ncurses.scripts.mit.edu Git - ncurses.git/atom - doc/html/man/curs_getstr.3x.html history ncurses, with patches starting at ncurses-5.6; new users should use https://github.com/ThomasDickey/ncurses-snapshots/ https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git ncurses //git.scripts.mit.edu/static/git-favicon.png //git.scripts.mit.edu/static/git-logo.png 2023-12-18T08:58:33Z gitweb ncurses 6.4 - patch 20231217 2023-12-18T08:58:33Z Thomas E. Dickey dickey@invisible-island.net Thomas E. Dickey dickey@invisible-island.net 2023-12-18T08:58:33Z https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=commitdiff;h=d90067f9008bb8338a77c1ed519bc108c275ed04
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20231217

+ improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ correct an assignment in infocmp "-u" for detecting if a boolean
  is unset in a base entry and set in a use'd chunk, i.e., if it was
  cancelled.
+ modify infocmp "-u" option to not report cancels for strings which
  were already cancelled in a use'd chunk.
+ join two lines in infotocap.3x to eliminate a spurious "description"
  link in installed manpages (report by Sven Joachim).
+ fix typo in NEWS (report by Sven Joachim).
  bold font escapes in manpage cross-references (Debian #1057651).
  • [D] doc/html/man/curs_getstr.3x.html
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20231125 2023-11-25T23:48:01Z Thomas E. Dickey dickey@invisible-island.net Thomas E. Dickey dickey@invisible-island.net 2023-11-25T23:48:01Z https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=commitdiff;h=084e3b44fc1c904d5ab941da55f47a237cb15766
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20231125

+ add information about "ttycap", termcap's forerunner, to tset.1
  (patch by Branden Robinson).
+ improve formatting/style of manpages, including section reordering
  (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ modify usage messages in configure script, bracketing optional values
  (report by Branden Robinson).
  • [D] doc/html/man/curs_getstr.3x.html
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20231007 2023-10-07T23:33:09Z Thomas E. Dickey dickey@invisible-island.net Thomas E. Dickey dickey@invisible-island.net 2023-10-07T23:33:09Z https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=commitdiff;h=894a177fd5228cdbe790bd1dc9435bd435c29681
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20231007

+ improve loop-limit for get_position().
+ improve manual description of immedok (Debian #1053603).
+ fix a few formatting issues with manpages (Debian #1053123).
+ improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
  • [D] doc/html/man/curs_getstr.3x.html
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20231001 2023-10-02T00:24:04Z Thomas E. Dickey dickey@invisible-island.net Thomas E. Dickey dickey@invisible-island.net 2023-10-02T00:24:04Z https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=commitdiff;h=7e062bb2764a87d98073a90ee65a234a2679f9c1
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20231001

+ modify setupterm to provide for using ANSI cursor-position report (in
  user6/user7 terminfo capabilities) to obtain screensize if neither
  environment variables or ioctl is used.  The ncurses test-program
  with options "-E -T" demonstrates this feature.
+ improve error messages in tic (patch by Branden Robinson).
+ improve formatting/style of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson).
+ modify test/clip_printw.c to optionally test non-wrapped updates.
+ fix reallocation loop for vsnprintf() in _nc_sprintf_string() by
  copying the va_list variable (patch by Ian Abbott).
  • [D] doc/html/man/curs_getstr.3x.html
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20230917 2023-09-17T16:21:09Z Thomas E. Dickey dickey@invisible-island.net Thomas E. Dickey dickey@invisible-island.net 2023-09-17T16:21:09Z https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=commitdiff;h=31c4bcf3307145fc5368b4aaf15e41bdd66a984b
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20230917

+ improve formatting of manpages (integrated patches by Branden
  Robinson).
+ correct limit for name-length in write_entry.c (report/testcase by
  Luna Saphie Mittelbach).
+ limit delays to 30 seconds, i.e., padding delays in terminfo, as well
  as napms() and delay_output() functions.
+ improve a few pointer-checks.
+ improve parsing in _nc_msec_cost, allowing a single decimal point.
+ improve formatting of manpages (patches by Branden Robinson), for
  captoinfo.1m and terminfo.5
  • [D] doc/html/man/curs_getstr.3x.html
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20230805 2023-08-06T00:30:20Z Thomas E. Dickey dickey@invisible-island.net Thomas E. Dickey dickey@invisible-island.net 2023-08-06T00:30:20Z https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=commitdiff;h=d1a029866f6d84087781eaa81de19949d8533426
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20230805

