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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 + fix typo in configure script that broke --with-termlib option
50 (report by Rong-En Fan).
53 + improve fix for FreeBSD gnu/98975, to allow for null pointer passed
54 to tgetent() (report by Rong-en Fan).
55 + update tack/HISTORY and tack/README to tell how to build it after
56 it is removed from the ncurses tree.
57 + fix configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
58 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
59 + review/eliminate other original-file artifacts in cursesw.cc, making
60 its license consistent with ncurses.
61 + use ncurses vw_scanw() rather than reading into a fixed buffer in
62 the c++ binding for scanw() methods.
63 + eliminate fixed-buffer vsprintf() calls in c++ binding.
66 + add _nc_leaks_tic() to separate leak-checking of tic library from
67 term/ncurses libraries, and thereby eliminate a library dependency.
68 + fix test/mk-test.awk to ignore blank lines.
69 + correct paths in include/headers, for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav
73 + add a break-statement in misc/shlib to ensure that it exits on the
74 _first_ matched directory (report by Paul Novak).
75 + add tack/configure, which can be used to build tack outside the
77 + add --with-ticlib option, to build/install the tic-support functions
78 in a separate library (suggested by Miroslav Lichvar).
81 + change MKunctrl.awk to reduce relocation table for unctrl.o
82 + change MKkeyname.awk to reduce relocation table for keyname.o
83 (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
86 + modify configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
87 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
88 + modify some modules to allow them to be reentrant if _REENTRANT is
89 defined: lib_baudrate.c, resizeterm.c (local data only)
90 + eliminate static data from some modules: add_tries.c, hardscroll.c,
91 lib_ttyflags.c, lib_twait.c
92 + improve manpage install to add aliases for the transformed program
93 names, e.g., from --program-prefix.
94 + used linklint to verify links in the HTML documentation, made fixes
95 to manpages as needed.
96 + fix a typo in curs_mouse.3x (report by William McBrine).
97 + fix install-rule for ncurses5-config to make the bin-directory.
100 + modify configure script to omit the tic (terminfo compiler) support
101 from ncurses library if --without-progs option is given.
102 + modify install rule for ncurses5-config to do this via "install.libs"
103 + modify shared-library rules to allow FreeBSD 3.x to use rpath.
104 + update config.guess, config.sub
106 20061217 5.6 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
109 + add ifdef's for <wctype.h> for HPUX, which has the corresponding
110 definitions in <wchar.h>.
111 + revert the va_copy() change from 20061202, since it was neither
112 correct nor portable.
113 + add $(LOCAL_LIBS) definition to progs/Makefile.in, needed for
115 + ignore wide-acs line-drawing characters that wcwidth() claims are
116 not one-column. This is a workaround for Solaris' broken locale
120 + modify configure --with-gpm option to allow it to accept a parameter,
121 i.e., the name of the dynamic GPM library to load via dlopen()
122 (requested by Bryan Henderson).
123 + add configure option --with-valgrind (from vile).
124 + modify configure script AC_TRY_RUN and AC_TRY_LINK checks to use
125 'return' in preference to 'exit()'.
128 + change default for --with-develop back to "no".
129 + add XTABS to tracing of TTY bits.
130 + updated autoconf patch to ifdef-out the misfeature which declares
131 exit() for configure tests. This fixes a redefinition warning on
133 + use ${CC} rather than ${LD} in shared library rules for IRIX64,
134 Solaris to help ensure that initialization sections are provided for
135 extra linkage requirements, e.g., of C++ applications (prompted by
136 comment by Casper Dik in newsgroup).
137 + rename "$target" in CF_MAN_PAGES to make it easier to distinguish
138 from the autoconf predefined symbol. There was no conflict,
139 since "$target" was used only in the generated edit_man.sh file,
140 but SuSE's rpm package contains a patch.
143 + update man/term.5 to reflect extended terminfo support and hashed
144 database configuration.
145 + updates for test/configure script.
146 + adapted from SuSE rpm package:
147 + remove long-obsolete workaround for broken-linker which declared
149 + improve error recovery in PUTC() macro when wcrtomb() does not
150 return usable results for an 8-bit character.
151 + patches from rpm package (SuSE):
152 + use va_copy() in extra varargs manipulation for tracing version
154 + use a va_list rather than a null in _nc_freeall()'s call to
156 + add some see-also references in manpages to show related
157 wide-character functions (suggested by Claus Fischer).
160 + add a check in lib_color.c to ensure caller does not increase COLORS
161 above max_colors, which is used as an array index (discussion with
163 + add ifdef's allowing ncurses to be built with tparm() using either
164 varargs (the existing status), or using a fixed-parameter list (to
168 + fix redrawing of windows other than stdscr using wredrawln() by
169 touching the corresponding rows in curscr (discussion with Dan
172 + add test/echochar.c
173 + review/cleanup manpage descriptions of error-returns for form- and
174 menu-libraries (prompted by FreeBSD docs/46196).
177 + add AUTHORS file -TD
178 + omit the -D options from output of the new config script --cflags
179 option (suggested by Ralf S Engelschall).
180 + make NCURSES_INLINE unconditionally defined in curses.h
183 + revert change to accommodate bash 3.2, since that breaks other
184 platforms, e.g., Solaris.
185 + minor fixes to NEWS file to simplify scripting to obtain list of
187 + improve some shared-library configure scripting for Linux, FreeBSD
188 and NetBSD to make "--with-shlib-version" work.
189 + change configure-script rules for FreeBSD shared libraries to allow
190 for rpath support in versions past 3.
191 + use $(DESTDIR) in makefile rules for installing/uninstalling the
192 package config script (reports/patches by Christian Wiese,
194 + fix a warning in the configure script for NetBSD 2.0, working around
195 spurious blanks embedded in its ${MAKEFLAGS} symbol.
196 + change test/Makefile to simplify installing test programs in a
197 different directory when --enable-rpath is used.
200 + work around bug in bash 3.2 by adding extra quotes (Jim Gifford).
201 + add/install a package config script, e.g., "ncurses5-config" or
202 "ncursesw5-config", according to configuration options.
205 + add several GNU Screen terminfo variations with 16- and 256-colors,
206 and status line (Alain Bench).
207 + change the way shared libraries (other than libtool) are installed.
208 Rather than copying the build-tree's libraries, link the shared
209 objects into the install directory. This makes the --with-rpath
210 option work except with $(DESTDIR) (cf: 20000930).
213 + fix ifdef in c++/internal.h for QNX 6.1
214 + test-compiled with (old) egcs-1.1.2, modified configure script to
215 not unset the $CXX and related variables which would prevent this.
216 + fix a few terminfo.src typos exposed by improvments to "-f" option.
217 + improve infocmp/tic "-f" option formatting.
220 + make --disable-largefile option work (report by Thomas M Ott).
221 + updated html documentation.
222 + add ka2, kb1, kb3, kc2 to vt220-keypad as an extension -TD
223 + minor improvements to rxvt+pcfkeys -TD
226 + move static data from lib_mouse.c into SCREEN struct.
227 + improve ifdef's for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset to work with Mac OS X
228 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
229 + modify CF_PATH_SYNTAX to ensure it uses the result from --prefix
230 option (from lynx changes) -TD
231 + adapt AC_PROG_EGREP check, noting that this is likely to be another
232 place aggravated by POSIXLY_CORRECT.
233 + modify configure check for awk to ensure that it is found (prompted
234 by report by Christopher Parker).
238 + add kon, kon2 and jfbterm terminfo entry (request by Till Maas) -TD
239 + remove invis capability from klone+sgr, mainly used by linux entry,
240 since it does not really do this -TD
243 + correct logic in wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not guard
244 against passing the multi-column attribute into a call on waddch(),
245 e.g., using data returned by win_wch() (cf: 20041023)
246 (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
249 + fix kterm's acsc string -TD
250 + fix for change to tic/infocmp in 20060819 to ensure no blank is
251 embedded into a termcap description.
252 + workaround for 20050806 ifdef's change to allow visbuf.c to compile
253 when using --with-termlib --with-trace options.
254 + improve tgetstr() by making the return value point into the user's
255 buffer, if provided (patch by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat Bugzilla
257 + correct libraries needed for foldkeys (report by Stanislav Ievlev)
260 + add terminfo entries for xfce terminal (xfce) and multi gnome
262 + add test/foldkeys.c
265 + modify tic and infocmp to avoid writing trailing blanks on terminfo
266 source output (Debian #378783).
267 + modify configure script to ensure that if the C compiler is used
268 rather than the loader in making shared libraries, the $(CFLAGS)
269 variable is also used (Redhat Bugzilla #199369).
270 + port hashed-db code to db2 and db3.
271 + fix a bug in tgetent() from 20060625 and 20060715 changes
272 (patch/analysis by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat Bugzilla #202480)).
275 + updated xterm function-keys terminfo to match xterm #216 -TD
276 + add configure --with-hashed-db option (tested only with FreeBSD 6.0,
277 e.g., the db 1.8.5 interface).
280 + modify toe to access termcap data, e.g., via cgetent() functions,
281 or as a text file if those are not available.
282 + use _nc_basename() in tset to improve $SHELL check for csh/sh.
283 + modify _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_termcap_entry() so infocmp,
284 can access termcap data when the terminfo database is disabled.
287 + widen the test for xterm kmous a little to allow for other strings
288 than \E[M, e.g., for xterm-sco functionality in xterm.
289 + update xterm-related terminfo entries to match xterm patch #216 -TD
290 + update config.guess, config.sub
293 + fix for install-rule in Ada95 to add terminal_interface.ads
294 and terminal_interface.ali (anonymous posting in comp.lang.ada).
295 + correction to manpage for getcchar() (report by William McBrine).
297 + modify wchgat() to mark updated cells as changed so a refresh will
298 repaint those cells (comments by Sadrul H Chowdhury and William
300 + split up dependency of names.c and codes.c in ncurses/Makefile to
301 work with parallel make (report/analysis by Joseph S Myers).
302 + suppress a warning message (which is ignored) for systems without
303 an ldconfig program (patch by Justin Hibbits).
304 + modify configure script --disable-symlinks option to allow one to
305 disable symlink() in tic even when link() does not work (report by
307 + modify MKfallback.sh to use tic -x when constructing fallback tables
308 to allow extended capabilities to be retrieved from a fallback entry.
309 + improve leak-checking logic in tgetent() from 20060625 to ensure that
310 it does not free the current screen (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
313 + add a check for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset (NetBSD #33916).
314 + correct _nc_free_entries() and related functions used for memory leak
318 + revert a minor change for magic-cookie support from 20060513, which
319 caused unexpected reset of attributes, e.g., when resizing test/view
321 + note in clear manpage that the program ignores command-line
322 parameters (prompted by Debian #371855).
323 + fixes to make lib_gen.c build properly with changes to the configure
324 --disable-macros option and NCURSES_NOMACROS (cf: 20060527)
325 + update/correct several terminfo entries -TD
326 + add some notes regarding copyright to terminfo.src -TD
329 + fixes to build Ada95 binding with gnat-4.1.0
330 + modify read_termtype() so the term_names data is always allocated as
331 part of the str_table, a better fix for a memory leak (cf: 20030809).
332 + reduce memory leaks in repeated calls to tgetent() by remembering the
333 last TERMINAL* value allocated to hold the corresponding data and
334 freeing that if the tgetent() result buffer is the same as the
335 previous call (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
336 + modify tack to test extended capability function-key strings.
337 + improved gnome terminfo entry (GenToo #122566).
338 + improved xterm-256color terminfo entry (patch by Alain Bench).
341 + fix two small memory leaks related to repeated tgetent() calls
342 with TERM=screen (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
343 + add --enable-signed-char to simplify Debian package.
344 + reduce name-pollution in term.h by removing #define's for HAVE_xxx
346 + correct typo in curs_terminfo.3x (Debian #369168).
349 + enable the mouse in test/movewindow.c
350 + improve a limit-check in frm_def.c (John Heasley).
351 + minor copyright fixes.
352 + change configure script to produce test/Makefile from data file.
355 + add a configure option --enable-wgetch-events to enable
356 NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS, and correct the associated loop-logic in
357 lib_twait.c (report by Bernd Jendrissek).
358 + remove include/nomacros.h from build, since the ifdef for
359 NCURSES_NOMACROS makes that obsolete.
360 + add entrypoints for some functions which were only provided as macros
361 to make NCURSES_NOMACROS ifdef work properly: getcurx(), getcury(),
362 getbegx(), getbegy(), getmaxx(), getmaxy(), getparx() and getpary(),
364 + provide ifdef for NCURSES_NOMACROS which suppresses most macro
365 definitions from curses.h, i.e., where a macro is defined to override
366 a function to improve performance. Allowing a developer to suppress
367 these definitions can simplify some application (discussion with
369 + improve description of memu/meml in terminfo manpage.
372 + if msgr is false, reset video attributes when doing an automargin
373 wrap to the next line. This makes the ncurses 'k' test work properly
375 + correct caching of keyname(), which was using only half of its table.
376 + minor fixes to memory-leak checking.
377 + make SCREEN._acs_map and SCREEN._screen_acs_map pointers rather than
378 arrays, making ACS_LEN less visible to applications (suggested by
380 + move chunk in SCREEN ifdef'd for USE_WIDEC_SUPPORT to the end, so
381 _screen_acs_map will have the same offset in both ncurses/ncursesw,
382 making the corresponding tinfo/tinfow libraries binary-compatible
383 (cf: 20041016, report by Stanislav Ievlev).
386 + improve debug-tracing for EmitRange().
387 + change default for --with-develop to "yes". Add NCURSES_NO_HARD_TABS
388 and NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE environment variables to allow runtime
389 suppression of the related hard-tabs and xmc-glitch features.
390 + add ncurses version number to top-level manpages, e.g., ncurses, tic,
391 infocmp, terminfo as well as form, menu, panel.
392 + update config.guess, config.sub
393 + modify ncurses.c to work around a bug in NetBSD 3.0 curses
394 (field_buffer returning null for a valid field). The 'r' test
395 appears to not work with that configuration since the new_fieldtype()
396 function is broken in that implementation.
399 + add hpterm-color terminfo entry -TD
400 + fixes to compile test-programs with HPUX 11.23
403 + add copyright notices to files other than those that are generated,
404 data or adapted from pdcurses (reports by William McBrine, David
406 + improve rendering on hpterm by not resetting attributes at the end
407 of doupdate() if the terminal has the magic-cookie feature (report
409 + add 256color variants of terminfo entries for programs which are
410 reported to implement this feature -TD
413 + fix typo in change to NewChar() macro from 20060311 changes, which
414 broke tab-expansion (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
417 + document -U option of tic and infocmp.
418 + modify tic/infocmp to suppress smacs/rmacs when acsc is suppressed
419 due to size limit, e.g., converting to termcap format. Also
420 suppress them if the output format does not contain acsc and it
421 was not VT100-like, i.e., a one-one mapping (Novell #163715).
422 + add configure check to ensure that SIGWINCH is defined on platforms
423 such as OS X which exclude that when _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., are
424 defined (report by Nicholas Cole)
427 + modify write_object() to not write coincidental extensions of an
428 entry made due to it being referenced in a use= clause (report by
430 + another fix for infocmp -i option, which did not ensure that some
431 escape sequences had comparable prefixes (report by Alain Bench).
434 + improve discussion of init/reset in terminfo and tput manpages
435 (report by Alain Bench).
436 + use is3 string for a fallback of rs3 in the reset program; it was
437 using is2 (report by Alain Bench).
438 + correct logic for infocmp -i option, which did not account for
439 multiple digits in a parameter (cf: 20040828) (report by Alain
441 + move _nc_handle_sigwinch() to lib_setup.c to make --with-termlib
442 option work after 20060114 changes (report by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz).
443 + add copyright notices to test-programs as needed (report by William
447 + modify ncurses.c 'F' test to combine the wide-characters with color
448 and/or video attributes.
449 + modify test/ncurses to use CTL/Q or ESC consistently for exiting
450 a test-screen (some commands used 'x' or 'q').
453 + fix an off-by-one in the scrolling-region change (cf_ 20060311).
456 + add checks in waddchnstr() and wadd_wchnstr() to stop copying when
457 a null character is found (report by Igor Bogomazov).
458 + modify progs/Makefile.in to make "tput init" work properly with
459 cygwin, i.e., do not pass a ".exe" in the reference string used
460 in check_aliases (report by Samuel Thibault).
461 + add some checks to ensure current position is within scrolling
462 region before scrolling on a new line (report by Dan Gookin).
463 + change some NewChar() usage to static variables to work around
464 stack garbage introduced when cchar_t is not packed (Redhat #182024).
467 + workarounds to build test/movewindow with PDcurses 2.7.
468 + fix for nsterm-16color entry (patch by Alain Bench).
469 + correct a typo in infocmp manpage (Debian #354281).
472 + add nsterm-16color entry -TD
473 + updated mlterm terminfo entry -TD
474 + remove 970913 feature for copying subwindows as they are moved in
475 mvwin() (discussion with Bryan Christ).
476 + modify test/demo_menus.c to demonstrate moving a menu (both the
477 window and subwindow) using shifted cursor-keys.
478 + start implementing recursive mvwin() in movewindow.c (incomplete).
479 + add a fallback definition for GCC_PRINTFLIKE() in test.priv.h,
480 for movewindow.c (report by William McBrine).
481 + add help-message to test/movewindow.c
484 + add test/movewindow.c, to test mvderwin().
485 + fix ncurses soft-key test so color changes are shown immediately
487 + modify ncurses soft-key test to hide the keys when exiting the test
489 + fixes to build test programs with PDCurses 2.7, e.g., its headers
490 rely on autoconf symbols, and it declares stubs for nonfunctional
491 terminfo and termcap entrypoints.
494 + improved test/configure to build test/ncurses on HPUX 11 using the
496 + documented ALTERNATE CONFIGURATIONS in the ncurses manpage, for the
497 benefit of developers who do not read INSTALL.
500 + correct form library Window_To_Buffer() change (cf: 20040516), which
501 should ignore the video attributes (report by Ricardo Cantu).
