 (ESR).
6665 + add linux-koi8r replace linux-koi8, which is not KOI8 (patch by
6666 QingLong <qinglong@Bolizm.ihep.su>).
6667 + minor documentation fixes (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
6668 + add setlocale() call to ncurses.c (reported by Claes G. Lindblad
6669 <claesg@algonet.se>).
6670 + correct sign-extension in lib_insstr.c (reported by Sotiris
6671 Vassilopoulos <svas@leon.nrcps.ariadne-t.gr>)
6674 + regenerated some documentation overlooked in 980214 patch
6675 (ncurses-intro.doc, curs_outopts.3x.html)
6676 + minor ifdef change to C++ binding to work with gcc 2.8.0 (patch by
6678 + change maintainer's mailing address to florian@gnu.org, change
6679 tentative mailing list address to bug-ncurses-request@gnu.org (patch
6680 by Florian La Roche).
6681 + add definition of $(REL_VERSION) to c++/Makefile.in (reported by Gran
6682 Hasse <gh@raditex.se>).
6683 + restore version numbers to Ada95 binding, accidentally deleted by
6684 copyright patch (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
6687 + remove ncurses.lsm from MANIFEST so that it won't be used in FSF
6688 distributions, though it is retained in development.
6689 + correct scaling of milliseconds to nanoseconds in lib_napms.c (patch
6691 + update mailing-list information (bug-ncurses@gnu.org).
6692 + update announcement for upcoming 4.2 release.
6693 + modify -lm test to check for 'sin()' rather than 'floor()'
6694 + remove spurious commas from terminfo.src descriptions.
6695 + change copyright notices to Free Software Foundation
6698 + minor fixes for autoconf macros CF_ERRNO, CF_HELP_MESSAGE and
6700 + modify Makefile.glibc so that $(objpfx) is defined (H.J.Lu).
6701 + ifdef-out true-return from _nc_mouse_inline() which depends on
6702 merge of QNX patch (pending 4.2 release).
6703 > patch to split off seldom-used modules in ncurses (J T Conklin):
6704 This reduces size by up to 2.6kb.
6705 + move functionality of _nc_usleep into napms, add configuration case
6707 + moved wchgat() from lib_addch.c to lib_chgat.c
6708 + moved clearok(), immedok(), leaveok(), and scrollok() from
6709 lib_options.c to lib_clearok.c, lib_immedok.c, lib_leaveok.c and
6711 + moved napms() from lib_kernel.c to lib_napms.c
6712 + moved echo() and noecho() from lib_raw.c to lib_echo.c
6713 + moved nl() and nonl() from lib_raw.c to lib_nl.c
6716 + corrected conversion in tclock.c (cf: 971018).
6717 + updates to Makefile.glibc and associated Linux configure script
6719 + workaround a quoting problem on SunOS with tar-copy.sh
6720 + correct init_pair() calls in worm.c to work when use_default_colors()
6722 + include <sys/types.h> in CF_SYS_TIME_SELECT to work with FreeBSD
6724 + add ncv capability to FreeBSD console (cons25w), making reverse
6726 + correct sense of configure-test for sys/time.h inclusion with
6728 + fixes for Ada95/ada_include/Makefile.in to work with --srcdir option.
6729 + remove unused/obsolete test-program rules from progs/Makefile.in
6730 (the rules in ncurses/Makefile.in work).
6731 + remove shared-library loader flags from test/Makefile.in, etc.
6732 + simplify test/configure.in using new version of autoconf to create
6734 + suppress suffix rules in test/Makefile.in, provide explicit
6735 dependency to work with --srcdir option and less capable 'make'
6737 > adapted from patch for QNX by Xiaodan Tang:
6738 + initialize %P and %g variables set/used in tparm, and also ensure
6739 that empty strings don't return a null result from tparam_internal
6740 + add QNX-specific prototype for vsscanf()
6741 + move initialization of SP->_keytry from init_keytry() to newterm() to
6742 avoid resetting it via a keyok() call by mouse_activate().
6743 + reorganized some functions in lib_mouse() to use case-statements.
6744 + remove sgr string from qnx terminfo entry since it is reported to
6745 turn off attributes inconsistently.
6748 + add f/F/b/B commands to ncurses 'b' test to toggle colors, providing
6749 test for no_color_video.
6750 + adjusted emx.src to use no_color_video, now works with ncurses 'b'
6752 + implement no_color_video attribute, and as a special case, reverse
6753 colors when the reverse attribute cannot be combined with color.
6754 + check for empty string in $TERM variable (reported by Brett Michaels
6756 > from reports by Fred Fish:
6757 + add configure-test for isascii
6758 + add configure-test for -lm library.
6759 + modify CF_BOOL_SIZE to check if C++ bool types are unsigned.
6760 > patches by J.J.G.Ripoll
6761 + add configure/makefile variables to support .exe extension on
6762 OS/2 EMX (requires additional autoconf patches).
6763 + explicitly initialize variables in lib_data.c to appease OS/2 linker
6764 > patches by Fred Fish <fnf@ninemoons.com>
6765 + misc/Makefile.in (install.data): Avoid trying to install the CVS
6767 + aclocal.m4 (install.includes): Remove files in the include directory
6768 where we are going to install new ones, not the original source
6770 + misc/terminfo.src: Add entry for "beterm", derived from termcap
6771 distributed with BeOS PR2 using captoinfo.
6772 + aclocal.m4: Wrap $cf_cv_type_of_bool with quotes (contains space)
6773 + aclocal.m4: Assume bool types are unsigned.
6774 + progs/infocmp.c: workaround mwcc 32k function data limit
6777 + correct initialization of color-pair (cf: 970524) in xmas.c, which
6778 was using only one color-pair for all colors (reported by
6780 + add multithread options for objects build on EMX, for compatibility
6782 + split up an expression in MKlib_gen.sh to work around a problem on
6783 OS/2 EMX, with 'ash' (patch by J.J.G.Ripoll).
6784 + change terminfo entries xterm (xterm-xf86-v40), xterm-8bit rs1 to use
6786 + rename terminfo entry xterm-xf86-v39t to xterm-xf86-v40
6787 + remove bold/underline from sun console entries since they're not
6789 + correct _tracef calls in _tracedump(), which did not separate format
6791 + correct getopt string for tic "-o" option, and add it to man-page
6792 synopsis (reported by Darren Hiebert <darren@hmi.com>).
6793 + correct typo in panel/Makefile.in, reversed if-statement in scrolling
6794 optimization (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
6795 + test for 'remove()', use 'unlink() if not found (patch by Philippe De
6796 Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>).
6797 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
6798 + Improve a feature of the forms driver. For invisible fields
6799 (O_VISIBLE off) only the contents but not the attributes are cleared.
6800 We now clear both. (Reported by Javier Kohan
6801 <jkohan@adan.fceia.unr.edu.ar>)
6802 + The man page form_field_opts.3x makes now clear, that invisible
6803 fields are also always inactive.
6804 + adjust ifdef's to compile the C++ binding with the just released
6805 gcc-2.8.0 c++ and the corresponding new C++ libraries.
6808 + correct "?" command in ncurses.c; it was performing non-screen writes
6809 while the program was in screen mode. (It "worked" in 1.9.9e because
6810 that version sets OPOST and OCRNL incorrectly).
6811 + return error from functions in lib_kernel, lib_raw and lib_ti if
6812 cur_term is null, or if underlying I/O fails.
6813 + amend change to tputs() so that it does not return an error if
6814 cur_term is null, since some applications depend on being able to use
6815 tputs without initializing the terminal (reported by Christian J.
6816 Robinson <infynity@cyberhighway.net>).
6819 + add a copy of emx.src from J.J.G.Ripoll's OS/2 EMX version of ncurses
6820 1.9.9e, together with fixes/additions for the "ansi" terminal type.
6821 + add tic check for save/restore cursor if change_scroll_region is
6822 defined (reference: O'Reilly book).
6823 + modify read_termcap.c to handle EMX-style pathnames (reported by
6825 + modify lib_raw.c to use EMX's setmode (patch from J.J.G.Ripoll).
6826 Ripoll says EMX's curses does this.
6827 + modify _nc_tic_expand() to generate \0 rather than \200.
6828 + move/revise 'expand()' from dump_entry.c to ncurses library as
6829 _nc_tic_expand(), for use by tack.
6830 + decode \a as \007 for terminfo, as per XSI.
6831 + correct translation of terminfo "^@", to \200, like \0.
6832 + modify next_char() to treat <cr><lf> the same as <newline>, for
6833 cross-platform compatibility.
6834 + use new version of autoconf (971230) to work around limited
6835 environment on CLIX, due to the way autoconf builds --help message.
6836 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
6837 + check that the Ada95 binding runs against the correct version of
6839 + insert constants about the library version into the main spec-file of
6843 + modify open/fopen calls to use binary mode, needed for EMX.
6844 + modify configure script to work with autoconf 2.10 mods for OS/2
6845 EMX (from J.J.G.Ripoll).
6846 + generated ncurses_cfg.h with patch (971222) to autoconf 2.12 which
6847 bypasses limited sed buffer length.
6848 > several changes from Juan Jose Garcia Ripoll <worm@arrakis.es>
6849 (J.J.G.Ripoll) to support OS/2 EMX:
6850 + add a _scrolling flag to SP, to set when we encounter a terminal
6851 that simply cannot scroll.
6852 + corrected logic in _nc_add_to_try(), by ensuring that strings with
6853 embedded \200 characters are matched.
6854 + don't assume the host has 'link()' function, for linking terminfo
6858 + if there's no ioctl's to support sigwinch handler, disable it.
6859 + add configure option --disable-ext-funcs to remove the extended
6860 functions from the build.
6861 + add configure option --with-termlib to generate the terminfo
6862 functions as a separate library.
6863 + add 'sources' rule to facilitate cross-compiling.
6864 + review/fix order of mostlyclean/clean/distclean rules.
6865 + modify install-rule for headers to first remove old header, in
6866 case there was a symbolic link that confuses the install script.
6867 + corrected substitution for NCURSES_CONST in term.h (cf: 971108)
6868 + add null pointer checks in wnoutrefresh(), overlap() (patch by
6869 Xiaodan Tang <xtang@qnx.com>)
6870 + correct tputs(), which could dereference a null cur_term if invoked
6871 before terminal is initialized (patch by Christopher Seawood
6873 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
6874 + makes better use of "pragma Inline" in the Ada95 binding
6875 + resynchronizes the generated html manpages
6878 + additional fixes for man-pages section-references
6879 + add (for debugging) a check for ich/ich1 conflict with smir/rmir
6881 + remove hpa/vpa from rxvt terminal description because they are not
6882 implemented correctly, added sgr0.
6883 + change ncurses 's' to use raw mode, so ^Q works (reported by Rudolf
6884 Leitgeb <leitgeb@leland.stanford.edu>)
6887 + modify protection when installing libraries to (normally) not
6888 executable. HP-UX shared libraries are an exception.
6889 + add configure check for 'tack'.
6890 + implement script for renaming section-references in man-page install,
6891 for Debian configuration.
6892 + add validity-check for SP in trace code in baudrate() (reported by
6894 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov (fixes to match sol25 curses)
6895 + modify 'overlay()' so that copy applies target window background to
6897 + correct 'mvwin()' so that it does not clear the previous locations.
6898 + correct lib_acs.c so that 8-bit character is not sign expanded in
6899 case of wide characters in chtype.
6900 + correct control-char test in lib_addch.c for use with wide chars
6901 + use attribute in the chtype when adding a control character in
6902 lib_addch.c control char was added with current attribute
6905 + save/restore errno in _tracef() function
6906 + change treatment of initialize_color to use a range of 0..1000
6907 (recommended by Daniel Weaver).
6908 + set umask in mkinstalldirs, fixing problems reported by users who
6909 have set root's umask to 077.
6910 + correct bug in tic that caused capabilities to be reprinted at the
6911 end of output when they had embedded comments.
6912 + rewrote wredrawln to correspond to XSI, and split-out since it is
6913 not often used (from report by Alexander V. Lukyanov, 970825)
6914 + rewrote Dan Nelson's change to make it portable, as well as to
6915 correct logic for handling backslashes.
6916 + add code to _nc_tgetent() to make it work more like a real tgetent().
6917 It removes all empty fields, and removes all but the first in a group
6918 of duplicate caps. The code was pulled from the BSD libtermcap code
6919 in termcap.c (patch by Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
6920 + don't include --enable-widec in the --with-develop configure option,
6921 since it is not binary-compatible with 4.1 (noted by Alexander V.
6923 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
6924 + further improvements of the usage of elaboration pragmas in the Ada95
6926 + enhanced Ada95 sample to use the user_data mechanism for panels.
6927 + a fix for the configuration script to make gnat-3.10 the required
6929 + resync of the html version of the manpages
6932 > fixes/updates for terminfo.src:
6933 + add vt220-js, pilot, rbcomm, datapoint entries from esr's 27-jun-97
6935 + add hds200 description (Walter Skorski)
6936 + add EMX 0.9b descriptions
6937 + correct rmso/smso capabilities in wy30-mc and wy50-mc (Daniel Weaver)
6938 + rename xhpterm back to hpterm.
6939 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
6940 + Improves the usage of elaboration pragmas for the Ada95 binding.
6941 + Adds a translation of the test/rain.c into Ada95 to the samples.
6942 This has been contributed to the project by Laurent Pautet
6946 + increase MAX_NAME_SIZE to 512 to handle extremely long alias list
6948 + correction & simplification of delay computation in tputs, based on
6949 comments from Daniel Weaver.
6950 + replace test for SCO with more precise header tests.
6951 + add configure test for unsigned literals, use in NCURSES_BITS macro.
6952 + comment-out the -PIC, etc., flags from c++, progs and test makefiles
6953 since they probably are not needed, and are less efficient (noted by
6955 + add -L$(libdir) to loader options, after -L../lib so that loaders
6956 that record this information will tend to do the right thing if
6957 the programs are moved around after installing them (suggested by
6959 + add -R option to loader options for programs for Solaris if the
6960 --enable-rpath option is specified for the libraries.
6963 + correct installed filename for shared libraries on *BSD (reported by
6967 + cleanup logic for deciding when tputs() should call delay_output(),
6968 based on comments from Daniel Weaver.
6969 + modified tputs() to avoid use of float.
6970 + correct use of trailpad in tputs(), which used the wrong variable
6971 in call to delay_output().
6972 + correct inverted expression for null-count in delay_output()
6973 (analysis by Daniel Weaver).
6974 + apply --enable-rpath option to Solaris (requested by Larry Virden).
6975 + correct substitution of EXTRA_CFLAGS for gcc 2.6.3
6976 + correct check for error-return by _nc_tgetent(), which returns 0
6978 + add configure test for BSD 4.4 cgetent() function, modify
6979 read_termcap.c to use the host's version of that if found, using the
6980 terminal database on FreeBSD (reported by Peter Wemm).
6981 + add u8, u9 strings to sun-il description for Daniel Weaver.
6982 + use NCURSES_CONST in panel's user-pointer.
6983 + modify edit_cfg.sh and MKterm.h.awk.in to substitute NCURSES_CONST
6984 so that will work on NeXT.
