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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 may be cited in this file by their initials.
42 Each accounts for half of 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 + build-fix in picsmap.c for stdint.h existence.
50 + add --disable-stripping option to configure scripts.
51 + modify ncurses-examples to install test-scripts in the data directory.
52 + work around tool-breakage in Debian 9 and later by invoking
53 gprconfig to specify the C compiler to be used by gnatmake,
54 and conditionally suppressing Library_Options line for static
56 + bump the compat level for test-packages to 7, i.e., Debian 5.
59 + fixes for writing extended color pairs in putwin.
60 + modify test/savescreen.c to add test patterns that exercise 88-,
62 + modify configure option --with-build-cc, adding clang, c89 and c99
63 as possible default values.
64 + modify ncurses-examples configure script to use pkg-config for the
65 extra form/menu/panel libraries, to be more consistent with the
66 handling of the curses/ncurses library.
67 + modify test-packages for mingw to supply "pc" files.
68 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to list -lpthread as a private library when
69 configured to access it via weak symbols.
70 + simplify gen-pkgconfig.in, adding -ltinfo without the special linker
71 checks because some versions of the linker simply hard-code the
73 + update URLs for ncurses website to use https.
74 + modify CF_CURSES_LIBS to fill in $cf_nculib_root in case the
75 ncurses-examples are built with a system ncurses that lacks the
76 standard "curses" symbolic link, as done by SuSE. The symbol is
77 needed to make a followup check for the pthread library work, and
78 would be set properly using the options "--with-screen", etc.
79 + generate misc/*.pc with "all" rule, as done for "sources" rule
80 (report by Jeffrey Walton).
83 + build-fix for ncurses-examples with Fedora27, adding check for
84 reset_color_pairs() -- not yet in Fedora's package.
85 + consistently add $CFLAGS to $MK_SHARED_LIB symbol in configure
86 script when the latter happens to use the C compiler rather than
87 directly using the loader (report by Jeffrey Walton).
88 + set ABI for upcoming 6.1 release in "*.map" files. While there are
89 some remaining internals to apply, no ABI-related changes are
91 + add configure --with-config-suffix option to work around filename
92 conflict with Redhat packages versus test-packages.
95 + modify ncurses-examples to quiet const-warnings when building with
97 + modify toe to not exit if unable to read a terminal description,
98 e.g., if there is a permission problem.
99 + minor fix for progs/toe.c, using _nc_free_termtype2.
100 + assign 0 to pointer in _nc_tgetent_leak() after freeing it. Also
101 avoid reusing pointer from previous successful call to tgetent
102 if the latest call is unsuccessful (patch by Michael Schroeder,
104 + minor fix for test/tracemunch, initialize $awaiting variable.
107 + repair template in test/package/ncurses-examples.spec (cf: 20171111).
108 + improve tic's warning about the number of parameters tparm might use
109 for u1-u9 by making a special case for u6.
110 + improve curs_attr.3x discussion of color pairs.
113 + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to make output with --includedir
114 consistent with --cflags, i.e., when --disable-overwrite option was
115 configured the output should show the subdirectory where headers
117 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to suppress macros when calling an "implemented"
118 function in link_test.c
119 + updated ftp-url used in test-packages, etc.
120 + modify order of -pie/-shared options in configure script in case
121 LDFLAGS uses "-pie", working around a defect or limitation in the GNU
122 linker (prompted by patch by Yogesh Prasad, forwarded by Jay Shah).
123 + add entry in man_db.renames for user_caps.5
126 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to avoid tracing result from getstr/getnstr
128 + add "-a" aspect-ratio option to picsmap.
129 + add configure check for default path of rgb.txt, used in picsmap.
130 + modify _nc_write_entry() to truncate too-long filename (report by
131 Hosein Askari, Debian #882620).
132 + build-fix for ncurses-examples with NetBSD curses:
133 + it lacks the use_env() function.
134 + it lacks libpanel; a recent change used the wrong ifdef symbol.
135 + add a macro for is_linetouched() and adjust the function's return
136 value to make it possible for most applications to check for an
137 error-return (report by Midolikawa H).
138 + additional manpage cleanup.
139 + update config.guess, config.sub from
140 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
143 + add a note to curs_addch.3x on portability.
144 + add a note to curs_pad.3x on the origin and portability of pads.
145 + improve manpage description of getattrs (report by Midolikawa H).
146 + improve manpage macros (prompted by discussion in Debian #880551.
147 + reviewed test-programs using KEY_RESIZE, made fixes to test/worm.c
148 + add a "-d" option to picsmap for default-colors.
149 + modify old terminology entry and a few other terminal emulators to
151 + correct sgr string for tmux, which used screen's "standout" code
152 rather than the standard code (patch by Roman Kagan)
153 + correct sgr/sgr0 strings in a few other cases reported by tic, making
154 those correspond to the non-sgr settings where they differ, but
155 otherwise use ECMA-48 consistently:
156 jaixterm, aixterm, att5420_2, att4424, att500, decansi, d410-7b,
157 dm80, hpterm, emu-220, hp2, iTerm2.app, mterm-ansi, ncrvt100an,
158 st-0.7, vi603, vwmterm -TD
159 + build-fix for diagnostics warning in lib_mouse.c for pre-5.0 versions
160 of gcc which did not recognize the diagnostic "push" pragma (patch by
164 + add "op" to xterm+256setaf -TD
165 + reviewed terminology 1.0.0 -TD
166 + reviewed st 0.7 -TD
167 + suppress debug-package for ncurses-examples rpm build.
170 + check for interrupt in color-pair initialization of dots_curses.c,
172 + add z/Z zoom feature to test/ncurses.c C/c screens.
173 + add '<' and '>' commands to test/ncurses.c S/s screens, to better
174 test off-by-ones in the overlap/copywin functions.
177 + improve man/curs_inwstr.3x, correct end-logic for lib_inwstr.c
178 (report by Midolikawa H).
179 + fix typo in a few places for "improvements" (patch by Sven Joachim).
180 + clear the other half of a double-width character on which a line
181 drawing character is drawn.
182 + make test/ncurses.c "s" test easier to understand which subtests are
183 available; add a "S" wide-character overlap test-screen.
184 + modify test/ncurses.c C/c tests to allow for extended color pairs.
185 + add endwin() call in error-returns from test/ncurses.c omitted in
186 recent redesign of its menu (cf: 20170923).
187 + improve install of hashed-db by removing the ".db" file as done for
188 directory-tree terminal databases.
189 + repair a few overlooked items in include/ncurses_defs from recent
190 port/refactoring of test-programs (cf: 20170909).
191 + add test/padview.c, to compare pads with direct updates in view.c
194 + modify test/view.c to expand tabs using the ncurses library rather
195 than in the test-program.
196 + remove very old SIGWINCH example in test/view.c, just use KEY_RESIZE.
197 + add -T, -e, -f -m options to "dots" test-programs.
198 + fix a few typos in usage-messages for test-programs.
201 + minor cleanup to test/view.c:
202 + eliminate "-n" option by simply reading the whole file.
203 + implement page up/down commands.
204 + add check in tput for init/reset operands to ensure those use a
206 + improve manual pages which discuss chtype, cchar_t types and the
207 attribute values which can be stored in those types.
208 + correct array-index when parsing "-T" command-line option in tabs
210 + modify demo_new_pair.c to pass extended pairs to setcchar().
211 + add test/dots_xcurses.c to illustrate a different approach used for
212 extended colors which can be contrasted with dots_curses.c.
213 + add a check in tic to note when a description uses non-mandatory
214 delays without xon_xoff. This is not an error, but some descriptions
215 for a terminal emulator may use the combination incorrectly.
218 + modify "-T" option of clear and tput to call use_tioctl() to obtain
219 the operating system's notion of the screensize if possible.
220 + review/repair some exit-codes for tput, making usage-message exit
221 with 2 rather than 1, and a failure to open terminal 4+errno.
222 + amend check in tput, tabs and clear to allow those to use the
223 database-only features in cron if a -T option gives a suitable
224 terminal name (report by Lauri Tirkkonen).
225 + correct an ifdef in test/ncurses.c for systems with soft-keys but
227 + regenerate man-html documentation.
230 + fix a symbol conflict that made ncurses.c C/c menu not work with
232 + add refresh() call to dots_mvcur.c, needed to use mvcur() with
233 Solaris xpg4 curses after calling newterm().
234 + minor fixes for configure script from work on ncurses-examples and
236 + improve animation in test/xmas.c by adding a time-delay in blinkit().
237 + modify several test programs to reflect that ncurses honors existing
238 signal handlers in initscr(), while other implementations do not.
239 + modify bs.c to make it easier to quit.
240 + change ncurses-examples to use attr_t vs chtype to follow X/Open
241 documentation more closely since Solaris xpg4-curses uses different
242 values for WA_xxx vs A_xxx that rely on attr_t being an unsigned
243 short. Tru64 aka OSF1, HPUX, AIX did as ncurses does, equating the
247 + modify menu for test/ncurses.c to fit on 24-line screen.
248 + build-fix for configure --with-caps=uwin
249 + add options to test_arrays.c, for selecting termcap vs terminfo, etc.
252 + minor fix to test/filter.c to avoid clearing the command in one case.
253 + modify filter() to discard clr_eos if back_color_erase is set.
256 + improve wide-character implementation of myADDNSTR() in frm_driver.c,
257 which was inconsistent with the normal implementation.
258 + save/restore cursor position in Undo_Justification(), matching
259 behavior of Buffer_To_Window() (report by Leon Winter).
260 + modify test/knight to provide the "slow" solution for small screens
261 using "R", noting that Warnsdorf's method is easily done with "a".
262 + modify several test-programs which call use_default_colors() to
263 consistently do this only if "-d" option is given.
264 + additional changes to test with non-standard variants of curses:
265 + modify a loop limit in firework.c to work around absense of limit
266 checks in some libraries.
267 + fill the last row of a window with "?" in firstlast if waddch does
268 not return ERR on the lower-right corner.
269 + add checks in test/configure for some functions not in 4.3BSD curses.
270 + fix a regression in test/configure (cf: 20170826).
273 + amend change for endwin-state for better consistency with the older
274 logic (report/patch by Jeb Rosen, cf: 20170722).
275 + modify check in fmt_entry() to handle a cancelled reset string
276 (Debian #873746). Make similar fixes in other parts of dump_entry.c
280 + fix a bug in repeat_char logic (cf: 20170729, report by Chris Clayton).
283 + fixes for "iterm2" (report by Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD
284 + corrected a warning from tic about keys which are the same, to skip
285 over missing/cancelled values.
286 + add check in tic for unnecessary use of "2" to denote a shifted
288 + improve checks in trim_sgr0, comp_parse.c and parse_entry.c, for
289 cancelled string capabilities.
290 + add check in _nc_parse_entry() for invalid entry name, setting the
291 name to "invalid" to avoid problems storing entries.
292 + add/improve checks in tic's parser to address invalid input
293 + add a check in comp_scan.c to handle the special case where a
294 nontext file ending with a NUL rather than newline is given to tic
295 as input (Redhat #1484274).
296 + allow for cancelled capabilities in _nc_save_str (Redhat #1484276).
297 + add validity checks for "use=" target in _nc_parse_entry (Redhat
299 + check for invalid strings in postprocess_termcap (Redhat #1484285)
300 + reset secondary pointers on EOF in next_char() (Redhat #1484287).
301 + guard _nc_safe_strcpy() and _nc_safe_strcat() against calls using
302 cancelled strings (Redhat #1484291).
303 + correct typo in curs_memleaks.3x (Sven Joachim).
304 + improve test/configure checks for some curses variants not based on
306 + add options for test/configure to disable checks for form, menu and
310 + update "iterm" entry -TD
311 + add "iterm2" entry (report by Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD
312 + regenerate llib-* files.
313 + regenerate HTML manpages.
314 + improve picsmap test-program:
315 + reduce memory used for tsearch
316 + add report in log file showing cumulative color coverage.
317 + add -x option to clear/tput to make the E3 extension optional
319 + add options -T and -V to clear command for compatibility with tput.
320 + add usage message to clear command (Debian #371855).
321 + improve usage messages for tset and tput.
322 + minor fixes to "RGB" extension and reset_color_pairs().
325 + improve description of -R option in infocmp manual page (report by
327 + add reset_color_pairs() function.
328 + add user_caps.5 manual page to document the terminfo extensions used
330 + improve build scripts, using SIGQUIT vs SIGTRAP; add other configure
331 script fixes from work on xterm, lynx and tack.
332 + modify install-rule for ncurses-examples to put the data files in
333 /usr/share/ncurses-examples
334 + improve tracemunch, by changing address-parameters of add_wch(),
335 color_content() and pair_content() to dummy parameters.
336 + minor optimization to _nc_change_pair, to return quickly when the
337 current screen is marked for clearing.
338 + in-progress changes to improve performance of test/picsmap.c for
340 + modify allocation for SCREEN's color-pair table to start small, grow
341 on demand up to the existing limit.
342 + add "RGB" extension capability for direct-color support, use this to
343 improve color_content().
344 + improve picsmap test-program:
345 + if no palette file is needed, attempt to load one based on $TERM,
346 checking first in the current directory, then by adding ".dat"
347 suffix, and finally in the data-directory, e.g.,
348 /usr/share/ncurses-examples
349 + add "-l" option for logging
350 + add "-d" option for debugging
351 + add "-s" option for stepping automatically through list of images,
353 + use tsearch to improve time for loading color table for images.
354 + update config.guess, config.sub from
355 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
358 + update interix entry using tack and SFU on Windows 7 Ultimate -TD
359 + use ^? for kdch1 in interix (reported by Jonathan de Boyne Pollard)
360 + add "rep" to xterm-new, available since 1997/01/26 -TD
361 + move SGR 24 and 27 from vte-2014 to vte-2012 (request by Alain
363 + add a check in newline_forces_scroll() in case a program moves the
364 cursor outside scrolling margins (report by Robert King).
365 + improve _nc_tparm_analyze, using that to extend the checks made by
366 tic for reporting inconsistencies between the expected number of
367 parameters for a capability and the actual.
368 + amend handling of repeat_char capability in EmitRange (adapted from
369 report/patch by Dick Wesseling):
370 + translate the character to the alternate character set when the
371 alternate character set is enabled.
372 + do not use repeat_char for characters past 255.
373 + document "_nc_free_tinfo" in manual page, because it could be used in
374 tack for memory-leak checking.
375 + add "--without-tack" configure option to refine "--with-progs"
376 configure option. Normally tack is no longer built in-tree, but
377 a few packagers combine it during the build. If term_entry.h is
378 installed, there is no advantage to in-tree builds.
379 + adjust configure-script to define HAVE_CURSES_DATA_BOOLNAMES symbol
380 needed for tack 1.08 when built in-tree. Rather than relying upon
381 internal "_nc_" functions, tack now uses the boolean, number and
382 string capability name-arrays provided by ncurses and SVr4 Unix
383 curses. It still uses term_entry.h for the definitions of the
384 extended capability arrays.
385 + add an overlooked null-pointer check in mvcur changes from 20170722
388 + improve test-packages for ncurses-examples and AdaCurses for lintian
389 + modify logic for endwin-state to be able to detect the case where
390 the screen was never initialized, using that to trigger a flush of
391 ncurses' buffer for mvcur, e.g., in test/dots_mvcur.c for the
392 term-driver configuration.
393 + add dependency upon ncurses_cfg.h to a few other internal header
394 files to allow each to be compiled separately.
395 + add dependency upon ncurses_cfg.h to tic's header-files; any program
396 using tic-library will have to supply this file. Legacy tack
397 versions supply this file; ongoing tack development has dropped the
398 dependency upon tic-library and new releases will not be affected.
401 + modify command-line parameters for "convert" used in picsmap to work
402 with ImageMagick 6.8 and newer.
403 + fix build-problem with tack and ABI-5 (Debian #868328).
404 + repair termcap-format from tic/infocmp broken in 20170701 fixes
406 + reformat terminfo.src with 20170513 updates.
407 + improve test-packages to address lintian warnings.
410 + add a note to tic manual page about -W versus -f options.
411 + correct a limit-check in fixes from 20170701 (report by Sven Joachim).
414 + modify update_getenv() in db_iterator.c to ensure that environment
415 variables which are not initially set will be checked later if an
416 application happens to set them (patch by Guillaume Maudoux).
417 + remove initialization-check for calling napms() in the term-driver
418 configuration; none is needed.
419 + add help-screen to test/test_getstr.c and test/test_get_wstr.c
420 + improve compatibility between different configurations of new_prescr,
421 fixing a case with threaded code and term-driver where c++/demo did
422 not work (cf: 20160213).
423 + the fixes for Redhat #1464685 obscured a problem subsequently
424 reported in Redhat #1464687; the given test-case was no longer
425 reproducible. Testing without the fixes for the earlier reports
426 showed a problem with buffer overflow in dump_entry.c, which is
427 addressed by reducing the use of a fixed-size buffer.
428 + add/improve checks in tic's parser to address invalid input
429 (Redhat #1464684, #1464685, #1464686, #1464691).
430 + alloc_entry.c, add a check for a null-pointer.
431 + parse_entry.c, add several checks for valid pointers as well as
432 one check to ensure that a single character on a line is not
433 treated as the 2-character termcap short-name.
434 + fix a memory leak in delscreen() (report by Bai Junq).
435 + improve tracemunch, showing thread identifiers as names.
436 + fix a use-after-free in NCursesMenu::~NCursesMenu()
437 + further amend incorrect calls for memory-leaks from 20170617 changes
438 (report by Allen Hewes).
441 + modify c++/etip.h.in to accommodate deprecation of throw() and
442 throws() in c++17 (prompted by patch by Romain Geissler).
443 + remove some incorrect calls for memory-leaks from 20170617 changes
444 (report by Allen Hewes).
445 + add test-programs for termattrs and term_attrs.
446 + modify _nc_outc_wrapper to use the standard output if the screen was
447 not initialized, rather than returning an error.
448 + improve checks for low-level terminfo functions when the terminal
449 has not been initialized (Redhat #1345963).
450 + modify make_hash to allow building with address-sanitizer,
451 assuming that --disable-leaks is configured.
452 + amend changes for number_format() in 20170506 to avoid undefined
453 behavior when shifting (patch by Emanuele Giaquinta).
456 + fill in some places where TERMTYPE2 vs TERMTYPE was not used
457 (report by Allen Hewes).
458 + use ExitTerminfo() internally in error-exits for ncurses' setupterm
459 to help with leak checking.
460 + use ExitProgram() in error-exit from initscr() to help with leak
462 + review test-programs, adding checks for cases where the terminal
463 cannot be initialized.
466 + add option "-xp" to picsmap.c, to use init_extended_pair().
467 + make simple performance fixes for picsmap.c
468 + improve aspect ratio of images read from "convert" in picsmap.c
471 + add option to picsmap to use color-palette files, e.g., for mapping
473 + move the data in SCREEN used for the alloc_pair() function to the
474 end, to restore compatibility between ncurses/ncursesw libtinfo
475 (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
476 + add build-time utility "report_offsets" to help show when the various
477 configurations of tinfo library are compatible or not.
480 + improved test/picsmap.c:
481 + lookup named colors for xpm files in rgb.txt
482 + accept blanks in color-keys for xpm files.
483 + if neither xbm/xpm work, try "convert", which may be available.
486 + modify test/picsmap.c to read xpm files.
487 + modify package/debian/* to create documentation packages, so the
488 related files can be checked with lintian.
489 + fix some typos in manpages (report/patch by Sven Joachim).
492 + add test/picsmap.c to fill in some testing issues not met by dots.
493 The initial version reads X bitmap (".xbm") files.
494 + repair logic which forces a repaint where a color-pair's content is
495 changed (cf: 20170311).
496 + improve tracemunch, showing screenXX pointers as names.
499 + modify tic/infocmp display of numeric values to use hexadecimal when
500 they are "close" to a power of two, making the result more readable.
501 + improve discussion of portability in curs_mouse.3x
502 + change line-length for generated html/manpages to 78 columns from 65.
503 + improve discussion of line-drawing characters in curs_add_wch.3x
504 (prompted by discussion with Lorinczy Zsigmond).
505 + cleanup formatting of hackguide.html and ncurses-intro.html
506 + add examples for WACS_D_PLUS and WACS_T_PLUS to test/ncurses.c
509 + corrected a case where $with_gpm was set to "maybe" after CF_WITH_GPM,
510 overlooked in 20160528 fixes (report by Alexandre Bury).
511 + improve a couple of test-program's help-messages.
512 + corrected loop in rain.c from 20170415 changes.
513 + modify winnstr and winchnstr to return error if the output pointer is
514 null, as well as adding a null pointer check of the window pointer
515 for better compatibility with other implementations.
516 + improve discussion of NetBSD curses in scr_dump.5
517 + modify LIMIT_TYPED macro in new_pair.h to avoid changing sign of the
518 value to be limited (reports by Darby Payne, Rob Boudreau).
519 + update config.guess, config.sub from
520 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
523 + build-fix for termcap-configuration (report by Chi-Hsuan Yen).
524 + improve terminfo manual page discussion of control- and graphics-
526 + remove tic warning about "^?" in string capabilities, which was
527 marked as an extension (cf: 20000610, 20110820); however all Unix
528 implementations support this and X/Open Curses does not address it.
529 On the other hand, termcap never did support this feature.
530 + correct missing comma-separator between string capabilities in
531 icl6402 and m2-nam -TD
532 + restore rmir/smir in ansi+idc to better match original ansiterm+idc,
533 add alias ansiterm (report by Robert King).
534 + amend an old check for ambiguous use of "ma" in terminfo versus
535 a termcap use, if the capability is cancelled to treat it as number.
536 + correct a case in _nc_captoinfo() which read "%%" and emitted "%".
537 + modify sscanf calls in _nc_infotocap() for patterns "%{number}%+%c"
538 and "%'char'%+%c" to check that the final character is really 'c',
539 avoiding a case in icl6404 which cannot be converted to termcap.
540 + in _nc_infotocap(), add a check to ensure that terminfo "^?" is not
541 written to termcap, because the BSDs did not implement that.
542 + in _nc_tic_expand() and _nc_infotocap(), improve string-length check
543 when deciding whether to use "^X" or "\xxx" format for control
544 characters, to make the output of tic/infocmp more predictable.
545 + limit termcap "%d" width to 2 digits on input, and use "%2" in
546 preference to "%02" on output.
547 + correct terminfo/termcap conversion of "%02" and "%03" into "%2" and
548 "%3"; the result repeated the last character.
549 + add man/scr_dump.5 to document screen-dump format.
552 + modify several test programs to use new popup_msgs, adapted from
553 help-screen used in test/edit_field.c
554 + drop two symbols obsoleted in 2004: _nc_check_termtype, and
556 + fix some old copyright dates (cf: 20031025).
557 + build-fixes for test/savescreen.c to work with AIX and HPUX.
558 + minor fix to configure script, adding a backslash/continuation.
559 + extend TERMINAL structure for ABI 6 to store numbers internally as
560 integers rather than short, by adding new data for this purpose.
561 + more fixes for minor memory-leaks in test-programs.
564 + change logic in wins_nwstr() to avoid addressing data past the output
566 + correct a call to setcchar() in Data_Entry_w() from 20131207 changes.
567 + fix minor memory-leaks in test-programs.
568 + further improve ifdef in term_entry.h for internal definitions not
572 + minor fixes for vt100+4bsd, e.g., delay in sgr for consistency -TD
573 + add smso for env230, to match sgr -TD
574 + remove p7/protect from sgr in fbterm -TD
575 + drop setf/setb from fbterm; setaf/setab are enough -TD
576 + make xterm-pcolor sgr consistent with other capabilities -TD
577 + add rmxx/smxx ECMA-48 strikeout extension to tmux and xterm-basic
578 (discussion with Nicholas Marriott)
579 + add test-programs sp_tinfo and extended_color
580 + modify no-leaks code for lib_cur_term.c to account for the tgetent()
582 + modify setupterm() to save original tty-modes so that erasechar()
583 works as expected. Also modify _nc_setupscreen() to avoid redundant
584 calls to get original tty-modes.
585 + modify set_curterm() to update ttytype[] data used by longname().
586 + modify wattr_set() and wattr_get() to return ERR if win-parameter is
588 + improve cast used for null-pointer checks in header macros, to
589 reduce compiler warnings.
590 + modify several functions, using the reserved "opts" parameter to pass
591 color- and pair-values larger than 16-bits:
592 + getcchar(), setcchar(), slk_attr_set(), vid_puts(), wattr_get(),
593 wattr_set(), wchgat(), wcolor_set().
594 + Other functions call these with the corresponding altered behavior,
595 including chgat(), mvchgat(), mvwchgat(), slk_color_on(),
596 slk_color_off(), vid_attr().
597 + add new functions for manipulating color- and pair-values larger
598 than 16-bits. These are extended_color_content(),
599 extended_pair_content(), extended_slk_color(), init_extended_color(),
600 init_extended_pair(), and the corresponding sp-funcs.
603 + fix a memory leak in the window-list when creating multiple screens
604 (reports by Andres Martinelli, Debian #783486).
605 + reviewed calls from link_test.c, added a few more null-pointer
607 + add a null-pointer check in ungetmouse, in case mousemask was not
608 called (report by "Kau").
609 + updated curs_sp_funcs.3x for new functions.
612 + change TERMINAL structure in term.h to make it opaque. Some
613 applications misuse its members, e.g., directly modifying it
614 rather than using def_prog_mode().
615 + modify utility headers such as tic.h to make it clearer which are
616 externals that are used by tack.
617 + improve curs_slk.3x in particular its discussion of portability.
618 + fix cut/paste in legacy_encoding.3x
619 + add prototype for find_pair() to new_pair.3x (report by Branden
621 + fix a couple of broken links in generated man-html documentation.
622 + regenerate man-html documentation.
625 + modify vt100 rs2 string to reset vt52 mode and scrolling regions
626 (report/analysis by Robert King) -TD
627 + add vt100+4bsd building block, use that for older terminals rather
628 than "vt100" which is now mostly used as a building block for
629 terminal emulators -TD
630 + correct a few spelling errors in terminfo.src comments -TD
632 + fix a typo in ncurses.c test_attr legend (patch by Petr Vanek).
633 + changed internal colorpair_t to a struct, eliminating an internal
634 8-bit limit on colors
635 + add ncurses/new_pair.h
636 + add ncurses/base/new_pair.c with alloc_pair(), find_pair() and
637 free_pair() functions
638 + add test/demo_new_pair.c
641 + improve terminfo manual description of terminfo syntax.
642 + clarify the use of wint_t vs wchar_t in curs_get_wstr.3x
643 + improve description of endwin() in manual.
644 + modify setcchar() and getcchar() to treat negative color-pair as an
646 + fix a typo in include/hashed_db.h (Andre Sa).
649 + fixes for CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS (report by Ross Burton).
652 + fix several formatting issues with manual pages.
653 + correct read of terminfo entry in which all strings are absent or
654 explicitly cancelled. Before this fix, the result was that all were
655 treated as only absent.
656 + modify infocmp to suppress mixture of absent/cancelled capabilities
657 that would only show as "NULL, NULL", unless the -q option is used,
658 e.g., to show "-, @" or "@, -".
661 + build-fixes for PGI compilers (report by Adam J. Stewart)
662 + accept whitespace in sed expression for generating expanded.c
663 + modify configure check that g++ compiler warnings are not used.
664 + add configure check for -fPIC option needed for shared libraries.
665 + let configure --disable-ext-funcs override the default for the
666 --enable-sp-funcs option.
667 + mark some structs in form/menu/panel libraries as potentially opaque
668 without modifying API/ABI.
669 + add configure option --enable-opaque-curses for ncurses library and
670 similar options for the other libraries.
673 + trim newlines, tabs and escaped newlines from terminfo "paths" passed
675 + ignore zero-length files in db-iterator; these are useful for
676 instance to suppress "$HOME/.terminfo" when not wanted.
677 + amended "b64:" encoder to work with the terminfo reader.
678 + modify terminfo reader to accept "b64:" format using RFC-3548 in
679 as well as RFC-4648 url/filename-safe format.
680 + modify terminfo reader to accept "hex:" format as generated by
681 "infocmp -0qQ1" (cf: 20150905).
682 + adjust authors comment to reflect drop below 1% for SV.
685 + minor comment-fixes to help automate links to bug-urls -TD
686 + add dvtm, dvtm-256color -TD
687 + add settings corresponding to xterm-keys option to tmux entry to
688 reflect upcoming change to make that option "on" by default
689 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
690 + uncancel Ms in tmux entry (Harry Gindi, Nicholas Marriott).
691 + add dumb-emacs-ansi -TD
694 + improve discussion of early history of tput program.
695 + incorporate A_COLOR mask into COLOR_PAIR(), in case user application
696 provides an out-of-range pair number (report by Elijah Stone).
697 + clarify description in tput manual page regarding support for
698 termcap names (prompted by FreeBSD #214709).
699 + remove a restriction in tput's support for termcap names which
700 omitted capabilities normally not shown in termcap translations
702 + modify configure script for clang as used on FreeBSD, to work around
703 clang's differences in exit codes vs gcc.
706 + improve discussion of early history of tset/reset programs.
707 + clarify in manual pages that the optional verbose option level is
708 available only when ncurses is configured for tracing.
709 + amend change from 20161231 to avoid writing traces to the standard
710 error after initializing the trace feature using the environment
714 + amend changes for tput to reset tty modes to "sane" if the program
715 is run as "reset", like tset. Likewise, ensure that tset sends
716 either reset- or init-strings.
717 + improve manual page descriptions of tput init/reset and tset/reset,
718 to make it easier to see how they are similar and different.
719 + move a static result from key_name() to _nc_globals
720 + modify _nc_get_screensize to allow for use_env() and use_tioctl()
721 state to be per-screen when sp-funcs are configured, better matching
722 the behavior when using the term-driver configuration.
723 + improve cross-references in manual pages for often used functions
724 + move SCREEN field for use_tioctl() data before the ncursesw fields,
725 and limit that to the sp-funcs configuration to improve termlib
726 compatibility (cf: 20120714).
727 + correct order of initialization for traces in use_env() and
728 use_tioctl() versus first trace calls.
731 + fix errata for ncurses-howto (report by Damien Ruscoe).
732 + fix a few places in configure/build scripts where DESTDIR and rpath
733 were combined (report by Thomas Klausner).
734 + merge current st description (report by Harry Gindi) -TD
735 + modify flash capability for linux and wyse entries to put the delay
736 between the reverse/normal escapes rather than after -TD
737 + modify program tabs to pass the actual tty file descriptor to
738 setupterm rather than the standard output, making padding work
740 + explain in clear's manual page that it writes to stdout.
741 + add special case for verbose debugging traces of command-line
742 utilities which write to stderr (cf: 20161126).
743 + remove a trace with literal escapes from skip_DECSCNM(), added in
745 + update config.guess, config.sub from
746 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
749 + correct parameters for copywin call in _nc_Synchronize_Attributes()
750 (patch by Leon Winter).
751 + improve color-handling section in terminfo manual page (prompted by
752 patch by Mihail Konev).
753 + modify programs clear, tput and tset to pass the actual tty file
754 descriptor to setupterm rather than the standard output, making
758 + add tput-colorcube demo script.
759 + add -r and -s options to tput-initc demo, to match usage in xterm.
760 + flush the standard output in _nc_flush for the case where SP is zero,
761 e.g., when called via putp. This fixes a scenario where "tput flash"
762 did not work after changes in 20130112.
765 + add configure script option --disable-wattr-macros for use in cases
766 where one wants to use the same headers for ncurses5/ncurses6
767 development, by suppressing the wattr* macros which differ due to
768 the introduction of extended colors (prompted by comments in
769 Debian #230990, Redhat #1270534).
770 + add test/tput-initc to demonstrate tput used to initialize palette
772 + modify test/xterm*.dat to use the newer color4/color12 values.
775 + improve discussion of field validation in form_driver.3x manual page.
776 + update curs_trace.3x manual page.
779 + modify linux-16color to not mask dim, standout or reverse with the
781 + add 0.1sec mandatory delay to flash capabilities using the VT100
782 reverse-video control -TD
783 + omit selection of ISO-8859-1 for G0 in enacs capability from linux2.6
784 entry, to avoid conflict with the user-defined mapping. The reset
785 feature will use ISO-8859-1 in any case (Mikulas Patocka).
786 + improve check in tic for delays by also warning about beep/flash
787 when a delay is not embedded, or if those use the VT100 reverse
788 video escape without using a delay.
789 + minor fix for syntax-check of delays from 20161119 changes.
790 + modify trace() to avoid overwriting existing file (report by Maor
794 + add check in tic for some syntax errors of delays, as well as use of
795 proportional delays for non-line capabilities.
796 + document history of the clear program and the E3 extension, prompted
797 by various discussions including
798 http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/87469/clearing-the-old-scrollback-buffer
801 + improve -W option in tic/infocmp:
802 + correct order of size-adjustments in wrapped lines
803 + if -f option splits line, do not further split it with -W
804 + begin a new line when adding "use=" after a wrapped line
807 + fix typo in man/terminfo.tail (Alain Williams).
808 + correct program-name in adacurses6-config.1 manual page.
811 + add new function "unfocus_current_field" (Leon Winter)
814 + modify tset -w (and tput reset) to update the program's copy of the
815 screensize if it was already set in the system, to improve tabstop
816 setting which relies upon knowing the actual screensize.
817 + add functionality of tset -w to tput, like the "-c" feature this is
818 not optional in tput.
819 + add "clear" as a possible link/alias to tput.
820 + improve tput's check for being called as "init" or "reset" to allow
821 for transformed names.
822 + split-out the "clear" function from progs/clear.c, share with
823 tput to get the same behavior, e.g., the E3 extension.
826 + amend internal use of tputs to consistently use the number of lines
827 affected, e.g., for insert/delete character operations. While
828 merging terminfo source early in 1995, several descriptions used the
829 "*" proportional delay for these operations, prompting a change in
831 + regenerate llib-* files.
832 + regenerate HTML manpages.
833 + fix several formatting issues with manual pages.
836 + adjust size in infocmp/tic to work with strlcpy.
837 + fix configure script to record when strlcat is found on OpenBSD.
838 + build-fix for "recent" OpenBSD vs baudrate.
841 + add -W option to tic/infocmp to force long strings to wrap. This is
842 in addition to the -w option which attempts to fit capabilities into
844 + add linux-m1 minitel entries (patch by Alexandre Montaron).
845 + correct rs2 string for vt100-nam -TD
848 + modify _nc_tic_expand to escape comma if it immediately follows a
849 percent sign, to work with minitel change.
850 + updated minitel and viewdata descriptions (Alexandre Montaron).
853 + build-fix for gnat6, which unhelpfully attempts to compile C files.
854 + fix typo in 20160910 changes (Debian #837892, patch by Sven Joachim).
857 + trim dead code ifdef'd with HIDE_EINTR since 970830 (discussion with
859 + trim some obsolete/incorrect wording about EINTR from wgetch manual
860 page (patch by Leon Winter).
861 + really correct 20100515 change (patch by Rich Coe).
862 + add "--enable-string-hacks" option to test/configure
863 + completed string-hacks for "sprintf", etc., including test-programs.
864 + make "--enable-string-hacks" work with Debian by checking for the
865 "bsd" library and its associated "<bsd/string.h>" header.
868 + correct 20100515 change for weak signals versus sigprocmask (report
870 + modify misc/Makefile.in to work around OpenBSD "make" which unlike
871 all other versions of "make" does not recognize continuation lines
873 + amend the last change to CF_C_ENV_FLAGS to move only the
874 preprocessor, optimization and warning flags to CPPFLAGS and CFLAGS,
875 leaving the residue in CC. That happens to work for gcc's various
876 "model" options, but may require tuning for other compilers (report
880 + add "v" menu entry to test/ncurses.c to show baudrate and other
882 + add "newer" baudrate symbols from Linux and FreeBSD to progs/tset.c,
884 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro:
885 + add "uclinux" to case for "linux" (patch by Yann E. Morin)
886 + modify _GNU_SOURCE for cygwin headers, tested with cygwin 2.3, 2.5
887 (patch by Corinna Vinschen, from changes to tin).
888 + improve CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS macro to allow for compiler wrappers such
889 as "ccache" (report by Enrico Scholz).
890 + update config.guess, config.sub from
891 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
894 + update tput manual page to reflect changes to manipulate terminal
895 modes by sharing functions with tset.
896 + add the terminal-mode parts of "reset" (aka tset) to the "tput reset"
897 command, making the two almost the same except for window-size.
898 + adapt logic used in dialog "--keep-tite" option for test/filter.c as
899 "-a" option. When set, test/filter attempts to suppress the
901 + correct a typo in interix entry -TD
904 + add a dependency upon generated-sources in Ada95/src/Makefile.in to
905 handle a case of "configure && make install".
906 + trim trailing blanks from include/Caps*, to work around a problem
907 in sed (Debian #818067).
910 + improve CF_GNU_SOURCE configure macro to optionally define
911 _DEFAULT_SOURCE work around a nuisance in recent glibc releases.
912 + move the terminfo-specific parts of tput's "reset" function into
913 the shared reset_cmd.c, making the two forms of reset use the same
915 + split-out the terminal initialization functions from tset as
916 progs/reset_cmd.c, as part of changes to merge the reset-feature
920 + change tset's initialization to allow it to get settings from the
921 standard input as well as /dev/tty, to be more effective when
922 output or error are redirected.
923 + improve discussion of history and portability for tset/reset/tput
927 + improve error message from tset/reset when both stderr/stdout are
928 redirected to a file or pipe.
929 + improve organization of curs_attr.3x, curs_color.3x
932 + work around Debian's antique/unmaintained version of mawk when
934 + improve test/list_keys.c, showing ncurses's convention of modifiers
935 for special keys, based on xterm.
938 + improve test/list_keys.c, using $TERM if no parameters are given.
941 + build-fixes for ncurses "test_progs" rule.
942 + amend change to CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS in 20160521 to make multilib build
943 work (report by Sven Joachim).
946 + build-fixes for ncurses-examples with NetBSD curses.
947 + improve test/list_keys.c, fixing column-widths and sorting the list
948 to make it more readable.
951 + revise fix for Debian #805618 (report by Vlado Potisk, cf: 20151128).
952 + modify test/ncurses.c a/A screens to make exiting on an escape
953 character depend on the start of keypad and timeout modes, to allow
954 better testing of function-keys.
955 + modify rs1 for xterm-16color, xterm-88color and xterm-256color to
956 reset palette using "oc" string as in linux -TD
957 + use ANSI reply for u8 in xterm-new, to reflect vt220-style responses
958 that could be returned -TD
959 + added a few capabilities fixed in recent vte -TD
962 + correct logic for -f option in test/demo_terminfo.c
963 + add test/list_keys.c
966 + further workaround for PIE/PIC breakage which causes gpm to not link.
967 + fix most cppcheck warnings, mostly style, in ncurses library.
970 + improved manual page description of tset/reset versus window-size.
971 + fixes to work with a slightly broken compiler configuration which
972 cannot compile "Hello World!" without adding compiler options
973 (report by Ola x Nilsson):
974 + pass appropriate compiler options to the CF_PROG_CC_C_O macro.
975 + when separating compiler and options in CF_CC_ENV_FLAGS, ensure
976 that all options are split-off into CFLAGS or CPPFLAGS
977 + restore some -I options removed in 20140726 because they appeared
978 to be redundant. In fact, they are needed for a compiler that
979 cannot combine -c and -o options.
982 + regenerate HTML manpages.
983 + improve manual pages for wgetch and wget_wch to point out that they
984 might return values without names in curses.h (Debian #822426).
985 + make linux3.0 entry the default linux entry (Debian #823658) -TD
986 + modify linux2.6 entry to improve line-drawing so that the linux3.0
987 entry can be used in non-UTF-8 mode -TD
988 + document return value of use_extended_names (report by Mike Gran).
991 + amend change to _nc_do_color to restore the early return for the
992 special case used in _nc_screen_wrap (report by Dick Streefland,
994 + modify test/ncurses.c:
995 + check return-value of putwin
996 + correct ifdef which made the 'g' test's legend not reflect changes
997 to keypad- and scroll-modes.
998 + correct return-value of extended putwin (report by Mike Gran).
1001 + modify test/ncurses.c 'd' edit-color menu to optionally read xterm
1002 color palette directly from terminal, as well as handling KEY_RESIZE
1003 and screen-repainting with control/L and control/R.
1004 + add 'oc' capability to xterm+256color, allowing palette reset for
1008 + add workaround in configure script for inept transition to PIE vs
1009 PIC builds documented in
1010 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Harden_All_Packages
1011 + add "reset" to list of programs whose names might change in manpages
1012 due to program-transformation configure options.
1013 + drop long-obsolete "-n" option from tset.
1016 + modify test/blue.c to use Unicode values for card-glyphs when
1017 available, as well as improving the check for CP437 and CP850.
1020 + regenerate HTML manpages.
1021 + improve manual pages for utilities with respect to POSIX versus
1025 + regenerate HTML manpages.
1026 + improve test/demo_menus.c, allowing mouse-click on the menu-headers
1027 to switch the active menu. This requires a new extension option
1028 O_MOUSE_MENU to tell the menu driver to put mouse events which do not
1029 apply to the active menu back into the queue so that the application
1030 can handle the event.
1033 + improve description of tgoto parameters (report by Steffen Nurpmeso).
1034 + amend workaround for Solaris line-drawing to restore a special case
1035 that maps Unicode line-drawing characters into the acsc string for
1036 non-Unicode locales (Debian #816888).
1039 + modified test/filter.c to illustrate an alternative to getnstr, that
1040 polls for input while updating a clock on the right margin as well
1041 as responding to window size-changes.
1044 + omit a redefinition of "inline" when traces are enabled, since this
1045 does not work with gcc 5.3.x MinGW cross-compiling (cf: 20150912).
1048 + modify test/configure script to check for pthread dependency of
1049 ncursest or ncursestw library when building ncurses examples, e.g.,
1050 in case weak symbols are used.
1051 + modify configure macro for shared-library rules to use -Wl,-rpath
1052 rather than -rpath to work around a bug in scons (FreeBSD #178732,
1054 + double-width multibyte characters were not counted properly in
1055 winsnstr and wins_nwstr (report/example by Eric Pruitt).
1056 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1057 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1060 + amend fix for _nc_ripoffline from 20091031 to make test/ditto.c work
1061 in threaded configuration.
1062 + move _nc_tracebits, _tracedump and _tracemouse to curses.priv.h,
1063 since they are not part of the suggested ABI6.
1066 + define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN for MinGW port, making builds faster.
1067 + modify test/ditto.c to allow $XTERM_PROG environment variable to
1068 override "xterm" as the name of the program to run in the threaded
1072 + improve formatting of man/curs_refresh.3x and man/tset.1 manpages
1073 + regenerate HTML manpages using newer man2html to eliminate some
1074 unwanted blank lines.
1077 + ifdef'd header-file definition of mouse_trafo() with NCURSES_NOMACROS
1078 (report by Corey Minyard).
1079 + fix some strict compiler-warnings in traces.
1082 + tidy up comments about hardcoded 256color palette (report by
1083 Leonardo Brondani Schenkel) -TD
1084 + add putty-noapp entry, and amend putty entry to use application mode
1085 for better consistency with xterm (report by Leonardo Brondani
1087 + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to trace wide-characters
1088 as a whole rather than their multibyte equivalents.
1089 + minor fix in wadd_wchnstr() to ensure that each cell has nonzero
1091 + move PUTC_INIT calls next to wcrtomb calls, to avoid carry-over of
1092 error status when processing Unicode values which are not mapped.
1095 + modify ncurses c/C color test-screens to take advantage of wide
1096 screens, reducing the number of lines used for 88- and 256-colors.
1097 + minor refinement to check versus ncv to ignore two parameters of
1098 SGR 38 and 48 when those come from color-capabilities.
1101 + add check in tic for use of bold, etc., video attributes in the
1102 color capabilities, accounting whether the feature is listed in ncv.
1103 + add check in tic for conflict between ritm, rmso, rmul versus sgr0.
1106 + add a paragraph to curs_getch.3x discussing key naming (discussion
1107 with James Crippen).
1108 + amend workaround for Solaris vs line-drawing to take the configure
1110 + add a configure check for wcwidth() versus the ncurses line-drawing
1111 characters, to use in special-casing systems such as Solaris.
1114 + improve CF_XOPEN_CURSES macro used in test/configure, to define as
1115 needed NCURSES_WIDECHAR for platforms where _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
1116 does not work. Also modified the test program to ensure that if
1117 building with ncurses, that the cchar_t type is checked, since that
1118 normally is since 20111030 ifdef'd depending on this test.
1119 + improve 20121222 workaround for broken acs, letting Solaris "work"
1120 in spite of its misconfigured wcwidth which marks all of the line
1121 drawing characters as double-width.
1124 + update form_cursor.3x, form_post.3x, menu_attributes.3x to list
1125 function names in NAME section (patch by Jason McIntyre).
1126 + minor fixes to manpage NAME/SYNOPSIS sections to consistently use
1127 rule that either all functions which are prototyped in SYNOPSIS are
1128 listed in the NAME section, or the manual-page name is the sole item
1129 listed in the NAME section. The latter is used to reduce clutter,
1130 e.g., for the top-level library manual pages as well as for certain
1131 feature-pages such as SP-funcs and threading (prompted by patches by
1135 + add option to preserve leading whitespace in form fields (patch by
1137 + add missing assignment in lib_getch.c to make notimeout() work
1139 + add 't' toggle for notimeout() function in test/ncurses.c a/A screens
1140 + add viewdata terminal description (Alexandre Montaron).
1141 + fix a case in tic/infocmp for formatting capabilities where a
1142 backslash at the end of a string was mishandled.
1143 + fix some typos in curs_inopts.3x (Benno Schulenberg).
1146 + fix some inconsistencies in the pccon* entries -TD
1147 + add bold to pccon+sgr+acs and pccon-base (Tati Chevron).
1148 + add keys f12-f124 to pccon+keys (Tati Chevron).
1149 + add test/test_sgr.c program to exercise all combinations of sgr.
1152 + modify tset's assignment to TERM in its output to reflect the name by
1153 which the terminal description is found, rather than the primary
1154 name. That was an unnecessary part from the initial conversion of
1155 tset from termcap to terminfo. The termcap program in 4.3BSD did
1156 this to avoid using the short 2-character name (report by Rich
1158 + minor fix to configure script to ensure that rules for resulting.map
1159 are only generated when needed (cf: 20151101).
1160 + modify configure script to handle the case where tic-library is
1161 renamed, but the --with-debug option is used by itself without
1162 normal or shared libraries (prompted by comment in Debian #803482).
1165 + amend change for pkg-config which allows build of pc-files when no
1166 valid pkg-config library directory was configured to suppress the
1167 actual install if it is not overridden to a valid directory at
1168 install time (cf: 20150822).
1169 + modify editing script which generates resulting.map to work with the
1170 clang configuration on recent FreeBSD, which gives an error on an
1171 empty "local" section.
1172 + fix a spurious "(Part)" message in test/ncurses.c b/B tests due
1173 to incorrect attribute-masking.
1176 + modify MKexpanded.sh to update the expansion of a temporary filename
1177 to "expanded.c", for use in trace statements.
1178 + modify layout of b/B tests in test/ncurses.c to allow for additional
1179 annotation on the right margin; some terminals with partial support
1180 did not display well.
1181 + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim).
1182 + fix typo in INSTALL (patch by Tomas Cech).
1183 + improve configure check for setting WILDCARD_SYMS variable; on ppc64
1184 the variable is in the Data section rather than Text (patch by Michel
1185 Normand, Novell #946048).
1186 + using configure option "--without-fallbacks" incorrectly caused
1187 FALLBACK_LIST to be set to "no" (patch by Tomas Cech).
1188 + updated minitel entries to fix kel problem with emacs, and add
1189 minitel1b-nb (Alexandre Montaron).
1190 + reviewed/updated nsterm entry Terminal.app in OSX -TD
1191 + replace some dead URLs in comments with equivalents from the
1192 Internet Archive -TD
1193 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1194 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1197 + modify ncurses/Makefile.in to sort keys.list in POSIX locale
1198 (Debian #801864, patch by Esa Peuha).
1199 + remove an early-return from _nc_do_color, which can interfere with
1200 data needed by bkgd when ncurses is configured with extended colors
1201 (patch by Denis Tikhomirov).
1202 > fixes for OS/2 (patches by KO Myung-Hun)
1203 + use button instead of kbuf[0] in EMX-specific part of lib_mouse.c
1204 + support building with libtool on OS/2
1205 + use stdc++ on OS/2 kLIBC
1206 + clear cf_XOPEN_SOURCE on OS/2
1209 + add configure check for openpty to test/configure script, for ditto.
1210 + minor fixes to test/view.c in investigating Debian #790847.
1211 + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20150926, incorporates a fix for Cdk.
1212 + add workaround for breakage of POSIX makefiles by recent binutils
1214 + improve check for working poll() by using posix_openpt() as a
1215 fallback in case there is no valid terminal on the standard input
1216 (prompted by discussion on bug-ncurses mailing list, Debian #676461).
1219 + change makefile rule for removing resulting.map to distclean rather
1221 + add /lib/terminfo to terminfo-dirs in ".deb" test-package.
1222 + add note on portability of resizeterm and wresize to manual pages.
1225 + clarify in resizeterm.3x how KEY_RESIZE is pushed onto the input
1227 + clarify in curs_getch.3x that the keypad mode affects ability to
1228 read KEY_MOUSE codes, but does not affect KEY_RESIZE.
1229 + add overlooked build-fix needed with Cygwin for separate Ada95
1230 configure script, cf: 20150606 (report by Nicolas Boulenguez)
1233 + fixes for configure/build using clang on OSX (prompted by report by
1235 + do not redefine "inline" in ncurses_cfg.h; this was originally to
1236 solve a problem with gcc/g++, but is aggravated by clang's misuse
1237 of symbols to pretend it is gcc.
1238 + add braces to configure script to prevent unwanted add of
1239 "-lstdc++" to the CXXLIBS symbol.
1240 + improve/update test-program used for checking existence of stdc++
1242 + if $CXXLIBS is set, the linkage test uses that in addition to $LIBS
1245 + add note in curs_addch.3x about line-drawing when it depends upon
1247 + add tic -q option for consistency with infocmp, use it to suppress
1248 all comments from the "tic -I" output.
1249 + modify infocmp -q option to suppress the "Reconstructed from"
1251 + add infocmp/tic -Q option, which allows one to dump the compiled
1252 form of the terminal entry, in hexadecimal or base64.
1255 + sort options in usage message for infocmp, to make it simpler to
1257 + update usage message for tic, adding "-0" option.
1258 + documented differences in ESCDELAY versus AIX's implementation.
1259 + fix some compiler warnings from ports.
1260 + modify --with-pkg-config-libdir option to make it possible to install
1261 ".pc" files even if pkg-config is not found (adapted from patch by
1265 + disallow "no" as a possible value for "--with-shlib-version" option,
1266 overlooked in cleanup-changes for 20000708 (report by Tommy Alex).
1267 + update release notes in INSTALL.
1268 + regenerate llib-* files to help with review for release notes.
1271 + workaround for Debian #65617, which was fixed in mawk's upstream
1272 releases in 2009 (report by Sven Joachim). See
1273 https://invisible-island.net/mawk/CHANGES.html#t20090727
1275 20150808 6.0 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
1278 + build-fix for Ada95 on older platforms without stdint.h
1279 + build-fix for Solaris, whose /bin/sh and /usr/bin/sed are non-POSIX.
1280 + update release announcement, summarizing more than 800 changes across
1281 more than 200 snapshots.
1282 + minor fixes to manpages, etc., to simplify linking from announcement
1286 + updated llib-* files.
1287 + build-fixes for ncurses library "test_progs" rule.
1288 + use alternate workaround for gcc 5.x feature (adapted from patch by
1290 + add status line to tmux via xterm+sl (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
1291 + fixes for st 0.5 from testing with tack -TD
1292 + review/improve several manual pages to break up wall-of-text:
1293 curs_add_wch.3x, curs_attr.3x, curs_bkgd.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x,
1294 curs_getcchar.3x, curs_getch.3x, curs_kernel.3x, curs_mouse.3x,
1295 curs_outopts.3x, curs_overlay.3x, curs_pad.3x, curs_termattrs.3x
1296 curs_trace.3x, and curs_window.3x
1299 + correct an old logic error for %A and %O in tparm (report by "zreed").
1300 + improve documentation for signal handlers by adding section in the
1301 curs_initscr.3x page.
1302 + modify logic in make_keys.c to not assume anything about the size
1303 of strnames and strfnames variables, since those may be functions
1304 in the thread- or broken-linker configurations (problem found by
1306 + modify test/configure script to check for pthreads configuration,
1307 e.g., ncursestw library.
1310 + modify scripts to build/use test-packages for the pthreads
1311 configuration of ncurses6.
1312 + add references to ttytype and termcap symbols in demo_terminfo.c and
1313 demo_termcap.c to ensure that when building ncursest.map, etc., that
1314 the corresponding names such as _nc_ttytype are added to the list of
1315 versioned symbols (report by Werner Fink)
1316 + fix regression from 20150704 (report/patch by Werner Fink).
1319 + fix a few problems reported by Coverity.
1320 + fix comparison against "/usr/include" in misc/gen-pkgconfig.in
1321 (report by Daiki Ueno, Debian #790548, cf: 20141213).
1324 + modify configure script to remove deprecated ABI 5 symbols when
1326 + add symbols _nc_Default_Field, _nc_Default_Form, _nc_has_mouse to
1327 map-files, but marked as deprecated so that they can easily be
1328 suppressed from ABI 6 builds (Debian #788610).
1329 + comment-out "screen.xterm" entry, and inherit screen.xterm-256color
1330 from xterm-new (report by Richard Birkett) -TD
1331 + modify read_entry.c to set the error-return to -1 if no terminal
1332 databases were found, as documented for setupterm.
1333 + add test_setupterm.c to demonstrate normal/error returns from the
1334 setupterm and restartterm functions.
1335 + amend cleanup change from 20110813 which removed redundant definition
1336 of ret_error, etc., from tinfo_driver.c, to account for the fact that
1337 it should return a bool rather than int (report/analysis by Johannes
1341 + fix overflow warning for OSX with lib_baudrate.c (cf: 20010630).
1342 + modify script used to generate map/sym files to mark 5.9.20150530 as
1343 the last "5.9" version, and regenerated the files. That makes the
1344 files not use ".current" for the post-5.9 symbols. This also
1345 corrects the label for _nc_sigprocmask used in when weak symbols are
1346 configured for the ncursest/ncursestw libraries (prompted by
1347 discussion with Sven Joachim).
1348 + fix typo in NEWS (report by Sven Joachim).
1350 20150606 pre-release
1351 + make ABI 6 the default by updates to dist.mk and VERSION, with the
1352 intention that the existing ABI 5 should build as before using the
1353 "--with-abi-version=5" option.
1354 + regenerate ada- and man-html documentation.
1355 + minor fixes to color- and util-manpages.
1356 + fix a regression in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, to handle special case of
1357 Cygwin, which uses the broken-linker feature.
1358 + amend fix for CF_NCURSES_CONFIG used in test/configure to assume that
1359 ncurses package scripts work when present for cross-compiling, as the
1360 lessor of two evils (cf: 20150530).
1361 + add check in configure script to disallow conflicting options
1362 "--with-termlib" and "--enable-term-driver".
1363 + move defaults for "--disable-lp64" and "--with-versioned-syms" into
1364 CF_ABI_DEFAULTS macro.
1367 + change private type for Event_Mask in Ada95 binding to work when
1368 mmask_t is set to 32-bits.
1369 + remove spurious "%;" from st entry (report by Daniel Pitts) -TD
1370 + add vte-2014, update vte to use that -TD
1371 + modify tic and infocmp to "move" a diagnostic for tparm strings that
1372 have a syntax error to tic's "-c" option (report by Daniel Pitts).
1373 + fix two problems with configure script macros (Debian #786436,
1374 cf: 20150425, cf: 20100529).
1377 + add 'P' menu item to test/ncurses.c, to show pad in color.
1378 + improve discussion in curs_color.3x about color rendering (prompted
1379 by comment on Stack Overflow forum):
1380 + remove screen-bce.mlterm, since mlterm does not do "bce" -TD
1381 + add several screen.XXX entries to support the respective variations
1383 + add putty+fnkeys* building-block entries -TD
1384 + add smkx/rmkx to capabilities analyzed with infocmp "-i" option.
1387 + amend change to ".pc" files to only use the extra loader flags which
1388 may have rpath options (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20150502).
1389 + change versioning for dpkg's in test-packages for Ada95 and
1390 ncurses-examples for consistency with Debian, to work with package
1392 + regenerate html manpages.
1393 + clarify handling of carriage return in waddch manual page; it was
1394 discussed only in the portability section (prompted by comment on
1395 Stack Overflow forum):
1398 + add test-packages for cross-compiling ncurses-examples using the
1399 MinGW test-packages. These are only the Debian packages; RPM later.
1400 + cleanup format of debian/copyright files
1401 + add pc-files to the MinGW cross-compiling test-packages.
1402 + correct a couple of places in gen-pkgconfig.in to handle renaming of
1406 + modify the configure script to allow different default values
1407 for ABI 5 versus ABI 6.
1408 + add wgetch-events to test-packages.
1409 + add a note on how to build ncurses-examples to test/README.
1410 + fix a memory leak in delscreen (report by Daniel Kahn Gillmor,
1412 + remove unnecessary ';' from E3 capabilities -TD
1413 + add tmux entry, derived from screen (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
1414 + split-out recent change to nsterm-bce as nsterm-build326, and add
1415 nsterm-build342 to reflect changes with successive releases of OSX
1416 (discussion with Leonardo B Schenkel)
1417 + add xon, ich1, il1 to ibm3161 (patch by Stephen Powell, Debian
1419 + add sample "magic" file, to document ext-putwin.
1420 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to add explicit -ltinfo, etc., to the
1421 generated ".pc" file when ld option "--as-needed" is used, or when
1422 ncurses and tinfo are installed without using rpath (prompted by
1423 discussion with Sylvain Bertrand).
1424 + modify test-package for ncurses6 to omit rpath feature when installed
1426 + add OSX's "*.dSYM" to clean-rules in makefiles.
1427 + make extra-suffix work for OSX configuration, e.g., for shared
1429 + modify Ada95/configure script to work with pkg-config
1430 + move test-package for ncurses6 to /usr, since filename-conflicts have
1432 + corrected build rules for Ada95/gen/generate; it does not depend on
1433 the ncurses library aside from headers.
1434 + reviewed man pages, fixed a few other spelling errors.
1435 + fix a typo in curs_util.3x (Sven Joachim).
1436 + use extra-suffix in some overlooked shared library dependencies
1437 found by 20150425 changes for test-packages.
1438 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1439 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1442 + expanded description of tgetstr's area pointer in manual page
1443 (report by Todd M Lewis).
1444 + in-progress changes to modify test-packages to use ncursesw6 rather
1445 than ncursesw, with updated configure scripts.
1446 + modify CF_NCURSES_CONFIG in Ada95- and test-configure scripts to
1447 check for ".pc" files via pkg-config, but add a linkage check since
1448 frequently pkg-config configurations are broken.
1449 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to include EXTRA_LDFLAGS, e.g., for the
1451 + add 'dim' capability to screen entry (report by Leonardo B Schenkel)
1452 + add several key definitions to nsterm-bce to match preconfigured
1453 keys, e.g., with OSX 10.9 and 10.10 (report by Leonardo B Schenkel)
1454 + fix repeated "extra-suffix" in ncurses-config.in (cf: 20150418).
1455 + improve term_variables manual page, adding section on the terminfo
1456 long-name symbols which are defined in the term.h header.
1457 + fix bug in lib_tracebits.c introduced in const-fixes (cf: 20150404).
1460 + avoid a blank line in output from tabs program by ending it with
1461 a carriage return as done in FreeBSD (patch by James Clarke).
1462 + build-fix for the "--enable-ext-putwin" feature when not using
1463 wide characters (report by Werner Fink).
1464 + modify autoconf macros to use scripting improvement from xterm.
1465 + add -brtl option to compiler options on AIX 5-7, needed to link
1466 with the shared libraries.
1467 + add --with-extra-suffix option to help with installing nonconflicting
1468 ncurses6 packages, e.g., avoiding header- and library-conflicts.
1469 NOTE: as a side-effect, this renames
1470 adacurses-config to adacurses5-config and
1471 adacursesw-config to adacursesw5-config
1472 + modify debian/rules test package to suffix programs with "6".
1473 + clarify in curs_inopts.3x that window-specific settings do not
1474 inherit into new windows.
1477 + improve description of start_color() in the manual.
1478 + modify several files in ncurses- and progs-directories to allow
1479 const data used in internal tables to be put by the linker into the
1480 readonly text segment.
1483 + correct cut/paste error for "--enable-ext-putwin" that made it the
1484 same as "--enable-ext-colors" (report by Roumen Petrov)
1487 + add "-f" option to test/savescreen.c to help with testing/debugging
1488 the extended putwin/getwin.
1489 + add logic for writing/reading combining characters in the extended
1491 + add "--enable-ext-putwin" configure option to turn on the extended
1495 + in-progress changes to provide an extended version of putwin and
1496 getwin which will be capable of reading screen-dumps between the
1497 wide/normal ncurses configurations. These are text files, except
1498 for a magic code at the beginning:
1499 0 string \210\210 Screen-dump (ncurses)
1502 + document limitations of getwin in manual page (prompted by discussion
1504 + extend test/savescreen.c to demonstrate that color pair values
1505 and graphic characters can be restored using getwin.
1508 + modify win_driver.c to eliminate the constructor, to make it more
1509 usable in an application which may/may not need the console window
1510 (report by Grady Martin).
1513 + capture define's related to -D_XOPEN_SOURCE from the configure check
1514 and add those to the *-config and *.pc files, to simplify use for
1515 the wide-character libraries.
1516 + modify ncurses.spec to accommodate Fedora21's location of pkg-config
1518 + correct sense of "--disable-lib-suffixes" configure option (report
1519 by Nicolas Boos, cf: 20140426).
1522 + regenerate html manpages using improved man2html from work on xterm.
1523 + regenerated ".map" and ".sym" files using improved script, accounting
1524 for the "--enable-weak-symbols" configure option (report by Werner
1528 + regenerated ".map" and ".sym" files using improved script, showing
1529 the combinations of configure options used at each stage.
1532 + add configure check to determine if "local: _*;" can be used in the
1533 ".map" files to selectively omit symbols beginning with "_". On at
1534 least recent FreeBSD, the wildcard applies to all "_" symbols.
1535 + remove obsolete/conflicting rule for ncurses.map from
1536 ncurses/Makefile.in (cf: 20130706).
1539 + improve description in INSTALL of the --with-versioned-syms option.
1540 + add combination of --with-hashed-db and --with-ticlib to
1541 configurations for ".map" files (report by Werner Fink).
1544 + add a step to generating ".map" files, to declare any remaining
1545 symbols beginning with "_" as local, at the last version node.
1546 + improve configure checks for pkg-config, addressing a variant found
1548 + modify win_driver.c to provide characters for special keys, like
1549 ansi.sys, when keypad mode is off, rather than returning nothing at
1550 all (discussion with Eli Zaretskii).
1551 + add "broken_linker" and "hashed-db" configure options to combinations
1552 use for generating the ".map" and ".sym" files.
1553 + avoid using "ld" directly when creating shared library, to simplify
1554 cross-compiles. Also drop "-Bsharable" option from shared-library
1555 rules for FreeBSD and DragonFly (FreeBSD #196592).
1556 + fix a memory leak in form library Free_RegularExpression_Type()
1557 (report by Pavel Balaev).
1560 + modify_nc_flush() to retry if interrupted (patch by Stian Skjelstad).
1561 + change map files to make _nc_freeall a global, since it may be used
1562 via the Ada95 binding when checking for memory leaks.
1563 + improve sed script used in 20141220 to account for wide-, threaded-
1564 variations in ABI 6.
1567 + regenerate ".map" files, using step overlooked in 20141213 to use
1568 the same patch-dates across each file to match ncurses.map (report by
1572 + fix an incorrect variable assignment in 20141220 changes (report by
1576 + updated Ada95/configure with macro changes from 20141213
1577 + tie configure options --with-abi-version and --with-versioned-syms
1578 together, so that ABI 6 libraries have distinct symbol versions from
1579 the ABI 5 libraries.
1580 + replace obsolete/nonworking link to man2html with current one,
1581 regenerate html-manpages.
1584 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to add -I option for include-directory
1585 when using both --prefix and --disable-overwrite (report by Misty
1587 + add configure option --with-pc-suffix to allow minor renaming of
1588 ".pc" files and the corresponding library. Use this in the test
1589 package for ncurses6.
1590 + modify configure script so that if pkg-config is not installed, it
1591 is still possible to install ".pc" files (report by Misty De Meo).
1592 + updated ".sym" files, removing symbols which are marked as "local"
1593 in the corresponding ".map" files.
1594 + updated ".map" files to reflect move of comp_captab and comp_hash
1595 from tic-library to tinfo-library in 20090711 (report by Sven
1599 + updated ".map" files so that each symbol that may be shared across
1600 the different library configurations has the same label. Some
1601 review is needed to ensure these are really compatible.
1602 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to work around change in development version of
1603 gcc introduced here:
1604 https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-06/msg02185.html
1605 https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2014-07/msg00236.html
1606 (reports by Marcus Shawcroft, Maohui Lei).
1607 + improved configure macro CF_SUBDIR_PATH, from lynx changes.
1610 + improved ".map" files by generating them with a script that builds
1611 ncurses with several related configurations and merges the results.
1612 A further refinement is planned, to make the tic- and tinfo-library
1613 symbols use the same versions across each of the four configurations
1614 which are represented (reports by Sven Joachim, Werner Fink).
1617 + improve description of limits for color values and color pairs in
1618 curs_color.3x (prompted by patch by Tim van der Molen).
1619 + add VERSION file, using first field in that to record the ABI version
1620 used for configure --with-libtool --disable-libtool-version
1621 + add configure options for applying the ".map" and ".sym" files to
1622 the ncurses, form, menu and panel libraries.
1623 + add ".map" and ".sym" files to show exported symbols, e.g., for
1627 + improve strict compiler-warnings by adding a cast in TRACE_RETURN
1628 and making a new TRACE_RETURN1 macro for cases where the cast does
1632 + in-progress changes to integrate the win32 console driver with the
1633 msys2 configuration.
1636 + reviewed terminology 0.6.1, add function key definitions. None of
1637 the vt100-compatibility issues were improved -TD
1638 + improve infocmp conversion of extended capabilities to termcap by
1639 correcting the limit check against parametrized[], as well as filling
1640 in a check if the string happens to have parameters, e.g., "xm"
1642 + add check for zero/negative dimensions for resizeterm and resize_term
1643 (report by Mike Gran).
1646 + add experimental support for xterm's 1005 mouse mode, to use in a
1647 demonstration of its limitations.
1648 + add experimental support for "%u" format to terminfo.
1649 + modify test/ncurses.c to also show position reports in 'a' test.
1650 + minor formatting fixes to _nc_trace_mmask_t, make this function
1651 exported to help with debugging mouse changes.
1652 + improve behavior of wheel-mice for xterm protocol, noting that there
1653 are only button-presses for buttons "4" and "5", so there is no need
1654 to wait to combine events into double-clicks (report/analysis by
1656 + provide examples xterm-1005 and xterm-1006 terminfo entries -TD
1657 + implement decoder for xterm SGR 1006 mouse mode.
1660 + implement curs_set in win_driver.c
1661 + implement flash in win_driver.c
1662 + fix an infinite loop in win_driver.c if the command-window loses
1664 + improve the non-buffered mode, i.e., NCURSES_CONSOLE2, of
1665 win_driver.c by temporarily changing the buffer-size to match the
1666 window-size to eliminate the scrollback. Also enforce a minimum
1667 screen-size of 24x80 in the non-buffered mode.
1668 + modify generated misc/Makefile to suppress install.data from the
1669 dependencies if the --disable-db-install option is used, compensating
1670 for the top-level makefile changes used to add ncurses*-config in the
1671 20140920 changes (report by Steven Honeyman).
1674 + add ncurses*-config to bin-directory of sample package-scripts.
1675 + add check to ensure that getopt is available; this is a problem in
1676 some older cross-compiler environments.
1677 + expanded on the description of --disable-overwrite in INSTALL
1678 (prompted by reports by Joakim Tjernlund, Thomas Klausner).
1679 See Gentoo #522586 and NetBSD #49200 for examples.
1680 which relates to the clarified guidelines.
1681 + remove special logic from CF_INCLUDE_DIRS which adds the directory
1682 for the --includedir from the build (report by Joakim Tjernlund).
1683 + add case for Unixware to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, from lynx changes.
1684 + update config.sub from
1685 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1688 + add a configure check to ignore some of the plethora of non-working
1689 C++ cross-compilers.
1690 + build-fixes for Ada95 with gnat 4.9
1693 + build-fix and other improvements for port of ncurses-examples to
1695 + minor compiler-warning fixes.
1698 + modify test/demo_termcap.c and test/demo_terminfo.c to make their
1699 options more directly comparable, and add "-i" option to specify
1700 a terminal description filename to parse for names to lookup.
1703 + fix special case where double-width character overwrites a single-
1704 width character in the first column (report by Egmont Koblinger,
1708 + fix colors in ncurses 'b' test which did not work after changing
1709 it to put the test-strings in subwindows (cf: 20140705).
1710 + merge redundant SEE-ALSO sections in form and menu manpages.
1713 + modify declarations for user-data pointers in C++ binding to use
1714 reinterpret_cast to facilitate converting typed pointers to void*
1715 in user's application (patch by Adam Jiang).
1716 + regenerated html manpages.
1717 + add note regarding cause and effect for TERM in ncurses manpage,
1718 having noted clueless verbiage in Terminal.app's "help" file
1719 which reverses cause/effect.
1720 + remove special fallback definition for NCURSES_ATTR_T, since macros
1721 have resolved type-mismatches using casts (cf: 970412).
1722 + fixes for win_driver.c:
1723 + handle repainting on endwin/refresh combination.
1728 + minor portability fixes for MinGW:
1729 + ensure WINVER is defined in makefiles rather than using headers
1730 + add check for gnatprep "-T" option
1731 + work around bug introduced by gcc 4.8.1 in MinGW which breaks
1733 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20877689/gcc-4-8-1-minggw-d-option-does-not-work-as-usual
1734 + fix most compiler warnings for Cygwin ncurses-examples.
1735 + restore "redundant" -I options in test/Makefile.in, since they are
1736 typically needed when building the derived ncurses-examples package
1740 + eliminate some redundant -I options used for building libraries, and
1741 ensure that ${srcdir} is added to the include-options (prompted by
1742 discussion with Paul Gilmartin).
1743 + modify configure script to work with Minix3.2
1744 + add form library extension O_DYNAMIC_JUSTIFY option which can be
1745 used to override the different treatment of justification for static
1746 versus dynamic fields (adapted from patch by Leon Winter).
1747 + add a null pointer check in test/edit_field.c (report/analysis by
1748 Leon Winter, cf: 20130608).
1751 + make workarounds for compiling test-programs with NetBSD curses.
1752 + improve configure macro CF_ADD_LIBS, to eliminate repeated -l/-L
1753 options, from xterm changes.
1756 + correct Charable() macro check for A_ALTCHARSET in wide-characters.
1757 + build-fix for position-debug code in tty_update.c, to work with or
1761 + add w/W toggle to ncurses.c 'B' test, to demonstrate permutation of
1762 video-attributes and colors with double-width character strings.
1765 + correct check in win_driver.c for saving screen contents, e.g., when
1766 NCURSES_CONSOLE2 is set (cf: 20140503).
1767 + reorganize b/B menu items in ncurses.c, putting the test-strings into
1768 subwindows. This is needed for a planned change to use Unicode
1769 fullwidth characters in the test-screens.
1770 + correct update to form status for _NEWTOP, broken by fixes for
1771 compiler warnings (patch by Leon Winter, cf: 20120616).
1774 + change shared-library suffix for AIX 5 and 6 to ".so", avoiding
1775 conflict with the static library (report by Ben Lentz).
1776 + document RPATH_LIST in INSTALLATION file, as part of workarounds for
1777 upgrading an ncurses library using the "--with-shared" option.
1778 + modify test/ncurses.c c/C tests to cycle through subsets of the
1779 total number of colors, to better illustrate 8/16/88/256-colors by
1780 providing directly comparable screens.
1781 + add test/dots_curses.c, for comparison with the low-level examples.
1784 + fix dereference before null check found by Coverity in tic.c
1786 + fix sign-extension bug in read_entry.c which prevented "toe" from
1787 reading empty "screen+italics" entry.