+ fix a few manpages needing tbl marker, seen by lintian warning.
+ fixes for compiler-warnings.
+ minor grammatical fix for manpages (Branden Robinson).
  • [D] doc/html/man/curs_getstr.3x.html
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20230729 2023-07-29T17:21:06Z Thomas E. Dickey dickey@invisible-island.net Thomas E. Dickey dickey@invisible-island.net 2023-07-29T17:21:06Z https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=commitdiff;h=f5aadfb8596c96e69ce2b772cd06626f2fba8ddc
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20230729

+ improve manpages for wgetnstr() and wget_wnstr().
+ modify MinGW configuration to provide for running in MSYS/MSYS2
  shells, assuming ConPTY support (patch by Pavel Fedin).
+ add assignment in CF_MAN_PAGES to fill in value for TERMINFO_DIRS in
  ncurses, terminfo and tic manpages (patch by Sven Joachim).
  • [D] doc/html/man/curs_getstr.3x.html
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20230701 2023-07-02T00:04:32Z Thomas E. Dickey dickey@invisible-island.net Thomas E. Dickey dickey@invisible-island.net 2023-07-02T00:04:32Z https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=commitdiff;h=d79ff7b4d5f5ac63e7d9d7e76706d95a1ddb243c
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20230701

+ fix mandoc warnings about unnecessary markup.
+ improve parameter check in tparm_setup()
  • [D] doc/html/man/curs_getstr.3x.html
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20230617 2023-06-17T21:19:52Z Thomas E. Dickey dickey@invisible-island.net Thomas E. Dickey dickey@invisible-island.net 2023-06-17T21:19:52Z https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=commitdiff;h=f79c210479470378389aab5b8d4d42d4a7f3d9a4
ncurses 6.4 - patch 20230617

+ markup manpages with revision information (prompted by discussion
  with Bjarni Ingi Gislason).
  • [D] doc/html/man/curs_getstr.3x.html
ncurses 6.3 - patch 20220212 2022-02-13T02:28:27Z Thomas E. Dickey dickey@invisible-island.net Thomas E. Dickey dickey@invisible-island.net 2022-02-13T02:28:27Z https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=commitdiff;h=16fbf3f4f7d96b6ee6bf9159b22f26e05962aa3d
ncurses 6.3 - patch 20220212

+ improve font-formatting in other manpages, for consistency.
+ correct/improve font-formatting in curs_wgetch.3x (patch by Benno
  Schulenberg).
  • [D] doc/html/man/curs_getstr.3x.html
ncurses 6.3 - patch 20211225 2021-12-26T02:01:14Z Thomas E. Dickey dickey@invisible-island.net Thomas E. Dickey dickey@invisible-island.net 2021-12-26T02:01:14Z https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=commitdiff;h=74433bcf4f6fe40862a28f3c00edaedcd5054b01
ncurses 6.3 - patch 20211225

+ improve markup, e.g., for external manpage links in the manpages
  (prompted by report by Helge Kreutzmann).
  • [D] doc/html/man/curs_getstr.3x.html
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20210626 2021-06-27T01:21:47Z Thomas E. Dickey dickey@invisible-island.net Thomas E. Dickey dickey@invisible-island.net 2021-06-27T01:21:47Z https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=commitdiff;h=81304798ee736c467839c779c9ca5dca48db7bea
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20210626

+ add configure option --disable-root-access, which tells ncurses to
  disallow most file-opens by setuid processes.
+ use default colors in pccon "op" -TD
+ correct rmacs/smacs in aaa+dec, aaa+rv -TD
+ add hpterm-color2 and hp98550-color (Martin Trusler)
+ regenerate man-html documentation.
  • [D] doc/html/man/curs_getstr.3x.html
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20210619 2021-06-20T00:21:42Z Thomas E. Dickey dickey@invisible-island.net Thomas E. Dickey dickey@invisible-island.net 2021-06-20T00:21:42Z https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=commitdiff;h=9f479192e3ca3413d235c66bf058f8cc63764898
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20210619

+ improve configure-macro used for dependencies of --disable-leaks such
  as --with-valgrind
+ trim trailing blanks from files
  • [D] doc/html/man/curs_getstr.3x.html
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20210522 2021-05-24T20:07:50Z Thomas E. Dickey dickey@invisible-island.net Thomas E. Dickey dickey@invisible-island.net 2021-05-24T20:07:50Z https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=commitdiff;h=265e45e43e9917e8b9ecc2bf9d23867a3ede2ecd
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20210522