504 + minor fixes to xmc-glitch experimental code:
505 + suppress line-drawing
506 + implement max_attributes
508 + minor fixes for the database iterator.
509 + fix some buffer limits in c++ demo (comment by Falk Hueffner in
513 + add toe -a option, to show all databases. This uses new private
514 interfaces in the ncurses library for iterating through the list of
516 + fix toe from 20000909 changes which made it not look at
518 + make toe's -v option parameter optional as per manpage.
519 + improve SIGWINCH handling by postponing its effect during newterm(),
520 etc., when allocating screens.
523 + modify wgetnstr() to return KEY_RESIZE if a sigwinch occurs. Use
524 this in test/filter.c
525 + fix an error in filter() modification which caused some applications
529 + check if filter() was called when getting the screensize. Keep it
530 at 1 if so (based on Redhat #174498).
531 + add extension nofilter().
532 + refined the workaround for ACS mapping.
533 + make ifdef's consistent in curses.h for the extended colors so the
534 header file can be used for the normal curses library. The header
535 file installed for extended colors is a variation of the
536 wide-character configuration (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
539 + add a workaround to ACS mapping to allow applications such as
540 test/blue.c to use the "PC ROM" characters by masking them with
541 A_ALTCHARSET. This worked up til 5.5, but was lost in the revision
542 of legacy coding (report by Michael Deutschmann).
543 + add a null-pointer check in the wide-character version of
544 calculate_actual_width() (report by Victor Julien).
545 + improve test/ncurses 'd' (color-edit) test by allowing the RGB
546 values to be set independently (patch by William McBrine).
547 + modify test/configure script to allow building test programs with
549 + modified test programs to allow some to work with NetBSD curses.
550 Several do not because NetBSD curses implements a subset of X/Open
551 curses, and also lacks much of SVr4 additions. But it's enough for
553 + update config.guess and config.sub
556 + use BSD-specific fix for return-value from cgetent() from CVS where
557 an unknown terminal type would be reportd as "database not found".
558 + make tgetent() return code more readable using new symbols
560 + remove references to non-existent "tctest" program.
561 + remove TESTPROGS from progs/Makefile.in (it was referring to code
562 that was never built in that directory).
563 + typos in curs_addchstr.3x, some doc files (noticed in OpenBSD CVS).
566 + add use_legacy_coding() function to support lynx's font-switching
568 + fix formatting in curs_termcap.3x (report by Mike Frysinger).
569 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to change preprocessor-expanded _Bool back to
573 + extend test/ncurses.c 's' (overlay window) test to exercise overlay(),
574 overwrite() and copywin() with different combinations of colors and
575 attributes (including background color) to make it easy to see the
576 effect of the different functions.
577 + corrections to menu/m_global.c for wide-characters (report by
581 + add configure option --without-dlsym, allowing developers to
582 configure GPM support without using dlsym() (discussion with Michael
584 + fix wins_nwstr(), which did not handle single-column non-8bit codes
588 + move prototypes for wide-character trace functions from curses.tail
589 to curses.wide to avoid accidental reference to those if
590 _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined without ensuring that <wchar.h> is
592 + add/use NCURSES_INLINE definition.
593 + change some internal functions to use int/unsigned rather than the
597 + remove a redundant check in lib_color.c (Debian #335655).
598 + use ld's -search_paths_first option on Darwin to work around odd
599 search rules on that platform (report by Christian Gennerat, analysis
601 + remove special case for Darwin in CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro.
602 + ignore EINTR in tcgetattr/tcsetattr calls (Debian #339518).
603 + fix several bugs in test/bs.c (patch by Stephen Lindholm).
606 + other minor fixes to cygwin based on tack -TD
607 + correct smacs in cygwin (Debian #338234, report by Baurzhan
608 Ismagulov, who noted that it was fixed in Cygwin).
611 + add shifted up/down arrow codes to xterm-new as kind/kri strings -TD
612 + modify wbkgrnd() to avoid clearing the A_CHARTEXT attribute bits
613 since those record the state of multicolumn characters (Debian
615 + modify werase to clear multicolumn characters that extend into
616 a derived window (Debian #316663).
619 + move assignment from environment variable ESCDELAY from initscr()
620 down to newterm() so the environment variable affects timeouts for
621 terminals opened with newterm() as well.
622 + fix a memory leak in keyname().
623 + add test/demo_altkeys.c
624 + modify test/demo_defkey.c to exit from loop via 'q' to allow
625 leak-checking, as well as fix a buffer size in winnstr() call.
628 + correct order of use-clauses in rxvt-basic entry which made codes for
629 f1-f4 vt100-style rather than vt220-style (report by Gabor Z Papp).
630 + suppress configure check for gnatmake if Ada95/Makefile.in is not
632 + correct a typo in configure --with-bool option for the case where
633 --without-cxx is used (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
634 + add a note to INSTALL's discussion of --with-normal, pointing out
635 that one may wish to use --without-gpm to ensure a completely
636 static link (prompted by report by Felix von Leitner).
638 20051010 5.5 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
641 + document in demo_forms.c some portability issues.
644 + document side-effect of werase() which sets the cursor position.
645 + save/restore the current position in form field editing to make
649 + correct header dependencies in progs, allowing parallel make (report
650 by Daniel Jacobowitz).
651 + modify CF_BUILD_CC to ensure that pre-setting $BUILD_CC overrides
652 the configure check for --with-build-cc (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
653 + modify CF_CFG_DEFAULTS to not use /usr as the default prefix for
655 + update config.guess and config.sub from
656 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
659 + modify sed expression which computes path for /usr/lib/terminfo
660 symbolic link in install to ensure that it does not change unexpected
661 levels of the path (Gentoo #42336).
662 + modify default for --disable-lp64 configure option to reduce impact
663 on existing 64-bit builds. Enabling the _LP64 option may change the
664 size of chtype and mmask_t. However, for ABI 6, it is enabled by
665 default (report by Mike Frysinger).
666 + add configure script check for --enable-ext-mouse, bump ABI to 6 by
667 default if it is used.
668 + improve configure script logic for bumping ABI to omit this if the
669 --with-abi-version option was used.
670 + update address for Free Software Foundation in tack's source.
671 + correct wins_wch(), which was not marking the filler-cells of
672 multi-column characters (cf: 20041023).
675 + modify mouse initialization to ensure that Gpm_Open() is called only
676 once. Otherwise GPM gets confused in its initialization of signal
677 handlers (Debian #326709).
680 + modify logic for backspacing in a multiline form field to ensure that
681 it works even when the preceding line is full (report by Frank van
683 + remove comment about BUGS section of ncurses manpage (Debian #325481)
686 + document some workarounds for shared and libtool library
687 configurations in INSTALL (see --with-shared and --with-libtool).
688 + modify CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GXX_VERSION macros to accommodate
689 cross-compilers which emit the platform name in their version
691 arm-sa1100-linux-gnu-g++ (GCC) 4.0.1
692 (report by Frank van Vugt).
695 + start updating documentation for upcoming 5.5 release.
696 + fix to make libtool and libtinfo work together again (cf: 20050122).
697 + fixes to allow building traces into libtinfo
698 + add debug trace to tic that shows if/how ncurses will write to the
699 lower corner of a terminal's screen.
700 + update llib-l* files.
703 + modify initializers in c++ binding to build with old versions of g++.
704 + improve special case for 20050115 repainting fix, ensuring that if
705 the first changed cell is not a character that the range to be
706 repainted is adjusted to start at a character's beginning (Debian
710 + fixes to build on QNX 6.1
711 + improve configure script checks for Intel 9.0 compiler.
712 + remove #include's for libc.h (obsolete).
713 + adjust ifdef's in curses.priv.h so that when cross-compiling to
714 produce comp_hash and make_keys, no dependency on wchar.h is needed.
715 That simplifies the build-cppflags (report by Frank van Vugt).
716 + move modules related to key-binding into libtinfo to fix linkage
717 problem caused by 20050430 changes to MKkeyname.sh (report by
721 + updates/fixes for configure script macros from vile -TD
722 + make prism9's sgr string agree with the rest of the terminfo -TD
723 + make vt220's sgr0 string consistent with sgr string, do this for
724 several related cases -TD
725 + improve translation to termcap by filtering the 'me' (sgr0) strings
726 as in the runtime call to tgetent() (prompted by a discussion with
728 + improve tic check for sgr0 versus sgr(0), to help ensure that sgr0
732 + fix special cases for trimming sgr0 for hurd and vt220 (Debian
734 + split-out _nc_trim_sgr0() from modifications made to tgetent(), to
735 allow it to be used by tic to provide information about the runtime
736 changes that would be made to sgr0 for termcap applications.
737 + modify make_sed.sh to make the group-name in the NAME section of
738 form/menu library manpage agree with the TITLE string when renaming
739 is done for Debian (Debian #78866).
742 + modify parameter type in c++ binding for insch() and mvwinsch() to
743 be consistent with underlying ncurses library (was char, is chtype).
744 + modify treatment of Intel compiler to allow _GNU_SOURCE to be defined
746 + improve configure check for nanosleep(), checking that it works since
747 some older systems such as AIX 4.3 have a nonworking version.
750 + update config.guess and config.sub from
751 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
752 + modify misc/shlib to work in test-directory.
753 + suppress $suffix in misc/run_tic.sh when cross-compiling. This
754 allows cross-compiles to use the host's tic program to handle the
755 "make install.data" step.
756 + improve description of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables in manpages
757 (prompted by report by Dave Ulrick).
758 + improve description of cross-compiling in INSTALL
759 + add NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html by Pradeep Padala
760 (see http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/).
761 + modify configure script to obtain soname for GPM library (discussion
762 with Daniel Jacobowitz).
763 + modify configure script so that --with-chtype option will still
764 compute the unsigned literals suffix for constants in curses.h
765 (report by Daniel Jacobowitz:
766 + patches from Daniel Jacobowitz:
767 + the man_db.renames entry for tack.1 was backwards.
768 + tack.1 had some 1m's that should have been 1M's.
769 + the section for curs_inwstr.3 was wrong.
772 + correction to --with-chtype option (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
775 + move build-time edit_man.sh and edit_man.sed scripts to top directory
776 to simplify reusing them for renaming tack's manpage (prompted by a
777 review of Debian package).
778 + revert minor optimization from 20041030 (Debian #313609).
779 + libtool-specific fixes, tested with libtool 1.4.3, 1.5.0, 1.5.6,
780 1.5.10 and 1.5.18 (all work except as noted previously for the c++
781 install using libtool 1.5.0):
782 + modify the clean-rule in c++/Makefile.in to work with IRIX64 make
784 + use $(LIBTOOL_UNINSTALL) symbol, overlooked in 20030830
785 + add configure options --with-chtype and --with-mmask-t, to allow
786 overriding of the non-LP64 model's use of the corresponding types.
787 + revise test for size of chtype (and mmask_t), which always returned
788 "long" due to an uninitialized variable (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
791 + change _tracef's that used "%p" format for va_list values to ignore
792 that, since on some platforms those are not pointers.
793 + fixes for long-formats in printf's due to largefile support.
796 + fixes for termcap support:
797 + reset pointer to _nc_curr_token.tk_name when the input stream is
798 closed, which could point to free memory (cf: 20030215).
799 + delink TERMTYPE data which is used by the termcap reader, so that
800 extended names data will be freed consistently.
801 + free pointer to TERMTYPE data in _nc_free_termtype() rather than
803 + add some entrypoints for freeing permanently allocated data via
804 _nc_freeall() when NO_LEAKS is defined.
805 + amend 20041030 change to _nc_do_color to ensure that optimization is
806 applied only when the terminal supports back_color_erase (bce).
809 + add sun-color terminfo entry -TD
810 + correct a missing assignment in c++ binding's method
811 NCursesPanel::UserPointer() from 20050409 changes.
812 + improve configure check for large-files, adding check for dirent64
814 + minor change to configure script to improve linker options for the
818 + document error conditions for ncurses library functions (report by
820 + regenerated html documentation for ada binding.
821 see ftp://invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/gnathtml
824 + regenerated html documentation for manpages.
825 + add $(BUILD_EXEEXT) suffix to invocation of make_keys in
826 ncurses/Makefile (Gentoo #89772).
827 + modify c++/demo.cc to build with g++ -fno-implicit-templates option
828 (patch by Mike Frysinger).
829 + modify tic to filter out long extended names when translating to
830 termcap format. Only two characters are permissible for termcap
834 + modify terminfo entries xterm-new and rxvt to add strings for
835 shift-, control-cursor keys.
836 + workaround to allow c++ binding to compile with g++ 2.95.3, which
837 has a broken implementation of static_cast<> (patch by Jeff Chua).
838 + modify initialization of key lookup table so that if an extended
839 capability (tic -x) string is defined, and its name begins with 'k',
840 it will automatically be treated as a key.
841 + modify test/keynames.c to allow for the possibility of extended
842 key names, e.g., via define_key(), or via "tic -x".
843 + add test/demo_termcap.c to show the contents of given entry via the
847 + minor fixes for vt100/vt52 entries -TD
848 + add configure option --enable-largefile
849 + corrected libraries used to build Ada95/gen/gen, found in testing
853 + update config.guess, config.sub
854 + modify configure script check for _XOPEN_SOURCE, disable that on
855 Darwin whose header files have problems (patch by Chris Zubrzycki).
856 + modify form library Is_Printable_String() to use iswprint() rather
857 than wcwidth() for determining if a character is printable. The
858 latter caused it to reject menu items containing non-spacing
860 + modify ncurses test program's F-test to handle non-spacing characters
861 by combining them with a reverse-video blank.
862 + review/fix several gcc -Wconversion warnings.
865 + correct an off-by-one error in m_driver() for mouse-clicks used to
866 position the mouse to a particular item.
867 + implement test/demo_menus.c
868 + add some checks in lib_mouse to ensure SP is set.
869 + modify C++ binding to make 20050403 changes work with the configure
870 --enable-const option.
873 + modify start_color() to return ERR if it cannot allocate memory.
874 + address g++ compiler warnings in C++ binding by adding explicit
875 member initialization, assignment operators and copy constructors.
876 Most of the changes simply preserve the existing semantics of the
877 binding, which can leak memory, etc., but by making these features
878 visible, it provides a framework for improving the binding.
879 + improve C++ binding using static_cast, etc.
880 + modify configure script --enable-warnings to add options to g++ to
881 correspond to the gcc --enable-warnings.
882 + modify C++ binding to use some C internal functions to make it
883 compile properly on Solaris (and other platforms).
886 + amend change from 20050320 to limit it to configurations with a
888 + fix a bug introduced in 20050320 which broke the translation of
889 nonprinting characters to uparrow form (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
892 + add ifdef's for _LP64 in curses.h to avoid using wasteful 64-bits for
893 chtype and mmask_t, but add configure option --disable-lp64 in case
894 anyone used that configuration.
895 + update misc/shlib script to account for Mac OS X (report by Michail
897 + correct comparison for wrapping multibyte characters in
898 waddch_literal() (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
901 + add -c and -w options to tset to allow user to suppress ncurses'
902 resizing of the terminal emulator window in the special case where it
903 is not able to detect the true size (report by Win Delvaux, Debian
905 + modify waddch_nosync() to account for locale zn_CH.GBK, which uses
906 codes 128-159 as part of multibyte characters (report by Wang
907 WenRui, Debian #300512).
910 + modify ncurses.c 'd' test to make it work with 88-color
911 configuration, i.e., by implementing scrolling.
912 + improve scrolling in ncurses.c 'c' and 'C' tests, e.g., for 88-color
916 + change tracemunch to use strict checking.
917 + modify ncurses.c 'p' test to test line-drawing within a pad.
918 + implement environment variable NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS to support
919 miscellaneous terminal emulators which ignore alternate character
920 set escape sequences when in UTF-8 mode.
923 + change NCursesWindow::err_handler() to a virtual function (request by
925 + modify fty_int.c and fty_num.c to handle wide characters (report by
927 + adapt fix for fty_alpha.c to fty_alnum.c, which also handled normal
928 and wide characters inconsistently (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
929 + update llib-* files to reflect internal interface additions/changes.
932 + improve test/configure script, adding tests for _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc.,
934 + add aixterm-16color terminfo entry -TD
935 + modified xterm-new terminfo entry to work with tgetent() changes -TD
936 + extended changes in tgetent() from 20040710 to allow the substring of
937 sgr0 which matches rmacs to be at the beginning of the sgr0 string
938 (request by Thomas Wolff). Wolff says the visual effect in
939 combination with pre-20040710 ncurses is improved.
940 + fix off-by-one in winnstr() call which caused form field validation
941 of multibyte characters to ignore the last character in a field.
942 + correct logic in winsch() for inserting multibyte strings; the code
943 would clear cells after the insertion rather than push them to the
944 right (cf: 20040228).
945 + fix an inconsistency in Check_Alpha_Field() between normal and wide
946 character logic (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
949 + fix a bug in editing wide-characters in form library: deleting a
950 nonwide character modified the previous wide-character.
951 + update manpage to describe NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2.
952 + correct manpage description of mouseinterval() (Debian #280687).
953 + add a note to default_colors.3x explaining why this extension was
954 added (Debian #295083).
955 + add traces to panel library.
958 + improve editing of wide-characters in form library: left/right
959 cursor movement, and single-character deletions work properly.
960 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM happens to be prefixed with
961 "xterm". Gpm_Open() would otherwise assert that it can deal with
962 mouse events in this case.
963 + modify GPM mouse support so it closes the server connection when
964 the caller disables the mouse (report by Stanislav Ievlev).
967 + add traces for callback functions in form library.
968 + add experimental configure option --enable-ext-mouse, which defines
969 NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2, and modifies the encoding of mouse events to
970 support wheel mice, which may transmit buttons 4 and 5. This works
971 with xterm and similar X terminal emulators (prompted by question by
972 Andreas Henningsson, this is also related to Debian #230990).
973 + improve configure macros CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE to
974 avoid redefinition warnings on cygwin.
977 + merge remaining development changes for extended colors (mostly
978 complete, does not appear to break other configurations).
979 + add xterm-88color.dat (part of extended colors testing).