1788 + modify sgr for screen.xterm-new to support dim capability -TD
1789 + add dim capability to nsterm+7 -TD
1790 + cancel dim capability for iterm -TD
1791 + add dim, invis capabilities to vte-2012 -TD
1792 + add sitm/ritm to konsole-base and mlterm3 -TD
1795 > fix regression in screen terminfo entries (reports by Christian
1796 Ebert, Gabriele Balducci) -TD
1797 + revert the change to screen; see notes for why this did not work -TD
1798 + cancel sitm/ritm for entries which extend "screen", to work around
1799 screen's hardcoded behavior for SGR 3 -TD
1802 + separate masking for sgr in vidputs from sitm/ritm, which do not
1803 overlap with sgr functionality.
1804 + remove unneeded -i option from adacurses-config; put -a in the -I
1805 option for consistency (patch by Pascal Pignard).
1806 + update xterm-new terminfo entry to xterm patch #305 -TD
1807 + change format of test-scripts for Debian Ada95 and ncurses-examples
1808 packages to quilted to work around Debian #700177 (cf: 20130907).
1809 + build fix for form_driver_w.c as part of ncurses-examples package for
1810 older ncurses than 20131207.
1811 + add Hello World example to adacurses-config manpage.
1812 + remove unused --enable-pc-files option from Ada95/configure.
1813 + add --disable-gnat-projects option for testing.
1814 + revert changes to Ada95 project-files configuration (cf: 20140524).
1815 + corrected usage message in adacurses-config.
1818 + fix typo in ncurses manpage for the NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE
1819 environment variable.
1820 + improve discussion of input-echoing in curs_getch.3x
1821 + clarify discussion in curs_addch.3x of wrapping.
1822 + modify parametrized.h to make fln non-padded.
1823 + correct several entries which had termcap-style padding used in
1824 terminfo: adm21, aj510, alto-h19, att605-pc, x820 -TD
1825 + correct syntax for padding in some entries: dg211, h19 -TD
1826 + correct ti924-8 which had confused padding versus octal escapes -TD
1827 + correct padding in sbi entry -TD
1828 + fix an old bug in the termcap emulation; "%i" was ignored in tparm()
1829 because the parameters to be incremented were already on the internal
1830 stack (report by Corinna Vinschen).
1831 + modify tic's "-c" option to take into account the "-C" option to
1832 activate additional checks which compare the results from running
1833 tparm() on the terminfo expressions versus the translated termcap
1835 + modify tic to allow it to read from FIFOs (report by Matthieu Fronton,
1837 > patches by Nicolas Boulenguez:
1838 + explicit dereferences to suppress some style warnings.
1839 + when c_varargs_to_ada.c includes its header, use double quotes
1841 + samples/ncurses2-util.adb: removed unused with clause. The warning
1842 was removed by an obsolete pragma.
1843 + replaced Unreferenced pragmas with Warnings (Off). The latter,
1844 available with older GNATs, needs no configure test. This also
1845 replaces 3 untested Unreferenced pragmas.
1846 + simplified To_C usage in trace handling. Using two parameters allows
1847 some basic formatting, and avoids a warning about security with some
1849 + for generated Ada sources, replace many snippets with one pure
1851 + removed C_Chtype and its conversions.
1852 + removed C_AttrType and its conversions.
1853 + removed conversions between int, Item_Option_Set, Menu_Option_Set.
1854 + removed int, Field_Option_Set, Item_Option_Set conversions.
1855 + removed C_TraceType, Attribute_Option_Set conversions.
1856 + replaced C.int with direct use of Eti_Error, now enumerated. As it
1857 was used in a case statement, values were tested by the Ada compiler
1858 to be consecutive anyway.
1859 + src/Makefile.in: remove duplicate stanza
1860 + only consider using a project for shared libraries.
1861 + style. Silent gnat-4.9 warning about misplaced "then".
1862 + generate shared library project to honor ADAFLAGS, LDFLAGS.
1865 + cleanup recently introduced compiler warnings for MingW port.
1866 + workaround for ${MAKEFLAGS} configure check versus GNU make 4.0,
1867 which introduces more than one gratuitous incompatibility.
1870 + add vt520ansi terminfo entry (patch by Mike Gran)
1871 + further improve MinGW support for the scenario where there is an
1872 ANSI-escapes handler such as ansicon running in the console window
1873 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
1876 + add --disable-lib-suffixes option (adapted from patch by Juergen
1878 + merge some changes from Juergen Pfeifer's work with MSYS2, to
1879 simplify later merging:
1880 + use NC_ISATTY() macro for isatty() in library
1881 + add _nc_mingw_isatty() and related functions to windows-driver
1882 + rename terminal driver entrypoints to simplify grep's
1883 + remove a check in the sp-funcs flavor of newterm() which allowed only
1884 the first call to newterm() to succeed (report by Thomas Beierlein,
1888 + update config.guess, config.sub from
1889 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
1892 + modify configure script:
1893 + drop the -no-gcc option from Intel compiler, from lynx changes.
1894 + extend the --with-hashed-db configure option to simplify building
1895 with different versions of Berkeley database using FreeBSD ports.
1896 + improve initialization for MinGW port (Juergen Pfeifer):
1897 + enforce Windows-style path-separator if cross-compiling,
1898 + add a driver-name method to each of the drivers,
1899 + allow the Windows driver name to match "unknown", ignoring case,
1900 + lengthen the built-in name for the Windows console driver to
1901 "#win32console", and
1902 + move the comparison of driver-names allowing abbreviation, e.g.,
1903 to "#win32con" into the Windows console driver.
1906 + add check in tic for mismatch between ccc and initp/initc
1907 + cancel ccc in putty-256color and konsole-256color for consistency
1908 with the cancelled initc capability (patch by Sven Zuhlsdorf).
1909 + add xterm+256setaf building block for various terminals which only
1910 get the 256-color feature half-implemented -TD
1911 + updated "st" entry (leaving the 0.1.1 version as "simpleterm") to
1915 + fix typo in "mlterm" entry (report by Gabriele Balducci) -TD
1918 + use types from <stdint.h> in sample build-scripts for chtype, etc.
1919 + modify configure script and curses.h.in to allow the types specified
1920 using --with-chtype and related options to be defined in <stdint.h>
1921 + add terminology entry -TD
1922 + add mlterm3 entry, use that as "mlterm" -TD
1923 + inherit mlterm-256color from mlterm -TD
1926 + modify _nc_New_TopRow_and_CurrentItem() to ensure that the menu's
1927 top-row is adjusted as needed to ensure that the current item is
1928 on the screen (patch by Johann Klammer).
1929 + add wgetdelay() to retrieve _delay member of WINDOW if it happens to
1930 be opaque, e.g., in the pthread configuration (prompted by patch by
1934 + modify ifdef in read_entry.c to handle the case where
1935 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE is not defined (patch by Xin Li).
1936 + add cast in form_driver_w() to fix ARM build (patch by Xin Li).
1937 + add logic to win_driver.c to save/restore screen contents when not
1938 allocating a console-buffer (cf: 20140215).
1941 + clarify error-returns from newwin (report by Ruslan Nabioullin).
1944 + fix some compiler warnings in win_driver.c
1945 + updated notes for wsvt25 based on tack and vttest -TD
1946 + add teken entry to show actual properties of FreeBSD's "xterm"
1950 + in-progress changes to win_driver.c to implement output without
1951 allocating a console-buffer. This uses a pre-existing environment
1952 variable NCGDB used by Juergen Pfeifer for debugging (prompted by
1953 discussion with Erwin Waterlander regarding Console2, which hangs
1954 when reading in an allocated console-buffer).
1955 + add -t option to gdc.c, and modify to accept "S" to step through the
1957 + regenerate NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html to fix some of the broken
1958 html emitted by docbook.
1961 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to omit followup check to determine if
1962 _XOPEN_SOURCE can/should be defined. g++ 4.7.2 built on Solaris 10
1963 has some header breakage due to its own predefinition of this symbol
1964 (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15796).
1967 + add/use symbol NCURSES_PAIRS_T like NCURSES_COLOR_T, to illustrate
1968 which "short" types are for color pairs and which are color values.
1969 + fix build for s390x, by correcting field bit offsets in generated
1970 representation clauses when int=32 long=64 and endian=big, or at
1971 least on s390x (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
1972 + minor cleanup change to test/form_driver_w.c (patch by Gaute Hope).
1975 + remove unnecessary ifdef's in Ada95/gen/gen.c, which reportedly do
1976 not work as is with gcc 4.8 due to fixes using chtype cast made for
1977 new compiler warnings by gcc 4.8 in 20130824 (Debian #735753, patch
1978 by Nicolas Boulenguez).
1981 + apply includesubdir variable which was introduced in 20130805 to
1982 gen-pkgconfig.in (Debian #735782).
1985 + further improved man2html, used this to fix broken links in html
1987 ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/man2html
1990 + modify configure-script/ifdef's to allow OLD_TTY feature to be
1991 suppressed if the type of ospeed is configured using the option
1992 --with-ospeed to not be a short. By default, it is a short for
1993 termcap-compatibility (adapted from suggestion by Christian
1995 + correct a typo in _nc_baudrate() (patch by Christian Weisgerber,
1997 + fix a few -Wlogical-op warnings.
1998 + updated llib-l* files.
2001 + add form_driver_w() entrypoint to wide-character forms library, as
2002 well as test program form_driver_w (adapted from patch by Gaute
2006 + minor fix for CF_GCC_WARNINGS to special-case options which are not
2007 recognized by clang.
2010 + add special case to configure script to move _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
2011 definition from CPPFLAGS to CFLAGS if it happens to be needed for
2012 Solaris, because g++ errors with that definition (report by
2013 Jean-Pierre Flori, Sage #15268).
2014 + correct logic in infocmp's -i option which was intended to ignore
2015 strings which correspond to function-keys as candidates for piecing
2016 together initialization- or reset-strings. The problem dates to
2017 1.9.7a, but was overlooked until changes in -Wlogical-op warnings for
2018 gcc 4.8 (report by David Binderman).
2019 + updated CF_GCC_WARNINGS to documented options for gcc 4.9.0, moving
2020 checks for -Wextra and -Wdeclaration-after-statement into the macro,
2021 and adding checks for -Wignored-qualifiers, -Wlogical-op and
2023 + updated CF_CURSES_UNCTRL_H and CF_SHARED_OPTS macros from ongoing
2025 + update config.sub from
2026 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
2029 + minor cleanup of terminfo.tail
2032 + use TS extension to describe xterm's title-escapes -TD
2033 + modify terminator and nsterm-s to use xterm+sl-twm building block -TD
2034 + update hurd.ti, add xenl to reflect 2011-03-06 change in
2035 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/hurd.git/log/console/display.c
2037 + simplify pfkey expression in ansi.sys -TD
2040 + correct/simplify ifdef's for cur_term versus broken-linker and
2041 reentrant options (report by Jean-Pierre Flori, cf: 20090530).
2042 + modify release/version combinations in test build-scripts to make
2043 them more consistent with other packages.
2046 + add nc_mingw.h to installed headers for MinGW port; needed for
2047 compiling ncurses-examples.
2048 + add rpm-script for testing cross-compile of ncurses-examples.
2051 + fix new typo in CF_ADA_INCLUDE_DIRS macro (report by Roumen Petrov).
2054 + fix a few compiler warnings in progs and test.
2055 + minor fix to package/debian-mingw/rules, do not strip dll's.
2056 + minor fixes to configure script for empty $prefix, e.g., when doing
2057 cross-compiles to MinGW.
2058 + add script for building test-packages of binaries cross-compiled to
2062 + minor fixes for ncurses-example package and makefile.
2063 + add scripts for test-builds of cross-compiler packages for ncurses6
2067 + some build-fixes for ncurses-examples with NetBSD-6.0 curses, though
2068 it lacks some common functions such as use_env() which is not yet
2070 + build-fix and some compiler warning fixes for ncurses-examples with
2072 + fix a possible null-pointer reference in a trace message from newterm.
2073 + quiet a few warnings from NetBSD 6.0 namespace pollution by
2074 nonstandard popcount() function in standard strings.h header.
2075 + ignore g++ 4.2.1 warnings for "-Weffc++" in c++/cursesmain.cc
2076 + fix a few overlooked places for --enable-string-hacks option.
2079 + fix typo in curs_attr.3x (patch by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130831).
2080 + build-fix for --with-shared option for DragonFly and FreeBSD (report
2081 by Rong-En Fan, cf: 20130727).
2084 + build-fixes for MSYS for two test-programs (patches by Ray Donnelly,
2086 + revert change to two of the dpkg format files, to work with dpkg
2087 before/after Debian #700177.
2088 + fix gcc -Wconversion warning in wattr_get() macro.
2089 + add msys and msysdll to known host/configuration types (patch by
2091 + modify CF_RPATH_HACK configure macro to not rely upon "-u" option
2092 of sort, improving portability.
2093 + minor improvements for test-programs from reviewing Solaris port.
2094 + update config.guess, config.sub from
2095 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/config.git
2098 + modify test/ncurses.c b/B tests to display lines only for the
2099 attributes which a given terminal supports, to make room for an
2101 + completed ncv table in terminfo.tail; it did not list the wide
2102 character codes listed in X/Open Curses issue 7.
2103 + add A_ITALIC extension (prompted by discussion with Egmont Koblinger).
2106 + fix some gcc 4.8 -Wconversion warnings.
2107 + change format of dpkg test-scripts to quilted to work around bug
2108 introduced by Debian #700177.
2109 + discard cached keyname() values if meta() is changed after a value
2110 was cached using (report by Kurban Mallachiev).
2113 + add checks in tic to warn about terminals which lack cursor
2114 addressing, capabilities or having those, are marked as hard_copy or
2116 + use --without-progs in mingw-ncurses rpm.
2117 + split out _nc_init_termtype() from alloc_entry.c to use in MinGW
2118 port when tic and other programs are not needed.
2121 + minor fixes to the --disable-overwrite logic, to ensure that the
2122 configured $(includedir) is not cancelled by the mingwxx-filesystem
2124 + add --disable-db-install configure option, to simplify building
2125 cross-compile support packages.
2126 + add mingw-ncurses.spec file, for testing cross-compiles.
2129 + improve configure macros from ongoing work on cdk, dialog, xterm:
2130 + CF_ADD_LIB_AFTER - fix a problem with -Wl options
2131 + CF_RPATH_HACK - add missing result-message
2132 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify to use $rel_builddir in cygwin and mingw
2133 dll symbols (which can be overridden) rather than explicit "../".
2134 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - modify NetBSD and DragonFly symbols to use ${CC}
2135 rather than ${LD} to improve rpath support.
2136 + CF_SHARED_OPTS - add a symbol to denote the temporary files that
2137 are created by the macro, to simplify clean-rules.
2138 + CF_X_ATHENA - trim extra libraries to work with -Wl,--as-needed
2139 + fix a regression in hashed-database support for NetBSD, which uses
2140 the key-size differently from other implementations (cf: 20121229).
2143 + further improvements for setupterm manpage, clarifying the
2144 initialization of cur_term.
2147 + improve manpages for initscr and setupterm.
2148 + minor compiler-warning fixes
2151 + add fallback defs for <inttypes.h> and <stdint.h> (cf: 20120225).
2152 + add check for size of wchar_t, use that to suppress a chunk of
2153 wcwidth.h in MinGW port.
2154 + quiet linker warnings for MinGW cross-compile with dll's using the
2155 --enable-auto-import flag.
2156 + add ncurses.map rule to ncurses/Makefile to help diagnose symbol
2160 + modify the clear program to take into account the E3 extended
2161 capability to clear the terminal's scrollback buffer (patch by
2162 Miroslav Lichvar, Redhat #815790).
2163 + clarify in resizeterm manpage that LINES and COLS are updated.
2164 + updated ansi example in terminfo.tail, correct misordered example
2166 + fix other doclifter warnings for manpages
2167 + remove unnecessary ".ta" in terminfo.tail, add missing ".fi"
2168 (patch by Eric Raymond).
2171 + minor changes to some configure macros to make them more reusable.
2172 + fixes for tabs program (prompted by report by Nick Andrik).
2173 + corrected logic in command-line parsing of -a and -c predefined
2175 + allow "-0" and "-8" options to be combined with others, e.g.,"-0d".
2176 + make warning messages more consistent with the other utilities by
2177 not printing the full pathname of the program.
2178 + add -V option for consistency with other utilities.
2179 + fix off-by-one in columns for tabs program when processing an option
2180 such as "-5" (patch by Nick Andrik).
2183 + add to test/demo_forms.c examples of using the menu-hooks as well
2184 as showing how the menu item user-data can be used to pass a callback
2186 + add test/dots_termcap.c
2187 + remove setupterm call from test/demo_termcap.c
2188 + build-fix if --disable-ext-funcs configure option is used.
2189 + modified test/edit_field.c and test/demo_forms.c to move the lengths
2190 into a user-data structure, keeping the original string for later
2191 expansion to free-format input/out demo.
2192 + modified test/demo_forms.c to load data from file.
2193 + added note to clarify Terminal.app's non-emulation of the various
2194 terminal types listed in the preferences dialog -TD
2195 + fix regression in error-reporting in lib_setup.c (Debian #711134,
2197 + build-fix for a case where --enable-broken_linker and
2198 --enable-reentrant options are combined (report by George R Goffe).
2201 + modify mvcur() to distinguish between internal use by the ncurses
2202 library, and external callers, preventing it from reading the content
2203 of the screen which is only nonblank when curses calls have updated
2204 it. This makes test/dots_mvcur.c avoid painting colored cells in
2205 the left margin of the display.
2206 + minor fix to test/dots_mvcur.c
2207 + move configured symbols USE_DATABASE and USE_TERMCAP to term.h as
2208 NCURSES_USE_DATABASE and NCURSES_USE_TERMCAP to allow consistent
2209 use of these symbols in term_entry.h
2212 + corrected ifdefs in test/testcurs.c to allow comparison of mouse
2213 interface versus pdcurses (cf: 20130316).
2214 + add pow() to configure-check for math library, needed since
2215 20121208 for test/hanoi (Debian #708056).
2216 + regenerated html manpages.
2217 + update doctype used for html documentation.
2220 + move nsterm-related entries out of "obsolete" section to more
2221 plausible "ansi consoles" -TD
2222 + additional cleanup of table-of-contents by reordering -TD
2223 + revise fix for check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch(); prior fix
2224 prevented inserts when video attributes were attached to the data
2225 (cf: 20121215) (Redhat #959534).
2228 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
2229 + correct FNKEY() macro in progs/dump_entry.c, allowing kf11-kf63 to
2230 display when infocmp's -R option is used for HP or AIX subsets.
2231 + fix dead-code issue with test/movewindow.c
2232 + improve limited-checking in _nc_read_termtype().
2235 + fix clang 3.2 warning in progs/dump_entry.c
2236 + drop AC_TYPE_SIGNAL check; ncurses relies on c89 and later.
2239 + add MinGW to cases where ncurses installs by default into /usr
2240 (prompted by discussion with Daniel Silva Ferreira).
2241 + add -D option to infocmp's usage-message (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
2242 + add a missing 'int' type for main function in configure check for
2243 type of bool variable, to work with clang 3.2 (report by Dmitri
2245 + improve configure check for static_cast, to work with clang 3.2
2246 (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
2247 + re-order rule for demo.o and macros defining header dependencies in
2248 c++/Makefile.in to accommodate gmake (report by Dmitri Gribenko).
2251 + improve parameter checking in copywin().
2252 + modify configure script to work around OS X's "libtool" program, to
2253 choose glibtool instead. At the same time, chance the autoconf macro
2254 to look for a "tool" rather than a "prog", to help with potential use
2256 + separate the rpath usage for c++ library from demo program
2258 + update/correct header-dependencies in c++ makefile (report by Werner
2260 + add --with-cxx-shared to dpkg-script, as done for rpm-script.
2263 + build-fix for libtool configuration (reports by Daniel Silva Ferreira
2267 + build-fix for OS X, to handle changes for --with-cxx-shared feature
2268 (report by Christian Ebert).
2269 + change initialization for vt220, similar entries for consistency
2270 with cursor-key strings (NetBSD #47674) -TD
2271 + further improvements to linux-16color (Benjamin Sittler)
2274 + additional fix for tic.c, to allocate missing buffer space.
2275 + eliminate configure-script warnings for gen-pkgconfig.in
2276 + correct typo in sgr string for sun-color,
2277 add bold for consistency with sgr,
2278 change smso for consistency with sgr -TD
2279 + correct typo in sgr string for terminator -TD
2280 + add blink to the attributes masked by ncv in linux-16color (report
2281 by Benjamin Sittler)
2282 + improve warning message from post-load checking for missing "%?"
2283 operator by tic/infocmp by showing the entry name and capability.
2284 + minor formatting improvement to tic/infocmp -f option to ensure
2285 line split after "%;".
2286 + amend scripting for --with-cxx-shared option to handle the debug
2287 library "libncurses++_g.a" (report by Sven Joachim).
2290 + amend change to toe.c for reading from /dev/zero, to ensure that
2291 there is a buffer for the temporary filename (cf: 20120324).
2292 + regenerated html manpages.
2293 + fix typo in terminfo.head (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20130302).
2294 + updated some autoconf macros:
2295 + CF_ACVERSION_CHECK, from byacc 1.9 20130304
2296 + CF_INTEL_COMPILER, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE from luit 2.0-20130217
2297 + add configure option --with-cxx-shared to permit building
2298 libncurses++ as a shared library when using g++, e.g., the same
2299 limitations as libtool but better integrated with the usual build
2300 configuration (Redhat #911540).
2301 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to filter out build-path which was unnecessarily
2302 shown in curses.h (Debian #689131).
2305 + add section to terminfo manpage discussing user-defined capabilities.
2306 + update manpage description of NCURSES_NO_SETBUF, explaining why it
2308 + add a check in waddch_nosync() to ensure that tab characters are
2309 treated as control characters; some broken locales claim they are
2311 + add some traces to the Windows console driver.
2312 + initialize a temporary array in _nc_mbtowc, needed for some cases
2313 of raw input in MinGW port.
2316 + correct ifdef on change to lib_twait.c (report by Werner Fink).
2317 + update config.guess, config.sub
2320 + modify test/testcurs.c to work with mouse for ncurses as it does for
2322 + modify test/knight.c to work with mouse for pdcurses as it does for
2324 + modify internal recursion in wgetch() which handles cooked mode to
2325 check if the call to wgetnstr() returned an error. This can happen
2326 when both nocbreak() and nodelay() are set, for instance (report by
2327 Nils Christopher Brause) (cf: 960418).
2328 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
2329 + add a check for valid position in ClearToEOS()
2330 + fix in lib_twait.c when --enable-wgetch-events is used, pointer
2332 + improve a limit-check in make_hash.c
2333 + fix a memory leak in hashed_db.c
2336 + modify test/configure script to make it simpler to override names
2337 of curses-related libraries, to help with linking with pdcurses in
2339 + if the --with-terminfo-dirs configure option is not used, there is
2340 no corresponding compiled-in value for that. Fill in "no default
2341 value" for that part of the manpage substitution.
2344 + correct initialization in knight.c which let it occasionally make
2345 an incorrect move (cf: 20001028).
2346 + improve documentation of the terminfo/termcap search path.
2349 + further fixes to mvcur to pass callback function (cf: 20130112),
2350 needed to make test/dots_mvcur work.
2351 + reduce calls to SetConsoleActiveScreenBuffer in win_driver.c, to
2352 help reduce flicker.
2353 + modify configure script to omit "+b" from linker options for very
2354 old HP-UX systems (report by Dennis Grevenstein)
2355 + add HP-UX workaround for missing EILSEQ on old HP-UX systems (patch
2356 by Dennis Grevenstein).
2357 + restore memmove/strdup support for antique systems (request by
2358 Dennis Grevenstein).
2359 + change %l behavior in tparm to push the string length onto the stack
2360 rather than saving the formatted length into the output buffer
2361 (report by Roy Marples, cf: 980620).
2364 + fixes for issues found by Coverity:
2365 + fix memory leak in safe_sprintf.c
2366 + add check for return-value in tty_update.c
2367 + correct initialization for -s option in test/view.c
2368 + add check for numeric overflow in lib_instr.c
2369 + improve error-checking in copywin
2370 + add advice in infocmp manpage for termcap users (Debian #698469).
2371 + add "-y" option to test/demo_termcap and test/demo_terminfo to
2372 demonstrate behavior with/without extended capabilities.
2373 + updated termcap manpage to document legacy termcap behavior for
2374 matching capability names.
2375 + modify name-comparison for tgetstr, etc., to accommodate legacy
2376 applications as well as to improve compatbility with BSD 4.2
2377 termcap implementations (Debian #698299) (cf: 980725).
2380 + correct prototype in manpage for vid_puts.
2381 + drop ncurses/tty/tty_display.h, ncurses/tty/tty_input.h, since they
2382 are unused in the current driver model.
2383 + modify mvcur to use stdout except when called within the ncurses
2385 + modify vidattr and vid_attr to use stdout as documented in manpage.
2386 + amend changes made to buffering in 20120825 so that the low-level
2387 putp() call uses stdout rather than ncurses' internal buffering.
2388 The putp_sp() call does the same, for consistency (Redhat #892674).
2391 + add "-s" option to test/view.c to allow it to start in single-step
2392 mode, reducing size of trace files when it is used for debugging
2394 + revert part of 20121222 change to tinfo_driver.c
2395 + add experimental logic in win_driver.c to improve optimization of
2396 screen updates. This does not yet work with double-width characters,
2397 so it is ifdef'd out for the moment (prompted by report by Erwin
2398 Waterlander regarding screen flicker).
2401 + fix coverity warnings regarding copying into fixed-size buffers.
2402 + add throw-declarations in the c++ binding per Coverity warning.
2403 + minor changes to new-items for consistent reference to bug-report
2407 + add *.dSYM directories to clean-rule in ncurses directory makefile,
2409 + add a configure check for gcc option -no-cpp-precomp, which is not
2410 available in all Mac OS X configurations (report by Andras Salamon,
2412 + improve 20021221 workaround for broken acs, handling a case where
2413 that ACS_xxx character is not in the acsc string but there is a known
2414 wide-character which can be used.
2417 + fix several warnings from clang 3.1 --analyze, includes correcting
2418 a null-pointer check in _nc_mvcur_resume.
2419 + correct display of double-width characters with MinGW port (report
2420 by Erwin Waterlander).
2421 + replace MinGW's wcrtomb(), fixing a problem with _nc_viscbuf
2422 > fixes based on Coverity report:
2423 + correct coloring in test/bs.c
2424 + correct check for 8-bit value in _nc_insert_ch().
2425 + remove dead code in progs/tset.c, test/linedata.h
2426 + add null-pointer checks in lib_tracemse.c, panel.priv.h, and some
2430 + modify test/knight.c to show the number of choices possible for
2431 each position in automove option, e.g., to allow user to follow
2432 Warnsdorff's rule to solve the puzzle.
2433 + modify test/hanoi.c to show the minimum number of moves possible for
2434 the given number of tiles (prompted by patch by Lucas Gioia).
2435 > fixes based on Coverity report:
2436 + remove a few redundant checks.
2437 + correct logic in test/bs.c, when randomly placing a specific type of
2439 + check return value from remove/unlink in tic.
2440 + check return value from sscanf in test/ncurses.c
2441 + fix a null dereference in c++/cursesw.cc
2442 + fix two instances of uninitialized variables when configuring for the
2444 + correct scope of variable used in SetSafeOutcWrapper macro.
2445 + set umask when calling mkstemp in tic.
2446 + initialize wbkgrndset() temporary variable when extended-colors are
2450 + also replace MinGW's wctomb(), fixing a problem with setcchar().
2451 + modify test/view.c to load UTF-8 when built with MinGW by using
2452 regular win32 API because the MinGW functions mblen() and mbtowc()
2456 + correct order of color initialization versus display in some of the
2457 test-programs, e.g., test_addstr.c
2458 > fixes based on Coverity report:
2459 + delete windows on exit from some of the test-programs.
2462 > fixes based on Coverity report:
2463 + add missing braces around FreeAndNull in two places.
2464 + various fixes in test/ncurses.c
2465 + improve limit-checks in tinfo/make_hash.c, tinfo/read_entry.c
2466 + correct malloc size in progs/infocmp.c
2467 + guard against negative array indices in test/knight.c
2468 + fix off-by-one limit check in test/color_name.h
2469 + add null-pointer check in progs/tabs.c, test/bs.c, test/demo_forms.c,
2471 + fix memory-leak in tinfo/lib_setup.c, progs/toe.c,
2472 test/clip_printw.c, test/demo_menus.c
2473 + delete unused windows in test/chgat.c, test/clip_printw.c,
2474 test/insdelln.c, test/newdemo.c on error-return.
2477 + modify configure macro CF_INCLUDE_DIRS to put $CPPFLAGS after the
2478 local -I include options in case someone has set conflicting -I
2479 options in $CPPFLAGS (prompted by patch for ncurses/Makefile.in by
2481 + modify the ncurses*-config scripts to eliminate relative paths from
2482 the RPATH_LIST variable, e.g., "../lib" as used in installing shared
2483 libraries or executables.
2486 + realign these related pages:
2491 and fix a long-ago error in curs_addstr.3x which said that a -1
2492 length parameter would only write as much as fit onto one line
2493 (report by Reuben Thomas).
2494 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_memmove() for memmove()/bcopy().
2495 + remove obsolete fallback _nc_strdup() for strdup().
2496 + cancel any debug-rpm in package/ncurses.spec
2497 + reviewed vte-2012, reverted most of the change since it was incorrect
2498 based on testing with tack -TD
2499 + un-cancel the initc in vte-256color, since this was implemented
2500 starting with version 0.20 in 2009 -TD
2503 + improve malloc/realloc checking (prompted by discussion in Redhat
2505 + add ncurses test-program as "ncurses6" to the rpm- and dpkg-scripts.
2506 + updated configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_WITH_PATHLIST. The
2507 first corrects pattern used for Mac OS X's customization of gcc.
2510 + fix change to _nc_scroll_optimize(), which incorrectly freed memory
2514 + add vte-2012, gnome-2012, making these the defaults for vte/gnome
2515 (patch by Christian Persch).
2518 + improve CF_GCC_VERSION to work around Debian's customization of gcc
2520 + improve configure macros as done in byacc:
2521 + drop 2.13 compatibility; use 2.52.xxxx version only since EMX port
2522 has used that for a while.
2523 + add 3rd parameter to AC_DEFINE's to allow autoheader to run, i.e.,
2524 for experimental use.
2525 + remove unused configure macros.
2526 + modify configure script and makefiles to quiet new autoconf warning
2527 for LIBS_TO_MAKE variable.
2528 + modify configure script to show $PATH_SEPARATOR variable.
2529 + update config.guess, config.sub
2532 + modify setupterm to set its copy of TERM to "unknown" if configured
2533 for the terminal driver and TERM was null or empty.
2534 + modify treatment of TERM variable for MinGW port to allow explicit
2535 use of the windows console driver by checking if $TERM is set to
2536 "#win32con" or an abbreviation of that.
2537 + undo recent change to fallback definition of vsscanf() to build with
2538 older Solaris compilers (cf: 20120728).
2541 + add test-screens to test/ncurses to show 256-characters at a time,
2542 to help with MinGW port.
2545 + simplify varargs logic in lib_printw.c; va_copy is no longer needed
2547 + modifications for MinGW port to make wide-character display usable.
2550 + regenerate configure script (report by Sven Joachim, cf: 20120901).
2553 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_flush (cf: 20120825).
2554 + fix a case in _nc_scroll_optimize() where the _oldnums_list array
2555 might not be allocated.
2556 + improve comparisons in configure.in for unset shell variables.
2559 + increase size of ncurses' output-buffer, in case of very small
2560 initial screen-sizes.
2561 + fix evaluation of TERMINFO and TERMINFO_DIRS default values as needed
2562 after changes to use --datarootdir (reports by Gabriele Balducci,
2566 + change output buffering scheme, using buffer maintained by ncurses
2567 rather than stdio, to avoid problems with SIGTSTP handling (report
2571 + update autoconf patch to 2.52.20120811, adding --datarootdir
2572 (prompted by discussion with Erwin Waterlander).
2573 + improve description of --enable-reentrant option in README and the
2575 + add nsterm-256color, make this the default nsterm -TD
2576 + remove bw from nsterm-bce, per testing with tack -TD
2579 + update test/configure, adding check for tinfo library.
2580 + improve limit-checks for the getch fifo (report by Werner Fink).
2581 + fix a remaining mismatch between $with_echo and the symbols updated
2582 for CF_DISABLE_ECHO affecting parameters for mk-2nd.awk (report by
2583 Sven Joachim, cf: 20120317).
2584 + modify followup check for pkg-config's library directory in the
2585 --enable-pc-files option to validate syntax (report by Sven Joachim,
2589 + correct path for ncurses_mingw.h in include/headers, in case build
2590 is done outside source-tree (patch by Roumen Petrov).
2591 + modify some older xterm entries to align with xterm source -TD
2592 + separate "xterm-old" alias from "xterm-r6" -TD
2593 + add E3 extended capability to xterm-basic and putty -TD
2594 + parenthesize parameters of other macros in curses.h -TD
2595 + parenthesize parameter of COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER in curses.h
2596 in case it happens to be a comma-expression, etc. (patch by Nick
2600 + improved form_request_by_name() and menu_request_by_name().
2601 + eliminate two fixed-size buffers in toe.c
2602 + extend use_tioctl() to have expected behavior when use_env(FALSE) and
2603 use_tioctl(TRUE) are called.
2604 + modify ncurses test-program, adding -E and -T options to demonstrate
2605 use_env() versus use_tioctl().
2608 + add use_tioctl() function (adapted from patch by Werner Fink,
2612 + add ncurses_mingw.h to installed headers (prompted by patch by
2614 + clarify return-codes from wgetch() in response to SIGWINCH (prompted
2616 + modify resizeterm() to always push a KEY_RESIZE onto the fifo, even
2617 if screensize is unchanged. Modify _nc_update_screensize() to push a
2618 KEY_RESIZE if there was a SIGWINCH, even if it does not call
2619 resizeterm(). These changes eliminate the case where a SIGWINCH is
2620 received, but ERR returned from wgetch or wgetnstr because the screen
2621 dimensions did not change (Novell #769788).
2624 + add --enable-interop to sample package scripts (suggested by Juergen
2626 + update CF_PATH_SYNTAX macro, from mawk changes.
2627 + modify mk-0th.awk to allow for generating llib-ltic, etc., though
2628 some work is needed on cproto to work with lib_gen.c to update
2630 + remove redundant getenv() cal in database-iterator leftover from
2631 cleanup in 20120622 changes (report by Sven Joachim).
2634 + add -d, -e and -q options to test/demo_terminfo and test/demo_termcap
2635 + fix caching of environment variables in database-iterator (patch by
2636 Philippe Troin, Redhat #831366).
2639 + add configure check to distinguish clang from gcc to eliminate
2640 warnings about unused command-line parameters when compiler warnings
2642 + improve behavior when updating terminfo entries which are hardlinked
2643 by allowing for the possibility that an alias has been repurposed to
2645 + fix some strict compiler warnings based on package scripts.
2646 + further fixes for configure check for working poll (Debian #676461).
2649 + fix an uninitialized variable in -c/-n logic for infocmp changes
2651 + corrected fix for building c++ binding with clang 3.0 (report/patch
2652 by Richard Yao, Gentoo #417613, cf: 20110409)
2653 + correct configure check for working poll, fixing the case where stdin
2654 is redirected, e.g., in rpm/dpkg builds (Debian #676461).
2655 + add rpm- and dpkg-scripts, to test those build-environments.
2656 The resulting packages are used only for testing.
2659 + add kdch1 aka "Remove" to vt220 and vt220-8 entries -TD
2660 + add kdch1, etc., to qvt108 -TD
2661 + add dl1/il1 to some entries based on dl/il values -TD
2662 + add dl to simpleterm -TD
2663 + add consistency-checks in tic for insert-line vs delete-line
2664 controls, and insert/delete-char keys
2665 + correct no-leaks logic in infocmp when doing comparisons, fixing
2666 duplicate free of entries given via the command-line, and freeing
2667 entries loaded from the last-but-one of files specified on the
2669 + add kdch1 to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (reported by David Lord,
2670 analysis by Martin Husemann).
2671 + add cnorm/civis to wsvt25 entry from NetBSD CVS (report/analysis by
2672 Onno van der Linden).
2675 + extend -c and -n options of infocmp to allow comparing more than two
2677 + correct check in infocmp for number of terminal names when more than
2679 + correct typo in curs_threads.3x (report by Yanhui Shen on
2680 freebsd-hackers mailing list).
2683 + corrected 'op' for bterm (report by Samuel Thibault) -TD
2684 + modify test/background.c to demonstrate a background character
2685 holding a colored ACS_HLINE. The behavior differs from SVr4 due to
2686 the thick- and double-line extension (cf: 20091003).
2687 + modify handling of acs characters in PutAttrChar to avoid mapping an
2688 unmapped character to a space with A_ALTCHARSET set.
2689 + rewrite vt520 entry based on vt420 -TD
2692 + remove p6 (bold) from opus3n1+ for consistency -TD
2693 + remove acs stuff from env230 per clues in Ingres termcap -TD
2694 + modify env230 sgr/sgr0 to match other capabilities -TD
2695 + modify smacs/rmacs in bq300-8 to match sgr/sgr0 -TD
2696 + make sgr for dku7202 agree with other caps -TD
2697 + make sgr for ibmpc agree with other caps -TD
2698 + make sgr for tek4107 agree with other caps -TD
2699 + make sgr for ndr9500 agree with other caps -TD
2700 + make sgr for sco-ansi agree with other caps -TD
2701 + make sgr for d410 agree with other caps -TD
2702 + make sgr for d210 agree with other caps -TD
2703 + make sgr for d470c, d470c-7b agree with other caps -TD
2704 + remove redundant AC_DEFINE for NDEBUG versus Makefile definition.
2705 + fix a back-link in _nc_delink_entry(), which is needed if ncurses is
2706 configured with --enable-termcap and --disable-getcap.
2709 + fix some inconsistencies between vt320/vt420, e.g., cnorm/civis -TD
2710 + add eslok flag to dec+sl -TD
2711 + dec+sl applies to vt320 and up -TD
2712 + drop wsl width from xterm+sl -TD
2713 + reuse xterm+sl in putty and nsca-m -TD
2714 + add ansi+tabs to vt520 -TD
2715 + add ansi+enq to vt220-vt520 -TD
2716 + fix a compiler warning in example in ncurses-intro.doc (Paul Waring).
2717 + added paragraph in keyname manpage telling how extended capabilities
2718 are interpreted as key definitions.
2719 + modify tic's check of conflicting key definitions to include extended
2720 capability strings in addition to the existing check on predefined
2724 + improve cleanup of temporary files in tic using atexit().
2725 + add msgr to vt420, similar DEC vtXXX entries -TD
2726 + add several missing vt420 capabilities from vt220 -TD
2727 + factor out ansi+pp from several entries -TD
2728 + change xterm+sl and xterm+sl-twm to include only the status-line
2729 capabilities and not "use=xterm", making them more generally useful
2730 as building-blocks -TD
2731 + add dec+sl building block, as example -TD
2734 + add XT to some terminfo entries to improve usefulness for other
2735 applications than screen, which would like to pretend that xterm's
2736 title is a status-line. -TD
2737 + change use-clauses in ansi-mtabs, hp2626, and hp2622 based on review
2738 of ordering and overrides -TD
2739 + add consistency check in tic for screen's "XT" capability.
2740 + add section in terminfo.src summarizing the user-defined capabilities
2741 used in that file -TD
2744 + fix an inconsistency between tic/infocmp "-x" option; tic omits all
2745 non-standard capabilities, while infocmp was ignoring only the user
2746 definable capabilities.
2747 + improve special case in tic parsing of description to allow it to be
2748 followed by terminfo capabilities. Previously the description had to
2749 be the last field on an input line to allow tic to distinguish
2750 between termcap and terminfo format while still allowing commas to be
2751 embedded in the description.
2752 + correct variable name in gen_edit.sh which broke configurability of
2753 the --with-xterm-kbs option.
2754 + revert 2011-07-16 change to "linux" alias, return to "linux2.2" -TD
2755 + further amend 20110910 change, providing for configure-script
2756 override of the "linux" terminfo entry to install and changing the
2757 default for that to "linux2.2" (Debian #665959).
2760 + update Ada95/configure to use CF_DISABLE_ECHO (cf: 20120317).
2761 + correct order of use-clauses in st-256color -TD
2762 + modify configure script to look for gnatgcc if the Ada95 binding
2763 is built, in preference to the default gcc/cc (suggested by
2764 Nicolas Boulenguez).
2765 + modify configure script to ensure that the same -On option used for
2766 the C compiler in CFLAGS is used for ADAFLAGS rather than simply
2767 using "-O3" (suggested by Nicolas Boulenguez)
2770 + amend an old fix so that next_char() exits properly for empty files,
2771 e.g., from reading /dev/null (cf: 20080804).
2772 + modify tic so that it can read from the standard input, or from
2773 a character device. Because tic uses seek's, this requires writing
2774 the data to a temporary file first (prompted by remark by Sven
2775 Joachim) (cf: 20000923).
2778 + correct a check made in lib_napms.c, so that terminfo applications
2779 can again use napms() (cf: 20110604).
2780 + add a note in tic.h regarding required casts for ABSENT_BOOLEAN
2782 + correct scripting for --disable-echo option in test/configure.
2783 + amend check for missing c++ compiler to work when no error is
2784 reported, and no variables set (cf: 20021206).
2785 + add/use configure macro CF_DISABLE_ECHO.
2788 + fix some strict compiler warnings for abi6 and 64-bits.
2789 + use begin_va_copy/end_va_copy macros in lib_printw.c (cf: 20120303).
2790 + improve a limit-check in infocmp.c (Werner Fink):
2793 + minor tidying of terminfo.tail, clarify reason for limitation
2794 regarding mapping of \0 to \200
2795 + minor improvement to _nc_copy_termtype(), using memcpy to replace
2797 + fix no-leaks checking in test/demo_termcap.c to account for multiple
2798 calls to setupterm().
2799 + modified the libgpm change to show previous load as a problem in the
2801 > merge some patches from OpenSUSE rpm (Werner Fink):
2802 + ncurses-5.7-printw.dif, fixes for varargs handling in lib_printw.c
2803 + ncurses-5.7-gpm.dif, do not dlopen libgpm if already loaded by
2805 + ncurses-5.6-fallback.dif, do not free arrays and strings from static
2809 + fix breakage in tic/infocmp from 20120225 (report by Werner Fink).
2812 + modify configure script to allow creating dll's for MinGW when
2814 + add --enable-string-hacks option to control whether strlcat and
2815 strlcpy may be used. The same issue applies to OpenBSD's warnings
2816 about snprintf, noting that this function is weakly standardized.
2817 + add configure checks for strlcat, strlcpy and snprintf, to help
2818 reduce bogus warnings with OpenBSD builds.
2819 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 to supply consistent intptr_t declaration
2821 + update config.guess, config.sub
2824 + correct CF_ETIP_DEFINES configure macro, making it exit properly on
2825 the first success (patch by Pierre Labastie).
2826 + improve configure macro CF_MKSTEMP by moving existence-check for
2827 mkstemp out of the AC_TRY_RUN, to help with cross-compiles.
2828 + improve configure macro CF_FUNC_POLL from luit changes to detect
2829 broken implementations, e.g., with Mac OS X.
2830 + add configure option --with-tparm-arg
2831 + build-fix for MinGW cross-compiling, so that make_hash does not
2832 depend on TTY definition (cf: 20111008).
2835 + make sgr for xterm-pcolor agree with other caps -TD
2836 + make sgr for att5425 agree with other caps -TD
2837 + make sgr for att630 agree with other caps -TD
2838 + make sgr for linux entries agree with other caps -TD
2839 + make sgr for tvi9065 agree with other caps -TD
2840 + make sgr for ncr260vt200an agree with other caps -TD
2841 + make sgr for ncr160vt100pp agree with other caps -TD
2842 + make sgr for ncr260vt300an agree with other caps -TD
2843 + make sgr for aaa-60-dec-rv, aaa+dec agree with other caps -TD
2844 + make sgr for cygwin, cygwinDBG agree with other caps -TD
2845 + add configure option --with-xterm-kbs to simplify configuration for
2846 Linux versus most other systems.
2849 + improved tic -D option, avoid making target directory and provide
2853 + add mach-gnu (Debian #614316, patch by Samuel Thibault)
2854 + add mach-gnu-color, tweaks to mach-gnu terminfo -TD
2855 + make sgr for sun-color agree with smso -TD
2856 + make sgr for prism9 agree with other caps -TD
2857 + make sgr for icl6404 agree with other caps -TD
2858 + make sgr for ofcons agree with other caps -TD
2859 + make sgr for att5410v1, att4415, att620 agree with other caps -TD
2860 + make sgr for aaa-unk, aaa-rv agree with other caps -TD
2861 + make sgr for avt-ns agree with other caps -TD
2862 + amend fix intended to separate fixups for acsc to allow "tic -cv" to
2863 give verbose warnings (cf: 20110730).
2864 + modify misc/gen-edit.sh to make the location of the tabset directory
2865 consistent with misc/Makefile.in, i.e., using ${datadir}/tabset
2866 (Debian #653435, patch by Sven Joachim).
2869 + add --with-lib-prefix option to allow configuring for old/new flavors
2871 + modify check for gnat version to allow for year, as used in FreeBSD
2873 + modify check_existence() in db_iterator.c to simply check if the
2874 path is a directory or file, according to the need. Checking for
2875 directory size also gives no usable result with OS/2 (cf: 20120107).
2876 + support OS/2 kLIBC (patch by KO Myung-Hun).
2879 + several improvements to test/movewindow.c (prompted by discussion on
2881 + modify movement commands to make them continuous
2882 + rewrote the test for mvderwin
2883 + rewrote the test for recursive mvwin
2884 + split-out reusable CF_WITH_NCURSES_ETC macro in test/configure.in
2885 + updated configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, build-fixes for Mac OS X
2887 + regenerated html manpages.
2890 + various improvements for MinGW (Juergen Pfeifer):
2891 + modify stat() calls to ignore the st_size member
2892 + drop mk-dlls.sh script.
2893 + change recommended regular expression library.
2894 + modify rain.c to allow for threaded configuraton.
2895 + modify tset.c to allow for case when size-change logic is not used.
2898 + modify toe's report when -a and -s options are combined, to add
2899 a column showing which entries belong to a given database.
2900 + add -s option to toe, to sort its output.
2901 + modify progs/toe.c, simplifying use of db-iterator results to use
2902 caching improvements from 20111001 and 20111126.
2903 + correct generation of pc-files when ticlib or termlib options are
2904 given to rename the corresponding tic- or tinfo-libraries (report
2908 + document a portability issue with tput, i.e., that scripts which work
2909 with ncurses may fail in other implementations that do no parameter
2911 + add putty-sco entry -TD
2914 + review/fix places in manpages where --program-prefix configure option
2916 + add -D option to infocmp, to show the database locations that it
2918 + fix build for the special case where term-driver, ticlib and termlib
2919 are all enabled. The terminal driver depends on a few features in
2920 the base ncurses library, so tic's dependencies include both ncurses
2922 + fix build work for term-driver when --enable-wgetch-events option is
2924 + use <stdint.h> types to fix some questionable casts to void*.
2927 + modify configure script to check if thread library provides
2928 pthread_mutexattr_settype(), e.g., not provided by Solaris 2.6
2929 + modify configure script to suppress check to define _XOPEN_SOURCE
2930 for IRIX64, since its header files have a conflict versus
2932 + modify configure script to add ".pc" files for tic- and
2933 tinfo-libraries, which were omitted in recent change (cf: 20111126).
2934 + fix inconsistent checks on $PKG_CONFIG variable in configure script.
2937 + modify configure-check for etip.h dependencies, supplying a temporary
2938 copy of ncurses_dll.h since it is a generated file (prompted by
2940 + modify CF_CPP_PARAM_INIT "main" function to work with current C++.
2943 + correct database iterator's check for duplicate entries
2945 + modify database iterator to ignore $TERMCAP when it is not an
2947 + add -D option to tic, to show the database locations that it could
2949 + improve description of database locations in tic manpage.
2950 + modify the configure script to generate a list of the ".pc" files to
2951 generate, rather than deriving the list from the libraries which have
2952 been built (patch by Mike Frysinger).
2953 + use AC_CHECK_TOOLS in preference to AC_PATH_PROGS when searching for
2954 ncurses*-config, e.g., in Ada95/configure and test/configure (adapted
2955 from patch by Mike Frysinger).
2958 + remove obsolete/conflicting fallback definition for _POSIX_SOURCE
2959 from curses.priv.h, fixing a regression with IRIX64 and Tru64
2961 + modify _nc_tic_dir() to ensure that its return-value is nonnull,
2962 i.e., the database iterator was not initialized. This case is needed
2963 to when tic is translating to termcap, rather than loading the
2964 database (cf: 20111001).
2967 + add pccon entries for OpenBSD console (Alexei Malinin).
2968 + build-fix for OpenBSD 4.9 with gcc 4.2.1, setting _XOPEN_SOURCE to
2969 600 to work around inconsistent ifdef'ing of wcstof between C and
2971 + modify capconvert script to accept more than exact match on "xterm",
2972 e.g., the "xterm-*" variants, to exclude from the conversion (patch
2974 + add -lc_r as alternative for -lpthread, allows build of threaded code
2975 in older FreeBSD machines.
2976 + build-fix for MirBSD, which fails when either _XOPEN_SOURCE or
2977 _POSIX_SOURCE are defined.
2978 + fix a typo misc/Makefile.in, used in uninstalling pc-files.
2981 + modify make_db_path() to allow creating "terminfo.db" in the same
2982 directory as an existing "terminfo" directory. This fixes a case
2983 where switching between hashed/filesystem databases would cause the
2984 new hashed database to be installed in the next best location -
2985 root's home directory.
2986 + add variable cf_cv_prog_gnat_correct to those passed to
2987 config.status, fixing a problem with Ada95 builds (cf: 20111022).
2988 + change feature test from _XPG5 to _XOPEN_SOURCE in two places, to
2989 accommodate broken implementations for _XPG6.
2990 + eliminate usage of NULL symbol from etip.h, to reduce header
2992 + add configure check to decide when to add _XOPEN_SOURCE define to
2993 compiler options, i.e., for Solaris 10 and later (cf: 20100403).
2994 This is a workaround for gcc 4.6, which fails to build the c++
2995 binding if that symbol is defined by the application, due to
2996 incorrectly combining the corresponding feature test macros
2997 (report by Peter Kruse).
3000 + correct logic for discarding mouse events, retaining the partial
3001 events used to build up click, double-click, etc, until needed
3003 + fix configure script to avoid creating unused Ada95 makefile when
3005 + cleanup width-related gcc 3.4.3 warnings for 64-bit platform, for the
3006 internal functions of libncurses. The external interface of courses
3007 uses bool, which still produces these warnings.
3010 + improve description of --disable-tic-depends option to make it
3011 clear that it may be useful whether or not the --with-termlib
3012 option is also given (report by Sven Joachim).
3013 + amend termcap equivalent for set_pglen_inch to use the X/Open
3014 "YI" rather than the obsolete Solaris 2.5 "sL" (cf: 990109).
3015 + improve manpage for tgetent differences from termcap library.
3018 + moved static data from db_iterator.c to lib_data.c
3019 + modify db_iterator.c for memory-leak checking, fix one leak.
3020 + modify misc/gen-pkgconfig.in to use Requires.private for the parts
3021 of ncurses rather than Requires, as well as Libs.private for the
3022 other library dependencies (prompted by Debian #644728).
3025 + modify tic "-K" option to only set the strict-flag rather than force
3026 source-output. That allows the same flag to control the parser for
3027 input and output of termcap source.
3028 + modify _nc_getent() to ignore backslash at the end of a comment line,
3029 making it consistent with ncurses' parser.
3030 + restore a special-case check for directory needed to make termcap
3031 text files load as if they were databases (cf: 20110924).
3032 + modify tic's resolution/collision checking to attempt to remove the
3033 conflicting alias from the second entry in the pair, which is
3034 normally following in the source file. Also improved the warning
3035 message to make it simpler to see which alias is the problem.
3036 + improve performance of the database iterator by caching search-list.
3039 + add a missing "else" in changes to _nc_read_tic_entry().
3042 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() so that hashed-database is checked before
3044 + updated CF_CURSES_LIBS check in test/configure script.
3045 + modify configure script and makefiles to split TIC_ARGS and
3046 TINFO_ARGS into pieces corresponding to LDFLAGS and LIBS variables,
3047 to help separate searches for tic- and tinfo-libraries (patch by Nick
3049 + build-fix for lib_mouse.c changes (cf: 20110917).
3052 + fix compiler warning for clang 2.9
3053 + improve merging of mouse events (integrated patch by Damien
3055 + correct mask-check used in lib_mouse for wheel mouse buttons 4/5
3056 (patch by Damien Guibouret).
3059 + modify misc/gen_edit.sh to select a "linux" entry which works with
3060 the current kernel rather than assuming it is always "linux3.0"
3062 + revert a change to getmouse() which had the undesirable side-effect
3063 of suppressing button-release events (report by Damien Guibouret,
3065 + add xterm+kbs fragment from xterm #272 -TD
3066 + add configure option --with-pkg-config-libdir to provide control over
3067 the actual directory into which pc-files are installed, do not use
3068 the pkg-config environment variables (discussion with Frederic L W
3070 + add link to mailing-list archive in announce.html.in, as done in
3071 FAQ (prompted by question by Andrius Bentkus).
3072 + improve manpage install by adjusting the "#include" examples to
3073 show the ncurses-subdirectory used when --disable-overwrite option
3075 + install an alias for "curses" to the ncurses manpage, tied to the
3076 --with-curses-h configure option (suggested by Reuben Thomas).
3079 + propagate error-returns from wresize, i.e., the internal
3080 increase_size and decrease_size functions through resize_term (report
3081 by Tim van der Molen, cf: 20020713).
3082 + fix typo in tset manpage (patch by Sven Joachim).
3085 + add a check to ensure that termcap files which might have "^?" do
3086 not use the terminfo interpretation as "\177".
3087 + minor cleanup of X-terminal emulator section of terminfo.src -TD
3088 + add terminator entry -TD
3089 + add simpleterm entry -TD
3090 + improve wattr_get macros by ensuring that if the window pointer is
3091 null, then the attribute and color values returned will be zero
3095 + add substitution for $RPATH_LIST to misc/ncurses-config.in
3096 + improve performance of tic with hashed-database by caching the
3097 database connection, using atexit() to cleanup.
3098 + modify treatment of 2-character aliases at the beginning of termcap
3099 entries so they are not counted in use-resolution, since these are
3100 guaranteed to be unique. Also ignore these aliases when reporting
3101 the primary name of the entry (cf: 20040501)
3102 + double-check gn (generic) flag in terminal descriptions to
3103 accommodate old/buggy termcap databases which misused that feature.
3104 + minor fixes to _nc_tgetent(), ensure buffer is initialized even on
3108 + improve rpath fix from 20110730 by ensuring that the new $RPATH_LIST
3109 variable is defined in the makefiles which use it.
3110 + build-fix for DragonFlyBSD's pkgsrc in test/configure script.
3111 + build-fixes for NetBSD 5.1 with termcap support enabled.
3112 + corrected k9 in dg460-ansi, add other features based on manuals -TD
3113 + improve trimming of whitespace at the end of terminfo/termcap output
3115 + when writing termcap source, ensure that colons in the description
3116 field are translated to a non-delimiter, i.e., "=".
3117 + add "-0" option to tic/infocmp, to make the termcap/terminfo source
3119 + add a null-pointer check when handling the $CC variable.
3122 + modify configure script and makefiles in c++ and progs to allow the
3123 directory used for rpath option to be overridden, e.g., to work
3124 around updates to the variables used by tic during an install.
3125 + add -K option to tic/infocmp, to provide stricter BSD-compatibility
3127 + add _nc_strict_bsd variable in tic library which controls the
3128 "strict" BSD termcap compatibility from 20110723, plus these
3130 + allow escapes such as "\8" and "\9" when reading termcap
3131 + disallow "\a", "\e", "\l", "\s" and "\:" escapes when reading
3132 termcap files, passing through "a", "e", etc.
3133 + expand "\:" as "\072" on output.
3134 + modify _nc_get_token() to reset the token's string value in case
3135 there is a string-typed token lacking the "=" marker.
3136 + fix a few memory leaks in _nc_tgetent.
3137 + fix a few places where reading from a termcap file could refer to
3139 + add an overflow check when converting terminfo/termcap numeric
3140 values, since terminfo stores those in a short, and they must be
3142 + correct internal variables used for translating to termcap "%>"
3143 feature, and translating from termcap %B to terminfo, needed by
3144 tctest (cf: 19991211).
3145 + amend a minor fix to acsc when loading a termcap file to separate it
3146 from warnings needed for tic (cf: 20040710)
3147 + modify logic in _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_tic_entry() to allow
3148 a termcap file to be handled via TERMINFO_DIRS.
3149 + modify _nc_infotocap() to include non-mandatory padding when
3150 translating to termcap.
3151 + modify _nc_read_termcap_entry(), passing a flag in the case where
3152 getcap is used, to reduce interactive warning messages.
3155 + add a check in start_color() to limit color-pairs to 256 when
3156 extended colors are not supported (patch by David Benjamin).
3157 + modify setcchar to omit no-longer-needed OR'ing of color pair in
3158 the SetAttr() macro (patch by David Benjamin).
3159 + add kich1 to sun terminfo entry (Yuri Pankov)
3160 + use bold rather than reverse for smso in sun-color terminfo entry
3162 + improve generation of termcap using tic/infocmp -C option, e.g.,
3163 to correspond with 4.2BSD (prompted by discussion with Yuri Pankov
3164 regarding Schilling's test program):
3165 + translate %02 and %03 to %2 and %3 respectively.
3166 + suppress string capabilities which use %s, not supported by tgoto
3167 + use \040 rather than \s
3168 + expand null characters as \200 rather than \0
3169 + modify configure script to support shared libraries for DragonFlyBSD.
3172 + replace an assert() in _nc_Free_Argument() with a regular null
3173 pointer check (report/analysis by Franjo Ivancic).
3174 + modify configure --enable-pc-files option to take into account the
3175 PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
3176 + add/use xterm+tmux chunk from xterm #271 -TD
3177 + resync xterm-new entry from xterm #271 -TD
3178 + add E3 extended capability to linux-basic (Miroslav Lichvar)
3179 + add linux2.2, linux2.6, linux3.0 entries to give context for E3 -TD
3180 + add SI/SO change to linux2.6 entry (Debian #515609) -TD
3181 + fix inconsistent tabset path in pcmw (Todd C. Miller).
3182 + remove a backslash which continued comment, obscuring altos3
3183 definition with OpenBSD toolset (Nicholas Marriott).
3186 + add workaround from xterm #271 changes to ensure that compiler flags
3187 are not used in the $CC variable.
3188 + improve support for shared libraries, tested with AIX 5.3, 6.1 and
3189 7.1 with both gcc 4.2.4 and cc.
3190 + modify configure checks for AIX to include release 7.x
3191 + add loader flags/libraries to libtool options so that dynamic loading
3192 works properly, adapted from ncurses-5.7-ldflags-with-libtool.patch
3193 at gentoo prefix repository (patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
3196 + move include of nc_termios.h out of term_entry.h, since the latter
3197 is installed, e.g., for tack while the former is not (report by
3201 + improve cleanup() function in lib_tstp.c, using _exit() rather than
3202 exit() and checking for SIGTERM rather than SIGQUIT (prompted by
3203 comments forwarded by Nicholas Marriott).
3204 + reduce name pollution from term.h, moving fallback #define's for
3205 tcgetattr(), etc., to new private header nc_termios.h (report by
3207 + two minor fixes for tracing (patch by Vassili Courzakis).
3208 + improve trace initialization by starting it in use_env() and
3210 + review old email, add details for some changelog entries.
3213 + update minix entry to minix 3.2 (Thomas Cort).
3214 + fix a strict compiler warning in change to wattr_get (cf: 20110528).
3217 + fixes for MirBSD port:
3218 + set default prefix to /usr.
3219 + add support for shared libraries in configure script.
3220 + use S_ISREG and S_ISDIR consistently, with fallback definitions.
3221 + add a few more checks based on ncurses/link_test.
3222 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle sp-funcs renaming of NCURSES_OUTC type.
3225 + add case to CF_SHARED_OPTS for Interix (patch by Markus Duft).
3226 + used ncurses/link_test to check for behavior when the terminal has
3227 not been initialized and when an application passes null pointers
3228 to the library. Added checks to cover this (prompted by Redhat
3230 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to make its main() function call each function
3231 with zero parameters, to help find inconsistent checking for null
3235 + fix warnings from clang 2.7 "--analyze"
3238 + compiler-warning fixes in panel and progs.
3239 + modify CF_PKG_CONFIG macro, from changes to tin -TD
3240 + modify CF_CURSES_FUNCS configure macro, used in test directory
3242 + work around (non-optimizer) bug in gcc 4.2.1 which caused
3243 test-expression to be omitted from executable.
3244 + force the linker to see a link-time expression of a symbol, to
3245 help work around weak-symbol issues.
3248 + update discussion of MKfallback.sh script in INSTALL; normally the
3249 script is used automatically via the configured makefiles. However
3250 there are still occasions when it might be used directly by packagers
3251 (report by Gunter Schaffler).
3252 + modify misc/ncurses-config.in to omit the "-L" option from the
3253 "--libs" output if the library directory is /usr/lib.
3254 + change order of tests for curses.h versus ncurses.h headers in the
3255 configure scripts for Ada95 and test-directories, to look for
3256 ncurses.h, from fixes to tin -TD
3257 + modify ncurses/tinfo/access.c to account for Tandem's root uid
3258 (report by Joachim Schmitz).
3261 + modify rules in Ada95/src/Makefile.in to ensure that the PIC option
3262 is not used when building a static library (report by Nicolas
3264 + Ada95 build-fix for big-endian architectures such as sparc. This
3265 undoes one of the fixes from 20110319, which added an "Unused" member
3266 to representation clauses, replacing that with pragmas to suppress
3267 warnings about unused bits (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
3270 + add check in test/configure for use_window, use_screen.
3271 + add configure-checks for getopt's variables, which may be declared
3272 as different types on some Unix systems.
3273 + add check in test/configure for some legacy curses types of the
3274 function pointer passed to tputs().
3275 + modify init_pair() to accept -1's for color value after
3276 assume_default_colors() has been called (Debian #337095).
3277 + modify test/background.c, adding commmand-line options to demonstrate
3278 assume_default_colors() and use_default_colors().
3281 + modify configure script/source-code to only define _POSIX_SOURCE if
3282 the checks for sigaction and/or termios fail, and if _POSIX_C_SOURCE
3283 and _XOPEN_SOURCE are undefined (report by Valentin Ochs).
3284 + update config.guess, config.sub
3287 + fixes to build c++ binding with clang 3.0 (patch by Alexander
3289 + add check for unctrl.h in test/configure, to work around breakage in
3290 some ncurses packages.
3291 + add "--disable-widec" option to test/configure script.
3292 + add "--with-curses-colr" and "--with-curses-5lib" options to the
3293 test/configure script to address testing with very old machines.
3295 20110404 5.9 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3298 + various build-fixes for the rpm/dpkg scripts.
3299 + add "--enable-rpath-link" option to Ada95/configure, to allow
3300 packages to suppress the rpath feature which is normally used for
3301 the in-tree build of sample programs.
3302 + corrected definition of libdir variable in Ada95/src/Makefile.in,
3303 needed for rpm script.
3304 + add "--with-shared" option to Ada95/configure script, to allow
3305 making the C-language parts of the binding use appropriate compiler
3306 options if building a shared library with gnat.
3309 > portability fixes for Ada95 binding:
3310 + add configure check to ensure that SIGINT works with gnat. This is
3311 needed for the "rain" sample program. If SIGINT does not work, omit
3312 that sample program.
3313 + correct typo in check of $PKG_CONFIG variable in Ada95/configure
3314 + add ncurses_compat.c, to supply functions used in the Ada95 binding
3315 which were added in 5.7 and later.
3316 + modify sed expression in CF_NCURSES_ADDON to eliminate a dependency
3320 + add special check in Ada95/configure script for ncurses6 reentrant
3322 + regen Ada html documentation.
3323 + build-fix for Ada shared libraries versus the varargs workaround.
3324 + add rpm and dpkg scripts for Ada95 and test directories, for test
3326 + update test/configure macros CF_CURSES_LIBS, CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and
3328 + add configure check to determine if gnat's project feature supports
3329 libraries, i.e., collections of .ali files.
3330 + make all dereferences in Ada95 samples explicit.
3331 + fix typo in comment in lib_add_wch.c (patch by Petr Pavlu).
3332 + add configure check for, ifdef's for math.h which is in a separate
3333 package on Solaris and potentially not installed (report by Petr
3335 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
3336 + improve type-checking in Ada95 by eliminating a few warning-suppress
3338 + suppress unreferenced warnings.
3339 + make all dereferences in binding explicit.
3342 + regen Ada html documentation.
3343 + change order of -I options from ncurses*-config script when the
3344 --disable-overwrite option was used, so that the subdirectory include
3346 + modify the make-tar.sh scripts to add a MANIFEST and NEWS file.
3347 + modify configure script to provide value for HTML_DIR in
3348 Ada95/gen/Makefile.in, which depends on whether the Ada95 binding is
3349 distributed separately (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
3350 + modify configure script to add "-g" and/or "-O3" to ADAFLAGS if the
3351 CFLAGS for the build has these options.
3352 + amend change from 20070324, to not add 1 to the result of getmaxx
3353 and getmaxy in the Ada binding (report by Nicolas Boulenguez for
3354 thread in comp.lang.ada).
3355 + build-fix Ada95/samples for gnat 4.5
3356 + spelling fixes for Ada95/samples/explain.txt
3357 > fixes for Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
3358 + add item in Trace_Attribute_Set corresponding to TRACE_ATTRS.
3359 + add workaround for binding to set_field_type(), which uses varargs.
3360 The original binding from 990220 relied on the prevalent
3361 implementation of varargs which did not support or need va_copy().
3362 + add dependency on gen/Makefile.in needed for *-panels.ads
3363 + add Library_Options to library.gpr
3364 + add Languages to library.gpr, for gprbuild
3367 + revert changes to limit-checks from 20110122 (Debian #616711).
3368 > minor type-cleanup of Ada95 binding (Nicolas Boulenguez):
3369 + corrected a minor sign error in a field of Low_Level_Field_Type, to
3371 + replaced C_Int by Curses_Bool as return type for some callbacks, see
3373 + modify samples/sample-explain.adb to provide explicit message when
3374 explain.txt is not found.
3377 + improve makefiles for Ada95 tree (patch by Nicolas Boulenguez).
3378 + fix an off-by-one error in _nc_slk_initialize() from 20100605 fixes
3379 for compiler warnings (report by Nicolas Boulenguez).
3380 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to declare unused bits in generated layouts,
3381 needed to compile when chtype is 64-bits using gnat 4.4.5
3383 20110226 5.8 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
3386 + update release notes, for 5.8.
3387 + regenerated html manpages.
3388 + change open() in _nc_read_file_entry() to fopen() for consistency
3390 + modify misc/run_tic.in to create parent directory, in case this is
3391 a new install of hashed database.
3392 + fix typo in Ada95/mk-1st.awk which causes error with original awk.
3395 + configure script rpath fixes from xterm #269.
3396 + workaround for cygwin's non-functional features.h, to force ncurses'
3397 configure script to define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED when building
3398 wide-character configuration.
3399 + build-fix in run_tic.sh for OS/2 EMX install
3400 + add cons25-debian entry (patch by Brian M Carlson, Debian #607662).
3403 + regenerated html manpages.
3404 + use _tracef() in show_where() function of tic, to work correctly with
3405 special case of trace configuration.
3408 + add xterm-utf8 entry as a demo of the U8 feature -TD
3409 + add U8 feature to denote entries for terminal emulators which do not
3410 support VT100 SI/SO when processing UTF-8 encoding -TD
3411 + improve the NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS feature by adding a check for an
3412 extended terminfo capability U8 (prompted by mailing list
3416 + start documenting interface changes for upcoming 5.8 release.
3417 + correct limit-checks in derwin().
3418 + correct limit-checks in newwin(), to ensure that windows have nonzero
3419 size (report by Garrett Cooper).
3420 + fix a missing "weak" declaration for pthread_kill (patch by Nicholas
3422 + improve documentation of KEY_ENTER in curs_getch.3x manpage (prompted
3423 by discussion with Kevin Martin).
3426 + modify Ada95/configure script to make the --with-curses-dir option
3427 work without requiring the --with-ncurses option.
3428 + modify test programs to allow them to be built with NetBSD curses.
3429 + document thick- and double-line symbols in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
3430 + document WACS_xxx constants in curs_add_wch.3x manpage.
3431 + fix some warnings for clang 2.6 "--analyze"
3432 + modify Ada95 makefiles to make html-documentation with the project
3433 file configuration if that is used.
3434 + update config.guess, config.sub
3437 + regenerated html manpages.
3438 + minor fixes to enable lint when trace is not enabled, e.g., with
3440 + fix typo in man/default_colors.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
3441 + update ncurses/llib-lncurses*
3444 + fix remaining strict compiler warnings in ncurses library ABI=5,
3445 except those dealing with function pointers, etc.
3448 + modify nc_tparm.h, adding guards against repeated inclusion, and
3449 allowing TPARM_ARG to be overridden.
3450 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
3453 + suppress ncv in screen entry, allowing underline (patch by Alejandro
3455 + also suppress ncv in konsole-base -TD
3456 + fixes in wins_nwstr() and related functions to ensure that special
3457 characters, i.e., control characters are handled properly with the
3458 wide-character configuration.
3459 + correct a comparison in wins_nwstr() (Redhat #661506).
3460 + correct help-messages in some of the test-programs, which still
3461 referred to quitting with 'q'.
3464 + add special case to _nc_infotocap() to recognize the setaf/setab
3465 strings from xterm+256color and xterm+88color, and provide a reduced
3466 version which works with termcap.
3467 + remove obsolete emacs "Local Variables" section from documentation
3468 (request by Sven Joachim).
3469 + update doc/html/index.html to include NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html
3470 (report by Sven Joachim).
3473 + modify test/configure and test/Makefile.in to handle this special
3474 case of building within a build-tree (Debian #34182):
3475 mkdir -p build && cd build && ../test/configure && make
3478 + miscellaneous build-fixes for Ada95 and test-directories when built
3480 + use VPATH in makefiles to simplify out-of-tree builds (Debian #34182).
3481 + fix typo in rmso for tek4106 entry -Goran Weinholt
3484 + improve checks in test/configure for X libraries, from xterm #267
3486 + modify test/configure to allow it to use the build-tree's libraries
3487 e.g., when using that to configure the test-programs without the
3488 rpath feature (request by Sven Joachim).
3489 + repurpose "gnome" terminfo entries as "vte", retaining "gnome" items
3490 for compatibility, but generally deprecating those since the VTE
3491 library is what actually defines the behavior of "gnome", etc.,
3495 + compiler warning fixes for test programs.
3496 + various build-fixes for test-programs with pdcurses.
3497 + updated configure checks for X packages in test/configure from xterm
3499 + add configure check to gnatmake, to accommodate cygwin.
3502 + correct list of sub-directories needed in Ada95 tree for building as
3504 + modify scripts in test-directory to improve builds as a separate
3508 + correct parsing of relative tab-stops in tabs program (report by
3510 + adjust configure script so that "t" is not added to library suffix
3511 when weak-symbols are used, allowing the pthread configuration to
3512 more closely match the non-thread naming (report by Werner Fink).
3513 + modify configure check for tic program, used for fallbacks, to a
3514 warning if not found. This makes it simpler to use additonal
3515 scripts to bootstrap the fallbacks code using tic from the build
3516 tree (report by Werner Fink).
3517 + fix several places in configure script using ${variable-value} form.
3518 + modify configure macro CF_LDFLAGS_STATIC to accommodate some loaders
3519 which do not support selectively linking against static libraries
3520 (report by John P. Hartmann)
3521 + fix an unescaped dash in man/tset.1 (report by Sven Joachim).
3524 + correct comparison used for setting 16-colors in linux-16color
3525 entry (Novell #644831) -TD
3526 + improve linux-16color entry, using "dim" for color-8 which makes it
3527 gray rather than black like color-0 -TD
3528 + drop misc/ncu-indent and misc/jpf-indent; they are provided by an
3529 external package "cindent".