6985 + use _nc_set_screen() rather than assignments to SP to fix port to
6986 NeXT (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
6989 + force mandatory padding in bell and flash_screen, as specified in
6991 + don't allow padding_baud_rate to override mandatory delays (reported
6993 + modify delay_output() to use _nc_timed_wait() if no baudrate has been
6994 defined, or if the cur_term pointer is not initialized. XSI treats
6995 this as unspecified. (requested by Daniel Weaver).
6996 + change getcap-cache ifdef's to eliminate unnecessary chdir/mkdir
6997 when that feature is not configured.
6998 + remove _nc_err_abort() calls when write_entry.c finds a directory but
6999 cannot write to it, e.g., when translating part/all of /etc/termcap
7000 (reported by Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>).
7001 (this dates back to 951102, in 1.9.7a).
7002 + minor ifdef fixes to compile with atac and glibc 2.0.5c
7003 + add check for -lgen when configuring regexpr.h
7004 + modify Solaris shared-library option "-d y" to "-dy" to workaround
7005 incompatibility of gcc 2.7.2 vs vendor's tools.
7008 + correct ifdef's for struct winsize vs struct ttysize in lib_setup.c
7010 + remove dangling backslash in panel/Makefile.in
7011 + modify MKkeyname.awk to work with SCO's nawk, which dumps core in the
7013 + correct length of allocation in _nc_add_to_try(), to allow for
7015 + correct logic in _nc_remove_key(), which was discarding too many
7016 nodes (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov)
7019 + add definition for $(REL_VERSION) to test/Makefile.in, so *BSD
7020 shared libraries link properly (see 970524).
7021 + modify Linux shared-library generation to include library
7022 dependencies (e.g., -lncurses and -lgpm) in the forms, menu and
7023 panel libraries (suggested by Juergen Pfeifer).
7024 + modify configure script to use config.guess and config.sub rather
7025 than uname, which is unreliable on some systems.
7026 + updated Makefile.glibc, test-built with glibc 2.0.5c
7027 + modify keyname() to return values consistent with SVr4 curses (patch
7029 > changes requested by Daniel Weaver:
7030 + modify delay_output() so that it uses the same output function as
7031 tputs() if called from that function.
7032 + move _baudrate from SCREEN to TERMINAL so that low-level use of
7033 tputs works when SP is not set.
7034 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7035 + factor lib_menu and lib_form into smaller modules
7036 + clean up the interface between panel and SCREEN
7037 + minor changes to the Ada95 mouse support implemenation
7038 + minor bugfix in C++ binding to ripoff windows
7039 + fix a few Ada95 html documentation pages
7042 + split-out lib_ungetch.c, make runtime link to resizeterm() to
7043 decouple those modules from lib_restart.c
7044 + add xterm-xf86-v39t description to terminfo.src
7045 + reset SP->_endwin in lib_tstp.c cleanup() function after calling
7046 endwin() to avoid unnecessary repainting if the application has
7047 established an atexit function, etc. Encountered this problem in
7048 the c++ demo, whose destructors repaint the screen.
7049 + combine _nc_get_screensize() and resizeterm() calls as new function
7050 _nc_update_screensize().
7051 + minor fixes to allow compile with g++ (suggested by Nelson H. F.
7053 + implement install-rules for Ada95 makefiles.
7054 + use screen_lines or MAXLINES as needed where LINES was coded,
7055 as well as screen_columns for COLS, in the ncurses library.
7056 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
7057 + modify logic for ripped-off lines to handle several SCREENs.
7058 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7059 + factors lib_slk.c into some smaller modules
7060 + factors panel.c into some smaller modules
7061 + puts the static information about the current panel stack into the
7062 SCREEN structure to allow different panel stacks on different
7064 + preliminary fix for an error adjusting LINES to account for
7068 + move _nc_max_click_interval and other mouse interface items to SCREEN
7069 struct so that they are associated with a single terminal, and also
7070 save memory when the application does not need a mouse (roughly 3k vs
7072 + modify mouseinterval() so that a negative parameter queries the
7073 click-interval without modifying it.
7074 + modify ncurses 'i' test to work with ncurses' apparent extension from
7075 SVr4, i.e., allows nocbreak+noecho (analysis by Alexander V.
7077 + add configure options --with-ada-includes and --with-ada-objects,
7078 to drive Ada95 binding install (not yet implemented).
7079 + install C++ binding as -lncurses++ and associated headers with the
7080 other ncurses headers.
7081 + fix header uninstall if configure --srcdir is used.
7082 > minor interface changes to support 'tack' program -TD
7083 (request by Daniel Weaver <danw@znyx.com>).
7084 + export functions _nc_trans_string() and _nc_msec_cost().
7085 + add variable _nc_nulls_sent, to record the number of padding
7086 characters output in delay_output().
7087 + move tests for generic_type and hard_copy terminals in setupterm()
7088 to the end of that function so that the library will still be
7089 initialized, though not generally useful for curses programs.
7090 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
7091 + modify ClrBottom() to avoid using clr_eos if there is only one line
7093 + typo in configure --help.
7094 > patch by J T Conklin (with minor resync against Juergen's changes)
7095 + split-out lib_flash.c from lib_beep.c
7096 + split-out lib_hline.c and lib_vline.c from lib_box.c
7097 + split-out lib_wattron.c, lib_wattroff.c from lib_addch.c
7100 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7101 + correct source/target of c++/edit_cfg.sh
7104 + add color, mouse support to kterm terminfo entry.
7105 + modify lib_mouse.c to recognize rxvt, kterm, color_xterm also as
7106 providing "xterm"-style mouse.
7107 + updated rxvt's terminfo description to correspond to 2.21b, with
7108 fixes for the acsc (the box1 capability is incorrect, ech1 does not
7110 + fix logic in parse_entry.c that discarded acsc when 'synthesizing'
7111 an entry from equivalents in XENIX or AIX. This lets ncurses handle
7112 the distribution copy of rxvt's terminfo.
7113 + modify acsc capability for linux and linux-koi8 terminfo descriptions
7114 (from Pavel Roskin <pavel@absolute.spb.su>).
7115 + corrected definition in curses.h for ACS_LANTERN, which was 'I'
7116 rather than 'i' (see 970802).
7117 + updated terminfo.src with reformatted acsc entries, and repaired the
7118 trashed entries with spurious '\' characters that this exposed.
7119 + add logic to dump_entry.c to reformat acsc entries into canonical
7120 form (sorted, unique mapping).
7121 + add configure script to generate c++/etip.h
7122 + add configure --with-develop option, to enable by default most of the
7123 experimental options (requested by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7124 + rename 'deinstall' to 'uninstall', following GNU convention
7125 (suggested by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7126 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
7127 + modify tactics 2 and 5 in onscreen_mvcur(), to allow them on the last
7128 line of the screen, since carriage return will not cause a newline.
7129 + remove clause from PutCharLR() that would try to use
7130 eat_newline_glitch since that apparently does not work on some
7131 terminals (e.g., M$ telnet).
7132 + correct a limit check in scroll_csr_backward()
7133 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
7134 + adds dummy implementations of methods above() and below() to the
7136 + fixes missing returncode in NCursesWindow::ripoffline()
7137 + fixes missing returncode in TestApplication::run() in demo.cc
7138 + We should at least give a comment in etip.h why it is currently a
7139 problem to install the C++ binding somewhere
7140 + makes the WINDOW* argument of wenclose() a const.
7141 + modifies several of the routines in lib_adabind.c to use a const
7145 + add 'deinstall' rules.
7146 + use explicit assignments in configure --without-progs option to
7147 work around autoconf bug which doesn't always set $withval.
7148 + check for ldconfig, don't try to run it if not found.
7149 + implement simple/unoptimized case in lib_doupdate.c to handle
7150 display with magic cookie glitch, tested with ncurses.c program.
7151 + correct missing _tracef in getmouse(), to balance the returnCode
7153 + simplify show_attr() in ncurses.c using termattrs().
7154 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
7155 + provides missing inlines for mvw[hv]line in cursesw.h of the C++
7157 + fixes a typo in a comment of frm_driver.c
7158 + Enhances Ada95 Makefiles to fulfill the requirement of GNAT-3.10 that
7159 generics should be compiled. Proper fixes to the configuration
7160 scripts are also provided.
7163 + several modifications to the configure script (requested by Ward
7165 + add configure options --without-progs, to suppress the build of the
7166 utility programs, e.g., for cross-compiling.
7167 + add $(HOSTCCFLAGS) and $(HOSTLDFLAGS) symbols to ncurses
7168 Makefile.in, to simplify setup for cross compiling.
7169 + add logic in configure script to recognize "--target=vxworks", and
7170 generate load/install actions for VxWorks objects.
7171 + move typedef for sigaction_t into SigAction.h to work around problem
7172 generating lint library.
7173 + modify fty_regex.c to reflect renaming of ifdef's for regular
7175 + simplify ifdef in lib_setup.c for TIOCGWINSZ since that symbol may
7176 reside in <sys/ioctl.h>.
7177 + merge testcurs.c with version from PDCurses 2.3, clarifying some of
7178 the more obscure tests, which rely upon color.
7179 + use macros getbegyx() and getmaxyx() in newdemo.c and testcurs.c
7180 + modify ncurses.c to use getbegyx() and getmaxyx() macros to cover up
7181 implementation difference wrt SVr4 curses, allow 's' test to work.
7182 + add missing endwin() to testscanw.c program (reported by Fausto
7183 Saporito <fausap@itb.it>).
7184 + fixes/updates for Makefile.glibc and related files under sysdeps
7186 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
7187 + add checks for null pointers, especially WINDOW's throughout the
7189 + solve a problem with wrong calculation of panel overlapping (reported
7191 + make sure that a panel's window isn't a pad.
7192 + do more error checking in module lib_touch.c
7193 + missing files for Ada95 binding from the last patch
7194 + synch. of generated html pages (RCS-Id's were wrong in html files)
7195 + support for Key_Resize in Ada binding
7196 + changed documentation style in ./c++/cursesm.h
7197 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
7198 + undo attempt to do recursive inlining for PutChar(), noting that it
7199 did not improve timing measurably, but inflated the size of
7203 + modify rain.c to use color.
7204 + correct scroll_csr_backward() to match scroll_csr_forward().
7205 + minor adjustment to llib-lncurses, to work with Solaris 2.5.1
7206 + minor fixes to sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/configure to reflect renaming
7207 of configure cache variables in 970906.
7208 + correct logic involving changes to O_VISIBLE option in
7209 Synchronize_Options function in frm_driver.c (Tony Hoffmann
7210 <Tony.Hoffmann@hia.nrc.ca>)
7211 + add $(HOSTCC) symbol to ncurses Makefile.in, to simplify setup for
7212 cross compiling (suggested by Chris Johns).
7213 + modify ifdef in lib_setup.c to only include <sys/ioctl.h> if we can
7214 use it to support screen-size calculation (reported by Chris Johns).
7215 + #undef unctrl to avoid symbol conflict in port to RTEMS (reported by
7216 Chris Johns <cjohns@plessey.com.au>)
7217 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
7218 + simplified, made minor corrections to Ada95 binding to form
7220 + The C++ binding has been enhanced:
7221 + Improve NCursesWindow class: added additional methods to cover
7222 more ncurses functionality. Make refresh() and noutrefresh()
7223 virtual members to allow different implementation in the
7225 + CAUTION: changed order of parameters in vline() and hline() of
7226 NCursesWindow class.
7227 + Make refresh() in NCursesPanel non-static, it is now a
7228 reimplementation of refresh() in the base class. Added
7229 noutrefresh() to NCursesPanel.
7230 + Added NCursesForm and related classes to support libform
7232 + Moved most of configuration related stuff from cursesw.h to etip.h
7233 + Added NCursesApplication class to support easy configuration of
7234 menu and forms related attributes as well as ripped of title lines
7235 and Soft-Label-Keys for an application.
7236 + Support of Auto-Cleanup for a menu's fieldlist.
7237 + Change of return type for current_item() and operator[] for menus.
7239 + Fixed a bug in form/fld_def.c: take into account that copyarg and
7240 freearg for a fieldtype may be NULL, makearg must not be NULL
7241 + Fixed a bug in form/fld_type.c: in set_fieldtype_arg() makearg must
7242 not be NULL, copyarg and freearg may be NULL.
7243 + Fixed a bug in form/frm_def.c: Allow Disconnect_Fields() if it is
7244 already disconnected.
7245 + Enhance form/frm_driver.c: Allow growth of dynamic fields also on
7246 navigation requests.
7247 + Fixed a bug in form/fty_enum.c: wrong position of postincrement in
7248 case-insensitiva comparision routine.
7249 + Enhanced form/lib_adabind.c with function _nc_get_field() to get a
7250 forms field by index.
7251 + Enhanced menu/m_adabind.c with function _nc_get_item() to get a menus
7253 + Fixed in curses.h.in: make chtype argument for pechochar() constant.
7254 Mark wbkgdset() as implemented, remove wbkgdset macro, because it was
7255 broken (didn't handle colors correctly).
7256 + Enhanced lib_mouse.c: added _nc_has_mouse() function
7257 + Added _nc_has_mouse() prototype to curses.priv.h
7258 + Modified lib_bkgd.c: hopefully correct implementation of wbkgdset();
7259 streamlined implementation of wbkgd()
7260 + Modified lib_mvwin.c: Disable move of a pad. Implement (costly)
7261 move of subwindows. Fixed update behavior of movements of regular
7263 + Fixed lib_pad.c: make chtype argument of pechochar() const.
7264 + Fixed lib_window.c: dupwin() is not(!) in every bit a really clone
7265 of the original. Subwindows become regular windows by doing a
7267 + Improved manpage form_fieldtype.3x
7268 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
7269 + simplify the PutChar() handling of exit_am_mode, because we already
7270 know that auto_right_margin is true.
7271 + add a check in PutChar() for ability to insert to the case of
7272 shifting character to LR corner.
7273 + in terminal initialization by _nc_screen_resume(), make sure that
7274 terminal right margin mode is known.
7275 + move logic that invokes touchline(), or does the equivalent, into
7276 _nc_scroll_window().
7277 + modify scrolling logic use of insert/delete line capability, assuming
7278 that they affect the screen contents only within the current
7280 + modify rain.c to demonstrate SIGWINCH handler.
7281 + remove logic from getch() that would return an ERR if the application
7282 called getch() when the cursor was at the lower-right corner of the
7283 physical screen, and the terminal does not have insert-character
7285 + change view.c so that it breaks out of getch() loop if a KEY_RESIZE
7286 is read, and modify logic in getch() so this fix will yield the
7287 desired behavior, i.e., the screen is repainted automatically when
7288 the terminal window is resized.
7291 + add configure option --enable-sigwinch
7292 + modify view.c to test KEY_RESIZE logic, with "-r" option.
7293 + modify testcurs.c to eliminate misleading display wrt cursor type
7294 by testing if the terminal supports cnorm, civis, cvvis.