980 + improve _tracedump() handling of color pairs past 96.
981 + modify return-value from start_color() to return OK if colors have
982 already been started.
983 + modify curs_color.3x list error conditions for init_pair(),
984 pair_content() and color_content().
985 + modify pair_content() to return -1 for consistency with init_pair()
986 if it corresponds to the default-color.
987 + change internal representation of default-color to allow application
988 to use color number 255. This does not affect the total number of
989 color pairs which are allowed.
990 + add a top-level tags rule.
993 + add a null-pointer check in wgetch() in case it is called without
994 first calling initscr().
995 + add some null-pointer checks for SP, which is not set by libtinfo.
996 + modify misc/shlib to ensure that absolute pathnames are used.
997 + modify test/Makefile.in, etc., to link test programs only against the
998 libraries needed, e.g., omit form/menu/panel library for the ones
999 that are curses-specific.
1000 + change SP->_current_attr to a pointer, adjust ifdef's to ensure that
1001 libtinfo.so and libtinfow.so have the same ABI. The reason for this
1002 is that the corresponding data which belongs to the upper-level
1003 ncurses library has a different size in each model (report by
1007 + minor fixes to allow test-compiles with g++.
1008 + correct column value shown in tic's warnings, which did not account
1009 for leading whitespace.
1010 + add a check in _nc_trans_string() for improperly ended strings, i.e.,
1011 where a following line begins in column 1.
1012 + modify _nc_save_str() to return a null pointer on buffer overflow.
1013 + improve repainting while scrolling wide-character data (Eungkyu Song).
1016 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
1019 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
1020 + fix manpage typo (FreeBSD report docs/75544).
1021 + update config.guess, config.sub
1022 > patches for configure script (Albert Chin-A-Young):
1023 + improved fix to make mbstate_t recognized on HPUX 11i (cf:
1024 20030705), making vsscanf() prototype visible on IRIX64. Tested for
1025 on HP-UX 11i, Solaris 7, 8, 9, AIX 4.3.3, 5.2, Tru64 UNIX 4.0D, 5.1,
1026 IRIX64 6.5, Redhat Linux 7.1, 9, and RHEL 2.1, 3.0.
1027 + print the result of the --disable-home-terminfo option.
1028 + use -rpath when compiling with SGI C compiler.
1031 + add trace calls to remaining public functions in form and menu
1033 + fix check for numeric digits in test/ncurses.c 'b' and 'B' tests.
1034 + fix typo in test/ncurses.c 'c' test from 20041218.
1037 + revise test/ncurses.c 'c' color test to improve use for xterm-88color
1038 and xterm-256color, added 'C' test using the wide-character color_set
1039 and attr_set functions.
1042 + modify configure script to work with Intel compiler.
1043 + fix an limit-check in wadd_wchnstr() which caused labels in the
1044 forms-demo to be one character short.
1045 + fix typo in curs_addchstr.3x (Jared Yanovich).
1046 + add trace calls to most functions in form and menu libraries.
1047 + update working-position for adding wide-characters when window is
1048 scrolled (prompted by related report by Eungkyu Song).
1051 + replace some references on Linux to wcrtomb() which use it to obtain
1052 the length of a multibyte string with _nc_wcrtomb, since wcrtomb() is
1053 broken in glibc (see Debian #284260).
1054 + corrected length-computation in wide-character support for
1056 + some fixes to frm_driver.c to allow it to accept multibyte input.
1057 + modify configure script to work with Intel 8.0 compiler.
1060 + amend change to setupterm() in 20030405 which would reuse the value
1061 of cur_term if the same output was selected. This now reuses it only
1062 when setupterm() is called from tgetent(), which has no notion of
1063 separate SCREENs. Note that tgetent() must be called after initscr()
1064 or newterm() to use this feature (Redhat Bugzilla #140326).
1065 + add a check in CF_BUILD_CC macro to ensure that developer has given
1066 the --with-build-cc option when cross-compiling (report by Alexandre
1068 + improved configure script checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE and
1069 _POSIX_C_SOURCE (fix for IRIX 5.3 from Georg Schwarz, _POSIX_C_SOURCE
1071 + cosmetic fix to test/gdc.c to recolor the bottom edge of the box
1072 for consistency (comment by Dan Nelson).
1075 + update wsvt25 terminfo entry -TD
1076 + modify test/ins_wide.c to test all flavors of ins_wstr().
1077 + ignore filler-cells in wadd_wchnstr() when adding a cchar_t array
1078 which consists of multi-column characters, since this function
1079 constructs them (cf: 20041023).
1080 + modify winnstr() to return multibyte character strings for the
1081 wide-character configuration.
1084 + fixes to make slk_set() and slk_wset() accept and store multibyte
1085 or multicolumn characters.
1088 + improve color optimization a little by making _nc_do_color() check
1089 if the old/new pairs are equivalent to the default pair 0.
1090 + modify assume_default_colors() to not require that
1091 use_default_colors() be called first.
1094 + modify term_attrs() to use termattrs(), add the extended attributes
1095 such as enter_horizontal_hl_mode for WA_HORIZONTAL to term_attrs().
1096 + add logic in waddch_literal() to clear orphaned cells when one
1097 multi-column character partly overwrites another.
1098 + improved logic for clearing cells when a multi-column character
1099 must be wrapped to a new line.
1100 + revise storage of cells for multi-column characters to correct a
1101 problem with repainting. In the old scheme, it was possible for
1102 doupdate() to decide that only part of a multi-column character
1103 should be repainted since the filler cells stored only an attribute
1104 to denote them as fillers, rather than the character value and the
1108 + minor fixes for traces.
1109 + add SP->_screen_acs_map[], used to ensure that mapping of missing
1110 line-drawing characters is handled properly. For example, ACS_DARROW
1111 is absent from xterm-new, and it was coincidentally displayed the
1115 + amend 20021221 workaround for broken acs to reset the sgr, rmacs
1116 and smacs strings as well. Also modify the check for screen's
1117 limitations in that area to allow the multi-character shift-in
1118 and shift-out which seem to work.
1119 + change GPM initialization, using dl library to load it dynamically
1120 at runtime (Debian #110586).
1123 + correct logic for color pair in setcchar() and getcchar() (patch by
1124 Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
1125 + add t/T commands to ncurses b/B tests to allow a different color to
1126 be tested for the attrset part of the test than is used in the
1130 + fix to make setcchar() to work when its wchar_t* parameter is
1131 pointing to a string which contains more data than can be converted.
1132 + modify wget_wstr() and example in ncurses.c to work if wchar_t and
1133 wint_t are different sizes (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
1136 + remove check in wget_wch() added to fix an infinite loop, appears to
1137 have been working around a transitory glibc bug, and interferes
1138 with normal operation (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
1139 + correct wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not pass the rendition
1140 information (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
1141 + fix aclocal.m4 so that the wide-character version of ncurses gets
1142 compiled as libncursesw.5.dylib, instead of libncurses.5w.dylib
1143 (adapted from patch by James J Ramsey).
1144 + change configure script for --with-caps option to indicate that it
1145 is no longer experimental.
1146 + change configure script to reflect the fact that --enable-widec has
1147 not been "experimental" since 5.3 (report by Bruno Lustosa).
1150 + add 'B' test to ncurses.c, to exercise some wide-character functions.
1153 + modify infocmp -i option to match 8-bit controls against its table
1154 entries, e.g., so it can analyze the xterm-8bit entry.
1155 + add morphos terminfo entry, improve amiga-8bit entry (Pavel Fedin).
1156 + correct translation of "%%" in terminfo format to termcap, e.g.,
1157 using "tic -C" (Redhat Bugzilla #130921).
1158 + modified configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to ensure that if
1159 it defines _POSIX_C_SOURCE, that it defines it to a specific value
1160 (comp.os.stratus newsgroup comment).
1163 + fixes to build with Ada95 binding with gnat 3.4 (all warnings are
1164 fatal, and gnat does not follow the guidelines for pragmas).
1165 However that did find a coding error in Assume_Default_Colors().
1166 + modify several terminfo entries to ensure xterm mouse and cursor
1167 visibility are reset in rs2 string: hurd, putty, gnome,
1168 konsole-base, mlterm, Eterm, screen (Debian #265784, #55637). The
1169 xterm entries are left alone - old ones for compatibility, and the
1170 new ones do not require this change. -TD
1173 + fake a SIGWINCH in newterm() to accommodate buggy terminal emulators
1174 and window managers (Debian #265631).
1175 > terminfo updates -TD
1176 + remove dch/dch1 from rxvt because they are implemented inconsistently
1177 with the common usage of bce/ech
1178 + remove khome from vt220 (vt220's have no home key)
1182 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test, adding v/V toggles to cycle through
1183 combinations of video attributes so that for instance bold and
1184 underline can be tested. This made the legend too crowded, added
1185 a help window as well.
1186 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test to cycle through default colors if
1187 the -d option is set.
1188 + update putty terminfo entry (Robert de Bath).
1191 + modify test/cardfile.c to allow it to read more data than can be
1193 + correct logic in resizeterm.c which kept it from processing all
1194 levels of window hierarchy (reports by Folkert van Heusden,
1198 + modify "tic -cv" to ignore delays when comparing strings. Also
1199 modify it to ignore a canceled sgr string, e.g., for terminals which
1200 cannot properly combine attributes in one control sequence.
1201 + corrections for gnome and konsole entries (Redhat Bugzilla #122815,
1202 patch by Hans de Goede)
1203 > terminfo updates -TD
1204 + make ncsa-m rmacs/smacs consistent with sgr
1205 + add sgr, rc/sc and ech to syscons entries
1206 + add function-keys to decansi
1207 + add sgr to mterm-ansi
1208 + add sgr, civis, cnorm to emu
1209 + correct/simplify cup in addrinfo
1212 > terminfo updates -TD
1213 + add xterm-pc-fkeys
1214 + review/update gnome and gnome-rh90 entries (prompted by Redhat
1216 + review/update konsole entries
1217 + add sgr, correct sgr0 for kterm and mlterm
1218 + correct tsl string in kterm
1221 + add configure option --without-xterm-new
1224 + add check in wget_wch() for printable bytes that are not part of a
1225 multibyte character.
1226 + modify wadd_wchnstr() to render text using window's background
1228 + improve tic's check to compare sgr and sgr0.
1229 + fix c++ directory's .cc.i rule.
1230 + modify logic in tgetent() which adjusts the termcap "me" string
1231 to work with ISO-2022 string used in xterm-new (cf: 20010908).
1232 + modify tic's check for conflicting function keys to omit that if
1233 converting termcap to termcap format.
1234 + add -U option to tic and infocmp.
1235 + add rmam/smam to linux terminfo entry (Trevor Van Bremen)
1236 > terminfo updates -TD
1237 + minor fixes for emu
1239 + change wyse acsc strings to use 'i' map rather than 'I'
1244 + use tic -x to install terminfo database -TD
1245 + add -x to infocmp's usage message.
1246 + correct field used for comparing O_ROWMAJOR in set_menu_format()
1247 (report/patch by Tony Li).
1248 + fix a missing nul check in set_field_buffer() from 20040508 changes.
1249 > terminfo updates -TD
1250 + make xterm-xf86-v43 derived from xterm-xf86-v40 rather than
1252 + align with xterm patch #192's use of xterm-new -TD
1253 + update xterm-new and xterm-8bit for cvvis/cnorm strings -TD
1254 + make xterm-new the default "xterm" entry -TD
1257 + correct BUILD_CPPFLAGS substitution in ncurses/Makefile.in, to allow
1258 cross-compiling from a separate directory tree (report/patch by
1260 + modify is_term_resized() to ensure that window sizes are nonzero,
1261 as documented in the manpage (report by Ian Collier).
1262 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro to make Hurd port build
1263 (Debian #249214, report/patch by Jeff Bailey).
1264 + configure-script mods from xterm, e.g., updates to CF_ADD_CFLAGS
1265 + update config.guess, config.sub
1266 > terminfo updates -TD
1268 + add xterm-xf86-v44
1269 + modify xterm-new aka xterm-xfree86 to accommodate luit, which
1270 relies on G1 being used via an ISO-2022 escape sequence (report by
1275 + reconsidered winsnstr(), decided after comparing other
1276 implementations that wrapping is an X/Open documentation error.
1277 + modify test/inserts.c to test all flavors of insstr().
1280 + add setlocale() calls to a few test programs which may require it:
1281 demo_forms.c, filter.c, ins_wide.c, inserts.c
1282 + correct a few misspelled function names in ncurses-intro.html (report
1284 + correct internal name of key_defined() manpage, which conflicted with
1288 + correct size of internal pad used for holding wide-character
1289 field_buffer() results.
1290 + modify data_ahead() to work with wide-characters.
1293 + improve description of terminfo if-then-else expressions (suggested
1295 + improve test/ncurses.c 'd' test, allow it to use external file for
1296 initial palette (added xterm-16color.dat and linux-color.dat), and
1297 reset colors to the initial palette when starting/ending the test.
1298 + change limit-check in init_color() to allow r/g/b component to
1299 reach 1000 (cf: 20020928).
1302 + modify form library to use cchar_t's rather than char's in the
1303 wide-character configuration for storing data for field buffers.
1304 + correct logic of win_wchnstr(), which did not work for more than
1308 + replace memset/memcpy usage in form library with for-loops to
1309 simplify changing the datatype of FIELD.buf, part of wide-character
1311 + fix some inconsistent use of #if/#ifdef (report by Alain Guibert).
1314 + modify menu library to account for actual number of columns used by
1315 multibyte character strings, in the wide-character configuration
1316 (adapted from patch by Philipp Tomsich).
1317 + add "-x" option to infocmp like tic's "-x", for use in "-F"
1318 comparisons. This modifies infocmp to only report extended
1319 capabilities if the -x option is given, making this more consistent
1320 with tic. Some scripts may break, since infocmp previous gave this
1321 information without an option.
1322 + modify termcap-parsing to retain 2-character aliases at the beginning
1323 of an entry if the "-x" option is used in tic.
1326 + minor compiler-warning and test-program fixes.
1329 + modify tic's missing-sgr warning to apply to terminfo only.
1330 + free some memory leaks in tic.
1331 + remove check in post_menu() that prevented menus from extending
1332 beyond the screen (request by Max J. Werner).
1333 + remove check in newwin() that prevents allocating windows
1334 that extend beyond the screen. Solaris curses does this.
1335 + add ifdef in test/color_set.c to allow it to compile with older
1337 + add napms() calls to test/dots.c to make it not be a CPU hog.
1340 + modify unctrl() to return null if its parameter does not correspond
1341 to an unsigned char.
1342 + add some limit-checks to guard isprint(), etc., from being used on
1343 values that do not fit into an unsigned char (report by Sami Farin).
1346 + fix a typo in the _nc_get_locale() change.
1349 + modify _nc_get_locale() to use setlocale() to query the program's
1350 current locale rather than using getenv(). This fixes a case in tin
1351 which relies on legacy treatment of 8-bit characters when the locale
1352 is not initialized (reported by Urs Jansen).
1353 + add sgr string to screen's and rxvt's terminfo entries -TD.
1354 + add a check in tic for terminfo entries having an sgr0 but no sgr
1355 string. This confuses Tru64 and HPUX curses when combined with
1356 color, e.g., making them leave line-drawing characters in odd places.
1357 + correct casts used in ABSENT_BOOLEAN, CANCELLED_BOOLEAN, matches the
1358 original definitions used in Debian package to fix PowerPC bug before
1359 20030802 (Debian #237629).
1362 + modify PutAttrChar() and PUTC() macro to improve use of
1363 A_ALTCHARSET attribute to prevent line-drawing characters from
1364 being lost in situations where the locale would otherwise treat the
1365 raw data as nonprintable (Debian #227879).
1368 + fix a redefinition of CTRL() macro in test/view.c for AIX 5.2 (report
1370 + remove ".PP" after ".SH NAME" in a few manpages; this confuses
1371 some apropos script (Debian #237831).
1374 + modify ncurses.c 'r' test so editing commands, like inserted text,
1375 set the field background, and the state of insert/overlay editing
1376 mode is shown in that test.
1377 + change syntax of dummy targets in Ada95 makefiles to work with pmake.
1378 + correct logic in test/ncurses.c 'b' for noncolor terminals which
1379 did not recognize a quit-command (cf: 20030419).
1382 + modify _nc_insert_ch() to allow for its input to be part of a
1384 + split out lib_insnstr.c, to prepare to rewrite it. X/Open states
1385 that this function performs wrapping, unlike all of the other
1386 insert-functions. Currently it does not wrap.
1387 + check for nl_langinfo(CODESET), use it if available (report by
1389 + split-out CF_BUILD_CC macro, actually did this for lynx first.
1390 + fixes for configure script CF_WITH_DBMALLOC and CF_WITH_DMALLOC,
1391 which happened to work with bash, but not with Bourne shell (report
1392 by Marco d'Itri via tin-dev).
1395 + some changes to adapt the form library to wide characters, incomplete
1396 (request by Mike Aubury).
1397 + add symbol to curses.h which can be used to suppress include of
1399 #define NCURSES_ENABLE_STDBOOL_H 0
1401 (discussion on XFree86 mailing list).
1404 + modify configure --with-termlib option to accept a value which sets
1405 the name of the terminfo library. This would allow a packager to
1406 build libtinfow.so renamed to coincide with libtinfo.so (discussion
1407 with Stanislav Ievlev).
1408 + improve documentation of --with-install-prefix, --prefix and
1409 $(DESTDIR) in INSTALL (prompted by discussion with Paul Lew).
1410 + add configure check if the compiler can use -c -o options to rename
1411 its output file, use that to omit the 'cd' command which was used to
1412 ensure object files are created in a separate staging directory
1413 (prompted by comments by Johnny Wezel, Martin Mokrejs).
1415 20040208 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1418 20040207 pre-release
1419 + minor fixes to _nc_tparm_analyze(), i.e., do not count %i as a param,
1420 and do not count %d if it follows a %p.