3532 + improve linkages in html manpages, adding references to the newer
3533 pages, e.g., *_variables, curs_sp_funcs, curs_threads.
3534 + add checks in tic for inconsistent cursor-movement controls, and for
3535 inconsistent printer-controls.
3536 + fill in no-parameter forms of cursor-movement where a parameterized
3537 form is available -TD
3538 + fill in missing cursor controls where the form of the controls is
3540 + fix inconsistent punctuation in form_variables manpage (patch by
3542 + add parameterized cursor-controls to linux-basic (report by Dae) -TD
3543 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
3544 + document how to build 32-bit libraries in README.MinGW
3545 + fixes to filename computation in mk-dlls.sh.in
3546 + use POSIX locale in mk-dlls.sh.in rather than en_US (report by Sven
3548 + add a check in mk-dlls.sh.in to obtain the size of a pointer to
3549 distinguish between 32-bit and 64-bit hosts. The result is stored
3553 + add "XT" capability to entries for terminals that support both
3554 xterm-style mouse- and title-controls, for "screen" which
3555 special-cases TERM beginning with "xterm" or "rxvt" -TD
3556 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
3557 + use 64-Bit MinGW toolchain (recommended package from TDM, see
3559 + support pthreads when using the TDM MinGW toolchain
3562 + regenerated html manpages.
3563 + minor fixes for symlinks to curs_legacy.3x and curs_slk.3x manpages.
3564 + add manpage for sp-funcs.
3565 + add sp-funcs to test/listused.sh, for documentation aids.
3568 + add manpages for summarizing public variables of curses-, terminfo-
3570 + minor fixes to manpages for consistency (patch by Jason McIntyre).
3571 + modify tic's -I/-C dump to reformat acsc strings into canonical form
3572 (sorted, unique mapping) (cf: 971004).
3573 + add configure check for pthread_kill(), needed for some old
3577 + add configure option --without-tests, to suppress building test
3578 programs (request by Frederic L W Meunier).
3581 + modify nsterm, xnuppc and tek4115 to make sgr/sgr0 consistent -TD
3582 + add check in terminfo source-reader to provide more informative
3583 message when someone attempts to run tic on a compiled terminal
3584 description (prompted by Debian #593920).
3585 + note in infotocap and captoinfo manpages that they read terminal
3586 descriptions from text-files (Debian #593920).
3587 + improve acsc string for vt52, show arrow keys (patch by Benjamin
3591 + document in manpages that "mv" functions first use wmove() to check
3592 the window pointer and whether the position lies within the window
3593 (suggested by Poul-Henning Kamp).
3594 + fixes to curs_color.3x, curs_kernel.3x and wresize.3x manpages (patch
3595 by Tim van der Molen).
3596 + modify configure script to transform library names for tic- and
3597 tinfo-libraries so that those build properly with Mac OS X shared
3598 library configuration.
3599 + modify configure script to ensure that it removes conftest.dSYM
3600 directory leftover on checks with Mac OS X.
3601 + modify configure script to cleanup after check for symbolic links.
3604 + correct a typo in mk-1st.awk (patch by Gabriele Balducci)
3606 + improve configure checks for location of tic and infocmp programs
3607 used for installing database and for generating fallback data,
3608 e.g., for cross-compiling.
3609 + add Markus Kuhn's wcwidth function for compiling MinGW
3610 + add special case to CF_REGEX for cross-compiling to MinGW target.
3613 + modify initialization check for win32con driver to eliminate need for
3614 special case for TERM "unknown", using terminal database if available
3615 (prompted by discussion with Roumen Petrov).
3616 + for MinGW port, ensure that terminal driver is setup if tgetent()
3617 is called (patch by Roumen Petrov).
3618 + document tabs "-0" and "-8" options in manpage.
3619 + fix Debian "lintian" issues with manpages reported in
3620 http://lintian.debian.org/full/csmall@debian.org.html#ncurses
3623 + add a check in tic for missing set_tab if clear_all_tabs given.
3624 + improve use of symbolic links in makefiles by using "-f" option if
3625 it is supported, to eliminate temporary removal of the target
3626 (prompted by http://www.t2-project.org/packages/ncurses.html)
3627 + minor improvement to test/ncurses.c, reset color pairs in 'd' test
3628 after exit from 'm' main-menu command.
3629 + improved ncu-indent, from mawk changes, allows more than one of
3630 GCC_NORETURN, GCC_PRINTFLIKE and GCC_SCANFLIKE on a single line.
3633 + add hard-reset for rs2 to wsvt25 to help ensure that reset ends
3634 the alternate character set (patch by Nicholas Marriott)
3635 + remove tar-copy.sh and related configure/Makefile chunks, since the
3636 Ada95 binding is now installed using rules in Ada95/src.
3639 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
3640 + add/use configure check to turn on project rules for Ada95/src.
3641 + revert the vfork change from 20100130, since it does not work.
3644 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
3645 + old gnatmake (3.15) does not produce libraries using project-file;
3646 work around by adding script to generate alternate makefile.
3649 + continue integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95
3650 + add configure --with-ada-sharedlib option, for the test_make rule.
3651 + move Ada95-related logic into aclocal.m4, since additional checks
3652 will be needed to distinguish old/new implementations of gnat.
3655 + start integrating changes to use gnatmake project files in Ada95 tree
3656 + add test_make / test_clean / test_install rules in Ada95/src
3657 + change install-path for adainclude directory to /usr/share/ada (was
3659 + update Ada95/configure.
3660 + add mlterm+256color entry, for mlterm 3.0.0 -TD
3661 + modify test/configure to use macros to ensure consistent order
3662 of updating LIBS variable.
3665 + change search order of options for Solaris in CF_SHARED_OPTS, to
3666 work with 64-bit compiles.
3667 + correct quoting of assignment in CF_SHARED_OPTS case for aix
3671 + regenerated html documentation.
3672 + modify test/configure to support pkg-config for checking X libraries
3674 + add/use configure macro CF_ADD_LIB to force consistency of
3675 assignments to $LIBS, etc.
3676 + fix configure script for combining --with-pthread
3677 and --enable-weak-symbols options.
3680 + correct cross-compiling configure check for CF_MKSTEMP macro, by
3681 adding a check cache variable set by AC_CHECK_FUNC (report by
3683 + simplify include-dependencies of make_hash and make_keys, to reduce
3684 the need for setting BUILD_CPPFLAGS in cross-compiling when the
3685 build- and target-machines differ.
3686 + repair broken-linker configuration by restoring a definition of SP
3687 variable to curses.priv.h, and adjusting for cases where sp-funcs
3689 + improve configure macro CF_AR_FLAGS, allowing ARFLAGS environment
3690 variable to override (prompted by report by Pablo Cazallas).
3693 + add configure option --enable-pthreads-eintr to control whether the
3694 new EINTR feature is enabled.
3695 + modify logic in pthread configuration to allow EINTR to interrupt
3696 a read operation in wgetch() (Novell #540571, patch by Werner Fink).
3697 + drop mkdirs.sh, use "mkdir -p".
3698 + add configure option --disable-libtool-version, to use the
3699 "-version-number" feature which was added in libtool 1.5 (report by
3700 Peter Haering). The default value for the option uses the newer
3701 feature, which makes libraries generated using libtool compatible
3702 with the standard builds of ncurses.
3703 + updated test/configure to match configure script macros.
3704 + fixes for configure script from lynx changes:
3705 + improve CF_FIND_LINKAGE logic for the case where a function is
3706 found in predefined libraries.
3707 + revert part of change to CF_HEADER (cf: 20100424)
3710 + correct limit-check in wredrawln, accounting for begy/begx values
3711 (patch by David Benjamin).
3712 + fix most compiler warnings from clang.
3713 + amend build-fix for OpenSolaris, to ensure that a system header is
3714 included in curses.h before testing feature symbols, since they
3715 may be defined by that route.
3718 + fix some strict compiler warnings in ncurses library.
3719 + modify configure macro CF_HEADER_PATH to not look for variations in
3720 the predefined include directories.
3721 + improve configure macros CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GCC_WARNINGS to work
3722 with gcc 4.x's c89 alias, which gives warning messages for cases
3723 where older versions would produce an error.
3726 + modify _nc_capcmp() to work with cancelled strings.
3727 + correct translation of "^" in _nc_infotocap(), used to transform
3728 terminfo to termcap strings
3729 + add configure --disable-rpath-hack, to allow disabling the feature
3730 which adds rpath options for libraries in unusual places.
3731 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by checking if the rpath option for a given
3732 directory was already added.
3733 + improve CF_RPATH_HACK_2 by using ldd to provide a standard list of
3734 directories (which will be ignored).
3737 + improve win_driver.c handling of mouse:
3738 + discard motion events
3739 + avoid calling _nc_timed_wait when there is a mouse event
3740 + handle 4th and "rightmost" buttons.
3741 + quote substitutions in CF_RPATH_HACK_2 configure macro, needed for
3742 cases where there are embedded blanks in the rpath option.
3745 + add configure check for exctags vs ctags, to work around pkgsrc.
3746 + simplify logic in _nc_get_screensize() to make it easier to see how
3747 environment variables may override system- and terminfo-values
3748 (prompted by discussion with Igor Bujna).
3749 + make debug-traces for COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER less verbose.
3750 + improve handling of color-pairs embedded in attributes for the
3751 extended-colors configuration.
3752 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to build link_test with sp-funcs.
3753 + build-fixes for OpenSolaris aka Solaris 11, for wide-character
3754 configuration as well as for rpath feature in *-config scripts.
3757 + refactor CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro, making CF_RPATH_HACK more
3759 + improve configure CF_REGEX, similar fixes.
3760 + improve configure CF_FIND_LINKAGE, adding add check between system
3761 (default) and explicit paths, where we can find the entrypoint in the
3763 + add check if Gpm_Open() returns a -2, e.g., for "xterm". This is
3764 normally suppressed but can be overridden using $NCURSES_GPM_TERMS.
3765 Ensure that Gpm_Close() is called in this case.
3768 + rename atari and st52 terminfo entries to atari-old, st52-old, use
3769 newer entries from FreeMiNT by Guido Flohr (from patch/report by Alan
3773 + modify install-rule for manpages so that *-config manpages will
3774 install when building with --srcdir (report by Sven Joachim).
3775 + modify CF_DISABLE_LEAKS configure macro so that the --enable-leaks
3776 option is not the same as --disable-leaks (GenToo #305889).
3777 + modify #define's for build-compiler to suppress cchar_t symbol from
3778 compile of make_hash and make_keys, improving cross-compilation of
3779 ncursesw (report by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
3780 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to replace all occurrences of
3781 TPUT in tput.1's manpage (Debian #573597, report/analysis by Anders
3785 + generate manpages for the *-config scripts, adapted from help2man
3786 (suggested by Sven Joachim).
3787 + use va_copy() in _nc_printf_string() to avoid conflicting use of
3788 va_list value in _nc_printf_length() (report by Wim Lewis).
3791 + add Ada95/configure script, to use in tar-file created by
3793 + fix typo in wresize.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
3794 + modify screen-bce.XXX entries to exclude ech, since screen's color
3795 model does not clear with color for that feature -TD
3798 + add make-tar.sh scripts to Ada95 and test subdirectories to help with
3799 making those separately distributable.
3800 + build-fix for static libraries without dlsym (Debian #556378).
3801 + fix a syntax error in man/form_field_opts.3x (patch by Ingo
3805 + add several screen-bce.XXX entries -TD
3808 + update mrxvt terminfo entry -TD
3809 + modify win_driver.c to support mouse single-clicks.
3810 + correct name for termlib in ncurses*-config, e.g., if it is renamed
3811 to provide a single file for ncurses/ncursesw libraries (patch by
3815 + use vfork in test/ditto.c if available (request by Mike Frysinger).
3816 + miscellaneous cleanup of manpages.
3817 + fix typo in curs_bkgd.3x (patch by Tim van der Molen).
3818 + build-fix for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
3821 + for term-driver configuration, ensure that the driver pointer is
3822 initialized in setupterm so that terminfo/termcap programs work.
3823 + amend fix for Debian #542031 to ensure that wattrset() returns only
3824 OK or ERR, rather than the attribute value (report by Miroslav
3826 + reorder WINDOWLIST to put WINDOW data after SCREEN pointer, making
3827 _nc_screen_of() compatible between normal/wide libraries again (patch
3828 by Miroslav Lichvar)
3829 + review/fix include-dependencies in modules files (report by Miroslav
3833 + modify win_driver.c to initialize acs_map for win32 console, so
3834 that line-drawing works.
3835 + modify win_driver.c to initialize TERMINAL struct so that programs
3836 such as test/lrtest.c and test/ncurses.c which test string
3837 capabilities can run.
3838 + modify term-driver modules to eliminate forward-reference
3842 + modify configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., to use CF_ADD_CFLAGS
3843 consistently to add new -D's while removing duplicates.
3844 + modify a few configure macros to consistently put new options
3845 before older in the list.
3846 + add tiparm(), based on review of X/Open Curses Issue 7.
3847 + minor documentation cleanup.
3848 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3849 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
3850 (caveat - its maintainer put 2010 copyright date on files dated 2009)
3853 + minor improvement to tic's checking of similar SGR's to allow for the
3854 most common case of SGR 0.
3855 + modify getmouse() to act as its documentation implied, returning on
3856 each call the preceding event until none are left. When no more
3857 events remain, it will return ERR.
3860 + change order of lookup in progs/tput.c, looking for terminfo data
3861 first. This fixes a confusion between termcap "sg" and terminfo
3862 "sgr" or "sgr0", originally from 990123 changes, but exposed by
3863 20091114 fixes for hashing. With this change, only "dl" and "ed" are
3864 ambiguous (Mandriva #56272).
3867 + add bterm terminfo entry, based on bogl 0.1.18 -TD
3868 + minor fix to rxvt+pcfkeys terminfo entry -TD
3869 + build-fixes for Ada95 tree for gnat 4.4 "style".
3872 + remove old check in mvderwin() which prevented moving a derived
3873 window whose origin happened to coincide with its parent's origin
3874 (report by Katarina Machalkova).
3875 + improve test/ncurses.c to put mouse droppings in the proper window.
3876 + update minix terminfo entry -TD
3877 + add bw (auto-left-margin) to nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler)
3880 + correct transfer of multicolumn characters in multirow
3881 field_buffer(), which stopped at the end of the first row due to
3882 filling of unused entries in a cchar_t array with nulls.
3883 + updated nsterm* entries (Benjamin Sittler, Emanuele Giaquinta)
3884 + modify _nc_viscbuf2() and _tracecchar_t2() to show wide-character
3886 + use strdup() in set_menu_mark(), restore .marklen struct member on
3888 + eliminate clause 3 from the UCB copyrights in read_termcap.c and
3890 ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change
3891 (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
3892 + replace a malloc in tic.c with strdup, checking for failure (patch by
3894 + update config.guess, config.sub from
3895 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
3898 + correct layout of working window used to extract data in
3899 wide-character configured by set_field_buffer (patch by Rafael
3901 + improve some limit-checks related to filename length in reading and
3902 writing terminfo entries.
3903 + ensure that filename is always filled in when attempting to read
3904 a terminfo entry, so that infocmp can report the filename (patch
3905 by Nicholas Marriott).
3908 + modify mk-1st.awk to allow tinfo library to be built when term-driver
3910 + add error-check to configure script to ensure that sp-funcs is
3911 enabled if term-driver is, since some internal interfaces rely upon
3915 + fix case where progs/tput is used while sp-funcs is configure; this
3916 requires save/restore of out-character function from _nc_prescreen
3917 rather than the SCREEN structure (report by Charles Wilson).
3918 + fix typo in man/curs_trace.3x which caused incorrect symbolic links
3919 + improved configure macros CF_GCC_ATTRIBUTES, CF_PROG_LINT.
3923 + updated man/curs_trace.3x
3924 + limit hashing for termcap-names to 2-characters (Ubuntu #481740).
3925 + change a variable name in lib_newwin.c to make it clearer which
3926 value is being freed on error (patch by Nicholas Marriott).
3929 + improve test/ncurses.c color-cycling test by reusing attribute-
3930 and color-cycling logic from the video-attributes screen.
3931 + add ifdef'd with NCURSES_INTEROP_FUNCS experimental bindings in form
3932 library which help make it compatible with interop applications
3933 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
3934 + add configure option --enable-interop, for integrating changes
3935 for generic/interop support to form-library by Juergen Pfeifer
3938 + modify use of $CC environment variable which is defined by X/Open
3939 as a curses feature, to ignore it if it is not a single character
3940 (prompted by discussion with Benjamin C W Sittler).
3941 + add START_TRACE in slk_init
3942 + fix a regression in _nc_ripoffline which made test/ncurses.c not show
3943 soft-keys, broken in 20090927 merging.
3944 + change initialization of "hidden" flag for soft-keys from true to
3945 false, broken in 20090704 merging (Ubuntu #464274).
3946 + update nsterm entries (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler, prompted by
3947 discussion with Fabian Groffen in GenToo #206201).
3948 + add test/xterm-256color.dat
3951 + quiet some pedantic gcc warnings.
3952 + modify _nc_wgetch() to check for a -1 in the fifo, e.g., after a
3953 SIGWINCH, and discard that value, to avoid confusing application
3954 (patch by Eygene Ryabinkin, FreeBSD #136223).
3957 + modify handling of $PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR to use only the first item in
3958 a possibly colon-separated list (Debian #550716).
3961 + supply a null-terminator to buffer in _nc_viswibuf().
3962 + fix a sign-extension bug in unget_wch() (report by Mike Gran).
3963 + minor fixes to error-returns in default function for tputs, as well
3967 + add WACS_xxx definitions to wide-character configuration for thick-
3968 and double-lines (discussion with Slava Zanko).
3969 + remove unnecessary kcan assignment to ^C from putty (Sven Joachim)
3970 + add ccc and initc capabilities to xterm-16color -TD
3971 > patch by Benjamin C W Sittler:
3973 + correct initc capability of linux-c-nc end-of-range
3974 + similar change for dg+ccc and dgunix+ccc
3977 + move leak-checking for comp_captab.c into _nc_leaks_tinfo() since
3978 that module since 20090711 is in libtinfo.
3979 + add configure option --enable-term-driver, to allow compiling with
3980 terminal-driver. That is used in MinGW port, and (being somewhat
3981 more complicated) is an experimental alternative to the conventional
3982 termlib internals. Currently, it requires the sp-funcs feature to
3984 + completed integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer in ncurses
3985 library (some work remains for forms library).
3988 + document return code from define_key (report by Mike Gran).
3989 + make some symbolic links in the terminfo directory-tree shorter
3990 (patch by Daniel Jacobowitz, forwarded by Sven Joachim).).
3991 + fix some groff warnings in terminfo.5, etc., from recent Debian
3993 + change ncv and op capabilities in sun-color terminfo entry to match
3994 Sun's entry for this (report by Laszlo Peter).
3995 + improve interix smso terminfo capability by using reverse rather than
3996 bold (report by Kristof Zelechovski).
3999 + add some test programs (and make these use the same special keys
4000 by sharing linedata.h functions):
4003 test/test_addchstr.c
4004 test/test_add_wchstr.c
4005 + correct internal _nc_insert_ch() to use _nc_insert_wch() when
4006 inserting wide characters, since the wins_wch() function that it used
4007 did not update the cursor position (report by Ciprian Craciun).
4010 + fix typo s/is_timeout/is_notimeout/ which made "man is_notimeout" not
4012 + add null-pointer checks to other opaque-functions.
4013 + add is_pad() and is_subwin() functions for opaque access to WINDOW
4014 (discussion with Mark Dickinson).
4015 + correct merge to lib_newterm.c, which broke when sp-funcs was
4019 + build-fix for building outside source-tree (report by Sven Joachim).
4020 + fix Debian lintian warning for man/tabs.1 by making section number
4021 agree with file-suffix (report by Sven Joachim).
4022 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
4025 + workaround for bug in g++ 4.1-4.4 warnings for wattrset() macro on
4026 amd64 (Debian #542031).
4027 + fix typo in curs_mouse.3x (Debian #429198).
4030 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
4033 + correct use of terminfo capabilities for initializing soft-keys,
4034 broken in 20090510 merging.
4035 + modify wgetch() to ensure it checks SIGWINCH when it gets an error
4036 in non-blocking mode (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
4037 + use PATH_SEPARATOR symbol when substituting into run_tic.sh, to
4038 help with builds on non-Unix platforms such as OS/2 EMX.
4039 + modify scripting for misc/run_tic.sh to test configure script's
4040 $cross_compiling variable directly rather than comparing host/build
4041 compiler names (prompted by comment in GenToo #249363).
4042 + fix configure script option --with-database, which was coded as an
4044 + build-fixes for --srcdir (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
4047 + separate _nc_find_entry() and _nc_find_type_entry() from
4048 implementation details of hash function.
4051 + add tabs.1 to man/man_db.renames
4052 + modify lib_addch.c to compensate for removal of wide-character test
4053 from unctrl() in 20090704 (Debian #539735).
4056 + improve discussion in INSTALL for use of system's tic/infocmp for
4057 cross-compiling and building fallbacks.
4058 + modify test/demo_termcap.c to correspond better to options in
4059 test/demo_terminfo.c
4060 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
4061 + fix logic for 'V' in test/ncurses.c tests f/F.
4064 + correct logic in tigetnum(), which caused tput program to treat all
4065 string capabilities as numeric (report by Rajeev V Pillai,
4069 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
4072 + fix a null-pointer check in _nc_format_slks() in lib_slk.c, from
4074 + modify _nc_find_type_entry() to use hashing.
4075 + make CCHARW_MAX value configurable, noting that changing this would
4076 change the size of cchar_t, and would be ABI-incompatible.
4077 + modify test-programs, e.g,. test/view.c, to address subtle
4078 differences between Tru64/Solaris and HPUX/AIX getcchar() return
4080 + modify length returned by getcchar() to count the trailing null
4081 which is documented in X/Open (cf: 20020427).
4082 + fixes for test programs to build/work on HPUX and AIX, etc.
4085 + improve performance of tigetstr, etc., by using hashing code from tic.
4086 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking.
4087 + add test/demo_terminfo, for comparison with demo_termcap
4090 + remove wide-character checks from unctrl() (patch by Clemens Ladisch).
4091 + revise wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to eliminate dependency on
4093 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
4096 + update llib-lncurses[wt] to use sp-funcs.
4097 + various code-fixes to build/work with --disable-macros configure
4099 + add several new files from Juergen Pfeifer which will be used when
4100 integration of "sp-funcs" is complete. This includes a port to
4104 + move definition for NCURSES_WRAPPED_VAR back to ncurses_dll.h, to
4105 make includes of term.h without curses.h work (report by "Nix").
4106 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
4109 + fix a regression in lib_tputs.c, from ongoing merges.
4112 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
4115 + fix an infinite recursion when adding a legacy-coding 8-bit value
4116 using insch() (report by Clemens Ladisch).
4117 + free home-terminfo string in del_curterm() (patch by Dan Weber).
4118 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
4121 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
4124 + work around antique BSD game's manipulation of stdscr, etc., versus
4125 SCREEN's copy of the pointer (Debian #528411).
4126 + add a cast to wattrset macro to avoid compiler warning when comparing
4127 its result against ERR (adapted from patch by Matt Kraii, Debian
4131 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
4134 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
4135 + add vwmterm terminfo entry (patch by Bryan Christ).
4138 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
4141 + build fix for _nc_free_and_exit() change in 20090418 (report by
4145 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
4148 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
4149 This change finishes merging for menu and panel libraries, does
4150 part of the form library.
4153 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
4154 Darwin (report by Nelson Beebe).
4157 + extend ansi.sys pfkey capability from kf1-kf10 to kf1-kf48, moving
4158 function key definitions from emx-base for consistency -TD
4159 + correct missing final 'p' in pfkey capability of ansi.sys-old (report
4160 by Kalle Olavi Niemitalo).
4161 + improve test/ncurses.c 'F' test, show combining characters in color.
4162 + quiet a false report by cppcheck in c++/cursesw.cc by eliminating
4163 a temporary variable.
4164 + use _nc_doalloc() rather than realloc() in a few places in ncurses
4165 library to avoid leak in out-of-memory condition (reports by William
4166 Egert and Martin Ettl based on cppcheck tool).
4167 + add --with-ncurses-wrap-prefix option to test/configure (discussion
4168 with Charles Wilson).
4169 + use ncurses*-config scripts if available for test/configure.
4170 + update test/aclocal.m4 and test/configure
4171 > patches by Charles Wilson:
4172 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL configure check to allow unreleased libtool
4173 version numbers (e.g. which include alphabetic chars, as well as
4174 digits, after the final '.').
4175 + improve use of -no-undefined option for libtool by setting an
4176 intermediate variable LT_UNDEF in the configure script, and then
4177 using that in the libtool link-commands.
4178 + fix an missing use of NCURSES_PUBLIC_VAR() in tinfo/MKcodes.awk
4179 from 20090321 changes.
4180 + improve mk-1st.awk script by writing separate cases for the
4181 LIBTOOL_LINK command, depending on which library (ncurses, ticlib,
4182 termlib) is to be linked.
4183 + modify configure.in to allow broken-linker configurations, not just
4184 enable-reentrant, to set public wrap prefix.
4187 + add TICS_LIST and SHLIB_LIST to allow libtool 2.2.6 on Cygwin to
4188 build with tic and term libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
4189 + add -no-undefined option to libtool for Cygwin, MinGW, U/Win and AIX
4190 (report by Charles Wilson).
4191 + fix definition for c++/Makefile.in's SHLIB_LIST, which did not list
4192 the form, menu or panel libraries (patch by Charles Wilson).
4193 + add configure option --with-wrap-prefix to allow setting the prefix
4194 for functions used to wrap global variables to something other than
4195 "_nc_" (discussion with Charles Wilson).
4198 + modify scripts to generate ncurses*-config and pc-files to add
4199 dependency for tinfo library (patch by Charles Wilson).
4200 + improve comparison of program-names when checking for linked flavors
4201 such as "reset" by ignoring the executable suffix (reports by Charles
4202 Wilson, Samuel Thibault and Cedric Bretaudeau on Cygwin mailing
4204 + suppress configure check for static/dynamic linker flags for gcc on
4205 Solaris 10, since gcc is confused by absence of static libc, and
4206 does not switch back to dynamic mode before finishing the libraries
4207 (reports by Joel Bertrand, Alan Pae).
4208 + minor fixes to Intel compiler warning checks in configure script.
4209 + modify _nc_leaks_tinfo() so leak-checking in test/railroad.c works.
4210 + modify set_curterm() to make broken-linker configuration work with
4211 changes from 20090228 (report by Charles Wilson).
4214 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
4215 + modify declaration of cur_term when broken-linker is used, but
4216 enable-reentrant is not, to match pre-5.7 (report by Charles Wilson).
4219 + continue integrating "sp-funcs" by Juergen Pfeifer (incomplete).
4222 + add configure script --enable-sp-funcs to enable the new set of
4224 + start integrating patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
4225 + add extended functions which specify the SCREEN pointer for several
4226 curses functions which use the global SP (these are incomplete;
4227 some internals work is needed to complete these).
4228 + add special cases to configure script for MinGW port.
4231 + update several configure macros from lynx changes
4232 + append (not prepend) to CFLAGS/CPPFLAGS
4233 + change variable from PATHSEP to PATH_SEPARATOR
4234 + improve install-rules for pc-files (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
4235 + make it work with $DESTDIR
4236 + create the pkg-config library directory if needed.
4239 + modify init_pair() to allow caller to create extra color pairs beyond
4240 the color_pairs limit, which use default colors (request by Emanuele
4242 + add misc/terminfo.tmp and misc/*.pc to "sources" rule.
4243 + fix typo "==" where "=" is needed in ncurses-config.in and
4244 gen-pkgconfig.in files (Debian #512161).
4247 + add -shared option to MK_SHARED_LIB when -Bsharable is used, for
4248 *BSD's, without which "main" might be one of the shared library's
4249 dependencies (report/analysis by Ken Dickey).
4250 + modify waddch_literal(), updating line-pointer after a multicolumn
4251 character is found to not fit on the current row, and wrapping is
4252 done. Since the line-pointer was not updated, the wrapped
4253 multicolumn character was written to the beginning of the current row
4254 (cf: 20041023, reported by "Nick" regarding problem with ncmpc
4255 http://musicpd.org/mantis/bug_view_page.php?bug_id=1930).
4258 + add screen.Eterm terminfo entry (GenToo #124887) -TD
4259 + modify adacurses-config to look for ".ali" files in the adalib
4261 + correct install for Ada95, which omitted libAdaCurses.a used in
4263 + change install for adacurses-config to provide additional flavors
4264 such as adacursesw-config, for ncursesw (GenToo #167849).
4267 + remove undeveloped feature in ncurses-config.in for setting
4269 + recent change to ncurses-config.in did not take into account the
4270 --disable-overwrite option, which sets $includedir to the
4271 subdirectory and using just that for a -I option does not work - fix
4272 (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
4275 + modify gen-pkgconfig.in to eliminate a dependency on rpath when
4276 deciding whether to add $LIBS to --libs output; that should be shown
4277 for the ncurses and tinfo libraries without taking rpath into
4279 + fix an overlooked change from $AR_OPTS to $ARFLAGS in mk-1st.awk,
4280 used in static libraries (report by Marty Jack).
4283 + add a configure-time check to pick a suitable value for
4284 CC_SHARED_OPTS for Solaris (report by Dagobert Michelsen).
4285 + add configure --with-pkg-config and --enable-pc-files options, along
4286 with misc/gen-pkgconfig.in which can be used to generate ".pc" files
4287 for pkg-config (request by Jan Engelhardt).
4288 + use $includedir symbol in misc/ncurses-config.in, add --includedir
4290 + change makefiles to use $ARFLAGS rather than $AR_OPTS, provide a
4291 configure check to detect whether a "-" is needed before "ar"
4293 + update config.guess, config.sub from
4294 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
4297 + modify mk-1st.awk to work with extra categories for tinfo library.
4298 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries with gcc
4299 on AIX 5 or 6 (adapted from patch by Lital Natan).
4302 + modify to omit the opaque-functions from lib_gen.o when
4303 --disable-ext-funcs is used.
4304 + add test/clip_printw.c to illustrate how to use printw without
4306 + modify ncurses 'F' test to demo wborder_set() with colored lines.
4307 + modify ncurses 'f' test to demo wborder() with colored lines.
4310 + add check for failure to open hashed-database needed for db4.6
4312 + corrected --without-manpages option; previous change only suppressed
4313 the auxiliary rules install.man and uninstall.man
4314 + add case for FreeMINT to configure macro CF_XOPEN_SOURCE (patch from
4316 + fixes from NetBSD port at
4317 http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/devel/ncurses/patches
4318 patch-ac (build-fix for DragonFly)
4319 patch-ae (use INSTALL_SCRIPT for installing misc/ncurses*-config).
4320 + improve configure script macros CF_HEADER_PATH and CF_LIBRARY_PATH
4321 by adding CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS, LIBS values to the
4323 + correct title string for keybound manpage (patch by Frederic Culot,
4324 OpenBSD documentation/6019),
4327 + move del_curterm() call from _nc_freeall() to _nc_leaks_tinfo() to
4328 work for progs/clear, progs/tabs, etc.
4329 + correct buffer-size after internal resizing of wide-character
4330 set_field_buffer(), broken in 20081018 changes (report by Mike Gran).
4331 + add "-i" option to test/filter.c to tell it to use initscr() rather
4332 than newterm(), to investigate report on comp.unix.programmer that
4333 ncurses would clear the screen in that case (it does not - the issue
4334 was xterm's alternate screen feature).
4335 + add check in mouse-driver to disable connection if GPM returns a
4336 zero, indicating that the connection is closed (Debian #506717,
4337 adapted from patch by Samuel Thibault).
4340 + improve a workaround in adding wide-characters, when a control
4341 character is found. The library (cf: 20040207) uses unctrl() to
4342 obtain a printable version of the control character, but was not
4343 passing color or video attributes.
4344 + improve test/ncurses.c 'a' test, using unctrl() more consistently to
4345 display meta-characters.
4346 + turn on _XOPEN_CURSES definition in curses.h
4347 + add eterm-color entry (report by Vincent Lefevre) -TD
4348 + correct use of key_name() in test/ncurses.c 'A' test, which only
4349 displays wide-characters, not key-codes since 20070612 (report by
4353 + change _nc_has_mouse() to has_mouse(), reflect its use in C++ and
4354 Ada95 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
4355 + document in TO-DO an issue with Cygwin's package for GNAT (report
4357 + improve error-checking of command-line options in "tabs" program.
4360 + change several terminfo entries to make consistent use of ANSI
4362 + add "tabs" program (prompted by Debian #502260).
4363 + add configure --without-manpages option (request by Mike Frysinger).
4365 20081102 5.7 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
4368 + add a manpage to discuss memory leaks.
4369 + add support for shared libraries for QNX (other than libtool, which
4370 does not work well on that platform).
4371 + build-fix for QNX C++ binding.
4374 + build-fixes for OS/2 EMX.
4375 + modify form library to accept control characters such as newline
4376 in set_field_buffer(), which is compatible with Solaris (report by
4378 + modify configure script to assume --without-hashed-db when
4379 --disable-database is used.
4380 + add "-e" option in ncurses/Makefile.in when generating source-files
4381 to force earlier exit if the build environment fails unexpectedly
4382 (prompted by patch by Adrian Bunk).
4383 + change configure script to use CF_UTF8_LIB, improved variant of
4387 + add teraterm4.59 terminfo entry, use that as primary teraterm entry, rename
4388 original to teraterm2.3 -TD
4389 + update "gnome" terminfo to 2.22.3 -TD
4390 + update "konsole" terminfo to 1.6.6, needs today's fix for tic -TD
4391 + add "aterm" terminfo -TD
4392 + add "linux2.6.26" terminfo -TD
4393 + add logic to tic for cancelling strings in user-defined capabilities,
4397 + regenerated html documentation.
4398 + add -m and -s options to test/keynames.c and test/key_names.c to test
4399 the meta() function with keyname() or key_name(), respectively.
4400 + correct return value of key_name() on error; it is null.
4401 + document some unresolved issues for rpath and pthreads in TO-DO.
4402 + fix a missing prototype for ioctl() on OpenBSD in tset.c
4403 + add configure option --disable-tic-depends to make explicit whether
4404 tic library depends on ncurses/ncursesw library, amends change from
4405 20080823 (prompted by Debian #501421).
4408 + some build-fixes for configure --disable-ext-funcs (incomplete, but
4409 works for C/C++ parts).
4410 + improve configure-check for awks unable to handle large strings, e.g.
4411 AIX 5.1 whose awk silently gives up on large printf's.
4414 + fix build for --with-dmalloc by workaround for redefinition of
4415 strndup between string.h and dmalloc.h
4416 + fix build for --disable-sigwinch
4417 + add environment variable NCURSES_GPM_TERMS to allow override to use
4418 GPM on terminals other than "linux", etc.
4419 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM does not happen to contain
4420 "linux", since Gpm_Open() no longer limits its assertion to terminals
4421 that it might handle, e.g., within "screen" in xterm.
4422 + reset mouse file-descriptor when unloading GPM library (report by
4424 + fix build for --disable-leaks --enable-widec --with-termlib
4425 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
4426 + use improved initialization for soft-label keys in Ada95 sample code.
4427 + discard internal symbol _nc_slk_format (unused since 20080112).
4428 + move call of slk_paint_info() from _nc_slk_initialize() to
4429 slk_intern_refresh(), improving initialization.
4432 + fix bug in mouse code for GPM from 20080920 changes (reported in
4433 Debian #500103, also Miroslav Lichvar).
4436 + fix shared-library rules for cygwin with tic- and tinfo-libraries.
4437 + fix a memory leak when failure to connect to GPM.
4438 + correct check for notimeout() in wgetch() (report on linux.redhat
4439 newsgroup by FurtiveBertie).
4440 + add an example warning-suppression file for valgrind,
4441 misc/ncurses.supp (based on example from Reuben Thomas)
4444 + change shared-library configuration for OpenBSD, make rpath work.
4445 + build-fixes for using libutf8, e.g., on OpenBSD 3.7
4448 + corrected fix for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
4452 + corrected gcc options for building shared libraries on IRIX64.
4453 + add configure check for awk programs unable to handle big-strings,
4454 use that to improve the default for --enable-big-strings option.
4455 + makefile-fixes for --enable-weak-symbols (report by Frederic L W
4457 + update test/configure script.
4458 + adapt ifdef's from library to make test/view.c build when mbrtowc()
4459 is unavailable, e.g., with HPUX 10.20.
4460 + add configure check for wcsrtombs, mbsrtowcs, which are used in
4461 test/ncurses.c, and use wcstombs, mbstowcs instead if available,
4462 fixing build of ncursew for HPUX 11.00
4465 + fixes to make Ada95 demo_panels() example work.
4466 + modify Ada95 'rain' test program to accept keyboard commands like the
4468 + modify BeOS-specific ifdef's to build on Haiku (patch by Scott
4470 + add configure-check to see if the std namespace is legal for cerr
4471 and endl, to fix a build issue with Tru64.
4472 + consistently use NCURSES_BOOL in lib_gen.c
4473 + filter #line's from lib_gen.c
4474 + change delimiter in MKlib_gen.sh from '%' to '@', to avoid
4475 substitution by IBM xlc to '#' as part of its extensions to digraphs.
4476 + update config.guess, config.sub from
4477 http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/config
4478 (caveat - its maintainer removed support for older Linux systems).
4481 + modify configure check for pthread library to work with OSF/1 5.1,
4482 which uses #define's to associate its header and library.
4483 + use pthread_mutexattr_init() for initializing pthread_mutexattr_t,
4484 makes threaded code work on HPUX 11.23
4485 + fix a bug in demo_menus in freeing menus (cf: 20080804).
4486 + modify configure script for the case where tic library is used (and
4487 possibly renamed) to remove its dependency upon ncurses/ncursew
4488 library (patch by Dr Werner Fink).
4489 + correct manpage for menu_fore() which gave wrong default for
4490 the attribute used to display a selected entry (report by Mike Gran).
4491 + add Eterm-256color, Eterm-88color and rxvt-88color (prompted by
4495 + add configure option --enable-weak-symbols to turn on new feature.
4496 + add configure-check for availability of weak symbols.
4497 + modify linkage with pthread library to use weak symbols so that
4498 applications not linked to that library will not use the mutexes,
4499 etc. This relies on gcc, and may be platform-specific (patch by Dr
4501 + add note to INSTALL to document limitation of renaming of tic library
4502 using the --with-ticlib configure option (report by Dr Werner Fink).
4503 + document (in manpage) why tputs does not detect I/O errors (prompted
4504 by comments by Samuel Thibault).
4505 + fix remaining warnings from Klocwork report.
4508 + modify _nc_panelhook() data to account for a permanent memory leak.
4509 + fix memory leaks in test/demo_menus
4510 + fix most warnings from Klocwork tool (report by Larry Zhou).
4511 + modify configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to add case for
4512 "dragonfly" from xterm #236 changes.
4513 + modify configure script --with-hashed-db to let $LIBS override the
4514 search for the db library (prompted by report by Samson Pierre).
4517 + build-fixes for gcc 4.3.1 (changes to gnat "warnings", and C inlining
4521 + build-fix (reports by Christian Ebert, Funda Wang).
4524 + compiler-warning fixes for Solaris.
4527 + use NCURSES_MOUSE_MASK() in definition of BUTTON_RELEASE(), etc., to
4528 make those work properly with the "--enable-ext-mouse" configuration
4530 + improve documentation of build-cc options in INSTALL.
4531 + work-around a bug in gcc 4.2.4 on AIX, which does not pass the
4532 -static/-dynamic flags properly to linker, causing test/bs to
4536 + correct some ifdef's needed for the broken-linker configuration.
4537 + make debugging library's $BAUDRATE feature work for termcap
4539 + make $NCURSES_NO_PADDING feature work for termcap interface (prompted
4540 by comment on FreeBSD mailing list).
4541 + add screen.mlterm terminfo entry -TD
4542 + improve mlterm and mlterm+pcfkeys terminfo entries -TD
4545 + regenerated html documentation.
4546 + expand manpage description of parameters for form_driver() and
4547 menu_driver() (prompted by discussion with Adam Spragg).
4548 + add null-pointer checks for cur_term in baudrate() and
4549 def_shell_mode(), def_prog_mode()
4550 + fix some memory leaks in delscreen() and wide acs.
4553 + modify test/ditto.c to illustrate multi-threaded use_screen().
4554 + change CC_SHARED_OPTS from -KPIC to -xcode=pic32 for Solaris.
4555 + add "-shared" option to MK_SHARED_LIB for gcc on Solaris (report
4559 + finish changes to wgetch(), making it switch as needed to the
4560 window's actual screen when calling wrefresh() and wgetnstr(). That
4561 allows wgetch() to get used concurrently in different threads with
4562 some minor restrictions, e.g., the application should not delete a
4563 window which is being used in a wgetch().
4564 + simplify mutex's, combining the window- and screen-mutex's.
4567 + modify wgetch() to use the screen which corresponds to its window
4568 parameter rather than relying on SP; some dependent functions still
4570 + factor out most use of SP in lib_mouse.c, using parameter.
4571 + add internal _nc_keyname(), replacing keyname() to associate with a
4572 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
4573 + add internal _nc_unctrl(), replacing unctrl() to associate with a
4574 particular SCREEN rather than the global SP.
4575 + add internal _nc_tracemouse(), replacing _tracemouse() to eliminate
4576 its associated global buffer _nc_globals.tracemse_buf now in SCREEN.
4577 + add internal _nc_tracechar(), replacing _tracechar() to use SCREEN in
4578 preference to the global _nc_globals.tracechr_buf buffer.
4581 + modify _nc_keypad() to make it switch temporarily as needed to the
4582 screen which must be updated.
4583 + wrap cur_term variable to help make _nc_keymap() thread-safe, and
4584 always set the screen's copy of this variable in set_curterm().
4585 + restore curs_set() state after endwin()/refresh() (report/patch
4589 + modify configure script to note that --enable-ext-colors and
4590 --enable-ext-mouse are not experimental, but extensions from
4592 + corrected manpage description of setcchar() (discussion with
4593 Emanuele Giaquinta).
4594 + fix for adding a non-spacing character at the beginning of a line
4595 (report/patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
4598 + modify screen.* terminfo entries using new screen+fkeys to fix
4599 overridden keys in screen.rxvt (Debian #478094) -TD
4600 + modify internal interfaces to reduce wgetch()'s dependency on the
4602 + simplify some loops with macros each_screen(), each_window() and
4606 + continue modifying test/ditto.c toward making it demonstrate
4607 multithreaded use_screen(), using fifos to pass data between screens.
4608 + fix typo in form.3x (report by Mike Gran).
4611 + add screen.rxvt terminfo entry -TD
4612 + modify tic -f option to format spaces as \s to prevent them from
4613 being lost when that is read back in unformatted strings.
4614 + improve test/ditto.c, using a "talk"-style layout.
4617 + change test/ditto.c to use openpty() and xterm.
4618 + add locks for copywin(), dupwin(), overlap(), overlay() on their
4620 + add locks for initscr() and newterm() on updates to the SCREEN
4622 + finish table in curs_thread.3x manpage.
4625 + begin table in curs_thread.3x manpage describing the scope of data
4626 used by each function (or symbol) for threading analysis.
4627 + add null-pointer checks to setsyx() and getsyx() (prompted by
4628 discussion by Martin v. Lowis and Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven on
4629 python-dev2 mailing list).
4632 + add null-pointer checks in set_term() and delscreen().
4633 + move _nc_windows into _nc_globals, since windows can be pads, which
4634 are not associated with a particular screen.
4635 + change use_screen() to pass the SCREEN* parameter rather than
4636 stdscr to the callback function.
4637 + force libtool to use tag for 'CC' in case it does not detect this,
4638 e.g., on aix when using CC=powerpc-ibm-aix5.3.0.0-gcc
4639 (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
4640 + override OBJEXT to "lo" when building with libtool, to work on
4641 platforms such as AIX where libtool may use a different suffix for
4642 the object files than ".o" (report/patch by Michael Haubenwallner).
4643 + add configure --with-pthread option, for building with the POSIX
4647 + fill in extended-color pair two more places in wbkgrndset() and
4648 waddch_nosync() (prompted by Sedeno's patch).
4649 + fill in extended-color pair in _nc_build_wch() to make colors work
4650 for wide-characters using extended-colors (patch by Alejandro R
4652 + add x/X toggles to ncurses.c C color test to test/demo
4653 wide-characters with extended-colors.
4654 + add a/A toggles to ncurses.c c/C color tests.
4655 + modify test/ditto.c to use use_screen().
4656 + finish modifying test/rain.c to demonstrate threads.
4659 + start modifying test/rain.c for threading demo.
4660 + modify test/ncurses.c to make 'f' test accept the f/F/b/F/</> toggles
4661 that the 'F' accepts.
4662 + modify test/worm.c to show trail in reverse-video when other threads
4663 are working concurrently.
4664 + fix a deadlock from improper nesting of mutexes for windowlist and
4668 + fixes from 20080223 resolved issue with mutexes; change to use
4669 recursive mutexes to fix memory leak in delwin() as called from
4670 _nc_free_and_exit().
4673 + fix a size-difference in _nc_globals which caused hanging of mutex
4674 lock/unlock when termlib was built separately.
4677 + avoid using nanosleep() in threaded configuration since that often
4678 is implemented to suspend the entire process.
4681 + update test programs to build/work with various UNIX curses for
4682 comparisons. This was to reinvestigate statement in X/Open Curses
4683 that insnstr and winsnstr perform wrapping. None of the Unix-branded
4684 implementations do this, as noted in manpage (cf: 20040228).
4687 + modify _nc_setupscreen() to set the legacy-coding value the same
4688 for both narrow/wide models. It had been set only for wide model,
4689 but is needed to make unctrl() work with locale in the narrow model.
4690 + improve waddch() and winsch() handling of EILSEQ from mbrtowc() by
4691 using unctrl() to display illegal bytes rather than trying to append
4692 further bytes to make up a valid sequence (reported by Andrey A
4694 + modify unctrl() to check codes in 128-255 range versus isprint().
4695 If they are not printable, and locale was set, use a "M-" or "~"
4699 + improve threading in test/worm.c (wrap refresh calls, and KEY_RESIZE
4700 handling). Now it hangs in napms(), no matter whether nanosleep()
4701 or poll() or select() are used on Linux.
4704 + fixes to build with --disable-ext-funcs
4705 + add manpage for use_window and use_screen.
4706 + add set_tabsize() and set_escdelay() functions.
4709 + remove recursive-mutex definitions, finish threading demo for worm.c
4710 + remove a redundant adjustment of lines in resizeterm.c's
4711 adjust_window() which caused occasional misadjustment of stdscr when
4715 + several improvements to terminfo entries based on xterm #230 -TD
4716 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to handle keyname/key_name prototypes, so the
4717 "link_test" builds properly.
4718 + fix for toe command-line options -u/-U to ensure filename is given.
4719 + fix allocation-size for command-line parsing in infocmp from 20070728
4720 (report by Miroslav Lichvar)
4721 + improve resizeterm() by moving ripped-off lines, and repainting the
4722 soft-keys (report by Katarina Machalkova)
4723 + add clarification in wclear's manpage noting that the screen will be
4724 cleared even if a subwindow is cleared (prompted by Christer Enfors
4726 + change test/ncurses.c soft-key tests to work with KEY_RESIZE.
4729 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
4733 + add several functions to C++ binding which wrap C functions that
4734 pass a WINDOW* parameter (request by Chris Lee).
4737 + add note about configure options needed for Berkeley database to the
4739 + improve checks for version of Berkeley database libraries.
4740 + amend fix for rpath to not modify LDFLAGS if the platform has no
4741 applicable transformation (report by Christian Ebert, cf: 20071124).
4744 + modify configure option --with-hashed-db to accept a parameter which
4745 is the install-prefix of a given Berkeley Database (prompted by
4746 pierre4d2 comments).
4747 + rewrite wrapper for wcrtomb(), making it work on Solaris. This is
4748 used in the form library to determine the length of the buffer needed
4749 by field_buffer (report by Alfred Fung).
4750 + remove unneeded window-parameter from C++ binding for wresize (report
4754 + modify the support for filesystems which do not support mixed-case to
4755 generate 2-character (hexadecimal) codes for the lower-level of the
4756 filesystem terminfo database (request by Michail Vidiassov).
4757 + add configure option --enable-mixed-case, to allow overriding the
4758 configure script's check if the filesystem supports mixed-case
4760 + add wresize() to C++ binding (request by Chris Lee).
4761 + define NCURSES_EXT_FUNCS and NCURSES_EXT_COLORS in curses.h to make
4762 it simpler to tell if the extended functions and/or colors are
4766 + update memory-leak checks for changes to names.c and codes.c
4767 + correct acsc strings in h19, z100 (patch by Benjamin C W Sittler).
4770 + continue implementing support for threading demo by adding mutex
4772 + add mrxvt terminfo entry, add/fix xterm building blocks for modified
4774 + compile with FreeBSD "contemporary" TTY interface (patch by
4778 + modify makefile rules to allow clear, tput and tset to be built
4779 without libtic. The other programs (infocmp, tic and toe) rely on
4781 + add/modify null-pointer checks in several functions for SP and/or
4782 the WINDOW* parameter (report by Thorben Krueger).
4783 + fixes for field_buffer() in formw library (see Redhat #310071,
4784 patches by Miroslav Lichvar).
4785 + improve performance of NCURSES_CHAR_EQ code (patch by Miroslav
4787 + update/improve mlterm and rxvt terminfo entries, e.g., for
4788 the modified cursor- and keypad-keys -TD
4791 + add code to curses.priv.h ifdef'd with NCURSES_CHAR_EQ, which
4792 changes the CharEq() macro to an inline function to allow comparing
4793 cchar_t struct's without comparing gaps in a possibly unpacked
4794 memory layout (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
4797 + add new functions to lib_trace.c to setup mutex's for the _tracef()
4798 calls within the ncurses library.
4799 + for the reentrant model, move _nc_tputs_trace and _nc_outchars into
4801 + start modifying test/worm.c to provide threading demo (incomplete).
4802 + separated ifdef's for some BSD-related symbols in tset.c, to make
4803 it compile on LynxOS (report by Greg Gemmer).
4805 + modify Ada95/gen/Makefile to use shlib script, to simplify building
4806 shared-library configuration on platforms lacking rpath support.
4807 + build-fix for Ada95/src/Makefile to reflect changed dependency for
4808 the terminal-interface-curses-aux.adb file which is now generated.
4809 + restructuring test/worm.c, for use_window() example.
4812 + add use_window() and use_screen() functions, to develop into support
4813 for threaded library (incomplete).
4814 + fix typos in man/curs_opaque.3x which kept the install script from
4815 creating symbolic links to two aliases created in 20070818 (report by
4819 + remove a spurious newline from output of html.m4, which caused links
4820 for Ada95 html to be incorrect for the files generated using m4.
4821 + start investigating mutex's for SCREEN manipulation (incomplete).
4822 + minor cleanup of codes.c/names.c for --enable-const
4823 + expand/revise "Routine and Argument Names" section of ncurses manpage
4824 to address report by David Givens in newsgroup discussion.
4825 + fix interaction between --without-progs/--with-termcap configure
4826 options (report by Michail Vidiassov).
4827 + fix typo in "--disable-relink" option (report by Michail Vidiassov).
4830 + fix a sign-extension bug in infocmp's repair_acsc() function
4832 + fix old configure script bug which prevented "--disable-warnings"
4833 option from working (patch by Mike Frysinger).
4836 + add 9term terminal description (request by Juhapekka Tolvanen) -TD
4837 + modify comp_hash.c's string output to avoid misinterpreting a null
4838 "\0" followed by a digit.
4839 + modify MKnames.awk and MKcodes.awk to support big-strings.
4840 This only applies to the cases (broken linker, reentrant) where
4841 the corresponding arrays are accessed via wrapper functions.
4842 + split MKnames.awk into two scripts, eliminating the shell redirection
4843 which complicated the make process and also the bogus timestamp file
4844 which was introduced to fix "make -j".
4845 + add test/test_opaque.c, test/test_arrays.c
4846 + add wgetscrreg() and wgetparent() for applications that may need it
4847 when NCURSES_OPAQUE is defined (prompted by Bryan Christ).
4850 + amend treatment of infocmp "-r" option to retain the 1023-byte limit
4851 unless "-T" is given (cf: 981017).
4852 + modify comp_captab.c generation to use big-strings.
4853 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private accessed via
4854 _nc_get_alias_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
4856 + modify configure script to skip Intel compiler in CF_C_INLINE.
4857 + make _nc_info_hash_table and _nc_cap_hash_table private accessed via
4858 _nc_get_hash_table() since the tables are used only within the tic
4862 + make _nc_capalias_table and _nc_infoalias_table private, accessed via
4863 _nc_get_alias_table() since they are used only by parse_entry.c
4864 + make _nc_key_names private since it is used only by lib_keyname.c
4865 + add --disable-big-strings configure option to control whether
4866 unctrl.c is generated using the big-string optimization - which may
4867 use strings longer than supported by a given compiler.
4868 + reduce relocation tables for tic, infocmp by changing type of
4869 internal hash tables to short, and make those private symbols.
4870 + eliminate large fixed arrays from progs/infocmp.c
4873 + change winnstr() to stop at the end of the line (cf: 970315).
4874 + add test/test_get_wstr.c
4875 + add test/test_getstr.c
4876 + add test/test_inwstr.c
4877 + add test/test_instr.c
4880 + restore a call to obtain screen-size in _nc_setupterm(), which
4881 is used in tput and other non-screen applications via setupterm()
4882 (Debian #433357, reported by Florent Bayle, Christian Ohm,
4886 + add test/savescreen.c test-program
4887 + add check to trace-file open, if the given name is a directory, add
4888 ".log" to the name and try again.
4889 + add konsole-256color entry -TD
4890 + add extra gcc warning options from xterm.
4891 + minor fixes for ncurses/hashmap test-program.
4892 + modify configure script to quiet c++ build with libtool when the
4893 --disable-echo option is used.
4894 + modify configure script to disable ada95 if libtool is selected,
4895 writing a warning message (addresses FreeBSD #114493).
4896 + update config.guess, config.sub
4899 + add continuous-move "M" to demo_panels to help test refresh changes.
4900 + improve fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters,
4901 taking into account some split characters on left/right window
4905 + add "widec" row to _tracedump() output to help diagnose remaining
4906 problems with multi-column characters.
4907 + partial fix for refresh of window on top of multi-column characters
4908 which are partly overwritten (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
4909 + ignore A_CHARTEXT bits in vidattr() and vid_attr(), in case
4910 multi-column extension bits are passed there.
4911 + add setlocale() call to demo_panels.c, needed for wide-characters.
4912 + add some output flags to _nc_trace_ttymode to help diagnose a bug
4913 report by Larry Virden, i.e., ONLCR, OCRNL, ONOCR and ONLRET,
4916 + add test/demo_panels.c
4917 + implement opaque version of setsyx() and getsyx().
4920 + corrected xterm+pcf2 terminfo modifiers for F1-F4, to match xterm
4922 + split-out key_name() from MKkeyname.awk since it now depends upon
4923 wunctrl() which is not in libtinfo (report by Rong-En Fan).
4926 + add test/key_name.c
4927 + add stdscr cases to test/inchs.c and test/inch_wide.c
4928 + update test/configure
4929 + correct formatting of DEL (0x7f) in _nc_vischar().
4930 + null-terminate result of wunctrl().
4931 + add null-pointer check in key_name() (report by Andreas Krennmair,
4935 + adapt mouse-handling code from menu library in form-library
4936 (discussion with Clive Nicolson).
4937 + add a modification of test/dots.c, i.e., test/dots_mvcur.c to
4938 illustrate how to use mvcur().
4939 + modify wide-character flavor of SetAttr() to preserve the
4940 WidecExt() value stored in the .attr field, e.g., in case it
4941 is overwritten by chgat (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
4942 + correct buffer-size for _nc_viswbuf2n() (report by Aleksi Torhamo).
4943 + build-fixes for Solaris 2.6 and 2.7 (patch by Peter O'Gorman).
4946 + modify keyname() to use "^X" form only if meta() has been called, or
4947 if keyname() is called without initializing curses, e.g., via
4948 initscr() or newterm() (prompted by LinuxBase #1604).
4949 + document some portability issues in man/curs_util.3x
4950 + add a shadow copy of TTY buffer to _nc_prescreen to fix applications
4951 broken by moving that data into SCREEN (cf: 20061230).
4954 + add 'O' (wide-character panel test) in ncurses.c to demonstrate a
4955 problem reported by Sadrul H Chowdhury with repainting parts of
4957 + modify slk_init() so that if there are preceding calls to
4958 ripoffline(), those affect the available lines for soft-keys (adapted
4959 from patch by Clive Nicolson).
4960 + document some portability issues in man/curs_getyx.3x
4963 + fix a bug in Ada95/samples/ncurses which caused a variable to
4964 become uninitialized in the "b" test.
4965 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in adahtml rule to account for recent
4966 movement of files, fix a few incorrect manpage references in the
4968 + add Ada95 binding to _nc_freeall() as Curses_Free_All to help with
4970 + correct some functions in Ada95 binding which were using return value
4971 from C where none was returned: idcok(), immedok() and wtimeout().
4972 + amend recent changes for Ada95 binding to make it build with
4973 Cygwin's linker, e.g., with configure options
4974 --enable-broken-linker --with-ticlib
4977 + add a configure check for gcc's options for inlining, use that to
4978 quiet a warning message where gcc's default behavior changed from
4980 + improve warning message when checking if GPM is linked to curses
4981 library by not warning if its use of "wgetch" is via a weak symbol.
4982 + add loader options when building with static libraries to ensure that
4983 an installed shared library for ncurses does not conflict. This is
4984 reported as problem with Tru64, but could affect other platforms
4985 (report Martin Mokrejs, analysis by Tim Mooney).
4986 + fix build on cygwin after recent ticlib/termlib changes, i.e.,
4987 + adjust TINFO_SUFFIX value to work with cygwin's dll naming
4988 + revert a change from 20070303 which commented out dependency of
4989 SHLIB_LIST in form/menu/panel/c++ libraries.
4990 + fix initialization of ripoff stack pointer (cf: 20070421).
4993 + move most static variables into structures _nc_globals and
4994 _nc_prescreen, to simplify storage.
4995 + add/use configure script macro CF_SIG_ATOMIC_T, use the corresponding
4996 type for data manipulated by signal handlers (prompted by comments
4997 in mailing.openbsd.bugs newsgroup).
4998 + modify CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to allow one to pass options such as -static
4999 to the libtool create- and link-operations.
5002 + fix whitespace in curs_opaque.3x which caused a spurious ';' in
5003 the installed aliases (report by Peter Santoro).
5004 + fix configure script to not try to generate adacurses-config when
5005 Ada95 tree is not built.
5008 + add man/curs_legacy.3x, man/curs_opaque.3x
5009 + fix acs_map binding for Ada95 when --enable-reentrant is used.
5010 + add adacurses-config to the Ada95 install, based on version from
5011 FreeBSD port, in turn by Juergen Pfeifer in 2000 (prompted by
5012 comment on comp.lang.ada newsgroup).
5013 + fix includes in c++ binding to build with Intel compiler
5015 + update install rule in Ada95 to use mkdirs.sh
5016 > other fixes prompted by inspection for Coverity report:
5017 + modify ifdef's for c++ binding to use try/catch/throw statements
5018 + add a null-pointer check in tack/ansi.c request_cfss()
5019 + fix a memory leak in ncurses/base/wresize.c
5020 + corrected check for valid memu/meml capabilities in
5021 progs/dump_entry.c when handling V_HPUX case.
5022 > fixes based on Coverity report:
5023 + remove dead code in test/bs.c
5024 + remove dead code in test/demo_defkey.c
5025 + remove an unused assignment in progs/infocmp.c
5026 + fix a limit check in tack/ansi.c tools_charset()
5027 + fix tack/ansi.c tools_status() to perform the VT320/VT420
5028 tests in request_cfss(). The function had exited too soon.
5029 + fix a memory leak in tic.c's make_namelist()
5030 + fix a couple of places in tack/output.c which did not check for EOF.
5031 + fix a loop-condition in test/bs.c
5032 + add index checks in lib_color.c for color palettes
5033 + add index checks in progs/dump_entry.c for version_filter() handling
5035 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in copywin()
5036 + fix a possible null-pointer dereference in waddchnstr()
5037 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
5038 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c's make_namelist()
5039 + add a null-pointer check in _nc_expand_try()
5040 + add null-pointer checks in test/cardfile.c
5041 + fix a double-free in ncurses/tinfo/trim_sgr0.c
5042 + fix a double-free in ncurses/base/wresize.c
5043 + add try/catch block to c++/cursesmain.cc
5046 + modify Ada95 binding to build with --enable-reentrant by wrapping
5047 global variables (bug: acs_map does not yet work).
5048 + modify Ada95 binding to use the new access-functions, allowing it
5049 to build/run when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
5050 + add access-functions and macros to return properties of the WINDOW
5051 structure, e.g., when NCURSES_OPAQUE is set.
5052 + improved install-sh's quoting.
5053 + use mkdirs.sh rather than mkinstalldirs, e.g., to use fixes from
5057 + eliminate part of the direct use of WINDOW data from Ada95 interface.
5058 + fix substitutions for termlib filename to make configure option
5059 --enable-reentrant work with --with-termlib.
5060 + change a constructor for NCursesWindow to allow compiling with
5061 NCURSES_OPAQUE set, since we cannot pass a reference to
5065 + ignore --with-chtype=unsigned since unsigned is always added to
5066 the type in curses.h; do the same for --with-mmask-t.
5067 + change warning regarding --enable-ext-colors and wide-character
5068 in the configure script to an error.
5069 + tweak error message in CF_WITH_LIBTOOL to distinguish other programs
5070 such as Darwin's libtool program (report by Michail Vidiassov)
5071 + modify edit_man.sh to allow for multiple substitutions per line.
5072 + set locale in misc/ncurses-config.in since it uses a range
5073 + change permissions libncurses++.a install (report by Michail
5075 + corrected length of temporary buffer in wide-character version
5076 of set_field_buffer() (related to report by Bryan Christ).
5079 + fix mk-1st.awk script install_shlib() function, broken in 20070224
5080 changes for cygwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
5083 + increase size of array in _nc_visbuf2n() to make "tic -v" work
5084 properly in its similar_sgr() function (report/analysis by Peter
5086 + add --enable-reentrant configure option for ongoing changes to
5087 implement a reentrant version of ncurses:
5088 + libraries are suffixed with "t"
5089 + wrap several global variables (curscr, newscr, stdscr, ttytype,
5090 COLORS, COLOR_PAIRS, COLS, ESCDELAY, LINES and TABSIZE) as
5091 functions returning values stored in SCREEN or cur_term.
5092 + move some initialization (LINES, COLS) from lib_setup.c,
5093 i.e., setupterm() to _nc_setupscreen(), i.e., newterm().
5096 + regenerated html documentation.
5097 + add NCURSES_OPAQUE symbol to curses.h, will use to make structs
5098 opaque in selected configurations.
5099 + move the chunk in lib_acs.c which resets acs capabilities when
5100 running on a terminal whose locale interferes with those into
5101 _nc_setupscreen(), so the libtinfo/libtinfow files can be made
5102 identical (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
5103 + do not use configure variable SHLIB_LIBS for building libraries
5104 outside the ncurses directory, since that symbol is customized
5105 only for that directory, and using it introduces an unneeded
5106 dependency on libdl (requested by Miroslav Lichvar).
5107 + modify mk-1st.awk so the generated makefile rules for linking or
5108 installing shared libraries do not first remove the library, in
5109 case it is in use, e.g., libncurses.so by /bin/sh (report by Jeff
5111 + revised section "Using NCURSES under XTERM" in ncurses-intro.html
5112 (prompted by newsgroup comment by Nick Guenther).
5115 + change internal return codes of _nc_wgetch() to check for cases
5116 where KEY_CODE_YES should be returned, e.g., if a KEY_RESIZE was
5117 ungetch'd, and read by wget_wch().
5118 + fix static-library build broken in 20070217 changes to remove "-ldl"
5119 (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
5120 + change makefile/scripts for cygwin to allow building termlib.
5121 + use Form_Hook in manpages to match form.h
5122 + use Menu_Hook in manpages, as well as a few places in menu.h
5123 + correct form- and menu-manpages to use specific Field_Options,
5124 Menu_Options and Item_Options types.
5125 + correct prototype for _tracechar() in manpage (cf: 20011229).
5126 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
5129 + fixes for $(TICS_LIST) in ncurses/Makefile (report by Miroslav
5131 + modify relinking of shared libraries to apply only when rpath is
5132 enabled, and add --disable-relink option which can be used to
5133 disable the feature altogether (reports by Michail Vidiassov,
5135 + fix --with-termlib option for wide-character configuration, stripping
5136 the "w" suffix in one place (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
5137 + remove "-ldl" from some library lists to reduce dependencies in
5138 programs (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
5139 + correct description of --enable-signed-char in configure --help
5140 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
5141 + add pattern for GNU/kFreeBSD configuration to CF_XOPEN_SOURCE,
5142 which matches an earlier change to CF_SHARED_OPTS, from xterm #224
5144 + remove "${DESTDIR}" from -install_name option used for linking
5145 shared libraries on Darwin (report by Michail Vidiassov).
5148 + add test/inchs.c, test/inch_wide.c, to test win_wchnstr().
5149 + remove libdl from library list for termlib (report by Miroslav
5151 + fix configure.in to allow --without-progs --with-termlib (patch by
5153 + modify win_wchnstr() to ensure that only a base cell is returned
5154 for each multi-column character (prompted by report by Wei Kong
5155 regarding change in mvwin_wch() cf: 20041023).
5158 + modify fix_wchnstr() in form library to strip attributes (and color)
5159 from the cchar_t array (field cells) read from a field's window.
5160 Otherwise, when copying the field cells back to the window, the
5161 associated color overrides the field's background color (report by
5163 + improve tracing for form library, showing created forms, fields, etc.
5164 + ignore --enable-rpath configure option if --with-shared was omitted.
5165 + add _nc_leaks_tinfo(), _nc_free_tic(), _nc_free_tinfo() entrypoints
5166 to allow leak-checking when both tic- and tinfo-libraries are built.
5167 + drop CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC macro from configure script, since C++ binding
5168 no longer relies on it.
5169 + disallow combining configure script options --with-ticlib and
5170 --enable-termcap (report by Rong-En Fan).
5171 + remove tack from ncurses tree.
5174 + fix typo in configure script that broke --with-termlib option
5175 (report by Rong-En Fan).
5178 + improve fix for FreeBSD gnu/98975, to allow for null pointer passed
5179 to tgetent() (report by Rong-en Fan).
5180 + update tack/HISTORY and tack/README to tell how to build it after
5181 it is removed from the ncurses tree.
5182 + fix configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
5183 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
5184 + review/eliminate other original-file artifacts in cursesw.cc, making
5185 its license consistent with ncurses.
5186 + use ncurses vw_scanw() rather than reading into a fixed buffer in
5187 the c++ binding for scanw() methods (prompted by report by Nuno Dias).
5188 + eliminate fixed-buffer vsprintf() calls in c++ binding.
5191 + add _nc_leaks_tic() to separate leak-checking of tic library from
5192 term/ncurses libraries, and thereby eliminate a library dependency.
5193 + fix test/mk-test.awk to ignore blank lines.
5194 + correct paths in include/headers, for --srcdir (patch by Miroslav
5198 + add a break-statement in misc/shlib to ensure that it exits on the
5199 _first_ matched directory (report by Paul Novak).
5200 + add tack/configure, which can be used to build tack outside the
5202 + add --with-ticlib option, to build/install the tic-support functions
5203 in a separate library (suggested by Miroslav Lichvar).
5206 + change MKunctrl.awk to reduce relocation table for unctrl.o
5207 + change MKkeyname.awk to reduce relocation table for keyname.o
5208 (patch by Miroslav Lichvar).
5211 + modify configure check for libtool's version to trim blank lines
5212 (report by sci-fi@hush.ai).
5213 + modify some modules to allow them to be reentrant if _REENTRANT is
5214 defined: lib_baudrate.c, resizeterm.c (local data only)
5215 + eliminate static data from some modules: add_tries.c, hardscroll.c,
5216 lib_ttyflags.c, lib_twait.c
5217 + improve manpage install to add aliases for the transformed program
5218 names, e.g., from --program-prefix.
5219 + used linklint to verify links in the HTML documentation, made fixes
5220 to manpages as needed.
5221 + fix a typo in curs_mouse.3x (report by William McBrine).
5222 + fix install-rule for ncurses5-config to make the bin-directory.
5225 + modify configure script to omit the tic (terminfo compiler) support
5226 from ncurses library if --without-progs option is given.
5227 + modify install rule for ncurses5-config to do this via "install.libs"
5228 + modify shared-library rules to allow FreeBSD 3.x to use rpath.
5229 + update config.guess, config.sub
5231 20061217 5.6 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
5234 + add ifdef's for <wctype.h> for HPUX, which has the corresponding
5235 definitions in <wchar.h>.
5236 + revert the va_copy() change from 20061202, since it was neither
5237 correct nor portable.
5238 + add $(LOCAL_LIBS) definition to progs/Makefile.in, needed for
5240 + ignore wide-acs line-drawing characters that wcwidth() claims are
5241 not one-column. This is a workaround for Solaris' broken locale
5245 + modify configure --with-gpm option to allow it to accept a parameter,
5246 i.e., the name of the dynamic GPM library to load via dlopen()
5247 (requested by Bryan Henderson).
5248 + add configure option --with-valgrind, changes from vile.
5249 + modify configure script AC_TRY_RUN and AC_TRY_LINK checks to use
5250 'return' in preference to 'exit()'.
5253 + change default for --with-develop back to "no".
5254 + add XTABS to tracing of TTY bits.
5255 + updated autoconf patch to ifdef-out the misfeature which declares
5256 exit() for configure tests. This fixes a redefinition warning on
5258 + use ${CC} rather than ${LD} in shared library rules for IRIX64,
5259 Solaris to help ensure that initialization sections are provided for
5260 extra linkage requirements, e.g., of C++ applications (prompted by
5261 comment by Casper Dik in newsgroup).
5262 + rename "$target" in CF_MAN_PAGES to make it easier to distinguish
5263 from the autoconf predefined symbol. There was no conflict,
5264 since "$target" was used only in the generated edit_man.sh file,
5265 but SuSE's rpm package contains a patch.
5268 + update man/term.5 to reflect extended terminfo support and hashed
5269 database configuration.
5270 + updates for test/configure script.
5271 + adapted from SuSE rpm package:
5272 + remove long-obsolete workaround for broken-linker which declared
5274 + improve error recovery in PUTC() macro when wcrtomb() does not
5275 return usable results for an 8-bit character.
5276 + patches from rpm package (SuSE):
5277 + use va_copy() in extra varargs manipulation for tracing version
5279 + use a va_list rather than a null in _nc_freeall()'s call to
5280 _nc_printf_string().
5281 + add some see-also references in manpages to show related
5282 wide-character functions (suggested by Claus Fischer).
5285 + add a check in lib_color.c to ensure caller does not increase COLORS
5286 above max_colors, which is used as an array index (discussion with
5288 + add ifdef's allowing ncurses to be built with tparm() using either
5289 varargs (the existing status), or using a fixed-parameter list (to
5293 + fix redrawing of windows other than stdscr using wredrawln() by
5294 touching the corresponding rows in curscr (discussion with Dan
5297 + add test/echochar.c
5298 + review/cleanup manpage descriptions of error-returns for form- and
5299 menu-libraries (prompted by FreeBSD docs/46196).
5302 + add AUTHORS file -TD
5303 + omit the -D options from output of the new config script --cflags
5304 option (suggested by Ralf S Engelschall).
5305 + make NCURSES_INLINE unconditionally defined in curses.h
5308 + revert change to accommodate bash 3.2, since that breaks other
5309 platforms, e.g., Solaris.
5310 + minor fixes to NEWS file to simplify scripting to obtain list of
5312 + improve some shared-library configure scripting for Linux, FreeBSD
5313 and NetBSD to make "--with-shlib-version" work.
5314 + change configure-script rules for FreeBSD shared libraries to allow
5315 for rpath support in versions past 3.
5316 + use $(DESTDIR) in makefile rules for installing/uninstalling the
5317 package config script (reports/patches by Christian Wiese,
5318 Ralf S Engelschall).
5319 + fix a warning in the configure script for NetBSD 2.0, working around
5320 spurious blanks embedded in its ${MAKEFLAGS} symbol.