7295 + several fixes for m68k/NeXT 4.0, to bring cur_term, _nc_curr_line and
7296 _nc_curr_col variables into linked programs: move these variables,
7297 making new modules lib_cur_term and trace_buf (reported by Francisco
7298 Alberto Tomei Torres <fatomei@sandburg.unm.edu>).
7299 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
7300 + add pseudo-functionkey KEY_RESIZE which is returned by getch() when
7301 the SIGWINCH handler has been called since the last call to
7303 + modify lib_twait.c to hide EINTR only if HIDE_EINTR is defined.
7304 + add SIGWINCH handler to ncurses library which is used if there is no
7305 application SIGWINCH handler in effect when the screen is
7307 + make linked list of all SCREEN structures.
7308 + move curses.h include before definition of SCREEN to use types in
7310 + correction to ensure that wgetstr uses only a newline to force a
7314 + add experimental configure option --enable-safe-sprintf; the normal
7315 mode now allocates a buffer as large as the screen for the
7316 lib_printw.c functions.
7317 + modify wgetch to refresh screen when reading ungetch'd characters,
7318 since the application may require this - SVr4 does this.
7319 + refine treatment of newline in wgetstr to echo only when this would
7320 force the screen to scroll.
7323 + remove override in wgetstr() that forces keypad(), since SVr4 does
7325 + correct y-reference for erasure in wgetstr() when a wrap forces a
7327 + correct x-position in waddch() after a wrap forces a scroll.
7328 + echo newline in wgetstr(), making testscanw.c scroll properly when
7330 + modify vwscanw() to avoid potential buffer overflow.
7331 + rewrote lib_printw.c to eliminate fixed-buffer limits.
7332 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
7333 + correct an error in handling cooked mode in wgetch(); processing
7334 was in the wrong order.
7335 + simplified logic in wgetch() that handles backspace, etc., by using
7337 + correct wechochar() so that it interprets the output character as
7339 + modify pechochar() to use prefresh() rather than doupdate(), since
7340 the latter does not guarantee immediate refresh of the pad.
7341 + modify pechochar() so that if called with a non-pad WINDOW, will
7342 invoke wechochar() instead.
7343 + modify fifo indices to allow fifo to be longer than 127 bytes.
7346 + add xterm-8bit to terminfo.src
7347 + moved logic for SP->_fifohold inside check_pending() to make it
7348 work properly when we add calls to that function.
7349 + ensure that bool functions return only TRUE or FALSE, and TRUE/FALSE
7350 are assigned to bool values (patch by H.J.Lu).
7351 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
7352 + several fixes to getch:
7353 1. Separate cooked and raw keys in fifo
7354 2. Fix the case of ungetch'ed KEY_MOUSE
7355 3. wrap the code for hiding EINTR with ifdef HIDE_EINTR
7356 4. correctly handle input errors (i.e., EINTR) without loss of raw
7358 5. recognize ESC KEY_LEFT and similar
7359 6. correctly handle the case of receiption of KEY_MOUSE from gpm
7360 + correct off-by-one indexing error in _nc_mouse_parse(), that caused
7361 single mouse events (press/release) to be ignored in favor of
7362 composed events (click). Improves on a fix from integrating gpm
7364 + add another call to check_pending, before scrolling, for
7365 line-breakout optimization
7366 + improve hashmap.c by
7367 1. fixed loop condition in grow_hunks()
7368 2. not marking lines with offset 0
7369 3. fixed condition of 'too far' criteria, thus one-line hunks are
7370 ignored and two lines interchanged won't pass.
7371 + rewrote/simplified _nc_scroll_optimize() by separating into two
7372 passes, forward/backward, looking for chunks moving only in the given
7374 + move logic that emits sgr0 when initializing the screen to
7375 _nc_screen_init(), now invoked from newterm.
7376 + move cursor-movement cleanup from endwin() into _nc_mvcur_wrap()
7377 function and screen cleanup (i.e., color) into _nc_screen_wrap()
7379 + add new functions _nc_screen_init(), _nc_screen_resume() and
7381 + rename _nc_mvcur_scrolln() to _nc_scrolln().
7382 + add a copy of acs_map[] to the SCREEN structure, where it can be
7383 stored/retrieved via set_term().
7384 + move variables _nc_idcok, _nc_idlok, _nc_windows into the SCREEN
7388 + implement experimental _nc_perform_scroll().
7389 + modify newterm (actually _nc_setupscreen()) to emit an sgr0 when
7390 initializing the screen, as does SVr4 (reported by Alexander V.
7392 + added test_progs rule to ncurses/Makefile.
7393 + modify test/configure.in to check if initscr is already in $LIBS
7394 before looking for (n)curses library.
7395 + correct version-number in configure script for OSF1 shared-library
7396 options (patch by Tim Mooney).
7397 + add -DNDEBUG to CPPFLAGS for --enable-assertions (as Juergen
7398 originally patched) since the c++ demo files do not necessarily
7399 include ncurses_cfg.h
7400 + supply default value for --enable-assertions option in configure
7401 script (reported by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf-fs.usc.edu>).
7402 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
7403 + correct/simplify logic of werase(), wclrtoeol() and wclrbot(). See
7405 + optimize waddch_literal() and waddch_nosync() by factoring out
7406 common subexpressions.
7407 + correct sense of NDEBUG ifdef for CHECK_POSITION macro.
7408 + corrections to render_char(), to make handling of colored blanks
7409 match SVr4 curses, as well as to correct a bug that xor'd space
7410 against the background character.
7411 + replaced hash function with a faster one (timed it)
7412 + rewrote the hashmap algorithm to be one-pass, this avoids multiple
7413 cost_effective() calls on the same lines.
7414 + modified cost_effective() so it is now slightly more precise.
7415 > patches for glibc integration (H.J.Lu):
7416 + add modules define_key, keyok, name_match, tries
7417 + add makefile rules for some of the unit tests in ncurses (mvcur,
7418 captoinfo, hardscroll, hashmap).
7419 + update Linux configure-script for wide-character definitions.
7422 + modify _tracebits() to show the character size (e.g., CS8).
7423 + modify tparm() to emit '\200' where the generated string would have a
7424 null (reported by From: Ian Dall <Ian.Dall@dsto.defence.gov.au> for
7425 terminal type ncr7900).
7426 + modify install process so that ldconfig is not invoked if the
7427 package is built with an install-prefix.
7428 + correct test program for chtype size (reported by Tim Mooney).
7429 + add configure option --disable-scroll-hints, using this to ifdef the
7430 logic that computes indices for _nc_scroll_optimize().
7431 + add module ncurses/softscroll.c, to perform single-stage computation
7432 of scroll indices used in _nc_scroll_optimize(). This is faster than
7433 the existing scrolling algorithm, but tends to make too-small hunks.
7434 + eliminate fixed buffer size in _nc_linedump().
7435 + minor fixes to lib_doupdate.c to add tradeoff between clr_eol (el)
7436 and clr_bol (el1), refine logic in ClrUpdate() and ClrBottom() (patch
7437 by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7438 + add test/testaddch.c, from a pending patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov.
7439 + correct processing of "configure --enable-assertions" option (patch
7440 by Juergen Pfeifer).
7443 + add '-s' (single-step) option too test/hashtest.c, correct an error
7444 in loop limit for '-f' (footer option), toggle scrollok() when
7445 writing footer to avoid wrap at lower-right corner.
7446 + correct behavior of clrtoeol() immediately after wrapping cursor,
7447 which was not clearing the line at the cursor position (reported by
7448 Liviu Daia <daia@stoilow.imar.ro>).
7449 + corrected mapping for ACS_LANTERN, which was 'I' rather than 'i'
7450 (reported by Klaus Weide <kweide@tezcat.com>).
7451 + many corrections to make progs/capconvert work, as well as make it
7452 reasonably portable and integrated with ncurses 4.1 (reported by Dave
7453 Furstenau <df@ravine.binary.net>).
7456 + add flag SP->_fifohold, corresponding logic to modify the behavior of
7457 the line breakout logic so that if the application does not read
7458 input, refreshes will not be stopped, but only slowed.
7459 + generate slk_attr_off(), slk_attr_on(), slk_attr_set(), vid_attr(),
7460 ifdef'd for wide-character support, since ncurses' WA_xxx attribute
7461 masks are identical with the A_xxx masks.
7462 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to generate ifdef'd functions to support optional
7463 configuration of wide-characters.
7464 + modify tset to behave more like SVr4's tset, which does not modify
7465 the settings of intr, quit or erase unless they are given as command
7466 options (reported by Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe@math.utah.edu>).
7467 + modify tset to look in /etc/ttys or /etc/ttytype if the configuration
7468 does not have getttynam().
7469 + extend baudrate table in tset.c to match baudrate() function.
7470 + add table entries for 230400 and 460800 bd to baudrate() function.
7471 + improve breakout logic by allowing it before the first line updated,
7472 which is what SVr4 curses does (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7473 + correct initialization of vcost in relative_move(), for cursor-down
7474 case (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7475 > nits gleaned from Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-3:
7476 + install symbolic link for intotocap.
7477 + reference libc directly when making shared libraries.
7478 + correct renaming of curs_scr_dmp.3x in man_db.renames.
7479 + guard tgetflag() and other termcap functions against null cur_term
7483 + corrected initial state of software echo (error in 970405, reported
7484 by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7485 + reviewed/added messages to configure script, so that all non-test
7486 options should be accompanied by a message.
7487 + add configure check for long filenames, using this to determine if
7488 it is safe to allow long aliases for terminal descriptions as does
7490 + add configure options for widec (wide character), hashmap (both
7492 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
7493 + hashmap.c - improved by heuristic, so that scroll test works much
7494 better when csr is not available.
7495 + hardscroll.c - patched so that it continues to scroll other chunks
7496 after failure to scroll one.
7497 + lib_doupdate.c - _nc_mvcur_scrolln extended to handle more cases; csr
7498 is avoided as it is relative costly. Fixed wrong coordinates in one
7499 case and wrong string in TRACE.
7500 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7501 + modify C++ binding to compile on AIX 4.x with the IBM C-SET++
7505 + remove alternate character set from kterm terminfo entry; it uses the
7506 shift-out control for a purpose incompatible with curses, i.e., font
7508 + disentangle 'xterm' terminfo entry from some derived entries that
7509 should be based on xterm-r6 instead.
7510 + add cbt to xterm-xf86-xv32 terminfo entry; I added the emulation for
7511 XFree86 3.1.2F, but overlooked its use in terminfo then - T.Dickey.
7512 + correct logic in lib_mvcur.c that uses back_tab.
7515 + correct change from 970628 to ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c so that
7516 contents of curscr are saved in newscr before clearing the screen.
7517 This is needed to make repainting work with the present logic of
7519 + use napms() rather than sleep() in tset.c to avoid interrupting I/O.
7522 + add limit checks to _nc_read_file_entry() to guard against overflow
7523 of buffer when reading incompatible terminfo format, e.g, from OSF/1.
7524 + correct some loop-variable errors in xmc support in lib_doupdate.c
7525 + modify ncurses 'b' test to add gaps, specified by user, to allow
7526 investigation of interaction with xmc (magic cookie) code.
7527 + correct typo in 970524 mods to xmas.c, had omitted empty parameter
7528 list from has_colors(), which gcc ignores, but SVr4 does not
7529 (reported by Larry Virden).
7530 + correct rmso capability in wy50-mc description.
7531 + add configure option "--enable-hard-tabs", renamed TABS_OK ifdef to
7533 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
7534 + Add bindings for keyok() and define_key() to the Ada95 packages.
7535 + Improve man pages menu_post.3x and menu_format.3x
7536 + Fix the HTML pages in the Ada95/html directory to reflect the above
7540 + modify change from 970101 to ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c so that
7541 pending changes to both curscr and newscr are flushed properly.
7542 This fixes a case where the first scrolling operation in nvi would
7543 cause the screen to be cleared unnecessarily and repainted before
7544 doing the indexing, i.e., by repeatedly pressing 'j' (reported by
7546 + correct error in trans_string() which added embedded newlines in a
7547 terminfo description to the stored strings.
7548 + remove spurious newlines from sgr in wyse50 (and several other)
7549 terminfo descriptions.
7550 + add configure option for experimental xmc (magic cookie) code,
7551 "--enable-xmc-glitch". When disabled (the default), attributes that
7552 would store a magic cookie are suppressed in vidputs(). The magic
7553 cookie code is far from workable at this stage; the configuration
7554 option is a stopgap.
7555 + move _nc_initscr() from lib_initscr.c to lib_newterm.c
7556 + correct path for invoking make_keys (a missing "./").
7559 + correct sign-extension problem with "infocmp -e", which corrupted
7560 acsc values computed for linux fallback data.
7561 + correct dependency on ncurses/names.c (a missing "./").
7562 + modify configure script to use '&&' even for cd'ing to existing
7563 directories to work around broken shell interpreters.
7564 + correct a loop-limit in _nc_hash_map() (patch by Alexander V.
7568 + restore logic in _nc_scroll_optimize() which marks as touched the
7569 lines in curscr that are shifted.
7570 + add new utility 'make_keys' to compute keys.tries as a table rather
7571 than a series of function calls.
7572 + correct include-dependency for tic.h used by name_match
7573 + removed buffer-allocation for name and description from m_item_new.c,
7574 since this might result in incompatibilities with SVr4. Also fixed
7575 the corresponding Ada95 binding module (patch by Juergen Pfeifer,
7576 report by Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@foxnet.net>)
7577 + removed the mechanism to timestamp the generated Ada95 sources. This
7578 resulted always in generating patches for the HTML doc, even when
7579 nothing really changed (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7580 + improve man page mitem_new.3x (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7583 + remove ech capability from rxvt description because it does not work.
7584 + add missing case logic for infocmp -I option (reported by Lorenzo M.
7585 Catucci <lorenzo@argon.roma2.infn.it>)
7586 + correct old bug in pnoutrefresh() unmasked by fix in 970531; this
7587 caused glitches in the ncurses 'p' test since the area outside the
7588 pad was not compared when setting up indices for _nc_scroll_optimize.
7589 + rewrote tracebits() to workaround misdefinition of TOSTOP on Ultrix
7590 4.4, as well as to eliminate fixed-size buffer (reported by Chris
7591 Tanner <tannerc@aecl.ca>)
7592 + correct prototype for termattrs() as per XPG4 version 2.
7593 + add placeholder prototypes for color_set(), erasewchar(),
7594 term_attrs(), wcolor_set() as per XPG4 version 2.
7595 + correct attribution for progs/progs.priv.h and lib_twait.c
7596 + improve line-breakout logic by checking based on changed lines rather
7597 than total lines (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7598 + correct loop limits for table-lookup of enumerated value in form
7599 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7600 + improve threshhold computation for determining when to call ClrToEOL
7601 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7604 + add configure option --disable-database to force the library to
7605 use only the fallback data.
7606 + add configure option --with-fallbacks, to specify list of fallback
7607 terminal descriptions.
7608 + add a symbolic link for ncurses.h during install; too many programs
7609 still assume there's an ncurses.h
7610 + add new terminfo.src entry for xterm-xf86-v33.
7611 + restore terminfo.src entry for emu to using setf/setb, since it is
7612 not, after all, generating ANSI sequences. Corrected missing comma
7613 that caused setf/setb entries to merge.