1421 + correct an inconsistency between handling of codes in the 128-255
1422 range, e.g., as illustrated by test/ncurses.c f/F tests. In POSIX
1423 locale, the latter did not show printable results, while the former
1425 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to compensate for broken C preprocessor on Mac
1426 OS X, which alters "%%" to "% % " (report by Robert Simms, fix
1427 verified by Scott Corscadden).
1429 20040131 pre-release
1430 + modify SCREEN struct to align it between normal/wide curses flavors
1431 to simplify future changes to build a single version of libtinfo
1432 (patch by Stanislav Ievlev).
1433 + document handling of carriage return by addch() in manpage.
1434 + document special features of unctrl() in manpage.
1435 + documented interface changes in INSTALL.
1436 + corrected control-char test in lib_addch.c to account for locale
1437 (Debian #230335, cf: 971206).
1438 + updated test/configure.in to use AC_EXEEXT and AC_OBJEXT.
1439 + fixes to compile Ada95 binding with Debian gnat 3.15p-4 package.
1440 + minor configure-script fixes for older ports, e.g., BeOS R4.5.
1442 20040125 pre-release
1443 + amend change to PutAttrChar() from 20030614 which computed the number
1444 of cells for a possibly multi-cell character. The 20030614 change
1445 forced the cell to a blank if the result from wcwidth() was not
1446 greater than zero. However, wcwidth() called for parameters in the
1447 range 128-255 can give this return value. The logic now simply
1448 ensures that the number of cells is greater than zero without
1449 modifying the displayed value.
1451 20040124 pre-release
1452 + looked good for 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org (but see above)
1453 + modify configure script check for ranlib to use AC_CHECK_TOOL, since
1454 that works better for cross-compiling.
1456 20040117 pre-release
1457 + modify lib_get_wch.c to prefer mblen/mbtowc over mbrlen/mbrtowc to
1458 work around core dump in Solaris 8's locale support, e.g., for
1459 zh_CN.GB18030 (report by Saravanan Bellan).
1460 + add includes for <stdarg.h> and <stdio.h> in configure script macro
1461 to make <wchar.h> check work with Tru64 4.0d.
1462 + add terminfo entry for U/Win -TD
1463 + add terminfo entries for SFU aka Interix aka OpenNT (Federico
1465 + modify tput's error messages to prefix them with the program name
1466 (report by Vincent Lefevre, patch by Daniel Jacobowitz (see Debian
1468 + correct a place in tack where exit_standout_mode was used instead of
1469 exit_attribute_mode (patch by Jochen Voss (see Debian #224443)).
1470 + modify c++/cursesf.h to use const in the Enumeration_Field method.
1471 + remove an ambiguous (actually redundant) method from c++/cursesf.h
1472 + make $HOME/.terminfo update optional (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
1473 + improve sed script which extracts libtool's version in the
1474 CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro.
1475 + add ifdef'd call to AC_PROG_LIBTOOL to CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro (to
1476 simplify local patch for Albert Chin-A-Young)..
1477 + add $(CXXFLAGS) to link command in c++/Makefile.in (adapted from
1478 patch by Albert Chin-A-Young)..
1479 + fix a missing substitution in configure.in for "$target" needed for
1481 + resync CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro with lynx; fixes IRIX64 and
1482 NetBSD 1.6 conflicts with _XOPEN_SOURCE.
1483 + make check for stdbool.h more specific, to ensure that including it
1484 will actually define/declare bool for the configured compiler.
1485 + rewrite ifdef's in curses.h relating NCURSES_BOOL and bool. The
1486 intention of that is to #define NCURSES_BOOL as bool when the
1487 compiler declares bool, and to #define bool as NCURSES_BOOL when it
1488 does not (reported by Jim Gifford, Sam Varshavchik, cf: 20031213).
1490 20040110 pre-release
1491 + change minor version to 4, i.e., ncurses 5.4
1492 + revised/improved terminfo entries for tvi912b, tvi920b (Benjamin C W
1494 + simplified ncurses/base/version.c by defining the result from the
1495 configure script rather than using sprintf (suggested by Stanislav
1497 + remove obsolete casts from c++/cursesw.h (reported by Stanislav
1499 + modify configure script so that when configuring for termlib, programs
1500 such as tic are not linked with the upper-level ncurses library
1501 (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
1502 + move version.c from ncurses/base to ncurses/tinfo to allow linking
1503 of tic, etc., using libtinfo (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
1506 + adjust -D's to build ncursesw on OpenBSD.
1507 + modify CF_PROG_EXT to make OS/2 build with EXEEXT.
1508 + add pecho_wchar().
1509 + remove <wctype.h> include from lib_slk_wset.c which is not needed (or
1510 available) on older platforms.
1513 + add -D's to build ncursew on FreeBSD 5.1.
1514 + modify shared library configuration for FreeBSD 4.x/5.x to add the
1515 soname information (request by Marc Glisse).
1516 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() to not use MAX_ALIAS, but PATH_MAX only
1517 for limiting the length of a filename in the terminfo database.
1518 + modify termname() to return the terminal name used by setupterm()
1519 rather than $TERM, without truncating to 14 characters as documented
1520 by X/Open (report by Stanislav Ievlev, cf: 970719).
1521 + re-add definition for _BSD_TYPES, lost in merge (cf: 20031206).
1524 + add configure option --with-manpage-format=catonly to address
1525 behavior of BSDI, allow install of man+cat files on NetBSD, whose
1526 behavior has diverged by requiring both to be present.
1527 + remove leading blanks from comment-lines in manlinks.sed script to
1528 work with Tru64 4.0d.
1529 + add screen.linux terminfo entry (discussion on mutt-users mailing
1533 + add a check for tic to flag missing backslashes for termcap
1534 continuation lines. ncurses reads the whole entry, but termcap
1535 applications do not.
1536 + add configure option "--with-manpage-aliases" extending
1537 "--with-manpage-aliases" to provide the option of generating ".so"
1538 files rather than symbolic links for manpage aliases.
1539 + add bool definition in include/curses.h.in for configurations with no
1540 usable C++ compiler (cf: 20030607).
1541 + fix pathname of SigAction.h for building with --srcdir (reported by
1545 + folded ncurses/base/sigaction.c into includes of ncurses/SigAction.h,
1546 since that header is used only within ncurses/tty/lib_tstp.c, for
1547 non-POSIX systems (discussion with Stanislav Ievlev).
1548 + remove obsolete _nc_outstr() function (report by Stanislav Ievlev
1549 <inger@altlinux.org>).
1550 + add test/background.c and test/color_set.c
1551 + modify color_set() function to work with color pair 0 (report by
1552 George Andreou <gbandreo@tem.uoc.gr>).
1553 + add configure option --with-trace, since defining TRACE seems too
1554 awkward for some cases.
1555 + remove a call to _nc_free_termtype() from read_termtype(), since the
1556 corresponding buffer contents were already zeroed by a memset (cf:
1558 + improve configure check for _XOPEN_SOURCE and related definitions,
1559 adding special cases for Solaris' __EXTENSIONS__ and FreeBSD's
1560 __BSD_TYPES (reports by Marc Glisse <marc.glisse@normalesup.org>).
1561 + small fixes to compile on Solaris and IRIX64 using cc.
1562 + correct typo in check for pre-POSIX sort options in MKkey_defs.sh
1566 + modify _nc_gettime() to avoid a problem with arithmetic on unsigned
1567 values (Philippe Blain).
1568 + improve the nanosleep() logic in napms() by checking for EINTR and
1569 restarting (Philippe Blain).
1570 + correct expression for "%D" in lib_tgoto.c (Juha Jarvi
1574 + add linux-vt terminfo entry (Andrey V Lukyanov <land@long.yar.ru>).
1575 + allow "\|" escape in terminfo; tic should not warn about this.
1576 + save the full pathname of the trace-file the first time it is opened,
1577 to avoid creating it in different directories if the application
1578 opens and closes it while changing its working directory.
1579 + modify configure script to provide a non-empty default for
1583 + add DJGPP to special case of DOS-style drive letters potentially
1584 appearing in TERMCAP environment variable.
1585 + fix some spelling in comments (reports by jmc, Jonathon Gray).
1586 + update config.guess, config.sub
1589 + fix a memory leak in error-return from setupterm() (report by
1590 Stanislav Ievlev <inger@altlinux.org>).
1591 + use EXEEXT and OBJEXT consistently in makefiles.
1592 + amend fixes for cross-compiling to use separate executable-suffix
1593 BUILD_EXEEXT (cf: 20031018).
1594 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for sort utility that does not
1595 recognize key options, e.g., busybox (report by Peter S Mazinger
1597 + fix potential out-of-bounds indexing in _nc_infotocap() (found by
1598 David Krause using some of the new malloc debugging features
1599 under OpenBSD, patch by Ted Unangst).
1600 + modify CF_LIB_SUFFIX for Itanium releases of HP-UX, which use a
1601 ".so" suffix (patch by Jonathan Ward <Jonathan.Ward@hp.com>).
1604 + update terminfo for xterm-xfree86 -TD
1605 + add check for multiple "tc=" clauses in a termcap to tic.
1606 + check for missing op/oc in tic.
1607 + correct _nc_resolve_uses() and _nc_merge_entry() to allow infocmp and
1608 tic to show cancelled capabilities. These functions were ignoring
1609 the state of the target entry, which should be untouched if cancelled.
1610 + correct comment in tack/output.c (Debian #215806).
1611 + add some null-pointer checks to lib_options.c (report by Michael
1613 + regenerated html documentation.
1614 + correction to tar-copy.sh, remove a trap command that resulted in
1615 leaving temporary files (cf: 20030510).
1616 + remove contact/maintainer addresses for Juergen Pfeifer (his request).
1619 + updated test/configure to reflect changes for libtool (cf: 20030830).
1620 + fix several places in tack/pad.c which tested and used the parameter-
1621 and parameterless strings inconsistently, i.e., in pad_rin(),
1622 pad_il(), pad_indn() and pad_dl() (Debian #215805).
1623 + minor fixes for configure script and makefiles to cleanup executables
1624 generated when cross-compiling for DJGPP.
1625 + modify infocmp to omit check for $TERM for operations that do not
1626 require it, e.g., "infocmp -e" used to build fallback list (report by
1630 + add terminfo entries for DJGPP.
1631 + updated note about maintainer in ncurses-intro.html
1634 + update terminfo entries for gnome terminal.
1635 + modify tack to reset colors after each color test, correct a place
1636 where exit_standout_mode was used instead of exit_attribute_mode.
1637 + improve tack's bce test by making it set colors other than black
1639 + plug a potential recursion between napms() and _nc_timed_wait()
1640 (report by Philippe Blain).
1643 + add --with-rel-version option to allow workaround to allow making
1644 libtool on Darwin generate the "same" library names as with the
1645 --with-shared option. The Darwin ld program does not work well
1646 with a zero as the minor-version value (request by Chris Zubrzycki).
1647 + modify CF_MIXEDCASE_FILENAMES macro to work with cross-compiling.
1648 + modify tack to allow it to run from fallback terminfo data.
1649 > patch by Philippe Blain:
1650 + improve PutRange() by adjusting call to EmitRange() and corresponding
1651 return-value to not emit unchanged characters on the end of the
1653 + improve a check for changed-attribute by exiting a loop when the
1655 + improve logic in TransformLine(), eliminating a duplicated comparison
1656 in the clr_bol logic.
1659 > patch by Philippe Blain:
1660 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
1661 move the label 'nonlocal' just before the second gettimeofday() to
1662 be able to compute the diff time when 'goto nonlocal' used.
1663 Rename 'msec' to 'microsec' in the debug-message.
1664 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
1665 Use _nc_outch() in carriage return/newline movement instead of
1666 putchar() which goes to stdout. Move test for xold>0 out of loop.
1667 + in ncurses/tinfo/setbuf.c,
1668 Set the flag SP->_buffered at the end of operations when all has been
1669 successful (typeMalloc can fail).
1670 + simplify NC_BUFFERED macro by moving check inside _nc_setbuf().
1673 + modify configure script to avoid using "head -1", which does not
1674 work if POSIXLY_CORRECT (sic) is set.
1675 + modify run_tic.in to avoid using wrong shared libraries when
1676 cross-compiling (Dan Kegel).
1679 + alter configure script help message to make it clearer that
1680 --with-build-cc does not specify a cross-compiler (suggested by Dan
1681 Kegel <dank@kegel.com>).
1682 + modify configure script to accommodate libtool 1.5, as well as add an
1683 parameter to the "--with-libtool" option which can specify the
1684 pathname of libtool (report by Chris Zubrzycki). We note that
1685 libtool 1.5 has more than one bug in its C++ support, so it is not
1686 able to install libncurses++, for instance, if $DESTDIR or the option
1687 --with-install-prefix is used.
1690 > patch by Philippe Blain:
1691 + move assignments to SP->_cursrow, SP->_curscol into online_mvcur().
1692 + make baudrate computation in delay_output() consistent with the
1693 assumption in _nc_mvcur_init(), i.e., a byte is 9 bits.
1696 + modify logic in waddch_literal() to take into account zh_TW.Big5
1697 whose multibyte sequences may contain "printable" characters, e.g.,
1698 a "g" in the sequence "\247g" (Debian #204889, cf: 20030621).
1699 + improve storage used by _nc_safe_strcpy() by ensuring that the size
1700 is reset based on the initialization call, in case it were called
1701 after other strcpy/strcat calls (report by Philippe Blain).
1702 > patch by Philippe Blain:
1703 + remove an unused ifdef for REAL_ATTR & WANT_CHAR
1704 + correct a place where _cup_cost was used rather than _cuu_cost
1707 + fix a small memory leak in _nc_free_termtype().
1708 + close trace-file if trace() is called with a zero parameter.
1709 + free memory allocated for soft-key strings, in delscreen().
1710 + fix an allocation size in safe_sprintf.c for the "*" format code.
1711 + correct safe_sprintf.c to not return a null pointer if the format
1712 happens to be an empty string. This applies to the "configure
1713 --enable-safe-sprintf" option (Redhat #101486).
1716 + modify casts used for ABSENT_BOOLEAN and CANCELLED_BOOLEAN (report by
1718 > patch by Philippe Blain:
1719 + change padding for change_scroll_region to not be proportional to
1720 the size of the scroll-region.
1721 + correct error-return in _nc_safe_strcat().
1724 + correct limit-checks in _nc_scroll_window() (report and test-case by
1725 Thomas Graf <graf@dms.at> cf: 20011020).
1726 + re-order configure checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE to avoid conflict with
1730 + use clr_eol in preference to blanks for bce terminals, so select and
1731 paste will have fewer trailing blanks, e.g., when using xterm
1732 (request by Vincent Lefevre).
1733 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
1734 + add configure --with-abi-version option (discussion with Charles
1736 > cygwin changes from Charles Wilson:
1737 + aclocal.m4: on cygwin, use autodetected prefix for import
1738 and static lib, but use "cyg" for DLL.
1739 + include/ncurses_dll.h: correct the comments to reflect current
1740 status of cygwin/mingw port. Fix compiler warning.
1741 + misc/run_tic.in: ensure that tic.exe can find the uninstalled
1742 DLL, by adding the lib-directory to the PATH variable.
1743 + misc/terminfo.src (nxterm|xterm-color): make xterm-color
1744 primary instead of nxterm, to match XFree86's xterm.terminfo
1745 usage and to prevent circular links.
1746 (rxvt): add additional codes from rxvt.org.
1747 (rxvt-color): new alias
1748 (rxvt-xpm): new alias
1749 (rxvt-cygwin): like rxvt, but with special acsc codes.
1750 (rxvt-cygwin-native): ditto. rxvt may be run under XWindows, or
1751 with a "native" MSWin GUI. Each takes different acsc codes,
1752 which are both different from the "normal" rxvt's acsc.
1753 (cygwin): cygwin-in-cmd.exe window. Lots of fixes.
1755 + mk-1st.awk: use "cyg" for the DLL prefix, but "lib" for import
1759 + update config.guess, config.sub
1760 + add triples for configuring shared libraries with the Debian
1761 GNU/FreeBSD packages (patch by Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es>).
1764 + modify CF_GCC_WARNINGS so it only applies to gcc, not g++. Some
1765 platforms have installed g++ along with the native C compiler, which
1766 would not accept gcc warning options.
1767 + add -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 when configuring with --enable-widec, to
1768 get mbstate_t declaration on HPUX 11.11 (report by David Ellement).
1769 + add _nc_pathlast() to get rid of casts in _nc_basename() calls.
1770 + correct a sign-extension in wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() from
1771 20030628 (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
1772 + work around omission of btowc() and wctob() from wide-character
1773 support (sic) in NetBSD 1.6 using mbtowc() and wctomb() (report by
1775 + add portability note to curs_get_wstr.3x (Debian #199957).
1778 + rewrite wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to call waddch() and wechochar()
1779 respectively, to avoid calling waddch_noecho() with wide-character
1780 data, since that function assumes its input is 8-bit data.
1781 Similarly, modify waddnwstr() to call wadd_wch().
1782 + remove logic from waddnstr() which transformed multibyte character
1783 strings into wide-characters. Rewrite of waddch_literal() from
1784 20030621 assumes its input is raw multibyte data rather than wide
1785 characters (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
1788 + write getyx() and related 2-return macros in terms of getcury(),
1790 + modify waddch_literal() in case an application passes bytes of a
1791 multibyte character directly to waddch(). In this case, waddch()
1792 must reassemble the bytes into a wide-character (report by Tomohiro
1793 Kubota <kubota@debian.org>).
1796 + modify waddch_literal() in case a multibyte value occupies more than
1798 + modify PutAttrChar() to compute the number of character cells that
1799 are used in multibyte values. This fixes a problem displaying
1800 double-width characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen
1801 <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
1802 + add a null-pointer check for result of keyname() in _tracechar()
1803 + modify _tracechar() to work around glibc sprintf bug.
1806 + add a call to setlocale() in cursesmain.cc, making demo display
1807 properly in a UTF-8 locale.
1808 + add a fallback definition in curses.priv.h for MB_LEN_MAX (prompted
1809 by discussion with Gabor Z Papp).