5321 + change test/Makefile to simplify installing test programs in a
5322 different directory when --enable-rpath is used.
5325 + work around bug in bash 3.2 by adding extra quotes (Jim Gifford).
5326 + add/install a package config script, e.g., "ncurses5-config" or
5327 "ncursesw5-config", according to configuration options.
5330 + add several GNU Screen terminfo variations with 16- and 256-colors,
5331 and status line (Alain Bench).
5332 + change the way shared libraries (other than libtool) are installed.
5333 Rather than copying the build-tree's libraries, link the shared
5334 objects into the install directory. This makes the --with-rpath
5335 option work except with $(DESTDIR) (cf: 20000930).
5338 + fix ifdef in c++/internal.h for QNX 6.1
5339 + test-compiled with (old) egcs-1.1.2, modified configure script to
5340 not unset the $CXX and related variables which would prevent this.
5341 + fix a few terminfo.src typos exposed by improvements to "-f" option.
5342 + improve infocmp/tic "-f" option formatting.
5345 + make --disable-largefile option work (report by Thomas M Ott).
5346 + updated html documentation.
5347 + add ka2, kb1, kb3, kc2 to vt220-keypad as an extension -TD
5348 + minor improvements to rxvt+pcfkeys -TD
5351 + move static data from lib_mouse.c into SCREEN struct.
5352 + improve ifdef's for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset to work with Mac OS X
5353 (report by Michail Vidiassov).
5354 + modify CF_PATH_SYNTAX to ensure it uses the result from --prefix
5355 option (from lynx changes) -TD
5356 + adapt AC_PROG_EGREP check, noting that this is likely to be another
5357 place aggravated by POSIXLY_CORRECT.
5358 + modify configure check for awk to ensure that it is found (prompted
5359 by report by Christopher Parker).
5363 + add kon, kon2 and jfbterm terminfo entry (request by Till Maas) -TD
5364 + remove invis capability from klone+sgr, mainly used by linux entry,
5365 since it does not really do this -TD
5368 + correct logic in wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not guard
5369 against passing the multi-column attribute into a call on waddch(),
5370 e.g., using data returned by win_wch() (cf: 20041023)
5371 (report by Sadrul H Chowdhury).
5374 + fix kterm's acsc string -TD
5375 + fix for change to tic/infocmp in 20060819 to ensure no blank is
5376 embedded into a termcap description.
5377 + workaround for 20050806 ifdef's change to allow visbuf.c to compile
5378 when using --with-termlib --with-trace options.
5379 + improve tgetstr() by making the return value point into the user's
5380 buffer, if provided (patch by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat #202480)).
5381 + correct libraries needed for foldkeys (report by Stanislav Ievlev)
5384 + add terminfo entries for xfce terminal (xfce) and multi gnome
5386 + add test/foldkeys.c
5389 + modify tic and infocmp to avoid writing trailing blanks on terminfo
5390 source output (Debian #378783).
5391 + modify configure script to ensure that if the C compiler is used
5392 rather than the loader in making shared libraries, the $(CFLAGS)
5393 variable is also used (Redhat #199369).
5394 + port hashed-db code to db2 and db3.
5395 + fix a bug in tgetent() from 20060625 and 20060715 changes
5396 (patch/analysis by Miroslav Lichvar (see Redhat #202480)).
5399 + updated xterm function-keys terminfo to match xterm #216 -TD
5400 + add configure --with-hashed-db option (tested only with FreeBSD 6.0,
5401 e.g., the db 1.8.5 interface).
5404 + modify toe to access termcap data, e.g., via cgetent() functions,
5405 or as a text file if those are not available.
5406 + use _nc_basename() in tset to improve $SHELL check for csh/sh.
5407 + modify _nc_read_entry() and _nc_read_termcap_entry() so infocmp,
5408 can access termcap data when the terminfo database is disabled.
5411 + widen the test for xterm kmous a little to allow for other strings
5412 than \E[M, e.g., for xterm-sco functionality in xterm.
5413 + update xterm-related terminfo entries to match xterm patch #216 -TD
5414 + update config.guess, config.sub
5417 + fix for install-rule in Ada95 to add terminal_interface.ads
5418 and terminal_interface.ali (anonymous posting in comp.lang.ada).
5419 + correction to manpage for getcchar() (report by William McBrine).
5421 + modify wchgat() to mark updated cells as changed so a refresh will
5422 repaint those cells (comments by Sadrul H Chowdhury and William
5424 + split up dependency of names.c and codes.c in ncurses/Makefile to
5425 work with parallel make (report/analysis by Joseph S Myers).
5426 + suppress a warning message (which is ignored) for systems without
5427 an ldconfig program (patch by Justin Hibbits).
5428 + modify configure script --disable-symlinks option to allow one to
5429 disable symlink() in tic even when link() does not work (report by
5431 + modify MKfallback.sh to use tic -x when constructing fallback tables
5432 to allow extended capabilities to be retrieved from a fallback entry.
5433 + improve leak-checking logic in tgetent() from 20060625 to ensure that
5434 it does not free the current screen (report by Miroslav Lichvar).
5437 + add a check for _POSIX_VDISABLE in tset (NetBSD #33916).
5438 + correct _nc_free_entries() and related functions used for memory leak
5442 + revert a minor change for magic-cookie support from 20060513, which
5443 caused unexpected reset of attributes, e.g., when resizing test/view
5445 + note in clear manpage that the program ignores command-line
5446 parameters (prompted by Debian #371855).
5447 + fixes to make lib_gen.c build properly with changes to the configure
5448 --disable-macros option and NCURSES_NOMACROS (cf: 20060527)
5449 + update/correct several terminfo entries -TD
5450 + add some notes regarding copyright to terminfo.src -TD
5453 + fixes to build Ada95 binding with gnat-4.1.0
5454 + modify read_termtype() so the term_names data is always allocated as
5455 part of the str_table, a better fix for a memory leak (cf: 20030809).
5456 + reduce memory leaks in repeated calls to tgetent() by remembering the
5457 last TERMINAL* value allocated to hold the corresponding data and
5458 freeing that if the tgetent() result buffer is the same as the
5459 previous call (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
5460 + modify tack to test extended capability function-key strings.
5461 + improved gnome terminfo entry (GenToo #122566).
5462 + improved xterm-256color terminfo entry (patch by Alain Bench).
5465 + fix two small memory leaks related to repeated tgetent() calls
5466 with TERM=screen (report by "Matt" for FreeBSD gnu/98975).
5467 + add --enable-signed-char to simplify Debian package.
5468 + reduce name-pollution in term.h by removing #define's for HAVE_xxx
5470 + correct typo in curs_terminfo.3x (Debian #369168).
5473 + enable the mouse in test/movewindow.c
5474 + improve a limit-check in frm_def.c (John Heasley).
5475 + minor copyright fixes.
5476 + change configure script to produce test/Makefile from data file.
5479 + add a configure option --enable-wgetch-events to enable
5480 NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS, and correct the associated loop-logic in
5481 lib_twait.c (report by Bernd Jendrissek).
5482 + remove include/nomacros.h from build, since the ifdef for
5483 NCURSES_NOMACROS makes that obsolete.
5484 + add entrypoints for some functions which were only provided as macros
5485 to make NCURSES_NOMACROS ifdef work properly: getcurx(), getcury(),
5486 getbegx(), getbegy(), getmaxx(), getmaxy(), getparx() and getpary(),
5488 + provide ifdef for NCURSES_NOMACROS which suppresses most macro
5489 definitions from curses.h, i.e., where a macro is defined to override
5490 a function to improve performance. Allowing a developer to suppress
5491 these definitions can simplify some application (discussion with
5493 + improve description of memu/meml in terminfo manpage.
5496 + if msgr is false, reset video attributes when doing an automargin
5497 wrap to the next line. This makes the ncurses 'k' test work properly
5499 + correct caching of keyname(), which was using only half of its table.
5500 + minor fixes to memory-leak checking.
5501 + make SCREEN._acs_map and SCREEN._screen_acs_map pointers rather than
5502 arrays, making ACS_LEN less visible to applications (suggested by
5504 + move chunk in SCREEN ifdef'd for USE_WIDEC_SUPPORT to the end, so
5505 _screen_acs_map will have the same offset in both ncurses/ncursesw,
5506 making the corresponding tinfo/tinfow libraries binary-compatible
5507 (cf: 20041016, report by Stanislav Ievlev).
5510 + improve debug-tracing for EmitRange().
5511 + change default for --with-develop to "yes". Add NCURSES_NO_HARD_TABS
5512 and NCURSES_NO_MAGIC_COOKIE environment variables to allow runtime
5513 suppression of the related hard-tabs and xmc-glitch features.
5514 + add ncurses version number to top-level manpages, e.g., ncurses, tic,
5515 infocmp, terminfo as well as form, menu, panel.
5516 + update config.guess, config.sub
5517 + modify ncurses.c to work around a bug in NetBSD 3.0 curses
5518 (field_buffer returning null for a valid field). The 'r' test
5519 appears to not work with that configuration since the new_fieldtype()
5520 function is broken in that implementation.
5523 + add hpterm-color terminfo entry -TD
5524 + fixes to compile test-programs with HPUX 11.23
5527 + add copyright notices to files other than those that are generated,
5528 data or adapted from pdcurses (reports by William McBrine, David
5530 + improve rendering on hpterm by not resetting attributes at the end
5531 of doupdate() if the terminal has the magic-cookie feature (report
5533 + add 256color variants of terminfo entries for programs which are
5534 reported to implement this feature -TD
5537 + fix typo in change to NewChar() macro from 20060311 changes, which
5538 broke tab-expansion (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
5541 + document -U option of tic and infocmp.
5542 + modify tic/infocmp to suppress smacs/rmacs when acsc is suppressed
5543 due to size limit, e.g., converting to termcap format. Also
5544 suppress them if the output format does not contain acsc and it
5545 was not VT100-like, i.e., a one-one mapping (Novell #163715).
5546 + add configure check to ensure that SIGWINCH is defined on platforms
5547 such as OS X which exclude that when _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc., are
5548 defined (report by Nicholas Cole)
5551 + modify write_object() to not write coincidental extensions of an
5552 entry made due to it being referenced in a use= clause (report by
5554 + another fix for infocmp -i option, which did not ensure that some
5555 escape sequences had comparable prefixes (report by Alain Bench).
5558 + improve discussion of init/reset in terminfo and tput manpages
5559 (report by Alain Bench).
5560 + use is3 string for a fallback of rs3 in the reset program; it was
5561 using is2 (report by Alain Bench).
5562 + correct logic for infocmp -i option, which did not account for
5563 multiple digits in a parameter (cf: 20040828) (report by Alain
5565 + move _nc_handle_sigwinch() to lib_setup.c to make --with-termlib
5566 option work after 20060114 changes (report by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz).
5567 + add copyright notices to test-programs as needed (report by William
5571 + modify ncurses.c 'F' test to combine the wide-characters with color
5572 and/or video attributes.
5573 + modify test/ncurses to use CTL/Q or ESC consistently for exiting
5574 a test-screen (some commands used 'x' or 'q').
5577 + fix an off-by-one in the scrolling-region change (cf_ 20060311).
5580 + add checks in waddchnstr() and wadd_wchnstr() to stop copying when
5581 a null character is found (report by Igor Bogomazov).
5582 + modify progs/Makefile.in to make "tput init" work properly with
5583 cygwin, i.e., do not pass a ".exe" in the reference string used
5584 in check_aliases (report by Samuel Thibault).
5585 + add some checks to ensure current position is within scrolling
5586 region before scrolling on a new line (report by Dan Gookin).
5587 + change some NewChar() usage to static variables to work around
5588 stack garbage introduced when cchar_t is not packed (Redhat #182024).
5591 + workarounds to build test/movewindow with PDcurses 2.7.
5592 + fix for nsterm-16color entry (patch by Alain Bench).
5593 + correct a typo in infocmp manpage (Debian #354281).
5596 + add nsterm-16color entry -TD
5597 + updated mlterm terminfo entry -TD
5598 + remove 970913 feature for copying subwindows as they are moved in
5599 mvwin() (discussion with Bryan Christ).
5600 + modify test/demo_menus.c to demonstrate moving a menu (both the
5601 window and subwindow) using shifted cursor-keys.
5602 + start implementing recursive mvwin() in movewindow.c (incomplete).
5603 + add a fallback definition for GCC_PRINTFLIKE() in test.priv.h,
5604 for movewindow.c (report by William McBrine).
5605 + add help-message to test/movewindow.c
5608 + add test/movewindow.c, to test mvderwin().
5609 + fix ncurses soft-key test so color changes are shown immediately
5610 rather than delayed.
5611 + modify ncurses soft-key test to hide the keys when exiting the test
5613 + fixes to build test programs with PDCurses 2.7, e.g., its headers
5614 rely on autoconf symbols, and it declares stubs for nonfunctional
5615 terminfo and termcap entrypoints.
5618 + improved test/configure to build test/ncurses on HPUX 11 using the
5620 + documented ALTERNATE CONFIGURATIONS in the ncurses manpage, for the
5621 benefit of developers who do not read INSTALL.
5624 + correct form library Window_To_Buffer() change (cf: 20040516), which
5625 should ignore the video attributes (report by Ricardo Cantu).
5628 + minor fixes to xmc-glitch experimental code:
5629 + suppress line-drawing
5630 + implement max_attributes
5632 + minor fixes for the database iterator.
5633 + fix some buffer limits in c++ demo (comment by Falk Hueffner in
5637 + add toe -a option, to show all databases. This uses new private
5638 interfaces in the ncurses library for iterating through the list of
5640 + fix toe from 20000909 changes which made it not look at
5642 + make toe's -v option parameter optional as per manpage.
5643 + improve SIGWINCH handling by postponing its effect during newterm(),
5644 etc., when allocating screens.
5647 + modify wgetnstr() to return KEY_RESIZE if a sigwinch occurs. Use
5648 this in test/filter.c
5649 + fix an error in filter() modification which caused some applications
5653 + check if filter() was called when getting the screensize. Keep it
5654 at 1 if so (based on Redhat #174498).
5655 + add extension nofilter().
5656 + refined the workaround for ACS mapping.
5657 + make ifdef's consistent in curses.h for the extended colors so the
5658 header file can be used for the normal curses library. The header
5659 file installed for extended colors is a variation of the
5660 wide-character configuration (report by Frederic L W Meunier).
5663 + add a workaround to ACS mapping to allow applications such as
5664 test/blue.c to use the "PC ROM" characters by masking them with
5665 A_ALTCHARSET. This worked up til 5.5, but was lost in the revision
5666 of legacy coding (report by Michael Deutschmann).
5667 + add a null-pointer check in the wide-character version of
5668 calculate_actual_width() (report by Victor Julien).
5669 + improve test/ncurses 'd' (color-edit) test by allowing the RGB
5670 values to be set independently (patch by William McBrine).
5671 + modify test/configure script to allow building test programs with
5673 + modified test programs to allow some to work with NetBSD curses.
5674 Several do not because NetBSD curses implements a subset of X/Open
5675 curses, and also lacks much of SVr4 additions. But it's enough for
5677 + update config.guess and config.sub
5680 + use BSD-specific fix for return-value from cgetent() from CVS where
5681 an unknown terminal type would be reportd as "database not found".
5682 + make tgetent() return code more readable using new symbols
5684 + remove references to non-existent "tctest" program.
5685 + remove TESTPROGS from progs/Makefile.in (it was referring to code
5686 that was never built in that directory).
5687 + typos in curs_addchstr.3x, some doc files (noticed in OpenBSD CVS).
5690 + add use_legacy_coding() function to support lynx's font-switching
5692 + fix formatting in curs_termcap.3x (report by Mike Frysinger).
5693 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to change preprocessor-expanded _Bool back to
5697 + extend test/ncurses.c 's' (overlay window) test to exercise overlay(),
5698 overwrite() and copywin() with different combinations of colors and
5699 attributes (including background color) to make it easy to see the
5700 effect of the different functions.
5701 + corrections to menu/m_global.c for wide-characters (report by
5705 + add configure option --without-dlsym, allowing developers to
5706 configure GPM support without using dlsym() (discussion with Michael
5708 + fix wins_nwstr(), which did not handle single-column non-8bit codes
5712 + move prototypes for wide-character trace functions from curses.tail
5713 to curses.wide to avoid accidental reference to those if
5714 _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined without ensuring that <wchar.h> is
5716 + add/use NCURSES_INLINE definition.
5717 + change some internal functions to use int/unsigned rather than the
5721 + remove a redundant check in lib_color.c (Debian #335655).
5722 + use ld's -search_paths_first option on Darwin to work around odd
5723 search rules on that platform (report by Christian Gennerat, analysis
5725 + remove special case for Darwin in CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro.
5726 + ignore EINTR in tcgetattr/tcsetattr calls (Debian #339518).
5727 + fix several bugs in test/bs.c (patch by Stephen Lindholm).
5730 + other minor fixes to cygwin based on tack -TD
5731 + correct smacs in cygwin (Debian #338234, report by Baurzhan
5732 Ismagulov, who noted that it was fixed in Cygwin).
5735 + add shifted up/down arrow codes to xterm-new as kind/kri strings -TD
5736 + modify wbkgrnd() to avoid clearing the A_CHARTEXT attribute bits
5737 since those record the state of multicolumn characters (Debian
5739 + modify werase to clear multicolumn characters that extend into
5740 a derived window (Debian #316663).
5743 + move assignment from environment variable ESCDELAY from initscr()
5744 down to newterm() so the environment variable affects timeouts for
5745 terminals opened with newterm() as well.
5746 + fix a memory leak in keyname().
5747 + add test/demo_altkeys.c
5748 + modify test/demo_defkey.c to exit from loop via 'q' to allow
5749 leak-checking, as well as fix a buffer size in winnstr() call.
5752 + correct order of use-clauses in rxvt-basic entry which made codes for
5753 f1-f4 vt100-style rather than vt220-style (report by Gabor Z Papp).
5754 + suppress configure check for gnatmake if Ada95/Makefile.in is not
5756 + correct a typo in configure --with-bool option for the case where
5757 --without-cxx is used (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
5758 + add a note to INSTALL's discussion of --with-normal, pointing out
5759 that one may wish to use --without-gpm to ensure a completely
5760 static link (prompted by report by Felix von Leitner).
5762 20051010 5.5 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
5765 + document in demo_forms.c some portability issues.
5768 + document side-effect of werase() which sets the cursor position.
5769 + save/restore the current position in form field editing to make
5773 + correct header dependencies in progs, allowing parallel make (report
5774 by Daniel Jacobowitz).
5775 + modify CF_BUILD_CC to ensure that pre-setting $BUILD_CC overrides
5776 the configure check for --with-build-cc (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
5777 + modify CF_CFG_DEFAULTS to not use /usr as the default prefix for
5779 + update config.guess and config.sub from
5780 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
5783 + modify sed expression which computes path for /usr/lib/terminfo
5784 symbolic link in install to ensure that it does not change unexpected
5785 levels of the path (Gentoo #42336).
5786 + modify default for --disable-lp64 configure option to reduce impact
5787 on existing 64-bit builds. Enabling the _LP64 option may change the
5788 size of chtype and mmask_t. However, for ABI 6, it is enabled by
5789 default (report by Mike Frysinger).
5790 + add configure script check for --enable-ext-mouse, bump ABI to 6 by
5791 default if it is used.
5792 + improve configure script logic for bumping ABI to omit this if the
5793 --with-abi-version option was used.
5794 + update address for Free Software Foundation in tack's source.
5795 + correct wins_wch(), which was not marking the filler-cells of
5796 multi-column characters (cf: 20041023).
5799 + modify mouse initialization to ensure that Gpm_Open() is called only
5800 once. Otherwise GPM gets confused in its initialization of signal
5801 handlers (Debian #326709).
5804 + modify logic for backspacing in a multiline form field to ensure that
5805 it works even when the preceding line is full (report by Frank van
5807 + remove comment about BUGS section of ncurses manpage (Debian #325481)
5810 + document some workarounds for shared and libtool library
5811 configurations in INSTALL (see --with-shared and --with-libtool).
5812 + modify CF_GCC_VERSION and CF_GXX_VERSION macros to accommodate
5813 cross-compilers which emit the platform name in their version
5815 arm-sa1100-linux-gnu-g++ (GCC) 4.0.1
5816 (report by Frank van Vugt).
5819 + start updating documentation for upcoming 5.5 release.
5820 + fix to make libtool and libtinfo work together again (cf: 20050122).
5821 + fixes to allow building traces into libtinfo
5822 + add debug trace to tic that shows if/how ncurses will write to the
5823 lower corner of a terminal's screen.
5824 + update llib-l* files.
5827 + modify initializers in c++ binding to build with old versions of g++.
5828 + improve special case for 20050115 repainting fix, ensuring that if
5829 the first changed cell is not a character that the range to be
5830 repainted is adjusted to start at a character's beginning (Debian
5834 + fixes to build on QNX 6.1
5835 + improve configure script checks for Intel 9.0 compiler.
5836 + remove #include's for libc.h (obsolete).
5837 + adjust ifdef's in curses.priv.h so that when cross-compiling to
5838 produce comp_hash and make_keys, no dependency on wchar.h is needed.
5839 That simplifies the build-cppflags (report by Frank van Vugt).
5840 + move modules related to key-binding into libtinfo to fix linkage
5841 problem caused by 20050430 changes to MKkeyname.sh (report by
5842 Konstantin Andreev).
5845 + updates/fixes for configure script macros from vile -TD
5846 + make prism9's sgr string agree with the rest of the terminfo -TD
5847 + make vt220's sgr0 string consistent with sgr string, do this for
5848 several related cases -TD
5849 + improve translation to termcap by filtering the 'me' (sgr0) strings
5850 as in the runtime call to tgetent() (prompted by a discussion with
5852 + improve tic check for sgr0 versus sgr(0), to help ensure that sgr0
5853 resets line-drawing.
5856 + fix special cases for trimming sgr0 for hurd and vt220 (Debian
5858 + split-out _nc_trim_sgr0() from modifications made to tgetent(), to
5859 allow it to be used by tic to provide information about the runtime
5860 changes that would be made to sgr0 for termcap applications.
5861 + modify make_sed.sh to make the group-name in the NAME section of
5862 form/menu library manpage agree with the TITLE string when renaming
5863 is done for Debian (Debian #78866).
5866 + modify parameter type in c++ binding for insch() and mvwinsch() to
5867 be consistent with underlying ncurses library (was char, is chtype).
5868 + modify treatment of Intel compiler to allow _GNU_SOURCE to be defined
5870 + improve configure check for nanosleep(), checking that it works since
5871 some older systems such as AIX 4.3 have a nonworking version.
5874 + update config.guess and config.sub from
5875 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
5876 + modify misc/shlib to work in test-directory.
5877 + suppress $suffix in misc/run_tic.sh when cross-compiling. This
5878 allows cross-compiles to use the host's tic program to handle the
5879 "make install.data" step.
5880 + improve description of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables in manpages
5881 (prompted by report by Dave Ulrick).
5882 + improve description of cross-compiling in INSTALL
5883 + add NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO.html by Pradeep Padala
5884 (see http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NCURSES-Programming-HOWTO/).
5885 + modify configure script to obtain soname for GPM library (discussion
5886 with Daniel Jacobowitz).
5887 + modify configure script so that --with-chtype option will still
5888 compute the unsigned literals suffix for constants in curses.h
5889 (report by Daniel Jacobowitz:
5890 + patches from Daniel Jacobowitz:
5891 + the man_db.renames entry for tack.1 was backwards.
5892 + tack.1 had some 1m's that should have been 1M's.
5893 + the section for curs_inwstr.3 was wrong.
5896 + correction to --with-chtype option (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
5899 + move build-time edit_man.sh and edit_man.sed scripts to top directory
5900 to simplify reusing them for renaming tack's manpage (prompted by a
5901 review of Debian package).
5902 + revert minor optimization from 20041030 (Debian #313609).
5903 + libtool-specific fixes, tested with libtool 1.4.3, 1.5.0, 1.5.6,
5904 1.5.10 and 1.5.18 (all work except as noted previously for the c++
5905 install using libtool 1.5.0):
5906 + modify the clean-rule in c++/Makefile.in to work with IRIX64 make
5908 + use $(LIBTOOL_UNINSTALL) symbol, overlooked in 20030830
5909 + add configure options --with-chtype and --with-mmask-t, to allow
5910 overriding of the non-LP64 model's use of the corresponding types.
5911 + revise test for size of chtype (and mmask_t), which always returned
5912 "long" due to an uninitialized variable (report by Daniel Jacobowitz).
5915 + change _tracef's that used "%p" format for va_list values to ignore
5916 that, since on some platforms those are not pointers.
5917 + fixes for long-formats in printf's due to largefile support.
5920 + fixes for termcap support:
5921 + reset pointer to _nc_curr_token.tk_name when the input stream is
5922 closed, which could point to free memory (cf: 20030215).
5923 + delink TERMTYPE data which is used by the termcap reader, so that
5924 extended names data will be freed consistently.
5925 + free pointer to TERMTYPE data in _nc_free_termtype() rather than
5927 + add some entrypoints for freeing permanently allocated data via
5928 _nc_freeall() when NO_LEAKS is defined.
5929 + amend 20041030 change to _nc_do_color to ensure that optimization is
5930 applied only when the terminal supports back_color_erase (bce).
5933 + add sun-color terminfo entry -TD
5934 + correct a missing assignment in c++ binding's method
5935 NCursesPanel::UserPointer() from 20050409 changes.
5936 + improve configure check for large-files, adding check for dirent64
5938 + minor change to configure script to improve linker options for the
5942 + document error conditions for ncurses library functions (report by
5944 + regenerated html documentation for ada binding.
5945 see ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/ncurses/patches/gnathtml
5948 + regenerated html documentation for manpages.
5949 + add $(BUILD_EXEEXT) suffix to invocation of make_keys in
5950 ncurses/Makefile (Gentoo #89772).
5951 + modify c++/demo.cc to build with g++ -fno-implicit-templates option
5952 (patch by Mike Frysinger).
5953 + modify tic to filter out long extended names when translating to
5954 termcap format. Only two characters are permissible for termcap
5958 + modify terminfo entries xterm-new and rxvt to add strings for
5959 shift-, control-cursor keys.
5960 + workaround to allow c++ binding to compile with g++ 2.95.3, which
5961 has a broken implementation of static_cast<> (patch by Jeff Chua).
5962 + modify initialization of key lookup table so that if an extended
5963 capability (tic -x) string is defined, and its name begins with 'k',
5964 it will automatically be treated as a key.
5965 + modify test/keynames.c to allow for the possibility of extended
5966 key names, e.g., via define_key(), or via "tic -x".
5967 + add test/demo_termcap.c to show the contents of given entry via the
5971 + minor fixes for vt100/vt52 entries -TD
5972 + add configure option --enable-largefile
5973 + corrected libraries used to build Ada95/gen/gen, found in testing
5977 + update config.guess, config.sub
5978 + modify configure script check for _XOPEN_SOURCE, disable that on
5979 Darwin whose header files have problems (patch by Chris Zubrzycki).
5980 + modify form library Is_Printable_String() to use iswprint() rather
5981 than wcwidth() for determining if a character is printable. The
5982 latter caused it to reject menu items containing non-spacing
5984 + modify ncurses test program's F-test to handle non-spacing characters
5985 by combining them with a reverse-video blank.
5986 + review/fix several gcc -Wconversion warnings.
5989 + correct an off-by-one error in m_driver() for mouse-clicks used to
5990 position the mouse to a particular item.
5991 + implement test/demo_menus.c
5992 + add some checks in lib_mouse to ensure SP is set.
5993 + modify C++ binding to make 20050403 changes work with the configure
5994 --enable-const option.
5997 + modify start_color() to return ERR if it cannot allocate memory.
5998 + address g++ compiler warnings in C++ binding by adding explicit
5999 member initialization, assignment operators and copy constructors.
6000 Most of the changes simply preserve the existing semantics of the
6001 binding, which can leak memory, etc., but by making these features
6002 visible, it provides a framework for improving the binding.
6003 + improve C++ binding using static_cast, etc.
6004 + modify configure script --enable-warnings to add options to g++ to
6005 correspond to the gcc --enable-warnings.
6006 + modify C++ binding to use some C internal functions to make it
6007 compile properly on Solaris (and other platforms).
6010 + amend change from 20050320 to limit it to configurations with a
6012 + fix a bug introduced in 20050320 which broke the translation of
6013 nonprinting characters to uparrow form (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
6016 + add ifdef's for _LP64 in curses.h to avoid using wasteful 64-bits for
6017 chtype and mmask_t, but add configure option --disable-lp64 in case
6018 anyone used that configuration.
6019 + update misc/shlib script to account for Mac OS X (report by Michail
6021 + correct comparison for wrapping multibyte characters in
6022 waddch_literal() (report by Takahashi Tamotsu).
6025 + add -c and -w options to tset to allow user to suppress ncurses'
6026 resizing of the terminal emulator window in the special case where it
6027 is not able to detect the true size (report by Win Delvaux, Debian
6029 + modify waddch_nosync() to account for locale zn_CH.GBK, which uses
6030 codes 128-159 as part of multibyte characters (report by Wang
6031 WenRui, Debian #300512).
6034 + modify ncurses.c 'd' test to make it work with 88-color
6035 configuration, i.e., by implementing scrolling.
6036 + improve scrolling in ncurses.c 'c' and 'C' tests, e.g., for 88-color
6040 + change tracemunch to use strict checking.
6041 + modify ncurses.c 'p' test to test line-drawing within a pad.
6042 + implement environment variable NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS to support
6043 miscellaneous terminal emulators which ignore alternate character
6044 set escape sequences when in UTF-8 mode.
6047 + change NCursesWindow::err_handler() to a virtual function (request by
6049 + modify fty_int.c and fty_num.c to handle wide characters (report by
6051 + adapt fix for fty_alpha.c to fty_alnum.c, which also handled normal
6052 and wide characters inconsistently (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
6053 + update llib-* files to reflect internal interface additions/changes.
6056 + improve test/configure script, adding tests for _XOPEN_SOURCE, etc.,
6058 + add aixterm-16color terminfo entry -TD
6059 + modified xterm-new terminfo entry to work with tgetent() changes -TD
6060 + extended changes in tgetent() from 20040710 to allow the substring of
6061 sgr0 which matches rmacs to be at the beginning of the sgr0 string
6062 (request by Thomas Wolff). Wolff says the visual effect in
6063 combination with pre-20040710 ncurses is improved.
6064 + fix off-by-one in winnstr() call which caused form field validation
6065 of multibyte characters to ignore the last character in a field.
6066 + correct logic in winsch() for inserting multibyte strings; the code
6067 would clear cells after the insertion rather than push them to the
6068 right (cf: 20040228).
6069 + fix an inconsistency in Check_Alpha_Field() between normal and wide
6070 character logic (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr).
6073 + fix a bug in editing wide-characters in form library: deleting a
6074 nonwide character modified the previous wide-character.
6075 + update manpage to describe NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2.
6076 + correct manpage description of mouseinterval() (Debian #280687).
6077 + add a note to default_colors.3x explaining why this extension was
6078 added (Debian #295083).
6079 + add traces to panel library.
6082 + improve editing of wide-characters in form library: left/right
6083 cursor movement, and single-character deletions work properly.
6084 + disable GPM mouse support when $TERM happens to be prefixed with
6085 "xterm". Gpm_Open() would otherwise assert that it can deal with
6086 mouse events in this case.
6087 + modify GPM mouse support so it closes the server connection when
6088 the caller disables the mouse (report by Stanislav Ievlev).
6091 + add traces for callback functions in form library.
6092 + add experimental configure option --enable-ext-mouse, which defines
6093 NCURSES_MOUSE_VERSION 2, and modifies the encoding of mouse events to
6094 support wheel mice, which may transmit buttons 4 and 5. This works
6095 with xterm and similar X terminal emulators (prompted by question by
6096 Andreas Henningsson, this is also related to Debian #230990).
6097 + improve configure macros CF_XOPEN_SOURCE and CF_POSIX_C_SOURCE to
6098 avoid redefinition warnings on cygwin.
6101 + merge remaining development changes for extended colors (mostly
6102 complete, does not appear to break other configurations).
6103 + add xterm-88color.dat (part of extended colors testing).
6104 + improve _tracedump() handling of color pairs past 96.
6105 + modify return-value from start_color() to return OK if colors have
6106 already been started.
6107 + modify curs_color.3x list error conditions for init_pair(),
6108 pair_content() and color_content().
6109 + modify pair_content() to return -1 for consistency with init_pair()
6110 if it corresponds to the default-color.
6111 + change internal representation of default-color to allow application
6112 to use color number 255. This does not affect the total number of
6113 color pairs which are allowed.
6114 + add a top-level tags rule.
6117 + add a null-pointer check in wgetch() in case it is called without
6118 first calling initscr().
6119 + add some null-pointer checks for SP, which is not set by libtinfo.
6120 + modify misc/shlib to ensure that absolute pathnames are used.
6121 + modify test/Makefile.in, etc., to link test programs only against the
6122 libraries needed, e.g., omit form/menu/panel library for the ones
6123 that are curses-specific.
6124 + change SP->_current_attr to a pointer, adjust ifdef's to ensure that
6125 libtinfo.so and libtinfow.so have the same ABI. The reason for this
6126 is that the corresponding data which belongs to the upper-level
6127 ncurses library has a different size in each model (report by
6131 + minor fixes to allow test-compiles with g++.
6132 + correct column value shown in tic's warnings, which did not account
6133 for leading whitespace.
6134 + add a check in _nc_trans_string() for improperly ended strings, i.e.,
6135 where a following line begins in column 1.
6136 + modify _nc_save_str() to return a null pointer on buffer overflow.
6137 + improve repainting while scrolling wide-character data (Eungkyu Song).
6140 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
6143 + merge some development changes to extend color capabilities.
6144 + fix manpage typo (FreeBSD report docs/75544).
6145 + update config.guess, config.sub
6146 > patches for configure script (Albert Chin-A-Young):
6147 + improved fix to make mbstate_t recognized on HPUX 11i (cf:
6148 20030705), making vsscanf() prototype visible on IRIX64. Tested for
6149 on HP-UX 11i, Solaris 7, 8, 9, AIX 4.3.3, 5.2, Tru64 UNIX 4.0D, 5.1,
6150 IRIX64 6.5, Redhat Linux 7.1, 9, and RHEL 2.1, 3.0.
6151 + print the result of the --disable-home-terminfo option.
6152 + use -rpath when compiling with SGI C compiler.
6155 + add trace calls to remaining public functions in form and menu
6157 + fix check for numeric digits in test/ncurses.c 'b' and 'B' tests.
6158 + fix typo in test/ncurses.c 'c' test from 20041218.
6161 + revise test/ncurses.c 'c' color test to improve use for xterm-88color
6162 and xterm-256color, added 'C' test using the wide-character color_set
6163 and attr_set functions.
6166 + modify configure script to work with Intel compiler.
6167 + fix an limit-check in wadd_wchnstr() which caused labels in the
6168 forms-demo to be one character short.
6169 + fix typo in curs_addchstr.3x (Jared Yanovich).
6170 + add trace calls to most functions in form and menu libraries.
6171 + update working-position for adding wide-characters when window is
6172 scrolled (prompted by related report by Eungkyu Song).
6175 + replace some references on Linux to wcrtomb() which use it to obtain
6176 the length of a multibyte string with _nc_wcrtomb, since wcrtomb() is
6177 broken in glibc (see Debian #284260).
6178 + corrected length-computation in wide-character support for
6180 + some fixes to frm_driver.c to allow it to accept multibyte input.
6181 + modify configure script to work with Intel 8.0 compiler.
6184 + amend change to setupterm() in 20030405 which would reuse the value
6185 of cur_term if the same output was selected. This now reuses it only
6186 when setupterm() is called from tgetent(), which has no notion of
6187 separate SCREENs. Note that tgetent() must be called after initscr()
6188 or newterm() to use this feature (Redhat #140326).
6189 + add a check in CF_BUILD_CC macro to ensure that developer has given
6190 the --with-build-cc option when cross-compiling (report by Alexandre
6192 + improved configure script checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE and
6193 _POSIX_C_SOURCE (fix for IRIX 5.3 from Georg Schwarz, _POSIX_C_SOURCE
6195 + cosmetic fix to test/gdc.c to recolor the bottom edge of the box
6196 for consistency (comment by Dan Nelson).
6199 + update wsvt25 terminfo entry -TD
6200 + modify test/ins_wide.c to test all flavors of ins_wstr().
6201 + ignore filler-cells in wadd_wchnstr() when adding a cchar_t array
6202 which consists of multi-column characters, since this function
6203 constructs them (cf: 20041023).
6204 + modify winnstr() to return multibyte character strings for the
6205 wide-character configuration.
6208 + fixes to make slk_set() and slk_wset() accept and store multibyte
6209 or multicolumn characters.
6212 + improve color optimization a little by making _nc_do_color() check
6213 if the old/new pairs are equivalent to the default pair 0.
6214 + modify assume_default_colors() to not require that
6215 use_default_colors() be called first.
6218 + modify term_attrs() to use termattrs(), add the extended attributes
6219 such as enter_horizontal_hl_mode for WA_HORIZONTAL to term_attrs().
6220 + add logic in waddch_literal() to clear orphaned cells when one
6221 multi-column character partly overwrites another.
6222 + improved logic for clearing cells when a multi-column character
6223 must be wrapped to a new line.
6224 + revise storage of cells for multi-column characters to correct a
6225 problem with repainting. In the old scheme, it was possible for
6226 doupdate() to decide that only part of a multi-column character
6227 should be repainted since the filler cells stored only an attribute
6228 to denote them as fillers, rather than the character value and the
6232 + minor fixes for traces.
6233 + add SP->_screen_acs_map[], used to ensure that mapping of missing
6234 line-drawing characters is handled properly. For example, ACS_DARROW
6235 is absent from xterm-new, and it was coincidentally displayed the
6239 + amend 20021221 workaround for broken acs to reset the sgr, rmacs
6240 and smacs strings as well. Also modify the check for screen's
6241 limitations in that area to allow the multi-character shift-in
6242 and shift-out which seem to work.
6243 + change GPM initialization, using dl library to load it dynamically
6244 at runtime (Debian #110586).
6247 + correct logic for color pair in setcchar() and getcchar() (patch by
6248 Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
6249 + add t/T commands to ncurses b/B tests to allow a different color to
6250 be tested for the attrset part of the test than is used in the
6254 + fix to make setcchar() to work when its wchar_t* parameter is
6255 pointing to a string which contains more data than can be converted.
6256 + modify wget_wstr() and example in ncurses.c to work if wchar_t and
6257 wint_t are different sizes (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
6260 + remove check in wget_wch() added to fix an infinite loop, appears to
6261 have been working around a transitory glibc bug, and interferes
6262 with normal operation (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
6263 + correct wadd_wch() and wecho_wch(), which did not pass the rendition
6264 information (report by Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk).
6265 + fix aclocal.m4 so that the wide-character version of ncurses gets
6266 compiled as libncursesw.5.dylib, instead of libncurses.5w.dylib
6267 (adapted from patch by James J Ramsey).
6268 + change configure script for --with-caps option to indicate that it
6269 is no longer experimental.
6270 + change configure script to reflect the fact that --enable-widec has
6271 not been "experimental" since 5.3 (report by Bruno Lustosa).
6274 + add 'B' test to ncurses.c, to exercise some wide-character functions.
6277 + modify infocmp -i option to match 8-bit controls against its table
6278 entries, e.g., so it can analyze the xterm-8bit entry.
6279 + add morphos terminfo entry, improve amiga-8bit entry (Pavel Fedin).
6280 + correct translation of "%%" in terminfo format to termcap, e.g.,
6281 using "tic -C" (Redhat #130921).
6282 + modified configure script CF_XOPEN_SOURCE macro to ensure that if
6283 it defines _POSIX_C_SOURCE, that it defines it to a specific value
6284 (comp.os.stratus newsgroup comment).
6287 + fixes to build with Ada95 binding with gnat 3.4 (all warnings are
6288 fatal, and gnat does not follow the guidelines for pragmas).
6289 However that did find a coding error in Assume_Default_Colors().
6290 + modify several terminfo entries to ensure xterm mouse and cursor
6291 visibility are reset in rs2 string: hurd, putty, gnome,
6292 konsole-base, mlterm, Eterm, screen (Debian #265784, Debian #55637).
6293 The xterm entries are left alone - old ones for compatibility, and
6294 the new ones do not require this change. -TD
6297 + fake a SIGWINCH in newterm() to accommodate buggy terminal emulators
6298 and window managers (Debian #265631).
6299 > terminfo updates -TD
6300 + remove dch/dch1 from rxvt because they are implemented inconsistently
6301 with the common usage of bce/ech
6302 + remove khome from vt220 (vt220's have no home key)
6306 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test, adding v/V toggles to cycle through
6307 combinations of video attributes so that for instance bold and
6308 underline can be tested. This made the legend too crowded, added
6309 a help window as well.
6310 + modify test/ncurses.c 'b' test to cycle through default colors if
6311 the -d option is set.
6312 + update putty terminfo entry (Robert de Bath).
6315 + modify test/cardfile.c to allow it to read more data than can be
6317 + correct logic in resizeterm.c which kept it from processing all
6318 levels of window hierarchy (reports by Folkert van Heusden,
6322 + modify "tic -cv" to ignore delays when comparing strings. Also
6323 modify it to ignore a canceled sgr string, e.g., for terminals which
6324 cannot properly combine attributes in one control sequence.
6325 + corrections for gnome and konsole entries (Redhat #122815, patch by
6327 > terminfo updates -TD
6328 + make ncsa-m rmacs/smacs consistent with sgr
6329 + add sgr, rc/sc and ech to syscons entries
6330 + add function-keys to decansi
6331 + add sgr to mterm-ansi
6332 + add sgr, civis, cnorm to emu
6333 + correct/simplify cup in addrinfo
6336 > terminfo updates -TD
6337 + add xterm-pc-fkeys
6338 + review/update gnome and gnome-rh90 entries (prompted by Redhat
6340 + review/update konsole entries
6341 + add sgr, correct sgr0 for kterm and mlterm
6342 + correct tsl string in kterm
6345 + add configure option --without-xterm-new
6348 + add check in wget_wch() for printable bytes that are not part of a
6349 multibyte character.
6350 + modify wadd_wchnstr() to render text using window's background
6352 + improve tic's check to compare sgr and sgr0.
6353 + fix c++ directory's .cc.i rule.
6354 + modify logic in tgetent() which adjusts the termcap "me" string
6355 to work with ISO-2022 string used in xterm-new (cf: 20010908).
6356 + modify tic's check for conflicting function keys to omit that if
6357 converting termcap to termcap format.
6358 + add -U option to tic and infocmp.
6359 + add rmam/smam to linux terminfo entry (Trevor Van Bremen)
6360 > terminfo updates -TD
6361 + minor fixes for emu
6363 + change wyse acsc strings to use 'i' map rather than 'I'
6368 + use tic -x to install terminfo database -TD
6369 + add -x to infocmp's usage message.
6370 + correct field used for comparing O_ROWMAJOR in set_menu_format()
6371 (report/patch by Tony Li).
6372 + fix a missing nul check in set_field_buffer() from 20040508 changes.
6373 > terminfo updates -TD
6374 + make xterm-xf86-v43 derived from xterm-xf86-v40 rather than
6376 + align with xterm patch #192's use of xterm-new -TD
6377 + update xterm-new and xterm-8bit for cvvis/cnorm strings -TD
6378 + make xterm-new the default "xterm" entry -TD
6381 + correct BUILD_CPPFLAGS substitution in ncurses/Makefile.in, to allow
6382 cross-compiling from a separate directory tree (report/patch by
6384 + modify is_term_resized() to ensure that window sizes are nonzero,
6385 as documented in the manpage (report by Ian Collier).
6386 + modify CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro to make Hurd port build
6387 (Debian #249214, report/patch by Jeff Bailey).
6388 + configure-script mods from xterm, e.g., updates to CF_ADD_CFLAGS
6389 + update config.guess, config.sub
6390 > terminfo updates -TD
6392 + add xterm-xf86-v44
6393 + modify xterm-new aka xterm-xfree86 to accommodate luit, which
6394 relies on G1 being used via an ISO-2022 escape sequence (report by
6399 + reconsidered winsnstr(), decided after comparing other
6400 implementations that wrapping is an X/Open documentation error.
6401 + modify test/inserts.c to test all flavors of insstr().
6404 + add setlocale() calls to a few test programs which may require it:
6405 demo_forms.c, filter.c, ins_wide.c, inserts.c
6406 + correct a few misspelled function names in ncurses-intro.html (report
6408 + correct internal name of key_defined() manpage, which conflicted with
6412 + correct size of internal pad used for holding wide-character
6413 field_buffer() results.
6414 + modify data_ahead() to work with wide-characters.
6417 + improve description of terminfo if-then-else expressions (suggested
6419 + improve test/ncurses.c 'd' test, allow it to use external file for
6420 initial palette (added xterm-16color.dat and linux-color.dat), and
6421 reset colors to the initial palette when starting/ending the test.
6422 + change limit-check in init_color() to allow r/g/b component to
6423 reach 1000 (cf: 20020928).
6426 + modify form library to use cchar_t's rather than char's in the
6427 wide-character configuration for storing data for field buffers.
6428 + correct logic of win_wchnstr(), which did not work for more than
6432 + replace memset/memcpy usage in form library with for-loops to
6433 simplify changing the datatype of FIELD.buf, part of wide-character
6435 + fix some inconsistent use of #if/#ifdef (report by Alain Guibert).
6438 + modify menu library to account for actual number of columns used by
6439 multibyte character strings, in the wide-character configuration
6440 (adapted from patch by Philipp Tomsich).
6441 + add "-x" option to infocmp like tic's "-x", for use in "-F"
6442 comparisons. This modifies infocmp to only report extended
6443 capabilities if the -x option is given, making this more consistent
6444 with tic. Some scripts may break, since infocmp previous gave this
6445 information without an option.
6446 + modify termcap-parsing to retain 2-character aliases at the beginning
6447 of an entry if the "-x" option is used in tic.
6450 + minor compiler-warning and test-program fixes.
6453 + modify tic's missing-sgr warning to apply to terminfo only.
6454 + free some memory leaks in tic.
6455 + remove check in post_menu() that prevented menus from extending
6456 beyond the screen (request by Max J. Werner).
6457 + remove check in newwin() that prevents allocating windows
6458 that extend beyond the screen. Solaris curses does this.
6459 + add ifdef in test/color_set.c to allow it to compile with older
6461 + add napms() calls to test/dots.c to make it not be a CPU hog.
6464 + modify unctrl() to return null if its parameter does not correspond
6465 to an unsigned char.
6466 + add some limit-checks to guard isprint(), etc., from being used on
6467 values that do not fit into an unsigned char (report by Sami Farin).
6470 + fix a typo in the _nc_get_locale() change.
6473 + modify _nc_get_locale() to use setlocale() to query the program's
6474 current locale rather than using getenv(). This fixes a case in tin
6475 which relies on legacy treatment of 8-bit characters when the locale
6476 is not initialized (reported by Urs Jansen).
6477 + add sgr string to screen's and rxvt's terminfo entries -TD.
6478 + add a check in tic for terminfo entries having an sgr0 but no sgr
6479 string. This confuses Tru64 and HPUX curses when combined with
6480 color, e.g., making them leave line-drawing characters in odd places.
6481 + correct casts used in ABSENT_BOOLEAN, CANCELLED_BOOLEAN, matches the
6482 original definitions used in Debian package to fix PowerPC bug before
6483 20030802 (Debian #237629).
6486 + modify PutAttrChar() and PUTC() macro to improve use of
6487 A_ALTCHARSET attribute to prevent line-drawing characters from
6488 being lost in situations where the locale would otherwise treat the
6489 raw data as nonprintable (Debian #227879).
6492 + fix a redefinition of CTRL() macro in test/view.c for AIX 5.2 (report
6494 + remove ".PP" after ".SH NAME" in a few manpages; this confuses
6495 some apropos script (Debian #237831).
6498 + modify ncurses.c 'r' test so editing commands, like inserted text,
6499 set the field background, and the state of insert/overlay editing
6500 mode is shown in that test.
6501 + change syntax of dummy targets in Ada95 makefiles to work with pmake.
6502 + correct logic in test/ncurses.c 'b' for noncolor terminals which
6503 did not recognize a quit-command (cf: 20030419).
6506 + modify _nc_insert_ch() to allow for its input to be part of a
6508 + split out lib_insnstr.c, to prepare to rewrite it. X/Open states
6509 that this function performs wrapping, unlike all of the other
6510 insert-functions. Currently it does not wrap.
6511 + check for nl_langinfo(CODESET), use it if available (report by
6513 + split-out CF_BUILD_CC macro, actually did this for lynx first.
6514 + fixes for configure script CF_WITH_DBMALLOC and CF_WITH_DMALLOC,
6515 which happened to work with bash, but not with Bourne shell (report
6516 by Marco d'Itri via tin-dev).
6519 + some changes to adapt the form library to wide characters, incomplete
6520 (request by Mike Aubury).
6521 + add symbol to curses.h which can be used to suppress include of
6523 #define NCURSES_ENABLE_STDBOOL_H 0
6525 (discussion on XFree86 mailing list).
6528 + modify configure --with-termlib option to accept a value which sets
6529 the name of the terminfo library. This would allow a packager to
6530 build libtinfow.so renamed to coincide with libtinfo.so (discussion
6531 with Stanislav Ievlev).
6532 + improve documentation of --with-install-prefix, --prefix and
6533 $(DESTDIR) in INSTALL (prompted by discussion with Paul Lew).
6534 + add configure check if the compiler can use -c -o options to rename
6535 its output file, use that to omit the 'cd' command which was used to
6536 ensure object files are created in a separate staging directory
6537 (prompted by comments by Johnny Wezel, Martin Mokrejs).
6539 20040208 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
6542 20040207 pre-release
6543 + minor fixes to _nc_tparm_analyze(), i.e., do not count %i as a param,
6544 and do not count %d if it follows a %p.
6545 + correct an inconsistency between handling of codes in the 128-255
6546 range, e.g., as illustrated by test/ncurses.c f/F tests. In POSIX
6547 locale, the latter did not show printable results, while the former
6549 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to compensate for broken C preprocessor on Mac
6550 OS X, which alters "%%" to "% % " (report by Robert Simms, fix
6551 verified by Scott Corscadden).
6553 20040131 pre-release
6554 + modify SCREEN struct to align it between normal/wide curses flavors
6555 to simplify future changes to build a single version of libtinfo
6556 (patch by Stanislav Ievlev).
6557 + document handling of carriage return by addch() in manpage.
6558 + document special features of unctrl() in manpage.
6559 + documented interface changes in INSTALL.
6560 + corrected control-char test in lib_addch.c to account for locale
6561 (Debian #230335, cf: 971206).
6562 + updated test/configure.in to use AC_EXEEXT and AC_OBJEXT.
6563 + fixes to compile Ada95 binding with Debian gnat 3.15p-4 package.
6564 + minor configure-script fixes for older ports, e.g., BeOS R4.5.
6566 20040125 pre-release
6567 + amend change to PutAttrChar() from 20030614 which computed the number
6568 of cells for a possibly multi-cell character. The 20030614 change
6569 forced the cell to a blank if the result from wcwidth() was not
6570 greater than zero. However, wcwidth() called for parameters in the
6571 range 128-255 can give this return value. The logic now simply
6572 ensures that the number of cells is greater than zero without
6573 modifying the displayed value.
6575 20040124 pre-release
6576 + looked good for 5.4 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org (but see above)
6577 + modify configure script check for ranlib to use AC_CHECK_TOOL, since
6578 that works better for cross-compiling.
6580 20040117 pre-release
6581 + modify lib_get_wch.c to prefer mblen/mbtowc over mbrlen/mbrtowc to
6582 work around core dump in Solaris 8's locale support, e.g., for
6583 zh_CN.GB18030 (report by Saravanan Bellan).
6584 + add includes for <stdarg.h> and <stdio.h> in configure script macro
6585 to make <wchar.h> check work with Tru64 4.0d.
6586 + add terminfo entry for U/Win -TD
6587 + add terminfo entries for SFU aka Interix aka OpenNT (Federico
6589 + modify tput's error messages to prefix them with the program name
6590 (report by Vincent Lefevre, patch by Daniel Jacobowitz (see Debian
6592 + correct a place in tack where exit_standout_mode was used instead of
6593 exit_attribute_mode (patch by Jochen Voss (see Debian #224443)).
6594 + modify c++/cursesf.h to use const in the Enumeration_Field method.
6595 + remove an ambiguous (actually redundant) method from c++/cursesf.h
6596 + make $HOME/.terminfo update optional (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
6597 + improve sed script which extracts libtool's version in the
6598 CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro.
6599 + add ifdef'd call to AC_PROG_LIBTOOL to CF_WITH_LIBTOOL macro (to
6600 simplify local patch for Albert Chin-A-Young)..
6601 + add $(CXXFLAGS) to link command in c++/Makefile.in (adapted from
6602 patch by Albert Chin-A-Young)..
6603 + fix a missing substitution in configure.in for "$target" needed for
6605 + resync CF_XOPEN_SOURCE configure macro with lynx; fixes IRIX64 and
6606 NetBSD 1.6 conflicts with _XOPEN_SOURCE.
6607 + make check for stdbool.h more specific, to ensure that including it
6608 will actually define/declare bool for the configured compiler.
6609 + rewrite ifdef's in curses.h relating NCURSES_BOOL and bool. The
6610 intention of that is to #define NCURSES_BOOL as bool when the
6611 compiler declares bool, and to #define bool as NCURSES_BOOL when it
6612 does not (reported by Jim Gifford, Sam Varshavchik, cf: 20031213).
6614 20040110 pre-release
6615 + change minor version to 4, i.e., ncurses 5.4
6616 + revised/improved terminfo entries for tvi912b, tvi920b (Benjamin C W
6618 + simplified ncurses/base/version.c by defining the result from the
6619 configure script rather than using sprintf (suggested by Stanislav
6621 + remove obsolete casts from c++/cursesw.h (reported by Stanislav
6623 + modify configure script so that when configuring for termlib, programs
6624 such as tic are not linked with the upper-level ncurses library
6625 (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
6626 + move version.c from ncurses/base to ncurses/tinfo to allow linking
6627 of tic, etc., using libtinfo (suggested by Stanislav Ievlev).
6630 + adjust -D's to build ncursesw on OpenBSD.
6631 + modify CF_PROG_EXT to make OS/2 build with EXEEXT.
6632 + add pecho_wchar().
6633 + remove <wctype.h> include from lib_slk_wset.c which is not needed (or
6634 available) on older platforms.
6637 + add -D's to build ncursew on FreeBSD 5.1.
6638 + modify shared library configuration for FreeBSD 4.x/5.x to add the
6639 soname information (request by Marc Glisse).
6640 + modify _nc_read_tic_entry() to not use MAX_ALIAS, but PATH_MAX only
6641 for limiting the length of a filename in the terminfo database.
6642 + modify termname() to return the terminal name used by setupterm()
6643 rather than $TERM, without truncating to 14 characters as documented
6644 by X/Open (report by Stanislav Ievlev, cf: 970719).
6645 + re-add definition for _BSD_TYPES, lost in merge (cf: 20031206).
6648 + add configure option --with-manpage-format=catonly to address
6649 behavior of BSDI, allow install of man+cat files on NetBSD, whose
6650 behavior has diverged by requiring both to be present.
6651 + remove leading blanks from comment-lines in manlinks.sed script to
6652 work with Tru64 4.0d.
6653 + add screen.linux terminfo entry (discussion on mutt-users mailing
6657 + add a check for tic to flag missing backslashes for termcap
6658 continuation lines. ncurses reads the whole entry, but termcap
6659 applications do not.
6660 + add configure option "--with-manpage-aliases" extending
6661 "--with-manpage-aliases" to provide the option of generating ".so"
6662 files rather than symbolic links for manpage aliases.
6663 + add bool definition in include/curses.h.in for configurations with no
6664 usable C++ compiler (cf: 20030607).
6665 + fix pathname of SigAction.h for building with --srcdir (reported by
6669 + folded ncurses/base/sigaction.c into includes of ncurses/SigAction.h,
6670 since that header is used only within ncurses/tty/lib_tstp.c, for
6671 non-POSIX systems (discussion with Stanislav Ievlev).
6672 + remove obsolete _nc_outstr() function (report by Stanislav Ievlev
6673 <inger@altlinux.org>).
6674 + add test/background.c and test/color_set.c
6675 + modify color_set() function to work with color pair 0 (report by
6676 George Andreou <gbandreo@tem.uoc.gr>).
6677 + add configure option --with-trace, since defining TRACE seems too
6678 awkward for some cases.
6679 + remove a call to _nc_free_termtype() from read_termtype(), since the
6680 corresponding buffer contents were already zeroed by a memset (cf:
6682 + improve configure check for _XOPEN_SOURCE and related definitions,
6683 adding special cases for Solaris' __EXTENSIONS__ and FreeBSD's
6684 __BSD_TYPES (reports by Marc Glisse <marc.glisse@normalesup.org>).
6685 + small fixes to compile on Solaris and IRIX64 using cc.
6686 + correct typo in check for pre-POSIX sort options in MKkey_defs.sh
6690 + modify _nc_gettime() to avoid a problem with arithmetic on unsigned
6691 values (Philippe Blain).
6692 + improve the nanosleep() logic in napms() by checking for EINTR and
6693 restarting (Philippe Blain).
6694 + correct expression for "%D" in lib_tgoto.c (Juha Jarvi
6698 + add linux-vt terminfo entry (Andrey V Lukyanov <land@long.yar.ru>).
6699 + allow "\|" escape in terminfo; tic should not warn about this.
6700 + save the full pathname of the trace-file the first time it is opened,
6701 to avoid creating it in different directories if the application
6702 opens and closes it while changing its working directory.
6703 + modify configure script to provide a non-empty default for
6707 + add DJGPP to special case of DOS-style drive letters potentially
6708 appearing in TERMCAP environment variable.
6709 + fix some spelling in comments (reports by Jason McIntyre, Jonathon
6711 + update config.guess, config.sub
6714 + fix a memory leak in error-return from setupterm() (report by
6715 Stanislav Ievlev <inger@altlinux.org>).
6716 + use EXEEXT and OBJEXT consistently in makefiles.
6717 + amend fixes for cross-compiling to use separate executable-suffix
6718 BUILD_EXEEXT (cf: 20031018).
6719 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for sort utility that does not
6720 recognize key options, e.g., busybox (report by Peter S Mazinger
6722 + fix potential out-of-bounds indexing in _nc_infotocap() (found by
6723 David Krause using some of the new malloc debugging features
6724 under OpenBSD, patch by Ted Unangst).
6725 + modify CF_LIB_SUFFIX for Itanium releases of HP-UX, which use a
6726 ".so" suffix (patch by Jonathan Ward <Jonathan.Ward@hp.com>).
6729 + update terminfo for xterm-xfree86 -TD
6730 + add check for multiple "tc=" clauses in a termcap to tic.
6731 + check for missing op/oc in tic.
6732 + correct _nc_resolve_uses() and _nc_merge_entry() to allow infocmp and
6733 tic to show cancelled capabilities. These functions were ignoring
6734 the state of the target entry, which should be untouched if cancelled.
6735 + correct comment in tack/output.c (Debian #215806).
6736 + add some null-pointer checks to lib_options.c (report by Michael
6738 + regenerated html documentation.
6739 + correction to tar-copy.sh, remove a trap command that resulted in
6740 leaving temporary files (cf: 20030510).
6741 + remove contact/maintainer addresses for Juergen Pfeifer (his request).
6744 + updated test/configure to reflect changes for libtool (cf: 20030830).
6745 + fix several places in tack/pad.c which tested and used the parameter-
6746 and parameterless strings inconsistently, i.e., in pad_rin(),
6747 pad_il(), pad_indn() and pad_dl() (Debian #215805).
6748 + minor fixes for configure script and makefiles to cleanup executables
6749 generated when cross-compiling for DJGPP.
6750 + modify infocmp to omit check for $TERM for operations that do not
6751 require it, e.g., "infocmp -e" used to build fallback list (report by
6755 + add terminfo entries for DJGPP.
6756 + updated note about maintainer in ncurses-intro.html
6759 + update terminfo entries for gnome terminal.
6760 + modify tack to reset colors after each color test, correct a place
6761 where exit_standout_mode was used instead of exit_attribute_mode.
6762 + improve tack's bce test by making it set colors other than black
6764 + plug a potential recursion between napms() and _nc_timed_wait()
6765 (report by Philippe Blain).
6768 + add --with-rel-version option to allow workaround to allow making
6769 libtool on Darwin generate the "same" library names as with the
6770 --with-shared option. The Darwin ld program does not work well
6771 with a zero as the minor-version value (request by Chris Zubrzycki).
6772 + modify CF_MIXEDCASE_FILENAMES macro to work with cross-compiling.
6773 + modify tack to allow it to run from fallback terminfo data.
6774 > patch by Philippe Blain:
6775 + improve PutRange() by adjusting call to EmitRange() and corresponding
6776 return-value to not emit unchanged characters on the end of the
6778 + improve a check for changed-attribute by exiting a loop when the
6780 + improve logic in TransformLine(), eliminating a duplicated comparison
6781 in the clr_bol logic.
6784 > patch by Philippe Blain:
6785 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
6786 move the label 'nonlocal' just before the second gettimeofday() to
6787 be able to compute the diff time when 'goto nonlocal' used.
6788 Rename 'msec' to 'microsec' in the debug-message.
6789 + in ncurses/tty/lib_mvcur.c,
6790 Use _nc_outch() in carriage return/newline movement instead of
6791 putchar() which goes to stdout. Move test for xold>0 out of loop.
6792 + in ncurses/tinfo/setbuf.c,
6793 Set the flag SP->_buffered at the end of operations when all has been
6794 successful (typeMalloc can fail).
6795 + simplify NC_BUFFERED macro by moving check inside _nc_setbuf().
6798 + modify configure script to avoid using "head -1", which does not
6799 work if POSIXLY_CORRECT (sic) is set.
6800 + modify run_tic.in to avoid using wrong shared libraries when
6801 cross-compiling (Dan Kegel).
6804 + alter configure script help message to make it clearer that
6805 --with-build-cc does not specify a cross-compiler (suggested by Dan
6806 Kegel <dank@kegel.com>).
6807 + modify configure script to accommodate libtool 1.5, as well as add an
6808 parameter to the "--with-libtool" option which can specify the
6809 pathname of libtool (report by Chris Zubrzycki). We note that
6810 libtool 1.5 has more than one bug in its C++ support, so it is not
6811 able to install libncurses++, for instance, if $DESTDIR or the option
6812 --with-install-prefix is used.
6815 > patch by Philippe Blain:
6816 + move assignments to SP->_cursrow, SP->_curscol into online_mvcur().
6817 + make baudrate computation in delay_output() consistent with the
6818 assumption in _nc_mvcur_init(), i.e., a byte is 9 bits.
6821 + modify logic in waddch_literal() to take into account zh_TW.Big5
6822 whose multibyte sequences may contain "printable" characters, e.g.,
6823 a "g" in the sequence "\247g" (Debian #204889, cf: 20030621).
6824 + improve storage used by _nc_safe_strcpy() by ensuring that the size
6825 is reset based on the initialization call, in case it were called
6826 after other strcpy/strcat calls (report by Philippe Blain).
6827 > patch by Philippe Blain:
6828 + remove an unused ifdef for REAL_ATTR & WANT_CHAR
6829 + correct a place where _cup_cost was used rather than _cuu_cost
6832 + fix a small memory leak in _nc_free_termtype().
6833 + close trace-file if trace() is called with a zero parameter.
6834 + free memory allocated for soft-key strings, in delscreen().
6835 + fix an allocation size in safe_sprintf.c for the "*" format code.
6836 + correct safe_sprintf.c to not return a null pointer if the format
6837 happens to be an empty string. This applies to the "configure
6838 --enable-safe-sprintf" option (Redhat #101486).
6841 + modify casts used for ABSENT_BOOLEAN and CANCELLED_BOOLEAN (report by
6843 > patch by Philippe Blain:
6844 + change padding for change_scroll_region to not be proportional to
6845 the size of the scroll-region.
6846 + correct error-return in _nc_safe_strcat().
6849 + correct limit-checks in _nc_scroll_window() (report and test-case by
6850 Thomas Graf <graf@dms.at> cf: 20011020).
6851 + re-order configure checks for _XOPEN_SOURCE to avoid conflict with
6855 + use clr_eol in preference to blanks for bce terminals, so select and
6856 paste will have fewer trailing blanks, e.g., when using xterm
6857 (request by Vincent Lefevre).
6858 + correct prototype for wunctrl() in manpage.
6859 + add configure --with-abi-version option (discussion with Charles
6861 > cygwin changes from Charles Wilson:
6862 + aclocal.m4: on cygwin, use autodetected prefix for import
6863 and static lib, but use "cyg" for DLL.
6864 + include/ncurses_dll.h: correct the comments to reflect current
6865 status of cygwin/mingw port. Fix compiler warning.
6866 + misc/run_tic.in: ensure that tic.exe can find the uninstalled
6867 DLL, by adding the lib-directory to the PATH variable.
6868 + misc/terminfo.src (nxterm|xterm-color): make xterm-color
6869 primary instead of nxterm, to match XFree86's xterm.terminfo
6870 usage and to prevent circular links.
6871 (rxvt): add additional codes from rxvt.org.
6872 (rxvt-color): new alias
6873 (rxvt-xpm): new alias
6874 (rxvt-cygwin): like rxvt, but with special acsc codes.
6875 (rxvt-cygwin-native): ditto. rxvt may be run under XWindows, or
6876 with a "native" MSWin GUI. Each takes different acsc codes,
6877 which are both different from the "normal" rxvt's acsc.
6878 (cygwin): cygwin-in-cmd.exe window. Lots of fixes.
6880 + mk-1st.awk: use "cyg" for the DLL prefix, but "lib" for import
6884 + update config.guess, config.sub
6885 + add triples for configuring shared libraries with the Debian
6886 GNU/FreeBSD packages (patch by Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es>).
6889 + modify CF_GCC_WARNINGS so it only applies to gcc, not g++. Some
6890 platforms have installed g++ along with the native C compiler, which
6891 would not accept gcc warning options.
6892 + add -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 when configuring with --enable-widec, to
6893 get mbstate_t declaration on HPUX 11.11 (report by David Ellement).
6894 + add _nc_pathlast() to get rid of casts in _nc_basename() calls.
6895 + correct a sign-extension in wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() from
6896 20030628 (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
6897 + work around omission of btowc() and wctob() from wide-character
6898 support (sic) in NetBSD 1.6 using mbtowc() and wctomb() (report by
6900 + add portability note to curs_get_wstr.3x (Debian #199957).
6903 + rewrite wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar() to call waddch() and wechochar()
6904 respectively, to avoid calling waddch_noecho() with wide-character
6905 data, since that function assumes its input is 8-bit data.
6906 Similarly, modify waddnwstr() to call wadd_wch().
6907 + remove logic from waddnstr() which transformed multibyte character
6908 strings into wide-characters. Rewrite of waddch_literal() from
6909 20030621 assumes its input is raw multibyte data rather than wide
6910 characters (report by Tomohiro Kubota).
6913 + write getyx() and related 2-return macros in terms of getcury(),
6915 + modify waddch_literal() in case an application passes bytes of a
6916 multibyte character directly to waddch(). In this case, waddch()
6917 must reassemble the bytes into a wide-character (report by Tomohiro
6918 Kubota <kubota@debian.org>).
6921 + modify waddch_literal() in case a multibyte value occupies more than
6923 + modify PutAttrChar() to compute the number of character cells that
6924 are used in multibyte values. This fixes a problem displaying
6925 double-width characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen
6926 <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
6927 + add a null-pointer check for result of keyname() in _tracechar()
6928 + modify _tracechar() to work around glibc sprintf bug.
6931 + add a call to setlocale() in cursesmain.cc, making demo display
6932 properly in a UTF-8 locale.
6933 + add a fallback definition in curses.priv.h for MB_LEN_MAX (prompted
6934 by discussion with Gabor Z Papp).
6935 + use macros NCURSES_ACS() and NCURSES_WACS() to hide cast needed to
6936 appease -Wchar-subscript with g++ 3.3 (Debian #195732).
6937 + fix a redefinition of $RANLIB in the configure script when libtool
6938 is used, which broke configure on Mac OS X (report by Chris Zubrzycki
6940 + simplify ifdef for bool declaration in curses.h.in (suggested by
6941 Albert Chin-A-Young).
6942 + remove configure script check to allow -Wconversion for older
6943 versions of gcc (suggested by Albert Chin-A-Young).
6946 + regenerated html manpages.
6947 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in that disabled use of __attribute__()
6948 for g++, since recent versions implement the cases which ncurses uses
6950 + modify _nc_get_token() to handle a case where an entry has no
6951 description, and capabilities begin on the same line as the entry
6953 + fix a typo in ncurses_dll.h reported by gcc 3.3.
6954 + add an entry for key_defined.3x to man_db.renames.
6957 + modify setcchar() to allow converting control characters to complex
6958 characters (report/test by Mitsuru Chinen <mchinen@yamato.ibm.com>).
6959 + add tkterm entry -TD
6960 + modify parse_entry.c to allow a terminfo entry with a leading
6961 2-character name (report by Don Libes).
6962 + corrected acsc in screen.teraterm, which requires a PC-style mapping.
6963 + fix trace statements in read_entry.c to use lseek() rather than
6965 + fix signed/unsigned warnings from Sun's compiler (gcc should give
6966 these warnings, but it is unpredictable).
6967 + modify configure script to omit -Winline for gcc 3.3, since that
6969 + modify manlinks.sed to add a few functions that were overlooked since
6970 they return function pointers: field_init, field_term, form_init,
6971 form_term, item_init, item_term, menu_init and menu_term.
6974 + prevent recursion in wgetch() via wgetnstr() if the connection cannot
6975 be switched between cooked/raw modes because it is not a TTY (report
6976 by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.com>).
6977 + change parameter of define_key() and key_defined() to const (prompted
6979 + add a check in test/configure for ncurses extensions, since there
6980 are some older versions, etc., which would not compile with the
6981 current test programs.
6982 + corrected demo in test/ncurses.c of wgetn_wstr(), which did not
6983 convert wchar_t string to multibyte form before printing it.
6984 + corrections to lib_get_wstr.c:
6985 + null-terminate buffer passed to setcchar(), which occasionally
6987 + map special characters such as erase- and kill-characters into
6988 key-codes so those will work as expected even if they are not
6989 mentioned in the terminfo.
6990 + modify PUTC() and Charable() macros to make wide-character line
6991 drawing work for POSIX locale on Linux console (cf: 20021221).
6994 + make typography for program options in manpages consistent (report
6995 by Miloslav Trmac <mitr@volny.cz>).
6996 + correct dependencies in Ada95/src/Makefile.in, so the builds with
6997 "--srcdir" work (report by Warren L Dodge).
6998 + correct missing definition of $(CC) in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in
6999 (reported by Warren L Dodge <warrend@mdhost.cse.tek.com>).
7000 + fix typos and whitespace in manpages (patch by Jason McIntyre
7001 <jmc@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl>).
7004 + fix form_driver() cases for REQ_CLR_EOF, REQ_CLR_EOL, REQ_DEL_CHAR,
7005 REQ_DEL_PREV and REQ_NEW_LINE, which did not ensure the cursor was at
7006 the editing position before making modifications.
7007 + add test/demo_forms and associated test/edit_field.c demos.
7008 + modify test/configure.in to use test/modules for the list of objects
7009 to compile rather than using the list of programs.
7012 + modify logic of acsc to use the original character if no mapping is
7013 defined, noting that Solaris does this.
7014 + modify ncurses 'b' test to avoid using the acs_map[] array since
7015 20021231 changes it to no longer contain information from the acsc
7017 + modify makefile rules in c++, progs, tack and test to ensure that
7018 the compiler flags (e.g., $CFLAGS or $CCFLAGS) are used in the link
7019 command (report by Jose Luis Rico Botella <informatica@serpis.com>).
7020 + modify soft-key initialization to use A_REVERSE if A_STANDOUT would
7021 not be shown when colors are used, i.e., if ncv#1 is set in the
7022 terminfo as is done in "screen".
7025 + add a test for slk_color(), in ncurses.c
7026 + fix some issues reported by valgrind in the slk_set() and slk_wset()
7027 code, from recent rewrite.