7614 + modify mousemask() to use keyok() to enable/disable KEY_MOUSE, so
7615 that applications can disable ncurses' mouse and supply their own
7617 + add extensions keyok() and define_key(). These are designed to allow
7618 the user's application better control over the use of function keys,
7619 e.g., disabling the ncurses KEY_MOUSE. (The define_key idea was from
7620 a mailing-list thread started by Kenneth Albanowski
7621 <kjahds@kjahds.com> Nov'1995).
7622 + restore original behavior in ncurses 'g' test, i.e., explicitly
7623 set the keypad mode rather than use the default, since it confuses
7625 + rewrote the newdemo banner so it's readable (reported by Hugh
7627 + tidy up exit from hashtest (reported by Hugh Daniel).
7628 + restore check for ^Q in ncurses 'g' test broken in 970510 (reported
7630 + correct tput program, checking return-value of setupterm (patch by
7632 + correct logic in pnoutrefresh() and pechochar() functions (reported
7633 by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf.usc.edu>). The computation
7634 of 'wide' date to eric's #283 (1.9.9), and the pechochar bug to the
7635 original implementation (1.9.6).
7636 + correct typo in vt102-w terminfo.src entry (patch by Robert Wuest
7637 <rwuest@sire.vt.com>)
7638 + move calls of _nc_background() out of various loops, as its return
7639 value will be the same for the whole window being operated on (patch
7641 + add macros getcur[xy] getbeg[xy] getpar[xy], which are defined in
7642 SVr4 headers (patch by J T Conklin <jtc@NetBSD.ORG>)
7643 + modify glibc addon-configure scripts (patch by H.J.Lu).
7644 + correct a bug in hashmap.c: the size used for clearing the hashmap
7645 table was incorrect, causing stack corruption for large values of
7646 LINES, e.g., >MAXLINES/2 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7647 + eric's terminfo 9.13.23 & 9.13.24 changes: replaced minitel-2 entry,
7648 added MGR, ansi-nt (note: the changes described for 9.13.24 have not
7650 > several changes by Juergen Pfeifer:
7651 + correct a missing error-return in form_driver.c when wrapping of a
7652 field is not possible.
7653 + correct logic in form_driver.c for configurations that do not have
7654 memccpy() (reported by Sidik Isani <isani@cfht.hawaii.edu>)
7655 + change several c++ binding functions to inline.
7656 + modify c++ menu binding to inherit from panels, for proper
7658 + correct freeing of menu items in c++ binding.
7659 + modify c++ binding to reflect removal of const from user data pointer
7660 in forms/menus libraries.
7663 + add description of xterm-16color.
7664 + modify name of shared-library on *BSD to end with $(REL_VERSION)
7665 rather than $(ABI_VERSION) to match actual convention on FreeBSD
7667 + add OpenBSD to shared-library case, same as NetBSD and FreeBSD
7668 (reported by Hugh Daniel <hugh@rat.toad.com>).
7669 + corrected include-dependency in menu/Makefile so that "make install"
7670 works properly w/o first doing "make".
7671 + add fallback definition for isascii, used in infocmp.
7672 + modify xmas to use color, and to exit right away when a key is
7674 + modify gdc so that the scrolled digits function as described (there
7675 was no time delay between the stages, and the digits overwrote the
7676 bounding box without tidying up).
7677 + modify lib_color.c to use setaf/setab only for the ANSI color codes
7678 0 through 7. Using 16 colors requires setf/setb.
7679 + modify ncurses 'c' test to work with 16 colors, as well as the normal
7681 + remove const qualifier from user data pointer in forms and menus
7682 libraries (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7683 + rewrote 'waddchnstr()' to avoid using the _nc_waddch_nosync()
7684 function, thereby not interpreting tabs, etc., as per spec (patch by
7685 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7688 + suppress check for pre-existing ncurses header if the --prefix
7689 option is specified.
7690 + add configure options "--with-system-type" and
7691 "--with-system-release" to assist in checking the generated
7693 + add configure option "--enable-rpath" to allow installers to specify
7694 that programs linked against shared libraries will have their library
7695 path embedded, allowing installs into nonstandard locations.
7696 + add flags to OSF1 shared-library options to specify version and
7697 symbol file (patch by Tim Mooney <mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu>)
7698 + add missing definition for ABI_VERSION to c++/Makefile.in (reported
7699 by Satoshi Adachi <adachi@wisdom.aa.ap.titech.ac.jp>).
7700 + modify link flags to accommodate HP-UX linker which embeds absolute
7701 pathnames in executables linked against shared libraries (reported by
7702 Jason Evans <jasone@mrc.uidaho.edu>, solved by Alan Shutko
7703 <ats@hubert.wustl.edu>).
7704 + drop unnecessary check for attribute-change in onscreen_mvcur() since
7705 mvcur() is the only caller within the library, and that check in turn
7706 is exercised only from lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V.
7708 + add 'blank' parameter to _nc_scroll_window() so _nc_mvcur_scrolln()
7709 can use the background of stdscr as a parameter to that function
7710 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7711 + moved _nc_mvcur_scrolln() from lib_mvcur.c to lib_doupdate.c, to use
7712 the latter's internal functions, as well as to eliminate unnecessary
7713 cursor save/restore operations (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7714 + omit parameter of ClrUpdate(), since it is called only for newscr,
7715 further optimized/reduced by using ClearScreen() and TransformLine()
7716 to get rid of duplicate code (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7717 + modify scrolling algorithm in _nc_scroll_optimize() to reject hunks
7718 that are smaller than the distance to be moved (patch by Alexander V.
7720 + correct a place where the panel library was not ifdef'd in ncurses.c
7722 + documentation fixes (Juergen Pfeifer)
7724 970515 4.1 release for upload to prep.ai.mit.edu
7725 + re-tag changes since 970505 as 4.1 release.
7728 + modify ncurses 'g' test to allow mouse input
7729 + modify default xterm description to include mouse.
7730 + modify configure script to add -Wwrite-strings if gcc warnings are
7731 enabled while configuring --enable-const (and fixed related
7733 + add toggle, status display for keypad mode to ncurses 'g' test to
7734 verify that keypad and scrollok are not inherited from parent window
7735 during a call to newwin.
7736 + correction to MKexpanded.sh to make it work when configure --srcdir
7737 is used (reported by H.J.Lu).
7738 + revise test for bool-type, ensuring that it checks if builtin.h is
7739 available before including it, adding test for sizeof(bool) equal
7740 to sizeof(short), and warning user if the size cannot be determined
7741 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7742 + add files to support configuration of ncurses as an add-on library
7743 for GNU libc (patch by H.J.Lu <hjl@lucon.org>)
7746 + correct buffer overrun in lib_traceatr.c
7747 + modify change to lib_vidattr.c to avoid redundant orig_pair.
7748 + turn on 'echo()' in hanoi.c, since it is initially off.
7749 + rename local 'errno' variable in etip.h to avoid conflict with global
7751 + modify configure script to cache LD, AR, AR_OPTS (patch by H.J.Lu
7754 970505 4.1 pre-release
7755 + regenerate the misc directory html dumps without the link list, which
7757 + correct dependency in form directory makefile which caused
7758 unnecessary recompiles.
7759 + correct substitution for ABI_VERSION in test-makefile
7760 + modify install rules for shared-library targets to remove the target
7761 before installing, since some install programs do not properly handle
7762 overwrite of symbolic links.
7763 + change order of top-level targets so that 'include' immediate
7764 precedes the 'ncurses' directory, reducing the time between new
7765 headers and new libraries (requested by Larry Virden).
7766 + modify lib_vidattr.c so that colors are turned off only before
7767 modifying other attributes, turned on after others. This makes the
7768 hanoi.c program display correctly on FreeBSD console.
7769 + modify debug code in panel library to print user-data addresses
7770 rather than the strings which they (may) point to.
7771 + add check to ensure that C++ binding and demo are not built with g++
7772 versions below 2.7, since the binding uses templates.
7773 + modify c++ binding and demo to build and run with SGI's c++ compiler.
7774 (It also compiles with the Sun SparcWorks compiler, but the demo does
7775 not link, due to a vtbl problem).
7776 + corrections to demo.cc, to fix out-of-scope variables (Juergen
7780 + correct memory leak in _nc_trace_buf().
7781 + add configure test for regexpr.h, for Unixware 1.x.
7782 + correct missing "./" prefixing names of generated files in ncurses
7784 + use single-quotes in configure scripts assignments for MK_SHARED_LIB
7785 to workaround shell bug on FreeBSD 2.1.5
7786 + remove tabs from intermediate #define's for GCC_PRINTF, GCC_SCANF
7787 that caused incorrect result in ncurses_cfg.h
7788 + correct initialization in lib_trace.c, which omitted version info.
7789 + remove ech, el1 attributes from cons25w description; they appear to
7790 malfunction in FreeBSD 2.1.5
7791 + correct color attributes in terminfo.src and lib_color.c to match
7792 SVr4 behavior by interchanging codes 1,4, 3,6 in the setf/setb
7794 + use curs_set() rather than checks via tigetstr() for test programs
7795 that hide the cursor: firework, rain, worm.
7796 + ensure that if the terminal lacks change_scroll_region, parm_index
7797 and parm_rindex are used only to scroll the whole screen (patch by
7799 + correct curs_set() logic, which did not return ERR if the requested
7800 attributes did not exist, nor did it assume an unknown initial state
7801 for the cursor (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7802 + combine IDcTransformLine and NoIDcTransformLine to new TransformLine
7803 function in lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7804 + correct hashmap.c, which did not update index information (patch by
7805 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
7806 + fixes for C++ binding and demo (see c++/NEWS) (Juergen Pfeifer).
7807 + correct index in lib_instr.c (Juergen Pfeifer).
7808 + correct typo in 970426 patch from Tom's cleanup of lib_overlay.c
7809 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7812 + corrected cost computation in PutRange(), which was using
7813 milliseconds compared to characters by adding two new members to the
7814 SCREEN struct, _hpa_ch_cost and _cup_ch_cost.
7815 + drop ncurses/lib_unctrl.c, add ncurses/MKunctrl.awk to generate a
7816 const array of strings (suggested by Alexander V. Lukyanov). The
7817 original suggestion in 970118 used a perl script.
7818 + rewrote ncurses 'b' test to better exercise magic-cookie (xmc), as
7819 well as noting the attributes that are not supported by a terminal.
7820 + trace the computation of cost values in lib_mvcur.c
7821 + modify _nc_visbuf() to use octal rather than hex, corrected sign
7822 extension bug in that function that caused buffer overflow.
7823 + modify trace in lib_acs.c to use _nc_visbuf().
7824 + suppress trace within _traceattr2().
7825 + correct logic of _tracechtype2(), which did not account for repeats
7826 or redefinition within an acsc string.
7827 + modify debug-library version baudrate() to use environment variable
7828 $BAUDRATE to override speed computation. This is needed for
7830 + correct problems shown by "weblint -pedantic".
7831 + update mailing-list information (now ncurses@bsdi.com).
7834 + Improve form_field_validation.3x manpage to better describe the
7835 precision parameter for TYPE_NUMERIC and TYPE_INTEGER. Provide more
7836 precise information how the range checking can be avoided. (patch by
7837 Juergen Pfeifer, reported by Bryan Henderson)
7838 + change type of min/max value of form types TYPE_INTEGER to long to
7839 match SVr4 documentation.
7840 + set the form window to stdscr in set_form_win() so that form_win()
7841 won't return null (patch by Juergen Pfeifer, reported by Bryan
7842 Henderson <bryanh@giraffe.netgate.net>).
7845 + corrected ifdef'ing of inline (cf: 970321) for TRACE vs C++.
7846 + corrected toggle_attr_off() macro (patch by Andries Brouwer).
7847 + modify treatment of empty token in $MANPATH to /usr/man (reported by
7848 <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>)
7849 + modify traces that record functions-called so that chtype and attr_t
7850 values are expressed symbolically, to simplify reuse of generated
7851 test-scripts on SVr4 regression testing.
7852 + add new trace functions _traceattr2() and _tracechtype2()
7855 + add configure option --enable-const, to support the use of 'const'
7856 where XSI should have, but did not, specify. This defines
7857 NCURSES_CONST, which is an empty token otherwise, for strict
7859 + make processing of configure options more verbose by echoing the
7860 --enable/--with values.
7861 + add configure option --enable-big-core
7862 + set initial state of software echo off as per XSI.
7863 + check for C++ builtin.h header
7864 + correct computation of absolute-path for $INSTALL that dropped "-c"
7865 parameter from the expression.
7866 + rename config.h to ncurses_cfg.h to avoid naming-conflict when
7867 ncurses is integrated into larger systems (adapted from diffs by
7869 + correct inequality in lib_doupdate.c that caused a single-char to not
7870 be updated when the char on the right-margin was not blank, idcok()
7871 was true (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov (in 970124), reported
7872 by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf-fs.usc.edu> in 970329).
7873 + modify 'clean' rule in include/Makefile so that files created by
7874 configure script are removed in 'distclean' rule instead.
7877 + correct array limit in tparam_internal(), add case to interpret "%x"
7878 (patch by Andreas Schwab)
7879 + rewrote number-parsing in ncurses.c 'd' test; it did not reset the
7880 value properly when non-numeric characters were given (reported by
7881 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>)
7884 + move definition of __INTERNAL_CAPS_VISIBLE before include for
7885 progs.priv.h (patch by David MacKenzie).
7886 + add configuration summary, reordered check for default include
7887 directory to better accommodate a case where installer is configuring
7888 a second copy of ncurses (reported by Klaus Weide
7889 <kweide@tezcat.com>)
7890 + moved the #define for 'inline' as an empty token from the
7891 $(CFLAGS_DEBUG) symbol into config.h, to avoid redefinition warning
7892 (reported by Ward Horner).
7893 + modify test for bool builtin type to use 'unsigned' rather than
7894 'unknown' when cross-compiling (reported by Ward Horner).
7897 + add header dependencies so that "make install.libs" will succeed
7898 even if "make all" is not done first.
7899 + moved some macros from lib_doupdate.c to curses.priv.h to use in
7900 expanded functions with ATAC.
7901 + correct implementation of lib_instr.c; both XSI and SVr4 agree that
7902 the winnstr functions can return more characters than will fit on one
7906 + modify script that generates lib_gen.c to support traces of called &
7908 + add new configure option "--disable-macros", for testing calls within
7910 + corrected logic that screens level-checking of called/return traces.
7913 + use new configure macro NC_SUBST to replace AC_PATH_PROG, better
7914 addressing request by Ward Horner.
7915 + check for cross-compiling before trying to invoke the autoconf
7916 AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED macro (reported by Ward Horner)
7917 + correct/simplify loop in _nc_visbuf(), 970201 changes omitted
7918 a pointer-increment.
7919 + eliminate obsolete symbol SHARED_ABI from dist.mk (noted by
7923 + add configure option --enable-expanded, together with code that
7924 implements an expanded form of certain complex macros, for testing
7926 + disable CHECK_POSITION unless --with-assertions is configured
7927 (Alexander V Lukyanov pointed out that this is redundant).
7928 + use keyname() to show traced chtype values where applicable rather
7929 than _tracechar(), which truncates the value to 8-bits.