1810 + use macros NCURSES_ACS() and NCURSES_WACS() to hide cast needed to
1811 appease -Wchar-subscript with g++ 3.3 (Debian #195732).
1812 + fix a redefinition of $RANLIB in the configure script when libtool
1813 is used, which broke configure on Mac OS X (report by Chris Zubrzycki
1815 + simplify ifdef for bool declaration in curses.h.in (suggested by
1816 Albert Chin-A-Young).
1817 + remove configure script check to allow -Wconversion for older
1818 versions of gcc (suggested by Albert Chin-A-Young).
1821 + regenerated html manpages.
1822 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in that disabled use of __attribute__()
1823 for g++, since recent versions implement the cases which ncurses uses
1825 + modify _nc_get_token() to handle a case where an entry has no
1826 description, and capabilities begin on the same line as the entry
1828 + fix a typo in ncurses_dll.h reported by gcc 3.3.
1829 + add an entry for key_defined.3x to man_db.renames.
1832 + modify setcchar() to allow converting control characters to complex
1833 characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
1834 + add tkterm entry -TD
1835 + modify parse_entry.c to allow a terminfo entry with a leading
1836 2-character name (report by Don Libes).
1837 + corrected acsc in screen.teraterm, which requires a PC-style mapping.
1838 + fix trace statements in read_entry.c to use lseek() rather than
1840 + fix signed/unsigned warnings from Sun's compiler (gcc should give
1841 these warnings, but it is unpredictable).
1842 + modify configure script to omit -Winline for gcc 3.3, since that
1844 + modify manlinks.sed to add a few functions that were overlooked since
1845 they return function pointers: field_init, field_term, form_init,
1846 form_term, item_init, item_term, menu_init and menu_term.
1849 + prevent recursion in wgetch() via wgetnstr() if the connection cannot
1850 be switched between cooked/raw modes because it is not a TTY (report
1851 by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.com>).
1852 + change parameter of define_key() and key_defined() to const (prompted
1854 + add a check in test/configure for ncurses extensions, since there
1855 are some older versions, etc., which would not compile with the
1856 current test programs.
1857 + corrected demo in test/ncurses.c of wgetn_wstr(), which did not
1858 convert wchar_t string to multibyte form before printing it.
1859 + corrections to lib_get_wstr.c:
1860 + null-terminate buffer passed to setcchar(), which occasionally
1862 + map special characters such as erase- and kill-characters into
1863 key-codes so those will work as expected even if they are not
1864 mentioned in the terminfo.
1865 + modify PUTC() and Charable() macros to make wide-character line
1866 drawing work for POSIX locale on Linux console (cf: 20021221).
1869 + make typography for program options in manpages consistent (report
1870 by Miloslav Trmac <mitr@volny.cz>).
1871 + correct dependencies in Ada95/src/Makefile.in, so the builds with
1872 "--srcdir" work (report by Warren L Dodge).
1873 + correct missing definition of $(CC) in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in
1874 (reported by Warren L Dodge <warrend@mdhost.cse.tek.com>).
1875 + fix typos and whitespace in manpages (patch by jmc
1876 <jmc@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl>).
1879 + fix form_driver() cases for REQ_CLR_EOF, REQ_CLR_EOL, REQ_DEL_CHAR,
1880 REQ_DEL_PREV and REQ_NEW_LINE, which did not ensure the cursor was at
1881 the editing position before making modifications.
1882 + add test/demo_forms and associated test/edit_field.c demos.
1883 + modify test/configure.in to use test/modules for the list of objects
1884 to compile rather than using the list of programs.
1887 + modify logic of acsc to use the original character if no mapping is
1888 defined, noting that Solaris does this.
1889 + modify ncurses 'b' test to avoid using the acs_map[] array since
1890 20021231 changes it to no longer contain information from the acsc
1892 + modify makefile rules in c++, progs, tack and test to ensure that
1893 the compiler flags (e.g., $CFLAGS or $CCFLAGS) are used in the link
1894 command (report by Jose Luis Rico Botella <informatica@serpis.com>).
1895 + modify soft-key initialization to use A_REVERSE if A_STANDOUT would
1896 not be shown when colors are used, i.e., if ncv#1 is set in the
1897 terminfo as is done in "screen".
1900 + add a test for slk_color(), in ncurses.c
1901 + fix some issues reported by valgrind in the slk_set() and slk_wset()
1902 code, from recent rewrite.
1903 + modify ncurses 'E' test to use show previous label via slk_label(),
1905 + modify wide-character versions of NewChar(), NewChar2() macros to
1906 ensure that the whole struct is initialized.
1909 + modify setupterm() to check if the terminfo and terminal-modes have
1910 already been read. This ensures that it does not reinvoke
1911 def_prog_mode() when an application calls more than one function,
1912 such as tgetent() and initscr() (report by Olaf Buddenhagen).
1915 + add 'E' test to ncurses.c, to exercise slk_wset().
1916 + correct handling of carriage-return in wgetn_wstr(), used in demo of
1918 + first draft of slk_wset() function.
1921 + improved warnings in tic when suppressing items to fit in termcap's
1923 + built a list in test/README showing which externals are being used
1924 by either programs in the test-directory or via internal library
1926 + adjust include-options in CF_ETIP_DEFINES to avoid missing
1927 ncurses_dll.h, fixing special definitions that may be needed for
1928 etip.h (reported by Greg Schafer <gschafer@zip.com.au>).
1931 + minor fixes for cardfile.c, to make it write the updated fields to
1932 a file when ^W is given.
1933 + add/use _nc_trace_bufcat() to eliminate some fixed buffer limits in
1937 + correct a case in _nc_remove_string(), used by define_key(), to avoid
1938 infinite loop if the given string happens to be a substring of other
1939 strings which are assigned to keys (report by John McCutchan).
1940 + add key_defined() function, to tell which keycode a string is bound
1941 to (discussion with John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>).
1942 + correct keybound(), which reported definitions in the wrong table,
1943 i.e., the list of definitions which are disabled by keyok().
1944 + modify demo_keydef.c to show the details it changes, and to check
1948 + restructured test/configure script, make it work for libncursesw.
1949 + add description of link_fieldtype() to manpage (report by
1950 L Dee Holtsclaw <dee@sunbeltsoft.com>).
1953 + corrected ifdef's relating to configure check for wchar_t, etc.
1954 + if the output is a socket or other non-tty device, use 1 millisecond
1955 for the cost in mvcur; previously it was 9 milliseconds because the
1956 baudrate was not known.
1957 + in _nc_get_tty_mode(), initialize the TTY buffer on error, since
1958 glibc copies uninitialized data in that case, as noted by valgrind.
1959 + modify tput to use the same parameter analysis as tparm() does, to
1960 provide for user-defined strings, e.g., for xterm title, a
1961 corresponding capability might be
1963 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to avoid passing "#" tokens through the C
1964 preprocessor. This works around Mac OS X's preprocessor, which
1965 insists on adding a blank on each side of the token (report/analysis
1966 by Kevin Murphy <murphy@genome.chop.edu>).
1969 + add configure check for wchar_t and wint_t types, rather than rely
1970 on preprocessor definitions. Also work around for gcc fixinclude
1971 bug which creates a shadow copy of curses.h if it sees these symbols
1972 apparently typedef'd.
1973 + if database is disabled, do not generate run_tic.sh
1974 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking when termcap is read.
1977 + add checking in tic for incomplete line-drawing character mapping.
1978 + update configure script to reflect fix for AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL,
1979 which is broken in autoconf 2.5x for Mac OS X 10.2.3 (report by
1980 Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl>).
1981 + make return value from _nc_printf_string() consistent. Before,
1982 depending on whether --enable-safe-sprintf was used, it might not be
1983 cached for reallocating.
1986 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking in lib_tparm.c, hardscroll.c
1987 + correct a potentially-uninitialized value if _read_termtype() does
1988 not read as much data as expected (report by Wolfgang Rohdewald
1990 + correct several places where the aclocal.m4 macros relied on cache
1991 variable names which were incompatible (as usual) between autoconf
1992 2.13 and 2.5x, causing the test for broken-linker to give incorrect
1993 results (reports by Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl> and Thomas Esser
1994 <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de>).
1995 + do not try to open gpm mouse driver if standard output is not a tty;
1996 the gpm library does not make this check (bug report for dialog
1997 by David Oliveira <davidoliveira@develop.prozone.ws>).
2000 + modified emx.src to correspond more closely to terminfo.src, added
2001 emx-base to the latter -TD
2002 + add configure option for FreeBSD sysmouse, --with-sysmouse, and
2003 implement support for that in lib_mouse.c, lib_getch.c
2006 + revert 20030105 change to can_clear_with(), does not work for the
2007 case where the update is made on cells which are blanks with
2008 attributes, e.g., reverse.
2009 + improve ifdef's to guard against redefinition of wchar_t and wint_t
2010 in curses.h (report by Urs Jansen).
2013 + improve mvcur() by checking if it is safe to move when video
2014 attributes are set (msgr), and if not, reset/restore attributes
2015 within that function rather than doing it separately in the GoTo()
2016 function in tty_update.c (suggested by Philippe Blain).
2017 + add a message in run_tic.in to explain more clearly what does not
2018 work when attempting to create a symbolic link for /usr/lib/terminfo
2019 on OS/2 and other platforms with no symbolic links (report by John
2021 + change several sed scripts to avoid using "\+" since it is not a BRE
2022 (basic regular expression). One instance caused terminfo.5 to be
2023 misformatted on FreeBSD (report by Kazuo Horikawa
2024 <horikawa@FreeBSD.org> (see FreeBSD docs/46709)).
2025 + correct misspelled 'wint_t' in curs_get_wch.3x (Michael Elkins).
2028 + improve description of terminfo operators, especially static/dynamic
2029 variables (comments by Mark I Manning IV <mark4th@earthlink.net>).
2030 + demonstrate use of FIELDTYPE by modifying test/ncurses 'r' test to
2031 use the predefined TYPE_ALPHA field-type, and by defining a
2032 specialized type for the middle initial/name.
2033 + fix MKterminfo.sh, another workaround for POSIXLY_CORRECT misfeature
2035 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2036 + optimize can_clear_with() a little by testing first if the parameter
2037 is indeed a "blank".
2038 + simplify ClrBottom() a little by allowing it to use clr_eos to clear
2039 sections as small as one line.
2040 + improve ClrToEOL() by checking if clr_eos is available before trying
2042 + use tputs() rather than putp() in a few cases in tty_update.c since
2043 the corresponding delays are proportional to the number of lines
2044 affected: repeat_char, clr_eos, change_scroll_region.
2047 + rewrite of lib_acs.c conflicts with copying of SCREEN acs_map to/from
2048 global acs_map[] array; removed the lines that did the copying.
2051 + change some overlooked tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp()
2052 (report by Philippe Blain).
2053 + modify lib_getch.c to avoid recursion via wgetnstr() when the input
2054 is not a tty and consequently mode-changes do not work (report by
2055 <R.Chamberlin@querix.com>).
2056 + rewrote lib_acs.c to allow PutAttrChar() to decide how to render
2057 alternate-characters, i.e., to work with Linux console and UTF-8
2059 + correct line/column reference in adjust_window(), needed to make
2060 special windows such as curscr track properly when resizing (report
2061 by Lucas Gonze <lgonze@panix.com>).
2062 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2063 + correct the value used for blank in ClrBottom() (broken in 20000708).
2064 + correct an off-by-one in GoTo() parameter in _nc_scrolln().
2067 + change several tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp(), to
2068 enable padding which may be needed for some terminals (patch by
2070 + use '%' as sed substitute delimiter in run_tic script to avoid
2071 problems with pathname delimiters such as ':' and '@' (report by John
2073 + implement a workaround so that line-drawing works with screen's
2074 crippled UTF-8 support (tested with 3.9.13). This only works with
2075 the wide-character support (--enable-widec); the normal library will
2076 simply suppress line-drawing when running in a UTF-8 locale in screen.
2079 + allow BUILD_CC and related configure script variables to be
2080 overridden from the environment.
2081 + make build-tools variables in ncurses/Makefile.in consistent with
2082 the configure script variables (report by Maciej W Rozycki).
2083 + modify ncurses/modules to allow
2084 configure --disable-leaks --disable-ext-funcs
2085 to build (report by Gary Samuelson).
2086 + fix a few places in configure.in which lacked quotes (report by
2087 Gary Samuelson <gary.samuelson@verizon.com>).
2088 + correct handling of multibyte characters in waddch_literal() which
2089 force wrapping because they are started too late on the line (report
2090 by Sam Varshavchik).
2091 + small fix for CF_GNAT_VERSION to ignore the help-message which
2092 gnatmake adds to its version-message.
2093 > Maciej W Rozycki <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>:
2094 + use AC_CHECK_TOOL to get proper values for AR and LD for cross
2096 + use $cross_compiling variable in configure script rather than
2097 comparing $host_alias and $target alias, since "host" is
2098 traditionally misused in autoconf to refer to the target platform.
2099 + change configure --help message to use "build" rather than "host"
2100 when referring to the --with-build-XXX options.
2103 + modify CF_GNAT_VERSION to print gnatmake's version, and to allow for
2104 possible gnat versions such as 3.2 (report by Chris Lingard
2105 <chris@stockwith.co.uk>).
2106 + modify #define's for CKILL and other default control characters in
2107 tset to use the system's default values if they are defined.
2108 + correct interchanged defaults for kill and interrupt characters
2109 in tset, which caused it to report unnecessarily (Debian #171583).
2110 + repair check for missing C++ compiler, which is broken in autoconf
2111 2.5x by hardcoding it to g++ (report by Martin Mokrejs).
2112 + update config.guess, config.sub (2002-11-30)
2113 + modify configure script to skip --with-shared, etc., when the
2114 --with-libtool option is given, since they would be ignored anyway.
2115 + fix to allow "configure --with-libtool --with-termlib" to build.
2116 + modify configure script to show version number of libtool, to help
2117 with bug reports. libtool still gets confused if the installed
2118 ncurses libraries are old, since it ignores the -L options at some
2119 point (tested with libtool 1.3.3 and 1.4.3).
2120 + reorder configure script's updating of $CPPFLAGS and $CFLAGS to
2121 prevent -I options in the user's environment from introducing
2122 conflicts with the build -I options (may be related to reports by
2123 Patrick Ash and George Goffe).
2124 + rename test/define_key.c to test/demo_defkey.c, test/keyok.c to
2125 test/demo_keyok.c to allow building these with libtool.
2128 + add example program test/define_key.c for define_key().
2129 + add example program test/keyok.c for keyok().
2130 + add example program test/ins_wide.c for wins_wch() and wins_wstr().
2131 + modify wins_wch() and wins_wstr() to interpret tabs by using the
2132 winsch() internal function.
2133 + modify setcchar() to allow for wchar_t input strings that have
2134 more than one spacing character.
2137 + fix a boundary check in lib_insch.c (patch by Philippe Blain).
2138 + change type for *printw functions from NCURSES_CONST to const
2139 (prompted by comment by Pedro Palhoto Matos <plpm@mega.ist.utl.pt>,
2140 but really from a note on X/Open's website stating that either is
2141 acceptable, and the latter will be used in a future revision).
2142 + add xterm-1002, xterm-1003 terminfo entries to demonstrate changes in
2143 lib_mouse.c (20021026) -TD
2144 + add screen-bce, screen-s entries from screen 3.9.13 (report by
2145 Adam Lazur <zal@debian.org>) -TD
2146 + add mterm terminfo entries -TD
2149 + split-out useful fragments in terminfo for vt100 and vt220 numeric
2150 keypad, i.e., vt100+keypad, vt100+pfkeys, vt100+fnkeys and
2151 vt220+keypad. The last as embedded in various entries had ka3 and
2152 kb2 interchanged (report/discussion with Leonard den Ottolander
2153 <leonardjo@hetnet.nl>).
2154 + add check in tic for keypads consistent with vt100 layout.
2155 + improve checks in tic for color capabilities
2158 + check for missing/empty/illegal terminfo name in _nc_read_entry()
2159 (report by Martin Mokrejs, where $TERM was set to an empty string).
2160 + rewrote lib_insch.c, combining it with lib_insstr.c so both handle
2161 tab and other control characters consistently (report by Philippe
2163 + remove an #undef for KEY_EVENT from curses.tail used in the
2164 experimental NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS feature. The #undef confuses
2165 dpkg's build script (Debian #165897).
2166 + fix MKlib_gen.sh, working around the ironically named POSIXLY_CORRECT
2167 feature of GNU sed 4.0 (reported by Ervin Nemeth <airwin@inf.bme.hu>).
2170 + implement logic in lib_mouse.c to handle position reports which are
2171 generated when XFree86 xterm is initialized with private modes 1002
2172 or 1003. These are returned to the application as the
2173 REPORT_MOUSE_POSITION mask, which was not implemented. Tested both
2174 with ncurses 'a' menu (prompted by discussion with Larry Riedel
2175 <Larry@Riedel.org>).
2176 + modify lib_mouse.c to look for "XM" terminfo string, which allows
2177 one to override the escape sequence used to enable/disable mouse
2178 mode. In particular this works for XFree86 xterm private modes
2179 1002 and 1003. If "XM" is missing (note that this is an extended
2180 name), lib_mouse uses the conventional private mode 1000.
2181 + correct NOT_LOCAL() macro in lib_mvcur.c to refer to screen_columns
2182 where it used screen_lines (report by Philippe Blain).
2183 + correct makefile rules for the case when both --with-libtool and
2184 --with-gpm are given (report by Mr E_T <troll@logi.net.au>).
2185 + add note to terminfo manpage regarding the differences between
2186 setaf/setab and setf/setb capabilities (report by Pavel Roskin).
2189 + remove redundant initialization of TABSIZE in newterm(), since it is
2190 already done in setupterm() (report by Philippe Blain).
2191 + add test/inserts.c, to test winnstr() and winsch().
2192 + replace 'sort' in dist.mk with script that sets locale to POSIX.
2193 + update URLs in announce.html.in (patch by Frederic L W Meunier).