7028 + modify ncurses 'E' test to use show previous label via slk_label(),
7030 + modify wide-character versions of NewChar(), NewChar2() macros to
7031 ensure that the whole struct is initialized.
7034 + modify setupterm() to check if the terminfo and terminal-modes have
7035 already been read. This ensures that it does not reinvoke
7036 def_prog_mode() when an application calls more than one function,
7037 such as tgetent() and initscr() (report by Olaf Buddenhagen).
7040 + add 'E' test to ncurses.c, to exercise slk_wset().
7041 + correct handling of carriage-return in wgetn_wstr(), used in demo of
7043 + first draft of slk_wset() function.
7046 + improved warnings in tic when suppressing items to fit in termcap's
7048 + built a list in test/README showing which externals are being used
7049 by either programs in the test-directory or via internal library
7051 + adjust include-options in CF_ETIP_DEFINES to avoid missing
7052 ncurses_dll.h, fixing special definitions that may be needed for
7053 etip.h (reported by Greg Schafer <gschafer@zip.com.au>).
7056 + minor fixes for cardfile.c, to make it write the updated fields to
7057 a file when ^W is given.
7058 + add/use _nc_trace_bufcat() to eliminate some fixed buffer limits in
7062 + correct a case in _nc_remove_string(), used by define_key(), to avoid
7063 infinite loop if the given string happens to be a substring of other
7064 strings which are assigned to keys (report by John McCutchan).
7065 + add key_defined() function, to tell which keycode a string is bound
7066 to (discussion with John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>).
7067 + correct keybound(), which reported definitions in the wrong table,
7068 i.e., the list of definitions which are disabled by keyok().
7069 + modify demo_keydef.c to show the details it changes, and to check
7073 + restructured test/configure script, make it work for libncursesw.
7074 + add description of link_fieldtype() to manpage (report by
7075 L Dee Holtsclaw <dee@sunbeltsoft.com>).
7078 + corrected ifdef's relating to configure check for wchar_t, etc.
7079 + if the output is a socket or other non-tty device, use 1 millisecond
7080 for the cost in mvcur; previously it was 9 milliseconds because the
7081 baudrate was not known.
7082 + in _nc_get_tty_mode(), initialize the TTY buffer on error, since
7083 glibc copies uninitialized data in that case, as noted by valgrind.
7084 + modify tput to use the same parameter analysis as tparm() does, to
7085 provide for user-defined strings, e.g., for xterm title, a
7086 corresponding capability might be
7088 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to avoid passing "#" tokens through the C
7089 preprocessor. This works around Mac OS X's preprocessor, which
7090 insists on adding a blank on each side of the token (report/analysis
7091 by Kevin Murphy <murphy@genome.chop.edu>).
7094 + add configure check for wchar_t and wint_t types, rather than rely
7095 on preprocessor definitions. Also work around for gcc fixinclude
7096 bug which creates a shadow copy of curses.h if it sees these symbols
7097 apparently typedef'd.
7098 + if database is disabled, do not generate run_tic.sh
7099 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking when termcap is read.
7102 + add checking in tic for incomplete line-drawing character mapping.
7103 + updated configure script to reflect fix for AC_PROG_GCC_TRADITIONAL,
7104 which is broken in autoconf 2.5x for Mac OS X 10.2.3 (report by
7105 Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl>).
7106 + make return value from _nc_printf_string() consistent. Before,
7107 depending on whether --enable-safe-sprintf was used, it might not be
7108 cached for reallocating.
7111 + minor fixes for memory-leak checking in lib_tparm.c, hardscroll.c
7112 + correct a potentially-uninitialized value if _read_termtype() does
7113 not read as much data as expected (report by Wolfgang Rohdewald
7115 + correct several places where the aclocal.m4 macros relied on cache
7116 variable names which were incompatible (as usual) between autoconf
7117 2.13 and 2.5x, causing the test for broken-linker to give incorrect
7118 results (reports by Gerben Wierda <Sherlock@rna.nl> and Thomas Esser
7119 <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de>).
7120 + do not try to open gpm mouse driver if standard output is not a tty;
7121 the gpm library does not make this check (bug report for dialog
7122 by David Oliveira <davidoliveira@develop.prozone.ws>).
7125 + modified emx.src to correspond more closely to terminfo.src, added
7126 emx-base to the latter -TD
7127 + add configure option for FreeBSD sysmouse, --with-sysmouse, and
7128 implement support for that in lib_mouse.c, lib_getch.c
7131 + revert 20030105 change to can_clear_with(), does not work for the
7132 case where the update is made on cells which are blanks with
7133 attributes, e.g., reverse.
7134 + improve ifdef's to guard against redefinition of wchar_t and wint_t
7135 in curses.h (report by Urs Jansen).
7138 + improve mvcur() by checking if it is safe to move when video
7139 attributes are set (msgr), and if not, reset/restore attributes
7140 within that function rather than doing it separately in the GoTo()
7141 function in tty_update.c (suggested by Philippe Blain).
7142 + add a message in run_tic.in to explain more clearly what does not
7143 work when attempting to create a symbolic link for /usr/lib/terminfo
7144 on OS/2 and other platforms with no symbolic links (report by John
7146 + change several sed scripts to avoid using "\+" since it is not a BRE
7147 (basic regular expression). One instance caused terminfo.5 to be
7148 misformatted on FreeBSD (report by Kazuo Horikawa
7149 <horikawa@FreeBSD.org> (see FreeBSD docs/46709)).
7150 + correct misspelled 'wint_t' in curs_get_wch.3x (Michael Elkins).
7153 + improve description of terminfo operators, especially static/dynamic
7154 variables (comments by Mark I Manning IV <mark4th@earthlink.net>).
7155 + demonstrate use of FIELDTYPE by modifying test/ncurses 'r' test to
7156 use the predefined TYPE_ALPHA field-type, and by defining a
7157 specialized type for the middle initial/name.
7158 + fix MKterminfo.sh, another workaround for POSIXLY_CORRECT misfeature
7160 > patch by Philippe Blain:
7161 + optimize can_clear_with() a little by testing first if the parameter
7162 is indeed a "blank".
7163 + simplify ClrBottom() a little by allowing it to use clr_eos to clear
7164 sections as small as one line.
7165 + improve ClrToEOL() by checking if clr_eos is available before trying
7167 + use tputs() rather than putp() in a few cases in tty_update.c since
7168 the corresponding delays are proportional to the number of lines
7169 affected: repeat_char, clr_eos, change_scroll_region.
7172 + rewrite of lib_acs.c conflicts with copying of SCREEN acs_map to/from
7173 global acs_map[] array; removed the lines that did the copying.
7176 + change some overlooked tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp()
7177 (report by Philippe Blain).
7178 + modify lib_getch.c to avoid recursion via wgetnstr() when the input
7179 is not a tty and consequently mode-changes do not work (report by
7180 <R.Chamberlin@querix.com>).
7181 + rewrote lib_acs.c to allow PutAttrChar() to decide how to render
7182 alternate-characters, i.e., to work with Linux console and UTF-8
7184 + correct line/column reference in adjust_window(), needed to make
7185 special windows such as curscr track properly when resizing (report
7186 by Lucas Gonze <lgonze@panix.com>).
7187 > patch by Philippe Blain:
7188 + correct the value used for blank in ClrBottom() (broken in 20000708).
7189 + correct an off-by-one in GoTo() parameter in _nc_scrolln().
7192 + change several tputs() calls in scrolling code to use putp(), to
7193 enable padding which may be needed for some terminals (patch by
7195 + use '%' as sed substitute delimiter in run_tic script to avoid
7196 problems with pathname delimiters such as ':' and '@' (report by John
7198 + implement a workaround so that line-drawing works with screen's
7199 crippled UTF-8 support (tested with 3.9.13). This only works with
7200 the wide-character support (--enable-widec); the normal library will
7201 simply suppress line-drawing when running in a UTF-8 locale in screen.
7204 + allow BUILD_CC and related configure script variables to be
7205 overridden from the environment.
7206 + make build-tools variables in ncurses/Makefile.in consistent with
7207 the configure script variables (report by Maciej W Rozycki).
7208 + modify ncurses/modules to allow
7209 configure --disable-leaks --disable-ext-funcs
7210 to build (report by Gary Samuelson).
7211 + fix a few places in configure.in which lacked quotes (report by
7212 Gary Samuelson <gary.samuelson@verizon.com>).
7213 + correct handling of multibyte characters in waddch_literal() which
7214 force wrapping because they are started too late on the line (report
7215 by Sam Varshavchik).
7216 + small fix for CF_GNAT_VERSION to ignore the help-message which
7217 gnatmake adds to its version-message.
7218 > Maciej W Rozycki <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>:
7219 + use AC_CHECK_TOOL to get proper values for AR and LD for cross
7221 + use $cross_compiling variable in configure script rather than
7222 comparing $host_alias and $target alias, since "host" is
7223 traditionally misused in autoconf to refer to the target platform.
7224 + change configure --help message to use "build" rather than "host"
7225 when referring to the --with-build-XXX options.
7228 + modify CF_GNAT_VERSION to print gnatmake's version, and to allow for
7229 possible gnat versions such as 3.2 (report by Chris Lingard
7230 <chris@stockwith.co.uk>).
7231 + modify #define's for CKILL and other default control characters in
7232 tset to use the system's default values if they are defined.
7233 + correct interchanged defaults for kill and interrupt characters
7234 in tset, which caused it to report unnecessarily (Debian #171583).
7235 + repair check for missing C++ compiler, which is broken in autoconf
7236 2.5x by hardcoding it to g++ (report by Martin Mokrejs).
7237 + update config.guess, config.sub (2002-11-30)
7238 + modify configure script to skip --with-shared, etc., when the
7239 --with-libtool option is given, since they would be ignored anyway.
7240 + fix to allow "configure --with-libtool --with-termlib" to build.
7241 + modify configure script to show version number of libtool, to help
7242 with bug reports. libtool still gets confused if the installed
7243 ncurses libraries are old, since it ignores the -L options at some
7244 point (tested with libtool 1.3.3 and 1.4.3).
7245 + reorder configure script's updating of $CPPFLAGS and $CFLAGS to
7246 prevent -I options in the user's environment from introducing
7247 conflicts with the build -I options (may be related to reports by
7248 Patrick Ash and George Goffe).
7249 + rename test/define_key.c to test/demo_defkey.c, test/keyok.c to
7250 test/demo_keyok.c to allow building these with libtool.
7253 + add example program test/define_key.c for define_key().
7254 + add example program test/keyok.c for keyok().
7255 + add example program test/ins_wide.c for wins_wch() and wins_wstr().
7256 + modify wins_wch() and wins_wstr() to interpret tabs by using the
7257 winsch() internal function.
7258 + modify setcchar() to allow for wchar_t input strings that have
7259 more than one spacing character.
7262 + fix a boundary check in lib_insch.c (patch by Philippe Blain).
7263 + change type for *printw functions from NCURSES_CONST to const
7264 (prompted by comment by Pedro Palhoto Matos <plpm@mega.ist.utl.pt>,
7265 but really from a note on X/Open's website stating that either is
7266 acceptable, and the latter will be used in a future revision).
7267 + add xterm-1002, xterm-1003 terminfo entries to demonstrate changes in
7268 lib_mouse.c (20021026) -TD
7269 + add screen-bce, screen-s entries from screen 3.9.13 (report by
7270 Adam Lazur <zal@debian.org>) -TD
7271 + add mterm terminfo entries -TD
7274 + split-out useful fragments in terminfo for vt100 and vt220 numeric
7275 keypad, i.e., vt100+keypad, vt100+pfkeys, vt100+fnkeys and
7276 vt220+keypad. The last as embedded in various entries had ka3 and
7277 kb2 interchanged (report/discussion with Leonard den Ottolander
7278 <leonardjo@hetnet.nl>).
7279 + add check in tic for keypads consistent with vt100 layout.
7280 + improve checks in tic for color capabilities
7283 + check for missing/empty/illegal terminfo name in _nc_read_entry()
7284 (report by Martin Mokrejs, where $TERM was set to an empty string).
7285 + rewrote lib_insch.c, combining it with lib_insstr.c so both handle
7286 tab and other control characters consistently (report by Philippe
7288 + remove an #undef for KEY_EVENT from curses.tail used in the
7289 experimental NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS feature. The #undef confuses
7290 dpkg's build script (Debian #165897).
7291 + fix MKlib_gen.sh, working around the ironically named POSIXLY_CORRECT
7292 feature of GNU sed 4.0 (reported by Ervin Nemeth <airwin@inf.bme.hu>).
7295 + implement logic in lib_mouse.c to handle position reports which are
7296 generated when XFree86 xterm is initialized with private modes 1002
7297 or 1003. These are returned to the application as the
7298 REPORT_MOUSE_POSITION mask, which was not implemented. Tested both
7299 with ncurses 'a' menu (prompted by discussion with Larry Riedel
7300 <Larry@Riedel.org>).
7301 + modify lib_mouse.c to look for "XM" terminfo string, which allows
7302 one to override the escape sequence used to enable/disable mouse
7303 mode. In particular this works for XFree86 xterm private modes
7304 1002 and 1003. If "XM" is missing (note that this is an extended
7305 name), lib_mouse uses the conventional private mode 1000.
7306 + correct NOT_LOCAL() macro in lib_mvcur.c to refer to screen_columns
7307 where it used screen_lines (report by Philippe Blain).
7308 + correct makefile rules for the case when both --with-libtool and
7309 --with-gpm are given (report by Mr E_T <troll@logi.net.au>).
7310 + add note to terminfo manpage regarding the differences between
7311 setaf/setab and setf/setb capabilities (report by Pavel Roskin).
7314 + remove redundant initialization of TABSIZE in newterm(), since it is
7315 already done in setupterm() (report by Philippe Blain).
7316 + add test/inserts.c, to test winnstr() and winsch().
7317 + replace 'sort' in dist.mk with script that sets locale to POSIX.
7318 + update URLs in announce.html.in (patch by Frederic L W Meunier).
7319 + remove glibc add-on files, which are no longer needed (report by
7320 Frederic L W Meunier).
7322 20021012 5.3 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
7323 + modify ifdef's in etip.h.in to allow the etip.h header to compile
7324 with gcc 3.2 (patch by Dimitar Zhekov <jimmy@is-vn.bg>).
7325 + add logic to setupterm() to make it like initscr() and newterm(),
7326 by checking for $NCURSES_TRACE environment variable and enabling
7327 the debug trace in that case.
7328 + modify setupterm() to ensure that it initializes the baudrate, for
7329 applications such as tput (report by Frank Henigman).
7330 + modify definition of bits used for command-line and library debug
7331 traces to avoid overlap, using new definition TRACE_SHIFT to relate
7333 + document tput's interpretation of parameterized strings according to
7334 whether parameters are given, etc. (discussion with Robert De Bath).
7336 20021005 pre-release
7337 + correct winnwstr() to account for non-character cells generated when
7338 a double-width character is added (report by Michael Bienia
7339 <michael@vorlon.ping.de>).
7340 + modify _nc_viswbuf2n() to provide better results using wctomb().
7341 + correct logic in _nc_varargs() which broke tracing of parameters for
7342 formats such as "%.*s".
7343 + correct scale factor in linux-c and linux-c-nc terminfo entries
7344 (report Floyd Davidson).
7345 + change tic -A option to -t, add the same option to infocmp for
7347 + correct "%c" implementation in lib_tparm.c, which did not map a null
7348 character to a 128 (cf: 980620) (patch by Frank Henigman
7349 <fjhenigman@mud.cgl.uwaterloo.ca>).
7351 20020928 pre-release
7352 + modify MKkey_defs.sh to check for POSIX sort -k option, use that if
7353 it is found, to accommodate newer utility which dropped the
7354 compatibility support for +number options (reported by Andrey A
7356 + modify linux terminfo entry to use color palette feature from
7357 linux-c-nc entry (comments by Tomasz Wasiak and Floyd Davidson).
7358 + restore original color definitions in endwin() if init_color() was
7359 used, and resume those colors on the next doupdate() or refresh()
7360 (report by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@komputom.com.pl>).
7361 + improve debug-traces by modifying MKlib_gen.sh to generate calls
7362 to returnBool() and returnAttr().
7363 + add/use _nc_visbufn() and _nc_viswbufn() to limit the debug trace
7364 of waddnstr() and similar functions to match the parameters as used.
7365 + add/use _nc_retrace_bool() and _nc_retrace_unsigned().
7366 + correct type used by _nc_retrace_chtype().
7367 + add debug traces to some functions in lib_mouse.c
7368 + modify lib_addch.c to handle non-spacing characters.
7369 + correct parameter of RemAttr() in lib_bkgd.c, which caused the c++
7370 demo's boxes to lose the A_ALTCHARSET flag (broken in 20020629).
7371 + correct width computed in _tracedump(), which did not account for
7372 the attributes (broken in 20010602).
7373 + modify test/tracemunch to replace addresses for windows other than
7374 curscr, newscr and stdscr with window0, window1, etc.
7376 20020921 pre-release
7377 + redid fix for edit_man.sed path.
7378 + workaround for Cygwin bug which makes subprocess writes to stdout
7379 result in core dump.
7380 + documented getbegx(), etc.
7381 + minor fixes to configure script to use '%' consistently as a sed
7382 delimiter rather than '@'.
7383 > patch by Philippe Blain:
7384 + add check in lib_overlay.c to ensure that the windows to be merged
7385 actually overlap, and in copywin(), limit the area to be touched
7386 to the lines given for the destination window.
7388 20020914 pre-release
7389 + modified curses.h so that if the wide-character version is installed
7390 overwriting /usr/include/curses.h, and if it relied on libutf8.h,
7391 then applications that use that header for wide-character support
7392 must define HAVE_LIBUTF8_H.
7393 + modify putwin(), getwin() and dupwin() to allow them to operate on
7394 pads (request by Philippe Blain).
7395 + correct attribute-merging in wborder(), broken in 20020216 (report
7396 by Tomasz Wasiak <tjwasiak@grubasek.komputom.com.pl>).
7397 > patch by Philippe Blain:
7398 + corrected pop-counts in tparam_internal() to '!' and '~' cases.
7399 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in one place that used sizeof(chtype).
7400 + remove some unused variables from mvcur test-driver.
7402 20020907 pre-release
7403 + change configure script to allow install of widec-character
7404 (ncursesw) headers to overwrite normal (ncurses) headers, since the
7405 latter is a compatible subset of the former.
7406 + fix path of edit_man.sed in configure script, needed to regenerate
7407 html manpages on Debian.
7408 + fix mismatched enums in vsscanf.c, which caused warning on Solaris.
7409 + update README.emx to reflect current patch used for autoconf.
7410 + change web- and ftp-site to invisible-island.net
7411 > patch by Philippe Blain:
7412 + change case for 'P' in tparam_internal() to indicate that it pops
7413 a variable from the stack.
7414 + correct sense of precision and width in parse_format(), to avoid
7416 + modify lib_tparm.c, absorb really_get_space() into get_space().
7417 + modify getwin() and dupwin() to copy the _notimeout, _idlok and
7418 _idcok window fields.
7419 + better fix for _nc_set_type(), using typeMalloc().
7421 20020901 pre-release
7422 + change minor version to 3, i.e., ncurses 5.3
7423 + update config.guess, config.sub
7424 + retest build with each configure option; minor ifdef fixes.
7425 + make keyname() return a null pointer rather than "UNKNOWN STRING" to
7427 + modify handling of wide line-drawing character functions to use the
7428 normal line-drawing characters when not in UTF-8 locale.
7429 + add check/fix to comp_parse.c to suppress warning about missing acsc
7430 string. This happens in configurations where raw termcap information
7431 is processed; tic already does this and other checks.
7432 + modify tic's check for ich/ich1 versus rmir/smir to only warn about
7433 ich1, to match xterm patch #70 notes.
7434 + moved information for ripped-off lines into SCREEN struct to allow
7435 use in resizeterm().
7436 + add experimental wgetch_events(), ifdef'd with NCURSES_WGETCH_EVENTS
7437 (adapted from patch by Ilya Zakharevich - see ncurses/README.IZ).
7438 + amend check in kgetch() from 20020824 to look only for function-keys,
7439 otherwise escape sequences are not resolved properly.
7440 > patch by Philippe Blain:
7441 + removed redundant assignment to SP->_checkfd from newterm().
7442 + check return-value of setupterm() in restartterm().
7443 + use sizeof(NCURSES_CH_T) in a few places that used sizeof(chtype).
7444 + prevent dupwin() from duplicating a pad.
7445 + prevent putwin() from writing a pad.
7446 + use typeRealloc() or typeMalloc() in preference to direct calls on
7450 + add a check in kgetch() for cooked characters in the fifo to avoid
7451 calling fifo_push() when a KEY_RESIZE is available (report/analysis
7452 by Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@courier-mta.com>).
7453 + fix an overlooked case for Redhat #68199 (Philippe Blain).
7454 + ensure clearerr() is called before using ferror() e.g., in
7455 lib_screen.c (report by Philippe Blain).
7458 + modify lib_screen.c and lib_newwin.c to maintain the SCREEN-specific
7459 pointers for curscr/stdscr/newscr when scr_save() and scr_restore()
7460 modify the global curscr/stdscr/newscr variables. Fixes Redhat
7462 + add checks for null pointer in calls to tparm() and tgoto() based on
7463 FreeBSD bug report. If ncurses were built with termcap support, and
7464 the first call to tgoto() were a zero-length string, the result would
7465 be a null pointer, which was not handled properly.
7466 + correct a typo in terminfo.head, which gave the octal code for colon
7468 + remove the "tic -u" option from 20020810, since it did not account
7469 for nested "tc=" clauses, and when that was addressed, was still
7473 + add tic -A option to suppress capabilities which are commented out
7474 when translating to termcap.
7475 + add tic -u option to provide older behavior of "tc=" clauses.
7476 + modified tic to expand all but the final "tc=" clause in a termcap
7477 entry, to accommodate termcap libraries which do not handle multiple
7479 + correct typo in curs_inopts.3x regarding CS8/CS7 usage (report by
7481 + remove a couple of redundant uses of A_ATTRIBUTES in expressions
7482 using AttrOf(), which already incorporates that mask (report by
7484 + document TABSIZE variable.
7485 + add NCURSES_ASSUMED_COLORS environment variable, to allow users to
7486 override compiled-in default black-on-white assumption used in
7487 assume_default_colors().
7488 + correct an off-by-one comparison against max_colors in COLORFGBG
7490 + correct a use of uninitialized memory found by valgrind (reported by
7491 Olaf Buddenhagen <olafBuddenhagen@web.de>).
7492 + modified wresize() to ensure that a failed realloc will not corrupt
7493 the window structure, and to make subwindows fit within the resized
7494 window (completes Debian #87678, Debian #101699)
7497 + fix an off-by-one in lib_pad.c check for limits of pad (patch by
7499 + revise logic for BeOS in lib_twait.c altered in 20011013 to restore
7500 logic used by lib_getch.c's support for GPM or EMX mouse (report by
7502 + remove NCURSES_CONST from several prototypes in curses.wide, to make
7503 the --enable-const --enable-widec configure options to work together
7504 (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@yahoo.com>).
7507 + finish no-leak checking in cardfile.c, using this for testing changes
7509 + simplify _nc_freeall() using delscreen().
7512 + check error-return from _nc_set_tty_mode() in _nc_initscr() and
7513 reset_prog_mode() (report/patch by Philippe Blain).
7514 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52, to address
7515 problem with identifying C++ bool type.
7516 + correct/improve logic to produce an exit status for errors in tput,
7517 which did not exit with an error when told to put a string not in the
7518 current terminfo entry (report by David Gomez <david@pleyades.net>).
7519 + modify configure script AC_OUTPUT() call to work around defect in
7520 autoconf 2.52 which adds an ifdef'd include to the generated
7521 configure definitions.
7522 + remove fstat() check from scr_init(), which also fixes a missing
7523 include for <sys/stat.h> from 20020713 (reported by David Ellement,
7524 fix suggested by Philippe Blain).
7525 + update curs_scanw.3x manpage to note that XSI curses differs from
7526 SVr4 curses: return-values are incompatible.
7527 + correct several prototypes in manpages which used const
7528 inconsistently with the curses.h file, and removed spurious const's
7529 in a few places from curses.h, e.g., for wbkgd() (report by Glenn
7530 Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>).
7531 + change internal type used by tparm() to long, to work with LP64 model.
7532 + modify nc_alloc.h to allow building with g++, for testing.
7535 + add resize-handling to cardfile.c test program.
7536 + altered resizeterm() to avoid having it fail when a child window
7537 cannot be resized because it would be larger than its parent. (More
7538 work must be done on this, but it works well enough to integrate).
7539 + improve a limit-check in lib_refresh.c
7540 + remove check in lib_screen.c relating dumptime to file's modification
7541 times, since that would not necessarily work for remotely mounted
7543 + modify lrtest to simplify debugging changes to resizeterm, e.g.,
7544 t/T commands to enable/disable tracing.
7545 + updated status of multibyte support in TO-DO.
7546 + update contact info in source-files (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
7549 + add Caps.hpux11, as an example.
7550 + modify version_filter(), used to implement -R option for tic and
7551 infocmp, to use computed array offsets based on the Caps.* file which
7552 is actually configured, rather than constants which correspond to
7554 + reorganized lib_raw.c to avoid updating SP and cur_term state if the
7555 functions fail (reported by Philippe Blain).
7556 + add -Wundef to gcc warnings, adjust a few ifdef's to accommodate gcc.
7559 + correct parameters to setcchar() in ncurses.c (cf: 20020406).
7560 + set locale in most test programs (view.c and ncurses.c were the
7562 + add configure option --with-build-cppflags (report by Maksim A
7563 Nikulin <M.A.Nikulin@inp.nsk.su>).
7564 + correct a typo in wide-character logic for lib_bkgnd.c (Philippe
7566 + modify lib_wacs.c to not cancel the acsc, smacs, rmacs strings when
7567 in UTF-8 locale. Wide-character functions use Unicode values, while
7568 narrow-character functions use the terminfo data.
7569 + fix a couple of places in Ada95/samples which did not compile with
7571 + modify mkinstalldirs so the DOS-pathname case is locale-independent.
7572 + fix locale problem in MKlib_gen.sh by forcing related variables to
7573 POSIX (C), using same approach as autoconf (set variables only if
7574 they were set before). Update MKterminfo.sh and MKtermsort.sh to
7578 + add charset to generated html.
7579 + add mvterm entry, adapted from a FreeBSD bug-report by Daniel Rudy
7580 <dcrudy@pacbell.net> -TD
7581 + add rxvt-16color, ibm+16color entries -TD
7582 + modify check in --disable-overwrite option so that it is used by
7583 default unless the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr, in attempt to
7584 work around packagers, e.g., for Sun's freeware, who do not read the
7588 + modify wgetch() to allow returning ungetch'd KEY_RESIZE as a function
7589 key code in get_wch().
7590 + extended resize-handling in test/ncurses 'a' menu to the entire
7591 stack of windows created with 'w' commands.
7592 + improve $COLORFGBG feature by interpreting an out-of-range color
7593 value as an SGR 39 or 49, for foreground/background respectively.
7594 + correct a typo in configure --enable-colorfgbg option, and move it
7595 to the experimental section (cf: 20011208).
7598 + add logic to dump_entry.c to remove function-key definitions that do
7599 not fit into the 1023-byte limit for generated termcaps. This makes
7601 + more improvements to tic's warnings, including logic to ignore
7602 differences between delay values in sgr strings.
7603 + move definition of KEY_RESIZE into MKkeydefs.sh script, to
7604 accommodate Caps.osf1r5 which introduced a conflicting definition.
7607 + add simple resize-handling in test/ncurses.c 'a' menu.
7608 + fixes in keyname() and _tracechar() to handle negative values.
7609 + make tic's warnings about mismatches in sgr strings easier to follow.
7610 + correct tic checks for number of parameters in smgbp and smglp.
7611 + improve scoansi terminfo entry, and add scoansi-new entry -TD
7612 + add pcvt25-color terminfo entry -TD
7613 + add kf13-kf48 strings to cons25w terminfo entry (reported by Stephen
7614 Hurd <deuce@lordlegacy.org> in newsgroup lucky.freebsd.bugs) -TD
7615 + add entrypoint _nc_trace_ttymode(), use this to distinguish the
7616 Ottyb and Nttyb members of terminal (aka cur_term), for tracing.
7619 + correct and simplify logic for lib_pad.c change in 20020518 (reported
7623 + fix lib_pad.c for case of drawing a double-width character which
7624 falls off the left margin of the pad (patch by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij
7625 <lerdsuwa@users.sourceforge.net>)
7626 + modify configure script to work around broken gcc 3.1 "--version"
7627 option, which adds unnecessary trash to the requested information.
7628 + adjust ifdef's in case SIGWINCH is not defined, e.g., with DJGPP
7629 (reported by Ben Decker <deckerben@freenet.de>).
7632 + implement vid_puts(), vid_attr(), term_attrs() based on the narrow-
7633 character versions as well.
7634 + implement erasewchar(), killwchar() based on erasechar() and
7636 + modify erasechar() and killchar() to return ERR if the value was
7638 + correct a bug in wresize() in handling subwindows (based on patch by
7639 Roger Gammans <rgammans@computer-surgery.co.uk>, report by Scott Beck
7640 <scott@gossamer-threads.com>).
7641 + improve test/tclock.c by making the second-hand update more often
7642 if gettimeofday() is available.
7645 + workaround for Solaris sed with MKlib_gen.sh (reported by Andy
7646 Tsouladze <andyt@mypoints.com>).
7649 + correct return-value from getcchar(), making it consistent with
7651 + reorder loops that generate makefile rules for different models vs
7652 subsets so configure --with-termlib works again. This was broken by
7653 logic added to avoid duplicate rules in changes to accommodate cygwin
7654 dll's (reported by George.R.Goffe@seagate.com).
7655 + update config.guess, config.sub
7658 + modify ifdef's in write_entry.c to allow use of symbolic links on
7659 platforms with no hard links, e.g., BeOS.
7660 + modify a few includes to allow compile with BeOS, which has stdbool.h
7661 with a conflicting definition for 'bool' versus its OS.h definition.
7662 + amend MKlib_gen.sh to work with gawk, which defines 'func' as an
7663 alias for 'function'.
7666 + correct form of prototype for ripoffline().
7667 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to test that all functions marked as implemented
7671 + add manpages: curs_get_wstr.3x, curs_in_wchstr.3x
7672 + implement wgetn_wstr().
7673 + implement win_wchnstr().
7674 + remove redefinition of unget_wch() in lib_gen.c (reported by
7675 Jungshik Shin <jshin@jtan.com>).
7678 + modified several of the test programs to allow them to compile with
7679 vendor curses implementations, e.g., Solaris, AIX -TD
7682 + modified test/configure to allow configuring against ncursesw.
7683 + change WACS_xxx definition to use address, to work like Tru64 curses.
7686 + add 'e' and 'm' toggles to 'a', 'A' tests in ncurses.c to demonstrate
7687 effect of echo/noecho and meta modes.
7688 + add 'A' test to ncurses.c to demonstrate wget_wch() and related
7690 + add manpage: curs_get_wch.3x
7691 + implement unget_wch().
7692 + implement wget_wch().
7695 + regenerated html manpages.
7696 + add manpages: curs_in_wch.3x, curs_ins_wch.3x, curs_ins_wstr.3x
7697 + implement wins_wch().
7698 + implement win_wch().
7699 + implement wins_nwstr(), wins_wstr().
7702 + add manpages: curs_addwstr.3x, curs_winwstr.3x
7703 + implement winnwstr(), winwstr().
7706 + add manpages: curs_add_wchstr.3x, curs_bkgrnd.3x
7707 + document wunctrl, key_name.
7708 + implement key_name().
7709 + remove const's in lib_box.c incorrectly leftover after splitting off
7711 + update llib-lncurses, llib-ncursesw, fix configure script related to
7715 + remove quotes on "SYNOPSIS" in man/curs_box_set.3x, which resulted
7716 in spurious symlinks on install.
7719 + implement whline_set(), wvline_set(), add manpage curs_border_set.
7720 + add subtest 'b' to 'F' and 'f' in ncurses.c to demonstrate use of
7721 box() and box_set() functions.
7722 + add subtest 'u' to 'F' in ncurses.c, to demonstrate use of addstr()
7723 given UTF-8 string equivalents of WACS_xxx symbols.
7724 + minor fixes to several manpages based on groff -ww output.
7725 + add descriptions of external variables of termcap interface to
7726 the manpage (report by Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>).
7727 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
7728 + correct configure option --with-bool, which was executed as
7730 + add quotes for parameters of --with-bool and --with-ospeed configure
7732 > patch by Sven Verdoolaege (report by Gerhard Haering
7733 <haering_linux@gmx.de>):
7734 + correct typos in definitions of several wide-character macros:
7735 waddwstr, wgetbkgrnd, mvaddwstr, mvwadd_wchnstr, mvwadd_wchnstr,
7737 + pass $(CPPFLAGS) to MKlib_gen.sh, thereby fixing a missing definition
7738 of _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, e.g., on Solaris
7741 + implement wide-acs characters for UTF-8 locales. When in UTF-8
7742 locale, ignore narrow version of acs. Add 'F' test to test/ncurses.c
7744 + correct prototype in keybound manpage (noted from a Debian mailing
7748 + add several cases to the wscanw() example in testcurs.c, showing the
7750 + implement a simple vsscanf() fallback function which uses the %n
7751 conversion to help parse the input data (prompted by discussion with
7752 Albert Chin-A-Young).
7753 + modify mk-1st.awk and test/Makefile.in to add $(LDFLAGS) when making
7754 shared libraries, and to use $(CFLAGS) when linking test programs
7755 (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
7756 + add a call to _nc_keypad() in keypad() to accommodate applications
7757 such as nvi, which use curses for output but not for input (fixes
7758 Debian #131263, cf: 20011215).
7759 + add entrypoints to resizeterm.c which provide better control over the
7760 process: is_term_resized() and resize_term(). The latter restores
7761 the original design of resizeterm() before KEY_RESIZE was added in
7762 970906. Do this to accommodate 20010922 changes to view.c, but allow
7763 for programs with their own sigwinch handler, such as lynx (reported
7764 by Russell Ruby <russ@math.orst.edu>).
7767 + fix a typo in change to mk-1st.awk, which broke the shared-library
7768 makefile rules (reported by Martin Mokrejs).
7771 + update config.guess, config.sub
7772 + finish changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
7773 + fix a typo in mvwchat() macro (reported by Cy <yam@homerow.net).
7776 + add case in lib_baudrate.c for B921600 (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
7777 + correct missing sed-editing stage in manpage installs which is used
7778 to rename manpages, broken in 20010324 fix for Debian #89939 (Debian
7780 + remove -L$(libdir) from linker flags, probably not needed any more
7781 since HPUX is handled properly (reported by Niibe Yutaka
7783 + add configure check for mbstate_t, needed for wide-character
7784 configuration. On some platforms we must include <wchar.h> to
7785 define this (reported by Daniel Jacobowitz).
7786 + incorporate some of the changes needed to build dll's on cygwin.
7789 + workaround for awk did not work with mawk, adjusted shell script.
7792 + add Caps.osf1r5, as an example.
7793 + modify behavior of can_clear_with() so that if an application is
7794 running in a non-bce terminals with default colors enabled, it
7795 returns true, allowing the user to select/paste text without picking
7796 up extraneous trailing blanks (adapted from patch by Daniel
7797 Jacobowitz <dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu>).
7798 + modify generated curses.h to ifdef-out prototypes for extensions if
7799 they are disabled, and to define curses_version() as a string in that
7800 case. This is needed to make the programs such as tic build in that
7802 + modified generated headers.sh to remove a gzip'd version of the
7803 target file if it exists, in case non-gzip'd manpages are installed
7804 into a directory where gzip'd ones exist. In that case, the latter
7806 + corrected a redundant initialization of signal handlers from 20010922
7808 + clarified bug-reporting address in terminfo.src (report by John H
7809 DuBois III <spcecdt@armory.com>).
7810 > several fixes from Robert Joop:
7811 + do not use "-v" option of awk in MKkey_defs.sh because it does not
7812 work with SunOS nawk.
7813 + modify definitions for libutf8 in curses.h to avoid redefinition
7815 + quoted references to compiler in shell command in misc/Makefile, in
7816 case it uses multiple tokens.
7819 + restore special case from 20010922 changes to omit SA_RESTART when
7820 setting up SIGWINCH handler, which is needed to allow wgetch() to be
7821 interrupted by that signal.
7822 + updated configure macro CF_WITH_PATHLIST, to omit some double quotes
7823 not needed with autoconf 2.52
7824 + revert configure script to autoconf 2.13 patched with
7825 autoconf-2.13-19990117.patch.gz (or later)
7827 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
7828 because autoconf 2.52 macro AC_PROG_AWK does not work on HPUX 11.0
7829 (report by David Ellement <ellement@sdd.hp.com>). This also fixes a
7830 different problem configuring with Mac OS X (reported by Marc Smith
7831 <marc.a.smith@home.com>).
7834 + modify include/edit_cfg.h to eliminate BROKEN_LINKER symbol from
7836 + move prototype for _nc_vsscanf() into curses.h.in to omit
7837 HAVE_VSSCANF symbol from curses.h, which was dependent upon the
7838 ncurses_cfg.h file which is not installed.
7839 + use ACS_LEN rather than SIZEOF(acs_map) in trace code of lib_acs.c,
7840 to work with broken linker configuration, e.g., cygwin (report by
7841 Robert Joop <rj@rainbow.in-berlin.de>).
7842 + make napms() call _nc_timed_wait() rather than poll() or select(),
7843 to work around broken implementations of these on cygwin.
7846 + drop configure macro CF_WIDEC_SHIFT, since that was rendered obsolete
7847 by Sven Verdoolaege's rewrite of wide-character support. This makes
7848 libncursesw incompatible again, but makes the header files almost the
7849 same as in the narrow-character configuration.
7850 + simplify definitions that combine wide/narrow versions of bkgd, etc.,
7851 to eliminate differences between the wide/narrow versions of curses.h
7852 + correct typo in configure macro CF_FUNC_VSSCANF
7853 + correct location of call to _nc_keypad() from 20011215 changes which
7854 prevented keypad() from being disabled (reported by Lars Hecking).
7857 + rewrote ncurses 'a' test to exercise wgetch() and keypad() functions
7858 better, e.g., by adding a 'w' command to create new windows which
7859 may have different keypad() settings.
7860 + corrected logic of keypad() by adding internal screen state to track
7861 whether the terminal's keypad-mode has been set. Use this in
7862 wgetch() to update the keypad-mode according to whether the
7863 associated window's keypad-mode has been set with keypad(). This
7864 corrects a related problem restoring terminal state after handling
7865 SIGTSTP (reported by Mike Castle).
7866 + regenerate configure using patch for autoconf 2.52
7867 autoconf-2.52-patch.gz
7869 ftp://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
7870 + update config.guess, config.sub from
7871 http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/config/config/
7872 + minor changes to quoting in configure script to allow it to work
7876 + modify final checks in lib_setup.c for line and col values, making
7878 + modify acs_map[] if configure --broken-linker is specified, to make
7879 it use a function rather than an array (prompted by an incorrect
7880 implementation in cygwin package).
7881 + correct spelling of configure option --enable-colorfgbg, which
7882 happened to work if --with-develop was set (noted in cygwin package
7884 + modify ifdef for genericerror() to compile with SUNWspro Sun WorkShop
7885 6 update 1 C++ 5.2 (patch by Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu>).
7886 + add configure checks to see if ncurses' fallback vsscanf() will
7887 compile either of the special cases for FILE structs, and if not,
7888 force it to the case which simply returns an error (report by
7889 Sullivan N Beck <sbeck@cise.ufl.edu> indicates that Solaris 8 with
7890 64-bits does not allow access to FILE's fields).
7891 + modify ifdef's for c++/cursesw.cc to use the fallback vsscanf() in
7892 the ncurses library if no better substitute for this can be found
7894 + modify the build to name dynamic libraries according to the
7895 convention used on OS X and Darwin. Rather than something like
7896 libncurses.dylib.5.2, Darwin would name it libncurses. 5.dylib.
7897 There are a few additional minor fixes, such as setting the library
7898 version and compatibility version numbers (patch by Jason Evans
7899 <jevans@apple.com>).
7900 + use 'sh' to run mkinstalldirs, to work around problems with buggy
7901 versions of 'make' on OS/2 (report by John Polterak <jp@eyup.org>).
7902 + correct typo in manpage description of curs_set() (Debian #121548).
7903 + replace the configure script existence-check for mkstemp() by one
7904 that checks if the function works, needed for older glibc and
7908 + modify script that generates fallbacks.c to compile a temporary
7909 copy of the terminfo source in case the host does not contain all of
7910 the entries requested for fallbacks (request by Greg Roelofs).
7911 + modify configure script to accommodate systems such as Mac OS X whose
7912 <stdbool.h> header defines a 'bool' type inconsistent with ncurses,
7913 which normally makes 'bool' consistent with C++. Include <stdbool.h>
7914 from curses.h to force consistent usage, define a new type
7915 NCURSES_BOOL and related that to the exported 'bool' as either a
7916 typedef or definition, according to whether <stdbool.h> is present
7917 (based on a bug report for tin 1.5.9 by Aaron Adams <adamsa@mac.com>).
7920 + added/updated terminfo entries for M$ telnet and KDE konsole -TD
7923 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
7924 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
7925 + add putty terminfo entry -TD
7926 + if configuring for wide-curses, define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, since
7927 this may not otherwise be defined to make test/view.c compile.
7930 + review/correct several missing/generated items in curses.wide, sorted
7931 the lists to make subsequent diff's easier to track.
7934 + add manual pages for add_wch(), echo_wchar(), getcchar(),
7935 mvadd_wch(), mvwadd_wch(), setcchar(), wadd_wch() and wecho_wchar().
7936 + implement wecho_wchar()
7937 + modify _tracedump() to handle wide-characters by mapping them to '?'
7938 and control-characters to '.', to make the trace file readable. Also
7939 dynamically allocate the buffer used by _tracedump() for formatting
7941 + modify T_CALLED/T_RETURN macros to ease balancing call/return lines
7942 in a trace by using curly braces.
7943 + implement _nc_viscbuf(), for tracing cchar_t arrays.
7944 + correct trace-calls in setcchar() and getcchar() functions, which
7945 traced the return values but not the entry to each function.
7946 + correct usage message in test/view.c, which still mentioned -u flag.
7949 + modify configure script to allow building with termcap only, or with
7950 fallbacks only. In this case, we do not build tic and toe.
7951 + add configure --with-termpath option, to override default TERMPATH
7952 value of /etc/termcap:/usr/share/misc/termcap.
7953 + cosmetic change to tack: make menu descriptions agree with menu
7957 + rewrote limit-checks in wscrl() and associated _nc_scroll_window(),
7958 to ensure that if the parameter of wscrl() is larger than the size of
7959 the scrolling region, then the scrolling region will be cleared
7960 (report by Ben Kohlen <bckohlen@yahoo.com>).
7961 + add trace/varargs.c, using this to trace parameters in lib_printw.c
7962 + implement _tracecchar_t2() and _tracecchar_t().
7963 + split-out trace/visbuf.c
7964 + correct typo in lib_printw.c changes from 20010922 (report by Mike
7968 + modify run_tic.sh to check if the build is a cross-compile. In that
7969 case, do not use the build's tic to install the terminfo database
7970 (report by Rafael Rodriguez Velilla <rrv@tid.es>).
7971 + modify mouse click resolution so that mouseinterval(-1) will disable
7972 it, e.g., to handle touchscreens via a slow connection (request by
7973 Byron Stanoszek <gandalf@winds.org>).
7974 + correct mouseinterval() default value shown in curs_mouse.3x
7975 + remove conflicting definition of mouse_trafo() (reported by Lars
7976 Hecking, using gcc 2.95.3).
7979 + simpler fix for signal_name(), to replace the one overlooked in
7980 20010929 (reported by Larry Virden).
7983 + add -i option to view.c, to test ncurses' check for non-default
7984 signal handler for SIGINT, etc.
7985 + add cases for shared-libraries on Darwin/OS X (patch by Rob Braun
7986 <bbraun@synack.net>).
7987 + modify tset to restore original I/O modes if an error is encountered.
7988 Also modify to use buffered stderr consistently rather than mixing
7990 + change signal_name() function to use if-then-else rather than case
7991 statement, since signal-values aren't really integers (reported by
7993 + add limit checks in wredrawln(), fixing a problem where lynx was
7994 repainting a pad which was much larger than the screen.
7997 + fix: PutRange() was counting the second part of a wide character as
7998 part of a run, resulting in a cursor position that was one too far
7999 (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
8000 + modify resizeterm() to not queue a KEY_RESIZE if there was no
8001 SIGWINCH, thereby separating the two styles of SIGWINCH handling
8003 + simplified lib_tstp.c, modify it to use SA_RESTART flag for SIGWINCH.
8004 + eliminate several static buffers in the terminfo compiler, using
8006 + modify MKkeyname.awk so that keyname() does not store its result into
8007 a static buffer that is overwritten by the next call.
8008 + reorganize the output of infocmp -E and -e options to compile cleanly
8009 with gcc -Wwrite-strings warnings.
8010 + remove redefinition of chgat/wchgat/mvwchgat from curses.wide
8013 + add label to test/view.c, showing the name of the last key or signal
8014 that made the screen repaint, to make it clearer when a sigwinch
8016 + use ExitProgram() consistently in the test-programs to make it
8017 simpler to test leaks with dmalloc, etc.
8018 + move hashtab static data out of hashmap.c into SCREEN struct.
8019 + make NO_LEAK code compile with revised WINDOWLIST structs.
8022 + modify tgetent() to check if exit_attribute_mode resets the alternate
8023 character set, and if so, attempt to adjust the copy of the termcap
8024 "me" string which it will return to eliminate that part. In
8025 particular, 'screen' would lose track of line-drawing characters
8026 (report by Frederic L W Meunier <0@pervalidus.net>, analysis by
8030 + specify DOCTYPE in html manpages.
8031 + add missing macros for several "generated" functions: attr_get(),
8032 attr_off(), attr_on(), attr_set(), chgat(), mvchgat(), mvwchgat() and
8034 + modify view.c to agree with non-experimental status of ncurses'
8036 + change the sense of the -r option, making it default to ncurses'
8038 + add a note explaining what functions are unsafe in a signal
8040 + add a -c option, to set color display, for testing.
8041 + unset $data variable in MKterminfo.sh script, to address potential
8042 infinite loop if shell malfunction (report by Samuel Mikes
8043 <smikes@cubane.com>, for bash 2.05.0 on a Linux 2.0.36 system).
8044 + change kbs in mach terminfo entries to ^? (Marcus Brinkmann
8045 <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>).
8046 + correct logic for COLORFGBG environment variable: if rxvt is compiled
8047 with xpm support, the variable has three fields, making it slightly
8048 incompatible with itself. In either case, the background color is
8052 + move calls to def_shell_mode() and def_prog_mode() before loop with
8053 callbacks in lib_set_term.c, since the c++ demo otherwise initialized
8054 the tty modes before saving them (patch by John David Anglin
8055 <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>).
8056 + duplicate logic used to initialize trace in newterm(), in initscr()
8057 to avoid confusing trace of initscr().
8058 + simplify allocation of WINDOW and WINDOWLIST structs by making the
8059 first a part of the second rather than storing a pointer. This saves
8060 a call to malloc for each window (discussion with Philippe Blain).
8061 + remove unused variable 'used_ncv' from lib_vidattr.c (Philippe
8063 + modify c++/Makefile.in to accommodate archive programs that are
8064 different for C++ than for C, and add cases for vendor's C++
8065 compilers on Solaris and IRIX (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
8066 + correct manpage description of criteria for deciding if the terminal
8067 supports xterm mouse controls.
8068 + add several configure script options to aid with cross-compiling:
8069 --with-build-cc, --with-build-cflags, --with-build-ldflags, and
8070 --with-build-libs (request by Greg Roelofs).
8071 + change criteria for deciding if configure is cross-compiling from
8072 host/build mismatch to host/target mismatch (request by Greg Roelofs
8073 <greg.roelofs@philips.com>).
8074 + correct logic for infocmp -e and -E options which writes the data for
8075 the ext_Names[] array. This is needed if one constructs a fallback
8076 table for a terminfo entry which uses extended termcap names, e.g.,
8077 AX in a color xterm.
8078 + fix undefined NCURSES_PATHSEP when configure --disable-database
8082 + fix for VALID_BOOLEAN() macro when char is not signed.
8083 + modify 'clean' rule for C++ binding to work with Sun compiler, which
8084 caches additional information in a subdirectory of the objects.
8085 + added llib-ncursesw.
8088 + add Caps.keys example for experimental extended function keys
8089 (adapted from a patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
8090 + correct parameter types of vidputs() and vidattr() to agree with
8091 header files (report by William P Setzer).
8092 + fix typos in several man-pages (patch by William P Setzer).
8093 + remove unneeded ifdef for __GNUG__ in CF_CPP_VSCAN_FUNC configure
8094 macro, which made ncurses C++ binding fail to build with other
8095 C++ compilers such as HPUX 11.x (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
8096 + workaround for bug in HPUX 11.x C compiler: add a blank after
8097 NCURSES_EXPORT macro in form.h (report by Albert Chin-A-Young)
8098 + ignore blank lines in Caps* files in MKkey_defs.sh script (report by
8099 Albert Chin-A-Young).
8100 + correct definition of key_end in Caps.aix4, which left KEY_END
8101 undefined (report by Albert Chin-A-Young).
8102 + remove a QNX-specific fallback prototype for vsscanf(), which is
8103 obsolete with QNX RTP.
8104 + review/fix some of the T() and TR() macro calls, having noticed that
8105 there was no data for delwin() in a trace of dialog because there was
8106 no returnVoid call for wtimeout(). Also, traces in lib_twait.c are
8107 now selected under TRACE_IEVENT rather than TRACE_CALLS.
8110 + add a _nc_access() check before opening files listed via $TERMPATH.
8111 + using modified man2html, regenerate some of the html manpages to fix
8112 broken HREF's where the link was hyphenated.
8115 + add some limit/pointer checks to -S option of tputs.
8116 + updated/expanded Apple_Terminal and Darwin PowerPC terminfo entries
8117 (Benjamin C W Sittler).
8118 + add a note in curs_termcap.3x regarding a defect in the XSI
8119 description of tgetent (based on a discussion with Urs Jansen
8120 regarding the HPUX 11.x implementation, whose termcap interface is
8121 not compatible with existing termcap programs).
8122 + modify manhtml rule in dist.mk to preserve copyright notice on the
8123 generated files, as well as to address HTML style issues reported by
8124 tidy and weblint. Regenerated/updated corresponding html files.
8125 + comment out use of Protected_Character and related rarely used
8126 attributes in ncurses Ada95 test/demo to compile with wide-character
8130 + implement a simple example in C++ demo to test scanw().
8131 + corrected stdio function used to implement scanw() in cursesw.cc
8132 + correct definition of RemAttr() macro from 20010602 changes, which
8133 caused C++ SillyDemo to not show line-drawing characters.
8134 + modify C++ binding, adding getKey() which can be overridden by user
8135 to substitute functions other than getch() for keyboard processing
8136 of forms and menus (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
8139 + fix some of the trace calls which needed modification to work with
8140 new wide-character structures.
8141 + modify magic-cookie code in tty_update.c to compile with new
8142 wide-character structures (report by <George.R.Goffe@seagate.com>).
8143 + ensure that _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED is defined in curses.priv.h if
8144 compiling for wide-character configuration.
8145 + make addwnstr() handle non-spacing characters (patch by Sven
8149 + add configure check to define _GNU_SOURCE, needed to prop up glibc
8151 + split-out include/curses.wide to solve spurious redefinitions caused
8152 by defining _GNU_SOURCE, and move includes for <signal.h> before
8153 <curses.h> to work around misdefinition of ERR in glibc 2.1.3 header
8155 + extended ospeed change to NetBSD and OpenBSD -TD
8156 + modify logic in lib_baudrate.c for ospeed, for FreeBSD to make it
8157 work properly for termcap applications (patch by Andrey A Chernov).
8160 + correct an overlooked CharOf/UChar instance (reports by Eugene Lee
8161 <eugene@anime.net>, Sven Verdoolaege).
8162 + correct unneeded ifdef for wunctrl() (reported by Sven Verdoolaege)
8165 + change overlooked several CharOf/UChar instances.
8166 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
8167 + correct a typo in wunctrl(), which made it appear that botwc() was
8168 needed (no such function: use btowc()).
8169 + reimplement wide-character demo in test/view.c, using new functions.
8170 + implement getcchar(), setcchar(), wadd_wchnstr() and related macros.
8171 + fix a syntax problem with do/if/while in PUTC macro (curses.priv.h).
8174 + add parentheses in macros for malloc in test.priv.h, fixes an
8175 expression in view.c (report by Wolfgang Gutjahr <gutw@knapp.co.at>).
8176 + add Caps.uwin, as an example.
8177 + change the way curses.h is generated, making the list of function
8178 key definitions extracted from the Caps file.
8179 + add #undef's before possible redefinition of ERR and OK in curses.h
8180 + modify logic in tic, toe, tput and tset which checks for basename of
8181 argv[0] to work properly on systems such as OS/2 which have
8182 case-independent filenames and/or program suffixes, e.g., ".ext".
8185 + add a configure check, if --enable-widec is specified, for putwc(),
8186 which may be in libutf8.
8187 + remove some unnecessary text from curs_extend.3x and
8188 default_colors.3x which caused man-db to make incorrect symbolic
8189 links (Debian #99550).
8190 + add configure check if cast for _IO_va_list is needed to compile
8191 C++ vscan code (Debian #97945).
8192 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege:
8193 + correct code that used non-standard auto-initialization of a struct,
8194 which gcc allows (report by Larry Virden).
8195 + use putwc() in PUTC() macro.
8196 + make addstr() work for the special case where the codeset is
8197 non-stateful (eg. UTF-8), as well as stateful codesets.
8200 + correct loop expression in NEXT_CHAR macro for lib_addstr.c changes
8201 from 20010602 (report by Mike Castle).
8204 + modify mvcur() to avoid emitting newline characters when nonl() mode
8205 is set. Normally this is not a problem since the actual terminal
8206 mode is set to suppress nl/crlf translations, however it is useful to
8207 allow the caller to manipulate the terminal mode to avoid staircasing
8208 effects after spawning a process which writes messages (for lynx
8210 > several patches from Sven Verdoolaege <skimo@kotnet.org>:
8211 + remove redundant type-conversion in fifo_push()
8212 + correct definition of addwstr() macro in curses.h.in
8213 + remove _nc_utf8_outch()
8214 + rename most existing uses of CharOf() to UChar(), e.g., where it is
8215 used to prevent sign-extension in ctype macros.
8216 + change some chtype's to attr_t's where the corresponding variables
8217 are used to manipulate attributes.
8218 + UpdateAttr() was applied to both attributes (attr_t) and characters
8219 (chtype). Modify macro and calls to it to make these distinct.
8220 + add CharEq() macro, use in places where wide-character configuration
8221 implementation uses a struct for cchar_t.
8222 + moved struct ldat into curses.priv.h, to hide implementation details.
8223 + change CharOf() macro to use it for masking A_CHARTEXT data from
8225 + add L() macro to curses.priv.h, for long-character literals.
8226 + replace several assignments from struct ldat entries to chtype or
8227 char values with combinations of CharOf() and AttrOf() macros.
8228 + add/use intermediate ChAttrOf() and ChCharOf() macros where we know
8229 we are using chtype data.
8230 + add/use lowlevel attribute manipulation macros AddAttr(), RemAttr()
8232 + add/use SetChar() macro, to change a cchar_t based on a character and
8234 + convert most internal use of chtype to NCURSES_CH_T, to simplify use
8235 of cchar_t for wide-character configuration. Similarly, use ARG_CH_T
8236 where a pointer would be more useful.
8237 + add stubs for tracing cchar_t values.
8238 + add/use macro ISBLANK()
8239 + add/use constructors for cchar_t's: NewChar(), NewChar2().
8240 + add/use macros CHREF(), CHDEREF(), AttrOfD(), CharOfD() to facilitate
8241 passing cchar_t's by address.
8242 + add/use PUTC_DATA, PUTC() macros.
8243 + for wide-character configuration, move the window background data to
8244 the end of the WINDOW struct so that whether _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED
8245 is defined or not, the offsets in the struct will not change.
8246 + modify addch() to work with wide-characters.
8247 + mark several wide-character functions as generated in curses.h.in
8248 + implement wunctrl(), wadd_wch(), wbkgrndset(), wbkgrnd(),
8249 wborder_set() and waddnwstr().
8252 + add experimental --with-caps=XXX option to customize to similar
8253 terminfo database formats such as AIX 4.x
8254 + add Caps.aix4 as an example.
8255 + modify Caps to add columns for the the KEY_xxx symbols.
8256 + modify configure --with-widec to suppress overwrite of libcurses.so
8258 + add checks to toe.c to avoid being confused by files and directories
8259 where we would expect the reverse, e.g., source-files in the
8260 top-level terminfo levels as is the case for AIX.
8263 + add top-level 'depend' rule for the C sources, assuming that the
8264 makedepend program is available. As a side-effect, this makes
8265 the generated sources, as in "make sources" (prompted by a report
8266 by Mike Castle that "make -j" fails because the resulting parallel
8267 processes race to generate ncurses/names.c).
8268 + modify configure script so that --disable-overwrite option's action
8269 to add a symbolic link for libcurses applies to the static library as
8270 well as the shared library when both are configured (report by Felix
8271 Natter <f.natter@ndh.net>).
8272 + add ELKS terminfo entries (Federico Bianchi
8273 <bianchi@www.arte.unipi.it>)
8274 + add u6 (CSR) to Eterm (Michael Jennings).
8277 + modify test/ncurses.c to work with xterm-256color, which has fewer
8278 color pairs than colors*colors (report by David Ellement
8279 <ellement@sdd.hp.com>).
8282 + corrected screen.xterm-xfree86 entry.
8283 + update comment in Caps regarding IBM (AIX) function-key definitions.
8286 + modify c++/Makefile.in to link with libncurses++w.a when configured
8287 for wide-characters (patch by Sven Verdoolaege).
8288 + add check in _nc_trace_buf() to refrain from freeing a null pointer.
8289 + improve CF_PROG_INSTALL macro using CF_DIRNAME.
8290 + update config.guess, config.sub from autoconf 2.49e (alpha).
8293 + add secondary check in tic.c, similar_sgr() to see if the reason
8294 for mismatch was that the individual capabilities used a time-delay
8295 while sgr did not. Used this to cleanup mismatches, e.g., in vt100,
8296 and remove time-delay from Apple_Terminal entries.
8297 + add Apple_Terminal terminfo entries (Benjamin C W Sittler
8298 <bsittler@iname.com>).
8299 + correct definitions of shifted editing keys for xterm-xfree86 -TD
8300 + fix a bug in test/bs.c from 20010407 (patch by Erik Sigra).
8301 + prevent relative_move() from doing an overwrite if it detects 8-bit
8302 characters when configured for UTF-8 (reported by Sven Verdoolaege
8303 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
8306 + add configure checks for strstream.h vscan function, and similar
8307 stdio-based function which may be used in C++ binding for gcc 3.0
8308 (reports by George Goffe, Lars Hecking, Mike Castle).
8309 + rewrite parts of configure.in which used changequote(). That feature
8310 is broken in the latest autoconf alphas (e.g., 2.49d).
8311 + add a missing pathname for ncurses_dll.h, needed when building in
8312 a directory outside the source tree (patch by Sven Verdoolaege
8313 <skimo@kotnet.org>).
8314 > fix 2 bugs in test/bs.c Erik Sigra <sigra@home.se>:
8315 + no ships were ever placed in the last row or in the last column.
8316 This made the game very easy to win, because you never had to waste
8317 any shots there, but the computer did.
8318 + the squares around a sunken ship that belonged to the player were not
8319 displayed as already hit by the computer, like it does for the
8323 + add some examples of customizing screen's terminfo:
8324 screen.xterm-xfree86, screen.xterm-r6, screen.teraterm -TD
8325 + modify screen's terminfo entry to match the khome/kend in screen
8326 3.09.08 (Debian #92215).
8327 + correct a memory leak in forms library (report by Stefan Vogtner
8328 <stefan@vogtner.de>) (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
8331 + change symbols used to guard against repeated includes to begin
8332 consistently with "NCURSES_" rather than a leading underscore. There
8333 are other symbols defined in the header files which begin with a
8334 leading underscore, but they are part of the legacy interface.
8335 + reorder includes in c++ binding so that rcs identifiers can be
8337 + add .cc.ii rule to c++ makefile, to get preprocessor output for
8339 + correct configure script handling of @keyword@ substitutions when the
8340 --with-manpage-renames option is given (cf: 20000715, fixes Debian
8342 + report stack underflow/overflow in tparm() when tic -cv option is
8344 + remove spurious "%|" operator from xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry,
8345 (reported by Adam Costello <amc@cs.berkeley.edu>, Debian #89222).
8348 + cleanup of newdemo.c, fixing some ambiguous expressions noted by gcc
8349 2.95.2, and correcting some conflicting color pair initializations.
8350 + add missing copyright notice for cursesw.h
8351 + review, make minor fixes for use of '::' for referring to C-language
8352 interface from C++ binding.
8353 + modify configure check for g++ library slightly to accommodate
8354 nonstandard version number, e.g., <vendor>-2.7 (report by Ronald Ho
8355 <rho@mipos2.intel.com>).
8356 + add configure check for c++ <sstream> header, replace hardcoded
8358 + workaround for pre-release of gcc 3.0 libstdc++, which has dropped
8359 vscan from strstreambuf to follow standard, use wrapper for C vscanf
8360 instead (report by George Goffe <grgoffe@excite.com> and Matt Taggart
8361 <taggart@carmen.fc.hp.com>, fixes Debian .
8364 + modify interface of _nc_get_token() to pass 'silent' parameter to it,
8365 to make quieter loading of /etc/termcap (patch by Todd C Miller).
8366 + correct a few typos in curs_slk.3x and curs_outopts.3x manpages
8367 (patch by Todd C Miller).
8370 + compiler-warning fixes (reported by Nelson Beebe).
8373 + modify screen terminfo entry to use new 3.9.8 feature allowing xterm
8377 + broaden patterns used to match OS/2 EMX in configure script to cover
8378 variant used in newer config.guess/config.sub
8379 + remove changequote() calls from configure script, since this feature
8380 is broken in the autoconf 2.49c alpha, maintainers decline to fix.
8381 + remove macro callPutChar() from tty_update.c, since this is no longer
8382 needed (reported by Philippe Blain).
8383 + add a null-pointer check in tic.c to handle the case when the input
8384 file is really empty. Modify the next_char() function in comp_scan.c
8385 to allow arbitrarily long lines, and incidentally supply a newline to
8386 files that do not end in a newline. These changes improve tic's
8387 recovery from attempts to read binary files, e.g., its output from
8388 the terminfo database (reported by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer).
8391 + revert change to c++/demo.cc from 20001209, which changed definition
8392 of main() apparently to accommodate cygwin linker, but broke the demo
8394 + workaround for broken egcs 2.91.66 which calls member functions
8395 (i.e., lines() and colors() of NCursesWindow before calling its
8396 constructor. Add calls to initialize() in a few constructors which
8397 did not do this already.
8398 + use the GNAT preprocessor to make the necessary switch between TRACE
8399 and NO_TRACE configurations (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
8400 > patches by Bernhard Rosenkraenzer:
8401 + modify kterm terminfo entry to use SCS sequence to support alternate
8402 character set (it does not work with SI/SO).
8403 + --with-ospeed=something didn't work. configure.in checked for a
8404 $enableval where it should check for $withval. Also,
8405 ncurses/llib-lncurses still had a hardcoded short.
8408 + correction to my merge of Tom Riddle's patch that broke tic in some
8409 conditions (reported by Enoch Wexler <enoch@wexler.co.il>) -TD
8412 + modify view.c to test halfdelay(). Like other tests, this recognizes
8413 the 's' and space commands for stopping/starting polled input, shows
8414 a freerunning clock in the header. If given a parameter to 's', that
8415 makes view.c use halfdelay() with that parameter rather than
8417 + fix to allow compile with the experimental configure option
8419 + modify postprocess_termcap() to avoid overwriting key_backspace,
8420 key_left, key_down when processing a non-base entry (report/patch by
8422 + modify _nc_wrap_entry(), adding option to reallocate the string
8423 table, needed in _nc_merge_entry() when merging termcap entries.
8424 (adapted from report/patch by Tom Riddle <ftr@oracom.com>).
8425 + modify a few configure script macros to keep $CFLAGS used only for
8426 compiler options, preprocessor options in $CPPFLAGS.
8429 + correct marker positions in lrtest.c after receiving a sigwinch.
8430 + fix ifdef's in ncurses.c to build against pre-5.2 for testing.
8431 + fixes to tclock for resizing behavior, redundant computation (report
8432 and patch by A M Kuchling <akuchlin@mems-exchange.org>).
8435 + improved scoansi terminfo entry -TD
8436 + modify configure script and makefile in Ada95/src to compile a stub
8437 for the trace functions when ncurses does not provide those.
8440 + add ncurses_dll.h and related definitions to support generating DLL's
8441 with cygwin (adapted from a patch by Charles Wilson
8442 <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>, changed NCURSES_EXPORT macro to make it
8443 work with 'indent') -TD
8446 + correct prototypes for some functions in curs_termcap.3x, matching
8447 termcap.h, which matches X/Open.
8448 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
8449 + a revised version of the Ada enhancements sent in by "H.
8450 Nanosecond", aka Eugene V Melaragno <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>. This
8452 - small fixes to the existing ncurses binding
8453 - addition of some more low-level functions to the binding, including
8454 termcap and terminfo functions
8455 - An Ada implementation of the "ncurses" test application originally
8459 + modify logic in lib_setup.c to allow either lines or columns value
8460 from terminfo to be used if the screen size cannot be determined
8461 dynamically rather than requiring both (patch by Ehud Karni
8462 <ehud@unix.simonwiesel.co.il>).
8463 + add check in lib_tgoto.c's is_termcap() function to reject null or
8464 empty strings (reported by Valentin Nechayev <netch@netch.kiev.ua> to
8466 + add definition from configure script that denotes the path-separator,
8467 which is normally a colon. The path-separator is a semicolon on
8468 OS/2 EMX and similar systems which may use a colon within pathnames.
8469 + alter logic to set default for --disable-overwrite option to set it
8470 to 'yes' if the --prefix/$prefix value is not /usr/local, thereby
8471 accommodating the most common cause of problems: gcc's nonstandard
8472 search rules. Other locations such as /usr/local/ncurses will
8473 default to overwriting (report by Lars Hecking <lhecking@nmrc.ie>).
8476 + modify default for --disable-overwrite configure option to disable
8477 if the --prefix or $prefix value is not /usr.
8478 + add cygwin to systems for which ncurses is installed by default into
8479 /usr rather than /usr/local.
8482 + minor optimization in comp_error.c and lib_termname.c, using
8483 strncat() to replace strncpy() (patch by Solar Designer).
8484 + add a use_terminfo_vars() check for $HOME/.termcap, and check for
8485 geteuid() to use_terminfo_vars() (patch by Solar Designer
8487 + improved cygwin terminfo entry, based on patch by
8488 <ernie_boyd@yahoo.com>.
8489 + modify _nc_write_entry() to allow for the possibility that linking
8490 aliases on a filesystem that ignores case would not succeed because
8491 the source and destination differ only by case, e.g., NCR260VT300WPP0
8492 on cygwin (report by Neil Zanella).
8493 + fix a typo in the curs_deleteln.3x man page (patch by Bernhard
8494 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
8497 + add configure option --with-ospeed to assist packagers in transition
8498 to 5.3 change to ospeed type.
8499 + add/use CharOf() macro to suppress sign-extension of char type on
8500 platforms where this is a problem in ctype macros, e.g., Solaris.
8501 + change trace output to binary format.
8502 + correct a missing quote adjustment in CF_PATH_SYNTAX autoconf
8503 macro, for OS/2 EMX configuration.
8504 + rearrange a few configure macros, moving preprocessor options to
8505 $CPPFLAGS (a now-obsolete version of autoconf did not consistently
8506 use $CPPFLAGS in both the compile and preprocessor checks).
8507 + add a check in relative_move() to guard against buffer overflow in
8508 the overwrite logic.
8511 + add message to configure script showing g++ version.
8512 + resync config.guess, config.sub
8513 + modify lib_delwin.c, making it return ERR if the window did not exist
8514 (suggested by Neil Zanella).
8515 + add cases for FreeBSD 3.1 to tdlint and makellib scripts, used this
8516 to test/review ncurses library. (Would use lclint, but it doesn't
8518 + reorganized knight.c to avoid forward references. Correct screen
8519 updates when backtracking, especially to the first cell. Add F/B/a
8522 20001021 5.2 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
8523 + update generated html files from manpages.
8524 + modify dist.mk to use edit_man.sh to substitute autoconf'd variables
8526 + fix an uninitialized pointer in read_termcap.c (report by Todd C
8527 Miller, from report/patch by Philip Guenther <guenther@gac.edu>).
8528 + correct help-message and array limit in knight.c (patch by Brian
8529 Raiter <breadbox@muppetlabs.com>).
8530 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
8531 + fix to avoid warning by GNAT-3.13p about use of inconsistent casing
8532 for some identifiers defined in the standard package.
8533 + cosmetic change to forms/fty_enum.c
8536 + correct an off-by-one position in test/railroad.c which could cause
8537 wrapping at the right margin.
8538 + test/repair some issues with libtool configuration. Make
8539 --disable-echo force libtool --silent. (Libtool does not work for
8540 OS/2 EMX, works partly for SCO - libtool is still very specific to
8542 + change default of --with-manpage-tbl to "no", since for most of the
8543 platforms which do have tbl installed, the system "man" program
8544 understands how to run tbl automatically.
8545 + minor improvement to force_bar() in comp_parse.c (Bernhard
8546 Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>).
8547 + modify lib_tparm.c to use get_space() before writing terminating
8548 null character, both for consistency as well as to ensure that if
8549 save_char() was called immediately before, that the allocated memory
8550 is enough (patch by Sergei Ivanov).
8551 + add note about termcap ML capability which is duplicated between two
8552 different capabilities: smgl and smglr (reported by Sergei Ivanov
8553 <svivanov@pdmi.ras.ru>).
8554 + correct parameter counts in include/Caps for dclk as well as some
8555 printer-specific capabilities: csnm, defc, scs, scsd, smgtp, smglp.
8556 > patch by Johnny C Lam <lamj@stat.cmu.edu>:
8557 + add support for building with libtool (apparently version 1.3.5,
8558 since old versions do not handle -L../lib), using new configure
8559 option --with-libtool.
8560 + add configure option --with-manpage-tbl, which causes the manpages to
8561 be preprocessed by tbl(1) prior to installation,
8562 + add configure option --without-curses-h, which causes the
8563 installation process to install curses.h as ncurses.h and make
8564 appropriate changes to headers and manpages.
8567 + correct order of options/parameters in run_tic.in invocation of tic,
8568 which did not work with standard getopt() (reported by Ethan
8569 Butterfield <primus@veris.org>).
8570 + correct logic for 'reverse' variable in lib_vidattr.c, which was
8571 setting it true without checking if newmode had A_REVERSE set, e.g.,
8572 using $TERM=ansi on OS/2 EMX (see 20000917).
8573 > patch by Todd C Miller:
8574 + add a few missing use_terminfo_vars() and fixes up _nc_tgetent().
8575 Previously, _nc_cgetset() would still get called on cp so the
8576 simplest thing is to set cp to NULL if !use_terminfo_vars().
8577 + added checks for an empty $HOME environment variable.
8578 > patches for OS/2 EMX (Ilya Zakharevich):
8579 + modify convert_configure.pl to support INSTALL. Change compiler
8580 options in that script to use multithreading, needed for the mouse.
8581 + modify OS/2 mouse support, retrying as a 2-button mouse if code fails
8582 to set up a 3-button mouse.
8583 + improve code for OS/2 mouse support, using _nc_timed_wait() to
8584 replace select() call.
8587 + change type of ospeed variable back to short to match its use in
8588 legacy applications (reported by Andrey A Chernov).
8589 + add case to configure script for --enable-rpath on IRIX (patch by
8590 Albert Chin-A-Young).
8591 + minor fix to position_check() function, to ensure it gets the whole
8592 cursor report before decoding.
8593 + add configure option --disable-assumed-color, to allow pre-5.1
8594 convention of default colors used for color-pair 0 to be configured
8595 (see assume_default_colors()).