7930 + minor fixes to TRACE_ICALLS, added T_CREATE, TRACE_CCALLS macros.
7931 + modify makefiles in progs and test directories to avoid using C
7932 preprocessor options on link commands (reported by Ward Horner)
7933 + correct ifdef/include-order for nc_alloc.h vs lib_freeall.c (reported
7935 + modify ifdef's to use configure-defined symbols consistently
7936 (reported by Ward Horner)
7937 + add/use new makefile symbols AR, AR_OPTS and LD to assist in non-UNIX
7938 ports (reported by Ward Horner <whorner@tsi-telsys.com>)
7939 + rename struct try to struct tries, to avoid name conflict with C++
7940 (reported by Gary Johnson).
7941 + modify worm.c to hide cursor while running.
7942 + add -Wcast-qual to gcc warnings, fix accordingly.
7943 + use PutChar rather than PutAttrChar in ClrToEOL to properly handle
7944 wrapping (Alexander V Lukyanov).
7945 + correct spurious echoing of input in hanoi.c from eric's #291 & #292
7946 patches (reported by Vernon C. Hoxie <vern@zebra.alphacdc.com>).
7947 + extend IRIX configuration to IRIX64
7948 + supply missing install.libs rule needed after restructuring
7952 + modify "make mostlyclean" to leave automatically-generated source
7953 in the ncurses directory, for use in cross-compiles.
7954 + autogenerated object-dependencies for test directory
7955 + add configure option --with-rcs-ids
7956 + modify configuration scripts to generate major/minor/patch versions
7957 (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
7958 + supply missing va_end's in lib_scanw.c
7959 + use stream I/O for trace-output, to eliminate fixed-size buffer
7960 + add TRACE_ICALLS definition/support to lib_trace.c
7961 + modify Ada95 binding to work with GNAT 3.09 (Juergen Pfeifer).
7964 + add/modify traces for called/return values to simplify extraction
7966 + changed _nc_visbuf to quote its result, and to dynamically allocate
7967 the returned buffer.
7968 + invoke ldconfig after installing shared library
7969 + modify install so that overwrite applies to shared library -lcurses
7970 in preference to static library (reported by Zeyd M Ben-Halim 960928).
7971 + correct missing ';' in 961221 mod to overwrite optional use of $(LN_S)
7973 + fixes to allow "make install" to work without first doing a "make
7974 all" (suggested by Larry Virden).
7977 + correct order of #ifdef for TABS_OK.
7978 + instrumented toe.c to test memory-leaks.
7979 + correct memory-deallocation in toe.c (patch by Jesse Thilo).
7980 + include <sys/types.h> in configuration test for regex.h (patch by
7982 + make infocmp recognize -I option, for SVr4 compatibility (reported by
7983 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>)
7986 + add extension 'use_default_colors()', modified test applications that
7987 use default background (firework, gdc, hanoi, knight, worm) to
7989 + correct some limit checks in lib_doupdate.c exposed while running
7991 + use typeCalloc macro for readability.
7992 + add/use definition for CONST to accommodate testing with Solaris
7993 (SVr4) curses, which doesn't use 'const' in its prototypes.
7994 + modify ifdef's in test/hashtest.c and test/view.c to compile with
7996 + modify _tracedump() to pad pad colors & attrs lines to match change
7997 in 970101 showing first/last changes.
7998 + corrected location of terminating null on dynamically allocated forms
7999 fields (patch by Per Foreby).
8002 + added headers to make view.c compile on SCO with the resizeterm()
8003 code (i.e., struct winsize) - though this compiles, I don't have a
8004 suitable test configuration since SIGWINCH doesn't pass my network to
8005 that machine - T.Dickey.
8006 + update test/configure.in to supply some default substitutions.
8007 + modify configure script to add -lncurses after -lgpm to fix problem
8008 linking against static libraries.
8009 + add a missing noraw() to test/ncurses.c (places noted by Jeremy
8011 + add a missing wclear() to test/testcurs.c (patch by Jeremy Buhler
8012 <jbuhler@cs.washington.edu>)
8013 + modify headers to accommodate compilers that don't allow duplicate
8014 "#define" lines for NCURSES_VERSION (reported by Larry W. Virden
8016 + fix formatting glitch in curs_getch.3x (patch by Jesse Thilo).
8017 + modify lib_doupdate to make el, el1 and ed optimization use the
8018 can_clear_with macro, and change EmitRange to allow leaving cursor at
8019 the middle of interval, rather than always at the end (patch by
8020 Alexander V Lukyanov). This was originally 960929, resync 970106.
8023 + workaround defect in autoconf 2.12 (which terminates configuration
8024 if no C++ compiler is found) by adding an option --without-cxx.
8025 + modify several man-pages to use tbl, where .nf/.fi was used (reported
8027 + correct font-codes in some man-pages (patch by Jesse Thilo
8028 <Jesse.Thilo@pobox.com>)
8029 + use configure script's knowledge of existence of g++ library for the
8030 c++ Makefile (reported by Paul Jackson).
8031 + correct misleading description of --datadir configuration option
8032 (reported by Paul Jackson <pj@sam.engr.sgi.com>)
8035 + several corrections to _nc_mvcur_scrolln(), prompted by a bug report
8037 > the logic for non_dest_scroll_region was interchanged between the
8038 forward & reverse scrolling cases.
8039 > multiple returns from the function allowed certain conditions to do
8040 part of an operation before discovering that it couldn't be
8041 completed, returning an error without restoring the cursor.
8042 > some returns were ERR, where the function had completed the
8043 operation, because the insert/delete line logic was improperly
8044 tested (this was probably the case Peter saw).
8045 > contrary to comments, some scrolling cases were tested after the
8046 insert/delete line method.
8047 + modify _tracedump() to show first/last changes.
8048 + modify param of ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c to 'newscr', fixes
8049 refresh problem (reported by Peter Wemm) that caused nvi to not show
8050 result of ":r !ls" until a ^L was typed.
8052 961229 (internal alpha)
8053 + correct some of the writable-strings warnings (reported by Gary
8054 Johnson <gjohnson@season.com>). Note that most of the remaining ones
8055 are part of the XSI specification, and can't be "fixed".
8056 + improve include-dependencies in form, menu, panel directories.
8057 + correct logic of delay_output(), which would return early if
8058 there is data on stdin.
8059 + modify interface & logic of _nc_timed_wait() to support 2 file
8060 descriptors, needed for GPM.
8061 + integrate patch by Andrew Kuchling <amk@magnet.com> for GPM (mouse)
8062 support, correcting logic in wgetch() and _nc_mouse_parse() which
8063 prevented patch from working properly -TD
8064 + improve performance of panel algorithm (Juergen Pfeifer 961203).
8065 + strip RCS id's from generated .html files in Ada95 subtree.
8066 + resync with generated .html files (Juergen Pfeifer 961223).
8067 + terminfo.src 10.1.0 (ESR).
8070 + release as 4.0 to accommodate Linux ld.so.1.8.5
8071 + correct syntax/spelling, regenerated .doc files from .html using
8073 + refined forms/menus makefiles (Juergen Pfeifer 961223).
8076 + remove logic in read_entry.c that attempts to refine errno by using
8077 'access()' for the directory (from patch by Florian La Roche).
8078 + correct configure test/substitution that inhibits generating
8079 include-path to /usr/include if gcc is used (reported by Florian La
8081 + modify setupterm() to allocate new TERMINAL for each call, just as
8082 solaris' curses does (Alexander V Lukyanov 960829).
8083 + corrected memory leaks in read_entry.c
8084 + add configure options --with-dbmalloc, --with-dmalloc, and
8085 --disable-leaks, tested by instrumenting infocmp, ncurses programs.
8086 + move #include's for stdlib.h and string.h to *.priv.h to accommodate
8088 + modify use of $(LN_S) to follow recommendation in autoconf 2.12,
8089 i.e., set current directory before linking.
8090 + split-out panel.priv.h, improve dependencies for forms, menus
8091 (Juergen Pfeifer 961204).
8092 + modify _nc_freewin() to reset globals curscr/newscr/stdscr when
8093 freeing the corresponding WINDOW (found using Purify).
8094 + modify delwin() to return ERR if the window to be deleted has
8095 subwindows, needed as a side-effect of resizeterm() (found using
8096 Purify). Tested and found that SVr4 curses behaves this way.
8097 + implement logic for _nc_freeall(), bringing stub up to date.
8100 + modify wbkgd() so that it doesn't set nulls in the rendered text,
8101 even if its argument doesn't specify a character (fixes test case by
8102 Juergen Pfeifer for bug-report).
8103 + set window-attributes in wbkgd(), to simplify comparison against
8104 Solaris curses, which does this.
8107 + replace most constants in ncurses 'o' test by expressions, making it
8108 work with wider range of screen sizes.
8109 + add options to ncurses.c to specify 'e' test softkey format, and the
8110 number of header/footer lines to rip-off.
8111 + add ^R (repaint after resize), ^L (refresh) commands to ncurses 'p'
8113 + add shell-out (!) command to ncurses 'p' test to allow test of
8114 resize between endwin/refresh.
8115 + correct line-wrap case in mvcur() by emitting carriage return,
8116 overlooked in 960928, but needed due to SVr4 compatibility changes to
8117 terminal modes in 960907.
8118 + correct logic in wresize that causes new lines to be allocated,
8119 broken for the special case of increasing rows only in 960907's fix
8121 + modify configure script to generate $(LDFLAGS) with -L and -l options
8122 in preference to explicit library filenames. (NOTE: this may
8123 require further amending, since I vaguely recall a dynamic loader
8124 that did not work properly without the full names, but it should be
8125 handled as an exception to the rule, since some linkers do bulk
8126 inclusion of libraries when given the full name - T.Dickey).
8127 + modify configure script to allow user-supplied $CFLAGS to set the
8128 debug-option in all libraries (requested by lots of people) -TD
8129 + use return consistently from main(), rather than exit (reported by
8131 + add --enable-getcap-cache option to configure, normally disabled
8132 (requested by Florian La Roche).
8133 + make configure test for gettimeofday() and possibly -lbsd more
8134 efficient (requested by Florian La Roche <florian@knorke.saar.de>)
8135 + minor adjustments to Ada95 binding (patches by Juergen Pfeifer)
8136 + correct attributes after emitting orig_pair in lib_vidattr.c (patch
8137 by Alexander V Lukyanov).
8140 + corrected README wrt Ada95 (Juergen Pfeifer)
8143 + integrate resizeterm() into doupdate(), so that if screen size
8144 changes between endwin/refresh, ncurses will resize windows to fit
8145 (this needs additional testing with pads and softkeys).
8146 + add, for memory-leak testing, _nc_freeall() entrypoint to free all
8147 data used in ncurses library.
8148 + initialize _nc_idcok, _nc_idlok statically to resolve discrepancy
8149 between initscr() and newwin() initialization (reported by
8150 Alexander V Lukyanov).
8151 + test built VERSION=4.0, SHARED_ABI=4 with Linux ld.so.1.8.5
8152 (set beta versions to those values -- NOTE that subsequent pre-4.0
8153 beta may not be interchangeable).
8154 + modify configure script to work with autoconf 2.12
8156 961130 1.9.9g release
8157 + add copyright notices to configuration scripts (written by Thomas
8161 > patch, mostly for panel (Juergen Pfeifer):
8162 + cosmetic improvement for a few routines in the ncurses core library
8163 to avoid warning messages.
8164 + the panel overlap detection was broken
8165 + the panel_window() function was not fool-proof.
8167 + Cosmetic changes (also to avoid warning messages when compiling with
8171 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
8172 + eliminates warning messages for the compile of libform.
8173 + inserts Per Foreby's new field type TYPE_IPV4 into libform.
8174 + Updates man page and the Ada95 binding to reflect this.
8175 + Improves inlining in libmenu and libform.
8178 + improve the use of the "const" qualifier in the
8179 panel library (Juergen Pfeifer)
8180 + change set_panel_userptr() and panel_userptr() to use void*
8185 + package with 961119 version of Ada95 binding (fixes for gnat-3.07).
8187 + correct initialization of the stdscr pseudo panel in panel library
8189 + use MODULE_ID (rcs keywords) in forms and menus libraries (Juergen
8192 + typo in curs_termcap man page (reported by Hendrik Reichel
8193 <106065.2344@compuserve.com>)
8194 + change default xterm entry to xterm-r6.
8195 + add entry for color_xterm
8198 + lint found several functions that had only #define implementations
8199 (e.g., attr_off), modified curses.h.in to generate them as per XSI
8200 Curses requirement that every macro be available as a function.
8201 + add check in infocmp.c to guard against string compare of
8202 CANCELLED_STRING values.
8203 + modify firework.c, rain.c to hide cursor while running.
8204 + correct missing va_end in lib_tparm.c
8205 + modify hanoi.c to work on non-color terminals, and to use timing
8206 delays when in autoplay mode.
8207 + correct 'echochar()' to refresh immediately (reported by Adrian
8208 Garside <94ajg2@eng.cam.ac.uk>)
8210 + reorganize terminfo.src entries for xterm.
8213 + corrected error in line-breakout logic (lib_doupdate.c)
8214 + modified newdemo to use wgetch(win) rather than getch() to eliminate
8215 a spurious clear-screen.
8216 + corrected ifdef's for 'poll()' configuration.
8217 + added modules to ncurses, form, menu for Ada95 binding (Juergen
8219 + modify set_field_buffer() to allow assignment of string longer than
8220 the initial buffer length, and to return the complete string rather
8221 than only the initial size (Juergen Pfeifer and Per Foreby
8225 + configure for 'poll()' in preference to 'select()', since older
8226 systems are more likely to have a broken 'select()'.
8227 + modified render_char() to avoid OR'ing colors.
8228 + minor fixes to testcurs.c, newdemo.c test programs: ifdef'd out the
8229 resize test, use wbkgd and corrected box() parameters.
8230 + make flushinp() test work in ncurses.c by using napms() instead of
8232 + undo ESR's changes to xterm-x11r6 (it no longer matched the X11R6.1
8233 distribution, as stated)
8234 + terminfo 9.13.18 resync (ESR)
8235 + check for getenv("HOME") returning null (ESR).
8236 + change buffer used to decode xterm-mouse commands to unsigned to
8237 handle displays wider than 128 chars (Juergen Pfeifer).
8238 + correct typo curs_outopts.3x (Juergen Pfeifer).
8239 + correct limit-checking in wenclose() (Juergen Pfeifer).
8240 + correction to Peter Wemm's newwin change (Thomas Fehr
8242 + corrections to logic that combines colors and attributes; they must
8243 not be OR'd (Juergen Pfeifer, extending from report/patch by Rick
8247 + reset flags in 'getwin()' that might cause refresh to attempt to
8248 manipulate the non-existent parent of a window that is read from a
8249 file (lib_screen.c).
8250 + restructure _nc_timed_wait() to log more information, and to try to
8251 recover from badly-behaved 'select()' calls (still testing this).
8252 + move define for GOOD_SELECT into configure script.
8253 + corrected extra '\' character inserted before ',' in comp_scan.c
8254 + corrected expansion of %-format characters in dump_entry.c; some were
8255 rendered as octal constants.