2194 + remove glibc add-on files, which are no longer needed (report by
2195 Frederic L W Meunier).
2197 20021012 5.3 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
2198 + modify ifdef's in etip.h.in to allow the etip.h header to compile
2199 with gcc 3.2 (patch by Dimitar Zhekov <jimmy@is-vn.bg>).
2200 + add logic to setupterm() to make it like initscr() and newterm(),
2201 by checking for $NCURSES_TRACE environment variable and enabling
2202 the debug trace in that case.
2203 + modify setupterm() to ensure that it initializes the baudrate, for
2204 applications such as tput (report by Frank Henigman).
2205 + modify definition of bits used for command-line and library debug
2206 traces to avoid overlap, using new definition TRACE_SHIFT to relate
2208 + document tput's interpretation of parameterized strings according to
2209 whether parameters are given, etc. (discussion with Robert De Bath).
2211 20021005 pre-release
2212 + correct winnwstr() to account for non-character cells generated when
2213 a double-width character is added (report by Michael Bienia
2214 <michael@vorlon.ping.de>).
2215 + modify _nc_viswbuf2n() to provide better results using wctomb().
2216 + correct logic in _nc_varargs() which broke tracing of parameters for
2217 formats such as "%.*s".
2218 + correct scale factor in linux-c and linux-c-nc terminfo entries
2219 (report Floyd Davidson).
2220 + change tic -A option to -t, add the same option to infocmp for
2222 + correct "%c" implementation in lib_tparm.c, which did not map a null
2223 character to a 128 (cf: 980620) (patch by Frank Henigman
2224 <fjhenigman@mud.cgl.uwaterloo.ca>).
2226 20020928 pre-release
2227 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for POSIX sort -k option, use that if
2228 it is found, to accommodate newer utility which dropped the
2229 compatibility support for +number options (reported by Andrey A
2231 + modify linux terminfo entry to use color palette feature from
2232 linux-c-nc entry (comments by Tomasz Wasiak and Floyd Davidson).
2233 + restore original color definitions in endwin() if init_color() was
2234 used, and resume those colors on the next doupdate() or refresh()
2235 (report by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@komputom.com.pl>).
2236 + improve debug-traces by modifying MKlib_gen.sh to generate calls
2237 to returnBool() and returnAttr().
2238 + add/use _nc_visbufn() and _nc_viswbufn() to limit the debug trace
2239 of waddnstr() and similar functions to match the parameters as used.
2240 + add/use _nc_retrace_bool() and _nc_retrace_unsigned().
2241 + correct type used by _nc_retrace_chtype().
2242 + add debug traces to some functions in lib_mouse.c
2243 + modify lib_addch.c to handle non-spacing characters.
2244 + correct parameter of RemAttr() in lib_bkgd.c, which caused the c++
2245 demo's boxes to lose the A_ALTCHARSET flag (broken in 20020629).
2246 + correct width computed in _tracedump(), which did not account for
2247 the attributes (broken in 20010602).
2248 + modify test/tracemunch to replace addresses for windows other than
2249 curscr, newscr and stdscr with window0, window1, etc.
2251 20020921 pre-release
2252 + redid fix for edit_man.sed path.
2253 + workaround for Cygwin bug which makes subprocess writes to stdout
2254 result in core dump.
2255 + documented getbegx(), etc.
2256 + minor fixes to configure script to use '%' consistently as a sed
2257 delimiter rather than '@'.
2258 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2259 + add check in lib_overlay.c to ensure that the windows to be merged
2260 actually overlap, and in copywin(), limit the area to be touched
2261 to the lines given for the destination window.
2263 20020914 pre-release
2264 + modified curses.h so that if the wide-character version is installed
2265 overwriting /usr/include/curses.h, and if it relied on libutf8.h,
2266 then applications that use that header for wide-character support
2267 must define HAVE_LIBUTF8_H.
2268 + modify putwin(), getwin() and dupwin() to allow them to operate on
2269 pads (request by Philippe Blain).
2270 + correct attribute-merging in wborder(), broken in 20020216 (report
2271 by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@grubasek.komputom.com.pl>).
2272 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2273 + corrected pop-counts in tparam_internal() to '!' and '~' cases.
2274 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in one place that used sizeof(chtype).
2275 + remove some unused variables from mvcur test-driver.
2277 20020907 pre-release
2278 + change configure script to allow install of widec-character
2279 (ncursesw) headers to overwrite normal (ncurses) headers, since the
2280 latter is a compatible subset of the former.
2281 + fix path of edit_man.sed in configure script, needed to regenerate
2282 html manpages on Debian.
2283 + fix mismatched enums in vsscanf.c, which caused warning on Solaris.
2284 + update README.emx to reflect current patch used for autoconf.
2285 + change web- and ftp-site to invisible-island.net
2286 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2287 + change case for 'P' in tparam_internal() to indicate that it pops
2288 a variable from the stack.
2289 + correct sense of precision and width in parse_format(), to avoid
2291 + modify lib_tparm.c, absorb really_get_space() into get_space().
2292 + modify getwin() and dupwin() to copy the _notimeout, _idlok and
2293 _idcok window fields.
2294 + better fix for _nc_set_type(), using typeMalloc().
2296 20020901 pre-release
2297 + change minor version to 3, i.e., ncurses 5.3
2298 + update config.guess, config.sub
2299 + retest build with each configure option; minor ifdef fixes.
2300 + make keyname() return a null pointer rather than "UNKNOWN STRING" to
2302 + modify handling of wide line-drawing character functions to use the
2303 normal line-drawing characters when not in UTF-8 locale.
2304 + add check/fix to comp_parse.c to suppress warning about missing acsc
2305 string. This happens in configurations where raw termcap information
2306 is processed; tic already does this and other checks.
2307 + modify tic's check for ich/ich1 versus rmir/smir to only warn about
2308 ich1, to match xterm patch #70 notes.
2309 + moved information for ripped-off lines into SCREEN struct to allow
2310 use in resizeterm().
2311 + add experimental wgetch_events(), ifdef'd with NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS
2312 (adapted from patch by Ilya Zakharevich - see ncurses/README.IZ).
2313 + amend check in kgetch() from 20020824 to look only for function-keys,
2314 otherwise escape sequences are not resolved properly.
2315 > patch by Philippe Blain:
2316 + removed redundant assignment to SP->_checkfd from newterm().
2317 + check return-value of setupterm() in restartterm().
2318 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in a few places that used sizeof(chtype).
2319 + prevent dupwin() from duplicating a pad.
2320 + prevent putwin() from writing a pad.
2321 + use typeRealloc() or typeMalloc() in preference to direct calls on
2325 + add a check in kgetch() for cooked characters in the fifo to avoid
2326 calling fifo_push() when a KEY_RESIZE is available (report/analysis
2327 by Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>).
2328 + fix an overlooked case for bugzilla #68199 (Philippe Blain).
2329 + ensure clearerr() is called before using ferror() e.g., in
2330 lib_screen.c (report by Philippe Blain).
2333 + modify lib_screen.c and lib_newwin.c to maintain the SCREEN-specific
2334 pointers for curscr/stdscr/newscr when scr_save() and scr_restore()
2335 modify the global curscr/stdscr/newscr variables. Fixes Redhat
2336 bugzilla #68199 dated 2002-07-07.
2337 + add checks for null pointer in calls to tparm() and tgoto() based on
2338 FreeBSD bug report. If ncurses were built with termcap support, and
2339 the first call to tgoto() were a zero-length string, the result would
2340 be a null pointer, which was not handled properly.
2341 + correct a typo in terminfo.head, which gave the octal code for colon
2343 + remove the "tic -u" option from 20020810, since it did not account
2344 for nested "tc=" clauses, and when that was addressed, was still
2348 + add tic -A option to suppress capabilities which are commented out
2349 when translating to termcap.
2350 + add tic -u option to provide older behavior of "tc=" clauses.
2351 + modified tic to expand all but the final "tc=" clause in a termcap
2352 entry, to accommodate termcap libraries which do not handle multiple
2354 + correct typo in curs_inopts.3x regarding CS8/CS7 usage (report by
2356 + remove a couple of redundant uses of A_ATTRIBUTES in expressions
2357 using AttrOf(), which already incorporates that mask (report by
2359 + document TABSIZE variable.
2360 + add NCURSES_ASSUMED_COLORS environment variable, to allow users to
2361 override compiled-in default black-on-white assumption used in
2362 assume_default_colors().
2363 + correct an off-by-one comparison against max_colors in COLORFGBG
2365 + correct a use of uninitialized memory found by valgrind (reported by
2366 Olaf Buddenhagen <olafBuddenhagen@web.de>).
2367 + modified wresize() to ensure that a failed realloc will not corrupt
2368 the window structure, and to make subwindows fit within the resized
2369 window (completes Debian #87678, #101699)
2372 + fix an off-by-one in lib_pad.c check for limits of pad (patch by
2374 + revise logic for BeOS in lib_twait.c altered in 20011013 to restore
2375 logic used by lib_getch.c's support for GPM or EMX mouse (report by
2377 + remove NCURSES_CONST from several prototypes in curses.wide, to make
2378 the --enable-const --enable-widec configure options to work together
2379 (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@yahoo.com>).
2382 + finish no-leak checking in cardfile.c, using this for testing changes
2384 + simplify _nc_freeall() using delscreen().
2387 + check error-return from _nc_set_tty_mode() in _nc_initscr() and
2388 reset_prog_mode() (report/patch by Philippe Blain).
2389 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52, to address
2390 problem with identifying C++ bool type.
2391 + correct/improve logic to produce an exit status for errors in tput,
2392 which did not exit with an error when told to put a string not in the
2393 current terminfo entry (report by David Gomez <david@pleyades.net>).
2394 + modify configure script AC_OUTPUT() call to work around defect in
2395 autoconf 2.52 which adds an ifdef'd include to the generated
2396 configure definitions.
2397 + remove fstat() check from scr_init(), which also fixes a missing
2398 include for <sys/stat.h> from 20020713 (reported by David Ellement,
2399 fix suggested by Philippe Blain).
2400 + update curs_scanw.3x manpage to note that XSI curses differs from
2401 SVr4 curses: return-values are incompatible.
2402 + correct several prototypes in manpages which used const
2403 inconsistently with the curses.h file, and removed spurious const's
2404 in a few places from curses.h, e.g., for wbkgd() (report by Glenn
2405 Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>).
2406 + change internal type used by tparm() to long, to work with LP64 model.
2407 + modify nc_alloc.h to allow building with g++, for testing.
2410 + add resize-handling to cardfile.c test program.
2411 + altered resizeterm() to avoid having it fail when a child window
2412 cannot be resized because it would be larger than its parent. (More
2413 work must be done on this, but it works well enough to integrate).
2414 + improve a limit-check in lib_refresh.c
2415 + remove check in lib_screen.c relating dumptime to file's modification
2416 times, since that would not necessarily work for remotely mounted
2418 + modify lrtest to simplify debugging changes to resizeterm, e.g.,
2419 t/T commands to enable/disable tracing.
2420 + updated status of multibyte support in TO-DO.
2421 + update contact info in source-files (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
2424 + add Caps.hpux11, as an example.
2425 + modify version_filter(), used to implement -R option for tic and
2426 infocmp, to use computed array offsets based on the Caps.* file which
2427 is actually configured, rather than constants which correspond to
2429 + reorganized lib_raw.c to avoid updating SP and cur_term state if the
2430 functions fail (reported by Philippe Blain).
2431 + add -Wundef to gcc warnings, adjust a few ifdef's to accommodate gcc.
2434 + correct parameters to setcchar() in ncurses.c (cf: 20020406).
2435 + set locale in most test programs (view.c and ncurses.c were the
2437 + add configure option --with-build-cppflags (report by Maksim A
2438 Nikulin <M.A.Nikulin@inp.nsk.su>).
2439 + correct a typo in wide-character logic for lib_bkgnd.c (Philippe
2441 + modify lib_wacs.c to not cancel the acsc, smacs, rmacs strings when
2442 in UTF-8 locale. Wide-character functions use Unicode values, while
2443 narrow-character functions use the terminfo data.
2444 + fix a couple of places in Ada95/samples which did not compile with
2446 + modify mkinstalldirs so the DOS-pathname case is locale-independent.
2447 + fix locale problem in MKlib_gen.sh by forcing related variables to
2448 POSIX (C), using same approach as autoconf (set variables only if
2449 they were set before). Update MKterminfo.sh and MKtermsort.sh to
2453 + add charset to generated html.
2454 + add mvterm entry, adapted from a FreeBSD bug-report by Daniel Rudy
2455 <dcrudy@pacbell.net> -TD
2456 + add rxvt-16color, ibm+16color entries -TD
2457 + modify check in --disable-overwrite option so that it is used by
2458 default unless the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr, in attempt to
2459 work around packagers, e.g., for Sun's freeware, who do not read the
2463 + modify wgetch() to allow returning ungetch'd KEY_RESIZE as a function
2464 key code in get_wch().
2465 + extended resize-handling in test/ncurses 'a' menu to the entire
2466 stack of windows created with 'w' commands.
2467 + improve $COLORFGBG feature by interpreting an out-of-range color
2468 value as an SGR 39 or 49, for foreground/background respectively.
2469 + correct a typo in configure --enable-colorfgbg option, and move it
2470 to the experimental section (cf: 20011208).
2473 + add logic to dump_entry.c to remove function-key definitions that do
2474 not fit into the 1023-byte limit for generated termcaps. This makes
2476 + more improvements to tic's warnings, including logic to ignore
2477 differences between delay values in sgr strings.
2478 + move definition of KEY_RESIZE into MKkeydefs.sh script, to
2479 accommodate Caps.osf1r5 which introduced a conflicting definition.
2482 + add simple resize-handling in test/ncurses.c 'a' menu.
2483 + fixes in keyname() and _tracechar() to handle negative values.
2484 + make tic's warnings about mismatches in sgr strings easier to follow.
2485 + correct tic checks for number of parameters in smgbp and smglp.
2486 + improve scoansi terminfo entry, and add scoansi-new entry -TD
2487 + add pcvt25-color terminfo entry -TD
2488 + add kf13-kf48 strings to cons25w terminfo entry (reported by Stephen
2489 Hurd <deuce@lordlegacy.org> in newsgroup lucky.freebsd.bugs) -TD
2490 + add entrypoint _nc_trace_ttymode(), use this to distinguish the
2491 Ottyb and Nttyb members of terminal (aka cur_term), for tracing.
2494 + correct and simplify logic for lib_pad.c change in 20020518 (reported
2498 + fix lib_pad.c for case of drawing a double-width character which
2499 falls off the left margin of the pad (patch by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij
2500 <lerdsuwa@users.sourceforge.net>)
2501 + modify configure script to work around broken gcc 3.1 "--version"
2502 option, which adds unnecessary trash to the requested information.
2503 + adjust ifdef's in case SIGWINCH is not defined, e.g., with DJGPP
2504 (reported by Ben Decker <deckerben@freenet.de>).
2507 + implement vid_puts(), vid_attr(), term_attrs() based on the narrow-
2508 character versions as well.
2509 + implement erasewchar(), killwchar() based on erasechar() and
2511 + modify erasechar() and killchar() to return ERR if the value was
2513 + correct a bug in wresize() in handling subwindows (based on patch by
2514 Roger Gammans <rgammans@computer-surgery.co.uk>, report by Scott Beck
2515 <scott@gossamer-threads.com>).
2516 + improve test/tclock.c by making the second-hand update more often
2517 if gettimeofday() is available.
2520 + workaround for Solaris sed with MKlib_gen.sh (reported by Andy
2521 Tsouladze <andyt@mypoints.com>).
2524 + correct return-value from getcchar(), making it consistent with
2526 + reorder loops that generate makefile rules for different models vs
2527 subsets so configure --with-termlib works again. This was broken by
2528 logic added to avoid duplicate rules in changes to accommodate cygwin
2529 dll's (reported by George.R.Goffe@seagate.com).
2530 + update config.guess, config.sub
2533 + modify ifdef's in write_entry.c to allow use of symbolic links on
2534 platforms with no hard links, e.g., BeOS.
2535 + modify a few includes to allow compile with BeOS, which has stdbool.h
2536 with a conflicting definition for 'bool' versus its OS.h definition.
2537 + amend MKlib_gen.sh to work with gawk, which defines 'func' as an
2538 alias for 'function'.
2541 + correct form of prototype for ripoffline().
2542 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to test that all functions marked as implemented
2546 + add manpages: curs_get_wstr.3x, curs_in_wchstr.3x
2547 + implement wgetn_wstr().
2548 + implement win_wchnstr().
2549 + remove redefinition of unget_wch() in lib_gen.c (reported by
2550 Jungshik Shin <jshin@jtan.com>).
2553 + modified several of the test programs to allow them to compile with
2554 vendor curses implementations, e.g., Solaris, AIX -TD
2557 + modified test/configure to allow configuring against ncursesw.
2558 + change WACS_xxx definition to use address, to work like Tru64 curses.
2561 + add 'e' and 'm' toggles to 'a', 'A' tests in ncurses.c to demonstrate
2562 effect of echo/noecho and meta modes.
2563 + add 'A' test to ncurses.c to demonstrate wget_wch() and related
2565 + add manpage: curs_get_wch.3x
2566 + implement unget_wch().
2567 + implement wget_wch().
2570 + regenerated html manpages.
2571 + add manpages: curs_in_wch.3x, curs_ins_wch.3x, curs_ins_wstr.3x
2572 + implement wins_wch().
2573 + implement win_wch().
2574 + implement wins_nwstr(), wins_wstr().
2577 + add manpages: curs_addwstr.3x, curs_winwstr.3x
2578 + implement winnwstr(), winwstr().
2581 + add manpages: curs_add_wchstr.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x
2582 + document wunctrl, key_name.
2583 + implement key_name().
2584 + remove const's in lib_box.c incorrectly leftover after splitting off
2586 + update llib-lncurses, llib-ncursesw, fix configure script related to
2590 + remove quotes on "SYNOPSIS" in man/curs_box_set.3x, which resulted
2591 in spurious symlinks on install.
2594 + implement whline_set(), wvline_set(), add manpage curs_border_set.