8596 + rename configure option --enable-hashmap --disable-hashmap, and
8597 reorder the configure options, splitting the experimental and
8599 + add configure option --disable-root-environ, which tells ncurses to
8600 disregard $TERMINFO and similar environment variables if the current
8601 user is root, or running setuid/setgid (based on discussion with
8603 + modified misc/run_tic.in to use tic -o, to eliminate dependency on
8604 $TERMINFO variable for installs.
8605 + add table entry for plab_norm to tput, so it passes in strings
8606 for that capability.
8607 + modify parse_format() in lib_tparm.c to ignore precision if it is
8608 longer than 10000 (report by Jouko Pynnonen).
8609 + rewrote limit checks in lib_mvcur.c using new functions
8610 _nc_safe_strcat(), etc. Made other related changes to check lengths
8611 used for strcat/strcpy (report by Jouko Pynnonen
8612 <jouko@solutions.fi>).
8615 + modify several descriptions, including those for setaf, setab, in
8616 include/Caps to indicate that the entries are parameterized. This
8617 information is used to tell which strings are translated when
8618 converting to termcap. Fixes a problem where the generated termcap
8619 would contain a spurious "%p1" for the terminfo "%p1%d".
8620 + modify ld -rpath options (e.g., Linux, and Solaris) to use an
8621 absolute pathname for the build tree's lib directory (prompted by
8622 discussion with Albert Chin-A-Young).
8623 + modify "make install.man" and "make uninstall.man" to include tack's
8625 + various fixes for install scripts used to support configure --srcdir
8626 and --with-install-prefix (reported by Matthew Clarke
8627 <Matthew_Clarke@mindlink.bc.ca>).
8628 + make configure script checks on variables $GCC and $GXX consistently
8629 compare against 'yes' rather than test if they are nonnull, since
8630 either may be set to the corresponding name of the C or C++ compiler
8631 (report/patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
8634 + modify rs2 capability in xterm-r6 and similar where cursor
8635 save/restore bracketed the sequence for resetting video attributes.
8636 The cursor restore would undo that (report by John Hawkinson
8637 <jhawk@MIT.EDU> (see NetBSD misc/11052)).
8638 + using parameter check added to tic, corrected 27 typos in
8640 + modify tic to verify that its inputs are really files, in case
8641 someone tries to read a directory (or /dev/zero).
8642 + add a check for empty buffers returned by fgets() in comp_scan.c
8643 next_char() function, in case tic is run on a non-text file (fixes
8644 a core dump reported by Aaron Campbell <aaron@cs.dal.ca>).
8645 + add to railroad.c some code exercising tgoto(), providing an
8646 alternate form of display if the terminal supports cursor addressing.
8647 + split-out tgoto() again, this time into new file lib_tgoto.c, and
8648 implement a conventional BSD-style tgoto() which is used if the
8649 capability string does not contain terminfo-style padding or
8650 parameters (requested by Andrey A Chernov).
8651 + add check to tic which reports capabilities that do not reference
8652 the expected number of parameters.
8653 + add error checking to infocmp's -v and -m options to ensure that
8654 the option value is indeed a number.
8655 + some cleanup of logic in _nc_signal_handler() to verify if SIGWINCH
8656 handler is setup. Separated the old/new sigaction data for SIGTSTP
8657 from the other signals.
8660 + add S0, E0 extensions to screen's terminfo entry, which is another
8661 way to solve the misconfiguration issue -TD
8662 + completed special case for tgoto from 20000916
8665 + update xterm terminfo entries to match XFree86 xterm patch #146 -TD
8666 + add Matrix Orbital terminfo entries (from Eric Z Ayers
8668 + add special case to lib_tparm.c to allow 'screen' program to use a
8669 termcap-style parameter "%." to tgoto() for switching character sets.
8670 + use LN_S substitution in run_tic.in, to work on OS/2 EMX which has
8672 + updated notes in README.emx regarding autoconf patches.
8673 + replace a lookup table in lib_vidattr.c used to decode no_color_video
8674 with a logic expression (suggested by Philippe Blain).
8675 + add a/A toggle to ncurses.c 'b' test, which clears/sets alternate
8676 character set attribute from the displayed text.
8677 + correct inequality in parameter analysis of rewritten lib_tparm.c
8678 which had the effect of ignoring p9 in set_attributes (sgr), breaking
8679 alternate character set (reported by Piotr Majka <charvel@link.pl>).
8680 + correct ifdef'ing for GCC_PRINTF, GCC_SCANF which would not compile
8681 with Sun WorkShop compilers since these tokens were empty (cf:
8682 20000902, reported by Albert Chin-A-Young).
8685 + correct an uninitialized parameter to open_tempfile() in tic.c which
8686 made "tic -I" give an ambiguous error message about tmpnam.
8687 + add special case in lib_vidattr.c to reset underline and standout for
8688 devices that have no sgr0 defined (patch by Don Lewis
8689 <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>). Note that this will not work for bold
8690 mode, since there is no exit-bold-mode capability.
8691 + improved patch for Make_Enum_Type (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
8692 + modify tparm to disallow arithmetic on strings, analyze the varargs
8693 list to read strings as strings and numbers as numbers.
8694 + modify tparm's internal function spop() to treat a null pointer as
8696 + modify tput program so it can be renamed or invoked via a link as
8697 'reset' or 'init', producing the same effect as 'tput reset' or 'tput
8699 + add private entrypoint _nc_basename(), use to consolidate related
8700 code in progs, as well as accommodating OS/2 EMX pathnames.
8701 + remove NCURSES_CONST line from edit_cfg.sh to compensate for its
8702 removal (except via AC_SUBST) from configure.in, making
8703 --enable-const work again (reported by Juergen Pfeifer).
8704 + regen'd configure to pick up "hpux*" change from 20000902.
8707 + modify tset.c to check for transformed "reset" program name, if any.
8708 + add a check for null pointer in Make_Enum_Type() (reported by Steven
8709 W Orr <steveo@world.std.com>).
8710 + change functions _nc_parse_entry() and postprocess_termcap() to avoid
8711 using strtok(), because it is non-reentrant (reported by Andrey A
8712 Chernov <ache@nagual.pp.ru>).
8713 + remove "hpux10.*" case from CF_SHARED_OPTS configure script macro.
8714 This differed from the "hpux*" case by using reversed symbolic
8715 links, which made the 5.1 version not match the configuration of
8716 5.0 shared libraries (reported by Albert Chin-A-Young).
8717 + correct a dependency in Ada95/src/Makefile.in which prevented
8718 building with configure --srcdir (patch by H Nanosecond
8719 <aldomel@ix.netcom.com>).
8720 + modify ifdef's in curses.h.in to avoid warning if GCC_PRINTF or
8721 GCC_SCANF was not previously defined (reported by Pavel Roskin
8723 + add MKncurses_def.sh to generate fallback definitions for
8724 ncurses_cfg.h, to quiet gcc -Wundef warnings, modified ifdef's in
8725 code to consistently use "#if" rather than "#ifdef".
8728 + add QNX qansi entries to terminfo -TD
8729 + add os2 entry to misc/emx.src (<jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>).
8730 + add configure option --with-database to allow specifying a different
8731 terminfo source-file to install. On OS/2 EMX, this defaults to
8733 + change misc/run_tic.sh to derive it from misc/run_tic.in, to simplify
8734 setting .exe extension on OS/2 EMX.
8735 + add .exe extension in Ada95/gen/Makefile.in,
8736 Ada95/samples/Makefile.in, for OS/2 EMX (reported by
8737 <jmcoopr@webmail.bmi.net>).
8738 + add configure check for filesystems (such as OS/2 EMX) which do not
8739 distinguish between upper/lowercase filenames, use this to fix tags
8741 + initialize fds[] array to 0's in _nc_timed_wait(); apparently poll()
8742 only sets the revents members of that array when there is activity
8743 corresponding to the related file (report by Glenn Cooper
8744 <gcooper@qantas.com.au>, using Purify on Solaris 5.6).
8745 + change configure script to use AC_CANONICAL_SYSTEM rather than
8746 AC_CANONICAL_HOST, which means that configure --target will set
8747 a default program-prefix.
8748 + add note on cross-compiling to INSTALL (which does not rely on the
8749 AC_CANONICAL_* macros).
8752 + add cases for EMX OS/2 to config.guess, config.sub
8753 + new version of config.guess, config.sub from lynx 2.8.4dev.7
8754 + add definitions via transform.h to allow tic and tput to check for
8755 the transformed aliases rather than the original infotocap, etc.
8756 + simplify transform-expressions in progs/Makefile.in, make the
8757 uninstall rule work for transformed program names.
8758 + change symbol used by --install-prefix configure option from
8759 INSTALL_PREFIX to DESTDIR (the latter has become common usage
8760 although the name is misleading).
8761 + modify programs to use curses_version() string to report the version
8762 of ncurses with which they are compiled rather than the
8763 NCURSES_VERSION string. The function returns the patch level in
8764 addition to the major and minor version numbers.
8767 + modify CF_MAN_PAGES configure macro to make transformed program names
8768 a parameter to that macro rather than embedding them in the macro.
8769 + newer config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in lynx
8771 + add configure option --with-default-terminfo-dir=DIR to allow
8772 specifying the default terminfo database directory (request by Albert
8774 + minor updates for terminfo.src from FreeBSD termcap change-history.
8775 + correct notes in README and INSTALL regarding documentation files
8776 that were moved from misc directory to doc (report by Rich Kulawiec
8778 + change most remaining unquoted parameters of 'test' in configure
8779 script to use quotes, for instance fixing a problem in the
8780 --disable-database option (reported by Christian Mondrup
8781 <scancm@biobase.dk>).
8782 + minor adjustments to work around some of the incompatibilities/bugs
8783 in autoconf 2.29a alpha.
8784 + add -I/usr/local/include when --with-ncurses option is used in
8785 test/configure script.
8786 + correct logic in adjust_cancels(), which did not check both
8787 alternatives when reclassifying an extended name between boolean,
8788 number and string, causing an infinite loop in tic.
8791 + correct a missing backslash in curses.priv.h
8794 + change handling of non_dest_scroll_region in tty_update.c to clear
8795 text after it is shifted in rather than before shifting out. Also
8796 correct row computation (reported by Ruediger Kuhlmann
8797 <uck4@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>).
8798 + add/use new trace function to display chtype values from winch() and
8800 + add trace mask TRACE_ATTRS, alter several existing _tracef calls that
8801 trace attribute changes under TRACE_CALLS to use this.
8802 + modify MKlib_gen.sh so that functions returning chtype will call
8804 + add returnChar() trace, for functions returning chtype.
8805 + change indent.pro to line up parenthesis.
8808 + fix a heap problem with the c++ binding (report by
8809 <alexander_liberson@ninewest.com>, patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
8810 + minor adjustment to ClrToEOL() to handle an out-of-bounds parameter.
8811 + modify the check for big-core to force a couple of memory accesses,
8812 which may work as needed for older/less-capable machines (if not,
8813 there's still the explicit configure option).
8814 > fixes based on diff's for Amiga and BeOS found at
8815 http://www.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de/~kuhlmann/cross/ncurses/
8816 + alter definition of NCURSES_CONST to make it non-empty.
8817 + add amiga-vnc terminfo entry.
8818 + redefine 'TEXT' in menu.h for AMIGA, since it is reported to have
8819 an (unspecified) symbol conflict.
8820 + replaced case-statement in _nc_tracebits() for CSIZE with a table to
8821 simplify working around implementations that define random
8822 combinations of the related macros to zero.
8823 + modify configure test for tcgetattr() to allow for old
8824 implementations, e.g., on BeOS, which only defined it as a macro.
8825 > patches by Bruno Haible:
8826 + when checking LC_ALL/LC_CTYPE/LANG environment variables for UTF-8
8827 locale, ignore those which are set to an empty value, as per SUSV2.
8828 + encode 0xFFFD in UTF-8 with 3 bytes, not 2.
8829 + modify _nc_utf8_outch() to avoid sign-extension when checking for
8833 + correct manlinks.sed script to avoid using ERE "\+", which is not
8834 understood by older versions of sed (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young).
8835 + implement configure script options that transform installed program
8836 names, e.g., --program-prefix, including the manpage names and cross
8837 references (patch by Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com>).
8838 + correct several mismatches between manpage filename and ".TH"
8839 directives, renaming dft_fgbg.3x to default_colors.3x and
8840 menu_attribs.3x to menu_attributes.3x (report by Todd C Miller).
8841 + correct missing includes for <string.h> in several places, including
8842 the C++ binding. This is not noted by gcc unless we use the
8843 -fno-builtin option (reported by Igor Schein <igor@txc.com>).
8844 + modified progs/tset.c and tack/sysdep.c to build with sgttyb
8845 interface if neither termio or termios is available. Tested this
8846 with FreeBSD 2.1.5 (which does have termios - but the sgttyb does
8849 20000708 5.1 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
8850 + document configure options in INSTALL.
8851 + add man-page for ncurses trace functions.
8852 + correct return value shown in curs_touch.3x for is_linetouched() and
8853 is_wintouched(), in curs_initscr.3x for isendwin(), and in
8854 curs_termattr.3x for has_ic() and has_il().
8855 + add prototypes for touchline() and touchwin(), adding them to the
8856 list of generated functions.
8857 + modify fifo_push() to put ERR into the fifo just like other values to
8858 return from wgetch(). It was returning without doing that, making
8859 end-of-file condition incorrectly return a 0 (reported by Todd C
8861 + uncomment CC_SHARED_OPTS for progs and tack (see 971115), since they
8862 are needed for SCO OpenServer.
8863 + move _nc_disable_period from free_ttype.c to comp_scan.c to appease
8864 dynamic loaders on SCO and IRIX64.
8865 + add "-a" option to test/ncurses.c to invoke assume_default_colors()
8867 + correct assignment in assume_default_colors() which tells ncurses
8868 whether to use default colors, or the assumed ones (reported by Gary
8869 Funck <gary@Intrepid.Com>).
8870 + review/correct logic in mk-1st.awk for making symbolic links for
8871 shared libraries, in particular for FreeBSD, etc.
8872 + regenerate misc/*.def files for OS/2 EMX dll's.
8873 + correct quoting of values for CC_SHARED_OPTS in aclocal.m4 for
8874 cases openbsd2*, openbsd*, freebsd* and netbsd* (patch by Peter
8875 Wemm) (err in 20000610).
8876 + minor updates to release notes, as well as adding/updating URLs for
8877 examples cited in announce.html
8878 > several fixes from Philippe Blain <philippe.blain2@freesbee.fr>:
8879 + correct placement of ifdef for NCURSES_XNAMES in function
8880 _nc_free_termtype(), fixes a memory leak.
8881 + add a call to _nc_synchook() to the end of function whline() like
8882 that in wvline() (difference was in 1.9.4).
8883 + make ClearScreen() a little faster by moving two instances of
8884 UpdateAttr() out of for-loops.
8885 + simplify ClrBottom() by eliminating the tstLine data, using for-loops
8888 20000701 pre-release
8889 + change minor version to 1, i.e., ncurses 5.1
8890 + add experimental configure option --enable-colorfgbg to check for
8891 $COLORTERM variable as set by rxvt/aterm/Eterm.
8892 + add Eterm terminfo entry (Michael Jennings <mej@valinux.com>).
8893 + modify manlinks.sed to pick aliases from the SYNOPSIS section, and
8894 several manpages so manlinks.sed can find aliases for creating
8896 + add explanation to run_tic.sh regarding extended terminal
8898 + change message format for edit_cfg.sh, since some people interpret
8900 + correct unescaped '$' in sysv5uw7*|unix_sv* rule for CF_SHARED_OPTS
8901 configure macro (report by Thanh Ma <Thanh.Ma@casi-rusco.com>).
8902 + correct logic in lib_twait.c as used by lib_mouse.c for GPM mouse
8903 support when poll() is used rather than select() (prompted by
8904 discussion with David Allen <DAllen24@aol.com>).
8906 20000624 pre-release
8907 + modify TransformLine() to check for cells with different color pairs
8908 that happen to render the same display colors.
8909 + apply $NCURSES_NO_PADDING to cost-computation in mvcur().
8910 + improve cost computation in PutRange() by accounting for the use
8911 of parm_right_cursor in mvcur().
8912 + correct cost computation in EmitRange(), which was not using the
8913 normalized value for cursor_address.
8914 + newer config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in TIN 1.5.6).
8917 + update config.guess, config.sub (reference version used in PCRE 3.2).
8918 + resync changes to gnathtml against version 1.22, regenerated html
8919 files under doc/html/ada using this (1.22.1.1).
8920 + regenerated html files under doc/html/man after correcting top and
8921 bottom margin options for man2html in dist.mk
8922 + minor fixes to test programs ncurses 'i' and testcurs program to make
8923 the subwindow's background color cover the subwindow.
8924 + modify configure script so AC_MSG_ERROR is temporarily defined to a
8925 warning in AC_PROG_CXX to make it recover from a missing C++ compiler
8926 without requiring user to add --without-cxx option (adapted from
8927 comment by Akim Demaille <akim@epita.fr> to autoconf mailing list).
8928 + modify headers.sh to avoid creating temporary files in the build
8929 directory when installing headers (reported by Sergei Pokrovsky
8933 + regenerated the html files under doc/html/ada/files and
8934 doc/html/ada/funcs with a slightly-improved gnathtml.
8935 + add kmous capability to linux terminfo entry to allow it to use
8936 xterm-style events provided by gpm patch by Joerg Schoen.
8937 + make the configure macro CF_SHARED_OPTS a little smarter by testing
8938 if -fPIC is supported by gcc rather than -fpic. The former option
8939 allows larger symbol tables.
8940 + update config.guess and config.sub (patches by
8941 Kevin Buettner <kev@primenet.com> (for elf64_ia64),
8942 Bernd Kuemmerlen <bkuemmer@mevis.de> (for MacOS X)).
8943 + add warning for 'tic -cv' about use of '^?' in terminfo source, which
8947 + modify echo() behavior of getch() to match Solaris curses for
8948 carriage return and backspace (reported by Neil Zanella).
8949 + change _nc_flush() to a function.
8950 + modify delscreen() to check if the output stream has been closed, and
8951 if so, free the buffer allocated for setbuf (this provides an
8952 ncurses-specific way to avoid a memory leak when repeatedly calling
8953 newterm reported by Chipp C <at_1@zdnetonebox.com>).
8954 + correct typo in curs_getch.3x manpage regarding noecho (reported by
8955 David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>).
8956 + add a "make libs" rule.
8957 + make the Ada95 interface build with configure --enable-widec.
8958 + if the configure --enable-widec option is given, append 'w' to names
8959 of the generated libraries (e.g., libncursesw.so) to avoid conflict
8960 with existing ncurses libraries.
8963 + modify view.c to make a rudimentary viewer of UTF-8 text if ncurses
8964 is configured with the experimental wide-character support.
8965 + add a simple UTF-8 output driver to the experimental wide-character
8966 support. If any of the environment variables LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE or
8967 LANG contain the string "UTF-8", this driver will be used to
8968 translate the output to UTF-8. This works with XFree86 xterm.
8969 + modify configure script to allow building shared libraries on BeOS
8970 (from a patch by Valeriy E Ushakov).
8971 + modify lib_addch.c to allow repeated update to the lower-right
8972 corner, rather than displaying only the first character written until
8973 the cursor is moved. Recent versions of SVr4 curses can update the
8974 lower-right corner, and behave this way (reported by Neil Zanella).
8975 + add a limit-check in _nc_do_color(), to avoid using invalid color
8976 pair value (report by Brendan O'Dea <bod@compusol.com.au>).
8979 + the tack program knows how to use smcup and rmcup but the "show caps
8980 that can be tested" feature did not reflect this knowledge. Correct
8981 the display in the menu tack/test/edit/c (patch by Daniel Weaver).
8982 + xterm-16color does allow bold+colors, removed ncv#32 from that
8986 + correct assignment to SP->_has_sgr_39_49 in lib_dft_fgbg.c, which
8987 broke check for screen's AX capability (reported by Valeriy E Ushakov
8989 + change man2html rule in dist.mk to workaround bug in some
8990 man-programs that ignores locale when rendering hyphenation.
8991 + change web- and ftp-site to dickey.his.com
8994 + move _nc_curr_token from parse_entry.c to comp_scan.c, to work around
8995 problem linking tack on MacOS X DP3.
8996 + include <sys/time.h> in lib_napms.c to compile on MacOS X DP3
8997 (reported by Gerben Wierda <wierda@holmes.nl>).
8998 + modify lib_vidattr.c to check for ncv fixes when pair-0 is not
9000 + add -d option to ncurses.c, to turn on default-colors for testing.
9001 + add a check to _nc_makenew() to ensure that newwin() and newpad()
9002 calls do not silently fail by passing too-large limits.
9003 + add symbol NCURSES_SIZE_T to use rather than explicit 'short' for
9004 internal window and pad sizes. Note that since this is visible in
9005 the WINDOW struct, it would be an ABI change to make this an 'int'
9006 (prompted by a question by Bastian Trompetter
9007 <btrompetter@firemail.de>, who attempted to create a 96000-line pad).
9010 + add mgterm terminfo entry from NetBSD, minor adjustments to sun-ss5,
9012 + modify tack/ansi.c to make it more tolerant of bad ANSI replies. An
9013 example of an illegal ANSI resonse can be found using Microsoft's
9014 Telnet client. A correct display can be found using a VT-4xx
9015 terminal or XFree86 xterm with:
9016 XTerm*VT100*decTerminalID: 450
9017 (patch by Daniel Weaver).
9018 + modify gdc.c to recognize 'q' for quit, 's' for single-step and ' '
9019 for resume. Add '-n' option to force gdc's standard input to
9020 /dev/null, to both illustrate the use of newterm() for specifying
9021 alternate inputs as well as for testing signal handling.
9022 + minor fix for configure option --with-manpage-symlinks, for target
9023 directories that contain a period ('.') (reported by Larry Virden).
9026 + minor additions to beterm entry (feedback from Rico Tudor) -TD
9027 + corrections/updates for some IBM terminfo entries -TD
9028 + modify _nc_screen_wrap() so that when exiting curses mode with
9029 non-default colors, the last line on the screen will be cleared to
9030 the screen's default colors (request by Alexander V Lukyanov).
9031 + modify ncurses.c 'r' example to set nonl(), allowing control/M to be
9032 read for demonstrating the REQ_NEW_LINE operation (prompted by a
9033 question by Tony L Keith <tlkeith@keithconsulting.com>).
9034 + modify ncurses.c 'r' example of field_info() to work on Solaris 2.7,
9035 documented extension of ncurses which allows a zero pointer.
9036 + modify fmt_complex() to avoid buffer overflow in case of excess
9037 recursion, and to recognize "%e%?" as a synonym for else-if, which
9038 means that it will not recur for that special case.
9039 + add logic to support $TERMCAP variable in case the USE_GETCAP symbol
9040 is defined (patch by Todd C Miller).
9041 + modify one of the m4 files used to generate the Ada95 sources,
9042 to avoid using the token "symbols" (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
9045 + add terminfo entries bsdos-pc-m, bsdos-pc-mono (Jeffrey C Honig)
9046 + correct spelling error in terminfo entry name: bq300-rv was given as
9047 bg300-rv in esr's version.
9048 + modify redrawwin() macro so its parameter is fully parenthesized
9049 (fixes Debian #61088).
9050 + correct formatting error in dump_entry() which set incorrect column
9051 value when no newline trimming was needed at the end of an entry,
9052 before appending "use=" clauses (cf: 960406).
9055 + add configure option --with-manpage-symlinks
9056 + change unctrl() to render C1 characters (128-159) as ~@, ~A, etc.
9057 + change makefiles so trace() function is provided only if TRACE is
9058 defined, e.g., in the debug library. Modify related calls to
9059 _tracechar() to use unctrl() instead.
9062 + add screen's AX capability (for ECMA SGR 39 and 49) to applicable
9063 terminfo entries, use presence of this as a check for a small
9064 improvement in setting default colors.
9065 + improve logic in _nc_do_color() implementing assume_default_colors()
9066 by passing in previous color pair info to eliminate redundant call to
9067 set_original_colors(). (Part of this is from a patch by Alexander
9069 + modify warning in _nc_trans_string() about a possibly too-long string
9070 to do this once only rather than for each character past the
9071 threshold (600). Change interface of _nc_trans_string() to allow
9072 check for buffer overflow.
9073 + correct use of memset in _nc_read_entry_source() to initialize ENTRY
9074 struct each time before reading new data into it, rather than once
9075 per loop (cf: 990301). This affects multi-entry in-core operations
9076 such as "infocmp -Fa".
9079 + remove a spurious pointer increment in _nc_infotocap() changes from
9080 20000311. Add check for '.' in format of number, since that also
9081 is not permitted in termcap.
9082 + correct typo in rxvt-basic terminfo from temporary change made while
9083 integrating 20000318.
9086 + revert part of the vt220 change (request by Todd C Miller).
9087 + add ansi-* terminfo entries from ESR's version.
9088 + add -a option to tic and infocmp, which retains commented-out
9089 capabilities during source translation/comparison, e.g., captoinfo
9091 + modify cardfile.c to display an empty card if no input data file is
9092 found, fixes a core dump in that case (reported by Bruno Haible).
9093 + correct bracketing in CF_MATH_LIB configure macro, which gave wrong
9094 result for OS/2 EMX.
9095 + supply required parameter for _nc_resolve_uses() call in
9096 read_termcap.c, overlooked in 20000311 (reported by Todd C Miller).
9097 > patches by Bruno Haible <haible@ilog.fr>:
9098 + fix a compiler warning in fty_enum.c
9099 + correct LIB_PREFIX expression for DEPS_CURSES in progs, tack
9100 makefiles, which resulted in redundant linking (cf: 20000122).
9103 + make ifdef's for BROKEN_LINKER consistent (patch by Todd C Miller).
9104 + improved tack/README (patch by Daniel Weaver).
9105 + modify tput.c to ensure that unspecified parameters are passed to
9107 + add a few checks in infocmp to guard against buffer overflow when
9108 displaying string capabilities.
9109 + add check for zero-uses in infocmp's file_comparison() function
9110 before calling _nc_align_termtype(). Otherwise one parameter is
9111 indexed past the end of the uses-array.
9112 + add an option -q to infocmp to specify the less verbose output,
9113 keeping the existing format as the default, though not retaining the
9114 previous behavior that made the -F option compare each entry to
9116 + adapted patch by ESR to make infocmp -F less verbose -TD
9117 (the submitted patch was unusable because it did not compile
9119 + modify write_entry.c to ensure that absent or cancelled booleans
9120 are written as FALSE, for consistency with infocmp which now
9121 assumes this. Note that for the small-core configuration, tic
9122 may not produce the same result as before.
9123 + change some private library interfaces used by infocmp, e.g.,
9125 + add a check in _nc_infotocap() to ensure that cm-style capabilities
9126 accept only %d codes when converting the format from terminfo to
9128 + modify ENTRY struct to separate the data in 'parent' into the name
9129 and link values (the original idea to merge both into 'parent' was
9131 + discard repair_acsc(tterm);
9132 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9133 + drop support for gnat 3.10
9134 + move generated documentation and html files under ./doc directory,
9135 adding makefile rules for this to dist.mk
9138 + correct conflicting use of tparm() in 20000226 change to tic, which
9139 made it check only one entry at a time.
9140 + fix errors in ncurses-intro.html and hackguide.html shown by Dave
9142 + make the example in ncurses-intro.html do something plausible, and
9143 corrected misleading comment (reported by Neil Zanella).
9144 + modify pnoutrefresh() to set newscr->_leaveok as wnoutrefresh() does,
9145 to fix a case where the cursor position was not updated as in
9146 Solaris (patch by David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com>).
9147 + add a limit-check for wresize() to ensure that a subwindow does not
9148 address out of bounds.
9149 + correct offsets used for subwindows in wresize() (patch by Michael
9150 Andres <ma@suse.de>).
9151 + regenerate html'ized manual pages with man2html 3.0.1 (patch by
9152 Juergen Pfeifer). This generated a file with a space in its name,
9154 + fix a few spelling errors in tack.
9155 + modify tack/Makefile.in to match linker options of progs/Makefile.in;
9156 otherwise it does not build properly for older HPUX shared library
9158 + add several terminfo entries from esr's "11.0".
9161 + make 'tput flash' work properly for xterm by flushing output in
9162 delay_output() when using napms(), and modifying xterm's terminfo to
9163 specify no padding character. Otherwise, xterm's reported baud rate
9164 can mislead ncurses into producing too few padding characters
9166 + add a check to tic for consistency between sgr and the separate
9167 capabilities such as smso, use this to check/correct several
9168 terminfo entries (Debian #58530).
9169 + add a check to tic if cvvis is the same as cnorm, adjusted several
9170 terminfo entries to remove the conflict (Debian #58530).
9171 + correct prototype shown in attr_set()/wattr_set() manpages (fixes
9173 + minor clarification for curs_set() and leaveok() manpages.
9174 + use mkstemp() for creating temporary file for tic's processing of
9175 $TERMCAP contents (fixes Debian #56465).
9176 + correct two errors from integrating Alexander's changes: did not
9177 handle the non-bce case properly in can_erase_with() (noted by
9178 Alexander), and left fg/bg uninitialized in the pair-zero case of
9179 _nc_do_color() (reported by Dr Werner Fink <werner@suse.de> and
9180 Ismael Cordeiro <ismael@cordeiro.com>).
9183 + store default-color code consistently as C_MASK, even if given as
9184 -1 for convenience (adapted from patches by Alexander V Lukyanov).
9185 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
9186 + change can_clear_with() macro to accommodate logic for
9187 assume_default_colors(), making most of the FILL_BCE logic
9188 unnecessary. Made can_clear_with() an inline function to make it
9192 + corrected form of recent copyright dates.
9193 + minor corrections to xterm-xf86-v333 terminfo entry -TD
9194 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
9195 + reworded dft_fgbg.3x to avoid assuming that the terminal's default
9196 colors are white on black.
9197 + fix initialization of tstLine so that it is filled with current blank
9198 character in any case. Previously it was possible to have it filled
9199 with old blank. The wrong over-optimization was introduced in 991002
9200 patch. (it is not very critical as the only bad effect is not using
9201 clr_eos for clearing if blank has changed).
9204 + minor corrections/updates to several terminfo entries: rxvt-basic,
9205 vt520, vt525, ibm5151, xterm-xf86-v40 -TD
9206 + modify ifdef's for poll() to allow it to use <sys/poll.h>, thereby
9207 allowing poll() to be used on Linux.
9208 + add CF_FUNC_POLL macro to check if poll() is able to select from
9209 standard input. If not we will not use it, preferring select()
9210 (adapted from patch by Michael Pakovic <mpakovic@fdn.com>).
9211 + update CF_SHARED_OPTS macro for SCO Unixware 7.1 to allow building
9212 shared libraries (reported/tested by Thanh <thanhma@mediaone.net>).
9213 + override $LANGUAGE in build to avoid incorrect ordering of keynames.
9214 + correct CF_MATH_LIB parameter, must be sin(x), not sqrt(x).
9217 + resync CF_CHECK_ERRNO and CF_LIB_PREFIX macros from tin and xterm -TD
9218 + modify CF_MATH_LIB configure macro to parameterize the test function
9219 used, for reuse in dialog and similar packages.
9220 + correct tests for file-descriptors in OS/2 EMX mouse support. A
9221 negative value could be used by FD_SET, causing the select() call
9222 to wait indefinitely.
9225 + additional fixes for non-bce terminals (handling of delete_character)
9226 to work when assume_default_colors() is not specified.
9227 + modify warning message from _nc_parse_entry() regarding extended
9228 capability names to print only if tic/infocmp/toe have the -v flag
9229 set, and not at all in ordinary user applications. Otherwise, this
9230 warning would be shown for screen's extended capabilities in programs
9231 that use the termcap interface (reported by Todd C Miller).
9232 + modify use of _nc_tracing from programs such as tic so their debug
9233 level is not in the same range as values set by trace() function.
9234 + small panel header cleanup (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
9235 + add 'railroad' demo for termcap interface.
9236 + modify 'tic' to write its usage message to stderr (patch by Todd C
9240 + add prototype for erase() to curses.h.in, needed to make test
9241 programs build with c++/g++.
9242 + add .c.i and .c.h suffix rules to generated makefiles, for debugging.
9243 + correct install rule for tack.1; it assumed that file was in the
9244 current directory (reported by Mike Castle <dalgoda@ix.netcom.com>).
9245 + modify terminfo/termcap translation to suppress acsc before trying
9246 sgr if the entry would be too large (patch by Todd C Miller).
9247 + document a special case of incompatiblity between ncurses 4.2 and
9248 5.0, add a section for this in INSTALL.
9249 + add TRACE_DATABASE flag for trace().
9252 + update mach, add mach-color terminfo entries based on Debian diffs
9254 + add entries for xterm-hp, xterm-vt220, xterm-vt52 and xterm-noapp
9255 terminfo entries -TD
9256 + change OTrs capabilities to rs2 in terminfo.src -TD
9257 + add obsolete and extended capabilities to 'screen' terminfo -TD
9258 + corrected conversion from terminfo rs2 to termcap rs (cf: 980704)
9259 + make conversion to termcap ug (underline glitch) more consistently
9261 + fix out-of-scope use of 'personal[]' buffer in 'toe' (this error
9262 was in the original pre-1.9.7 version, when $HOME/.terminfo was
9264 + modify 'toe' to ignore terminfo directories to which it has no
9266 + modify read_termtype(), fixing 'toe', which could dump core when it
9267 found an incomplete entry such as "dumb" because it did not
9268 initialize its buffer for _nc_read_file_entry().
9269 + use -fPIC rather than -fpic for shared libraries on Linux, not
9270 needed for i386 but some ports (from Debian diffs for 5.0) -TD
9271 + use explicit VALID_NUMERIC() checks in a few places that had been
9272 overlooked, and add a check to ensure that init_tabs is nonzero,
9273 to avoid divide-by-zero (reported by Todd C Miller).
9274 + minor fix for CF_ANSI_CC_CHECK configure macro, for HPUX 10.x (from
9278 + reorder tests during mouse initialization to allow for gpm to run in
9279 xterm, or for xterm to be used under OS/2 EMX. Also drop test for
9280 $DISPLAY in favor of kmous=\E[M or $TERM containing "xterm" (report
9281 by Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de>).
9282 + modify raw() and noraw() to clear/restore IEXTEN flag which affects
9283 stty lnext on systems such as FreeBSD (report by Bruce Evans
9284 <bde@zeta.org.au>, via Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>).
9285 + fix a potential (but unlikely) buffer overflow in failed() function
9286 of tset.c (reported by Todd C Miller).
9287 + add manual-page for ncurses extensions, documented curses_version(),
9288 use_extended_names().
9291 + treat as untranslatable to termcap those terminfo strings which
9292 contain non-decimal formatting, e.g., hexadecimal or octal.
9293 + correct commented-out capabilities that cannot be translated to
9294 termcap, which did not check if a colon must be escaped.
9295 + correct termcap translation for "%>" and "%+", which did not check
9296 if a colon must be escaped, for instance.
9297 + use save_string/save_char for _nc_captoinfo() to eliminate fixed
9298 buffer (originally for _nc_infotocap() in 960301 -TD).
9299 + correct expression used for terminfo equivalent of termcap %B,
9300 adjust regent100 entry which uses this.
9301 + some cleanup and commenting of ad hoc cases in _nc_infotocap().
9302 + eliminate a fixed-buffer in tic, used for translating comments.
9303 + add manpage for infotocap
9306 + add kvt and gnome terminfo entries -TD
9307 + correct translation of "%%" by infotocap, which was emitted as "%".
9308 + add "obsolete" termcap strings to terminfo.src
9309 + modify infocmp to default to showing obsolete capabilities rather
9311 + modify write_entry.c so that if extended names (i.e., configure
9312 --enable-tcap-names) are active, then tic will also write "obsolete"
9313 capabilities that are present in the terminfo source.
9314 + modify tic so that when running as captoinfo or infotocap, it
9315 initializes the output format as in -C and -I options, respectively.
9316 + improve infocmp and tic -f option by splitting long strings that do
9317 not have if-then-else construct, but do have parameters, e.g., the
9318 initc for xterm-88color.
9319 + refine MKtermsort.sh slightly by using bool for the *_from_termcap
9323 + additional fixes for non-bce terminals (handling of clear_screen,
9324 clr_eol, clr_eos, scrolling) to work when assume_default_colors() is
9326 + several small changes to xterm terminfo entries -TD.
9327 + move logic for _nc_windows in lib_freeall.c inside check for nonnull
9328 SP, since it is part of that struct.
9329 + remove obsolete shlib-versions, which was unintentionally re-added
9331 + modify infocmp -e, -E options to ensure that generated fallback.c
9332 type for Booleans agrees with term.h (reported by Eric Norum
9333 <eric@cls.usask.ca>).
9334 + correct configure script's use of $LIB_PREFIX, which did not work
9335 for installing the c++ directory if $libdir did not end with "/lib"
9336 (reported by Huy Le <huyle@ugcs.caltech.edu>).
9337 + modify infocmp so -L and -f options work together.
9338 + modify the initialization of SP->_color_table[] in start_color() so
9339 that color_content() will return usable values for COLORS greater
9341 + modify ncurses 'd' test in case COLORS is greater than 16, e.g., for
9342 xterm-88color, to limit the displayed/computed colors to 16.
9343 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9344 + simplify coding of the panel library according to suggestions by
9346 + improve macro coding for a few macros in curses.priv.h
9349 + modify treatment of color pair 0 so that if ncurses is configured
9350 to support default colors, and they are not active, then ncurses
9351 will set that explicitly, not relying on orig_colors or orig_pair.
9352 + add new extension, assume_default_colors() to provide better control
9353 over the use of default colors.
9354 + modify test programs to use more-specific ifdef's for existence of
9355 wresize(), resizeterm() and use_default_colors().
9356 + modify configure script to add specific ifdef's for some functions
9357 that are included when --enable-ext-funcs is in effect, so their
9358 existence can be ifdef'd in the test programs.
9359 + reorder some configure options, moving those extensions that have
9360 evolved from experimental status into a new section.
9361 + change configure --enable-tcap-names to enable this by default.
9364 + install tack's manpage (reported by Robert Weiner
9365 <robert@progplus.com>)
9366 + correct worm.c's handling of KEY_RESIZE (patch by Frank Heckenbach).
9367 + modify curses.h.in, undef'ing some symbols to avoid conflict with C++
9368 STL (reported by Matt Gerassimoff <mgeras@ticon.net>)
9371 + modify linux terminfo entry to indicate that dim does not mix with
9372 color (reported by Klaus Weide <kweide@enteract.com>).
9373 + correct several typos in terminfo entries related to missing '['
9375 + fix several compiler warnings in c++ binding (reported by Tim
9376 Mooney for alphaev56-dec-osf4.0f
9377 + rename parameter of _nc_free_entries() to accommodate lint.
9378 + correct lint rule for tack, used incorrect list of source files.
9379 + add case to config.guess, config.sub for Rhapsody.
9380 + improve configure tests for libg++ and libstdc++ by omitting the
9381 math library (which is missing on Rhapsody), and improved test for
9382 the math library itself (adapted from path by Nelson H. F. Beebe).
9383 + explicitly initialize to zero several data items which were
9384 implicitly initialized, e.g., cur_term. If not explicitly
9385 initialized, their storage type is C (common), and causes problems
9386 linking on Rhapsody 5.5 using gcc 2.7.2.1 (reported by Nelson H. F.
9388 + modify Ada95 binding to not include the linker option for Ada
9389 bindings in the Ada headers, but in the Makefiles instead (patch by
9392 19991023 5.0 release for upload to ftp.gnu.org
9393 + effective with release of 5.0, change NCURSES_VERSION_PATCH to
9395 + add function curses_version(), to return ncurses library version
9396 (request by Bob van der Poel).
9397 + remove rmam, smam from cygwin terminfo entry.
9398 + modify FreeBSD cons25 terminfo entry to add cnorm and cvvis, as well
9399 as update ncv to indicate that 'dim' conflicts with colors.
9400 + modify configure script to use symbolic links for FreeBSD shared
9401 libraries by default.
9402 + correct ranf() function in rain and worm programs to ensure it does
9404 + hide the cursor in hanoi.c if it is running automatically.
9405 + amend lrtest.c to account for optimizations that exploit margin
9407 + add a simple terminfo demo, dots.c
9408 + modify SIGINT/SIGQUIT handler to set a flag used in _nc_outch() to
9409 tell it to use write() rather than putc(), since the latter is not
9410 safe in a signal handler according to POSIX.
9411 + add/use internal macros _nc_flush() and NC_OUTPUT to hide details
9412 of output-file pointer in ncurses library.
9413 + uncomment CC_SHARED_OPTS (see 971115), since they are needed for SCO
9415 + correct CC_SHARED_OPTS for building shared libraries for SCO
9417 + remove usleep() from alternatives in napms(), since it may interact
9418 with alarm(), causing a process to be interrupted by SIGALRM (with
9419 advice from Bela Lubkin).
9420 + modify terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4 to build/work with
9421 GNAT 3.10 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
9422 + remove part of CF_GPP_LIBRARY configure-script macro, which did not
9423 work with gcc 2.7.2.3
9424 + minor fix to test/tclock.c to avoid beeping more than once per second
9425 + add 's' and ' ' decoding to test/rain.c
9428 + corrected BeOS code for lib_twait.c, making nodelay() function work.
9431 + correct ncurses' value for cursor-column in PutCharLR(), which was
9432 off-by-one in one case (patch by Ilya Zakharevich).
9433 + fix some minor errors in position_check() debugging code, found while
9434 using this to validate the PutCharLR() patch.
9435 + modify firework, lrtest, worm examples to be resizable, and to
9436 recognize 'q' for quit, 's' for single-step and ' ' for resume.
9437 + restore reverted change to terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4,
9438 add a note on building with gnat 3.10p to Ada95/TODO.
9439 + add a copy of the standalone configure script for the test-directory
9440 to simplify testing on SCO and Solaris.
9443 + minor fixes for _nc_msec_cost(), color_content(), pair_content(),
9444 _nc_freewin(), ClrBottom() and onscreen_mvcur() (analysis by Philippe
9445 Blain, comments by Alexander V Lukyanov).
9446 + simplify definition of PANEL and eliminate internal functions
9447 _nc_calculate_obscure(), _nc_free_obscure() and _nc_override(),
9448 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer, analysis by Philippe Blain
9450 + change renaming of dft_fgbg.3x to use_default_colors.3ncurses in
9451 man_db.renames, since Debian is not concerned with 14-character
9452 filename limitation (Debian bug report by Josip Rodin
9453 <joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr>).
9454 + corrected scoansi terminfo entry by testing with scoterm and console.
9455 + revert change from 990614 to terminal_interface-curses-forms.ads.m4,
9456 since this does not work for gnat 3.10p
9457 + modify tclock example to be resizable (if ncurses' sigwinch handler
9458 is used), and in color.
9459 + use $(CC) rather than 'gcc' in MK_SHARED_LIB symbols, used for Linux
9460 shared library rules.
9463 + add newer NetBSD console terminfo entries
9464 + add amiga-8bit terminfo entry (from Henning 'Faroul' Peters
9465 <Faroul@beyond.kn-bremen.de>)
9466 + remove -lcurses -ltermcap from configure script's check for the gpm
9467 library, since they are not really necessary (a properly configured
9468 gpm library has no dependency on any curses library), and if the
9469 curses library is not installed, this would cause the test to fail.
9470 + modify tic's -C option so that terminfo "use=" clauses are translated
9471 to "tc=" clauses even when running it as captoinfo.
9472 + modify CF_STDCPP_LIBRARY configure macro to perform its check only
9473 for GNU C++, since that library conflicts with SGI's libC on IRIX-6.2
9474 + modify CF_SHARED_OPTS configure macro to support build on NetBSD with
9475 ELF libraries (patch by Bernd Ernesti <bernd@arresum.inka.de>).
9476 + correct a problem in libpanel, where the _nc_top_panel variable was
9477 not set properly when bottom_panel() is called to hide a panel which
9478 is the only one on the stack (report/analysis by Michael Andres
9479 <ma@suse.de>, patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
9482 + add acsc string to HP 70092 terminfo entry (patch by Joerg Wunsch
9483 <j@interface-business.de>).
9484 + add top-level uninstall.data and uninstall.man makefile rules.
9485 + correct logic of CF_LINK_FUNCS configure script, from BeOS changes so
9486 that hard-links work on Unix again.
9487 + change default value of cf_cv_builtin_bool to 1 (suggested by
9488 Jeremy Buhler), making it less likely that a conflicting declaration
9489 of bool will be seen when compiling with C++.
9492 + improved configure checks for builtin.h
9493 + minor changes to C++ binding (remove static initializations, and make
9494 configure-test for parameter initializations) for features not
9495 allowed by vendor's C++ compilers (reported by Martin Mokrejs, this
9496 applies to SGI, though I found SCO has the same characteristics).
9497 + corrected quoting of ETIP_xxx definitions which support old versions
9498 of g++, e.g., those using -lg++
9499 + remove 'L' code from safe_sprintf.c, since 'long double' is not
9500 widely portable. safe_sprintf.c is experimental, however, and
9501 exists mainly as a fallback for systems without snprintf (reported
9502 by Martin Mokrejs <mmokrejs@natur.cuni.cz>, for IRIX 6.2)
9503 + modify definition of _nc_tinfo_fkeys in broken-linker configuration
9504 so that it is not unnecessarily made extern (Jeffrey C Honig).
9507 + move definition for builtin.h in configure tests to specific check
9508 for libg++, since qt uses the same filename incompatibly.
9509 + correct logic of lib_termcap.c tgetstr function, which did not copy
9510 the result to the buffer parameter. Testing shows Solaris does
9511 update this, though of course tgetent's buffer is untouched (reported
9512 in Peter Edwards <peter.edwards@ireland.com> in
9513 mpc.lists.freebsd.current newsgroup.
9514 + corrected beterm terminfo entry, which lists some capabilities which
9515 are not actually provided by the BeOS Terminal.
9516 + add special logic to replace select() calls on BeOS, whose select()
9517 function works only for sockets.
9518 + correct missing escape in mkterm.h.awk.in, which caused part
9519 of the copyright noticed to be omitted (reported by Peter
9520 Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>).
9521 > several small changes to make the c++ binding and demo work on OS/2
9522 EMX (related to a clean reinstall of EMX):
9523 + correct library-prefix for c++ binding; none is needed.
9524 + add $x suffix to make_hash and make_keys so 'make distclean' works.
9525 + correct missing $x suffix for tack, c++ demo executables.
9526 + split CF_CXX_LIBRARY into CF_GPP_LIBRARY (for -lg++) and
9527 CF_STDCPP_LIBRARY (for -lstdc++)
9530 + add cygwin terminfo entry -TD
9531 + modify CF_PROG_EXT configure macro to set .exe extension for cygwin.
9532 + add configure option --without-cxx-binding, modifying the existing
9533 --without-cxx option to check only for the C++ compiler
9534 characteristics. Whether or not the C++ binding is needed, the
9535 configure script checks for the size/type of bool, to make ncurses
9536 match. Otherwise C++ applications cannot use ncurses.
9539 + updated configure macros CF_MAKEFLAGS, CF_CHECK_ERRNO
9540 + minor corrections to beterm terminfo entry.
9541 + modify lib_setup.c to reject values of $TERM which have a '/' in
9543 + add ifdef's to guard against CS5, CS6, CS7, CS8 being zero, as more
9544 than one is on BeOS. That would break a switch statement.
9545 + add configure macro CF_LINK_FUNCS to detect and work around BeOS's
9546 nonfunctional link().
9547 + improved configure macros CF_BOOL_DECL and CF_BOOL_SIZE to detect
9548 BeOS's bool, which is declared as an unsigned char.
9551 + add ms-vt100 terminfo entry -TD
9552 + minor fixes for misc/emx.src, based on testing with tack.
9553 + minor fix for test/ncurses.c, test 'a', in case ncv is not set.
9556 + minor correction for 'screen' terminfo entry.
9557 + clarify description of errret values for setupterm in manpage.
9558 + modify tput to allow it to emit capabilities for hardcopy terminals
9559 (patch by Goran Uddeborg <goeran@uddeborg.pp.se>).
9560 + modify the 'o' (panel) test in ncurses.c to show the panels in color
9561 or at least in bold, to test Juergen's change to wrefresh().
9562 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
9563 + Fixes a problem using wbkgdset() with panels. It has actually
9564 nothing to with panels but is a problem in the implementation of
9565 wrefresh(). Whenever a window changes its background attribute to
9566 something different than newscr's background attribute, the whole
9567 window is touched to force a copy to newscr. This is an unwanted
9568 side-effect of wrefresh() and it is actually not necessary. A
9569 changed background attribute affects only further outputs of
9570 background it doesn't mean anything to the current content of the
9571 window. So there is no need to force a copy. (reported by Frank
9572 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>).
9573 + an upward compatible enhancement of the NCursesPad class in the C++
9574 binding. It allows one to add a "viewport" window to a pad and then
9575 to use panning to view the pad through the viewport window.
9578 + suppress a call to def_prog_mode() in the SIGTSTP handler if the
9579 signal was received while not in curses mode, e.g., endwin() was
9580 called in preparation for spawning a shell command (reported by Frank
9581 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>)
9582 + corrected/enhanced xterm-r5, xterm+sl, xterm+sl-twm terminfo entries.
9583 + change test for xterm mouse capability: it now checks only if the
9584 user's $DISPLAY variable is set in conjunction with the kmous
9585 capability being present in the terminfo. Before, it checked if any
9586 of "xterm", "rxvt" or "kterm" were substrings of the terminal name.
9587 However, some emulators which are incompatible with xterm in other
9588 ways do support the xterm mouse capability.
9589 + reviewed and made minor changes in ncurses to quiet g++ warnings
9590 about shadowed or uninitialized variables. g++ incorrectly warns
9591 about uninitialized variables because it does not take into account
9592 short-circuit expression evaluation.
9593 + change ncurses 'b' test to start in color pair 0 and to show in the
9594 right margin those attributes which are suppressed by no_color_video,
9596 + modify ifdef's in curses.h so that __attribute__ is not redefined
9597 when compiling with g++, but instead disabled the macros derived for
9598 __attribute__ since g++ does not consistently recognize the same
9599 keywords as gcc (reported by Stephan K Zitz <zitz@erf.net>).
9600 + update dependencies for term.h in ncurses/modules (reported by
9604 + modify the form demo in ncurses.c to illustrate how to manipulate the
9605 field appearance, e.g, for highlighting or translating the field
9607 + correct logic in write_entry from split-out of home_terminfo in
9608 980919, which prevented update of $HOME/.terminfo (reported by Philip
9609 Spencer <pspencer@fields.utoronto.ca>).
9612 + modify linux terminfo description to make use of kernel 2.2.x mods
9613 that support cursor style, e.g., to implement cvvis (patch by Frank
9614 Heckenbach <frank@g-n-u.de>)
9615 + add special-case in setupterm to retain previously-saved terminal
9616 settings in cur_term, which happens when curses and termcap calls are
9617 mixed (from report by Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@dhc.net>).
9618 + suppress initialization of key-tries in _nc_keypad() if we are only
9619 disabling keypad mode, e.g., in endwin() called when keypad() was
9621 + modify the Ada95 makefile to ensure that always the Ada files from
9622 the development tree are used for building and not the eventually
9623 installed ones (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
9626 + use TTY definition in tack/sysdep.c rather than struct termios
9627 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
9628 + add a fallback for strstr, used in lib_mvcur.c and tack/edit.c,
9629 not present on sysV68 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
9630 + correct definition in comp_hash.c to build with configure
9631 --with-rcs-ids option.
9634 + modified ifdef's for sigaction and sigvec to ensure we do not try to
9635 handle SIGTSTP if neither is available (from report by Philippe De
9637 > patch by Philippe De Muyter:
9638 + in tic.c, use `unlink' if `remove' is not available.
9639 + use only `unsigned' as fallback value for `speed_t'. Some files used
9643 + fix some compiler warnings in tack.
9644 + add a check for predefined bool type in CC, based on report that
9645 BeOS predefines a bool type.
9646 + correct logic for infocmp -e option, i.e., the configure
9647 --with-fallbacks option, which I'd not updated when implementing
9648 extended names (cf: 990301). The new implementation adds a "-E"
9649 option to infocmp -TD
9650 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9651 + introduce the private type Curses_Bool in the Ada95 binding
9652 implementation. This is to clearly represent the use of "bool" also
9653 in the binding. It should have no effect on the generated code.
9654 + improve the man page for field_buffer() to tell the people, that the
9655 whole buffer including leading/trailing spaces is returned. This is
9656 a common source of confusion, so it's better to document it clearly.
9659 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9660 + use pragma PreElaborate in several places.
9661 + change a few System.Address uses to more specific types.
9662 + change interface version-number to 1.0
9663 + regenerate Ada95 HTML files.
9666 + modify lib_endwin.c to avoid calling reset_shell_mode(), return ERR
9667 if it appears that curses was never initialized, e.g., by initscr().
9668 For instance, this guards against setting the terminal modes to
9669 strange values if endwin() is called after setupterm(). In the same
9670 context, Solaris curses will dump core.
9671 + modify logic that avoids a conflict in lib_vidattr.c between sgr0 and
9672 equivalent values in rmso or rmul by ensuring we do not modify the
9673 data which would be returned by the terminfo or termcap interfaces
9674 (reported by Brad Pepers <brad@linuxcanada.com>, cf: 960706).
9675 + add a null-pointer check for SP in lib_vidattr.c to logic that checks
9677 + improve fallback declaration of 'bool' when the --without-cxx option
9678 is given, by using a 'char' on i386 and related hosts (prompted by
9679 discussion with Alexander V Lukyanov).
9682 + include time.h in lib_napms.c if nanosleep is used (patch by
9683 R Lindsay Todd <toddr@rpi.edu>).
9684 + add an "#undef bool" to curses.h, in case someone tries to define it,
9686 + add check to tparm to guard against divide by zero (reported by Aaron
9687 Campbell <aaron@ug.cs.dal.ca>).
9690 + minor fix to build tack on CLIX (mismatched const).
9691 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9692 + change Juergen's old email address with new one in the files where it
9693 is referenced. The Ada95 HTML pages are regenerated.
9694 + update MANIFEST to list the tack files.
9697 + minor fixes to make 'tack' build/link on NeXT (reported by Francisco
9701 + add 'tack' program (which is GPL'd), updating it to work with the
9702 modified TERMTYPE struct and making a fix to support setaf/setab
9703 capabilities. Note that the tack program is not part of the
9704 ncurses libraries, but an application which can be distributed with
9705 ncurses. The configure script will ignore the directory if it is
9707 + modify gpm mouse support so that buttons 2 and 3 are used for
9708 select/paste only when shift key is pressed, making them available
9709 for use by an application (patch by Klaus Weide).
9710 + add complete list of function keys to scoansi terminfo entry - TD
9713 + add a simple test program cardfile.c to illustrate how to read form
9714 fields, and showing forms within panels.
9715 + change shared-library versioning for the Hurd to be like Linux rather
9716 than *BSD (patch by Mark Kettenis <kettenis@wins.uva.nl>).
9717 + add linux-lat terminfo entry.
9718 + back-out _nc_access check in read_termcap.c (both incorrect and
9719 unnecessary, except to guard against a small window where the file's
9720 ownership may change).
9723 + remove conflicting _nc_free_termtype() function from test module
9725 + use _nc_access check in read_termcap.c for termpaths[] array (noted
9726 by Jeremy Buhler, indicating that Alan Cox made a similar patch).
9727 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9728 + modify menu creation to not inherit status flag from the default menu
9729 which says that the associated marker string has been allocated and
9730 should be freed (bug reported by Marek Paliwoda"
9731 <paliwoda@kki.net.pl>)
9733 990327 pre-release (alpha.gnu.org:/gnu/ncurses-5.0-beta1.tar.gz)
9734 + minor fixes to xterm-xfree86 terminfo entry - TD.
9735 + split up an expression in configure script check for ldconfig to
9736 workaround limitation of BSD/OS sh (reported by Jeff Haas
9737 <jmh@mail.msen.com>).
9738 + correct a typo in man/form_hook.3x (Todd C Miller).
9741 + parenthesize and undef 'index' symbol in c++ binding and demo, to
9742 accommodate its definition on NeXT (reported by Francisco A. Tomei
9744 + add sigismember() to base/sigaction.c compatibility to link on NeXT
9745 (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
9746 + further refinements to inequality in hashmap.c to cover a case with
9747 ^U in nvi (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
9750 + add fallback definition for getcwd, to link on NeXT.
9751 + add a copy of cur_term to tic.c to make it link properly on NeXT
9752 (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
9753 + change inequality in hashmap.c which checks the distance traveled by
9754 a chunk so that ^D command in nvi (scrolls 1/2 screen) will use
9755 scrolling logic (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov, reported by Jeffrey
9759 + modify lib_color.c to handle a special case where the curscr
9760 attributes have been made obsolete (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
9761 + update BSD/OS console terminfo entries to use klone+sgr and
9762 klone+color (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
9763 + update glibc addon configure script for extended capabilities.
9764 + correct a couple of warnings in the --enable-const configuration.
9765 + make comp_hash build properly with _nc_strdup(), on NeXT (reported by
9766 Francisco A. Tomei Torres <francisco.tomei@cwix.com>).
9769 + correct typos in linux-c initc string - TD
9770 + add 'crt' terminfo entry, update xterm-xfree86 entry - TD
9771 + remove a spurious argument to tparm() in lib_sklrefr.c (patch by
9772 Alexander V Lukyanov).
9775 + back-out change to wgetch because it causes a problem with ^Z
9776 handling in lynx (reported by Kim DeVaughn).
9779 + add -G option to tic and infocmp, to reverse the "-g" option.
9780 + recode functions in name_match.c to avoid use of strncpy, which
9781 caused a 4-fold slowdown in tic (cf: 980530).
9782 + correct a few warnings about sign-extension in recent changes.
9783 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
9784 + fixes suggested by Jeff Bradbury <jibradbury@lucent.com>:
9785 + improved parameter checking in new_fieldtype().
9786 + fixed a typo in wgetch() timeout handling.
9787 + allow slk_init() to be called per newterm call. The internal SLK
9788 state is stored in the SCREEN struct after every newterm() and then
9789 reset for the next newterm.
9790 + fix the problem that a slk_refresh() refreshes stdscr if the
9791 terminal has true SLKs.
9792 + update HTML documentation for Ada binding.
9795 + remove 'bool' casts from definitions of TRUE/FALSE so that statements
9796 such as "#if TRUE" work. This was originally done to allow for a C++
9797 compiler which would warn of implicit conversions between enum and
9798 int, but is not needed for g++ (reported by Kim DeVaughn).
9799 + add use_extended_names() function to allow applications to suppress
9800 read of the extended capabilities.
9801 + add configure option --enable-tcap-names to support logic which
9802 allows ncurses' tic to define new (i.e., extended) terminal
9803 capabilities. This is activated by the tic -x switch. The infocmp
9804 program automatically shows or compares extended capabilities.
9805 Note: This changes the Strings and similar arrays in the TERMTYPE
9806 struct so that applications which manipulate it must be recompiled.
9807 + use macros typeMalloc, typeCalloc and typeRealloc consistently
9808 throughout ncurses library.
9809 + add _nc_strdup() to doalloc.c.
9810 + modify define_key() to allow multiple strings to be bound to the
9812 + correct logic error in _nc_remove_string, from 990220.
9813 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
9814 + regenerate some of the html documentation
9815 + minor cleanup in terminal_interface-curses.adb
9818 + resolve ambiguity of kend/kll/kslt and khome/kfnd/kich1 strings in
9819 xterm and ncsa terminfo entries by removing the unneeded ones. Note
9820 that some entries will return kend & khome versus kslt and kfnd, for
9821 PC-style keyboards versus strict vt220 compatiblity - TD
9822 + add function keybound(), which returns the definition associated with
9824 + modify define_key() to undefine the given string when no keycode is
9826 + modify keyok() so it works properly if there is more than one string
9827 defined for a keycode.
9828 + add check to tic to warn about terminfo descriptions that contain
9829 more than one key assigned to the same string. This is shown only if
9830 the verbose (-v) option is given. Moved related logic (tic -v) from
9831 comp_parse.c into the tic program.
9832 + add/use _nc_trace_tries() to show the function keys that will be
9834 + rename init_acs to _nc_init_acs (request by Alexander V Lukyanov).
9835 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
9836 + remove all the *_adabind.c from ncurses, menu and form projects.
9837 Those little helper routines have all been implemented in Ada and are
9839 + The option handling routines in menu and form have been made more
9840 save. They now make sure that the unused bits in options are always
9842 + modify configuration scripts to
9843 + use gnatmake as default compiler name. This is a safer choice than
9844 gcc, because some GNAT implementations use other names for the
9845 compilerdriver to avoid conflicts.
9846 + use new default installation locations for the Ada files according
9847 to the proposed GNU Ada filesystem standard (for Linux).
9848 + simplify the Makefiles for the Ada binding
9849 + rename ada_include directory to src.
9852 + enable sigwinch handler by default.
9853 + disable logic that allows setbuf to be turned off/on, because some
9854 implementations will overrun the buffer after it has been disabled
9858 + suppress sc/rc capabilities from terminal description if they appear
9859 in smcup/rmcup. This affects only scrolling optimization, to fix a
9860 problem reported by several people with xterm's alternate screen,
9861 though the problem is more general.
9862 > patch for Ada95 binding (Juergen Pfeifer):
9863 + removed all pragma Preelaborate() stuff, because the just released
9864 gnat-3.11p complains on some constructs.
9865 + fixed some upper/lower case notations because gnat-3.11p found
9867 + used a new method to generate the HTML documentation of the Ada95
9868 binding. This invalidates nearly the whole ./Ada95/html subtree.
9869 Nearly all current files in this subtree are removed
9872 + cache last result from _nc_baudrate, for performance (suggested by
9873 Alexander V Lukyanov).
9874 + modify ClrUpdate() function to workaround a problem in nvi, which
9875 uses redrawwin in SIGTSTP handling. Jeffrey C Honig reported that
9876 ncurses repainted the screen with nulls before resuming normal
9877 operation (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
9878 + generalize is_xterm() function a little by letting xterm/rxvt/kterm
9879 be any substring rather than the prefix.
9880 + modify lib_data.c to initialize SP. Some linkers, e.g., IBM's, will
9881 not link a module if the only symbols exported from the module are
9882 uninitialized ones (patch by Ilya Zakharevich). Ilya says that he
9883 has seen messages claiming this behavior conforms to the standard.)
9884 + move call on _nc_signal_handler past _nc_initscr, to avoid a small
9885 window where Nttyb hasn't yet been filled (reported by Klaus Weide).
9886 + modify lib_tstp.c to block SIGTTOU when handling SIGTSTP, fixes a
9887 problem where ncurses applications which were run via a shell script
9888 would hang when given a ^Z. Also, check if the terminal's process
9889 group is consistent, i.e., a shell has not taken ownership of it,
9890 before deciding to save the current terminal settings in the SIGTSTP
9891 handler (patch by Klaus Weide).
9892 + correct spelling of ACS_ names in curs_border.3x (reported by Bob van
9893 der Poel <bvdpoel@kootenay.com>).
9894 + correct a couple of typos in the macros supporting the configure
9895 --with-shlib-version option.
9898 + modify fty_regex.c to compile on HAVE_REGEXPR_H_FUNCS machine (patch
9899 by Kimio Ishii <ishii@csl.sony.co.jp>).
9900 + rename BSDI console terminfo entries: bsdos to bsdos-pc-nobold, and
9901 bsdos-bold to bsdos-pc (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
9902 + modify tput to accept termcap names as an alternative to terminfo
9903 names (patch by Jeffrey C Honig).
9904 + correct a typo in term.7 (Todd C Miller).
9905 + add configure --with-shlib-version option to allow installing shared
9906 libraries named according to release or ABI versions. This
9907 parameterizes some existing logic in the configure script, and is
9908 intended for compatiblity upgrades on Digital Unix, which used
9909 versioned libraries in ncurses 4.2, but no longer does (cf: 980425).
9910 + resync configure script against autoconf 2.13 + patches
9911 + minor improvements for teraterm terminfo entry based on the program's
9912 source distribution.
9915 + change default for configure --enable-big-core to assume machines do
9916 have enough memory to resolve terminfo.src in-memory.
9917 + correct name of ncurses library in TEST_ARGS when configuring with
9919 + minor fixes to compile ncurses library with broken-linker with g++.
9920 + add --enable-broken-linker configure option, default to environment
9921 variable $BROKEN_LINKER (request by Jeffrey C Honig).
9922 + change key_names[] array to static since it is not part of the curses
9923 interface (reported by Jeffrey C Honig <jch@bsdi.com>).
9926 + add Tera Term terminfo entry - TD
9929 + reviewed/corrected macros in curses.h as per XSI document.
9930 + provide support for termcap PC variable by copying it from terminfo
9931 data and using it as the padding character in tputs (reported by
9932 Alexander V Lukyanov).
9933 + corrected iris-ansi and iris-ansi-ap terminfo entries for kent and
9934 kf9-kf12 capabilities, as well as adding kcbt.
9935 + document the mouse handling mechanism in menu_driver and make a small
9936 change in menu_driver's return codes to provide more consistency
9937 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
9938 + add fallback definition for NCURSES_CONST to termcap.h.in (reported
9939 by Uchiyama Yasushi <uch@nop.or.jp>).
9940 + move lib_restart.c to ncurses/base, since it uses curses functions
9941 directly, and therefore cannot be used in libtinfo.so
9942 + rename micro_char_size to micro_col_size, adding #define to retain
9944 + add set_a_attributes and set_pglen_inch to terminfo structure, as per
9945 XSI and Solaris 2.5.
9946 + minor makefile files to build ncurses test_progs
9947 + update html files in misc directory to reflect changes since 4.2
9950 + disable scroll hints when hashmap is enabled (patch by Alexander
9952 + move logic for tic's verify of -e option versus -I and -C so that the
9953 terminfo data is not processed if we cannot handle -e (reported by
9954 Steven Schwartz <steves@unitrends.com>.
9955 + add test-driver traces to terminfo and termcap functions.
9956 + provide support for termcap ospeed variable by copying it from the
9957 internal cur_term member, and using ospeed as the baudrate reference
9958 for the delay_output and tputs functions. If an application does not
9959 set ospeed, the library behaves as before, except that _nc_timed_wait
9960 is no longer used, or needed, since ospeed always has a value. But
9961 the application can modify ospeed to adjust the output of padding
9962 characters (prompted by a bug report for screen 3.7.6 and email from
9963 Michael Schroeder <Michael.Schroeder@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>).
9964 + removed some unused ifdef's as part of Alexander's restructuring.
9965 + reviewed/updated curses.h, term.h against X/Open Curses Issue 4
9966 Version 2. This includes making some parameters NCURSES_CONST
9967 rather than const, e.g., in termcap.h.
9968 + change linux terminfo entry to use ncv#2, since underline does not
9972 + miscellaneous corrections for curses.h to match XSI.
9973 + change --enable-no-padding configure option to be normally enabled.
9974 + add section to ncurses manpage for environment variables.
9975 + investigated Debian bug report that pertains to screen 3.7.4/3.7.6
9976 changes, found no sign of problems on Linux (or on SunOS, Solaris)
9977 running screen built with ncurses.
9978 + check if tmp_fp is opened in tic.c before closing it (patch by Pavel
9979 Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>).
9980 + correct several font specification typos in man-pages.
9983 + correct default value for BUILD_CC (reported by Larry Virden).
9986 + modify _nc_set_writedir() to set a flag in _nc_tic_dir() to prevent
9987 it from changing the terminfo directory after chdir'ing to it.
9988 Otherwise, a relative path in $TERMINFO would confuse tic (prompted
9989 by a Debian bug report).
9990 + correct/update ncsa terminfo entry (report by Larry Virden).
9991 + update xterm-xfree86 terminfo to current (patch 90), smcur/rmcur
9993 + add Mathew Vernon's mach console entries to terminfo.src
9994 + more changes, moving functions, as part of Alexander's restructuring.
9995 + modify configure script for GNU/Hurd share-library support, introduce
9996 BUILD_CC variable for cross compiling (patch by Uchiyama Yasushi
10000 + add environment variable NCURSES_NO_SETBUF to allow disabling the
10001 setbuf feature, for testing purposes.
10002 + correct ifdef's for termcap.h versus term.h that suppress redundant
10003 declarations of prototypes (reported by H.J.Lu).
10004 + modify Makefile.os2 to add linker flags which allow multiple copies
10005 of an application to coexist (reported by Ilya Zakharevich).
10006 + update Makefile.glibc and associated configure script so that ncurses
10007 builds as a glibc add-on with the new directory configuration
10008 (reported by H.J.Lu).
10011 + modify gen_reps() function in gen.c to work properly on SunOS
10012 (sparc), which is a left-to-right architecture.
10013 + modify relative_move and tputs to avoid an interaction with the
10014 BSD-style padding. The relative_move function could produce a string
10015 to replace on the screen which began with a numeric character, which
10016 was then interpreted by tputs as padding. Now relative_move will not
10017 generate a string with a leading digit in that case (overwrite).
10018 Also, tputs will only interpret padding if the string begins with a
10019 digit; as coded it permitted a string to begin with a decimal point
10020 or asterisk (reported by Larry Virden).
10021 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
10022 + fix a typo in m_driver.c mouse handling and improves the error
10024 + fix broken mouse handling in the Ada95 binding
10025 + make the Ada95 sample application menus work with the new menu mouse
10027 + improve the mouse handling introduced by Ilya; it now handles menus
10029 + repair a minor bug in the menu_driver code discovered during this
10031 + add new function wmouse_trafo() to hide implementation details of
10032 _yoffset member of WINDOW struct needed for mouse coordinate
10036 + modify Ada95/gen/gen.c to avoid using return-value of sprintf, since
10037 some older implementations (e.g., SunOS 4.x) return the buffer
10038 address rather than its length.
10039 > patch by Rick Ohnemus:
10040 + modify demo.cc to get it to compile with newer versions of egcs.
10041 + trim a space that appears at the end of the table preprocessor lines
10042 ('\" t). This space prevents some versions of man from displaying
10043 the pages - changed to remove all trailing whitespace (TD)
10044 + finally, 'make clean' does not remove panel objects.
10045 > patches by Ilya Zakharevich:
10046 + allow remapping of OS/2 mouse buttons using environment variable
10047 MOUSE_BUTTONS_123 with the default value 132.
10048 + add mouse support to ncurses menus.
10051 + modify misc/makedef.cmd to report old-style .def file symbols, and to
10052 generate the .def files sorted by increasing names rather than the
10054 + add misc/*.ref which are J.J.G.Ripoll's dll definition files (renamed
10055 from misc/*.old), and updated based on the entrypoint coding he used
10056 for an older version of ncurses.
10057 + add README.emx, to document how to build on OS/2 EMX.
10058 + updates for config.guess, config.sub from Lynx
10059 > patches by Ilya Zakharevich:
10060 + minor fixes for mouse handling mode:
10061 a) Do not initialize mouse if the request is to have no mouse;
10062 b) Allow switching of OS/2 VIO mouse on and off.
10063 + modify Makefile.os2 to support alternative means of generating
10064 configure script, by translating Unix script with Perl.
10065 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
10066 + Updates MANIFEST to reflect changes in source structure
10067 + Eliminates a problem introduced with my last patch for the C++
10068 binding in the panels code. It removes the update() call done in the
10070 + Changes in the Ada95 binding to better support systems where
10071 sizeof(chtype)!=sizeof(int) (e.g. DEC Alpha).
10074 + modify install-script for manpages to skip over .orig and .rej files
10075 (request by Larry Virden).
10076 > patches/discussion by Alexander V Lukyanov:
10077 + move base-library sources into ncurses/base and tty (serial terminal)
10078 sources into ncurses/tty, as part of Alexander V Lukyanov's proposed
10079 changes to ncurses library.
10080 + copy _tracemouse() into ncurses.c so that lib_tracemse.c need not
10081 be linked into the normal ncurses library.
10082 + move macro winch to a function, to hide details of struct ldat
10083 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
10084 + fix a potential compile problem in cursesw.cc
10085 + some Ada95 cosmetics
10086 + fix a gen.c problem when compiling on 64-Bit machines
10087 + fix Ada95/gen/Makefile.in "-L" linker switch
10088 + modify Ada95 makefiles to use the INSTALL_PREFIX setting.
10091 + ifdef'd out lib_freeall.c when not configured.
10092 + rename _tracebits() to _nc_tracebits().
10093 + move terminfo-library sources into ncurses/tinfo, and trace-support
10094 functions into ncurses/trace as part of Alexander V Lukyanov's
10095 proposed changes to ncurses library.