8256 + modify dump_entry.c to make terminfo output more readable and like
8257 SVr4, by using "\s" for spaces (leading/trailing only), "\," for
8258 comma, "\^" and "\:" as well.
8259 + corrected some memory leaks in ncurses.c, and a minor logic error
8260 in the top-level command-parser.
8261 + correction for label format 4 (PC style with info line), a
8262 slk_clear(), slk_restore() sequence didn't redraw the info line
8264 + modified the slk window (if simulated) to inherit the background and
8265 default character attributes from stdscr (Juergen Pfeifer).
8266 + corrected limit-check in set_top_row (Juergen Pfeifer).
8269 + correct loop-limit in wnoutrefresh(), bug exposed during pipe-testing
8270 had '.lastchar' entry one beyond '._maxx'.
8271 + modify ncurses test-program to work with data piped to it.
8272 + corrected pathname computation in run_tic.sh, removing extra "../"
8273 (reported by Tim Mooney).
8274 + modified configure script to use previous install's location for
8276 + added NetBSD and FreeBSD to platforms that use --prefix=/usr as
8280 + revised xterm terminfo descriptions to reflect the several versions
8282 + corrected a pointer reference in dump_entry.c that didn't test if
8286 + correct _nc_mvcur_scrolln for terminals w/o scrolling region.
8287 + add -x option to hashtest to control whether it allows writes to the
8289 + ifdef'd (NCURSES_TEST) the logic for _nc_optimize_enable to make it
8290 simpler to construct tests (for double-check of _nc_hash_map tests).
8291 + correct ifdef's for c++ in curses.h
8292 + change default xterm type to xterm-x11r6.
8293 + correct quoting in configure that made man-pages installed with
8294 $datadir instead of actual terminfo path.
8295 + correct whitespace in include/Caps, which caused kf11, clr_eol and
8296 clr_end to be omitted from terminfo.5
8297 + fix memory leaks in delscreen() (adapted from Alexander V Lukyanov).
8298 + improve appearance of marker in multi-selection menu (Juergen
8300 + fix behavior for forms with all fields inactive (Juergen Pfeifer)
8301 + document 'field_index()' (Juergen Pfeifer)
8303 + add some more XENIX keycap translations to include/Caps.
8304 + modify newwin to set initial state of each line to 'touched'
8305 (from patch by Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.dialix.com>)
8306 + in SET_TTY, replace TCSANOW with TCSADRAIN (Alexander V Lukyanov).
8309 + ifdef'd out _nc_hash_map (still slower)
8310 + add graphic characters to vt52 description.
8311 + use PutAttrChar in ClrToEOL to ensure proper background, position.
8312 + simplify/correct logic in 'mvcur()' that does wrapping; it was
8313 updating the position w/o actually moving the cursor, which broke
8315 + ensure that 'doupdate()' sets the .oldindex values back to a sane
8316 state; this was causing a spurious refresh in ncurses 'r'.
8317 + add logic to configure (from vile) to guard against builders who
8318 don't remove config.cache & config.status when doing new builds -TD
8319 + corrected logic for 'repeat_char' in EmitRange (cf: eric #317), which
8320 did not follow the 2-parameter scheme specified in XSI.
8321 + corrected logic of wrefresh, wnoutrefresh broken in #319, making
8322 clearok work properly (report by Michael Elkins).
8323 + corrected problem with endwin introduced by #314 (removing the
8324 scrolling-region reset) that broke ncurses.c tests.
8325 + corrected order of args in AC_CHECK_LIB (from report by Ami Fischman
8326 <fischman@math.ucla.edu>).
8327 + corrected formatting of terminfo.5 tables (Juergen Ehling)
8330 + emit a carriage-return in 'endwin()' to workaround a kernel bug in
8331 BSDI. (requested by Mike Karels <karels@redrock.bsdi.com>)
8332 + reverse the default o configure --enable-termcap (consensus).
8334 + modified logic for clearok and related functions (from report by
8335 Michael Elkins) - untested
8337 + correction to #317.
8339 + re-add _nc_hash_map
8340 + modify EmitRange to maintain position as per original design.
8341 + add hashtest.c, program to time the hashmap optimization.
8343 + add logic to deal with magic-cookie (how was this tested?)
8345 + add ncurses.c driver for magic-cookie, some fixes to ncurses.c
8347 + merged Alexander V Lukyanov's patch to use ech and rep - untested
8349 + modified handling of interrupted system calls - untested
8350 (lib_getch.c, lib_twait.c).
8351 + new function _nc_mvcur_resume()
8352 + fix return value for 'overlay()', 'overwrite()'
8355 + implement subwindow-logic in wresize, minor fixes to ncurses 'g'
8357 + corrected bracketing of fallback.c (reported/suggested fix by Juergen
8358 Ehling <eh@eclipse.aball.de>).
8359 + update xterm-color to reflect XFree86 3.1.3G release.
8360 + correct broken dtterm description from #314 patch (e.g., spurious
8361 newline. The 'pairs' change might work, but no one's tested it
8363 + clarify the documentation for the builtin form fieldtypes (Juergen
8366 + reset scroll region on startup rather than at wrapup time
8367 (enhancement suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
8368 + make storage of palette tables and their size counts per-screen for
8369 multi-terminal applications (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
8370 + Improved error reporting for infotocap translation errors.
8371 + Update terminfo.src to 9.13.14.
8374 + rewrote wgetstr to make it erase control chars and also fix bogus use
8375 of _nc_outstr which caused the display to not wrap properly (display
8376 problem reported by John M. Flinchbaugh <glynis@netrax.net>)
8377 + modify ncurses 'f' test to accommodate terminal responses to C1 codes
8378 (and split up this screen to accommodate non-ANSI terminals).
8379 + test enter_insert_mode and exit_insert_mode in has_ic().
8380 + removed bogus logic in mvcur that assumes nl/nonl set output modes
8381 (XSI says they are input modes; SVr4 implements this).
8382 + added macros SET_TTY, GET_TTY to term.h
8383 + correct getstr() logic that altered terminal modes w/o restoring.
8384 + disable ICRNL, etc., during initialization to match SVr4, removing
8385 the corresponding logic from raw, cbreak, etc.
8386 + disable ONLCR during initialization, to match SVr4 (this is needed
8387 for cursor optimization when the cursor-down is a newline).
8388 + replaced ESR's imitation of wresize with my original (his didn't
8392 + memory leaks (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
8393 + modified pnoutrefresh() to be more tolerant of too-large screen
8394 size (reported by Michael Elkins).
8395 + correct handling of terminfo files with no strings (Philippe De
8397 + correct "tic -s" to take into account -I, -C options.
8398 + modify ncurses 'f' test to not print codes 80 through 9F, since they
8399 are considered control codes by ANSI terminals.
8402 + correct speed variable-type in 'tgetent()' (reported by Peter Wemm)
8403 + make "--enable-getcap" configuration-option work (reported by
8404 Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.DIALix.COM>)
8407 + correct err in 960817 that changed return-value of tigetflag()
8408 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
8409 + modify infocmp to use library default search-path for terminfo
8410 directory (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
8413 + corrected an err in mvcur that broke resizing-behavior.
8414 + correct fall-thru behavior of _nc_read_entry(), which was not finding
8415 descriptions that existed in directories past the first one searched
8416 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov)
8417 + corrected typo in dtterm description.
8419 + add dtterm description
8420 + clarify ncurses 'i' test (drop vscanf subtest)
8423 + correct nl()/nonl() to work as per SVr4 & XSI.
8424 + minor fixes to ncurses.c (use 'noraw()', mvscanw return-code)
8425 + refine configure-test for -g option (Tim Mooney).
8426 + correct interaction between O_BLANK and NEW_LINE request in form
8427 library (Juergen Pfeifer)
8430 + revised fix to tparm; previous fix reversed parameter order.
8432 correct terminfo.src corrupted by #310
8434 + fix idlok() and idcok() and the default of the idlok switch.
8437 + corrected tparm to handle capability strings without explicit pop
8438 (reported by William P Setzer)
8439 + add fallback def for GCC_NORETURN, GCC_UNUSED for termcap users
8440 (reported by Tim Mooney).
8442 + documentation and prototyping errors for has_color, immedok and idcok
8443 (reported by William P Setzer <wsetzer@pams.ncsu.edu>)
8444 + updated qnx terminfo entry (by Michael Hunter)
8447 + eliminate quoted includes in ncurses subdirectory, ensure config.h
8449 + newterm initializes terminal settings the same as initscr (reported
8453 + call cbreak() in initscr(), as per XSI & SVr4.
8454 + turn off hardware echo in initscr() as per XSI & SVr4
8456 + terminfo changes (9.3.10), from BRL
8457 + add more checks to terminfo parser.
8458 + add more symbols to infocmp.
8461 + save previous-attribute in lib_vidattr.c if SP is null (reported by
8462 Juergen Fluk <louis@dachau.marco.de>)
8463 + corrected calls on _nc_render so that background character is set
8465 + corrected wbkgdset macro (XSI allows background character to be
8466 null), and tests that use it.
8467 + more corrections to terminfo (xterm & rxvt)
8468 + undid change to mcprint prototype (cannot use size_t in curses.h
8469 because not all systems declare it in the headers that we can safely
8471 + move the ifdefs for errno into curses.priv.h
8473 + terminfo changes (9.3.8)
8474 + modified logic of error-reporting in terminfo parser
8477 + always check for <sys/bsdtypes.h> since ISC needs it to declare
8478 fd_set (Juergen Pfeifer)
8479 + install shared-libraries on NetBSD/FreeBSD with ABI-version (reported
8480 by Juergen Pfeifer, Mike Long)
8481 + add LOCAL_LDFLAGS2 symbol (Juergen Pfeifer)
8482 + corrected prototype for delay_output() -- bump ABI to 3.2
8483 + terminfo patches #306/307 (ESR).
8484 + moved logic that filters out rmul and rmso from setupterm to newterm
8485 where it is less likely to interfere with termcap applications.
8488 + rollback ESR's #305 change to terminfo.src (it breaks existing
8489 applications, e.g., 'less 290').
8490 + correct path of edit_man.sh, and fix typo that made all man-pages
8492 + restore man/menu_requestname.3x omitted in Zeyd's resync (oops).
8493 + auto-configure the GCC_PRINTFLIKE/GCC_SCANFLIKE macros (reported by
8494 Philippe De Muyter).
8497 + make lib_vidattr.c more readable using macros.
8498 + filter out rmul, rmso that conflict with sgr0 when reading terminal
8500 + added sanity-checking of various paired string attributes (ESR).
8501 + work around autoconf bug, force $INSTALL to absolute path
8503 + modify man-page install for BSDI to install preformatted .0 files
8504 (reported by David MacKenzie).
8505 + add/use gcc __attribute__ for printf and scanf in curses.h
8506 + added SGR attributes test-case to ncurses
8507 + revised ncurses 't' logic to show trace-disable effect in the menu.
8508 + use getopt in ncurses program to process -s and -t options.
8509 + make ncurses 'p' legend toggle with '?'
8510 + disable scrollok during the ncurses 'p' test; if it is enabled the
8511 stdscr will scroll when putting the box-corners in the lower-right
8515 + check return code of _nc_mvcur_scrolln() in _nc_scroll_optimize() for
8516 terminals with no scrolling-support (reported by Nikolay Shadrin
8517 <queen@qh.mirea.ac.ru>)
8518 + added ^S scrollok-toggle to ncurses 'g' test.
8519 + added ^T trace-toggle to ncurses tests.
8520 + modified ncurses test program to use ^Q or ESC consistently for
8521 terminating tests (rather than ^D), and to use control keys rather
8522 than function keys in 'g' test.
8523 + corrected misplaced wclrtoeol calls in addch to accommodate wrapping
8524 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
8525 + modify lib_doupdate.c to use effective costs to tradeoff between
8526 delete-character/insert-character vs normal updating (reported by
8528 + compute effective costs for screen update operations (e.g., clr_eos,
8530 + corrected error in knight.c exposed by wrap fixes in 960622; the
8531 msgwin needed scrollok set.
8532 + corrected last change to IDcTransformLine logic to avoid conflict
8533 between PutRange and InsStr
8534 + modified run_tic.sh to not use /usr/tmp (reported by David
8535 MacKenzie), and further revised it and aclocal.m4 to use $TMPDIR if
8537 + corrected off-by-one in RoomFor call in read_entry.c
8540 + modified logic that wraps cursor in addch to follow the XSI spec,
8541 (implemented in SVr4) which states that the cursor position is
8542 updated when wrapping. Renamed _NEED_WRAP to _WRAPPED to reflect the
8544 + added -s option to tic, to provide better diagnostics in run_tic.sh
8545 + improved error-recovery for tabset install.
8546 + change ABI to 3.1 (dropped tparam, corrected getbkgd(), added
8547 _yoffset to WINDOW).
8548 + modified initialization of SP->_ofp so that init_acs() is called with
8549 the "right" file pointer (reported by Rick Marshall <rjm@nlc.net.au>
8550 + documentation fixes (Juergen Pfeifer).
8551 + corrected, using new SCREEN and WINDOW members, the behavior of
8552 ncurses if one uses ripoffline() to remove a line from the top of the
8553 screen (Juergen Pfeifer).
8554 + modified autoconf scripts to prepare for Ada95 (GNAT) binding to
8555 ncurses (Juergen Pfeifer).
8556 + incorrect buffer-size in _nc_read_entry, reported by ESR.
8559 + corrected two logic errors in read_entry.c, write_entry.c (called by
8560 tic, the write/read of terminfo entries used inconsistent rules for
8561 locating the entries; the $TERMINFO_DIRS code would find only the
8562 first entry in a list).
8563 + refined pathname computation in run_tic.sh and shlib.
8564 + corrected initialization of $IP in misc/run_tic.sh
8567 + ifdef'd out _nc_hash_map() call because it does not improve speed.
8568 + display version of gcc if configure script identifies it.
8569 + modify configure script to use /usr as Linux's default prefix.
8570 + modify run_tic.sh to use shlib script, fixes some problems installing
8571 with a shared-library configuration.
8572 + adjusted configure script so that it doesn't run tests with the
8573 warnings turned on, which makes config.log hard to read.
8574 + added 'lint' rule to top-level Makefile.
8575 + added configure option '--with-install-prefix' for use by system
8576 builders to install into staging locations (requested by
8577 Charles Levert <charles@comm.polymtl.ca>).
8578 + corrected autoconfigure for Debian man program; it's not installed
8580 + set noecho in 'worm'; it was ifdef'd for debug only
8581 + updated test/configure.in for timing-display in ncurses 'p' test
8582 + corrected misspelled 'getbkgd()'.
8583 + corrected wbkgdset to work like observed syvr4 (sets A_CHARTEXT part
8584 to blank if no character given, copies attributes to window's
8586 + modified lib_doupdate.c to use lower-level SP's current_attr state
8587 instead of curscr's state, since it is redundant.
8588 + correction to IDcTransformLine logic which controls where InsStr is
8589 invoked (refined by Alexander V Lukyanov).