2595 + add subtest 'b' to 'F' and 'f' in ncurses.c to demonstrate use of
2596 box() and box_set() functions.
2597 + add subtest 'u' to 'F' in ncurses.c, to demonstrate use of addstr()
2598 given UTF-8 string equivalents of WACS_xxx symbols.
2599 + minor fixes to several manpages based on groff -ww output.
2600 + add descriptions of external variables of termcap interface to
2601 the manpage (report by Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>).
2602 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
2603 + correct configure option --with-bool, which was executed as
2605 + add quotes for parameters of --with-bool and --with-ospeed configure
2607 > patch by Sven Verdoolaege (report by Gerhard Haering
2608 <haering_linux@gmx.de>):
2609 + correct typos in definitions of several wide-character macros:
2610 waddwstr, wgetbkgrnd, mvaddwstr, mvwadd_wchnstr, mvwadd_wchnstr,
2612 + pass $(CPPFLAGS) to MKlib_gen.sh, thereby fixing a missing definition
2613 of _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, e.g., on Solaris
2616 + implement wide-acs characters for UTF-8 locales. When in UTF-8
2617 locale, ignore narrow version of acs. Add 'F' test to test/ncurses.c
2619 + correct prototype in keybound manpage (noted from a Debian mailing
2623 + add several cases to the wscanw() example in testcurs.c, showing the
2625 + implement a simple vsscanf() fallback function which uses the %n
2626 conversion to help parse the input data (prompted by discussion with
2627 Albert Chin-A-Young).
2628 + modify mk-1st.awk and test/Makefile.in to add $(LDFLAGS) when making
2629 shared libraries, and to use $(CFLAGS) when linking test programs
2630 (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
2631 + add a call to _nc_keypad() in keypad() to accommodate applications
2632 such as nvi, which use curses for output but not for input (fixes
2633 Debian #131263, cf: 20011215).
2634 + add entrypoints to resizeterm.c which provide better control over the
2635 process: is_term_resized() and resize_term(). The latter restores
2636 the original design of resizeterm() before KEY_RESIZE was added in
2637 970906. Do this to accommodate 20010922 changes to view.c, but allow
2638 for programs with their own sigwinch handler, such as lynx (reported
2639 by Russell Ruby <russ@math.orst.edu>).
2642 + fix a typo in change to mk-1st.awk, which broke the shared-library
2643 makefile rules (reported by Martin Mokrejs).
2646 + update config.guess, config.sub
2647 + finish changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
2648 + fix a typo in mvwchat() macro (reported by Cy <yam@homerow.net).
2651 + add case in lib_baudrate.c for B921600 (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
2652 + correct missing sed-editing stage in manpage installs which is used
2653 to rename manpages, broken in 20010324 fix for Debian #89939 (Debian
2655 + remove -L$(libdir) from linker flags, probably not needed any more
2656 since HPUX is handled properly (reported by Niibe Yutaka
2658 + add configure check for mbstate_t, needed for wide-character
2659 configuration. On some platforms we must include <wchar.h> to
2660 define this (reported by Daniel Jacobowitz).
2661 + incorporate some of the changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
2664 + workaround for awk did not work with mawk, adjusted shell script.
2667 + add Caps.osf1r5, as an example.
2668 + modify behavior of can_clear_with() so that if an application is
2669 running in a non-bce terminals with default colors enabled, it
2670 returns true, allowing the user to select/paste text without picking
2671 up extraneous trailing blanks (adapted from patch by Daniel
2672 Jacobowitz <dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu>).
2673 + modify generated curses.h to ifdef-out prototypes for extensions if
2674 they are disabled, and to define curses_version() as a string in that
2675 case. This is needed to make the programs such as tic build in that
2677 + modified generated headers.sh to remove a gzip'd version of the
2678 target file if it exists, in case non-gzip'd manpages are installed
2679 into a directory where gzip'd ones exist. In that case, the latter
2681 + corrected a redundant initialization of signal handlers from 20010922
2683 + clarified bug-reporting address in terminfo.src (report by John H
2684 DuBois III <spcecdt@armory.com>).
2685 > several fixes from Robert Joop:
2686 + do not use "-v" option of awk in MKkey_defs.sh because it does not
2687 work with SunOS nawk.
2688 + modify definitions for libutf8 in curses.h to avoid redefinition
2690 + quoted references to compiler in shell command in misc/Makefile, in
2691 case it uses multiple tokens.
2694 + restore special case from 20010922 changes to omit SA_RESTART when
2695 setting up SIGWINCH handler, which is needed to allow wgetch() to be
2696 interrupted by that signal.
2697 + update configure macro CF_WITH_PATHLIST, to omit some double quotes
2698 not needed with autoconf 2.52
2699 + revert configure script to autoconf 2.13 patched with
2700 autoconf-2.13-19990117.patch.gz (or later)
2702 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
2703 because autoconf 2.52 macro AC_PROG_AWK does not work on HPUX 11.0
2704 (report by David Ellement <ellement@sdd.hp.com>). This also fixes a
2705 different problem configuring with Mac OS X (reported by Marc Smith
2706 <marc.a.smith@home.com>).
2709 + modify include/edit_cfg.h to eliminate BROKEN_LINKER symbol from
2711 + move prototype for _nc_vsscanf() into curses.h.in to omit
2712 HAVE_VSSCANF symbol from curses.h, which was dependent upon the
2713 ncurses_cfg.h file which is not installed.
2714 + use ACS_LEN rather than SIZEOF(acs_map) in trace code of lib_acs.c,
2715 to work with broken linker configuration, e.g., cygwin (report by
2716 Robert Joop <rj@rainbow.in-berlin.de>).
2717 + make napms() call _nc_timed_wait() rather than poll() or select(),
2718 to work around broken implementations of these on cygwin.
2721 + drop configure macro CF_WIDEC_SHIFT, since that was rendered obsolete
2722 by Sven Verdoolaege's rewrite of wide-character support. This makes
2723 libncursesw incompatible again, but makes the header files almost the
2724 same as in the narrow-character configuration.
2725 + simplify definitions that combine wide/narrow versions of bkgd, etc.,
2726 to eliminate differences between the wide/narrow versions of curses.h
2727 + correct typo in configure macro CF_FUNC_VSSCANF
2728 + correct location of call to _nc_keypad() from 20011215 changes which
2729 prevented keypad() from being disabled (reported by Lars Hecking).
2732 + rewrote ncurses 'a' test to exercise wgetch() and keypad() functions
2733 better, e.g., by adding a 'w' command to create new windows which
2734 may have different keypad() settings.
2735 + corrected logic of keypad() by adding internal screen state to track
2736 whether the terminal's keypad-mode has been set. Use this in
2737 wgetch() to update the keypad-mode according to whether the
2738 associated window's keypad-mode has been set with keypad(). This
2739 corrects a related problem restoring terminal state after handling
2740 SIGTSTP (reported by Mike Castle).
2741 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52
2742 autoconf-2.52-patch.gz
2744 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
2745 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2746 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
2747 + minor changes to quoting in configure script to allow it to work
2751 + modify final checks in lib_setup.c for line and col values, making
2753 + modify acs_map[] if configure --broken-linker is specified, to make
2754 it use a function rather than an array (prompted by an incorrect
2755 implementation in cygwin package).
2756 + correct spelling of configure option --enable-colorfgbg, which
2757 happened to work if --with-develop was set (noted in cygwin package
2759 + modify ifdef for genericerror() to compile with SUNWspro Sun WorkShop
2760 6 update 1 C++ 5.2 (patch by Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu>).
2761 + add configure checks to see if ncurses' fallback vsscanf() will
2762 compile either of the special cases for FILE structs, and if not,
2763 force it to the case which simply returns an error (report by
2764 Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu> indicates that Solaris 8 with
2765 64-bits does not allow access to FILE's fields).
2766 + modify ifdef's for c++/cursesw.cc to use the fallback vsscanf() in
2767 the ncurses library if no better substitute for this can be found
2769 + modify the build to name dynamic libraries according to the
2770 convention used on OS X and Darwin. Rather than something like
2771 libncurses.dylib.5.2, Darwin would name it libncurses. 5.dylib.
2772 There are a few additional minor fixes, such as setting the library
2773 version and compatibility version numbers (patch by Jason Evans
2774 <jevans@apple.com>).
2775 + use 'sh' to run mkinstalldirs, to work around problems with buggy
2776 versions of 'make' on OS/2 (report by John Polterak <jp@eyup.org>).
2777 + correct typo in manpage description of curs_set() (Debian #121548).
2778 + replace the configure script existence-check for mkstemp() by one
2779 that checks if the function works, needed for older glibc and
2783 + modify script that generates fallbacks.c to compile a temporary
2784 copy of the terminfo source in case the host does not contain all of
2785 the entries requested for fallbacks (request by Greg Roelofs).
2786 + modify configure script to accommodate systems such as Mac OS X whose
2787 <stdbool.h> header defines a 'bool' type inconsistent with ncurses,
2788 which normally makes 'bool' consistent with C++. Include <stdbool.h>
2789 from curses.h to force consistent usage, define a new type
2790 NCURSES_BOOL and related that to the exported 'bool' as either a
2791 typedef or definition, according to whether <stdbool.h> is present
2792 (based on a bug report for tin 1.5.9 by Aaron Adams <adamsa@mac.com>).
2795 + added/updated terminfo entries for M$ telnet and KDE konsole -TD
2798 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
2799 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
2800 + add putty terminfo entry -TD
2801 + if configuring for wide-curses, define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, since
2802 this may not otherwise be defined to make test/view.c compile.
2805 + review/correct several missing/generated items in curses.wide, sorted
2806 the lists to make subsequent diff's easier to track.
2809 + add manual pages for add_wch(), echo_wchar(), getcchar(),
2810 mvadd_wch(), mvwadd_wch(), setcchar(), wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar().
2811 + implement wecho_wchar()
2812 + modify _tracedump() to handle wide-characters by mapping them to '?'
2813 and control-characters to '.', to make the trace file readable. Also
2814 dynamically allocate the buffer used by _tracedump() for formatting
2816 + modify T_CALLED/T_RETURN macros to ease balancing call/return lines
2817 in a trace by using curly braces.
2818 + implement _nc_viscbuf(), for tracing cchar_t arrays.
2819 + correct trace-calls in setcchar() and getcchar() functions, which
2820 traced the return values but not the entry to each function.
2821 + correct usage message in test/view.c, which still mentioned -u flag.
2824 + modify configure script to allow building with termcap only, or with
2825 fallbacks only. In this case, we do not build tic and toe.
2826 + add configure --with-termpath option, to override default TERMPATH
2827 value of /etc/termcap:/usr/share/misc/termcap.
2828 + cosmetic change to tack: make menu descriptions agree with menu
2832 + rewrote limit-checks in wscrl() and associated _nc_scroll_window(),
2833 to ensure that if the parameter of wscrl() is larger than the size of
2834 the scrolling region, then the scrolling region will be cleared
2835 (report by Ben Kohlen <bckohlen@yahoo.com>).
2836 + add trace/varargs.c, using this to trace parameters in lib_printw.c
2837 + implement _tracecchar_t2() and _tracecchar_t().
2838 + split-out trace/visbuf.c
2839 + correct typo in lib_printw.c changes from 20010922 (report by Mike
2843 + modify run_tic.sh to check if the build is a cross-compile. In that
2844 case, do not use the build's tic to install the terminfo database
2845 (report by Rafael Rodriguez Velilla <rrv@tid.es>).
2846 + modify mouse click resolution so that mouseinterval(-1) will disable
2847 it, e.g., to handle touchscreens via a slow connection (request by
2848 Byron Stanoszek <gandalf@winds.org>).
2849 + correct mouseinterval() default value shown in curs_mouse.3x
2850 + remove conflicting definition of mouse_trafo() (reported by Lars
2851 Hecking, using gcc 2.95.3).
2854 + simpler fix for signal_name(), to replace the one overlooked in
2855 20010929 (reported by Larry Virden).
2858 + add -i option to view.c, to test ncurses' check for non-default
2859 signal handler for SIGINT, etc.
2860 + add cases for shared-libraries on Darwin/OS X (patch by Rob Braun
2861 <bbraun@synack.net>).
2862 + modify tset to restore original I/O modes if an error is encountered.
2863 Also modify to use buffered stderr consistently rather than mixing
2865 + change signal_name() function to use if-then-else rather than case
2866 statement, since signal-values aren't really integers (reported by
2868 + add limit checks in wredrawln(), fixing a problem where lynx was
2869 repainting a pad which was much larger than the screen.
2872 + fix: PutRange() was counting the second part of a wide character as
2873 part of a run, resulting in a cursor position that was one too far
2874 (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
2875 + modify resizeterm() to not queue a KEY_RESIZE if there was no
2876 SIGWINCH, thereby separating the two styles of SIGWINCH handling
2878 + simplified lib_tstp.c, modify it to use SA_RESTART flag for SIGWINCH.
2879 + eliminate several static buffers in the terminfo compiler, using
2881 + modify MKkeyname.awk so that keyname() does not store its result into
2882 a static buffer that is overwritten by the next call.
2883 + reorganize the output of infocmp -E and -e options to compile cleanly
2884 with gcc -Wwrite-strings warnings.
2885 + remove redefinition of chgat/wchgat/mvwchgat from curses.wide
2888 + add label to test/view.c, showing the name of the last key or signal
2889 that made the screen repaint, to make it clearer when a sigwinch
2891 + use ExitProgram() consistently in the test-programs to make it
2892 simpler to test leaks with dmalloc, etc.
2893 + move hashtab static data out of hashmap.c into SCREEN struct.
2894 + make NO_LEAK code compile with revised WINDOWLIST structs.
2897 + modify tgetent() to check if exit_attribute_mode resets the alternate
2898 character set, and if so, attempt to adjust the copy of the termcap
2899 "me" string which it will return to eliminate that part. In
2900 particular, 'screen' would lose track of line-drawing characters
2901 (report by Frederic L W Meunier <0@pervalidus.net>, analysis by
2905 + specify DOCTYPE in html manpages.
2906 + add missing macros for several "generated" functions: attr_get(),
2907 attr_off(), attr_on(), attr_set(), chgat(), mvchgat(), mvwchgat() and
2909 + modify view.c to agree with non-experimental status of ncurses'
2911 + change the sense of the -r option, making it default to ncurses'
2913 + add a note explaining what functions are unsafe in a signal
2915 + add a -c option, to set color display, for testing.
2916 + unset $data variable in MKterminfo.sh script, to address potential
2917 infinite loop if shell malfunction (report by Samuel Mikes
2918 <smikes@cubane.com>, for bash 2.05.0 on a Linux 2.0.36 system).
2919 + change kbs in mach terminfo entries to ^? (Marcus Brinkmann
2920 <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>).
2921 + correct logic for COLORFGBG environment variable: if rxvt is compiled
2922 with xpm support, the variable has three fields, making it slightly
2923 incompatible with itself. In either case, the background color is
2927 + move calls to def_shell_mode() and def_prog_mode() before loop with
2928 callbacks in lib_set_term.c, since the c++ demo otherwise initialized
2929 the tty modes before saving them (patch by John David Anglin
2930 <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>).
2931 + duplicate logic used to initialize trace in newterm(), in initscr()
2932 to avoid confusing trace of initscr().
2933 + simplify allocation of WINDOW and WINDOWLIST structs by making the
2934 first a part of the second rather than storing a pointer. This saves
2935 a call to malloc for each window (discussion with Philippe Blain).
2936 + remove unused variable 'used_ncv' from lib_vidattr.c (Philippe
2938 + modify c++/Makefile.in to accommodate archive programs that are
2939 different for C++ than for C, and add cases for vendor's C++
2940 compilers on Solaris and IRIX (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
2941 + correct manpage description of criteria for deciding if the terminal
2942 supports xterm mouse controls.
2943 + add several configure script options to aid with cross-compiling:
2944 --with-build-cc, --with-build-cflags, --with-build-ldflags, and
2945 --with-build-libs (request by Greg Roelofs).
2946 + change criteria for deciding if configure is cross-compiling from
2947 host/build mismatch to host/target mismatch (request by Greg Roelofs
2948 <greg.roelofs@philips.com>).
2949 + correct logic for infocmp -e and -E options which writes the data for
2950 the ext_Names[] array. This is needed if one constructs a fallback
2951 table for a terminfo entry which uses extended termcap names, e.g.,
2952 AX in a color xterm.
2953 + fix undefined NCURSES_PATHSEP when configure --disable-database
2957 + fix for VALID_BOOLEAN() macro when char is not signed.
2958 + modify 'clean' rule for C++ binding to work with Sun compiler, which
2959 caches additional information in a subdirectory of the objects.
2960 + added llib-ncursesw.
2963 + add Caps.keys example for experimental extended function keys
2964 (adapted from a patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
2965 + correct parameter types of vidputs() and vidattr() to agree with
2966 header files (report by William P Setzer).
2967 + fix typos in several man-pages (patch by William P Setzer).
2968 + remove unneeded ifdef for __GNUG__ in CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC configure
2969 macro, which made ncurses C++ binding fail to build with other
2970 C++ compilers such as HPUX 11.x (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
2971 + workaround for bug in HPUX 11.x C compiler: add a blank after
2972 NCURSES_EXPORT macro in form.h (report by Albert Chin-A-Young)
2973 + ignore blank lines in Caps* files in MKkey_defs.sh script (report by
2974 Albert Chin-A-Young).
2975 + correct definition of key_end in Caps.aix4, which left KEY_END
2976 undefined (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
2977 + remove a QNX-specific fallback prototype for vsscanf(), which is
2978 obsolete with QNX RTP.
2979 + review/fix some of the T() and TR() macro calls, having noticed that
2980 there was no data for delwin() in a trace of dialog because there was
2981 no returnVoid call for wtimeout(). Also, traces in lib_twait.c are
2982 now selected under TRACE_IEVENT rather than TRACE_CALLS.
2985 + add a _nc_access() check before opening files listed via $TERMPATH.
2986 + using modified man2html, regenerate some of the html manpages to fix
2987 broken HREF's where the link was hyphenated.
2990 + add some limit/pointer checks to -S option of tputs.