10096 + modify generated term.h to always specify its own definitions for
10097 HAVE_TERMIOS_H, etc., to guard against inclusion by programs with
10098 broken configure scripts.
10101 + modify terminfo parsing to accept octal and hexadecimal constants,
10103 + remove an autoconf 2.10 artifact from the configure script's check
10104 for "-g" compiler options. (Though harmless, this confused someone
10105 at Debian, who recently issued a patch that results in the opposite
10107 + add configure option --with-ada-compiler to accommodate installations
10108 that do not use gcc as the driver for GNAT (patch by Juergen
10112 + ensure ./man exists in configure script, needed when configuring
10113 with --srcdir option.
10114 + modify infocmp "-r" option to remove limit on formatted termcap
10115 output, which makes it more like Solaris' version.
10116 + modify captoinfo to treat no-argument case more like Solaris'
10117 version, which uses the contents of $TERMCAP as the entry to format.
10118 + modify mk-2nd.awk to handle subdirectories, e.g., ncurses/tty
10119 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
10122 + modify --with-terminfo-dirs option so that the default value is the
10123 ${datadir} value, unless $TERMINFO_DIRS is already set. This gets
10124 rid of a hardcoded list of candidate directories in the configure
10126 + add some error-checking to _nc_read_file_entry() to ensure that
10127 strings are properly terminated (Todd C Miller).
10128 + rename manpage file curs_scr_dmp.3x to curs_scr_dump.3x, to
10129 correspond with contents (reported by Neil Zanella
10130 <nzanella@cs.mun.ca>).
10131 + remove redundant configure check for C++ which did not work when $CXX
10132 was specified with a full pathname (reported by Andreas Jaeger).
10133 + corrected bcopy/memmove check; the macro was not standalone.
10136 + remove unnecessary portion of OS/2 EMX mouse change from
10137 check_pending() (reported by Alexander V Lukyanov).
10140 + implement mouse support for OS/2 EMX (adapted from patch against
10141 4.2(?) by Ilya Zakharevich).
10142 + add configure-check for bcopy/memmove, for 980919 changes to hashmap.
10143 + merge Data General terminfo from Hasufin <hasufin@vidnet.net> - TD
10144 + merge AIX 3.2.5 terminfo descriptions for IBM terminals, replaces
10145 some older entries - TD
10146 + modify tic to compile into %'char' form in preference to %{number},
10147 since that is a little more efficient.
10148 + minor correction to infocmp to avoid displaying "difference" between
10149 two capabilities that are rendered in equivalent forms.
10150 + add "-g" option to tic/infocmp to force character constants to be
10151 displayed in quoted form. Otherwise their decimal values are shown.
10152 + modify setupterm so that cancelled strings are treated the same as
10153 absent strings, cancelled and absent booleans false (does not affect
10155 + modify tic, infocmp to discard redundant i3, r3 strings when output
10157 > patch by Alexander V Lukyanov:
10158 + improve performance of tparm, now it takes 19% instead of 25% when
10160 + rename maxlen/minlen to prec/width for better readability.
10161 + use format string for printing strings.
10162 + use len argument correctly in save_text, and pass it to save_number.
10165 + make test_progs compile (but hashmap does not function).
10166 + correct NC_BUFFERED macro, used in lib_mvcur test-driver, modify
10167 associated logic to avoid freeing the SP->_setbuf data.
10168 + add modules home_terminfo and getenv_num to libtinfo.
10169 + move write_entry to libtinfo, to work with termcap caching.
10170 + minor fixes to blue.c to build with atac.
10171 + remove softscroll.c module; no longer needed for testing.
10172 > patches by Todd C Miller:
10173 + use strtol(3) instead of atoi(3) when parsing env variables so we can
10174 detect a bogus (non-numeric) value.
10175 + check for terminal names > MAX_NAME_SIZE in a few more places when
10176 dealing with env variables again.
10177 + fix a MAX_NAME_SIZE that should be MAX_NAME_SIZE+1
10178 + use sizeof instead of strlen(3) on PRIVATE_INFO since it is a fixed
10179 string #define (compile time vs runtime).
10180 + when setting errno to ENOMEM, set it right before the return, not
10181 before code that could, possibly, set errno to a different value.
10182 > patches by Alexander V Lukyanov:
10183 + use default background in update_cost_from_blank()
10184 + disable scroll-hints when hashmap is configured.
10185 + improve integration of hashmap scrolling code, by adding oldhash and
10186 newhash data to SP struct.
10187 + invoke del_curterm from delscreen.
10188 + modify del_curterm to set cur_term to null if it matches the
10189 function's parameter which is deleted.
10190 + modify lib_doupdate to prefer parm_ich to the enter_insert_mode and
10191 exit_insert_mode combination, adjusting InsCharCost to check
10192 enter_insert_mode, exit_insert_mode and insert_padding. Add
10193 insert_padding in insert mode after each char. This adds new costs
10197 + modify test-driver in lib_mvcur.s to use _nc_setbuffer, for
10198 consistent treatment.
10199 + modify ncurses to restore output to unbuffered on endwin, and resume
10200 buffering in refresh (see lib_set_term.c and NC_BUFFERED macro).
10201 + corrected HTML version numbers (according to the W3C validator, they
10202 never were HTML 2.0-compliant, but are acceptable 3.0).
10205 + modify MKterminfo.sh to generate terminfo.5 with tables sorted by
10206 capability name, as in SVr4.
10207 + modified term.h, termcap.h headers to avoid redundant declarations.
10208 + change 'u_int' type in tset.c to unsigned, making this compile on
10209 Sequent PRX 4.1 (reported by Michael Sterrett <msterret@coat.com>).
10212 + corrections to mailing addresses, and moving the magic line that
10213 causes the man program to invoke tbl to the first line of each
10214 manpage (patch by Rick Ohnemus <rick@ecompcon.com>).
10215 + add Makefile.os2 and supporting scripts to generate dll's on OS/2 EMX
10216 (from J.J.G.Ripoll, with further integration by TD).
10217 + correct a typo in icl6404 terminfo entry.
10218 + add xtermm and xtermc terminfo entries.
10219 > from esr's terminfo version:
10220 + Added Francesco Potorti's tuned Wyse 99 entries.
10221 + dtterm enacs (from Alexander V Lukyanov).
10222 + Add ncsa-ns, ncsa-m-ns and ncsa-m entries from esr version.
10225 + document AT&T acs characters in terminfo.5 manpage.
10226 + use EMX _scrsize() function if terminfo and environment do not
10227 declare the screen size (reported by Ilya Zakharevich
10228 <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>).
10229 + remove spurious '\' characters from eterm and osborne terminfo
10230 entries (prompted by an old Debian bug report).
10231 + correct reversed malloc/realloc calls in _nc_doalloc (reported by
10232 Hans-Joachim Widmaier <hjwidmai@foxboro.com>).
10233 + correct misplaced parenthesis which caused file-descriptor from
10234 opening termcap to be lost, from 980725 changes (reported by Andreas
10238 + modify lib_setup.c to eliminate unneeded include of <sys/ioctl.h>
10239 when termios is not used (patch by Todd C Miller).
10240 + add function _nc_doalloc, to ensure that failed realloc calls do not
10241 leak memory (reported by Todd C Miller).
10242 + improved ncsa-telnet terminfo entry.
10245 + correct missing braces around a trace statement in read_entry.c,
10246 from 980808 (reported by Kim DeVaughn <kimdv@best.com> and Liviu
10250 + fix missing include <errno.h> in ditto.c (reported by Bernhard
10251 Rosenkraenzer <bero@k5.sucks.eu.org>)
10252 + add NCSA telnet terminfo entries from Francesco Potorti
10253 <F.Potorti@cnuce.cnr.it>, from Debian bug reports.
10254 + make handling of $LINES and $COLUMNS variables more compatible with
10255 Solaris by allowing them to individually override the window size
10256 as obtained via ioctl.
10259 + modify lib_vidattr.c to allow for terminal types (e.g., xterm-color)
10260 which may reset all attributes in the 'op' capability, so that colors
10261 are set before turning on bold and other attributes, but still after
10262 turning attributes off.
10263 + add 'ditto.c' to test directory to illustrate use of newterm for
10264 initializing multiple screens.
10265 + modify _nc_write_entry() to recover from failed attempt to link alias
10266 for a terminfo on a filesystem which does not preserve character case
10267 (reported by Peter L Jordan <PJordan@chla.usc.edu>).
10270 + updated versions of config.guess and config.sub based on automake 1.3
10271 + change name-comparisons in lib_termcap to compare no more than 2
10272 characters (gleaned from Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-8.8, verified
10273 with Solaris curses).
10274 + fix typo in curs_insstr.3x (patch by Todd C Miller)
10275 + use 'access()' to check if ncurses library should be permitted to
10276 open or modify files with fopen/open/link/unlink/remove calls, in
10277 case the calling application is running in setuid mode (request by
10278 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>, responding to Duncan Simpson
10279 <dps@io.stargate.co.uk>).
10280 + arm100 terminfo entries from Dave Millen <dmill@globalnet.co.uk>).
10281 + qnxt2 and minitel terminfo entries from esr's version.
10284 + use -R option with ldconfig on FreeBSD because otherwise it resets
10285 the search path to /usr/lib (reported by Dan Nelson).
10286 + add -soname option when building shared libraries on OpenBSD 2.x
10287 (request by QingLong).
10288 + add configure options --with-manpage-format and
10289 --with-manpage-renames (request by QingLong).
10290 + correct conversion of CANCELLED_NUMERIC in write_object(), which was
10291 omitting the high-order byte, producing a 254 in the compiled
10293 + modify return-values of tgetflag, tgetnum, tgetstr, tigetflag,
10294 tigetnum and tigetstr to be compatible with Solaris (gleaned from
10295 Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-8.8).
10296 + modify _nc_syserr_abort to abort only when compiled for debugging,
10297 otherwise simply exit with an error.
10300 + modify Ada95 'gen' program to use appropriate library suffix (e.g.,
10301 "_g" for a debug build).
10302 + update Ada95 'make clean' rule to include generics .ali files
10303 + add a configure test to ensure that if GNAT is found, that it can
10304 compile/link working Ada95 program.
10305 + flush output in beep and flash functions, fixing a problem with
10306 getstr (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov)
10307 + fix egcs 1.0.2 warning for etip.h (patch by Chris Johns).
10308 + correct ifdef/brace nesting in lib_sprintf.c (patch by Bernhard
10309 Rosenkraenzer <bero@Pool.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>).
10310 + correct typo in wattr_get macro from 980509 fixes (patch by Dan
10314 + merge changes from current XFree86 xterm terminfo descriptions.
10315 + add configure option '--without-ada'.
10316 + add a smart-default for termcap 'ac' to terminfo 'acs_chars' which
10317 corresponds to vt100.
10318 + change translation for termcap 'rs' to terminfo 'rs2', which is
10319 the documented equivalent, rather than 'rs1'.
10322 + slow 'worm' down a little, for very fast machines.
10323 + corrected firstchar/lastchar computation in lib_hline.c
10324 + simplify some expressions with CHANGED_CELL, CHANGED_RANGE and
10325 CHANGED_TO_EOL macros.
10326 + modify init_pair so that if a color-pair is reinitialized, we will
10327 repaint the areas of the screen whose color changes, like SVr4 curses
10328 (reported by Christian Maurer <maurer@inf.fu-berlin.de>).
10329 + modify getsyx/setsyx macros to comply with SVr4 man-page which
10330 says that leaveok() affects their behavior (report by Darryl Miles,
10331 patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
10334 + review terminfo.5 against Solaris 2.6 curses version, corrected
10335 several minor errors/omissions.
10336 + implement tparm %l format.
10337 + implement tparm printf-style width and precision for %s, %d, %x, %o
10339 + implement tparm dynamic variables (reported by Xiaodan Tang).
10342 + update man-page for for wattr_set, wattr_get (cf: 980509)
10343 + correct limits in hashtest, which would cause nonprinting characters
10344 to be written to large screens.
10345 + correct configure script, when --without-cxx was specified: the
10346 wrong variable was used for cf_cv_type_of_bool. Compilers up to gcc
10347 2.8 tolerated the missing 'int'.
10348 + remove the hardcoded name "gcc" for the GNU Ada compiler. The
10349 compiler's name might be something like "egcs" (patch by Juergen
10351 + correct curs_addch.3x, which implied that echochar could directly
10352 display control characters (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
10353 + fix typos in ncurses-intro.html (patch by Sidik Isani
10354 <isani@cfht.hawaii.edu>)
10357 + add configure test for conflicting use of exception in math.h and
10359 + minor optimization to 'hash()' function in hashmap.c, reduces its
10361 + correct form of LD_SHARED_OPTS for HP-UX 10.x (patch by Tim Mooney).
10362 + fix missing quotes for 'print' in MKunctrl.awk script (reported by
10363 Mihai Budiu <mihaib@gs41.sp.cs.cmu.edu>).
10364 > patch by Alexander V Lukyanov:
10365 + correct problem on Solaris (with poll() function) where getch could
10366 hang indefinitely even if timeout(x) was called. This turned out to
10367 be because milliseconds was not updated before 'goto retry' in
10369 + simplified the function _nc_timed_wait and fixed another bug, which
10370 was the assumption of !GOOD_SELECT && HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY in *timeleft
10372 + removed the cycle on EINTR, as it seems to be useless.
10375 + add makefile-rule for test/keynames
10376 + modify run_tic.sh and shlib to ensure that user's .profile does not
10377 override the $PATH used to run tic (patch by Tim Mooney).
10378 + restore LD_SHARED_OPTS to $(LD_SHARED_FLAGS) when linking programs,
10379 needed for HP-UX shared-library path (recommended by Tim Mooney).
10380 + remove special case of HP-UX -L options, use +b options to embed
10381 $(libdir) in the shared libraries (recommended by Tim Mooney).
10382 + add checks for some possible buffer overflows and unchecked
10383 malloc/realloc/calloc/strdup return values (patch by Todd C Miller
10384 <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>)
10387 + correct maxx/maxy expression for num_columns/num_lines in derwin
10388 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
10389 + add /usr/share/lib/terminfo and /usr/lib/terminfo as compatibilty
10390 fallbacks to _nc_read_entry(), along with --with-terminfo-dirs
10391 configure option (suggested by Mike Hopkirk).
10392 + modify config.guess to recognize Unixware 2.1 and 7 (patch by Mike
10393 Hopkirk <hops@sco.com>).
10394 + suppress definition of CC_SHARED_OPTS in LDFLAGS_SHARED in c++
10395 Makefile.in, since this conflicts when g++ is used with HP-UX
10396 compiler (reported by Tim Mooney).
10397 + parenthesize 'strcpy' calls in c++ binding to workaround redefinition
10398 in some C++ implementations (reported by several people running
10399 egcs with glibc 2.0.93, analysis by Andreas Jaeger.
10402 + modify write_entry.c so that it will not attempt to link aliases
10403 with embedded '/', but give only a warning.
10404 + put -L$(libdir) first when linking programs, except for HP-UX.
10405 + modify comp_scan.c to handle SVr4 terminfo description for att477,
10406 which contains a colon in the description field.
10407 + modify configure script to support SCO osr5.0.5 shared libraries,
10408 from comp.unix.sco.programmer newsgroup item (Mike Hopkirk).
10409 + eliminate extra GoTo call in lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V.
10411 + minor adjustments of const/NCURSES_CONST from IRIX compile.
10412 + add updates based on esr's 980509 version of terminfo.src.
10415 + correct macros for wattr_set, wattr_get, separate wattrset macro from
10416 these to preserve behavior that allows attributes to be combined with
10417 color pair numbers.
10418 + add configure option --enable-no-padding, to allow environment
10419 variable $NCURSES_NO_PADDING to eliminate non-mandatory padding,
10420 thereby making terminal emulators (e.g., for vt100) a little more
10421 efficient (request by Daniel Eisenbud <eisenbud@cs.swarthmore.edu>).
10422 + modify configure script to embed ABI in shared libraries for HP-UX
10423 10.x (detailed request by Tim Mooney).
10424 + add test/example of the 'filter()' function.
10425 + add nxterm and xterm-color terminfo description (request by Cristian
10426 Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>).
10427 + modify rxvt terminfo description to clear alternate screen before
10428 switching back to normal screen, for compatibility with applications
10429 which use xterm (reported by Manoj Kasichainula <manojk@io.com>).
10430 + modify linux terminfo description to reset color palette (reported
10431 by Telford Tendys <telford@eng.uts.edu.au>).
10432 + correction to doupdate, for case where terminal does not support
10433 insert/delete character. The logic did not check that there was a
10434 difference in alignment of changes to old/new screens before
10435 repainting the whole non-blank portion of the line. Modified to fall
10436 through into logic that reduces by the portion which does not differ
10437 (reported by Daniel Eisenbud <eisenbud@cs.swarthmore.edu>).
10438 + minor performance improvement to wnoutrefresh by moving some
10439 comparisons out of inner loop.
10442 + modify configure script to substitute NCURSES_CONST in curses.h
10443 + updated terminfo entries for xterm-xf86-v40, xterm-16color,
10444 xterm-8bit to correspond to XFree86 3.9Ag.
10445 + remove restriction that forces ncurses to use setaf/setab if the
10446 number of colors is greater than 8. (see 970524 for xterm-16color).
10447 + change order of -L options (so that $(libdir) is searched first) when
10448 linking tic and other programs, to workaround HP's linker.
10449 Otherwise, the -L../lib is embedded when linking against shared
10450 libraries and the installed program does not run (reported by Ralf
10452 + modify configuration of shared libraries on Digital Unix so that
10453 versioning is embedded in the library, rather than implied by
10454 links (patch by Tim Mooney).
10457 + modify etip.h to avoid conflict with math.h on HP-UX 9.03 with gcc
10458 2.8.1 which redefines 'exception' (reported by Ralf Hildebrandt
10459 <R.Hildebrandt@tu-bs.de>).
10460 + correct configure tests in CF_SHARED_OPTS which used $CC value to
10461 check for gcc, rather than autoconf's $GCC value. This did not
10462 work properly if the full pathname of the compiler were given
10463 (reported by Michael Yount <yount@csf.Colorado.edu>).
10464 + revise check for compiler options to force ANSI mode since repeating
10465 an option such as -Aa causes HP's compiler to fail on its own headers
10466 (reported by Clint Olsen <olsenc@ichips.intel.com>).
10469 + ifdef'd has_key() and mcprint() as extended functions.
10470 + modified several prototypes to correspond with 1997 version of
10471 X/Open Curses (affects ABI since developers have used attr_get).
10472 + remove spurious trailing blanks in glibc addon-scripts (patch by
10474 + insert a few braces at locations where gcc-2.8.x asks to use them to
10475 avoid ambigous else's, use -fpic rather than -fPIC for Linux (patch
10476 by Juergen Pfeifer).
10479 + split SHLIB_LIST into SHLIB_DIRS/SHLIB_LIST to keep -L options
10480 before -l to accommodate Solaris' linker (reported by Larry Virden).
10483 + modify lib_color.c to eliminate dependency on orig_colors and
10484 orig_pair, since SVr4 curses does not require these either, but
10485 uses them when they are available.
10486 + add detailed usage-message to infocmp.
10487 + correct a typo in att6386 entry (a "%?" which was "?").
10488 + add -f option to infocmp and tic, which formats the terminfo
10489 if/then/else/endif so that they are readable (with newlines and
10491 + fixes for glibc addon scripts (patch by H.J.Lu).
10494 + revise configure macro CF_SPEED_TYPE so that termcap.h has speed_t
10495 declared (from Adam J Richter <adam@yggdrasil.com>)
10496 + remove spurious curs_set() call from leaveok() (J T Conklin).
10497 + corrected handling leaveok() in doupdate() (patch by Alexander V.
10499 + improved version of wredrawln (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10500 + correct c++/Makefile.in so install target do not have embedded ../lib
10501 to confuse it (patch by Thomas Graf <graf@essi.fr>).
10502 + add warning to preinstall rule which checks if the installer would
10503 overwrite a curses.h or termcap.h that is not derived from ncurses.
10504 (The recommended configuration for developers who need both is to
10505 use --disable-overwrite).
10506 + modify preinstall rule in top-level Makefile to avoid implicit
10507 use of 'sh', to accommodate Ultrix 4.4 (reported by Joao Palhoto
10508 Matos <jmatos@math.ist.utl.pt>, patch by Thomas Esser
10509 <te@informatik.uni-hannover.de>)
10510 + refine ifdef's for TRACE so that libncurses has fewer dependencies
10511 on libtinfo when TRACE is disabled.
10512 + modify configure script so that if the --with-termlib option is used
10513 to generate a separate terminfo library, we chain it to the ncurses
10514 library with a "-l" option (reported by Darryl Miles and Ian T.
10518 + correct limits and window in wredrawln function (reported/analysis by
10519 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10520 + correct sed expression in configure script for --with-fallback
10521 option (patch by Jesse Thilo).
10522 + correct some places in configure script where $enableval was used
10523 rather than $withval (patch by Darryl Miles <dlm@g7led.demon.co.uk>).
10524 + modify some man-pages so no '.' or '..' falls between TH and SH
10525 macros, to accommodate man_db program (reported by Ian T. Zimmerman
10527 + terminfo.src 10.2.1 downloaded from ESR's webpage (ESR).
10528 > several changes by Juergen Pfeifer:
10529 + add copyright notices (and rcs id's) on remaining man-pages.
10530 + corrected prototypes for slk_* functions, using chtype rather than
10532 + implemented the wcolor_set() and slk_color() functions
10533 + the slk_attr_{set,off,on} functions need an additional void*
10534 parameter according to XSI.
10535 + fix the C++ and Ada95 binding as well as the man pages to
10536 reflect above enhancements.
10539 + use 'stat()' rather than 'access()' in toe.c to check for the
10540 existence of $HOME/.terminfo, since it may be a file.
10541 + suppress configure CF_CXX_LIBRARY check if we are not using g++
10542 2.7.x, since this is not needed with g++ 2.8 or egcs (patch by
10544 + turn on hashmap scrolling code by default, intend to remedy defects
10546 + minor corrections to terminfo.src changelog.
10548 980302 4.2 release for upload to prep.ai.mit.edu
10549 + correct Florian's email address in ncurses-intro.html
10550 + terminfo.src 10.2.0 (ESR).
10553 + add linux-koi8r replace linux-koi8, which is not KOI8 (patch by
10554 QingLong <qinglong@Bolizm.ihep.su>).
10555 + minor documentation fixes (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
10556 + add setlocale() call to ncurses.c (reported by Claes G. Lindblad
10557 <claesg@algonet.se>).
10558 + correct sign-extension in lib_insstr.c (reported by Sotiris
10559 Vassilopoulos <svas@leon.nrcps.ariadne-t.gr>)
10562 + regenerated some documentation overlooked in 980214 patch
10563 (ncurses-intro.doc, curs_outopts.3x.html)
10564 + minor ifdef change to C++ binding to work with gcc 2.8.0 (patch by
10566 + change maintainer's mailing address to florian@gnu.org, change
10567 tentative mailing list address to bug-ncurses-request@gnu.org (patch
10568 by Florian La Roche).
10569 + add definition of $(REL_VERSION) to c++/Makefile.in (reported by Gran
10570 Hasse <gh@raditex.se>).
10571 + restore version numbers to Ada95 binding, accidentally deleted by
10572 copyright patch (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
10575 + remove ncurses.lsm from MANIFEST so that it won't be used in FSF
10576 distributions, though it is retained in development.
10577 + correct scaling of milliseconds to nanoseconds in lib_napms.c (patch
10579 + update mailing-list information (bug-ncurses@gnu.org).
10580 + update announcement for upcoming 4.2 release.
10581 + modify -lm test to check for 'sin()' rather than 'floor()'
10582 + remove spurious commas from terminfo.src descriptions.
10583 + change copyright notices to Free Software Foundation
10586 + minor fixes for autoconf macros CF_ERRNO, CF_HELP_MESSAGE and
10588 + modify Makefile.glibc so that $(objpfx) is defined (H.J.Lu).
10589 + ifdef-out true-return from _nc_mouse_inline() which depends on
10590 merge of QNX patch (pending 4.2 release).
10591 > patch to split off seldom-used modules in ncurses (J T Conklin):
10592 This reduces size by up to 2.6kb.
10593 + move functionality of _nc_usleep into napms, add configuration case
10595 + moved wchgat() from lib_addch.c to lib_chgat.c
10596 + moved clearok(), immedok(), leaveok(), and scrollok() from
10597 lib_options.c to lib_clearok.c, lib_immedok.c, lib_leaveok.c and
10599 + moved napms() from lib_kernel.c to lib_napms.c
10600 + moved echo() and noecho() from lib_raw.c to lib_echo.c
10601 + moved nl() and nonl() from lib_raw.c to lib_nl.c
10604 + corrected conversion in tclock.c (cf: 971018).
10605 + updates to Makefile.glibc and associated Linux configure script
10607 + workaround a quoting problem on SunOS with tar-copy.sh
10608 + correct init_pair() calls in worm.c to work when use_default_colors()
10610 + include <sys/types.h> in CF_SYS_TIME_SELECT to work with FreeBSD
10612 + add ncv capability to FreeBSD console (cons25w), making reverse
10614 + correct sense of configure-test for sys/time.h inclusion with
10616 + fixes for Ada95/ada_include/Makefile.in to work with --srcdir option.
10617 + remove unused/obsolete test-program rules from progs/Makefile.in
10618 (the rules in ncurses/Makefile.in work).
10619 + remove shared-library loader flags from test/Makefile.in, etc.
10620 + simplify test/configure.in using new version of autoconf to create
10622 + suppress suffix rules in test/Makefile.in, provide explicit
10623 dependency to work with --srcdir option and less capable 'make'
10625 > adapted from patch for QNX by Xiaodan Tang:
10626 + initialize %P and %g variables set/used in tparm, and also ensure
10627 that empty strings don't return a null result from tparam_internal
10628 + add QNX-specific prototype for vsscanf()
10629 + move initialization of SP->_keytry from init_keytry() to newterm() to
10630 avoid resetting it via a keyok() call by mouse_activate().
10631 + reorganized some functions in lib_mouse() to use case-statements.
10632 + remove sgr string from qnx terminfo entry since it is reported to
10633 turn off attributes inconsistently.
10636 + add f/F/b/B commands to ncurses 'b' test to toggle colors, providing
10637 test for no_color_video.
10638 + adjusted emx.src to use no_color_video, now works with ncurses 'b'
10640 + implement no_color_video attribute, and as a special case, reverse
10641 colors when the reverse attribute cannot be combined with color.
10642 + check for empty string in $TERM variable (reported by Brett Michaels
10643 <brett@xylan.com>).
10644 > from reports by Fred Fish:
10645 + add configure-test for isascii
10646 + add configure-test for -lm library.
10647 + modify CF_BOOL_SIZE to check if C++ bool types are unsigned.
10648 > patches by J.J.G.Ripoll
10649 + add configure/makefile variables to support .exe extension on
10650 OS/2 EMX (requires additional autoconf patches).
10651 + explicitly initialize variables in lib_data.c to appease OS/2 linker
10652 > patches by Fred Fish <fnf@ninemoons.com>
10653 + misc/Makefile.in (install.data): Avoid trying to install the CVS
10655 + aclocal.m4 (install.includes): Remove files in the include directory
10656 where we are going to install new ones, not the original source
10658 + misc/terminfo.src: Add entry for "beterm", derived from termcap
10659 distributed with BeOS PR2 using captoinfo.
10660 + aclocal.m4: Wrap $cf_cv_type_of_bool with quotes (contains space)
10661 + aclocal.m4: Assume bool types are unsigned.
10662 + progs/infocmp.c: workaround mwcc 32k function data limit
10665 + correct initialization of color-pair (cf: 970524) in xmas.c, which
10666 was using only one color-pair for all colors (reported by
10668 + add multithread options for objects build on EMX, for compatibility
10670 + split up an expression in MKlib_gen.sh to work around a problem on
10671 OS/2 EMX, with 'ash' (patch by J.J.G.Ripoll).
10672 + change terminfo entries xterm (xterm-xf86-v40), xterm-8bit rs1 to use
10674 + rename terminfo entry xterm-xf86-v39t to xterm-xf86-v40
10675 + remove bold/underline from sun console entries since they're not
10677 + correct _tracef calls in _tracedump(), which did not separate format
10679 + correct getopt string for tic "-o" option, and add it to man-page
10680 synopsis (reported by Darren Hiebert <darren@hmi.com>).
10681 + correct typo in panel/Makefile.in, reversed if-statement in scrolling
10682 optimization (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
10683 + test for 'remove()', use 'unlink() if not found (patch by Philippe De
10684 Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>).
10685 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
10686 + Improve a feature of the forms driver. For invisible fields
10687 (O_VISIBLE off) only the contents but not the attributes are cleared.
10688 We now clear both. (Reported by Javier Kohan
10689 <jkohan@adan.fceia.unr.edu.ar>)
10690 + The man page form_field_opts.3x makes now clear, that invisible
10691 fields are also always inactive.
10692 + adjust ifdef's to compile the C++ binding with the just released
10693 gcc-2.8.0 c++ and the corresponding new C++ libraries.
10696 + correct "?" command in ncurses.c; it was performing non-screen writes
10697 while the program was in screen mode. (It "worked" in 1.9.9e because
10698 that version sets OPOST and OCRNL incorrectly).
10699 + return error from functions in lib_kernel, lib_raw and lib_ti if
10700 cur_term is null, or if underlying I/O fails.
10701 + amend change to tputs() so that it does not return an error if
10702 cur_term is null, since some applications depend on being able to use
10703 tputs without initializing the terminal (reported by Christian J.
10704 Robinson <infynity@cyberhighway.net>).
10707 + add a copy of emx.src from J.J.G.Ripoll's OS/2 EMX version of ncurses
10708 1.9.9e, together with fixes/additions for the "ansi" terminal type.
10709 + add tic check for save/restore cursor if change_scroll_region is
10710 defined (reference: O'Reilly book).
10711 + modify read_termcap.c to handle EMX-style pathnames (reported by
10713 + modify lib_raw.c to use EMX's setmode (patch from J.J.G.Ripoll).
10714 Ripoll says EMX's curses does this.
10715 + modify _nc_tic_expand() to generate \0 rather than \200.
10716 + move/revise 'expand()' from dump_entry.c to ncurses library as
10717 _nc_tic_expand(), for use by tack.
10718 + decode \a as \007 for terminfo, as per XSI.
10719 + correct translation of terminfo "^@", to \200, like \0.
10720 + modify next_char() to treat <cr><lf> the same as <newline>, for
10721 cross-platform compatibility.
10722 + use new version of autoconf (971230) to work around limited
10723 environment on CLIX, due to the way autoconf builds --help message.
10724 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
10725 + check that the Ada95 binding runs against the correct version of
10727 + insert constants about the library version into the main spec-file of
10731 + modify open/fopen calls to use binary mode, needed for EMX.
10732 + modify configure script to work with autoconf 2.10 mods for OS/2
10733 EMX (from J.J.G.Ripoll).
10734 + generated ncurses_cfg.h with patch (971222) to autoconf 2.12 which
10735 bypasses limited sed buffer length.
10736 > several changes from Juan Jose Garcia Ripoll <worm@arrakis.es>
10737 (J.J.G.Ripoll) to support OS/2 EMX:
10738 + add a _scrolling flag to SP, to set when we encounter a terminal
10739 that simply cannot scroll.
10740 + corrected logic in _nc_add_to_try(), by ensuring that strings with
10741 embedded \200 characters are matched.
10742 + don't assume the host has 'link()' function, for linking terminfo
10746 + if there's no ioctl's to support sigwinch handler, disable it.
10747 + add configure option --disable-ext-funcs to remove the extended
10748 functions from the build.
10749 + add configure option --with-termlib to generate the terminfo
10750 functions as a separate library.
10751 + add 'sources' rule to facilitate cross-compiling.
10752 + review/fix order of mostlyclean/clean/distclean rules.
10753 + modify install-rule for headers to first remove old header, in
10754 case there was a symbolic link that confuses the install script.
10755 + corrected substitution for NCURSES_CONST in term.h (cf: 971108)
10756 + add null pointer checks in wnoutrefresh(), overlap() (patch by
10757 Xiaodan Tang <xtang@qnx.com>)
10758 + correct tputs(), which could dereference a null cur_term if invoked
10759 before terminal is initialized (patch by Christopher Seawood
10761 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
10762 + makes better use of "pragma Inline" in the Ada95 binding
10763 + resynchronizes the generated html manpages
10766 + additional fixes for man-pages section-references
10767 + add (for debugging) a check for ich/ich1 conflict with smir/rmir
10769 + remove hpa/vpa from rxvt terminal description because they are not
10770 implemented correctly, added sgr0.
10771 + change ncurses 's' to use raw mode, so ^Q works (reported by Rudolf
10772 Leitgeb <leitgeb@leland.stanford.edu>)
10775 + modify protection when installing libraries to (normally) not
10776 executable. HP-UX shared libraries are an exception.
10777 + add configure check for 'tack'.
10778 + implement script for renaming section-references in man-page install,
10779 for Debian configuration.
10780 + add validity-check for SP in trace code in baudrate() (reported by
10782 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov (fixes to match sol25 curses)
10783 + modify 'overlay()' so that copy applies target window background to
10785 + correct 'mvwin()' so that it does not clear the previous locations.
10786 + correct lib_acs.c so that 8-bit character is not sign expanded in
10787 case of wide characters in chtype.
10788 + correct control-char test in lib_addch.c for use with wide chars
10789 + use attribute in the chtype when adding a control character in
10790 lib_addch.c control char was added with current attribute
10793 + save/restore errno in _tracef() function
10794 + change treatment of initialize_color to use a range of 0..1000
10795 (recommended by Daniel Weaver).
10796 + set umask in mkinstalldirs, fixing problems reported by users who
10797 have set root's umask to 077.
10798 + correct bug in tic that caused capabilities to be reprinted at the
10799 end of output when they had embedded comments.
10800 + rewrote wredrawln to correspond to XSI, and split-out since it is
10801 not often used (from report by Alexander V. Lukyanov, 970825)
10802 + rewrote Dan Nelson's change to make it portable, as well as to
10803 correct logic for handling backslashes.
10804 + add code to _nc_tgetent() to make it work more like a real tgetent().
10805 It removes all empty fields, and removes all but the first in a group
10806 of duplicate caps. The code was pulled from the BSD libtermcap code
10807 in termcap.c (patch by Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
10808 + don't include --enable-widec in the --with-develop configure option,
10809 since it is not binary-compatible with 4.1 (noted by Alexander V.
10811 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
10812 + further improvements of the usage of elaboration pragmas in the Ada95
10814 + enhanced Ada95 sample to use the user_data mechanism for panels.
10815 + a fix for the configuration script to make gnat-3.10 the required
10817 + resync of the html version of the manpages
10820 > fixes/updates for terminfo.src:
10821 + add vt220-js, pilot, rbcomm, datapoint entries from esr's 27-jun-97
10823 + add hds200 description (Walter Skorski)
10824 + add EMX 0.9b descriptions
10825 + correct rmso/smso capabilities in wy30-mc and wy50-mc (Daniel Weaver)
10826 + rename xhpterm back to hpterm.
10827 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
10828 + Improves the usage of elaboration pragmas for the Ada95 binding.
10829 + Adds a translation of the test/rain.c into Ada95 to the samples.
10830 This has been contributed to the project by Laurent Pautet
10834 + increase MAX_NAME_SIZE to 512 to handle extremely long alias list
10836 + correction & simplification of delay computation in tputs, based on
10837 comments from Daniel Weaver.
10838 + replace test for SCO with more precise header tests.
10839 + add configure test for unsigned literals, use in NCURSES_BITS macro.
10840 + comment-out the -PIC, etc., flags from c++, progs and test makefiles
10841 since they probably are not needed, and are less efficient (noted by
10843 + add -L$(libdir) to loader options, after -L../lib so that loaders
10844 that record this information will tend to do the right thing if
10845 the programs are moved around after installing them (suggested by
10847 + add -R option to loader options for programs for Solaris if the
10848 --enable-rpath option is specified for the libraries.
10851 + correct installed filename for shared libraries on *BSD (reported by
10855 + cleanup logic for deciding when tputs() should call delay_output(),
10856 based on comments from Daniel Weaver.
10857 + modified tputs() to avoid use of float.
10858 + correct use of trailpad in tputs(), which used the wrong variable
10859 in call to delay_output().
10860 + correct inverted expression for null-count in delay_output()
10861 (analysis by Daniel Weaver).
10862 + apply --enable-rpath option to Solaris (requested by Larry Virden).
10863 + correct substitution of EXTRA_CFLAGS for gcc 2.6.3
10864 + correct check for error-return by _nc_tgetent(), which returns 0
10866 + add configure test for BSD 4.4 cgetent() function, modify
10867 read_termcap.c to use the host's version of that if found, using the
10868 terminal database on FreeBSD (reported by Peter Wemm).
10869 + add u8, u9 strings to sun-il description for Daniel Weaver.
10870 + use NCURSES_CONST in panel's user-pointer.
10871 + modify edit_cfg.sh and MKterm.h.awk.in to substitute NCURSES_CONST
10872 so that will work on NeXT.
10873 + use _nc_set_screen() rather than assignments to SP to fix port to
10874 NeXT (reported by Francisco A. Tomei Torres).
10877 + force mandatory padding in bell and flash_screen, as specified in
10879 + don't allow padding_baud_rate to override mandatory delays (reported
10881 + modify delay_output() to use _nc_timed_wait() if no baudrate has been
10882 defined, or if the cur_term pointer is not initialized. XSI treats
10883 this as unspecified. (requested by Daniel Weaver).
10884 + change getcap-cache ifdef's to eliminate unnecessary chdir/mkdir
10885 when that feature is not configured.
10886 + remove _nc_err_abort() calls when write_entry.c finds a directory but
10887 cannot write to it, e.g., when translating part/all of /etc/termcap
10888 (reported by Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>).
10889 (this dates back to 951102 in 1.9.7a).
10890 + minor ifdef fixes to compile with atac and glibc 2.0.5c
10891 + add check for -lgen when configuring regexpr.h
10892 + modify Solaris shared-library option "-d y" to "-dy" to workaround
10893 incompatibility of gcc 2.7.2 vs vendor's tools.
10896 + correct ifdef's for struct winsize vs struct ttysize in lib_setup.c
10898 + remove dangling backslash in panel/Makefile.in
10899 + modify MKkeyname.awk to work with SCO's nawk, which dumps core in the
10901 + correct length of allocation in _nc_add_to_try(), to allow for
10903 + correct logic in _nc_remove_key(), which was discarding too many
10904 nodes (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov)
10907 + add definition for $(REL_VERSION) to test/Makefile.in, so *BSD
10908 shared libraries link properly (see 970524).
10909 + modify Linux shared-library generation to include library
10910 dependencies (e.g., -lncurses and -lgpm) in the forms, menu and
10911 panel libraries (suggested by Juergen Pfeifer).
10912 + modify configure script to use config.guess and config.sub rather
10913 than uname, which is unreliable on some systems.
10914 + updated Makefile.glibc, test-built with glibc 2.0.5c
10915 + modify keyname() to return values consistent with SVr4 curses (patch
10917 > changes requested by Daniel Weaver:
10918 + modify delay_output() so that it uses the same output function as
10919 tputs() if called from that function.
10920 + move _baudrate from SCREEN to TERMINAL so that low-level use of
10921 tputs works when SP is not set.
10922 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
10923 + factor lib_menu and lib_form into smaller modules
10924 + clean up the interface between panel and SCREEN
10925 + minor changes to the Ada95 mouse support implemenation
10926 + minor bugfix in C++ binding to ripoff windows
10927 + fix a few Ada95 html documentation pages
10930 + split-out lib_ungetch.c, make runtime link to resizeterm() to
10931 decouple those modules from lib_restart.c
10932 + add xterm-xf86-v39t description to terminfo.src
10933 + reset SP->_endwin in lib_tstp.c cleanup() function after calling
10934 endwin() to avoid unnecessary repainting if the application has
10935 established an atexit function, etc. Encountered this problem in
10936 the c++ demo, whose destructors repaint the screen.
10937 + combine _nc_get_screensize() and resizeterm() calls as new function
10938 _nc_update_screensize().
10939 + minor fixes to allow compile with g++ (suggested by Nelson H. F.
10941 + implement install-rules for Ada95 makefiles.
10942 + use screen_lines or MAXLINES as needed where LINES was coded,
10943 as well as screen_columns for COLS, in the ncurses library.
10944 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
10945 + modify logic for ripped-off lines to handle several SCREENs.
10946 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
10947 + factors lib_slk.c into some smaller modules
10948 + factors panel.c into some smaller modules
10949 + puts the static information about the current panel stack into the
10950 SCREEN structure to allow different panel stacks on different
10952 + preliminary fix for an error adjusting LINES to account for
10956 + move _nc_max_click_interval and other mouse interface items to SCREEN
10957 struct so that they are associated with a single terminal, and also
10958 save memory when the application does not need a mouse (roughly 3k vs
10960 + modify mouseinterval() so that a negative parameter queries the
10961 click-interval without modifying it.
10962 + modify ncurses 'i' test to work with ncurses' apparent extension from
10963 SVr4, i.e., allows nocbreak+noecho (analysis by Alexander V.
10965 + add configure options --with-ada-includes and --with-ada-objects,
10966 to drive Ada95 binding install (not yet implemented).
10967 + install C++ binding as -lncurses++ and associated headers with the
10968 other ncurses headers.
10969 + fix header uninstall if configure --srcdir is used.
10970 > minor interface changes to support 'tack' program -TD
10971 (request by Daniel Weaver <danw@znyx.com>).
10972 + export functions _nc_trans_string() and _nc_msec_cost().
10973 + add variable _nc_nulls_sent, to record the number of padding
10974 characters output in delay_output().
10975 + move tests for generic_type and hard_copy terminals in setupterm()
10976 to the end of that function so that the library will still be
10977 initialized, though not generally useful for curses programs.
10978 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
10979 + modify ClrBottom() to avoid using clr_eos if there is only one line
10981 + typo in configure --help.
10982 > patch by J T Conklin (with minor resync against Juergen's changes)
10983 + split-out lib_flash.c from lib_beep.c
10984 + split-out lib_hline.c and lib_vline.c from lib_box.c
10985 + split-out lib_wattron.c, lib_wattroff.c from lib_addch.c
10988 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
10989 + correct source/target of c++/edit_cfg.sh
10992 + add color, mouse support to kterm terminfo entry.
10993 + modify lib_mouse.c to recognize rxvt, kterm, color_xterm also as
10994 providing "xterm"-style mouse.
10995 + updated rxvt's terminfo description to correspond to 2.21b, with
10996 fixes for the acsc (the box1 capability is incorrect, ech1 does not
10998 + fix logic in parse_entry.c that discarded acsc when 'synthesizing'
10999 an entry from equivalents in XENIX or AIX. This lets ncurses handle
11000 the distribution copy of rxvt's terminfo.
11001 + modify acsc capability for linux and linux-koi8 terminfo descriptions
11002 (from Pavel Roskin <pavel@absolute.spb.su>).
11003 + corrected definition in curses.h for ACS_LANTERN, which was 'I'
11004 rather than 'i' (see 970802).
11005 + updated terminfo.src with reformatted acsc entries, and repaired the
11006 trashed entries with spurious '\' characters that this exposed.
11007 + add logic to dump_entry.c to reformat acsc entries into canonical
11008 form (sorted, unique mapping).
11009 + add configure script to generate c++/etip.h
11010 + add configure --with-develop option, to enable by default most of the
11011 experimental options (requested by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11012 + rename 'deinstall' to 'uninstall', following GNU convention
11013 (suggested by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11014 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
11015 + modify tactics 2 and 5 in onscreen_mvcur(), to allow them on the last
11016 line of the screen, since carriage return will not cause a newline.
11017 + remove clause from PutCharLR() that would try to use
11018 eat_newline_glitch since that apparently does not work on some
11019 terminals (e.g., M$ telnet).
11020 + correct a limit check in scroll_csr_backward()
11021 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
11022 + adds dummy implementations of methods above() and below() to the
11023 NCursesPanel class.
11024 + fixes missing returncode in NCursesWindow::ripoffline()
11025 + fixes missing returncode in TestApplication::run() in demo.cc
11026 + We should at least give a comment in etip.h why it is currently a
11027 problem to install the C++ binding somewhere
11028 + makes the WINDOW* argument of wenclose() a const.
11029 + modifies several of the routines in lib_adabind.c to use a const
11033 + add 'deinstall' rules.
11034 + use explicit assignments in configure --without-progs option to
11035 work around autoconf bug which doesn't always set $withval.
11036 + check for ldconfig, don't try to run it if not found.
11037 + implement simple/unoptimized case in lib_doupdate.c to handle
11038 display with magic cookie glitch, tested with ncurses.c program.
11039 + correct missing _tracef in getmouse(), to balance the returnCode
11041 + simplify show_attr() in ncurses.c using termattrs().
11042 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
11043 + provides missing inlines for mvw[hv]line in cursesw.h of the C++
11045 + fixes a typo in a comment of frm_driver.c
11046 + Enhances Ada95 Makefiles to fulfill the requirement of GNAT-3.10 that
11047 generics should be compiled. Proper fixes to the configuration
11048 scripts are also provided.
11051 + several modifications to the configure script (requested by Ward
11053 + add configure options --without-progs, to suppress the build of the
11054 utility programs, e.g., for cross-compiling.
11055 + add $(HOSTCCFLAGS) and $(HOSTLDFLAGS) symbols to ncurses
11056 Makefile.in, to simplify setup for cross compiling.
11057 + add logic in configure script to recognize "--target=vxworks", and
11058 generate load/install actions for VxWorks objects.
11059 + move typedef for sigaction_t into SigAction.h to work around problem
11060 generating lint library.
11061 + modify fty_regex.c to reflect renaming of ifdef's for regular
11063 + simplify ifdef in lib_setup.c for TIOCGWINSZ since that symbol may
11064 reside in <sys/ioctl.h>.
11065 + merge testcurs.c with version from PDCurses 2.3, clarifying some of
11066 the more obscure tests, which rely upon color.
11067 + use macros getbegyx() and getmaxyx() in newdemo.c and testcurs.c
11068 + modify ncurses.c to use getbegyx() and getmaxyx() macros to cover up
11069 implementation difference wrt SVr4 curses, allow 's' test to work.
11070 + add missing endwin() to testscanw.c program (reported by Fausto
11071 Saporito <fausap@itb.it>).
11072 + fixes/updates for Makefile.glibc and related files under sysdeps
11074 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
11075 + add checks for null pointers, especially WINDOW's throughout the
11077 + solve a problem with wrong calculation of panel overlapping (reported
11079 + make sure that a panel's window isn't a pad.
11080 + do more error checking in module lib_touch.c
11081 + missing files for Ada95 binding from the last patch
11082 + synch. of generated html pages (RCS-Id's were wrong in html files)
11083 + support for Key_Resize in Ada binding
11084 + changed documentation style in ./c++/cursesm.h
11085 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
11086 + undo attempt to do recursive inlining for PutChar(), noting that it
11087 did not improve timing measurably, but inflated the size of
11091 + modify rain.c to use color.
11092 + correct scroll_csr_backward() to match scroll_csr_forward().
11093 + minor adjustment to llib-lncurses, to work with Solaris 2.5.1
11094 + minor fixes to sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/configure to reflect renaming
11095 of configure cache variables in 970906.
11096 + correct logic involving changes to O_VISIBLE option in
11097 Synchronize_Options function in frm_driver.c (Tony Hoffmann
11098 <Tony.Hoffmann@hia.nrc.ca>)
11099 + add $(HOSTCC) symbol to ncurses Makefile.in, to simplify setup for
11100 cross compiling (suggested by Chris Johns).
11101 + modify ifdef in lib_setup.c to only include <sys/ioctl.h> if we can
11102 use it to support screen-size calculation (reported by Chris Johns).
11103 + #undef unctrl to avoid symbol conflict in port to RTEMS (reported by
11104 Chris Johns <cjohns@plessey.com.au>)
11105 > patches by Juergen Pfeifer:
11106 + simplified, made minor corrections to Ada95 binding to form
11108 + The C++ binding has been enhanced:
11109 + Improve NCursesWindow class: added additional methods to cover
11110 more ncurses functionality. Make refresh() and noutrefresh()
11111 virtual members to allow different implementation in the
11112 NCursesPanel class.
11113 + CAUTION: changed order of parameters in vline() and hline() of
11114 NCursesWindow class.
11115 + Make refresh() in NCursesPanel non-static, it is now a
11116 reimplementation of refresh() in the base class. Added
11117 noutrefresh() to NCursesPanel.
11118 + Added NCursesForm and related classes to support libform
11120 + Moved most of configuration related stuff from cursesw.h to etip.h
11121 + Added NCursesApplication class to support easy configuration of
11122 menu and forms related attributes as well as ripped of title lines
11123 and Soft-Label-Keys for an application.
11124 + Support of Auto-Cleanup for a menu's fieldlist.
11125 + Change of return type for current_item() and operator[] for menus.
11127 + Fixed a bug in form/fld_def.c: take into account that copyarg and
11128 freearg for a fieldtype may be NULL, makearg must not be NULL
11129 + Fixed a bug in form/fld_type.c: in set_fieldtype_arg() makearg must
11130 not be NULL, copyarg and freearg may be NULL.
11131 + Fixed a bug in form/frm_def.c: Allow Disconnect_Fields() if it is
11132 already disconnected.
11133 + Enhance form/frm_driver.c: Allow growth of dynamic fields also on
11134 navigation requests.
11135 + Fixed a bug in form/fty_enum.c: wrong position of postincrement in
11136 case-insensitiva comparision routine.
11137 + Enhanced form/lib_adabind.c with function _nc_get_field() to get a
11138 forms field by index.
11139 + Enhanced menu/m_adabind.c with function _nc_get_item() to get a menus
11141 + Fixed in curses.h.in: make chtype argument for pechochar() constant.
11142 Mark wbkgdset() as implemented, remove wbkgdset macro, because it was
11143 broken (didn't handle colors correctly).
11144 + Enhanced lib_mouse.c: added _nc_has_mouse() function
11145 + Added _nc_has_mouse() prototype to curses.priv.h
11146 + Modified lib_bkgd.c: hopefully correct implementation of wbkgdset();
11147 streamlined implementation of wbkgd()
11148 + Modified lib_mvwin.c: Disable move of a pad. Implement (costly)
11149 move of subwindows. Fixed update behavior of movements of regular
11151 + Fixed lib_pad.c: make chtype argument of pechochar() const.
11152 + Fixed lib_window.c: dupwin() is not(!) in every bit a really clone
11153 of the original. Subwindows become regular windows by doing a
11155 + Improved manpage form_fieldtype.3x
11156 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
11157 + simplify the PutChar() handling of exit_am_mode, because we already
11158 know that auto_right_margin is true.
11159 + add a check in PutChar() for ability to insert to the case of
11160 shifting character to LR corner.
11161 + in terminal initialization by _nc_screen_resume(), make sure that
11162 terminal right margin mode is known.
11163 + move logic that invokes touchline(), or does the equivalent, into
11164 _nc_scroll_window().
11165 + modify scrolling logic use of insert/delete line capability, assuming
11166 that they affect the screen contents only within the current
11168 + modify rain.c to demonstrate SIGWINCH handler.
11169 + remove logic from getch() that would return an ERR if the application
11170 called getch() when the cursor was at the lower-right corner of the
11171 physical screen, and the terminal does not have insert-character
11173 + change view.c so that it breaks out of getch() loop if a KEY_RESIZE
11174 is read, and modify logic in getch() so this fix will yield the
11175 desired behavior, i.e., the screen is repainted automatically when
11176 the terminal window is resized.
11179 + add configure option --enable-sigwinch
11180 + modify view.c to test KEY_RESIZE logic, with "-r" option.
11181 + modify testcurs.c to eliminate misleading display wrt cursor type
11182 by testing if the terminal supports cnorm, civis, cvvis.
11183 + several fixes for m68k/NeXT 4.0, to bring cur_term, _nc_curr_line and
11184 _nc_curr_col variables into linked programs: move these variables,
11185 making new modules lib_cur_term and trace_buf (reported by Francisco
11186 Alberto Tomei Torres <fatomei@sandburg.unm.edu>).
11187 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
11188 + add pseudo-functionkey KEY_RESIZE which is returned by getch() when
11189 the SIGWINCH handler has been called since the last call to
11191 + modify lib_twait.c to hide EINTR only if HIDE_EINTR is defined.
11192 + add SIGWINCH handler to ncurses library which is used if there is no
11193 application SIGWINCH handler in effect when the screen is
11195 + make linked list of all SCREEN structures.
11196 + move curses.h include before definition of SCREEN to use types in
11198 + correction to ensure that wgetstr uses only a newline to force a
11202 + add experimental configure option --enable-safe-sprintf; the normal
11203 mode now allocates a buffer as large as the screen for the
11204 lib_printw.c functions.
11205 + modify wgetch to refresh screen when reading ungetch'd characters,
11206 since the application may require this - SVr4 does this.
11207 + refine treatment of newline in wgetstr to echo only when this would
11208 force the screen to scroll.
11211 + remove override in wgetstr() that forces keypad(), since SVr4 does
11213 + correct y-reference for erasure in wgetstr() when a wrap forces a
11215 + correct x-position in waddch() after a wrap forces a scroll.
11216 + echo newline in wgetstr(), making testscanw.c scroll properly when
11218 + modify vwscanw() to avoid potential buffer overflow.
11219 + rewrote lib_printw.c to eliminate fixed-buffer limits.
11220 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
11221 + correct an error in handling cooked mode in wgetch(); processing
11222 was in the wrong order.
11223 + simplified logic in wgetch() that handles backspace, etc., by using
11225 + correct wechochar() so that it interprets the output character as
11227 + modify pechochar() to use prefresh() rather than doupdate(), since
11228 the latter does not guarantee immediate refresh of the pad.
11229 + modify pechochar() so that if called with a non-pad WINDOW, will
11230 invoke wechochar() instead.
11231 + modify fifo indices to allow fifo to be longer than 127 bytes.
11234 + add xterm-8bit to terminfo.src
11235 + moved logic for SP->_fifohold inside check_pending() to make it
11236 work properly when we add calls to that function.
11237 + ensure that bool functions return only TRUE or FALSE, and TRUE/FALSE
11238 are assigned to bool values (patch by H.J.Lu).
11239 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
11240 + several fixes to getch:
11241 1. Separate cooked and raw keys in fifo
11242 2. Fix the case of ungetch'ed KEY_MOUSE
11243 3. wrap the code for hiding EINTR with ifdef HIDE_EINTR
11244 4. correctly handle input errors (i.e., EINTR) without loss of raw
11246 5. recognize ESC KEY_LEFT and similar
11247 6. correctly handle the case of receiption of KEY_MOUSE from gpm
11248 + correct off-by-one indexing error in _nc_mouse_parse(), that caused
11249 single mouse events (press/release) to be ignored in favor of
11250 composed events (click). Improves on a fix from integrating gpm
11252 + add another call to check_pending, before scrolling, for
11253 line-breakout optimization
11254 + improve hashmap.c by
11255 1. fixed loop condition in grow_hunks()
11256 2. not marking lines with offset 0
11257 3. fixed condition of 'too far' criteria, thus one-line hunks are
11258 ignored and two lines interchanged won't pass.
11259 + rewrote/simplified _nc_scroll_optimize() by separating into two
11260 passes, forward/backward, looking for chunks moving only in the given
11262 + move logic that emits sgr0 when initializing the screen to
11263 _nc_screen_init(), now invoked from newterm.
11264 + move cursor-movement cleanup from endwin() into _nc_mvcur_wrap()
11265 function and screen cleanup (i.e., color) into _nc_screen_wrap()
11267 + add new functions _nc_screen_init(), _nc_screen_resume() and
11269 + rename _nc_mvcur_scrolln() to _nc_scrolln().
11270 + add a copy of acs_map[] to the SCREEN structure, where it can be
11271 stored/retrieved via set_term().
11272 + move variables _nc_idcok, _nc_idlok, _nc_windows into the SCREEN
11276 + implement experimental _nc_perform_scroll().
11277 + modify newterm (actually _nc_setupscreen()) to emit an sgr0 when
11278 initializing the screen, as does SVr4 (reported by Alexander V.
11280 + added test_progs rule to ncurses/Makefile.
11281 + modify test/configure.in to check if initscr is already in $LIBS
11282 before looking for (n)curses library.
11283 + correct version-number in configure script for OSF1 shared-library
11284 options (patch by Tim Mooney).
11285 + add -DNDEBUG to CPPFLAGS for --enable-assertions (as Juergen
11286 originally patched) since the c++ demo files do not necessarily
11287 include ncurses_cfg.h
11288 + supply default value for --enable-assertions option in configure
11289 script (reported by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf-fs.usc.edu>).
11290 > patches by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
11291 + correct/simplify logic of werase(), wclrtoeol() and wclrbot(). See
11292 example firstlast.c
11293 + optimize waddch_literal() and waddch_nosync() by factoring out
11294 common subexpressions.
11295 + correct sense of NDEBUG ifdef for CHECK_POSITION macro.
11296 + corrections to render_char(), to make handling of colored blanks
11297 match SVr4 curses, as well as to correct a bug that xor'd space
11298 against the background character.
11299 + replaced hash function with a faster one (timed it)
11300 + rewrote the hashmap algorithm to be one-pass, this avoids multiple
11301 cost_effective() calls on the same lines.
11302 + modified cost_effective() so it is now slightly more precise.
11303 > patches for glibc integration (H.J.Lu):
11304 + add modules define_key, keyok, name_match, tries
11305 + add makefile rules for some of the unit tests in ncurses (mvcur,
11306 captoinfo, hardscroll, hashmap).
11307 + update Linux configure-script for wide-character definitions.
11310 + modify _tracebits() to show the character size (e.g., CS8).
11311 + modify tparm() to emit '\200' where the generated string would have a
11312 null (reported by From: Ian Dall <Ian.Dall@dsto.defence.gov.au> for
11313 terminal type ncr7900).
11314 + modify install process so that ldconfig is not invoked if the
11315 package is built with an install-prefix.
11316 + correct test program for chtype size (reported by Tim Mooney).
11317 + add configure option --disable-scroll-hints, using this to ifdef the
11318 logic that computes indices for _nc_scroll_optimize().
11319 + add module ncurses/softscroll.c, to perform single-stage computation
11320 of scroll indices used in _nc_scroll_optimize(). This is faster than
11321 the existing scrolling algorithm, but tends to make too-small hunks.
11322 + eliminate fixed buffer size in _nc_linedump().
11323 + minor fixes to lib_doupdate.c to add tradeoff between clr_eol (el)
11324 and clr_bol (el1), refine logic in ClrUpdate() and ClrBottom() (patch
11325 by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11326 + add test/testaddch.c, from a pending patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov.
11327 + correct processing of "configure --enable-assertions" option (patch
11328 by Juergen Pfeifer).
11331 + add '-s' (single-step) option too test/hashtest.c, correct an error
11332 in loop limit for '-f' (footer option), toggle scrollok() when
11333 writing footer to avoid wrap at lower-right corner.
11334 + correct behavior of clrtoeol() immediately after wrapping cursor,
11335 which was not clearing the line at the cursor position (reported by
11336 Liviu Daia <daia@stoilow.imar.ro>).
11337 + corrected mapping for ACS_LANTERN, which was 'I' rather than 'i'
11338 (reported by Klaus Weide <kweide@tezcat.com>).
11339 + many corrections to make progs/capconvert work, as well as make it
11340 reasonably portable and integrated with ncurses 4.1 (reported by Dave
11341 Furstenau <df@ravine.binary.net>).
11344 + add flag SP->_fifohold, corresponding logic to modify the behavior of
11345 the line breakout logic so that if the application does not read
11346 input, refreshes will not be stopped, but only slowed.
11347 + generate slk_attr_off(), slk_attr_on(), slk_attr_set(), vid_attr(),
11348 ifdef'd for wide-character support, since ncurses' WA_xxx attribute
11349 masks are identical with the A_xxx masks.
11350 + modify MKlib_gen.sh to generate ifdef'd functions to support optional
11351 configuration of wide-characters.
11352 + modify tset to behave more like SVr4's tset, which does not modify
11353 the settings of intr, quit or erase unless they are given as command
11354 options (reported by Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe@math.utah.edu>).
11355 + modify tset to look in /etc/ttys or /etc/ttytype if the configuration
11356 does not have getttynam().
11357 + extend baudrate table in tset.c to match baudrate() function.
11358 + add table entries for B230400 and B460800 to baudrate() function.
11359 + improve breakout logic by allowing it before the first line updated,
11360 which is what SVr4 curses does (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11361 + correct initialization of vcost in relative_move(), for cursor-down
11362 case (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11363 > nits gleaned from Debian distribution of 1.9.9g-3:
11364 + install symbolic link for intotocap.
11365 + reference libc directly when making shared libraries.
11366 + correct renaming of curs_scr_dmp.3x in man_db.renames.
11367 + guard tgetflag() and other termcap functions against null cur_term
11371 + corrected initial state of software echo (error in 970405, reported
11372 by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11373 + reviewed/added messages to configure script, so that all non-test
11374 options should be accompanied by a message.
11375 + add configure check for long filenames, using this to determine if
11376 it is safe to allow long aliases for terminal descriptions as does
11378 + add configure options for widec (wide character), hashmap (both
11380 > patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov:
11381 + hashmap.c - improved by heuristic, so that scroll test works much
11382 better when csr is not available.
11383 + hardscroll.c - patched so that it continues to scroll other chunks
11384 after failure to scroll one.
11385 + lib_doupdate.c - _nc_mvcur_scrolln extended to handle more cases; csr
11386 is avoided as it is relative costly. Fixed wrong coordinates in one
11387 case and wrong string in TRACE.
11388 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
11389 + modify C++ binding to compile on AIX 4.x with the IBM C-SET++
11393 + remove alternate character set from kterm terminfo entry; it uses the
11394 shift-out control for a purpose incompatible with curses, i.e., font
11396 + disentangle 'xterm' terminfo entry from some derived entries that
11397 should be based on xterm-r6 instead.
11398 + add cbt to xterm-xf86-xv32 terminfo entry; I added the emulation for
11399 XFree86 3.1.2F, but overlooked its use in terminfo then - T.Dickey.
11400 + correct logic in lib_mvcur.c that uses back_tab.
11403 + correct change from 970628 to ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c so that
11404 contents of curscr are saved in newscr before clearing the screen.
11405 This is needed to make repainting work with the present logic of
11407 + use napms() rather than sleep() in tset.c to avoid interrupting I/O.
11410 + add limit checks to _nc_read_file_entry() to guard against overflow
11411 of buffer when reading incompatible terminfo format, e.g, from OSF/1.
11412 + correct some loop-variable errors in xmc support in lib_doupdate.c
11413 + modify ncurses 'b' test to add gaps, specified by user, to allow
11414 investigation of interaction with xmc (magic cookie) code.
11415 + correct typo in 970524 mods to xmas.c, had omitted empty parameter
11416 list from has_colors(), which gcc ignores, but SVr4 does not
11417 (reported by Larry Virden).
11418 + correct rmso capability in wy50-mc description.
11419 + add configure option "--enable-hard-tabs", renamed TABS_OK ifdef to
11421 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
11422 + Add bindings for keyok() and define_key() to the Ada95 packages.
11423 + Improve man pages menu_post.3x and menu_format.3x
11424 + Fix the HTML pages in the Ada95/html directory to reflect the above
11428 + modify change from 970101 to ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c so that
11429 pending changes to both curscr and newscr are flushed properly.
11430 This fixes a case where the first scrolling operation in nvi would
11431 cause the screen to be cleared unnecessarily and repainted before
11432 doing the indexing, i.e., by repeatedly pressing 'j' (reported by
11434 + correct error in trans_string() which added embedded newlines in a
11435 terminfo description to the stored strings.
11436 + remove spurious newlines from sgr in wyse50 (and several other)
11437 terminfo descriptions.
11438 + add configure option for experimental xmc (magic cookie) code,
11439 "--enable-xmc-glitch". When disabled (the default), attributes that
11440 would store a magic cookie are suppressed in vidputs(). The magic
11441 cookie code is far from workable at this stage; the configuration
11442 option is a stopgap.
11443 + move _nc_initscr() from lib_initscr.c to lib_newterm.c
11444 + correct path for invoking make_keys (a missing "./").
11447 + correct sign-extension problem with "infocmp -e", which corrupted
11448 acsc values computed for linux fallback data.
11449 + correct dependency on ncurses/names.c (a missing "./").
11450 + modify configure script to use '&&' even for cd'ing to existing
11451 directories to work around broken shell interpreters.
11452 + correct a loop-limit in _nc_hash_map() (patch by Alexander V.
11456 + restore logic in _nc_scroll_optimize() which marks as touched the
11457 lines in curscr that are shifted.
11458 + add new utility 'make_keys' to compute keys.tries as a table rather
11459 than a series of function calls.
11460 + correct include-dependency for tic.h used by name_match
11461 + removed buffer-allocation for name and description from m_item_new.c,
11462 since this might result in incompatibilities with SVr4. Also fixed
11463 the corresponding Ada95 binding module (patch by Juergen Pfeifer,
11464 report by Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@foxnet.net>)
11465 + removed the mechanism to timestamp the generated Ada95 sources. This
11466 resulted always in generating patches for the HTML doc, even when
11467 nothing really changed (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
11468 + improve man page mitem_new.3x (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
11471 + remove ech capability from rxvt description because it does not work.
11472 + add missing case logic for infocmp -I option (reported by Lorenzo M.
11473 Catucci <lorenzo@argon.roma2.infn.it>)
11474 + correct old bug in pnoutrefresh() unmasked by fix in 970531; this
11475 caused glitches in the ncurses 'p' test since the area outside the
11476 pad was not compared when setting up indices for _nc_scroll_optimize.
11477 + rewrote tracebits() to workaround misdefinition of TOSTOP on Ultrix
11478 4.4, as well as to eliminate fixed-size buffer (reported by Chris
11479 Tanner <tannerc@aecl.ca>)
11480 + correct prototype for termattrs() as per XPG4 version 2.
11481 + add placeholder prototypes for color_set(), erasewchar(),
11482 term_attrs(), wcolor_set() as per XPG4 version 2.
11483 + correct attribution for progs/progs.priv.h and lib_twait.c
11484 + improve line-breakout logic by checking based on changed lines rather
11485 than total lines (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11486 + correct loop limits for table-lookup of enumerated value in form
11487 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
11488 + improve threshhold computation for determining when to call ClrToEOL
11489 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11492 + add configure option --disable-database to force the library to
11493 use only the fallback data.
11494 + add configure option --with-fallbacks, to specify list of fallback
11495 terminal descriptions.
11496 + add a symbolic link for ncurses.h during install; too many programs
11497 still assume there's an ncurses.h
11498 + add new terminfo.src entry for xterm-xf86-v33.
11499 + restore terminfo.src entry for emu to using setf/setb, since it is
11500 not, after all, generating ANSI sequences. Corrected missing comma
11501 that caused setf/setb entries to merge.
11502 + modify mousemask() to use keyok() to enable/disable KEY_MOUSE, so
11503 that applications can disable ncurses' mouse and supply their own
11505 + add extensions keyok() and define_key(). These are designed to allow
11506 the user's application better control over the use of function keys,
11507 e.g., disabling the ncurses KEY_MOUSE. (The define_key idea was from
11508 a mailing-list thread started by Kenneth Albanowski
11509 <kjahds@kjahds.com> Nov'1995).
11510 + restore original behavior in ncurses 'g' test, i.e., explicitly
11511 set the keypad mode rather than use the default, since it confuses
11513 + rewrote the newdemo banner so it's readable (reported by Hugh
11515 + tidy up exit from hashtest (reported by Hugh Daniel).
11516 + restore check for ^Q in ncurses 'g' test broken in 970510 (reported
11518 + correct tput program, checking return-value of setupterm (patch by
11520 + correct logic in pnoutrefresh() and pechochar() functions (reported
11521 by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf.usc.edu>). The computation
11522 of 'wide' date to eric's #283 (1.9.9), and the pechochar bug to the
11523 original implementation (1.9.6).
11524 + correct typo in vt102-w terminfo.src entry (patch by Robert Wuest
11525 <rwuest@sire.vt.com>)
11526 + move calls of _nc_background() out of various loops, as its return
11527 value will be the same for the whole window being operated on (patch
11529 + add macros getcur[xy] getbeg[xy] getpar[xy], which are defined in
11530 SVr4 headers (patch by J T Conklin <jtc@NetBSD.ORG>)
11531 + modify glibc addon-configure scripts (patch by H.J.Lu).
11532 + correct a bug in hashmap.c: the size used for clearing the hashmap
11533 table was incorrect, causing stack corruption for large values of
11534 LINES, e.g., >MAXLINES/2 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11535 + eric's terminfo 9.13.23 & 9.13.24 changes: replaced minitel-2 entry,
11536 added MGR, ansi-nt (note: the changes described for 9.13.24 have not
11538 > several changes by Juergen Pfeifer:
11539 + correct a missing error-return in form_driver.c when wrapping of a
11540 field is not possible.
11541 + correct logic in form_driver.c for configurations that do not have
11542 memccpy() (reported by Sidik Isani <isani@cfht.hawaii.edu>)
11543 + change several c++ binding functions to inline.
11544 + modify c++ menu binding to inherit from panels, for proper
11546 + correct freeing of menu items in c++ binding.
11547 + modify c++ binding to reflect removal of const from user data pointer
11548 in forms/menus libraries.
11551 + add description of xterm-16color.
11552 + modify name of shared-library on *BSD to end with $(REL_VERSION)
11553 rather than $(ABI_VERSION) to match actual convention on FreeBSD
11555 + add OpenBSD to shared-library case, same as NetBSD and FreeBSD
11556 (reported by Hugh Daniel <hugh@rat.toad.com>).
11557 + corrected include-dependency in menu/Makefile so that "make install"
11558 works properly w/o first doing "make".
11559 + add fallback definition for isascii, used in infocmp.
11560 + modify xmas to use color, and to exit right away when a key is
11562 + modify gdc so that the scrolled digits function as described (there
11563 was no time delay between the stages, and the digits overwrote the
11564 bounding box without tidying up).
11565 + modify lib_color.c to use setaf/setab only for the ANSI color codes
11566 0 through 7. Using 16 colors requires setf/setb.
11567 + modify ncurses 'c' test to work with 16 colors, as well as the normal
11569 + remove const qualifier from user data pointer in forms and menus
11570 libraries (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
11571 + rewrote 'waddchnstr()' to avoid using the _nc_waddch_nosync()
11572 function, thereby not interpreting tabs, etc., as per spec (patch by
11573 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11576 + suppress check for pre-existing ncurses header if the --prefix
11577 option is specified.
11578 + add configure options "--with-system-type" and
11579 "--with-system-release" to assist in checking the generated
11581 + add configure option "--enable-rpath" to allow installers to specify
11582 that programs linked against shared libraries will have their library
11583 path embedded, allowing installs into nonstandard locations.
11584 + add flags to OSF1 shared-library options to specify version and
11585 symbol file (patch by Tim Mooney <mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu>)
11586 + add missing definition for ABI_VERSION to c++/Makefile.in (reported
11587 by Satoshi Adachi <adachi@wisdom.aa.ap.titech.ac.jp>).
11588 + modify link flags to accommodate HP-UX linker which embeds absolute
11589 pathnames in executables linked against shared libraries (reported by
11590 Jason Evans <jasone@mrc.uidaho.edu>, solved by Alan Shutko
11591 <ats@hubert.wustl.edu>).
11592 + drop unnecessary check for attribute-change in onscreen_mvcur() since
11593 mvcur() is the only caller within the library, and that check in turn
11594 is exercised only from lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V.
11596 + add 'blank' parameter to _nc_scroll_window() so _nc_mvcur_scrolln()
11597 can use the background of stdscr as a parameter to that function
11598 (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11599 + moved _nc_mvcur_scrolln() from lib_mvcur.c to lib_doupdate.c, to use
11600 the latter's internal functions, as well as to eliminate unnecessary
11601 cursor save/restore operations (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11602 + omit parameter of ClrUpdate(), since it is called only for newscr,
11603 further optimized/reduced by using ClearScreen() and TransformLine()
11604 to get rid of duplicate code (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11605 + modify scrolling algorithm in _nc_scroll_optimize() to reject hunks
11606 that are smaller than the distance to be moved (patch by Alexander V.
11608 + correct a place where the panel library was not ifdef'd in ncurses.c
11610 + documentation fixes (Juergen Pfeifer)
11612 970515 4.1 release for upload to prep.ai.mit.edu
11613 + re-tag changes since 970505 as 4.1 release.