8591 + conditionally include Chris Torek's hash function _nc_hash_map().
8592 + better fix for nvi refresh-bug (Rick Marshall)
8593 + fix for bug in handling of interrupted keystroke waits,
8597 + auto-configure man-page compression-format and renames for Debian.
8598 + corrected several typos in curses.h.in (i.e., the mvXXXX macros).
8599 + re-order curses.priv.h for lint.
8600 + added rules for lintlib, lint
8601 + corrected ifdef for BROKEN_LINKER in MKnames.awk.in
8602 + corrected missing INSTALL_DATA in misc/Makefile.in
8603 + flush output when changing cursor-visibility (Rick Marshall)
8604 + fix a minor bug in the _nc_ripoff() routine and improve error
8605 checking when creating the label window (Juergen Pfeifer).
8606 + enhancement to the control over the new PC-style soft key format.
8607 allow caller now to select whether or not one wants to have
8608 the index-line; see curs_slk.3x for documentation (Juergen Pfeifer).
8609 + typos, don't use inline with -g (Philippe De Muyter)
8610 + fixes for menus & wattr-, slk-functions (Juergen Pfeifer)
8613 + removed --with-ticdir option altogether, maintain compatibility with
8614 existing applications via symbolic link in run_tic.sh
8615 + patch for termio.h, signal (Philippe De Muyter)
8616 + auto-configure gcc warning options rather than infer from version.
8617 + auto-configure __attribute__ for different gcc versions.
8618 + corrected special use of clearok() in hardscroll.c by resetting flag
8620 + include stdlib.h before defs for EXIT_SUCCESS, for OSF/1.
8621 + include sys/types.h in case stdlib.h does not declare size_t.
8622 + fixes for makefile (Tim Mooney)
8623 + fixes for menus & forms (Juergen Pfeifer)
8626 + revised ncurses.c panner test, let pad abut all 4 sides of screen.
8627 + refined case in lib_doupdate.c for ClrToEOL().
8628 + corrected prior change for PutRange (Alexander V Lukyanov
8629 <lav@yars.free.net>).
8630 + autoconf mods (Tim Mooney <mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu>).
8631 + locale fix for forms (Philippe De Muyter <phdemuyt@ulb.ac.be>)
8632 + renamed "--with-datadir" option to "--with-ticdir" to avoid
8633 confusion, and made this check for the /usr/lib/terminfo pre-existing
8635 > patches 299-301 (ESR):
8637 + mods to tracing, especially for ACS chars.
8638 + corrected off-by-one in IDCtransform.
8639 + corrected intermittent mouse bug by using return-value from read().
8640 + mods to parse_entry.c, for smarter defaults.
8643 + use getopt in 'tic'; added -L option and modified -e option to allow
8647 + don't use fixed buffer-size in tparm().
8648 + modified tic to create terminfo directory if it doesn't exist.
8649 + added -T options to tic and infocmp (for testing/analysis)
8650 + refined the length criteria for termcap and terminfo
8651 + optimize lib_doupdate with memcpy, PutRange
8652 > patches 297, 298 (ESR):
8653 + implement TERMINFO_DIRS, and -o option of tic
8654 + added TRACE_IEVENT
8655 + removed boolean version of 'getm'
8656 + added lib_print.c (for Rick Marshall)
8658 + added 't' to ncurses.c test.
8659 + moved delay_output() to lib_tputs.c
8660 + removed tparam() (was added in 1.9.9, but conflicts with emacs and
8661 is not part of X/Open Curses).
8662 + misc cursor & optimization fixes.
8665 + modified ncurses 'p' test to allow full-screen range for panner size.
8666 + fixes for locale (Philippe De Muyter <phdm@labauto1.ulb.ac.be>)
8667 + don't use fixed buffer-size in fmt_entry().
8668 + added usage-message to 'infocmp'.
8669 + modified install.includes rules to prepend subdirectory-name to
8670 "#include" if needed.
8673 + protect wrefresh, wnoutrefresh from invocation with pad argument.
8674 + corrected default CCFLAGS in test/Makefile.
8677 + implemented logic to support terminals with background color erase
8678 (e.g., rxvt and the newer color xterm).
8679 + improved screen update logic (off-by-one logic error; use clr_eos if
8683 + change ncurses 'a' test to run in raw mode.
8684 + make TIOCGWINSZ configure test less stringent, in case user
8685 configures via terminal that cannot get screen size.
8686 > patches 295, 296 (ESR):
8687 + new "-e" option of tic.
8688 + fix for "infocmp -e".
8689 + restore working-directory in read_termcap.c
8690 + split lib_kernel.c, lib_setup.c and names.c in order to reduce
8691 overhead for programs that use only termcap features.
8695 + fix for AIX 3.2.5 (must define _POSIX_SOURCE to get termios struct
8696 definitions via <termios.h>, modified macros in lib_raw.c to avoid
8697 K&R-style substitution)
8698 > patches 293, 294 (ESR):
8699 + mods to wgetch() in cooked mode
8700 + corrected askuser() logic in tset
8701 + correct interaction of endwin() with mouse processing
8702 + added trace support for TTY flags
8705 + fixes for NeXT, ISC and HPUX auto-configure
8706 + autogenerate development header-dependencies (config.h, *.priv.h)
8707 + corrected single-column formatting of "use=" (e.g., in tic)
8708 + modify tic to read full terminfo-names
8709 + corrected divide-by-zero that caused hang (or worse) when redirecting
8711 + modify tic to generate directories only as-needed (and corrected
8712 instance of use of data from function that had already returned).
8714 ### ncurses-1.9.8a -> 1.9.9e
8716 * fixed broken wsyncup()/wysncdown(), as a result wnoutrefresh() now has
8717 copy-changed-lines behavior.
8718 * added and documented wresize() function.
8719 * more fixes to LOWER-RIGHT corner handling.
8720 * changed the line-breakout optimization code to allow some lines to be
8721 emitted before the first check.
8722 * added option for tic to use symbolic instead of hard links (for AFS)
8723 * fix to restore auto-wrap mode.
8724 * trace level can be controlled by environment variable.
8725 * better handling of NULs in terminal descriptions.
8726 * improved compatibility with observed SVR4 behavior.
8727 * the refresh behavior of over-lapping windows is now more efficient and
8729 * use autoconf 2.7, which results in a working setup for SCO 5.0.
8730 * support for ESCDELAY.
8731 * small fixes for menu/form code.
8732 * the test directory has its own configure.
8733 * fixes to pads when optimizing scrolling.
8734 * fixed several off-by-one bugs.
8735 * fixes for termcap->terminfo translation; less restrictions more correct
8738 ### ncurses-1.9.7 -> 1.9.8a
8740 * teach infocmp -i to recognize ECMA highlight sequences
8741 * infocmp now dumps all SVr4 termcaps (not just the SVr4 ones) on -C
8742 * support infocmp -RBSD.
8743 * satisfy XSI Curses requirement that every macro be available as a function.
8744 * This represents the last big change to the public interface of ncurses. The
8745 ABI_VERSION has now been set at 3.0 and should stay there barring any great
8746 catastrophies or acts of God.
8747 * The C++ has been cleaned up in reaction to the changes to satisfy XSI's
8749 * libncurses now gets linked to libcurses to help seamless emulation
8750 (replacement) of a vendor's curses. --disable-overwrite turns this behavior
8753 ### ncurses-1.9.6 -> 1.9.7
8755 * corrected return values of setupterm()
8756 * Fixed some bugs in tput (it does padding now)
8757 * fixed a bug in tic that made it do the wrong thing on entries with more than
8758 one `use' capability.
8759 * corrected the screen-size calculation at startup time to alter the
8760 numeric capabilities as per SVr4, not just LINES and COLS.
8761 * toe(1) introduced; does what infocmp -T used to.
8762 * tic(1) can now translate AIX box1 and font[0123] capabilities.
8763 * tic uses much less core, the dotic.sh kluge can go away now.
8764 * fix read_entry() and write_entry() to pass through cancelled capabilities OK.
8765 * Add $HOME/.terminfo as source/target directory for terminfo entries.
8766 * termcap compilation now automatically dumps an entry to $HOME/.terminfo.
8767 * added -h option to toe(1).
8768 * added -R option to tic(1) and infocmp(1).
8769 * added fallback-entry-list feature.
8770 * added -i option to infocmp(1).
8771 * do a better job at detecting if we're on SCO.
8773 ### ncurses-1.9.5 -> 1.9.6
8775 * handling of TERMCAP environment variables now works correctly.
8776 * various changes to shorten termcap translations to less that 1024 chars.
8778 * mouse support for xterm.
8779 * most data tables are now const and accordingly live in shareable text space.
8780 * Obey the XPG4/SVr4 practice that echo() is initally off.
8781 * tic is much better at translating XENIX and AIX termcap entries now.
8782 * tic can interpret ko capabilities now.
8783 * integrated Juergen Pfeifer's forms library.
8784 * taught write_entry() how not to write more than it needs to; this change
8785 reduces the size of the terminfo tree by a full 26%!
8786 * infocmp -T option added.
8787 * better warnings about historical tic quirks from tic.
8789 ### ncurses 1.9.4 -> 1.9.5
8791 * menus library is now included with documentation.
8792 * lib_mvcur has been carefully profiled and tuned.
8793 * Fixed a ^Z-handling bug that was tanking lynx(1).
8794 * HJ Lu's patches for ELF shared libraries under Linux
8795 * terminfo.src 9.8.2
8796 * tweaks for compiling in seperate directories.
8797 * Thomas Dickey's patches to support NeXT's brain-dead linker
8798 * Eric Raymond's patches to fix problems with long termcap entries.
8799 * more support for shared libraries under SunOS and IRIX.
8801 ### ncurses 1.9.3 -> 1.9.4
8803 * fixed an undefined-order-of-evaluation bug in lib_acs.c
8804 * systematically gave non-API public functions and data an _nc_ prefix.
8805 * integrated Juergen Pfeifer's menu code into the distribution.
8806 * totally rewrote the knight test game's interface
8808 ### ncurses 1.9.2c -> 1.9.3
8810 * fixed the TERMCAP_FILE Support.
8811 * fixed off-by-one errors in scrolling code
8812 * added tracemunch to the test tools
8813 * took steps to cut the running time of make install.data
8815 ### ncurses 1.9.2c -> 1.9.2d
8817 * revised 'configure' script to produce libraries for normal, debug,
8818 profile and shared object models.
8820 ### ncurses 1.9.1 -> 1.9.2
8822 * use 'autoconf' to implement 'configure' script.
8823 * panels support added
8824 * tic now checks for excessively long termcap entries when doing translation
8825 * first cut at eliminating namespace pollution.
8827 ### ncurses 1.8.9 -> 1.9
8829 * cleanup gcc warnings for the following: use size_t where 'int' is not
8830 appropriate, fixed some shadowed variables, change attr_t to compatible with
8831 chtype, use attr_t in some places where it was confused with 'int'.
8832 * use chtype/attr_t casts as appropriate to ensure portability of masking
8834 * added-back waddchnstr() to lib_addstr.c (it had been deleted).
8835 * supplied missing prototypes in curses.h
8836 * include <termcap.h> in lib_termcap.c to ensure that the prototypes
8837 are consistent (they weren't).
8838 * corrected prototype of tputs in <termcap.h>
8839 * rewrote varargs parsing in lib_tparm.c (to avoid referencing memory
8840 that may be out of bounds on the stack) -- Purify found this.
8841 * ensure that TRACE is defined in lib_trace.c (to solve prototype
8843 * corrected scrolling-region size in 'mvcur_wrap()'
8844 * more spelling fixes
8845 * use 'calloc()' to allocate WINDOW struct in lib_newwin.c (Purify).
8846 * set default value for SP->_ofp in lib_set_term.c (otherwise SunOS dumps
8847 core in init_acs()).
8848 * include <errno.h> in write_entry.c (most "braindead" includes declare errno
8851 ### ncurses 1.8.8 -> 1.8.9
8853 * compile (mostly) clean with gcc 2.5.8 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
8854 -Wmissing-prototypes -Wconversion and using __attribute__ to flush out
8855 non-portable use of "%x" for pointers, or for chtype data (which is declared
8857 * modified doupdate to ensure that typahead was turned on before attempting
8858 select-call (otherwise, some implementations hang).
8859 * added trace mask TRACE_FIFO, use this in lib_getch.c to allow finer
8860 resolution of traces.
8861 * improved bounds checking on several critical functions.
8862 * the data directory has been replaced by the new master terminfo file.
8863 * -F file-comparison option added to infocmp.
8864 * compatibility with XSI Curses is now documented in the man bages.
8865 * wsyncup/wsyncdown functions are reliable now; subwindow code in general
8867 * capabilities ~msgr, tilde_glitch, insert_padding, generic_type, no_pad_char,
8868 memory_above, memory_below, and hard_copy are now used properly.
8869 * cursor-movement optimization has been completely rewritten.
8870 * vertical-movement optimization now uses hardware scrolling, il, dl.
8872 ### ncurses 1.8.7 -> 1.8.8
8873 * untic no longer exists, infocmp replaces it.
8874 * tic can understand termcap now, especially if it is called captoinfo.
8875 * The Linux Standard Console terminfo entry is called linux insead of console.
8876 It also uses the kernel's new method of changing charsets.
8877 * initscr() will EXIT upon error (as the docs say) This wil mostly happen if
8878 you try to run on an undefined terminal.
8879 * I can get things running on AIX but tic can't compile terminfo. I have to
8880 compile entries on another machine. Volunteers to hunt this bug are welcome.
8881 * wbkgd() and wbkgdset() can be used to set a windows background to color.
8882 wclear()/werase() DO NOT use the current attribute to clear the screen.
8883 This is the way SVR4 curses works. PDCurses 2.1 is broken in this respect,
8884 though PDCurses 2.2 has been fixed.
8885 * cleaned up the test/ directory.
8886 * test/worm will segfault after quite a while.
8887 * many spelling corrections courtesy of Thomas E. Dickey
8889 ### ncurses 1.8.6 -> 1.8.7
8890 * cleaned up programs in test/ directory.
8891 * fixed wbkgdset() macro.
8892 * modified getstr() to stop it from advancing cursor in noecho mode.
8893 * modified linux terminfo entry to work with the latest kernel to get
8894 the correct alternate character set.
8895 * also added a linux-mono entry for those running on monochrome screens.
8896 * changed initscr() so that it behaves like the man page says it does.
8897 this fixes the problem with programs in test/ crashing with SIGSEV if
8898 a terminal is undefined.
8899 * modified addch() to avoid using any term.h #define's
8900 * removed duplicate tgoto() in lib_tparm.c
8901 * modified dump_entry.c so that infocmp deals correctly with ',' in acsc
8902 * modified delwin() to correctly handle deleting subwindows.
8903 * fixed Makefile.dist to stop installing an empty curses.h
8904 * fixed a couple of out-of-date notes in man pages.
8906 ### ncurses 1.8.5 -> 1.8.6
8907 * Implemented wbkgd(), bkgd(), bkgdset(), and wbkgdset().
8908 * The handling of attributes has been improved and now does not turn off color
8909 if other attributes are turned off.
8910 * scrolling code is improved. Scrolling in subwindows is still broken.