+ regenerate configure scripts with autoconf 2.52.20210509 to eliminate
  an unnecessary warning in config.log (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
+ add a note in manual page to explain ungetch vs unget_wch (prompted
  by discussion with Peter Farley).
+ add sp-funcs for erasewchar, killwchar.
+ modify wgetnstr, wgetn_wstr to improve compatibility with SVr4 curses
  in its treatment of interrupt and quit characters (prompted by
  report/testcase by Bill Gray)
+ update config.guess, config.sub
  • [D] doc/html/man/curs_getstr.3x.html
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20210515 2021-05-16T00:32:33Z Thomas E. Dickey dickey@invisible-island.net Thomas E. Dickey dickey@invisible-island.net 2021-05-16T00:32:33Z https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=commitdiff;h=45a2b5bc1a4536173178e9907feb268c708797c7
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20210515

+ improve manual pages for wgetnstr, newwin (prompted by
  report/testcase by Bill Gray).
  is required for supporting the terminfo delay feature (report by
  • [D] doc/html/man/curs_getstr.3x.html
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20201017 2020-10-18T01:25:54Z Thomas E. Dickey dickey@invisible-island.net Thomas E. Dickey dickey@invisible-island.net 2020-10-18T01:25:54Z https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=commitdiff;h=e5d1530ca229aef94a3c84ad33f8ae89f35c4045
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20201017

+ improve manpage typography.
+ improve discussion in curs_addch.3x of the use of unctrl to display
  nonprintable characters.
+ add a note in terminfo.5 explaining that no-parameter strings such
  as sgr0 or cnorm should not be used with tparm.
  • [D] doc/html/man/curs_getstr.3x.html
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20200212 2020-02-12T09:50:22Z Thomas E. Dickey dickey@invisible-island.net Thomas E. Dickey dickey@invisible-island.net 2020-02-12T09:50:22Z https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=commitdiff;h=47d2fb4537d9ad5bb14f4810561a327930ca4280
ncurses 6.2 - patch 20200212

+ update release notes
+ minor build-fixes, mostly to test-package scripts
+ modify check for sizeof(wchar_t) to ensure it gives useful result
  when cross-compiling.
+ drop assumption in configure script that Cygwin's linker is broken.
+ define NCURSES_BROKEN_LINKER if the broken-linker feature is used,
  to simplify configure-checks for ncurses-examples.
+ reassert copyright on ncurses, per discussion in ncurses FAQ:
  https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html#relicensed
+ modify comparison in make_hash.c to correct a special case in
  collision handling for Caps-hpux11
+ add testing utility report_hashing to check hash-tables used for
  terminfo and termcap names.
+ fix a missing prototype for _nc_free_and_exit().
+ update a few comments about tack 1.07
+ use an awk script to split too-long pathnames used in Ada95 sample
  programs for explain.txt
  • [D] doc/html/man/curs_getstr.3x.html
ncurses 6.1 - patch 20190720 2019-07-21T01:22:45Z Thomas E. Dickey dickey@invisible-island.net Thomas E. Dickey dickey@invisible-island.net 2019-07-21T01:22:45Z https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=commitdiff;h=a8dfaf0998c91b39c5c0a4913987cd67ca622bff
ncurses 6.1 - patch 20190720

+ fix a few warnings for gcc 4.x
+ add some portability/historical details to the tic, toe and infocmp
  manual pages.
+ correct fix for broken link from terminfo(5) to tabs(1) manpage
  (report by Sven Joachim).
  • [D] doc/html/man/curs_getstr.3x.html
ncurses 6.1 - patch 20190317 2019-03-18T00:04:50Z Thomas E. Dickey dickey@invisible-island.net Thomas E. Dickey dickey@invisible-island.net 2019-03-18T00:04:50Z https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=commitdiff;h=cb4427a16794d98049b4d790b810d62217501f9f
ncurses 6.1 - patch 20190317

+ regenerate llib-* files.
+ modify tic to also use new function for user-defined capability info.
+ modify _nc_parse_entry() to check if a user-defined capability has
  an unexpected type; ignore it in that case.
+ fix a special case of link-anchors in generated Ada html files.
+ use newer rel=author tag in generated html rather than rev=made,
  which did not become accepted.
  • [D] doc/html/man/curs_getstr.3x.html
ncurses 6.1 - patch 20180901 2018-09-02T00:30:36Z Thomas E. Dickey dickey@invisible-island.net Thomas E. Dickey dickey@invisible-island.net 2018-09-02T00:30:36Z https://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=commitdiff;h=30393be892025f03322b7907a04cc05cc08e8760
ncurses 6.1 - patch 20180901

+ improve manual page for wgetnstr, giving background for the length
  parameter.
+ define a limit for wgetnstr, wgetn_wstr when length is negative or
  "too large".
+ update configure script to autoconf 2.52.20180819 (Debian #887390).
  • [D] doc/html/man/curs_getstr.3x.html