11616 + modify ncurses 'g' test to allow mouse input
11617 + modify default xterm description to include mouse.
11618 + modify configure script to add -Wwrite-strings if gcc warnings are
11619 enabled while configuring --enable-const (and fixed related
11621 + add toggle, status display for keypad mode to ncurses 'g' test to
11622 verify that keypad and scrollok are not inherited from parent window
11623 during a call to newwin.
11624 + correction to MKexpanded.sh to make it work when configure --srcdir
11625 is used (reported by H.J.Lu).
11626 + revise test for bool-type, ensuring that it checks if builtin.h is
11627 available before including it, adding test for sizeof(bool) equal
11628 to sizeof(short), and warning user if the size cannot be determined
11629 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11630 + add files to support configuration of ncurses as an add-on library
11631 for GNU libc (patch by H.J.Lu <hjl@lucon.org>)
11634 + correct buffer overrun in lib_traceatr.c
11635 + modify change to lib_vidattr.c to avoid redundant orig_pair.
11636 + turn on 'echo()' in hanoi.c, since it is initially off.
11637 + rename local 'errno' variable in etip.h to avoid conflict with global
11639 + modify configure script to cache LD, AR, AR_OPTS (patch by H.J.Lu
11642 970505 4.1 pre-release
11643 + regenerate the misc directory html dumps without the link list, which
11645 + correct dependency in form directory makefile which caused
11646 unnecessary recompiles.
11647 + correct substitution for ABI_VERSION in test-makefile
11648 + modify install rules for shared-library targets to remove the target
11649 before installing, since some install programs do not properly handle
11650 overwrite of symbolic links.
11651 + change order of top-level targets so that 'include' immediate
11652 precedes the 'ncurses' directory, reducing the time between new
11653 headers and new libraries (requested by Larry Virden).
11654 + modify lib_vidattr.c so that colors are turned off only before
11655 modifying other attributes, turned on after others. This makes the
11656 hanoi.c program display correctly on FreeBSD console.
11657 + modify debug code in panel library to print user-data addresses
11658 rather than the strings which they (may) point to.
11659 + add check to ensure that C++ binding and demo are not built with g++
11660 versions below 2.7, since the binding uses templates.
11661 + modify c++ binding and demo to build and run with SGI's c++ compiler.
11662 (It also compiles with the Sun SparcWorks compiler, but the demo does
11663 not link, due to a vtbl problem).
11664 + corrections to demo.cc, to fix out-of-scope variables (Juergen
11668 + correct memory leak in _nc_trace_buf().
11669 + add configure test for regexpr.h, for Unixware 1.x.
11670 + correct missing "./" prefixing names of generated files in ncurses
11672 + use single-quotes in configure scripts assignments for MK_SHARED_LIB
11673 to workaround shell bug on FreeBSD 2.1.5
11674 + remove tabs from intermediate #define's for GCC_PRINTF, GCC_SCANF
11675 that caused incorrect result in ncurses_cfg.h
11676 + correct initialization in lib_trace.c, which omitted version info.
11677 + remove ech, el1 attributes from cons25w description; they appear to
11678 malfunction in FreeBSD 2.1.5
11679 + correct color attributes in terminfo.src and lib_color.c to match
11680 SVr4 behavior by interchanging codes 1,4, 3,6 in the setf/setb
11682 + use curs_set() rather than checks via tigetstr() for test programs
11683 that hide the cursor: firework, rain, worm.
11684 + ensure that if the terminal lacks change_scroll_region, parm_index
11685 and parm_rindex are used only to scroll the whole screen (patch by
11687 + correct curs_set() logic, which did not return ERR if the requested
11688 attributes did not exist, nor did it assume an unknown initial state
11689 for the cursor (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11690 + combine IDcTransformLine and NoIDcTransformLine to new TransformLine
11691 function in lib_doupdate.c (patch by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11692 + correct hashmap.c, which did not update index information (patch by
11693 Alexander V. Lukyanov).
11694 + fixes for C++ binding and demo (see c++/NEWS) (Juergen Pfeifer).
11695 + correct index in lib_instr.c (Juergen Pfeifer).
11696 + correct typo in 970426 patch from Tom's cleanup of lib_overlay.c
11697 (patch by Juergen Pfeifer).
11700 + corrected cost computation in PutRange(), which was using
11701 milliseconds compared to characters by adding two new members to the
11702 SCREEN struct, _hpa_ch_cost and _cup_ch_cost.
11703 + drop ncurses/lib_unctrl.c, add ncurses/MKunctrl.awk to generate a
11704 const array of strings (suggested by Alexander V. Lukyanov). The
11705 original suggestion in 970118 used a perl script.
11706 + rewrote ncurses 'b' test to better exercise magic-cookie (xmc), as
11707 well as noting the attributes that are not supported by a terminal.
11708 + trace the computation of cost values in lib_mvcur.c
11709 + modify _nc_visbuf() to use octal rather than hex, corrected sign
11710 extension bug in that function that caused buffer overflow.
11711 + modify trace in lib_acs.c to use _nc_visbuf().
11712 + suppress trace within _traceattr2().
11713 + correct logic of _tracechtype2(), which did not account for repeats
11714 or redefinition within an acsc string.
11715 + modify debug-library version baudrate() to use environment variable
11716 $BAUDRATE to override speed computation. This is needed for
11717 regression testing.
11718 + correct problems shown by "weblint -pedantic".
11719 + update mailing-list information (now ncurses@bsdi.com).
11722 + Improve form_field_validation.3x manpage to better describe the
11723 precision parameter for TYPE_NUMERIC and TYPE_INTEGER. Provide more
11724 precise information how the range checking can be avoided. (patch by
11725 Juergen Pfeifer, reported by Bryan Henderson)
11726 + change type of min/max value of form types TYPE_INTEGER to long to
11727 match SVr4 documentation.
11728 + set the form window to stdscr in set_form_win() so that form_win()
11729 won't return null (patch by Juergen Pfeifer, reported by Bryan
11730 Henderson <bryanh@giraffe.netgate.net>).
11733 + corrected ifdef'ing of inline (cf: 970321) for TRACE vs C++.
11734 + corrected toggle_attr_off() macro (patch by Andries Brouwer).
11735 + modify treatment of empty token in $MANPATH to /usr/man (reported by
11736 <Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>)
11737 + modify traces that record functions-called so that chtype and attr_t
11738 values are expressed symbolically, to simplify reuse of generated
11739 test-scripts on SVr4 regression testing.
11740 + add new trace functions _traceattr2() and _tracechtype2()
11743 + add configure option --enable-const, to support the use of 'const'
11744 where XSI should have, but did not, specify. This defines
11745 NCURSES_CONST, which is an empty token otherwise, for strict
11747 + make processing of configure options more verbose by echoing the
11748 --enable/--with values.
11749 + add configure option --enable-big-core
11750 + set initial state of software echo off as per XSI.
11751 + check for C++ builtin.h header
11752 + correct computation of absolute-path for $INSTALL that dropped "-c"
11753 parameter from the expression.
11754 + rename config.h to ncurses_cfg.h to avoid naming-conflict when
11755 ncurses is integrated into larger systems (adapted from diffs by
11757 + correct inequality in lib_doupdate.c that caused a single-char to not
11758 be updated when the char on the right-margin was not blank, idcok()
11759 was true (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov (in 970124), reported
11760 by Kriang Lerdsuwanakij <lerdsuwa@scf-fs.usc.edu> in 970329).
11761 + modify 'clean' rule in include/Makefile so that files created by
11762 configure script are removed in 'distclean' rule instead.
11765 + correct array limit in tparam_internal(), add case to interpret "%x"
11766 (patch by Andreas Schwab)
11767 + rewrote number-parsing in ncurses.c 'd' test; it did not reset the
11768 value properly when non-numeric characters were given (reported by
11769 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>)
11772 + move definition of __INTERNAL_CAPS_VISIBLE before include for
11773 progs.priv.h (patch by David MacKenzie).
11774 + add configuration summary, reordered check for default include
11775 directory to better accommodate a case where installer is configuring
11776 a second copy of ncurses (reported by Klaus Weide
11777 <kweide@tezcat.com>)
11778 + moved the #define for 'inline' as an empty token from the
11779 $(CFLAGS_DEBUG) symbol into config.h, to avoid redefinition warning
11780 (reported by Ward Horner).
11781 + modify test for bool builtin type to use 'unsigned' rather than
11782 'unknown' when cross-compiling (reported by Ward Horner).
11785 + add header dependencies so that "make install.libs" will succeed
11786 even if "make all" is not done first.
11787 + moved some macros from lib_doupdate.c to curses.priv.h to use in
11788 expanded functions with ATAC.
11789 + correct implementation of lib_instr.c; both XSI and SVr4 agree that
11790 the winnstr functions can return more characters than will fit on one
11794 + modify script that generates lib_gen.c to support traces of called &
11796 + add new configure option "--disable-macros", for testing calls within
11798 + corrected logic that screens level-checking of called/return traces.
11801 + use new configure macro NC_SUBST to replace AC_PATH_PROG, better
11802 addressing request by Ward Horner.
11803 + check for cross-compiling before trying to invoke the autoconf
11804 AC_FUNC_SETVBUF_REVERSED macro (reported by Ward Horner)
11805 + correct/simplify loop in _nc_visbuf(), 970201 changes omitted
11806 a pointer-increment.
11807 + eliminate obsolete symbol SHARED_ABI from dist.mk (noted by
11811 + add configure option --enable-expanded, together with code that
11812 implements an expanded form of certain complex macros, for testing
11814 + disable CHECK_POSITION unless --with-assertions is configured
11815 (Alexander V Lukyanov pointed out that this is redundant).
11816 + use keyname() to show traced chtype values where applicable rather
11817 than _tracechar(), which truncates the value to 8-bits.
11818 + minor fixes to TRACE_ICALLS, added T_CREATE, TRACE_CCALLS macros.
11819 + modify makefiles in progs and test directories to avoid using C
11820 preprocessor options on link commands (reported by Ward Horner)
11821 + correct ifdef/include-order for nc_alloc.h vs lib_freeall.c (reported
11823 + modify ifdef's to use configure-defined symbols consistently
11824 (reported by Ward Horner)
11825 + add/use new makefile symbols AR, AR_OPTS and LD to assist in non-UNIX
11826 ports (reported by Ward Horner <whorner@tsi-telsys.com>)
11827 + rename struct try to struct tries, to avoid name conflict with C++
11828 (reported by Gary Johnson).
11829 + modify worm.c to hide cursor while running.
11830 + add -Wcast-qual to gcc warnings, fix accordingly.
11831 + use PutChar rather than PutAttrChar in ClrToEOL to properly handle
11832 wrapping (Alexander V Lukyanov).
11833 + correct spurious echoing of input in hanoi.c from eric's #291 & #292
11834 patches (reported by Vernon C. Hoxie <vern@zebra.alphacdc.com>).
11835 + extend IRIX configuration to IRIX64
11836 + supply missing install.libs rule needed after restructuring
11840 + modify "make mostlyclean" to leave automatically-generated source
11841 in the ncurses directory, for use in cross-compiles.
11842 + autogenerated object-dependencies for test directory
11843 + add configure option --with-rcs-ids
11844 + modify configuration scripts to generate major/minor/patch versions
11845 (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
11846 + supply missing va_end's in lib_scanw.c
11847 + use stream I/O for trace-output, to eliminate fixed-size buffer
11848 + add TRACE_ICALLS definition/support to lib_trace.c
11849 + modify Ada95 binding to work with GNAT 3.09 (Juergen Pfeifer).
11852 + add/modify traces for called/return values to simplify extraction
11854 + changed _nc_visbuf to quote its result, and to dynamically allocate
11855 the returned buffer.
11856 + invoke ldconfig after installing shared library
11857 + modify install so that overwrite applies to shared library -lcurses
11858 in preference to static library (reported by Zeyd M Ben-Halim 960928).
11859 + correct missing ';' in 961221 mod to overwrite optional use of $(LN_S)
11861 + fixes to allow "make install" to work without first doing a "make
11862 all" (suggested by Larry Virden).
11865 + correct order of #ifdef for TABS_OK.
11866 + instrumented toe.c to test memory-leaks.
11867 + correct memory-deallocation in toe.c (patch by Jesse Thilo).
11868 + include <sys/types.h> in configuration test for regex.h (patch by
11870 + make infocmp recognize -I option, for SVr4 compatibility (reported by
11871 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>)
11874 + add extension 'use_default_colors()', modified test applications that
11875 use default background (firework, gdc, hanoi, knight, worm) to
11877 + correct some limit checks in lib_doupdate.c exposed while running
11879 + use typeCalloc macro for readability.
11880 + add/use definition for CONST to accommodate testing with Solaris
11881 (SVr4) curses, which doesn't use 'const' in its prototypes.
11882 + modify ifdef's in test/hashtest.c and test/view.c to compile with
11884 + modify _tracedump() to pad colors & attrs lines to match change
11885 in 970101 showing first/last changes.
11886 + corrected location of terminating null on dynamically allocated forms
11887 fields (patch by Per Foreby).
11890 + added headers to make view.c compile on SCO with the resizeterm()
11891 code (i.e., struct winsize) - though this compiles, I don't have a
11892 suitable test configuration since SIGWINCH doesn't pass my network to
11893 that machine - T.Dickey.
11894 + update test/configure.in to supply some default substitutions.
11895 + modify configure script to add -lncurses after -lgpm to fix problem
11896 linking against static libraries.
11897 + add a missing noraw() to test/ncurses.c (places noted by Jeremy
11899 + add a missing wclear() to test/testcurs.c (patch by Jeremy Buhler
11900 <jbuhler@cs.washington.edu>)
11901 + modify headers to accommodate compilers that don't allow duplicate
11902 "#define" lines for NCURSES_VERSION (reported by Larry W. Virden
11904 + fix formatting glitch in curs_getch.3x (patch by Jesse Thilo).
11905 + modify lib_doupdate to make el, el1 and ed optimization use the
11906 can_clear_with macro, and change EmitRange to allow leaving cursor at
11907 the middle of interval, rather than always at the end (patch by
11908 Alexander V Lukyanov). This was originally 960929, resync 970106.
11911 + workaround defect in autoconf 2.12 (which terminates configuration
11912 if no C++ compiler is found) by adding an option --without-cxx.
11913 + modify several man-pages to use tbl, where .nf/.fi was used (reported
11915 + correct font-codes in some man-pages (patch by Jesse Thilo
11916 <Jesse.Thilo@pobox.com>)
11917 + use configure script's knowledge of existence of g++ library for the
11918 c++ Makefile (reported by Paul Jackson).
11919 + correct misleading description of --datadir configuration option
11920 (reported by Paul Jackson <pj@sam.engr.sgi.com>)
11923 + several corrections to _nc_mvcur_scrolln(), prompted by a bug report
11925 > the logic for non_dest_scroll_region was interchanged between the
11926 forward & reverse scrolling cases.
11927 > multiple returns from the function allowed certain conditions to do
11928 part of an operation before discovering that it couldn't be
11929 completed, returning an error without restoring the cursor.
11930 > some returns were ERR, where the function had completed the
11931 operation, because the insert/delete line logic was improperly
11932 tested (this was probably the case Peter saw).
11933 > contrary to comments, some scrolling cases were tested after the
11934 insert/delete line method.
11935 + modify _tracedump() to show first/last changes.
11936 + modify param of ClrUpdate() in lib_doupdate.c to 'newscr', fixes
11937 refresh problem (reported by Peter Wemm) that caused nvi to not show
11938 result of ":r !ls" until a ^L was typed.
11940 961229 (internal alpha)
11941 + correct some of the writable-strings warnings (reported by Gary
11942 Johnson <gjohnson@season.com>). Note that most of the remaining ones
11943 are part of the XSI specification, and can't be "fixed".
11944 + improve include-dependencies in form, menu, panel directories.
11945 + correct logic of delay_output(), which would return early if
11946 there is data on stdin.
11947 + modify interface & logic of _nc_timed_wait() to support 2 file
11948 descriptors, needed for GPM.
11949 + integrate patch by Andrew Kuchling <amk@magnet.com> for GPM (mouse)
11950 support, correcting logic in wgetch() and _nc_mouse_parse() which
11951 prevented patch from working properly -TD
11952 + improve performance of panel algorithm (Juergen Pfeifer 961203).
11953 + strip RCS id's from generated .html files in Ada95 subtree.
11954 + resync with generated .html files (Juergen Pfeifer 961223).
11955 + terminfo.src 10.1.0 (ESR).
11958 + release as 4.0 to accommodate Linux ld.so.1.8.5
11959 + correct syntax/spelling, regenerated .doc files from .html using
11961 + refined forms/menus makefiles (Juergen Pfeifer 961223).
11964 + remove logic in read_entry.c that attempts to refine errno by using
11965 'access()' for the directory (from patch by Florian La Roche).
11966 + correct configure test/substitution that inhibits generating
11967 include-path to /usr/include if gcc is used (reported by Florian La
11969 + modify setupterm() to allocate new TERMINAL for each call, just as
11970 solaris' curses does (Alexander V Lukyanov 960829).
11971 + corrected memory leaks in read_entry.c
11972 + add configure options --with-dbmalloc, --with-dmalloc, and
11973 --disable-leaks, tested by instrumenting infocmp, ncurses programs.
11974 + move #include's for stdlib.h and string.h to *.priv.h to accommodate
11976 + modify use of $(LN_S) to follow recommendation in autoconf 2.12,
11977 i.e., set current directory before linking.
11978 + split-out panel.priv.h, improve dependencies for forms, menus
11979 (Juergen Pfeifer 961204).
11980 + modify _nc_freewin() to reset globals curscr/newscr/stdscr when
11981 freeing the corresponding WINDOW (found using Purify).
11982 + modify delwin() to return ERR if the window to be deleted has
11983 subwindows, needed as a side-effect of resizeterm() (found using
11984 Purify). Tested and found that SVr4 curses behaves this way.
11985 + implement logic for _nc_freeall(), bringing stub up to date.
11988 + modify wbkgd() so that it doesn't set nulls in the rendered text,
11989 even if its argument doesn't specify a character (fixes test case by
11990 Juergen Pfeifer for bug-report).
11991 + set window-attributes in wbkgd(), to simplify comparison against
11992 Solaris curses, which does this.
11995 + replace most constants in ncurses 'o' test by expressions, making it
11996 work with wider range of screen sizes.
11997 + add options to ncurses.c to specify 'e' test softkey format, and the
11998 number of header/footer lines to rip-off.
11999 + add ^R (repaint after resize), ^L (refresh) commands to ncurses 'p'
12001 + add shell-out (!) command to ncurses 'p' test to allow test of
12002 resize between endwin/refresh.
12003 + correct line-wrap case in mvcur() by emitting carriage return,
12004 overlooked in 960928, but needed due to SVr4 compatibility changes to
12005 terminal modes in 960907.
12006 + correct logic in wresize that causes new lines to be allocated,
12007 broken for the special case of increasing rows only in 960907's fix
12009 + modify configure script to generate $(LDFLAGS) with -L and -l options
12010 in preference to explicit library filenames. (NOTE: this may
12011 require further amending, since I vaguely recall a dynamic loader
12012 that did not work properly without the full names, but it should be
12013 handled as an exception to the rule, since some linkers do bulk
12014 inclusion of libraries when given the full name - T.Dickey).
12015 + modify configure script to allow user-supplied $CFLAGS to set the
12016 debug-option in all libraries (requested by lots of people) -TD
12017 + use return consistently from main(), rather than exit (reported by
12019 + add --enable-getcap-cache option to configure, normally disabled
12020 (requested by Florian La Roche).
12021 + make configure test for gettimeofday() and possibly -lbsd more
12022 efficient (requested by Florian La Roche <florian@knorke.saar.de>)
12023 + minor adjustments to Ada95 binding (patches by Juergen Pfeifer)
12024 + correct attributes after emitting orig_pair in lib_vidattr.c (patch
12025 by Alexander V Lukyanov).
12028 + corrected README wrt Ada95 (Juergen Pfeifer)
12031 + integrate resizeterm() into doupdate(), so that if screen size
12032 changes between endwin/refresh, ncurses will resize windows to fit
12033 (this needs additional testing with pads and softkeys).
12034 + add, for memory-leak testing, _nc_freeall() entrypoint to free all
12035 data used in ncurses library.
12036 + initialize _nc_idcok, _nc_idlok statically to resolve discrepancy
12037 between initscr() and newwin() initialization (reported by
12038 Alexander V Lukyanov).
12039 + test built VERSION=4.0, SHARED_ABI=4 with Linux ld.so.1.8.5
12040 (set beta versions to those values -- NOTE that subsequent pre-4.0
12041 beta may not be interchangeable).
12042 + modify configure script to work with autoconf 2.12
12044 961130 1.9.9g release
12045 + add copyright notices to configuration scripts (written by Thomas
12049 > patch, mostly for panel (Juergen Pfeifer):
12050 + cosmetic improvement for a few routines in the ncurses core library
12051 to avoid warning messages.
12052 + the panel overlap detection was broken
12053 + the panel_window() function was not fool-proof.
12055 + Cosmetic changes (also to avoid warning messages when compiling with
12059 > patch by Juergen Pfeifer:
12060 + eliminates warning messages for the compile of libform.
12061 + inserts Per Foreby's new field type TYPE_IPV4 into libform.
12062 + Updates man page and the Ada95 binding to reflect this.
12063 + Improves inlining in libmenu and libform.
12066 + improve the use of the "const" qualifier in the
12067 panel library (Juergen Pfeifer)
12068 + change set_panel_userptr() and panel_userptr() to use void*
12072 + change ABI to 3.4
12073 + package with 961119 version of Ada95 binding (fixes for gnat-3.07).
12075 + correct initialization of the stdscr pseudo panel in panel library
12077 + use MODULE_ID (rcs keywords) in forms and menus libraries (Juergen
12079 > patch #324 (ESR):
12080 + typo in curs_termcap man page (reported by Hendrik Reichel
12081 <106065.2344@compuserve.com>)
12082 + change default xterm entry to xterm-r6.
12083 + add entry for color_xterm
12086 + lint found several functions that had only #define implementations
12087 (e.g., attr_off), modified curses.h.in to generate them as per XSI
12088 Curses requirement that every macro be available as a function.
12089 + add check in infocmp.c to guard against string compare of
12090 CANCELLED_STRING values.
12091 + modify firework.c, rain.c to hide cursor while running.
12092 + correct missing va_end in lib_tparm.c
12093 + modify hanoi.c to work on non-color terminals, and to use timing
12094 delays when in autoplay mode.
12095 + correct 'echochar()' to refresh immediately (reported by Adrian
12096 Garside <94ajg2@eng.cam.ac.uk>)
12097 > patch #322 (ESR):
12098 + reorganize terminfo.src entries for xterm.
12101 + corrected error in line-breakout logic (lib_doupdate.c)
12102 + modified newdemo to use wgetch(win) rather than getch() to eliminate
12103 a spurious clear-screen.
12104 + corrected ifdef's for 'poll()' configuration.
12105 + added modules to ncurses, form, menu for Ada95 binding (Juergen
12107 + modify set_field_buffer() to allow assignment of string longer than
12108 the initial buffer length, and to return the complete string rather
12109 than only the initial size (Juergen Pfeifer and Per Foreby
12110 <perf@efd.lth.se>).
12113 + configure for 'poll()' in preference to 'select()', since older
12114 systems are more likely to have a broken 'select()'.
12115 + modified render_char() to avoid OR'ing colors.
12116 + minor fixes to testcurs.c, newdemo.c test programs: ifdef'd out the
12117 resize test, use wbkgd and corrected box() parameters.
12118 + make flushinp() test work in ncurses.c by using napms() instead of
12120 + undo ESR's changes to xterm-x11r6 (it no longer matched the X11R6.1
12121 distribution, as stated)
12122 + terminfo 9.13.18 resync (ESR)
12123 + check for getenv("HOME") returning null (ESR).
12124 + change buffer used to decode xterm-mouse commands to unsigned to
12125 handle displays wider than 128 chars (Juergen Pfeifer).
12126 + correct typo curs_outopts.3x (Juergen Pfeifer).
12127 + correct limit-checking in wenclose() (Juergen Pfeifer).
12128 + correction to Peter Wemm's newwin change (Thomas Fehr
12130 + corrections to logic that combines colors and attributes; they must
12131 not be OR'd (Juergen Pfeifer, extending from report/patch by Rick
12135 + reset flags in 'getwin()' that might cause refresh to attempt to
12136 manipulate the non-existent parent of a window that is read from a
12137 file (lib_screen.c).
12138 + restructure _nc_timed_wait() to log more information, and to try to
12139 recover from badly-behaved 'select()' calls (still testing this).
12140 + move define for GOOD_SELECT into configure script.
12141 + corrected extra '\' character inserted before ',' in comp_scan.c
12142 + corrected expansion of %-format characters in dump_entry.c; some were
12143 rendered as octal constants.
12144 + modify dump_entry.c to make terminfo output more readable and like
12145 SVr4, by using "\s" for spaces (leading/trailing only), "\," for
12146 comma, "\^" and "\:" as well.
12147 + corrected some memory leaks in ncurses.c, and a minor logic error
12148 in the top-level command-parser.
12149 + correction for label format 4 (PC style with info line), a
12150 slk_clear(), slk_restore() sequence didn't redraw the info line
12152 + modified the slk window (if simulated) to inherit the background and
12153 default character attributes from stdscr (Juergen Pfeifer).
12154 + corrected limit-check in set_top_row (Juergen Pfeifer).
12157 + correct loop-limit in wnoutrefresh(), bug exposed during pipe-testing
12158 had '.lastchar' entry one beyond '._maxx'.
12159 + modify ncurses test-program to work with data piped to it.
12160 + corrected pathname computation in run_tic.sh, removing extra "../"
12161 (reported by Tim Mooney).
12162 + modified configure script to use previous install's location for
12164 + added NetBSD and FreeBSD to platforms that use --prefix=/usr as
12168 + revised xterm terminfo descriptions to reflect the several versions
12169 that are available.
12170 + corrected a pointer reference in dump_entry.c that didn't test if
12171 the pointer was -1.
12174 + correct _nc_mvcur_scrolln for terminals w/o scrolling region.
12175 + add -x option to hashtest to control whether it allows writes to the
12176 lower-right corner.
12177 + ifdef'd (NCURSES_TEST) the logic for _nc_optimize_enable to make it
12178 simpler to construct tests (for double-check of _nc_hash_map tests).
12179 + correct ifdef's for c++ in curses.h
12180 + change default xterm type to xterm-x11r6.
12181 + correct quoting in configure that made man-pages installed with
12182 $datadir instead of actual terminfo path.
12183 + correct whitespace in include/Caps, which caused kf11, clr_eol and
12184 clr_end to be omitted from terminfo.5
12185 + fix memory leaks in delscreen() (adapted from Alexander V Lukyanov).
12186 + improve appearance of marker in multi-selection menu (Juergen
12188 + fix behavior for forms with all fields inactive (Juergen Pfeifer)
12189 + document 'field_index()' (Juergen Pfeifer)
12190 > patch #321 (ESR):
12191 + add some more XENIX keycap translations to include/Caps.
12192 + modify newwin to set initial state of each line to 'touched'
12193 (from patch by Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.dialix.com>)
12194 + in SET_TTY, replace TCSANOW with TCSADRAIN (Alexander V Lukyanov).
12197 + ifdef'd out _nc_hash_map (still slower)
12198 + add graphic characters to vt52 description.
12199 + use PutAttrChar in ClrToEOL to ensure proper background, position.
12200 + simplify/correct logic in 'mvcur()' that does wrapping; it was
12201 updating the position w/o actually moving the cursor, which broke
12203 + ensure that 'doupdate()' sets the .oldindex values back to a sane
12204 state; this was causing a spurious refresh in ncurses 'r'.
12205 + add logic to configure (from vile) to guard against builders who
12206 don't remove config.cache & config.status when doing new builds -TD
12207 + corrected logic for 'repeat_char' in EmitRange (cf: eric #317), which
12208 did not follow the 2-parameter scheme specified in XSI.
12209 + corrected logic of wrefresh, wnoutrefresh broken in #319, making
12210 clearok work properly (report by Michael Elkins).
12211 + corrected problem with endwin introduced by #314 (removing the
12212 scrolling-region reset) that broke ncurses.c tests.
12213 + corrected order of args in AC_CHECK_LIB (from report by Ami Fischman
12214 <fischman@math.ucla.edu>).
12215 + corrected formatting of terminfo.5 tables (Juergen Ehling)
12217 + change ABI to 3.3
12218 + emit a carriage-return in 'endwin()' to workaround a kernel bug in
12219 BSDI. (requested by Mike Karels <karels@redrock.bsdi.com>)
12220 + reverse the default o configure --enable-termcap (consensus).
12222 + modified logic for clearok and related functions (from report by
12223 Michael Elkins) - untested
12225 + correction to #317.
12227 + re-add _nc_hash_map
12228 + modify EmitRange to maintain position as per original design
12229 (patch by A. Lukyanov).
12230 + modify test/ncurses.c and tputs, etc., to allow trace counting
12232 + add hashtest.c program to time the hashmap optimization.
12234 + add logic to deal with magic-cookie (how was this tested?)
12236 + add ncurses.c driver for magic-cookie, some fixes to ncurses.c
12238 + merge changes to lib_doupdate.c to use ech and rep - untested
12239 (patch by Alexander V Lukyanov).
12240 + modified handling of interrupted system calls - untested
12241 (lib_getch.c, lib_twait.c).
12242 + new function _nc_mvcur_resume()
12243 + fix return value for 'overlay()', 'overwrite()'
12246 + implement subwindow-logic in wresize, minor fixes to ncurses 'g'
12248 + corrected bracketing of fallback.c (reported/suggested fix by Juergen
12249 Ehling <eh@eclipse.aball.de>).
12250 + update xterm-color to reflect XFree86 3.1.3G release.
12251 + correct broken dtterm description from #314 patch (e.g., spurious
12252 newline. The 'pairs' change might work, but no one's tested it
12254 + clarify the documentation for the builtin form fieldtypes (Juergen
12257 + reset scroll region on startup rather than at wrapup time
12258 (enhancement suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
12259 + make storage of palette tables and their size counts per-screen for
12260 multi-terminal applications (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
12261 + Improved error reporting for infotocap translation errors.
12262 + Update terminfo.src to 9.13.14.
12265 + rewrote wgetstr to make it erase control chars and also fix bogus use
12266 of _nc_outstr which caused the display to not wrap properly (display
12267 problem reported by John M. Flinchbaugh <glynis@netrax.net>)
12268 + modify ncurses 'f' test to accommodate terminal responses to C1 codes
12269 (and split up this screen to accommodate non-ANSI terminals).
12270 + test enter_insert_mode and exit_insert_mode in has_ic().
12271 + removed bogus logic in mvcur that assumes nl/nonl set output modes
12272 (XSI says they are input modes; SVr4 implements this).
12273 + added macros SET_TTY, GET_TTY to term.h
12274 + correct getstr() logic that altered terminal modes w/o restoring.
12275 + disable ICRNL, etc., during initialization to match SVr4, removing
12276 the corresponding logic from raw, cbreak, etc.
12277 + disable ONLCR during initialization, to match SVr4 (this is needed
12278 for cursor optimization when the cursor-down is a newline).
12279 + replaced ESR's imitation of wresize with my original (his didn't
12283 + memory leaks (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
12284 + modified pnoutrefresh() to be more tolerant of too-large screen
12285 size (reported by Michael Elkins).
12286 + correct handling of terminfo files with no strings (Philippe De
12288 + correct "tic -s" to take into account -I, -C options.
12289 + modify ncurses 'f' test to not print codes 80 through 9F, since they
12290 are considered control codes by ANSI terminals.
12293 + correct speed variable-type in 'tgetent()' (reported by Peter Wemm)
12294 + make "--enable-getcap" configuration-option work (reported by
12295 Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.DIALix.COM>)
12298 + correct err in 960817 that changed return-value of tigetflag()
12299 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov).
12300 + modify infocmp to use library default search-path for terminfo
12301 directory (Alexander V. Lukyanov).
12304 + corrected an err in mvcur that broke resizing-behavior.
12305 + correct fall-thru behavior of _nc_read_entry(), which was not finding
12306 descriptions that existed in directories past the first one searched
12307 (reported by Alexander V. Lukyanov)
12308 + corrected typo in dtterm description.
12310 + add dtterm description
12311 + clarify ncurses 'i' test (drop mvwscanw subtest)
12314 + correct nl()/nonl() to work as per SVr4 & XSI.
12315 + minor fixes to ncurses.c (use 'noraw()', mvscanw return-code)
12316 + refine configure-test for "-g" option (Tim Mooney).
12317 + correct interaction between O_BLANK and NEW_LINE request in form
12318 library (Juergen Pfeifer)
12321 + revised fix to tparm; previous fix reversed parameter order.
12323 correct terminfo.src corrupted by #310
12325 + fix idlok() and idcok() and the default of the idlok switch (report
12329 + corrected tparm to handle capability strings without explicit pop
12330 (reported by William P Setzer)
12331 + add fallback def for GCC_NORETURN, GCC_UNUSED for termcap users
12332 (reported by Tim Mooney).
12334 + documentation and prototyping errors for has_color, immedok and idcok
12335 (reported by William P Setzer <wsetzer@pams.ncsu.edu>)
12336 + updated qnx terminfo entry (patch by Michael Hunter)
12339 + eliminate quoted includes in ncurses subdirectory, ensure config.h
12341 + newterm initializes terminal settings the same as initscr (reported
12345 + call cbreak() in initscr(), as per XSI & SVr4.
12346 + turn off hardware echo in initscr() as per XSI & SVr4
12348 + terminfo changes (9.3.9), from BRL
12349 + add more checks to terminfo parser.
12350 + add more symbols to infocmp.
12353 + save previous-attribute in lib_vidattr.c if SP is null (reported by
12354 Juergen Fluk <louis@dachau.marco.de>)
12355 + corrected calls on _nc_render so that background character is set
12357 + corrected wbkgdset macro (XSI allows background character to be
12358 null), and tests that use it.
12359 + more corrections to terminfo (xterm & rxvt)
12360 + undid change to mcprint prototype (cannot use size_t in curses.h
12361 because not all systems declare it in the headers that we can safely
12363 + move the ifdefs for errno into curses.priv.h
12365 + terminfo changes (9.3.8)
12366 + modified logic of error-reporting in terminfo parser
12367 + fix option-processing bug in toe.
12370 + always check for <sys/bsdtypes.h> since ISC needs it to declare
12371 fd_set (Juergen Pfeifer)
12372 + install shared-libraries on NetBSD/FreeBSD with ABI-version (reported
12373 by Juergen Pfeifer, Mike Long)
12374 + add LOCAL_LDFLAGS2 symbol (Juergen Pfeifer)
12375 + corrected prototype for delay_output() -- bump ABI to 3.2
12377 + enable more translations of nonstandard caps, and document them.
12378 + misc/terminfo.src update to 9.13.8
12380 + moved logic that filters out rmul and rmso from setupterm to newterm
12381 where it is less likely to interfere with termcap applications.
12382 + cosmetic fixes to test/ncurses.c
12383 + modify open() call in ncurses/read_entry.c to use O_RDONLY symbol
12384 rather than constant (report by mib).
12385 + misc/terminfo.src sgr0 and acsc changes (report by Philippe De
12387 + modify ncurses/comp_parse.c so that entries containing a "+" can
12388 have missing rmcup vs smcup.
12391 + rollback ESR's #305 change to terminfo.src (it breaks existing
12392 applications, e.g., 'less 290').
12393 + correct path of edit_man.sh, and fix typo that made all man-pages
12395 + restore man/menu_requestname.3x omitted in Zeyd's resync (oops).
12396 + auto-configure the GCC_PRINTFLIKE/GCC_SCANFLIKE macros (reported by
12397 Philippe De Muyter).
12400 + make lib_vidattr.c more readable using macros.
12401 + filter out rmul, rmso that conflict with sgr0 when reading terminal
12403 + work around autoconf bug, force $INSTALL to absolute path
12404 (reported by Zeyd).
12405 + modify man-page install for BSDI to install preformatted .0 files
12406 (reported by David MacKenzie).
12407 + add/use gcc __attribute__ for printf and scanf in curses.h
12408 + added SGR attributes test-case to ncurses
12409 + revised ncurses 't' logic to show trace-disable effect in the menu.
12410 + use getopt in ncurses program to process -s and -t options.
12411 + make ncurses 'p' legend toggle with '?'
12412 + disable scrollok during the ncurses 'p' test; if it is enabled the
12413 stdscr will scroll when putting the box-corners in the lower-right
12416 + added sanity-checking of various paired string attributes.
12417 + misc/terminfo.src update to 9.13.7 (report by A. Lukyanov).
12418 + modify man/Makefile.in to make terminfo.5 during normal build.
12420 + corrected allocation-length for $HOME/.terminfo path.
12423 + check return code of _nc_mvcur_scrolln() in _nc_scroll_optimize() for
12424 terminals with no scrolling-support (reported by Nikolay Shadrin
12425 <queen@qh.mirea.ac.ru>)
12426 + added ^S scrollok-toggle to ncurses 'g' test.
12427 + added ^T trace-toggle to ncurses tests.
12428 + modified ncurses test program to use ^Q or ESC consistently for
12429 terminating tests (rather than ^D), and to use control keys rather
12430 than function keys in 'g' test.
12431 + corrected misplaced wclrtoeol calls in addch to accommodate wrapping
12432 (reported by Philippe De Muyter).
12433 + modify lib_doupdate.c to use effective costs to tradeoff between
12434 delete-character/insert-character vs normal updating (reported by
12436 + compute effective costs for screen update operations (e.g., clr_eos,
12438 + corrected error in knight.c exposed by wrap fixes in 960622; the
12439 msgwin needed scrollok set.
12440 + corrected last change to IDcTransformLine logic to avoid conflict
12441 between PutRange and InsStr
12442 + modified run_tic.sh to not use /usr/tmp (reported by David
12443 MacKenzie), and further revised it and aclocal.m4 to use $TMPDIR if
12445 + corrected off-by-one in RoomFor call in read_entry.c
12448 + modified logic that wraps cursor in addch to follow the XSI spec,
12449 (implemented in SVr4) which states that the cursor position is
12450 updated when wrapping. Renamed _NEED_WRAP to _WRAPPED to reflect the
12452 + added -s option to tic, to provide better diagnostics in run_tic.sh
12453 + improved error-recovery for tabset install.
12454 + change ABI to 3.1 (dropped tparam, corrected getbkgd(), added
12455 _yoffset to WINDOW).
12456 + modified initialization of SP->_ofp so that init_acs() is called with
12457 the "right" file pointer (reported by Rick Marshall <rjm@nlc.net.au>
12458 + documentation fixes (Juergen Pfeifer).
12459 + corrected, using new SCREEN and WINDOW members, the behavior of
12460 ncurses if one uses ripoffline() to remove a line from the top of the
12461 screen (Juergen Pfeifer).
12462 + modified autoconf scripts to prepare for Ada95 (GNAT) binding to
12463 ncurses (Juergen Pfeifer).
12464 + incorrect buffer-size in _nc_read_entry, reported by ESR.
12467 + corrected two logic errors in read_entry.c, write_entry.c (called by
12468 tic, the write/read of terminfo entries used inconsistent rules for
12469 locating the entries; the $TERMINFO_DIRS code would find only the
12470 first entry in a list).
12471 + refined pathname computation in run_tic.sh and shlib.
12472 + corrected initialization of $IP in misc/run_tic.sh
12475 + ifdef'd out _nc_hash_map() call because it does not improve speed.
12476 + display version of gcc if configure script identifies it.
12477 + modify configure script to use /usr as Linux's default prefix.
12478 + modify run_tic.sh to use shlib script, fixes some problems installing
12479 with a shared-library configuration.
12480 + adjusted configure script so that it doesn't run tests with the
12481 warnings turned on, which makes config.log hard to read.
12482 + added 'lint' rule to top-level Makefile.
12483 + added configure option '--with-install-prefix' for use by system
12484 builders to install into staging locations (requested by
12485 Charles Levert <charles@comm.polymtl.ca>).
12486 + corrected autoconfigure for Debian man program; it's not installed
12488 + set noecho in 'worm'; it was ifdef'd for debug only
12489 + updated test/configure.in for timing-display in ncurses 'p' test
12490 + corrected misspelled 'getbkgd()'.
12491 + corrected wbkgdset to work like observed syvr4 (sets A_CHARTEXT part
12492 to blank if no character given, copies attributes to window's
12494 + modified lib_doupdate.c to use lower-level SP's current_attr state
12495 instead of curscr's state, since it is redundant.
12496 + correction to IDcTransformLine logic which controls where InsStr is
12497 invoked (refined by Alexander V Lukyanov).
12499 + conditionally include Chris Torek's hash function _nc_hash_map().
12500 + better fix for nvi refresh-bug (Rick Marshall)
12501 + fix for bug in handling of interrupted keystroke waits,
12503 + misc/ncurses-intro.html syntax fix (Kajiyama Tamito).
12506 + auto-configure man-page compression-format and renames for Debian.
12507 + corrected several typos in curses.h.in (i.e., the mvXXXX macros).
12508 + re-order curses.priv.h for lint.
12509 + added rules for lintlib, lint
12510 + corrected ifdef for BROKEN_LINKER in MKnames.awk.in
12511 + corrected missing INSTALL_DATA in misc/Makefile.in
12512 + flush output when changing cursor-visibility (Rick Marshall)
12513 + fix a minor bug in the _nc_ripoff() routine and improve error
12514 checking when creating the label window (Juergen Pfeifer).
12515 + enhancement to the control over the new PC-style soft key format.
12516 allow caller now to select whether or not one wants to have
12517 the index-line; see curs_slk.3x for documentation (Juergen Pfeifer).
12518 + typos, don't use inline with "-g" (Philippe De Muyter)
12519 + fixes for menus & wattr-, slk-functions (Juergen Pfeifer)
12522 + removed --with-ticdir option altogether, maintain compatibility with
12523 existing applications via symbolic link in run_tic.sh
12524 + patch for termio.h, signal (Philippe De Muyter)
12525 + auto-configure gcc warning options rather than infer from version.
12526 + auto-configure __attribute__ for different gcc versions.
12527 + corrected special use of clearok() in hardscroll.c by resetting flag
12529 + include stdlib.h before defs for EXIT_SUCCESS, for OSF/1.
12530 + include sys/types.h in case stdlib.h does not declare size_t.
12531 + fixes for makefile (Tim Mooney)
12532 + fixes for menus & forms (Juergen Pfeifer)
12534 + improve hash function (suggested by Alexander V Lukyanov).
12535 + 9.13.4 update for terminfo.src
12538 + revised ncurses.c panner test, let pad abut all 4 sides of screen.
12539 + refined case in lib_doupdate.c for ClrToEOL().
12540 + corrected prior change for PutRange (Alexander V Lukyanov
12541 <lav@yars.free.net>).
12542 + autoconf mods (Tim Mooney <mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu>).
12543 + locale fix for forms (Philippe De Muyter <phdemuyt@ulb.ac.be>)
12544 + renamed "--with-datadir" option to "--with-ticdir" to avoid
12545 confusion, and made this check for the /usr/lib/terminfo pre-existing
12547 > patches 299-301 (ESR):
12548 + html fixes (Phillippe de Muyter).
12549 + fix typo in ncurses-intro.html (report by Fabrizio Polacco).
12551 + mods to tracing, especially for ACS chars.
12552 + corrected off-by-one in IDCtransform.
12553 + corrected intermittent mouse bug by using return-value from read().
12554 + mods to parse_entry.c, for smarter defaults.
12557 + use getopt in 'tic'; added -L option and modified -e option to allow
12561 + don't use fixed buffer-size in tparm().
12562 + modified tic to create terminfo directory if it doesn't exist.
12563 + added -T options to tic and infocmp (for testing/analysis)
12564 + refined the length criteria for termcap and terminfo
12565 + optimize lib_doupdate with memcpy, PutRange
12566 > patches 297, 298 (ESR):
12567 + implement TERMINFO_DIRS, and -o option of tic
12568 + added TRACE_IEVENT
12569 + fix REQ_TOGGLE_ITEM in menu/menu_driver.c; it could select but not
12571 + added lib_print.c (request by Rick Marshall).
12572 + added has_key() (request by Juergen Pfeifer).
12573 + do not issue clrtoeol or clrtobot if the relevant portion of the line
12574 is already blank (analysis by Keith Bostic).
12575 + add parentheses for parameters of COLOR_PAIR and PAIR_NUMBER macros
12576 (analysis by Jurgen Eidt).
12577 + update screen's notion of cursor position in endwin() (analysis by
12578 Alexander Lukyanov).
12579 + added 't' to ncurses.c test.
12580 + moved delay_output() to lib_tputs.c
12581 + removed tparam() (was added in 1.9.9, but conflicts with emacs and
12582 is not part of X/Open Curses).
12583 + removed boolean version of 'getm'.
12584 + misc cursor & optimization fixes.
12587 + modified ncurses 'p' test to allow full-screen range for panner size.
12588 + fixes for locale (Philippe De Muyter <phdm@labauto1.ulb.ac.be>)
12589 + don't use fixed buffer-size in fmt_entry().
12590 + added usage-message to 'infocmp'.
12591 + modified install.includes rules to prepend subdirectory-name to
12592 "#include" if needed.
12595 + protect wrefresh, wnoutrefresh from invocation with pad argument.
12596 + corrected default CCFLAGS in test/Makefile.
12599 + implemented logic to support terminals with background color erase
12600 (e.g., rxvt and the newer color xterm).
12601 + improved screen update logic (off-by-one logic error; use clr_eos if
12605 + change ncurses 'a' test to run in raw mode.
12606 + make TIOCGWINSZ configure test less stringent, in case user
12607 configures via terminal that cannot get screen size.
12608 > patches 295, 296 (ESR):
12609 + split lib_kernel.c, lib_setup.c and names.c in order to reduce
12610 overhead for programs that use only termcap features.
12611 + new "-e" and "-h" options of tic (request by Tony Nugent).
12612 + fix bug in mandatory-delay logic in lib_tputs.c (report by Sven
12614 + fix for "infocmp -e" to emit correct initializers (reported by Manual
12616 + restore working-directory in read_termcap.c (report by Kayvan
12618 + use "-h" option on Solaris when generating shared libraries on
12619 Solaris 2.5 to record the library name in the file, for assisting
12620 the loader (patch by Scott Kramer).
12621 + undo patch #294 changes to form and menu libraries (request by
12626 + fix for AIX 3.2.5 (must define _POSIX_SOURCE to get termios struct
12627 definitions via <termios.h>, modified macros in lib_raw.c to avoid
12628 K&R-style substitution)
12629 > patches 293, 294 (ESR):
12630 + rewrite wsyncup(), wsyncdown(), as well as small fixes to form and
12631 menu libraries to fix echo-breakage introduced by 1.8.9, 1.9.9e
12632 changes (patches by Juergen Pfeifer).
12633 + fix compile under QNX 4.2 by defining ONLCR in lib_raw.c when
12634 __QNX__ is defined (patch by Michael Hunter).
12635 + modify setupterm() to match documentation for its return value, fix
12636 newterm to work with this change (report by Emmet Lazich).
12637 + add checks in getch() for error, return ERR as appropriate (report by
12639 + mods to wgetch() in cooked mode (report by Pete Seebach).
12640 + corrected askuser() logic in tset (patch by Remco Treffkorn).
12641 + correct interaction of endwin() with mouse processing (report by
12643 + added trace support for TTY flags
12644 + update terminfo.src to 9.13.1
12645 + FreeBSD console entries (patch by Andrew Chernov).
12648 + fixes for NeXT, ISC and HPUX auto-configure
12649 + autogenerate development header-dependencies (config.h, *.priv.h)
12650 + corrected single-column formatting of "use=" (e.g., in tic)
12651 + modify tic to read full terminfo-names
12652 + corrected divide-by-zero that caused hang (or worse) when redirecting
12654 + modify tic to generate directories only as-needed (and corrected
12655 instance of use of data from function that had already returned).
12657 ### ncurses-1.9.8a -> 1.9.9e
12659 * fixed broken wsyncup()/wysncdown(), as a result wnoutrefresh() now has
12660 copy-changed-lines behavior.
12661 * added and documented wresize() function.
12662 * more fixes to LOWER-RIGHT corner handling.
12663 * changed the line-breakout optimization code to allow some lines to be
12664 emitted before the first check.
12665 * added option for tic to use symbolic instead of hard links (for AFS)
12666 * fix to restore auto-wrap mode.
12667 * trace level can be controlled by environment variable.
12668 * better handling of NULs in terminal descriptions.
12669 * improved compatibility with observed SVR4 behavior.
12670 * the refresh behavior of over-lapping windows is now more efficient and
12672 * use autoconf 2.7, which results in a working setup for SCO 5.0.
12673 * support for ESCDELAY.
12674 * small fixes for menu/form code.
12675 * the test directory has its own configure.
12676 * fixes to pads when optimizing scrolling.
12677 * fixed several off-by-one bugs.
12678 * fixes for termcap->terminfo translation; less restrictions more correct
12681 ### ncurses-1.9.7 -> 1.9.8a
12683 * teach infocmp -i to recognize ECMA highlight sequences
12684 * infocmp now dumps all SVr4 termcaps (not just the SVr4 ones) on -C
12685 * support infocmp -RBSD.
12686 * satisfy XSI Curses requirement that every macro be available as a function.
12687 * This represents the last big change to the public interface of ncurses. The
12688 ABI_VERSION has now been set at 3.0 and should stay there barring any great
12689 catastrophies or acts of God.
12690 * The C++ has been cleaned up in reaction to the changes to satisfy XSI's
12692 * libncurses now gets linked to libcurses to help seamless emulation
12693 (replacement) of a vendor's curses. --disable-overwrite turns this behavior
12696 ### ncurses-1.9.6 -> 1.9.7
12698 * corrected return values of setupterm()
12699 * Fixed some bugs in tput (it does padding now)
12700 * fixed a bug in tic that made it do the wrong thing on entries with more than
12701 one `use' capability.
12702 * corrected the screen-size calculation at startup time to alter the
12703 numeric capabilities as per SVr4, not just LINES and COLS.
12704 * toe(1) introduced; does what infocmp -T used to.
12705 * tic(1) can now translate AIX box1 and font[0123] capabilities.
12706 * tic uses much less core, the dotic.sh kluge can go away now.
12707 * fix read_entry() and write_entry() to pass through cancelled capabilities OK.
12708 * Add $HOME/.terminfo as source/target directory for terminfo entries.
12709 * termcap compilation now automatically dumps an entry to $HOME/.terminfo.
12710 * added -h option to toe(1).
12711 * added -R option to tic(1) and infocmp(1).
12712 * added fallback-entry-list feature.
12713 * added -i option to infocmp(1).
12714 * do a better job at detecting if we're on SCO.
12716 ### ncurses-1.9.5 -> 1.9.6
12718 * handling of TERMCAP environment variables now works correctly.
12719 * various changes to shorten termcap translations to less that 1024 chars.
12721 * mouse support for xterm.
12722 * most data tables are now const and accordingly live in shareable text space.
12723 * Obey the XPG4/SVr4 practice that echo() is initally off.
12724 * tic is much better at translating XENIX and AIX termcap entries now.
12725 * tic can interpret ko capabilities now.
12726 * integrated Juergen Pfeifer's forms library.
12727 * taught write_entry() how not to write more than it needs to; this change
12728 reduces the size of the terminfo tree by a full 26%!
12729 * infocmp -T option added.
12730 * better warnings about historical tic quirks from tic.
12732 ### ncurses 1.9.4 -> 1.9.5
12734 * menus library is now included with documentation.
12735 * lib_mvcur has been carefully profiled and tuned.
12736 * Fixed a ^Z-handling bug that was tanking lynx(1).
12737 * HJ Lu's patches for ELF shared libraries under Linux
12738 * terminfo.src 9.8.2
12739 * tweaks for compiling in seperate directories.
12740 * Thomas Dickey's patches to support NeXT's brain-dead linker
12741 * Eric Raymond's patches to fix problems with long termcap entries.
12742 * more support for shared libraries under SunOS and IRIX.
12744 ### ncurses 1.9.3 -> 1.9.4
12746 * fixed an undefined-order-of-evaluation bug in lib_acs.c
12747 * systematically gave non-API public functions and data an _nc_ prefix.
12748 * integrated Juergen Pfeifer's menu code into the distribution.
12749 * totally rewrote the knight test game's interface
12751 ### ncurses 1.9.2c -> 1.9.3
12753 * fixed the TERMCAP_FILE Support.
12754 * fixed off-by-one errors in scrolling code
12755 * added tracemunch to the test tools
12756 * took steps to cut the running time of make install.data
12758 ### ncurses 1.9.2c -> 1.9.2d
12760 * revised 'configure' script to produce libraries for normal, debug,
12761 profile and shared object models.
12763 ### ncurses 1.9.1 -> 1.9.2
12765 * use 'autoconf' to implement 'configure' script.
12766 * panels support added
12767 * tic now checks for excessively long termcap entries when doing translation
12768 * first cut at eliminating namespace pollution.
12770 ### ncurses 1.8.9 -> 1.9
12772 * cleanup gcc warnings for the following: use size_t where 'int' is not
12773 appropriate, fixed some shadowed variables, change attr_t to compatible with
12774 chtype, use attr_t in some places where it was confused with 'int'.
12775 * use chtype/attr_t casts as appropriate to ensure portability of masking
12777 * added-back waddchnstr() to lib_addstr.c (it had been deleted).
12778 * supplied missing prototypes in curses.h
12779 * include <termcap.h> in lib_termcap.c to ensure that the prototypes
12780 are consistent (they weren't).
12781 * corrected prototype of tputs in <termcap.h>
12782 * rewrote varargs parsing in lib_tparm.c (to avoid referencing memory
12783 that may be out of bounds on the stack) -- Purify found this.
12784 * ensure that TRACE is defined in lib_trace.c (to solve prototype
12785 warnings from gcc).
12786 * corrected scrolling-region size in 'mvcur_wrap()'
12787 * more spelling fixes
12788 * use 'calloc()' to allocate WINDOW struct in lib_newwin.c (Purify).
12789 * set default value for SP->_ofp in lib_set_term.c (otherwise SunOS dumps
12790 core in init_acs()).
12791 * include <errno.h> in write_entry.c (most "braindead" includes declare errno
12794 ### ncurses 1.8.8 -> 1.8.9
12796 * compile (mostly) clean with gcc 2.5.8 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
12797 -Wmissing-prototypes -Wconversion and using __attribute__ to flush out
12798 non-portable use of "%x" for pointers, or for chtype data (which is declared
12800 * modified doupdate to ensure that typahead was turned on before attempting
12801 select-call (otherwise, some implementations hang).
12802 * added trace mask TRACE_FIFO, use this in lib_getch.c to allow finer
12803 resolution of traces.
12804 * improved bounds checking on several critical functions.
12805 * the data directory has been replaced by the new master terminfo file.
12806 * -F file-comparison option added to infocmp.
12807 * compatibility with XSI Curses is now documented in the man bages.
12808 * wsyncup/wsyncdown functions are reliable now; subwindow code in general
12809 is much less flaky.
12810 * capabilities ~msgr, tilde_glitch, insert_padding, generic_type, no_pad_char,
12811 memory_above, memory_below, and hard_copy are now used properly.
12812 * cursor-movement optimization has been completely rewritten.
12813 * vertical-movement optimization now uses hardware scrolling, il, dl.
12815 ### ncurses 1.8.7 -> 1.8.8
12816 * untic no longer exists, infocmp replaces it.
12817 * tic can understand termcap now, especially if it is called captoinfo.
12818 * The Linux Standard Console terminfo entry is called linux insead of console.
12819 It also uses the kernel's new method of changing charsets.
12820 * initscr() will EXIT upon error (as the docs say) This wil mostly happen if
12821 you try to run on an undefined terminal.
12822 * I can get things running on AIX but tic can't compile terminfo. I have to
12823 compile entries on another machine. Volunteers to hunt this bug are welcome.
12824 * wbkgd() and wbkgdset() can be used to set a windows background to color.
12825 wclear()/werase() DO NOT use the current attribute to clear the screen.
12826 This is the way SVR4 curses works. PDCurses 2.1 is broken in this respect,
12827 though PDCurses 2.2 has been fixed.
12828 * cleaned up the test/ directory.
12829 * test/worm will segfault after quite a while.
12830 * many spelling corrections courtesy of Thomas E. Dickey
12832 ### ncurses 1.8.6 -> 1.8.7
12833 * cleaned up programs in test/ directory.
12834 * fixed wbkgdset() macro.
12835 * modified getstr() to stop it from advancing cursor in noecho mode.
12836 * modified linux terminfo entry to work with the latest kernel to get
12837 the correct alternate character set.
12838 * also added a linux-mono entry for those running on monochrome screens.
12839 * changed initscr() so that it behaves like the man page says it does.
12840 this fixes the problem with programs in test/ crashing with SIGSEV if
12841 a terminal is undefined.
12842 * modified addch() to avoid using any term.h #define's
12843 * removed duplicate tgoto() in lib_tparm.c
12844 * modified dump_entry.c so that infocmp deals correctly with ',' in acsc
12845 * modified delwin() to correctly handle deleting subwindows.
12846 * fixed Makefile.dist to stop installing an empty curses.h
12847 * fixed a couple of out-of-date notes in man pages.
12849 ### ncurses 1.8.5 -> 1.8.6
12850 * Implemented wbkgd(), bkgd(), bkgdset(), and wbkgdset().
12851 * The handling of attributes has been improved and now does not turn off color
12852 if other attributes are turned off.
12853 * scrolling code is improved. Scrolling in subwindows is still broken.
12854 * Fixes to several bugs that manifest them on platforms other than Linux.
12855 * The default to meta now depends on the status of the terminal when ncurses
12857 * The interface to the tracing facility has changed. Instead of the pair of
12858 functions traceon() and traceoff(), there is just one function trace() which
12859 takes a trace mask argument. The trace masks, defined in curses.h, are
12862 #define TRACE_DISABLE 0x00 /* turn off tracing */
12863 #define TRACE_ORDINARY 0x01 /* ordinary trace mode */
12864 #define TRACE_CHARPUT 0x02 /* also trace all character outputs */
12865 #define TRACE_MAXIMUM 0x0f /* maximum trace level */
12867 More trace masks may be added, or these may be changed, in future releases.
12868 * The pad code has been improved and the pad test code in test/ncurses.c has
12870 * The prototype ansi entry has been changed to work with a wider variety
12872 * Fix to the prototype ansi entry that enables it to work with PC emulators
12873 that treat trailing ";m" in a highlight sequence as ";0m"; this doesn't
12874 break operation with any emulators.
12875 * There are now working infocmp, captoinfo, tput, and tclear utilities.
12876 * tic can now compile entries in termcap syntax.
12877 * Core-dump bug in pnoutrefresh fixed.
12878 * We now recognize and compile all the nonstandard capabilities in Ross
12879 Ridge's mytinfo package (rendering it obsolete).
12880 * General cleanup and documentation improvements.
12881 * Fixes and additions to the installation-documentation files.
12882 * Take cursor to normal mode on endwin.
12884 ### ncurses 1.8.4 -> 1.8.5
12885 * serious bugs in updating screen which caused erratic non-display,
12887 * fixed initialization for getch() related variable which cause
12888 unpredictable results.
12889 * fixed another doupdate bug which only appeared if you have
12891 * implemented redrawln() and redrawwin().
12892 * implemented winsnstr() and related functions.
12893 * cleaned up insertln() and deleteln() and implemented (w)insdeln().
12894 * changed Makefile.dist so that installation of man pages will
12895 take note of the terminfo directory.
12896 * fixed Configure (removed the mysterious 'X').
12897 * Eric S. Raymond fixed the script.* files so that they work with
12900 #### ncurses 1.8.3 -> 1.8.4 #### ####
12901 * fixed bug in refreshing the screen after return from shell_mode.
12902 There are still problems but they don't manifest themselves on
12903 my machine (Linux 0.99.14f).
12904 * added wgetnstr() and modified things accordingly.
12905 * fixed the script.src script.test to work with awk not just gawk.
12906 * Configure can now take an argument of the target system.
12907 * added test/ncurses.c which replaces several other programs and
12908 performs more testing.
12909 [Thanks to Eric S Raymond for the last 4]
12910 * more fixes to lib_overlay.c and added test/over.c to illustrate
12912 * fixed ungetch() to take int instead of ch.
12913 * fixes to cure wgetch() if flushinp() is called.
12915 One note I forgot to mention in 1.8.3 is that tracing is off by
12916 default starting in the version. If you want tracing output, put
12917 traceon(); in your code and link with -ldcurses.
12919 #### ncurses 1.8.2 -> ncurses 1.8.3 #### ####
12921 1) The order of capabilities has been changed in order to achieve
12922 binary compatibility with SVR4 terminfo database. This has the
12923 unfortunate effect of breaking application currently linked with
12924 ncurses. To ensure correct behavior, recompile all such programs.
12925 Most programs using color or newer capabilities will break, others
12926 will probably continue to work ok.
12928 2) Pavel Curtis has renounced his copyright to the public domain.
12929 This means that his original sources (posted to comp.sources.unix,
12930 volume 1) are now in the public domain. The current sources are
12931 NOT in the public domain, they are copyrighted by me. I'm
12932 entertaining ideas on what the new terms ncurses is released under.
12934 3) Eric S. Raymond has supplied a complete set of man pages for
12935 ncurses in ?roff format. They will eventually replace most of the
12936 current docs. Both sets are included in this release.
12938 Other changes and notes from 1.8.2 include:
12939 * SIGSEGV during scrolling no longer occurs.
12940 * Other problems with scrolling and use of idl have been corrected.
12941 * lib_getch.c has been re-written and should perform flawlessly.
12942 please use test/getch.c and any other programs to test this.
12943 * ripoffline() is implemented (Thanks to Eric) and slk_ functions
12944 changed accordingly.
12945 * I've added support for terminals that scroll if you write in the
12946 bottom-right corner.
12947 * fixed more bugs in pads code. If anybody has a program that uses
12948 pads I'd love a copy.
12949 * correct handling for terminal with back_color_erase capability
12950 (such as Linux console, and most PC terminals)
12951 * ^Z handling apparently didn't work (I should never trust code
12952 sent me to me without extensive testing). It now seems to be
12953 fixed. Let me know if you have problems.
12954 * I've added support for Apollo and NeXT, but it may still be
12955 incomplete, especially when dealing with the lack of POSIX
12957 * scrolling should be more efficient on terminals with idl
12958 capabilities. Please see src/lib_scroll.c for more notes.
12959 * The line drawing routines were offset by 1 at both ends. This
12961 * added a few missing prototypes and macros (e.g. setterm())
12962 * fixed code in src/lib_overlay.c which used to crash.
12963 * added a few more programs in test/ The ones from the PDCurses
12964 package are useful, especially if you have SVR4 proper. I'm
12965 interested in the results you get on such a systems (Eric? ;-).
12966 They already exposed certain bugs in ncurses.
12967 * See src/README for porting notes.
12968 * The C++ code should really replace ncurses.h instead of working
12969 around it. It should avoid name-space clashes with nterm.h (use
12970 rows instead of lines, etc.)
12971 * The C++ should compile ok. I've added explicit rules to the
12972 Makefile because no C++ defaults are documented on the suns.
12973 * The docs say that echo() and nocbreak() are mutually exclusive.
12974 At the moment ncurses will switch to cbreak() if the case above
12975 occurs. Should it continue to do so? How about echo() and noraw()?
12976 * PDCurses seem to assume that wclear() will use current attribute
12977 when clearing the screen. According to Eric this is not the case
12979 * I have discovered, to my chagrin, SunOS 4.x (and probably other systems)
12980 * doesn't have vsscanf and God knows what else! I've will do a vsscanf().
12981 * I've also found out that the src/script.* rely on gawk and will not
12982 work with stock awk or even with nawk. Any changes are welcome.
12983 * Linux is more tolerant of NULL dereferences than most systems. This
12984 fact was exposed by hanoi.
12985 * ncurses still seems inefficient in drawing the screen on a serial
12986 link between Linux and suns. The padding may be the culprit.
12987 * There seems to be one lingering problem with doupdate() after shelling
12988 out. Despite the fact the it is sending out the correct information
12989 to the terminal, nothing takes effect until you press ^L or another
12990 refresh takes place. And yes, output does get flushed.
12992 #### ncurses 1.8.1 -> ncurses 1.8.2 #### Nov 28, 1993 ####
12994 * added support for SVR4 and BSDI's BSD/386.
12995 * major update and fix to scrolling routine.
12996 * MORE fixes to stuff in lib_getch.c.
12997 * cleaned-up configuration options and can now generate
12998 Config.* files through an awk script.
12999 * changed setupterm() so it can be called more than once,
13000 add added set_curterm(), del_curterm().
13001 * a few minor cleanups.
13002 * added more prototypes in curses.h
13004 #### ncurses 1.8 -> ncurses 1.8.1 #### Nov 4, 1993 ####
13006 * added support for NeXTStep 3.0
13007 * added termcap emulation (not well tested).
13008 * more complete C++ interface to ncurses.
13009 * fixed overlay(), overwrite(), and added copywin().
13010 * a couple of bug fixes.
13011 * a few code cleanups.
13013 #### ncurses 0.7.2/0.7.3 -> ncurses 1.8 #### Aug 31, 1993 ####
13015 * The annoying message "can't open file." was due to missing
13016 terminfo entry for the used terminal. It has now been
13017 replaced by a hopefully more helpful message.
13018 * Problems with running on serial lines are now fixed.
13019 * Added configuration files for SunOS, Linux, HP/UX, Ultrix,
13020 386bsd/BSDI (if you have others send'em to me)
13021 * Cleaner Makefile.
13022 * The documentation in manual.doc is now more uptodate.
13023 * update optimization and support for hp terminals, and 386bsd
13025 * mvcur optimization for terminals without cursor addressing
13026 (doesn't work on Linux)
13027 * if cursor moved since last update, getch() will refresh the
13028 screen before working.
13029 * getch() & alarm() can now live together. in 0.7.3 a signal
13030 interrupted getch() (bug or feature?) now the getch is
13032 * scanw() et all were sick, now fixed.
13033 * support for 8-bit input (use meta()).
13034 * added default screen size to all terminfos.
13035 * added c++ Ncursesw class.
13036 * several minor bug fixes.
13038 #### ncurses 0.7.2 -> ncurses 0.7.3 #### May 27, 1993 ####
13040 * Config file to cope with different platforms (386BSD, BSDI, Ultrix, SunOS)
13041 * more fixes to lib_getch.c
13042 * changes related to Config
13044 #### ncurses 0.7 -> ncurses 0.7.2 #### May 22, 1993 ####
13046 * docs updated slightly (color usage is now documented).
13047 * yet another fix for getch(), this one fixes problems with ESC being swallowed
13048 if another character is typed before the 1 second timeout.
13049 * Hopefully, addstr() and addch() are 8-bit clean.
13050 * fixed lib_tparm.c to use stdarg.h (should run on suns now)
13051 * order of capabilities changed to reflect that specified in SYSV
13052 this will allow for binary-compatibility with existing terminfo dbs.
13053 * added halfdelay()
13054 * fixed problems with asc_init()
13055 * added A_PROTECT and A_INVIS
13056 * cleaned up vidputs()
13057 * general cleanup of the code
13058 * more attention to portability to other systems
13059 * added terminfos for hp70092 (wont work until changes to lib_update.c are
13060 made) and 386BSD pcvt drivers.
13062 Thanks to Hellmuth Michaelis for his help.
13063 optimization code is slated for the next major release, stay tuned!
13065 #### ncurses 0.6/0.61 -> ncurses 0.7 #### April 1, 1993
13066 Please note that the next release will be called 1.8. If you want to know about
13067 the rationale drop me a line.
13069 Included are several test programs in test/.
13070 I've split up the panels library, reversi, tetris, sokoban. They are now
13071 available separately from netcom.com:pub/zmbenhal/
13073 * color and ACS support is now fully compatible with SYSV at the terminfo
13075 * Capabilities now includes as many SYSV caps I could find.
13076 * tigetflag,tigetnum,tigetstr functions added.
13077 * boolnames, boolfnames, boolcodes numnames, numfnames, numcodes,
13078 strnames, strfnames, strcodes arrays are now added.
13079 * keyname() is added.
13080 * All function keys can be defined in terminfo entries.
13081 * fixed lin_tparm.c to behave properly.
13082 * terminfo entries for vt* and xterm are included (improvements are welcome)
13083 * more automation in handling caps and keys.
13084 * included fixes from 0.6.1
13085 * added a few more missing functions.
13086 * fixed a couple of minor bugs.
13087 * updated docs JUST a little (still miles behind in documenting the newer
13090 #### ncurses 0.6 -> ncurses 0.61 ####
13092 1) Included the missing data/console.
13094 2) allow attributes when drawing boxes.
13096 3) corrected usage of win->_delay value.
13098 4) fixed a bug in lib_getch.c. if it didn't recognize a sequence it would
13099 simply return the last character in the sequence. The correct
13100 behavior is to return the entire sequence one character at a time.
13102 #### ncurses0.5 -> ncurses0.6 #### March 1, 1993 ####
13103 * removed _numchngd from struct _win_st and made appropriate changes.
13104 * rewritten kgetch() to remove problems with interaction between alarm and
13105 read(). It caused SIGSEGV every now and then.
13106 * fixed a bug that miscounted the numbers of columns when updating.
13107 (in lib_doupdate.c(ClrUpdate() -- iterate to columns not columns-1)
13108 * fixed a bug that cause the lower-right corner to be incorrect.
13109 (in lib_doupdate.c(putChar() -- check against columns not columns-1)
13110 * made resize() and cleanup() static to lib_newterm.c
13111 * added notimeout().
13112 * added timeout() define in curses.h
13113 * added more function prototypes and fixed napms.
13115 * moved screen size detection to lib_setup.c.
13116 * fixed newterm() to confirm to prototype.
13117 * removed SIGWINCH support as SYSV does not define its semantics.
13118 * cleaned-up lib_touch.c
13119 * added waddnstr() and relatives.
13120 * added slk_* support.
13121 * fixed a bug in wdeleteln().
13122 * added PANEL library.
13123 * modified Makefile for smoother installation.
13124 * terminfo.h is really term.h
13126 #### ncurses 0.4 -> ncurses 0.5 #### Feb 14, 1993 ####
13127 * changed _win_st structure to allow support for missing functionality.
13128 * Addition of terminfo support for all KEY_*.
13129 * Support for nodelay(), timeout(), notimeout().
13130 * fixed a bug with the keypad char reading that did not return ESC until
13131 another key is pressed.
13132 * nl mapping no longer occur on output (as should be)
13133 fixed bug '\n' no causing a LF.
13134 * fixed bug that reset terminal colors regardless of whether we use color
13136 * Better support for ACS (not quite complete).
13137 * fixed bug in wvline().
13138 * added curs_set().
13139 * changed from signal() to sigaction().
13140 * re-included the contents of important.patch into source.
13142 #### ncurses 0.3 -> ncurses 0.4 #### Feb 3, 1993 ####
13143 * Addition of more KEY_* definitions.
13144 * Addition of function prototypes.
13145 * Addition of several missing functions.
13146 * No more crashes if screen size is undefined (use SIGWINCH handler).
13147 * added a handler to cleanup after SIGSEGV (hopefully never needed).
13148 * changed SRCDIR from /etc/term to /usr/lib/terminfo.
13149 * renamed compile/dump to tic/untic.
13150 * New scrolling code.
13151 * fixed bug that reversed the sense of nl() and nonl().
13153 #### ncurses 0.2 -> ncurses 0.3 #### Jan 20, 1993 ####
13154 * more support for color and graphics see test/ for examples.
13155 * fixed various files to allow correct update after shelling out.
13156 * more fixes for updates.
13157 * no more core dumps if you don't have a terminfo entry.
13158 * support for LINES and COLUMNS environment variables.
13159 * support for SIGWINCH signal.
13160 * added a handler for SIGINT for clean exits.
13162 #### ncurses 0.1 -> ncurses 0.2 #### Aug 14, 1992 ####
13163 * support for color.
13164 * support for PC graphic characters.
13165 * lib_trace.c updated to use stdarg.h and vprintf routines.
13166 * added gdc.c (Great Digital Clock) as an example of using color.
13168 #### ncurses -> ncurses 0.1 #### Jul 31, 1992 ####
13169 * replacing sgtty stuff by termios stuff.
13170 * ANSIfication of some functions.
13171 * Disabling cost analysis 'cause it's incorrect.
13172 * A quick hack for a terminfo entry.