8911 * Fixes to several bugs that manifest them on platforms other than Linux.
8912 * The default to meta now depends on the status of the terminal when ncurses
8914 * The interface to the tracing facility has changed. Instead of the pair of
8915 functions traceon() and traceoff(), there is just one function trace() which
8916 takes a trace mask argument. The trace masks, defined in curses.h, are
8919 #define TRACE_DISABLE 0x00 /* turn off tracing */
8920 #define TRACE_ORDINARY 0x01 /* ordinary trace mode */
8921 #define TRACE_CHARPUT 0x02 /* also trace all character outputs */
8922 #define TRACE_MAXIMUM 0x0f /* maximum trace level */
8924 More trace masks may be added, or these may be changed, in future releases.
8925 * The pad code has been improved and the pad test code in test/ncurses.c has
8927 * The prototype ansi entry has been changed to work with a wider variety
8929 * Fix to the prototype ansi entry that enables it to work with PC emulators
8930 that treat trailing ";m" in a highlight sequence as ";0m"; this doesn't
8931 break operation with any emulators.
8932 * There are now working infocmp, captoinfo, tput, and tclear utilities.
8933 * tic can now compile entries in termcap syntax.
8934 * Core-dump bug in pnoutrefresh fixed.
8935 * We now recognize and compile all the nonstandard capabilities in Ross
8936 Ridge's mytinfo package (rendering it obsolete).
8937 * General cleanup and documentation improvements.
8938 * Fixes and additions to the installation-documentation files.
8939 * Take cursor to normal mode on endwin.
8941 ### ncurses 1.8.4 -> 1.8.5
8942 * serious bugs in updating screen which caused erratic non-display,
8944 * fixed initialization for getch() related variable which cause
8945 unpredictable results.
8946 * fixed another doupdate bug which only appeared if you have
8948 * implemented redrawln() and redrawwin().
8949 * implemented winsnstr() and related functions.
8950 * cleaned up insertln() and deleteln() and implemented (w)insdeln().
8951 * changed Makefile.dist so that installation of man pages will
8952 take note of the terminfo directory.
8953 * fixed Configure (removed the mysterious 'X').
8954 * Eric S. Raymond fixed the script.* files so that they work with
8957 #### ncurses 1.8.3 -> 1.8.4 #### ####
8958 * fixed bug in refreshing the screen after return from shell_mode.
8959 There are still problems but they don't manifest themselves on
8960 my machine (Linux 0.99.14f).
8961 * added wgetnstr() and modified things accordingly.
8962 * fixed the script.src script.test to work with awk not just gawk.
8963 * Configure can now take an argument of the target system.
8964 * added test/ncurses.c which replaces several other programs and
8965 performs more testing.
8966 [Thanks to Eric S Raymond for the last 4]
8967 * more fixes to lib_overlay.c and added test/over.c to illustrate
8969 * fixed ungetch() to take int instead of ch.
8970 * fixes to cure wgetch() if flushinp() is called.
8972 One note I forgot to mention in 1.8.3 is that tracing is off by
8973 default starting in the version. If you want tracing output, put
8974 traceon(); in your code and link with -ldcurses.
8976 #### ncurses 1.8.2 -> ncurses 1.8.3 #### ####
8978 1) The order of capabilities has been changed in order to achieve
8979 binary compatibility with SVR4 terminfo database. This has the
8980 unfortunate effect of breaking application currently linked with
8981 ncurses. To ensure correct behavior, recompile all such programs.
8982 Most programs using color or newer capabilities will break, others
8983 will probably continue to work ok.
8985 2) Pavel Curtis has renounced his copyright to the public domain.
8986 This means that his original sources (posted to comp.sources.unix,
8987 volume 1) are now in the public domain. The current sources are
8988 NOT in the public domain, they are copyrighted by me. I'm
8989 entertaining ideas on what the new terms ncurses is released under.
8991 3) Eric S. Raymond has supplied a complete set of man pages for
8992 ncurses in ?roff format. They will eventually replace most of the
8993 current docs. Both sets are included in this release.
8995 Other changes and notes from 1.8.2 include:
8996 * SIGSEGV during scrolling no longer occurs.
8997 * Other problems with scrolling and use of idl have been corrected.
8998 * lib_getch.c has been re-written and should perform flawlessly.
8999 please use test/getch.c and any other programs to test this.
9000 * ripoffline() is implemented (Thanks to Eric) and slk_ functions
9001 changed accordingly.
9002 * I've added support for terminals that scroll if you write in the
9003 bottom-right corner.
9004 * fixed more bugs in pads code. If anybody has a program that uses
9005 pads I'd love a copy.
9006 * correct handling for terminal with back_color_erase capability
9007 (such as Linux console, and most PC terminals)
9008 * ^Z handling apparently didn't work (I should never trust code
9009 sent me to me without extensive testing). It now seems to be
9010 fixed. Let me know if you have problems.
9011 * I've added support for Apollo and NeXT, but it may still be
9012 incomplete, especially when dealing with the lack of POSIX
9014 * scrolling should be more efficient on terminals with idl
9015 capabilities. Please see src/lib_scroll.c for more notes.
9016 * The line drawing routines were offset by 1 at both ends. This
9018 * added a few missing prototypes and macros (e.g. setterm())
9019 * fixed code in src/lib_overlay.c which used to crash.
9020 * added a few more programs in test/ The ones from the PDCurses
9021 package are useful, especially if you have SVR4 proper. I'm
9022 interested in the results you get on such a systems (Eric? ;-).
9023 They already exposed certain bugs in ncurses.
9024 * See src/README for porting notes.
9025 * The C++ code should really replace ncurses.h instead of working
9026 around it. It should avoid name-space clashes with nterm.h (use
9027 rows instead of lines, etc.)
9028 * The C++ should compile ok. I've added explicit rules to the
9029 Makefile because no C++ defaults are documented on the suns.
9030 * The docs say that echo() and nocbreak() are mutually exclusive.
9031 At the moment ncurses will switch to cbreak() if the case above
9032 occurs. Should it continue to do so? How about echo() and noraw()?
9033 * PDCurses seem to assume that wclear() will use current attribute
9034 when clearing the screen. According to Eric this is not the case
9036 * I have discovered, to my chagrin, SunOS 4.x (and probably other systems)
9037 * doesn't have vsscanf and God knows what else! I've will do a vsscanf().
9038 * I've also found out that the src/script.* rely on gawk and will not
9039 work with stock awk or even with nawk. Any changes are welcome.
9040 * Linux is more tolerant of NULL dereferences than most systems. This
9041 fact was exposed by hanoi.
9042 * ncurses still seems inefficient in drawing the screen on a serial
9043 link between Linux and suns. The padding may be the culprit.
9044 * There seems to be one lingering problem with doupdate() after shelling
9045 out. Despite the fact the it is sending out the correct information
9046 to the terminal, nothing takes effect until you press ^L or another
9047 refresh takes place. And yes, output does get flushed.
9049 #### ncurses 1.8.1 -> ncurses 1.8.2 #### Nov 28, 1993 ####
9051 * added support for SVR4 and BSDI's BSD/386.
9052 * major update and fix to scrolling routine.
9053 * MORE fixes to stuff in lib_getch.c.
9054 * cleaned-up configuration options and can now generate
9055 Config.* files through an awk script.
9056 * changed setupterm() so it can be called more than once,
9057 add added set_curterm(), del_curterm().
9058 * a few minor cleanups.
9059 * added more prototypes in curses.h
9061 #### ncurses 1.8 -> ncurses 1.8.1 #### Nov 4, 1993 ####
9063 * added support for NeXTStep 3.0
9064 * added termcap emulation (not well tested).
9065 * more complete C++ interface to ncurses.
9066 * fixed overlay(), overwrite(), and added copywin().
9067 * a couple of bug fixes.
9068 * a few code cleanups.
9070 #### ncurses 0.7.2/0.7.3 -> ncurses 1.8 #### Aug 31, 1993 ####
9072 * The annoying message "can't open file." was due to missing
9073 terminfo entry for the used terminal. It has now been
9074 replaced by a hopefully more helpful message.
9075 * Problems with running on serial lines are now fixed.
9076 * Added configuration files for SunOS, Linux, HP/UX, Ultrix,
9077 386bsd/BSDI (if you have others send'em to me)
9079 * The documentation in manual.doc is now more uptodate.
9080 * update optimization and support for hp terminals, and 386bsd
9082 * mvcur optimization for terminals without cursor addressing
9083 (doesn't work on Linux)
9084 * if cursor moved since last update, getch() will refresh the
9085 screen before working.
9086 * getch() & alarm() can now live together. in 0.7.3 a signal
9087 interrupted getch() (bug or feature?) now the getch is
9089 * scanw() et all were sick, now fixed.
9090 * support for 8-bit input (use meta()).
9091 * added default screen size to all terminfos.
9092 * added c++ Ncursesw class.
9093 * several minor bug fixes.
9095 #### ncurses 0.7.2 -> ncurses 0.7.3 #### May 27, 1993 ####
9097 * Config file to cope with different platforms (386BSD, BSDI, Ultrix, SunOS)
9098 * more fixes to lib_getch.c
9099 * changes related to Config
9101 #### ncurses 0.7 -> ncurses 0.7.2 #### May 22, 1993 ####
9103 * docs updated slightly (color usage is now documented).
9104 * yet another fix for getch(), this one fixes problems with ESC being swallowed
9105 if another character is typed before the 1 second timeout.
9106 * Hopefully, addstr() and addch() are 8-bit clean.
9107 * fixed lib_tparm.c to use stdarg.h (should run on suns now)
9108 * order of capabilities changed to reflect that specified in SYSV
9109 this will allow for binary-compatibility with existing terminfo dbs.
9111 * fixed problems with asc_init()
9112 * added A_PROTECT and A_INVIS
9113 * cleaned up vidputs()
9114 * general cleanup of the code
9115 * more attention to portability to other systems
9116 * added terminfos for hp70092 (wont work until changes to lib_update.c are
9117 made) and 386BSD pcvt drivers.
9119 Thanks to Hellmuth Michaelis for his help.
9120 optimization code is slated for the next major release, stay tuned!
9122 #### ncurses 0.6/0.61 -> ncurses 0.7 #### April 1, 1993
9123 Please note that the next release will be called 1.8. If you want to know about
9124 the rationale drop me a line.
9126 Included are several test programs in test/.
9127 I've split up the panels library, reversi, tetris, sokoban. They are now
9128 available separately from netcom.com:pub/zmbenhal/
9130 * color and ACS support is now fully compatible with SYSV at the terminfo
9132 * Capabilities now includes as many SYSV caps I could find.
9133 * tigetflag,tigetnum,tigetstr functions added.
9134 * boolnames, boolfnames, boolcodes numnames, numfnames, numcodes,
9135 strnames, strfnames, strcodes arrays are now added.
9136 * keyname() is added.
9137 * All function keys can be defined in terminfo entries.
9138 * fixed lin_tparm.c to behave properly.
9139 * terminfo entries for vt* and xterm are included (improvements are welcome)
9140 * more automation in handling caps and keys.
9141 * included fixes from 0.6.1
9142 * added a few more missing functions.
9143 * fixed a couple of minor bugs.
9144 * updated docs JUST a little (still miles behind in documenting the newer
9147 #### ncurses 0.6 -> ncurses 0.61 ####
9149 1) Included the missing data/console.
9151 2) allow attributes when drawing boxes.
9153 3) corrected usage of win->_delay value.
9155 4) fixed a bug in lib_getch.c. if it didn't recognize a sequence it would
9156 simply return the last character in the sequence. The correct
9157 behavior is to return the entire sequence one character at a time.
9159 #### ncurses0.5 -> ncurses0.6 #### March 1, 1993 ####
9160 * removed _numchngd from struct _win_st and made appropriate changes.
9161 * rewritten kgetch() to remove problems with interaction between alarm and
9162 read(). It caused SIGSEGV every now and then.
9163 * fixed a bug that miscounted the numbers of columns when updating.
9164 (in lib_doupdate.c(ClrUpdate() -- iterate to columns not columns-1)
9165 * fixed a bug that cause the lower-right corner to be incorrect.
9166 (in lib_doupdate.c(putChar() -- check against columns not columns-1)
9167 * made resize() and cleanup() static to lib_newterm.c
9168 * added notimeout().
9169 * added timeout() define in curses.h
9170 * added more function prototypes and fixed napms.
9172 * moved screen size detection to lib_setup.c.
9173 * fixed newterm() to confirm to prototype.
9174 * removed SIGWINCH support as SYSV does not define its semantics.
9175 * cleaned-up lib_touch.c
9176 * added waddnstr() and relatives.
9177 * added slk_* support.
9178 * fixed a bug in wdeleteln().
9179 * added PANEL library.
9180 * modified Makefile for smoother installation.
9181 * terminfo.h is really term.h
9183 #### ncurses 0.4 -> ncurses 0.5 #### Feb 14, 1993 ####
9184 * changed _win_st structure to allow support for missing functionality.
9185 * Addition of terminfo support for all KEY_*.
9186 * Support for nodelay(), timeout(), notimeout().
9187 * fixed a bug with the keypad char reading that did not return ESC until
9188 another key is pressed.
9189 * nl mapping no longer occur on output (as should be)
9190 fixed bug '\n' no causing a LF.
9191 * fixed bug that reset terminal colors regardless of whether we use color
9193 * Better support for ACS (not quite complete).
9194 * fixed bug in wvline().
9196 * changed from signal() to sigaction().
9197 * re-included the contents of important.patch into source.
9199 #### ncurses 0.3 -> ncurses 0.4 #### Feb 3, 1993 ####
9200 * Addition of more KEY_* definitions.
9201 * Addition of function prototypes.
9202 * Addition of several missing functions.
9203 * No more crashes if screen size is undefined (use SIGWINCH handler).
9204 * added a handler to cleanup after SIGSEGV (hopefully never needed).
9205 * changed SRCDIR from /etc/term to /usr/lib/terminfo.
9206 * renamed compile/dump to tic/untic.
9207 * New scrolling code.
9208 * fixed bug that reversed the sense of nl() and nonl().
9210 #### ncurses 0.2 -> ncurses 0.3 #### Jan 20, 1993 ####
9211 * more support for color and graphics see test/ for examples.
9212 * fixed various files to allow correct update after shelling out.
9213 * more fixes for updates.
9214 * no more core dumps if you don't have a terminfo entry.
9215 * support for LINES and COLUMNS environment variables.
9216 * support for SIGWINCH signal.
9217 * added a handler for SIGINT for clean exits.
9219 #### ncurses 0.1 -> ncurses 0.2 #### Aug 14, 1992 ####
9220 * support for color.
9221 * support for PC graphic characters.
9222 * lib_trace.c updated to use stdarg.h and vprintf routines.
9223 * added gdc.c (Great Digital Clock) as an example of using color.
9225 #### ncurses -> ncurses 0.1 #### Jul 31, 1992 ####
9226 * replacing sgtty stuff by termios stuff.
9227 * ANSIfication of some functions.
9228 * Disabling cost analysis 'cause it's incorrect.
9229 * A quick hack for a terminfo entry.