2991 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
2992 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
2993 + add a note in curs_termcap.3x regarding a defect in the XSI
2994 description of tgetent (based on a discussion with Urs Jansen
2995 regarding the HPUX 11.x implementation, whose termcap interface is
2996 not compatible with existing termcap programs).
2997 + modify manhtml rule in dist.mk to preserve copyright notice on the
2998 generated files, as well as to address HTML style issues reported by
2999 tidy and weblint. Regenerated/updated corresponding html files.
3000 + comment out use of Protected_Character and related rarely used
3001 attributes in ncurses Ada95 test/demo to compile with wide-character
3005 + implement a simple example in C++ demo to test scanw().
3006 + corrected stdio function used to implement scanw() in cursesw.cc
3007 + correct definition of RemAttr() macro from 20010602 changes, which
3008 caused C++ SillyDemo to not show line-drawing characters.
3009 + modify C++ binding, adding getKey() which can be overridden by user
3010 to substitute functions other than getch() for keyboard processing
3011 of forms and menus (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3014 + fix some of the trace calls which needed modification to work with
3015 new wide-character structures.
3016 + modify magic-cookie code in tty_update.c to compile with new
3017 wide-character structures (report by <George.R.Goffe@seagate.com>).
3018 + ensure that _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined in curses.priv.h if
3019 compiling for wide-character configuration.
3020 + make addwnstr() handle non-spacing characters (patch by Sven
3024 + add configure check to define _GNU_SOURCE, needed to prop up glibc
3026 + split-out include/curses.wide to solve spurious redefinitions caused
3027 by defining _GNU_SOURCE, and move includes for <signal.h> before
3028 <curses.h> to work around misdefinition of ERR in glibc 2.1.3 header
3030 + extended ospeed change to NetBSD and OpenBSD -TD
3031 + modify logic in lib_baudrate.c for ospeed, for FreeBSD to make it
3032 work properly for termcap applications (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
3035 + correct an overlooked CharOf/UChar instance (reports by Eugene Lee
3036 <eugene@anime.net>, Sven Verdoolaege).
3037 + correct unneeded ifdef for wunctrl() (reported by Sven Verdoolaege)
3040 + change overlooked several CharOf/UChar instances.
3041 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
3042 + correct a typo in wunctrl(), which made it appear that botwc() was
3043 needed (no such function: use btowc()).
3044 + reimplement wide-character demo in test/view.c, using new functions.
3045 + implement getcchar(), setcchar(), wadd_wchnstr() and related macros.
3046 + fix a syntax problem with do/if/while in PUTC macro (curses.priv.h).
3049 + add parentheses in macros for malloc in test.priv.h, fixes an
3050 expression in view.c (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.co.at>).
3051 + add Caps.uwin, as an example.
3052 + change the way curses.h is generated, making the list of function
3053 key definitions extracted from the Caps file.
3054 + add #undef's before possible redefinition of ERR and OK in curses.h
3055 + modify logic in tic, toe, tput and tset which checks for basename of
3056 argv[0] to work properly on systems such as OS/2 which have
3057 case-independent filenames and/or program suffixes, e.g., ".ext".
3060 + add a configure check, if --enable-widec is specified, for putwc(),
3061 which may be in libutf8.
3062 + remove some unnecessary text from curs_extend.3x and
3063 default_colors.3x which caused man-db to make incorrect symbolic
3064 links (Debian bug report #99550).
3065 + add configure check if cast for _IO_va_list is needed to compile
3066 C++ vscan code (Debian bug report #97945).
3067 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
3068 + correct code that used non-standard auto-initialization of a struct,
3069 which gcc allows (report by Larry Virden).
3070 + use putwc() in PUTC() macro.
3071 + make addstr() work for the special case where the codeset is
3072 non-stateful (eg. UTF-8), as well as stateful codesets.
3075 + correct loop expression in NEXT_CHAR macro for lib_addstr.c changes
3076 from 20010602 (report by Mike Castle).
3079 + modify mvcur() to avoid emitting newline characters when nonl() mode
3080 is set. Normally this is not a problem since the actual terminal
3081 mode is set to suppress nl/crlf translations, however it is useful to
3082 allow the caller to manipulate the terminal mode to avoid staircasing
3083 effects after spawning a process which writes messages (for lynx
3085 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>:
3086 + remove redundant type-conversion in fifo_push()
3087 + correct definition of addwstr() macro in curses.h.in
3088 + remove _nc_utf8_outch()
3089 + rename most existing uses of CharOf() to UChar(), e.g., where it is
3090 used to prevent sign-extension in ctype macros.
3091 + change some chtype's to attr_t's where the corresponding variables
3092 are used to manipulate attributes.
3093 + UpdateAttr() was applied to both attributes (attr_t) and characters
3094 (chtype). Modify macro and calls to it to make these distinct.
3095 + add CharEq() macro, use in places where wide-character configuration
3096 implementation uses a struct for cchar_t.
3097 + moved struct ldat into curses.priv.h, to hide implementation details.
3098 + change CharOf() macro to use it for masking A_CHARTEXT data from
3100 + add L() macro to curses.priv.h, for long-character literals.
3101 + replace several assignments from struct ldat entries to chtype or
3102 char values with combinations of CharOf() and AttrOf() macros.
3103 + add/use intermediate ChAttrOf() and ChCharOf() macros where we know
3104 we are using chtype data.
3105 + add/use lowlevel attribute manipulation macros AddAttr(), RemAttr()
3107 + add/use SetChar() macro, to change a cchar_t based on a character and
3109 + convert most internal use of chtype to NCURSES_CH_T, to simplify use
3110 of cchar_t for wide-character configuration. Similarly, use ARG_CH_T
3111 where a pointer would be more useful.
3112 + add stubs for tracing cchar_t values.
3113 + add/use macro ISBLANK()
3114 + add/use constructors for cchar_t's: NewChar(), NewChar2().
3115 + add/use macros CHREF(), CHDEREF(), AttrOfD(), CharOfD() to facilitate
3116 passing cchar_t's by address.
3117 + add/use PUTC_DATA, PUTC() macros.
3118 + for wide-character configuration, move the window background data to
3119 the end of the WINDOW struct so that whether _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
3120 is defined or not, the offsets in the struct will not change.
3121 + modify addch() to work with wide-characters.
3122 + mark several wide-character functions as generated in curses.h.in
3123 + implement wunctrl(), wadd_wch(), wbkgrndset(), wbkgrnd(),
3124 wborder_set() and waddnwstr().
3127 + add experimental --with-caps=XXX option to customize to similar
3128 terminfo database formats such as AIX 4.x
3129 + add Caps.aix4 as an example.
3130 + modify Caps to add columns for the the KEY_xxx symbols.
3131 + modify configure --with-widec to suppress overwrite of libcurses.so
3133 + add checks to toe.c to avoid being confused by files and directories
3134 where we would expect the reverse, e.g., source-files in the
3135 top-level terminfo levels as is the case for AIX.
3138 + add top-level 'depend' rule for the C sources, assuming that the
3139 makedepend program is available. As a side-effect, this makes
3140 the generated sources, as in "make sources" (prompted by a report
3141 by Mike Castle that "make -j" fails because the resulting parallel
3142 processes race to generate ncurses/names.c).
3143 + modify configure script so that --disable-overwrite option's action
3144 to add a symbolic link for libcurses applies to the static library as
3145 well as the shared library when both are configured (report by Felix
3146 Natter <f.natter@ndh.net>).
3147 + add ELKS terminfo entries (Federico Bianchi
3148 <bianchi@www.arte.unipi.it>)
3149 + add u6 (CSR) to Eterm (Michael Jennings).
3152 + modify test/ncurses.c to work with xterm-256color, which has fewer
3153 color pairs than colors*colors (report by David Ellement
3154 <ellement@sdd.hp.com>).
3157 + corrected screen.xterm-xfree86 entry.
3158 + update comment in Caps regarding IBM (AIX) function-key definitions.
3161 + modify c++/Makefile.in to link with libncurses++w.a when configured
3162 for wide-characters (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
3163 + add check in _nc_trace_buf() to refrain from freeing a null pointer.
3164 + improve CF_PROG_INSTALL macro using CF_DIRNAME.
3165 + update config.guess, config.sub from autoconf 2.49e (alpha).
3168 + add secondary check in tic.c, similar_sgr() to see if the reason
3169 for mismatch was that the individual capabilities used a time-delay
3170 while sgr did not. Used this to cleanup mismatches, e.g., in vt100,
3171 and remove time-delay from Apple_Terminal entries.
3172 + add Apple_Terminal terminfo entries (Benjamin C W Sittler
3173 <bsittler@iname.com>).
3174 + correct definitions of shifted editing keys for xterm-xfree86 -TD
3175 + fix a bug in test/bs.c from 20010407 (patch by Erik Sigra).
3176 + prevent relative_move() from doing an overwrite if it detects 8-bit
3177 characters when configured for UTF-8 (reported by Sven Verdoolaege
3178 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
3181 + add configure checks for strstream.h vscan function, and similar
3182 stdio-based function which may be used in C++ binding for gcc 3.0
3183 (reports by George Goffe, Lars Hecking, Mike Castle).
3184 + rewrite parts of configure.in which used changequote(). That feature
3185 is broken in the latest autoconf alphas (e.g., 2.49d).
3186 + add a missing pathname for ncurses_dll.h, needed when building in
3187 a directory outside the source tree (patch by Sven Verdoolaege
3188 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
3189 > fix 2 bugs in test/bs.c Erik Sigra <sigra@home.se>:
3190 + no ships were ever placed in the last row or in the last column.
3191 This made the game very easy to win, because you never had to waste
3192 any shots there, but the computer did.
3193 + the squares around a sunken ship that belonged to the player were not
3194 displayed as already hit by the computer, like it does for the
3198 + add some examples of customizing screen's terminfo:
3199 screen.xterm-xfree86, screen.xterm-r6, screen.teraterm -TD
3200 + modify screen's terminfo entry to match the khome/kend in screen
3201 3.09.08 (Debian bug report #92215).
3202 + correct a memory leak in forms library (report by Stefan Vogtner
3203 <stefan@vogtner.de>) (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3206 + change symbols used to guard against repeated includes to begin
3207 consistently with "NCURSES_" rather than a leading underscore. There
3208 are other symbols defined in the header files which begin with a
3209 leading underscore, but they are part of the legacy interface.
3210 + reorder includes in c++ binding so that rcs identifiers can be
3212 + add .cc.ii rule to c++ makefile, to get preprocessor output for
3214 + correct configure script handling of @keyword@ substitutions when the
3215 --with-manpage-renames option is given (cf: 20000715, fixes Debian
3217 + report stack underflow/overflow in tparm() when tic -cv option is
3219 + remove spurious "%|" operator from xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry,
3220 (reported by Adam Costello <amc@cs.berkeley.edu>, Debian bug #89222).
3223 + cleanup of newdemo.c, fixing some ambiguous expressions noted by gcc
3224 2.95.2, and correcting some conflicting color pair initializations.
3225 + add missing copyright notice for cursesw.h
3226 + review, make minor fixes for use of '::' for referring to C-language
3227 interface from C++ binding.
3228 + modify configure check for g++ library slightly to accommodate
3229 nonstandard version number, e.g., <vendor>-2.7 (report by Ronald Ho
3230 <rho@mipos2.intel.com>).
3231 + add configure check for c++ <sstream> header, replace hardcoded
3233 + workaround for pre-release of gcc 3.0 libstdc++, which has dropped
3234 vscan from strstreambuf to follow standard, use wrapper for C vscanf
3235 instead (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@excite.com> and Matt Taggart
3236 <taggart@carmen.fc.hp.com>, fixes Debian .
3239 + modify interface of _nc_get_token() to pass 'silent' parameter to it,
3240 to make quieter loading of /etc/termcap (patch by Todd C Miller).
3241 + correct a few typos in curs_slk.3x and curs_outopts.3x manpages
3242 (patch by Todd C Miller).
3245 + compiler-warning fixes (reported by Nelson Beebe).
3248 + modify screen terminfo entry to use new 3.9.8 feature allowing xterm
3252 + broaden patterns used to match OS/2 EMX in configure script to cover
3253 variant used in newer config.guess/config.sub
3254 + remove changequote() calls from configure script, since this feature
3255 is broken in the autoconf 2.49c alpha, maintainers decline to fix.
3256 + remove macro callPutChar() from tty_update.c, since this is no longer
3257 needed (reported by Philippe Blain).
3258 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c to handle the case when the input
3259 file is really empty. Modify the next_char() function in comp_scan.c
3260 to allow arbitrarily long lines, and incidentally supply a newline to
3261 files that do not end in a newline. These changes improve tic's
3262 recovery from attempts to read binary files, e.g., its output from
3263 the terminfo database (reported by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
3266 + revert change to c++/demo.cc from 20001209, which changed definition
3267 of main() apparently to accommodate cygwin linker, but broke the demo
3269 + workaround for broken egcs 2.91.66 which calls member functions
3270 (i.e., lines() and colors() of NCursesWindow before calling its
3271 constructor. Add calls to initialize() in a few constructors which
3272 did not do this already.
3273 + use the GNAT preprocessor to make the necessary switch between TRACE
3274 and NO_TRACE configurations (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3275 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
3276 + modify kterm terminfo entry to use SCS sequence to support alternate
3277 character set (it does not work with SI/SO).
3278 + --with-ospeed=something didn't work. configure.in checked for a
3279 $enableval where it should check for $withval. Also,
3280 ncurses/llib-lncurses still had a hardcoded short.
3283 + correction to my merge of Tom Riddle's patch that broke tic in some
3284 conditions (reported by Enoch Wexler <enoch@wexler.co.il>) -TD
3287 + modify view.c to test halfdelay(). Like other tests, this recognizes
3288 the 's' and space commands for stopping/starting polled input, shows
3289 a freerunning clock in the header. If given a parameter to 's', that
3290 makes view.c use halfdelay() with that parameter rather than
3292 + fix to allow compile with the experimental configure option
3294 + modify postprocess_termcap() to avoid overwriting key_backspace,
3295 key_left, key_down when processing a non-base entry (report/patch by
3297 + modify _nc_wrap_entry(), adding option to reallocate the string
3298 table, needed in _nc_merge_entry() when merging termcap entries.
3299 (adapted from report/patch by Tom Riddle <ftr@oracom.com>).
3300 + modify a few configure script macros to keep $CFLAGS used only for
3301 compiler options, preprocessor options in $CPPFLAGS.
3304 + correct marker positions in lrtest.c after receiving a sigwinch.
3305 + fix ifdef's in ncurses.c to build against pre-5.2 for testing.
3306 + fixes to tclock for resizing behavior, redundant computation (report
3307 and patch by A M Kuchling <akuchlin@mems-exchange.org>).
3310 + improved scoansi terminfo entry -TD
3311 + modify configure script and makefile in Ada95/src to compile a stub
3312 for the trace functions when ncurses does not provide those.
3315 + add ncurses_dll.h and related definitions to support generating DLL's
3316 with cygwin (adapted from a patch by Charles Wilson
3317 <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>, changed NCURSES_EXPORT macro to make it
3318 work with 'indent') -TD
3321 + correct prototypes for some functions in curs_termcap.3x, matching
3322 termcap.h, which matches X/Open.
3323 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
3324 + a revised version of the Ada enhancements sent in by "H.
3325 Nanosecond", aka Eugene V Melaragno <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>. This
3327 - small fixes to the existing ncurses binding
3328 - addition of some more low-level functions to the binding, including
3329 termcap and terminfo functions
3330 - An Ada implementation of the "ncurses" test application originally
3334 + modify logic in lib_setup.c to allow either lines or columns value
3335 from terminfo to be used if the screen size cannot be determined
3336 dynamically rather than requiring both (patch by Ehud Karni
3337 <ehud@unix.simonwiesel.co.il>).
3338 + add check in lib_tgoto.c's is_termcap() function to reject null or
3339 empty strings (reported by Valentin Nechayev <netch@netch.kiev.ua> to
3341 + add definition from configure script that denotes the path-separator,
3342 which is normally a colon. The path-separator is a semicolon on
3343 OS/2 EMX and similar systems which may use a colon within pathnames.
3344 + alter logic to set default for --disable-overwrite option to set it
3345 to 'yes' if the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr/local, thereby
3346 accommodating the most common cause of problems: gcc's nonstandard
3347 search rules. Other locations such as /usr/local/ncurses will
3348 default to overwriting (report by Lars Hecking <lhecking@nmrc.ie>).
3351 + modify default for --disable-overwrite configure option to disable
3352 if the --prefix or $prefix value is not /usr.
3353 + add cygwin to systems for which ncurses is installed by default into
3354 /usr rather than /usr/local.
3357 + minor optimization in comp_error.c and lib_termname.c, using
3358 strncat() to replace strncpy() (patch by Solar Designer).
3359 + add a use_terminfo_vars() check for $HOME/.termcap, and check for
3360 geteuid() to use_terminfo_vars() (patch by Solar Designer
3362 + improved cygwin terminfo entry, based on patch by
3363 <ernie_boyd@yahoo.com>.
3364 + modify _nc_write_entry() to allow for the possibility that linking
3365 aliases on a filesystem that ignores case would not succeed because
3366 the source and destination differ only by case, e.g., NCR260VT300WPP0
3367 on cygwin (report by Neil Zanella).
3368 + fix a typo in the curs_deleteln.3x man page (patch by Bernhard
3369 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
3372 + add configure option --with-ospeed to assist packagers in transition
3373 to 5.3 change to ospeed type.
3374 + add/use CharOf() macro to suppress sign-extension of char type on
3375 platforms where this is a problem in ctype macros, e.g., Solaris.
3376 + change trace output to binary format.
3377 + correct a missing quote adjustment in CF_PATH_SYNTAX autoconf
3378 macro, for OS/2 EMX configuration.
3379 + rearrange a few configure macros, moving preprocessor options to
3380 $CPPFLAGS (a now-obsolete version of autoconf did not consistently
3381 use $CPPFLAGS in both the compile and preprocessor checks).
3382 + add a check in relative_move() to guard against buffer overflow in
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